Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-28
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est per capita debt of any state is that
of Kansas, which is only cents. The
total debt of all the As states on June
was s422.796,525. The total deb
of the national government on June
80. was s2.916, ,204,914. The per cap.
ita debt of the combined state anc
national governments is slightly over
$14.
Money from the Federal treasur!
will be deposited in National bank:
throughout the country again this fal
to facilitate the movement or crops ant
promote business generally. Secre-
tary McAdoo announced yesterday M
would put out approximately $34,00O,'
900 and that he stood ready to increase
the amount to any extent necessary
to meet the country'S needs. The Sec
retary's estimate of what will be need
ed is based on replies from 5000 Ma
tional banks to a recent treasury de-
partment circular asking whether any
unusual demand for money was eX'
pected this year and for what pur-
poses. Last year the department IN
augurated the custom of distributing
funds in the crop handling centers
depositing about s35.O0O,OOO of the
$50, 1000, ,000 Secretary McAdoo had de-
cided to use for the purpose.
Columbia State, Monday: Yester-
day the situation in the Mcintosh case
stood unchanged. DR.. James n. NC
Intosh received a representative or the
State Yesterday afternoon at the
Knowlton hospital and he said that he
had nothing more to say. Il do not see
that il is necessary for me to say
ANYTHING more" said the doctor. The
doctor is still confined to his bed, but
the wound is healing and he has a
good color and is in good spirits. he
expects to be out shortly. The ply
sician's assailant Of early Thursday
morning was still at large last night
w, C. Cathcart, chief of the police de-
partment, has been out Of the city fol
two DAYS. It was said at the police
station that he had gone to North Car
olina but that his trip was not in con-
nection with the Mcintosh case. Sheriff
Mccain said last night that he had
nothing further.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
issued an order in which he abolishes
the prison sentence for deserters in
time of peace. Heretofore absence
from ship at the expiration OF grant
of leave. has been considered deser-
ton. and the rule has been to send
the men so offending, to prison, unless
they have a real good explanation. The
secretary procured the opinions OF
many naval officers about the matter,
and finally came to the conclusion that
it would be best to put the navy on a
purely business basis. If man is alb
sent, he will be docked and fined for
the time lost. If he decides that he
wants to quit the navy, he will be al
lowed to do so on refunding certain
advances and a little more, that are
made to him on enlistment. The COM
manding officials are left certain
means Of enforcing discipline, such as
docking pay and imposing dishonora-
BILE discharges; but altogether the or
der gives the men a freedom they
have never known before.
A hundred weird tales of the mys-
terious disappearance of girls and
women that had reached the reform
associations in Chicago in years past,
sprang suddenly to the surface Satur-
day, with the revelation of big sys-
tenn of tunnels and underground pas
sages discovered by the police beneath
the Twenty-second street vice district.
Girls escaping from the dives and
making their way to the rescue homes
have told of underground dens and
dungeons in the Red Light section.
Probably the greater number of these
stories surround the notorious ven
Bever gang of white-slavers than any
other group of divekeepers in the dis
trict. 1--WE have long had knowledge
of these tunnels and sub-basements,
said Wiert w. Hallum, secretary OF
the Illinois Vigilant association, dur
ing the day. 1.-TWO years ago during
excavation work for a new building on
the site of former dive, subterranean
passages were found. These led to
underground dens. Some Of the rooms
contained large quantities of quick
lime. while in one of them a human
skeleton was found"
With a view to the spread of edu-
cation, a new system OF writing mas
been introduced into Turkey, which is
now being taught to the unlettereo
army recruits. 1t not only reduces
the period Of mastering the written
language to a comparatively short one
but brings it within the mental Inn
itations of the lower class. Turkish
writing has been an accomplishment
Of the few, since the people followed
agriculture and left business to the
hands of the educated Armenians.
The old system resembles stenogra-
ply, with three separate and distinct
signs for each sound, according 10
their position in the word written
Like stenography, it is necessary TO
know the word Alright first in order to
read it correctly. To understand lts
difficulties, the same sign represents
the sounds o, ou, eu and v, and the
reader has to know which OF these
sounds is intended. In the new writ
ing, words are spelled separately IN
stead of being run together, with pho-
netic letters. This will greatly facil-
itate typesetting and allow the con-
struction of a Turkish typewriter,
Each soldier is being taught the new
writing, with the idea that he will
introduce it to his family on returning
to his native village. His interest in
public affairs and sense of national
unity will also grow with the reading
of books and papers. This is the WORK
that Enver Pasha, the war minister
has undertaken.
-Advices that General Carranza Is
not disposed to grant a formal amnes-
ty in advance of his actual aSSump-
ton of power, reached Washington
Tuesday, from ConStitutionallst mead
quarters. This, if insisted upon, may
disrupt proposed peace conferences IN
Mexico at their beginning. Provision
al President Carbajal has been urged
generally to obtain an amnesty and
numerous offers have been maze u
him for support in case he cannot OBJ
tain proper guarantees for the llVes
and property of Huerta supporters
Informal assurances came recently
TO the United States from CarranZa
that excepting for those directly re-
sponsible for the murder of Madero
and SuareZ, he would not prosecute
supporters of Huerta. Within the last
two days, however, John +. Silliman,
personal representative of President
Wilson with CarranZa, has reported his
doubts on the subject. CarranZa has
told Sil!iman that amnesty was an act
of generosity not a condition of sur
render. He insists that CarbaJals
surrender be unconditional. There
still is hope that middle ground Will
be reached in the coming peace con-
ferences by which the question will be
adjusted peacefully, though misgiVlngs
already are current as to CarranZa
intentions. Reginaldo Cepeda, ad-
vance peace delegate from the Carba-
jail government was due yesterday III
Tampico. where CarranZa now is. TWO
other delegates whose names have not
yet been announced, will go soon to
Saltillo where CarranZa has suggested
that the parleys take place.
Opening of the Panama canal to