ni yKeep 2>otie«n a Wof^/in^ Tottm; Le^j^ f^tiH Together. iidUK J.J. MINER, Mgr. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA CO., N. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2,1906. VOL. XIII. NO. 40. n II NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS' fiWENSBORO’S Bifi WEEK Occurrences of Interesi Gleajned From All SeetiotM ^ tke Toir Heel St»t« Severe Damage to Soils. Li a bulletin just issued by Joseph Hyde Pratt, of the State Geological Survey, the terrible loss to the soils of the State occasioned by recent heavy rainfall is given. The bulletin in full follows: The heavy rains during the last of August not only did an enormous amount of damage to crops, bridges, railroads and . roads, but, accordiug to an estimate made by W. W. Ashe, Forrester of the North Carolina Ooologieal Survey, the upland farm- ing lands of the middle portion of the State have been washed to an oxtent of more than half a million dollars, the damage being heaviest in those sections where the country -was most hilly and the rainfall most ■concentrated. This estimate, which is based on ■the amount of soil which was shown to be in the water of the rivers dur ing the floods, indicates that more than 1,500,000 tons of soil were wash ed from the hills of the Piedmont during that one week of rain. About one-fifth of the solid matter which causes the muddiness of th« water during floods is humus, which is washed chiefly from the hillside farms. At two dollare a ton, which Is probably less than the cost of re placing it, the loss to the farmers of the State only in the impoiashment of their soils exceeds $500,000. This is a loss which is much underestimat ed or entirely overlooked by the far- iner because it is a loss which takes place so constantly. In the aggre gate, however, it is so enormous that it is on« of the chief, if not the chief reason for the poverty of so many of the red clay hillside farms, and it is keeping them depleted of the. humus •or manural portion of the soils. This is a loss to which northern soils are not nearly so subject on account of the lighter rainfalls and their more gpiieral character. The rainfall at R^ileigh and*^ at many other points in middle North farolina was 12 inches in four days; at points in upper South Carolina 15 inches fell in two days;^vhile more than 4 inches fell in one ^y at many places. Such concentrated pre- i’ipitation, tropical in character, does not occur in the farming regions of the northeast. It follows^that if the, farmers of the South wish to pre- sen’e their hillside lands they must not onlv use every possible means of preventing erosion which are used at the North, but additional means as well; not only deep plowing and cover crops but terracings as well; not hillside ditches, but level ter races. There sihould be no land ly ing idle without a crop of some kind on it to protiBct ’the soil. All land which is not in cultivation should be protected from washing by keeping it in timber. In North Carolina there are about 1.000,000 acres of idle farming land which should be planted in timber if no other reason than to prevent it irom w^ashing, but timber will make a good investment besides, as it wiil he growing all the time without any Miltlvation, and will soon be lai^e ('nough for posts, barn poles, and oven small saw logs. For any infor mation about how to plant old gullied fields in young trees, write the State Oeologist, Chapel Hill, N. C. New Steamboat Line in Operation. Washington, N. C., Special.—The new steamboat line recently organis ed in this city by Captains J. AV. Dixon and H. M. Bonner, who form erly were in the employ of the Noi^ folk & Southern - Railroad Company on the steamer Hatteras plying be tween this city and Belhaven, which recently discontinued, has now com menced runnning on schedule time. The steamer Blanche has been chart ered by these gentlemen and is now giving a tri-weekly service between this city and Belhaven and other points on lower Pamlico river. The steamer leaves this city one day and returns the next. It is rumored that these gentlemen will put on another large steamer at an early date for handling freight exclusively. Drug Company Placed in Receiver’s Hands. Goldsboro, Special.—The Higgins Drug Company of this place, went into the hands of a receiver upon an action of the National Bank of Golds boro. Judge 0. H. Allen, of Kinston at chambers appointed LUr. B. II. Griffith, proprietor of the Kennon Hotel, temporary receiver wh« was bonded in the sum of $8,000. The assets are estimated at $7,500 and the indications are that the firm will be. able to pay all indebtedness and in a short while resume business again. Supposed Mnrdered Boy Turns Up. Winston-Salem, Special.—GarfieW Tilley, the young white man who dis appeared Tuesday night, alarming his family so that they feared foul play and had the sheriff and a score of deputies scouring the woods here abouts in a search for him, appeared at his father’s home in good health. He would not say where he had been since Tuesday night. Mills Resnme Work. Salishnry, Special.—The Patter son Cotton Mills at China Grove, Rowan county, have rresumed opera tions on full time aftrer several weeks running at half time. It is said the will not curtail its force again this year. The mills at Cooleemee Havie county, are also running on ^’nll time, having occupied a large now building in place of one burned last sprin". ma- New Hanover Votes Eoad ’B«ids. Wilmington, Special.—By a jority of 370 New Hanover county voted an additional $50,000 for continuing the system of permanent road improvement inaugurated here in 1901, since which time approxi- niately $100,000 has been spenL The vote was light but very decisive, few haHots being cast against the im provement. Arrested on a Charge of F^lse Pre tense. Winston-Salera, Special.—Oliver B. Cox, a young man of good appear ance, was arrested in Mount Airy on the charge of obtaining goods from merchants of this city on bogus cheeks. He will be brought here for trial. He says he worked with Har wood & Moss, contractors. He first put in a bogus check for $100 in the Wachovia National Bank, got a baf s. hook and then had three different merchants cash checks of various Jimounts. The same game was work ed in Mount Airy, the police say. Immigration Office, at Wilmington. ‘Wilmington, Special.—W. R. Mor ton, of Norfolk, has been designated by the government to open an immi gration office here during the heavy shipping to and from foreign ports during the cotton season. Mr. Mor ton has already arrived. Items of State Interest. The Caroleen-Henrietta cotton mills are now running on full time which,_ because of the continued de pression in prices is more an accom modation to operatives than profit t© the owners. ^ The bridge committee of tl.*e Fay etteville board of aldermen last week rejected all bids for the erection of a steel bridge over Blount’s creek to re place the ^^half way^’ bridge, which was damaged by the recent flood. The graded schools of Caroleen and Henrietta opened last week with more than usual interest intensified by the recent educational revival there. Professor Moore, of Shelby, is in charge of the Henrietta school and Professor Beene, of the Tennessee University, conducts the school at Caroleen. Bids will be opened September 20 for the erecetion of the proposed Nathaniel Jaccobi Memorial Building on the grounds of the I. 0. 0. F. Or phanage at Goldsboro. The Shelby Cot^ Mills is reported as having plans and specification pre pared for an additional building to hold 2,550 spinning and C,500 pro ducing spindles. Prof. W. C. Riddick, of the A. k M. College, Raleigh, has completed surveys for construction of water works and sewerage systems at Wel don and submitted the report to town authorities, together with profiles of streets, showing depth of cuts, grades, sizes of pipes and man holes, and blueprint map showing lo cation of sewer lines, waterpipes and hydrants. The cost is estimated ^t $37,526.50. R. W. Bishop, patent attorney, Washington, D. C., reports the issue of a patent on the 22d instant for a garment creaser to George L. Edger- ton, of Goldsboro. Mr. H. C. Eccles, for many years one of the proprietors of the Buford Hotel, in Charlotte, and one of the most popular and best known hotel men in the South, died Thursday. The Harnett county board of com missioners let the contract for two steel bridges Monday, to be built right away. One is at Lillington and the other at Duke. The Carolina En gineering Company of Burlington got the contract for $1,000. ^ '^nt.ennial Will be an Occasion ol More Tlian Ordinary Interest. Greensboro, Special—The week ot October llth-17th will be observed lere as centennial and home-coming week,’’ in commemoration of the on€ hundredth anniversary of the found ing of the village that has g^own intc the prosperous and progressive city of Greensboro. Committees of lead ing citizens have been at work foi months planning to make the event the greatest affair of the kind ever witnessed in any Southern State. Nothing has been left undone to add to the comfort, pleasure, instruction and edifioation of the many thous ands of visitors expected in the city during the week. The municipalj county, state and national govern ments are contributing to the suc cess of the occasion. The centennial exercises proper will open Monday, October 12th, with a parade of 10,000 Guilford county school children, headed by a United States militai'y band and reviewed by Governor Glenn, Senators Simmons and Over man, and distinguished educators. The parade will end at the auditorium where the centennial oration will bo delivered by Dr. George T. Winston, probably the foremost living North Carolinian. At 2:00 o’clock in the af ternoon will be held the opening ses sion of the United States Peace Con gress, which will be one of the great est featui'es of the centennial. Ses sions of the congress will be held daily during the session and among the distinguished non-resident visi tors expected are Hon. James Brice, ambassador from Great Britain; Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson, a member of Congress from Alabama, and United States Senator McCreary, of Kentucky, president of the' congress. Thursday will mark one of the niost important features of the occasion, a good roads conference, participatet in by delegates from all sections ot' the country. The annual fair of the Central Carolina Fair Association will be held during centennial week and in view of the large influx of visitors expected, the managemenc has planned to make it the greatest fail and the most cerditable exhibition the State has ever witnessed along its lines. The railroads will give duced rates. re- KILLffl IN A WR[CK EaHy Montana Snowstorm is Responsible For Collision A NUMBER SUSTAIN INJURIES Chicago, Bnrlington & Qnincy Rail way Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight Train on' the Northern Pa cific Railroad at Yonngs Point, Mont., Resulting in a Number of Fatalities. PART OF HEAD BLOWN OfF Noi.i;h State Brevities. Col. J. R. Lane, of the immortal Tw'enty-sixth~ North Carolina Regi ment, is desperately ill at his home in western Chatham. He has pneu monia with some other complications The Wai*saw graded school and county high school has closed the first month of the current term with the largest enrollment and the best average attendance of any month in the history of the schools. Miss Anna T. Jones, who for the past four years taught in the High Point public schools, has resigned Miss Jones some time ago volunteered as a foregin missionary and will go to East Africa in November. Mr. A. H. Slocomb, of Fayetteville who was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the sixth district and who at first declined the nomi nation, has decided to acccept the honor, and will make a canvass of the district. Saturday, October 3d, will be a big day in the history of Thomasvilie, A grand fireman’s tournament has been arranged and an interesting programme will be carried out.- It is the intention to make the day briir full of excitement from early in the morning to very late at night. The programme has been arranged for the benefit of the Thomasvilie fire de partment. While attending recently the con vention of druggists at Atlantic City. Mr. Charles R. Thomas, of Thomas- ville, entered the contest in the ex hibit hall for the identification of 50 specimens of botanical druga men tioned in the United States Phai- macopoela and Saturday he was noti fied that he had won third prize and would receive it in a few days. This contest was entered into^ by druggists from all parts of the United States. Buys Piney Woods Inn. Southern Pines, Special. One ol the most important events that has transpired in Southern Pines lecently is the sale of the Piney Woods Inn to J. M. Robinson, who has for two years been at the head of two of the Pinehurst hotels. Mr. Robinson is a hotel man who has made a success at the business and will take the Piney Woods Inn, which is one of the large hotels of the State, and put it on a business basis. Livingston, Mont., Special.—Plow ing through a snowstorm, eastward bound, a Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy passenger train running over the Northern Pacific Railroad, crash ed head-on into a freight train at Youngs Point, where the trains were to pass and in the demolition that resulted a crowd of lives were crush ed out and score of persons were in jured, several probably fatally. The freight flagman failed to signal the passenger in time to prevent the col- Ksion, it is said, because of the blinding snow. The express car telescoped with the smoking car and most of the fatalities and injuries were of persons in the latter car. The express car was raised over the plat form of the smoking car and the su perstructure swept the seats away. Not a passenger in the smoking car escaped death or injury. Fireman Ora Babcock jumped and^ was killed. Milo Halloway,* a brakc- inan, was killed. The smoking car’^ debris was hopelessly mixed with heads, bodies, legs and arms, present ing a horrible sight. In one place Bevon bodies were so tightly wedged together "that they were separated only with great difficulty. The known dead: Colonel Bonson, of Utah. John Cawlin, Billings, Mont. Lon Anderson, Hardy, Mont. Lorenz A. Stewart, Dean, Mont. H. C. Gomblee, Ministon, Iowa. E. L. Eimock, Denver. D. H. Bames, Seattle^ G. M. Konsick, Anaconda, Mont. Ora Babcock, Billings, JVIont. S. C. Hingdon, Chico Springs. Mont. Charles E. Johnson, Denver, dis trict passenger agent. Nickel Plate Railway. George Battlerock, Anaconda, Mont. John Ryan, Cushing, Okla. Milo Halloway, Billings, Mont. Sichemram, address unknown. Four unidentified coal miners. Contractor Joseph Edgerton and Two Negroes Serionsly, Probably Fatal ly, Injured by Explosion of Dyna mite in Blasting on New Railway. Rutherfordton, N. C., Special.—An accident occurred on the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway some sev en or eight miles northeast of this place Friday night in which a white man and two negroes were seriously, if not fatally, injured. Mr. Joseph Edgerton, of this county, a sub-con tractor, was the most seriously in jured and now lies in the Rutherford ton Hospital in this town hovering be tween life and death, with the chances of his recovery against him . The facts so far as have been obtained are these: Mr. Edgerton and the two darkies whose names could not be learned, had just finished drilling a hole in which they had used a small quantity of powder and dynamite to spring it. After giving the first blast suf ficient time to cool, as they thought, they then inserted a large quantity of dynamite, powder and fuse and were engaged in tamping it down, when it was thought the fuse caught from the blast in springing the hole and caused an explosion. The whole of Mr. Edgerton’s forehead was blown off, leaving his brain exposed. Both eyes were put out and he received bad wounds in the side and stomach. He was brought to the hospital Fri day afternoon when the first news of the accident was made known. It is impossible to learn the extent of tho injuries of the negroes, but they are also badly wounded. Mr. Edgerton would have complet ed his contract next week. He is a Ijood citizen and many are the ex- )ressions of regret over the sad ac cident. Says Gambling Must Stop. Lwnchburg, Special.—In- (dismiss ing D. M. Dabney and 0. Patterson last week in the police court, after holding that there was no evi dence to convict them of opery^ting a gambling resort, Mayoi' Smith de clared that gambling must cease ^n Lynchburg. In future, he" said, per sons found in raids will be held as principals, and not as witnesses, and they will be fined under the State law, instead of having their cases treated under the common law. H^ also declared that technicalities would not go in his court; that the place "to raise them will be in the Corporation Court on appeal. New Political Party. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—Politics was given a new turn in this State when a can waB issued for the assembling of what is termed ^‘The Liberal Party.” Delegates from all States in the Union are asked to assemble in Chattanooga, October 8th, to nomi nate candidates for President and Vice President. The call is signec by Sidney C. Tapp, as chairman, anci R. D. Woodhall, as secretary; both men bsinsr Atlanta residents. Attempt to Wreck Freight Train. Greenville, S. C., Special.—It was learned recently that an attempt was made to wreck freight train No. 71 on main line, at Taylors, near this city. The switch at that place had been thrown open, but the engineer happened to see it in time to reverse his engine and Ihus prevent wreck. the DROUGHT IS SERIOUS > Large Section Suffering For Rain DISEASE OUTBREAK IS FEARED Each Day Increases the Seriousness of the. Unprecedented. Condtfeions Which Obtain in Western Peniui^ vania, Eastern Ohio and West HTIp. ginia. Engineer and Fireman Bead. Spartanburg, S. C.,' Special.—Sou thern Railway southbound • passenger train No. 41, from Charlotte to Sens- ca, ran into an open switch one mile and a half south of Wellford, a sta tion twelve miles south of this city, Friday night about 8.45 and Engi neer W. J. Fonville, of Greenville, and his colored fireman were killed. The baggagemaster had a leg broken. None of the passengers suffered more than being badly shaken up. The engine and tender turned completely over. Dr. Earl, of Greenville, rushed to the scene in an automobile and rendered aid to the injured baggage- master. A wrecking crew left here at midnight. Traffic will be blocked for several hours. It is believed by officials of the road that the switch was thrown by some miscreant. Confesses to Wrecking Train. Spartanburg, S. C., Special^—Charg ed with having had a hand in throw ing open the switch at Wellford, re sulting in wrecking Southern passen ger train No. 41 and the death of Engineer W. J. Fonville and Fireman Bowers and the serious injury of Bag gage-Master McConley and several passengers, Clarence Agnew, colored, was arrested near Wellford by Con stable T. W. Moore. Agnew made confession in jail here. The negro finished serving a term on the chain- gang at Greers Wednesday. He says his home is Toccoa, Ga. Cholera Condition Bad. St. Petersburg, By Cable.—St Pet ersburg is in the grasp of Asiatic cholera, which already has exceeded in severity and number the visitation of 1893 The disease is increasing daily at an alarming rate, and unless the authorities show in the future a much greater degree of ability to cope with the situation than they have in the past, there is every rea son to fear that it will get out of hand. Pittsburg, Pa., Special.—^With loss es aggregating sevei*al million dol lars from forest fires and heavy dam age to crops and live stock; the re ported loss of a number of lives due to fighting timber conflagrations; the enforced idleness of thousand^ of workmen owing to the suspension of manufacturing establishments be cause of lack of water; the health ao- thorities anticipate a serious epi demic of contagious dieases and many small streams dried up and. practically obliterated, the drought of 1908 which has held western Pentt- •ylvania, eastern Oljio and West Vir ginia in its grasp for more than two months remains unbroken; each day gradually increasing the seriousness of the unprecedented situation. Three times during the ezeessiTe di-y spell there have been very slight rains, accompanied by much light ning and thunder, but the rain fall was so slight that many perscms were unaware of the fact and were onl3’^ convinced that it had rained when shown evidences of the same on. tin roofs. Aside from the millions of feet of timber destroyed and the daily loss to manufacturers and farmers, prob ably the most serious phase of the situation is the threatened disease epidemic. A majority of the popu lation of western Pennsylvania, east ern Ohio and West Virginia are even now suffering from throat affections caused by the great accumulation of dust and the heavy clouds of smoke. In this city, used to smoke, the sun is almost obscured by smoke front forest fires miles away and x>ers