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A blue mark jtfere means tht4hi Bcriber to JjUs eopjr of The .V"ws is be hind on s,i4b8eriDjfcxn. Please tnake ii pay ment &3 9 UJ1 UHCUU- vejuient. t fox. xy.y MOUm AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 'JJ, 1013. NO. 20 Jifiitfttlltl in? Ml It 1 (3 The Big Show! Feb. 7th, 1913, Final Count Piano Contest On Feb. 7th. some one ii going to bo awarded the piano and in all human probability it will be the contestant who works the hardest. It won't be for any dreamer who sits around and uiiayins she is going to pet it, and you contestants who have don so well uj to the present tilno don't let your success lull you into inactivity or you may have, a startling awakening. The ojdy way for you to do Is to ipresvrve any advantage you have by downright hard work. As busine proposition, with what you have done and accomplish ed, yuu can't afford to decrease your activity in any particular. All of you want to get out and. hustle as you never hustled ?j your lives before. Go out af ter the subscription! and don't go after thorn in a haphawird way, iit list every friend you luive and then see them. They will help you if they see you kre trying to help yourseli and their effort for you will he in exact ratio to your effort and no more. Co after the merchants cou ik)ils. Have vour friends trade with the merchants who use the j fouHMi, then go after them orj liavc them voted for you. The ( bonuii s will a lullows: j Now one final word, don't be j a Miss Behind-hand, don't put j your work off but do it now and j do it everv day. Something to be accomplish ed and then carry it out .Its the only way on, earth to achitn'raJ?5-tii'rrg-aiul it aj plies to this contest as forcibly as to any other human und cav er. The ballot box will close on Feb. 7. 191 :$ at 7 M) P. M. and victory will be with the one Vith tlie Heaviest Battallions or in this case the must subscrip tions. The following is the total vote at the close of the third count : Miss Ola Ward .!)'.!;. Miss Mailie Thacker .. V.V2.tr: Miss Maud Sparger, .. l'-'t;,Jl Muss Annie Miller llf,!)7." Miss .Johnnie M. Huberts, 1 Miss Mary Johnson, 4J,12." Miss (icrtlinle Recce, Miss Nellie Hay more, Miss Nina, York, . . . Miss Annie Folger, .. Mis.s Irene Bunker. . Miss Jjillie Jlejnmings, Miss Kathcrine Willis, Miss Nannie Watson,. Miss Isabell Samplers, Miss Gl'Mf Hundley,.. 2:,bW) VI, 'M) v.ixr,') ll.KKt :(.l()) , L'.lJo Drifted fcr Hcurs in Ice Floes. ; Leamington, Ontario, Jan. lfl ' Alter lrifting amoiig ice flora in Lake Erie for 12 hours several; residents from here and JYler Is land today were taken off a government hailhoat by 1 ! ,si -; ers. All of the party wen- nieii anl all suffered more or le ' fn III the effm-ts of exposure. The men hoarded the mailboat , at I'elee island ye.sterilay, ai.d when it faded to reach here las' night relatives became alarmed. The life savijivg crews .stalled out late last night and -yirrhed i'nr Some time hi fore t j l , lj.ie-s party was found. Nominating; Blank Populir Vote Contest I hereby nominate or Ail dress As & lady worthy to become a candidate Lu your Popular Voting Coiitcfct. I present Uus tuune witli the distinct un dergtsiidjjig and agreement Uiat H.e editor bhall not divulge my This dens Jt obligate uie in any vsay whatever. SigLd . Addres. MAKE EDUCATION COMPUL SORY IN N. C. Representative J. Frank Ray of Macon Introduces BUI in House. Kaleigh, Jan. 18. A compul sory school-attendance bill that imiiy believe will be the one that will be enacted into law at this session of tlie General As sembly wad introduced kr the House today by lu preseintative J. Frank Kay, of Macon. It fixes the age limits for compulsory at tendance at eight to fourteen years, making it a misdemeanor to fail to have childrivn of these ages in school for at least three fdiirths of the current school tortus, in cither day or night Hehool. The bill requires teachers to kefp strict n-cord of the atteib daflice of all children within the ago limits, and to make detailed report of attendance, or failure to atteiul at the close of the term to Uu County Hoards of Kdueation. The reports from the teachers must give reasons for failure to attend, riclud'ni:g poverty of parents, or other cause Tlie County Board of Kduea tion are rciiiml to transmit to the clerk of the Superior Court eoprics of these reports of teach ers and the solicitors of the judicial districts shall examine them and gather names f those liable to prosecution fur failure to send children to school and is not to a.jfply in any case where the, child is taught, at home in such branches as are taught in the public schools for the length of time required in the statute. Sehool committees can excuse non-attendance for good and sufficient reasons. Attendance cannot l exacted if the school is over two miles from the home of the -child. The State - De juirtuneiKt of Kdueation is under stood to endorse this bill. Represojitative .Justice of Guil ford introduced a bill projxwl-i ' a con.stitut ion al amendment f the initiative and referendum, the quest ion of the amendm to be voted olt in the next g lib eral election. A bill by Representative Stew ail would make separation f two years ground for divorce. Hue year aftiT divorce is procur ed tiither party can petition th jmlge for right to re-marry. Obituary. Whereas, it has pleased Al mighty (Jod. ruler of Heaven and earth in His infinite wisdom to remove our dearly beloved Broth er Charles L. Jones from this world of sorrow and affliction to his eternal home where all is joy and gladness, and, Whereas in hLs death Mt .Airy Killing No. 1 1 K'.t; of the Fraternal Mystic Circle has sustined the l"s of a worthv member and his tamily a kind and indolgent hus-j ban.) (Uid father, therefore be it. Kes4)l ed, that the members of j our Killing (UMle ijL t -JidcrJlg thrj bereaved family tlieir tribute of, In .i i t f el t mp.i1.! .y and respect j in this hour of sorrow and d is-' tress. I IJi so! d, that a i up; of t lose l'i v, lit io) s be s.-nt to the idoU of our d'-ce ised Broth) r, a eojy ' for iub! ie.tt ion a:i-l that the vmic be -prea ujiuli our il!.'l',iti S. I han '. Moore, ! I!. II. Leonard, ' .. T. Smith, j ') 'HI III ;t tee. 1 1 1 o suggest the name of The Case cf Claude Allen.' ltoanok News. Now the AlleiiH, eonvieUnl of murxler in the first dogree, have a new lease out life. Practically all the ntiouxces of the law in their bs'half luive been exhaiislcl. Tim noscil appeal to the su preme court of the llnntod States for Claude Allen, is not likely t amounlt to anything' except th fijH-iwliiiig of some more mout" The final court of the country is vry reluctant to interfere in Statr crimiuil cases ini we can- ut rj.all an i i ' j. i c- where t luiw uiwlertakcu to oveiTulo or s t. aside a decision of a State mi prune court in such a case. So it comes down to a direct qu)fti) ji of mercy and cleumuey noft a tiucstion ot justice or law. This nowspaer believes that if the law was to be enforc ed with stem exacUies. aiul pre cise justice dojw, every one f the iiuvi who luive been convicted would have gone to the- electric chair. If we can coneeive a human) being as a mere thinking machine, ax-tung according to the evidence and the letter of the law, the cases depending on the eVidniee and the law without re gard to circumstances aiul con ditions, and the final decision made by such a person, we must lvalue that the last one of these men would have beon executed before now. We ar told however, that the Almighty Himself, the soul and the fountain of justice, considers p-nilence, weakness and temptations and us)-s 'n5(,rcy. Juries, judges, governor ali! prosecuting officers do likewise. In this wise an example, should be made. In our view, Floyd Allen, active leader of his part of the family, ong-inator and in stigator of the trouble thnt hud its climax in wholesale murder, should be executed. In the case of Claude Allen merej-, it necm to us, would bo proper, not in recommit ion of any right he has to the life he forfeited to the State by his own act ami not in repudiation or rebuke of the find nig of th ejury and the action of the court, but in consideration of his youth, his temptations ami his possibilities. Corrected hum-, bled, taught the majesty, the: meaning and the strength of Un law, he will make a gixd and use-j fill citizen, lie has the natural gifts and qualities. Our hoje is tluit win a the case i.s put before Governor Mann in this aspect, purely and strictly as a mattiT of the nn-rcy of the State to a man wlnnse life jus,1lv is at her disposal, he will s e h.s wav char to grant commutation to Claude Allen. Commutation j to forty years whieh under ourj parole system would mean twen- ty years of actual imprisonment' and twenty years under official ! uM-rvision Would be better thai I a life sentence; for it Wol1-'. ' practically certain that some fu ture gvvernor would grant a par don from a life scut nee and the term served might be snorter tnan is nree.-f.ary for the purpose f, i.t-is ) ii,!'orei im-nt ajul vindu-atioii. . While t!ier- i.s contention that Allen was convicted unjustly that he did not. deserve dealli, the governor can not aiul should' n--t i: rlere W tl. col - teli! ions an- abandoned and tic i.ss.(. becomes )ii)' of lueri'v and )'ol,-;d)-i ;i! .oil )f c.reumstau 'i s the governor can act. anl pr---ablv will. New Death Method. Salt Lake C:t, l'i. !i., ,!;,n. l!. - The ne thod to be Used here after ij; rx.vutiny criminals in th- tate of, I 'tali has lccome a toj'ir Wid)'ly divuss.-d since the legisl.it nre eon'!ii'i two We'ks a-.'o. The latest ilea eXplVsS) d i.s that condemned criminals be allowed to take their owji lives, after t!i- have exhausted every means to have the death sen tence t aside. The state law now provides that rjidc!iin-d criminals be ex ecuted either by shooting or hajigiir, the clioie to be mad' by the JM-rsoIl to be executed. Governor Spry in his mis-sage to the b-Lslature has rex'omiiiendel that the state adoipt the ehftri--clmir. Judge Thomas Marioneux an attorney of this city, has is sued a stateiuttiit ia which he set forth tlie agitation of the (Jhin ese customs permitting a vum dun iMl :riininl to commit suicide. SIX ARE VICTIMS OF BURKE COUNTY FEUD. Pitts and Hejmeese Fight Deadly Duel Families at Olen Alpine. Morganton, Jan. 18th. The bloodiest and most desperate fight this section of the State has ever witnessed m reported from Olen Alpine, a littl town six miles from MorganUm, to night, as the result of which six prominent men lie mortally wounded from pistol ami knife wounds. The fight is alleged to have resulted from a feud existing be twteji tlie P Ltts and Hennessee families, which reached its enil m inatioiu tonight in a pistol and knife duel on the streets of (Hen Alpiihe, whii-h lasted for 'iO minutes a,iml in which one after another was shot down or cut to pieces with knives. Friends of lKth families rush ed to the assistance of their friends, only to fuid themselves cnj?aged in a bloody conflict and received probably fatal wounds. All the available physicians in Morganton were rushed to the scene ami telephone mc.sagt s state that several of the wound ed are beiivg brought to (Jraec Hospital hen1. Intense excitement prevails and a fresh outbreak Ls feared at ar-v moment. Sheriff Berry, with a large pvsse of deputies, left for the scene of the conflict aiul auto mobiles are on the way to bring the Wounded who are able to be moved to the hospitals here. Telephone -messages statu that Dr. K. A. Ileiv'tcssee is sliot through the lungs' 'uml head and cannot live until midnight, while three other men, Gorman Bitts,. Fir vitii. Pitts ami Fuiiisiiaau- Bi'imctt, are seriously if not fatal y sluf, aiul m. i. liennece and Abel I'itts are mortally wounded, and others slightly in jurel. When revolvers were empti)d the ih'Spcrate figli t eontimiisl with knives, and nmn lyijtg weak ened in their own bhxxl tried th-sperately to end the lives of their antagonists. Three of the wounded men were brought down, on 'train No. Hi. to the local hospital. Their condition is serious. Doctor Hennes.see ls reputed dyin. Morganton. Jan. l'.b The de.s perate tight berweeu the Pitts! and IlejuicMsee fiu-tioiis at G'en Aljune last night has b en tin gen -ral sid.j liere tolas'. Dr. 11. A. thought to ct of eiinversati'ii Henncssee, who wa.s-n:inistrr to Fnglaml. be .lying when! The Kev. Jo.vph II. Twehell. of brought to Grn-e last jiiLfht, rallied Hospital h r'i this morning ami was lasen to Uoetor i,mi s s;:i, v . ni. Statesville, on an earn i... jf for triatment. He received four bullet wounds ti1 lu-r of which may prove fatal, Olle ht llif ill the chest, ill the n gi'ji of the lungs. In ad l.tinn to th:s his jaw bone is broken. both ears are hand shattered mutilat)sl. r. ami a!i t-nb I1.S an.l muscles on ft hand sever- d. He bears the marks of 10 . o i:ds mad" wjtli a knife on the i .up ami face. His recovery is 'Misidend c.trriie!v (ioiil.it f:il. Gorman Pitts was .sh t jii.- i'V, r the liver ii:;d si.i.-htu U gen era II v', and Krwin I'itts was staJ- !"'d in )-ne lui;.g. bi mIv and ri i-i i i 'ioa . f the skull the hands if one ints. Both of th Grace Hosjit;d, a ioi. is very grave, latter. Abel I'itts eva knife wounds, lh arm bein- the im sliot in the l a .- from of i wL'iit frae a blow in ii.s a.ssail- mm their Hi d 1 w ti. t r.-e the olie under t -eriol.S. Jt was first rej.r!id that M. N. lleiiiwssee was fatally owund ) l but this wa.s an ( rrr. He, however, has a bri-ken jaw hone ami a number of severe bruise about the In'iul ajid bl, none vrious. l'olicemati Sam Bennett who made an attempt to stop the figh tn-ceived a load of buck-shot in the abdomeu and while his eoti- dition is serious, hxe is enter-1 tauved for bis recovery. Tlie affair grew out of a fist fight earlier In tlu? day between ; D.M tor Ihmif.P Gopinsn .i not having yet been learned. Af-:L ter the first fight Doctor Hen - nessee went to his home, and arming himself, came baok on tho streets, where he ami others of his relatives met the Pitts and the fight was on. It is said: that Doctor Hriuicssce in ad lit ion to having1 a revolver, also had a Winchester rifle and a long phy sicians knife, on his person. The I'itts crowd too were expecting troiflda it seems ami wero likewise anned. In the affray, aceordiikg to an eye-witness, there were at leavt 100 shots fired including several loals of bucksjiot, but fortunate ly after the second shot fired from the Winchester rifle, the glim elogyed and refused to fire, thus probably saving1 several lives in addition to the shots fired there are at least 100 knife wounds on the six injured men, mute evidenee of th bloody af fair. It is alleged that the wounds received liy (lorman I'itts and Frwiu Pitts were inflicted by Doctor HeTincssee with his phy sicians knife, aiul which will in all likelihood prove fatal. T his knife is descrilvsl as having a blade six inches long, sharpened on both edges with a very keen point, used by physicians in sur gical practice. The affair has created the most inteiiic exeiteonmt in this sec tion ami hardly anything el.se has been talked of since the occur rence. Taft Formally Accepts the Sent Professorship. New Haven, Conn., Jan.- 20. At the regular meeting of yh Vale eorpiration today President Taft formally accepted" the ai iutment of Kent professor of law at Vide. The president 'jiHiu nc e tl t Ji ite n t jiy f wi t h rrinLWing idhu the corporation when he takes up the nuruiar duties of his professorship. lit plans to come to New Haven early in April and will deliver this spring, some lectures of an optional character. His work will con.sist of a regular course of h ct tires on the general subject of constitutional law. He will al.-o give some instruction in tin law sell) ol; his exact courses tli'iv being no tyet determined upon. The Kent. nrofe.snorshiii u-hs I tabli.sh.d in 101, being named "m honor of Chancellor James Kent, of the class of 1781. There have only been four incumbents I of the chair: Chief Justice David ' 1) !):or,r..tt f ll.rn t!,..,f . Ch.rL- Bissell aihl Henry Dutton, botli governors of Connecticut ami Fdward J. I'Ik-Iiw. once American Hart fonl, of the class of 1 .")!), .senior fellow of tlie Yxl.. oro,.. tieu, announee)! his resignation at tin- meeting today, after .'i w ars of service. Treasurer Day announced that gifts iunountu: to more than $70. 000 hid been made to the tiuiver Vrl'.sity .sine- the November meet ing. Ijihui diatcly after the corpora tion meeting. President TaJ't left for New York. Walktd Eackrward Thirty Mdes L)iuIou Cl)nni)'le. One of the most diflVult walk ing feats on rreor 1 wa.s areoiu-j'!i.d:-d ill 1-1'G, when a well know ni pedestrijji nauiol I,!od uii!eit)l for a U-t to walk thirty miles backward in nine hours. This he .snecri-drd in he ing with fourteen minutes to span-, on the road bet v ecu Bai: sfn,t and Portsmouth. A still more iro ntric waL'er was nia.!)- by lb, nice Wa! pole's brother, Joid Orlord, h' bak l a drove of geese to raci an iiii,il number of turkes from Norwich to Loudon. He won the b)-t, for the gec ket to the ro.i.1 all the time. '1'he turke, when darkness came on flew to roost in the trees, from which their drivers had a hard task to dislodge them. The turkeys were two days behind the geese. for ! Mothtr Cray' Sweet Children. Powders uu t. . , . . o. I Sacli. Tet-Oilng Disorders, mors od ' rerulate the Ikiwela and are a pleasant remedy for Wormi by MoLheri for 22 eri. Tbr It At all Drugl r full. At all IriiMUta. 2he Sm-i Ol mated. Roy, N. y. ' CAUSTIC CRITICISM IN CA- BELL'S REPORT. Conditions Centering , Around Glenn Williams Alleged as "History of Frauds and Thefts.' Washington, Jan. 16. A sen sational report by Iloyal E. Calicll, (Jommissiojwr f Internal Revenue, to Secretary MaeVeagh, tcsiniiig with cauxtic critici-m pf alleged whiskey frauds in North Carolina nail of the course: of the Federal Court, presided over by DLstrul Judge Boyd of Greens boro, N, C., in dealing with the conditions, was miule publU: here Jmlay ly the House Committee on Kxp'mlitu res in the Treasury Depart nuMit, which has undertak en an investigation of the situ ation. Mr. Cabell describes the con ditions in the case, directed a gainst I). C. Foster, a distiller, of Williams, N. C, ami N. Glenn Williams, the allegel pureJiasiT of the whiskey in question, . tus "a history of fraud against the Government, embracing debauch ery of employes, bribery of rev enue officers ami successful theft." Judge Boyd Rapped. The commiss'K uer declares that Judge Boytl has i.ucl a total o-f three injunctions to restrain thf! GoverniiD'Ht. from seizing and selling the whiskey for taxes. He Miuts out his authority to act under the revenue laws and adds in reference to the injunctions: "In view of the positive and emphatic lamguage of the Su preme Court, it Would seem in credible that the court should lend itself to the eondiseration cf so plain a violation of law as this proceed AJ" ure in P.tO.i of the resdifving Mouse, Known as ' )Ul .Nick, at Williams, N. C, iut far from Winston-Salem. The .'izure was imule, on -what the revenue -ficrs charge, were frauds di.s covensl u a tw-year investiga tion that resulted in the indict ment 'f N. Glenn Williams, D. K. Kennedy, J). C. Foster ami others. Their company was foiiml guilty and Williams and Kennedy aopiit tod. The commi-.sioner or lerel the distillers to give a new horn) ami later, lMi-a.use of the alleged frainls, onb'ritl the whiskey sei ui and sold for taxes. In time moves im this ilins'tion he w,: onj)inil by Jmlife I i x 1 . The last effort of tin commissioner i-ontempLited the tratisf-r of th) whiskey to a general homhd wareluni.se at Louisville. The is siu' is pi-iuling in tlie courts. No Assets Left. .Mr. Cabell awiled that the of ficial reports a jq earcd to lc monstrate that the "Old N k" Distillerv ComtMHV had ills; S'-- j -d of its projerty so that there j were iu logger uiy iusscts, from ! which to collect judgment and j said that evidence indicatl that (during one jeriod the frainls rni i from irJoO to "!" M) a tlay. The I commissioner told f he.i Id if heated . languatr between him.sc!f aid 1 ! IV McNeill, attorney for the itillery, in i-oiino't ion witli 1 1 . . . .i .11-- the case, 'vheu he dedan-d M.-Ncill sa .1 the f to i) bun an w.is allown g it I to wn-ak iM-r.sonal ar. I politicd vengeance on Wil liams iii.d that Williams had pverf.d friends who would n' t see him injured . The commission er .s;id Mr McNeill r fem-l to Judge Bo d i ll:"! g oti.rfS, m tills coiiJi-t ion. "Tli'-n- are now -t r-l n -ar Williams, N. ('., in an out f flu way pi;u-e." t lie r : d.. "inois- than l.OO rt CO'teh barrels d f I h;e!i fr.rfM nni ix is dli.e tills a re la ry. r.verii!uent and there claims pendiitr. If the distill-r could be apprehended iUwl brought t ) jiistii-.-, h - w lid U' eoiixictil. jrobaii'y imjirise.n ed itful heavily fineil. In addit ion to the internal revenue frau-ls in which tlie claimant, N. Glenn Williams, has figured, he stamis to.lay omvieU'd by a jry th.igh sei.tem-e ha yet to 1 impofw-d, ) a)'count of frauls agaii(t tiie Pot-toff we DepartnMiit oi t loiift- ifinr o. in on .. i... .. 1,., v , i-ry to inaintaiJi day and lotrht truards. at a sst of tlious- Uaed.gjj, 0f dlliri!, to protect ti.e "l " ,w J" ' .KuitmivtuT -aneu wu r W1U Jttftify Ufore tbe co:umitf.
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