Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-12-01
souTH CAROLINA NEWS.

to The News and Courier: Governor
Heyward today signed a contract with
w. Royd Evans, of this city and Cal
houn & Sizer. of Washington, for the
collection from the federal govern
ment of the old Spanish-American
war claims for soldiers enlisting from
this state. The lawyers are to get a
commission of Is per cent. They
are to file the claims at Washington
before the 1st Of next January IN
itemized form. as after January the
claims will be forever barred unless
they have been properly filed. These
claims include pay for the time they
volunteered at home until they were
mustered out Of service, pay for those
who were rejected on physical
grounds, compensation for all mate
rial and expenses incurred by the gov
ernor In raising these troops and for
damages done to property of any indi'
yidual by the soldiers while at theil
rendezvous. Mr.. Evans estimates tna'
he will get about $4,000 for the sol
diers on these claims, though he Is
by no means confident of that AMOUNT
The matter has been hanging fire fol
many years, and the soldiers VINO
have so long been hoping In vain VIII
be delighted to know that they ARE
at last about to get their money
They have been hearing about get
ting 1t until the matter has ceased &c
interest many Of them. The anair
has been brewing through the guber-
material administrations Of Ellerbe
McSweeney and Hayward and haif q
dozen legislatures.
- Spartanburg Journal The dis
pensaries have received brand new
stock of liquor. The goods arrived
this morning from Columbia and the
wheels of the freight car which
brought in the shipment had not cool
ed off before the draymen began the
work of unloading big cases or WINS
KEY and hauling great wagon loaos
of the goods to the dispensaries. Fne
arrival of the new stock created as
much interest as did the opening ol
the first dispensary in Spartanburg ar
ter the dispensary law first went into
effect. People on the streets paused
i'm front of the establishments ano
looked on in wonder as the wagons
were being unloaded and the goods
stacked up on the shelves. The whis,
KEY that came in this morning VIII
supply the wants Of the people or TINS
country for some time to come. The
shipment Is an assorted one, contain:
rye. The man who likes high priced
goods and the man who Is fond OF
"fuss x" can now have his orders
filed. The injunction granted pS
Judge Pope, Of the state supreme
court bench, restraining the CLOSING
of the Spartanburg dispensaries, Is
responsible for the arrival of a new
stock Of liquors. The order keepint
the dispensaries open did not com
as a surprise and it will remain ir
effect until a decision Is rendered al
to the constitutionality Of the Brtce
Act The dispensers. feeling that the
dispensaries are to remain open IN
definitely, got wise and ordered ne"
stock Of goods.
Saws a Columbia special Of No.
yember 28 to the Greenville News
Persons who have visited union
Chose casually manifesting desire
for information merely for private
consumption as well as newspaper
correspondents seeking facts for pub
lication) have been struck by the ex'
treme reticence Of the people OF Union
regarding the subject of Mr.. T.. C.
Duncan and his justly celebrated five
million dollar cotton mill failure. Un-
ion people "shy Off" from the subject
as do the people of Darlington when
the matter of Robert Keith Dargar
and his failure and suicide are men,
toned in Darlington. The people oi
Union themselves have been struck q
hard blow by this failure. Although
much of the stock was held by out
side capitalists, there is large num-
ber of individual local holders. some
of them for large amounts. The
story is going the rounds that one
prominent Union man lost $4,000 by
the failure and had his hair to turn
snow white since the crash came al
though this Is a man OF less than
forty years and owns nearly $20O :
600 worth Of property outside or his
cotton mill interests. He Is an al
together deserving man and a capable
business man. In the case OF prom
inent firm which has been prosperous
there has been a combined loss on the
part of its members Of nearly $!OO,-
900. In addition to these there nave
been individual losses in Union OF
from one to ten and twenty thousand.
Mr.. Duncan still has his strong per-
sonal friends in Union. but their num-
ber has been greatly diminished OF
late.