Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-02-01

burden should be removed lrolh ILLS
country before considering the relief to
be granted to CuDa.
Washington special to the NE"
York Commercial Advertiser: President
Roosevelt is determined that the pres
ent session of congress shall not COME
to an end without canal leglsiatio'',
which shall make the constructor VI
an isthmian canal by the United slales
certainty. He will use every means
in his power to get some kind OF oii'
through congress and up to the Whlte
House. He is not particular whetner
the route to be authorized Is oy rama
ma or by Nicaragua, so long as some
route is authorized. He would ike "
have congress take the respohsloiii.S
of selecting the route, but if congress Is
unable to do that, then, rather than
have all legislation fail. he Is ready 70
accept for himself the responsibility Oh
selection. In no question before con-
sress is he more deeply interested tnah
this. and his interest will not be comm
ed to an expression of general approval
of the scheme Of canal.
A Manila cable, of Tuesday, tells OF
the frightful experiences of party Oh
&c men who went into the interior Oh
the island of Samar on January Il. Inc
party was under the guidance OF ha-
tives and was provided with rations FOR
five days. It was not expected that the
expedition would last longer than tna'.
Food gave out Unexpectedly, ana as
the native guides claimed to be unable
to distinguish edible roots, the men
were reduced to dire straits. They Kill
ed and ate raw the meat OF two dogs.
Captain Carter and 26 men reached the
coast last Saturday. The captain was
delirious and none Of his men were In
condition to give much Information as
TO the horrible experiences through
which they had passed. A relief party
went into the woods after the ten men
who had been left behind and found
them in a starving condition, two Oh
them in trees, barking like dogs and
utterly demented.
According to the Pocatello, ldaho,
correspondent of The Deseret News, the
residents of the little town Of Chester
field, located in an isolated portion OF
Bannock county, Idaho, are greatly ex-
cited over the appearance in that Vicin-
ity of an eight-foot, hair-covered hu-
man monster. He was first seen on
January IA, when he appeared among
party of young people, who were skat-
ing on the river near John Gooch's
ranch. The creature showed fight, and,
flourishing a large club and uttering
series of yells, started to attack the
skaters, who managed to reach their
wagons and get away in safety. Meas
urements of the tracks showed the
creatures feet to be % inches long and
inches broad, with the imprint of only
four toes. Stockmen report having seen
the tracks along the range west of the
river. The people of the neighborhood,
feeling unsafe while the creature is at
large, have sent 20 men on its track to
effect it's capture.
BY a vote Of to I, the house COM
mittee on commerce, on Tuesday, dec1d-
ed in favor Of government construc-
tion. operation and maintenance Of
Pacific cable, and ordered a favorable
report on the bill of Representative
Corliss, providing the details for such a
government undertaking. The bill pro-
vides for a government cable from the
coast Of California to Hawaii, and the
Philippines via Midway and the Island
Of Guam, or by whatever route the
president may consider most practical
BILE. The cost is fixed at not to exceed
s1OO0O,O0O, of which $500,OO0 is made i'm
mediately available. The work of con-
struction is entrusted to the army and
navy departments, and after the cable
is laid it's control is under the control
of the postmaster general, secretary OF
war and secretary Of the navy. Pro-
vision is made for government messages
and also for private messages at rate
not exceeding 25 cents per word to Ha-
waii and so cents per word to Manila.
Says a Washington dispatch of
Wednesday,: Senator Money, of Missis-
sippi has exercised his editorial prerog-
ative and his remarks on the Philip
pine argument, made in the heat of de-
bate in the senate yesterday, appear
blue penciled" in the Congressional
Record this morning. Yesterday Sen
ator Hale asked him, Senator Money
having spoken at length on the situa-
ton, what, then, after all, he would do
with the Philippines. Let them go to
the devil and take care Of themselves,
he replied, with an explosive force that
awoke the senate to laughter and some
applause. 1t made hit as a specimen
of senatorial repartee, but the Missis-
sippi statesman evidently concluded
that it would not look we'll in cold type.
So he took his blue pencil in hand and
edited his remarks. which now appear
as follows: Let them go where they
please and take care of themselves, so
far as the American people are concern
ed. and that is what every one of you
think
- Edward and John Biddle, two mur-
derers, escaped from the Pittsburg, Pa,
Jail last Thursday morning under rath-
er remarkable circumstances. The
whole thing had been arranged before
hand. One Of the Biddles, in affected
distress. called for the inside guard to
bring some cramp medicine to his broth
er quick. The guard rushed into the
room, and was seized by one of the
men and thrown over a parapet to the
stone floor 16 feet below. Then the two