Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-01
Scraps and facts.


Alabama, North Carolina and South
Carolina. along the general lines of
work of the association. whose object
is to protect wild birds and animals.
The $500 was given TO start a special
robin protective fund.-" which the as
sociation is raising in an effort to pro-
tect the robin from determination In
this country. The number of birds OF
this species is decreasing rapidly Re-
cent reports received from Maine, Ohio
and Michigan show that the number
of robins is much smaller this year
than formerly. This is due to the fact
that in the south robins are regarded
as game birds, and every winter, when
they go south, they are killed off in
large numbers. The association hopes
to obtain the enactment of laws in the
south which will protect the birds.
Washington, June 90: Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue Cabell re-
Gently gave orders 'dispatching eight
agents to Oklahoma, Tennessee and
North Carolina to assist in enforcing
the laws against Illicit distilling. Re-
ports received at the bureau show the
great extent to which the business has
developed in these states of the south
and southwest which local prohibition
laws have relegated to dry" territory.
Mr.. Cabell says there is more Illicit
distilling now than ever known before
in the states referred to. The field
force has been increased to the limit of
the appropriation. ROundups OF moon
shine outfits are frequent and count
kept recently showed that five agents
or deputies had been shot in period
of sixty days. The government Off
cials labor under considerable difficulty
in making arrests because OF the indlf-
ference of the people in the localities
affected to act in the capacity OF IN
formers or give practical assistance in
capturing the persons in the Illicit bus
mess.
The Democratic Federation Of the
United States of America has been
launched The central idea of this. ac-
cording to the official pronunciamento,
is "a federation Of organizations
throughout the country composed OF
Democrats that shall stand for the
needed improvements in the system OF
party government and other progress
sive issues" One of its purposes Will
be to select in each state and in the
nation by postal vote only those Is
sues upon which public sentiment Is
agreed or can he readily brought to an
agreement" Candidates in the respec-
tive states and in the nation are then
to be Systematically questioned on
these issues and their replies publish
ed to the members of the party. Among
the Democrats who have originated
this movement are: United States
Senators Owens, Newlands of Nevada;
and Chamberlain of Oregon; Former
Vice President Adlai Stephenson of IL
linois, twenty members of congress
from various states, Democratic edi-
tors and others prominent in the par
ty. George H. Shipley of the District
of Columbia is the secretary of the
federation.
Count Zeppelin, the German air
ship inventor, has met with another
discouraging disaster in the loss of a
magnificent vessel that was completed
only few weeks ago, at a cost of $131,-
900. The ship was appointed to sail
from Dusseldorf on June 81. for Dart
mund, a distance of about twenty five
miles, with twenty newspaper men as
passengers and a crew of ten, making
thirty in all. The weather was unfa-
vorable; but Herr Colesmann, the gen.
eral manager of the company that
owned the vessel did not like the idea
of admitting that he was dependent
solely on the elements. and insisted on
starting away. The ship began its
journey pretty well, considering
strong headwind: hut soon one Of the
strong enough alone to make headway
against the current. The craft was
soon at the mercy of the winds. and
was presently driven against the tons
of some pines. bursting the silk enVel-
ope and twisting the aluminium frame.
The ship was lodged in the trees. and
the passengers and crew escaped un-
hurt by climbing to the ground by
means of a ladder. The loss of the
Al fn1 or q
that had built 1t for passenger traffic.
A special senate committee which
has been investigating the increased
cost of living. made a majority report
last Friday. The investigation covered
a period of nine wears and included 257
commodities. The Democratic minor
ity does not agree with the Republican
majority as to the causes Of the in
creases. The majority found that of
the many causes contributing to the
advance in prices the following were
most marked: Increased cost Of pro-
duction of farm products by reason of
higher land values and higher wages:
increased demand for farm products
and food: shifting of population from
food producing to fOOd-Consuming oc-
equations and localities; immigration
to food consuming localities; reduced
fertility of land resulting in lower
average production or in increased eX-
penditure for fertilization; increased
banking facilities in agricultural local
tiles, which enabled farmers to hold
their crops and market them to the
best advantage-it was found that this
not only Steadied prices, but had a ten
denCy to increase them: reduced sup
ply convenient to transportation facil-
tiles of such commodities as timber;
cold storage plants which result in
preventing extreme fluctuations of
prices of certain commodities with the
seasons, but by enabling the whole
Salers to buy and sell II to the best
possible advantage. tend to advance
prices: increased cost of distribution;
industrial combination; organization of
producers or retailers: advertising; in
creased money supply; OverCapitaliza-
ton; high standard of living.
Southern Russia is being swept by
the most virulent scourge of cholera
that has visited that empire in many
years. An Odessa dispatch says that
between 5000 and 5000 persons are al
ready stricken and 40 per cent of the
cases are proving fatal, and the
Scourge is sweeping over the land
like wildfire. Physicians themselves
are in panic. Overwhelmed with the
calls upon them, hundreds have sue
cumbed to overwork and disease itself
in the cities in the southern district.
Frost alone can save the country from
semi i-depopulation as the result of
deaths and exodus from fright. declare
the health authorities, and frost un-
der normal conditions is months away.
General decentralization makes accu-
rate statistics as to the spread of the
disease impossible. About 1900 fresh
cases were reported last week and
these. the authorities declare, can be
but a fraction of the real total. Death
carts are used to take the victims from
the homes as soon as notice of death is
received and the burials are rushed
through with practically no ceremony.
In several cities where the deaths are
most numerous burials are in great
trenches like those provided for VIC
Tins of battlefelds.
- Senator John w. Daniel, died at his
home at Lynchburg, Va, on last We'd
nesday of cerebral hemOrrhage. He
had been in bad health for some years
and his death was hourly expected
during weeks of last winter, as the re-
suit of a stroke of paralysis sustain