Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-12
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Awireless messages from CONSTANT
nople to British newspapers, bring the
information that the Turks have COM
pletely overrun the Greeks in Antolia,
the authorities at Angora claiming that
since the opening of the recent offen-
siye 10000 Greeks have been killed and
10000 have been taken prfsoiIer. The
Turks have taken Smyrna.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of
the president, has been seriously Ill
since last Thursday. In fact her con-
dition has been critical. She UNDER
went a surgical operation several years
ago of q very grave nature, and al
though there was Improvement, and
periods of normal 'healtH she has had
several occurrences of the old malady,
some of them very alarming. Her pres
erif illness began to cause grave con-
cefn about Thursday and her condition
was made public. The anxiety over
Mrs. Hardmg's condition during the
past several days has been intense ana
although the physicians are hoperus
they do not try to offer very strong en-
couragement as to the probable out
come of the present attack.
IA broad investigation into the
methods and Practices employed in
the marketing of cotton was ordered
by the senate Saturday in the adop-
tion of the resolution by Senator
smith, Democrat, South Carolina,
which seeks to determine whether
there is interference with the law or
supply and demand in the cotton mark-
ct, 1t Is claimed In preambles 10 the
resolution that the combination OF the
carryover and the estimated productioh
for this year will not be sufficient 10
meet the world demand and yet quo
tations fail 4! utterly to respond to
these coalitions" 1t is further stated
that cotton consumption both here
and abroad has increased but there
has been no corresponding increase In
revenue to the producers. a condition
which 1t is alleged threatens to Sc
riously damage the industry. The in
vestigatfon Is to be conducted by the
senate agriculture committee.
The municipality of Saltillo. MeXi-
co. has restored to the foreign mission
board of the Southern Baptist con-
vention virtually all of the property
seized by the city government from
the mission board in 1917, Acting Sec
retary Phillips of the state depart
ment reported yesterday IN letter TO
Senator Harris of Georgia. Secretary
Phillips stated that the Mexicans still
were holding a vacant plaza in front
of the main. property which had been
used by the mission board for school
. purposes but gave no further informa-
tion regarding the return of the prop
erty. The school and land was taken
by the municipal authorities for hos
pital purposes they claimed, during
the revolutionary activities in that
part of Coahuilla in 1917, alleging that
contractual obligations entered into by
the board had not been carried out.
The mission board, 1t was said, at
Senator Harris office today maintain
ed that ii has acquired absolute title
to the property and Senator Harris
was asked some time ago to take up
with the state department restoration
of the. property.
- The manufactured products OF
cotton mills in South Carolina for the
year ending with August were valued
at $lS34 Sg62 as compared with
$176,775ss535 for THE year Befofe 'ac-
cording to an annual statistical report
Of the de, artment' Of agriculture, is.
sued few days ago. Capital stock
invested in cotton mills during the
past year totaled $120,505,576. as COM
pared with S123,395,1s0 the year be-
fore. The plant investment Increased
from S150,742,14S to $155,354,299. The
spindleage Increased in the. year from
5.034,S61 to 5,075,673. Looms de-
creased from 117,342 to 115,217. The
mills during the year used S73,6S1
bales of short staple cotton and 490y-
72s of long staple and coal to the
amount of 50S.772 tons. The mills
employed 35,917 white male operatives
rtvl1i IL 1o1A
S12 negro female, 1926 boys between
Id and 16, and 1872 girls between IA
and 16. The mill village population
is estimated at 147,S64. The report
showSS that Spartanburg leads Green
vile in the number of spindles, looms,
cotton and coal consumed, value of
production and hydro electric power.
Greenville leads in capital invested in
plants, number Of women employed
and steam power.
Jackson, California, September 10:
Drills were whirling in the slate rock
at. the $500 foot level of the Kennedy
mine tonight as rescue workers were
trying franticalIy to break through 10
the 4,600 foot level of the burning
Argonaut mine, where Al miners have
been entombed nearly two weeks.
Drills, capable of 1,l00 revolutions a
minute, were being used. Only 142
feet of rock now separates the Ken
nedy and Argonaut shafts at this
point On the $500 foot level of the
Kennedy mine. lao feet more of pro-
gress were needed at o'clock today
TO reach tie rs feet OF hard rock sepa-
rating the rescue crew there from the
400 foot level of the Argonaut. Fred
l.. Lowell, safety engineer of the CAL
ifornia industrial accident commission
announced that q clear space had been
reached and the rescue workers could
see ahead for 25 feet. This fortunate
circumstance will pull down the ham
dicap of the Argonaut miners. who
are working on the $500 foot level in
the race against the Kennedy crew on
the $500 foot level, to release their
entombed comrades and incidentally
win the $4,000 bonus offered to the
trst crew breaking through into the
= <Argonaut mine.
= Four true bills in which thirty
hve, residents of Williamson county
l1nois, were indicted on the charge of
murder were returned Thursday after
noon by the special grand jury. Most
OF the men named are miners. One is
q, negro deputy sheriff. These indict-
Gelfts cover the massacre on the
morning of June 90 at Herrin. The
indictments of Otis Clark week before
Iaso disposed of the killing of c. K
Mepoweil, mine superintendent. In