Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-25
Straps and faets.


ern districts Of the cotton belt where
cotton picking has been interrupted by
rains, the weather conditions have been
very favorable for gathering the crop,
and this work has progressed rapidly.
The prevalence Of rust, shedding ana
boil worms is widespread, and the boil
weevil in Texas continues destructive,
although premature opening in South
Carolina, rust in Georgia and shedding
In Alabama have been somewhat
checked. Heavy rains have injured the
staple in Georgia, South Carolina and
Florida. Cotton is opening rapidly in
all districts. The outlook for top
crop is promising:
No. g. the Southern's fast mail
train came very near being dltcheo
Monday afternoon just north OF Dali
willie, Va. The presence of mind Of 4
small boy saved it. Just before reach
ing Danville and at time when the
train was speeding along at the rate
of a mile minute the engineer saw
small boy standing some distance
down the track frantically waving his
hat. The engineer at once applied the
air and stopped the train. Upon ex-
animation it was found. that one OF
the heavy iron rails of the track was
broken. The little boy was walking
along the track and noticed the brok-
en- rail. About that time he heard
the approaching train and had pres
ence Of mind enough to wave 1t down.
After about an hours delay the train,
proceeded on its way south.
The time limit in which the CO.
lombian congress should have ratified
the Panama canal treaty expired last
Tuesday, and according to the terms
of the act of the United States con-
gress, the Panama route Is no longer
to be considered. 1t now becomes the
duty Of the president to at once make
arrangements for the building of the
canal by way Of the Nicaragua route.
Referring to the failure Of the Colom-
bian negotiations, Senator Morgan
said on Tuesday: 1.-The action at Bo-
gotta means the building Of canal by
the Nicaraguan route. President
Roosevelt has no discretionary powers,
but it Is made mandatory upon him.
It turned out exactly like expected 1t.
1t is the best thing for this country
and the world. Now, it goes back to the
proposition to build the Nicaragua ca
nal and 1t will be the best thing for
this country to do"
After a trial lasting eight days,
the jury in the case of Curtis Jett,
charged with the murder of Town Mar
shall Thomas Cockrill, at Jackson, KY,
on July 21, 1902, was concluded at
Cynthiana, KY, last Tuesday. The
jury rendered a verdict Of guilty and
fixed the punishment at death. Jett
has long been a tool Of the Breathitt
county feudists, and had committed
number of assassinations from which
he escaped on account Of the influence
of his principals. He was recently
convicted and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder Of Marcum,
and as the result of this conviction
- his former confederates- began to take
to the woods. His conviction in the.
case just closed was less difficult. AT
one time it was rumored that he would
make a confession in which he would
implicate all Of his confederates; but
the confession has not been forthcom-
ing. The inference is that his confed-
crates prevailed on him with promises
of further aid. in the the matter of an
appeal, ETC., to keep quiet. The case
WILL Of course be appealed.
In case the condition of affairs
in Turkey will justify the withdrawal
of the cruisers Brooklyn and San
Francisco from Beirut, and the gum
boat Machias from Port Said, where
they have been for the past few
weeks, says a Washington dispatch, it
is probable that all three vessels, COM
prising the present European squad
ron, will be sent to Jibuti, a port on
the east coast Of Africa The purpose
of this cruise is to show the interest
taken by the United States in the es-
tablishment of intimate commercial re-
lations with the government Of AbyS-
sinia. Mr.. Skinner, United States con-
sui general at Marseilles, who Is to
make a personal visit TO King Menelik,
at his capital. Ads Abeba, in the
mountains of the interior of his ex-
tensive domains, to conclude a COM
mercial treaty, is now in this country
making arrangements for his expedi-
tion and probably will start in about
two or three weeks for the eastern
Mediterranean, from which region he
will complete his journey to Jibuti on
one of the vessels Of Admiral Cotton's
squadron. In case it is decided to send
the entire squadron to the east coast
of Africa on this mission it will not be
necessary for them to leave their pres
ent stations for at least a month to
come.
"A census report on the quantity of
cotton ginned in the United States
from the growth of 1908 up to and in
ing figures: Total commercial bales
1857, including 1891 square bales,
$40 round bales of upland crop
and 26 bales of sea island crop.
The total gins in operation num-
bering 2,176. These statistics were
collected through a canvass Of the
32,625 ginneries of the cotton states
by 631 local special agents. Only g.,
176 ginneries had begun operations up
to September l, and these had ginned
but 1857 commercial bales or bales