Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-18

laying ITdWleT, HldllllSu ny
in the North sea, the British captain
lined ND his captives and picked out
the weakest looking of the lot. Order
ing him to step forward, he said: i
want YOU to tell me where those mines
are that you laid" I'll die first,
said the sailor. Very well" replied
the captain, you are going to die first
If any Of us do You have helped lay
those mines You know where they
are. We are going to hunt for them,
and your position is going to be right
in the bow of this ship" The end OF
the story is that this vessel picked up
nearly 800 mines, while the captured
prisoner was kept in his position OF
danger.
Spartanburg Journal: A mass
meeting to keep the buy bale move
ment uppermost in the minds OF Spar
tanburg people will be held In the
Harris theater Friday night at S.SI
o'clock, when important speakers from
this and other cities will deliver ad-
dresses to show the Importance OF the
plan and to implore the people to IN
vest heavily in distressed cotton and
thereby save the southland from the
inevitable peril Of bankruptcy II this
class of cotton is sacrificed on the low
market. The buy a bale movement
only a. week old, has saved South Car
olina s4,000,000 and the county OF
Spartanburg more than S3OO,OOO. All
of this good work will go for naughl
if the people do not maintain an inter-
est and encourage the faithful COM
mittee in finding purchasers at the
standard price Of 10 cents per pounu.
Columbia, Sept. Is: The Univer-
sity Of South Carolina which opens TO-
with others the difficulty of the farm
ers selling their cotton to advantage.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee. held today, at which there were
present Superintendent ]. Z. Swearin-
gen, James Q. Davis and August
Kohn, it was decided that the UniVer-
sity would cooperate with the farm
ers in every way possible in the hold
ing Of their cotton, and would arrange
to accept warehouse receipts as a
pledge for tuition and other fees al
the University until the owners OF the
cotton saw fit to dispose Of the same.
The trustees did not feel that they
could accept cotton at any fixed price
in payment of fees, but that they would
help the general movement of holding
cotton and accept it as pledge
against the fees that are collected Tor
various purposes at the university.
Captain Jorgenson of the Danish
ship Dania, arriving at Boston, from
Copenhagen, declares that the mines
sown by Germany in the North sea
will be a menace to navigation for
years even in these waters. If the
Germans had placed time fuses on
their mines, it would not be so bad,
declared the captain, but as it is they
are drifting into the Atlantic and may
blow up ship three years from now. In
coming through the North sea we had
to make a circuitous route, and my
men feared to go far into the hold, not
knowing at what moment our plates
would be blown in. AS We were pick
ing our way TO Shields, England, a
Danish steamer ahead of US struck
mine and sank. Later that day anoth-
er steamer ran into the same string OF
mines and went down. The British
'sweepers' were at work locating and
destroying the mines, and were sue
cessful in finding many, but there are
hundreds, and perhaps thousands, still
floating about"
- Washington, September Il: Mem
bers of the congressional cotton con-
ference committee tonight postponed
until tomorrow consideration or plans
suggested by a special committee Tor
Federal taxation to restrict the pro-
duction of cotton next year. owing
to the falling market this year be-
cause of the war, IL is deemed imper-
ative by senators and representatives
from cotton growing states that there
should be a short crop next year in
order to avert a surplus and demoral-
ization of prices. A special commit
tee composed Of Senators Williams,
White and Clarke of Arkansas, and
Representatives Hardwick and Bus
CESS, has reported that Federal impo-
sition of a prohibitive tax on produc-
tion would be constitutional. They
propose that a tax OF ten cents a
pound should be levied next year on
all cotton in excess of fifty per cent,
of this years production or that a tax
of $40 an acre should be assessed on
acreage planted with cotton in excess
of fifty per cent of this years acre
cuss the advisability of submitting a
bill to congress.
August imports touched the low
est point reached in any month since
November, 1911, and August exports
the lowest point in any month since
August, 1909. Imports of merchan-
disc during August. 1914, according to
preliminary figures just completed by
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce totalled $129,399.496. COM
pared with $137,651,553 in August,
1913, and S154,756,770 in August,
1912; while in the eight months ended
with August, imports were valued at
$l,269,992.S6 against $l,156, 30O,22S
in 1913, and $1.1SS,075,234 in 1912.
August exports amounted to $1lO,33I,-
545. compared with 1S7,9O9,O20 in
August, 1918, and $167,S44,S11 in Au-
A - I'LL itFl,N ont n
ended with August they were $l,31l,-
319,7O7 against $l,5l5.iS2.157 in 1913.
and l,4l6.346,429 in 1912. Gold i'm
ports in August were valued at $3,-
034.S24 against $5.SO3,753 in August,
1913, and gold exports $lS,125,6l I
against $1.194.657 in August, 1913.
For the eight months ended with Au-
gust, 1914, gold imports aggregated
$37,169,96l. against $4l,5I2,S6O in
1913, and gold exports S135,769, 9,516,
against $73,5S3,242 in 1913.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, September
lG: All last week trainmen of three
Canadian tranScOntinental railways
were busy looking after ninety trains
which We're made up and dispatched
west from here and Montreal to await
on the Pacific coast the arrival of In
dian, Australian and Russian troops
from the Tar fsiiSl. ntSc COllllllStlllS
will be transported over the Canadian
Pacific. Canadian Northern and Grand
Trunk Pacific railways next week to
Quebec, and there await the return of
transports which this week will start
with Canada'S first contingent of 23,-
600 men from Nalcarticr camp. The
first Indian troops were sent to France
via the SueZ canal to MarScllcS. be-
cause Great Britain was not sure of
the route across the Pacific. as Aus
trian and German warShips were act
i've in those waters. Now that all for
eign warShipS belonging to the nations
at war with the Allies have been To-
Gated and are watched by British,
French and Japanese cruisers, the
route is perfectly secure, and, being
close to Russia i'm Asia. it ObviateS the
long railway trip over the single track
line in Siberia to northern Russia. The
number of troops arranged for is 80,
900 of India'S second contingent and
10000 Russians. Fifty-SiX steamships
in the ST. Lawrence river have been
reuuisitiOned and have cancelled all
regular SailingS and by October | AL
will be across the Atlantic and ready
to relieve the tired forces of the Allies
in the field The Canadian Pacific
railway is double tracked and has al
WAYS been regarded by imperial