Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-04
Scraps and facts.

tain passes of Alaska leading to the
gold regions are strewn with the skele-
tons of miners who perished from eth
er cold, heat, malaria or starvation.
The adventures now spurring toward
Klondyke will he indeed difficult to
please if they can't make satisfacto-
ry choice from this varied and pic
turesque assortment of certain deaths.
- The Sampson, IN. CO. Democrat
tells the following story, which, if true,
is curious: On Tuesday of last week
a 12-year-old son of Mr.. Daniel Nc
Corquodale was drowned in Black
river, near Falcon, Cumberland coun-
ty. This boy, young man named
Baker and smaller boy were in bath
ing, and this one got in water too deep
and was drowned. His body was not
recovered until the following day, and
was found in novel manner. A bun
die of oats was thrown into the river
where the boy sank and foated down
the stream abouta 100 yards and stop
ped at the same place. The bottom OF
the river was raked here and the boys
body found directly under the oats.
When the grand jury was polled
in Robson county, n. c., court last
week, it was found that 10 men sat in
the box, though only Is men answered
to their names. The Lumberton Rob-
esonian says: "Thinking that an er-
ror had been made, Judge Sutton or
iered that the names be called over
and a correct tally kept. This was
done and Is names were found; but
still 10 men sat in the box. Another
and another count was taken with the
same result, and it was finally sug'
gested that two men were in the box
of the same name. The suggestion
was acted upon and solved the puzzle.
Two men of precisely the same name
sat in the box, and while only lS men
appeared on the list, 10 were account.
ed for. The extra man was excused
and the grand jury retired to their
room to work."
Edward Flanagan was tried in De-
catur, Ga, last week for the murder,
in December last, of Mrs. Nancy Allen
and Miss Ruth Slack. The trial con-
sumed several days. Flanagan, it
seems, had mania for making love to
little girls. He had gotten acquainted
with 11-year old Leila Allen, through
an advertisement for nurse for an
imaginary niece, and becoming infatu-
ated with the little girl, managed to
secure board at the home Of her parents.
He asked the Aliens to give him Leila
in marriage but they hardly took him
seriously. Then he began to grow
morbid, and taking up the idea that
Mr.. Allen was treating him wrongly,
he tried to kill him. The attack was
made while the family was at supper,
and Mrs. Allen and Miss Slack were
killed by wild shooting. Flanagan's
attorneys put up the plea of insanity.
The jury, however, returned a verdict
of guilty, and he was sentenced to
hang on August 25.
Expert Samuel G. Dunham, of the
Federal Bureau of Labor, left Wash
ington last Saturday for the gold belt
of Alaska, where he will make an
investigation and report in time for
the projected spring migrations. Mr..
Dunham is well equipped for the work,
having spent much time in the mining
camps of the west, and for II years he
has been one of the corps of experts
of the Labor Bureau engaged in the
investigation of special problems. He
has been instructed by Commissioner
of Labor Wright to make a critical
inquiry into the opportunities for busi-
ness for Investment of capital, employ
ment of labor, wages, cost of living,
climate, best means of reaching the
gold fields, and kindred subjects. He
will 60 direct to San Francisco, and
will sail from there August 9, taking
the Juneau overland route and reach
ing the Klondyke region about the
middle of September. He will watch
the winter and early spring work, and
is expected to send material for spe-
cial report, which, it is hoped, will be
published about March.
A Spanish diplomatist, who is in
close touch with Senor del Castillo, the
Spanish premier, informs the London
correspondent of the Associated Press,
that it is useless longer TO attempt to
disguise the fact that the Spanish
ministry is in a very tight place. He
says: ave can keep up the war in
Cuba only so long as our funds last,
and the time when they will fail is al
most in sight. When it comes we
must give up the struggle. Now we
are too proud race to do so at any
body's demand; but we can do so by
pleading force majeure in a war with
the United States. Such result ma
turally would be very unpleasant to
us; but in order to prevent revolu-
tion in Spain and the overthrow of the
monarchy, war is the only way out.
The premier knows from President
Mckinley direct that the president
personally does not want war and
wishes to save us from the cost and
bloodshed; but his cabinet only partly
share his views, while the senate, the
house of representatives, the American
press and the people of the United
States favor settlement with big guns.
President Mckinley, however, while
first for peace, has decided himself as
not shrinking from war if peace meas
ures fail"
- Alfred P. Swineford, who was gov
ernor of Alaska during the administra-
tion of President Cleveland, gives the
following advice to those contempla-
ting going to the Klondyke gold fields: