Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-14
Straps and facts.

ed 319 delegates, giving 143 TO Ia1t.
The Roosevelt campaign managers
contend that ia delegates are unin-
structed. including SS from New York
and that 164 are contested. Both
campaign committees in their esti-
mates give Senator LaFollette SO dele
gates and Senator Cummins lO.
Prsparations for the two-weeks bat
tie at Chicago over the seating Oh
contested delegates are being COM
pleted. The delegations instructed
for Taft, whose seats will be con-
tested, according to the latest state
ment from Senator Dixon, are as tol-
lows: Alabama 20; Arkansas 3; Dis
trict of Columbia 2; Florida IL;
Georgia 26; Indiana II; Kentucky
1S: Louisiana 20; Michigan 6; Mis-
souri, 2; South Carolina 4; Tennessee
IA: Virginia %. The 200 delegates
to be selected in the coming week
include 26 in Texas, 26 in California,
"a in Minnesota; IA in Washington,
22 in North Carolina, 16 in West Vir-
ginia and scattering delegates in many
other states.
President Taft has signed the in
creased pension bill passed by the
senate and house. The measure was
signed and became a law just before
midnight Saturday. A congressional
committee, including Senators Nc
Cumber and Burnham and Represen-
tatives Sherwood, author of the orig
inal bill, Adair, Russell and Carl e.
Anderson was awaiting the arrival OF
the president when he reached the
White House on his return from
Princeton. He affixed his signature
to the bill in the presence of the COM
mittee. The bill as finally agreed to
carries an increase Of 100000 for
pensions during the first year OF its
operation. During the first three
years the increased payments to
veterans will average s22,00O,000. AS
finally agreed to the bill provides in
creased pensions for 420,S65 Veterans
according to the estimates OF the
house conference. Every veteran
serving ninety days or more in the
naval or militay service during the
civil war who has been honorably dis
charged and who is over 62 years OLD
is cared for by the new law. For
veterans 81 years and over the rate
provided in the law for ninety days
service is $13 a month, and 1t ranges
to SIG a month up to three years OF
service; for 66 years old and over the
rate is SIS a month for ninety days
and ranges up to $i9 for three years;
for 20 years old and over the rate
for ninety days is SIS a month and
ranges up to s25 a month for three
years, at rs years old and over, the
rate for ninety days service is $21 and
ranges up to $50 for three years.
For the first time in civil service
history, says an Atlanta dispatch,
negro mail carrier has got the best or
Uncle Sam. The local secret service
men feel so keenly that the joke is on
them that they are not willing to d.
vulge the name Of the carrier, who
has been discharged, but they admit
the facts. The carrier in question,
shrewd, we'll educated mulatto, got a
grudge against the local postal Of
ficials because Of a feprimand. He
decided to get even with them all
at once. The next time he got a chance
he grabbed out fat handful Of letters
addressed to prominent Atlanta busi-
ness houses and hid them away in his
jeans. He didn't steal them. He
didn't open them. He didn't tamper
with them at all. He simply held
them out about a week, and then
took them quietly back to the post
Office. Next day Postmaster Mckee
was deluged with indignant letters
from half a score Of Atlantas most in
fiuential business men demanding toI
know why in samhill their mail had
been delayed for a week in the At
lanta postoffice. They had the post
mark to prove that the delay occur
red here. While Mr.. Mckee was
making the best excuses he could, and
was looking for the place where the
incompetence occurred, another batch
was held out, and more complaints
came. These tactics the negro kept
on for weeks and weeks, driving the
postal officials half mad with worry
and bother. In all that time the ne
gro didn't open or tamper with a
Revenge was his only object. He had
it richly. And when one of the de-
tectiveS found it out, the only thing
they could do was simply to discharge
him from the service.
At the Federal Front, Conejos,
Mex, May 12: Twelve hours Of brisk
fighting on the desert plains 800 miles
south Of the American border be-
tween a force Of 5000 rebels under
Gen. Orozco and an equally strong
body of federals under Gen. Huerta
resulted today in decided advan-
tage to the government. The fighting
began at daybreak and at nightfall
the sandy mesas between here and
Yermo. IA miles north of where the
insurrectos We're gradually forced
back, were covered with dead and
wounded. Nearly 500 are believed to
have been killed and wounded on both
sides. A courier reported that Gen.
Trucy Aubert, the dashing federal
commander had been shot in the leg.
The rebels abandoned ten cannon and
much ammunition in their retreat.
Gen. Joaquin Teller, who had been
stationed in the rear Of Huerta's van
guard at noon was sent around to the
eastward to flank the rebels and cut
off their retreat. Tonight federal
headquarters claim the rebels are
completely surrounded and that the
second day of fighting will prove
equally decisive. This town, only
yesterday occupied by the vanguard
of the rebels was riddled with bullets
when the federals galloped into it at
sunset. Over the foothills to the north
the insurrectos could be seen retreat
ing. Gen. Huerta has been receiving
many kilograms Of congratulations on
the outcome Of the days fighting.
Should the advantage gained today
be followed by equal success tomor-
row, the federal leaders are confident
it will mean the humiliation of the
insurrecto army. Gen. Huerta con-
siders it probable, however, that the
rebels will make their last stand at
Escalon, their central base fourteen
miles to the north where they have
built fortifcations and trenches in
the last fortnight.
New Orleans, La, May 12:
Another day Of sunshine in New Or
leans and throughout southern Ala