Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-03-31
Scraps and facts.


their escape on Saturday night. So
far only three Of them have been
caught. Every road leading into Hous-
ton is being guarded very closely.
None Of the convicts captured have
shown a disposition to fight, nor has
there been any such disposition on the
part of others who have been seen, but
there has been considerable alarm
among the people living in the country
through which the fugitives would
have to pass to reach Houston or to
get away, and the citizens have re-
mained In their homes with their guns
and dogs to protect the women and
children.
Grant was only forty-two when
he became lieutenant general Of the
Union armies, says the Chicago III
bune. But Lee was nine years older
when he fought his first great battle
at Malvern Hill-than Napoleon was
when he fed from Waterloo. Moltke
was sixty-six years old when he over
threw the Austrians at Sadowa ana
seventy when his genius triumpheo IN
the Franco-Prussian war. Nogi Is
fifty-four, Kuroki is sixty-two, Oyama
is sixty-four. 1t seems probable that
changes in methods Of warfare nave
been factor in putting middle-ageo
and old men In command Of modern
armies. Things had changed when oio
Moltke, a soldier Of books and maps.
could sit impossible at the end OF
telegraph wire and direct the conquer
ing movements Of more than half
million men according to a plan he had
drawn I'D months before. Oyama is
a cool, long headed old fellow, who mas
mastered the science and the art OF
modern war by long years OF study ana
experience. Future great commanders
probably will be good deal like him.
william B. Masterson, known as
BAT" Masterson, was sworn In IN New
York last Tuesday as deputy Uniteo
States marshal. He was recommend
ed for the appointment by President
Roosevelt. Masterson said he hoped
to make a good record in his new
place. Incidentally, he expressed the
opinion that there is more carrying OF
concealed weapons in New York than
in the west. "Out where come from"
he said, "a man doesn't carry gun
unless he wants to use 1t. Out there
the game is to leave your gun at home.
Then when a fellow draws bead on
YOU, you can throw up your hands and
show him you are unarmed. He won't
shoot II you do that. But here In
New York every little sneaking SON.
of-a-gun who's got the price Of pis-
tol buys one and carries 1t. You can't
go into a restaurant or cafe In this
town without seeing dozen cheap
sports with guns twisted up in their
hip pockets. Why, they couldn't get
'em out in an hour. And II by hard
work they did manage to yank one OF
these toy pistols out they couldn't hit
their mark. Where there's one muir
der in the country come from there's
q dozen here"
The trouble between the United
States and Venezuela over the asphalt
question is still pending. The United
States proposed to arbitrate the mat
ter; but President Castro refused to
do anything of the kind. He took the
position that the whole question was
pending in the courts, and he had no
right to go behind the courts. 1t Is
very we'll understood that Castro can
make the Venezuelan court do what
ever he will Castros refusal to arbi-
trate is both exasperating and anus
ing at Washington. The president un-
derstands that while he could send a
feet to Venezuela, he has no right to
make war without the instructions Of
congress. Castro also knows the same
thing OF course, the president could
land marines If he saw fit, and these
marines could be depended upon to
make enough trouble to call for REIN
forcement. After all 1t would amount to
the same thing as war; but the president
is not ready for anything like that.
He is not certain whether or not, the
American asphalt company Is right or
wrong. He fears that the asphalt
company may really be trying to bull
doze and browbeat the Venezuelans
and he Is inclined to go slow about the
matter.
The census bureau on Tuesday is
sued a bulletin showing the total crop
Of cotton ginned for the season Of 1904
to be 13,597,7S2 bales. These figures in
a1,,la Nrfo round hQ1aQ
half bales and the total is equivalent
to 13,5S4,457 bales Of 500 pounds. The
square bales number 13,103,447, the
round bales 296,151, the sea island
bales 1O4,317, the linters 241,s42, total
running bales including linters 13,745,-
S57 Included in these totals are 1922
275 running bales estimated by gin
ners as remaining to be ginned. The
total crop Of running bales for 1903
was 10,399,55S. The distribution Of the
crop Of 1904 according to the charter
Of bales and of cotton was as follows:
Square bales (upland crop) reported
from ginneries, 13,103,447; round bales
(upland crop) reported from ginner-
les, 296151; bales of sea island cot
ton reported from ginneries, 1O4,317;
bales Of linters reported from cotton
seed oil mills, 241,942. The figures for
the different states on running bales
are. Alabama, 1,45S,966; Arkansas,
SS3.967; Florida, S6.642; Georgia, l.
96O,151; Indian Territory, 476,sS4;
Kansas, IA; Kentucky, 1922; Louis
lana, 1,1O5; Mississippi, 1,73S,63S; Mis-
souri,, 4S,447; North Carolina, 743,4O4;
Oklahoma, 341.497: South Carolina, l.
1Ss,134: Tennessee, 316,79O; Texas, g.