Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-26

stock of the southern Cotton VII coIn-
pany.
Marion Butler, of North Carolina,
who is in Washington, declares that
the Peoples party will have a candi-
date for president in 1904 and thinks
perhaps he will come from the west.
He says the silver question will not be
an ISSUE Discussing the new issues
he says: I'm the next campaign the
issue will be the trusts and their rela-
tions to the tariff. The Democrats and
the Republicans will no doubt make the
subject of trusts the chief planks in
their platforms and then fight around
the question, while the Peoples party
will go to the root of the evil and ad-
yocate the government ownership Of the
railroads and telegraphs. Trusts do not
depend on the tariff for their success.
They would exist and prosper without
the aid of the tariffs"
A big municipal scandal is creating
q sensation in Philadelphia. Under pre-
tense Of benefitting the city, Mayor
Ashbridge and the city council, not long
ago, gave as a gratuity to a corpora
tion certain important street railway
franchises. The facts became public.
The politicians maintained that the val
ue Of the franchises depended entirely
upon the money that the corporation
was to expend upon their development.
John Wannamaker, however, has given
a practical demonstration to the con-
trary. He offers to pay the city $780,
900 for the franchises and to pay the
corporation s5OO,000 to give up what was
given to it. He further offers that if
this proposition is acceded to, he will
put up the franchises at auction and
give the city any amount that might be
bid in excess Of his purchase price.
The jobbers have not acceded to Mr..
Wannamaker's proposition.
Thousands Of people, men, women
! and children, camping on the border Of
the. Kiowa-Apache Commancha rrser-
ing Of that land to settlement. are in
destitute circumstances, according to
DR.. ]. ]. McKenna, who has Just re-
turned from the scene. Twenty thou
sand men, women and children are
maSsed on the border, and haif Of ther,
are utterly destitute. Said DR.. Mcken-
ma: Only a small percentage have
even tents to sleep in; but hudd.e uI.-
der wagons and trees. AT least 300
of them have been there gear and
half. They went with possibly s:IG or
$500, and have made nothing since they
arrived. Simply waiting - waiting.
There are hundreds of desperaIoes on
the border, who have picked out Gains,
and will not scruple to kill the success
full ones in the drawing, il. case they
have a lottery"
Loud walls of distress reach Wash
ington from debtors in Cuba. Govern
or General Wood has announced that
all classes of creditors are at liberty
to take action and enforce the collec-
tion of mortgage credits on all kinds of
property. The mortgages on property
in Cuba amount to s2OS, 100000, of which
$10O OOO, 900 is on city real estate, and
estimated that 70 per cent. of the value
of the city real estate is indebtness,
and So per cent. of the value of rural
property is Indebtedness. The conSti-
tuition convention endeavored to pre-
vent General Wood from authorizing
the collection Of debts. 1t cabled to
Secretary Root asking him to permit
further suspension of payment of in
debtedness until the Cuban government
had assumed the reins of government,
when it would take action. Secretary
Root declined, however, to Interfere.
The United States government has
twice before prevented foreclosure.
The Rheinische Westphalische lei
tung, published at Essen, Germany,
says it has the authority of Mrs. Botha
for the statement that Gen. French Was
captured by the Beers sometime ago.
and released on parole. THE un-
scrupulous British general the paper
adds, regardless of his pledge of honor,
broke his parole and escaped. Fe did
not, however, profit by his faithess-
ness, for before he had gotten within
touch of the British lines the Keen
burghers had caught up with him, re-
captured him and brought him back to
General Botha.'' Gen. Botha, continues
the story, ordered the British cavalry
leader to be shot, and the sentence was
about to be carried out when mes
sage came in hot haste from the Brit
ish chief, Lord Kitche-
ner, imploring the Boer general to de-
lay the execution, and offering to re-
lease 1000 Beers from the prison camp
at Simonstown to secure Gen. French's
release. On these conditions, the story
concludes, the British general was set
at liberty.
According to the Chicago Tribune.
the discovery of oil wells in California
and Texas, will have a beneficial infiu-
ence on the railroad industry in the
whole southwestern portion of the Uni
ted States. Says the Tribune: Since
the beginning of 1901 no coal has been
used for fuel on the Atchison lines in
California. Now the same company is
equipping the engines on it's Texas
lines for the purpose of using oil from
the Beaumont well. The oil necessary
to do the work of a ton of coal costs
about 81 less than the coal, and the