No. 8$
NEW BERN. N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 191-FIRST SECTION
35th
ANOTHER FACTORY
OYSTER
RENO
WARREN FACES
E
FIT'S
IS
IS IN PROSPECT
COST OF LUG
COME FORWAR
G. Ober & Sons Company, Fertili
zer People Consider Starting
Plant Here.
Colored Man of Vanccboro Omitted
Tib Take Out Government
License
SOLD
UOUOfl
PLANTING
TROUSERS BURNER
MUST PAt COSTS
WANT TO REDUC
BOUND
EH
ABANDONED
INVESTIGATION
That Such Is the Case Is Indicated
By Official Repzrts Made la
Virginia.
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MANY ACRES ARE GIVEN UP
'Squire Barrington Lays Down This jit Will Probably Involve Charges of
Revisionists Want to Put on Fi
List Everything For the Break
fast and Dinner Table
ee
POLICE SEEK CONSIGNEE
THREE GALLONS OF
WHISKEY
FOR
Serious
Violations of
Land Laws.
Public
CLAIMED HE WASN'T GUILTY
But. Uncle Sam's Men Had Clear
Case Against Him, So Probn
ble Cause Whs Found.
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Samuel Willis, colored, of Vauceboro,
who was arrested last Wednesday
morning by Deputy United States Mar
shal Samuel Lilly on a warrant charging
him with selling spirituous liquors with
out a government license, was given a
preliminary hearing yeeterday at noon
before United States Commissioner
Charles B. Hill.
Willis entered a plea of not guilty of
the charges against him and made every
effort to c'ear himself of the charge, but
from the testimony of three reliable
witnesses who swore that at different
times in the past few months they hail
purchased "monkey rum" and brandy
from him, probable cause was found and
the defrndant bound over to the next
term of Federal court under arbond of
two hundred dollars. He failed to
secure bail iu this amount and was
placed in the county jail
The revenue men have'had Willis un
der surveilance for several months and
-were only awaiting an opportune mo.
ment to place him in custody
This occurred last Wednesday and he
was promptly nabbed. In order to see
that there was no hitch in the proceed
ings and the defendant released, U. S.
Deputy Collectoi J. E. Cameron was
in the city yesterday and assisted iu the
prclimiiiary-icxamin.itioii.
PROSPECTS NEVER SEEMED
BRIGHTER IN NORTH CARO
LINA, HE SAYS.
W. W. Croxton, General Passenger.
Agent of the Norfolk Southern Raitwa.)
Company, has recently been in this
section of the State inspecting the com
pany's lines and attending to other
business. Wednes-dsyhe returned to
his office in Norfolk Va., and in an inter
view given to a reporter on the staff of
the Virginian-Pilot he said: "Never
before in the history of the Norfolk
Southern have prospects for a "bunper"
'season in the agricultural districts of
North Carolina appeared so bright.
Advanced methods in farming and the
introduction of scientific ideas and ap
paratus promise to greatly increase
the yield of the Tar Heel State."
"MOVIES" FOR JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville, in Onslow county,-is
coming to the front with an up-to-date
moving picture theatre- The new en
terprise will be located-in-the business
district of the town and will be owned
and operated by R. A. Bokamy. The
machines and other paraphernalia neces
sary for the operation of the theatre
have been ordered and the owner hopes
io be able to open its doors to the public
in abotit three weeks.
One who has nothing to lose it gen
erally willing to take chances.
BUMPER
SEASON
AHEAD
GRBXTON
CARBONATE OF LIME
C. L. SPENCER
DEALER IN
jr. Corn, Oats, Bran, Hominy,
fro ALL KINDS OF FEED. HIGH GRADE CORN MEAL.
SEED
A AND
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. r.T "9n vrwi ftnvnuon.
Lower Middle street,
STORAGE HOUSE IS LEASED
Shipments From Other Places at
First But Later Factory Likely
To Be Built Here
During the next twelve months New
Bern will, in all probability, have an
other fertilizer manufacturing plant
erected here and in operation. The
firm of G. Ober & Sons Company, fer
tilizer manufacturers and distributors
have recently extended' a branch of
their business into North Carolina and
have selected New Bern as a distribut
ing point.
The company have leased the Targe'
warehouse recently erected by the At
lantic Coast Line Railway Companv
near their freight depot on (Jueen street
and will use this building as a storage
house.
At present the fertilizer which will be
sent out from New Bern will come from
one of the company's plants at Nashville
Tenn., Charleston, S. C, or Baltimore,
Md. Mr. S. L. Dill, Jr., is their repre
sentative here and he states that he
has leliable information that the com
pany will in the near future erect a
fertilizer manufacturing plant here and
that in all probability will be in opera
tion early next year. ' '
BAYBORO ARRANGES TO HAVE
TOURNAMENT
The citizens in Bayboro, in Pamlico
county, arc making extensive arrange
ments for a tournament which will be
held there on Friday, February 7. In
vitations will oe sent all over the county
and it is the intention of the committee
who has the matter of arranging for thff
event in charge to make it one of the
most successful of its kind ever held in
that sect ion. Tournaments have' recent -
cently been held at Oriental and Merritt
and at both places they were largely
attended and were a success in every
detail. v
SOUTH FRONT PAVING
grading of That Street Was Com
menced 1 es tenia y.
A force of laborers yesterday morning
began the work of grading down a sec
tion of South Front street preparatory
to its being paved by the Norfolk Soutb.Jplanting grounds as a matter of fact,
ern Railway Company. The street will
be graded to a point west of Eden street
and as soon as the preliminary work is
completeed the paving will be laid.
The work is being done by L. Lawson of
Norfolk, Va., who was awarded the
contract, , and is under the siier ision
of the city engineer. As soon as the
work on South Front street is completed
it will be taken up on Hancock street
and that thoroughfare will be paved.
Material similar to that used on East
FruntHstreet will be used in paving these
two streets.
WEDDING INVITATIONS.
Invitations as follows have been re-
tented here:
"Mr. and Mis. James R. Rogers re
quest the pleasure of your company at
the marriage of their daughter Edna
Karle, to Mr. John Carlton Parsons,
Wednesday morning, February twelfth,
nineteen hundred and thirteen at half-
past seven o'clock at home, Newport,
North Carolina. "
WINS THE HONORS FROM
Burned or
Oxide of Lime
Dy o.w per acre in a sixteen year
test, and proved beyond question that
a-r An .
it is a superior fertilizing inercdiant
Brown' C C03 by analitical test
heads the list of fertilizing limes. For
full information write at once to
CAROLINA COAST LIME CO.
New Bsrn, N. C
ED RYE.
TlRIfllf I ni? QAr V
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au
inw Bern, N. rj.
The Abundant Natural Supply As
signed As Cause of Suspension
of Planting'.
Richmond Jan 23 Oyster planting
in Virginia will before ong be a mat
ter of history in the opinion ol the State
Commission of Fisheries. exDressed in its
annual report to Governor Mann. A
decline in the industry is made evident
by the steady and ex'lens ve reduction
of license revenue collected by the State
from planters which in itseif presents
a problem with which the General As
sembly must cope at no distant day.
Within one year, or since the last re-
port, the revenue from planting grounds
rented from the State has shown a de
crease of 10 percent, or from $48,900 to
$43,122. This shovs that many acis
have been given up, evidently because ir
is no longer profitable to operate them.
This does not mean a deline in the
oyster industry in gtneral, for the yield
this season is large and prices arc more
satisfactory than for several years. In
addition, license returns from the tong
ers how no appreciable difference from
the preceedlng two years.
The diminution of planting is ex
plained by the commiss on as resulting
from the increase of production from
the natural rock, which is free to the
citizens of Virginia. "The large and
really excessive production on the
public rocks," says the report, "to
some extent caused prices to decline.
The planter and shucker find it cheaper
and easier to get their marketable pro
duct direct and without a second hand
ling. As a result, where thefe is abun
dant and sufficient natural supply, cul
tivation dwindles, grouhd leases are
surrendered and the tax return on that
item is falling rapidly and has been for
several years past. On the other hand
the tonger who w:s once exceedingly
numerous, but fell to low estate during
a period wnen me natural ues were
largely depleted, io beginning to return
to his first calling. "
As a suminarYthe commission con-J
fesses that in planting there is to lie
found "discouragement" year by year
while in the matter of public workers the
prospects are very gratifying." .
Thissituation presents aserious prop
osition to the State. A larrger parr of
the revenues from the fish and oyster
industry comes from renting oyster
more than half. Of the S71.103.S1 col
lected during the past year for the
State, $43,122 came from renting ground
for the cultivation of ovsters. Re
duction in p ant ng means cutting down
th s revenue and if the time comes, as
predicted by the commission, when the
occupation of the planter will be gone.
the L.cislatiire will be obliged to t ike
n.
LL-F
MEET FRIDAY
ASSEMBLE AT GOLDSBORO AND
LAUNCH EAST CAROLINA
LEAGUE
Next Friday representatives of the
baseball enthusiasts at Wilmington,
Rocky Mount, Fayetteville, Wilson,
Goldsboro and New Bern will meet at
Goldsboro for the purpose of forming
an 'Eastern Carolina Baseball Associa
Ttron.
During the past ten days this matter
has been discussed in these various
cities mentioned and. according to all
reports the sport-Joving citizens at
each place are very enthusiastic over
the proposed meeting and have promised
their support if the Association is formed
In addition to the committee which
has been chosen to represent New Bern,
a number of enthusiastic fans will also
attend this meeting. New Bern citi
zens want baseball and are offering
every inducement to have the city in
this' proposed league. At present no
subscriptions have been asked for or
received, but if the meeting results as
is expected the subscriptions will then
he secured. No definite action will be
be taken until after this meeting and th
fans here are looking forward to it with
much attention.
IMPROVE ATHENS CAFE.
Workmen have just completed re
mode line the interior of the Athens
cafe. Among the improvements a
1 number of additional lights have been
added, the interior of the place has
been painted and the kitchen separated
from the cafe in such a manner that
Mtr.
almost impossible for the odor of
food being prepared to reach the
patrons ol the place. Y. Ksitens,
the proprietor, is progressive in every
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wav and It is nis intention io mmmx
,he place onc of the , thi,
sec
tio oj the stt.
BASE8A
ANS
Kuie on Hearing rvn.or.iy uase
Fron Dover. ;
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W. G. ROUSE WINS BIG f ICTOtfY
Man Set His Trousers On Fire
Wouldn't Pay, So Chief Went
fc To Court ! '
Sethcoe Avery, a young white man
whose home is at Dover, w&s givena
hearing 'yesterday afternoon beMr
Justice of. the Peace W. R. atrington
on a warrant charging him with destroy
ing; a pair.of trousers owned by Chief of
Police W.'C. Rouse of that plafe. The
ryoung man was found guilty of the
charge and the sentence of th : c-.utt was
that he pay' for the trousers u.id also piy
the costs of the case.
T ""feast Christmas day Avery and scv-
eral pf his companions were celebrat
ing the occasion with fireworks. The
Chief of Police hove in sight during their
carousal and ordered them to ceas"
firing. The command went unheeded
and in defiance young Averjf cut loose
at the guardian of the law with a cannon,
cracker. His aim was true and just as
the missile struck the leg of the c
tnere was an explosion. Upon inves
tigating the damage, the officer found
that a large hole had been burned in
his trousers.
The j accident would doubtless have
pns!ed unheeded but the fact that the
Chief had that morning donned his
Sunday-go-to-meeting suit and was
arrayed in all his glory. He called upon
Avery and requested that he make resti
tution for the damage done to his appar
el. 1 . InsteacTof oflering to pay the dam
ages,' Avery gave the officer a line of
back-talk. This was the fast straw
and the Chief immediately swore out a
warrant against the offender and had
him summoned before 'Squire Barring
ton. After the trial Avery put up the
necessary wherewithal to. cover all
damage and the case was closed.
F
N
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JOHNSON, COLORED, ALSO HAD
SUIT CASE FULL OF
CARTRIDGES
. Upon information received here by
Sheriff R. B. Lane, Deputy Sheriff
J. E. Wetheritigton yesterday morning
went to Plymouth to take into custody
a colored man named Williams Johnson
charged with the larceny of a suit cast
and two suits of clothing from Lena
Jones of this city.
Upon arrival at Plymouth the Deputy
Sheriff found that the officers there had
released the man from custody. He
rfcade a search for the fugitive and suc
ceeded in locating him at the home of a
friend, He was placed under arrest
and when searched, a. dangerous look-
ng knife and four razors were lound
upon his person. A suit case filled with
cartridges was also in his possession.
The officer placed his man on the
rain, nnd last evening brought him to
New Rem and placed him in jail. He
will be given a preliminary hearing
this morning before Justice of the Peace
W. R., Barrington. The negro claims
thathis name is James Johnson and tint
he is not the man for whom the Sheriff
had a warrant. However, if he proves
himself innocent of this charge he will
have to face another of cacrying con
cealed weapons.
CLIFFORD SIMPSON DEAD.
News was received in this city yes.
teraay aiternoon ol the. death at
Riverdale of Clifford Simpson, one
of i he oldest and most respected citi
zens of that locality. Mr. Simpson
has been in failing health for some
time and his demise, which occurred
early yesterday morning, was not
unexpected. He is survived by sev
eral. 'children. The funeral will be
hi-ld this afternoon and the interment
made in the family burying grounds at
that place.
FAIR COMPANY TO MEET.
The regular annual meeting and
election of officers of the Eastern
Carolina Fair Association Company
will.be held at the office of the company
room in the h-llcs lemplc on I uesday
February 4, at 12 o'clock. At this
meeting much business of impost a nee
will be transacted and it is expected
that a number of cliangcsjand improve
ments will be made in conducting the
next Fair.
FOR SALE One horse wigon and
Two Good Horses cheap for Cash, or
on tiuits with good security. Apply to
OUR
RAZORS
PISS
an
T. A, DURON, TuKsxprs, N. C.
HURRIES HOMlf TO SAVe SEAT
Company of Which He Is Head In
closed Thousands of Acres of g
Government Lari&s.
Washington, Jan. Ll.--Seriator War-1
ren, of Wyoming, chairman of the Sealer's free list, one that will bring down
ate committsVi
survivor of tfc once powerful Aldrich
regime of that bodyV-Way'. within the
next few weeks face an investigation in
volving .Charges of serious violation of
public laud laws by a company of which
he is th? heatf.
Democratic and Progressive Senators
are digesting the facts in this case as
developed by the inquiry ol the House
Committee on Expenditure in the In
terior Department. This committee
found that the Warren company had
inclosed thousands ol acres ol tiovcrn-
ent lands in Wyoming and adjoining
tes. The committee based its hnd-
upon records of the Department
ntcnor.
tpf more isn mediate concern to the
aing Senator, however, is his
iatened defeat lor re-election. His
cn'ies is the state have seized upon
the report of the House committee and
have broken the majority in the Repub
lican caucus of the Wyoming Legisla
ture upon that issue.
Re-Elcctlon In Doubt.
Senator Warren is now hurrying to
Cheyenne in the hope of saving his scat
in the Senate. He was telegraphed by
by his friends to make all possible haste
in leaving Washington, anJ he lost no
time. He turned his back upon his
opponents in Washington to face a
new set of facts at home.
If Senatoe Warren should be defeated
in Wyoming, all talk of an investigation
of his all ged violations will, of course,
be dropped. Should he triumph at
home, however, hi.i enemies openly de
clare that they will aslcthe Senate to in
vestigate his record, whether that body
yt
yields to the demand or not.
In making the charges against Sena
tor Warren's company, the House com
mittee vindicates the agents of the De
partment of the Interior and the late
Secretary Allen Hitchcock. President
Roosevelt forced Secretary , Hitchcock
out of his cabinet because the Interior
Department charged Roosevelt's fripnd
Senator Warren, with partiripationin
wholesale land frauds.
In its report upon the Warren case the
House committee found that the com
pany of which the Senator is the head
had taken up and fenced in for cattle
raising thousands ol acres of land
which belongs to the Government
This violation, it is charged, related
to the inclosure of prpperty in the Gov
ernment's half of land reserved for fu
ture ditributlon.
In parcelling out public lands the
Government divides it into "cross
sections," in much the same way that a
checkerboard is designed. The black
spaces on this property checkerboard
are reserved whereas the white spaces
are turned over to private interests.
The Warren company, v hith owns a vast
acreage of the white cross-sections
has, it is charged, fenced in also an enor
mous area oi tne uovernmtnt s sec
tion;.
These charges had been pending
against Senator Warren and his asso
ciates for ftri Sectet Hitchcotk
who was Hpointed to the ( ;bts t
bv President McKinley, fa-it-siftcd t hem
and carrictthe resoltso liresiddht
Roosevelt, shortly sYtflir.'.WcKiiiley's
death. Senator. Warren vehemently
lenird that his cattle occupied Gov
ernment lands,' and Mr. Roosevelt
sustained him by forcing Mr. Hitch
cock out of the Cabinet.
Since then the case hs rested in the
Interior Department file. Wyoming
people have curne to- WsVtsVngton from
time to time to demand actinn against!
the Senator, but they, have not been f;or
dially received. , Not -tntil a Democra
tic House was elected r a there any
serious aeffort made to get t the facts.
MOVFS STOCK OF GOODS
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Mr. F.nnett To Devote Himself To
Fertiliser Btjslnssa.
George N. Btoett rrtjl moved his
stock of goods, from the building No.
103 Middle stree, to the building
occupied by the E. J. Land Priming
Oc-mpuny on Pollock street.
Mr. F.nnett has discontinued the
hook and stacionery business and here
after will be engaged solely in the lime
and fertilizer industry and will be asao-i
ciated with the Trent River Lime and
Fertiliser Company of this city, of
which he i President. At present the
office of the new compnv will bv locat
ed at the James Hotel on Middle street
W. G. Boyd, who conducts an insur
ance business, will occupy the store
Mr. tnnett has vacated, movinv int
his new quarters about Febr
is the dearest to
OPPOSITION WILL BE DECIDED
liirt Friends of Program Believe
rfey Can Put It The ough In
The House.
P1
Washington, Jan. 24 A consum-
tione ahJTChe cost of everything on the breaklast
and dinner table, is being planned by the
radical revisionists on the Wavs and
Means Committee of the House.
This measure hs now tentively draft-
fed, vill place sugar, rice, meat and all
other articles of food on the free list, re
gardless of the effect upon the domestic
producers.
Representative Francis Burton Har
rison, of New York, and the members
who, a year ago, drafted and put throng
the House the Free Sugar bill, are behind
the movement and they declare that
they will have enough support in the
sommittee ar.d on the floor of the House
to put their plan through.
This is easily the most radical step
yet taken to reform the tariff and relieve
the average housekeeper of the present
burden of excessive food prices. Op
position will develop of co'irsc, but it ii
admitted that the sentiment of the coun
try "Jill support s-uch a bill.
To this extent the revisionists beiieve
the move will be good politics. They
recall the effective campaign cry of the
Republicans when, some vears ago, they
use "a fiee breakfast table" as a cam
paign slogan.
;,They went far enough at tnat time to
Dj.it coffee on the fre-- list as well a s a
few other minoi articles of tood. Brazil
however, defeated them by placing an
export tax upon colfc just exactly
equivalent to the impost removed by the
United States. This bad the effect of
putting into the Brazilian treasury the
money that otherwise would have been
collected by the United States and of
keeping up the price of coffee.
SUIT HIS SISTER
WITH AIR RIFLE
t AD DIDN'T KNOW THERE
A SHOT IN THE TOY
WAS
Dr. R. S. Primrose spent Thursday
at Jacksonville and while there was
called upon to render medical attention
to little Norine Wooten, a child of Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Wooten. The little girl
and her brother had been playing with
an air rifle and he playfully pointed it
at her and pulled the trigger. Un
known to either of the children there
was a shot in the rifle and this lodged
in the little girl s lace, just over the
left eye, inflicting an ug'y wound. Dr.
Primrose dressed the wound and the
girl will probably be fully recovered
in a short time. If the bullet had
lodged a fraction of an inch lower down
it would have destroyed her eyesight.
OARS BY POST
A pair of oars by parcel post is the
latest experience of the clerks at the
post-office. They went through Thurs
day morning. Not much surprise was
occasioned to the clerks who from what
has htpppened thus early in the history
of the parcel post are prepared to see
all sorts of odd things going through
Uncle Sam's mails.'
BlQunts' Daisy P'w.
Plow. Vy Poplar.
"He Who b the Plow Would Thrive
2 Must Either Hold or Drive." r
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$ We Sell Blount's TRUE BLUE Line Of Plow. 8
ik sssssx. n a
I Middle Bursters, a lMowHiat Fills a Loa Felt Nssd ''mL.,
ii i istssUlsssisK
J. C. Whitty Company
'PHONE H
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WMHaOCXXY
Policemen Lon Bryan and Matthew
McDaniel, the champion "blind tiger"
catchers on the force, yesterday con
fiscated a package containing three
gallons of whiskey. The driver of a
wagon on which they found it informed
them that he knew no whither it was
bound and to whom it belonged. -
The officers saw the package on the
wagon and the driver acted in such an
unusual manner that they at once
became suspicious and decided that" ft
was en route to the lair of sonHr "blind
tiger." They ordered him to top and
upon investigation found that the
.package contained twelve quart? of the
"rejuvenate" and that it had'been
shipped Iroffl 'Norfolk. Va., to oi &las":
Green of this city. The driver averred
that he wa Sot personally acquainted
with this Green person and that an
other man, supposedly the consignee.
had sent him to the express office after
the package and had pron ised to meet
and relieve him of it at a point some dis
tance up thev-strett.
The tale related to the officers was
entirely too miraculous for credence
and they decided to take the whiskey
to the City Hall and allow the owner
to call for it t here. This was done and
the package is now reposing under the
watchful eye of the guardians of the
law, a waiting the time When the owner -
sees ht to make his appearance and
claim his own.
W. C. WHITE GOES
TO NICHOLS, S. Ci
VALUED CITIZEN OF VANCEBORO
TO MAKE HIS HOME JN AN
OTHER STATE
Several weeks .ago the 1v"iols Lum
ber and Maautactuting Company ot
Nichob, S. C.,-ttus incorporated by
S. 1 . rsllfaQmeaw! M. Lrr,
of ev fork City and W. C White of
Vanccboro. The company, at once
sccurc-i plant ar.d began operations.
Yeixrday Mr. White, ho is secre
tary, treasurer and manager of the com
pany, arrived in the city sith his
household furnishings and a stock-sV
goods which he carried in as) esMst
ment operated by him at Va ncebassitw
route to Nichols, S. C, where he ssfl. iir
the future make his home. H acksMta
to supervising the operation If the plant
which does a general lumbal mnirfar
turing business, Mr. While will con
duct a mercantile establishment. He
and his family wiM leave today for then
new home.
Mr. White has been a valued citizen
of Vanccboro for a number of years,
taking an active part .in every move
ment for the welfare of, the town and
his departture is regretted. The best
wishes of the community follow him
to his new home.
RETURNS TO NORFOLK.
John Bambslis, owner and proprietor
of athe Busy Be: Cafe in this ity and the
B mbalis Hotel at Norfolk, returned
to Norfolk yesterday after a. short
visit here with his brothers, who are
managing the local establishment. Mr.
Ba mbalis ststes that he will return to
New Bern at an early date and again
make this city his home.
A Liiht Stfttl Turni
Prices Right.
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