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ZAC^IARY h GUAYTON
Attorney-at^Law .'
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BREYMD AND
NENDERSONNILLE. N. C.
the secret
was shot
Of ihfi seriously wounded by Miss Lillian Graham and Miss Bthe«7onrad, tS whose apartments he had gone, as Stokes states, to
Vl lUV gg|. gQuig letters. An earthquake killed'about 1,300 persons in theOity of Mexico and^other parts of Mexico. Mrs. Ava Willirig
Astor, who was snubbed by Queen Mary, will leave England and return to her old home in PhiladiEflphla. Owen J. Evans, Ohio legislator, confessed to
ac^*eptlng a bribe for his vote in the lower house. John Bigelow, author and diplomat, who was reported seriously ill at his home |fn Highland Falls, N. Y.,
Is recovering. Cardinal Gibbons celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood aaid the twenty-fifth'anniversary of his cardinalate.
GUNS NOW TRAINED
ON STEEL TRUST
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It Is SAID Aitministration Will
Take Action.
PROSECUTION GONTEMPUTED
Report Current In Washington is That
Steel Trust May Meet Same Fate
as Befell Standard Qil and Tobacco
Monopolies.
Criminal and civil ^actions against
the steel trust and its officials are to
be brought by the administration, ac
cording to a well-founded report cur
rent in Washington.
President Taft and Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham’ held an extended
conference over the matter. While
nothing of interest was given out, tiie
report that the prosecution would fol
low was not denied.
T. C. and I. Deal Figures.
The department of justice has ob
tained its own records in the absorp
tion of the Tennessee Coal and iron
company by the United States Steel
corporation, and, with evidence to be
submitted by the bureau of corpora
tions of the department of commerce
and labor. Attorney General Wicker
sham is soon to begin legal action to
<lissolve the steel trust, and this will
be followed by criminal actions
against the members of the trust.
President Taft and the attorney gen
eral intend, it is belieevd, to go back
of the “O. K.” put on the absorption
of the Tennessee company by the
United States Steel corporation by
former President Roosevelt.
Astonishment is Expressed.
Astonishment was expressed in offi
cial circles when it became known
that the administration was contem
plating prosecution. It was learned
that Chairman Stanley, of the special
nouse committee investigating the
trust, conferred with President Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham.
Mr. Stanley is said to have presented
evidence to the attorney general and
to the president as to violations of the
Sherman anti-trust law by the United
States Steel corporation wliich has
not yet been made public.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner,
of corporations, who has been work
ing for more than two years on the
operation of the steel trust, has also
placed evidence in the hands of the
attorney general, it is said, to make
sure that the'^ trust will meet the same
fate as befell the Standard Oil and
tne tobacco monopolies.
WITHROW HANGED.
Pannin County Wife Slayep Pays
Death Penalty.
John Withrow, who last July killed
^alhe Withrow, his wife, was hanged
at Blue Ridge, Ga., Friday. He con-
essed to Sheriff Jenkins' son that he
murdered his wife, and had young
nkins write the history of his life,
tini^ publica-
2 00ft''' ? were
thp out-of-town people to witness
^ne execution.
Withrow was
“nvicted was the most shocking that
occurred in Fannin county,
awav^r intoxicated whilf
and year,
viol’enr? . offered
friffhtf A ® became
Wav attempted to escape by
takin ^ through the com field
thrL followed her out of
—-^^^gS-~§5gi^^llng down, delib.
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erately aimed and fired at her, killing
her instantly. Withrow was 2^ years
of age. He and his wife, who was two
years his junior, had been married
five ’ y^ars,. and they had two little
children. He was one of the five men
who 'escaped from pris6n in Atlanta
some months ago.
DEATH TO BOLL WEEVn..
Torrid \^eather/Puts Pest Out of Bus-
iness on Louisiana Farms.
The torrid weather of the pas^t week
has be^’i effective in putting the
dreadedi)cll weevil out of business in
sections of Louisiana.
The tests conducted by the delta
boll weevil laboratory, under the di
rection of G. D. Smith, of the,United
States bureau of entomology. Indicates
that the bug has sustained > its most
serious setback since its invasion of
that territory.
Of the weevils placed In hibernat
ing cages last fall of 1 per cent,
only have emerged, against per
cent, last season, showing that the
per cent, surviving is considerably
smaller.
WAR CLOUD GATHERS.
Trouble Seems Likely Ir^ 'Republic of
Nicaragua.
Three days after the explosion
whicl^ wrecked the La Loma, in which
many soldiers were killed, the natives
are expecting an invasion under the
leadership of Dr. Julian Irias, former
delegate on the Atlantic coast side to
Madrid, and also from Costa Rica.
Warnings have been sent every
where over the republic to recruit the
army as rtipidly as possible. The
authorities, are counting on the sup
port of the Atlantic Coast side of the
country. The situation is under con
trol, and tranquility prevails. Official
advices from Managua indicate that
the dynamiting of the barracks was
done by former revolutionists.
COST^OF GEORGIA AUTOS.
Records Show That $1,500,1)00 Worth
of Qars Are Bought Every Month.
Georgia is investing an average of
$52,500 each day in automobiles, more
than one and a half million dollars
each month. This is shown by the
registration books in the office of
Philip Cook, secretary of state. Up
until June 1, $12,000,000 had been
registered, and* each day brings an
average registration of thirty-five new
machines, averaging in value $1,500
each.
The number 87^7 was issued Tues
day, bringing the total value of ma
chines registered to $13,090,500. All
of these machines are not coming
from the cities either. Mi^. Cook says
that fully half t)f them are registered
from the small towns, and many from'
the country, showing that numbers of
farmers now own machines.
LUMBER TRUST PROBE.
Special Federal Grand Jury Begins an
Investigation.
A special federal grand jury at Chi
cago began its investigation into the
lumber trust at the federal court
building. More than 200 lumber men
have been subpenaed to give testi
mony as to whether t*e alleged com
bine has conspired to fix prices and:
to blacklist and boycott certain con
cerns which sell direct to the consum
er eliminating the retailer.
A siguiiicant phase of the inquiry is
the sumnioning of employes of the
Weyerhauser-Hines interests to tes
tify. -This combination' the govern
ment asserts, acts as a barometer of
the lumber trade in thie country.
Individual ^timinal indictments wljl
be sought against memliers of the
companies.
OHIOAN CONFESSES
TO SEEW BRIBE
Represenfatiye inV Legislature
Pleads Gullty-Flned $500.
TO TURN SfiiTE’S EWOENCE
With Tears In His Eyes^ Legislator
Promised to Make a Clean Breast
of the Alleged Boodling Business in
the State of Ohio.
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Representative^ Owen J. Evans, of
Stark county, c^M«ed\wi^, soliciting^
a bribe as a iiieinlreF-*«f^he legisla-'
ture, pleaded guilty to the crime be
fore Judge Kinkead, in the criminal
(^ourt at Columbus, Ohio, and, in view
of his agreeing to go before the grand
Jilry and turn state’s evidence in the
probe into alleged legislative grafting
still being conducted by that body,
w6s let off with the .minimum punish
ment, a fine of $500.
Evans went immediately before the
grand Jury and will tell all he knows
concerning alleged boodling in the
legislature. He promised the court to
make a clean breast and, with tears
streaming down tis face, the legis
lator asked for the clemency of the
court.
The grand jury has meantime re
turned ei^ht- new indictments, and
these, it is understood, are in relation
to the legislative bribery probe.
Evans’ plea of guilt was ri^a^e^on
the recommendation-x)f his counsel;
Clark & Addison, and these lawyers
made, in open court, the sensational
testimony that a large slush fund had
been put up for Evans’ defense, but
they refused to make a defense o^
perjured testimotny.
Evans was under three indictments
in all. The one to which he pleaded
guilty was for soliciting from L. F.
Miller, on April 18, a bribe of $100 for
using his influence as a member of
the legislature in furthering a bill
regulating the business of, loaning
money on the salaries cf employes.
The other indictment against him, it
is understood, will be quasked or
nolled.
SEA SERPENT IS SEEN;
Story in- Totd^ by'tPassiBngers' off the
Steamer etHtic.
The passengers and crew of the
White Star' Line steamship Celtic
brought with them to New York a re
vival of the sea serpent tales of other
years. They reported having ^passed
a formidable looking creature which
was going at high speed in pursuit of
a school of young whales. The mon
ster, they said, had wings, although it
appeared to be an aquatic animal, and
rose frequently ten feet or more from
the water.
The whales and pursuer faded from
sight within a few minutes.
BANKS GET $3,000,000.
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The Alliance CoaK. Company l« Sold
Underwriters.
The ; Chicago banks .^^isbich under
wrote the “Walsh debf^at the time of
the settlement of the affairs of John
R. Walsh, the convicted bcu^jcer, have
recovered another installment of their
money in the shape .of $3,0^0,000, the
proceeds ^ the sale of the Alliance
Coal company..'
The sale was to tite Monon Coal
company, which is afftllated with the
railroad of that name, and represents
20,000 acres ef <»al lan<!U.ia SuUiVan,
Clay, Oreen aad Vico ooWtles, Jn-
GENERAL The campaign against
NEWS state-wide prohibition
NOTE'S. was opened at Port
Worth, Texas, at a rally attended by
delegates from all over Texas. Gov
ernor Oscar B. Colquitt spoke against
the state-wide movement, declaring
that the local option which Texas now
Uas is the better system because it
results in law enforcement. Several
clergymen were among the delegates.
Texas will vote on state-wide prohibi
tion July 22. , '
Two large bottles of Hessian rum,
150 yearns old, are among the latest
finds of historical experts who are ex
cavating the ruins of old Pott Wash
ington, on the Hudson river, just
above Riverside DHve, N*ew York.
The excavations are on the site of the
Hessian barracks, in what was for a
long time known as Death Gulch,
froip the large number of Hessians
who fell in the rout of Washington’s
army froin the lieight." ^^^‘
Nearly one million persons wit
nessed the unveiling, at Rome, Italy,
of a magnificent monument to King
Victor Emmanuel II. Interest 'was
added to the occasion by reason of
the celebration of tbe granting of the
constitution ’ by King Charles Albert
in 1848, the same constitution whicjli
still rules united Italy. King Victor
Emmanuel, (^ueen Helena and the
QTieen Mothef* Margherita were pres
ent.
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Six persons at Salt Lake City, Utah,
were drowned in the Salt Lake when
the launch Galilee, bearing sixteen
persons attending a party given in
honor of the approaching marriage of
Vera Brown and Edward P. Holies
capsized. The,bride and bridegroom
were among the drowned. They sank
clasped in each other’s arms. A party
of young men in a sailboat rescued
the other ten.
John F. Gaynor, who, with Benja
min D. Greene, served a term of four
years in the federal prison at Atlanta
for participating in the Savannah har
bor improvement frauds, and whp^re
cently was released, arrived at San
Francisco en route to Honolulu. He
Is accompanied by his wife John F.
Gaynor, Jr., and Miss K L. Gaynor.
The Bank of LaGrange, of La-
Grange, Lenoir county. North Caro
lina, was closed by order of the state
corporation commissioner. Reports
from the state bank examiner showed
that the bank wa^ in an unsafe condi
tion, it is said, ^because of unsecured
paper and overdrafts amounting to
$12,000. The bank’s capital is $10,000.
^ official movement hasf been
started to establish an ' arbitration
treaty between Italy and the Unit^
States similar to ^he proposed Anglp-
American treaty. ' A request from a
member of the chamber of deputies
that negotiations be opened was made
to' the minister of foreign iiffalrs at
Rome, Italy.
I^e Savannah Caiets, a military or
ganization, celebrated its fiftieth an
niversary Saturday with a street pa
rade and banquet, in which the vet
erans of the company and other mili
tary organizations took part
The Baltimore and Ohio^ railroad
ha.8 awarded contracts for 25,000 tons
of rails, 23,050 tons of which will be
delivered by tlie United States St«el
corporation. '
President Taft is said to have told
Governor Curry, of New Mexico, that
he will not veto the bill now- before
the senate admitting New Mexico and
Ariz(ma' to statehood. ^This bill pro
vides tiat both territories wRl vote
upon amendments to their '^constitti-
tions prior lo the issuance of « pro
clamation by t^e president admitting
themjo the Union.
a' ^spa^h from Dublin, Ireland,
says: John Dillon, nationalist mem
ber of parliament for Bast Mayo, #as
dangerously h^ in an automobils
ac^dent near l^ndalk. .
Conotjr Goverriment^.
Representative—Thos. S. Wood.
Clerk Su^or Court- C5s. Paxtoii.
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.
Commissipners—L. W. Brooks, G. T. Ly
day, Arthur Miller.'
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
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Ph3Tsicianf—^Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney—Robert L. Gash'.
Tpwn Govenunentt.
Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.
Board of Aldermen-^W. M. Heiu-y, C. C.
KilpatrTck, T. L. Snelson, W. S. Ashworth,
J. E. Cox.
COMMITTEES f
Streets—T. L. Snelson, C. C. Kilpatrick
W. S. Ashworth. i
Water—C. C. Kilpatrick, W. M. Henry,
J. E. Cox. i
Sanitary—T. L. ^nelson, C. C. Kilpat
rick, W. S. Ashworth. ^
J.KCox: ^
Police—W. S. Ashworth, C. C. Kilpatrick,
T. L. Snelson. I
Lights-J. E. Cox, T. L. Snelson, C. C.
Kilpatrick. , .
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Mayor Pro Tem.—W. M. Henry.
Chief Fire Department—c'./M. Doyle.
Health Officer—W. J. Wallis.'
Policemen—T. B. Summey, M. W. Gallo-
way. . ^
Regular meetings—First Monday, night
in each month.
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STRINGS
^ I have put in a full
line of Violin, Banjo
and Guitar Strings. The
best quality at moder
ate prices. Orders
taken for all classes of 'musical instru
ments. ^ p. R. ayre;S.
SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY
Transylvania Diyision.
J Time Table No. 11.
Effective June 12,1911.
N. B —Schedules figures given as information
" only, and not guaranteed.
No. 6
Daily
No 4
Dally
Eastern Standard Time
STATIONS
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PM
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AM
PM
7 2a
Lv ,^..Terrell Ar
7 30
5 90
8 20
^........ Asheville
iT 80
6 15
6 4a
9 »
..... Hendersonville
10 25
11
6 oS
. 9 38
Yale
10 10
7.(X)
9 42
Horse Shoe.,.^.„.
10 06
4 40
7 03
9 46
Cannon
10 oi
4 87
7 09
9 06
; fitowah ,
956
4 31
7 16
10 03
^Blantyre
9 40
4 24
7 23
10 10
Penrose
9 42
V 4 17
7 82
10 19
Davidson River
9 33
4 08
7 85
10 22
Pisgah Forest
9 80
4 05
7 41
10 30
Ar Brevard Lv
9 24
4 00
7 57
10 44
..— Selica
9 06
8 43
8 04
16 t2
9 01
8 36
8 07
10 55
8 58
8 83
8 11
11 00
Rosman ..^
8 54
8 29
8 22
11 14
8 43
8 18
8 40
11 40
Ar..Lake Toxaway_Lv
t
8 %
8 CO
West HendersoDville and Davis are flag stops
for Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Galloways and Belds are flagr stops for Nos. $
and 6. *
Nos. 3 and 4—Through Trains between Terrell,
Asheville and Lake Toauway. ^
Nos. 5 and 6-rrTlm>ugh Train*, CkiMicbes and
Chair Car between Ashe'mle and liikeToxaway.
, B. W. CARTER, Af’t.
J. H. WOOD, Dist- Pass, Ag’t, Asheville. N- C
I^rd Benton—Thorough
bred American Hackney—will
serv^ iJl who come to my plac^
dta*ing the season of 19 U at
"$I2«50« If taken away from
honie the price will be 5#00*
This I is the well known com
pany stallion oi Br^ard, and
his colts are all the recommen
dation I^e needs*—C# C* Duck-
woAu
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