iL BUMSARNER IS flUHD HOT BUIITY If MURDER CHARGE hour after the jury took \| .;ii an hi k K. Humgarner, charged i^. murder of Frank Bf-yson, .1,-1.1111:1 ry 3, in superior court, I * 1 ~ li?i] i unit iiiM <, .inliu ai- noon, the ineiubers filed |,nk i"1" l'u" (0,l,t returned a ?iM ??ihy |:m<;ii ii. r. a prominent citizen of ('.,.ja, r'- \ alley, and a nephew of jll t. l-'ili v K. Alley, did not deny Jiieiiiiirr. s?'t up a plea of Jiil. I ? H-' Solicitor .John M. Queer. ;;,lU',iiiir?-iid degree, or nian .tmirlilcr. Cniu-Mtncr, who is the only living mi the actual shooting, took in his own behalf, and .yi,,! that lie and his small son had ?.;,riiil over to the home of a neigh - I,,], who had promised to take som< p,ra U' Fugate's mill, and found thai ,j? ii ick of the neighbor coidd not li, .i;n led, and that the two carried nil:: to the mill. He accounted [ f,,| tin- presence of the pistol in hi> ...ki-l l?y stating that he was goinj tie hinds of nonresidents, on yd, he was patrolling, and of ri,j,.|i In had charge. lie stated that lli.y iii-ami the mill he saw Prank Hivmiii leaving the mill. After get tin-: tlie corn ground," he and hi? <..1, siarie.! hack home, gbing by his ?!,| |)l;ii-c to let Heeinan McCall hav. lmliler. He then went to .T. 0. P:i?miiiivi'< store to see him about \\w \Vliiti-i P.issmore, and Beeman McCall :'ll took the stand and corroborated foimjntrner about his movements, and tin I wo Pells told of hearing the -lints fired, and that the rifle fired itisf ;i second before the pistol. Mrs. .U xander Passniore testified to the ?niii thing regard'ng the shots. Dr. Wilk* s said that he examined Bnm ::uner after he was brought to jail r 1 found a large bruise between his -liftiilders. Frank Allen told of Bum garjii-r coming1 to surrender himself, ?mhI til' what Btimgarnor told him at 'V time abdut the affair, which I'r.'tlv norrohorated?Bumgarner. llr*. Krvsoii took the stand and '"W iltimigh sweater, shirt and un ?li'H'liitliiiig were identified by Mrs. | I'1'}- >11. I'. B. Maxwell, Mrs. A. S. "fvsnii, mother-in-law of the de ''?antl, and others told of hearin? ,1" di?.t and that the pistol fired I'lfuii- the rifle. '??? I' St ill well, Hu^h E. Monteith, ' II. XichoLson appeared for T'"" Stat.-. with Solicitor Queen. Attorneys for the defense were, Wiml, W. R. Sherrill, Dan K. M Mini P. B. Alley, Jr., Doyle i'?? I '"u Rogers, DilVard Hooped Mont Daves, Gteo. I* ' and 0. P. Shelton. Wit Sl",s t^tified to the good cbarac Kuiiigarnor, while aorae swore ] lat was a man of dangerous viid, nt character, and others Uii? whs not ftagg. Threats I'' have been made by Brysou i|M. | fe Bumgarner and raiiMintted to were testified til BEfTER PAY YOUR YfSFE It is a good plan to pay your I wife when ordq&ed to do so by the court. Dee Ensley, a few terms ago was ordered by the court to pay $10.00 'a month into the court for the support of his wife, under penalty ongoing to the roads for two years. ^Ke neglected to do so. His bondfmen went to Green Riyert ov^fr in Henderson1 and brought hifo to court. Judge I*. A. M^Elroy ordered the two years' sentence put into effect. . Many Scad Sentences Imposed By Court Here - . v Several recruits for work on thj highways of the State were sent to the State Highway and Publie Works commission, the last of last week and the first of this by Judge MeElroy. * Hollis Cole, assault with a deadly weapon and breaking jail was sen tenced to serve 4 months. Jim Maney, housebreaking, 9 mos. Tolvin Ensley, violating the pro hibition laws, six months. ? Howard Gibson, John Gibson and Harley NValdroup, failure to comply with orders of a previous term of court, by paying the costs, 6 month* each. Ohas. Scates, violating the prohi bition laws, three months, suspended* John Gray, assault, ordered to pay the costs of the action, and $50.00 for Lon Cunningham. Nohman Nicholson, carrying con cealed weapons, adjudged not guilt> by the court. Candler Frady, prohibition viola lion, nol pros. Card Robinson, violating the pro hibition laws. Is serving 18 months on the roads from Transylvania. Nol pros. Elmer Bridges, assault, 6 months, suspended. Willie Watson, assault, jw*yer for judgment continued. Jim Griffin, prohibition violaiMg case continued to May term. Jim Woodring, injury to building, called and failed, judgment ni si sci fa and capias instanter. Rosie Ensley, pollution of water supply, 4 months in jail, suspended. Charlie, Carl and Paul Buchanan, 5 months suspended. Ij. L. Cope and Mary Queen, t A a. Female defendant called and failed, judgment ni si sci and capias in stanter. Will West, costs, called and failed. Robert McCall, costs, called and failed. T. H. Hunter, abandonment, ool pros. Roy McCall, costs, called and failed Wes Bryson And Roy McCall, af fray, called and failed. M. H. Rose, larceny, Jiol pros. C. Z. Candler and Alvin Nichols, affray. Prayer for judgment con tinued upon payment of the costs. County Tournament To Be Held This Week Following are the pairings and playing tmes of the Jackson county basketball tournament to be held at Western Carolina Teachers College Friday and Saturday of this week: I Friday 12:00 Cullowhee vs Webster (boys) 12:30 Sylva vs Wbittier (boys) 1:00 Webster vs Willets (girls) 1:30 Dillsboro vs WiUets (boys) 2:00 DDIsboro vs Glenville (girls) 2:30 Glenville vs Bet# (boys) 3:00 Cashiers vs QuftUa (boys) 3:30 Sylva vs winners Dlllsbom Qlenville (girls) 4:00 Webster or Cullowhee vs Sylvn or Whittler (bpys) 4:30 Cullowhee vs Sylva (gi|is) High Bchool J s 5:10 Webster vs Cullowhee (boys) High School 6:00 Supper 0:30 Bet* vs Webiter?Wllleti (fM?) 7:00 Sem:-finals (boys) 7:30 Semi-fin*k (boys) 8:00 Wcbrf^TH GlfiriJfel (girls) HigttwlM *:? , W. - Sy58^fc? Ql^nViUe (boys) / Saturday ? w r 3:00 Graded School girls, fi nftlg 3:40 Graded Schpol, boys finals 7:30 High Sehool girK.fi"*** H 8:30 H'gh^ School htyty finals f w ? ? by Mr. Moody, an Oconee county, S. C., officer, who served a, s a# liB CuMert-VrMtay. ~ # - - .1 ' q yl PRESIDENT HOItS FOR RE-ElECtiON OF HIS SOPPORM ? ?jgt ? Washington, F^b. 28. (8p ' A great many people have asked us t# give them a few days in which to take advantage of the offer. This w? efcatt do, Mid keeji our word. Henee, we are removing all names from thi subscription list, of people whose subscriptions have expired. However, in order that no person can feel that he has .not had a fair chance at the offer, we will reinstate the name of any person paying a year's subscrip tion on or before Aarch 31, giving full credit for one year's subscrip tion paid in advance, one year from the present date, and cancelling all hack amounts due us. All accounts not paid in this man ner on or before March 31, will be considered due in full, and we will proceed to collection. Grand Jury Reports To Judge McElroy The grand jury made the following report to Judge McElroy in Superior Court, last week: A committee of the grand jury vis ited the county home and found it in good condition and the inmates well eared for. We found provisions suf ficient, such as are raised, on the farm, to take care of the home until the harvesting of the next crop. We recommend that a new barn ba erected if possible, as this is very badly needed to take care of the. crops. ? A committee of the grand jury vis ited the jail and found it in good condition. We have examined the different offices in the Court House and find that they are in good condition and the records are neatly and well kept: ?lao - with a few exceptions guardian reports are up to date. M. D. Cowan, Foreman BALSAM A large number of friends and relatives from here attended the fun oral and burial of Mrs. J. R. McKay which was in Waynesville Thursday of last week. Mrs. McKay died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Sigmon in Conover. . Mr. and Mrs. Bryson Beck and baby have returned from a visit to Mrs, Beck's sister, Mrs. Bessie Outh bertson in Mr, R. R. Fisher* was in 4U)sam Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Rusk!* of At ?? , i ^ lanta were here Monday. Miss Buth Patterson of DiHsboro I spjent last week and r.rth Miss Helen j Queen. Mrs. 0. J. Beck received a message that her mother, Mrs. Jim Lindsey, , w?? very ill in Cincinnati. Mrs. Beek left Hotulay for Cincinnati, 'Climate Here Is Pleasant As Compared To Other Sections Of The Country TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) LIFE . . . natural cycle The year 1935 ought to be a good year for red clover in New England. The winter has been the most severe in years. Comparatively few of the little animals of the fields and woods survive a winter when the crust of the snow is frozen hard. There will be fewer field-miee to rob the bum ble-bees' nests in the spring. More bumble-bees will come to maturity and seek honey from the red clover blossoms. The clover erop will thus be thoroughly pollenized, and the red clover seeds will be fertile. That will make for a good red clover crop in 1935. To me this example of the cycle of life, first pointed out by Chariest Darwin, has always seemed one of the most interesting of all natural phenomena. I think that many well meant efforts to disturb Nature's or dinary course are Calculated to do more harm than good to a world that has adjusted itself to the norma) cycle. TEETH . . . J urn and then Tooth decay has little to do with tooth cleanliness or the lack of it, according to the British Medical Re search Council, which has been dig ging deep into the subject. What makes children's teeth decay is not enough sunshine, too high a percent age of eereal foods, not enough meat, eggs, milk, cheese, fats and fresh vegetables in tlie diet, these medical men say. The whitest and soundest teeth are found among savage and half civilized^ peoples wh'o-Iiv^ ttrgdjr out of doors and eat whatever they can find that is edible. In my boyhood toothbrushes were just beginning to come into general use. and not more than one or two dentrifiees were advertised. Mox1 folks never brushed their teeth at all, yet thf human race had survived for a good many thousand, perhaps millions, of years. Clean, white teeth are desirable, but nothing to worry about if one doesn't have them. MONSTERS . . . men bave seen The amortnt of evidenee that some strange sea-monster lives in a Scot tish loeh, and the many reports of a seaserpent seen in Vancouver Sound, have encouraged many folk to tell of strange things they have seen at sea, about which they had kept quiet for fear of being ridictaledL Officers of the Mauretania *aw a seaserpent on a recent Caribbean emise, and drew a picture of it in the ship's log. Now the Rev. J. E. Rockliff, who is a sort of travelling missionary to seamen and voyages some 50,000 miles every year, tell" of seeing a yellow serpent about sixty feet long in mid-Pacific two years ago. It seems to me that we are on the verge of demonstrating once more thaa there 'is more to aneient beliefs than a skeptical modern age has been willing to believe. POKER . . . and personal rights The great American card game, so far as men are concerned, is not contract bridge but poker. In a good many states there are laws against playing poker, also against playing marbles "for keeps" , and anything else that can be construed as gamb ling. These laws are seldom invoked except when somebody in authority wants to make trouble for somebody else. Representative Parker of Georgia had a candidate for postmaster of his home town. His polities) oppon ents brought before the Senate evi dence that the Congressman's ehoice had once been arrested in a raid or. a poker game, indicted and fined Mr. Parker cheerfully admitted that was true. He had sat in the same poker game himself and had also been ; arrested and fined! If it didn't de bar hrm from later going to Congress, it ought not to debar bis man from the postmastership. The Senate con firmed the appointment with glee. Few take seriously any sort of j laws that restrict the right of the individual to do what he likes, so long as he doesn't infringe on the rights of ken, I The superiority of the climate West of the Balsams, vu demonstrat ed sharply, again this week, as we enjoyed lovely weather, with the ex ception of a rather heavy rain, fol lowed with just enough tinge of cold in the air to give vim and vigor to our activities, while practically all the rest of the nation either shivered in terrible cold, tried to dig itself out from under mountainous snows>, was amittc-n by tornado, or slipped and slid 011 sleety roads and street*, while telephone, telegraph and elec tric light lines broke down by th i weight of the ice storm. Three dead and millions of dollar? property damage were recorded as the toll of the Sunday night sleet storm. Late Monday Winston-Salem was still without communication with the outside world. Power and com munication totally broke down at Greensboro, and the daily papers were unable to publish their editions, while stores and homes were lighted with oil lamps or candles. Industry was at a standstill in High Point, Lexington, Greenville, 8. C., and practically the entire Piedmont area, from Georgia Northward to Virginia, due to tornado and sleet. ? Small armies of men were clearing awav the debris and restoring communi cation and power facilities in the Piedmont. Seventeen persons are known to have died in the tornado in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and Red Cross and American Legion were hurrying aid to the stricken areas. The already heavy snow blanket over New England was increased by another eight inch storm which swept over the region, and brought tl"' total fall for the winter to over M inches. 35,500 men wer? put to work, and every available apparatus throw* i$ito the fight to keep the main thoroughfares in New York City open to traffic. Communities on Ixnitf Island, already isolated by last week's snow, dug in for a prolonged siege. Nine persons were killed and' 31 injured in- a blinding blizzard that swept the Western States. Eight peo ple died when a Western AArtln*** plane crashed into the side of ' n mountain, n-oar Salt Lake City, in the blizzard. And so the story goes from one end of the country to the other, while we fortunates, hemmed in between the guardian ranges of Balsams and Great Smokies, have had nothing un usual to report ahotat our special brand of weather. 40 YEARS AGO Tnckatetfge Democrat, Feb. 28, 1894 ! Capt. .1. W. Terrell, as jolly and genial as ever, favored us with a fall today. Misses Annie Gibson, Ella and Hattie Frizzed, -of the Fisher's creek settlement, were in town Tuesday. Mr. C. L. Woodring, of GLenvillo, went as far as Asheville, Tuesday, with his two daughters, who wer. starting on a .journey to Oklahoma. The first snow of the winter, of any consequence, commenced falling Saturday nipht and continued fallin;; till into Sunday night, when ii reached a depth of five or six inched. Since then it has melted rapidly and remains only in protected places. Mr. W. Divelbiss went over to Biltmore Tuesday to be pres ent at th*? double wedding in which h;s brother, Mr. J. E. Divelbiss, in one of the'- principals. The marriage was to occur today at 1 :30 o'clock, of Miss Ella V. Adams, to Mr. J. E. Divelbiss, and Miss Annie Campbell to Mr. Dougherty. The yonng ladies are cousins. The XoTth Carolina University trustees have established a summer normal school for both men and woman, and also special courses of summer instruction of high grade in various University branches, to begin July 2nd and continue four weeks. The. Raleigh Christian Advocate 'and the Western North Carolina Ad* vocate of Asheville, the fwo Metho dist papers of North Carolina, have beenmerged into one, wbkk will b?