Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-03

Officer Coltharp, while fleeing from
arrest for attempted criminal assault
in Fort Mill township, escaped from
the Good Samaritan hospital on last
Monday night and has not been recap
tured. When taken to the hospital the
negro appeared to be in a desperate
condition and he showed no signs Of
Improvement until Monday afternoon,
when he appeared to be somewhat
better. His temperature was still over
a hundred. Next morning he was gone,
and there has been no information as
to his whereabouts.
Continued Until June 49,,
Columbia Record, Wednesday: The
Rock Hill school case will be heard
before the supreme court on June l3,
the court having on Tuesday granted
petition to hear the case at the con-
clusion of cases from the Eleventh cir
cult. Attorney w. B. Wilson. ST.,
of the court said that if Mr.. Stan
yarne Wilson, was sick and he couldn't
tell whether he would be able to be
present on the date named. Members
pleaded that his brother, Mr.. STAN
yarne Wilson could not be present in
June he would be given thirty days in
which to file his argument. 1t seems
likely therefore, If the court renders
prompt decision, that the efforts to de-
lay another year the building of the
500 900 model school on the property
in dispute will fail.
New Idea In Wheat Growing.
Mr.. James E. Gettys, who lives some
five miles southeast Of Yorkville, has a
field of wheat five or six acres in eX-
tent, that attracts the attention Of
passers along the road. 1t is unusually
good and it's excellence is attributed to
the method Of seeding. 1t was drilled
in between cotton rows last fall before
the cotton was picked, and was ready
to come on as soon as the cotton pick
ers were out of the way. Shortly after
the wheat got up the cotton stalks
were knocked out of the way, and the
wheat, with every advantage of early
fall sowing, is now promising TO make
as good yield as If 1t had had the en-
tire soil to itself from the beginning.
This idea has been practiced through
out the neighborhood during the past
few years with much success.
Turner Delivered to York Authorities.
Chester Reporter, June 2: Jim
Turner, the young white man arrested
near Cornwell about month ago by
Constable H. C. Gibson for the theft
of bicycle at Yorkville, and who was
found to have a pistol on his person
when arrested, completed his thirty
day sentence on the Chester county
chaingang yesterday, and was sent to
Yorkville this morning in charge of
Mr.. A. d. Sanders to be turned over
to the Yorkville authorities. let
ter received by Sheriff Colvin yester-
day from Magistrate r. l.. A. Smith,
Of Hickory Grove, would tend to
prove that Turner Is an all-round
crook. Mr.. Smith went on to state
nifty for housebreaking and larceny
and asked the sheriff to hold MIN
when his sentence here was completed
Rock Hills New Depot.
Columbia Record: Rock Hill is to
have the fifth largest, handsomest and
| costliest passenger depot on the South
ern's lines in this state. Notice has
been received here from the general
superintendent's office that a $4,000
station has been authorized, and the
understanding Is that work will be-
gin on the new building within the
next few weeks. II Is the intention
Of the road to erect such del : as
will be an ornament to that ton
Of the rapidly growing Hub" and a
credit to the community generally
Rock Hill has been fighting for this
new station several years, and the
news that the city is at last to be sc
handsomely rewarded will be well
coined in that progressive city. 1t Is
thought in railroad circles here that
the contract has been let, but to whom
is not known. The railroad commits
sion has just ordered the Southern to
erect a new separate passenger sta
ton for Westminster to be completed
and ready for occupancy within six
months from June l. or course the
commission has no authority to make
specifications as to the cost OF the
building, but it is the roads policy to
build for the future, and the FEELING
is that Westminster will not be disap-
pointed in the result.
Cigarettes Cause Cotton Fire.
The Lexington, n. c., Dispatch in its
last issue prints the following account
of serious misfortune that has hap
pened to Mr.. w. ]. Whitener, form
erly of Yorkville, but for more than
year superintendent of the Holt
Farm at Linwood, n. c.: About 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon the entire
last years crop of cotton on the IA
nous Holt farm at Linwood, property
Of Messrs. ]. F. Hargrave and W. G.
Penny Of Lexington, was set on fire
by two small sons of the superintend-
ent of the farm, Mr.. w. j. Whitener,
who were essaying to smoke cigar
cite stub found by them In their yard.
The value of the cotton was about
$1,000, and there was no insurance.
1t was thought that four or five bales
might be saved, but as In all cotton
fires, it was difficult to subdue the in
sidious flames, and after hard fight
all during the afternoon, a whole bale,
upon being opened, burned up Sunday
night and two more bales burned
when opened Monday. The two little
BOYS, one five and the other seven
years of age, found a cigarette stump
in their yard secured matches from
the kitchen, and hiding behind the
cotton house, proceeded to negotiate
their first smoke, with disastrous re-
suits Upon the alarm being given,
the entire community turned out and
with the poor facilities at hand fought
valiantly. The cotton shed was de-
stroyed, a great quantity OF cord
wood, and even the residence on the
farm caught several times, so fierce
and stubborn was the fire. The crop
had been held for higher prices, and
only the day before prices of Is cents
had been quoted by a Concord firm
to which samples had been sent. 1t
is probable that a sale would have
been made This week.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.