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Cbe Cbatftam TRecort. hTa. LONDON EDITCS AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: SI 00 Per Year vv - .... ' - I STRICTLY IN ADVANCE' j VOL. XXX1L. PITTSBORoTcHATHAM COUNTY. N. 0., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1909. NO. 4. ffW HI" SI "V v m v a i " , - Zbe Chatham "Rccort. RATES OF ADVERTISING; One Square, ono Insertion. ... ..$!. One Square, two Insertions.... us One Square, one mouth s.09 v. For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. Dr. Frederick Cook, of Brooklyn, Wins the Goal Reaches Pole April 21, 1908 Land at the Point Where With One Step You Pass From Side to Side of the Earth, New York, Special. "Successful. Well. Address Copenhagen. . "FRED." Full of meaning, if "successful" were interpreted to indicate that he had reached the North Pole, the fore going cable message, exasperating in its briefness, was received in New York Wednesday from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the American explorer, whom the latest cable advices credit with having accomplished what no :r;ui ever aid. it was intended tor Mrs. Cook, who. was not at home. Wednesday's message from Dr. Cook to his wife .was dated at Ler wick. Shetland islands, the first, avail able point of transit in the regular steamship course between Greenland ports and Copenhagen, whither he is bound. Because of its briefness the nssuir.pt ion is that the message was scut primarily to assure his wife of bi safety and not to apprise the world of his discovery. . The following seems a second bit of information: j Brussels, Sept. 1. The observatory here received the following telegram cated Lerwick, Shetland islands: Reached North Pole April 21, IPOS. Discovered land far north. Re turn to Copenhagen by steamer Hans EueiLe. " (Signed) "FREDERICK COOK." The American officials at the ob servatory state the dispatch is surely authentic and that the North Pole has been reached for the first time by an American. The Paris -edition of The New York IleraLl Thursday morning publishes a signed statement from Dr. Fred- crick A. Cook, which is dated "Hans Eireue. Lerwick, Wednesday," on his experiences in the Arctic regions. " After a prolonged fight with fairine and frost," says Dr. Cook, 'we have at last succ-e ded in reach in 2: the North Pole. A new highway. with an interesting strip of animated nature, has been explored and big pure haunts located, which will de light sportsmen and extend the Eski mo horizon. '"Land has been discovered on which rests the earth's northernmost reel's. A triangle of 30,000 square miL'S has been cut out of the ter restial unknown. The expedition was the outcome of a summer cruise in the Arctic seas on the schooner Bradley, which arrived at the limits cf navigation in Smith sound late in August. 1907. Here conditions were found to launch a venture to the pole. J. R. Bradley liberally supplied from his vessel suitable provisions for lo cal use. kMy own equipment for emergencies served well for -every purpose in the Arctic. On Feb. 19, 1908, the main expedi tion embarked on its voyage to the polo. It consisted of 11 men and 103 dogs drawing eleven heavily laden fledges. The expedition left the Greenland shore and pushed west ward over the troubled ice of Smith sound. The gloom cf the long night was relieved only by a few hours of daylight. The chill of the winter was felt at it3 worst. As we crossed the height? cf Ellesmcre sound to the Pacific slope the temperature Bank to minus 83 centigrade. -Several dogs were frozen and the, tr.cn suffered severely but we soon found the game trails along which the way was easy. We forced through 1i T 1 T. .1 T 1.1.1- vansen sound io lianas rna. in iuia inarch we secured 101 musk oxen, seven bears and 335 hares. "We' pushed out into Polar sea from the southern point of Herbert Island on March 18. Six Eskimos returnde from here. With four men raid 4G clogs moving supplies for 80 days, the crossing of the circum Polar pack -was begun. Three days later to ether Eskimos, forming the last supporting party, returned and the trials had now been reduced by the survival cf the fittest. "There before us in an unknown lino of 460 miles lay our goal. The first days provided long marches and big lead, which from the ice of the central pack, was crossed with little delay. The low temperature- was persistent and the winds made life a torture. But coop- in DR. COOK IS INTERVIEWED Reached. Pole at 7 O'clock in the Morning His Success Due to Old Methods, Esquinios and Dogs. Skagen, Denmark, By Cable. A newspaper correspondent who went on board the Hans Egede from the pilot steamer off here was able to ob tain a few words with Dr. Frederick A. Cook. The explorer ascribed his success to the fact that he made use f the old methods, namely, Eskimos and dogs, and that he lived like an Eskimo himself. The doctor then gave a hurried sketch of his expedi tion in which he said: uuriuwara a. siruCK nxst a ea ud m our dried Tifef foil .MXAvtv X1U Xll'lUKlUg' HOI . AL J xv i RT1 fTXT . nn aaa r m w And ZZ " I westerly course from Greenland and tea, there was some animal comforts W9 made encouraging progress. oceosionally to be eaineH For several days after the sight of known land was lost, the overcast sky prevented an accurate determina tion of our position. On March 30 the horizon was partly cleared and new land was discovered. Our ob servations gave our position as lati tude 84.47, longitude 86.36. There was urgent need of rapid - advance. Our main mission 'did not permit "a detour for the purpose- of exploring the coast. Here were seen the last signs of solid earth ; beyond there was nothing stable to be seen. - "We advanced steadily over the monotony of moving sea-ice and now found ourselves beyond the range of all life neither footprints of hears nor the blow-holes of seals were de tected. Even the mierosconin rrpat- ures of the deep were no longer under us. The maddening influence of the shifting desert of frost became al most unendurable in the daily rou tine. The surface of the pack offer ed less and less trouble and the weather improved, but there still re mained the life-sapping wind which drove' desair to its lowest recess. The extreme cold compelled action. Thus day after day our weary legs spread over big distances. Incidents and positions were recorded, but adven ture was promtly forgotten in the next day's efforts. "The night of April 7 was made notable by the swinging of the sun at midnight over the northern ice. Sun burns and frost bites were now re corded on the same day, but the double day's glitter infused quite an incentive into one's life of shivers. "Our observation April 6 placed the camp in latitude 86.36, longtitude 94.2. In spite of "what seemed long marches we advanced but little over a .hundred miles. Much of our work was lost in circuitous twists, around troublesome pressure lines" and high irregular fields. A very old ice drift, too, was driving eastward with suffi cient force to give some anxiety. "Although still equal to about fifty miles daily, the extended marches and the long hours for traveling with which fortune favored us earlier were no longer possible. We were now about 200 miles from the pole and sledge loads were reduced. One dog after another went into the stomachs of the hungry survivors until the teams -were considerably diminished in number, but there seemed to re main a sufficient balance for man and brute to push along into the heart of the mystery to which we had set. our selves, ' "On April 21 we had reached 89 degrees 59 minutes 4S seconds. ' The pole was in sight. We covered the remaining fourteen seconds and madev a few final observations. . I told Etukishook and Ahwelsh (the accom panying Eskimos) that we had reach ed the "great nail.' Everywhere we turned was south. With a single, step we could pass from one side of. the earth to the other; from midday to midnight. At last the flag floated to the breeze at the pole. It was April 21, 1903. The temperature was minus 38 centigrade, barometer 29.83,; lati-1 tude 90; as for the longitude it was nothing, as it was but a word. ) , " j "Although crazy with joy X our spirits began to .undergo a feeling of weariness. Next day after taking all our observations, a sentiment of in tense solitude penetrated us while we looked at the horizon. Was it pos sible that this desolate region, with out a patch of earth, had aroused the ambition of so many men for so many centuries? There wa3 no' ground, only an immensity of dazzling white snow, no living being, no point -to break the frightful monotony.. "On April 23,we started on our ra turn." ' - 1 WHUSIASTIC RECEPTION IS PLANNED FOR DR. COOK so Copenhagen, By Ca'.le. Dr. Fred "i'iek A. Cook's credit stands Kill with Danish polar experts that i!";e first message announcing his suc ('tss in reaching the North Pcle, !;v-a-rre as it was, was accepted as con lusive. Commodore . Hovgard said Ihins'.h'.v: "I believe the message is nie because Br. Ccck is most trust worthy and opposed to all exaggera tions " C. A. Danichcn, an official of the Greenland administration depart ment, who is well acquainted with him T in Greenland, said: "When Dr. Cook says that he reached the North Pole there can be no doubt about it. His scientific discoveries will prove that." A committee under the presidency of the minister of commerce lias been formed to arrange a fitting re ception to the intrepid explorer on his arrival at Copenhagen. Dr. Maurice F. Egan, the American minister, was aboard a special steamer that was sent out by the Royal Gecrgraphical Society Friday to meet Dr. Cook, who is on his way here on the steamer Hans Egede. THR.EE dead as result of auto CLASH with train Reading Pa" RnPn.i-i.Ar, mitomo-f and Mrs. Schlegel were dead when . " 7 i ' m which were riding William L. Graul and wife, of Temple, Pa., and Dr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Schlegel, of this city, was struck by a Pennsyl vania Railroad train at Douglasville 11 ear here Wednesday afternoon and -1 hut Dr. Schlegel were killed. The train was running at high speed when ine collision occurred and the ma chine was thrown some distance down an embankment. Mr. and Mrs. Graul picked up and Dr. Schlegel, was un-i able to move, botn legs naviug u broken. Almost simultaneously with the collision ofvthe automobile, the gasoline tank exploded and the wreckage took fire. The clothing of the victims was ignitedVand had the bodies , not been removed promptly they would have been burned. Dr. Schlegel was conscious and gave the names of his companions. I arrived at the North Pole Anril 21, 1908, as already announced, ac companied by only two Eskimos. "We reached the Pole at 7 o'clock in the morning. "I took daily observations for a whole fortnight before arriving at the Pole. "Returning we were forced to take a more weasterly route and the first ten days I took observations daily and recorded them. I was unable to measure the depth of the seas as I had not the necessary instruments. "The lowest temperature was 83 degrees centigrade below zero. "I have ample proof that I reach ed the North Pole in the observations I took, which afford a certain means of checking the truth of my state ments. "Although I am proud of my achievement in planting the American flag on the North Pole, I look with much greater pride to the fact that I traveled around mare than thirty thousand spare miles of hitherto un known ground, and opened up an en tirely fresh field. for exploration." The Hans Egede was met in the North sea by' the pilot steamer Polar Bear, aboard which was Captain Am drup, the well-known polar explorer, who was sent as a special representa tive of the Danish government to welcome Dr. Cook. As the vessels ap proached each other, Captain Am drup led the cheers for the American explorer. Will America Claim the Pole. Washington, Special. The ques tion on many tongues in Washington since the announcement of the dis covery of the north pole, by Dr. Cook, an American, has been "Will the United States claim the north pole by right of discovery." The State Department refuses to answer the question, ebriming that it has no official report of the discovery and therefore cannot discuss the 'sub ject. Those who are -informed, how ever state that when Dr. Cook re turns to this country and establishes the faet that he has discovered the pole, and describes the nature of the plaee, the United States will un doubtedly claim the pole as a pos session. There is much, however, to be de termined before this can be done, for it must be established that there is land at the pole separate and dis tinct from ether land contiguous to it. If it is proven that the pole is on a continent or island, the United States can, by right of discovery, claim possession. But it may turn out to be but a part of Greenland or of some land contiguous to it. The boundaries of British America do not extend as far north as the pole, but there may be mainland, such as Greenland, which' is Danish pro perty, near enough for it to belong to that country. It is understood here that there must be land at or near the pole which is disconnected from and not contiguous to territories belonging to other nations in order for the United States to assert a valid claim to sov ereignity. A vast ice field may create a doubt as to the existence of such land, and if this ice field overlies a part of the Artie Ocean, the region would doubt less be classed with the high seas and thus be international rather than na tional propertj So many unknown quantities enter into the case that the question of sovereignty cannot be settled unless Dr. Cook, when he returns, can give definite and detailed inlormatim con cerning the region. Inasmuch as the frozen area ia apparently of no value commercially, it is noti con sidered likely that serious inter national complications will arise. Library Burns. Toronto, Special. Fanned by' a high wind, fire Wednesday afternoon swept the west wing of the parlia ment buildings in Queens Park, to tally destroying the library with its collection of 100,000 books and do-ino- damage which is conservatively estimated at $200,000. The blaze started on the first floor of the west wing and made its way rapidly to the roof, where the flames "mushroomed" and threatened for a time to destroy the housekeeper's quaiters in the northwestern corner and the executive chamber. Law No Respecter of Persons. Atlanta, Ga., Special. In denying a pardon to Olin Pharr, former cash ier of the Citizens' Bank, of McRae, Ga., who has served 15 months of a four-year sentence for the embezzle ment of more than $15,000, of the bank's funds, Gov. Joe Brown over ruled the recommendations of the State prison commission and made it plain that family prominence and in fluential friends will avail naught in seeking pardons of him. DR. COOK LIONIZED His Story Pully Credited and He i3 Showered With Honors King Frederick Has Him to' Dinner and 'Seati Him on His Right Hand. Copenhagen, By Cable. "Once is enough for any man.' I will never re turn to the North Pole. A single ex perience I have just passed through will suffice for a life time." This was practically the first answer of Dr. Frederick Cook, the discoverer of the North Pole, to a vol ley of questions fired at him by a reg iment of newspaper men who boarded the Hans Egede as she steamed into the harbor at 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning.. .Dr. Cook admits that the nature of the moving ice covereing the site of the pole will probably remove the evi dences ho left there April 21 and 22, 1908, but he states that his records of observations when presented to scientific men will wipe out all scepti cism. 'He says he first planted a staff on the site of the pole and then raised the American flag. "There, on that God forsaken spot realized as never before the meaning of patriotism and the love of the flag." Seeing that the flag would be whipped to shreds by the wind he took it down and plac ed it in a brass cylinder which he placed on the staff. Dr. Cook said he spent practically all of two days taking observations. He had a sextant, pocket watch, three chronometers, and "more modern in struments than were ever used by an explorer in the extreme North. I verified all observations carefully and am confident that accuracy and com pletenessof the record will satisfy the scientific world." The entire population of the city seemed to be at the pier with thous ands who journeyed from all over Europe. For 15 minutes the crowd cheered wildly. Dr. Cook was overcome by emo tions; tears welled in his eyes. "I never expected such a demonstra tion," he said. "It seems too much for what I have done." King Frederick asked for a call from him. To the reply that he had no clothing suitable for the Kings presence the King asked him to call in his hunting garb which he did. The banquet Saturday evening was held in the magnificent municipal building. Four hundred persons, many of them ladies, attended. President Taft congratulated Dr. Cook most fittingly in a cablegram. A Copenhagan dispatch of Sunday says Dr. Frederick A. Cook dined Saturday evening with King Freder ick at the summer palace a few miles outside of Copenhagen. The King invited him to meet him only after having the government make the closest possible investiga tion into the merits of his story. All the Danish explorers were asked to give their opinions of Dr. Cook's claims before the audience was grant ed and their verdict was unanimous ly in his favor. The dinner was entirely the result cf the King's personal opinion re garding the explorer, who had the seat on the King's right, an honor which Dar.-s cannot remember having been accorded another private person. In answering the many questions put to him he said: "You ask my impression on reach ing the Pole. Let me confess I was disappointed. Man is a child dream ing of prodigies. I had reached the Pole and now at a moment when I should have been thrilled with pride and joy 1 was invaded with a sud den, fear of the dangers and suffer ings of the return. , On approaching the Pole he said the icy plain tcok on animated mo tion as if rotating on an invisible pivot. v- "A great fissure then opened up behind," he added, "and it seemed as if we were isolated from the world. My two Eskimos threw themselves at my feet and bursting into tears, re fused to continue either ono way or another, so paralyzed were they with fear. Nevertheless I calmed them and we resumed our journey. Lofty Observatory on Mount Whitney Nearly Ready For Use. Washington, Special. Scientists scon will have placed at their dis posal for use the highest meteorolo gical and astronomical observatory on the American continent. It is situ ated on the top of Mount Whitney, California, 14,000 feet above the sea level. Realizing the value for effec tive and progressive astronomical and meteorological work of an obser vatory far above the clouds and free from the dust and smoke near great cities, the Smithonian Institute de cided to build a suitable laboratory on Mount-Whitney. Trying to Catch the Villains. Newcastle, Pa., Special. Over a hundred- men, all members of State, railway or private criminal-catching organizations are here trying to dis cover the person or persons who early Saturday pulled spikes lrom a sixty foot rail on he Baltimore & Ohio railroad,"ditching the Royal Blue flyer en route from New York to Chicago, killing two persons and injuring seventeen others. SNAPPY AND BRIEF Items Gathered and Tofd While You Hold Your Breath. SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar nered From the Fields of Action at Home and Abroad. China-and Japan have reached an amicable adjustment of their compli cations in Manchuria. New Jersey is considered a mos quito state but Prof. Smith, who has put his theories to a practical test, has rid much of the mosquito terri tory of the pest by drainage. He finds that the eggs are laid in ' soft mud and if the mud is dried they cannot hatch. Near Butte, Montana, Tuesday, a grizzly bear carried off a little child of a Mr. Doolittle. He pursued with dogs and gun. The bear dropped the child little hurt, killed one dog and put the other to flight. Mr. Doolittle was thrown from the horse he was riding and had a leg broken, which put him at the mercy of thex grizzly which mortally wounded him before rescurers killed the bear - In Costa Rico in the late presi dential election the fight turned from ballots to bullets. A lone bandit held up an express train Tuesday near Lewistown, Pa., and robbed it of bags of money. When he sent the train away he picked up a bag "of - Lincoln pennies' mistaking it for gold and .the gold was recovered. He got very little. Washington, New York, Chicago and St. Louis are bidding for the world's aviation contest in 1910. Mrs. '"FVerlriffl. TTernsVieim (Wecl in New Orleans' the last day of August, lacKing oniy a lew montns oi xuu years old. The President of France and Mme. Fallieres entertained Mrs.' Roosevelt- and daftghter Miss Ethel, last Tuesday. A Reading, Pa., dispatch says the presefit drought is the worst for 50 years. St Michael's Home for Children in New York, was partially destroyed by fire Tuesday and seven children under five years old perished in the flames. Disciples of the "Unknown Ton gue" are disappointed at the exis tence of Tampa, Florida, which ac cording to their prophet, was to have been wiped off the. face of the earth on September 1st. William Mitchell, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Thomasville, Ga., committed the great criminal folly of assault on a pure woman. He did not succeed and his punishment was fixed at one year's service on the chain gang. All efforts for commuta tion of sentence to service on peni tentiary farm have. been rejected by-L Gov. Brown. 1 must undergo tne penalty. The Nashville, Tenn., police are worried over many cases of "drunk" from which there is no odor. They can't find out "Howcome you so." Ten deaths from cholera have oc curred recently in Rotterdam. There are 17 cases and 74 suspects. Two masked men robbed the Mills County German Bank of $1,500 at Mineola, Iowa, Wednesday ia open day. The steamer Lucania of the Cun ard line, which was burned and sunk near Liverpool last week, will prob ably not be repaired at all. Mrs. Sutton has obtained permis sion to have the remains of her son, Lieut. James Sutton, exhumed but she abhors the presence of the of ficers that she thinks are responsible for her sons death. Seven deaths from cholera are re ported from St. Petersburg and 33 new cases within 24 hours. Count Zeppelin madfe a successful sail in his airship Sunday from Frederichshafen to Berlin. He was enthusiastically applauded. The total number of victims of the explosion at Boca Chica, near Kej West, Fla., was 20, 10 dead and 10 injured. 4A11 the injured are in n fair way to recovery except James Gallagher, whose condition is serious. His back is broken and his ribs and chest terribly crushed. Dispensaries are again open in South Carolina except several coun ties in dispute. In the counties where the dispensaries were voted out they will remain open till the pe riod allowed for closing out ,the stock. ' ' y The international cup of aviation, known also as the Gordon Bennet trophy, was won Saturday at Reims. France by Glenn H. Curtiss, the American aviator,' in the fastest aerial journey of 20 kilometres (12.42 miles) ever accomplished by man. His time, 15 minutes 50 3-5 seconds was only 5 3-5 seconds faster than that. made by Ble'riot oveirthe same course. The cave-in of an 'old mine did great damage to two blocks 'of the city of Scranton, Pa., last Sunday. The surface sank from 2 to & feet. Many houses were injured and a few ruined. The -loss is set at $300,000. The Spaniards last week set land mines for the Moores and blew up 100 While engineers were placing more mines in the night the Moores attacked and killed 50 engineers. The Mahdist rebels in Arabia blew up the Turkish barracks and wound ed 240 men. LIGHTNING KILLS HORSE Valuable Driving Horse Stricken at Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount, Special. On Sunday afternoon Mr. R. H. Ricks suffered the loss of a valuable driving horse the animal having been killed by lightning during a ' violent electric! storm which broke over that section about six o'clock Sunday evening. The horse was grazing in a pasture at his farm, and when the approach ing storm was noted a colored tenant was sent into the pasture to bring the horse to the stable. The horse was being led to the stable and the negro, had the halter in his hand when the lightning struck the horse, killing him instantly, while the negro was severely stunned. . The negro crawl ed to the house and told what had happened. The negro was not ser iously hurt. The horse represents a loss of several hundred dollars. Increase -Tobacco Sales. WinstonSalem, Special. During the first eight months of the present year the local tobacco manufacturers have shipped 28,502,427 ' pounds of manufactured tobacco, an increase of 2,769,839 pounds over the first eight months of 1908. The receipts at the revenue office for the month of Aug ust amounted to $178,607.90, which shows that 2,934,465 pounds of manu factured tobacco were shipped from this city during the present month. Only 89,096 pounds of leaf tobacco were sold on the local market this month on account of the unfavorable weather, conditions. As the tobacco brought here was of a low quality, the receipts were not large. Inspect Children's Home. Winston-Salem, Special. Directors of the Children's Home, of the West ern North Carolina Conference Meth odist Episcopal church, after an ex ecutive session here Wednesday at which all members save two were present, visited the temporary home of the new orphanage, just west, of the city, and after an inspection had lunch there served by the Methodist ladies of this city. The directors are highly pleased with the progress of the work, the old Davis School site having been beautified . remarkably, and sufficient buildings for seventy five children to be cared for having already been "provided. Bullfrog Makes Meal of Chicken. Winston-Salem, Special. A large bullfrog, , a chicken destroyer, was caught in the act of swallowing a "biddy," one of a brood belonging to Mr. E. L. Weir, a farmer living near this city. This may shed some light on mysterious disappearances of young chickens which poultry .raisers suffer from. Mr. Weir had set. traps in vain for the destroyer, not dream ing: of a frog beina: the guilty one, ivfe- Monday he caught his frogship swallowing a young fowl alive. Mr. Weir enjoyed the fat hind lags of the frog for breakfast. Southern Railway Shops on 9'Hour Basis. Spencer, Special. Effective at once the employes of the Southern Rail way shops, at Spencer have been placed on nine-hour working basis instead of eight hours per day. The increase affects all departments and it is understood applies to all shops on the Southern Railway system, af fecting about eight thousand men. Work Begins on the Southbound at Wadesboro. Wadesboro, Special. -Work com menced on the building of the Winston-Salem Southbound here Thurs day. Contractor J. J. Bennett with his force started at the point where the new line joins the Atlantic Coast Line. Killed by a Falling Pole. Greenville, S. C, Special. Luther Fisher a wokman in the employ of the Southern Power Company, was struck by a falling pcle and instantly killed Saturday afternoon in ' an ( aecideYit which occurred about 2 miles from Greer. R. S. Higgins, a fellow work man, had his collar bone broken in the same accident. Fisher is from Sahford, N. C. Hyder Back to Prison. Marion, Special. Deputy Sheriff Otis Powers, of Hendersonville, has left Marion with Lewis Hyder, fa mous jail-breaker, for Raleigh, where Hyder will be confined in "the depart ment for the dangerous insane. Hy der was captured' here by Deputy Sheriff Harris, near North Cove, and brought to, Marion and landed inail. Sheriff Washburn nmmediately com municated with the Henderson coun ty authorities and' they sent an of ficer here for the man. Work on a New Railroad. Asheville, Special. Shanties have been built along the route, and before the end of the week work will begin on the Smoky Mountain Railroad, which will extend fourteen miles up Hazel Creek through one of the finest timber tracts in this region. The road is being built by the Ritter Lum ber Company. NORTH STATE NEWS Items of State Interest Gathered and Told in Brief. ... . . . -j . Lake Drainage Plan Agreed On. - Raleigh, Special. It developstbat ' ' something of an understanding' has been reached between the State Board1 of Education and Colonel W. C.;Rod-rV man as to the latter 's claim to' ha!f t the bed of Lake Mattamuskeei, which;' the State Board ha3 ! determined - to either drain by bond isste cVsell with'- the requirement that -the i purchasers - shall drain. The two, interests 4 are. said to be. working in harmony, and" " anticipate no difficulty in adjusting any claim that the heirs of John Grayu i Blount may be adjudged by, the caurti , to have. The lakebed comprises' about 50,000 acres, and "this claim 'in-' yolves about' half '-of it,-; there 'appear' ing no cloud to the State 'svtitlej to the remaining half, of: the acreage. The claim of Colonel Rodman and his associates is based on the old 'John Hall grant of 195,000 acres in , 1879 J Later the Mattamuskeet ., and other -sections of this grant were conveyed v to John Gray Blount, who was prob- ably one of the largest -landowners f North Carolina ever had, ..He, is an ancestor of Colonel , Rodman. When the State undertook to drain the' lake in 1837 the heirs of John Gray Blount gave a quit-claim, for,, the drainage. However, the .enterprise failed. It is on this -account ' that' claim of title is again set up. It isl said now that the State Board will certainly bring about the draining of, the lake either directly or through a', drainage district combination, -'aiid bonds to provide the money,- ? or through sale to private, parties, .-con? , ditioned on drainage by the purchase ers. - New Interurban Railway Stirs Weav erville People to Greater Endeavor Asheville, Special. The comple tion of the new interurban railway from Asheville to Weaverville afld the bright prospects for pushing the road on through north Buncombe, portions - of Madison and Yancey counties and into Tennessee for a con nection with the C, C. & O., has greatly aroused the people of the Weaverville section and north Bun combe and sharp developments are planned and already in progress. It was stated by a gentleman well-informed that plans have been adopted for a new inn at Weaverville to cost $15,000; an inn to be patterend some what after the Manor here, "it is understood 'that Weaverville citizens are interested to the extent of $4, 000, and that Mr. Coburn, of Bryson City, and others are also interested. It is expected that work will com mence on the structure shortly. Ex-Go v. Glenn Home For Few Days. Winston-Salem, Special. Ex-Governor R.-'B. Glenn, after an extended lecture trip through the West, going as far as Chicago, is at home again, but only for a few days. The ex Governor is looking well and says he feels the same way about it. While away on this trip he delivered 53 lectures and addresses, and at every appointment he was greeted Tby large and enthusiastic audiences. "I visited many magnificent sections of the country and the crops out TVcst are the largest and .most promising. I have ever seen," said the ex-Gover nor, who added, that gsnerous-rho's pitality greeted him everywhere be went. In all of his speeches he took: occasion to tell the people about the grand old North State, her growth and prosperity and always extended an invitation for his hearers to come down this way and see for themselves. " While the West is a splendid . sec tion and her people are mighty good folks, I have yet to find the equal of the old North State and her Tar Heels," continued the ex-Governor,'", Farmer Killed by Lightning. ' Blacksburg, Special. On " Sunday afternoon one George Royston' was killed by lightning while sitting, un der the shade of a walnut tree in the yard talking to his brother-in-law, The accident occurred near Grover, Mr. Royston was about forty yearn old and leaves a wife and a large family. He lives near Shelby,. N. C., and was a very , much respected farmer. Two Ground Under Cars. Charlotte, Special. Fearing ' that the construction train- would ? be wrecked when a long rail, became wedged between two cars. Rome Wil son, foreman of construction work on the Carolina, Clinchfield' and . Ohio Railroad, and Joe Henderson, a ne gro laborer, jumped as the train was nearing Pacolet river Wednesday af ternoon and were ground to pieces beneath the heavily loaded cars. Their bodies were mutilated beyond recog nition. The accident occurreel on tho extension of the work, which is being pushed through to Spartanburg, S. C, and is the first fatal mishap tho new railroad has had. Genuine Case of Pellagra at Gastonia. Gastonia, Special. A genuine case of pellagra was discovered in Gas tonia Tuesday, the victim being Mrs. Thomas Smith, who lives at the L'o ray Mills. She has been ill about three weeks. Her condition is serious but not critical. Dr. H. M. Eddie man, the physician in attendance, has one other case in the county under treatment, this one being at Mountain Island. This is Gastonia 's first case.