Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-02

more. In 1915, when New York had
a population of 10000, there were
only 10 men who were assessed at
500 900 or more, and the highest as
sessment was only 100000. In the
list the names of John Jacob Astor,
Jacob Lorillard and Jonathan Ogden
are prominent.
General Wheeler has been ordered
TO report to General Macarthur, says
q Manila dispatch. He will be given
command of General Funston's bri-
gade, which Colonel Liscum has COM
manded temporarily. General Wheel
er will proceed to San Fernando, after
having spent week in energetically
visiting the lines. General Wheeler
said to representative of the Associa-
ted Press: 81 am much pleased with
the situation. think that when Ma
ior General Otis gets more troops here
he will make rapid progress. The
country is more favorable for military
operations than I supposed. The inn
preston that the country is unhealthy
is wrong"
The weather bureau has issued a
special report on the gale OF August
is. II and IS which was so disastrous
to shipping in the vicinity of Cape
Hatteras. Observations at the wealth
er bureau stations showed that at 4 a.
m. of the 18th, there was wind velocl-
tv of 70 miles an hour. 1t increased
in intensity until p. M, when 1t was
90 miles an hour with extreme velocl-
ties from l2O to 140 miles an hour. At
that hour the thermometer cups were
blown away, and it is probable that the
wind reached even a greater velocity
than that given. The hurricane was
the most severe within the past rs
wears. The total loss at Hatteras
alone will amount from $l5, 900 to S2o,'
900. The fishing business, which is
the principal industry, has been for the
present entirely swept away. 1t is an
interesting fact that the highest wind
velocity previously reported at Hat
teras was 80 miles an hour.
H. P. Myton, United States Indian
agent at White Rocks, Utah, has
among the Ute Indians on his reserva-
ton a man who for 20 years has done
awful penance for the accidental kill
ing of his mother; but who, in spite
of what be has passed through, thinks
that he has not yet suffered sufficient
ly for his transgression. The Killing
was entirely accidental, says an ex.
change, and the tribe held the Indian
blameless, and did not punish him.
His conscience, however, was his ac-
cuser, and it held him up as criminal.
When his first burst of grief was over
he imposed harsh sentence upon
himself. He made solemn vow that
for the rest of his life he would not
wear clothing or enter a house, tepee
or other dwelling. For more than 20
wears the red-skin has kept his word.
He sleeps in the open air, with piece
of old blanket about three feet square
hung over him on some sticks. He is
entirely nude. Mr.. Myton says the
Indian lies on the ground through the
winter, even when the thermometer
goes as low as 400 below zero.
President Mckinley has sent to
General Brooke, at Havana, the fol-
lowing proclamation providing for a
census of the population of Cuba.
"To the People of Cuba: The disor-
ganized condition of your island, re-
sulting from the war and the absence
of any generally recognized authoity,
aside from the military control of the
United States, have made it necessary
that the United States should follow
the restoration of order and peaceful
industry by giving its assistance and
supervision to the successive steps by
which you will proceed to the estab-
lishment of an effective system of self
government. As preliminary step in
the performance of this duty, l have
directed that census of the people OF
Cuba be taken and have appointed
competent and disinterested citizens OF
Cuba as enumerators and supervisors.
1t is important for the proper arrange
mert of your new government that
the information sought should be fully
and accurately given, and 1 request
that by every means in your power
you aid the officers appointed, in the
performance of their duties"
-Ex-Congressman D. G. Giddings,
of Brenham, was here today, says a
Galveston, Tex, dispatch of Tuesday.
He is one of the leading bankers of
the Brazos valley and is in a position
to know as much about crop conditions
as any man in the state. When inter-
rogated on the cotton prospects in
Washington county, Colonel Giddings
replied conditions are very bad now.
Cotton has deteriorated very much in
the past 10 days. I think one-half of
the upland cotton is already dead,
stalks and all. I never before saw so
much dead cotton. We estimated that
of the upland cotton, at least 25 per
cent. was washed out by the flood.
Since then the drouth has killed 25
per cent. more of this upland cotton.
The flood left the roots bare. At least
one-half of this upland cotton is lost
beyond redemption" Chow about
cotton in the bottoms Colonel Gid
dipgs said: GAIL bottom lands are
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