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f CiM. I-; , . - , . - - nil hi.. .. . . .i-i i ... i uli , . mmmmfmfpm . -. - - . ZT- i " 1 " WROTE THREATS InnPflinT llinTHI I VACUUM ROAD CLEANER ivnw"r Cffi 1 MnNTirGI.LO r . - I I ' IUULIMI'1 lltlllUIIM ii iiluiui i vin 1 1 1 in tXTEIlB-FORESTS V (IF THE mm Report. of Commlslon .Shows That Millions of Acres Have Been Reserved. "VAST Sl'M BEING EXPENDED Thv Commission Created "By the '.""Weeks Bill of the 61st - - ' Congress. -r Washington, Dec. l.-vSecreUry of War" Slim son' yesterday presented to :.h. SsnatA' thi first annual- Teoort ol ';tlv;Appalachian and While Mountain tiol- PnniTniucinn - J lit hnrizi d bv Congress to expend $11,000,000 tor a forest reserve ajongtbe rtihges.bf these ; 1 ITU uiuuiiiaiiio oja.wm . ' , i ; 1 ThU shows that- already i, 558,81 acres of la ml have been reserved by '-the government, much of it in the States . of, Maryland, Virginia and ...west v ir ' ainia. ' "N'Orlh Carolina. and : Georgia, in the South, and Vermont and New Hampshire, , in ' the North, have also contributed largelv to tnc peurcnasea areas.' '' " ,- " w ii The commission was created by the Weeks bill of the Sixty-first Congress i nnd directed to acouire as much -water- -shed and other timber lands along the : Eastern and Southern ranges of moun tains as the $11,000,000 would buy. f'.The money is made available over a r period .of nix years. , -,; . u The areas have beeti selected upon th . watersheds of navigable streams and s with especial reference to the protection ,'of those regions from floods, They are, 'located, too, so as to be of strategic im i porta nee in maintaining forest reserves ' in these States, aside from their value ' in preventing iloods. " .. The pprchase.frea now surveyed in ' the States of. Maryland", Virginia, and I West Virginia embrace , six projects the "Massanutten" tract of l$i,9ii 'acres, the "Potomac" tract of 59,55o acres lying in Maryland and 79,433 ' lying in West Virginia, an area of 68, 316 acres in West Virginia on the water 'shed of the Monongahela, and of 301, :940 acres on the Potomac and Shenan doah rivers. A second Mononguhela riverwotershed tract of 80,i39 acres has been surveyed, all of it' in West v Virginia. U Ot "the "'areas . act ually - purchased, 19,3 acreBof the Massnanltoi) tract are-in Page and Rockingham oounttes, 'Virginia, and are situated between the "north and'" south fork of the Sheuan- . doah riyet. -1 - V- " - 'v. ' A total of 4,900 acres of the Natural Bridge tract, located in Rockbridge, : Bedford and Bolctout counties, Vir ginia, has -also been acquired during - the past year. This lies on the water ' shed of the James river, with a small portion 'on tha' watershed of the Ro . anoke river..' . ' " ? Offered Three ' Quarters - of a Mil- lion, Levy Declines. Richmond, Va., Dec, 12. Refusing to sell Monticcllo, the home of Thom as Jefferson,' to a buyer at a price of $750,000, who through Mrs. Martin w l ittlivtnn .fiffprpd to deed it to the State of Vitgiiua, Jefferson M. Levy says iii a telegram-to Governor Mann: "I cannot now", commercialize the sentiment of years by putting a price upon t,hisj noble property. With my liiahest conception of patriotic feeling toward the name and home, of Thomas Jefferson, in which I yield first place to no one. coupled, with a deep attec tion for the place itself because of my L.'..Gwi)irin. .'-anrt in .4h till as- lynj ivv...v.., .............. surarite thatmy care will continue to be both abundant and constant, I am not prjHtred to mikfor accept any olTe'c'dppriving me of this cherished President Elect Wilson and The Next "White House; Baby' BLAIR ARRAIGNED Trial for Murder of Geo. G. Thomp on Set for Monday. Greensboro,' N. C, Dec. U. Wil liam Finlay Blair was arraigned in the-State court here yesterday and his trial for the murder ol bouthern Rail way division freight agent, George G Thnmnson. set for Monday. The pris Oner entered a plea of not guilty. Blair was chief clerk under lhompson ana on October' 29th was dismissed from the service after failure 'to explain a 10-day, absence. After receiving notice of! his dismissal. Blair called Ihomp- son to his home by telephone and or derine the servants to close the house, prepared to personally receive Ins guest. A few minutes alter lhompson entered five shots were heard, each takine effect and Thompson's death h.-inir almost instantaneous. There were no witnesses and from the eight attorney retained by the defense not u suggestion as to the character of Blair's defense has been dropped. Blair came in for an inheritance of $4,5,000 a few days before the tragedy. George G.' Thompson was a brother of J. S. I'. Thompson, who died in Richmond last n ight. f - ' ' ' - . 1 f I r It - f I Copyright by Pach Bros Government Holds Man Charged Witlv-Writinft MUon. Newark, N. J., Dec.U.Sullen and without counsel, - the three so-called mountaineers arrested at Dover, N. J-, last night charged witn writing threat ing letters to Woodrow Wilson, are locked up as Federal prisoners here today awaiting a preliminary examina tion on Monday. Two ol the mare brothers, Peter and Jacob Dunn 4 end .6 years old, respec tively. The other is Seeley Davenport, I vears old. According to the Post- office inspectors who made the arrest, Peter accuses his brother larob of having donc-the writing. Words -Written by Jacob at the die tatioit of the inspectors are said to have tallied in. -peculiarities and misspelling with the letters sent to the President elect. 1 hese lettcni were mailed, apparently, at an out-of-the-way rural free delivery box in front of a deserted house, and the inpsectors say they have evidercce that Jacob Dunn bought from a mail carrier paper identical with that on which the Wilson letters were written. When arraigned before a Commission er ladt night, all the prisoners protested utter ignorance ol the letters. WILL BE DEPOSED v. Others - of the Older Senators May Hava. to Yield to " Progressives." ANCIENT But It RUMOR REVAMPED ALLEN CASES ENDED MANN GRANTS RESPITE. ' Richmond, Va., Doc.-; U.-Floyd and .: Claud Allen, the Caroll county clansmen " will not go to the electric chair on Fri day,. .Governor Mann having late yesterday evening granted "a "second respite. -. ' The Governor' order fixes Friday!. Januray 17, as the date for their electrocution. Attorneys for the condemned men kbeld conferences with Governon "'Mann' and presented a lengthy petition setting forth that new evidence had been discovered. , " Victor Allen, a: son of Floyd Allcnr "and Attorneys' 'Hv M,'1 ?Smith, Jr., Richard E, Byrd and James F. Minor were closeted with Governor Mann for half an hour following the receipt 'of the news that the juryat VVythe ' ville had ; found, Hdna -Allen guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of V M. Foster.' t Doubtless this news hat some effect upon Governor Mann, for tfie respite was promptly granted. Sldna Sentenced to 35 and Wesley To 27 Years. Wvtheville. Va.. Dec. .12.-Thirtyr five years in the penitentiary is the nenaltv Sidna Allen will pay lor the part h played in the shooting up of Carroll county court nouse. mien s nephew, Wesley Edwards, will spend 2" years In" the penitentiary. These two sentences were the re sult of a compromise yesterday after noon, following a verdict of involuntary manslaughter in the case of Sidna Allen for the murder of Common wealth's Attorney William M. Foster, the jury fixing , the penalty in that rase at live years'" imurionment. Al len already had been found guilty of second degree murder at a former trial for the killing of Juditc Massic, lor wliich he had liven sentenced to 15 vears in the penitentiary, and the oiher indictment uundinii aizainst him for the murder of Sherfif Webb was com promised by letting him plead guilty to second deirree murder and take a 15 years sentence, the -combined sen tences makinir 35 years. -Three in dictments ' auainst Wesley Edwards also were compromise, he taking a sentence of nine years imprisonment in each. ' . In the second trial of Sidna Allen, which ended yesterday, nine of the first iurors on the ballot stood for acquital, and the other three for murder in the second deeree. -Following their dis- charee. the iurors in an interview de clared that not one of them thought the evidence presented by the State was sufficiently strong to sustain the hcarge of conspiracy. ; . New Tort . - . OF course yon know all about the next occupant or we nun. do you know about the next White House baby? Haro are both Presldent Elect Woodrow Wilson and his little grandnlect, Josephine -...... Th.. ... hoot nt nnis and they are swing to spend four mem Uhrlstmases In the first home of the land. Governor Wlhwn has ta lted Mr. George Cothran, his. only sister's child, to live with him at the Whlto House, and that Is how little Josephine is going to become tha next !WMte House baby and make light the heart of the next president v : Excluded A BLOW FOR PROHIBITION NO FEARS AS TO THE FUTl'RE CARBONATE OF LIMB mm INTOXICANTS PRQGURE Ii PARCELS P05I FOR COTTONftflILL DOGGIES IN STATEROOMS Mrs. Thompson Evades Steamship Regulations. San Francisco, Dec, 13. "If you had a little pet doggie that yo'j car ried about with you everywhere and a steamship sieivard told you that you would have to leave it out on the cold deck ut night, would you comply with his wishes? Mrs. I. O. Thompson, wife of an as- istaut to Attorncy-i encral Vwcker- sham and a passenger on the Pacific Mail steamer Persia, arriving from Yokohama, asked this question of some of her follew pasenircrs. There is a rule of the company against allowing does in statrooms, but this did not de ter Mrs. Thompson from carrying out her plans. Another incident caused Mrs. Thomp son some unpleasantness - during tne cruise. A missionary asked Mrs lhompson to stop smoking. She had boasted to friends she smoked sixty isarettes a dav and the missionary thoimht this was too many. "Why I amoke.and how many is my own business," she is ullegeu to have replied. From the Mails Along May svilte Boosters Fearlessly With Firearms and Their Parts. Launch Project on Fri day .Thirteenth. 'Rnhv Exoress" Will Take Fifteen Per Cent, of Express Mo nopoly's Revenue. Washington, Dec. 14. -Regulations and instructions governing the use and nrui-!it inns of the onrcels rostlrikes blow for the prohibition cause. 1 hey exclude from the mials all intoxicants ,4 ila.i ArAat-me'nnd thi.ir n.irts. This I . .... . i ,i . ...... i j u ... nno i riiict.-ini t.rii,-rnriKP-"-me Mavsvniv vi provision was piaix-u in wn- cuid....... - -- bv Robert S. Tharp, of Tennessee, a ton ttim company i'vnecr to be Turning Out Fin ished Product By This Time Next Year. The fact that yesterday was Friday si. the i hirtocn i ot the montii. ma i.ot deter the progressive men of Mays ville from taking the first opportunity afier the necessary stock was sub- a i-iKrH tn ini-ornornte their latest in I Highly Soluble Forms h&op Fertilizers f WINS THE HONORS FROM Burned or t Oxide. oi Lime by 175.00 per acre in a sixteen year "test,' and proved beyond question that It is ,a superior fertinzing ingrediant. Brown'- C C03 by analitical test heads the list of fertilizing lime. For full information write at once to ' WLlS.VC0f.5I HE CO.; '" New Bern, N. C' CTIi. SPENCER' member of the commission. There was some opposition to this reeulation on the grounds that the Government licenses the manufacture of whiskcv and other intoxicants, but brands it as a contraband in the oper ation of its parcels post system The reeulartuns provide a govern ment "baby express, transportation svstem for the handling of packages of merchandise and of farm and factory Droducts, to be operated in conjunc' tion with the Postorhc'e Department The system will be inaugurated Jan uarv 1. It is estimated that the Govern, ment's ' buby express will take ap proximately $ per cent, of the express monopoly revenue and about cent of us traffic. I he one great advantage, which has been worked out, is that the Government will handle packages, limited to 11 pounds, with only one accounting, .that ol po taee; whereas the express monopoly handles its traffic with 11 accountings The reuulations will give a package transportation system to i.0,000,000 more persons in this country than are now served bv the express monopoly Packaeea will be delivered at the home 'of the farmer in the country by rural ' mail - carriers, while the city" carriers !will deliver them at the door of the 'ritv resident. Under the postoffice act ! establishiAg town delivery set vices the ' nsrlmiiii rleliverv will also t apply tO I ' " jmany towns of more than ,1,000 popu- ilation. ... -.' , The reflations ore construeted so 'as to develop trade between cities and cities and towns nnd I heir surrounding rural territory, , is REPORTED N. S. COMPANY WILL I.Jtft GET MINES ROAD. Raleiith. N. C. Dec. U. A charter was issued yesterdav for the Carolina Railroad Company, of Kinslon, capital $175,000, f-or the purpose of developing and operating tmrty-hve miles ot road from Kinston to Snow Hi I. built as a umber road by the Mines Bros l.umbe Co. . It is understood that the road o pass to the .management of the Nor folk Southern. The incorporator of the Carolina Railroad Company urc I. Millard, J, C. .Melius, Jr., M. S. Hawkins, R. A. Black, and H. Manley of Norfolk, and W. M. Mayes, Kinston. CUP FOR SUI.ZER Is Likely That It Is Mere Talk and Signifies Nothing. Washington, Dec. U. --Washington papers carry sensational stories showi ing how Thomas S. Martin, of Virginia, is to be dposed as Democratic Senate leader; how he is to he put aside by the "progressive" or "radical" ele ment among the Democrats in the Semite after the reorganization in March, and how the whole thing i already cut and dried to put him on the political shell with ihp coming in of the new administration. Although the story is printed here again, it is not iiew. Since the election last month, when it was found that the Democrats would control the Senate after March 4, all kind of trou ble has been predicted. It. has been said, and this with apparently some foundation, that, headed by Senator Gore, who is close to President-elect Wilson, a movement now on foot would assume such headwav bv the time of the reorganization that Senators Mar tin, Tillman, Baon, Simmons and one or two of the other older leaders in the upper house, would be forced to give way to the "radicals or "pro gressives." ElTorts made to ascertain what there in such a story show that there some feeling against a few of the older Senators because of an incltna- ion to hold to more than one impor tant committee place, and that some of the newer and younger members of the Senate believe that the older ones will have a monopoly on the good as signmeuts. There is no doubt that the older im-n will get tne best place- because of seniority, and that the newer and younger members will have to take what they can get, but so far as the story that Senator Martin is ro be sidetracked and laid on the shelf is concerned, there appears to be noth ing in it. It cannot be doubted that there is some feeling in the Senate, ust"as there has bef it for inan v years But is is no more acute now, all things considered, than it idways has been Senator Martin's friends ph-ce little credence in the reoorts that he is to be deposed. Picks Up Brickbats And Stouts Well As Dust. I ondon, Dec. 1 3. The first deiboo- stration in , thU . country- of "a Vkw motor vacuum road-clesnioi juacttine, ;' the invention of an Italia engineer, . took place at Soulhport.. The machine has a iO to 30 horospower f our cylinder motor engine, and the sweepipg mcchu nism con-ists jf u cylinder brush core posed of a series of small brushes which revolve in a sheet iron ' shell in an opposite direction to the heels of the car. , ' - The speed at which the brtwlt'-Vo-tstes creates enough draught .toel- , lect by suction all dot and deposits it in" the receiver of the,, pur bin. Wooden.. blocks and broken, bricks were picked up, and it is stated 'the machine could deal similarly 'With bottles and stones nine "pound ito weight. y " TO FORTIFY CHESAPEAKE BAY At The incorporators are E. C. Mattocks, G. P. Rogers. J. D. Dudley, P. C. Foy E. McCutchcon, ' C. M. Mattocks, R. L. lenkins. A. J. Collins, Jesse G Brown, John C. Bauaian and others. The enterprise was promoted by Messrs Brown and Bautnan who since locating in Maysville have been active in co- mu-ralincr with Its ' Other CltlZCIlS in thrusting it to the front. Mr. Bauman, ho vith W. M. Eubahks. R. C). 1 a Roque und Dr. Colin Shaw made an auto trip to New Rprn vesierdav. eave particulars of the incoporation and said the autho rized capital stock ; of the company is $100,000 with $50,000 paid in. -A location has been purchased lying iiia lannrh of Mavsville and extending ler front the corporate, limiu to White Oak river and containing 1 twenty acres. The company anticipates inquiring more land later on. Mr Bauman stated that it was hoped to have the mill in operation one year from the date of incorpora tion The mill engineering work in- ,-liulini flet alls of architecture and couio.m-nt. he stated, would be placed in the case of the Shand Engineering Company of Columbia which has had tu-pntv vears exocrience in this kind - -- - - - j - of work. It is the purpose of the mana gement of the mill to have the very latest and best machinery , Every spindle will be operated by an indivi Hula motor The mi 1 will have an electric curreut. producing plant nut New York's Governor-Elect Hon ored By House Committee. Washington, Dec, 13.--AI a meet ing of the House Committee on Fore ign Affairs, of which William Sulzcr, Governor -elect of New York, is about to relinquish the Chairmanship, Re presentative Flood of Virginia, who will take Mr SuUerV place a . Chair- man, prseented to Mr. Sulze.- a silver loving cup" on behalf of the committee Representative Mckinley of Illinois, th ratiUnir Rennlilican member of the committee, called attention to the fact that Mr. SuUer had broken a "hoo A," wUieh had followed the Lhair- maiishin of the Foreign Affair Com mittee. "Four Chairmen have died," said Mr. McKinlev. "and four who succeeded as ranking member and were ready .to step in have been octcatea lor re election." V Mr. McKinlev had reference to his own case, us he was one ol tnw wno failed of re-eleciiou in November. Mr. Suiter said that probably he woulu quit Washington for good .the latter part of next week. He said he was anxious to have the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill passed by the Housu before his re tirement. First Appropriation r-:nected Present Scssioi of Congress. WushiniNon. Dec. 1 '. Uric. lien. W. II. H'ixhy, chief of t!.. anuy c-igineers appeared before the f.irti .. ati ins sub committee of the l'o ,e .;-:ro;rialions Committee and uricd the construction of a powerful seai.oast fortification at the mouth of thr Chesapeake Bay so that Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, ant other t. hesapeake liav cities can be safclv protected from a hostile fleet. The amount of money desired from this Congress is S150.000 with which to purchase land at Cape Henry for the location of the fortress. The fortress, completed, would cost in the neighboor- hood of $4,000,000 or $3,000,000. It is believed that the initial appro. priatfon will be allowed at this Congress. Congressmen E. E. Holland, of the Nor folk district, who has. been devoting his time to this meamr, has assurances that it will. SWINDLED WItMINGTONIANS Principal of Group Is Afrwted In New Orleans. New Orleans, Dec. 13. Charles J Walker, who was arrested Wednesday uicht as a susDicious character:' was declared by the police yesterday t be wanted in New York City in connec tion with a wire tapping e'wtndlei'in which K. C. Sidbury and J. W. Powell, of Wilmington, N. C, were recently V relieved of HiS.OOO. - New York. Dec. 13. Charles. C. Walker, the man arrested in New Or leans, according to the police here, answers the description -of one J. N. Dowsing, for whom the New York au thorities were' searching in connection with a fake wire tapping scheme. . . According to the Detective Bureau. Dowsing is the man who -took up -an expensive residence at "Wilmington- N. C, with his wife and worked him, self into the confidence of Dr. W, Powell and K. C. Sidbury, a lawyer here. The result was that tbev came to New York to take advantage of the 'advance information which .' the gamblers here claimed to get on horse race results, and lost thousands ot dollars. This was followed bv the arrest. of the Gondorfsand several of the veter ans in New York confidence games, the North Carolinians having cowe to New York to prosecute them. After , nreliminarv trials as the result ' of which a number of them were held for the higher courts under heavy boadm. the Southerners returned home, but it is expected that they will return o New York to further prosecata 'the cases, which are only a few of several hundred unearthed from many parts of the country as the result of .ftheix exposure by Sidbury, It U likely that Dowsing will be brought to New 'York on extradition papers and that the Southerners will be asked to identify him after he is brought -here, or; bey may be asked 10 go to New Orleans and see it thry can complete tha' idea lification. ' , PASTORS JOIN FORCE About the faintest exhibition of writ ing is usually the "Paid" on an ex press receipt. Wear Stars and Seek to Enforce Dance Hall Laws. Los Angeles. Dec. 12.-rrSix clergy-. men have been put on the rolls of the Police Department as special officers. They wear stars and are empowered . to make arrests, their special duties .eitig the enforcement of the juvenile lawt and the regulation of dance balls. The minister-policemen are members f the Juvenile Protection l-eagtie. They have been commissioned not only o safeguard the young- and -.prevent .he explothtion of girts, but to arrest and prosecute parents , who . neglect their children. , -. i i t . . v' - . a- . "$Btfy.ii-yfcu- t.l- Going to Build? THEN SEE DR. II. M. BONNER, of New Bern, will be in . Fort Barnwell Wednesday, i Dec. 18th at Mr. W. R. Sauls', and electric curreut producing plant nuf , Thursday. Dec. 19th in Dover at Dr. ficicnt to supply its own needs and also e i Hawe's office for treatment of i . l a. ...:.u .ii.:.. i:..k . r. , n th kv. r.nr. .ose ana inrui. ' ' i . . -.l. .i i:..u.. tO Btippiy tne lown wiin nnini. mnn " ' ' -DEALER IN . " ay, Corn, Oats, Bran, Hominy, AND ALL KINDS OF FEED. HIGH GRADE CORN MEAL. SEED A " AKD ED RYE. . ' THICK FOR SALE nail Orders Given Careful Attention. Lower Middle Street, New Dcrn, N, C. There's nothing better than marriage for bringing ut all the temper there is in red hair. and other manufacturing plant with ,ower. - . ' "Mavsville. has .100 people ', said Mr. Haunian, "and twenty of thrm are wl'.ut y might term live wire booster. Coin-idTing ' the population, thnt is an Extraordinarily large crowd of boosters nnd it necessarily means great things for'TMayrvillt-i" , v ., . you are in need ot ; treatment ann want glasses htted to your eyes it Kill nav vou'to". rerren.lier the date i ' - . . and place. . Dr. Bonner is a specialist in this line and it is seldom chance to be treated !n vour own IcKality. Advi !. 10 3r In lcctitrine to Yale Students Mr. Taft will at least enjoy not having any body talking back at him, Ontc in a great while nature makes . L .... J la mistake ana sue turns out a nano 'some man. . ' ' 1 When a man talk about love h a f Vim f,.W ' uuhamii fif hit Ciin. 1 versation. ,. TOLSON LUMBER &T1FQ. CO FOR EVERYTHING Mice and Factory 120 E.Front St. New Bern N. C We call your attention to our complete line of ; ' barm implements The John Deere Low Down Manure Spreader needi nrt intriVlnrtinn . All vnti rtffl is to Rre! it. ' i .pei iaiist. Out line of Seed Drills, 'Ontario," "Buckiye" : dom vou have . , .. pennayivania' never fail to make friends, by a specialist - r lino of Stalk Cutteri cotiBittini of the "John DierV' . "Aery,M JICASE and "Bouthbend" from which to raak , your nelection can't fail to please you, nd then Our Trice 3 H are made to suit YOU. Your orders win De carcri.y - , fittendea 10. rnone . J. C. Whittv & Co.
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