FAYETTEVILLE. N. C. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 17. WJ)
SI 00 A YEAR
VOL. 1. NO 39
300 Men Mcef Horrible
Death in a Coa Wne
Edtor's Survey of
the Hews of the Day
President Tift Has Busy Week Al
ter Completing His Jour-foot-bill
CUlms Another VUtim-SOQ
Salon Visit Rilclqh Negro
iyacbed la the Land ot His
"friends"- Notes I react dst
laded.
TV a nvit hnrrih! nt'i of the
week and of month lias been ;
found in the dispatches telling or , a ti on me &asis oi ucn vuu
an explosion in the St. Paul Coal j were ordered released from cus
Company'a mine at Cherry. 111., 'tody by the court of appeals, on
which occurred Saturday and may the ground that oral betting is
prove one of the greatest trage-
. . - a m ' J : - -
dies in uie list oi mine oleasters.
Three hundred miners were
entcmbed in the bowels of
the earth and at this writing
thr a nt-.t the slightest hote '
that an v oi uiera eurviveu. nix
. . i : w
or more men lost their lives by
going into the mine in an effort
to rescue some of the imprisoned
ones. Four experts w ith oxygen
helmets went into the mine Mon
day and reported that they found
dead men scattered everywhere.
The wives and children of the
miners thronged about the niir e
in terror and grief and many of
them remained over night. If
any of the imprisoned men lived
they had to survive 30 hours in
earth without fresh air, to bay
nothing of the poisonus gashes
and heat Every now and again
the country is shocked by such
horrible mine disaster. While
thousands almost freeze for lack
of coal in the hovel of poverty
in the great cities, hundreds loe
their lives going down into the
earth after the commodity. It
seems well nigh impossible to find
any appliances that will insure
safety to the man who follows the
life of a coal miner.
The chief event of national in
terest during the past week was
the return of President Taft to
Washington last Wednesday
night when he completed his 13,-n-mile
tour of the country,
which consumed eight weeks and
took him through mobt of the
states and territories. In Wil
mington Tuesday of Ust wet k he
was greeted by thousands of Tar
Heels who gave him a reception
typical of t he State. An old time
southern breakfast was served at
the colonial home of Mr. James
Sprunt, at which the formal wel
come to the city was extended by
Mayor M"Rae. The President
made a happy resign? declaring
that he had gotten the tar on his
heels and it will not come off.
Governor Kitchin welcomed the
nation's chief executive to the
state, declaring that the state
has not had in its midst a greater
man. The day's events included
a trip down the river on the reve
nue cutter Seminole. In his ad
dress Mr. Taft took occasion to
emphasize the importance of con
serving the resources of our
forests. The president has been
so much on the go of late that it
was not until Monday of this
week that he issued the custom
ary Thanksgiving proclamation.
He attended the installment of
the new president of Harvard
last week and received the de
gree of U L. D. He will make a
trip to Norfolk on Friday to
speak at the convention of the
Atlantic Deep Waterways Asso
ciation. Football claimed yet another
victim Sunday in the person of
Archer Christian, a student of
the University of Virginia, who
died as the result of injuries re-
teived in a game with George-
town University Saturday. As a
consequence the University ofi
v irgmia has cancelled all games
scheduled for the season, includ
ing the great irgima-Carouna 1
event that was to have been pull- j The reraaiue of young Mr. UUe,
edoff at Richmond Thanksgiving. aged 22 jeara, son of Mr. Wui.
Georgetown University has LUUs of HjU Mergu, wera
followed suit. In spite of the brought io from Ucwiwbora Sat
annual protest of college authori-1 urdaj evtuiog. Tb t uuer&l a
tie that there is the minimum of ooad acted Saodsy tfuraooa by
danger in football, the game con-' Hv. J. ML. Uibbs at tb home
tinuea to exact U toll oi lives of j d the iotemeut made at the
college and university students, oameiery. Mi. 11 alee wa a higb
Perhaps, after alL Editor John-jtoued Chrietiea genttemaa aad
son of Charity and Children, was testified to feU father, wkile Ungei
not far wrong when he declared iog l deata'e door, that he wa
in a recent issue of his paper that prepared to meet hi UxL
Americans love to fcee football
games "tor the same reason that
gapir.g crowd surge around a
bull pen in Spain."
That betting is a crime only
Vk hen accompanied by a record or
registry or the use of sme part
of the peraphernalia of profes
sional gambler is the effect of a
decision of the highest court of
New York state handed down
last week, when two men charged
with orally laying and publishing
odds on horse races ana accepting
no crime. iovernor uuarnes caq
s- If . ..I I J
distinguished himself by his fight
against gambling at tne norse
races in his state, and through
his efforts a bill was put through
the lesrislature to prohibit it.
"PL L.I 1
ice iujjja.cr
evaded the
law and continued their ne
farious practices by substituting
oral betting for the registry sys
tem. The court s decision up
holds them. It thus virtually set
at naught, as we see it, the work
of Governor Hughes for reform,
which had the endorsement of
the ministers and reform leaders.
The first visit of a body of sail
ors to Jtaleigh was seen last Sat
urday when 500 bluejackets from
the receiving ship Franklin at
Norfolk came for the dual pur
pose of cheering on the sailors,
football team in a game with te
A. & M. team and honoring the
memory of Ensign Worth Bagley,
the naval officer who lost his life
in the Spanish-American war and
to whose memory a bronze statue
was erected on Capital square in
VJfl and dedicated in May of
that year. The scene Saturday
was an impressive one. 1 he ex
ercises followed a parade through
the principal streets of the city
and h us tnds cheered the s iilors.
A magnificent wreath of roses,
chrysanthemums and carnations
was laid at the foot of the monu
ment by the wife of Lieut. Com
mander F. L Chadwick.
Significant as showing that
mob violence is not confined to
the Sonth as certain influences at
Washington and in the North
would have the world believe, a
mob at Cairo, 111 , lud Thursday,
after a long and exciting chase,
found tho sheriff and his deputy,
who had charge of a negro who
was charged with having mur
dered a white girl, overpowered
them, took their prisoner to the
city, hung him up by the neck to
a public arch, and after riddling
his body with 500 bullets, took it
to the spot where the crime was
committed and burned it. An
other negro who was implicated
in the crime was chased bul the
sheriiff succeeded in escaping
with him to a place of safety.
Negro lynchings are just as fre
quent in the North as in any oth
er section of the country.
I.ast Saturday the final scene
was enacted in a court case in
Paris that has attracted world
wide interest and which has
furnished food for the consump
tion of the French lovers of so
cial filth for quite a while. On
that day Mademoiselle Steinheil
was acquitted of the charge of
murdering her husband and step
mother. This was not the first
trial of the case. The theory of
the state was that she deliberate-
ly murdered her husband in order
to marry the wealthy and mfatu-
ate 1 Maurice Borderel ; and that
the killing of her stepmother was
unpremeditated. The murder
was surrounded by very myster-
ions circumstances,
Death oi Mr. Halts
Cumbeiland County
Teachers Organize
i
first Sess'oa cl the Atsociitioa Sit'
urday Addressed by Or. W. 5.
Rank-Prof Wootea, of Rit
trd, President. j
In th courthouse Saturday af
ter the Cumberland County Anti
Tuberculosis Society had effected
its organization the teachers who
were present organized them
selves into the Cumberland
County Teachers' Association.
The following officers were
elected: Prof. M. H. Wotn,
Raeford. President; Miss Henri
etta Holmes, Fayetteville. Ii. 2,
Secretary. A Vice-President was
electedfor each township as fol
lows: Black PJver, Prof. Clegg;
Fiea Hill. Miss Henrietta Holmes;
Cedar Creek, Miss Care? Sutton;
Beaver Dam, Miss Mary Mc
Lauchlin; Gray' Creek, Prof.
Guy Cox; Rockfish, Prof. M.
.Huer; Seventy-First. Miss May
Anderson; Little River. Miss
Florence Buchan; Quewhiffle,
Miss lieatrtee Raynor; Car
ver's Creek, Miss Eva Hay;
Pearce's Mill, G. G. Page.
The president elect assumed
charge and adjourned the meet
ing from 2 to 3 o clock.
At three o clock the association
was called to order by Professor
Wooten.
Dr. Watson S Rankin, of Ral
eigh, Secretary of the State Board
of Health, then addressed the
teachers for about thirty minutes
on the sanitary and hygienic pha
ses of teaching. His address was
one of great interest and infor
mation. The consideration of a pro
gramme for the next meeting
was then taken up and a very
interestingioutline adopted. The
reporter was not furnished with
a copy of the programme and is
unable to publish it, so we trust
that the secretary will notify
each participant of the duty he
or she is expected to perform.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing G. G. Page was appointed
Press Reporter.
We trust that every teacher in
the county will attend the next
meeting, which will be held at
the court house the first Saturday
in December at 11 a. m.
Fellow teachers, these meet
ings are for our mutual benefit -to
better e iu p ourselves for solv
ing the problems that daily con
front each of us in the school
room. Probably one teacher has
fount a way to solve a problem
of curriculum or discipline that
to some other seems almost in
soluble, and vice versa. And by
meeting and discussing these
difficulties in an informal way,
exchanging any ideas and views,
relating to each other our suc
cessful experiences in dealing
with pedagogical problems in
a heart-to-heart way, which we
hope will characterize our every
meeting, we may all be richly
blessed.
We are sorry to note that none
of the teachers of the city graded
school took part in the organiza
tion. G. G. Page,
Press Reporter.
RIAL CSTATt TRANSFERS
OnmiiiWHl weekly for Th locfci by
MacKelhao Htutl KsUte Loond Trust
Co.. . R. MacKethaa, Alt'i
$3,000 Harmon Pate to Alton
Spears, 100 acres Seventy-First.
$1,900 J. J. Wade et ux. to
W. J. Olive. Ill acres Black Riv
er. $1,750 Holland Pate to Charles
Pate, lOlj acres Seventy-First
$1,000 A. C. Bethune et ux.
to J. A. Green, 408 acres Que
whiffle, 0 J. C. Lee to Mary C.
Surles. 41 acres Seventy-First,
i $10 Robert Cook et ux. to R.
T. Beasley, 62 acres Seventy
First. $100 James A. Nunnery et ux.
I to Sarah N. Carter, 5 acres Cedar
$200 Z. B. Newton et ux. to
J. C. Lee, 52 acres Rockfish,
$201 I. B. Maness et ux. to
J. C. Lee, 52 acres Rockfish.
$120 John W. Moore et ux. to
a W. Seate, 3 lots, Raeford
$122 John W. Moore et ux to
J. V. Johnson, 3 lots Raeford.
$125 Rbert Graham et ux. to
Walter Robertson, 40 acres Bea
ver Dam.
Robeson County
Hews of a Veek
Cnmioal Court Proceedings The
Ccuntt's Tittbfe Property Cdv
dtional Rilli it Pembroke
Wreck on 5. A. L
Ctjrrtwpundetioe of Tt lui
The most interesting general
news of Robeson county for the
past week is court news and the
court news that concerns perhaps
most people is in the fact that
the grand jury has found true
bills against about 4' JO persons
for failure to list their polls. The
grand jury last week returned a
true bill against one of its mem
bers, A. H. Prevatt, of Raft
Swamp township, for illicit dis
tilling and the solicitor filed a bill
of jvlk tment against him. This
is said to be the first case of the
kind on record in this county. He
was placed under bond of $200.
Albert Bruce, of the same town
ship, was placed under similar
bond, charged with a like offense.
The court is now in the midt of
the second week of the term,
Judge Lyon, of Elizabethtown,
presiding and Solictitor Sinclair,
of Fayetieville, representing the
state. Two young Croatans, B033
Locklear and Willie Brooks, were
put on trial Friday afternoon for
the murder of rsoian tfryant,
another young Croatan, at Pem
broke last August After the
evidence was heard Saturday the
attorneys for both side9 agreed
to a verdict of manslaughter.
The judge ha3 not yet passed
sentence. Henry Davis, colored,
charged with burglorizing the
residence of Policeman Dixon at
Pembroke lecently, submitted to
burglary in the second degree
and entered a tlea of imbecility.
Sentence has not been passed.
I He was shot and wounded by
'Mr. Dixon before he could get
away from the latters s residence,
'A true bill has been returned
'against Rafe Graham, Will
I Brown. Sam Malloy and Press
Wade, negroes, for the murder
' of William Ross, colored, whose
i body was found beside the Sea
'board track near Maxton August
1st. This case is set for ed
.nesday. Against V. D. Prevatt,
J keeper of the chain gang, a true
'till uni rotnrroA fur rr&lfpa.
sance, he having been found in
toxicated when the grand jury
visited the gang. A bill of in
'dictment has been brought
against him by the solicitor.
i The total value of real estate in
Robeson county, listed and unlis
ted. is $6,t;Dt),8!0 as against $6,
728.JKMJ last year; the value of
personal property is $3,910,482
as compared with $3,818,274 last
year; railroads, telegraph and
telephone lines and all other nut
lie corporations $3,245, 215 against
$3, (Mi, 503 last year. These fig
ures are given in the report of
County Auditor Abner Nash to
State Auditor B. F. Dixon, just
filed The total value of all tax
.able property in the county is
' given as $14,328,078 as compared
with $14,243,773 last year.
I The educational rally at Pem
, broke Saturday made it a big day
'for the Croatans. About 500
I were present. Addresses were
made by State Auditor Dixon.
Ex-Sheriff G. B. McLeod and
Prof. J. A. Bivens, State Super
intendent of the State Croatan
and Colored Normal Schools. A
big dinner was sarved. Most of
the $8,000 necessary to finish
paying for the new building of
' the State Croatan Normal School
was raised and the building will
jbe turned over to the trustees in
! a few days. Splendid music was
.furnished by the Croatan brass
' band. Prof. II. L. Edans is prin
cipal of the school and Miss Belle
Armstrong, of P e n n s y 1 v a u i a
assistant
A freight engine smashed into
! the rear end oi a special train at
Armour on the Seaboard be
tween here and Wilmington Tues
day night and injured a number
of persons of the train load whf
were returning from the Taft Day
event in Wilmington.
Lumberton, N. C. Nov 15
Mr. Bryant, wife of Mr H ram
Brj ant, died lat week at theti
home ia Bwver Dva towaship.
She wee about 9 yera of age
Hei huebaad ie 91. They had
been married 65 years-
Deoeased ia mmved by the fol
lowing ohildrea: Mr. G. F. Bryan,
Miee Susau Bryant and Mrs. D
vid Strioklaai.
Miss Jennie Godwin Leads;
Miss Katie
Cumberland to Fight
Great white Plague
AnSi lubtrculoiis Society Organized
it ia Latbusiastic meeting ot Kep
resentativc CUntas from All Parts
ot the County Saturday.
As affecting the physicial well-
being of the people of Cumber
land county, of present and fu
ture generations, no meeting of
greater importance, perhaps, was
ever held than that in which a
hundred or more citizens, includ
ing men and women and many
of the piblic school teachers,
gathered from all mparts of the
county last Saturday to perfect
the organization of the Cumber
land County Anti-Tuberculosis
Society, and thus launch an orga
nized movement tohght tneGreat
White Plague in this section. The
meeting was an enthusiastic one
and the organization starts out
with encouraging prospects for
a large measure of success in its
humane and laudable undertak
ing
Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of
the State Board of Health, was
present and delivered an en
thusiastic and inspiring address
on "Cost, Cause and Cure for
Consumption. His presence
contributed much to the success
of the meeting.
The following officers were
elected: John A. Oates, presi
dent; Dr, J. F. Highsmith. secre
tary and treasurer; directors,
John A. Oates, Dr. J. F. High
smith, Prof. B. T. McBryde,
county auperintendent of educa
tion; Rev. J. J. Hall, D. D., J. M.
Iamb of this city. Prof. M. H.
Wooten, Raeford; Prof. W. A.
Nicholson, Manchester; Mr. M.
A. Patterson, Tiroberland; Dr.
K. G. Averitt, Cedar Creek; J.
H. Rogers. Hope Mills; Miss
Henrietta Holmes and Miss Mary
McArthur, Fayetteville.
The negroos also organized.
Their directors will work through
the white organization.
To the leaders in the movement
locally it was very gratifying to
see so many of the teaches pres
ent and taking such an interest
in the work the movement seeks
to accomplish. The society is to
be congratulated upon its selec
tion of a board of directors.
IN CUMBERLAND AND ROBESON
Farmers Meetings to Be Held in
Two Counties, Beginning Novem
ber 29 at Cedar Creek.
At five points in Cumberland
and five in Robeson Farmers
Meetings will be held, beginning
at Cedar Creek Monday, Nov. 29
and ending at Fairmont Friday,
Dec, 3. Hon. H. L. Godwin has
sent out circular letters to the
newspapers and to hundreds of
citizens in the two counties, an
nouncing the meetings and urg
iug the people to be present. He
will address these meetings, as
will also Mr. J. O. Wright of the
U. S. Drainage office and Mr. J.
P. Campball, Field Agent of the
Farmers' Co-operative Demon
stration Work of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. Mr.
Godwin says Mr. Wright is the
best drainage man he ever heard,
and Mr. Campbell is not the sec
ond of any stump speaker. It is
to be hoped that very many of
the farmers of the two counties
will avail themselves of the op
portunity to hear these able men
on subjects of vital importance.
The meetings will be held as
follows:
I Cedar Creek, Monday, Nov. 29,
! 11 a. m.
Stedman, Monday, Nov. 29, 7
'p. m.
Eastover. Tuesday, Nov. 30. 11
'tope Mills. Tuesday Nov. 29. 7
, . m.
i Raeford, Wednesday. Dec. 1,11
a. ra.
Lumber Bridge. Wednesday,
Dec 1. 7 p. m.
St. Pauls, Thursday, Dec. 2, U
a. m.
Howellsviile, Thursday, Dec. 2,
7 p.m.
Back Swamp school house, Fri
day, Dec. 3, 11 a. m.
Fairmont, Friday, Dec. 3, 7 p.m.
Bullard Second
Biggest Week in
Popularity Contest
Over 600,000 Votes Cast During
the Put Seven Dais Two
Contestants Now Have Over
200,000 tacb Several Others
Have Tremendous Numbers
Plenty oi Territory Yet Un
Worked Piano and Desk on
Exhibition.
With 224,375 votes to her cred
it, Miss Jennie Godwin, of Fay
etteville, R.F.D.2. stands in the
lead today in Tii Index Big Pop
ularity Contest, at the close of
which, on December the 10th,
at 2 P. M.. The Fayettevilue
Index will award a handsome
and beautiful $300.00 Kimball
piano to the lady in Cumberland,
Robeson, Bladen, Sampson or
Harnett county having the high
est number of popular votes, and,
in addition thereto, an eleirant
and dainty writing desk to the
lady in each and every one of the
districts into which our territory
has been divided for the contest
(as described below) having the
highest number of votes.
Miss Katie Bullard, of Fayette
ville, has gone up second place
and has 202,875 votes to her
credit Miss Ida McKeithan, of
Fayetteville, R. F. D. 3, holds
third place and Miss Swannie
Haire, of Gray's Creek, fourth.
Things have been getting topsy
turvy again and look quite dif
ferent from what they were a
week ago. Another week may
show more surprising changes
oi position.
Over 600,000 votes have been
cast in the contest in the past
week. Somebody has been at
work. And it is now clearly evi
dent that it is going to take hust
ling to win that piano. And the
desks too are more than apt to
go to seven hustlers, They are
certainly worth hustling for. If
vou have seen one of them you
know it. Some of those in the.
contest already know it.
The campaign is now mors than
lively; it is terrific. It is without
doubt the liveliest and the livest
thing of the kind that ever struck
this section. It promises to be
come much warmer before it is
over.
A word to the reader: Don't
wait for some one to come to see
you and ask you to vote for her.
Just read over the list below and,
if your subscription is about out,
send along your renewal and the
name of :he girl or woman to
whom you wish the votes credit
ed. If you happen not to be a
subscriber to The Index, just
send along your dollar today and
have the thousand votes credited
to your favorite. Today is when
she needs your help.
A tip to contestants: Sections
of our territory have been pretty
thoroughly worked, but there is
plenty of ground vet that has
J been almost untouched, so far as
this contest is concerned. Let
Jus help you by putting you "next
, to it." Here is some fine terri
j tory for you: Black River. Carv
iers Creek, Little River. Quewhif
fle and Rockfish townships in
Cumberland county; the St. Pauls
section in Robeson, the Elizebeth
town section in Bladen, the Salem
burg section in Sampson and al -most
any part of Harnett except
the Lillington section. We have
a long list of subscribers in the
sectiors named, but they have not
.been at all thoroughly worked
daring this contest And there
are other places perhaps just as
good.
IWt get It in your head that
. the piano or the desks we are go
ing to give away are second class.
Com and examine them for
yourself.
The piano is on exhibition at
the music house of W. F. Blount
nere on Hay street, between the
depot and the market house, and
Mr. Blount will be rUd
j you the instrument and answer
any question you wish to ask.
The piano is a beautiful instru
ment right from the factory at
Chicago, ordered especially for
this contest. Hundreds of these
CONTIXT'En ON FOUITH PAGSj