Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-12-29
Straps and fats.


with comparative ginning statistics 10
the corresponding date OF last year ana
the former record years of 1904 ana
1905. as follows: United States 13,-
1862 bales, compared with 1859. .
443 bales last year, when 92.5 per cent
OF the entire crop was ginned prior 10
December 13; 11,904,269 bales in lSOS,
whom OF per cent was ginned and H.
s71.477 bales in 1904, when SO per cent
was ginned. Round bales included were
SS,294, compared with 106, oaies
last wear. l40,024 bales in 1903, ana
2l5.O59 bales in 1908.
John T. Boone. Jr., lineal de-
scendant of Daniel Boone. obtained d
divorce at Clayton, Mo-. lest week
from Ethel Edwards Boone, great
grandniece of Thomas Jefferson one
OF the allegations Boone made on the
witness stand was that his wire re
peatedly told him that her famly
tree was superior to his. She oonsld-
cred Thomas Jefferson a more dis
tinguished ancestor than the great
Kentucky pioneer and Indian fighter
and that she repeatedly declared the
Roones "looked like waSherwomen
when compared with the Jeffersons.
They were married in 1892. An all
mony settlement was made out OF
court. Though Mrs Boone had an
nOOnCeQ Sn6 "Oulu SOhtCSh NAAN S.~'
she did not appear.
New York, December 25: Settle
ment of the question of the future
government of China. now the subject
of the peace conference between the
reyolutionaries and the imperialists al
Shanghai is expected within two or
three days," according to cablegram
received here today by the Columbia
University Chinese Students Club from
Tang Shao VI, representative or Pre-
mier Yuan Shi Kai at the conference.
The message Is an answer TO long
cablegram sent to Tang Shao VI yes
terday by the club in behalf of the
Chinese students of the United States,
which he. was asked to deliver to the
premier and q copy to WI Ting Fang.
chief of the revolutionary delegates.
The students urged the adoption OF a
Republican form of government. In
reply Tang Shao VI says: Il earnestly
wish that the situation may be peace
fully settled and I will do my best TO
serve the people. I expect that set
tlement will be reached within two or
three days"
Weekend tourists, says Wash
ington dispatch, who want to go back
to the folks with photographs with a
real Washington, D. c., label on them,
showing President Taft in the act OF
shaking them by the hand or in earn
est conversation with them got an un-
expected Christmas present from Mr.
Taft, for the president has put the
official ban on these fake" photog-
raphs. Several days ago a Pennsyl-
vania photographer whose window ex-
hibit contains many pictures OF Mr..
Taft in the act of shaking hands with
various citizens whom he probably
never met. was informed by United
States Attorney Wilson to leave Mr..
Taft out of such pictures in the future.
The photographer appealed to the
White House, but the president up
held Mr.. Wilson. In recent decision
the supreme court held that photo
graph was a persons own property
and it is not likely that the present
case will go to the courts. President
Roosevelt once appeared in fake pic
ture apparently talking statecraft with
a negro coal driver. He registered an
objection Immediately and the prac-
tice was stopped.
- The Russians have put w. Nor
gan Shuster out of business in Per-
sia The case Is familiar. Russia had
a mortgage on Persia, and because OF
Persia's incompetent management, II
looked as If Russia was going to have
an opportunity Of foreclosing as she
III.
of her finances in the hands Of Mr..
Shuster, and he got things in shape
where he was able and made it clear
that he would pay Russia in full.
Russia did not like this and began to
make trouble along other lines, blam-
ing Shuster with responsibility on
all kinds Of preteXts and demanding
his dismissal The object OF Russia
clearly was to get rid Of Shuster so
l. III 20
Russia would have seeming justitica-
ton In gobbling the country. The Per-
sian council undertook TO stand by
Shuster; but Russia sent in another
ultimatum and followed ii up with
troops Persia had to back down and
dismiss Shuster. Russian troops are
now advancing on Teheran and al
though the Persians are being order
er not to resist. they are being massa-
cred in large numbers. 1t seems to be
settled that Russia is going to gobble
Persia.
Joe Malloy and Charlotte Easter
ling, two negroes, were arrested in
Marlboro county on Thursday Of last
week charged with the murder of
Guy Rogers and PrentiSs Moore on
November "a, 1910 Some of the
readers Of The Enquirer will remem-
Der that these two boys went out for
q Thanksgiving hunt and were not
seen for several days afterward when
they were found dead in a ditch, both
of them having been shot. Their guns
were lying beside them. and although
the coroner's jury spent several days
investigating the matter, no satisfac-
tory conclusion was reached. One
theory was that the boys had been
murdered, another that one had acci-
dentally killed the other and had
then committed suicide. But nobody
was satisfied as to what the real facts
probably were. The nearest house
was that of Charlotte Easterling and
some people suspected her. A few
weeks after the tragedy Joe Malloy's
wife died under suspicious circum-
stances and later he took up with
Charlotte Easterling. Negro detec-
tives who had been working on the
case for a long time finally came to
the conclusion that they had evidence
sufficient to warrant the arrest of the
pair and the arrests were made as
stated. AS to just how much proof is
available has not yet fully developed.
Haunted by visions of his victim
John Henry Martin surrendered to the
police of Baltimore on Christmas day,
declaring that he was the murderer of
VIM. H. Mickle. an old storekeeper
November II, last. Martin, who ap-
pears to be a nervous wreck, said that
he entered the store, struck the man
over the head with a wrench, took the
contents of the cash drawer and fed.
He said that he went to West Vir-
ginia. and did not know that the man
he had assaulted was dead until he
read ii two weeks ago in a Washing
ton newspaper. He saw also that
someone else had been arrested for the
crime. The memory Of his deed and
the thought that an innocent person
might suffer for it drove him to a
Catholic confessional, where he told
his story to the priest. 1t was on the
advice Of the latter, Martin said, that
he surrendered himself. Martin for
merly lived at Cumberland, Md. He
has been in Baltimore only few days,
he said Martin told the police that
his first thought after reading of the
arrest Of another for the murder was