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*Miri»gtM, N. C.
3t. J, A. Pickett, • • Preeideat
MXES E. FOUST. Secretary aiidi Treasoreir
and BssiseM Mamger.
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jfoitered an «econd-!l»«8 matter May
.i#, 1908, at the post office at Burling
feat, North Carolina, under the Act of
l^ja^fTesa of March 8 1879
Ushed as a document in accord
ance with Mr. Murdock's pr^
posal they would be made read
ily available all over the country
and the people in any distnct,
who are the ones naturally most
familiar with the campaign work
of their candidate for Congress,
would have some means of de
termining whether or not the
statements were complete and
trustworthy. But thus far Mr.
Murdock has been unable, in tbe
face of the bipartisan Democrat
ic-Republican opposition, to se
cure action an his proposal.
Under the usual practice, such
documents filed with the clerk of
the Housie are kept for only a
few months and then destroyed.
Unless, therefore, these state
ments are printed as pjsrmanent
documents tiiey will cease to have
any potential value in a few
months, and thus the law will be
rendered purely a farce.
Mr. MacDonald was sworn in
as a member of the House im
mediately after the paisage of
the resolution. He will be as
signed to places on committees
and is already entering into the
work of representing his district.
Progressiye News.
By formal action, taken on
August 26th, the House of Re
presentatives has at length done
justice to William J. MacDonald,
Ihe Progressive who was elected
lo Congress from the 12th Michi-
fan District last November, but
■whose seat the Republican Board
2-f Canvassers attempted to steal
a'’>m himby counting 458 of his
TO'tes for a mythical person for
whom they were not cast.
The Committee on Elections,
which had made an exhaustive
Investigation of the case, had
f feviously reported unanimously
in favor of seating MacDonald.
‘ The resolution carrying that
report into effect was debated
ior about two hours in the house
und was finally adopted by a vote
175 to 6. The voting opposi
tion was confined entirely to
Democrats, but Representative
Mann of Illinois, the Republican
!3tandpat leader, joined in the op-
^^sition to Mr. MacDonald that
was displayed in the debate. No
question was raised as to the
vaiidity of Mr. MacDonald’s
sieetion. The only point brought
ap against him was that he fail
ed to file a Supplemental state-
meRt of his campaign contribu
tors and expenses, required un-
Jer the campai^ publicity law,
rSiihin the thirty days allowed
Ijf the statu? for that purpose.
^ appeared that Mr. MacDonald
ladeotftpUed substantially with
by filing on October 26th
Just prior to the election, a state-
isient which in facc covered
practically the whole of his cam-
prlgn fund., It also
loat he district attorney of
^is own county, and immediately
after the election had devoted
Mmself to court work for a long
!ame, having been engaged in
5he trial of some fifty separate
mes. His final statement was
iiied on April 13th. of this year,
and it appeared that there had
no material additions to the
stems set forth in the October
statement.
The effort of a very small
number of Democrats and of Re
publican leader Mann to make
5api ';al out of this incident recalls
vigor with which both the
i:«en>ocrats and the Republicans
'iave fought the efforts of Re-^
t entative Murdock, the Pro*
fressive floor leader of the House
have printed as a public docu
ment ati the statements of cam-
aaign contributions and expendi
tures filed with the clerk of the
Movise. The law requires that
:i«ch statements shall be filed by
ill candidates for Congress,
irhether successful or unsuccess-
lul. '.the iav^'^ also provides a
^nalty of fi?je or imprisonment
both, for f dlure to comply
'¥ith its provisions. It is a.
aoiorious fact however, that a
considerable number of candi
dates at the iast session have not
filed such statements. Yet
■ito attempt has been made to do
mnbing in any of these cases,
rfc the contrary, when Mr. Mur-
ioek proposed that the state
ments which had been filed
-should be printed as a document
30'that they might be permanen-
preserved, he encountered the
vigorous opposition of the leaders
■^id the rank and file of both the
awy parties.
^e avowed purpose of the
jjamimign publicity was to secure
genuine pubMcity of these contri
butions and expenditures. In
point of fact it has secured no
oractical publilicity, because the
statements are filed with the
vlerk of the house, and ar# not
©nly difficult of access in Wash-
%gton but practically wholly in-
jscessjble so far as the people of
ge different Congressional dia.
twcts are c^ceroed. If
Rushvilk, Ind., Aug31.—Will
iam Price, 90 year^ old, former
sheriff of Rush county and Mar
shall of this city, is dead as a re
sult of an alternation with his
son, Erbie, aged 25 years, in this
city today.
Price and his son, who lives at
Fort Wayne, and who has been
visiting his father for a week,
met in front uf his fathei’sdrug
store and became involved in a
quarrel. Persons who saw them
say the father was the aggress
or and pushed his son off the
sidewalk. The son at once re
taliated, it is declared, by strik
ing his father a blow on the
neck. The father was knocked
to the sidewalk and the authori
ties are not certain whether it
was the blow or the fall that
caused his death.
The coroner is making an in
vestigation and young Price will
be held until the coroner's ver
dict is returned. Price died ab
out 20 minuets after he fell to
the sidewalk.
Trip
Mesican
Son’s Maid So Pretty Queen
Dismisses Her.
Thaw Lawyers Are Now More
HopefnL
SherebroDke, Que., Aug. SI.
—Harry K. Thaw’s lawyers
swept off their feet yesterday by
the sudden move of William T.
Jerome, in obtaining a writ of
habeas corpus requiring Thaw’s
production in Superior court
here Tuesday, spent the day in
conferences and tonight gave re
newed expression to their belief
that the writ would not be sus
tained.
“If it is sustained, ” said W. K.
McKeown, of the Thaw forces,
“there always is recourse to ap
peal and I am inclined to think
that appeal to the court of re
views or to the court of appeals
would act as a stay and hold our
client in jail safe from deporta
tion. In the face of such circum
stances I do not see how New
York state can make any move
until the King’s bench convenes
in October”.
Thaw spent the day writing
letters and dictating to his sten
ographers. As V was the case last
Sunday, there was no religious
service in the pri^n. Several
women called and gave the pris
oner flowers.
W, L,- Shurtleff, of Coaticook,
the first attorney retained ' for
Thaw after his arrest, safd to
day he had heard that John
Boudreau, the Coaticook chief of
police, told a number of friends
he had signed the petition for
the writ of habeas corpus in the
Thaw case through a mistake^
Some one had told him, so tlie
8toFj/}'rau, th^t he was ftffixlr^
his sij^ature to i documeut'that
would indemnify him sbouM
Thaw decide to sue for false ar
rest. H,e was Thaw^s captor at
Coaticook, and in his petition i(xr
the writ set forth that he fear
ed he might be liable fordamag
es. Boudreau denied he had
signed the application without
knowing what he was doing.
Friends might criticise his act,
he added, but he had acted with
his eyes open.
Thaw’s lawyers denied they
were trying to coerce Boudreau
into asking for discontinuance of
the writ.
Mr. McKeown issued this for
mal statement.:
“We do nut believe Boudreau
has any right to make applica
tion for a writ of habeas corpus
for Harry K. Thaw, but should
Judge Hutchinson hold that he
is an interested party we wiU
produce the document in which
Thaw declares that he does not
intend to sue Boudreau. That,
in our opinion, should nullify any
claim Boudreau may make as to
his interest in the matter.''
Paris, Aug. 31.—Smiles and
grins will surely cross the chan
nel from France to Great Brit
ain over the story published
here today by the Cri de Paris of
the latest piritanicai edict of the
stern Queen Mary, enforced on
the prince of Wales, in which
the pretty little French laund
ress of the royai youngster^ s es
tablishment became the victim,
l^ing summarily dismissed.
The Cri de Paris asserts that
the only indictment possible
against the little French laund
ress was heryouth andgood looks,
Her departue is said to have
been demure; her ironing of the
lingeries of the princeling per
fection. But the rose of her
cheeks and the light of her eyes
were condemned by Queen Mary
as being not suitable for the
future ruier..
Of course, King George has
long since phlosophically bowed
to Queen Mary’s strict sway in
regard to a puritanical palace
life. A nobleman ^s bon mot
which alluded to “Gieorge and
the Dragon’^ rocked all England
with laughter.
The priace has not dared flout
Queen! Maryorder dismissal,
given! without his knowledge.
But if the Cri (fe Piftrls story is
right,, boy,, when he heard of
what his qjueef!> mother had done,
wrote; a letter to- tbe- girl and in -
ciosedi one huadaeeds and fifty
poujads by irtdiemnity.
And then he wrote- her a sepa-
erate letter in an effort to aid her
to find new employraseat. This
tetterj, adres8edi ‘To Whom It
say* that the
Fren^ giri i» a fine little
laiiadressi.
flThe prince was hem in 1894
and has not therefore attained
his majority,, as that ts: usually
omderstoodi— t weflty-one year s.
But with royal yooths eighteen
years is the attaipiB^nt of the
right to ascend the throne,
and might serve as a logical de
mand greater freedom. He cer
tainly has had little of any.
Queen Mary has chosen his tu
tors and held them most rigor
ously to account for the diver
sionsand associations of Britain’s^
future ruler. It was only after
the boy^s insistence that a separ
ate establishment was ailoweci
him, and Queen Mary always
supervised it.
Affair.
Washington, Aug. 31.—Sec
retary of State Bryan upon his
return today from a short lecture
trip announced that nothing had
been received at the state de;
pattment from iVJexico'City to
cause any alarm or to change the
diplomatic situation that exists
between this government and
the provisional government in
Mexico Citv.
The secretary remained at his
home all day keeping in touch
with the state department by
telephone and was glad of the
opportu -li ty to get a rest. A few
messages were received from
the embassy at Mexico City re
lating to routine developing such
as supplying American with
means to leave Mexico and a
brief message came from the
special American envey, John
Lind at Vera Cruz.
Mr. Lind, it was reasserted,
would remain in Vera Cruz tomor
row at least so far as admiifiistra-
tioai officials here had any know
ledge of his plans. That the
administration still is content to
wait for expected hoperur de
velopments that is apparent on
every hand, President Wilson
planning to remain in Coinish
over Labor Day, nothing having
arisen to demand his immediate
re urn to- Washington.
Reports of new orders for
mobilization of troops in Mesdco
by the provisional authorities
caused no excitement in of!i«lal
circles li^re. At the war and
navy department officers were on
duty all day, but no reports from
the Mcrxko border were received
regarding attempts to smuggle
arms into Mexico in violation of
the strict neutrality order from
President Wilson.
The administration it was re
ported, is enouraged by
statements emanating from
Mexico City which gave strong
indication that the provisional
authorities do not regard negotia
tions with the United States at
an end, and that they are expect
ing to hear further from the
American confidential agent.
Whether Mr. Lind has received
any further instructions f om
President Wilson since he went
to the summer capitol has not
been announced nor is there, any
official statement as, to Mr. Lind’s
intentio» to reply to the last note
from Seaer C^mboa, secjretary
of foreigji? affairs of the pitoMr
sion government.
Tonight it was stated that oo
representatives of anti-American
demonstrations had beem re
ceived. This gienerally was* re-
gairded as a favorable sign, in
view of the fact the e«odu« of
i^eritjans might have aroused
some feeling* ,
Btttltef is ^ell ScTen\ Klears;
Granite City, Mo.. Mo.,. Aug:
31.—A crock of butter was tstk-
en from a well on the farm of
John McQuigg,. a weailbfegi' land
owner, twelve miles northeast of
this place, a few days ago by
Mrs. McQui^g, who died seven
years ago. Tfhe cloth still was
around the butter, which was
firm of bright color and of good
eating quaKty..
Chief Harter Killed,
Lena, S. C,, Aug. 31.—J. B.
Harter, chief of police at Allen
dale, S. C., was shot to death
here late today. A. L. Walker
tonight is con>fined in the Hamp
ton county jail, charged with the
killing. While the tragedy occ-
ured on the platform of the
railway station, there were no
witnesses, and as Walker refus
ed to make a statement, it is not
known why Harter was killed.
An inquest will be held tomor-
iow morning when an effort
will be made to solve the mys
tery.
At a late hour tonight Harter’s
body had not been removed from
the spot where he fell.
Angry Woman With Hatpin
Attacks Man And Officer.
Asheville, Sept. 1—Following
the acquittal of W. L. Leiter" on
a betrayal charge, in the court
of Justice of the Peace B, L.
Lyda, Mrs. J. Hawkins, the
mother of the girl in the case,
attacked Daiter with a hatpin.
She made a lunge at the dismis
sed prisoner, it is said, but -,he
avoided her and was not injured.
When Sheriff Williams attemp
ted to grasp the woman, the two
daughters of the latter it is al
leged, attacked the officer and
it was necessary for the magis
trate to take a hand in the case
before the fight could be stopp
ed.
Mrs, Hawkins and one of her
daughters were sent to jail for
ten days for contempt of court,
while the other girl was told to
go to her home. She is repor
ted to have declared that she in
tended returning to the sheriffs
office later with a pistol, declar
ing her intentions of killing
every man who had participa
ted in the trial.
Patient Win;, On His Liie From
DoctMT..
Lexington,, Ky., Aug.31—Of
Glera Beachy,. the famous turf
man, who died here last Wednes
day of Cirrhosis of the liver, it is
now known that he was a sport
to his last breath. Five days
before he died John Skein, pro
prietor of the Phaenix hotel here
where Beaehy iliade his home,
went to the sick man’s room and
deliverei to him $1,000 in cash.
Of this sum $500 was a winning
from one of his doctors.
The doctor in diagnosing
Beachy^s illness told the, world-
famous horse trainer he did not
think he bad more than three
weeks of life left him. Beachy
63 years old and desperately ill
smiled softly and said;
“Doc, ril bet you $500 I live
ahree months.’'
The physician to humor his
patient, made the bet.
Beachy dismissed him and
hung on to life till he won.
take a look at oiiir new Fail Line of
“Eclipse” Shirts, tlse high grade shirt that’s
worth its cost. Prices $1.00 $1.50
o
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t
a sreat tine in both dress and
at 50c.
Advance styles now on display in oar
show windows.
Burlin
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We buy and sell Beal Eijtate.
We write insuraree in Strong
, Ci‘mpanie».
We lend .money on real estate.
We buy and sell stocks and bonds.
Some &mh1 Farms and Citf Property For Sale.
LET US SHOW YOU.
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S^KfARE DEAL’
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Hope People.
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J P. IBompmery, Pres. W » Sellars Y-Pres.
C. C. See-Treas.
DIBEGT8HS.
J. A. BarnwKSI )». A, Cahie C. V. Seflars A. A. Auntc
r P: Munrsoiiiery w. P. lawrence
G. G. FonviEIe W. A. HornMay W. R. Sellars J. A. Lowe
Any young lady wishing to at
tend a good boarding school and
pay her way entirely or in part
with industrial work may seciire
aid by writing a' letter at dn» to
puh^ l RBI), this oM-ce.
Miss Irene Eanes who has been
visiting friends and relatives^ ,i«
Virginia for the past tnonth wiM
iretjirn Sunday tO: b^n schob!
with the openinf of the term.
A Big Fish at Eoliss Pond
Last Thursday will be remem
bered in coming years by the
participants of a big fish which
was pulled off at Euliss pond.
Among the number that was pre
sent were Messrs W. A. Loy, W.
W. Brown, L. M. &J. C. Squires,
Sam Boggs, E. U. Durham, J„
F. Thompson, E. S. Cheek,
Worth Bryan and Jack Capps.
About two bushel of fish was
caught £ind the sport which the
fiohermen enjoyed wMe seining.
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Pianos
Look ‘^Sho>vy” and for
a few months sound
pretty well—then your
expense begins and the
Piano Tuners have to
call very often.
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$150, $175 and $300 pianos if you want
them, but don’t advise you to buy
them. Our store is full ot good pianos,
organs and machines now. Get prioes
and terms
is Mch. & Music Co.
on, North Carolina.
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