North Carolina Newspapers

UVE STATE NEWS LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PIKE Short Paragraphs of State New That Has Been Condensed For People of the State. NORTH CAROLINA POSTMASTERS Jfxf NEXT IN THE PIE-LINE--1 OVERMAN BUSY. av IT K :i l Iff n II 1 Raleigh. John T. Pullen, 50 years old, well known as a banker and phil anthropist, died here after a short ill ness. Durham. The city schools have an nounced their commencement pro gram for this year, and included in the list of announcements about the finals are many interesting innova tions. ... Cullowhea. Cullowhen Normal nnrl MSiliifi1 A' 1 1 1 ii ill " NOMINATIONS TO SENATE K2 ft. I; t Introduce Four Bills and Withdraws Opposition to Charles P. Neill Who "Canned" Indian Songs WASHINGTON. Geoffrey O'Hara, recently appointed by the Inte rior department at Washington to record the tribal songs and music of all American Indians, began his work in New York city the other day by taking his first nhonographic records of the songs of the Blackfeet Indians from Glacier National park, Mont. Secretary of the Interior Lane took advantage of the Blackfeet Indians being in New York. He sent Mr. O'Hara on to New York from Wash ington to begin his laborious task with these Indians. Mr. O'Hara is having them sing into phonographs and the records will be brought to this city to be put in the government archives, preserving for all time the music of the original Americans. ' Defendants in Court "Demonstrate" Innocence NC. HARPER, clerk of the police court, reading charges of disor derly conduct to Harry Johnson and Charles O'Connor, knowing' that the charge of "cursing and swearing" was generally contained in such In- formation, included these words: ' "How do you plead, guilty or' "not guilty?" Mr. Harper demanded. No answer. To facilitate the business of the court. Bailiff Hopkins went close to the men and asked them In a low tone, whether they were disorderly or not at the time mentioned in the pa per. But he received no answer. "Are you. guilty or not?" Mr. Har per asked, in a polite but somewhat louder tone than he had used before. Still no answer. After some confusion, Policeman Brennan. who arrested the men, was called, and explained to the court that the men were both deaf and dumb. "How could these men be 'cussin' and swearin" if they can't talk?" the court demanded. "They weren't, your honor," Bren nan responded, "but In spite of that they sure were having a hot time up on Seventh street Saturday night. I Why Mrs. Townsend's Great Dane Was Lonesome THERE is a splendid great Dane in Washington, who Is also a bit dis trait, and inclined to be lonesome be cause he cannot realize the perfectly-at-home feeling, which makes dogs of high and low degree at ease with the world, and utterly content He be longed to M. Constantin Brun, the minister from Denmark, who present ed him to Mrs. Townsend.. and the great Dane was introduced to one of the most magnificent homes In Wash ington, shown every attention, and given every luxury that the most am bitious dog in the world could dream of. But he was not happy, and began calling upon the people across the street at first only occasionally, and then twice a day, once spending the Daniels Gathers Eggs; SECRETARY of the Navy Daniels the other day disclosed the fact that he keeps at his country place near Washington some ninety chick ens, that yield him every day twenty eggs, and he thereby put himself. In line for a lot of trouble. For when Secretary of State Bryan, who keeps a riding horse by the name of Rex, but who owns no chickens, heard about his colleague's wealth, he made the proposal that Mr. Daniels ought to divide those fresh eggs among the other members of the cabi ivt. Mr. Daniels has not yet been heard from on the proposal, but the general opinion is that if the secretary of state wants any of the eggs from the Daniels chicken coop, he will have to mount his horse Rex some morn ing before daybreak and ride out and get them himself. Secretary Daniels said incidentally that he is opposed to having the clerks of the government departments report at 8 o'clock, because it would necessitate his making his morning rounds to gather eggs at least an hour earlier each day. Mr. Daniels allows himself to be an hour later than the clerks cf hia department, but makes to Be Placed in Archives The Indians have been pinging to the phonographs under the direction of Mr. O'Hara. The Indians could hardly grasp the idea at first of how they could sing into a tin horn and thereby record their music. After the first song had been sung, how ever, the reproduction was given them in a few minutes and the magic of the operation was bewildering to them. Mr. O'Hara Is arranging to visit Glacier National park early this sum mer and .complete his records of the Blackfeet tribe there. Through the interior department arrangements were made to take these records privately In New York in an out-of-the-way loft There Is one song in particular which the Glacier Park Indians sing, in which musical critics find considerable merit. This is -a song descriptive of the Blackfeet Indian's love of his home environment. Big Top, the In dian Interpreter, says: "My people always sing this song, because when they go away from the mountains their hearts are lonely, and it makes them think of homa weet home." guess they won't do it any more, though. One of them wrote me a note to that effect." After Mr. Harper, wrote out the charge of disorderly conduct, not in cluding profanity, for them, they both gave a nod, indicating they were guilty. After hearing the testimony, and on the recommendation of the po liceman, Judge Pugh took their per sonal bonds. This is a legal form which requires that the clerk read a certain formula to the prisoners whose personal bonds are taken, after which he la allowed to go free, and the last check on the laughter of the large Monday crowd In court was removed when the clerk had to conform to this require ment greater part jof the forenoon, and again staying two or three hours in the afternoon. Finally he went back in the evening, and guests arriving for a dinner party at the house across from Mrs. Townsend's found the great Dane at the steps. One guest, whose dog is a dainty, coquettish Chow, passed an awful mo ment when she had visions of never getting past the great Dane, who seemed greater and greater as he stood above her, on the topmost step, across the carved walnut doors. When she finally accomplished It with the help of the chauffeur and footman, she entered the drawing room all but breathless. "Why doesn't that great Dane of Mrs. Townsend's stay at home? He has all of that large garden to wander about in, over there, and " she stop ped, because she was nervous. "Oh, that dog is simply lonesome," her hostess explained. "You see they only speak French and English to him over there, and he gets so homesick to hear his native tongue that he comes here to visit my Danish but ler!" Bryan Wants Division fOOHT tOit THINK YOU OUChTO up for it by staying half an hour later in the afternoon. Raising babies as a fine art is the latest subject for the output of Un cle Sam's printing office, according to the announcement made by Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the children's bureau of the government. Work has already been begun, she said, on a series of "infant bulletins.' "These bulletins,"' said Miss La throp, "will be a series of pictures of Infant life as we have found it They will be issued in an effort to dissemi nate and popularize scientific knowl edge of child-bearing and raising in a manner that will be understood and appreciated by every mother in all stations of life." NOPE CfeV kJrtJrzl is Confirmed. Secures Pardon of D. F. Van Home of Burke County. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that President Wilson has forwarded to the senate the first nom ination of North Carolina postmasters, naming L, B. Hale at Fayetteville and Russell A. Strickland at Elm City. Mr. Hale's nomination was recommended by Congressman Godwin, for whom he acted as secretary until a few weeks ago. Mr. Strickland was recom mended for appointment by Congress man Kitchin. Representative Webb called upon upon Attorney General McReynolds and secured the pardon of D. F. Van Horn of Burke county, who was sen tenced to two years' imprisonment at Atlanta and to pay a fine of $500 for "moonshining." Van Horn has al ready served one year. His applica tion for pardon was endorsed by the trial judge and district attorney. He will be freed immediately. Senator Overman introduced a bill to appoint Frederick H. Lemly, of Winston-Salem, a passed assistant paymaster on the active list of the United States navy. He attempted last session to secure the reinstate ment of Lemly, who resigned about a year ago, and had the bill passed through the senate but it was held up in the house naval affairs commit tee, although favorably recommended by the navy department. He also in troduced a bill for a term of the dis trict court for the eastern district of North Carolina, to be held at Wilson on the first Mondays in April and October. Senator Overman and Cnogressman Doughton recommended the appoint ment of W. D. Pethel as postmaster at Spencer. ' Changes In New Hanover. Wilmington. Several laws passed by the last legislature which make? changes of an interesting nature in the New Hanover county government became effective recently. One law abolishes the free system of remun eration for county officials and places them on salaries. Another abolishes the office of treasurer and creates the office of auditor, the present treasu rer becoming the auditor and also as suming all the duties that have per tained to the treasurer' 3 office as w.ell as the duties of the new posi ion. A third bill abolishes the office of the clerk of the recorder's court and consolidates this court with the superior court' inasfar as the clerk ship is concerned. Another measure which will be effective the 7th of May consolidates the boards of health of the county and city. Disastrous Fire at LaGrange. Kinston. Only by using dynamite was the fire which swept the business section of LaGrange stopped, afteil having resulted in damage estimated at $150,000. The town has no water works and the volunteer firemen coul" do little. Kinston, the closest neigh boring town, was appealed to, but the engine of the department was out of commission and no assistance could be given. The flames started Tn p small restaurant from the explosion of a gasoline tank and rapidly spread. Have Not Given Up Fight. Cbjarlotte. "The refusal of the management of the railroads to offer a basis of adjustment of freight rates which will afford relief to the ship pers of the state does not mean tha the business men will give up their endeavors toward securing this re lief" is the position of the shippers who went to Raleigh recently to at tend the rate conference between the governor, the members of the special freight rate commission and the offi cials of the railroads. Good Roads in. Halifax. Scotland Neck. The benefits of the splendid roads built by the county convicts was demostrated when a gen tleman came to town driving a pair of mules to a wagon, after some fer tilizer. His route was over the im proved roads, and loading 4,000 pounds of guano he started out The team carried the load with apparent ease, whereas heretofore a few hun dred pounds would have been difficult to carry. This is a splendid lesson in favor of good roads in this and other counties. Business Men to Confer Soon. Charlotte. A conference of ship pers will be held at the office of the Greater Charlotte Club soon at which time plans for continuing the move ment for an adequate adjustment of freight rates for North Carolina bus iness people will be made. This meet ing is being called by Mr. Clarence O. Kuesrter of the Charlotte Shippers and Manufacturers' Association. Repres entative snippers in a large number of towns were written personal letters suggesting to them the necessity of attending this meeting. Industrial school has just closed one oi me most interesting commence ments of its history. The exercises, without exception, have been well at tended and the order at these exer ciss has been unusually fine. uurnam. rne contest ror the po sition of city attorney is being waged among a number of , the younger at torneys of the city. J, L.. Morehead, a member of the present board of al dermen, is a candidate for the posi tion, and so is Charles Scarlett Dunn. At a regular meeting of the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy quite an interesting pro gram was arranged for the exercises to be held at Chicora cemetery May 10. Mr. Charles Ross , of Lillington will deliver the address. He will be introduced by Mr. Clarence J. Smith. High Point. The temperature in politics seems to be still rising. Re cently there was a large mass meet ing of voters at the Industrial Hall, where speeches were made by Mayor Tate, Dr. Fred Peacock, Doctor Bur- rus, Rev. Mr. Hilliard and others. Mayor Tate made an extended speech explaining in detail the needs of the city in the way of increased school facilities and waterworks. Salisbury. H. Cla.y Grubb, a promi nent citizen of Davidsbn county, was painfully injured and had a miracu lous escape from death, when his au tomobile skidded and turned 1 com pletely over. He was on his way to Salisbury and was riding alone and at a rapid rate of speed. A shoulder blade was dislocated and he was bad ly bruised. Washington. Senator Overman came to the bat again recently with further charge against the adminis tration of the civil service laws. While he did not charge that frauds had been committed, he quoted President Taft's Efficiency and Economy Com mission against the Republicans, to porve that the law was not being ad ministered properly. Lenoir. At a mass meeting called for the purpose of nominating trus tees for the Lenoir public schools the following gentlemen were named: J. Whlsnant and Dr. C. B. McNairy for a term of three years; W. B. Wat son, John Deal, J. M. Bernhardt for a term of two years and Rev. C. T. Squires and V. H. Beach for a one- year term. . Blowing Rock. Running a foot race from Boone here and return, c distance of 20 miles, R. 1L Alexander. a student of the Appalachian Training school, carried off the honors in the time of 2 hours and 20 minutes, his time being verifed at this place by the postmaster, who gave him the hour stamped on a piece of paper. Fourteen boys , divided into two teams of seven each, entered the race. Raleigh. Raleigh has had a police commission for the past two years that retires with the incoming of the new, commission form of government in the near future. The final report of the commission shows that ud wards of $18,000 was collected in fines and costs from the police court the past two years, compared with less than $2,500 for the two years pre vious, without commission manage ment of the police department. Newbern. Edwin Blackledge and Hugh Grayborne, colored, who are said to have thrown rocks at the At lantic Coast Line passenger train as it was en route from Washington to this city, one of which crashed through one of the car windows and seriously injured one of the passen gers, Mrs. Nancy J. Morris, of Mays- ville, were given a hearing here before Mayor C. I. McCarthy. From the evi dence introduced at the hearing Blackledge was held for the next term of Craven county superior court under a bond of $100. Conover. Conover has taken on a business boom never known hereto fore. Arrangements are being made to install an electric light system and the organization of the company is practically assured. A line will be built to the Southern Power Com pany's line. Raleigh. The secretary of state charters the Manning Hardware Co., Lexington, capital $50,000 authorized. and $15,000 subscribed by L. F. Man ning and others; also the Nelsette Lumber Company, of Statesville, cap ital $125,000 authorized and $3,000 sub scribed by R. Jackson and others. Salisbury The Salisbury Civic League will give prizes for the largest number of flies killed and delivered to the sanitary officer at the city hall. For the greatest Improvement in prem Ises within the city limits suitable prizes will also be made. Salisbury. Without opposition the nominees of the Democratic primary held in Salisbury recently will go to the polls and will be duly elected The nominee for Mayor is Hon. Wal ter H. Woodson, a well known young attorney. For several years he has been chairman of the Democratic ex ecuti re "committee for Rowan county rip Shroqgfr PliililiillltillllliP I rlfcXICAN MARKET UT of the land of thp "Greaser" and into the domain of the de scendants of Montezuma rode a party of American civil and mining engineers one day in December. From the Texas border the party went by rail to Mexico City where week was spent in seeing the sights of the Mexican capital. When the outfit of the party had been .assembled, and servants hired, preparations were made to leave the capital over a narrow gauge railroad to Puebla, in the state of the same name. Like many of the prosperous Mexi can mining towns tucked away in the mountains, the general public has heard very little of Puebla except tnrougn tne aispatcnes or the war correspondents." It is a city of 92,000 Inhabitants. The shops cater to the love of finery which has descended to the natives from the Spanish don. Ev erywhere can be seen Americans, most of whom are interested in some mining venture in the nearby moun tains. On the way to Puebla the famous Tehuacan Springs are passed and the drinking water furnished tourists for a hundred miles along the railroad is from the springs. No one seems to know just why the water is healthful but popular opinion says it is. After leaving Puebla the party con tinued along the railroad to Etla. Once the center of onyx mining, this little village has lost much of the snap and enterprise that foreign adven turers gave it in the past It is a sleepy town now. Oaxaca, home of the Diaz family and center of innumerable revolutions, was reached early one morning. When wtthin 10miles or so of the -city, run ners from all of the hotels in Oaxaca came on board and tried to book the party for their respective houses. At the train muscular peons took charge of luggage which was heavy and numerous. These short, sturdy natives had no difficulty in slinging a trunk weighing 175 pounds onto a strap which they supported by a band around their foreheads. They carried the trunks up the rough mountain trail to the hotel which was perched on a small peak overlooking the lowland. They didn't stop when they had reach ed the crest, but continued to the sec ond floor of the hotel before taking the trunks from their straps. Oaxaca and Vicinity. Oaxaca is the chief town of the state of Oaxaca. It is now a city of 32,000 persons. Juarez, revolutionist or sav jior it depends upon your politics in Mexico lived there. It is about 7, 000 feet above sea level. Americans are numerous, as there are many silver and gold mines in the vicinity. Juat south of Oaxaca are many plantations that raise cotton, sugar cane and cof fee. At Oaxaca the travelers left the rail road and climbed the mountain trail to Miahuatlan. This town, situated about 70 miles from Oaxaca, has an electric lighting system. The road kept getting rougher. Fi nally it was necessary to forsake the horses and hire ox carts. This plan worked fine until, thoughtlessly, the drivers were given some advance wages. Too much pulque left the party without drivers, so an engineer was drafted as ox driver. The next day all of the drivers . returned for their jobs, and were hired of course. The engineer crawled 40 miles up the mountains to the crest where a fine piece of timber land, 13,000 acres, was situated. Part of this timber, which was all white pine, had been operated for turpentine. The forsak en still of the operators was found and later it was learned that the ven ture had been a failure. There was no way to get the turpentine to mar ket Several days were spent in , this place of timber and during the time villagers made life unpleasant for the men who were surveying the tract They insisted, begged and threatened the engineers to give them the better of the deal. Disputes became frequent till finally a magistrate was found to settle them. Ambrosio Cortez, over PLAZA I 100 years old, a direct descendant ot' the Spanish conqueror, was the oracle.i He is a fine, intelligent specimen of manhood with all the fiery hauteur of his noted ancestor in his glancei His judgment was fair and final. i The timber here was raagniflcenti Some of the trees would cut out nines 16-foot logs without hitting a branch? They are as straight as many tele-i(j graph poles, and stralghter than manj others. i Natives Are Poor. J It was now that observation of tht: peons was most easily made. Litth; indications of any slavery were pres? ent. Of course they are very poorS A hut made of poles and thatched witl coarse grass forms the dwellingAonl one room is made in the house. ( j Contrary to tradition and some re cent writings, these peons areVu;- "greasers." They differ much ftr the cattle-roping Mexican of the bo 1 der. They are straight and clea limbed. The muscles on both m and women are like those of an att lete. Wherever there is a mountain stream, there you may see men an women taking their daily bath. The! wash clothes in the streams alscf Even the servants which were hire by the day for 50 cents "Mex" or 2 cents in American money, put on Sf spotless white cotton suit every morr ing before chopping wood for th breakfast fire. Everyone seems to dress in white co' ton. The men wear loose trousers r sembling pajamas., and shirt-like coat The women have no set custom 1 dressing. . , - I Nex to the corn tortillas, the nt tlves like eggs better than any othr article of food. Every hut is su rounded by a dozen or more chicken Dogs are without number. 4 The Mexican of the mountains is vegetarian, as one could tell easi-' if he ever watched a whole faml' digging beans from an earthen vess; The dishes of most families are lit ited to three or four rough earths pots and every one eats out of the! utensils. I During a stay of Beveral weeks 6 the wildest part of Mexico the parf did not meet a single wild animal. frightened deer was seen on Snakes are almost unknown in sou ern Mexico. The famed and dang ous tarantula of the plains was al absent. I Everpresent, however, was t maguey plant which furnishes classes of Mexicans with intoxlcati? drinks. Pulque and mescal are ma from this plant. The first is a f; mented drink, the latter distilled oi Either is sufficiently fiery to pass I a substitute for alcohol. l On the return trip a couple of di were spent at Oaxaca viewing u ruins of Mitla which have puzzled I cheologists for years. It is said t Cortez found the ruins in 1520. Hit boldt, who traveled through Mexico! 1729, visited them. His name can si be seen carved in the bark of a tl tree. i Some of the rooms in the!rJ building are quite intact. On the w.4 are many finely executed carvii which resemble somewhat those of it Egyptians. No one, even in the ft cinity, -seems to have the threads' -the tradition which sometime , rr have surrounded the pile of stone. 1 " : : : I - Bulgars as a People. According to Professor Rosier Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bulf were originally a people of Finnish Samoyede, race. The Bulgars are ethnologically related to the An Saxons, Dutch, Swedes, Danes ! Norwegians, who are people of t Teutonic or Scandinavian stock, f Bulgars, to the extent that they h? ' Finnish blood in their veins, belon the Yellow, or Mongolian breed, w t f the races just enumerated are the v cream of the white breed of men. aceount, however,, of the endless f ' ing that has gone on during the t.' that has elapsed since the Bui J broke into Europe, it would be I cult to say what sort of blood at - ent predominates in theL ,