Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
Scraps aud faets.

contemplate a conservative revolu-
tionizing of the manner in which cot
ton is handled and marketed. my
plan, when worked out" he added
"will substitute for the present un-
successful and sometimes extortion'
ate middleman, a factor whose role
will be very much that of an agent
who stands between and represents
both the seller and the investor ir
bonds and securities. And we VIII
go before the farmer with such EVIL
dence that he cannot doubt in which
direction his interests lie."
Manila, March 81: Word has peer
re lived here Of the murder OF DR.. WIN
Jones, the noted anthropologist' VINO
was secretary of the Field Museum, Of
Chicago, at the town Of Dumbato' a.
the headwaters Of Cagayan river IL
Isabella province. No details OF the
attack have been obtained thus 1ar
but Il is supposed that the scientist was
set upon and killed by the wild tribes
men of that vicinity. DR.. Jones nae
been in the Philippines two years, in
yestigating the wild tribes OF the Is
land and preparing an exhaustive re-
port on them for the museum. FOL
several months, he had been STUDYING
the nongots, living among them III
the hills. The government Is prepar'
ing to send a party from Echague, the
nearest port to Dumbato to the scene
of the murder.
There has been a good deal of ex'
citement throughout Oklahoma during
the past ten days, because Of an 1ndiar
war that has been in progress there
The trouble commenced with the
Creeks, under the leadership Of an ole
chief named Crazy Snake. He tool
out a band of full bloods, half breeds
and negroes, declaring that he would
fight for his rights. The Indians have
never been reconciled to the allotment
of their lands in severalty and do moi
like to pay the taxes required by CIV
ilization. Two deputies named OdoH
and Barn were killed by the Indians
and also a negro named Barnett There
were reports Of the killing Of large
number of Indians by a sheriff's posse
and the militia, but this has not ma
terialized. Under pressure Of quite a
force sent against him, Crazy Snake
has surrendered.
Utica, New York, March 81: Joseph
Golden, Joseph Petries, Oscar Caulkir
and George Getman are truly religious
men; not one of them has ever sullieo
his lips with a blasphemous oath. Sc
they will be old Eli Christians pail
bearers at the church in Columbia to-
morrow. Christian had himself chosen
them for that last service. Christian
dwelt alone on his farm near here. All
his long life he abhorred profanity and
Stunned a man who swore. Often he
declared profanity a crime for which
there is not only no excuse, but no for
giveness. Often, too, he said that
when he should be carried to his grave
it should be by those who were clean
souled, clean-lipped. He knew well
Golden, Pettries, Caulkin and Getman
So he selected them as his pallbearers
not long ago, lest when he was gone
all proper care be not exercised in the
choice. Mr.. Christian was found dead
in a chair at his home. He was seen
last on Tuesday. An autopsy proved
that heart disease caused death.
Leonard B. Clore Of Franklin,
Ind, has been asked by the Russian
government to come to that country
for three years and instruct Russian
farmers in the methods Of raising
American corn. Mr.. Clore, 1t Is said,
will receive $4,000 year and all ex-
penses. Mr.. Clore long has been rec
ognized as king among the corn rails
ers. He received highest awards at
the Paris, Buffalo, Chicago and st.
Louis worlds fairs. and al the Omaha
corn show last Decembe' he won the
grand sweepstakes, giving him the
$1,000 trophy Of the American Corn
Growers association. At the national
corn show, held in the Coliseum at
Chicago in October, 1907, Mr.. Clore
was the exhibitor of the single ear OF
corn which brought the worlds rec
ord price Of $3.50 when put up fol
auction. The prizes which have been
won by Mr.. Clore have reached a total
Of $4,000. All Of the corn which hg-
ured in these contests was raised on
a tract Of land which contains only
thirteen acres. The entire farm on
which Mr.. Clore works consists OF
but 126 acres.
- Washington, March 81: During
the Sixtieth congress S,5s7 special pen
sions acts were passed by congress, ac-
cording to a statement just compiled
by Senator McCumber, chairman OF
the senate committee on pensions
While many of these acts were to in
crease pensions already received by
veterans, the result of the legislation
has been to increase the annual pay
ments by about $1,0O0,000. During the
nrSt session VI COLSISSS o,oi0 SoSi oSSS
were passed and in the second session
lust concluded there were special acts
in 3,O1S cases. Since 1861 there have
been granted by special acts 26,324
original pensions, and 1880 veterans
were granted an increase of pension
all of which have an annual face value
Of about $5,25O,O00. AS many Of these
pensioners were formerly on the rolls
at a lower scale this figure does moi
represent the total increase of the pen
sion rolls on account Of special legis-
lation. Since the close of the civil wal
in 1865 there has been paid in pen
sions the sum of $3,654,643,365 and the
cost of maintaining pension agencies
and administration of the pension bu-
reau has been S112,S52,477. In 1902
there were 999,446 pensioners on the
roll at an expense of s137,504,267. Since
that time the number of pensioners
has decreased to 951,6ST, but owing tc
the passing of the McCumber age law
and the Sulloway widow law, the ap-
preparations to pay pensions increased
70 s152 1Q2 O62 for the last YEAR 1t is