Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-19

ton situation ana aIIOru ucSoeo AAAoA
nation for all concerned. The purpose
Of the proposed report is to furnlsh
reliable information to producers, man
ufacturers and others as to the guam
tity of available cotton or the dates
to which the reports relate, which are
on the first day of each November and
March.
Atlanta, Ca, February II: Reports
received today at the Office Of the chief
postoffice inspector show that George
Barton, a notorious safeblower and
recent escape from the Fulton county
chaingang, where he was serving
fifteen-year sentence for robbing the
Bank Of Sharon, Ga, was with she
new Mike" the safeblower who was
killed a few weeks ago at Laurens, >.
c., after the latter had murdered Po-
liceman Stone. Chief Inspector Sutton
has sent out a general circular descrio-
ing Barton and Offering a reward for
his capture. Barton Is described as
s5 years old, height feet 10 or IL
inches, weight $50 to ITO pounds. COM
plexion medium dark, hair dark, no
beard or mustache unless short growth,
left arm of about elbow, built rather
slim.
Blind tiger keepers on the Ken
tucky- Tennessee line, near Williams
burg, KY, who have been evading ar
rest on a legal technicality were cap
tured last Monday. Sheriff w. b.
Crowley, with seven deputies, County
Attorney Steely and private detectives
made a raid arresting fourteen white
men, three women and three negroes.
The detectives for some time had been
purchasing liquor on the Kentucky side
from several of those captured. The
blind tigers have national reputation,
the building being half in Tennessee
and half in Kentucky, with counters
running parallel with the state line.
The keepers, many Of whom have
grown immensely wealthy, sell Ten
nessee people whisky on the Kentucky
side and Kentucky people sell from the
Tennessee side thereby evading pro-
cess in either state.
The Federal grand jury, in New
York on Wednesday, returned indict-
ments against the Press Publishing
company Of New York (The World)
and Joseph Pulitzer. Caleb M. Van
Hamm and Robert H. Lyman, editors
of that paper and owners Of Indianapo-
lis News, Delevan Smith and Charles
r. Williams, charging libel in publi-
cations in connection with the pur-
chase of the Panama canal. The in
dictment against the publisher Of the
Indianapolis News, charges that Dele
van Smith and Chas. r. Williams with
the crime or libel on seven counts and
that directed against the World
charges Joseph Pulitzer, Charles Van
Hamm, Robt. H. Lyman and the Press
Publishing company with libel in five
counts. The persons alleged to have
been libelled in the different stories
are: President Roosevelt, ]. Pierpont
Morgan, Chas. P. Taft, Elihu Root,
Douglas Robinson and William Nelson
Cromwell. The court directed the is
suance Of a summons for the Press
Publishing company and bench war
rants for the other defendants.
America is only at the beginning of
good roads building. There are $780,
900 miles Of public roads in the coun-
try, Of which 10000 are Of stone or
macadam and 100000 Of gravel. In
many places there are passing good
roads constructed of the soil at hand
which is naturally adapted to road
making. England expends s90,000,000
a year on roads, or at the rate Of $500
a mile, for all the roads in the country
The United States expends $S0,000,00O
annually, or at the rate Of $3S mile
England, France and some other Eu-
ropean countries have the enormous
advantage over this country, in that
in those long settled countries there
have been good roads for thousand OF
more years, and, in many instances, the
admirable highways have been as firm
as a rock, from the day the Romans
built them. In this country the dis
tances are so enormous, the territory
so vast, the country so new that In
spite Of the most tremendous efforts
decades must pass before the United
States may have complete system OF
good roads. The argument for gooo
roads is overwhelming. The cost OF
hauling per ton mile on American
roads is from 23 to % cents; ir
France, Germany and England the cost
is in the neighborhood of ten cents pei
ton mile. In states enjoying the ad-
vantages Of improved roads the aver
age attendance Of school children II
the country districts is II per cent
and in the states with poor roads the
average is only SO per cent.
Geronimo, the noted Indian chief
died last Wednesday at Fort Sill
Oklahoma, where he had been confined
as a prisoner of war for a number o.
years. Geronimo died Of pneumonia a
the hospital at the Fort Sill army post
He will be buried in the Indian ceme'
terry, near the fort. by Christian mis-
sionaries, Geronimo having professet
religion three years ago. Geronimo
war chief Of the Apaches, was captur'
ed with his band at Skeleton Canyon
Arizona, twenty-five years ago, hav'
ing surrendered to Gen. Nelson A. Mile!
after a 3,000-mile chase. 1t Is a curiou:
col cidence that news Of Geronimo:
death was sent out from Lawton
which was named after the late Maj
Gen. Henry F. Lawton, who, as lieu
tenant in Gen. Miles command, led th'
3,000-mile chase that resulted in th'
Apache chiefs surrender. The chase
after Geronimo was begun at Omaha
in January, 1885. Gen. Miles, in com
mand Of the department Of Missouri
received instructions to rout the bant
Of Indians headed by Geronimo ant
kill or capture its chief. Gen. Miles
began operations by organizing an ex
pedition, consisting of the Second
Eighth and Ninth infantry and th'