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VoLXXVIIl
HIGH POINT, GTJILFOBD COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. 1906.
No. 50
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Prominent Citizens
Discuss Proposed
Bond Issue
Mr. Editor
I was Dleased to read in Saturday's
Enteriwlse your timely note of warn
ing regarding the proposed railroad
. bond election as now being advertised.
This is the moat important question
he taxpayers of High Point will have
to decide lor probably years to come
and nothttng should be left unsaid to
bring the matter clearly before the
people,
It will be readily conceded by prac
tically every thoughtful business man
of the community that there is abso
lutely no argument against High
Point having a real live competing line
of railroad such as the Seaboard Air
Line or some other standard trunk
line, not allied with the Southern
Railway. Every property owner and
voter of the city should gladly re
spond to the proposition and do all in
his power to aid in bringing about
this much desired result; but ex
treme caution should be exercised in
the matter in order to know beyond
the possibility of doubt that we are
securing our money's wortih when the
transaction Is completed.
In my humble opinion, the call for
this $100,000 bond election, issued by
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, as
now being advertised, is entirely un
warranted and Is not at all in accord
ance with the understanding of the cit
izens who signed the petitions for this
road, circulated some weeks ago.
The bond Issue as proposed not only
appears to be extravagant in the ex
treme, but does hot guarantee to-High
Point the long sought for attalnment-
an active competing line of -railroad,
In delivering our bonds to the pro
moters of or builders of this road we
have no guarantee whatsoever that a
competing line will be maintained for
any given time; but on the other hand
the road may be sold out to the South
em Railway the very next day after
the builders get possession of our
bonds. The taxpayers will not en
dorse this proposition which in plain
figures means this:
$100,000 thirty year bonds, $100,000.
Premium from sale of same (mini
mum) $5,000.
6 per cent, interest, thirty years, $180,-
000.
Total, $285,000.
Is not this quite a neat sum to pay
for the privilege of learning that there
are others smarter than we?
Why this haste in calling an elec
tion at this time to authorize the is
suance of $100,000 worth of 6 per
.cent, bonds, when by waiting for he
legislature to meet In January we can
secure a bill authorizing the Issue at
4 per cent? If the promoters of the
road are working to good faith and
have the financial backing claimed
why should High Point be called up
on to burden the taxpayers with an
enormous debt, with no assurance of
profit except to a few? These ques
tions must be satisfactorily answered
before any hond lsue can. be voted.
A better proposition and one emi
nently fair to the city and the build
ers of the road alike, and. as under
stood by the tftisens who a tended the
, mass meetings some weeks ago, would
be about as follows: Secure a bu
from the next legislature authorizing
the' city of High Point to vote an issue
nf nno.000 thirty yeear 4 per , cent
bonds. Deliver i these"- bonds to the
builders of the road when, actual com
petitive connection Is made at Wades
boro with the Seaboard Air Line and
the Atlantic Coast Line and then only
MiVhMiiM) for $100,000 ? worth of
first mortgage bonds on the road, to
gether with proper articles of agree
ment, providing that In the event this
road should at any time in the future
cease to "be operated as a road as a
real competing line, y reason of fail
ure to operate the " road at all, or by
reason of being sold to, operated or
controlle4 fcy, the Southern Railway,
then in och event our bonds shall
be returned to the city of High Point
togethter with all interest paid by the
city on .am,v upon surrender tct
course vi the first mortgage ond
iirid hv the city. .What would be the
bonds and the satisfaction of know
ing that we were far-sighted enough
to properly protect the Interests of
our taxpayers.
This question is worthy of free and
open discussion and the citizens have
a right to be kept thoroughly posted
on this and other important matters
being handled by the city at this
time. -
Exclusive franchises are being grant
ed probably without due considera
tion or legal advice and without pro
fit or money consideration to the city.
High Point Is too goo d a town to give
away valuable franchises and other
such privileges and .the future wel
fare of our city depends largely upon
eminent legal Investigation and advice
relating to all Important industrial
movements, wherein taxpayers' inter
ests are at stake. Let us have more
light.
Yours truly,
Fred N. Tate.
That may look good to lumber men
and bankers, but what do you think
of It, Taxpayer, if you get no graft?
TaxpayerWho Gets no Graft.
"Taxpayer" Also Speaks on Matter.
Mb. Editor:
The people of High Point were sur
prised to read the order of the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the City of j
PEACE COM MIS
SI0N AT WORK.
Russian
Six Members of the Late
Douma Present.
LONDON, July 22. Special. The
High Point, calling an election to put 14th meeting of the inter parliament
the yoke of bondage on the necks of ary peace commission was opened
the people, when our city has hls morning in Westminster Hall of
already all the debts she can stand I the House of Lords. Conference will
and it takes all the income from taxes continue in session three days. There
to pay the interest on debts already are 650 representatives attending the
contracted. j conference from most of the world's
It Is proposed to build a competing I Parliaments, including six deputies of
railroad to Wadesboro, but there is j tne Russian Douma.
no guarantee that this road would be
THE LYERLY MUR
DER TOLD OF.
$322,000 In the Bond Proposition.
High Point needs another railroad
and needs it badly. We are working
under a .handicap by having no com
peting line, but the proposition at
present before us has in It no assur
ance of competition, but contains stu
pendous possibilities for graft There
is, I say, not even a promise of com
petition in the proposition. The pro
moters would have a perfect right to
turn the road over to the Southern
Railway the day it was completed,
or as to that matter, they could begin
negotiations with the Southern" Rail
way the day the bonds are ' voted.
Was not the Asheboro Railway given
to the Southern Railway Company
after our people had built it? Now,
if Mr. Dee Allen and his associates
are not willing and , able to build a
railway to Wadesboro, I want .to
know what assurance we have that
they are willing or able to -buck the
Southern (Railway Company if we put
up $322,000 as a nucleus for them to
borrow money upon. They may then
speculate, for we are putting up the
dough and they would not have the
Incentive to be so watchful and cau
tious of thefuture of the road as they
would 'be if they put up the nucleus
or starting fund. With $322,000 from
the pockets of the taxpayers of High
Point and other amounts secured
alnog the line and invested in the
worthless stock of the railroad
ought to be an easy matter to sell
bonds and turn the road over to .the
Southern at a handsome sum for hold
era of preferred stocks, who would be
Dee Allen and his associates most
likely, for .they would scarcely give
High Point any preferred stock when
they have not even proposed it We
would get common stock most likely,
and it would, in all probability, be
mighty common indeed worth less
than 5 cents on the dollar. Think of
It, $322,000 Of our good money going
for only 15,000 in worthless stock. If
the banks who want to handle these
funds have one bit of confidence in
this stock, let them show their faith
by buying Carolina, Glenn Anna and
Pee Dee Railway Company's common
stook at 100 cents on the dollar. Or,
perhaps Mr. "Taxpayer," who, in the
Enterprise last Saturday, was urging
us to vote for thte subscription, could
secure some' of 4hls common stock if
he offers 100 cents on the dollar. If
he is honest In his belief that It will
soon be worth par let him show his
faith by his individual cash going in
to that, stock. It ought to be a good
thing for lumber dealers, this' new
road, and it ought to look good to
bankers who may handle the fundsN
but how any. other citizen can tiavor
the giving away of 822,000 I can't see.
I Bay $322,000 for this reason: High
Point bonds; bearing 6 per cent ought
easily to bring 1.15 and $100,000 would
bring $116,000. V N. C. 6's are today
wortih about $180,000. ' .
Bonds .100,000.00
In'est 80 years at .., 180,000.00
PrjMittmpvtlKmdfV.,;: . 16,000.00
In'est on prem. 80 yrs. 6 p.c v 27,000.00
operated for even, forty-eight hours as Awful Crash of Trains 20 Dead, 20
a competing line. . injured Head on Collision Near
Another remarkable event In con-1 Hamlet Between Fast Pasgen-
nection with this call was an article I ger and Trait Trains.
in last Saturday's Enterprise, from Hamlet, July 23. One of the most
some one advising the people to vote horrible railroad accidents occurred
in favor of this proposition, and in I one mile from the town, in a deep
his explanation suggested 8 per cent, railroad out, o nSunday evening at
bonds instead of six per cent The7:30- The Seaboard passenger train
party (writing this article surely Is I and an tra freight, a fast fruit
not a taxpayer. If so, why should he train came togethter in a head on col-
recommend so foolish a proposition? I Hsion, demolishing the coach for col
Our people should seriously consider 1 ore1 people,
this matter. There is danger ahead Thirty-five people were killed and
and unless the promoters will enter a score or more injured. Both pas
into an agreement with the city and senger coaches were overturned. The
furnish good and sufficient security, I baggage car and second class car
that the proposed road will be main- I wer Piled in a heap of splintered
talned as an independent and compet- I timbers and both locomotives were
Ing Hue for not less than 25 years converted Into scrap iron. The pas
or better, until the maturity of the senger train was going at the rate of
down the proposition. Let the Board rrtv miles an hour, while the freight
of Aldermen rescind the call and save being a fruit train was also running
the people from unnecessary expense I at a high rate of speed.
and bother of an election. I 1 wo wntte men and 18 negroes
The people of High Point have too were killed; 20 people were Injured
much good sense to assume a debt Engineer .Si' B. Lewis, of the pas
of $100,000 with interest for thirty J senger train and his colored fireman
years amounting to $280,000 and get I wre ,both killed. The engineer of
nothing in return. We had better use tn freight train saved his life by
such money in improving our streets I jumping, but his negro fireman was
and extending sewer lines to those
who are now paying taxes and get
ting no benefits. "A Taxpayer. "V;
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The Enterprise was among the
first to advocate the new railroad to
Wadesboro and we would be highly
pleased to- see the conditions brought on -the freight
killed.
The five white people and eighteen
negroes who were injured were sent
to Charlotte for treatment in the hos
pitals of that city. We have been
unable so far to learn the names of
the killed and injured.
Blame for the accident is placed up-
traln, although the
result? We1 wool ' simply have ' the Total hral.of bonds to Rway$322,000.00
tniarantee of satisraciory .,mu...w
- " f t E-l tt'e to c :e
stock for which we turn
5,000.00
about that are needed here competi
tive railroad rates. We are in favor
of a bond Issue, but we cannot sup
port a measure for $100,000, which
whole of the facts have not yet been
found out It is also stated on the
other hand that the operator at Rock
ingham, for . some unknown reason,
failed -to deliver the train order to the
gives not the slightest guarantee that passenger train to meet the freight.
uiA'ttunti, July 23. The re
port from Hamlet near which place
the freight and passenger trains col
lided last night is to the effect that
two white man and eighteen negroes
were killed and about twenty in-
these conditions that we are paying
so handsomely to obtain will re
main so. This is no new position for
the Enterprise, 'because every man
who was at thte meetings held at the
opera house will recall that the editor jured
of the Enterprise called Mr. Dee Al
len's attention to this proviso, and
upon our motion the special commit
tee was appointed to whom Mr. Dee
Allen was to divulge his movements,
We understand that' other than giv
ing the objective point of the termin
al and other minor matters, no other
guarantee was given. The Enterprise
TRAIN PLUNGES
INTO LAKE
Nine Men and Train Crew Drowned
in Washington State.
SPOKANE, Washington, July 24.
feels that it would be doing the town Special. A report has reached here
an Injustice if It did not call the at- to the effect that engine, express car
tentlon of the people to this Import- and smoking car of the Great North
ant matter before the eleotion on era fast train westbound, left the
these bonds. We hope that the com- tracks near Camden this State, and
mtttee may be able to get the guar- plunged down an embankment into
antee from the promoters before the Diamond lake. Cars are submerged
election-on these bonds. If there is not I and nine men who were in the smok-
a guarantee such as first mortgage er, togethter with the train crew are
bonds for the $100,000 we fear the reported drowned.
proposition will fall at the polls.
There Is Just this about it The pro
moters of the railroad In case the
competitive rates for which High
Point Is to give 100,000 are ever done!
away with by a sale to the Southern
then give us our money back and this
arrangement can only be made sat-
liefaotorily in our opinion by first
mortgage bonds.
THE GREAT DITCH
Many Bidders, But Few Secured Any
of Them.
NEW YORK, July 24. Special.
It is announced at the treasury de
partment that 2,970 people -bid for the
new Panama Canal bonds, but only
78 put offer high enough to secure
any of them.
Many a one who seems to us or
dinary or commonplace Is bearing
heart breaking burdens with a hero-
Ism that would fill us with wonder and
reverence If we could but get al
glimpse into his inner life."
FRIENDS YEARLY
GATHERING
Finn's Cheer Plan to Proclaim Con-
stlfntioaal Assembly.
YIBORG Finland,' July 22. Special.
Members of Douma who came here
for the purpose of continuing their
session , following dissolution of
Douma should take -up the Czar's
challenge by -. proclaiming that that
country must have a ' constitutional
assembly and regular election .plan.
The suggestion' , was ; 'received,.; with
cheers from all and was at once taken,
up for serious consultation. : The
I',"i I-" r "1 for t ivloe of IMb-
Guilford College Making Preparations
to Take Care of a Big Crowd.
Guilford College, , July 24. The
Yearly Meeting of Friends, will begin
here August 8. The college Is mak
ing preparations to entertain a large
crowd' and has already put In the
water, pipes on the campus to accom
modate the people with plenty of Ice
water. Bud iBrown will have charge
of the restaurant during the meeting.
Interesting Testimony Taken in Salis
buryThe Testimony if a Mulatto
Lad will Probably Send Sease Gil
Iespie and Accomplices to the Gibbet.
The State examined witnesses in
Lyerly murder case, in Salisbury Sat
urday. It will be remembered that on
the night of the 13th inst.. at
Barber's, Mr. Isaac Lyerly, his wife
and two children, John and Alice,
were found murdered with an axe or
axes. Five negroes are charged with
the crime. They are now in the
Charlotte jail, having been removed
there -to escape lynching at the hands
of an excited mob. The names of
these negroes are Nease Gillespie,
John Gillespie, his son; Henry Lee,
Nease Glliepie's stepson; George Er-
vin and Jack Dilingham. Besides
these, old Fannie, the wife of Nease
Gillespie and Henry Mayhew, small
but bright mulatto boy, grandson, of
Nease, are detained in jail in Salis
bury as witnesses.
Solicitor Hammer and attorneys T.
F. Kluttz and T. C. Lynn, examined
the witnesses In a preliminary hear
ing.
From Mr. Bryant's Interesting cor
respondence to the Charlotte Observer
we conclude that the testimony of J.
G. Lyerly and Miss Addle Ly
erly, and Miss Mary Lyerly and
others, nothing definite could be de
termined except the finding of the
bodies and certain threats made by
Nease Gllespie against Mr. Lyerly,
These threats appear to have been in
consequence of a dispute over a wheat
crop which both men claimed.
The little mulatto, Henry Mahew,
however, tells a story which attaches
the crime definitely to two of the -ne
groes at least, Nease Gillespie and
Jack Dil Ingham.
Following is Henry's evidence as
reborded .by Mr. Bryant:
After the foregoing persons had
bad their say a small, bright faced
curly haired boy, with blue eyes and
pretty features came in. He carried
a little white, soiled hat In his hand.
His lips twitched nervously, and he
seemed uneasy. He looks more like
his Anglo-Saxon father than he does
his African mother. When asked
who his father was he called the name
of a well known white man.
. "Do you like Nease Gillespie?'
tome one asked.
"No he has been mean to me," was
the quick reply.
Solicitor Hammer took Henry be
tween his legs, pulled off his hat and
patted him on the shoulders, saying:
"Boy, we're not going to hurt you.
Nobody wants to harm you. Now you
must tell us all you know."
Nease Gilespie beats me. He's
my grandpa. He whipped me last
Friday. Pa (meaning Nease) and
John met Henry Lee and Jack at the
branch, this side of Mr.lke'sFriday
night. That's what pa and John said
when they came back. Pa said that
he didn't care what they did with him
after he had done what he wanted to
do. Maw, old (Fannie, asked paw
where he was going and he said 'It's
none of your business, but you'll
know when I come back.' She' said
no more. Paw and John came back
before day. I was In bed with maw.
"When paw and John came in they
set down by the fire and maw asked
paw where he had been and he said:
G d it, I've been down to old
Ike Lyerly's. I G , I went down
there and killed them. I told you 1
was going to kill the man so, by
THE HAMLET R. R.
HORROR
Details of the Awfnl Catastrophe
Where a Passenger and Freight
Train Collided.
Details of the awful catastrophe
near Hamlet, where a passenger train
and a freight train collided on Sun
day evening show that 20 were killed
outright and two others died on the
way to Charlotte. The injured num
ber 46.
The Rockingham operator upon
whom the blame was first placed
claims that he received orders but
they were annulled by the railroad
authorities In iRalelgh. The Corpor
ation 'Commission are at Hamlet and
will make investigation of this sad af
fair which appears to have been the
result of criminal carelessness.
Following is a list of the dead:
F. B. LEWIS, engineer of passenger
train, Hamlet.
H. S. BYRD, baggage-master, Phoe
nix.
THOMAS HILL, fireman, colored.
WATT BOGGAN, porter, colored.
BEV. THOMAS JONES, colored.
GILBERT M'FADEN, colored,
SANDY CAPLES and wife, colored.
GERT HARRINGTON'S baby, col.
ESTHER DUPREE, colored.
MARY LAND, colored.
MARY BELL, and child, colored.
HANNIBAL M'NAIR and child, col.
GEORGE M'LAUIUN, colored.
JUNE RUSSELL, colored.
BRINKER RUSSELL colored.
(Besides these there were two men
unidentified.
Following are the Injured:
White J. O. Bundy, engineer of
freight; Judge W. B. .Council, Hick
ory; Capt. J. D. Bo wen, Wilmington;
G. S. Brighton, Rockingham; George
Cross, Raleigh.
Colored George Morgan, Cicero
Thomas and wife, Oscar Leak, Oscar
Thomas, Berth Arrington, Rich Doug
lass, May Douglass, Ivor Oxen, Frank
Scott, Jim Odom, Fanny Leak, Betty
McFadden, Octavia Jackson, James
Stewart, Henry Stomart, Carrie Mc-
Nair, Percy Clark, Ed Radcllff, Jim
Radcliff, Rich Morgan, Joseph Stew
art, Vic Freeman, an Tinknown wom
an and an unknown child.
The fact that so many negroes were
killed is due to the telescoping of the
Jim Crow car.
Mrs. Highflyer Do you care for
candelabra?
Mrs. Newrich Canned alabra? I
ain't never et none.
G , I did.
"It skeered maw nearly to death
when paw said that John dldnt say
nothing. Jack and paw did it Paw
said that Jack's wife held the lamp.
All met at the branch. Paw took bis
axe with him. I saw him gei It He
washed it off at the branch but there
was a speck of blood left on the pole.
He and John said they washed it We
saw the axe the next morning and
there was blood on it Paw said he
killed (Mr. Ike and Miss Gussie (Mrs.
Lyerly) and Jack killed John and
Alice.
"Maw never asked no more, for
she was skeered.
Jack used Mr. Ike's axe. He and
Mr. tke fell out about a horse. Paw
and John said they set the bed afire.
"Before ,day -paw put his old over
alls with John's in a hed tick of straw
shirts tos-.W aw7 them v burning
. . v -:- . . v' -5 "" ---.; uj uuiuw : uiem oecanse
m wrua, ir; Mwitv'surru desire they (had Wood on them Blood was
t0 return' thanks to, friend . -all over the Whlrt. an thi
had killed Mr. Ike and Miss Gussie."
Do you know where you would go
if you were to tell a story, Henry?"
asked 'Solicitor Hammer.
"Yes sir, to the bad place," an
swered Henry.
"Who made you?"
"The Lord," was the ready reply.
"Paw said they threw the lamp In
the brier patch. I saw a church
lamp at Jack's house the day ma and
me went down there."
The boy started when Mr. Hammer
called to some one in a loud voice and
said : "They're not going to hurt me,
are they?"
He was assured by a number of
his country acquaintances that he
would be all right if Ihe told the
truth.
"I saw the lamp on the mantel piece
and paw said that they threw it Into
a brier thicket."
This little negro tells a most in
teresting story. His words are full
of meaning and the State must rely
largely on what he says to convict
the negroes who are now Imprisoned
in the Charlotte Jail. Henry is dis
posed to tell too much hut his story
yesterday tallies, in the main, with
the onehe told the day after the mur
der at the coroner's Inquest He is
smart and very bright. If his story
is true Nease Gillespie, John, Henry
George Ervin and Jack and his wife
will hang. No half grown boy ever
had more responsibility resting upon
mm. it is a Question nf llifo nr ,
- w -v uvubu,
From the old half crazy hag, Fan
nie, wife of Nease Gillespie, nothlna
could be learned. She says she has
been illtreated by her husband, but '
will tell nothing on him. She defies
the law, and denies what she had al
ready told well-known citizens about
the affair. With the shrewdness of a '
witch, aha puzzled the lawyers. A1V
though she was lying and was caught';1
mi many instances, she could not be
persuaded to tell wihafc she Imowa J it
Us difflculv to determine whether ah '
knew of tfce ; murder, before t occur-
rea, it she did. it 1 nrun A vit.
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"I left home early' that ; morning thashe iwafl 'terrorized by her W
n told' f?r." ITarm Walton that rbi . , -
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