Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-07-23
Scraps aud facts.

3a' Duluth, Minn., dispatch: I'm 1910.
when our next census is taken, I ex-
pect that the population Of the United
States will reach the 1O0.000,000 mark. :"
said William R. Merriam, director of
the census bureau, in an interview
This will include our new possessions,
Hawaii. Porto Rico and the Philippines,
but it will demonstrate in no uncertain
terms what world power this country
has become. There will be some i'm
portant changes in the census system
We can see now where improvements
can be made in the methods used. One
thing that shall have in mind is to cut
down the expense of taking the census.
The last one cost this country $12,000,-
900, an enormous sum. I know Of seve-
raj ways whereby this amount can be
reduced"
Dispatches Of the past few days
from Keokuk, Iowa, tell of the mishtest
flood that has been known in the Mis-
sissippi river for years. Swollen by re-
cent heavy rains that have fallen along
it's tributaries, the river has spread out
to a width of from some 400 or 500
square miles Of farm lands on which
there are splendid plantation homes
and which had also great crops OF fine
corn that promised to yield from 60 to
so bushels to the acre. In some Sec
tions the inhabitants had so little warn
ing of the approaching flood that they
were barely able to escape with their
lives. Many thousands Of cattle were
lost. Reports from various river points
in Missouri are the same, and 1t seems
that many of the farms have been COW
cred by great lakes. The property loss.
including the value Of crops, is estima-
ted at from s6,0OO,OOO upward.
London dispatch Of June II: Details
Of an important move by Russia which
have evidently been suppressed hither-
to by the censor, have transpired in
London. This move is no less than a
proposal by the imperial government
for an international conference to deal
with trusts. Baron De Staal, the Rus
sian ambassador in London, about ten
days ago presented to the British gov
ernment a note from NJ. DeWitte, the
Russian minister OF finance, which note
was sent also to all the powers that
signed the Brussels sugar convention,
proposing that these powers should
consider in common, means to protect
international commerce against the ar
tificial depression of prices, not only by
government measures such as export
bounties or the control Of production,
but also by the much more dangerous
processes adopted by trusts, private un-
dertakings or cartels, which tend arti-
ficially to influence the international
markets. This explains the mysterious
reference made in The Financial Mes
senger, of st. Petersburg, early this
week, to a recent note of M. DeWitte,
which, the paper said, "is an applica-
ton, in the economic domain, of the
principles of The Hague conference"
John w. Mackay, the well-known
millionaire. and who with Flood, Fair
and O'Brien, was known as Bonanza
king, died in London last Sunday, after
a brief illness caused from heat pros
tration. Mr.. Mackay went to Califor-
MIA in 1851 via Panama. He at once
and shovel in the placers Of the Ameri-
can river. In 1863 he formed a partner
ship with Flood, Fair and O'Brien. In
1871 this famous mining quarette pur-
chased the site Of the Bonanza terri
tory north of the Ophir mine on the
celebrated Comstock ledge. They began
work on lode abandoned by Sharon
and other large operators. The enter
prise was a fruitful source of ridicule
in mining circles. nothing but financial
disaster being freely predicted. With
out losing heart or patience the four
men continued. expending half million
dollars in prospecting operations. The
ledge was struck and over S110,0O0,OOO
were added to the worlds stock of
precious metals. No accurate estimate
Of Mr.. Mackay's holdings in California
and Nevada can be made; but it will
run up into the millions. He was the
owner of valuable real estate in San
Francisco and had interests in mines
throughout the state of Nevada.
The Gastonia Gazette, of last Fri
day, gives this interesting description
Of striking incident that occurred at
the North Carolina state Democratic
convention last Wednesday night: The
reading of the minority report was re-
ceived with a great shout and ground
swell Of approving welcome. 1t was up
to the majority and they were keen
enough Of vision to discern the desper-
ateness of the situation. One Of the
committeeman. little fellow weighing
about 11O pounds, quite young. and in
white duck clothes as we now recollect,
hoped out into the arena to spill his
last drop of blood and spend his last ex-
piring breath in the cause of the ma
jority report. He came pretty near
spending his breath too. He ripped and
charged and gyrated and gesticulated
and went through a catalogue Of mo-
tions of speed and character that
suggested the performances of u
horsepower vertical gasoline engine
that we set to running once without
having it bolted to the floor. This en-
gine in it's eXertions to do its regular
high speed stunts did great many 9TH
er stunts equally as we'll. But the
speaker,-he formulated climax, drew