Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-30


the cotton in their possession and the
banks will certify the amounts for
which the steamships and railroads
signed the bills of lading. So far as
Savannah is concerned there will be a
time and place fixed for the agents OF
the transportation lines and the banks
TO meet each day at the docks. This.
il is taken, certifies that the cotton Is
in hand and is sufficient guarantee.
-McAlester, OKLA, September %:
The trial of Gov. c. n. Haskell OF OK
lahoma in the Muskogee town lot cases
came to a sudden end today when the
government announced that under the
restrictions laid down by the court IT
would be unable to make out a case
against Haskell or any of his code
PENDANTS Gov. Haskell and three 9TH
er defendants were charged in an in
dictment returned by Federal grand
Jury with conspiracy to detraud the
government" in the disposal of town
lot sites at Muskogee, Okla. 1t was
charged that by the false registration
of the names of persons scattered over
the country they secured title to about
GOO lots. The dismissal of all Of the
cases today was attributed by the gov
ernment attorneys to their inability to
confine their proof to the period Of
limitation, as fixed by Federal Judge
Marshall who ruled that the prosecu-
ton would have to prove conscious
participation by Haskell with the 9TH
er defendants during the three years
prior to the return of the indictment,
which was in May, 1909.
- Washington, September q: The
census bureau at 10 o'clock this morn
ing issued a census cotton report
showing the total supplies for the year
ending August 81, 1910, to have been
11,9S5,95S running bales, made up as
follows: Stocks at the beginning OF
the year 1,4S3.5S5, ginnings 10,S5O,O1S
imports 151,395 bales. The distribu-
tion is 6,3S9,02S bales exported
4,077,127 consumed. Stocks at the
close of the year 939,S43 bales, or
which 51S,101 were held by manufac-
turers and 421,705 elsewhere. The
number of active spindles were 2S,-
349,067, of which 10,S26,S29 were in
cotton growing states and 17,522,23S
in all other states. The statistics of
cotton consumed and of stocks held at
mills and in warehouses shown in this
report were collected by canvasses or
the consumers and of the warehouses,
but the stocks shown under the clas-
sification elsewhere" were not secur-
ed from actual canvass, but by deduc-
ton. this quantity being the difference
between the total supply and the sum
of the quantities consumed and that
held by manufacturers and ware
housemen. The statistics of spindles
for 1909 relate to the year ending Au-
gust 81, but those for 1910 relate to
December 81, 1910.
AS a result of the cabinet meeting
held in the White House this week
President Taft has issued an order
placing approximately 5000 assistant
postmasters in the United States un-
der the protection of the civil service
law and taking them entirely out of
politics. 1t was also said that the
president would recommend TO con-
gress this fall that all second and
third class poStmaSters be placed un-
der the civil service rules. BY the or
der to be issued tomorrow some 1872
assistant poStmaSterS Will be a1ect-
ed If the recommendations as to
second and third class postmasters
are adopted by congress, 1,19S addi-
tional postmasters will be placed un-
der civil service regulations. Post
master General Hitchcock made the
recommendations to Mr.. Taft both as
to the assistant postmasters and to the
officials of the second and third class
1t is a part of the postmaster gener-
ais scheme to put the postal eStab-
liShment on business basis and
make il Self-supporting. Estimates
from the various departments for the
coming fiscal year occupied the atten-
ton of the cabinet Today. Mr.. Taft's
advisers also went over with him the
speech he is to deliver at the banquet
of the National League Of Republican
clubs in New York on Saturday night
This is expected to be the president :
final political utterance of the present
campaign. 1t will tell among other
things the various Legislative recon-
mendationS he will make to congress
at its coming session.
The United States department ot
agriculture has issued a bulletin re-
garding Alaska which contains a great
deal of information unknown to the
average citizen. The people Of the
United States. it says, are just begin
ming to realize AlaSka'S value. 1t wa:
purchased from Russia in 1867 fol
$7.2OO.OOO. Those who were inStru'
mental in securing the purchase were
severely criticised by the public fol
wasting such larg amount of the ma
tion'S money on useless territory. Thell
action has now, however, been vindi
Gated. The value of Alaskan products
since its purchase has been abOu
$3.50, 900, 900. 1t has an area of 5S6,
600 square miles or 375.0OO.O 600 acres
or more than ten times that OF the
state of Illinois. Its northernmOst anC
SouthernmoSt points are as widely
separated as Canada and Mexico anC
its range of temperature is greater
than that between Florida and Maine
More than one third of the large ter
ritOry is yet but little explored. Th'
permanent population at the preSen
time is estimated at some O.OOO white
and %. 900 natives: about half of the
latter are Eskimo in the region ada
cent to Bering Sea and the Arctic
ocean. The most important produc
is gold. Of which the output in 1903
was valued at more than $l9.OOO,OOO
Fisheries rank second. and the salmon
packed i'm 1908 had a value i'm excess
of $lO,OOO,OOO. The coal and lumber
lands are worth many millions. Their,
are now only $50 miles of railway IL
the country, but it has over 1000 mile:
of navigable rivers.
- George Chavez. the daring youns
Peruvian aviator. who flew over the
Alps last Friday. and who sustained
fearful injuries as the result OF th'
collapse of his machine after he haC
completed the most dangerous par
of the trip. died at DOmodossula. Italy
on Tuesday afternoon at 2.25 o'clock
Chavez was born in Paris in 1887, anC
secured his aviator'S license from the
Aero club on February ~ last. Cha
vez. though he aStOunded the worl,
by a flight which had been esteemed
barely short of the impossible. faile,
to reach Milan, the goal, the attain
ment of which would have meant th'
winning of a prize of $4,000 Offered
by the Italian Aviation society He
had passed in safety the dangerous
part of his journey and was descend
ing at Domudossola. ON the Italian
side Of the Alps. with only 30 SAFE
and easy miles between him and hi!
goal. when his monnplanc. caught 10y
a gust of wind. turned over and bore