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VOL XXII PrkelO Centi Monta.,
, CONCORD. N. G, FRIDAY, MARCH 15. 1912:
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AWTUli TtAGEDY ENACTED IN
A THUICUA COUET EOOM.
a. e"S"
Aiuwini riM tWIounUln. When
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Sentence is Pronounced oa Hoyd
. i - AQra, Notorious Mountaineer, And
' - -i a Scor of Trianon Open Tire,
V " vIOTS. Alii) VUnl " mum" ,
" 4 Hilkilll.?FM. March .lir-A troop
. 'of monnUin Outlaws rod down out
.'jot the; Bine Ridge '.today ".to Carroll
"county court house here and assas-
-.'sinated the jndgo upon the bench,
the prosecutor before .thit bar and the
' ' sheriff at. the door in lew time than
'it tike to tell 'it 'taketaoinshrdlu
it takes to tell it, whfle sentenee was
being pronouneed . nppn rioya Alien,
.one of their, number. -. v - ' ,
When the) crack of the rifles died
-away only one member of the human
'.fabrie of the court Dexter' Goad,
tha elerk was alive and he had been
.. , wounded. ; ,
V Three jurors were seriously weuna-
ad, and three bystanders were more
or less seriously wounded. Floyd Al-
Jen, the prisoner at the bar, was shot
several times, probably not fatally,
Sidney Allen, his brother,, who kill
ed Judge Massie was wounded, but
-left town with his friends. , ':..
4 Tonight the outlaws, with agood
day's start,' are up in the mountain
bush withn citisen posse, little or
eaniaed,' making a semblance of a
" pursuit. ' Sheriffs and deputies from
neighboring counties cannot reach
- here before early. -morning. A spe
cial train . from Roanoke tonight
brought twenty detectives to Galax,
the nearest railroad station, N. nine
. miles away. - ;
' Governor Mann has offered a fj,
: 000 reward tor the capture of the as
sassins and holda-Statff troops under
arms for orders at Lynchburg and
Boanoke. . '
Hillsville Terrorised.
, " The shooting terrorized Hillsville
V to the point of paralysis. : There was
v not a man to give an order or organ
ize a pursuit, . Citizens .fled to places
of safety and mothers gathercdup
their children while the assassins rode
ont of town.
' Judge Thornton T. Massie had ns--4iit is put in to prevent a premature
i,;. AhAir na the bullets strnckj ini.; Tha ituimil eommission's
VII uviu . v - ... . i 11
iim- across hlt8 'Wtoijli41lai
injt eorpser x;ommonwenu
ney WUliam Foster with half a doe
en buUeta in his brain crumpled down
to the floors Sheriff Lewis ebb was
ahot and knieCaS he reached for bis
revolver ,and sprang-, forward. Bul
lets grated Clerk Goad and in the
confusion he was reported killed.
Jurors who had been slightly wound
ed were 'repdrted dead and by that
indefinable methocb-of ! communicationNc township tonight, at 7:30
which prevaib'in tjia woodlawnconli-
try, reports oivar wiHe"j
shot out, to the?countryside. ' ,
. , Allen's Crime.
Floyd Allen: was before the bar
.. .nmnnfail nf takiosr a
prisoner trom a deputy aneriu...-.!
had atrufik the sheriff over the head .
with the butt of a, rifle and the pnsr
oner escaped. Sheriff Webb had gone
up in the mountain, anl taken all
fiuMespltewarnings .-"J
a venture mfeht mean, attorney Fps
. ter had prosecuted him fearlessly and
a- mountain jury gathered from the
- inland aectionf or no man in Carroll
V county eared to sit on the trial of an
A AUen--4ad convicted him. -
- Just as AlleiS was about, to be call
ed up for sentence, his two brothers,
Sidneynd JacW at the heL.W- a
troop of about twenty mounrtmeers,
' rode np. to the court house. A
Betting of Tragedy.
The brothers and their companions,
some carrying rifles and others arm
ed with revolvers, crowded into the
-m nAm ond stood benma
" the rail and about the door. Floyd
-5 AllenT aged flVtafll
Tf.' moHntfid the bench
, , nd Prosecutor. Foster moved .sent
'k ence upon Allen, who stood up- There
I.. . nffllnir of f eerand a general
movement among the: mountaineers
- in thebick of the room ut no sign
":..'U foiietoU the erribUi .kagedyw
the minds oi very one -"v.
Th..nul leeal foriahties.t over,
' -J-ar Massie began pronouncing
, sentance. The last ords that m
. from his lips precipitated the trag-
Beforenhe last word' was cold, the
-. .nj. - Ailn with an oath
lUSUltme ires nriann
u mvh eo to prison,
prank out of the prisoner's docks
Judge' Massie ' collapsed , : upon the
!. i.,, rnar of shots and
Prosecutor Foster wM on the oor
- . of a heap. Sheriff Webb was'spnng
. ing forward for hi- prisoner; when
-' the lead xouna nun- . '
ino aiion Away,
Then holding . the , panic-stricken
. "i .wvr t bav. although
. : li..ui oi nnt necessary;- t&e
iT2i; backed out of the
' cTurTroom -jd across t green to
IKugh the aroused Village Snd off
- - ' KfT?.:,r.tar of lsw-break-
' rg w ihe " with a
T . , t' adminiKtration of just-
'ont
made
by
friend who urged him to take steps
for bis own protection against toe
lawless element he had determined
to bring to juBtiee.
Gov. Kitchia Takes a Band.
Raleigh, March 14. Responding to
a special appeal from Governor Wil
liam Hpdgea Mann of Virginia, Gov,
Kitehin of North Carolina thia af
ternoon telegraphed the sheriffs of
Stokes, Surry and ' Alleghany conn-
tied, which border on Carroll county
Virginia, to take every step possible
for the apprehension of the seventeetN
desperados who killed . . the - Judge,
Commonwealth's attorney and sheriff
of the Carroll county court this morn
ing just as the judge waa sentencing
Floyd Allen to one year at hard la
bor. Governor Kitehin informed the
sheriffs of the reward the Governor
of Virginia had offered. ' '
Anarchist Fires Three Times at Vic
tor Emmanuel of Italy.
Rome, March 14! A youthful anl
archist, Antonio- Dalba by name,.wbo
asserts that bV ia a member of no
organization, attempted to assassin
ate King Victor Emmanuel today.
The King was not injured, nor was
Queen Helena, who was driving in a'
closed carriage with him at the time,
but an officer of the King's guard,
Major Lang, was wonnded in the
head and fell from his horse. Three
shots were fiered at the King who
was on his way to the Pantheon to
attend a service commemorative of
the birth of his father, the late King
Humbert, who died in 1900 at the
hands of an assassin.' As the King's
carriage, escorted by Cuirassiers, was
nafiflint, n Inner thft Viftlfltft. a man
pushed through the line of soldiers
that iruarded the street and
fired
three shots from a revolver.
Fear Volcano Hear Panama Canal.
New York, March 13. The state
ment that a volcano, dormant for
manv centuries, is threatening the
safety of the Panama canal is made
in special dispatches from Colon pub
lished here today. The volcano is
said to underlio the Colebra cut and
it is stated that "the report of the
division engineer at Cnlebra is Vather
pessimistic."
The fear of volcanic trouble had
its oriein in the fact that clouds of
steam ,andblue smoke have been ris
ing from newly turned ground. Every
drill hole in the affected area, is test-
. - ' - -
smoke are due only to the oxidation
of pyrites and have no volcanic sig
nificance. .
Debate Between Winecoff and Bocky
River High School Postponed.
The first annual debate between the
Winocoff and" Rocky River High
schools which which was to- have
hPfin hld at the Winecoff school in
o'cWJik has been postponea on ac
count oi the bad weather and : bad
roads. It will be held later. The
question will be . "Besplved, That
North Carolina is tno uesi oiaie in
the Union lnWhioh to. Live.", The
(flrmativ- will be "presented by
Claude Stroud and Robert Litaker
and the negative by Harry Bost and
LDray ton Horton. Claude Stroud and
Drayton ilorton wui eacn nave a re
joinder. There will be declamations
f . . , ' : . -r I t 1 .1
by Kalph mm ana jonn oarnunrui.,
and recitations by; Evelyn Winecoff
and Zula Boat.
The Rival Leaders.
Durham, Sun. . -
It- is now nnderbtood that Thomas
Settle -will manage the campaign of
Mr. Taft in North Carolina. The
State will be controlled by Roosevelt
followers. Mr. Settle la promised a
foreign appointment in case Mr. Taft
again wins, i '
I Mr. Z V. Vreiser, of Lexington, wiu
lead the Roosevelt forces and it is
said will be named aa candidate for
Governor. It is a well-known fact
that the man who saerinces tumself aa
a candidate for Governor on the Re-
nublican ticket in 'to be "cared, for, and
there is generally more money in io-
mg than in winning. ., , . . v
Wiahesjror the Old - Time -Night
Ui;..Wea-K.
Mr. Editor : ' 'What haa become of
the old time night- watchman, who
used to walk up one street and down
the other continuously aH night long,
in tbe back lota as well aa on the
front streets f We rarely heard of
burglaries in those days. I do not
think there u much -danger of any
one breaking in tbe eity hall at night,
and therefore it is not necessary for
it to be so well' policed.' 0 for. the
good old nights, when Will Johnson
ana Laiiner oyies .nsea ra w mimi
watchmen, for then we felt safe from.
the intrusion of tbe burglars.
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Mr. Ritchlt Coin Watt,
Salisbury Post. 14th, ,
vMr.-Mumford Ritchie, or Loneordr
who waa shot by a .Mr, ' Hamilton
from whom he was collecting albill
about a week ago is doing well at
the Whitehead-Stokea sanatorium.
Soma one or more of his brothers
have visited Mr. Ritchie daijy since
his being brought to Salisbury and
his physician and lie pastor have
each paidiim several visits. The
many mends or Mr.jtiicnie wui oe
glad to know that ha ia rapidly on
the way to recovery. - , '
EflrcTs are' Riving Salem Almanacs
AKD THE FLOOPS CAKE.
Trenendoua Rain AH
And - - Today. Btreaaw
81nce Floods of IMS.
Elxhast
Not aiaee the nsver-to-be-f orgotte
flood of Angust, 1908, baa' this
tion been visited by aa heavy a rain
aa fell last night aad today. All
night long the rain fell hard aad last
and there has been no let np today.
About 1 lo clock this morning the
down pour seemed to be the hardest,
and fojrsome time the rain came down
absolutely in sheets. -
EaTIy this morning the Three. Mile
branch waa the highest since the
great flood four yeara ago, and has
been rising all day. V The-ereek at
the depot is np to the bridge and the
entire bottom there is one vast river.
A telephone message from the coun
try brought the information-that Cold
Water creek- is the highest rt baa
been in 30 years. ShenlTHoneycutt
received a 'message from No. 7 town
ship saying the streams in that sec
tion were all on a rampage.
At 12 o'clock today' the water in
the ereek at the depot was np to Mr.
F. C. Nibloek's barn, and waa just
where it waa four years ago when
the Kerr bleaehsry waa washed away.
At 1 o eloek it was 14 inches over tbe
fill leading to the bridge, and was,
still rising. J
A message received at 1 -o'clock
said that she water was over the fill
at Cold Water ereek on the Mount
Pleasant road, and that the fill was
being washed away. The rain is
still falling fast, and the streams are
all rapidly rising still higher. Mo
Ldoubt we will have the most disaa-
trous freshet ever known here.
A telephone message received from I
China Grove says that a large fill in
in the public road near there, erect
ed for Rowan eounty by Mr. W. A.
Foil under .contract, was washed
away thia morning.
Father Must Give Consent to Wed
.When Under Age.
Raleigh. N. C, March 13. The
supreme court in J. . Littleton vs.
J no. Haar, register of deeds of New
Hanover eounty, just decided, holds
that the register of deeds is liable
for the 200 penalty for erroneous
issuance of marriage license to Lit
tleton's 'daughter, Edna, because the
license. was issued on tihe written con
sent of the mother and ont of the
father. .The girl was, under age and
only 'the consent of tier mother Waa
flled-v-The, f vjtotAQe,
alty , and recovers jndgment- for it
The court hold.) y;at l no consent oi
the fat'ii-r i , eswcnial if having ia
thia casa the daughter was Iving
with an:l ,bin suprorted by the fa
ther, but the -i,oiirt .hokls that this
consent of tio father i necessary
wheth.it this is fit- case or tot and
whether the fatherland mother are
living together, as they were in. this
case, or not. Also a case in Ala
bama ia cited approvingly in which
it is held that this penalty would ap
ply if the license were issued on the
consent of the mother only when
tbe father was out of the state for
time. !-His consent must.be gotten
if lie is living, no matter what the
circumstances, is the position of the
court unless there is other specinc
guardianship. : " . -
Taft Will Not Get One Tax Heal Vote
Special to News and Observer. -
Washington, P: C, March 13. The
National Roosevelt headquarters, of
which Senator Dixon is the direcntw-
today gave out the statement: that
Taft will not get a single district in
North Carolina. Dixon claims North
Carolina for the Colonel and declares
that the claim ia substantiated by the
information that has come to him
from persons' closely in touch with
conditions in the State. ; '' :,
'In Eastern North Carolina,"" says
the statement, (the author evidently
having confused the Western part
of the State with the Eastern part)
there are many eountiea in which
tbe white Republican vote far out
numbers tbe' white-Democratic vote
and those . are lining up for Roose
velt with an approach to unanimity
that, is giving deep conern to the
Taft''Deople.'U'V,.. 'v: V;-'-'
The - Roosevelt movement in the
State is based on the conviction that
if a strong candidate is named for
President it will be possible to regain
the loss of the two congressional dis
tricts in 1910. . S, :-4 m,
-. Idl Watchman Dlaappeara.
A "N. Lawson, night watchman at
the Bibb Mfg. Co Columbus,; Ga.,
disappeared in a most mysterious
manner last Sunday night and since
that time no trace of the missing
man haa been found. He was known
to have had a sum of money on his
person and it ia thought that he was
robbed. Investigations by the po
lios have revealed practically noth
ing. Two unknown men were aeen
about the mill on Sunday night and
suspicion points to them, aa they
also ' have . disappeared. " Lawson is
siHy years old and as there is no ap
parent reason for hia Jeaving home,
it is believed that he met with foul
play. :' X' '-''t-- ' '"s' :"' ''1
N. C. Chrimian Advocatt: Rev. J.
C. Rowe, D. D., is serving his fourth
year on the Salisbury District. It
ig indeed gratifying to note the de
votion of the people ' of 1 the dis
trict to him as their leader. . The
Stanly Enterprise, referring to a re
cent visit to Albemarle, aays: '0ur
pp , 'e always enj ;.. eringlStia gilt
ed n!fn of God; t!y love him and
TO EXS MECCA X3Y0LT.
PrasUen .Tail a4 lh Senate Pat!
V Sarw Te w feten Shipment af.
Aram ;.':'' '? . f
Washington, March 114. President
Taft, with-the unanimous suport of
roe eenate, todey dealt a knock-out
blow to the agitators for intervan
tion in Mexieo. ' The House is ex
pected to pass tomorrow the joint
resolution today. Ml provides
Whenever the President shall find!
mat co Damons ox oomestie violence
exist in any American country which
are promoted by the use of arms or
munitions ef war procured from the'
united ctatea, tbe rresident is here
by authorised in bis discretion, and
with auch limitations and exceptions,
to prohibit the expedient, to prohibit
the exoort of anal Or munitions of
war from any place in the United
Mates to such country until otherwise
ordered by the President of by Con
gress. ': '')
The shipment of as material pro
hibited by any eucfa proclamation
shall be punishable by fine not ex
ceeding 10,000 or imprisoned not ex
ceeding two yearsV both.
Hue important action was taken
following a conference at the White
House between 1 the President. At
torney-General 'i Wiokersham, Secre
tary oi War etanson, the members
of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Keiationa and the Texas delegation
in Congress. '
Senator Root, who drafted the reso
lution, in introducing it said thous
ands of American were fleeing from
their . homes and properties because
imperilled by arms and ammunition
sent across the border from the
United States. -V
Major-General Woodjsaid the auth
ority conferred on the President to
stop the supply ofmunitiong of war
will soon brinr an and to the re
bellion and in a less expensive way
to the United States, than by inter-
ventiou.
Salem College Gate Carnegie's Check.
Winston-SalenvMarch 14. Special.
Andrew, Carnegie 'a check for $25,000
was received today by Salem Academy
and College, in fulfilment of the iron
master's pledge to the college endow
ment fund. So far aa it known by
the Salem College authorities, this is
the largest donation (hat (Mr. Carne
gie haa made to any .Southern wo
man's college and ia a marked tribute
to the wark lie institution's 'doing.
According to the terms, of the endow!
meat the donations mint be invested
in the highest posible form ef securi
ties, and the income will be used in
the development of the college depart
ment of. the venerable and progres
sive institution.
Mail Business at Salisbury.
Salisbury, N. CM March 14 Inter
esting Statistics compiled by Post
master J. H. Ramsey, of Salisbury,
show that the five letter carriers in
service here serve 2,820 citizens daily,
wai tne carriers eacn average walk
ing 18 3-4 miles per day, stop at 265
Homes, deliver eh an average each
593 pieces of mail, weighing 77
pounds to eaoh carrier. These figures,
which are accurate, were obtained
by actual records made by the car
riers.- 1 be volume of 'mail handled
in Salisbury has increased to a con
siderable extent and Postmaster Ram
sey bas requested .the department at
Washington to authorize the employ
ment of an additional carrier.
Taft haa 23 Per Cent,
Washington, March 13. Exactly 23
per eent.yof enough delegates, to nomi
nate President Taft at Chicago are
pledged todlay, according to a state
ment from Taft headquarters. Taft
haa 123 delegates; Cummins, 2, and
Koosevelt a lone one, Manager Mo-
Kinley ' declared. Five hundred and
thirty-nine are necessary to nominate.
Want
Proof.?
. That's Right :-
" A 10 days' trial ol
POSTUM
. in place of coffee, will show
- any coffee drinker just how -coffee
haa been treating him.'-
After the trial f f
Look Back
" -t ,
; and compare the ' old eondi- --
tion of jeoffee aches and ills '
"with the return to health and i
. comfort which earns witb the
; -change to Postum.'i t ,
'--.'i.... j- . '. '--t . - 'ji-'l . '-jr f -
-. , -y. i-. v .!..'.
.: :i ,i . . i t s 4 "
It will then be plain why
'.There's t Reason" :
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tot -''Y! '::;'
Postum Cereal T5o.J Ltd., . .
- rr.t.'e Crefk, irkh.
I OlACE IATS HIS WXFX SIT IT,
Dying, Telia Pitiable Story af Ear
I - Omalty.
Atlanta, Oa. March 14.With the
1 wsr part of bu body pronounced
muvmuj ubbu, cu(me ix. unci wnoac
spinal eord ia severed by a bullet al
leged by Grace to have been fired
by bis wife, expected to die within
the next twenty-four boars, accord
ing tq his physicians tonight. Grace
ia said to be faring death with stoi
cal nerve. He continue to ' insist
that his wife shot hkn.
Although Grace last night made an
ante-mortem statement to his attor
Chief of Detective Lanford stated
tonight that the dying man will be
asked to make another to tbe officers
of the law. In his story to his law
yers Grace ia declared to have told
in detail how his wife shot him: that
she remained with him several hours
after be was shot; that he pleaded
for a doctor and then begged for
water. The attorneys decline to give
out the statement for publication.
, Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace spent a sor
rowful day in her cell in the county
iail a result of the news of her hus
band's condition
Oh, why don't they operste on
birnt" she is sair to have exclaimed
when informed of the doctors' decis
ion that an operation would be use
less. -
Hear the Topers Smacking Their Lipc
Jdonbclair, N. J., Mar. 14. Ernest
Manderson, of Montclair, possesses a
keg of peach brandy he claims is
more than 50 years old. According to
Manderson it is one of six buned on a
plantation near Salisbury, N C, si-ice
I the time General Sherman made hu
northward march from Atlanta.
The kegs were buried in the cellat
of a till burned by Sheridan's sol
diers, it is said, and their presence in
the ruins was unknown until this
"spring, When a new building was con
structed on the site.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVER OUR
First Car Load
OF
HUPM0BILE
Yon are cordially Invited to call at
our Show Room and tea them..
Machine Stop.
10. E OORBIN ST.
CAPITAL
SURPLUS
1100,000
83,000
New Accounts
Urge or Small
Welcomed al
ThlsBaiilL
Concord
National
Bank.
FOUR PER CENT. Interest
' Paid on Time Dapoalta.
For the benefit of the Thomp
son Orphanage, the Tan Room
at THE MARSHALL HOUSE
will he open by the ladies every
day thia week from 3 to 0 p.
m. . Tea, Coffee, Cocoa and
Sandwiches. "
Coma and help a worthy cause
The Orphans. , -
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OPENING
AT
Hiss Alexzr.'s
Tuesday, March
Twenty-Sixth, .
i Nineteen Hundred
end Twelve,
PERSONAL MEHTIOir.
Some ef The People Hare And Elese-
. . .where Waa Coma And Go.
Mr. Cameron MeRae waa in Con
cord yesterday.
Mr. Joe McKay, of Charlotte, waa
uerv yeaieruay.
Mr. Jno. C. Paxton, of Woodstock,
was nere yesterday.
Mra. George Norman, of Charlotte,
ia visiting her sitter. Miss
Smith. .
Mr. F. L. Gibson, ofjeorgia, is
here visiting bis brotlu-r. Mr H (i
uioson.
Mr. Easier, a voune lawver frnm
Eden ton, was here this week looking
around with a view to locating.
Mra. J. L Piukin and littk inn
have returned from a visit to rela
tive at McColl, 8. C.
Mr. Harry HowelL of Winst
lem, was in Concord yesterday.
air. u. a. Kluttz and hu mother,
Mrs. Felix Kluttz, came in yesterday
from Hickory. Mrs. Klutts is now
visiting her son, Mr. J. R. Kluttz, of
No. 11.
Some unknown person poisoned one
of Dr. Pemberton s fine bird dogs one
night this week, resulting in the ani
mal's death.
?rs. L. B. Cleg will leave tonight
Havre de Grace, Md., where she
'oes to see her son, who is in school
there. She will go from there di
rect to her home in San Antonio,
lexas.
Messrs. D. B. Coltrane and H. P.
3uffy spent yesterday in Salisbury,
aaving gone up to see Mr. M. F.
Ritchie. While Mr. Ritchie's eondi-
ion is encouraging, the phvsiciant-
Jo not-yet consider him out of dan
ger.
Mr. McNeill Will Not Be a Candidate.
News and Observer.
In an interview last night, Chair
man Fianklin McNeill, of the North
Carolina Corporation Commission, an
noticed that be would not again stand
for election, having served two full
terms and two years of the third.
Many persons have looked for this
amnouCement earlier, 'because there
seemed td he a general understanding
tnat;. Chairman 'McNeill would not
again offer for election.
There will be two vacancies in the
canroaum. which is fo sav thorn- will
he;neeoeasary.two nominations.- Hon.
u, u. iravi, wuo is xuiing Lite unex
pired term Of Commissioner - H. C.
Brown, who died in the middle of -his
first term, it is understood will offer
again to the people. There are two
candidates for this place, certainly,
and many more are expeeted.-
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AMAZED BY PAVAXA WOES, '',
Mr. R. P. Slmpeoa Dedaraa XI tne
, Oraatest Work ef Agea. - ,
Baltimore Son. " . t -. -v
Mr. Robert P. Simpson! nrLUi
of the Poole Fngiaeorini; Company,
of Hampden, haa returned after a.
nve weeks' Inspect 10a trip ' ef the
Panama Canal - . ; ;r.
"Work aeeompliabed by tbe Paaa-
ma Canal Commission is one of the -
greatest engineering feate ef the
ages,' be said last night ""I had -
read much of tha work in the Canel
Zone, but I could hardly realise what '
I beheld. Forty thousand men are '
at work in a territory leas thaa3
miles long.
There are three locks, tbe too ef -
the centre one being 85 feet above
the level of tbe Atlantis Oeaa. The
steamer to Panama sow taa. right
into Lake Gatun. and anils at f ul) '
speed for 20 miles. The Culebra Cut
is a wonderful place. There are
scores of huge steam shovels working
J. . J : u . m i . ... . -
uaj- "uu ui(uh iiku run is aa ev ' .
rectiona. Rock and earth are torn
away by train loads and awamn '
lands are being filled in."
Two Officers Have Fnriona Batttf
With; Moonshiner. -
Troy. MVeh 13. Sberriff J. R. Me-
Kenzie and Deputy George W. 8toart
bad a lively round with bloekaders
near Steeds, close to the Randolph r
eounty line, this afternoon, and as
result, Will Saunders, av aotorious -blockader,
ia in Montgomery . eountt 1
jail tonight and the still brought to ."
lroy. tohenff (MeKenzie learned about
the still yesterday afternoon and thia
afternoon went after bis man. ' The
still waa discovered in a little hollow,
ana eaunaers waa in tne aet oi max
ing a run when tbe officers arrived
There were a number of men about
anda fusillade of shots, followed, and
when bounders waa at- last captured
be was found to be shot, a number of
shots'from a shotgun having entered
nis side and arm, -. . ?
New Officers of Elks Lodge. ,
At a meeting of the Elka Lodge"
last night the following officers were
chosen: .-, t: . .. -i -i-i
Exalted Ruler, L T. HartaelL ,
Hugh Parks Leading Knight s t .
H. G. Gibson, Loyal Knight it '
T. F. Morrison, Lecturing Knight
A. F. Goodman, Treasurer. .,
R, E. CUne, Secretary. 1 v'
Ed. CrowelL Tyler. jutt. "
t'"TrtteeT.L. JU. stsaeBfc one yesW--:--
Earl Brown, two years; fi. C Barn-7 -T
hardt, three years.r , ( .
Salisbury has raised through M4
J. M. MeQorkle, the sum of $40 for V.
the. China famine sufferers. u
assortment ever shown In Con-'
Hemmed quilts, full aixe, l0
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next week$2.85, $3.,
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