Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-12-03
Straps and faets.


American wars will be necessary at
the short session Of congress which
opened Yesterday. The usual sum,
exceeding all appropriations of form
er years, will be necessary to make up
a deficit of nearly $2O,OO0,OOO result
ing from the increase of pensions py
the Sherwood bill last winter and the
proportionate increase OF the genera
pension authorized by this act. Esti-
mates by members of congress made
Saturday indicate the regular pension
bill probably will carry about $l15,-
600, 600. This in itself will be a rec
ord-breaking total as the Sherwood
law materially increased many pen
sions 1t has not yet been determined
whether the deficit of approxi-
mately $20,000,000 will be added TO
the regular appropriation bill or put
into some other measure. The pension
bureau has enough money Tor the
present, but will run short between
March 4th and July 1st, when the
fiscal year begins, unless it gets the
extra $40, 100000.
Ed Williams, an Indian, was hang
ed at San Quentin, California, last
FRIDAY after a three hour concert In
the death chamber for his benent.
Williams murdered his squaw, lnez
Brooks, in a drunken frenzy and snot
several other persons. He had peeh
reprieved several times, and day or
so ago announced that he dld not
want any more reprieves-that ne
wished to be hanged promptly If at all.
Warren Hoyle and Col. Dennis Dury
president Oh the California state board
of prison directors, Thursday nigh.
went to see Williams up in the top
loft of the old San Quentin furniture
factory, where he sat gosslplng with
the death watch. There's only one
thing I'd like to have" he said In re-
sponse to a querry by Hoyle, and l
guess that's too much trouble. Id
ike TO have the band play" The
prison band was sent for. Il used to
play the fiddle in our tribe" Williams
explained to the convict musicians.
Il was pretty good at it." The men,
some Of them perspiring with nerV-
BUSINESS, played far into the night.
On Friday as Williams was led to the
scaffold, he paused to speak to Hoyle:
I'm obliged to you for the music,
he said. Il probably could not nave
played any more if I'd lived, because
the sheriff's posse shot me throu
the hand, and it's stiff. Good ie,
warden"
William Bell, until a few weeks
ago a trusted young clerk in the First
pleaded guilty in the United States
court last Saturday to the theft of
$4,000 from the bank on September
Is. Judge Sheppard sentenced him to
two years in the Federal reformatory
school at Washington. The 1S-year-
old bank clerk engineered one OF the
shrewdest robberies in recent Dank
history, and was not under suspicion
when, conscience-Stricken, he return
ed the money. In broad dayllght, In
the presence Of q score of other en-
ployees in the bank, young Bell sue
ceeded in exchanging bogus package
for a package containing S55,OOO,
which had been prepared for shipment
by express. He succeeded in Secretlng
the valuable package in the bank un-
til that night when he just as adroltiy
removed it to his home, where 1t again
found a hiding place. Scores or de-
tectives were employed on the case,
when on the morning Of September
%, almost one week after the robbery,
the old negro janitor Of the bank
found the $4,000 wrapped up in
newspaper lying against the iron
grating of the rear door OF the bank
where Bell had left it. His confession
followed the next day. Because OF
his youth and his previous good con-
duct, Judge Sheppard imposed the
lighteSt sentence possible.
Columbia, November 20: The
Dillon county boys, members OF the
Boys Corn club of that county, pro-
duced over / 800 bushels of corn on
ten acres, according to w. Murchison,
who was among the visitors in Co
lumbia today. The average for the ten
young men was 131 bushels and forty
five pounds The following are the
records of the champion corn grow
ers of Dillon county: James NC
Queen, l34 bushels and pounds, at
cost Of % cents per bushel. Claud
Mcdonald, 1877 bushels and "a pounds,
at a cost Of 503 cents per bushel
Rad Culbreath, ia bushels and
pounds, at a cost of 62 cents per bush
ell. J. r. Gaddy, 121 bushels and 2
pecks. at cost of 90 cents per bushel.
Ernest Moody, SO 1-3 bushels, at
cost of 81 cents per bushel. Hovy
Gaddy, 11S bushels and AZ pounds, at
a cost of AZ cents per bushel. w. A.
Isget, III bushels and % pounds, at
cost of IS cents per bushel. Vaulty
Harrelson, 149 bushels and 26 pounds
at a cost of 33 cents per bushel. Joe
Rogers, 101 bushels and S3 pounds. at
a cost Of 27 cents per bushel. Henry
Collins, 100 bushels and IS pounds, at
a cost of "A cents per bushel. These
records, according to Mr.. Murchison,
have been certified to by the United
States farm demonstration workers.
The work of the boys was done under
the direction of Martin Hayes, county
demonstration agent, and Robert
Rogers. county superintendent of edu-
cation.
THE work of charting a new map
of what hitherto has been European
Turkey will be begun Immediately af-
ter the signature of the armistice by
the plenipotentiaries of Turkey and
the Balkan allies today, according to
a London dispatch of yesterday. II
the allies are able to agree among
themselves as to the portion of the
spoils they are to receive, there seems
no probability of a resumption OF hos
tilities The comparatively favorable
terms which seem to have been offer
ed to Turkey are so different from the
original proposals that they suggest
the idea that the governments of the
Balkan league realize that with winter
gripping the country, Turkey has
gained an ally which will prove more
fatal to the armies fronting Adrianople
Scutari and Tchatalja than have been
the Ottoman cannon. No adjustment
of the Austro- Servian dispute is yet
visible, Vienna continues TO show pes
simism and the newspapers there
maintain their threatening attitude
but in spite of this, official relations
between st. Petersburg and Vienna
seem to have become somewhat more
cordial and It is thought IN diplomatic
quarters that eventually Servia will
secure a small mercantile port on the
Hdriatic sea connected with Servia by
railroad In the meantime, however,
Servia has trod on ltaly's toes by
quartering a regiment of the troops
which recently occupied the port of
Durrazzo in the Italian school build
ings there. An energetic request to
have the troops moved has been made
by the Italian consul.
Anderson. November 30: Woman
suffrage in the South Carolina MethO-
dist church was given a staggering
blow today when the conference
adopted a resolution by a two to one
vote tabling a motion put forward