Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-13
Straps and fats.

went into effect, to May 81, 1901.
amounted to s310,053,36 1863, as follows:
Schedule A, documentary stamps, $1OS.-
722,674; schedule B, proprietary stamps,
$13,922,13S; beer. s97,717,911; special
taxes, s14,O95, ,636; tobacco. s47,274, 7S0;
snuff. s2,697.S1S: cigars, s9,1S0,021; Gig
arettes, s3,S1S,991; legacies, SS,966. .4zU;
excise tax, s2.652,9S2; mixed flour, $2l,-
536: additional taxes on beer and tobac-
CO. $9S2,3S
Topeka, Kansas, dispatch Of Tues
day: The hot weather continues with
no immediate prospect of relief. Corn
is fast shriveling up. The oat crop is
worse than a failure and hay is scare
er than for years. In Western Kan.
sas the conditions are better than In
the eastern part, this being the oppo-
site to the usual state Of affairs. Some
of the central Kansas farmers are ship
ping their stock to Western Kansas so
as to take advantage of the superior
hay crop. 1t is estimated that Kan
sas will suffer S10,0 900. Some Of the
days temperatures were: Topeka, 1O3;
Salina, 102; Abilene. 107; Usage City,
103; Lawrence, 100: Fort Scott. 1O3; Sc
dan, 1O6; Hays City and Manhattan,
los; Kansas City, 1884.
Jake Devoss, a Negro laborer on
James McKinnons plantation, near
Douglass, Ga, was working team OF
mules last Tuesday morning. The
mules balked, and Devoss flew into a
rage. Flogging failed to move the
mules. The Negro went to his house,
got a Winchester rifle and shot both
mules dead. Devosss wife eXpostula-
ted with him, and he turned the rifle
upon her, inflicting a wound which
may prove fatal. James McKinnon,
who owned the mules, and his broth
er, Charles, attracted by the shooting,
started for the scene. The now wildly
infuriated Negro saw them coming and
began shooting at them. Charles Nc
Kinnon was instantly killed and James
McKinnon was so badly wounded that
he will probably die. Then Devoss es-
capped to the swamps. The county au-
thorities were notified, and at last ac-
counts they were pursuing with blood
hounds. The Negro still had his rifle;
but it was not thought that he had
any ammunition.
The Chinese government, through
Minister WI Ting Fang, has filed a
claim for indemnity to the amount of a
half million dollars on account of the
alleged outrageous treatment Of Chi
nese at Butte, Mont. There is a sug-
gestion Of Boxer outrages reversed in
the presentation Of the case to the
state department, the treatment inflict-
ed upon the Chinese at Butte being
claimed to have been cruel and OPP
pressive. 1t is charged that some of
them were killed, others lost their
property and nearly all were ruined in
business, and many Of them were driv-
en- out. The claimants number several
hundred. The outrages date back to
1886, and it is declared that the city
council Of Butte upheld the riotors and
the boycotters; that the state courts,
upon appeal. decided in language so
unjudicial as to be a subject of COM
plant. that the city council was right,
and finally that relief could be obtain
ed only measurably through an appeal
to the United States court. The claim
raises some novel and extremely inter-
esting points of international law.
News reached Tampa from Plant
City, Fla. Tuesday, that fatal duel
with shotgunS was fought near that
place Monday afternoon, and that as a
dead, and David Kinard, Franklin's
..
baby. are all seriously wounded.
Franklin, it is alleged, had employed
a farm hand to do some plowing, for
which he was to receive 700 strawberry
plants. The work having been finished,
Franklin gave an order on Kinard for
the plants. When the employed man
presented the order Kinard refused to
fill it. This was reported to Franklin,
who Immediately armed himself with
a shotgun and went to the Kinard
home. Arriving there, he Immediately
opened fire on his Son-in-law. missing
him, but striking and seriously wound
ing his daughtep and grandchild. XII
nard ran for his gun and returned the
fire. Another volley was fired at each
other Franklin falling dead and XII
nard seriously wounded. Kinard Las
not been arrested.
The state department, says a Wash
ington dispatch. has received the
amount of the American indemnity
claim against Turkey, S95.0UU, through
the American legation at Constantine
pie. AS is always the case the claims
in the aggregate considerably exceed
the amount of the indemnity actually
paid. but our government has express
ed itself as satisfied with the payment.
1t assumes full responsibility for the
distribution, the Turkish government
leaving it to the state department to
distribute the money among the differ
ent claimants at it's discretion and af-
ter it's own fashion. These claims are
principally based upon losses sustained
by American missionary and education
al institutions in Turkey, notably those
at Harpool and Marash. but there are
a number of individual claims, such for
instance as that of the family of the
unfortunate bicyclist. Lenz, the Pitts
burg man who was killed by Turkish
soldiers while attempting to go around
the world on bicycle. The state de-
partment officials feel the greatest sat-
iSfaction at the settlement of these
claims. Secretary Hay has been told
by diplomats skilled in oriental diplo-
macy and in the political conditions Of
southern Europe. that he never would
he able to collect them. Not only was
there extreme difficulty in bringing any
pressure to bear because of the remote
ness of Turkey, but we had to contend
with the jealousy of the great Euro
pean powers. most of whom had
claims against Turkey vastly larger in
amount than ours, and whose total was
beyond the ability of Turkey to meet.
For more than a decade these Ameri-
can claims have been pending.
William J. Bryan, who is in Salem,
Illinois, says a dispatch. confirms the
statement that Aguinaldo'S agents at
tempted to corrupt him during the last
Presidential campaign. Mr.. Bryan