Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-01-03
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the result Of a banter. Somebody
said that the farmers would not burn
their cotton. Leading farmers accept
ed the challenge and sent word
throughout the country. Sixty bales
were collected. some Of the farmers
contributing from one to two bales
each. The torch was applied and the
farmers danced around the fire until
the cotton was consumed. 1t was
scene Of wild enthusiasm.
Port Arthur has fallen at last. On
Sunday General Stoessel proposed ne
gotiations and General Nogi, comman-
der Of the investing Japanese forces
consented. The matter was arrang ID
at once. The siege has been in prog
ress little over ten months. The de-
tails as to the number and condition
Of the surviving Russians have not
vet been published. All Japan Is wild
with Joy over the news and the masses
of Russia are being kept in ignorance
The Japs are now free to move the
Port Arthur army north to Mukden
to meet the re-inforcements that Gen.
Kuropatkin has been receiving In such
large numbers. Gen. Stoessers de-
fense of Port Arthur is being highly
praised throughout the world. Tne
mikado Of Japan has ordered that high
military honors be shown to Gen.
Stoessel.
Edward Baker, SO years old, living
five miles northwest OF Angola, Ind,
caught alive an American eagle after
a spirited struggle, one day last week.
While walking over his farm he no
ticed dark object on the ground. He
saw by the wind ruing the feathers
that It was large bird. The bird ap-
peared to be asleep, with its head over
its back and under It's wing. When
within a few feet Of the bird, which
proved to be an eagle. Mr.. Baker laid
down his gun and quickly placed his
arms around the bird. The fight was
on at once. The eagle and the patrt-
arch were equally game. Around and
around they struggled, the man never
losing his hold upon the bird, which
he had determined to capture alive.
Finally with the right arm still encir-
cling the body, Mr.. Baker grasped the
neck Of the bird with his left hand and
subdued It. The aged man bore his
prize, beating It's talons against the
air, to his corn crib, where 1t Is now,
alive and we'll. It Is a fine specimen
and stands about three feet high, with
wings seven feet from tip to tip.
AT a meeting last Saturday Of the
executive committee Of the National
association Of Cotton Growers and the
National Farmers union, with repre-
sentatives from the Texas Farmers
congress and the Texas Gotten con-
vention, a plan Of preventing a recur-
renee Of the recent cotton slump was
adopted. All producers Of cotton in
the United States will be requested to
pledge themselves to reduce their acre
age of cotton for 1905, twenty-five per
cent below the amount they planted
in 1904. The meeting also adopted a
resolution urging all farmers to hold
their cotton until after January "a,
when 1t is believed the price will have
advanced. Another resolution adopt
ed calls on congress to amend the laws
governing the compilation Of Statistics
by the bureau Of statistics and the
census bureau Of the Ur:ted States,
-.isa-that they npay he empowered to
collect and publish, at the same time
they issue reports on the production,
reports showing both the foreign and
domestic stock Of old cotton on hand,
foreign and domestic consumption by
the mills, and foreign and domestic
demand for cotton goods"
The final bulletin Of the census
bureau on cotton ginned In the Uni
ted States up to December Is, issued
last Friday, places the number OF
bales at 11,971,477, counting round
bales as half bales. The items are:
11,747,40S square; 276,6s2 round and
S5,72S sea island. The total number
Of all kinds of bales reported was H.
109,S23. The totals reported for the
the various states were: Alabama, l.
329,936; Arkansas, 769,7S3: Florida,
1918; Georgia, 1,7s6,195; Indian Ter
ritory, 431,s69; Kentucky, 1,252; Lou
isiana, s93,193; Mississippi, 1,415,S24;
Missouri, 3S,85S; North Carolina, $751;
135; Oklahoma, 2s4,041; South Carroll
ma, 1,OS5,725; Tennessee, 271,s70; Tex
as, 3,0S0,433; Virginia, 1901. These
figures cover the reports made by the
agents Of the census bureau up to De-
cember 13 last. and are the total for
that canvass. UP to the same date in
1903, S6.8 Of the entire crop had been
ginned, while in 1902, "a per cent had
been ginned up to that date. There
will be two more canvasses, one TAX
ing the work up to January 16 next
and a final one up to some date in
March.
The results Of study in the pro-
portion Of sexes in the United States
written by Prof. w. F. Wilcox Of Cor
nell, has been published by the census
bureau. The analysis is Of consider
able general interest. During the sew
enty years from 1880 to 1900 the abso-
lutte excess Of males was greater at
each census than at any preceding
census, with one exception, that Of
1870, when the excess Of males was
less than in 1850 and 1860. The re-
duction Of the excess Of males between
1860 and 1870 was about 100000, doubt
less due to the deaths in the civil
war and to diminished immigration
In the decade. The greatest relative
excess of males was in 1890, when in
each 10000 people there were 244 more
males than females. In continental
United States there are 7,674,321 more
males than females, or about two in
each 100 people. Probably in the pop
ulation of the world as a whole. and
certainly in that half of it which has
been counted with distinction Of sex,
there are several million more males
than females. In the United States,
however the relative excess of males
to orraotar than tho average for all