Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-09-27
aseraps and fatts.

Pursuant to orders from President
Taft, the transport Prairie left Phila-
delphia today with $50 marines bound
for San Domingo to open the custom
houses recently closed by rebels. 1t Is
not believed that any actual fighting
will be necessary to carry out the orders
of the president; but if fighting should
be necessary the marines Will be pre-
pared to attend to the matter.
William w. Bell, nineteen year
old bank clerk of Pensacola, Fla, has
containing $4,000 which the bank was
preparing to ship to Flomaton, Ala. The
package went to the express company
all right and was receipted for; but
when it was opened, 1t was found to
contain the pages of magazine. The
detectives got busy at once; but round
no trace of the money. On Monday
the assistant cashier Of the bank re-
ceived a telephone message from an un-
identified party that the money would
be found on the door steps at the bank.
The assistant cashier paid no attention
to the message thinking 1t was hoax:
but later, sure enough the janitor found
the package. Young Bell explained
that he had stolen the money just after
It had been counted in the bank and
substituted paper for it. He said that
he was afraid that his brother would
be SUSPECTED, and for that reason de-
cided to return the money and confess.
Robert o. Bailey, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, has completed
list of former presidents and other
prominent men whose names are to be
used on a new series Of paper money
that is about to be issued. The face OF
George Washington will appear on the
81 bills; Thomas Jefferson on the 81
bills; Abraham Lincoln on the IS bills;
Grover Cleveland on the $40 bills; Al
exander Hamilton, $50; Andrew Jack
son. $50: BENJAMIN Franklin, 800;
John Marshall, $500; Henry Clay, ST.
600; and U. s. Grant $4,000 1t is Mr..
Bailey's plan to have all three branches
of the government, executive, leg1sla-
tive and judicial, represented on the
paper money. All of the bills of the
same denomination under the new
plan, will bear the faces of the same
men. officials at the treasury depart
ment admit that the most dangerous
form Of counterfeiting is bill raising.
BY having bills Of the same denomina-
ton bear the same portraits 1t would
be impossible for any one to add moth
er cipher to a $40 and pass 1t as a 500
bill. Another plan of the treasury de-
partment to check counterfeiting Is to
have the backs of the bills alike.
If Jim Woodward is elected mayor
of Atlanta says a dispatch from that
city, it Will be by beating his enemies
at their own game. Most folks have
forgotten it but the city law providing
that a mayoralty candidate must get
full majority Of all votes cast instead
of a plurality, was originally framed
to beat Jim Woodward. The law didn't
beat him when 1t was framed, but Is
still operative, and If he wants to win
he will have to beat 1t again. 1t Is an
interesting fact that numbers OF city
laws were framed for no other purpose
than to get the upper hand OF Jim
Woodward personally. Among them
was the law that the mayor could not
remit a fine of less than $50 or pardon
a prisoner who was sentenced to less
than thirty days. At one time the rec
order used to send 'em up regular with
a $40 and 29 day sentence so that the
mayor could have no option in the
matter.
New York, September %: Bessie
Kaplan, an athletic 1S-year-old girl OF
the Bronx, arrested a young man In
Brooklyn Il" today and personally
hailed him to the New Jersey avenue
court, several blocks away. There she
charged him with having brought pub
lie humiliation to her because he had
made comments on the tightness OF her
skirt that were heard by the other pas
sengers of the car. He gave the name
of Max Chasowitz, and was held under
$500 bail. Look at her." Chasowltz is
alleged to have said in the car. I'll
bet she walks like a chicken" The
young man continued to make like re-
marks. The other passengers gigsled
at Bessie's modification. When the
Sutter avenue station was reached the
young girl seized her annoyer by the
collar and pulled him off the train.
What are you going to do with me?"
asked Chasowitz, astonished. I'm go
ing to lock you up" replied BESSIE:
Its a pretty 'how-de-do' when girl
can't travel in the city without having
a loafer like you comment on her
clothes" Chasowitz attempted to break
away when the pair got to the street.
A crowd 81 n gathered, however. Sew
eral men . ped the young girl keep
her hold and escorted her with her
prisoner to thA police court.
- Washington, september 26: The
feature of the census bureaus report
issued yesterday on the supply ana
distribution of cotton tor the cotton
z,
the indication OF the south's growth in
the cotton spinning industry. The
amount of cotton used there was Tor
the first time in the history OF the in
uuStry greater Than that used In all
olner states in any one year ana the
number of active spindles operated in
creased almost half million over the
number operated last year. The cot
ton growing states used 2,712,622 bales
against 2,655,049 bales in all others.
The number of active spindles were
1l,5S5,S39, compared with 1l,OSi,623
in 1911. The total supply of cotton
for the cotton year 1912 amounted to
the unprecedented total Of 17,6I3,294
bales. of which 1,375,O31 bales had
been held over from the previous year
and 229,276 bales imported. This total
supply exceeded last years by $685.
STl bales. OF the total supply $751;
GIL bales were used in this country,
quantity greater than ever before, and
l0,6S1,i6S bales or more than 2,OOO,-
600 in excess of previous records were
sent abroad. The number Of spindles
operated in other than cotton growing
states increased almost 100000 10 49,
726,S91. The supply and distribution
OF cotton in the United States, in run
ming bales, for the cotton year OF 1912,
comparisons for previous years, as an
nounced in the annual report OF the
census bureau, was: The total supply
of cotton for the cotton year Of 1912
was I7,673,294 running bales, compar-
ed with 13,S73.423 bales in 1911 and
12,1SS,921 bales in 1910. OF this guam
tity the ginnings during the year
amounted to 16,06S,9S7 bales, COM
pared with 12,3S4,24S bales in 1911,
and 10,350,97S bales in 1910; the
stocks held at the beginning of the
year were 1,375,031 bales, compared
with 100000 bales in 1911, and l.
4S3,5S5 bales in 1910. The net imports
amounted to 229,276 bales, compared
with 23l,191 bales in 1911 and. .151,395
bales in 1910. The total distribution
of the above supply was as follows:
The amount of cotton consumed in the
United States during the year was g.
367,671 bales, compared with 4,704,-
97S bales in 1911 and 4,79S,953 bales
in 1910. Of this amount the quantity
consumed in cotton growing states was
2.712,622 bales, compared with $685.
4S7 bales in 1911 and 2,292,S33 bales
in 1910, and the quantity consumed in
all other states was 2,655,049 bales,