THE SUN lias More Thau Double The Circulation of Any Weekly Paper in The Tenth Congres sional District, Comprising Thirteen Large Counties. THE SUN Has More Than Double The Circulation of Any 'Weekly Papei in The Tenth Congres sional District, Comprising Thirteen Large Counties. 3 Sun. VOL.6. NO. 9. RUTHERFORDTON, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, J905. $1.00 A YEAR.-. THE SUN HAS DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. THE S & W. RAIL ROAD TO BE BUILT. All Doubts Have Been Elimi nated. THE ROAD A CERTAINTY. Capt. Walker's Surveying Corps In Four Miles Of Town How The Line Rnns Not Hunting Towns Or Money As It Affects The S. A. L. Railway And Rutherfordton. 'To be or not to be is no long- er the question. Some things are doubtful, prospective, or projective, or all together; not so with the pro posed building of the South & Western Railway. It has passed the period of doubt, its prospect is certain and its projection is an as sured fact. Uncertainties that have been seriously considered for the past two years by its beneficiaries and its promoters have Deen elimi- - nated and its salient factors fix ed in the determination of strong mmeitrtth ample capital to forge its way from the coal fields of south west Virginia to the Atlantic Sea- ' board at Charleston, S. C, which is destined upon the completion of this line to rival Norfolk, New York, Boston and other naval coal- ing stations on the Atlantic coast in the maritime business of the United States and of the world. ; This prospective line had its ori gin possibly first in the fertile brain ot Len. (Jeo. L,. Carter, of Bristol, Teun., president of the Norfolk & Western, five or six years ago. It was an undertaking presenting such difficulties as to awake and resurect a sleeping Alchimides, a Hercules or an Atlas; the Blue Ridge must be crossed ; its precipitous accents encircled or its granite bases pierc ed with dark and extended tunnels whose grades were to be kept down to the hauling capacity of even the prarie regions of the west, that long and heavy trains might freight the valuable cargoes of coal from the mountains of Virginia at a mini mum tariff to tide water. To ac complish such a result millions of capital would be required, which, when judiciously expended, would insure to the promoters of the en terprise millions in return. This capital has been secured and active work is pushing the arduous task to completion as rapidly as these ample means and well directed en ergy can point the -way. ; The part of the line extending from Johnson City, Tenn., to Spruce Pine, Mitchell county, in this State, has been in successful operation for some four, years. Two years ago Messrs. Walker, Abbott, Greenlee and others, civil engineers, with their respective corps of surveyors, extended the line from Spruce Pine through McDowell and Rutherford counties to Spartanburg, S. C. When the topography of the coun try is considered, it is one of the most remarkable features of engi neering successes ever achieved in the railroad world. The - Western North Carolina Railway now the Salisbury and Asheville division of the Southern at the time of its survey by Capt. Wilson, before the civil war, was considered the most remarkable achievement of the kind in history. Not so now, though still wonder ful, the grades are very steep in places, especially between Old Fort and Black Mountain Station, where a helper engine is always ; kept in readiness. to assist all trains in mak the ascent to the top of "the moun- tain. The grade of the South & West ern at no point ptr the line will ex ceed one-half of one per cent., or 26 feet to the mile. No sharp curves are tolerated , and when curvatures are made, they extend sometimes for several miles in length' The South & Western crosses the Southern in iMcDowell county on thirty feet cut near feberman, -ht miles north of Marion, and four miles souvu ui vm x-un., uuw -Airh point it mns by what IS knows) as 3yw' roads to J the headwaters of Haw branch, passing through a tunnel of 4400 feet to the headwaters of Cove creek, then down that stream by way of Sugar Hill and Otter Creek to A. F. Morgan's. Here the di viding ridge between the waters of Cove and Mountain creeks are safe ly passed and it follows the latter stream to its junction with Broad river at McClure's bridge. Here it will either cross Broad river or follow the stream to a point near Poors Ford before crossing, which will save bridging Broad and Green rivers separately before their junc tion above Poors Ford. In the event the crossing should be at Mc Clure's, the approach to what is known as the Cowpen's ridge will be more easily accessible, but an additional bridge expense of prob ably fifty or seventy-five thousand dollars will be incurred. These two proposed lines from Broad riv er to Spartanburg will be carefullj' considered before the line is perma nently located. . Capt. A. L. Abbott, of the sur veying corps, is located at old Val ley Springs, 12 miles north of Ruth erfordton, and the location of the line has been established from Eber man to a point near Nanito. some nine miles north of here. On last Saturday Capt. A. C. Walker, who ran the preliminary line here two 5'ears ago, moved his camp from Curfew, McDowell county, to the residence of Capt. A. L. Rucker, four miles west of this place on the Hickorynut road, and has begun active operations in conjunction with Capt. Abbott in locating the road bed to Spartanburg, S. C, which will be finished sometime in October. As soon as these sur veys and estimates shall have been completed the entire line from Eb erman to Spartanburg will be let to contractors and active grading be gun. All that " part of the road north of Eberman, as is already known, is under contract, and from two to three thousand hands are al ready engaged in building the road. Many conjectures, suppositions and opinions are being indulged in ref erence to the probability of the road being deflected from its origi nal course and coming through this place. The writer is not on the inside, but, like others indulging opinions, is on the outside, and ventures ls ideas only as others, for what the3' are worth. He recently h.d a conversation with a prominent attorney of the South & Western at Marion, whose influence with the corporation had failed to bring the road to that place, and the only hope for Ma rion, he admitted, was , a spur or branch line from that place to the main line at some point on the Ca tawba river. The South & West ern, he said, was not hunting towns or money, but the most accessible route to the coast. If this be true of Marion, it is true'of Rutherford ton in a general vtay, but we have one winning card that Marion does not hold. This is the western ter minus of the Carolina Central,, a part of the Seaboard Air Line sys tem. The promoters of the South & Western owns a large, if not a controlling interest in the Seaboard Air Xine system, and their con cerns are largely mutual. What, by indirection affects one directly affects the other; and it is like tak ing money from one purse and transfering it to another in an , op posite pocket, or to different safes having the same combination. If these premises be correct - the deductions cannot be otherwise than true. The Seaboard must connect with the South & Western or -i the South & Western ; must connect with the Seaboard; Which will it be? My opinion only mark that: The Seaboard, will connect with the South & Western at some point on Mountain creek, ; and not only that it must cross its line and ulti mately go on to Asheville. Sever al important reasons, besides those already adduced, might be given for such a belief, but these have been so frequently discussed that they are patent to almost every one conversant with the history of rail road matters in this county, since the survey of the .old, Tilmington 2 FIRES SUNDAY MORNING. Mr. Wilkie's Residence Narrowly Escapes A Barn Burned. At the early hour of 3 o'clock on Sunday morning our people were arroused from their peaceful slum bers by the alarm of fire in the northern portion of the town. Our citizens responded promptly, and on rushing to the scene, found the handsome new residence of Mr. C. D. Wilkie in flames, and burning with a rapidity Jthat would have soon devasted the building, had it not been for the timely aid and hard work on the part of our citizens. The fire caught from a wood box near the stove in the kitchen, but as to how it became ignited is not known. The walls, ceiling and roofing of the cooking room were badly burned and charred, but this was about the exte'nt of the damage done. Within a few minutes after the alarm was given more than a hun dred and fifty men were on the scencand exerting every effort to extinguished the flames. It is suf ficient to say that the subjugation of the fire was almost miraculous. About the same hour of the same morning, Mrs. Watkins, widow of the late Capt. C. W. Watkins, who lives near town, lost her barn by fire, together with two calves and a large amount of corn, fodder and other feed stuffs. A reaper, mower and the farming utensils were also consumed, the only thing being saved from the burning building was a horse and buggy. The cause of the fire is unknown. There was no insurance and the loss will fall quite heavily on Mrs. Watkins. RUN-A-WAY SATURDAY. Two Citizens Painfully But Not Seriously Hurt Near Town. While on their wav from town to their home at Sunshine, Saturday afternoon, the horse of Mr. W. P. Watson ran away and painfully hurt that gentleman and Mr. C. G (Jettys, who was accompanying him. The accident, which was caused by the breaking of one of the holding-back straps, causing the buggy to run on the animal, occured on the hill just as they were leaving the city. When the horse became frightened and began to run, the lines broke, and Mr, Gettys jumped out and left Mr. Watson in the buggy. The horse continued to run and remained hitched to the buggy until it reach ed the bottom of the steep incline when it broke loose and dashed the buggy against the embankment and threw the other occupant out. Both were considerably shaken up and bruised. It is thought that Mr. Watson's injuries were caused by the horse kicking him, while Mr. Gettys' was from jumping. ' The horse and buggy, strange to say, were only slightly damaged. The necessary repairs, ; however, were soon made and the two men again took up their journey homeward. OUR UNIQUE CARTOON. The Waynesville Courier On The Situation In The Tenth District. (Waynesville Courier.) ' Last week's Rutherfordton San . con tained a very unique and suggestive car toon entitled "The Situation in the Tenth Congressional District." It represents four men stalking towards the National Capitol, Mills pompously in the. lead, Crawford determinedly pressing close, Gallert proudly next. Craig philosophi cally last. Bushing out from the front of the capitol tomeet them and to stop their progress, is uudger, his coat tail flying in the air, his hands thrown up in an imprecating manner, and wildly cry ing out at the top of his voice, "Don't 1" ; This unique cartoon, which does great credit to the enterprise of -The Sun, and for which the cartoonist deserves a bou quet, suggests the probability of -Mr; Gndger's entering the race , for " a third term which doubtless will be a surprise to many and the certainty of some thing more than passive opposition. It will be remembered that strong assur ances were made by the friends of Mr. Gudger at the opening of the last cam paign that he would not be a candidate for a third nomination. : : Charlotte and Rutherfordton Rail road before the civil war. ! ' The building of the South" & Western is assured and the exten sion of the Seaboard AirIjne to Mountain a creek.-, reasonably snre, and its extension at an early date to the city of Asheville is highly 1 .... WILL HARKINS RESIGN? Inside Information Says He Will January 1st. Other Changes. (Asheville Citizen.) United States Internal Revenue Col lector Harkins will resign January first and be succeeded by another man. -. This is the statement which comes from an inside source. But Mr. Harkins does not seem to know it. When asked about the truth of the statement yesterday the collector shook his head and intimated that of office holders few died and none resigned. If Mr. Harkins was very anxious to hold on for another term the talk of his departure from the Federal building would be less susceptible of belief, be cause his party service and favor with trie national administration would make him a hard man to turn out of office. But Mr. Harkins is not keen to remain. He has been in the government service for many years, much of the time in places of hard .and dangerous work and little pay, but his heart naturally turns to the green mountains and his farm on Hominy. Practically he has been ap pointed to a third term, although it was loudly proclaimed that he would not get it, and with this approval of him by the president over the general rule that a Federal appointee would be given a third term he can rest on his honors. If he is let alone it is not unlikely that he will voluntarily resign long before his term expires. There will be changes in the revenue office before October first, and more changes after that. A good many em ployes will be replaced by other Repub licans who have not had office. In fact, it has been known for some time that one by one the great majority of the employes, deputybllectors, office men and field men would be dropped, so that in a year or two most or the faces in the office will be new ones there. State Chairman Rollins is willing to fight Blackburn, but he sees the signs of revolt among the outs and the winning by Judge Fwart in the race for the con gressional nomination is a lesson not lost on him. Prof. Britt was beaten be cause ne naa me support 01 those in office. - Chairman Rollins is very restive under the suggestion that he is guiding the State Republican party into the path followed by the party in other Southern States no attempt to carry a State, but only to hold the party organization in or der to get offices, and he wants to make a show at the next election. To do this he must get the party together, and this means changes iu office holders. KILLED BY A VICIOUS MULE. The Hollis High School Flourishing Many Went On Excursion. (Special to The Sun.l NANITO, August 23 Farmers have commenced pulling fodder although it is firing up and damaging considerably. Copper Bill and his better half spent several days last .week at Mooresboro visiting their daughter, Mrs. M. C. Blanton. - This writer made a flying trip to Hol lis last week and found everything mov ing on nicely. Prof. Stallings is running a successful school, numbering over one hundred and expecting several more to begin soon. Several new buildings is being erected on the premises of the famous Hollis merchant, J. P. D. With row, in order that parties who wish to get near the Holli High School may find a lodging place and get their chil dren in school. We also saw quite a lot of large granite lying on the ground where he intends to erect a large rock store building. It begins to look like business was the chief object in view. We saw the largest hog we ever remem ber seeing. It measured something over 11 feet from the end of its nose to the tip of its tail. Now, if Brown can beat this for a long hog, we would like to hear from him. - Brown tells us he and several others went on the excursion to Wilmington last week and report haying a fine time. He says he found several places of in terest on the trip. First was the city of Lincolnton, which he supposed took its name from President Lincoln. Second was Monroe, which took its name from President Monroe. Copper Bill tells us he would like to have gone with Brown, but he found that the railroad company wanted to charge him as much for fare as they did Brown, so he never went. .T We are sorry to note the sad death of Mackey Arrowood, son of Mr. B. F. Arrowood, who was kicked by a vicious mule one day last week. . We extend our prof oundest sympathy to the bereft parents in this sad hour of trial. - On Wednesday of last week a .public sale was made of all the personal prop erty of the late A.- B. Haymes. , . ; t Mr. and Mrs Charley Whitakep, of New House, spent several tlays here this week visiting relatives. " ' " Misses Ollie and Nettie Haynes will leave in a few days for Morgan ton to take a position in the hospital as trained nurses. J . Mr. Joseph Flack and sister were wel come visitors here last week. . - Mr. C. F. Blanton, of Ellenboro, was here this week. ::- ' - Teachers To Meet September 2nd. v The next regular r meeting of - the County Teachers' Association will be-in Rutherfordton on Saturday, September 2nd. From now on these meetings will be on the first Saturday in each month. In accordance with the public school law of North Carolina the Board of Ed ucation makes it mandatory of all pub lic school teacliers of the county to at tend. The public is most cordially in riled to attend all meetings. P. M. STALLINGS, : . . ' Pref. Association. EXPENSIVE WHIMS. Some That Cost Fortunes Bits Of Luck That Brought Millions. : (The New York. Sun.)' 'The Sultan presents his compli ments to the engineer in charge and wishes tiim to open the bridge 1 n course of erection in Constantinople in order to let a ship from the dock yard pass' through at once." When this message was delivered into the hands of the contractor re sponsible for jthe instruction of the bridge be was thunderstruck, says London Answers. He had been work ing on the bridge day and night, and when the orders for its openin g came from the Sultan it was not half fiin ished. " He approached the Minister of Ma rine and Finance and said it was im possible to obey his Majesty's com mand, as he would have to pull every thing down, and it would take months to replace the scaffolding and pile driving' machines. 'It cannot be helped," replied the Ministers.- "If the Sultan says the bridge must be opened it must be done or we shall lose our places, if not our heads." So the bridge was opened, and the ship came out of the dockyard at a cost -of oyer $500,000. It afterward transpired that the Sultan had found his infant son crying bitterly in the harem because he'could not see the flag hoisted on his particular ship from the nursery window. To humor the child's caprice the Sultan ordered the bridge to be open ed at once and a large ironclad to be brought out of the dockyard and moored in front of. Dolmabagtcheh. This no doubt pleased the boy. but it caused enormous inconvenience to the people of Constantinople, to say noth ing of the waste of money which had indirectly come out of their pockets- The State of Massachusetts lost $3,000,000 because a man living in Boston left his window open over night. He was a silk grower, and in the hope of producing a new brand of silk he experimented with some gipsy moths that had been sent to him from France. He left the moths under a glass shade by an open window one night, and next morning they had all disap peared. The shade had been over turned and the draft blew the moths into the street. Eighteen months later Massachu setts was swarming with gipsy moths and they ate the leaves off every tree and bush for miles around. The dam age done in two years by the insects totaled $3,000,000, and the State au thorities spent another $750,000 trying to exterminate the pests. , One of the worst famines ever known in lower Egypt was caused by a couple of John Bull's gunboats. The vessels went up into the marshes be yond Khartum, to capture slave trad ers. The slaves, who had made up their minds not to be caught easily, made a bold bid for fieedom by cutting channels through the mass of vegeta tion which lined the main stream of tile Nile. -The majority of them escaped in this way, but-the channels they cut in their anxiety to get away brought ruin and famine to lower Egypt. The current carried the masses of loose vegetation down the river, and so completely blocked it that the Nile flood failed. United States Senator George L. Turner, of Washington, lost his for tune and poverty stared him in the face. Turner was a lawyer, and one day a party of miners, well known to him, who had struck a lode up in British America, near Victoria, came into his office and asked nim to make out some papers for them. We can't pay you cash for your services, Mr. Turner." said one of the party, after their business had bees transacted, "but we will give you some stock and call it square." At first Turner refused co take the stock, as his clients were old friends of his and he preferred to do the work for nothing, but on being pressed he took the certificates and tucked them away in his safe. Two years later Senator Turner was a millionaire through these mining shares, and the mine that brought him the np'oney and made the fortune of his friends is the famous LeKoi, one of the richest in the West. " Two tourist camped on the ridge of a mountain lake near Como, a mining town in Colorado. While in want of something to pass the time one sug gested that the other should dive into the lake and try to discover the bot tom. His friend stripped and dived in. He came lip half a miuute later, saying that he had found the botttm with his head. After he put on his clothes he began to rub his head with his handker chief. - "Look at the sand," he said, laugh ing, but his friend, who had been a gold miner, sprang up with a cry. of surprise. "Geortre." he shouted, "it's gold!" And tmld it was. The man whot had dived into the lake and struck a placer gold mine of the rickest kind. To-day the little lake near Como is the finest placer mine in the whole West, and perhaps the most remark ably discovered one on record. J AGONIZING BURNS are instantly relieved, and perfectly healed, by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. C. Rivenbark, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., writes "I burnt my knee dreadfully ; tnat it blistered all over. Bucklen's Arnica Salve stopped the pain, and healed it without scar." Also ueau Ml wounns a.nrl onraa SSn at, nil drnirvistfl. : - - I JAPS MUST RECEDE IF THERE BE PEACE. Russians Declare They Cannot Accept Proposition. ROOSEVELT PLEA UNHEEDED No Apparent End Is In Sight At Peace Conference Both Powers Refuse To Yield, And It Looks As. Though The War Will Continue. PORTSMOUTH, August 26. Pres taent Koosevelt's intercession at fc terhoff and Tokio has not Deen suc cessful as yet, but enough progress has been made to insure the prolonga tion of the negotiations beyond today. A certain result has been achieved at St. Petersburg but if there is event ually to be peace Japan also must chang eher attitude. The re-purchase of the northern half of Sakhalin Island still points the clear roaa to the only possible compromise, but it must be a purely commercial transaction, not a claim for indemnity in disguise. There had not been the slightest in. dicatiou upon to 11 o'cIock tnis morn ing that Emperor Nicholas would re cede from his announced determina tion not to pay tribute under any form. And, in the quarters most com petent to judge, there is not the slight est prospect of a change. But if Ja pan would bond, if sne would re nounce formally her demand for "re imbursement for the cost of the war," by the withdrawal of the price she sets upon the northern half of Sakhalin and frankly mak ethe proposition to sell the island on a commercial basis, it is difficult to see how Emperor Nicholas having already acceeded to the old conditions proposed, could refuse. Conference Held in Paris. Paris, August 26. Premier Rouvier had a long talk at the foreign office today with M. Jusseraud, ambassador to the United States. Its nature has not been disclosed, but it Is presumed that it related to American affairs and to the general satus of the negotia tions at Portsmouth. However, t government is not giving any outward signs of activity In connection wwith the peace conference owing to the sensitiveness of French relations with Russia. Information from officials at St. Pe tersburg shows that Ambassador Mey er's meeting with the emperor lasted only ten minutes and was not produc tive of notable results. The brevity ol the meeting is looked upon as an un favorable sign. Czar Likes Roosevelt's Attitude. Berlin, August 26. The Associated Press today received the following communication from the foreign office: "The foreign office empowers the As. sociated Press to declare that all re ports over the opposition of the em peror to the mediation of President Rosevelt are absurd. The emperor regards the endeavors of the presi dent with admiration and takes the greatest Interest in the success of the labors for peace, in whose beginnings t.h emoeror personally, assisted. To My Friends And Customers. I wish to announce that I will trim next season for W. P. Carpenter & Co.. Mooresville, N. C, who solicits through me your patronage, and for further in ducemeuts will pay express one way. I will start North by the 29th ani will be ready to fill orders by the middle of September. Very respectfully, LOUL.A KENDRICK CONNELLY. Every man owes it to himself and his family to master a trade or profession. Read the display advertisement of the six Morse Schools of Telegraphy, in this iisue and learn how easily a young man or lady may learn telegaphy aud be as sured a position. Mr. Mack Morris, of Broad River, was here Tuesday and called at The Sun office to subscribe for his county paper. I Delicious Chocolate I (SrowelH Forest m'"NMm om Brerr Piece." PURITY In the home and in ed ucation, produce noble men and women. - Our greater Colleges -use Stieff Pianos ex clusively, because they are musically Pure. In the home a Stieff Piano is an emblem of . puritj in musical refine ment and proof of an Artistic taste. Only Artistic Standard sold direct. Write to-day for prices and terms. CHAS.M. STIEFF, Manufacturer of the piano with the sweet tone. SOUTHERN WAREROOM 5 West Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. C. H. Wilmoth. Mgi TOTHE PEOPLEOF HENRIETTA AND GAROLEEN, N.C. Forest City And in All Parts Of Rutherford County. We hare the Clothing, the Shoes and Gents' Furnishing Goods the best the newest and latest styles at prices not marked up to three times its value or worth. Our goods are not old rotten material which has been on the shelves for 5 or 10 years, marked and remarked and retagged, but are standard goods from the biggest and best houses in the country brought to Ruther fordton within the last 12 months. Other goods are coming in daily. When j'ou want to be treated right and given a real bargain in good material, come to our store; we guarantee our goods. Remember we are going to give away a $400.00 Stieff Piano. SIMMONS-ANDERSON CO., Rutherfordton, N. C. POISONS IN FOOD. Perhaps you don't realize that many pain poisons origiuate in your food, but some day you may feel a twinge of dys pepsia that will convince you. Dr. King's New Life Pills are guaranteed to cure all sickness due to poisons undigested food-or money back. 2&e at all drug stores. Try them. 1 CANCER 1 1 HOSPITAL 3 5j We want every man and woman in the lt( United States to know what we are do 3?? inr. We are oiiriticr C?iiir: Tn tt arc a ti I m Chronic Sores without the use of the j5 K and Legislature of Virginia. If you are S g seeking a cure, come here and you will v? j get it. We guarantee our cures. Js The Kellam Cancer Hospital, H RICHMOND, VA. g 3 Carvdies J I X Bon-Bons. Wilkie, i City.