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WASHINGTON N C THURSDAY AFriiKNOON APRIL 9 19U TO THE CITIZENS AND TAX-PAYERS OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON: 4Sro mr* ??o when the eam palgn ?M launched for Um present major, be ami his trienta vent lu te the by-ways and hedgso and told the people they could not afford to Tote-for C. H. Sterling for m*ror; that If bo vaa elected ho would boy the water plant. They waged Jn tilts InsUnee a campaign that was, conoetved in deceit and born in tin. They landed the preeent mayor no being one of the beet bnalneea men in the city and a man who could be roMed wpoo to carry oat the wUI-m of thv people and give them a square deal in all matter* pertv' i lng to the clty'a effalre. I -want to aak yon, Mr. Taxpayer, If he baa kept hie promisee to yon at that time. What was the first thing he did when he and the pree- i ent Board of A Mermen were in ducted into office? Did thfcy carry out the wishes of the people ai ex pressed at the ballot box with ref erence to the purchase of the wAter plant? It is for yon to say whether he waged an antl^water campaign, or not. Whet next did he do? Hit firsj act. after he was elected was to pur chase the water plant at a price ofj fifty-five thousand dollars, and Issu ed sixty thousand dollars to pay for same, and >that without / a rote of the people. Was he honest with the people who elected him f Has he been honest with them In any of his official acts? What next did he do? He enter ed into negotiation* for 'the purchase of the Myers' property for a public wharf. He went up and down the streets proclaiming what a nice tbdng it would be to buy this prop erty and. the city own a public wharf where boata could land; and the people bettered him. and Toted th'.r tr thousand dollars more bonds. Has there erer been anything done wtth the property, or eren ^n at tempt made to improve if? Then why was K that a man. parading as a good business man that he was, should saddle tb'e people with an other thirty thousand dollar debt, with no intention of placing the property in condition that the city might realise vome benoftt there from? Why iwas it he dkl not make some effort to carry out the wishes of the people as expreeeed at lh' polls, and giro them a wharf where boats could land, as they had reason to believe he would do? Wmi next ?4 tie do? He enter ed Into negotiations with engineers for the preparation of plans for saw eras*, water and eleotrtc phuit. A nujttber of engineer* bid for this work. som* as low as Ave per cert. Did he enerclse the precaution In a warding the engineering contract that he wonld have ordinarily exer cised had Vt been hi* own private af fairs f What did he doT He ?% warded the contract to the highest bldded at seven' per oent; thorehy deliberately throwing away three thousand dollars of the people*? money that had been voted for the sfbove named Improvements. Good business Judgment, exercised by the good bsalnee* man he was proclaim ed t* he! Was that allt What was the neyt step taken? Did he Improve the present electric plant with the twenty thousand dollars voted for same? No! He over-rode again wishes of the people and built a now plant at a cost of some sixty or s*v enty -thousand dollsrs. leaving the old plant on the city's hands to rust out and go t? destruction as street carts, street ploughs, streets and #11 other property belonging to tbc town is allowed to do. Why should this man. the only man espafele two years ago to man age the elty's aflat**, mismanage Uie elty's affairs and squander the peo pie's money In this manner? Has any eltlssn of the city ever seen a published statement of how the money hat been spent? If the mayor was g-o!*f to stand for re election, why la, It he did not pub lish a etatement, showing how and where the money had been ^ent? If he ha4 epent It a* the people had voted It, he had no reason to with hold a published statement. If be has net spent R where the people voted It should be spest. the peojle are entitled to know where and how It has beon spent. But he cosld sot afford to enlighten the people on IMS matter, m be intended standing Cor re-eleotkm and knew fall well UK If the people kmsw whft had been done txi how- It vras done, they would repudiate him at the poll* next Friday. April Uh. Had the money for the improve ments Ibeen spent as the people ap propriated k and had every reason to believe It would be epent, we would have had money enough to complete the' sewera ?e without ask* ing the people to vote another bond Issue. 'Y Why are the peole to be allowed to vote on this question t Did the mayor and Board of Aldermen went then to vote on It? No! What did they do? They eent the Lord Mayor and the City Attorney to Raleigh. "For what? To get an act allowing the people to vote on a bqnd leeue to complete the sewerage f No! They went to Raleigh (their expenses, no doubt, being paid by the tax payers of the city) to have an act passed to allow them to 4ssu? thirty-five thousand dollars more bonds, with out a vote of the people. Is thl? giving to the peole a square deal, or are they trying to over-ride the will of the people who placed them In effleo? They have Issued already $253,500 (which Includes new Ore truck) bonds In the two years they have been In office, and if they had been allowed to do so, would have lseuod thirty^flve thousand dollari more, making a total* of Two Hun dred and Eighty-three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, nearly dou ble what the people had voted for. WUI the people <stand such bu~ dens as this to be heaped ^ upon without even being consulted In the matter, much less allowed to vote on the proposition? I, for ? one. don't believe they win. Go to the polls on Friday. April 9th and repudiate these high-haiioed acts of the present Mayor by elect ing C. H. Sterling your Mayor and a Board of Aldermen who will sup port him; and whenever there Is a proposition Involving the* expend iture of money, the people will be takon Into confidence as was done In hds former administration and be allowed to express, their vie$rs as to what they think about it, and not have such Impositions practiced up on them as has been done for the oast two years. Respectfully. M. M. JONR8. After an illness of ten days, Dave Wllkerson, Jr.. the nve-year old sou of C?pt. and Mrs. Dave Wllkeraon, died orf pneumonia Saturday evening tt seven o'clock at the residence of ?his parents In this city. The funeral services were conduct ed from the rentdence Sunday mora ine -at eight o'clock by Rev. R. V. Hope, pastor of the Christian church and the remains were taken to Gooee Creek, their former homo, for Interment. KODAK WORK. Saya Baker:: ? The amateur busi ness has grown to be a 'hi* thing with us, so much no, we have In stalled a regular tank developing outfit. By tfils method we can han dle a great deal more business wr'i lea* trouble and twenty-live psr cent better result. BAFRR'g ffrC&W 4-T-ltp. New Theater We wioht only - FRTDAY. APRIL ?TH |/ J. A. Cobarn's Greater MTKRTRKTJl Blffer, Better lljan Ever. 30 P*o $le, Bahd and Oreheetra. Ev erything New Vvery Beaton. Street Parade and Band Con Met 7*e, AND 11.01 ;f.>v "The Exploits of Elaine" is the next *>l* feature offering at the Nq>r Theater and the first episode will be eh own on Monday night and the sncoeedlng episodes will bo on each Monday night thereafter. The Dally Nowb has arranged with the-management of this theater to run this ?tory In serial form, and each episode shown on Monday n ght will be run In the . columns of the Dally News the latter part" of the week preceding. The first Install ment to correspond with the first episode which will be shown on' Mon day night, th 12th will begin tooior row (Friday) and finished In Satur day's is?rue. Begin this story with the first installment and folllow it up with the pictures at this theater each Monday flight and you will see tho best serial picture the New The ater has ever cxffered. noted actress, is taking the leading Miss Pearl White, the pretty and role In this picture. Miss White's acting is superb and picture fans ev erywhere are always watching for her. The managers of this theater ar* very careful in selecting pictures for their patron^, and they assert that the "Exploits "of Elaine" has mad?> the biggest hit of the time In all tho citlea where -It has b\?en shovv'n. "The Clutching Hand" is the l!?.le o? tfoe opening Installment, in which* baffling and mystifying problem* begin and will be followed by great or complications in "Tho Twilight Sleep," "The Frozen Safe." and otb er sensational plays which make up this wonderful picture. I JITNEY It 1b rumored that a jitney bu3 company Is to be organized hero goon. Three vehicles to be put on at the start, from Main ntfeet to the West End, Nlcholsonvllle and Wasli Ington Park. If this venture is car ried out Washington will he the first town in this section to have the ad vantage of this modern and latter day necessity. Some of the leading business men of the city are gaid to be behind the movement. Beware of the Rut. The deeper. th? -ut the harder It Is on the vehicle and the more It retards jpeed. Fir.d n new way of doing the aid work: bo a road builder and not ; rut maker. FOR ALDKRMAN I hereby announce myself a can ''.date for Alderman for the First Vard of the City of Washington, ?tbject to the Democratic rlmary ~i he held April 9th. 1 wish to "urther that I am entering th'ri rate .\1th only one objecj^ln vl?w, that I's to further the Interest of the prop >rty holders and Htiaen* of the Tlrat Ward ? and especially ^ the ex ?eme eastern patt of this ward ? *>y street and sidewalk Improve ments. / Our part of the city of Washln? on oan be made the most attrac tve and valuable part of the city, if w? had the municipal help we arc ?ntitled to, and this our ward de mands. But with Main vtreat In "nud and sand banks, and Second nfeet at crooked ?? It la, with a ne rro settlement enoroaehlnc at our back doors (on account of the crookedness of Second street) ra have no n?w buildings in project and no hop*a of relief. I have no factions! fight to mak?. I have no opposition to any officer, now, or to be. I am a friend to 1h? upbuilding of every part of th<? elty of Washington srtd slways offer m> vqiee and vote for such, an 4 If elect ed I shall do all In my power to make the First Ward more Inviting for home and hom^seekers. ^ Yoors respectfully. t H: JOTTSMON. i i-i iihih i'* ?h ' ii mi ' COBURINTS GREATER MINSTRELS AT -NEW THEATRE FRIDAY APRIL 9TH FUSSES AWAY i mm\ The death of Mr. Wade LrFay-' i tie Dulta occurred on Saturday i iglit. at his residence on Harvey f treet. He had been afflicted with : ickness since Just before Christmas but had only been oonflned to his room a part of the time prior to his cieath. Mr. Butts was born In Pitt coun ty about neventy-flve years ago. v. here he spent the creator part of his life. For the past four years hf has made hlB home In this city. He v an a Confederate veteran, and held n the hlgest osteem by all who 1 new him. The funeral -services were conducted from the resldeuce Sunday afternoon by Rev. R. V Mope, pastor of the Christian churr^. nnd the remaing Interred In Oak (lalo cemetery. The deceased lpavp* a widow, iwo rons, four daughters and a host of f.-lenda who deeply sympathize wJFh the bereavrd ones In their srad af ttlctlolk I SIX REEL Tonight' ?t the New Theater the? will be ? alt reel program ef moving pictures In which there will be n four reel feeutre on the Perftmount program entiled, "Lee Kleeehaeft" one of the heet Paramount pictures thftt thlft hotmn haw yet presents] m. dim Mrs. Cassie Thomas Dixon a*id Mr. George B. Diamond, of this city, were joined together In the holy :>osda of matrimony yesterday after noon at six o'clock at the home of Mr. John Elliott near Rath. Rev. R. V. Hope, pastor of the Christian f hurch of this city, officiating. The r??remony was quietly performed in i he presence of ? few friend? of the r. attracting parties. Mr. Diamond recently purchased the rpnidenre of Mr Edward L. S'ewart on Fourth street, and mi r.iedlately after the ceremony ttaoy repaired to thin city, and will be at homo at this address. Mrs. Diamond has a host of frlen.ls here "who wish her every happ'ine** along life's journey Mr. Diamond Is the popular pro prletor of the Greek Cafe on Main street. and the congratulations oT his many friend* are being po u ro.1 uj>on him. The tenth Installment of "Zudorn" the great serial of myatery will also be shown tonight on account of Co burn's Minstrels being shown at tills hr.use tomorrow night. On next Mon day the New Theater will start a new serial entitled "Exploits of Elaine" and will without doubt prove to be the best serial that ha* ever been shown at this house. To morrow at 11:310 a. m.. also at " SO p m.. the band from Coburr'? Treat er Minstrels will give s free concert In front of Worthv a:i<l Ethertdfe'i drug store. COMPETENT AND FXPERrFSCRD ?tenographar and <1? ?tr?0 position May l*t. AddreM CompAtAnt. Care Dully Nawi. 4-R-?tp. THE SAVINGS & TRUST CO. Has always on hand ar\ ample supply of Revenue Stamps in denominations of .01 to $1.00 and will fake pleasure in sup plying any one in need of then at any time. J NO. B. SPARROW, Cashier SHEER VALOR AND LEADERSHIP J MADE TWO AUSTRIAN GENERALS i Pilsudsky Secretly Formed PeUsh Legion, Defeated Couacks and Without Orders Took Klelce ? Many Professional Men in His j Command? Fischer Gained Promoti.? Through j Gallant Defense of Bukowln'a, Austrian Press Headquarters. ? In the first part of the month of August, before the Austrian armies under Gen erals Dankl and Auffenberg undertook their first offensive snd victorious Hon across tbo frontier of Kui Poland, much surprise was caused u. the news that a division of young Pol Ish sharpshooters, many of whom had Just outgrown boyhood, hud on a dark night surrounded a division of Cos sacks, had killed every man. had marched sis far as the city of Klelce and had taken possession of It Many people in Austria heard of this strong corps of volunteers, which La the course of the war has developed to an Important factor, for tho first 1 1 m ? * when the news of that succeuyfji ex petition was published The newspapers. It Is true, hat! taken notice about a yc-r before ih? war. when these >oung volunteers had marched past the aged emperor in the park of Schoeubrunu and had ehown ihemselvt-9 in their comply uni forms with excellent ar?i:s In ili^ streets of Vienna Hut it v?uk genur allA.umed that th^y belonged to bcit^' hind of military preparatory school, such as exlnt In Switzerland Only vf Tv few were aware that thtr corps v as Intended to play an Im portant role In the eventuality of war The way In which thr corps was formed was a 6ecrrt, and the appear ance of "The Polish Legion." which has earned fame an-l honors wherever it served the purposes of war "came as a surprise to most poo pie. Thn history of the corps Is a reawakenlap of ihe romance of old times. Pounded on Hatred of Rjrsia. The Polish l.efrlen was called to life by a single man. whose telen'. for organisation was paired with a viru lent. burning hatred aga'.nat Russia, with the Inborn. Indomitable will to rescue his country from the Russian yoke. Joseph von Pilau d? I: v? that 1* his name ? was a revolutionist so long as he lived in Warsaw, one cf a party which attempted to realize ib? old. never abanduned dream of a resusci tated. troa P.olaiuL During the reflation of 10<N?, th?> biggest and most dangerous for Rus sia in recent times. Pilsudsky fought on the barricades of Warsaw In the foremost lines of his compatriots. The attempt to bcrat the Russian ehoins failed, like all previous efforts, be cause the Poles were too weak to realat unaided and alone Tho result for the leaders was a dungenn In Si beria or the gallows. PHsudsky and many others escaped this fate He managed to cross the Austrian fron tier and settled in Oallcla, where lio found a fertile field for the cultivation of his ldealB. Ho decided that the Austrian Poles who enjoy equal riphts with all th< subjects of th? dual monarchy. must help him to liberate their oppressed brothers living across the Vistula Pllsudsky began by addressing hlra aelf to the very young ar.d h?* suc ceeded in waking their enthusiasm The Polish Nationalists and the So elallalB wore the first to answer to his call and their young sons and broth era enlisted without tarrying In the JungBchuetsen-Verelne (younu men's shooting clubs), which ho established everywhere Their Immodlate aim waa to make the young men hardy and to teach them the use of weaj*>na ? the liberation of Russian Poland their ultimate scop* The latter wac never admitted officially. The Aiie trlan government therefore was not bound to Interfere, not t-.'en In time* of peace. Takes Klelea Unbidden. Then the war broke out, The en thusiastic leader assembled his forces In Cracow, and an the Polish T/eglon did not form part of the army at that time he chose a dark night and marched his 1.500 well armed men across the Russian frontier on his own responsibility, anxious to prove that the young Poles were worthy of being taken Into the army. Th? result waa the combat with a division of , mounted Cossacks and the occupation of Klelea. In which undertakes Infan* try helped The Polish Legion held the elty three weeks, and when It had to with draw befora an overpowering Russian force It fought br*T?]g and cauaad the enemy heavy losses The Austrian array leaders admitted that the young oorpa had fully proved lta valor and Pltaudsky'i activity waa officially sanc tioned. The Polish Legion had mads lta way. Pllsudaky waa especially anxious to add a cavalry corps to the Legion He began with six horses and at the ?nd of two montha he had two aquad rona. He asked for artillery, and as no others could be spared the army authorities garr him twenty old anna that bad to be fired with guifpowdor. However, he had an excellent artillery officer who obtained splendid results from those old guns In the meantime he continued to en list yoang Poles, vnnd the vletory o? Klelce proved so grest an attraction that very soon his forces number <>d three regiments Instead of one. And then something happened which the Austrian array had never befr.e wlt neasrd. This man. who had no served I aa an o?esr. not ?m as a oldler^ wa? made a gener *{ The Poltab 1 flon. wltli lLu lender. * "*# placed under ;he command of Field l?vnlud Llen :cn&ot von Dyrsky Again Invade* Russia. > "hrn the Polish I,??giou bad ti* - from Klelce It was truat?J# vii. If /~,n* thal Part of lll? Vl? tula wi, '"rged by the mouth* uf thf rive, A ,-c against the Ruf ?lane. Pllsuds*, was not sat 1* fled to remain on the defensive, bat repeal^ I'dly attacked the Russian recoil noHi'rlDK parties and with bta troop* Kit a* far an twelve miles Into Rus sian territory When the Joint armies of Germany and Austria made the second affea **1ve sally. which took them to tha ? ??-> t>ut'-K of Warsaw, the Legion warn lighting tit* Hessians outside the to* tress ' f Ivangojlfci. and when the Rus sian ii.ult5f.id> b cauBtd the bold attack to ???)'! !u fiillure, the Legion helped to (over :! ?? rrtnat Th.- third offenslva attack at first took the Legion to Wol brotn In the southeast of Poland. \ili'*rtl' undertook a wonderfully bold marvh through two Rust-Ian eorpa, 'vhlch It (hruatened to embrace and U rrnd t<i retreat In this action tha I.epion Buffered henvy losses. Among th?- der.il wan the brother of the world* famed pianiat PaUerfwakl. one of th* bra vert and mos-. enthusiastic legion a-'e*. who. an a Russian officer, took part tn the w:ir In Manchtrria. whera, he becnm" ?. captain of the general sisf f>octc-?i of medicine. lawyers and iinlvcrriry prole* -ers nre fighting id ihf Pc!!.1!'. gion. J'rnf???Bor Kunltiky of Khr-ker university/ who lost hla ,:f?* In the br-tlle of Nad? orna,' wag on** of ih'-m. Af'er the combi'? ft Wolbrnm. P1V Bi?dbiky marched part of his Polish regt irinta td flallcli, ulierc they took an active pr.rt la the victorious battle of '.unsnnva; sortie remained In the Car ? <\thtans Unil are doing good work 1 .re !i w'fl be difficult to find a braver ? ori'S ; nu an abler leader than the T" : M*li I ^gion and Oeneral Pttsulakr ?a ".cm? military a::rt orgar*f!c tal ents ar? p#?neral1y recognized. H->*-c-ed for Saving Bukowins. The Austrian army has another man whose co?ras?\ Initiative, tenacity of pun.iuso are as great as thoae of PU>l'd*ky. At the beginning of tha war a major of gendarmes. Fischer, with the rank of general. Is now th* commt'.nder of all the frontier troopa in Hukowina. When the war broke out Fiscbar undcrtoc!: to protect the outlying bat Important prorlrce of Rukowlna. which is closed In by Roumania. Hun gary. Gallcla and Russia and in ex posed t:? Russian Invasion morp thaa any other part of Austria-Hungary. Me had nobody to help him but hi* aendnrmes. and the situation was such at the time that no ^-enforcement* could he spared to him In a won derfully fhort time h? organized * .?=mall army. composed of frontier peo ple and rescrrpi. a major of gen darmes who on h!? own renponslblllty took command and Pinglo-handed pre vented the Russians from seriously at tacking what they called "Flscher'e corps" In their bulletins. He rescued p7crno ?.?It* In October. How much the Ri sslans hate and fear him is proved by the fad that they have offered an exceedingly high price for his head. I A Hungarian Journalist quite ?mtly had an opportunity of watching thin remarkable man at work. On en '?r!nr Fischer's room tb* Journalist missed the usual display of maps, without which he bad never seen nrf military commander While General Fischer was ppcaklng the telephone bell rang. One of his officers n?ked for Instnictions. described the position! of the Russians and begged to know what he was to do with his men. Th? mesHftge came from a remote part of the mountainous country. The g*tt< eral's answer, offer s moment's reflee* tlon, was: ''Place yourself above th*f village, along the eda* of the wood?| close to the well thai standi between; two tail pines. There you CM beM watch ths two roads by which t hi', Russians can approach you," This order, given without the Aid o# map or plan, is the explanation of Fis cher's remarkable suoceai. He knows every road snd ?very lane, ery house and hill of thlt country, and' this knowledge enables htm to do In variably what la best. Without dlt*j posing of a large number of troopoj he is. by his personal faculties andl characteristics, a formidable foe to the1 Russians < In si* months he has skipped three" military ranks and has b*?en advanced to the rank of general by the emperor. The war found the right man In the tight place Oander Qrowa a Horn. Pittsburgh ? A gander on the farmj of Ollle McKlnney. In Paw Mill valley,! Patton township, is attract In* meek] Interest because pf a peculiar growth, roaembllng a horn, on Ita heed, aboetl an inch above Its eyea. Tbe'gnndtr' Is about one yqar eld. !? two woek*| from the tine McKtoaey mUM Jfee growUi the "%om" grew \%
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