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DAILY FREE PRESS if lniB TDE WEATHER Probably Rain VOL. XVIII. No. 7 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. O, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS !MteMiieir of fouOT Was Torpedo s Victim THE HOKE' PJIPEB 1-v . X . tost -Bijtti - -M- " Staff In Cruiser Soanewfiere In Vicinity Orkney Islands f I , - Later Report Says Mine May Sinking of Cruiser Hampshire With Celebrated Com mander and Personal Aides Admiralty Discourages AD Hope Kitchener Was With Czar's Leaders Explosion, But None Is Shore 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 izer and .conqueror of the Soudan, with his entire staff, when the cruiser Hampshire was sunk off the Orkney Islands 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 : Admiralty 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 leaye 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 of' 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 have reached shore and proceeded in a search for aid. On account of the high sea this is considered un likely, and 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 Petrograd. v Herbert J. Savill and Admiral Sir John Jcllieoe, 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 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 afact that Kitchener was drowned. Hampshire Carried 655 in Crew. The, Hampshire was 450 feet long of 10,850 tons, car ried four 7.5inch guns, six 6-inch guns and two torpedo tubes, and a complement of 655 officers and men. JNo mention is made of the Hampshire participating in a sea battle. The announcement failed to give the circumstances of the sinlung. A Eeal Leader. Poratio Herbert Kitchener was England's foremost 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 tothe 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 viscountry. 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 j v . , ... SPEED KINGS LINE UP FOR CHICAGO'S DERBY Maywood," EL. June 6. Entrant for the second annual Chicago Auto mobile Derby, to be held on - the Speedway here Jane 10, ara to hold their . qualifications teats here today, tomorrow and Thursday. There are mora than thirty entrants. Have Been Responsible for On Way to Russia to Confer Four Boats Put Off Following Believed to Have Reached the COLOR SCHEME OF THE BALLOTS THIS PRIMARY Charleston, W. Va- June 6. Green - , -and white was the color scheme ' in the first test of state-wide primaries to be held in West Virginia today. The Democratic voters kept their core of vote on green ballots, while the Repnblicans"osed white. ROOSEVELT OR THEY IN'T pr, SOLI 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 H. L. RENNICK, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Chicago, June 6. Determined on a program for Roosevelt or nothing, radical Dull Moosers 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. 7 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've no second choice," he concluded. ' MANY KILLED WHEN T'RNADO SWEPT TWO STATES ALONG MISS. Forty-Nine Fatalities Re ported From Arkansas and, Mississippi Large Number Injured Five Drowned From a Vessel (By the United Press) Mesnphis, June G. 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. It 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 cate a heavy loss of life in a series of cyclones over this section. Esti mates place the dead ait from ten to fifty, with a large 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 Bay visitors. s . FRENCH WAR STATEMENT. Paris, June 6. German artil lery is bombarding Fort Vaux with unprecedented ' violence, -says an official communique, fol : lowing failure of two infantry attacks. ; Unbroken machine gun -and rifle fire is sweeping both ''lines, - . -'-. i - '.-. - PAGE SAW THE PRESIDENT. . Washington, June 6. Thomas N. Page, American ambassador to Italy, discussed with President ,, Wilson to day problems .growing out of the Eu ropean war. He plana to sail June 24 th. BARER WILL SPEAK AT BIG CHRISTIAN 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-South Christian Endeavor Convention to be held in Atlanta, July 13-16, and will give the opening address of the convention. ' Thi$ will be Secretary Baker's first trip to the South since entering the cabinet. He omes to address itwo conventions, the All-South Christian Endeavor Convention inAtlanta, 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, ie 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 lie de pended" uponf5 deliver a great ad dress. Three thousand delegate? are ex pected to attend this convention, ( coming from all parts of the South. The railroads have gran'tcid espec ially low rates and special trains will be run from many cities. It will be a great convention in every way. Mrs. Mary Jones is visiting rela tives at Grainger. LENOIR Economic Home County Study at the University of North Carolina. (By E. J. Perry and R. T. Allen, Lenoir County.) acts About the Folks. In the census year Lenoir with JJ4,UU acres ot land was tiZml ia- size in North Carolina, 40th in pop ulation wi'.h 22,760 inhabitants; fiOth in density of rural population with 31). 7 people to the square mile. Lenoir ranked 5(ith in rural population increase during the cen sus period, with 8.5 per cent. Tho negroes 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. 48th in native white illiterates, 10 years old and oveir, per cent., 11.7. White illiterates, 1,067. 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, C to 14 years of age, per cent., 74. J. White children of these ages not in school, 1,293. State average 75.7 per cent 1 4 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. ' - ' " - 56:h in average salary paid white country teachers, 1914, $223. State average, $235. - 43rd in average salary paid negro country teachers, 1911. $128. State average, $128. 5th in " school expenditures per $1,000 worth of property, 1913, $7.22, 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 Tho County Commissioners Mon day atternoon lot the contracts tor the construction of about 32 miles of sandclay road in Lenoir coun. y to R. G. Hill & Co., of Dirmingham, Ala., who bid for the work at a price of $752.20. Thcir'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, Kay 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, without new bids, to bring the total program up to nearly 40- miles. The following stretches, mostly on the south side of Nouso river, will be improved: About two miles on the La-Girange-Seven Springs road; about two miles on the Whitehall road; about nine miles on the road from Graham's Fork to Jones eounAy via Kelly's Mill;, a strip on the Grifton road be yong Grainger, about three miles, and from Parrott's Fork to Noble's Mill by Wooding ton, abput thirteen miles. MAY CONTINUE BUILD LEVEES. 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. COUNTY and Social McDowell averages J0.8." State 58.03. Room for -hotter salarie and better schools. 41st per capita investment in white school property, 1913-14, $5.08. A $45,000 white .graded school build ing was built since these figures. find in marriage rate per 1,000 po pulation, 15 years old and over, 1914. 20. State average. 10.1 per cent.; Pasquotank, 23.0. Marriages in Le noir, 347. 32nd in death rule 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., 26.6 in 1913; N. C. average, 31.2 in 1914. 60th in church membership, per cent, 1906, 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 cenit. 62nd in homicides average annual rate per million inhabitants, 1910- 14, 110. State average, 95; U. S. average, 72. IL Facts About Wealth and Taxation. 33rd in total farm wealth, 1910 cen sus, $6,096,451. 42nd infarm wealth increase, 1900-1910, per ceri1 lGK.lj. State increase, 130 per cent 51st in increase in .value of dom estic animals, 1900-10. per cent, 108. ; State average increase, 109 per cent; Robeson, 200 per cent 35th In total taxable property - in 1913. $7,763,178. Increase in taxa ble property, 1903-1913, was 07 per cent . State increase, 81 per cent. State average increase, whito, ,69 per cent; negro, 137 per cent 8th in per capita country wealth, $386. Alleghany, $560; State, $322; - (Continued on Page Two . YUAN SHI KAI, PRESIDENT OF CHINA, WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN EMPEROR, DEAD, THE STATE DEP'TM'NT OFFICIALLY INFORMED (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. Early 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. CLOSED UP BY LAST DAY OF THIS MONTH Council, at Demand of Many Petitioners, Refuses to Grant New Licenses END TO THE PAYING SOON Not Likely i More Petitions Will Be Received After 19th June Department Head Gets Salary Raise. Would Open Street City Council Monday night put .the licensed pool-rooms in Kinston out oT 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 persur.ded to thetr action directly as the result of a short, snappy cam liiiitrn, culminating Sunday. The de mand was loo imperative for Coun cil to give it anything but serious M.ention. although it had been sus pected Tor a Ion;: time that a major ity of the couneilmen held no parti cular afTection.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 lews 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 CusmlII street from East street to the end; two blocks on East Pey, on avenue from McLewean 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 tnat me bonds may bo 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 city, 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 to 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, (the 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 been getting $410. A committee was (Continued on Page FourJ ' MAY TAKE A SECOND PRIMARY TO SELECT FIFTH MAN FOR BO'D Whitfield and Howard Tied for Commissionership; Brothers Safe COUNTY PRIMARY TOTALS Kitchin and Pollock Got Biggest Votes of Opposed Candidates Sheriff Tay- lor Given Largest Num ber of Ballots . t The following men comprise the new Doard of County Commissioners as the result of Saturday's primary: Churchill, incumbent, who received 791 votes; Wood, incumbent, 725; iTawson, 07!), . and Sutton, 677 and either I). A. Whitfield, incumbent, or Parker Howard, bcv.n the latter hav ing received 072 ballots. A new pri mary is expected to be held to chooso. between them. As stated in The P'ree Press Mon day, Henry Brothers' majority over Fred I. Suttonfor the nomination for representative 'was 19, ithe men get ting C79 and W0 votes respectively. The Board of Elections completed, its canvass late in the afternoon Mon day, presenting the following results in addition to. ithe above: For Congress Kitchin, 1,152; Mitchell, 109. For Governor Daughtridge, 650; Bickett, 599. For Secretary of State Crimea, 907; Clark, H(i, Hartness, 128. For Statu Treasurer Lacy, 1,020; Mann, 134. For Attorney General Manning, 1,02; Calvert, 57; Jones, 33; Sin clair, 31. J?or Commissioner of Labor and Printing Shipman, 782; Dellinger, 372. For Corporation Comissioner tLee, 944; Boyd, 219. For Commissioner of Agriculture 1 Graham, 572; McKinnon, 515; Hobbs, 122. For Insurance Commissioner Young, 1,055; MoCJenaghan, 160. .;.'.,. For State Senator Pollock, 1,144; . Brock, 397; Webb, 341; Wooten, 355; ' Mewborn, 255. . ( "''";. For Sheriff Taylor, 1,343. For Register ofDeeda Iridgen4 1,320. r'1 -; ,- ;:.;, :-r For Coroner Wood, 1,252. ; , For Treasurer Dawson, 1,320. ' . NOTHING DOING ON V ' COTTON EXCHANGE No cotton was sold hard today. 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