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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square oM kMrtioa $1.00 One Square, two neertioae $L3 OnSqaxe. one montk SZSQ For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will bo made. VOL. XXXVI HTTSBOaO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N C, SEPTcMBLR 24. 1913 NO. 7. EWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY IN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. j Southern. Emanuel Nichols, aged 35, a farmer living ten miles northwest of Clayton, Ga., and his two-year-old baby girl are dead, while Ms son and daughter have been bound over to the grand jury for voluntary manslaughter, as a result of a general shooting melee in the farmer's home. The second annual convention of the Southern Labor Congress has clos ed at Nashville, Tenn. .The congress voted to allow negro laboring organi zations to affiliate with the Southern Labor Congress. The next meeting will be held in Birmingham, Ala. The Southern Christian Citizenship Congress, under the auspices of the Civic League of America, opened at the auditorium to the accompaniment of near sensationalism revealed in the address of A. J. Orem of Boston, who, in his treatise, styled "From Theocracy to Theocracy," all but put outright Socialism into the book of good citizenship. Owing to his pres ence at the Georgia capitol, where the conference is being held, Gov. Slaton was unable to preside at the gather ing in Taft hall. J. V. and W. H. Hogg, brothers, of Kline, S. C, eight miles from Allen dale, were shot and killed by J. W. Hogg, a third or fourth cousin. The load entered the right shoulder of one and the left shoulder of the other. One shot ended the life of both men. J. W. Hogg, the alleged assailant, is now confined in the jail at Barnwell S. C, where he went and give him self up to the sheriff. More than eleven inches of rain fell in Mobile, Ala., in forty-eight hours, according to the Mobile weather bu reau. Lower portions of the city were flooded and monetary damage will be many thousands of dollars. Damage in rural districts in the vicinity of Mobile is very heavy. Rivers are out of their banks and a number of the bridges have been carried away. Bent upon their first peaceful inva sion of the South, thousands of Union veterans arrived to attend the forty seventh annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and allied organizations at Chickamauga, Ga. In honor of the occasion, Chattanooga, Tenn., is in gala attire. Survivors of the Union army are greeted with the same cordiality shown the United Con federate Veterans whose annual re union was held in Chattanooga last May. General. The deaths of the late President Francisco I. Madero and Vice Presi dent Jose (Maria Pino Suarez were not brought about by a punishable crime, according to a decision pro nounced by a military court in Mexico. The investigation last six months. It was started by the military command ant of the federal district immediately on the conclusion of the ten-days' bat tle in the streets of Mexico last Feb ruary, which resulted in Provisional President Huerta coming into power. That Hans Schmidt, the Jekyle-Hyde priest, whose double life was exposed when he was arrested and confessed the murder of Anna Aumuller, the house girl, after killing her and dis membering her body in a Bradhurst avenue flat, hired another apartment in which he planned to conceal him self, was developed from police dis coveries. In ransacking his rooms de tectives found evidence that Schmidt had stolen $400 from the Easter col lection at St. Joseph's church and that he had robbed a visiting priest who spent a night at St. Joseph's rectory. Counsel for Harry Kendall Thaw laid the foundation for plans to carry his case to the Supreme court of the United States if such a step is found necessary. When the gover nor of New Hampshire passes on the matter of the extradition of Thaw to New York, at the hearing to be 'held at Concord, the findings, if adverse to Thaw, will be reviewed by the L'nited States district court, and, if a decision against then be rendered, successive appeals will be taken until the case reaches the highest court land. This is the announcement made by the Thaw lawyers. Francis Stronge, the retiring British minister to Mexico, has arrived in Vera Cruz from the City of Mexico in President Huerta's private car. He declined to discuss the relations be tween Mexico and the United States, but ventured the opinion that rela tions were growing better. A man believed by the .police to have been John Hawkins, 68 years old, of Erie, Pa., committed suicide by jumping into the Niagara, river from the lower steel arch bridge that s-pans the river just above the start of the whirlpool rapids. It is two hundred feet above the water. Two women standing on the Canadian cliff aw the man climb on the railing. He sat astride the rail several minutes, looking down at the turbulent waters, then lurched . forward, and his body shot downward and struck the water headforemost. He was dashed to instant death. BRIEF N Residents of "Millionaire Row" In New York City estimated that burgla ries of houses in their section during the summer had cost them $200,000. Many of them did not know they had been robbed till they returned from their summer vacations. The body of Alice Hopper, 16 years old, who had been missing from her home in Kearny, N. J., for some time, has been found in the Passaic river, at Harrison, her skirts weighted with stones. ' Guarded by a sheriff who sat in the front row of the large church gath ering, Rev. Roy Hudson, evangelist and former pugilist, held a farewell revival at Mexico, Mo. He had been arrested during tile day on a charge of wife-abandonment at the, request of the authorities at Terer Haute, Ind. The presence of the sheriff did not in the least dampen the ardor of the evangelist. He will return without extradition procedure. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the Los Angeles Times, received an in fernal machine by mail. It was the second time in three years that Gen eral Otis' life had been attempted by a bomb. Any chance of his being kill ed or injured by the bomb was foiled by the watchfulness of General Otis' Japanese servant, who became suspi cious of the package and called his employer's attention to it. Provisional President Victoriana Huerta delivered his semi-annual mes sage of the opening of the second session of the Twenty-seventh Mexi can congress. In It he promised to spare no efforts tOv bring about the unrestricted election of the president and vice president of the Mexican re public next month, declaring that it would constitute the greatest triumph of his career to turn over the office to his successor with the country at peace as he hoped to do. Thunderstorms of exceptional vio lence have swept over France, doing great damage. At Marseilles the streets were transformed into tor rents; hundreds of cellars were flood the quays were ruined or washed in to the sea. All traffic in the city was suspended for a time. A boat con taining a fishing party of six was cap sized in the harbor and five persons were drowned; at St. Agrieve, in the department of Ardeche, and other places, houses were struck by light ning with some loss of life. ' Several lives were lost and much property destroyed by a cloudburst in Goldfield, Nev. Goldfield is located in a basin with the Malahal range to the south and two deep gulches strik ing the east and west sections of the town. Within an hour these gulches were roaring rivers, and all houses in their path were swept away. The dead are Mrs. L. E. Carmo and child, a laundress, two unidentified persons Washington. Attorney General McReynolds is making a vigorous effort to expedite pending anti-trust investigations and to keep abreast wtih all current com plaints of violations of the Sherman law. The plan is to reinforce the staff of special anti-trust lawyers in the department with the services of the United States attorneys. News that Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz, had been recalled to Mexico to become the candidate of the Huerta faction in the coming pres idential election aroused much inter est at Washington in official circles. The feeling was that the return of Diaz meant a compliance with Presi dent Wilson's principal demand that General Huerta should not he a can didate. So far as the Washington adminis tration is concerned, it became known that no move is contemplated in the Mexican situation at present. The elections of October 26 are awaited in Washington with keen interest, and the next step in the policy of the United States is likelv to make its ! appearance thereafter. Administration officials read long excerpts of General Huerta's message to the Mexican con gress, but made no formal comment. It is understood that the administra tion does not attach much importance to he document. A delegation representative of Lou isiana and particularly of New Or leans business men, headed by Sena tor Ransdell of Louisiana and M. K. Trezevant, general manager of the New Orleans chamber of commerce, conferred with Acting Secretary Post of the department of labor, with a view to diverting part of the tide of immigration through the port of New Orleans, which, it was stated, now had superior facilities for handling immigrants. The cost of living on June 15 was approximately higher than the aver age between 1890 and 1900, more than three per cent, higher than it was a year ago and nearly fifteen per cent, higher than it was two years ago. In vestigations of retail prices in 40 cit ies conducted by experts of the bu reau of labor show prices practically at the same level as last November, when the high records of the last quarter century were reached. Four teen articles of food were investigat ed. Every one except sugar showed a marked advance; bacon, which led in the soaring, 'went up 128.5 per, cent, be based on the present first class rate Reform of cotton exchange contracts rather than the abolition of the ex changes will probably be brought about through an amendment to- the tariff bill being urged by Southern members of congress. This amend ment has been framed by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia and Represen tive Asbury F. Lever of South Caro lina, Rafter a conference with officials of the department of agricutlre and with Mr. Burleson, the postmaster general, who took an active part in the legislation to curtail . exchange gambling while a member of the bouse of reoresentatives. 'T THE CORPORATION, COMMISSION RECOMMENDS TAKING WHAT IS OFFERED. HOLD ANOTHER CONFERENCE Governor Craig and the Legislative Commission Expected to Settle Mat ter. Mr. Travis Had Conference With Clark. Raleigh. Judge W. B. Council ar .4ved in Raleigh and E. J. Justice re mained over in Raleigh for further conference with Governor Craig on tihe pending amended proposal from the railroad companies for the settle ment of the interstate rate difference with North Carolina shippers. The full legislative commission on freight rates, consisting of Judge Council, from the senate, E. J. Justice from the house, and N. B. Broughton ap pointed by Governor Craig is here to go over the amended proposal with the governor. Governor Craig and the legislative commission have been in conference considering the latest amended pro posal of the railroads. Chairman Tra vis of the corporation commission is having a detailed statement of the latest concessions worked out as they will apply in rate reductions. Mr. Travis says that railroad com panies have never offered any state as great reductions in rate adjust ment as have now been offered North Carolina in this case. The corpora tion commission will lecommend both to the governor and to the legisla ture that .the proposition as it now stands be accepted. Before he left Washington with the proposal Mr. Travis had a long con ference with Chairman Clark of the interstate commerce commission and after a thorough examination of the proposal, Chairman CJark recom mended unequivocally that the pro posal be accepted. Chairman Travis estimates that shippers of the state will be saved at least $2,000,000. The Southern Railway officials insist that the reductions will cut that compa ny's revenues at least $1,000,000 and, if this is the case, the revenues of the other interstate carriers, the Sea board, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk & Western and Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio will certainly be reduced con siderably more than this amount. Good Roads Meeting in Harnett. The good roads enthusiasts and the leading citizens of the county are proud of the hoard of county com missioners for taking an aggressive step, when at .called meeting for the purpose of hearing a resolution from the Harnett County Good Roads Asso: ciation asking that the commissioners contribute from the general county fund the sum of $2,000 each for four roads leading out from Lillington to different parts of the county, this mon ey to be available when the citizens through whose communities the roads would go, would raise $1,500 by pri vate subscription. This will make a sum total of $14,000 to be spentj on those four roads. North Carolina New Enterprises. The following charters were issued by the secretary of state: Keystone Land and Lumber Company of Scott's Hill, Pender county; authorized capi tal, $50,000, with $13,700 paid in by W. A. Marshall and Joseph Lytle, of Mongahelia, Pa.; James L. Grable and Sadie B. Grable, of Washington, x'a.; and E. K. Bryan, of Wilmington. United Order of Abraham of St. Pauls, Robeson county, fraternal and insur ance; N. S. Gillespie and otjaers, in corporation. New Hanover To Have Corn Show. So many boys having entered the corn club contest in this county and such fine results having been secured it is now proposed to hold a corn show in Wilmington in December so as to give the boys an opportunity to display their choice corn. New Hanover County Bonds. The county commissioners sold the entire issue of $275,000 five per cent road and school 'bonds . at par with accrued interest from July 1, 1913, to banks of Wilmington. This is" the second time that the bonds have been advertised but every bid received had strings to it and this was true at present and - all were turned down. After the bad had been opened and refused the bankers of this city agreed to take over the issue among themselves paying interest at 5 per cent on the deposit. First Mile of Good Roads. The first mile of good roads that Yadkin county has ever possessed has just been completed near Jones ville. This road is sdheduled to run from the Yadkin River at Elkin through Jonesville and through the townships of Buck Shoals and Knobs to J. P. Howards store in Iredell county, a distance of 12 miles. At Howards Store the Yadkin road will connect with, the Iredell sand-clay road, giving EJkm, Jonesville and that part of Yadkin a splendid road direct to Cfliarlotte by way of Statesville. RAILROADS RMS WORTH GCP1G LATEST NEWS FROM CAPITAL Case of Usher Charged With Arson Results in Mistrial. Gov. Craig Issues Requisition. Raleigh. Insurance Commissioner Young was advised that an Anson county jury had made a mistrial in the' case against S. T. Usher, charged with burning property.: Usher is a very old man and a Confederate vet eran. The peition of Elkin and Wilkes boro citizens for a change of the mix ed train between Winston-Salem and Wilkeshoro to a straight passenger was heard in Winston-Salem recently. W. J. Grandin, president of the Wa tauga & Yadkin Railroad, appeared before the governor and the council of stat with reference to the bond for convicts working on that road. The line is being built from Wilkes-' boro to Boone and is in operation a part of the d-' stance. Governor Craig' issued a rejuisition on the governor of Georgia for Claud Burns, who is wanted in Cleveland county on the charge of abandoning his wife and children. He is under arrest at Monroe, Ga. The compulsory attendance law, ac cordind to reports reaching the state department of education, is working without -friction in all parts of the state and is resulting in increased at tendance Doctor Joyner left for Bladen and Cumberland counties. Unusually Big Crop in Yadkin. The tobacco crop in Yadkin this year is something enormous. From all indications at present the crop is the largest that this county has had in many years. The farmers were not only encouraged to put out larg er crops by the good prices last year but the season was such in-the spring that plants were available for all who wanted to put out the weed. It seems too that the grade- of the to bacco this year will far exceed that of the past few years, this, it is said, is due to the fact that no very hard rains have come during the growing season to wash the "gum" from the leaf, and consequently the leaf will be heavier as well as of a better grade. The season for cutting tobac co is now at its height and the cut ting and curing will occupy several days yet. For Change in Homestead Law. , In response to a request for united action on the part of the merchants' association of the state on desired legislation at the extra session of the legislature, President Luther B. Mark ham and Attorney J. W. Barbee, or the Durham association, have been appointed delegates from Durham. The special object of the delegation that will visit Raleigh during the spe cial session of the legislature is to get a cthange in the homestead law of the state, making-it possible for mer chants to collect accounts from peo ple who use the homestead law as f barrier behind which to hide when the collector makes his rounds in vain and the account Is turned over to the courts. For Good Roads in Warren County. A large number of the voters of Warren county, estimated at from eight to twelve hundred persons, as sembled at Norlina recently for a pub lic speaking and barbecue in the in terest of the proposed $200,000 bond issue for good roads in this county. The speakers were: Dr. J. P. Macon, of Warrenton, who introduced the speakers and incidentally labeled as false and libelous many of the argu ments advanced by the opponents of the proposed bond issue for the coun ty. Just Freight Rate Association. A large gathering of business men and citizens from over Harnett coun ty who had come to Lillington to dis cuss good roads, heard Hubert Ram saur, organizing secretary of the Just Freight Rate Association, on the va rious discriminations against the state and organized the Harnett coun ty branch, electing Charles Ross, pres ident; J. F. McKoy and C. J. SmiOh, vice-presidents; J. R. Baggett, secre tary; K. A. Stewart, treasurer. Winston-Salem Winston-Salem has been made the place for . the next meeting of the North 'Carolina Anti Saloon League and ten appointments have been arranged. Secretary of State Bryan Will Speak. Secretary of State William J. Bry an definitely promised Representative Wehb that he. will speak at Kings Mountain October 7. on the occasion of the celebration of the 137th anni versary of the battle at that place Several weeks ago a delegation from Kings Mountain came to Washington to urge Secretary Bryan to attend the celebration, and he promised to do so if i-r could be conveniently arranged. Naturally any engagement he makes of that sort is contingent on the ne-. cessity of public business. Interesting Exhibit at County Fair. The industrial exhibit of the boys and girls enrolled in the rural schools of Mecklenburg county is to be one of the most interesting exhibits at the county fair. The teachers and the boys and girls of the rural , schools are getting ready for this exhibit: It ,was designed to stimulate interest Jn work that the children may do at home. A number of the merchant? have been generous in offering prizes A number of public-spirited men ir the county are offering to sfubscribr for prizes. - ' THE STATE SYNOD NORTH CAROLINA PRESBYTER IANS TO MEET IN GREENS- . v BORO THIS YEAR. HOLD SESSION OCTOBER 6-9 To Be an Important Gathering.- On Account of Observance of Centen nial Date of Meeting is Changed From Fourth Tuesday in October. Greensboro. That the annual ses sion of the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina to be held in Greens boro, October 6 to 9, will be one of the most important and progressive gath erings that body has ever held is promised. According to the standing rules the synod meets on the fourth Tuesday in October, but on account of the proposed observance of the cen tennial of the Synod at Alamance church on October 7th in this county the standing rule was suspended and the date changed. There will be a great gathering on October 7th at Alamance Presbyte rian church, six miles southeast of Greensboro, where on a hundred years before that day the Presbyte rian synod of North Carolina was or ganized. The Alamance church had asked that the synod be held this year with that church, but on account of local conditions the congregation had to forego that honor. Alamance is. one of the oldest Pres byterian churches in the state, and is also one of the most modern and pro gressive country churches to be found anywhere. History has been made in that community. Not far away is the famous Alamance battlefield, where the first contest at war was made for American independence. The people or the community are intelligent, thrifty and devoted to the ideals and traditions that have come down to them for more than a century through church and state. The exercises to" be held at the church on October 7 will be very ap propriate and fitting. There will be addresses by four ministers, two of whom are from Richmond. These will deal with the history of the de nomination in North Carolina, before and since the organization of the sy nod a century ago. Expect A Good Cotton Crop. New Bern. Although the cotton crop in this section was set back by recent storms, cotton buyers are ex pecting the first bale to make its appearance some time soon and are anticipating a large quantity of the fleecy staple to be brought in before the close of the month. In Craven county the damage to the cotton jy the storm will not average over fif teen per cent. In Pamlico county the damage was greater and it is ex pected that at some points the crop has been damaged at least fifty per cent, but taken as a whole, it is be lieved that . the average amount of damage in that section will not be over twenty-five per cent. Big Farm Life Conferences. Charlotte. Mr. E. S. Millsaps, dis trict manager of farm demonstration work of the department of agriculture of the United States, was in the city recently, in conference with Supt. William McClusky, county superinten dent of education, with regards to the big farm life conferences which are to be held in this county November 4 to 7 inclusive. - Mr. Millsaps is anx ious to have agriculture and domestic science taught in the county schools of Mecklenburg and the other coun ties comprising his district, the west ern part of the state, and is therefore much interested in the "Educational Week" referred to above. Cold Blooded Murder Near Farmville. Farmville. Charlie Foreman killed Henry Nobles in the public road, about three miles from this place with a . single-barreled breech-loading gun. The affair was cold-blooded and grew out of some trouble the two negroes had had previous to this time. Watts Makes Appointments. Statesville. Collec'tor A: D. Watts appointed M. P. Alexander of States ville deputy for field services in this division, to succeed J. M. Davis of Statesville, resigned. The division is composed of Alexander, Davidson, Da vie, Iredell, Rowan, Stanly and Yad kin counties. The appointment is temporary, Mr. Alexander not having passed the civil service examination but the hope is that deputies will be removed from the civil service, in which event the appointment will stand. : Farm Demonstrator for Craven. New Bern. Craven county has se cured the services of Prof. J. Wal ter Sears, a noted agriculturist, to come to this county and act as farm demonstrator. Prof. Sears will ar rive about the first of October to take up this work. For years it has been the thought that the farms of this section could be made to produce much larger crops if ' the farmers Tvere more thoroughly familiar with tPie selection of seeds, fertilizers, tx.. and it will be Prof. Sears' duty to in struct them. - NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Latest News of General interest That 9 Has Been Collected From Many Towns and Counties. High Point. An important meeting was held recently of the city council for the purpose of cleaning out all classes of lawlessness in High Point. Lenoir. The Lenoir graded schools opened several days ago with a large increase in attendance over last year. Many of the patrons were present and enjoyed the opening exercises. Raleigh. During the month of Aug ust J. N.'McCrary, keepefr of the city market, examined daily four hotels, 20 cafes, refrigerators in the markets and examined three' times per week freight depots of the city. Raleigh. Declaring that the bid on the contract for ' heating the state buildings was $3,000 too low and that the company could not make expenses on the deal, the American Heating Company, .of Charlotte, was released by the council of state from the terms of the bids. Spencer. The semi-annual foot washing took place at Piney, a noted Primitive Baptist church, in David son county near Spencer. While cool weather interfered to some extent with , the attendance, there was a large crowd present, coming from all parts of the countryside and many from Lexington, Spencer, Salisbury and other places. Fayetteville. A statement that none of the professional men of Fay etteville last year paid the license tax which a state law requires of that class and which Was made publicly by Capt. James D. McNeill last June, has been corrected in the publication of correspondence between Dr. C. B. Pat terson, of this city, and State Auditor W. P. Wood. Elizabeth City. News is received here that the coroner's jury in , the Leon White murder case in Currituck county has rendered a verdict that White was murdered by his wife and that she is being held in the custody of the sheriff while her counsel is trying to arrange for bail. It was also learned that the verdict of the jury was based on circumstantial evidence Statesville. In a address delivered at a meeting of farmers, dairymen, business and professional men held here in the interest of a co-operative creamery for the county. Mr. Alli son J. Reed, state dairymen advised the farmers to first show that they can support a local creamery by ship ping cream from 500 cows to the Ca tawba Co-Operative Creamery of Hick ory. Monroe. Thinking to do what he had often done before himself and seen others do, Mr. Ellison H. Bivens, local manager of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, caught hold of the chain of a sputtering arc-light in front of his home, intending to shake the lamp and cause the carbon to burn more freely ( and was instantly Killed, it oe ing estimated that fully 2,300 volts of electricity passed through his body. Fayetteville. Thirty-six motor cars will leave, here October 15, to carry the Fayetteville Boosters through the lower counties of South Carolina. This was settled at a joint meeting of the chamber of commerce and the ety recently. Almost twice as many Cumberland County Automobile Sow cars have been promised by the Auto mobile Society as made the trip last year. . Asheyille. After having selected another state as his . home in lieu of going to the roads in the county, Wiley P. Black, who has appeared in many courts within the past two years and whose cases have gone to the state supreme court, is to be brought back to Asheville and made to pay court costs aggregating $100, provided he can be located by the county authori ties. ' , Raleigh. With fifty entries a month before the North Carolina fair opens fifteen ahead of any former exhibi tion, Secretary J. E. Pogue was ecstatic on the prospects. In the list who will be attracted this year be cause the association has buildings worthy of fine stock, are two of the richest and most prominent North Carolinians, Col. P. H. Hanes, one of the great tobacco pioneers, and Gen eral Julian S. Carr, another are going to( bring the best cattle that they have and they have the best. Wilmington. The Wilmington and Greensboro chambers of commerce, have asked the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern Railway to con tinue the operation of the parlor car on the A. and Y. passenger train between Wilmington and Greensboro, leaving Wilmington at 8:45 a. m. Charlotte. Several deputies from Sheriff N. W. Wallace's office are scouring1 the county just outside the township limits north In the hopes of capturing Ed Henderson, a 20-year-old colored man, who shot and it is believed, fatally v wounded Woltsr Johnson. Kinston. Rev. C. W. Blanchard, pastor of the First Baptist church here, raised more than $15,000 in 10 minutes at a meeting of his congrega tion when he urged them to donate to a new edifice to be erected at Mc Lew.ean and Gordon streets. Kinston. The new court house at Kenansville, Duplin county, where re cently at a term of court over which Judge O. H. Allen presided, oil paint ings of two of that county's great men, were placed upon the walls in the courtroom, is said to be the finest for a county of Duplin's population and wealth in Norti Carolina, STARTLING REPORT OF SLAVERY EXISTS CHARGE THAT SAVAGE FAMILIES SELL CHILDREN IN PHILLIP PINES VERIFIED. PROBE MADE BY AUDITORS Secretary Garrison Receives the Find ings of Inquiry That Was Carried on For Months By Phipps. Informants Names Mot Given. Washington Secretary Garrison had before him a Philippine slavery report toy W. H. Phipps, auditor for the Islands, pracUcaiiy backing up the startling charges of Dean Wor cester. It cites details of many cases of boys and girls sold into slavery at prices ranging from $60 to $100, and that heads of savage families sell their daughters and regard the prac tice as a right. . "I have no hesitancy in saying thtt I think that the charges or Secretary Worcester that slavery in the Philip pines are sustained," says Mr. Phipp9. The Phipps report is based upon investigations conducted under thA direction of the Philippine auditor by district auditors. It is accompanied by a list of names of sixty-seven per sons held as slaves, some being held outright and some under the so-called "debt" system, the fallacy of which is shown by the fact that some of the slaves so held are more than 60 years of age and have been held by the present owners since bifthT All of the district- autditors who assisted Mr. Phipps were obliged to promise their informants that the source of the information would not be made public. The names of the officials who helped in the prepara tion of the report also are withheld. One investigator stated in his re port: "There is a considerable traffic in girls. I personally have had a num ber of offers of this kind, and it is a generally known fact that a large per centage of the Chinese who have Fili pino wives actually bought them, at a stipulated price. A recent instance in which I was offered boys and girls for the small amount of 20 pesos, 30 pesos and 40 pesos was in August of last year at Cebu." Sulzer Intends To Fight Case Out. Albany, N. Y. With rumors cur rent that Governor William Sulzer would resign in event that his attor neys lose their fight to prevent him from being forced to defend himself before the high court of impeach ment, statements forthcoming from his counsel seemed to indicate that he has every intention of fighting the case out to the end, be it bitter or sweet. The statements were inspired by j the general interpretation placed on the letter which Mr. Sulzer sent to Lieutenant Governor Glynn, turn ing over to him for signature requisi tion papers ' for the extradition of a prisoner. Senate Committee To Hear Bankers. Washington. The Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate, preparing to continue Its hearing on the administration currency bill as passed by the House, decided to in vite Frank T. Vanderlip, -president of the National City Bank of New York, to discuss the measure before the committee. Later Vice President Talbott, of the same institution, will be invited to appear. The commit tee has decided to have in attendance an expert from the office of the Comp troller of the Currency to keep the committee straight on technical ques tions during the examination of - wit nesses in the future. Lucero Charged With Bribery. Santa Fe, N. M. J. P. Lucero, Rep resentative of the first State Legisla ture, was put on trial in District Court here charged with the solicita tion of a $500 hri.be in connection with the election of A. B. Fall to the United States Senat3 last spring. Conferees Take Duty Off Bananas. Washington. The Tariff ' Confer ence Committee of Congress voted to leave bananas on the free list. After a controversy, in' which the influence of President . Wilson was thrown in favor of the continued free importa tion, the Senate conferees receded from their amendment, which would have imposed a duty of one-tenth of one cent a pound. The Senate gave way as to duty . on lemons, limes, grapefruit and similar fruits, leaving the rates as fixed by the House, based on the measurement of packages. Defense Procedure Undecided. Concord, N. H. A mass of infor mation bearing upon extradition pre cedents in New. Hampshire lay before counsel for Harry K. Thay, ready for presentation before Governor Felker in an effort to defeat the attempt to have the slayer of Stanford White re turned to Matteawan. The order will be decided soon. It had been hoped to submit an outline of the plans to Thaw's mother and sister, Mrs. Geo. Lauder Carnegie, but at last report no member of the family except Harry ore here. -
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