Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-12
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by 600 votes. The voting was to. de-
eide the issuance of 100000 in bonds
for the purpose Of road improvements
in CASTOR county. 1t required ma
jority Of the qualified voters Of the
county to carry 1t, and the total regis
tration was 1855. The voting was
very light only about 1,400 votes be-
ing cast. OF the votes cast there were
about 725 for and SIS against the is
sue.
Austin, Texas, dispatch Of August
6: If any genius or scientist believes
he has hit upon a way to exterminate
the pestiferous cotton boil weevil now
is the time for him to come forward.
Fifty thousand dollars will be paid out
Of the state treasury Of Texas to the
person who presents successful rem
edy. The award will be made by
committee Of five members appointed
by Governor Lanham, which met here
today for preliminary organization
Several claimants for the big reward
have already sprung up and the COM
mittee may have it's hands full for
some time to come examining the mer-
It's Of their respective remedies.
Mr.. Henry p. Lowe, chief engineer
of the United States steel corporation,
crossed the continent last week from
New York to Los Angeles, Cal, In 73
hours and 21 minutes. just little
over three days. 1t was the shortest
trip Of the kind on record by five
hours and five minutes. The occasion
Of it was the mortal illness Of Mr..
loves little eleven-year-ol daugh-
ter. The father had been advised OF
the critical illness Of the child and ar
ranged to go to her bedside by means
Of q special train. The start was
made Tuesday morning, and the child
had died a short while before; but Mr..
Lowe was not advised Of the fact un-
til afterward. Then he decided to go
on. The distance from New York to
Los Angeles is 5000 miles.
Wallace Brothers circus had hor-
rible experience in a railroad wreck at
Durand, Mich, last Friday. The circus
was travelling on two trains Of about
thirty cars each, one following about
half an hour behind the other. The
foremost train stopped for water and
put out red lights. The rear train
came along at brisk speed, and al
though the engineer saw the red lights
was unable to stop his train be-
cause Of trouble with his brakes.
About twenty five persons were killed
and as many more were injured.
Among the animals killed was an ele-
phant and two camels. A story was
sent out to the effect that some Of the
wild animals got loose; but this was
untrue. Included among the show
men who lost their lives were quite a
number Of worldwide reputation.
The first claimant Of the reward of
$4,000 offered by the state Of Texas
to the person who discovered or de-
vised a successful and practical reme-
dy for eradicating the cotton boil wee
vii Is George Franklin, a farmer, liv-
ing near San Marcos, this state, says
an Austin, Tex, dispatch to st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. He submitted his
claim to Governor Lanham today, and
the remedy will be passed upon by a
committee Of five farmers whom the
governor will appoint for that purpose.
Mr.. Franklin says that the weevils
were devastating the cotton on his
farm when he began applying the rem
edy to the plants four weeks ago, and
that the pests have entirely disappear
ed. It Is a liquid preparation, applied
to the plants by spraying, at a cost
Of not to exceed 81 an acre for the sea-
son.
A working model Of Prof. Lang
ley's air ship was tested on the Poto-
mac river, near Washington last Sat-
urday. The experiment was conduc-
ted with as much secrecy as possible,
and the public has no accurate de-
scription Of the machine beyond the
fact that it is fifteen or twenty feet
long, Is provided with numerous steel
rods, has propellers like those used for
driving boats. The power used was an
especially constructed two-horse gas
oline engine, very light. The machine
was started from tug boat against a
wind that was blowing at the rate Of
about four miles an hour, and made
a flight Of about 900 yards in the space
of thirty seconds. 1t went into the
water and sank beneath the surface;
but was recovered shortly afterward.
The nishap is claimed to have been
due to a defect in setting the steering
gear. There was nobody in the flying
machine. AS the result Of the exper-
iment, Prof. Langley claims to have
satisfied himself Of his ability to con-
struct a larger machine that will car
ry passengers.
There is a charm, fascination
about circus life that Is hard to ex-
plain" said a veteran Snowman lately.
1T Is surely a tough experience, being
buffeted about from place to place, Of
wages, outside Of the salaries paid to a
few stars, are amazingly small Yet
when man once gets taste Of circus
life it's all up with him. He's never
good for anything else and never wants
to be. There must be a germ, bred
Of the sawdust, that gets into the
blood. Take the canvassers, for in
stance. They get $40 a month and
their grub and an impromptu bed in
a wagon. Often they don't take their
clothes off for weeks at time. There's
one fellow know who has trade, and
during the winter he makes on an av-
erage $50 a week. And yet, just as