Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-12-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

A movement has been started In
Spartanburg to recall the city council
on account of an Objectionable license
tax ordinance.
Magistrate Robert ]. CAN'T and
Attorney C. C. Wyche had a fist fight
on the streets Of Spartanburg last
Sunday as the result Of, as Magistrate
CAN'T says, of Wyche calling him
liar In telephone conversation The
fight was witnessed by people going
to church.
Lexington special Of December IL,
to the News and Courier: George Bell
Zimmerman, solicitor Of this circuit.
received a letter today from Saunders
Lewis, Jr., clerk of the United States
circuit court Of appeals at Philadel-
phia, stating that an opinion had been
filed by Judge McPhearson. Of that
court, Affirming judgment Of the Unit
ed States district court in refusing to
discharge Joe Grant, alias Frederick
Brown, the Edgefield county negro,
who Is wanted in this state upon a
charge Of murder on a writ Of habeas
corpus. This means that Grant will
be brought back to Edgefleld county
within very short while unless his
lawyers should now appeal to the
United States supreme court. The
court annals Of this state. During April
1905. more than seven years ago.
Grant Is alleged to have shot and kill
ed ]. T. burst, a white man, In the
town Of Johnston. The killing was one
Of the most tragic In the history OF
Edgefield county. It Is said that Grant
made his escape Immediately after the
man was killed. Bloodhounds from
the state penitentiary were rushed to
Johnston In an automobile I'm an effort
20 erect his capture. In spite of the
tact tnat the governor of the state Of
rered q large reward for the apprehen-
sion or the negro in addition to the
amount subscribed by private individ-
about April of this year, when he was
captured by a mulatto detective, who
nad learned that there was an out
standing reward for his return To
south Carolina. Grant was operating
saloon In connection with a barber
shop In Philadelphia. and Is said 10
have identified himself with q number
OF negro lodges. He is said to have had
no dimculty In securing aid In fighting
extradition. The case was first car
RED before the attorney general OF
pennsylvania. and from there to the
governor OF the state. Requisition was
granted and Grants lawyers fought
the case on the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings. first going through the state
courts, the court Of appeals. the Unit
ed states district court OF appeals and
finally In the United States circuit
court OF appeals. The state of South
carolina has been represented at all
OF the hearings by Solicitor Thinner
man, who has felt confident through
out that he would win and that Grant
would be brought back to this state.
Barnwell special OF December 13.
to the News and Courier: The test of
Halls cotton maturing machine made
at the Barnwell OIL Mill yesterday:
was pronounced entirely successful by
q committee composed Of the follow
Ing gentlemen: II. d. Calhoun. pres
ident OF the Home Bank; T. s. Cave,
a planter; E F. Cole, Of the Southern
railway, and ]. Whitner Reid, presi-
dent OF the State Farmers Union. Two
tests-an acre test and a weight test
were made. The report of the COM
mittee Is as follows: Acre test: One
row Of cotton was measured and COM
puted as the fractional part of an
acre; all the bolls were then picked.
weighed and put through the process.
after which they were again weighed
and the cotton removed by hand and
the weights taken separately Of the
seed cotton and the remaining bolls.
The seed cotton was then computed to
represent an acre unit, then allowing
s per cent for lint cotton, 1t was
found that for each acre Of ground
t.k n
2OS:65 pounds Of seed cotton. Then
rating the seed at $27 ton and yalu-
Ing the cotton at only 10 cents per
pound, we have a gross revenue of
$l4.O5 for each acre of ground on
which there was left az much as 567
pounds Of frost-bitten bolls. Accu-
rate costs Of the labor were kept.
which showed that the cost OF picking
an acre is 1915, rating wages at 10
cents per hour. Then counting the
ginning at the regular price Of 80
cents per hundred, and also allowing
80 cents per hundred for processing
(Which is very liberaD, we have left
$10.24. which is absolutely net profit
to the grower, not counting the small
amount OF fertilizing value IL left to
decay on the land. Weight test: A
quantity Of frost-bitten bolls were
also gathered from the premises Of T.
j. Ready, of Barnwell, and an affida-
Wit taken from him stating that the
same were worthless to him and would
otherwise have been total loss to
him. These figures show that for ev-
cry ton Of frost bitten kolls left in the
field there Is gross loss to the own
er OF $49,49. The cost of gathering Is
less than 20 per cent of this. Then al
lowing the grower 65 per cent OF the
gross value, as has been suggested, or
$32.16, less 20 per cent for gathering,
gives him $25.74 for each ton he gath
ers. Then allowing 30 cents per hun
dred for ginning and 80 cents for
processing, we still have left profit Of
$1.33 as royalty to the company" At
a meeting of representative citizens in
the Home Bank last night the inven-