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A REPUB1.ICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF i^iMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
VOL. III.
BURLINGTON; N. C, FEBRUARY 22. 1911.
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NO. 41
\m MAIL TRAIN ON
SOUTHERN HELD UP
HIGB POINT MUN KILLS
HIS WIFE AND SON-iN-LAW
A CASE OF MIfSIERY
Gainsviile, Ga., Feb. 18.—
Southern Railway train No. 36,
the United States fast mail, bound
from New Orleans to New York,
was held up by five masked men
at White Sulphur Springs, four
miles from "here, at 3:15 o'clock
this moriiing. The exp;ress car
safe was dynamited and the con
tents stolen. First reports said
more than $100,000 was taken,
but Southern Railway officials de
clare the amount was $700. None
of the passengers were molested.
The robbers escaped in an au
tomobile, and are now thought to
be in Hill county, probably bound
for North Georgia, where ^ijrsuit
would be difficult A posse is on
the trail,
The robbers broke down the
doors of the railroad sbition at
White Sulphur, bound the night
agent and set the signal for the
train to stop. As the lo»motive
slowed up, one of the men enter
ed the cab and ordered the en
gineer to proceed to Eula, a small
station several miles away. Af
ter a stop was made, members of
the gang entered the express
car, and while one held the con
ductor and express messenger at
the point of a gun, thei others
blew ope V the door of th^ safe
containing the money. Agent
Terrell of the Southern Express
Company, Deputy United States
Marshal Landers, E>etective
Hauce of the Southern Railway,
and Deputy Sheriff Little are
with the posse with bloodhound
in pursuit
Posses returning tonight from
the count|7 surrounding the
scene of the hold-up this morn
ing report no trace of the robbers.
Tomorrow the man hunt will ^
taken up again and will be in
charge or detectives of the South
ern Railway, Southern ^press,
Company and county officials.
Descriptions of the rc'bber se-:
cured here indicate that one of
the men was rather tall and stoop
shouldered with stubby mustache
and apparently about 40 year old.
Another is described as looking
and acting like a countrj^an.
All the men wore masks.
Members of the main posse
which started in pursuit of the
bandits, state that the bandits
evidently were prepared to throw
doi?s off their scent for red pep-
p 1 had been dashed over the
trail at intervals.
High Point, Feb. 18.—Ahorri
ble crime was commited at five
o^clock this morning inthe Clover-
dale section of High Point by a
white man named Speaks, a na~
tiv of the Western States, but
who came to High Point a few
years ago. His age is about fifty
years.
After getting up this mommg
Speaks got a butcher knife and
with this stabbed his wife
through the heart killing her al
most instantly. He then went
over to the home of his son-in-
law, William Miller, a short dis
tance from the Speaks home, and
with the same knife attacked Mil
ler, srabbing him on both sides
bf the breast inflicting wounds
that will likely prove fatal.
Speaks then disappeared and
the officers have not been able to
locate him.
Speaks is mentally unbalanced.
He came here from an insane
asylum and his family and friends
have for some time regarded him
a dangerous character, on ac
count of his mental condition.
Yesterday he gave one of his
daughters a severe whipping and
she left home, ^ing over to the
home of Mr. miller, her brother-
in-law. It is believed that the
father became angry with his
wife and daughter on account of
the latter having left home and
that this wjis the real cause of
his atrocious crime. It is also
believed that he would have kill
ed his daughter this morning had
he found her when he went to
the Miller home.
Speaks was supported by his
wife and children, and for some
time they have been making an
effort to get him in the state ho^
pital at Morganton, feeling as
they did, that during one of his
attacks of insanity he might com
mit some horrible crime.
GOVERNMENT PAYS POOBLY
FOR lAllUNG THE MAIL
Farmer Near Eliz«b«th City
Mysteriaaslr Disappears.
Elizabeth City, Feb. 17.—Much
excitement has been causiKl in
southern suburbs by the tnys-
terious disappearance of Ed.
Gibbs, a prominent farmer*, 52
years old, Gibbs left home bout
two miles from town, this morn
ing at 4 o'clock, en route to Eliza
beth City to get aloadof bai rels.
He wak^ his wife and she gave
him $5 to purchase the barrels.
This is the last seen of him.
Early before day a horse and
cart without a driver, was seen
by the fireman at Kramer’s saw
mill on Rivei^ide avenue. At
noon th€ same hor^ and cart
were seen at G. T. Hughes’ store
on Factory avenue. Beeing rec
ognized as Gibbs' horse, it was
carried to Scott’s stabler by
friends. Not having any call for
them, word w«^ sent to Gibbs’
wife, who hastened to towB this
afternoon. She told about her
husband leaving, etc., and that
was the last seen of him. Mrs.
Gibbs was very uneasy, and in
quiries were sent throughoiit the
city among those who knew
Gibbs. No one has been found
who has seen him to^y. Foul
play is the only solution of the
mysterious disappearance,
Gibbs is a steady, hard v/ork-
ing fanner, and is held iis the
highest regard by neighboK! and
citizens of this section. Si^rch
is being made, but no important
clues are anticipated before day
light, when Sheriff Reid and pos
se will scour the country for the
missing man.
sm HIS BRItrgQI mSED tT TIE
WHILE EATING SUPPER
Sara Itamsey Empties Shot Gnn Itt>'
lo Bud Ramsey’s Body.
Roanoke, Va., Feb. 16. -
R^sey, 27 years old, is m a
criti^l condition in si. Lynchburg
hospital as a result of a gunshot
wound inflicted by his brother,
Sam Rainsey, last night in their
home at Rebertson, Bedford
County. The shooting is said to
have been the result of a recent
difficulty between the two broth
ers.
Boyd was at the supper table
when Sam appeared at the door
and leveled a shotgun at hjim.
He fired, the load sl;riking Boyd
in the shoulder. The young man
was taken to Lynchburg.
Sam es(^ped and has not beeii
apprehend^. The father of the
boys swore out a warrant for the
arrest of his son Sam. The
wounded man was operated on
today but there is little chance
for hia recovery.
The brother whodiid the shoot
ing is maiTied and hiis two child
ren. The wounded brother is
single.
OEIOCRATIC PIESS
TIE CBIEF OF POLICE IF
fffiEWIlU, S. C. HUED.
MON WHEELS IN
PilTTEIISON,N.J.
SECOND ni OF
SPEAKS OeSlDAV
High Feint, N. C. Feb. 19, —
Will Miller,, who was fearfully
stabbed with th» same knife with
which Moses Speaks killed his
wife Saturday, died this morning
in a local hospital Miller was
the murderer’s son-in-law.
Speaks is still at large, having
succeeded in eluding the posses
of officers vi^hich is scouring the
the country for him.
Speaks undoubtedly committed
the double crime while insane.
He had recently been discharged
from a Boston asylum for the
feeble minded.
Later.—Mostjs Speaks was
captured late Monday night in
Yadkin county by the Sheriff of
that county. He was making
his way through the country
from High IPoint to a farm which
he owns in North Iredell, or
Southern Wilkes county, his for
mer home.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 18.—
The histo^ of the Railway Mail
business is interesting for two
salient features, the great in
crease. in the service rendered the
Government aud the people by
the railroads, and the corres
ponding decrease in pay. It seems
hard to realize that the Govern
ment should set the example of
poor pay for services rendered,
yet this is a fact when it comes
to the postoffice department poor
ly paying the railroads for the
great service they give. For in-
stanci, in 1907, the railroads re
ceived $49,757,9^ for 5arrying|
the mails. %e year following, ^ j
notwithsfcandinjr the fact of an W.M. Ac worth, recogniz^ as
increa e in volume amounting to; higl^i authonty on Rail-
$7,983,658, the railroads received ways m Great Bntam and an au
EXPEin OPINION OF
AMEIKAN RAIUOADS
LINA.
a decrease of $1,602,582 less than
the previous year, and for last
year the report of the Pojitmaster
General shov/s that the revenue
of the Department (and conse
quently the volume of mail handl-
increased $40,543,6;52 over
that of 1^7, but not one cent of
increase in payment to the rail
roads for the hauling and furnish
ing cars for distribution of the
vast increase in amount of mail
carried, over twenty-two per
cent, and producing as stated,
over $4o,000,000 of revenue; in
fact, the railroads were actually
paid $352,7^ less in 1910 than
in 1907.
Margaret Perkins was obliged
xo give a bond before she became
telephone operator in a hotel in
Spokane, Wash. This instrument
signed and sealed, holds her
bondsmen liable to the extent of
thor of sevtjral standard works
on railroads of Great Britain and
America, te?jtifiei before tbe Rail
road Securities Commission in
New York recently that after a
two months study of American
Railways.
“It has always been my opin
ion that in actual economy of
operation the railways of the U-
nited States are first in the world.
In the numl>er of tons per car;
cars per train; in the fullest utili
zation of locomotives; in the ob
taining of the greatest measure
of result for each unit of expendi
ture, they are not equalled by the
I railways of any other nation.”
A strange coincidence happen-
! ed to W. J. Burt, of Cuero, Tex.
He dreamed one night he had cut
his left foot with an axe. Next
morning he weint to the wood
pile, and the first blow he cut
$500 in the event she becomes a his left foot just below the ankle;
bride on or before June 21, 1911. making a severe gash.
Asheville, Feb. 17. — The poMs
department of Asheville received
information this aftemodn to the
effect that the two white men
that murdered the chief of jx)lice
and another officer at Greenville
S. Cv this morning were within
Patterson, N. J., Feb., 16
Patterson is all worked up over
a bank on wheels. One of the
Patterson trust companies has
equipped a steel linei automobile
soniewhat along the lines of the
motors formerly used by the
Night and Day bank to gather
up the late cash rec^iipts in the
restaurant belt of Broadway and
is going to send it out in the coun- _
c^tch the wayside deptvsiii'
tors,
portable bank walJ on ex
hibition in front of the trust Com*
pany's ofliices today. Hundreds
of interested and cuiious persons
viewed the peculiar-looking ma-
Greensborp, N. C., Feb. 18.
Editor State Dispatch:
i see that you are advocating
Boyd I planes for your county officers,
instead of fees; and 1 am surprii^
ed and regiet to see that rny
friend Crow^n is fighting it As
to the county officfersi you cannot
expect anything more from them,
but of course they will look to
their own interest, and are hot
going to favor any measure that
will take about one-half, or any
part of their salary. We had the
same fight in Guilford, every of
fice holder and every one that
ever expected to be an office
holder, threw every obstacle in
the way, and almost proved their
case that the county would loose
largely by adopting this system,
however. Dr. Gordon, our Repre
sentative in the Legislature four
years ago took the buH by the
horns and passed the bill. It has
now been in force two years—ex
cept to Clerk of Court, and he
went on salary Dec. 1st 1910 and
the tax payers of Guilford have
saved in two years nearly $22*-
000.00, and it is growing larger
every year, as the county grows
larger, and a good many think
that Guilford will ^ve this year
$12,500.00. And again after the
officers are put on a salary and
the affairs of the county put on a
business b'lsis, every one can see
what the t&xes are ispent for and
then with a fair, but not extrav
agant salaiy, this grpwing evil of
graft is largely eliminated.
notice that my friend Crowson
intimated tha^ it takes half a
years salary to j^t elected to of
fice in Alamance. Then; if for
no other reason than this, he
should f^vor salaries^ Iteep up
the fight and you will win finally,
A Native,
Richmond Tlrginfoa.
The fee system is beipgfllayed
right ^and left throughout North
Carblina, and it seems doomed in
several counties at least The
General A^mbly of ^e Tar
Heel State, Which has ahn^y en-
act^ cotisideraMe progr^sive
legislation, is being ii^portuned
to pass a general act by which
upon the mtition of one fifth of
the qiialined voters, tibe cou i ty
comihi^ioners sMid 1^ ‘
ed to submit the QUestiion ol' *sal-
=t5»-
eighteen miles of Hendersojivijle'^^^i”^* . ^ ,
and headed this way. The local iai* is fitted up with a desk
authorities immediately got busy
and the Southern Railway placed
at the disposal of the city and
and office equipment, including
compartments and books, checks
and papers. A solid steel safe
county authorities a special in one comer. The body
train. The engine and tender left
Biltmore at 6:30 o’clock this after
noon, carrying six officers duly
sworn in.
The officera included two deputy
sheriffs, two patrolmen and two
private citizens.
The posse which went to Hen
dersonville on the speciai train
returned to the city without get
ting the men at Hendersonville.
They learned that the two men
supposed to be the murderers
were c^^ptured near Tryon and
taken back to Greenville in an
automobile. Each train is being
carefully watched here tonight
as Asheville authorities do not
believe the captured men are the
ones wanted.
The Baraca Class of Webb Ave
nue Sunday school is meeting
every Thursday night for the
study of theSunday School lesson.
The class will meet next lliurs-
day night at the home of the
teacher J. W. Wright
of the car is painted steel color.
A small window, guarded with
heavy steel and brass bars, and
a liberal spade for firearms, will
afford the clerks protection on
their travels.
Boy AccidenUly Killed.
Lacy Shepard the fourteen year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robt.
Shepard of Elon College received
injuries Sunday which resulted
in his death the next morning.
Lacy in (»mpany with sevei*al
other boys was playing along the
Railroad track when he attempt
ed to csitch the freight train
which foiilpws passenger train No
131. The body was thrown under
the cars one leg and arm cut off
and other bruises received He
was carriied to St. Leo’s Hospital
Greensboro but died at nine o~
’clock Monday morning. Funer
al and burial services were con
ducted Tuesday frc>m Frieden’s
Lutheran Church by Rev. Sox
of Gibsonville.
All in favor of puttiug our county officers on Salaries in
stead of Fees sign the Coupon below and «end to the DIS
PATCH, this means $5000.00 a year in the pockets of the
Tax Payers of Alamance County.
Hon. J. Elmer Long,
House of Representatives,
Raleigh, N. C.
I favor putting jur County officers on Salaries in
stead of Fees, paying them fair and libeial but not ex
travagant salaries and ask you to have a bill passed
making this a law. Signed
Directors Declare Dividend and Au
thorize Extensive hnpme-ments.
New York, Feb. 17.—The first
dividend to be paid on the prefer
red stock of the Southern Rail
way company since October of
1907 is to be distributed on Apr
il 24, the directors of the road
having declared a dividend of 1
per cent today. The payment
is made for no specific period,
and President Finley said that it
was the intention of the manage
ment to maintain payments in
the future, although no informa
tion was obtainable as to what
yearly rate was contemplated.
Extensive improvements, in
cluding expansion of freight fa-
cihties at imjpor^nt points, were
authorized by the board, and tlie
president was empowered to take
up the question of the purchase
of additional rolling stock, Mn
Finley said that since details of
the improvement plans had not
been completed, he was not in a
position to state at what points
changes would be made.
In explanation of the action of
the directors he said:
‘ ‘As the action of the board in*
dicates, it has adopted the policy
of resuming dividends on the
preferred stock on a very conser
vative basis, in the expectation
that with a continuance rf favor
able conditions the rate of divi
dend may be gradually increased
until the full dividend can again
be properly paid. This resump
tion of dividends will not ■ result
in any modification of the pres
ent progressive policy of the com
pany with respect to operation,
maintenance and improvement
of the property.”
Resumption of dividends on
the preferred stock was made
possible by improved eaminga of
the road. In the six months end
ed December 31, the net income
increased $1^083, (WO over the cor
responding period of tine preced
ing year, owing largely to the
high prices of cotton. In all of
1907 the company paid 3 per cent,
on its preferred Stock, but at the
time of the panic it suspendied
dividends. Between 1902 and
1907 it paid 5 per cent annually.
It never has paid anything on its
common stock.
ary" or "“fees*' for eoonta^ offi
cers in any county next
regul^ election.
Already several eounties in the
South have put their on
salai^, and do
well to foHow their example.
Theire ai^ a number of officers in
this city paid by f^ who should
receive a stimulated aakury com
mensurate with their labors/ so
as not only materially cut
down expenses in the municipa-
lityv but make thm konQrable
gentlemen a ti^e Ime antoeratic.
In a single coonty in Novth
Carolina, Ouilford, |19,0OO .vas
saved last year by^^ing salaries
instead of fees. There is there
fore a surplusinstead of a deficit.
The salary system inst«^d of tees
in Richmond would work financ
ial wonders^ terminate the iruik-
ing of lajrge presents to officials,
and reduce tne tax on the people.
The fee system is sji wrong
and it must be abolished. Tiiere
is not a single word ^o be said in
its defense other than by tJie teed
bffi^. i
When a bill providing that the
voters of Jefferson co«i||y, Ala.,
be allowed to regulate |he tees
of the county officers was defeat-
^ recently ; it was learned that
some of the c^ce-hoid^ receiv
ed 000 in fees. It furth
er divulged that sever^ c nii-
8]f)ent ^60,0C‘|j in
, We k«eW jthat'^)i«i>
realised what placing ©iiJr County
officers oh salaries meant to the
tai payers of Alamaiide that
sbmethin^would be done. All is
well that ends well and we hope
that our Repfescntatiye and Sen
ators will see that this measure is
enacted into law this session to
go into effect December 1912.
SDOOrS IMSELF
Roannokei Ya.,^eb. 18.—Otey
Vines, 15 years old, shot himself
through the head today at the
home of his graiid-fiiither, Wil
liam Vines, in BetetouH icr@unty.
Apparoritly in fine spirits, m
went to his room, and shortly
afterwards the report of a gun
was haard. Rushing to the room,
the family f^und the boy on the
floor unconscious, with blood flow
ing from a Wound that penetrate
ed the brain. The boy can not
recover. . -
It is thought that the shooting
was accidehtial. His father,
James Vines, a guard at the
State penitentiary.
Death of Rufat Aldridge.
Mr. Rufus G. Aldridge an aged
and respected citizen of R. P. D.
5 died Saturday night at his home
near Lon^Cha^l after an illness
of several months, at the age of
74 years 6 months and 18 days.
He leaves a wife and five child
ren, Messrs Jno. 9L J. A.
Aldridm MesdimMS J. L .Chand
ler and Lacy Bradsher and Mihs
Bettie Aldridge all of thii} county.
Funeral and burial services
were conducted Sunday evening
at five o'clock at McCrays by
Elder O. J. Denny,
We are told by those who were
personally acquainted with M i\
Aldridge that he was one of the
best men they ever knew. Never
ill tampered but alwavs kind
generous and symi^thyzing.
Ready at all times to lend a help
ing hand to those in need.
Misses Mable and Ada Be^le
isley of Trinity College arri\ d
Tuesday evening to spend & i w
days the guest of their pare;:cs
Mr. aaad Mrs. Jos. A. Isley.
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