Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-10
Straps aud faets.

barefaced forgery President Paul
Stensland had plundered his own
bank systematically through period
Of years. There has been discovered
in President Stensland's safety de-
posit vault box series Of memoranda
detailing how the bank was looted
The amount thus taken from the saw
ings Of $4,000 poor families as set
down in Stensland's handwriting Is
$1,OO3, 900. The money went to support
Stensland's real estate speculations' his
cooperative building business, and MS
fine household at Irvine Park. Accord
ing to the police some of it also went
directly for luxuries for certain Wo-
man or women friends of Stenslands
Spokane, Wash, special of August
z: Four young women, in short skirts,
high boots, jumpers and Panama
hats, may be seen every day for the
next fortnight working in the wheat
fields on the ranch of Senator John
I. Yend, of Walla Walla. His four
daughters have always been fond OF
outdoor sports, and are accustomed
to exercise, and when they learned
that hundreds of acres of grain were
going to waste because Senator Yend
could not hire harvest hands at any
price, they were prompt to tender
their services. Miss Alma has dem
onstrated an adeptness in driving the
header box Miss Bertha has been
operating the derrick as well as any
man. Misses Edith and Helen are
employed with the regular crew on
the big combine" which reaps and
threshes the grain simultaneously.
Senator Yend will be able, with his
daughters aid to save his entire crop
Of wheat, hay, oats and barley. The
girls rise with the sun, curry, har7
ness and feed their own horses, and
do not stop work until nine at aight.
Rutherfordton, n. c., special Of
August to Charlotte Observer: 1t Is
learned here today that the Seaboard
Air Line has given the contract to the
Propst Manufacturing company Of
Charlotte, to extend it's line from the
mile northeast Of town, near the Oak
wood Manufacturing company's plant
where, 1t Is said, a handsome new de-
pot will be built. This, 1t is presum-
ed, will be used by both the Seaboard
and the South and Western railways,
as the latter road passes this point
also. The grading of the extension
will be comparatively light work and
will begin as soon as the company
shall have finished a small contract
which II has with the Southern rail-
way at Blacksburg, s. c. RuIher-
fordton people appreciate this action
Of the Seaboard Air Line, which will
give the town what it has long desir-
ed, a union depot, into which trains
of the Seaboard and South and West
ern will enter. The Observers cor
respondent has contended from the
beginning that the South and West
ern would connect with the Seaboard
at Rutherfordton, Notwithstanding
the many rumors to the contrary, and
now the fact is assured.
News has reached Washington of
the killing of five Japanese seal hunt
ers and OF the wounding of twelve
others, on the sealing grounds be-
longing to the United States off Alas
ka. The trouble occurred on st. Paul
island. Quite a number of Japanese
schooners have been poaching in the
vicinity for some time, killing seals
under cover Of fog and keeping out
Of the way Of the American guards.
The Japanese had killed about zoo
seals before the fight occurred. Seals
are recognized as property by inter-
national law and the Japanese killed
by American officials on st. Paul is
land stand in the same position as
burglars shot in the act Of stealing
according TO prominent authorities on
international law. No international
incident can result from the shooting
Of the japanese poachers, it is said,
at the state department. This gov
ernment has no amends to make to
Japan, other than those that courtesy
may prompt, and a mere expression
Of regret that such an incident should
take place Is all that is looked for.
Japan has no treaty obligations which
in any way require her to protr t
seals in the Bering sea. The United
States, Great Britain and Russia are
the only nations bound by treaty to
offer protection to sealing in Bering
waters, and these Three countries
must, according to the terms Of the
convention to which they have sub
scribed, patrol the waters in that part
Of the world and exercise every possi-
BILE precaution to prevent their sub
jects from poaching. The govern
ment OF the United States will take
no further active interest in the mat
ter Of the killing of the Japanese
poachers save that the twelve prison.
ers must be tried by United States
law. 1t is not intended to send any
more revenue cutters into Alaskan
waters, as IL is understood that the
ships now there are sufficient to pro-
tect the interests of citizens of this
government.
- The state of North Carolina has
been considerably stirred up during
the past week over the lynching of
Nease and John Gillespie and Jack
Dillingham; at Salisbury on Tuesday
night. The negroes were In Jail
charged with the wholesale murder
of the Lyerly family at Barber's
Junction on July 13. There was a
special term of court in session to try
the negroes. During the afternoon
people began to gather from all sec
tions in great numbers and the lynch
ing was anticipated as a certainty.
United States Senator Overman,
Judge Long the trial judge, and other
prominent citizens made speeches with
a view to trying to quiet the mob;
but to no avail. They were greeted
with mocking cat calls and other
demonstrations of derisiOn. Before
this the mayor had ordered the clos
ing of the saloons. While the speak
ing was in progress, two men slipped
to the Jail and tried to break it open
with crowbars. They were arrested.