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VOL.XXXV.-No.99
KINSTON, N. O, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1916
PRICE FIVE CENT3
U off KhartoMm Was Torpedo's Victim
With
Vicinity
Att His Staff
Cruiset Somewhere
Niiv . 5 W T . .) ft ' ' ft " " A
In
Islands
Later Report Says Mine May Have Been Responsible for
Sinfong of Cruiser Hampshire With Celebrated Com
mler and Personal Aides Admiralty Discourages
Atf Hope Kitchener Was On Way to Russia to Confer
Leaders Four Boats Put Off Following
Explosion, But Non6 Is Believed to Have Reached the
Sfiifid England's Greatest Personal Loss During War
(By the United Press)
London, June 6. The loss of Earl Kitchener, Secre
tary of State for War, England's greatest military organ
ized arid conqueror of the Soudan, with his entire staff,
when :th$ cruiser Hampshire was sunk off the Orkney
Jslandg by a mine or torpedo, is officially announced by
the admiralty. The news of England's greatest personal
loss since the war, began today stunned London. The ad
miralty issued the following bulletin :
Ad&iiralty Statement.
"The admiralty reports with deep regret that the ship
Hampshire, with Lord Kitchener and staff on board, was
sunk last night at 8 o'clock off the Orkney Islands by a
mine or torpedo. Four boats were seen from the shore
to leave, the ship. There were heavy seas, but patrollers
and destroyers proceeded to the scene. The whole shore
has been searched, but it is greatly feared there is little
hope finding survivors. No report has been received
from the search party on shore."
A later announcement by the Admiralty said search
ing; parties in boats found only bodies of drowned men
and one capsized boat. .There is faint hope that some
may haye reached shore and proceeded in a search for
aid. Oh,'. account of the high sea this is considered un
likely, arid the admiralty discouraged all hope for sur
vivors. It is stated that the Hampshire was on her way to
Russia,, where Kitchener planned to confer with officials
in Perograd.
Herbert J. Savill and Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, com
mander of the home fleets, telegraphed the news of his
loss.
Earlier Report.
London, June 6. Earl Kitchener, Minister of War,
with his entire! staff, was lost when the cruiser Hamp
shire sunk off the north of Scotland, it is announced offi
cially f at. the Admiralty. The statement indicates that
the Hampshire was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands.
It is said there is little hope that any of the staff
survived!
It is, accepted as a fact that Kitchener was drowned.
Hampshire Carried 655 in Crew.
TheJflampshire was 450 feet long, of 10,850 tons, car
ried four 7.5-inch guns, six 6-inch guns ancl two torpedo
tubes, ahcf a complement; of 655 officers arid men.
No mention is made of the Hampshire participating
in a sea battle. The announcement failed to give the
circumstances of the sinking.
A Real Leader.
Poratio Herbert Kitchener was England's foi;emost
soldier. He was born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1850.
He was a son of the late Lieut.-Col. S. H. Kitchener. He
was educated in the Royal Military Academy at Wool
wich, distinguished himself in service in Egypt, India and
South Africa, was commander of the Khartoum expedi
tion in '98, for which he was given the thanks of Parlia
ment, raised to the peerage and granted 30,000 pounds.
He was successively chief of saff and commander-in-chief
in South Africa. He was promoted to lieutenant
general and received his viscounty He was made Min
ister of War at the beginning of the war. He designated
the base of the British fleet, supposed to be in the neigh
borhood of the Scottish Islands.
. It is believed Kitchener and his staff went to the Ork
ney Islands to review the battle fleet after last week's
fight - .
ROOSEVELT OR THEY
WON'T PLAY, SOLUN
DECLARATI'N PROG'S
Will Run Colonel Even If
They Have to Do It As a
Third Party Again Per
kins Says "We've No Sec
ond Choice"
By II. L. RENNICK,
(United Tress Staff Correspondent)
Chicago, June 6. Determined on
a progvam for Roosevelt or nothing,
radical Dull Moosera today challeng
ed the conservatives to do their
worst. The plan is to nominate Roos
evelt and run as a third party if the
Republicans won't accept.
Perking Issues Ultimatum.
George W. Perkins in a statement
issued an ultimatum that it would be
Roosevelt or none so far as the Pro
gressives are concerned. "We'v no
second choice," he concluded.
MANY KILLED WHEN
T'RNADOSWEPT TWO
STATES ALONG MISS.
Forty-Nine Fatalities Re
ported From Arkansas
and Mississippi Large
Number Injured Five
Drowned From a Vessel
BAKER WILL SPEAK
AT BIG,
ENDEAVOR" MEETING
To Make Address at Atlan
ta Next Month May
Have Some Political Sig
nificance Said to Be
Cabinet's Best Orator
(Special to The Free Press)
Atlanta, Ga., June 5. Newton D.
Baker, the new Secretary of War in
President Wilson's cabinet, who was
appointed to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Secretary Gar
rison, has accepted the invitation of
the All-Soulh Christian Endeavor
Convention to bo held in Atlanta,
July 13-16, and will give the opening
address of the convention.
This will be Secretary Baker's first
trip to the South since entering the
cabinet. He cornea to address ivto
conventions, the All-South Christian
Endeavor Convention in Atlanta, Ju
ly 13, and the Alabama State, Bar As
sociation at Decatur, July 14.
Coming so soon after .the National
Democratic Convention in St. Louis,
is expected that Secretary Baker
will in a sense make a speech that
shall be a keynote of the presidential
campaign just opening.
The Secretary of War is consider
ed the strongest speaker in President
Wilson's cabinet and he may be de
pended upon to deliver a great ad
dress.
Three thousand delegates are ex
pected to attend this convention,
coming from all parts of the South.
The railroads have gran'Md espec
ially low rates and special trains will
be run from many cities. It will be a
great convention in every way.
COUNTY CONTRACTS
OUT SAND CLAYING
THIRTY TWO MILES
Alabama Concern to Im
prove Lenoir Roads
Money to Spare for Work
On Six or Eight Addition
al Miles, Thought
YUAN SHI KM, PRESIDENT OF CHINA, WHO
WOULD HAVE BEEN EMPEROR, DEAD, THE
STATE DEP'TM'NT OFFICIALLY II
WD
Mrs. Mary Jones is visiting rela
tives at Grainger.
(Daily Free Press, June C)
The County Commissioners Mon
day afternoon let the contracts for
the construction of about 32 miles
of sandclay road in Lenoir coun.'y to
R. G. Hill & Co.. of Birmingham,
Ala., who bid for the work at a price
of $752.20. Their's was the low bid.
Work will be commenced in a very
few weeks. The county has $:0,000
of borrowed money available. The
tax rate will not be increased, say of
ficials. The money will be paid back
at the rate of $5,000 per annum. The
county will have left some $5,000 or
.$0,000 with which to construct roads,
wL'.hout new bids, to bring the total
program up to nearly 40 miles.
The following stretches, mostly on
the south side of Ncuse river, will
be improved:
About two miles on the La-Grange-Seven
Springs road; about two miles
on the Whitehall road; about nine
miles on the road from Graham's
Fork to Jones county via Kelly's
Mill; a strip on the Grifton road be
yong Grainger, about three miles,
and from Parrotl's Fork to Noble's
Mill by Woodington, about thirteen
miles. .
(By the United Press)
Washington, June G. The State Department has re
ceived official notification of the death of Yuan Shi Kai,
president of China, in a dispatch from the minister at
Pekin.
Pearly Tokio dispatches said his condition was grave.
He had been ill for several days.
The President was born 1S59. He tried to ascend the
throne as emperor when the present revolt broke out:
POOLROOMS MUST BE
CLOSED UP BY LAST
DAY OF THIS MONTH
Washington, June 5. Another at
tempt by land owners along the Mis
sissippi to proceed against the gov
ernment on account of floods alleged
to have been caused by levee build
ing, failed today before the Supreme
Court-
Council, at Demand of Many
Petitioners, Refuses to
Grant New Licenses
END TO THE PAVING SOON
Not Likely More Petitions
Will Be Received After
19th June Department
Head Gets Salary Raise.
Would Open Street
SPEED KINGS LINEUP .
FOR CHICAGO'S DERBY
Maywood, EL. June 6. Entrant
for h ec ond annual Chicago Auto
mobile Derby, to be held ' on the
SpeeJwy fere June 10, are to hold
heir qualification tests here today,
totnorrow and Thursday. There are
more than thirty entrant. . 1 '
COLOR SCHEME OF THE
BALLOTS THIS PRIMARY
Charleston, W. V- Jane 6. Green
and white was the color scheme in
(he first test of state-wide primaries
to be held in West Virginia today.
The Democratic voters kept their
score-of votes on gTcen ballots, while
the Republicans used white.
(By the United Press)
Memphis, June f. Forty-nine per
sons were killed in Arkansas and
Mississippi by a violent tornado, say
dispatches 25 at Judsonia, Ark.:
six at Redford, three at Hot Springs,
eight at Natchez, Miss., and two at
Jackson. I; is reported that five
were drowned when a boat sank at
Augusta, Ark.
Wire Service Hampered.
Little Rock, Ark., June 6. Re
ports over crippled wires today indi
eate a heavy loss of life in a series
of cyclones ver this section. Esti
mates place the dead at from ten to
fifty, with a largs number injured.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
ROOSEVELT WOULD .
BACK WOOD.
New York, June 6. Roosevelt
will support General Leonard
Wood for the Republican nomin
ation if his name is seriously
considered, according to Oyster
1 Bay visitors.
FRENCH WAR STATEMENT.
Paris, June 6. German artil
lery is bombarding Fort Vaux
with unprecedented violence,
ays an official communique, fol
lowing failure ' of two infantry
attacks. Unbroken machine gun
and' rile fire" is sweeping' both
- lfnea.' r- ' : '" .
LENOIR COUNTY
Economic and Social
PAGE SAW THE PRESIDENT.
Washington, June 5. Thomas N.
Page, American ambassador to Italy,
discussed with President Wilson to
th.y problems growing out of the Eu
ropean war. He plans to sail June
Home County Study at the University
of North Carolina.
(By E. J. Perry and It. T. Allen,
Lenoir County.)
I. Facts About the Folks.
In the census year Lenoir with
234,080 ncres of land was 02nd in
size in North Carolina, 40th in pop
ulation wi:h 22,769 inhabitants; 50th
in density of rural population
with 39.7 people to the square
mile. Lenoir ranked 56th in rural
population increase during the cen
sus period, with 8.5 per cent. The
negToes in Lenoir numbered 10,225 in
1910; the whites 12,547. The ne
groes are an increasing ratio of pop
ulation in Lenoir, the ten-year in
crease being 1.7 per cent.
Rank In Important Particulars.
Rank indicates the number of
counties that make a better showing.
4SUi in native white illiterates, 10
years old and over, per cent., 11.7.
White illiterates, 1.0G7. State aver
age 12.3 per cent.; U. S. average, 3
per cent.
63rd in native white illiterate vot
ers, 482 in' number, per cent., 15.7.
State average, 14 per cent; U. S.
average, 4.2 per cent
65th in white -school attendance, 6
to 14 years of age, per cent, 74.1.
White children of these ages not in
school, 1,293. State ' average 75.7
per cent
22nd in negro school attendance, 6
to 14 years of age, per cent, 69.3,
Negro children of these ages not in
school, 743. State average, 64 per
cent'. ' : ' . ,-
56th in average salary paid white
country 'teachers, 1914, $223. State
average, $235.
43rd in average salary paid negro
eountry teachers, 1914." $128. 1 Stat
average, $123.
5lh, in school expenditures per
$1,000 worth of property, 1913, $7.22.
McDowell averages $20.85; State
averages $20.85; fUate javcrage.
$8.03. Room for beWer salaries and
better schools.
41st per capita investment in while
school property, 1913-14, $5.08. A
$45,000 whrte graded .school build
ing was built since these figures.
3rd in marriage rate per 1,000 po
pulation, 15 years old and over. 1914.
20. State average, 10.1 per cent.;
Pasquotank, 23.6. Marriages in Le
noir, 347.
32nd in death rate per 1,000 pop
ulation, 1914, 9.7; U. S. rate, 15, in
1913; N. C. rate, 12.4 in 1914.
91st in birth rate per 1,000 inhab
itants in 1913, 21.9. Average for U.
S., 20.6 in 1913; N. C. average, 31.2
in 1914.
60th in church membership, per
cent, 1900, 41. 7,488 people, 10
years old and over outside church;
49 per cent, of them all. State aver
age of church membership, 40 per
cen.
62nd in homicides average annual
rate per million inhabitants, 1910
14, 110. State average. 95; U. S.
average, 72.
II. Facts About Wealth and Taxation.
33rd in total farm wealth, 1910 cen
sus, $6,096,451.
42nd in farm wealth increase,
1900-1910, per certt 132.J Staite
increase, . 130 per cent
51st in increase in value of dom
estic animals, 1900-10, per cent,
108., State average increase, 109
per eent; Robeson, 200 per cent
85th in total taxable property in
1913, $7,763,178. Increase in taxa
ble property, 1903-1913, was 67 per
cent State increase, 81 per cent.
State avorage increase, whito, 69
per cent; negro, 137 per cent
8th in per capita country wealth,
$386. Alleghany, $560; State. $322;
(Continued on Page Three)
(Daily Free Press,' June 6)
City Council Monday night put .the
licensed pool-rooms in Kinston out
of business at the behest 'of more
than 1,400 citizens. Every member
voted to refuse to grant any licenses
for the coming fiscal year, which be
gins July 1. The petitioners were
persuaded to their action directly as
the result of a short, snappy cam
paign, culminating Sunday. The de
mand was too imperative for Coun
cil to give it anything but serious
attention, although it had been sus
pected for a long time that a major
ity of the counoilmen held no parti
cular affection for the gaming places.
Women and Sunday school children
were in the majority among the peti
tioners. The action of Council gives ithe
places now doing business less than
four weeks in which to clear out.
Council granted petitions for the
paving of nine more blocks with as
phalt: Six blocks on East Caswell
street from East street to the end;
two blocks on East Pey.'on avenue
from MeLcwean to East, and one
block on East Washington from Mc
Lewean to Independent.
Every good thing nearly has its
culmination, and Council virtually
decided to bring the extra paving
program to an end as soon as prac
ticable. It is probable that no more
paving petitions will be considered
after June. The aldermen believe it
is about time that they should total
up the bills for the paving and find
out just what ithe whole program is
going to cost, in order that the
bonds may be issued in the next few
months.
Another meeting will be held on
June 19 to receive further petitions.
It is not likely that any will be re
ceived after then.
Council was informed that a shed
house owned by the ci'.y, in which is
stored the Fire Department's hook
and ladder truck, should be removed
from its present location in front of
the county jail. The county owns the
property and wants ito build thereon
an annex to the prison. It was de
cided to accept a proposition by the
Imperial Tobacco Company for a
fountain on Heritage street at the
company's plant, rthe latter to have
an artesian well bored. "
The salary of Supt John Weyhe
of the Water and Light Department
was raised to $150 a month. lie had
(Continued on Pago Six)
MAY TIE A SECOND
PRIMARY TO SELECT
FIFTH SfANFOIf I'd
Whitfield and Howard Tied
for Commissionershfp; 1
Brothers Safe
COUNTY PRIMARY TOTALS
Kitchin and Pollock Got
Biggest Votes of Opposed
CandidatesSheriff Tay
lor Given Largest Num
ber of Ballots
(9 unf 'ssajj eaij HOj)
The following men comprise the
new Board of County Commissioner
as the result of Saturday' primary:
Churchill, incumbent, who received
791 votes; Wood, incumbent, T2B;
Dawson, 679, and Sutton, 677, and
either D. A. Whitfield, incumbent, or
Parker Howard, boitn the latter hav
ing received 672 ballots. A new pri
mary is expected to be held to choose
between them.
As stated in The Free Press Mon
day, Henry Brothers' majority over
Fred I. Sntton for the nomination for
representative was 19, ithe men (ret
ting G79 and 660 votes (respectively.
The Board of Elections completed
its canvass late in the afternoon Mon
day, presenting the following results
in addition to the above:
For Congress Kttchin, 1,152;
Mitchell, 109.
For Governor Daughtridge, 65d;
Bickett, 599. ,
For Secretary of State Crimea,
907; Clark, 146, Hartness, 128.
For State Treasurer-Lacy, 1,020;
Mann, 184.
For Attorney General Manning,
1,082; Calvert, 57; Jones, 33; Sin
clair, 34.
For Commissioner of Labor and
Printing Shipman, 782; Dellinger,
372
For Corporation Comiesioner Lee,
944; Boyd, 219.
For Commissioner of Agriculture
Graham, 572; McKinnon, 515; Hobbs,
For Insurance Commissioner
Young, 1,055; MoCIenaghan, 160.
For State Senator Pollock, 1,144;
Brock, 397; Webb, 341; Wooten, 355;
Mewborn, 255. ,
For Sheriff Taylor,' 1,343. . ;
For Register of Deeds tPridgen,
1,320.
For Coroner Wood, 1,252. V
For Treasurer Dawson, 1,320. i.
NOTHING DOING ON
T COTTOJT EXCHANGE
No cotton was sold here today.
New York futures quotations Wert:
J'' ' , Open Close
January . . , . .13.00
March .. ,13.12
July.. ........12.67 .
October" . . , . . . .... .13.80
December
.12.92
13.08
1X23
12.71
12.82
12.03
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