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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24
IL THE X. M. NJ. A.

Colonel W. G. Stephenson, superin.
tendent Of the Kings Mountain Mill
tary academy, has been in Yorkville
this week for a few days Of rest and
recreation off the road, where he has
been for the greater part Of the time
since the end of the last session in
June.
1.-The prospects for next session, u
said the colonel in answer to a ques-
tion, "are as good as I could hope for
I feel absolutely certain that we will
open with not less than IS boys, and
possibly more. We have IS promised
and we always get: a few that we were
not counting on especially-sometimes
two or three come in without any pre-
liminary correspondence at all.
"Since June" Colonel Stephenson
continued, II have been pretty well
over over this state and have also trav-
eled some in North Carolina and Geor-
gia. 1 have been very much gratified
with the results of my work wherever
1 have been. I have good reason to
expect most of the old boys back-all
who will not be prevented by good reaN
sons for not coming-and enough neE
ones to make up the figures give you.
1--WE will be in much better shape
this year than we have yet been to
make our school what it ought to be.
Our faculty this time Is to be composed
Of instructors Of unquestioned ability
and experience, and all of them are ex-
pected to arrive on or before September
8. The session will begin on Septem-
ber 4, and we expect to have every
thing working in good shape before the
close of the week."
Colonel Stephenson also said that up
on his return to Yorkville he found
quite a number of additional inquiries
from prospective patrons in different
parts of this state, North Carolina and
Georgia, and that he would have to
make at least one more extended trip
before the opening of the next session.
He was quite enthusiastic over the
prospects ahead, and was Of the opin-
ion that If he did not have SO boys at
the opening, he would surely get them
within the two weeks following.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24

lands, and in Georgia, Florida and AL
ALBANIA heavy rains and high winds
have caused injury, rust and she'd
ding being quite prevalent. In Ten
nessee, Mississippi and portions Of Ar
kansas, the crop has improved. Cot
ton needs rain throughout Texas, and
is failing rapidly in the central-south-
ern and southwestern portions. Pick
ing is general in Texas and Is begin
ming over the southern and central
portions of the eastern districts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24

IN the course Of some comments on a
paragraph in the Greenville News. the
Columbia State remarks:
And The State further thinks that 1t
Is neither becoming nor convincing for
a newspaper which has repudiated the
Democratic platform. and virtually the
party, to impute to the Democratic
nominee Of the last two campaigns an
intention to bolt the party II Its plat
form and ticket do not suit him next
time.
IF 1t Is a fact that Mr.. Bryan refus-
ed to accept the present platform, ex-
cept upon condition Of the incorpora-
ton Of certain planks, is it not reason
able that he should drop the next plat
form If these planks are dropped? In
our opinion. this is not only reasona-
BILE, but 1t is right. Mr.. Bryan nor no
other man has a right to uphold prin-
ciples or policies in which he has no
confidence. and neither has he right
to repudiate his honest beliefs until
he Is convinced that he Is wrong.
Right here we beg to remark that the
severest lick Mr.. Bryan ever got was
as the result Of the abandonment of
the expansion principle, after he had
been one Of the first to endorse 1t to
the extent Of recommending the rat
| ification of the treaty Of Paris.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24
COmDIained of the Salary.

Spartanburg Journal: Tuesday the
governor received a rather unusual let
ter Of resignation. 1t came from Mag
istrate w. NJ. Venters, Of Venters, In
Williamsburg county. Mr.. Venters
rendered his resignation as magistrate
upon the ground that no honest man
could work for a salary of $2.28
month. His resignation was, OF course,
promptly accepted and the governor
has requested Senator Williams to
nominate a successor in case one can
be found to take the job.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24

THE farmers Of York county know
now from practical experience that
this is certainly a good wheat county,
and they will no doubt continue to
strive to outdo all previous efforts.
Some of the farmers have made good
crops; but none of them have touched
high water mark.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24

THE ENQUIRER received a telegram
on Thursday morning announcing that
Governor McSweeney had just pardon
ed Colonel VIM. A. Neal, recently con-
victed of misappropriating state funds
with fraudulent intent. and sentenced
to three months Imprisonment. The
facts showed that Colonel Neal really
misappropriated the funds. and that
after the discovery of his shortage, he
made the amount good. The petition
for Colonel Meals pardon was signed
by the trial judge, and nine of the
jurymen, and was backed up by the
signatures of prominent citizens from
all parts of the state. OF the three
jurymen who failed to sign the petit
ton, one is dead, one has changed his
citizenship, and the third could not be
found. Nobody sought to raise any
serious objection to the pardon. For
THE ENQUIRER to say that it is alto
gether satisfied with the matter would
not be correct; but we have no hesita-
ton in saying that under the circum-
stances the governor did the best
thing that could be done. 1t is true
that Colonel Neal was guilty, and
while there is room for difference Of
opinion on the subject, we hold that his
crime was more than technical. 1t
was the same kind Of a crime that in
evitably leads to larger defalcations
when it is allowed to run long enough
without detection. The jury in the
case did it's duty, and is deserving Of
praise and commendation. But behind
this special case it is well-known that
there was great deal of spite, malice
and politics, and except for these
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24
The itorkrille Gaqairrr.
YoRKVILLE, s. C..@
SATURDAY, AUGUST "a, 1901.

PEOPLE who have reason to look for
q short corn crop-and there are plen-
ty of such people-will do we'll to make
their arrangements to sow oats with
which to piece out next summer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24
MURDERER OF POLICEMAN JONES.

HUhDEtEN Or fOLiCC"AN SoNCS
There Is no reasonable doubt about
the fact that the Negro who murdered
Chief of Police Jones, at Shelby, was
formerly from this county and that
his proper name is John Jenkins. Sher-
iff Logan is authority for the state
ment. The facts about the burglary
charge against Jenkins and the sealed
sentence against him are matters OF
record in the office Of the clerk Of the
court. Sheriff Logan got straight
tip" on the Negro sometime back from
party who knew him, who saw him In
Shelby, and who was certain Of his
man. But these things don't count
with imaginative newspaper men who
are always on, the lookout for some
thing interesting to print, >as would ap-
pear from the following from a recent
issue of the Newport News, Va, Her
aid:
The report of the Identification and
the unsuccessful attempt at the cap
ture at Weldon, N. c., Of James Lowry
the Negro who shot and killed Chief OF
Police Jones. of Shelby, N. c.. has
aroused much interest In him.. as he
has lived at Bloodfield, and Is well
known there.
1t is known that he is a desperate
man and that the chances are that he
will not be taken alive. and he is con-
tinually armed. He was Identified at
Weldon by a Negro woman. who In
formed the police Of his presence. but
Lowry got wind of it. and got away
before the police could find him.
1t is said that Lowry is related to
members of the noted band Of despe-
radoes who infested Robson and Co.
lumbus counties, North Carolina, i'm
mediately after the Civil war, and
who did so much destruction and ac-
complished so much bloodshed.
This band was headed by one Henry
Berry Lowry. who, as its chief, was
probably as dangerous a bandit as
ever infested any portion of the Uni
ted States. The band was composed of
Henry Berry Lowry and several of his
brothers, and some other fugitives
from justice. and until they were ex-
terminated, property and life in the in
tested district were unsafe. Many
murders and robberies were commit
ted, and so relentless were the despe-
radoes that rewards to the amount of
$4,000 were offered for the delivery,
dead or alive. of Henry Berry's BROTH
ers. and the reward Of $4,000. which
was offered for the body Of Henry Ber-
ry Lowry himself. was probably the
greatest reward offered for the appre-
hension. Of any criminal. The band
was dispersed by the capture of most
of the leaders. and the accidental kill
ing of Henry Berry Lowry. through
the premature discharge of his gun.
The Lowrys belonged to a kind of
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
MORGAN ON THE CANAL
RINGING REPORT ON THE MICA
RAGUA MEASURE.
Says The House Bill is the True,
Honorable and Only Proper Measure
On the Subject

WASHINGTON, January 1.-Senator
Morgan today presented part of the
report of the Senate Committee on in
ter-oceanic Canals on the project of an
isthmian waterway. 1t is chiefly III
teretisng in being a reaffirmation that
the House bill now pending in the SEN
ate providing for the construction of
the Nicaragua canal furnished the
true, safe and honorable method of
dealing with the rights, powers and
duties in connection with an isthmian
canal" The report says that there is
no reason for further delay, but that
the pending bill should be passed or
abandoned.
The report says: Each new develop
ment of facts, each apparent change of
diplomatic situations, each lapse of
concessions made to our citizens by
Nicaragua during a half century, each
suggestion or overture for a joint con-
troll of the canal by other governments
in connection with the United States
each effort to lodge the ownership and
control of this canal in corporate bodies
instead of the United States; each OBJ
struction that was presented, whether
openly or secretly, by competitive lines
of transportation or by speculative en-
terprises chartered by states for the
purpose of preventing the United
States from executing its settled policy
of the exclusive ownership and control
of canal through the isthmus of Da-
rien, has the more firmly convinced
your committee that the provisions of
House bill 253S are the just, safe and
true and honorable method of providing
this maritime highway for all the ma
tions of the world.
1T is needless that any Government
corporation or combination of indiv-
duals should attempt to divert the
United States from its fixed policy as
to the ownership and control of such a
canal and that element of discussion is
dropped. Neither is it necessary Ia
consider any route for a canal besides
those of Panama and Nicaragua, the
search for any other route having de.
monstrated that only these routes are
practicable"
The report then treats the Nicaragua
route as the one selected finally stat
ing that as the decisive vote in the
House-225 to 5-determines the loca-
| tion 80 that it remains only to vindi.
cate that decision against he preten-
sions of the Panama route"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE co.
FILES DEMURRER.
Several Bonds Accepted by Judge Hum
phreys Today-Routine Matters in
the First Circuit Court.

a demurrer was filed with the court
clerk by the defendant i'm the suit of
Tong Chang Chan VS.. the New Zealand
Insurance Co. The dismissal Of the
complaint is asked for on three counts.
that the plaintiff had not set forth suf-
hcicnt cause for action; that the action
had not bene brought within six months
after the date of alleged injury and
last that the claim is invalid
w. j. England filed notice today of
claim of lien against property recent
~ erected by NJ c. Amana in a lane off
the mauka side of School street be-
tween Nuuanu and Liliha streets. The
amount claimed is $51S and is for labor
and material furnished in installing a
plumbing.
j. NJ. Vivas and j. S. Ramos have dis
continued their suit gainst c. Pereira,
by reason of a settlement with the de-
fendant.
Joseph A. Gilman as administrator of
the estate of the late John Phillips.
filed his annual account this morning
and petitioned for discharge His re-
ceipts were S25,975.75 and payments
$25,S74.S4, leaving a balance of S10l.91
Bond in the sum of $500 has been filed
by Robert F. Lange on behalf of George
Dunn receiver in the case of Hoff-
schlaeger & Co. VS.. Akin. f. a. Schae-
fer is surety.
Frederick l.. Waldron has filed bonds
in the sum of $4,000 as administrator
of the estate of the late James Hutch
ings. w. II. Baird qualified as surety
The attorneys for the defendant in
the action of Wong Kwai VS.. Liliuoka-
lani have filed a notice with the clerk,
that they will move on the 18th that a
date for the trial Of the case, be set.
Frank Andrade has been admitted Ia
the bar.
In the matter of the appeal in the
Miner divorce case, Judge Humphreys
announced this morning that he would
sign the bill of exceptions with slight
amendment to the bill as presented by
the defendant.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
CERNEB 70 ENNRAE ALL IN THE DARK NOW WANT SUIT DEMBGDI
THEY THINK OF GOING TO OLD
MEXICO.
Want More Freedom and Opportunity
Than They Have in Their Present
Hometown Much Land.

WASHINGTON. January 6-Negoti-
ations are about TO be entered upon be-
tween representatives of the Cherokee
Nation and the Governor of the State
of Sonora, old Mexico, whereby large
tracts of land will be transferred to the
Cherokees for their use and occupancy.
If the deal goes through the Cherokee
Indians will depart from the United
States.
owing to treaty stipulations this
great tribe of civilized Indians cannot
legally emigrate from this country as
a body. They will, however, depart as
individuals gradually, as they did from
Georgia and North Carolina sixty years
ago, when they settled on the White
river, in Arkansas. The reason for this
proposed emigration of the Cherokees,
as given by Henry Dirk, their represen-
tative in Washington, is their discon-
tent with the conditions in the United
States, coupled with the wish to settle
in a place where there will be more
freedom and opportunity.
The Cherokee Nation is one of the
most progressive of the five civilized
tribes now located in Indian Territory.
The departure of the Cherokees will, it
is said, mean the gradual slipping away
of all the other Indians in the Terri
tory. There are now $4,000 Cherokees
! in Indian Territory, and the other
tribes will each average as many. They
are the Choctows, Chickasaws, Creeks
and Seminoles.
The Cherokee Nation owns about
100000 acres of land in the Indian
I Territory, and there may be difficulty
out the plan of emigration. Interpre-
ter Dirk and other prominent tribal au-
thorities will go to Mexico in April next
to further negotiate the deal
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16

Francis Murphy went to the Iron
Works today. He spoke to a hundred
or more Of the employees at the noon
hour
The veteran Of thirty years as a pub
ne speaker seemed TO be up against it,
today. His personal magnetism didn't
seem to get in its work Some of his
Jokes and WittiCisms raised an Occa-
sional laugh, and at the close of his
speech he got a perfunctory hand clap,
But there was no enthusiasm, and the
cold water apostle did not even call for
signers to his celebrated with malice
toward none ana cnarlty for all" tutal
abstinence pledge.
Inc meeting was held in the big
building Just inside the gates at the h
kaako works. The wOrkmen who lis
tened to him included white Mechanics
al almost all nationalities. Hawaiians
japanese and few Chinese. They sat
around on the big machinery or stood
up in front of the speaker who stood
on box for a platform.
Mr. Murphy began by relating how
he happened to stop over here Then
he said he was glad to speak to
Workingmen, the men who toll empha-
SlSlng the word toll. He told them they
were the men who could not water their
stocks; every dollar they got they earn
ed. Christ, he told them, was a car
penter, and carried his dinner pail to
work He told them that with drinks
at two bits each, a man COunldn't drink
at all satisfactorily for less than SO a
week. and that would make quite a hole
IN the earnings of any of them. He ad-
vised them to be strong and refuse to
waste their earnings; to save their
money and buy corner lots.
Mr.. Murphy addressed himself to the
HaWallanS, and expressed a love for
them though he does not seem to have
added the word aloha" to his voca-
bulary.
lie used moderate amount of slang
expressions but he missed the rousing
Hawaiian expression ''Wela IA Hao"
Perhaps when he speaks Friday noon
at the same place, he will have ac-
quired these and some others and will
be more effective.
When he concluded there was some
applause, and when the crowd was ask
ed to signify its desire that he come
again, it did So
He will speak Friday noon at the
same place.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
FIGHTING KINYOUN.
Joint Resolution to be Presented to
California Legislature.

SACRAMENTO, January THE
Legislature is to be asked to pass a
joint resolution requesting President
Mckinley to relieve DIR. j. j. KinyOun,
United States Quarantine officer at San
Francisco, from further service on the
Pacific Coast. The resolution is in the
hands of Senator Cutter, and will be
offered in the Senate either tomorrow
or the next day. The Senator says that
he has discussed the matter very fully
and that he is convinced that the re-
solution will be adopted.
The resolution reads as follows:
Resolved, by the Senate and Assem-
bly, of the State of California, jointly:
THAT, for the reasons contained in
the report of Governor Henry II. Gage
to the Secretary of State of the Unit
ed States; in the resolutions unani-
mously passed by the Republican State
Central Committee of California at a
meeting held on the 18th day of June
1900, a copy of which was forwarded tC
the Executive at Washington; in the
resolutions since adopted by the Cham
Der of Commerce of San Francisco and
all other public bodies. and in the uni
versal expression of the press of the
State, all of which reasons still exist
and, if possible in greater force, the
President of the United States be anC
he Is hereby respectfully, but most
ear. "Stly requested to direct that j. j
Kinyoun, United States Quarantine
Officer for San Francisco, be relieved
from further service on the Pacific
Coast.
Resolved, That the Secretary OF
State be and he is hereby directed tC
transmit the above resolution to the
President of the United States by tele,
graph"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
DIAMOND HEAD CHARLIE 5
CHRISTMAS Boo
The New Man at Lookout Station Does
Not Notify Many Offices Formerly
Given Notice.

Diamond Head Rosehill' does not
seem to be in the mood to lay himself
out to earn Christmas boxes of four OF
five hundred dollars from the people
of Honolulu by telephOning the sighting
Of vessels all over the city. AS a re-
suit there are many vigorous COM
plants from people who have been &C.
customed to being notified when YES
sells We're sighted, but who do not re-
ceiYe such notice now. Charlie Peter
sonused to get S4OO or more by subscrip-
tior every Christmas for sending out
many messages and answering many
inquiries. Rosehill seems to be keep
ing within the list of necessary advices
for local agents of vessels and other
offices are without advices.
The tug Fearless is the principal
sufferer by the new order of things.
There is no law under which Rosehill
has to notify anybody about the arriv-
ais, outside of the government offices.
Neither the local agencies nor the
Fearless formerly got the service eX-
cept through Diamond Head Charlie S
courtesy, which was always ready for
all, and which was suitably rewarded
every year when Christmas came. Rose
hill is paid by the government to look
for vessels and notify the pilot house
when he sees any.
The tug Eleu, being a government
vessel hears of approaching vessels as
soon as does the harbormaster, and as
a result she has the first start after
| them, to tow them in. Captain Bro
kaW has to watch the movements of
the Eleu now, and when he sees heI
going out after vessel he can start
after her and outrun her to the new
arrival.
A score of Honolulu business houses
are put to good deal of incOnveni-
ence by the change in the Diamond
Head system. The need of a Merchants
Exchange or some other organization
which could arrange to give the neces-
sary notice, as in other ports, is made
greater by the discOntinuance of the
public service which Diamond Head
Charlie gave.
When the Mohcan arrived yesterday
her agents, Castle and Cooke, did not
know she had been sighted until Cap
tain Kelley suddenly walked into the
office. The steamer Charles Nelson
was left unreported in the same way
| her agents not knowing she had come
until they saw her in the harbor
Under the present rules there is M
provision for notifying anyone but Off
| cials who have to know, of the ap
proach of vessels, and local shipping
men may remain ignorant until thei
ships come in, unless new arrange
ments are made. Many down towI
| offices have been in the habit of keep
! ing blackboards, on which they posted
arrivals, or sighting of vessels, greatly
! to the public convenience.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
SHE CLAIMS DAMAGES.

Suit has been brought by Mary A,
Canfield for $4,000 damages against the
territory. She claims that she received
permanent injury to her nervous sys-
TEN and sustained other severe injuries
on the night of December 10 through
the negligence of the government.
While walking along the Waikiki side
of Anapuni street near Wilder avenue
she fell into the open and unprotected
culvert and was hurt, the government
having failed to place signs or guard
railings about the culvert. 1t is claim.
ed by the government that this work
had not been accepted from the con-
FACTORS.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
THE JOINT NOTE.
Prince Ching ana Ii Hung Chang VIII
Sign Agreement

PEKING, January THE report that
the Chinese court has instructed the
Chinese peace ENJOYS to sign the joint
note of the powers is confirmed. The
court referred to the objections to the
southern Viceroys, which are the same
as the court have. Prince Ching, how
ever, informed the court that it was too
late, and reply from the court is ex-
pected shortly
This afternoon agreements identical
for each nation were presented to
Prince Ching. The people close to
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang say
that they have decided to sign, even IL
they lose their heads, without regard
to the latest orders of the court Others
say that they will not sign it and that
it would be impolitic for the Chinese
plenipotentiaries at present to act for
themselves.
Count Won Waldersee says that Chi
mas request, through her representa-
tives at foreign courts, that the eXpedi-
tions cease cannot be complied with at
present. No expeditions, he asserts, are
sent out without adequate cause. Where
there are scenes of bloodshed or dis
order the troops are sent to it, this be-
ing the only means of preventing out
RACES. He declares that the eXpedi-
tions are not for punitive purposes, but
merely for police purposes, with a view
of giving the necessary protection to
life and property.