Tho JlSationaC Dank 1 off GoWflboro Otter m to depositor every me ootuntodation mmte bank ing will warrant. QEO. A. NORWOOD, JR. Irt. . O. KORN EtlAVt OMfclW The National Dank of Goldbsoro Wantm your business aad will be glad to talk or cor- respond with yon. -' QEO. A. NORWOOD, JR.,Pret. M.J. BEST, Vice-P rest. WEEKLY "This Argus o'er the people's rights " Doth an eternal vigil keep; No soothing strains of Maia's son Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep." GOLDSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 3, 1909. NO. 37 VOL. XXIV GoHsboro'S Great Gala Day Coosiimmatecl ri,..iinili... v " 1 ", "" . "" - " ' , ,( , , , , - ' , - - J - 1 f - . v ' , , V - , - - , , - 'J ' -, .L 1 isli'f'w. - ' - . . frrtr -- - .3sJs5?-r-v - :- ' - kv?zr- - " ' - " ' . CHAIJr OF EVIDENCE PKODUCED IN MURDER TRIAL AT RALEIGH Three Young White Men Charged With Death of Dr. E. W. Smith, of : : Richmond. Raleigh, N. C, April 1. The fourth lay cf the Smith murder trial was taken up with important witnesses for the State today. Colored cook : talis of Smith enter ing Red , Light Cafe about dusk,- an 1 later the deffn.lant is seen putl.n.j man in carriage. Mrs. Smith identi fies watch andring of late husband. Winslow Keily tells of Hopkins com ing' to his cafe and getting a bottle cf chloroform. Negro cook said the de fendant Cotten gave him watch and ring to carry to Depot Belle, negress, to hide. watch and ring from. "Depot Belle." They were exMbitod in court. Chain of evident e is tigl tening. Tuesc4y Was Farmers' Day Goldsboro Thronged With the Best Yeomanry In the World. An Exhibition of Seed Corn That Would Do Credit To Any County of the Brag Corn States oj the West Distinguished Visitors Make tine Talks To Farmers. - Surely has there never before been dinner, when a blessing wiis af ked by such a gathering of Wayne county jliev. J. Gilmer Buskie, to t'ie linlxh, Lurmers for purely farm purposes as we have never seen a more orderly. assembled In this city Tuesday to par- good natured and highly senteel t.cipate in the seed-corn judging dem- Captaift Thompson got the uiistiation, under the auspices of the testis Carolina Agricultural Depart ment, and if there had heretofore ie n any doubt in the minds of Golds- ooi o basr ess n? -n that the farmers f Way ne county do not read The rsis surely that doubt vanished forever when" they beheld the great j Kalejh, N. C, March ,31. Aftnr I iui bb i,rt,. tiiiieii iu s-cui iiis a jury, I the trial cf three young white men E SUCH A POPULAR AND SPONTANEOUS DEMONSTRA TION NEVER BEFORE WITNESSED Procession of School Children More Than .a Mile Long, Headed By the Goldsboro Cornet Band: . Thous ands of Citizens Throng the Streets and Participate Joyously in the Open ing of the New Station. From Thursday's Daily. Well, really, now, what's the use of trying to tell everybc'. all about it, when everybody was there "to see," and everybody knows what a great day this has been in Goldsboro and for Goldsboro this First day of April, 1909. Goldsboro has done herself proud on many occasions always "sizes-up" creditably when incumbent public du ty requires; but today our people eclipsed all former popular demon strations, and from 11:30 to 12:3k o'clock there was such a tidal wave of civic enthusiasm- surging through our streets as to leave no uncertainty whatever as to the interest all classes of our citizens take in the new union passenger station and what it means for Goldsboro for the Greater Golds boro of the near future. Our own people had demonstrated to them today, in prideful panorama of living truth, in the long array of marching school children, two abreast and more than a mile in length, that we are a city in childhood popula tion alone, such as even the most op timistic of us had not so realized be fore. And that great army of chil dren mean the future of Goldsboro the manhood' and the womanhood who, coming up from our peerless city pub lic schools, make the Goldsboro of the future the Greater Goldsboro as sured. But why should we wait for their coming to maiv's estate to bare their arms in the effort for and the achieving of the Greater Goldsboro that we are so capable of creating in our own time and enjoying for our selves? Do we need further Object lesson than we had today? Let us from this day and date this First day of April, 1909 get together and pull' together and build and enjoy while we yet can that Greater Goldsboro that The Argus talks so much about. And we talk about it in all sincerity and faith faith in its realization; just -as we have talked about for years and had faith in the realization of the splendid Union Passenger Station in the formal opening of which today our - ' people so joyously and proudly par ticipated . by the thousands and the many thousands - Opportunities for "community devel opment for the achievement of Great er Goldsboro are at hand already and others even more inviting are trending hitherward. Shall we sit su pinely in the dwarfing shadow of miope selfishness and let the opportunities - at hand die and those that are to fol low pass us by, while "like children sitting in the market-place," apart, we pipe to on another, instead of getting together and getting busy. Let's re solve today now! and the tomorrow of Goldsboro will be the dawning of Greater Goldsboro. ' The demonstration today by our cit ' izens was a revelation to ourselves. we really did not know we were so many"; and what the visitors within our gates thought of us will be her alded broadcast in their , travels will be told of us to our credit wherever they journey and in the places of their abiding, for they ..will; not soon forget - nor cease to talk about the Imposing pageantry of popular demonstration - with which Goldsboro citizens cele brated the opening of their new 'Union Passenger Station the handsomest in in the State. Just before the hour for the arrival of the first incoming train, and when all the school children and citizens had gathered on the scene, Mr. Geo. C. Royall, president of the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce, on an impro vised rostrum, introduced Col. Jos. E Robinson, editor of The Argus, who in a brief but enthusiastic speech con gratulated his fellow citizens and the city on this auspicious occasion, and in closing presented the following pre amble and resolution, which was en thusiastically applauded and unani mously endorsed by the greatest con course of citizens ever before known in the history of the city: "The citizens of Goldsboro on this occasion of the opening of the new un ion passenger station, and after view ing the magnificent structure in all its symmetrical proportions and architec tural beauty, desire thus publicly to give expression to their appreciation of the unstinted liberality on the part of the executive heads of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern railways, in giving to Goldsboro so creditable, imposing and altogether delightful a station so thoroughly equipped as it is for the comfort and convenience of the traveling public. "Resolved, That a copy hereof be sent to the proper officials of the At lantic Coast Line and the Southern, and that our city papers be requested to publish the same. Mr. Royall next presented Mr. W. H Newell, superintendent of this divi sion of the Atlantic Coast Line, who i.iade . a most happy and impressive talk, that was generously and enthu siastically and frequently applauded. He expressed in graceful words bis appreciation of so great a popular demonstration, and in words of no un certain sound and carrying 4heir sin cerity to every hearer, he assured our people that the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern he spoke for both were onl beginning in the building of this station to do big things for Golds boro ; that they appreciate Goldsboro as giving promise of growing rapidly into a great city, and that the Coast Line and the Southern propose to help Goldsboro in everyway possible, fair and honorable. And then the train came rolling in amid the cheering multitude, the band playing "Dixie," and as the notes of this always wildly exhilarating tune ceased the school children raised that jolly song, "Ther's a good time com ing, Help it on, help it on,'' and. to which these original verses were add ed and sung: of its structure and proportions; but its chief beauty is In its interior fur nishings and conveniences. There is not a cheap feature nor a stinted con venience, nor a temporary make-shilt about it. Everything is substantial, spacious and desirable. " The floors are tile, the walls are cement, with bard finish and washable paint, the wood work is oak and so is the furniture, the lighting is accomplished by hand some electroliers and " the whole in terior is superb and artistically pro portioned, and while the separate apartments for the races are complete, there is no partiality shown in the provisions. - The baggage, express and mail rooms are ail spacious, convenient and separate, and the official apart ments are in the second story - and these, too, are complete and admira ble. All in all. we'v; ot a station worth the waiting for and to be proud of. V e go forward. EXCUSE OUR BLUSHES. From Thursday's Daily. Mr. Editor: At the opening up of the new union passenger depot today, while the assembled multitude, com posed of all conditions of society lis tened with rapt attention and viewed with civic pride the imposing struc ture that they had gathered together to christen, it was a sight to make the heart glad to see "Joe Robinson," as he is affectionately ltnown and called, standing up there on the temporary forum with outstretched palmsj and melodious voice, telling his audience of what the public and progressive spirited people have accomplished. It was there in all its grandeur as an object lessen. It was. the realization of what it cost Joe Robinson years of hard labor and continual agita tion to accomplish and it was meet that he should be present on such, an auspicious occasion and that his voice should be the first to be raised in pro claiming a full fruition of a hope long delayed. Nothing but the love which he has for his people, the pride which abides in his bosom for the proud rec ord which Goldsboro has made and the hope which he entertains for its fu ture, could have urged him on through all these years of ceaseless toil, when the - ship oftentimes seemed . nearing the breakers, to finally convince our people that he was right and that he knew their needs better than they. The crowd that went down to the depot to day were as much delighted to see and hear Col. Robinson as they were to view the magnificent structure, W. R. PHILLIPS. Goldsboro, N. C, April 1, 1909. - UNION STATION NOTES. The "Firsts" in Connection With the Opening of the New Station Toda y. On the first day of April the new station was occupied. The first to buy a ticket from the agent in the new union passenger sta tion today was Mr. J. C. Arrington, of Rocky Mount, the well-known trav eling man, and The Argus man as he witnessed it was told by Mr. Arring ton that on the "first day of April for ty four years ago he was captured and , held a prisoner of war for some weeks after the surrender of Lee, and that , he little' thought then that he would live to see his home again touch less to live so long and see such develop ment in the South as is characteristic today of the land he fought for so gal lantly." : - The first engineer to enter the new tation with the first ' regular passon- ger train today was Mr. John Donlan, formerly of Wilmington, now of Rocky Mount, and who, by the way, was a collegemate of theeditjtfii of The Argus in he years before either of us was twenty-one. The first engine was No. 267. The first conductor was that always observant, courteous and competent popular favorite, Capt. Edgar L. Hart, who seemed to be. just as happy over the new depot as any Goldsborean. The first Goldsboro citizens to buy tickets and ride on the first outgoing train were Messrs. E. B. Dewey, M. T. Dickinson and Col. A. C. Davis. And there you are. rl Cotton, Tim Holderfield. and concourse of Wayne county yeomanry Red" Hopkins, charged with the mur- who had gathered at the call of this der of Dr. E. W. Smith, of Richmond, paper, bringing corn with them, too Va., last November, was begun today, and such corn! Why, as a gentleman The State is endeavoring to show that who has traveled much and is conver the three men drugged Smith, while sant with farm life and farm prod he was on a spree, -and that he diedlucts in many states said, in viewing from the effects of a drug while ex- the long tables of corn; "that exhibit posed in the streets on that cold would do credit to any of the best night. Mr. W. W. Clark, of New Bern, re ceived a wire Tuesday while in Tar- and the corn shown here today is giv n up by the expert judges to be just jbod Grant, of New Hope, best met all inc fivtsv nn V.A finAn i li x I tha facta ans? tho rt Hl Aaa H.I frn boro to come at once to Washington, aa ao ""COL LUUS yiuving uiw D. C. The manv friends of Mr. Clark Wayne county aaks no odds of any cli- rick, of Grantham, came second. are pushing his candidacy as Federal mate' soil- or farmers-in the world." Mr. Grant was therefore awarded judge to succeed the late Judge T. R. rrom an eariynour inai morning tne m eoiu, wnicu wai Purnell deceased farmers from all sections of the coun-1 indeed a distinction to be proud of, for cy Degan to come in, ana so many were was mere noi an in:enor they in number that they far exceeded I Quality of seen corn in the entire great Mr. B. M. Lewis, of Farmville, has every expectation, and so many of display. been appointed county commissioner of Pitt county, to succeed A.' V. Long, deceased. The Cabinet 'Veneer Company open ed its new plant in Greenville Wednes day. A number of prominent business ually all exhibits were conveniently AMERICAN TROOPS LEAVE CUBA. The Republic of Cuba Is Now in Com plete Control of Island. Havana, March 31. The last em blem of American domination over Cuba disappeared at noon today, when the garrison flag at , Camp Columbia fluttered down' the pole and was re placed a moment later, by the lone star,cred banner of the Cuban Repub lie. The ceremony . attending the transfer of authority took place in the presence of the American garrison of Camp Columbia. - The transfer of the camp being thus completed, the Cuban troops lined the roadside and presented arms, while the Americans, numbering . about 800 in heavy marching order, swung past. proceeding to the transports Sumner and McClellan. The passage of the troops through the city did not at tract the least attention and not more than a dozen visitors at the arsenal witnessed the embarkation. There's a sound along the rail, Hear it hum! -Hear it hum! " JTis the train we've longed to hail Let her come! Let her come! We all join in jubilation At the opening of the Station We have won our town ha won, Yes, we've won, won, won! Now when we take a tour, As we do sometimes do, We won't need to be so sure . Of our coat an' overshoe ; ' We won't stand in mud and hello To each stray "and straggling fellow For his. dripping wet umbrella, For she'll do, do, do! As to the station, the illustration Pickets on Duty at Campus. I New York, April 1. The pickets of the striking students on Manhattan College were on duty " today on the campus.- Fully 95 per cent, of the students are on ;' strike and college work is stopped, "Wle are going Jto stay but until is reinstated, or Presi dent Peter quits," said one. ; . the State, as becomes The Best Town we here publish of it gives a fine view NEARBY NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. counties in the foremost corn-growing states of the Union." This is but an other evidence of the proud fact that North Carolina is equal to any call made upon her either in men or soil, rowd assembled. Indeed, from ftart to close The Argus is proud of our Wayno county farmers as they ap peared and conducted theniselves In the presence of our distinguished s itors today. In addition to the gentlemen above named as making talks, there are also here, demonstrating to the farmers in the seed corn tests, Messrs. C. B. Wil liams, of the experiment department, and J. S. Berges, of the soil test de partment. And also, as an encourag ing visitor, Mr. K. W. Barnes, of the State Agricultural Board. Prize Winner. After a careful and thoroughly dis criminating examination of every pile of corn, which proved most instruc tive and satisfactory, and which con sumed the entire afternoon unti'. sun set, it was found that the corn dis played by our good friend, Mr. Icha- them brought corn that the spacious. I Mr Grant said that his corn was , long table double sectioned into num-1 the same that he has been planting tous apartments sufficient each to I the same that he has been growing aold 30 jears of corn, was soon inad- I for tne Past nfty years. Good for old equate to the demand and additional I Wyne county. tables had to be provided; but event- STATE CORN CONTEST. men throughout the State are. inter- ested in this plant. The Maryland Dredging Company, of Baltimore, has purchased the dou ble boiler steam dredge that has been lying at Union Point for some time. New Bern will hold an election May 4, at Which time the question of a special criminal court will be acted upon. daeed and placarded with the name .f the farmer making it, and when I Wayne Connty Presents Fine Array of everything was in readiness; about 111 Boys Who Have Entered. o'clock, the great crowd were invited ito the Court House, where the meet- Fifty-six boys have to this dafe enr ing was called to order by Col. Jos. terea ror tbe btaVe Priz. In the corn- Robinson, chairman of the county growing contest, and we give here- board of education, who after congrat- I wim ineir names. ulating the great audience UDon such In addition to the State prize Golds i magnificent showing for Wayne Poro oners eual and more Prizes, ADAMS-BUTLER CASE. county, both as to the splendid corn exhibit and the representative outpour-1 ing of farmers, introduced Maj. W. A. Graham, State Commissioner of Agri culture, who was cordially received, Among these latter is the prize of $25 by The Argus to the winner of the county prize, provided he is a paid-up subscriber for one year to the Semi. Weekly Argus $1.00 and we have FUNERAL SERVICES OVER REMAINS OF MR. HINSON Last Tribute to Man Who Was Found . Dead Near Emporia. From Thursday's Daily: ; - The funeral services over the re mains of Moses B. Htnson, , who was found dead Wednesday morning at 73 mile crossing, ; near Emporia, Va., were held at his .late home, No. 607 East Elm street, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, ' conducted by Rev. E. H Davis. . . . His body arrived here on the Atlan tic Coast Line train at 3 p. m. The Junior drder attended the services in a" body. ' Interment" was made in Wil- lowdale Cemetery. - - ! and who for a half hour discoursed extended the time for these boys to Famous Criminal Libel Suit Now on m0st entertainingly, and instructively subscribe to July 1, so they will have nd encouragingly on the possibilities tlme to PIant their acre of corn and of North Carolina In corn growing. He then come in or send their subserip- is indeed a most enjoyable and intelli- tlon to tMs PPer. gent talker, and being himself a prac- ine iouowing is tne list to date: tical and successful farmer,: he speaks I Corn Contest, 1909. from experience that Is valuable, and I N. D. Blackman, Goldsboro, R. 4. we are sure his talk here today will I Tom W. Parker, Goldsboro, R. 4. prove of inestimable value .to the Frank Moore, Genoa. . farmers of Wayne county, resulting in I Paul Moore, Genoa. better work than ever before on their Earle W. Davis, Genoa, farms this year and bigger yields of Ezra A. Moore, Goldsboro. crops next fall than our county has Frank Edwards, Dudley, R. 2. ever known. Earle W. Pearson, Dudley, R. 2. Maj. Graham was followed by Dr. Berry -Crocker, Goldsboro, R. 4. D. H. Hill, president of the A. & M. I Bryan A. Jones, Mt. Olive. College, who from start to finish held Johnnie Westbrook, Mt. Olive, R. 5. the closest attention of his great audi- I Herbert Potts, Mt. Olive, R. 5. :nce, and so impressed and enthused I Roy E. Hatch, Mt. Olive, R. 5. were they at his words, at his philo- Dewey Smith, Mt. Olive, R. 5. sophical presentation of farm life, 1 Alvin Edwards, Goldsboro, R. 1. farm possibilities, farm influence on Henry C. Hollowell, Goldsboro, R. 1. character and destiny that we are sure Aaron Johnson, Goldsboro, R. 1. every farmer in his audience was Willie Spicer, Goldsboro, R. 1. grateful that he is at the head of the 1 Wilton R. Gurley, Goldsboro, R. 1. farmers school the A. & M. College I Wayne Mitchell, Goldsboro, R. 1. and gratified that their sons who at-1 W. Emmett Neal, Goldsboro, R. tend it have the privilege of sitting un- I Eddie Wiggs, Goldsboro. ier the Instruction of such a man. I Sam McCullen, Goldsboro, R. 4. Tie next speaker was Mr. T. B. Par- I H. B. Kennedy, Goldsboro, R. 4. ker, of the Agricultural Department, j James R. Britt, Goldsboro, R. 4. and our own countyman, whom every-1 Graham Hood, Goldsboro, R, 4. body here is proud of, and who is I Walter Hester, Goldsboro, R. 4. himself one of the best farmers in the I J. H. Hester, Goldsboro, R. 4. in Greensboro. Greensboro, N. C, March 31. All parties and, attorneys were present, in the. Superior Court, when at 9:45 o'clock Solicitor Jones Fuller in Guil ford Superior Court this morning call ed the case of State against Marion Butler and Lester F. Butler, under in dictment for alleged criminal libel of ex-Judge Spencer B. Adams. Sitting beside Judge Adams was Judge Weaver,, of Ohio, who was one of the three members of the Choctaw- Chickasaw Indian Claims Court, of which Judge Adams was chief justice. Another distinguished witness for Judge Adams was United States Dis trict -Attorney Walker, of Oklahoma, who, it is said, is slated for a United States Circuit judgeship. A prominent witness for the Butlers who was present is Mr. Murray, who was the president of the celebrated Oklahoma constitutional convention During the whole of the day the court room was crowded with inter ested spectators, witnesses and attor neys, the bar being completely over crowded with the latter. Every step of the way was fought by attorneys at oth sessions, the defendants' attor neys entering objections to almost Can't Write More Than - Annually. $150,000,000 JIM HANDLEY HELD UNDER BOND FOR COURT New York, April 1. Justice O'Gor- man, of the Supreme Court, today up held the constitutionality of the insur ance limitation act. ,The law says that no domestic life insurance com pany may write more than $150,000, 000 new insurance in any year. This applies to corporations engaged in or dinary, life insurance business. :No limitations, however, is placed on the amount of industrial- life insurance written in any one. year.. ;? .-, . , . . Charged With Retailing Withont Li- ' ; ; cense Trial Next Week. From Thursday's Daily,. Jim " Handley, who . was arrested Wednesday "on the charge of retailing without a license, was given a prelim inary : hearing this morning and held under a. $100 bond for his appearance 1. every question asked the witnesses by 1 ag nig fine arm ooa, Goldsboro, R. 4. 1 Judge Strudwick, who managed the examination. Many short and some long argu ments-were had between Strudwick and Justice on objections made by the latter to almost every effort of the State to: present testimony. river here proves. He talked more Paul Howell, Beasley, R. l. especially to the large class of boys Garvin Hood, Goldsboro, R. 4. of this county the fifty farmer boys Gurnie Edgerton, Kenly, R. 1. who have entered the State corn-1 Clarence Hooks, Fremont. growing contest,, and who were mostly Stephen Strickland, Fremont, R. 2. all present; yet every one present was Nathan Strickland, Fremont, R. 2. Hsonlv IntArpsterl in his demonstra- C. Rav Jones." Mt-' nit va i . i The prospects are that this one case f and soil cultare and lust Albert O. Holmes. Sevftn anL"'r 9 will take all the week. So far the . . . , . QQ wllOT, VloriVaT1v TrvnOQ 1, .' WUU1U UUL 1CL Ullli OWi a. mmm. vvuxkjp r-HI(V, had finished, which is the highest com- George E. Becton, Eureka. pliment that could have been paid his Cecil Hinnant, Fremont, R. 1. " splendid discourse, , especially since Bennie C. Herring, Goldsboro, R. 2. dinner had been announced. Andrew Parnell, Pikeville, R. 2. Dinner was next in order, served Ben R. Lewis, Pikeville, R. 2. free and abundantly, under the auspi-1 Albert J. Vail, Pikeville, R. 3. 1 ces of the Goldsboro Woman's C-lab JGrover Dees, Pikeville, R. 2. J) and they; were there, to serve It. too; Walter Dees, Pikeville, R. 1.'. " these glorious women of Goldsboro! Clenon Dees, Pikeville, R. U And they tired not and Ceased not Edgar Williams, Pikeville, R. 1. until every man and every child in the Redon Rowe, Goldsboro, R. 6. great gathering of near two thousand C. Frank Pate, Goldsboro, R. 6. naa oeen serveu unu Bervuu uuuit-ienv r. r, raxe, uoiasooro, It. 6 case, while hard fought, has develop ed no spirit of acrimony between the opposing attorneys. . . Hughes Now Democratic Whip. Washington, April 1. Representa tive Hughes has been appointed as sistant whip by the minority of the House,succeedIng Representative Con nel, of Massachusetts, who Is one of the 28 bolting Democrats, who voted for the rules and also for the Fitz gerald amendment. This is the first ly. And our farmer friends on all action taken by a majority of Demo- at court. Mr. Handley furnished the crats - to ' discipline the bolters from sides were generous In their expres requiredbond. He: will be tried at their party. The appointment is re-;sion of appreciation and commenda the April term of court, which con- garded as a good one as he has an ex- tion of what our women had done for jvenes next Monday. . - cellent record for attendance. them. And from the opening of the Clifton Pearson, Goldsboro, R. 6. B. B. Montague, Goldsboro, R. 6. S. G. Rackley, Goldsboro, R. 5. Wm. Rackley, Goldsboro, R. 5. iley Crumpler. Goldsboro,' R. 6.