Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-02
Scraps aud faets.


police headquarters, clearly established
the guilt Of the accused. There was
keen interest in the entire affair and
the department felt very much humil-
lated. In a voice choking with emotion
the police commissioner directed that
the badge be taken from Walshs
breast, that the buttons be cut from his
coat and that he be put out or the
building. The commissioner stated
II was the first time in thirty years
that a case Of cowardice had been
proved against New York policeman
Washington, July 80: The govern
ment filed in the United States circuit
court for the district Of Delaware,
petition against E. /. Dupont, Dene-
mours & Company and E. ]. Dupont
Denemours Powder company or New
Jersey and twenty-four other corpora
tions and seventeen individuals con-
nected with the twenty-six corpora
tions which are made defendants In the
petition. The petition relates that all
of the defendants are engaged in inter-
state trade and commerce in gunpoW-
der and other high explosives and are
violating the act commonly known as
the Sherman antitrust act. 1t seeks
to prevent and restrain the unlawful
existing agreements, contracts, COM
binations and conspiracies in restraint
Of such trade and commerce to prevent
and restrain the attempts on the de-
PENDANTS part to monopolize such trade
and commerce and to dissolve the ex-
listing monopolies therein.
Baton Rouge, La, July 81: From
the state crop pest commission, ex-
perimenting with turpentine as pos
sible eradicator for the boil weevil, II
was learned today that results so far
indicate that it's use is dangerous. The
experiment was taken up because the
planters about Coushatta, La, gave
wide publicity to the claim that tur-
pentine and water soaked cloth drawn
over the ground had driven practically
all weevils from their cotton without
hurting the plant. The odor was sup
posed to drive out the weevil. The
commission found that pure turpen-
tine on plants burned them crisp In
about twenty-four hours and that Its
odor disappeared in forty-eight hours
Mixtures Of turpentine and water we 'e
tested in about the proportions used
In Coushatta- 1t was found that the
turpentine and water would not mix,
the turpentine gathering in drops
which burned the plants wherever
brought in contact. The odor from
these mixtures lasted about forty
hours.
Washington, July 81: President
Johnston and w. D. Evans Of the
board of trustees Of Clemson college
yesterday visited the war department
and saw General Ainsworth and Cen
eral Bell in reference to the matter OF
detailing a successor to Captain Clay
as military instructor at Clemson col
lege and as to continuing the military
feature of that institution. Captain
Clay, for some time commandant OF
cadets at Clemson, took offence at the
action Of some Of the students just be-
fore the last commencement. He con-
sidered himself insulted and requested
the faculty to withhold the diplomas
Of the graduating class. This the fac
ulty refused to do. Captain Clay then
thinking himself aggrieved. reported al
the facts to the. war department, and
II was about this matter that the COM
mittee of the board of trustees came tc
Washington yesterday. When asked
for statement, after their visit to the
war department, the committee
through President Nell said: You car
say for us that we were cordially re-
ceived by the officials Of the war de-
partment and that our visit was en-
tirely successful. / think 1t best not
to go into details at this time as they
are to be submitted at the next meet
ing Of the trustees about August Is
i am satisfied that in time the entire
matter Of Captain Clay's report anG
the sending Of another army officer t
Clemson as his successor will be salts.
factorily arranged"
Oklahoma has taken a fresh star
toward statehood, and the hope in thai
always hopeful commonwealth Is thai
an election may be held September Z
to determine the personnel Of the new
government. The constitutional con.
vention, reconvening July 10, set itself
to correcting certain features to which
Attorney General Bonaparte informed
the chairman objection had been filled
in his department" Such provisions
as those forbidding foreign corpora
tions to appeal to the federal courts
requiring conviction by a jury before
authorizing the legislature to enac
discriminatory race suffrage legisla.
tion were eliminated or modified, and Il
is possible that the alleged gerryman.
der will be corrected. The Territorial
supreme court, however, has decided
that the convention derives it's author
ity directly from the people. has plen.
ary powers. and can adopt any meas
ures not in conflict with the fedora
constitution. Whatever may be the
outcome of the constitutional over
hauling. there seems little ground fol
doubt tn 1t the sentiment of the citi-
Zens is so strongly in favor of prohi-
bition of the liquor traffic that saloons
eventually will be kept out not only
Of the Indian country, but of the Other
section Of the new state. The Demo.
Gratis who are in a majority. have
named as their candidate for governor
c. n. Haskell of Muskogee, a prohibi-
tion leader and as he won by 10000
votes in popular primary in which
the liquor question was the chief is
sue there is no mistaking the views OF
= the electorate.
- Atlanta, Ga. July 80: The Harde-
man prohibition bill. passed by the