Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-19
Scraps and facts.

the famous case. In the first place II
is extremely doubtful as to whether
another Jury can be had and in the
next place. there is reason To believe
. that If there should be another conNic-
ton. the governor will at once issue Il
pardon. The Carmack supporters have
issued synopsis Of the pardOns issued
bv Governor Patterson during his term
of office, and make the number 1885,
exclusive of numerous combinations.
OF the pardons. l52 were given to men
convicted of murder.
Washington, April Is: Peru and
Ecuador are mobilizing troops in prep
aration for war against each other,
according to advices received at the
state department. The crisis between
the two countries is unusually acute
and officers of the state department
regard war as inevitable. Bad feeling
has existed for some months as re-
suit of a boundary dispute which is
now pending before the king of Spain
as arbitrator. Several days ago there
were riots in the cities of both coun-
. tries. The Peruvian consul at Quay
auuil was assaulted by a mob of Ecua-
dorians. Peruvian citizens in Quito
were also attacked. Similar demon
strations. against the citizens of Ecua-
dor were made in Lima. the capital OF
Peru.
Although it was generally known
ho1 hppn made
by the army engineers in digging the
Panama canal, the statement contained
in the Canal Record, just at hand
comes as surprise that all of the en-
cavation that was contemplated in the
original project has been completed.
Under that plan, lO3,I93.OOe cuplc
wards of material were to be removed
and that has been done. But subSe-
uuently, in order to accommodate ma
val vessels Of the DreadnOught type
and the giant liners now under con-
struction, the president ordered the
widening and deepening of the canal
prism. That involves the removal OF
7O,S71,594 additional yards of material
and that is all of the task of excavation
that confronts the engineers.
Washington, April 10: The different
forms in which the drug cocaine is pre-
pared for sale to its victims were eX-
hibited to President Taft by DR.. Joseph
P. Remington of Philadelphia. chair
man of the committee on revision of
the United States PharmacOpoeia, which
holds it's next convention in this city
on May TO- Dr. Remington told the
president that the Illicit sale of cocaine
had grown to proportions in this coun-
try that seriously threatened future
citizenship. 1t had been discovered in
Philadelphia. he said, that the drug
was sold in large quantities to school
children, hundreds of them having
been debauched through its agencies.
Restrictive laws in cities and states
were ineffective because the drug could
be obtained by mail from other states.
The president was appalled, by the
facts told him and promised to Civ" his
aid in any way possible.
Casters Magazine: the highest
dam in America, according to the CAL
culation of the reclamation engineers.
will be the barrier now under construc-
ton in the state Of Wyoming in con-
nection with the ShOShone project.
The Shosnone gorge. in which the work
Is being erected, is very narrow in pro-
portion to it's depth, the walls being OF
hard granite especially favorable for
water storage The dam will rise no
less than 80 feet above its foundation,
and so narrow is the canyon that the
masonry will measure only lI5 feet
along it's crest. Here. as at the Roose-
welt dam, it was necessary to cut
road many miles in length out of the
solid rock in order to gain access to
the site. The dam will provide res
ervoir with a storage capacity Of 1885,
900 acre-f feet. and by 1911 enough wa
ter will be available on over 100000
acres of land. The dam will regulate
the flow of the water, and thirty miles
below the dam the stream will be turn
ed into a tunnel three and quarter
miles in length. which will conduct 1t
by a large canal into the district to be
irrigated This wall will be thirteen
feet higher than the famous Croton
dam which forms the CrOton reservoir.
Exports of foodstuffs from the
United States for the fiscal year 1910
will amount to about $330,O00,00O in
value, according to the secretary of
commerce and labor'S report, for the
nine months ending last March, as
against more than S450,O00,000 in 1906.
$500, 200, 900 in 1900, and over $3.50
100000 in 1898. The report shows that
the foodstuffs were higher in price dur
ing the last year while in many cases
the exports were less than half what
they were in the previous years. The
cattle exported in the nine months
ending with March, 1910, numbered
about 127.N00, indicating for the full
fiscal yeaI bout 175.OOO. In 1904 the
cattle exports were $4,000. The value
of cattle exports in 1910 will be- approx
imately $16,OOO,O0O. compared with
more than $42, 100000 in 1904. Prac-
tically the same ratio Of decrease pre-
walls in all foodstuffS The wheat eX-
ported in the fiscal year 1910 will az
gregate about 50.O0O,O00 bushels against
157O00.OO0 in 1892, the high record.
The average export value for 1910 was
s1O3 bushel, against - cents in 1892.
The value of exports of manufactures
has increased and for the fiscal year of
1910 will approximate $75O.OOO,OO
against $453.OOO,O0O in 1902. and bring
ing the value of all exports for 1910
within $4,000 900 of the high record
of 1907 and 1905
- Jackson, Miss, April 10: After
endorsing the suggestion Of L. :. Sem
ator Leroy Percy that Il primary "lCc-
ton be called in effect to serve as an
endorsement or repudiation by the pe"-
pie of his election, the Mississippi leg
zinc 1ir tpI1N lftpr