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VOLlIME*XVI
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLIM,
fRIDAT. JANUARY 13.1911.
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NUMBER»i>
GUNS ARE TRAINED
ON AUEGED TRUSTS
Strenuous Times Ahead For
Certain Corporations.
SUITS ARE TO BE PRESSED
In Next Six Mont»u Many Convictions
Will Be Sought—No More Fines,
But Prison Sentences if Convictions
Are Secured. '
The next half year promises to be a
Btren lieu's one for officiats of the de
partment of justice, from the attorney
general down to the office boy. The
same period also promises to be one
of unrest and worry for some of the
large corporations and their officials.
Within the period named, the attor
ney general will endeavor to bring to
a successful close the suits already
Instituted against ten or a dozen cor
porations, and have half as many
more completed ready for presenta
tion to either a civil or a criminal
court.
First comes the case of the tobacco
trust. This case will be followed by
the rehearings of the Standard Oil
and the corporation tax cases. While
the cases are being heard in the high
er tribunals some of the best legal
minds in the department will be in
Chicago combating the array of legcil
talent employed by the beef trust in
an effort to bring that corporation be
fore the criminal court and check
moves for delaying prosecution.
Prison Sentences Wanted.
In this case, every effort is being
made by the department to get prison
sentences with C(Jnvictions. At the
same time the now famous bath tub
trust case will come up for hearing
nnd trial. Here an army of trust of
ficials have been indicted by a federal
grand Jury on criminal charges. This
case will be called for an early hear
ing. Unlike the beef barons, the of
ficials of the bath tub trust have vh*-
tually confessed their guilt and asked
for clemency. According to Attorney
General Wickersham, there will be no
clemency.
There is a suit in equity against the
Great Lake Towing monopoly. The
suit will be threshed out. A suit
against the wholesale grocers combi
nation, doing business in the southern
states, will face court music on the
charge of conspiracy to restrain any
grocer except members of the monop
oly from selling the products of the
grocers’ combination. Then there is
the butter and egg board of Elgin,
against which the department has evi
dence tending to show that it is a
combination which controls the price
of butter and eggs. A suit against it
will be started. The brick trust is
tabled for criminal prosecution, as in
dictments were returned by a federal
grand Jury against Its officers. A dis
solution suit also has been entered.
The Sixteen-Hour Law.
The sixteen-hour law, relating ic
railway employees in interstate com
merce, will come up for adjudication.
The railroads have insisted that it is
unconstitutional and will do every
thing in their power to break it down.
In April, 1910, charges were laid be
fore the department to the effect that
certain Individuals had formed a com
bination to monopolize the produc
tions of raw cotton. An investigation
was made and the matter presented
to the grand jury, with the result that
several prominent New York brokers
were indicted. They will face the
courts on indictments within the six
months. In addition to the above
suits, there are numerous suits aris
ing under the interstate commerce
law^ appeals from the decisions of
the raterstate commerce combination
and federal circuit courts.
BE CHEERFUL
We all ought to be as cheerful
as we can. Every one must have
felt that a cheerful friend is like a
sunny day, shedding biightnesis on
all around, and most of us can, if
we choose, make the world a
palace or a prison. To be bright
and cheerful often requires an etfort
There is a certain art in keeping our
selves happy, and in this respect, as
in .others, we require to watch over
and manage ourselves almost as if
we were somebody else.—Lord
Avebury. '
PEACE DECLARED BY
WARRING FACTIONS
Tennessee Legislature Ready
For Bteiness.
U. S. TREASURY SAYINGS.
IGood Showing Has Been Made By th&
Department.
(Economies which will approximate!
>re than $1,900,000 a year have been
pected In the United States treasury.
iring the administration of Secretary
[acVeagh, and additional economies
fhich will total more than $1,600,000'
year are contemplated, according to.
f figures given out. |
Legislation is necessary before some |
)f the contemplated reforms can go ■
[nto effect. If congress acts favorably j
the secretary’s recommendation, iti
[Is expected that the savings will total
f*3,577,500 a year. Of the $l,90th000
saved this year, only $356,000 repre-
sents reductions of forces.
Sorry He Spoke.
Husband—Do you know that every
time a woman gets angry she adds a
new wrinkle to her face?
Wife—No, I did not, but if it Is so I
resume it is a wise provision of na-
e to let the world know what sort
husband a woman has.
A CHAPTER At Durham. N. C.,
OF Trinity College has
CASUALTIES been visited by a fire
which destroyed the Washington Duke
dormitory. There was no loss of lifo,
but the personal belongings of more
than 100 students were burned, to
gether with many valuable records
belonging to the institution. The loss
is estimated at $100,000, with $40,000
insurance.
A negro woman. Nan Sanders, and
her two daughters, Dora, aged 14, and
Millie, aged 12, were burned to death
in their home, 8 miles east of
N. C. On Investigation, the coroncr
arrested the woman’s husband, (Jiaud
Sanders, and her father, William Hin
ton, on suspicion of having burned the
house and on information that San
ders may have first killed his wife and
her children.
Walter Osagood, of Omaha, Neb., a
clerk, shot and killed his wife, Grace
Osagood; fatally shot Ray Johnson,
who attempted to protect Mrs. Osa
good, and then killed himself. The
deed, which was committed in the mid
dle of the street, on Park avenue, re
sulted from an estrangement betweon
Osagood and his wife, it is said.
The bank of Grannis, Ark., was
blown up Saturday, the vault and safe
being wrecked by dynamite, with the
rear end of bank building. The dam
age to the safe, vault and building Is
about $3,000, and it is said that about
$1,500 cash is missing.
F. P. Collins, a prominent planter
of Grenada, Miss., was killed when a
shotgun was discharged* at his home j
at Hardy Station, tearing away one
side of his face. Mr. Collins was alone
at the time. In a statement, relatives
declare they can assign no reason
which might have prompted suicide,
and it is presumed that the gun wr.s
accidentally discharged.
Charles Sedgwick Aiken, editor of
Sunset Magazine, and widely known
as a writer, died at San Francisco
after a protracted illness. Mr. Aiken
was 48 years of age and is survived
by a widow and one child. He was a
native of Cleveland, Ohio.
The nine men who w^ere entombed
by a slide in the Morning mine of the
Federal Mining and Smelting Compa
ny, in Mullen, Idaho, have been res
cued none the worse for their expe
rience.
William J. Myers, past grand exalted
ruler of the order of Elks, and said
to be the original “Hello Bill” of that
organization, died at his home at Phil
adelphia after a long illness.
Fire originating in the Hollenberg
Musical Company’s building destroyed:
an entire block of business houses at|
Little Rock, Ark. The loss on the |
buildings and stocks of the goods
amounts to one million dollars.
The memory of John B. Moisant will
be perpetuated in a monument of gran
ite and bronze to be erected in the
marshes near Harahan, La*., at the spot
where the noted aviator fell to his
death Saturday from a Bleriot mono
plane.
Isaac Beaver, long a resident of
Monroe, La., was found frozen to
death. He was lying on Desiard
street, near a store. When he fell or
how long he had been dead no ono
knows. Beaver had been in ill health
for some time.
Johnson Thurston, weighing about
250, pounds, slipped on an ice-encrust
ed sidewalk at Altoona, Pa., and in
falling crushed a perambulator in
which an 8-months-old infant was rid
ing. The child was instantly killed.
Thomas Taylor, aged 40 years, died
at Port Payne, Ala., from the effects
of eating several dozen match heads.
He confessed he had' eaten the match
es with suicidal intent, it is said,
that Alfred J. Cowart, a promindnt
white citizen living near that place,
was killed by his son at hla home,
while the latter was protecting mem
bers of his father’s family.
T. A. Hamstead, aged about 60
years, who lived alone on a small fartn
near Wheelerville, on the outskiris
of Mobile, Ala., was found frozen :o
dei&th in a field adjoining his home.
WILL ORGANIZE THIS WEEK
After Stormy TImis Solons of Ten
nessee Have Concluded to Form
Peace Pact and Get Down to Bus
iness—Senatorial Selection.
The agreement between the factions
In the Tennessee legislature insures
the permanent and constitutional or-
ganizdtion of the house this week, it
is said.
The senate being, already organized,
there will be nothing to prevent the '
regiijlar procedure p|, the session. The I
vote for governor/will be canvassed i
during the coming week, and B. W. i
Hooper, republican governor-elect, will ,
be declared elected, and inaugurated
the week following.
W^iiat effect the liafmony agreement
will have on the senatorial selectioii
to succeed James B. Frazier Is prob
lematical. To date there are only
two announced candidates in the race,
ex-Governor Benton Me Mill in anl
General G. T. Fitzi^g!^ of Memphis.
Senator Frazier Nashville, and
while his friends are at work, .he has
studiously avoided declaring if he
would be a candidate. The indic-i-
tions, it is said, are that if he enters
the race, he will be able to command
more votes on the first ballot than
any other one ma]%.
Until the assembly gets down to
business, however, it will be impos
sible to forecast the result in the
senatorial race.
CHALLENGE FROM MEMPHIS.
Novel Debate Is Proposed By Metrop
olis of Tennessee.
Public officials and commercial or
ganizations of twenty cities have re
ceived challenges from the city of
Memphis and local business interests
to compare the advantages possessed
by the different cities with those of
Memphis.
The cities “challenged” are Cincin
nati, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville,
Detroit, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Kan
sas City, Cleveland, Grand Rapids, Co
lumbus, Buffalo, Omaha, Rochester,
Denver, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Phila
delphia, Washington and St. Paul.
The '‘challenges,” which went by
telegraph, were addressed to the heads
of the various municipal departments
and to boards of trade or exchanges
havfn?>' cMpervision over the different
industries.
If Father-in-law Davis gets into the
United States senate with Son-in-law
Elkins, West Virginia’s part of the
senate will be “all in the family.” to
be sure; but what’s that got to do with
the eternal Elkins question. Will Kath
erine marry the duke?
TAKE OATH AS JUSTICES.
N.
In the Chinese su^urb of Fudziadian
there were twenty-three deaths from
bubonic plague on Christmas day.
Ninety-eight persons suffering from
the disease were taken to the hos
pital
Supreme Bench Is Complete—Taft
Names Five In Year.
The vacancies on the bench of the
supreme court of the United States
were filled Tuesday when Judge Willis
Van de Vanter, of Wyoming, and
Judge Joseph R. Lamar, of Augusta,
Ga., each took the oath of office as
associate justice and began immedi
ately the performances of the duties
of that position.
For the first time in nineteen
months the bench was complete and
for the first time in the history of the
court, nearly a century and a quarter
old, one president had commissioned
within* a ^ single year five men to sit
upon the bench.
The ceremonies attending the ele
vation of the two judges were simple
throughout. Chief Justice White ai-
mlnlstered to each the oath of alle
giance. The admihistratlon of this
oath took place behind the closed
doors of the robing room, just before
the court took its place on the bench
at noon. ;
IN THE A match has been
SPORTING closed between “Packy”
WORLD McFarland, of Chicago,
and Freddy Welch, of Cardiff, Wales,
lightweights, for a twenty-round box
ing contest in England, February 9,
the boys to weigh lb3 pounds at 2
o’clock on the day of the contest, ac
cording to an announcement by H. O.
Messier, American representative for
Hugh D. McIntosh.
Two ring titles changed in 1910, the
lightweight and heavyweight divisions
having new champions now. Here an?
the present title holders: Johnny Cou-1
Ion, bantam; Abe Attell, feather; Adi
Wolgast, light; no welter; no middle;
Jack Johnson, heavy.
Otis Stockdale, known to Southern!
League baseball fans as "The Old
Gray Fox,” may manage the Lynch
burg team, in the Virginia League,
next season.
It is learned tlbit Paul Sentell, tho
former Atlanta shortstop, has been en
gaged to coach the baseball team ol
the Spring Hill college, at Mobile, ju&t
prior to the opening of the Southern
Lea^e sea^n this year.
Pitcher Porray, who was drafted
from Lansing,^ in the Southern Michi
gan League, has been sold to Albany,
the South Atlantic League, by th«
Atlanta Crackors.
The Right Spirit.
**A painter,” said Robert Henri in
one of his luminous addresses in New
York on art, “should have something
of Constable’s ferfing.
“‘I hear you sell all your pictures,*
said Constable to a younger artist
“‘Why, yes,* was the reply. ‘I’m
pretty fortunate that way. Don’t you
sell all yours?”
** ‘No,* said Constable; *I don’t sell
any of them, and I’ll tell you why.
When I paint a bad picture I don't j
like to part with it, and when I paint |
a good one I like to ke^p it.’ '• |
NOTES FROM The so-called Car-
NATIONAL, mack amendment to
CAPITAL the Heyburn rate law,
making the initial carrier liable for
loss of interstate shipments during
transportation, not only on its lines,
but also on those of connecting lines,
was declared to be unconstitutionQl
by the supreme court of the United
States. A stubborn fight was made
against the amendment as a radical
departure In rate legislation.
I The fig^t of the federal government
to have the “labor contract” law of
Alabama declared unconstitutional
finally met with success when the su
preme court of the United States held
the law invalid. The government
claimed that the law reduced hundreds
of negroes to a state akin to peonage.
The fight against the policy of the
state guaranteeing bank deposits mst
with telling reverses when the' su
preme court of the United State^ held
constitiitional the bank guaranty laws
of Oklahoma. Nebraska and Kansas.
After five years of litigation the fed
eral government, by virtue of a deci
sion of the supreme court of the Unit
ed States, became entitled to press a
suit against the executors of the es
tate of the late Winfield S. Stratton,
the Colorado mining magnate, for
nearly five thousand dollars for back
stamp tax under the Spauish-American
war tax measure.
Litigation of hundreds of thousands
of acres of land in Kentucky was af
fected by a decision of the supreme
court of the United States holding
against the Eastern Kentucky Land
Corporation, which claimed the prop
erty under the so-called Virginia
grants.
FOREIGN Edmund Therry, the f^-
NEWS mous Fr'ench economist, fig-
NOTES ures that the maintenance
of Europe’s armed peace footing in the
last twenty-five years cost one hundred
and forty-five billion francs, approxi
mately twenty-nine billion dollars,
which involved an increase In the pub
lic debt of the European states of from
one hundred and five to one hundred
ana fifty-one billions of francs and con
stantly excluded from productive in
dustry one hundred and ninety-fi.re
thousand officers and three million and
seven hundred thousand men.
A detachment of troops which has
been operating in Mindanao has re*
turned to Manila. The tro6ps were
engaged in a continuous attack against
bandits for twenty days. One private
was killed and two were woundou.
The head of a soldier, which was held
as a trophy by the bandits, was recov
ered. Felipe Salvador, the Luzon ban
dit chief, who was captured last July,
has been given the death sentence.
A Paris dispatch says the court of
appeals confirmed the decision of the
civil tribunal at Rheims, which con
demned Cardinal Ludovic Lucon, arch
bishop of Rheims, to pay $100 dam
ages to the Public School Teachers*
Association. The cardinal was con
victed February 25, 1910, of attempt
ing to injure the public schools by
signing an Episcopal letter forbidding
the use in the schools of certain text
books to which the church objected:
A message from Tashkent, Russian
Turkestan, says there are unconfirm
ed rumors that the ^towns of Przhe-
Talsk and Pishpek, In the territory of
Semiryetchensk, were destroyed by
an earth(}uake and that a lake has
formed on the site of the former
place. Each town has a population of
about 8,000.
Fifteen persons were killed and 40
or 50 others were injured in the wreck
of a passenger train near Nathcart,
Cape Colony. The train, which was
loaded with holiday makers from Ea^^t
London, left the rails, and, turning
over,^rolled down an embankment.
County GovenunenL.
RepresentatiiK—Thos. S. Wood.
Clerk Superior Court- Cos. Paxton.
Sheriff and Tax Collector — Fred. A.
Shuford.
Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols.
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—^Dr. A. E. Lyday.
Surveyor—^J. C. Wike.
Commissioners—W. L. Brooks, G. T. Ly
day, Arthur Miller.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney—R. L. Gash.
ToMm Govo'nmenL.
Mayor—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. Gallo-
way.
Trea§iu-er—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Regular meetings-^First Monday a night
in each month.
Professional Cards.
R. Hi. GAsii;
LAWYER.
11 and 12 McMinn BuSdmg;
Notary Public.
W. W. ZA6HARY
Attorney-at^-Law
BREVARD, N. C.
H. C. BAILEY
Civil and Consulting Engineer
and Surveyor
BREVARD m KENDERSOKNtLLE. t C.
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 tv> notify
all persons having^ claims aeainst the
estate of the said testator, to present
their 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. Tljiis July 9th, 1910.
SARAH LUCINDA GALLOWAY,
W 2lch 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 pajmient.
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, running so as
to include all the vacant land on Indian
ercek. B. A. GILLEISPIE,
♦ Entry Taker.
Executrix Notice*
Notice IS hereby given that the under
signed has been appointed Executrix of
the last will and testament of W. B. Duck
worth, deceased. All persons having
claims against said estate are hereby noti
fied that they must present same before
the 25th day of November, 1911, or this ‘
notice will be plead in bar of their recov
ery. All persons owing said estate are
required to makf»^immediate payment.
MRS. m.LA F. DUCKWORTH.
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1911
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