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; . . irrr . anm r T r f ' j I I fj - . f I - V . V . .1 k "Y ' 1 bbsjbssbsssssbssssbbsssssssssssssssssbsbsssb i. dj;. t .) .. l-i.-v:-;.!i.----o . ft '--w T - last edition VOL. XVI. NO. 150. ! :-. .;.' ASHE VILLI, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1911. 'i'v" V;: :" ' . Jc PEE COPY . ' nTPiiin Tinriift miuiiiu imimu Governor Says He Is Pretty Well Satisfied That He Will Be the Next United States Senator. U MELON CROP VERY FINE ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST Both Watermelons and Cantaloupes One Man Who Raises and Ships Watermelons by tne ... Train Load. L i , Gazette-News Bureau, - ' The Hotel Raleigh, ' Raleigh, August I. N1RTH CAROLINA this year, ac cording to all reports, has a fine watermelon crop, especially in the eastern part of the state. Can taloupes are also very fine, and there has been a large northern movement from this state. Senator W. S, Cobb of Robeson county,' the man who In troduced the farm life school bill in the last legislature, and whose effect ive work made possible its enactment, Is satd to be probably the largest mel on grower In this state. . Some days ago Senator Cobb had shipped a total of SI cars of melons to the northern markets and he expects to ship more than 100 cars of melons of his own growth this year. The melons are bringing nice prices. - As a sample of the kind of melons he grows, Senator Cobb lent to Gov ernor Kitchen last -week a . melon which weighted more than 75 pounds. "It was one of the finest and largest melons I ever saw," remarked Gov ernor Kltchln.' i Joe Davis, who was convicted in , May, 10J, for burglary and. escaped in March, itdl, from th eta,te farm, while serving a 20 years' . sentence, was captured July to In Wilmington amMs now. back 10 Ihe stats' peniten tiary. He seemed delighted, accord "Ing to authorities,' to get back m the' penitentiary and took up hit old tflace with a smile. , Governor Kltdiln's Bony View. Governor kltchln was' ' in Caswell county yesterday to deliver an. ad dress. Beforj he left Governor Kltchln expressed himself as delight ed with the crowds that have been greeting hint and declared that he was going to win the senatorshlp In spite of everything If he is not mis reading the sings. In the city yester day was Judge J. 8. Manning of Dur ham who manr'1 Mr. Kltchln'i campaign' for governor. It Is ol course to be expected that Mr. Man ning will be a strong supporter of the governor but he says that he doei not propose to do any more campaign managing on a laws scale. Judge Manning expressed the belief thai Governor Kltchln was stronger In Durham now than when he was run ning for governor and that he would at least get two-thirds of the county. It Is understood that Governoi Kltchln Is also strong in the Winston Salem section. There hs apparently been a let up the last few days In the Kltchln-Danlels . argument aboul whether the governor laid down ' on the tobacco trust fight It la expected that the flames will be fanned up again In a short while. In the mean while Governor Kltchln Is continu ing to make speeches about the coun try, while Governor Aycock Is com ing In for a few now and then. One man remarked today that It looked ai It Governor Aycock' was going te monopolise the educational meetings, enjoyed so exclusively by Governoi Kltchln for many days this last spring and this summer, and that they wert bout to leave Governor Kltchln tc the picnics. Judge Clark Is also get' - ting about among the voters some and is making an address now and then In fact, thnee who want to have at tendance increased at meetings and Picnics this year are findln n troublt In rutin prominent men as drawing cards. There Is a sufficiency of anx- A number of soldiers from Varict county were In the city today enrouli io Wilmington to attend the annua reunion of the Confederate veteran Many of the soldiers who are ,at th Midlers home In Italelgh have gon o Wilmington to attend the reunion indications ar t:iat the meeting wll be a largely attended encampment . A charter In Iswued to the Undue- Hopkins Aviation company of Oreens- ro to manufacture and sell all kind of flying mttchlnes, etc.; and to givt exhibition flights. The Incorporator are Undaey Hopkins. Thornwell II Andrews and Thomas 8. IWall 0 Greennboro an! the company has 30, 000 authorized capital. n. C, Hood of the Grrennboro cham ber of commerce was In lUlelgh tot while today. Mr. Hood says tha ureunsboro la iironrcnslng rapidly li II linns. At a caucus of the board of alder mf It was 1. iclfii to elect Walter 1. " ttnori ss jc,,!,, of trm police court t iincccl th. ju,iK, lJ.clnrcr whi ""d In n Mr. Saimin Is ounic 1hm I'lt-ntlM,.,! '-r. In 1i,i lis frl.Mc.U h.clc,.. 'i i mil, I, ,i . r of iilililtv unci haw l-e-r i i l" ill pnliili -a fr om a f.-iciio-r city attorned mi p!,ol viUi th lien. hnlll'llf hfc 1 Election of J. K. Vardaman is practically Voncedea At Noon Former Governor Was mary Competitors for United States Senate by 15,000 - More Than Their Combined Vote. JACKSON, MISS., Aug. 2. That former Governor James K. Var daman received a sufficient, num ber of votes in yesterday's democratic primary "to Insure his election to the United States senate Is practically conceded this afternoon by all fac tions. At noon Vardaman was attend of the combined vote of C. H. Alexan- er and Senator Leroy Percy by 15.- 000 votes, with "indications that further returns would increase this lead. ' .','' v : r , ' . ; Early 'Returns, i Jackson, Miss., Aug. 2. Returns re ceived up to o'clock this morning In the Mississippi primary election of yesterday. In the United States senato rial race, give Former Governor James K. Vardaman the lead over both his competitors. Complete returns from 500 voting places and the vote cast was 47,136, divided as follows: Vard aman, 24,688; Percy, 10,671; Alexan der, 11,877. . , - This gives Vardaman a lead of 2040 votes over both Alexander and Sena tor 'J-eRny Percy. If -this ratio Is maintained Vardaman should have a majority of aU votes cast, making sec ond primary Unnecessary and assuring W. J. Bryan By the Democratic Leader Underwood Declares, in Speech He Blocked Efforts to Revise Iron and Steel Schedules !. is Absolutely False Great Applause. 1 " " , w ASHINOTON, Aug. 2. Demo cratic Leader Oscar Under w.ooj this afternoon denounc ed as absolutely false William Jen nings Bryan' charge that he blocked the efforts of Speaker Clark and others to revise tha Iron and steel schedules. The democratlos leader, amid up- rontoug democratic applause, spoke m tne,"houe'1n defense ol , Sis position nd that of the democratic houso. ' Refle-ta,oit tlie brmovrmvr. Mr. Underwood had read the pub lished Bryan statement, and speak ing very ; deliberately he aald "Mr. Speaker: The statement contained that paper are absolutely false. If the reflections the article contains rests on myself, I would, not take the time of this house to ' answer them, but these statements reflect not only upon myself but upon dem ocracy In control on this side of the A 14,093,000 Is Unofficial Estimate Reports on Growing Cotton Crop td Reporting Board of Agri cultural Department Indi cate That It May Be , N Greatest In Inrustry's History. ' ASHINGTON, Aug. I. Reports on the" growing cotton crop for lll received by the de partment of agriculture, continue to ndlcate that the yield this year will be one of the greatest If not the great est. In the history of the industry. The condition of the crop On July 15, as announced today, was SS.l per ent of normal. This, was nine-tenths of one per cent higher than a month igo and t.T per cent above the av- Only 48 July Born in Passadena, Cah It Has a Population of 40,000, Than Any Other Town of Its Size in the World Its Av erage Ought to Be 200 a Month. PASADENA, CAU, Aug. I ras sdena faces a baby famine. There are more wralthy people here than in any other place of Its lire In the world. Only 48 babies STEALER SINKS SCKCCNER; LATTEHS' CP.r.V FICKED UP nil MawuM-luiwUs Ituns Itowit the Hunan l'l krlng stiil tln iJitUT minks In I'oiir Mlnuu-a. New York, Aug. J A wlrelew, mm wife received from the sUxi.mer Mawia 'hiini'tts of the Boston line s thut Mle .n the way hcre from H'lKt'in he Hlc icmi r run down i , , 11. r H-iian F'lc k t1 ,, i , , I., uti.l Tr .i- , ,. , . , .. .1,1 II, i. tun mink the ic cif 1-lliihhiK-Ii.ii.! ii. Ahead of Both Other Pri the former governor a United States esnate seat : " Other Camlltlatcs. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 2. former Governor James K. Vardaman proba blywill be the next United States Senator from Mississippi. Returns from yesterday's democratic primary election show that he Is leading Sen ator LeRoy Percy and C. H. Alexan der at a ratio of about 46 per cent These returns are- from towns and precincts easily accessible to. telegraph ic communication. In the more re mote rural districts It is reasonably predicted that this ratio will be suf ficiently Increased so as to give Varda man a small majority over, both his opponents. Nominations were also made for all state officers.,' Hon, Earl Brewer of Coahoma 'county headed the ticket for governor and had no opposition. . .' . .V , . i" Interest centered in race for lieu tenant governor, the candidates being Theodore G. Bilbo of Pearl River county; T. O. Yewell of Carroll coun ty and Wiley N. Nash of Starksvllle. The returns at hand show that Bilbo Is leading his opponents, but a second primary will probably be necessary to select the nominee. Is Denounced in House, That Charge That capltol and as leader on this floor I would bo untrue, to my fellow demo crats here and to myself if I did not reply to this attack." .. . He and Clark Together. Underwood said the tariff on iron and steel needed further revision and1 would get it; that when the Ways and tneans committee organised he j tolcj tb jummittee that -m -everything h had was Invested. In tha Iron Indus try It would relieve him of embar rassment If It undertook the Iron and steel revision first. , "That Interview," continued Underwood, referring 'to Bryan, "charges that here Is a differ ence between the speaker of this house -and myself as to legislation In this house. That statement la also absolutely- false. We have been to gether, w -are now together, and I predict that we will be together to the end." . Bales Crop eraaa on July 25 for the past ten years. ,'?.'-': Baaed on the average condition , of the crop on July 25. for the past ten years, and the avevage yield per acre for the same period, the condition re ported today, if It should oontlnue, would indicate a final total yield of JOT. 25 pounds per acre, which, upon 14,000,000 acres the estimated final acreage, allowing the abandonment of three per cent, of the acreage, means a total cotton crop of 14,0J,- 000 bales of 600 pounds each. This estimate Is unofficial. Babies and More weaitny reopie were born to Passadona parents diir Ing July. Statisticians say that 100 babies monthly Is minimum output for a city having a population of 40,000, which la the number given In Passadcnla's census. MEAT THADE CF LCNCC.N THREATENED, BY A STRIKE Twenty Vewwln Viiabtcn to IXsi-liargc lnrii- of Im-acw-d llcwf, on Ac count of Dock Klrlkc. London. Aug. S. Kngland s moat trade Is seriously threatened, with the iitilkg of 11,000 dock luliorers at the I-omlun docks, the renult of a nunc ,i..; lite. 'I - ty H'. -inn c C';crrln4c rurv'.., I i - i i . . f r i .. i - h REVOLUTIONIST B CONTROLS Five Killed, Six Wounded, in Port-Au-Prlnce President Simon Preparing to ' Leave City. AMERICAN, GERMAN, FRENCH MINISTERS ARE EMBARKED Revolutionists Cut Off Water Supply Firmin's Men Hold All the City's Important Positions. : ttaKtatlKltlittlt(KtKKllt t Port -An Prince, Aug. 2.- l K,' Five persons were killed and t K " six wounded in the fight on the It - water front today. Firing con- It st tinues. The Salntle and escort K st managed to embark the minis- t t ters of the United States, Ger- H t many and; Frasjce. . They noti- st t fled President'; Simon- they t t would ' assume: responsibility P, t for the refusal t the National X H Bank of paytl to turn over the t H government funds to the Simon st st administration, which is con- t H sidered as haying fallen. st .' ' ststtttattetCtlttktttalt ftimon tTcparcps u ucavo. Port Au Prince, Ilaytl, Aug. 2. President Simon la preparing to leave the city. Madame Simon, their child ren and many of the president's fol lowers have already, embarked on the December and will tranship to , the steamer Allemanla as soon , as she arrives. ''... . '. Revolutionists- have .cut the mains and shut oft the city's water supply. Followers of General Firmln, one of the -revolutionary leaders, occupy ill important positions in the , cap ital. ... ... . . . Efforts to Arrange Trace. -Port-Auiprlnca, Aug.' 2. A foreign diplomats' commlUsa visited the revo lutionary! camps yesterday to arrangr a truce-, and were- partially successful. When ministers decided that Presl dent Simon's cause waa hopeless and that- If he continued his defiance to ward the enemy lawlessness and pll lage certainly would follow, with po slhle suffering by foreign : interests. they advised htm to resign. This he agreed to do if a three days truce could be arranged for city's security. Invested bast Night f Port Au Prince, Haytl. Aug. 2. The capital has been completely Invested by the revolutionists, and It Is prob able that they will refuse a delay of three days asked by President Simon to effect plans to secure the capital from pillage, and will enter the city Immediately. It is probable also that President Simon, who has consented to leave the country, will be obliged to embark for some foreign port to day. There are sufficient soldiers In the capital- at present to maintain order, and the people here feel safe. The French, British, German and Cuban ministers, who went out yes terday to confer with the revolution ary commanders and exact from them promise that Port-au-Prince will be occupied without dlsorded, have - not yet returned. Dr. H. W. Furnlss, the United States minister, remains In Port-Au-Prtnce to see that public order is maintained here. , Antt-Forelgn Keeling Strong. Washington, Aug. 2. The quickness with which the United States threw cordon of vessels about tha Haytlan coapt was due to an Impression In oftl clal quarters that considerable antl foreign feeling existed In the little re public There has been no outward expres sion against foreigners thus far, but officials here believe the security or foreign life and property there Ilea in the presence of warships. HIL EXCESS COPIES' IffllHTO OEIilEO For Relief Under the Long antl Short . Haul Provision of the Interstate Commerce Law. Washington, Aug. . A general denial of all applications by express companies for relief under the long and short haul provision of the law Is entered by the Interstate commerce commiiwlon, In cases where commod ities era shipped irom points of pro duction to points of consumption, the same or similar rates not being ap plicable to or from Intermediate points. . Engineer and Hreninn Killed. Clicrk-.l, ii k tn I irg-. W. Vt i !. IaiuIk 1 '- c hlo it vt , A iic. J. New t trulns on the t . v w t iM ked Was Worth$200,000,000, But Sold for Estimates of Value of Mineral and Iron Company, Acquired Given to Congressional TWO PROMINENT WITNESSES N' EW YORK, Aug. 2. It is ex pected that Lewis C. Ledyard, who got off so well In his first tussle with the congressional commit tee investigating the steel trust, and who related some Itnerestlng history at the previous hearing, will be called again. '. i : That the ore and local ,. hold ings . acquired ;by , ' the ' United States- V steel tcorpofHion;i4iX-.the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company in 1907 haver a valua tion of 200,000,000. waa estimated from figures on the mineral holdings of the Tennessee company given yes terday to the committee on Inquiry. . In acquiring the Tennessee com pany, the United States Steel corpora tion exchanged five per "cent second bonds valued at $28,000,000, the trans action having been brought about to prevent the collapse of the New York brokerage firm of Moore tt Schley be cause of excessive loans with Tennes see Coal and Iron stock as collateral. Since the beginning of tho Inquiry into that deal, Representative Stanley and other members of the house com mittee have sought to develop evi dence tending to prove charges that the impending panio and danger to Moore tc Schley was not the prime motive of the merger, but that it was a desire on the part of the steel cor poration to acquire the Tennessee company and Its vast mineral deposits of the Birmingham district In furth erance of that Idea, notwithstanding the determined declarations of witness 15 JUSTIFIABLE In Fining and Suspending Magee, Is Decision of tha Baseball Director Board. Chicago, Aug. t. By unanimous vote the board of directors of Wis National Baseball league uphold Pres ident Lynch In fining and suspending Sherwood Magee, the . r-nilaaeipnia olob outfielder, for assaulting Umpire Kenneran during a recent game with St Louis In Philadelphia. Lynch fined Magee MOO and sus oended him or the season. The di rectors in a lengthy opinion, In which the league constitution on the power of the president to enforce discipline by Imposing fines and suspending players Is quoted, sustain Lynch. Meyer and Edison I -rave for Europe- New York, Aug., St. Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Thomas A. Edi son were among those sailing for Europe on the steamer Mauritania to day. Meyer declined to dlsotiss the likelihood of American war vessels being sent to Cuba if the present civil disturbance there became serious, Edison Is taking first trip to Europe since 188. Motion for New Trial Denied Wcgle. Columbus.O., Aug. S Judge Klnkead overrules the motion for a new trial In the case of Rodney J. Dlegle, for mer serireant-at-arms of the Ohio senate, convicted on a charge of aid ing In the alleged bribery of Senator Andrews. Tnltinj M'ni.lroii ut t.l'irnltcr. PRESIDENT LEU $29,000,000 Holdings of Tennessee Coal by Steel Corporation, Inquiry Committee.- - IN STEEL TBVST EVQTJ1RV. after witness, who participated in the exchange that the suggestion of con solracv was preposterous, tne com mittee heard th testimony of C. P. Perin, Walter Moore and W. M. Given, expert engineers who appraised the deposits of the Birmingham field in 1904. : These', men ' declared ! that . the ;ore" deposits of that region, and their proximity to coal deposits estimated at. nearly .two. .billion tons, l mako that territory almost unparalleled from an ore-producing standpoint. Ore royal ties of J 5 cents a ton on more- than 400,000,000 tons In that region acquir ed by the steel corporation from the Tennessee company, and coal deposits aggregating more than 1,800,000,00 tons, were given by the experts as a basis upon which members of the committee compute that these proper ties alone are worth 1200,000,000. In corroborating a statement made by Engineer Perm, W. M. Glen, of Birmingham, pictured the Birming ham ore field as of incalculable value, taking Into consideration all undevel oped resources. Of the available ore In .all tha region the estimated hold ings of the Tennessee Coal and Irou company were given as from 60 to 70 per cent, . The ; experts agreed that pig Iron could be produced there $4 cheaper than In the Pittsburg district and 13 a ton less than any place In the world. " Today Grant E. Schley, of Moore Schley, Is expected to testify. J. T. Topping, another member of the Ten nessee Coal and Iron syndicate, also has been subpoenaed. TARIFF MEASURES ARE DIITHEIR II Wool Bill Sent to Conference and Fret List Probably Will Be Soon. Washington, Aug. 1. The wool tariff bill was formally sent to con ference today when the following senate conferees were named: Pen rose and Cullom, regular republicans Lafollette, Insurgent republican; Bai ley and Simmons, democrats. The free list tariff bill as passed by the senate yesterday waa returned to house today. It haa been practl cally agreed In the house that the bill shall be sent to the conference com- mlttea Immediately. Democratic Leader Underwood predicted the bill speedily would be agreed to and sent to the president DOROTHY ARNOLD IS ALIVE, DECLARATION OF HER AUNT She Is Abroad ami lief Parents Have Gone to Ixxik For Her, Mrs. Peck ham Is Quoted as Saying. New York, Aug. . "Dorothy Ar nold la not dead; ah Is abroad an her iwrents have gone there to loo for her. That Is all that can be said deflnltelj' now." 11 lea Orlifln, com panloh to Mrs. Rufus W. Peckham Iorothy's aunt. Is quoted to this efTer In a dispatch to The World from Hid defurd Tool, Me, "MIks Arnold as hettrd ftom Weeks BKO e, ltl'hMi Hi .i- ill In-Ill e.-t I n,U ' t .v-i. , I i HQ DIVIDEND '-..-. ,. . : mmm In a Letter to Stockholders It Says the Directors Have the Money, but Had Better : not Pay It. IT MIGHT BE IMPROPER OR LACKING IN RESPECT In Advance of Court's Approval of Plan of Disintegration Selling of Common Stock Is Heavy. N EW YORK, Aug. i An official statement Issued by the Ameri can Tobacco company to Its stockholders gives ; the Information . that no dividend on its common stock will be declared at the present time. which would ordinarily be paid in ' September. ''. The letter to the stockholders shows the company still engaged on plans for dissolution of the company, and Its recreation in harmony with the Sherman anti-trust law. - The letter reads: In the ordinary course regular dividend upon common stock would be declared at the present time, pay able In September.' Although the earnings amply justify payment of the usual, dividend, the directors feel that in advance of the approval by the1 courts of any plan of dlsintegra- r tion it would be Improper and per- ; haps lacking In respect to the court to make distribution of earnings to the common stock." The company's common stock sold at 1364 here this morning, a decline of 20 points from the previous close. Selling has been heavy, t j , KOTHER ERERT FILTE IS EHFECTED 0 O All Yangtse .Valley Flooded Awful Destruction and Death tha Result ' New York, Aug. S. The Christian Herald announces that it has received the following cable message from Shanghai, China: All Yangtse Valley flooded. Awful destruction and death. Terrible fam ine this autumn. ..'..; . (Signed) "BBALS, "Wuhu, China,"' It Is said by those who have made the message publle that It would seem to Indicate that the relief which the spring crops was expected to bring to the famine stricken districts of China has been dissipated by another inun dation of the country in the dis tricts where the fmalne haa reg ed for the last few months. It la asse" ted that If the condition Is aa severe as the cable message intimates. It would seem that the suffering dur Ing the coming fall and winter will be ven greater than that of last season. ARE GRANTED RELIEF Winston-Salem and Hickory Factories Placed on Shipping Parity , With Goldsboro. Washington, Aug. 2. Freight rate on farm ana lumber wagons - rrom Hickory and Wtnston-Salem, N. C, to Port Royal, 8. C, Bavannah ami Brunswick, da., and Jacksonville and ' Fernandina, Fla., may be made lower by the Southern railway than to In termediate points. This permission Is granted by tha Interstate commerce commission in or der that the Southern railway mlKht establish the same rates to. points named as at present are mude by other lines, thus placing the factories at Hickory snd Wlnston-Sulem on s ship ping parity with thoaa oi' Goltlsboro, N. C. FC'Ja KT.'i KILLED, kixe iNTjr.iD.LY Exac:: ratine of tlie IMM-ti-r soil Naum .t tbe lcatl l'nkttn it M itte Only Heoetitly llitmii t , himi. lUueflelil, miners irt hy n ext'ln .tilii.ii'-- C-- i v. 'I : i . 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