Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-30
Scraps aud faets.


iterranean and Black seas, except
those Of France. Russia, Spain and
Portugal Russian ports on the Bal
tic are included in the prohibition
areas. The demand Of the British
public for specific prohibition
against expectation Of cotton has been
insistent. but the government mere.
tofore has contended that the expor!
has been prevented by the genera
blockade against Germany.
A cable under Paris date line
says the German government Is COL
lecting all the copper coins available
throughout the empire and through
out the Balkans for use in the manu-
racture Of cartridge cases and foI
collars for shells for big guns. While
there is no question Of the fact that
immense quantities Of copper are re-
Quired in the manufacture or ammu-
milton, there is more or less Questlon
as to the supplies Of the various
armies. The allies have been send
ing out frequent reports to the e.iec'
lnat the Germans are short on copper,
but the Germans have been making
denial. The story Of the collection OF
copper coins for the purpose OF manu-
facture into cartridge cases may or
may not be true.
has been retained by the department
of Justice to assist in the defense of
the Injunction suit brought by the
Riggs National bank against Secre-
tary McAdoo, Comptroller Of the Cur
rency Williams and United States
Treasurer John Burke. This was an
nounced last Wednesday night after
a conference between Mr.. Untermyer
and Attorney General Gregory and
Louis D. Brandeis, who has been re-
tanned as chief counsel for the gov
ernment in the proceedings. Mr..
Untermyer was counsel for the con-
gressional money trust investigating
committee and is an authority on
banking conditions and financial rela-
tions. The hearing on the injunction
suit will begin May II. The petition
charges Secretary McAdoo and Comp
troller williams with conspiracy to
wreck the bank.
Administration officials are opti-
mistic over prospects that the income
tax this year will yield an amount
considerably in excess of the original
estimate Of sSO,000,000. This optim-
ism was based upon full preliminary
estimates to the treasury department
which placed the sum to be collected
from the individual and corporation
fident, however, that the returns will
exceed that sum by several millions.
This is highly gratifying to them be-
cause II had been predicted that the
European war and the tariff would
operate to prevent a large return.
II the estimate Is borne out the pros
pectiye issue of Panama canal bonds
to swell the slowly sinking fund OF
the treasury may be delayed longer
than had been expected. While pros
poets are that the yield from corpor-
ations will not come up to expecta-
tions, this loss will be more than over
come by returns from individuals. 1t
is believed that the warning by treas
ury officials that they would pursue
those suspected Of tax lodging has
had the effect Of increasing the num-
Der Of individual taxables this year
over last, when there was 357, 900 per-
sons who paid.
The French armored cruiser Leon
Gambetta has been torpedoed ana
sunk in the Ionian sea with the loss
Of all Of her officers and all except
1876 members Of her crew, according
to an official announcement Wednes-
day, by the French ministry OF ma
rine. The number Of the crew was
not given, but it was believed the
was estimated that about 600 men
perished. While the French commu-
nication did not say by what the
cruiser was torpedoed, an official re-
port from Vienna said the warship
was sent down by Austrian submarine
Us, commanded by Lieut.. George
Ritter Won Trapp. The communica-
ton issued by the ministry Of marine
was as follows: The armored cruis-
er Leon Gambetta, cruising at the
entrance Of the Otranto canal, was
torpedoed the night Of April 26-27,
and went to the bottom in ten min
utes. All the officers on board per-
ished at their posts. One hundred
and thirty-six members Of the crew,
including eleven under officers, were
rescued by vessels sent out promptly
to their help by the Italian authori-
ties. The list of survivors has not yet
been received at the ministry Of ma
rine."
The longest early spring drought
in more than forty years now exists
over eastern United States, announced
the National Weekly Water and Crop
bulletin last Wednesday. Cotton and
truck crops in the southeast are suf-
fering. In Texas and Oklahoma eX-
cessive rains greatly hindered from
work." says the bulletin, fields were
badly washed, bottom lands We're
flooded, and much land already plant
ed to cotton and corn will have to be
re-planted while the wet soil will
further delay cotton planting which
is generally considered several weeks
late. In the central states Of the cot
ton belt planting progressed and local
showers greatly benefited that already
planted in many sections. In the east
ern states of the belt the crop has
been largely planted and but little
growth is possible on account OF
drought and termination Of late plant
ed and will be delayed until rain oc-
ours. In the principal trucking dis
tricts to the eastward Of the Missis-
sippi, most crops are suffering for
rain, especially in the south Atlantic
coast districts. Early planted corn
is coming up, but later planted over
the southern states east of the MiSSiS-
sippi has not terminated we'll on ac-
count Of drought"
Washington, which is a political
watchtower for national develop
ment in anything that may affect the
presidency, says a dispatch, has been
following the progress Of the Barnes
Roosevelt trial at Syracuse with keen
interest. On every hand there is a
leSllnS tndt COlOnel hOOSeVelt Has
come back" politically as the result
of the developments thus far. There
were many hints passed out before the
trial began that the plaintiff and his
attorneys would go into the case arm
ed for the colonel, and that he would
he finished" before the trial ended,
This notice added 10 the widespread
interest in the case and increased the
advertising the colonel has got out
of it. Politicians agree that the case
has given Colonel Roosevelt the prom
inence that was necessary to make
him q political factor again. His
views on political morality" go out to
the country at time when it will do
him good. The effect is certain to be
felt i'm the pre- convention campaign
of the Republican nomination for
president in 1916, in which the colonel
already has intimated to more than
one friend that he expects to take a
part. He has disclaimed any inten-
ton of being candidate and this was
reiterated by Senator Borah of Chica
go few days ago, after talk with
Colonel Roosevelt. Whatever may be
the ultimate effect following the ver
dict of the jury, there is no doubt
that the effect has been to stir revival