Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-17
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Arkansas and Oklahoma were swept
by a terrific tornado last Tuesday.
Not less than twenty-five people were
Killed according to early reports, and
q great many were wounded. More
than two hundred homes were leveled
and the property damage ran up into
the millions of dollars. The path of
the storm was only few hundred feet
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= Issuance of gold certificates with
but demand, discontinued in 1917, has
been resumed by the treasury. Gold
certificates have always been avail
able upon demand, but during the war
silver certificates were issued on ordl-
nary checks. Resumption of the ordi-
nary use Of gold certificates was sald
by treasury officials to remove the last
artificial currency situation growing
out of the war and to indicate a re-
turn to normal conditions. The treas
ury now holds approximately $1,000
800, 900 in gold and it was said there
IS now no re ason why gold certificates
should not be freely available.
= Treasury officials expected the
governments receipts of income and
profits tax due Wednesday to show
decrease OF more than S3OO,OOO,0O0
from the collections made during
March of last year. While the shrink
age In business and profits during the
calendar year 1921, Secretary Mellon
said yesterday makes the figures
somewhat uncertain officials estimate
that the first installment Of taxes on
incomes and profits for the year will
amount to $460,000,000 as compared
with $727, ,00O, 900 received from the first
installment on the 1920 taxes.
Governor Cooper has not as yet
signed the Foster telephone bill. which
became an act in the closing days OF
the recent legislature. The governor
will sign it, however, he says, but he
is holding back the action, in order to
give a hearing in the matter. He has
Indicated that the hearing will not ef-
feet his action in the matter, but he
simply wants to grant the wishes OF
the telephone company in nearing
their arguments why he should not
sign the act Both sides to the ques-
ton will probably be heard. The Fos-
ter act would put the telephone rates
back to the prices in effect the first or
1921, before the rates were increased,
under authority OF the railroad COM
mission. The act is regarded as
rather dramatic and unusual legisla-
tion, in that it fixed prices. 1t is
stated that the telephone company has
already put the matter in the hands of
its lawyers, for testing in the courts,
on the ground of the company's ale
CATION that the act is unconstitutional.
.--O One man was killed and twenty
thousand were rendered idle by fire
that wiped out q block of office build
ings in the centre Of Chicago, early
Wednesday morning. The property
loss Is estimated at not less than $5,-
100000 but insurance experts say be-
tween Sl0,O00,e00 and S15,000,000 Is
nearer the correct figures. The fire Is
said to have broken ont at several
places at the same time, and Is be-
lieved to be of incendiary origin. In
all fifty-two fire companies were call
ed to the. scene, and It was three or
four hours before they had the stu
alton in control. The big fifteen story
"fireproof" Burlington building stands
in the centre of the ruin with every
thing gone except the towering walls,
the window glass having run away
like water, and all the contents includ-
ing records having been destroyed.
The fire department believes from all
the circumstances in the case that the
fire was the work of organized in
cendiarism carried otfts by hohalf a
dozen or more incendiarles working
together.
Cotton consumed during February
amounted to 473.073 bales of lint and
3S,509 bales of linters, compared with
395,115 Of lint and 1856 of linters
consumed in February last year. the
census bureau announced Tuesday.
Cotton on hand February 2S in con-
Stunning establishments amounted to
alA - Ii,,N Nr
fnters compared with 1,327,155 of lint
and 206,243 of linters a year ago, and
in storage and at congresses stocks
were 4,221. $50 bales of lint and 1922
645 of linters, compared with 5,503,139
of lint and 1925 of linters a year
ago. Imports during February amount
ed to 54,161 bales, compared with U.s.
055 in February last year. Exports
for February were 33S.440 bales in
Guiding ,694 bales of lint, compared
with 493.426 bales including 9,713 of
lintersn February last year. Cotton
spindles active during February num-
bered 3S;797,S29 compared with 32,-
496.S56 in February last year. Statis-
tics for cotton growing states follow:
Consumed 303156 bales, compared
with 246625 in February last year. On
hand February 2S in consuming estab-
IISnHleHlS iJo,44o DaleS compared Win
634,253 q year ago, and in public stor-
age and at congresses 3,S4016S bales
compared with 5,041,934 a year ago.
Cotton spindles active during Febru-
ary 15.673.771, compared with 15,OO7,-
19S in February last year.
Attorney General Daugherty's in
structions that proceedings be institu-
ted against British vessels Grace and
Ruby held at Boston as a liquor snug
gler says Washington dispatch may
establish the right of this government
to seize foreign vessels for violation
of the prohibition laws even though
they are beyond the threL mile limit,
it was indicated today at the justice
department. The test to be applied at
Boston, it was explained, was whether
the Grace and Ruby which was oper-
ating four miles at sea could be held
to have been eonstructively within the
three mile limit because liquor was
brought ashore in the ships own small
boats. Authority for such q construc-
tiOn Of government jurisdiction was
said to be found in what is known as
the Russian seal case. In this case
ii was recalled, the British Columbia
steamer Araunah was seized by Rus
sia in 1888 for taking seals in the Ber-
ing sea when she was off Copper Is
land about six miles from the nearest
land. 1t appeared in that case that