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T DEBll U SUCCESSFUL YEAO : F0H cms J.. c)& MEXIGAN PR1SQH DV0R BOY PC FilOl f-. .'v LIE REVIEW i ten - . . hp TfoxNCIS'PBBiar ELLIOTT vcmtw Bttsaesj-fffwu avowry ' - T : - T "8'help me, he cried, bis glance Impaling the prisoner with scorn, "I never we this party before In the ten ,, Tears I been In Mew York! " "Caff lor the wagon, Tim," said O'Keefe' shortly, ! lndlcaung .the phone. "The fool's going to give ' trouble. Kahoka - Apartments, tell them.' Hurry; let's get him to the treat.' He made a dive at the figure in the chair and Jerked him lorward, . - But his grip seemed to slip and he only moved his prisoner a tew Inches. He tried again with about the same - "Get a move onTlm," he said pant Ingly. "He's bigger, somehow, than he looks, and awful heavy; It'll take both of us. Get up, Braxton, unless you want the club!" - The man settled solidly - In the depths of the chair. "Club and be hanged!" be replied with a snap of his jaw. "I won't go In any dirty police wagon that's flat! Ton may take me In a hearse first Get a cab or a taxi, If I have to go with youP - -;.-. V'VwV.v ; "Oamey old - sport, anyhow, by Jove!" I thought with sudden admir ation.:;, Couldnt - help It, dash . it! Heart Just went out to him, somehow. t gently interposed as O'Keete pre pared to lunge again. - 'TU, stand the cab tor him, officer," I said with a smile, "If your rules, don't you know, or whatever It la, wtii aiiow." .. ..' :y.- 1 I added In a lowered voice: "Hakes It devilish easier for you, dont you know, and avoids, such a Jol ly row. And -er I want to ask you and your friend to accept from me a little token of my appreciation." - ; : i JQe. .policeman .exchanged a glance jWlth Tim and considered. "Well, sir." he said, "as to the cab, of course if jou're a mind to want to do that, lt'a your own affair," i He turned to his companion. -. "Just cancel that, Tim," he directed. "Call a tour-wheeler." - ' -v , ; Thank you, Tightnut,", put in the old man gratefully. "You have got a (rain of decency left, by George, after il!" "V;V Meantime, Jenkins was answering my Inquiry. - '' - .. ' . "I don't believe, sir, you have a bit of cash In the house. You told me no when you were retiring." . By Jove, 1 remembered now! The poker game In the evening! .- I was wondering whether they could use a xheck, when I spied Bill? togs' wallet on the table. V w The very thing, by Jove! - - ; : Examination showed, first thing, a wad of yellow-backs, fresh from the bank., I peeled off two and pushed them into the officer's hand. "This belongs to a friend of mine," I remarked; "but lt'a Just the same as any own, don't you know, and he won't mind. Dash It, we're just like broth rs!" i. . ' V'" :; A howl of maniacal laughter from the old tool In the chair startled us Jboth. r -,..-.v.."J i "Regular Damon and Pythias, damn It!" he gabbled, grinning with hideous . pace contortions. "One tor all, and all for one! And Just help yourself; . dont mind me.' Why hell!" . : 1 i O'Keefe prodded him sharply In the 'boulder with his night stick. . : I "Stop your skylarking now, Foxy,", be admonished angrily, "and come, on. Here the gentleman's gone and -put tip his money for a cab for you and you ought to want to get put of .Jbis way so he can rest" i "He's sure been kind to you," sup InlamantMl Tim. vhnnfl ev had tinted " r'J. V.-8 m 1 1 V w "Kind!" mocked the old geezer, ahowlng his scattered teeth in a hor- ,rlble grin. "Why, be's a la-lu, a reg xtlar 8amarltanl "No names!"' framed O'Keefe. slightly lifting his night stick. "Come on to the street you seem to forget you're under arrest" ' " He added hastily . . , . "And I "ought to have warned yoc that anything you may say, Foxy " ' "Oh, you go to Brooklyn!" snarled Foxy. ''For two plus I'd knock youi block off. you fat-headed Irish fool! Think I'm going down to the side walk without my clothes?" "Are your clothes somewhere In this building?" I asked with some sym-, pathy. ", - He whirled on me ineerlngly and Jeered like a jolly screech owl: "Oh, no; not exactly in the build-' Ing they're on the flagpole on' the ' roof, of course! He-he-he! Bloody good Joke, Isn't Itr I sat on the edge of the table wear ily; and, catching the policeman's eye, ahrugged my shoulders significantly. "You're right sir," he said apologet Icall) "We won't fool a sncond long er. Here, you take that, tide, Tim. Let's pull!" And they did pull, but by Jove, they couldnt raise him. "C "rt go I ever see." ' Tim fi, .1. "lie ain't holding on to noth-. 1 k, in le? And, O'Keefe, be feels Hi!" . "I ; 'Tfiliaw, It's not that" the other ranted; "It's Just the way he's sitting. 'Why, you can see he ain't so very 'S." lie nodded to Jenkins and the Janitor. "Here, you two! Help Us, cf-n't you?" i iBlvS'.i t; a mi;;'.ty. uo thy brought the loudly proTesfihg old man to his feet and held him there. O'Keefe faced me. ', " - - "Might ; be well to- take took around, sir, and see yos think ot anything else he's stolen, before we take him off.": - r ; : "Good idea. Llghtnutr ; Old Brae Fighting, Swearing and Protesting., ton stopped "struggling and whirled his head toward me, his face almost black with rage. "Ha, ha! Why dont you have me searched f There's not a pocket In these damn pajamas!" "Anything whatever, sir, we'll have him leave behind." said O'Keete. ' "By Jove!" 1 dont know how 1 ever managed to say It Fact is. things had Just suddenly spun round before me like a merry what's-lts-name. For I did recognise something! The old fellow's unabashed reference to pa Jamas was what brought It to my at tention. - .- . -,. "Ha!" O'Keefe nodded. "There la something! Just say the word, sir." I looked helplessly at Jenkins, and then I saw that of a sudden be recog nized them, too. His eyes rolled at me understanding). r -What :' la , It, ; atrr ' demanded O'Keefe respectfully. "The law re quires " , V?;.Y I swallowed hard. "It-It's the pa Jamas," I said faintly. The old rascal uttered a roar and tried to get at me. -' "Yon cold-blooded scoundrel!" bo bellowed. "So this Is why" But here a Jab of the night stick took him In the side with a sound like a blow on a punching bag. Words left the old man and he gasped des perately for breath. O'Keefe tried to shake him..- v; y. ,'' "Old you get those , pajamas In here?" he demanded fiercely, and be drew back his stick as though tor an other Jab. But the old geeser nodded quickly, glaring at me and trying to wheece something. : v "That's enough," said the officer. He turned to me. : "You recognise them, do yon, alrt" ! "I I think so," I stammered, look ing at Jenkins, who nodded. "They belong to Mend of mine who a -must have left them here." "I see." He fished out a note-book. "Mind giving me the name, sir? . Just a matter of form, you know" He licked his pencil expectantly. . ' "Oh, I aay, yon know" I gasped at Jenkins. ; "I dont think she" "Certainly not, air," affirmed Jen kins, solemnly looking upward. . ' "She?" The note-book slowly closed, then with the pencil went back Into the officer's pocket "Excuse me, sir. H'm!" ' ."H'm!" echoed Tim spologeUcally. Then they both glared at Foxy. 'The old man Just snarled at them. u. i.w. . a, . ,.. "AU right!" be hissed. "You Just try to take them off III kill some body, that's all Think I'm going to make a spectacle of myself r ' Jenkins whispered to me. ' "To be sure," I said aloud "He might aa well 'wear them now to the station. Just so he returns them whea he gets his clothes." "Very food, sir," aald O'Keete, re lieved. "Well see he does that Come along now,. Braxton ehut np, I tell you!" ' . , Andwtth all four of them behind the charge, they managed to rush the loudly protesting old man l the door. "1 won't go witt out my clothes, 1 tell you," he raged But be did. Fighting, swearing and protesting, the jolly old vagabond was roughly bundled Into the elevator. "Good night, sir," nailed O'Keefe aa the tour of them dropped downward. "We'll let you know if It seems neces sary to trouble you." Once again inside, Jenkina and I Just stared at each other without a word, we were that tired aad disgust ed. To me, the only dashed crumb of comfort In the whole business was the wonderful fact that Billings seemed to have slept like a Jolly Kip through the whole beastly row. CHAPTER XIII. Frances.' By Jove, It seemed to me I had been asleep about a c.lriute when I saw the suu'Iuht t;:Uul.li:j through tht blinds. JH" r'ood be!de me with some. (Cv.. . 1 ta rs 2) Spent Ten Years in "Greaser" ! Jail, Has Relatives in This City. ,' Beaufort, May 17th. After paving beeq given np as dead by bis friends and relatives bereB. Y, Mason, a for mer Beaufort boy writes that be is alive and well in' Atleytowa Texas, and ltis-eTtdthat Wore ,my:tare months he will return to the scenes of bis boyhood days, to feel again the ex quisite thrill of a mother's kiss. Mr. Mason's experience during the last 14 years read like a chapter or two from a book cf fiction. He ia the son of Mrs Dora Mason, who. for some time has been making her home with her sister, Mrs James Mason. B. J, Bell is his uncle, and Mrs. Claud Spencer, of New Bern, is his sister. Young Mason is a printer by profesMon, and the old tim era will remember that at one time he owned and conducted the Beaufort Her aid, Like most printers and newspa per men, the wander-lust got into his veins and about 14 years ago he left here, to see the country and seek his fortune elsewhere.. Quite regularly for about four years h:s mother hesrd from him, be being in Florida, One of bis letters told of him having been shin wrecked and then taken to Honduras by the rescuing ship." In a short time be returned to Florida, and one day his mother's heart was made glad by iht receipt of a letter from her wandering boy, in which he said he was coming norae. And then followed weeks and months and - years of heartbreaking waiting and watching for the boy who never came. Nor was any word re ceived from him until the other day when postmaster VYm. Mace receivtd a letter from young Mason, awayoui in the lit) le Texas town,' asking tha' be be put in communication with some if his relative 4, if they were still alive and here. The letter told how he had made op his mind to come home, when the captain of a vrseol that was about to sail from a Florida port for the roaai of Mexico offered him a liberal sum to make the roucd trip.;. Mason consen'ed title think hijrtfnu lie was to be one ot i filibus'ering expecltkn, for the ves lel was loaded with aims and ammuni tion for Mexican revolutionists. The expedition never reached its declination for the Mexican government bad ad vanced information of its coming. - In tr ing to get away' from a Me lean gunboat the captain and one of the crew were killed and (he balance wer captured. And for, t n years Mason anguished in a, "greaser' ' prison. The let' er doe i not tell how tie gained bis liberty. President Madero my have or dered the release of ail federals who were in prison at the time hei h took hold of the rains of government, r ne may have been set free by so in rebel band. '11-' ''-"'v; l-awn Mowers "Ehiladel-. phia," synonym of quality. Price from $3.75 to $20.00. Basnight Hdw. Co , 67; S. Front St.' ,- : . Income Tax BUI Is Disapproved By 8enale Committee. - -' Washington May 18, -The Senate Finance Committee jesierday authoiis ed a favorable repot t on the Lodge aub stitute for the House free sugsr bill, and an unfavorable report on the so called House vxciae- income tax bill, which proposed a tax on incomes in ex cess of $5,000 a year. The Ldge sugar bill would e'minate the differential aad the Dutch standard from the tariff and leave the duties,, otherwise practical!, as at present,: i . JISUS SAIVK-JEEUS SAVE. LINES TO A LONG KNP8BBLE0 AND SUf , r FERINQ INVALID. 1 , Ufa's barque sails oft some troubled 'V a :. r - ... -; " Where storm winds spray the fra-ning ; wave, , .. ' " That barque must have a sheltering lea- ,.c . Jesus salve Jerus save.' Above seems all a cloetd abyta, ' And all below a wa'ery grave In life's dark t5rra like this, . Jesus salvt Jesut rave. Whilom for some on Gallllee, : Thou stsei its rising wave. That mercy ihow now, Lird to Thse,- .Jesus salve Jesus save. Some haven grant some , healthful morn, ; - ". ' ' .. - . Some quiet short-, where' ripples lave, There may the barque greet peaceful .. , dawn, , ; Jesus salve Jesus save. Cut, if for barque no rtning sun J he sinks beneath life's Heethlng wave lltlp us tosay "Thy w;'.l be done," Jeaus salve -Jeeus save. J. F. C Democratic Voters Aa able and Elect Delegates to Const? ' . " - . Convention.? ( The Democrats of Crav i county met yesterday and last aigU ft their re- speetive precincts arid !ec 1 delegates aad alternates to ttpreie : such, pre cincts in the County Coov ' n which 14 tQ.be held next 8atort iu.tj'-.SZih. The delegatea all go to the Convention nninsttaeted..'tfi. k'fA?: , Delegates to County Convention," ; FIRSr WARD Wade Meadows, T D Warren. Wm Eilis, L C Dai ide, E M Green, 6 G Dunn, H H Teoker, Ed Clark, A H Bangert, Eocene Williams, Wm. Uuno. Jr., TG Hynan, PM Pear- sail sod T P Ashford. r H WARD COMMITTEE-E H Green, J. B BUI, B B Httrtt, Farhle GaakilL Ed Meadows, Jr.. ;.. ' ,;:--;!f ' '' Second Ward Primary Delegatea to C f Cooaty Convenoa. SECOND .WARD Owen B Gukm, C D Bradbam, W K Baxter, F T Patter son, L I Moore, C E Foy, J A Bryan, Wm. Dunn. R A Nunn,jA J Gaekine. Daniel Fnlcner, C R Thoinae, C K Haa- n r i i an r -m n r, w. a . wm, o n uar, vo a Blanford, J 8 MilUr, RE-Wblteburat, J A Patterson. and Ceo .0 Speight ' PRECINCT COMMITTEE R A. Nunn, J A Bry ao.W . jffjbN Guioa, Dr. N M Gibb and Fred Koi(i ' ;. V..' . "" -T.,;.."v" ' THIRD WARD Thos 'DaniebC J A Jones, A D Ward. Geo, B, Waters, C L 8te? eas. C J McSorley, J Thomas, Jr.. M Suskia and C P Bartnojr. WARD COMMITTEE-W P Joner, GB Waters, J C Thomas, Jr.. D M Styroo and C J llcSsrley. FOURTH WARD T F McCarthy. F W Shr, er, Tboe. GasklILD E Hender son, J W Smith, LS Wosd, J G Bria son and W H Davis. WARD TOMMITTEE-D E Hender son. Thos Gaskill. J H 'Smith. F W Sbriaer, T r McCarthy. Delegates to County .ICoeftiOer-fioiB V ; -v Bern PrecMMti'----. E Y Hollaad. R J Diiosway aad Bel I Huff. . 7 - 4' ' WARD COMMITTEE E L Smith, E T Hollowall. Helen Huff, J W Dukes aad R J Disoswsy. Water Coolers from $1.50 to $4.50 at Basnight Hdw. Co., Phone 99. - Amcrtcsns Art Spendthrifts. . -" SBBBBBBSJBS -t J, Wsshington, May 18, Amerkaaa blew themselves for 1200,000.000 last year for foreign luxuries, ' according to the Bureau of Statistics bulletin issue to day. For diamonds, 142,000.000; an treasures, 840,000.000; imported tobac co, 132,000,000. f . Admiral Soars In Aeroplane, . Salem, Mass , May 18.-Rear Admir al Bradley A. flake, commander of the second division of the Atlantic fleet of battleships, left the quarterdeck of the battleship Georgia yesterday for a abort voyaco in the air as a passenger oa board a hydroaeroplane.1-- v The admiral was ia tbe air about ten mi antes, the aeroplane . eoming to a stop astern of the Georgia. Coameaccnwot txcrctscs. The Journal acknowledges the follow ing invitation: V The Faculty sad Graduating Class af'-vv " i Depart meat tC Medicines, w Medt a! College of the State et 8uath s: Carolina . ; l request the- honor of your preeeace y . at their . . , COUMBNCEMEHT EXERCISES ' Monday evening June the third nine ten hundred and twelve Acadeay of Music, Charleston, Mr. N. Bruce Ederton, a former New Bern I oy, is one of the members of the graduating class. CoafertNCtat RHetjh Make Recoaa. mchdatlons Raleigh. May -11 -At a eonfereoct of the North Carolina Child Labor Com mi tee, a number of eottoa manufac turers of the state here continuing un til after midnight, it -was agreed to compromise differences aa to what changes tbe 1911 legislature should be asked to make ia the labor law and ' seek changes only that shall prohibit woman and a Iris and children under 18 yara from working atnl;ht,tij provide efficient non-political foctory inepeet na and leave the age limit aa at present at 13 for day litor. - The mm ht tss got to pry his V" ia tls K.zn v can't. 'General Tone Firm. Demand For : Bpots. Crop Conditions ' - Vary. . ' . New York,' May 18. Cotton has al ternately declined and advanced. Much of the time tbe and rtone has been firm. Tbe floods, new breaks ia the Missis sippi leveev persistent t weather over much of the belt and belief that the government report on the' condition of the crop and the acreage to be issued en July 4th will be decidedly bullish, have emboldened big interesta to buy. and led many of the aborts to cover. Bulla insist that it the government re port cornea anywhere neat the facta it has got to be decidedly bullish.especisl ly aa regard the condition of the crop. Tbey insist the belated season baa led to retarded planting and germination They insist that tbe chances are very much against a crop of a sits coram n surate with the demands of the trade being raised. Meantime a large con sumptioa ia expected ia this country and also ia other parts of the world. Crop advices from Texss, Oklahoma sad even from parts of Alabama, Geor gia and South Carolina, have been fa vorable. In Texas especially the out look is declared as distinctly good and as pointing to a very large crop.not im possible to be the largest ever known. The price is so high, too, relatively in the estimation of some, that every effort will be made to plant a good sized crop. Bears don't cease to urge that a raise of 15 a bale since January 1st discounts a good deal, They think that a week or ten days of good warm dry weather wou'd put a different face on the whole situation, . Some of the old bulls have been selling. Waldorf-Astoria inter ests, recently very bullish, have laterly sold heavily and Mempt.U has also sold. Some Wall Street bouses have also been selling. But powerful interests in Wall Street are bullish and also some well known "spot" people. New Orleans prices have at times been noticeably trong. Tin sp t situation has cont inu ed pretty firm, even if there is less Ktlvhy. The week-end statistics have eeently favored the.bullv The opinion a widespread and deep seated ftiaH' will take extraordinarily favorable con ditions from now on to produce a crop of needed else.- PILES CURED IN TO 14 DAYS Your druggists will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any ease of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro truding Pilesin 6 to 14 days. 60c. tepublican Convention, Third Congres sional District. Goldiboro, May 16, Delegatea from the several counties in the Third Con gressional District met here today lo sleet two delegatea and tiro a'ternates to be sent to the National Republican Convention to be held in Chicago, June ISth. There was a a contest from Car teret county between the Duncan fac tion and Wheatley delegates, which was settled by the credential committee seating the Wheatley delegates, delegates the credentials of the Duncan being found Irregular. The Dun can faction - bolted and tbereafb r met and held a convention of its own, the result of which was not given out. Carteret county has ten votes out oi eighty-three in the Third District. The following were elected y the regular committee: Hon. Marion But ler, of Sampson, and ex-Judge J, 3. O B. Robinson of Wayne, delegate i. Dr. George Davis of Carteret and D. W. Bisnight of Craven, alternates. I- Must Psvs Hancock Street. Judge. H..W. Wbedbee yesterday rendered his decision in tbe ease of th Sity of New Bern vs. the A. A N. CR R. Co., and in which the plaintiff wat suing the defendant company for refut ing to pave Hancock street ss the r con tract called for." The ease came up for disposal last week but no decision wa rendered at that time. The Judge's dec is ion was that the defendant com pany must pave the street with some permanent material and keep it in good ooaditkm. Through their attorneys the railroad company gave notices of an ap peal to the Supreme Court To Use 85,000,000 Pounds of Dyna- salts la Building Canal. Wsshington, May 17. It ia estimated that when the excavation for the Pan ama Canal is completed nearly 65 000. 000 pounds of dynamite will have been used. During the eight yeara tbe work of digging the big ditch has been going on, 60.607,550 pounds of the explosive hae been used and it is ettimated that 1,886,500 pounds will be required to finish the j Jb. ' Ice Cream Freezers that freeze cream faster and make mixture better "ALASKA" at E:aiht Hdw. Co. Report so Southern Convention Shows ' That It Was Beat Financially In History of Home Mission Board, r : Oklahoma City, Okla., May 16. That the year just ended was the stoat successful financially la the history of the Homs Mission Board of the Bouta eea baptist Conventioa area shown ia the annual repwt of the board made to tbe convention sitting her : While the Board ended the year with a deficit of about 112,000. the report showed that it collected during the fiscal year' end rag Aiuril 80, $366,000. or about (23,000 more than was raised last year, for miasioa Work in the Southern States parts of Illinois and New Mexico, aad in Cuba and Panama. The . report states that during tbe past year there were employed by the board 19 trained evangelists, 65 workers aotong foreign ers, 37 missionaries among the negroes 27 to Cuba and five ia theCaaai Zone. The total number of missionaries sup ported wholly or In part by the Board waa 1 809, of whom 269 weiemantained entirely by the Borne Board, One of the most important phases of its work, the board points out, is that of school tra p eg for mountain chi dre . It conducted last year a system of & secondary mountain schools for the youth among the back wood people of the Southern highlands, ia which there were 5, 0y0 students and with s property valuation of inore than half a million dollars. , v-:" ' X Relulcant upon the work of the Home Mission Board during the hut year were 29,899 baptisms and 47,728 additions to the church, vita missionaries organ is d 201 churches and there were 683 volun teers for. mission work and the ministry. The report recommended the Institu tion of a campaign to secure 1500,000 for a church building loan fund, to aid in erecting churches in needy places, it being sh. wn that : there are 8,000 houseless Baptist churches ia the con vention.:.: The inauguratoin of a plan for the vitetizatlon and enlistment in Chris ian work f backward churches, alee was atronahj'. urged, "the iBaptiste," tbe report atates, "are a very numerous and influential people In the Sjoutb, and they accept their full there" of the responsibility for the inspiration of aoeiety ia ' this district,, with ideal that are high and for jmantalning among the people a Christian life that ahall have virility enough to permeate with high moral purpose the marvellous powers of the present intense industrial civillixatioa," Bucks Stoves and Ranges that bake better bread with least ; fuel. ; " J. S. - Basnight Hdw. Co. ' " ' Demonstration a Complete Successw The demonstration of tha new ''Vul can" gas range at the office of the New Bern Gas Company laat evening waa attended by an unusually large number of ladi a and gentlemen aad the uni versal verdict waa that the "Vulcan" was a marvelous range hi every parti cular. . i Mrs Rosa Hancock waa ia charge of the demonstratido and she performed her duties excellently; fully explaining evtry use to. which the range could be put aad also explaining tbe different parta. !" , , ' - Tbe "Vulcan bids fair to becoming one of tbe most popular gas ranges ever placed in local homes aad it well do serves aU praise given it. Steamship . Companies ::;-.v;,-.VI Uvea Mast Protect Washington, May R-Heavy penalti es for fsllue to provide adequate life saving facilities oa ocean going steam ships are provide I to a bill introduced n the house by Representative Webb (Democrat). Sufficient life boat aceom modations for all passengers aad mem bers of creers of ocean going vessels of three thousead tone or more are made imperative by the measure which pro vides a fine of $10,000, or tea years imprisonment as a penalty for eac'i violation... The bill would also force steamship companies to print oa each ticket a statement of the life saving facilities of the veisei, on which passage Is Sold. cotton icncauis uoes on i&sii for a ,. period! Washington, May 17. Because of the faitue of the Senate to act oa the tariff bills already passed by the house, the Democrats of the Ways and Means committee of the house decided to take no action at the present time on a revision of tie eottoa schedule. About ivety establishments In Am sterdam, " ' so l, cut sni pci:.!.ea dle-moc-'i, ' ; ear ploy mors tLaa V 023 r : . TlOn'S - CAPITAL' "Joker" Found In Canal Bill May Mean Its Defeat. Bailroad r s Wharfs a Public Ter-, . - . . . -ntnal, r " - ' Wsshington, May 17. -The Panama : . Canal bill, providing for - tbe admioia-, s. tration of the Canal Zne and the opv..i eration of the canal, itself was intra- -duced in the Bouse yesterday.' As a M result of more than seven hours' debate " ' opponents on certain provisions of the " measure affected to have discovered a : " "joker" which they eiaimed would give , to Canadian' railroad owned steamships - - a monopoly of the traffic through the Panama Canal at the expense of Ameri. can railroad-owned vessels, which' would ' i ttm wnu Hun ,- fum , mrniB . vi iw , y atoasure. Those cities prohibited is a reault of the commercial overthrow are' 1 Boston, Seattle and Portland, Oregon. A bitter fight seems certain to result over the provisions which' would pre. hibit railroad-owned vessels from pas- . sing through the canaL Up to last night the Pacific coast delegation in tbe House was uanimously in favor of tbe " prohibition.':'' :f'' v';-'':.".'."c;f'i3k Representative Doremus of Michigt a " Democrat, charged ' that a small -, coterie of Wall Street parasite" had en- tered a conspiracy with the railroads to force Congress to strike out thero ' bibition against railroad ships. Be ' said the attempt had been made to force the hand of Cougrese by refusing ., to advance money for the building of, ships, tbe operating companies of which 'ere divorced from the railroad corpor ations ",' '.''. ' , A A;'i A railroad wharf, to which tbe roads' tariffs offer delivery and at which part of tbe shipping public is served, be comes a public terminal, ar.d if all ship pers are not given access to emp'oy it - becomes the duty of the ' railroad to make delivery at other available docks at ihe same rates. , A decision to this effect jhas been , rendered by the Interstate Commerce Comn,ission in the complaint at Mobile (Ala ) Chamber of Commerce against - I he Mobile and Ohio Southern and other -railroads. The new ru'ing is of sweep- . ing importance to commercial in teres tr. With the ; bureau of chemistry atill without a ehief, a' possible hereditary -succssor to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley ar rived this morning, when the former chief chemist became the father of a boy, his first born. . Former official tri bulations were forgotten In the Wiley household. Dr. Wiley, who is 67 years ' old married Miss Anna G. Kelton a year ago. Vice-President Sherman, as presiding officer of tbe Senate aigncd the j int resolution for a constitutional amend ment regarding direct election of Uuited N States Senators. Secretary Knox now will present Ihe amendment to the States for a three-fourths ratification. . Thousands of Cattle Burn. Kansas City,Mo.,May 15. Fire early" yesterday swept over five acres of cat tle pens at the Kansas City stock yards in which more than 2,000 head of cittle were eonnoea, it is oeiievea most of tbe cattle were burned. The loss pro bably will exceed $100,000, Tbe government tuberculosis testing station, which wss in the center of the yard, wss destroyed. . Greensboro Gets Office. Greensboro, May 17. The executive offices of the North Carolina Sunday' School Association will be transferred t from Raleigh to Greensboro. This was decided upon at a meeting of the exec utive committee here Tues Jay night; the transfer will be made July 1. Woman Elected Mayor of Wyoming 'L Town."1; 4 Sheridsn, Wyo., May 17. -Mrs. Susie Wissler. a widow, was elcted Mavor of Dayton, Wyoming, on the Independ ent ticket. A majority of the votes were cast by women. .. Strike Leads to Violence In Atlants. AtanU, Ga May 16. The first vio lence in connection with the pres. men sulks on Hearst's Atlanta Georgian oecnred last night Strike-breakers and Union men from Tne , Journal en. gaged in a fight. Three Union m?r, In cluding F. B. Brigmao, President of the Atlanta local, are in a hospital bad ly beaten. Tbe Panama Canal bill was debated in the Bouse, PILE? r PILES 1 PILES t Williams' Indian Tile Ointment will Cure Blind, deeding and Itching Piles. It absorbs the tumors, e'.hiye itchingr at once, acts aa a pouUIco, gives L.vU:.t relief. Williams' lj:,m Pi'.e Clntm.t it prepared for Pi!i-s jn 1 I'M- t;f t' private rsrta, C 'e I y i' t 1 C3caJfl.Cl. V,. ..'X'.-. (",,
The Semi-Weekly Sun-Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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May 21, 1912, edition 1
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