Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-02-16
Scraps and fatts.

pan. 1t consists of two silver vases
and a valuable piece of silk, about
eight feet square. Its left corner
shows the background Of heavy gold
thread but the greater part Of the piece
is embroidered with chrysanthemums,
done in white silk on gold.
Paris, February IA: Nine. Com
bault, who was Miss Marion Stewart
Lowden, a great-granddaughter OF
Mary Ann Paul, youngest sister OF
John Poul Jones, is living here In dir
est poverty and distress. Her only
means Of support is her needle, and
her opportunities for work are infre-
uuent. She wrote yesterday to Pres
ident Roosevelt, offering to sell TO
the nation some treasured relics Oh
her great-granduncle, the first nag
officer of the American navy. These
include his sword and pistol, a lock
of hair and a miniature. She also
has papers in his handwriting reter-
ring to his expenses in connection
with his campaign against the Eng
lish merchant vessels. She said to
the president that although she pre-
ferred to. have the government pos
sess these articles, If it refuses to
buy them she will be compelled to
offer them at private sale at the ear
liest possible opportunity.
W. D. Hunter of the department
Of agriculture, who is in charge OF
the cotton boil weevil investigation.
is preparing to return to Texas, where
he declares the problem of weevil
determination is far from solution.
Our latest reports" said Mr.. Hun
ter, show that the weevil this year
has made his customary advance OF
fifty miles eastward. The unfortu-
nate part of the present situation is
that the late advance puts the pest
in the lowlands along the Mississippi
river, where the conditions are most
favorable to it's existence. In Texas,
low, wet sections suffered the most.
In Western Louisiana there was a
belt in which no cotton was grown
a great timber belt. We endeavored
to keep the boil weevil from getting
past this belt, but have failed. The
Mississippi river cannot be regarded
as a barrier, as the weevils have been
known to fly twenty-five miles with
favorable wind, and as there is much
traffic across the stream, 1t is sure
to be carried in baggage. Along the
Mississippi river is where the great
est damage will be done. All southern
states will be effected unless some
new thing is discovered"
Says a New York dispatch OF Feb.
IA: Recommendation that legal pro-
ceedings be instituted to recover cam
paign contributions made by the New
York Life Insurance company were
submitted to the trustees Of that COM
pany today by the special investigating
committee, headed by Thomas P. FoW-
Ter. The report states that there is no
record on the books Of the company
to show that campaign contributions
were given, but that information was
obtained from the testimony Of Presi-
dent Mccall and Vice President Geo.
W. Perkins, on the stand before the
Armstrong committee. The following
recommendation Is then made: Your
committee therefore recommends that
special counsel be retained forthwith to
institute such legal proceedings az may
be necessary to recover the sums so
contributed, from such officers and
trustees of the company as, in the
Judgment of counsel are liable there
for" The campaign contributions re-
ferred to were made for Republican
campaign purposes and aggregated
$14S, 702, divided as follows: $4,000 In
1896; $4,000 in 1900, and $4S,7O2 in 1904.
No other campaign contributions, the
committee declared, had been disclos-
ed by the Investigations.
The senate on Wednesday by
vote Of SS to q passed what is known
as the ship subsidy bill. All of the
votes for the bill were cast by Repuo-
lican senators. Five Republicans vot-
ed against the bill. These were Sena-
tors Burkett, Dolliver, La Toilette,
Spooner and Warren. AS passed the
bill establishes thirteen new contract
mail lines and increases the subVen-
ton to the oceanic lines running from
the Pacific coast to Australasia. Of
the ten new lines three leave Atlantic
coast ports, one running to Brazil, one
10 Uruguay and Argentina, and one TO
South Africa six from ports on the
Gulf Of Mexico, embracing one to Bra
zil one to Cuba, one to Mexico and
three to Central America and the 18th
mus of Panama; four from Pacihc
coast ports. embracing two to Japan,
China and the Philippines direct, one
to Japan China and the Philippines,
via Hawaii, and one TO Mexico, Cen
tral America and the Isthmus of Pan
anna. The bill also grants a Subven-
ton at the rate of s5 per gross ton
per year to cargo vessels engaged In
the foreign trade of the United States
and at the rate of $3.50 per ton to ves-
sells engaged in the Philippine trade,
the Philippine coastwise law being
postponed until 1909. Another feature
of the bill is that creating a naval re-
serve force of 10000 officers and men,
who are to receive retainers after the
British practice. Vessels receiving
subsidies are required to carry a GER
tain portion of naval reserve men
among their crews. The aggregate
compensation for mail lines is about
$4,000, 900 annually. No steam vessel of
less than 1000 tons is to receive aid
under the bill.
- That the United States is facing
the possibility of a military cam
paign on the other side of the world,
says a Washington dispatch, Is ad-
mitted by the authorities in whom
is lodged the duty of managing the
foreign interests and if need be. of
protecting them at the cost Of war.
The frankness of Secretary Of War
Taft in explaining the movement OF
troops to the Philippines. and the
willingness of the state officials to
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