Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-01
Scraps aud faets,

court here last week on the charge
Of violating the Watts law in writing
illegal whisky prescription, was again
hauled into the recorders court on
yesterday morning, charged with
again violating the Watts law by writ
ing illegal prescriptions for whisky
He was bound over to the superior
court in the two cases, the bond be-
ing fixed at 5000 in each case. Anoth-
er case against the doctor on similar
charges came up in the recorders s
court this morning. The case, which
was tried in the superior court last
week, resulted in mistrial, and was
ordered for the next term of court. 1t
developed then that he had written
nearly fourteen hundred whisky pre-
scrlptions from January 1st to Febru-
ary 18th, charging anywhere from SO
cents to IS for each prescription and
examination.
The magnitude of John D. Rookie
fellers fortune was developed in a re-
cent inquiry. In reply to question:
Frederick T. Gates. Mr.. Rockefeller's
business representative said: There
have been a great many amusing
misstatements on this subject. Several
wears ago Senator Hoar in the senate
credited Mr.. Rockefeller with a for
tune of one thousand millions Of dol
lars Quite recently statement has
been made and published widely
throughout the country that his an
nual income exceeds s100,000,O0O.
Now the facts are that Mr.. Rookie
feller has at various times, him
self authorized q statement that
his fortune cannot exceed $250,00O,OOO
to $300,OOO,O0O. Furthermore his in
come instead of being $100,OOO,OOO or
anything like it, cannot in his most
prosperous year have exceeded s15,-
100000 to $20,000,000. ''The public
generally are under the impression
that he owns a majority of the STAN
dard Oil stock. The facts are that
Mr. Rockefeller's holdings of Standard
Oil stock are about twenty per cent.
Washington, Feb. "a: That the SER
vice of the army in the Philippines is
not Of the prosaic sort Is shown by a
letter just received by an army officer
from a colleague stationed at Jolo. In
part, he says: "a Juramentado, thirst
ing for Christian blood, ran amuck In
this town today and succeeded in al
most severing the left arm OF Packer
Mclaughlin with one swing Of his bolo.
Mclaughlin was herd guard at the
time and the attack was entirely un-
expected. With his arm dangling at
his side he escaped from the crazed
Moro, jumped on a mule and galloped
to the Asturias guardhouse, the Jura-
mentado following a close second. One
of the guards under command Of Lieu
tenant Matthews, Second infantry,
fired five Krag bullets into the pursu-
ing Moro, but the latter refused to
stop. The sixth shot broke the bolo
blade at the hilt, but still the Juramen-
tado rushed on. At this juncture Mu-
sician Lash fired shot from a Colt
revolver hitting the Moro's heart. He
fell at full length few feet in front
Of Lash. One more step and swing
and he would have had the soldier at
his mercy. There were seven bullet
holes in the dead Moro. Mclaughlin
will recover"
We sold to England last year
$173,000,000 worth Of raw cotton, or
about three-quarters Of her total sup
ply. With the 100000, bales taken
from US, and probably about another
million bales obtained from other
sources, England supplied her home
demand and exported manufactured
cotton goods Of value Of $4S4,723,-
900. Compared with that our own
little export sales Of only $43,00O,00
are decidedly paltry. Our sales Of
piece goods to China and Hong Kong
were a little less than S17,000,000.
British sales in these markets were
$45,000,000. Our sales In Japan were
$72,500, while British sales were ST.
100000. Our sales in South America
were $500, 900 and those Of our COM
petitor $3S,000,000. In Cuba, where
we have an arrangement drafted by
an American expert in Cuban tariffs,
intended to give us every advantage,
England sold nearly three times as
much as we did. Our total exports
were 100000 yards. England's
total exports exceeded 5000, 100000
yards. We sold a little less than
100000 worth of yards. England
sold more than s57,OO0.O00 worth.
England sold nearly $40, 0,0O0,000 worth
Of thread for sewing. Our sales Of
that article were so small that the
figures are not quoted.
There is a fine, healthy young oc-
topus which turns up every little while
and has to be hunted" said Attorney
General Bonaparte before the house
committee on appropriations, a few
days ago. The attorney general was
asking for an additional appropriation
for expenses Of prosecuting antitrust
cases. He said that the department Of
justice had some twenty cases pending
and as many as a dozen in contem-
plation in one stage or another. Cases
are pending under the Sherman anti
trust law against the following: jack
sonville, (Fla.) Wholesale Grocers' as
ISOLATION: Armour & Co., beef trust,
Chicago: metropolitan Meat company,
Hawaii; Allen r. Robinson, Hawaii
lumber trust; Terminal Railroad asso-
citation, St. Louis; tobacco trust cases,
New York; National Association Of
Retail Druggists (drug trust), Indiana;
Virginia. Carolina Chemical company
fertilizer trust); F. A. Amsde Lum-
Der company. Oklahoma; Chandler Ice
and Cold Storage plant, Oklahoma;
Alfred NJ. Floyd and others, (Oklaho-
ma lumber trust); Peoples Ice and
Fuel company; Demund Lumber COM
pany: Phoenix Wholesale Meat and
Produce company, Arizona; T. B. Hogg
and others, Oklahoma Oumber trust;
American Ice company, Washington,
=. c.: Standard Oil company, st.