Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-12-06
Scraps and facts.

90S57 2-3 representing the money anu
securities in the personal CUSTODY or the
treasurer, November Il, when Mr.. NC
Chung retired. The amount for which
Mr.. Thompson receipted includes
s156.72S,O 900 in silver dollars; $780,
600 in gold coin; $379,SS5 900 in paper
currency in reserve; $S37,647,000 in
bonds and securities; S22,Sl9,OOO in
national bank notes in process OF re-
demption.
One of the largest verdictS return
ed recently in a Richland county case
was awarded the plaintiff in the case
of Roberta c. Stone, as administratriX'
against the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road company, the amount OF the YER
dict being $4,000. The action grew
out of the death Of Samuel B. Stone,
a car repairer of the Columbia, New
berry and Laurens railroad. who, II
was alleged, came to his end through
the negligence of the defendant COM
pany in operating train on a track
where he was working. Stone was not
killed instantly, but died a few days
later. The defense Of the railroad
company was that the deceased con-
tributed to the injury by his neglect IN
not posting the proper signals as 10
his presence on the track.
With the senate's reconvening as
court of impeachment last Wednesday
Judge Robert w. Archibald, of the COM
merce court, faced the real beginning
of his trial for alleged misconduct and
misdemeanors. Witnesses summoned
by the house managers conducting the
prosecution were ready Tuesday to
testify, but their examination was de-
ferred until the opening OF court Wed-
nesday. Among those to appear to tell
of the so-called 'Katydid-Culm bank
deal" in which Judge Archibald was
alleged to have used his influence win
the Erie railroad to bring about the
sale of the property to him, were many
of Judge Archbald's friends and ac-
quaintances from Scranton, his former
home.
Spartanburg, December 4: There
can be no election on the dispensary
question in Spartanburg until Novem-
ber. 1914, and it will not be possible TO
open the dispensary until January l,
1915. unless an amendment to the pres
ent statute is passed at the approach
ing session of the state legislature.
The law, as il stands at present, pro-
vides that if one-third of the qualitied
voters, who participated in the last
general election, shall sign petition
asking for an election on the whisky
question, that the supervisor or the
county shall call an election, to be held
on the first Tuesday following the first
Monday in November during an elec-
ton year. There is to be no general
election in Spartanburg until Novem-
ber, 1914, at which time some or the
county officials will be chosen, and
under the present law the dispensary
election can not be held until that
time.
President Taft sent more than 200
recess appointments to the senate last
Tuesday, and Immediately indications
of a movement among some OF the
Democratic senators to prevent their
confirmation became evident. Senator
Gore, It was said, would have the ac-
tive support Of several colleagues In
heading the movement. The campaign
was directed especially against nomi-
nations, it was said, which have been
postponed from time to time thus
bringing the new terms close to the
beginning of the Democratic admins
tration. Democratic senators claimed
that the president already had deprived
the Democrats of the privilege OF ap-
pointing fifty thousand postmasters by
placing them within the civil service
law by a single order. Most OF the
Democratic senators expressed them
selves as favorable to a "discriminat-
ing obstruction" but several progress
sive senator's whose assistance had
been counted on. did not appear will
ing to cooperate 1t was understood.
At Fort Worth, Texas last Tues
day, J. Beal Sneed was found not gull
ty of the murder of Capt. Al G. Boyce,
Sr. Sneed shot Boyce to death on
January 10, 1912, in Fort Worth, soon
after Sneed had returned from Wtnni-
peg. Canada, with his wife with whom
A. G. Boyce, Jr., son of Capt. Boyce,
had eloped. Capt Boyce was sitting in
a hotel lobby when Sneed entered, and
almost Immediately shot him. Capt.
Boyce, Il was testified, was unarmed.
Sneed claimed self-defense and also a
conspiracy Of the Boyces to rob him OF
his wife. Al Boyce, Jr.. was killed by
Sneed in Amarillo on September IA
last. Sneed will be tried for this in
February at Vernon. The two killings
have been probably the most notable in
the history of the Texas criminal law.
The families involved are wealthy and
have played prominent parts in the
upbuilding of Texas. After the elope-
ment Sneed spent $4,000 in a chase
across the continent to find his wife.
The first trial of Sneed for killing
Capt. Boyce was held last winter here
and the jury disagreed. The demon
stration by Sneed and his attorneys
over the verdict was dramatic. Walter
Scott and w. p Mclean, Jr., attor-
neys for the defense, were fined for
throwing their hats on the chandeliers.
Sneed emitted a cowboy yell, but the
court refused to censure him or to fine
him. Mrs. Sneed awaited the verdict
in seclusion in a downtown hotel.
Sneed telephoned the news to her.
The initiative and recall of judicial
decisions, as amendments to the Fed
eral constitution, were proposed We'd
nesday by Senator Bristow in resolu-
tions laid before the senate. The first
resolution would permit the president
to submit to popular vote at a con-
gressional election, any measure he has
recommended to congress and upon
which no action has been taken for six
months. The second would provide
that IF the supreme court shall decide
a law enacted by congress is in vio-
lation of the provisions Of the Consti-
tuition of the United states, the con-
gress at regular session held after
such decision, may submit the act to
the electors at a regular congressional
election" Under each amendment it
is proposed that the question submit
ted to the people must have majority
of the popular vote in a majority of
the congressional districts of the ma
ton. In a brief explanation, Senator
Bristow declared the amendment af-
fecting the president would enable
him to appeal from a dilatory or ad-
verse congress to the people, and that
a president could not, as an excuse for
signing an undesirable measure. say
that it was the best he could get from
an unfriendly congress. Senator Bris-
tow. in support of his amendment af-
fecting decisions of the supreme court
declared that it would give to the
people an opportunity to state whether
they desire the law enacted by con-
gress and approved by the president to
stand as the last expression of their
will and judgment" The resolutions
were referred to the judiciary commit
tee.
1t cost the Democratic national
committee 81 159,446 to carry the elec-
ton for Wilson and Marshall, accord
ing to its final statement of contribu-
tions and expenses filed with the house
last Wednesday. Charles r. Crane. of