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HIGH POINT, GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 30, 1905.J
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FIFE DENIES CHARGES
Says Great Western Company
was Never m Better Condi
tionJust Arrived in St.
Louis.
St, Louis, Aug. 25. A telegram to
day from St. Paul announces that the
motion of the defendants for a rehear
ing of the Great Western Gold Com
pany suit was had and that argument
was postponed until August 31.
. W. PFife, of Charlotte, was intro
duced to your correspondent today at
the offices of T. S. Henderson, and
8aW; ' . j j.
"I arrived in St. Louis yesterday di
rect from the mines of theGreat West
ern Gold Company in Sparta county,
Cal. The press of North Carolina is
doing me a great injustice. I am going
to make a few assertions to you as the
Chronicle's representative. I have
no doubt that the Chronicle will pub
lish them, as I am confident that the
Chronicle is too great a newspaper to
hold any petty spite against even a
foe, and I have no reason to v regard
the Chronicle as a foe.
"I have found the mines in first-class
condition. I examined the books of
the company and am here with the
president and general manager going
into every detail. I simply laugh at
the charges brought against the Great
Western Gold Company, knowing
them to consist of infamous lies. The
Great Western was never in better
condition, than she is at the present
time."
Fife looks healthy and happy. One
of the several persons present at the
Fife interview was Judge Henry
Rickel, general counsel of the Great
Western Gold Company, who, point
ing to an article clipped from a North
Carolina paper, headed "Blue for
Brother Fife," remarked that he
would immediately "get after" certain
North Carolina dailies and show them
"a thing or two." Charlotte Chron
icle. 4 ' i
DASHED OVER BRIDGE
Horse, Buggy and Occupant
Tumble into Creek
Wednesday while Mr. J. W
Johnson, of the Guilford Grocery
Company, was driving near the
bridge at Miller's old mill, a mile
south of town, his botse became
frightened at a bicycle and shied
and being near the entrance to the
bridge, horee, buggy and Mr.
Johnsonv tumbled over into the
creek below, a distance of twelve
feet- Fortunately Mr. Johnson fell
into the water unhurt. The buggy
was smashed but the only damage
to the horse was a few bruises and
scratches and a general shaking
up.
It was a narrow escape for Mr.
Johnson and bis horse.
There are no railings at either
entrance of the bridge but there
should be. It is a dangerous place.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT
Mr. Joseph Fargis, a farmer living
onR. F. D. ioute No. 1 from Mc
Leansville, was very painfully hurt
yesterday morning while hauling some
tobacco barn flues. He had purchased
ihem from a neighbor and had loaded
them on a wagon and ' started home.
The flues began to rattle and the mule
- which he was driving became fright-
ened and ran a short distance when
Mr. Fargis succeeded in stopping the
animal. Thinking it would soon get
over its scare as it was a trusted, ani
; mal ne got off the wagon and pro
. ceeded to lead the mule when it made
a sudden dash throwing Mr. Fargis
. down. ? The wagon over his leg
, - crushing it so badly that some of the
Sieces of bone protruded through the
eeh. - It is thought that amputation
will be necessary. Greensboro Tele
gram. ' ' ' '
THE FIRST CAR ;
.. Capt; Milt Jones earned his first
money on the new railroad running
froriiThomasvllte Wednesday. Cap
Jones fphoned Mri J. Elwood Cox
this morning that first car of freight
hauled ,was for Mr. Cox,: amount
$8. He also asked Mr. vox to sag-
gest what disposition io mase m
the money;, It is likely that he
will $lye it to the orphans. . ;, ,
THOMASVILLE, N. C.
After Thirty Years A Sketch
by a High Point Lady
Written for the Enterprise.
To the boy of eighteen or the school
girl of sixteen, thirty years seem
an almost interminable lapse of time,
and should it be said to either that
they would come into possession of
some' coveted prize niter inirty renn
they would forthwith exclaim: "Thirty
years! Why if I must wait such an
age as that I had as well not have it
at all." Well, it is a long time, and
we never realize the fact so fprceably
as when a few days since, after an ab
sence of three decades, we stood once
more on the streets of Thomasville.the
home of our early school days, feeling
very much as did Rip Van Winkle
when, he awoke from his twenty years
of slumber and wandered back to his
native village. Not that we had been
sleeping oh, no, but while we were
wandering here and there, now lost
among the mountains of the old North
State, and again under the frondous
trees of the far South, time with his
magic pencil and brush had wrought
some curious transactions in the home
of our early youth, and that which
was only a sleepy village numbering
a population a five or six hundred is
now a progressive, wide awake . town,
with a population of three or four
thousand. Then its quiet was disturb
ed only by the iron tread and the
shrill whistle of passing locomotives
now the whir of machinery mingles
with the summer breeze, and the blue
waves of smoke rising from the differ
ent mills and factories mark it as a
rapidly rising manufacturing town of
no mean pretentions.
Ground that was lying vacant a few
years ago is now graced with tasteful
residences, surrounded by lovely, well
kept lawns. Old buildings have been
removed and replaced by more artistic
ones, and portions that we remember
only as woodland is now thickly dot
ted over with private residences.
When .we can first remember Thom
asville it could boast only two branch
es of industry a shoo shop, owned
and operated by the Lyon Brothers,
and a very small factory ipr the man
ufacture of chairs and cottage bed
steads, run by Westmoreland & Sons.
This was thirty years ago, and as we
drove leisurely over the town we found
these old industries supplanted by
Cates Chair Co., Climax Chair Co.,
Cramer Furniture Co., Lambeth Fur
niture Co., Lambeth Safe Co., Lee
Manufacturing Co., Queen Chair Co.,
Standard Chair Co.,Thomasville Chair
Co., Thompson Chair Co., and Thom
asville Veneer & Panel Co.
Aside from these industries, there
are other features of interest. The
shabby old business houses have been
replaced by nice substantial buildings,
giving the no lorger embryo villaga
quite a town-like appearance.
The old college building where we
spent so many happy hours, and
dreamed our school-girl dreams stands
almost the same with "the myrtle and
the ivy" blooming around it, but its
glory has departed and its grim old
waifs no longer echo the joyous peals
of school-girl laughter. But, though
the college is no longer in operation
the graded school is doing its educa
tional work. -This is a nice building
and a substantial evidence that Thorn
asville has not forgotten her duty in
the intellect of her young.
Another feature of special interest
is the Baptist Orphanage. As we had
only a limited time, which was spent
in driving over the town, we did not,
visit this institution, but it is our in
tention to do so some time in the near
future. Judging from what we could
gather, after a hasty survey of the
grounds and the several buildings
connected with the orphanage,we think
it an institution of which our Baptist
friends may be iustly proud, and we
know it is one which appeals strongly
to the heart of every Christian man
and woman. -v: . y:
While here we met several dear old
friends, among the number Mrs. R.
W. . Thomas. ' Though time' had
wrought so many changes in the town
his touch had fallen so lightly ipon
this estimable lady that we found he
almost the same as when we knew her
in our girlhood days.
Aooompanied by Mrs. Thomas, we
drove over. to'Black Hill, the charm
ing residenoe Mr.Ped, Thomas ren
dered doublf attractive by its several
mineral springaV We drank; the water
from two or three of these springs and
found it, strongly impregnated with
sulphur. It is a deliehtlut situation;
a charming home and a decided curi
osity in the way of mineral springs.
Returning from Black Hill.webade
adieu to our friends, setting our faces
in the direction of home. As we caught
5 .ft -last- glimpse of this hustling little'
MRS. J. B. WHITAKER
DEAD
Mrs. Sallie A. Whitaker, wife of
Mr. J. B. Whitaker, former editor of
the Winston Sentmel but now editor
of Southern Mills, of Greensboro, died
Thursday at 8:30 o'clock at the
family residence, 441 West Washing
ton street. She had been in declining
health for some time, her condition
becoming very serious several days
ago and gradually worse until the end
came at tne above named hour.
The deceased was 54 years of age
and is survived by a husband and four
children, Mrs. A. S. King, and Miss
Sallie Whitaker, of this city, and Miss
Georgie and Mr. J. B. Whitaker. Jr.,
both of New York.
Mrs. Whitaker was a native of
Goldsboro and the remains will be
taken to that place on the 7:30 train
tomorrow .morning for burial.
Greensboro Record.
PROMINENT MINISTER DEAD
Greensboro, Ajg. 23. Rev. J.
H. Totten, a prominent Methodist
Protestant minister, died here at
3 o'clock, aged sixty-five. He
will ba buried at Kernersville
Thursday afternoon. Taken sick
here a week ago, returning to Ker
nersyille from an evangelist tour.
NO ABATEMENT
The spring fever, the land fever
in other words, has not abated,
and will not, it seems', in High
Point. Ordinarily the price of
property takes a little, raise in the
spring and ebbs again when lrost
comes. -High Point is an excep
tion. The real estate market here
now is as lively as it was in the
spring, if not more so. The En
terprise has attended all of the lot
sales here for the past two years,
and there has been a gradual rise
in prices from the first. The last
sale two days ago proved that
prices were higher and the situa
tion seemed to be firmer. The sale
of ground that brought in the ag
gregate $5,000 could have been
bought for half that amount 14
months ago, and yet those who
bought this week would not sell
for the prices paid.
Huckleberry Pie Explodes
Patterson. N. J., Aug. 24. Mrs
Robert Jamisson, keeper of a board
ing house on the Last bide, was scald
ed about the hands and face by the
explosion of a large huckleberry pie.
The pie had been baked without any
air holes in tne top of it, and was plac
ed upon the table steaming hot.
TEARS OFF MONEY BY THE YARD
Colorado Spring, Aug. 21 The
Antlers Hotel is taking in money
by the yard, and it comes in sheets,
of twenties, too. The bills are not
even cut apart and are just as clean
and fresh as when they came from
the engraver. It is money that
has never been spent.
A page cf these valuable engrav
ings was turned in today by Adolph
Jacobs, who is spending the Sum
mer at the hotel. He is vice presi
dent of the National Bank of Com
merce at Natchez, Miss., and is
sojourning in Colorado Springs
with his wife and children.
The new bills, tens and twenties
are issued by his bank, and bears
his signature.
DANIELBOQNE'SMARK
While in Abingdon Mr. D. L.
Clarke was presented with a pho
tograph of a date cut on a tree,
secured in Kentucky. The mark
on the tree showed plainly: "Here
D. Boon klled a bar." Mr. Clark
prizes the photo very much.
WILL MOVE TO VIRGINIA
t Mr. W. w Mosely, who had
made all of his arrangements to
reside in High Point, will move
his family to Lynchburg. His
house, Qninn,Marsball&Co.,bave
offered him a promotion to take
charge of certain departments of
the business in Lyncburg, and he
has accepted.
town, with its mercantile buildings
and different factories we- realized
more fully than ever that Thomasville
was no longer the Thomasville of
thirty years age. --.
S. Jfj. DICKSOff,
: High Point, N. C.
CICERO HOOVER KILLED
Brother D. Sherman Hoover
Killed at Throttle
Cicero Hoover, an engineer on
the Southern was killed at Knox
ville.Tenn.Tuesday evening at six
o'clock
Cicero Hoover was the youngest
brother of Sherman Hoover, of
Washington, D. C. (well known
here), and T. J. Hoover, of Ashe
boro. Mr. T. J. Hoover, of Asheboro,
was here today enroute to Spencer
to meet his brother's remains.
FIRE ON THE OCEANIC
Liverpool, Aug. 23, Fire has
broken out in the storage of the
White Star liner, Oceanic, which
was due to sail for New York via
Qtieenstown today. The fire was
supdued with slight damage, and
th steamer will sail today accord
ing to schedule.
JOSEPH G. BROWN ON SOUTH
If our Philadelphia contemporary
really wishes to be honest and fair in
its discussion of economic conditions
in the South, it might study, with ad
vantage to itself and to its readers, an
address made at the meeting of the
New York State Bankers' meeting on
July 14 last by Mr. Joseph G.Brown,
president of the Citizens' National
Bank, of Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Brown
showed that last year the value of the
cotton crop was well in excess of
$500,000,000; that the value of the
corn crop was "$370,1 39,327; of wheat,
$69,763,596, and of oats, $29,790,163.
The tptal production of corn, wheat,
oats, Irish potatoes, rye and hay in
1R04 was $542,121,000,to which should
bo added, according to the 'North Car
nlinn. hanker, other rjroducts estimated
at $550,000,000, making the value of
the South 8 agricultural products, in
cluding cotton, $1,700,000,000. The
manufactured products of the South
last" year were valued at $1,600,000,
OQP The mining, manufacturing and
agricultural production of the South
last year was estimated at $2,500,000,
000. Since 1880 the South's coal
production has increased from 6,000,
000 tons to 96,000,000 tons in 1904.
The Southern States make as much
pig iron today as the whole country
produced twenty-five years ago. In
1880 the capital invested in cotton
mills operated in the South was $21,
000,000. Today they represent $200,
000,000 of capital. The lumber pro
duct last year was $200,000,000. The
railroad mileage has grown from
20,000 in 1880 to 65,000 in 1904
Baltimore Sun.
IT GETS NO BETTER
The shifting across Main Street
gets no better, notwithstanding
the fact that it was given out by
the Southern thai after the long
sidings were put down there would
be a great change. As the town
grows and business incteases the
trouble increases and it is apparent
to all that something must be done.
Just in what way relief will come
we are not prepared to say, but
the matter should receive the at
tention of the authorities and the
railroad officials now. If a bridge
is necessary near Hamilton Street,
let's have it If the shifting could
be changed on the yard in a way
to give the desired relief, let the
change be made. That the pres
ent inconveniences shall be per
petuated is out of the question.
The town cannot put up wun it.
We would suggest that a com
mittee, either from the Board of
Aldermen or the Manufacture! s'
Club, or both, wait on the officials
of the road and lay the matter be
fore them.
Gives Himself Up.
New York, Aug. 25. Moses Haas,
indicted in connection with cotton leak
Bcandals, ; surrendered to a United
States marshall when omcially in
formed of the warrant issued against
him a few day t ago. This warrant was
issued simultaneous with the one for
Peck man, who was arrested at. Sara
toga. S0H00L C0MMITTE TO MEET
The township school committee
of High Point township will meet
in J. L. Parrish's office Satnrday,
September 9th, at 3 p. m.r for the
purpose of employing tne teacnets
for the township. 830 at
THE INTER-URBAN
Rails Being Put Down on
Main Street
It looks like business on North
Main Street this morning. Mr.
Msrkley, the contractor for the
work in town, has bis force put
ting down the rails for the Inter
Urban Electric line. For the pres
ent about twelve hundred feet will
be laid with rails and the street
put in good condition.
' It is the plan of the Inter-Urban
Company now to have a force of
hands here Oct. 1st to continue
the work. The rails are large and
of the best quality, just such a rail
as is used oa all long distance
lines, for heavy freights and rapid
transit.'
So far the company has expend
ed over $20,000 on the line and
will push it through as rapidly as
other engagements will permit.
This morning there were at least
a hundred people present to see
the beginning of this work which
means so much for the develop
ment of High Point and the coun
try between here and Winston.
From Daily Enterprise of Thursday.
SCHOOL NOTES
School Opens Monday, Sep
tember 4 Other Information
All children below the railread
must go to school No. 1, in the old
building, located in fourth ward.
SjAll the children above the rail
road, ii a first, second, 'third, or
fourth grade, must go to school
No. 2, in the new building, located
in first ward.
All the children above the rail
road in a fifth, sixth, seventh,
eighth, or ninth grade,' must po to
school No. 1, in the old building,
located in the fourth ward.
The fourth grade above the rail
road wili have two grades: the
lower fourth and the upper fourth.
All new students in town, or out
of the corporate limits, are reqeust
ed to meet me in my office in the
old building, Thursday, August
30th, and Friday, September 1st,
for the purpose of being graded.
All delinquent students who wish
to inquire about delinquenci.s or
deficiencies, or examinations, etc ,
may meet U6 on the same date, at
the same place. ,
Students at the opening, Sep
tember 4th, who are in the first,
second, third and fourth grades
above the railroad must not forget
to assemble at the new building.
All other students assemble at the
old building.
Old students assemble in their
old grade of last year, for instance,
the first grade in the first grade
room, the second grade in the
second grade room, etc., up to the
eighth grade, in the eighth grade
room, so that when promo
tion time comes the eighth may go
up to the ninth, the seventh to the
eighth, etc., down to first to the
second.
No changes in the books from
last year.
The children in the Third Grade
going up to the lower Fourth will
use the same Arithmetic of last
year Baird's Arithmetic, "Year
Three." (Don't forget this, please.)
Seventh Grade students take
their U. S. History with them to
the Eighth Grade.
Let all the children get books
and supplies and be ready for the
opening. Let's have a thousand
the first day,
All books and supplies at Mof
fit's and Jarrett's.
THE SCHOOL BUILDING
The Enterprise went down this
morning and took a look at the school
building. The children of High Point
when they walk into the buildings
Monday morning will have cause for
congratulation. . One handsome new
building and the other as clean as
the best kept house in High Point. At
building No. 1 . Prof. Crowell has
thoroughly cleansed it and there is
not a spot on the walls or the floor and
everything has an air of freshness
about it
The parents should go down Mon
day morning and see the children
gather.
LYNCHING AT NEWBERN
Strung up and Shot to Pieces
John Moore, the Negro
who Assaulted the Wife of
Postmaster Eubanks at Clark
Near Newbern Friday.
Newbern, Aug. 27 John Moore,
the negro who brutally assaulted the
wife of Postmaster Geo. T. Eubankf ,
at Clark, with a meat axe Friday af
ternoon, was taken from the Craven
county jail at 1:30 o'clock this morn
ing and lynched. The mob was com
posed mostly of countrymen,neighbors
01 n,u banks, but there were citizens of
Newbern in the crowd. The farmers
arrived in town about midnight.
lhey did not make anv demonstra
tion until after 1 nVlnnk SUnff
" vawvna P-'-UVAaU
Biddle, who had been notified that an
attempt to get Moore wax nhr.nt. tn he
made, went out on the street to pre-
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veui, me anair and was met by a few
men, one of whom nointpH a rewnl
at him and said: "Sheriff Biddle. we
ike you and mean von no harm hnt.
if VOll crn n atpn fnrfVioi. l.:n
We want the keys to the jail. We are
iiere ror a purpose and mean to ac
complish it."
Biddle told them he did not have
the keys, saying that jailer Williams
had them. They kept guard over the
sheriff, and upon their return to jail
a crowd of men had (TAt.liP.rPf1 nrnnnil
the jail and called Williams out on
j.1 mi -. . .
ine porcn. ine men demanded the
keVS. aild.llnnn Vl ia rofnaal tn onr,.
der them, held him at the point of the
revolver, secured tne keys and made
entrance to the iail. without.
any undue noise or disturbance.
Ihe number around the iail at. that.
ime did not exceed fifty men. Dur
ing this episode the alarm had been
souaded and the naval reserves and
cutter crew were summoned to guard
the jail, but the farmers were too
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quicK ana nad made away with the
man. The eeneral alarm, ten strnlrpR
of the bell, annouced to the public
that something extraofdinaiy was
taking place and, almost immediate
ly me streets were niied with people.
Haviug got possession of Moore, the
mob hurried him off to Neuse bridge1,
hauling him roughly up Craven street
to the Neuse river bridge.about a half
mile distant, and hung him from one
of the iron cross pieces of the draw
portion of the bridge. whiVh ia I orated
at the Newbern end. After he had
been hung his body was riddled with
bullets; at least fifteen holes were seen
in it.
After the terrible p.xennt.iop tliAmnh
dispersed. They made no noise during
the whole aflair and the generalship
was perfect, i he event, deplorable as
it was. was the result, not of sudden
hotheadedness, but of long and serious
meditation, it is said that it the bond
under which Moore was placed at his
preliminary examination, had been
made larger, the lynching would nev
er have happened.
Justice Barnngton made the
amount of the bond only $300, an act
which enraeed the farmers crentlv-
and they determined to take the law
in their own hands, feelinc that, nn-
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der the circumstances, the law could
not make the penalty ht the crime.
This statement is made more, nromi-
dent by the fact that the neighbors
Kept Jiu banks himseJt trom shooting
Moore at the time of his arrest. Fridav
afternoon and urged him to let the
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law taKe H8 course. I He men brought
IVfnnrp tn tlia nitv nrtrl 1nliiraa1 ki'm
v HU vmw VJ UVIlf V1VU U11U
to the sheriff. It is presumed that
tne parties 01 the rescue and lynching
are, at least a portion of the. iden
tical.
Moore's victim is renorted as im
proving. Dr. Street states that, unless
to recover, but that she will always
uffer from the wound and will alwavs
be disfigured. The bones of the face
and jaw-bone are broken and the
wound varies from an inch to an inch
and a half in depth.
. The deed is looked unon in different.
lights today, mostly commendatory of
me moo a worK. ine ministers in the
churches referred to the awful nrime
and expressed horror and indignation
tnat sucn a thing should have been
committed in Newbern. Thev
it an act of barbarism that should not
be allowed to go unpunished. They
expressed the hope that deep and full
investigation will be made; that the
guilty men, at least the leaders, may
be discovered and brought to justice.
ine uDserver s correspondent inter
viewed several colored men nn tho
subject and, without exception, he
juuuu imi uiey approved 01 the
lynching. Charlotte Observer.
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