Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-06
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of actual warfare. Some days ago a
large body Of Arabs moved on the
town of Casa Blanca and attacked
the foreigners. Quite a number Of
Christians were killed, and foreigners
generally took refuge in the consul
lates. A French warship appeared in
the harbor in time to intimidate the
Arabs; but did not have enough ma
rines aboard to warrant a landing.
France and Spain are sending troops
to Morocco to restore quiet and the
whole country will soon be policed in
accordance with an arrangement
sometime ago agreed upon among
the various powers.
Judge Kennesaw Landis Of the
United States district court, has i'm
posed a fine of $29,240,00O on the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
The company was convicted after a
trial lasting several weeks Of accept
ing rebates from the Chicago and Al
ton railroad. There were 1,642 counts
in the indictment and the court i'm
posed the maximum fine Of $4,000 in
each case. In rendering his decision
Judge Landis said that the crime Of
accepting rebates was very similar to
that Of counterfeiting or bribery. He
said that he would have been glad
to send some Of the responsible heads
of the Stanard Oil company to the
penitentiary. He directed that the
grand jury bring in bills of indictment
against the defendant railway COM
pany for giving rebates. The Stand
ard Oil company will, Of course, ap-
peal the case.
Springfield Republican: John Lee
Jung. a Chinaman, once of Washing
ton, deserves a modest fame, and even
more so do John Lee Jung's Chinese
relatives. John was successful mer-
chant in Washington for many years,
but finally his health and his business
failed at about the same time and he
was compelled to retire owing about
$1,000. Nearly ten years ago he went
back to China to die, having tried un-
successfully to pay his creditors. But
in China things went better with the old
man after a time, and when he died,
q little while ago, there was found
among his effects list of his credit
ors In Washington and the exact
amount owed to each, and there was
also found in Chinese money, saved
by hard labor, enough to pay the en-
tire amount. A little note in Chinese
hieroglyphics told what the old man
wanted done with his savings, and his
relatives have now sent the money on
to be distributed among his creditors
who had forgotten that he ever owed
them. The old man who remembered
his debts, and the relatives who fol-
lowed his instructions, instead OF
grasping the money, are refreshing
samples OF honesty and offer an ex-
PLANTATION why Chinese commercial
credit is higher than japanese.
American Review Of Reviews for
August: In the regulation OF rates.
islation marks an important advance
on that of New York and other states
in the fact that the commission likes
the rates absolutely and not merely
the maximum rates. 1t is as much an
offense for a corporation to charge
less as 1t Is to charge more than the
rate set by the commission. This is
designed to prevent discrimination
but the commission is required 10
make a comprehensive classification
Of services for each utility, in which
1t may take account of the quantity
purchased, the time when used, and
any other condition that reasonably
justifes q difference In the rate per
unit Of service. Thus Determinations
are authorized, but they must be open
and reasonable and must be establish
ed only after public investigation. BY
the enactment Of this law the railroad
commission becomes to the fullest ex-
tent a public service commission
Every public utility in the state, ex-
cept streets, highways and bridges, Is
brought within its jurisdiction. 1t be-
comes also a local government board,
for 1t regulates towns, villages, and
cities in their management of these
undertakings. Its authority is great
and far-reaching. 1t employs experts
and agents and fixes their compensa-
ton, and can draw on all Of the unap-
propriated money in the state treas
ury. 1t enters into the daily life OF
the people more than all other agen-
cies of government combined. This
will become more evident as time goes
on, for under its control Is placed the
development of the enormous water
power Of Wisconsin, which eventual
ly through electricity, will light the
streets and houses and furnish motive
power to operate railways, factories
and possibly even farms.
With the announcement that the
break in the Colorado river has been
closed and the Imperial valley saved,
ends-for the time being, at least-the
most nerOlC DdltlS ever IOuSHl ny llldlI
with nature. The reward was nothing
less than the homes Of 10000 persons
and $5,000,000. Man, in the guise OF
a corporation, has triumphed and the
river, ages old, has been forced back
into the channel from which 1t threat
ened to engulf farm, town and rail-
road. President RoOsevelts summons
of last December was promptly all
swered. On the Goth of that month
Mr.. Roosevelt telegraphed to Mr.. Har-
riman: 1T seems clear to me that 1t is
the imperative duty of the California
Development company to close this
break at once" This break" was a
gap a fifth of a mile long through
which the river, at a depth Of thirty
feet, was rushing into the Salton Sink.
Imagine an enormous teacup with a
river flowing about its rim and you
have the situation clearly outlined.
To irrigate the wonderfully rich loan
of the cup, the river had been reck-
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