Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-25


known, and he would investigate and
IL possible, tell him how to remedy
the trouble. A number Of farmers
took advantage Of this invitation and
pointed out difficulties they had met
with. The prospective alfalfa grow
iers listened to this with deep interest
as they expected to benefit thereby.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Columbia, April "a: Furman Hoyt
OF the Sumter High school, won first
place, and Harlan Wood, OF the Spar
tanburg Hign school, second place, In
the state high school oratoricai contest
tonight at the University Of South Car
olina. i3BH e'
- Columbia Record: IT VIII leave
the case TO the discretion OF the court" !"
said DR.. T. p. Edwards. charged with
seinng cocaine, when ne. appeared be-
fore Police Recorder Werner this
morning, following his arrest Monday
night by Detective John Richardson.
II was charged that Or. Edwards sold
Joe Hawk q dollars worth Of co.
caine. DR.. Edwards admitted that
the transaction had taken place.
You are too free with your prescrip-
tions." said Recorder vener, 'and we
you to pay a fine OF $40 or serve 80
days. viii suspend the sentence on
condition that you go back to the
soldiers home and quit writing pre-
scriptions. Stay there at night. II
you come back I'll send you to the
circuit court for prosecution DR..
Edwards Is q practicing physician. He
Is Confederate veteran and native
or Aiken county. He has been resid-
Ing in Columbia for about six years.
There has been considerable selling Of
cocaine In Columbia and frequently
negroes In, dazed condition have
been arrested, their plight being At,
tributed to the use Of the terrible
drug. sS.ss
- Governor Blease was in Augusta
Wednesday. having gone lover there
because II was 20 close to Aiken where
ne was to deliver an address at the
state reunion Of the u. G. V's. on
gusta Herald, who claims to have APP
preached the governor with conside-
cradle trepidation because of the
governors alleged antipathy to news
paper men, as q clan, says he dId
not find the South Carolina executive
at all disagreeable. On the contrary,
Gov. Blease answered all, questions
asked freely and frankly and had no
hesitation In expressing himself ION
whatever appeared to- be of interest.
Reminded, says the reporter, that Gov
ernor Brown, In q recent issue of
an Atlanta paper, had taken an en-
tirely opposite view1 regarding the
pardon power from that Governor
Blease has taken, the South Car
olina executive said: THE best way
On lak L. 10
pare the number ia Of lynchings j, In
Georgia with those in South Carolina
and also the amount Of lawlessness In
the two states. Georgia has eight or
ten lynchings to Carolina,s one. i
am going to continue to exercise the
pardon and parole power whenever
I see flt and only today turned loose
three. = The severity Of the judges
in imposing sentence is one OF the
reasons why / pardon or parole so
many. In our state IL man steals
$2e 1t is petit larceny and he gets 30
days, if he steals $40 1t IL grand lar
ceny. and he gets long sentence.
One Of the men I pardoned today was
years ago, he was sentenced to serve
five years and had already served two
and a half. I pardoned him on the
condition that he leave the state and
he left for Alabama and will live with
his parents. - That man had suffered
enough. You say that the criticism
comes from Georgia that we turn loose
our criminals from the peniten-
tiary and they come over here. That
is not my fault. I cannot control their
movements after turn them out" In
introducing the reporter to Col. REM
bert, Gov. Blease said: There is q
yI,1 v,fo fN hn nrYnn mr. ~ nj
South Carolina. Another man who
wants to be governor is here also.
He Is Attorney General Peoples. They
are bed fellows at this hotel" The
governor has already announced that
he will offer for the u. 8. senate.
= Columbia special of April % TO the
News and Courier: That II was infor-
nation furnished him by c. J. Ramage,
J. N. Gregory, Mayor George c. Wheel
er and W. J. Padgett on which he bas-
ed his assertion that Senator B. w.
Crouch and Lawyer e. w. Able, all OF
Saluda, were 'incendiaries and thieves"
were prominent features Of the testi-
mony of Barnard B. Evans this morn
Ing while he was on the stand before
the supreme court in his own behalf on
the disbarment proceedings instituted
against him. 1t was IN order to give
yned that the court, at the request Of
Solicitor Cobb, postponed further con-
sideration Of this case until next Mon
day morning. Another witness men,
toned by Mr.. Evans as giving him in
formation on which he based his
charges, was q rural carrier named
Bush, and he will likely be subpoenaed
to be present next Monday and testi-
fy. Mr. Evans finished his direct testi.
mony and was then cross-examined
by Solicitor Cobb, but he stuck to his
that he had done nothing unprofes-
sional. Details Of several alleged trans
actions were gone into, but Mr.. Evans
had an explanation for each and every
one Of them, which the prosecution
could not shake. Mr.. E. w. Able nall
ed as false, the charges against him
and so did Mr. Crouch. The latter ex-
planned that once he had attempted to
fire a privy which stood directly In
front of his house but the fire went
out, the privy being q nuisance and
moved near the house Of Mr.. Wheeler
and when the chunk Of burned wood
was found in 1t, this gave rise to ru-
mors of some one trying to fire Mr..
Wheeler's premises. Mr.. Crouch ex-
planned the incident to Mr.. Wheeler
and everything was satisfactory. Geo.
L. Salter, resuming the stand, said
that he had only made one application
for loan to Mr.. Evans, signing two
at one time. This was con-
to part Of the testimony
given by Mr.. Evans. The defense op-
posed a continuance Of the case but
the court said that on account Of the
gravity of the charge, they did not
think the time element should be con-
sidered and they therefore granted the
motion of the state for a continuance
until next Monday in order to allow
the citizens Of Saluda, mentioned Sy
Mr.. Evans, to be brought here and
examined. The case will be resumed
next Monday morning at 10 o'clock. In
terest in the proceedings continues un-
abated and a large crowd was in at
tendance throughout the taking Of tes-
timony.