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4 EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR SVBSCBIKllON PKICE: Daily On Six months Thr. month ' Semi-Weekly On. y.er Ms month Tare, months a FUBJUSUKKS' ANXUVKCfcM-fcAT No. M South Toon street. Tlept.on number: Buioe ."'. Bell 'phon Mi City editor, '(ff..- i""' ui- new edtwr-. office. Bel! -pnoae A subscriber If ordeiir.g th Ml"" of bis paper changed, wl.l please indi cate the sadie 10 which at the urn tat tor the CB.nge to be made. , . . Advertising rates i furni.bed on appltcttlon. Adveiusns may fl ure tbat tlirough U.e column f Uu paper they my react: nil Charcot! and a portion of th. bi p-ip' ' thl titat. and upper aouili Crllni.. Thl paper gives coneopondenta as wldu latltuJ m it th.nks public pol icy permits, but it Is in no ' "e re sponsible for their iw 1 i niucn preferred thsl rnrresponaen- "-tn tbelr Barnes t thr'.r article. ffpecisl ly In case wlier they attack persons or IrsUlatl.rvs . though t:.i Is rot de mnrted. Tlie Pduoi reserves 'he right to give thu names of i-nrrespondrnt.i when they are ileinaniled toi tt.e pur poae of persona! ajii(' tlnr Tu re ceive censliVrsllon communication iruat be eecim panted ty the true name of th eorrepc-n'lnt TUESDAY. Mmil 30, 19DH. CRAZY SXAKEOV Till: WARPATH It la mii' h to he h"ped that the Hon. Craiy Snake and his alleged In dians, with their neuro allies, will have been suppressed before this reading. The perforinan, -s re, ordod In yesterdnj s dispatches were de lil edly unconventional even for Okla homa. We say "a!!e-cd Indians " ad visedly. Before the civil war muny negro elaves were owned by the Crci k tribe, and laler on Secretary of War Ktanton. under whose jut isd U t Ion the matter fell, recognized theae ex-slavcs a legally member of the tribe, with full share in tribal land allotments. The result, furthered by some racial admixture which had already taken pltce, wu to produce a type almost as much negro an Indian. Whereae moat tribes within the new State have becom. largely white, because of the allotment-marrying 'squaw men," and because of lelt-hand alliances, tne Creeks have become largely black what In fcpsiritsli-Amrrlcan countrlei are termed ' amhos." It I general testimony that the cross between In dian and negro produces very unde--,r.. le citizens, particularly In rtspect to x uloueness; no one need wonder, :l.wi(ore, that the Creeks have lone been a conspicuously troublesome lot or that the Snake Creeks, toughest of all, are now creating devilment. We want to say right here that we find much difficulty In keeping within bound our admiration for the Hon. Craij' Snake's nerve. Here was an Indian chief who had very recently returned from Washington, where he saw one Great Father succeeded by another. He saw huge wigwams of fttone and countless other wonders; he saw, too, the paleface warilors marching; by thousands. His Journey was made behind the pale-face a great Iron horse, and he whirled for davs through the pale-face country. Yet this Indomitable chieftain no sooner gets home than the hatchet is dug up and the warpath begins to grow hot. Presumably war-dances are held among the braves, war-paint appears on face and form. medlcThe-men In spire fighting ardor with predictions Of easy victory. And Crazy Snake meditates no petty Insurrection u h as that once led h , Sword-Bearer or ven that once led by Hitting Hull, neither has he any intention of simply repeating Oeronlmu's bloody raids. It will greatly Increase the Imaginative Interest If we picture him as enter taining the hopes of King Philip or of Tecumseh. He not Improbably plans to drive the pale-faces Into the set whence they came and gain back the continent for its rlrhtful owners. If Tecumseh inspired suvh dread that his defeat and death made a Presi dent of the United States, s.irely Crazy Snake's activities bne an illustrious precedent. To more raahlv brave pa triot could Imagined. Hut at this point, after a wild runawaj we suc ceed in getting our admiration under some sort of control. The fact Is, this affair, turned for the sake of picturesque effect into an "Indian uprising," d Iters little, except as regards cor.dit:o;ig exls:mg In a half-settled country, from the race wars" with which Ohin, r.iin.cs. Kan sat. Georgia, Mississippi and Texas hsve made us su?b lentiy familiar. The death of a woman in the elec trie chair It Is better than the death of a woman on the gallows, but It Is horrible enough. We fully recognize the danger of conferring upon any one even a limited impunity in crime and yet the feeling against such a deed as that at Albany yesterday will not down. In Governor Hughes place. e thould have granted commutation to life imprisonment. W heartily agree with The Even ing Chronicle and The Greenville Re flector that the executive committee Of the North Carolina Press Associa tion, due to meet In Charlotte during afafi should by all means hit town precisely b the Twentieth. '. " Apparently the eastern Federal Juugb.!p matter list reached the point wiser any single horse In the rate fa a fcttter than a twenty-to-one bet. Tf trust that the people of Ral eigh r ufflcintly tntertainsd thee flaytv. : TUB QCESmOK OP COFFEE TAX. Representative Farne enters rath er an Ingenious defence for his tariff bill's proposal to meet the export taxes which South American countries levy upon coffee with an Import tax exact ly corresponding. These export taxes, he correctly points out, bear upon all foreign consumers. Including Ameri cans; he thinks that if we balance them with a tax of our own the coun tries which levy them will become 1 unable to compete In our markets jwlth the one which do not, and that 'repeal will thereby be forced. He I fore 1 ng. therefore, the wholesale American price would undergo a re iduilion. So enormous are the prof it which middlemen now make upon .ofTec that the combined taxes, export and Import, should not even tempo rarily affec t the price to the consumer. Before the consumer rebels against an Insignificant tax which will not only assure tile i;nernment needed revenue but make for cheaper coffee he should look at hut the middlemen are doing to him now. A grade d( coffee com ing Into this country at 14 cents a pound ren In s him at 3ii. Mr. Payne might have Haid. further, that often, though paying a duty of Ave cents a pound when entering CJormany a.s against no duty at all when entering the i'nited States, rcinila decidedly hipher here than there. j The c ti.ef answer to th's argument .s. ob-Mously, a contention that the nig middlemen, who are the vhief of-'r-nders. would be no more reasonable than they are et preHent and would simply load the. I prices with the addi tional tax. And it may further lie ! jei teil that him e Hrazil controls cof fee in Just Hbout the same proportion that the Southern United iStatea con trol cotton, no attempt to make her reniine her export taxes the Hrazil i in Federal government and the chief i I'tlii-prod in Ing .State levy them now - .oiild possibly attain ho . ess. Mr. Payne has not shown that cof fee should be taxed upon economic grounds. Urorn the standpoint of practical statesmanship It would ai I Ills time have been wasted effort for lilm to argue that coffee purely a stimulant and a luxury by nature, though tanking among necessities with more habitual U!-ers (in the United fUates) than any other stim ulant might properly bear some such tax as tobacco does. Hut the vari ous arguments upon the cofTee-tax ijucMlon ss a whole, whether pro or i on, should be highly Instructive. They should help to how the public how, in consequence of the trust ble.i pervading almost our entire commer cial and industrial life, the American consumer fares worse than the for eigner even when the tariff works with him. It Is the plan of the lug coffee-roasters, as of practically every combination enjoying general or local monopoly, to charge all that the Unf ile will liear. ttlTTOX OK THI CK IX SUIU IUIV With growing cities and a rapidly growing Industrial population the business i,f raising vegetables for the local markets nilh will receive ncre attention from farmers. Tomatoes are always In demand and those which come on the market early are blfih In price. They br ing prices by I lie dozen Instead of by any measure of quart, peek or bushel. Karly planting under cheesecloth advances maturity by something like a month, nettinu two or three time the price of those which come later. There nre other vegetables which will yield poor! prof i's If modern methods are emploveil, instead of waiting on regular seasons in the usual way. In our local columns there recently appeared a statement that by conser vative estimate T.'iO bales of cotton were raised within the new city lim its. This statement becomes proper ly Impressive only when we consider that the city Is all the year round bringing from a distance hlgh-prlcod truck which In lare part lends Itself to as profitable raising here as any where much more profitable, really, because of the market Immediately at hand. We were told some time airo of a negro who has become prosper ous and Independent on three-quarters of an acre In Dllworth. should land which can be made to yield wealth In trucking- be made to com pete with the cotton lands of the riouth at large? Very little of It would If people hereabouts showed proper enterprise and intelligence In utilizing opportunities. Parents should keep a sharp eve on their small-boys If the news from Oklahoma continues. Suu ien disap pearance may not mean a kidnaping, but simply that the youngster has headed West to fight the Indians I President Teft will g-et the Repub lican factions in Congress together yet. He can't quite make the li,,n ar-.J the lamb lie down together, but lie can come as near to It as anybody at this time can. TRIES TO ASSAULT ROOSEVELT. Reported That a Passenger on the sa earner Hamburg Attacks the Ex Preaident. London, March 19 A dispatch to The Standard from Horta say that when the stumer Hamburg arrived it was learned that a passenger on th boat had made an attempt to as sault Mr. Roosevelt hut was frus trated, and the man was quickly put In irons. In response to a query from 'The Daily Mail concerning the incident the correspondent at Horta eeys: "Re ports are current, and I repeat them with reserve, that an attempt has been mads OB th life of ex-President Rooeevelt." Threw Mesa Killed by falling WalL Los Angeles. CaJ.. March 2. Three men were Instantly killed and two others were seriously injured to day when ft brick wall of the old Tart Building collapsed while the building was being rased. CM1XXRM CHILD I-iABOR LAWS. Convention In New Ortettna to Ac complish TbM End Attendant Are Oooipoued of Leading Expon ents) of Philanthropy and Manu fact ii re rs Ootenwf eianders, of Louisiana, Permanent Chairman Woman's Severe Arraignment of Existing Laws. Orleans, March 2S. Seeking the aocnplishment of uniform child labor lkwa in the South, delegates from a number of .Southern States gathered In New Orleans to-day for a conference to extend over a period of three day. Not only does the convention mark the first com erted movement in this direction in the South, but It is made further notable by the fact that in attendance upon it are both leading exponents of a more stringent child labor regulation and prominent manu facturers employing "hlld labor as well as leading public officials. Various viewpoints were presented at the first .session of the congress this afternoon and from the different expressions and suggestions that are to be offered during the course of the invention, it is hoped to arrive at the provisions of what would consti tute a model child labor law bill for adoption thy the .states of the South. Governor Hariderg, of Louisiana, was called to act as permanent chairman after the details of preliminary or ganization had b.en carried out and several addresses had been delivered. He lcaied that the views. which Would bo submitted would be. In many instance, widely divergent and thai the compromise would be Inevitable, as even in the aitu.il enactment of all laws. la commenting "ii the changed conditions In the S. uth In the last generation. Governor Sanders said that he did not know but what the transition from an aerl.-ultural South to a commercial and mnnufaotui lny South spoke no good for the people Governor Herbert S. Ha. Hey, of Missouri, declared that It whs the duty and ritcht of the States to pro tect the children and women wh.. toil and that Missouri was ready to ;oln In any movement which aimed at tills. J. W. Van Cleave, of St. Umils. president of H,e Xaiio:.,,! Manufac turers Association. spoi,e Horn the manufacturers' viewpoint. He de clared that the great nia'ority or man ut'aci in crs are m favor of mak ing the minimum age limit for em ployment or children 14 years am! Ihat great Injustice was off n done manufacturers In assuming that thev were opposed to child labor regula tion. He believed thut it would be only a comparatively tdiort time be lor the wonderful Improvement of machlriery would ireaie oomlitions so that there would be no room for chil dren in laitoric, Hn,l oeclun-, that child lab-ii whs in re.ility not prof itable labor to the man u f a.-tui e rs. As to the laws fur regulation of child ' ni lovinunl he declare I. "Make thu pun nt responsible to the State and vou will have solved the problem." -Miss .lean Gordon, factory inspect or for the city ol New Orleans, en tered into a severe ariugnment of laws ex, sting m in,- majority of the south, rn states "which grind out the widfaie ami happiness of women and i hildren " she made a sarcastic ref i r m e to the establishment of night s, ho.ds and libraries for children and women ,-inp loved in factories, declar-!n-:. Vuu might a.s well Install an ait gallery in an asvlurn for the blind " Tit I' STICK roil I.MU'.sntlAI, NKWs i Mr V. I. Uti(lTwooi Appointed to ja- .M.r uie rrieii and DN . ol It at nival,- m(i Publica tion f tlx- Paper III Probably Ii.- Ittwimicd, Hut Under Nn .Name. Observer llurea,u. The liev ill 1). nldlrig. Greensboro. March .'9. The ili't meeting of the creditors of The Iiidusinal i'uluinMng Company was held 'his aftei nooh In the ottlce of Mr. O. a. rVfgi. jr. refei.ie In bankruptcy, when a number of claims was riled ami a trustee chosen Mr YV. 1 Underwood, who hns 1 1 charge or the property as receiver f,!t., .. last November. wa desig nated as trustee and instructed by the creditors to dispose of ihe business at once It was the e.-o of tho meeting that the tn.m-e should make a private sale if he Ik able to receive what be roil- 'Siilcra n fair price and report to the curt Saturday. April 3 The trustee received an ofTer for the property this af ternoon ilmt will probably be accepted, but until the sale should be confirmed, !the bidder does nut destie to tie known in tho tiansaetlon. It Is the purpose of the bidder, should lis bid be accepted, and the sale he conflremd, to resume the i publication of the paper, probably under a new nane. ' The North Carolina public Service i Coniany, which recent ly t-'ok over the business of the Giveneburo K-iecttlo ' Company, to-day put u tore of labor ers at work, la sing six miles of new Hnd enlaiged gas mains to replace old mains. The mains will be extended Into sections of the city not now supplied with gis Bervic T! e reglst ra t lqn books for the municip al election to tie held the first Tuesday in May were opened to-day. Mr. J. H. Minor is tT.e registrar. ' Good progress was made at the first : day's eeshicn of tb week's criminal term juf Superior Court. The jail cases will be disposed of In ample time for the Adams-Hutler criminal libel cases, which are to be taken up Wednesday. The annual meeting of the Class! of (he lieformed Church In North Carolina will be held In the First Reformed ilitiroh of this city April 27 to May 2 fiver Pfty ministers and laymen will be in attendance BIiOl NT'S TRIAIj drags. Not Much AdOompUsUed Order Made bj .liulgr Consolidating the Re mainder of the Indictments Against 111. unit In One Ca-e Defense Will Re-g-ln Examination of Witness To-liaj Amite. I.a . March 29. Judge Ellis to-day ruled that the two remaining Indictments ni,ainst Avery Rlount. charged with the murder of three members of the Breeland family, wou'd be consolidated with the case of Hen Kitchen, charged with being an accesso--r to the murders. Blount i.-; now being tried on the Indictment charging him with the murder of ' Bux" Hreeland. The testimony to-day added little to the facts of the case. The defense is expected to begin It direct elimi nation to-morrow, as the prosecution announced -x th close of court to day that It would probably have but one more witness to examine. Charged With Murilcr of Insane Pa. tlent. Terrell. Tex.. March St. Following the death of B. P Roberts, a patient at the Nnrth Texas Insane Hospital, Watchmen Faubrten and Arnt were srrested to-day, each being charged with murder. Roberts arrived here from Lubbock county Saturday. He wss found Sunday with hi chest bruised and ribs broken. Death fol lowed his Injuries, TO LNVITE 13 GOVERNORS FTRsrr DAT WlXii BE GREAT. Central Committee) oa Celebration of aoth of May Will Extend an Invi tation to the Present Chief Execu tives ot the Original Thirteen State to Be Present oi the Open lug Iay (Jover nor Kitchln Will Also be AHked to Extend an Invita tion to Tbera on lie half of the State Committee Sow Hard at Work Whipping Things Together. The dates for the May celebration were changed last night at a meet ing of the central committee to May 18-20, the latter to be known as the "Taft Day" and th eflrst to be given over to the. Governors of the thir teen original colonies who will be extended an Invitation to be present The committee agreed to extend an Invitation to the Governor of Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Now Hampshire, New York. New Jer sey, Delawsre, Pennsylvania, Mary land, Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, and Georgia to be present on the opening day and to form the attraction for that day. Governor Kitchin on behalf of the State of North Carolina will be ssked to ex tend an additional Invitation to these chief executives and the committee committee hopes that sufficient pres sure will be brought to bear upon Clem us to the appropriateness of vieh un event that the$- will accept the Invitation. In this event, the first lay of the celebration will become a' most as much of national Interest as .'he last da when President Taft will I i ol dthe boards. COMMITTEES HARD AT WORK. Various suRgestions were heard by tho committee and these s.re boinx riasiirerl. Hy the end of th wek number of events will have hum agreed upon and a definite start made In getting up the programme. The committee will meet agate, to-night and hereafter almost every night in order to expedite its arduous duties. The soveial sub-committees are also pelting down to woik. taking care of he special assignments which prop - rly fall under their scope The city is thoroughly imbued with the spiiit of the effort Ijelnj, made and It is not bard ev en lit this distance to fnn-l' II ! hat th,, celebration will be 'h, most mammoth nlluir in the history of th it;.', if not the entire State. It is considered exceedingly in keep ing with the ocaslon to have present. If possible, the present chief execu tives of the original thirteen States and if this idea can be executed, and there is strong hope that It can, the tirst day of the celebiation will as sume enormous proportions. WANT To HOLD THE PEOPLE. The committee so far has made no definite announcement as to the events of each iisy. There will be plenty to ttrnct the people, hov -ever, and It is argued 'hat If the Gov ernors come on the first day. out-of-town people will come at the start and remain for the "Taft Pay." Raseball will be In progress at the league grounds all the week. The I'nited Commercial Travels had previously planned to hold a car nival and at the same time the May Mush: Festival will be in progress -'hough of individual attraction In themselves to bring a large crowd to the city Add to this tie splendid list if events now being contemplated In connection with the twentieth cele hration, and the week become on,, of speech-making n the number and not ui e of the exercises. SAI.JSBI 11V NEWS OE A DAY. New Court to Open l-'or Business Next Wefk Confcili'rar Monu ment Hi-lug Placed Work Begins un tlir skyscraper Kamage Suit Airaliisi Southern? observer Hureau, 4'l North Main Street, Salisbury. March 29. Hovvan County Court, created by a.-t of the recent ly-glslnture, opens up for business next Monday with l; i:. Miller, Esq., as Judge and Kerr Crnige, Esq, as solicitor. The court's sessions will be held In the Superior Court room and will be open for business; every week day. Place of attraction to-day were the plaiine; of the Confederate monument on lniiiss street and the actual be ginning of work on the Grubb sky scraper. The monument Is a beauti ful piece of work ami Is praised by all w ho se It. The ball grounds at Fulton Heights Park hav"c been put in shape and the local fans are looking forward with much Interest to the first game of the season Thursday when Davidson and liiohmond (College cross tits. Matt Hall, a white man and al leged blockader Of long standing, wanted In Montgomery county, was arrested yesterday by Sheriff Mc Kenzle and Deputy Krlder. Mr. R. It. Hunter, of Mecklenburg, State lecturer of the Farmers' Cnlon, Is billed for an address at the Klutti Menins school house In the county April t. It will be a public meeting. Mr. George A. Fisher, who recently bought the old Baker place to the north 6f the city. Is having a hand some cottage home built there. The house on West Hank to he vacated by Mr Fisher will give place to a splendid home to be built by Mr. P. H. Beard. Mr. J. J. Klncald Is here from Moore county in answer to a message 'telling him of the burning Of the 1 Klncald Veneering Works Saturday. ; It is likely that a suit for damages againsd the Southern will be In stituted, although this has not been determined yet by the receivers of the burned property. Mr. and Mrs Milton S. Brown are at home from New York, where they spent the winter Mrs J. M. Stod dard and son. Clare, who spent the winter with Mr. and Mrs. O. Perry Davis, have returned to their home In New York. Chief of Police D. W. Julian has been kept at home several days by sickness but Is now im proving. Fire discovered on the third floor of the Wachovia Bank Building to-night at 9 o'clock caused several hundred dollars' damaao, mainly from water. The fir originated in a pile of trash end the timely discovery Is all that prevented a very disastrous blaze. Jailed o4 Crtarve of Infanticide. Facing the charge of Infanticide, Zettie Hill, a colored woman of Lem Imv'm tnwnahin. is a tirlsoner in the ! county jail. The Infant waa found Thursday on the ground or an un cultivated field Thursday by Anna Tate, colored, who said she burled It again. It seemed te have been buried and exhumed by dogs. The coroner had it exhumed again Sunday, but decomposition was so far advanced that evidence could not be obtained aa to the means which which death came. Settle Hill claimed It was born dead. The Jury composed of C. B. Flournoy. W. H. Alexander, E. H, Da vidson, E. L. Reams, F. W. Munday and J. R- BeatU. decided that the child met death at Its mother's hands. dominations Wltbdarwn. Washington. Maroh t. The Pres ident to-dy withdrew the nomination pt Thomas R. Lyon to be Judge ot the district of lAlaaka, first division, pend ing an Investigation into Mr. Lyons' oJBclal eoaJuct. , HB TATT GOES AT DOBS JTXV Cite President's Scheme For the Wln uliur of tho ootr Th Imptilsiv- nesa of Inn ocence 1 he JeeJoaoy of the Tight w ads or Booth carouna. New Tork Evening Sun. For months, rather for years, or, as they say down there, for "yahs 'nd yens." Mr. Taft has been winning the South. He has been persuading it of the rectitude of his Intentions, the large magnanimity of his purpose to ward it. He has been captivating it by the magic of his Infectious smile and convincing it that hs is not only a mar to be trusted but a man to be liked as well. He has almost succeeded In making the name of Republican respectable, In the South. It has been looking for some time as though even Southern Democrats would eat out of hlv hand to the extent of accepting ap pointments to Federal office, if such should come their way. He has the South almost won, and now all the fat is in the fire or will be. Mr. Taft has gone and done it. lie has accepted an Invitation to visit Charlotte, N. C.. and deliver an ad (trtss on May 20 next, the occasion being the annual celebration in com memoration of the Mecklenburg Deo la. ration of Independence. A delega tion of twenty Tar Heelers, headed b the two Tar Heel Senators and two of the Tar Heel Representatives, call ed on him day before yesterday. They asked him politely if he would and he said he would. Moreover, he said It o riulckly as, according to the account, to take away the breath of the Tar Heelers, who wanted to make their in vitation pressing. Tnsy did not have to ano that is Mr. Taft's only excuse. Whether or not the Tar Heelers were innocent, Mr. Taft's Impulsiveness a the impulsiveness of Innocence. He odd not have known what he was doing when he did it or he would not nave done It, but he has done It all thb . a me. He has agreed to appear In Charlotte on May 20 next, and by his presence therefore to lend presidential countenance and sanction to the fa mous Mecklenburg myth. If this docs not set the Sosjth by the ears ' will miss our guees. No body in the South outside North Car olina believes in the Mecklenburg Dec laration of Independence that man ifesto which the dictionary says is fabled to have been proclaimed by the fanners of Mocklenburg county on May 20 or 3 1, 1 775," thus making the Philadelphlan product of Jeffer son's pen look Ilk a pitiful plagiarism, putting it eye out, as It were. Every body In North Carolina sweare by it. Belief in the Mecklenburg Declaration is the test of a Tar Heel. It IS equiva lent to an oath of allegiance. It is the pledge of fealty to North Carolina -ind it fills the people of South Carolina with rage. Klsewhere in the South the North Carolinian creed of confi dence In the Mecklenburg myth Is regarded with feelings ranging from pity to contempt, but it stirs South Carolina to ecstasies of anger when ever it thrusts Itself Into prominence. What effect, then, Mr. Taft's lll-advls f i and unlucky agreement to confer the prestige of the presidency on a celebration in honor of the Mecklen burg Declaration will have In the Palmetto state 1b not fit to be put Into language. It would not be surprising if South Carolina should declare war on North Carolina before the ap pointed day and Invade It horse, foot and dragoons That Is the kind of a pacifier, or harmonlr.cr, Mr. Taft threatens to become.' That Is what all hi plans for conciliating the South and reconciling It to the Union are likely to end In if he k'eps his word to appear in charlotte on May 20, and he is a man of hla word. The rest of the South may not taka it as hard as South Carolina, but from Tennessee to Toas the milk of human kindness for Mr. Taft will curdle and be turned to clabber by his reconciliation of North Carolina's pretensions to revolution ary priority. We do not know exactly what Mr. Taft can do about It. Perhaps It may not be as bad as It looks, although It looks pretty bad. If It could be shown that some enemy of Mr. Taft's South e'n policy had done this thing In order to alienate Southern eympathry and supplant trust with distrust, substitute confidence for suspicion; If It could bo demonstrated that these Tar Heelers called on him in pursuance of a plot having such hellish ends In view the siturufion might yet be eaved. BIG FIRE I.V NKWBERN. Hughes Building, a Two-Story Brick Structure, Gutted py ITames Loss Will Not Be More Than IS.000 Origin of the Fire Unknown. Special to Th Observer. Newbern, March 2 9. Fire this morning at 2:30 threatened for a time the block'on the corner of Middle and pollock streets, and guted the Hughes Building, a double story brick build ing, occupied by the Delmonlco Cafe and the George B. Waters cigar and stationery store. Soon after the fire men reached the fire an explosion took place In the Waters store and one of the colored helpers in the fire department -was badly cut by flying i. i it took the firemen an hour' and a half to Anally conkuer the flames, but the fire was finally confined to the building In which It originated, al though the large wooden building ad joining, on the corner of Pollock and Middle, caught a number of times and much of the stock in this build ing was damaged by water and mov ing. The walls of the Hughes Build ing are Intact. The loss Is about $4,000 with 11.200 Insurance. Mr. Waters, It Is stated, had $1,J00 insur ance and a stock of about $2,500. The stock In Baxter's jewelry store and th Miss Toulssant's millinery store. In the woden building, was nearly all moved and considerably damaged by svster. The fire drew a large crowc" and was so obstinate that the Are engine was finally brought out to assist In the fight. The total loss by all will hardly go above J7.000 or $8,000, with the insurance to offset and lessen this amount. The origin of the fire Is not known, but when first seen was In the cafe. Durham Boy Sent to Reformatory. Special to The ObeeiVer. Durham. March 38. Hopson Mar tin, the son of a very good father in this city, was this morning ordered sent to the Jackson Training School by the recorder on account of the theft of a purse and a small amount of'monsy. The young efllow has not been regarded as ah Incorrigible but has borne a rather good reputation for a kid. He is the first to go from this place to the reformatory. Good Covgft Medicine for Children. The sessoa for soughs and colds la now st band and too much cars cannot be used te protect the children. A child is much mere likely te contract diphtheria or scartst fever when be has a eold. The Quicker you cure fcts-eoid the less the risk. Chasnberlala's Cough Remedy -1 th sole renanee Di saany mother and few of these wh mv tried it are wiu tr.r te o snyether. Mrs. F. F. SUech. er. of Ripley, w. Vs., says. 1 hare never used anything ether than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for my ehUdrwi and it hs always given good satisfaction." This remedy contains ne opium er ether tnaraotie and tnsy be given as Cftnfldeotly to a Child ss te n adult. For sale by R. H. Jordaa Co. . XSfrt)lM e 4 .mi ii i nint v p 4 1,200 Guaranteed 14-Karat f ( ) sizes and styles, plain and fancy barrels, some self fillers. A Pen to suit every one's hand from 50c. to $2.50 each. All filled and ready for use. Come in and try one. See our display in Trade street window. On sale Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. CARPET DEPARTMENT Special sale of Mattings, Curtains, etc., for next week. Our entire spring stock included: All 30c. Mattings at .2Sc. All 25c. Mattings at i 21c. All 20c. Mattings at. 18c A beautiful assortment of Cross-Barred Curtains from 76c. to $3.50 Lace Curtains. ... $100 to $5.00 Cheny ,Lace Curtains. .. ........ ... ...$4.00 to $7.50 A new line of Portiere Curtains, latest styles and best colors...... ...... ...$3.00 to $H.00 'a tasasan i jf mtHj a s i kaaasssr - . r JW L m i i ale -.of Solid Gold Pens, assorted J YJ (LJ U LJs V
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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March 30, 1909, edition 1
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