Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-10-18
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compan 10 dram SvAAA
covers >out fifty acres fhere Is
straditio, to the effect that the Mexi-
Gang duped q six-mule wagon load Of
silver 81 the lake during the war for
Texan dependence and this is why
they wat to- get the ~ater out. The
lake is be pumped dry and 1t fs es-
timated that the work win require
about four mpnths.
A cable dispatch to the Washing
ton Post sa% that the late Gen. Kel-
l4s wife ha number Of letters from
her husband which throw flood Of
Ikht ON tbd Organization Of the Rus
san army n Aianchuria. Whole regi-
nSpts wese kithout uniforms or prop
Sser Mg<s others had no boots. The
ds6cienm Ia sanitary arrangements
was apps;ing Gen. Keller expressed
himself yery strongly concerning the
capacity d his colleagues. His opin-
ion of Kabpatkin was not high, and
his views d several others does not
form pleasaat reading for the officers
concerned Countess Keller has been
persuaded bv friends to postpone pub
fishing t. memoirs until after the
war. ~ &
-congrsh j. Thomas Hefiin Of
the Fifth Albania district said in a
speech delisred at Camp Hill, Ala,
Saturday: have no patience with
Booker Was Agton In politics and no
respect for n white man whose hun
ger for the loges and fishes will cause
him to pupr around Booker Wash
ington In ORD to secure his endorse
ment for a \. Time was when the
conservative ihite men OF the south
thought Bookr Washington sincere
and earnest his professions along
the line OF trhing the negro for use
ful industry, Hthout any suggestion Of
political ambiions or social equality
with the domiAntErace. But change
has come oyerlhe spirit of his dreams
with the incoming Of the Roosevelt In
dian regime and since his dinner at the
White House tble, these same con-
seryative white linen have come to
realize that Booker Washington is a
changed nego and an unsafe leader
for the negro raee.S
The washington Post says: West
chester county. N. Y.e presents a group
sAof nillionsires Ia a struggle for poll
ticzP tint pfUbably cannot be
matcasd elsewhere in the country.
The total wealth of five candidates
and one Of the party managers in the
county is estimated at $65,500,o00.
John Z. Andrus, mayor Of Yonkers,
who is the Republican candidate for
congress, is worth s4O.ooo.ooo. while
his Democrats opponent, J. Harvey
Bell, Is worthnot less than s15,00o,0oo.
National Conmitteeman William M.
Ward, who q the Republican leader
in the coupE is rated at s,5oo,ooo;
Richard JIshe Wainwright, Demo-
cratic canAdate for state senator, is
said to beworth $1,000, 900, and his Re-
publican opponent, Francis M. Car
,penterShas half as much. ]. Mayhem
|. MaanwtS4, q. brother Of the Demo-
II cratic S4Rd didate for senator, Is the
Reppb1ea4 nominee for assemblyman,
and 4 Fsrth half a million dollars.
The olitfal workers of Westchester
coulf ef both parties are reported to
4 bs aSyer
Y $pditions sat Port Arthur are re-
=. - ete, The Japanese
attack now ertire-
5. etice, and have the
~ krt OF the fort from
points, at which they
avy siege guns. They
dyddite and shimose
ping terrible execu-
% have succeeded In
W out of the port on
leclare that the food
low, and that there
W supply Of coal in
Fry house which has
gthe Japanese shells
Iik and wounded, and
rising corps are en-
10 respond to the
Ina. The discipline
hkened, and, while
49, to fight, they are
Aof their officers
at the front. All
have been abrogat-
wing feeling among
re still there, and
the army officers,
&ce is useless, but
EsselA and General
ermined that they will
er the fortress until 1t is
ult.
Mitigation into the mat
der Of a little white boy,
md dismembered hands
the house Of an obi
rcerer) in the island OF
lated in a dispatch to
Press on Oct. IL, has
arrest Of a seemingly
20 butcher and a dis
<arous superstition and
Survives to a startling
Vest Indies, the heritage
hncestry. The child, 1t
he victim Of the desire
wv In custody, one who
krned in some litigation.
bell" upon the judge Of
ourt who was to try the
end, at the direction Of
whom he consulted the
the child to the house
on a deserted estate in
rthern part of st. Lu-
1.-The child was murdered
De dismembered. The
found, and medical ex-
Ms that death resulted
20 btion. The hands had
hputated at the wrists,
and left lung removed
though it had been the
neon. The hands and
Id In a utensii IN the
bbi-man. The body,