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VOL,. XXXII.
ISSIS FROM
THE COTTON CROP OF 1909
jureaa of Plant Industry Issues
Important uuueuu.
PLAN TO FiGHT BOLL WEEVIL
- 1 1,1 1 r x
?erBaent Agricultural Department Has Ap
proved Mettod For Growing Cotton Under .
Foil Weevil Infestation.
Washington, D. C The season of
,Ter known for the cotton crop in all
w tie Atlantic states, taught some
finable lessons.
t It demonstrated that a crop
. ,ntton. under heavy boll weevil in
flation, could be made after July
'provided the rarmers pick up the
minctured squares and work the field
Intensively, in fact, there were very
few bolls on the cotton plants in Lou
iana and Southwest Mississippi on
july l 1909. The weather then be
rame drv sad warm, and such as fol
lowed tie instructions of the govern
ment demonstration work made a fair
trop of cotton, both on the al
luvial bottoms and on the hill lands
and tie planters who failed to fol
low such instructions made very lit
tle Louisiana has always had years
of a short cotton crop, due to adverse
weather conditions. The crop of 1905,
though practically unaffected by the
pvil was only 511,738 bales, which
Is less than half the product of 1904.
Owing to loss of labor and fear of the
holl weevil, about 30 per cent less
tban normal acreage woo iouicu w
cotton in 1909, and when practically
no cotton was made up to July 1st,
tnrh was tie alarm that a large area
of cotton was plowed up and planted
to other crops. The amount plowea
mi nr abandoned is estimated by good
judges at 40 per cent. But allow that
it was Fer ceui, ueuucuug lrum
tie probable crop in such a season,
to-wit: 511,735 bales, the 30 per cent
UOt planted ailU U pci tern, iiiuncu
or abandoned, and tne crop oi Louis
iana, without allowing anything for
weevil damage, should have - been
about 2S6.574 bales. As far as ca
be ascertained the crop was about
270000 bales. This clearly proves
that the fright is more damaging than
the weevil.
The second item emphasized by the
experience of 1909 is . the importance
of picking up and burning the punc
tured squares. There never had been
any question but picking up the
squares in the fore part of the sea
son would check the weevils, but it
fas proven in 1909 that it was effect
ive after the field was fully infested
8 rapid cultivation was continued.
The third item of value demonstrat
ed by the season of 1909 is th im
portance of having the land""well
drained so the crop can be worked
as soon as the rain ceases. Under
boll weevil conditions the heavy black
lands and the poorly drained fields
should be devoted to other crops, be
cause intensive working of the crop
Is a necessity. There must be no
weeds and no grass in the crop.
Fourth The past season has added
Ms conclusive testimony in favor of
the plan for making cotton under boll
weevil infestation, which plan, ap
proved by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, is as follows: j
1. Destruction of the weevils in the
fall by burning all rubbish and ma
terial in and about the field, which
might serve for hibernating quarters
of the weevils, and breaking (plow
ing) the soil as deep as conditions
Will allow.
2. The shallow winter cultivation of
the soil if no cover crop is used. -
3. Delaying the planting till the soil
tod temperature are warm enough to
make it safe.
4. The planting of early maturing
varieties of cotton. !
5. The use of fertilizers.
6. Leaving more space between the
tows, and on ordinary uplands having
a greater distance between plants in
the row than is usually allowed.-"
7. The use of the section harrow
Before and after planting and on the
young cotton.
8. Intensive shallow cultivations
9. Agitation of the stalks by means
ef brush attached to the cultivator.
10. Picking up and burning the
iquares that fall under weevil condi
tions, especially during the first 30 or
40 days of infestation.
11. Controlling the , growth of the
plant If excessively by deep and close
cultivation while the plant is young.
12. Selecting the seed,
13. The rotation of crops and the
nee of legumes.
It will be noted that the system, as
outlined, has a two-fold object: (1) To
reduce the number of weevils and (2)
w aid early maturity. The foregoing
methods may require modification to
Wit the soil and climate. Where there
Cannon Gets Automobile.
Washint3on, D. C Careful analy
sis of the conference report on the
legislative appropriation bill shows
Speaker Cannon's automobile
w be cared for at government ex
pense, after all. The $2,500 appropri
ation for the speakers car was trans
Ted to another paragraph covering
?Penses of select committees and
similar items, and was incorporated
""o a lump appropriation of $75,000.
Send Cane to Patten.
Montgomery, AaIn appreciation
" ine Part taken by him in revival
i cotton prices, a cotton factor of
city purchased a cane and sent
W oes A- Patten, care the New
IorK Cotton Exchange.
7? ,f ett! Peru-Ecuador Trouble,
disrmt. 1' En9'and. The boundary
fchj.fc. between Ecuador and Peru,
verl put botn nations on the
wash- 0f war' win be settled at
to mgtoa. by mediation, accordii"
hero v official announcement made
agent Henry Williams. confidential
The n,l tae Ecuadorean government.
EcuafeSsage from resident Alfaro of
bef7r' sa7s: "Negotiations have
fcent udertaken for a direct settle
' United UBh the mediation, of the
Honpro ,s'lates government. Commis
crs Will meet in Washington."
muclr food- and a surplus oi
moisture available for. cotton in any
s oli common sense dictates that these
conditions should not be increased by
deep fal breakings. We, therefore, ad
vise tne following plan under boll
weevil conditions on Buch lands:
Burn all the cotton tsalks, and af
ter the weevils have gone into win
ter quarters burn all-the rubbish in
and. about the field aB early in the
fall as possible. In the spring, bed on
the firm ground, giving more space be
tween the rows. Prepare a good seed
bed before planting and maintain
ridge cultivation throuhg the season.
The under weevil conditions there is
an excess of plant growth.
Fifth The landr- must be well
drained and no - larger area planted
than- can be intensively worked.
Sixth All the supplies of food and
forage must be raised at home, and
can be on the lands not planted to
cotton.
Seventh It is practically safe to
make advances in boll weevil territo
ry if the farmer follows government
instructions.
BighthThere should be a j-igid
system of inspection to see that the
government plan is followed.
The great droutii and the intense
heat in July and Aueust last vear
throughout Texas and Oklahoma, ac
centuated the . importance of deeper
tillage and more thorough prepara
tion of the soil.
I ask every agent ;of the farmer's
co-operative demonstration work and
everr farmer In the southern states
to his best to make a banner crop of
all farm staples in 1910. From the
Bureau of Plant Industry, by S. A
Knapp, Special Agent in Charge.
FAMOUS MEDAL FOUND.
After Being Lost 50 Years Winfield
Scott Medal Found.
Cordele, Ga. A medal about the
size of a twenty-dollar gold piece was
found within the city limits of Cor
dele by a negro while walking along
the tracks of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic Railroad. The medal
is a curiosity and its being found in
this city incites considerable interest.
How this curiosity found its way to
this place is a mystery which will
probably never be disclosed.
The front of this medal bears a fac
simile of General Winfield Scott, and
engraved above the head of the fac
simile in bold letters, were the words,
Winfield Scott, U. S. A." On the oth-
r side was a reproduction of a scene
from the battle of Lundy's Lane. The
picture shows several men about the
wounded general as they bore him
from the field of battle. History has it
that General Scott was mortally
wounded at this battle, where he dis
played great bravery. It is believed
by man who have seen the medal that
it is one presented General Scott by
congress in 1814 for heroism exhibit
ed at this battle, which occurred In
July of the above year. When pol
ished up by a jeweler he remarked
that the medal perhaps had been lost
fifty years.
HATS WORRY RAILROADS.
Women's Hats Are So Large Rail
roads nave prooiem.
Washinaton. D. C. Women's hats
have been . growing larger and larger
every year. They have also been
erowlnar lietter and lighter in weight.
So that now a woman's hat weighs
less and takes up more room wan ten
did years ago. A freight or an ex
press car will hold only a tenth of
the hats it once did and the carriers
raised the rates to make up the difference.
That is the answer of the rauroaas
nni ATnress comnanies to the com
plaint of the Millinery Jobbers' as
civistinTi which -was heard before the
Interstate Commerce commission. The
milliners say the rates are too nign
and the carriers say the evolution of
the headgear simply made them put
on the increase.
TO CENSOR BATHERS.
Over Bathing Costumes "Cops" Will
Be uensors.
rki.9iM III Tnlio rensorshiD Of
Wlliwayw, " - w-w -
viv,4no- natiiTnes was established in
Chicago, with the adoption of new
rules for swimming beaches. Chica
go's wide, sandy beaches along the
shores of Lake Michigan are lined
within a short distance by residences.
The rules governing costumes, iswu
down by Chief of Police Steward, fol
low: .
"Extremely bizarre costumes muni.
not be worn.
"Women who wear costumes that
they do not care to get wet will have
to have them maae oi muuem w'6"i
or they will be ordered off the sands.
"Men who appear on the sands
merely to pose as athletes will be Or
rehed away. -
"Bloomers without skirts will not
be tolerated. - .
"A censor will stana at uicbwub
room doors to pass on all costumes."
BANKERS PAP GRAFT.
"Men Higher Up" Arrested In the
City of Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa The climax promis
ed in the Pittsburg graft exposures
came, as promised, with the present
ment by the grand Jury of a report
in which is recommended the indict
ment of Frank N. Hoffstot, president
of the Pressed Steel Car Company,
and one of the most prominent busi
ness men in the country. ,J'''
Simultaneously, in open court, came
a plea of Emil Winter, president of
the Workingman's Savings and Trust
Company, that he had no defense to
make to the charge that he gave a
$20,000 bribe to former Councilman
Morris Einstein.
May Cotton Jumps.
s:u There -was a T6-
New Torn v1-
newal of speculative excitement in
the cotton marneu
no great activity and there was no
aggressive bulK support, but May
short appeared to be very nervous,
and the price of May cotton was run
ud to 14.88. " , "
It looked as though the sharp re
covery and the publication of sensa
tionally bullish interviews with Mr.
Patten had completely revised the ap-
Y.svnatnn of May sciueeze.
PITTSBQBO. CHATHAM COUNTY7N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. 1910
IS
NO. 35.
For Larger Advertise
ments Liberal Contracts
will bo mado..
TWO WARSHIPS AUTHORIZED
House Passe Bill Providing For CoastracUoa
of Hew Fighting Snips.
Waehinaton. D.
vote of 612 to 110, fourteen being
present and not voting, the house au
thorized the construction of two bat
tleships to cost $ 6,000,000 Sach. Thlr-
ty-taree democrats voted for two bat
tleships and twenty-four republicans
against the proposition.
This action was taken just prior to
the passage of the naval appropria
tion bill carrying $128,037,602. This
amount is about $3,000,000 less than
was recommended by the navy de
partment In addition to the battle
ships, the bill also provides for the
construction of two fleet collierB and
four submarine boats.
As amended on motion of Mr. Fitz
gerald of New York, the two battleships-
and two fleet, colliers must be
constructed by firms operating under
the eight-hour law.
The committee on naval affairs had
reported in favor of authorizing two
battleships. Mr. Tawney of Minne
sota, chairman of the appropriations
committee, offered an amendment pro
viding "Tor only one battleship,, while
Mr. Hobson proposed an amendment
providing for : three. Mr. Hobson con
tended that three battleships would
give no. increase, but would provide
only for the ordinary depreciation in
the naval forces. By an almost 'unan
imous vote the house rejected this
proposition.
U. S. WHEAT REPORT.
Average Condition on April 1 Was
80.8 Per Cent of Normal.
Washington, D. C. The average
condition of winter wheat on April 1
was 80.8 per cent of a normal, against
82.2 April 1, 199, and 87.0, the aver
age for the past ten years on April
1. The' decline in condition from De
cember 1, 1909, to April 1, 1910r was
15.0 points.
. The average condition of rye was
92.3 per cent of a normal April 1,
against 87.2 April 1, 1909,-and 89.5
the average for the past ten years on
April t
Comparisons for southern winter
wheat, and rye states, April 1, fol
lows; Winter Ten Ten
Wheat Year Rye Year
1910 Are 1910 Ave.
Virginia ... .90
North Carolina. .90
West Virginia .88
Kentucky . . .84
Tennessee . . .84
Georgia 86
Alabama. . . .85
Mississippi. . .90
South Carolina .88
Arkansas . . .90
Texas. ... .89
86 91 87
89 90 88
83 90 S6
85 88 S6
87 86 87
88 88 91
89 90 89
88
88 89 88
87 87 8t
79 82 78
Exdosion on Steamer.
, . Dover, England. A terrific explo
sion occurred on tne Britisn steamer
Cairnrona off Dungeness, which
wrecked the women's quarters, killing
one child and injuring a number oi
women and children. The steamer
caught fire and a panic ensued, in
which men fought for the possession
of the boats and had to be beaten
back by the crew to allow the" women
to be taken off first. In all twenty
were seriously injured and not less
than fifty were slightly injured by the
explosion and in the panic.
Bandits Got $5,000.
Chicago, III. Five masked bandits
escaping with $5,000 stolen from the
bank of Coal City, at Coal City, 111.,
exchanged shots with a posse, three
of the robbers being wounded
captured. Coal City is sixty-three
miles southwest of Chicago. The en
tire population was aroused by the
explosion in the bank, and the ent
ing pursuit.
Petroleum Reduced.
New York City The Standard Oil
Company announced a reduction of
15 points in the price of refined pe
troleum. '
N. W. Wage Increase.
Roanoke, Va. A five per cent wage
Increase was announced by the Nor
folk and Western Railway for all th
employees receiving less than $155 a
month and who have not had an in
crease since October 1.
Wage Increase on Central Railway.
Savannah, Ga. -The Central of
Georgia Railway announces a 5 pex
cent wage increase for its engineers.
Newsy Paragraphs.
J. Schorley, mayor of Kenosha,
Wis., introduced a new feature into
Kenosha politics when he distributed
five, thousand bars of toilet soap as a
means of calling attention to his can
didacy for re-election. The soap is
ordinary toilet size, and on one side
of the white bar, in raised letters, is
"Purity Soap," while on the reverse
side is a picture of the mayor and the
inscription, "A clean administration."
The mayor recently came out with a
declaration for a cleaner city.
Dk James G. Cumming, director of
the Pasteur institute of the Univer
sity of -Michigan, announced the dis
covery of a new method for the treat
ment of hydrophobia. The new treatment,-Dr.
Cumming says, eliminates
many of the dangers attending the
former methods and shortens the time
of treatment by one week. Dr. Cum
ming uses a virus prepared from the
spinal tissues of a rabid animal. This
is injected into the atlent The virus
is said to have been used in several
cases' recently with marked success.
Memories of the cooking of his
"old mammy" induced J. R. Bingham
of Carrollton, Miss.,to give $5,000 for
founding a cooking school for ne
groes, at Augusta, Ga. "The 'new
negro "can't cook," says Mr. -Bingham.
Millions of- ladybugs are receiving
free transportation on the various
railroads- in California as guests of
the Wells-Fargo Express company.
They will be turned loose to browse
upon aphides and other insect pests
that harm the melon crops.
- After a fight waged since 1904 in
the New Jersey legislature, the sen
ate passed a-bill prohibiting the em
ployment of persons under sixteen
years of age. in manufacturing estab
ifrht Under this law
the age minimum win uo i --
fourteen and later to sixteen. j
CABINET
DISRUPTED
Dissension Among Advisers of
President Taft Serious.
RESIGNATIONSARE EXPECTED
Knox and Hitchcock Leaders of Factions.
Eltchcock Complains That Cabal Is
Formed Against Hin.
"Washington, D. C The cabinet of
President Taft is threatened wita dis
ruptiofiT Despite the denials given
out in response to persistent rumors
of approaching resignation of cabi
net officials, the impression is wide
spread that within a short time two
or three members will get out.
The cabinet circle is torn with dis
sension, and the widespread popular
criticism of the administration ha;,
not helped to smooth ruffled feelings
or to harmonize differences.
President Taft said he knew nothing
of contemplated resignation of cabr
net officials. Secretary of the Treas
ury MacVeagh gave out both form
and informal denials of stories pub
lished in the New York papers.
Secretary Knox is the head of one
faction in the cabinet. He is' sup
ported on the floor of the senate by
Senators Aldrich, Crane, - Bourne and
Penrose. This coterie of senators are
at outs with Postmaster General
Hitchcock over patronage matters,
and believe he has exercised too mucn
power in shaping the affairs of the
administration and ought to be rele
gated to his own department or, pos
sibly, to private life.- In the cabinet
Secretaries Dickinson and Meyer
stand with the opposition to Hitch
cock, and this has led to the postmas
ter general's complaint to his friends
that a cabal has been formed to drive
him out of the cabinet.
The postmaster general Is support
ed by Secretaries MacVeagh, Ballin
ger and Nagel. It is admitted that
Mr. Hitchcock had much to do with
these men being taken in the cabi
net. - Naturally this condition of af
fairs cannot long exist and there will
be a breaking up of the president's
official family. Secretary Dickinson
may resign to enter the race for sen
ator from Tennessee.
The resignation of Secretary Mac
Veagh is expected at an early date.
That of Secretary Ballinger will -probably
be handed in at the close of the
present Ballinger-Plnchot investiga
tion, even if he is exonerated, as his
friends have all along felt he would
be. Rumor has put the limit of his
service at December 1.
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT.
Death Makes Awful Raids on the Ba
bies of the Poor.
New York City. The city-born in
fant of middle-class" parents thrives
as well as the heir to millions, but
the children of the poor in New York,
the tenement dwellers, take a shock
ingly disproportionate share off of the
rate of mortality.. Figures have just
been compiled for the first time by
the New York milk committee show
ing the infant birth and death ratt
for -equal number of parents in areas
inhabited exclusively by the wealthy,
the wellt-o-do and the very poor.
The fashionable area had a popula
tion of 7,561 in twenty-eight blocks;
the well-to-do area, 7,696 in five
blocks, and the tenement dwellers 7,
853 in three blocks on the upper east
side, not the most congested part ot
the city. The returns show that in
the fashionable section 37 babies were
born in one year; in the well-to-do
section 160, and among the poor 434.
To gauge the mortality rate two sum
mer weeks were chosen to measure
the effect of a heat wage. Among
the wealthy and well-to-do there were
no deaths, against 16, or K per cent,
among, the poor.
AWFUL THIRD DEGREE.
Tortured by "Third Degree" Into Con
fessing Murder.
New York Citv The statement of
a man on trial for his life that be had
been tortured by tne police tmra de
gree" into making a confession to
murder, caused a sensation in the
court of general sessions.
Stephen Boehm, who is charged
with iriiHnfi' Jacob Viez. admitted sign
ing a confession presented by the
prosecution, but said ne did so to es
cape abuse. He said that after being
iront in a cell twentv-four hours with
out food, drink or sleep, he was taken
before the head of tne nomiciae du
reau mauled and beaten until he
could hardly stand.
"When I was almost exhausted,'
he said, "I was told I would escape
with a light sentence if I confessed.
I did so, as I was only too glad to
end the torture. '
THOMAS F. WALSH DEAD.
Millionaire Mine Owner Dies at His
Home in Washington.
Washington, D. C. Thomas F.
Walsh, the millionaire mine owner,
died at his home here. f
rtonth was due to a growth on the
lungs, the result of an injury receiv-
ed years ago wnen mr. wmsu wa a
minister in the west.
Thomas F. Walsh was born in Ire
land in 1851. He .was educated la
the public schools, and early in life
was apprenticed to a wheelwright.
When he was 19 years old he came
to the United States, going almost di
rectly to Colorado, where he made
his fortune in the development of
mines. .
TEN THOUSANDSTARVING
Armenians Will Die -Unless" Aid is
Received. .
- New York City That 10,000 per
sons are starving in Armenia and will
die unless outside help reaches them
before the next harvest season, two
months hence, is- the statement made
in a cablgram Received ' here by the
Armenian Relief Association.
In the appeal sent out by the asso
ciation, it is stated that $2,500 has
been forwarded to the - afflicted dis
tricts and $10,000 more is needed.
NORTH STATE NEWS
Items of State Interest Gathered
and Told In Brlet -
Internal Revenue Collections. 7
- The Winston-Salem delegation) who
went to Washington to make a pull
ior the' collector's office marshaled a
fine array of figures. It was shown
that the total internal revenue collec
ted in the State last year was; $5,150,
672 and of this sum the western; dis
trict paid $2,739,124 and the eastern
$2,411,548. The : fifth congressional
district paid at Winston-Salem . $2,
437,560 ; . Durham $1,941,065 ; . and
Reidsville $310,945, making a total of
$4,689,570. The collections for ; the
entire State, outside of the fifth con
gressional district, amounted to $461,
102. -; - . '- " :
Preacher Gave Bond. i
The trial of Rev. R. L. Bane and
M. L. Parker of Granite v Quarry,
charged with burning the ;former's
store at that place in February, was
held before Esquire D. M. Miller, at
Salisbury, and both defendants gave
bond of $l,200for their appearance
at the May term of Rowan , superior
court. .
Cave-In Kills Two.
While working in a 12-foot sewer
ditch in Greensboro, two , negroes,
Sam Gorrell and Dewitt Johnson, lost
their lives when several tons of dirt
caved in upon them. Another labor
er, Tom Slade, had a narrow escape
but managed to get out of the ditch
after he had been partially buried
by the cave-in. ' ' " I
Site For Children's Home,
C. G. Proctor, of East Durham,
has given a site of fifteen acres for
the $30,000 Children's Home to be
built in that - Iplace. The. county
offers to build a thirty-foot , roadway
to it. Mr. Proctor, though without
children, recently gave twenty-five
acres for the Pythian orphanage site,
lost by change from Durham to Clay
ton. ' '.
TAR HEEL CHRONICLES
Bill of $50,000 for Monuments.
Representative Morehead - has in
troduced a bill providing $50,000 for
monuments. Twenty-five thousand of
this sum is to be put in a statue to
General Nathaniel Greene, and the
remainder in '.'monuments and tab
lets to the memory of other partici
pants in the battle of Guilford Court
House." r -
North Carolina's. D. A. R. Delegate.
Mrs. F. .S. Spruill has been ap
pointed as the North Carolina dele
gate from the State associations to
the meeting of the National Colonial
Dames of America, which is to hold its
annual session in Washington City,
beginning April 27. '
Big Fire Loss at Fayetteville.
A fire swept several thouasnd
acres near Fayetteville, and gave the
people within the fire swept .territory
the fight of their life to save their
houses from destruction. The : ap
proximate loss is about $10,000,
Drug Store Tax Increased.
The license tax on drug stores for
whiskey prescriptions is increased
from $125 a year to $500 by Raleigh
aldermen. Also license tax on near
beer saloons from $250 to $500.
Cotton Mill News at Rockingham.
- Pee Dee mifls No. 1 and No. 2,
at Rockingham, will operate but four
days in each week' in order to curtail
production. These mills manufacture
checks and plaids.
Roberdel No. 1 will also' run on
short time. This mill manufactures
ginghams. ; - . ; ,
Since the Hannah Pickett closed
down work; has been commenced on
the new weave room, and it is thought
that it. will be finished by fall.
The new Entwistle mill4s going up
rapidly' and will be pushed :with all
possible speed. . ' R
North Carolina National Guard.
The North Carolina National Guard
Association closed its business ses
sion at Raleigh Thursday and at night
had the joys of a banquet at which
there were addresses by Governor
Kitchin, Commander-in-Chief of the
State Guard; Capt. M, C. Kerth, pf
the United States Army, and others.
Durham was selcted as the next
place of meeting. ;
Penitentiary Guard ' 'Not Guilty." '
. Not guilty was the verdict, of the
jury in the case of W. M. Dupree,
at Raleigh, tried on" the charge of
having caused the death of' Convict
George Murphy, of Rowan .county,
while as a guard in the penitentiary
he attempted to carry out an order
to put Murphy in the dark cell for
drunkenness. . .. ! .
Kinston Taxe3 "Near Boer." ,
At a meeting of the Kinston board
of aldermen an ordinance was pass
ed without a dissenting vote taxing
near-beer saloons $1,000 a year and
also providing a stringent f regulation."
Patents Granted North Carolinians.
The patent office at Washington
has granted the following patents to
citizens cf this State: -
-Wallace B. Davis, Asbeville, window-lock;
Benjamin L. Massey, Char
lotte, extension car-stop; Archibald
ItfcGilcbrist,- Graphiteville, brake for
steam vessels; George T, Robertson,
Charlotte, fountain-pen filler; Ellis E.
Shore and W. L. AVi'son, Rural Hall,
drying-rack for a. : "' ornas A. Wes
ton, Arden, friction-clutch. f ,
News Notes Gathered From All
" Farts of the Old North State.
N. 0. Chief Dismissed in Missouri.
The entire population of St. Louis
is t aroused over the dismissal.
State is aroused over the dismissal
of this city's scholarly chief of police,
Edmond P. Creecy, a native -of Eden
ton, N. C, whose father, the late
Robert P. Creecy, was owner and pub
lisher of The Elizabeth City Observer.
Many call Crsscy's dismissal-outrageous.
The newspapers are demanding fair
play for him. The Times says: "At
the most, nothing has been proven
against the suspended chief - except
that he appears to have lacked judg
ment and penetration."
The police board spread upon its
records- the statement that "Creecy
had no guilty knowledge or connec
tion in , any shape or form with the
Police Relief Association-"shortage."
Society of the Cincinnati
At the annual meeting of the North
Carolina Society of..' the .-Cincinnati
at Raleigh, the old officers were all
re-elected, a number of new members
admitted and the convention brought
to a close with an elaborate banquet.
The officers are: President, Hon.
Wilson G. Lamb, Williamston ; vice
president, Hon. John C Davis, Balti
more; secretary, Marshall DeLancey
Haywood, Raleigh ; assistant secre
tary, John Bradley Lord, Brooklyn,
N. Y.;treasurer, Walter D. Carstar
pen, Plymouth; assistant treasurer,
Col. Benahan Cameron, Raleigh ;
chaplain, Rev. Joseph Blount Ches
hire, bishop of the Diocese of North
Carolina.
BROVSVJLLt DECISION
Inquiry Board Finds That Negro
Soldiers Snot Up Town.
OFFICERS M CENSURED
Court Says Tiat U Officers of Colored Regi
ment Sad Performed Their Duty the Afiraj
Would Not Bare Occurred.
Sold Diseased Cow. .
Mr. J.. M. Cross of Charlotte, who
has taken many shipments of cattle
to Fayetteville from Mecklenburg
county, was tried before 'Squire
Overby, charged with false represen
tations in the sale of a cow. Mr.
J. W. Johnson testified that lie pur
chased a cow from Mr. Cross, which
the latter guaranteed to be sound,
and free from disease; that two
weeks latter the cow died from dis
ease. Mr. Cross was bound over to
court in the sum of $50 which he
gave.
North Carolina Postmasters.
The - following North Carolina
Presidential postmaster appointments
were confirmed by the Senate: .
Mary W. Yarborough to succeed
Rufus R. Harris at Louisburg.
O. D. Wallace, to succeed Carlos
McLead at Carthage.
Albert Miller, to succeed himself
at La Grange. N
Charter Granted.
A charter is issued for the Carolina
Banding Machine Company, Winston
Salem, capital $125,000 authorized
and $24,000 subscribed, by E. G. Hes
ter, F. H. Fries, W. F. Shaffner, W.
C. Briggs, William 0 'Brien and
others.
Washington, D. C. The military:
court of inquiry, during the last year,
has been investigating the shooting
up of Brownsville, Texas, finds that
the evidence clearly sustains the
charges that the shooting was done
by soldiers of the twenty-fifth infant
ry, colored. - ,
The court is also of opinion that If
the, officers of the regiment had per
formed their respective duties immedi
ately prior . to the shooting the af
fray would not have occurred. Fur-"
thermore, if the officers had perform
ed their duties immediately after the
shooting, some of the guilty men
would have been discovered. Fourteen
men belonging to the twenty-fifth In
fantry are declared eligible for re
enlistment. According to the act creating the
board of inquiry, the findings are final
and cannot be reviewed by any one.
The court consists of Lieutenant
General S. B. M. Young, Major Gen
eral J. P. Sanger, Brigadier General
Theodore Schwan, Brigadier General
Butler D. .Price, Brigadier General
John M. Wilson and Captain Charles .
Howland, twenty-first infantry, recorder.
Size of. an Editor's Fish.
Editor Boylin of The Wadesboro
Messenger and Intelligencer, is au
thority for the capture of a German
carp in the Pee Dee river by Sam
Davis, and the fish is reported to
weigh 27 pounds. Davis claims to
have caught it with a hook and line.
The Army of Census , Takers.
The army of census takers will
move upon the country next Friday,
April 15, and for fifteen days they
will be engaged in rounding up the
population of the cities, 30 days to be
given to other areas.
Wade Coble Gets Twelve Years.
Wade Coble of Julian, tried in
Guilford superior court for the mur
der of John M. Staley, was found
guilty of manslaughter and sentenc
ed to the penitentiary for 12 vears.
Guilford Commissioner Found Guilty.
The- attorneys in the case of John
L. King, chairman of the Guilford
highway commission, indicted for
selling the coranty . road-building ma
terial, agreed on the facts and asked
the court for a verdict, dispensing
with the formality of a jury trial.
Judge Adams found thej defendant
guilty and-imposed a fine of $5 and
costs, from which verdict an appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court.
Deaf and Dumb School.
There was a special session of the
Council of State with Governor
Kitchin Saturday to hear representa
tives of the North Carolina State
School for the Deaf Dumb, Morgan
ton, on a number of matters per
taining to the school, particularly its
finances. The new primary building
is just being completed that was pro
vided for by the last Legislature.
It is costing $27,000 and is pro
nounced an exceptionally good build
ing for the amount it is costing. There
are , now 244 children in the . school
and Dr. Goodwin says this session
is proving one of the most satis
factory, they have ever had. ;
Shepherd Granted Reprieve.
Governor Kitchin grants a reprieve
to May 10 in the case of John Shep
herd of Wilkes county, under sen
tence, of one year on the roads for
selling liquor. The reprieve is because
counsel say that $350 has been paid
in judgment ni si as a compromise
on condition that the solicitor and
iudgre" would recommend pardon the
time being in order to press this
uiukkcr uciuic me juuge to get recom
mendation for pardon. - - "
FIGHTING SOUTHERN LAW.
Bonaparte Uses Murder Case to Test
Agricultural Contract Acts.
Washington, D. C. Protesting
against what he terms an attempt in
some southern states to reduce the
negro to captivity, Charles J. Bona
parte, formerly attorney general of
the United States, filed a brief in the
supreme court of the United State
In behalf of Pink Franklin, a South
Carolina colored man, who, on d
charge of murder, is sentenced to be
hanged.
Franklin, under an "agricultural
contract" to work for J. D. Thomas,
in Orangeburg county, South Carolina,
in 1907, quit before the contract ex
pired. A statute had been passed In
South Carolina making it a misde
meanor for a laborer- to break such
a contract if he had become Indebted
to his employer. A warrant was
sworn out for Franklin's arrest. The
constable, H. E. Valentine, in attempt
ing to arrest the negro, went to the
latter's house, entered and was killed.
Franklin was convicted of murder. -
Mr. Bonaparte's brief attempts to
show that the negro had a right to re
sist arrest and -protect himself, fam
ily and domicile, because the statute
oh which the warrant was based had
been held to be obnoxious to the state
legislation, violated the federal con
stitution and that any attempt to en-,
force the provision by the arrest ol
a nersnn in the situation of Franklin
constituted a crime against the Unit
ed States under the laws forbidding
peonage. - .
INDIANS ARE INCREASING.
Statistics Indicate More Birth' Thai
Deaths Among Indians.
Washington,. Dr C The Indian has
at least paused in his passing from
the face of the earth, if the statis
tics concerning births . and deaths
among about one-third of the Indian
population in the United States, which
have Just been compiled by the bureau
of Indian affairs, can be accepted as
a criterion of the general condition
of the red race. During the fiscal
year 1909 there were 3,395 births and
3,178 deaths among 101,717 Indians.
This showed a birth rate per thou
sand of 33.4, as compared with 31.2
deaths.
An official said that the figures poin
ted to an Improvement in the general
situation, A,.B
It was estimated there were 300,545
Indians in the United States, exclu
sive ot Alaska, during the last fiscal
year. . .
SCHOOL CHILDREN DRUNK.
Drunken Children Stagger In tht
Schools of New York. .
Philadelphia, Pa That the number
of school children in New York City
who appeared "under the influence of
beer and wine was startling" and that
"almost every school in the city fur
nished examples of children suffering
from the-effects of alcohol," was de
clared by Dr.' McNIcholl, surgeon of
the Red Cross Hospital of New York,
in a paper read before the American
Society for the study of alcohol and
other drug narcotics.
CLEVELAND MONUMENT.
A Simple Monument Erected to Mr.
Cleveland's Memory.
Princeton, N. J-With no mention
in the Inscription cf tho fact that
he was at one time president of the
United States, but reading merely :
"Grover Cleveland, born Caldwell, N.
J., March 18, 183J, died Princeton, N.
J , June 24, 1908," a monument to the
memory of Ex-President Grover Cleve
land, was completed on hi3 grave in
the-Princeton cemetery. Beside it, at
tlur same time, was placed a marble
slab to mark the grave ot Ruth Cleve
land, his daughter, it, too, bears a
simple inscription. - -
Both stones were erected at the di
rection of Mrs. Cleveland.
MURDERJNMASKED.
Springfield, Mass., Man Had ted Dov
hi? Life.
Springfield, Mass. Laying his critie
to love of excitement and a mania
for stealing caused by an liijury to
his head in boyhood,. Bertram Gage
Spenec broke down v.iider 24 . hours
of grilling 3nd confessed that he was
the mas-kod tarsia-' -'-y had terror
ized Spring, . ' years and
had reacUcu i ins wild
career Ly . . - .ntha B.
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