1UTTTY TT PR.EE 11 PUBLISHED TWIC&A WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOll XXXV-No. 63 KINSTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916 PRICE FIVE CENTS in rnmi KITCHENER HAY BE SENT TO A COMMAND WILL BEAT ROBBERS, SAYS SEN. TILLMAN 1 LENOIR TAXPAYERS MUST VOTE ON PITT CO. GRADED SCHOOL a oimuix mi BILL INCLUDES ALL MATTERS OF MONEY ON HOUSES IN CITY CAUSES CONFUSION ,.W I.. - i . v.-1. f ( l . f LpSJlIplf WM SETTLED -CERTAIN v ,x- ' s V Optimists Have No Conception of Administration's Mind i rLasi Memorandum From Berlin to. Go Before Cabi net Today German Financiers Standing Behind Gov eminent In Its. Refusal to Disavow Sinking, Although Tley Have Important Interests In This Country That Would Suffer In Event of Break American Business Men Appearing to Gerard to Tell Teutons Wilson Is De termined j v vs.-.-.? . ! (By the United Press) WASHINGTON, FEB. 8. The Germans' last mem orandum on the Lusitania is to go before the Cabinet today, it is expected. Some optimism is pervading Ger man official circles. In Congressional circles it has re ceived a setback.. Statesmen and high officials of the Germans who are optimistic have no conception of the mind of the Administration. It is believed the Admini stration is standing firm that Germany must make fur ther concessions. ' Germany Money Interests Behind Kaiser. KERLIN, Feb. 8. Leading German jankers and financiers with large interests in America are standing firm behind the foreign office in its refusal to disavow rthe sinking of the Lusitania, This was learned follow ing the adjournment of , a conference yesterday. Ameri can business men are appealing to Ambassador Gerard to tell them to leave off. Leading bankers hope there will be no break; but say the government cannot admit the sinking was illegal. - Situation "Hopeful." - . --Washington, - Feb. 8. Secretary Lansing conferred with the;President today at 10 o'clock; at 11 both went 1. it. .., -.1 . . -i L! . HIT.. T -.-! --.I-: l-I-i 1 J i. X w tne caDinec meeung. ivtiv all Questions. From official that the situation is hopeful. It is likely that negotiations wilf be continued in an v event. , ' ... 'Ambassador Von Bernstorff isi see Secretary Lap sing this afternoon. . " r '' 7 y SEECT .DEMOCRATIC : " CHAIRMAN IN MARCH N Attempt Being Made to Get Con vention Business Out of Way Sim BlyBecaii8 Wilson Will Have fo Opposition Likely to Be Bace for . ? Vice-Presidency of Free-for-AH Kind (By the United Press) . St JiOuis, Feb. 8. There has been n attempt to rush proceedings pre- slimipary to the Democratic conven tion, despita the fact that Wilson will in all; probability have no opposition.' Jt ii expected that selection will be made of a temporary' chairman in New York next monthi An open race for tne-'vfce-prwidency is predicted. Alf Right to Use President's Name In Ohio. Washington, Feb. 8. President WiUon will write a letter to the Ohio Stnetary of State giving his consent to he use of his name on the prim ary; Uallot in that State, it is under stood. , BAPTIST MINISTER 'SHOT BY ANGRY WOMAN (By the United Presa Sherman, ; Tex., Feb. 8. Rev. H. - fil.'Cadle is dying and Mrs. Annie Fau6t,.wife of a farmer, faces trial fr shooting him as the result of a ' religious feud in the. Sherman Bap , tist church. Each headed a faction, j', They had words in the putlic square , - before the woman shot the minister. . r Woman Claimed Slander. ' - . . : The woman palled a "revolver, from hrv " - n f five shots into jaiifsmg siujuk ius ueau lu sources came information WEEKLY COTTON LETTER f OF ROUNTREE COMPANY Decline of Past Fortnight Discussed. No Basis for Bull Market at Mo- , men t Question of. Supply On Hand Important Item Market Ir regular Ten Cents Predicted for Cottonseed : (Special to The Free Press) New York, Feb. 7,--The decline that started week before last, con tinued last week, until at one time July sold within two points of 12c, the lowest leve 1 since the advance started before Thanksgiving Day. This was not only a decline .in con tract?, but spot cotton as well has lost ground in all Southern markets. In fact, it was the selling of hold ers here and there that started the general slump. . For two months, and more, South ern spot markets have presented a solid wall of strength, and this has maintained values to such a degree that there was no inclination to look for any decline on the part "of trad ers. But this week varioua spot mar kets ' have weakened to the levels quoted durin gthe January, liquida tion six weeks ago, and, in some cases, very little actual business has been done at even these figures. The latter part of the week cov ering, in Liverpool 1 started an im provement here, but the recovery of a quarter of a cent in the contract market failed to bring about any de cided improvement in spots South . Thia is .undoubtedly due to the fact that the season -js now rapidly mov ing oh toward the period of planting preparation Here 'and there, hold ers who do not desire to earry eofc-r.-i ':. srolhcr season have ; M e- bid prices. v- - nditwns, pre vorld, we can e basis for a it to be seen i floods in the a Mississippi itention, and ; later this another f or- my to' look enormous i this coun I of cotton i, go far to -1 't in cen ;r hand, IN EASTERN FIELD Rumored He Will Resign to Oppose Von Der Goltz In Asia SEIZING GERMAN PRINTS British Holding Up Lot of War Literature London Government May Send a Special Representative to This Country, Said (Dy the United Press) London, Feb. 8. David Lloyd George and Lord Derby are being mentioned as successors to Lord Kitchener, if the latter steps out of office. There is no confirmation of the rumors of Kitchener's resigna tion obtainable from any authorita tive source. It is reported that he may be sent to the East to oppose Von Der Goltz. German Literature Held Up. England is slaughtering tons of books, pamphlets and newspapers printed in Germany and shipped to Germans in neutral countries for use in a great propaganda. Among them ftre severar thSusaiid copies of Bry an's speech on British rule in India printed in Germany and addressed persons in the United States end South America, tngland May Have a "Col. House Loudon, Feb. 8. Wilson's plan of landing- a confidential diDlomatic del igita abroad has been so successful that England is considering sending a J'Col. House" of her own to America to clear up the difficulties of the Blockade regulations. BRIEFS IN THE NEWS . OF NEIGHBORING TOWNS Craven county will build an im proved road from the Maple Cypress road to the Pitt county line. Plant ers will pay a part of the expense. Amos Stroud, 60, of Seven Springs, nnd Miss Ella Hardy, 42, of Dover, a couple well-known throughout this section, are to be married, according to the Register of Deeds at New Bern. Twenty-five carloads per diem are now being hauled from the Never son quarries to the Capt Lookout breakwater construction site. Claude Suggs, who killed his fa ther-in-law at Jacksonville Christ mas night, is to be tried before Judge Allen in Onslow County Court next month. BULLETINS : (By the United Press) GERMANS TAKE RUSSIAN PRISONERS. Berlin, Feb. 8. In Pursuing defeated Russians s Muendzil the Germans took six hundred prisoners. the South ia over four and a half million ; bales to come forward, as shown by the Census figures of cot ton ginned during the seasons of 1914 and 1915, and six months or ;the cottoi? Jear have already passed. As the season advances toward the preparations for another crop, the question of supply on 'hand will, of course, be a more important item, unless the new crop gets poor start .The market itself seems to be an irregular affair, " with good support on ; declines, but with the South willinf to feed the market on any advance in prices. - '' v Cotton seed oil continues Hs steady althoufh slow, advance. Ten cents is freely predicted by the bulls. Con ditions seem to favor a further ad vance. '. v ; . Coffee has had a good advance on the rise in freight rates from Brazu This will probably be the dominat ing factor in fixing values in the f u fiire. ".', v . R. IL EOUNTP.EE & CO. Penrose Warns Naval Com mittee That Government Wilt Find Manufacture of Plate More Expensive Because Private Patents (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 8. The United States and armor plate manufactur ers are lined up for the biggest fight yet. The Senate naval affairs com mittee, which had before recommend ed for passage a bill for the govern ment manufaelure of armor, was warned by Senator Penrose that pri vate patents would add $200 per ton to armor plate, or $24,000,000 to the total of the present plans which then would go out of business when the government plant had finished. The committee recommended the bill. "We will beat an aggregation of robbers," said Senator Tillman. GERMAN FLEET MAY BE PREPARING FOR DASH TO NORTIi SEA Dutch Reports Say There Are Indications of Such a Move Big Air Fleet to Accompany; ;Men-of-War On the Expedition. (By the United Press) London, Feb. 8. Rumors that the German fleet is preparing for its long expected dash into the North Sea have reached here from Dutch sources. All marines have been sent to Kiel and leaves of absence to offi cers cancelled. A great air flotilla will aid the ships, it is expected. WRESTLING MATCH WAS FOLLOWfD BY KILLING (By the Eastern Press) Washington, N. C, Feb. 8. After a wrestling match between the two in the lower part of Beaufort coun ty, Virgil Smith shot and killed Mel ton Jones. Both men, negroes, seem ed to be in good humor until Smith suddenly produced the gun and shot the other down. INVESTIGATION FIRE AT OTTAWA STARTED (By the United Press) Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 8. Investiga tion of the destruction of the Parlia ment buildings by fire was begun to day. Precautions against- the en trance of German agents from the United States have been redoubled. The entire border is being guarded. DAVE WRIGHT, SEABOARD AIR LINE ENGINEMAN, KILLED IN WRECK NEAR SOUTHERN PINES EARLY THIS A. ll The Seaboard Air Line's Florida Special, a fast train from New York Jo Florida, which left New York Monday ' afternoon, was wrecked this morning, probably, after 3:30 o'clock, near Southern Pines, and Dave Wright, a S. A. L. engineer of Raleigh, was killed, according to news that came to the Kins ton-Carolina Railroad office here today. : The details were meager. ; It was presumed that the flyer went through an open switch and crashed into freight, The damage to the trains could not k""'d, and se far as was known 'Wright was the only victim. t Mr. Wright was a brother-i r-in of Mayor Pro Tern. Doagbss of for Raleigh. , Attempt to Pass All Reven ue Legislation In One Measure - NOW BEING CONSIDERED Rural Credits Bill Practic ally Completed Work of Moss More Than Any one Chamber Commerce of U. S. Is Meeting (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 8. One omnibus -bill to include all revenue legislation in a single bill is the strategy under consideration by administration lead ers. The plan is to force it through with a single vote. It will be con sidered by the ways and means com mittee Thursday. The bill would in clude revision of the income tax and a new inheritance tax, repeal the war stamp tax, increase the duties on whisky and cigars, tax war munitions and create a tariff commission, con tain an anti-dumping clause, retain the sugar tax and repeal the tax on mixed flour. Rural Credits Bill. The rural crests bill has been practical completed Iby she banking committee, and is to be brought be fore the House soon. It ia chiefly the work of Representative Moss of Indiana. National Chamber Commerce Meets. Secretaries Redfleld. Garrison and Daniels and a dosen Representatives and Senators addressed the opening meeting here today of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Clark and Mann Side by Side. Washington. Feb. 7. speaker Clark and Republican Leader Mann fought side by side in the House to day for adequate national defense, with party lines obliterated, most of the members followed their leaders and two navy measures passed with out a dissenting vote. One, to pro vide for adding 300 midshipmen to the entering class at Annapolis next July, passed 173 to 0, and ithe other to equip navy yards for construction of battleships numbers 43 and 44, passed without a roll call. CHICAGO MAN, MIND BLANK, TO ASHEYILLE Asheville, Feb. 7. Leaving Chica go a week ago Saturday, his mind in a daze as the result of the recent death of his five-year-old son, and his nerves shaken by reason of incessant application to business for the past two years, John F. Avery, a promin ent lace" manufacturer of Chicago, landed in , Asheville last Tuesday without any very definite idea of the route taken in getting: here, and has recovered fully through long tramps taken over ithe mountains. Mr. Av ery says that the mountain tramps must have cleared his mind, and re stored his nerves to normal 3frs. Vf. B. Douglass, wife Mr Douglass left today Which Their Children Are to Attend Small Minori ty Living: in Lenoir Part of District Protested the Bond Issue Lenoir county citizens' objection to being taxed for a new school in Grifton, a Pitt county town, was overcome Monday when the Board of County Commissioners here ordered a bond issue election for $20,000 for the purpose, the election to be held in the portions of the district in both counties simultaneously, of course. The commisioners had no alternative, the Lenoir County Board of Educa tion having passed favorably upon the matter and its word being law in such cases. There are probably six or seven times as many people in the district residing on the Pitt county skle as on the Lenoir side. If the is sue carries the $20,000 will be ex pended for a hndsome brick graded school building for the town of grif ton and the rest of the Grifton dis trict. Lenoir citizens voiced strong disapproval of the project before the commissioners. I ' Another claim for damages from a road being built through private property was presented to the Board Monday, by John: D. Walters of La- Grange, who asked .more than $600. A claim for a smaller sum from landowners in the saAe section was refused1 by a commission a few days ago. The same road, "the Jason-La Grange highway, is now involved. A committee of commissioners will in yestigate Walters' claim. The Board kicked out of harness when it came to paying a water bill presented by 'the city for the fiscal quarter. It held that the West Con struction Company, doing the street paving in the city, had used water from the Courthouse or jail to fill the boiler of a steamahovel, and ask ed the City Clerk to render another bill fof the amount minus what the construction people had used. The City Clerk would not agree to that, and suggested that the Board pre sent a bill to tho West Company for the excess. That was done. An easy compromise was had tnis morning, tho -West people paying about $18, estimating the amount the county hud used as being the same that was consumed in the corresponding quar ter a year ago. NEWS OF THE DAY TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS Chicago, Feb. 8.No . more fine food for civilian rookies at training camps in the Middle West this sum mer, according to Col. D. A.' Freder ick, in charge of the central depart ment today. The citizen soldiers will have to prepare their own meals. London Among latest treasures added to Princess Mary's collection of war souvenirs is an Austrian of ficer's beauty case with mirror, bril liantine, rouge and manicure powder. iHarrisburgh, Pa. One of every ten Pennsylvania farmers has an au tomobile. The total, 22,608, is more than 14 per cent, of tho total num ber of licensed cars in the State last year. 4 . London A Sussex magistrate it reported to be making a practice of allowing all game poachers brought before him, four days to decide as to whether they would like to become "juiper" at the front or go to jail. Chicago W. A. Holbert, pullman porter on A train running out of here edits tho Pullman Porters' Review between runs. He has a staff com posed of pullman porters who do much of their writing while speeding around the country. UP TO COURTS TO CORRECT LYNCHING EVIL, HE SAYS Wilson, Feb. 7 Judge H. P. Lane, who is holding criminal court here, during his charge to the grand jury this morning in referring ta lyne'h ings, stated as his opinion lynching is a disease of the ' a contagious di?n?e that s be spreading." , To letter Carriers, Deliv ery Boys and Others, Council Told MATTER TO BE REMEDIED Names of Streets May Be Changed Ex-Richmond Policeman Made Plumb ing Inspector for Kins ston Sanitation , Mr. 11. D. Spence addressed City -Council at its regular monthly meet ing Monday night, in behalf of the city letter carriers and delivery hoys of Kinston. He took for his text ,1 Numbers going all the way up the multiplication table nearly and dis proved entirely the popular belief that a letter carrier won't talk when " there ia occasion. Mr. Spence would make an excellent after-dinner speak er. The Councilmen were very much ; amused, as well as edified, by his lit . tie speech. In some residential sec tions of the city, he declared, houses are numbered so that if a United ; States postofnee Inspector were to get wind of it delivery would be sus pended on certain blocks. He didn't r understand how delivery , boys ever ' got through with their work.. Cer tainly it was a Job for the letter car riers. It happened this way, he un derstood: 4 Some houses were impro perly numbered.' At the last muni cipal census , the census-taker, whs was Mr. Chss; Bagby, undertook to correct what mistakes he noticed. He was efficient, and tore off a lot of numbers, substituting, according to ; his notion, the -proper numbers with . a crayon or lead pencil. Chalk and chaos! There was hound to be con fusion for a little while, and when the city did not follow up Bagby's work and place permanent numbers where they should be put, as Mr. Bagby had expected, a lot of darkies , got the idea that they were not get ting their mail regularly and tacked up the old numbers: Result: Three hundreds, five hundreds, eight hun- , dreds possibly all of these and some more on the same block. Mr. Spence was informed that the city : intended correcting the situation. and that the numbers had been or- . dored and were expected to arrive soon. ;. " Following discussion of house numbering, Alderman Webb sag- f gested that the name of Hazzard street in Northwest Kinston be chan ged to Washingtqn street extended, as it really should be, because the ha zard of the present name was a per ilous risk indeed to the residents. Mr. Webb also gave it as his opinion that . Washington and Lenoir streets should be made avenues. They are oases, he said, in a whole desert of avenues, as Peyton, Grainger, Capitola, and : numerous others. Mr. Henry French, too, he stated, had asked that La Roque's alley's name be altered to Glenwood avenue. ' Mr. French had : read in a paper about a man being killed on a Glenwood avenue in an other city, Mr. Webb said, although he did not indicate1 that that was Mr. French's reason for desiring the change. . The Council has the matter of changing the names under ' con sideration. . - T. A. Conway, a plumber recently ' from Louisburg, N. C, was named -plumbing and sanitary officer t a salary of 975. He would have the work of inspecting all plumbing con nections, electric light wiring, visit ing premises to see if the sanitary ordinances were being observed, etc Mr. Conway, the Council had been in formed, is a capable man. He has served as plumbing inspector in cit ies where there is no other duty at tached to the ofneerhas bepn on t" Richmond police force, ec. Council r".' anil r- '