Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-04

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Seattle, Wash, June 2: The Alas
Pacific exposition that cost
$40, 100000 and the first sod or wnicn
was turned exactly two years ago. was
officially opened at noon yesterday
The military parade. the speeches.
President Taft's signal and magic res
ponse were all carried out exactly as
planned. When James j. Hill was IN
troduced to make the opening speech
10000 persons cheered so vociferousiy
that It was several minutes before ne
could begin his address. The pro-
gramme makers had omitted to count
on this demonstration and when Pres-
ident Taft at Washington pressed the
golden key at noon (Pacific time) ana
touched off the big signal gong, ne
cut short Bishop Kester's benediction.
A striking feature of the parade was
the popular applause for the japanese
visitors of the cruisers Aso and Soya-
The closing event Of the day was
BANQUET to distinguished guests given
in the New York building last night.
- Washington, June 1: In the cases
of former Sheriff Shipp and his depu-
ty, jeremiah Gibson, and OF Lutner
williams, Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett
and william Mayes, all Of Chattanooga
Tenn, charged with contempt OF the
supreme court of the United States, In
connection with the lynchins in 1905,
of a negro named Ed Johnson, the court
today postponed the passing OF SEN
tence to permit the prisoners to file
petitions for a rehearing. The cases
therefore go over until next term, the
prisoners remaining out on bond. So
licitor General Bowers, representing
the department of justice, moved for
sentence, but Messrs. Chamlee, Ciift
and Shepherd, of counsel for the men,
called attention to the fact that they
had only seen the opinion OF the court
a few moments before and asked leave
to file a petition for rehearing. The
request was opposed by the solicitor
general, but Chief Justice Fuller an
nounced that the court would take the
request under advisement. Thereupon
the justices withdrew for a conference
at the end Of which Chief Justice Full
ler announced that it had been decided
to grant the request, thirty days being
allowed in which to file the petition.
washington special Of June 3, to
the Columbia State: Whether or not
anything in the way Of disturbance
is going on in Cuba, the administration
is In expectancy and is holding the
troops in all the southern army posts
ready to be dispatched to that republic.
Gen. Arthur Fridge, representing the
state of Mississippi was here today,
asking the war department to permit
troops Of the Seventeenth infantry at
Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta, to go to Mis-
sissippi to take part in the summer en-
campments. The war department re-
fused, and Gen. Fridge says the reason
given him was that all the troops In
the department of the gulf were to be
held at their posts during the next 80
days, ready to go to Cuba at mo-
-nt's notice. The only thing that has
been rumored here as to the status in
Cuba is that her finances are in bad
shape. Should the government there
become bankrupt 1t Is believed our gov
ernment would intervene. Another
reason assigned here for the refusal of
the troops to Mississippi, though that
is purely speculative, is that the fears
of the administration as to the strike
situation along the Georgia railroad
have not been completely allayed, and
the troops might be needed nearer
home than Cuba.
London, June 2: Messages from
Tabriz today say that the Turkish
troops have completed the occupation
of Urumia, Salinas and Khoi, in the
Aderbaijan province, and the intrench-
ing themselves in anticipation of
clash with the Russian soldiers now
quartered in Tabriz. Constantinople
dispatches quote the Turkish foreign
Office as declaring that the occupation
Is merely for the purpose of defending
Turkeys interests in the territory
known as the Persian border" 1t is
believed here, however, that the Turks
will attempt to check a Russian ad-
vance. Russia and Turkey have about
$4,000 soldiers, equally divided, in
northwestern Persia. The opposing
forces are not more than seventy miles
apart, and a clash may come at any
moment. The English foreign office Is
secretly pleased at the resistance Rus
sia is meeting, as it is feared here that
Russia has effected her long intended
land grab in violation of the Anglo
Russian compact. No confirmation has
been received of the report that Persian
Mohammedans are massacrinS the
Christian population throughout the
disturbed region, as a protest against
the Russian occupation. Satar Khan
and his revolutionary followers, who
for months held TabriZ against the
loyalist forces. are still sheltered in the
Turkish consulate at TabriZ, in def
ance of the Russian demands that they
surrender on the ground that they TO-
mented the anti-Russian agitation.
Thomas A. Edison, it is announced,
has about completed his plans for the
cheap concrete houses which he prom
ised a year ago, and If the statements
made are true, he will more than keep
his promise. 1t will be possible to tu;'d
of concrete for $1,000 each, houses
that would cost at least $4,000 If stone
were used in the construction. In these
houses Mr.. Edison has however, found
himself compelled to abandon his orig
inal idea, which was to build the
houses in one piece, to be cast in a
mould. According to these latest plans
the houses are built of blocks. The
Edison plan calls for house 25 by 20
feet, with eight-foot front porch and
three-fo foot back stoops. Each house
will contain six rooms and bath, with
cellar under entire building. to con-
tain boiler, wash tubs and coal bin.
Walls, roof, porches, bath tub, and
ln Of inf