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Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Tear VOL. XXXII. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C. THURSDAY AUGUST 4, 1921. NO 41 THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF FISH IN ELK RIVER. O Mr. Editor: Until about the year 1857 there were no fish in E:!c Ri ;er a'oovo tiie Di Palls ex cept small winnows; and about .this date Lewis B. Banner and Levi Moody's sons brought fish in buqkets from the head of Toe river and stocked Elk river with speckled trout. As this section 4 was sparsely settled at that time and there being very little clear ed land along the streams, the fish increased rapidly and Elk was known far and wide for a great .number of years as a fine fishing stream, but as the coun try became more densely popu lated and the clearings along the 6 streams became more extensive, the speckled trout began to di minish in numbers and but very few grew to be of very much ' size. A little more than twenty years ago a few small fish of other vari eties of trout were put in Elk river and Cranberry creek, apd Js- now we have four distinct varie ties of trout in addition to the speckled trout. A number of oth er streams in this mountain sec tion have the Rainbow, but if any other has the three last named I have no knowledge of it. As I have had occasion to observe the diffflrp.nt markiners and eeueral appearance of these I will give a description of each kind of nsh. The Rainbow has a broad red stripe along its sides and the lar ger the fish the broader the stripe, and the red is of a darker hue and the fish appears to be broader up and down than the other three following. TheCali fornia trout appear to have nei ther red specks nor spots and not the stripe of the Rainbow, and the sides have a silvery ap pearance. The Dolly Varden, or ' Maima has large red spots along its sides, with dark spots behind its head and along the back. This fish is not quite as broad as the .1 Rainbow up and down but is more chuffy. The European Brown trout is more slim and round-bodied than the others; it has the red spots on its sides and is .rather yellow or light brown underneath. These large varieties are more prolific than the speckled trout O and as large trout seem to be disposed to eat smaller fishes and minnows, it is seldom, that a speckled trout is caught except at the head of the streams. It is not generally known how or when the Dolly Varden and European and Brown trout were pat in Elk river and not in the O other streams; but Mr. T. A Love told me that he wrote to the late Judge Jeter C. Pritchard while he was in the United States Senate, and requested him to have a small shipment sent 'to him with a view of putting them 'in Linville river, but owing to the delay in the delivery of a tele 4 gram advising him of the delive ry, the little trout were dumped into Cranberry creek and they soon went down into Elk river; hence Elk and its tributaries , became stocked with theselarger trouts. New river. Watauea. Linville and Toe rivers might be stocked with California, Dolly Varden and European Brown trout by orttt.tiner a few out of Elk river audputtingthem inother streams nnd if this should be done and fishing in these streams should be prohibited by law for a lew vAftrs. thev would increase verv rapidly and the experiment would justily the little trouble m and expense incident to the trans ler. In my next letter I shall have more to say relative to these fishes. TRIP UP UNDER THE EYE OF THE BLUE SKIES . S. Robinson, in Lenoir News. Our blessed Savior was noted or his fondness in going to the mountains to converse with the spirit of life. He was a teacher and a healer. It was necessary or Him to renew His vitality as well as His spirituality. This he did in the mountains. His ex ample is today a vital and shin ing precedent for all toilers who are constantly drawing on their vitality and nerve resources, from day to day, and year to year, without thought of con serving their energies. A visit to the mountains, with all of their beauty, grandeur and reshness, are the rare hours that lift the common man above himself; fills him with hope and aspirations; and above all, says to him, "Thou, too, art a son of God." It gives him a higher am bition for his work, and a holier stimulus for bearing the burdens of life for himself and others. Nature in and around Lenoir, Blowing Rock and Boone is ever beconing tired humanity to come and romp with her. The visitors and the tourists coming to this cordial and beautiful Appalachi an mountain zone feels himself responding to a strange and sub tie appeal almost before he is well into the heart of the beauty, invigoration, and under the eves of the sky. If he comes up here and witnesses the first burst of sunlight as it tips with splendor grand old Grandfather mountain, and many others that point heav enward like the spires of great cathedrals, his blood is set a tingling and the manacles of care and worry are thrown off like an outer garment, and he beholds the regal Blue Ridge mountains with awe and bewilderment. Leaving Lenoir, the little gem city, with a panorama of moun tains surrounding it, on Satur day last, accompanied by the ed itor of the News-Topic, Fred H May, and Hiil Poweil, who knows iow to manipulate a machine as well as he does a printing office, I made a visit to Blowing Rock and Boone. Sixyearshave made won derful changes in the appearance of the Rock surroundings. Mai has helped nature to make it m o re attractive. The develop ment of May v'iew Park by W. L Alexander is a marvel of wonder ful realities a veritable wonder land among the clouds. There are wonderful scenic drives, shaded promenades, lover's lanes and Cupid's bowers. ' On to Boone, with the eye feas ting upon mountain scenery, de lighting the soul. The breezes are cool, bracing and invigora ting. Boone has taken on new- life improving, building, and brushing away old buildings and the town in the clouds is ful of visitors watching her grow. saw a train of cars come into Boone, and it was as busy, and made as much fuss as one down in the lowlands. It is a narrow gauge road, but there is nothing narrow about its business capac ity and mode of attending to it. R. C. Rivers, the gerial editor of The Watauga Democrat the only weekly paper in Watauga flows on in tranquility as cheeri ly and peacefully as his name in dicates, but he has imbibed the new spirit of Boone and made his residence take on new ira provements. His office is as calm as a mountain cove, with all the beauties of the scenery by whic he is surrounded. It is the only newspaper office we know of that is adorned with fine works o art, of nature and animal life They are from the talented brus of his daughter, Miss Velma Rivers, who is an artist t h a would create a furore werehe work displayed in the salons o New York. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Japan Reassured, Is Expected to Enter the Conference at Washington. MAT BUB SOME QUESTIONS Britain Offer 8outhern Ireland Do minion Rule Within Empire New Criele Over Upper Silesia- Gover nor of Illinois Indicted for Al leged Embezzlement By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Japan, self-conscious, rather sus picious and knowing both the strength and the weakness of ber position In the Orient, has been withholding her acceptance of President Harding's In vitation to the Washington conference In so far as the discussion of Pacific problems is concerned. But repeated conversations between Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Shldehara are serving to dissipate her vague ob jections ami it Is believed her com plete neceptunee will not be much long er delayed. Mr. Hughes made It clear to the amhassndor thnt the sovereign ty of Japan can assert Itself at the conference as freely as that of uny otl?er power, that the United States has no disposition to d.'uw hard and fast lines with regard to the subjects that shall be discussed and that it would he most unfortunate if a hostile or suspicious attitude should develop before the conference begins. It Is understood, at this writing, that the mikado's cabinet has virtually agreed that Japan shall enter the .conference without restrictions, having faith in the good intentions of the other par ticipants. The Japanese people, however, and their prominent leaders, are not unanimous In approval of that course, many fearing the conference will be dominated by the Anglo-Saxons and will result in the strangling of Japan's economic and political development In Asia. There Is also a tendency, not confined to unofficial circles, to Insist tliut the matter of race equality bo made an Issue at Washington and that the emigration rights of the Japanese be definitely fixed. It Is reported, too, that the cublnet has decided the Japa nese representatives shall not enter In to discussion of questions affecting the sovereign rights of participating nations or of the Shnntung and Ynp questions, which it holds were settled by the Paris peace conference. So far as Tap Is concerned. It Is believed th9 negotiations between the United States and Japnn will have been concluded and a friendly settlement of the dis pute reached long before the confer ence assembles. The Invitation to China to partlel pnte In the discussions of Pacific questions has brought on some com plications. In the first place It Is re sponsible tor much of Japnn's suv piclon. Then, too, It was illreeted of course to the Peking government and now Dr. Sun Tat Sen's constitutional government of South China protests through Its representative In Wnshlpff- ton, that the Peking government Is not qualified to represent the whole of Chlnn nnd the Canton government also should he nsked to participate. Premier Lloyd George. It Is an nounced In London, will attend the conference unless the unforeseen hap pens. Villi him, presumably, will b Foreign Secretary Curzon; and It Is likely the dominion premiers will be there too. though the British empl-e wIP. he represented as a unit. Great Britnii: hns abandoned Us tentative linn to hare a preliminary conference In London on Far Eastern matters. President" Enmonn de Vulera had another meeting with Premier Lloyd George Thursday, and soon thereafter departed for Ireland carrying the gov ernment's final offer of home rule for i hi. isinnd within the empire, practl illy like that enjoyed by South Africa. This he will submit to the Irish "re publicans" whose decision, he has as serted, he will abide by. The plan was first given In detail to the British cabinet and received Its almost unnnl mous approval. Premier Smuts of South Afrlcn again had taken a hand In the settlement and had suggested fiscal alterations which were adopted Thus the prospects for Irish peace are fairly good, despite the fact that Ulster and the extreme Unionists re main to be satisfied. Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, after meeting Lloyd George In London, returned to Belfast to consult his government. He declared Ulster would not yield Its right of self-determlnntlon, that Its separation from southern Ireland was an accomplished fact, and that "It -now only remains for Mr. de Valera and the British people to come to terms regarding the area outside of that of which I am prime minister." He emphatically repudiated the Sinn Fein argument that Ulster Is In the minority and must bow to the ma- orlty In i. eland, admitting, the unity of the Island nnd accepting self gov ernment, If It gets It, from Ireland as a whole. Up to date De Valera and his colleagues have uot abandoned this Sinn Fein position. It remains to be seen which side will yield. For the mo- ment, at least, the attitude of the peo ple of southern Ireland is more peoce- ful and conciliatory than that of the northern Irish. Upper Silesia comes to the front again, with prospects of renewed trou ble which may result In another out break of hostilities and even In a break among the entente allies. Con vinced that the situation there was ex tremely critical, France asked Great Britain and Italy to join her in sending reinforcements to the region. The British foreign office replied belittling the danger and proposing that a meet ing of the supreme council be held on July 27. To this Premier JJrlund re sponded with n note announcing that France Intended to reinforce the Upper Stleslan contingent and again asking Great Britain uud Italy to follow suit, insisting on the necessity of n committee of experts to hold n meet ing Immediately to Investigate Tppr Silesia and 10 draft a froutier, and announcing that France was not pre pared for a supreme council meeting until the experts Imve reached a de cision, nnd the allies are In a position to enforce the decision as to the Up per Slleslnn houndnry hy adequate forces In the disputed territory. Dis patches from Paris said 10,000 troops were to be sent at once to Upper Si lesia, with artillery, tnnks and planes. There was a chance that America would be called on to mediate. Our position In rejoining the supreme council was that we would take no part In questions affecting territorial and frontier adjustments unless gen eral pence were threatened. Some diplomats believe that point has been reached. Naturally there Is Intense satisfaction In German official circles over the prospects of a split among members of the entente. The advance of the Greeks In Asia Minor has been continuous, the Turk Nationalists retiring before It without putting up many serious fights. Last week King Constnntine's forces reached and occupied the Important railway Junction of Eskl-Shehr. This cuts the rail route to Angora, the capital of the Kemallsts, but the rail ways already have been destroyed. Military experts In Constantinople be lieve the Turks plan to draw on the Greeks until their lines are unduly cxteuded and then try to exhaust them by a series of Irresulnr attacks. In Albania the Mlrdltes. a Christian tribe, have proclaimed an Independent republic and elected n president. The Albanian government hns nrden-fl a general mobilization to repress the re bellion of the Mlrflites. Ilie United Stale has been anitnnV Ing the Ovrmnn povt'rnment on th proposnl to negotiate a separate peace In accordance with President Har ding's program. The pact, it Is tin del stood, will embody stuh features fit Ihe Versailles treaty a nre not re of t-ettlemcnt of war accounts to he 'Ir'ually Identical with tho?e imposed ly the allies. It Is believed V.vrY.r will see the wisdom of .Mgnlng such treaty without great delay, Meanwhile a movement for the re call of the American troops in Ger many has started In the senate. Mr. Borah Introduced a resolution calling on the secretary of wor for all data os lo the size of the army of occupa tion, the cost of maintaining it and the payments of the German government for Its expenses. The senate promptly adopted the resolution without a roil call or a dissenting voice. The tariff bill, having been pnssed hy the bouse. Is now before the senate but If present plans nre followed that body will not act on It Anally until legislation to revive taxes has been enacted. This Is In accord with the understood wish of the administration. The prospect for considerably lower taxes, however, was dimmed some what by the rather startling state ments made by A. D. Lasker. new chairman of the shipping board. He asserted that his Investigations have revealed the fact tliut the hoard operated last flscol year at a net loss of $3SO,000,000, and predicted that dur ing the present fiscal yeur the loss from operntlons alone will he $150. 000,000. Mr. Lasker said the records of the board were In deplorable con dition and thnt If It had been a private business concern the corporation would have been In receiver's hands long ago. He indicated thnt appro priations of $300,000,000 would be needed for this yeur, but later he asked congress for only $12."),000.000 for the next six months. The formal request for this sum was made tbrouch Director of Budget Dawes and with the approval of President Harding. Prodded to quick action by a pre llmlcary report of the jpeclaLcommls? eion on soldiers' relief, which scored the government for neglect of disabled veterans, the senate on Wednesduy passed the Sweet bill without a dis senting -vote. An amendment was adopted designed to transfer from the ex-service men to the government the burden of proof In establishing the origin of disabilities. In some other lespects the bill as passed by the house was altered. As passed by the senate the measure provides: For the creation of a veterans' bureau, respon sible directly to the President, consol idating all soldier relief agencies; for the decentralization of the compensa tion nnd Insurance machinery now op erated by the war risk bureau, and for the liberalization of compensation awards so as to relieve any former sol dier suffering from ailments for which the war service was responsible. Director of the Budget Dawes has Informed President Harding that It will be possible 'to save about $112. 512,0'JS in the government expendi tures for tin current year. This wilt be done mainly through cuifallliiy de partmental forces and equipment, and the work toward this eml nlreaK Is well under way. The largest estimat ed saving $30,342,119 will be In the Treasury department. In the Interior department It will be $10,827,101 ; war risk bureau, $10.ri84.523 ; War depart ment. $15,000,000; Navy department. S10.047.SU1; postal service. $14,920 421, and so on through the list. Illinois provhh.'S n sensation of con siderable magnitude through the In ilictment of her governor. Len Sinali, und lieutenant governor, Fred K. Ster ''ng. These ofticinls, together with Verne Curtis, a banker, are accused of fraud, conspiracy and embezzlement oi state funds, the alleged crimes being ammittcri, according to the charges, when Small and Sterling held the po sitlon of state treasurer. Briefly, It Is 'barged thnt Small und Sterling made loans of millions of dollars of stnte fivtfs io Curtis' so-called bank, vr?'?i lint! not functioned ns u bank since IUD3; that Curtis purchased with the noypy short-time notes of tlu 'iiirwo packers which netted him about 8 per cent interest; thnt the state received wly 2 per cent on the loans mnrte to Curtis, nnd that the accused mei shared the rest of the profits. Of course, both Small and Sterling pro test their entire Innocence, the gover nor hiylng the whole affair to the vhemes of his political enemies, whose fight on him, both before and since his election, has been bitter. MUSIC FESTIVAL COMBINED WITH MANUFACTURING AND EDUCATIONAL EVENT. BAND GCflCERTS ON EACH DAY Vocal Music Feature is Emphasized in Announcing the Pract cat Com- pletlon of Musical Program. Charlott, N. C. That thu Made ln-the-Carolinas Exposition, to be held In Charlotte September 12 to M, will attain recognition us a music festival as well as a manufacturing and edu cational event of great Importance was emphasized today by David Ovens, chairman of the entertainment committee, when announcing practi cal completion of the elaborate musi cal program. Kach dny the exposition will be teo tured by baud concerts, vocal quar tette numbers and instrumental sulos. The elaborate scale on which the ex position will be held, the demand of the people of the Carolinas for artists of high rank, and the important ser vice this exposition will render to the effort to promote the manufac turing Industries of the Carolinas and Impress upon the public their eco nomic importance impelled Mr. Ovens to go to extremes of expense in con tracting with artists In music. Outstanding as a musical feature will be the afternoon and evening con certs by tho New York City official concert band, under the direction of A. H. Nusshaum. Mr. Ovens has also arranged for the organization espec ially for this show of two vocal mixed quartettes, each composed ot artists ot note. Idlers' Home Is Madhoute. Washington. The Johnson City, Tenn., old soldiers' home was charac terized as a "madhouse" and the Fort Henry, Md., hospital was described as being fit only for a sewerage dis posal plant by Colonel R. Forbes, war risk director, before a senate commit '.ee in a plea tor broader powers to meet the hospital needs of world wnr veterans. . . . EMM mm 12-23 II SMUGGLINS DEAL tl FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ALONG ATLANTIC COAST TAUNTED BY WHISKEY RUNNERS. RUM HUNTING FLEET WANTED Fishermen Along the Coast Art Reap ing Rich Harvest by Running the Forbidden Cargoes Aehere. New York. Federal authorise along the Atlantic coast redoubled their vigilance over tramp ship fol lowing disclosures of evidence Indi cating the exigence of tt lent two gigantic international whiskey smug gling rings, one having headquarters in this city and one In AtlanUc City. ' Aid of tae iNavy Department was also being nought In an eUort to build tip a rum-h inttag fleet, capable ot cop ing with '.be rr.'steriious' ships and their allied fishing sm,icks,wuich aM alleged to have lauded hundreds of thousands f dollars' worth of contra band Uuor at seclude J points under cover of durknoxs. A tramp ster.nirr cruised saucl'v outside the three-line limit of Anantic City, accoiiing to reports mvivel here, and taunted faderal agents by breaking oat pennants saying. 'Li. down your nony atad coma a il v-'-it." Tho t.c.p slipped away night fell and H was thought she wan headed for some deserted poiat. wh. ' fishing vesiils could wort uniiW'ivr ed at the task ot lightering ber cargo ashore. Fishermen along the coast, acord lng to Mr. Roes, are reapiw harvest running the foithiJ..:' ; .r goes ashore. Thy work almost en tirely at night, he said. Greeks Follow Up Victory. Athens (Greek Official Agency). The Greeks in Asia Minor have been, following up energetically thf victory! they gained over the Turkish Nation-I allsta in the fighting brought e- by the attempt of the Kemalites .to re capture the key position ot Bski Shehr, on the Bagdad railway. Government Gets Two-Thirds. 'Washington. People who are mak ing a million dollars or more net income are paying the govtrn.mi)' practically two-thirds of it i t taxes. aceordimr to preliminary statistics oi income lor 1919 issued by thu inter nal Revenue Burt '.a. Linney Gets Favoraole Report Washing! vn. Favorable report ;wa ordered by the senate Judiciary com mittee on the contested noruinutloa of Frank A. Linney, republican :te chairman of North Carolina, t .i bu a federal district attorney. Maharaja to Visit America. Paris T ie Maharaja of Holkar, ruler of Inoore and one ot the wellth- test, princes of India, pirns to visit the United Stat. s this tall If the Im migration author! ies will permit him to bring in his vwo wives. On Way to Frozen Nerth. Sydney, N. S. W. Donald H. Mao Millan and his party of explorers havu sailed from North Sydney foi in far north when U-v tvPt spend two years among the . nu-vt, ot Haffin Land. Vi.la Deals in Oil. Mixlco C ity. Francisco Villa, once Mexico s most noted bandit has started dabbling in oil. A company was organized to exploit some lands' in the .Laguna region and VUla la said to 'have Invested 1200,000 in tae company. Child Has Arrived at Rome. Rome. Richard Washburn Chill, newly-appointed Amertcan Ambassador to Italy, has arrived here, accompa nied by his family and his secretary. No Ag-eement With France. London. Great Britain has not, as had been icported bare, seut a note to Franco rgreelng. with reservations, to the dU;atch ot French troops to Upper Silesia. Auto and Trolley Smashup. j Durlington, K. J. Three persons were killed fnd a fourth probably fa-, tally tinjurtfd vhen an automobile in which th9y were riding collided' wit" a trolley car running between Omdau' and Trontoa. 4 MINIBUS 1 Governor Small Still Defiant , SprlngfleM. 111. Governor Small re turned to Springfield unchanged in hi determinailon to resist arrest en warrants chargng him with enjoer tlement and conspiracy to defraud the h state. .
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