Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-10

tenn. Mr. ]. D. Clark resigned as vice
president and general manager, but
will retain connection with the com
pany. Mr.. w. S. Lee was elected vice
president to succeed Mr.. Clark
Messrs. John A. Law and A. B. Calvert
of Spartanburg were added to the di-
rectorate The meeting today was
held largely for the purpose of rear
ranging the personnel of the company.
Atlanta, Ga. March Z: Denied the
privilege of taking the pauper's oath
and swearing off the fine of $575,O0O
imposed by the government in con-
nection with prison sentences, BenJa-
min D. Greene and John F. Gaynor
today were sent back to the Federal
prison to await further action in their
cases. The hearing was postponed
until March 81, when the government
representatives expect to show that
Greene and Gaynor have considerable
property under cover and are not en-
titled to the privileges of the pauper's
oath. Alexander Alderman, special as
sistant to the attorney general repre-
senting the government, declared at
the hearing today before United
States Commissioner Colquitt that
Green and Gaynor were convicted or
embezzling more than $575,OOO from
the government in connection with
tne naTDOT Improvements "Oln a. 10
vannah and that at one time they had
more than that sum in their joint pos
session.
Washington, March 9: That the
administration has decided to dissem-
ble no longer it's reasons for the sud-
den and unprecedented movement or
troops to the Mexican border is indl-
Gated by the following dispatch, re-
ceived tonight from the staff cores
pondent Of the Associated Press who
is accompanying President Taft on his
Journey to Atlanta. The dispatch
dated Charlottesville, Va. through
which place the presidents train
passed tonight at 7.10 o'clock, is as
follows: "All doubt as to the pur-
pose Of the government in sending 20
600 troops to the Mexican border has
at last been swept away. The United
States has determined that the revo-
luton in the republic to the south
must end. The American troops have
been sent to form a solid military
wall along the Rio Grande to stop til-
clustering and to see that there is no
further smuggling Of arms and men
across the international boundary. 1t
is believed that with this source or
contraband supplies cut off the insur-
rectionary movement which has dis
a year without accomplishing anything
like the formation Of responsible In
dependent government will speedily
come to a close"
Washington, March Z: The resig-
nation of Richard A. Ballinger of Seat
tie, as secretary Of the interior, was
accepted today by President Taft and
Walter L. Fisher of Chicago was ap-
pointed as his successor. 1t appears
in the correspondence between Mr..
Ballinger and the president, which was
given out in full at the White House,
that the secretary's resignation mas
been in the presidents hands since
January 19 last; that it was held in
suspense at the urgent request of the
president and that the latter at last
accepted it only at the urgent request
of Mr.. Ballinger. In his letter of res
ignation Mr.. Ballinger gives the condi-
ton of his health as the reason for
retiring. In giving his consent to the
secretary's retirement, Mr.. Taft takes
occasion to declare with marked en-
phasis his unchanging faith in the in
tegrity, the motives and the official
standards of Mr.. Ballinger, and his
unmeasured Indignation at the meth
ods of those who assailed him declar-
ing that he has been "the subject of
one of the most unscrupulous conspir-
acies for the defamation Of character
that history can show" The secretary
late today, in a written statement CIV
en- out at the interior department ex-
pressed the intention to return forth
with to Seattle and after a rest re-
sumo the practice of law. He says
that his defense has cost him not less
than 5000 and that he is now a poor
man. At the same time he declares 1t
his purpose now ito prosecute the
arch-conspirators who have been fol-
lowing me with the assassin's knife
Washington, March 9: More grue-
some stories Of the horrors of the
Chinese famine reached the state de-
partment today from the consul gen.
eral at Shanghai, who sums up condi-
tions at the beginning of February.
One traveller reported passing thir-
teen dead bodies in thirteen miles on
the road. The missionaries tell OF the
natives eating cakes made of leaves
and stems mixed with millet chaff,
which they buy with the allowance
from the government of three cents
apiece. The trees had been stripped
of bark which has been eaten. DR..
Cochrane, an American Presbyterian
missionary, declared that in the whole
afflicted region there were two million
starving people In one village of 100
families third were dead Of hum
ger and pestilence. Snow was railing
and many were without proper shell
ter or clothing. The missionaries have
attacked the work of relief with the
greatest system and directness. The
families in the province of Puchow for
instance were divided into four classes
and enumerated with this result:
Those who had plenty numbered 49,
995; those who could exist till harvest
on what grain they had, 2O9,937: those
who had little grain but would be in
need before the end of February, 1856
301, and those really destitute in need
of immediate relief, 197,6S1. One thou
sand dollars raised by the Chinese re-
lief committee Of the Chamber Of Com
merce of Cincinnati was cablCd to
Shanghai today by the American Ma
tional Red Cross.
Washington, March s: In forcing a
vote on Arizona statehood in the clos
ing hour of the late session Of con-
gress, Senator Owen OF Oklahoma, Is
acknowledged to have pulled aside the
scant covering of an issue which is to
give the Democratic party world OF
trouble during the sixteen months m
tervening between now and its nation
al convention, and it is to culminate
in that gathering. 1t is not denied by
initiative referendum, and recall. which
was wrapped in the Arizona case. is to
rack the Democratic party severely
before its adoption or rejection is set
tied. Senator Bailey of Texas, who
figured so sensationally in the Owen
episode has declared himself in for a
finish fight against the so-Called pOpu-
lar government principles, providing
his colleagues in sufficient number
l,1- ha u-ith him they
gave evidence they would do when
they urged him to cancel his rcsigna-
tion from the senate. If they do not.
according to Senator Bailey himself. he
will again file his resignation and
make it stick. Senator Bailey said
that he had no desire to become the
leader of the minority, and that he
would refuse the position If it were
offered him. He intimated that the
main reason for his stay in the senate
at all was to fight and fight vigorous
", the encroachment of "populistic