Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-17
Scraps and facts.

days. Representative lioDSon bl Nld-
bama. has been working hard to Sc
cure the authorization of four battle
ships this year, and President ROose-
welt sent in a special message urging
provision for four battleshipS. Mr..
Hobson insisted in his speeches that
there is danger Of war with Japan and
other foreign countries and the presi-
dent urged that preparedness is the
greatest security of-peace. The house,
however, was unwilling to stand for
four ships or three ships. A PROPOSE
ton to provide for only one battleship
was voted down. Two battleships
were authorized.
Says a New York dispatch of
April II, to the Philadelphia Public
Ledger: The Royal Baking Powder
interests, which recently purchased the
2,4OO. 900 plant of the Western Glucose
company of Roby, Ind. have begun
war on the Corn Products Refining
company, an $SO,O0O,000 Standard Oil
concern, their most powerful rival.
The baking powder concern announced
today that a discount of Is per cent
on all glucose and other products would
be given to its customers. The Corn
Products company hitherto has sold the
Baking Powder trust all of its starch,
which makes up about So per cent OF
baking powder. When it became
known that the Royal Baking Powder
interests were about TO make their
own starch and sell their surplus corn
products in the Corn Products Refin-
ing company's territory, the Standard
Oil interests retaliated by announcing
that the Corn Products company would
start the manufacture of baking pow
der.
- New Orleans, April 10: report
that about 60 whites and Indians have
been killed in Nicaragua i'm bloody
bush warfare waged by Mosquito In
dians was brought here today by W..
r. Coffman of Bloomington, ILL.,, who
was a passenger on the steamer Dicta-
tor from Central American ports. The
death list of whites numbers about 20.
The lighting started over month
ago on the Caribbean coast, where
the Indians live. Late in February
about 100 Indians attacked Prinza-
polca Ber, a small town. They hid
behind bushes, trees and other shell
ter, pouring into the village hre
which killed two men. A long, hard
fight resulted, soldiers and citizen
volunteers finally driving the assail-
ants back, about a dozen of the In
dians being killed or mOrtally wound
ed. The other Indians fled but many
of them were captured and after be-
ing severely beaten with raw hides,
chains were placed about their legs
and they were imprisoned in an I'M
provised stockade. Another engage
.nrnt took place at Cape Gracas, near
the border of Nicaragua and Span
ish Honduras. Here the casualties
among the troops were five, but the
MOSQUITOES were no more successful
than before and fled to retreats in the
mountains. Since then, Mr.. Coffman
said, many troops have been sent into
the Mosquito district and several skir-
mishes have occurred. 1t is reported
that treachery and cunning have been
used on both sides. Wherever par
" of white men get a chance they
generally kill the Indians without mer-
cy. and the Indians have slain several
soldiers whom they caught in the for
ests.
- Washington, April Is: James J.
Hill, president Of the Great Northern
railroad, will make one Of the leading
addresses at the White House confer
ence in May on the conservation OF
natural resources. His subject will
be, The Relation Between Rail and
Water Transportation" 1t is under
stood President Hills subject will lead
him into a discussion of the competl-
tive relations between the railroads
and canals of this country. President
Hill is one of the five distinguished
citizens who have been personally IN
vited to attend the conference. The
others are Grover Cleveland, William
Jennings Bryan, John Mitchell, and
Andrew Carnegie. These guests, with
the governors of the states, will be
entertained by President Roosevelt at
a dinner on the evening of May II.
The session will begin the following
morning. The plan is to hold two
sessions a day for three days. Presi-
dent Roosevelt will open the confer
ence with an address and he is also
expected to preside at each session, II
not throughout each session. The
meetings will be held in the east room
of the White House. Indications al
ready are that that room will be
crowded. Each governor will be at
tended by'three delegates and some
forty great national organizations will
be represented. Cabinet members, the
justices of the supreme court and
members of congress, and the inland
waterways commission have been in
vited, and arrangements will also be
made for the accommodation of news
paper and magazine writer's. The i'm
portance of the conference and its
notable personnel, as we'll as its non
partisan character, is indicated by the
fact that it happens that practically
all the Republican and Democratic
presidential possibilities are on the
invitation list Taft and C"rtelyou
will be there in their capacity as cab
met members. Knox and Lafollette
are invited as senators. Fairbanks
and Cannon have received invitations
because of their positions as preSid-
ing officers of the two houses of con-
gress. Hughes will be on hand as
governor of New York. Bryan is one
Of the five TO receive a personal invi-
tation. Johnson has the same stand
ing as Hughes. by virtue of being
governor of Minnesota. Judge Gray
will attend as a delegate from Della
ware.
Great Falls. Montana. April -: y
great flood is rushing down upon this
city cauSed by the breaking of the