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■ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 2.1909
NUMBER*14
ON WAY TO AFRICA.
SHIP. BEARING. FORMER PRESI
DENT AND HIS PARTY SAILS—
DUE IN NAPLES APRIL 3.
KIOmPEBS DAPTflREB.
MAN AND WOMAN TRAILED AND
PLACED UNDER ARREST BY PO
LICE OF CLEVELAND. ,
New York, Match 23.—Out on the
“bosom of the ocean,” as the writers
have it, is Theodore Roosevelt with
his party of lion Imnters. They are
aboard the Hamburg-American line
steamer Hamburg, which cast ott her
lines from her Hoboken pier this
morning and to the music of the
whistles of numerous ferryboats, tugs
and other vessels sailed down the bay
with her distinguished passenger.
Accompanying Mr. Roosevelt—or
Colonel Roosevelt, as soine wise re
porters addressed him on the pier
this morning, winning thereby a
smile—are his son, Kermit Roose
velt; Major Edgar A Mearns, medi*
cal corps, U. S. A., retired; Edmund
Heller and J. Alden Loring. The last
named three men accompany Mr.
Roosevelt as representatives of the
Smithsonian institution, while the
younger Roosevelt is official photog
rapher of the expedition.
The long pier to which the Ham
burg was moored was jammed this
morning with persons gathered to see
the Roosevelt party sail.
The Hamburg is due at Naples on
April 3. Mr. Roosevelt and his party
will remain in the Italian city two
days, sailing thence on the Admiral
of the German East African line on
April 5. The Hamburg is one of the
finest vessels of the_ Hamburg-Amer-
ican line and is the favorite ship of
the German emperor. The Admiral is
due at Mombasa, where the Roosevelt
party will disembark, on April 22.
On his arrival at Mombasa Mr.
Roo»«velt Jtad hi« ^arty
to the estate of Sir Alfred Pease, a
member of the well known English
Quaker family and remain there for
three months during the heavy rains.
Aifterward the Roosevelt party will
go to Nairobi and pay a visit to the
estate of Philip MacMillan, who is
head of an American company that
has a concession of 100 square miles
in the district. They will cross Lake
Victoria early in December to enter
Uganda when the dry season com
mences in order to do the thirty-sev
en days’ march to Gondokoro in fine
weather.
It is expected that the Roosevelt ex
pedition will complete its trip through
the dark continent in the spring of
next year, reaching Cairo about April
1, 1910.
Cleveland, Oifio, Mar. 24.—^In the ar
rest here last night of a man and a
woman having |9,790 in their posses
sion, the poliece believe they have
captured the kidnapers of WUla Whit-
la.
In fact, the woman in the case,
who is greatly excited, admitted that
she had been responsible for the kid
naping. When placed in custody at
the central police station she said to
Captain Shattuck:
*‘I am the one who planned the
whole thing. There will be trouble
for me, and hell in Shardijk tomor
row.”
Beneath the woman’s skirt was
found $9,790. All of it but $40 was
bound in paujkages, with the original
slips placed on the money when Whit-
la took it from the bank, still around
it.
Captain Shattuck and Detective
Frank Wood made the arrests in the
east end of the city. When near the
police station the man broke away
from Detective Wood and ran towards
an alley. The i>oliceman fired two
shots from his revolver into the air,
and the man stopped. The wcJman
made no attempt to escape.
Harrisburg, Pa.—Governor Stuart
issued a proclamation, offering a re
ward of $15,000 for the ari’est and
conviction of the kidnapers of Wil
lie Whitla.
STORLi mis TWELVE
TEXAS -STORM DAMAGES SEVER-
AL TOWNS. GREAT bO^SS OF
LIFE AND PROPERTY.
Dallas, Tex., Mar. 25.—Twelve
known dead, property losses reaching
into the thousands of dollars a.nd pos
sibly a score injured is the result of
a tornado which swept over thenorth-
eastern part of Wise county. Several
small towns were visits by the
Storm, but none were entirely destroy
ed, although each suffered serious
damage.
At Crafton every business house
save one was blown down. The
Methodist and Baptist churches were
completely wrecked. The Christian
church at Greenwood was destroyed.
Several residences and two churches
s
were blown down at Brui^low.
The farm house of Ira Rice was
crushed in by the furious wind and
the family of eight members pinned
beneath the wreckage. A light in the
house at the time of the disaster
caused the ruins to become ignited,
and, fanned by the strong wind, the
fiames snuffed out the lives of the
helpless victims.
BATTLE WITH IHBIANS.
OKLAHOMA SENDS TROOPS TO
EXTERMINATE CRAZY SNAKE’S
BAND OF MURDERERS.
South Pole Nearly Reached.
London,—The polar regions are
gradually yielding up their secrets to
. persaveraace «!fati>^^teriTLina-
tion. Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackle-
ton, of the British navy, who left his
permanent quarters last autumn for a
dash to the pole, having succeeded
after an arduous sledge journey of
1,708 miles, which occupied 126 days,
in forging to within 111 miles of the
south pole, or 354 miles nearer than
any former explorer.
Miners Ask Taft to Arbitrate.
Scranton, Pa.—^Reaffirming the de
mands already presented to the oper
ators, the anthracite miners voted to
remain at work after April 1, allow
ing the district executive boards of
the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania
to continue their efforts to get an
agreement satisfactory to the men.
The resolution was introduced by
a district office, and in subriitance ask
ed President Taft to create a com
mission sinailar to t^e oiie appointed
by President Roosev^t j^02.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Mar. 2D.—
Chief Crazy Snake and 100 followers
retreated before five companies ol
Oklahoma militia, thus j4eferring lau
expected battle. '
^astily setting fire to his tepees
and tents, the Indian leader, with his
mixed company of redskins and ne
groes, fled from his blazing camp as
the troops advanced.
Major Charles F. Barrett, in charge
of the commissary, received hurry or
ders by courier to send supplies and
additional ammunition to the soldiers
at the camp.
Six men have been killed and a
dozen wounded since the trouble be
gan. This is the official. report, and
it is generally believed many more
of the negroes and Indians are killed.
Crazy Snake, whose name is Chitti
Harjo, and whose English name is
Wilson Jones, is the leader of. the
Snake band of Creek Indians. This
band oif Creeks, unable to speak Eng
lish, have never turned their faces
from the old days, and the oki cus
toms.
SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Operating the Transylvania Railroad^
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Kidnapers Restore Willie Whitla.
Cleveland, Ohio, 'Mar, 23.—Little
Willie Whitla, who has caused the po
lice of the entire country endless wor
ry since he was kidnaped from school
in Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was re
turned to his father at the Hollenden
hotel here last night at 8:30 o’clock.
Mr. Whitla admitted that he had
paid $10,000 to the woman in a candy
store, who acted for the kidnapers.
Mr. Whitla believes the woman was
an Italian, but refuses to disclose her
identity.
In compliance with an arrangement
entered into between the kidnaped
boy’s father and an agent of the kid
napers here today, the boy was placed
on a street car on the outskirts of the
city and started to the hotel shortly
after 8 o’clock.
Florida Beach Auto Races.
Daytona, Fla., Mar. 23.—With the
firing of the pistol starting the Flori
da stock car price class race this
morning the seventh annual interna
tional automobile races on Daytona
beach began. The opening race will
be followed by twenty-one events,
contested on four days, the last event
of the speed carnival being a bicycle
race on Friday.
It is expected that all sorts of au
tomobile, motor cycle, aeroplane and
bicycle records will be broken during
the four day tournament.
Central Tax Case Settled.
Atlanta.—The long litigation which
has been pending about seven years
involving the state’s claim for taxes
on 15,000 shares of the capital stock
of the Western Railway of Alabama,
owned by the Central of Georgia Rail
way Company, was settled by the pay
ment by the latter company of $225,-
000 in. satisfaction of all claims for
taxes against this stock to date.
One More Confederate Called Home/
Norfolk, Va.—Colonel William B.
Lamb, aged 73, soldier, lawyer, editor,
merchant and politician, died. He
was best known as the “Hero of Fort
Fisher,” in the confederate war, when
in a siege of three days he held the
fort near Wilmington, N. C., with 1,900
men against the attack of 10,000 fed
eral troops on land and 600 guns on
water.
Around the World for Chicago Club.
San Francisco, Cal., Mar. 12.—Pres
ident Charles A. Comiskey, of the
Chicago American League club, has
announced that he will take his base
ball team around the world after the
season of 1911 is finished. The start
will be made from San Francisco
around Ootober 15, 1911.
Coliseum at Louisville Burned.
Louisville, Ky„ Mar. 12. ^The Coli
seum was practically gutted by fire.
The loss will be $75,000._
Near Beer Dealer Sentenced, the Limit
Atlanta, Mar. 12.—The usual sen
tence, a commitment to the higher
court, a fine of $500, and a stockade
sentence of thirty days, was laid on
the head of Morris Cohen, soft drink
dealer and grocer at 103 Decatur
street, yesterday afternoon in the po
lice court by Judge Broyles.
Acid Forced Down Her Throat.
Vincennes, Ind.—Mrs. Jessie Over
ton Culbertson is dying, as the result
of having carbolic acid forced down
her throat and her jaws afterwards
securely bound. She was found in
a shed back of her home. Revived
for a few seconds, she said:
“A man and a woman dragged me
into the woodshed and poured some
thing down my throat.”
One Killed in Wreck.
Yorkville, S. C.—^A ’‘special train,
consisting of two cars, on the Carolina
and Northwestern railway, carrying
about thirty Knights Templars from
Chester to Yorkville, for a banquet,
was wrecked. Fireman Frank Hard
in, of Chester, jumped and was* killed.
Several of the passengers were bruis
ed, but none seriously hurt. .
Vanderlip Raced Against Death.
Chicago.—-Frank L. Vanderlip, pres
ident of the National City Bank ol
New York, broke all American rail
road records, according to statements
made by New York Central officials
in an effort to reach the bedside ol
his dying mother here, but he los-t
the race with death by exactly 2S
minutes.
Mr. Vanderlip, in a special train,
covered the distance from New York
to Englewoodj a suburb of this city,
in 15 hours and 5 minutes, and when
he leaped madly from the train he
was met with the announcement that
his mother, Mrs. Char^tte L. Vander
lip, had died.
Liquor and Jealousy Caused Tragedy.
Pittsburg, Pa.—^After firing two bul
lets at his wife, pointing a revolver
at his mother-in-law, when she at
tempted to help her daughter, and
trying vainly to get his little daughter
out of a neighboring house that he
hight kill her, Harry Smith, aged 31
years, sent a bullet through the brain
of his 6-year-old son Russell, killing
the boy instantly, and then shot him
self through the head, dying in a few
moments.
Canned Ham KMIs Children.
Deals Island, Md.—Two children of
Hosea Webster, a merchant of this
town, are dead as a result, it is
thought, of ptomaine poisoning, caused
by eating canned ham, and other
members of the family are'in a crit
ical condition, among whom are Mr.
and Mrs. Webster and two daughters,
Dorothy and Esther.
Mrs. Mary Farmer Died in Electric
Chair.
Auburn, N. Y.—Mrs Mary Farmer
who is to die in the electric chair in
the state prison for the murder cl
Mrs. Sarah Brennan, at Brovrnsville
has made a statement, it v/as learned
which she believes will exonerate her
husband, who is also under seiitence
of death for the same crime.
.Fourth Day’s Argument in Cooper^
Sharp Trial.
Nashville, Tenn., Mar. 12.—The
fourth day . of the arguments in the
Cooper-Sharp trial closed with Gen
eral Washington, of the defense, in
the middle of his argument, and two
more* attorneys to follow him.
The speaker laid special stress up
on the social standing and breeding
of the defendants, and declared that
men of such families killed only in
defense of life and honor. His speech
was a masterpiece of oratory, and had
a noticeable effect upon the jury.
Negro Hero’s Memory Honopsd.
Montgomery, Ala.—Remarkable hon
ors were paid to the memory of Bet
Goodwin, a negro hero, who v/as
drowned in the Alabama river March
11, while trying to rescue two white
men. The white men drowned witi
him. Hundreds of white persons
men, women and children, took part
in the funeral services, and eight ca
dets of a fashionable military high
school served as pallbearers.
Child Hung in Swin^;, Neck Broken.
Flovilla, Ga.—The o-year-old daught
er of William Castleberry, a promi
nent farmer one mile beyond Indian
-Springs, jv^as found hanging to a rope
swing, suspended from a limb, with
her neck broken.
Suit to Dissolve Oil-Trust.
St. Louis.—In the circuit court of
the United States for the Eighth ju
dicial circuit the suit of the federal
government under the, Sherman anti
trust law to dissolve the Standard Oil
Company of' New Jersey was called.
The judges who are hearing the argu
ments are Willis Van Devanter, Wil
liam C. Hook, Walter H. Sanborn and
Elmer B. Adams.
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J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pas8. Ag’t, Asheville, N C.
County Governments.
Representative—G. W. Wilson.
Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis.
Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat
rick.
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. W. J. Wallis.
Commissioners—W. M. Henry, Ch’n; G.
T. Lyday; W. E. Galloway.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney—Gash & Galloway.
Town Govemmentf.
M/iyor^T. W. Whitmire.
Board of Aldermen—T. M. Mitchell; F.
L. DeVane; F. E. B_. Jenkins; J. M. Kilpat
rick; T. H. Shipman.
Marshal—J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax CoUectw:—T. H. Gallo
way.
Treasurer—T. H. Shipjnap.
Health Officer—Dr. W. J. Wallis.
Attorney—W. W. Zachary.
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ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Newspaper M«an Shot Wife and Self
Boston.—A startling tragedy was
enacted in the public garden near the
entrance of the Boylston street sub
way. Suffering from nervous trouble
with which he had been afflicted for
several years, Lawrence R. Boyle,
well-known newspaper man, shot and
killed his wife and then ended hi£
own life by the same means.
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Electric Cars Head-on Collision.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Three persons were
killed, two probably fatally hurt, and
15 others sustained injuries that ne
cessitated their removal to theii
homes, in a head-on collision between
two electric cars on the Pittsburg and
Butler street railway, near Bryant
station.
Aged Professor Dead.
Oxford, Ga.—After an illness of foui
weeks. Dr. John S. M<wre, 80 years
old, former professor of Latin at Em
ory college, died. He was well
known throughout the south, both as
a minister and teacher.
Entry No* 2545*
North Carolina—Transylvania County.
C. I. Owen enters and claims 24 acres
more or less of land lying in Gloucester
Township, on the west prong of. French
Broad river, adjoining the lands of Marion
Owen and Jim Owen. Beginning on
Marion Owen’s south-west corner and runs
various courses for complement, so as to
include all adjoining vacant lands. En
tered March 9, 1909.
B. A. GILLESPIE,
* Entry Taker.
ORDINANCE AMENDED.
Please take notice that Sec. 15 of
the laws and ordinances of the
town of Brevard was amended at a
special meeting of the Board of Al
dermen Monday, March 15, 1909, as
follows:
Sec. 15. All persons drnmming
for or soliciting jmssengers or bag
gage at the depot of the Southern
R. R. Company, in the Town of
Brevard, shall get no nearer the
train while so drnmaiing or solicit
ing than the east row of posts im-
der the railroad shed at the said
depot. Any person or persons vio
lating the provisions of this ordi
nance shall forfeit and be liable to
a penalty of ten dollars ($10.00),
and shali also be gnilty of a misde
meanor. T. W. Whitjhre,
Mayor.