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7 r;:c Gbatfcam TRccovb H .. - .. VLr H . 4T .1 ff H , V.IYJ XV I J - S-JZD PROPP-ISTOIL. TLY IH ADVANCE VOL. XXXII. PITTSBQRO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1909. NO. 13. Zbe Gbatbam "Recorb. RATES OF ADVERTISING; One Square, on Insertion.... One Square, two Insertions. . One Square, one month...... 1. 5 Fcr Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. PLENTY OF FOOD NOW Danger of Food Famine in Amer ica Very Remote. m mm to be grown Secre'.-ry Wilson Thinks Population Overtax the Farmer But Not Soon. VV-:''. -:;tcn, D. C. Some day the sicsd? crease cf population in the V:ii:.a : '.-i-es is bound to overtax the a;;;;:y : the farmer to provide for its r.. u ::a"ce; but that day is very rixaou: according to Secretary Wil son, of the agricultural department. Xor will it be necessary in the imme d!;;t; f::t::ie to import grain for bread, nor.vii::i-iai:dii:g the doleful predie iior..: ci s-or.ie publicists. Everything dc;::..u- v.:on the disposition of the Ami'.vc.r. :'armer to make the most of il;o .' p urees cf his land, and to imr'.c.t :::s methods of agriculture in -c.;:.";..:ice with the needs cf the peor-U'. Tho :c-;ary is in an optimistic mood jv. liow, and he points to the fis.uiW the crop production show in? ttr.t '-he value of the American farmers' output for one single year a8grr.&tca the enormous total of seven a: d a quarter .billion dollars. Tczi was for the calendar year 190$, but fee secretary was confident that. 1 ? in mind the higher prices' oi the :::xtr.t. the total for this year wc-did ii-:u.:r.y be as large, Tiu- : respect fcr a great increase in ii.e induction of wheat is" excel lent, i:. opinion of Secretary wil cn. a::J ic-r two reasons, first, the ereiru" .r.iiar.ced market value of i - ; . k would -surely tempt the Ar.i. i farmers to plant more v.r.cc;. rt.d. cceond, thanks to the dis covery c: the possibility of growing du:t::n ... in the large part of the v hitherto regarded as un avui.'..: . . there would be a great ad dition 'j the total of the annual crcp. EVE ?er Cent of Crop Ginned to November 1. i enn. The regular re- the- National . Ginners' associ ta.es that 70 per cent of the . it on crcp was ginned up to : r 1. The report in addition, eat. Egyptian crop is 25 per : t , of what was expected a itie ago. ucrts of the ginners received President J. A. Taylor, inii- : up to November 1, 6,943,'JCO -. :t;cu have been ginned, or -iv.ned since the last report u :. In the same period last .' :-' bales were ginned. The j re-:.- that the crop in the ;;: valley is very short. The rates follows: Alabama, .-:v.ansas, 469,000; ' Florida, :::;ria. 1,363,000; Louisiana, riXvIssippi, 566,00; iiissou- "r ;. ia. 29,000; North Caroli Oklahoma, 410,000; South .. Ti-i.000; Tennessee, 147,000; ;. Total, 6,943,000. Xcv.rJ cent t!t short t: The ; here nv i c 1 il'V.'.i- v;a i year 1 repctt rjisi; reyor 7".i SI. - : and tta. Co-' Cat'jlit. 7c:-.a.:. SOUTH EE3T PLACE FOR FARMER. Secrets ry Wilson Addresses National Farmers' Congress. Curkrr.1, m. c. "The place for the farmer i.ow is in the south, where the so:: is friendly to nearly every ineduf t of the country," declared Sec retary Wilson of the national depart ment o' agiiculture in an address be fore the ?atior.al Farmers' Coneress Secrttr.ry Wikon said he had noth ing a;s::.it education in schools and colkct? of the country, but that their tendency had been to educate away from thr- farms instead of toward them. He expressed his sympathy "ft'iih the man who proposed an agri cultural school for every county, whether that school be an actual in stitution or merely a place where farmer.-; met and discussed farming. Secretary Wilson boasted of the freedom of the department from pol itics. He declared that of the 11,000 men nr.der him, he did not know the politic t cf eleven of them. VIOLATED POSTAL LAW. Chattarccga Inspector Mads Threats Cn a Postal Card. Chsttanocga, Tenn. An unusual ase, involving a possible violation of ihe Urited States postal regulations, fcas developed here. The postal au thorities, have summoned City Side walk Injector F. A. Frawley to an swer a charge of violating the regula tions of the department because of postal card notices which he has sent 10 certain citizens, notifying them to' compiy -.vith the city sidewalk ordi nance. rr -uffer the prescribed penal ty. One of the cards was forward er to Washington and the district at torney -vas instructed to begin action ?a:K- inspector. CASHIER WW OF $14,156. Tnuti Sanbagood Canadian Express Company Employe. Jia2""a frs!ls' 0nt William Dob comv' of tl;ie Canadian Express (.rm,r :-- ' V-'S sandbagged here in the staT''V"00 at 1he Grand Trunk l-j.11.1', i:- ' 'l Package containing $14,- tten ' ''m ll5m by two unknown - in i robberv was committed oror-i daylight, with a score of feet cf eltice. tvv , . ik. ' 'v -i vvas alone at the time when a..;.. '!-erec the office. One asked a-out j. !e:;(- , t, and as Dobson stoopp is book cne cf the men cyer the counter a nd hit the ear with a sand-bag. Si. INSURANCE. i ire UNITED STATES BEST FED SAT1UN- Not Onljin Quantity But in Quality of Food, Statistics Show. Washington, D. C Uncle Sam has "let out" his belt. He is getting fat. Perhaps in Sympathy with President Taft. Because perhaps he is makihg more money. During the present year the Unit ed States has consumed more food of all classes by far than during 1906.. This is brought about chiefly by food conservation by natural means. Basing per capita statistics cf the United States and the biggest countries cf Europe on the consump tion cf canned goods, the United States is pointed to as the best fed of all nations. Taking peas, tomatoes and corn as the three leading vegetables, the sta tistics show that during 1909 Amer ica will eat close to SOO.000,000 cans of these varieties, while during 1906, 1907 and 1908 the average annual con sumption was only about 600,000,000 cans. Return of prosperity to all classes in the United States is shown in a measure by the fact that canned veg etables are gaining in popularity. Not enly do the figures point out that the United States leads in the quantity of focd consumed, but it is also shown that the sort of edibles now going to the laboring -and middle classes is above the average in quality. LEADING CITIZENS FAILED TO VOTE. Taft, Roosevelt, Morgan, Carnegie and Rockefeller Didn't Vote. New York City. Many of the coun try's leading citizens failed to exer cise their right of suffrage. President William H. Taft did not vote in Cin cinnati because he was in Mississip pi. Former President Theodore Roosevelt did not vote at Oyster Bay, because he is in Africa. J. Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie did rot vote because they were in Europe when it was time to register. Cardi nal Gibbons did not vote at Baltimore because he had failed to register. John D. Rockefeller did not vote in New York because he was detained in Cleveland. PREACHER SIAHSliAN. First Blood Drawn in Alabama Pro hibition Fight. Florence, Aia. First blood was drawn in Florence in the constitu tional prohibition fight. The bellig erents were Rev. J. O. A. Pace, a Baptist preacher, and S. P. Merrill, a livery stable keeper. After some argument, in which the men differed as to the merits or demerits of the amendment, Rev. Pace cut Merrill with a knife and the latter retaliated with a blew. Bystanders' separated the men. MORMONS DID NOT MOSOFOliZE TAFT. Senator Smcct Says Reports Sent Out from Utah Are False. Washington, D. C. Echoes cf the trip of President Taft through Utah were heard here when Senator Smoot declared that the senational publica tions in regard to the trip have been sent for political effect. According to the senator the Mormons did not try to monopolize the president, and the accounts to that effect were a gross slander on the state. TENEMENTS FOR COSSl'MPTiYES. Will Be Erected by William K. Van derbilt in New York. New York City. Plans were filed for four model six-story tenements which are to be built for the accom modation of sufferers from tuberculo sis at an outlay of .$650,000, not in cluding cost of sites by William K. Vanderbilt. Roof gardens, open air balconies and other features designed to combat the white plague will make the tenements distinctive, and only moderate rentals will be charged. DlsfraRCiiis3m8ut Beaten In Maryland Baltimore. Md. Unofficial figures show that the proposed amendment to the state constitution intended to dis franchise the negroes is defeated by 16,155, and that Hering, democrat, for state comptroller, defeated his repub lican opponent by 9,076. The legisla ture, on joint ballot, judging from in nletp returns, will stand 90 dem ocrats and 38 republicans. In both houses the democrats wm nave tne power again to bring the question of tv.o Hipfranchisement of the negroes before the people at the next elec tion. Newsy Paragraphs. The Journal of the British Astro monical association says that the ob literation of the usual markings on the surface of the planet Mars dur-o- tho. sentpmher observations by a gloomy yellow veil indicates a gigan tic catastrophe or some Kina. ne antro mnv he connected with the abnormal electrical conditions of th sun. "it irvnifs at this time that if prop erly handled, the national congress will make the waterway movement a certainty this winter c-n a contract basis. There has been no convention in the history of this country looking ir thfi develonmeirt of tne inland wa terways whicn has had such an effect upon public sentiment as tne one we aio now holding here." Reviewing tne immediate work of the great gath r.r nnri inrikihi; into tne immediate future President W. K. Kavanaugh cf tne Lakea-to-the-Gulf Deep Water way association, just before the con vention aujourneu at iev urieans, summed up viat iiad been accom- i. i i... . . n nrt!...iit!iinti nnrl 1 .la piisnea oj tuu ie&uks lively to accrue at an eariy date. That "Uncle Joe" Cannon snores unmercifully is attested to by Mr. and a James U. Dulaney, who lett the northbound train, on which the tpea&er w.s a passenger, at .uempnii, -i i v.n in cider to Ret some rest. Mrs. Lmianey and her husband say that every ci-e cn the sleeper, which was c trcugn Funnian i-ur vyiiiuuau, um "lained cf the ncise emanating from . . . -. i T . i t h ' i V. ft itnrtpr r- t-v," ' iiio insurance comr-anv ui-cie J to s """r nc isjt tho car when it reached j Memphis. :"ce Company Settles Her Lap-,., P?!':y for $1'C0C. eon;". !rci- A fire insurance of v''" .y;:: i- i'-i 51,000 to the heirs thni, . ' V':ir- who, with her fco.,,.( ' rned to death in the j 2. p.,.';1 ;;' r "murder farm," April j id-,- t-. 1 y- property was insured: ijtti u-en committed F.uicide, l.rr-.- to nay SI fifiCi oss n nRTTl-l THE DECUNEIN COTTON New York Letter Explains Slump in Price of Staple. MARKET WAsTvERBOlJOHT The South Has Sold Cotton to Amount of $350,000,003 and la in a Position to Fight a Decline. New York CityThe sudden de cline m the cotton market came to many like a flash out of a clear sky. To others, after an almost uninter rupted advance of $15 a bale, a set back of $2.05 to $3, such as occur red then, was no more than natural. Patten and other interests are sup posed to have reduced their holdings, if they are not acutally out of the market. Wall street houses' have heen heavy sellers. So have the rank and file cf cotton traders. The market had become heavily over bought, and when bulls withdrew their support, the price came down with startling suddenness. Vigorous hammering by bear leaders helped to bring it about. Tha net decline for the week is comparatively moderate, but bears predict that from now on there will be a gradual sagging of prices to a point where the spinners will be induced to hold freely. For eign mills have bought heavily this season, but the American spinner has, for the most part, held aloof. As a rule, he claims that he could not buy the raw material at existing prices, and sell his goods at a profit. Therefore, it either abstains altogeth er from buying or else bought as lit tle as possible. Also, there has been a steady spread of the movement to reduce the output of cotton goods so many hours a day or so many days in a week. Of late the spot markets have shewn less cnap, less activity and strength. Liverpool's spot sales haye suddenly dropped to a very small to tal daily. The New York stock is steadily increasing, as cotton can be bought from the south at a profit. Crop news has been rather more cheerful. The top crop of Texas and some other states, may turn out to be larger than . at one time seemed possible. Over election day there was very heavy selling, supposedly by Patten and other interests in New Orleans and Liverpool. The bulls be lieve that even a setback of 50 to 60 points in a day is no valid argument against the proposition that, sooner or later, prices must mount to a very much higher level. In the Sully year, when the price was around 12 cents, and above, there were frequent set backs of 40 points or more in a day, yet the price ultimately reached 17.55 cents. The experts are on a very large scale and spinners' takings for the season, despite the high prices ruling, show a considerable increase over these for the same period last season. Liverpool has been buying to liquidate straddles. At times .both American and foreign spinners have been buyers cf futures here. It is contended that the south has sold cotton to the amount of $350,000,000, and is in a position to fight a de cline, and is likely to do so. Crop estimates frem various sources have ranged from 10,000,000 to 11,000,000 bales, while bulls refuse to listen to ,ary7 estimates of the world's con sumption cf American cotton of less than 13,000,000 to 13,500,000 bales. BLED BY BLACS1MA1LERS. Thousands Extorted From Treasurer of Big Four Railway. Cincinnati, Ohio. In the presence of his wife and officials of the Big Four railway, C. L. Warriner, depos ed local treasurer of the road, is said to have confessed that the shortage of his accounts, estimated at over $100,000, was due to his paying black mail to a man and a woman for the last three years. In his confession, Warriner is said to have stated that he paid the black mailers in all $75,000. The man to whom this money was given is said to have been an old employe of the Big Four, and to have had knowledge of an earlier shortage in Warriner's accounts. For keeping silent about this shortage he demanded and re ceived from Warriner large sums. Steps will be taken to arrest him. BURNED SICK FARMER'S CROP. Kentucky Night Riders Destroy Crop Valued at $10,000. Lexington, Ky Lying helpless in bed, Thomas Stafford saw his tobacco barn, with all its contents, a crop val ued at $10,000, burned by night rid ers in Jessamine county. Stafford had been warned to join the tobacco pool put had defied the threats made against him. He was stricken recently with ty phoid fever and this opportunity was seized by his foes. GUILTY OF PEONASL Foreman of Railroad Gang is Given Fine. Asheville, N. C. In the United States court counsel for Robert Chris tian announced that they would not resist a verdict cf guilty, whereupon Judge James ,E. Boyd sentenced the defendants to pay a fine of $2,500. Christian, together with W. L. Smith and W. A. Perry, railroad con tractors, were indicted for peonage aileged to have been committed by them in Macon county in 1906, when Christian, as foreman, wa.ts alleged to have detained negro employees who sought to escape from the construc tion camps, and to have forcibly brought back some who had escaped. GREAT EDUCATOR DEAD. William Torrey Harris, Former Com missioner of Education, Dead. Providence, R. I. William Torrey Harris, former United States commis sioner cf education, died here of heart failure. Dr. Harris, from 1S67 to 1SS0, was United States commissioner of educa tion. , A. His death came at the completion cf a new edition of Webster's diction ary, of, which ' he was the editor-in-chief. MILLIONS, FOR CHARITY. . John Kennedy, New York Millionaire, Disposes of Over $60,000,000. New York City. John Steward Ken nedy, one of America's little-known rich men, who died of whooping" cough in his New York residence re cently, left bequests of more than $25,000,000 to religious, charitable and educational institutions in his will, filed for probation here. ' The gift is the largest single contributions of its kind ever made, and the .beneficiaries include fifty-nine educational and church institutions in all parts of the United States and one abroad. Nearly half of the $25,000,000 goes to institutions connected with the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Kennedy had been an active member for many years. Other large benefi ciaries are the American Bible Soci ety, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the United Charities of New York, Co lumbia University and Robert College, Constantinople. Aside from these gifts," Mr. Kenne dy left approximately $35,000,000 to his wife and his relatives and a great number of his friends and employees. Born near Glasgow in 1830, Mr. Kennedy came to America in 1850 as agent for an English iron and me,tal concern. In 1857 he joined the New York banking firm of Morris K. Jes up & Co., and about eleven years la ter established the house of Kennedy & Co. He retired from active partic ipation in the business in 1883. NO POLAR QUARREL FOR GOVERNMENT. United States Will Not " Take Jart in Cook-Peary Row. Washington, D. C Refusing to be drawn into the Cook-Peary North Pole controversy, the state depart ment has declined a request that it cable American Minister Egan at Co penhagen to request of the University of Copenhagen permission to exam ine the records of Br. Frederick A. Cook when they are submitted to that institution. The request was made by a dele gation from the National Geographic society, which will appoint a commit tee to visit the institution to which Dr. Cook is to submit his records. The request was made on the grounds that the examination would be .by scientists of attainments pa ticularly valuable to the polar prob lem, and representative not only of the society, but of scientists generally in the United States. Every effort was made to surround the delegation's visit with a veil of mystery, one " of the members even denying his identity when approach ed by a reporter. FEUDTn TENNESSEE Two Victims Added to List in Han cock County. Knoxvills, Tenn. A Hancock coun ty feud of years standing has broken out afresh an I two more victims ad ded to the roll of tho dead. James Yount, aged thirty, and George Greene, aged .sixteen, are the last vic tims. James Davis, who admits the i double killing, but says he did it in j self-defense, has surrendered to the authorities at Sneedville. The feud ; originated with the killing of Eli j Greene, an aged man, who was shot from ambush while harvesting wheat ! some years ago. Yount .married a daughter of the elder Greene, and Davis wedded his widow. Bad feel ing existed between Davis and James Yount, and it is supposed that George Greene took Yount's part in the fight. Yount and Greene were not armed when they met death. IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS Government to Secure Valua ble Data. ENGINEERS TO TOUR DIXIE Photographer to Secure Pictures Ex planatory of the Status of Our Highways. $431,956,623 Sent Gut of U. S. Washington, D. C. la the . annual report of the auditor of the postofflce . department, it is shown that during the last twenty years foreigners in the United States have sent to their homes, by means of money orders, the sum of $431,956,623, in excess of . the amount they received from abroad. Train Deliberately Derailed. Mason Citv. Iowa All the mail and a large amount of money was burned on Iowa Central train No. 6, south bound, when the train was deliberate-, ly derailed to prevent a collision. 1 Towerman James Edinburn caused ' the derailment, sending tne tram into a ditch. Cannon Wants Baseball Team. South Bend. Ind. Soeaker Cannon. of the United States house of repre sentatives, ;s making an ettort to Duy the franchise of the South Bend Club of the Central League and transfer the club to Danville, 111. Mr. Cannon believes a good ball t earn would ad vertise Danville. U. S. May Buy Pacific Port. Santiago, Chile. According to a dispatch received here from Lima, Peru, the United States government has offered to buy a Pacific port from Peru for a coaling station. Liquor Shipments Protected by Court. Guthrie, Okla. Judge Cotterill, in the United States district court here", reaffirmed his decision that state of ficials cannot interfere fith interstate commerce shipments, thus restraining the state enforcement officers from seizing shipments of liquor before they have been delivered to the consignees. Fores! Fires In leorgia. Albany, Ga. One of the serious re sults of the long fall drought is being manifested in the increasing number of forest fires throughout this section. Some of the- burns are greater in ex tent than have been reported in manj years. North Dakota Is Fastest Battleship. Rockland, Maine. The North Da kota is the fastest battleship of the Dreadnaught type afloat, as well as one of the two most powerful battle ships in the world. Her screw stan lardization tests over the Rockland measured mile course developed a maximum speed of 22.25 knots and an average of 21.SS3. Both marks are in excess cf the best performances oi her sister ship, the Delaware. During the trial four men were scalded when the boiler tube exploded. Washington, D. C. The office of public roads of the United States de partment of agriculture is preparing to send an engineer and a photogra pher on a tour, beginning November 1 through most of the southern states, for the purpose of securing accurate data, with explanatory pho tographs, showing the present status of road building and maintenance in the south. The exact itinerary has not yet been arranged, but it is prob able that the party will follow the line of the Southern Railway through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to Memphis, thence down through the Delta country to New 1 Orleans, and thence eastward through Mississippi, Alabama, Geor gia, Florida and up the Atlantic sea board. The investigation will result in the assembling of much interesting anc useful data, not only as to the extern, cf road building in the south, but ia opportunities for improvement. From the standpoint of the road builder the tour will be exceedingly instructive, as it will afford opportunity for a comparative study of crushed stone, gravel sand-clay shell and other types of road under various conditions ot climate, topography and traffic; ana in addition to this careful observation will be made of the experimental burnt-clay roads in the Mississipp delta, and of the oiled-burnt clay roao at Greenville, Miss., constructed un der the supervision of the United States office of public road work wiL also be made a subject of carefu study, as well as the economic re sults following the expenditure of large sums of money for road build ing in many of the southern coun ties. As the itinerary ha3 not been defi nitely determined upon, it is possible that changes will be made from time to time in accordance with requests of various communities who may de sire to be represented in this gov ernment report. WROTE HIS WILL ON WALL Savannah Hermit Found Dead in His Room. Savannah, Ga. Peter G. Leist, who claimed a dozen trades and profes sions, but who was a hermit, was found dead at his home in Savannah. He was seated in a chair, appar ently staring at the wall of his room, on which he had written his will, leaving his property, which is con siderable, to his son, who is in school at Sharon, Ga. A year or more ago Leist's kife kill ed herself by blowing out her brains with a pistol. He shortly afterwards married again after an acquaintance of eight hours, and was at the time of his death seeking a divorce. SUFFRAGETTES DEMAND CONCEDED. Three Women Named on Education Board by Mayor McClellan. New York City. Mayor McClelland appointed three women to the board of education, and thereby conceded one of the principal demands of wo man suffrage organizations. It is the first time in a quarter of a century that women have gained representa tion on the board of education. The three women appointed are Mrs. Her man D. Robbin, Miss Olivia Leven tritt, and Mrs. Alfred S. Post. BLINDXESSTURED BY WEEPING. Sight Restored to Iowa Man in a Mar velous Manner. Sioux City, Iowa. The sight of Wil liam Holloway was suddenly restored to him, following a spell of weeping. When a son who had not been home in a long time, came to visit him, the father buried his face on the son's shoulders and wept. Wiping away the tears, Mr. Hollo way exclaimed: "I can see you, Tom!" The sight had returned to his eyes. - DEAF MUTES DIVORCED. Called Each Other Names on Their Fingers. St. Louis, Mo. A diverce was granted in the circuit court to Mrs. Nannie E. Burns, a deaf-mute, from Joseph Burns of Granite City, 111., also a deaf-mute on the testimony of deaf mute witnesses. A woman who could talk and hear interpreteo the testimony. Mrs. Burns said her husband called her names on his fingers. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. It has been definitely learned from authoritative sources that a syndicate of Baltimore capitalists has been or ganized for the purpose of extending the Albany and Northern railroad frem Albany Ga., to the gulf at St. Andrews bay. According to reliable information, funds for building the new road for one-third the distance of the extension are now in readiness, and the work of construction will be gin in the immediate future. The distance to-be covered is cne hun dred and eighty-six miles, direct from Albany, Ga., to River J unction, and thence to St. Andiews bay. The new railroad will penetrate one of the rich est undeveloped sections of wiregress Georgia. The record price for a single .bale of cotton was made at Luling, Texas, when a buyer paid E. a. iviyers, a farmer, living near Luling, $99 for a bale which weighed a Uttie more than six hundred pounds. Mr. Myers" also received $16.25 for the seed, which made the baie bring him $115.25. Vital statistics for the first six months of the present year show an excess of deatns over births in France of 28,305. In 1908 the excess of deaths was 10,508, and this growing discrepency has raised again a cry of alarm for the future of the Frencn race, which is the only people of Eu rope experiencing depopulation. Dr. Jacques Bertillion, the statistician, said that the low birth rate in France was most noticeable among the better classes, and was due primarily to the wish of parents to avoid the financial responsibility in bringing children itno the world. He suggests a heavy increase of taxation upon families in which there are two children or les3. RECEPTION TO Columbia and Augusta Gave Him Glad Hand. COLUMBIA LEADS IN WELCOME Banqueted Saturday Evening at Co lumbia and Takes Sabbath Best at Augusta His Southern Home. BANK GUARANTY LAW FAILURE. Depositors of Broken Oklahoma Bank Not Yet Paid. Oklahoma City, Okla. More than a half million dollars contributed by the state banks under the deposit guaran ty law has been used in paying de positors of tho insolvent Columbia Bank and Trust Company, which fail ed more than a month ago, and there remains more than $400,000 in depos its to be paid with only $1,123 in cash on hand to pay them, though suf ficient assets, apparently, are availa ble to provide for the remaining de posits. This condition is shown in a preliminary statement issued by A. M. Young, Oklahoma bank commissioner. CRUMP MAYOR OF MEMPHIS. Former Commissioner Wins in Close Election, Memphis, Tenn. Edward H. Crump at present a member of' the fire po lice commission, was elected mayor cf Memphis by a narrow majority cf seventy-nine votes. Mr. Crump re ceived a total of 5.E93 votes, while his closest competitor, former Mayor J. J. Williams, ieceive-1 5,814. The election was cne cf the closest and most exciting held in this . city in recent years. Washington. The first ofllcial step toward the abandonment of the barracks for tne coast artillery corps at Key West, Fla., were taken when the war de partment issued an order for the transfer of the Twenty-first company of coast artillery to Fort Screven, Ga., and the one hundred and sixty secorid company to Fort Dade, Fla. This leaves at Key West only the eightieth company, which is detained there temporarily to care for govern ment property. The state department is - informed from Panama that Mr. Hazera, the next Nicaraguan minister to the Unit ed States, -sailed for New York No vember 7. No word has yet been re ceived of Mr. Castillo, who was ap pointed by the Estrada revolutionary government to represent it in Washr ington. It was announcel at the American Federation of Labor headquarters in Washington that President Samuel Gompers would not further discuss the verdict of the District of Columbia court of appeals, affecting himself and others, and that he had nothing to add to his statement that the case would be carried to the supreme court of the United States. "Break up the importers' graft" is the ultimatum of the treasury depart ment and its customs collectors. In vestigation has shown that importers in many cases leave fruit at tne gov ernment decks until they are ready to deliver it, then enter it with a claim for allowance for decay, although sel ling the same goods later. Collector Loeb was advised to sell on three days' notice perishable fruits on which no entry had been made with in forty-eight hours after the entry of the vessel bringing the shipment. Major Andrew S. Rowan of the Fif teenth United States infantry, known to lame as the man who carried Lieu tenant. General Miles' "message to Gracia" at the outbreak of the Span ish war, will be transferred to the etired list December next, on his ap plication, after more than thirty years' service. General Gracia with his small force of Cubans was nearly . surrounded by the Spanish army in the interior of Cuba, and the success of Major Rowan s mission resulted in the latter's co-operation of the Amer ican and Cuban forces. Representative Dwight of New York, the republican "whip" of the house of representatives, when in , Washington recently, remarked to a party of friends that during the com ing session of congress the house would probably make a record for economy that would surely be indors ed by the people. He said there would be many disappointments in the ranks of those wlio look for lib eral appropriations for nublic build ings, waterways improvement and legislation involving large expendi tures. In the opinion of Representa tive Dwight, all estimates from the departments will be "cut to the bone" next session and no new departments of the government authorized. The research committee of the Na tional Geographical society reported that it unanimously accepted Com mander Peary's claims to have reach ed the north pole. The great annual football contest .between the West Poin cadets and Annapolis midshipmen, which was to havo taken place at Philadelphia, November 27, will not be played this year. The final decision was readied by the athletic authorities of the na val academy, granting the request of the superintendent of the military academy to cancel the game owing to the death of Cadet L. A. Byrne. During the months of July, August, September and October, the increase in federal expenditures was so- gr that the deficit at present is about $32,000,000, notwithstanding a large increase of revenue under the new tariff iaw. This dencit is only 000 less than that of last year during the tame pericd. . On October 22, it " was calculated that just half cf the work on the Pan l had been completed: This ! work added to what the French had ! done since 1882 makes the canal two : thirds finished. Tne greater part of the remaining work is in the greater ' Culebra cut, where fifty steam shov els and fifty trains are at wuik. The battleship Delaware, the larg est of the ' American fighting craft easily exceeded her contiact icquire ment cf twenty-one knots an hcrur, in the final test, when she cstauiisucd a worlds recoid fcr her class. The President's afternoon in Columbia- Saturday was filled witlii in terest. He was entertained at lunch eon in the chamber of the House of Eepresentatives at the State Capital and remarked that South Carolina was the first State officially to greet ' him within the walls of its Capitol. The only other President ever to visit Columbia was Washington whose stay in the quaint old city is chronicled as ' having been an event in 1791. Liko President Taft, Washington was en tertained at luncheon in the State . Capitol. The building which soused President Taft today, however, was not the same, though it is old enough to bear the scars of a. bombardment from Sherman's army. Following the evacuation of Colum bia by Gen. Wade Hampton and the occupation by General Sherman, the entire business section of the city was burned. Consequently the President Satur day looked upon a strange admixture of ante-bellum homes and skyscrapers indicative of modern progress. During his long automobile ride OUR PRESIDENT 5. Ut W Xi, 'A t e S William H. Taft Ji III nth id p& 1 i through the city, the President was taken past the old Baptist church where the secession convention as sembled. Through the misdirection of a native a Methodist church was burned by the Northern army as the supposed place of the inception of the secession. The President also saw the palatial old Preston mansion in which Sherman established his head quarters, and made a brief address to the students of the University of South Carolina on the old campus sur rounded by a hollow square of build ings which have know no outward change since the days of the civil war. The many reminders of the conflict of the sixites caused the President to speak at the . luncheon in his honor with a fervor oh the subject of the passing of all sectional feeling great er than he has displayed at any other . city during his Southern trip. The President also made a speech at the State fair grounds. After spending the entire after noon in historic old Columbia, with its many reminders of the withering1 blast of the civil war. President Taft arrived in Augusta at 8:30 o'clock Saturday to rest until Monday when he resumed his journay to Washing ton. The President often speaks of Au gusta as "home" and his reception here, as he rode through crowded and brilliantly illuminated streets leading from the train to the home of Major Joseph B. Cumming, whose house guest he was, was in the nature of a homecoming celebration. Mr. Taft has stated several times that he waa a resident of Augusta when elected President of the United States, tht is when the electoral votes were cast at Washington. The Augusta people . are proud to claim him as their own and hence the name of "Taft, Wil- . liam H., President of the United States, Terret cottage, Summervillc." appears in the current city directorjv It was from Augusta last winter that the President-elect went to Washing- t ton to take the oath of office. Mr. Taft had been looking forward -""is visit to Augusta and the resi : clem of the city made his stay as pleasant as possible. They nskM h'i to make only one speech during Jiis two days in to;.vn. Saturday night an informal reception at the Cumming home left the President free to retire early for a much needed long night's rest. Sunday he attended services at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopalian; lunched with Landon A. Thomas and dined quietly at the Civmming's home in the erenin?. Mon day morninsr, bright and early, the President played gclf on the links of the Country Club where he spent s much time last winter when tbts snows drove him from Hot Spring to seek a warmer climate. 1 1
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Nov. 10, 1909, edition 1
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