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THE CHATHAM RECORD I-L A. LONDON; EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advances VOL. XXXIV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, -N. C., OCTOBER 18, 1911. NO. 10. THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion, f $L00 One Square, two insertions $U50 One Square, one month SZ50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts vltl bo msde. BRIEF ! NOTES FOR THE BUSY HUT (V!OST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. YsORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings cf Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. The name of Jetferson Davis, presi lent of the Confederacy, will be per petuated by a great-grandson born at Denver. Colo. The father is Jefferson Hayes Davis, son of Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis, who iied this year. After his mother's ieath young Hayes, whose father is i Colorado Springs banker, secured ,rom the Colorado legislature the risht to change his name to Jefferson Haves Davis. The Jefferson Davis born is vigorous and weighs eight oounds. E. W. Carol was shot five times and instantly killed by Weaver Smith, who charges that the dead man ruin ed his 13-year-old sister, Caroline smith, who disappeared from Nash ville, Tenn., and was found two days later in a deserted house near the ?itv in company with Ed Turbeville. After the capture of Turbeville, in company with Caroline Smith, Turbe ville is said to have charged that Car ol was responsible for the girl's rum. Governors of the cotton growing states will be asked to meet in con ference either at Memphis or New Orleans within the next three weeks to dvise means to uphold the price of cotton. Governor Colquitt of Texas, who proposed the conference, an nounced he would issue a proclama tion setting the date and place for the meeting. Southern bankers and cotton planters will very probably be asked to participate in the confer ence. From letters made public by Gover nor O'Neal of Alabama, it develops that charges have been filed against State Railroad Commissioner Leon McCord. president of the state con vict board; James G. Oakley, state tax commissioner; P. G. Bowman or Birmingham, and Dr. E. T. Fields, state prison physician at Ensley, to the effect that they sold or offered for sale stock in a gas and oil com pany which they own to certain men in Birmingham who had applied for saloon licenses, and as a condition to the sale promised to secure the licenses for those who bought the stock. Messrs. Oakley and Bowman make vehement denials of the charge, and Messrs. McCord and Fields in formed the governor that they want a full and impartial investigation While veterans of the gray and vet erans of the blue, united in a com mon cause, stood with bared heads in a downpour of rain, the magnificent Gate City Guard peace monument was unveiled at Atlanta. The .unveiling of the monument came as a fitting cli max to the spectacular parade through the streets of the city, m wnicn mn itary organizations from every sec tion o fthe country participated. Information has just reached Ma con, Ga., concerning a lynching in Wilkinson county, near Irwinton, Ga. A nesro named Andrew Chapman was taken from Bailiff W. T. Cowen by a masked mob of forty men and hanged to a Dine tree, near Butler's bridge and his body riddled with bullets. He attempted an assault General. Advices were received in San Fran cisco bv the Chung Sai Yat Po, the Chinese Dailv World, that the rev- olutionisist in China have declared a republic, electing Li Yuan Hung pres ident. China today faces an unprecent ed crisis. With the spread of revo lutionarv activity, opinion is now gaining ground that the fate of the ruling dynasty hangs m tne oaiance. The revolution is no longer confined to the central provinces, a thousand miles away from the capital. Pekin itself is threatened. The commander-in-chief of the Ital ian expedition has decided to acl quickly, and it is believed that tne troons under him will march imme diately against the position occupied by the Turks. Although the utmost precautions have been taken looking to the perfecting of sanitary arrange ments, cholera has broken out in tne Italian army, and it is reported thai lour deaths have occurred. JoseDh Schofield. the third defend ant tried on a charge of participating m the Walker lvnching at Coatesvuie a., was acquitted by direction oi Juag eButler, after the common health had concluded its testimony. Great Britain's largest and best ar mored battleship, King George V., has 3USt Vippti laiiTifhsd The aged emperor Francis Joseph aPPears to be facing an uprising simi fer to that led by Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot, in 184S, when Francis Joseph had been but a iew Months upon the throne. Much rioting ltas occurred in Budapest. It is reported on good authority fhat tho TnriHcVi pnvprtimfint has ad dressf-ri o T,nto -k tho nnwers statins u u. nv Mrv that it Avill expel all Italians from lue country unless Italy desists iron: ker ae-prACBirm in Trinoli. Chicago has just celebrated the for- t5eth onniversary of the great fire in 1871. Ill the United States district court for the northern district of Ohio, Judge John M. Killetta rendered a de cision in favor of the government in tne case Drougnt by tne United states attorney general last summer in Cleveland against the General Elec trie company and about forty subsid iary companies controlled by the. Gen eral Electric company under the Sher man anti-trust law. The decree, in effect, orders the General Electric company to conduct all its business under its own name, and the dissolu ion of the National Electric Lamp company and about thirty-five sub sidiary corporations. In the United States circuit court at Baltimore Judge John C. Rose ren dered a decision favoring the govern ment in its dissolution suit against the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing company and others, the so-called -Bath Tub" Trust. The decision is most sweeping in its character. Fed eral counsel declared that the decis ion supports the government's con tention in every point. In case of an appeal it will go direct to the United States Supreme court. Fighting for the possession of the little town of Chiapalla. Mexico, held by insurrectos, whose strength was estimated at 900, a force of volun teers numbering but 190 killed 130 rebels and then captured 106, eigh teen of whom were wounded. The loss to the government force i3 given as less than a dozen killed. Early re ports were that the state troops met with little opposition, but it is now known that the encounter was the fierces since the beginning of the in surrection. James B. McNamara went on trial for murder at Los Angeles, Cal., be fore Judge Walter Bordwell m the superior court. , District Attorney J D. Fredericks, for the prosecution, elected to try him for the murder of Charles G. Haggerty, a machinist, ho, with 20 other men, met death . an explosion and fire which wreck- d the Los Angeles Times building on October 1, 1910. This case was pick ed from nineteen indictments for mur der found against the prisoner, his brother, John J. McNamara, and six others who are at large. The armistice between Italy and Turkey for which German diplomacy has been striving for some time, it is believed in Berlin, has practically been concluded, although not yet an nounced officially. It is- understood that- the' transportation of the Italian military expedition will not be inter fered with, but that hostilities in all ouarters will cease. This is consider ed by Berln as equivalent to the end ing of the war, or at least the war like movements. decision of world-wide import ance was handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals at Philadelphia, when it dismissed four suits? brought by the Krupp company of Germany against the Midvale Steel company of Philadelphia to restrain the Pennsylvania corporation from in fringing on patents for a process of manufacturing armor palte. lhe de cision was given by Judge Joseph Buffingfcn and sustains the opinion of the circuit court. With returns from little more than one-tenth of the state at hand, the indications are that California has refused to grant equal suffrage to women, but had by an emphatic vote made the initiative and referendum and the recall, the latter including the iudir.iarv. part of its organic law Twenty-three proposed amendments to the constitution of the' common wpnlth were voted on. Of these the three mentioned overshadowed the rest in public interest. Questions of the ministers' salary entered largely into the opening ses sion of the state convention of Bap tist preachers at Duluth, Minn. To get the proposition down to a work ing basis, a salary committee maae the following report: "Baptist minis ters are underpaid. Those of the Northern Baptist convention average K1 a dav. They receive less and more is required to qualify for the pulpit than for any one of the several general lines of labor. The cotton market was weak and unsettled, and another set of new low records was established with ntnber and January contracts sell ing below 9 1-2 cents level. The rinRfi was barely steady at a net ue- riine of is to 22 points. .The opening was steady at a -decline of 1 to b ints in response to over-bunoay eoiiino- orders from the south and the indifferent showing of Liverpool, but there seemed a disposition among speculative shorts to cover. THE 1TTLI3KETT LAKE BONDS VALID JUSTICE CLARK WRITES OPINION ON THE CASE OF DRAINAGE COMMISSIONERS. an interesting test case Right of State Board to Trample Upon Rights of the County Commission ers, Involved in Suit. EDUCATION BOARD A PARTY There Was $40,400 in Bonds Authoriz ed to Be Issued to Provide For the Drainage Each Tract of Land Was to Be Assessed. v Raleigh. An important case, affect ing. internal improvements, the drain age of the low lands of Eastern North Carolina was decided by the Supereme Court in the case of Carter vs. Mattamuskeet Drainage Commis sioners from Hyde county. The opin ion is written by Chief Justice Clark. The different land owners petitioned for the drainage of Mattamuskeet Lake and the state board of education came in as, a party as it owned the bottom of the lake. $400,000 in bonds were authorized to be issued to pro vide for the drainage. Each tract of land was .assessed its pro rata for the payment of said bonds and inter est thereon upon payment of which its owner would be discharged from liability. No owner is responsible for other owners by reason of their fail ure 'to pay. Bv virtue of Laws of 1911, Chapter 67, the drainage commissioners pur posed to issue $100,000 in additional bonds,- $40,000 of which is to be ex pended in the maintenance of the system during the three years till its final completion and $60,000 to pro vide interest on the other bonds dur ing the two years, thus making a total bond issue of $500,000. Of this sum the Southern Land Reclamation Company is charged with three- fourths by reason of its purchase from the state board of education, besides the charge upon the other lands to the extent of many thousands of dol lars which said Reclamation Com pany has purchased from other land owners within the drainage district." "This injunction is sought by the plaintiffs to restrain the issue of the additional $100,000 bonds. These ad ditional bonds are not an addition to the debt for the purpose of improve ment but to provide for those ex penses which are the necessary and natural result. Raleigh. Mandamus proceedings against the Wake county commis sioners, the sheriff and the superin tendents of the various county institu tions are instituted by Dr. J. J; Mc Cullers to compel them to recognize him as county physician and Judge R. B. Peebles will hear the case in cham bers October 23. The case involves the test of the right of the state board of health to appoint a county physician for any county and fix his compensation when, for any reason, the county commis sioners and the county board of health disagrsement blocked the elec tion of a county physician and Secre tary W. S. Rankin of the state board stepped in and designated Dr. McCul lers at a salary of $2,300 at the in stance of the county board of health. This caused the county commis sioners to refuse to recognize Dr. Mc Cullers or provide for the payment of his salary which the state board sub sequently changed to a fee basis. The case is to be hard fought right through to the Supreme Court, the county commissioners insisting that the commissioners have the complete control of such county affairs. DISEASE OF COTTOil SOME INTERESTING DATA PUB LISHED N THE EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN. IS KNOWN AS AMTRACNOSE FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE Paragraphs of General News That Has Been Condensed by the Editor For the Busy People. ,s Most Easily Recognized When on the Boll Diseased Part of Plant Fails to Open Tells How to Handle Diseased Cotton. Is CHarged With Embezzling. P. H. Roberts was brought to Ashe ville from Marshhall on a bench war rant issued by ldge Lane on a charge cf embezzling from an insur- j ance company, which is alleged to have occurred several months ago. Roberts is, the man who was arrested at Marshall on the charge of swind ling seme man in Kansas and it is said the Kansas officials were intend ing to get requisition papers for him. There was a charge against Roberts here, however, and Ht was" really his friends who had the warrant issued for him to prevent his being taken to Kansas. The friends of Roberts think he is mentally unbalanced and it is likely that they will have him examin ed for the purpose of ascertaining if this Is so. Aldermen Pass Two Ordinances. Great interest attaches to the ac tion of the board of aldermen of Win ston in passing two ordinances for bidding the operation of trading stamp companies here and imposing a fine of $25 for each offense for each day or part of a day, or imprisonment for thirty days. One large depart ment store used the trading stamp and this system was but recently in stalled, upon the entry into the firm of new ownership. The firm an nounces that it will continue to give away trading stamps and will test the ordinance as passed by carrying the issue to the Supreme Court. Another ordinance passed imposes a tax of $500 upon trading stamp companies. The shopping public awaits the ver dict with interest An Epidemic of Hog Cholera. "An epidemic of hog cholera has In vaded the county and suburbs of Dur ham, and it has been necessary for the health authorities to post men on the outskirts of the city during the past few days to keep the infected hogs otf th3 Durham market. In East Dur ham as many as 75 hogs have died from the disease during the past few weeks, and there has been an equally large death list in West Durham and in some of the country districts. A large number of attempts have been made by the owners of the hogs to smuggle them onto the Durham mar ket after they have died with the dis ease. A close watch has been kept by the city health authorities and in addition to the regular inspection at the market, inspectors have been posted on the outskirts to prevent the hogs from being smuggled into town. Raleigh. In a bulletin issued from the Experiment Station in West Ral eigh, of which Prof. C. B. Williams is the director, there appears the follow ing interesting data about a serious cotton disease known as antracnose "There is a disease of cotton which is yearly attracting increased atten tion throughout the cotton belt. It is known as cctton authracnose. " It is most easily recognized when on the boll, where it forms ulcer-like spots, which, as they age, become pink in the centers. The spot may enlarge so as to affect the whole boll. The de ceased part cf the. boll usually fails to open and often the contents rot. In quiries from various sections of the state are being received almost daEy at the Experiment Station . concern ing the disease. It has also been especially severe in Alabama and Geo gia during recent years; so severe in the latter state that the Legislature has made a large special appropria tion. "Although the disease is seen and recognized most prominently on the bolls,, it also occurs on the leaves and stems. Cotton growers should know that this disease is carried from sea son to season on the seed, and that seed from a sick boll, even though very slightly diseased, may raise a diseased plant, and this In turn may spread the disease to the whole crop f the next season. There. is no satis factory treatment, and the one point to be remembered is that seed from ilseased fields Is likely to carry the lisease in fact, almost sure to do so. Even seed from clean fields which has passed through a gin in wiich dis eased cotton has been ginned is dan gerous. It is of utmost importance for the growers to be sure that his 3otton seed does not come from a field or from a region where this disease prevails." Tax Book Nearing Completion. The wor kon the tax books of Mecklenburg county which has been going on since the first Mon day in July, is nearing completion. The computing was finished and the books will be turned over to the col lectors about the middle of this month, although as previously noted, it will be about three weeks before Mr. W. M. Moore can make his re port. The cause of the delay in thhe work on the books is that the report of the corporation commission at Ral eigh did not arrive here until two weeks late. Since that time the work bf computing has been going on night and day. . Map Will Be Ready December 1. Civil Engineer C. M. Miller, of Salis bury, who has been making surveys and securing data for the past year, has completed his work and will have the map ready for distribution by De cember 1. Several weeks ago Mr. Mil ler submitted the blue prints to the county commissioners, but before ac cepting Mr. Miller's work, the com missioners appointed! three capable men from each township to examine the surveys, locations, etc., in their respective townships, and to correct any errors that might appear. - Good News to Raleigh People. Raleigh. It is good news to the peo- Dle of Raleigh that the plans for the building of a new railroad that will bind Raleigh and Charlotte by the shortest line, are being perfected so that within a year it is practically cer tain that active work will be under way in the construction of the Raleigh and Charlotte Railroad. It might be i invidious to say that the railroad will connect the two best towns in North Carolina. Undoubtedly, the people of Raleigh and Charlotte would say that, but there are other towns in North Carolina; yet certainly it will connect the state capital which is forging to the front rapidly, and the city of Char lotte, which has the largest population af any North Carolina city, and more ihan that, it will go through one of the finest sections of North Carolina, CLAIMS AGAINST Raleigh. Maj. W. A. Graham, Com missioner of Agriculture, has gone to Greensboro and Asheville to attend the fairs in progress at each of these cities. Washington. TVi mobilization oi tne Aiiauuu and Pacific fleets at New York and r c AnlPs October 30 to iNovemDer UVH , o win mark the gathering of the great est force that ever floated in tne wi- of this hemisphere. This prop- ablv will be the last assembling of present day warships witn me unit ed States of America standing sec- a t, thA list of great maritime pow- AM For it is certain Germany win within three years at least move uy n nlace. Hi.ronancy of over $3,288,271 be tween the material on hand and that fnr bv the books or tne wasn- navy vard was snown py tne inventory of that yard just completed, according to an announcement oy oec retary of the Navy Myer. This is the first inventory of record made at this vard within the last twenty years. The discrepancy is uvwo- methods, rne vvasning- ton navy yard was the last to have the new accounting system estaDiisn a The navy department official stated that there was no indication that moral turpitude was mvoivea., Man Found Dead Near Railroad. Oscar Wicker, a white man about 40 years old, was found dead beside the Atlantic Coast Line railroad tracks at Sanford near the court house, supposed to have been drunk and sat down on the end of the ties and was struck by the Atlantic Coast Line passenger train from Wilming ton, due there at 11:10 p. nr. His back and neck were broken. Wicker had been to Downie & Wheeler's show, which gave a night performance, and was known to have been drinking heavily at that time. Violators of Game Law Fined. Violators of the game laws around New Bern are having the time of their lives in eluding the watchful eyes of Mr. Geo. B. Waters, the game warden in this county. Several days ago two young men from Pollocks ville were brought before a local magistrate and fined for killing squir rels before the season opened. Carl Soencer afid Berkley Harker, two young men of that city, were arrested on a warrant sworn out by Game Warden Waters and. were fined for the violation. Worms Cared For Second Crop. The worms have taken care of the second crop of cotton in this county, and there would be no cotton from these late blooms if frost held back till Christmas. A killing frost now would do no harm except to peas and grass that have-not been cut. As far as cotton is concerned the sooner a killing frost comes, the better. It may arrest the rapid decline in the price. . New Charters Have Been Issued. Raleigh. Boyd Feed Company, of Hickory, to do a general feed and coal business: authorized capital $25,000; oaid in $500. Incorporators, O. Boyd, B. W. Boyd and. A. A. Harby. Caro lina's Cotton a:nd Southern Industrial Agricultural Exposition Company, of Wilmington, to hold expositions, deal in real estate: capital stock $250,000; paid in $50. Incorporators, Dr. R. Bel lamy, J. J. Crew, W. R. Kingsbury. R. H. Cowan. Permission was given the Merchants and Farmers Bank, of Shal- lotte, to change its name to Citizens Bank. This was done to prevent con fusing the name of the bank with a ; 3imilar one located in Charlotte. The bank had not yet begun operations. Favetteville. Mr. John G. Shaw of this city, formerly ReprJentative in Congress from the Sixth district and one of the leading members of the North Carolina bar, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomina tion for the office of Lieutenant Gov- nor of North Carolina. Governor Has Offered a Reward. Raleigh. At the request of Solicitor Stack, Governor Kitchin offers a re- iward of $400 for an unknown negro burglar in the home of W. W. Home, Df Monroe, who fired repeatedly at members of the household. Have Landed Counterfeiter. Charged with passing at least e!ght counterfeit silver dollars and having in his possession the molds for cast ing these coins, bearing date of 1904, Charles Johnson, a native of Raleigh, is held in jail here to stand trial be fore Judge Connor of the Federal court in November. He was remand ed to jail in default of $1,000 bond. He has served terms in the 'peniten tiary in both North and South Carolina and has not been out of the North Carolina penitentiary for more than a year. Superintendent Joyner Returns. Raleigh. Superintendent of Public nstruction J. Y. Joyner, just back from i trip of several days duration into Ashe and Watauga counties, is enthu- i tiastic over the progress that is being nade in the development of the won- lerful natural resources of these coun ties. He attended the Ashe county :air at Jefferson and participated in tne CCI eiUUIllCO 1UI au. lauuvatiuu j in' connection with it. The fair, he savs. was an eye-opener as to the ad- raicement that is being made in that section. Pitt County Conning to the Front. Pitt county's new court house and jail, to take the place of the ones de stroyed by fire in February of last year, have been completed and for mally turned over by the contractors to the board of county' commissioners and the building committee. The sev eral county officers are now moving In to the court house and getting their, respective quarters conveniently ar ranged. Both the court house and the jail are modern in constructions ant are equipped with mcdera conven ienct. : ' - Want to Have Sign Posts Placed. Greensboro. With a view to secur ing the enforcement of an act of the past General Assembly of North Caro lina relative to the placing of signs lenoting distance and direction of -owns to which they lead at all public road crossings in the state, the locai jouncil of United Commercial Travel ers has appointed a committee to con fer and act with the solicitor of thi3 district. This committee, composed if R. E. Steele and E. E. Mendenhall, s also given power to confer with ithcr councils in North Carolina. Elizabeth City. Federal court con vened here with Judge Henry Groves Connor on the bench. There are sev eral continued cases, mostly lengthy and long drawn out, but of little pub lic interest. Raleigh. Reports on the condition of state, private and savings banks at the close of business September 1, just issued by the corporation commis sion, shows total resources have in creased from $62,146,551 to $63,988,552 since November, 1910. Tkere are 355 of these banks in the state and aggre gate, deposits of $44,364,113. Goldsboro. Wayne County Super ior Court convened here with Judge Peebles presiding, and from the very beginning it is clearly evident that violators of the law will not have smooth sailing when they come before him. This is especially true as to blind tigers, and his honor has shown that he intends to have them punish ed if they are guilty. Charlotte. Mr. W. S. Alexander, of Crab Orchard township, has found a way to get rid of the worms that are eating the cotton in the fields all over the country He turns his hogs in the fields and they play havoc with the worms, eating them off the ground and even shaking the stalks for more. . Mr Alexander says that the way the hogs go for the worms is a pleasure to see. Asheville. Charged with the mur der of his 13-year-old sister, Mary, Ernest Webb, 15, was locked in the county jail, a full week after the al leged commission of the crime at his parents' home at Newfound, 12 miles from this city. Mr. and Mrs. ueorge Webb, the parents, are now In the custody of a deputy sheriff at New found, charged with being accessories before and after the fact. Asheville. The first Western North Carolina fair opened with every evi dence of being successfully carried out Notwithstanding the fact that a steady rain fell all day the enthu siasm of the promoters was not damp ened and they feel confident that the exhibitions will fulfill all expectations and that the attendance at thelopen ing was not as large as had been anti cipated on account of the rain. Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem has raised its quota of $2,000 to be applied with High Point's similar amount and 31.000 additional from property own ers along the line for the construction of a link in Davidson cdunty to make a sDlendid 18-mile highway from High Point to Winston-Salem. The road will be greatly traveled, it is expected, for the two towns are closely related In many ways and great good feeling exists between them. . TurjotTi.QaiATTi At. Pilot Mountain. Surrv county. Mr. Thomas kallam, aged 23, shot Mr. Henry Whitaker, aged 62, through the head with a pis tol, killing him instantly. Both men are lawyers and Kallam secured licenses two years ago. Bad blood nad existed for a year or more. Witnesses to the shooting say Mr. Kallam was justified as Mr. Whitaker was in the act of firing. Mr. Kallam has not been arrested. Statesville. The Statesville Mer chants' Association has decided to in stall a new ferry at what is known as the Statesville ferry, on the Catawba river, a few miles below Monbo, and Messrs. J. L. Sherrill, C. B. Morrison and J. A. Conner have been appointed a committee to have charge of the matter. Years ago the Statesville merchants equipped a ferry boat at this place and it was kept in operation up to a year or two ago,- when it was abandoned. Henderson. There is some real ginger now growing right here in Hen derson. Mrs. T. H. Hill, of this place, has eight stalks of it growing in a flower not in her yard. A few months ago while she was at Norfolk she found among a lot of ginger, on the market five or six roots in the green stage. She brought them home and planted them about'the 6th of August. They soon sprouted and began to grow. Some of the stalks are now over two feet high amd look like young canes with narrow reedy leaves about three inches long. Durham. Mrs. Charles G. Galley, who has had supervision of the musi cal department of the city schools, has tendered her resignation to take effect the 1st of November, when Mr. Galley moves to Clinton, his old home, and goes into business. Salisbury. With appropriate and impressive ceremonies a marble mark er was unveiled in Salisbury In honor of Elizabeth Maxwell, cA xtevolution arv War fame, and who resided in Salisbury in 1776. The exercises were held by the Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington. Messrs. Davis & Da vis, Washington patent attorneys, re port the grant to citizens of this state the following patents: J. E. Mills, Chapel Hill, aparatus for extracting oil from oleaginous material; J. Pearce. Greensboro, track-s'ander. Charlotte. Judge W. J. Adams ap- nointed Mr. John W. Hutchhison re ceiver for the Charlotte Contract Company several days ago. The lia bilities are given at $36,000 with assets aproximating $14,000. Mr. Hutchison will finish out the contracts pending and will then settle up ali accounts as much as possible. THE GOVERNMEHT SUING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR PATENT ROYALTIES AND OTHER THINGS. ONE CASE IS A BIG LAND SUIT Claims Against Government Must Be Tried in Court of Claims With the Governments Consent Cannot be Sued in Ordinary Court. Washington. Claims involving mil lions of dollars and suits against tho Federal government in which claim ants are trying to secure patent roy alties and damages of Other kinds await the decision of the United States court of claims. The most im portant case approaching decision is the claim of' the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad to damages of $61,- 287,000 for lands which It declares were originally granted to the rail road and afterwards granted by the government to Indiana. One of the interesting cases to do argued before the court of claims is the demand of Frank G. Farnham oC Honesdale. Pa., for royalties on the method used by the government in. preparing the stamp book sold at au postoffices. Mr. Farnham claims to have invented the method of binding the books and the government is pay ing no royalty. " The claim of Capt. John J. Knapp. U. S. N., for patent royalties of $150, 000 for a safety apparatus now used in battleships to prevent explosions In the turrets, also has been argued ajid is awaiting decision. Still an other large claim against the govern ment is that of. Purcell Envelope Company, which claims that a con tract of the companywrith the Post office Department was ignored when Charles Emory Smith became Post master General. The company wants $500,000 damages. Claims brought against the govern ment must be tried in the court ot claims with the government's consent, as the United States cannot be sued in ordinary courts, or against its wilL Beet Sugar Men Are to Fight. Colorado Springs, Col. That the statement of John Arbuckle, New York sugar refiner and coffee mag nate, that he will go before Congress next winter to fight for free sugar, la the beginning of the first genuine bat tle between the beet sugar manufac turers and the cane sugar refiners, is the declaration of Clarence C. Hamlin, chairman of the executive committee of the United States beet sugar indus try in a statement made public here. Mr. Hamlin stated that while the con dition of the sugar market this year has been bad, it would have been "in finitely worse but for the 500,000 .tons of beet sugar America produces. "It is this great industry, the one which. Senator Bristow said was the best justification for a protective tariff. that the cane sugar refiners are seeK- ing to destroy," he said. Walsh Has Quit Fighting. Chicago. John R. Walsh, former banker and former head of. a score of railroad and quarry enterprises in this vicinity, who was paroled from the Fort Leavenworth Federal prison after serving part of a term of im prisonment following conviction ol charges of infraction of national bank ing laws, has outlined his plans for the future. The course he has map ped out does not comprise plans for another, fight for financial prominence. One More Victim of Football. Athens, Ga. Suffering from a blow on the head received in a football game between the scrubs and reserves F. M. Moise of South Carolina, a stu dent at the University of Georgia, is in a local hospital in a serious con dition. Moise was rendered uncon scious by the . Wow and had not re gained consciousness at last report. Physicians state they are unable to determine the extent of his injury. Madero Officially Nominated. Mexico City. Mex Lacking only the ceremonies of the inauguration, Fran cisco I. Madero Is President of the republic of Mexico. By a vote of the electoral college, which was practi cally unanimous, he was officially nominated. Jose Pino Suarex, with out" doubt, will be the vice president, if not already such. Even if he has failed to get a majority, there is now no reasonable doubt that the Chamber of Deputies will name him as Madero lieutenant over Francisco De La Barra. Presidential Boom to Be 'Launched. Chicago. Friends of Senator La Follette became active with the arri val in this city of delegates from many states to "attend ,le conference of the National Repi' V " . an Progres sive League. They asttrt that they would begin an aggressive movement to bring about his nomination for President. No antagonism, they said., had developed as yet to his nomina tion and if any of the delegates have come to Chicago Intending to oppose the plan of LaFollette's friends they have not announced their intentions. !
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