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FOREST FIRES IN HARNETT COUNTY Faurtemi Fir*. I* INI Did Dump Eiimbb At - Ovar 930,000 Chapel HI 11, Jane 7.—The report on fore it flrae ia North Carolina lor! the pear 1922, In most counties booed chiefly on Intonation from volun tary correspondents, has recently bean rand* public by th* Geological anti Economic Surrey. The nature of the replies sent in precludes the poe-| eibiUty of any great accamey, but the results are at lent conservative. They ah oar * total for the State of l«**T fires which burned 100,717 actaa and canoed a damage of *240,-1 44240. | . Hop arts from Harnett county show that In 1912 this county had 14 for-1 a* fire* which burned over 11,150 aersa and caused an estimated dam-! age of 102,080. Usually only the largaf fires an* noticed, and It Is sen th** likely that th* numerous saal fire* ia the county did aa much j damage a* A* Area mentioned in this report. | The forest firs* in Harnett county were taken from iho report* of for-j mer forest warden, J. S. Johnson j Thao* were checked against Ike vcl uDiary reports received from that count* and indicate that nearly all the large Urea in weotarn Harnett worn a ore red, but no report* war* received from the eastern section of the county. IsM winter the county ceermlwt ooora dweei their interest in pre venting thi* great annual loaa by en tering Into a co-operative agree most with the State Geological and Eo*n»-| ■h Survey, and a forest warder eyvtem 4a now being organised ia th* j ecuoty. It am* the belief of the eour-| if cosnraiaaioner* that only Aadenoo Creek, Baib»eui, JohaaonviUe, Stew-' art* Croak and Upper Little Btver] township* Should be covered by the I work, hot several large fires In W Uiigten township, this spring lad*-1 OtSLib iiSkecoTtewMhip; L. W .Jaekmn and J. \ D. McCormick, Aaitnaa'i Creek tonAlpi H. t Traeieve, BUwarU township; A. Z. Haidar, Upper Little River township; usd D. A. Hufltnas, JohnsoevilU town ship. Thee* werdama era doing edeoe-1 tioeel work and»or**nltli.g deputy wirdcae system In their dieSrieta, and it ia hoped that by Ml that the Dee pie wM realm the naeeeerty dor bo Ing mare careful with flraa end thorn Area which do get oat will be held to ■aall acreage. EX-STOCK) BROKER_ SELLING HOT DOGS New York, June 14.—Roy IT. MacMasiers, nominal head of the stock* firm of R. H. MacMasiers and company, which failed recently for $2,000,000, has opened s frank furter stand in an outlying section of Brooklyn and is attempting to make a living by selling refresh ments to motorists, it was learned today. It is understood he used his last $30,000 m an attempt to stave off failure. Mac Masters de clared that he was refused score* of times for salaried jobs. Desper ate, he tried in succession selling rain and life insurance and real es tate, and then acting as tifae keep?' for a gang of laborers. Fnally hi said he got hacking for his presen buunass. The grand jury toda; completed investigation of the fail ure and is expected to report to unn ivm NEGRO HELD ON CHARGE OF “CRIMINAL SURGERY Kiaaton, Jim H—Trank HOwan a Marly nrpro, ahnoat band, «a kali fcaU In tba Lanotr county JaO a* natation eharga of murder pmfam by Encana Wood, anranar af U county, ubo Sunday aid* dtoeomrt tha body of a angraaa la Howard homo, • abort dtaUnea from Ehwto Tint aospietae af balnc “criminal ' aurpary" aa diraeti agalnat Howard la earn, action a* tba arrant Vtrgtala Hnwawt, alkaa Hop. **w ard'a wlfa, la now under aantanca four to Am yaaia In Aa pnnitaotta far abarttow. Am la alkgnd to 1ft \ liiwm and Ur tote rh go hand band to Mi af battar anil* i mam laattag farm pmaparitp MarA OornMaa. Bara you ptaai ’Naif I 0 to • o 'to O NEGRO PREACHER KILLED IN FIGHT Wealthy Cum bar land Laud Owner Wouadad In Four Handod Battle Fayetteville, June 13.—Ourp Morria, nogro preacher, waa lnataaU) allied and W. B. Contra, wealth) Undowner, waa wounded m a foui handod battle between Ceatci ant Morria and Qua and Mean Pates, brothers, at tbs Pate’s home in Giay’i Creoff township this morning. Pis toll and shotguns wars used by both mdri H is said. The Pats brothers surren dered to Sheriff N. H. MeGeachy aad were later released in 310,000 bond for their appsraane* at an Inquest to to be held tomorrow by A. A. Allgood, county coroner. Tho Pates claim that they ft red In self defense. The Pates lie* on a farm 1 eased from Coot#* on which Morris also re sided and, according to the story of the affair given the sheriff by tbs Pat* brothdra. the trouble arose when Costas and Morria casna armed to their pile* ami attempted to takt some mules and com form the bam Go* Pat* told the officer* that when he ordered Coates not to touch the com er mules the landowner handod a pistol to Morris, who opened fir*. The negro’s three shots went wiki and Pat* drew a revolver aad fired twice, both dwh taking effort, Pole snld. In the menrdlme, according to Pate's story. Coats reached far a at) or gun he had placed against the barn. And Mann Pate fired a load of baekahot Into his legs. Coates was resting comfortably. It was mid, at the Camber land General Hospital to night. He is In no danger barring cote plications. The Pate brothers are naphawa of Dtpaty Sheriff Al Pat*. fearless Cumberland county officer, who was killed two ysaro ago by Marshall Williams, a btsehsalsr. Calc rad PrwweW DU The funeral of Rev. Nelson A. Dunn Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Interment was made in the Dunn cemetery. Deceased waa >4 years old, and waa formerly paatnr of the church from which hit funeral waa conducted. He waa held in high esteem by member- of his own race and also by the wrhite people of Durm. CLAYTON RECEIVES FIVE-YEAR TERM la iaataacad To Attaad Priam * Foilovrimg Jury Vmgitet \V. R. Clayton, at one time i pmspcnnis*automobile dealer doin| a large business in new and use. cars at Fayetteville, wis yesterda; sentenced by Judge lfenry G. Con nor to serve five years in the Unite. Slates prison at Atlanta, (Georgia for receiving automobiles trans ported in interstate commerct knowing them to have been stolei Clayton was convicted on an ir Idictment charging the receipt o five Cadillac automobiles, but th defendant it alleged to have dea in more than one hundred stole automobile* having a total value c more than £200,000. From the standpoint of tl amount of money involved, tl pmsecation ranks as one of tl largest tl not the largest institutt ir. the United State* since Congre parsed the Dyar anii-automobi * theft act in 1919. Practically i of the automobiles are alleged L, have been stolen in ami around N't j- York, l»y Frank Fettles, alia* B j Cummings, and associates. Kc% d is now serving a term in the N< #| York State prison, and several g,hi* erstwhile confederates are al ..j hehind bars, Imt none of them v»< , I tried here. The Clayton cases have b« ^ hanging fire ever xmee 1920, wh j. | Clayton was first .-iccuscl and or j inals owner* of the automobiles I I gan to recover their property. 1 ' defendant waa first brought to ti n I last year, and waa tried twice, < jury-acquitting and the other do **| locking at ten for conviction « “"I two for acquittal ^ .. The only other' actions e *• i brought m this dlatriet mvolvw “.smaller number of automobiles h I log a mnch less money value, I the other caae wa* mnch more t tB national, involving a total of twt n<1 defendant*. In that cam, C. Kelly, of Sanford, alleged to h ** operated a clearing houae for **• organised bend of thieves ope log in seven States, waa also i • % ARMY WORMS INVADE * COUNTY OF CHERQKE1 Spwmw Efcitt *1 Farmer* Fall d Halt PifrilrtlMi U Cettae Fields Gaffney, Jane II.—The true arm] worm, seconding to tha county dam oaatraWon agent and other aerieal teral a&thoritieo. made his appear ante In Cherokee cogeUy lata yaater day afternoon in groat numb era UK has already deroarad straral aeraa ol Chsrokre county cotton, stripping tits leaves from the stalks, and his dap re daturas have not yet been halted, not withstanding tha strenuous efforts put forth by Oita farmers in Che see tlon of tha county concerned. Calcium arsenate I* bo lag used ir ao effort to poieoa the warm, while dKchlng is a lea being conducted ac the farm* where the pest haa appear ed. Tha county demonstration agem my* that ha never be la re knew the army worm to appear this early Ir, the per, bat that beyond doubt it Is tha true worm which has a Mocked tbs crop hare and which is ao mrlesmly menacing the entire eooaty. Did you knew that bam may be developed Into a profitable Mda line on tha evotugo North OaroHna farm. C. L. Berne, Extension In bn spot fat the Slate College and Department el AgrkuKoro. will tall yoa about it 11 I you aril] write hha. BODIES OF WINSTON MEN FOUND IN POND Emote lUUUo. Tter7 M—l.r .f Party, k Maid h Tka Ml Da. fault af DMO Baud Winston Bala—. Jan* 14.—Tb* bodi** af Prod Enacora, agod IB, an. Wakar Me Qua, aged U, vku wan drowned Tata day night In Mm laka •f tke North Winston water aorta, worn fond and taken oat today, En acorn1* koiag located at IlsDO thda •naming aad MeCoe'a at I o'clock Mtia afternoon. The searching party wua keadod ky Oapi. Barry Pax. of Date, Maataao, ballon aviator and expert swimmer who la making bfc kuad qaaKaea la Wftu*nu Brtasa. M war body of Eaaoora wMh Us last. MeOss’s body am located near tka imddla af the laka, after tka terca« had bean drained to a low depth. Emot Rollins th* third member of the party roaring in the pood, has been placed under airate by police offeers on tka ten rye of trespassing on city property. He U being held ia tke city Jail in default of a I DOC band. UNEARTH SKELETON OF INDIAN 7 FEET TALI Nashville, Tenn., June 13.— Tht almost perfectly formed tkeleun of an Indian .seven feet tall wai unearthed' here today by Mrs. 11 K. Kuhn, while workers were en gaged in construction of a hosrw 1 on Iter property, seven miles fron ! this city. • Efforts will be made to have rep ' resentatives of the Smithsonian In stitltte make a more complete in 1 vest igat ion of the site, with n vies . to suhsianitating Mrs. Knhn’s lie ■ Ref that more than a score of In . dian giant* were buried there. - to Atlanta for five years, while fiv f other defendant* received shorte t primi terms. A total of twelve it t diet mem* were brought in the a n lied cates, several defendants, ir f eluding Major A. W. Hoffman', i the New S’ork National Cuan e testifying for the government an e escaping with fines, while othi e cases were dropped because the d d fendants were in prison elsewHer is The only acquittal was in the r* le of John Scmt, formerly a serge* 11 in the auto squad of the New Yoi in city police fodx. w Trial of the latest Qeyton ca J. began Tuesday and was conclude It yesterday with the speeches of tl w lawyers. The government plat »f on the stand the former owners a •o purchasers of the automobiles a re showed that in several instant locks had been broken on the ct hi awl motor numbers changed, a m that Clayton had purchased a lat g nmnbcr of cam delivered persona *- by Eckels. be The defendant relied on wider ial of good character and the fact tl ne he was conducting a large hutin id- in second hand cars at the thne. nd explained haying the cars as he i by saying that at the time rail rer conditions were such that it t I a necessary to transport automob it- by driving them across the eotir Exit The defendant was repreecw en- by D. M. Strbigfleld and V. hre DuUard ,of Psyetkvilk, and Tu J. W. C. Harris, of Raleigh, while sve government’s case was. preset an by District Attorney Irvin B. Ti rat- er and his asaUtsnt, J. D. Par tnt — Raleigh Newt and Observer. / ‘ * •" % ,1 . Wo* will to oa a now •■change of and Telegraph toiag tha afcraat The etoiy brick Uiiatal Whoa lac wlH to tha !Carx**w «T»ph aanapaag. pie qaaitora for ax chaaca oflfcaa ai.d • ha aid raaaK la aarrlea for Dana, of tha traOdisc la RECORDER KLS ROAD SBENCES! load to three twe FMtiag Jeraigaa we* glren a the negfwem month* each. AU gar* netieg of for apgearaaa The fnorth galky of and eaat. Rowland tor, *ig 10. m&nth* aa eharg* af rattad aaHy he had “Mud" R 0. Taylar made aa Taylar and tea wanted In af larceny ed hi* teuton** ha taraod eeer aatharlbo*. <r Sanford and coot Chief of mad* the Other day’* aea^on aaeailh and t of the three with dm coat, aro df euieiftav the W«d limit, alas taxed with ike *•*» and another for Mil drank and ra meting an oAear. Thl* defendant, a negro, am* fined IM'aod cae*—ta I i.t tiA tt KLUCKERS STAGE MG CEREMONIAL I * \ * Goldsboro, June 14.—Probably 2,000 members of the Ku Kbix KUn, some from as far west ai . Asheville and as far south a* At . hmta, according to carda displayed t by leatlfer*, paraded-the main street! - of Goldsboro tonight at 9:30 garb - ed in the regalia M their order . while thousand* of curious peoph f in various moods, lined the curb* I, some applautfing. but the majority ti remaining silent. r With their leaden riding in ai i- automobile with a flaming crosa at c tached to Its radiator, the whit «- robed and hooded figure*, tom it mounted on horse*; a few other It riding in automobile*, but th larger number walking — present* ■e a wonderful picture—one tlAt *T -d parent!y many of me colored rac x viewed with interest, as * coot «d would probably have disclosed id third as many daifde* as whit! id smong the throngs that crowd* e* the sidewaks. n Absolute order em the pert i id both participant* end spertato te was a feature of the parade, whh |L required possibly 9mioutes to pa a given point. Pdbce had litt let trouble in oomroffiag the immen Ml Crowds No drodfcannest w*i see mm . Afte th* parade careqwoial a -fe erdses, held st '.Orantham’s fid £4 on the outskirts ofi the city, w* ml viewetl by large cibwds. Seva fM hundred candidate* art said to ha Im bean admitted to the Kh» here I try • . ted C. % ted dr ier. . * • i . > *, i » \ • 'Ab \ SEVERE HAILSTORM LEVELS GROWING CROW , Cvowed CmtW With Mmm Two T« Tta» ImU b ote; Maw Bara. June 1 J.—Growing crop* of every description wort tevol od «a the ground by tell at 1 o'clock tbic afternoon and will be a total io«. aeconllng go reports reaching New Bon from the motion along the Gordon rood for a Wot tlx and one half mile* beyond Jama City and fmm the Btvirdale action. New* of tho hailstorm. which b mid to hare been ooe of tho soot mverc that tea ever visited this aae tlon of the State, was brought to Now Bon by J. Wilcox, retd —all cantor on Bowte No. I, who wm (omrd to take refuge at the boats of W. A. Cahooa. about at milaa from Now Bon on tho Gordon mad. Mr. Wfleox aaU that atoam fall at the Cahooa (arm. the tee of a goose egg, ■•d that the greaad owe covered with the Aoneo for a depth of between throe and font intern.. Hea aid the •tenea ranged fibm the akm of a mar ble to that of a goose egg, wtfh vary ing chapes. One atom, ho mid, mm tia I ocher tong bat waa ftof. Mr. Wil cox mid that people living xloeg the mad reported that many chickens ted teen.killed by fro htoltmas. bat no reporte wore made ofedomaoUf ani mal* or lint stock having boon lolled. W*AI HIW WKCCTOK FOR COTTON GROWERS Monday date director far te IM diattet of te MarCh OOeMaa Cottam Ormreii ta easesad 3. O. Trmiat, fit Dana, who has served teas the Harnett, Durham aad Ohofham Percy J. Olht. af Apex, la chairman for the district aad John C Andseeoa of Haleigh, is secretary. W. H. Ter llagtoa, af Harnett; J. M. WUeox, ad Lea and ft. J. Buffalo*, ad Wake, act ed as poll-holders far yesterday's elec tion. The Deer director ia oao ad the heat known farmers 4a Harnett comi ty. He lives on hia fans, trideh ha has operated eiiun umdaUy for a nrnm har of years—fcalsigh News aad Ob server. $130,000 FIRE HITS KINSTON STORE ZON1 Kinston. Jane II—Wat to a two story building 4a te upper aad o the boeiaeas dtotriet hare tonight <& damage ueMinalid at |llOdM. 1b Dam Peed company. CaswoJ dm ufactariag company aad Kll Nashua ass, dry geoda merchant, wan bare ad out. The blase was rapoitod to haw started to the plant od te Caawe m m_te on tho oaeond floor. Iho origin «■ not determined. Tha fin had gaina grant headway Whit tha alarm « wot la. Tha hlaaa etartad at t-M followl* 1 a two la ah rate. Tha aaahad eondUia ’ of raafa reduced tho laager to on > I I \ * Mg baggy flaalary. 1 Firemen tfahad tbair Hrao hi narrow allay aray to check them. < | ary avallabla noooreo of Iho depai 1 want mao kiaaght lata ploy. II w * ha WU la tha eight ha (ore the Ma j can ha com pi ate ly oxttaguidhed. 0 i Urn loaa of Uw Dowaor. compa (1 waa tho lam ad tha Gan , company 9M.0M| Maahamaanta h h w« aotUanUd te ho IIO^M or mo " The building waa raiaod at MO.b Ic One* gaaatMaa pf <-**«** a m evarmlla wore canaanad. Fireman ■ n I •* * «—bar’of anhaala from | atebia In tha roar ad tha food a* cl, with roawld arable dUUMty. re I .. .e1 *1 | One handrad and aa***tyf re bright young glrta fraaa t* No o-. Cantina oawatloo attandod tha d I worhaaa In Raleigh loot amah. ire ■ .. ■ — a Tha meat valuable moan a far by aaa obtain la nawa of other fhn ntt end Man od tho world whiah hi igo dlnat hearing an hi* beoiatao or M homo. The DWg tlnh pelade tha ■ od other fane era. • A BETTER FAIR IS BEING PLANNED Pair nti Y««r win, Ta Bi The ImI Ever HaM Ware OdMale af the Bare#* C«nar Ac aieaitarai Pair amriatlan art hmy meUnp plane far the IMS fair. aUah ' will to bald ban October • to It As baa bees atetod ta The *wiyfWi. It ia plenaa«l to taka ta fear eoaatiae —Harnett, , -r- ^r aad Mttataa end el iadtaettoae an abet thc.falr this yaw wM aeli^e all ' pecetotta fain. aad P. Graver MU, wlntoy dtoi ^ fair, bare praetfcaBy aa^ieted the tan llet. which wflTbe iaaaad^t late,- thaa Jaiy IS. Naaureae aaw features will he added tbto year, tee terse that wll draw the laipnt crowd* ia aHe biatoty af the Pair aa . •* hy the Pength Ciealy Fdr aa> aaaiatiaa «tvs* aatae Idaa af what a fair ia worth i “*'» waath Jett what we awheUI i far, wahlaa tart I “It'e waath ear hnt effect* eat 1 I DARK GROWERS I RECEIVE PAYMENT The TAmm Qmwm Oi Oiantlfi Awclillw had mn te half a max an Mian rawly far illArthaHea ,' I a the 4a* farad district af Vh*mi* ,i yaatanlay aad A# maa*aaa daahlad i their ea* receipt* ea all lahaaaa de '( Heated aiace• Pebraary IT* at the j aancaneewawt from the aa a**H *| headquarter* hare. m m m =v'S* P®*®3 tfjeaj •$** §§ ‘M ■ ■"• V $g m ■ ■ mm IpaSi .: •■ - v- •y&s&tA p g
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