North Carolina Newspapers

' Am Associated Press Service. Vol. LXXI. No; S3. J T The WeatherRAIN. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 15; 1912. ' LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS. ( Doible tKe Number of Paid Subscriber in R.aleigh of any Other Newspaper STILL AT LARGE No Headway Jade In a Pursuit of the Men Who Annihi lated Court REPORTED AT ML AIRY Desperadoes Said to Hare Crossed to North Carolina and to Have Rob bed a Hardware Store at Mt. Airy Jaxst Night May Be Several Days Bef ore a Well-Directed Force Gets on Their TrackNot Expected That Outlaws WHI Be Taken Alive State Officers on Scene. . Hillsvillcv Va., March 15. Little or no headway hail been made early this morning looking to the capture of the mountaineer desperadoes who yesterday shot-up Carroll coun ty circuit court, killing Judge Thornton Massle, Commonwealth's Attorney Foster and Sheriff Lew Webb. It was reported here that the Allen brothers and their followers had succeeded in crossing the North Carolina line to Mount Airy where it Is said they rafded a hardware store, securing a new supply of ammuni tion and arms. There is little thought that the outlaws will be taken alive. It may be days before a well directed force gets on their track. Yesterday's assassination wiped out all the county seat's law officers, leaving matters In absolute chaos. Outside help reached HiUsville this ". morning. State Attorney General "Williams, and Corporation Judge Staples, ordered here by Governor Mann, will reach- here some time during the day. '.'.They will direct the restoration of order. . The county's citizens,' lacking a leader, could do little toward organ izing a systematic hunt for the men. The Aliens have long been known as desperate. Only through a well organized effort can they be .cap tured. - . . .. . A semblance of order followed the arrival this morning of twenty private detectives, all heavily arm ed and under temporary commission as state officers. One of their first acts was to take .custody of Floyd Allen, who was wounded in the court room fight yesterday and left behind by his brothers. As he was being locked up he attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. He was disarmed.: It was "the sentencing of Floyd Allen to one year's Imprisonment by Judge MaBsie that started the fusl lade of his avenging clan. He was found guilty of assisting a, county prisoner to escape. ' No attetipt at organized search for Sidney and Jack Allen, and their associates bad been undertaken up to noon today. .The detectives here are waiting for reinforcement to ar rive during the afternoon. Two Arrests Reported. Cincinnati, March 15. A special from HiUsville says Floyd Allen and hisfkm, Victor, were arrested today by Detectve Felts, who arrived with twenty men and assumed complete control of tha town. A man named Strickland, said to have been Implicated in yesterday's shooting, also was arrested and placed in jail. A strong force, well (Continued on Page Bevan.) WORST OF THE WINTER RAGING Washlngtdn, March 16. Official advices received Jy Superintendent lngalla, of the railway mail service' declared the worst snow storm of the winter is bating throughout the cen tral west. Many railway lines have abandoned trains, the mall being delayed seriously. 1 " ' - Weather bureau officials said the western aid southwestern storms of Thursday combined into a single storm of greater intensity over the upper Ohio valley. It . is moving Tinldlv northeastward, attended by general snows and rains In the lower Missouri valley and from the Mls- elsstppt valley' eastward. In portions of North Carolina, Tennessee and the east gulf states the rainfall was torrential, averaging over five inches in eastern Alabama and western Georgia. There- are high i winds on Jhe kulf and south Atlantic coasts. - lillSiif BLIND TIGER SENTENCED Tom Morris Is Given Six Months-Appeals to Superior Court Police Justice Watson's time was consumed last evening with blind tigers and a cusser.. Frank Utley got mad on Martin street and so far forgot himself as to indulge in an old time cussing fest, for which he contributed $5.00 to the city's cof fers. . . . . v . ? v Tom Morris let his crave for lucre get the best of his judgment on February 3 and sold to J. A. Wiggs a half 'pint of whiskey for the uni of 25 centB. Wednesday he was before Commissioner Nichols charg ed with selling liquor without gov ernment license, he was found guilty and bound over to the federal term of court in May. Yesterday he was tried for violation of the state law and found guilty. Justice Watson sentenced him to six months on the county roads. The attorney for Morris Immediately gave notice of an appeal. His bond was given to the amount of $200. . nil! Terry and Ed Dixon were also tried on the retail charge, but judg ment was suspended. It is expected that several more whiskey cases will come up in the near future. '" CHARLOTTE TIED UP Flood Steps Street Car and 'Electric Light Service Water Highest In Twenty-Five Years And Still Rising RaiU-onds Are Threatened. (Special to The Times.) . Charlotte, March 15. The street car service and the service of the Southern Power Company were de molished today, by a terrific down pour of rain, beginning last night, and continuing today. The water in the creeks In the, lower sections of the city, has reach ed the highest level in 25 years, and is still rising. Many streets are Inundated, and the water is washing in the houses in one low section. The water is reported to be sever al feet above the Southern Railway's bridge near Charlotte, on the main line to Atlanta, threatening to tie up train service, The Storm in Raleigh; With the wind blowing 40 miles an hour and with the temperature unusually low, Raleigh experienced today more than the usual weather conditions that ; accompany the equinoctial period. The rain, accord ing to the local weather bureau, is not expected to bother Raleigh peo ple much more at this time, though tonight will be cloudy and colder. Tomorrow will " be fair with con tinued high winds and colder. PRISONERS ESCAPE. Killed Three of Prison Officials Vnnble to (Trace Then. Lincoln, Nebraska, . March 15. No trace has been found of the three convicts who killed the prison war. den, deputy warden, and an usher, then escaped in a blinding snow storm. The escaped prisoners were clad in their prison suits. It is be lieved they were assisted by con federates. The posse which went in pursuit .returned exhausted this morning, unable to get through the snow drifts. V ' ' : """ i FESTIVITIES FOR KNOX v Lenten Season Will Not . Interfere With Banquets and Dances. Caracas, Venezuela, March 15. The archbishop of Caracas has granted a dif pensatlon permitting the Catholics to participate In ban quets and dances during lenYso they wlli be "able to join in the festivities planned for the visit of American Secretary of States. Knox. Knox and party. will occupy the splendid resi dence of Prime Minister Alcantaru. 4- Four Killed In SnowsllAe. . Telleride, Colo., March 15 Four men are dead and several' mlasing, as the result of a snowsllde that swept down on Black Beflr Mine. The slide carried away the mine build ings. ' ' . . . I . FOOD EXPERT RESIGNS JOB Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Tired of Govern ment Service, Severed Connection With Department Today FOR NATIONAL BOARD Says Will Devote 'Remainder of His liife to Creation of Health Board Free of Politics Has Many Of fers to Make Uij? Money Will De liver Series of Lectures Soon Resignation Conies us Surprise Tired of Bickering's und Contro versies Under Secretary Wilson. Washington, March 15. Dr. "Harvey ;; Wiley, ' chief of (he bureau of clicinistiy, and as sistant secretary of the depart ment of agriculture, sent his resignation to Secretary Wilson today. Dr. Wiley announced that he would devote the rest of his life to urging the creation of a national health department, entirely separate from any other branch of the gov ernment service. The resignation became effective today. Dr. Wiley said he had a number of offers under consideration. One of these Is a large salary by a lec ture bureau, and the others are of editorial and commercial nature. He declared positively, he would not enter business. Already he has agreed to deliver a series of lectures In Kansas and Colorado, and at vari ous points In the east. : Ifo More Government Jobs. Asked whether he would be a can didate for head of the proposed fed eral health department, for which he announced he was going to work, ho declared he would not be, that he had held all government positions he cared to fill. Until the appointment of a suc cessor, Dr. L. D- Doolittle, one of the other members of the pure food board, will act as the bureau head. Dr. Wiley recommended to Commis sioner WHson a successor, but no intimation was given as to who ,it would be. The president sent telegrams broadcast to the heads of Universi ties and colleges throughout the county, asking them to recommend a successor to Dr, Wiley. The presi dent hoped in this way to get a con census of opinion as to the most available chemist.' Secretary Wilson's Views. At 'a cabinet meeting, the presi dent was informed' of Dr. Wiley's resignation by Secretary Wilson. To Newspaper men after the cabinet meeting, Wilson said: "The relations between me and Dr. Wiley have always been pleasant, personally., .,, "He has been a valuable man and has been in the department 29 years. He has seen it grow from a bureau with fifteen or possibly twenty men, to a great department. In that time he has "been increased from a salary of $2,600 to double that." BIO TOBACCO CROP Cuban Crop the , Largest Ever , Produced. ... New York, March 15. The Cuban tobacco crop this year will exceed the largest previous crop of 75,000 bales, according to New York ex perts, recently1 returned from an In spection ofthe Island's markets. The farmers have taken advantage of the first uniformly favorable weather In several yeirs. Predictions In Ha vana are that the years' output will exceed 700,000 bales, more than double that 6f last year. ,, - v SNOWSTORM IN THE WEST ', Storm Duetto Keatfi the Eastern j Seaboard Tonight. Chicago, March 15. A snowstorm approaching blizzard proportions raged throughout the night and con tinues this morning. The telegraph companies are embarrassed. - The storm" Is due to reach the eastern seaboard, tonight. May Abolish Commerce Court. Washington, , March . 15. The house Interstate commerce commit tee decided to favorably report the Slma bill, abolishing the com me roe court. - The committee voted II to ltSw Will Ask For Nomination to Succeed Himself On Commission Hon, E. L. Travis, wliu was ap pointed corporaiton comniisMoner by Governor KRchin last July to suc ceed Henry Clay Brown, deceased, said today that he would lie a can didate at the hands'' of the demo cratic convention for the nominal ion for the fuli term. Mr. Travis' 'came to . tho commission from Halifax county. He is a lawyer of .unusual ability, is a competent and popular man and is in position, after his sev eral months' connection with the commission, to render i!ie state even more intelligent, si-n iro ' liy reason of 'his experience. . I in has hos's of friends who will do some good work for him. Mr. A. J. . Maxwell, elm 1. to the commission is being urged io become a carfdidato to succeed Chairman McNeill, who will retire at ihe end of his present term. Sir. Maxwell is thoroughly competent and, like Mr. Travis, knews the idetmls of the business, and should be received with favor by the people. of the .state. The other commissioner, Hon. W. T. Lee, was elected two years ago for a full term. Interest Intense As to Whether Dying State ment Counts , Atlanta, March 15. All interest in the Grace case now centers around whether or not Eugene H. Grace's dying statement, accusing his wife of killing him, can lie used against her in court. ' If Grace dies, she will go to trial on a charge of murder is now con sidered a settled fact. The prose cuting attorneys, .'."Solicitor .'.Hugh Dorsey, Reuben 11. Arnold and Leniar Hill, declare positively that the dy ing declaration is. legally admissable, and contend in addition that outside of it they have a conplete chain of circumstantial evidence sufficient to convict bafore "a reasonable jury'. ' On the other hand the attorneys for the defense, Jow a W. Moore and Luther Z. . Rosser, .-declare that the dying statement is not admissable, and further stress the fact that there Is not one iota in .the statement or out of it, of direct evidence against Mrs. Grace. There is i great mass of evidence, but it is all circum stantial. , it no other evidence conies' to light either for or against Mrs. Grace, And the case goes to trial as it now stands, laws of evidence will play an important part in the conclusion, (Continued on Pago Seven.) 9 " STORM KKACIIKS CYCLONIC PROPORTIONS ABOl'T KO KIXOHAM. News comes here that a storm of cyclonic proportions raged throughout Richmond county and perhaps other coun ties along the southern border about noon, or shortly after to day. The report says that sev eral houses were blown down at Hoffman, which is in the northern- part of. Richmond county, It is also reported that more houses were blown down at Cheraw, S. C, and that sev eral people were injured. Cheraw is Just across the line from Richmond county. . Tho ; wires, both telepbaph and tele phone are all down in that sec tion and it Is impossible to get . communication with Rocking ham 'or Hamlet or any other' town in that part of the "state. 'This Is In Itself an indication of the severity of the storm. The messages telling of the dis aster came in in fragments Just before the vires went down. t BRACE SU TO BE DYING BIG MEETING IS Good Roads Advocates Will Gather In Courthouse In Week to s Consider Problems FOR PRACTICAL ENGINEER Wisdom of Employing Practical and Competent Expert Will .He Ex plained to (JntheriiiK -Prominent Road Men to Speak h'ree Illus trated Lecture at Almo Theatre program 'onimittce Has Worked Hard Viw Event. Unusual preparations are being made by the program committee of the Wake County Good Roads Asso ciation for the public meeting to he held Saturday at noon, March. in the court-house. Practical road ex perts from other sections have been invited to speak, and it is expected that the meeting will do mucli to ward the creating of a sentiment for good roads. The main object of the meeting, as was announced by Chairman Pogue today, is to get down to prac tical business principles in the building of roads, and this will mean, it is hoped, that Wake county will join the other progressive coun ties and employ a practical road en gineer to oversee every bit of con struction. Farmers, merchants and all people interested in the matter the commercial organizations, the board of commissioners and town ship trustees especially are invited to attend the meeting. In the. afternoon, through the courtesy of the Almo Theatre man agement, the latest road drags and machinery will be thrown on the screen for the benefit of those at tending the meeting. Gfcod roads literature will be distributed. The program committee is com posed of Col. Joseph E. Pogue, chairman; Dr. J. M. Templeton, president of the association; E. G. Crowder, M. A. Griffin, K. B. John son, itev. Geo. W. Lay and -Col. Benehan Cameron. The committee has had several meetings for the purpose of arranging the details. ; OKLAHOMA I'OR ROOSEVELT Taft Men Outnumbered Two to One Sijid Delegation for House- : VOlt. :.'-:. 'J ' . ' Guthrie, Okla., March 15. Roosevelt supporters took the upper hand in t he Oklahoma republican convention 'this morning. Roosevelt forces are unseated. Contesting Taft delegates substituting Roose velt men in their places. Roosevelt's adherents elected George Priestley as national com mitteeman. That the delegation to the Chicago national convention will be Instructed for Roosevelt seems a certainty. , The Taft followers were outnum bered two to one. They failed to get a voice In the delegation pro ceedings. There was an all night session ending In the convention voting to send a solid delegation, ten men, instructed for Roosevelt to Chi cago. . Major Lang Out of Danger. Rome, March 15.-Major Giovanni Lang, commander of the royal body guard, who was wounded when An tonio Dalba, the anarchist, attempt ed 'to assassinate King Victor Ein nianuel, Is considered out of danger. Suspicion Increases that the Dalba's crime was the consequence of a plot , Writing Cotton Message. Washington, March 15. Sum mary of the boards' investigation of the cotton schedule, was laid, before President Taft today. 'It is probable that the president will begin writing bis message immediately. The mes sago will , probably go to congress next week. , Pitney Introduced to Taft. Washington, March 15.- Mahlon Pitney, the new associate justice of the supreme court was introduced to the president by Senator Brlggs, of New Jersey. Pitney will probably take the' oath Monday. . Admiral Rowyer Dead. t Tampa, Fla., March 15. Rear Admiral John ' M. Bowyer, retired, former- superintendent of AnnlpoMs NaVal Academy, died here. He had Jeen 111 a long time. EXPECTED HOY FORCOtLEGE New $25,000 Building FtVsed to Make Basin of fflatta- G. F. C Car System New Ice Plant Greensboro, March 15. It is un derstood that work on the proposed new dormitory for the Greensboro Female College, will begin at once and that the construction -will be pushed forward as rapidly as possi ble. The building inspector yester day afternoon issued a building per mit for the new dormitory, which will be located on the college cam pus, and will be a structure contain ing 72 rooms. The permit called for a building to cost $25,000, while a second permit was issued for ser vants' (uarters, - to cost $1,0im). The people of the negro A. and M. section of Greensboro, are keenly ilive to the opportunity of securing in extension of the. public service corporation's street car system into that end of town, and at a mass meeting held at the A. and M. last night, a committee was appointed to look into the establishment of a fair grounds or ball park and to as sure the management of the car sys tem of the hearty co-operation of the race. Incidentally while the negroes are keenly anxious for the car line and the amusement park, (Continued on Page Seven.) FIRE AT Entire Business District of Town Burned Loss of Seventy Thousand Dollars -Flames, Supposed to Have Been Of Incendiary Origin, Started iH, ''Five O'clock This Morning, ; (Special to The Times.) , Rocky Mount, March 15. News reached this city this 'morning that Nashville was visited at an early hour by the most disastrous fire that has ever occurred there, wiping out the entire business district, entail ing a loss of over i 70,000. The Hame were discovered at 5 o'clock in the rear of the Brooks-' Mercan tile Company, and spread rapidly, eating their way through the double walls and the store of Cockrel and Williams, going from there into the building occupied by the Nash Sup ply Company, entering the second Moor in the furniture .department, and in several moments the three buildings were a mass of seething flames. After heroic work by fire men, the flames were confined to these three buildings,.' destroying them and their contents. No lives were lost, but several were injured'. The latest advices were that the tottering walls were in danger of falling at any moment.." The origin is unknown, but supposed to be in cendiary. The entire town was threatened. Wind, at the rate of 60 miles an hour, helped the flames, carrying brands and sparks some distance. Walls fell, pinning on man beneath. . - iiriuui:i okc to prison Five Minutes Sutllcient to Convict Assailant of Girl. Salisbury. Mil,, March 15. Indict ed, Bocretlv tried, and sentenced to ten years In the Maryland peniten tiary, la the history of .live, minutes today in the life of Emmons Waller, confessed assailant of 16-year-old Ella Bailey, near Hebron, last Mon day. Rumors that an attempt would be made tonight to lynch Waller prompted this speedy disposition of his case. , When Sheriff Smith heard the rumors . he conferred with Judge Stanford and Jones, holding court here. The grand Jury was Informed and immediately returned an indict ment. The Judges adjourned court, and when the spectators had depart ed called Waller before them. His attorney entered a plea of guilty; sentence 'was then pronounced, and within ten minutes from the time Waller was 'brought Into court he was being whirled away in an auto mobile, his ultimate destination be ing the penitentiary at Baltimore, Wilkesbarre, March 15. Enjoy ing fine health, Mrs. Baker Hlllman celebrated her hundredth birthday. Associated Press ' Service. BIG DRAINAGE CONTRACT LET ' Snitabie For Horae- stettvive Thousand FERTILE AS THE NILE For Years and Years, Rich Top Soli of Surrounding Country Has Been Carried Into Great Basin With Re sult that Its Drainage Would Rep resent Millions of Dollars in Lands Some of Obstacles Met and Overcome in Project A Big V'n dci taking That Is Practicable. Eight sixty-inch pumps, delivering an aggregate ot ,ooo, uuu gallons of water each minute, are expected to reclaim fifty-four thousand acres of the most fertile farming land in Hyde county, this state, at present the basin of Lake Mattamuskeet, furnishing thereby homesteads for approximately five thousand fam ilies. Contracts calling for an ex penditure of more than five hundred thousand dollars in the undertaking have: just been announced. Lake Mattamuskeet has long been Hyde county's most serious prom- lem. From year to year its waters have washed away the shores of the richest corn farms In the Unit ed States, until the bottom of the lake is covered with a thick deposit of the surface soil, a Veritable bonanza should the water of the lake ever be drawn off and the bed become available for cultivation. Higher Than Tide Level. Curiously enough the-drainage' of Lake Mattamuskeet is entirely feasible in view of the ' circum stances that the lake is actually several feet higher than the tide level of the surrounding bodies of water. What is now a shallow body of water twelve miles long, in fact, was In some years agone a fertile farming property. There came a destructive fire in a period of pro longed drought and the peaty soil was bruned out to form the basin which filled with rain water and seepage. Since then the shores have gradually widened as the rains eroded the farms which come down to the water's edge. Obstacles in way. Projects to drain off the waters of the lake and recover the farm ing land have been as pHrmerous as the obstacles which have hitherto In tervened to prevent their carrying out. The history of the plans in volved in legislative delay. Finally an act was passed by the state legis lature several years ago authoring the board of education to dispose of the property. As a result Matta muskeet Drainage District No, 1 was formed, and the Southern Land Reclamation Company organized. At Dollar an Acre, This company paid to the board of education the sum of one dollar per acre for the land and plans for draining the lake were Immediately undertaken when the legislature al lowed the drainage district to issue one-half million dollars in bonds for the purpose. Progress on 'the work was Inter rupted again, however, by a case to (Continued on Page Seven.) MINERS REFUSE OFFER OF OPERATORS New York, March 15. Reiterat ing demands for recognition of the union, 20 per cent, wages increase, shorter working, day and other changes, the United Mine Workers of America replied to tho counter proposition offered them by the an thracite coal operators. The opera tors' proposition is declined. No mention Is made in the miners' reply of their willingness or un willingness to compromise. Refugees From Mexico. El Paso, March 15. Two trains arriving here from Chihuahua last night, brought 215 refugees. Gov ernor Abram Gonteales, of Chlhua hua, Is reported at Fresno, a small town, 8 miles from Chihuahua city, preparing to make a dash with a small force for OJInaga to join tha royal forcea. , j,'. , .1 ... : - ; ' v ' -ft