Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-08

m the annual report of the Natlonal
Association for the Prevention and
Study of tuberculosis. The fight the
renort saws, was the most successful
the best organized and most far reach
ing in the history of medicine. All
classes of people are taking up the cru
SADIE, including labor unions, churches
and laymen. An important factor was
the work of the Red Cross, with ITS
millions of stamps and the information
al exhibit, held first at Washington ana
now open in this city impressed upoi
thousands the necessity of properly
combating the disease. During the
wear more institutions and organiZa-
tions for the cure of tuberculosis were
established than the total number of
such institutions in any previous year
Washington, d. c., January 8: The|
bill to establish postal savings banks
was taken up by the senate today and
read for amendments, Senator Carter IN
charge of the measure announcing that
he would not attempt to get vote on
the bill until next week. That state
banks should be used as government
depositaries fer postal funds was pro-
posed in amendments offered by Sena-
tors Smith of Michigan; Cummins of
Iowa, and Gore of Oklahoma. Senators
McCumber, Fulton and others approx
ed such use CT state banks and declar-
ed in favor of placing such banks on an
exact equality with national banks as
government depositaries. Mr.. Smith $
amendment proposed the acceptance by
the postmaster general of state, county,,
municipal or United States bonds as
security. The bill was laid aside With
ont final acticn being taken on the pro-
nosed amendments, all of which will be
voted on at future day.
New York, January Z: Back from
New York where he has been seeking
evidence in regard to the purchase OF
the Panama canal, Representative
Rainey of Illinois, will take another
month to investigate the subject before
he takes the public into his confidence.
In the meantime, he will not press his
resolution for an investigation or the
subject. Il fear that l shall not be
able to report that all is we'll in cen
nection with that transaction SAID MT
Rainey today. while l have not got
ten much from the twenty odd persons
l interviewed in New York that would
be admitted in a court of record, yet
l have secured enough to warrant my
delving further into the subject l
believe l have secured valuable clues
Mr.. Rainey says he will continue TO
pursue his studies, and believes that
others interested in the subject are
conducting independent Investigations
along the same lines.
Washington, January 4: The coun-
try's forests now cover 550,OOO,OO0 acres
or fourth Of the total area CT the
United States, according to data com
piled by forest service agents. Forests
owned by the government cover one
fourth Of the total area, and contain
one-ffth Of the timber now standing.
Forests privately owned extend over
three -fourths Of the total forest area.
CONSERVATIVE
upon 20 per cent of the forests pub
licly owned and on less than one per
cent of the forests privately owned.
Senator Smoot chairman of the section
on forests of the national conservation
commission, states that under right
management the forests will yield four
times as much as they do now, and
also that waste in the woods and the
mills can be reduced at least one-thlrd'
with future profit. 1t is estimated that
forests fires can be stopped at a yearly
cost of one-fifth of the value of the
standing timber burned each year
- London, January 6: The Express
prints a dispatch from F. Marion Craw-
ford, the novelist, dated st. Angelo in
which he says: How can new city
possibly rise in the ashes Of the old?
Who will lay the first stone? Who
will ventue to light the first fire on
his hearth? Where a city Of 10000
inhabitants rose in a wide amphithea-
ire eight days ago, overlooking one OF
the most magnificent harbors in the
world, men will see week hence, vast
whitened hollow in hill, levelled ruins
strewn with quicklime-the Sepulchre
of agony. At least there will be peace
after this hideous week" Referring to
the appearance of Messina on January
lst, Mr.. Crawford says: Death was
everywhere The bodies of persons eX-
tracted from the ruins and of those who
had died from the effects Of their in
juries, as soon as they saw the light,
lay so thick in the streets that it was
hard not to tread on them. No battle
field ever presented a more terrible
sight, while dogs of every breed, from
Cicilian mastiffs and sheep dogs to
sinking ours of the hill villages, gath
cred in thousands and devOured corpses
like hyenas. hundreds Of them were
shot by the soldiers and blue Jackets"
- Washington. January 6: The spe-
cial committee considering the refer
ence to congress and the secret service
Is 10 report TO the house on Friday. 1t
is expected that there will be consid-
cradle debate on the report, which will
be presented to the house by Mr. Per-
kins Of New York, the chairman. Rep
resentatives Tawney Of Minnesota and
Smith of Iowa, Fitzgerald of New York
and Sherley Of Kentucky, who were re-
ferred to by the president in his spe-
cial message following the action OF
the house in resenting the Objectionable
portions Of the presidents message, will
take the opportunity to reply to the
president. Representative Griggs of
Georgia on Monday moved that the
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