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XXXI
CITIES AND TOWNS HAVE
INCREASED
Raleigh Goes Ahead of Ashe
ville Taking Third Place in
List.
Washington, Jan. 4. North
fiirolina's population did not
show the same tendency of drift
rural districts to the
cities during the last ten years
no tvus the ease in many other
states. Announcement today by
the director of the census of the
population figures as enumerated
in the 17th census of cities and
towns in North Carolina having
a population in excess of 5,000
indicates that slightly over 26
PPnt of the state's total in-
r..ou. in nonulation 312,477 in
habitants was contributed by
h,o ritipa and towns. The ru
ral districts furnished 229,391, or
about 73 per cent of the increase
as compared with the 83,106 in
crease in the cities.
Eight municipalities increas
ed in population from below 5,
000 to totals above that number.
The thirteenth census statistics
show twenty such cities and
towns in North Carolina in 1910,
compared with twelve in 1900.
Not a single loss in population
was recorded in these places dur
ing the ten years.
Biggest Gain.
In point of increase in popula
tion Koeky Mou i holds first
place, with a 274 per cent in
crease. Durham follows closely
behind with 273 per cent and
High Point shows a 228 per cent
gain.
The larger cities rank as fol
lows in percentage of increase:
Cliarlotte, 88 per cent, Greens
boro, 58.3 per cent ; Raleigh, 40.8
per cent; Asheville, 27.6 per cent,
and Wilmington, 22.7 per cent.
How They Stand.
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MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA,
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE
Kitchen Sends Long Document
to Legislature, Making Many
Recommendations.
Raleigh, Jan. 5. Tn the house
a bill by Ray, of Macon, passed
all readings, prohibiting the sale
of malt, near beer or heerine or
any beverage containing any al
cohol whatever.
Evert, of Henderson, introduc
ed a resolution that Ninth Caro
lina delegation in congress sup
port the parcel post act; also
New Orleans for holding the Pan
ama Exposition.
The entire morning session of
the house was taken up with the
reading of the Governor's mus
sage. In the senate, Martin, of
Buncombe, introduced a bill to
empower married women to make
contracts.
Hobgood A bill to amend tbe
charter of Greensboro.
The Governo'rs Message.
After a few minor bills had
been introduced in the Senate, a
messenger was announced from
the governor and Col. A. J. Feild,
private secretary, was introduced
and the message was read by the
clerk. The reading consumed a
little over an hour and the mem
bers and those in the lobbies &ni
galleries seemed much interested,
giving undivided attention
throughout.
A resolution, offered by Gra
ham of Orange was adopted di
recting that 500 copies of the
governors' message be printed
for the use of the senate and dif
ferent portions of it referred to
such committes as the presiding
officer shall deem appropriate.
Governor Kitchens message to
the legislature was rather
lengthy, so much so that nothing
more than a brief resume of it
can be given here.
After reporting on the bond
situation, he takes up prohibition
and says:
makes the following recommenda
tion: "The state institutions have
but one certain reliance, and that
is the people's legislatures. I
therefore recommend that jou ns
certain the legitimate, urgent
needs of ouinstitut ioiis, elusrit
able uud educational, suul uti
you properly provide for than,
taking care that no backward
step is taken and that they be
not crippled or unjustly handi
capped in the pertormance of
their duties to the public. You
should see that every extra
vagance is eliminated and every
economy enforced which will not
seriously impair their influence
to the state. I sincerely trust
that you can provide for their
necessary enlargement and equip
ment, without causing other m
terests to suffer or failing to
make other necessary and proper
appropriations.
Anti-Trust Law.
The governor suggests slight
changes in the anti-trust law to
make it conform more nearly to
the federal law.
In legard to water powers Gov
ernor Kitchen recommends that
light and power companies be
placed under the jurisdiction of
the corporation commission.
He devotes much space to the
insurance business and recom
mends a number of changes in
the law.
Railroad Rate Reduction.
After reviewing the railway
situation, he says:
"I therefore recommend that
the passenger fares on all roads
now under the 2 1-2 cent per
mile basis, be reduced to 2 cents,
with a proper provision that all
railroad companies whole mileage
books with interchangeable prii
leges are sold at the present mile
age book rate and pulled on the
train as they were four years ago
and for whose coupons no tickets
are ..required prior, to. Itfk'm? jib
IEURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1911
TO EQUALIZE TAXATION
jator Brown Is Going After
So-Called Pauper Counties.
Raleigh Times.
Senator J. A.Brown, of Colurn
i bus, who is named by President
N'ewland, of the senate, as chair
man of the finance committee, de
elares his intention to go in for a
material reformation in the North!
Carolina method of tax assess
merit with a view to equalizing
taxation among the counties and
ridding the state of the forty-
eight "pauper counties," so-call
ed because they receive from the
state for schools and other pur
poses more money than they pay,
into the state treasury m taxes
He proposes to undertake getting
through the legislature an act
that will create a separate state
tax commission, relieving the cor
poration commission of this duty,
and requiring of this commission
that it equalize taxation by coun
ties. He would have the corarais
sion completely removed from
politics, possibly appointed by
the trovernor. He would have
these commissioners coufer at the
beginning of each assessment
periud with the county authori
ty, meeting the officers of the
groups of counties in convenient
railroad centers and explain just
what is expected of them in the
light of existing conditions. And
he would clothe them with final
authority to say what the assess
ments must be. Where there are
differences between the property
owners and the local assessors,
he would have appeal go to an
intermediate board, composed of,
say five men, one from each of a
group of five counties. In this
way no one county could be left
alone to "juggle" its assessments
so, as to deprive the state of its
equitable share of revenue. Af
ter this composite board has pass-
AVERAGE MAN HAS $35.10 IN
POCKET
Government Currency Report
Proves It, So Why Deny It?
Have you got $35.10 about you?
Can you produce $35.10 on call?
Have jfiu got it in your clothes
or at home in a bureau drawer?
If riot you are shy your share of
the circulating medium, for $35.
10 is the per capita circulation
according to a government report
that has just been received by
Minneapolis bankers, which gives
the total amount of money of all
kinds that was afloat December
1.
Of gold coin, gold certificates,
Bilver dollars and other silver,
United States notes and national
bank notes there is $3,192,615,
314.31 in circulation, which fig
ures out $35.10 for every inhabi
tant. A year ago at this time
there was $3,180,034,499.22 in the
circulating total, which, divided
by the population at that time,
made $34.71 per capita, so that,
theoretically, everbody in Min
neapolis ought to have thirty
nine cents more about him for
Christmas shopping this year
than last.
"Let us see what that would
amount to," said the Minneapolis
banker on whose desk lay the
government report.
"With 301,408 people in Min
neapolis and each with thirty-nin
cents more that would be $127,
491.12 more, in theory than the
Minneapolis people have to spend
for Christmas presents."
Once, in 1908, the per capita
circulation was higher, the figure
being $35.59, but at other times,
as circulation was in part retired
and population increased, it fell
down and was as low as $28.73 in
1901.
'And The Cat.
It is many years since the fa
mous voyage when
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EARTHQUAKE'S AWFUL DA
MAGE. 1,000 Square Miles of Territory
Devastated in Asiatic Russia,
Tashmend, Asiatic Russia, Jan.
5. Two thousand soldiers, ae
countered for relief wark, wer
today rushed into the earthquake
stricken territory of Turkestan,
were fully 2,CXX) are now report
ed to have been killed or wound
ed in the trrific and devastating
tremors which lasted all day yes
terday. Practically 1,000 square
miles of territory are said to have
been ravaged with whole towns
wiped out and wild fissuries in
the Steppes growing hourly.
Reports from towns and vil
lages on the edge of the death
belt, whither refugees fled in
great numbers during the night
today that conditions in the in
terior of the devastated zone are
horrifying beyond description.
A big detachment of troops
was ordered to hurry at all pos
sible speed from the Tashmend
barracks towards Vyerny, a forti
fied town of 23,000 inhabitants
which is reported wholly in ins.
At Kopal a great section of
the town lies in ruins today, ac
cording to the meager reports.
Communication was practically
cut off today and from the in
terior of the earthquake zone no
definite word came at all.
In the Sirke Desert, East of
Kopal,. and upon the vast steppes
stretching among the mountains
hundreds of members of Turkes
tan tribes are said to have been
swallowed up by the earth.
Scores of persons perished in
Lake Issky-Kull. When the earth
began to rock many fled into
boats upon the water, thinking
themselves safe from falling
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