Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-27
Scraps and faets.

fiscal year which ended June SU, maue
public yesterday, show that the trade
balance in favor of the United States
the greatest in it's history-was S1,O49,.
1922 1872, an increase Of $6,23,SO0, OoI
over the year previous, and $42S,OOO,
600 more than the best previous record
made in 1908. Exports totalled ~:
1858, 643, 532, an increase of $404, O0O,O OC
over the preceding year Imports
were $1,674,2 20, TAO, a decrease Of
1919, 700, 900. The gold movement
which reflects the effect Of the war
shows imports Of Sill, 56S, 755 and ex'
ports Of $146, 224, 148 as against $685.
529, exported the year before.
Postmaster General Burleson has
issued an order which becomes ef-
fective January /, prohibiting h use
Of bicycles and motorcycles by rura!
delivery carriers in the discharge OF
their duty. A conservative estimat
places the number Of routes now COW
cred by this class Of vehicle at S,OOo
In addition to the bicycle n the
motorcycle being Inadequate to handle
the large amount Of mail which Is nov
carried because Of the parcel post
Mr.. Burleson declares it is very dan
gerous for carriers to use this method
Of travel. He declares many carriers
are killed and injured and that the
government must pay for these In
jured. Wherever possible AUTOMOBILES
will be used to cover h routes now
being served by the motorcycles.
Lon Dean, a sheep herder, who ad-
mits that he kidnapped Z. A. Empey'
was lodged in Jail at Idaho Falls, Idaho,
last Saturday, by cowboys after q
hard ride to save their captor from
lynchers. Dean was captured on
Sheep Mountain Friday night after
Empey had escaped. Dean, a slight
man, five feet four inches tall, said:
.I took this means Of getting money
as I thought I could do more GOOD
with 1t than those who had It" Dean
said that he had worked for Empey
five years ago. After abducting EN-
pey at the point Of a gun at his ranch
several days ago, he took his captive
to a hut on Sheep Mountain, five miles
from the ranch. Employs young son
was sent to notify the family that
Empey would be killed unless a ran
som Of Sc, 900 in gold was deposited al
a designated spot. The ransom was
raised and would have been paid had
not Empey escaped while his captor
was asleep. Empey said he had sur
fered nothing from his weeks captivity
Dean kept me fastened to a tree with
a chain and paddock he said. He
gave me the best Of food and bedding
and seemed to take excellent care OF
me. / thought him demented."
More than a thousand persons,
possibly as many as 1900, lost their
lives last Saturday morning as the re-
suit of the capsizing of the steel lake
steamer Eastland, as she was moving
away from her wharf in the Chicago
river. The steamer was loaded with
employees Of the Western Electric
company, who were about to go on
their annual excursion across Lake
Michigan. 1t was a free excursion and
there were more thar $500 people on
hand to 60. When the officers in
charge began Il fear that the ship
was being loaded beyond its capacity.
they shut the gates and gave orders to
cut loose. About that time a big
launch passed along the river, and
many people rushed to one side OF
the ship to view the sight. The big
ship suddenly began to list and then
within less than five minutes 1t turned
over on its side carrying the passen-
gers down with it. Many were rescued
from the water; but at least half of
those on board were drowned. The
exact cause Of the sinking Of the ship
was not known; but 1t was thought
that there was something wrong with
the water ballast and that when the
weight Of too large a proportion of the
passenger was thrown to n side;
the ship was overturned.
THE plea Of the s~ix-year-old child
to Governor Harris Of Georgia, at Mil
l~edgeville, last Saturday, won a pardon
Of freedom for Thomas Edgar Strip
ling, who was arrested in Danville.
Va, in 1911, where he was chief OF
police, and returned there to spend his
life in prison for murder after he had
escaped from Jail IA years before,
while awaiting transfer to the Geor-
gia prison farm. Learning that the
governor would visit the prison on
Saturday, Bessie Lucille, Stripling's lit
tie daughter, obtained permission to
be present and make her appeal. Mr.,
Governor, won't you please turn my
and there is nobody home to work for
us. Please turn him loose, Mr.. Gov
ernor.' Governor Harris, visibly affect
ed by the childish plea, patted her on
the head and replied: Little girl, run
and tell your papa that I'm going to
turn him out Of here. Tell him that ]
am going to pardon him." Later, after
the prisoners daughter had told him OF
the decision, the governor himself Wis
tied Stripping. He did not announce the
date the pardon would be given. Strip
ling was known as r. E. Morris in
Danville, where he was prominent
Four years ago he was recognized by
a former acquaintance. He admitted
his identity and voluntarily returned to
this state, where he had been convicted
Of chnnfin0 NY Cnrnatt in 1SQ7
Two other governors have refused
clemency pleas in behalf of Stripping
He is said to be in i'll health.
- English soldiers in the Dardanelles
have uncovered some ancient Greek
relics of great interest in the course
Of their trench digging. A soldier, who
was connected with the British mu-
scum before the war, describes his eX-
cavation in a letter just received in
London. I'VE are fighting above a
Greek cemetery Of great antiquity, and
in digging our latest line Of trenches
we found stone ~sarcophagi which are
certainly more than 1000 years old
probably $500 years. The walls are
thick and the collins very big. They
are filled with fine earth which has
slowly intruded through the cracks OF
the lid. With great care we sift Out
from this h skeletons, more or less
preserved, and in the bottom we find
vases, bowls lamps, and sometimes
statues. The potteries, decorated with
the faces Of men and women, are OF
exquisite form. l have before me now
a delicate cup which the slightest
shock would break. 1t symbolizes the
peculiar and characteristic beauty OF
form which Greece revealed to US. Its
long handles, ethereal in their delicacy,
give to this thing the palpitations OF
wings. Send me a copy of h Iliad OF
Homer by the next mail. 1t will be
interesting to read the Iliad with the
country Of the poem before me-"
Pending President Wilson's return
from New Hampshire wheE he will
formulate with Secretary Garrison and
Secretary Daniels what the White
House has announced will De a sane
reasonable and practical national de-
Tense programme, army n naval Of
ficials are assembling information on
which the new military policy will be
founded. 1t is known that the army
and navy boards at work on the needs
of the respective services already have
their tasks well advanced. 1t has
been planned to lay the reports before
the respective secretaries within a
month or six weeks, but in view Of the
White House statement, it was consid-
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