Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-30

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carried by guards close enough at
times to hail each other. Each guard
carries a lantern at night and myriad
lights line the river banks from sunset
to daybreak None but INSPECTORS are
allowed to approach the levees after
nightfall and then not until they are
recognized. The greatest volume OF
water on record is piling up against
the stretch Of levees along this division
of the Mississippi river, Old river,
Red and the Atchafalya, and 1t Is re-
garded as the most severe test the
banks have withstood since they were
thrown up years ago. Millions OF
winged ants forced from the swamps
by the overflow are making life miser-
able for unprotected guards and Ia
borers on the levees. 1t Is estimated
that the loss by the floods thus far Is
s15.000,O 900 and $4,000 people are home
less in eleven parishes.
There was a sensational battle be-
tween the police and two outlaws on
the outskirts of Paris last Sunday.
The battle was witnessed by several
thousand people. During many months
past a gang of automobile bandits have
been giving a lot of trouble. They
committed burglaries and robberies
and escaped In fast automobiles, and
they did a good business also stealing
automobiles and selling them. Auto
mobile owners were kept In state or
terror. It had been known for some
time that Jules Bonnet was the leader
of the gang; but the police found II
very difficult to locate him. During
Sunday morning the Partisan superin-
tendent of detectives tracked Bonnot
to an isolated garage, and called upon
him to surrender His answer was
fusillade Of shots. The detective Sc
cured reinforcements, including more
than a hundred police and military.
Citizens Joined in with rifles, pistols,
muskets, etc. and the battle lasted for
several hours until at last the entrance
to the garage was blown up with dy-
Mantle. Several detectives had been
wounded. In the house was found
Bonnet and a well known anascniss s
named Dubois. Dubois was dead and
Bonnot was dying from the effects or
a dozen or more wounds.
"A zone system of parcels post Is
provided for in bill introduced in the
senate yesterday by Senator Bourne,
chairman Of the committee on postof-
fees and post-roads. The bill Is the
result Of many months Of investigation
by the committee. The rates provid-
ed are the lowest yet suggested. but
the postoffice department Is quoted as
expressing the opinion that II estab-
lished the system would be self-sus-
tanning. Eleven pound packages are
authorized by the bill and fifteen cents
Is fixed as the charge for minimum
packages in cities. For packages OF
one pound in cities the rate Is five
cents, and cent is added for each ad-
ditional pound. For the fifty mile zone
the rate is two cents for the first pound
and two cents for each additional
pound; 20 mile zone, seven cents for
the first pound and three cents for
each additional pound; 500 mile zone,
eight cents for the first pound and four
cents for each additional pound; 1000
mile zone nine cents for the first
pound and five cents for each addition
al pound; 1000 mile zone, twelve cents
for the first pound and ten cents Tor
each additional pound: more than 1000
miles. including island possessions:
twelve cents for the first pound and
twelve cents for each additional pound.
The Bourne bill consolidates the
third and fourth classes Of mail, but
provides for the mailing of circulars
and small parcels of merchandise at
one cent per ounce up to four ounces.
New Orleans, April 26: Declaring
that since the issuance of President
Taft's recent proclamation addressed
to Americans in Mexico. life for Amer
leans in that republic had become un-
bearable, that citizens of the United
States are insulted and mistreated In
every part of Mexico, Clement Guion,
owner of the Julia Carlisle mines. In
Chihuahua, arrived here today and de-
clared that conditions below the Rio
Grande today are so serious that moth
ing can prevent the Intervention of the
American government within sixty
days. Il attribute the whole thing to
President Taft's message, which, in
effect, said that the United States will
keep hands off and that Americans in
Mexico must take the best care OF
themselves they can," declared Mr.
Guion. Conditions for Americans were
bad enough before, but since Presi-
dent Tafts declaration they have
become intolerable for citizens of this
country" Mr.. Guion declared that the
manner in which American citizens
have been left to the mercy of BAN
dts in Mexico, is little short of a
crime. In Chihuahua, he said, seven
ty per cent of the Americans had left
and the other thirty per cent remain
there simply because they cannot leave.
Mr.. Guion said he left chihuahua hur-
riedly after a colonel on the staff Of
Gen. Orozco, the rebel chieftain, advis-
ed him and some of his friends that 1t
would be best for them to go to the
states. Mr.. Guion is a mining engi-
neer of New York and formerly was a
lieutenant in the United States navy.
- Oklahoma City, April 81: Thirty
one persons are reported to have been
killed by a tornado that swept through
southwestern Oklahoma and the south
eastern corner of the Texas Panhandle
late today. A dozen towns were struck
and farming communities suffered.
tot frnilftino MOI 70 lNT1 or
tonight and ii is impossible to confirm
the reports of loss of life or to accu-
rately estimate the property damage. |
The greatest loss of life reported is at
Lugert, where it is said, fifteen persons |
were killed outright. A special train, |
sent from Altus with physicians and
nurses when 1t was reported passen-
ger train had been blown from the |
rails, picked up ten injured persons
and started back for Altus. Two of
these. Mrs. Lee Stanaland and Miss
Eva Stanaland, died on the train. 1t
was reported Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient train had been blown from the
track and twenty persons killed, but 1t
developed that but two cars had been
derailed and no one was hurt. The
tornado started Just across the Texas
border and first killed seven persons at
Kirkland, Texas, demolished thirty
off the track. Tearing on northward
the tornado struck Eldorado, killing |
four, Calumet, killing three, and Lu-
CERT, where half the town is in ruins: |
Yukon, Warren, Martha, Blair and
Lone Wolf. At each of these places |
many persons were hurt Several Of
these towns are cut off from commu-
nication tonight What is believed to
he the tail of the storm destroyed sew
eral buildings at Mulhall, fifty miles
north of Oklahoma City. but so far as
known there were no casualties there. |
Wytheville, Va, April 90: A car
avan of mountaineers travelling over |
rain-soaked roads from Hillsville and |
the surrounding country. arrived to-
night to participate in the trials be-
ginning tomorrow of the six MEM
bers of the Allen gang indicted for
five murders in the Carroll county |
court house March IA. when the |
judge, prosecuting attorney, the sher-
iff, juror and a bystander were as
sassinated. More than one hundred |
witnesses have reached here. Some
came part of the way by rail. others
by horseback, while many drove all |
in country wagons and camped
outside the town. When court con-