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COST OF COnON PROBE
Senator Smith Says Investigation
Cost People $40,000,000.
BULLS BOYJOO,000 BALES
jew York Ball Clique Invest $15,000,000 In
Buying May Notices, and Are In Complete
Control of the Cotton Market
Washington, D. C. "The investiga
tion into the sales of cotton, which
mnrnev General Wlckersnam is con-
Hurting bas cost tne American peo-
:r- nearly $40,000,000." .
So asserted Senator Smith of South
Carolina in trie senate, tie was mak
ing ft speech in the hope of persuad
ing the senate to adopt the resolution
dirpetins? the attorney general to as-
rertain the names of the persons who
cnid the cotton to the New York pool
Mr Smith said that whereas only
140,000,000 worth cf manufactured
goods had been exported last year,
$600,000,000 worth of raw cotton had
been sent abroad. This year the cot
ton exportation, hesaid, would be
about SSOC.WO.OOO.
Tae attorney general is investigat
ing the sales of spot cotton, he said.
"Iwant him to investigate the sellers,
in find out who were engagea m try
ine to put down the price. I want him
to inquire as to the gentlemen who
eat together and sold tne cotton with
out having it to sell. His investigation
so far as it has gene has depressed
the price to the extent of a cent a
pound, a total cost to the people at
.li .l lrt AA T 1 T ! i. .
large 01 ?4U,uuu,vuv. 11 mm extend
the inquiry so as to show the reai
facts."
"I believe, and the south believes,
that this interference at this time Is
for the specific purpose of relieving
certain bears on the cotton market.''
He said on account of the scarcity
of seed it would be impossible to
plant more than 65 per cent of the
average cotton crop for the present
year.
The resolution was adopted. It di
rects the attorney general to inquire
as to the names of the "party or
parties, or corporations that sold the
cotton alleged to have been bought
by a pool cf purchasers, who are
now under investigation by the de
partment of justice;" also, as to the
prices, "whether or not they owned
the cotton at the time of the sale
thereof, and the price of spot cotton
in the south on the date of the con
tracts." v
Senator Clay introduced a bill pro
hibiting the transmission by telephone
or telegraph of all information con
cerning future sales of cotton.
New! York City. Two hundred
thousand bales of cotton were swal
lowed by the bull clique on the New
York exchange, on the first day of
May notices, without as much as a
tremor. Fifteen million dollars, it is
estimated, went from bull pockets in
the course of transactions, bui so
easy was the cotton absorbed that,
after a preliminary flurry, there was
no great excitement.
At the end of the operations, the
bull leaders, Patten, Scales, Hayne
and Brown, were apparently more
strongly entrenched than ever. Trans
actions were twice as large as any
previous - day's business in the his
tory of the exchange.
Eugene M. Scales, one of the "big
lour," as the leaders in the bull move
ment are called, said that the bulls
would turn over to the spinners ev
ery bale of cotton delivered.
Not a bale will co to sDeeulators "
he said, "the gamblers will have to
lookout for themselves."
INCREASED COTTON ACREAGE.
8ven-Tenths of One Per Cent More
Cotton Planted.
Memphis, Term. In a statement is
sued by the National Ginners' Asso
ciation, it is estimated that the acre
age planted to cotton in the southern
states on April 26 had been increased
7 seven-tenths of one per cent as
compared with the same date last
year.
In the eastern states a small in
crease is reported, while the valley
states show a slight decrease because
of the spread cf boll weevil. Texas
snows a slight increase and Oklaho
ma about 10 per cent, not as much
s indicated in March in either state,
lnls is explained by the scarcity of
reedstuffs, increasing the acreage in
co. oats acd alfalfa.
reports to the association show that
'1 Per cent rf t'ho svvn hoc Wn nlan.
tor The greater part of the plants
Wca were up before the recent cold
weather were killed except in central
soutnern Texas, and it is esti
mated that 14,000,000 acres should be
panted. With average weather a
Feted P6r ent iU yi6ld 13 Pre"
GIRL ''FIREBUG."
16-Year-Old Massachusetts Girl Likes
OHef Executive of New York Nominated Jus
tice of Supreme Court of U. S.
Washington, D. C-President Taft
received from Governor Charles B
Hughes of New York a letter accept
ing a tendered appointment as asso
ciate justice of the supreme court of
the United States. Five minutes af
ter the letter was handed to the pres
ident, the nomination of Governor
Hughes was on its way to the sen
ate. While it is expected that Governor
Hughes will be confirmed with little
or no delay, it is understood here that
he will remain as the chief executive
of the sttae of New York until next
October, and will not take the oath of
office until the fall term of the su
preme, court opens the second Monday
in that month.
President Taft has been anxious to
tip
WILL AID PROHIBITION
Government to Assist States in
Tracinglind Tigers,"
REVENUE UCQISE PUBLICITY
Full Information of tne Business of Ail Who
Get Revenue License to Be Spread on
Record for Inspection of Public.
GOVERNOR HUGHES,
Of New York,
secure the best man he could for, the
supreme court vacancy, and he feels
that he has done so. He was much
elated over the success of his tender
to Governor Hughes and said:
"I am very much delighted to se
cure Governor Hughes for the bench.
He is a man of wide experience and
marked ability, and it is a mighty
valuable thing to have on the great
bench of the supreme court a man of
affairs. Governor Hughes is 48 years
of age, and even if he should retire
at 70 he will have had 22 years of
solid usefulness on the bench."
The appointment of Governor
Hughes was received throughout all
Washington with the greatest satis
faction. The announcement, however,
came as something of a surprise de
spite the fact that it had been gen
erally understood for days that tht
position was to be tendered him.
The news of the acceptance of Gov
ernor Hughes reached the justices
just as they were adjourning for the
day. They were all surprised and an
pleased.
About the first question heard af
ter the announcement of the selec
tion was concerning the attitude of
the new member of the court on the
trust problems, as involved in the
dissolution suits against the Standard
Oil and tobacco corporations. The
general conclusions were that the rec
ord of the New York man showed he
came to the court without" preju
dices, having fought corporations
where he thought them guilty of any
wrong doing, and protected their
rights where he considered them per
secuted.
Steamer and 187 Men Probably Lost.
St. Johns. N. F. Tne probable loss
of the British sealing steamer Auro
ra with her crew of one hundred and
eighty-seven men was reported here
by the sealing steamer ueouue. xne
Aurora has been missing since April
1 Vn mnra definite news is expected
until the next arrival from the fisning
grounds. -
Four Children Born to Virginia Family
Stauntcn, Va. When the stork vis
ited Mrs. William Rife. here, it left
four children in the Rife - home, but
to the distress of the parents, one of
the little visitors died almost on ar
rival. The remaining three, two boys
and a eirl. are doing well, as is the
mother, who is thirty years old.
Hettie Green to Retire.
New York City. Hettie Green is
planning, it is reported, to retire from
active business. ' She is now 73 years
old, and feels she does not care to
take an active part in the business
world any longer. Her daughter, Mrs.
Matthew- Astor Wilkes, will probably
assume direction of Mrs. Green's af
fairs.
Electric Chair for Wolter.
New York Citv. Albert W. Wolter.
convicted of the murder of Ruth
Whaeler. was sentenced by Judge
Foster, in general sessions court, to
die in the electric chair at Sing Sing
nriRon durine the week beginning
June 6. The condemned man display
ed only a languid interest. .
'wpcrt, R. .An abnormal twist
pov Penological process of Anna
dioat vpretty Eixteen-year-old is in
ffifk y parts of a confession which
corti made to tbe local Police. Ac
ehe i the Police, she admits tabt
three fi ."firebuS" w". by setting
ed ttm v in as many days, terroriz
le v?useaola of George W. Ritch-
ttDU)yed8,Citr- girl,-who was
WRa as a mail in the Ritchie
wat sh so tne ponce say,
ohh ? was subject to violent ner-
nenro ' uurmg wnicn sne expe-
"a an irrr,oir,t:v,T j 1 i
waethlne nK U1W u w
to Use Torch.
f Every ay Mothers' Day.
JoSi!ort' Ky Declaring that in
Mth Sftv -very day ls mother's day
ifl t,fr rinlcmS men and women,
iakw i,ose who are not rint"
iesiJll-wul not be affected by the
such rft of one day in tne year as
inter to Xf w"ison has written a
O UA f 10 UL JL AAA -
8ttcha H ling her request to set
lare l apart in the state- He de"
fonnrt communication that he
fm. ? general demand in Ken
w tao mother's day observance.
Find Gold in Louisiana.
Merrwille. La Reports 'of discov
eries of gold in this section of Lou
isiana have caused great excitement
and a company has been formed with
the purpose cf looking Into the finds
and ascertaining the extent of the
deposits, with a view to development,
if feasible.
Cotton Mills Curtail.
Chicopee, Mass. In order to meet
unfavorable market conditions by cur
tailing production the cotton mills of
the Dwight Manufacturing Company
of Chicopee and the Chicopee Manu
facturing Company of Chicopee Falls
have gone on a schedule of five days
a -week. The two corporations to
gether employ 3,000. operatives.
Big Brewery Burns.
St. Louis, Mo. Fire caused a loss
estimated at $530,000 at the mamoth
plant of the" Anheuser-Busch associa
tion. Five hundred thousand bottles
of beer were destroyed. The streets
about , the plant flowed with been for
more than", an hour and smoking
corks bobbing up and down in the
stream gave the streets a unique ap
pearance. The bottling and storage
houses were completely destroyed,' en
tailing a loss of $500,000. Valuable
paintings and furniture : stored were
destroyed iwth a loss of $30,000.
r
Washington, D. C. The Kovern
ment, through the Internal revenue
department, ls going, to help prohibi
tion states to enforce prohibition.
Directions from the department at
Washington have been sent internal
revenue collectors that furl informa
tion must be given by every one who
pays revenue license. This informa
tion will be put where, any state of
Seer can see it.
The result will be that every one
wno gets a revenue license can be
known to the state officers.
There are a good many "blind ti
gers" now that pay revenue license
to tne government and dodge the state
They are afraid of the government
officials and willing to take a chance
with the state officers.
Hereafter the man who gets a rev
enue license must, within a month,
nil outsQ. government blank, known as
form 2, in which he will give his
name and his business.
This information will then be put
on a record, known as Record 10,
wnicnis open to every one.
An order was issued by the reve
nue department in November, which
said:
"For failure to make the return
within the time prescribed the com
missioner of internal revenue is re
quired by law to assess a penalty of
50 per cent of the amount of the tax;
and for making a false return 100 per
cent Of tne amount of the tax."
Directions have just been Issued to
revenue collectors throughout the
United States that this order must be
enforced.
Payment of government license does
not end a man's responsibility to the
government if he is selling whiskies
He must fill out form 11, saying what
business he is in, and then spread this
on form 10, where every one can
see it.
ELEPHANTS ON RAMPAGE.
Nine Bull Elepehants Destroy Much
Property in Danville, til.
Danville, HI. Several-persons were
iniiired. otia or mnr Beriouslv. and
much property was damaged by nine
elephants that stampeded just after
they had been unloaded from a car
after several hours ride from Chicago.
A large elephant made a break for
liberty, bowling over the keeper ana
escaping, xne ammai was ioiiowea
by seven other bulls, which ran bel
lowing through the streets and across
fields.
For several hours the elephants
were at large hunted by all attaches
of the circus, the city Dolicemen and
the more venturesome citizens. The
elephants at first moved in a bunch,
then separated. They stopped for
nothing except brick and stone build
ings. Such small frame structures,
coal sheds; fences and trees, as came
in their path were pushed over, trod
den down, uprooted and thrown to
one side. More than 100 homes were
damaged to some extent by the ele
phants. Danville, 111. The big bull elephar'
which started the herd on a rampage
and which resulted in thousands of
dollars' worth of damage, besides se
rious injuries to several persons, was
executed in the presence of a number
of physicians. The pachyderm was
strangled to death with chains pulled
from each end by two other elephants.
Dr. Steely, who superintended the ex
ecution, said that the elephant was
practically insane, and if allowed to
live would endanger every other mem
ber of the herd. It was valued at
$15,000.
CIVIL WAR ROMANCES.
Blue and Gray Soldiers Celebrate the
88th Anniversary of Grant's Birth.
Chloago, III. Romances of the civ
il war were renewed at Galena, 111.,
in one of the most remarkable gath
erings of former Confederate and Un
ion soldiers held since the close of
the civil war. Hundreds of former
associates and opponents of Ulysses
S. Grant from every part of the Unit
ed States gathered at the . former
home of the dead warrior and states
man to celebrate the eighty-eight an
niversary of his birth.
Orator of the Day Colonel James
Hamilton Lewis is the son of one
of the Confederate generals who sur
rendered to General Grant.
DISTRESSED STEAMER FOUND
Steamer El Alba Picked Up at Mouth
of the Mississippi River.
New Orleans, LaFive men were
killed April 23 by , the explosion on
the Southern Pacific steamer El Alba,
which was picked up in distress off
the mouth of the Mississippi. This
announcement was made when the
steamer reached New Orleans:
- The El Alba left Galveston for New
York April 22 with a cargo of onions.
When twenty-three hours out a steam
pipe in the boiler room burst, sprad
ing death and destruction in that
section of the vessel's hold. Several
men were killed outright and others
were , scalded so severely that they
died of their injuries.
STATUE TO NEGRO MAMMY.
Galveston Is Raising Half Million
Dollars for Monument.
Galveston, Texas Galveston citi
zens have started x a fund to erect a
marble monument to the old negro
"mammy" to cost $500,000, of which
$200,000 is pledged. They desire to
nav tribute to one of the grandest
' characters wnicn me.uioiuijr
i world records, and the resolution
reads "It should be of marble, as
pure as her good old soul, and of gran-
ite as sound as her devotion,
KERN NAMED FOR SENATE.
Thomas Taggart and Els Machine Defeated
By Indiana Democrats.
Indianapolis, Ind Opening in ri
otous discord and closing in enthusi
astic. harmony, the Indiana democrat,
ic convention adopted Governor Mar
snail's proposal that it should indorse
to next year's legislature a candidate
for the United Staates senate, and
named John W '.Kern, who was thq
party's candidate for vice president
in 1908.
The opposition made a grim, figh i
under the leadership of Thomas Tag.
gart, former . chairman of the demo-
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lO.Y,',.
John W. Kern,
cratic national committee,, and him
self a candidate for the nomination
for senator, but, in defeat, it joined
heartily with the element headed by
Governor Marshall and John E. Lamb,
or lerre Haute vice chairman of the.
national committee and another as
pirant for the senatorship In a shout
ed acclamation of Kern as the party's
candidate.
The greater issue overshadowed the
routine of adopting a platform ana
naming a state ticket, and it was
speedily concluded.
CROP DAMAGE DISCUSSED.
Southern Railway President Says
First Reports Were Exagerated.
Washington, D. C Damage to
crops in the southern states east of
the Mississippi river is not as great
as some of the first reports seemed to
indicate, according to President Fin
ley of the Southern railway. He said
that, reports show cotton and corn
have suffered in the northern two-
thirds of the states of Mississippi.
Alabama and Georgia, but that furth
er south these crops were not injur
ed and that further north they were
not far enough advanced to be seri
ously hurt.
"There is still ample time to re
plant both cotton and cam," he said.
and if this i3 done extensively the
final yield may not be greatly reduc
ed. Reports indicate a general sus
pension of cotton seed crushing by
oil mills, "with a view to conserving
the seed for planting. The peach crop
does not seem to have been materi
ally damaged. Melons and cantaloupes
in southern Georgia may have to be
replanted to- some extent. Strawber
ries suffered little. No damage was
done to fruits, vegetables or other
crops in Virginia."
General Alexander Called By Death.
savannah, Ga. General E. P. Alex
ander, Longstreet's famous artillery
officer and the arbitrator appointed by
Grover Cleveland to fix the boundary
line between Costa Rica and Nicar
agua, died at his residence here aged
seventy-five years.
His remains were sent to Augusta
where the funeral took place. -A wife
and several children survive him.
Governor Comer Kicked by Horse.
Montgomery, Ala. Governor B. B.
Comer is laid up here as a result of
heing kicked on the left leg by a
horse. The shin bone is injured, and
the doctor says he must stay in bed
a couple of weeks. The horse ran
away with him at his country home
at Comer- -
Newsy Paragraphs.
A monkey escaped from a circus at
Evansville, Ind., and became home
sick after wandering about several
days. It-finally found a chain tied
to a rafter in a factory and hanged
itself.
Although seventeen-year-old Violet
Locke was completely scalped when
her hair became caught in the ma
chinery of a factory in St. Louis,
Mo., the scalp .not reaching the hos
pital . for some time after she did,
surgeons believe it will reunite itself
to her head, f
Though Mrs. Mark Ware has lived
in Woodberry, N. J., far . fifty-nine
years, she says she does not yet
know where the postoffice is. The
last time she went for mail, she says,
was thirty-seven years ago. Mra
Ware is not an invalid.
That our American colleges and
uiversities are tending to make their
appeal to class rather -than to-mass
was part of the startling Indictment
made by President Wilson of Prince
ton before a group of Princeton alum
ni at Pittsburg. He made the state
ment -that Lincoln would not have
been as serviceable to his country if
he had been bred In a college. He
also charged that the churches- still
have more regard for the pew rents
than for men's souls. He pointed out
that the state universities were win
ning popular favor because they were
not dependent on the support of rich
patrons to the same extent as the
private universities. He declared
that the colleges of this country must
be reconstructed from top to bottom.
From an immigrant girl who did
not understand one word of English
to class poet of the graduating class
of her schQol, all accomplished in
nine months, is the record of Ingeborg
M. Patterson, a girl of fifteen,-who
has . broken all records for the Bos
ton, Mass., evening school classes.
The little girl landed in this country
about nine months ago. She entered
the lowest grade of the school, pass
ed 'through the grades, almost at the
rate of one a week and found herself
in the graduating class before her
first season was over.
LITTLEROCKGETSU.CV.
Gray Veterans to Gather in 1911
in Arkansas City,
GEfJ. GORDON IN COMMATJD
Honorary Title of Past Commander-in-Chief
Conferred Upon Generals Evans and CabelL
Proceedings of Convention.
Mobile, Ala With Little Rock, Ar
kansas, chosen as the reunion city
for.' 1911 and New Orleans endorsed
for the honor in 1915 and with ah
election of officers, the United Con
federate Veterans' Association closea
its business session.
The selection of Little Rock had
been freely predicted and though the
Arkansas city lacked a majority on
the first ballot, she was so far in
the lead that a vote to make the se
lection unanimous carried with a
roar. The vote stood: Little Rock,
1,470; Chattanooga, 640; Oklahoma
City, 17; Houston none. When Texas
was- reached the veterans saw, how
things were going and threw their
strength to Arkansas.
The indorsement of New Orleans
as the meeting place for 1915 was con
tained in a resolution favorably re
ported and adopted. It recites that
New Orleans proposes to hold a Pan
ama canal exposition in 1915; that the
Crescent City had asked the veterans
to indorse the exposition and attend
It in April, 1915. It was resolved,
therefore, that each ' reunion until
1914 take this same action and that
the reunion of 1914 follow the idea
and meet in New Orleans.
It was almost dark when the reso
lution was made and the resolution
committee reported. The resolutions
were simple and few, announcing the
Panama exposition in New Orleans In
1915, endorsing the monument to the
women of the Confederacy designed
by Miss Belle Kinney of Nashville and
making a few changes in the by-laws.
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' General Clement A. Evans.
Mobile was thanked as was every one
who attended the reunion and then
came the election of officers.
It had", been persistently rumored
that General Evans would not stand
for re-election and that ' General Ca
bel of Texas would not be a candi
date, but that both men would be
made past commanders-in-chief and
the command thrown on General Gor
don. The rumors were well founded. Gen
eral Gordon was raised to the su
preme command. Then the honorary
title of past commander-in-chief was
conferred upon Generals Evans and
Cabell and the convention adjourned.
The new commander, General Gor
don, has the distinction of being one
of the four living Confederates who
were actually major generals before
the war ended. He also has a , record
of being captured by the federal forc
es three times.
General Gordon will not announce
his staff for several weeks, but it is
understood that General William E.
Mickle will remain adjutant general
and chief of staff to General 1 Gor
don. . .'- ' " -
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE.
Great Flesures Opened in the Ground
in Costa Rica by Tremors of Earth.
New Orleans, La. Passengers ar
riving here from Port Limon declare
that the earthquake shocks that re
cently destroyed portions of scores,
of cities and towns in Costa Rica
were the worst in. the history of the
western continent. Many - persons
were killed in the settlements of
northwest San Jose. Thousands of
persons are homeless, while great
damage was done to the city of San
Jose.
500 ALBANIANS SLAIN.
Turkish Troops in Fight With' Rebel
Albanians.
Salonika. Five hundred Albanians,
mostly women and - children, have
been killed in the Turkish bombard
ment of Godantz. r :
Constantinople. Five thousand
men on both sides fell in the three
days' battle that waged on' the plains
of Kossovo between the Turkish and
the Albanian rebels. .
"Kill and spare no one!" is the or
der that has been given to the Turks.'
Albania is in the western part of
the Balkan peninsula, and covers an
area of 22,000 square miles. - The Al
banians are only partly civilized ..and
very warlike. ; . -
OLDEST PERSON IN U. S. ,
Oldest Person in Nation Lives at Bos
ton Georgia.
Thomasville, Ga. Boston, in this
county, is claiming to have in' that
district the oldest person in the Unit
ed States. "',
Mariah Williams is the name of the
old colored woman, who is said to be
120 years old. - ;..- .
Boston also has a negro woman who
is the mother of thirteen children ana
who has a daughter who has given
birth to thirteen children,
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Families of Chicago in greater num
bers than ever, before are storing
their furniture and going to live in
boarding houses or in the country,
according to managers of storage and
van companies. They , assign this con
dition of affairs to the increased cost
of living.
The ability to read French or Ger
man will be required of Harvard stu
dents in order to secure an A. D. de
gree after this year. All such candi
dates by a rule recently announced
will have to pass an oral examination
in the reading of French or Gernan
before being admitted to the junior
class.
Dr. William S. Bainhridge describ
ed before a meeting of physicians in
the New York Skin and Cancer hos
pital the success of his treatment of
cancer by what he terms ligation. It
consists in shutting off the supply of
blood from the seat of trouble by
tieing up the vessels with ligatures.
He finds that cancer must have blood
to nourish its growth.
At a meeting of the members of the
Selma, Ala., Cotton exchange resolu
tions were adopted asking Alabama
congressmen , to take a hand in pros
ecuting those who sold future cotton
and did not have cotton "to deliver.
Senator Johnson replied that a reso
lution to inquire into these contracts
would be made. .
Willard Smith, sixty-five years old,
a wealthy wall paper manufacturer of
Waterbury, Conn., was instantly kill
ed and his wife, Mrs. Anna Smith,
aged sixty, was held, a prisoner from
10:30 at night until 2:30 in the morn
ing, when a folding bed. in which they
were sleeping in a fashionable board
ing house closed up on them.
The state of New Jersey and the
Standard Oil company have gone Into
partnership. They are to act together
in ridding the city-of Boyonne of a
menace- to the public health in the
shape of an extensive tract of marsh
land which has heretofore been a
prolific breeding place for mosquitoes.
Each is to bear half the expense of
draining the land.
Hanford B Warner,, for more than
fifty years a manager of the well
known wild men of Borneo, died at
his home in Waltham, - Mass., aged
eighty-two. He brought the wild
men, Wailo and Pautano, from Bor
neo and traveled all over the world
with them. . After retiring from the
show business he took them to his
home, and one of them lives now,
aged over ninety.
The campaign against billboards
which the Civic League of Stt Louis
has been carrying on for. some years
passed has been Indorsed by a recent
decision of the Missiouri supreme
court, which sustains a city ordinance
passed in 1905, but against which an
advertising agency secured a perma
nent injunction. It is to the effect
that billboards may not stand mors
than fifteen feet above the ground,
nor closer than fifteen feet to the
sidewalk; must provide two feet of
clear space at the bottom; must not
run more than fifty feet in length,
and must not rest on the tops of roofs
or over the front of buildings. The
objection to the prevailing board is
on the ground that they are unsightly,
unsanitary as bins of refuse and im
moral as retreata of vice.
Washington.
. Four men of the Mazama expedition
sailed from Seattle for Alaska to at
tempt the ascent of Mount McKInley4
The cotton employers at a mass
meeting in JVIanc haste r, England, de
cided to insist on a 5 per cent reduc
tion in wages. This action Is attrib
uted to the expected shortage in the
American crop. - ,
The senate committee on judiciary
voted to conduct a thorough exami
nation into what is known as "third
degree" methods of extorting confes
sions from persons charged with
crime; also the practice of employing
persons in the espionage, of jurors.
That Mars is inhabited and its sur
face marked by canals of human con
struction, a popular theory, was dis
puted before the convention of the
National Academy of sciences in
Washington by George E. Hale of
Mount Wilson solar observatory of
the Carnegie institution. Dr. Hale
made mention detrimental of the dis
coveries of Dr. Percy Lowell of Har
vard university, who established an
observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona,
and spent several years telescopically
exploring Mars and who asserted that
canals existed on the planet.
In reply to a speech by Senator
Smith of South Carolina assailing the
tariff as the cause of high prices, Sen
ator Aldrich as the principal author
of the bill, made this reply: "The sys
tem of high protection has caused
general and great prosperity in this
country. Wages have advanced and
money has been more plentiful, there
by enabling people to live better and
pay more for articles of food and
clothing. This in a measure accounts
for the gradual increase in the cost
of living." . . '
The abstract of reports of condi
tions of national banks in the United
States on March 29 last, issued by
the . comptroller of the treasury,
shows that on that date the total re
sources were $9,841,924,345. The in
crease in total resources since April
28, 1909, was $473,040,502 and since'
January-31, 1910, $111,405,710.
According to statistics prepared by
the agricultural department, there has
been a phenomenal increase in the
value of farm products since 1889.
The increase in dollars from that
time up to end cf last year is put at
$6,300,000,000. The total value of
wealth produced on United States
farm's- in 18S9 was - $2,460,000,000,
while the latest figures are $8,760,000,
000. The sharp criticism, of Attorney
General Wickersham's prosecution of
the cotton pool led the department of
justice to issue the following, state
ment: "The action of the government
in instituting the investigation by the
grand jury of New York into the al
leged cotton pool should not in - any
way be construed as an attack on
legitimate operations on any cotton or
produce exchange in the . United
States, The proceedings being ,
before a grand jury and not yet com
pleted can not with propriety be dis
cussed at the present time."
NORTH STATE NEWS
Items of State Interest Gathered
l and Told In Brief.
Veteran Mail Carrier of America.
Frank Day, of Jonesville, Yadkin
county, is the champion mail carrier
of the State. At the age of fourteen
years he lost' his right arm. ' The
a job as mail carrier on the route
from Elkin to Huhtsville, a distance
of twenty-five miles and he has been
in the service ever since, traveling
distance of 87,653 miles. During these
forty-five years of service he never
lost a mail sack, was never moie than
fifteen minutes behind schedule time,
and more than half of the tine the
trip was made on foot. He is now '
sixty years old and still tramping the
road three times each day, except
Sunday, from Elkin to - Jonesville.
First Regiment to Chicamauga.
The First North Carolina regiment
will go into encampment at Chicka
mauga July 11th, and will remain
until the 20th. Georgia and South
Carolina companies will go in en
campment at Chickamauga at the
same time. In addition there will be -eleven
companies of cavalry, eleven "
of infantry, one signal corps and on-j
hospital corps of the regular army.
Sues Coast Line for $25,000.
In the Superior Court at Wilming
ton H. McK. Godwin, a well known
young white man, , brought ' sr.it for
$25,000 damages against the Atlantic
Coast Line, for the death of his 1
brother, Lester Godwin, who was
killed by a train at a street crossing
there on April 6. A coroner 8 jury
fixed the responsibilty on the railroad
and the big damage suit followed.
Tobacco Opening Season Changed
At a meeting,' held at Wilson there
were representatives from Rocky
Mount, Greenville and Kinston to
bacco warehouses for the purpose of
changing the opening of the tobacco
season in Eastern Carolina. Instead
of opening the warehouses on August
1st, as heretofore they will open this
season on August 18th.
Meeting of Retail Druggists.
The Retail Druggists' Association
of North Carolina will meet in Char
lotte in annual convention June 8, 9,:.
10. The program has not been ar
ranged either for the convention pro
per or the local end in its entirety,
but the event promises to be altogeth
er interesting.
Hundred Thousand Dollar Orphanage.
The formal announcement hf s been
made of the purpose of the directors
of the Thompson Orphanage of the
Episcopal church, located in Char
lotte, and of the- association of
guilds scattered throughout the State
to unite in the erection of a one hun
dred thousand dollar plant to take
the place of the present plant, which
is deemed inadequate to the needs of
the work.
Passengers Overpower Convict.
- Charles Snider, an escaped convict
from the Buncombe ' county chain
gang, in being taken in from Balsam,
mhere he had been captured, was pre
vented ' from overpowering the of
ficer and escaping only by prompt
interference of passengers on the
Murphy train.
Good for West Durham.
The West Durham people are prom
ised as soon as a suitable lot can
be secured a $30,000 public school
building the equal of any graded
school here or anywhere in the State,
nnder the county administration
which is to build it.
Bear Chewed Trainer's Hs-nd.
Freeman Shelby and Jake Benton,
employes of an animal show, were in
jured at Statesville Tuesday after
noon by a huge hear. Shelby's right
hand was chewed to pieces.
Durham Woman to Child Moteher.
A woman in Durham has sent a
letter to Mayor Busse of Chicago,
expressing her interest in the 10-year-old
girl at the County Hospital,
who. recently gave birth to a 6-pound
daughter. The letter is signed "A
friend." In a separate package the
Mayor, received two sky blue shoes,
a trifle less than two inches in length,
which he is-requested to send to the
County Hospital for the baby.
Rushing Building for Colored People..
The first building for the Negro
Religious Training School and Chau
tauqua for the Colored Race, is nn
der way at Durham, the framework
being partly up and work proceed
ing as rapidly as bad weather will
allow.
Charlotte's Postoffice Building.
Charlotte will get an appropriation
of $300,000 for the postoffice building.
Of this sum $100,000 will be available
at once and the remainder a it is
needed. The appropriation" will bo -used
to reconstruct the present build
ing. ' Section. Prohibition Law Fought.
An important dase in which a man
Charles H. Martin, representative of
the Martin Distilling Company of
Roanoke, Va., is charged with solicit
ing orders for whiskey in North Car
olina contrary to the law was taken ,
up Friday in superior court at Ashe-
ville, and may be fought through to
United States Supreme Court with
a view of testinsr the validity of
that section of the law whiclk some
attorneys claim is in violation of the
Federal constitution.