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(I ; 0 rT,,rf-T 4:C3 P. XL Weather Torecsjjv: Colder. VOL XIV. NO. V ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20 1909. 3ePE2C0PY. PARDEh 'MOERIS TELLS STORY OF THE MURDER OF LING GUN DI3PATCZZ3 SECRET OF GUILT PREYED UPON His Part, He Says, Was Innocent; but He Helped In the Search, and . Served on Coroner's Jury. SEVERAL PERSONS WITNESS TO RECITAL OF THE TRAGEDY Di'ed Was Done nt Women's Cabin Morris Buys IHu Own Brottor Cut tlio Chinaman's Throat. , Correspondence of The Gazette-News. T OLF CREEK, TENN., Dec. 20 VV Pardee Morris, the man " " who a few days ago, realli ing that probably within a few hours he would meet hla Maker face to face and In an effort to relieve his mind of a weight that had bowed htm. down for many years, told of the taking off of the Chinaman, Ling (fan; of his participation In the search; of his knowledge of the crime; of his sitting on the coroner's Jury and violating his oath in an effort to shield his kins men and friends, apparently is at the point of death.' His life yesterday ajternoon hung by a slender thread, wjileh, In the opinion of the watchers nt the bedside, was likely to snap at uny moment. He Is now speechless. The story In Friday's Gazette-News of tho confession of Morris created widespread Interest and revived memories of the tragedy which sixteen years ago not only aroused the people of Asheville and west ern North Carolina but which also became an Itnernntional Incident The representative of The Gasette-Newa made Inquiries at Wolf Creek and learned that Mr. Morris, about three weeks ago, told his story, Implicating several men in the murder, in the presence of several persons including Dr. I A. Green, , deputy sheriff, deputy United States marshal. Baptist preacher, physician, and partlclarly a terror to evil, doers In Cocks county; Mrs. Green i s, grand-daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Green, N. T. Presner, post master at Wasp, and Mrs. Pardee Mor ris. , It was learned that Dr. Green's home was about a mile up the creek, and thither the newspaper man set out. A well marked road leads up th creek, which finds its way to the French Broad river, between two steep mountains. There Is little cleared land. Now and then a moun taineer was passed. A store and a co i pie of cottages were passed In a spot where the creek makes a bend and admitted a building site. A short distance above the store is the home of Mr. Green, a house which for more than 100 years has weathered the storms. Back of the house the moun-l tains tower high, covered with spruce and rhododendron, while to the front and east Is a strip of tillable land some 200 feet wide. The dim rays of the sun the day was cold and cloudy fell at an angle of apparently 80 degrees, as the sun seemingly had forced Itself above a towering moun tain peak to the southeast. lr. Green. As the newspaper man crossed the creek and approached the house with lis broad, low-pitched verandah. man was seen standing there. This proved to be Dr. Green, a blacksmith by trade, a man of a powerful build about six feet, two Inches high, with powerful muscle and a broad chest Dr. Green Is a man who bears an excellent reputation In the mountains of Tennessee, whoru ho makes fre quent visits to the homes of the people In the dual capacity of physician and preacher a doctor of the body and soul as well. He asked the newspaper man Into his hospitable home, where In a large fireplace biased a fire of large hickory logs; Pardee Morris' Story. ' "Yea Pardee Morris made a con fession to me," said tho doctor. "It was along between the 20th and 25th of November as we was taking Pardee down to Newport. He was a sick man, 1 had been attending him at his home about four 'miles up the creek, and we had brought him down this far one night. Me and my wife, and Talbert Pressner and my 14 years old grand daughter and Pardee's wlfo were all In the room, around the fire. Pardee seemed to feel that he was near death's door. , He kept saying over loud, 'If hit hadn't been for me lying. Brother Bob would have hung. I can - see the rope going round his neck now.' "Why?" I asked. Pardee re plied, 'Because him and the others killed the old Chinaman. , Bob got mad becaus his wife got scared at the Chinaman and he swore he was gwlne to kill him. They set dogs on him at Bob's house and dogged him. Bob, Frank Umb and Green Kelly nd Wads Lawaon and Green Luns- ford run .him to old Nance Williams', near Paint Rock. They killed him In the chimney corner. Brother Bob, cut his throat In two places, one here and one there, (Indicating with his hand.) I was hauling lumber for Peter Slssom with a yoke of oxen and Green Kelly went o Slssom's and brought an oil barrel and a bushel of corn and said to me. "I want you to haul some corn for me ovr the moun tain." They put the Chinaman in the barrel, kind of doubled him up and pulled his logs back over his head in i . cramming him in the barrel. They told ms hit' was corn but seemed . to me hit was too heavy for corn. come on across the mountain and when I got to the horse shoe bend, Just DEMANDS OF TRAINMEN TO BE PRKENTED TODAY About 75,000 Will Ask for Increases from 5 to 40 Per Cent In Their Wages. Pittsburg, Dec. 20. Seventy-Ova tnousand trainmen, employed on about 75 railroads east of the Mississippi river, will today, throuxh officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, formally notify the various divisions and railroads affected, that a demand for an Increase of five to forty per cent. In wages, will be made January 3rd. The' trainmen will wait until Jan uary 20th. for an answer. a little nhove here, I found out what It was and rolled him out of the wagon and rolled the barrel down a steep bonk.' "Here Dr. Green stopped a moment In his recital of Mr. Morris" confession. After nn lns'ant he continued: "Pardee sold: 'Lawrence Waddel told aoout seeing Frank and Bob Lamb and Green Kelly and VValte Lawson carrying something across the creek, all wrapped up In a sheet. He said It was a still they were carrying Into the mountains. Lawrence was mistaken. It was the dead Chinaman they were carrying. He wns swung on a pole. Tney took him way up In the mountains and throwed him down beside an old moss-covered spruce log.' " Coming back to the killing, Pardee was thus quoted: 'Hob cut the China-mnn's-throat; Boh, and Green Kelly and Bub and Frank Lamb and Green Lunafnrd and the women got the money and then they tried to pile him off on me to haul over Into Tennes see.' " During the confession. Dr. Green says. Mrs. Morris, the wife of the sick man, would Interrupt Morris and try to stop him from tolling of the killing of the Chinaman. 'Go on, Pardee," Dr. Green would say, "you ought to tell it." Then Par dee would brea kout: "Bob, is the cause of all my trouble. Him and my family have broke me up and are the cause of my condition. I must tell all before I can die." " Served on the Coroner's Jury. "Then." said Dr. Green, "Pardee broge out anew. 'I had to help hunt for the Chinaman,' he said, 'and when they found him they made me serve on the coroner s Jury. I never felt as bad In all my life as when I had to lie to save Bob and I Just had to say In the verdict that the Chinaman came to his death by being murdered.' know all along- that they had murder ed the old man but I did not want to tell on my friends and klnfolks. lust had to tell It before I could die. It has caused me a lot of trouble and worry and It Is the cause of my pres ent condition.' " At times while he was telling the story Dr. Green said, Pardee's mind would seem to wander off. "The worry had affected the old man's mind, and It was on his way to New port to be confined as being mentally deranged that he was at my house tand said he just hud to tell of the Chinaman's murder. He seemed ; greatlv relieved after he had told It Durlng the recital of the Incidents. ) when his mind would seem to w ander J off, he would Bay, Met me sing a little' i and then he would hum a line from - the old mountain song: 'Shoot that turkey buzzard.' Then ho would say: 'I am all right now, where did I lea"e of telling about the Chinaman," and then told ho would go ahead again." Some Mental Tests. Dr. Green stated that he and also his wife and Mr. Presner would trv to see If Pardee knew what ho was talking about and they would quls him about outside matters. 'When wero you born, Pardee?' tho doctor said he asked. "I was born August 8, 1852," Mr. Morris replied, and to this his wife, Mrs. Morris, vouched.. Other questions asked the sick man Indi cated that his mind was all right Dr. Green stated thnt Mr. Morris seemed weak and feeble and that In his spells he would swear and abuse people, particularly his sons and brother who he stated were the cause of his dementia. The Chinaman affair and the fact that blockading convictions had been made against his family worried the old man. 'Is there any reason," asked the newspaper man of Dr. Green, "to be lleve that what Morris said was not the truth?" "No," replied tho doctor. 'The con fession was voluntary, and corresponds with many Incidents which have been known for years around here, and Is undoubtedly the truth." Efforts of the officials to convict persons for the murder have proved of no avail.' However, three men, Robert Morris, Carter Ward and Walte L&wson, were tried and con victed at the spring term, 1894. of Superior i court In Madison county of assault upon Ling Gun and sentenced to serve four months on the roaos. The two women, Lis. Trammel ano Nance Williams, and Green Kelly were arrested In Tennessee and held for awhile but released as evidence could not be obtained. It Is said that Lunsford left the country at the time of the Investigations. "Death to Zelaya" Was the Cry of the Rioters. Manama. Nicaragua. Dec. 20. "Death to Zelaya" cried the rioters who formed at the railroad yesterday and forcibly released several political prisoners. Ths police made a de monstration, training Maxim gun in the nv'ors. ITS MJTHEHTIGITY IS HOT rosecutor Announced Today That Ocey Snead Was the Author of the "Suicide Note." DRIVEN TO TAKE LIFE AT INSTIGATION OF OTHERS It Was Necessary to Arraign Women So They Could Be. Held lYiidlng Return of Indictments. New York, Dec. 20. Another chap ter was recorded today In the Ocey Snead murder mystery, with the ar raignment of Mrs. Caroline. Martin, the mother, and Mrs. Mary Snead, the aunt. Prosecutor Mott declared that the authenticity of the "suicide note." wa3 no k:igcr doubted. Tho prosecu tor declared: "I knew absolutely. If the girl committed suicide, It was at the instigation of others. The letters she wrote prove sho was deceived Into believing her husband would not re turn. Finally she was taken into a lonely house, and given an opportunity do owny with heracll." An arraignment of tho women Is necessary for holding them until In dletmcnts ure returned. F0RTNER F03GERY CASE IS ON TRIAL IN ST. LOUIS Former. Who Wait a Social Lcudcr, Alleged to Have Cllercd Forged Check for $11,000. PL Ixwls, Mo., Dee. 20. The ense of M. Dwlght Fortner, a former lend er in the buslriess and social life of St. Louis, who was recently extradited from France on a charge of forgery was called for trial today.1 Fortner Is charged with- having forged the name of Henry C. Tulley to a check for (11.000 obtained through a real es tate transaction, after which he Is al leged to have fled to Paris by way of New Orleans and Pnmimu. In addi tion to the forgery charge, ten other Indictments, based upon Fortner's al leged manipulation of deeds of trust on property belonging to his wife, also hang over the defendant. Fort ner came to St. Louis some years ago from Little Rock and obtained em ployment as a hotel clerk. He mar ried into a prominent family, his father-in-law being A. II. Hnndlan, a wealthy business man, and his sister-in-law being the divorced wife of Wil liam J. Lemp, Jr. MF.N OF GREAT LEARNING TO ASSEMBLE NEXT WEEK ItcMou Will Entertain American As sociation for Advancement of Science. Boston, Musi, Dee. 20. Harvard University and the Massachusetts In- ,tltute of Technology are to art as jomt hosts next week to one of the largest and most Important gatherings of cholnrs and scientists ever hold In America. The occasion will be the sixty-first annual meeting of the American association for the Advance ment of Science, of which Dr. David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford University is president. Among the organizations affiliated with the association and ench of which will meet here In annual session are the American Society of Zoologists, American Nature-Study society, Amer ican Psychological society. Geological Society of America, Association of American Geographers, American Physiological society. American Mathematical society, American Phys leal society, American Anthropologi cal society, American Chemical Socie ty, Botanical Society of America, As sociation of American Anatomists, und the American Folk-Lore society. ANNTVERSXHY OF SECESSION OI1S Ell V EI) IX PVLMETTO STATE Exercise. Under Auspices of Veterans and Daughter. Held In Many Places. Columbia. B. C. Dec. 20. The forty ninth anniversary of South Carolina's decision to secede from the Union was observed throughout the state today with appropriate exercises held under the auspices of the United Confederate Veterans, the Daughters of the Con federacy and kindred organizations. Col. R. A. Thompson of Walhalla Is now the only surviving signer of the ordlnnnce of secession. Another of the signers. Dr. James H. Carlisle, president emeritus of WofTord college, died but a few weeks ago. REV. FATHER SHERMAN1 IV A CALIFORNIA SANITARIUM Wss Nearly Killed by a Train Santa Barbara. Cat., Two i Days Ago. at Santa Barbara, Cal.. Dee. 20. Rev Father Sherman, son of General Wll llsm Tecumseh Sherman, Is in a san itarium here as a result of an acrrldent which brought him nesr to death. As a train came Into the station two dsy a so. Father Sherman, sunning on the steps of a car. lost his balance and fell underneath. The train crew rescued him. Father Sherman, bruis ed, was removed to 8L F.ancls sanita rium. DOUBTED OF "imyuifiiiir Brother-ln-Law" Gives His Testimony- Quarrels Were Trivial, Guests V Declare. New York, Dec. 20. W. Gould Bro- kaw may have opportunity today to tell the court the story or his marital troubles. His counsel Indicated that It would probably be necessary for Urokaw to take the stand to throw new light on Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw's testimony In the trial of her suit for separation and alimony. A new view has been given the oc eurrences on ' the Hrokuw , estates. Those quarrels - which, the society woman asserted, resulted from Bro- kaw's Jealousy and Ill-temper, have been asserted by guests of the Bro knws at High Point, N. C, and else where, to have been trivial. The trial will be concluded this week. Hrotlicr-ln-Law Gilbert on Stand. Mrs. Brokaw tales of trouble so annoyed Mrs. ' II. II. Gilbert, Mr. Rrokaw's sister, that Gilbert forbade her coming to their homo, ailbert testified today.' ' TTiese troubles were largely Imaginary, Gilbert thought. Gilbert said on cross-examination that ho could not recall an Instance when Mrs. Brokaw was refused ad mission to his home. Hrokuw was excited, "very excited," on one occa sion, Gilbert remembered; Hrokaw mlkht havo been drinking, certainly ho was much fatigued, witness said. I Hrokuw might bo laboring under "trivial exhilaration, uronaw wns a "highly aollcltlous man," Gilbert admitted. He would not state posi tively that Hrokaw had never wired tho witness to find if Mrs. Brokaw had gone "to town." MA J. CHAS. P. BOLLES DEAD AT THE AGE OF 86 YEARS It Was He Who Planned the Splendid ForUltcallon at Wilmington, During the War. 'Wilmington, N.'C, Dee. 20 Major Charles P. Holies, the Confederate veteran engineer, who built the first battery, laid out the plan of formica tion which withstood the bombard ment of the Federal fleet during the civil war, Is dead, at 88 years of age. He wns the Inst surviving of the staff of General Whiting, C. S. A., and until-a few years ago was draughts man In the navy department at Wash ington. LAST PLEA TO SAVE WAI.SII: WHIT OF KEVIEW ASKED FOR Thl Action Relieved to Exlinust Every Known Iteconrs by Which He Might Escape. Washington, D. C. Dec. 20. Whether John R. Walsh. former banker and railroad magnate, shall have another trial or shall be taken to Leavenworth prison without further delay to begin serving the sentence of five years' Imprisonment imposed upon him as the result of the Jury verdict finding him guilty of misapplying the funds of the Chicago National bank. depends upon the outcome of the ac tion of hla counsel today In filing a pc tltlon for a writ of review from the United States Supreme court. This action Is believed to exhaust every reconrse known to the law by which the former financier might escape Im nrlsonment. The decision of the 8u nreme court will probably not bo forthcoming until after that tribunal reassembles after the holiday recess early In January. LEADERS OF LABOR CONFER WITH SECRETARY OF LABOR Urae Him to Inveactlgate Various Phases of Industrial Education Problem. Washington. Dec. 20. A committee representing the American Federation of Labor called upon Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel today and urged upon him the advisability of his department making a thorough Inves tigation Into the various phases or in dusctrlal education. The committee, which was appointed for the purpose by the recent Toronto convention of the federstlon, consisted of President Samuel Gompers. James O'Connell John Mitchell and Frank Morrison DOWAGER DUCHESS ESTATE IS VALUED AT Sl,2 1.SSO Late Dih-Iicnn, Before Marriage to Duke of Manchester. Was Miss Ctmsuclo Yznaga. London. Dec. 20. The estate of the late Consucla, dowager duchess of manchester. Is valued for probate at 11.624,330. The testator before her marriage to the eighth duke of Manchester was Miss Consuelo Ysnaga of New York Tliree Are Burned. Chicago, Dec. SO. John Corrodlo, aged seven, Charles Corrodlo. aged two, Mary Corrodlo, aged four, were burned to death today when their home caught Are during their parent' sbsence. , TUB WEATHER: Forecast until I p. nt-. Tuesday, tor asheville and vicinity? Partly cloudy tnd colder weather tonight, with minimum temperature of about II degrees; Tuesday fair, continued cold. BATCH OF NAMES SEIOSEflATE Nominations for Important Places as Ambassadors and Ministers. THE COURT OF ST. UMES POSITION IS NOT YET FILLED Said Nt Willie House That No Decision Has ncen Hcnclied ax to Mr. Rcld'H Sticti'MMor. Washington, Dec. 20. President Tart today sent to the senate the- fol lowing nominations of ambassadors and ministers: Robert Bacon of New York, to be ambassador to France; Richard C Kerens of Missouri, ambassador to Austria-Hungary: Henry Lane Wilson of Washington, ambassador to Mexico; Charles Page Bryan of Illinois, mln. Isfr to Belgium; William James Cab noun or Illinois, minister to China Henry P. Fletcher, Pennsylvania, min ister to Chill; Henry T. Cage, of Call fornlu, minister to Portugal; R. 8 Reynolds llltt of Illinois, minister to Panama; John It. Jackson of New Jer sey. minister to Cuba; Fenton R. Me- Creery of Miehlgan, minister to Hon duras; Edwin V, Morgan of New York. minister to Paraguay; Charles W. Rus- II of District of Columbia, minister Persia; I-aurlts S. Swenson of Mln- csota, minister to Switzerland; llor ace (1. Knowles. Delaware, minister nd consul general to tho Dominican republic. it was said nt the White House that no decision has been reached in re gard to the post in Great Britain, now filled by Whltelaw Reld. The president has sent to the sen te the name of M. Marshall Lang orne of Virginia for second secretnry f the embassy at Rio Janeiro, HIRTY FAMILIES THROWN INTO PANIC BY FLAMES Exploded in the Hallway, and the People, Scnulllr ( lad. Hushed Out Into Streets, New York, Dec. 20. Thirty famllle-i were thrown Into a panic this morn ing when a bomb exploded In the hall wuy of a Prince street tenement. The tenants, scantily clad, fled to the streets, cared for by friends. The structure was partially demolished. TWO ALLEGED WII1TECAPPERS TO BE TRIED AT COLVMHVS. 1X1). Jacob Kirk and David Fox to Answer for tho Beating of Thomas Vanest, In 1007. Columbus, Ind., Dec. 20. After a delay of ninny months, the case of Jacob Kirk ami Dnvld Fox, of Smith- Hie, Monroe county, charged with whitecapplng Thoinns Vanest, a form er blacksmith at South Bethany, was called for trial today In the Bartholo mew circuit court. This will be the second trial or the case. One night In June, 1907, n number or men took Vanest from his home and whipped him. Former Governor Hanly took the matter up, detectives were employed nnd strenuous efforts made to find the whltccnppers. Eight mer were arrested and tried but only wo were convicted, nnd these were Kirk nnd Fox. They were granted a new trial nearly two yenrs ago, since which time the rase has been re peatedly postponed. JVDC.E Ll'HTON IS CONFIRMED AS SIPREME COl'RT Jl'DGE No Opposition Apitenred When Ills Nomination Was Presented to I lie Senate. Washington. Dec. 10. Judge Horace Lurton was today confirmed by the sennte as associate Justice or the Vnlted States Supreme court, to succeed the late Justice Peckham. No opposition appeared. JOHN W. KE11V IS 00 He Is Well Known In Asheville, and Is Yenr 116 Also Ran. Indianapolis, Ind., Dee. 20. John W. Kern, late democratic- nominee for vice president of tho United States, received the congratulations of num erous friends today on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday anniversary. Mr. Kern was born in Howard county, In diana, December 20, 1849, and has been a life-long resident of this state Since his twenty-first year, when ht was elected to the legislature, he has been prominent In democratic politics In addition to serving several years ar city attorney of Indianapolis, he has been the nominee of his party for gov ernor, United States senator and vice president o fthe United Statea. Court Rays Harry Must Remain Matteawan. at Washington, Dec. JO. Justice Me- Kenna of the Supreme court of the United Slates todsy denied the petl tlon ofHarry K. Thaw, for a writ of error to the New York Court of Appeals, In -the case in which Thar trled to obtain release from Mattes, wan asylum. E ACROSSJFBENCH BROAD Large Force at Work on It, and Is Ex pected It Will Be Completed In Two or Three Months. Work on the gigantic re-lnforced concrete bridge of the Southern rail way across the French Broad river, near the Murphy junction. Is being pushed rapidly with the hope of with in three months having the structure completed. Monday & Co., the con tractors, have a large force of hands working daily-on this structure. The bridge is being built for double track, and to stand the heaviest type of locomotives and trains. The struc ture will cost between 1125,000 to 1160,000 when completed. As soon as the bridge Is completed It Is the plan of the company to lay the double track from Murphy Junc tion Into the Asheville station, thus affording a double track from Ashe vlllc to Craggy station, a distance of about six miles. The new bridge will cross the river at an nngle, but will relieve the sharp double curve that oxlsts at present. IUDGE COCKE'S COURSE FAVORABLY COMMENTED ON Ills I He o-.ll Ion That Punished Should "Certuln, Not Extreme" Is Ap proved by Hie lress. The action of Judge Cocke In police court last week In sentencing Ziu-k Dunn, convicted previously of aiding and abetting in maintaining u public nulsunee, to live months on the county roads Instead of the maximum punish ment of two yenrs imposed on the defendant a year ago in his absence and which was held by Judge Adams to be Illegal because Imposed In the defendant's absence, has excited fav arable comment from papers In the state, who take the position that pun ishment should not be "extreme but certain." The Raleigh News and Ob server comments favorably on the "sound statement made by . Judge Cocke In sentencing Doan" In Which Judge Cock a said: "In my opinion extreme punishment Is not always ef fective for the prevention of crime, Its infliction Is not approved by a thoughtful public, und tends to create a sympathy ror the wrongdoer, but the law In order to command universal respect und the support of nil good citizens must guarantee the protec tion of society by the sure and Just punishment or the guilty." The Raleigh paper after reprinting this view held by Judge Cocke, en dorses It and says: "That Is It not extreme punish ment, but certain punishment. Iong sentences are not always best and do not prevent crime so much as moder ate sentences and the certainty of punishment." FORTUNE OF KING LEOPOLD ESTIMATED AT $50,000,000 This Estimate Is Made by a French Financier With Congo Affairs. Paris. Dec. 20. A French financier, familiar with the Congo and other business operations or King Leopold or Belgium, estimates that mon arch's fortune at $50,000,000. law yers anticipate litigation over the property. THE (GEORGIA IS AT NORFOLK. WHERE SHE WILL BE DOCKED i:ainliialloii anil Repair of the Dam age Caused by Hie Vestal's l'ro liellcr Win Bo Made. Nortolk, Dec. 20. The battleship Georgia, which was Saturday dam aged below tho armor line by the blades of the collier Vestal's propeller In Hampton Roads, today came to tho Norrolk navy yard. She will be docked for examination and repairs. THE ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION HEARD FROM; ALL ARE WELL They Reached Klsuma Yesterday and Sailed Thenc for Entebbe, In I'gands. Klsuma, Africa, Dec, 20. Col Theodore Roosevelt's hunting expedi tion arrived here yesterday, sailing ror Entebbe, Uganda. All tho party are well. At Nakuro the settlers cheered Col. Roosevelt lustily. THE niUTISlI WRECKING TTG. BILL IMM1, IS SUNK AT SEA Her Crew Safe Aboard the Burning . luuii, Bound for the Port of New York. Norrolk. Dec. JO. The British wrecking tug. Bull Dor of London and Havana, was sunk at sea this morning. The crew are safe aboard the United States cruiser Blrmlng ham. en route to Norfolk. The Bull Dog was owned by the Caribbean Wrecking company of Liverpool. '. Sugar Slumps. New York. Dec. 10. All grades of refined sugar were reduced ten cents per hundred pounds today. CENSUS REPORTS, 9,362,222 BALES Proportion ol Crop Ginned to Dec. 1 3, Is 90.9 Per Cent of Crop on Same Day Last Year. ROUND BALES INCLUDED THIS YEAR ARE 139,967. A 'oiiitarattve Statement Made Shows Cotton (limed Tills and Last Yenr. Washington, Dec. 20. The census department reports 9,302,222 bales of cotton ginned from the growth of 1909 to December 13th, Vom pared with 11,900,1165 bnloa for 1908. , The proportion of the crop ginned to December 13, 1909, la 90.9 per cent or the crop the sumo day In 1908. Round bales Included this year are 139.967, compared with 215.059 for 190S Sea Island 85,184 bales for 1909; 80.316 In 1908. The number or bales or cotton gin ned from the grown of 1909, In fol lowing states, compared with corres ponding date or 1908. Klutes lo 1908 Florida 59.217 61.131 Georgia 1.165,819 1.BS7.193 North Carolina . 5H2.034 615,736 South Carolina. . I.Otiti, 058 1.134,183 Distribution of Sen Island Cotton for 1909, by states Is: Florida 26,871 Georgia 47,586 South Curollna 10,717 IS FINED $75 AND COSTS FOR "PROCURING" LIQUOR John Callulian Tolls "an Interesting Story of tlie Iroceedure fur Ob taining MoonabJiie rrodu4. , John Callahan, a white man who was arrested October 81, charged with retailing liquor to Harrison Gib son and Dan Edwards; and who latex escaped and wua re-arrested and brought back here, was g'ven a hear ing before Judge Cocke In Police court this morning. Edwards testi fied that he gave Callahan money nnd that Callahan went away and Inter came back with the liquor. The defendant did not deny procuring, and the warrant charging retailing was amended to charga simply, pro curing. Tho defendant was fined 875 and tnxed with the costs. Out or the Cnllahan-Edwarda trans action there grew other eases. Includ ing a charge against P. It. Thrash of retailing to Callahan and also a charge ngainst one Rogers ot retail ing to Callahan. Callahan was the chler witness ror the prosecution but on his testimony the state would not nsk for conviction and both derend ants were found not guilty. Cnllahan. In testifying In the two enses, said that he heard that block ade liquor was being brought to Asheville and that adopting a cer tain proceedure, to-wlt: leaving mon ey nnd a Jug or a suit case In the river section beyond the passenger stntlon. one could secure some of this liquor. Cnllnhnn said that he left some money and a suit case at the place and later went back and found the Honor. He sold. . however, that he did not get enough liquor for the amount of money he left. TWO HABEAS CORPUS CASES BEFORE JUDGE J. S. ADAMS I'mirt Decided M. A. Stanley Musi Go to Michigan to Re Tried for Larceny. .luilse Adnms this afternoon decided the habeas corpus matter Involving the return to Detroit. Mich., or one Mau rice A. Stanley, holding against the lefendant and Stanley will be taken hack to the scene of his alleged theft probably tomorrow morning. Stanley Is charged with the larceny of Jewelry to the value or 872 and will be taken to Detroit by an ofllcer from that city who has been here with requisition papers sluce last week. In the habeas corpus matter or I. C Parrott, held here In connection with s charge In the state of Tennosace, J ml re Adams decided to continue the case until the authorities In Tennessee could be heard from. It Is contended by the defendant that he was granted a conditional pardon, the condition be ing thnt he pay all costs In a certain rase against him. It Is relative to this alleged fact. It la understood, that the court desires to obtain Information before taking action. CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE BOUNDARY LINK CONTROVERSY Attorneys General Disagreed as to tlie Method of Procedure Ce la In Supreme Court. Washington, Deo. 20. North Caro lina and Tennessee are at variance over determining the boundary line between them, the case being before the Supreme court of the United Statea The attorney general of North Carolina wishes commissioners ap pointed to survey the line and tslf testimony. The attorney general of Tennessee thinks ths appointment ef commissioners should follow the f if ing of testimony. Ths court bss t matter under advisement
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