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THE CHATHAM RECORD h. a. London, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance VOL. XXXIV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. G., NOVEMBER 15, 1911. NO. 14. ' THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion $1-00 One Square, two insertions $1X0 One Square, one month $2 SB For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts win bo made. it t. BRIEF NEWS BOTES I THE BUSY Mi MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS Ol THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings Of Greatest Interest From AH Parts of WorldV Southern. Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio, one of the most conspicuous Democrats in the country, and one whose name is ironiinently mentioned as candidate :or president, will visit Atlanta during ihe corn show and will speak on .Legislation Needed for the Develop ment of Agriculture." On his way back to Chattanooga iroin Chickamauga Park, President Ta.li stopped at Rossville, Ga. "I am glad," said he, "to learn that Koss ville employs over 2,000. I was great ly surprised when I was in Georgia during the campaigning that 51 coun ties and three congressional districts v.ere carrried for the Republican ' ticket. That indicates that Georgia is not past redemption. I am here only to congratulate you. I am not here on a political errand.' One hundred years after the New Orleans, the first steam craft that rver navigated the Ohio river; first reached Louisville, Ky., an exact du plicate of that little steamer tied up a: a local wharf. Those aboard her, who are making the trip from Pitts burg to New Orleans, .disembarked shortly after the steamer arrived and attended several entertainments giv en in their honor. For the first time the government asked the Supreme court of the Unit ed States to proclaim as the law of the land that "running a corner" on a stock exchange is a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. The point came up in the oral argument of So licitor General Lehmann in support of the indictment of James A. Pat ten. Eugene G. Scales, Frank B. Hay ne and 'William P. Brown on charges of conspiracy on January 1, 1910. "to run a corner of cotton" on the New York Cotton exchange. Es sential counts in the indictment had teen declared erroneous by the Unit ed States circuit court for southern New York and the government was ina- for a reversal. Exactly one month and a day ear lier than at any previous time in the history of the pdrt, Savannah has overtopped the million-bale cotton mark with 329 bales to spare. This establishes another record for the season. The actual receipts are 1, 'iy,323 bales. The earliest date on which the million-bale mark was reached heretofore was well into De cember, the mark having been reach td hi 1903 on December 10, with more recent rears ranging from December 14 to 23. One hundred and forty-nine chair nine in as many Texas counties have been appointed by Cov. O. B. Colquitt to assist in spreading gospel of hold rour cotton," This fact became known vhen Gov. Colquitt made public a let ter he had written to Governor O Neal of Alabama, urging him to follow his lead. The governor further declared ihat the campaign of education would be followed with neighborhood meet- ines in which an endeavor would be rcade to show the cotton planter the advantage of marketing his cotton slowly and in reducing his acreage. A new light was thrown on the out standing character figure o Abra ham Lincoln when President Taft, who came to Lexintogton, Ky., to wit ness the dedication of a monument to the -Emancipator," said: 'I don't think it is too much to say that Lincoln had the most judicial temperament of any man in history." Mr. Taft paid his tribute with that of Kentucky's mark of reverence for her greatest son in the new state capitol, when a monu ment to the 'War president was dedi eated. Discovery that Mrs. John M. iuinn's first husband, Warren Thorpe, lad been shot to death, supposedly iy a burglar in the same manner as 3uinn had been killed, led the Chi- ago police to believe that they had in . custody a slayer of husbands who may have left behind her a long trail of death. 'That the punishment fitted the crime" and "blood met blood' on Tri- politan battlefields was declared in a cablegram to the Italian embassy by San Giuliano, Italian minister of war, referring to the reported atrocities against the Turks and Arabs. Returns from New Mexico's state election are still incomplete, but the; Republican state central committee concedes the election of McDonald (Dem.) for governor by a majority of 2,000. Returns indicate the elec tion of the entire Democratic state ticket and two Democratic congress men. The complexion of the legista- ure which will elect two United States senators, will remain in doubt, but it is now believed that the Re publican, will have a majority of ten on joint ballot. Nanking, China, is desolate. Thou sands of Its inhabitants lie massa cred and numerous business houses and dwellings have been looted and burned. Sevent ythousand persons already have fled the city and still others are joining the exodus. It was the hand of the Manchus that brought the devastation. While the republi cans were in camp three miles away, awaiting ammunition and reinforce ments, the Manchus began the work or carnage. Arthur Balfour, England's ex-pre mier and now a member of parlia ment, resigned as leader of the Un ionist party in parliament. Mr. Bal- fourp layed" an important part in the great constitutional battle over the veto measure and made an urgent appeal to the so-called "last-ditchers" in the Royalist party to help pass the bill in order to save the Union ist party. He condemned the useless fighting when it became evident that the government was able to put through the bill. General. Aiifirew f.nrnee'ie announced that he had given $25,000,000 to the Car negie Corporation of New York, or aaiiized heretofore under a charter granted by the New York legislature last June "to promote the advance nient and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of tne United States." -Managers of three large Boston ho teis have refused to allow the Gid f'ons, an organization of traveling men, which seeks to donate a Bible to every hotel room in the country, to t.lare Ttihles in their hostelries Columbia University is organizing tlie school of journalism endowed by tue late Joseph Pulitizer A life termer in prison who assaults another person with a deadly weapon punishable with death under a de vision announced by the Supreme '' 'rr. f.f the United States upholding tie constitutionality of a California e. The members of the Immanual Bap- it church of Cambridge. Mass., x'f -! not to accept the resignation star ev. Clarence V. Richeson, now of ia ail on the charge of murdering Av:s Liiinell A number of negro strike breakers weie mobbed by enraged coal miners COTTON KING OF NORTH CAROLINA THE 1909 CROP WAS VALUED AT MORE THAN FORTY-TWO MIL LION DOLLARS. CUTT0N GAIN IS 42 PER CENT The State Raised Ten Million Dollars Worth More of Cotton Than Corn. Wheat Showed a Severe Falling Off . in This S.ate. Washington. - President Taft granted a ninety-day reprieve to Mattie E. Lomax, a color ed woman of Washington, sentenced to suffer the death penalty for mur der of her husband. There is a feeling of deepest con cern in government circles over the Chinese situation. News from Can ton that foreigners are being threat ened was regarded here as ominous. That this government is preparing for eventualities is made clear by the fact that the entire Pacific fleet in the Far East is being dispatched to China. Following orders from Sec retary of the Navy Meyer, the Mon terey, Saratoga and Quires of the Ma nila squadron, have sailed to report for duty. ... Entirely independent of tho govern ment's suit to dissolve the United States Steel Corporation, the so-called steel trust, the Stanley investigat ing committee of the house is pre paring to resume its hearings here to examine some of the biggest fig ures in the steel industry. It is learned that the house investigating committee hopes to unearth sufficient additional evidence against the steel trust to force the attorney general to file an amended petition against this concern. The fight 'of the government to prosecute James -V Patten, the Chi cago grain operator, and his associ ates, Eugene G. Scales, Frank B. Hayne and W. P. Brown, for violating the anti-trust law by cornering the cotton market, was begun before the Supreme court of the United States. Solicitor General Lehmann appeared for the government and an array of counsel for the operators. The charge of combination and conspiracy in re straint of trade is based on the cor ner of the cotton market in 1910. . That the Panama canal will be ready for service by or possibly soon er than January 1, 1914,. a year ear lier than the originally estimated dale, is the startling announcement made in the annual report of the Isth mian canal commission, submitted to Secretary of War Stimson by Col. George W. Goethals, chairman of the commission and the chief engineer. Legislation for establishment of tolls for use of the canal, for government of the canal zone, for forming a force to operate the canal nd for military defenses, "should be provided without delay," recommended the committee because of the expectd earlir opening of th canal. That a man cannot get a new posi tion after he is forty years old was asserted at the employers' liability and workmen's compensation commis sion by Arthur E. Holder of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. He had been speaking of the satisfactory oper ation of the British compensation act of 1906, which recently he had inves tigated Mr. Holder said that regard less of this law there was a marked discrimination against the aged. Estimates of consular officers abroad of the amount of cotton re quired by the principal foreign coun tries for manufacturing purposes dur ing the cotton year ending the cot ton year ending September 1, 1912, place the amount at 12,518,112 bale3 of 500 pounds each. These estimates were called for by the department of state upon the request of the gover nor of Texas, who wanted the infor mation for the conference of govern ors at New Orleans. The summa ry however, is incomplete, as a num- oer of countries were not included. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that cotton was king ir North Carolina in 1909, according to the figures of the Census Bureau just issued, which are subject to revision. This crop was valued at $42,066,000. 3orn at $31,286,000, tobacco -at $13, $48,000, peanuts at $5,369,000. hay ind forage at $4,782,000, wheat at. $4, 120,000, sweet potatoes and yams at f4,338,000, potatoes at $1,755,000, oats it $1,742,000 and dry peas at $1, )24,000. An increase of 42 per cent, is aoted n the cotton acreage between 1S39 md 1900, while corn decreased 260. i49 acres, of 9. per cent. The cot in nrnrhictinn in 1909 was 6t.l: Sales, and 34,053,531 bushels of corn were raised the same year. The tobacco acreage also showed i gain of 1S.S67, or 9.3 per cent. The ireatert gain was noted in peanuts. which amounted to almost double the ;rop grown in 1S99. The. acreage n irease was 99.278, or 108.6 per cent JVheat showed a severe falling off in :he decade, -decreasing 245,072 or 32.8 Der cent. Sweet potatoes and yams showed an ncrease of 23.3 per cent in acreage. 16,010 acres having been planted in :he crop. Tho ground planted in po :atoes increased 8,371 acres, or 35.4 per cent., but oats showed a decreased icreage of 42,756 acres, or 1S.S per :ent. Dry peas showed n gam in icreage of 81,527, or 92 per cent. GUILFORD HOME NO BURDEN What Is Done There Toward Making The Institution Self-Sustaining Supt. Doing Good Work. Greensboro. In his report to th& Board of County Commissioners the superintendent of the county work house or reformatory, had a credit item of over a thousand dollars, realized from the sale of fresh butter beans, fresh corn field peas and tur nip greens to the merchants of Greensboro. He had sold $540 worth of butter beans alone, and over $400 worth of field peas. Asked how he got them shelled ready for market, fie replied that he hustled everybody out of bed , about two o'clock in the morning that he was to have the truck on the market, and got the shelling done on time in this way, letting the inmates of the reformatory sleep later to make up for the early rising. The superintendent also said that the farmers in the locality, were be ginning to make a 'fuss" over this free labor competitio'n with them in aisine and selling truck. This is one way in which Guilford is trying to solve the problem of what to do with the women and boys of a rail road city, who therwi would Idle up in jail, since "road sentences are net desirable for this class of con victs, nuisances or vagrants. The women of the work house also Jo the entire .laundering, patching. uending, etc., for the road lorces, and jre now at work cutting and making (he rounty convict uniform to be ionned scon as winter suits, and also to comply with the act of the last legislature requiring that misdemean or convicts ' shall not be clothed m stripes after January 1st. Besides this, the city convicts will have en tire new suits of winter clothing, made by the work house women. ABE WELL PLEASED PROMOTERS OF RANDOLPH-CUM- BERLAND ROAD ENCOURAGED IN THE WORK. Column of Short Paragraphs of Gen eral News Gotten Together With Care By the ' Editor. BOND ELECTION IN DECEMBER Counties Through Which Road Will Pass to Vote For $50,000 in Bonds- Road Will Tap Some of -Richest Forests in the State. Morth Carolina New Enterprises. Two certificates of incorporation ind one amendment were filed with :h secretary of state. The Gastonia "Parage Company of Gastonia. author zed capital, $50,000, with $2,000 paid n by A. G. Myers, John C. Rankin. vV. H. Adams and R. Grady Rankin Jnraiprs' Union Warehouse Company jf Kinston; to operate warehouse for itorage of cotton and other products; mthorized capital, $50,000, divided nto shares of $5 each; subscribed. 51,500, by Z. Edwards, Jno. F. Harper, Lemmel Taylor, L. F. Doughty and jthers. The Cape Fear Country Club imtmis its charter so that it may buiid club house for entertainment 3f members and visitors to Wilniing- .on i.nd New Hanover county C. E. Taylor, Jr., is president and Milton alder is secretary. Young Boy Was Killed. Information has just reached Ashe- eille of the killing near there of young Harrv Sutton, a 15-year-old boy, at Big Creek in Haywood county, sev eral miles from Waynesville. The in formation reached Waynesville in a ieleeram sent to the sheriff and is verr meager. It is said that the boy tvas shot bv a man named Messer but the cause of the trouble is not learn ed. At Waynesville it is reported that young Sutton was employed by the Champion Lumber Compcny. His body was brought to the home of his parents in the lower part of the county. Pathfinders In Greensboro. James A. Henstreet and Ira D: Wa terman, two expert automobilists and pathfinders spent a night in Greens boro on the inway from Jacksonville to New York. They are negaged in lay ing out a new route for the American Automobile Association and are pre paring a strip map which will be put in the hands ' of the members. The new route will be by way of Lynch burg and Danville to Greensboro leav ing Roanoke and Winston-Salem to one side. The route from here to Charlotte will be the .same as that 3f the . national highway. Good Work at Penitentiary. Superintendent Laughinhouse, of the state prison, gives the statement that on the farms this year he has made fifteen hundred bales of cotton on fifteen hundred acres, enough corn and forage to last nearly two years, enlarged the buildings for stock and forage, and done much work in put ting up dykes on Roanoke river so as to make possible a bigger crop next year. This is good news and is a re sult of good farming and good busi ness methods, and speaks finely for the management. Appear Before Clerk of Court. A number of the parties interested In the Big CoTd Water Drainage dis trict appeared before the clerk of the court at Concord to discuss the mat ter of finally declaring the proposed district a regular drainage district The preliminary survey had already been made r.nd the engineer and board of viewers has recommended that the creek be drained. There were a number of interested parties at the hearirg both for and against the proposition. There was a lengthy argument on the matter- Set Date For Bond Election. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen, the date for the bond elec tion for the purpose of raising school money to build another big brick structure was set for January 16. There has been a hope that the elec tion could be called for December and the work on the books and the campaign concluded before the first of the vear. But it had been deferred until too late a date and the middle of the first month in the year was concluded the wisest time upon which to call so important an election. The holiday season was considered too busy. A new registration will be nec essary. There has not been one since 1901, when there was a school elec ticn. High' Point. The promoters of the Randolph and Cumberland Railway Company, of which Mr. A. E. Tute of this city, is one of the leading spirits, are much encouraged in their work. It is stated that the counties of Moore, Chatham, Randolph, Guilford, Forsyth, Yadkin, et al., through which this road will pass, will order elec tions to be held on the 11th inst. The election authorized will call for a vote on $50,000 in bonds each from the townships of Gilmer and 'More head; $100,000 frcm High Point, and $25,000 each from some of the other townships which will be benefited by this road. The company owns a fran chise, and they claim that there wfll be no delay in the construction of the road. The proposed route of the road will be from Southport to. High Point, with probably a branch terminu3 to Greensboro, and a direct line through frcm High Point to Winston-Salem, and on to a terminal point at Eikin. It is said that this route will tap S: me of the richest forest and other sections in the state, and prove of great value to shippers. This road, when completed, will have connection with the four great systems, that reach the state, viz.: the Atlantic Coast Line at Fayetteville ; the Sea board Air Line at a point south of Sanford; the Southern at Asheboro, High Point, Winston-Salem and Elkin, and tlje Norfolk and Western at Win ston-Salem. Disappeared on July 20. Concerning tho theft of $20,000 from the registered mail reported from Greensboro, a shipment that originat ed at Raleigh and was addressed to New York, it was learned at Raleigh that the package really disappeared July 20, and not a week ago as the reports had it. The registry was fully insured so that neither the govern ment nor the Raleigh bank that made the shipment suffered any loss from the theft. Organize a Repair Force. Statesville. At their meeting the county commissioners decided to or ganize at once a repair force' to -fce put to work on the macadam roads cf the county. The force is to be equip ped with whatever road machinery is necessary and will be operated under the direction of Chairman Mills and Engineer Fallis. The county has a lot of macadam road which is badly ir need of repair and there has been a clamor for a repair force for some time. The eight road forces at work tnroughout the county under the pro visions of the $400,000 bond issue will build sand clay roads except at places where macadam is considered abso lutely necessary. It has been thor oughly demonstrated throughout the country that sand clay roads are best and least expensive when properly constructed. Guilford Teachers Meet. The Guilford County Teachers' As sociation met in the court house and continued the study of "The Teacher and the School," which had been de signated as the reading course for the fall months. Prof. J. A. Mathe- son of the faculty of the State Normal College gave a talk upon the subjects treated in the book. The phonetic method was also discussed at some length. , Earle Vautare Has Been Arrested. Earle Vautare, a self-styled palmist and clairvoyant, who fleeced a num ber of Greensboro people out of dia monds and jewelry to the value of three or four thousand dollars, Las been arrested and is ' now in Terra Haute, Ind., was the news conveyed in a telegram to Chief of Police Iseley. It is probable that the Indiana officials will release Vaultare and he will be brought here for trial. Overrules the Exceptions. Raleigh. The Corporation Commis sion makes an order over-ruling the exceptions of the Southern Railway to the order of the commission that the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line join in the erection of a union station at Rutherfordton and directing tne railroad companies to submit plans for an adequate passenger station within thirty days. This is the case in which the Southern set up the novel exception that its Rutherfordton sta tion is incorporated as Hamptonville and that under the law the commis sion had no right to require the unton station proposed because it would be within 5 miles of the Hamptonville station. Raleigh. Ma j. J. J. Bernard left foi Asheboro, to muster in Company K. Third Regiment. This company, Cap tain Armond in command, takes the place of the Weldon company, dis banded. Organize a Fair Association. Albemarle. A very enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Stanly coun ty assembled to consider the big Trades Day, which is to be held the 23rd. The citizens present organized themselves into a Fair Association, under the name of "The Stanly County Fair Association," of this Mr.-W.-L Mann, of Albemarle, was elected pres ident. There were elected a vice-pres ident from each township; and the president and vice-presidents are to compose an executive committee. Pearce Is Granted Bail. Held without bond by the coroner's jury of Franklin county, J. Hackney Pearce, Jr., twenty years old, charged with the murder on the first day of November of Alexander Macon, aged twenty-one, was granted bail in the sum of $10,000 by Judge R. B. Peebles, before whom the case was heard. The hearing was on habeas corpus pro ceedings,' the writ having bee l suei out before Judge G S. Fergnson, who is now holding court at Tarboro, the Solicitor of the Fourth . District Mr. Allsbrook, being in attendance. Will Not Stop Demonstration Work Albemarle. The county commis sioners decided not to cut out the farm demonstration work in Stanly For the past two years' Mr. S. A Underwood has been serving as de monstrator, and the county has ap portioned sufficient funds to make out j his salary, taken with the amount paid by the United States Department of Agriculture.. However, a few per sons raised - a kick and presented tbenipelves with petitions asking the commissioners to discontinue the ap portionment. Efforts were in vain, North Carolina's Exhibit. Assistant State Horticulturist S. B. Shaw left a few days ago oh a scout ing trip in search of fruits and veg etables to be placed on display at the National Horticultural Congress, which will be held this year in St. Joseph, Mo., November 23-December 3. State Horticulturist Hutt is also out gathering material for North Car olina's exhibit, which will be shipped in the near future. Thiss state always holds her own at these national ex iiibits 'and captures silver cupi and fclae ribbons. Concerning Postal Savings Banks High Point. Postmaster Ragan has just received informtaion from the Postoffice Department concerning the postal savings banks which are to be issued January 1, 1912. Depositors may exchange the whole or a part Qf their deposits on the above date tor United States registered or coupon bonds, in denominations of $20, $100 and $500, bearing interest at the rate of 2 1-2' per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and redeemable at the pleasure cf the United States aftei ne year from the date of issue. FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE Raleigh. The Raleigh Country Club enjoyed electric lights for the first time, . the line just being completed from the city out there. Durham. Where there are so many violating the law by selling whiskey, just think of the number who are as sisting in it by buying the stuff. Lancaster. Mr. J. B. Vaughan of Pleasant Hill township has an apple tree in his orchard that is bearing its second crop of fruit this year, the ap ples being of good, eatable size. . Statesville. Rev. C E. Madry, who is in charge of the First Baptist shurch, has had a very flattering call to the Tabernacle church at Raleigh. He has the call under consideration. Statesville. John Berry, a negro sharged with stealing cotton in sooth Iredell, has been placed in jail here to await superior court. Berry was arrested in Mecklenburg county and 3ent to jail in default of $200 bond. Raleigh. The Eastern Carolina Christian Conference, in session at Ca- awba Christian Church, near Raleigh, elected Pleasant Union Church, Har nett county, as the place of meeting for bte 1912 conference and named Rev. Herbert Scholts of Macon to de- iver the annual address. Statesville. At Mooresville Mr. W. 3. Flowers sold a cow to a traveling man from Virginia for $125. While 100 is considered a big price for a jow, the one which changed hands at Mooresville is said to be well worth the price paid. She is a well-bred lersey and is said to be a "six-gallon-a-day milker." Wadesboro. Chief of Police J. A. Patrick," of Blewitt Falls captured 32 pints of booze on the Blewett Falls rifht-of-way near Pee Dee; but the tiger took to his heels and escaped. Several raids have recently been made by the officers and a general cleaning up and "running out" of the undesir able is taking place in this vicinity. Tarboro. Cotton receipts at Tar- boro, for the week ending November , 1911, were 896 bales. For the cor responding week last year there were 840 bales, an increase of 256 bales. This doesn't look as though the Edge scmbe farmers were following the ad vice of the recent Governor's confer snce to hold cotton. Bryson City. Mr. S. W. Black, who had on exhibit some of the finest ap ples entered at the state fair, has just been notified that he has been award sd second price in the York Imperial exhibit. Mr. Black has one of the best Drchards in western North Carolina, and was possibly the only man who had an exhibit of apples at the state fair from Swain county. Statesville. The county board of education was in session and ordered special school tax elections in two districts, the special tax to be voted on being 20 cents on the $100 and 60 ents on the poll. There are now nearly thirty special school tax dis tricts in the county and as a result there are better school buildings and longer terms. Winston-Salem. Fifty-four years of happy married life is the record of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brown, who live near Walnut Cove, and a few days ago Mrs. Brown celebrated her seventy- eighth birthday. 'Many friends and relatives through three generations, to the number of one hundred and nine persons, visited the aged and happy couple. Sanford. Quite a disastrous wreck occurred one mile south of here when five loaded box cars In the rear of the Seaboard local freight station jumped the track and were torn to pieces and piled up in a deep cut. It is not known what caused the wreck, but it is thought to be a rough place in the track as it happened on a curve and down a steep grade. Marshville. Messrs. H. E. and J. B. Clay of Hickory have recently invent ed a new machine and placed on the market known as the cotton-seed sep. arator. The machine is designed to separate the diseased, immature and otherwise faulty seeds from the sound ones, and will be built in various sizes from the small hand-machine for use on the farm to the large power ma chines to be used at gins and oil mills. Winston-Salem. To establish a sys tem of parks commensurate with the needs and constant development of the Twin City, the Winston-Salem board of trade has inaugurated a specific movement, and a strong committee of representative citizens has been ap pointed for the purpose. Raleigh. Gen. B. S. Ryoster and F. P. Hobgood appeared before the Cor poration Commission in protest against the action of the commission as state tax commission in assessing taxes against the $13,500 capital stock of the Oxford Seminary & Construction Co.. which operates Oxford Seminary. High Point D. B. Smith, Esq., of Charlotte, will deliver the annual ad dress before the Elks of this city in the auditorium December 3. These beautiful scenes will be-interspersed with appropriate vocal and instrumen tal music by sexoa ot High Point's hest talent. High Point. At the formal organi zation meeting of the High Point In dustrial Club held in the auditorium Mayor F. N. Tate was elected presi dent; first vice preseident, A. M. Briggs; second vice president, J. m Hedgcock, and Mr. Robert Sechrist. treasurer. URGE SOME AGTI0I1 Oil FAVORED CLAUSE THE PUBLISHERS DEMAND THAT PRESIDENT TAFT OBSERVE. GOOD FAITH. WAS A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE Question of Enforcing the Favored Nation Clause Has Arisen Because of Passage of Section 2, of the Act. t m of July 26, 1911. New York. The American Kewsv paper Publishers Association, throuaii John Norris, chairman, of its commit tee on paper, has sent a letter to Pres ident Taft urging that the government observe good faith In the obsrranc of the favored nation clause oC twenty-eight treaties with respect to the free importation of pulp and paper when made from unrestricted wood. The letter recites substantially as fol lows: The Question of enforcing the f- vored nation clause has arisen be cause of the passage of section 2 of the act of July 26, 1911, which grant ed a special privilege to Canada i the matter of free pulp and paper and which did not depend upon Ca nadian concurrence, becoming effec tive immediately upon the passage of the law. It was a separate and Inde pendent tariff provision. Canada's repudiation of reciprocity and the continued importation of Canadian pulps and paper free or duty after September 21, 1911, tner date of the Canadian election, put. the United States in position where It was granting a special privilege, to Canada and It became obligated try Its twenty-eight treaties to give equal treatment immediately to the other nations. Mr. Norris says there are indica tions that American paper-makers are Beeklng to delay the execution of the law bv ureine reference of the matter to the courts for determination. He? points out a precedent for executive; action in 1899 when the administra tion, through ' instructions issued by the Secretary of the Treasury to col lectors, granted to Switzerland, under its favored nation clause, the same rates on wines and spirits that France enjoyed under its reciprocity treaty if 1898. Joe Matson Has Entered. Savannah, Ga. A telegram was re ceived by Secretary Arthur W. Solo mon of the Savannah Automobile Club from E. R. Hollander, manager of the Fiat Automobile Company, advis ing him of the nomination of Joe Matson vice Teddy Tetzlaff as a Flat driver in the Vanderbilt race at Sa.- vannah November 27. Tetzlaff was; incapacitated as the result of intorteB received in the desrt race. Matson is a driver of international reputation; and his name but adds one more bright spot in the constellation of world-famous stars that will be rep resented at Savannah, lie won the Indiana trophy in 1909. He audi Knipper won sixteen events in 1905, carrying with it the Americcn road; championship. Aviator Rodger Has Fail. Los Angeles, CaL In an attempted flight from Pasadena to Long Beach, officially to end his Atlantic-Pacifie journey, Aviator C. P. Rodgera met with the worst mlsnap oi ma career, falling with his machine 125 feet Into a ploughed field, half way between. the two cities and within sight of BJS. destination. Although no bones were broken. RodgerB was rendered unconscious. He was badly shaken, his facer scratched and tourn, his hands were burned by his mottor and he com plains of severe pains In his side. Fleet Maneuvers on Virginia Beach. Newport, R. I. The first, third and. fifth divisions of the north Atlantic fleet of battleships will leave Newport headed for the Virginia coast, off which they will assume the guise ot an attacking squadron. Aged Man Murders Wife. Macon. Ga. Mrs. Lizzie McCall. aged 70, was shot and killed by her husband Robert McCall, aged 71 years, while she lay asleep in her bea at her home here. McCall then barri- cadded himself In another bedroom and when the sheriff broke down the door he was found lying on the bed sound asleep with a shotgun by hi side. On the floor lay a half pint bot- tl which had contained whiskey. McCall told the sheriff that after he fired the shot He drank the contents and went to sleep. Strike Has Gotten Serious. New York. New York's streets have become so littered with piles of garbage as the result of the street cleaners strike, thai Commissioner Edwards will begin Uv U3e of disin fectants. He decided upon this meas ure after a tour of the city with Dr. Ernest B. Lederle, commissioner of health, who feared- that condluona were, such as to menace public health. Dr. Lederle said he found conditions on the East Side "pretty bad.- Rain, which is falling is expected to flush, much of the refuse away. I 1 1 .3 1' 4.: 'i .'' i i r t 1 1