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C01l0r) loan mrHnttt. VOL. XX. Price 40 Cents a month. CONCORD, N. C, WEONESDAY, JUNE 1, 1910. Single Copy 5 Cents. No. 122 ! FARMERS WORK FOB SWAMP DRAINAGE. Regard it More Important than Irri gationWould Add Wealth to East. In view of the work that is pro posed, in Cabarrus, the following ar ticle from the Washington Herald is of particular interest just now : The two farmers' unions the Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union and the American Society of Equity have united in a campaign to bring about the drainage and reclama tion of the swamp lands of the coun try through' Federal aid, a 'work that will add nearly 80,000,000 acres to the farm section of the country which would be worth from $3,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 if reclaimed. The recent action of the congress of these two organizations in adopting a resolution asking Congress to ap propriate $15,000 for the drainage of .swamp lands in Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Arkansas is the first step in the campaign. The work, the farmers say, is more important than the Federal government's reclamation project in the semi-arid West. This movement, long a matter of 'desultory discussion, has been given .added impetus wihin recent months by the public utterances of B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, who es timates that there are 58,000,000 acres of rich land in the Mississippi Valley that can be reclaimed from the ..swamps at a small cost. "To drain the valley, to build new railroads, to develop the country, and .to enforce our regulative laws," he says, "are more important 'works than the enactment of new and experi mental laws. "For almost a century our govern ment has looked with indifference at t he rich, unused lands of the Southern :States, while the British government .furnishes its money and credit to aid iEgypt to reclaim waste lands in the .valley of the Nile, 5,000 miles away. -"The low rich lands of the South ihave become a matter of importance to the -whole country. First, the peo ple need the food, cotton and other products which these low lands will produce in abundance. "Second, these lands are needed for settlement by the American citi zens who are seeking homes in other "countries. Sixty thousand or more -people moved from the United States Hnto Canada last year. They carried with them $1,000 eaoh from $60,000, (000 to $100,000,000. Our people are leaving thickly settled districts where ithe price of farm lands is high. This imeans that ear, own people are build - iing up an empire belonging to a for eign country at the expense of our own nation. "These rich Southern lands may be drained at a cost of $5 an acre, lo cated near the congested centers, and 'will produce the kind of food that supplies the kitchen of the consuming amasses. "The government is interested in reclamation in the Northwest, but the Administration at Washington has be come interested in the irrigation proj ects, because the oeoole of the North west became interested in the develop ment of this country and nrged their claims. mere are o,uu,wu acres ui swamp land in the United States; 58, 000,000 acres of "which are in the Southern States an area greater than the combined area of Kentucky and Tennessee. By reclaiming them we can add at one stroke two big, rich and prosperous States to the Union. This would enable us to make farms . quicker than they ever were made in -.the history of the world." Some drainage enthusiasts have es timated the cost at much less than $5 " per acre, but at Mr. Yoakum's esti mate, the total cost of reclaiming the : 76,000,000 acres would' be $380,000,. 000. This is a little more than three '.times as much as the government es '. tmates it will cost to reclaim by irri gation, about 3,000,000 aciea in the A West and Northwest. The estimates ,'for the reclamation work gives the 1 average price of getting water on the semi-arid acres, af about $30 per acre or six times what it would eost to tdrain the swamp lands. : . Reclaimed swamp lands are richer tthan any other kind. They have been .... . . . i i i i. uertuizea oy aecaying Tegeiauie ma tter and deposited siK for ages. They . a-aise abundant. They are worth at Beast $50 an acre on the average. Draining the 76,000,000 acres would thus add 3300,000,000 worth of jfarm lands to the country's total. Divided into farms of 100, acres each, the swamp lands would make 760,000 farms. It is estimated that a good farm of this sixe provides perma nent homes for t least seven people, nd supports about tea persons. The swamp lands would provide homes for 6,300,000 persons and would support rS00,000--more than thejre are in the kingdom of Belgium, one-sixth as many as there are in all of Sooth America) more than twice as many there are in Switierland. :; -L Estimating the average Talne of the yield per acre, every year at only $20, these reclaimed lands would raise an nually crops worth one and a half bil lion of dollars nearly twice the value of the total wheat crop of the entire country. The government is doing some drain age work in its reclamation projects, but it is incidental to the irrigation work. Under the Congressional law ; creating the reclamation bureau and denning its scope, it has no right to go outside of ingatton reclamation, al though the men who have had charge of the work hope the scope 'Will be ex tended. Out in Washington and California on the border between the two states in the Klamath region some drain age work has been necessary, in order to perfect the irrigation project. Sev eral thousand acres in the lower Kla math Lake district have been drained by the creation of reservoirs and the construction or irrigation canals. These former swamp lands are being eagerly sought after. "FLIGHT TO CHICAGO." New York to Windy City Without a Stop by Airship. Now York Dispatch, 30th. An aeroplane flight from this city to tJncago, with no more stops than trains to change engines, is considered a possibility today in the light of Glenn Curtiss 's sensational feat of Sunday. Curtiss broke all speed records for continuous flying in his performance, averaging 54 4-5 miles au hour for the trip. At one time he attained an elevation which the estimated at 5,000 teet, and on the last lap along the lower Hudson, he flew less than 200 feet above the surface of the river. Immediately following Curtiss' sen sational flight in the smallest machine ever used for such a purpose comes the announcement that the largest aeroplane in the 'world has been built in the nerodome of the Aeronautical Society at Mineola, L. I. Monday the finishing touches were put on the framework and there re mains but the installation of the mo tor, which is on its way from Europe. Joe Seymour, the veteran racing car driver, and Walter Diefenbach, an expert machinist, have built the ma chine from their own designs, follow ing closely the best points to be found in the Farnum, Wrigfit and Curtiss types, and they are confident that the flyer will eclipse all records for long distance flights. When the motor, which is an Isotta aviation engine of 70 horse power, is installed the aviators expect to be able to lift the weight of seven men. "I'm going to beat Curtiss," said Seymour today. "We are going after that Albany to New York flight. We have christened our new machine the Lusitania. I believe I'll be able to fly her from here to Chicago without stopping." beymour and Diefenbach say that the larger the machine, the steadier it will tly, and their opinion has been borne out in all recent tests. They expect to have the Lusitania ready for trial flights this week. Virginia Negro Goes in Well to Hide From Halley'a Comet. Not feeling altogether certain as to what antics Haley's comet would in dulge in on the occasion of its so journ in the earth's preserves, Rob ert -Stewart, chief cook of the Ealges' Home, in Roanoke, Va., camped in a well several nights at his home in that city last week. The Tunes eays: By a rope ladder, constructed by him with greatest care and precision he climbed into his hole in the ground. Previously he had iscovered the existence of a large and comforta ble core like hollow in one side of the well and it aws there he ensconsced himself while the comet gaily sailed through the skies. It is presumed that in day time Stewart' felt able to take care of himself, having; the sun's illumina tion to guide his footsteps and tell him when to dodge. After dark how ever, he had no suoh assuring sur roundings and therefore determined to get down into the bowels of the earth where he could have several feet of good solid earth v to receive the contact of the visitor before it could reach him. Stewart based his theory on the well-known effect of a cannon balL If it strikes a man in the open airt is good bye' man; hut if it pounds twenty-five feet of rock and dirt before getting near him the chances are in the man' favor.' Act ing in accordance with this theory Stewart fortified himself in the. cave in his well, spending there ' two pi three nights, making himself as' com fortable as possible in the chilly at mosphere, and finding consolation in the thought that . while his circum stances were sot as delightful as those of a nice warm. bed and cheery room, he was well concealed from Hal ley's protege and prepared to continue his existence in this weary world. " See The Times for job Printing. V ALL HOPE IN ROOSEVELT. He Alone, It is Believed, Can Save the Administration. Washington Dispach, 31st. Roosevelt is the one man in the country in whose power it lies to save the Taift administration from the ig nominious and humiliating failure that now stares it in the face and blanches the color in the cheeks of its most hardy adherents. This is the real opinion of Repub licans, not alone of the insurgent type, but of the Regular brand as well. Some of the bitterest enemies Roose velt has in Washington admit that such is the case, and that the injection of his personality into the fall cam paign, with the ful strength of his personal popularity, which has been tremendously augmented since he left the White House, is the sole and only thing that can pull the Administra tion out of the muck, prevent a Dem ocratic House at the next session and re-establish the shaken confidence of the people in Taft and his party. Whether even Roosevelt can accom plish this Herculean task is doubtful. So far have things gone awry, so damning have been the disclosures and so far-reaching the distrust created by the developments of the last few months that many people think "burnt brandy won't save the situ ation now. That the hope of the President to go before the country at the close of this session with "a record of accomplish ment ' ' will not materialize is growing more and more certain. The Taft legislative program is upset. It was not well conceived and the auspices under which it was presented to Con gress engendered suspicions that have increased as time went along. Today, with the hot weather at hand and ev erybody anxious to adjourn, not a sin gle one of the Taft bills has become a law. Even should every bill urged by Taft go through, which is now practi cally impossible, it would not mate rially change tlie outlook for the fall campaign. Everybody recognizes that the tariff as it relates to the high cost of living, will bo one of the over whelming issue in this fight, and the Republicans are on the defensive. Hence the loud demand for Roosevelt upon the part of some of the men who are anything but Roosevelt men at heart. Escape Was Miraculous. Engineer J. C. Small and Fireman T. C. Johnson, who were injured in the wreck of northbound passenger train, No. 30 at Sycamore, Va., Monday af ternoon, were Tuesday taken to their homes in Spencer, where they are nursing their bruises. Both men were badly used up in the wreck and their escape from instant death is miracu lous. The locomotive while running at high speed turned turtle, the ten der was thrown entirely over the en gine, one car landed on top of the locomotive, a baggage car stood alongside the cab and other cars were torn to pieces and piled in a great mass about the boiler. Engineer Small was found fastened between parts of the cab and Fireman John sou was covered up in coal and debris. That none of the crew nor passengers was killed is regarded by railroad men of wide experience as marvelous. The cause of the wreck has not yet been determined. Near Beer Joint in Monroe Pulls Up Stakes. Monroe Journal.' Mr. G. S. Fort, proprietor of the near beer saloon that he has been running in Monroe for several weeks, Monday pulled up stakes and left. His license expired Tuesday and it has been pretty well understood for some time that he would not attempt a renewal. The whole gist of the mat ter is that a near beer saloon can't sell unlawful drinks here and there is no money in the straight goods. Hence Mr. Fort pulls up his old bar fixins" and carries them back to Wadesboro. And Monroe is ready for the next man who wants to tackle the job. . , . . . . Charlotte's Population Near 35,000. Charlotte News. The population of Charlotte', by the census just completed will be officially recorded and announced as between 34,000 and 35,000. The News is not at liberty to say how it knows this, bnt that is not the point.. It knows that is all sufficient. Many. have been the guesses and surmises as to the census, and it will interest not only Charlotte and Meck lenburg but all the state. The last official census gives Char lotte a total of 18,091. The last cen susjust compiled giving 35,000 put the Queen City ahead of any city in the State. . - - Mrs Orover Cleveland,, with her children, the Misses Esther, Frances Orover and Marion, and son, Richard Folsom, returned from m sojourn off eight months at Lausanne, on Lake Geneva, on the George Washington, which reached New York Sunday. They went away on September 25 - COTTON TAKES GREAT SLUMP, Sensational Break in the New York Market Tuesday. New York Dispatch, 31st. There was a sensational break in the New York cotton market today, with trading more acive and excited than at any time since the series of drastic declines which carried prices down about 3 cents a pound last Jan uary. It was the last day of trading in May contracts, business in that de livery ending at mid-day. During the morning the bull leaders made some showing of supporting the market by bidding for large blocks of May delivery, but as soon as May contracts were out of the way there was a rush for selling orders from all directions, under which July deliver ies melted away to 14.18, or 74 points under the closing figures of last week and 161 points under the high level of the season, 'winch was made last De cembei. The New York market for spot cot ton suffered even more severely than did futures. The price of middling cotton was marked down 80 points, or about $4 per bale, and, presuming that the control of the local stock, amounting to 240,000 bales, still rests with the bull leaders, who are credited with having taken up another 39,000 bales today, the loss on the spot cot ton alone, as measured by tonight's price, would be in the neighborhood of $900,000, while it is estimated that at least 300,000 bales of long contracts were liquidated during the day. With today ends one of the most sensational months in the history of the New York cotton market so far as deliveries of actual cotton are con cerned. Mr. Mix at the Mardi Gras at the Theatorlum. Mr. and Mrs. Mix arrive in New Or leans locate at a fashionable hotel Mix is impressed with the fair Elaine, just arriving. Cafe de tour is suggest ed. Her appetite and familiarity with the refreshment list causes Mix to check up his cash account. He finally resorts to the office clerk, in an effort to raise more money on his check. He does so, returns to find the fair Elaine has departed on the arm of a hand somer man. Mix repairs to the 'hotel and met by his wife. She upbraids him, locks his clothes up and turns the key in the door. He escapes, repairs to the costumers and encoun ters a strenuous evening, full of ludi crous situations. Intended for laugh ing purposes only. Will Ross Escapes from Charlotte Hospital Will Ross, the negro who was shot through the body last Thursday by t'vo constables, and who was thought to be mortally wounded, escaped from the hospital in Charlotte, where he was being treated, Tuesday morning ind has not been captured It is be ieved to have had outside aid, as he was so weak he could not travel alone. He was shot when an attempt was made to arrest him for attempt to as sault Miss Troy Bailes, a white girl, at Fort Mill. To Teach at Converse Next Year. Miss Margaret Wodhouse returned yesterday from Converse College at Spartanburg, from which she has just graduated with honors. Miss Wood- house made especially high marks in mathematics, and so signal are her acquirements in that branch that she has been employed as assistant teacher of mathematics, her work to begin at the opening; of the next session. The 18-year-old crippled son of An derson Deaton, of Montgomery coun ty, was drowned Monday in the pond of the Troy Electric Power Company on Little River, six miles south of Troy, while attempting to swim to small row boat on the opposite side of the river. heak re hear rtt IS YOL'K CREDIT GOOD MK. MERCHANT? WHT NOT ESTABLISH A EPUTATlON FOU BUSINESS LIKE METH ODS ANV GET A CREDIT HATING THAT WILL ENABLE TOO It if ill llt M 1 rELOProu busi- Or EN A BANK-ACCOUNT WITH US MEET TOWK. OBLIGA TIONS WITH A CHECK Per Cent Interest Paid .Deposits. Time , CONCORD NATIONAL BANK r.ul tinnnnft - Snrnliia tSD.nPA II' I RAT POISON IN COFFEE PO'. Detective Says Negress Admitted At tempt to Kill Family. That Nannie Carkson, the negro ser vant arrested Saturday morning af ter tne tamily of Mrs. Florence D Barrow, of Washington, D. C, had become seriously ill from rat poison mixed in coffee, has confessed that she attempted to take three lives is the statement made by Detective Sergeant Fred Cornwell. He says the woman admitted her guilt when he examined her at the House of Detention. Until then she had been emphatic in her denials that she knew anything oi; the presence of the poison in the coffee. According to the police, Nannie says she ' doctored ' ' the beverage Friday night after a trip to the Barrow home, where she formerly worked until dis charged 'when several articles were found missing. She called to demand some wages which had been retained by Mrs. Barrow, and when Miss Flor ence Barrow went upstairs after the 'woman had demanded the money and had made a hostile demonstration the negress found the rat poison and dumped it into the coffee. Detective Cornwell declares that she said she was sorry afterward but was afraid to warn the family. The next morning Miss Florence Barrow 'was taken suddenly ill. Mrs. I We have just received a Big Shipment of Joys (nee Knickerbocker and Bloom er, in a variety of grays, browns, serges, etc. Prices ;:, 75c, (1.00, $1.25 li p. Sizes 4-17. H. L. II The Cabarrus Savings with Capital, Surplus and ,1 njir- fft m,V- - 1 i0rfttT fitftte i,iier daughter, Miss narrow, soon showed similar symptoms. Dr. Sampel Adam9, of Dupont Circle, diagnosed the case as poison, and before the three patients were out of danger the services of specialists were required. Detective Cornwell says Nannie showed little emotion and talked in a matter of fact tone about the case. She said, according to the detective, that the Barows had accused her of taking articles from the house and that she "just nacherally got mad." The Chinese Boycott. New York World. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco, because of race dis crimination, urges its correspondents in the Flowery Kingdom to boycott American goods. Once before such a boycott was declared hut given up briefly, because it proved to be not good business. A Chinese boycott is certainly re grettable, but a greater national ca lamity could be imagined. Each in habitant of China buys from us less than 4 1-2 cents 'worth of goods an nually. Each inhabitant of Germany buys $3.52 worth; each inhabitant of Great Britain $12.23 worth. So splendid are the trade returns we fig-lit by hostile tariff; so petty those we pursue by costly warlike ex periments in the Philippines "outside the Constitution!" 8! -"ants COMPANY WITH A GOODLY sum to your credit is the best friend in time of need, sickness or opportunity no other friend will so quickly respond with the required cash. . Profits amounting to - . .' ; 0150,000.00 : vnnr rfpnnIi TW tt j - ...
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