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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JULY 22, 1914.
NO. 50.
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GRIST FROM
THE WIRES
Latest Dispatches Ground Down
Fur Hasty Consumption.
WHOLE WORLD IS GLEANED
jhe Four Corners of the Earth and
the Seven Seas Are Made to
Yield a Tribute of Inter
esting JMews. ,
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War Bulletins
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Gen. Victoriano Huerta, dictator of
jlexico for almost seventeen months
after his overthrow of Francisco Ma
dero, resigned as Provisional Presi
dent Francisco Carbajal, who is ex-J
pected to preserve order until the vic
torious Constitutionalists can take
hold of the Government, was sworn
in as Provisional President. Mexico
City took the change of rulers quietly.-
Gen. Villa said: "Others can run
the Government. The President must
le one of us." He regretted Huerta
had not waited to be captured.
Huerta in his letter of resignation at
tacked the United States and took to
himself the credit of having set into
motion forces that will wreck a pow
er which he accuses of many wrongs
on this continent.
Senator Smith, of Michigan, intro
duced a resolution to investigate the
part played by American financial in
tests in the Mexican revolution.
President Huerta's wife and family
left Mexico City for Vera Cruz on a
special train on the Mexican railway.
Many relatives and friends accom
panied them.
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Washington
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The House Interstate Commerce
Committee ordered a favorable report
on the bill extending the safety boiler
inspection act to all--other parts of
railroad locomotives and tenders.
Exoneration of all Senators con
cerned in the charge of misuse of
official letter paper for promotion
of a North Carolina gold mine is con
tained in the findings of an investi
gating committee which completed its
report.
President Wilson took command of
fight for confirmation of Thomas D.
Jones as member of Federal Reserve
Board.
The Secretary of the Treasury is
sued an order that no information
should be given by officials or em
ployes in regard to shipments of gold.
Suffragist leaders were unsuccess
ful again in their efforts to force from
the House rules committee a promise
for a House vote on a nation-wide
suffrage amendment.
Senator Root introduced a bill pro
viding a memorial 25-cent piece in
1915 as a souvenir of the Panama
Pacific Expositon.
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1 General
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In Kansas, the thermometer reach
ed 110 degrees.
The American Paper Co., which
operated a larfee plant at Bogota, N.
J., was adjudged a bankrupt by the
United States District Court. The
assets are estimated at $734,000 and
the liabilities at $680,000.
William Clark, 103 years old, Cleve
land's oldest citizen Is dead. Clark
was born in a suburb of London,
England. He remembered distinct
ly the crowning of Queen Victoria.
He was married in England in 1835.
Edward Smith, of Cincinnati, form
er fire department lieutenant, retired
hecause of a broken neck received
in a fire, saved two persons from
drowning when their skiff overturned
in th,e Ohio River.
Mrs. Lucille F. Haines,' of Camden,
totally blind for 10 years, re
gained her full sight during an
electrical storm.
The customs receipts for the fiscal
year at the Port of Boston dropped
$8,8o9,4R5 below last year's total of
$24,421,740.
Heavy rains throughout West Vir
ginia, ended the drought that for
three months wrought great havoc
to growing crops.
As "longevity" rewards a Washing
ton street car company will distribute
bonuses of $28,000 to employes who
have worked from 2 to 10 years.
Department of Justice at Washing
ton cannot prosecute New Haven di
rectors for alleged robbery of stock
holders. The German cruiser Nurnberg ar
rtved at San Francisco after being
stationed in Mexican waters.
Bishop C. R. Harris, a negro church
man of Asheville,. N. C, was indicted
for
arson in connection with the burri
ng of the Methodist Episcopal Chapel
Reports gathered by ; the. .Philadel
phia Public Ledger, in' collaboration
th the New York Times, from im
portant commercial and industrial
tenths all over the country indicate
a widespread belief that the depres
sion that hna oviotA A,-..-, fha firet
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0f the current -year is drawing
to
an end.
"die and hearty and thankful for
a"y friendships which he counts
greatest valus amnnir his nosses-
I r i
"as John Wanamaker celebrated
seventy-sixth birthday quietly at
home of his son, Rodman, in.At-
wntic city
1.,
A seven-day boycott on meats waa
begun by members of the Housewives'
League at St. Paul.
Mrs. Barbara Maykel died at Wor
cester, Mass., aged 105 years. She
had never been ill.
The People's Bank at Donaldsville,
La., was ordered closed. The bank
had deposits of $285,000.
John Mee, a mounted policeman of
Flushing, L. I., was run down and
killed by an automobile owned by Dr.
Matthew S. Borden, of New York.
John H, Clark, of Cleveland, was
nominated by President Wilson to be
Federal District Judge of northern
Ohuu
Rover, a powerful mastiff, saved the
lives of Louis and Philip Graham, of
Sharon, Pa., when they fell into the
Shenango River.
A cloudburst at Raleigh, N. C, caus
ed damage of $100,000. The Carolina
Power & Light plant was put .. oat
of commission.
Governor Stuart of Virginia received
the petition of 70,000 voters asking
for an election on Statewide prohibi
tion. Authorities at Cincinnati have or
dered individual drinking pails for
hor.ses to prevent the spread of glan
ders. Electrical storms which swept the
Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, caus
ed damage estimated at $250,000.
Secretary Bryan has come out with
an editorial in the Commoner an
nouncing his support of equal suffrage.
Arthur Tillman, 22, hanged in Paris,
Ark., for the murder of his sweetheart,
denied the crime in his last breath. (
A fleet of 31 coal-laden barges were
sunk during a heavy rainstorm at Lob
dell, La.
Raymond Benjamin, of Napa, Cal.,
was elected Grand Exalted Ruler of
the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks at Denver.
Cincinnati's new charter and the
recall were defeated. The vote was
below 50 per cent, of the total regis
tered voters. A number of bond is
sues were defeated.
Cattle prices at the Union Stock
Yards reached a record point when
choice beeves sold for $10. This price
is the highest ever paid there in July
and is a top point for the year. Hogs
touched $9, the highest level in
months, :
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion in its report to the Senate holds
New Haven directors criminally neg
ligent for waste of between $60,000,000
and $90,000,000 of the money of the
stockholders.
Billy Baxter, at one time a prom
inet minstrel, died in Chicago, aged
53 years.
The Missouri Public Service Com
mission reduced express rate's 21 per
cent., effective August 1.
The strike in the Westinghouse fac
tories at Pittsburgh ended when 8,000
employes returned to the shops.
The system of sex separation was
put into operation at Chicago's prin
cipal municipal bathing beach.
Fire caused by lightning destroyed
a building occupied by the Chope-Ste-vens
Paper Co., at Detroit. Loss $200,
000. Refugees arriving here from Mexi
co city say that Gen. Huerta, instead
of resigning, announced when he in
troduced to the Senate Francisco Car
bajal as his new Secretary of State
that he would not withdraw from the
Presidency.
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Sporting
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The Louisville Club of the American
Association, has purchased Third Base
man Midkiff and Outfielder Daniels
from the Baltimore Club of the Inter
national League.
A Chicago baseball writer gives
reports from about 50 cities where
major league, Class AA, Class A,
Class B and Class C baseball is play
ed, which would tend to show that
club owners throughout the country
are experiencing the worst season in
years. .
In view of the success of the Chi
cago White Sox since Lord and Chase
jumped, it might be said that the Sox
are only a few more jumps frcm the
top.
Jack Dunn of Baltimore is reap
ing, a rich harvest from the sale of
players. Baltimore wouldn't patron
ize a sure pennant winner, so Dunn
cannot be blamed for retrenching his
fortunes. His policy meets with the
heartiest indorsement of his col
leagues. '
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I Foreign
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! The Chilean Government has named
a commission to prepare further plans
for the better exploitation of the Port
of Valparaiso and to eliminate the
existing difficulties.
The Bavarian War Ministry order
ed all branches of the Bavarian army
to purchase cigarettes from firms in
dependent of the tobacco combine.
A general holiday was declared at
St. John's, Newfoundland, because of
the arrival of the Duke of Connaught,
Governor-General.
The estate of Sir Julius Wernher,
the South African mine operator, is
valued at $57,500,000. .
A portrait of President. McKinley,
presented to the Methodist Central
Hall at Westminster, London, by
Joseph Butler, of Youngstown, O.,
was unveiled by Ambassador Page.
A Peking dispatch says China has
informed the five-power group that
the proposed loan will be $40,000,000
instead of $100,000,000.
. Heinrich Oelrich created a new
altitude record by ascending 25,000
feet in a biplane at Leipsic.
Lord Northcliffe declares that Ul
ster is ready for civil war -and that
the Scotch-Irish Protestants never
will submit to home rule.
HUERTA'S RULE
HAS BEEN ONE
OF BLOODSHED
Killing of Madero Marked Begin
ning pf Despotism.
MADE VAIN BOAST TO TAFT
Dictator Declared He Would Restore
Peace at Once, but Refusal of
United States to Recognize
Him Assured His Downfall.
Victoriano Huerta took oath as nro-
visional president of Mexico February
i, iai3, tne day after President Fran
cisco I. Madero, Jr., had been ar
rested at the national palace.
Three days' later Madero and Jose
Maria Pino Suarez. vice-Dresident.
were shot to death while on a mid
night ride under guard from the pal
ace to the penitentiary. The precise
manner of their death has never been
explained.
One of Huerta's first acts as provi
sional rjresident was to teleeranh Will
iam H. Taft, then president of the
United States, the following message:
"I have the honor to inform you
that I have overthrown the govern
ment. The forces are with me, and
from now on peace and prosperity will
reign." N
PROVOKES CIVIL WAR.
The Mexican republic, however, was
at once plunged into civil war again,
notwithstanding the issuance by
Huerta of a proclamation of general
amnesty. The Sonora state congress
officially repudiated the provisional
government before Huerta settled
himself comfortably in the presidential
chair. .
Zapata, revolutionary leader to the
south of the capital, after negotiating
a few days with the new regime, went
back to his guerrilla campaign.
Salazar, one of--the highest generals
in the army, denounced Huerta.
Carranza, constitutionalist leader in
Chihuahua, assailed Huerta in a bitter
statement made public at San Anto
nio, i
Francisco Villa announced himself
an adherent of Madero and Joined the
northern army.
Pasqual Orozco of the clan of the
northern revolutionists was the lone
notable figure among the disaffected
who declared for the new government.
TAFT LEAVES PROBLEM.
President Taft, nearing the end of
his term, left to his successor the
problem of adjusting diplomatic rela
tions with Mexico. To Woodrow Wil
son Huerta sent felicitations on the
day of the American president's in
auguration. Hampered at the outset of his ad
ministration by the refusal of the
United States to recognize him, Huer
ta soon faced growing difficulties in
raising funds to run his government.
His uneasy hold on affairs was weak
ened by minor constitutionalist vic
tories in the north and by recurring
rumors of a break with Felix Diaz,
nephew of Porfirio Diaz and Huerta's
ally in the overthrow of Madero.
HUERTA CALLS ELECTION.
May 1 Huerta announced that he
would urge congress to call elections
in October to choose his successor.
The congress selected October 26 as
the date of the election, and a decree
to that effect was issued by Huerta
June 3'.
Feliz Diaz, who had announced him
self as a candidate for the presidency,
was sent to Japan July 17.
Henry Lane Wilson, American am
bassador, was recalled to Washington,
and .Nelson O'Shaughnessy, charge
d'affaires, was left in charge of Amer
ican interests in Mexico. .
REJECTS-PEACE EFFORT.
Early in August it became known
that President Wilson intended to
send John LInd, former governor of
Minnesota, to Mexico as his personal
representative in an endeavor to ar
range a basis for the republic's peace.
Huerta announced that he would not
tolerate foreign interference.
Nevertheless Mr. Lind delivered his
note from President Wilson.
Huerta rejected all proposals made
by the American government, chief
of which were the suggestions that
he resign and not be a candidate elec
tion day. ,
Relations between Mexico and the
United States became acute. President
Wflson proclaimed his policy In an ad
dress before congress to which was
attached the correspondence between
Mr. Lind and the Huerta administra
tion. HUERTA ARRESTS DEPUTIES.
Huerta was attacked in the Mexican
senate October 5 by Senator Domin
guez, who had the hardihood to speak
what was in the minds of himself and
some of his colleagues. . Dominguez
disappeared.
The chamber of deputies adopted a
resolution calling for an investigation.
To this Huerta's reply was dramatic
and swift.' He marched a column of
troops to the deputies' chamber,
seized 110 of them and threw them
into prison. ,
Through Mr. O'Shaughnessy the
United States . made 'representations
against violence to the imprisoned
deputies ' . ' -
In the election campaign certain in
fluence close to the dictator worked
for his return to the presidency, with
General Blanquet as his running mate.
and lent color to the persistent report
that Huerta really desired to be
elected and that his pretenses to the
contrary were a sham.
U. S. DEMANDS HE RESIGN.
When it became certain that the
elections had resulted in no constitu
tional choice on account of the failure
of voters to go to the polls, the Amer
ican government peremptorily called
on him to resign.
In a statement to the diplomatic
corps November 9 Huerta announced
that he would declare the result of the
election null and order another: elec
tion. November 12 Huerta refused to ac
cede to the American demand for his
resignation, and Mr. Lind left Mexico
City for Vera Cruz.
Meantime the United States dis
patched warships to the Mexican coast
and Americans continued to leave
Mexico.
U. S. VEERS TO CARRANZA.
Definite proposals were made by
the United States to Carranza and his
adherents.
Several of the European powers,
notably Great Britain, Germany and
France, gave strong support to the
policy of the United States.
The constitutionalists grew stronger
and continued their advance to the
south. They captured Victoria, Chi
huhua, Juarez and Tuliacan.
The situation became so critical
that Great Britain, Germany, France,
Spain and Japan ordered warships to
Mexican waters.
Fighting continued at Tampico and
many other centers. Torreon soon
was taken by the constitutionalists.
RAISES EMBARGO ON ARMS.
An embargo placed on the exporta
tion of arms from the United States to
Mexico was raised early in February
of the present year.
A large number of American troops
were concentrated on the border, and
the American fleet in Mexican waters
was strengthened.
The constitutionalists advanced on
Torreoa and Monterey. The former
place was captured early in April.
Then came the departure of Mr.
Lind from Vera Cruz and the arrest
of a party of American bluejackets at
Tampico, for which an apology and
salute were demanded by the United
States and refused by Huerta.
AMERICANS TAKE VERA CRUZ.
April 21 American bluejackets and
marines were landed at Vera Cruz in
consequence of the reported arrival of
a large consignment of arms and am
munition 'for Huerta. A number , of
Americans were killed in the street
fighting. The Mexicans retired and
destroyed a portion of the railroad
and the Americans held the port.
Shortly after a mediation proposal
from Argentina, Brazil and Chile was
accepted. A conference ensued at Ni
agara Falls.
In the Interval American troops re-'
lieved the bluejackets at Vera Cruz.
These have since remained in occupa
tion of the port. (
Tampico and Zacatecas fell into the
constitutionalists' hands and the vic
torious armies continued their march
on Mexico City, where rumors were In
circulation for many weeks of the res
ignation of Huerta.
With Huerta's retirement the con
stitutionalists feel that their revolu
tion has virtually triumphed. They
turned against him the moment he
overthrew Madero, the constitutional
president of Mexico, In February t 1912.
and have waged war with unrelenting
vigor ever since.
U. S. TROOPS REMAIN IDLE.
The prospect of an early solution of
the Mexican problem gave both presi
dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan
much joy, naturally. American forces
will not be -withdrawn from Vera Cruz
until a stable government has been es
tablished in Mexico City and recogni
tion has been accorded the new gov
ernment. The feeling is general, however, that
if Carranza gives guarantees to politi
cal offenders, as well as the people
generally recognition will be prompt
ly extended by the United States and
other nations of Central and South
America, as well as Europe.
LAWYER IN PLACE OF POWER
For the First Time In History Mex
ican Republic Has a Civilian in
Presidential Chair.
Mexico City. Francisco Carbajal
is forty-four years old, a native of
the state of Campeche, and a lawyer.
Almost ever since the start of his
career he has 'occupied posts in the
judiciary. In the Madero administra
tion he was a senator, but relin
quished his post to re-enter the su-'
preme court, of which he was chief
justice at the time General Huerta ap
pointed him minister of foreign rela
tions. When General Porfirio Diaz deter
mined in 1911 to treat with the Made
ro revolutionists, Senof Carbajal pro
ceeded to Juarez as his commissioner.
Senor Carbajal has a reputation for
possessing considerable intellectual
force and independence of character.
His demeanor is quiet. He shuns the
exuberance in verbiage and gesticu
lation to which Latin-Americans are
prone. He is courteous, but a man
of few words and little given to elabo
rate compliments. . ..
Besides, he is heat and well
groomed in appearance. His features
indicate pure European descent, with
out any admixture of Indian blood.
Altogether he is a man who con
veys an impression of reserve power.
He is a good man of business.
His probity has never been ques
tioned. He has been sagacious and
successful in investments and, while
not rich, is a man, of independent
means. He la a man of family.
BRIM TO HAVE
FE
WILL ARRANGE NORTH CAROLINA
EXHIBIT AT THE PANAMA
EXPOSITION.
LATE STATS CAPITOL NEWS
Review of the Latest News Gathered
Around the State Capitol That
Will Be of. Interest to Our Readers
Over North Carolina.
.Raleigh.
Governor Craig issued a commis
sion to H. H. Brimley, curator of the
state museum, as executive commis
sioner on the part of North Carolina
to have in . hand the installation . of
whatever exhibits the state has at the
Panama-Pacific exposition and to pre
pare the -literature exploiting the
state and her resources that is to be
distributed there. Mr. Brimley is al
ready, through his division of the
state department of Agriculture, col
lecting grains and other agricultural
material that will be used. An effort
Is being jnade to bring about a finan
cial adjustment whereby a number of
the wealthier citizens and corpora
tions of the state will advance the
money for a creditable state exhibit
and depend on the 1915 legislature to
reimburse them through special ap
propriation. A Pleasure to Governor Blease.
Columbia, S. C. In response to
the request of Governor Craig of
North Carolina, for permission to pass
through South Carolina en route to
the joint encampment to be held at
Augusta, Ga., Governor Blease - re
plied that the permission requested
was unnecessary as the troops did
not intend to enter the state for mili
tary duty. ' !
"However,' Governor Blease wrote,
"if you prefer permission from me
for your trops to pas . through, as a
courtesy to you, it is a pleasure for
me to, and I hereby grant such per
mission." Moving Pictures of State Farm.
Chairman H. B. Varner, of the state
prison board of directors, was at
Raleigh arranging for a series of
moving pictures to be taken of the
splendid 7,500-acre state farm in Hali
fax county, on Roanoke river, with a
view to showing to the people of the
state without, any cost to the prison
management or the" state, through the
moving picture shows, some idea of
what splendid proportions that farm
has assumed.
Just back from the farm, Chairman
Varner, says he never in all his life
saw such fine crops. There are 1,500
acres In soja beans, cow peas, alfalfa
and clover, 1,500 acres in corn 5,000
acres in all being under cultivation.
There are nine miles of dykes that
protect these crops from river over
flows. There are about 300 convicts on the
farm, the majority of them being de
fectives physically that are not fit for
service out on the public works con
tracts. Mr. Varner says that two
fine farm mules were killed and an
other seriously injured recently in a
severe electric storm, being struck by
lightning.
Chairman Varner and members of
the board of directors held their reg
ular July meeting at the farm, those
attnding being Chairman Varner,' N.
E. Edgerton, Selma; R. H. Bucking
ham, Fayetteville and Superintendent
of Prison J. S. Mann of Raleigh.
SupL Alderman Completes Book.
Mr. S. S. Alderman of the state
department of education has complet
ed the arrangement of the matter for
the record of the county school com
missioners. From ten in 1912, the
number of county commencements
increased to forty in 1913, and are
expected to reach sixty in 1914.
Governor Will be Away Three Weeks.
In leaving the executive offices for
his trip to Whitney, Governor Craig
stated that- it will be probably three
weeks before he returns to the city.
He will be in Asheville before the end
of the week and spends probably a
couple of weeks there.
Laboratory Will Get Money.
The tangle in the funds for the
state laboratory of hygiene through
a "kink" in the legislative statutes
involving the appropriations for this
important division of the state de
partment of health, was straightened
out by the governor and council of
state through an amendment to the
ruling of Attorney General Bickett
to the effect that he sate treasurer
would be justified in paying the full
$8,000 per year instead of $4,000 per
year for the laboratory, and authoriz
ed Treasurer Lacy to do so.
Croom Is' Member of Board.
A. H. Croom, of Gragaw, is the le
gally . appointed and duly qualified
member of the Board of Directors of
the Central State Hospital' at Raleigh
under appointment by Governor Craig
and confirmation of the State Senate,
and R. H. Salsbury, of Hassell has no
title to the position is the decision of
Judge W. M: , Bond. That opinion
was rendered recently in Wake -Superior
Court. Mr. Croom, the defen
dant, being represented by Mr. R. C.
Strong, the plaintiff, being represent
ed by Messrs. Manning and Kitchin.
CHARGED
XHIBIT
Seaboard Wins Inspection Case.
Judge W. M. Bond, in the" superior
court ruled in favor of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway Company and
against, the state and. the North Car
olina Anti-Salon League in the noted
case of State vs. Seaboard Air Line,
involving the right of railroad com
panies to refuse to submit their books
on deliveries of intoxicating liquors
to inspection of citiens generally on
demand as provided for in the state
statute providing machinery for the
enforcement of the prohibition law.
. The seaboard has been indicted for
refusal to allow Superintendent R. L.
Davis of the State Anti-Saloon League
to inspect the records of , deliveries
at the freight depot of the Seaboard
at Raleigh, counsel for the Seaboard
contending that to do so would violate
regulations for interstate commerce
and that these had precedence over
any' "state" statute. J - -
Judge Bond examined only one wit
ness. Superintendent Davis of the
Anti-Saloon League and heard the
contention of the Seaboard counsel
that the company was-ready at all
times to submit to any examination
by a duly accredited officer of the
law as to any specific deliveries, but
that under the interstate statutes, its
book could not be opened to citizens
generally for any and all sorts of ex
aminations. There was argument too
by former Governor Kitchin as coun
seld for the Anti-Saloon League in
which it was insisted that deliveries
of whiskies in the state are subject to
police regulation and that the Webb-
Kenyon act specifically puts these
matters under the state regulation
and that, therefore, the state statute
authorizing such examination as was
demanded by Superintendent Davis,
of the Anti-Saloon League was well
within the rights of the state and not
in- conflict with the proper construc
tion of the interstate commerce act.
However, Judge Bond ruled with the
railroad company.
The state and the Anti-Saloon
League gave notice of appeal and the
case now goes to the supreme court
of the state and will most probably
go on up to the United States su
preme .court before the matter is fin
ally settled.
Secretary Issues Many Charters.
The Moresville Co - Operative
Creamery, with Mooresville as head
quarters, is chartered with $5,500
paid in capital; $50,000 authorized
There are 143 Incorporators from four
different counties.
The Beaufort Brick Company, with
principal office at . Blount's Creek.
engages in the brick business with
$1,500 paid in capital; $10,000 author-
led. The incorporators are A. K. Tav-
loe, Washington; W. C. Rodman,
Washington; N. C. Tolar, Blount's
Creek.
Kenilworth Park Company, Kenil-
worth, N. C, a corporation chartered
to do real estate, construct houses
and run hotels, etc., is authorized by
$15,000, but may begin, with $6,000
capital. J. J .McCloskey, R. A. Wil
son, E. G. Hester and Jake M. Chiles
are the charterers.
The Trust Building Corporation, of
Wilmington, licensed to buy, own,
sell, lease and exchange personal
property, is to begin business with
$5,000, but may run to $125,000. The
incorporators are Edward Ahrens.
Thomas E. Cooper, J. G. L. Giere-
schen and Milton Colder, of Wilming
ton.
The Hawks Robertson Drug Com
pany, of Mount Airy, is changed to
the Hawk's Drug Company. P. L
Hawks is chief owner.
Governor Grants Two Pardons.
Rowden Black, the Wake county
boy who has served se ven years in
the penitentiary for felonious killing,
was given a conditional pardon by
Governor Craig. He must observe
the law and remain a good citizen.
Jesse L. Smoot, a Davie county man
convicted of selling whisikey and sen
tenced to eighteen months, gets ex
ecutive kindness with time off for
good behavior.
Two Tar Heels Get Increase.
Washington. Two North Carolini
ans in the treasury department be
gan drawing increased salaries as a
result of the final passage of the gen
eral appropriation bill. Col. W. H
Osborn, commissioner of Internal rev
enue, gets $6,500 instead of $6,000, and
S. H. Boyd, also of Greensboro, head
of the individual income tax division
of the department, is to. get $3,500 in
stead of $2,500.
Craig Will Speak in Virginia.
Governor Craig has accepted an in
vitation to attend the Mecklenburg
(Va.) County Fair at Chase City dur
ing the last week in September, the
plan being for Governor Stuart of Vir
ginia and Governor Craig to speak
from the same platform on the same
day in connection with the fair, this
to be on September 30. Governor
Craig told a delegation from Chase
Ciyt that he will gladly Join Governor
Stuart there at that time. In the dele
gation here were Mayor W. H. Jeff
reys, Jr., of Chase City. '
Governor Will Inspect Whitney Camp.
Governor Craig is to make a per
sonal inspection soon ol the convict
camp at Whitney and the conditions
under which the convicts are working
there with a ,view to reaching a con
elusion as to whether or not there are
any conditions there that contribute
to the exceptionally large ' death rate
among the state convicts that are
hired to the corporation carrying on
the great development there.. There
have been a number of deaths from
disease there as well as a number of
fatal accidents.
STATE ITEMS
OF INTEREST TO ALL NORTH
CAROLINA, PEOPLE., ' '
- Urge Judge Clark.
Governor Craig and the council ol
state forwarded to President Wilson
a letter strongly urging upon the
president that he appoint Chief Jus
tice Walter Clark of the state su
preme court to the United Staes su
preme court bench to . succeed the
late Justice Horace H. Lurton. Also
the Raleigh Bar Association adopted
strong resolutions endorsing Chief
Justice Clark for the place and urg
ing that President Wilson appoint
him. The letter sent by Governor
Craig and the council of state is sign
ed by the governor, Secretary of State
J. Bryan Grimes, State Auditor W. P.
Wood, State Treasurer B. R. Lacy,
Superintendent of Public Instruction
J. Y. Joyner and Attorney General T.
W. Bickett.
Damages Hospital $10,000.
The recent storm in Raleigh which
broke all records for downpour of rain
barring July 30, '1888, wrought its
worst destruction upon grounds of
the state hospital and the estimate of
losses there is $10,000. Walnut creek,
which has never been seen so badly
overflowed, backed upon the hospital
grounds and flooded portions of the
crops. The worst damage was to the
ground. The hospital had sowed its
lands in peas that had reached a
growth nearly 1 large enough to pro
tect the ground from breaking away.
But it lacked a little and the young
crop went rushing to the creek basin
with great furrows cut in a hundred
places.
Warren Names Committee.
Chairman Thos. D. Warren, of the
state Democratic executive committee
announced the appointment of the ad
visory committee for the impending
campaign as follows: First district.
Thomas J. Jarvis, Greenville; Second
district, S. A. Woodard, Wilson;
Third district, W. T. Dortch, Golds-
boro; Fourth district, E. E. Britton,
LRaleigh; Fifth district, General J. S.
Carr, Durham; Sixth district, J. O.
Carr, Wilmington; Seventh v district.
L. D. Robinson, Wadesboro; Eighth
district, J. H. Burke, Taylorsville;
Ninth district, C. R. Hoey, Shelby;
Tenth district, J. E. Carroway,
.Vaynesville.
Population of Concord.
Mr. J. B. Long, principal of No. 2
graded school, has completed his work
of taking the school census and popu
lation of Concord. Concord's popula
tion, as reported by Mr. Long, is
9,046. The government census gave
It as 8,715. Mr. Long's figures weTe
gathered, while he was taking the
school census, Mayor Hartsell having
engaged him to take the population.
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.
Work on the new alumni building
of Oak Ridge Institute is progressing
satisfactorily. The walls are up to the
second story and the first floor fram
ed In. The scene is one of busy ac
tivities. The dormitories are being
overhauled and repainted. The fall
session will open September 16th, un
der most favorable auspices.
It will be of interest to those mak
ing the trip up the mountains to
Blowing Rock this year to know that
many of the dangerous turns and
curves have been blaSted out and
widened to twice their former, size.
This will eliminate a great part of the
danger that many people f ered in '
mking the climb of the mountin.
When would a rat dog be a rat dog?
is a question that the Kinston police
are not willing to debate. A sugges
tion that rat-catching dogs be exempt
ed from taxation has met with prompt
protest from the officers, who are
now taking toll at the rate of $1 a
head on the canine population of
Kinston, which numbers about 350
outside of the canine tax-dodgers.
Green corn, cucumbers, potatoes,
cantaloupes and the "Sampson coun
ty" huckleberry, all are being loaded
in cars at Faison for shipment North.
Each year brings into market some
new crop that proves well, and soon
becomes a staple shiment.
Representative Webb of North Car
olina, was chosen by the house Demo
cratic caucus to succeed Representa
tive Clayton of Alabama recently
named Federal judge, as chairman of
the Judiciary committee.
The North Carolina Beef Breeders
and Feeders' Association will offer a
prize for the best steer or heifer calf
over six and under twelve months of
age, shown by a boy 'under sixteen
years of age at the Nprth Carolina
Live Stock Association meeting at
Statesville January 19, 20, 21, 1915.
Te Hanover In-n, the smallest of
the three hotels at Wrightsville
Beach, and also the youngest, was
sold at public auction recently, being
bid in Mrs. W. L. Wall, one of the
lessees of the hotel this season. Mrs.
Wall expects to conduct the hotel vt
ery summer. '
The executive committee of th
South-eastern Underwriters' Associa
tion, an organization, composed of fire
insurance men of the Southeastern
States, is holding its annual midsum
mer meeting at Grove Park Inn at
Asheville.
The conference at Washington, p.
C, of Commercial Agents Odell and.
Clark of the department of commerce
and T. I. Hickman, president of the
American Cotton Manufacturers As
sociation and Messrs. E. H. Goodwin
and D. A., Skinner of the chamber of
commerce of the United States re
sulted in definite action. '
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