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The Progressive Farmer, February 11, 1902.
State News.
IBOM CTJBBITUCX TO CHEROKEE.
itiniof Interest Gleaned From our Corres
pondents and Exchanges in all
Farts of the State.
The President has nominated J. F.
Wray to be postmaster at Reids-
ville.
Representative Small has intro
duced a bill appropriating $150,000
for a public building in Elizabeth
City.
Col. John A. Holt, a well known
citizen of Salisbury, died Thursday
night. He was a native of Davidson
county, and was 74 years old.
The last negro inhabitant of Gra
ham county has left its borders. It
i the only county in the State that
nunuer nj negro among its in
habitants. Turboro Southerner: The largest
yield of cotton from one acre is re
ported from N. P. Bullock in No. 7
tL wnship. On tb a one acre he picked
a few pounds over 3.000.
Post, 6th : Out of a class of thirty
tlres applicants for license to prac
tice luw who stood the examination
before the North Carolina Supreme
Court lat Monday, only fourteen
were successful.
benutor Hill, of New York, has
been invited to deliver the con
mencement address t Davidson Col
lege next June, an 2. :i:e Manufactur
ers' Club, of Charlotte, has invited
bim so visit that city.
Republicans held a meeting at
Wilkesboro last week and adopted
resoluticns favoring the suppression
of anarchy and Federal control of
elections in the South. Ex-Congress-man
Linney addressed the meeting.
News and Observer : The death
of Mr. Milton L. Shields, of Greens
boro, is a positive loss to the State.
H:s business judgment and well
directed zeal had built up the largest
wholesale shoe house in North Caro
lina. The Literary Societies of Wake
Forest College have issued invita
tions to their sixty. seventh anniver
sary, celebration to take place on
Friday, Fobruary 14, beginning with
a debate at two o'clock in the ifter
noon. Washington Cor. Post: There is
a movement on foot among Republi
cans from several Southern S sates
to urge the appointment of Charles
Price of Salisbury to succeed Justice
Sliiras of tbe United States Supreme
Court, who, it is reported, will re
sign in the near future.
Greensboro dispatch : The Greens
boro public library, a source of pride
to every citizen of this city, was
thrown open to the public this morn
ing. The opening was marked by
appropriate exercises held in the
Grand Opera House last night, when
the library was presented to the
city.
VTin?ton-Salem dispatch : A. promi
nent member of the State council
says the Junior Order will not estab
lish hq Orphanage in North Carolina
for s?m time at least. He savs it
cauE.-jt bo done without the State
council withdrawing its support
frcm the National Orphanage, and
this u n t feasible.
GoLj. or ) dispatch : There will
be ur. f x animation held in Raleigh
cr W imington on Tuesday, April
i", of all candidates in this dis
trie1 ;, r the vacant naval cadetsbip
fct Ans.-p lis. Mar; land. The su -co?frI
candidate will bo appointed
J ''.(' Naval Academy nnd will ba
ex Mined there only physically.
M-boro Cor P--t : The new
riutendent of tbe Goldiboro
LT
M.
f.
T
V.
i (I schools, Prof . Tnomat R.
-t, arrived in the city last night
fusumed the duties of bis posi-
to-day. Prof. J 1. Foust, who
-'.tried the superintendent's posi-
' 1 ere to go to the State Normal
' r f onsboro, will leave shortly to
"r'iU himself in his tew position.
J " January bull, tin or" tbe State
i of Health vn t smallpox is in
unties: Bucc mbe, dibarru,
; Durham, Edgecombe, For
G as ton, Green, Henderson,
" 1;. Mecklenburg, Nash, Polk,
iiL-ham, Rowan, Rutherford,
I'- ;n, Swain, Union, Wayne,
u? m It says there are a great
- v cases in Wayne.
' riot te Observer : Our Roxboro
-r "pondent says : "This was a
f red section of theState last year.
Cr.ijH were good, tobacco the princi
pal one, bringing a high price.
r. J. S. Bradsher, cashier of the
ople'a Bank, says more debts have
been paid than for many years."
This is indeed refreshing news after
the returns which have been coming
in from other seotions of the State,
and it is to be hoped that when an
other crop shall have matured .suoh
stories may be the rule instead of
the exception, as now.
Roper Special to News and Obser
ver, 6th : While superintending the
cutting of timber on his farm near
here this morning Thos. L. Tarken
ton was struok by a falling limb,
receiving a wound from which he
died in two hours. He was one of
the most successful young farmers
in the county, which he represented
in the Legislature of 1899.
Wilmington dispatch : The poultry
show has opened at the city hall un
der very favorable auspices. The
exhibits are larger than expected
and as a rule they are fine. A pair
of very fine "Mammouth Bronze"
turkeys exhibited by Kornegay &
Son, of Mount Olive, are attracting
muoh attention. The exhibits of
Belgian hares, Angora rabbits
are among the special features.
It looks like Roanoke Island is
destined to be famous not only as the
birth-place of Virginia Dare, the
first English-born ohild in America,
but also as the home of the perfec
tion of wireless telegraphy. The
United States Weather Bureau has
been making experiments there for
months and now Marconi bas estab
lished a station there for making
extensive experiments Exchange.
Biltmore Cor. Charlotte Observer :
The average price of Berkshire
swine at the auction sale of the Bilt
more farms this afternoon was over
$76. An average of about $125 had
been expected by the managers.
Forty or fifty leading breeders of the
United States were present. Tho
total number of animals sold was 48,
the aggregate price $3,683. The
highest prised pig sold brought $210 ;
the lowest $35.
Newton Enterprise : Most of the
wheat fields look as bare as freshly
ploughed ground, but it is too soon
yet to prediot a failure. There is no
telling what a little warm weather
may do for the crop. With oorn
and wheat at e.bout a dollar a bushel,
pork 10 cents a pound, sweet potatoes
40 cents a bushel, wood $1 60 a cord,
eggs 20 cents a dozen and other Carm
products at proportionate prices, the
farmers are not spending nuch time
complaing about dull times.
Williams Mills Cor. Post: Farm
work is at a stand still, though sev
eral of our farmers have their to
bacoo plant beds sowed and the out
look seems that a considerable in
crease in acreage of the weed will be
planted in this section. The oat
crop is a total failure and wheat has
a very poor stand. Some few hogs
are dying of cholera. No politics
talked so far, though some think
that ex Congressman J. W. Atwater
has a Congressional bee in his
bonnet.
Charlotte News : Meoklenburg
farm hands are still leaving for Lou
isiana and Mississippi. A large num
ber from the Providence section left
yesterday and last night. A promi
nent farmer tells us that if the pres
ent exodus continues, Mecklenburg
farmers will be compelled to go to
other counties for negro farm help.
Several negroes who have gone to
Mifsissippi from this seotion have
written back home that they like the
ohange. This has caused a number
to go vho otherwise would have re
mained at home.
Rakish Cor. Charlotte Observer :
All the ruial free delivery mail
carriers in tbe State were to-day paid
off by the p .stcnaster here. He pays
there aro now 60, but that there will
soon be 200 of them. Newspaper
reports conflict as to tho offer of
Hon. F. A. Palmer to Elon College.
The facts are these : Mr Palmer
offer Elon College $30,000 cash dur
ing 1902, if it will raie $20,000, first
payment of $20,000 to bo made by
February 1, if the rollge rai.-es
$12,000 by that time. The $12,0'. 0
has already benn raised, po tbe col
lege receives $32,000 in cash now.
The effer of Mr. Palmer was made
known ab.mt November 1. Tbe col
lege has until next Cnmtmas to raise
tho remainder, $20,000. These facts
are given your correspondent by J
M. Newman, tbe chairman of the
board of trustees.
DEATH OF THE MAN WHO BUILT PINE
HURST. Though not widely known in North
Carolina the late Mr. Tufts, of Bos
ton, who died Sunday night at Pine
hurst, had done muoh for the State.
A few years ago he purchased from
the Pages a large tract of sandy land,
from whioh the timber had been out,
and converted muoh of it into a gar
den. He built scores of cottages,
modern hotels, libraries, casinos,
golf links, and last year crowned it
all by building an elegant hotel as
fine as any in New York City. It
was crowded to its utmost capacity
though the rates in February reaohed
ten dollars a day. He had almost
literally converted the desert into a
rose garden, and had just put Pine
hurst at the head of all Southern
winter resorts when the unexected
summons came. News and Observer.
i STATU ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE ORGAN
IZED.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer,
7th : Representatives of the various
religious denominations met here to
day to organize a body of State tem
perance workers. John A. Oates, of
Fayetteville, presided, and F. F.
Dawson, of Wilson, was secretary.
The following were present: Rev.
D. H. Tattle, Elizabeth City Rev.
W- J. Johnston, Kinston ; Rev. J. T.
Bath, Richmond Rev. R. S. Steven
son, Rev. Dr. xhomas E. Skinner,
Mr. N. B. Broughton, all of Raleigh ;
Rev. C. 13. Crawford, representing
the Anti Saloon Leagiio of Virginia ;
J -din A. Oates, of Fayetteville ; F. F.
Dawson, of Wilson ; Dr T. N. Ivey,
editor of tho Christian Advocate ; J.
W. Bailey, editor of tho Biblical Re
corder, and Rev. Dr. A. J. MoKel
way, of Charlotte, editor of the Pres
byterian Standard. A committee,
consisting of J. W. Bailey, D. H.
Tuttle, N. B. Broughton and T. N.
Ivey, was appointed to draft n con
stitution and by-laws. It is expected
that an anti saloon league like that
in Virginia will be organized. The
purpose is to abolish saloons. The
North Carolina Anti-Saloon League
was chosen as the offioial name. A
constitution was adopted. N. B
Broughton, of Raleigh, was eleoted
president ; Rev. Dr. T. N. Ivey, sec
retary and treasurer. It is proposed
to put superintendents in the field to
push the work in all parts of the
State.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS IN NORTH CARO
LINA. Changed From Tenth Place to Third in Cotton
Manufacturing in Ten Years.
Washington dispatoh : A report
on manufacturing for the State of
North Carolina has been made public
and shows a capital of $76,503,894 in
vested in manufactures and meohani
cal industries in tbe 7,226 establish
ments in State. The value of the
products is given as $94,919,663, to
produce which involved an outlay of
$2,434,621 for salaries, $13,968,430 for
wages, $9,118,637 for miscellaneous
expenses and $53,072,388 for mate
rials used.
The bulletin shows that the manu
facture of cotton goods is the most
important industry in the State. The
177 establishments reported in 1900
gave employment to 30,273 wage
earners, or 42 9 per cent of the wage
earners employed in the State, and
produots were valued at $28,372,798,
or 29 9 per oent of the total value of
the produots of the State. In 1890
there were 91 establishments, 8,515
wage earners and products valued
at $9,E63'443. The increase in the
value of products during the decade
was $18,809,355, or 196 7 per cent
Tbe bulletin says further :
''The growth of the manufacture
of cotton gocds has been steady since
1850 T'.;? period both of greatest
absolute inoreaee and of greatest
percentage of increase in the value
of produots was during the deoade
ending with 1900. In 1890 tbe State
was tenth in rank in this manufao
turo in the United States ; it is now
third, Massachusetts being firt and
South Carolina second In 1890
among Southern States it ranked
third ; it is now seoond, South Caro
lina preceding it, and Georgia taking
third place. Although pecond in
value of products, it is first in num
ber of establishments, in average
number of employes and in total
wages paid. The amount of cotton
consumed yearly by the Hpiiuilea
now running is nearly equivalent to
the annual cotton cr.jp of the State,
which in 1899 was 473,155 commer
cial bales.
"The manufacture of lumber and
timber products rank second among
the industries of the State, with 1,770
establishments, 11,751 wage earners
and products valued at $14,862,593
In 1890 there were 713 establish
ments, 6,466 wage earners and pro
ducts valued at $5,898,742. The in
crease in the value of produots dur
ing the decade was $8,263,851, or 152
per cent. The growth of this indus
try during the last two .decades has
been remarkable.'
General News.
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TELL.
The Facts Boiled Sown and Presented is
Convenient Form for Busy
Readers.
President Roosevelt's son, Theo
dore, Jr., is seriously ill with pneu
monia. A Madison dispatch announces the
death ol Vice-Admiral Jose Montajo,
who commanded the Spanish fleet at
Manila.
Admiral Sampson was finally re
tired from aotive service Sunday,
having reaohed the age limit that
day. He is gradually getting weaker.
The South Carolina House of Rep
resentatives has passed a resolution
appointing a commission to take
steps to establish a State fertilizer
plant, in whioh the State's phosphate
rock will be used, and to operate the
faotory with convict labor.
The Senate passed Tuesday, by a
vote of 39 to 21, the bill providing
for an increase of 25 per cent, in
the salaries of United States
judges. This will make the salary
of the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States $13,000,
salaries of the Assooiate Justice
$12,500, Cirouit;Court judges $7,500,
and district judges $6,250 instead of
$5,000.
Under the new Alabama constitu
tion, Monday was the last day in
which voters oould enfranchise them
selves by paying poll tax. All that
do not hold receipts cannot vote in
any eleotion in Alabama during the
next year. From reports received
from various parts of the State it is
estimated that at least twenty per
cent, of the people have disfranchised
themselves by failure to pay this
tax.
The Virginia Constitutional Con
vention is expected to conclude its
labors about Maroh 1. It has been
in session at Riohmond since the
middle of last June and has cost the
State $200,000. No suffrage clause
has yet been agreed upon, although
many have been presented. It is
the purpose of the Democrats
to unite upon a plan, if possible,
whioh will eliminate the negro from
politics in the Old Dominion.
A bill creating a permanent census
bureau has passed the House Its
provisions make it the worst blow
aimed at civil service in years. It
has been drafted with the idea of
giving Congressmen an opportunity
to provide for their pets now in the
temporary census bureau, to whioh
position they were appointed on the
spoils system. The new bill makes
all those in the employ of the pres
ent bureau at the time the law goes
into effect eligible for transfer to
the classified service. This means
that 1000 or more will have prefer
ence over those who head the wait
ing list in the civil service, and also
the oivil war veterans. Exohange.
Much interest attaohes to the pro
posed visit of Miss Alioe Roosevelt
to England where she will witness
the coronation of King Edward. She
will go a? the guest of Ambassador
and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, but, it is
now expected, will also be acoom
panied by her uncle and aunt, Com
mander and Mrs. Cowles. Of course
Miss R osevelt goes abroad in an en
tirely private capacity and not as
the representative of the United
States or of her distinguished par ent ;
but it is, nevertheless, believed
that her position will be recognized
to an extent that will make her visit
extremely pleasant. The President
has been strongly opposed to baving
his daughter go both beoause of tbe
trial it will be to have her absent
from home for so long a tima and
because he has feared that her visit
at this time. might be oonstrued as
having some offioial or political
significance, but, like many men
with young daughters, he has found
it diffkmlt to refuse her petitions, so
the young lady with th help of her
mother and her aunt has finally se
cured tbe permission.
Little of importance has trans
pired at the Capital during the last
few das. In fact, Congress may
still be said to be in a more or h-ss
embryonic state. The Ways and
Means Committee has reported fa
vorably the bill providing for the
abolition of the War Taxes imposed
at the time tbe Spanish War was de
clared and as soon as the measure is
taken up a lively debate is expected.
When the measure was still in com
mittee Representative Babcock of
Wisoonsin made an attempt to incor
porate with it, in the rorm of an
amendment, his bill reducing duties
on certain steel products and the
amendment was lost - by a vote of
6 to 7. Representative Steele also
moved to amend the bill so as
to grant the concessions to Cuba
which the President has so vig
orously advocated, but on request
of Chairman Payne withdrew his
motion. The Senate is still devot
ing itself to the consideration of the
Philippine revenue bill with varia
tions, diverging from time to time
to take up other subjects. Governor
Taft is still testifying before the
Philippine Committee and when his
testimony has all been printed and
the Senators had time to read it,
Senator Lodge will push the passage
of the bill.
A THOUGHT FOB THE WEEK.
Be a man's vooation what it may,
bis rule should be to do his duties
perfeotly, and thus to make perpet
ual progress in his art Channing.
HOBSON ANXIOUS TO RETIRE.
Washington, Feb. 5. It is expec
ted that an effort will be made to se
cure legislative authorization for
the retirement from the naval serv
ice of Constructor Hobson. Captain
Hobson is now in Washington and is
desirous of retiring, basing his ap
plication on the bad state of his
eyes, resulting from exposure in
working on Spanish ships after the
late war.
It is believed that the Navy De
partment will approve of such legis
lation if its opinion is called for by
Congress.
OUB PURCHASE OF DANISH WEST INDIES
Washington, Feb. 6. The treaty
between Denmark and the United
States for the sale of the Danish
West Indies is quite a lengthy docu
ment and its essential features have
already appeared in print. A vote
of the people of the Danish West In
dies is not a condition precedent to
the ratification of the treaty between
the United States and Denmark for
the sale to this government of St.
Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. The
treaty does not provide for a plebis
cite. The sum to be paid for the
islands is five million dollars, as pre
viously reported.
WANTS CUBA IN THE UNION.
Washington, Feb. 5. Representa
tive Newlands of Nevada, of the
Ways and Means Committee, who
was tho author of the resolution an
nexing Hawaii, to-day introduced a
joint resolution inviting the Repub
lic of Cuba to become a part of the
United States, first as a Territory,
and then as a State of the Union, to
be called the State of Cuba ; also au
thorizing a 25 per cent, reduotion of
duty on the present crop of Cuban
sugar, in consideration of Cuba's
granting preferential rates to the
United States. The resolutions con
fine the 25 per oent. reduotion duties
to the period prior to January 1,
1903.
BEFOBT ON THE BILL FOB THE APPA
LACHIAN PARK.
Washington, Feb. 6. Senator
Pritohard from the Committee on
Forest Reservations yesterday pre
sented a written report on the bill
appropriating $5,000,000 for the
creation of a National forest reserve
in the South Appalachian region, as
authorized by the oommitfcee several
days ago.
The report urges the establishment
of the reserve, the protection of the
timber and the conservation of the
waters of the land embraced within
its proposed area, placing the dam
age done by floods arising in that
area in the year 1901 at $15,000,000.
It is olaiined that the land to be in
cluded can be purchased for from
$2 to $3 per acre.
One point made in support of the
bill is that in the Southern Appa
lachian mountains there is a greater
variety of hardwood trees and greater
remains of the primeval forests than
in any other territory of like size in
tbe Eistern States The contention
also is made that it has the highest
and largest mountain east of the
Mississippi, the heaviest rainfall on
the continent exoept along the North
ern Pacifio ooast, and that conse
and that consequently the washing
away or the toils of the region can
only be prevented by keeping them
covered with forests.
"The absence from this region of
lakes and gravely soils such as
abound in the Northern States, and
these serve to stora the rains and
give uniformity to the flow of
streams," the report continues, "ren
ders the perpetuation of those South
ern forests absolutely necessary f or
the protection of both the soils and
the sti earns"
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION URGES GOV
ERNHENT CONTROL OF RAILWAYS.
All States Should Enact Anti-Stock Water
ing Statures Large Appropriations for
Railroad Experimei ts Extension of Free
Rural Delivery Forest Reserves.
Washington, Feb. 7. The Indus
trial Commission has submitted its
final report to Congress. The first
part, which has been made pnblio,
deals with the progress of the na
tion, agriculture, mining and trans
portation. Recommendations are
made on the subjects of transporta
tion and agriculture. The commis
sion recommends as to transporta
tions :
"That the policy of Governmental
supervision and control of railroads,
as originally laid down in the Senate
Committee report of 1886, and em
bodied the following year in the inter-
state commeroe act, be revived
an dstrengthened ; that the authority
of the Inter state Commerce Com
mission necessary for the adequate
protection of shippers, clearly in
tended by the framers of the
law be reported, and that the
powers and functions of the
commission be enlarged'' practically
as contemplated in the so-called Cul
lum Bill of 1900, except as to author
ity to prepare and enforce a uniform
classification.
"That to further the effectiveness
of the commission, its membership
should be directly representative of
the various interests concerned, in
the persons of shippers or business
men, traffic experts (rail and water),
and men of legal training, and the
number of commissioners should be
increased te seven.
"That legislation analogous to the
anti stock watering statutes of Mas
sachusetts be enaoted by the several
States.
"That railroad oompanies be pro
hibited by law from making lower
freight rates upon imports billed to
the interior of this country, in con
nection with ocean transportation or
otherwise, than are made on similar
articles from the seaboard to interior,
or than are made from one inland
point to another when the distance is
not greater."
Prefaoing its recommendations re
garding agriculture the commission
says that agriculture has derived
more benefit from the establishment
of the Department of Agriculture
and from its administrative work
than from any other Federal legisla
tion. It majKes a number of recom
mendations, including the following :
That increased appropriations be
made by the Congress for building
sample structures of improved roads
in various seotions of the country, so
as to encourage the more rapid con
struction of such roads at State and
looal expense.
That the s j stem of free rubral de
livery he extendded as recommended
by the Postmaster General in his
latest annual report.
That the policy of setting aside
forest reserves, already inaugurated,
be extended.
IMPORTING COTTON SEED.
American Product Being Purohaied in Eu
rope and Beshipped.
A New York special to New Or
leans Times Democrat says :
Cotton seed that was originally
bought in this country is still being
reshipped from Europe in large quan
tities. Wien the first few ship
ments of American seed were made
from Europe it was not thought that
this would continue except in isola
ted cases. It begins to look now,
however, as though the crushers of
the Eastern part of the oountry will
have to look to Europe for their seed
until navigation on tho Jakes is re
sumed. The crop of this country for 1901
has almost been absorbed already,
and at none of tbe initiul markets
can a supply be secured. Usually
the crushers have a surplus on hand
at this time of the year. This year,
however, their stock is already ex
hausted, and they are foiced to look
to Europe for a further supply. This
would seem to indicate tbat an enor
mous consumption is anticipated by
the crushers.
The American demand on the for
eign markets has advanced prices
materially on Calcutta and La Piatt
seed for immediate shipment. The
American buyers are apparently not
looking for future seed in the for
eign market, but simply for seed for
immediate use. When sufficient
seedjhas been secured frcm Europe
to supply the crushers until the re
sumption of navigation, it is thought
that the demand will cease.
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