The News and Observer.
VOL. XXXVUI. NO. 146.
TCfIE (LAEffIEST iBDIMBdiJBETTOR] ®F ASW RlfflETKl ©AMO-OBM ©MUX
FOUR INDIANS KILLED
CONFLICT BETWEEN RED MEN
AND SETTLER IDAHO
GROWS SERIOUS.
THE BRUVtS IN A SURtUMOOD.
The Indians Hunters Have Returned
to Their Reservation but say They
Have Only Come to get More Ammu
nition and Hill all the White People
—SitnilaF Threats Have. Caused Un
easiness In Wyoming—Troops may be
Sent to the Scene of the Trouble.
Pocatello, Idaho, July 22.—From
present indications the conflict between
the settlers in the Jackson Hole Coun
try, in Northeast Idaho and Northwest
Wyoming, und the Indiaufi is not at an
end. Although news of the trouble has
been suppressed, it is now positively
known that at least four Indians were
killed.
Just a week ago word was received at
the Bannock Agency, 12 miles north o'
here, that several hundred Banuock In
dians and Shoshone Indians had come
in conflict with the settlers and all the
available Indian police were sent out to
bring the hunters back.
To day the wanderers arrived once more
on their reservation,but they are far from
being in as peaceful frame of mind as
when they left, for in a wagon accompa
nying the returning band were the
bodies of four dead bucks.
It has been given out all along that only
one Indian was killed, and the trouble
has been made light of as much as
possible. White Bear, Captain of
the Indian police, admitted that
he brought back the four bucks, and
the trouble was regarded so seriously by
Indian Agent Teter that he himself
went to assist in starting the wayward
hunters home. The band of between
two and three hundred which arrived
to-day, are in a surly manner. Os
course, they talked little to white men
but one of the bucks said they were
only coming to the reservation to get
more ammunition and then were going
back to kill the whole white man.
Similar threats have caused the pres
ent uneasiness among those in Wyoming
and unless the Indians return quietly to
their homes agent Teter will request that
the Eighth calvary from Boise be at once
sent to this place.
The settlers in the vicinity of the re
cent trouble are very much disturbed
and many of them are leaving their
farms to get nearer to civilization or are
banding together for protection. They
complain bitterly that the red hunters
have no respect whatever for their
rights or property. Crops are trodden
under the feet of their ponies and women
insulted. There are 1,800 Bannocks and
Shoshone Indians on the reservation.
J. O. Houtz, a wealthy ranchman of
Soda Springs, and one of his herders,
while trying to cross Salt River to
Houtz’s ranch, t 5 miles northeast of
here, were stopped with rifles in the
hands of Indian police. The police said
the Indians were on the war path. Mr.
Houtz says the police toid him that the
ladiatrshad killed a white mao, hi* wife
and child, and that the settlers had
rallied and killed-sBC-Indiaus. lil
r ,, Princeton Student* ySAfc.
Cheyenne, Wyo.,’Jiily 221—Governor
Richattft has received a number of aax
ious inquiries of eastern friends of m®m
bers of nineteenth annual Geological
Survey from Princeton College, now
maWtoV -'Mftp in Sdrthera ’ Wyoming
who have been reported captured by
Bannocks And massacred.
Grv. Richards is eertaT'n'hoflrarm has
befallen tba students. The fight between
settles* aud Bauppck Indians occurred
on July 4, in Jackson Hole region, near
the Western; Wyoming; line, directly
south of the yellowsjtone Park.
On July 5 the Princeton students were
at Ladder, in Fremont county, 100 miles
from the scene of the trouble, toot
FATHER AND CHILD DROWNED.
A Culored Fireman Injured White Mov
ing a Boiler.
Spe IM’TU iluc New® twit! . * ——
v Washington, N. C., July 22.
Mr. GAqrge HrffnSWay, of Jones Bay,
took his and children fishing, one
of the Children fed overbqard, aud the
jumped toi ne rescue and’wwh*
were drowned. The last time he came
up the child was in his arms.
Peter Herring, the colored fireman at
the Barnhart Lumber Company's miil,
while, assisting in. raising the boiler
which had settled, was struck by a pies*?,
of sciiitling, inflicting a painful, scalp
wound. Dr. Joshua Taylor dressed the
wound.
fCrVTCN 9} WQ f «i ILT*V - -
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Hi* Accuser* Not Able to Prove the
Charge ot Bribery in Elections.
.special to the News rtnfl Observe*-.
Asheville, N. C., July 22.
John W. Starnes, candidate for mayor
ou citizens’ ticket at the last municipal
election, bad a hearing today on the
charge ot giving away whiskey cm eled
tion day. He was discharged.
W. W. Long; formerly of Ohio, who
was arrested on a charge of bigamy, was
granted a hearing in the magistrate's
court and discharged for lack of juris
tion, as the marriage didn’t occur in
North Carolina.
4Ml|> UHH g
NEW \Ht, Jmy i %l. -■ ijlhaker
Crisp iff at the HEPBkii Beverai
politicians of prominence called on him
during the day.
TIIE EDITORS AT MOREHEAD.
With Fishing, Boating and Bathing
They are Having a Happy Time.
Sp9«ial to the News anil Observer..
Morehead City, July 22.
The editors have thoroughly enjoyed
their stay in Carolina's summer capital,
and editor McDiarmid’s cheery laugh
has often mixed with the spray-laden
roar of the waters. The Atlantic Hotel
is filled with pleasant parties, not only
from North Carolina, but all the East,
from Pennsylvania to Alabama.
Among the North Carolinians here are
Ex-Governor and Mrs. Thomas Jarvis,
Col. and Mrs. Julian S. Carr and
Messrs. Marion and Julian Carr, Mrs.
L. A. Carr and daughters, of Durham ;
Mr. and Mrs. Mae Aden, of Charlotte;
Mr. and Mrs. Borden, of Goldsboro;
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson, of Newborn;
Mrs. Lamb and daughters, of William
ston; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Winder and
Miss Florence Boylan, Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. Jackson, Mrs. Moffitt, Mr. and Mrs.
Josephus Daniels, Mrs. F. B. Dancy and
MrSi Battle, Dr. and Mrs. George W.
Blaeknall, Mr. Starke Batchelor, of Ral
eigh; Capt. H. A. London and Miss Lucy
London, of Pittsboro.
“Those two illustrious contemporaries,
the Atlantic Ocean and Dr. Blaeknall
are still as young and pleasant as ever.
‘ 1 Both are essential to Morehead /’remark -
ed editor London, of the Chatham
Record.
The surf is excellent these afternoons
and many brave the breakers and are en
joying the salty spray. Every afternoon
the surf is filled with pleased bathers.
Sailing is an unfailing source of
pleasure here. There are sails by moon
light and sails by sunlight, sails at noon
and sails at midnight, for the “white
wings” of the tireless sharpies “never
grow weary.”
* * *
A fine band dispels music at all
hours in the spacioue ball room and the
graceful glide of the merry dance
is in evidence. Three very pleasant gear
mans were given last week, all led by
Milan Howard, of sewtorn. Every even
ing the german is' followed by a moon
light shit. ' -
Yesterday most of, the visitors went
to Beatifort to tnoriuog service and
saw the many . interesting . sights of
that historic old sea-port, the ancient
cemetery, oil Whose moss covered stones
are carved the names of those wbo lived
in the distant past, some of them the first
settlers in the eighteenth century, is an
object of unfailing interest.
Fort Macon, whose history all North
Carolinians know is visited by some
party almost every day. The light house
receives an occasional visit.
Fishing claims a large part of the at
tention of the male population, who pull
in the finny tnbe by the dozen. Snake
stories are not in with the average fish
ing romance.
The largest catch of the season was
made Saturday by Mr. T. H. Martin, of
Durham, who caught with hook and
line, a sheepshead weighing nine and a
half pounds.
A party Os seven, members of the
Newbern Naval Reserves, are here on a
two weeks’ cruise jfpt jdpng Pamlico and
Albemarle Sounds. * Tttr. fora Daniels is
the Commodore.
YELLOW FEVER IN’ CUBA.
Fearful Ravage* of Cholera in !Rp*n
l“- J - J> and Asia .RHior^ , \
Washington, D. d*., Julyt.22.—The
5 fpljowiiur latent advices to the
‘ Marine Hospital Service : J *
Dr 1 . Burgess, at Havan'a. cables as fol
lows; •; „ .
‘‘Yellow fever is marksOTJMfic regain g
in Havana among civilians'/’ ■ V .
f United States COBsu} jjMJinga, Japan j
cables that cholera is;pre#iM»g—
Consular reports from-Marsine, Asia
Minor, report as follows km cbderifsT&or
the week ll 450 cases, 300
deaths in Tarau* for week ending June
8, 500 cases, 350 deaths in Tarsus; 200
case*and 100 deaths 4b Adana; for weeki
coding June 15, 250 cases and UUX
deaths in Tatsysv and 454)
deaths in Adana >W JX 'r I
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TIIE SUMNER MURDER TRIAL.
A Motion, Yesterday Jyd^iug
of Venue. __
n. c., jd/R-jan.
Sumner, whi is under iriWatSientfor the
murder of Charles West and Earnest
Sumner, two young men who were shot
"from ambnshr while -riding ahmgr tbw
road, near Jesse Sumner’s home last
spring, today made a motioii through his
!, attorney, asking for a change of venue.
The conjrt room was crowded. Judge
Ewart will give his decision tomorrow
morning. All the patties are well
known.
1 1/ |BT Aji/ll|trtlLE ..
Snj»f rintendent Mayo Struck iu the
Stomach by* Vlaluing Bit.
Winston, N. C., July 22.— George
Kidder Mayo, Superintendent of the
N< rth Carolina Lumber Company’s mill
at.Tillery, met with a .horrible death to
da/ While in the performance of his
duty, he was struck in'fhe stomach by a
planing bit which was hurled from its
place while making two thousand revo
lutions j>er minute. He died a few hours
after the accident.
Inquiring lutu StainboulofT’s Death.
■Sofia, July 22 ■ gfctVitfnuicjtkJias
Wen mailing gberet inquiries iffflothe
((leajpfejr PreWW StarrfP)ul(>^ B *Bnd
It is diarnecfthat the
that the crime was an act of private
vengeance.
RALEIGH. N. C.. TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1895.
RACE WAR IN FLORIDA
THE NEGROES IN TAYLOR AND
LA FAYETTE COUNTIES TER
RORIZED BY MOBS.
CHURCH MEETINGS BROKEN UP.
Mobs of Armed Men Raid the Houses
of Worship During Services and Dis
perse the Congregation but no one
has Ileeu Shot—Over a Dozen Ne
groes Lvnched in Taylor aud La
Fayette Counties in the Last Few
Months for Outraging W hite Women.
Live Oak, Fla., July 22.—Rev. D. W.
reports a reign of terror among
the negroes of Lafayette and Taylor
counties. He saye the churches are be
ing raided by white men, congregations
dispersed and pastors driven away.
Rev. Gillislee is presiding elder of Live
Oak district of the Florida Conference of
the A. M. E. Church. The counties men
tioned are in this district and he recent
ly returned from an attempt to fill his
appointments. According to his story,
he was roughly treated. He says he was
preaching in Lafayette county, to a large
congregation when a crowd of armed
white men came into the church aud sta
tioned themselves near the pulpit. The
leader asked Gillslee:
“How long do you expect to remain
in this country and live?”
Then the whites began to shoot and
Gillislee and the congregation ran out in
a panic. Gillislee went to Bramford,
tern miles distant, in Suwanee county.
He made the trip in an hour. He next
went into Taylor county, which adjoins
Lafayette, bat was again driven out.
While preaching at night, he says about
twenty white men came in and stationed
themselves about the pulpit. Gillis
lee was greatly frightened but
kept on preaching. Finally the mob
shot the lights out. Gillislee and
the negroes ran out, many being
trampled on. The mob so far appear
to have shot no oiie, their object seem
ingly to be to'create terror. Gillislee
says the negroes are frightened to death
and are leaving rapidly, many deserted
their property. The preacher seems un
nerved by his experience and will never
go to Lafayette or Tajlor again. His
headquarteVs are in -Jacksonville, and
he has a good reputation. Lafayette and
Taylor are the counties where so many
negroes have been lynched for outraging
white women In Lafayette there have
been over a dozen lynenings in the last
few months and there is no question that
the reported assaults on women have
greatly embittered the whites against
the negroes.
NORFOLK TO BE ITS I EKMI.NL'F.
The Southern Railway has Come touu
Agreement With the Council.
Baltimore, Aid., July22.—Atelegram
to the Manufacturers’ Record from Pres
ident hpcncer, of the Southern Railroad
Company, states that the company has
come to an agreement with the commit
tee of the Norfolk Council, having in
charge the matter in regard to securing
terminal facilities at that city.
This agreement is to be submitted to
thq Norfolk Council for ratification- The
basis of tne agreement somewhat modi
fies the original proposition made by the
Southern Railway Company a few weeks
ago. Advices from Norfolk: indicate that
this modified agreement will lie accepted
by {he Ooupcii, which will result m
making Norfolk and Portsmouth the
seaboard terminus of the Sbuthern Rail
way system,
HOLMES’ BLOODY DEED.
Detectives Still Searching for the
Bodies ot Jhe Williams Girls.
Chicago, July 22.— The search for the
bodies of the Williams girls was re
sumed at the “Castle” of H. H. Holmes,
the suspected murderer to day, and in a
noosed rOpe, stained danc about the
knot, the police think they ha -e m-.de
an important' discovery. Some of tbo
detectives believed that Holmes’ alleged
victims were pushed through the upstairs
door and strangled to death in the shaft
beiAw.
Detectives at Detroit, Mich., are frill
s<4W*hiug for evidence t{iatHo.mes mur
dered Howard Wffiel her^*^
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
At Pittsburg:
y,A , ti ■■■•. • - j '■* "r H - K -
Pittsburg, ooooodoo o— v 5 r>
iifd timof.b -a t6O 4 o ■<) 3r, ft- li 15' i
i Batteries . ttnwJ<#?,•', *iui AJ#vlTt|_,
*:*>«• twi/t Robinsyu. . ......
second Gitfne: *' • h * *■-■' 1
R. H. K.
Pittsburg, 4401 00 0 o *—i) 15 i
Balt iAnm-ti * 1 2.1 S* IB 3
Ganlneif auH ’stfgdetf; f Wetn
uinrg, CuirkSftn und C!n4lW*. am \
At St. Louis:
R. H. K.
Kt'UruiA, 1 ' >. if 1 0 BiOjl i 77
Bc*U>n, «A* 2,0 *0 I »-4;i 11 0
Butteries: Breueivstein ‘ and ' iiilfei':
Xiehols and Ganzel. t
At Chicago: » * - * • * k *
K. H. E.
Chieugo, 0110 00 0 0 I—S 8 5
Brod Syn, 010 S 13 0 1 1—» 12 4
BaxJtrlesiA 11 utehinson, Thornton ami
Kittredge; Lucid and Grim.
At Cincinnati:
n. h. e.
Cincinnati, .3 0020 20 5 o—l 215 4
New York,' - < OGM 12 02 00— '•» 9 1
Batteries: Foreman, R)iine* and. Vaughn;
Rusie and Wilson.
At ; Cleveland, < ' a
, .. . , . R. JJ. K-
Cleveland, 020020 .11 *— 8 13 2
Washington, 20 2 00010 1— 0 15 0
Battci&u?: Stockdale and McGuirertluppy,
TouiupßWl Zimmer. C
At Louisville, m
LouisNiMbk mMiLfr o 004 üb ii-ui 6
Phllademnia, Wl 3 2 5 I 2
Batteries: McDermott, McGreery and
Warner; Taylor and Grady.
STATE KALROAD ASSESSMENTS.
Also for Steamboats and Telegraph
Companies—The Commission Give
Out the Final Figures Yesterday
With Mileage of Different Roads,
Together With the New Mileage for
This Year--Assessment Increased
Oi'er Half a Millon Dollars.
The representatives of the various
roads in North Carolina having appeared
before the Railroad Commission to the
end that the assessment on their proper
ties might he reduced, the Commission
held yeßterdry a rather lengthy sessoni
in which the matter was thoroughly can
vassed with a conclusion that follows
later.
It will be seen that while there was
only one decrease, which was trfffng,
there Were some four instances in which
there were Increases in valuation.
The basis of taxation arrived at by the
Commission is as follows:
MILES. VALUATION,
A. C. L , 716.91 *6,658326.00
South’n R’w’y, 1,062.69 7,031,264.01
S. A. Line, 665.47 5,122,913.52
Miscellaneous. 1,171.59 5,689,295.16
Total, , 3,616.66 $24,501,898.69
Pullman Cars, 81,043.65
Steamboats, 293,503.00
Telegraph Co’s., 212,432.72
Total for 1895, $25,088,878 06
Total for 1894, 24,565,611.00
Increased valuation, $ 523,267.06
ASSESSMENTS INCREASED.
High Point, Randloman, Aberdeen
and Southern, increased from $3,000 to
$3,500 per mile.
Raleigh and Augusta Railroad in
creased from $6,000 to $9,000 per mile.
Carolina Central, (Hamlet to Monroe)
from SB,OOO to $9,000, per mile.
Georgia, Carolina and Northern, from
$6,000, to $9,000 per mile.
Norfolk and Carolina, frenv SB,OOO, to
sß,sooyper mile..
ASSESSMENT DECREASE®.
Road from Hamlet to Gibsoq, de
creased from $6,000 to $3„0Q0 ; , per mil?.
XEW MILEAGE FOR THE YEAR.
Aberdeen & WeatEod R. R, 4,00 railes,
. and Rock Fifth 5L50 j ,
Willington and-PowelhßriUe:JL,oo “
Moore County JL Rt , ; 12>,22 V
Winston R- R. i a 10,00 f‘
The Henderson and Brevard R. R. has
mirles not in operation June Ist.* The
road is under contract to be completed
by J ug ist Ist.
The Clerk of the Board of Commis
sioners is busy working up apportion
ments for the various counties and towns,
and it will be some two weeks before the
list- is in shape to be sent out.
SEABOARD AIR-LINE COURTESY
Superintendent Moneure Holds the 8.
A. L. 3:35 Train tor the Editors Re
turning From Morehead.
Mr. William Moncure, the new super
intendent of this division of the Seaboard
Air-Line, yesterday held the 3:35 train
for Hamlet and intermediate stations for
the Southern Railway train from More
head, on board of which were several ed
itors returning from the Press Associa
tion excursion. The editors were very
anxious tq titeir homes, today ( in
order tfiat they might get writeups of
the trip in this weeks papers, which will
come out on Wednesday.
This 'courtesy of the road, on the part
of Mr. Moneure, was vdiy much appre
ciated by the editors.
Miss Martin’s Talk Sunday Night. »'
At Edeutou Street Sunday School,
Sunday night, young Miss Martin gave a
talk on why and how she had determined
to go as a missionary to China. She
will go in the fall, and id his introduc
tion of Aer to the audience, Pastor Cole
feelingly said that as Chinese Gordon
«tuek pins on the map to know where bis
subordinate officers were, so they should
keep the abiding place of this young
woman fixed in their hearts and prayers.
M ! iss Martin arose and told her story
tsimpfy, tracing the growth of her resolve
from childhood up. There was a pathetic
Atmosphere about the heroic altruism of
her utterance, so modest withal, and
everyoob k?emed deeply impressed at the
plans laid 6tit by this fragile girl who
goes’ alone to put the Bible and its teach
ings in the bands and hearts of the'
heathen.’; ih this workaday world,
such spirits are as scarce as they are
fragrant and all'perJadlhg. 1 ;
1/0 Makur’.*- CdtoTf‘Yesterday. ■ 'h
Inihe Mayqr’s Jhe.
ease ©f ifenry Berry up fop,
assaqltv waspostppqea until uexj Mon
day ..... j" ' t —iDfll (j if!
Isaac Brpwh .aqd Becky Devi'ne
oredX lor affray, $5 each.,, ' t
Martha .voinuiger (colored), disorderly,
conduct Sunday, $7.50
Reilly Thomas (white), prqfuuity. qnd
geperal misconduct,, at Pullep Park on.
Saturday evening, $12 r 25.
♦ :Tbe mayor promptly aopoutees that
any case of disorder that c mes to him
from Pqllen Park will be .punished with
all the severity allowed by the law. He
is determined.that there shall be a clear
that beautiful afternoon pleasure
ground fojr the perfect protection of
mothers and children. And in this'the
mayor is right, and his hands will be
held up resolutely by all good citizens.
The case of yesterday is not likely to
be repeated:-if it is, the, offender should
b . taken in hand without, merjey
The condition of Mrs, Dr. R. H. Lewis
was better Sunday, When
were not so encouraging.
AN OUTRAGE ON COKE
, . J*
THE SECRETARY DENOUNCES
IT AS A SNEAKING IN
SINUATION.
FALSEHOOD RATHER THAN TRUTH.
Some Smart Aleck Discovers a Spav
ined Mare’s Nest and Gets Suddenly
Atvfnlly Flip—He is Met With a Let
tea Produced Ily Coke From Stewart
Brothers Which May Put Him to
Sleep—He Says That the Secretary
“Certified Falsely’’—A Nasty Piece
o{ Business.
In the Progressive Farmer, of date of
July 23d, under the head-line “Is the
Revenue Act the Law ?” there appeared
together with somo irrelevant clap-trap,
which is not under discussion,a reference
to the action of the Secretary of State
in connection with the certification of
the Revenue Act, mention ot which has
previously been made in the News and
Observer,
The whole article was handed to the
Secretary and that part which is perti
nent here is as follows:
“But the crowning folly of all silly,
foolish, absurd acts has appeared. It is
the attempt of the Secretary of State to
throw the whole State into confusion
and chaos, by mailing to the county
officials throughout the State, and certi
fying to the Judges and Solicitors as
follows:
“North Carolina, j
“Secretary of State, >
“Raleigh, ll July, 181(5, )
Erratum. f .
“Attentionjs called to the fact that in
tb§ printed volume of the Public Laws
of T 995, is printed at the end of
Chapter 116, beifig an Act to Raise, Rev
enue, the words “Ratified the 12th day
March, A. D./1895.”
These words do not appear at the end,
of the ; original of aaJd chapter and act
filed in this office. vv Otr. CokE, u n,,i
J Sec. State.”
(•it J ; % * j * 'a '*
“Understand now, the law requires
the Secretary of State to furnish the 1
laws sot publication to 1 the State Printer,!
and he has to certify to thefr accuracy;
Or, in other words, that they are true
and exact copies of the originals. He
furnished the laws, as required by pre
vious plainly stated laws, and on May
23 1895. made affidavit as follows:'
‘ ‘STATE OF S ORTH CAROLINA, )
“Office of Secretary of State,
“Raleigh, N. 0., May 23, 1895. )
“I, Octavius Coke, Secretary of State,
hereby certify that the foregoing (manu
script) are true copies of the original
acts and resolutions on file in this
office. Octavius Cole,
“Secretary of State.”
“Read the two certificates. He swears
according to law on May 23d, when he
delivered the laws, that they were then
true copies. If he was correct May 23d,
was he correct July lltb? If correct
July 11th, was he correct May 23d?
“It is plain that he is trying to prpve
that he erred May 23d, when he deliv
ered the laws to the printer, and certi-,
tied falsely. Now, the question is, can
he set aside an act which has passed,.
been 1 futified and published, and
also legally certified to as correct,
by simply issuing a circular over his
signature declaring that the ratification
clause is not on the original bill now f
He does not say it was not there May
23d, but “these words do not appear at
the end of the original,” etc. Which
one of these certificates will the courts
sustain ? 1 Evidently the first, the legal
one, else at any time erasures might be
made in the office of the Secretary of
State of uot only the ratifying clause,
the Speaker’s, signature, or any other
change made to suit the interest of such
parties as might gain access to-the origi
nals, <and laws thrown into utter
confusion, or modified, because it could
be shown that the manuscript did not
appear as the printed copy in the laws.
“Rest easy,,dear reader. Oapt. Qoke
cannot nullify any law in that way.
Thoßevenue and (Machinery Acts of
1895 are the law, and taxes will to as
sessed and collected accordingly.”
Secretary Cdke' after having read the
article/said that clearly the writer had
not seen the article printed In’ the News
alnlvObserver’ bf Sunday, else he could 1
not have written this one, in which he
seeks, b£’ Sneaking insinuations,- to make
it appear that I hare changed the
1 law, f or adt, by removing or. permitting
to be- rcsiioved from the end thereof) thb
alleged ratification clause thereof.
. 1 brdet to prevent the : public from
being imposed Upon 1 bV &ich a reckless
writer, Whose purpose seems to bo better
served by falsehood than by truth; I Will
now say:
“Ist. That on May 23, 1895, hav
ing delivered the copies of the laws
on file in this'office to the Public Print- 1
ers, I certified the 'manuscript delivered
to thfem ak trnei copies of the originals.
I did not certify that any of them would
to true copies, if added to. *
“2. ‘That the ‘Revenue Act’ was
added to by the Public Printers, as
may be Seen'by a comparison of the
‘Revenue Act’ as printed, as well as the
copy delivered to them, with the original
act on file in this office.
3. That for fear there may be sotoe
fools in the world like the writer of the
above article ‘‘who would not believe'
thotigh One rose' from the dead 1 ”, I offer
tne letter of the''Public Printers ! who
admit they authorized the df
the' t ßa{ffiraftdtl" > lsliru:#S , W» ‘ttifc tfeVetfue
act when it did not appear in the copy I
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
gave them to print from. The letter is
as follows:
Winston, N. C., JulylO, 1895.
Hon. Oct. Coke, Secretary of State, Ral
eigh, N. C.:
Dear Sir:— Replying to your two tele
grams inquiring as to ratification of
“Revenue Act,” we wish to inform you
that we haTe bad the tissue copy looked
up and have inquired, fully into all the
incidents leading up to the placing of
chapter 116 in the Public Laws.
“We find first, that the “Revenue and
Machinery Act” waa furnished us, un
numbered according to the figures of
your own office as 466, and that the
date or ratification clause only appears
at the close of the Machinery Act por
tion of it, and it was treated as one act.
and it so appears in tbe 6000 edition of
tion of pamplet containing that act
whioh we furnished your office.
“We find second, that when the act
came to be placed in the volume of
laws, having had the express state
ment from Mr. Batchelor that we
could arrange and number the chapters
to suit ourselves, an effort waa made to
follow the style of make-up observed in
the laws of 1893, and the revenue act
was placed in the volume as chapter lift,
with two small acts following it, and
preceding the machinery act, which was
made chapter 119. Supposing this to be
the proper style in which it should ap
pear, and treating it as a part of No.
460, which it’s number shows it to be,
and which tbe head lines on the tissue
prints show, when they style both the
Revenue and the Machinery act as
“House Bill 1198,” we instructed the
authorized date of ratification pl&oed at
the end of each chapter.
“Trusting this will give you the infor
matioc you seek, ami assuring you that
our copy in no case diffe s from the copy
you, furnished us, the original of which
we presume is now on file in your office*
we beg to be as usual, (l
■3 -, .Very truly yours* .u : ~ > ,u;r
M. I. & J.,G. Stewart*; j l
• » i -< 7 :r,.i 0: rJ&bli© Printers.
‘.‘l’inping ihat there was a discrepancy
between tbp published law (the Revenue
Aet) and the original, I felt it, my duty 1
to inform (he people that the original of
this act did not have the ratification
clause attached to it, that the .Public
Printers attached to it in the printed
volume of the public Daws. Neither
did, the copy of the original furnished to
the Public Printers, and from which,
they ,printed have such ratifi
cation clause attached. This is abund
antly shown by a perusal of the letter of
the Public Printers, and I take
pleasure in saying that, irom
the frankness in which they
write, that they did nqt, think they were
doing wrong. But the fact that they
were honestly mistaken does not make
the addition of a ratification clause any
less a wrong. It Was to correct this er
ror that I sent out to holders of the Pub
lic Laws, the article of July 11th, headed
Erratum. If I had passed over this er
ror without calling the attention of the
public to it, I should have been as com
mon a creatufe as the writer of the said
article.”
PRESIDENT SPENCER USES
r > BAD WORDS.
He Say? That Vice-President St. Julia
Smy h Something That in t» holly and
Entirely Untrue, Which May be the
Railroading Way ot Saying Very
Horrid Words. , ,
It seems from two long letters, which
have been tumbling artxmt the country
for two days, that Vice-President St.
John, of the Seaboard Air Line, said to
a reporter in an interview the following
naughty words: ~ -
“In regard to the reported sale of the
Seaboard Air Line<to the Southern, about
which you inquire, the absorption of this
line seems a difficult matter of accom
plishment. Efforts are aaid to have been
made to buy ija stock, which were un
successful; then it was boycotted, for the
evident purpose of depressing its securi
ties, which proved a failure, aud now
some one gives out that we have been
purchased outright,” etc. . ..
Mr. Samuel Sponcer’A “Georgyblood
got up, and in tbe midst of ailoug letter
,he said this awful thing: “Your reply to.
my letter must therefore be regarded as
au evasion of the question, and, places
me under the disagreeable necessity of
saying to , you that if you intended in
your interview as published to charge,
by implication or .otherwise, that the
Soujhem Railway Company or its offi-,,
cers UaMe at any time taken any action
•for .the purpose ot depressing the securi
ties of the Seaboard Air Line, such
charge or implication is wholly and
entipely untrue apd unfounded.
“I tovitt givefi this correspondence the
same .publicity whiyhyou gave te your
interview. ’t«, i uoi • ■ j 9 ixoip.
Mr. gL Jofin bauaueh a kind btee eye
that it would be a pity for Mr. Spence*
to blacken, itjor make it, mayhap,-bluer*-.
anti-Mr. Spencer lues snob sunny Ipek*
that it would boa loss ,to the world- to
; have iany of them swiped out by the
horny; baud of S{, John. Stop it!
Break-awayifoi. 5 .
Mr. Stark Batchelor returned from’
Morehead yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S- Kenan are
now:*n Ottawa, Canada.
Mr. ton * Royster isi building a two
story dwelling on Saunders street.
Miksek : Mary Peseud aud Anna
Stronach are spending the week at Chapel
Hill.
The sistef ffi-taw ot Rev. Dr. A. M.
Simms died yesterday at her home iu
wwvZ' ;,-j.
Roth Mr. Turtle, will ;4ake a 1 monthlm
vaoatum,4hia. brother 'hanqbg arrived
occupy his pulpit.