Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-11-24

that no steps shall be taken except
with the full consent Of the Cuban
people. If they consent, however, it is
proposed that the Cuban army be-
come a part of the army Of the United
States, and that Cuban bonds con-
tinue a debt Of the island Of Cuba
The Cubans, if they decide to become
part Of the United States, are to have
all the privileges Of American citizen
ship.
Says a Salt Lake City dispatch Of
November 20: Today marked the
completion and formal opening OF the
great cutoff bridge constructed by the
Union Pacific railroad across Salt Lake,
though the structure will not be used
for regular traffic until the first OF the
coming month. E. H. Hartman and
other officials Of the Union Pacific
and Of the Oregon Short Line are here
for the official test of the bridge. The
bridge now completed was built in
the face of difficulties regarded almost
unsurmountable and its construction
is looked upon as one of the greatest
engineering triumphs ever achieved IN
the west. The structure is forty miles
long and it's construction cost upwards
Of $6,000,0O0.
w. H. Clendenin, telegraph
operator at Brown, Pa, station nj
teen miles north Of Williamsport, on
the Beech Creek division of the New
York Central railway was found dead
in the telegraph tower shortly after I
o'clock Friday night. At $50 O'Clock
the operator at Oak Grove. Pa, on the
same road, received this message from
Clendenin: Send switch engine quick
to me, I am being murdered by"
The wire opened and not another word
came. A switch engine was sent to the
scene. The body was found lying un-
der the desk, the head crushed In. A
bloody spike lay on the floor beside
it. Robbery, apparently, was the mo-
tive, the watch and money Of the oper-
ator being missing.
Panama has an area of 31,57l
square miles-nearly the size OF the
state of Maine. Its population is 1885,
0O0 almost the same as that of the
District of Columbia. Its commerce,
including both imports and exports,
amounts to about 100000 a year.
That is about $11 for each inhabitant
The rest of Colombia has foreign
trade of less than 81 head. Colon
and Panama it's principal ports, have
mixed population or 5000 and 25,OOO
respectively. The United States leads
all nations in the amount of its trade
with Panama. A weekly steamer con-
meets Panama with San Francisco. CT
BILE lines connect both Colon and Pana-
ma with the United States. Between
Panama and Colon two passenger
trains run daily; distance 'forty-seven
miles, time three hours. Silver is
standard Panama money.
Boston cotton trade authorities, re-
view the general situation and sum
up their observations as follows:
Business is bad, or mills would not
take chances in reducing wages, and,
on the other hand, operatives know
that business is bad, or they would not
accept a reduction without a strike.
Last year the mills had to contend
with extraordinary fuel costs; this year
it is gh-priced cotton. The south
ern mills are as badly off as the New
England mills. What they save in
labor and fuel costs and cotton freights
they lose in inability to secure the right
management and adequate financial
accommodations at the rates which
New England mills can borrow. In
substantiation Of this view it is said
that New England mills have less than
a two months supply of cotton on
hand, whereas in normal years they
have by the middle Of November a
six months supply"
Peter Mortensen was shot to death
in the Utah state prison at Salt Lake
last Friday, for the murder Of James
r. Hay, on the night Of December l,
1901 Mortensen owed the Pacific Lum-
Der company s3,sO0, and on being
pressed for pay claimed that he had
the amount at his home in gold and
would give it over If the company
would send Hay to his house. Hay was
not afterward seen alive. Next day,
however, there was report that he
had fed the country, taking with him
money that had been paid to him by
Mortensen. Some weeks afterward the
body Of Hay was discovered in a shall
low grave in Mortensens pasture.
There was a bullet hole in the forehead,
and circumstances pointed to Morten-
sen as the murderer. Mortensen was
convicted. The law of Utah gives con-
demned criminals the right to choose
between shooting and hanging. Nor
tensen chose to be shot. A paper
target was posted over his heart and
he fell pierced by half dozen bull
let's. He refused spiritual consolation
and continued to protest his innocence
until the last.
An important conference was held
at the White House last Saturday
looking to the adoption of measures
that may prevent the ravages Of the
cotton boil weevil, which now menaces
the cotton growing industry of the
south. The fear is expressed by cot
ton planters that, unless radical meas
ures are adopted for the determination
Of the pest, the loss to the cotton
growing states will aggregate tens of
millions of dollars. The matter was
brought to the attention Of the pres
ident today by a deleg ltion of sena-