Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-30
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much wood as all the European coun-
tries, according to a statement issued
yesterday by the Forestry Service OF
the department Of agriculture. The
country consumes every year between
three and four times more wood than
all the forests of the United States
grow in the same length Of time, and
a timber famine Is predicted unless
government control or other means be
instituted to secure more economic
use of lumber.
Am order abolishing the great mil
itary divisions in the United States
was issued by the war department
last Friday by the direction of the
president, taking effect at the end OF
the present fiscal year. Then the di-
visions will become departments with
the same territorial jurisdiction, ex-
cept Missouri, which is transferred
from the department of Texas to the
department of Missouri. This does
not apply to the Philippines, where
the existing organization will be re-
tanned. The change involves consid-
erable Encouragement of commands,
wherein the several departments now
commanded by brigadier generals, Will
be commanded by major generals.
Percy Fonville, former conductor
of the Fort Mill bucket shop through
which Franc H Jones, former teller of
the Charlotte National bank lost SO
much money was arrested In Alabama
last week and taken to Charlotte. De-
tectives have information that FonVille
and Jones were together in Atlanta a
few days after Jones' disappearance
from Charlotte. The detectives watch
ed Fonville until they decided that
there was no hope of capturing Jones
through him and then they took him
in custody. On hearing before United
States Commissioner Cobb at Char
lotte, Fonville was bound over In the
sum of $4,000. He was unable TO
furnish the bond and was committed
to await trial.
A bold attempt to wreck Southern
Railway train No. 43, near Harris
burg, eleven miles from Charlotte was
frustrated last Friday night by the
presence of mind Of the engineer, who
brought the train to a stand still with
In a few yards of a pile Of cross ties
laid across the track. The conductor
saw three men running through the
woods after the train stopped and fired
at them without effect. Blood hounds
were sent for and a posse Joined in
the hunt for the train wreckers. At
midnight two white men and a negro,
suspected OF the crime, were captured
in the woods several miles from the
scene Of the attempted hold-up. They
refuse to talk and their names are not
known. They are being held pending
an investigation.
-Statesville special of April 29, to
Charlotte Chronicle: News of the
tragic death of two young ladies OF
Shiloh township, this county, reached
here this morning Yesterday after
noon between 3 and 4 o'clock a boat
on the Catawba river containing
Misses Sallie Fulbright, Eliza Goble
and a younger sister Of Miss Full
bright, and Messrs. Dan Moore and
Boyce Johnson, was swept over Look
out Shoals, a few miles above Cataw-
ba station, and Miss Sallie Fulbright
and Miss Goble were drowned. The
men managed to save themselves, and
Messrs. Ed. Lippard and Oscar Sig
man, who were ON the bank, swan out
and saved the younger F'ulbright girl,
who had managed to get hold Of the
boat. All the occupants of the boat
were returning from Piney Grove
church, Catawba county, where they
attended services. 1t Is reported that
the men had been drinking and lost
control of the boat. The bodies Of the
girls had not been recovered early this
morning.
- Oklahoma City, April 20: With
Lightning creek out of it's bank and
the Canadian river rising steadily the
people in the lowlands Of Capitol Hill,
suburb, tonight are facing situa-
ton that may become critical If the
heavy rains Of the last twenty-four
hours continue. Lowlands have been
converted into swamps, crops have
been ruined and much stock has been
drowned. No human lives have been
lost so far as cal be. learned tonight.
Residents Of the bottoms were forced
to leave their homes Sunday night
and several persons were kept in trees
all night. One house floated down the
Canadian river with a family inside.
The occupants were rescued. Four
inches of rain accompanied by heavy
hail and high winds fell throughout
southwest Oklahoma and the Texas
Panhandle today. Telephone and tel
egraph wires are down and communi-
cation with many towns is cut off.
The storm has damaged the cotton
crop seriously. In Tulsa three inches
Of rain fell and it is raining again to-
night.
A Norfolk dispatch Of April 23
tells this story of how a North Caro-
linian was easily picked up by an expo
sition swindler: r. c. Parks Of North
SdlOIluo1r 10 llS1hlIl6 oiIN
vindictive complaints tonight over
having purchased from a stranger for
$4,000 the Citizens Bank building on
Main street, the skyscraper of which
Norfolk Is so proud. The story of
Parks is that he was standing on the
street admiring the building, when a
we'll dressed and most pleasant spok-
en- man approached him with the re-
mark that he owned the building,
which he desired badly to sell because
OF his urgent need for ready money.
He said that he would take $4,000 for
the property. Parks was much inter-
ested and, after being shown through
the corridors, offered to give $1,000.
The stranger, however, gave the name
of H. E. Holmes, declined to accept
this sum. 1t was arranged that Parks
should pay $500 down and be accorded