Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-28

week ago tonight, white-winged sea
gulls flying wildly inland from the
gulf gave warning with their screams
of the approach Of the much dreaded
West Indian hurricane that was to
closely follow. Along the entire coast
were countless happy fisher folk and
sailormen, the thousands Of trim craft
and comfortable homes bearing to-
ken Of the advent of the prosperous
season. Today vast f1ocks Of vultures
hover over the devasted lowlands
Of southern Louisiana, strewn with
innumerable carcasses Of animals and
men. The scene is one Of terror, desc
lation and death. At late hour last
night boats returning from Dunbar
between New Orleans and Bay st.
Louis brought news Of the discovery
of thirty-six bodies in one section
alone. This made the number def
nitely known Of those who lost lives
at approximately 200 and this led to
the belief that there are possibly still
more undiscovered bodies in the Lou
isiana marshes.
Never in the history of the world
has there been such progress made in
agricultural education as in the Unit
ed States during the past eleven years.
This is the conclusion Of Dick j.
Crosby, specialist in agricultural edu-
cation, Of the department Of agricul-
ture, in a report issued last Saturday.
points out, there has been a rapid and
healthy growth in all phases Of agri-
cultural education, the year being
noteworthy for the attention given to
providing facilities for graduate study
in agriculture, to reorganizing and In
strengthening the college courses, and
to multiplying opportunities for ac-
quiring secondary and elementary in
struction in this subject. The grow
ing activity in all phases of agricul-
tural education in this country, de-
clares Mr.. Crosby, has been faithful
ly reflected in the larger demands
made upon the department Of agri-
culture for information upon every
phase Of agriculture. In 1897 the to-
tai income of land grant colleges ag-
gregated only s5,OOO,0O0; today it is
$1S,OOO,O0O. The property Of these
institutions was then valued at $751;
900, 900; now it is $106, ,000,0 900. Then
there were less than 400 students in
agricultural schools; now there are
over 1,400.
Harry Whitney, the young New
Haven millionaire sportsman, who fig
ures so prominently in the Cook-Peary
controversy, has been heard from in a
cablegram to DR.. Cook. AS previously
stated, Cook met Whitney at Etah,
where Whitney was taking refuge in
a house that had been built by Cook,
and Of which Peary had taken posses
sion on the assumption that Cook was
dead Cook confided to Whitney the
news that he had been to the pole,
and leaving Whitney his instruments
and original notes, started home with
copies of the notes that he had pre-
viously prepared. Cook has been say
ing that Whitney would corroborate
all this. Now Whitney cables that
upon the arrival of the Roosevelt, he
went aboard intending to come home
in her; but when he told Peary that
he desired to bring Cooks box Of pa
s,o.t
to take them on board, but told Whit
ney to leave them at Etah. Whitney
decided thereupon that he would not
come home with Peary; but would in
stead wait for another vessel. Thom-
as Hubbard, president Of the Peary
Arctic club, suggests that Pearys re-
fusal was probably based upon the
ground that Peary was afraid of be-
ing accused of tampering with the con-
tents OF the box. Peary claims to be
able to prove independently Of the
records or Of anything that Whitney
can testify to, that Cook has not been
to the pole. Peary was expected to be
in New York in time for the Hudson
Fulton celebration; but instead is stop
ping up in Maine.
New York, September 25: Grip
ped by the mysterious aurora" tele-
graph wires practically all over the
world were paralyzed today. From
early morning until night, communi-
cation was erratic, and at times cut off
entirely between certain points. Old
telegraph operators called 1t the "au-
rora," for brilliant northern lights usu-
ally follow such an electrical phenom-
enun, nut instead of watching for the
display, they bent their mind and en-
ergics to untangling the snarl and Gd-
jusring their instruments. The first
break came shortly before a. m,
eastern standard time, or noon at
Greenwich, and for the next five hours
telegraph wire chiefs from Boston to
Chicago wrestled with the strange
force. That the disturbance was world
wide was shown by European dis
patches which told of similar trouble
on lines on the continent, as we'll as
i'm the submarine cables. The crest of
the wave in the eastern part Of this
country seems to have been reached
shortly before noon, and after that the
wires began to act more nationally.