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Shot Down "by Officer.
Durham, Special. Sheriff ,J. ,F,
H'iiv."-rd returned Wednesday at
n .i from Virffilina. Va., where
ri nls Carroll, a Durham tough
!1t'!v -wanted for various and sun
dry deviltries. Carroll has been elud
jn;r the embers nere ior the past
throe years. His worst offense is
bardary. trcaking into a house and
stealing He has , stolen chickens
enoudi make, the most approved
colored thief everlastingly jealous
and has made blockade liquor of
cheap chemicals and general cussed
ness to pollute every stream in the
fount v. He has always managed to
esratse wlier. in trouble, but was shot
ones by Deputy Belviu when ,he was
chased by the Durham man. -When
captured Carroll made a break, but
vas shot down and was brought to
Deniston, Va.. cn a cot. The Dur
ham officers met him there and
brought him here. His pal escaped,
but bloodhounds were put on his
track and he is expected to be bag-
ced. Carroll, in person, is the least
pretty of men. He is 6 feet, 8 inches
vriih the most elongated legs. He has
the reputation of being able to out
run a horse, has been frequently
known to catch a rabbit and m a foot
race against Deputy Belvin is the
onlv man who has ever distanced him
It was in one of these chases that
caused Captain Belvin to shoot at
him and in.iure him in the hand
There are so many charges against
this fellow that nobody knows which
one he must face first. He will
doubtless be givi a hearing on the
count for burglary.
The Current Turned On at tie San-
ford Mills.
Sanford. Special. Electric power
from the Crrolma Power and Light
Company's plant at Buckhorn Falls
was turned on at Sanford Cotton
JUills luesdav morning and now
their 11,000 spindles and 400 looms,
which were formerly run by a 450-hcrse-power
engine supplied by steam
from four 100-horse-power boilers,
low turn at the hum of electric
motors. This is the second manufac
turing plftJir in our town to use elee
trie power, the Sanf-ord Ice Plant the
first, and others will follow as early
as wiring can be done, the power line
having been completed only a few
weeks asro.
ft Plunged in Messenger
Boy's Body.
Salisbury, Special. Clarence Mon
roe, aged thirteen, a "Western Union
messenger bov. son ot Mrs. Robert
Monroe, of this c-itv, was seriously
injured here late Tuesday afternoon
while on a bicvcle. In avoiding a
collision with a street car he ran into
a delivery waon. the shaft of which
pierced him in the side. So terrific
as the blow that it required two
men to pull the boy from the shaft4
Mis sn.oes were torn from his fast. In
an unconscious condition he was ear
ned to a physician's omc for treat
went, and his condition is decidedly
precarious.
Changes at A. and M.
Raleigh, Special. Dr. . Burton J.
Ray, of Raleigh, has been appointed
to an instructor's position in the
chemical department at the A. and
M. College. Ho is a son of Prof.
John E. Ray, of this city. Dr. Ray
is a graduate of Wake Forest and
completed his graduate work at Cor
nell University this year!
Dr. L. F. Williams, who served as
an "instructor in chemistry for the
past two years, has been promoted to
the grade of an assistant professor
Dr. Williams is a graduate of Trinity
College and completed his graduate
work, at Joh Hopkins University.
Another Raleigh boy, Mr. Franc
W. , Sherwood, .now holds a position j
.i. A 3 " - . . i i l
ox a. auu oemg locaiea in me
State Experiment Station. eH grad
uated at A. and M., this year, in the
Department of Industrial Chemistry,
and was appointed as an assistant
chemist in the - experiment station.
The changes and addition iwll
greatly strengthen .the . faculty, in. the
Department of Chemistry and the
staff in the experiment station. ,
NO. 47.
The Duty of the Press in This
Important Movement
GREAT QUESTION OF THE HOUR
An Able Paper By C. H. Varner,
Esq., Editor of the Lexington Dis
, Patch, Read Before the North
Carolina Press Association at
Their Recent Convention Held at
xienaersonville.
One Square, one kuertion. ......
One Square, two tnrtknt..., ' i.fe
One Square, one month.
For Larger Advertise
ments Liberal Contracts
will be made.
Kaud Kelly Convicted.
halcigh, Special. The court room
of Police Justice Stronaeh was jam-
meu to the limit Mor.dav black and
white were there to hear the trial of
the abandoned white woman, Maud
Iveely, lately captured at Rocky
Mount and brought here last Friday,
ohe was convicted on evidence by
three State's witnesses of unlawful
relations with William Jones, a negro
hackman.
Last week Jones was sentenced for
18 months on the roads. Monday the
Kelly woman, eonvieted of being his
paramour, was given the same sentence.
Banks - Declare Dividends. -
Charlotte, Special. The snug sum
of $73,250 was distributed in cash in
the form of semi-annual dividends to
the fortunate holders of stoek of the
several Charlotte banks on July 1st.
Of this aggregate, : the Commercial
National will pay out $25,000, which
is 5 per cent, on its capital of $500,
000; the Merchants and aFrmers,
$10,000, which is 5 per cent, on its
capital of $200,000; the First Nat
ional, $15,000, which is 5 per cent,
on its capital of $300,000; the Ameri
can Trust Company, $14,000, which
is 4 per cent, on its capital of $350,
000; the Charlotte National, $7,500,
which is 3 per cent, on its capital of
$250,000, and the Southern Loan and
Savings Bank, $2,000 which is 4 per
cent, on its capital of $50,000. The
Union National, which is only two
years old, does not declare semi-an
nual dividends but returns all the
profits to the surplus fund of the
bank.
Collectively speaking, all of the
local banks have enjoyed a half-year
of marked prosperity.
Drowned in Yadkin River.
Spencer, Special. Claude Livin-
good, aged 20 years, of Jerusalem,
Davie county, was drowned in the
Yadkin river near that place Sunday
at noon while in bathing with a party
of young friends. He was swim
ming in 15 feet of water some dis
tance from the bank, when he was
noticed to throw up his hands and
sink. His friends made every effort
to save him, but were powerless, and
bis body did not reappear until it was
recovered from the bottom of the
river several hours after the tragedy.
The cause of the drowning is un
known, but it is presumed Mr. Livin
good was seized with a cramp and
lost his" powers of locomotion.
Mnst Go To Trial.
Raleigh, Special. Governor Kitch
in has declined to grant a pardon to
Susan Hoyle, a 70-year-old white
woman indicted at the August term,
1905, criminal court of Burke coun
ty. She was charged with arson.
Being adjudged insane the woman
was not , tried, but committed to the
criminal insane department of the
State Prison. Governor Kitchin de
clined to grant the pardon on the
ground that the woman had not been
convicted and the Constitution re
quires conviction before the governor
is authorized to pardon. It was
stated that she will return to Burke
county for trial and that the solici
tor may nol pros the case.
The Squirrel aMn.
Durham, Special. Maurice Mas
sev, a negro man of 52 years of age,
fame into town last week with a load
of squirrels, making 582 that he has
Juiea and sold. The old fellow has
Jeveloped a decoy that is. fatal to
tflem. He can so thoroughly imitate
tbe rodents that thp V 71 in nn VSia rmn
n,1 . , . -i "f "
are slam. , lie has ocme to
be
flushes a large number of patrons.
Bond Issue Held Up.
Raleigh, Special. On account of
the fact that not every part of the
act voting a bond issue of $500,000
was read three times in the last leg
islature, a question of validity has
arisen and the Supreme - court will
be asked to pass upon it at its fall
session. The bond issue is there
fore held up.
H?gs Dying From Cholera. ,
Bekv Mount, Special. There is a
rePort from several parts of the two
counties that cholera is working hav-
i with the hogs just at present, and
cany are dying of the disease.
ie disease seems more prevalent in
aecnon hr.f i j 01
v " "Liccu iiyre anu onarps-
i.K: y' rtCCAC horn hatn tn
Wo"
i'T wuhin the last two weeks by
Wt 0 llve 111 this neighbor
Cn ' ,ne farmer in this neighbor
2, .an1 within a few miles of this
twor,t 1 10 nave lost
wenry-five last week.
over
Hre Destroys Carthage Stables.
artnasre. St
hk live
special, G. C. Graves'
'ern siktQ j -1 1
c ir -1-n.t.xv, nua uesuuyeu uy
r-o... , "4v;iuumg a 101 01
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e iiere Sunday night at 11 o'clock
uuuvu UUL dli 1.11C
li
"awn ns 1 .
turned ' tP?' h?rness etc., were
"teCfifl , loss 1S something like
the ti - 7 no insurance. This is
ed 1 ? able which has e11 burn
years. Same site in the Past four
They Were Walking Some.
Statesville, Special. Master Jul
ian Morrison, son of Mr. J. K. Mor
rison, and Master Miles kCowIcs, son
of Mrs. W. H. II. Cowles, of States
ville, did some walking Tuesday. The
boys recently walked to Wilkes
county for the exercise and novelty
of the thing, and spent a week there
with relatives and friends of Miles.
And they returned home a-foot.
They left Wilkesboro Tuesday morn
ing at 6:30 o'clock and reached their
homes here last evening at 8 hav
ingmade the tramp of probably 40
miles in a singleday.
Cave-In Blocki" Traffic.
Asheville, Special. The situation
at the Cowee tunnel near Dilsboro
on the Murphy division of the South
ern Railway where a cave-in occur
red several days ago ,is anything but
encouraging according to official re
ports received here Tuesday night
and Wednesday. The high officials
of the Southern are not prepared to
say just when they expect to . have
the trouble cleared and trains pass
ing through. It will certainly, how
ever, be some time yet.
Building good roads is the great
question of the hour in North Caro
lina. In the familiar phrase, it is the
paramount issue, not only in-this
State, but throughout the Union. It
transcends in importance politics, the
tariff, the money question or any oth
er question. NothUg is hampering
this country so much as mud; noth
hig could possibly do more for the
development of the State azid nation
than macadamized highways. Hence,
the duty of the press in this State,
especially, to begin a State-wide cam
paign for the promotion of better
roads. It is our manifest duty to cry
aloud to advocate strongly, to publish
information, to mold public opinion
until the people reach that point
where they are willing to bear the
cost of building modern roads in
every county.
It is idle for me to attempt enum
eration of the benefits good roads con
fer on a people. Every man, no mat
ter how unlettered, instinctively
knows that a good road is a far
better thing to have than a bad road.
We naturally have it in us to know
the value of, and to construct an easy
pathway, but, unfortunately, the
devil of tax steps in and tempts us
to bear the ills we have, rather than
fly to blessings we know of and great
ly desire. Our people all believe in
good roads, but there are some who
are unwilling to pay the cost. I have
heard good men and good farmers de
clare that inasmuch as the mud trails
we now have were used by their fath- j
ers, ttiey are good enough for us and
it were useless to suggest a chansre in
them. Others declare that we are too
poor to attempt road construction,
and still others are vchenment in
their opposition to the idea of hand
ing down to succeeding .generations
such a lothsome thing as a public
debt. . These are some of the objec
tions one hears.
Factor in Civilization.
I believe in my soul that a bad
road is the greatest curse that can be
laid on a. community. It stunts the
industrial, moral and intellectual life
of a people. But a good road is equal
ly as great a blessing, for once a
community gets facilities for trans
portation and communication, all oth
er blessings Aviil be added thereunto.
Mr. Roosevelt has well said that the
difference between semi-barbarism
and civilization is the difference be
tween good, and poor means of com
munication. Far back in history good
road building was recognized as a
leading factor in advancing civiliza
tion. We are told that early explor
ers in Peru found improved hisrhwavs.
one of the military roads being 2,
000 miles in length, with tunnels
through mountains, bridges or ferries
over streams, a read 20 feet wide,
made of flagstones covered with bitu
men. Ancient Mexico built good
roads, as did India and Persia. In
the latter country the monarch built
a smooth, hard highway alongside of
the common earth -road, and none
could travel it save, his royal high
ness. The Roman roads are still the
marvel of a modern world and are
still used. Nothing contributed more
to Rome 's prosperity and prowess
than these imperial highways,
straight as an eagle's flight, reach
ing to all parts of the world-empire.
Good roads mean pi ogress and
prosperity and are a benefit to the
people who live in cities, and an ad
vantage to people who ; live in the
country. Like good streets, they
make habitation along "them desir
able. You never, or rarely ever and
then not for long, see a shabby home
by the side of a modern road, where
everybody passes and sees how you
live. They make people straighten
up and put their best foot forward.
The value of farms is enhanced.
Statistics prove that in nearly every
case the States having the highest
percentage of improved roads are a
powerful factor in encouraging the . Pc
settlement of unused lands. Roads J ,tuly
also have a far-reaching' influence in
where the average price of land is
less than $20 an acre the precehtage
of improved roads is only 1.8, where
as, in States where the acreage val
ue is more than $20, the average of
improved roads is 9 per cent of the
total mileage.
There are records whieh show that
roads have increased the value of
farm lands from 50 to 500 Titer f pnt.
l it has been ascertained by a "dozen
railroads through their land and in
dustrial departments that" farms
through .which good roads run . are
enhanced in value from $2 to $9 an
eacre, and whether conservative or
enthusiastic, all concede .that the in
crease is marked, immediate and in-,
evitable. Suppose a county of 200,-
ouu acres voted bonds, and placing the
enhanced value at only $4.50 an acre.
..... '
re win oe seen that the land owners
thus benefitted would "gain not less
than $900,000. If the bond issue
amounted to half a million, there
would be $400,000 profit at onee. The
increase in the profit and price of
farm products is equally certain and
plain. The farmer's produce is worth
nothing unless it can be placed on the
market. Time was in England when
food would be rotting in one place
while people suffered for the lack of
it in a community a few miles away,
because it was impossible to transport
the products of the farms.
Price of Farm Prodncts.
Official records in Guilford county
show that the price of farm products
since good roads have ben built has
increased from four hundred to seven
hundred per cent. And yet, there is
a farmer in my county who maintains
that good roads will ruin him and the
county, because they will reduce the
price of produce, since, when the
roals are bad, he gets $2.50 a cord
for wood, because wood is made
scarce by the impassability of the
highways; and he says he would
rather- haul wood through mud hut
deep for $2,50 than to roll along a
smooth road and sell it for $1, which
price he claims a cord will drop to in
the event of good roads. The exper
ience of Charlotte and Greensboro en
tirely disprove this absurd idea, foi
there are not two better markets in
the State, and the first named has 200
miles of good roads leading to it
and the second 100 miles.
Tax or Bonds?
The question comes, how to get
good roads? Shall we vote a direct
tax or shall we issue bonds? Shall
we pay as we go, or shall we pay part
now and let future generations pay
part? io my mmd, the whole ques
tion comes down to whether we want
good roads now, or whether we are
willing to build a few miles now and
let another generation build a few
miles and another and another, until
in the course of human events we se
cure good roads throughout the Stata
years after every person now at the
age of accountability is dead and
gone, I stand for bonds. Mecklenburg
has been building roads 30 years, and
she has about 200 miles, using direct
tax. Guilford has been building
roads six years and she has 100 miles,
using bonds. We are too far behind
to depend on a direct tax. We must
go ahead and issue bonds, build the
roads, increase our -wealth, and reap
many fold the cost of the roads. Is
North Carolina to labor another gen
eration before good roads come to
pass? God forbid. We would lose
enough to macadamize every mile of
road in the State.
Should a county issue bonds be
fore a dollar is expended, a compe
tent civil engineer should be secured
and put to work mapping out ; the
county. He should be. under either
the county commissioner or a", high
way commission composed of : s .the
commissioners and other men se
lected by the people. It',' is abso
lutely necessary that an engineer be
employed, even though he cost con-!
siderable salary, for the location,
construction and maintenance of
roads are operations that no man or
set of men without the aid of an en
gineer can conduct in the proper way
to get the best results at the least
cost. There is a disposition on the
part of many people to cavil at the
price paid such an engineer, and if
you undertake to fight for roads you
will meet it at the outset. That idea
must be eradicated, as must also the
idea that the men entrusted with the
public funds ill not place every dol
lar where it belongs. In an age of
skepticism in business, it is not un
natural that people should suspect
that huge sums voted for roads will
be preyed upon. No county can build
roads without an engineer who acts
is pathfinder, going over the county,
a careful day-by-day inspection is
made, and every depression is quickly
filled and all inaqualities rolled or
tamped.
Two requisites, therefore, confront
the county supervisors at the outset,
first to ascertain what roads would
be most suitable to that particular
section, and secure what sums should
be expended for their maintenance
after completion.
These are vastly important and the
nation's very small percentage of im
proved roads is due largely to a fail
ure to give ' consideration to them.
Millions of money have been wasted
in building roads which local condi
tions, made impracticable and out of
all , cost proportion' to the ' county's
revenues. ? ; . ,i
INDUSTRIAL SHY BRIGHT
Government Statisticians' Report
Is Optimistic.
GREAT TEXTlEF ACTIVITY
Building in the Large Cities of the Coun.
try Reported as Being Unusu
ally Large.
Washington, D. C The silver lin
ing of the clouds of business depres
sion that darkened the industrial sky
is sdoui ail tne government statlsti
clans saw during the month of May,
The statisticians' review of the inter
nal commerce . of the United States
during that month, as shown by a bul
letin of the department of commerce
grain movements was below that for
May of the preceding two years, and
mere appeared also a Slight check in
uxe upward trend of the coal and lum
ber traffic, the tran&Dortation mami.
factoring and building activities are
reported as improved.
The coke ' output and shipments
showed a continuous improvement in
answer to the larger demand of the
Iron furnaces. Increased takings of
cotton ana wool were mterpretated as
Indicating a greater activity In the
lexuie industry, while larger shin
ments of boots and shoes from the
chief distributing centers served the
Btausuclans as an index of more re;
ular industrial employment.
The building activity In the larger
wiuca uj. me country was reported as
unusually1 heavy. Traffic onerations
of railroads, judging by the total
numoer or freight cars handled and
the number of idle cars reported.were
hot up to the high record of 1907,
though comparison with May, 190s!
showed a considerable improvement
cor practically all sections of the
country,
There i are' exceptions to all rules,
however, and Pike county, Alabama,
stands as a elitteri
the usual construction blunder. There I tlf?08 f Pti,mIstic onf
the ennntv nffiniai i i , While the volume of live stock
tne county othcials had planned to ex-! irrain movements waa hw th
pend a large sum in the building of
gravel roads.
Mr. W. L. Spoon, United States su
perintendent of road construction,
being sent to make an inspection of
the county's road possibilities, learn
ed that 700 miles of important routes
needed improvement. He figured that
the cost of gravel roads would be
$3,000 a mile plainly a sum greater
than the county could be bonded for.
Conditions, however, were ideal for
sand-clay construction and he strong
ly urged its adoption. By legal pro
viso the county could be bonded for
only 3 1-2 per centum of the assess
ed value of the real and personal
property. The plan was decided upon
and an issue of $143,000 was voted.
One hundred thousand dollars' worth
of the bonds were quickly sold, being
disposed of in $50,000 allotments.
The first allotment brought a pre
mium of $625 and the second one of
$S25. , Forty thousand dollars was at
once spent, for mules and road-building
machinery and work was started.
With the sum remaining, 118 miles
of the finest sand-clay roads in the
South had been built within two years
from the date of the bond issue ; a
generous sum was still on hand; eight
gangs were at work, and the people
were so pleased they stood ready to
take up the remaining issue of $43,
000 and expend it in the same way.
Inasmuch as road building and
road mending have been for a century
under county commissioners and
township road supervisors with prac
tically no beneficial results observable
it seems plain that the time for a
radical change of methods is at hand.
I am an earnest believer in Federal
and State aid and co-operation in
building good roads, and I believe
that the time is at hand when the
government will hit upon some plan
whereby it may co-operate with the
State and the State with the county,
in the work. It has been argued that
it is unconstitutional. L Why should
it be. more so than expenditure of
money for river and harbor improve
ments, which often take the form of
a private enterprise? As a matter of
fact, it has been shown conclusive
ly in Congress that so far from being
unconstitutional, the government in
its very beginning began the construc-
holding men to their farms, and re
straining them from drifting to the
towns. While the .manufacturing
towns must have labor, who is here
that will deny that 4f our counties
had good roads, the hundreds of good
farmers would not have moved their
families from the country home to
town to work in the mills? So great
an exodus occurred two or three years
ago that farm labor was . almost Im
posssible to secure. These people are
needed in. the country; there they
seould have stayed had there been
good roads, which make farm life
so 'much mere -attractive. As the
price of lands depends as much on ac
Eessibility to market as on produc
tivity, it follows that road improve
ment, by holding people and 'attract
ing others, directly tends toward in
jrease in values of all farm lands
vithin touch of the improved high-
r ways. , it is shown that in mates
1 maps, and doine- all that verv neces-
sary preliminary work without which
ofttimes money is worse than wasted.
Road-Building an Art.
When county officers learn to ap
preciate the fact that road-building is
an art, they will rely more and more
upon expert advjxe and scientific de-
lion oi good roads and expended
more than seven millions on the old
Cumberland road from Maryland to
St. Louis, a distance of 700 miles, and
the work was only abandoned because
there arose a question of authority
and responsibility as to who should
maintain and repair the road, the
State, or, , the Federal government.
What does the government do for the
farmer.?, . , We, spend millions annually
on the army, a daad loss, though
doubtless necessary; we spend some
hundred millions on ' the navy ; have
spent a half billion on river and har
bor improvements. During ten years
we spent more than six billion dollars
of ' which about forty-seven million
went to the agricultural department ;
but not a dollar for the promotion of
good roads, a common blessing for all
the people. During fifty years, in all
the' vast sum our government his dis
bursed for one thing and another, not
a dollar . has been appropriated for
roads. . And yet, the farmers of the
country compose the bulk of popula
tion, and last year contributed to the
national wealth some eight billions of
dollars. The one-horse farmer around
behind the hill miles from town forms
the foundation of the nation, and
what has the government done for
him? Nothing. The burden is upon
him, he foots the bills; and the gov
ernment takes his money and spends
it on everything under the sun by the
millions, on everything but on what
affects him mostly roads. In 190S
the farmers of this country not only
fed more than eighty millions of peo
ple, but sent across the sea a billion
five hundred millions of farm prod
ucts. This preserved the balance of
PBISONEBS GUARDED BY ELECTRICITY
But convicts Made Their Way
nruugn tne ueaaiy Barricade.
iMew York City. That a heavily
cnargea cnss-cross of electric wires
form the prison wall restrainine the
many military prisoners at Fort Han
cock, on Sandy Hook, has come to
light in the escape of two soldiers.
The convicts weer recently taken to
Fort Hancock from the federal pris
on at Leavenworth, Kan., to finish
their terms. They escaped from their
new prison and In some manner,
which will cause an investigation, they
successfully made their way through
we uetworK ci copper wires surround
ing the prison and which carry about
4,000 volts. Had either of the men
touched one of the wires with his
bare akin he would have been in
stantly killed. Scouting parties sent
out for the fugitives found them hid
ing in a sand pit at a distance from
the prison, and they were captured.
SUGAR COMBINE INDICTED. ;
Trust and Its Directors Sued by the
United States Government.
New York City. Through a federal
grand Jury the United States gov
ernment laid the sroundwerk for an
other gigantic anti-trust suit in the
Indictment of the American Sugar Re
fining Company as a corporation, six
di its directors and two prominent
lawyers. The defendant company and
iue inuiviauais were charged with
conspiracy in restraint of trade under
a criminal clause of the Sherman anti
trust law, which provides as a penalty
upon conviction a fine of not more
than $5,000, or imprisonment not more
man one year, or bothr in the case
of the individuals, and a fine of not
more than $5,000 in the case of a
corporation.
DECLINE INTOTTON.
Condition Over Five Points . Below
Last Month.
:New York City. Replies from 1,840
special correspondents of the Journal
of Commerce of an average date of
June 23, make the condition of cot
ton 76.8, as compared with 82.1 last
month, a decline of 5.3 points. A
year ago at this time the condition
was .79; in 1907, it was 74.2- in
lyue, it was S2.7; in 1905, it was 81.2;
In 1904, it was 83.2; In 1903, it was
74.9; in 1902, it was 86.5. and in iani
it was 77.0.
FOOD SUPPLY INVESTIGATED.
Committee Reports That Charges
Against Meat Inspection Are False.
Washington, D. C The committee
appointed by Secretary Wilson.which
investigated the charges of J. F.
Harms that the federal meat inspec
tion service at East St. Louis was
"rotten and a farce," reported ,that
the inspectors there were honest men
and performing their duties efficient
ly and that no meat had been passed
which was unfit for human food.
'J ,. SEISMIC SHOCKS WASTE &1ESSIN1
Once More the Italian City Is Almost
Devastated. , i
'Messina, Italy. Messina experienc
ed two terrific earthquakes, ;whlcls
were accompanied by roaring sounds,
and are said to have had a stronger
and more undulatory movement than
the earthquake of last December,
which destroyed Messina, Reggio aid
other cities, laid waste many villages
in Calabra and killed 20(),0CO people.
Although the shocks had no, suca
tes-rible consequences, the' 25,000 res
idents Cf the city were thrown Into a
state of terror. They ran into thet
streets, panic-stricken, and nearlv' th
entire population encamped in, the
open. . ,
The -broken wall3 of the "bhrVufna
were thrown to the eround .and Mbb.
sina was for a few mmutes smother
ed in a cloud of dust. The casualties
were few, and it is believed, after a.
hasty search of the new ruins, that
no one was killed. . .'.!
and Tn Drst shock was followed .quick
ly by a second, and the people fledt
pell-mell to the American ' ! quarter,
which they seemed, to feel yas their
safest place of refuge. So great was
the ' rush to the American huts 'that
the authorities were unable to check
the invasion, and as . a consequence,
thse structures, which were designed
for the most needy of the populace,
were taken possession of by. the first
comers. The soldiers, howevtr, soon
drew a cordon around this quarter,
and a guard was mounted at . the
bridge leading to it. Manv of th
panic-stricken people were driven 'off,
and orders were Issued that no-vone
be permitted to occupy the American
quarter pending further instructions.
Regglo suffered almost as severe a
shock as Messina.
AWAITING SULTAN ROOSEfELL .
Uganda Ruler Had Heard of American
"Benefactors of Blacks."
Mengo, Uaanda. ProtentoratA nrt-
ish Africa. In an interview ' -wit!
Daudi Chwa Kampala, the boy king of
Uganda, who is the nominal mien
of the country over which the British
government has established a protec
torate, the young ruler greeted the
correspondent traveling ahead of the
Roosevelt expedition effusively, saying:
I have been lookiner forward vtth
the greatest glee to meetiner Sultan
Roosevelt and will-see that he is re
ceived with befitting honors when he
reaches my country. I have . heard
of the great good he has done to the
blacks in America, and I shall receive
this man, who was a benefactor . to
my race, in a strange land, in a most
royal manner.
Sultan Roosevelt will find , antim-
did, hunting in Uganda,, and I shall
see mat nis hunt here is successful."
Mengo is near the mouti of , the
Kivira river on Victoria Mvnna
(lake) and about four thousand fAat
above sea level, six hundred miles
from Mombasa as the crow flies. The
head waters of the Nile are in Uganda.
LOCKER SYSTEM UPHELD.
Judge Sayre Rules Liquors Are Prop-,
cny ana may tse owned. .
Montgomery, Ala. The sunrema .
court gave much encouragement: ' to
the locker system by holding that, a
man may own and keep as much
liquor about his place as he sees At.
provided it is legally secured. . The
opinion is by Justice Gayre and re
iterates the principle that ntoxlcat
ing liquors are property ant", may be
owned and held as such. . ".
The Bessemer ordinance prohibiting;
storage of liquors in places where Boft
drinks are sold is declared in viola
tion of the constitution of the ' state
and nation. .- rfA
The effect will be to make storage
of liquors legal, and, as the "ruling;
is constitutional, it is not possible
to see what the legislature can ,do
to break up locker systems. ' " ' . .
He Has Lived 105 YeaiiV
New York City. Joshua Zeitl'etn.
living In Brooklyn, has just celebrat
ed his one hundred and fifth birth
day. He is in good health and. says
he will live to be 120. Mr. Zeitlin
does not attribute his longevity to
abstaining rrom liquor and tobacco.
as many centenarians do, but, on the
contrary, drinks half a pint of whis
ky and six glasses of beer daily, and
smokes a pipe regularly. He has one
son, 75 years old, and his youngest
"boy" is 45 years old, y - .
Renovating White House. -
Washington, D. C Destruction of
the far-famed white house tennis
court, where played the so-callei
"Roosevelt tennis cabinet," to make
room for the additional working quar
ters for the executive clerical statf.
began when the excavators marked
off the ground for pick and hovel,-
This is the beginning of the reno
vation of the white house and the
further improvements ordained by
President Taft.
RICE ABOVE AVERAGE.
Report Is Made on General Crop
Conditions.
Cowerly, La. In its monthly sum
mary of crop conditions in the rice
belt, the Rice Journal and Southern
Farmer ays: "The first of July finds
general rice crop conditions in Louis
iana, Texas, Arkansas and the Caro
lina atove the average, with a slight
ly increased acreage.
Planting has
trade with all the world, and gave j been completed in all parts of the
live hundred millions to the country
to set aside for the proverbial rainy
day. Had this not been, a billion dol-
belt. Full reports from all narts of
Louisiana and Texas indicate the
acreage will be somewhat larger than
that of 1908. It is nrobable that th
tnonstration, and when they have lars would have had to have been sent acreage in Arkansas has been at least
learned what class of roads is desir
able, they will construct them and
then guard them.
Therein lies one of the most impor
tant of all American highway ques
tions. Americans build as good roads
as Englishmen or Frenchmen, bpt
having done so, they rest contented
with their efforts and let each passing
breath of air, speeding automobile, or
drenching rain blow or wash the road
surface away.
In the countries of Europe, where
the well-nigh perfect roads are the
pride of the citizens and the envy
and admiration of visiting Americans,
abroad to pay import duties. It was
enough to pay the immense appro
priations of Congress and still add
half a billion to the national wealth.
In the face of all this, the Federal
government has done not a thing for
good roads.
The forerunners of a national high
way from New York south to Atlan
to have recently passed through the
State. I believe the time is at hand
when the government will spend mon
ey on that road. I believe we shall
see .a road from ; Asheville and the
west through to the coast. It is
doubled. - In- the, Carolinas the acre
age is a full cne.
STRENGTHEN PANAMA CANAL.
Engineers Are Using Old French Rail-
road Steel in Concrete.
Washington,. D. C. For the pur
pose of reinforcing concrete work in
constructing locks on the Panama
canal, the engineers in charge have
decided to use rails which are no
longer fit to use on railroads. About
7,000 tons of this kind of rails,-including
old French track and Ameri
can rails so badly bent that they are
Tr Inn rror ncaful o a V
bound to come. The duty of the' Dress wT ,"r. v . ? a
, 1. . . . I .. ... .. . " wvJi-K,,crt UU tUQ lOlUUilia ClXiU Will IlP
most jealous care is constantly given; lies in hastening the day. , ' put in the concrete work of the locks!
Wrights Make Successful flight.
Washington, D. C Calm, confident
and nerveless, Orville Wright encir
cled the Fort Myer drill ground time
after time in his aeroplane in three
successful flights, while a crowd of
thousands cheered him for the suc
cess that attended his persistency
and pluck.
' Cuba Pays for Cannon.
Madrid, Spain. It is announced
that Cuba has paid over to the Span
ish minister at Havana the first of
the three annual installments of the
$300,000' for' Spanish cannon left in
the fortresses of Cuba and claimed
by Spain under the terms of the
peace protocol.
Seven Milled By Tornado.
Gand Forks, N. Dak. Scores of per
sons were injured and farm buildings,
within a radius of sixteen miles were
destroyed by a series of tornadoes
which swept over the district in Ben
son county. Reports from Leeds say
that eight persons were killed. A re
port from Minnewauben says one
woman was killed, and that the town
was destroyed. All the wires in the
noithern part cf the state .re down.
The twisters followed at intervals o
a few minutes. Between twenty and
thirty farm houses were totallj
wrecked.