Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-20
Straps aud faets.

M. H. Saville, professor OF ethnol-
ogy at Columbia university, who has
returned from trip to Ecuador is said
to have discovered the ruins OF cities
near the coast which contained many
evidences of races hitherto unknown.
The professors researches extended
along the Pacific coast about fifty
miles to the north and about the same
distance to the south Of the equator.
Somewhere between those points and
to q distance about 100 miles inland
nc found evidences of a city Of antiq-
uity. The city, he says, had streets
lined with houses of skillful construc-
ton. In them were found utensils for
cooking and other domestic purposes
made of pottery, wood and the like.
Prof. Saville claims that the city con-
tanned 5000 or more people 500 years
ago.
New Orleans, Sept. 10: The re-
gion where the president will probably
hunt Is the Bayou Macon and Tensa
swamps, semi-tropical jungles In Mad
ison parish, near the Mississippi riv-
er, in northeast Louisiana In these
swamps bear are numerous, deer
abundant and smaller game from wild
cats down to squirrels innumerable.
A year ago a hunting party headed
by Governor Blanchard of Louisiana,
killed ten deer in this section. The
Tensa and Macon swamps are the CEN
tire Of a hunting ground about seven
ty-five miles long and 10 to 80 miles
wide. During most Of the year 1t Is
necessary for hunters in these swamps
to wear nets suspended from their
hats in order to protect their faces
from mosquito bites. Hunters must
raise these nets from their faces be-
fore firing. The mosquito nuisance
begins to abate in October
The governments suit to dissolve
the Standard Oil company began in
New York last Tuesday before Judge
Ferris, special examiner. Frank b.
Kellogg is conducting the case for the
government and Clarence G. Fay, as
sistant comptroller for the company,
gave some very interesting informa-
ton as to the profits Of the corpora
tion between 1899 and 1906. The ag-
gregate figures were $490,315,934. Dur
ing the same period the company's ag-
gregate assets increased from $780,
1852 to $S71,664,5S1. The capital
stock Of the company is only $685.
3S2. The Standard Oil company is not
in the habit of making public state
ments Of its business and Wednesday
Is the first time the foregoing figures
became known. The hearing also
brought out the fact that the Standard
Oil company owns seventy oil and pipe
line companies.
There passed the other day in
France a law which will probably have
important results in the history OF
many French lives. 1t is a law by
which any man or woman over the age
of thirty may marry without first OBJ
tanning the permission Of father or
mother and without even needing to
20 through the form Of notifying the
family of the event. Hitherto no
Frenchman, of whatever age, could
marry without his parents consent,
though after the age of 25 he could
bring the matter into court and get a
Judgment upon it. But the publicity
of this proceeding has often been suf-
ficient to act as a deterrent. Many
Parisians remember distinguished
Frenchman, lately deceased, whose
mother refused her sanction to his
marriage with a foreigner, with the
result that he and his fiancee patiently
waited till after his mothers death.
On the wedding day the bridegroom
was 20 years old and his bride consid-
erably over so.
Toxic, Sept. II: Forty of the crew,
including nine officers, were killed and
injured on board the Japanese battle
ship Kashima by the explosion of a
l2-inch shell within the shield. after
target practice near Kure at p. M,
on September 9Th. The Kashima, un-
der command of Captain Koizumi,
wounded were placed in the hospital.
The fatalities included q lieutenant,
two cadets and one staff officer, the
rank and name Of whom is not given.
The exact details regarding the effects
Of the explosion are lacking, but 1t was
terrific and the ship is badly damaged.
A majority of the bystanders were
fearfully mutilated. The cause OF the
explosion is under investigation. 1t
occurred inside Of the shield Of the
starboard after 10-inch gun. 1t was
not the shell which exploded but pow
der which evidently caught fire from
the gas emitted from the breach when
opened for the purpose Of reloading
the gun. The hull Of the Kashima is
not damaged.
The strange absence Of senator's
and representatives from this city
during the past summer, says WASH
ington dispatch, has caused a great
deal Of speculation concerning the rea-
sons that have prevented them from
making their customary visits to the
capital to look personally after the In
terests of their constituents. The fact
that they haven't been here as usual
since congress adjourned is not to be
disputed. Formerly they were in evil
dence on the streets and elsewhere
from time to time. Their names ap-
peared on the hotel registers. They
would drop in for two or three days
at a time, sometimes for merely few
hours. They would make a round of
the departments and personally look
into matters that interested them.
Now they depend upon the mails to
keep in touch with departmental
work. The reason for this change in
methods is universally acknowledged
to be the absence of free passes. which,
previous to the passage of the rate
bill, were to be had for the mere ask
ing by every senator or representative
over any and all railroads of the Unit
ed States. 1t was an easy matter for