Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-25
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"Aguinaldo has sure got the natives
here on bis list. So much Ignorance
is displayed on the islands that the
insurgents think you cannot kill them.
They say if you shoot at Aguinaldo
he Just shakes his clothes and the bull
let falls out of his clothes. [ would
like to get crack at him at about 200
wards with old Bette. I'll bet that l
would soon end the war"
A possible rival to the Standard
Oil company has made its appearance
in Kansas. A company has been or
ganized at Independence, with a capi'
tai stock of S25O,000,000. 1t is said to
control 100000 acres of oil land in the
Cherokee nation. The new company
expects to compete with the Standard
in both America and Europe, running
tank steamers from gulf ports to Eu.
rope. If the new company is possessed
of capital and backbone, there may be
a warm fight in oils before a great
while.
Two states-Utah and Delaware
will have but one United States senator
in the Fifty-sixth congress, their legisla-
lures having adjourned sine die without
electing successors to Cannon and
GRAY, whose terms expired with the
close of the Fifty fifth congress. There
is even prospect that Delaware may
not have any senator during the whole
or a part of the Fifty-sixth congress.
Senator Kenney is still under indict-
ment for criminal conduct in connec.
ton with bank failure. If convicted
and sentenced his state would be with
out representation in the senate.
- The history of the American In
dians will add a new chapter soon.
Ten thousand Indians, belonging to the
Cherokee, Creek and Delaware tribes,
and dissatisfied with the conditions
prevailing at their old reservations in
the Indian Territory, have emigrated
in, a body into Mexico, and, with a
joint capital of s425,0OO, will establish
a union reservation on large tract OF
land near Guadalajara. The self-ex-
patriated Indians declared that they
were tired of having white people
coming into their country and dictat-
ing how they should live, and that no
whites would be permitted on their
new reservation.
Secretary Alger left Washington,
Wednesday, on a visit to Havana.
The secretary's trip has two objects
in view. First to familiarize himself
with existing conditions in Cuba, and,
second, to obtain brief respite from
the routine of Office duties. Whether
the trip will be extended beyond Ha-
.vana will depend entirely upon circum-
stances that may hereafter develop.
Those who accompanied the secretary
include the following: M. S. Smith,
his business partner at Detroit; A. NJ.
Henry, his brother-in-law and H. G.
Meredith, of Detroit; Major George
H. Hopkins, his military aide; Colonel
w. D. Mann and Victor l.. Mason, his
private secretary.
Charlotte Observer: When will
the war tax stop? The business in
terests of the entire country would
be glad to have the question answered ;
but it seems that they will have to
keep on exercising patience and re-
membering the Maine. A tabulated
statement of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau shows that the total receipts un-
der the war tax law up to February
l, 1899, amounted to $62,012, l91.
The distribution of the tax was as
follows: For stamps on checks, docu-
ments and patient medicines, S26, 1885,
44O; beer, 800, ,0s4, 400; special taxes,
S4.23S,SO7; cigars and cigarettes, 81
5O2,O ,O5S; tobacco and snuff, $S, ,162, ,62l
inheritances, S252,95l; excise tax,
S3sO,274. This indicates an annual
revenue of upward of SlO6,OO0,o00
from the war tax. At the same time,
as the Philadelphia Record points out,
the government expenditures are III.
creasing at corresponding rate, and
it will be a long time before there can
be any hope of a repeal of the law.
Hon. JOuu d. UoIuoi HaS iSS'Su
an order that only one sponsor and a
maid of honor from each congressional
district shall he sent to the next re-
union of ex-Confelerate veterans at
Charleston. The circular is in re-
spouse to a resolution adopted at a
convention of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy held in Hot Springs,
Ark, November, 1899, requesting the
United Confederate veterans to "limit
the number of sponsors and maids OF
honor to one each, from each state and
territory where there is camp OF
United Confederate veterans-because
the Confederate reunions have of late
wears been an entertainment for the
sponsors and maids of honor instead OF
the veterans" General Gordon de-
sires that the original custom be ad-
hered to, and requests "the appoint
ment of sponsor by general, depart
ment, division and brigade command
ers and by every camp, with as many
maids of honor as desired but with
the understanding that the reunion
committee at Charleston will only en-
tertain and provide for one sponsor
and one maid of honor from general,
denartment and division Headquarters.