Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-06-17
Scraps and fatts.

of linterS. The census bureau an
nounced this last Saturday. Cotton on
hand at the end of May in factories
was 1.505.257, In independent ware
houses 43S, ,S09 bales. 3,559,943 spindles
were operated during the month or
May.
= Governor Blease has received a
letter from President Wilson in which
the president promises to take up the
matter Of referring to granting U. 3.
license to South Carolina liquor deal
ers. The letter says: "The matter to
which you call my attention In your
letter of June is most important. l
shall with pleasure take 1t up at once
with the proper officials here and
shall, request that they advise me In
the matter Immediately"
&C. Ercanbrach was arrested at
Santa Barbara, California, on Fed
eral indictment charging him with an
attempt to bribe United States Sena-
tor John D. Works. Ercanbrach want
ed the appointment of postmaster there
and is alleged to have written letter
to Senator Works Offering $1,000 II the
appointment should be procured for
him. Ercanbrach's letter was turned
over to the department Of justice at
washington by Senator Works and
sent to the United States District At
torney A. J. Mccormick at Santa Bar
bara. An indictment was returned by
the grand jury. Ercanbrach is car
penter, who Is considered fairly we'll
to do. He admitted he had written to
Senator Works and added: But
didn't know II was crime to offer to
pay a congressman for getting a po-
iitical job. / thought that was the
common practice" He was taken to
Los Angeles.
Cornelius ]. Ford, nominated by
President Wilson for public printer,
is an old friend of the president, who
knew him in New Jersey politics. MT.
Ford Is prominent In organized labor
circles. He has been at the head Of or
ganized labor in New Jersey as presi-
for the past ten years. He has served
three terms in the state legislature,
and was an important factor In help
ing put through the legislation which
attracted the attention Of the country
to Governor Wilson. Mr.. Ford was
born In Hoboken in 1867. He gradual
ed from the Hoboken high school and
Immediately entered the printing trade
and has had thirty years practical ex-
perience in that craft. He has thor
ough- going knowledge Of the mechan-
les of printing, and at the present
time holds an executive position with
the Hudson Observer, one of the larg-
est papers in New Jersey.
The middlemen, frequently charged
with responsibility for the increased
cost of living, escaped that indictment
in q report issued few days ago by
the department Of agriculture, which
saws that during the last twenty years
% lr,o "a
tween the producers price and the
consumers price has not widened
much, IL any Comparing the average
of prices for the last ten years with
the preceding ten years 1t appears
that: Wheat (No. 2 red Chicago) ad-
vanced 80 per cent, and the retail
price of flour advanced only 2S per
cent Hogs advanced about 33 per
cent; the retail price OF smoked hams
about 32 per cent; retailed smoked
bacon 55 per cent; pork chops IL per
cent and the retail price Of lard about
80 per cent. The retail price Of sirloin
steak 10 per cent, and rib roast 23 per
cent During the last ten years the
average farm price of potatoes on De-
cember ] was about 26 per cent high
er than for the preceding ten years.
whereas the retail price advanced In
the same period about 20 per cent.
President Wilson still wants cur
rency legislation enacted at the pres
ent session Of congress and will bend
every effort to accomplish 1t. The
doubt raised by utterance5 Of senators
close to the administration that they
were opposed to currency reform dur
ing the present session was cleared
when it became known that the presi-
dent planned to write his currency
message to congress last Saturday. 1t
was also announced last Saturday that
Secretary McAdoo and Chairmen
Owen and Glass Of the senate and
house banking and currency commit
tees, respectively, had reached an
agreement on the main features of the
currency bill they have been drafting
for two months. The president, 1t Is
however, will not go into
detail in his message, preferring to-
back the .Owen-Glass bill as an ex-
preston Of his ideas. His argument
will be along the lines of his letter re-
Gently to Senator Tillman, in which he
declared that I'm loyalty to the coun-
try" currency legislation was neces-
sary during the present session Of
congress, 80 that any attempt to-
create artificial disturbances after the
tariff shall have become law, may be
Offset by a free system Of credit,
which will make it possible for men,
big and little, to take care of them
selves in business"
The total appraised value of the
estate Of John Jacob Astor, who per-
ished in the Titanic disaster, is $685.
900, 900, as shown in the report which
has been completed, signed, and was
filed in New York last Saturday. The
net value of the estate is $S5, 81, ,22S.30
The share received by William Vim
cent Astor is placed at $6S,964,599.S0;
by Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, the wi
dow, $7,67S,S96; by Ava Ellis Muriel
Astor, $4.S56,75S, and by John Jacob
Astor, the infant heir, $2,922,672. The
estate is declared to be the largest
ever appraised in this country. The
cost Of determining it's value was made
remarkably low, owing to an under
standing by which the Astor estate
bore one-half the expenses and the
state Of New York the other half. This
made II unnecessary for each side to
employ experts, with a possibility Of
having to engage neutral appraisers in
event Of a disagreement. Aside from
the announcement Of the amounts that
revert to the heirs, there are two fea-
lures of special interest in the ap-
pTalSdl. O1lS Is the dIIludNll VI lIle eh-
aminers THAT the property embraced
in the antenuptial agreement for Mrs.
Ava Willing Astor, amounting to
about $1,73S, 900, which was to have
reverted to her at the time of her hus-
bands death, now terminates and
goes to Vincent Astor, for the reason
that the youths mother, although
once Colonel Astor's wife, was never
his widow. Mrs. Ava Willing Astor
divorced her husband, whose legal
widow is Mary Madeline Force Astor.
The second feature concerns the in
heritance tax Of Colonel Astor. The
estate saved a large sum by paying
$3,150,000 to the state last October,
within six months Of Colonel Astor's
death, this payment earning a 5 per
cent rebate. The appraisers placed
the real estate value at about $685.,
100000 and the value of the personal
property close on to $25,000,000.
Washington, June 10: Probably
no fiercer battle since American oc-
cupation," is the description by Brig.
Gen. Pershing Of the battle with the
Moros yesterday in his cable to the
war department. The Moros made
desperate attempts to rush the Amer
lean lines, but were finally beaten
back and overwhelmed. Their leader,
cavarol Ofhar potad outlaws