Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-05-16
Scraps aud facts.

upon the request of Attorney General
Moody. The commission also directed
that the papers Of all persons now on
the register whose applications show
that they use intoxicating liquors as
beverages shall be cancelled. The civil
service commission decided that
clerks In the classified service on the
Isthmus Of Panama may be transfer
red to classified positions in the Unit
ed States after two years on the 18th
mus. In exceptional and meritorious
cases" the transfers may be made in
side Of two years on the recommenda-
ton of the head of department or OF
the executive committee Of the 18th
mian canal commission. Persons
transferred from competitive positions
In the United States may be retrans-
ferred without regard to length of SER
vice on the Isthmus. .-..
IS Says a Richmond, Va, dispatch OF
May IS: With a box containing fifty
pounds Of dynamite under his arm
one end of which was ablaze Robert
Pocklington leaped into the James riv-
er this afternoon, saving an Old Do
minion steamer and a number Of val
liable wharves from destruction. More
important still. he saved the lives OF
scores Of men who were at work on
the vessel, and about the dock. Near
the Old Dominion wharf, machine Is
at work drilling holes in the rocky
bottom Of the James to blast out ana
deepen the channel. Pocklington was
hard at work when a man near him
yelled: 1.-THE dynamite box Is afire'
without a moments hesitation Pock-
lington caught the dangerous object In
his arm and dived over the side into
fifteen feet Of water. He went to the
bottom like a rock. but came to the
surface with a vigorous spring, the
box of dynamite still under his arm
with the blaze extinguished. The box
took fire from some cotton waste
which had been ignited by the heat OF
the boiler.
Boston, May IL: Miss Frances
Fitz, who left here five years ago and
went to Alaska with party sent out
by a New York syndicate. has return
ed to her home in Medford with a for
tune estimated at over $500,000. She
has been United States deputy record
er, owner of a newspaper, keeper Of an
insane woman, land stalker, land own
er, mine owner, and Is now at the
head OF big mining company. In an
interview she said. 1.-THE hard things
that experienced you can't under
stand. Ny place is at Council City,
near Nome, 1000 miles up in the Klon-
dixie. For a year I lived In tent.
My good fortune was due to being
named deputy recorder, which gave
me a knowledge Of every claim on OPP
hir Creek, one of the richest in Alas
ka. / suppose l took several hundred
claims in all, like everybody else, only
to let them go again. Then I discov-
cred by surveys at my own expense
that part of a very valuable property
was In reality unclaimed. That is how
/ got my mine. Conditions are all
changed in Alaska now. Handwork Is
too expensive to be done with a profit
and the future belongs to the capitalist
with his machinery"
- Washington, May IL: The net loss
to the government Of operating the
rural mail routes Of the United States
in the fiscal year ending June 80, 1905,
viii not be less than $S,S60,080, and
probably several millions in excess OF
that amount The minimum estimate
of loss Is obtained after allowing to
the credit of the rural service every
cent Of revenue derived from mail
sent by patrons Of the routes and from
mail received by them, but as a mat
ter Of fact, only part Of these re-
ceipts are due to the establishment OF
rural service. 1t is impossible to tell
what proportion Of the rural mail bus
mess should be credited to the estab-
lishment Of rural service, but it is es-
timated by competent authorities that
the real loss for the fiscal year will be
nearer $12,000,0O0 than $s,S60,0S0. The
law raising the salaries Of rural car
riers Is in effect in the present fiscal
year. It increases the most Of the SER
vice to $5S per month for each route,
exclusive Of the expenses Of the field
inspection service. 1t is the cost OF
rural mail facilities that prevents the
financial waistcoat and pantaloons
from meeting in the postoffice depart
ment. Without this endless and in
creasing expense the department prac-
tically would be self-sustaining,
Manila, May Is: Fierce fighting has
been going on the last two weeks on
the island of Jolo between the outlaw
Moro chief, Pala, with 600 well-armed
followers and troops under the person
al command of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood. Pala's losses thus far are 800
killed, while those Of Gen. Wood are
seven killed and 19 wounded. Pala and
his remaining followers, In accordance
with Moro tradition, prefer death to
capture. Gen. Wood, with detach-
ments from the Fourteenth cavalry,
the Seventeenth, the Twenty-second
and the Twenty-third infantry, and
constabulary scouts. has driven Pala
and his followers into a swamp, which
has been surrounded. Pala was
noted slave trader and warrior when
the Americans occupied the Islands.
Later he escaped with his followers to
the island Of Pula Sakar near Borneo.
One of Pala's leaders deserted and
took refuge in the British settlement
at Lahad. Pala, discovered his where
abouts, landed with a following and
demanded of the British magistrate
that he turn the deserter over to him.
The demand was not complied with
and Pala ordered a massacre. Twen-
ty-five persons, including several Brit
ons, were killed. Pala escaped to the
island Of Jolo and organized the pres
ent uprising. 1t is reported that the
Borneo authorities requested Gen.
Wood to apprehend Pala, dead or alive.
and turn him over to them.
Hiram Cronk, the only survivor OF
the war Of 1912, died at Ava N. Y,
last Saturday, at the age OF 1O5 years.
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