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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBOrtO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C; OCTOBER 2, 1912.
NO. 81
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN .
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Part of World.
Southern.
1 Alfred Dora, was killed and two oth
er citizens shots, one probably fatal
ly, by members of the state militia
who had formed a dead line about the
Fifteenth street plant of the Augusta,
Ga., street railway company to pre
vent attack by strikers or sympathiz
ers. The injured are Robert Christie
and Ben Baker.
After being held at bay all night by
a drug-crazed negro, Louisville Ky.,
policemen rushed the black's barri
cade and then captured him before he
could make further resistance. The
prisoner, Ed Jackson, was arrested on
a trivial charge. He escaped, took
refuge in a house in the crowded ne
gro quarter and began firing on pe
destrians and street cars. One of the
Dolicemen sent to arrest him was dan
gerously shot. When the police gained
entrance to the house, they found two
other negroes with Jackson. One of
them, who attempted to rush the po
lice, was shot down.
Miss Beulah Chandler, aged 18, pre
vented the wrecking or Norfolk and
Western passenger train No. 1 when
she discovered tons of rock on the
track at a curve near Bluefield, W.
Va. She was walking beneath the
spot when she discovered the debris
and heard the train approaching. She
took off her apron, ran down the track
and flagged the train, which ran up
to and touched the slide of rocks.
Passengers cheered her and took up
a large collection for her.
Three persons were killed, three
are seriously injured, one is missing
and six others were slightly hurt,
when Southbound passenger train No.
14, bound from Chicago to Jackson
ville, Fla., was derailed two miles
north of Plainville, Ga. Two coaches, a
Pullman and the baggage and express
car were thrown from the track. One
passenger is unaccounted for, and is
supposed to be underneath one of the
coaches. The wreck was caused by a
truck breaking while the train was
traveling at a high rate of speed. Re
lief parties were rushed to the scene
in automobiles.
William H. Bell, a 20-year-old bank
clerk of Pensacola, Fla., confessed
that he robbed the local First Na
tional bank of a package containing
$55,000 of the Louisville and Nash
ville payroll and substituted a bogus
package in its place. Fear that the
officers would suspect his brother
caused Bell to confess.
Howard E. Edwards, the New Or
leans highway who held up and rob
bed the New York limited train of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
near New Orleans on the night of
September 4, has been indicted by the
grand jury.
The construction and maintenance
of an adequate system of levees along
the Mississippi river as the only
means of holding the waterway with
in bounds, is primarily a national
problem, was agreed by speakers at
the first sessions of the annual con
vention of the Interstate Levee asso
ciation. General.
"River regulation and rate regula
tion for transportation," and ' "river
regulation is a price regulation,"
were the slogans of President Wil
liam K. Kavanaugh's annual address,
read before the opening session of the
lakes to the gulf deep waterways con
vention in session in Little Rock, Ark.
A force of 750 American marines
under Col. E. J. Moses will sail from
Philadelphia on the transport Prairia
for San Domingo, to compel the re
opening of Dominican customs houses
along the border of Hayti, closed by
revolutionists.
Events are moving rapidly in the
big mine strike of West Virginia. Con
ferences were started by Governor
Glasscock, and military commanders
looking to a reduction of the number
of tftate soldiers now on duty in the
martial law district of Kanawha coun
ty. A company of state militia was
attacked at an isolated point near
Dry Branch, and over fifty shots were
fired at the troops.
William ' Henry Yarbrough celebrat
ed his 107th birthday anniversary at
Danville, 111. He is still hale and
hearty. He came to Illinois and to
Danville in 1833 and conducted the
first blacksmith shop in Danville.
Half of the Chinese loan of $50,000,
000 is to be offered in London for sub
scription. First Baseman Myers of the Spo
kane club of the Northwestern league
has established a new record, stealing
his 108th base of the season. The for
mer record of 105 baefes was held by
Zimmerman of the Chicago National
league team.
Prince Louis Napoleon Murat, a
grandson of the French Marshal Mu
rat, whom Napoleon first created as
1
ng of Naples, and a nephew of ex
Empress Eugenie, is dead in Paris,
trance, aged 61.
1
All doubt as to the determination of
the Chinese government to reject the
proposed international bankers loan
of $350,000,000 was removed when
Provisional President Yuan Shi Kai
formally declined the proposal in an
swer to a direct question by Sir John
L. Jordan, the British minister at Pe
kin. News of the action has been re
ceived in official circles in Washing
ton. Until now the only notice to the
six powers that China had decided to
reject the loan was contained in a
statement made by the Chinese min
ister in London to the representatives
of the London bankers' group.
The seizure of a young man for ran
som by Mexican rebels is announced
in a telegram received at Salt Lake
City, Utah, by the first presidency of
the Mormon church from Junius Rom
ney, its representative at El Paso,
Texas. The dispatch says- "Rojas
rebels looted Bowman's camp in So
nora day before yesterday. Took De
mar Bowman for ransom, $1,000. Reb
els, about 500 in all, marched south
from Colonia Pachecho."
Determination not to submit to
home rule was expressed by 20,000 Or
angemen and ' Unionists, residents of
the county of Armagh, Ulster, Ireland.
They had assembled in the birthplace
of Orangeism to welcome Sir Edward
Carson and other Unionist leaders.
Rifles were carried by some of the
battalions, into which the members of
the Unionist clubs were formed, when
they took part in a great procession
Count John Drashkovtich Orloff of
Croatia was released from parole by
Municipal Judge Sabath of Chicago to
permit the count to spend a honey
moon of several months in Europe
with his wife, who was Miss Mary
Henrietta Sparrow, a wealthy Chicago
woman. Creditors caused much trou
ble for Count Orloff just before and
after his wedding here. Finally a
typewriter concern had him arrested
on a charge of larceny as bailee, ana
Judge Sabath placed the count on pro
bation for one year.
Regiments of the Highland light in
fantry and Scottish borderers will be
drafted into Belfast, Ireland, -in antic
ipation of Ulster day, when the cove
nant in defiance of home rule is to
be signed by Ulsterites. The Royal
Irish Rifles, already stationed at Bel
fastfi are confined to barracks in read
iness for emergencies. More than a
thousand members of "young citizens
of Ireland" were enrolled. The new
organization is to assist when called
upon by the civil authorities to main
tain peace. v
Gov. Eugene T. Fosa has been re
nominated by the Democrats in the
primary election of Massachusetts.
Returns from one-half the state, in
cluding the city of Boston, gave him
a lead of nearly eleven thousand
votes over his opponent.
Washington.
Permission to transport an addition
al force of Mexican Federal troops
through American territory has been
granted by . the state department
through the Mexican embassy at
Washington.
Uncle Sam's staff sergeants in the
Philippines have waxed fat and the
army subscribes to the dictum, "no
body loves a fat man." Lapped in
the lazy luxury of military life in the
Oriental headquarters the sergeants
have developed what is politely term
ed embonpoint, otherwise paunch. A
walking test is prescribed by the mil
itary authorities.
Postmasters of the five largest cit
ies of the United States went to
Washington in response to a sum
mons from Postmaster General Hitch
cock, who desired them to confer with
the special committee he had appoint
ed to work out plans for establishing
the parcels post. They will be in
conference with the postmaster gen
eral and his committee for several
days, giving advice on a number of
subjects affecting operation of the
parcels post in larger cities, such as
warehouse and terminal facilities,
and the utilization of the present car
rier force in the parcels post.
It has been practically decided that
President Taft will soon issue an ex
ecutive order placing all fourth class
postmasters in the classified service.
This order, relieving 36,038 postmas
ters from the uncertainty of political
appointment, will be one of the most
comprehensive and far-reaching, as af
fecting the civil service ever issued.
It is the concenaus of opinion that
all government officers below the
grade of cabinet members should be
removed from the influence of poli
tics and placed under civil service,
The most marked upward trend of
the cost of living is disclosed in the
Federal bureau of' labor's report of an
investigation of prices for the paslt
ten years conducted in the Important
industrial centers of thirty two states.
Fifteen most important articles of
food, as wfell as coal, comprising two
thirds of a workingman's needs, were
investigated. On June 5, 1912, the re
port shows, fourteen' of the fifteen
articles of food were higher than a
year before, and then had advanced in
the paat ten years more than fifty per
cent, over the average retail price for
the ten-year period, 1890-1899.
Negotiations for the sale of 800,000,
000 feet of timber in the Sierra na
tional forest to a California lumber
company were announced by Chief
Forester Graves. He is en route to
California to close the deal the larg
est ever made by the Federal forestry
service. The company was high, bid
der for the timber, for which prices
will be changed every five years until
all ia cut. Forester Graves says the
national forests contain 600,000,000,
000 feet of merchantable timber, but
that most of it is too isolated for sale,
as it could not be handled profitably
by the company.
OBJECT IS BETTER
FREIGHT RATES
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION OF
i
STATE CHAMBER OF COM
MERCE EFFECTED.
MEETING AT GREENSBORO
Permanent Plans Left to Meeting For
Raleigh Next Month Oppose Con
solidation of Traffic Bureau Work
With Commercial Organizations.
Greensboro. A meeting of .35 busi
ness men representing 13 cities and
towns of the state, held at the Country
Club, resulted in the organization of
a temporary association, which is now
called the North Carolina Chamber
of Commerce, but whose chief and
primary object is the securing of bet
ter freight rates and more equitable
traffic conditions for the cities of this
state.
The meeting was called by Secre
tary L. E. Tufts, of the Durham cham
ber of commerce, after conference
with Secretary S. F. Sherman, of the
uoldsboro chamber of commerce,
Mayor Fred N. Tate, of High Point,
President R. D. Douglass of Greens
boro chamber of commerce and oth
ers interested in the matter of a state
commercial organization. The ses
sion was held at the Country Club
following an elegant luncheon ten
dered the visiting gentlemen by the
Greensboro chamber of commerce,
and after three hours' discussion it
was decided . to organize a temporary
association following which the plan
suggested may be submitted to the va
rious commercial bodies of the state
for consideration and action. Another
meeting will be held at Raleigh on
Tuesday, Oct. 15, to take final action
relative to the permanent organisa
tion. When it became evident that it was
going to be most difficult to consoli
date the traffic bureau with the
commercial organizations a commit
tee was appointed under motion of
Mayor Tate of High Point, to submit
a plan of organization. This commit
tee was elected from the floor and
consisted of Col. Fred Olds, of Ral
eigh; Leake Carraway, of Charlotte;
L. E. Tufts, of Durham, and John
Underwood, of Fayetteville.
Roosevelt To Visit Old North State.
James N. Williamson, Jr., national
committeeman of the Progressive
party of North Carolina, has received
a telegram from Mr. O. K. Davis, sec
retary, in which Mr. Davis states that
Colonel Roosevelt Will visit the "Old
North State" on October 1 and the
following will be his itinerary in the
state: Arrive Asheville at 5:5$ a.
m.;' leave Asheville at 7:10 a. m.;
arrive Salisbury at 11:55 a. m.; leave
Salisbury at 12 : 05 p. m. ; arrive at
Greensboro at 1:40 p. m.; leave
Greensboro at 2 p. m., by special
train; arrive Burlington at 2:40 p.
m.; leave Burlington at 2:50 p. m.;
arrive at Durham at 3:50 p. m.; leave
Durham at 4 p. m.; arrive Raleigh at
5:30 p. m.
Croom Gives Himself Up.
C. T. Croom. a well-known white
man and formerly deputy sheriff,
wanted for the alleged murder of
Magistrate J. N. Sykes, who died a
few weeks ago as the result of a
wound in the head, held by the coro
ner's jury to have been Inflicted or
caused by Croom, gave himself up to
Justice George Harris and Sheriff S.
P. Cowan of Wilmington. He said
that he waited upon advice of counsel
until the eve of the convening of the
court before giving himself up, as he
had a horror of the jail.
Orange County Bonds Are Valid.
The ruling of Orange county supe
rior court that the $250,000 bond is
sue by this county for road-building
was invalid, because of irregularity
in the election, . is reversed by the
supreme court, which holds the bonds
valid as necessary expense, and fully
sustained by legislative enactment.
Good Road Progress in Iredell.
Iredell county's, progress in road
improvement as the result of her
$400,000 bond' issue will be commend
ed before one of the largest good
roads conventions ever held. Ten
pictures of the good roads of the
county and the excellent steel bridges
being installed have been prepared for
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geolo
gist, who will take them to the big
good roads meet to be held in Atlan
tic City. Samples of the soil used in
the construction of the roads will ac
company the pictures.
Blockading on The Increase. ;
A large posse of United States and
county officers returned from an all
night raid in Sumner towpship, bring
ng with them a still of 50-gallon ca
pacity and reports of having destroy
ed several hundred gallons of beer
and given stern chase to the believed
operators. "No one was captured, but
the manufacturing , outfit was safely
landed. The raid was the result of
numerous reports whivh have been
brought to Greensboro that blockad
ing was reaching considerable proportions-
AN APPEAL TO THE STATE
Movement on Foot To Introduce a Bill
in the Legislature to Preserve
Mount Mitchell.-
Ashevllle. There are a number of
people in this part of the state who
are anxious that the state should
take some action to preserve Mount
Mitchell as ; it now is. They insist
that this should be done for several
reasons. One is in , the interest of
the conservation movement; another
is that it should be preserved for the
good of posterity; a third is' that it
should be preserved as a monument
to Professor Mitchell, who lost his
life in exploring this,' the highest peak
east of the Rockies, where he now
lies buried.
They declare that unless some ac
tion is taken soon by the state, it is
in imminent danger of losing one of
its greatest natural attractions, since
the lumbermen are already beginning
to encroach on its sides; and in the
natural course of events it will not
be many years until the whole moun
tain is denuded of forests. This, they
contend would be little short of trag
edy and would not be fair to the com
ing generations.
Already nearly all of the trees have
been destroyed on the very top of
the mountain,, cut down for fuel by
those who spend nights on the peak.
Some steps should be taken to stop
this destruction in any event, they
say.
i If the state should secure the
boundary including this mountain, it
is thought that it could be maintained
without any expense to the state;
that is, that it wpuld produce enough
revenue to pay for the patroling nec
essary to keep out fires and to pre
vent people from cutting down the
trees. In this connection, mention
is made of the German methods,
where municipalities own forests and
use the revenue in lieu of taxes. It
is said that there are numbers - of
towns in Germany where the people
are not taxed at all, but the running
expenses of the government are paid
by the revenue of the .forests.
Want Duplin Road Made Carrier.
Insisting that the corporation com
mission has ample power to do so, if
it will, petitioners are taking steps to
go into the courts and undertake to
compel the commission to declare the
lumber road of the Hilton Lumber
Company ,in Duplin county, a common
carrier and provide depot facilities at
Pinhook, and siding facilities at a ter
minus of the road near Magnolia. The
commission some weeks ago made an
order taking the ground that the com
mission cannot compel a railroad to
become a common carrier and really
has no jurisdiction as to regulating
a road until it voluntarily becomes a
common carrier, or is made so by the
legislature. The commission was to
have heard exceptions recently to this
position, but E. K. Bryan, represent
ing the Hilton company, could not be
here and H. L. Stevens, attorney for
petitioners agreed to a postponement.
Politics in Brunswick County.
News has been received in Wilming
ton of the result of the Democratic
convention of Brunswick county, held
for the purpose of naming a legisla
tive) and county ticket. Hon George
H. Bellamy, who represented New
Hanover and Brunswick counties in
the last general' assembly as senator,
was nominated for the . house and a
full county ticket was put in the field.
Candidates for county offices were
named as follows: Sheriff, John T.
Robinson; register of deeds, George
H. Gray; treasurer, Charles A. Russ;
coroner, D. Lennon Gore; surveyor,
Ralph M. Edwards; commissioners, A.
M. Chinnis, George W. Kirby, David
Ward. George H. Bellamy was made
permanent chairman.
Will Visit County Fairs.
A delegation representing the Great
er Western North Carolina Associa
tion, headed by Manager Sanford H.
Cohen, will-visit all the county fairs
held in the section of the state in
cluded in the association. They will
do this in order to try to have real
estate exchanges formed in the va
rious counties. The idea is to have
the agricultural, horticultural, miner
al, timber and grazing lands which
are for sale, so listed that the people
coming Into this section may easily
see what is1 for sale.
Guilty of Second Degree Murder.
Found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree, B. F. Vann was 'sentenced
to a term of twenty-five years in the
state penitentiary. Vann's testimony
that he killed Oliver Layden on July
11 in self-defence during a quarrel
over a small debt is believed by many
to have saved him from the electric
chair. The prisoner was brought in
the court after the, jury had announc
ed that it had reached a verdict. For
the first time during the entire trial,
his mother and sisters were not pres
ent. Captured An Escaped Convict.
Henry Austin, an escaped convict
from the state penitentiary, was cap
tured in Franklin township, Rowan
coufcty, by Sheriff J. H. McKenzie and
deputies J. H. Krider and Gray Ken
erly. Austin escaped from the state
authorities August 13 and the Rowan
officers have been on a sharp watch
for him ever since. Locating him in
a piece of woods near the bank of the
Yadkin river, Sheriff McKenzie and
his force ordered a surrender. He
wjll be returned to the state's prison
to complete an eight-year sentence.
CAMPAIGN IS OPENED
'' 1 m
MEARES PROGRESSIVE CANDI
DATE FOR GOVERNOR HEARD
IN CHARLOTTE.
LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS HIM
He Discussed the Social and the In
dustrial Justice, the Minimum Wage
Scale and Other Important Topic
of the Day. -
Charlotte. Preaching the gospel of
progressivism with an attractive tal-
ent and intensity, Hon. Iredell Meares,
candidate for Governor on the ticket
of the National Progressive party, ad
dressed a number of Mecklenburg and
Charlotte people in the county court
house. The weather miliated against
a large and representative crowd,
such as the Roosevelt forces claim
they can muster in . behalf of the in
ter ests of their leaders, but those who
heard the speaker parade the vitrues
cf the new principles,' lift the tenor
and temper of his address, above the
pl&ne of abuse and investive and for
get, himself for the promotion of the
cause which he champions were held
by his eloquence. Mr. Meares de
monstrated that as a platform speak-
t-r, he could measure with the two
other distinguished candidates for
Governor, representing the two old
line parties.
The campaign of the progressives
was formally opened with his speech.
He said that itwas fitting to choose
Mecklenburg in which to begin a se
ries of speeches which will be made
throughout North Carolina in advo
cacy of the principles which Theodore
Roosevelt has incorporated in ' his
platform for the Presidency. Meck
lenburg, being the home of the lovers
cf . liberty, where the fathers broke
the shackles of oppression and were
first to announce for liberty, offered
a fine setting for the introduction of
j the campaign which proposes to turn
the drift of popular opinion from the
constricted channels of the old parties
and into the. new and ever-alluring
way that has been opened up in the
United States by the Colonel.
Ohio Farmers on Prospecting Trip.
Raleigh. Secretary Elias Carr of
the state department of agriculture,
is iust back from accompanying a
! party of 25 Ohio farmers on a pros
I pecting trip through the black drain
1 ed soil sections of eastern Carolina,
and says that the entire party was
i enthusiastic and that probbly a ma
'jority of them will locate in this state.
They declared themselves convinced
that the North Carolina soils they in
spected are three times as productive
as soils that are available in. Ohio.
North Carolina New Enterprises.
Raleigh. Charters are issued for
the Stanley Ginning Co., of Gaston
county, capital $5,000 by C. B. Car
penter and others; the Richlands Val
ley Orchard Co., of Waynesville, capi
tal $50,000 authorized and $4,000 sub
scribed by W. S. Booke and others;
and The Imperial Pharmacy Co., of
Fayetteville, capital $20,000 authorized
and $10,000 subscribed byM. L. Perry,
F. A. Teeming anJ others.
Old Man Killed By Train.
Henderson. Mr. George Clark, aged
65 years, was struck and instantly
killed by southbound train No. 43, Mr.
Clark, who was very deaf, attempted
to cross the track when the train,
running about 45 miles an hour, was
within 70 feet of him. It is supposed
that he neither saw nor heard the
locomotive. The' deceased was a re
spected and prominent citizen.
Politics in Durham County.
Durham. The three candidates for
the legislature on the Democratlo
ticket opened the campaign in thi3
county at Rougemont. The speakers
and the candidates for the legisla
tive offices are Victor S. ryant, S. C.
Brawley and G. S. Stallings. A num
ber of people from this city were
there and the meeting was a most en
thusiastic one in every respect.
Capture An Illicit. Distillery.
Durham. Revenue Officers Knight,
Merritt and Constable Hall captured
a big illicit distillery some four or
five miles from Durham and with it
three white men, Luther and John
Dollar and another man by the name
of Ferrall. The officers had informa
tion that there was a plant in opera
tion in the neighborhood of the city
pumping station, and w.ent to a point
near the plant, concealed themselves
and awaited developments. While in
the act of making a run. the men were
completely surprised.
N. C. Hookworm Patierfts.
Washington. Two interesting
hookworm patients are being brought
from North Carolina by Dr. C. W.
Stiles of the public health and marine
hospital service for the edification of
the delegates to the Congress on Hy
giene and Demography. It was an
nounced they are two of the worst
hookworm cases that have been un
earthed in the work that Dr. Stiles
has been prosecuting for the marine
hospital service. One of them Is a
boy of 14, who looks as though he
were about 9.
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Short Paragraphs of State News' That
Have Been Gotten Together With
Care By the Editor.
Louisburg. The opening of tlu
local tobacco market and the increas
ing sales has been the centre of at
traction here for the past few weeks.
" Murphy. Deputy Sheriff Sam
Voyles was severely cut, but not se
riously with a knife by John.Mingus
in what is said to have been a drunk
en row Mingus gave bond.
Waynesville Judge Walter Clark
spoke here to a splendid audience,
In advocacy of his nomination for
the senate. Judge Clark delivered
some heavy blows in his own behalf.
; Mebane. Major Charles M. Stead-
man, present member of congress
and Democratic nominee from the
'Fifth district, made a strong and tell
ing speech here in behalf of Democ
racy. Raleigh. The state fair, just three
weeks off, gives promise of excelling
itself this fall and no former exhibi
tion ' has had nearly the extensive
preparation that has been given to
this one. !
Hendersonville. Joseph P. Israe1.
of this city, died in an Asheville hos
pital as the result of bullet wounds"
received' at the Hendersonville pas
senger station at the hands of Jule
L. Collins, who is now. confined in the'
Henderson county jail. "
Statesville. The chicken fanciers
of Statesville - are beginning to get
their fowls in shape for the annual
poultry show, the date has been fix
ed to be held from January 14 to
17.' The outlook now is for one of
the best shows ever held in this sec
tion of the country. x
Raleigh. With fire losses in North
Carolina running up to the enormous
sum of $4,000 daily and $1,500,00 an
nually State Fire Insurance Commis
sioner James R. Young is making a
state-wide appeal for the exercise of
greater care in the use of matches,
the greatest criminal against life and
property.
Morehead City. The county Dem
ocratic convention was held at Beau
fort and passed harmoniously. All the
county officials were renominated and
Charles S. Wallace was remoinated
for the house. The graded schools
begain their second week today with
nearly 550 pupils enrolled, this from
a town of 2,500 people. 1
Pittsboro. The boiler room to the
Nooe planing mill was destroyed by
fire. As soon as the alarm was given
crowds rushed to the scene with
buckets from the stores. By much
effort the main building was saved.
It is thought that the fire started by
some shavings igniting from the fire
box of. the boiler.
Winston-Salem. The ensuing year
promises to be the greatest year in
the history of the Twin City as far
as -material progress is concerned.
From plans already formulated, and
those now being carried -into effect, it
seems certain that considerably over
$1,000,000 will be expended for pub
lic Improvement work of various
kinds.
Raleigh. Claiming that the massive
granite pillars of the splendid bank
ing house of the Raleigh Banking &
Trust Co., on the corner of Fayette
ville and Hargett streets, encroach
three feet on the Fayetteville street
sidewalk, City Attorney W. H. race
is undertaking to have the -work on
building stopped until the matter can
be settled.
Salisbury. Gilbert . White, a civil
engineer of Durham, , has been asked
to make a survey and submit esti
mates of the cost of going to the
north fork of the Yadkin river for
Salisbury's water supply. This move
is a result of a joint meeting of the
water and health boards. It is possi
ble, however, that for the present
Grant's creek will be tapped and its
water used.
Goldsbo.ro. E. W. Hill, chairman of
the Republican county executive com
mittee, who is an ardent supporter of
the big Bull Mooser is making a de
termined effort to get Roosevelt to
make Goldsboro one' of his speakir.g
points in North Carolina, as was first
contemplated, when his Southern trip
was being planned. Mr. Hill states
that his party will put out a full
ticket in Wayne county. v
Fayetteville. The intelligence that
John W. Bolton, one of the most
brilliant and among the most popular
members of the Fayetteville bar, had
been found dead at his home on the
east side of the Cape Fear river fur
nished a shock to this community.
Wilmington. Traffic on the A. &
Y. and W. N. branches of the Atlan
tic Coast Line was seriously inter
fered with recently by washouts
caused by heavy rains of the past few
days. A passenger train leaving here
at 5:50 o'elock for Newbern was
wrecked betw.een Verona and Jack
sonville. ,
Raleigh. Dr. James Y. Joyner and
Dr. D. H. Hill have returned from
Washington, where they went to se
cure information that would help
them in planning and administration
of the Craven farm-life school.
Concord. An audience that filled
the Cabarrus county court house
heard the Hon. Francis D. Winston in
one of the most powerful addresses
he has delivered during his canvass
of the west. All together it was the
best meeting he has had. He was
introduced by Hon. L. T. Hartsell and
music was furnished by the local
band.
TUFT IS SILENT
Oil
HADLEY
ULTIMATUM
MISSOURI GOVERNOR WANTED
PRESIDENT TO TAKE BOLD
STAND FOR REFORM.
DONE WITH THE BOSS RULE
The State Committee Demands That
the Executive ' Cancel Speeches or
Else Pledge Himself to the G. O. P.
Wire Hadley's Proposition.
St Louis, Mo. No word from Pres
ident faft came in reply to Governor
Hadley's ultimatum to the State Re
publican Committee as to the terms on
which he would support the Presi
dent in the present campaign. This
was explained by Col. Otto F; Stifel,
member of the advisory committee of
the Republican National Committee
who said that he had wired President
Taft the text of Governor Hadley's
ultimatum and had failed to hear
from the President and had sent the
President a second telegram saying
that no immediate reply was neces
sary. Colonel Stifel explaining this action
in a statement, declared that he had
informed the President that the con
sidered "Hadley's speech at the open
ing of the State Republican campaign
as an endorsement of Taft and a
promise to support him."
Governor Hadley's ultimatum was
that he w.ould support President Taft
for re-election only on condition that
the President would at once declare
himself for presidential preference
primaries and non-boss controlled del
agtions from Southern states to Na
tional convenions in order to prevent
recurrence of the charges of. fraud
such as arose in the last Republican
National Convention.
Col. Otto F. Stifel called up Presi
dent Taft by long distance telephone
but the connection was had and he
could not make the President under
stand Governor. Hadley's proposition.
The President told Colonel Stifel to
submit the proposition in writing or
to go at once with it to Washington,
where the President would meet him.
Paving Way For State Convention.
New York. Democratic leaders be
gan their advance upon Syracuse for
the Democratic State Convention.
Charles F. Murphy leader of Tammany
Hall, United States Senator James
O'Gorman and John M. McCooey, a
Brooklyn leader, left for Syracuse;
Senator O'Gorman and Mr. Murphy
traveled together, having adjoining
seats in the drawing room compart
ment. The Senator declined to com
ment on the fact. Some one asked
Senator O'Gorman if the Syracuse
gathering would be an "unbossed"
convention. "Of course it will," he
replied. "There will be no one man
director of this convention.
An Entire Family Drowns.
Toronto, Ont. Five members ol
one family were drowned in the Pig
eon River the victims being William
McCaffrey of Toronto, sales manager
of the Canadian General Electric Com
pany, his mother, wife and two child
ren. A fourteen-pound muscalohge
which had been hooked by Mr. Mc
Caffrey was responsible for the deaths
of the family party. Mr. McCaffrey
had come here with his family to
spend a Bhort holiday. With his pa
rents and his wife, mother and two
children started out. in a canoe down
the Pigeon River in quest vof musca
longe. Again Assumes Peaceful Air.
Augusta, Ga. Another conference
betw.een Mayor Barrett, other city of
ficials and representatives of the
Street Railway Company in an effort
to bring about a settlement of the
street car strike proved unavailing.
The city has again assumed a peace
ful air after the exciting events of the
past few days, in which three citizens
were shot to death by members of the
state militia and two companies . ol
soldiers on guard duty here were sent
to their home stations.
Economic Importance of Corn.
Washington. Some idea regarding
the economic Importance of corn may
be had by a realization that in the
United States it exceeds in acreage,
yield and value, wheat, oats, barley,
flax, rye, buckwheat and potatoes com
bined. An increased value of one
cent per bushel ould mean an ad
ditional income to the farmers of the
United States of $25,000,000, while an
Increased production of but one bush
el per acre at 60 cents Rer bushel
would add $50,000,000 annually to th
national wealth.
pry' Welcomes Irrigation Men.
Salt Lake. Gov. William Spry de
livered the address of welcome on be
half of the state at the opening ses
sion of the twentieth National Irriga
tion Congress in Salt Lake. Othee
prominent workers of the congress
who are doing much to make the
session, a success, Includes Senator
Francis C. Newlands, president of the
congress; Major R. W. Yonng, chair
man of the board of governors; George
A. Snow, chairman of the Utah Board
of Control, and Arthur Hooker, secre
tary of the congress.