Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-23
Scraps aud faets.


to be 1O,697,O13, compared with 49,
697,SlO for 1904, and lO,Ol5'I2l tor
1903. The average gross weight oi
the bales this season is shown to nave
been 5O3.S pounds and the equivalent
5OO-pound bales to have been lO,Ir'-
$40. The items entering the totals
for the crop of 1905 are 1O.214,O59
souare bales, 279,SS6 round bales'
1883 Sea Island bales and 2SO'4S'
linters. The number of bales esu-
mated by the ginners as remaining
to be ginned and included in the re-
port is 40,112.
Washington, March 21: Ihe
crews on the dry dock Dewey expe-
dition are tired of their jobs, SAID
Captain Mckee of the British snip
Belfast, which has just arrived al
Baltimore from La Palmas, accorGins
to a letter received here. The SLOW
progress and the monotony OF such
a life have made many men morose'
and there has been nothing to excite
enthusiasm among them. However
the stay at Las Palmas is calculated
to benefit them, and the trip through
the Mediterranean and Suez will De
more entertaining than the one they
have Just experienced" Commander
Hosley, speaking to Captain Mckee
said he did not expect to get the
Dewey to Manila much before
mi. nd nYnpnfS
to rest three months somewhere on
the route, In order to miss the storms
i'm the Indian ocean, which are preVa-
lent there during certain portions OF
the year.
According to the Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent at Tokyo, 1t is
now estimated that several thousand
persons were killed by the recent
earthquake I'm Formosa. The whole
island was shaken from early morn
ing on Saturday until late at night,
the shocks being continuous. On the
same day slight shocks were felt In
Japan, and from Saturday night un-
til the following morning. five dis
tinct shocks occurred at Kumamoto.
Telegrams from Formosa state that
the prosperous towns of Datiyo. Raj
shiko and Sinko were completely de-
stroyed. At Kagi alone 1000 natives
and seven Japanese were killed. The
government departments are trans
acting business in the open air or In
hastily constructed sheds. At Datiyo
600 bodies have already been recoV-
cred from the open fields to which
the people had fed only to succumb
to their injuries. At rough esti-
mate the damage amounts to $45,-
900, 900.
j. F. Wallace, former chief en-
gineer Of the Panama canal, in a
statement last Tuesday morning be-
fore the senate committee, endorsed
the majority plan of the consulting
engineers in favor of sea level canal
at Panama. He agreed with the pre-
ceding witnesses that there is Sc
rious doubt as to the permanency OF
the proposed dam at Gatun, which Is
the key to the lock canal plan. Mr..
Wallace said that the only objection
to the sea level canal are the factors
of relative time and cost. He adopt
ed the calculations of Prof. Parsons,
that the extreme time required will
be twelve years compared with nine
years for the lock canal and said that
as work on the sea level plan was
everyday work of digging and haul
ing away what was dug, he thought
II possible to further reduce the time
of construction, especially If the work
is done under contract. AS to the
cost. Mr.. Wallace said the commerce
passing through the canal would in
the near future pay the interest on
the bonds issued to construct it.
General Kuropatkin's last order
of-the-day to the first Manchurian
army, printed in the Russky Invalid
(the military organ) last Tuesday, Is
a remarkable exposure of the Russian
defeats, showing that they were due
to the lack of preparation, and equip
ment and because there were no eX-
plosive shells for the mounted ar
tillery. etc, in the early stages of the
war. He does not shirk his own re-
sponsibility as minister of war (before
the war broke ouD but points out
that the causes of defeats were deep
er. namely. the morals of the troops
of hn
play the initiative, independence or
enthusiasm in spite of the iron nerves
and heroic conduct of the soldiers,
All this, the general boldly announces,
Is attributed to the oppression OF
the bureaucratic rule during the last
fifty years which in the case of the
officers, drove the men of independ-
ence from the service, leaving only
the worthless drones He congratu-
lates the troops on the advent of lib
erty and hopes for the regeneration
of the people.
- That the Japanese are taking
steps looking toward the production
of cotton in China is the burden of a
dispatch of Tuesday from Manches-
ter, England, one of the greatest cot
ton manufacturing centers of the
world. 1t is said that. with the con-
sent of the Chinese government. the
japanese are developing the cultiva-
ton of cotton with remarkable ease
in the Chinese empire. The soil and
climate are not so well adapted to
its production as is the case i'm south
ern America, but. with the remark
ably cheap labor which is available,
II is thought by the Japanese govern
ment and its advisers that the exper-
iment will be successful. and that the
Chinese empire. which is now one of
the greatest factors i'm the cotton
market of the United States. will in
a few years under Japanese direc-
tion, produce all the cotton that will
be consumed i'm that country. if, in
fact, il does not become q competitor
of America i'm the export of cotton to
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