North Carolina Newspapers

lie 1T- s2fSfe times Jssoct&ted Prea Service Jssoctte& Service Vol. LXX. No. 74. The Weather FAUt. RALEIGH, N. C; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1911. LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CXZ27T3 Double the Number of Pkid Subscribers in FLaleigh of any Other Newspaper m HOPKINS on coinni AdTQcated Increase of Federal Appro priations to State Agricultural Colleges A FALSE OPTIMISM Prof. Hopkins of . the College of Agriculture of llio Vnlverslty of Wisconsin, at Conservative Coii- Kreim As Much of Culture and More of Usual Value in a Study of Clover Koots Than In- Greek Books and Latin Compounds. Kansas City, Sept. 27. Professor Cyril G. Hopkins, "of the College or Agriculture, University of Illinois, speaking before the National Con servative congress, today, advocated Jiflrease of federal approprlaVons to state agricultural institutions for extending the knowledge of practl - cal and scientific methods of farm ing. Ho declared that studying the things now taugnt in the regular common schools and colleges is, in a majority of cases, time wasted, and that more attention should be given to agricultural subjects. There is as much culture and more of use and value," he said, study of clover roots and plant food compounds than in Greek roots and Latin compounds, and the study of sell fertility is so simple and easy and so interesting that any man or woman by ordinary education can become master of the essential prin ciples by studying tae subject an hour a day for a simple "month. Prof. Hopkins discounted false oP timlsm Which prevents nothing the peril of the situation that exists un less something is done to restore and increase the productivity of the ; soil.': . "As agriculture is the basis of all Industry," he said, "so the fertility of the soil Is the basis support of very form of agriculture. The most important material problem of the United States is to restore, to in crease, and to permanently maintain the fertility and productive power ot our farm lands. "Intelligent optimism is right, and admirable, but blind bigotry paraded as optimism is dangerous and con- demnablo. That vast areas of land once cultivated with profit in the ori ginal thirteen states, now lie agricul- tuarly abandoned is common knowl edge; and that the farm lands of the great corn belt and wheat' belt of the north central states are even now undergoing the most rapid soil depletion ever witnessed, is known to all who poscsse the facts.: "A few people can live on blind optimism or hot air, but something more substantial wil be required to feed the progeny of niney-two mil lions, and added millions of Immi grants. It Is said that the nigh clvi lizatlon of the ancient Mediterranean countries went down Into the Dark sAges with laughter Dark Ages which covered the face of the earth for a thousand years, and which still exist for most of our own Aryan race in Russia and India, where more people are hungry day by day. and year by year, than the total : population of the United States.-"The- problem which now con fronts America is nothing less tban .the maintenance of prosperity for ourselves and of civilization for our children; for civilization depends up ; (Continued on Page Five.) IS GI1GED lIIII , New "Orleans', La., Sept. 27 Fol lowing the report that the stomach ' of Elsie Crawford, who died sudden ly a few days ago contained opium, Miss Annie Crawford, her sister, was arrested. The police assert there Is evidence to warrant holding her. El sie Is the fourth member of the Craw ford family to die under mysterious circumstances In fourteen months. In the cases of the deaths of the fa ther, member and another sister, no Investigation was made. Annie - Crawford Is the beneficiary of an In surance policy on the life of her. slB tr Elsie, and It is Raid, was named beneficiary on policies on the lives of her mother, father and sister who died last year. m) Kxm f 0. H. BAKKKTT ATTACK I Xf J . I'HriTOGKAI'HKK. (oira;e II. Hiirrctt, scion of an iirh(icitlc ok! family of Norfolk, irivmiii, ffirincr pillur in flip First ehmrli of Christ Sricnlist iind lit pres ent nn artist, whne doings in New York on one (liiy, Srpli-nihci- '22, cun be 'hixni(l'il n.s follows: 13:15 A. M. Arrested for lK'atin a yomiii' mid : ii (.tractive woman coiiipiiiiion nt Fitty-fourt-h street and ltro:i(hvuy. Whisked away fr"m an unry crowd and' lodged In a cell in tlie polire station, ... .10:00 A. 31. Airaixned in the West hide court under tiro name of Krigar H. Smith, of Des Mnines. IHsclmrxl upon refusal of the youn noniHii to proswiite. 10 ;.'!() A. M. Half a block from ( lie court room viciously assaults it camera man. Cum;!it utter a chase of three blocks. 11:00 A. M. It-aiTuli4iiod in court. I.eal identity revealed. Held under $."00 hall for Special Sessions. l!im;iiislics in cell. :J:Ot 1. M. Bit iled out by a friend. IMvappeiirs. 8:00 . M. Denies through liis wile mid over 1 lie telelioiie, that lie was the "hero" of the d-iy's eveuts. The t"lli Iiik (lay Ins case came up In court and provided the attrac tion that packed the court room. A LOCAL FISH TRUST" Procccedings May Be Started In Superior Court Action Iieinc Ilused I'nder State n- tl-Tnist Law Several Attorneys to Appear in Case on Hoth Sides K. W. Keater Falls Throuuli Dock and eIlllv Drowns. ( Spcclul to The Times.) 'Wilmington, N. C, Sotr 27 Yes terday morning it was learned ut, the court house that proceedings may be started at tho present term of court against what Is termed a local "fish trust," the action to he based under tho anti-trust law of the State of North Carolina, which was ratified March 8th, 1909. It was also report ed that several other alleged local combinations are under consideration and may bo proceeded, against under the same law. Solicitor Henry E Shaw was asked as to the report. He stated that he was not. in a position to talk. While he did not seem In clined to say verv much as to the re port, nevertheless, It was gathered from several remarks of his that there Is good ground for tho alleged proceedings against tho local allegod nsn trust." it was reported on good authority thnt Herbert Mc- Clammy, Esq., and John D. Bellamy, EBq., two of tho moat prominent members of the locul bar, have been rotnlned to assist tho solicitor In fighting the case, and that the two lawyers named had already started consideration of the matter. In response to a query Solicitor Shaw admitted that he had taken up the matter of trusts with Governor. KItchln. The latter had directed him In any cases of combinations against trade, or business, to pro ceed against t,hcm under the law adopted In 1009.' This law places at tho disposition of the governor a fund of $5,000 to be utilized in se curing, attorneys and for other ex penses in any trust prosecutions which may be started. The law pro vides that where an affidavit has been filed that there 18 a supposed1 trust in the state, the matter may be (alien before unv superior court jude, who is authorized to issue un order against possible doiendants to show cause wliv tliev should not lie proceeded against. . The law also provides that the books, papers.' and records of anv parties against whom such proceedings arc brought shall ho produced in court upon order of the judge presiding.. Mr K KtMler, of this clt, had a narrow escape from being drown cd last night under the city dock along the river front between Dock and Orange streets. He was helncd out of tho river bv John Hivant. negro. If the assistance.-' hud not come at t lie tune it Is very probable that he would have been drowned Mr. Keater came to Kingsbury's drug store, at Second and Princess street, luttt ..night between 9 and 10 o'clock, covered with bruises and lac orations. He slated that he was walking out on the dock owned bv tho city at the rear of the market houso, when suddenlv the flooring gave way. He was precipitated into the river. As he slipped nirougli the opening be stated that he received a number of bruises and lacerations bv coming In contact with the sides of the flooring. Ife complained also of his ribs being hurt. He was of the opinion that one or several of his rib bones had either been broken or dislocated by the force of the fall. (Continued on Page Two.) REVOLUTIONARY PLOT IN MEXICO THWARTED Los Angeles, Sept. 27 A story reaches here of a young Mexican army officer uncovering at Magonist a revolutionary plot and the exe cution of sixty Mexican revolution ists, of Guana Juanta. The officer shaved his head and in the frock of a priest obtained confessions from twenty Magonlstas who had been told they were about to bo shot. Thev confessed a widespread revolu tionary plot, They Implicated forty otl.er Mexicans of the vicinity.- Jefe Politico then1 had the Magonlstas ar rested. With those who confessed the forty were' executed by federal soldiers last Week More a large crowd In.Quana Juanta. wim Weaver TO BE IRIED Another Murder Case Set For Friday Will Be Heard Before That of L. J. A DEADLY W EAPON CM Old .Man lleiirc Council Sewanee Council (iivcn For Assaulting Willie mill Sou ileai'iii'4 Xowt II, White, and John llalrhci-, ol )rr(! Negro Got l.ond ot Shot in Ills I l ick Tri mble ();:c-.n red Ncir Heaver Dam (He fsaiurdav ialit. ill Weaver, a ncKro. will l- tried Friday for murder in . i!Ve lirst degree, lor tuo killing of K.l Pcurc:v a white, man, near Zejiulon last spring. Tnc delen-e offered to sub mit to murder in tne second degree, but the Slate : declined. J udge feeolei this alrornoon told coun el lor belli sides thai, he thought sec ond degree murder was about all iliat e(;uk1 he made out,)!' tlie . killing, hut yielded to tae desire ot ihe pro secution to try tile man lor Ins III". Weaver's case v. ill ht tried before ihat of. I,. .1. Norris . v. hicuis also set for Friday.. It is not thought that: it will require- more than a couple ol hours. A .special venire ol tv.vntv live men was rrdorerl iiininioiiel bv J udge Peebles. Old man Hence Council. - and his son hewanec Council, who live on Tom Kd wards' farm a lew niiles.be yond Heaver Dam creek, have been tae chief characters in a lit.ilo plav that has been staged in the superior court since yestwdlav afternoon, late Tlie piur is charged with assaulting John Hatcher a negro. nd Willie Novell, a white bov, will deadly weapons cue nignt in Augusi. .lohn Hatcher and Willie owell drove a whno mule to town. Old man Council had a while mule and there was another while mule on the place. Tho Councils thought tin. mule driven by. Hatcher and Nowell (Continued on Page Two.) PAYS VISIT IB MP Dr. J. J. L. McCullers Per mitted to Make Inspection Three Places Inspected by Choice of Hoard of Health li:l Xt Knt-er Jail and ( oiinty Home Where lr. .McCullers mt His Authority. Dr. J. .1. Ij. McCullers, elected county superintendent ol health bv tho countv board of health,-has vis ited three convict camps tor the -purpose of inspection and was admitted. The doctor was refused admission to the jail and county home, Mr. Cul lev, superintendent of the latter, first calling up Chairman D. T. Johnson before refusing Dr. McCullers There was no opposition on the part of the camp convict guards. Dr. Mr Cullers left copies of tlie action of the board of health at tlie places he visited. The following is the action' of the countv board of health at meeting held In the courfjiouse September On motion duly seconded, Dr. J. J McCullers was elected superintend ent of health for Wake county, and his compensation fixed as follows: For monthly inspection of jail, county homo and convict camps each, $4.00: for medico-legal post-mortem examinations, $10.00 each; for ex amination of lunatic for commit ment, $5.00; for visit to sick Inmate of. county home, jail and convict camp, $1.50, pins .50 for each addi tional patient seen, plus .50 mileage from court house; for obstetrical work, $10.00 per case; for surgical work, the regular price hxed by the countv medical society, less 3:1 1-3 per cent: for quarantine service, compensation fixed by section 21, chapteri 62, public laws 1911, which compensation shall be paid monthly by the board of commissioners of Wake county at its regular meetings. Member Z. V. Judd voted against the resolution fixing the compensa tion on a fee basis, and expressed himself in favor of a flat salary. Tt was further resolved that the secretary notify the sheriff of Wake county, the Jailer, the keeper ot the i ' ' ...,,-S"-.-":vf,1., : : : YM .pip ' ;. Sm&Xm v ' . ' Sf J . a , , .cm ;.:;s'-:.' Mine. Sni'onv, the .fatuous rTcncii emetioiiiil actiess, in Sew- ovli,- nml tu da which she c::l's n 'vpsieelcss Siimonc is acojiij!:;i!ie. ! v iicr inisba iil, i!. Cie.iiiiii'-IVricr, son of the for nici pivsidenl ol 1-v.uire. s!ie benis a sirilviua- resemblance to Mirab l!enilin!(lt vlici; (he lisi'.cr mis a mil -b voinmcr 'iii in. mid the diva was one o) the lirsf t i noif ami ( oinnieiit on rlus levi iiiblaiicc. The customs . olticei's v.oie the lu sl in (!.is connt-rv.-t'-i clirounter -. the 'Wit of Mine. Si moiie, who held her -sinull (iotv in lier arms iii!e her luuaane lvas beius evammeil. ' hat v;';ie lo you pla. e on vour ilon"."' Mine. Smioiic, was asked, she ill eiv l ack in surprise n-id put a protertmu baud on tlie bead ol ' lioi bol'e." I ilo .not value her as a i!:!V." slio said. "I value her as a ii lend. ,s a lov: she is twelve jc:iw "111 iiml without value. As a friend he is bevouil pi ice, I leave it to you. enl leinen, to settle the ques tion." "t hocliotic" cam,- i.t as a liiciid ami duty tree. county ..home,. -the.'- Kupc'ritKcu'do'rit-. of roads, and t hp s--u'ei-vioi s of I !,e :,r ious convict i alH!H of tlie county; and the board of coiinty -ciiMiniissioners of the. elect loir ol l); . ..MeCiillersj .as above slated, and i'uriiish each a copy of the rules and :re;;uhilnMis I'his day adopted bv this hoard. The.; following rules ami reitii-lrt-tions Were lhereuioit adopied. by the lioard : 1. -That it shall be the duty of tlie sheriff, the jailer, ihe l ci-iier of th-' county- holm?, the siiiK-rinlemlcnt ol roads mid Hie supervisor of t he var ious convict 'cuinps ol'VIhe couniy. to call,- the supei'inlendciif,. of ln'ii'ih .of tin? countv in all cases ol sickness or accident, to any o the luiin'.les ol the various institutions'. '' 2. That lio. physician , tsball ... he called in to attend any inmate of the jail, countv home, or convlel camps. except upon .the. order ol the wiper- Intendent of .health, or In accord ance with his instruclioiiR. !!.: That no whiskey, iiioriliine or other drug,-, shall he given to unv in mate of the countv home. pill, or convict -camps of the ounlv excent upon the direflions or iiK-nuctions of the sunei iniemleni oi' heiil;i',. 4. That it sliall be "unlawful for anv person to interfere will- or ob struct the superintendent"- of health In the performance of any of his duties, or for anv person to assume '.(Continued on 1'age Two.) l-btlil! TROUBLES SETTLED Paris, Sept. 27.- -Ciermiin minister cf foreign ailairs, Kulerlcn-W aecliler received French Ambassador Camhon In Berlin at noon and ..informed him that. Germany nccepted the -lalest. French proposals concerning Moroc CO. Gccse Found tJold. Santa Barbara, Cal., Sept. 27 Thirty gold nuggets were taken lrom the craws ot six geese raised by Mrs. Sirael Alpschul, of this city. News of the find started a small gold rush. Neighbors panned opt Bcveral small nuggets in the sand, but were not so successful In placer mining as the geese. t '.vbo lias arrived liiciid." Mine. Mr. Ernest E. DaSlis Talks Interestingly On Subject 1-oi-iiK i- ( haii iiiaii ol liurcail of Pub licilv el lutcr-.'st.-ite Cotton Seed riiiii is A.vsociat ion. .Now l.dKor ot " l be ( il ion heed" (iives Intel', estmu I acts. "Few- people realize that the cot ton si ed crop ol the south, once an absolute .waste iro(l net now : gives to the cotton planters ot the south :i profit ol $su, mm. nun a year," said l-.inesl K." Dalits of Atlanta, former cl'uiiuian ol the bureau ol publicity ol "the Inter-Stale ('Otlon Seed ('rush ers Association and now editor ot The Colion Seed, a motif ;.ly niaga 'ini debited (o the col ton seed oil industry, who is in . Raleigh todav. Sir., - Da Ills' is a ' former.'; iicwspn-pcr r t.i who is liiaking a study of this oxclnsivelv- southern Industry u"d talks interestiusly of. Its bright future.. . 'It--.is a fact," continued Mr. l'.''''.is, thai tiie cotton grower in pjiir'w.nn cst.Umite upon his growing crop does not figure on what his cot Ion ued will bring so that, part ot hi.i. i .hip Is all1 'velvet' to liiiit. Of t'ourse there Is . some good 'stron.? n asiii why t his .vagrant ot tho cotton in Id should ha've beeoine a king uuioi'ig-products. - It is becuus3 sotiie l 'm nl -I'ryol l he laboratory has learned to rod i if cotton seed oil and place it on the market as an edible product in competition with annual tats. As a result, the price of animal fats has gone down And the: housewives of the country have learned that cotton seed oil can replace annual fats as a shortening and imported oils lor salads with equal satisfac tion and with a groat dual less ex pense. She has lound that this ab solutely pure vegetable oil is her best weapon in the flfdit to reduce the high costs of living. The south has no more exclusive monopoly than this Industry and the Industry has no befter friend than Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure. food authority (Con'lnued on Pugo Two,) PRESIDENT 111 TOPEKA Spent Six Hours In the Kansas Capital Making Several ' Speeches POLITICS BREAK OUT Program for the Day Included a P rade, liiylng the Corner-stone of the Soldiers' Memorial Building mid nn Address, Then Several Short Speeches Political Incident icsterilay That .Stirred the Crowds Topeka, Kus., Sept. 27 Taft spent six hours in Topeka, beginning his 1lurd day In Kansas. The presi dent s train reached here nt 5 o'clock. At 7 o'clock the president and his party were driven to tho country club lor breakfast. Later he dedicated a soldiers flag pole at Washburn Col lege. Tlie program included a pa rade, laying of tho corner-stone of the soldiers memorial building and an address. From Topeka the pres ident traveled this afternoon to Atchison and Leavenworth, where he made brief stops. At Hutchison yesterday, near the close of what had been a non-partf- san celebration of the fiftieth anni versary of the birth of Kansas as a state with President Taft as the prin cipal speaker, a political incident flared up-and gave a thrill to the thousands of Ksnsans who packed the grandstand at the state fair grounds. . .. Walter T.. Fisher, secretary of the interior in president's cabinet, lust back -from Alaska, made a three-mfu- , ute speech, In which he said some things about the difference between real progressives of the mlddle-of- the-rond type like Mr. Taft," and "hypocritical demagogic progressives who opposed--every practical progres sive pollcv put forth." Senator Joseph L; Bnstow, rank ing second only to Senator LaFol letto, ot Wisconsin, among the pro- ressives ol the senate, followed Sec retary Fisher-and quickly caught up his challenger. '"We in Kansas," he said, "are al ways willing to grant that the other follow is honest in bis views and we expect him to grant Hint wo are hon est in ours. I want to sav to Presi dent Talt and to Secretary Fisher right now , that in working out the problems that confront us, we of Kan sas will have our part and have our sav to the end that there shall be equal justice to all and special priv- ilege to none." I'olh fisher and Senator Brlstow were applauded:. The throng seem ed to appreciate .the verbal passage at arms and the virtual serving of notice bv the junion Kansas senator that, while he was participating free ly and gladlv in the welcome to Pres ident. Taft in this slate, there was to he no let up in the factional fight as soon as the chief executive left the borders of the common wealth. Candidate to Succeed Railey. Austin, Tex., Sept. 27 Thomas II. Rail, prohibitionist leader In the recent state-wide election, lias an nounced his candidacy to succeed l ulled States Senator Joseph W. . Railey. Railey soon will retire' to practice law. Former Governor Proctor Dcwl. Proctor. Vermont, Sept. 27 For mer Governor Fletch D. Proctor dfed at his home here nfter a protracted Illness. San Francisco) Bept. 27 James Rolph, Jr., yesterday elected mayor of Sun Francisco Is widely known as a man who kept soup kltchins in the "mission district,' following the great fire of 1908. Rolph la forty two, and president of (he ship own ers asoclation. He Is president ef tow banks. He started life here. ' Rolph's plurality, it Is said, ap proximates twenty-seven thousand out of a vote of eighty thousand. The vote Is the . biggest ever' cast here. It was this first direct primary election to determine the personnel of the officers of the city and county- 1 j Vv-i '.,.-. ..i.i" ':.;;.-;-,. H' -,'. ;s r RALPH'S BIS VICTORY ' 111 SAN -fflltttft