Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-19
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wheat belt Of Oklahoma and southwest
ern Kansas, there promises to be a
dearth of hands to harvest the wheat
crop unless efforts now being made
there are successful. The demand is
the largest in recent years owing to the
fact that increased acreage and other
favorable conditions has largely in
creased the yield. The farmers have
been helped out to a considerable eX-
tent in their wheat cutting by young
farmers of the eastern and middle
states who have gone west for the
opening of the Kiowo and Comanche
country and were glad to do a little
harvesting in Kansas and Oklahoma
while waiting for the new country to
be opened for settlement in August.
Charlotte Observer, Saturday: Pas
sengers arrived here last night from
the western part of the state, report
another small flood in that section. At
Blowing Rock, Lenoir, Marion and
Morganton Thursday night, the down.
pour was heavy and continuous. The
lowlands of the Catawba in Burke and
Caldwell were again yesterday over
flown, and when the eastbound passen-
ger train on the Western North Caro-
lima railroad crossed the Catawba river
bridge-which it did at snairs pace
at $50 o'clock last evening, the river
was IL feet high and still rising, and
force of men were stationed on tenn
porary bridge on the west side and
were with spikes directing the heavy
debris between the pillars of the bridge.
The formerly rich valley to be observed
from this bridge is pitiful sight, COW
cred as it is with sand where there was
a month ago a fertile meadow. Mr.. j.
T. Ross, who spent Thursday night at
Blowing Rock, describes the rainfall
there as terrific, and that great damage
has been done the road between the
Rock and Lenoir as we'll as on the low
land streams.
Few persons know that the United
States government derives an income
from some of the largest bathing eStab-
ments in America, If not in the world
The hot springs of Arkansas, which
have been resort for invalids for many
years, are owned by Uncle Sam, and he
exacts a payment of $50 a tub for the
use of the medicated water. AS there
are 534 tubs, the spring brings him an
income from that source of $4,000
year. The various hot springs, which
are said to number 73, issuing from the
west side and base Of Hot Springs
mountain, and which now are obscured
from view, have been converged in
many instances into one outlet by de-
velopment work done on the reservation
under the supervision Of the various
superintendent. These springs vary
in temperature, the hottest being Isl
degrees. The flow of practically all Of
them is constant. The basis of esti
mate Of the maximum of supply for
present, if used to the full capacity,
would be $4,000 gallons. A conservative
estimate of the supply at present un-
der control is 100000 gallons daily. In
addition to the selling Of waters to ho-
tells and sanitariums, the government
maintains a free bath house for the in
digent.
New York Sun, Friday: The con-
cert in Madison Square park last night
was broken up by the appearance Of
Negro wearing fiery red Shirtwaist
and a cheap imitation Panama straw
hat There were about 5000 people in
the park and some boys began guying
the Negro. Then the men folks took
it up and the Negro talked back. Sud-
denly one man knocked the Negroes hat
off, another grabbed sack coat which
he carried on his arm and a third pull
ed the red shirt from his back. The
Negro ran past the Hoffman house, fol-
lowed by the crowd, which was led by
a man waving the red shirt. The big
crowd shouted in union: Kill him!
Lynch him. The frightened Negro
ran up Broadway to Twenty-seventh
street where he jumped on south
bound car. The leaders of the crowd
missed him and surrounded the car.
He dived under the guard rail and
headed for Madison avenue again, run
ming plump into the people that re-
mained in the park. Although hemmed
in he cut through the crowd and dash
ed back to Broadway again. Two po-
licemen had joined in the chase but
they couldn't keep up with him. He
oh a.
street where, it was said, he ran to
Sixth avenue and got on car going
north.
New York Tribune: 1t is evident
that few besides ordnance experts
know the effective range of one of
the modern breechloading rifles. The
proof of this lies in the frequency
that newspapers are asked to state in
their columns the distance that a shot
or shell may be fired, the thickness of
metal it will pierce, etc. The new IS
inch breechloading rifle recently finish
ed at the Watervliet arsenal, and which
is to remain in the army exhibit at the
Pan American exposition, will no doubt
excite the question among lay people
as to whether such guns could do much
damage in Manhattan if mounted on
an enemys ship off the harbor. A ta-
BILE of ranges and muzzle velocities of
this gun, prepared by Lieutenant Colo
mel T. NJ. Ingalls,, shows what it is cap
able of doing. With As degrees of ele-
walton, and projectile weighing 2,37O
pounds, given a muzzle velocity of 1000
feet per second, it's effective range
would be 14.9 miles, while with a muz-
ze velocity of 1900 feet per second. it's
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