Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01
Scraps and faets. '


which amounted to 12,120,051 bales, an
increase over last year of 1,510,427.
decrease under year before last of l.
705,362 and an increase over 1907-0S of
54S,129. The consumption of the south
ern mills Is 22,313 bales ahead Of last
year and 196,257 behind the season of
19OS-O9. The receipts Of new cotton
at the ports this year according to Mr..
Hester amounted to 2S0,263 against
13S,24O last year and 71,25S the year
before. This years marketing at the
ports of new cotton distances all pre-
Vious records. The largest previous
to this year was in 1896, when the to-
tai was 165,909 Secretary Hester is
now engaged on details of the state
ment including port movements, export
and the worlds consumption of Ameri-
can cotton, and other items, which will
be promulgated in few days.
The eyes of the country are upon
Maine and the result there will mean
much to the nation at large. 1t used
to be a saying in political campaigns,
"As goes Maine. so goes the country"
A brief history of the Maine law on
prohibition may be Of interest. The
old Maine law was first enacted In
1851. This was repealed in 1856 and
re-enacted in 1858 by a vote 2S.S55
to 5,912. In 1884 the people voted on
the question again and the policy or
prohibition was sustained by a vote
Of 70.7S3 to 23.S11. Some weeks ago
the situation was serious and no one
could foretell the result. Today the
temperance people are united and or
ganized and determined to get out
the full vote. But the full strength OF
the whole liquor interests Of the
country is concentrated in the one
state and everything that money and
ingenuity can devise is being done to
mislead the people and restore the
saloon.
The financial district Of New
York was thrown into a panic last
Wednesday when Arthur Welt, the
22-year-old son of R. c. Welt, a mill
lionaire head of the lighterage de-
partment of the Standard, Oil COM
pany shot and killed himself on the
street in front of the Produce Ex-
change building. Hundreds of people
were passing and for time the re-
port was generally credited that an
attempt had been made to kill big
financier. Young Welt worked In the
foreign department Of the oil trust.
That morning he went into the light
erage department and then walked
out of the rear entrance OF the oil
company's building and down New
street to Beaver where he stood for
minute as though trying to make up
his mind. Suddenly he drew a re-
volver and pressing 1t tightly against
his left breast, fired a shot into his
heart He dropped dead in his tracks.
At his fathers office nothing could be
learned as to the cause Of the suicide.
= Houston, Texas. August 20: The
embroglio over the prohibition cleo
ton in Texas. which was carried from
the polls to the state legislature. call
ed to discuss financial matters, is pro-
ducing some Of the greatest sensa-
tions in the history Of the state. Re-
Gently the prohibitionist members OF
the legislature proposed a new con-
stitution for the state that would con-
tain statewide prohibition. This was
in the form Of a resolution introduced
in the senate providing for the calling
of a constitutional convention the first
Monday in March, 1918. The wording
of the resolution was that the dele
gates are to be chosen by the voters
of the state qualified to vote under
the existing laws for members Of the
legislature" This would eliminate
the negro vote. The resolution went
to a committee. where 1t still Is. This
piece Of thunder was Immediately met
by the anti-prohibitionist members
who sprang the greatest sensation OF
all, proposing to divide the state OF
Texas into three great common
wealths, allowing north Texas to be
divided into two states and south
Texas composing the third. In this
way, they said north Texas, which is
"dry." could vote statewide prohibi-
ton without opposition, while south
Texas, which is solidly "wet" would
not be harassed by politics of other
sections. This matter has not reach
ed the resolution stage, yet 1t is the
sentiment of the solid anti-prohibi-
ton delegates in the legislature.
- Washington, August 30: The
story Of a five years hunt for coun-
terfeiter of silver dollars reached its
elimination in Memphis today with
the arrest of John G. Payne and his
wife, negroes. For more than five
years the dollars, which Payne is
charged with making. have been
passing through banks in Memphis.
They were accounted among the
most dangerous counterfeit money
with which the government has had
to deal. Three months ago an assist
ant chief, w. H. Moran, the govern
ment's crack man on difficult cases,
sent Bill" Nye, also one Of the flowers
of the service. to Memphis. A few
weeks later at a negro emancipation
celebration at Paducah, Nye picked
up the first information which led to
the identification Of Payne. He fol-
lowed Payne back to Memphis. A few
days ago his hunt came to an end
eight miles from the heart Of the city
in front of an isolated farm house,
surrounded by a high board fence.
Today Nye reported the arrest of
Payne and his wife as we'll as his cap
ture of several of the counterfeit
coins, the outfit for making them and
the genuine dollars from which the
moulds were made. On the counter
feits have been peculiar little dents
and scratches. Nye reported that he
found them in the genuine coins he
took in the raid. Morgan says that
proves that the moulds which
the counterfeiter used were so per-
feet that they even produced the
scratches and hicks of the genuine
coins.
- From Onslow county, n. c., has
States supreme court to pass upon
when it convenes in October that may
affect bankrupts in all parts of the
country. The question is when is
thing concealed?" John L. James
was a storekeeper in Onslow county,
previous to February %, 1908. when
petition of involuntary bankruptcy
was filed against him. Nothing de-
veloped until James asked for his dis
charge from bankruptcy Four months
and three days before the bankruptcy
petition was filed against him. he had
been charged with hiding in a swamp
in Onsiow county five caddies Of to-
bacco, one case of gunshells, two
trunks of shoes and some dry goods,
with intent to defraud his creditors.
The law would not grant his dis
charge If at any time subsequent to
the first day of the four months i'm
mediately preceding the filing of the
petition, he had concealed" any OF
his property with fraudulent intent
toward his creditors" The circuit
court of appeals for the fourth circuit
decided that although the goods were
placed in the swamp three days more
than four months before the prescrib-
ed time, there was continuous con-
cealinp" hecauSe without further ac-