Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-12
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the United States and elected the am
bassador honorary president and pass
ed a resolution indorsing his manage
ment of American affairs in Mexico.
Secretary Hester has just issued q
statement of weights of 11,695,041
bales of cotton handled at ports and
across the Mississippi, Ohio and Poto-
mac rivers overland to American man
ufacturers out of the cotton pell
during the months Of September To
March, inclusive, showing an average
per bale of 51S.77 pounds agalnst
516.S4 for the same period last year.
The state averages are: Texas ports
eos. .O2 against $3.50 last year; Louisi-
ana ports 526.26 against 522.O2 last
wear: Alabama ports 52S.54 against
524.74 last year; Georgia ports blO.6z
against 500.22 last year; South caro-
lima ports 497 against 495 last year;
North Carolina ports 490 against 4sV
last year; Virginia ports 490 against
490 last year; Tennessee, ETC., 5zo.lS
against 52725 last year. These aver,
ages are, as stated, of cotton handled
AT ports and overland based on OFF,
ciai returns to the secretaries and su.
perintendents of the exchanges ana
exports at ports, ETC., in the states
named.
Pittsburg, Pa. April 10: Cover
nor Woodrow Wilson addressed
Democratic mass meeting here to-
night and devoted much of his time
to affairs of this state. He told MS
audience that it's government Is being
perverted to the private use OF smaiI
groups of men, but that "Pennsyl-
yania is awakening to the fact that its
people are always being cheated
somehow by somebody. Her voters
have been so often and so universal
ly disappointed that they are begin
ming to look at the instruments IN
their hands and ask. do we go
through a mockery when we go 10
the polls?'" Gov. Wilson said tnat
there was a wave Of protest spread
ing over the country which means
that men are tired of thinking inef-
fectually. They are tired Of leaders
who do not move" he said. we are
in a preliminary campaign. I would
like to forget personalities. 1 would
like to forget myself. The question
Is, are the people going to choose
their leaders at the national conven-
tions or are the politicians? We can
not discuss the trusts or the tarif or
anything else until this is settled. If
the leaders are to be named by mes
sages from some headquarters, then
we might as we'll adjourn, for these
will be the last conventions of the
kind that will ever be held. Before
another campaign every state in the
Union will have preference presiden-
tial primaries"
The threat Of the flood has pro-
duced a strained situation along the
Mississippi river. While officials OF
the state and the levee board on the
opposite sides of the great stream
are cooperating, yet property own
ers are jealous Of the prerogatiVes
handed down by the customs of years.
River pilots in charge of steamers
that have resumed operations between
Memphis and points south say their
Jobs are anything but enviable in this
flood period. If a steamer runs close
to the levee on either side Of the river.
invariably the boats pilot house is
riddled with shot and it is regarded
merely as a friendly warning to shift
nearer the centre or the other side
of the stream. When the river rises
to a point that 1t laps the levee tops
wave from the wake of steamer
might have sufficient force to smash
the embankment Before the erosion
could be checked the flood might
cut a great cash in the dyke. The
purser Of the steamer Kate Adams,
told Wednesday of an experience the
boat encountered thirty miles south
of Memphis. To avoid treacherous
currents the pilot of the Adams had
shifted his course nearer the Arkan-
sas shore. Directly party OF men
appeared at the top Of the levee. They
hailed the pilot. The men on the
N
The pilot called back that he could
not understand. In a minute a hail
Of bullets from long range rifles crack
ed about the woodwork in the pilot
house. Then the steamers wheels
man understood. He shifted his
steamer back into midstream.
- Statistics compiled by the inter-
state commerce commission are direct
ing popular attention strongly to the
large numbers of people who are annu-
ally killed and injured while trespass-
ing on the property of the railways Of
the United States. Referring to this
subject in an address delivered before
the Railroad club of Richmond, Va,
recently, President Finley of the South
ern Railway company, said: While
speaking on the subject Of preventable
accidents, let me call attention to the
great loss of life on American railways
by trespassers on railway property.
will make no mention of the thousands
of cases Of personal injuries sustained
annually by persons trespassing on
railway property, in connection with
which the railways are called upon to
pay out annually large sums, or of the
great damage done to railway proper
ty caused by acts of trespassers. !
will simply refer to the loss of life.
The statistics of the interstate COM
merce commission show that no les
than 51,0S3 people were killed while
trespassing on the property of the rail-
ways of this country during the ten
years, 1902-1911, and that out of the
total number of people, 1896. killed
for the year ended June 80, 1911, 5,2S4
or more than so per cent, were tres
passers. The railways, at an expense
of millions of dollars for the installa-
ton of block signals, have carried the
prevention of collisions so far that the
total number of passengers and en-
ployees killed in such accidents annu-
ally is about 400. While we should
aim, through greater efficiency Of ope-
ration, to eliminate these accidents en-
tirely, is ii not worth while for the
governments to take some action to
stop the evil of trespassing which costs
an average of over 5000 lives annually
If for no other reason than for the pro-
lection of those who participate in it.
trespassing should be abolished In
some way. I mention this in the hope
that not only those interested in the
welfare and prosperity Of our railways
hut in the welfare of the nation, will
do everything that is within their pow
er to aid in bringing about the enact
ment of such reasonable and helpful
legislation as will result in a great saw
ing of life, and at the same time, re-
lieve the railways of the country OF
considerable trouble and expense"
Mobile, Ala, April 10: Thous-
ands of persons have been killed and
whole Indian villages swept away by
the eruption of Chiriqui peak, neal
Bocas Del Toro. in Honduras, accord
ing to the story of Capt Olisvik OF
the United Fruit steamer Fort Nor
gan. which arrived here today. This
is the first time this mountain was
ever known to be active The flames
shot very high and the smoke and
ashes were blown far out to sea. The
property loss is reported to be heavy.
Capt OliSvik of the Fort Morgan, in
describing the scene, says that it was
the most terrifying imaginable. The
sea was torn up and the islanders