Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-06-23
Scraps and facts.

judgment against the Davis Trust
company, former Senator Davis Elkins
and S. B. Elkins, Jr., as executors of
the last will and testament of the late
United States Senator S. B. Elkins, has
been filed by Prosecuting Attorney H.
G. Kump. The motion alleges that
Senator Elkins was a defaulting tax
payer and that he has forfeited to the
state of West Virginia the sum of
S375,O43.4O in the year 1909; $297,773
in the year 1910, and, by his executors,
$34l, ,910.90 in the year 1911, making in
all, with interest, the sum of $1,0S7,-
$3.50, which the prosecutor claims
must be paid over to the state of West
Virginia by the executors for the SEN
ator's failure to properly list his prop
erty for taxation. In the motion, the
state alleges that the late Senator FL
kins failed to give to the assessing Of
ficials a true list of all his property
which should be assessed. The prose-
cutting attorney gives notice that on
October 10 he will move the court for
Judgment against the executors of the
estate.
In a special message to the house
of representatives last Tuesday, Pres
ident Taft stated that the tariff board
would not be ready to submit COM
prehensive report on wool and cotton
schedules of the tariff law until Decem-
Der 1, next. He declared the board
was instructed, when reorganiZed in
April last, to be ready to report in
December, and that in the meantime 1t
was not in q position to transmit any
thing except some figures already sent
to the house ways and means commit
tee. The presidents message was
called out by a house resolution re-
questing him to transmit at once all
of the information produced by the
tariff board relating to wool and the
manufactures of wool. Mr.. Taft in
cluded in his message "a statement
from the tariff board as to the status
of its inquiry, and also statement by
a committee of the National Tariff
commission association, which recently
conducted an investigation of the
methods of the tariff board. This re-
port was highly commendatory Of the
boards work The tariff board de-
clares it Is conducting an inquiry
which involves original research work
that is world wide in it's scope. A
been obtained.
Richmond, Va, special of June 20,
to the News and Courier: President
Stevens Of the Chesapeake and Ohio,
who was at his desk this morning for
the first time since he made trip over
the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio
last week, with Edwin Hawley and
others interested in the proposed lease
of that road by the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Seaboard Air Line, expects
to go to New York tomorrow to re-
sumo negotiations in connection with
the deal. While reluctant to be quoted
on the subject, Mr.. Stevens thought
that the deal would possibly be closed
shortly. He will remain in New York
for two days, according 20 his present
plans. The contract for the connect
ing link Of forty miles, between Elk
horn, KY, and Dante, Va, that will
give the Chesapeake and Ohio a
through line to Spartanburg, S. c., and
the South Atlantic coast from the
Great Lakes, will be let as soon as ne
gotiations are closed. But it will take
at least two years to build this link, 1t
is estimated, owing to the rough,
mountainous country through which it
runs. From Spartanburg, traffic ar
rangements to the coast will be by the
Seaboard. perhaps to Columbia, S. c.,
over the Southern tracks, and thence
to Charleston and Savannah. Those
who look ahead of the time. foresee in
this deal q possible scheme OF Hawley
to eventually take over the Seaboard
Air Line and make 1t an integral part
VI Ills Tc6uy SlCc1l vi IAN" dg
and, in fact, II has been stated on
seemingly reliable authority recently,
that Hawley had his eye on the Sea-
board. At any rate, the Seaboard and
Chesapeake and Ohio are coming rath-
er close together In their plans for the
operation Of the c., c. and o. Thomas
F. Ryan, generally regarded owner Of
the Seaboard, sailed for Europe few
days ago an i'll man, and there are
hot hn tryfn
quish active participation in business
at no distant date. This gives color to
the report that he will retire from the
Seaboard and give way to Hawley.
Havana, June 10: With the first
discovery this morning of some human
fragments, the work of exploring the
hull Of the Maine for the primary pur-
pose of recovering and giving honor
able burial to the bodies of her crew
was at last begun after many weary
months Of preliminary work. While
workmen were clearing the spar deck,
between the after and engine room su-
perstructure, in the immediate vicin-
ity Of the afterport sideturret, they
found bones Of a right foot enclosed
in the ragged remnant of a shoe and
nearby the bones of a forearm, the
hand being missing. Soon after this
they came upon the bones of another
forearm. All were blackened, possibly
from fire, and deeply encrusted with a
coral growth. No hope of identifica-
ton was offered except that the shoe
suggested that the wearer probably
was either an officer, a mess attendant
or a member of the marine guard, the
bluetackets in tropical service habit
ually going barefoot. Further eXplo-
ration in that portion of the ship did
not reveal anything which might as
sist in the identification. The remains
were reverently placed in a receptacle
on board the United States collier
Leonadis. A search Of the spardeck
and officers quarters superstructure
resulted in the discovery of a paper
covered novel in which the owners
name on the title page was illegible,
pair of binoculars, much corroded, two
rain coats, barrel of bottled mineral
water and a quantity of porcelain be-
longing to the captains and the ward
room messes. 1t was noticeable that
the rubber articles withstood we'll the
action of the water. All metallic OBJ
jects were reduced to- unidentifiable
masses of black oxide. The water
level had been lowered at nightfall to
fourteen feet, leaving visible all the
spardeck from the stern to the fore
part Of the engine room superstructure
on the portside. The latter deck is
badly bulged and annarently the side
of the ship under this, including the
armor belt, was blown outward which
probably resulted in the explosion Of
the main after magazine. This even
ing the after part of the vessel, includ
ing the officers quarters, has been for
the most part cleared of mud and de-
bris. The dead LIGHTS of the main deck
on the after portside are visible but
a view of the inner is obscured by
masses of mud. BY morning the water
level will be reduced to fifteen feet,
when pumping will be suspended. The
exposed portion will then be freed from
silt and marine growth and further
exploration of the inner position will
be possible.
- The house by vote of 221 to 100
on Tuesday passed the Underwood
wool tariff revision bill providing for
a reduction Of the duty on wool and
manufactures of wool. Twenty four
Republicans voted with the Democrats
for the passage of the measure, and
one Democrat, Representative Francis
of Ohio voted against IT, ManV amend