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vol cxix. : fditorV- BRIEFS to be major Wilmington? HryiQ aayi he can't be read out of tie Democratic party. Well, it cer- uislX doesn't seem so. j - If all the convicts Governor Kltcbin pardoned support bim for Sen ior be wl" b hard 10 beat Eren Simmona with his band of red-hlrterg will find it hard to com m with Kltchin'a ex-convxlct forces. Cotton la selling cheaper than at tiij teason last year, and aUll the cot ton milU are closing dawn. Wonder trhy? Bryan says be will not run for the presidency again unless he changes tii mind. But there la no law to keep him from changing hla mind. An exchange says it is wrong for a man to retire at sixty. - See no rea son why a man should sit up ail night jaat because he happens to be sixty. The Democrats have taken the ta riff off political lemons and are now banding them to each other free of charge. Governor Woodrow Wilson says the American farmer is behind the times. That is iust the predicament in which Wilson will find himself In November, 1912. The Durham Herald thinks the Democratic party needs to win the confidence of the people. But how an it? As the Democrats have raised the tax valuation of property about $75, 000,000 in this State, they should now lower the tax rate but will they do it? The Durham Herald says this seems to be the day of party irregularity in North Carolina. Erery day is the day of party irregularity in the Dem ocratic ranks. And it seems that a Visiting States man also had business in Raleigh when the carpet bag bond deal was put through and he wasn't .a Re publican either. The State has been running in debt about $250,000 a year for the past few years. At that rate, how long will it take the Democrats to bank rupt the State? There is not as much "hypocrisy" ia the statement that a protective ta riff benefits the farmer as there is in Governor Kitchin's position on the State's anti-txust law. A correspondent of the Charlotte Observer terms Simmons as a rank Republican. It would be bad enough to be inflicted with Simmons even Without the rank part. If the Democratic party is against Protection, why did Senator Simmons refuse to vote on the cotton sched ule, and, in fact, why did all of them fall off the platform? After Glenn has finished his en gagements in Maine he might return home and see If he can persuade the Democratic officials to enforce the Prohibition law in North Carolina. The Statesvllle Landmark says that tt anti-trust law in this State Is either ineffective or no effort has been ade to enforce it. The poor old toothless thing is down with both complaints. Nominate a Candidate. NOMINATION BLANK Good Jf or 1,00 Votes. THE. CAUCASIAN PRIZE AND POIULAR CONTEST. I nominate Address District No ; . ... ..... ........ .. .. Signed...... Address J cotJn?MLSn0 each, candidate will to settle tkeaty-5l king iowkr. , Supreme Court of United State to vm upon the QootUoncw! rmt uver fettiement of an Ital-I ian's Estate in California. ! Washington, D. C, Sept. 3. Oaei of the most serious attacks ever made upon the treaty-making power of the United States will mark the opening of the coming term of the Supreme Court of the United States next month. The Italian Government, through its Consul-General on the Pacific Coast, will argue that the United States possesses broad enough treaty making power to deal with the settle ment of estates of foreigners who die in this country without leaving wills. Public officials from California will contend that the Federal Government has no such power and will ask the court to do what it never yet has done, declare a treaty constitutional. More than twenty nations with treat ies similar to this one between the United States and Italy will await the decision of the court. In many re spects the question involved resem bles the Japanese school question in California, during the Rooserelt ad ministration, and it is said that the decision would control the latter question- should it arise again. Dies Interstate The case which the Supreme Court will be called upon to consider arose over the settlement of the estate of Guiseppe Ghio, an Italian, who died in San Joaquin County, California, without a will but with $1,064 in bank. Salvatore L. Rocco, Italian Consul-General in California, claimed the right to settle the estate. So did George P. Thompson, public adminis trator in San Joaquin County. The Supreme Court of California decided against the Italian official. A long array of counsel for the Italian cause has presented a brief of its argument. This brief points out that the present case was in liti gation in California about the time the Japanese school question was of paramount interest. PRESIDENT TAFT'S TOUR Will Start From Boston Sept 16 and Will Pass Through 24 States President Will Return to the White House November 1, After Haying Covered a Distance of 13,000 Miles Will Speak in More Than 100 Cities. Beverely, Mass., Sept. 5. The route along which President Taft ; will thread his way for 13,000 miles was definitely mapped to-day and the penciled line runs through twenty four States, while over one hundred cities are red dotted, showing pauses for speeches on tariff, reciprocity, ar bitration, conservation and Alaska. The President's trip will start from the South Station in Boston on Sep tember 15th and finish at Washing ton on November 1st in time to hear the verdict from some of the States in the election six days later. The President heads straight for Michigan, pausing only a day or two in New York and Pennsylvania. From Michigan, the route leads into Illi nois and then through Missouri, Kan sas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wy oming, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Ore gon, California, Montana, South Da kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and final- lv to Chicago, Pitsburg and Washing ton. In five States he makes no stops, The longest jump on the trip is 8S2 miles from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City. The President will sel dom go more than twenty or thirty miles without stopping to say a word either at some local hall or from the rear platform of his car. It is, therefore, expected that sev eral million persons will hear the President's voice, or at least catch a glimpse of the Presidential train. Raleigh has two moral scandals be ing aired In the courts at once while a place as wet as Richmond has only one. Albemarle Chronicle. . RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER. WAS THE BEST CROP EVER 1 SecreUtfy'Hester'a Statement of the 1910.1911 Cotton Crop in the U. S. ovm cimon c:iun ccop The Total Value of This Great South ern Prod act, Ineindiag the Seed, Having DffB $1,030,000,000 De tailed Statistics Issued Tuesday by the Secretary of the !few Orleans Exchange -drop Was Leas Than in 100S-1009, But Netted Mors Money Average Price Paid Farm er Was 11.60 Gents a Pound, New Orleans, La., Sept. 5. "No American crop ever grown has sold for as much as the one Just market ed, the total value, including the seed, having been $1,030,000,000. This remarkable statement is con tained in the detailed statistics of last season's cotton crop issued to-day by Col. Henry G. Hester, Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. With 1,700,000 bales less than was contained in the bumper crop of 1903 and 1909, the crop just marketed net ted the South $254,000,000 more. The 13,511,000-bale crop of 1906 1907 brought $222,000,000 less than the past season's crop. As a rule, the crop averaged within a shade of strict middling and the farmer was paid an average of 14.60 cents a pound. Regarding the consumption of cot ton, the report says: "In the United States the mills North and South have consumed near ly as much as last year, in addition to which they have imported the greatest quantity of foreign cotton ever brought to this country in any one season, amounting to an equiva lent, in this year's American weights, of 222,206 bales. Thus far the use of foreign cotton in this country is trifling compared with the total consumption, but its in crease is significant. - 'A continued interesting feature i the widening of differences between the quantity of American cotton con sumed North and South, the excess of the latter having increased this sea son 103,000 bales, the total excess now amounting to 270,000 bales. Concerning the North, a heavy cur tailment of production was quite gen eral during the last months of the season. "The situation recently has im proved and there is an underlying im pression matters will re-adjust them selves on a more satisfactory basis in the near future." Secretary Hester puts the crop of 1910-11 at 12,120,095 bales, an in crease over that of 199-10 of 1,510, 427. The increase in Texas over last year was in round figures 582,000 bales in the group of "other gulf States," embracing Louisiana, Missis sippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, Arizona, California and New Mexico, It was 704,000 and in the group of Atlantic States, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, and Virginia 224,000. Mr. Hester's report of the crop by the different States is given as follows in thousands of bales: Alabama 1209, against 1,078 last year; Arkansas 846, against 718 last year; Georgia 1,853, against 1,927 last year; Louisiana 273, against 282 last year; Oklahoma 924, against 566 hast year; Mississippi 1,239, against 1,121 last year; North Carolina 794, against 676 last year; South Caro lina 1,231, against 1,184 last year; Tennessee 424, against 316 last year; Texas 3,259, against 2,676 last year. Total crop, bales 12,120, against 10,- 610 last year. The consumption of American cot ton of all kinds he puts at 4,678,C0C bales, against 4,665,000 last year. He puts the world's consumption of American cotton at 12,034,000 bales, an increase over lost year of 260,000. ' In the South, Mr. Hester makes the consumption 22,313 over last year and 196,257 under the year before last. Noel Woman Gets Five-Year Sentence for Aiding in White Slave Traffic. ' Salisbury, N. C, SeuL 2. Five years In the State Penitentiary was the sentence passed this evening by Judge Daniels on Mrs. Janie Noel, of Lexington,, convicted here yesterday in Rowan - Superior Court, for the abduction of Clara Bell (Gibbs), also of Lexington. - The husband, Ben, was given fif teen years for the same offense, and the couple will go to the State Prison together. The trial attracted wide attention on account of the white slave traffic sTAmitiit oil mrsT fasses. Went Out of fUUtoare Ttutrvday at Far as lis Pmt Vmm and IVno Uomm Are OottiidmL. New York, As. J I. The Su&danl Oil Comp&ay of New Jersey, lbs cor poration which has ba the ttora center of anti-trust agitation through out the country for yean, to-day pass ed out of existence, so far as lu pres ent form and functions are consider ed. After to-day this' famous corpora tion ceases officially to carry on its operations as the head of a vast or ganization whose activities extend in to almost exery part of the world. In obedience to the decree of dis-i iary concerns, and to-day was the! date set for the ending of the old! regime. With the end of the business! day the company's transfer books containing the list of stockholders, closed and the stock of its subsidi aries will be distributed among the stockholders In the parent organiza tion aa on record at that time. The work of apportioning the com pany's holdings of the stock of more than thirty subsidarles affected will occupy at least three months, It is ex pected, so that the re-adjustment will be complete prior to December 1st. GIANT UTAH ADDED TO AMEUI-I Get a club of five subscriptions, old CAX XAVY. (or new, or its equivalent. Get as . j many of these clubs as you can be The Greatest Battleship in the World! fore September 6th. Put forth your Carries Complement of 1,100 and! best efforts now if you are determined Enormous 1 latteries. j to be one of the winners. If you . , , . iL have not started to work in the con- A powerful addition to the navy K r u .m of the United States was made when the new battleship Utah was turned over to the Government at Philadel phia and ordered to proceed to Hamp ton Roads for duty. This great sea fighter Is of the super-dreadnought class, and bears enormous batteries of 10, 12, and 13 inch guns. She will carry 1,100 of ficers and men. Capt W. S. Benson will command her. The Utah is equipped with oil burn ers, to be used when coal runs out or when more advantageous under bat tle conditions to -void smoke. TO BOUNCE THE MAYOR Wilmingtonians hold a turbu lent Mass Meeting anri Vote for the Recall Want the City Council men Removed Along With the Mayor Mayor and the Superintendent of Health Placed Under Arrest and Required to Give Bond. Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 1. Charged with maintaining a nuisance in the form of an obstructed sewer, known as "Jacob's Run," passing through the down-town district of this city. Mayor Joseph D. Smith and Dr. Charles T. Nesbitt, Superinten- of Health, were arrested at 3 o'clock this afternoon and taken before Jus tice Bornemann, who issued the war rants, where they gave bond in the sum of 1 100 each for appearance at trial next Tuesday at 12 o'clock. The warrant was sworn out by J. C. King, proprietor of a pressing club on North Third Street, near the court-house, and only a few feet from the point where "Jacob's Run" over flows during every rain, discharging a mass of filth on the sidewalk in front of his place. This condition has been especially noticeable during the past few months and recently complaint was made to the City Coun cil, a commute being appointed to make investigation and report. As no action was taken, the warrant fol lowed A Turbulent Mass Meeting. Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 5. At a turbulent mass meeting in the court house to-night seven or eight hundred citizens, dissatisfied with a sanitary privy recently adopted by the city, voted almost unanimously fo rthe im mediate recall of the mayor and all the councilmen. Petitions will be prepared and circulated to-morrow. Action to-night followed two con ferences during the day with the council in special session. A com mittee of citizens demanded the re- peal of the ordinance. The council consented to suspend operation of the measure for a few days and possibly longer, but this did not satisfy, and decision to ask for recall was asked. to-night. Benson Kan Fatally Hart by Fall Benson,- N. C, August 31. Jim Smith, a white man, aged about fifty five years, fell from the third story of the J. W. Wood ginnery yesterday. and was fatally hurt, his left arm be ing broken and a large wound inflict' ed on his head. Physicians say he would have been killed instantly had he not been drunk. 7. 1911. So ESSQA TO1ES Jtc? Every Qzb cl Five tzr tt3 Gill c!9P. a 75,0 Cczza VcCsj 17111 Cz fcszsMo c:l Fcfl -To Sszne il! Lees! Ozz ol hz Ttzzz Qx Bret hr lit Prfcti b 13 E-xdlj Ctcn tzr Tctt3 czd ctt Ycr Orst Citb T-j U Yea Ucrt i tUH3 Hrs- This is "Opportunity Week." This means opportunity week for yoa. be cause the opportunity is now afforded you to get in the lead "with one fell swoop. You can do this by taking advantage of the 75.000 bonus offer. For every club of five yearly sub scriptions sent to The Caucasian office before Wednesday, September th, at 9 p. m., 75,000 bonus votes In addi tion to the regular scale of votes will ! be Issued. be to you like the proverbial word to the wise, sufficient. As the' patois of the baseball fans has it, "Get busy." Opportunity nocking Nok. if you are still hesitating about entertalng the contest and entering to work with the "sticktoltifeness" that Is characteristic of North Caro linians, remember opportunity is knocking now, a whole week of op portunities. A club of five yearly subscriptions will entitle you to about a hundred thousand votes and put you among the leaders at once. Use the Form Letters. Write to or see tve friends to-day. Explain to each how important It Is that you get a subscription from him to help make up your club of five. Let It be known that you are in the con test to win and that you Intend to keep after your friends until each has done his share in your campaign. Get some of our form letters and send them broadcast among your acquaint ances. You will be agreeably sur prised with the result. As soon as it appears that you are likely to be one of the winners, everybody will be anxious to help. It is typical of hu man nature that we all like to be with the winner, and. If possible, have some part, however small, in the win ning. This is very probably the "ral- son d'etre" for the baseball fan. Save the Coupons. Have your friends clip out and save the coupon printed each week In The Caucasian. Tell your friends that It is not advisable for them to send the coupons either to you or to The Caucasian office until they have secured a number of them. This In order to avoid an unnecessary ex pense of postage. The voting limit next week will be raised to When vote ballots are issued on subscriptions they are not published until the contestant to whom they are issue returns th ear-to The Caucasian office, thereby Implying a request that they be published. To Outside Candidates. You have until 9 o'clock Wednes day night to mall In your subscrip tions so that they will count on the Opportunity Week" offer. Any letter mailed before 9 p. m. will count. Ask your postmaster when ho changes his date stamp, then bo sure you get your letter In on time. Four Districts. , The piano will bo given to the young lady securing the largest vote in the entire territory, but in order to equalize the chances of the several candidates for the eight remaining prizes, the territory has been divided CUT THIS OUT. The Caucasian Prize Voting Contest ioovotes Candidate .... Address ....... District No. .This coupon, when neatly trimmed out. name and address, prop erty filled in brought or cent to the Contest Department of ths Can cta'sn; will count for ICO rotes. The first one of these eocpess received for any yessj xrUl place her in nomination, and will count for LCC3 rotcx This cccpcn cot good after September lSth. No. 05 S:: rVH i M , into four districts. A dliraoftl rU and a- gold watch wttl bo glTta U each of these district. District Ko t wtS coa$ri WaJta County, Including the city of IUUlX District Xo a will cosprUe Har nett, Sampson Johnston, Wilson and Wayne Counties. District Ko. S will co a prise Chat ham, Durham. Gran villa. Franklin and Nash Counties. District No, 4 will comprise all that territory in which The Caucasian ctr culates which is not included In tho three other districts. Who May Eater. This contest it open to all ronns ladies, either single or married, who lire In the territory In which The Caucasian circulates. It is not even necessary that you be a snbterlbtr to The Caucasian. - THE CONTEST MANAGER WILL BE AT THE CAUCASIAN OFFICE. IN THE ELKS' BUILDING ON WED NESDAY AND SATURDAY EVEN INGS FROM 3 UNTIL t O'CLOCK. COME IN AND GET ACQUAINTED. DISTRICT No. 1. Raleigh, Votes. Miss Daisy Stevens, R. 3.... 4,100 Miss Alice Banks. R. 3 15,000 Miss Rebecca Stephenson, R4 24,000 Miss Nannie Banks, R. 5,000 Miss Allie Sorrel, R. 1,109 Miss Ethel Sorrell. R. 6 2,100 Miss Annie Cummings ...... 8.400 Miss Ruby Hnnnlcutt, R. 2... 7,400 Miss Mary A. Reddish, R. 1.. 1,000 Miss Angellne Williamson. . . . .600 Wake Forest. Miss Levins Elsie Man gum, R. 1 . 32,000 Miss Hattie Watklns, R. 3. . . . 1,00 Miss Pearl ScarboroughIt. 1. 1,000 Miss Mamie Duke, R. 3 8.400 Miss Rebecca Patterson, R. 1. 1,000 Wendell. Miss Katie Chrlstman 20.000 Miss Mattle Rhodes 2,400 Walthal. Miss Eva Wilburn ......... 18.000 Roger? Store. Miss Mscie Ray 1,000 Miss Esther Bailey 1,000 Miss Callle Nipper 1,000 Miss Iva Thompson . 1,000 Miss Lottie Arnold 8,700 UcOnllers. Miss Sallie Gill 2,200 Miss Clyde Overby 1,000 Miss Mary Taylor, It. 1 1,000 Hotly Spria-s. Miss Thelma Weatherspoon. . . 1,400 Miss Mary Adams, R. 2 2,500 Miss Madeline Fuquay 2,500 Fuquay Springs. ' Miss Ellen Jones 1,000 Miss Anna Lee Ragsdale .... 1,700 Miss Lunary Myatt 1,000 Miss Ruth Jones 1,000 Oar. Miss Rubye Sorrell, R. 1..... 22,100 Miss Mary Woodward, R. 2. . 1,000 Miss Flossie Atkins, R. 2.... 1,800 Miss Lula Marcoxn. R. 2..... 20,200 Miss Lenna Mathews, H. 1. . .3C.S00 Miss Vela King, R. 1 ....... . 1.000 Cardenas. Miss Bessie Howard 1,000 Miss Vada Sexton 6,00 Miss Ruth Johnson 1,000 Miss Bertie Estill. R. 1 ..... . 8,500 Willow Springs. Miss Mildred Dupree. . . .... .38,100 (Continued on page 6.)
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