Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-17
Scraps aud facts.

The claim is made that a general body
has been organized in every state in
the Union. The headquarters are al
Chicago. with sub headquarters in New
York. Atlanta. Louisville and four
western centers. The body is secret
and the names of the officers are being
carefully guarded. The leagues plat
form, it is declared, will hesitate at nc
subterfuge in starting its policies. II
is declared that it is in open antagonism
to prohibition in state and nation.
Washington, March 13: Carry
ing $222,193,392, the largest appro-
priation in all its history, the postof-
the house today, after having been
under discussion fourteen days. The
amount is $1,425,000 more than was
reported by the committee. The only
amendment to run the gauntlet sue
cessfully was one by Representative
Finley, of South Carolina, increasing
by 100000 the appropriation for ru-
raj delivery service, making the total
amount for that purpose SS5, I3, 600
Chairman Overstreet waged vigor-
Gus fight on the proposition to in
crease the pay of letter carriers
which was voted into the bill last
Wednesday, but that action was con-
firmed by a vote of 1876 to 1926.
Washington, March 13: Secre-
tary Metcalf announced the future
movement of the Evans fleet after q
cabinet meeting today. 1t leaves San
Francisco July 9Th, touching at Ha-
wall. where they coal, thence to Sa-
moa and Australia, where they will
stop at the cities of Melbourne and
Sydney, the invitation of the Aus
tralian government to visit that coun-
try having been supplemented by a
more cordial one from British Ambas-
sador Bryce. Leaving Australia, the
vessels will go to Manila and while in
the Philippine islands annual target
practice will be held. Their return to
the United States will be made by way
of the Suez canal, stopping only at
such ports as necessary for coaling.
The date of their return to the United
States is dependent entirely upon the
time required for target practice in
the Philippines. The visit Of the bat
tleships to Puget Sound will be made
some time between the conclusion of
the grand review in San Francisco
bay, May Sth, and the date of sailing
over the Pacific.
A long and comprehensive report
on the cotton exchanges of the coun-
try with particular reference to their
dealing in futures" is now being
written by Herbert Knox Smith, COM
missioner of the bureau of corpora
tions, says a Washington dispatch of
Friday. 1t is declared to be the most
searching inquiry yet made into cot
ton fluctuations, their cause and the
methods of the various cotton eX-
changes that has ever been made. All
the work of investigation has been
completed and it only remains to
write the report which will be ready
in a few days. Its findings are anX-
iously looked for by the cotton trade
in this country and abroad, and by
cotton brokers in New York, New Or
leans, Liverpool, in fact wherever there
are cotton exchanges. The investiga-
ton by the agents Of the bureau OF
corporations upon which the report is
based, consumed nearly year in the
making and involved separate inquiry
into forty exchanges. Representative
Burleson, of Texas, introduced in the
house more than year ago resolu-
ton asking for such an investigation
New York, March IA: Panama is
one place where leap year is not need
ed. Miss Helen Varick Boswell, who
organized the women's clubs on the
isthmus at the instance Of the govern
ment, told the members Of the Portia
club yesterday. Cupid is tremen-
dously overworked down there" said
Miss Boswell. 1T is impossible tc
keep a woman single. At one of the
hospitals they told me they had LOST
seventeen nurses by matrimony from
April to June, and sent word TO the
states that they positively would not
take young nurses and very plain ones
must be sent The nurses become en-
gagged to the men returning to Pana-
ma on the way down on the steamers
EVERYTHING is provided for the mar
ried-quarters, house furniture
drinking water and there is nothing
to get but food and clothing. A wife
is a very comfortable adjunct to
mans life, and the bachelor quarters
are being constantly depleted. A man
in Panama gets about twice the mon
ey that he would here for the same
work, and there is no way TO speno
money. I think that is one reason II
has been hard for the women. 1t is
a very good place to save"
Pittsburg, Pa, March 13: Con
tractor John II. SandersOn, Auditor
General William P. Snyder, eX-State
Treasurer William L. Mathus, and eX-
Superintendent Shumaker of public
grounds and buildings, were today
found guilty of conspiracy to cheat
and defraud the commonwealth OF
PENNSYLVANIA in the furnishing of the
new state capitol. The jury returned
it's verdict at $50 o'clock tonight after
having been out since 1903 this al
ternOon. The greater part of the sew
en- hours and forty-one minutes was
devoted to going over the indictment
and the Judges cnarSe. OlllS wv
ballots were required to reach a unan-
imous agreement. The first vote is
reported to have been nine to three
for conviction. Immediately after the
announcement of the verdict mo-
tions were made for new trials for al
four defendants. The court will al
low thirty days for the preparation OF
the papers on these motions. Mean
time the defendants will remain out
on bail. Architect Joseph NJ. Huston
will have to stand trial in the next
court session of the capitol conspiracy
cases. which is to be called Monday
March %. Fraud of $5.O9O.10 in &
bill of $17,7S7.7O is alleged.
- Boise. Idaho March Is: On his
42nd birthday. next Wednesday, II
the district court Of Canon county
Harry Orchard, confessed murderer
Of former Governor Frank Steunen-
berg. who was killed by the explosion
of a bomb at the gate TO his residence
i'm Caldwell on the evening of Decem-
,t.il1 I'M a.