Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-09
Scraps and facts.

court two mortgages aggregating
$50, 100000. The state taxes on the
MORTGAGES were $S,220. One Of these
mortgages is for $25,000,000 Of 5 per
cent 40-year adjustment gold bonds
and mentions the Fidelity Trust COM
pany Of Baltimore and Van Lear
Black as trustees. The other mort
gage is for s125, 100000 refunding
bonds, payable so years hence and
bearing interest at the rate OF per
cent with the New York Trust COM
pany and Mortimer N. Buckner as
trustees. 1t will be necessary to make
10 recordations in the state OF Vir-
ginia. The mortgages will have TO
be recorded 800 times. Alabama Is
the only other state besides Virginia
In which the company owns proper
ty covered by the mortgage which
charges state tax.
Memphis, November 5: ]. A. Tay-
lor. president Of the National Ginners'
association. today issued the follow
ing bulletin: Complete returns In
dicate a maximum crop Of 9,7SO,OOO
bales, not including linters or repacks.
Minimum figures 9,4S6,000. The
heavy falling off is over the belt ex-
cept in Georgia and the Carolinas'
where there is about as good a crop
as last year on a little smaller acre
age. Maximum report by states: Ala
bama $4,000; Arkansas $4,000;
Florida 10000; Georgia 1,S7o,Ooo;
Louisiana $4,000; Mississippi $685.
600; Missouri and Virginia $4,000;
North Carolina 64s,000; Oklahoma
$4,000; South Carolina 1,1S5,000;
Tennessee 25s,OOO; Texas 2,Sos,ooo.
Total s,7s0,000. The ginners say the
small yield is largely due to the
smallness Of bolls and low yield OF
lint. AS the crop is so near ginned'
we will probably not make our De-
cember estimate The cotton crop
in 1908 was 11,5S1,829 bales while In
1907 the yield was 13,550,760.
New Orleans, November 6: Pas
sengers arriving on the steamer Far
ismina from British Honduras tell OF
the scuttling of the Honduran gun
boat. Tatumbia, and the murder OF
eighteen Of her crew after she had
oyerhauled a British steamer engaged
In smuggling between Jamaica and
Honduras. Six days ago the Tatum-
bia overhauled the smuggler so miles
out of Port Cortez and twenty OF the
gunboat crew boarded the smuggler
and her crew surrendered. Then the
smuegler captain told Captain Zelella
that there was plenty Of good rum In
the smuggler's hold. Zelella ordered
a celebration and the prisoners be-
came intoxicated, and when the gun
boats crew succumbed to the rum,
they were flung overheard. Some OF
the smuggler's crew scuttled the gun
boat, then escaped. Two Of the sail
ors who were flung overheard reached
one Of the floating lifeboats Of the
sunken Honduran war vessel and
reached Port Cortez with story OF
the wholesale murder. The scuttling
of the Tatumbia deprives Honduras
Of her navy"
Macon, Ga, dispatch Of November
s: 1t was announced today at the con-
vention Of the Georgia branch Of the
National Farmers Union, that $5.00O,-
600 had been pledged in this state
which will be used to keep up the price
of cotton. OF that amount $3,500,000
has already been secured and is depos-
tied in about 100 banks in different 10
calities of the state, subject to the call
of the 100 or more consolidated Union
warehouses. BY this plan the farmer
will be enabled to meet all his obliga-
tions and will be able to hold his cot
ton. The money has been loaned to the
Georgia division by Georgia banks and
the additional s1,500,O00 that is to be
secured within the next few days will
come through another Georgia banking
source. This method will enable the
warehouses to draw the money on de-
posit to their accounts, and assist the
farmer on his distress cotton, at the
same time allowing him to receive
greater value for his cotton when it is
sold than If he was compelled to sac
rifice it to meet his financial obliga-
tions. The Farmers Union leaders
here stated today that cotton would
sell for 20 cents before Christmas.
Charlotte Observer, Nov. s; While
visiting the South Carolina state fair
at Columbia, Mr.. E. B. Gresham,
proprietor Of the dining rooms at the
Southern passenger station, was re-
lieved Saturday night Of 1915 in cash,
one check for $25 and a gold watch
by a pickpocket or pickpockets. That,
while unfortunate, is not an infre-
quent occurrence. The one which
followed, however, is more rare. When
Mr.. Gresham called at the postoftice
here yesterday morning for his mail
he found in his mail box the
check and his watch. They had
been returned to him by the alb
ductor in Columbia. This raises the
question, was it nice, gentlemanly,
kind, thoughtful thief to whom Mr..
Gresham fell a victim or merely an
ironical person with a sense of hu-
NOR when the joke is on the other fell
low. Clearly he could scarcely be
called repentant, since he repented
only of stealing what was likely to
compass his capture. His contribu-
tions to the conscience fund were no
doubt gratefully received and evil
dence of a more complete conviction
Of sin will be welcomed by Mr.. Gresh-
am, provided it comes in the form of
1876 in cash.
- Washington. November 6: That
DR.. Frederick A. Cook could not have
reached the pole, and that Command
er Peary did attain the goal that has
cost the lives of so many intrepid ex-
plorers were statements made tonight
by Rear Admiral c. M. Chester, re-
tired. The officer was a member Of
the committee Of the National Geo
graphic Society that passed upon
Commander Peary's data and an