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ji NORTH STATE NEWS : ;! Ilea* ef State Interest Gathered ' | and TeU In Brief. * « ] Claims Toxaway Site—Will Carry CMS to Court. Asheville, Special.—George Wash ington Fisher, a farmer of Polk oounty, it is learned here, claims that he is the rightful owner of the pro perty that is now occupied by the Toxaway Inn at Lake Toxaway. "While I was in the asylum ganton for about one year," Fisher is quoted as saying, "returning in 1896, two of my brothers sold the land, of which I have an interest, to the Lake Toxaway people." In making out the deeds, it is alleged, for the company the Fisher boys signed the paper for their insane brother as his guardian. Some time after the deal was made it was found that the title and deed of this land was void for the reason that George Washington Fisher never had a guardian appointed by the courts. So it became necessary to sign an entirly new deed with Geoige Washington's signature to the paj>ers. On this ground Fisher expects to win liis suit and regain the lauds or a part thereof. Fisher was only temporarily in sane, staying at the asylum one year. He is now a farmer of- Polk county, 3 miles from Tryon, where he owns considerable lands. For the past three months he has been working hard in getting up records and having a survey made of the whole tract' in question. The lands were known as the William Barton and Frank Barton places, Johnnie Bagwell tract of land and a parTof the Tom Can trcll lands. An interesting part of the deed covering this land and sup posed to be signed by George Wash ington Fisher and wife, Addie, is that his wife also says that she knows nothing about the paper which bears 4 clear handwriting of the signatures oft he two parties. Fisher is a man of no education and can barely write his name so that people can read it. Seven Prisoners Escape. Smithfield, Special.—Tuesday night there was a jail delivery here, seven prisoners making their escape and so far none have been apprehended. One prisoner, a nesrro man, held on the charge of murder. It is reported that a prisoner who was a "trusty" was responsible for the escape. He is said to have se cured a tile by which the prisoners affected an exit by sawing the bars to a window of the jail. It is also said that the prisoners were on top of tho cells when the jailer locked the doors the evening before. Lee H. Battle Not Guilty. Greensboro, Special.-—The jury ill —rlie case of the government agum«t- Lee H. Battle, cashier of the City Na tional Itank, on trial in the federal court here for the past, two weeks, re turned a verdict of not guilty at 10 o'clock last Saturday. District Attorney Holton announc ed that he would nol pos two other cases against Hattle and ho was dis charged. Judge Boyd, in thanking the jury, said it was evident that the community believed Mr. B|att!e had committed no intentional wrong. OLair Factory Organized. jA Murphv. Special.—At a meeting of the Murphy hoard of trade Monday night it was decided to organize a chair factory, to be capitalized at $15,000. C. E. Wood, J. M. Vaughn and C. B. Hill were appointed to solicit subscriptions. The stock was taken up immediately. A meeting of the stockholders will be called at once, when otlicers will be elected and the business will be pushed right along, it is thought the company will rent power from the Murphy Power r 3 - & Light Co. _'4 \ 39,480,326 Pounds Plug. Winston-Salem, Special.—Local to bacco .manufactories have shipped, the past eleven months of the present year, 39,480,326 pounds of plug to bacco, an increase of 4,446,700 pounds over the same period of last year. The manufacturers have paid out to the United States government for revenue stamps, the sum of $2,- 368,819.93 this year, an increase in favor of the present year of $266,- 602.47. Lincoln ton Mill Boras. Lincolnton, Special.—The entire plant of the Michal Gheen Manufac turing Company, manufacturers of sash, doors, blinds, etc., here waa de at roy etTby fir eat "an eaffy hOtir Fri day morning. The machinery, build ings and raw material are a total loss. Insurance for $ 7 .300 was car ried but the loss will reach' higher figures than this. Mr. Victor F. Motz of this place was the principal owner in the company. The fire had quite _a good headway .whan discovered about 3 o'clock in the morning. Plana to Check 801 l Weevil. Raleigh, Special.—The North Car olina board of agriculture has passed a regulation having for its purpose the keeping of the boll weevil out of the State. The regulation forbids the importation of cotton seed, cot ton seed hulls, loose cotton in any shape aud baled cotton unieas com pressed from Arkansas, Louisiana, jS Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. COMMISSIONER'S REPORT Major Graham Commissioner of Agri culture Reviews the Agricultural Statu in North Carolina—Re- ceipts of Department $132,258.75. Raleigh,, Special.—For the annual meeting of the State Board of Agri culture hich convened here Wednes day for probabiy three days' session, the feature tor the day was the an nual report of Commissioner W. A. Graham treating farhi conditions in North Carolina and the work of the various divisions of the department. The report declares the results of farming operations this year were in different section of the State and that while the yields were very good in some sections they, were quite in ferior in others. So that the North Carolina crop census in connection with the general census by the United States government will not show an average yield for the State. Farm ers, he says, have given far better attention to their work this year than in the past, especially as to improved culture of corn, due in a large mea sure to institute work and corn clubs in connection with demonstration work. lie says the great interest in agricultural work is phenomeual and urges the board to devise some met hod of assuring its permanency. Soil Improvement and Divesity of Cropa. The report urges the necssity of striving mom effectively for per manent improvement of soils and diversity of crops through raisiW all farm supplies. Attention is directed to the iaet, as he stated it, that North Carolina pays to dealers in other States for nupplies that could be produced on the North Carolina farms more money than is gotten for the entire cotton crop of the State. As long as this is the case the only cotton money left in the State is that realized by profits by the dealers selling the supplies. The yield of cotton in this State will, he says, be the smallest per acre on record. This will also be the case as to corn. At the same time some yields of both crops will be abnormally large. Receipts For the Year $132,253.75. Commissioner Graham reports re ceipts of the department for the fiscal year ending Dec. 1, 1909, $132,258.75. The amount remaining in the treas ury at the end of this fiscal year was not given in the report. He reports ed $15,000 paid on tjie debt for the A. & M. Agricultural Building and a balance due of $15,000. This he re commended to be speedily liquidated by special appropriation from the re ceipts of the department. The commissioner reported the finest agricultural exhibits at tlie State and the district fairs this fall ever made in the State, due largely to the attractive supplemental pre miums provided bv the State Depart ment of Agriculture lie recommend ed that the amounts especially the de partment of women's work, be in creased. He recommends definite effort and provision by the State Department Tor raising improved breeds of stock and cattle. And stated that the mountain test farms will undertake to demonstrate the possibilities of sheep raising. Progress In Horticulture Shown. Progress in horticulture ns demon strated by the very creditable high premiums carried'off by North Caro lina at the National Horticultural Congress at Council Bluff in the con test with all the other apple-grow ing States, was presented with special compliment for State liorticultura list W. M. Hutt. Treating soil survey work the re port mentioned the resignation of Mr. Drane to take an appointment in the United States as*a.v ofliee at Char lotte and the substitution of Mr. Brinkley to take up his work in co-operating with the national gov ernment the last work being in Pitt, Gaston and Scotland counties, there being 22 counties and special sec tions already mapped. Treating animal industry, the eom misioner recommended the appro priation of SSOO for the preparation and distribution of hog cholera serum to check the spread of this disease, especially in Eastern Carolina. He recommends legislation that will check hydrophobia among cattle, declaring that sevral thousand head of cattle were lost the past year from this disease. Cattle tick eradication was declared to be progressing well. Fine progress in dairy demonstrat ing department, the department of entomology and in the department of agronomy were reported, special at tention being asked to action to pre vent the introduction of the boll weevil into this State which, he said is expected to recah this State through natural progress in 1923. There was special mention of the farmers institute work under T. B. Parker, held eaeb year in every part of the State. .» In conclusion the commission re ported that the new oil division turr ed into the treasury Nov. 30 the sum of $10,500. COMMISSIONER M. L. SHIP MAN'S ANNUAL REPORT. Raleigh, Special.—The forthcoming annual report of Commissioner of Labor and Printing, M. . Shipman will decided improvement in the chapter of farms and farm labor, especially in application of better methods of farming, in the efficiency of labor, and an advance toward in tensive farming. The report declares that a gratifying increase in breadth of vision is noticeable among the farmers generally, says the report, due largely to the effective effort through the state department of agri culture and the special bulletins is sued by the various divisions. In creased diversification of crops. Mar ket value of 87 counties. Decrease in fertilization is reported in four teen counties. The great majority of the counties. The great majority ward smaller farms. Reports from 85 counties claim that negro labor is unreliable. General increase in the cost of living is reported. Report as to wages show highest average for men $24.11, an increase over last year. The lowest average is $14.76 an advance of $1.39 over year. Reports show tkiancial con dition of working people good in 20 counties, fair in 42, poor 30; bad 3. Improvement is reported from 71 counties. As to cost of production 68 coun ties show cotton produces at aver age cost of $33.39 per bale; wheat in 77 counties at 77 cents per bushel; corn in all counties at 53 cents; oats 38 cents; 51 counties tobacco aver age 47.71 per hundred pounds. In the general introductory to the report covering the whole scope of ♦e work of the department Com missioner Shipman says the disinclin ation, especially on the part of some manufacturers to furnish the required reports has largely disap peared, but there are still many that give trouble by neglecting to prompt ly fill out and return the blanks. The effort to give statistics of organi zed and unorganized labor failed this year but it is the purpose to have such a report fo* the next year. Commissioner Shipman or Assistant Commissioner George B. Justice have gone into every section of the state wherever necessary to make sure of getting the fullest and most accu rate reports oossible. In spite of great effort, the commissioner says it has been impossible to secure ab solutely complete reports of micel laneous factories. Hoever the re ports of cotton, woolen and siik mills are complete. Politics in fcrreat Britain. London, Special.—The whole of Great Britain is immersed in the po litical campaign which has been in augurated by the refusal of the House of Lords to consent to the budget. The country is divided in to two great camps, composed of those who support the Lords' action and t those who contend that the House of Commons must fyave ab solute control of the finances of the nation. There are, of course, many other issues, such as tariff reform versus free trade, but these are be ing pushed into the background by tho conflict between the two houses. While the various local organizations are busy selecting candidates and preparing for the contests in their res]>octive districts, the leaders of the great parties are carrying on a gen eral campaign. The radicals, who had long forseen the fate of their finance bill, are not allowing the grass to grow under their feet. In London Saturday afternoon one of their organizations (he National Democratic League, held a demon stration as a protest against the ac tion of the Lords whieh irm nnn nf the most notable jever held in the metropolis. Fully 20,000 persons, mostly of the laboring and artisan classes, gathered in Trafalgar square and .cheered the radical speakers, who condemned in unmeasured terms the members of the upper chamber. Snow Ties Up Trains. St. Paul, Minn., Special.—Cold and snow are now delaying freight traffic on the Northern Pacific and some parts of the Great Northern railroads more than the strike of switchmen, according to statements issued by the general managers of Those roads Sun day night. According to General Manager Rlade of the Northern Pa cific, freight is more or less tied up all along the system on account of the snow and especially in northern Min nesota and Norths Dakota. I'asenger trains are from one to four hours late in St. Paul Sunday night. The 20th annutial coferenee of the Southern Educational Conference will be held nt Charlotte, 28th, 29th and 30th of thi#' Dionth. Strike About Over. St. Paul, Minn., Special.—With 1,- 500 men imported to take the place of the striking switchmen who are members of the Switchmen's Union of North America and those strikers who are members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, returning to work, managers of the Great North em Railway Friday night asserted that the strike was about over. The strike leaders, however, despite the desertion, asserted that the striko had only begun. Freight congestion is not apprecably relieved. Southern Congress Meets. Washington, Special.—"A greater nation will tome into being through » greater South." This is the slogan of the Southefn .Commercial Congress which convened here Monday for a three-days' session. The congress has announced that it has two ob jects—to hasten a clearer self-knowl edge throughout thß South and to compel the balance of the United States ami of the world to set a cor- rect valuation the South as a region of ")V" rtnnitv. 80,000 Armenians Starving. Worcester, Mass., Special.—No less than 80,000 persons are starving in Armenia, according to advices receiv ed by Emily C. Wheeler, secretary of the National Armenia and India Re lief Asociation, which has its head quarters in this city. The secretary states that in addition to tins number there are 5,000 orphans who need aid, and that unless aid is sent speedily from America a iarge number of Ar menians will perish. NEWS BREVITIES Condensed from Wide Fields, Domestic and Foreign. AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY ,Snited to the Wants of Busy Readers Seeking a Knowledge of What is Going on. The Charlotte, N. C., aldermen have determined that tho pop-stick noise and confusion shall not form a part of the Christmas celebrations this year. This action was taken on account of the abuses of the privi leges heretofore. Four Austrians, near Cumberland, Md., Inst Saturday, wero thawing 50 pounds of dynamite for blasting, when it exploded and all were fear fully injured. Navigation closed on the great lakes at 12 o'clock Sunday night. Twenty-five vessels and 02 lives were lost during the last season. Fred C. Palin, of Newton, Ind., was awarded by the National Corn Exposition at Omaha, Neb., Saturday, the distinction of having the best single ear of corn the world ever pro duced. The New Orleans Times-Democrat says letters received confirm tho re port that Zelaya had the bodies of Groie and Cannon burned and the ashes swept in dust and filth and then into the San Juan river. The four-masted schooner, Marie Pal mer, stranded near Pan Shoals, N. C.i Wednesday, is a total wreck. Very little of the cargo was saved. Two Bolivian Senators, Fernandez Mul ina and Adolfo Frigo Aeha, fought a duel with pistols Srniday. Molina was shot in the head and in stantly killed. There were 55 deaths from Pella gra in Alabama for the first nine months of the year and there are 38 eases now under observation. Twenty cases yet living were habitual users of corn meal. It has been satisfactorily ascer tained that an inexperienced boy, not properly instructed, left a car with hay upon it near an open toreh that caused the great Cherry mine dis aster. The boy escaped to tell the tale on the witness stand. Antonio Mangino at Cleveland, Ohio, on last Saturday, murdered his wife and three children, two of whom were his step children, in the most horrible way, crushing their heads ami stabbing them beside. (jeorge Marly, of Norfolk, Ohio, who is 81 years old, got his neck broken some time ago and he has been successfully treated, the physi cians believing he will soon bo en tirely recovered. J. Pierpont Morgan has secured a, majority .of the stock and there fore a controling interest in the Equ itable Life Insurance Company. Half of Charles Warriner's steal ings from the Big Four Railroad can not be accounted for. A fire, on Thursday did SOOO,OOO damage in the wholesale department in Baltimore. It was the largest fire Baltimore has had since 1904. A Federal grand jury at Louisville, Ky., on Thursday found bills against the Ixmisviile and Nashville and the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis railroads and the American Tobacco Company for rebating. The House of Commons strongly censures the House of Ijords for turning down the budget and refus ing to vote sums for running the English government. Hampton's Magazine has bought the American and Canadian right to Commander Peary's North Pole story l'or $50,000. Three prisons in the State of New York contain 24 men condemned to lie in the electric chair. Little Norwood Herbert, of Wash ington city, fell from a tree some days ago and his back was broken. The vertebra were replaced and he was put in plaster of paris case with reasonable expectation of complete recovery. The America Consul at Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, has applied for and has gotten permission to move his place of busines from the consulate to the legation as a place more safe and congenial. The Switchmen's strike that has its centre about Chieago is doing great damage to commerce as the railroads cannot move freight. The great Frisco and Rock Island railroad merger was disolved Wed nesday by the purchase and changing ownership of the San Francisco road. A naine explosion occurred at Marion, 111., last Monday in which one man was killed, but the 100 others in the mine escaped unin jured though there was something of a panic. Three persons were seriously in jured and five less seriously hurt in 11 derailment of a train on the Penn sylvania railroad near Fairhaven North Carolina has the distinction of manufacturing more plug and smoking tobacco than any other state in the Union. The police of Cleveland, Ohio, dis covered a plot to assassinate John D. Rockefeller Tuesday. The aged mul timillionaire semed little disturbed ever it and declined a guard. ' The German steamer Brewster was stranded at Diamond Shoals off eas tern Carolina Sunday night and is a total loss together with its cargo of bananas and coacoanuts The crew was saved. KNOX PLAN APPROVED. Board of Examiners Will Pus Upon the Fitness of All Applicants For Position of Secretary and the Rec ords of Efficiency Will Be Preserr- ed. Washington, Special.—To improve the personnel and efficiency of the diplomatic srvice and to encourage and commercial foreign relations of for promotion to the rank or minis ters, President Taft has approved a plan suggested by Secretary of State Knox, and published it as an Execu tive order. The new prospect provides for a board of examiners to pass upon all applicants for appointments us sec retaries and prescril)es the standard plan to the President, points out the remarkable growth of the political and commerncial foreign relations of the United States and the increasing difficulty of the problems to be dealt with. Records of efficiency of all the un der secretaries will be preserved in the State Department and appintment from outside the smse to secretary ship will be made only to the class of third secretary of embassy; or, in case of higher vacancies, of second scretary of legation, or of secretary of legation at posts which liave as signed to them only one secretary, Vacancies in secretaryships of the higher class will in the future he filled by promotion from the lower grades, and efficiency and ability demonstrat ed in the service will be the tests of advancement. All the secretaryships in the future will be graded according to the im portance or difficulty or other assets of the work done at each mission, and these classifications will he made known to the srviee so that every man may know just where he stands. The examining hoard will deter mine the fitness of candidates desig nated by the President for examina tion. The examinations will be held at Washington and will be both oral and written. A physical examination will be supplemental. Candidates must be between the ages of 21 and 50 years. The de partment will aim to apportion rep resentation fairly among the States and Teritories. COTTON MEN WRONGED. Commissioner of Corporations De nouncas the Practice of Dealing in Futures. Washington, Special.—Both the producers of cotton and the dealers in that commodity are the victims of the system of trading in vogue on the cotton exchange of the country.. This is the burden of parts 4 and 5 of the report of Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith on tiie Conduct of such exchanges. The practice of dealing in futures, its it is caried on at present, is condemned! carried on at present, is condemned, tiie existence of the exchange. "Tho brief discussion of general speculation in this report," says Mr. SiniLh, '' recognizes tiie possihilitiea for good inherent in a great central market like a cotton exchange, a;id the need that this good be developed and evils eliminated by regulations in line with-economic law." The report is especally condemna tory of the dealings in futures, brand ing this form of speculation as pure gambling and highly injurious to legi timate trade. In quotations for "fu ture" deliveries of cotton, the market is so uncertain and so many elements of change enter into the transaction that all bids are made at a much lower figure than those offered for cotton actually in existence. The effect ;«f these fictitious quota tions, the report points out, tends to mislead the cotton planted as to the true value of his crop, honestly grown. In addition it leads brokers to "play" both sides of the market to protect themslves against loss in such trades, with the rsult that the producer is forced to pay in the end, while the fanner loses likewise. The -rejiort, while recognizing that the exchanges in New Orleans and New York are necessary, does not mince words in criticising the New York exchange. After declaring that the New Orleans methods of conduct ing the transactions in coti'jn follow ed natural lines, the report draws at tention to the fact that it has been proven that the abnormal depressions in the future price in New York "were almost wholly due to improper artificial conditions now maintained by the New York coton exchange. By maintaining them the New York ex change is responsible for a very real injury to the producer and mer chant." King of &weeden Mingles With the ' People. Stockholm, By Cable.King Gustave on Saturday inaugurated a new de parture for sovereigns. Disguised as a Stevedore lie speiifniosF"of the day carrying sacks of coal from a lighter. In art interview, after it was all over, the King said that this was only the beginning. He intended to mix with all classse of laborers, so that he might ascertain their opinions and wishes. Already he added, he had de tained many valuable hints i'romHhe men with whom he worked. W. J. Colhoun Likely to Accept the Chinese Ministership. Chicago, Special—William J. Cal houn, a Chicago attorney and diplo mat, Sunday night admitted that Sec retary of State Knox hail offered him the post of minister to China. The ad mission came in denial of a report that he had declined to accept the of fer. Mr. Calhoun explained that he had been induced bv Secretary of State Knox to reconsider a determi- , nation not to accept the appointment I which was offered two weeks ago. WASHINGTON NOTES } The Supreme Court of the United States Monday granted the petition for the writ of certiorari in the con tempt cases of Samuel Compere, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, officers of the American Federation of Labor. The effect of the decision will be to bring the entire record in the Buck's stove and range case against these men to the Supreme Court for review. , Senator Rayner, of Maryland, will in all probability introduce a resolu tion in the Senate during the coming week with reference to the Nicara guan controversy and will address the. Senate upon it. His point will be the apprehension and trial of Zelaya, the dictatorial President of Nicaragua, whose rule is drawing to an end rapidly, for what Senator Kayner considers 'he murder of two American citizens, soldiers in the revolutionary army of Estrada. The Central American junta, com posed of diplomats and patriots frofii the Ave turbulent little republics on the neck of land between Yucatan and South America, is one of the lat est acquisitions of the Capital of the United States. It is unofficial, but vociferous, and its sessions are held in the cafe of a leading hotel. The junta is tho clearing house for all t lie information that leaks unofficial ly from revolution-torn Nicaragua, while the diplomats have framed up a half-dozen new alignments of the Hve republics, each with a view to the equitable distribution of tho "balance of power." Representative Charles W. Fowler, of New Jersey, gave out a statement outlining and commenting on the tar iff commission bill which he will in troduce in the House. The bill pro vides that Congress shall fix the maximum and minimum tariff rates t and that the commission of 15 mem bers is to fix the actual rates to be paid at some point, between the maxi mum and minimum rates so estab lished by Congress. But no rate so fixed and approved shall become ef fective or operative for 18 months after it has been promulgated by the I'rsident, in order that every indus try affected by tariff changes may have ample time to adjust itself to the new conditions. President Taft, the members of the Cabinet, the Governors of five States, members of Congress and other men prominent in national life attended the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, which began a thre-days session in this city Wednesday. At the first conference of the Dem ocrat ic members of the Senate in th» coming session of Congress, Senator Culberson sumitted his resignation IU chairman of the Democratic caucus. This determination on the part of the Texan has been reached because of his serious illness, which rmhflhty will prevent him from attending the sessions of the Senate for at least two or three weeks. President Taft is developing into a twentieth century llaroun Al Ras chid. lie is acquiring a habit of prowling around the strets and parka of the capitol nt all hours of the evening. When the conference on the proposed changes to be made in the interstate commerce law ended at H o'clock Monday, Secretary Dickin son and Attorney General Wicker sham were coming out of the exe cutive office when they were hailed. "Hold on there a minute," called the President. A moment later he ap peared, struggling with the refrac tory buttons of his light overcoat. "How about a walk," he said "Let's strike' out." Both chorused that a stroll in the dark was exactly the thing they had been pining for. The stroll took them over the wind swept reaches of the Potomac river bottom. The (rio walked briskly back to the White House, where the President waived a farewell and disappeared. Announcement is made by Secre tary Mitchell Carroll, of the Archae ological Institute of America, that David 0. Hogarth, M. A., curator of the A s l |r «°l'ati Museum, University of Oxford, will be the first foreign lecturer under the Charles Eliot Nor ton Memorial Foundation, recently endowed by James Loeb, of New York. Mr Hogarth began his lec ture tour under the society's engage ment at Halifax, N. S., and will ad dress half a dozen societies of the in stitute in Canada before coming to the United States. Afterward he will lecture for the • institute at Buffalo, Washington, Baltimore and Philadel phia. The institute's officers are gratified at 'securing Mr. Hogarth for" the first foreign lecturer. He is an eminent archaeological explorer, geo grapher ai)d author, having explored Asia Minor on four expeditions, ex cavated the site of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus for the British Museum and conducted many other important excavations and explora tions in Egypt, Crete and Asia Minor. Following a lengthy conference at the White House it was announced Monday night that the administra tion will exert its influence towards securing a comprehensive revision af the interstate commerce law by tba incoming Congress. A rough draft iof the proposed amendments to tha law was submitted by Attorney-Oan eral Wickcrsham, and while this waa i considered in all its details, no de cision With respect to it was reached. mt >■: *-vi * .r'M.
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