North Carolina Newspapers

. - k -,.y -t -.-; A ; FicH Ltased Wire Service of tlie Associated Pross. - ' ' ' I Lead all North Carolina Afternoon Patwrs in Circulation, ' LAST EI?mO!T ALL THE MAJIKET3. 1 &3CM-' THE, BALEIGH-EVEWING , VOLUME 27, RALEIGH, N. 0 r FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1907. PRICE Cc TIMES' THE JAMAICAN COAST THE DEPTHS OF OCEAN Report Said Jo iRave Been Be ceived at Havana From ;;:;-,;.',!,.vtj..-'.- Admiral Evaas WASHJNGTQN WAITS, it 1 f TEI The Havana Advices Say That Kvuns Reports That a Huge Tidal Wave Hus Swept the 'Coast Leaving the Entire South Side of 1 Kingston : Under Water A Dispatch From Kingston I'nder Yesterday's Date, However, Says There Has Recn No Tidal Wave. (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Jan. 18. Rear Admiral Brans, In a wireless message to the cruisor Columbia, hero states that p, huge tidal wave has changed tho coast Una of Jamaica, leaving the entlr.i south Bldo of Klnsston under water. No bay Is left, and the whole, coast lino Is reported sinking. REPORTS OP DISASTER CROW WORSE AND WORSE. Hy i he Associated Press.) London, Jan. IS. One brief telegram from Oovcmor Sweolenham announcing . that Sir ' Ferguseon'B body had been sjCound In tho ruins fit a cigar "tore and consequently buried and 'adln that no British officials were killed o? injured, Was. the only additional In - formation from Kingston, Jamaica, re wived at tllo colonial office this morn liiff;.' Tho difficulties In tho way of com municating ' with Kingston, the con stantly growing lists of1 the dead and Injured white, .the knowledge that - many of the latter will be bulled un identified, and tho reports of the threatened engulfment of the rematn.'i ' of tho city conbino to increase the an xiety, of relatives and frelds In this country of people In Kingston who are besieging all the possible sources cr information In quest of news. As the jbreak In tho cable is located close to (ho shore, no difficulty is an ticipated In restoring communication promptly. 'flie officials here estimate that 'rello steamers must bo riving at Kingston by now, and a rapid straightening out of the'state of chaos Is expected. Burying the Dead. Ah undated dispatch from, a member of Sir Alfred Jones' party now ai Kingston received this morning, says: A ghastly procession of carts passin;; all day long to the cemetery conveyed there 3S0 victims who were buried in batches of twenty. It 13 believed that there; are four hundred more corpses among the wreckage.-- The body of Sir Jamea 'FergusBoni was buMed January 16.- "There have been several further shocks since 'the groat upheaval, but they were less violent.! -The negroea looted some shops, but on the whole (air order is being preserved. ..Fire? are stlll burrflng." , ', m A "stpeclal- dispatch from ; Kingston dated JanuarySn says: - y "The, recent earquake was "more ser ious than any which had occtired In Jamaica for- two hundred and fifty years:".The"flrst shock 'wa? -followed' , by fifteen minor shocks,4 The wooden structures' stood well but the brick houses -collapsed within a radius oft . six , miles. Tho immunity of two hun dred and fifty years led the Jamaicaim to forget -that they , were within - the earthquake cone, and they had bear, building brick houses. But- for this ' probably thehe would have been no lose of life. ' O t , , ' "There has been no tidal wave. The defences) at Pbrt Royal were destroyed and tbft - palisades broken vtbroughi Block mud Is coming to the surface. The' conduct of all classes la admlrablo, but It is hoped that the British cruiser Indefatigable will soon .-. arrivi here - with marines.", . - .Why Reports Come Slowly. t Tfce West Indian and Panama' 'Telegraph Company- which is the principal,, means - of v communication between Jamaica ' and , the ' outer world received a report .this morn ing from Its West Indian superln- ' 1 tendent '; snowing the ; extreme dlfB- : cultiea under which the line, la work-; ' ing and the steps taken to cope with tho situation. ' ' N i ' Tho dispatch says: V 1 "The entire Kingston plant was destroyed. One of the male opera tors wai injured and Miss Ihomasj a lady operator, was killed. Only one cable instrument' of the anti quated mirror type.'iwas saved. This is installed in a hut on the roadsldJ, about ten miles outside of Kingston. Connection has ' been established from there to Holland pay, but. there is no line connecting the hut with Kingston. The manager the Kingston oSlce, who is working single-handed in the hut, is exhausted owing to scant food and shelter. An enormous glut of dispatches Is ac cumulating at all the Jamaican out lets. The staffs of" the cable offices are overwhelmed and demoralized from family and property losses. A large staff of emergency cable ope rators Is being hurried from San tiago, Cuba, and St. Thomas to Hoi- Wand Bay which temporarily will bo our main point." Under thoso circumstances tho West India and. Panama Company has been compelled to refuse the Drilish government's and other re quests for tho expedition of dis patches on the ground that it threat ens to completely break down tho already crippled service. ADMIRAL EVANS SENDS . SUPPLIES TO KINGSTON. (By tho Associated Press.) New York, Jan. 18. The latest official news of the Kingston, Jamaica, dis aster reached this city today from Ouatanamo, Cuba, through Admiral Hvans who had received from Admiral Davis, sent to Kingston on the torpedo boat Whipple, a brief wireless report of the situation in the ctricken city. Admiral Davis reported that King ston was almost entirely destroyed: that four hundred persons were killed, and that five hundi-ed were In the hos pitals. The dispatch was eent Thurs dayomfng.anct.Jurther. ropoilod that Kingston was then qulot. " 4 - Tho Whipple started- to " return to (Continued on Page Five.) r BILL TO ASSIST Kittredye Opens fire on Lumber Trusts tlie THE KING OF TRUSTS Senator Kittredge 'Details Its Meth- ods of Strangling Competition and Declares "This Criminal Combina tion is a Menace to the Whole Country Upon Which it Preys." (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 18. The senate pas sed the Jamaica relief bill immediately an its receipt from tha house today without discussion. Addressing the senate today on the "lumber trust," Senator Kittredge de clared It to be the kins of trusts in re straint of trade." Continuing, ho said: , ; "Irl Its far-reaching effect, there Is none to compare with it. It is re morseless in its grasp on the' people, and the only change which it contem plates is to Increase the price of its products at stated and frequent Inter vals without regard to cost. The con sumer not only bears the burden of its aggressive policy of, advancing prices, but also of the profits of intervening agencies. : For htm there is no escape from the avarice of this monopoly. To him the lumber trust Is a tangible, living reality. When lie sees these ad vancing prices without reference to Increased Cost of production, he needs no argument to convince him that the government to . which he contributes his support and renders trod allegiance, is derelict in its duty unless It em ploys all the resources at its command to relieve, him ' of these oppressions, The people demand this as a right and not aa a favor. Tho trust has become so bold In its operatlonsywithin the last? year or two ihat it has eliminated In many localities all semblance of com petition and from a cential point con trols both - the wholesale, and retail trade and fixes the price to . the con sumer." -1-'1- '..-. - - . . ' Mr. Kittredge detailed the methods he said were1 employed .by the "trust"' to eliminate competition, including the "blacklist" ' This criminal combination 1 a men (Continued on page seven.) JAMAICA 0 ELIOFS IDEA IS AfOR Points Ihe Way to Inter natlopatPeafie CUT DOWN THE ABIES And Extend the Police, Says Presi dent Eliot, Who Declares That the Calling of the Guardian of the Peace is Higher Than That of the Soldier. (Fly the Associated Press.) Boston, Mass., .T.in. 13. Cuniinucd In ternational peace tlrin luls. not upon th'.1 luljnncnt of lai'.jv ar::in s, Lut Ui'a Ilie. extent of th'.' i;olice loin', is the opinion o:;p;-es.';vd by i'li'f-i'.U'iit Charles W. Kiiiit uf iiai-vai l rniveiTity hi. t'tre ihree lmnai-.d pt.'.iee:n. n at C:k-U' Soi la! Clug H."t night, l". a '. "O'lrisi on "natural of policy duty and finn-Hon of the police in modern sui-ldy." I'li'. i- jdi-nt Kllot paid a hU-.h tiihii'.e t i .he pcllceinen and R-.'t their eallinK a'jov." that of th3 Foliliir. "The ctiKtinenco from war aad th" establishment of continued ju-ar. a:n'iii'-r civilized nations," j;a.id iiesidral t-:l! c it . "depends not uixn ei;uiiment t.f l.t.vje armies but upon the extension of the police force. The. vorid needs ai: in ternational police foiee back of it, f r without a force to back it, the 1 i 1 1 - -national court will be almost worth less. Cut dnv.n the armies and ex tend tho police ' forces and then will come the perpetual interna! to. ml peace." The polite force, continued the speaker, keeps older, and seeks not to destroy but to help humanity. The eaJlirK of the soldier and sailor, on the othti hand, ih to kill and destroy. "Now," went on President Elioi, ''what an immense advantage your calling has over that of tho soldier. It Is golnir to survive that of the soldier; It- Is: gting to, remain- a .nueossits" of civilised society when the art of th soldier shall have at last disappeared except 'tis -he renders a police service." -BY GOVERNMENT To Enforce the Treaty Made With Japan TWO BEGUN IN FRISCO Tho Purpose of the Suits is to En force Giving to the Japanese the Same School Advantages Enjoyed Ry the Caucasian, Admitting Them Into tho Public Schools. (6y the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan,18. The United Staten has begun two suits In San Francisco for the purpose of enforcing the pro visions of the treaty with Japan giv ing to the Japanese equal school ad vantages. One of the actions is brought in tho supremo court of the state of California in the name of a Japanese child for the purpose of obtaining a writ of mandamus to compel his 'ad mission to one of tho public schools from which be 19 excluded by the action vof the board of education. The proceeding In the second miit is In th" federal circuit court In which the mem bers of the board of education, the superintendent ot schools and all of the principals of the various primary and grammar schools of San Francisco are made defendants. KILLED HIMSELF1 WHILE CLEANING HIS REVOLVER. Chicago, Jan. 18 Archibald R. Eldrldge, 38 years old, killed himself last night while cleaning a revolver. The shooting is believed by the police to have been accidental. Mr. Eld rldge. was assistant chief engineer of the Burlington. .! He was : born at Amerlcus, Ga.i was a graduate of the Rensselaer Institute of Troy, N. T., and a member of the University Club. He left a widow and two children. '' THE ASSASSIN OF ' ' 1 , ' , ; STEPTZEFF EXECUTED. - Tver, Russia. Jan. 18. The assassin of Governor Stcptscft . was executed today. Though retained In , prison since April 7, the man was not Identi fied. , . ill POLICE SUITS ENTERED IKEEP BOYS OUT OF POOL ROOM Bill infri&iiced ;y Kepresen- fafive IJQUQlossof Kaleinh ANOTHER VAGRANCY ACT Bill to RetanbiM'se i'.i of Na!l . Passed .Without 11; -...ision An-: other Bill b. Coiiin ! l;.::lro;u!s to' Pay Expenses of Delayed Pa.sscii-j twrs-r-Mer. chndi'.e Hill Anain. ifffS cnH'-'l Id order for I The house the work of Vh n in I Si by Sneaker Justice ,r tbis moruiiig.?,B'Jv. ,k son, correspoaHing m Baptl3t Stnte. C::v. prayer. .i KOKKiOll ' liall'-past ten 1 i.'...! HI .hlllll- i i :.i y of the mi ioa, offered A I'.M.it'.on was j; fuen 1., ';i up by Mr. ins of Thomas- llaul;ins from villo relative; to til immoutcad ia and garuisilieefiig. Bills? Iltteea.ni ii. Kousheo Amend Uovhal " 1 '.), rc'iiiivo to landlord nC, teiiii".! act. Winhorne j-Rosol;ii ion u i ay cer tain claims .'.against mate growing out of Cape . Fear and Deep River navigation work,, Wells Appoint jaxiiecs of peace in Grady township, Pender county. Vinborne rRegulaie I rials of crim inal actions in Biiierior courts of Hertford. Leverman Prohii.it liquor within three miles of Kilhenay school house In Tyrrell. MrRackcn Appoint justice of peace In Welch Creek township, Co- lumb'.isr Gibbe Amend act relating to as- I Parker Allow sioners of Jon;s 1 county commis-; build bridge over Trent river. Douglass - I'rci tit crime of va grancy and pr.ivido punishment therefor. To exclude minors from pool-room:;, Inir rooms and similar dares. Yonnt Ann admission of niPhi.s as o.'ii'. state oCU-ois election by p. I.at;ghin.j;'io with pound m Tar and P;a:n Simpson 1'; id Itevisal relative to : rtr.in printed docn m e. Make solicitor.; ;..l provide for their ! lo at large. -Prohibit fishin; j in Neuse, Pamlico, i.e rivers. ihihlt liquor Within Baptist three miles of S:ndy Cross church in On i s. Price, of I'nion -Regulate fees of Amend justices of peace; by request. Itevisal 2G1 1. Byrd Appoint justices of peace in Egypt township, Yancey. Donghlon Ai;t horize running marking slate line between and this state and Virginia. Midyette Appoint W. T. Joiner justice of peace in Occoneeche township, Nori hr.mpton. McNeill Provide separate publi" schools for Croatans andTreoles in Cumberland. Morgan Amend chartar of tOWll : 1)1 of Saluda in Polk. By request. Turlington Appoint trustees to loan money for Coddle Creek 'rail road bonds in Iredell until time for payment. Peele Amend Revlsal relative to removals in cuts .of justices of peace. Price of 1 "nion Pay passengers I ior expenses incurred by delays of railroad train;--. Merchandise Bill. As two years ago, there was a dis cussion over 1! e bill to prevent the fraudulent tale of merchandise in bulk. Mr. Do n ghton had. introduced j the bill and explained its provisions, requiring the merchant to make a! sworn list of creditors and amounts due and the proposed purchaser to give five days' notice to each credi tor of his purpose to buy. TBe pur- Ctiaser is not to DO liable for the-anj debts of the seller beyond the value I Hawaii and Alaska be Increased to $7. Of. the goods inventories,: the billiBOO per year after March 4th, 1907, and providing that the ; merchant' shall 'fixing these salaries for the vice presi take an inventory of the goods and dent, speaker and members of the cab- e.rn nrt nwe.ir to a statement thereto. ..... 7 , VVVUBTr-rtor dredging necessary to complete the bill, and Mr. Manning Supported it.!fnannr, appr,mch to piers In Hampto.i Mr. .Wlnborno again opposed he sir. winuorne ui lorwara an K()a(is and for dredging Bush Creek amendment providing that during to accomodate the needs- t the I li the five ; days' notice required no saving exhibit at the Jamestown Exp -creditor should attach any of the sition. The bill was passed without goods without giving bond In double 1 further amendment the amount 1 ' e 1 amount. . , ' ;' ,w :" " After considerable talk and many questions from members, Mr; Dough- ton moved that the hill bo printed . "r. (Continued on Pags Seven.) ' -. " LEVEE MENACED BY IHE WATERS Repetition of Flood ol 1898 Threatened RIVERS ON RAMPAGE Towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken tucky and Illinois Duinnged or Thivateuod by Swollen Waters, jn Stiemns Along Which They Are Sitt'.alcd Sufii'iiiif Follows. I H. the Associated Press. 1 i5!;'iw:ieo!ov,n, Ills., Jan. IK. As, a rv.nli of tho flood In the liio Kiver, a break is threatened inltae U-vee here. At noon, howeverfethe l.'vee was still intact. Sliawneetown is a village of about i. l.fiil'l pojiulation. It is FUnatedt'on the b::::d (il tho Ohio River near the i l;;d!a".;; anil Kentiicuy state lines. The Hint:? of wai n- is now sach that t :if. villai;e is t nreatcned with a rep-j ,'!'tio!i o" tiie sreat flood of 1898! which devastated the country for mnes around and caiu'.j;! the loss of twenty-nine lives. The water at noon today had reached 4:1 feet and was Rtoadily rising. Heavy rains continue, it will require six mors feet of water before the top of the levee hank is reached, hut . at the ra'o the river is now rising a stage of fifty feet is exoeelod by tomorrow. This would carry the waiar over the levee. The levee Is a new one and the pepple at Shawneetown expact U to withstand the force of tho water at. least until the top is overrun. News of conditions here was tele phoned to Governor Dineen at Chi- cago. 1 he governor directed that AI "l'ly oi tents ior me renet oi tn Hood sufferers be sent. 'AlrtW ITfiTTUIQ I'VItl?T THE ItlSlNtJ WATERS (By the Associated Press.) Pittsburg. Pa., Jan. IS. The rivers are again at a flood stage and with the water rislnpr at the rate of three I 'n;hs of a foot an hour, the danger line probably will !. passed before evening. Keports from up-river points. howi'V.-r. indicate that the Hood will int ii';;:h serious proportions and the .'!;';;r may not exceed t wenty-throe it.-'.. Th.. Alleghany Itiver is falling al the headquarters but the Mononga hi'la is still rising at all points. lh-ov.-nsville has thirty-f"iir feet of v. ali'i- on the marks and rising two iia lies nn hour. Half tho h.uiHi'S in west ltro.wnsvlille are said to be sub merged. Elizabeth and west Klizabeth are also partly inundated. Many of tlie residents remained up all night preparing for tlie flood. Cincinnati. O., Jon. IS. Flood 1011--iitions continued to grow worst' today. At seven o'clock this morning the stage in this city wan 59.5 fieet and rising :;t the rate of about one tenth uf a foot an hour. E'.vi-y hour added mate1, ially to tlie ilooded area and the suffering among tlie residents of the lower sei -tions of this city and the Kentucky suburbs was great. Street and railroad ear service was badly crippliil, many lines having impassable paps several ks lo ig. and improvised trains fur transfer arrangements were inadequate. Jackson, Ky., Jan. IS. The -Kentucky River bus risen IS feet here in the last two days. This stream passes through Frankfort and empties into the Ohio ( at Cari-ollton, Ky., fifty miles above j Louisville. HOUSE VOTES SALARIES UP (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 13. By a vote rf 133 to 95 the house today voted that tho salaries of senators, representatives f,Uier delegates from Porto Rico, nct at The house struck out the urgent de ficiency bill an item carrying J65.0C0 introduced a 1)111 todav -mnklmr it -i introaucen a uin roaay making it .1 itepreseniauve uyra 01 Mississippi (felony for Caucasians to intermarry with negroes or Mongolians In the .1 l.l.. i Lis- : wisirici 01 tiuiumuis; v , 1 AYCOCK INTRODUCES f . BILL TO PUNISH TRUSTS, POOLS AND CONSPIR AGIES HUMAN FLESH FOR FOOD Horrors ot . the Famine in China Revealed It is Said That in Shu-how and Pai cliow Districts Starving People Are Muting Their Children Sto ries of Cannibalism Confirmed. ( By the Associated Press.) Victoria, IS. C, Jan. IN. Further advices fioui Shanghai tell of in creasing horrors of the great famine in cell 1 1 a I China. A correspond ent of tiie Kcho de China says that in two districts, Sinchow and Pai- chow, smrving people are eating Plants and grass their children. which havj furnished food for many have disappeared, and Ihore are not even roots to eat. The famine strick en people are being driven back to the riik's in the famine district, tha officials refusing to allow refugees to lake the roads. The correspondent says the cases of cannibalism are many. He inves tigated a number, and many of thoni absolutely are correct. In the ab sence of ordinary food he found hu man llesh actually being sold. ATTACK BY HOKE SMITH SJelfeoils -of tha-New York Cotton Exchange The Gnvei'iinr-Elcet of Georgia Was the Principal Speaker Today Re fore the Southern Cotton Associa tion Need of Detective Agency. (By the Associated Tress.) Pirmlnghain. Ala.. Jan. l.S. Hon. Hoke Smith uf Atlanta, governm -elect of Ga., was the principal speaker at to- day's session of the Southern Cotton In view of the recent k.'Ki the New York Ex- Association. rontrovei sy be; change anil the luthern Cotton Grovv rtmarks were given There were two why cotton has not Mr. SinUh's close attention. nsons, lie raid ild for its real value. First, tin use of unfair means by pulsiil.-is to depreciate the price; se cond, the failure uf farmers lo use business-like methods to maintain the pi ii e. ; 'Cotton huyt'i-F," he continued, "are largely i;"!rcn; eil in the pii. es which j they gl.Ve caili vii uiiuiiily otter ier cotton by iinn nt reports ;:nd by tlie punii ns which go all over the world fr the Ne.v Yi;'k Cotton Kxehange. If g vtrnment reports are manipulated to sh ov a larger- product io.i ihau the 11,1. the prices is depressed and 1 nn i is the lust r. real the "Kvt 1 y Khoultl ba llUtllisllell do not 1. n.aii throughout the land m;. de lo leno'.v that the prices t.y the .ew York lC:;ehaiige .p. scut the iii.irket pi lee of 'i.r.'ir. out in!:-' nprestnt the do ' lnlll':' m,; 1 ed ti until 1 H e ei infeiier cut loll gather- :er tu pre' -i t the sell, r, ;iml ! 1 1U01: exihange rciiuires its 1 i!e.i i r genuine midland col- j ir use by nn nufaei uti1, the 1 of iis eo-.lluet flliniid he told j until it is a bywu.-it through- ; nation iind thruughout th-i i ! ;;r.-y l- fcnxi out ! t. l.t injusi ii e and toi.l out the HOI id. "A:i or, ami y. ciaiing il must l.-e .' ei t ton gi u:ilaii- iiiL-lht).ls in tk'iire-!- iii:iil:ot value ol' ur staple iv.i. i-vd by pc:lo of the FIRE IN JACKSON MEMORIAL HALL, (l'.y the Associated Press.) Richmond, Va.. Jan. A lite caused by the explosion of a I nn;) occured in Jackson Mcmivial liaU Military In stitute .at Lexington,' tliis moruins. but by piompt action on the part of the cadet ctirp was soon extinguished. Lo9 about JUCO. JOHN S. WALSH IS INDICTED. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Jan. IS, John R . Walsh, irmr lresidtt of tho Chicago Nat-f . ,,,,,, .,, ,,... t,wi.. hv the jttflelU Bmn(j jury f0r alleged ml-j concurrence. , mal,agement of the funds of tho bank. .S. B. 87-To ' levy special ta in I ..... -. .a ..,'' J m i.a : ... k xno inaieunent contains m counts. 5 The Full Text of : Important Measure in Senate by Senator. Troni , Way lie 10 111 OUTiCURIOIlS ; TRIALS FOH RAPE Commendable HiU for Protection ot 1 Femule Victims' Feelings Whil Giving Testimony in Court Room ' Against Unites Wbx Assault Them. Rill Adding power to Corporation Commission in Requiring Rail ways to Make Connections In Cer ' tain Cases A Number of Intpor . tunt New Measures In Disposing . of the Senate Calendar, Rills of Importance Go Through General Hoke Cannot Attend Public Ceie- brat ion in Honor of General Lee Tomorrow Bill to Prohibit Post ing of Indecent and Immoral Pic lures and Exhibition of Indecent Shows Goes ThroughNinth Day's Work of the State senate. ' The senator from Yadkin, Rev. Mr.. Brown, offered the morning prayer la ' the state sonate this morning after that body was called to -order- at'' ten ,c o'clock by the lieutenant governor. Tho new committee on the Senate ijwirnali yapgojitbad wTiadf tne""resotnv tkm of Mr wabb. ' wea announced by the chair: Senators Webb, .Godwin, v. and Kluttz. This commltteed reported that tho Journal of Thursday's proceedings had : ; been examined and found correct. The standing committees reported back a number of bills that took their place on the calendar and will be found ' reported as disposed of further on In e this report. - i , Leaves of absence were granted Sen- : ators Webb. Ormond, Klutts, Mason. .: Bialr and Holt. v . j ' i- New Rills Introduced. . By Mr. Daniel To construe certain -it- , penal statutes, etc., affecting railway operation and regulation. Committee 1 ' on Railroads. ; , By Mr. Daniel To amend the onstl- j tution of North Carolina and provide . for the holding of special terms of courts and in cases of emergency. Committee on Constitutional Amend ments. ' ' . .1. By Mr. Daniels A resolution In re gard to bills reported unfavorably by ' legislative committees. Calendar. -1 . By Mr. Blair To extend the stock I law ot Montgomery county, .f roposl' tions and Grievance Committee. By Mr. Davis A number of petitions from citizens of Burke county on the question of the liquor traffic. Propo sitions and Grievances. An Anti-Trust; Rill. By M r. A ycock of Wayne To provide for the punishment of pools, trusts, and conspiracies to control prices, etc, fixing penulty at not less than J200 nor more than $5,000, when collected to be turned Into the general school fund of the state. . .;; : The chair laid before the senate a communication from the secretary of state, in which that official submits (in response to the Aycock resolution . adopted Wednesday) a full statement ; or an salaries and emoluments, lees, etc., received by him and his clerks , j during the last two years, and also j for the preceding four years, thus 'including the entire time of his ser- ; vice. j New Laws Ratified. , I The lieut i.na n t trnvctrnnr almbl th. j following new bills reported as prop-. j erly enrolled and they were duly rati-' i' tied: 8. B. 9, H. B. 1S2 Amending land- A lord and tenant act. -S. B. 62. H. B. 136 Abolishes Juno I term of Watauga superior court. -. ,-- -'-v, S. B. 115, H. B. 0 Repeals chapter 43, acts 1905 and re-enacts chapter 681, acts 1899. ' J S. B. 121, H. B. 95 For the relief of W. H. Worth, clerk of court of Ashe county. ' S. B. 107, H. R. 17. Amending lcc tlon 0 revlsal. t - S. B, 61, H. B. 189 Amendatory of , section 2785 of revlsal ,in relation to' corporate limits of Guilford county. Calendar- Bills Passed. The' calendar, feeing reached "the fol lowing bills were -disposed of In th manner stated: M. ' r' ' . H. B. 64. B. 113 Ame.ndlnr rhan. Iter 779, acts 1905 tn relation to the bonded Indebtedness of McDowell county.'' Passed third reading and as .mi l; .u- t Continued on second pate.) .i A t t v.