Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-13
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ton of the war college board relative
to the organization Of the militia OF
the United States. One point involved
is the size Of the companies. The
board recommended that the compa-
MES be uniform in number with those
of the United States army, but 1t Is
found that there Is some difficulty IN
keeping full organizations In the
smaller cities and towns and it Is quite
likely that the department Will decide
that these militia companies may
have smaller minimum than those IN
the larger places.
The sub committee Of the 1sthmian
canal commission, consisting or Hea1
Admiral Walker, General Haines and
Prof. Burr which visited the 1sthmus
of Panama to inspect the WORK anu
property Of the new Panama cana'
company has returned to Washington
The mission of the committee was ac-
complished quicker than was antici-
pated. The commission found tna'
while the canal company has employed
on the work about 1,200 men, little, IN
q definite or effective way, Is being
ACCOMPLISHED. Just enough work is
beinp done to keep the project alive
Members of the commission say the
ratification Of the canal treaty by the
United States was received entnusi-
astically by the people on the isthmus'
Properly values increased rapidly anu
real estate along the route or the ca
nal continues to rise.
Joplin, Mo-, News-Herald: }. N
Wilkerson, 80 years ago was gong
west with his parents In a prairie
schooner. They camped one nish'
near joplin, and his parents fell into
conversation with the members OF an
other family of movers" that had
canned close by, while he, a small
boy, began to play. with pretty cur
,v.headed little daughter of the
strangers. The youngsters became
very "chummy," as little ones Will
They next day they were separated
Twenty years afterward, few DAYS
before he was to be married, Mr. VIII
kerson made a chance remark aoou'
his stop in Joplin and the little curly
headed girl he had played with. This
instantly recalled similar recollection
to the mind of his future wife, and II
turned out that she was the little girl
New York Commercial: d. A
Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. c., mas pre-
pared a book, curiously Illustrated, TO
show cotton values in textile fabrics
A collection of cloth samples Is ar
ranged, one on q page. There are
eighteen of them. On the opposite
mage to each Is a small table, showing
the value Of North Carolinas cotton
crop at cents a pound, raw COTTON
and its value after being manufactur-
ed into cloth from which the sample
IL taken. The cheapest sample SHOWN
Il duck, worth IA cents pound. HalI
a million bales Of cotton as manurac-
tured would bring $35,00O,000. The
costliest product shown In the sam
pies, Swiss embroidery, Is worth *zo
Mound. This would make North Caro-
lina's usual yearly crop worth $5,0Oo'-
600. 600. IL SO manufactured-a figure
euual to the value Of the raw cotton
crop of the United States for twenty
wears. The object of the book Is to
show what can be done with cotton by
education and thrift, and how the peo-
ple who produce it may make 1t possi-
BILE to realize many times their pres
ent income from the product.
The public will be gratified TO
know that President Roosevelt's small
ness in trying to deprive the people OF
Indianola, Miss, Of their mail facilities
because of their unwillingness to put
I'D with a Negro woman as postmaster
has not been entirely successful. II
will be remembered that certain citi-
zens of Indianola asking Minnie Cox to
resign and she did so. 1t developed
that the request was because OF the
fact that she was Negro, and the
president caused her to withdraw her
resignation. Then the people boycott
ted the office, getting their mail else
where. Upon this the postoff1ce de-
pertment ordered the closing OF the
Indianola office, and the Cox woman
left town, her salary going on as US
ual. The Indianola people asked the
department to have their mail sent to
Heatherman, an Office four miles
away; but the department claimed
that the office at Heatherman was too
small to take care Of such volume
of mail. In this, alternative the In
dianola people directed their cores
pondents to address them to Heather
man, and finally got all their mail
turned to that point. AS the next
move a postmaster was appointed for
Indianola to be supported by private
subscription, and liveryman was en-
ployed to go to Heatherman after mail
twice a day. Now the Indianola peo-
pie have pretty nearly as convenient
mail service as formerly, and they
have in addition a thoroughly develop
ed feeling Of contempt for the little
ness Of President Roosevelt.
"A special Of Sunday to Memphis
Commercial-Appeal from Jackson
Tenn, says: The strike on the Mobile
and Ohio railroad is assuming large
proportions. One man killed, two
trains wrecked and business badly tied
up is the result Of the day in Jackson
About o'clock this morning Chief OF
Police T. c. CASTOR and his force were
called to the Union depot by the officials
OF the road on account of a wreck hav-
ing occurred there, alleged to be the
work Of the strikers. A fish plate had