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ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
J. J. MINER, OWNER AND MANAGER
A HOME PAr»ER FOR HOME PEOPIjE—ALL, HOME PRINT
VOLUME*XV
BREVARI), KOETH CAE<'1 IM, DECFMBIR 2.1910.
NUMBER*4S
Four Weeks to
Christmas
And the Shopgirls Will BLESS
YOU if You Buy
Early
MARTIN W. LITTLETON.
N. Y. Congressman Elect Qives
His Wife Credit For Victory.
BATTLEJ^A CAVE.
Trapped in Mountain Rsce'^s. One of
Gang is Shot to Death.
Trapped in a mountain cave In
which they had sougrht concealment
after breaking jail at West Union,
Ohio, three fugitives had a sharp re
volver l)attle with Sheriff C. W. Gib-
bony, of Adams county, Ky. One of
the fugitives was willed and the other
two sun-endered.
The men broke jail, fled to the Ohio
river and crossed to the Kentucky
side. The sheriif, with one deputy,
followed, and when he caught up with
the men in the mountains called upon
them to surrender. The answer was
a bullet from the revolver of one of
the men, James Smith. Sheriff Gibbo-
ny’s first shot killed Smtih, and then
John Gaskins and William Burke came
out of the cave with hands extended
above their heads. They igreed to
return to Ohio without requisition.
PUBLIC SWINDUD
OUT OF MILUONS
S^e af Bo|iis Stocks Udged
Against Firms.
fiuudulentIse gf mails
WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.
In Raids 8o Important That Postmas
ter General Hitchcock Took Charge,
Postal Inspectors Fell on Two Big
N. Y. Concerns and Made Arrests.
In raids so important that Postmas
ter General Hitchcock took charge in
person, his Inspectors fell on two con
cerns in New York city which they
charge with swindling the public out
of more than $40,000,P00 by fraudulent
use of the mails. ,
Sheldon H. Burr, president of Burr
Brothers; Eugene H. Burr, secretary
and treasurer of the firm, and Frank
H. Toby, its vice president were ar
rested in the first raid and held in
$20,000 bail each. The government
charged that the firm sold between
They ate turkey stuffed with oys- $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 of mining
ters left over from the Thanksgiving oil stock worth little or nothing,
din er and soon afterward suffered j Charles L. Vaughn, a director of
excruciating agony for several hours, the Contin^tal Wireless Telegraph
and it was only by heroic treatment and Telephone ompany, incorporated
that their lives were saved. I in Arizona, was taken in the second
Oysters in Turkey Dressing Thought
to Have Been Cause.
Five persons in the family of F^ W.
Gibson, residing in Mobile, Ala., in
cluding his negro cook, were poisonod
from eating oysters and had a narrow
escape from death.
Gibson is chief clerk of the United
Fruit Company in this city.
11,445,000 BALES.
raid and held in $10,000 bail. In-
spectjors say his company has sold
to the amount of at least $1,000,000, /
which has brought in no return to
the investors. Vaughan is treasurer
of the Columbia Finance ' Company,
1 which acts as fiscal agent for the
Final Estimate Made by New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
A total of the Times-Democrat for ' Continental Wireless Telegraph and
the cotton crop of 1910, as based on Telephone Company, and had charge
reports from correspondents through-
but the cotton belt, relates to the
of the Continental office In New York.
Both raids '^'were -lt^ther evidence
actual growth of the year and is ex- : that the government, in its warfare
Photo by American Press Association.
V/INS FEDERATION.
Combined Labor Interests to Meet fn
Atlanta, Ga.
The American Federation of Labor
closed its thirteenth annual converi-
tion at St. Louis by choosing Atlanta,
Ga., as its meeting place for next year.
The entire list of officers, includiniJ
President Samuel Gompers, Secret'iry
Frank Morrison and Treasurer John
B, Lennon, were re-elected.
The contest between Atlanta, Wash
ington and Rochester, N. Y., for the
iiext year’s meeting was the feature
of the final afternoon’s proceedings.
Delegations representing the three
cities made vigorous fights on the
floor, but the southern city won with
a vote of 8,739, against 5,337 for
Rochester, and 265 for Washington.
Fraternal delegates to the British
Trades’ Union Congress were chosen
in William B. MacFarland (carpen
ter), of Buffalo, and Daniel J. Tobin
(teamst'‘rs), of Boston; William J.
Tracey (plumbers), of Philadelphia,
"^as elected fraternal delegate to the
Canadian Tr:.des and Labor Congress,
while Vice President James Duncan
"^3^8 selected as the federation’s dele
gate to the International Labor Secre-
tarial, to be held at Budapest in Au
gust, 1911.
elusive of linters, repacks, etc.
By states the crop is given as fol
lows:
Alabama 1,165,000
Arkansas 700,000
Georgia and Florida .. .. .. 1,825,000
Louisiana 255,000
Mississippi 1,200,000
against alleged interstate swindlers,
means business, and no longer will
be content with issuing fraud orders
denying them the use of the mails,
but will press for convictions on orig
inal charges. The present campaign
began some months ago, and has re
sulted in the arrest of Louis Colla
North Carolina 700,000 and his associates, charged with oper-
Oklahoma » 900,000 ating a string of bucket shops; the
Tennessee 300,000 officers of the nited Wireless com-
Texas 3,200,000 officers of the.United Wireless com-
Correspondents say that farmers pany, the United Exchange of Chicago,
have hitherto sold freely, as a rule, the Steel-Miller cotton firm of Cor-
but are inclined to hold the remnant.
GENERAL The district court of ap-
NEWS peals of the First district
ITEMS. at San Francisco has sus
tained the conviction of Abraham
Ruef, former political boss of that
city, charged with having bribed su
pervisors, and denied him a new trial.
inth. Miss., and more than sixty other
firms in different parts of the coun
try.
CAUGHT IN QUICKSAND.
Fearful Experience of Gilbert Ste
phens Near New York.
Gilbert Stephens is under the care
The decision is contained in 46 pages . physicians in his home in Silver
written by Presiding Judge Cooper ; Park,-New York, and may be
and affirms the lower court on ail
weeks in recovering from the shock
points. Ruef had been sentenced ^ Qf g, long battle with death in quick-
fourteen years’ imprisonment and was
at liberty on bail.
Fighting their way through dense
snioke and blinding fiame in a burn-
iiig oil house on the Baltimore and
Ohio railway, Howard Vinkendoff and
Wilbert Elery were burned to death
at Pittsburg, Pa. The men had work
ed all Sunday and part of the night
and had gone to sleep in the oil
house. Sparks from a passing en
gine fired the little building and th'cy
<iould be seen running around to find
the door_ before they fell.
A CHAPTER J. L. Holsch, SIj
OF years old, was shot
CASUALTIES, and killed by his
brother-in-law, J. C. Browning, aged
20, at his home in Wichita Falls, Tex.
Browning, who surrendered to the au
thorities, claimed that Holsch was
abusing his sister and had started t>
wards him with a knife before the
shooting occurred.
A. wholesale raid was made on al
leged blind tigers at Gainesville, Ga.,
when an Atlanta detective, John Wil
liams, turned up ten peddlers. Five of
these turned up five others and were
set free. Nothing could be gained
from the remainder and they were
fined $100 and costs. Williams left
town immediately after trial. Threats
were made against him, it is stated.
William Green, aged 72 years, was
burned to death, when the furnishing
of his room was destroyed by fire at
Memphis. Green, through mistakes,
had filled a kerosene lamp nith gaso
line, an explosion resulting when he
applied a mMch. _
The population of the state of Nev^
York is 9,113,279, according to statis
tics of the thirteenth census, made
public by Director Durand. This is an
increase of 1,844,385, or 25.4 per cent,
oyer 7,268,894 in 1900. The increase
, from 1890 to 1900 was 1,265,267, or
' 21.1 per cent. On the present basis of
apportionment, New York state wiil
gain eight or nine representatives in
i the lower house of congreM. _
sand.
Stephens had taken a short cut
homeward and stumbled into a de
pression which was formerly the bed
of a small lake. The place is widely
known as spotted with dangerous
quicksands and Stephens found him
self in the grip of one of them. The
more he struggled to get out the
deeper he went in. For two hours he
shouted for help until finally his
voice was silenced by’ the mud which
rose above his shoulders and press*.d
on his lungs so that he could hardly
breathe.
The quicksand had reached his chin
and was pulling him slowly, but sure
ly, to death by suffocation, when Wil
liam Piscule, a town constable, who
was out duok shooting, saw him and
came running to his rescue. Piscule
hurriedly picked up an armful of
brush and sticks which he threw out
on top of the quicksand. This gave
him a fair foothold and he reached
down to Stephens, tying the straps of
his gunbag beneath the helpless man’3
shoulders. After a long struggle he
dragged the prisoner out and laid him
down exhausted on the shore of the
lake.
Marriage License Clerk Salmonson,
of Chicago, was kept busy on Thanks
giving Day. According to report, be
tween 800 and 1,000 marriages oc
curred in that city on Thursday for
which licenses were issued. During
his service as marriage license clerk
for twenty-nine years, Salmonson has
issued more than half a million mar
riage licenses.
FOREIGN A. W. Finch, the Loq-
NEWS don agent of Pearson
ITEMS. Dodge & Co., of New
York, was remanded for onei week in
the Mansion house court at London,
charged with having defi-auded his em
ployers of $125,000 received in pay
ment of a consignment of copper.
Finch surrendered to the police at
Liverpool.
John W. Knight, managing partner
cf the defunct cotton firm of Knight,
Yancey & Co., which recently failed
for about $6,000,000, was arrested ai
Decatur, Ala., by a United States mar
shal and taken to Huntsville. The ar
rest is made upon indictments found
by the United States grand jury,
charging fraudulent use of the mails.
Ten leading business men of Decatur
accompanied Knight to go on his bond,
which it is said has been fixed at
120,000.
A verdict of guilty in the first dc-
irree wafe returned at New Orleans in
the case of Eugene Besancon and
Francois Rodin, tried for the murder
of F. H. Reidel. The Jury was out
for only five minutes The dismem
bered body, of Reidel, who was a
watchmaker, was found sewed in a
sack, in the Old Basin canal, October
11. Besancon and Rodtn, who were
arrested a few days later, made con
fessions, according to police.
I Twenty officers and committeemen
of the Southeastern Underwriters’ As
sociation were found guilty of “mali
ciously and in wanton disregard of the
rights of the public” increasing the
rates for fire insurance in the city of
Newport News, and fined $400 each
by a jury drawn from Southampton
county, in the corporation court at
Newport News. The verdict was re;
turned after a trial lasting one month
and seven days.
Notwithstanding the precautions
that have been taken to stamp it out,
typhoid continue^ to increase among
the midshiiJmen havai acaifefny
at Annapolis. Eight additional cases
have been taken from the midship
men’s sick bay to the naval hospital
recently, making the total number of
midshipmen now suffering from the
malady twenty. The cause of the out
break remains a mystery.
Three youthful highwaymen at Chi
cago shot one hold-up victim to death,
fired at two others, and allowed a
fourth man to go after stripping him
of cash and overcoat. The bandit
trio committed the series of crimos
on the northwest side within the pe
riod of an hour, and although seen
by a half dozen persons, cleverly es
caped.
News was received by telephone of
the death, at Fort Dade, of Captain
Charles Moore, aged 73, for thirty
years keeper of the lighthouse at Eg-
mont Key, 40 miles from Fort Dade.
Captain Moore had been ill for some
time with cancer of the throat, which
caused him to resign three months
ago, and his death was not unexpected.
Corbin W. Mercer, a widely-known
druggist, died in All Saints’ church *i.t
Richmond, Va., during service. He
had been in ill health for some time.
He was a great-grandson of the fa
mous revolutionary war commander.
General Hugh Mercer, to whose mem
ory the national government erected a
monument in Fredericksburg a few
years ago.
Percy Blake, well-known newspaper
man in the south, who served as city
editor of Tennessee, Mississippi and
other papers and for years an author
ity on sporting matters, died at Birm
ingham, Ala., from a lengthy illness
with asthma. His remains will prob
ably be taken to Tennessee for inter
ment.
B. F. Dillon, Sr., general superin
tendent of the southern division of
the Western Union Telegraph Compa
ny, died suddenly at his home in’ the
Mendenhall apartments in Atlanta on
Monday. Death was caused by acute
Indigestion, followed by a stroke of
apoplexy. Mr. Dillon stood high in
the service of his company.
A special from Mkrion, N. C., says:
A blackened and charred body sup
posed to be that of Jim Flynn, a white
man, was found on Mount Ida, a
mountain Just outside the city limits
of Marion, by mea who were fighting
the forest fire which had been raging
over that and adjoining mountains for
several days.
Five men are dead as a result of a
premature explosion of dynamite In a
Santa Fe rock cut east of Barstow,
Calif. Supt J. C. Mohler and three
Mexicans were seriously injure^)
Connty Governmect>.
Representative—G. W. Wilsoi^
Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis.
Sheriff and Tax CollectPJ—C. C. Kilpat
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; G.
T. Lyday; W. E. Galloway.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney—R. L. Gash.
Town Goveriunrat*.
Mayor—W. E. Breese,' jr.
Board of Aldermen^—^T. H. Shipman. J
M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F.i L. De-
Vane, E. W. Carter.
Marshal—J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. R Gallo*
way.
Treasurer—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Regular meetings—First Monday night
in each month.
Profesdonal Cords.
R. L. GASH.
LAWYER.
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11 and 12 McMinn BuiUins^
Notary Public.
H. C. BAILEY
Civil and Consultins Engineer
and Surveyor
CITY EiiSISCEIl I: IT.
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 asrainst the
estate of the said testator, to present
their claims to the undersig-ned 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,
Wslch 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 bar 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 creeks 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 corner; thence west, running 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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