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I Legislation Committee Investigate Expense Of His Contest For Election. MURPHY BEHIND MOVEMENT Governor Accuses Tammany Boss Of Trying To Bring About Former's Impeachment. Albany, N. Y., July 31. Governor Suiter's campaign fund was the subject of investigation by the Frawley legis lative committee yesterday. After having placed in evidence a statement of the Governor's campaign expenses as filed with the Secretary of State, Eugene Lamb Richards, the com mittee's counsel, called Louis A. Sa reeky, who handled the Governor's campaign fund last fall, Sarecky proved an unwilling witness, refusing to answer questions concerning the Governor's campaign contnbu tions unless represented by counsel. At the close of Sarecky's testimony Chairman Frawley directed Mr. Rich ards to seek a court order to place the witness under arrest for contempt of i he Legislature in refusing to answer q estions. The Governor's sworn statement of l.'s campaign expenditure showed re ceipts - of $5,460 and disbursements cf $7,724. A check for $2,500 drawn to the Older of Louis A. Sarecky by Kuhn, Lceb & Co., was also put in evidence. Across the face of the cheque was written "Mr. Schiffs contribution to wards William Sulzer's campaign ex penses." Counsel for the coramit .tce stated that this is in Jacob H. Schiff's handwriting and that this en. mint does not appear on the Govern or') campaign fund statement. Sarecky said he is employed by the Su.te Hospital Commission at a salary of $4,000 a year. He said he had been employed as Mr. Sulzer's confidential ic- retary since December, 1902. Later another check for $500, which did not appear in Governor Sulzer's ' st; tement of campaign receipts and ex penditures, was introduced in evidence be'orc the committee. It wii signed byAbraml.Elkusandwasaccompanied by a letter, in which Mr. Elkus congrat ulated the Governor on his nomination and stated that while "congraulations are very pleasant and nice," he was aware that "a campaign to be successful ly conducted requires something more than words and so I am enclosing my check for $500." The committee also produced a letter signed "William Sulzer," in which the t writer thanked Mr. Elkus "for what you have done for me." While the legislative committee was probing into the campaign contribu tions Governor Sulzer issued a state ment charging Charles F. Murphy, Tammany leader, with a conspiracy to bring about the Executive's im peachment. The Governor says that there was mere money contributed to his cam paign through Mr. Murphy than for any other candidate in 20 years, and he asks Murphy "to explain the difference bet ween what be accounted for, through the State committee and what he re cei ved through the bagmen." Discussing his own campaign ex penses, Governor Sulzer says that during the campaign he was "very busy making speeches and hence knew little about campaign contribu tions or what was being done by friends in New York City. "After election," the statement con tinues, "I was informed that men in my office returned some contribu tions, and others were used for legit imate purposes. My statement was made up by these men. I was told it was as accurate as it could be made. I signed it. I knew little about the facts except as I was informed. I was too busy during the campaign to attend to these details. Others did it for me and I relied on them. "My friends know I was compara tively poor before I was nominated and I was poorer after I was elected." ABDOMEN SKIN SAVES, HAND. X-ray Expert Had Lost Pinters Through Infection. Baltimore, August 1. Wearing the skin of his abdomen on his right hand, Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer of this city one of the best known X-ray experts of the country, it recovering from a re maikable operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital. To save his hand the four fingers of which were amputated a year ago, fol lowing an infection caused by X-rays, a l-lece of ski the shape of the maimed fond was turned back -from the abdo- r en, the injured hand bound tightly to tl e wound and the skin laid over it It is be ed that Dr. Baetjer's hand ill he nd and whole s ve f or the I asij ; fingers. ft Malaria Of Chills & Fever tl ispttoa No.taa Is prepared especially lew MALARIA CHILLS A FEVER five or sts dees win break any ease, and if taken than as a took the Fever will not retara. Il acts oa the liver better then Cslowel aad does not gripe or sicken. 2Se 'CITIZEN" SAYS IT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS IN THE CITY LIMITS. A few days ago I noticed in the col umns of the Journal a very timely article calling attention to the danger ous crossing at the corner, of Queen, Graves and Griffith streets. This article was the occasion of considerable comment, everybody appreciating the danger under existing conditions, but little comment was made by way of Printer's ink. Since the appearance of the above article, one driver had to jump for his life, a Coast Line car or engine striking his vehicle. JuBt recently, Dr. Carter, pastor of the Middle street Baptist church, related to the writeu his all but miracu lous escape at this same crossing the shifting engine barely missing the car in which he was driving. aUnfortunatel( danger ever'', sel ddm prompts ien to action, tragedy alone moving item. Many men ike attracted by such things as imperil life. They prefer seemingly to gamble thus, but it does seem to me that so great a danger as exists at the corner of Queen and Griffith by reason of the shifting of the freight trains should prompt some action leading to the discontinuance of the shifting. Present conditions serve only to remind us of the cheapness of human life. The element of danger is of course paramount, but there are other reasons why this shifting should be discon tinued, to wit, the economic loss to the various interests of the town, and the inconvenience suffered by the travel ling public. Queen street is used by the Coast line as a shitting yard, and it is not unusual for passers-by to have to wait for the engine and cars to move before they can pass. This waiting is not on the outskirts of the town as it once was, but on the main thoroughfare, and you must await their pleasure, and yet not one of us would permit an individual day after day. S)tnc thin thus hold us up ire altogether unreason- 6b:e, an 1 1 t.i'.e it that the privilege which the Coast Line has thus enjoyed at the public expense is such, and I trust that "the powers that be" may shortly sec fit to enact an ordinance leading to its discontinuance. CITIZEN. SEVERE PUNISHMENT Of Mr. Chappell, of Five Years' Standing. Relieved try Cardui. ML Atrv. N. C.-Mrs Sarah M. Chan- pell of this town, says: "I suffered lor live yean with womanly troubles, also stomach troubles, . and my punishment was more man any one coura ten. I tried most every kind of medicine. but none did me arty good. I read one day about Cardui, the wo w's tonic, and 1 decided to trv It I had not taken but about six bottles until I was almost cured. It did me more good than all the other medicines I bad tried, put together. Mv friends beean flskinc ma whv I looked so well, and 1 told them about Ctrdui. Several are now taking it." Do YOU. lady reader, suffer from ftnv Cf the ailments due to womanly trouble, audi as headache, backache, sideache. iiessness. ana mat everlastingly tired If so. let us urge you to give Cardui a trial. We feel confident it will help you, just as It has a miUion other women la the past halt century. Beein takire Cardui to-dee. Yon won't regret it. All druggists. Writt It! Qhattanoaea Marildna Cm I ufW Advisory Dent, Chatianoota Taan.. lor Spcisl WrucHnu onfour casa and (U psga book, "Homo TnaUMOt lor Woman," in plain mappar. H.C. 114 LAW PROHIBITS FREE LUNCHES. New Haven Conn., Aug. 1. The law abolishing the free lunch in saloons pass ed by the Conecrcut legislature be came effective yesterday. The State Liquor Dealers Association which has decided to test th!e constitutionality of the law In the meantime has ask its members to abide) by it. Another law whifh went into effect makes five days' advance notice neces sary to the issuing of, a marriage license, is provided, however, that any magistrate or minister called to ner form a ceremony may, if he deems it public policy or the physical condi tion of either parly (warrants an imme diate marriage. BLOOMERS DECLARED IMMO DES La Croese, Wis., Juily 31. Bloomers, which. twenty-five gtnls in the Young Women's Christian Association camp at Riverview, lust nortm of here, have worn as their preferred ramp attire have been ordered suppressed by the matron, Miss Bertha (Hocfke. Because of the constantly passing stream of mo tor boats aad steamiers this dress is declared immodest, aind the girls are ordered to wear skirds. The young womeJn who find the bloomers more convenient than hobble skirts for hill (limbing and rambling through the woods, aril in revolt against rh nrdrr hut h:ivp llfn I, ,1,1 hv will I - ' ' r ...... a.-f ... have to wear skirtB orUcavc the camp, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN MEMBERS PRESENT ON HAP v PY OCCASION. (Special to the Journal.) Thurman, N. C, August 1. A reunion of the well known Hardison family was held at the old homestead at Thurman on Thursday, July 31. There were present one hundred and eighteen including the children, grand children and great grand children of the late Gabriel and Penelope Hardi son. Forty-four were absent, as some of them are living in Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee and they did not attend. It was an enjoyable day to all that were present. Many were strang ers to each other, as they live in differ ent sections of the State and had never met before. The yard with its great elms,, where the first parents with their children once liveed, is a beautiful spot. Great preparations were made for this occasion and the place presented a cool and pleasing appearance with the benches that had been placed in the hady nooks here and there over the spacious yard of more than two acres. It is doubtful jf any park in this whole section made a more pleasant appear ance than did this hill of the "Old Homestead." The dinner was all that any one could wish for. Watermelons and cantaloupes were enjoyed, expccially by the child ren. All enjoyed themselves and departed with glad hearts, and a feeling of love for each other that will abide through the years. WANT WALKER BEAUFORT COUNTY MEN HERE SECURING SIGNATURES TO PETITIONS. S. T. Wall and W. I.. Gaski.i Edward, beaulort county, were in the 'city Friday. They are both earnest advocates of the improvement of the Walker road so that the people of Edward and' that section generally can get to New Bern by travelling a distance of only fourteen miles instead of twenty-five miles. They came to New Bern over the new and shorter route but said thf.t the recent heavy rains made the road in rather bad condition. Mr. Wall se cured a number of signatures to his petition asking, the Craven county commissioners to improve the section of the road leading via Spring Hope church to the Wal ker road at the Beau fort county line. The portion of the route that lies in Beaufort county has already been put in good condition. Mr. Wall said that the people were exceedingly anxious to have a short and passable route to New Bern as they liked to trade here and to bring their produce here. They thought it a little singular that so little concern is felt here over the securing of a road into a section of country that would prove a valuable feeder for this city. CROXTON DEPARTS, LEARD AR RIVES. Thursday's Norfolk-Ledger Dispatch says: "H. S. Lelird the new general pas senger agent of the Norfolk Southern, will arrive in the city tomorrow morn ing and will enter at once on his new duties. Mr. Leard has not yet decided where he w&l live, and will not move his family to Norfolk until October. "Mr. Crouton, the outgoing officer, left this morning for Atlanta by way of Raleigh, and W&l probably get to the Carolina Capital in time to have a short conference with Mr. Leard before he leaves for Norfolk. "The appointment of Mr. Leard as general passenger agent goes into effect tomorrow." STUCK NAIS IN HIS FOOT. County Commissioner J. D. Wil liams Painfully Injured. I. D. Williams, a member of Craven county's Board of Commissioners, was painfully injured a few days ago when he stepped oa a, nail and it penetrated his foot. "iB Mr. Williams had just driven up to his horn in his automobile, and was in the act of alighting from his ma chine, when "She accident occurred He later cavasttfo New Bern and had the wound d res ted by Dr. Raymond Pollock. Unless some unexpected com plications occur Mr. Williams' physi cian does Sot think there will be any serious results from the wound. NEW MILLINERY STORE. WilHa er Company announce the ops a millinery store at the corn Pollock and Craven Miss Nita Williams. streets Sept.. : formerly with Mrs. B. A. Irvtn Co., will manage the store. Miss Williams Is sn exnaekaacd milliner and wilt no doubt mUage with success the new i UWHia fl n liner y ilishmcnt. ROAD IMPROVED in s- Brew ni I tr of WILL PROSECUTE JEWELRY TRUST BUT MATTER MAY BE SETTLED BY WINDING UP CON SPIRACY Washington, August 1. One hun dred and sixty manufacturing and jobbing jewellers in the United States face criminal prosecution by the De partment of Justice for violating the first section of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. They are charged by the depart ment with having entered into a con spiracy to force the sale of all jewelry to retail merchants through . jobbers. So wrought up are the manufacturing and jobbing jewelers over the attitudt of the department that they sent Fred G. Thealie of the C. H. Knight-Therale Company of Chicago, President of their association; Thomas A. Fernley, Sec, retary, and Felix Levy, of New York counsel, to see the Attorney-General' and they were closeted with Assistant Attorney-General Fowler and Assist and United States District Attorney Claude A. Thompson of New York for more than two hours. The Department of Justice had in dicated that criminal prosecution was planned. A Federal Grand Jury in New York examined several witnesses and the United States Attorney's office there prepared a case. In the mean time the Department of Justice pre pared a suit in equity. The Department of Justice was told that the syndicate jewellers were responsible for the manufacturers' and jobbers' forming the alleged conspiracy The manufacturers charged that the syndicate men worked under the fol lowing system The principal retail jeweller in each city was induced to pay the syndicate operator $10 a year. For this the oper ator would sell him jewelry at whole sale prices. The jobbers charged that this ruined their trade. They entered into an agree ment with the manufacturers, it is as serted, whereby the latter were to re fuse and did refuse to sell to the syndi cate dealers, thus forcing the retail merchants to buy from the jobbers. Theatres and his associates are said to have admitted this to Mr. Fowler, but to have agreed to stop the practice if the Department of Justice would not 'prosecute them criminally or civilly. 'I vr '.i -no a:r.-:.,i;ie..t v, is r ::.ciicj. VERY COSTLY TO VAlUE RAILROAD Experts Say Uncle Sam's I. ill Ftr Doing This Would Be Fifteen Millions. TAKE FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS Immediate Appropriation Of Million And A Half Asked By Commerce Commls ion. Washington, August 1. Physical val uation of the railroads of the United tates by the Inter-state Commerce Commission will take from five to seven years by a specially organized coprs of men and will cost the Govern ment from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 or more, according to plans of the commission presented to the House Appropriations Committee. The Com mission has asked for an immediate appropriation of $1,500,000 for the organization of the corps of engineers necessary to undertake the work. Commissioners Clements and Prouty and Secretary George B. McGinty, of the commission, have told the House appropriations committees that a carefully worked out eitimate places the cost of the field work at $1,901,500 a year throughout that period. The plan presented by Mr. McGinty contemplates the division of the country into five districts, containing approxi mately 50,000 miles of railroad each. Mr. McGinty explained to the com mittee that the estimated cost a year of each of these district organizations, with their groups of field : quads, would be about $384,300, or a total a year for the five districts of nearly $2,000,000 n addition to this he estimated that the accounting feature of the work would cost about $350,000 a year, and that the maintenance of a valua tion office in Washington would cost probably $150,000 a year. Although the committee was skep tical, Mr. McGinty was confident that the commission would be able to get the field force organized through the Civil Service Commission by the first of next year to take care of the first year's work. It was for this pur pose, he said, that the commission needed $1,500,000. Mr. McGinty mentioned cases where it cost from $3 to $75 a mile to ascertain the value of railroads. "In all of these cases only the repro duction value of the road was ascer tained," he continued, "whereas we are required to ascertain the repro duction value, the depreciated value and, in addition, to work out the his tory of the roads and ascertain the amount of money invested in their original construction. The total cost to the Government will probably exceed $50 a mile, or a total cost of from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, but of course, this Is only a guess. FIRST REGIMENT BREAKS CAMP The First Regiment of the North Carolina State Guards who have been encamped at Camp Glenn during the past two weeks, broke camp Tuesday and returned home. The Third Infantry will encamp from August 512, and this will be the last maneuver on the State grounds this year, the Second Infan try having had its encampment ear lier in the month. The coast artil lery corps will proceed to Fort Cas well, below Wilmington, August 5, and remain there eleven days. On August 29 a rifle team, to be select ed from the best shots in all three regiments, will go to Camp Peary, Ohio, to participate in the interna tional shoot to be held there for a week. ChiSdreei Cry l'he Kind You Have Always At in use lor over SO yc i, ' AH Counterfeits, Imitat KYnp.riments that trii'i v.i ! infants and Children Expcrieuce agajiist Experiment, What is CASTORIA Cnstoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Par goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guueantee. It destroys "Worms and allays Feverish.icss. For 'mort than thirty years it lias been i i constant u"f) for tho relief of Constipation, J'Tiitidcncy, Wind Colic, all Tee thin;; Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach art! Dowels, ussimllates the Food, giving healthy and natural Sleep, l'he Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend, tssan ?! GENUINE Bears th2 J ttv WpA Vfttff hi-rrjTo Umfffhi In Use op Over 30 Years THE CCMTaun CO 'AftV. TT lb' i a- DELIGHTED THAT JOURNAL PUBLISHED POEM ON PICK- g ETT'S CHARGE Frank J. Weathersbee, one of the Confederate veterans who went from this section to attend the Reunion of the Blue and the Gray at Gettysburg and who on his return received and had published in the New Bern papers poem written on Pickett's charge by Dr. Frank M. Deems of New York City, has received another latter from Dr. Deems in which the New York man expresses appreciation of the fact that the New Bern papers had pub lished the poem. Dr. Deems writes: '289 Madison Avenue, "Flushing, L. I., New York City. "July 31, 1913. Mr. F. J. Weathersbee, New Bern, N. C. 'My dear Comrade, I am ashamed to confess that a whole week has elapsed since I received your very kind letter. You do not know nor can I tell you, how deeply I appre ciate you thoughtful act of getting the NEW YORK The most useful, economical, and the largest labor saver you can put in your field, is our tobacco, corn and cotton truck. Order now and be in time, large force working daily turning them out. Get our folder explaining. THE TAYLOR TRUCK COMPANY, Factory 129 East Front CHANGES John A. Jones has sold his fine Mer cer farm, well known as one of the finest and most modernly managed ' farms in this sect ion, of the state sold to Robert Taylor of Jones county, the consideration being $20,000. X. M. Brock has been the manager of this farm for a number of years and a large part of it is in a high state of cultivation A colored boy named Slocumb was injured at the local plant of the John L. Roper Lumber Company Friday night when his hand struck a rapidly revolving saw. He was taken to the office of a physician and medical attentionwas given the injured member. for Fletcher's :..;, antl which 1ms been i3 Tkii-jio the signature of b :o,: made under his pcr : i ' . since its infancy. i o yu in this. : " j '-fjoctl" tiro but r the health ot Signature of MURRAY STRf IT. WCW YORK CITY. New Hern Journal to reproduce my jlines on Pickett's charge, or, to be more icotrcet, Lo lg ln'e:'s r'la.'g . L fn as know, 1 he V'v. 11.'. n j irn u is the only Southern paper that h.is published it. Yet you say 'it is a gem.' Gov. Craig, of N. C, says it is a thril ling description of the charge.' Major Guthrie, of Durham, said he 'enjoyed it very much,' and was glad to know I wrote it. General Garr thanks me 'for your beautiful poem on Pickett's charge.' George Jones, of Rocky Point, will keep it among his Gettysburg mementoes, and so on. And yet I sent this to a N. C. paper and my nctter was not even answered. 1 sent it to a Virginia paper with the same result. "If they would only print it and let their readers judge for themselves, they would do better. "One of General Armistead's men wrote a poem on the same subject, really a fine production better than mine lie had to get a Yankee paper to publish it. Now, I want you to do me the favor of expressing my warm thanks to the publishers of the New Hern Journal for their courteous action. "I am enclosing you some figures about Gettysburg's casualties with special reference to N. C. 1 have no interest in 'odious comparisons.' I revere every man who founght on that field. History has been kind to Pickett, but net s iTa-icnt credit has been given to the .North Carolinians who went into this ch .rge with him. Street, VALUABLE FARM HANDS. "Ah, how the withering tempest blew Against the front of Pettigrew! A Khamsin wind that scorched and singed Like that infernal flame that (Ar, The British Squares at Waterloo." And take the pathetic report of the twenty-sixth: " 'On July 1st we went in with over 800 men in the regiment. There came out Dut unhurt. Yesterdav thev were engaged again and now have only oout 8U men for dutv. Eleven men were shot down the first dav with our colors. Yesterdav thev Wfrp tat 'aptain Albright is the only captain eft in the regiment unhurt, and com mands the regiment.' The average man has not time to read up history, so you would think when a man tried to blazon forth the feeds of such heroes he would iret a hearing. 'Please feel free to write me any time, ir about anythine that interests vou. Remember me to the conrades whom I met at Gettysburg when you meet nem. "With best wishes, yours sincerely, "Frank M. Deems. Mr. Weathersbee asks the Journal to state that the Sun also published the poem of Dr. Deems and that a copy of that would have been sent to Dr. Deems, but for the fact that there was an error in the matter accompany- inn the item, which he discovered and cautioned the Journal to guard against when it reproduced Dr. Deems' production. The figures submitted to Mr. Wea thersbee concerning the casualties at Gettysburg show that the North Carov inians acquitted themselves with ex traordinary bravery at Gettysburg, nearly twice as many of them being killed as there were of Virginians. BRYAN REFUSES $3,000 OFFER. Could Have Received That Sum For Lecture In St. Louis. Washington, Aug. 1. Had Secretary Bryan been the mercenary, self-seeking politician which his enemies have ac credited him with being, he could have cleared at least $3,000 for one lecture. That Mr. Bryan has lost none of his great power as a drawing card was clear- indiclacd in a telegram he received rom Spearman Lewis stating that the ohsctim at St. Louis has a seating apacity for a $6,000 crowd and that he association would be willing to split with the Secretary and would guarantee $3,000. In response to this clcgram Mr. Bryan forwarded the wi-! ii"'s age: "I 4.'i on!) lecturing during a limited period, and then only at chautauquas, and cannot therefore consider the pro position which you arc kind enough to submit." There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases imt together, and until the last few eir- . as supposed to be incurable, i' ,r a gre;il ui.iny ears doctors pro nounced it a local disease and pre scribed local remedies, and by con stantly ailing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a consti tutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment, Mali's Catarrh Cure, manulactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only Con stitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucuous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dol lars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY& CO., Toledo, O., Sold by Druggists ,75c. Take II all's Family Pills for con tipation. Adv.) ALLEGED THIEF APPREHENDED IN THIS CITY. Hamilton White, a young white man who claims Cove City as his home, and who is w anted by the Kinston Police on a c harge of larceny, wa9 arrested in this city this morning shortly before 1 o'clock, and was lodged in the county jail where he will be held until an !li Ion Kiust m arrives to tak : Y n i.i ,:lu gj. New Bern, N. 3 4