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UOIJ)SBORO, N". C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1908.
NO. 35
COMPROMISE ADOPTED.
The Railroadlate Bill Pre
pared by the Governor
and his Council of State
Becomes the Law.
Both Branches of the General As
sembly Concure in Its Enact
ment in the Final Analysis
as the Best That Could
be Attained.
Special to The Argus.
Raleigh, Feb. 1. The extraordinary
session of the Legislature is no more.
At two thirty the formal final ad
journment was taken, sine die, by
both Houses.
The Senate took only fifteen minutes
to adopt its bill as sent back from the
House (amended by striking out the
Corporation Commission feature) and
it passed by vote of twenty-nine to six,
fifteen Senators not being present.
The anti railway merger bill was
passed, and then the Holt resolution,
calling for more investigation of rail
road matters was killed by a vote of
26 to 12.
Thfl railway emDloves were given a
bouquet in the form of a resolution for
mally recognizing their petitions and
expressing the hope that railroads
would not find it necessary to reduce
wages any further.
On motion copies of the Buxton res
olution were ordered sent to the Broth
erhood Locomotive Engineers and Or
der of Railway Conductors.
The Governor sent a message run
niner over with congratulations and
laudations ot the Legislators, which
'was read in both Houses.
The calendar was cleared in both
Houses, and the home-going com
menced and will be continued tonight,
Hardly one Legislator will be found in
Raleigh Sunday.
The rate bill, as enacted into law is
as follows:
A bill to be -entitled an act prescribing
the Maximum charge which Rail
road Companies may make for trans
nor tine oassengers in North Car
olina, and for other purposes.
Section 1- That no railroad com
pany doing business as a common car
Tier of passengers in the State of North
Carolina shall -charge, demand or re
ceive lor transporting any passenger
and his or her baggage, not exceeding
in weight two hundred pounds, from
any station on its railroad in North
Carolina to any other station on its
road in North Carolina, a rate in ex
cess ot 2 1-2 cents per mile, and tor
transporting children under 12 years
and over five years of age one-half of
the rate above prescribed, and for
transporting children under five years
of age, accompanied by any person
paying fare, no charge whatever shall
be made: Provided, that where the
amount of the ticket at the prescribed
rate would amount to any figure be-
teen two multiples of five, the price of
the ticket shall be the multiple of five
which is nearest the price of the ticket
at the rate above mentioned, or in the
event that the amount is equi-distan
between two multiples of five, the
price charged for the ticket shall be on
the basis of the higher of these two mul
tiples of five: Provided further that
no charge ot less than ten cents shall
be required: Provided further that in
dependently owned and operated rail
road companies in North Carolina
whose mileage of road in said State is
one hundred miles or less may charge
a rate not exceeding three (3) cents
per mile: Provided further, that in
dependently owned and operated rail
road companies in North Carolina,
whose mileage ol road in said State is
ten miles or less may charge the same
rate which is now in existence on said
roads. This provision shall not ex
tend to branch lines ot railroad, com
panics controlling over one hundred
miles ol road, whether chartered in or
out of the state; also, that newly con
structed railroads or the portion of rail
roads which may be constructed shall
be exempt from the operations of this
act for two years after completion, to
the extent that they may charge a rate
in no case to exceed three cents per
mile. A charge of fifteen cents may
be added to the tare oi any passenger
when the same is paid on the train, if
the ticket might have been produced
within a reasonable time before the de
parture of the train. That the North
Carolina Corporation Commission, its
employees and assistants, shall have
no power or authority to fix, change
or to in any manner enforce the pro
visions of this act fixing the passenger
charges on railroads at two and one-
half cents per mile, or to fix, change, or
in any manner enforce the rates per
mitted to be charged by this act. And
the North Carolina Corporation Com
mission, its employees and assistants
shall have no power or authority to
change the amount of baggage which
is prescribed by this act shall be car
ied by each passenger, free of charge
and shall have no power to enforce the
penalties provided for in section 4 of
this act.
Sec. 2. In the case that any railroad
company operating as a common car
rier of passengers in the State oi North
Carolina is owned, controlled or oper
ated by lease or other agreement by
any other railroad company doing bus
iness in the State, the rate for carrying
passengers thereon as prescribed by
this act shall be determined for said
railroad company by the rate prescrib
ed by this act for the railroad company,
which owns, controls or operates the
same.
Sec. 3. That any railroad company
violating any of the provisions of this
act, or counselling, ordering or direct
ing any employee, agent or servant to
violate any provisions' of this act by
charging, demanding or receiving any
rate greater than that fixed by this act,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction shall be fined not less
than $500 and not more than $5,000;
and any agent, servant or employee of
any railroad company who shall vio
late this act shall be guilty of a misds
meanor, and on conviction shall be
fined or imprisoned, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
fcec. 4. That any person or persons
except those permitted by law, who ac
cept free transportation shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
shall be fined or imprisoned, or both,
in the discretion of the court; and any
railroad or its employees or agents giv
ing free transportation of any kind
whatsoever, except that permitted by
law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction shall be fined not
less than $500 nor more than $2,000 lor
each offense.
Sec. 5. That an aot entitled "An act
prescribing the maximum charges
railroads may make lor transporting
passengers in North Carolina," rati
fled on the second day of March, 1907,
be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. That no railroad company.
or agent, servant or employee ol any
railroad oompany, shall be held liable
to any person or found guilty of any
offense in any action, civil or criminal
whether heretofore or hereafter insti
tuted or begun, by reason or anything
done or attempted to be done in viola
tion oi saia. act mentioned in tne pre
ceding section hereof, or of any pro
vision thereof.
, Sec. 7. That section 2818 of the Re
vis al of 1905 is hereby repealed, and
all laws and clause of laws in
flist with this aet are hereby repeal.
See. S. That this art shall be In fsrse
from and after April 1st, ltOS.
JURY ACQUITS THAW.
Insanity Plea Saves Noted
Defendant From Electric
Chair.
Committted to Matte wan Mad
house by Order of Trial
Judge.
(Special to The Argus.)
New York, Feb. 1. The jury in the
Thaw case brought in its verdict today
at noon, after a night of sleepless con
sultation and consideration.
The verdict is: "Not guilty
c ount insanity at time deed was
mitted."
Thaw, however, is not free, Judge
Dowling declining to order his release,
but orders his commitment to the In
sane Asylum, instead.
Thaw 's counsel will decide this after-
no on whether or not to fight Thaw's
c ommitment to Mattewan Insane Asylum.
NEWS FORECAST OF
THE COMING WEEK.
on ac-
com-
THE LATEST FADS
AND FASHIONS.
I (Special to The Argus.)
New York, Feb. 1 Dresden ribbons
were never lovlierthan they are today,
and are being used in many elaborate
gowns.
Buttons, braidings, - tassels and cord
ornaments are used on suits and long
coats.
Sleeves ef mou6quetaire lashion are
seen on costumes having the short top
part of the heavier material either plain
and loose or laid in folds.
Black patent .leather boots with
brown, gray, green or tan tops are
worn with suits to match these colors,
Garters for street wear in these colors
and in black and white check is a
present fad. They are often buttoned
with pearl buttons. J
Washington, D. C, Feb. 1.
a An important educational conference
will be held at the University of Illi
nois Tuesday and Wednesday to dis
cuss the relations of graduate schools
of American universities to the prepa
ration for practical professors.
At Tampa, Fla., a conference ol del
egates representing the States of the
South will assemble Wednesday to dis
cuss the immigration problem and the
best means for inducing the movement
of desirable European -settlers to the
South.
The trial of William R. Macon and
Joseph Vanderweide, charged with
being the slayers of Secret Service
Vgent Joseph Walker, is scheduled to
begin at Durango, Colo., next Friday.
At the time of his death Walker was
engaged in gathering evidence against
the perpetrators of alleged land frauds
in Colorado and his murder attracted
widespread attention.
From preseut indications it will not
be a week ol very great activity among
the Presidential possibilities, so far as
their appearance in public goes. With
the exception of William J. Bryan,
none of them has so far accepted invi
tations for public addresses during the
week. Mr. Bryan will remain in the
Fast and will be heard during the week
at several points in New Jersey and
New York.
The first of the State conventions to
name delegates to the Republican Na
tipnal Convention will be held this
week, when the Republicans of Florida
will meet in St. Augustine. More
than ordinary interest attaches to the
gathering because of the reported in
tention of the Republican negroes to
capture the convention in the interest
of Senator Foraker's candidacy for the
Presidential nomination. If the effort
of the negroes fails the convention will
belcontrolled by the federal office hold
ers, as a consequence it is expected the
Florida delegates will go to Chicago
instructed for Secretary Taft.
CHINESE NEW YEAR.
The Chinese Pay Homage to
the Departing as Well as
the Approaching Year.
During That Time There will be Little
Business Transacted. Then Cele
bration is Almost Entirely
Social
(Special to The Argus.)
AULA! E. STEVEN
SON TO SPEAK.
THIS
DATE
IN HISTORY.
The Cause of MaC7
Sudden Deaths
There Is a disease prevazkag ta tfcte
gtmtry most dangerous beeaose so decep
tive. Many iadaem
deaths are earned by
it heart disease,
pneumonia. heart
failure or apoplexy
are often tha result
of kidney disease. t
kidney trouble Is a!
lowed to advance th
kidney -poise nod
blood win attack fh
vital organs or the
tidneys themselves break, down and waste
way cell by cell.
Bladder troubles most always result from
a derangement of the kidneys and a cure 1
Obtained quickest by a proper treatment Of
!he kidneys. If you are feeling badly yon
ran make no mistake by taking Dr. Kilmer'
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver an
bladder remedy. y
It corrects inability to hold urine and scald
ing pain in passing it, and overcomes that
MnpleasiSiit necessity of being compelled to
go often during the day, and to get up many
limes during ths night. The mild and th
extraordinary effect of SwampRoot Is soon
realized. It stands the highest for its won
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Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and sol
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hava a sample bottle of
3iis wonderful new dis
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Don't make any mistake, but remember
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February, 1.
John Philip Kemble, famous
English actor, born. Died
Feb. 26, 1823.
Second Provincial Congress
aet at Cambridge, Mass.
The famous Boll Bock light
hease, elf the coast of Scotland,
ftrst lighted.
State Houaeat Columbus, Ohio,
destroyed by fire.
General Sherman left Savannah
a his northward march.
The Russians occupied Kazan.
Three million dollar fire In
Buffalo, If. T.
Supremo Court decided Ne
braska governorship contest in
favor of James E. Boyd, Democrat.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Damon and Pythias Will Again be
Presented Tbls City.
Owing to numerous requests Ruffln
Lodge No. 6, Knights of Pythias, have
consented to repeat the popular suc
cess, Damon and Pythias, Thursday
evening, February 6th.
WHAT CRITICS SAY.
Most finished amateur performance
ever given in our eily.
Par ahead of most professional com
panies and excelled by none.
Those who saw it want to see it
again, and those who missed it, want
to have that privilege. .
So much pleased, as well as surpris
ed, If repeated want tickets for my
whole family.
Those who failed to be there certain
ly missed a treat.
Tickets now on i sale. Prices 25, 35
50 and 75 cents, t
Interesting Programme Carried on
Today at Second Day's Session
olff&e pnols State His
torical Seeietj.
(Special to Thk Aegus.)
Springfield, 111., Jan. 31 An in
tersting programme was carried out at
the sessions of this, the second day of
the annual meeting of the Illinois State
Historical Society.
Papers and addresses dealing with
the pioneer days of Illinois and the
part taken by the State in the history
and development of the nation were
presented by Prof. E. B. Greene of the
University of Illinois, President Chas
H. Rammeikamp of Illinois College,
Capt. J. H. Burnham of Bloomington,
and others.
Tonight, as the concluding feature of
the programme, Adlai E. Stevenson,
former "Vice President of the United
States, speaks on "Stephen A. Doug
las."
BELL-BABNES.
New York, Jan. 31. Chinatown is
agog for the celebration of the depart
ure of the old and the advent of the
new (Jtunese year. The new year
4605, Chinese reckoning, comes in at
midnight tonight. The Chinese pay
homage to the departing as well as the
approaching year, for they hold that,
as the fate of a man hangs on the smile
or frown of a departing ancestor, so it
is with the passing years they should
be smiling as they go. !
So Mott, Doyer and Pell streets are
prepared to illuminate tonight from
end to end. With the Chinese colony
in New York, numbering about 12,000
individuals, the New Year's celebra
tion lasts about a week. During that
time there will be little business trans
acted. The celebration is almost en
tirely social. It is a time of feasting
and music. Every caller is treated to
bird nest soup, shark's fins, fish maws,
Chinese candy and preserves, pickled
eggs and many other strange concoc
tions.
From house to house stroll the little
groups, ana although Chinese chiiaren
are kept pretty close at home all the
rest of the year, at New Year's time
they are seen In the street in great
numbers, all of them dressed .in the
very best pantaloons and jackets that
their parents can afford.
Noise is an essential part of a Chi
nese festival of any kind. Firecrack
ers, big and little, are exploded in great
quantities. Intermingling with this
roar is the clang of gongs, the clashing
of symbals, the beating ot queer little
pigskin drums, and sounds from the
harsh and untuned flagolets and shrill
flutes. Only a son of the Flowry King
dom can recognize in this noise a
semblance of music.
The Chinese Theatre in Doyer street
has been closed the past three days to
give the aotors an opportunity to cele
brate the New Year. During the com
ing week they will have little chance
for rest or recreation, for the New Year
is the harvest time for Chinese mana
gers and Thespians. Tomorrow the
theatre will reopen with a matinee, the
only daylight performance given In all
the year. The play ehosen from the
company's repertoire of 400 Yuen plays
Is a pretty trifle called "Sixteen Man
darins, Only Three Bad." It is one oi
the so-called king plays, which means,
among other things, that the actors
: will all wear their most gorgeous cos
tumes, which are really very beautiful
fabrics. For the New Year's matinee
the orchestra will be augmented by
the addition of six pairs of brass gongs
and five tom-toms.
Not the least of the New Year cere
monies of the Chinese is the worship of
their throneless king, Confucius.
With them he takes the place ol
Mohammed or Buddha. Bales of red
prayer slips have been prepared to ap
pease the gods.
CANNON'S CHANGE.
Speaker Now Feels That Sentiment for
National Reserve is too Strong
to Stem.
(Special to the Argus.)
Washington, D. C, Jan. 31 Mem
bers of the American Forestry Asso
ciation, who began their twenty-sev
enth annual meeting in Washington
Wednesday, are very happy over au
thentic information that Speaker Can
non has withdrawn his opposition to
the bill for the establishment of national
forests in the White Mountains and the
Southern Appalachian range at places
most suitable for protecting the water
sheds ol the great rivers.
The territory proposed to be set apart,
comprises about five million acres in
North Carolina and other states in the
south, and about six hundred thousand
acres in the White Mountains. The
bill carries an appropriation of five
million dollars.
According to the way the members,
of the association got the information
about the Speaker's change of tront, he
has become convinced that the desire
tor the enactment of this legislation is
so strong among members of the House
that it would be unwise to attempt to
stem the tide. He is represented as
having said that he thought he would
be obliged to let the bill come to a
vote.
WORST
FORM
OF
SCALP ECZEMA
Lasted Four Years Lost a Great
Deal of Hair and Head Was
Covered With Scabs Grew
Worse Under Treatments Until
Two Pepalar Gddsbory People Soon
to Wed.
o Friends in the city have received the
following invitations:
Mrs. W. Ida Barnes
requests the honor of your presence at
the marriage of her daughter
Nannie Elizabeth
to
Mr. A.tLincoln Bell
on the evening of Wednesday the
twelfth of February nineteen
hundred and eight at .
eight o'clock
St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal
church Goldsboro, North Carolina.
CASTOR I A
"For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
FOR SALE Coke's Prolific Seed
Corn, field selection. ,W. F. Moore,
Genoa, N. C.
WEDDING INVITATIONS.
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Palace Drug Store and City Pharmacy
requests your presence
at the marriage of their best friend
Miss Pure Drugs
to
Mr. Low Price
Which takes place at the stote every
hour in the day and day in the year.
Mr. Low Price will be attended by
his best man, Mr. Prescription. Miss
Positive Acuracy will act as maid of
honor. Bight after the marriage a re
ception will be held in the spacious
parlors where light refreshments .will
be served in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Low Price consisting of soft drinks,
Conida's candies, assorted chocolates,
bon bons, Mexican pecan cakes, etc.
At Home every day after 7 a. m., 144
corner East Centre and Mulberry and
125 East Walnut streets.
, Have you seen our fine line of Din
ing Room Furniture? Consisting ot
Extension Tables, Side Boards, Buffets
China Closets, Serving Tables and
Chairs?
Don't Miss This.
Andrews & Waddell Furniture Co.
PERFECTLY CURED BY
CUTICURA IN 4 WEEKS
"I feel that it Is my duty to others
that suffer as I did to tell what the
Cuticura Kemedies
have done for me.
About three years
ago I was troubled
with eczema of the
ecalp in its worst
form, alot of hair came
out in spots and my
head was covered
with scabs. I con
sulted a doctor and
he told me that it
was only a sore and
it would soon heal
ud. He gave me
some salve for it but it did not do any
good. Then I consulted another doctor
and he could not tell me what it was but.
gave me some salve for it and some medi
cine for my blood, but the trouble still
grew worse. At last I was advised by
a friend who had suffered as I did to try
the Cuticura Remedies. So I wont and
purchased a complete set of Cuticura
for one dollar and after using them for
two weeks all the sores disappeared and
in about four weeks I felt I was com
pletely cured. Altogether I had the
eczema for about four years and I am
confident that if I had used Cuticura
sooner it would have saved me a great
deal of suffering and loss of money for
doctors' bills. Although I feel that I
am perfectly cured I still use Cuticura
Resolvent as a-spring tonic. Edward
Arris, McKinley St., Chambersburg, Pa-,
May 2, 1906 and Feb. 24, 1907."
CUTICURA CURES
The most torturing and disfiguring;
humors, eczemas, rashes, itchings, irri
tations, and inflammations of the skin,
scalp, and blood of infants, children, and
adults, are instantly relieved and speed
ily cured, in the majority of cases, by
warm baths with Cuticura Soap, gentle
applications of Cuticura Ointment, and
mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent or Pills.
Cuticura Soap (25c.), Cuticura Ointment (50c).
and Cuticura Resolvent (50c.). (or in the form ot
Chocolate Coated Pilla 25c. per vial ot 60). Soli
throughout the world. Potter Drug 4 Chem. Corp,
Sole Props- 137 Columbus Ave.. Boston, Mass.
as-Mailed Free. Cuticura Book on Skin Diseases.
Notice of Sale of Real Estate Under Mortgage
Under, and by virtue of a power of
sale given Jonathan B. Davis, by Dr.
George A. Smith, by mortgage deed
executed on the 2nd day of January,
1905, and recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Wayne County in
book No. 88, page 35, to secure the pay.
ment of the note therein mentioned, and
default having been made in the pay
ment of said note. I will sell for cash
on Monday, the 10th day of February
1908. at 12 o'clock noon, to the highest
bidder lat the Court House door in
Goldsboro, the lot of land conveyed in
said mortgage deed situated in the town
of Fremont, N. C, and bounded as fol
lows: Beginning at a stake in Vance
street in the town of Fremont, and
thence with the line of said street north
25, East 95 feet and seven inches to a
stake; then South 65, East 210 feet to a
take in the back line then with the
aid back line South 25, West 95 leet
and seven inches to a stake; then North
65, West 21t) feet to a stake, the begin
ning, it being lot No. 13 in the plot oi
land of Z. D. Mumford, made by H. F.
Price.
C. P. Davis,
Adm. of J. B. Davis, Mortgagee
This 7th January, 1908.
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