Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-01-18
Scraps and facts.

resolution introduced IN the mousse To-
day by Victor Murdock, OF Kansas, In
which he calls on the postmaster gen
eral for information. The postoffice
department Is criticised for surrender
ing the monopoly right. Mr.. Murdock
asserts that the erroneous construction
of a single word in the statutes, based
on an assumption in a footnote of the
rules and regulations Of the postoffice
department, not warranted by any
thing in the law, is responsible for the
surrendering by the government OF Its
monopoly right For many years"
says Mr.. Murdoch, 'the postoffice de-
partment has been surrendering Its
monopoly on the transportation or
packet mail matter under authority
of a regulation footnote apparently
based on an unpublished letter to
Postmaster General James from At
torney General MacVeagh, in 1881,
declaring that packets meant pack
ages of letters" Nathan Williams OF
Fayetteville, Ark, is given the credit
by Mr. Murdock for calling his atten-
ton to the postoffice departments al
legged erroneous construction OF let
ters'' and packets" as synonymous.
The resolution states that last year
the wells-Fargo Express company dis
tributed nearly $25,000,00O in div1-
dends. while the postoffice department
ran up a deficit Of s17,000,000, and
that the express companies are being
enriched by the governments failure
to exercise monopoly in transporting
second, third and fourth-class mail
matter, as provided by law, as well as
first-class mail.
- Durham, N. c., special Of January
13. to the Charlotte Observer: Clar-
ence r. Fope, secretary-treasurer OF
the Foley & Williams Co., Chicago,
and president Of the big independent
sewing machine company Of that
place, tells the story Of a horse racing
against the passenger train on the
Norfolk & Western railway Sunday
night The Chicagoan isn't a roman
Ger and there are corroborating wit
nesses. The horse became frightened
Sunday evening as the train left Rox-
boro and taking the track, hiked down
in front of the engine, running dis
tance of miles when 1t fell through
a trestle The train was brought to
standstill and effort was made to re-
lease the animal-a big, black beast.
One plan was to throw the horse side
wise below, while others thought there
was a chance that 1t had not been
badly crippled. 1t was finally decided
to shoot it and drag it off with the en-
gine. The fireman used the gun and
the engineer taking chain around
the horses neck, pulled the animal
backwards and dragged it OF the
bridge. When released, the horse
Jumped up, made a dash and has not
since been seen. The fireman had
twice shot the animal and there was
every reason to think its legs had been
broken before that was done. NOW
the people of Roxboro and vicinity are
trying to find the horse and 1t isn't
known whether it is dead or has wan
dered off. This story is told by sew
eral men on the train, by the train
crew and the drummers, one Of whom
Is e. B. Amole, a travelling salesman
of Chicago. DR.. r. ]. league OF Dur
ham was one Of the passengers also.
The story Is almost unbelievable, but
Is authenticated too we'll to warrant a
denial.
Washington, January 15: Paul
Sauls, the seventeen year old boy VINO
shot two men while standing guard
for his father as night watchman In
the post office at Tallahassee, FLORIDA
did not know that he would win ma
tional fame by the act. But, ne mas
One of the would-be robbers proved
to be the notorious Tennessee Dutch
who escaped from the Greenville,
South Carolina prison and made such
q spectacular run through western
North Carolina year ago. The post
Office department here he's issued
brief story Of the life of the noted
safe cracker and robber. With feel
ing Of joy it is announced: "One OF
the two burglars killed at Tallahassee
on the Sth, has been identified as Ten
nessee Dutch who has been Leading
the postal authorities merry chase
for several years" CARRIER Moore, this
being the real name of tennessee
Dutch, was born at Clarksville, Ten
nessee. His father was Hungarian
Jew. AS boy he attended the school
of his native town, with R. P. Smith,
the present postmaster of the place.
His net nick name then was "Gobble'
or "Gobler." At an early age he be-
came a tramp, running away from MS
home to follow the bent of his roam
ing mind, and soon developed into a
professional beggar. Having led a
roaming, struggling, Indifferent sort OF
an existence for some time he took 10
safe cracking, becoming an expert al
the business and made himself felt in
the underworld. The postal inspec-
tors considered him one of the wiliest
and most troublesome in the trade.
The strongest of jails could not hold
him. At the time of his tragic DEATH
he was fugitive from justice, having
escaped from the Greenville, South
Carolina prison, on April 3, last year.
Reing overtaken near Asheville, the
following day, with his one-armed pal'
George Barton, he again made dar-
ing escape, and had been at large ever
since. With Barton, a well-known
safe-breaker, and others, Moore robbed
the post office at Seneca, South Caro-
lima, on the night of November IA,
1907, and that at Pelzer, twenty days
later. The following February, on the
Sth, he helped to do job at Canton
Georgia. During the last year he op-
Grated at Maryville, Tennessee. Moore
did not always have smooth sailing
Ups and downs marked his tempestu-
Gus career. Under the name of John
hn convicted OF