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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
COTTON is STRONGER.
BuIIish Government Report Helps
Prices Upward.

New York. Oct 3.-Although to-
days government report on the con-
dition of the cotton crop did not fully
bear out SCme of the extremely bull
ish private estimates, 1t was bullish
enough to start an active buying
movement, which advanced prices to
a new high record for the season.
While there was tremendous realizing
the market advanced to 14.13 for De-
cember and 14.31 for March before
there was any reaction of conse-
uuence. Even then, efforts were so
we'll absorbed that after selling off
some Is or % points from the top the
market again rallied and at the close
was firm. with last prices 20 to 30
points above the closing figures of
Saturday.
Business was more general than at
any time since last May. for the ex-
citement which attended the closing
phases Of the old crop bull campaign
did not represent such widespread in
terest as the market now appears to
be attracting, owing to an apprehen-
sion that another small crop Is to fol-
low.
For the past two or three weeks the
market has shown an advancing ten
dency based upon a bullish view Of
crop prospects, and 1t now appears
that some of the same bull leaders who
were prominently connected with the
movement Of last season are already
accommodating large holdings in antic-
ipatiOn of further high prices. The
effect of this buying had been consid-
cradle. and before the governments
condition figures were issued today,
December contracts, which had sold
at 1888 last month, were selling at
1894, while March contracts, which
had sold at 1888 after the culmina-
ton Of the old crop bull campaign.
had advanced to 14.12.
While the acreage this year Is larg-
er than last season. bull authorities
assert that the crop this year Is so
late that calculation based upon the
condition figures will prove mislead-
ing unless there is an abnormally late
growing season.
The census report issued early in
the day had no immediate influence
on the market.
The southern spot markets, as Of
ficially reported, were unchanged to
cent higher, but local buyers pro-
fess to believe that the south will be
found ready to follow the speculative
advance.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

Lexington, September 80: Sheriff
Ruford returned on Tuesday night from
Rockingham, n. c., bringing Frank
Lever colorcd, who is charged with
enticing laborers away from farmers
i'm the Little Mountain section. Some
time ago the sheriff went to Rocking
ham with warrants for several negroes
who had broken their contracts and
gone up there to work on railroad
All agreed to come. but Frank Lever
refused to come without requiSitlon.
The magistrate turned him loose ana
he was arrested again on telegram
from Coy. Ansel and was about to he
turned loose again when this was pre-
vented by a telegram from the govern
or of North Carolina. When the sher-
if reached Rockingham on Monday the
lawyer took out habcas
corpus proceedings before a judge, and
the sheriff hired Il lawyer To represent
South Carolina. After long argument
and a hard fight. the sheriff's lawyer
won and hr brought his man here for
trial The law of South Carolina pro-
vidrs n license of $4,000 to solicit Ia
bnrcrs to leave the state and he who
snlicits them without license is liable
tn a fine of $1,000 or sentence To hard
labor from four months to two years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
YORKVILlE OPERA HOUSE,.

If it can properly be said that a
whole community ever really yearns
for anything, it is certainly true that
the town of YOrkVille has long been
yearning for an adequate play house,
and that at last this yearning is salts
fled.
The opera house i'm the new McN""l
building on North Congress street, Is
now practically complete. 1t will be
entirely complete before the end of the
week and ii is an opera house of which
the town can well afford To he proud,
for ii is i'm every way adequate to the
requirements of the best companies
that come into this state.
Deep and wide, the stage affords all
the room necessary for the preSenta-
tion of almost any kind of play.
There are dressing rooms, wings, fly
wings, and everything required for the
production of scenic effects. In fact
ii is as complete as the most eXacting
stage manager could desire.
The auditorium is constructed after
the most approved plans and has a
seating capacity of $50 with Il good
view Of the stage from any part of the
house Well ventilated, well lighted
and with provision for steam heat in
winter. it is an ideal place.
The opera house is under the man.
acpIncnt of Mr.. l. w. Johnson of York
vile, a gentleman who knows what
the people want, who will spare no ef-
fort to please and who will come about
as near succeeding as the next man.
Mr.. Johnson has already booked
several first class shows for the COM
ing few weeks and will open the house
ON October II with the everywhere
successful mclOdrama, Human
Hearts,
To be transported from the strife
of town to the atmosphere of the hill
country. with its simple. honest pen-
pie pursuing their lives of affection
and trust is in itself Il refreshment
70 hear tn" singing of the birds and
thuS,. other sounds with the farm, to
hear and see all things that flood the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
Silence to Be Broken.-The Honora

Silence to Be Broken.-Ihe HOnora-
BILE Cole Blease has been nominated
for governor of South Carolina, In the
second primary by a majority OF
more than three thousand over his
opponent. Hon. c. c. Featherstone.
Mr.. Blease favored local option, while
Mr.. Featherstone was a Prohibition
ist. AS to whether or not this election
is indicative of sentiment on this mo-
mentous question of prohibition In
South Carolina we are not prepared to
state. We merely want to call atten-
ton to the fact that it brings about a
possibility in the course Of events,
that the dead silence that has so long
existed when the governor OF North
Carolina visits the governor OF South
Carolina stands a fair chance to be
broken. 1t has been many year In
South Carolina since the governor OF
that state could consistently and
safely tell again the old story of what
he said to the governor Of his sister
state when the latter either through
accident or on purpose called on him.
Rome Tribune Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

In the Longville section Of Lancas-
ter county, last Saturday, James Long
shot Beech McManus five times,
woundng him severely, probably IA
tally. McManus is Longs son-in-law.
The difficulty was due to family trou-
bles.
Trenton, October 2: IF my health
continues to improve, I expect to be a
candidate for the United States senate
in 1912, otherwise not. All will depend
on how I stand the work in Washing
ton when I go there in December"
This statement, given to the Associat-
ed Press tonight by United States Sen
ator Benz. R. Tillman disposes Of the
recent persistent rumors that because
of falling health the senior South Car
olina senator had decided to retire from
public life at the conclusion OF the
present term in the senate.
Union special of October 2, to the
Columbia State: AS a test Of what
good management in farming, and In
fact, in every vocation Of life will do
Is proved by Jack Harris, one OF Un-
ion county's most Industrious and pro-
gressive farmers. Last year Mr.. Har-
ris sowed an acre Of land in salad and
received from the sale Of this vegeta-
BILE $50. He sold the turnip seed for
$34, making this first crop bring SSI.
He then planted sweet potatoes on the
same acre and made 200 bushels, which
he sold for IS cents per bushel, real
iZng the sum of $3.50 from the pota-
toes. He made $237 on the acre the
first year This year he sowed the
acre i'm oats, making 103 bushels. He
sold the oats for IS cents per bushel
and received from the sale $77.25. For
a second crop he planted snap beans.
He gathered $50 bushels and sold them
at so cents per bushel. The acre this
year produced $197.25. Mr.. Harris has
given this acre a great deal OF atten-
ton and feels encouraged by his eX-
perience. which he expects to profit by.
- Sumter, October l: Sumter was
treated to a sight today that the busi-
ness men of the city aver beats any
circus parade ever had here. The
sight was a line Of cotton wagons very
nearly a mile in length. Perhaps 1t
was only because it was good weather,
or perhaps it was because of the recent
rise in price, or perhaps 1t was be-
cause October l is note day, but what
ever the cause, the cotton began COM
ing i'm early and though the public
weighers were emptying the wagons as
fast as they could, the line began i'm
mediately to form. At II i'm the morn
ing it had reached phenomenal length,
from the cotton platform out to the
intersection of Dingle and Sumter
streets, down Dngle to Main and down
Main across the intersection of Bart
lette street, Oakland avenue, Caldwell
street and Dugan street to the corner
of Liberty street. Although the for
ward end of the line was being stead
lily eaten off, of course, the line was
moving steadily forward, in another
hour it had stretched out three blocks
further down Main across Hampton.
across Canal and across Calhoun. till
the last wagon rested in front of the
Presbyterian church. Moreover. I'm
some places the wagons were doubled,
and in others Wagons waited In inter-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
What Is Bigamy.-What

What Is Bigamy.-What is bigamy
in South Carolina? the question raised
here last week in the court Of general
sessions promises to involve all the
newspapers in it's discussion. Opin-
ions up to this time have been handed
down by the Grecnville News, the
Anderson Mail, and the Newberry OBJ
server The Observer can't agree with
Judge Aldrich while the Anderson Mail
does sustain the judge in his opinion.
The Newherry paper says: Judge
Aldrich decided in the trial of case in
Spartanburg on Tuesday that a man
cannot he convicted of bigamy if the
second woman he marries knows he
has wife living: and, the second wife
testifying that she knew it. he ordered
the defendant acquitted. Solicitor
Otis took a different view, and will ap-
peal the case.
The solicitor is right, if there is any
common sense in law. Bigamy is not
an offensc against a woman, or man,
exclusively. as the judges decision
would seem To intimate; it is an offense
against the state"
To this the Anderson Mail replies:
But Judge Aldrich is right. If the
second woman i'm the case knew the
mans wife was living, tn" oifcnSc was
not bigamy. but an even greater one.
Both the man and the woman should
hc prosecuted and punished, but not
for higany. The law defines the differ
"ut offcnScS very clearly.
Judge Aldrich took the position that
the second marriage was not Il mar
riagc at all. and it was right"
One thing is certain and that is an
argument whenever the marriag" law
question is raised in South Carolina
GrccnVille News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

Having learned by bitter experience
that the practice does not pay, south
ern farmers sold but a small quantity
of cotton last summer for future deliv-
cry, and the two most substantial re-
suits of their prudence are first, they
are not having to deliver at lower
price when their neighbors are realiZ-
ing a high price, and second the
average price generally is better than
it would have been had the spectators
been able to make more contracts with
the farmers for future delivery.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

Spartanburg. October |: Judge
Robert Aldrich, in the general sessions
court today, reversed tn" decision rem
dcrcd 10y Mayor Lc" i'm police court.
where he fined All crt Dearman $l6,GOO
or 1880 days on the Chaingang for
storing 16f pintS of whisky. \ sep
aratc case was made for each pint ana
the limit of the court was imposed on
every count. There were several such
cases where the defendant had been
fined 500 or 80 days for each bottle
of whisky. The cases were ordered
taken back to the police court and the
defendants tried on one charge of vi"-
latimg the law. thus making ii impnSsi-
bile To- fine one over 500 or 80 days.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

South Carolina is badly in need of a
marriage law-at least a law requir-
ing registration if not license. But as
to whether South Carolina has reached
that stage of civilization where she is
able to appreciate the requirements OF
the situation. is still matter Of doubt
The main objection to a license law
heretofore is fear that it will be fol-
lowed by a divorce law. But South
Carolina needs a license law even if
a divorce law should follow.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

There is great deal of complaint
among the farmers To- tn" effect that
Clemson college is not as helpful To
them as it would have the public be
lievc in the matter of fertilizer analy-
scs. Clemson gives out tn" impress
sion that it will analyZe fertilizers for
Just anybody and give the farmers all
the assistance i'm its power to prevent
them from heing humbuggcd. But tn"
farmers complain that the conditions
under which analyses are actually
made are really worthless 50 far as
protection against fraud is concerned.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

the announcement of Clifford B. Har-
mon Of New York that he would divide
the $4,000 he contributed to the purse
into features: $4,000 goes to the avia-
tor who alights in Belmont park, where
the international meet will take place,
and the other $1,000 will go to the flyer
who sails 500 miles in any so COnsecu-
tive or elapsed time hours. No an
nounccment as to routes has been
made. however.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The story keeps going the round of
the papers that Senator Tillman will
retire from public life at the end of his
present term and they are talking of
his successor. OF course, if the sena-
tor is going to retire that is all right;
but bplease, please, don't let us have
two years of agitation as to who is to
have the seat he will vacate. The
matter is of very little Importance to
the people.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

THE Anderson Mail has about re-
covered" remarks The YUrkvillc En-
Uuirer. I'VE didn't know there had
been anything the matter" comments
the Mail. 1t is just this phase of the
Mails situation which makes it's case
So peculiarly pathctfC.-Charlottc OBJ
server.
Nothing but malice-purc malice.
OF course. the Mail did not know thcr"
was anything tn" matter, else it would
not have been worth Will" to mention
the fact. But this intimati"n of n
chronic condition is only of a piece
with the continued effort t" maintain
that thoroughly busted fiction that An
drew Jackson was born in North Car
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

Attorney General Wickersham in an
address at Washington Saturday, said
that in many cases the conviction or
acquittal of a man hinged on the abil-
ity of counsel to take advantage OF
legal technicalities," and he might
have added, some other things"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The Newberry Observer remarks
that cotton is king in commerce and
liquor is king in politics.-Anderson
Daily Mail.
Kindred spirits, eh? But it will have
to be admitted that liquor figures
somewhat in commerce also.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

With the probability of Mr.. Taft,
Mr.. Roosevelt and Senator LaFollette
all being candidates for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1912, the
Democrats ought to have an easy time
electing the next president.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

"Wanted-A goat" is the frantic
call sent out by the Patterson head
quarters in Tennessee. In other words
they want a candidate for the guber-
material nomination to run against
the nominee of the Republi-
cans and Independent Democrats.
They might nominate Colonel Cooper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

There are some farmers who ac-
knowledge that their crops are about
as good as last year.
II is now time to SOW wheat and
oats. and those who intend to nut in
crops of these grains should go after
Tho dealers for seed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The hundred thousand dollars re-
ward offered for the dynamite fiends
who blew up the office of the Los An
geles Times. may not get the right
man. but it is pretty apt to get some
body
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The goodness or the badness of the
Payne -Aldrich tariff all depends on
who is looking at it. 1t is all bad in
the sight of the insurgent Republicans
and Democrats, and all good from the
viewpoint of the standpat Republicans.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The Bamberg Herald is decidedly
right in it's contention that the primary
needs a little patching up. The poll
ticians have got it down almost as fine
as they 'Ised to have the old convention
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

Asked in Chicago, what impressed
him most in America, the sultan of
Sulu replied: "Hobble skirts and" with
a gesture of disgust. cigarettes" He
is not such a savage after all.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

nifty regret to see them leave. AS to
just where Mr.. Murray will go from
Jonesboro, he is not fully decided; but
it is possible that he may accept
call he has received from a church in
Alabama.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
Condition of Cotton.-The averae

Condition Of Cotton.-The average
condition of the cotton crop on Sep
tember 25th was 65.9 per cent of a
normal, as compared with 72.1 month
ago: 5S5 n year ago: 69.7 in 1908 and
66.6 the average of the last ten years
on September % as estimated by the
crop reporting board of the depart
ment Of agriculture.
The condition of the cotton crop by
states. with the ten year average on
September % was:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

1t is hardly probable that Mr. Tafts
house party at the White House last
week was the occasion of much merry
making over Republican political sue
ceSSeS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

Sooner or later the pOstoffice de-
partment will inaugurate the parcels
post system. and then express rates
will take a tumble.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
Census Bureau Report.-The census

bureaus cotton report issued today
shows 2,302,211 bales, counting round
as half bales, were ginned from the
growth of 1910 to September 20 as
compared with 2,56S,150 for 1909; q
59O,639 for 1908 and 1,532,6O2 for 1907.
There were 37,767 round bales includ-
ed. The number of Sea Island bales
included were 7,112.
BY states the number Of bales gin
ned with comparisons for the previous
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The laws of New York prohibit prize
fighting because it is brutal, and per-
nit automobile races like that of Sat-
urday because that was sport
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
YORKVILLE, S. c.:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1910.

From now on South Carolina ought
to be classed as a corn producing
state.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
Auction Sale.

BY virtue of a decree of Judge Jas.
f. Boyd of the United States district
court in bankruptcy proceedings on the
part of Thos. F. Mellow, trustee petit
toner in re A. E. Hutchinson, bank
rupt, there was sold before the court
house door yesterday, one-half inter-
est in a tract of 1869 acres on the out
skirts of Rock Hill. The property was
bought by Mr.. w. J. Caveny OF Rock
Hill, for the upset price of 1867.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The automobile and flying machine
are claiming as many victims as the
railroads.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

olina. But just wait until the Mail has
thoroughly recovered, and what it Will
do for the Observer will be plenty.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
Chr 4turkrills enquirer.

Entered at the Postoffice in Yorkville
as Mail Matter of the Second Glass.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04

The News and Courier, reports the
appointment of commissioners of state
and Federal elections for York county
as follows: State-P. NJ. Burris, ]. r..
Gettys. Federal-R. w. Whitesides, D..
G. Kimball, II. NJ. Dunlap.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
LOCAL lACONlCS.
Until January I, 1911.

OTIl'T UdTTUdTJ " T0TT
We will send The Yorkville Enquirer
from this date till January /, 1911.
for As cents.
For Assault and Battery.
Will Lock, colored, was committed
to Jail last Sunday by Magistrate
Glenn of EbeneZer township, on the
charge of assault and battery with in
tent to kill He cut up another negro
very badly on Saturday.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25
Exodus of

Norfolk, Va, Oct 22.-With the first
cieaf day since Tuesday, sixteen
s~chooners and tugs with tows passed
put cape Henry today. The vessels
had been stormbound in Hampton
Isoaos. me vessels passed Cape Hen
- almost simultaneously, and the
signt was a pretty one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
100000 FIRE is
CAUSED BY STOVE

Harrisburg. Pa, April 1O.-The business
district of Middletown, nine miles from
this city and an important manufactur-
ing town of about 10000 people, was swept
by fire today, about 70 buildings being
burned with a loss of about 100000. The
town was in danger for two hours until
by the combined efforts of firemen from
this city. Lancaster, Columbia and Steel
ton and the use of explosives, the spread
of the flames was stopped
With the exception of about dozen
buildings. such az the auditorium, Young
Mems Christian association, Odd Eel
lows building and few large stores and
residences, the buildings destroyed were
small, one-story structures Most of the
stores had laid in a large spring and
summer stock and nothing was saved.
The fire was due to an over-heated
stove used to burn the refuse of the
market house. 1t set fire to that building
and the flames communicated to the audi
torium and swept right and left among
the stores.
high wind carried the sparks for a
long distance and several times set fire
to the plant OF the Raymond Manufac-
turing company, but employees saved II.
Sparks also ignited the grandstand and
buildings OF the Middletown Fair asso-
citation. ana the home of David Brubaker
in Rovalton. half mile from the burned
section. Twelve frame houses in Royal
ton were burned.