Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-05
Straps aud 9aets.

departed from the bank on SATURDAY
after shaking hands with his associ-
ates, carrying away $96,615 OF the
banks funds in a suit case. The miss
ing teller was a man of exemplary
habits and the fullest confidence
of the banks officials, having been
with the company since 1905, coming
from Rochester. n. Y, with the high-
est of recommendations as to integ-
rity, ability, etc. Runyan made MS
departure without any fuss or hurry
and did not go to his apartments TO
bid his wife goodbye. He carried
away practically all the cash available
in the bank at the time he left. Fri
yate detectives are engaged in the
search for the missing teller and re-
ward of $2,5O0 will be offered for his
arrest.
From scores Of pulpits in Tennes-
see last Sunday a campaign against
the open saloon on Sunday was started
which will be waged until the next
legislature is chosen to make Tennes-
see a saloonless state. Last Sunday
was the celebration Of stainless
Flag" day, and reports from over the
state indicate that approximately lOo'-
900 citizens were present at the tenn
perance rallies. At Nashville a great
audience that filed the great Riman
auditorium heard Senator E. w. Car
mack deliver a philippe against whis-
XIV. He was loudly cheered when ne
predicted that "men, not now young
would live to see the day when there
would not be a single saloon In any
land where men go 10 church and chill
dren to school," The rally in Tennes-
see means that a determined effort Will
be made to drive the saloons out OF
Nashville, Memphis and Chattanooga
the only three cities in the state where
they now exist. Within the last six
years they have been driven out OF 4OO
cities and towns in Tennessee, and
Knoxville, Clarksville, Bristol, jackson
and Columbia knocked them out with
in the last few months. This crusade
is the result Of the meddling In politics
by the whisky men interests and the
constant and fragrant violations of the
laws.
Despite the oft repeated assertions
of high authorities, both In Japan ana
the United States that there Is not
even a remote possibility of a war
between the two countries, and des-
pite the oft repeated statement OF a
satisfactory settlement of the incident
of the San Francisco schools in the
treatment of Japanese students, there
is no noticeable abatement in the eX-
tent to which the Japanese question
forces itself upon public attention
throughout the United States and the
world. Within the past few days II
Is alleged that sixteen of the largest
and most efficient battleships Of the
United States have been ordered to
mobilize on the Pacific at convenient
points, and while it is announced by
high naval authorities that this is or no
significance whatever; in fact that the
order has gotten no further than the
strategy board, which does large
part of it's work on paper in theory,
it cannot be denied that naval author
tiles are making plans for a possible
contingency and it is hardly probable
that plans would be worked out for
transferring battleshipS from the At
lantic to the Pacific unless there is
something more tangible in sight than
fighting on paper. If the sixteen bat
tleships have really been ordered to
mobilize on the Pacific station, II is
foregone conclusion that the order
has been issued because those in au-
thority feel certain that there is more
than a bare possibility of their being
needed at no very distant day In
the Pacific.
A very interesting controversy has
arisen between Mr.. William ]. Long,
the nature writer, and President
Roosevelt. 1t had it's source in the
Presidents statement that Mr.. Long
was q falsifier Of nature in his books.
Especially did Mr.. Roosevelt refute
the remarkable stories of wolf that
killed q bull caribou by quick snap
under the stags chest just behind the
fore-legs, where the heart lay" or
woodcock that set its own broken leg
in clay, and stood on the other while
the clay hardened. Mr.. Long indig-
nantly resented the charges and in
recent issue of the New York Times"
attacks the presidents methods or
dealing with animals and his knowl-
edge concerning them, and adds: MT.
Roosevelt never gets near enough 10
animals of the forest to know anything
about them. You stop two hundred
yards away to shoot a deer. l watch
my friends from point perhaps twen-
ty or thirty yards away / have been
so close to wild animals that l could
lie and watch their eyelidS lift and
fall. He has his horses and his dogs.
What chance has he of getting near
them in their native Inconsistencies?
l go alone into the woods and steal
silently after the animals, never killing
except in need Of food, and then with
a heartache" He complains that 'ev-
cry time Mr. Roosevelt gets near the
heart of a wild thing he invariably
puts a bullet through it," He accuses
the president of "butchery" and says
he is a hunter, knowing little or moth
ing concerning the beasts he hunts
except how they try to escape death"
A dispatch from Atlanta says:
Outwardly all was harmony today at
the state capitol, where Hoke smith
was inaugurated governor, but there
was no harmony at the executive man
sion, on Peachtree street, where Mrs.
and Mrs. Smith, wife Of the new exec
utive came in contact. Mrs. smith
had planned a reception Immediately
after the inauguration TO friends OF
Hoke Smith, who had come from all
over Georgia to witness the inaugura-
ton, and she wanted to get into the
mansion early in the morning to ar
range for the function. Mrs. Smith
notified Mrs. Terrill Of her wishes, but
Mrs Terrell sent word that the man
sion would be turned over to Mrs.
Smith at IL o'clock. and not a minute
earlier Barred from entering till nc IN,
Mrs. Smith issued orders to caterers,
and at IL o'clock a long line Of them
proceeded to the executive mansion,
where they stationed themselves on
the sidewalk waiting for noon. When
the clock struck II Mrs. Terrell turn
ed over the keys. and the caterers
filed in and arranged refreshments for
the gubernatorial reception. The feel
ing between Mrs. Terrell and Mrs.
Smith dates back to William ]. Bry-
ans last visit to Atlanta. On that
occasion Mrs. Smith was chairman of