Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-11
Straps aud faets.


may be next year; it may be five
years. But / do know that 1t will
come before the death of the last man
who saw the falling Of the stars on
November 13, 1888. There are few
people living now who saw that phe-
nomenon and l know that the end will
come before all of them are gone.
Elder Montgomery said that science
had been unable to solve the falling
of the stars in 1888 and that he has
Scriptural proof that the millennium
will occur within the generation fol-
lowing that event.
John w. Gates, the well-known
American financier, died in Paris last
Tuesday of kidney disease, after an
illness extending over several weeks,
John w. Gates was q native OF Illinois
and his first business experience was
as a clerk in a hardware store. Later
on he became interested in barbed wire
and finally secured practical control OF
the manufacture and sale Of wire fenc-
ing in America His company, Amer
lean Steel and Wire" is now a subsi-
diary organization Of the steel trust.
During the past few years ne has been
giving considerable attention to oil,
and had organized q corporation known
as the Texas company, which is no
Gates had the reputation of being a
very coarse man and was not popular
with the more polished element among
the money kings.
Now that most horses no longer
are frightened at automobiles, a new
terror in the shape of the aeroplane is
beginning to cause trouble, which may
result in municipal air navigation
regulations. The need for such regu-
lations has been brought to the atten-
ton of the authorities Of Washington,
where aeroplane flying has become al
most a daily occurrence, through an
accident caused by flying machine
frightening a horse which ran away
and seriously injured the occupants of
the carriage 1t drew. 1t is possible
that this accident may result in some
regulation governing the landing OF
aeroplanes within the city limits. The
same problem has been faced abroad,
and now most of the foreign aero
clubs have made rules against aero
planes flying over densely populated
districts, so that they are prevented
from coming into cities at all.
The French steamer Emir founder
ed Wednesday five miles east Of Tan
riff, Spain in the straits Of Gibraltar.
Ninety three persons were drowned.
The ship sailed from Gibraltar at
three o'clock in the morning for Nor
roccan port. An hour later in a dense
fog she collided with the British
steamer Silverton, bound from New
port, England, for Taranto, Italy. The
crew of the latter rescued twenty sew
en- of the Emir's crew and passengers.
The Silverton later put in at Gibral-
tar with her starboard bow stove in
and her forepeak full Of water. The
Emir sank a few minutes after the
collision. Sixty mine passengers and
twenty -four of the crew went down
with the ship. Twelve of the crew and
fourteen passengers were saved. All
the passengers were French. The Emir
was a vessel of 1,29l tons and was
owned at Marseilles by the Compagnie
de Navigation MiXte.
1t is stated from Washington that
the president vetoed the New Mexico
and Arizona statehood bill passed by
the senate Tuesday night. He has no
objection to the admission Of either
Arizona or New Mexico separately or
to the admission of both as one state,
but he objects very seriously to the
judiciary recall provision in the Arizo-
ma constitution. Before the passage of
the admission bill an amendment was
offered to require the striking out OF
the Objectionable feature of the bill;
but it failed Of passage. AS the law
reads the people of both territories
must vote on the recall provision of
the Arizona constitution; but If they
adopt it, it will be all right The pres
ident, like many other eminent states
men, is of opinion that the recognition
of such a principle as the recall of a
judge because Of an unpopular ruling,
would destroy all possibility Of the
toll nf
questions that is 50 necessary to a
proper administration Of justice and
equity.
- Sola, Kansas, August 8: D. B. d.
Smeltzer, judge Of the municipal court
here was defeated today in his efforts
TO enforce his judgment that Mrs.
Ella Reese, city prisoner convicted
of a vicious offense, should don
bloomerS and join the men members
of the chain gang in working on the
streets. There were three reasons for
this. First, the judge was unable to
find a pair of bloomers in the town;
second. his order was defied by Com
missioner G. G. Glynn and third, the
people here apparently had no SYM
pathy with the sentence inflicted upon
the woman. Unable TO find the sort
of attire ordered by Judge SmeltZer
the jailer delivered Mrs. Reese to the
foreman of the street department
dressed in her usual clothing. Com
missioner Glynn ordered the foreman
to return her to Jail at once. Il will
not permit woman prisoner to do
such work." he said. 1T is disgrace
even to suggest such a thing" When
Judge Smeltzer learned that his orders
had not been obeyed he said emphati-
cally that Mrs. Reese must go to
work. If she does not work. said
the judge, she will stay in Jail until
she concludes to obey the court"
- After spending several weeks
hunting for a treasure which he says
he helped hide more than eighty years
ago, says an Exeter, Mo-, dispatch,
Blk KeyeS, a Chickasaw Indian, has
returned to his home in Oklahoma.
Keyes, who claims he is more than
100 years old, says the treasure,
which consisted of silver, was buried
in a cave on the White river in south
western Missouri by his tribe. Ac-
cording to the old Indian, his tribe
had been driven out of Georgia and
went to northern Arkansas and south
ern Missouri, where he lived along the
course Of the White river. Here they
discovered a rich silver mine and for
years mined the metal and melted II
into bars Then, fearing an attack of
the white settlers, the silver was plac-
ed in a cave, a rock rolled in the
mouth and earth piled over it. The
attack which the Indians feared Keys
says. was caused by reports of the
finding by them of silver. After hid
ing the treasure the Indians went to
Oklahoma and Keyes marked the
trail which led to the cave. Old marks
made on the rocks, he says, he has
found, but the mark which designat-
ed the entrance to the cave was made
on a huge elm tree. The tree he can
not find.
- Washington, August 8: The in
vestigation of the wiley incident"
in the department of agriculture. re-
volving around the charges that DR..
Harvey w. Wiley, as chief chemist,
employed an expert scientist at an IL
legal rate of payment, reached an
acute stage in the house committee of
inquiry today. Evidence showing that
Solicitor McCabe had removed the
words "benzoic acid" and substituted
the word caffeine" before circulating
a judgment rendered against food
manufacturer in a Missouri court was
nply npa incident i'm q session full of