Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-10
Scraps and facts.

leans have Deen kllieu W ss.r;ot of
bandits in the La COLORADO oistr' at two ",
syeaEs according to the statements VI
n,na American mining men VINO az.
ri,-ad of Noagles, Arizona, from tI,a' @
na,gbhorhood. last Saturday nlght. me ne
Marty of Americans, whose hoiieS hoieio
IN Arizona, Colorado and Calliornla'
have sent a. statement on conuilIo.t'
in that district to the state uepat ~
ment at Washington with eopi9e ebn "
Senators Thomas, OF Coiorauo, Su,;tb
son, of California. ana MalIuo
and Henry F. Ashurst, or Arizoha'
Admiral Kolchak, in his hoie 1
answering proposals made by Ine a. -,
lied and associated powers, oetn, oeClalHS, as e.,
general he adheres to the PrlaTtpett PaT,s OF
outlined by the powers. ne ',tsb of
Sonotb ON the spontaneous WISH VI VI
pmssia and the men speaking In her
.arna m proceed with national recon
.tr,ction on a most democratic pasis;
Snncerning the new countries lornteu "
tha borders of Russia, he says ms
sn,,ernment already has recoghiEeIi
tsSa indenendence of Poland, but ii1ai M
tront;ars will have to be adjusted Wy
,,,,,t,,aI agreement. Concerning the hus.
sian debts. Admiral Kolchak reltera.eH o,,
the decision of his government " pS
all debts contracted by tne IoI7
governments up to NoNelI reyol.
the beginning OF the boishe't
ution- am
ORGANIZATION of the S1OO'ooo,vov,
American Cotton Export anu nc CO. rer
CORPORATION was brought q slep me or-
completion at a meeting In Nem ,t;,,e
leans last Saturday OF lha which
committee of the corporation, otors
nn;nteS ITS first board of directors
ga launched a movement for tne noiu.
i',a. Of q conference of cotton INTERESTS
-. Do,ias Texas The meeting which "
WAS presided over by Governor S,o5 n
pleasant chairman, was hcld oeninu
Closed doors. The board or dlreGlols'
comnosed of fifteen members, eienen
~ which are members or the eAecu.soe 5
committee, and four at large, VIZ
cided on as follows: Governor o,rn ~
pleasant, Louisiana, chalrnlah' IJiUton
w Rogers, Little Rock, Ark; alhton
T. Carr birmingham, Ala; j. A. Brown
GbaSbonrn. N. c.: L. D. jennings
sumter s. c.; r. F. Willingham, Mac Mac
on Ga: Leroy Percy. Greenviiie'
Miss: X. A. Kemp, Wichita tails'
TaYes. p B. Snowden, Memphis; sen
ator p I. owen, Oklahoma, ana w.
q Thompson, New Orleans. Tne iouf
members at large are to be named Iat-
or. an members Of the executive Soii,.
mittee were present at SatuIuats
meeting with the exception OF Sgna.os a,,os
owen and Mr.. Kemp, OF TeXas. i. W.
$3.50 that no decision had been reach-
al &c to the selection Of permanent
headouarters Of the corporation.
nation Vide strike Of telegraph
"a te,enhone operators who are mem.
hars of the Commercial Telegrapners
union of America was ordered sun
day To take effect tomorrow morning
ats O'Clock, standard time. The or
der was issued at general headquarters
of the union at Chicago on telegraphlc
Instructions from S. j. konenKanhp'
international president, VINO was IN
pittshurgh on his way to chicago.
The strike order applies to employees
of the Western Union Telegraph com,
many. the American Telephone anu
Telegraph company and the fos!ai
TeIeeraph & Cable company with lts
associated institutions. 1t is estimated
AT headquarters here that the SIraNe IKE
would affect between 10000 and lOO,oOo
Individuals, Of whom nearly $4,000 were
said TO be members of the union:
Ontsfde of the union ranks, 1t was salu
MANY wire workers had pledged them
selves TO support strike. The decision
to call a nation wide srike was reach-
ed by President Konenkamp. aiter
spending several days in Washington
where he had directed strike OF un-
ion employees in 10 southern states.
That strike followed strike OF teie-
phone workers in Atlanta. where the
telenhone employees were said to nave
been discharged because OF union ar.
fliations. although the Southern Bell
Telephone company denied union mem
hership had been the basis OF any dls-
charges.
Now that the government has com
Melted its war time shipment to india
of silver from melted dollars, Direc.
tor of the Mint Baker has disclosed
how thousands of tons OF the mctal
were hauled from the Phladelpnia
mint to San Francisco in special trains
guarded by armed men without the
loss of an ounce and without genera
knowledge of the procedure. Eight
teen of these treasure trains made the
trim across the continent in the twelve
months ending last April %, with the
silver like bricks piled high in each
of the five express cars composing
special train. Two men with automa-
tic pistols at their hips and sawed off
shot guns on their laps sat IN each
car, and later guarded the secret
transfer of the white bars from tram
to ship at San Francisco. Each silver
brick weighed about 62 pounds ana
was worth $1,000 and each train car
ried between $5,000,000 and $1O,OOO,0OO
of the bricks. Wrecking of the trains
and theft Of the metal by bandits was
considered an ever-present menance
to be guarded against Guarded ship
ments of silver dollars also were MADE
from the treasury in Washington and
from the New Orleans sub-treasury 10
Philadelphia. These dollars traVeled
in stout bags in $1,000 each, and were
handled much like bags of sugar eX-
cept that armed men always We're
near. More than 265,000,000 silver dol
lars were melted and shipped to India
during the year to meet urgent de-
mands for coinage.
Sergeant Alvin c. York, the hero
of the Argonne drive, was married last
Saturday to Miss Oracle Williams, his
l7-year-old sweetheart. The marriage
took place at the York homestead, a
little cabin by a spring in the Cumoer-
land mountains, near the town OF Pail
Mall. in Fentress county, Tenn. Govern
or Albert II. Roberts performed the
ceremony It was a great picnic occa-
sion attended by people from all the
country around and they brought al
manner of good things. Before the
ceremony the members of the govern
or's staff presented York with COLO
ners uniform, eagles and all, and the
rlffrag gists Of the state presented MRS.
york with a beautiful brooch engraved
with the wedding date and the date OF
the passage of the suffrage amend
ment. The honeymoon trip is to be ex-
tended to Salt Lake. Utah, as the guests
of the Rotarians of Nashville ami san
lake. Mrs. Mary York, the sergeant
mother, who had not been as far as
the county seat of Fentress county Dul
twice in her life, accompanied the
Young people as far as Nashville ana
her visit was made most pleasant. MRS;
Alvin C. York, the young BRIDE, nau
never been outside of her native coun-
ty before and the people everywhere
of course, will bestir themselves to MAKE
memorable her wedding visit. YORK
people are very poor. Mrs. Yorks peo-
Die are comfortably well-to-do: II is
stated that Mrs. Yorks mother objected
TO her marriage to York; but her oo-
iections were withdrawn after he pe-
came famous.
Governor Hobby, of Texas, wants
troops sent to the Texas border. he