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THURSDAY, NOV. - 29, .1906.
H. A. LONDON, Editor.
THANKSGIVING DAY:
Another Thanksgiving Day has
come, and once more the people
of '.the United States are called
upon to observe one day .specially
set apart for prayer, praise and
thanksgiving.
ifeer. before have . any people
intany age or country had as
miich cause for thanksgiving as
'have ' the people of tlie .United
States to-day. No country or
peopLe ever before had so many
blessings showered upon them as
we have had this year. No coun
try has ever been more prosper
0sTidio people have ever been
liPimuCthan are. now the people
of this God-favored country.
' Our, country i$ t , peace with
ill the world, and has recently
intervened and without shedding
adrop of blood kept the peace
between warring factions in an
other country in the ill-fated is
land of Cuba. The labors of the
'husbandman have been rewarded
!with bountiful harvests. Every
body is -able to obtain remunera
tive employ mentv. No wide-s pread
epidemics have'scjurged our peo
ple. No extended storms have
devastated our land. With the
exception of the San Francisco
calamity no unusual disaster has
occurred.
Never before have the people
of any country been so blessed,
as we now are, with all that pro
motes human happiness and corn
fort. The progress of the age
has brought us comforts, conven
iences and advantages that have
never before been so generally
enjoyed. While some persons
have more cause" to. five thanks
than others, yet there is scarcely
.anybody who has not some cause
to be thankful.
f While the people of the United
States in general have so much
, cause for thanksgiving, the people
of North Carolina have especial
cause. Never before has our state
made sucu irreat nroirress in all.
lines of development as during
the past year. There are more
and better churches . and school
houses now than :ver before, and
there are fewer whiskey stills and
.bar-rooms than ever before. Our
people are bacoaiiug more toler
ant in their religious and political
opinions and differences. All the
churches are in i more prosper
ous condition than ever before.
Our schools and colleges are at
tended by more students and our
percentage of illiteracy is lcJwer
than ever before. There is less
discontent and grumbling than
ever before,' because there is less
to grumble about. On the whole
the people of North Carolina have
unusual-cause for observing to
day with peculiav gratitude,
i . On this day let the more favor
ed show their gratitude for the
blessings which they enjoyT by
sharing some of those blessings
with those who have not been so
favored. Let us express our
thanks not by words only, but by
deeds by helping to make others
have cause to give thanks!
x - Xhe recent arrest of some Eng
lishcotton niilloperatives at Char
lotte:has called to the attention of
. the people of this State a law,
; passed by Cougiess seveial y ears
ago; that few of our people knew
anything about. It is the law for
bidding the immigration to the
United States of contract laborers,
that is, of immigrants coming to
this country under a contract to
work. ,
These English immigrants at
Charlotte have been arrested bv
the United States authorities and
will be sent back to Euglaud sim
ply and only because they are ac
cused of coming here under con
tract to work. They are not ac
v cused of being dishonest, immoral
or anything of that kind. On the
contrary they are said to be in
. dustrious and well behaved.
This is the firstjiustauee of the
enforcement of this law iu this
State, and it certainly seems very
strange to arrest aud send back a
desirable class of immigrants sim
ply 'because they came here under
a contract to work. And this too
at a time when ; the South needs
all the labor we can get! . ,
The sooner such a law is re
pealed will be the batter for the
South.
Railroad to Cape Lookout.
Raleigh Correspondence Charlotte Observer.
The , completion of the long
trestle connecting Beaufort with
Morehead Citv is but a step to
the building of the railroad on to
Cape Lookout, the survey haying
been made ana tne route aeciaea
upon, ine Drestie to oe duih num
Leonxville to the "banks" on
which is Cape Lookout, will be
even longer than that between
Morehead City and Beaufort.
Down at the Cape there will be
not only a summer resort with
wonderful bathing bat there will
be a coaling station and all sorts
of things. Surely there must be a
tip to the effect that the inland
waterway is going to be provided
for by Congress, for this done and
CapeLookout will be a place of
exceeding prominence as a harbor
of safety, coaling station and oth
er things. Congressman John H.
Small has never for a moment lost
faith in the construction of that
inland waterway.
Killed by Cloudbursts.
Special to Charlotte 'observer.
Asheville, Nov. 26. A story of
death and destruction by cloud
bursts in Cherokee county reach
ed lipi-fi to.biu with the resumntion
nf raiiurAv trftffin And wir com. i
mnninAtinn on -the Mnrnhv line
of the Southern. According to in-
formation received here, between
fiftv and sitv cloudbursts occur-
t-Pd in thft mountains of Cherokee
it waafc snrlintr p-rAftt torrents I
of water into the valleys and car-
rviuer houses, trees, rocks, and
lo4s in its path. The cloudburst
occurred ou oocn sides 01 meraiu
mountain and also at Marble. On
one side of the lam mountain a
man named R.' C.
his familv resided
Cornwell and!
The rushing)
wflfrR rlomnl ahori the honaes. 1
killing Mrs. Cornwell And her 8-sed
i'Au--nM Miii. ThAhuhhand waal
badlv hurt, while a small daugh-1
terand an infant escaped with 1
slight bruises. i
Bold Robber Captured.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov.
26. I
One of the most extraordinary and
daring robberies in the history of
the Southwest was committed one
hundred miles east of Kansas City
early today. Between Slater and
Armstrong, Mo., a distance oil
tweutv-oue miles, a masked man,
single-handed, robbed twenty pas-
senders in three cars of the fast
eastbound combination Chicago
fc Alton-Chicago, Burlington &
Quiucy passenger train. After
half an hours work he secured
approximately two thousand dol-1
lars, besides several watclu s and
other pieces of jewelry. I
The mau fanatly was overpower-1
ed bv E. B. Haywood, the train I
conductor, who knocked a raised!
revolver froiii the robber's hand
aud forced him to the car Moor.
The robler was bound, made to
disgorge and four hours aftpr the
train robbery was committed, was
placed in jail.
Football Casualties of 1906.
Chicago, Nov. 25. Eleven play
ers were killed and 104 were in
jurodinthe United States during
the tootbull season of 1906, ac-
coi din .'" to I he (Jhicasro Tribune
toaay. x uese ugures are com
pared with the casualties of 1905,
yhen 18 players were killed and
159 wfre severely injured, and, ac
cording to The Tribune, show
that "debrutalized football has
accomplished in a larsre degree
tne oojecc aimea at, in rendering
the game less dangerous to life
and nmu.
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The decrease in casualties is es
pecially marked among high
school players. In the season of
1905 eleven high school players
were killed and 47 injured, while
in the season just closed seven
were killed and 25 were hurt.
Theatre Floor Gives Away.
Newark, N. J., Nov. 25. Mrs.
r k t lit j "
lieoecca ocuwariz was killed, a I
dozen other persons were so bad
lv iuiured that thev had to be
taken to the city hospital and 15
more were less seriously hurt to-
nigrnt
wneu tne noor ol a nail,
which is used on Sunday nights
as a Jewish theatre, collapsed be
neath the weight of people stand
mg on it.
When the doors of the ball were
thrown open there was a rush for
tickets and almost a hundred per
sons gathered within the space.
The flooring suddenly began to
give away, and there was a mad
rush, in the midst of which the
' r i.i.
entire noor aroDDea. carrvin?
down with it the ticket omce.
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Some of the injured may die.
Swept Over Niagara Falls.
Niagara Fall, N. Y., Nov. An
uukuown man was swept over the
Horse-shoe falls in a small boat
this afternoon after a daring at
tempt had been made to save him.
An employe of the Ontario Power
Company first saw the little craft
coming down river in the grasp of
the swift current. The occupant,
a man. was standing up, frantical
lv wavni"- Ins hands. Two row
boats started down the Chippewa
river, towards the Niagara, to at
teniut to rescue the unfortunate
man, but a cross current carried
him away from thenvand in a few
minutes he was swept over , the
i Horse-shoe falls.
Washington Letter.
From Oar BegularOorrespondenr.
Washington, Nov. 22, 1906.
It is not often that a Cabinet
Lffi run8 contrary to the ex-
Dressed orders of the President.
This appears, however, to be what
Secretary Tan has done in the
case of the 25th Infantry soldiers
who were ordered peremptorily
discharged just before the Presi
dent started for Panama. It is
rather a remarkable situation.
The President issues a flat-footed
order; there is a protest against
it from a great many quarters,
and the Cabinet officer under
whose jurisdiction it comes takes
the responsibility of holding up
the order for further instructions
from his chief. Probably such a
thing has never before occurred
in the history of the government.
In view'of the fact that Secretary
fait is now proceeding with the
discharge of his original order, it
is to be inferred that such thing
will not happen again for a long
time to come. President Roose
velt gave the order for the dis
honorable discharge of three com
panies of the 25th Infantry after
the riot in which they participat-
ea at .Brownsville, lexas. It was
It
a very drastic order but no one
expected that it would precipitate
such a storm of protest as it rais-
m great many sections in the
North. In view of this popular
clamor Secretary Taft took the
responsibility of holding up the
order until he would hear from
the President again, but seems
that he had rather underestimat
ed the determination of the Presi
dent to staud fey a decision which
he had already made. The very
prompt response which Mr.Boose-
ven grave to me petitions aaares-
Ur him was that be would not
resciua tne oraer aiscnargmg me
companies referred to unless new
aa material tacts were presented
ior nis consideration. iNoneol tne
protests tiled contained sach evi
dence as he required and the re
sult has been that the Secretary
of War now has to carry out the
order as it was originallv eiven
There has been a great deal of
interest in the speech which it
was announced Secretary Boot
would deliver before the trans-
Alississippi Congress now meet-
ing in Kansas uity. The pre
liminary interest was largely on
account of the fact that he would
have something to say anent the
jtlonroe Doctrine. It was not
thought, however, that he would
ro so far as as to make a speech
in favor of a Ship subsidy bill,
This, however, is what he did.
Me made an address before an lm
mense audience, wherein there
were a number of South American
diplomats, and his expressions on
the subject of the Monroe Doc
trine were decidedly u'ain aud
ionvincing. He said that tlm
doctrine was not the result of
popular eouiaiiou out taxi it was
the concentrated wisdom of the
best statesmen of the time ana
that it was just as virile now as
when it was hist promulgated in
1826. He gave Germany and oth
er European nations credit for all
they have done in the
coloniza
tion of South America.
and said
that such colonization was-wel
come and a help to anv South
American state. He pictured the
vast resources of the tropical aud
sub-tropical country thus settled,
but he said that in case the ques
tion ever arose Luropean nations
would find that there was no dim
inution of American insistence on
having the doctrine upheld which
prevented the political aggrandi
zement of an European state at
the expense of the Latin Amen
can lepublics
With regard to the Ship sub
sidy, he made out a tolerably
strong
case, and one wliicn is
likely to have its effect with the
next session of Coneress. He
showed the utter lack of steam
ship communication between
North and South America. He
said that during the whole of his
trip he had seen but one vessel
except his own flying the Ameri-
can ttaS said tbat tue regular
steamship lines were essential to
foster the trade, of . this country
with South America and be said
frankly, that he believed a ship
subsidy was the only method by
which it could be done.
There is little question that a
subsidy bill will be introduced at
the next session of Congress. The
announcement of Mr. Hoot may
be taken as an announcement from
the administration of the govern
ment's attitude towards such a
bill. It will mean the expenditure
of a great deal of money, money
whicji may possibly reach the
pockets of those who already have
enough and to spare, but accord
ing to Mr. Root's showing, it is a
very necessary expenditure, and
one which indirectly will be apt
to benefit all of the producing in
terests of the United States.
The charges'now made against
the General Land office of fraud
in acquiring control of coal lauds
bv the IJ nion Facihc itailroad in
Wvominsr have taken definite
form.v It appears,- however, that
Secretary Hitchcock has been
aware for some time past that
there was something wrong in
these land deals and that for al
most three years he has been try
ing to get at the real facts in the
.case.
Illinois Farmers Coming Here.
Wilmington, N. CM Nov.; 23.
Through the efforts of Clarence
L. Fisher, western agent of the
Carolina Trucking and Develop
ment Company, of this city, forty-
five well-to-do Illinois farmers and
ft-nrlrar havo Voin apnt, bp.rA nn
a prospecting tour. The western .
men arrived in Wilmington late
Wednesday night.. Yesterday
they were driven over the, city
and out to a number of near-by
truck farms and .carried to
Wrightsville sound and to the
beach. Today they left for the
new town of Artesia, , in. Colum
bus county, which is being de
veloped by . the. Wilmington
Trucking Company. It is proba
ble that many it not all of the
Illinois farmers will decide to
make their future homes in this
section- They constitute a sub
stantial, sturdy group of agricul
turists of the better class.
. Deaths in St. Lawrence River.
Chatham, NJ B., Novi 23 Half
hundred lives , were lost and
nearly a score of vessels w ere
swept to destruction ' . on the
treacherous reefs and'sita'd bars of
he gulf 'and rivfer' St. 'La wrence
during the season of 'navigation
now drawing to a close. Of sixty
persons who "perished ' In these
waters within the past year, near-
y fifty met death this month, the
most disastrous to shipping in
the St. Lawrence in a dozen years.
The financial losses aggregate a
quarter of a million dollars.
With $1,000,000 still on hand to
be devoted to the San Francisco
refugees, it is stated that the re
lief committee has had several
executive meetings to determine
what shall be done with this
money- It is claimed that the di
rectors of relief work find that
the need of relief has passed, ex
cept such cases as can be taken
care of by the regular charity
organizations.
Over 3,000,000 pounds of to
bacco were sold at public auction
at Danville last week which is a
record-breaker for that town,
which is said to be the largest
loose leaf tobacco market in the
world.
The State board of pharmacy
last week granted license to 18
young pharmacists, among them
being one young lady.
The valuation of all the taxable
property in Durham county is
nearly 18,000,000.
Hon. Oliver P. Mmires, of Wil
mington, died last week, in the
79th year of his age. ...
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