Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-03
Stnps and fasts,

change in the date OF holding preSl-
dental inaugurations, was taken last
Wednesday, says washington ols-
patch. Resolutions adopted by the in
augural committee were laid before
the district commissioners with re-
quest for appropriate action. 1t is un-
derstood the commissioners are in IA
vor OF date later than March 4, and
will bring the matter to the attention
of congress and the governors Of the
several states and territories. Inc
plan proposed by the inaugural COM
mittee is that national committee be
appointed, composed of the governors
of the states and territories, nfteen
additional citizens Of the country at
large and a representation of foremost
citizens of Washington. This commit
tee is to select the date and procure
by congressional enactment the change
desired.
Says a Wichita, Kansas, special of
July %, to the Baltimore Sun: MISS
Hattie H. Beal, who drew claim No. z
in the Lawton district land lottery,
lives here. She is an operator in the
local telephone exchange, and has been
earning So a week. Miss Beal has al
ready been offered $4,000 for her Okla
homa land; but cannot sell it under the
homestead laws for IA months. Mean
while she will go to Oklahoma to re-
side. On her way to Oklahoma to reg
lister. she found an old horseshoe,
which she brought home and hung over
her bedroom door. She attributes her
good fortune to that. The fortunate
street car conductor here, and it is pro-
bable that their wedding will take
place soon. She was amused at the
demands of the Ell Reno crowd that
she should marry James r. Woods.
who drew first prize in the Lawton
district. Miss Beal remained at her
work here all day; but resigned at
night. She will leave tomorrow for
Lawton to select her farm. Several
proposals of marriages have come to
her by wire. some being from other
lucky ones in the land lottery.
Congress thought 1t was reducing
the government revenue by forty
millions when it repealed number OF
internal revenue taxes last session,
says a Washington special to the
Atlanta Journal. For some unex-
planned reason (and Secretary of the
Treasury Gage is at loss to ex-
plain). the government revenues for
July show an increase Of about ~.
900 over July. 1900. Expenditures have
thousand from July last year, so that
instead of a deficit of s4,0O0,0O0 for July
as in July q year ago, the July state
ment this year will show surplus OF
about $4,000. unless some emergency
requiring an unexpected expenditure
should arise today. The internal reve-
nue. receipts for July, despite the sup
posed reduction in internal taxauon,
amounted to S2S,33S, 100; an increase
over July of last year Of $ISl, ,5Ol, While
customs aggregated s21, ,263, 1863, an in
crease of S1,461, ,691, and miscellaneous
receipts were s2,71S,1S6. an increase OF
s125, 1856. Thus, Notwithstanding the
gallant effort of congress to prevent a
surplus in revenues by reducing taxa
ton, every source of revenue shows an
increase for July and the unprecedent-
ed occurs-a small surplus for the first
month of the fiscal year. It looks then
as if congress might have to reduce
the revenues further.
George F. Washburn, Of Boston,
president Of the Commonwealth Club
of Massachusetts, sailed for Europe
last Tuesday on mission of inquir-
ing into co-oDerative methods of vari-
Gus bodies in England, Belgium and
Switzerland, with a view to the for
nation of a S50,000.00 cotton combina-
ton in this country. According to an
interview with Mr.. Washburn, he has
worked out plan to unite the cotton
producers Of the South into one great
cooperative trust, with headquarters
at ST. Louis and central warehouses at
Memphis. He said he had peen select
ed for this mission because Of the
special study he has made of co-opera-
ton from business mans standpoint,
and that in his judgment the only way
to meet the capitalistic cotton and
wheat trusts was to organize better
and bigger ores in the interests of the
producer. Mr.. WaShburn said that the
application of the idea of the cotton
industry weS made because the plant
ers being men of means. can unite in
a cooperative business movement and
effect tremendous saving to them
selves. Mr.. Washburn, who, in two
national campaigns was national eX-
ecutive committeeman of the Peoples
party, was asked if his plan had any
political significance, and he said only
in so far as it was successful, and in
that case it would have a far-reaching
effect along political lines in the west
and south.
- The revival of the Schley case has
had the effect Of calling attention to
what Captain Euiate of the NiZcaya
had to say in regard to the action Of
the Brooklyn in the historic engage
ment eff Santiago. Captain Eulate
would hardly be prejudiced in favor
of Schley. and his high rank as an Of
ficer in the Spanish navy entities him
to be regarded as competent critic Of
that famous maneuver. His state
mert. as it appeared in pint a year
or two ago, is as follows: The Brook
lyn was a half mile closer to us than
any other ship, and l determined to
ram her. so that the Colon and Oquen-
do could get away, and I started for
her. She made good mark with her
big broad side, and as I started I
thought surely I would get her. But
she had evidently seen us. and very
quickly she turned about and making
a short circle, came at our port side so
I thought she would ram us. I moved
in toward the shore so that I could
avoid her, and then / saw that the
Oquendo had gone ashore also, her
steam pipes having evidently been
severed by shell. The maneuyer of
the Brooklyn was beautiful. We OPEN
ed rapid fire at her with all our big
guns. but she returned ii with ter
rible effect The Oregon also hit us
several times. but the Brooklyn S
broadsides crushed through our super
structure, simply terrorizing the men,.
She drove us to the shore, at one time
fighting us at LOO yards. The Brook
lyn prevented me from getting away,
for I could have beaten the Oregon
ont as I had two mile lead Of her