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t, m 9 bo VOL XXVIII. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. G, THURSDAY JULY 12, 1917. NO. 42. K2ITI-WESTERN BATTERY OF FIELD M TULERT. Ti Til Dip if Witaoti CeoRty. Governor Bickctt has conferr ed a great boon and a great bon. or upon our part of North Caro lina by assigning one of the bat teries of our new artillery regi ment to Caldwell and adjoining counties. Men to whom the seri ous business of War is new and strange, caunot fully appreciate how much this means to the coin munity. It means to the Boys service under the most favored conditions. Instead of being scat tered abroad into every part of the world among strangers; it means service with frieuds and neighbors, and under officers in terested in the welfare and com fort of every individual man. It means that every man in the bat tery will be treated as a man, and not as a cog in a machine. It will mean that back Inme, there are loving hearts to feel for you, and loving bands to do for you. It means cheer and sympa thy in time of health, and com forts and loving care when eiek ness or wounds come. It will mean that those at home will be kept in constant touch with the boys at the front, for every day some of them will write home and give the news of the others. It will mean that there will be no long, heartbreaking, uncertain silences. Absences will not break the chains that binds those at home to those in the ranks. The fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts will know where their loved ones are and how they are faring. If this battery is raised, it will be OUR BATTERY, and around it the hopes, the pride and the love of a great patriotic commu nity will center. To me, light artillery is t h e most desirable branch of the ser vice. There is a dash, an ex Iter ation, a joy of movement about field artillery that is not afford ed by any other arm of the ser vice. Boys, many of you will have togotowai whetheryou want to or not, and you know not where or among whom. Tor your own sakes, for the sake of those left behind, for the credit and honor of (your section, let an old sol dier, who haft commanded boys from Watauga, appeal to you to go with your friends uud neigh bors where your fortunes cau be followed and your welfare provi ded for. Take this opportunity. It will not come again. If you do, many of you will stare in the face the grim realities of a draft. I wish I could make every one of you see how important this is. You will be cared for as soldiers never were cared for before. Every man in the battery will be splendidly mounted by the government, and the pay will be twice as much ns soldiers ever received before. S;nd in your names, ages and postofflce address to B. F. Will iams, Lenoir, N. C, or send to him for regular enlistment blanks. The ranks are filling rap idly; don't get left! As you all know, I have a warm place in my heart for the people of Wa tauga, and I want them to have every advantage. I am too old myself to go with you, but if I could shake t wenty years from ray shoulders, I would gladly offer to lead you, and would now be entering my third war. EDMUND JONES. Lenoir, N. C. Children Cry . FOR FLETCHER'S C A S.XQ RJ. A E III EAST ST. LOUIS MOB FIRES HOMES OF NEGROES. AND 8HOOT OCCUPANT8 AS THEY FLEE. L UW IS DECLARED Twelve Companlee of National Guard en Duty. Ettlmatea on Number Killed During Day of Rioting Run at High aa 260. East St. Louis, 111. An estimate ol the dead In the race riot and Are rang ed trom fifteen to seventy-five, of whom two were white men. . Buildings were still burning at tour different points In the city. The property loss was estimated by City Attorney Fekete at $3,000,000. Forty Injured negroes and sis Injur white men in one hospital and almost an equal number in another. Colonel Trtpp, assistant adjutant general, stated shortly before mid night that the rioting crowds had tor the most part dispersed. At least fifteen negroes were shot and killed by mobs here as they fled from their burning homes which had been set on Are by white mobs. The exact number who perished In the burning houses, if any, Is unknown, and will not be ascertained until the ruins are searched. Military rule was proclamed and at the same time 300 white men were ar rested and locked up at police head quarters. Negro quarters In various parts of the city are on fire and the flames recah the very edge of the business district. Estimates of the number of negroes who perished in the Are ran as high as 100, but there was nothing authen tic on which to base these estimates except that hundreds of whites stood around the edges of the burning dis tricts and fired at the negroes aa they fled from their homes. State's Attorney Schaumloeffel, of St. Clair county, drove through the riot-swept district with Police Inspec tor Walsh, of St. Louis, Mo. The state's attorney estimated that the dead negroes would number 250. All estimates, however, are conjectural. The mayor of East St. Louis sent for Fire Chief Swlngley of St. Louis, Mo., to assist In fighting the flames, which threatened to destroy a large part of the city. A company of the St. Louis fire department started to East St. Louis but was ordered back by Chief Swlngley. KEREN3KY LEAD3 RUSSIAN TROOPS IN BRILLIANT VICTORY. Thousands of Prisoners Taken and Many Guns. Petrograd. The brilliant Russian advance, the news of which has sent a wave of rejoicing through the en tire country,, was led by War Minis ter Kerensky in person. For the laftt four days the war min ister has been continuously . at the front, spending every effort to ureo the troops to advance. He finally rode to the front line trenches and placing himself at the head of the troops gave the order to advance. The spectacle of the popular war minister on the firing line accom plished what oratory had failed to do and the Russian line swept for ward into the German trenches. The Russians have captured Kon luchy, on the Qallclan front, together with 164 officers and 8,400 men, tha war office announced. DISCL08E CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY LAKE SHIPPING. Washington. Secret investigation by government agents has dlsclosej the existence of a conspiracy to de stroy or hinder shipping on the Great Lakes and thereby delay the organ! zatlon of American war armies and check the flow of food and munitions material trom the west to the east No conspirators have been captured and the identity of none, has been made public, but state, navy and' jus tice departments are co-operating to bring the offenders to punishment YOUNG EMPEROR IN PALACE OF PRESIDENT. Tien Tsln Hsuan Tung, the young mperor, acording to reports from Pekinc has taken possesion of the pal a occunled by President Li Yuan Hung and is surrounded by prominent military leaders. A demand was made upon President LI that ha resign Is favor of Hsun Tung. The president replied that he would resign in favor of the vice president, as he was un able to resign In favor of the emperor. RENEW RAG RIOTS Browi Mouitaii IfhL H. C, Martin lu Statesvllle Landmark I wish to thank you for so ably defending "home talent" at all times and particularly for joui kindly references to my efforts to fathom the rayster y of the Brown Mountain Light. For a long time I thought the singula! phenomenon a myth, but when persons of unquestioned veracity i old me they had seen it, I be came interested, and a little inoio than a year ao, with the assistance of Dr. L. II. Coffey, county physician of Caldwell, or- ganized an expedition of investi gation. We had about a dozen men in our party and established five camps, two on Adams' Knob, three miles from Adako, in Cald well county, and three on Brown Mountain. These mountains are separated by Wilson Creek val ley aud gorge aud the camps on Adams, Knob were from one to three miles distant from those on Brown Mountain, air line. The lookouts at each camp were sup plied with pistols at the first ap pearance of the light the watchei Alio first saw it tired a number of shots, thus notifying the oth er camps. During our night-watching we saw fourappearanceB of the light, one by those on Adams' Knob and three by those on Brown Mountain. Strange to say, however, when the light was visable to those on the mountain it was not visible to those on the other. We did not arrive at any def late theory as to what the light really is or what produces it. We did find, however, that it is not the light from a mountain cab in; neither is it the light of a moonshine distillery, nor is it the headlight of a locomotive, as l so-called government expert, who visited she mountain some years ago, pronounced it. I have seen the light on sever al occasions from different plan s and am still ou the hunt for a so lution of the mystery. I am now inclined to believe it is produced iy mirage. 1 hope to be able to meet the (government represen tative who is to make an inves tigation soon. I understand and trust the mystery may be solved. The liht is so exceutric in iu movements and appears at so many different points about the mountain, which is six miles long, that 1 think considerable time and expense will be involv ed in making any thinglikea sat isfactory investigation of it. Blowing Ilouk, July 1, Mrs. Catlwine McRary. "A Friend" in ineLenoirTopic pays this beautiful tribute to the nemory of M rs. Catherine Mclia ry, mother of Mrs. II. J. Hardin; jf Boone, who recently passed to tier reward in that town: "She lived on the sunny side of life, and now the has gone to live vhere the flowers bloom forever. She was a good example of the driest type of christian. Heart felt religiou cleared away the clouds from the sky of herded it. ing day, and brought her a sin set filled with peaceful glories. A light was on her face that had never shone on land or sea. It was a reflection of the shimmer ing rainbow which arched the throne of her Lord. In the deep quiet of her eventide, she heard t'aiut echoes of the songs which are sung by the choir invisible. She caught the fragrance from the flowers of Paradise. She was a saint. God has called his child home at the close of the day. KIDNEY PIUS ACKACnl KIDNEYS BtABuaa FOLEY rW MORE COOPERATION III HUNT FOR SPIES PERPLEXING PROBLEMS THAT MUST BE MET IN STAMPING OUT EVIL. REPRESENTATIVES OF ALLIES Have Come to America In Effort to Run Down German .Agents. Many Schemes Set on Foot by Detectives. Washington. More complete and efficient co-operation of United States secret service agents with those of Its European allies is recognized as the great problem that must be met In stamping out the spy evil. While It was stated that operatives of the state, war, navy, and Justice departments are co-operating with good results in running down active alien enemies, It was strongly Indicat ed that much remained to be accom plished In relationships with the ser vices of foreign countries. Representatives of the allies al ready are In this country, It is under stood, and are working to bring about the desired co-operative action. This work, for obvious reasons, could not be considered seriously before the United States eniured the war, and the working out of the ramifications of a co-ordination scheme require un usual discussion, as well as time for setting the actual machinery in mo tion. The secret service of the United States was confronted at the entrance of America Into the war with a pro gram of discouraging magnitude. The machinery of the departments, built up almost entirely for the handling of domestic problems, was suddenly required to shoulder the Immense bur dent of coping with thousands of plot ters and spies. Many schemes set on foot by enemy plotters have been thwarted and It Is said that the archives of the depart ments contain records of activities, which would, if made known, be of startling nature. That the attacks upon American transports were the result of the work of spies is accepted generally in Washington without surprise. The sailing of transports, although not mentioned by the newspapers, was known to a lurgo number of persons. who wltnesed the transfer of troops from points In the United States and their departure. MAJOR GENERAL WOOD INSPECTS CHARLOTTE 8ITES. During One Day's 8tay He Visits Three Sites and Delivers Two Addresses. Charlotte. Geeiieral Leonard Wood. commander of the United States army, department of the southeast, spent Thursday, July 5, In Charlotte, and 11 was a busy day for the distinguished soldier and citizen. In addition to Inspecting three pos sible sites for an army camp which It Is hoped will be located at Char lotte, he found time to deliver two addresses, ono to an audience of thousands on the First Presbyterian church lawn at six o'clock in the evening, and the other following the banquet served at the Selwyn hotel In his honor at 8:30 o'clock. For no matter how busy the general Is, and in these stirring times of preparation that America may do her part In the world-struggle for domocracy no man Is busier, he always ' finds time to preach the "doctrine of preparedness" and never loses an opportunity to say a word, wherever he may be, that will help to stir the American public to a realization of the gravity of the crisis with which the American nation Is confronted. In his rather blunt, but dtrect and soldierly way, General Wood told North Carolinians a good many things they had probably not heard or thought of before, and It Is not to be questioned that he went away from Charlotte leaving the people of this city a deeper sense pf duty and obli gation that falls upon every citizen in this time of national peril. Best Reoiedr For Whooping Cough. "Last winter when my little boy had the whooping couuh I gave him Chamberlains Cong) Rtftnemy," writer Mrn J. II. Rob erts, East St. Loiuh, 111. -1 1 kept bis rough looso and relieved trim of tbortf drtfidlul rotiginp spells. It is the ou! .v cough tntrl. ii-ine ( kvp in the bouse Imtoiifp I haye 'he mot-t ronflilincpiait." This rn-ly is also good for colds a id croup. ICAIi ALL SAFE III FRANCE GERMAN UNDERSEA B0AT8 MADE ATTACK ON THE TRANS PORTS. ONE SUBMARINE IS SUNK Last Units of the American Expedl tlonary Forcea Have Arrived In France. Not a Life Was Lost Dur Ing the Transportation. Washington. American destroyeri convoying transports with troops foi France fought oft two submarine at tacks. The first news of the fights was given out by the committee on public information, with formal an nounenment of the safe arrival of thi last of the transports with their con voys. At least one submarine was sunk Both of the attacks were made In force, showing that the Germans had information of the coming of tb transports and planned to get them. This announcement was Issued: "The navy department at flvi o'clock this afternoon received word of tho safe arrival at a French port of the lnat contingent of General Pershing's expeditionary force. At the eamo time information was released that the transports were twice attack ed by submarines on the way across. "No ship was hit, not an American life was lost, and while the navy gun ners report the sinking of one sub marine only there Is reason to believe that others were destroyed in the first night attack." FRANCE AND ENGLAND CELEBRATES FOURTH OF JULY. United States Soldiers Center of Cele bration In France. American Independence day was cel ebrated enthusiastically in England and France as well as on the battle fronts. In Paris, a battalion of the first American expeditionary force on its way to the front was the center of the celebration. 'The soldiers ol revolutionary Russia maintained their attempts to break through the Aus tro-German lines In eastern Gallcla Cheered by the results of the fighting during the first three days of July, General BrussilofT's men continue their efforts, especially In the region of llrzezany and are throwing fresh forces against the Teuton positions. Daring Sunday ana Monday the first two days of the new drive, the Ruslans captured 300 officers and 18,000 men, and on Tuesday and Wed nesday probably added several more thousands to the total. Twenty-nine guns and thirty-three machlno guns were taken from the Austro-Cermans. Violent artillery duels have been in progress on the Kontuchk-ZlochoU sector, on the Stokhod, in Volhynla and at Brody, on the Galician-Vol-hynian border. In the Champcgne on the western front the German crown prince has made anotlrr desperate and fruit less effort to break the French lines northwest of flhelms. Attacking In rorce along an eleven-mile front, the Germans made especially strong ef forts around Cerny and Allies and against the Callfornfa-Plateou. The French repuhed all t-ttacka with losses. After checking the Germans the French took the dilative in a strate gic operation east of Cerny and can- lured a strong German salient. Ger man attacks on the left bank of the Mouse were repulsed. Raids and patrol engagements nave oocupled the German and British fur ther north. Several Austrian attacks on the Carso south of Gorlzla were checked by the Italians, Rome report. Chinese President Flee. Tsln. Tien, China. L! Yuan Hung, the Chinese president, with two atten dants, escaped from the palace and sought refuge in the Japanese lega tion. PERR CAPITA WEALTH IN UNITED STATES NOW S4SJS, Washington. The average man in the United States is (11.61 richer than ho was three years ago. Total money In circulation, shown in a chart In the July federal reserve bulletin, has risen from $3,480,000,000 on June 1, 1914, to 14.742,000,000 on June 1, 1917. The circulation wealrn per capita In 1914 was 134.35; In 1915 136.44; In 1916 139.29 and in June 1917 was over 145.86. rOLEY KIDNEY PIUS i lCJCM e'&MIi ft. lltiSM AIR (h't Kid Ol Your Ubeumatu-m. Now is the time to get rid of your rheumat ism. Yon will find Chamberlain' Liniment a great help. Ibe rvIM which it affords is alone worth many times iti COBt. s. PROFESSIONAL. E. Glenn Salmons, Resident Dentist BOONE, N. U. Officeat Critchcr Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 0:00 tolls a. tu; 1:00 to 4:00 p. in. Dr. G. M. 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