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lit? ■HE FIRE, TECTION Tell Us. BREVARD, N. G. cly obtain U. S. and Foreign. or phoro cf invention for . patentdbiiitv. Frr free bcck, ^ TRADE-MARKS WSii -feATEHTSfiSn C Q /s agazine offers of i'ork, or Southern 2. 15-page foli6 of ‘S iOr only $1.75. Friday— ivecJ:. The a ai ’c wlu'lc area of each complete is- iviirai I'rce .'c:1y t('» thcise ad- offers, you <^:'o sani]'ile C('>p3’' ■onr iicij:-]il)(>rs. •V H'i-.nuini average :e ><.'litliland, as 5ip2Fb FREE oscc cf one: ' '^v !.' ’ i ;i;!t should ;n I : 1- \^\‘okiy Con- I'api'r. it will vuih. Tt is a sov.i- : nboi’t folks— o: :\ (lull line in it. vorv haluful s.-=TITl^TTON, ■ur SL'ioction of cicrs for above N. C. r.p ^.«V: J. J. MINER, OWNER AND MANAGER only newspaper IN TRANSYLVA!r;A ALLi HOME PRINT S-OM'l:' U. 1911. us H yolume*xyi 384,088 PERSONS IN CIVIL SERVICE Twenty-SnBiilli Report of tlio . Gommlsslon. 'TOTRifi VISE tabsfp: Cha,mp Clark Expects an Change Will Be Made. Entire DEM3C MBIIT SySTQI IS EFFECTIVE It Has Strengthened the Public Con viction That It Is Indispensable to Economy and Efficiency In Govern mental Affairs. The tariff Is to be revised at the coming special session of congress, ao- ^ cording to Champ Clark, chosen ' ipeaker of the next house by the dem- ^ ocrats, who was in Chicago a day or j I 80 ago. ! I **We will make a general revision of ’ ’ the tariff downward In fulfillment of I our platform'pledges,” said Mr. Clark; i “but we will not attempt to present It ^ j in the form of a complete new bill. Mr. i Taft might find some feature in such j a bill which could be looked upon as ! 1 Justifying his veto. Instead, we will jr ; make the revision one schedule at a ; I time. In that way we can make the | i entire revision in such a way that it t must meet the president’s approval.” , Mr. Clark consented to discuss the I coming presidential election briefly, I and predicted that a Democrat would ; He would not say that he , Figitt W!ged oa Jiiantsro and ■i. RESULT ON SESSION. So-Called “ Progress! Adamson and Fltzspni men of Interstate Appropriations Com President Taft has made public the twenty-seventh annual report of the civil service commission. The report states that the increasing effective ness of the merit system has strength-1 be elected. ened the public conviction that it is j would not be a candidate nor would he Indispensable to economy and eflicien-1 announce that he would enter the affairs. It^is \ race. Harmony in the democratic members of the ways tind means com- ^ V . . . , , . , mlttee, which is likewise the commit- cy in governmental affairs. ItMSirace. Harmony in the democratic ' x has selected tpn- shown that the ' examination system | ranks and dissension among the re-1 jatively, Representktlv© Fitzgerald, of tends to lessen the number of em-1 publicans were reasons given by Mr. I york, chairman of the powerful number of ployes required under similar condi- j tions by raising the standard of effi-1 ciency and at the same time facili-1 tates the extension of governmental | activities to new fields by furnishing j the best practicable means of testing' qualifications for scientific, technical i and professional work. | The report shows 384,088 persons in | the executive civil service, 222,278 of I Train auditors will be placed on all passenger trains of the Central of Georgia railway. May 1, according to an announcement from Vice-President WJnbum. The will of Alice Marion Curtis, ot Wellesley, Mass., was filed in the Norfolk probate court. One of the be quests in the will is $5,000 to the At lanta university, a negro school, r With his wrist tied to the tail of a i Wild horse, the body of a Papage In dian was found by a detachment of i the Frrst United States calory at the ^ edge of the Gila river, near ^esa. Object to : order to secure the body, it I Chair-i necessary to shoot the horse. It mefoe and / believed the young Indian had been condemned to die in this manner be cause of having violated some law of the tribe. The entire business district of Snow Hill, N. C., was swept out of existr ence by a fire which started in the store of J. S. Sugar. The town has no firefighting apparatus, and the fire Immediately after the fire Sugar was arrested charged with incendiarism. B. Z. Whitehurst, of ^parks, was at Tifton, Ga., aoid sold 1,030 acres of land in Berrien county to Messrs. A. Representative—Thos. S. Wood. Clerk Superior Court- Cos. Paxton. Sheriff and Tax Collector—Fred Shnford. Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols. Re^stgr of Deeds-C. 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 pheatham. Attorney—Robert L. Gash. A fight is now being quietly con ducted within the detoocratic party, the result of which, it is believed, will have an import^t bearing on the work of the house during the special session. [ It is understood that the democratic j burned itself out. of pm> ' appropriations conunittee, and Repre- i Prank, Scarboro, Beckham and" Coch cratlc victory in the coming election, j w. C. Adamson, of Georgia, I as chairman of the ailmost equally FORM $12,000,000 M£RGKR. | powerful committee on interstate and ^ foreign commerce. Biggest Combine Ever Known in South Carolina Has Been Made. The largest cotton mill merger ever effected in the south is just announced whom are in the competitive classified, ft-om Greenville, S. C. service. The number of competitive! ^ meeting in Charleston, S. C., The extreme progressives in the • party ar^ up in arms against these ! two appointments, and are making a | very vigorous fight to bring about a ! change. { The Objection to Fitzgerald. j The objection to' Mr. BMtzgerald is 1 ran, of Tifton. The amount chase was $15,450. The constitutional committee of the Arkansas house of representatives has decided to report favorably on a bill recently introduced into the house granting suffrage to women. Announcement was made at New Orleans that Abe Atteil, featherweight champion pugilist, and Johnny Coulon, classified positions, which does not in- steps were taken to organize what will j renresents TaAmany and as ‘ ^^^^er of the bantamweight title, elude mechanics and laborers at navy j known as the Pelzer corporation, ; ^ TammaTiv rpnrpsentirfive- led the re- ‘ ®^eet in that city on April 9 in a yards, is show^ to have increased by; representing a capitalization of $12, 5,488. TRAGEDY AT COLUMBUS. Well-Known Churchman Victim of Fatal Runaway. Dr. Howard W. Key, formerly a prominent member of the Methodist!, ministry and well known throughout the state, was instantly killed at Co-! lumhus, Ga., and his wife perhaps j fatally injured by being thrown from a buggy. , They AVer'S driving a pony out Tenth | street, when th^ horse, becoming ‘ frightened at a neiar-by train, swerved suddenly and ran away, both Mr. and Mrs, Key being thrown out. In falling, Dr. Key’s head struck a! telephone pole that had been sawed, off a foot or so above the ground, and he was killed instantly. An ugly gash , was cut behind his ear and his face , %as badly bruised. Mrs. Key is in the hospital, with sev eral ribs broken and In a condition so serious that the physicians can not yet tell the outcom^ ■ Dr. Key was formerly president of Andrew college, at Cuthbert, Ga. He was a son of Bishop Joseph S. Key, of the Methodist church, south. 000,000, and embracng twelve of the largest mills in upper South Carolina. The merger will represent spindles ag gregating 500,000 and 15,000 looms. It is reported that Capt. Ellison i a Tammany representH^ve, led the re volt against the balance of the party when it was^ proposed to smash the Cannon rules. It Is felt, too, that he Is too much of a conservative, andjls in^ dined to the Bailey wing of the party. Mr. Adamson is a strong state's Smyth, of Greenville, will be president i man in his views, and being a of the corporation, assisted by John positive man, there is no question as A. Law, of Spartanburg, and A. F. Me-, ^^ere he stands. The interstate commerce commls- Klssick, of Greenwood, and others. 12 MEN KILLED. Caught by Falling Wall at Nashville, Tennessee. By the collapse of the side walls of the Fall Hardware building, which was burned ten days ago, at Nash ville, Tenn., about thirty men were buried under tons of brick, mortar and timber. Most of those caught under the walls were negro laborers, who were clearing away the debris and tearing down the walls, but there were a few white men, corinected with in surance companies, in the building at the time. These latter were looking after the salvage. The dead number twelve, while the injured number seventeen. A heavy wind is supposed to have QAused the walls, weakened by the Are, to fall. commerce j sion is likely to have to pass on some ' ! very important matters during this ' i congress, and the progressives fear ■ 'Mr. Adamson-will a ^tumbling I block' to legicT^dn they regard as of ^ ■ vital importance, if he is at the head ! i of the committee. ‘ ' ' It Is pointed out that Mr. Adamson i was at war with the main body of the democrats and with the progressive I republicans when he opposed the feat- ; ures 'of the Mann resolution, designed to give the interstate commerce com mission the power to surprise the ispue of railroad stocks and bonds, j Mr. Adamson opposed giving the twenty-five-round bout. The conditions call for 116 pounds, ringside. It is announced that John D. Rocke feller had given $20,000 toward the erection of a Y. M. C. A. building at the Agricultural and Mechanical col lege at Raleigh, N. C., provided the students would raise $20,000. The sum of $7,000 has already been raised, leaving a balance of $13,000. One man was killed and 300 head of cattle were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a square block of th^!huge network of pens in the Union stock yards at Chicago. Swept by high winds, a fire, which started in the kitchen of a restaurant, wiped out one of the principal busi ness blocks of Campbellsville, Ky., de stroying the Taylor National bank building, the Commercial hotel and several stores and small shops. The loss is estimated at $65,000. James A. Hixon is the new Judge of the city court of Americus, Ga., suc- BUFFALO BILL A SENATOR. Great Western Pathfinder May Round Out Career in National Legislative Halls. It is semi-ofiicially stated at Tucson that Colonel William F. Cody—“Buf falo Bill”—plans to round out his career as one of the great pathfinders of the west by becoming the first, United States senator from ■ Arizona.! He does not deny the rumor. . He has established not only a home | at Tucson, but a permanent camp in j the mountains. i SHREVEPORT TRAGEDY. Woman Shoots Man and Then Turns Gun on Self. SEARCH FOR BURIED GOLD Excitement Rife Among • EfHngham County, Georgia, People. Effingham county, Georgia, has been ! digging gold in earnest. Some months ago a fortune teller in Savannah told a man who lives in the county that there was a jar, containing $45,000 in gold, which had been buried during the revolutionary war, just six feet from a certain walnut tree on the farm now owned by Jasper Newton, of that county. More recently the rumor that a jar of gold was buried in that vicin-. ity gained considerable credence in the indi^^ion section. The rumor finally developed leaves Into a gold-digging party. Consent to search in the vicinity of his walnut tree was secured from Mr. Newton. The searchers dug in alternate reliefs, continuing their investigations day and night. Mr. Newton says that he himself was not affected in the least by the gold rumor, except that he dreamed one night that he saw “a full cartload of gold,” at others Jn the community had a case of gold fever, and had It bad. As a consequence of the search, Mr. Newton is minus a very valuable wal nut tree, while several citizens of the Pine Grov community have wrought well and are wiser. ' C. G. Kernegay, a railroad rate clerk, employed by the Vicksfeurg, Shreveport and Pacific railway, was shot five times and died instantly at Shreveport, La. A Mrs. Haynle, who says she formerly lived at Greenville, Miss., surrendered to the authorities. It is said the woman called at the railroad ofilce and asked to see Kerne- gz.y. He went from his desk to a win dow at the pay counter, when she opened fire. After the man fell, the ■woman turned the revolver upon her self and snapped it, but the cartridge failed to explode. To the authorities the woman made a statement, in which she declared she had killed Kernegay because, after leaving her husband and two children and coming with him to this place, she learned that he has a wife and six children at Goldsboro, N. C. power to the interstate commerce i ceeding Judge Charles Crisp, who has ' commission to make a general physl- > been appointed parliamentarian of the cal valuation of the railroads of th© next congress by Speaker Champ country, a measure supported by the | Clark. After wrestling with the prob- progresslve element of Che party. i lem of the appointment for several In opposing ’the progressives on^| days, during which he was besieged these and other matters, the Georgian by influential friends of both Mr. Hix- always has professed a degree of sym-1 on and Attorney W. W. Dykes, who pathy with the purpose of the pro-! were candidates for the appointment, posed legislation, and has based his | Governor Brown announced that he opposition on constitutional grounds, i Just what the outcome of the fight ^ against Adamson and Fitzgerald will I be it is hard to say. They are the senior democrats on these commit-1 tees, and they are men who have had decided to appoint Mr. Hixon to the office. many friends. Democratic leaders are busy at work on plans for the session. In ad dition to the prompt passage of the Canadian reciprocity measure and other tariff bills, the house proposes to pass the bill admitting Arizona and New Mexico and the resolution declar ing for the election of senators by the people at the earliest possible moment. GENERAL Russia has sent an til NEWS< timatum to China, insist- •ITEMS. ing upon a closer adhe- I rence to the provisions of the treaty I of 1881, which has been the subject of I negotiations' between the two coun* j tries for several weeks. The Russian occupation corps is within a hundred miles of the frontier, and marching on Kulia. The Virginia Power company, capi- Goldsboro, N. C., March 18.—C. G. Kernegay was of one of the best and oldest families in this section, and for- ^ ^ ^ ^ - - ,. - i cor nnn merly held a position of trust In the W.OOO.OOO to develop light j age was $25,000 • * • A CHAPTER George H. Munroe, OF said by government CASUALTIES, officials to have ob tained at least $50,000 from confiding investors, was convicted in the United States court at New Yoik of using the mails in conne'tion with fraudulent stock operations. Judge Hough sen tenced Munroe to Lerve three years In the federal peni<^<^nt‘ary at Atlanta. Napier Byron, a white man, con victed of the murder of his wife, the mother of twelve children, was hanged at the state prison at Nashville, Tenn. His crime was a most brutal one. Byron spent his last night in the “death-hcvlse,” just to the rear of the prison walls. A business .^block ef Poulan, Ga., a small town, was totally destroyed fire. The following buildings were burned: J. B. Charles’ store, Watson’s barber shop, Poulan postoffice, two livery stables and jail. The total dam< Man’s Diary. The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and ^Writes another. business world, which he lost through He was 35 years old and a wife ajid five children, who hold the esteem of the community. His brother is cashier of the First National bank. WALGAST WIN^ FIGHT. Lightweight Contest Pui^ Off art and power, was organized in Salisbury, N. C., with Dr. J. J. Mott, of States- | Tille, at its head. Dr. Mott has pur- ^ chased water poi^er on New river and | other streams in Virginia, and has | turned over the deeds, covering over i 1,000,000-horse power, to the Virginia ■ Power conmanf^, which will begin op-: -i5#l*fcioB8 e^ coce. I 0ader Authoilty Of an act of the last I Ad Wolgast retained his title lightweight champion at Los Angeles, virtually knocking Memsic out and causing the referee to stop the fight in the ninth round. Wolgast outclassed Memsic from start to finish, and the result was never in Dubt. He had the Los An geles man helpless in the ninthi Ref eree Eyton stopi>ed the contest in ac cordance ith his promise to DisMct Attorney Fredericks tlMit he would in terfere the moment either man showed decided weaknesa. Fire at Chester, S. C., destroyed the plant and large amount of lumber in the yards, together with the dry houses of tile Chester Lumber and Ma chine company. The loss will reach about $35,000 on buildings, machinery and lumber. > Joe Arnold, chief of police of Mur freesboro, Tenn., was shot'and killec in that town by Deputy Sheriff Jep Hall. The shooting grew out of session of the. general assembly, by ] IK^uiar vote, the city of Wilmington, ‘ quarrel as to which made the arrest N. C., adopted the commission plan of , of spme prisoneps that had just been corernment, the vote being practically placed in jail. Hall was also shot in ananimous, only 22 ' votes being' the leg. Hall is under arrest on •C^ainst the measure oat of a total of I charge of first'degree murde^ ' } A bullet she fired into her The city council of Gadsden, Ala., breast after she had murdered has called an election for April 24 for | husband and their 11-year-old the purpose of authorizing $50,000 in caused the death of Cora Wood, tkmds for the completion of the water- yorks plant. A bill making it a misdemeifeiMir to sell cigarettes or cigarette papers^ passed the leglslature'K)^: TJtaih. own her son Last week Mrs. Wood fatally shot her hus band, Christopher C. Wood, and their son, Vardemond, then shot herself. The* triple tragedy has not been ex plained. NUMBER*12 -• ' ^ Comvty, Govemment*. Town Government*., 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. Treasurer—T. H. Shipman. Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt. Regular meetings—First Monday night in each month. SOUTflEHN RAILWAY COMPANY Transylvania Division. In effect January 2,1911. N. B —Schedales figures given an informatioa only, and uot guaranteed. Eastern Standard Time STATIONS P M 3 40 S 45 4 4- 5 00 5 05 5 06 5 IS 5 20 6 26 5 »4 5 36 5 42 5 55 6 02 6 04 6 03 » 12 6 21 6 30 6 40 Lv Asheville Ar Lv ..Hendersonvilie "Ar ...West Hendersonville Yaje Hori!e Shoe Cannon Etowah..'.*.’.*.*.. Blantyre .”!!! Penrose Dayidson River Pisgah Forest........ Ar Brevard Lv „ Selica^.v....... Cherryaeld ..... ..Calvert. Rosman.. :.Gaifovrays Quebec..." ’ Reid’s... Ar...Lalie Toxaway...Lv A H 11 30 10 25 10 22 10 10 10 05 10 02 9 66 9 49 942 9 33 9 30 924 9 08 9 01 8-58 8 M ' y-501 8 48 8 34 8 25 Nos. 5 and 6 are through trains between Asheville and Lake Toxaway. No. 5 connects at Heitdersonville with the Carolitia Special for Spartanburg:, Columbia and Charleston, and at Spartanbwg with Nos. 11 and 12 for Atianta and Charlotte. For tickets and full information apply to E. W. CARTER,*Ag’t. J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag't, Asheville, N. C Ihrofi^onal Cords. .LAWYER 11 and 12 McMinn Building Notary Public. W. W. ZASHARY Attoniey-at^Law BREVARD, N. C. H. G. BAILEY Civil and Consulting Ens^eer and Surveyor 8REYUDAND HEliDEilSOIiNlllE. I. C. N OTICE—Change in Hour of Meeting. By a vote of Dnnns Rock Lodge at last regular communication the hour of meeting was changed and the following will be the hours un til further notice: Jan. 13, 1911, meeting at 2 p. m. Hereafter the meetings will alternate—^February, meeting at 8 p. m., March, at 2 p. m., etc. All members are urged to attend thepe meetings. Viating Masons cordially invited. Jan. 9,1^11. Weix:h Galloway, Sec’y* The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1911 Almanac The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 'Almanac for 1911, that guardian Angel in a hundred thotisand homes, is now ready. Not many are now willing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, Word and Works. THie 'two axe only One Dollar a year. The Almanac is 35c .prepaid. No home or office should fail to send for them to Word and Work® Publishing Company, St, Louid, Mo.
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