Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-14
Scraps and fatts.

a story printed in a local paper, evil
dence tending to show that more than
100000 worth of cotton was stolen
from railroads during the season of
1909-10 is now i'm the possession of the
Shelby county grand jury. If true
bill is returned it is said a number of
prominent men will be involved. The
investigation is said to have develop
ed the fact that half a dozen or more
negro draymen were mere tools Of the
thieves in chief. 1t is said the drivers
would receive the cotton and in place
of getting it to the warehouses to
which it was consigned, would deliver
it to the place designated by the
fences" This place, ii is stated, was
equipped to remove every vestige of
Identification marks the bagging be-
ing taken off and destroyed and replac-
ed with new bagging, the cotton then
being disposed of.
Beginning with September, 1908,
there has been q monthly increase in
wholesale prices, without a break, up
to March, 1910, and during the latter
month the prices were higher than at
any time in the preceding twenty years,
been issued by the national bureau of
labor. The report is based upon an in
vestigation of 257 commodities and
saws that the wholesale prices during
March of the current year We're rs
per cent higher than in March 1909,
1912 per cent higher than in August,
21.1 per cent higher than the average
yearly price of 1900, 1872 per cent high
er than the average yearly price Of
1897, and 1913 per cent higher than
the average price for the ten years
1890 to 1899. The wholesale prices In
1909 advanced three per cent over the
prices of 1903, but with this advance,
they were still 2.3 per cent below the
average of 1907, the year of highest
prices within the period 1890 to 1909.
OF the 257 articles investigated 125
showed an increase in the average
price for 1909, as compared with 1908,
81 showed no change and 101 showed a
decrease.
Washington, June 12: The first
concerted step toward suppressing
graft in all its forms throughout the
country, will be taken here this week
when the organization whose future
name probably will be the National
Anti Graft Movement" will open Of
fees in this city from which it will
conduct its campaign. Harry W.
Walker will be in charge. The move
ment is the direct result of the anti
graft speech made last week by for
mer Gov. Folk of Missouri, at a BAN
Democracy. 1t is said that considera-
BILE funds already have been pledged to
put the organization on a substantial
basis, and that it will have the moral
support of leading theologians repre-
senting all phases of religious thoughts.
Among those who are said to be prom
inently identified with the movement,
are Perry Belmont, Rudolph Spreckles,
Augustus Thomas, the playwright, JOS.
]. Willett of Alabama, and Norman
Hapgood. The date for holding the
first national convention it is expected
will be fixed this week in Paris where
Messrs. Belmont and Spreckles will
hold a conference.
- Chicago, Ill.,, June IL: Leslie NJ.
Shaw, former secretary of the treasury,
speaking before the members of the
Hawkeye Fellowship club, today, scor-
ed insurgents" in the Republican par
ty, declared "standpat" ideas the only
logical principles of government and
stigmatized the south as ignorant on
political questions. Mr.. Shaw's re-
marks regarding the south were given
an unexpected dramatic twist when a
southern born newspaper man, who
was reporting the address, so far for
got himself that he shouted: 1T is not
So" 1T is true" the former secretary
responded, as he reiterated his state
ments. The south is the best place in
the world in which to make a speech
Mr. Shaw said, because the people are
so ignorant of political questions. 1t
is not their fault. The burden of the
great struggle is still upon them. But
for all that, nowhere is there greater
ignorance nor greater eagerness TO
know" Mr.. Shaw took occasion TO
make this statement regarding the in
surgents" in the Republican party: Il
have no more respect for those people
who style themselves Republicans and
are not, than for those Democrats who
live in Florida and pretend TO be Dem
ocrats and are not"
Much significance is attached to the
proposed visit of the Japanese battle
ship fleet to Mexico, according to dis
patches received from Central Amer
lea. The Latin American press is in
clined to regard the visit, which is to
be made upon the occasion OF MeXicOs
centennial celebration Of her independ-
ence. as a bold diplomatic stroke by
Japan, and prints rumOrs of special
ENJOYS being sent at the same time TO
carry on negotiations with Central
American republics. FL Lapiz of Ceiba,
Spanish Honduras, in a recent issue,
prints the following: The Japanese
fleet will visit Mexico in honor of the
centennial of its independence. The
japanese government will at the same
time send special ENJOYS to visit Cen
tral and South American republics. 1t
is rumored that Japan will take ad-
vantage of this visit to bring about a
treaty relative to the canal in Mica
ragua. Ii is also reported that Eng
land and Japan see the advisability of
the move for future business eXpan-
sion, and it is stated that England will
furnish the money and Japan the la
bor." Central American politicians in
New Orleans laugh at the report of a
Nicaraguan canal, but take advantage
of the opportunity to say: Japan,
like every other progressive nation,
has her eyes on the commerce of our
wonderful country"
Washington, June II: Although