Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-22
Scraps and facts.

The directors Of the Dallas, TeXaS,
Commercial club have called Nation
al convention, to be held in Dallas on
October s, to consider the boil weevil
situation in the cotton growing dis
tricts. The attendance of delegates
from all the cotton growing states and
of representatives from the national
department Of agriculture is desired.
Since the efforts Of the state govern
ment of Texas, which offered reward
of $4,000 for a remedy, have failed, it
Is desired that the national government
aid the movement by employing scien-
tific knowledge and inventive genius In
behalf Of the end sought. While the
boil weevil ravages in Texas this year
are much less than last year, still the
feeling prevails that only by constant
vigilance and the most extensive ana
comprehensive efforts can he best be
kept from extending into the entire cot
ton growing section of the United
States.
Under instructions from the state
QSpdTlIlGlll, says q w NoSiAihSeSiA NAS
patch, Robert P. Skinner, the American
consul general at Marseilles will pene-
trate the wilds of Abyssinia, guarded
by detachment of American marines
from the European squadron. He goes
to negotiate with the king Of Abyssinia
commercial treaty, which, it is hoped,
will give important advantages to
American trade. The navy department
has informed the state department that
either the Machias, now at Port Said,
or the San Francisco, which is lying
off Beirut will be available to take
Mr.. Skinner to Jibuti. From there the
consul general will be accompanied by
a marine guard Of sixteen men and
will visit the capital of Abyssinia and
Herar. State department officials say
Mr.. SINNERS mission is Of confiden-
tial character and they refuse to make
public it's details. In the event that
the San Francisco is selected to con-
vey Mr.. Skinner to Jubuti, she will be
replaced by the Machias unless the
American ships are ordered from Bel
rut before his departure.
Sir William Willcocks, the we'll
known British expert on irrigation and
late director general of the irrigation
works in Egypt, now proposes to re-
store Chaldea to it's ancient produc-
tiveness and glory by means Of irriga-
ton. The Tigris river bears much the
40 tho Mile
does to Egypt and might be made now
as it undoubtedly was in ancient times,
the great resource of the country.
Bagdad lies about 500 miles up the IT.
girls, and from it to the Persian gulf
spreads a desolate barren country
which was one Of the most fertile dis
tricts in the east. At Opis, on the
banks of the Tigris. once the wealthiest
mart of the east, are the ruins Of the
mouth of the great Nahrwan canal,
which fertilized an area Of 4,600 square
miles. The Tigris was gradually di-
verted from it's old bed, the mouth of
the canal silted up and the country be-
came a desert. 1t would require an
outlay of $40,000,00O to reclaim about
1,25O,OOO acres of the best of this land,
which would, according to Sir William
Willcocks, produce a rental Of $19,200,-
900.
The state department, says a Wash
ington dispatch. of September 21, has
received a long cablegram from Min
lister Leishman at Constantinople, but
nothing was given out regarding 1t, ex-
cept the informal statement that it
contained no alarming news and was,
in part, concerned with routine busi-
ness. The withdrawal Of the American
squadron from Beirut, it was said, has
not yet been determined on. and no in
timation has yet been received from
Oyster Bay as to the presidents 1nten-
tions in the matter. Communications
have reached the state department
urging this government to say or do
something that will put stop to the
atrocities in Turkey. 1t is said that
this pressure does not emanate from
missionary officials. At the state de-
partment, the officials are uncommuni-
cative as to the feeling with which the
alleged atrocities in Turkey are viewed
by the people of the United States, but
they say that reports from Turkey
show that the deeds daily perpetrated
in sections Of that country are Of such
a character as to shock civilization and
necessarily are of deep concern to the
United States.
The London Daily Nails Sofia cor
respondent telegraphs that paper as
follows: "One of the revolutionary
chiefs has informed me that the revo-
lutionists are massing thousands Of men
at various points on the frontier and
their laboratories are working inces-
sanity to replenish their stock Of bombs
and explosives. They do not count
much on war between Turkey and Bull
garia. but on the day they hear that
the meeting between the czar and EN-
peror Francis Joseph has not had the
desired result for Macedonia, the world
will witness the beginning of maSsacres,
burning and destruction compared with
which the Turkish atrocities will seem
child's play. The banner Of revolution,
my informant says, will be unfurled in
all the border districts. Every city and
village, whether the inhabitants are
friends or foes, will be destroyed, and
such a state Of anarchy will be caused
that the Turks will step out voluntari-
ly and leave the country to the Mace
donian survivors. We have selected the