Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-10-19
Scraps and facts.

in Jerusalem. The new Church OF
Our Savior, which will ne dedicated on
October 80 by the emperor in Jerusa-
lem, is a gorgeous structure, erected at
a cost of nearly half II million dollars.
The building fund was gathered from
pious Germans throughout the Father
land, the Kaiser himself subscribing
the largest sum. This, with the new
orphan asylum and hospital, which
will also be opened on the same day,
will constitute the seat of Protestant
ism in Palestine.
In his annual report just issued
Comptroller General Wright, of Geor-
gia, estimates that $500, 900 of in-
tangible property escapes taxation
each wear in that state. The value Of
stocks and bonds returned in the state
is ridiculously inadequate, scarcely ex-
ceeding s4,0OO,000. About thirty mil
lions of money, notes and accounts
are returned, although the bank de-
posits of the state exceed that sum.
Fertilizer notes are known to aggre-
gate SS,OOO,OOO, and crop liens fully
$50, 100000, and accounts due mer
chants are probably as much more;
Taking the items as whole, it should
be 500, 900, 900 instead of $50, ,OOO, 900.
He asks the holders of tangible proper
ty-the real estate owners, in word, to
aid him in securing honest and full re-
turns. He favors the enactment OF
law that would make notes, judgments
and mortgages invalid unless returned
for taxation. The combined holders
of intangible property beat the oil
last year, but he hopes to secure the
passage of such bill in the coming
legislature. Mr.. Wright is confident
that if such bill were placed on the
statute books holders of intangible
property would fall over each other IN
their haste to see the tax receiver for
the purpose of getting such property
listed.
Perhaps you think you can name
the highest mountain in North Ameri.
ca but YOU can't. 1t has just been
discovered, and is named Bullshae. A
dispatch from Seattle, dated October
II. reports THE G. H. Eldredge geol-
ogical survey party, which has just
returned from the Cooks Inlet coun-
try, is declared to have discovered the
highest mountain in North America.
The peak, which towers far above Mt.
St. Elias, is situated in Alaska, to the
right of the Sushitna river. The
government topographer took triangu-
lations of the elevations, ascertalnlng
bv scientific calculations the exact
height of the peak, which he declared
to be more than 10000 feet. The
mountain was named BulIshae, a word
spoken in exclamation by the Indian
guide of the party upon first behold
ing the peak. The members of the
survey are reported to have expressed
the opinion that on ascent Of Bullshae
would be almost impossible, so precipi-
tous are its sides" The biographies
will have to be revised again. Mt. st.
Elias, it may oe noted, is 19,500. feet
high, Popocatapel 17,71S, Orizabee, IT,
374. Aconcagua, the highest peak in
South America, is $4,000. The highest
peak in the world is Mt. Everest, or
Gaorinsakar, in India, which is 29,OO5
feet.
- Major Seaman, surgeon of the
First volunteer engineers, made some
startling charges of neglect and in
competency, in his testimony to the
war investigating commission last
Friday, and Secretary Alger was asked
as to whether any action would be
taken against the major. mot at all, "
replied the secretary, "not at all. l
want it to be understood that any Off
Ger or man in the army may speak
freely and unreservedly concerning
his observations of the war without
the slightest fear of possible consequent
ces. While I am secretary Of war no
man shall be the sufferer for speaking
what he believes to he the truth.
Above all, the witnesses who appear
before the war investigating commits
sion shall he protected TO the fullest
extent. The commission and the coun-
try wants the facts and no obstacle
shall be placed in the way of getting
them. We are all interested in having
ing the clearest light thrown upon the
conduct of the war and the standing
or promotion of no enlisted man or
commissioned officer shall be affected
in the slightest way by any testimony
or other aid he may give the commits
sion. We mean to keep absolute faith
with the commission and with the wit
ness. I cannot be more explicit than
that"
- Secretary Hester's weekly New
Orleans Cotton Exchange statement,
issued last Friday, shows an increase
in the movement brought into sight
compared with the seven days ending
the same date last year Of 126, 900, an
increase over the same dale year before
last of $4,000. For the IA days of
October the totals show an increase
over last year of 100000. For the A
days of the season that have elapsed
the aggregate is ahead of the Al days
last year, $4,000, and behind the same
days year before last, 1877 900. The
total movement for the Al days from
September l to date is 1,947, 1924,
against l ,S52, ,2S3 last year. The move
ment since September l shows receipts
at all United States ports 1,413, ,725,
against 1,344 1897 last year. Interior
stocks in excess Of those held at the
close of the commercial year PIC, ,636,
against 235, ,lSS last year; southern