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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-22
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In the District Court Of the United
States for the Western District of
South Carolina.
THE UNITED STATES
Versus
A certain tract of land containing
99.68 acres. more or less, situate in
--- Township, in the County
of Oconee, in the State Of South
Carolina, known as Jackson Talley
tract.
Notice that Application has Been
Made by The United States to Ac-
qufre the Land Herein Described
by Condemnation.
Pursuant to an order made by his
honor, Joseph II. Johnson, United
States Judge for the Western District
Of South Carolina, on the I'd day Of
July, A. D. 1917, notice is hereby
published that application has been
made to the District Court of the
United States for the Western Dis
trict Of South Carolina, in behalf of
the United States, for the condemna-
tion for the public use and purpose
Of National Forest Reserve, OF certain
tracts Of land, owned or supposed to
be owned by Jackson Talley, and a
general description of said tract of
land being as follows:
Jackson Talley Tract:
99.6S acres, horizontal measure, on
headwaters of Chauga, in Oconee
County, S, c., bounded N by VIM.
O'Connor (formerly Rexford), NE by
j. P. Mccall, e by R. "A. Nichols and
j. e. Orr, Sr., S by J. and T. Bot
toms, w by Jackson Tale and Ansel
and Ivester, beginning in w boundary
Of Bottoms tract 4" Spanish oak,
witnessed by 10" and 10" black
pines, .21 and 80 ch. distant; thence
with boundary of Jackson Talley
home place, N POLL w, 8.22 CHI; N
32-39 e, 4.25 ch. to maple; N 40
80 p, 1872 ch. to chestnut oak; N
52-34 e, 1855 ch.; N 10 E.. 4.68
CHI; N SO r, sos ch.; N 48-1S w,
10.16 ch. to white oak; N 64-39 w,
4.05 ch to white oak; S 84.53 w,
6.74 ch. to hickory on top of ridge
in q boundary Of Ansel and Ivester;
thence N 1905 e, with said line,
1850 ch. to Rexford and Talley cor
ner; thence with Rexford line N
85-08 e, 9.S1 ch.; s 11-06 w, STA
ch.; S 67-46 e, 1918 ch.; to ]. P.
Mccall tract; thence with his line s
66-05 e, 1903 CHI. to pine; 8 1O-43 e,
1903 ch. to r. A. Nichols corner;
thence with his line 1873 e, 2.34
ch. to yellow pine, J. e. Orr and
Nichols corner; thence with Orr's
line 31.17 w 25.75 ch.; thence s
30-13 w, 4.45 ch. to Bottoms tract;
thence with its line 8 1926 w, 1857
CHI; S 1926 w, 4.21 ch.; s $3.50
w, 6.72 CHI, to beginning corner;
bearings turned from true meridian.
All persons interested in said tract
Of land are hereby required to come
forward on the 1st day Of October,
A. D. 1917, and file with the Clerk of
this Court, at his Office at Greenville,
S. c., their objections, If any they
should have, to the proposed pur-
chase or acquisition Of said tract Of
land by the United States.
J. WILLIAM THURMOND,
United States Attorney.
A true copy. Attest:
(Seal.) j. B. KNIGHT,
Clerk U. s. D. Court.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-22
State OF Ohio, City Of Toledo,
Lucas COunty-ss.

Frank j. Cheney makes, oath that
he is senior partner of the firm Of F.
J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City Of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum Of One Hundred Dollars
for each and every case Of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use Of
Halls Catarrh Medicine.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9Th day Of De-
cember, A. D. 1885.
(SeaD A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Medicine Is taken
internally and acts through the blood
on the mucous surfaces Of the sys-
tenn. Send for testimonials, free.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipa-
tion.-Adv.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-22

The capital stock OF the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
outstanding on December 81, 1915,
was 1895 ,603,600, and the number
Of stockholders (of whom the ma
joT.ty aTe womsn) was 1856, not
counting employees.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-22
GERMAN AGENTS BACK PLOT :?
Virginia Prisoners Attempt to Escape
as Trial Begins.

Big Stole Gap, Va, Aug. 16.-LW.
v. Mccoy and J. w. Phipps, on trial
in Federal Court here as result of
their alleged activities in organizing
mountatneers to evade the selective
draft law, and whom witnesses to-
day testified were backed by German
agents, attempted to escape from Jail
tonight by saving the bars to their
cell windows. The attempt was frus-
trated when another inmate Of the
Jail notified the authorities. They
were aided w two other prisoners, it
was said.
Phipps and Mccoy are under a
heavy guard tonight, and other pris-
oners were carried to the county con-
vict camps until repairs are made on
the Jail.
phipps and Mccoy were put on
trial to-day and the first case will go
to the jury some time tomorrow. A
charge Of "enlisting men for the pur-
pose of waging war against the Uni
ted States" was thrown out on in
struction of the court. The charge
on which they were being tried is
"conspiring to seize and destroy
arms and munitions of war"
Evidence offered in the trial for
conspiracy against the government,
which began before Federal Judge
Mcdowell to-day, tends to show that
German agents had used large sums
of money and other inducements to
inspire the mountaineers to rebellion.
In his opening address to the
court District Attorney Byrd said
the government would show that
Phipps and Mccoy had been offered
ten thousand dollars for their leader
ship work in arousing the people Of
that section to open rebellion.
Late this afternoon the court in
structed the jury to bring in verdict
Of not guilty on the charge of ere
cruiting for the purpose of waging
war on the United States" Eleven
witnesses were examined on the
charge Of conspiracy to seize and
destroy arms and munitions Of the
government" and this charge will be
submitted to the jury tomorrow.
One other count Of the five indict-
ments to be tried after this is "inter-
ference with the war draft"
Witnesses examined to-day testified
that they had been approached by
Mccoy and Phipps with proposals to
join an organization to rob banks in
several towns in this community, de-
stroy railway property and otherwise
interfere with the movement Of war
supplies and the drafting of men for
war service.
District Attorney Byrd, in his open
ing address, said the government was
prepared to show that Mccoy and
Phipps were offered ten thousand
dollars by German agents to lead the
conspiracy against the government.
Johnson also testified that Mccoy
had told him that the Germans
would give the conspirators under
Mccoy and Phipps 100000 for blow
ing up three important railroad
bridges in this section. He said this
statement was made to him by Mccoy
while he was in McCoy's shop and
saw the money. He swore that he
had been called to the shop by Nc
Coy and solicited to join in the con-
spiracy. He refused to have any
thing to do with the matter. 1t was
before he had refused that he had
seen the money in the bucket.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-22

A dealer in Mexico is seeking O
market in this country for salted calf
and other skins.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-22
no cure a cod In Ono Dav.

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine. Il stops the
Cough and Headache and works of the Cold.
DrugRlste refund money II Il fails to cure.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-22

The trade in dried shark meat and
fins at Alden, Arabia, has decreased
since the beginning Of the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
President Endorses
tuberculosis Fund
S,pports Drive for $4,000, 600
by the Sale Of Red
Cross Seals

Emphatic Endorsement was gwen yes
terday by President Wilson 20 the cam
pe;cn Of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention Of Tubercu-
losis. to raise s3.OOO,OOO by the sale
Of Red Cross Christmas seals. In a
letter to DR.. Charles j. Hatfield, eXecu-
tive secretary of the association, the
President said he hoped that the pub
lie would support that cause as gener-
ouslv "a they had responded 10 all
ether appeals made to them recently.
In his letter the President said: AT
this time, when We are all called upon
TO do our utmost 10 make the fighting
forces OF the United States the most
efficient that human agency can produce,
| cannot too strongly urge upon you and
your associates. as well as upon the
people of the United States. the in
creasing necessity for pressing still
further the progress which has been
made in the prevention Of tuberculosis
and other diseases.
Il am in thorough sympathy with the
efforts which you are making 20 raise
SO GOO. 900 from the sale OF Red Cross
Christmas seals, and | hope that IL
will be possible for the people of the
country 10 render support 20 this cause
as generously as they have rendered 1t
70 other causes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18

Miss Grace NJ. Trankla, "devout fol-
lower of Christian Science" who says
she devoted all of her time for six
months to teaching its doctrines to
Clarence c. Burger, banker, broker and
promoter, brought suit against him in
the Supreme Court yesterday for ST.
$50. which she asserts is due for her
services.
Mr.. Burger, according to Miss frank
Ia. offered her $3.50 a month for teach
ing him. $4,000 more at the end OF the
six months course to compensate her
for putting aside her musical career,
and $4,000 If her prayers and suppl
cations succeeded in. bringing about
the consummation of a mining deal
from which the defendant expected TO
realize about sl,OOO,OO0 profit.
Saws Deal Went Through
Miss Trankla expresses the belief
that tho deal went through. and in
cludos in her demands 10000. which
ras TO be her reward for that MISS
Trankla admits that she was financial
~ embarrassed in April last, when Mr.
Rurger made the verbal contract with
bor and was unable to complete her
musical training. She adds that she
was a proficient student of Christian
Science. -, NIL.
Mr.. Burger. too. says Miss Tranklaa
was firm believer in the doctrines o.
Christian Science, but a poor student.
Miss Trankla alleges that the broker
told her he greatly needed some one
Who could lead him into a deeper IN
outstanding Of it's principles, so that he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
Appelbaum Hopes to
See StieloW Set Free

Misha Appelbaum announced last
night at meeting of the Humani-
tartan Cult in Carnegie Hall that he
hoped that Charles Stielow, the con-
victed murderer on whose behalf Mr..
Appelbaum and others successfully in
terceded. would be a speaker at the
next meeting on January s.
In the course of financial state
ment the founder Of the cult declared
that he had empted his pockets in ite
behalf, and could no longer publish
its magazines unless friends came to
his assistance. 1t was decided to rec
ommend the passage Of a law limiting
campaign expenses. Confidence was
expressed in the ability of Mayor.
elect Hylan as demonstrated in his
inquiries into the administration OF
departments. and it was suggested that
he be asked 70 appoint fuel admin
istrator with power to seize and sell
boarded coal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
Railroads Prompt Action
Relieves Coal Famine

same house last week with box con
tanning two cans Of powder and three
inch shell loaded with "TNT'-enough
explosives 20 wreck the building. Lieu
tenants RODRIGUEZ and Fagundes. @.
the Brazilian mission. had collected
them abroad as munitions samples.
The explosives might have been DO
the house yet. only negro hallboy'
thinking the package marked FIRST
Brazilian Military Mission contained
something valuable, removed II from
the apartment.
The police suppose that the negro. on
opening the package, became fught-
cued and abandoned his loot at the first
hiding place he could find, which hap
pcncd 20 be the basement at 2l3 West
Sixty-frst Street. Il was found there
and turned over 10 the police.
There is Law against carrying eN-
plosivcs about in New York. and even
members Of foreign war missions have
no right to subject New Workers to the
danger of proximity TO TINT" SAID
Fire Commissioner Adamson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
Fear r. r. Changes
Will Increase the
Cost of Living
Pennsylvania Line Plan
ming to Deliver Potatoes
on New Jersey Side
By BRIGGS

The New York Fruit and Product
Trade Association appealed yesterday
to the Federal Food Board to intercede
with the railroads to prevent changes
in transportation orders which eyentu-
ally would cause increase in the cost
of food
According to the frui, and produce
men, the Pennsylvania Railroad sys-
tenn plans to deliver potatoes and other
vegetables at New Jersey terminals,
instead of at Piers 81, % and 20, along
the North River The change is TO 90
into effect next spring. The merchants
said this system would put them to
great additional expense, and in add
lion would cause delay, which might
result in great deal OF damage to
consignments of perlshable vegetables
and waste of foodstuirs.
The complaint of the fruit and prod
uce men was heard by Cyrus {. Miller,
chief of the division of transportation
and distribution of the Federal Food
Board. Mr.. Miller called a joint meet
ing of railroad officials and the mer-
chants to be held December %, when
an attempt will be made to reach u
compromise.
LYMAN Borrok. waist manufacturer.
arrested last week on the charge OF
boarding sugar. appeared Yesterday be-
fore Chairman John Mitchell and
Arthur Williams, of the Federal Food
Board. and admitted owning more than
fit ybarrels of sugar, stored in ware
house in Greenwich Street. Borrok
said he had never had any intention TO
speculate in sugar, and had bought the
supply for the manufacture of syrups.
He agreed to haev the sugar sold at
government price and TO give part OF
it to hospitals and other public insti-
tutions. The Federal Food Board de-
ferred decision.
The case of Louis Hoffman. whole
sale grocer on the East Side. charged
with selling sugar at an eXtortionate
price, was continued, pending an in
vestigation of his books by agents OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
What Is Going On To-Day

Fres admission % tie American Mussum q Ns'
tral Hsofy. the Metropolitan " 1sfun o. ~
ne Ngs York Z,ooslcai Para. 'le an Coltsst
fsrA Museum. tho American Museum ~ S'~'
and tho Aquarium
Addresses BY Roslsnd Haynes. Poioe Corom sstcc
Arthur Woods. Miss Naudo D. Miner Nd w
sara g Douglas on Protection n our ~
OH Girls Ia War rims" a. meeta. a n
Girs' Pro,ecuse league % TIE NsS N,k PrSs.
ton aud rro;s-t.ys Association C.smosSAta'
club. l25 East Fore,h suo.t. - M
Dinner q tho self tnsurers Asss.isiiou q ~
. forN. Hotel MeAlp.n. 3. m.
Needing OF uhe Association q Retail Cr.tii -
, hc,el MeA.pn. e p N.
Your Duty u Your Counts" At danes Z y
vsaGnsl woman's Army Fund Psn ksHs
Pan OF the Ansriesn Medical SluiaJ AID Assshs
'iPn. klu-'sriot. evening
PUBLIC LECTURES or THE BOARD or Ep<
CATION. Sis r. "
MANHATTAN
Mo- Education IN Musie Nrs Htrrist A ~
mour. Nadle.sh Hsa School. liSth street. -
LseDwhsre with IAnco;n." ~. Henry r. -!
AVenne
switzerland TIE Triumph o. nsms,r.,," y
Jerome II RiyDoad. American Museum II No.
nisosy' seFeaiy seventh Street and centrL -
Ireland" Bivsrd J. Parker. M<rcvo,i,sa To-
Seventh Avenue and Foarssnth S,rsst
THE BRONX
Tie West Indlss" Or George Don.htscn, r.
s.aool 50. .07th STREET and HILL Avsrre
laio WIN the Onited states tmmlrafcn
x.Tn r 10, f..asi. RI, .wh~ls<. 81 kn'<n
is.o.n n deal. '1t ns a. ii ,.seu, ss' q
. &c. Public School p. Madison saa 'sS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
Coercion Charge
In Stielow Case
Hint That Grand Judy Is Be-
ing Influenced Halls Muir
der Proceedings
LSiaf Correspondencel

ALBION, y. T., Dec. II. - In tie
ordinary course Of events the Orleans
County Grand Jury might have been
expected TO be ready tomorrow TO re-
port its conclusions on the evidence
which Governor Whitman's special pros
scutors have presented in sport OF their
formal charge accusing Erwin King OF
The murders at West Shelby for which
'harles Stie!ow and Nelson Green are
CRYING life sentences in Auburn.
But there was a halt in the pro-
.eedings to-day. following a hint tha'
attempts were being made 20 influence
the grand Jurors. And there probably
will be another at the morning session
while Supreme Court Justice Wesley I.
Dudley questions the men who are sa1a
TO have been approached.
Through ali the morning the inye5-
tigatiop, marked time while George Il;
Bond and Deputy Attorney General
Charles +. Waite were trying 10 ge-
INTO telephone communication Witn
Justice Dudley. who had returned u
Buffalo. and did not expect 20 be mere
again until the grand iury's report was
prepared. ,
As result OF what he was told the
Judge hurried TO Albion. Arrlying
here at noon. he went Immediately into
a long conference with the special
prosecutors, at the end of which the
DELAYED witnesses were taken into the
grand jury room.
Will Sift Scandal
II Is believed that Justice Dudley
however. will not let the inquiry 90
much further before he has sifted the
aa1a n q bottom.
Governor Whitman has taken them
so far into consideration that ne mas
placed special guard over King In
the person of keeper brought mere
from Auburn.
King confessed once before, and then
recanted. To the end that no outside
influences may lead him TO another
change of heart his guard has orders
20 hold him incomunlcado. Not even
newspaper men nor the regular jan
staff have access 10 the cell suite III
which he is prisoner.
While certainly of vastly more
weight. the facts gathered BY Dir. Bona
and his assistants have thus far been
reserved for the private ear OF the
grand jury. The new confession whlch
King is understood 10 have made is
as carefully kept secret.
Coroner Edward Munson, the first
physician on the scene OF the mys-
terious crime for which Stielow has
been no less than five times within. a
step OF the electric chair, headed the
procession of witnesses into the grand
Jury chamber this afternoon. lie was
followed by Howard Kohler, one of the
neighbors summoned by Stielow after
the farmhands belated discovery Of the
bodies of Charles b. Phelps, the sept
uagenarian farmer and money lender
of West Shelby, and Miss Margaret
Wolcott. Phelps's housekeeper.
The other witnesses of the afternoon
were Mrs. Laura Stielow, Charley Site
lows wife, and Mrs. Mary Jane Green,
his mother-in-law, both Of whom insist
the convicted man did not leave his
house on Pheips's farm the night of the
murder. and who themselves take re-
sponsiblity for his failure to investi-
gate when he heard Miss Wolcotts
screams. Mrs. Green, woman of sixty,
walked nearly five miles in waist-deep
snow to respond to her subpoena.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
Sues Broker Who, She Says, Put
Thoroughbred by Christian Science
Teacher Seeking $780, Alleges She Instructed SUDDEN
for Six Months to Improve Health Aid to 100000
Proposition-Now She Wants Share

might not only be healed of physical
defects. but that his greater business
success in life might be promoted as
we'll"
The plaintiff says she gave up her
entire time to the teaching of her pu-
pill. Laying aside all other personal
interests" She says. II earnestly and
constantly. day by day, until October,
1917, endeayored by truly Christian
Science theories and methods, by pray
er, thought and reading to assist the
defendant
Had Expensive Apartment
She taught Mr.. Burger at her home, at
the Christian Science Reading Rooms
and at an apartment, which the PLAIN
tiff alleges the defendant fitted up az
great expense. They were IN daily
communication. and the plaintiff also
advised the banker and broker with re-
gard 20 his deals.
lie paid her the $3.50 a month up TO
September, and then. Miss Trankla al
leges. his payments stopped. She says
he refused to pay her for October, and
also failed to pay the alleged promised
So .0OO to continue her musical lnstruc-
ton. or the $4,000 bonus on the min
ing deal.
At the home of Mr.. Burger, at 90
Fifth Avenue. it was said last night
that he was in the West, but that on
his return he would iie a denial OF the
allegations made by Miss Trankla. II
was added that Mr.. Burger and his wife
have for years been Christian Sci
cntists. and that there was no reason
why he should take instruction in the
doctrine of that faith from the plain
tifr.
Denial was Likewise made that the
broker accepted spiritual advice in
vOlying MS business deals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
"LightleSS Nights" Urged
For Connecticut Towns

HARTFORD. Dec. H. To cooperate
with the National Fuel Administration.
Thomas ". Russell. who is handling
the coal problem In Connecticut as
Federal Administrator. to-day made a
request that outdoor illumination be
curtaied 90 the extent of two eight
less nights each week. safety TO be
considered, however. He designated
sundays and Thursdays as "hghtless
nights"
The further request is made Of citi-
fens that household lighting be kept 10
The lowest point possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18

the food administration. .a,.,
The Food Board spent the grea''
Part Of the afternoon listening 70
diyerting tale Of sugar speculation ;"
Harlem. Max and Nathan MAGNET pro
nrie,ors Of n moving picture theatre
a. Firth Avenue and l0Gth Street, had
tried to popularize their playhouse by
distributing fifty one-pound package
of sugar TO their customers every al
ternoon. The patrons drew mum er'
with their tickets. Harry GoidDery'
employed By the Matchcts, told tne
Federal Food Beard they paid Joseph
II. Horowitz. OF llOS PARK Avenue, 700
for poo pounds Of sugar and that nor
owitz demanded s. more. According
10 Goldberp. Horowitz wanted 20 cents
pound for his sugar
Horowitz. his wife, Mrs. Frieda Hor,
cwitz. and their two sons, lsadore ana
Meyer, denied the accusations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-18
Special Bar Board Named
To Pass on Waters Reforms

George l.. Tngraham, president Of the
City Bar Association, has appointed
John Godfrey SAKE, John A. Carver,
Louis Marshall, Herbert c. Smyth and
Nelson s. Spencer a special committee
70 cooperate with the Walters legisla-
Procedure.
This special committee will hold
hearings az which Senator Walters will
make full exposition OF the reforms
which he has been considering for the
last two years. Advice on the subject
will be asked from all lawyers and