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Scraps and |acts. ? New York, October 30: Because of the decrease of birds tbe United States Is losing yearly without protest a sum larger than the capitalization of all the national banks In the country, was the statement made by President Wm. Dutcher, of the National Association of Audubon societies at the annual meeting of the association here. The public, declared Mr. Dutcher, placidly allows agricultural crops valued at $800,000,000 to be annually destroyed by Insects, which destruction is entirely due to the rapid decrease in the number of insectivorous birds in the country. "If a million or more dollars is lost through the management of a bank or other fiduciary institution," he said, "it creates a wave of protest throughout the entire country, yet a yearly loss equal to the entire capitalization of the national banks of the country creates no comment whatever simply because the public do not realize what is going on." Mr. Dutcher said the association wis in position tc do good work along the line of the protection of birds but that in order tc successfully carry on its work it should have a larger endowment fund and a far larger membership. ? New York Journal of Commerce, November 2: A. J. Buston, the English cotton statistician, has just returned tc New York after a month spent in the cotton fields, studying the conditions on behalf of British manufacturers. Mr. Buston last evening cabled the following summary of his observations to his friends in Lancashire: "In estimating this crop at twelve millions maximum, I feel very confident that I am on the high side, but wish to be very conservative. There are abundant signs of a crop disaster in Texas as my daily notes show, October 15th cattle turned into many fields, farmers plowing up cotton fields, something I have never seen before at this seamy daily notes show. October 15th very poor, picking nearly completed, gins in many places not running and will only run one day a week. Boll weevil has done enormous damage. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas yield of oil smallest on record since 1889-90. The crop, which was a month later that last year, .is now ahead of last season, being forced to maturity by the extreme hot weather in August without moisture, causing the bolls to contain very much less lint than in ordinary years. On my return through the Atlantic states I noted that the frost had killed a vast quantity of fields." ? New York, November 3: Last week was given over to the work of rehabilitation of financial conditions and much progress was made towards that end, although there remained many elements of disorder in the situation owing to the dislocation of exchange facilities in the money and commercial markets. This was inevitable from the shock of the preceding week's events in New York, but the situation has been well in hand and success was met in limiting the range of the disturbance and in the initiation of measures to insure correction and settlement Of these, the most vital was the large amount of gold secured from foreign countries for import and now afloat towards New York. The gold engagements have reached the neighborhood of $30,000,000 and in the course of this week this broad stream of replenishment of the reserve fund will flow into New York banks. The feeling that this supply was en route has done much to fortify confidence, but the actual reviving effect on banking and money operations awaits the arrival of the gold. Meantime the example set by New York in the adoption of Clearing House certificates for the settlement of balances between the banks has been followed by the great money centres of the country and has safeguarded the banks from the strain induced by the shock sent through the banking fabric. ? Philadelphia Ledger, November 2: That King Cotton stands sponsor for local option in the south, and that all of the great industries in Pennsylvania are rapidly moving to a similar attitude, is the opinion of Matthews H. Stevenson, candidate for state treasurer on the prohibition ticket. Mr. Stevenson, who is making a stumping tour of Pennsylvania in company with his wife, reached this city yesterday and registered at the Continental hotel. He will speak tonight at a meeting in Odd Fellows' Temple. He said that Pennsylvania is clamoring for lo"Ol nntinn "Thfa is larETPlv commercial," said Mr. Stevenson, who is an attorney of Pittsburg, "and the cotton industry stands behind it in the south, and, in fact, is the main cause of it. The southern planter could not get his cotton harvested with drunken negroes, he saw that neighboring counties in which liquor was not sold were much freer from this trouble, so the business interests determined to have sober labor for the good of the industry and the good of their men. Again, a drunken negro was a menace to the wives of men who live in the country, and that was a moral reason for deciding upon the abolition of the saloon. That's what did it. In my travels in the south and my dealing with southern men I have been impressed with the fact that when the southern men decide upon a course they are most determined fighters. The north discovered that in the civil war. And the south has lost none of its courage." ? Preparations are nearing completion for the great wolf hunt to be held early this month in the neighborhood of Tulsa, I. T. The affair is being arranged by "Bob" Galbraith, the Indian Territory oil king, and the participants will include sportsmen from all over Oklahoma. Indian Territory, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and other states. The scene of the great chase will be the wide and almost impenetrable region between Keel fork ana i?st city, abounding' in steep hills, deep crevices, subterranean passages and rocky caverns. where wolves and all kinds of wild game abound in great numbers. The only big, black timber wolves left in the new state have their lairs in this vicinity and prey upon the chickens. pigs and other small domestic animals on the surrounding farms. Among the participants is expected to be John Abernethy, the United States marshal and famous wolf hunter who "catches 'em alive." During a wolf hunt in the "big pasture" two years ago in which President Roosevelt took part. Abernethy performed his daring feat of catching a wolf bare handed, to the great delight of the president. A prize of $250 has been offered to anyone who will duplicate this feat in the coming hunt. Mr. Galbralth has also offered a reward of $500 to ihe Nimrod who will capture a wolf known in the neighborhood of the Lost City country as "Old Blaekev." This animal is said to be as large as a calf, and for five years has eluded with great cunning all attempts to effect its death or captivity. Among the superstitious Indians "Old Blaekey" is credited .with possessing an evil spirit which makes the animal invulnerable to bullets. , For the first time in the two territories fox hounds will be used instead of greyhounds in chasing "Old Blaekey" and other members of the pack. Some ( of the best dogs in the country have , been entered, and it is expected that the hunt will be among the n. jst exciting of its kind ever held in this country. i ? ? ; ?he \|orltviUc inquirer. ' YORKVILLE, S. C.i I ^ 1 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1907. i Various influences have been ? brought to bear on President Roosevelt i to induce him to call an extra session i of congress for the purpose of dealing , with the financial situation; but tlio understanding is that the president i has positively refused to act. They keep on talking about that old , panic as if they really considered it serious; there is very little about the situation that is serious except i that the New York banks are trying to drain the southern banks of their currency. Most of the southern banks are on to the game however, and are not going to allow themselves to be drained. During the annual meeting of the South Carolina conference which is to be held at Gaffney the week commencing November 27, the Ledger is to appear dally instead of semi-weekly and is to publish a detailed report of the proceedings of the conference day by day. The publisher announces that the price of the daily editions covering the conference period will be only 25 cents, and subscriptions may be sent direct to the Ledger or handed to any of the local preachers. John Wanamaker denounces a report to the effect that he is financially embarrassed, as maliciously false and goes on to say that the existing financial disturbance generally is due entirely to the machinations of those who desire to bring about business depression for the purpose of discrediting the administration. It is not pleasant to think that men who have the power could have the will to do such a thing; but people who have an ordinary understanding of the ways of the world know that Mr. Wanamaker's charge may be easily correct. Tropbu: is threatened with the Ute Indians out at Thunder Butte, South Dakota. The Utes, to the number of about fifteen hundred, left their reservation at White Rock in Nebraska recently and went on a visit to the Sioux. The trouble seems to have grown out of an effort on the part of the Indian agent to make them work on a railroad. Upon their refusal to work the agent put them on half rations. The Indians are demanding fair treatment in various ways. The reservation upon which they have been placed is too small, and it is not capable of yielding them a living by agriculture. They protest against the policy of the government in sending their children off to boarding schools instead of allowing them schools on their reservation. They have been badly treated generally and they have reached the point of desperation where they see nothing else for it than to make a last stand. Eight companies of cavalry have been sent against the Indians for the purpose of bringing them back to their reservation. Soi'th Carolina's bloody record is something that demands very serious consideration. The number of homicides in this state is alarming. It is true that this crime is found chiefly among the worse element, but it is not by any means confined to them. At any rate the better element will share in the responsibility for this state of affairs if they do not take more active and surer methods, through the courts and otherwise, to check this flood of crime. Just think of fourteen homicides in one week?fifty-four in nine r\. oat. fhnro la nnt >\ ft* l\.?. *? c \cmuic H/ OC4. > VilVtV ..w V a country on the face of the earth, civilized or uncivilized, that can equal that record. It is intolerable?Newberry Observer. All of this is very true; but why try to deceive ourselves into believing that murder is the only crime of which we are guilty? Murder is commonly regarded as the most horrible of crimes. It is the most horrible of crimes. No considerable depth of philosophy. however, is necessary for a full appreciation of the fact that all large things are developments of smaller things. If South Carolinians have ever put forth a great deal of effort to put a stop to smaller and more contemptible crimes like cheating, swindling. lying and stealing, we are not aware of the fact. And if we overlook these crimes how are. we to hope to avoid the prevalence of the higher crime of murder? The way to put a stop to murder is to begin meting out punishment for it under any and ail circumstances and the way to put a stop to the necessity of punishing muraer. is 10 iuok imur ciubcij unci the punishment of the more contemptible crimes. Looks Little, Rather Than Otherwise. Because of the part that General Wilie Junes, president, and Mr. J. P. Matthews, cashier, took in the proceedings that tied up the operations of the dispensary commission, the commission last week passed a resolution providing for the removal of the dispensary funds, some $600,000 from the Palmetto National bank. Upon the application of Messrs. Garrett & Co.. wine dealers, Judge Pritchard of the United Slates court recently issued an order restraining the dispensary commission from paying out any funds until the case could be heard on its merits. As a prerequisite to the effectiveness of the order, Messrs. Garrett & Co., were requested to give a bond of $r.00, and it was necessary th.at the sureties be residents of South Carolina. Messrs. Jones and Matthews signetl the bond, anil it was because of this that the commission took the action described. As we see it. the dispensary commission has no need to be very much concerned over this suit, certainly not as individuals. That there is any real merit in the proceedings we have no idea. We are inclined to the opinion that the action was instituted primarily for the purpose of subserving some ulterior motive that has not yet been made clear to the public. But still It must not be forgotten that whatever the purpose of Garrett & Co., even though that purpose might be to assist In covering up some of the dispensary rottenness that has been so flagrant, it will have to be conceded that they had a legal right to go Into court, else they could not have gotten there. We do not want to be understood as expressing especial admiration for Mr. Wilie Jones. We know absolutely nothing that would tend to convict him of moral turpitude. But we do not think a great deal of this gentleman. He has been very close to the dispen*"?- ? oil olnntr nnH VPrV inti naijr a.'oicni U1I ? ?? . -- ? mate with most of the big liquor dealers. It is not reasonable to assume that this closeness and intimacy have been altogether disinterested. The probability is that his attitude has been a source of very considerable profit at least to the banking institution with which he is connected, and while money is a very nice thing to have, we do not think much of people who under existing conditions got any considerable sum through either direct or indirect connection with the state dispensary. But with it all, we are unable to approve the action of the dispensary [commission in this matter. That it I would have been the part of propriety in Mr. Jones to let that bond alone under the circumstances, we admit. We can think of no reason why he probably signed the bond, except that he may have thought he saw more in it for himself on the other side. But still we do not understand that retaliation is a part of the business of the dispensary commission. We do not think that the commission should be concerned about that $600,000, except as to its security and the amount of interest it might receive. To our way of thinking. unless the commission could give a better reason than mere spite, it would have done better to let the funds remain where they were. Of course, human nature is human nature, and the commission should not be too harshly censured for a little slip of this kind. Smallnesses of this nature are so common as to almost constitute the rule, rather than the exception; but still the incident serves very well as a basis of reflection upon the desirability of handling the business of the people of South Carolina on a higher and broader plane than has heretofore been too common. Postal Improvements. Postmaster General Meyer is a prac tlcal man of ideas, who wants to do something to increase the benefits that the people of this country may desire from the postal system without doing harm to any present legitimate interest. In an address before the postmasters' association of New England at Boston, Mass., last month, Mr. Meyer announced two matters of policy on which he is working, which seem to be of vital importance to the people as a whole and which are worthy of general support. The postmaster general wants to secure the establishment of a parcels post system, and a postal savings bank system. The greatest opposition to these innovations heretofore has been coming from the independent savings banks, from the express companies and from the retail merchants. All of these interests have objected because of what seemed to them ruinous competition; but Mr. Meyer has plans which he thinks can be carried into effect without hurting anybody, but the express companies, and if nobody suffers but the express compajiies, the balance of the country will not grieve a great deal. We would not suggest injustice even to the express companies; but they have been having their own way for such a long time, and they have been taking advantage of the people to such an extent, that it is a matter of satisfaction to know that there is at last some hope of relief. The proposed savings department contemplates the limit of aggregate deposits to only a few hundred dollars and the limit of the rate of' interest to be paid on the same to 1 or 2 per cent. The savings banks generally pay 3 or 4 per cent, and the postal savings system would be arranged so as to drive savings, after they have leached a stipulated sum, either into the independent banks or into various forms of investment. But It is the parcels post that Mr. Meyer is most interested in. Under existing laws, while Americans have to pay 16 cents a pound to send a four pound package from one part of the country to another, they can send an eleven pound package to any one of the twenty-two foreign countries in the postal union for only 12 cents a pound. Smaller sized packages go at the same rate; but a package heavier than four pounds is not mailable as between postofflces in this country at all. There would have been an American parcels post long ago had it not been for the express companies and the retail merchants. Mr. Meyer is not concerned about the express companies, but he thinks he has hit on a plan whereby he can attain the end desired and at the same time secure the hearty endorsement and support of retailers everywhere. The retailers have been worried about the competition with mail order houses. There is no doubt about the fact that these concerns manage to got lai'KC quantities of inferior goods off an the farmers at big prices. Even as matters now stand, mall order concerns do a tremendous business with the population of many rural districts in goods that could be bought from local dealers in better quality and at lower prices. Under a tlat rate parcels post system, the mail order houses would have still further advantage. But this trouble Mr. Meyer proposes to obviate by charging 12 cents a pound for parcels mailed at city offices and allowing parcels to go from country offices over the rural routes at 5 cents a pound for the first pound and 2 cents a pound for each additional up i<? 11 pounds for 25 cents. People living along rural routes may send packages to each other or to the offices at which their routes originate at this same rate; but if their packages are destined to the city offices, then the rate will be 12 cents a pound. By this plan the country merchant will have on an eleven pound package an advantage of 97 cents over a mail order house from anywhere, and packages may be sent between the small towns and the country or between the coun- j try and the small towns at a rate that will greatly encourage such traffic. We are inclined to think that Mr. Meyer is along the right line as to both < propositions, and it is to be hoped that he will succeed In getting through the necessary legislation. This, however, is doubtful. The express people are ] powerful In congress, and the mall order houses, are not likely to lend their assistance to the proposition that does ] not hold out a promise of material benefit. "A Hoary Old Fraud." We are surprised to find again the ] following hoary old fraud, this time in the Rock Hill Herald: "Newspaper Subscription Laws." J "Few readers or publishers of papers fully or clearly understand the laws governing subscriptions. The decisions of the United States courts are: "1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to renew their subscriptions. "2. If the subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodical the publisher may continue to send it until all arrearages are paid. "3. If the subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the postofflce to which they are addressed, 1 they are responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. "4. If subscribers move to other places without informing the publisher and the paper is sent to the former address, they are held responsible. "5. The courts have decided that re- . fusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of fraud. "6. If the subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give notice at the end of the time, if they do not wish to continue taking it, otherwise the publisher is authorized to send It and the subscriber will be responsible until express notice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. 'The latest postal laws are such that newspaper publishers can cause the arrest of any one for fraud who takes a paper and refuses to pay for it 1 Under this law the man who allows | his subscription to run along for some ( time unpaid, and orders his paper "refused" lays himself liable to arrest and fine the same as for theft." < About once a year this solemn pronouncement is resurrected and goes ( the round of the press for the purpose apparently of scaring some of the delinquents into paying up. The intelligent Rock Hill Herald and any other j newspaper which does so ought to be ashamed of itself for printing such a thing, as there is no such law. Let this be submitted to any lawyer and he will laugh at it. To begin with the United States courts have no jurisdiction to enforce the collection of subscription accounts to newspapers. These are matters for the state courts. Almost everybody knows that the United States courts do not take cognizance of any case unless $2,000 is Involved. No subscription account with all the loose methods of some newspaper publishers ever amounted to as much as $2,000. The most that a newspaper sub scriDer wouia oe uaum 101 wuuiu m for the amount of the back subscription as a civil debt only and even this could not be collected if the subscriber had ordered the paper stopped." Furthermore, no newspaper publisher has any right to assume that a subscriber who did not give notice to the contrary wished to renew his subscription, unless that has become established between them as a custom. The last part of this ridiculous lot of "laws" is the statement that under the "latest postal laws" newspaper publishers can cause the arrest of anyone for fraud who takes a paper and 1 refuses to pay for it. There are few , gudgeons in this country who will be- ( lieve this. What will Intelligent people think of a newspaper which hands out such stuff to its readers??Spartanburg Journal, All of what the Journal says on the , foregoing subject is about correct ;but it does not put the case quite as strong as it might. Instead of helping newspapers to collect past due subscriptions, it most emphatically discourages the creation of such claims. The policy of the postal department Is to encourage the payment of all newspaper subscriptions in advance. It does, however, recognize credit to the extent of an agreement whereby It is understood 1 by both parties that the subscription 1 Is to be paid within the subscription period. But where a publisher con- ' tinues to send his paper after the time J paid for, or the expiration of the sub- 1 scrlption period, and in the absence of a new contract, it becomes the duty of the postmaster at the office of entry ( to call upon the publisher to show ' cause why he should not be deprived ^ of his second-class privileges. < DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS LIVING. 1 1 Somewhat Typical Case In Union Po- 1 lice Court. As illustrating how some witnesses j will stick to an answer they have , thought of before going on the stand, j irrespective of truth or sense, an amus- . ing thing occurred in the police court ' here the other day. A lot of young fellows were up before his honor charged with gambling < at a bowling alley. A number of witnesses had been examined in an attempt to prove the date on which the gambling had been done, but in some peculiar way an 01 mem nau suuereu a marvelous lapse of memory. Finally when one young man was put up for examination, Mayor Young, whose experience of five years in trying police cases, has given him a good insight into what a witness may do, saw that the witness had unquestionably made up his mind as to the storj he would tell. Slowly the oath administered to all witnesses was repeated? "You solemnly swear that the evidence you give to the court In the case of the town of Union against will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me God!" The witness assented. Mayor Young then made remarks about the offense not being a hanging nor penitentlaiy crime, indeed that the amount involved would not be over a five dollar fine, and urged the young man not to perjure himself, but to tell the whole truth. Then looking the witness directly in the eye, he questioned with sharp emphasis: "Were you alive or dead on September 24th last?" Mechanically repeating a reply that he had evidently been drilled to say, and not seeming to notice its utter inappropriateness, he said: 1 (ion l Know: ?union rniKress. - } ? Columbia special of October 31, to 1 the News and Courier: A meeting of 1 traveling men was held at the Caldwell f hotel tonight over which Mr. Harry Calhoun presided, the object of the meeting being to start a movement by which the traveling men of the south . should assist the farmers to hold their cotton for better prices. It was proposed that in,000 traveling men pledge i themselves to put up $1,000 each and to secure an additional $1,000 each, the . sum thus raised to be loaned the farm- 1 ers on warehouse receipts at six per 1 cent. This would mean a fund of thirty million dollars, which would be suf- ( ficient to hold one million bales of cot- , ton at $30 per bale, or six cents per * pound. There were a number of prominent men present by invitation, in- c eluding Governor Heyward, Colonel George Johnstone, Hon. Francis H. Weston, Hon. F. H. Hyatt, Congressmen Lever, Finley and Elierbe, Mr. J. \ E. Wannamaker and others, most of s whom made speeches. There was a large crowd of traveling men present. ? Several of the traveling men expressed themselves enthusiastically in favor of i the scheme, and it was proposed to urge the matter by wire upon the traveling men through the T. P. A. v and U. C. T. organizations. \ LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Confederate Veterans' Reunion?You are invited to Augusta, Ga., for the above occasion on November 12th and 13th. One cent a mile on all railroads. National-Union Bank, Rock Hill?Says your best recommendation is a savings bank book In your pocket. Four per cent paid on savings deposits. Mrs. J. D. Land. Yorkvllle No. 1.?Offers pure bconze turkeys for sale. Loan and Savings Bank?Has assets of $320,000.00 and otters it customers every advantage of a flrst-class banking housa Miss Emily R. Smith. Yorkvllle No. 2?. Wantfl to rent a three-horse farm near Beth-Shlloh church. M, W. White?Says religion calls for nothing but the exercise of ordinary forethought In regard to the world to come. Real estate offerings. D. M. Hall, Vice President?Calls a meeting of the York County Farmers' Union at the court house next Saturday at 10 o'clock. Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Has a full line of guns, rifles, loaded shells, cartridges, etc., for sportsmen. Herndon & Gordon?Invite attention to new goods, which are arriving daily. Strained honey and maple syrup, onion sets, new crop dates, etc. Thomson Co.?Says "Brown's in town," with headquarters at their dress goods counter and you are Invited to see "Brown." York Drug Store?Inquires if you are painting and if so you are requested to call and talk paint with It before buying. J. C. Wilborn?Has a farm for rent and offers farms for sale In Fort Mill township, and in Mecklenburg and Gaston counties, N. C. Yorkvllle B. & M. Co.?Tell about the good qualities of "Kantbebeat" rain coats, which serve for stormy and fair weather. See fourth page. The prices brought by York county lands before the court house door yesterday are a justifiable source of pride to everybody. The Brakefleld track, which brought $21 an acre, was purchased from Mr. W. S. Wllkerson about twelve years ago for only $8 an acre. The tract of Moss land that brought $35.25 an acre has no house on It. And when It Is remembered that the terms of sale In each case required compliance with the cash portion of bids within one hour, one Is disposed to assume that there Is still some loose money In the land. The weighing of the mails during the month of October was not for the purpose of establishing a basis of compensation for carrying the same during the next four years, as many people suppose, but for the purpose of getting a lot of specific Information that is especially desired by the postofllce department. Among other things the postmaster general wants to know Just how much it Is costing the government to carry the different ninHspR of mall matter and Just how much revenue each different class is bringing to the government. As the result of the information thus secured the postmaster general expects to make some important recommendations to the next session of congress. He has under consideration the idea of changing the rate of newspaper postage and also the conditions. He wants to be in position also to tell Just what is to be expected from a parcels post, and he may see proper to recommend a reduction in first class postage. The present inquiry is a very comprehensive one and promises important changes In the matter of postal rates and conditions generally. The regular weighing for the purpose of establishing a basis of compensation for carrying the malls during the next four years does not take place until next January. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The flower show last Friday wound-up with quite a pleasant little entertainment that was largely attended. It consisted of music, recitations ind a presentation of the "Moon Menigerle" of the Mother Goose series. Misses Lilia Herndon and Madge Anlerson rendered a piano duet and Miss Annie Ashe a piano solo. There were recitations by Miss Margaret Hart md Miss Mary Henly Willis, and a focal solo by Miss Lilla Herndon. All pf these performances were highly :redltable; but the singing of Miss Herndon, was something out of the ordinary and was generally so recognized. The "Moon Menagerie" was greaty enjoyed by th >se who could see It, put because of the press to see, a large portion of the audience was unable to jet a view of the stage. After the entertainment numerous chrysanthenums and other (lowers were auctioned pfT to the highest bidders. The prices paid were very satisfactory. The gross proceeds of the day's entertainment iggregated something like J150, and he ladies generally were pleased with .he result of their efforts. THE FARMERS' UNION. There were about one hundred regjlarly accredited delegates in attendmce on the meeting of the Farmers' Union in the court house yesterday, ind a good deal was accomplished in he way of getting the work of the unon in proper working order. A roll call of the officers showed all present except Mr. J. F. Ashe, the president, who was kept away by cir;umstances beyond his control and VIr. D. M. Hall, the vice president preilded in his stead. Various matters of routine business ,vere transacted, and special consideration was given to the matter of .varehousing cotton, A committee was ippointed to make the most advanageous arrangements possible in regard to this matter; but was unable to lo anything definite in the absence of nformation as to how many bales the nembers of the union desire to store. In obedience to the call of Mr. Barrett, the national president, another general meeting of the union is to be leld In the court house next Saturday norning at 10 o'clock, and from the ldvertlsement in another column it "' oil of iho mAmhera .VIII utr ocni mill an ..i ... ire expected to come prepared to say vhether they desire to store cotton, ind if so, how much. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Sallle Atkinson of Lowryville, s visiting1 Mrs. J. M. Ferguson. Mrs. R. S. McConnell of Rock Hill, s visiting Mrs. W. C. I^atlmer. Miss Annie Scott of Delphos, Is visting friends In the Rethel neighborlOOd. Mrs. E. E. Gillespie left this mornng for a visit to relatives at Gulf. S\ C. Miss Frances Wideman of Linwood :ollege, has been spending a few days vlth her sister, Mrs. Jas. F. Thomson. Mr. W. E. Sanders, who has been vlth the W. I. Wltherspoon Co., as a i alesman, left last week to take a po- | lition in Chester. I Information from Mr. J. Ed Leech i n the hospital at Chester Is to the I ffect that the wounds in connection j vlth the recent amputation are healing ,? 'er.v nicely; but still the physicians I are holding out but little hope, because of the condition of his heart. A telephone message from Spartanburg this morning brought Information of the extremely critical condition of Mr. Thomas Dickson, who was not expected to lire through the day. Mr. Dickson Is a former citizen of Yorkvllle, having done business here from 1852 to 1873 as a tailor. He Is a brother of Mr. Wm. Dickson and of Miss Martha Dickson, both of this place. His only other sister, is Mrs. Barbary Ann Gales of Salisbury, N. C. He is in the 85th year of his age. Rock Hill special of Sunday to the Columbia State: News was received here by phone yesterday that Mr. S. A. Fewell of Old Point had been found unconscious in his room where he was stopping at Rldgeway, where he had gone to attend a meeting of presbytery. His brother, Mr. R. T. Fewell, and his sons, Messrs. John M. and Richard, went down to Rldgeway yesterday and brought back encouraging news from the sick man. It was at first thought that he was paralyzed, b\it Dr. I. A. Bigger, who accompanied the Messrs. Fewell, state that the trouble was from Indigestion and that Mr. Fewell would probably be much better In a day or ivi'n Ho will ho hrmieht home todav. Mr. Fewell, as an elder in Ebenezer church, was a delegate to the meeting of presbytery'. GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY. The jury commissioners this morning drew the following venire of thirty-six petit Jurors to serve during the first week of the next term of the circuit court, which convenes on Monday, November 25, his honor, Judge J. S. Wilson, presiding: J. R. Sparrow Bethel. J B. Bratton Bethesda. M. L. Ford King's Mountain. J. M. Park Fort Mill. J. J. Keller York. T. A. Matthews Catawba. W. L. Caldwell York. T. W. Moore Bethesda. R. M. Wallace King's Mountain. W. J. Watson York. J. F. Brandon Bethel. J. M. Slmms Broad River. E. B. Price King's Mountain. M. R. Sutton Fort Mill. J. L. Moss York. W. L. Hinson Bethesda. J. E. Marshall Catawba. D. F. Lesslie Catawba. R. L. Gordon Catawba. W. G. Brown Bullock's Creek. Robt. deLoach York. T. N. Brandon Bethel. Amos Revels ..Bethesda. J. Walter Summerford...Broad River. J. R. Neeland Broad River. J. C. Hudson Catawba. M. R. Shlllinglaw Broad River. G. M. Carroll York. J. E. Parker Catawba. L. H. Good Bullock's Creek. W. A. Glenn Bethel. M. B. Massey Catawba. L. C. Nell King's Mountain. J. B. Creighton Catawba. J. F. Ashe Bethesda. M. L. Hope Fort Mill. END OF THE VOTING CONTEST. Miss Bessie Sandifer 1,320 Miss Lindsay Clark 925 Miss Wilmoth Jackson 820 Total 3,065 The foregoing is the result of The Enquirer's voting contest which has been 1 progress during several months past and which came to a close last Friday evening at 6 o'clock. Miss Bessie Sandlfer, the winner of the first prize gets a check for $50. Miss Lindsay Clark, the winner of the second prize gets a check for $30, and Miss Wilmoth Jackson, the winner of the third prize, gets a check for $20. The contest. It gives us much satisfaction to say, has been pleasant and profitable all around. Each of the contestants has been a winner, and The Enquirer has come out fully as well as was anticipated from the first, If not a little better. In behalf of the contestants, we beg leave to extend their thanks to all who interested themselves In their contests, and In Its own behalf The Enquirer extends thanks to the contestants and to their friends. It would give us great pleasure to Inaugurate a new contest right on the heels of the one Just closed; but as such another contest right now might Interfere with the annual club contest to open very shortly, we will not do so until a more convenient season. MR. W. M. SlMlucn ucmu. A telegram was received here yesterday morning announcing the death of Mr. Wm. H. Snider at Texarkana, Texas on Sunday. There were no particulars. Mr. Snider's sisters, Misses Rosa and Minnie Snider, who live In Yorkvllie, had a long letter from their brother only Sunday night. He told of a trip that he had just made into the Ozark Mountains to perfect the titles to some land he had homesteaded there some years ago, and Informed them that the object of his trip was successfully accomplished. His letter contained a number of incidents of the trip and was bright and cheerful throughout. In his letter he told his sisters that he was employed on a railroad draw bridge, and seemed to be very well satisfied with his work. There was considerable telegraphic correspondence yesterday by way of making arrangements for the bringing of the body to Yorkvllie for interment; but up to this morning it was not known whether the body could arrive here before tomorrow or Thursday. Mr. Snider was a son of the late James J. Snider, and was born near Yorkvllie on December 21, 1849. His father died in February, 1865, and his mother in March, 1902. He spent his early life In Yorkvllie, remaining here until about 1877, when he engaged in railroad work and drifted into Georgia and Alabama and the west. He returned home in 1904 for a short visit and afterward came back again for a longer stay, returning to the west a few months ago. Mr. Snider is well remembered by the older people for the part he took in helping to uphold white supremacy during the turbulent times of reconstruction. Although not a bully or a bulldozer, he was a fighter in those days and performed the part of a man in many a squally situation. He.has scores of friends here who will regret to hear of his death. D. A. R. CONVENTION. Much interest, says the News and Courier of yesterday, is now being , taken by the members of the Rebecca ( Motte Chapter of the Daughters of the , American Revolution in the state con- i vention, which that organization pro- ] poses to hold in this city beginning i November 25. The members of the lo- | cal chapter are now busy at work pre- i paring for the entertainment of the large number of visiting delegates, and | i splendid time is assured all who at- I tend the convention. The meetings < ire to be held in the ball room of the i St. John hotel and many matters of I Interest will be discussed. 1 The handsome quarters of the Rebecca Motte chapter, located at the Gibbe8 Memorial Art Building, are to be used as headquarters for the delegates, and are also to serve the purpose of meeting rooms for the various committees of the convention. Apart from the business sections it is planned to hold many pleasant social functions complimentary to the visiting delegates at this time. The local chapter will entertain at a large and handsome reception at the Art building on Wednesday evening. November 27. Other entertainments are being arranged for by other organizations, among which are the Art club and the Country club. The work relative to making the convention a grand success is being handled by a number of committees composed of ladles, who will put forth their best endeavors towards the desired end. At a recent meeting of the Rebecca Motte chapter this matter was thoroughly discussed and the appointments were announced Saturday by the officers of the chapter. j The delegates who will represent the , chapter are as follows: Mrs. c. u. " Chapman, Mrs. W. Moultrie Gourdln, Mrs. J. T. Leonard, Mrs. J. Allen Miles, Mrs. Edward W. Hughes, Mrs. Sellers, Miss Mary Brown. Alternates?Mrs. J. C. Hall, Miss Emma K. Hayden, Mrs. J. L. Baker, Mrs. Moore, Miss Myma Brown, Miss Felder, Mrs. W. B. Wilson, Mrs. F. F. Sams. Pages from Charleston are Miss Laura Baker and Miss Marie Bee. The chairmen of the various committees are as follows: Housing committee?Mrs. J. Palmer Lockwood. Invitation?Mrs. Horatio c. Hughes. Music?Mrs. George F. Von Kolnltz. Badge?Miss Eola Willis. Programme?Mrs. Janle Screven Heyward. Press?Mrs. G. F. Von Kolnitz. Decoration?Mrs. C. J. Larsen. Room?Mrs. J. C. Hall. AUCTION 8ALE8. There was an unusually large crowd In attendance on the auction sales of land before the court house door yesterday morning, the attraction being the large number of acres being offered under decretal orders, by consent and otherwise, and the value of the various offerings. The sales consisted of quite a list of realty by the clerk of the court and also some valuable lands sold by consent of the parties at Interest In the settlement of the Moss estate. In the case of Benjamin Tillman Faris, etc., against W. Sherman Farts and others, a tract of eighty-two acres in King's Mountain township. Bought by J. S. Brice, attorney, for >9 an acre. In the case of M. J. Robinson vs. TP DnKina rv*i on/1 r\t horu a Xi Ufi 41 Dgci iwuinovai wiu wkMv*wf ? tract of 196 acres on Turkey Creek. Sold by the tract, and bought by D. E. tinley, attorney for |1,200. In the case of J. J. J. Robinson against Sarah E. Hood and R. M. P. Robinson, a tract of eighty-five acres. Sold by the tract, and bought by D. E. Finley for $400. In the case of Andrew H. Jackson, etc., vs. R. C. Jackson and others, a tract of 122 acres near Tirzah. Bought by W. B. Wilson, Jr., attorney, for $21.75 an acre. In the case of Roxie Horton against A. Walker Sherer, a tract of 154 acres on Bullock's Creek. Bought by M. B. Jennings, attorney, for $11 an acre. In the case of R. N. Whitesides, individually and as administrator, against B. B. Whitesides and others, the Whitesides "Upper" and "Lower" quarries in King's Mountain township. Bought by R. N. Whitesides for $150 each. Under a deed of trust, a tract of three hundred and one acres in Broad River township. Bought by M. B. Jennings attorney, for $4,000. In the case of Emma Stephenson, Mary J. Edwards, Viola Ramsey and J. Chess Brakefleld against W. S. Wllkerson, administrator of the estate of Thomas Brakefleld, a tract of 90J acres in Broad River township. This land was started at $15 an acre and was finally knocked down to Mr. John E. Plexico for $21 an acre. At the conclusion of the sales by the clerk, the auctioneer proceeded to dispose of certain lands belonging to the estate of the late Joseph R. and Lucetta Moss, deceased, as follows: 1. A tract of one hundred and seventy-five acres in Brllock's Creek township. Bought by T. H. Burris for $8.25 an acre. 2. A tract of eighty-two acres in Bullock's Creek tov .iship, known as a part of the William Robinson lands. Bought by T. H. Burris for $11 an acre. 3. A tract of 105 2-5 acres, known as a part of the Tomlinson lands. Bought by W. W. Lewis, attorney, for $25.75 an acre. 4. A tract of 89J acres in York ? tKo townsnip, Known as a pai l ui ? Tomlinson lands. Bought by W. W. Lewis, attorney, for 135.25. t LOCAL LACONICS. a People Are Registering. Yesterday was another busy day 1 with the supervisors of registration. t During the day, they issued twenty- a eight new certificates and four renew- c als. The new certificates were scat- 1 tered among the precincts as follows: ^ Ogden 1. Clover 1, Rock Hill 4, York f 9. Piedmont 1, Forest Hill 2, Bethany 2, Hickory Grove 5, Newport 1, Mc- ^ Connellsvllle 2. r Fire at Albemarle. The office and machinery of the ' Stanley Enterprise at Albemarle, N. ^ C., was destroyed by fire Sunday night. fl The news came to Yorkvllle yesterday morning In a telegram to Mr. J. F. ( McElwee, who Is a brother-in-law of Mr. J. D. Bivens, the owner. The office of the Enterprise was a handsome new two-story brick building Just complet- 9 ed. and the Information Is that there was no insurance, Mr. Bivens having . only recently moved in and not having yet attended to the matter of lnsurance. The presses and printing ma- ^ terials, were insured for $2,300. The Game Law. a Mr. Harry Wylie, game warden, un-. s der the Audubon law, desires the peo- ( pie of the county to know that he will fl appreciate any help they might choose t| to give him In the enforcement of the t| game laws. Mr. Wylie had a violator ^ of the law before Magistrate Beckham 0 the other day. He plead guilty to hav- w Ing killed two partridges and a dove, g and the magistrate sentenced him to 0 pay a fine of 515, or go to the chain- a gang for thirty days. He paid the fine. c "All I want," says Mr. Wylie, "is evl- g dence to convict. Give me that and p the man who furnishes the same may have all the fines." 0 Fire In Rock Hill. K Rock Hill special of November 3. Is to the Charlotte Observer: One of the t< most disastrous fires in years was wit- d nessed here today, when the homes of t< Mrs. Estlna Moore and Major T. C. a Beckham, on Black street, were de- t( stroyed. An alarm was turned In about a 4 o'clock from East Black street and b the firemen responded promptly, but si as the fire had gained considerable X headway in the home of Mrs. Moore, tl and the supply of water was Inade- N quate the attention of the firemen and 11 citizens was given to saving the home rr of Major T. C. Beckham on one side S and Mr. Sandifer on the other. The si light wind that was blowing carried M the flames away from the Sandifer n home, but whipped around and licked L the rocf and weatherboarding of the II Beckham home, igniting it in a very cl Tew minutes. It was made impossible tl for the firemen to cope with the flames . on account of the lack of water, and it di was only by a miracle that the Sandl- Y fer home was saved. Mrs. Estlna di Moore and her son, Theodore, and his si amlly were not at home when the Are >roke out, and it is not known how It rlginated. Almost everything was aved from both houses, but the ex*.nt of damage to furniture and houselold effects from the three homes will >c great. Occurring as it did at an iour when everybody was at leisure, iVer 3.000 witnessed the fire. On all Ides can be heard a murmur of comilaint about the water supply?a queslon that has been hanging fire for nonths between the city council and he local company. It Is safe to say hat something will be doing now. wi.? it la a I# u/aa nr*f dnntt hp. ore these two old colonial homes were & >urned. MERE-MENTION. The schooner Arthur Sewall left 3hiiadelphla for Seattle, Wash., coal t aden seven months ago, and it Is now >elleved the vessel was wrecked off yape Horn and her crew of forty men levoured by cannibals Ohio Is naklng an effort -to collect $1,000,000 >ack taxes on transportation corporaion franchises in that state The Jnlon Pacific railroad discharged more ^ han 4,000 employees last week. Cuting down expenses Is given as the :ause Peter Klees, police Judge of lurora, 111., who weighs 565 pounds, s on a peanut diet for sixty days, on i claim that such a diet will reduce lis weight The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-8aoon League are about to begin a cain;aign to close the barrooms of Washington, D. C Mile. Ragaxinnlkova, vho last week murdered Gen. Maxlmiffsky, the Russian director of prisons, las been tried by courtmartlal and lentenced to death by hanging t Is estimated that $143,000,000 will be equlred to pay the running expenses if New York city during the coming 'ear A Pendleton, Ore., fanner ast week received a check for $70,142.70 for his 1907 wheat crop, the ^ iroduct of 3,000 acres. The average vas $23.61 an acre It is reported n Germany that the Japanese governnent has placed orders with German tun makers for $10,000,000 worth of runs The Hawaiian sugar crop % his year will amount to 420,000 tons, he largest on record The meat rust has advanced the price of meats o what they were before the recent New YorK panic rne san rxan:isco mint will at once begin the cointge of $15,000,000 In gold coin The wages of 7,000 copper miners of he Butte, Mont., district, were last ^ veek cut 50 cents per day, on account >f the low price of copper About .,200 families of the East Side, New fork, have been ordered to vacate heir homes by November 15th. The ilty will tear down the houses to make V i terminal for the new Manhattan iridge. About 7,500 people are affectid by the order The phosphate nines in the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant, renn., were closed last week and 5,000 nen are idle as a result The navy lepartment has decided that the locks if the Panama canal must be ten feet vlder than at first planned. They will >e 110 feet The death sentence of Carl Hau, formerly professor of Ronan law at George Washington university, convicted at Baden Baden, Germany, of the murder of his mothern-law, has been commuted to life lm- % >riaonment Several persons were njured and a property loss of $25,000 vas the result of an explosion of 500 luarts of nitro-glycerine at Butler, -va., Saturday The emperor of tapan was 61 years old Sunday ["he Philadelphia mint is now turning >ut $600,000 a day in $20 gold pieces. Ocean freight rates have been ncreased 10 to 20 per cent during the ^ iast week or ten days The 100 &1oor8 of Knoxville, Tenn., and tweny-flve at Bristol, were closed Thurslay night under the Pendleton antiiquor law Three Navajo Indians i-ere killed by lTnlted States troops In ^ outhern Utah last week In a fight beween renegade Indians and the solllers James Ward ell, tried In New fork last week, on a charge of asslstng his wife to commit suicide, conessed that he murdered her. He was entenced to prison for eighteen years ,nd eleven months... .The diet of Flnand has passed a bill which prohibits 0 he manufacture and importation of lcohol in that country A trunk ontaining alcohol, exploded In the 'ennsylvanla railroad station at Plttsurg, Pa., Friday, and one man was ^ atally and several seriously injured. The police station at Buffalo, N. r.. was destroyed by fire Friday aftertoon with a loss of $300,000. The orignal copy of Czolgoz's confession of he assassination of President McKlney was destroyed with the building... )klahoma and Indian Territory cotton rowers say that they will hold the 907 crop for 16 cents The Argen- ^ ine Republic will hold a world's expo- A itlon in 1910 The number of dead .8 the result of the mountain slide at Caratagh, Russia, Is now placed at 00 About (120,000,000 in dividends J nd interest have been turned loose in Jew York during the past four or ve days A great railroad strike " 3 threatened by the railway unions of England. Should the strike materialse, the English railways will be parlyzed for some time Twenty-one teamshlps have been chartered at Ilasgow, Scotland, to transport coal or the Atlantic fleet on Its cruise to he Pacific Joseph Kocijue, a palent at a Patterson, N. J., hospital, ^ led Saturday, after sleeping contlnuusly for seven weeks....Two negrpes ,-ere lynched at Vinegar Bend, Ala, Saturday. One for murder and the ther for protecting the murderer from posse Henry G. Dawes, a Chi- ? ago manufacturer, was surprised aturday, when several of his emloyers tendered him sufficient money 0 pay his help during the continuance f the money stringency John H. [emmer, a Pittsburg, Pa., contractor, ist week tried to drown himself, then jok muriatic acid and finally caused eath by shooting himself with a pls>1.... A Paris surgeon has perfected method by which mutes are taught 1 hdar a nrl talk Rafelle RuSSaJlO nd his wife, Italians, were murdered y "Black Hand" agents at Hackenick, N. J., Sunday night Wm, F. J ohn, a contractor, shot his wife and ^ ten committed suicide in Brooklyn, i. Y., Sunday night Mrs. Cornea A. McKelvey, a Baltimore woman, lade a rope by twisting a United tates Hag, and used this to commit ilcide by hanging, Sunday The lauretania, sister ship to the Lusita- ^ la, will sail on her maiden trip from Iverpool to New York on November >th All places of business were osed In Kansas City. Mo., Sunday for ie first time In the history of the city. ^ The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm er gross, on her last trip from New ork for Bremen, lost her rudder two lys out from New York, and the lips' captain continued the voyage