Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-06-14
Scraps aud faets.

Panama commissioners presented their
views and presented copy Of oil
pending before their legislature provid-
ing for the establishment of the gold
standard on the same basis as in the
United States except the provision at
the ratio of 80 to 1. Secretary Tart
insisted that adequate provision be
made for a sufficient reserve fund to
maintain silver on gold basis if silver
coin be used in the canal zone. The
Panamians stated that their govern
ment has already given study to this
question and provided for deposit OF
six million. dollars, allowing the re-
naming four millions Of the sum. re-
ceived from the United States to be
employed in public works. They ex-
pressed the belief that the government
would adopt a plan satisfactory to the
United States, but wanted time to re-
draft the pending bill and consult their
people. The commission therefore, ao-
journed till next Saturday.
The London Daily Mail Of Sunday
morning publishes letter written to
A. J. Dawson, the novelist and traveller,
by Ion Perdicaris, the American citl-
zen who was captured by Raisuii, the
Moroccan bandit It is dated at Tssar-
adon, June 4, and says, in part: we
have learned that Raisulfs chief object
Is to secure the release Of members OF
his own Kabyle, unjustly or at least
treacherously entrapped and imprison-
ed by the Bashaw of Tangier, former
friend and foster brother Of Raisuli,
who had trusted this man and had
been betrayed. Whatever he may have
done the fact remains that he was be-
trayed: The ransom demanded is not
so much the price Of our release as the
demand for the recouping of the losses
inflicted by order Of the same Bashaw
for whom Raisuli claims payment An
other startling surprise is to find in
Raisuli himself the most interesting
and kindly hearted native gentleman 1t
has been my good fortune to have
known. It Is impossible not to like the
man, conscious as am Of the injury
all at Tangier suffered at his hands"
The attempted prosecution Of Han
nah Elias the octoroon mistress Of John
r. Piatt,; the aged New York million
aire for. blackmail. has fallen through
because Of the failure Of Platt to tes-
tify as he was expected to. When the
case came up last Friday and Platt was
put on the stand he admitted that he
had given the woman large sums OF
money, but stated that the: gifts were
voluntary. The prosecuting attorney
saw no other way for it than to mol
pros the case and consent to the re-
lease of the negress: It is thought that
the prosecution was Instituted by
Platt's son-in-law rather than himself,
the son-in-law's object being to recover
the large sums of money the old man
has wasted on the negress. The spec
tators and others in the court room
were very much disgusted at the out
come. Notwithstanding the failure of
the criminal prosecution the attorney
for the plaintiff claims that the civil
case will be pushed. 1t is possible that
the woman may have agreed to COM
promise, and having made restitution,
the prosecution was not pushed as Wig
orously as had been intended.
The United States fish commission
has contracted the small boy habit
Of tagging fishes. Metal tags are fas-
tened to marine fishes which are let
loose in the ocean with the idea Of
identifying them in case they are
caught at any future time. The tag,
which is light and made of copper, is
securely fastened by wire passed
through a fin near its junction with the
body. No two tags are alike, each hav-
ings its own markings. Fifteen hum
dred cod were thus duly tagged and
released last spring on the New Eng
land coast. The object Of the tagging
is to ascertain the rate at which a
cod grows, the frequency Of it's spawn
ing and the extent Of it's travels in the
ocean. The same experiment is being
-.ried this year with young salmon arti-
ficially Matched, for the rivers Of the
Pacific coast. The fishes are finger
lings," about inches long. In this way
it is expected that the age at which the
salmon comes from the sea to spawn
will be ascertained; also thes rate Of
growth, and the percentage of fry that
attain maturity. The experiment is
an interesting one, and has an obvious
bearing on fish culture problems.
- New York Sun: Members Of the
Cotton Exchange have seemed to hit
upon Saturday recently for sensational
trading stunts. When the Exchange
closed on Friday night nobody suspect
ed that there would be any undue ac-
tivity at the opening yesterday morn
ing, and there wasn't. But five min
utes after the call the bulls sailed in
after the shorts and pronounced bear
traders and gave them a drubbing
which they are not likely to forget for
several Saturdays. The heaviest trad
ing was in the July option. 1t opened
at 11.S0 and sold down to 11.73 and then
the fun began. In the next hour there
was often an advance Of five and ten
points between sales. Buyers were
able to get only few hundred bales
on bid, when they had been commits
stoned to buy thousands. The price
of both the July and August options
steadily advanced. July sold up to
12.4S and then declined at the closing
to 1888. August sold up to 11.9O and