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TflLUJJSDAY, MA.ROH 23, 1907. H A. LONDON, Editor. As has been its custom for sev eral years,' soon after the adjourn ment of the Legislature, the News and Observer issued on last Sunday its biennial edition. It consists of forty pages, profusely illustrated with the photographs of the mem bers and officers of the late Legis lature and with their biographical sketches. But its chief value is a synopsis of all the important laws enacted by the last session of the Legislature. Everybody is presumed to know the law (which is a most violent presumption), but in fact even the lawyers would not know for sever al months what laws had been passed by any legislature if the News and Observer did not pub lish its biennial legislative edi tion. The laws enacted by our Legislatures are not usually pub lished until several months after the adjournment, and therefore this early publication of a synop sis of them by the New3 and . Ob server is most timely and of very great service to the public. A grand ovation greeted ex Senator Burton, of Kansas, ou his return home last week after being released from jail, where heTiad served a six months' sentence. He had been convicted in the federal court of appearing for pay before a government department while a Senator. Hisconviction and sentence did not seem to degrade him at all in the estimation of his fellow towns men. On the contrary it seemed to have made a hero of him. On his arrival at his 'home town he rode from the railroad station to his residence in an open carriage, the sidewalks being lined with people who cordially greeted him as he passed, and his passage through the streets was like a triumphal procession. He held a reception and afterwards made a speech at the theatre in an at tempt to vindicate himself. Me. J. W. Bailey will resign as editor of the Biblical llecorder, a position that he has filled for many years with much credit to himself and usefulness to the state. His retirement will be a great loss to North Carolina jour nalism, which he has done so much to elevate. It is reported that Mr. Bailey will become a lawyer, and, if he does, we confidently predict that he will soon become one of the most distinguished of that pro fession in this state. Harrison was convicted last week of kidnapping the Beasley boy and was sentenced to the pen itentiary for twenty years. An appeal was takento the Supreme Court. This trial was mentioned in last week's Record, but the re sult was not then known . Public feeling was and still is very bitter against Harrison. This is the first, and we hope will be the last, case of kidnapping in this State. Harrison's wife is a sister of ex Gov. Jarvis. The Sanford Express of last week issued an extra edition . that was highly creditable to its en terprising management, and will be of great benefit to the progres sive town and community in whose interests it was published. It is a fitting introduction (as one may term it) of Lee county to the rest of the world, containing as it did so complete a "write-up" of the new county's resources and advantages. . The Legislature at its recent session passed a bill to establish a sanatarium for the treatment of consumptives. The bill appropri ates $15,000 for its establishment and $5,000 annually for its main tenance. The sanitarium is to be controlled by a board of directors elected by the Legislature. No site has yet been selected for the proposed sanitarium, but it is thought that it will be in Moore county. Registrars and judges of elec tion will hereafter be paid $2 a day instead of $1 for holding elec tions. This amendment to the old law was made by the late Legislature. Express companies,' as well as railroads, can now be made to pav promptly claims for loss or damages tar property while in their possession. An act for this purpose was passed by the late Legislature. making the existing law apply to express companies as well as to railroads, .which was eminently right and proper. . The late Legislature granted charters to incorporate seventeen new railroad companies in differ- ereut parts of this state. This does not look like the Legislature was an enemy to railroad com panies or wished to wage war on them, as was alleged by some per sons and papers. We have received a copy of the State Fair advance premium list of field and garden products for the next fair, which will be held during the week beginning Cbfco -bar 14th. A premium of $75 is offered the individual making t he largest and best display of agri cultural products, garden veget a bles, fruits and home industries. Other valuable premiums are of fered other exhibits of farm pro ducts, which are well worth com peting for. Any person wishing to compete can get a copy of this premium list by writing to Mr. J. P gu, Secretary, at Raleigh . Gambler Attacks Party of Raiders. Fort Worth, Texas, March 22. Following au attack on an alleged gambling house today, County At torney Jeff S. McLean was shot and killed and Hamil P. Scott, a member of the attacking party, was fatally wounded by William Thompson, proprietor of the re sort. Half an hour later Thomp son was surrounded in a lumber yard and captured after a desper ate fight. The series of tragedies was seen by hundreds of men and women, including many legisla tors attending a stock show. The resort is in Main street, near Sixth, in the heart of the retail quarter. County Attorney McLean, head ing a party of deputies, forced an entrance to the place and loaded a furniture van with parapherna lia from the den. The furniture was confiscated. It was after the removal of this furniture that the shooting occurred, being brought on by the gang not liking the manner in which their furniture was taken from them. Thompson shot Scott three times in the body. Scott fell and Thompson discarded his empty pistol for that carried by Scott and tied. By this time a.score of policemen and deputies, followed by hundreds of excited men and boys were in pursuit of Thompson, who found temporary refuge in a lumber shed just across the street from the Tourain hotel, the most fashionable hostelry in the city. Patrolmen Bell and Lloyd opened fire on Thompson, who returned the shots, while the crowd shout ed "Lynch him." As soon as Thompson had emptied his re volver, the officers, whose own pis tols were emptied, fell upon him with bare hands and made him a prisoner, as he was suffering from severe wounds inflicted by the of ficers. Accidentally Broke His Neck. 3pacial to Charlotte Observer. Wilmington, March 24. Tb& coroner today completed an in vestigation of the circumstances of the most unusual death of Ed. Davis, a young grocery clerk, whose body was found shortly af ter last midnight at Front and Castle street, his neck being bro ken "and his face bearing an ugly superficial wound. There was no evidence of foul play and the body was turned over to the family for burial. Davis left the store where he was employed dowii town a few minutes before 12 o'clock last night, shaved at barber-shop on the way home, and was found 30 minutes later by a marine engineer,- also on his way home, close up to a fence on the sidewalk, breast downward and face slight ly upturned. His watch, $19 in money and some bundles of mer chandise he was carrying home and other articles of value were found untouched. After a full investigation of the facts the coroner is of the opinion that with the bundles under his arm, the man fell against the side of the fence, breaking his neck and that in falling the wound on his cheek was inflicted. Estimate of National Wealth. Washington, March 23. The total estimate of the valuation of national wealth in 1904 was $107, 104,192, 410, according to a spe cial report issued today by the census bureau on wealth, debt and taxation, which represents an in crease in the four-year period from 1900 to 1904 of $18,586,885,635. This advance in national wealth has no parallel in the history of the United States, except the de cade from 1850 to 1860, In 1850, when the first estimates of the na tional wealth were made, the fig ures were only $7,135,780,228. Washington Letter. jFromOur BoguIaraorroapondent.J Washington, March 21, 1907. While the Waterways Commis sion appointed by the President last week is not yet even organiz ed, Chairman Burton of Ohio is expected back in Washington within a few days, and then the commission will meet to see what it "can do. People in many parts of the country may not realize what an enormous task the com mission "has before it and how much good it will be able to do if it plans wisely, ' and if its wise plans are carried out. Ihe scheme is nothing less than mapping out an efficient system of internal water transportation for all of the country that can now be reached by water, and in fact putting in canals where they will do the most good. To merely map out this much of the work seems like a stupendous task. It is almost as though the whole railroad sys tem of the country were lacking and a few scattered horsecar lines doing all the hauling and some one in authority suddenly propos ed to exteud the scattered horse car lines into the present steam road system and equip it for -business with the latest improvements of engineering skill. Of course what the Waterways Commission can do is only to make a start and prepare a com prehensive plan for the approval of Congress. But one of the things it is to do in a general way is to map out an efficient auxilliary system of water transportation for slow freight that will take off the Hhoulders of the railroads the burden of moving the immense crops which they now frankly con fess they are unable to handle. The people of the middle west realize the need of water transpor tation perhaps more keenly than any other part of the country, St. Louis is one of the greatest job bing cities of the country, and a member of the commission said this week that he was assured by the big merchants there that they had not shipped a bill of goods in the past year without a proviso that they were not to be held re sponsible for delay in delivery. The farmers of the middle west and northwest know to their sor row the impossibility of getting their crops to market by the rail roads as now run, and thousands of bushels of last season's grain is now rotting in the fields and beside the railroad tracks because of the inability of the railroads, real or professed, to cope with the traffic. If the Commission is able to map out a comprehensive plan of water highways that will serve the needs of the people in moving the tieavy and bulky produce, the railroads will be left free to hand le the fast freight and passenger traffic much more effectively. But this is not all that the Waterways Commission is expect ed to do. To make effective and navigable the larger streams will be a large and important work, but it is planned also to control so far as possible all the streams of the country, and thus save the millions of dollars lost annually by floods and the incalculably greater loss by washing and eros ion of the farm lands of the coun try. This is going at the problem of stream control with a venge ance. Gifford Pinchot, the chief of the Forestry service, is one of the members of the commission and one of the prime movers. His plan for the control of stream er osion and flood loss looks mainly to reforesting the headwaters of the streams and thus preventing the sudden down pour of melted snow and ice that makes the floods in the spring and has just caused fully $20,000,000 of loss around Pittsburg and the Ohio valley. The people of the South realize this loss also, and have constauf object lesson before them in the destruction of the greatest rice belt in'the world through . the two Carolinas where the fields were washed out after the forests had been cut on the headwaters of the streams. The same was true of the "dead fields" of the cotton belt where washing by rains des troyed tens of thousands of acres of land before a partial stop was put to it by "contour cultivation." -- The problem of erosion presents itself to the commission in a dif ferent form in the arid webt where the North Platte, the Missouri, and a dozen other streams all car ry down annually millions of tons qf the richest soil to choke the channel of' the Mississippi and put the sediment where it will do the most harm.. The reclaiming service, whose director, F. H. Newell, is a member of the. com mission will undertake to" handle that end of the problem with im mense settling reservoirs that will send the waters of the western streams down clear and free of sediment to join the Mississippi and free also of the disastrous floods that ruin the farm lands along their course. The problem of light and power from water flow will also, be con sidered by the commission. It is estimated by the members that from this source, the coal con sumption of the country can le reduced a third, lengthening by ju3t that much the producing life of the coal mines. It is a great vision, and one in which a scien tific imagination can revel, Killed in Collision. Las Ansreles. Cal.: March 24. uncial train on the Atchison, To- peka & Santa Fe Kail way , carry ing scores of students home frpm aa inter-collegiate field meetin g at Claremont, collided head-on with the eastbound limited traiu while both trains were moving at a rapid rate, within the city limits tonight. Four persons were killed and 17 injured, some of them probably, fatally. Both locomotives, one, of the baggage cars on the limited and the smoking car on the special train were demolished. The crash was terrific and was heard many blocks away from the scene. Brunswick county has called an election for May 25th on the question of voting to subscribe $80,000 to the capital stock of the Wilmington, Brunswick & South port Railway Company. AH OLD ADAGE SAYS. A light purse is a heavy curse" , lckness makes a light purse. ; The LIVER is the seat of nine tenths of all disease. SO to the root of the whole mat ter thoroughly, quickly safely and restore the action of the LIVER to normal condition. 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