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XZtic Gbatbam "Rccort. A. LONDON EDITOS AND PEOPRIETOR. ks?2S OF SUBSCRIPTION: 31 .50 Per Year STRTCTI.Y IN ADVANCE I ZZZZZZZZI I TEbe Cbatbam "Recotft. RATES OF ADVERTISING; Oae Square, one Insertion ..... .a. One Square two Insertion.... i.gm One Square, one month........ jup V0L.XXX1I. PITTSBQRO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18. 1909. NO. 1. For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. MIL M OLD FARMS NEW maticn Urged at Na- Irrigaticn Congress. 9,080 YEARLY ASKED Conference Complete Work, Officers Elected and Pueblo, Colorado,' Chosen for Meeting Place Next Year. ; Spokane, Wash. That though a kui c-ns his farm he is still only an 5--nt under obligations to conserve is soil, was the doctrine promulgat i at ilie National Irrigation congress v L. H. Bailey, director of the New Vvk College of Agriculture, when he )cki ou "The Farm Community." :e c-n'J it is not true that a young :an must "go west" to take up a new l"e declared that if he. take; ', vhe old farm he is under obliga 0:1 to make a new farm of it. He aid that after all lands hare been iproved by private enterprise there ;;i still remain many thousands of .-.-res availing reclamation at the r.ids cf the people, at large. . There should be a national irri a'ioa movement," said he, "but it is c t. n:cfcSL:arj- to develop "all of our ?30uro3s new. it is wen mat we ave plenty of resources to take up iiliin the future." John Farson, Chicago millionaire nd clubman, took up the cudgels in i ,, i? c - n n 1 v. lit .i f- i i ; 1 d'. v rtiii 11 1 1 mi c 1 ilie; Litericr department. Mr. Farson irons:! v attacked the statements of ormer Governor George A. Pardee of 'alifornia, concerning the secretary's - . - i 1 - i . . 1. 1 T - 1 vi v in .iHiniit: imi v iiiiui aw two. Dr. Pardee started the controversy iv rmF?,tion;ri2 a statement bv a weaker. He agMn accused Secretary "allinger of permitting the opening or entry cf valuable water power This brought Mr. Farson to his eet, asking Dr. Pardee if he meant to insinuate tn&t tne secretary was that he meant no such accusation the incident was dropped. An annual appropriation of $10,000,- 000 for a period of five years to aid in irrigation work is asked from con gress in resolutions adopted by the Irrigation Congless. This is perhaps the most important recommendation in the resolutions adopted. Among the other resolutions made were the fol lowing: That homesteaders, under a govern ment project, shall not be required to establish a residence before the gov eminent is prepared to furnish them with water. That the government take measures to dram swamp lands m aid of land reclamation and cf public health. That the irrigation congress aid with other conservation organizations to bring about waterway improve ments, reforestation and other like projects. The reclamation act to be extended to Hawaii. That the states pass laws regulat ing cutting of public and private tim ber. That the Mississippi deep waterway he developed. The following officers, in addition to B. A. Fowler of Phoenix, Ariz., presl dent, and Arthur Hooker of Spokane, secretarv. were chosen. Vice President Ralph Twitchell of New Mexico. Second Vice President S "W. Young of Utah. Third Vice President L. Newman of Montana. Fourth Vice President F. W. Flem ming cf New Mexico. Fifth Vice President E. J, Watson cf Scmth Carolina. Pueblo, Col., was chosen as the next meeting place. CUBA GN BGLHY 5B0ALS. Gomez' Administration Totters and an Early Crisis is Feared. Washington, D. C. Reliable infor- maf.cn received here is that serious poliiical conditions prevail in Cuba, and that henceforth President Go mez is eoinsr tn have a nrettv hard time steering his ship of state. Re- vinuy tne entire uuDan caDmet re signed. A new cabinet has been or ganized, but, according to the latest information, there will be still more changes. News has recently reached Wash ington of an effort to sell to the gov- Columbia, a few miles outside of Ha ven?., where the Cuban regular army is established. Involved is this at tempted sale, which almost went through, was a colossal piece of graft. The piece of land changed hands some months ago, possibly a year or two P2n fnr S145.800. It is understood that the owners are willing to sell for this price, but when the transfer was made to the government; the deal got as far as that the price was M43.S00, an advance of $300,000. POSTAL gEGHPrS 1KGSEASE, Tctal Fcr Cent of Increase During the Year Was 8.78. Washington, D. C. The statement t gro:--s postal receipts for July, 1909, compared with July, 1908, at fifty f the largest cities, issued by the l'Gstoflx-e department, shows an in-creu.-e during the fiscal year of $584,- SS -.43. The total receipts of the fifty fsuos during the year were $,240,-C2e.?,-i. Only two In the list, Scranton, pa.. f.v.d St. Louis. Mo., show a do- rrt , i . J- - Jt 1 --: ine total per cent oi mcreaag during the year was 8.7S. Seattle JE&de the largest increase, with .Day ''U, O., a close second, the first named with 41.74 per cont and the latter wiih 33.13 per cent. GOVERNMENT REFUSES COMPROMISE. Bristol, Tennessee, Distillers Will Be Prosecuted. Washington, D. C An offer of com promise, made by the Bristol Ethyl 'id Industrial company, Bristol, Tonn., cn acpount of a seizure of uout twelve thousand gallons of al- jjic-1, because of the ' alleged fraud amst the internal revenue laws, has m rejected .by Acting Commissioner heeler. M. F. Tester, the govern- nt gauger, was arrested for con racy to defraud the government of tax due on distilled spirits. ROBERT E. LEE STAUDE Stands in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington. , Washington, D. C. Bronze stautes of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, Virginia's'-' contribution to' the nation's "Hall of Fam," were placed in statuary hall at the capitol. 'For mal 4 ceremonies attending the unveil ing will take place at, some time yet to be determined. ' '" ' -5 .Both statues are beautiful works of art. Lee is pictured in the uniform; of the south, and his statue stands between those of , Robert Fulton, in ventor of the steamboat,, and J. ii M. Curry of Alabama. . . . Near the statue of these are those of General James Shields of Illinois, am Philip Keany of New Jersey, in the uniforms of the union army. The Lee statute was designed by Edward V. Valentine of ' Richmond, Va. ; Washington's statue was placed Jn the southeast end of the hall, between the statues of General Ethan Allen of Vermont and General Peter Muhl enberg of Pennsylvania, a distin guished soldier and statesman of rev olutionary times, and a brother of ths first speaker of the house of repre sentatives. The Washington statue is a replica of Houdon's famous master-, piece now at the capitol in Richmond. Elliot Woods, superintendent of the capitol, said that formal acceptance of the two statues is not required, al though presentation of the statues may be formally made with elaborate ceremonies at the instance of the Vir ginia statue commission, and with tha permission of congress. BL0NDEPE0PLE HANDICAPPED. New York Doctors Says American Cli mate Does Not Agree With Them. New York City. A startling warn ing to blue-eyed, light-complexioned New Yorkers is uttered by Ir. Ch&s. E. Woodruff, surgeon and major in the United States Army, who has just completed a private tour of the pris ons and asylums of the city and state. The jails and institutions, he says, are full cf blondes, who, unable to stand the struggle for existence im a climate to which they are unfitted, have fallen into poverty, disease and crime. What is true of New York, he says, is true of the country as a whole and unless the blonde American tftids or adopts some better means of survival than she has at present she will be wiped out a3 a type in favor of the brunette. The great trouble is the sunshiHe. There is too much of it in America for blondes, says Dr. Woodruff. It breaks down their nervous system, renders them unstable morally as well as physically and makes them pecu liarly liable to the ravages of con sumption and other deadly ailments. CANADIAN STRIKE RIOT. Twenty-Four Men Shot at Ft. Wil liam, Ontario, Fort William, Ont. Fort William is under martial law. A thousand dock laborers, principally Greeks, Hungarians and Italians, who have been on strike for a week, enraged by special Canadian Pacific police from Winnipeg, wrere incited to riot, and three hundred of them engaged in a battle with the police around the Ca nadian Pacific frieght sheds. Two doz en men were injured, three at least fatally. Including Chief Ball, of the railway's local force, and two Greeks. The Ninety-Sixth regiment of militia was called out. Newsy Paragraphs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw declared that there was no truth in the story that she would bring suit for $500,000 against her husband, Harry K. Thaw, or against any member of the Thaw family. She said, however, tnat her usual monthly remittance of 480 from her husband had not been re ceived this month; that she was prac tically penniless and did not know where her next dollar was coming from. "I do not really know what I can or will do in my present plight," said -Mrs. Thaw. "It seems that I am im asrainst it." v Investigation by the authorities lntctj the appearance on the curD marKei of twenty thousand shares of Davis Baly and Ohio Cooper company stock, after M. M. Joyce, a broker, frequent ly acting for F. Augustus Heinze, had pledged it as collateral security for a Loan of $8,000 led to the arrest of Don ald F. Persch, a noted broker. Persch is accused of grand larceny. His ar rest was ordered on the statement of John Shervood, another note broker, who said that he had secured the loan on the suggestion of Persch. 'The Porte has sent Greece an ur gent note asking that Greece express and emphasize strong disapproval of the agitation in Crete for annexation to Greece and to make public the an nouncement that Greece has no am bition regarding the island. Unless some such action be taken within a few days the Turkish minister will leave Athens and all diplomatic rela tions will be severed. Herman, son cf John Lynch, aged 17, was drowned at Steamer Fer ry landing, Alabama, in the Coosa river. The boy deliberately drove his horse into the river as the ferry boat approached, less than forty feet away. It Is thought the boy was asleep. He had been to singing school with a lady friend. His sixteenth successful flight with the Curtiss aeroplane was made at Mineola, N. Y., by C. Foster Willard. Flying close to the ground, Mr. Wil lard essayed to make a circle about a mile and a half in circumference, but was not able to complete the cir cuit owing to elevations of the ground and trees, for which he had not cal culated. He made five long, curve flights, however, at high speed. Prescription Sent By Wireless. New Bedford, Mass.A medical prescription sent to the Nantucket Choals lightship in response to a call for advice by wireless brought about the recovery of Captain Frank S. Doane the master of the light vessel, from a severe illness. Captain Doane's symptoms were 1 so unusual that he was at a lose to select the medicine to take. The wireless operator on the lightship came to his aid, and, call-in"- the naval torpedo station at New port described the captain's malady, sent a prescription from the doctor at the naval stations CENSUS SUPERVISORS President Taft Confirms list cf 330 Appointments. . PATRONAGE DIVIDED IN SOUTH In Nine Southern States Supervisors Will Be Divided Between Repuli- , publicans and Democrats. Beverly, ; Mass. Ai an extended conference with Secretary Nagel, of the department of commerce and' la bor. Postmaster General Hitchcock and E. D. . Durand, director of the census, President Taft approved, tho appointment of 330 supervisors of the thirteenth census. The list had been prepared at Washington for the-pres ident and the qualifications of every man inquired into. There has been marked discontent among some southern republicans over the. decision of the president to divide the census patronage in the states of tho, "solid south." 'V'When it is considered that each census supervisor will hav a tremen dous force of enumerators under him, the census patronage may be readily realized. Each of the supervisors will receive a salary cf $2,000, but their work will extend over eight or ten months. The enumerators will not have so long a service. The states where the supervisors are divided equally between the dem ocrats and republicans are Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisia na and Texas. Director Durand said ;hat he hoped to have the supervisors actively at work by ihe middle of October. Pres ident Taft, it is said, laid down the rules, especially in states where a di vision has been made between dem ocrats and republicans, that super visors shall not be active partisans, and that no attempt should be made to build up political machines out of the census patronage. The far southern appointments an nounced are as follows: New Mexico, Paul A. F. Waler. Arizona, Franklin F. Towle. Florida, first district, Henry W. Bishop, republican; second district, Lesuer Galden, republican; third dis trict, Thomas David White, democrat. Alabama, first district, Lawrence W Locklin, democrat; fourth district. George W. Parson, democrat; nfth district, William P. Cobb, democrat; sixth district, Simeon T. Wright, re publican; seventh district, James J. Curtis, republican; eighth district, Thomas P. Wood, republican: ninth district, John T. McEniry, republican. Tennessee, first district, Samuel Thompson; second district, Alfred Jefferson Agee; third district, John H. Earley; fourth district, Reese Q. Lil lard: fifth district. John B. Strong; sixth district, Harry A. Luck; seventh district, Marion Richardson; eighth district, Sidney E. Murray; ninth dis trict: Vincent Atkins Biggs; tenth dis trict, John William Farley, Memphis. M TING FANG RECALLED. Chinese Minister to United States Has Eeen Called Home. Washington, D. C. For the second time in his diplomatic career, Dr. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister to the United States, has been recalled from the Washington mission ana nas hRfn dirpoterl to nroeeed home, where it is expected he will be assigned to other work. Dr Wu's successor, whose selection will be Chang Yin Tang, known as a ; "nrns-resfiivfi" in Chinese DOlitical af faire and a man who has seen diplo matic service in lnaia, ivngiana, inio et and in the United States. He is regarded generally as a man of wide experience. . 'Minf3tef,,nvu 'is now in .Peru, to which place he is also accredited. He has been there for several months and the latest advices from him indicated his intention of remaining for a month Dr.. Wu's retirement from .Washing ton removes a picturesque ngure irom the diplomatic life of the capital. Prnhnhiv no foreigner is better known In the United States than he, for he is a poimlar talker and his pungent wit and bright sallies have been heard and read with interest at many places. SOUTH CAROLINA LiQOUR UW UPHELD Petition to Restrain Officials From Holding Election Is Rejected. Columbia, S. C. The state supreme court sitting here refused to declare invalid the liquor law passed at the last session of the legislature. The law provides for elections in the counties now wet, those voting for liquor to reopen the dispensaries un der the system previously in use. The constitutionality of the law was attacked on two grounds: That the subject of the act was not stated in the title and that it is special legislation. COST OF EXTRA SESSION. American People Pay $500,000 For the New Tariff Bill. Washington, D. C. The extraordi nary session of congress, which com pleted one week ago its revision of the tariff law, cost the American peo ple, it has been estimated by some of the statisticians around the capital, $500,000. Many different items enter into this grand total, the chief of which is mil- leage. The house's expense on this ac count aggregates $154,000 and that of the senate $47,000. Extra pay allow ed to employes on both sides of the capitol amounted, it is estimated, to about $150,000. Special employes en gaged in compiling information for congress and the committees, relative to the tariff, were paid good salaries. The government printing office has not yet supplied a statement concern ing tho cost of printing the tariff bill, reports and hearings, but it is known that this will be large. JANE ADDAMS F03 PRESIDENT. Boston Will Be Starting Point of the Unique Campaign. Boston, Mass. "Jane Addams of Chi cago, future president of the United States," will be the slogan before many months have passed, according to the advocates of equal suffrage. Boston has been chosen as the start ing point of the startling and novel campaign by which the women hope to gain prestige, if not actually a pres ident. . . When William Dean Howells con fessed in his characteristic fashion that he "had no doubt whatever that our national keep could be in no bet ter hands than those of our national housekeepers," he little thought that already the suffragettes were prepar ing to elevate a woman to the high est office in the nation's gift. CANAL TO BE COMPLETED IN 1913. Minister to Panama Says Work Will Be Finished Within Four Years. New York City. Advices that the Panama canal will be completed in 1913 are verified 'by Herbert B. Squiers, United States minister to Piama, who has arrived here with his wife and daughter, on a six weeks' leave of absence. "I believe that the canal will be completed within four years," said Minister Squiers. "There is no rea son for any further delay. There are now 38,000 men at work on the canal, and they are pushing ahead rapidly. The sanitary conditions of the canal are better than would be found in a northern section where so many men are employed." WATCHING THE BANKS. Order Issued by Comptroller of Cur rency Murray to Examiners. Washington, D. C. Comptroller of the Currency Murray has directed na tional bank examiners to forward at once to his office a list of national banks in their districts which have affiliations with state institutions and occupy the same building or which are close business affairs. In some of the most conspicuous bank failures in the past the fact has been disclosed that the insolvency of the component members of the allied institutions were long concealed by shifting the assets between the insti tutions to meet the exigencies of an examination of each. Louisiana in Grange Business. New Orleans,. La. Louisiana will enter into keen competition with Flor ida and California in the orange busi ness this year, growers assert. -From present prospects, the orchard own ers believe that the crop will come close to 500,000 boxes. No serious damage to the groves as a result of cold weather has been done for the past ten years. . Shark Devours Man. Pensacola, Fla. William Craug, a member of the fishing schooner Hal cyon, running between thi3 port and the banks of Mexico, fell overboard from the vessel between the navy yard and the city, and, before he could be rescued from the water, sharks reached him and devoured ms body. Famous Caurt House Barned. Lexington, Ky. The ccurt house at Washington, Mason county, in which "Uncle Tom of Uncle Tom's Cabin" fame was sold, was struck by light ning and destroyed. The building was erected in 1794. It was the sale cf the aged negro at this place that gave Harriet Beecher Stowe the basis for her etory. Fittsfcurg Striker Killed. Pittsburg, Pa. The first fatality growing cut of the strike at McKee's Rocks occurred when Steve Horval, one of the strikers, was shot and kill ed by Major Smith, a negro, whom -a crowd of two score striking foreigners had attacked-by mistake. ONE SALOON IN TENNESSEE. Bar in Cumberland Mountains Doing Rushing Business. Chattanooga, Tenn. There is one saloon in Tennessee now being oper ated without apparent violation of the state-wide prohibition law. It is the famous Conger saloon in the Cumber land mountains, near McMinnville, and is the. only spot in the state where the 4-mile limit does not apply. W. R. Hamilton of the State Aiui Ealoon League will at once begin a campaign to oust it. The property on which the saloon Js operated is owned by Colonel A. M. Shook, and was leased for grazing purposes only. He is said to have authorized ejectment proceedings. STRIKERS RESUME WORK. Stockholm Disturbance Practically at an End. Stockholm, Sweden The striking workmen of Sweden continue to re turn td work. The stevedores of Go thenburg are the latest to resume, and the foreigners taken there to. fill their Dlaces are being returned to their homes Out of a total of 460,000 workmen engaged in Swedish indus tries, exclusive of agricultural and the railroad service, 285, 762 are on strike, but groups of these men are contin ually returning to their labors. Fined Half a Million. Teheran, Persia. Zill-Es-Sultan, an uncle of the former shah of Persia, who has a claim to the throne, has been fined $500,000 in favor of the state treasury and expelled from the country. He, will go out by way of Resht under' a military escort. Search Is Abandoned. , Durban, Natal. The British cruisei Pandora has returned after hunting eight days for the British steame! Waratah, which with three hundred persons on board, has been missing since July 26. The Pandora' covered two hundred and fifty square miles, and the missing ship is now given up for lost. Tt tc nfflrfflllv renorted that one hundred and three deaths from bu bonic plague and sixty-five from chol era occurred in Amoy, China, during the two last weeks. Conditions in the interior districts are ' greatly improv ed. After marrying his five thousandth couple, according to his own compu tation, Dr. E. S. Whistler died at Youngstown, Ohio. Dr. Whistlar was known in western Ohio as the "Mar rying Parson." Up to three years ago he practiced dentistry, and as a lay man of the Christian church was au thorized to perform marriage cere-, monies. . . LATE NEWS NOTES. General. Washington Park, a summer resort on the Delaware river, was totally de stroyed by fire. The loss will be at least $200,000. Samuel R. Van Sant of Minnesota, was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the reunion held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Alonzo J. Church, former librarian of tho United States senate, died at the home of his son in Newark, N. J. He was eighty-one years old. Mr. Church was a graduate of the Univer sity of Georgia, and was for many years general counsel for the Chicago and Alton railway. The will of Theodore Harris, 1 a Louisville, Ky., banker, directs that a gift of $60,000 to the Baptist Theolog ical seminary be completed, that $100, 000 be. given to a university in Luals ville under Baptist control, provided $900,000 more is raised within five years, and directs that after the pay-, ment of the bequests the remainder of the estate go to the Kentucky Bap tist association for a fund to aid needy churches. It is estimated that $200, 000 will be available for this purpose. At Cincinnati, while on his way to the Chautauqua meeting at Kankakee, 111., W. J. Bryan denied a persistent report to the effect that he was about to transfer his legal residence from Nebraska to Texas. The steamer Jeanie, in command cf Captain Samuel V. Bartlett, sailed from St. John, N. F., for Etah, on the northern frontier of Greenland, laden with supplies for Lieut. Robert E. Peary, which will enable the explorer to spend another winter is the far north if necessary to demonstrate his plans for reaching the pole. The death of an 18-year-old girl In Cincinanti, after . an operation for what was supposed to be appendicitis, has attracted general attention be cause of the unanimous opinion of the attending doctors that her death was caused by the wearing of tight cor sets and dresses in the height of the style. The victims of fashion was Miss Elsie Gasser. Ten thousand pumpkin pies were consumed at Longmont, Col., in the observance of Longmont's annual pumpkin festival. For weeks wagons filled with pumpkins have come in from the surrounding country, which is famous for its pumpkins, and every oven in town has been running to its capacity in baking the golden discs of spicy pie. The pies were served free to everybody and excursions were run from Denver and other cities. William A. Rublee of Milwaukee, the retiring American consul general in Vienna, Austria, who was operat ed on last month for stomach trouble, has left the sanitarium cured. Mr. Rublee will stay in Vienna for a few weeks so as to fully regain his strength before proceeding for Hong Kong, where he has been appointed American consul. The Southern Soft-Yarn Spinners' association, which assembled in Ashe ville, N. C, in called meeting, gave out a partial statement of the results accomplished. The statement is very meagre and about the only thing indi cated by it is the fact that there Is to be a material curtailment in the output of soft yarns within the next month. Washington. Thethree soldiers at Fort Omaha who were inoculated with the new ty phoid serum have ben pronounced im mune by the garrison doctors. The men developed the fever in a mild form in seves days. When fully re covered from this they were vacci nated again, but no typhoid symptoms appeared. Then they drank freely from water into which millions of the typhoid germs had been placed, hut so far with no evil results. Secretary MacVeagh of the treas ury department said that no determi nation had been reached as to the -tfme of the issuance or amount of- the 3 'per cent one-year certificates re ferred to in announcement by the treasury department recently. , The is suance of the certificates will depend entirely upon the receipts of the treas ury from customs, internal revenue and miscellaneous sources. No more of the certificates will be issued than may be necessary to maintain a com fortable cash balance in the treasury. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the agricultural department and guardian of the pure food laws, has started a crusade against embalmed cucumbers and ghernins inoculated with alum. He asserts that withered and half-spoiled cucumbers are given generous hypodermics of alum and under its magic influence the once soft, seggy and generally disreputable pickle of commerce is plumped out, rejuvenated and becomes so pleasing to the eye that few persons can resist its alluring attractiveness. Although the board of food and drug inspection has had the question of the, use of alum as a preservative under consid eration for several weeks, no decis ion has yet been given out. Postmaster General Hitchcock has appointed Jesse L. Suter, Washington correspondent of the Nashville Ten-, nessean, as a member of his confiden tial staff in the postoffice department. Mr. Suter is a well known Washing ton newspaper man and was. connect ed with the publicity bureau of the re publican national committee during the last national campaign. Robert Bacon, who was assistant secretary of state under the former President Roosevelt, and whose home is in New York, will be appointed by President Taft ambasasdor to France during the coming fall, and relieving Ambassador Henry White, who has been' ambassador to France under both the late president William Mc Klnley and former President Roose velt. Official announcement of the resig nation of John G. Capers of South Carolina as. commissioner of internal levenue to take effect September 1, and of the - appointment of Royal S. Cabell, present postmaster of Rich mond, Va., to succeed him, was made by the secretary of the treasury. Announcement was made at Balti more by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company that in carrying out the recently decided-upon increase of equipment, it has closed contracts amousting to between six and seven million dollars. Other contracts which are pending will carry the total be yond ten millions. N NORTH STATE MEWS NOTES Items of Stale Interest Gathered from Here an(i There and Told Brieily for Busy Readers. Frazier Held For Jury. Greensboro, Special. The ; prelim inary hearing of James Frazier and John Leonard, alias John Hall, "who have been accused of being implicat ed in. the .recent murder of Miss Ly dia Newman, of Sumner township, was held before Justice of the Peace Collins Wedne'sday. The hearing was held in the county court house and attracted an immense crowd of peo ple. The first case taken up was the indictment charging Frazier with burning Miss , Newman's residence five years ago, and while the evidence was considered very flimsy, the de fendant was held without bail for the action of the grand jury. Leonard who . had been arrested for indecent exposure on a warrant sworn out by the defendant's wife, was the only witness who gave any direct testi mony against Frazier in connection with the arson case. He swore posi tively to having seen Frazier set fire to the residence on the afternoon of June 17, 1904. The defense ' intro duced twelve witnesses, several of them being leading citizens of the township, who swore to the good character of Frazier and the bad character of Leonard. Five of the witnesses established an alibi for Frazier on the day the house was burned. Must Be a Citizen of the State. Raleigh, Special. That none but qualified North Carolina voters can be appointed to the position of rail road policemen by the Governor to serve in this State is a ruling just made by Attorney-General T. W, Biekett. The inevstigation and con struction of the law in this State was made by the Attorney-General at the request of Governor Kitchin, who has b(m asked by a number of the railroad authorities, especially , the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern, to commission a number of men brought into this State from Virginia and other States. The ruling of tho Attorney-General is under the consti tutional requirement that none but qualified voters can hold office in North Carolina, the special railroad policeman's commission being held to be within the purview of this con stitutional requirement. Therefore, no one can in future secure a com mission of this kind from the Gov ernor unless for two years past a resident of the State. Young Davidsonian Bound Orer on Charge of Forgery. Mooresville, Special. J. F. Saw yer, a young man of about 20 years" of age of Davidson, came to Moores- , ville Saturday and went to the Moor esville Loan and Trust Company to secure a loan of $105. He presented as collateral a note purporting to be legally signed by himself and three other men. Mr. E. C. Deaton, to whom the note ha! been presented for payment, suspected forgery and deferred payment until an investiga tion. The result was that Sawyer was arraigned before Mayor Brown' and bound over to court under a $250 bond, in default of which he went to jail. Sawyer admitted iiis guilt at the preliminary hearing. Arrested For Embezzlement. Marion, Special. Somewhat of a sensation was caused here Thursday when it became known that Sheriff Washburn,' of McDowell cour.ty, had returned from Canton with J. R. Hawkins, a lumber dealer, as a pris oner and landed him in the jail here on the charge of embezzling $1,250 from E. R. Hill, the Marion repres entative of John P. Shearer & Son, of Philadelphia, lumber dealers.' From what can be learned Hawkins, while buying lumber for this com pany at Canton, is alleged to have sent notices of lumber bought to the headquarters of the company here and kept the money sent for same for his own use. No time has been set for the preliminary hearing. Pless & Winborne have been employed to prosecute the case. Hawkins has not as yet retained counsel. The defen dant is well connected here. Old Moonshiner Falls in Battle. Asheville, Special. Sam Palmer, a veteran moonshiner, whom revenue men have been seeking for years, was captured after a battle with officers in a raid Tuesday. Palmer did not surrender until he was shot four times, and then only after he had! been overpowered. He is a block ader of the old school, who believes he has an inherent right to make whiskey as he pleases, and who has no hesitancy in sacrificing the life of any one who will question that right. It is not thought that any of the wounds will prove fatal. A large still and outfit, with 3,000 gallons of beer, in which Palmer was interest ed, was captured and destroyed. Sev eral shots were exchanged, but none of the officers was hit. All the moon shiners made off, and it is not known whether- anv except ' Palmer were wounded. The posse was led by De puty Collectors llendrix and Alley, of Asheville. and Marshall, of Bry- son City. Old citizens throughout this section say that never before in their memory has there been as much illicit distilling as since the State prohibition law went into effect. Big Cotton Mill. Wilson, Special. D. D. Little, president and treasurer, and H. F. Little, general manager, of the Mar ion Manufacturing Company, have arrived in town and will - spend the week looking after the building of the $300,000 cotton mill Avhich is un der construction here. Work on the mill is progressing rapidly. When completed it will be one of the larg est plants in the State. Eight Men "Were Injured. Hickory, Special. At Brookfield an overloaded scaffold gave way Tuesday afternoon and eight men fell to the 0oor, a distance of twenty feet. J. Worth Elliott, the contrac tor in charge of the workj was se verely cut and bruised about the face, and all the others bruised and scratched. No bones Were broken, although ,the men fell among a tang led heap of heavy beams and timbers. Mr. Elliott was brought to his home and the gashes on his face 6titched up. The others escaped with bruises and a few sprains. Washington Provides Cemetery For Colored People. Washington, Special At a special meeting of the board of city alder men held recently it was decided to purchase the plot of ground adjoin ing the county poor house for the purpose of using same as a cemetery for the colored people of this "city. The plot comprises about 10 or 12 acres and was purchased from Mr. W. D. Grimes, of this city, the con sideration being $812.81. "Q. C. D." Sounds Once More, i Beaufort, Special. The steamship Arapahoe, of the Clyde Line, for Charleston and Jacksonville from New York, broke her tail shaft .ceived at this station at 4 :50 o 'clock:, and reported by wireless message, re ceived at this statio nat 4:50 o'clock, that she was drifting helplessly. The ship at the time that she flashed her (C. Q. D." was 21 miles southwest of Diamond Shoals lightship. The, wind was strong from the northeast and was drifting the ship in shore. She was heavily loaded and had quita a number of passengers on board. The Iroquis, of the same line, was sent and arrived in port with the Arapahoe in tow. Caught By Belt. . Greensboro, Special. Mr. L. A. DeWitt, superintendent of the Greensboro Furniture Manufacturing Company, was the victim of a pain ful and serious accident Thursday. While attempting to put a belt on the main line shaft his left arm was caught in the machinery and he was hurled around the shafting several times with great force, his left arm being broken in three places. He was removed to St. Leo's Hospital and given medical attnetion. Mr. De Witt's injuries are of a serious na ture and his physicians say he will be confined to the hospital for several weeks. North Carolina Navigators Drowned. Boston, Special. When the naval tug Nezinscott, Captain T,homas E: Evans, founded in the gale of Rock port Wednesday afternoon four of her crew lost their lives. Both of ther white men, Dr. Charles F. Trottery aating assistant naval surgeon, and , C. L. Taylor, a seaman, are natives of North Carolina. Trotter entered the naval service from Franklin, N.' C, last April and was on duty at the naval hospital at Portsmouth, N. H, Taylor was a native of Henderson ville, N. C, and made the trip around the world on the battleships Wicoa sin and Illinois. Gay Old Bird Landed. Wadesboro, Special. News baa reached here of the arrest at ninton, W. Va., of Dr. A. E. Clins on the charge of passing worthless checks. Cline is now in jail, and will be held for trial. His girl-wife, formerly a Miss Cook, to whom he was married only a short time ago in Gainesville, Fla., has returned to her parents. ..Governor at Jonesboro. Sanford, Special Governor Kitch in addressed an olcLsolJiers' reunion at Jonesboro at noon Tuesday. Fully 3,000 people were present and after the address the old soldiers, number ing about one hundred and fifty, wcro served with a picnic dinner in tho grove. Governor Kitchin was met at Sanford, where he spent the night, by a delegation from Jonesboro anil was escorted by a beautiful lloat trimmed in national colors containing a select choir of Sanford young la-, dies who made the welkin ring with Dixie and other appropriate songs. Arrested on. Charge of Assaulting 12-Year-OId Girl. Monroe, Special. Banks Freeman, a young farmer living in the north ern portion of the county, was arrest edMonday charged with an attempted assault upon a 12-year-old child liv ing with him. The child, whose mother is dead and "whose father left this county for the 'West some years ago, went to live with, her aunt. The warrant was sworn oat by an uncle of the little girl.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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