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to u MOVm AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1913. WO. 14 DRUG- CRAZED NE0R03 CREATE REIGN OF TERROR. Before Their Career Ended, They Had Kfflfd Eliit, Wounded Others Sheriff Amcng the Dead. Harriston, Miss., Sept. 2H. Two drug- razed mulatto boys, lrot,hers, this morning bigan a reign of terror which ended af ter three white men, four negro iiicri) ami a ntgro woman had been killed, several wounded and the. two boys lynched. A ser ious clash lietween races was prevent t by the arrival of a comipamy of national guardsmen from Natchez. After it w,n assumed tin- death list was nine the body of Toller Warren, a negro, wiw found in a hut in, the negro quarter where (Walter Jon.es first began firing. Kvidfidly Warren was one of the first victims, but just when he was shot is not known. Twenty erson.s were injured. 16 of tht-m negroes. None f the negroes wa.s dangerously hurt The tro'uble started at. lout 2 o'clock .Sunday morning ami con tinued intermittently until 1 o'clock Way, when Walter Jones the elder (i the two boys, who started the firirj;, was lynched just after the soldiers arrived. His brother Will had been shot by citizen earlier in the day. Soon after pernio who had barri caded themselves in their""h .-riTe.vJ cautiously began to emerge fnam their hiding places and by no tx the town was quiet. No more trouble is feared. f . The Dea4 List. Sheriff 0. H. Ilamniett, of Jefferson oourtfy, shot while lcadirrg a pos.se to where the ne groes were hiding. Former Onst&bJe Frank Kein- while awaiting a train. f Johiinna Aiken, Tom "Weeks, Jesse Thomson and Thead Gray son, negroes, killed during pro misHMitOiis shooting. Walter and Will Jones, ne groes, lynched. Wounded1 Orrin (Jill former sheriff, shot itfi shoulder and may die; K. B. A'pplnby, eondivtor of the Yazoo an! MissNyppi. Val ley railroid, shot in the brea-t, leg and arm, dangerously; Wil liam MciCaibe, .shot in bg and thigh, and WMliaiu Keinstly, son id1 FraiA, shot :i hand; Wililiaan Dennis, slut in leg; W. C. Bond, slnrt in lijj. Started in Negro Qusrttr. The shooting was started in the nepro quarter by Walter Jones, aged 20. when a. negro wo man and Thead Grayson were shot and killed. Walter then went. U tl's h ' of l is motluT ami arou( his biother, lf ye.irsj old. Together they proceeded j through th. main .-vtvt (f th little toiwn, firing at everyone in sight. Citizens arousal by the sliots peered out of the windows aim.1 then hastened to cover- he JiVvijTr, they .said today, . that riots of more serious prop irt ions luul broken out. The two boys went to the home of foimer Cons' able Frank Keinstly, and when he replied t their call, W&lrtcr Jones shot him through the head, death wiw in stantaneous. Keinstly's son. Wil Jiaim, when he saw h'm uther fall, reached for a gun, lut' be fore lie could fire, receivid a Imllet in one of his hands. Terrorized Passengers. The Yazoo and Mississippi val ley depot Ls near the Keinxtly heme, and the two mvgroes went on that direction. A train hail arrived from .Natchez just a few nnom.'iiits . before, and (Conductor J'. 15. Appleby was standing at the station talking to Flagman ,W. C. Bond. Without warning, he fwo negroes fired on tin ju and loth fell. The neroe tlicn directed fire on Claude Frcmau, who was waiting for a train to take libn to his hojue at 1-Vctte, !MLss. He was instantly Killed. The negroes then fired into the train, tearorizlng the passengers. A Kleeper e-ar from Natchez is bfft every night at llarriston un til the through train from Menn Ihi to New Orleans arrived. Af ter the train roin Natchez left, Ihiw car s-tood alone on the trewk and was a target for the fire of the two negroes. While many .wirulows were broken no one in the car was hurt. The two ncgroe.s then made their way to a cotton seed hou.se nearly. It is believed they then realized that this wholesale kill ing could i long continue with out opposition and determined to make their last sUnd. Sheriff to the Scene. Citizens by this time telephoned Sheriff llanmnett at Fayette. Jsuimnoninig forjner .Sheriff Gillis Jo idccom j)any him, Ilamniett Mart ed for Ibirriston on horsx back.ar riving nliout o o'clock. A small crowd of men were firing into the seed house but no one had ventured into tine jJace. Taking a few men with him, Sheriff I liiiiumett started toward-s the aeec house. r-Vcing this, it is believ ed Walter Jones hid in the tall grass tfcaiiby and as Hammett approached the wgro fired, in MantJy killing the ofi'u-er. A shot, from the seed house brought down (Jillis. . JSy this tim? the countryside was aroused ajid farm-era came fnmi every dincti"". Every one ibeg;m firirig at the seed hoi we. A cadi was serrt to Governor Jlrertvx-r for troops. Finding his hidirg place too precarious Will Jones starUd to run toward a coal chute nearby, but had goiu only a fw stejvs when a bullet ended his life. A rope was placed around the body, it .was strunp ifp to a tel.'graih IMilk- "nVaf Ui station ami riddl ed with bullets.' - Sxn after Will wa.s killed hi1 trother Waltr pickel Totn Weeks, a J'gTo, who was on the coal chute. CVcwd Rushed Seed Hcuse. Not long after Weeks was kill ed tlit fpecial train bearir the Natchez guardsmen arrived. As they were detraining th "crowd rnslmsl the' seedhouse. Nt k shot greehd them ami the ur vixving negro was found com pletely unnerved, but not in jured. Thfy quieJvJy placed a rcpe arounkl his neck and ritshfd him to the coal chute. The rope was too small and broke as the negro was drawn up. He fell "heavily to the ground. Not a word of protest came from Jonra as 'a larger rope was placid a rour.d hi neck and again he was ulWl up, and the crowd looked on as the desperado's body writhed until life was extind. The- crowd wmt to the home S the n 'gr."!?.s where tly found two luegro men ami yere albout to lyncn them but were dissuad ed by officers. It is believ.il th.: Jones brothers planned tli h!' tails of their murd-rous niht as they were well armed and had a plerltiful srrply of anuunmi tion. llieir mother ffiid one fif tlu in had remaikel that he avis the town ' goirc to "slKot up but she thought ..him joking. WVther 'he two negroes arret ed th'-re Wnew of anv plans, tlie lones negrots might have had is not known. Notice. Jiy virtue of the power confer red iij Hut me ui a certain Deed of Trust, executed on the 1st., day of Oct. 11)12., by llo.s Bowman and wife to K. C. Uivejus, Trirs tee for K. J. Miller, to secure the i.Miient of $400.00 the s.ime be ing properly recorded in Book 45 pa.ge 26S of the Ilccords of Deeds of Surry County; default having I been made in the payment of said j The American' troeps were at amount and upon application cfin patrol station on the b.mler K. J. Miller, I will sell for cah j ! ; mt tvo ruiles e.st of San to the highest bidder, in front j Klizario when tl() Mexican cival of the Bank of Mount Airy, at 2rymti appeirel on the Mexk-an o'ehxk V. M. Saturday, the 11th, l.s'ide. The Mexicars were about day of October 1013., the follow-1 2oo yards fnm the troupers w hen ing desi-ribed real estate: the s-hootjitf began. A certain Corner Lot in the The Cnited States troop au Tonvn of Mount Airy, N. C, an1 j thorities at Clint, -rex., were on Depot Street, known as the j notified soon after the uxit.iisg John Fuller It and more parti- ami went to Sa;n Kliy.ario to con rnlarly described by Fuller Deed, duct an investigation. At Juarez Also tlie lot adjoining same, knoAvn as the Bob Nicholson Lot and more fully described by Nicholson Deed. Said lota ad join the property of Miles Wag oner ami Peter Owens. ale made, to satisfy lalance due on note of $400 and for in terest and coids to add. This Sept. Sth, 1913. E. C Bivens, Trustee. COVER CROPS. Now is the Time to Sow Clover, Vetch and Other Seeda. Charlotte Observer. Only a few more weeks for sowing coA'er erojw remain. Kv ery farm should have a cover enji in it rotation nystin. Mst of the1 farms are getting good cover erojw establishnl. It is re freshing to See the large nunnber ci fwinneiH jilaiuing to put in ooVi-r crAps this Fall. The acre age; is going to be limited, only, by the seed ailjdy. One farmer in South Carolina ha.s sdd to his neiglJioM over irH) worth of crimson clov -r seed ad ready ami could have sold as many more. Tht? wdy adverti.se Ineiit heiad wa.s the crops he is K-itherijy from the greund where he turned under a crimson, clover td last Spring. The story of Mr. Ilodgm iDtton and corn :grown oit a critnson clover .m1 lias gone for miles and farmers' Jiave com"! by the automobile load ito see it and the sight placed an order for wed. Mr. Onion of Cauidtm, S. C, will gather two bales an acre of j cotton, on bur clover sod, while 'aljoiii:f land with eight tons of Irarnyard manure, an acre will jmxt produee mmdi over a flalf. ! Mr. Guion exj)ect.s t sow 40 acres to bur clover thw Fall. Toe farmetw at Kasley, S. C, have ordcml large (piantities of clover, vetcU and other legume seel. While in Salisbury tlie kerther day we were told by one merchant that he had done noth ing for ,two day but fill orders for Mover' crop seed and Avas un able to fill the drdvra as fast as idiey were coming in. The-se are .signs of future pros errty for where we have a live wide awake producing fcoil we lave prosperois farmers aJid it has been, proven beyond a doubt that cover crop" U th besfsoll builder known. Tiie question ia often asked which. Ls better for a cover cnip Iciginncs or rye. Where legmrnea cjiin 1'0 grown we would advise, by all tneatM that they 1m grxnvn 'out if you have a galled or gul lied place where lrjrinnes will not catch we wouhl then adivse the growing of rye for it will growi where hnot nothing edse will and thiLS nkl in starting a piece oi land that cannot W oth erwise, ii&ktieed to grtw a crop. live merely puts vegetable mat ter in the soil where' h-gwmw furnish nitrogen as well a-s vog etable niritter. Fedftral OivaTiymcn File on U. S. Troops. Kl WiM.. T.'Xas, Sept. 27. A detachment of I'nitcd Ststcs. troojs, s.'cond cavalry, wa fired j on late tlis aftcrr.ccn ,by Mex-1 i-in federal cavalrymen. The Americans were on duty patroll ing tiie liucrnaiuuiai oonien woom 15 '.nilts est cf Kl lis. j None ct the Americans was, 'wouiiib L Tvo Texas ringers w h were inaiby, al-o were fir-! c 1 i.t by tlie Mcx.Var s. j I'niU' I St. :!.? a: my ofi't-vi s t". night sa'd- their soldiers d;d iA return tlu fire, although then-' .v,M'e jibe.it 40 .she ;s fired at them. , 11. L. Rhodes, who was nefiri the scene when the Mexica: be-i ,'tn .sho;:t':rg said the A m.ri.-:i n troopers did return the fire and, drove the Mexieeu: to cov. r. It is rot known if any Mcxi:nns were injured toniirht th.? federal authorities al-1 fo are investigating the shooting.1 Tlie Mexican troopers who fired at the Americana comprised a icoiiting party sent east from Juanz this morning. Late toirlght the tnij had not returned to their barracks t Juarez. The bonier patrol in the vicin ity of San Klizario ha been doubled tonight. PEOPLE CALLED UPON TO MAKE GOOD ROADS. Gcvernxr Craig- Issues Proclama tion Setting Aside Two Days For Read Work. IIlcLffls Se-pt 27. IXidariiJg tl.it tht people of North Caro - hua low $12,000,000 annually be - cau.e of ihe pinr condition of the state' inghwya, Governor i'mlf: toilay wuied a ppoclama tioi! d '.gnatiiig' Nomber 5 and C as "good roa.ls tlu " and call ing on all paVotic people throughout tin- '. it.- to work upon the public road.s of the sjtate on these day. The governor o'mtexl out that the modern high way is essential to the material prosjerity and social ad varicemeri of every community, and declar ed the country has awakened i the importaru-e of improved roals Characterizir-g tlie vast sum lost annually ti North Carol ui a thnili lack of god roads asa tnbute pawl to mud," Oovernor Trail's prfH-huriatioii calls upon -very alcHx;died man "t Hioulder his shovel, march out an strike a blow for progress." The " good road days" are a p point -K'd an "days of festival, to cele ibrate the beginniig f a new era wherein improved highways sliall be built in evcrv neighbor hood." Sum'mniiiig the people of every station to answer the call of 3atriot'ivm, to proclamation calls on the "farmer, the merchant, the lawyer, the doctor, the min ister of th? Cwpd, the rich ami the poor to enlist as volunteers in. this mighty army for grand aecomp-lihhuient." The Avork will be organized and condircfrd in a systematic 0n4nptr.s.lhat at the' end of the sceor.d' day every community hi the state will show permaueniit road improvement!. AH' road overseers, g-ood road fWHocia- tioi:.s, boards of tralev and ' nil aoeiidr afldT)rgatiizationa fjOTSrWirrteTi the cierof police ar- gmblie. welfare and civic improve 'iaer.it are nrged to aid the move ment. County commissioners are called on to issue proclamations urgiing- the people to particiimte in the Wiork. DcHarirjr that the farmers, more than any other class, are deei!derit upon . the country road, Governor ('raig'f prwla aniticn says: "I call ujon the president of the Farmeis' imirn ti issue his proclmuat:oi to the fannerw ,rf NiTtl: Carolinn, that this great body of our citizenship, const'tut in.g as it d-ivs the ?jone afwl sinew of the .state, may join with en ergy and en'husiaMri in the m vri.:.". Mayors of towns hih ch'us of the t iti are urged to isMie pro clamations si.mmoning all eiti zr to aid. In conclusion the governor says "Let every North Carolinian show ly his work that he is for the improvt mei:t of the Mate." Notice. By rime of an order of the Superior Court of Surry County as Com. and Admr. I will sdl at public auction ou the premises on S.tuniiy the 25th dav of Oct. l!M;i at on? o'clock I M. the fallowing real e.itate lying in Surry County, N. C, adjoinir.g C. M. lUoway, J. A. Oakley and others. 1st tract beginning; at a pine si: M p, C. M. Callaway's corner, thin with kis line Fast 2:l,j chs. to a stake C. M. Calloway's cor ner, then North y'.i chains to a vteko in J. A. Oakleys line, then Yvit il1 ,' chains to a pine, then South o'o chains to the begin niig containing 11 acres more or 2nd tract adojining the above, beginning at pointers on. North baik of a creek, then North 17 chains to a pine coriM-r, South 5 chains to a mall gum, then South 7 degreis Fast C'i chains to a large chestnut tree, South 1 degree Wejt 7 chains to a maple on steep' bankl on bank of j erek then up laid creek as it meanders to tU beginning, con taining l.j acre.4 more or less. Terms of sahi-: cash anil the remainder in 4 months. Sale will be made fefc- asset to pay debts. Th Sept. 22nd( 1913. C. M. Caiway. Adm.r ami (low. 1 i 1 Gats Receipt. Seotlaml Nerk, S-pL 27. Quite a little sensation devehij-d here Thursday afternoon when it wa.s learned that M. Ford, the pro moter and man.ager of the races, takin? wifh ,)im fl hft ,.eipf., and entrance fees. The matter was jut disrovered unfit just before the clcse of the rae e when Ford wa.s missed by the horsemen at the track, ani did not become generally knoAvn un til niglit. A.s siMin as Ford was misstd at the track and not bring able to locate Iran officers aixl citiens instituted a srarch for th-- mi-sing horseman, and boodle. After repeated' iriquirif's it was learned that he had left town with his horse and cart, having his racing cart tied ht hirI, 4?oii !g in the direction of Uattleboro. Pursuit Ava.s iinmediati ly made and he Apprehended alont 15 mil.ts- from town goirjr at a slow road apeed, not seeming to be in any esp--ial hurry. When asked what he meant by leavingas he did he rc I'lind that he had found that he did not have money enough to Jiy the purses and he was going to l.atthboro to make an at tempt, to borrcw the det'i it from a fellow horsetnaji of that towiL When a request was made he unhesitatingly gav up the mon ey7amounting to $174, elaVnir-g I hat was all he had received. He wa.s bronght back to tr,wn and after a good Wt of parley settl ed with the winners in the races ami satisfied all concernel. But in the meantime a warrant was sworn out by tlie chief of police charging him with obtaining imoney under false pretense, and before it could be served he went out of the window frcm the -may-or'v (iff ice and made for Win slow 'a stables, where his horse and cart were. Reachir-g there, lie w linrjnedly A J.th)g, the nvea amx arresieti mm. He was takbn beifore Mayor J. . Slriekla and given a hearing, which lasted until almost snid night. After heating the eyi dence in the case the mayor bounl Ford over to court in the sum $100. It locked at that thne like the man would go to jail, having iriven i p what was )ressimisl to be all the monev he had, 'hut N. K. Winslcw, a iocal horsp dealer, gave bond for him, . holding the horse as seccurity Saunders Acquitted. Elizabeth City, Sept. 27. The jury in tlie Saunders ease reach ed a verdict of not guilty this morning, after having had the case since 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. This endtsl one of the longest trials and liarlest fotvjfht legal battles ever con dieted in this county. Nine days were, consumed in trying this case and some of the best law yers in the rotate took part in it. W. O. Saunders, editor of The Independent was oif trial upon the charge of criminal libel on K. F. Aydlctt. one of eastern Carolina's wealthiest and most prominent lawyers. The suit grew out of articles piflilished in Mr. Saunders' pajer in regard to business transactions which tmk' place between Mr. Aydlctt and the Browns of New York several years ago. This wa.s the third! libel trial ha.s stood within months. He was eacli' trial. Mr. Saunders the past, two acquitted in Fine Carrel County Fruit Farm fcr Sale. $6,000.00. Thw farm contains 200 aer-s t-f land, 100 of which is in culti vation, 50 in orchard now hearing the finest varieties of fruit. :50 acres of good bottom land, Koi well adapted to wheat, corn Race Promoter Left With stump his old I mud .grass. The remaimler in degrees Fast J!rood timber. Located on Wards Oap roal, 10 miles North of Mt. Airy. The improvements eon sifit of a fine new barn 46x56, tl 'dwelling houses etc. Ami a goMl (water jwnwer, .springs. On ha.s niary good qnngs. I liureh, scliool hoiwe, aiul store within one quarter mile. Also free delivery at door. This is one of the best fruit farms and in a good neighbor hood. For further information call or write me. H. M. McftElUn, Can Va. Where Mr. Sulzer Stinda. Charlotte. 01erver. The testimony against Oover Jtor Sulzer CJin surprise no orie whi'u it showa leyoiil any seem ing possibility of question that he cununitted a siMMrulitiori ujMin his cainipaigu funds. His best friend.' and best witnesses, when fne ex.amined, make statements ir reeonsilable with any other the ory yet advanced. And, as re gards public prep.1 redness to be lieve th 'se things, why should Mr. Sulzer have evaded, techni calized nd waited to be w'wid llssed step by step up to the is sue before he would attempt any direct defence? What the public was JH-t so we" prepared to believe trans-pir..- hi the 'orrn of st..iteuieiit.s no o:ie will question to the effect that he personally h-gg-d Jaeo4 II. Sel.iff and othcrtf for monev j with the understanding that he jiinight use it as he pleased per jsonariy begged it, instead of sim 'ply receiving it. lie was set-king money for himself iih an indi ividunl public man, that in to say.- If the gifts had been made open ly. ot under cover of a nearly mythical campaign fund, and not at the recipe nt's beggi"g, Mr. Fulzer wouhl hive had illustrious precedents dating batk to Cicero; for many statevmen, as well as poets., hfave received aid from 1U-end-'Fiiinded, pirblpirted rid jnen who believed that money which freed them for the best u.s of their talents was well spent. Port these transactions wore a very different aspect. They can jwt Ik; excused on any such grounds, much lest justified. Mr. Sulzer thus cuts a figure which is very pitahle, whether or iict we accept the statement of Ru,Ierinter;dent cf Public Works Peck! that he ,proj?0Ked perjury on Mr. Fecit part. Here we. see, tiyfwry -i&xXiS'Zl foKtiewI -Hgh-teouMiKfs revealed as a greedy trucker, the Patrick Henry eur with the long forelock re vealed as one who "went around Pegging and corcealiig the evi dences wherever he could. There ti ro bnger amy possibility that he he may be rushed as a martyr to new heights of success. He has falhi wiith too morally sick en iaig a thud. But in spite of everytlur ? there remain facts which entitle Mr. Snler to a large measure of am! lie sympathy in the present situation ."id very po jbly to ts eape fnm conviction as well. On Kh first scire it is el.ar thet the Iixesecution was really instigate 'lut by zeal for the vindieaton of publie purity but because he brokje with Tammeny notwith standing he knew Tammany Ifci'W much of what the public kne w s now. On the score of pos sible right to acquittal it may le urged that nearly all the of fencs charged date before his inauguration as Governor and in most other State would be spec ifically exelud d from the rm tjvaehinent managers' list. For part, we h)e that he can be left ti office consistently with the linpeachineiit Court's duty. lie has suffered enoihgh, a sufficient exam'ple has been made, and the pifcblie interest would not W.en ed by dclivering New York State completely into a triinitphajnt Tamilian v 's ha mis. Notice. Having qualified nts Adminis trator of the estate of J. W. Nenv, deceased, I notify all per csoi:s holdiiiig claims against the estate to present the same to the undersigned for payment within one year from the date of this notice or the notice will be plead ed in lar of recovery ' thereon. All persons indebted to the es tate are requested to make pay ment to me immediately. This Sept. Mth, 1913. S. L. Brvant, Admr. of J. W. New, De'd. Vaks&ble Land for Sale. I have about 25, acres of land in suburbs of Mt. Airy on Fan cy Gap road. This land lays well. Has had twelve thousand hxids of manure on it in five years. Beeh used for Trucking, is in high state of cultivation. O. V. Belton. ' For further particulars. ie Ecbcrt B2tc
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