North Carolina Newspapers

GREAT SHORTAGE IH MEAT SUPPLY • , " DECREASE OF 19,000,000 IN THE MEAT ANIWALB IN THE UNITED STATEB. COMPARASIONS ARE MADE > ** r l' i Amazing Drop Since 1910 Reported by the Department of Agriculture. Washington.—Shortage of meat ani mals in the JJnlte?! States was strik ingly demonstrated by comparative figures made public by the department of agriculture. The report showed that there are nine less beef cattle, seven less sheep and three less hogs now for each 100 persons in the coun try than there were in 1910. This means that it would take 18,259,000 more cattle, sheep and swine to give the present population the same sup ply that the census of 1910 showed to exist. Wliiie the population of the country is estimated to have increased from 91,972,000 to 98,646,000 in the past t three years, the number of beef cattle has decreased 12.9 per cent., and of sheep 5.2 per cent. The number of swino increased slightly, 1.3 per cent, hut it did not keep up with the propor tional growth of population. "This increase in value, however," the department pointed out, "does not necessarily mean that farmers or stock raisers are making more, if any, profit. On the contrary, the cost of produc tion lias probably increased more rap idly than the increase in the selling price of livestock. Producers of farm products are the last to receive any benefit from higher prices paid by con sumers, yet they are among the first to increase production if there, is a prospect of realizing better returns. "The very fact that there/ is a pres ent shortage of nearly 19,000,000 meat animals in the United States since the census of 1910, Indicates clearly that the business is not profitable to pro ducers. ~ "The scarcity of meat animals is at : tributed by department experts to the encroachment of farms upon range ter ritory, lack of a proper range leasing laws, shortage In the corn and forage crop in Kansas, Nebraska and Okla homa, increase in the value of land and higher cost of labor and stock feed; decline In stock raising on farms in the East and South because of poor marketing facilities, the temptation to sell livestock at prevailing high prices and enormous losses from hog chol era." FREf SILVER EDICT ISSUED Rebel Leader Decrees Free Coinage of Silver. Chihuahua, Mexico. Currency is sued by the Hank of Sonora, the Bank of Minero and other banks establish ed under the Diaz regime will be treated as counterfeit money after February 10, under a decree issued by the rebel government. The free and unlimited coinage of silver will be offered as a moans of providing ample money. The embargo against the old bank currency, which is frowned on as a survival of the cjentifico days, when the Creels and Terrazases were in power, will render worthless in the rebel territory millions of dollars in paper money. The offer of free coinage will be ex tended to all bullion owners, but it hftft not been indicated to what extent the offer will be accepted. The rebel gov ernment already is in possession of juueh. bullion which will be coined to. enricli the treasury. It also was an nounced that a large American smelt ing interest which controls industries In Colorado and other parts of the United States, has entered into an ar rangement for the immediate opening of a smelter in Chihuahua, which has been closed for many weeks. H. H. Rogers Left $40,000,000. New York. —A detailed apprisal of the estate of the late Henry H. Jtog ers. Standard Oil magnate, who died nearly four years ago, shows that the estate is worth about $40,000,000 net, or some $6,000,000 more than the value originally estimated, it was learned. _ - 19 Sailors Are Lost. Falmouth, England.—Captain Lor- Hi ena, the first officer, and seventeen of Vthe crew of the German bark Hera, / Risagua, Chile, to Falmouth, lost their lives when struck a rock as had almost concluded her voy age. The remaining five men were saved. The Hera encountered a j at the entrance to the English clian : nel. She lost her course and struck on the rocks near Port Halla Bight. The vessel immediately filled and the men took to which capsized. Eight succeeded in getting back. Artist Boehm Puts Bullet in Head. Osslning, N. Y.— Just after confer ring with his wife and a veterinary sur geon over the piost humane way of destroying his pet cats, which had tfeen models for his widely-known mag azine illustrations, Henry Richard Boehm, an artist, went upstairs in his home at Briarcliffe, near here, and shot himself in the head, dying in stantly. It is believed ha had be come temporarily insane. Boehm was anxious to dispose of his cats because of the difficulty of caring for them properly in New York City MRS. C. BRACKETT BISHOP -' ' H q» I | fl 1 ,y * / fIR ' MtmJ *«4g Mrs. C. Brackett Bishop or Chicago has a theory that If children are given the same opportunities their minds will develop alike. To prove this, she will start In February on a trip around the world to gather babies of all races and place them on a farm In America. TICK QUARANTINE RAISED MORE TERRITORY 18 FREED FROM CATTLE TICKS THROUGOUT THE SOUTH. Over 17,000 Additional Square Miles in Eight Southern States to Be Released From Quarantine. Washington.—'The territory in the South freed from cattle tlckß and re leased from quarantine has been in creased by 17,106 square miles by an order issued by the acting secretary of agriculture, effective February 16, 1914. releasing additional portions of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Okla homa and Texas. This action has been taken as a result of further progress made in the extermination of the ticks which spread splenetic or Texas fe ver of cattle. The total area released since the beginning of the work in 1906 now aggregates 215,908 square miles, and amounts to about 30 per cent, of the territory infected at the time the work was undertaken. Tennessee is the first of the states extensively Infested by the ticks to b#> entirely freed from this pest and released from quarantine. The portions of the several states to bo released from quarantine on February 16 under the order mentioned are as follows: In Virginia: The of Sussex and the balance of the" county of Greenesville. In North Carolina: The counties of Moore. Hoke, Scotland, Robeson and New Hanover. In Georgia: The counties of Mor gan and Frankliiu In Tennessee: The remainder of Marion county. In Alabama: Portions of the coun ties of Jackson and Sumter. In Mississippi: The counties of Clay, Jasper. Smith, Scott and Le flore, the remainder of the counties of Lowndes, Holmes, Madison, Attala, Rankin, Noxubee, Chickasaw, and por tions of the counties of Claiborne, War ren, Yazoo, Sharkey, Bolivar, Newton, Grenada, Leake, Monroe, Jones and LaFayette. n/ 1 In Oklahoma: The county of Cot ton and the remainder of the counttes of Tillman, Grady, Craig and Ottawa, and portions of the counties of Mc- Clain, Osage and Delaware. Condemned Foodstuffs Fill Warehouses Washington.—Foodstuffs seized by the federal authorities and held as evi-' dence of adulteration or misbranding in violation of the pure food and drugs acts are rapidly pending court action, the department of agri culture announces. Several warehous es scattered throughout the country at various shipping ports are practically filled with condemned products. Re lief. however, is promised, the depart ment states, as the trials are shortly to be held. Taft Warns Against Plutocracy. Toronto, Canada. —"I sincerely hope our experience may give you warning and cause you to take prompter meas ures to prevent plutocracy teaching' the danger point," said former Presi dent William H. Taft here in an ad dress before the Literary and Scien tific Society of the University of To ronto. The former president had dwelt on the industrial expansion of Canada and the probability that its people would come face to face with conditions of corporate control exist ing in the United States. i. , Contempt of Court Laid to Ministers. Pretoria, Union of South Africa.— Court proceedings against the minis ters of justice, defense and interior, because of their action in deporting the South African strike leaders, be gan promptly here. The supreme court judge. Sir John W. Weasels, granted an application for leave to . apply to attach the three ministers . for contempt of court. The judge de , clared that if he had possessed infor . mation he would have granted an in ( junction restraining the government from deporting the men. THE ENTERPRISE, WTT.T.TA MSTON, WORTH CAROLINA. 43 PERSONS MEET DEATH ON OCEAN NINETY-ONE ARE BROUGHT BACK TO LAND BY THE M. & M. STEAMSHIP NANTUCKET. " •>-- ". VESSEL IS RAMMED AT SEA Many Unable to Leave the Staterooma. No Time Was Given to Adjust Life Preservers. ♦ ♦ ♦ Department of Commerce ♦ ♦ Orders Probe of Wreck. ♦ + ♦ ♦ Washington. A thorough ♦ ♦ Investigation of the clrcum* ♦ ♦ stances resulting in the colli- ♦ ♦ sion between the Nantucket ♦ ♦ and Monroe was ordered by ♦ ♦ the department of commerce. ♦ ♦ .Assistant Secretary Sweet ♦ + Instructed the steamboat in- + ♦ spection service to make an ♦ ♦ exhaustive Inquiry. ■ ♦ ♦ + Norfolk, Va. —Tho story of how 43 souls went down to death in the chill waters of the Atlantic when the liner Nantucket rammed and sank the steamer Monroe, was brought to port by 91 survivors of the sunken ship's passengers, rescued and brought to shore by tho Nantucket. It was a story of awful and sud den death, sweeping out of the dark and fog, and taking unawares the doomed half hundred with the heavi ness of sleep still upon them. It told how the stricken Monroe, with her side gored deep by the knife-like steel prow of the Nantucket, filled rapidly, rolled over on hor side, and In a few min utes turned completely ovdr and then plunged to the bottom, carrying with her the 111-fated passengers and mem bers of tho crew who had failed to get clear of the wreck. Thrilling are the stories told by those rescued from the Jaws of death when tho Old Dominion Steamship company's steamer Monroe, bound from Norfolk to New York, .turned turtle at sea within ten minutes after she had been in collision with the Merchants and Miners' transportation company's steamer Nantucket in a dense fog off the Virginia coast. Re vised lists put the loss of life at forty three, of which number nieteen were passengers and twenty-four members of the Monroe's crow. It was as if they had como from tho dead when eight of tho Monroe's passengers, whom wireless reports had put In the list of the lost, walked or were borne from the steamer Nantucket when the latter landed the rescued at Norfolk. There were notable deeds of heroism by Assisting Engineer Oscar l'erklns and First Wireless Operator Ferdinand J. Kuehn. Perkins when the inrush of water put on the main dynamo and left therMonroe in complete darkness, rusheir below and put to work an emergency dynamo. He is among the rescued. Wireless Operator Kuehn gave the first S. O. S. call and after adjusting a life preserver which would doubt- Jess have saved his own life, removed this from his body anil put It on a girl. Kuehn was loßt. His assistant, R. L. Etheridge, was saved, and walk ed Into the arms of his wife, who stood to greet him as the Nantucket docked with the rescued. C. W. Poole, en route from Gray, Va., with his wife and two and a half-year old boy to "visit in Massachusetts, had ills wife and child washed from his arms over the,rail of the sinking Mon roe. Poole, completely crushed, told tho story of his great loss and sor row. He will return to his Virginia home. Ed Gorman of New York told of harrowing scenes of women's scream ing for help in the cabin of the Monroe. Walking upon the side of the careen ed sinking" • ship, Gorman met a girl whom he begged to Jump with him into the sea. The girl refused and perish ed. Gorman was at the place picked up by a passing" lifeboat. J. Galtley, second officer of the Monroe, gave his life preserver up to a lady who had none, and after being washed Into the water saved himself by grabbing a floating ladder. SIO,OOO In Bills Left on Car Seat. Macon, Ga.—Conductor Walter Lit tle picked up a package in a seat of a Central of Georgia railway ca/ at ' Columbia, Ala., which later was found to contain SIO,OOO. in bills. The name of J. C. Kountz appeared on the pack age and it was found that the money belonged to a Dothan' bank with which Mr. Kountz is connected. The money was in possession of a messenger, who left the train at Columbia. It was re-' turned to the bank. The money, along with several other packages, had been placed In a hahd grip. -•*->•' U. S. to Exhibit Model of Canal. Washington.—A model of the Pana ma canal which probably will be more than five hundred feet long will be the government's largest and most elaborate individual exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco in 1915. From this model, it Is said, the visitor will be able to get a clearer and more comprehensive Idea of the canal and of its workings than by an actual' visit to the canal itself. Almost at a glance one wIU get . from the huge model a bird's-eye view of the canal in all Its detail*. SENATOR ASHURST _ ■ > * , , t ' i Senator Ashurst of Arizona Is au- , thor of the resolution calling for a • senatorial Investigation of the Mlchl- , gan copper mine war. ' • I OPPOSES FREE CANAL TOLLS PRESIDENT HOLDS EXEMPTION i TO AMERICAN COASTWISE VES- i SELS VIOLATES TREATY. Quettion of Panama Canal Tolls Jr Subject Discussed About Capi tol in Washington. Washington.—How to dispose of the*, l'anamu canal tolls question was the subject uppt-rmost-ln discussion about j the capital wheli the attitude of l'res- j ident Wilson, outlined to the senatt j foreign relatlons y committee, became j public. The president's 'position was asserted to be tjjat the provision of ■ the Panama canal act granting toll exemption to American vessels Is In j violation of the Hay-Pauncefote trea- 1 ty, which proclaims that the canal , shall be free and open to all nations J "on terms of entire equality," and that "charges of traffic should be Just j and equitable." Three courses are open to congress. | Great? Britain, which persistently lias I opposed the toll exemption for Ameri- j can ships, has offered to arbitrate the | question as to its being a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. The ma jority In congress, It is believed, oppos es this, maintaining that the United States should settle the issue for itself. Another course Is to carry into efTect a resolution submitted by Representative Adamson, which would suspend, for two yearH, the operation of the pro vision exempting American ships from the payment of tolls. Should this bo adopted, diplomatic negotiations could continue In the meantime, The third proposal is that congress repeal the free toll provision. WHITE TEACHERS BARRED By Measure Passed by South Carolina House of Representatives. Columbia, S. C—The lower house of the South Carolina general assem bly passed to third reading a bill pro hibiting white people from teaching in negro schools or negroes In white schools under penalty of a fine of not more than ?500 or imprisonment for not exceeding l twelve months. Tho passage of the measure was recom mended by Governor Blcasa j, , The bill was amended to include the "intimacy of the races In houses of j ill repute." Another amendment provides that , the bill shall not be regarded as pro- ' hlbltlng the teaching of tho Bible to negroes. Sensational speeches were made, and at times tho discussion became j most bitter. In urging the passage of the bill Mr. Fortner dT Spartanburg declared: "The negroes have their Booker T. Washington. Let the negroes run their own business and their schoels." Earthquake Shocks Cause Panic. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Earth quake shocks at Mendoza caused a panic. Mendoza is the capital of the province of Mendoza, lying about six ty miles distant from the volcano of Aconcagua. In 1861 Mendoza was overthrown by an earthquake. r - 9 Probe of Strikes Ordered. Washington. —A sweeping Investiga tion of strike conditions in the coal fields of Colorado and the copper dis trict of Michigan was authorized by the house. Ky a vote of 151 to 15 the house adopted the resolution of. Representative Keating of Colorado, empowering the mines mining committee to make inquiry as to con ditions in Colorado and Michigan In which the federal government might be concerned. Hearings will be COIJ , ducted in the strike regions by a sub committee, or sub-committees. Comber Leaped 380 Feet. San Francisco, Cal. —The highest seas known on the Pacific cctast since It was charted br the United States government were recorded. Tho light on Trinidad Head, near Eureka, Cal., was put out last week by surf that smashed the thick protecting panes of glass surrounding 1L Trinidad Head rises SBO feet above the sea level. The light is perched on a shelf ot rock about half way up, and the lens Is 200 feet above the margin of th« surf, ' ... . NAVAL YEAR BOOK FIGURES JUGGLED , A • ' ."♦ ** CHARGES 'BROUGHT AGAINST I EXPEPTB OF THE NAVY DE PARTMENT. SEC TY DANIELS IS GRILLED i 11 ! Congressmen Say Statistics Show Our j Navy Below Germany's Standing { ( and That This is Not True Accord- j) ing to Investigation. ' i * »' i Washington—Representatives With- i. erspoon of Mississippi and Hensley, ! ( of Missouri, charged that experts ot j ( the navy department Juggled the sta- , tlstlcs of the 1913 navy year book to j , make the American navy appear infe- I ( rior to the German navy. This action, j they declared, set the Unltod States ( down from second to third place as a 1 i naval power. Both congressmen are j | members of the house naval affairs 11 committee. ■ 1 1 With Secretary Daniels before the ' committee to explain the. naval pro- ' i gram for the coming year, the two j congressmen, who are strongly oppos- ' ed to a "big navy," questioned him at j length on 'tytiat they declared wer» omissions and faulty comparisons in i the year book. The ex secretary ex plained that he was not an expert in j comparing navies, and said lie had relied on what experts in the navy j 1 had advißcd him about the facts. I 1 In their questioning the Congress- j men brought out that three Ameri- J can battleships, the Oregon, Massa- 11 chusetts and Indiana, which are of ] ' the same tonnaga and of heavier ar- I miment than 10 listed' German battle ships, are left out of the United States list altogether; and that the year book Instead of giving the United State 36 battleships built and" build ing, compared with Germany's 36, should have credited the United States with 39 battleships of heavier total tonnage and armament than Germany. • They also developed that the Navy statisticians this year for the first time have taken out of the dreadnought class the* battleships South Carolina and Michigan, which have dreadnought armament, and have put into the German dread nought class four ships of 11-inch gun armament. The year book's com parison gives Germany 13 dread-; noughts and the United States seven, while the Congressmen insisted that the correot figures should give Ger many and the United States nine dreadnoughts each. Slow to Respond. Washington.—President Wilson Is surprised at the lack of responses from business men to the invitation for suggestions on pending trust leg islation. The president does not know wheth er business men approve the tenta tive measures or whether they have not yet taken notice of the hearings. It was suggested that business men might fear being branded as "lobby ists" if they came to Washington in that connection. Opposes Increased Rates. Washington.—Opposing the 5-per' cent Increase in freight rates sought by eastern railroads, J. C. Forester, representing the Just Freight Rate Association of North Carolina, told examiners of the interstate comment commission that to grant tne advance would be to burden the public for roundabout and illigical routes of : shipment and for the support of "im- j properly financed and Inefficiently managed properties." Judge Ventress Burned to Death. Gadsden, Ala.—Judge Thomas Ven tress, prominent in Alabama politics, was burned to death in a flrg which destroyed two buildings In Atalla, Ala. Women Disappointed. Washington—President Wilson gave no encouragement to a delegation of 300 Working women who marched oh the white house with a brass band to ask his support for a constitutional amendment enfranchising women. Develop Southern Water Power. Washington. Remarkable devel opment In the South'* water power resources is related in a statement by the federal geological survey. At. any reasonable valuation, per horsepower, it is stated, the undeveloped power of important streams in the Southern •states is an Important industrial as set In Georgia and the Carollnas more than 100.000 horsepower has been developed and it is being used by the cotton mills alone and public ser vice corporations are developing 300,- 000 to 400,000 additional horsepower. I : . v. Private Car Line Hearing. Chicago. Railroads sometimes charge for repairs they do not make, witnesses testified at the Interstate Commerce Commissioner's tlon of private car lines. They also asserted repair charges were exces sive and said there should be a radi cal revision of accounting methods. "Our principal difficulty is finding out if repairs for which we are charg ed actually have been performed," said Henry L. Millis, manager of the Western Livestock Exnress. "CmRETS" FOR sin ue No sick headache, sour stomadl biliousness or constipation t by morning. Get a 10-cent box now. 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Cardul, the woman's tonic, and Thedford's Black-Draught liver matt ! cine, are the only medicines we heap I in the house." I If you suffer from »ny of the trou bles so common to weak women, Tr? Mrs. Owen's advice —take Cardul. For more than 50 years, Cardul ha* been used with entire satisfaction, by thousands of weak and ailing womaa. It will surely help you, too. N. a- Wm. to: Ladies' Advisory Dept.. ChsOe nooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., to' Special IntrtKitom, and st-pa*e book, name TisS ment for Women," sent In plain wrapper. «» (•quest. Adv. What H« Old. Grace —I told him he must not sea me any morq. Her Brother —Well, what did he dor Grace —Turned out the light!— Dar t mouth Jack-o'-Lantern. IN PAIN WITH HEMORRHOIDS Bissell, Ala.—"l was troubled for several years with protruding hemor i rholds. They caused pain of the moat | severe kind and some loss of blood. They were so inflamed that the touch ] of anything against them was most intense agony. I got no rest night* and had to have my legs and feet, propped up in the bed. ''l tried all kinds of advertised, cures, and I was told that an opera tion was the only relief. I suffered' 1 untold agony. I saw the advertise* ment of Cutlcura Soap and Ointment and sent for a sample. I tried It and' then procured a box of Cutlcura Soap and Cutlcura Ointment. I was cure& sound and well In three weeks' tima A cake of Cutlcura Soap and two boxae of Cutlcura Ointment accomplished what all else failed to do." (Slgned> Lb R. Cook, NOT. 12. 1911. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment aotot throughout the world. Sample of eeeb free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston."—Adn The Bequence. ( 1 "Just as we were wondering where the money for a feed was to oon* from, Billy Smith, who ailways has hie pockets full, blew in—" ; "Well, what happened?" "A blow-out" COLDS & LaGRIPPE . 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any caa*- of Chills & Fever, Colds A LaGrippej It acts on the liver better than Calo mel and does not gripe or ' Price 25c—Adv. • The man who makes a god of wealtfe Is generally just about as crooked ae the dollar mark he worships. Sore Kjea, Qr&nulfkted Ejtlidi and BUM promptly healed with Soman Bye M tain. Aav. We are never too old to learn the* things that are of no ate to ae.