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A. HOME PAPER FOR HOME FEOPIjE—AJL-L HOME PRINT
VOLUIE'^XV
BREVARD, NORTH CARflllNA. NOVEMBER 25.1910.
NUMBER*47
Five Weeks to
Christmas
ANOTHER TAC'FF SCANDAL
And HIGH TIME to Buy Gifts
the Children Pray For—
and Avoid the Late Rush
COUNT TQLSTOI IS
CALLED TO BEYCNH
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Great Russian Author Answers
Last Gail.
Gross Frauds Said to Have 0esn Pr'
potra+ed on Governme'''+.
United States District Attorn
Wise is seemingly dete^’mined to t
cover for the governrrent aTl t>’
money it ts claimed to hnve been
frauded o\it of dunner the p^^fst fv
years by means'of alleged fa^r,e b
voices for importations ir/^de 1'
Joseph Brooke & Co.; m^mnf‘’f‘fnre~
of woolens, worsteds and linings, o
Bradford, England, and New Yo"
city. Assistant Di<^trirt
Whitney, who has direct charge o
the case, said:
“This is the biggest case of its kini'
the government has ever had. TV>
frauds involve several woolen Tn?*Tir
factwing companies in England. Tre
total amount of the duties w^irh,
government has lost through these im
portation frauds Is much greater than
In the sugar under-weighing cases.”
After filing of preliminarv nane^s ^t>
a suit to recover $200,000 damages be
cause of the alleged under-valuation
frauds. Assistant District Attorney
Whitney obtained a writ of atta^'h.
ment, unon which Marshal Henkel
seized the entire stock of Brooke &
Co. Further, to protect the interest?
of the government Mr. Whitney ob
tained from Judge Hazel twenty-six
additional writs of attachment, whicr
have been served on certain banks and
firms to prevent the collection of
sums on deposit and accounts receiv
able.
Mr. Whitney said that the Brooke
case was the initial one of a series
of cases which the government expects
to conduct against other importers.
I These new cases, said the federal of^-
cer, will involve claims against im
porters amounting to upwards of $10,-
000,000.
0!L TRUST A6«m
WINS VICTDRV
Triel at laGksmi, Teim., Rs-
sults in anUcquittal.
IMPORTAHT IMSE SETTLED
Efforts of the United States to Have
Assessed Against Oil Company Pen
alties of $30,000,000 Have Proven
Futile.
In a ruling tfiiieh required just
twenty minutes to read. Judge John
E3. McCall, in the United States cir
cuit court at Jackson, ■Tenn., wrote
finis to the efforts of the government
to have assessed against the Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana penalti^ s
aggregating $30,000,000. The rulings
of the court, instructing that a v^ -
diet of not guilty be returned, came
with the conclusion of the case in
chief of the prosecution, and in sub
stance holas with th3 contentions of
the defense, that after four years the
United States had failed to build its
structure of evidence other than oii
sand.
The suit at issue vas probably the
most important litigation against the
greater corporations ever fought out
in the south.
The Elkins law, regarding inter
state commerce, was violated, it w 3
alleged, through “scheme and device
the specific offense charged being tl3
receiving of freight rate concessions.
W. 0. BRADLEY.
United States Senator From
Kentucky Seriously III.
II
mVI m AT MS BECSIDE
Tolstoi, Seeking Solitude, Was Over
come by Fatigue and Passed His
Last Days at Small Railway Station
on Shores of Black Sea.
Count Leo Tolstoi died peacefully
Saturday. Dr. Makovelsky and the
other attending physicians and Count
ess Tolstoi were at his side wh«n the
end came. .It was recognized long
before his case was hopeless, and at
5 o’clock in the morning, after tht
countess had been summoned and the
other members of the family had gath
ered in an adjoining room, the physi
cians issued a bulletin, announcing
that the activity of the heart had
almost ceased, and that Tolstoi’s con
dition was extremely dangerous.
Several of the physicians were
greatly overcome by the approaching
death of Russia’s great writer.
Tolstoi, accompanied only by Dr.
Makovelsky, left his home at Yasnaya
Poliana for the purpose of ending his
days in solitude, to which he more
and more inclined during his later
years. His pilgrimage led him to the
monastery at Shamardino, in the
province of Kaluga, who^-e he re
mained as the guest of his sister,
Marie.
Learning that his retreat had been
discovered, he insisted upon proceed
ing on his journey to the Caucasus,
where he hoped to spend his la^
days close to the Tolstoian colony,
on the shores of the Black sea. But,
during the railroad journey, he was
overcome with exhaustion and the
cold, and Dr. Makovelsky was com
pelled to have him transferred to the
flag station at Astapova, where he was
made as comfortable as possible in
the rude wooden building.
For five days he had lain there,
Buffering first from bronchitis and
later from inflammation of the lungs.
Specialists were called from Mos-
cow and other places, but, notwith
standing their efforts, the heart of the
great Russian responded but feebly to
the restoratives and stimulants ad
ministered. On Saturday the attacks
of heart failure increased alarmingly,
ami many hours prior to the end the
physicians had given up all hope.
POLITICAL UPHEAVAL.
Republicans Oust Hemocrats From
Many Offices.
Probably few counties in Georgia
have ever witnessed anything like the
political upheaval or revolution that
has just taken place in Fannin.
Democratic officials who had held
office for years were ousted and re
publicans put in their places. Offices
held by democrats for a quarter of a
century were turned over to repub
licans.
In fact, ‘the republicans made a
clean sweep of it, turning out every
democratic official in the county, and
Fannin’s political complexion has tak
en on new and startling hues.
Only the senator from the forty-
first was saved by the democrats from
the otherwise complete wreck; but
J. R. Kincaid, democrat, won out for
the senate with the aid of the other
counties in the district.
Following it all has come quite a
crop of indictments, charging vote-
buying; it is claimed votes were
bought right and left, and, as the r«
suit of the grand jury’s investign
tions, many true bills were found.
POISON IN COFFEE.
Drug Placed In Drink Believed to
Have Caused Death of Two.
William Sprayberry, aged 90 years,
one of the richest planters of Do
Kalb county, Ga., and his wife, Mary
Sprayberry, aged 85 years, are dead
from the effects, it is believed, of
drinking poisoned coffee. Three serv
ants employed on the plantation are
dangerously near death from drinking
the coffee.
The Sprayberry plantation is lo
cated on the Flat Shoals road, one and
' a half miles from the Cedar Grove
church. It is said to be one of the
largest plantations in the county and
is modemly equipped in every re-
fepect.
It is believed of neighbors that Wil
liam Siwayberry, in a fit of temporary
insanity, placed the drug in the cof
fee. Dr. B. M. Sprayberry, a nephew
of the dead coup^le, stated that he had
believed William Sprayberry to be iii
sane for the past ten years. He be
lieves Mr. and Mrs.' Sprayberry died
from the effects of arsenic or rough
on rats placed in the coffee.
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The plant of the Fairmont Creamery
Company, a five-story building located
in the wholesale district of Omaha,
^6b., has been destroyed by fire.
President Rushton, of the creamery
company, estimates the loss at $600.-
000. The company was engaged p
pneral creamery and cold storage [
business. I
Eight Christians, ore an American
and two Chinese, have been killed and
much property belonging to foreign
ers destroyed by rebellious Manohos
tribesmen in the Philippines, according
to a report from Brigadier Greneral
Pershjng to the war department at
Washington.
COSTLY CUP OF TEA.
One Thousand Dollars Paid for Same
at Charity Bazar.
One thousand dollars was paid for
a cup of tea in C|iio^,ro.
The mark was set at the Charity
bazar at Orchestra hall, the proceeds
of which, $10,000 at a rough estimate,
will be for the Home for Destitute
Crippled Children.
Thomas Griffin, wealthy ‘ manufac
turer, stepped into the tea room con
ducted by Mrs. Graeme Stewart, and
two dozen pretty debutantes and or
dered a cup of tea.
Griffin took a sniff. “Great, isn’t
it?” commented the j^pung woman
who served it.
“Yes, indeed.”
Then Mrs. Stewart came along.
Mr. Griffin drained the last drop, then
put the cup down and filled out a
check.
“I want to pay for my tea.”
Mrs. Stewart took the check and
scrutinized it.
One thousand dollars. “Never mind
the change,” said Mr. Griffin.
ROBIN COOPER ACQUITTED.
Final Chapter In Celebrated Case In
Tennessee Courts.
Robin J. Cooper, charged with the
murder of Senator Edward Wa d
Carmack, was given a verdict of not
gnilty in the criminal court at Nash
ville, Tenn., on recomirendation ol
Attorney General A. B. Anderson
Thus was brought to a close the final
chapter in one of the most celebrated
cases known to the annals of tlw^
courts of Tennessee.
In striking contrast to the scenr?»
marking the first trial of this cas*;
when the court room was packed dl
most to suffocation by those eager tr.
hear every word of the evidence
there were only a few persons pres
ent. Counsel were probably the onl.^
persons there particularly on account
of this case.
FOREIGN It is believed the throne
NEWS has decided to accede to
notes. the demand of the sen
ate and the provincial delegates for
the early convocation of a populai
parliament, says a cablegram from
Peking.
A religious procession held at Cala-
tayud, Saragossa province, Spain, re
sulted in a collision between clerica'
and antl-clerical partisans. Shots were
exchan!ged and several persons were
wounded.
Roy Buchanan, a barber, who
killed J. M. Robinson last February
because Robinson had kissed Buchan
an’s sweetheart, was convicted at
Pawnee, Okla., of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to a life term
in state prison.
GREAT BALL30N VOYAGE.
Flight Across Americaa Continent Is
Now Proposed by Aeronauts.
A balloon flight from the Pacific
coast to the Atlantic coast, as pro
posed by the International Association
of Aeronautical Pilots at its annu A
meeting in Boston a few weeks ago,
will be attempted next year, as the
result of an offer made by A. Chester
Thompson, of New York, to give $1'',*
i)00 to finance the trip, besides a pro-
phy valued at $1,000.
The offer from Mr. Thompson was
received today by Charles J. Glidden,
president of the association, and was
immadiately accepted.
H. Helm Clayton, who was aid in
the balloon Pommern, which won
the ii\terniiitlonal balloon of 1908,
will be the pilot for the coast-to-coast
trip, and is confident that the trip
can be made in four days,
A rubber-silk hydrogen balloon of
from 160,000 to 200,000 cubic feet
capacity will be immediately ordered.
Mr. ThomiJson makes no condition
as to the trip other than that the start
shall be made at some place on the
Pacific coast and the landing within
50 miles of the Atlantic coast.
County Government*.
Representative—G. W. Wilson.
Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis.
Sheriff and T^ Collectof-*-C. C. Kilpst-
rick.
Treasurer—Z. W. Nicholls.
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. W. J* Wallis.
Surveyor—A. L. Hardin.
Commissioners—W. M. Henry, Ch’n; Q,
T. Lyday;*W. E. Galloway.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney—R. L. Gash.
Town Government..
iMayor—W. E. Breese, jr.
Board of Aldermen—T. H. Shipman. J
M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De-
Vane, E. W. Carter.
Marshal—J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallu*
way.
Treasurer—^T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W.'Hunt.
Regular meetings—First Monday night
in each month.
Profesdonol Cords.
R. L. GASH,
LAWYER
II and 12 McMinn BuOiaiis
»Notary Public.
H. C. BAILEY
Civil and Consulting Engineer
and Surveyor
CITY EKGIIEER HENDI9ISfl|IJ(IUE. K. (L
GENERAL Believing that thou-
ITEMS sands of acres of pub*
OF INTEREST lie lands containing
oil in California have been Im
properly acquired by railroads,
corporations and individuals. At
torney General Wickersham, it was
learned at Washington, was in
structed by President Taft shortly
before he left for Panama to conduct
a searching inq,uiry into the case.
Specifically, the department of jus
tice wishes to ascertain whether 6,000
acres of oil lands were patented by
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany several years ago with a knowl
edge on the part of certain govern
ment agents that the lands contained
oil. The fact, it is said, has caused
President Taft, Attorney General
Wickersham and Secretary Ballinger
to regard with suspicion the number
of entries that have been made in the
oil lands of California by Individuals.
Pensions for all employees of na
tional banks and protection for their
families In case of death has been
proposed to the treasury department
by several mutual life insurance com
panies. Several representatives ot
the companies, headed by W. C.
Beers, of New York, had a lengthy
conference at Washington with 'the
comptroller of the currency as to the
legality of the plan. Their proposal
is to have the treasury department
interpret the national bank law to
permit the banks to take out a spe
cial form Ol policy for employees.
A Londoi dispatch says that Lieut
Siegfried Helm, the German army
officer, whc was arrested, charged
with having made sketches of the
fortification? ot Portsmount harbor,
pleaded guilty and was placed under
bonds of fl.,250 not to repeat the of
fense.
George Gleutat, aged 39 years, a
truck farmer in the suburbs of Mobile,
Ala., committed suicide by shooting
himself in the breast with a double-
barreled shotgun. He sat on on.?
side of the bed with the muzzle to his
body, and supposedly pulled the tHg-
ger with his great toe, dying in five
minutes. The cause of the suicide Is
a mystery.
NOTICE OF EXECUTRIX.
Having qualified as executrix of
the last will and testament of Wash-/
Ington E. Galloway, late of the coun
ty of Transylvania, this is to notify
all persons having^ claims aerainst the
estate of the said testator, to present
iheir claims to the undersigned on or
before the 9th day of July, 1911, or
this notice will be plead in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will make immediate
settlement. This July 9th, 1910.
SARAH LUCINDA GALLOWAY,
W3lch Galloway, atty. *Executrix.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator of the
estate of J. C. McGaha, deceased, late of
Transylvania county. North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased to ex>
hibit them to the undersigned at office of
R. L. Gash, Esq., Brevard, N. C., on or be
fore the 27th day of May, 1911, or this
notice will be pleaded in b^ of their re
covery. All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment.
This 20th day of May, 1910.
V. B. McGAHA,
Adm’r estate of J. C. McGaha, deceased.
Entry No* 2568«
W. J. Owen enters and claims six hun
dred and forty (640) acres of land, lying in
Hogback*Township, on the waters of In
dian creek. Beginning on a white oak, E.
D. Owen’s comer, and runs thence north
66 deg. east sixty (60) poles to a hickory
stump on top of the Blue Ridge; thence
south 24 degrees east with S. A. Owen’s
line to a stone, S. A. Owen’s comer, on top
of the Blue Ridge; thence south with the
top of the Blue Ridge to a black oak, John
Kizer*s comer; thence west, mnning so as
to include all the vacant land on Indian
ercek. B. A. GILLESPIE,
* Entry Taker.
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1911
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