Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-05

gins. who killed Sheriff Dickerson Tai
iaferro in the court house at Buchan-
an, Haralson county, Ga, January T.
1876. For thirty-six years Gogglns mas
been a fugitive from justice and prac-
tically all hope of ever apprehending
him must have be given up unoer
General John B. Gordon's administra-
tion as governor. for the reward, re-
newed up to that time, was dropped
then. Facts here are meager as 10
the history of the case, but old citizens
will recall the great sensations OF 1875
when Goggins shot Sheriff Iailaierro
down in the Buchanan court house ana
escaped. The circumstances arising at
the time of the shooting and the caus-
es leading up to II are not known nere'
but the sheriff Is said to nave peen
a man Of the finest courage, ana ms
death Is alleged to have been prutal
and unprovoked murder, Some weeks
ago Mayor Head and others, of Buch-
anan. requested Governor Brown to
renew the reward of $3.50, as informa-
tion was at hand tending to show that
Goggins had been located somewhere
in Texas, living under an assumed
name. Utmost caution has been used
until the mans identity was establish
ed beyond reasonable doubt, and tnen
he was placed under arrest to await
reouisition and officers from Georgia.
Goggins was, as a matter OF fact, not
definitely located until March l. 1912.
President Taft sent message to
congress last Wednesday, ordering
that $5O0,00O be appropriated for
strengthening levees and building new
dikes in the food districts along the
Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers,
and within fifteen minutes after 1t was
passed bill making $350,OOo avail
able for that purpose. The bill was
rushed over to the senate, where II
also was passed, and was sent to the
president for his. signature. The pres
ident sent his message OF appear 10
congress after Senators Foster and
Thornton, and virtually the entire
Louisiana delegation in the house, had
called on him and pictured the de-
struction being worked by the floods;
The message follows: Il am ADVISED
by the secretary OF war, whose re-
ports I transmit herewith that the
flood in the Mississippi valley by rea-
SON of the rise in all the rivers tribu-
tary to the Mississippi and Missouri at
nearly the same time, Is likely in the
lower part Of the valley-that Is, MIS-
souri,, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Mississippi and Louisiana-to reach
a higher point along the levees than
IL has ever reached within recent
memories and that there Is very
grave danger that the levees may give
way under this unusual pressure and
that great damage may be done TO
property in the states mentioned, re-
quiring, unless prompt action Is taken,
great future outlay in preserving the
proper navigation Of the stream.
These levees contribute not only to
the safety of the adjoining agricul-
tural land and settlements, but are al
so part of the great governmental
projects for the maintenance OF naVi-
CATION in the lower waters OF the MIS-
sissippi. 1t seems proper, therefore,
that the government take immediate
action to make the loss impending as
little as possible. In view OF the CHAR
acter of the emergency and the safe
guards surrounding the expenditures
made under the corps of engineers, l
have no hesitation in asking for an
appropriation of 100000 as recon-
mended by the secretary of war. L
urgently recommend an immediate
appropriation, so that no time may be
lost in taking the necessary steps TO
prevent, what but for governmental
action, may be loss not only of mil
lions, but CT lives as we'll"
- The war department, says a Wash
ington dispatch to the Philadelphia
Ledger, is taking measures to impress
the National Guard into service with
a view to moving it into Mexico the
moment intervention becomes neces-
sary. This fact will be denied at the
war department, but 1t Is absolutely
true. Yesterday high officers Of the
National Guard of eleven states ar
rived in Washington in obedience TO
summonses from Secretary Stimson,
and more are cor 1g. They were
usually adjutant geI-rals, but In some
cases officers of less rank responded.
One or two were commanding gen.
erals. These officers were summoned
singly, and came singly. There was no
conference. Most of them came from
the south, which is the region which
will be drawn upon first, when the ex-
pected Intervention comes, but they
came from as far north as MaSSachu-
setts. Each of them was asked how
soon and under what circumstances
his state could furnish a certain quota
of men to the government for service
in Mexico, what equipment and what
supplies Ii had already, and to what
extent the war department would have
to be drawn upon for further equip
ment. In several cases the officers
interviewed made an immediate RED
uisition upon the war department for
supplies, and the requisition was start
ed at once on its way through the
usual channels. One officer for in
stance, made a requiSition upon Sec
retary Stimson for 140 field wagons,
$50 sets of harness and eleven am
balances. In addition to the eleven
who came here yesterday, two came
today, Adjutant General Weybrecht;
of Ohio, and Adjutant General Stew
art, Of Pennsylvania. Major General
Edward Young, commander OF the
Illinois National Guard, is on his way
here and will be at Secretary Slim
sons office tomorrow. Other militia
officers at the war department in ans
wer to a summons were from Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut. North Carolina,
and Alabama. Who the rest were
cannot be ascertained, but nearly all
of them were from the south. The re-
suit of the conferences was not alto
gether encouraging. The RESPONSES
Of Ohio, Pennsylvania and several OF
the southern states were prompt and
satisfactory, but in New England there
was manifested a doubt about wheth-
er such war would prove popular
in fact, whether there would be any
great desire to volunteer for it. A
measure to meet such contingency.
which was not unexpected. has al
ready been prepared by the war de-
partment. An amendment to the
Dick army law, whereby the National
Guard can be sent out of the United
States. has been decided upon as oc-
casion requires The assurances so
far received by Secretary Stimson in
dicate the probability that most of
the states will give prompt response
to the call for troops. and all Of them
are satisfactory as to general con-
dition Of the equipment and supplies.
OF course there is probably not state
i'm the union that will not have to
draw heavily upon the war depart
ment for addition to these. but the de-
partment is ready to meet such de-
mand The way in which the war de-
partment is trying to bottle its officers
up Is shown in the fact, which becomes
known to a few persons tonight. that
about ten days ago Captain Thomas
son, of the medical department. was
placed under arrest on charge Of