Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-16
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.

South Carolina.
Receipts at the Columbia postoffce
during March, 1915, exceeded those
Of March, 1914, by s1.OS3.sS.
Charles H. Burn, for nearly so years
a locomotive engineer, died at his
home in Charleston, Monday.
The town Of Johnston, Saluda coun-
ty, has recently completed the erec-
ton Of a $4,000 school building.
S. M. Byars of Mississippi, has been
appointed farm demonstration for
Anderson county, succeeding w. D,
Garrison, resigned.
1t is quite probable that the an
nual encampment Of the South Caro-
lima militia will be held at Charleston
this year.
The Georgia Carolina Belgian relief
ship st. Helena, which left Charleston
several weeks ago for Rotterdam,
Holland, has arrived safely in the last
named port.
A barn belonging to w. j. Rollins,
a wealthy farmer living near Darling
ton, together with four mules. six
horses, all Of his fodder and hay and
400 bushels Of corn, were destroyed
by fire Sunday night.
Capt. Schindel, United States army
inspector, inspected the cadet corps
Of Clemson college this week. The
cadet corps has made wonderful i'm
provement in military efficiency since
last year, he said.
Work was begun this week on the
new hydro electric power plant at
Fishing Creek, Chester county. This
plant will generate 10000 horsepower
and 1000 people will he given en-
ployment while the plant is being
erected.
Dan Gibson. son Of Henry Gibson,
of Cordova, Orangeburg county, died
Of cerebro- spinal menengitis Monday
afternoon, following an illness of sew
eral days. Three Of MI. Gibson's
sons were stricken with the disease at
one time, and the other two are in a
serious condition.
The hearing on the order for w. w.
Huckabee, sheriff of Kershaw county,
to show cause why he should not be
suspended from office on the general
charge Of not enforcing the liquor
laws, was resumed before Governor
Manning Tuesday. The governor took
the testimony in the case under ad-
visement and will render his decision
later.
James Riley, a mill hand employed
by the Hampton and Branchville Rail-
road Lumber company, was shot and
instantly killed by Constable G. F.
Fennell in Hampton, Monday night.
Fennell attempted to arrest Riley on a
minor charge and when the latter
jumped through a window in an at
tempt to escape, the constable fired
at him, killing him instantly. Con-
stable Fennell is being held in custody.
DR.. Edmund Henry oliver. principal
Of the Presbyterian Theological COL
lege, Saskatoon, and James Franklin
sembly and for the electoral division
Of Regina city, a royal commission
appointed by G. w. Brown, governor
Of the province Of Saskatchewan,
Dominion Of Canada, are in Columbia
investigating the ~dispensary system,
it's operation and its general effect on
the citizenship Of the state. The
province Of Saskatchewan will adopt
the ~dispensary system Of selling liquor
on July l. However, there will be
certain notifications from that of the
South Carolina system.
At the meeting Of the grand council
Of South Carolina Royal and Select
Masons, held in Greenwood Tuesday
morning, o. Frank Hart Of Columbia,
was chosen grand master. For some
time Mr.. Hart has served as grand re-
corder. B. f. Mot Of Columbia, was
elected to succeed him in this po-
sition. Other officers elected r as
follows: Deputy grand master, M. H.
Sandifer, Rock Hill; grand principal
conductor of work, w. E. CAN'T,
Charleston; grand treasurer, C. F.
Jackson, Columbia; grand chaplain,
the Rev. D. M. Fulton, Darlington;
grand marshal, Kenneth Baker,
Greenwood; grand captain Of guard,
w. A. Giles, Graniteville; grand con
ductor Of council, w. w. Wanna
maker, Orangeburg; grand steward,
S. T. Lanham, Spartanburg; grand
sentinel, r. Stuart Marks, Columbia.
That the printed code Of laws of
South Carolina has not been declared
by legislative enactment to be the
laws and is not the general statutory
law Of the state, was the opinion ex-
pressed this morning by Attorney
General Peoples. He says that the
code of laws as contained in the re-
ports of the cod commissioner for
the year 1911 and 1912 is the general
statutory laws of the state. Certain
errors" says the attorney general
have been noted in the code printed
by the Niche company, when com
pared with the new report of the cod
commissioners; said errors consisting
in some instances in the omissio of
certain statutes and acts which were
included in the reports of the code
commissioners: other instances being
a change in some of the statutes as
rannrtnI IN, tho nn1a COR, N, icSinnar
In such cases. it is the opinion of this
office that the code Of laws as con
tanned in the reports of the code COM
m~issioners for the years 1911 and
1912, is the general statutory laws of
the state for these reports have been
so declared. and the code printed by
the Niche company has not been so
declared by legislative enactment"
The opinion also declared that no
copy of the code vas attached to the
act and that no copy is on file in the