North Carolina Newspapers

THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. * WILLIAMSTON, N. 0. I Only reckless persons eat cbestnuti Jfei tli* dark. . Bracing day* the*e and fln« f» 'business. Paper bags, however, are of no us* la roasting one's neighbor*. The man who thinks the tipping *TT can b* stopped I* an optimist No skilled train robber goes through '• coach in the wake of the porter. Perhaps a course in aviation may be included In the higher education. One way to get a glow of warmth on a cold day 1* to help the suffering poor. One nasty thing about a blizzard is that it generally keeps Its engage* vents. With her skimpy skirt and her mas todon muff woman Is not afraid of cold waves. A Chicago Mulberry Sellers proposes to start a cat ranch stocked with one million cat*. China has the firecrackers and sh« can set up a Fourth of July whenever ah* thinks fit A head waiter says tipping will be well maintained when commercial travelers are but a memory. A Missouri farmer lost his pocket book In a polecat's den. That ap proaches our Idea of hard luck. Women are to be educated In the handling of checkbooks, and then the source of many a good story will b* missing. Kansas judge told a man he was too dense to be a Juror. Any man who Is too dense to be a juror doesn't know he Is alive. An Ohio woman boasts that atie has lived 100 years and never has been kissed. Just think of a century of wasted yeara _____ A man eloped with the wrong twin, which may not prove a hardship for him, but an awful annoyance to th* other twin. —~y —- A Callfornlan hns produced red. white and blue chickens, which h* calls "patriots." He might hav* call ed them mandrills. Th* "chlckenreel" has com* to dis place the "grizzly bear" and "the tur key trot." The fish seems to defy Imitation successfully. "Walnuts are fattening." says a Brli ' Ish medical authority. And we have known newspaper paragrapbers to grow fat on chestnuts. An expert writer nays that rich glrlw make better wives than poor ones. Perhaps that Is the real reason why they are In more demand. Boston has a preacher who says ho never has and never expects to see a game of baseball. He Is missing more than he has any Idea of. The latest Invention Is an alarm clock which not only awakens the sleeper, but lights the gas. Modern Invention Is doing Its utmost to mur der sleep. Chicago physicians tell us thst school children are becoming tooth less if the price of food keeps on going up the average child will not *eed any teeth. A Brooklyn man eighty years or ag«> is being sued for breach of promise. We are busy hoping the lady has no letters of his in which he referred to himself as her "Baby." A Philadelphia woman seeking a di vorce blames the spirit of her hus band's first wife But, naturally, this plea will not have the ghost of A show In the court proceedings. Two Frenchmen fought a duel the other day and then refused to kiss and make up Evidently they are playing for another match before the club offering the largest purse. New Yorker deserted his wife be cause be preferred buying himself silk stockings to supporting her. We move that h* be sentenced to walk barefoot for the rest of bis life. A Bonn University professor, lec turing at Columbia University the oth er night, asserted that the soul is not Immortal. Perhaps the Kaiser will have something to say to him when he gets home. New* that a gold nugget waa found fa a chicken's crop will only give the cold storage men another pretext to raise the price of chicken. Baby carriage* In Minnesota are r*- ]' quired to carry lanterns after dark. It seems that the citizens of Minn* p *ota start joy riding at an early age. A Jer*eylte won a verdict against a t 4octor who cut him open on the wrong sM«- As a rul* doctors know on wblch side a man keepe his pocket SOYS M GUESTS OF GOVERNMENT TWENTY - ONE BOV FARMERB FROM SOUTHERN STATES VIS ITING IN WASHINGTON. ALE RAISED BANNER CROPS Agricultural Department Officials Ar* Highly Plessed With Work ot Boys' Corn Club. Washington.—Twenty-one boys from the Southern states, who won prizes this year for raising banner crops of corri, arrived here, and will take in the sights of the national capital, one of the rewards of their efforts. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson presented each boy a diploma in rec ognition of the good work done by them In the advancement of agricul ture. also will be presented to Prefldent Taft. Agricultural department officials In oharge of the farm' demonstration work are highly pleased with the re sult of this year's work by the Boys' clubs. Both In quantity of corn rais ed and in cheapness of production it han been by far the best year since the Idea was inaugurated three years ago. They point to the fact that six of the boys now here raised more than 200 bushels on their acre of land whereas last year this was done by only one boy. The average produc tion among the twenty-one boys la about 175 bushels per acre. Bennle Beeson, 11 years old, of Mon ticelo, Miss., who grew 227 and a frac tion bushels on his acre at a cost of 14 centß per bushels, Is the leading prize winner, having come within a bushel of the best previous record. In cheapness of cost, Junius Hill of Ala bama comes first, his 212 bushels hav ing been raised at an average cost of only 8 1-2 cents a bushel. 1 "The most Interesting feature of this year's corn work which has spread like wildfire throughout the entire South," said Professor Martin, who will have charge of the boys dur ing their stay here, "Is the extreme ly low cost of production shown by them, and we are much pleased with this, for one of the things on which Doctor Knapp, who started the move ment, Insisted, waß that no efforts Bhould be made to produce freak crops, no matter what the expense In curred might be, but that cost should be kept down. Therefore, In award ing the prizes cost count* equally with production In determining the prize winners. The boys here are Eber A. Kim brough and Junius Hill, Alabama ; Burley Seagrace and Walter Hale, Arkansas; Ben Leath. Arthur Hill and Monroe Hill, Georgia; Carl Dunean and Howard Burge, Kentucky; John H. Henry, Jr., Louisiana; Bennle Beeson, Barnle Thomnn and John Bowen, Mississippi; Charlie Parker, Jr., North Carolina; Philip Wolf, Ok lahoma; Miller Hudson and Claude McDonald, South Carolina. John V. McKlbbon and Norman Smith, Ten nessee; John A. Johnston, Jr., Vir ginia, and Edward Doyle, Illinois. HYDE JUROR MAKES ESCAPE luror In Famous Kansas City Poison Case Disappears. Kansaß City, Mo.—A mistrial of the second hearing of I)r. B. Clarke Hyde, charged with killing Col. Thomas H. Swope, appears probable. Made desperate by the sight of two of his children, from whom he had been separated for six weeks, In the court room, Harry Waldron, one of the jurors, escaped from the jury's hotel quarters. While a guard Blept, Waldron pried open a nailed tranßom, crawled through the opening, tiptoed to a Are escape and leaped fifteen feet to freedom. The entire city police force and a dozen deputies from the county marshal's office have searched in vain for him since his absence WIIB noted near daybreak. If Waldron la not found, the eleven remaining jurors will be discharged. Judge Porterfleld said. Or If the miss ing man Is found and he cannot prove that he has not discussed tho case during his absence, the same action will be taken. Dynamite Evidence Given Government Indianapolis, Ind—That one or more officials of the International As sociation of Bridge and Structural Workers are surrendering to the gov ernment Information needed In the Investigation of an alleged nation wide conspiracy against structural Iron contractors who maintain the "open shop" was stated by represen ' tatlves of the National Erectors' as sociatlon. Without resistance, letters , and records hav* been conveyed by detectives engaged by the erectors' association. | Crowned Emperor ot India. , Delhi. —The Great Durbar to cele brate the accession of King George as emperor of India far outshone the coronation Durbar in 1903. There was a public holiday throughout ln ! dla, and the royal proclamation was read In every town and village. About one hui-dred ruling chiefs were In at j tendance, and the visitors were estl l mated at something loss than 200,000. i This year the personal attendance of - the klng-*mperor and queen-empress Uttntrted vast crowd*. » \J LIFE'S DISAPPOINTMENTS Copy right. 1811.) — DESTROYED FROM OUTSIDE NAVY DEPARTMENT ISSUE* A SHORT STATEMENT OF DE STRUCTION OF SHIP. An Exterior Explosion Caused Six- Inch Reserve Magazine to Explode. Washington.—The battleship Maine waß blown up In Havana harbor by an explosion from the outside. This Is the gist of a short state ment Issued by the navy department based on findings made by the Joint army and navy board, which spent several months in Havana harbor in vestigating the wreck. The state ment was as follows: "The board finds that the injurlea to the bottom of the Maine were caus ed by the explosion of' a charge of low form of explosives exterior to the ship, between frames 28 and 31, strake It, port side. Secretary Meyer announced that there might be a further statement on the report of the board afters It had been considered by the president. One member of the board was of the opinion that, the report never would be published in full, but would be kept In the confidential archives of the navy department. The declaration that a "low form of explosive" was tised in the outside explosion, indicates a belltf that a mine, and not a dlrlglhle torpedo, was the instrument of destruction. TOBACCO TRUST DISSOLVING Stock Haa Been Divided Among the Common Stockholder*. New York.—The American Tobac co company announced that the va rious percentages of stock in its old subsidiary companies ia to be divided among the trust's common stockhold era. Announcement was also made that the holder of each share of oom mon stock in the trust would be en titled to purchase at par 214964-4018-4 of a share of stock of the P. Lx>rlllard company, two of the new companies. For each share of common stock in the American Tobacco company, it was announced the shareholders will receive the following proportions of stock of the trust's subsidiaries: For each share of common stock in the American Tobacoc company, it was announced, the shareholders will receive the folloowing proportions of stock of the trust's subsidiaries: "American §nuff company, common stock, 75908-401824; preferred stock, 23764-401824; George W. Helm & Co., 27602-401824; Weyman-Bruton compa ny, common Btock, 27602-401824; Mac- Andrews & Forbes Co., conrtnon stock 21129-401824; J. F. Young company, common stock, 7043-401824; Conley Foil company, 4950=401824; Johnson i Tinfoil & Metal company 1800-401824; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company, 500000-401824; Corporation of the Uni ted C Igar stores, 60000-401824; Porto lllcan American Tobacco company, 13236-401824; British-American To bacco company, limited, 5270892-401- , 824 shares of a par value of one pound sterling." McNamaraa Will Tell Nothing. Los Angeles.—The scope of the In vestigation undertaken by the Fed eral grand Jury here and the one in Indianapolis, Ind., so far as could be learned, has not been sharply defined. Qovernment officials, it is thought, will be able to determine only after testimony of witnesses has proceed ed further, whether to return indict ments here or in Indiana. James B. and John J. McNamraa remained in their cells, reiterating that they ' would tell nothing, even If called be fore the grand Jury. Russian Treaty Worries Taft Washington.— President Taft and » his cabinet wrestled with the Russian » passport question, and at-the conclu -5 slon of the session it' was acknowl . edged a solution that would 'satisfy I American Jews and at the same time t not embarrass either the United :■ States or Russia still was undiscov ered. While the negotiations of Amer i. lean Afnbaaaador Guild at St. Peters f burg have not been abandoned, Jt i looked as ft there could 1m but one outcome—the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with Russia. PLAN TO FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL A Number of Articles Are Reatrlcted When They Originate Within the Quarantine Area. Atlanta. —Following a session of the entomologists of the South, who, in company with a number of trans portation men and prominent manu facturers, have been discussing the best possible way to quarantine the boll weevil, a permanent organization was formed by the entomologists and a number of recommendations were adopted. The recommendations, designed to meet modern conditions, remove lint cotton from the quarantine list, one of the most Important changes effect ed since tike first agreement between the Southern entomologists, made in 1892. Dr. W. E. Hinds of Alabama will be the permanent president of the organization, while A. F. Conra die of South Carolina will be secre tary, The last meeting was held In the office of State Entomologist E. Leo Worsham. The association adopted the follow ing recommendations for articles to be restricted, when originating with in the quarantine area: 1. Seed cotton. 2. Cotton Beed. 3. Seed cotton sacks, cotton seed sacks, cotton pickers' sacks which have been used within eight months. 4. Cotton seed hulls between Au gust 1 and December 30. 6. Spanish moss and com In shuck between October 1 and June 30. 6. Household goods containing any of the foregoing during the period of quarantine apply to each. 7. Living weevils in possession of any person outside of the Infested ter ritory except a qualified entomologist. ft adopted these recommendations for articles not to be restricted, when originating within the quarantine area: 1. Bales of cotton, flat or compress ed, with no restriction as to season. 2. Linters and loose cotton lint. 3. Cotton seed meal, cake and oil. 4. Corn shelled or shucked or with shucks removed, oats or any other seed except cottotn seed. 5. Cotton seed shown by affidavit to have been sacked nine months or more. 6. Cotton for planting pur poses only after fumigation with car bon bisulphide by competent ento mologist. T. Hay. 8. Empty cars. The following principles of law were decided upon: 1. Legislative enactment to provide , for quarantine under an official board , of not over five, to constitute respon sible body which shall be charged with formulations against insect pests and plant diseases. The law should provide competent state entimologists of proper training i 2. Air specifications of dangerous in sects. plant diseases, etc., and all reg , illations relating thereto shall be - adopted and published by said board i and subject to change under proper , public notice and announcement. 3. Law should provide suitable - means of prosecution of violators of > regulations and fix penalties therefor, including fine or imprisonment. Ruaalan Treaty Hotly Attacked. New York.—Abrogation of the . treaty of friendly relations between i the United States and Russia made > in 1832 was urged In Bpeeches dellr . ered by a dozen or more men of na , tlonal prominence and in resolutions r adopted at a meeting held here. The ■ meeting was under the auspices of . the national citizens' committee, . which plans a series of similar dem i oustratlons in protest against die j crimination by Rusala' in her refusal . for many years to honor the past ports of Jewish-American citizens. To Diasolve Seaboard Company, j -New York.—Dissolution of the Sea i board company, the holding concern . of the Seaboard Air Line railway, is . 'to follow the recent sale to a banking jr syndicate of $6,700,000 five per cent. B bonds. The Seaboard company was j chartered and organized in 1905 un •- der the laws of New Jersey for the i specific purpose of reorganizing the i- the then insolvent Seaboard Line. A t special meeting of stockholders of e the Seaboard company to act on the Y company's dissolution, Drill he held on January t. ► • " M MED KILLED 111 MINE EXPLOSION DUST EXPLOSION IN TENNESSEE COAL MINE CAUSES DEATH OF MANY MINERS. RESCUE WORK USELESS Rescuers Who Penetrate Workings of Mine Found Only Dead and Mangled Bodies. ♦ ♦ ♦ Brucevllle, Tenn. Five men ♦ ♦ were taken out alive from the ♦ ♦ Cross Mountain mine after all ♦ ♦ hope of saving any of the 100 ♦ ♦ or more men entombed by the ♦ ♦ explosion bad been abandoned. ♦ ♦ All except one man were in good ♦ ♦ condition after sixty hours be- ♦ ♦ low the earth, and the rescuers ♦ ♦ were so encouraged that they ♦ ♦ bent their energies anew and ♦ ♦ there were excellent prospects ♦ ♦ that more survivors would be ♦ ♦ reached. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Briceville, Tenn.—Somewhere in the depths of the Cross Mountain coal mine probably one hundred men lie dead while their sorrow-stricken fam ilies kepe vigil at the mouth of their tomb, hoping against hope that their loved ones may be alive when res cuers reach them. Bight torn and mangled bodies had been brought forth when search was abandoned for the day. Outaide of the immediate families of the entomb ed men no one in this little mountain village believes that any living thing in the mine survived the terrfic ex plosion of coal dust that wrecked the workings. * For more than thirty-six hours ev ery surviving miner in this region had tolled with no thought of food, sleep or pay, to remove the debris and force fresh air into the inner most recesses of the mine. They prac tically have penetrated to the main entry head, nearly three miles in. They expect to be ready to work the cross entries in which the other bod ies have undoubtedly been cast by the force of the blast. Black damp developed and retard ed progress, but the silent force push ed dauntlessly on. some of them till they were carried out overcome by the noxious gases. M'NAMARAS ENTER PRISON Dynamiters Arrive st Ban Quentln* to Berve Their Sentences. San Quentln, Cal.—The McN'amara brothers entered San Quentine peni tentiary, where James B. is condemn ed to spend the remainder of hlB life for his confessed crime of murder in connection with the LOB Angeles Times explosion, and where John J., secretary of the International Associ ation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, is sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for dynamiting. The men entered the prison, it is fairly authenticated, believing they had achieved much for the cause of union labor and had been misunder stood in their efforts and the results they obtained. Whirled from Los Angeles oa a fast train, the men were taken from It, at sunrise, put on a little river steamer and landed, two houre and a half later, at San Quentln prison wharf on the shores of San Pablo bay. As the prison clock struck 10, John J. stepped over the threshold of the jail door, with his brother directly behind him. In five minutes James B. had become convict 25,314 and John J. number 25,315. They were meas ured for jail clothing, photographed In two positions, given a carbolic tinctured bath, put into stripes, shaved and cropped and re-photo graphed within an hour. Cell 18, into which they were lock ed, adjoins the tier in which con demned murderers are Kept and the balcony outside is cut oft by a little grate. Further down the row toward the other end is the cell of Abraham Ruef, serving a 14-year sentence for bribery in connection with the San Francisco cases. Postal Berv!ce Shows Surplus. Washington.—The annual report ol Postmaster General Hitchcock states that the first time since 1883 the an "nual financial statement of the post office department shows a surplus In stead of a deficit. The revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, amounted to 9237,879,823.60 and the expenditures to $237,660,705.48, leav ing a surplus of $219,118.12. At the beginning of the present administra tion in 1909 the postal service was la arrears to the extent of $17,749. 770.47. McManlgsl Will Be Released. Los Angeles, Cal. —Ortie E. McMan lgal will be taken to Indianapolis within a few days to tell tke Federal grand Jury there what he knows ol 1 the alleged dynamiting conspiracy, ' the first chapter of which was closed > with the placing of James B. and > John J. McNamara in the San Quen tin state penitentiary. McManlgal ■ after his trips around the country ' giving testimony probably will be re 1 leased. He will be closely guarlvd, [HE Ml BILL HAS FUSSED HOUSE THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS IN FLICT AN ANNUAL "CHARGE OF *76,000,000. CURK SUPPORTS MEASURE Underwood, Fitzgerald and Eighty- Two Other Democrats and Eight Republicans Voted Against the Act. —Amount of Penalone. Washington.—The Sherwood service Pension hill, which will add upwards of >40,000,000 to the government's an nual expendlturea by granting lncreas ed penalone to civil and Mexican wax veterans of the baala of length of aer rice, was pasaed by ine Houae despite the determined opposition of many Democratic leaders, Secretary of the Interior Fisher haa estimated that the bill will add $76,000,000 to the pen lion roll if the 400,000 veterana eli jible take advantage of the increased wage. . . _.. .. Eight Republicana voted with the 12 Democrats agatnat the bill. Speak er Clark voted with the majority of his party for the bill and Democratic Leader Underwood and Fitzgerald of New York, chairman of the appropria tiona committee, voted agalnat It. The bill now goes to the Senate where there is a disposition to pasa tome form of amended service pension legislation. Senate leaders, however, will proceed slowly In the considers lion of this legislation and many Houae Democrata voted for the meas ure in the belief that the Senate would not pass it. The Sherwood bill would establish the following basis of pensions: For service for ninety daya to six months sl6 a month; from six to nine months S2O a month; from nine months to one year $26 a month; more than one year S3O a month. Two important changes were made In the Sherwood bill during the all day battle over It. A Joint amend ment by Representatives Rauch of Indiana, and Cox of Ohio, struck out the provision denying entrance to Federal aoldiera' home* of veterani receiving more than $26 a month pension; and refusing to Stale homes. Federal aid for the support of stJcb pensionera. The restriction against the payment of any pension to a vet eran whose income exceeda SI,OOO a year waa voted out on the motion a' Representative Rucker of Colorado. Still Looking For Lost Juror. Kansas City, Mo. —Henry W. Wal dron, who disappeared while serving as a member of the jury that is try ing Dr. B. Clarke Hyde, on a charge of murdering Col. Thomaa. H. Swope, has not been found. The police searched the Missouri river front foi miles on the theory that Waldron might have thrown himself into the stream. Judge Porterfleld says Wal dron must appear In a few houra o» the jury will be discharged. Prises For Southern Corn Growers. Washington.—James Wilson, aecre tary of agriculture, presented di plomas of mertt to 21 Southern boyt who won prizes In corn raising con teata. Junlua Hill, of Alabama, ralaed 212 buahels on one acre at a cost of 8 1-2 cents a bushel. Ben Meeson. of Monticello, Miss., lead In the amount of production per acre with 227 bushels. It cost him fourteer cents a bushel. Five Killed When Train Runs Away. Scranton, Pa—A freight train ran away In the Carbondale yards of the Delaware and Hudaon railroad. Five men were killed. Five were hurt. Two will die. The railroad machine shops were burned. Five locomotives were destroyed. Most of the wreck victims are burled benath debris. Qatea Estate Is 918,642,706.07. Beaumont, Tex. —Tie estate of th« late John W. Gates is stated by ap praisers who filed an Inventory for record to be $18,642,706.07, made up principally of stocks and bonds. Borrowed Baby For Uae In Ccurt. New Orleans. —District Attorney St Clair Adams is now said to hunt ing for the parents of a baby alleged to have been borrowed from an or phanage for the purpose of being used in a suit in court. In connection with the case. Mrs. Maceline Everhardt and Ollie Mann, white and colored re apectively, were arraigned charged with obtaining money nnder falae pre tenses. An estate of SIO,OOO Is in volved. It la charged that the baby was to have been passed off as the Child of Ollie Mann. MeCreary Guards Back *gain. Frankfort, Ky.—Next to Kentucky's incoming democratic governor, James B. MeCreary, and the retiring repub >' lean governor, Augustus E. Wilson, positions of honor at the inauguration were occupied by the 12 surviving members of the old MeCreary guards. This waa a military company organ -Ira" in Frankfort in 1577 during Oov McCreary's first administration. Six on a slde.tfljse veterans escorted the in the parade that led from the govcrnor'Kf macaica to the capltol.