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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06
VALUABLE PECAN TREE
Texas Farmers-Has Declined Offer of
$1,000 For One.

What is said to be the most valu-
able pecan tree in the United States
is situated near Concrete, Texas. 1t
is. owned by a. B. Roth, a farmer. who
was offered and refused 81 1000 for the
tree as 1t stands. From the nuts of
this tree Roth is planting a 100-acre
pecan tree orchard. The trees are
being planted in squares sixty feet
apart. The nuts of the remarkable
tree are. large and of the soft shell
variety. They are in such demand
for planting purposes that they sci!
readily for 81 pound.
When the little pecan trees are two
years old they will be. budded with
buds from the parent tree, which will
assure their bearing true to the orig
inal stock.
Roth, from a few trees on his place,
sold over $4,000 worth of trees last
year. AS there will be 1900 trees on
the 100 acres, and buds from only the
best trees will be used, it should pro-
duce a fortune in ten years, according
to pecan growing authorities.
Because of the deep roofing system
of the pecan, tthe general farh work
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I SALMON SCARCE
Continued From Page One.)

Continued From Page One)
Of the fish travel on a belt to the
washing troughs, where men and wo-
pen, usually Chinese and Indians, or
Japanese, thoroughly scrub them, The
cleaned fish move to the "slicer," and
are inspected on the way. The slicer
cuts the body into the familiar steaks
varying in size. according to the type
of cans to be used. The two chiefly
Used cans are known as tails" and
flats" and hold one-half pound or
one pound special oval tin is put
up by few canneries. These contain
the highest grade Of salmon. u
Leaving the silver, the steaks stay
an hour in salt brine. contained In
great square tanks. After this the
steaks go to the tins, and are loaded
about a thousand tins at a time on
motor trucks which, roll into the 'stea
cooking rooms. The fish 9are cooked
for four hours by a steam process.
The tins are then , cooled, japanned.
labeled and cased, and piled high,
ready for the steamers cally
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06
,uth and a national calamity. ,

south and national calamity,
All of this in spite of the fact that
Mr.. Adams and his. associates prob
ably can remember some 20 or 30
years ago when children slaved in the
textile mills from six years of age
and up, and when these children, to-
gether with their fathers, mothers.
sisters and brothers. worked 13 and
IA hours day, and the work week
had no limit.
They probably can remember, IL
indeed They ever can forget, the pal
lid faces of these pitiful, premature
ly aged children; their scanty cloth
sing and undernodrished bodies re-
sulting from wages so low that they
could not afford the necessaries Of
life in sufficient quantity the 'miser-
:able huts called company cottages
With such SURROUNDINGS as to cause a
milr village of'fhose days to he re-
gcrded as blot upon the land and
accordingly Stunned by those not
working in the mills.
Our conditions have improved much
since then, but this Improvement is
in, mo whit due to efforts of Mr..
Adams, or those who hold with his
views, who instead have in the past
and will probably continue in the
future, to do all in their power to re-
tard the progress of the textile work.
er. Unless, indeed, they themselves
progress far enough to enable them
TO see beyond their noses and come
to realize their interests are indivi-
dually united with, ours, in evidence
of which dare aver that the profits
of the textile manufacturers are no
less, and indeed great deal more,
than when the above mentioned de-
plorable condition existed.
The improved conditions surround
ing the textile workers We're brought
about through the Outside interfer-
ence' which Mr.. Adams so abhors
and which he says must be done
away with in order that the glorious
conditions Ito him) of 80 years ago
he re-established.
He and his associates rejoice in the
fact that at pre4ent the child labor
law is unconstitutional, but they must
not forget that public opinion has
weight, and that, the majority of
American citizens are in favor of
giving American children the bene-
fits to which they are so manifestly
entitled.
Prohibition was unconstitutional a
few years ago. but today it is a ma
ftional law because, although detri-
mental ito fhe, interests of a few, it
was advantageous to the majority,
and our people belonging to a society
of true. democracy will not long delay
amending that which prevents the
upholding of law. the annuling of
which is prejudicial. to thee interest
of the majority. And that in spite of
efforts to the contrary of a few selfish
hypocrites, : ranting of democracy,
which though few in number, we.
wish they were fewer.
G. G. Johnson.
/. Rock Hill. s.. May ,2& 1922. gy,S,,' gs,S., !,
.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06
BIRD FIRES OWN HOME
Morrow, Ga, Citizens Puzzled Over
Antics of Woodpecker.


y redzheaded woodpecker, harmless
feathery creature of the air, whose
habits heretofore have been inter-
esting but never exciting has set the
ctizenry of Morrow, Ga, an ,agog.
And rightly so, for this same harm
less bird, in some miraculous fashion,
set fire to one of the largest oak trees
in that town, in the front yard of w.
j. Nolan's home. Mr.. Nolan, who is
n Whitehall street jeweler, vouched
for the story and gave list of about
80 neighbors who. saw the strange
event.
For several days I had watched
that woodpecker work on his home
there in my yard" Mr.. Nolan said. Il
could hear him hammering away,
working overtime it. seemed to me,
but, l. didn't pay much attention to
him. The tree had been 'doped' and
was dead about two feet down from
the top.
Sunday afternoon I noticed a red
glow of some smoke coming out Of
the tree. I watched 1t for a while,
and it got bigger and bigger. When
evening came a number of neighbors
Ic9me by and watched the tree burn.
!. T,stayed up for 1 was afraid that a
wit might come up and set my house,
on Me- At last, about 9 o'clock, we
had to. cut the tree down and put out
the fire. i
"There are no wires whatever in
my yard and there was no possible,
way for that tree to catch on. fire
without the help OF. the woodpecker.
The fire seemed to have been. on the,
inside of the tree and when we had
cut it down nearly all the inside had
been burned. rs
There have been a lot of specnla-
tions about it. don't know what
to believe myself
"My little boy had one suggestion
that is. about ass good as any. He
said that the bird had worked so hard
that its bill had got hot and set fire,
to the dead part of the tree. One
neighbor' was positive that there was
some sort of gas formed by the dead
wood. Still another thought that.
squirrels had been there and left a
match which the woodpecker had
struck. However ii wasS-J know he
must have been the cause of it. The,
woodpecker does not carry debris to
its nest"
: "Naturalists might find something
interesting in this 10 work on" he
said. "As for. me- I don't know"
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storm broke. Her mother. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick daughter
Of John d. Rockefeller. tas applied
to the courts to limi; the guardian
shin of Harold F. Mccormick her
divorced husband, in so far as 1t
concerns the wedding OF the girl.
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skit that Paul wrote, and in which he
was first a tramp and then blacked
up for a finale, they had fair luck
The World war stopped that.
Broadway Passed Them Up.
Returning to America in 1917, Paul
and Phyllis,found America had out
grown them. They were old fash
joined. Their vaudeville engagements
were cancelled. s,t
Their money was going fast on un-
Broadway so they bought
a, cottage at Weir, N. H., where Mrs
Barnes supported the two by keeping
summer boarders. Paul developed
Iparesis two years ago. He wandered
away a year ago. and when he turned
up In st. Louis, Mrs. Barnes mortg
aged the cottage and had him brought
to New York, where, by establishing
residence here, she was permitted to
have him sent to the free state asylum
on Wards Island. . ..
= Until short time before his death
his wife visited him daily; though he
could not recognize her. From what
remained of the mortgage money she
took him a. pint of ice cream daily.
She left town two weeks before his
death to reopen her boarding house.
1t is understood the Masonic order
and the National Vaudeville Artists
paid SO a week. to the asylum for
little comforts for him.
Paul Barnes's real name was
George F. Feger. He was fifty-two.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06

Battle of the ,Kess"-In January
177S, while the British occupied Phil
adelphia, the Americans sent kegs
down the Delaware from Bordentown
filed with powder and furnished with
machinery which, coming in contact
with any object, would explode, the
intention being to destroy the Brit
ish shipping at Philadelphia. The
vessels that very day had been placed
in dock for the winter, and thus es-
capped injury.
Some of the kegs exploding near the
city gave the alarm, whereupon' the
British opened fire upon every floating
thing seen on the river for the rest OF
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06

Per5ecuted.-"You say this man has
a Crude against -you?" demanded the
judge.
Yes, your honor" replied Bill the
Beggar. when was blind he useta
steal the pennies. from my cup and
when ] was cripple he'd run down
de street wild my box of pencils"
Anything else?"
Yes, yer honor. Once when l was
deaf and dumb he shot off firecrack-
er underneath me-" .a
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r. Oil burners are to be installed on
the locomotives of the state railways
of Argentina. Petroleum will be sold
TO the railways for 27 pesos a ton de-
lIvered at Santa Fe. The present fuel,
quebracho wood, costs IL pesos ton
and il is estimated that ton of pc
troleum will equal four tons OF que.
-bracho. making IL possible to conserve
this valuable lumber tree.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06

Mathilde McCormick's bark OF
love is rocking periloui!y in the
sea Of law. Until 1. shor; time ago
che was sailing serenely in smooth
waters, apparently bourd for the
arms of the man she loves Max
Oser, a Swiss horseman The7 the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06

will not be interfered with and the
trees will not interrupt the growing
of crops on the land. cultivation of
which will force growth upon4 the
trees, it is explained
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Tuesday, June 6, 1922.

lIlt uiN.
This firing, called the Battle of
the Kegs" furnished Francis Hopkin-
son a subject for a facetious poem Of
twenty-five stanzaS-Detroit News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06
CHILD LABOR QUESTION
Correspondent Discusses Welfare Of
Worker from Workers Standpoint.

Editor Yorkville Enquirer:
Please find enclosed clipping from
scnthe Charlotte Herald, an article by Mr.
so. G.. Johnson of Rock Hill regarding
the child labor law, which seems to pc
a fairly good write-up on this subject.
VIII you kindly make mention of this
article in your next issue for the bene-
fit of the mill people in this section?
Assuring you Of my sincere apprecia:-
ton for past favors, l remain
Yours very sincerely,
i,.;.. - .'iG,.Hli sJT.iiiFred B.. Cotton.
Rock Hin. May29. -.
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Mrs. Mccormick says that Oser Is :
without certain means e liTeli-
hood, and that he is witt out finds
to maintain and support her
daughter, and that he desires this
marriage chiefly because he be-
iieyes he, will secure large sun.s OF +.
money and financial gaia,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06

! a4 France is fissuing new. 5O-centime
coins in bronze aluminium. -.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-16
TORIES ARE AHEAD
Law VIII Have Working Ma
jority in Parliament.
Late Returns Roll Up Plurality
of Conservatives.
TWO WOMEN ARE ELECTED
Lloyd Georges Defeat Blamed
to Poor Organization.
Both Laborites and Liberals
Have Made Bis. Gains.
TWO WOMEN ARE ELECTED

London, Nov. 10.-Premier Andrew
Bonar Laws Tory government will
have a working majority in the next
house of commons, it was revealed
this afternoon by a partial count of
the returns from yesterdays election.
The returns tabulated up to
o'clock show the following elected:
Tories. 230; Laborites, Ss: Asquith
Liberals, 80; Lloyd George Liberals,
27; others, 8.
Constituencies not yet counted, 232.
At least two women were elected
Viscountess Astor and Mrs. Thomas
Wintringham. Both were members of
the old parliament. The new parlia-
ment will assemble November 20.
Lloyd Georges chief whip" in COM
mons, Charles MacCurdy, defeated
Miss Margaret Bondfield, one of the
women candidates on the labor ticket.
The results in this afternoon showed
that rs per cent of the registered vote
turned out.
Lloyd Georges defeat is generally
attributed to poor party organization.
Law Is Satisfied.
Premier Bonar Law said at noon
that he was entirely satisfied with the
results. He said he expected the Tory
cabinet to have a working majority
but ne would not make any specific
prediction as to figures. He added
that he did not believe the laborites
and liberals would make any further
gains.
Former Premier gAsquith was re-
elected by the slender majority of 315
votes.
Premier Andrew Bonar Law was
reelected at Glasgow with majority
of 2,00O.
Former Premier Lloyd George was
reelected unopposed at Carnarvon,
Wales.
The government sustained severe
losses thru the switch of votes from
the Tory to the Socialisy-labor ticket.
Government 'Whip" Loses.
The chief government whip in
commons, Col. Leslie Wilson, was de-
feated.
Colonel Stanley, under secretary of
state for foreign affairs and a brother
of Lord Derby, the war secretary, was
defeated.
Lord Derby was reelected by a ma
jority of 1900.
India gains a seat in commons thru
the election of Saklatvala Parsee on
the laborite ticket from Battersea.
J. H. Thomas, England's foremost
labor leader, was also elected.
E. c. Montague. former secretary
orIndia, was defeated in Cambridge
shire by H. Gray, Tory.
Altho 308 seats would give the
Bonar Law government a majority
experts agree that 327 are necessary
for a working majority. 1t was point
ed out that Premier William Ewart
Gladstone, with majority of forty,
had a most difficult time to carry on.
It is probable there will be no party
line drawn during consideration of the
Anglo-Irish peace treaty but that Pre-
nier Bonar Law will face a. confidence
as soon as the Irish issue is out of the
way
Lloyd George was not daunted by
the results.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-16
Wealthy Communist Must Serve
Fiye-Year Sentence.
Friend of s.Big Bill" and Long
Known as Radical.
-Rr the Associated Press.l

Chicago. Nov. 16.-The two year
fight OF William Bross Lloyd, wealthy
communist, to escape a five year pen
itentiary sentence for violation of the
Illinois espionage act known as the
Overthrow" law, ended at midnight
here, Chief Justice Thompson of the
Illinois supreme court announced it
would deny Lloyd's motion to stay the
sentence until December Is.
Lloyd and seventeen other members
of the communist party were convict
ed in Chicago in August, 1920. They
were accused of advocating overthrow
of5the government. Necessary papers
for Eoyd's imprisonment were ex-
pected to be issued today. In addition
to- prison sentences most of the de-
PENDANTS were fined various amounts.
Lloyd's fine was $4,000.
Radical for Years.
Lloyd has been known as a radical
for years. With his wife, Madge Bird.
he took. an active part in the affairs of
the left wing Socialists during the war.
Lloyd was elected sergeant-at-arms of
the communication party. He was
a close friend of william d. ''Big
BilP' Haywood, former I. w. w. lead
er, who fled to Russia last year to eS-
cape a twenty year prison sentence.
Rock Island, Ill. Nov. 16.-The I'LL
no1s supreme court mandate ordering 6
William Bross Lloyd, millionaire Chi
five years for violation of the state
nti-syndicalismr law, will be served
on Sheriff Peters of Cook county to-
day, Chief Justice Thompson an
nounced this morning.
Too Much Money, Says Court.
Judge Thompson last midnight de-
MED LIoyd's plea for a thirty day stay
to permit him to arrange for the han
ding of his $1,S00,000 estate.
No man going to the prison ought
to have that much money! Justice
Thompson commented in denying the
delay.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-16
SEVEN new STREET CARS
Will Be Placed in Service on Wash
burn-Huntoon Line.

Seven of the ten new one-man street
cars for the Topeka street Railway
company arrived today over the Santa
Fe after having been en- route from
st. Louis for more than three weeks.
The remaining three are not yet in.
The new cars are of the same model
as those which have been running on
the Washburn-Huntoon line, with
some minor improvements in details.
1t is planned to withdraw the eight
one-man cars now on the Huntoon
line and put them thru the paint
shop, where they have been due for
the past four months, while the new
cars take their places. When the old
cars have been refinished, and return
ed to The Huntoon line, the new cars
will probably be put onto the West
Sixth avenue or Northumberland
line, leaving only the Lowman Hill
line equipped with two-man cars.
In case this is done, more cars will
be operated. over the Washburn-
Douthitt line than are now run, with
shorter time between cars, A M
panH stated today, and the service on
that line will be correspondingly inn
proved.
None of our men will be thrown
out of jobs by the putting on of the
one-man cars. Our force of trainmen
is now a little short, and there will be
jobs for all of them. tho there will be
a complete rearrangement of runs
Patten said.
1t will be two or three days before
the new cars are assembled and tested
and sent out on the line. They cost
approximately $4,000 each.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-16
FIGHT FOR TRUTHILLOYD TO PRISON
Accuracy Is Miracle of Journal
ism, Says White.
Modern Press Is Upheld by
Speaker at Manhattan.

Manhattan, Nov. 16.-''The miracle
of modern journalism lies not so much
in the triumphs over obstacles of time
and space in the gathering and dis
semination of news, as in the accuracy
of the press Lee A. White, of the De-
troit News editorial starr, said in an
address here today before students of
the Kansas Agricultural college.
White a past president of Sigma
Delta Chi, professional journalism fra
ternity, is here attending the national
convention of the organization.
This statement as 20 the accuracy
of the press runs counter to popular
opinion White said, because error
is conspicuous while accuracy is taken
for granted, expected and not noticed
Fight Never Ending War.
'The newspaper editor and reporter
are engaged in a never ending war
upon those who, out of mor1ves of self
interest or prejudice, are engaged in
a constant conspiracy either to spread
untruth or to conceal TRUTH"
The speaker declared America never
knew ''as worthy, as honorable, as
interesting and as socially Serviceable
a press as that of today
THE press,' White continued, ''suf-
fers unfair indictm ments for seeming to
cater to depraved tastes in the publi-
cation of sensational news.
Read What They Like.
'"These indictm ents.''- he said. ARE
not infrequently a. confession on the
part of the critic of an interest in such
news out of all proportion to its i'm
portance. For after all people find
in a newspaper what they want to
read and are oblivious to that substan-
tiaI news which after all everywhere
interest that the average human beinS
constantly Seeks
The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-16
Score of State Jobs Ready for
New Governor to Fill.
Good Salaried Positions Are at
Hands of J. NJ. Davis.
SENATE is A REAL PROBLEM
But 1t Is Believed There viii
Be No Trouble This Year.
First PIucking for Democrats
Since Hodges Was in Chair.

A score of state jobs with salaries
attached are the plums dangling from
the Kansas political tree-necessarily
the Democratic tree-with the advent
of the new governors Inauguration
only six weeks ahead. With a Demo-
cratic governor, Jonathan NJ. Davis,
in the chair, Democrats will doubtless
receive appointments to these posi-
tions. 1t is the first time that party
has been in position for political ap-
pointments since the election of
George NJ. Hodges, ten years ago this
fall In addition to this score of posi-
uons, it is customary for the COVER
nor to be consulted upon appoint
ments to a number of other positions.
The enigma to the new political sit
uation in Kansas, however, will be the
fact that while the state has a Demo-
cratic governor, the senate by whom
appointments made by the governor
must be approved to become valid, has
but two Democrats out of a member
ship of forty
1t is generally conceded, as it was
when George H. Hodges was governor,
that regardless of the political com
plexion of the senate, the privilege of
the governor to make the regular state
appointments will be granted without
interference from the senate.
The list of appointive state offices
and salaries attached are as follows:
State accountant. $4,000.
Adjutant general. $500
State architect, $500.
Members of the industrial court
(three members), $4,000 each.
Public utilities commission, (two
appointments), $4,000.
Hotel commissioner. $4,000.
Irrigation commissioner, $4,000.
Live stock sanitary commissioner,
$z,5OO.
State oil inspector, $4,000.
State highway engineer, 81, 200
:, S-N,-r . To-, FrNr1
appointment), $4,000.
There are also, number of minor
such as members to
state boards-civil service, barber ex-
aminers, dental examiners, board of
education, etc, to which there is no
particular salary attached.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-16
FIND MRS. PHILLIPS GUILTY
Slayer of Mrs. Alberta Meadows Liable
to Long Prison Sentence.

Los Angeles, Nov. ia verdict of
guilty of murder in the second degree
was brought in today against Clara
Phillips in the hammer murder" of
Mrs. Alberta Meadows. The verdict
carries with it Imprisonment of from
ten years to life.
The verdict was reached after the
jury had been out almost "a hours.
Defense Attorney Bert Harrington
announced Immediately that he would
appeal the case to the higher courts.
Judge Houser Immediately set next
Monday at 10 o'clock as the hour of
passing sentence on Mrs. Phillips.
Mrs Phillips received the verdict
unflinchingly.
Asked If she had any comment to
make on the verdict, Mrs. Phillips re-
piled:
II have my own ideas about things
like that"
The defense of insanity presented
by Mrs. Phillips was said to have been
discarded by all the jurors and was
never given any serious consideration.
The four jurors who saved Mrs.
Phillips from the death penalty
by voting for a compromise verdict,
contended that Peggy Caffee. star
prosecution witness. was equally as
guilty as Mrs. Philips of the crime
and that Mrs. Phillips should not be
punished while Mrs. Caffee went free.