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PEICE 5 CENTS
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Commencing' Monday, June 4, we will
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length 2, 2 1-2 and 3 yards. We will
ell the
$1.39 Quality at 95c yard.
$1.00 quality at 69c yard.
$1.15 quality at 85c yard.
75c quality at 59c yard.
In Towels we offer two extra spe
cial values in Linen Huck-our
$1,40 pality at $1.10 doz.
$1.95 pality at $1.65 doz.
CURTAINS.
We ore showing the latest makee of
'Bobinett Curtains, controlling one of
'th most celebrated makes for this
anarket. Prices range from 69c. the
pair to $10.00 the pair.
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Kelley Springfield Tire put on in our
Rubber Tire Department.
MASSAGE..
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treatment for: Nervoua, Rheumatic
"tod other diseases.
Special: Thur Brandt Maaswge for
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MILUNEBT i h - t
All ,
X Sailor TTnfeATiA TOalVfyier
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HAS
BEEN INVESTED
n
reorganization and Rallying
7
Taking Place Among
the Boers
In Spite of Rapid Advance
of the British.
Bier Commander Says Pretoria Will
bs Defended.
British in Overwhelming Number
Surround the City.
FIVE THOUSAND MEN PI AVE
LEFT' FOR THE FREE STATE TO
CUT OFF BRITISH LINE OF COM
MUNICAION KRUGER'S FLI HT
CREATES ANGER.
Pretoria, June 1. Johannes burg ovs
been surrendered to the British and i
Pretoria has been invested. The dy-
namite factory at Modderfon:ein was
occupied last night by the British, and
Commandant Delarey's commandos
are no surrounding the factory and a
fierce fight is expected.
The rapid advance of the British at
first demoralized the Boers but a mar
velous reorganization and allying has
been taking place all over the district.
It was at first expected that Pretoria
would surrender on demand, but the
krysgraad which has assumed the
power of government since May decid
ed to defend it. Kruger's unnecessary
and precipitate flight and the taking
away of gold bullion intended for coin
age has engendered a deep feeling of
.anger. Five thousand men have left
for the Free State with the project of
cutting the British communication.
General Delarey was here today, and
said Pretoria would be defended to the
utmost.
DOUBT AS TO CONDITIONS.
London, Tuesday, June 5. No de
spatches of later date than Saturday
have been received from Lord Roberts
but no fear is expressed because of his
silence. All interest centres in Pretor
ia. All despatches from there in
some days -some from, the Laffan bu
reau correspondent. One which states
that the British have invested the
town and that the city will be surren
dered on demand is unfortunately un
dated and is at variance with another
despatch of June 1 that the Boers are
Tallying to defend the place. The ab
sence of news from other correspond
ents suggests that they fled during
the panic or their later despatches
Mail
have been suppressed. The Daily
's correspondent, however, sends
a brief despatch, dated June 1, stating
that the town is full of strange burgh
ers, but that most of the Qommandoes
are laagered outside. Information from
other points is unimportant and no
considerable operations are recorded.
THREE MEN KILLED IN
FEUD IN TEXAS
Troops
Ordered to Saa Augustina
Towa Under Arms.
Dallas, Tex., June 4. Governor
Sayres today ordered a section of the
state militia to San Augustine where a
desperate feud is in progress. Three
men were killed this morning asa se
quel to the killing of three others dur
ing the last few weeks. The men kill
ed this morning were Sheriff Roberts
and his two brothers.
A few weeks ago Sheriff Wall' was
killed by Lycurgus Borders,, and last
Saturday Wall's brother was killed by
Ben Brooks, a relative of Borders.
Borders and some of his friends return
ed to San Augustine yesterday to get
revenge for the killing of Brooke .
The Walls got Robrets' brother to
aid them. When the sheriff's party
entered the court room, where the pro
ceedings were to take place over the
killing of Brooks Borders' party fired.
Tw6 of Roberts' brothers fell dead and
the sheriff was so badly wounded that
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Also a few nnfnr
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he died at noon . . Since the shpoting
the town has been under arms and
theore may be more bloodshed befe
the troops arrive .
PARK BILL A LAW.
S Amendment to Agr8utujre
BU! Several WVVT "
. s Ago.
Special to the Gazette.
Wastiington, June 4. Dr. CP. Am
bler, secretary of the? Appalachian Na
tional Park Association, was hefe to
day to see about the park matter. It
seems there is some misunderstanding
concerning the park resolution. It
went through several weeks ago as an
amendment to the agricultural bill,
when the committee? made a reduction
of the amount to $5000 and leftiithe in
vesigatiou to the discretion of the sec
retary of agriculture and reported fa
vorably. That settled the matter, as
there was absolutely no opposition.
W. A. H.
CLUB WOMEN MEET.
'Milwaukee, June 4. Hundreds of
club women from all parts of the coun
try have arrived to attend the bien
nial congress of women's clubs tomor
row. Two thousad visitors have ar
rived and other delegations will con
tinue to come till Tuesday noon. The
credentials committee is hard at work
exchanging cards for badge. The
local committee is also busy assigning
seaits to the 1000 accredited delegates.
Some of the unfederated clubs in the
city have maae an effort 'to "be seated,
but the matter has not yet been de
cided. Illuminaed electric erreeting
"G. F. W. C. 1900 welcome" has been,
placed in front of the city hall by the
citizens of Milwaukee.
FUNSTOM HAS A FIGHT.
Manila, June 4. Yesterday GeneVal
Funston with twenty-five men engaged
fifty of the enemy twenty-five miies
east of San Miguel de Mayumo. Cap
tain George J. Godfrey, of the Twenty
second regiment, and one private were
killed. , The enemy's loss is not re
ported! Twenty-five armed insur
gents nave, surrendered at Calire, isl
and of Panay.
WRECK ON A
Richmond, Va., June 4.
C L.
A passenger
train on the Atlantic Coast Line this
morning crashed into a freight stand
ing on the sidetrack at Garysburg. Two
men were killed and several injured.
The dead are Engineer Cheatham, one
passenger and an unknown tramps
Cheatham was a brother-in-law of
Mayor Taylor, of Richmond.
DIVORCE GRANTED.
Newport, R. I., June 4. In the su
preme court today James Brown Pot
ter was granted a divorce from Cora
Urquhart Potter, the actress.. The
ground was desertion. Potter did not
consent to his wife going on the stage
and she never got along well with his
family, even writing him once that she
hated his family.
ABSENCE CAUSES DELAY.
Frankfort, Ky., June 2. Acting
Sheriff Suter said this morning thai he
had not yet applied for a requisition on
Governor Mount for the extradition of
W. S. Taylor, but that he will do so.
Governor Beckham has been out of the
city and this is probably 'the reason
why the application has not yet been
made.
NEGRO LYNCHED.
Memphis, June 4. The negro named
Dago Pete who assaulted the wife of
a prosperous negro farmer has 'been
lynched at Tutwiler, Miss., by a tnob
composed exclusively of his own race.
He was then hanged an L scores of bul
lets were fired into the body.
MRS. R L TAYLOR DEAD
cease of the Wife of Former Gov
ernor of Tennessee.
Mrs. Fannie L. Taylor, wife of ex
Governor Robert L. Taylor, died last
night at Knoxville. The news was re
ceived here late last . night in t tele -gram
addressed to Judge H. '. tar
ter, whose wife is a sister cf -Mrs.
Taylor, who was reared in Ashf:vill;i
and' had many friends here, who will
beshocked at the unexpected news of
her death. A few weeks ago Mrs. Tay
lor gave birth to a child, who, l ow
ever, did not live. NO one here knew
thatvher Illness, which terminated so
suddenly last night, was critic il. - V
FELL FEOJtf LIGHT POLE.
Gas Drake Sustains Painful Injuries
Resting Easy.
Gus Drake fen from an electric flight
pole yesterday morning and was se
verely injured about . the spine and
limbs. He is a young, man about. 20 ;
years old, and is a trimmer, for the
Asheville Electric Company!. He was
climbing the pole at. the Y.. M. I. and
his foot slipped as he "neared the top
and he fell twenty-twp feet to a ma
cadamized street striking . op his back
and shoulders. He wa,s, picked up un
conscious and taken to, Us homef-n
Spring "street. Xrs.) Wftliams . an I Ji
T Sevier were called. " He was In
great pain all day, but'during the ev
ening rested some easier, - It is feared
there may toe in ternaL. injuries." .
We are headquarter for cots and
cot mattresses r Styles v to; suit every-i
body, ; JMrs. I .'-A. Johnson,, .43 Fat
ton avenue.' V r-. v-' 'v,:
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Special attention; given, to: repairing.
WESTERN CAROLINA
POLITICAL NEWS
fiBVOLT IN HAYWOOD RESULTS!
INDEPNDENT DEM6
CRATIC TICKET
p. M. Luther Addresses a Big Gather
ing at Waynesville.
Good Men Named for Registrars
in
Haywood Mr. Aycock Talks of "Ne
gro Domination" at Bervard Ran
dolph County Strongly Anti-Amendment.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
Waynesville, June 4. The republican
county convention met at 12:30 o'clock
and was called to. order by Chairman
T. L. Green. A. E. Ward was elected
permanent chairman and W. T. Den
ton secretary.
R. W. Ferguson, of Crabtree, was
unanimously nominated for sheriff;
W. E. Roberts, of Jonathan, was nom-'
Inated for treasurer, -and D. I. L.
Smathers, of Clyde, for county com
missioner. The remainder of the tick
et was left open. John W. Stamey
was endorsed for the state senate
from the Thirty-third senatorial dis
trict. The convention was briefly address
ed by Mr. Stamey.
Mr. D. M. Luther, of Asheville, who
had been invited to speak, was called
for and responded in a very able and
strong argument against the amend
ment. The democrats in submitting
the amendment, declared that it was
not a party question. When Messrs.
Settle, Cowles, Hoola Boom and other
republicans endorsed the amendment
the democratic press gave them col
umns of compliments, but when the
speaker, Captain Patton and other
democrats declared against this meas
urp they were denounced as traitors
arl republicans, said the speaker.
I care not what they call me. I am
standing where I stood since 1870."
Chjairm.an Simmons came out before
th last election in a long article, stat
ing that the report that the democrats
would disfranchise any man was a lie.
Hs corroborated the statement made
by ail the democrats in 1898. All de
clared together that no man should bs
disfranchised. ''Now," said Mr.
Luther, "who has lied?" He believed
in white supremacy. The Anglo-Saxon
race should and would rule North Car
olina. He organized the first white
supremacy club in 1898. He did not
care if all negroes were disfranchised
but he would not stand by and see the
white men of his state deprived of the
suffrage.
The negro could not vote in 1867 and
every child in Haywood county who
could read knew this to be a fact.
(Senator Teller's opinion was then read
by Mr. Luther, in which the senator
declared that nothing could be done
by indirection that could not be done
by direction, and therefore the grand
father clause wTould be declared un
constitutional, but the remainder
would stand, and thereby leave the.
white illiterate man and the ignorant
negro on the same plane. The speaker
cited instances where the supreme
court of the state and of the United
States had rendered opinions adversa
in cases similar to the present proposed
amendment.
Friends of the measure say all the
amendment will stand or fall together.
This is untrue. Chief Justice Fuller
was quoted as saying that parts of a
law may stand and other sections,
which are found unconstitutional, will
fall. If this be true" then the negro
and white men will fare alike.
Section 4 requires that every man
who votes must not only read, but
must be able to write any section of
the constitution. Many men who left
their homes to fight for their native
Dixie were denied even an ordinary ed
ucation. These men Anglo-Saxons-will
be disfranchised just so sooft as
the fifth section shall be declared un
conetRutional .
or course the old ante-helium ne
gro, who cared for the wives and chil
dren of the confederate soldiers - while
they fought for the country, would be
disfranchised, while the negro dudes in
the towns would enjoy the right cf
suffrage.
,-. Many good men would be dlafran-
WISDOM
CARR &WARD
DismmuroRs,
chised under the poll tax clause.
Some democrats claimed the judges
would "fix" a good many .things, but
"fixing" would not work ;ln this mat
ter. We should apply the golden rule in
voting on this question. We should
- ' - r neighbors' rights
f-c wnx ro uust v- "irmce n"
unless we are wmiarf'tt'
own.
""vum ne was going to ote tor
AycocH VU the ipeaker thought that
ge&t)emafi'a argument n the amend
ment weak. The east hid been crying
to the west for help for thirty years ,
We owe the east nothing. Bttk
Kitchen went populist and his ifrifrwd
turned the state over to--the republic
ans. What we should do i protect
the illiterate white . men of vne west.
Democrats by the ithousads are declar
ing they wlli never support his
amendment. It would be a dark da?
for the Old North State if this amend
ment should be carried.
Mr. Luther said in this section the
negroes congregate in the townskand
cities and have superior schoolad
vantages to white children who live in
the country. Yet these negroes could
vote while many white children, when
they grow up, cannot.
Supporters of the amendment
claimed schools would .be lengthened
by its adoption. The poll tax goes al
most entirely to schools, and this
amendment, if adopted, will rob the
school fund of $240,000. How would
this improve our free school system?
The amendment was conceived in
iniquity and born in sin, and if every
man would do his duty as a citizen the
measure would be overwhelmingly de
feated. Mr. Luther was given splendid at
tention throughout. His speech was
one of the best heard here during the
campaign. There were about 400 vot
ers, many of them democrats, present.
POLITICS IN HAYWOOD.
The Big Democratic Revolt Honest
Men Appointed Registrars.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
Waynesville, June 4. Your corre
spondent took occasion to attend the
republican county 'convention at
Waynesville today. It was by all odds
the largest convention ever held by the
party in this county. Every township
was well represented by as intelligent
men as any county in the state affords.
The work of the convention was
short and highly satisfactory. No
nominations were made except for
sheriff, treasurer and one commission
er, candidates for the remaining coun
ty offices including members of the
general assembly, had been nominated
by the citizens' mass convention held
at Clyde on Saturday, the 2d inst.
Perfect harmony exists between the
participants in Saturday's mass con
vention, which was composed of dem
ocrats who oppose the domination of
the court house ring, and the republi
cans. This revolt on the part of these dem
ocrats who met at Clyde is the most
serious the democratic party in Hay
wood county has ever had.
Those who for a generation have
kept watch of the continued reliability
of the democratic majority in this
county will no doubt be surprised at
this threatened serious revolution, but
to one who has lived among these peo
ple all these years, and who now know
their grievance there is no surprise
whatever.
From the foundation of the county,
ninety-two years ago, its vote has al
most inariably been cast for the dem
ocratic party. While, as in all coun
ties there have possibly been done a
few things in elections that were not
so clean as a church baptistry, thes?
were personal matters, unauthorized by
party counsel, and were heartily con
demned by the great mass of the vot
ers, when brought to light. For al-
.most the entire period of that party's
control of the affairs of the county,
good government has resulted, and not
until the last four years have the peo
ple felt the tyranny and abuse that al
ways follows unguarded political dom
ination. When these people began ti
feel the burden of increased taxation
without a corresponding increase in
benefits, like patriots in- all ages they
began looking, for a remedy. Not be-
(Continued on fifth ;xge.)
SOMETHING NEW
Hominy in Tomato Sauce,
1 pound cans, 10 cents.
Bitter's Concentrated Un
fermented Grape Juice, in
Half Pint, Pint and Quart
Bottles. Absolutely pure,
20, 35 and 55 cents.,
t Pure Fruit Shrub; la Pint
Bottles, 30 cents.
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SIXTEEN BOXERS
KILLED IN FIGHT
Cossacks Looking for Missing
Refugees Participate in
Engagement
Chinese Insurgents Lose Many
Wounded, Also,
Eight Members of American Mission
at Poo Ting Fu are Missing.
And Also Three of China Inland
Mission.
TRAIN-SERVICE BETWEEN PEKIN
AND TIENTSIN HAS BEEN IN
TERRUPTED AND SECOND STA
TION OUT OP PEKIN BURNED
BY THE ADVANCING ENEMY.
Tien Tsin, June 4. It is learned that
sixteen "boxers" were killed and many
wounded in a fight with Cossacks who
were looking for missing refugees.
The latest telegram from Poo Ting Fu
says eight membeu of the American
mission and three of the China inland
mission are missing. The train service
between Pekin and Tien Tsin has been
stopped. Huang Tsun, the second sta
tion outside of Pekim has been burned.
REPUBLICANS WIN IN OREGON
Portland, Ore., June 4. The state
election in Oregon for justice of the
supreme court, state dairy inspector,
two congressmen and the legislature,
which will elect a successor to Senator
Mc-Bryde, was held today. The indi
cations late tonight are that the re
publicans elected a majority of the leg
islature, the supreme court justice and
both qongressmen.
LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS.
Baton Rouge, J.a., June 4.-Tln dem
ocrats met here today in state conven
tion and elected the following dele
gates: Senators Foster and McEnery,
ex-Senator Blanchard and John Fitz
patrick. The resolutions endorse the
Chicago platform, extend sympathy" to
the Boers and denounce imperialism.
STEEL PLANT CLOSES
Middlesboro, Ky., June 4. The steel
plant here was closed down this morn
ing by orders from the head office 'of
the Virginia Iron, coal and Coke com
pany. Two hundred men are thrown
out of employment. No reasons are
known for the'shutdown.
YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE GAMES.
At New York R H B
New York 7 11 5
Cincinnati 4 6 3
Batteries: Hawley and Grady; Hahn
and Peitz.
At Brooklyn R H E
Brooklyn 4 7 2
Chicago .. 6 16 2
Batteries: Kitson and Farrell; Grif
fith and Donohue.
At Philadelphia R H E
Philadelphia 4 7 1
Pittsburg 5 11 2
Batteries: Piatt and McFarland;
Waddell and Zimmer.
At Boston R H E
Boston 6 12 2
St. Louis . 3 8 2
Batteries: Dineen and Clark; Hughey
and' Robinson.
AMERICAN TJEAGUE. -At
C-icago Buffalo, 3; Chicago, 2.
Fifteen innings.
Milwaukee Milwaukee, 9; Cleve
land, 8. Twelve innings.
At Kansas City Indianapolis, 19;
Kansas City, 3.
At Minneapolis Minneapolis, 6; De
trait. 5.
For No Reason
la Asheville more pre-eminent
than on account of It fine cli
mate all the year round. It is
America's flrsc resort, because
perennially invigorating. It Is
the same way with Ashivllle's
famous prdii t ....
WHEAT-HEARTS
It Is .the- first breal!ast f jod
fox all the year; It Is always in
vigorating.. WHEAT HEARTS
is prepared for serving In two
minute because we've , milled
the wheat, roasted vS&e - glute
and converted the starch to deL
trine before It reaches foixl
WHBAT -HEARTS Wkes a
tempting dish with whicls noth
ing else; compare? it-you' mtt
try it once youH tuutststand wfc.
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