S E M I W E: E K LY.
VOLUME 90.
DURHAM, N. C.,' MAY 19, 1908.
NUMBER ?.
KITCHIU GAIXlXIi GK0UND.
last Saturday's Primaries Trove" tact
the Maims Were Justified.
The fight for governorship
goes merrily on and every Sat
urday other counties are holding
nrimaries and expressing : their
choice for various officers. The
center of interest i3 the race for
Governor, and the following will
be of interest to the friends of
the candidates. .-. v
The primaries held in Davidson
will give Craig 7 1-3 Kitchin 5
1-3, Home, 11-3.
Edgecombe gives Kitchin 9 1-2,
Craig 1, and Home 1-2.
Greene county will give Kit
chin 6 and Home 1.
Transylvania gives Craig its
entire four votes.
in Wavnp rountv. .the home
county of Governor Aycock, who
made a great fignt for Craig,
Kitchin receives 8 1-2, Craig
1.2, Home 2.
In Northampton, where a re
port was sent out last week that
very few people went out to hear
Kitchin and that Craig would
come out ahead, the vote of Sat
urday gives Kitchin 6.83. Craig
2.G2. Home .58.
According to above reports of
primaries held the vote , in the
State Convention stands: Craig
215.16. Kitchin 158.44, Home
(16.40.
Kr. Terrell Dead.
Mr. W. B. Ferrell, who has
been sometime at the Watts hos
pital, died yesterday morning at
the Watts hospital where he was
being treated. ,
Mr. Ferrell had reached the
age of seventy-six and was a suf
fererfrcn Brizht' disease. His
decline had been slow until re
cently though it was known that
he could not live long.
He was an ex-soldier and serv
ed the whole war. He was mar
ried and is survived by his wife.
Mrs. Mary E. Ferrell, one daugh
ter, MUs Blanche Ferrell, of this
city, and three sons, Messrs.
Charles E. Ferrell and Robert
Terrell of this city, and Mr.
Clyde Ferrell, of Columbus, Ga.
The funeral will be conducted
this afternoon at 3 o'clock from
the home on Mangum street,
Kev. J. H. McCracken officiat-in?.
A BIG WEEKS HO 3ft BY COURT.
The Convicts Taken Oat.
The convict who went out to
the road yesterday morning, in
cluding the seven in the work
house and the two in the peniten
tiary, number forty-six and their
combined terms are not long.
Horace Strowd and Sam Bar
bee will do more time than all
the others put together. Each
fi rves 15 years and gets off light
ly. The majority of them do
short convictions and will be
running blind tigers again with
in six months, some of them.
Antic it leaocratie Jsttlclal Coarcatlea
ftrliatft JvdlulBlitrtcl
Notice Is hereby given that the
Democratic Judicial Convention
for the Ninth Judicial District
for tne purpose of nominating a
candidate for Solicitor and such
other businem as may come be
fore the convention, will be held
in the City of Durham on Mon
day June the 8th at 3:00 o'clock
P.M.
By order of the committe
John N. Wilson, chairman.
A. M. Garwood, Secretary.
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on of Key. Charles Mayes, died
Saturday morning at 5:30oclock.
The funeral was held Sunday
ttornir.g frn ilv hjse.
Many Cases Disposed o! Order Made
In Breaks Matter.
Durham Superior courtlfor the
trial of criminal cases, adjourned
last Saturday . afternoon. The
week was a strenuous one for the
officeravof the court and the law
yers. Many were the cases dis
posed of, as the published list
in previous issues will attest.
Several were given long terms in
accordance with the nature of
their crimes.
Following is a list of cases dis
posed of Friday afternoon and
Saturday.
Willie Austin, false pretense,
judgment suspended on payment
of costs.
George Craig, larceny, nol
pros.
Stedman Conklin, retailing
continued.
Helen Walden, resisting offi
cer, 69 days in work house.
Fred Webb, larceny pays cost.
Jasper Phipps, housebreaking
and robbery, nol pros.
Jasper Phipps, carrying con
cealed weapon, $10 and costs.
George Grissom, carrying con
cealed weapons, not guilty.
James Pickett, retailing, con
tinued. Sylvestar Colclough, larceny,
continued.
Clyde Mangum. selling beer,
pays cost.
uoo uusennaii, retailing, six
months.
Vergil, Ed and Duncan Meeks,
assault and battery with deadly
weapons. Ed rol prossed. Dun
can fined $10 and costs andljudg
ment suspended as to Vergil.
Vergil Meeks, assault with
deadly jmpon, 4. months 0n the
roads.
Duncan Meeks assault with
deadly weapon, nol pros.
Charles Beck, assault with
deadly weapon, $15 and costs.
Agnes Leathers, assault with
deadly weapon upon Horace
Strowd, hermurderous paramour,
$10 and costs.
Bennie Enoch, larceny, nol
pros.
Hugh Hester, resisting officer,
not guilty.
Herbert Brooks, larceny, not
guilty.
Max Sneed, called and failed.
Ernest Amy, pleads guilty of
larceny, judgment suspended on
upon payment of costs. 3
Holhart Brown, larceny, nol
pros with leave.
Dave Glover, eight months for
larceny.
Ben Price, retailing, r.ot guil
ty. DeWitt Bowers, two retailing
cases continued.
Asa Warren, retailing, nol
pros.
Mary Jones, retailing, not
guilty,
John (Mangum, larceny, four
months.
Alex Day, carrying concealed
weapons, not guilty.
Grover Gunter, retailing, con
tinued.
G. C. Gunter, appeal from
mayor for drunkenness. Appeal
withdrawn and costs paid.
L M. Ward, called and failed
for retailing.
II. L. Pollard, retailing, con
tinued for bill.
Sim Evans, retailing, contin
ued for bill.
Nancy Bain, nol pros, with
leave.
Charles Thomson, larceny,
continued.
Thomas Danum, carrying con
cealed weapons, continued.
Ed Burt, Thomas Danum and
Ed Danum, assault with deadly
weapon, continued.
a true till :ri Will
Mangum for selling whiskey,
likewise Thomas Linthicum and
W. A. Mabry.
The main recommendations of
the Grand Jury were that the
stockades at the county ho'mei
were not sufficient to accomo
date the prisoners and should be
enlarged. The present jail should
be enlarged so that prisoners
should not be crowded.
A. T. Whitt was presented for
perjury and when the case was
called before the court he was
fined $150. This lease came
through the evidence Whitt gave
before Mayor Graham and later
he wa3 called before the grand
jury and his testimony was not
the same.
BROOKS MATTER SETTLED.
The matter of sci fa cases,
about which so much has been
said in recent weeks, was settled
Saturday. The claims of the de
fense were that he had only col
lected such amounts as had been
among solicitors all over the State.
The following from the Morning
Herald is a good statement of the
case and the settlement ordered:
"The case of Solicitor Brooks
andjthesci-fa matter came up yes
terdayJmorningwith Messrs. Um
stead and Major John Graham
representing the school board
and Messrs. Bryant and Parker
appearing for Solicitor Brooks.
The clerk made out a list of
cases taxed by the law a3 it now
is understood and not a3 inter
preted.by the courtsfor a century.
By the decision of the supreme
court last year five per cent was
affixed as the rate to be allowed
solicitors upon all bonds collect
ed. This is not a new case, and
its settlement was brought about
by the Mark Brown case of Ashe
vill in which the- same matter
was threshed over. It appears
that the other fourteen officers
have not been called upon to re
fund anything.
It may be permissible to say
by way of justification of Mr.
Umstead that the point that he
has made all the while has been
the fees were not legal, that they
were excessive. He makes out
that part of the case. Solicitor
Brooks replied that the fees were
uniformly those of other officers.
He made out his case. So far as
we nave neara, noooay ever
maintained that his adir.i nitra
tion has been corrupt, the unset
tled fees arising out of the un
settled law. The charges
through the paper everybody un
darstood. They were political
ciarges which ever to ititim
d.'cms legitimate warfare azainst
an opponent. That the have
not been taken seriously appears
from the returns and Mr.
Brooks' nomiuation on first bal
lot seems certain. It is earnest
ly desired in making this state
ment that nobody think that the
work of Mr. Umstead is being
belittled. He conceived it his
duty to make the attacks and to
exploit them in the paper,
Whether that zeal has under
standing is another matter.
The statement prepared by
Mr. C. B. Green, clerk of the
court, showed that in the fifty
cases Mr. Brooks had been paid
the sum of $269.75. Under the
order passed by Judge Webb al
tawing Mr. Brooks five per cent
on the amount of the bond of de
posit forfeited since August 1,
1905, Mr. Brooks is entitled to
receive in these fifty cases the
sum of S3.75, leaving Mr. Brooks
indebted to the school fund of
Durham county in the sum of
$236.00, excessive fees collected
in the city cases.
ITCH cured in 30 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion.
Never fails. Sold by Hackney
Druggist.
Frjsn Roxtaurn, Ram 5.
Mrs. James Oliver and Mus
Bettie Resell spent apportion of
last Sunday with the writer's
wife.
J. H. Howa d attended services
at Antioch on lastSunday an 1 was
well pleased with the sermon.
For the last few days three of
our children have been very sick,
but at this writing they are stir
ring around again some what
like usual.
Ben Blalock, son of Samuel Bla-
lock, who was recently operated
on for appendicitis, died on the
night of the 19th and was buried
atnome on tne zuin, ana we
deeply sympathize with Mr. Bla
lock in this sad time of his dis
tress and bereavement.
Rev. Walter Partiller, colored,
who lived in Oxford and was
pastor of Roxboro and Shady
Hill colored Baptist churches
died at his home on last Monday
the 18th. He stood high in the
estimation of both white and
colored, and his death seems to
cast a. shadow over . all the
churches that he served.
, The shygpolks and cranes are
now flying up stream, so we are
expecting the gentle showers be
fore many days.
I received a letter from my
brother, J. C. Jones, of Bear
Creek stating that Chatham
county was going to vote for
prohibition by a large majority,
and well done for old Chatham. I
love every inch of my mother
county, as she i3 doing some wise
acts for her interest of late.
W. A. Rarton is a de'e rate
from this part of the county to
attend the State convention
which meets on the 26th of June,
and if Mr. Barton goes to the
convention he sees what will fce
for our future welfare and will
support Mr. Kitchin.
We hear lots said now a days
about black horse candidates, so
you may talk about your gray
horses, poor horses, fat horses,
weak horses and strong horses,
and the last horse that I men
tioned applies to Mr. Kitchin.
A far seeing political prophet sta
ted that 1903 would be a success
ful year for the Republicans in
North Carolina, and his prophe
cy may come true if the Demo
crats put out a weak horse in the
race as a candidate for governor
and Mr. Kitchin is by far the
strongest horse in the race, and
whoever the weak and black
horses are had just as well give
up the race to that strong horse,
Mr. Kitchin, who has never fail
ed to run well in any rolitical
race, and at tne end of every
race has seized the prohibitical
prize, and he is the strong man
to again run with the interest of
the old North State, to a glorious
victory.
We have often heard of train
eu nurses, ana nere just let me
say that Miss Lula Howard ha
been staying with my family of
whichsevcral have been sick for
the last week, or two, and my wife
said that she did not know of a
lady who had a sweeter disposi
tion and who could adopt herself
to render the most valuable ser
vice in sickness, and we regard
Miss Lula as standing at the top
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