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Sftc Chatham TRecorfr. . A. LONDON EEIT03. AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRJPTION: 51.50 Per Year STRICTLY m ADVANCE VOL. XXXI. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, WEDNESDAY. MAY 19.; 1909. NO. 40. tlbc Chatham Rccoro. RATES OF ADVERTISIHG: One Square, ona Insertion $U One Square, two Insertions.... I.5 One Square, one month........ -9 For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. HOP GALLOWAY DEAD Great Southern Methodist Passes Away at Home in Mississippi. jSKIIiOH OF MANY BOOKS Writings Pest Known of Any Person in the Methodist Ckurch South. Sketch of His Lif Jackson, Miss. Bishop Charles G. G;.'' ay cf the Methodist Episcopal Or eh, South, Mississippi's most dis t:: -.tished divine and best known v;. ieist, v.-ho for the past twenty vcars, has held rank among the greatest pulpit orators of America, tiled at his residence in this citj', af ter au illness of several days with a mild form of pneumonia complicated v, heart trouble. 0:: several occasions during the t;.ct :. :'.x years, Bishop Galolway sa::V tl severe attacks, due to en jt::ei heart action, and hardening a r ' arteries. Although only in his riMieiii year, the prodigious volume of we:k he performed as the "Mis-v-: :: - r.ep of Methodism" had .'great jv -c keiied his once powerful phy- ar.-J he was in no condition to Avi r.s. . I the lung congestion that catiM d his death. 0I:e :V Betts Galloway was born r.i Kcmcko. Miss., Sept. 1, 1S49, end 'Vii- in his sixtieth year. He grad v.lv.:': i:i 1S6S from the University of Miisi-.-ilTt. frcm which institution he receive.; the degree of doctor of di vinity in 1SS2. The degree of doctor of laws was later conferred upon him In- the Northwestern University, and t-'y the Tulane University. He entered the ministry in 1868 as a irnieer of the Mississippi Confer ence. Methodist Episcopal Church, South, serving numerous churches in that state. He was editor of the New Orleans Christian Adovcate from 1882 until 1SS5. when he was ordained as Sishc?, serving the church continu ously in that capacity until the day cf Lis death. Bishop Galloway's writings covered a wider range, perhaps, than those of any ether person connected with the yiethedist Episcopal Church, South, and he traveled extensively. For a number cf years past he took an ac tive interest in the campaign-3 waged in Mississippi and other' southern states for prohibition. A "Handbook cf Prohibition" and '"Open Letters on Prchi'oiiicn," which latter embraced a controversy with Jefferson Davis.were among his writings along this line. TO EXTERMINATE PESTS. Great Campaign Planned Against the He use Flies. Chicago, III It is time to begin the fight on flies. Health Commis sioner Evans ha.3 sounded the warn ing in hie weekly bulletin on Chica go's health. In the war on flies, the report pre scribes the best death for the in sects. It gives the formula for a pot son that will kill the flies and not en danger human life. A drr.m cf bichromate cf potash, dissolved in two ounces of water and swee'ened, is the cheap and effective method of encouraging the flies to kill themselves. Thero are other sanitary regula tion, though, that the health report ought to be exercised. Here f.r- seme of the ways suggested: i-frter. yc.tr windows and doors be fore ny time. rim-en ail feed, especially xailk. Keep fiies away from the sick, ea fcriaiiy those ill with contagious' Eiin-iirnt? tho breeding places of flfc?: this is important. The- following should he done: Sprinkle chloride of lime or kero fen-' over contents of garbage boxes end ether refuse. Keep gar-base receptacles tightly covered. Clean the cans daily. Clean the boxes every week. Sprin ge thtra with kerosene or chloride of lime. Pour kerosene into the drains; keep sevcerage system in good order. Clean cuspidors every day; keep a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid In them all the time. Con't r-'low dirt to accumulate In c-vee.::, fi.'.r.d doors, back cf radia tors cr under stoves, No dirtno flies. MOBILES SLAUGHTER CHILDREN 6 Kiilcd Machines In New York City Since April 1st N'ct York city. Twelve-year-old 'Ulter Purdy was run over la front his heme in Ninety-fourth street an automobile driven by Minthorne "oolsey, a broker. Woolsey was held t'-ndor gsoo bail on a technical charge cf homicide. Since April 1 accord ic? to the police, twenty-seven chil ? en hare been killed by automobiles w the streets cf Manhattan. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. The British naval estimates call for an expenditure of $175,713,500 during the next fiscal year. This Is almost $40,000,000 more than the United States wil lspend, and very nearly twice the sum that Germany will de vote to her establishment. Charles Whitney, an uncle of Pres ident Taft and a wealthy merchant of Green Bay, Mich., eloped with Miss Eva Gerardin, an unusually pretty and attractive dressmaker of Green Bay. The bridegroom is sixty, the bride twenty. Abdul Hamid has saved his life, but that is about all that remains to him. Terrorized by the threats of the young Turks leaders, he has trans ferred the $10,000,000 that he had on deposit in foreign banks over to the Young Turks. Believing that it is better late than never, John P. Brady, contractor and builder, has had erected at his coun try home near Baltimore, Md., a monument to the memory of Adam, the first man. A "moonshining" outfit brought from the mountains of Eastern Ken tucky, will be exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle this summer. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, of Chicago, in an address recently, urged the teach ing of morality in the public schools, but said that the use of a text-book in this teaching would be ridiculous. He said that the accumulation of knowledge which does net improve the character is not education in the true sense. The Chinese regent, Prince Chun, who since the dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai, has been collecting lists cf offi cials who- were dismissed previous to his taking office, has issued an edict rehabilitating the reputations and re warding the families of five officials of the late Dowager Empress, who were beheaded for opposing the Box ers. A bottle of beer was placed in the corner stone of the new town hall at Gary, Ir.d., just before the ceremonies started. An enthusiastic prohibition ist placed the bottle filled with the amber fluid in the niche of the cor nerstone. The inscription on the bot tle read as follows: "At one time the contents of this bottle was used as a beverage by the people, but the bev erage was destined to become ex tinct." Shut out of the house of commons by the police, the English suffragettes chartered the launch Dreadnaught, and putting a band cn board, steamed up the river opposite the house of parliament. Here the boat stopped 2nd the women sang the Marseillaise. Then suddenly there was fired from the launch a broadside of rockets. These. burst above the terraces and a regular snow storm of handbills flut tered down over the watching members. CHAIN OFWAREHOUSES Farmers Union Plans to Hold Wheat for High Prices. WILL CUT olfsPECULATORS By Selling Grain Direct to Wholesal Houses Farmers Would Get Greater ". Income From Their Crops. em? z CV, ftany any ' j'r Qitaree qttir: 8cai::; ::!:'. ': C; -Hbb or ahx our.ces ca-ro Che- riep- threr' alcoho' ALCOHOL 1M DREAD. rr.ce People Will Have to Quit Eating It. :.-o, ill. On the theory of persons that the partaker of J, containing even a slight cf alcohol is likely to ac he liquor habit, those Chica wishing to guard against this must quit eating bread. . inients conducted in London :-!:ing the presence of 7.2 grains he 1 in every bun weighing 2 1-2 have been repeated in Chi v. ith more impressive results, o bread, of the 5-cent loaf va has been found to contain from to four-tenths of 1 per cent of PREMATURE BLAST HILLS 20. l.COO Pounds of Dynamite Explodes at Quarry Near Albany, N. Y. km5'311-' N- Y- Twenty men were Tnted . by a premature blast of dyna ;hri"e in a stone quarry operated by t m lanan Road Improvement Com-in- near South Bethlehem, eleven -- ies soulh of Albany. thnsand pounds of dynamite t-.'.'.!0''1 'l und the bodies of the vic t,"!" 1VMG hurled hundreds of feet by ..-.concussion and so badly tmutilat " s to be beyond recognition. Washington. In a conflict between Panama po lice and employes of the canal zone, near the dividing line, C. M. Abbott, an electrician in the power house at Cristobal, an American, and a negro, also an American, were killed. The police went to arrest an escaped prist pner, when they were attacked by the West Indians. The Morse code letters C- Q. D. wil no longer be tht distress signal frorn vessels in trouble. Owing to the difi ficulty of making and deciphering this Bignal, It has been decided to aban don it and substitute "8. O. 8." The new Bignal has been adopted by the Berlin treaty and la now official all over the world. The next Jack Blnns who signals frcm the wireless telo graph room . of a vessel in distress will flash out "S. O. S." In place of the now famous "C. Q. D." According, to advices Just received from Colonel George W. Goethals, the Panama canal at the present rate of tirogress will be completed, so far as the excavation la concerned, by Au gust 1, 1911. The total amount of excavation since May 4, 1804, when the United States undertook the work, has been 73,124,849 cubic yards. Of this amount mere than one-half, or 38,039,180 cubic yards, has been taken . out in the last twelve months, it is estimated that there remains to be excavated 101.40J46 cubic yards. - The president has nominated as United States district judgs for east ern district of North Carolina, Henry Groves Connor, of North Carolina, The president gave mora consider?, tion to this North Carolina judgeship than to all cf the other vacancies on the federal bench, with which be has had to deal, since his anauguration, He has been in constant consultation with the North Carolina senators and representatives and has placed before him the names of at least a dozen candidates. Judge Connor, a demo crat, was for about ten years on the bench of the supreme court of North Carolina. Four Sac and Pox Indians from Ohio wore among the large throng of visitors at the white house who shook hard3 with President Taft one day recently. The chief of the delegation was Push-E-TaNeaua. An Indian named Tesson acted as interpreter and introduced his fellow callers. Tes son is a member of the G. A. R., and wore his brass-buttoned uniform. The Memphis freight bureau filed complaint with the interstate com merce commission against the South ern railroad and San Francisco, and Mobile and Kansas City railways, al leging that these roads have practi cally isolated the region north of Pon totoc, Miss., from Memphis markets for cotton and cotton seed because of prohibitive freight rates. "It Is a matter for the discretion of the directors and ofiicers of. a nation al bank to determine whether they will enter into a contract with an in surance company guaranteeing the solvency of the bank," said Attorney General Wickersham, in an opinion forwarded to Secretary of the Treas ury McVeagh. This discretion, says the attorney general, is 'to be exer cised in view of the solvency anji gen eral financial conditions of the com pany making the insurance and the reasonableness of the rate of pre mium." .... . .U Springfield, Mo. A plan to con struct a chain of warehouses in the grain producing territory for the pur pose of holding wheat for high prices was indorsed here by the mass meet ing of the grain growers and cattle growers' branch of the National Far mers' Union. It is believed by dele gates In attendance that farmers by next season will be prepared to han dle a large percentage of their crops in this way. At the invitation of the American Society of Equity, the farmers also promised to co-operate with that or ganization. Theo G. Nelson, national organizer for the equity society, aa dressed the meeting. The report of the committee on res olutions, which was adopted, urges op position to legislation which aims to control railroad rates by ignoring state's rights in the matter and in dorses the efforts of congressmen to obtain appropriations for agricultural schools. The use of cotton in the manufac ture of twine, rope, sacks and other ar ticles in common use is also indorsed. It was stated in the meeting that C, 000,000 more bales of cotton would be consumed if manufacturers would use the cotton of the south instead of im porting jute from the Philippines. National Organizer Nelson of the equity society, in his address, told of the comparative plans of that organi zation. "The object sought by the mem bers of the grain growers department this year," said he, "Is much the same as the purpose for which this convention has been called by the Farmers' Union. "By collective marketing the mem bers of the society will sell their grain to the English and Scottish wholesale co-operative societies of Great Britain. In this way we will pass crops by the speculator and b9 our own middlemen. By getting for themselves the profits which go to the speculator and the middlemen, the grain growers will, no matfer wheth er the price be high or low, get a greater income from the sale of their crops without the corresponding in crease in cost of .bread to the con sumers." . Birmingham,, Ala., was selected as the place for holding the next con vention, which will meet Sept. 7. WANT TARIFF QUESTION SETTLED. J. J. Hill Says Business Will Then Improve. Washington, D. C. James J. Hill, the railroad magnate, called on Pres ident Taft. He expressed the belief that if the tariff agitation was cut off 'short, that if the oratorical steam in congress was shut off, the country I would begin a great era of prosper ity at an early date. "All eyes are turned on Washings ton," said Mr. Hill. "Some people seem to think that legislation will cure the toothache, set a broken limb or make crops. Talk and agitation here In Washington Keep people in suspense, make them forget their business and hope for some legisla tive cure-all. What we want Is to have the tariff agitation over with and let the people get back to work and aid the great wheels of progress to turn. Things will begin to hum. The outlook Is good in all directions." Speaking of the possibilities of ag riculture in the west and the south Mr. Hill, who himself Is a farmer, owning one farm of 50,000 acres and another of 6,000, said that these two sections are coming forward by leaps and bounds. He declared that the south is struggling to restore the soil which wras exhausted by her improv ident methods of agriculture before th war. WIRZ MONUMENT UNVEILED. Georgia Daughters of Confederacy Had Charge of Ceremony. Andersonville, Ga. Under the stars and stripes and the Confederate stars and hars there was dedicated hera the- monument to Captain Henry Wirz, commander cf Anderconvllle prison, and executed at Washington at the end of the war on order of a military commission which tried him for mur fier and flagrant crueltymartyred, not executed, said the Georgia Daugh ters of the Confederacy, who unveiled the monument, in the hope that it will stand to see Wirz memory some time considered everywhere in a friendly light. TWENTY MEN DROWNED. is- i i r-r i n m , " Gasoline Launch Sinks in Ohio River Near Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pa. Twenty persons are missing and all of them are believed to have been drowned when a gaso line launch sank in the middle of the Ohio river near Schoenville, four miles below Pittsburg. Of the thirty occupants on the boat, only ten are known to have escaped. ' All the men were employees of the Pressed Steel Car Company, at the McKees Rock plant. The men had been working overtime,1 and left tho works to cress the river in the launch about fifteen minutes later. The boat is said to have been intended for not over twenty persons and it is said it was dangerous to attempt to carry as many as twenty-five in it. But all the men wanted to get across the river on the first trip of the boat and thirty of them crowded in. As the men started out in the boat one of them is said to have remarked that it seemed to him to be over crowded and he feared it wa3 not safe to attempt the trip in it. Albert Gra ham, the pilot, and one of those who is missing, is said to have replied that it was safe enough all right, as he had had twenty-seven persons in it. No more was said about the load, but when the boat reached the mid dle of the stream, where the water is perhaps 20 feet deep, it suddenly sank. There was no explosion, no leak was sprung, but the boat simply sank beneath the weight it had been bear ing and went to the .bottom. As it sank it caused a suction which took many down. WRIGHT BROTHERSWETcOMED. Aviators Have Enough European Con tracts to Keep Them Busy. New York City. Wilbur and Or ville Wright, the American aeroplan ists, returned from the scenes of their European triumphs abroad by the North German Lloyd liner Kron Prin-ze-3s Cecile. They we're accompanied bv their sister, Miss Katherine Wright, who made three flights at Pau recently, and said that she was not scared a bit by her achieve ment. A big reception and welcome home which had been planned by the Aero Club of America and other societies was called off at the request of the Wrights. DUKE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Abruzzi Seems to Be Utterly Weary of Life. Rome, Italy. Court circles are agi tated over sensational reports which have reached the government about the Duke of Abruzzi. It is related that in one of the fits of depression to which the duke has become sub ject of late, he attempted to kill him self with a revolver on the way out to India, but was saved by a mem ber of his suite, who had kept a vigi lant watch on him. Letters from members cf the expedition represent that the duke is utterly reckless. It is believed that the duke's mood is due to his failure to win Miss Kath erine Elkins for a bride. BASEBALL GOOD FOiTbOYS. National Game Indorsed by the Play ground Association. Pittsburg. Pa. That baseball is a healthy sport for boys and should be encouraged on the public playgrounds, was the decision of ehe Playground Association of America in session here. Many were advocates of a new national game to take the place of baseball, but the vote disclosed Va large majority for the present na tional game. Athletics for girls were discussed, but occasioned no friction. Several addresses were delivered by delegates attending the congress. Crazy Snake Willing to Surrender. Papulpa, Okla. Alexander Harjo, nephew of Chitti Harjo (Crazy Snake) after his arrest for hor-3e stealing, told Sheriff King that his uncle, ring leader of the Indian troubles, was hiding east of Henrietta, suffering from wounds and willing to surrender. PLAN CUBMJNVASION Reported That U.S. Will Take Charge of Island Affairs. SELF RULeITa FAILURE Administration Officials Refuse to Admit Seriousness of the Situation, and Sacrecy Surrounds Plans. MOSES CALLED FIRST STRIKE. Biblical Origin is Found for Modern Trades Union Methods. Chicago, 111. "Moses called the first strike in the brickyards of Egypt, and Aaron was the first business agent. It was a success. Nine times out ot ten strikes are justifiable." The Biblical origin of modern trades union methods was given by James W. Kline, general president of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers in the Wes tern Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He praised the Methodist Church for its recognition of the trade unions, and criticised it for up holding the man who desired to re main outside of the union. NIGHT RIDERS FOUND GUILTY. Given Ten Days in Jail and Five Hundred Dollar Fine. Waverly, Tenn.-A verdict of guilty was returned in the case of the four teen men charged with being mem bers of the night riders' organization and whipping Esquire J. M. Reece on October 15, last. The punishment was fixed at ten days in jail and a fine of $500 for each. They were re manded to jail under a strong mili tary guard. A motion for a new No More Recruits Wanted. Washington, D. C. Orders have been issued at the war department for the immediate discontinuance of the recruiting depots at Birmingham, Ai.; Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and El Paso, Texas. Newsy Paragraphs. P. H. Beans, a drayman at Sheldon, Iowa, has been notified that he Is heir to an estate of 840,000,000 in New York city. Beans Is poor and has a family. It is reported at Santander that former President Castro, of Venezue la, has decided to take up bis perma nent residence on the Island of Ten eriffe. ' Angered because his companion, Max Steiner, refused to quit whistling when be wanted to sleep. Joe Heb quist shot and killed Steiner and is in the county jail at Eureka, Cal., charged with murder. Peter M. Miller, father of fourteen children, committed suicide at Des Moines. Iowa, by swallowing carbolic acid. Shortly before Jaking the drug he told his wife that he could no long er take care of so large a family. The widow is destitute. General F. D. Grant in a' lecture before the Chicago Y. M. C. A. on "Total Abstjnence," said: "The rea son that I urge total absinence in all young men is because that when a man gets drunk only once in a while, he always chooses the wrong time." "Eat hard food if you wish to keep the teeth clean and preserve them," is the advice of Dr. George Cunning ham, who has been conducting a cru sade for the preservation of the teeth of English children. By the descriptiou of the clothing the dead body of a small child found pressed in a bale of cotton at a mill at Manchester, England, has been identified as that of the missing child of George P. Hartman who was sup posed to have been lost or stolen in Texas last December. Mr. Hartman is now living near Mihden, La, Washington, D. C. That a third armed invasion , of Cuba by the Unit--ed States is not improbable in the not distant future is the belief of many well-informed army and navy men here. Naturally all effort to induce them to speak openly cn the subject is useless. Each day the island government is becoming more involved and plunging deeper in the mire of financial diffi culties. There is said to be a rapid relapse from the conditions as left by the United States a few months ago. It is recognized .by. the administw, tion that intervention i3 slowly be coming more imperative because ol the growing complications facing the new government, but the administra tion here is diplomatically sphinx-like in so far as even hinting at the sub ject. II could not well be otherwise for the preseTit. Plans for the landing of soldiers at Havana and Cienfuegos have been prepared by the general staff of the army. The utmost secrecy surrounds these plans, it is needless to say, and the war department officials will stoutly deny the existing facts.as will other administration officials, but nev ertheless they are there. The plans are known only to high ranking ofii cers of the army, who have under lock and key detailed printed provis ional orders for the movements of in fantry and cavalry forces! Conditions in Cuba are believed to be nearing a crisis through the ac tions of the new government. In ad dition to the heavy burdens placed on Cuba by the United States in Its $19, 000,000 bond Issue, the government has practically traded the arsenal property to the railroad and incurred an additional responsibility of $6,000, 000. Further than that, the new gov ernment is creating hundreds of of' fices and filling them with Cubans. Many of the men wrho fought for "Cuba Libre" believe they are not receiving their reward, and may make trouble, necessitating intervention by tho United States. President Taft and administration officials refuse to admit the serious ness of the situation for reasons of policy. The president has always been proud of the manner in which the United States handled affairs in Cuba, and believes that action must be justified. Representative Champ Clark of Mis souri, speaking of the chaotic condi tions in Cuba and the announcement, says: "I regret to hear that conditions In Cuba are such as may force another Intervention on our part. My guess ia that if we are compelled to intervene again we will stay there for keeps." Representative Austin of Tennessee said he knew conditions are not satis factory in Cuba and that the Cuban government had not lived up to its promises. "In my judgment," said he, "it was a serious mistake for the United States to ever turn the island over to the Cubar-3. It is Quite prob able that we will have to return ta the island. If we do we will remain there." TURPEIOTIIIHIISTENGED, Jail Sentences and Fines Assessed by Court. Savannah, Ga. Overruling the mo tlon in arrest cf judgment offered by the defense, Judge William B. Shep. pard sentenced the five men found guilty of violating the Sherman anti trust law, and for the first time, so far as is known, jail sentences, in two cases, were imposed. The sen tences follow: Spencer P. Shotter, chairman of the board of directors of the American Naval Stores Company, three months in jail and a fine of $5,000. Edmund S. Nash, president of tho company, $2,000 fine. John Cooper Myers, vice president of tho American Company and presi dent of the National Transportation and Terminal Company, tbrea months in jail and a fine of $2,800. Georgo Mead Boardman cf New York, treasurer of the American Na val Stores Company, $2,000 fine. Carl Moller of Jacksonville, Fla.. agent of the American and general manager of the National Transporta tion and Terminal Company in Jack Bonville, $5,000 fine. The case will be appealed to the United States court of appeals, SERIES OF TORNADOES. Three States Suffer Damage from the Storms One Town Devastated. Kansas City, Mo. A series of tor nadoes in Kansas, Missouri and Okla homa killed at least five, injured 53, devastated one town, wrecked a train and did great damage to property. Twenty-five men were injured by a storm that swept over Mount Wash ington and Fairmount Park, suburbs of Kansas City. The town of Hollis, Kan., was swept away. Here three were killed and ten seriously injured. The storm spread over a 'wide area, however, laid waste to many farm houses and many people are report ed homeless. BAPTISTS BAR CARNEGIE CASH. Claim Ironmaster Wants Too Much for His Money. Louisville, Ky. Almost, unanimous sentiment to reject the offer of the Carnegie foundation fund, providing money to sectarian schools that will drop their sectarianism, was the spir it at a banquet of the Southern Bap tist Education Society, in connection with the Southern Baptist Convention which is in ses-sion here. The most prominent educators of the suoth were present at the banquet. . - . . . , NORTH STATE NEWS NOTES Items of State Interest Gathered from Gere and There and Told Briefly for Busy Readers. THE WEATHER BUREAU AND ITS LATEST CRITIC. Kaleig-h, Special. The work that is being done by the U. S. Weather Bureau is perhaps better known to the majority of citizens than that of any other Bureau of the Govern ment, and it hardly seems necessary to defend itrfiom such attacks as for instance that which appeared in Ev erybody's Magazine for May. This attack was written by Mr. Emerson Hough, who makes specific charges, and these charges will be reviewed and answered in order. First, he charges that the Weather Bureau is unduly expensive, but does not explain that the appropriation for this service is examined critical ly, item by item by a committee of Congress, and that this committee voluntarily increased the appropria tion asked for by $133,200.00. and that last year more than $50,000.00 was returned to the U. S. Treasury. The Honorable Jas. R. Mann said that this service is the most economi cally administered service, with the ' work that has been done, in the Gov ernment service anywhere. Second, that it does not progress. It would seem that progress is being made from the fact that representa tives of weathor organizations of Europe have visited this country for the express purpose of studying meth ods and forecasting under the Chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Re searches of great value to the science of meteorology are being carried on by this Bureau, and the world's re cord for tie greatest, height readied by a kite carrying a meteorological instrument was attained by this Bu reau at Mt. Weather, Va., the re search observatory. Third, that it is excessively explan atory. This is rather a virtue than a fault. The Weather Bureau has nothing that it wishes to keep secret. Its methods and results, however, must be made known, or the public would not hav5 that sympathetic re lation with this Bureau that it now holds. Fourth; that the service is general and not specific. A knowledge of the problems involved in giving a specific forecast in regard to exact time and locality would at onw dispel the charge that the service is too general. Forecasts are made as specific as the knowledge of the conditions will war rant. Fifth, that it is evasive and inten tionally ambiguous. The forecasts are formulated with great care, and cannot have not in any sense a Del phic interpretation. They are mado to cover a definite period and all fore casts are carefully examined to ascer tain the percentage of accuracy which varies from 80 to 85 per cent. Sixth, that it offers no well-founded hope of improvement in local forer casting. On the contrary every in ducement is made to officials in the Weather Buraau to exed in local fore casting, and tho practical Ut of merit of all experiments and all theoretical work ii the measure of how much it will improve the fore casting of the weather. In the cases of the Galveston storm and the storm in which the steamship Portland was wrecked, which Mr. Hough claims the Bureau failed to forecast, the records of marine associations, of the local press, and of the Weather Bureau bear un impeachable testimony to the fact that the Bureau gave ample warning of the cominr of the Galveston storm that the Gulf was practically clear ed of vessels of commerce and no loss of property, occurred in the open sea, and that the morning before the pas-j sage of the Btorni hurricane signals Times Mercury Changes Hands, Hickory, Special. A stock com pany, with J. Y. Killian as president, and R. Or. Maco as buninfips manager, has bought the Times-Mercury,- and will continue its publication, but ai a strictly Republican paper. Mr. Click is no longer connected with the paper, but will devote his time to tha Nutshell, a semi-monthly, which he began publishing; a few month ago. Dr. E. Y. Yates Dies Suddenly. -Durham, Special. Dr. E. Y. Yates, veterran minister of the Methodist church, and for nearly nine 3-ears lecturer in the department of Biblical Literature at Trinity College, died sitting.in a chair at his hotel Friday afternoon. He had been ailing since Sunday with a deep cold, but was up the street this morning. After eat ing his mid-day lunch, he went to the front porch and was sitting reading the paper when his head dropped for ward and he was dead in a few min utes. Heart trouble, with which he had been afflicted for several years, was the cause of his death. Six Months in Jail. Wilson, Special. A most deplor able case, one which should have been settled out of court, had it been pos sible, was disposed of Friday morn ing by Judge Oliver H. Allen. The tragedy of this case occurred a few months ago in a drunken brawl in Neverson, Ben Boy kin shot "Bug" J Williams, who, after several days I died from the pistol shot wounds, in ' flicted by Boykin sLa were ordered for Galveston and cMier Gulf ports. In regard to the case of the Port land the New York Times of Dec. 1, 1890 said: "In leaving Boston Saturday nigltt the captain of the Portland took chances which no man in his posi tion had a right to take. From a source 'that warranted implicit be lief, he, like every other captain cn the Atlantic coast, had received warn ing that a storm of exceptional sever ity would strike him as ?oon ns he reached open water, and that he knew that his steamer, though vcll built and comparatively new, was . of a type much tetter dcrigned for enter ing shallow harbors than for encoun tering winter gales cn cs d.mgeic'Ts a cort as tbeie is in the world. De spite all this and act r iding ti his employer, in defiance of imp?;cir cr deis, he steame.d out into, the gatl. t ing tempest. Why? Perhnrs he ! -lo..iged to the class, once large, but now small ind rapidly disappearing, the membtrp of which sneer at t'i'5 Government Weather Buvnu. rnd prefer to rely upon old "signs" in stead of on new science as the basis of meteorological prophecy. Per haps a score cf things. Only this is certain, he should not have sailed, and he shoald not have been allowed to sail." Odd Fellows Meet in Charlotte. Charlotte, N. C, Special. Char lotte wa3 the property of the Odd Fellows of North Carolina Tuesday. Delegates to the meeting of the Grand Lodge were here by the hundreds and the streets of the city were cswarm with uniformed officers, representa tives of every town in the Siatc in which is located a lodge of this great order. Others arriveed later. Ar rangements were made by the - local entertainment committee to care for not le;s than 500 visiters. The var ious lodges of the State sent noi less than 300 accredited delegates and many more were present for the pur pose of attending the meeting of lh Grand Lodge, which occupied three days. Indian Badly Wounded. Asheville, Special. A serious shooting occurred Friday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock in what was for merly known as the Hicks Souther "soft drink" place on south Lexing ton avenue, when it is alleged that Wade Wilgon shot an Indian naired Wbippoorwill. Whippoorwill was drunk or near drunk and doesn't know much about it. At first he said that the shooting was an accident and later that he was ordered out of the place and that the hooti ig followed. The Indian was taken to the City Hall, bis wounds dressed and he was then sent tg a hospital. He was shot through tho arm and the breast pr.d, is said tp bo bleeding internally. Through Truck Train to ftsw York, Jfowbern, Special. Mcnday at 4 meeting of the truckers, Supcrltcn dent Foster, of the Norfolk & South ern, and Superintendent Fountain, held here, it was decided for tho new through truck train to leave hero at 11 a. m., for Goldsboro, where it will be made a through train for New York on the Atlantic Coast Line. The train will at presei.. run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and the Atlantic Coast Line will furnish as far as possible ventilated cars for he service. The schedule is satisfactory to all and means better prices for the truckers -as the goods will reach the markets earlier and in better condU tion than as is the cae with tho present schedule, II I. I II. !- I. 1 Es-5herifl! Crops Uctd, Salisbury, Special. J, Kodw Krider, former sheriff of Rowan coun ty, dropped dead at his home in Sal;e- bury Friday from heart failure. Ha was called for breakfast, and when ho failed to appear was found dead in his bed. Ha was 52 years old, a well known officer, and is survived by one son, seven daughters, two brolhcra and a sister. The funeral takes place with Masonic honors. Bandits Hold Up Train. Spokane, Wash.. Special. Follow ing the hold-up of the Great North ern passenzer train by six bandits between Colbert and Mead Saturday night, 12 persons were injured when the locomotive and the mail cars, cut of! from the rest of the train, wero run back wild by the bandits, after: they had rifled the rest of the train. The conductor saw the wild cars coming back at 25 miles an hour. He and another trainman placed a tie on. the track, but the cars, though part ly stopped, plunged into the coaches, throwing passengers from their seats, cutting them with broken glass. Old Corn Liquor Was the Cause of It AIL Troy, Special. Last Sunday the D, and C, Railway Company ran an ex cursion from Troy, N. C, to Ellis. N. C, especially for home people to attend the closing exercises of the Ellis High School. Sorne of tbem took on a little too much "tea," which caused some misunderstanding; and some of them have red eyes aa well as bruised faces. r-, .
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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May 19, 1909, edition 1
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