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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
Once Rich, Now a Vagrant.

The New York World says Col.
Wayne Belvin, who was vice-presl-
dent of the Northern Pacific under
the Henry Willard regime, and later
president of the Port Angeles and
Eastern Railway, was locked up in
the West Thirtieth street police sta
ton Tuesday night on charge of
vagrancy.
His arrest followed an appeal for
aims to Detective Lynch of Ispector
Lahey's staff. Belvin described him.
self to Lieut.. Mulligan as railroad
president and gave his age as fifty
three.
Only one or two of the older men
at the station house recognized Bel
vim, although he was a conspicuous
figure throughout the Tenderloin for
many years. He inherited 100000
from his father, and with it came
from Richmond, Va, to New York
twenty-five years ago.
Willard took him into his office,
and Belvin was rated as million
aire within a short time thereafter.
In 1899 his luck had swung so far in
the other direction that he was ar
rested for debt of s143 to the Wal
dorf-Astoria. where he had made his
home for long time.
Belvin sued George G. Boldt for
S16O,O0O as result of this arrest.
The case was never tried, but Belvin
got a taste for such litigation. He
sued David H. Moffatt, of Denver, for
100000, which he said was due him
on some mining deals. In the course
of the next few years he was arrested
in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago,
for threatening like suits against
brokers. James A. Patton, the wheat
broker, was one of the men he pick
ed as a defendant.
Last December Belvin persuaded
Magistrate O'Connor to send him to
the workhouse for a month on a
charge of intoxication. He said then
that he couldn't afford to live at the
Waldorf any more, and that he was
happy nowhere else.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
!!i.EiSl: TO PROBE s.IN>'S:lSG.
Governor Expresses Regret over
lsani?rr@ County l;!;:ir.

Columbia. lIarcE lI.-GoEornor
NiraSe said this afternoon that he
WHs goinG to investigate into the
acts surrounding tie lynching Of
tie three ne&rOes at Olar on Wednes-
day night. the cOroner's jury having
failed to fix the blame OF the MOB
OF - men who took the negroes from
the constables while they We're on
their way from Olar to the Bamberg
jail. and lynched them.
Il am sorry the negroes were
lynched," said Governor Blease in
discussing the affair. Il am going
to look into the matter closely and
lay whatever evidence may gather
in the hands of the SOLICITOR
This was the second time since
Governor Blease has been in office
that a lynching has occurred, the
other occasion having been the lynch
ing of negro at Honea Path,
charged with attempted assault on
white woman last year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
Murderer is Hanged.

Laredo, Tex, March 15.-J. B.
Compton, who was hanged here to-
day, murdered G. ]. Levytansky, a
jeweler in this city last December
Lonnie Franks was an accomplice.
The murderers robbed Levytansky of
$4,000 to $4,000 worth of dia-
monds. Franks fled, but Compton
remained in Laredo, being one OF
the first to enter the jewelry store
next morning when the crime was
discovered and one of the loudest
in decrying the cruelty.
Well acquainted with Levytansky,
he went to see his friends body at
the undertaken shop, commenting on
how little death had altered his Wis
age. Keeping up his apparent un-
concern two days after the murder
Compton married a young woman Of
this city. The police, suspicious OF
Compton from the first because he
had been seen near the store at
about the time of the murder, ar
rested him three times and were
twice forced to release him for lack
of evidence. Franks was apprehend-
ed in San Antonio and made a con-
fession duplicating Compton. Shortly
afterward Compton also made a con-
fession. Franks was sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
Because Compton was married so
soon after his crime is believed to
have turned public sentiment here
against him and when he made ap-
plication for a communication of his
sentence he was unsuccessful.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
WATSON SAFE, SAYS BLEASE.
Governor Declares He will Not Name
Commissioners Successor.

Columbia, March 15.-Governor
Blease stated this afternoon that he
had no idea of appointing anyone to
the Office of commissioner of agricul-
ture, commerce and immigration,
which means that Commissioner
Watson will hold on until his sue
cessor is elected by the people at the
next election, as provided in the act
making the office elective. Commis-
sioner Watson's term expired yester-
day, but the governors statement
means that Mr.. Watson will continue
to fill the duties of the office until
the election, he, of course, holding
it under the law until successor is
appointed and qualified, and as none
will be named, he will continue just
as at present. This sets at rest ru-
mors that someone else was slated
for the place.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21

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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
AN INTERESTING LETTER
FROM 'SOLD TIMER" "
"Be it Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like
Notwithstanding Incidents of a
Trip to the Up-Country.

with rosy iiDs and cheeks, raveH
locks and diamond rings, walked up
to one Of the clerks. asked If stamps
were. sold there. on receiving yes as
reply said she wanted to look al
some. what kind?" asked the as
tonished clerk. Two cent ones,
she said. The clerk handed over
large sheet of them, after looking
over them for quite while the
young lady said, pointing at the one
in the middle, Il will take that one.'
Rain again to-day in torrents,
nothing done on the farm and the
farmers are wondering where they
are at. The old man has to fight
MOSQUITOES with his hat already, and
his song of woe begun before the
voice of the turtle dove cooling for
it's mate is heard, makes for fever
this summer, not a pleasant pros
pect. But the violets are all smiles
and with laughing eyes seem to say
cheer up sad hearts the sun will
shine and an allwise hand is at the
helm, all is we'll, things will be all
right in the end if you don't plant
too much cotton. For hope, like the
rain bows of summer, brings the
rpomise of wealth at last.
OLD TIMER.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
Escaped Convicts Sought.

Lincoln, Neb., March 15.-No def
mite trace had been found early to-
day of the three convicts who escaped
from the Nebraska State prison yes
terday during binding snow storm
after an outbreak in which the war
den, deputy warden and an usher
were killed outright and guard
slightly wounded.
The escaped prisoners were clad
only in their prison suits. 1t is be-
lieved they were assisted by confed-
crates from outside the prison.
The posse which pursued the men
yesterday returned to the city last
night exhausted by their struggle to
get through the deep snow drifts.
The weather was clear and cold this
morning and a further pursuit OF
the convicts was planned.
Reports and rumors that the three
convicts had been seen in different
parts of the country were sifted down
this forenoon without result. Addi-
tional posses have joined in the hunt.
The escaped convicts were bank
robbers and each is said to have been
an expert in the handling Of explo-
sives. They were known as Morley,
Taylor and Dowd. The first named
is said to have served time in Mis-
souri, for a murder.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
Two Women Arrested.

Asheville, N. c., March 1.-TWO
additional arrests in connection with
the Myrtle Hawkins case were made
here tonight when Mrs. Nora Britt
and Mrs. Lizzie Shaft were arrested
by two of the sheriff's deputies, the
women being charged with having
guilty knowledge of, or being active
participants in the criminal operation
which resulted in the death of Myr-
tie Hawkins last September. Mrs.
Britt was lodged in the Buncombe
county jail, while Mrs. Shaft was
taken to Hendersonvi]le jail pending
a preliminary hearing Friday morning
before local magistrate. .
The warrants for the two women,
who have been under suspicion since
the finding of Myrtle Hawkins's body
in Lake Osceola last September, were
taken out on affidavits made by T.
c. Brown, a local citizen, who was
given data for the warrants from the
sheriff's office.
The county authorities say they can
produce a witness who will swear
that Mrs. Britt told him that she had
been hired to perform the operation.
Still another witness will swear that
Mrs. Britt had told him that she
(Mrs. Britt) had been hired by Mrs.
Shaft to perform an operation at
Hendersonville.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21

Two negro men and negro wo-
man were carried from Marlboro
county to the State penitertiary on
Wednesday for safe keeping. They
are charged with being concerned in
the murder of two small white boys
nearly two years ago.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21

The first primary for the new
county of Jasper was held on Tues
day. A few officers were nominated,
and a second race for the Others will
be: held the 26th. The legislators
will be Nominated in August.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21

An ad. in The Herald will bring re-
cults. Try one and see.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21

When contemplating private water
works investigate the Fairbanks
Morse Eclipse Pumping outfit. WM.
H. PATRICK, Gas Engine Expert.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29

grained and shows particles of at least
three distinct minerals. One is ''mica, "
familiar to everyone in the mineral often
wrongly called ''isinglass. 1t occurs
in gray or blackish plates, which can be
easily separated by a knife blade.
Quartz, a CLASSY looking mineral, of
extreme hardness, and usually of gray
or blush color, is the second element.
Quartz cannot be scratched with a
knife, and always breaks with irregular
surface. From quartz comes much of
the sea sand.
Feldspar is the constituent which
usually determines the color of the
granite. Feldspar may be green, yell
low, blue or feshcolor, and these col
ors give to the granite the shade or
shades priced for ornamental construc-
ton. Detroit News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
HARRY L. Garfield,
Pastor of Universalist Church
Woodstock, Vt, Nov. Is, 1912.
TWELVE KILLED IN MAINE DEER
SEASON.

Bangor, Nov. 27.-With the Maine
hunting season nearing its end - the
moose season closing Nov. 80 and that
for deer Dec. Is, estimates of the re-
suits of the campaign against the big
game are now available.
There have been brought to Bangor
thus far about $500 deer, 60 moose and
AZ bears, and in the entire State ship
ments by rail aggregate close to 1000
deer, 125 moose and 100 bears.
To get 5000 deer cost the sportsmen,
it is initimated, about $50 each, which
will make a total of $400, 900; for the
$50 moose an allowance of 5000 each
is usually made, or $50, 900 for the total,
so that, counting in the bears, which
must cost their slayers $50 each first
and last, the cost of the grand hunt in
Maine this fall is not far from $3.50, 000.
But there is always another cost
that of human life, and this year that
expense account has been well up to
the average. Twelve persons have lost
their lives, fourteen have been badly
injured and an unknown number slight
ly wounded in the 1912 chase for game.
Two of the victims were mistaken for
deer; three were killed by the accident
al discharge of guns i'll the hands of
their hunting companions or others; two
died by accidental discharge of their
own weapons; two dragged rifles muz-
zle-frst; one got in range of his COM
panion's gun; one was killed by stray
bullet, and one died of heart disease
brought on by excitement and exer-
ton in hunting. Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 80, 1912.
PROGRESSIVES THE PARTY OF
FUTURE.

WILL BREAK UP SECTIONAL BLOCKADE,
DECLARES EX-SENATOR BEvERIDGE.
Kansas City, Mo. Nov. &c. That the
Progressive party is the medium
through which the sectional blockage"
in American politics will be broken,
was the assertion of former Senator
Albert J. Beverage in an address here
tonight
"Of all the people of all the earth,
he said, "only in America does geogra-
ply settle political action. Only in
America are votes cast by physical loca-
ton. The wrong that this does to
shackles that it puts on normal thought
and national improvement, the draw
back it is to the general welfare is
plain to all of US and to the whole world.
''In their hearts all Americans want
to get rid of this abnormal condition.
Yet so long as the Democratic and Re-
publican parties live everybody knows
that we cannot get rid of it. 1t is ask
ing too much of human nature.
1.-THE Progressive party surely will
break this sectional blockade of true
Americanism. Southern men and women
are even more eager to express them
selves politically as they think. They
beg the nation to let them do SO.
1.-The time has come when there must
be a frankly progressive or liberal
party in this country and frankly re-
dictionary or conservative party. The
Republican party cannot become either
''And so, very soon, the progressives
of all parties must come to the Pro-
gressive party. They will have no.
where else to go.
''And the conservatives of all parties
very soon must go to the Democratic
party because they will have nowhere
else to go"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
WHAT is A CRIMINAL CON-
SPIRACY?

1t is admitted that the railroad coal
companies own or control Sc per cent.
of the coal mined in the Pennsylvania
anthracite field, where the total pro
duction exceeds $4,000, 900 tons year
Through contracts with Independent
operators they control an even larger
proportion, and all coal moved to
market must pay freight rates to rail-
roads that own or control over six
sevenths of the coal mined.
Here is practical working monopoly
of a necessary of life in the hands of a
small group of powerful railroad in
terests, one of which is in actual
possession of over six tenths of the
possible supply of that necessary of
life.
Under this ironclsd arrangement the
prices of coal to the consumer have
rapidly risen through a short period of
years. For fifteen years, in spite of
economies Of operation, freight rates on
coal have remained fixed and always
high.
Nothing can be done to make coal
cheaper, says the Coal-Railroad Trust,
because it would interfere with divi-
dends. Nothing can be done to make
freight rates cheaper, the Coal-Rail-
road Trust says, because it would in
terfere with dividends. If this is not a
criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade,
what is criminal conspiracy? New
York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
DROPS BALKY AUTO IN BAY.
Owner Tires of S4, 500 Car with
$4,000 Repair Bill.

San Francisco, Nov. 81. -Obeying the
orders of his employer, H. H. Hart, of
Oakland, James Litz, chauffeur, ran
a $4 500 automobile off the rear of
ferryboat in San Francisco Bay yester-
day. Harris desire to "drown" the Of
Tending automobile was reached after
it had rolled up repair bill amounting
to $4,000. Yesterday he called Litz
into his library.
Take that car out and lose it, he
said.
81 can't lose it." he replied ''it's too
well known. Somebody would find it
and bring it back again.
Then sink it in the middle of the
bay" said Hart.
For the first time in weeks the car
ran smoothly to the ferry station and
was driven aboard the boat Litz
asked the mate to show him the deepest
spot in the harbor. When the boat
reached the designated place Litz
stealthily ran the car to the vessel
apron. Then he pulled wide the throt-
tie and leaped to the deck. The auto
mobile splashed into the bay.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
POWERFUL TURBINES USED.

To supply the power to operate the
gates and sluice valves in the locks, and
furnish current for the monster electric
locomotives which are to tow the steam
ships through the locks, great hydro
electric station is being erected adjacent
to the spillway in Gatun dam. There
are three $3.50 kilowatt water turbines,
and three 1000 kilowatt generators
with suitable exciters and other auxii-
aries. There will be enough available
water from the storage in Lake Gatun
to warrant the installation of 1000 kilo-
watts, though in the dry season it will
be necessary to draw upon the storage.
Altogether it is figured that for this
electric work seven per cent. of the
minimum water system of the canal
will be required. A part of the cleo
tricity is to be used for lighting the line
of the canal. There will be concrete
Iamp-posts 100 feet apart throughout
the entire length of each lock wall.
Altogether 1000 lamps will be installed
at the locks.
Outside of the canal proper, the re-
port shows that work has been going
on rapidly in preparing harbors for
the shelter of ships at each end of the
waterway. The work of fortifcation
has also been progressing well, nearly
half million yards of concrete having
been placed in the mortar pits and gun
emplacements during the last year.
The sanitation of the isthmus also has
been maintained at the high level set
by Col. William C. Georges, the chief
sanitary officer, from the beginning.
Contrary to the common impression
the sanitary work in the way of clear
ing land, does not extend over the en-
tire zone but less than 1900 of the
278, 848 acres in the tract are kept
clear for sanitary purposes and almost
the entire IONS is in its original con-
dition as regards brush and Jungle.
There is only one way to deal with
these slides, and that is to dig them
out as they occur, though some help
is gained by terracing the upper
banks. This is because the geological
formation changes so frequently and
suddenly that no other effective treat
ment has been found. So unstable is
the earth that the material in one part
of the cut begins to move on an in
clination as low as l on Z, owing to
the mass of stratified rock sliding
over layer of Ignite. One slide now
in motion, near the bridge of Culebra,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
FOUR-YEAR-OLD OPERATIVES

"Child labor" is hardly the term to
apply to conditions in New York can
neries, as exposed by Miss Chamberlin,
Vassar graduate employed by the
State Factory Investigating Commits
sion. Infant labor" would be more
accurate. What the public regards as
pernicious child labor generally concerns
young ones only little under working
age. But in the New York canneries
children only four years old have been
employed as late as last summer, ship
ping beans, husking corn and sorting
peas aid beans, according to Miss
Chamberlin's testimony; and during the
busy season toiled from daybreak until
night, sometimes being dragged out of
bed at dawn by parents to slave all day
long for equally cruel employers-the
working time ran from four in the
morning to midnight.
1t was evidently a case of the whole
family laboring, serf-like to meet the
factory demands. The parents were
aliens in most cases; but the employers
were not aliens, and the State govern
ment, now acquainted with this I'M
speakably cruel system, is not alien.
If this startling investigation does
not give law prohibiting the employ
ment of children under IA years of age,
public opinion then must be regarded in
state of coma. Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
Car Turns Turtle; Ono Killed.

Albany, N. Y, Nov. Paw. B.
Armstrong, president of local con-
tracing firm, was killed and C. S. Sus-
sodorff. an employee of the State archi-
tect's Office, was injured tonight near
Glens Falls, when an automobile in
which they were returning to this city
from Lake George turned turtle. Arm
strong was crushed beneath the car.
The steering gear broke and caused the
automobile to collide with another ma
chine standing at the side of the road.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
PANAMA CANAL A MIGHTY
FEAT.
ING NEW WATERWAY MAY BE
ADVANCED.

Washington, Nov. IS. Sometime next
summer or fall, no exact date being
specified, vessel will pass from the
Atlantic to the Pacific across what is
now the Isthmus of Panama, which con-
sequently must disappear from the
worlds geography and by the same hui
man agency, the western hemisphere
will be divided into two continents. The
vessel will not be the Oregon nor any
other famous ship, but will be one of
the many small water craft in daily use
by the canal builders; and probably the
only passenger will be Col. George W.
Goethals, and the staff of American
engineers, who for the past eight years
have been carrying on the greatest en-
cheering work the world has ever seem
1t will be later than that, anywhere
from six months to year perhaps, be-
fore the formal opening of the water
way will take place and naval fleet,
headed by the famous old Oregon, will
pass through into the western ocean,
and the canal may be fairly said to be
open to trade.
These facts are not of official record
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
Motor Car Runs Over Boy.

Brockton, Nov. 2S.-While 7-year-old
Charles Hunter lies dying at the God
dard Hospital, the police of Brockton
are searching for red automobile
which they believe struck him, and then
passed on, leaving him to be picked up
by H. D. Atwood of Norwood late last
night on Pleasant street
Atwoods car passed completely over
the boys body as it lay in the roadway.
but the wheels did not touch him. At
the hospital today the child's skull was
trepanned. but it is not thought he will
live.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29

when by so doing the spirit of feudalism
is thereby fastened on to higher type
of civilization choking and weighing it
down like an "old man of the sea. |"
Vermont has worther use for that
twenty-five thousand dollars than by
weighing itself down with piles of brick
and mortar in which to perpetuate a
system of militarism. That amount of
money would very materially augment
the resources by which our educational
system is all too inadequately sustained.
1t might be expended in any one of a
score of ways to the real benefit of the
people.
1t is interesting to know that in Ore
gon where the matter of an appropria-
ton for armories was submitted to the
people it was voted down by handsome
majority and at the same election the
permanent appropriation for education
was increased by an amount almost as
great as that proposed for armories.
verify believe that if this question
were put to plebiscite in this State
Vermonters would render a like YER
dict
HARRY L. CANFIELD,
Pastor of Universalst Church
Woodstock, Vt, Nov. Is, 1912.