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VOL. LI. NO. 99.
Leads all Morth 'Carolina Dailies in Mews and Clfd^lation
CONGRESS MEETS
AFTER TIE RECESS
No Business is Transacted
the First Day.
BOTH HOUSES ADJOURN.
Thus is Respect Shown to Senator
, Sewell’s Memory.
SCHLEY’S COUNSEL ON FLOOR OF HOUSE.
He Makes Himself Acquainted With the Many
Bills Proposed in the Schley Case.
Admiral Schley Has an Inter
view With Roosevelt.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 6. —The Senate today
met after a recess of more than two
weeks, but no business was transacted
on account of the recent death of Sena
tor William J. Sewell, of New Jersey, the
Senate adjourning out of respect to his
memory.
In the Lower House
Washington, Jan. 15. —The House trans
acted no business today. Immediately
after it met Mr. Loudenslager, of New
Jersey, announced the death of Senator
Sewell, which had occurred during the
holiday recess and after the adoption of
their customary resolutions, the House,
as a further mark of respect, adjourned
until tomorrow.
Rayner on the Floor.
Washington, Jan. 6. —Hon. Isidor Ray
nor, the counsel for Admiral Schley, of
the Court of Inquiry spent some time on
the floor of the House of Representatives
today. He Mad been at the Supreme
Court and later visited the House, where
jhe served as a member for some years.
Mr. Rayner joined Representative Cum
mings, of New York, a member of the
House Committee on Naval Affairs and
learned from him the general situation of
affairs concerning the many bills pro
posed in the Schley case, Mr. Rayner
said later that' his visit was without
bearing on the admiral’s case, although
being among old friends he had taken oc
casion to learn the general condition of
affair*.
In this connection it is under
stood that the friends of Admiral Schley
have expressed approval of the bill which
has been introduced making the judg
ment of Admiral Dewey the judgment of
ihe Congress. However, the informal
talks today led to the conclusion that, a
Dill of this character was not likely to
In 1 reported from the Naval Committee
and that if action was to be taken it
must be on one of the various other plans
pending.
Another Schley Resolution.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 6.—Another Schley
resolution was introduced in the House
today by Representative Schirm, of
Maryland. It provides an appropriation
of 2,000 for bronze tablets commemorat
ing six great naval victories, beginning
with those of. John Paul Jones in 1797
and closing with the battle of Santiago
Hay “Commodore Winfield Scott Schley
Commanding,” in 1898.
COUBT KILLS CARTER’S HOPE.
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'ike Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
Denied.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 6.—The United States
Supreme Court today refused to interfere
ii. the case of Capt. Oberlin M. Carter.
The decision was referred in the pro
ceedings instituted by Capt. Carter for
the purpose of securing a writ of habeas
< orpus that would release him from pris
on at Leavenworth, Kansas. The case
originated in the United States Circuit
Court for the district of Kansas, by
which the petition for a writ was denied.
Today’s opinion was delivered by Chief
Justice Fuller and affirmed the opinion
of the Circuit Court.
MB. DUKE MUCH IMPBOVED-
Durham Superior Court Convenes- Death of
Mr. R. J. Emerson
(Special to News and Observer.)
0 Durham, N. C., Jan. 6.—The January
term of Durham Superior Court, for the
trial of criminal cases, convened this
morning. Judge Walter H. Neal, of
Laurinburg, is presiding. The hearing
of cases will be confined to small of
fences.
The condition of Mr. Washington Duke,
who fell and broke his arm on Christ
mas, is much improved. The broken
member is knitting together nicely and
the condition of the patient is all that
could be desired.
Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Markham, of this
county, were called to Buie’s Creek, Sun
day, by reason of the illness of their
son, Eustace, who is in school there.
A telephone message received in Dur
ham today conveys information of the
■death of Mr. R. J. Emerson, which occur*
red this morning at his home ou the
Raleigh road, about five miles from Cha
pel Hill, of pneumonia. Deceased was
The News and Observer.
between sixty and seventy years of age.
Five children are left to mourn his
death, Mrs. J. S. Murray, Mrs. Robert
Duke and Mr. John W. Emerson, of Dur
ham; Mr. I. E. Emerson, of Baltimore,
and Mrs. Jack Pope, of this city. Mr.
Emerson, of Bal timbre, is of Bromo
Seltzer fame.
Deceased was a consistent member of
the Baptist church. The funeral will take
place tomorrow, after which the inter
ment will be in the family burying ground
at Chanel Hill.
The. White Furniture Company, of
Mebane, N- C.> has generously donated
to the Julian S- Carr Chapter, of Dur
ham,)* a whole set of furniture, thereby
enabling- this chapter to make the fur
nishings more complete. In consequence
an entire room has been set apart, and
the name given to it is the W. P. Man
gum room. He was one among the first
commissioned officers killed, and was
from Durham (then a part of Oranire
county). Lieutenant Mangum was a son
or’ Hon. Wily P. Mangum.
THEY MUST 00 TO OEOBOIA.
Carter*’ Four Friends Will be Tried in that
Statj.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 6.—The United
States Supreme Court today affirmed the
decision of the United States Circuit
Court for the southern district of New
York in the case of Benjamin Green,
John F. Gaynor, William T. Gaynor and
Edward H. Gaynor. Green and Gaynor
are charged with being in complicity with
Capt. O. M. Carter, now serving a term
in the United States prison at Leaven
worth, Kansas, on the charge of de
frauding the government of a large sum
of money while superintending public
works at Savannah, Ga. Green and Gay
nor have sought by habeas corpus pro
ceedings in New r York to avoid being sent
to Georgia for trial. The New York
court refused to grant the writ and the
opinion rendered today confirms that ver
dict. The opinion was delivered by Jus
tice Peckham.
Commenting upon the action of the
New York court in ordering the removal
of the defendants in Georgia for trial
Justice Peckham, who delivered the
opinion of the court, said:
“We think that a fair interpretation of
the language used by the district
in granting the application for the war
rant of removal shows beyond question
that from the evidence taken by the
commissioner, the judge was of the opin
ion that there existed probable cause
and that the defendants should theretore
be removed for trial before the court in
which the indictment was found. The
judge says he did not express any opin
ion whatsoever on the merits of the case.
He was not called upon to do so. It was
sufficient if. all the evidence being taken
into account, there existed such probable
cause for believing the defendants guilty
as to warrant their removal for trial of
the offense charged.’’
SENSATIONAL CHARGES MADE
Suit Against Theatrical Manager by Actor
Who Says He Was Drugged
•By the Associated Press.)
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. B.—Melbourne
McDowell, the actor who ended an en
gagement here yesterday, signed a sen
sational deposition here today in Kansas
City, Kansas, in his suit against Clarence
M. Brune. a theatrical manager, who last
season started his wife Minnie Tittle
Brune, and McDowell in Sardous’ play.
"Theodora.” McDowell in his deposition
swears that in New York while intoxi
cated h° was induced to sign bills of sale
conveying the rights to the Sardou plays
to Brune for s.">oo. He asserts that fraud
was used in bringing about the transac
tion and asks that it be set aside.
Te sit was filed in Ramsay county, Min
nesota, and seeks to recover damages
and to restrain Brune from producing
my of the Sardou plays. Other sensa
tional statements are made by McDowell
in his deposition, one being to the effect
that he was drugged in New York, put on
board of a stean>er and taken first to
Boston and then to Newport News and
that at Baltimore later, while still under
the influence of the drug, he was married.
FEOF- CBAVEN ELECTED.
Tendered the Principalship of New Grade!
School at Price’s Mill
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Price’s Mill, N. C., Jan. (?.—The trustees
of the Wesley Chapel giaded schools
have offered the principalship to Prof.
Bruce Craven at a saihrv of S7O a month.
It will be remembered that this is the
only rural graded school in .North Caro
lina. The people of the community have
bben untiring in their efforts to have a
first class school and realize that a first
class man at the head of it means a
great deal.
Prof,' Craven is now principal of the
high school at Jefferso.n in our neighbor
ing county of Chesterfield, S. C., and it
is not known whether or not he will ac
cept the position tendered him. He has
been very successful in his present situ
ation and the citizens of Jefferson are
loath to part with him, as his efficient
and progressive work has already done
much good in that town. He is a son of
Mrs. Nannie A. Craven, of Trinity.
* BTBUCK SNAG AND SANK-
Steamer W W Kelly Goes to the Bottom No
Casual ties Reported
By the Associated Press.)
Eufaula, Ala., Jan. 6.—The steamer M.
W. Kelly, of the Independent Line, laden
with a fair cargo and a number of pas
sengers on board, struck a snag two
miles above this city this afternoon and
sank immediately. There w-ere no cas
ualties so far as reported. It is believed
a portion of th cargo can be saved.
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING. .JANUARY 7. 1902.
BRYAN SPEAKS 91
LIFE OF JACKSON
iße Steadfast, Barter Not
Creed for Spoils.
TRUTHS FROM HOLY WRIT.
“He That Saveth His Life Shall
Lose It,”
IT IS THUS WITH PARTIES, SAYS BRYAN.
t
The Party That Has No Higher Purpose than to
Save Its Own Life, He Declares, Will
Die Because It Deserves
To Die.
(By the Associated Press.)
Wooster, 0.. Jan. 6.—The Hon. William
J. Bryan spoke here tonight ?it the Jack
son Day banquet, which was held thLs
evening, at his suggestion, in order that
he might keep engagements at New
Haven and Boston later in the week. His
subject was “Steadfastness," and he said
in part;
“Among the traits of character which
distinguished Andrew Jackson, no trait
was more prominent or more helpful to
his country than his steadfastness. When
he believed a thing, he believed it.
Where duty led, he followed without
questioning. When e decided that
anything ought to be done, he did
it, and no power could overawe* him. He
did not have in his veins a single drop
of “anything to win” blood. When
Nicholas Biddle declared that through
the national bank he could make and
unmake Congresses, Jackson replied that
that was more power than any one man
ought to have in this country, and he
then began his war againA Biddle and
his bank, which resulted in the overthrow
of that great financier and the institu
tion which ho so autocratically con
tioiled. Others were afraid that Bid
dle’s influence, if antagonized, would de
feat the Democratic party, but Jackson
saw in it a menace to his country and he
did not stop to consider what effect an
attack on the bank would have on him
self or on his party. He won and we
revere his name and celebrate his day.
“Benton, in reviewing Jacksou’s work
said i hat, as Cicero overthrew the con
spiracy of Cataline and saved Rome, so
Jackson overthrew the bank and saved
America. We shall observe this day in
vain if we do not gather from the life
of Jackson inspiration' and encourage
ment for the work which lies before us,
Today the Democratic party needs to
learn from the hero of New Orleans the
lesson of steadfastness; it needs to learn
from him not only that to be right is
more important than to be successful,
but that to be right is the best way to
insure success.
"A party must have principles or it can
have no claim upon public confidence;
and how can it commend its principles
better than by standing by them? Who
will have faith in the creed of a parly if
the party stands ready to barter away
its creed in exchange for the promise of
patronage? A halting, vacillating course,
not only fails to invite recruits, but it
alienates and drives away veterans.
“Another reason for steadfastness is
found in the fact that no one can tell
until the attempt is made what obstacles
courage can overcome. The bold and
fearless triumph where the limid fail.
The victories which live and- light us on
to noble deeds are the victories snatched
from the jaws of defeat by intrepid spirits
who preferred death to retreat.
“There is a profound philosophy as well
as a religious truth in the words: "He
that saveth his life shall lose it.” The
party that has no higher purpose than to
save its own life will die because it de
serves to die, if need be, for the sake of
a great cause will live because it de
serves to live.
“Who says that the money* power is
omnipotent and that the Democratic
Tarty must compromise with it or sur
render to it? Not until human nature is
entirely changed can the financiers In: in
trusted with the guardianship of the pro
ducers of wealth; not until greed becomes
just can the money changers construct
a system for themselves which will be
fair to anyone else. A top can be bal
anced upon the point only when it is in
rapid motion, and so the great financial
structure designed by Wall street for the
benefit of Wall street will stand upright
only so long as it can be kept whirling;
the collapse will come when the speed is
slackened.
“Who that wg cannot afford to
measure strength with the great monopo
lies which now arrogantly assume to
control the domain of politics as well as
the field of industry? Not until we can
gather good fruit from an evil tree, and
figs from thistles, can we exject a pri
vate monopoly to bring forth public
blessings. The water that has been
poured into the stocks of our great cor
porations has for the most part been
drawn from the agricultural regions,
and the drought that x is sure to follow
will teach the farmer the meaning of the
trust system.
“Must we abandon the self-evident
truth that governments derive their just
powtrs from the consent of the govern
ed ? Must we accept imperialism as an
accomplished tact and join in the shout
tor Llcod and conquest? Our republic
rests upon solid rock and while its prin
ciples are revered it cannot be over**
thrown from within or from without, but
if all parties joined together to erect an
empire upon American soil, they would
build upon the saud and the edifice could
not endure. It is a law divine in its
origin, irresistible in its force and eter
nal in its duration, that wrong doing ulti
mately destroys the wrong-doer and no
nation or combination of nations is strong
enough to evade oi resist retributive jus
tice.
“But suppose—what no one should as
sume and what no one can prove—that
steadfast adherence to Democratic prin
ciples would result in repeated defeat, is
there any reason' why we should aban
don those principles and adopt others,
or have none at all? Those who prefer
prison fare, or a servile subject's lot to
the dangers of the battlefield, may con
demn the Boers for continuing what some
describe as a hopeless struggle for in
dependence, but those who can measure
the mighty influence of great deeds know
that the sturdy Dutchmen of South Afri
ca have already conferred upon the world
a benefit that cannot be measured by
money. Their valor has brought great
er security to all the republics of the
earth; the bodies of their dead have
built a bulwark behind which the friends
of liberty will fight for centuries. The
tact that England has been compelled to
employ more than 200,000 soldiers to
subjugate less than 25,000 men in arms
—the fact that England has expended
more than SI,OOO per Boer—the per capita
wealth oli the United States—and has
neither been able to purchase them nor
kill them —thees facts are immeasurably
valuable to people everywhere who want
free government for themselves and are
content that others should enjoy it also.
“So the Democratic party whether in
power or out. of power, is serving man
kind when it stands steadfastly for con
stitutional government and insists that
that government shall be administered
according to Jeffersonian maxim, ‘equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none.' ”
LONG DEFENDS NAVY
DEPARTMENT
Nelson Criticised. Distribu
tion of Prize Money.
Long Sajs Undtr Law Sampson Was Entitled
to One Twentieth Whether Present
at Battle cr Not.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 6.—Secretary Long
has addressed to Senator Knute Nelson,
of Minnesota, a long letter defending tHe
Navy Department against what is de
clared to be unfiiendly criticism in con
nection with the distribution of prize
money and bounty. The letter is called
for by one from the Senator, asking for
information on this point for the use of
a Western newspaper.
The Secretary declares that the criti
cism that th} department has discrimi
nated in favor of Admiral Sampson and
against Admiral Schley in the distribu
tion of prize money and bounty is unjust
because the department has no control
of this matter, the money being dis
tributed from the Treasury and ail ques
tions of law and fact relative to prize
and bounty having been determined by
the courts. The Secretary calls atten-
I tion to the laws touching prize and
bounty as they existed at the beginning
of the Spanish war, and he says that,
though advised by the Attorney General
that it might make a distribution, the
Navy Department preferred to place tlie
matter in the Court of Claims, and so
far from displaying favoritism, adopted
the most effective means in its power
to secure a just determination by courts
of law of the rights bf all concerned.
Touching the claim of Admiral Samp
son for bounty at Santiago, the Secre
tary says that the distribution was made
under a decree of the Court of Claims,
which he cites, and from which no appeal
was taken. He further points out that,
under the prize laws, the commander-in
chief of the fleet is entitled to his “one
twentieth” of bounty by virtue of his po
sition as commander-in-chief, whether
he is personally present during ilie en
gagement or not. Says the Secretary:
“As commander-in-chief Admiral
Sampson would, therefore, under the law,
have been entitled to his share of the
bounty for the destruction of the Span
ish ships at Santiago if he had been on
the north shore of Cuba at the time. This
was the law, for which the Navy Depart
ment was in no wise responsible.”
On this point, the Secretary says that
the department itself was the first to
realize the inequalities of this law, and
to make the decommendations which led
to its repeal, so that “a rather arousing
feature of the attacks made upon the
Navy Department,’ as the Secretary puts
it, is that the administration is blamed
more than two years after it had cured
the evil. The Secretary concludes his
letter with an extract from the report of
the Auditor of the Treasury for the
Navy Department shewing the status of
the prize money and bounty cases, yet
unsettled, owing to delays in the courts,
and predicting a settlement within one
year.
Col. Coxe Not a Candidate.
Col. Frank Coxe authorizes The Tri
bune to announce that he will not be a
candidate before the Democratic conven
tion for the nomination for Congress
this year. “This,” writes a Rutherford
correspondent to the Charlotte Observer
“will practically narrow the contest
down to Gallert, of Rutherfordton, and
Campbell, of Asheville, with the chances
in favor of Gallert.”
BERNARD TO KNOW
FATE NEXT WEEK
Gone to Washington to Pre
pare His Case,
CHEATHAM TO RETURN
Will be a Candidate for Congress m
the Second District.
REPUBLICANS ARE DISORGANIZED.
/
Charges Against Harkins and Rolens will Cost
Their Official Heads, so it is Said.
Judge Purnell and Maj. Grant
Return from Washington.
Claudius Melnatte Bernard has moved
on Washington with more recommenda
tions for reappointment as TJ. S. District
attorney and incidentally he carried an
armful of affidavits and documents which
relate to Harry Skinner’s chameleon
likp political record.
Next week Senator Pritchard has
promised to take up the district attorney
appointment for the eastern treo and
everybody is awaiting the shaking of the
tree. The odds are all in favor of Harry
Skinner, but Bernard still fights, and
thinks he is very much in the race.
The President was bombarded with the
Bernard boom last week, l.uge Harris
and Maj. H. L. Grant both saw Mr. Hoose.
volt in Bernard’s behalf. While Col.
Harris went to Washington for the pur
pose of promoting Jim Young’s short
lived candidacy for the recordership, he
took occasion to do some Bernard talk
ing. But with all this Skinner has
Pritchard’s endorsement and most! peo
ple think that is the necessary medicine.
Judge Purnell and Maj. Grant, who
made the trip to Washington together re
turned Sunday. Judge Purnell went to
the National capital on private business
and while he called on the President, he
did not take any part in the district at
torneyship fight. Maj. Grant’s business
in Washington was to see the President
and the Attorney General in behfjlt' of
Claudius. He had an audience with both
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Knox. Maj. Grant
is plain spoken against Skinner, whom
he said yesterday “ought to declare his
political position and not attempt to run
with two parties.” Maj. Grant thinks
that Skinner has been paid every politi
cal obligation due him by the Republi
can party. “Twice,” he said, “wo ate
an enormous amount of crow to send
him to Congress. We are tired of paying
senatorial debts by giving appointments
to Eastern Populists.”
* * *
The Republicans in this State are bad
ly disorganized as the result of Senator
Pritchard’s distributions at the pie count
er. The latest from Washington is that
charges have been preferred against Col-t
lector Harkins, of the western district
and Postmaster Rollins of Asheville, that
will result in their removal. There are
a hatch of charges against Blue Jeans
Holton, the western district attorney and
now Senator Pritchard will have to de
fend some of Harry Skinner's wild Popu
list statements. With the entire Repub
lican organization fighting Skinner, and
charges resting over the heads of a num
ber of those high up, the Republicans
in North Carolina hardly know what will
happen next. President Roosevelt does
some appointing of his own every now
and then and the present conditions are
not rosy for the united order of Doodles
and Pie Eaters.
Ex-Congressman Cheatham, who is soon
to retire from the Recordership in the
District of Columbia will return to this
State. When in Raleigh last week Cheat
ham confided to his friends his political
aspirations. Hp will return to the Sec
ond district and be a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Congress at
the next election.
• • • —.
W. B. Ellis, of New York, who some
time ago preferred charges in the office
of the Attornev General of the United
States against U. S. District Attorney A.
E. Holton, has again written Attorney
General Knox on this subject. Mr. Ellis
has never heard from Mr. Knox save
through the press and he repeats his
former charges in this second letter. In
addressing Mr. Knox he says:
“I have waited a month since filing my
protest against the reappointment of A.
E. Holton to the office of District At
torney, and have yet to receive from
you official cognization of the receipt of
my letter or any intimation of your de
cision or desire for more evidence to
assist you in forming one.”
Mr. Ellis says it is “a merry Jest
around federal courts when Holton ap
peared for the government and his part
ner was employed by the sinner before
the bar.”
Meeting one of Mr. Holton’s answers
Mr. Ellis says:
“Can such a series of charges as I have
brought against this man, as the repre
sentative of a State’s citizenship, that
has been overawed and cowed by A. E.
Holton, b e ignored as if it were a petty
personal affair between him and myself?”
The letter charges the district attorney
with “setting his partner’s clients loose
upon the community without fines.” Mr.
Ellis says a warship is sent across the
Pacific to investigate a naval Governor
who is accused by one man of the com
paratively harmless charge of intoxica
tion. Can we not take a half-day’s Jour
ney to a Southern State to investigate
the Records of a judicial official, who
is accused and admits conduct which is
unofficially classed as suspicious?
* * •
There is a pretty fight going' on among
North Caroli la Republicans, a pretty
fight lor John C. Dancy’s shoes as col
lector of customs. The leading candi
dates* are D. L. (lore, - of Wilmington,
and A H. Slocumb. of Fayetteville. Mr.
(lore is hat is called a McKinley Demo
crat and Mr. Slocumb is a life-long Re
publican- The odds are in favor of Slo
cumb. There are many others candi
dates, among them B. F. Keith, T. E-
Batley, R. M. Croom and R. M. Kinng.
A FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY
E. L. Breedlove Kills a Negro Named Elisha
Lancaster.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Tarboro, N. C., Jan. 6.—News has Just
been received here of a homicide in Mr.
Pennington West’s store at Wiggins’
Cross Roads. Edgecombe county, about
eight miles from Tarboro.
A white man by the name of E. L.
Breedlove Rhot. and killed a negro by the
name of Elisha Lancaster.
The story as told by a white man from
that section is that Breedlove walked in
to West’s store and remarked to Lancas
ter, “You have told a lie on mo and it
would not take much for me to put a
load of lead in you.” Lancaster replied,
“You can’t do any more to me than I
can to you.” Breedlove drew his pistol
and fired. Lancaster ran behind a barrel.
Breedlove went to the barrel, reached
over and again turning around walked
towards the door of the store. As he did
Lancaster fired and missed, Breedlo.e
returned and fired twice more, the balls
entering Lancaster’s breast, from which
he died.
Mr. Breedlove was taken by the sheriff
and brought to Tarboro for trial.
TO WORK ON THE 0. R AND C-
One Hundred Convicts Go Into Mitchell County.
Surveyors Follow the North Catawba.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Marion, N. C., Jan. 6.—About one hun
dred convicts arrived here last Thurs
day night on their way to Mitchell coun
ty to work on the O. R. and C. R. R.
This sou ad with those that went over
some months ago make over two hun
dred that will be engaged on that road.
I understand that they are within seven
or eight miles of Bakersville, coming up
Toe River which will pass within two
miles of the latter place, and will con
tinue up the river to Spruce Pine.
I also understand the surveying par- *
ty turned from Spruce Pine down the
Blue Ridge into McDowell county, fol
lowing the north Catawba river to within
six or eight miles of Marion which is to
appearances the most practicable route
to either. Wilmington or Charleston con
necting with the S. and G. R. R. at this
place which is the terminus of the latter.
I his whole route was once known as
“The Tbtee Cs.“
NO MORE PARTY PASSES.
The Southern Restricts Such Passes to Rail
way Otfieers and Their Families
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 6.—The Southern
railway has taken the following action
in the matter of hauling private cars:
’The car and party passes, annual or
trip, issued by this company, will be re
stricted to railway officers active in the
management of railway property, and
parties accompanying them, or the im
mediate families of said officers. For
the transportation of private cars other
wise occupied, a minimum of eighteen
fares, with one first class fare for each
additional occupant, will be required.”
it is understood that similar regula
tions have been adopted commonly by the
lines south of the Ohio and Potomac riv
ers and east of the Mississippi river.
Justice Clark and Judge Justice.
To the Editor: No Confederate sol
dier ocepiea any one of the twelve seats
from Noith Carolina in the two houses
of Congress.
Next year wo are to elect ten Superior
Court judges and three Supreme Court
justices. Os the many proposed for these
thirteen positions, only two are those of
Confederate soldiers: Judge M. H. Jus
tice for the Superior Court of his dis
trict, and Judge Walter Clark for Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court.
It is a lamentable fact that the 123,000
nun North Carolina sent to the front in
1861-65 are to he represented by only
two out of twenty-eight of the highest
pests of honor. Such is the effect of the
rapid lapse of time, though neither
Judge Justice nor Judge Clark are old
men.
It is gratifying to the veterans and
their friends, however, that neither of
these two gentlemen has any opposition.
This is as it should be. not only on ac
count of their services since the war,
but during it. The old soldier should
not be entirely forgotten.
JOHN R. LANE.
Brush Creek, N. C., Jan. 4, 1902.
To Sue Railroad for Horses.
(By the Associated Press.)
New Orleans, Jan. 6. —J. w. Fuller has
formally notified the Texas and Pacific
that he will take legal measures to re
cover $53,500 for the losses of she horses,
George Arnold, valued at $50,000, Free
State, valued at $2,500, and for injuries to
the mares Queen Esher, SSOO, and Katy
Ayre, SSOO. The two horses first named
were killed and the others injued in a
collision on ihe read at Kelthvillc, La.
George Arnold was a stake horse in ihe
West, last year and won the Christmas
handicap here this season, lowering the
mile track record to J:39.
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| THE WEATHER TO-DAY 7
♦ For Raleigh: 4
| Fair; Warmer? I
AaAA A A A A
PRICE FIVE CENT?
SIX EXECUTIONS
FIXED FOR ONE DAY
The Governor Names Wed
nesday, Feb, 26th,
EMMA BURGLARS TO HANG
%
1 Capt. Potter Here and Urges Governor
to Commute Death Sentence*.!
JACKSON AND ROSE TO HANG SAME DAY.
Remarkable Number of Execution* to Take
Place that Day and Wilson Will Have
the first Since Antebellum
Days.
Governor Aycock yesterday fixed
Wednesday, February 26th as the date
for six executions.
j The six men who are to pay the death
penalty are the four Emma burglars,
Andrew Jackson, the Lincoln county
burglar and J. H. Rose, the Wilson
county murderer. The cases came to the
executive office from the Supreme
j court, where new trials were denied.
While six executions in North Carolina
. in one day are out of the ordinary, the
conviction of four men for burglary and
the imposition of the death sentence in
each case is probably unprecedented.
It is understood that an application for
executive clemency in behalf of at least
two of the burglars is being prepared in
Buncombe, but as yet no formal petition
his reached the executive offlete. Capt.
T W. Patton, of Asheville, called on the
Governor Saturday and urged the com
mutation of the deathh sentences*.
While it is not known that the Gov
ernor will interfere with the decision of
the jury and the court, It is stated that
Mills and Gattis, two of the condemned
men, have a better exemi
clemency-than <
ions. Judge Douglass of
court dissented from the decision of the
court as to the guilt of these two, hold
ing that they were only guilty of burg
lary in the second degree. Foster and
Johnson made the entrance in the store
and did the shoooting, while Mills and
Gates stoood on the outside.
Andrew Jackson, a white man, will be
hanged for burglary on the same day in
Lincoln county. There is now a petition
before the Governor in his behalf, urg
ing executive clemency. He entered a
house which was only occupied by two
women end when he %as discovered by
them he attacked both savazely. One
of the women was very seriously cut
with a knife and at the trial a little child
born was shown to the jury and had
birthmarks corresponding to its moth
er's wounds. Jackson eluded the offi
cers for nearly a year and was finally
raptured in South Carolina, tried at
Lineolnton and sentenced to hang.
The Governor also fixed February 26th
as the date for the execution of J. H.
Rose, of Wilson, who waylaid and shot
a neighbor. There has not been a.
hanging in Wilson county since the war*
Remarkable Spring in Florida.
As a part of the water resources of
the country, the United States Geologi
cal Survey is studying the wonderful
Florida springs and lakes, from which
most of the rivers of the State have
their rise. Kissengen Spring In Polk
•county is one of tliepe. The water has
a temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit,
and is strongly impregnated with sul
phur, iron and other ingredients that
characterize artesian waters in that re
gion. The spring is evidently a natural
artesian well. The water all comes from
or.e point, gushing up vertically with
grrat force through a circular orifice in
the bottom of the basin, and although the
basin is thirty feet deep or more the
ferce is so great that the water directly
over the orifice is considerably higher
than the surface of the iako at the banks.
While swimming in this delightful pool
it is found to be exceedingly difficult to
keep in a position over this taring boil,
and impossible to sink in the water at
that point. The outflow of the spring, as
measured by th hydrographers of the
Geological Survey, was found to be 14,000
gallons each minute.
A Very Live and Useful Citizen.
To the Editor:in the North Carolina
nekrology for 1901, copies from the Wil
mington Messenger occurs -Col. John M.
Galloway, Confederate.” I am still
living and occasionally dancing. In the
absence of Mrs. G. I sometimes talk soft
talk to pretty young ladles.
It is not altogether fair to publish me
as dead and I hope you will make proper
cor-ertions.
Yfjur friend, *
' J. M. GALLOWAY.
an - 1902.
Schley CaHk Appointment.
(By the^^fa Press.)
Washington, WSRI 6.—Rear Admiral
Schley ra’led a^BB& vhile House today,
by appoint 11 '''■Brain s F K ‘ n * nearly an
hour ill eont«ft h ,h< * President.
’1 he \dn.iral discuss the con
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