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Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Prow. .Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation, LAST EDITION. ALL TMAJKKEm THE KALEIGH EVENING TIMES VOLUME 27. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1906. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY PRICE Sc. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP RECEIVED A QUIETUS FROM WHOLE BOARD CHARGE AGAINST M. S. GRIFFIN New Water Contract Along Line of Company's Origi nal Proposition NEW TELEPHONE CD. WANTS A FRANCHISE W. A. Maupln of Atlanta, Director of New Company, Tolls Iioard What Has Been Done and Urges Immediate Consideration of Fran chise to The Capital City Telt phone Company Raleigh and Durham Car Line Aaiu City Extension Urged What to Do With Stagnant Pools Southeast of City. Taking Illegal Fee for Col lecting Widow's Pension TRUE BILL RETURNED Will Be Tried in United States Court Here Is Democratic Representative-Elect From Nasli and an Old and Highly Esteemed Man He Claims Ignorance of Law. Ity a unanimous vole, without one word of discussion, the board of alder men last night gave the Wake Watei Company a new franchise for fifteen years, and thus dealt a quietus to the municipal ownership agitation that was supposed at one time in some quar ters to be 'shaking the conservative cit izens of North Carolina's capital. The rates will be about 40 percent less than lliey are now, and the new rates w go into effect April 1, 107. So ends the agitation for municipal ownership of water works which has been going on spasmodically In Raleigh for four or five years, and has 'raged bitterly since last February. This franchise is along the line of the prop osition which the water company vol-. untarily made last March, when It of fered to reduce the existing rates and to make a new contract with the city. That of course was the principal bus Incaa transacted by the board, and out side of the reading of the ordinance containing the new contract with tin water company, which is rather lengthy, it took less time to get through wit it tban almost anything else that came up last night. When the stentor Ian tones of City Clerk Willson's man ly voice at last dropped at the end of the long document. Alderman Harden simply moved that the rules be sus nr tided and the ordinances voted on at once. It was done in the twinkling of an eye. Then Mr. Harden, the ordi nance be adopted, and that was done as fast as Mayor Johnson could put the question. It was a very tame finish to what was supposed to be a big fight. The meeting of the board last night was one of the longest ami one of tht most thickly crowded with business ever held In this city. It began at 8 o'clock, and school never let out till long after U. Nearly a dozen special committees weer appointed, and there will have to be a called meeting of the board next week. It appeared as If all the forgotten things were suddenly re membered. There were discussions on topics that ranged in variety from the speckled winged mosquito all the way to exten sion of the city's limits. Even the Ra leiah and Durham Passenger and Pow er Company did the Rip Van Winkle act. coming back to the scene of Its an cient activities to ask through its at torney, Mr. Thomas Staples Fuller, that the franchise of the company be amended so as to keep the date3 straight. It appears that the franchise was not finally accepted : ntil March 8, lini), although it bears date of De-eemb- 21, 1901 The company is re quire,' to begin work on its car line to Durha I and in this city within two yeais 1 ota date of franchise, so accord- to the ordinance as it stands work must bcin hy the Jtat of this month. the coiOpanv os its franchise. ASpomtnltte. i - leg of the mayor nnil cilty attorney .,, ' Aldermen up- ehureh,jBa 'en C1 1 "-9t was named to investigate al n :ri to a called meeting. Tm mettl.. will probably be called for Vue. tay. New WateX Contract-. The principal i:j8fe of the new contract with the Wajlt Water Com pany are as follows: The charge against thA city for fire protection hydrants In miufced to $32.50 each per year; water compVny can be required by city to extendi it mains not exceeding two miles IrftWany one year, provided the city rents'iat $32.50 each per year, ten additional Myrdiiints for each mile of extension. shod the company is required to extend 11 vice pipes upon the. application Bf the owners of five houses, provide the company cannot be required to n1Hlr an extension of more than two blinks on any one application, and provided such applicants guarantee a total rwbtal of $25.00 a year for each block of lex tension: the new rates to consiimfers are' to go into effect on April 1st. 1 at which time the minimum meter rate will be $2.25 per quarter for 9.0C0 gal lons, and the flat rates are to be re duced, and the meter rates are to be re duced acording to a graduated scale, starting with 25c a thousand gallons for the first 30,000 gallons a month and running down to cheaper prices accord ing to the quantity of water consumed; at the end of the first ten years there is to be a further reduction of meter rates, at which time the minimum meter rate will be $1.80 per quarter for 9,000 gallons per quarter, and the graduated meter scale will commence at 20c per llnlllu I wfillr,n fnt- th first 3I WW Ions and go down to cheaper prices at-' Yesterday afternoon in United cording to the quantity used; the water j States court here the grand jury company is to furnish the city water j brought in a true bill against M. S. for sprinkling streets, Hushing gutters Griffin, the democratic member-elect and sewers, drinking fountains, city of the lower house of the legislat ure offices, public schools, public fountains, , llon, fta$h county, for taking an etc., in lieu of charges by the city for Ujaga feH fi.om ft widow In payment taxes, privileges and licenses; the fail- fm. son.,ces , securJng her a pen ure of the water company to keep and , - ... , ,,, , : ,1 . ,u , sicn from the lim ed Slates govern- carry out its part of the contract en- titles the city to revoke the franchise. nK'nt- It is understood that the water com- T.Ira charge against Mr. Griffin Is pany will have the rates printed in full that lie took as fee from Mrs. Charity in pamphlet frm and distributed among V. Follensboe, widow Of Nathan its consumers ,that there may be a j Follensbee, who served in Company ear unuursiunnnig ot me yucca u u-. u, llulll New York regiment, one- charged. New Telephone Company. Perhaps next in importance to the water franchise was that of the new telephone company to take the place of the Bell and Interstate in thin city. An ordinance was Introduced to give a fifty year franchise to The Capital City Telephone Company, which is to buy the property of the other two 'phone companies. Mr. W. A. Maupln of Atlanta, a di rector of the new company, addressed the board, stating that he hoped the or dinance carrying the franchise would be acted upon as early as possible, pre ferably next week, as nothing could be done now until the company was given the right to proceed. As it was, thi company owned not a bit of property In Raleigh, and could do nothing fur ther until it secured the franchise, Mr. Maupln said that he had been at work for months perfecting plans to give this city an absolutely first class telephone system, and everything was ready to begin work. A site hud been selected for an exchange, a corps of men had been here doing the engineer ing work, and it was proposed to have the wires In the business section under ground. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Harden, Grimes, Lee and the city at torney, was appointed to take up the matter at once and report to a called meeting. City Extension. On motion of Alderman Grimes, the mayor, city attorney and three mem bers of the board are to constitute a committee to look into revisions of the city charter before the meeting of the general assembly. Mr. Grimes was put on this committee and the others will be named later. Col. F. B. Arendell and Mr. F. H. Busbee, representing the chamber of commerce, and Mr. R. N. Slmms, rep sentlng the Young Men's Industrial Club, spoke strongly for extension of the city limits and for eliminating all personal interests in so doing. Col. F. B. Arendell showed a plot for extend ing the present llmts so that the dis tance from the capitol in each direction should be one mile, the shape to be an exact square. Mr. Slmms mentioned one big enter prise that Raleigh had recently lost be cause it was not known how the limits would be extended. Mr. Busbee was in favor of every dollar raised in the added portion being spent for improve ments in those localities. The whole matter was referred to the charter committee provided for. Condition of Hillsboro Street. Mr. John W. Hinsdale, Jr., addressed the board on the conditions of Hillsboro street, saying that when the street car company finished the double tracking work it had thrown the macadam and ed clay subsoil all together back on the tracks without obeying the ordi nance by replacing the paving as it had been found. In wet weather now, Mr. Hinsdale said, otie would sink down to his ankles in tile mud. Alderman Jackson suggested that the street commissioner investigate tne whole line of the car track for like vio lations, 'and have no more monkey bus iness." Mayor Johnson and City Attor ney Snow both held there was no ex cuse for the condition of Hillsboro street. The street commissioner said the company was starting now to fix it. To -Get Rid of .Nuisance. Mr. James H. Pou and Mr. F. H. Bus bee of the chamber of commerce urged that the city take action in regard to the lake of foul and Btagnant water southeast of town near the Southern Railway track, caused by the overflow of Walnut Creek and Rocky Branch. They said there was no doubt It caused a great deal of malaria In the south eastern part of town, and the state half of the first payment, $1,355, on her pension, and entered into an agreement with, her, whereby ho wa3 to get one-half of each quarter ly payment of $24 made to her as an allowance for the remainder of her life, that, he then offered to re lease her from the payments each quarter if she would give him $100 more on the first payment. It seems that, he says he received $65 of this additional $100, but Mrs. Follens beo says she gave him the entire $100. Mr, Griffin claims that ho had no knowledge that his act was illegal. He is an old man and is highly es teemed in Nash county. He is pros perous and has influential friends. When the matter became known considerable pressure was brought upon the department of justice at Washington in behalf of Mr. Griffin, but it appears that in the meantime a report of the affair was made by the pension department to the effect (Continued on Page Five.) A WIDE CHASM 70 BE BRIDGED Root and Durand on Fisher ies Modus Vivendi UNITED STATES RIGHTS Root Urged That Great Britain Take Steps to Secure Repeal of the New Foundland Laws in Conflict With Those Rights Tone of Cor respondence Conciliatory. (By the Associated Press.) London, Dec. 8. The correspondence between the state department at Wash ington and the foreign office here and that between Newfoundland and the Colonial office, detailing the circum stances leading to the establishment of the fisheries modus Vivendi was pub lished here today. While the tone is conciliatory it shows that a wide chasm remains to be bridged. The dispatches commenced in Octo ber, 1905, with letters from Secretary Root to Ambassado- Durand, dated Oc tober 12 and October 19, asking for an early Interview on the subject of the fisheries and explaining at length the United States' views of her treaty rights and urging that Great Britain take steps to secure the repeal of the New foundland laws conflicting therewith. Foreign Secretary Grey, February 20, last, through Ambassador Reid, dealt at length with Mr. Root's observations and said he regretted that he was un able to assent thereto without import ant qualifications. Mr. Reid notified Secretary Grey July 20 that Mr. Root disagreed with several of his views. The ambassador added: "I am Instructed to ask for such ac tion as wll prevent any interference on any ground by officers of the New Foundland government with Amerian fishermen when they go to exercise TWO RECEIVED BY CONFERENCE TWO MEN DEAD ITAX COLLECTED IN A COLLISION SHOWS INCREASE Full Connection for B. E. Another Will Die; Several Reports from All Sheriffs Stanfield, E. M. Ingle J. V. HUMS' CASE Every Man's Character in the Con ference Has Been Passed, No Charges Aguinsl Any One Pulpits of Rocky Mffunt to lie Pilled by Members Sunday. CSnecial to thi V " Rocky Mount, N. C, conference session was der by Bishop Wilson ai nit rimes.) Bsc, s. The called to or 9 a. m. Rev. Are injured A TH0MASV1LLE MAN George Kinney, One of the Two Who Were Instantly Killed The Wreck Wus at Danville A Mixed Passenger and Pullman Train Ran Into a Freight. T. H. Ban and .T. H, religious services, of yesterday wer.: rei The amplication of .1. admission was then c;i ins 54 years old. He committee, was heard, elder could not vole ferenee cast o;ly i hr; Under question 20 Fayctfavilie, uockin-.-; ton. New Bom and passed eXftnLnaiioii Giles conducted ' 'he proceedings 1 and approved. I r. Williams for tiled up, he he was heard, the i The presiding ' for him! Con- j 1 votes for him. I mrs of lain), Yv'ilming-1 Warren ton tils-' charnc-1 trie ter. The conference teiegr.'iphed greet ings to the Baptist State Convention. B. K. Stanfield and E. M. tingle were received into Cull connection. Dr. Vv7. W. Pinson, Nashville, Tenn., was introduced to the conference. Bishop Wilson delivered the fourth of his series of lectures at 11:40, and at 12:30 the conference adjourned till 3:30 p. m. Sunday the pulpits of the town will be filled by the members of the conference. Every man's character passed not a charge of any land being found against them. i Conference News Miscellany. Rev. W. S. Rone, one of the most quiet and dignified men in the con ference, is the host here, and asks every day for any straggler without is plenty of them and 0 uiblo gentleman in conference will long: 1 nd the Rocky Mount Itono may go to the ain this year. I a well-known their treaty rights on the Newfound- biologist had found that along those j land coast during the approaching flsh- a home. He 1 is ;t most it.i every way. Ti remember lilm meeting. Mr. presiding eldership a Mr. R, M. i'hillips newspaper man of Raleigh, Greens boro and other places, s present at the conference and sings in the con ference quartette. He has it voice that ought to make him a living. One seldom hears a deeper or fuller bass voice. His singing with the others is indeed a feature. Mr. M. O. Snerrill, the state libra rian, is a lay delegate to the confer ence and a most useful church man. He has friends from everywhere and makes them new everywhere he goes. Rev. Jesse L. Cunningglm, a name sake of the late J. A. Cunningglm, of this conference, and a bright young member of this body, has charge of the correspondence school for young preachers in Vanderbilt University for the whole southern Methodist connection, and is doing a great work in helping the undergraduates in the conference in completing the course of study while doing regular work. A young man taking these courses does not have to go before the ex amining committees at the session. When the committee on books and periodicals report, they will most (By the Associated Press.) Danville, Va., Dee. 8. Shortly after 4 o'clock this morning a "wreck occurred in the yards of the South ern Railway in this city, resulting ir. the instant death of two men and the injuring of a number of others, one of whom will die. The. dead are: George ('. Kinney, of Tiiomas ville, N. C. Unknown man, probably a tramp, whose body was mangled and burned beyond recognition. The accident occurred on the main line, train No. 34, a mixed passen ger and Pullman crashing into a i freight train standing on the track. I Fire which followed the wreckage , was brought under control by the j Danville fire department after four i freight cars were burned. George j Ford, a negro fireman, probably will I die. The names of the other in jured have not been secured, but they included several postal clerks ion No. 34 and a number of passen ! gers, who were shaken and bruised i but are not considered as being seri I ously hurt. , I No. 34 is the opposite of No. 33, I the train on which President Spen I cer was travelling when he was killed Thanksgiving Day. Engineer ! Kinney was a brother of W. A. Kin i noy, the engineer on No. 37, the ; train which ran into President Spen cer s car and who Had such a re markable escape from death. It is stated that the passenger train was j not flagged in time to prevent the collision. Show $4,824,298.30 THE LISTING OF TAXES Wide Variance as to Method in Vari ous Counties of Assessing Prop erty (Jain in Taxes Received is Little Over $362,000 Does Not Include Tax Paid to State Treasurer. ON RECORD EOR REFORMATORY The Baptist Convention Pas ses the Resolution IT IS BY RISING VOTE A Weekly Paper Will Be Published Ily the Convention, Hut' It Will Not Be in Conflict With the Sev eral Baptist Publications in This State. (By Southern Bell Telephone.) Greensboro, N. C, Dec. 8. By a ris ing vote today the Baptist Convention likely deal with the proposed increase,0' Nrtn Carolina adopted resolutions ' , . . providing for the establishment of a re- Ol postage Oil nenoyttlJeio. i ilia uu- ject needs to be touched on in no uncertain way by all bodies having formatory for youthful criminals. The matter had been discussed, but the con vention was of one mind and it was unanimous In believing that such an institution was needed. The. committee on periodicals made a report, which was adopted, recommend ing that a weekly be published by the proceedings convention, but the idea is not to con' i fitct in any way with the Biblical He- corder, the North Carolina Baptist, the Wake Forest Student and Charily and an organ, as well as papers them selves. The Record, a local paper, is pub lishing a daily for the conference ses sion, a creditable little afternoon paper, handling the nicely. The names of Revs. J. J. Renn, ' m t n..t 1 I..... T I .... 1 ; . called, their decease suggested, and The convention accented an invitation referred to committee on memoirs. 'to attend a reception this afternoon at The passing of these men removes the State Normal and Industrial Col three landmarks familiar to a large 'lege. circle. Their memoirs will be readj A committee of ministers was ap pointed to meet on the Tuesday before the opening of the annual conventions. Drs. Tyree, Hail, Craig, Livingston Johnson and Cullum were named on this committee. , By resolution of the convention Dr. Dunaway offered special prayer for the families of those injured in the wreck near Danville today. at memorial service Sunday. AN AGED PREACHER DIES OP EXPOSURE. branches and pools the speckled winged or malaria carrying mosquito was fif teen to eighteen times ob numerous as (Continued on Page Five.) ing Beason Secretary Grey, replying August 14, said he observed "with much regret (Continued an Page Five.) (By the Associated Press.) Somerset, Pa., Dec. 8. Uriah D. Brougher, 72 years old, a German Baptist minister here, died today as a result of exposure. On Monday while driving from here to King wood he suffered an attack of apo plexy and fell out of the buggy. Concert Postponed. The managers of the Edouard Dethier concert announce that they When discovered some hours later have been compelled to postpone his body was almost burled in the ' the concert until the spring, and snow, his face was covered with a 'that all subscribers can receive their thin coat of ice and his hair frozen money back by presenting tickets at in a solid mass. i the King-Crowell Drug Company. Reports have been received from all of the sheriffs in the state, and the recapitulation of the value of real and personal property in the state and the amount of taxes collected, as prepared in the state auditor's office, shows thitt the taxes exceed the past year by a little more than $362,000, The lolal value of real estate is $226,190, 110, and the tax on same $474,999.22: personal property, $143,0.-,:;, CDS, and the tax $300, 412.55, making a total of $775, 4 11.77. To this should be added income tax, amounting to $27,844.13; Schedule "B" tax, $1 12,073.02, and Schedule "C" tax, $34,008.08, mak ing the total general tax $949,337. The pension personal tax amounts to $147,597,48, and pension poll tax $33,720. 72. making a total of $181, 324.20. School tax as payable to county treasurers is $1,319,718.10, and county taxes payable to county treas urers $2,373,919, making a total of $3,093,037.10. The grand total of all taxes col lected in all counties for all purposes and from all sources for the year 1905 amounts to $4,824,298.30, agai'nst $4,4tfl,GG9.B3 for the previ ous year. The above does not include certain special taxes which are paid direct to the state treasurer. State Auditor Dixon, in speaking of the manner of asi-cssing property, said that soma system should be devised whereby a more uniform method could be adopt ed than that followed at the present time. In some counties property is taxed as high as 80 per cent of its real value, and sometimes in an ad joining county, or one near by, the valuation may not be more than 50 per cent of the real valuation. A GAME OF GRAB Suspected of Territorial De signs on Persia SHAH DEAD OR DYING Suspicious Eyes Turn On Berlin Whence Comes a Denial That the German Government is Pursuing Mysterious Political Objects in the Land of Xerxes and Cyrus. SERIOUS LETTUCE DISEASE REPORTED. A very serious lettuce disease has spread over a portion of the lettuce growing section of eastern Carolina, particularly in the vicinity of New Bern, Wilmington. Faytttevile and Maxton, and in pome instances it Is proving very destructive. In a letter by Prof. F. D. Stevens issued by the agricultural experiment station, he says: The disease begins with the wilting of the outer lower leaves, which droop and fall Hat upon the ground. A simi lar fate rapidly overt takes the inner leaves, and so on over the whole plant, till within a few days the entire plant is dead, lying fiat upon the ground. As scon as any plant shows an indi cation of this disease the plant should be puled up, buried with lime, or de stroyed by the. The spot from which the plant was pulled should be thor oughly drenched with Bordeaux mix ture. If these precautions are followed, by those people who are not at all or only slightly affected with this disease, it will probably be possible to hold the disease ih cheek. ELYTHE HEAD OF GRIDIRON CLUB. Washington, Dec. 8. The annual meeting of the Gridiron Club was held at noon today, preceding the dinner of the club, which will be held tonight at the New Willard. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Samuel G. Blythe, New York World ; vice-president, James S. Henry, Philadelphia Press; secre tary, John S. Shriver, Baltimore American; treasurer, Louis Garthe, Baltimore American; executive com mittee. Charles A. Boynton, Asso ciated Press: Scott C. Bone, Wash ington Herald; James R. Young. Clifford K. Berrynian, the well known cartoonist of the Washington Post, was elected a limited member. (By the Associated Press.) Berlin, Dec. 8. Although the German foreign office does not be lieve that the Shah of Persia is so near to death as is reported from Teheran, it is well understood that his passing cannot long be delayed as his maladies are in their final stages. Germany is popularly supposed, in Great Britain and France especially, to be pursuing mysterious political objects with the ultimate design of acquiring territorial advantages in Persia. The German policy, the As sociated Press is informed, is sim ply equal trade privileges in Persia for all nations. The principle of the German policy in Persia has been clearly explained to the foreign of fices of Great Britain and Russia, and misunderstandings, such as those which made the Moroccan question serious, are not likely to arise. The offer of the banking con cession by the Shah was voluntary and was part of his plan to borrow money from Germany. He had al ready borrowed through the British-owned "imperial Bank of Per sia" and the Russian-owned Banquo D'Escompte. The activity and en terprise of the German traders led the Shah's advisers to suggest the fstablishment of a German bank in Persia. The German foreign office considered that Germany already possessed the right to form such a bank under the most favored na tion clause of the treaty between Persia and Germany, and therefore the Shah's offer aroused no particu lar feeling of gratitude. The for eign office eventually turned over the concession to a group of Berlin bankers, but they have not done anything with it as yet except to agree to send representatives to Per sia sometime this winter to see if any money can be made out of the concession, if no profits are dis cernable in a legitimate banking business no further steps will be taken in the matter. Russia is more the rival of Ger many for the trade of Persia than is Great Britain, possessing as she does a treaty under which the cus toms dues on overland imports are lower than those imposed on sea borne imports, and both Great Brit ain and Germany have a community of interests in obtaining an equali zation of the seaport and land fron tier dues. The Shah Reported Dead. London, Dec. 8. A dispatch re ceived here this morning from Paris anounced that it was reported there that the Shah of Persia was dead. Neither the Persian legation nor the Persian Bank here have received anything confirmatory of the rumor. The British foreign office also dis credits the report. TAKING DEPOSITION IN WATER WORKS CASE. Mr. A. L. Quickel, representing the mayor of Lineolnton and a part of tho board of aldermen, and Mr. Mouser, representing the remainder of the board, are here today taking the depo sitions of Prof. Gerald McCarthy, state biologist, who recently made an analy sis of the water from the pipe of the Lineolnton water system. It seems that the mayor and a part of the board wanted to change the water mains, which move was opposed by several members of the board, who got out an injunction to prevent the work from being done. The case is to be heard in the superior court at Lineolnton next week. It Is claimed that by changing the pipes the water will have a better pressure than at present time and that under existing conditions the water is sometimes stale. The deposition of Prof McCarthy is in regard to the Con dition of the water supply as taken from the pipes. The War of the Roses. Everybody knows what The War of the Roses" was. But who knows what this "War of the Roses Is? Come and see. The rod roses will be there, and the while roses wilj be there, and you can have your choice. DEFICIT SHOWN BY BANK STATEMENT. (By the AssbelaUd Press:) New York, Dec 8. The weekly bank statement today shows a deficit of $8,- 702,175.
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