Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-16
Straps aud faets,

spiracy in violating anti-lottery law.
These include, Albert Baldwin, ST.,
president of the New Orleans Nation
al bank, Frank T. Howard, receiver Of
the New Orleans Water Works and
capitalist, David Hennon Morris and
Albert Henner Morris, capitalists. The
grand jury, which still is in session is
expected to return many additional in
dictments. Three hours after the in
dictments issued from the grand jury,
the parties were arrested and allowed
to give bond. Francis K. Kirkpatrick
OF Boston pleaded guilty today and
will be sentenced the fourth Monday
in May.
The following delegates have been
selected to represent the United states
in the peace conference at The Hague,
in May: Joseph M. Choate, former
ambassador to Great Britain; General
Horace Porter, former ambassador to
France; u. NJ. Rose, OF Arkansas for
mer president of the American Bar
association; David Jayne Hill, Amer
lean Minister to the Netherlands;
Brlgadier General George b. Davis,
Judge advocate general, U. S. A.; Rear
Admiral Charles S. Sperry, U. s. N,
president OF the Naval war college,;
William 1. Buchanan, chairman of the
American delegation TO the Rio con-
ference; Chandler Hale, OF Name,
former secretary OF the American
embassy at Vienna; James brown
Scott, solicitor of the department ot
state; Charles Henry Butler, reporter
Of the United states supreme court.
- Washington dispatch, April 13:
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton have been speculating in rail-
road stocks and bonds, and have lost
several thousand dollars. The facts
were aired at caucus or the ID. A. 4.
at the Ebbitt House. Mrs. Nj. h. s.
Davis, treasurer general, made her
report, and said the society was in
debt for the tirst time in It's history.
1t appears that the money Of the So
ciety-some Of its trust funds-was
lIlNeSleu anu NAiNt SAASAA
Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern
and Chicago and Alton. This was be-
fore the hartman disclosures. Mrs.
Davis mournfully declared the society
had bungled and would not get any
return on its investment for twenty
years The finance committee went
into speculation, it seems, in the hope
of making money for Continental
Hall.
John +. Stevens, who recently re-
signed as chief engineer Of the Pana-
ma canal, arrived in New York last
Saturday from Colon. To newspa-
per reporter Mr.. Stevens said he re-
signed for purely personal reasons.
The report that the canal will never
be built because there was no rock
foundation for it, Mr.. Stevens said lis
all rot" adding, the foundations on
the isthmus are as good as in New
York city" viii you see the presi-
dent in Washington" he was asked.
If he wants to see me he will know
where to find me-" answered the chief
engineer. Il have done my share Of
the work on the canal, and am will
ing that some one else should take
hand. The people of the United States
should get the idea out of their heads
that the canal work is not progressing.
1t is going on splendidly." Asked as to
whether he thought the canal event
ually would be of the sea-level type,
he replied: Undoubtedly, in time"
The controversy over what is
whisky" was settled by President
Roosevelt last week when he wrote a
letter to the secretary of agriculture
approving legal decision on the SUBJ
ject by the attorney general. The ac-
ton will affect possibly ninety per
cent Of all the so-called whiskies sold
in the United States. Incidentally, the
outcome is victory for DR.. H. W..
E Wylie, the chemist of the agricultural
department. 1t was he who first ex-
plotted widely the theory that in nine
cases out of ten the thing that folks
think is whisky is either not whisky
at all or is partly whisky and partly
something else. The substance of
President Roosevelts letter is that all
so-called whiskies shall be labelled for
just what they are. Straight" whis-
ky is the only kind of firewater hence
forth permitted to use the unmodi-
fed name whisky" Charles ]. Bon
aparte facetiously suggests several
waggish names for the different sorts
OF whiskies and alleged whiskies in or
der that they comply strictly with the
law. For straight whisky he suggests
the brand "E Pluribus Unum," and
for a rank imitation he would attach
the label, Something better than
whisky" Attorney General Bona
parte brings out in his opinion an ex-
tended discussion of impressions pro-
duced by the beverage on the senses
of taste and smell. The decision of
the attorney general and its approval
by the president marks a definite de-
velopment, and the administration
hopes the closing incident in a long
and hard-fought contest. During the
discussion of the pure food bill, and
ever since the secretary of agriculture
proposed to frame regulations under
the pure food law, there has been a
most powerful lobby in Washington
trying to prevent the action which has
now been taken.
- What promises to be one of the
greatest legal battles in the history of
the United States is TO be opened at
Boise, Iowa, on May 9Th, next, when
William D. Haywood, secretary of the
Western Federation of Miners, will be
put on trial for his life. Haywood,
with Meyer and Pettibone are charged
with having murdered Governor Frank
Stunenberg, of Iowa, about two years
ago. The governor was killed by an
internal machine which had been at
tached to his yard gate, and so ar
ranged and timed that the opening of
the gate would cause the explosion.
DatactiyaS allegpd that the Western