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I 1 , ' , , . . , . , . . . , . , , THE CHATHAM RECORD THE CHATHAM RECORD H; A. LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance Rates of Advertising On Square, or insertion (LOO One Square, two insertion . $1X3 One Square, one nontb $2i22) For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, DECEMBER 25. 1912. NO. 20. NEWS OF THE WEEK N EPITOMIZED FORM THE LATEST HAPPENINGS OF IM PORTANCE TERSELY TOLD. EVENTS THROUGHOUT WORLD tyewt of Greatest Interest From All Parts of the World Related In Paragraphs. - Southern. Judge John M. Cheney, in Federal ;ourt at Jacksonville, Fla., handed iown an opinion in the injunction suit brought some time ago hy several Jacksonville liquor dealers against the express company. The opinion in part states "that the Southern Express company be restrained from receiving and transporting for any considera tion, intoxicating liquors of any class or kind from any person or persons engaged in the liquor business in the state of Georgia to any person or per sons in Florida." Ross Murkeson was probably fatal ly shot and his wife and daughter seriously wounded by Ike Deal, the daughter's husband, at Donalsonville, Ga. Enraged because his wife had left him, Deal followed her to her fa ther's home and there did the shoot ing. After Murkeson was shot down tie managed to get to his gun and shot Deal as he was leaving, badly wounding him. Deal, howver, man aged to make his escape, and is at large, although posses are hunting aim. Safeblowers got at their work at Duluth, Ga., when they cracked the safe of the Bank of Duluth and se cured more than $2,000. It was evi dently the work of experts. Two dis tinct explosions were heard by about twenty-five persons, but no one ven tured out to see what was the cause Df the reports. The robbery was dis covered in the morning about six a'clock. At that time there had been so much passing it was impossible to track the thieves with dogs. Gov. George W. Donaghey, who will retire from office January 1, issued pardons to 316 state and 44 county convicts as a protest against the con vict lease system of the state of Ar kansas. As a result, three state con vict camps will be abolished. Several camps where convicts are engaged in the building of good roads, however, will be continued in operation. The convicts pardoned were serving sen tences of from one to fifteen years. Instructions for Che -inauguration of the parcels post delivery, effective the first of the coming "year, have been received by Postmaster McKee of the Atlanta postoffice from Postmaster General Hitchcock. With the book of Instructions, " there was sent a map applicable to the postal territory Im mediately about Atlanta, together with tables showing changes to be made on parcels to be handled In the future in Atlanta and to other cities. Atlanta the rate will be 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent tor each additional pound. General. President-elect Wilson held up a warning finger to any man who might deliberately start a .panic in the United Sttaes to show that intended legislative policies were wrong. In a speech at the banquet of the Southern Society of New York, he declared he had heard sinister premonitions of what would follow if the Democrtaic party put into effect changes In eco nomic policy. The infant geyser drilled in the. bottom of San Francisco bay by a piledriver is- worth a great deal to the state of California. Jerome Newman, chief engineer for the state board of harbor commissioners, estimated that the board by using the fresh water spouting from the bottom of the bay instead of buying its water would Bave $3,000 a year. The flow contin ued copious. The state chemist found it pure and similar to the best arte sian water. An international conservation con vention is provided for in a bill fa vorably reported by the house com mittee on industrial arts and exposi tions. The bill authorizes the presi dent to invite the nations of the en tire world to send delegates to dis cuss the world's natural resources and their distribution through com merce. An appropriation of $250,000 is carried in the bill for a govern ment exhibit and building at the na tional conservation exposition at Knoxville, Tenn., next fall, where it ls Proposed to hold the international meeting T Ja declining to allow a new organ nation to use his name, Governor e!ect Sulzer of New York said no nan's reputation was safe while he Iived. He advised the use of the name of a man dead 100 years. One man is dying and seven others lre in a critical condition, being beat s' by highwaymen in South Lima, O. Four masked men bound and gagged toe watchman at the Kyle CTexas) state bank, locked him in a boxcar and escaped with $17,000 of the bank's funds. Three charges of nltorglycer ln were fired, and the vault of the bank wrecked. Arrangements have been complet ed for adequate quarters for the two battalions of the First Georgia regi ment which will attend the inaugural ceremonies of President-elect Wood row Wilson in Washington March i A story of how graft alleged tc have been paid for police protection enabled a Raines law hotel keeper in Harlem to build up such a busi ness that finally he disposed of his unpretensious place for $140,000, was told. to the New York City aldermanic investigating committee. Roland G. Garros, the French, avia tor, made a splendid flight over the Mediterranean sea from Tunis, Africa, to Sicily. He landed near Trapani, having covered a distance of about 160 miles over water. This establish es a new record, surpassing that of Lieutenant Bague, who, on March 5, 1911, flew over the Mediterranean from Antibas, France, to the little island of Gorgona, off the , Italian coast, a distance of 124.5 miles. Information that Mrs. Belle Gun ness, on whose murder farm near La Porte, Ind., in 1908, thirteen bodies were found, Is believed to be in Leth eridge, Alberta, Canada, was received by the chief of police of LaPorte in j a telegram sent by Frederick Wise. A woman answering the description of Mrs. Gunness has been under suveil lance several days. The LaPorte po lice were requested to send a man to complete the identification. The La Porte chief believes that Mrs. Gun ness is still alive. Bernard Rogers, a ragged eighv-year-old boy, was found in a Chicago park watching squirrels burying pea nuts and planning to steal their store. He was starving. The British government has propos ed to the government of the United States that a British battleship should convey the body of Whitelaw Reid, the late American ambassador, to his native land. An unidentified man, who was rid ing the "blind baggage," was killed, and twenty were injured, when Chica go, Rock Island and Pacific jassenger trains Nos. 23 and 24 collided head on at Ninnekah, seven miles south of Chickasha, Okla. State Representative-elect T. J. Brown of Oklahoma is among those hurt His sknll was fractured and his forehead badly cut. Ellsha Bramlett, son of H. M. Bram lett, shot Justice of the Peace W. L. JJalton, through the head at Copper hill, Tenn. Bramlett was paroled three years ago from the penitentiary for killing Bob Bishop in Gilmer coun ty, Georgia, about nine years ago, and served about seven years,, when he iwas pardoned on parole for good con duct. A row over the judgment of Justice of the Peace Dalton. which was being resented by Bramlett, was the cause of the affray. Bramlett is at large. Whitelaw Reid, the American am bassador to Great Britain since 1905, died at his London residence. Washington. President Taft has made up hia mind, it is announced, to accept the proffer of the Kent professorship of law at Yale, and probably will take up his duties at New Haven early in the spring. The president was said to have determined upon accepting the Yale professorship for several rea sons. He will not be restricted to lec tures to Yale students, but will be permitted to lecture if he desires in other law schools or upon the plat form or to engage in any other oc cupation which he sees fit, Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the executive committees of the Union and Southern Pacific railroads,- has announced that he has arranged with Attorney General Wickersham to ap peal at once to the United States Su preme court for instructions in work ing out the dissolution plan of the railroads. In the effort to bring about harmo ny and perfect a' cohesive fighting or ganization Democratic leaders are try ing to persuade Mr. Wilson to make his cabinet representative of all the different elements in the party. By bringing into the cabinet representa tives of all factions it is -hoped to build up an organization that will weather the 'storm of tariff revision and present a solid phalanx in the next presidential election. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia has made a favorable report from the senate committee on agriculture, upon his bill appropriating $3,000,000 to ex tend the work of the agricultural and mechanical colleges established under the Morrill act. The measure, which has already passed the house, where it was introduced simultaneously by Representative Lever of South Caro lina, has been strongly urged in a nation-wide crusade by the National Soil and Fertility League of Chicago. President Taft ,has announced, through Secretary Hilles, that the post of ambassador to Great Britain, made vacant by the death of White law Reid, will not be filled by him. This announcement followed a con ference between the president and Secretary Knox. The president be lieves that important diplomatic ques tions involving Great Britain-and the United States can be handled suc cessfully in Washington by Mr. Knox and the British ambassador. He hears that Mr. Wilson is already consider ing, a man for the London post, and he does not wish to appoint some one who can serve only a few months. "Safety first" is the paramount rule of train operation suggested by the interstate commerce commission in its twenty-sixth annual report submit ted to congress. Piscussion of disas ters on American railroads during the last year constitutes an important feature of . Uie report. It is pointed out that many of the accidents result ing fatalities might have been avert ed by the exercise of proper precau tion or the employment of suitable devices and good equipment. Of the thirty-one derailments investigated, fourteen were either directly or in directly caused by bad track. STATISTICS FOR STATE LIVESTOCK BULLETIN ISSUED BY DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF COM MERCE AND LABOR. IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE TOTAL The Total Value of Crops in North Car olina For 1909 Was $142,890,000. How the Crop of the State Was Divided. V Raleigh A special from Washington states that statistics for live stock products for North Carolina are pre sented in a bulletin soon to be issued by Director Durand of the bureau of the census, department of commerce and labor. It was prepared under the supervision of John Lee Coulter, ex pert special agent for agriculture. The returns for live stock products obtained at the census of 1910, like those for crops, relate to the activi ties of the calendar year 1809. It is impossible to give a total represent: ing the annual production of live stock products for the reason that the total value of products from the busi ness of raising domestic animals for use, sale, or slaughter cannot be cal culated from the census returns. The total value of crops in North Carolina in 1909 was $142,890,000. Of this amount, 89.5 per cent was con tributed by crops for which ths acre age as well as the value was reported, the remainder consisting of the value of by-products (straw, garden and grass seeds, etc.,) derived form the same land as other crops reported, or of orchard fruits, nuts, forest pro ducts, and the like. . The' combined acreage of crops for which acreage was reported was 5,737,037, repre senting 65.1 per . cent of the total in proyed land in farms (8,813,056 acres). Most of the remaining im proved land doubtless consisted of improved pasture land lying fallow, house and farm yards, and land oc cupied by orchards and vineyards, the acreage for which was not reported. The general character of North Carolina agriculture is indicated by the fact that about one-third (35.3 per cent) of the total value of crops in 1909 was contributed by cotton, about one-fourth (26.5 per cent) by cereals, about one-tenth (9.7 per cent) by tobacco, and somewhat less than one-tenth (8.8 per cent) by potatoes and other vegetables. The remainder, representing 19.7 per cent of the to tal, consisted mostly of forest pro ducts, grains and seeds, other than cereals, land and forage, and fruits and nuts. Executive Clemency Granted. Two pardons and two commutations were granted by Governor Kitchin each of them being on recommenda tion of - the judge, solicitor and oth ers. The 25-year sentence of Ananias Harrington, Moore county, for second degree murder is commuted to 19 years. He was sentenced in 1896. The sentence of Charles Rowe, Mitchell county, to six years for manslaughter, is commuted to three years. Blaine Haynie, Madison county, sentenced last February to 18 months on the roads for larceny is pardoned. Otis Curtis, Wake county, serving since September, 1910, on an eight-year sen tence, is also pardoned. North Carolina New Enterprises. Charters were issued to the Pied mont Lumber & Manufacturing Co., of Charlotte, capital $3,100 authorized and subscribed by R. C. McManus, Q W. and T. G. Shuman and W. H. Al len; the Globe Baking Company of Wilmington, capital $5,000 authorized and $4,000 subscribed by George T Johnson, D. L. Latta, J. E. Boylan and T. E". Sprunt. Appointments by Governor. Governor Kitchin announces the ap pointment of Mr. M. Mc. Jones of Belhaven as state shellfish commis sioner to succeed W. M. Webb, resign ed. The position of state fish commis sioner is also vacant. To Report on Waterways. General W. H. Bixby, chief of the board of army engineers, ordered the board of review to make another in vestigation and report on the propos ed extension of the inland waterway from Beaufort, N. C, to Key West Fla. Gen. Bixby's action is a resur of the hearing in which- a number of leading North Carolinians asked Gen eral Bixby to reopen the case. Gen eral Bixby paid high tribute to Hugh F. MacRae, of Wilmington, who made an excellent impression on the general public. An Important Question. Have the people of Winston town ship paid in enough taxes to pay off the bonds subscribed to the Roanoke & Southern railroad about 25 years ago? This is a question that is now being asked and one that is being in vestigated by a special committee composed of Mr. C. M. McNaughan and Mr. Z. T. Bynum. The committee was employed by Messrs. J. D. Wad dill and Y. O. Roberson, two of the county commissioners at the request of ex-Judge E. B. James, senator-lect from this district. TAR HEELS GET THE BONDS Bidders Appear For $2,193,500 Worth cf Issue, Which is For $550,?000 Premiums Offered Average .59. Raleigh. Twenty-one out of 53 bid? ders for amounts of the $550,000 issue of 40-year, four per cent, refunding North Carolina bonds were success ful. There were Northern bidders, but the bonds all go to North Caro linians. Ther had been some apprehension about the outcome of the sale on ac count of the present influence of the bondholders' certificate of New York in striving to harass the state in ev ery way possible to force a compro mise Issue on repudiated bonds. State officers and citizens, generally, are jubilant over the fact' that the bonds w.ere bid for more than $1,500,000 in J excess of the amount of the issue. The bids aggregated $2,193,500. The suc cessful bidders and awards are as fol lows: E. D. Winstead, Milton, "$5,000; George W. Watts, Durham, $50,00o); C. N. Mason, $3,000; H. D Bacon, Charlotte, 9,000; John D. Shaw; Rockingham, $10,000; Raleigh Savings & Trust Co., $26,000; Citizens' Bank, Elizabeth City, $60,000; Henry D. Al len, Washington, D. C, $1,000; S. H Chedester, Asheville, $32,000; D. M. Hodges, Asheville, . $I,00Q ; Mrs. Ethel Burne Wharton, Reidsville, $2,000; Mrs. Sallie W. Williamston, Ruffin $5,(W0; Alexander Webb, Raleigh, $300,000; Mrs. Fannie T. Biggs, Wil liamston, $1,000; C. J. Ogsburn, Winston-Salem, $1,500; . J. T. Pullen Ral eigh, $500; Murchison National Bank, Wilmington, $2,500; Savings Bank & Trust Co., Elizabeth City, $1,500; Na tional Bank of Newbern, $5,000; C. C. McDonald, Raleigh, $2,000; Mer chants National Bank, Raleigh, $35, 000. Disastrous Fire At Elkin. Elkin, Surry county, was recently visited by the most disastrous fire in its history. The total loss is estimat ed at from thirty to fifty thousand dollars, with only, partial insurance. The fire originated in the brick store of J. D. Holcombe & Co., dealers in general merchandise. Other stores: all of which were brick structures, in--eluded B. J. Cochram & Sons, general merchandise; Fairmont Grocery Com pany, dealers in groceries, and Elkin Drug Company. The losses were par tially covered by insurance on all stores except the A-airmont Grocery Company which did not have a dollar of insurance on either stock o rbuild ing. The property was located in the very heart of the town. The ori gin of the fire is not yet known, but is believed to have been incendiary. To Amend State Food Laws. Commissioner of Agriculture W. A. Turbird and State Food Chemist W. M. Allen will urge upon the incoming legislature that the state food laws be amended so as to require that the weight of contents be placed on pack ages. They say there Is much defraud ing of the public through selling 6 ounce packages for half-pound and 12 or 13 ounces for pounds. They point out that so long as this state does not require that weight be stamp ed on packages this class of frauds can not be stopped by the depart ment Furthermore, the legislature will be asked to empower inspectors to enter manufactories of food stuffs and see that the surroundings, are clean. To Consider State Finances. State officials and others in close touch with the financial affairs of the state declare that in connection with the much-talked-about progressive leg islation regulating all manner of things about the state there is the greatest sort of need for state fi nances to be considered in no half handed sort of way. It is estimated now that a shortage of fully $700,000 will be shown when the state finances are balanced for the biennial report to the legislature. Of this amount about $300,000 was left over from two years ago. However, in preparing the revenue and machinery act of two years ago the legislature intended for the revenue of the past two years to meet current expenses, take care of all appropriations and liquidate the then existing shortage. This was not by any means done, however. Crime in North Caorlina. "There is something uncanny about the stability of crime," declared At torney General Bickett, of North Car olina in his biennial report several days ago. "It seems to be perpetrat ed with as much regularity- as the ebb and flow of the tides." ' He pointed out that the number of cases reported to the attorney general for the four years ended July, 1912, was 40,507 as compared with 40,604 for the preced ing four years. Convictions for the two periods were a little more than 27,000. 1 Handcuffed Men Arrested. Two unknown men with handcuffs on their wrists and who had evidently escaped from officers were arrested at Morganton on the arrival of train, 35. They had been handcuffed together but had succeeded - in breaking the chain and each hade one cuff on his wrist. The conductor of the train noticed the handcuff and telegraphed to the officers here, who made the ar Test. Both men - are young . fairly well dressed, one being rather tall and the other about average size. Nothing can be learned as they will not talk THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF MECKLENBUR G. W HAT TEACHERS ARE DOIN6 IN THE COUNTY. SCHOOLS GOING FORWARD Miss Mary O. Graham, Supervisor of I Primary Education, Tells of, the Work That is Being Done Many Notable Speakers Were Present. Charlotte. The Mecklenburg Coun ty Teachers' Association met "in the court house several days ago. Ninety-two teachers were present. The president, Mr. Jackson Hamilton, of Pineville, called the meeting to order. Capt. William Anderson, county su perintendent, opened the meeting with prayer. The minutes of the last meeting were read by the secre tary, Miss Ora Wilson. Mrs. C. C. Hook, president of the Woman's Club of Charlotte, was pres ent and in behalf of the educational department invited the association to be their guests the second Saturday in January. A literary program will be the first feature of the meeting af ter which lunch will be served by the Woman's Club. Miss Margaret Erwin' voiced the sentiment of all present when she thanked Mrs. Hook for the invitation and of the appreciation of the teach ers of Mecklenburg tor the interest of the Woman's Club. Capt. Anderson spoke of a number of details in the management 6f the schools and thanked the Woman's Club for its interest in the county work. He announced that the next meeting will be held in the court house, Saturday, January 11, at 11 o'clock, after which the teachers will go in a body to the Y. M. C. A., where they will be the guests of the Wo man's Club. Mr. John C. McNeely, chairman of the board of education, was present and spoke in an earnest manner of the ' interest the board felt in the teachers and the children, ' and of their desire to help them at any time. Ninteen Oil Companies in State. Raleigh. Major W. A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture, says that so far from giving the Standard Oil Company a monopoly of the oil busi ness In this state as opponents of the measure predicted it would, the oil inspection act had the opposite effect, and that, whereas there were four companies doing business in this state when the inspection act was passed, there are now. 19 companies in the field. Greater Western N. C. Association. Hendersonville. Col. Sandford H. Cohen, manager of the Greater West ern North Carolina Association, was in Hendersonville in connection with the meeting to be held at Asheville December 28 for the purpose of select ing exhibits of farm products for the corn exposition to be held in Colum bia, S. C, in January. Mr. Cohen stated that the Greater Western North Carolina Association will furnish free transportation and board at Colum bia for the boy from each county in the association having the highest scoring 10 ears of corn of any vari ety and color exhibited at Asheville December 28. Statesville District Churches. Statesville. The stewards of the churches of Statesville district, in cluding several counties were in an nual session at Broad Street Methodist churc hof Statesville and the attend ance was the largest In the history oi the district, much to the gratification of Presiding Elder Mann. Various matters were discussed and the year's work was outlined. The presiding el der's salary was fixed on a percentage basis and the various conference as sessments w.ere laid on the charges oi the district. E. A. Cole, of Charlotte, conference lay leader, was present al the meeting and made a splendid and practical talk on an adequate finan cial plan, and R. L. Snow, of Taylors ville, discussed practical methods. 345 Pensioners in Wake. Raleigh. The total of 345 old sol diers and soldiers' widows in Wake county will receive pensions from the state this year and for two days Clerk Mial's assistants have been busy set tling with the pensioners. And the work is not yet completed. The num ber of second and third-class pension ers Is the same as last. The fourth class has decreased eight. The num ber in this class receiving pension money this year is 207. The number of widows is 126, a decrease of six since last year. . Welfare Work in Wake County. Raleigh. The work of the Wake county schools, under the superintend ency of Prof. Z. V. Judd, is showing in various localities and the' betterment associations have real results to an nounce. When Dr. Walter Page was here he gave Mr. Judd high praise for work that has reached the eyes of bif men in the nation. That the associa tions are fashioned after different plans from any others in North Caro lina, is known of everybody, and' there is a peculiar joy that the home system should be a leader. . LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE Short Paragraphs of -State News That Has Been Conducted For Busy People of State. Southern Pines. The Philadelphia National League team has decided to come to Southern Pines for winter practice. ' Morganton. Mr. T. G. Cobb, editor of the Morganton News-Herald, has opened his campaign for re-election as chief clerk of the house of repre sentatives. New.ton. Postmaster Everhart Is receiving supplies for the opening up of the parcels post business January 1. There are five rural delivery routes from the town and the patrons are Interested in the new scheme. Goldsboro. Joe Cooper, a negro, who worked at the Goldsboro oil mills, was shot and killed by two oth er negroes from Kinston in an old time .crap game down in the "Little Washington" section of the city. Asheville. William Jennings Bryan was an Asheville visitor recently speak ing at the Auditorium on "The Mak ing of a Man." He was introduced by Governor-elect Craig, who paid an eloquent tribute to the famous Ne brasklan. TVoutman. A five or six-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Young, who live on the farm of Mr. P. H. Col lins about four miles from Troutman, was burned in the house while its mother was at ja. spring engaged with the family washing. Wilson. -As an Instance of the re markable productiveness and cash value of the crops of this section is the sale of tobacco made by Mr. Geo. Glover of Old Field township, in this county. Mr. Glover from three acres of tobacco sold in Wilson 4,580 pounds of the leaf for $1,878.7'. Raleigh. A state test farm for ex periment and demonstration work in the culture of peanuts is to be estab lished by the state board of agricul ture before a great while now, the farm to be selected with reference to accessibility in the peanut belt of the state. Waxhaw. A cotton gin belonging to Mr. J. W. McCain of this place and located about five miles from town was burned. It is supposed the fire was started from a spark from the engine, as the gin had been operated during the day. The loss was about $1,500 and was partly coveerd by in surance. Kinston. One man was killed and a woman fatally wounded in a shoot ing affray in Folkstoe township, in Onslow county. The killing occurred during a negro frolic. "Os" Barber is the dead man and Bertie Goss died from her injuries. Two men and a wo man are in the Jacksonville jail charged with the shooting. ' Concord. The board of aldermen met to consider the question of per manent street improvements. Mayor Wagoner presided, but there was not a quorum present and so the mayor called for a general discussion by the citizens in attendance. City Attorney Hartsel read the provisions of the bill which it is proposed to submit to the legislature. Lenoir. Much interest is now be ing manifested in the poultry show to be held here under the auspices o the Caldwell County Poutlry Associa tion, December '27 and 28. Inquiries are being received daily as to the exhibits. The premium list is not yet complete, but it is assured that it will be such as to warrant the exhibit oi fowls from all over the western part of the state. Asheville. James Boyd, a 10-year-old boy, succeeded in thoroughly ter rorizing the Murray school here, draw ing an ugly-looking knife and for near ly a half-hour holding at bay both his teacher and the principal of the school. - A policeman was finally call ed into the school and took the boy to the station-house, where he was locked upon the charge of attempted assautl with a knife. Kings Mountain. Deputy Sheriff Lindsay, accompanied by Mr. Ray mond Miller, on a ramble through the mountains near this place ran across an allicit still which had hardly got ten cold. They tore it up, fastened it to their buggy and brought it to town placing it in the town guardhouse for safekeeping. Raleigh. Four terms of membership on the state board of agriculture will "expire March 11th, 1913, and will be subject to appointment by Governor Craig. These are H. C. Carter, first district; I. H. Kearney, fourth dis trict; J. P. McRae, seventh district; A. Cannon, tenth district. Wilson. Judge Justice in superior court recently granted a change of venue in the case of the State against J. W. Beland. The motion to change was made by the state, the first in stance of the kind in the history of the county. Beland is charged with the murder of his wife. Charlotte. The heart of the old Confederate - veteran will be made glad when he learns that the long expected state pensions have already been received at the office of Mr. C C. Moore, clerk of the court for Meck lenburg county, and the said pensions are now ready for distribution. Charlotte. At a called meeting of the beard of trustees of the Children's Home of the Western North Carolina Conference, located at Winston-Salem, which was held In the parlors of the Trinity church In this city, the resig nation of Prof. H. A. Hayes, superin tendent, was received and accepted. 0. S. TAKES FIRM STAND WITH MEXICO WILL DEMAND FULL PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN -CITIZENS AND PROPERTY. VERY DELICATE QUESTION Senate -Subcommittee on Foreign Re lations Has Received Many Letters Bearing Upon the Situation Should Leave the Matter to Wilson. Washington. Henry Lane Wilson, the American Ambassador to Mexico, who has been here in conference with State Department officials regarding conditions growing out of the Mexican , revolution, left for New York prepara tory to sailing for his post, without the expected note of representations which this Government is preparing to be sent to the Mexican Government demanding protection for American citizens and property. This action is taken as a further evidence of the intention of the Ad ministration to deal with this delicate and difficult situation with circumspec tion and in a spirit or deliberation. The communication is being prepared with the greatest care at the State Department and will be transmitted to the American Ambassador shortly after his arrival in Mexico City early in January. The .deliberations with which the officials are moving in the prepara tion of the case of the United States versus Mexico is expected to result in- the production of a brief that is expected to be well-nigh unanswera ble, except by a promise of prompt and adequate action on the part of the Mexican Government to fairly and fully meet the demands of the United States in the matter of the protection of American interests in Mexico. . Justification for this demand by the United States Government is declared to be found in the numerous reports to the State Department from every quarter to the general effect that con ditions in Mexico have grown worsa since the dispatch of Secretary Knox'a note of protest last September. Taft Congratulates South. St Augustine, Fla. President Taft in a speech here congratulated th South upon the election of a. Demo cratic President, predicted Nation wide prosperity. under the new Admin-' istration and spoke with pride of the way this Nation takes the quadrennial verdict of the people at the polls. The President spoke in the Masonic 'Tem ple and the crowd listened to his words cheered him to the echo. H , gave his philosophy of politics and closed with a remark thae swept the hall with laughter. "The only sorrow I have," he said, "is the thought there will break in upon the people and , some individuals the fact that there are not enough offices to go around." To Make Washinpton Headquarters. New York. With the announcement that it had been decided to establish publicity headquarters in Washington and with the appointment of various committees to forward the work of organization, the executive committee of the Progressive party adjourned a two-day session here to meet again on January 10. In a statement the com mittee announced the personnel of the party's legislative committee with Dean William D. Lewis of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania as chairman. To Carefully Guard Mints. Washington. As a result of the anonymous threat to dynamite the Denver Mint Director George E. I Roberts has warned the super intendents of all the mints in the ! country to observe rigid measures of precaution against violence. While Mr. Roberts does not take the Denver threat seriously he said the mere sug gestion of a plot to blow up a mint" has put officials on the alert. Guards will not be increased but will keep a keen w,atch for disturbers. Deparmtnt Store For Hong Kong. Washington. The establishment oi a Chinese department store in Hong Kong and the installations of electric lights, etc., the first of their kind in a Chinese establishment in that city is made the subject of a report by Amer ican Vice-Counsul General Carleton. Although the manager of the estab lishment is a Chinese whose business experience was gained in Australia many of the employees will be Amer icanized Chinamen. Eight four-storied buildings will be converted into the new mart of trade. Heavy Cost of Mobilization. Paris. Austria-Hungary is spend Ing $800,000 a day to defray expenses of the mobilization of her army, ac cording to an estimate made by a cor respondent of the Temps just return ed from Galicia, Austria. The whole of the commercial and industrial life of the country has been disorganized. In Galicia, neither money nor food Is to be had and the wealthier part of the population has fled from the coun try. At the same time the fear-stricken peasants are becoming the prey of dishonest speculators.