Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-11-06
Scraps aud fafts,

made e world record as a cotton pick
er. His claim is that in one day last
week, in the presence of eleven other
pickers, he picked 1,1S5 pounds
During the forenoon of the same day
he picked over 700 pounds.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad has been saved $6O'-
900 by the United States anti-rebate
law. The railroad was being sued by
the Newark, n. j., Stock Yards COM
pany for $4,000 yardage Of cattle
shipped from the west. Judge Cross,
of the United States district court, In
a decision rendered last Thursday,
held that the declaration OF the rail-
road made in 1908 that any service
rendered by the Stock Yards compa-
ny would be voluntary, relieves the
railway OF any obligation to pay. The
railroad company contended that the
Stock Yards company represented
Swift & Co., and other meat houses
and that any yardage payments would
be a violation of the Federal anti
rebate law.
Manila, November 2; A Japanese
captain Of engineers was caught today
while sketching the Notifications OF
the island in disguise. He will be
deported immediately. A search OF
the young officers effects brought to
light several we'll executed sketches
of forts in the island, of which were
some showing arrangement OF guns
distribution of soldiers and general
comments on effectiveness of the de-
fense. Steps were Immediately
taken by the military authori-
ties when they received word OF
the arrest to see that none OF
the officers drawings shall get
out of the island. The mails Will
probably be examined to see II they
contain suspicious letters or docu-
ments being sent to japan.
- Washington, November 2; The
government has decided to prose-
cute a number Of cotton mill owners
in Charlotte and Gastonia. North Caro-
lima, who are charged with having i'm
ported English workmen in violation
of the provisions of the alien con-
tract labor law. The aliens-22 in
number-were recently arrested by
order of the secretary of Commerce
and Labor and confessed that they
came to this country under contract.
They will be deported at the expense
of the steamship company that
brought them to the United States.
Three Of them will be kept in North
Carolina for a week or so, to appear
as witnesses for the government in the
proceedings about to be instituted
against the mill owners. A telegram
was received at the bureau Of immi-
grafton to-day that five additional
mill hands brought from England un-
der contract have been taken into
custody.
- President Roosevelt, 1t is believed
in Washington. has approved the plans
of Attorney General Moody to wipe
out the Standard Oil company. Attor-
ney General Moody and his assistants
have been collecting testimony for
several months and analyzing the
Sherman and other antitrust laws
and are now convinced that they are
in position to give the oil trust the
stiffest fight it has ever been up
against. The proceedings against the
Standard will be begun in ST. Louis
during the present month. The pc
ti.ion asking the United States court
for an injunction has already been pre-
pared and Is being revised by the at
torney general and his assistants in
order to make desirable alterations
and changes. The petition will be
a request for a permanent injunction
against the Standard company. re-
straining 1t from doing business as
now conducted, which 1t will be con-
tended is in restraint of trade and in
violation of United States laws. 1t is
the understanding that the attorney
general Is to name the Standard Oil as
a company and at the same time
name its principal officers, so as to
try to plug up as many loopholes of
escape as possible.
Some idea of the vastness of the
Panama canal project is conveyed in
a circular issued by the commission
for the information of prospective
bidders for constructing the canal.
&c or of fhof hn Of
terial to be removed and to be applied
10 the work of construction are only
approximate and the location and
character of structure may be ex-
changed. 1t is hoped, however, that
exact information will be collected
by the five engineers who are charged
to estimate a reasonable cost and time
for completing the canal. The cir
cular states, under separate heads,
the character of the work to be done.
The amount of excavation is stagger-
ing. The summary shows estimated
excavation and structural material as
follows: Colon section, 9.455,000
cubic yards; Mindi. 1000 900 yards;
Gatun locks excavation, 1000
yards; concrete, 1,302,7S0 yards;
steel gates 2s.2SO.OOO pounds; Gatun
dam. earth filled, 21.2OO,OOO yards;
Gatun regulating works excavation,
1880 yards; concrete. $4,000 yards;
sluices, 100000 pounds; lake sec
ton excavation. 24,OOO.OOO yards;
Culebra excavation, $4,000. 900 yards;
Pedro Miguel lock excavation, 1,170,-
900 yards; embankment, 100000
yards; back fill. 100000 yards; con-
crete, 51S,615 yards; cast iron, 1872
900 pounds; steel gates. 19,500,O0O
pounds; Lake Sosa section, excava-
ton: 1,6S0,O00 yards; Sosa locks,
excavation. 100000 yards; back fill,
$50, 900 yards; concrete. 992,S00 yards;
cut stone. 100000 yards; brick, $4,000
yards; cast iron. 1,2S1,OOO pounds;
steel gates, S7,1SO,OOO pounds; Lake
Baco dam. 100000 yards; Corosal-
Sosa dam, 5,397,O0O yards; Panama
bay excavation. S,52S,OO0 yards.
Washington November 2; The