Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-10-25

patch Of October 81, will be taken by
the authorities of the war department
in the case of Private John T. Smith,
of the hospital corps, who has married
a negress, until after the election.
This fact has been definitely ascer-
tanned at the war department. The
authorities at the war department in
tend that the race issue involved IN
the Smith case shall receive no official
action before the election on Novem-
Der s. The case has been referred
by Major Gen. F. c. Answorth, the
military secretary, to Judge Advocate
General Geo. B. Davis, who will not
consider it with a view to a definite
decision for several weeks. The ques-
ton is regarded as Of too great politi-
cal significance to be decided at this
time, when race equality has been
made one Of the principal issues be-
fore the American people.
General Gripenberg, the new COM
mander who is to lead the Second
Russian army in Manchuria, is Fin
lander, blue eyed and blond haired.
His name and color indicate German
lineage, which is possible, because
Finland has been subject to conquests
by her southern neighbors in the past.
The general is sixty-six years old ana
won his spurs in the Crimean war
when he was In his teens. He served
H. commanded
regiment in the Russo Turkish war,
He is a brave soldier and also good
strategist. Having come up from the
bottom Of the ladder, he should be
popular with the soldiers and at the
same time have the art Of war at his
fingers ends. General Gripenberg Is
a splendid type Of the young old man.
He looks and acts like q man in his
prime. Besides, he is younger than
Lord Roberts when he smashed the
Beers.
Caracas, October %: Signs are
not lacking that another revolution Is
brewing in this country. President
Castro has heard Of plottings in the
Andean provinces and along the Orin-
ocan pampas and is acting with his
usual promptness. The rallying cry
of the dissatisfied Is that the country
is taxed to death to pay the indemnity
imposed by The Hague tribunal and to
support the extravaganza Of the CAS-
tro administration. 1t Is also alleged
that the president, following the pre-
cedent Venezuelan presidents, Is ac-
cumulating a great personal balance
in Paris and New York against the
time when a revolution would be sue
cessful. The general opinion here,
however is that the American asphalt
companies are at the bottom Of the
unrest. This view Is held by the gov
ernment and it is not at all unlikely
that Castro will make strong repre-
sentations to the United States gov
ernment on the subject.
- Col. D. B. Dyer Of Augusta, Ca,
has presented his collection Of Indian
relics, valued at 100000, to Kansas
City, to be incorporated in the public
library there. The collection Is con-
sidered the most valuable in private
ownership in the country and it has
required thirty-five years to gather It.
The number Of articles is something
over 1000, comprising prehistoric re-
mains from the American Continent,
a lot of pottery and Indian relics from
Old Mexico, a collection made by DR..
Irwin Bachmann, and the entire COL
lection Of the late Rear Admiral L. A.
Beardslee, U. S. A. Some of the most
famous Indians in history owned ar
ticles in the collection. There are rel
les from the Gen. Custer massacre,
Wounded Knee, the battle Of Wichita,
the chiefs, including Sitting Bull, Lit
tie Chief, Black Katie, Dull Knife,
Wild Horse, Chief Joseph and Capt.
Jack, chief Of the Modocs. The entire
lot will be exhibited in the Kansas
City Library Annex, and will be known
as the Daniel B. Dyer museum.
SO far as the dispatches from the
far east show, there has been no
change in relative positions Of the
hostile armies confronting each other
on the line of the Shakhe river.
There is an unconfirmed report that
Russian force Of 10000 men has been
concentrated at Kauta pass, twenty
miles northeast of Lao Yang, which
may be indicative Of the direction In
which Gen. Kuropatkin is likely to
Iii. h1nuy TTnuya r1C nf DO
900 Of the Russian soldiers wounded in
the battle Of the Shakhe have reached
Harbin. Cold weather Is causing suf-
fering to the armies in the field, al
though 1t has wrought an improve
ment in the conditions for the move
ment Of troops. A report has reached
st. Petersburg, but lacks confirmation,
that the Port Arthur fleet has left its
anchorage in the harbor and has taken
up a position in the roadstead. There
is still no certainty as to the extent Of
the losses on either side during the re-
cent II days battle. Japanese claim
that the Russians lost 10000 men and
they put their own losses at less than
10000. Russian reports, however, in
dicate a belief that the japanese losses
were nearly as great as those Of the
Russians. That the battle was not de-
cisive Of anything is evident. Both
armies continue to occupy the posi-
tions they occupied at the cessation
Of the fighting last week, and the bat
tie is liable to be renewed at any mo-
ment.
The Russian Baltic fleet made an
unexplainable attack on a British fish
ing fleet out Of Hull, England, in the
North Sea at midnight last Friday.