Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-21
Straps and faets.

SuOmllUeu lOTudl plopoooio w Wv
Washington government to establish
communication with the Klondike re-
gion in Alaska by the construction OF
telegraph line from the head of win
ter navigation, on the Lynn canal, ,
into the centre of the Klondike dis
trict. The proposals have been taken
under advisement. They have been
approved by the British secretary OF
state for foreign affairs, and were for.
warded to the governor general OF
Canada through the British embassy
to the state department, and were re-
ferred to the interior department..
The papers were locked up, pending
consideration.
The war department has applica.
tions from nearly 300 ministers who
are after the single chaplaincy now
vacant. All sorts of influence is being
brought to bear. These chaplaincies
have always been in great demand,
and the successful candidates have not
ALWAYS rendered full return for their
commissions. There is no age limit
and no physical examination is requlr'
ed. AS consequence many chaplains
on the active list are much of the time
on the sick leave, and one of those
recently appointed was found to be a
paralytic. There is proposition to
make clergymen over the age of 35 or
SO years Ineligible, and to exact rea,
sonable physical as we'll as mental
qualifications. There is even pro-
position to abolish the corps OF chap
lains entirely. 1t is claimed that with
the establishment, of military posts in
the vicinity OF large cities, the necessl..
ty for the Office of post and regimental
chaplain has passed.
New York World: This years
wheat crop is estimated at SOC. 100000
bushels. Each cent added to the price
means s5,OOO,OOO poured into the laps
of the farmers. The actual advance
in a wear has been about 25 cents a
busbel, or s125, 100000. There was
also left over of last years crop 19O,-
600. 900 bushels to share in the enor.
NOUS advance in price. Of this
years crop only 72,OOO,o0o bushels
have been sold thus far. All OF it
has been sold at the advanced prices,
and now that the price is still higher
than it was earlier in the year, with a
good prospect of further advance, the
farmers are themselves holding no less
than 42s, 100000 bushels for future
sale. If they get but so cents BUSH
ell on the average-and they are get
ting more than that-the wheat now
in the barns will bring them the enor'
NOUS sum of s214,0OO, 900 with which
to paw off their debts and put money
into bank. What is the Klondike
compared to this9 Then there is the
corn crop, estimated at 2,ooo,ooo,ooOo
bushels, besides all minor crops, and
all of them are selling at higher prices
than a yeur ago. The farmer is get
ting rich again, and the best of it is
that he is getting rich in dollars worth
a full 100 cents each.
Gustav johnson, a New York car
penter, aged As years, was before a
magistrate in that city few days ago,
and was committed without bail, to
await the result of injuries he had in
flicted on his wife. He and his wife
had auarreled the night before, and ne
broke a large platter on her head, in
flicting scalp wound. johnson ad-
mitted that he had assaulted his wife !;
but declared that he was JUSTIFIED:
"Judge," he said, "listen to me and L
will tell you how I am abused. On
Monday last my wife placed steak
before me, and it was so tough that l
could not eat it. I told her that I!
could not, and she said that l would
have to swallow the steak before she
would cook anything else. After chew
ing piece for sometime, gave it up.
Every night since then my wife has
placed the same steak before me. Last
night got angry and flung the platter
at her head. What would you do,
Judge, under the circumstances? sup.
pose you were hungry and tired and
starved LOT dluOSG d NOeh'
walked off to prison, declaring that
prison could be no worse to him than
his home.
Daniel Gable. an old and. expe-
rienced miner, who was one OF the
first to join the rush to the Klondike,
has returned and tells story calculat-
ed to deter others from going north
in search of gold, says San Francisco
dispatch of the 18th instant. There is
hardly a trail in California, Arizona,
Nevada or Montana with which Gable
is not familiar. When the news of the
gold strikes reached this country Gable
left his mines in Arizona and started
for the Klondike via Juneau and the
Chilcoot Path. Now he is back, hav-
ing sold his outfit, which cost 1885.
He learned from many experienced
mining men at Juneau and farther up
that it would be suicide to 90 before
spring. He says: "When we reached
Barnum's Bay, which is little way
from Dyea, l gave up the idea. l left
the vessel, intending to 60 to work in
the Comet mines there and wait until
next spring, when l intended to 60
into the Klondike. 1 found the mines