GASTON A DA LY n&7 Local Cotton 22 Cent VOL. XLIII. NO. 214 GASTONIA, N. CJ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 7, 1922 SINGLE COPY S CENTS Weather Fair Meeting Gives Rise To Hopes Of Early Settlement Of Strike f .-;'...'..: .". ; Railway Shop Crafts Policy Committee of Ninety Is Summoned to Meet In Chicago Monday Railroad Executives Deny That There Are Any Peace Overtures Decline to Comment. CHICAGO, fici. 7. With the rail way shop crafts policy committee of ninety summoned to meet in Chicago next Monday, hope of an early or partial set . tlement of the rail strike wai renewed today for the first time since railroad executives and union chiefs broke off peace negotiations in New York. These hopes were founded principally on the call for the union's policy com mittee meetintr and statements by strike leaders of the possibilities of separate agreements with 52 of the class one roads representingapproximalely 85,000 miles. Railroad executives generally either denied that peace overtures had been considered in conferences with union leaders, or declined to comment on ru mors of an impending settlement. Some insisted that the strike was broken and that peace parleys had ended with the break up of the New York Conferences. The call for the policy committee meet , ing issued at Chicago strike headquar .ters by John Scott, secretary of the Eailway Employes Department of the American Federation, of Labor went out to the general chairmen of the shop raf tg erganization over the names of B. M. Jewell, head of the department, whose whereabouts had remained publicly unknown since the governments strike : injunction was granted. Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad of which Daniel Willard is president and which is included in the group of roads from which strike leaders hope to obtain separate agreements, de nied knowledge of any conference with Jewell or his associates. With the issuance of the call for the policy committee meeting, Mr. Jewell was reported to be enroute to Chicago. The call informed the general chairman that tho meeting was "very important. The meeting of . shop craft 's leaders was called for the same day which Judge James It Wilkerson set for hearing the Government's application to muko the Daugherty injunction permanent. Attorney General Daugherty announ ced at Washington that the Government would consider in duo time what pro ceedings would be taken against the few misguided labor leaders who have ninde incendiary speeches in connection - with the industrial situation." He said tlto Government had been "somewhat hamp ered" by the difficulty process servers had exeperienced in locating leaders of ficiuls of the shop crafts organizations. Union leaders denied that Jewell and his associates had leen purposely avoiding the service of the wr.its. ALABAMA TO HAVE STRONG REPUBLICAN PARTY Full State Ticket Will Be Named at Today's State Convention to Wage an Ag gressive Campaign Against Democrats. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 7. After today Alabama will have "two strong, active and progressive" political par ties, according to republican leaders, who announced their intention following a caucus, to "name- a full state ticket at today's convention here and to wage ' ....... '. in nniinuttmil ail RKRressiVU ruuiim Bu -"Vl"' " : 10 ine UCIIHKTHllt UKIIimrio. , . . 1 .wtliov t Willi KTHI.e qemoerais are .. i"'.''"V at Moiugonu-.y, u. ! SLCT.,. a- tfV' Z W1HI.II- Ulltl nin- ..... people in the November election. A threatened fight between factions of the republican party was Paid to have been wiped out at preliminary confer ences and it was the opinion of siwkes men for the party that peace will reign at today's meeting which opens shortly after noon and that a plntf orm will bo adopted that will "command the confi dence and s'lipport of the voters who believe in republican principles and j policies." , , , . , ! It was said by leaders that local tick- j ets will be named m at least one-nair ' the counties of the state and tho party will place candidates in the field in every congressional district. -' The number and influence of the negro at the convention will be negli gible, according to foremost members of the party, who attended the caucus. Oliver D. Street, member of tho na tional committee, will have a prominent part in the proceedings, it was stated. DENY EAMON DE VALERA ' ARRESTED BY IRISH DUBLIN, Sept 7. Knowledge re garding the rumored arrest of Eaniou de Valera or the wounding of Erskine Childers was denied today by the pub licity department of the Irish Govern ment here. 1 COTTON MARKET CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Cotton fu tures closed firm; spots quiet, 40 points up. October 21.00; December 21.25; January 21.11; March 21.21; May 21.17; spots 21.23. Receipts Price . . . 42 bales 22 cents THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday. GIVE UP HOPE OF RESCUING BUSIED MINERS JACKSON CaL, Sept 7. (By the Associated Press.) Hopet that the buried miners in the Argonaut shaft would be reached by rescue crews which have been tunneling fe verishly since a week ago Sunday night, in time to bring out alive the entrapped miners, faded after it be came known early today that rescuers burrewing from the 3,600 foot level of the Kennedy workings have yet to pierce 333 feet of caved-in debris and timbers and 29 feet of solid rock. Unless better conditions are en countered, it was believed by some mining experts here that it will be closer to thirteen than to seven days before the task is accomplished. PYTHIAN BAND TO COMPETE FOR MADE-IN-CAROUNAS EXPOSITION PRIZE Gastonia's Pythian Band is going to the Made-in-Curolinas Exposition on Gaston County Day, Wednesday, Sep tember 27th, for the express purpose of bringing back with them the $500 cash prize offered by the exposition manage ment for the best band in the State of North Carolina. Manager Floyd C. Todd and his players are , in splendid shape and firmly believe that they can prove themselves the beBt North Caro lina Band. During the summer this band has been giving a series of free open air con certs at Community Service Park on Tuesday evenings. Thousands of Gas toniang have enjoyed this music. At the Knights Templar' Convention at Winston-Salemn in May this band won tho decision overa number of competitors, At the 20th of May Celebration in Char- lotto this year the. Gastonia band won the first prize of 430 for being the best band in the State. Since that time Mad- ager Todd has had his men hard at work practicing with the result that they are in better shape now- than ever before. If any other North Carolina town car ries homo thebacon from the Made-in-Carolina 's Exposition they are going to be under .the necessity of doing some 'tall" playing. KLUTTZ'S RELATIVES PREPARING FOR TRIAL Murderer of Crabtree Not Likely to Be Tried at Next Term of Court, However. RALEIGH, Sept. 6. George W. Wright, grandfather, and R. Lee Wright, great-uncle of Charles M. Kluttz,' in the county jail here charged with the mur der of Detective Tom Crabtree a week ago,' are here tonight arranging for the timii,rv riot nil. in thA vrinl f vnnnt- ' v ' : - , -TV.1UHZ. Criminal court next week finds the Kluttz case ready for grand jury action, but the defense fan not go to tTial now G. W. Wright visited the boy 's mother tonight m the hospital. She is yet too ill to bo told of the tragedy, and knows nothing of it. The Kluttz boy, who has long been addicted to dope and heavy dnnk, hints at others in the car with him the night that Crabtree was killed, but the youngster is in no mental shape to put up a defense and hasn't been for years. ' Rev. Dr. R. L. Lemons, pastor of the First Baptist church, Salisbury, came down with the Wright brothers. John O. vWright, uncle of Kluttz, also came. CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR MUST RUN AGAIN ATLANTA,, Ga., Sept. 7. Complete and unofficial returns, with the excep tion of one precinct in yesterday's white city primary held unJer the auspices of the democratic party indicated today that a second race for candidates who sought nomination for mayor will be necessary. Walter A. Sims, attorney, and James G. Woodward, a former mayor, will be the .contestants, neither having received a majority of all votes cast in the six cornered race for the office. Figures in the race for mayor this morning gave Sims, 5,708 ; Woodward, 2,832; J. R. Nutting, 2,078; James L. Beavers, 1,061; Dr. John C. White, 667, and Charles F. Jackson, 197. Candidates for three other city offices out of the total of forty-one also will face a second race. GOVERNMENT WON'T INSIST ON CURBING FREEDOM OF SPEECH WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Attorney General Daugherty today sent for Sena tor Borah, republican, Idaho, chairman of the senate labor committee, and after a conference- regarding the Chicago in junction issued against the striking rail way shopmen it was indicated that the government would not insist, in. next Monday's bearing on the permanent in junction, on the provisions alleged to curb freedom of speech. LIEUT. B. W. MAYNARD KILLED TODAY WHILE FLYING IN VERMONT RUTLAND, Vt., Sept. 7. Lieut. Belvin Maynard, known as the "Flying Par son," was killed while flying at Rutland Fair today. 2 COMMISSIONERS TO INVESTIGATE THE ROAD SCRAP ON IN GUILFORD Mr. Page Tells R. W. H. Stone and Delegate the Com mission Is Also Plain. . $20,000,000 TO BE SPENT This Much Left to Be Spent Out of the Original $50,000,000. RALEIGH, Sept. 6. President II. W. H. Stone's and G. Sam Bradshaw's as sumption that the state highway com. mission isn 't " plain people, " " humble people," or just ordinary "tax-payers," got a heft from Chairman Frank Page's lusty foot today which kicked the idea so high that when the tail of Gilderoy's kite is trailing in Pleasant Garden road, the dual aBsumacy will still be tangoing amongst the stars. Commissioner Cox personally request ed the commission to send a represen tation to Guilford to investigate the issues raised and Messrs. Doughton and Wilkinson were named. Both of these are entirely removed from the Cox dis trict and their selection seems to satisfy everybody. Another Guilford delegation was here today discussing tho uibson. ville underpass but it went over for final settlement. . .. The state highway commission was ia session today when the Pleasant Gar den disputants came before the board. The noble sandclay turnpike had been duly eulogized but at Btinaon'a store, where the dispute begins, the delegation began to talk about costs. Commissioner J. Elwood Cox. who favors the route which he says will save $100,000 to the eounty and state, said he based his cal culation on the estimates furnished him by W. C. Boren, former county commis sioner and now county highway commis sioner. President Stone of the farmers' union was down here to speak for the folks. He retorted that whereas the Cox route might save the amount claimed it would damage the farmers who will not be served twice that amount and Mr. Stone was contending that the road should be sent by the; 45 farmers to be served rather than by tho Cox survey which has only 10 farmers on it. Plain People Not Represented. G. Sam Bradshaw, of the Guilford Ear. was appearing for the Stone con tingeht. He said that he recalled quite well the chamber of commerce's- action, but that did not "represent tho plain uconle. ' "We are all plain people," Chairman Frank Page said without a second's interruption of Mr. Bradshaw's noble oration. A very elongated citizen in Mr, Stone's delegation, one of Gray's "mute inglorious Miltons," only ho wasn't mute, insisted on talking. He left no name. But he said Mr. Cox's choice was the result of a frame-up with the county commissioners. The Quaker commissioner did not notice the thrust and went on with his business. Again it was used and Mr. Cox rore to object to tho term. He didn 't like it ami he was only doing his duty as a state high way commissioner. Mr. Stone was ready with the diplo matics. Frame-up f "Only a mutual agreement T'' he explained, thus showing Cow insulting and even defamatory lan guage, used by the ''plain people," "humble people" and "tax-payers" can be made to serve noble ends. Brother Stone, who has done so much for the railroads since he became a director in the great North Carolina, who has been banker and talked about farming, then conducted the highway commission into realms not hitherto sur veyed, "projected with, or even looked at. He told the commission that Ood had said that Solomon was the smartest man who ever lived or ever would live, but God did not say Solomon was smarter than any two men. What Mr. Cox should do, according to Mr, Stone, is to commune with other folks, to talk to "tax-payers and humble people." We Are All iiumDie. "We are all humble people," Chair man Page chimed in. Thus the farmers' union man couki not get across one word of the whining, whimpering, self-pitying dope that has gone so well and so often. Frank Tago refused to allow the Guilford gentleman to abase himself or his craft by speak ing of the farmers as a class different from those who are on the commission. "We are all plain people," "we are all humble people," literally took every thnig away from dockhqalexandcr's suc cessor, even the literal language of Zion because Chairman Page would not allow Mr. Stone to employ it. The result was that the commission left this road row in the air. i Adjourning today to attend the formal opening of .Roanoke Kiver bridge Thurs day, the state highway commission fin ished its business session of two days and went in a body to the great event celebrated jointly by Bertie and Martin counties. The commission with only a few dele gations before it at this session, and with its 1922 program far ahead of (Continued on page 8.) If They Fall . iff- M . --v. t. . ?2 1 j ':Makcs you dizzy JuBt to look at the photograph of theso follows perched on Overhandlng Rock in J Tosemlte Nationul Park. Look how '. far they'd drop before they'd land it w vert A tn Rltn. ' u. v ' - -- RECEIVING POINTS FOR CO-OPERATIVE COTTON All Important Places In Cotton Belt That Have Not Li censed Warehouses Are Re ceivmg Places For Cotton. RALEIGH, Sept. 7. Receiving points at all important places in the cotton belt that do not have State licensed ware houses uro being established this week by B. F. Brown, managed of the cotton department of the North Carolina Cot ton Growers Cooperative ' Association Field representatives of the Association will be given regular iternarics of towns in the counties in which hey are located. In addition to tho field agents, who will begin receiving cotton right away, there will be receiving agents at many impor tant points that do not have warehouses to take cotton und ship it for members. The cotton association Jias completed negotiations with warehouses to receive cotton at the following places: I'ee Dee; Monroe, Polkton, Statesville, Mt. Gilead, Morven, Lilesville, Rowland, Moucure, Fuyeteville Dunn, Smithfield, Creedmore, Louisburg, Clinton, Kelford, Pollock villc. New Bern, Oriental, La Grange. Contracts have been made by the As sociation with the following warehouses, which have not yet received their State licenses but which will have them with in the next few days, as their applica tions arc now in Washington for ap proval: Charlotc, Greensboro, Garland, Garner, Kinston, Kings Mountain, Ken- ly, Lillrgton, Mount Olive, Littleton, Middlesex, Nashville, Norlina, Sanford, Elizabeth City, Eveeretts. Negotiations are pending with a score of other warehouses at different points throughout the state. These will be completed it is expected, before cotton begins to move in large volume. In the meantime, cotton received by receiving agents or shipped by members will be stored in one of the warehouses named above. ' Tho first samples received at the State headquarters of the cotton Association wa a batch of forty-one from the cotton warehouses at l'olkton and Morven on Tuesday. These samples were promptly classed and this department of the cot ton association set in motion. Secretary Bing completed a tour or eastern North Carolina banks the pasi week and received assurances of ample loans to take care of the cotton delivered by members of the association. Lawrence Mar rue. State bales Agcni, will leave next week for a tour of the textile centers with a view to finding out the newls of eotton mills for cotton. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION TO CORK BROKEN LONDON. Sent 6. Interruption r-f teleeranhic communication between Dub- In and Cork has led to the belief by some London newspapers that events of great moment are happening in the Cork region especially since fighting fas re porter there during the night. Coupled with this was the report that came through last night of the capture of Eamon de Valera and Erskine Chil ders by Irish National forces. This re port, however, baa not been confirmed. MTQQ T J?T A TA VT HJ? TITTDr inrrrTlT I OF SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY IN WHICH BJLLFARRIS SHOT UP FAMILY MRS. CANDLER WILL STICK BY HER HUSBAND PASADENA, CaL, Sept. .7. Mrs. Walter T. Candler, wife of the At lanta financier who was sued - for 100,000 damages by Claude K. By field, on charges involving an alleged attack upon Mrs. Byfield by Candler, arrived here yesterday on the way to Atlanta. She recently returned from Honolulu. "A wife's place is at her hus. band's side at a time like this," said Mrs. Candler, "and I am going to start for Atlanta just as soon as I can obtain . reservations probably Friday." Mrs. Candler's mother and daugh ter probably will accompany her to Atlanta. THINK DR. PEACOCK ESCAPED FROM RALEIGH IN PLANE Lexington Folks Think He Had Aid From the Outside May Be In Mexico Europe. or The following from the Lexington Dis patch relative to tho escape of Dr. J. W. Peacock from the iusane asylum will be of interest : Dr. J. W. Peacock, who escaped last Wednesday morning from tho insane de partment of tho State prison by sawing through the bars of his cell and letting himself to the ground by means of sheets tied in a strip, seems to have disappeared without a trace beyond that found ut first, which led to u woods a short dis tance from the penitentiary. Although u reward of S400 was imme diately offered by the stato and descrip tions of Dr. Peacock telegraphed and mailed far und near no results have beeu obtained and the mystery of his getaway deepens . , ' In case the doctor should be appre hended in .another state, ther urises a question as to what procedure would be taxen to have him returned. Solicitor J. C. Bower states that he could be brought back to North Carolina on the charge of escaping from a place of legal deteution. However, there are others who contend that. Peacock might successfully light ex tradition. He might ulso be charged with shooting Henry Shaver. Many conjectures have been heard here, but of course they are only conjec tures. Thomasville has been full of such conjuctures since the sensational escape it is reported here. One thing appears to be certain, somebody evidently slipped the doctor a hacksaw. Such a" thing is not unusual, however, for hundreds of hack saws have been slipped into the state pris on and into practically every county jail in North Carolina. Not very many men escape from the peuitentiury itself, but some do from time to time. But not in many years has there been the escape oi so prominent a man as Dr. Peacock and probably never from tho insane depart ment of the prison. One thing that throws some light on the case of Dr. Peacwk's escape is that the portion of tho prison where he was confined does not have the high guard wall without, so that when Dr. Peacock let himself to the ground he ulighten out side the prison boundary and had only to slip away in the early morning darkness. rrobably six hours had elapsed before his escape das discovered. Another thing that made his escape more easy than would have beon the caso of a convict was that Dr. Peacock did not have to wear prison garb. He was not a prisoner but was being legally de tained by the state under u statute per mitting persons acquitted of crime on the ground of insanity to be committed to tho State Prison. Dr. Peacock probably sed in "eomoany" clothes before making his swing to liberty. A conjecture of his escape that has been advanced, it is reported in Thomas ville and probably elsewhere, is that an airplane alighted nearby and that Dr. Peacock was taken on as a passenger. The doctor is said to have been an en thusiast on the matter of aeronautics, as he was on a number of other questions. It is being recalled in Thomasville that some months before tho slaying of Chief Taylor Dr. Peacock figured in the air plane wedding of a relative. The couple, or one of them, motored up to Thomas ville from Florida and then over to High Point, where they were married by Ilev. W. A. Lambeth. Then the bridal party took to the air and circled around the church tower while the chimes therein played sweet wedding music. The honey- mooners left for a tour after being enter taincd by Dr. Peacock, who was one of the participants in the wedding. Since this affair was 80 unusual and since Dr. Peacock 's escape was also quite unusual the situation lends itself to con jectures. On the other hand, there is pointed out the extreme difficulty of an escape by this method and the Btrong probability of immediate capture. Air planes attract too much attention to be very popular as means of escape from prison. Many people believe that by this time Dr. Peacock has probably boarded a ship and is on his way to some foreign coun try, from which it would be a very diffi cult matter to ever secure his return. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Mhs. Luella Melius, wdely known European opera singer, today sought a Federal injunction restraining Georgo Daiber, a New York manaeer from handling Mms. Ganna Walska's booksing's inalleged violation of her contract with Daiber. Claude Johnson, Newton and Lela Taylor Dead and Three Others Wounded When Man Flew Into Rage and Shot Down Family One By One Taylors Formerly Resided In South Gastonia -Farris Taken to State Penitentiary at Columbia. With the death of Miss Lola Taylor, aged 15 years, at the, Gaston Sanatorium Wednesday night, from a gunshot wound in chest and lungs, the list of victims from the terrible shooting affair at Clover Wednesday afternoon had increased to three. The life of another, Fred Taylor, a 23-year-old man, is hanging in the Tbalance at the City Hospital. There are three buckshots in his right lung underneath the shoulder blade, and he is bleeding internally from this wound and others. One shot was removed from his groin this morning. It had entered vuo my hiiu puBBeu arouna to me groin, ms chances lor recovery today are better than they were late Wednesday afternoon, according to attending physi cians. Newton Taylor, aged 13, died on the operating table yesterday afternoon at a local hospital Claude Johnson, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, a boarder in the home, was instantly killed. Miss Gertie Taylor, who received a wound in the arm, was removed from tho hospital this morning and returned to her home in Clover. Dolly Taylor, the Bixth victim of "Fighting Bill" Farris' gun, received only a slight wound and was not brought to the hospital Funeral services over the remains of the victims were held today and interment was in the South Gastonia cemetery. The above are the outstanding features today of the sensational tragedy of Wednesday afternoon when William Farris flew into a berserk rage and shot up the whole Taylor family at the Clover mill over an alleged quarrel between children of his and the Taylor families. It is stated that he stood on his porch and shot the victims one by one as they came out of the door,, and that young Johnson was shot down after tho other five vcitims had been shot. Farris was removed to the South Carolina state ticlliti'lltiiirv at fViliim)io ( Farris became enraged, it is reported t- ! ... .... here, when the Taylor children and some of his children became involved in a quarrel. There had been bad feeling between the two families all summer, and it is alleged that he had htrcatened lie Taylor children before. The two families are near neighbors at the Clover mills, and when young Newton Taylor did or said something while at play with tho Farris children, the old man seized his gun, loaded with buckshot, and from the house opened fire on the lad. As different members of the family came to the rescue, he picked them off as they came out of the door, from his own porch. Young Johnson, a nephew of the Taylor fam ily, was visiting at the home. When he went to the rescue he was killed in stantly. The father, J. M. Taylor, was at work in the mill The mother, for some reason unexplained, did not come out of the house. All of the wounded were rushed' to local hospitals, where they were given attention. , ; Farris was immediately arrested and conveyed to the York county jail at York. Farris had been living in and around Clover for a number of years, and he, too, was - an employe of this mill, which is owned by Charlotte in terests. Feeling around Clover wa iiitense, but there were no threats of violence. Farris has. beon marriod twice. He has a number of children, some of whom are married. Y0RD, S. C Sept. 7 Farris is said to have fired several loads of bucksho from two guns at the group of six on the front porch and in the yard of the Taylor home which is opposite that of Farris. In a statement explaining the affair Fa ris is said by the police to have stated the Taylors had threatened him. The shooting, however, they added, re sulted from a quarrel between the chil drenn of thetwo families.. Ill feeling had existed between the families for some time the officers declared. Farris surrendered immediately after the shooting and was placed in the county jail here, only to be hurried awya to Col umbia when intense feeling arose. Inquest was held over the bodies of Farris victims at Clover this' morning the cororner's jury returning a verdict that the three came to their death at the hands of Fans. Farris is known throughout this section of the State as "Fighting Bill", the son og "Ku Klux John" Farris, a name given the father as a result of a battle he is reported to have fought with Ku Klux Klansmen in the early seventies. COLUMBIA, & C, Sept 6. Sheriff Fred E. Quinn and Policeman 11. E. Steele of York county, arrived at the South Carolina penetentiary tonight at Jl o'clock with William C. Farris, who is charged with killing two persons and wounding three others, one probably fatally. Farris was at onee placed in a cell at the state prison. YORK, S. C, Sept. 6. Taking up a children's quarrel and using a shotgun loaded with buckshot, William C. Farris, 60, textile worker of Clover, 10 miles north of York, killed Claude Johnson, 21, and Newton Taylor, 13, and wounde Fred Taylor, 21; Miss Gertrude Taylor 18; 'Miss Lela Taylor, 15, and Dollie Taylor, 8. Johnson was killed instantly and Newton Taylor died an hour later o the operating table of a hospital in Gastonia, 12 miles distant where all the wounded were hurried immediately. He suffered 27 perforations of the in testines and died as the 24th puncture was being sewed up. Fred Taylor is not expected to recover, according to infor mation from the hospital at 7 o clock tonight. He was shot through the lungs and will likely succumb to internal hem orrhage. The other victims of the, trag edy are exected to reeover, though Miss Gertrude Taylor will have a paralyzed arm as a result, of severed nerves. Folowing the shooting Farris surren dered to Chief of Police John A. Jack- son, of Clover, who lodged him in the York County jail at 4 o'clock, . u .u. . . On account of the excitement and in dignation prevailing in Clover, which mado mob violence a possibility, Sheriff Fred.. E. Quinn took Farris out of the York jail at 6 o'clock this afternoon and removed him to another place. Cher- inff Quinn accompanied by Policeman R. E. Steele, of York, left with his prisoner in an automobile and from the direction taken, it is presumed that they went to the State pententiary in Colum bia. There was open talk in Clover of meting out summary punishment to Far ris. An inquest will be , held tomorrow morning, being postponed from this afternoon on account of the absence oi -Coroner Paul G. McCorkle, of York. Farris did the shooting from the front porch of his home, firing across a narrow street into the Taylor yard, im mediately opposite. A quarrel between the children of the two families is said to have precipituted the tragedy. It appears that the children were quarrel ing about a well used jointly by both families when Farris plunged into the u flair by get ing his shotgun and opening, fire at all theTaylors in sight. So far as is known all of them were shot down without offering any resistance. Though there were several eye ' wit nesses, some of the details of the killing' are conflicting and it will take an inquest to clear them up. Johnson was a relative of tho Taylors and lived with them. Tho well that was the source of trouble was recently cleaned out by Farriss, it is said and his children accused the Tay lor children of throwing trash in it and otherwise polluting the water. Farris said after the killing that he had been threatened by tho Taylors. He declined to talk about the affair when in the York jail this afternoon. Farris has been living in Clover for several years and is a native af northern, York, lie has a wife and severa child ren. He has retained Thomas F. McDow to defend him, it is understood. Crim inal court convenes hee Monday but it is not likely that his case will be heard then. The Taylor family moved to Clover from Gastonia six months ago. J. M. Taylor, head of the family was working in the mill of the Clover Manufacturing company when the shooting occurred. CLOVER. S. C, Sept. 6. Claude Johnson, 20, was shot and instantly killed and five of his cousins Bhot and seriously wounded at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon .by William Farris, 60, a neighbor living across the street in the Clover mill village. Those badly wound ed are Gertie Taylor, 20, Fred Taylor, 22, Newton Taylor, 20, Dolly Taylor, 10, and Lela Taylor. 16. They are the children of James M. Taylor, of Clover mill village. The shooting is said to have resulted from an old quarrel be tween the children of the Taylor and Farris families. Following the shooting Farris surren dered to Chief of Police John Jackson and was carried to York jail. It is re ported he has been carried to the state penitentiary for safekeeping. . According to Tom Perry, a neighbor nnd eyewitness, a quarrel between Ear ns and the Taylor children was renewed this afternoon, and Farris is alleged to have said "This thing has to be set tie. I and I might as well settle it now." With that he grabbed, two shot guns, a double barrel and a single barrel, and began firing at the Taylors and John son, who were in the Taylor yard and Hie Taylor poreh 40 feet across the street. Claude Johnson was almost instantly killed by buckshot. Gertie Taylor was shot in the side and neck; Newton ia the abdomen; Dolly in the right arm and Lela in the arm and stomach. Pre. I Taylor, according to Perry, had run out of the house to get a doctor. After shooting the five Farris put dwn his gun and proceeded to draw a bucket of water. Seeing Fred Taylor return ing 100 feet sway he is alleged to have exclaimed, "If yon come any nt-srer I'll kill you." Fred continued bis pace and Karris shot him in the si.U. ; The five Taylors were carried u a (Continued on pago 8.), .