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Country,' God and Truth, SINGLE COPIES 6 CENTSi VOL. xxxvn, NO. 3. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 13. 1906. WHOLE NO. 2120 ESTABLISH ED 1$70. BILL PASSES TO ; MIT HEW STATE ; flklanomi to be lame ot tbo lev v Commonwealth. .'" " TWO TERRITORIES ARE ONE Indian Territory Joined .With 1 Oklahoma and They are to Ad , mittea as one siaie nouse 'Railroad Rate Bill Made Unfln lshed Business. Washington, Mrch 9. Today t 5:85 p. m, the Senate passed a bill for the admission of a new State to be called Oklahoma and to be composed of the territory, of Oklahoma and Indian, Territory. It was the House joint statehood bill with all the provisions re - lating to Arizona and New Mexico stricken out. The motion to strike out was made by Mr. BurrowB and it was carried b tne close vow. or '37 to 85 after having been lost by the still closer vote of 85 to 86. The final vote on Mr. Borrows' motion was ai follows : Yeas Alger, Bacon, Blaokbnrn, Bulkley, Barrows, Carter, Clark, .Montana); Clay, Culbertson, Daniel, Dubois, Flint, Foraker, ft'tafa TTraviar Tallin war flour in Hansbroagh, Beyburn, Latimer, McCreary, Mallory, Martin, Mor gan, Newlands, Overman, Pat terson, Perkins, Pettus, Rayner, Scott, Simmons, Spooner, Stone, Taliaferro, Telltr. Tillman 87. flays Alien ahisod, Anxeny, Beveridge, Brandagee, Barnbam, CJlapp, (Wyoming) ; Crane Col lom, Dick, Dillingham, Dolliver, Dryden, Fulton, Gamble, Hale, Hemenway, Hopkins, Eean.Knox, LaFolhtte, Lodge, Long, McCnm ber Millard, Nelson, Penrose, Piles, Proctor, Smoot, Souther land, Nixon, Warner, Wetroore 85. The bill as amended was passed by unanimous vote.. Immediately after the disposal of the statehood bill the Hous0 railroad rate bill, on motion of Mr. Tillman, was made the nnflniatiArl bnainaas. bnt M the Senate adjourned over Saturday and Sunday the aotual formal con sideration of the measure will not begin until Monday. The vote on statehood came as the climax of a day devoted ex clusively to that bill. Most of the time was given to disoussion, but the voting on the bill and amend ments consumed an hour and a half. The speech-making excited Comparatively little interest but there was pronounced excitement throughout the voting period and it culminated when the success of rthe motion r'loeTimlnale'IAifzoQa and New Mexico was announced after the second vote on that .proposition. The test vote, upon which;; the opponents of joint statehood showed their greatest . strength, was on - the Foraker ameudment whioh provided that Arizona and New Mexico should have an opportunity to votesepa rately on tne proposition pi joint statehood. .This waa carried by a. vote of 42 to. 29... Previous to this action, provision for increased appropriations in the bills was stricked out in order to afford an opportunity for, a mcttion to con-' our in, the Senate amendments when the bill is sent to the House. The speeohmaking -ibegan at 11 o'clock and was under the ten minute rule after the first hour. About a dozn speeches were mada, , but the notable ones ft ere made by Meiers. Dubois aad Borrows, iu ' dtjuuuciatioii of-pGiyjaiay m Ari x uia and New Mexico. Mr. , Du bois secured the incorporation of an anti-polygamy amendment, but the ehmation of Arizona from the measure detracted somewhat from the importance of the accomplish ment. . Medical Examination Laws. : The examining " boards of the country are assuming despotic power. For the most . part they are made up of political appoin tees with pull?. They will not be buttered by the next change !n ad ministration, but a new crowd with i new pulls will tko their places ou the boards. Tbey are a wonderfnl set of meo. They can, in two or thr, hours' txarnmn tiocs of) a candidate, determine better his fitness to practice medi cine thau a college faculty (ohr tered by' the same State legisla ture that created "the board) can, under whose teaching the candida te has been for four years. Tbey can do all this, aye, and more. They can prevent an educated and etbi cal practitioner of twenty years, practice from entering their Statr, because be is not familiar with cells which should be written- with ah'V while a student who fails at'one college and goes to an eas ier one, and is let through by au easier faculty, gets in without trouble. They can make recipro cating laws with different States which do not reciprocate. They can frame entrance requirements for our colleges to order. They can recognize and pass npon the standing of our literary institu tions at pleasure, s and there is probably not a mother's son on any of the boards in any of ojjr States that could get licenses to practice in all of car United States, even if they had the $755 of the examining board fees. This is what they call protecting the peo ple. Odzooks ! and forsooth. New York Times. DR. MATTHEWS SENTENCED 10 TWENTY YEARS IN PEN Greensboro Physician ConYicted ol Mur der in Second Degreo Ap peal Is Taken. Greensboro, N. G, Maroh 9, After deliberating for 13 hours the jury in the case of Dr. J. B. Mat thews, the Greensboro physician charged with the murder of his wife on December 1, 1905, return ed a verdict at 8:50 o'clock this morning of guilty of murder in the second degree. Judge Fergu son sentenced the prisoner to the penitentiary for a term of 20 years Counsel for Matthews immediate ly announced that an appeal would be taken to the supreme court Matthews relied upon a plea of in sanity as.; a defense. . There was expert testimony to support the the contention. The prosecution established a motive, however, by introducing evidence to show that Matthews had threatened to kill his wife on a former occasion, when he claimed that she had,, been uxl faithful;. J J-Mv,,. 1 The most sensational allegation at the trial was, that Matthews had injected strychnine into his wife while she was illr and while pre tending to be offering a prayer' at her bedside. Witnesses from Rieh mond, .Ya., testified that the pris oners had made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suioid&fourteen years ago, , because of the death oi his sweetheart. '; Messrs. 6. D. Boone and Jno Ftench attended services at Anti- och church Sunday. . '' Mr. T. S. Greyard, a prominent merchant of McDonalds, was here Monday. . HOSTILE MOROS, HAKE AH ATTACK Important Action Bltwecn American - Forces ud fatties. REPORT OF GENERAL WOOD The Engagement Opened During the Afternoon of March 6th Action Involved Capture of Mt Dojo Outlaws Exterminated' , Fighting Lasted two.Days. Minils, Mtifcli 11. Au lmyor tant ffction between Aajtricart forces and hostile Mjros bas taken, plate near Jolo. Fif teen enlisted men ware killed, four commit sioned offiors aDd 80 enlisted mm wePe w-ouded and a naval coatin gent operating witn the military sustained 82 casualties. The Moros lost 600 men killed. l' Mijor General Leonard Wood, commander of the division of the Philippines, reports as follows from Jolo, capital of the aulu Islands: "A severe notion between troops, a naval detachment and constabu lary and hostile Moros bas taken place at Mount Da jo, near Jolo. The engagement opened during the afternoon of March 6 and ended in the morning of March 8 The action involved the capture of Moqnt.Dajo, a layacone '2,100 feet high, with a crater'fat its summit and extremely steep. The last 400 fe6t were at an-angle' of 60 degrees and there, were fifty perpendicular ridges covered with a growth of timber and strongly fortified and defended by. an in visible force of Morps. The army casualties were 15- enlisted men killed, four commis sioned officers and 30 enlisted men wounded. The naval cas ualties numbered 32. Ensign H. D. Cooke, Jr., commanding the United States (steamer Pampanga, was severely wounded and Cox swain Gilmore was severely wound ed in the elbow. "The constabulary casualties were: Captain John R. White, wounded in the thigh, severely; three enlisted men killed and thir teen wounded ; Captain Tyree Riv ers sustained a slight flesh wound in the thigh; Lieutenant Gordon Johnston was slightly wounded in the right hand; Lieutenant Con way, of the Sixth Infantry, was slightly wounded in the .left eye AU the wounded are doing, well. "Colonel Joseph W. Duncan, of OFFER OF $ 1 .OOO SHAKE A O L: STOCK REFUSED. New York,, v March 10. The Wall Street Summary to-night says : "The recent rumor of a possible absorption of a controlling inter ests, has been authoritatively de nied ; but while the actual prospec tive purchaser was not the interest referred to, it can. be stated on very trustworthy authority that a syndicate composed of some of the most' prominent railroad interests in the United States recently made an offer of $1,000 per share for 51 per cent or a controlling interest of the $10,000,000 stock of the; At lantic Coast Line Company of Connecticut. This offer was de clined. . "In order to arrive at the com bination of railroads which would be covered by the above purchase, the following statement ; of roads and mileage included in the owner ship of the Atlantic, Coast Line the Sixth Infantry, directed the operations. All the defenders of the Mora stronghold were killed. Six hundred bodies were found on the field. 'The action' resulted in the ex termination of a band of outlaws, who, recognizing no chief, had been 'raiding friendly Moros, and owing to their defiance of the American authorities had stirred up a dangerous condition of af fairs. "The artillery was lifted by block and tackle a distance of 300 feet, into a position on the lip of the crater. "Brigadier General Bliss and myself were present throughout the action. "The attacking coin runs were commanded by Major Omar Bun dy, Captain K. P. Lawton, Cap tain Rivers, Captain L. M. Eoeh- ler, Captain McGlachlinand Lieu tenant Johnson. "The officers and men engaged highly commend the Moro con. stabulary, who did exoelleut work, their casualties numbering 17 out of the force of 44 engaged. "It is impossible to conceive a stronger natural position than that attacked." The fighting lasted two days among the lava ridges, which had been strongly fortified by the Moros. Artillery had to be hoisted by means of ropes up the last 500 feet at au angle of 60 degrees. Robesonlan Dies In Texas. The following account of the death of Mr. Barton Baggett, who was bom in Robeson county, and who recently died in Texas, ap peared in a local paper. Mr. H. C. Mercer sent the item to Mr. J. T. Barker, who requests us to print it. "BAGGETT. Barton Baggett was born April 10, 1836, in Rob eson county, North Carolina. For four years he wore the "gray of a Confederate eoldier, with fqaal honor to himself apd his country. He was first married to Miss Emily Suggs in J862, who bore him one child. .This wife died July 17, 1900. In 1894 he came to Texas settling in Burleson County, where he was married to Miss Molhe Mc London, November 16, 1902. I have reserved the best for the last he was a Christian ; he was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1865, Bro. Baggett waa a good mau, who spent his life in a quiet and unostentatious way, filling the place of a good and true huaband and bringing joy and sunshine to the heart and life of his wife. He was a good neighbor, but he will be missed most by his Railway company, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, the Charleston and Western Vir ginia Railroad Company and num erous other subsidiary lines in the south by the Connecticut company is given, indicating what the pros pective purchasers had in mind. Atlantic Coast Line R. R. 5,742; Nashville, Chattanooga and Si Louis, 1,201 ; Charleston and Western Caralina, 840; North Western Railroad of South Caro lina, 71 ; Georgia Railroad, 614 ; onehalf interest of L. & N. in Chioago, Indianapolis and Louis ville, 295 ;total controlled mileage, 12,492. "The above gives some idea of I the reason why the syndicate of powerful railroad interests were willing to pay $1,000 per share for a controlling block pf the Atlantic Coast Line of Connecticut stock. and incidentally, why such an of fer was declined' wife. They were devoted to each other. He died rather suddenly heart failure on the morning of D icember 18, 1905. The funeral services ware conducted by the writer. Peace to his memory. CHAS. U. MoLARTY." SAY SCHOOLS WRECK NERVES. Head of New York State Medical Society Condemns Methods of Teaching. "If our nation wishes to em bark lo th business of making nervous wrecks of her citizens, it could not accomplish this end any more effectively than by this method of placing children of teo der.years under such a regime as I have outlined." This sentence was the climax of an attack upon modern school methods, in the address of Dr. De Witt G. Wilcox, of Buffalo, the retiring president of theHome ophatior State Medial Society, be fore the annual meeting of that society. Dr. Wiloox analyzed the day in school and commented upon the uniform standard to which the teachers are sompelled to bold the children iu the CDmpetion of the schools. "There is absolutely no latitude allowed the teacher," said Dr. Wilcox. ''She is a part of a mi shine which must turn out so many punils to the teacher in the next higher grade at such a time. The fact that she may have sensi tive, nervous children, who wilt under the machine regime, is of no consequence. Her predecassor did it, and she must do it." With reference to written ex aminations, be said : "The building pleasure which the child begins to take in his school career is nipped by the cold frost of examinations. New York times. ELECTION OF COUNIY TREASURER MONDAY. At Hour o! Going to Press no Choice bad Been Made by Com missioners. There was quite a large number of people in town yesterday, the occasion being the regular meeting of the board of county commit sioners, In addition to the regu lar routine business, the vacancy caused by the death oi the county treasurer was expected to be filled by the election of his successor in office. Quite a number of appli cations, several of them backed by strong petitions were presented to the board and the election promises to be quite interesting. The commissioners set 2 o'clock as the hour for considering the applications of candidates for the office ot treasurer. Officers Avert a Lynching. Rock Hill, S. Q, March 11. The town of Rook Hill was in a quiver of excitement last night over an attack upon the 13-year-old daugher of W. L. Swett, of the Arcade Mill village. A lynching was avoided by the eare and prompt action of the polioemen, who, on catching the . man tbey had suspected, hurried him off through the country to the York ville jail. He had been positively identified by the girL and three other little girls who were with ber when the negro attacked her, and was well on his way to Yorkville in a buggy with two officers,, arm ed with shot guns, when the crowd of operatives, who were searching for him, learned of his capture. The town iu still warmly discus. ing the. incident, Jbut no further trouble is feared. ... i . ... UEH E11T0UBED III FRENCH liniE lost ippaHIi lim Disaster Eier Cc- cnrrtni la Enrope. MORE THAN 1,000 KILLED Caused by Explosion of Mine Damp-Later Details Only Serve fo Conllrm First Reports All France Is Shocked Many Reports at Variance. Paris, March 11, The worst fears as to the enormity of ih mine disaster in the Courrierss district of the Pas-de-Calais Satur day morning have been realized. The dtstb list numbers 1.110, and the whole ot the region stands ap palled at the terrible tragedy, which bas brought sorrow to 6,000 fathers, mother, wives and chil dren. The last great mine disaster oc curred in France in 1885, when 203 persons were kIIed atd 80 injured; but that acd all others sink into insignificance before Courrires. The vast mortuary camp i or der military guard, 400 soldiors having arrived there to assist iu Holding in check the crowds of distracted mourners. For a time hope had been held out to the people that tappmgs on pipes by the imprisoned men had been heard, but gradually this, hope vanished and the people demanded admission to see the bodies, and even threatened to break through the cordon of troops, who had the greatest difficulty in keeping the crowds from the pit. One man named Sylvester succeeded in en tering the mine, but be never re to rued. It is believed that he groped about inside until he was overcome by the gaiei, and per ished. It is reported that a rescue party numbering 40 has been cut off by the cavmg-tn of one of the galleries. Minister of Poblie Works Gau- tnier, Minister of the Interior Dubiel and the secretary of Presi. dent Fallieres remaim on the ground endeavoring to comfort the distressed families of the miners. President Fallieres has given $1,- i , to am in reuei measures. jAue. Ministry will add av further sum to this, and the Chamber of Depu ties will be asked to vote $1,00000 for the purpose of alleviating dis tress. Ministers Gaugbies and Dubief have received complete details of the catastrophe from M. Lavaors, the director of the mine, ,'Of 1,800 .miners who were down in the pits when the . explos ion occurred," he said "073 Awere working in pit No.4 ;432 wwere iu pit No. 3 ;571 in pit No. 2, and the remainder in Pit No. 10. Those resuced were taken out as follows: Ercm Pit No. 4, 190 from pit No. 8,15 escaped through pit No. 2, and 74 from pit No.10L'A: number of these were injured and some of them save died since. At the pr er en t moment over 1,000 men remain imprisoned." " Another director declared ,: that the" imprUooed men numbered 1,- ioo' .- Mr. G. B. Coajio will go t Baltimore this week to brinr his family herewihere they will re side in future MeB8,UfD. Lancaster and W. E. Smith; both of Lumber Bridge, wera in town Monday. Mr. A. W. McLnon returned from Mixton Mondaj morning. "
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