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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14
GUARD ROBBINS DIES OF WOUND
Dead Man Had Chased Many COnvicts
Trained BlOodhounds.

Columbia. April 11.-John Catlett
Robbins, State executioner. who was
shot Friday e Pinewood. in Clar-
endon county, by n negro, Joel Green,
n fugitive from justice, whom he was
pursuing, died last night at Z o'clock
ut a hospital in Columbia.
Governor. I was trying to do nny
duty" said Mr.. Robbins. as he was
being rushed to Columbia late Friday
night. Gov. Manning was at Sumter
on his way from ~Orangeburg to CO.
lumbia. The governor accompanied
the guard to Columbia in the bag
gage car OF the Atlantic Coast Line
railway train, reaching Columbia
just before IL o'clock Friday night.
Gov. Manning remained i'm the bag
gage car until the train reached the
union station and gave every attention
possible to the officer. Yesterday after
noon Gov. Manning called to see Mr..
Robbins at the Columbia hospital. An
operation was performed late Friday
night. but little hope was held out for
recovery.
Guard Robbins was born in An
derson county i'm 1876. His early life
was spent ON his fathers farm near
the city of Anderson. He was among
the first to enlist for the Spanish
American war After the war he came
To Columbia and secured a position
as guard at the state p~enitentiary
When the act providing for electro
CutiOn in this state was passed Guard
Robbins was named as the official
eXecutioner by Capt. -. j. Griffith,
superintendent of the pe~nitentiary.
The funeral services will be held
this afternoon at l o'clock at Eureka
church. three miles from Anderson.
mfr. Robbins had been connected
with the state penitentiary." SAID
capt. Griffith last night. for about
eight years. He was a good. kind ant
brave officer. lie could do more Will
the bloOdhounds than any one else
know. We will miss him.
The state government does not pro
vide for the maintenance of a pact
j. of blOodhouuds. Several years ag,
Mr.. Robbins bought several hound
| and began to develop a pack. He ha
chased and caught many criminals
I His dogs seldom failed To follow tn,
trail of hunted criminals.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14
Reception for Gov. and Mrs. Manning.

Gov. and Mrs. Richard Irvine Man
ming were honored by DIR. and Mrs.
Henry Alexander White with a hand
some reception Tuesday evening at
the homo OF the latter on Gibbes
court. Three hundred invitations had
been sent out and not less than $50
guests called. Mrs. Manning ard
Mrs. White have been lifelong friends.
having grown up together i'm R.ch-
mond. Mrs. Mannlngs' father was
Judge Meredith and Mrs. Whites
father was Judge Wexford. themselves
close. warm associates. and their
daughters were companions during
girlhOOd and school days. II is a joy
to both that after many years they
are once more living In the same city
and able To renew their friendship.
Receiving with the host and hostess
and their honor guests were: Former
Gov. and Mrs. Duncan Cllnch Hey
ward. President William Spencer Cur
rel OF the university and Mrs, Cur
rell and Miss Mautin of Baltimore,
who Is a cousin of Mrs. White and a
guest OF Mrs. Manning at the ccxcu-
tive mansion.
The house was beautifully deco
rated. the dining room being all IL
white and green and tho other rooms
having "a wealth of white and purple
flags N yellow %jOnquils. In the cen
tire OF the table from which refresh.
ments were served stood a large silver
basket OF white carnations and rcrr
and the candles were held i'm silver
candlesticks with green silken shades
The state. sunday. April II.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14

Ten Weeks in Bcd-Ftminent Thrsi.
clans Failcd-Wondcrful Recovery.
l wish to inform you of the great
benefit / have derived from the use of
Swamp-lIoot. | had been a sufferer
for more than twenty years from kid
ney and liver trouble and was almost
constantly treated by the most erni-
nent physicians who could only give
me temporary relief. | had been in
bed ten weeks when | began the use
OF Svamp-Root. Inside Of twenty
-FOUR hour could see that / had been
greatly benefited. / continued to use
Swamp-ROOt until | had used several
bottles when really felt that my Odd
trouble was completely cured and ]
am positive that any person suffering
with kidney or liver trouble can he
cured by the use Of this preparation.
l am now in the best Of health, bet
ter than l have been for ten years or
more. l do not know how to express
myself as strongly as 1 desire, in ia
vor of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, as 1
am sure that it saved my life and that
my good health is due entirely to his
great remedy. l heartily recommend
it TO every sufferer and am confident
they can be benefited as | have been.
1t is a pleasure for me, gentlemen, to
hand you this recommendation.
Mrs! H.. j. Price,
14O6 Center st. Portsmouth, O.
Personally appeared before me this
18th Of September, 1909, Mrs. H. ].
Price, who subscribed the above state
ment and made oath that the same is
true in substance and in fact.
p r. A. Calvert,
Notary Public.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14
CHAUTAUQUA AT BALL PARK
Location Changed so as to Obtain q
Place Free OF Noise.

The location of tho Chautauqua this
year has been changed to the baseball
park. The change was due to the
noise n heavy traffic In vicinity OF
last years location. Every one should
bear in mind this change and the To-
cal committee feels the people will
enjoy the program better in a quiet
place. free from any unnecessary
noise.
There were some nine hundred
pledges for tickets at $500 this year.
The local committee has but a very
few extra tickets at $500 to sell to
those who did not pledge for tickets
last year. and every day calls are COM
Ing for two dollar tickets. which can
not be sold, until the pledge cards are
filed. So in order to remove any bur-
den from the shoulders Of the local
g~uarrantors. 1t would be appreciated
II those who signed pledges would call
at the Y. M. G. A. early in the week.
They have only 1000 tickets at $2.OO,
so those who have pledged should
get their tickets 1T once, 81 that the
committee may be relieved from any
embarrassment. ii the pledge tickets
are sold a day prior 10 the opening OF
the ChautauQua.
The program looks bigger and bet
ter thar last years so let's everyone
be a booster and make this Chautau-
qua our C%hautauqua, for the people
of Sumter are the ones who make it
a C e
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14

Farmers who watched their crops
parch and shrivel during last years
long drought. while neighhurs who
cultivated pcrsistently made good
yields. will no Aoubt bc more inclined
this year to- the use of the C%ultivat0r.
one OF the most valuable or 0gricul-
tural implements. Make up %Our
mind now. long before planting time.
that you are going to keep our iind
constantly stirred up and not al
low your plants To bc handicapped
by unsatlsned thirst.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14
DISCONTINUE TWO TRAINS.
southern Railway Announces Re.
moval OF No. 81 and No. 32 TO
Jacksonville.

Washington. April 1O.-Southern
railway officials announced d tina
effective April Is trains Nos. 81 and
81. known Us the New York-Jackson-
vile Special. will he discontinued. The
New Notwithstanding sleeping car
now being handled on these trains will
De carried between Washington and
savannah by trains Nos. 30 and so.
Between Savannah and Jacksonville
this a will be handled by the At
lantic Coast Line.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14

This Years Rcdpath Chautaqua Tent
To Remain Eight Days.

The important announcement has
just been made by the management of
the Redpath Chautauquas that there
VIII be nc Sunday program this year
on the big seven-day circuit which
circuit extends from Jacksonville, Fla,
to Waukegan. Illinois. This innova-
ton, II is said. will cost more than
100000. The tent will remain eight
days in a place but will be open to
the public only seven.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14
OBJ aaattbman ana suutbrur
fuolished Wednesday and sa,arda,
BY
osrEEN FURNISHING COMPANY
{, SUMTER. 8. c.
Terms;
n ei,se per annum-in advance.
nAAaJs -

80 A0OkA0MU
oas Square frst Insertion. ....sl.oo
svsry subsequent insertion. >. SO
Contracts for three months. OF
longer will be made at reduced rate.
All communication which sub.
serve private interests will be charged
tor a. advertisements
Obituaries and tributes Of rs,pec,
sni be charged for.
The sumter watohman was found
q In isSe and the True southron I'm
nsss. The Waterman and southron
sov has the combined circulation and
influence Of both Of the old papers.
and u msnifsstly the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14
Willie Bcthunc's Last Chance I'm Court

The United States supreme court
mas landed down a decision i'm the
case OF the State OF South Carolina
VS.. Joe Malloy. convicted in the MARI
boro court In 1910. and sentenced to
be hanged. but between the late of
his conviction. and the date set for
his execution the legislature changed
tho mode of punishment from hang
Ing to el~ectrocution. His attorney APP
pealed to the United States supreme
court on the grounds that he could
not be legally executed as ne was sem
fenced to be hanged and not electro
cuted. This case is OF more than ordi-
nary interest to Clarendon county. be-
cause the case OF Willie Bethune sew
eral times tried and convicted for the
murder OF Mr.. Ben Minis. has also
been carried to the same court on
practically the grounds OF appeal. Our.
Information Is that the attorney for
Bethune agreed with the attorney gen.
eral to let his case go along with the
Malloy case. IL a new trial was grant
ed Malloy. he would ask for one for
Bethune. but IL Malloy lost IL would
be useless to- further insist for While
Bethune. So We assume that White
Bethune's only hope now lies with the
governor OF South Carolina, either
granting n communication or padon. He
viii be taken before the Judge at the
next term OF court who will s%entenc.
him to be -olectrocuted. The s~entenc-
ing judge has no discretion In the
case. and must impose the leath pom &.
atty.
This case has run the gomut Of
the courts Cor a long time. hut il has
o nesrcd It's md II has cost this
county a great deal OF money. but
that should not be taken into consid-
GRAFTON where a life Is at stake. even
though the life be that OF a negro
who killed n white man. What Is de-
manded however. is justice. and the
highest court of this great government
has decreed that justice has been done
In this and the Malloy cases which
was before IL from South Carolina
Manning Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14

We are informed that a superjor
quality of iron ore has been found ON
MIR. w. j.. Franklin's farm near Lethc.
\ specimen was sent to Clemson Col
leg" and tn" analyst pronounced il
high grad" iron ore. An expert who
inspected the vein thinks the ore is
there in abundance Mccormick Mes
Scngcr.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-14
Letter to
Or. KllImer & Co.,
~BinghamtOn, N. Y.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do Fo,

Prove What Swamp-RoOt VIII Do For
YOu.
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, y. Y, for q sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet Of valuable
information, telling about the kid
neys and bladder. When writing, be
sure and mention this paper.
Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size
bottles for sale at all drug stores.-
Advt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-09
LOWERING THE PRICE
THROUGH ADVERTISING

Too many manufacturers believe that if they
spend" money in national advertising (they don't
see that it is investment they must make it up
somewhere else.
They want to get their money back the first
year. and they turn to raise in their prices the
n1eanS-a which is usually a sure road to
failure
In reality, the amount put into advertising is
a deferred profit 1t comes back later through
increased volume of sales.
The normal result of advertising, rather than
increase in price, is decrease in price, better
article for the price, which amounts to the
same thing
And this in turn automatically brings still
greater volume of sales.
The case of the Hoosier Manufacturing Com
pany, of Newcastle Indiana, is in point This COM
pany attributes it's to several factors, and
chief among them these:
Q) Constant effort to give the maximum for
the money.
(2) Advertising.
The Hooser Company began advertising when
it first began making kitchen cabinets fifteen years
ago. Its first advertisement small one in a
wornanu publication, costing $47.5O Today it is
one of the leading national advertisers, doing
business of millions.
The story is perhaps best told by some direct
quotations from statement made by the Hoosier
Company itself
"For great many years the Hoosier Company
did not take penny of profit out of the business,
but put everything back into the quality of the
article and we feel that it has been this policy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-09

"There has not been a single year since we
began making cabinets that we have not increased
the value put into the cabinet and improved manu-
featuring and packing methods as a result of
increased UOL1me.
During the panic of 1908 we brought out a
"a Hoosi.r Cabinet now, j. rorcb greater
vaue tor the consumer than the one Whlch solo tor
Douglas Island news., 1915-10-27
The NOrtnIand The Latest News. from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed. Information for Everybody.

Whitehorse stores now close at 3 o'clock in the evening, except on Satur days.
 Valdez is tohave another paper, mak ing one daily aud two weeklies in the glacial city.
 The work of clearing a site for the electric plant power house at Peters burg was started on Oct. 10th.
 A return of the good old days at Nome is apt Co materialize if the sever al recent placer strikes pan out.
 Fined 515 for speeding was the seu- teuce of Nome autoist last month, and tbe first case on record in that camp.
 The government cabIeship Burnside spent three days at Ketchikau last week trying To fud an anchor she had dropped.
 Broad Pass ore runs from g to S36O per ton, says the Seward Post, and the extent of the formation is twenty-five miles long.
 Ignorance of Pacific coast geography is by no means confined to the efete East. The San Francisco Chronicle speaks of Dawson, Alaska"
 Judge George L. Taylor, for the past fifteen years police magistrate at White. horse, died last Wednesday night of heart failure. His age was 54 years.
 Meuakahtla will be divided. Father Duncan, who led a band of Indians from British Colum bia twenty years ago, is again preparing to move, aged as he ia.
 The steamer Dora, of the Alaska Steamship Company, recently brought from the Westward a cargo of ivory furs and whalebone valued at Sl45,OOO'
 At Nome all dredges have now closed down on account of the river freezing. A heavy snow is failing. Schooners are unable to navigate as far as Kotzebue.
 Capt. Lukens, of the survey boat Yu- kon, reports that be has located chan. mel up the Kuskokwim river to Bethel. The channel is deep enough for vessels drawing seventeen feet.
 The winter schedule on the White Pass Railroad, now in effect, calls for the dispatch of trains between Skagway and Whitehorse on Tuesdays and Fri days only of each week.
 Idneraut peddlers are taxed fifty dollars day in Cordova and seven cents a day in Seward. There is a chance yet that our copper output will beat that burg.-Seward Gateway.
 Anchorage is to have a public school building, says Lieutenant Mears, pro vided the residents of Chat town dig down in their pockets and subscribe enough money to sustain the school
Douglas Island news., 1915-10-27

Delegate James Wickersham left Fairbanks last Friday for the coast over the Valdez trail. He will have every opportunity to view and admire he work of the road commission.
 The schooner P. J. Abler, which burn ed recently on the Douglas beach, was used by Capt. Kleinschmidt in the Arctic ocean when he made the moving Lictures which have been attracting so much attention in the United States and Europe.
 Anchorage is in the throes of a labor war, largely over the fact that Che large fat. juicy contracts are given to Greek concerns, who send outside for their help, and leave the riuds for the old timers who, therefore, look for long, hungry winter.
 Peter T. Rowe, the first missionary bishop in Alaska, was married at Se- attle ou Oct. 22d, to Miss Rose Fuller. ton. After a honeymoon trip to the East, the couple will return to Sitka, Alaska, where the Bishop has made his home for many years.
 The Ketchikan Progressive Miner says: There is only one mau with the necessary qualifications for delegate ship who could bring together most of the factions, thus iusuring success, and that man is John Rustgard, the former United States District Attorney of Ju- ueau.
 Careful estimates of the output of the Fairbanks district for the season which is now drawing to close, indi- cates that the output will be more than S5OOOOO iu excess of last year. Many of the largest operators have shut down their summer operations and are preparing for winter work.
 Miners who have returned to Ruby from the stampede to Hodzaua express the opinion that the pay located will prove to be small spot of placer and state that even with a considerable dis. tributiou of gold it would be difficult to mine at a profit on account of the huge glacierthat forms on the creek each winter
 The steamer Otter, which left Vic toria with salvage gear for the Mari poso, struck badly on St. James island, a few hours run north of Victoria, aud has been abandoned as a total lose. She was worth about s3OOOO but was very old. She had been trading on the west coast of Vancouver island before she was fitted out for the salvage busi. ness.
 The certainty of railroad connection with the Yukon basin and the proba- bility of an early development of the coal fields greatly stimulated the search for mineral deposits in Alaska during 1914, according to Alfred H. Brooks, geologist in charge of the division of Alaskan mineral resources, United States geological survey, in report numbered Bulletin 622-A, recently is sued by the survey. The mining iu- dustry in Alaska as a whole was pros porous in 1914, though Che value of the total mineral output was somewhat less than chat of 1913, largely because of the decrease in the price of copper, for the gold output was little larger than tt.+ ,f Cha. ..,..,,,,.,,,.. ,-,,..
Douglas Island news., 1915-10-27

The Ruby district, poor mans camp to start with, is gradually making good to the point where the rest of Alaska will have to take notice, declares Mar tin Sickinger, a merchant from Long Creek, in the Ruby district, who is at Seattle. "The Ruby district started with nothing but few men willing to work, aud it is making good now in every respect" he said. "Beaver Pup, Poor Man, Spruce and Flat Creek, in the Ruby district, are all good pro ducers, and on upper Long creek one claim has produced the past season as much as 100 ounces of gold a day. Other claims have ground that runs from g to Sl5 a foot. The new dredge being installed by the Guggenheims should prove a paying proposition, and will be ready for operation next spring"
 Ten owners of lots at Anchorage, the new government town at construction headquarters of the Alaska railroad, have been indicted by the federal grand jury at Valdez, charged with selling liquor. Under clause inserted in the deeds issued by the land office the lots will be forfeited to the government if the owners are convicted. When the lots were sold the government stipu- lated that gambling aud the sale of liquor would not be permitted on the premises, under penalty of forfeiture. It is alleged that this stipulation has been ignored at the new town, which has grown rapidly, and that saloons and gambling houses have been con- ducted openly for several weeks, The indictments at Valdez have caused con- sternation among scores of Anchorage property owners, who fear confscation of their holdings for violation of the stipulation.
 4 Whitehorse correspondent of the Skagway Daily Alaskan, in speaking of the trial aud sentence to death of Alex Gagof, the Russian quadruple mur- derer, which took place there on Wed nesday afternoon last, says; "Ths af- ternoon l attended court. and heard the last of the witnesses and the sen tence pronounced by the judge in the GagoH murder trial It was very im. pressive. The court room was packed and many ladies were present. When the judge asked the prisoner to stand up, you might have heard a pin drop, the silence was so intense. Asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed on him, the prisoner entered iuto long converse tion with tbe two Russian interpreters. and it was some time before he could be made to understand that it was the cour, of last appeal and that anything further would have to be done by the Governor General in Council. He was finally made to understand, however, but said he had nothing to say. The judge then passed sentence, after going over the case, and set the day of execu- tion for Friday, March 10th, 19l6 Iu letter the prisoner wrote Frank Leslie two days ago, he said he was satisfied to die, but thought he should be shot. He asked, after being sentenced, that he be taken to Vancouver and there shot as be would like that better than being put to death iu Whitehorse.
 "SITKA HOT SPRINGS" Accom- modations, American or European plan. For terms apply to Dr. l.. F. Goddard, Sanitarium. Alaska a.-Adverfisement