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A. HOME PAFER FOR HOME PEOPLE—ALL HOME PRINT
VOLUME^^XV
BREYARD, NORTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 16.1910.
PRIMARIES HELD ^
IN MANY STATES
LaFollette Sweeps Wisconsin
Overwhelmingly.
5 TO 1 overTYandpatter
Indications Are That the Independents
of Tennessee Have Indorsed Ben,
W-; Hooper, the Republican Nonninse,
for Governor.
It is said 27 out of 32 counties al
ready heard from, where independent
democratic mass meetings were held
for the purpose of electing delegates
to the independent democratic state
convention to be held in Nashville
on September 14, indorsed Hon. Ben.
W. Hooper, the republican nominee,
for governor. It is expected that the
reports from the remaining counties
will be the same ratio.
Louisiana.
Returns from the democratic pri
mary election held in Louisiana in
dicate the renomination of Congress
man John T. Watkins, of the fourth
district; Joseph E. Ransdell, of tho
seventh district.
Vermont.
Lieutenant Gk)vernor John A. Mead,
of Rutland,^ retired phj'sician and
prominent business man, was ^!ecte*l
lovernor by the republicans in the
Itate election by a plurality of aboui
17,000 over Lawyer Charles D. Wat-
lon, of St. Albans, his democratic op-
jonent.
Wisconsin. -
Uflited States Senator Robert M.
/bilette has swept the state of WIs-
fonsin izi the primary election for re-
September 1, 1909, with a shortage of
1G,300 bales. In other words. It is
alleged, they had Issued bogus bills
of lading for this amount of cotton
that did not exist. A few weeks later
the firm owed Schetich, of Havre,
France, 25,000 bales of cotton for
which bogus ’bills of lading had been
issued and then transferred its busi-
peps to a firm in Bremen with whom
ft became involved for 36,000 bales.
Postoffic?» Inspector W. C. Watson,
who is attending the investigation,
stated that. In his opinion, ncrne of
the local agents of the Steele-Miller
Company were In any way involved
In the criminal acts of the firm.
PATTERSON QUITS
TENNESSEE RACE
EXPLOSION ON SHIP.
II
TEDDY” TO TOUR TEXAS.
Will Not Bar Way of Demo
cratic Success.
THE PARTY IS
T
Col. Cecil Lycn, Chairman Republican
Committee, Makes Announcement."
Colonel Cecil Lyon, chairman of the
republican state executive committee,
who has been s.t San Antonio. Tex.,
conferrilg with k)cal republican lead- ^
ers has announced that cx-President
Theodore Roosevelt will tour Texas
next March.
Colcmel Lyon nHl meet Colonel
Roosevelt In New ^'ork next January
and the itfneroc'* for the latter will
then be arranged.
Governor o^ Tennessee. Withdraws
Frbm the Race for Governorship to
Prevent Probable Loss of State tc
R\ publicans—His Stormy Career. .
Governor M. R. Patterson has with
drawn from the race to succeed him
self as governor of Tennessee. Gov
ernor Patterson was the nominee of
the “regular” faction of the democrat
Ic party, and has been bitterly oppos
ed by the independent-state-wide pro
hibition democrats, who, in coalition
REVENUE SEIZURES.
SENATOR LAFOLETTE
tomlnation, defeating his opponent,
Samuel W, Cook, of Neemah, from S
to 6 to 1,
Mlchlgatu
United States Senator Julhis C.
Burroughs, of Kalamazoo, In the pri
maries was defeated for renomit a-
tion by Charles E. Townsend, of Jack-
fion.
New Mexlca.
Indications are that the republicans
elected G4 of the 100 delegates to the
state constitutional convention which
tneetg at Santa Pe October 3. The
Vote was light.
BIG FRAUD ALLEGED.
Cotton Factors’ LlabJtitles Exceed As
sets by $3,000,000 or More.
Sensational evidence relative to the
details of the alleged fraudulent meth
ods of the defunct Steel-Mlller Com
pany, cotton factors at Corinth, Miss.,
developed during the taking of depo
sitions In the United States banking
Court at Jackson, Miss.
Figures compiled by Expert Ac-
«curtant Fillott show that the Habtll-
itles of the firm exceed the assets by
inore than three million dollars, and
ttat the working capital of the Steele-
^Uler Company did not exceed $10,*
000. No effort has been made to as
certain how far back the sertes of al-
®ged frauds perpetrated on European
spinners extends, but it has beea
Shown that the Steele-Miller Compa-
tb*> new, jTottoiL year on
115 Plants, Worth About $8,000, Raided
In One Month,
T’^e monthly report of the Intern*
revenue agent’s work, of whom Jameo
H. Hurber is chief in Georgia, for the
month of August, has just been com
pleted.
During August 115 distilleries were
seized by revenue a?cnts, eis''‘ty-fiix
plants being located in Georgia and
twenty-nine In Alabama.
The value of the stills destroyed
Aironnted to about ^,000.^ Fifteen ar
rests were made aad sixty-five war
rants were sworn out for parties sup
posed to be engaged In the work of
illicit whiskey making.
Of the eighty-six distilleries seized
In Georgia, #wo were found in Fulton
county. Four successful raids were
made In Campbell county, four or five
in Haralson county and three In Troup,
Dawson, ^abun. Habprsham. Pickens,
Gilmer, Pike r.nd Jasper county eacn
produced a yield and in some instan
ces two.
Alabama’s twenty-nine give-up«?
came from RandolDh, Cleburn, Walk
er, Fors3Tth and Jefferson counties—
one of the seizures being within tiie
shadows cast by Birmingham’s tall
buildings.
i
Four Men Killed and Nine Injured
On Dreadnaught.
Another of those tragedies which
go to show that the sailor offers his
life to his country in time of peace
as well as in time of war, was enact
ed Friday, in the dreadnaught, North
Dakota, about 10 points from Nor
folk, Va., in lower Chesapeake bay,
w|ten an explosion of oil and ensuing
fire cost the lives cf three men and
more or less serious injury to nine
Others, Including Chief Lieutenant
Or^in G. Murfin.
The accident happened far from
any shore, and foT sevc.al hours the
wildest rumors circulated to the ef
fect that the Delaware, sister ship of
the North Dakota, had been blown up.
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder,
commanding the Atlantic fleet, Fri
day made the following succinct
statement of the accident.
‘^Between 10:30 and 11 cf clock oil
from room No. 3 in the North Dako
ta caught fire while the first squad
ron of the Atlantic fleet was making)
passage from the Southern drill
grounds to Hampton Roads. Under a
request from the commander of the
North Dakota the commander-in-chief
of the fleet- immediately ordered the
North Dakota to leave the fleet for
mation and the‘battleship New Hamp
shire put near to render assistance
In case tsey could be of service.
“No assistance was necessary, and
by 11:80 o’clock the fire on the North
Dakota was under control.
“It has not yet been ascertained
how the fire started, although it Is
not believed that, the accM»nt was
due to any carelessness of the meu
on the North Dako|ta. A board of in-
qairy was named %a Investigate the
accident,”
NUMBER*38
Comity Government.
Representative—G. W. Wilson.
Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis.
Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat^
rick.
Treasurer—Z, W. Nieholls.
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gilliespie.
Coroner—Dr. W. J. Wallis.
Surveyor—A. L. Hardin.
Commissioners—W. M. Henry, Ch"n; G.
T. Lyday; W. E. Galloway.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
Physician—^Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney—R. L. Gash.
XoMm Government*.
Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.
Board of Aldermen—T. H. Shipman. J
M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De-
Vane, E. W. Carter.
Marshal—^J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H: Gallo
way.
Treasurer—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Regular/meetings—First Monday night
in each month.
Boarding Houses.
WHITMIRE COTTAGE
CHERRYFIELD, N. C.
Summer tourists will find this an
ideal home for rest and recreation—
near the depot. For information ad
dress as above.
.r. C. WHITMIRE.
LEAD PENCIL CAUSED DEATH.
•Jackie” Sent to the Unknown By a
Jab of the Weapon,
The stub of a lead pencil was the
\7eapon which brought death to Albert
Curien, of the Jackie gunboat Han
cock. Curren had obtained a leave of
absence to visit his sister In Brook
lyn, N. Y.
In a saloon near home he iDecame
engaged with John Schmidt, an ac-
Quaintance. in a lively discussion as
to the merits of the battleships of
Germany and the United States.
Schmidt declares Curren struck him.
Schmidt said he did not realize that
he had a lead pencil in his clinched
hand when, resenting Curreri's attack,
he struck back. The blcrw caught
Curren on the neck and the i>encll
pierced his Jugular vein.
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Snakes.
Of all kind provisions of natnre per
haps the manner in which snakes are
brought into tlie world Is the most re
markable. As a rule, all harmless
snakes are hatched from eggs, arriv
ing In batches of from thirty to eighty.
The poisonous snakes, on the other
hand, are bom in litters of from se^®t^
to eleven in number. There are ex
ceptions to the rule, of course, but
they are few and unimportant, for,
though the deadly king cobra lays her
eggs to be hatched by the sun, they
are few in number, unlike the colonies
deposited by the harmless snakes.
Fully Qualified.
The invalid was on the road to re
covery, and the physician had just
pres«ited Jjis bill for $700.
“Doctor,"* said the patient, ‘you
missed the opportunity of your life.
You should have been a nerve special
ist.’*—Ohicago News.
GOVERNOR PATTERSON
with the republicans, elected a state
Judiciary last month, defeating a. tick
et for which Governor Patterson made
a strenuous campaign of the state.
Governor Patterson, in his address
announcing his withdrawal, declares
ho will not be an obstacle in the way
of his party’s success at the polls, nor
will he willingly contribute in any
way to the possibility of success of
the republicans in Tennep.see. He
withdraws in the interest cC harmony
and that democratic factions may get
together to prevent the loss of the
state in November.
He makes reference to Interferences
of a republican president in Tennessee
politics. In an interview following
the issuance of the statement. Gov
ernor Patterson declares that he has
no personal preferences In the matter
of R democratic nominee, and that he
wir take the stump for him, whoever
lie may be. Patterson^s political ca
reer has been a stormy one, including
his defeat of former Senator K. W,
Carmack for the gubernatorial nomi
nation in a sensational campaign, fol
lowed by the killing of Carmack here
by th-e Coopers, ihslr trial, which at
trftcted nation-wide attention, and
Patterson’s pardon of D. B. Cooper
within a few minutes after his con-
victi<Mi by the supreme court
ROBBERS OET $8,000.
. 'A.
Kill Paymaster and Driver In Lonely
Lane Near Hudson, N. V.
Masked men sprang out of the bush
es alongside a lonely lane near Hud
son, N. Y„ -eld up Dent Fowler, pay
master of -le Atlas Brick company
and negro driver, shot the driver dead,
wounded Fowler mortally and made
away with a chest of pay envelopes
containing $5,000.
George Ragsdale, the driver, died
Instantly; hJs head was torn away
by two 44-caliber revolver bullets. He
was 60 years old, and a trusted em
ployee. Fowler was wounded over
the heart and died without ever re
gaining full consciousness. He was
21 years of age, a son of Everett Fow
ler, of Havestraw, N. Y.
The robbers escaped.
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT,
Savannah Man Killed and Several
Other Persons Injured.
M. K. Jones, one of the best-known
fomiture men in the south, was killed
In Savannah at the Serpentine turn
on the Grand Prize automobile course,
8 miles from Savannah, when a rear
tire exploded, and his automobile turn-
^ completely over and righted itself.
Mr. Jones* neck was broken and hli
fkull was fractured.
Frank Butner, a close friend of Mr.
Jones, In another ear, came up quick
ly and, taking the dying man in his
automobile, supported him with one
hand while he made a thrilling drive
^Bah in search of a physician.
rode up to the Savan
nah hospital, Mr. Jones breathed his
last
In the car with Mr. Jones were four
friends, all of whom were rendered
tmconseious by the crash, but none of
whom were permanently injured.
A Thoughtful Conclusion.
^^Pa,’* said Willie thoughtfully, “1
think I know what the minister meant
when he said, ‘It is more blessed to
give than to receive.’ **
“Yes,” replied his pa. “Well, what
did he mean?’*
“Castor oil.**
CAMPAION EXPENSES.
WKat Rival Candidates Spent In Late
Georgia Election.
According to reports (Joverncnr-elect
Hoke Smith spent a total of 117,596.10
Incident to the recent Georgia primary
(election of which be paid $10,*489.63
out of his own pocket. The rest was
contributed by friends.
) 'Governor Joseph M. Bro\^n spent in
the same campaign 13,950.75, of which
he paid |S,‘^00.75 out of his own pock
et the rest being cosrtritmted by mem-
t)ers of the family.
These are in substances the sworn
statements cf the two candidates for
governor in the recent primary which
rerulted in the nomination of Mr.
Smith.
It Is evident that it costs something
to run for governor in (Jeorgla; it is
difucult to see where the man without
funds or resources would be In it
The salary of the governor Is only
15000 a year; hence the gcrvemor-elect
!pa.*d out of his own pocket incident to
his campaign $489.63 more than he wtll
rco^lve as salary from the state dur*
fng the two years be will be In offio».
Profes»onol Cords.
R. li, GASH.
LAwnnER.
11 and 12 McMinn Bmlding
Notary Public.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTO RN EY-AT-LA W.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Buildin^r
H. C. BAILEY
Civil and Constilting Engineer
and Surveyor
CITY ENGINEER HENDERSONKILLE, N. C.
NOTICE!
A dispatch received from Rome,
Italy, from Addis Abeba says that
King Menellk, of Abyssinia, has suf
fered another attack of apo|4ez3r, mad
that his co3idition is grar*.
Trespassing Positively Porbiddeil<
To any and all persons whomsoever:
Notice is hereby given that if "an/ per
son or persons shall, without written pef^
mission from the Mayor of the Town of
Brevard, go upon or be found u^n feny^
part of the lands owned by the ToWft of
Brevard, and known as its watershed for'
the supply of water to said town} or if any
person or persons shall deposit the dea^
body of any kind of animal on said boUh-
dary, or shall deposit any kind of garbage
or human excreta on said boundary; or if
any person or persons shall allow any kind
of live stock (and this shall include eve^
kind of domestic animal) to go upon said
boundary; or if any person or persons shall
hunt, fish, travel or walk on said boundary,
distiurb or molest the soil by digging ia
same, or shall cut any timber, washes or'
shrubbery of any kind on said botmdary,-
or shall set fire to or attempt to set fat to'
the leaves, or an;^ other accumulatioifs>
found on said land, or if any person or
person^ shall in any manner be responsible
for fire getting onto said boundary; or if
aiiy person or persons shall in any way
defile, corupt or pollute, or shall do any
thing at any time that will defile, corrupt
or pollute the water on any part of said
watershed boundary, or shall trespass «
upon said boundary in any way, manner or
form whatsoever, or shall aid or abet in
any kind of trespassing whatsoever, or
shall sanction or be a party to such acts
and things as are herein forbidden, every z'
such person or persons shall, upon convic
tion, be punished to the full penalty and
extent of the law.
Further notice is hereby given that a
reward of $10.00 is hereby offered by the
Town of Brevard for the arrest of any
person who shall be found doing or aiding
or abetting in the doing of any act for
bidden in the above notice upon said
watershed boundary, provided the person
or persons making such arrest shall furnish
s^nfficient evidence to convict the person or
^rsons arrested.
W. E. BREESE, JR., Mayor.
Chamberlain’s Cougli Remedy;