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V.'ccUy Journal ruMuhed every Tuesday aai Friday at 45 Pollock Street By LJ.kiPrMB3 Co. .. . '. . . . , . . U.tne eiiy 01 -M"w rwa wnu Municipal market house where all f the. bmU, fish and oysters can be old .under municipal supervision. thus assuring saaiiation and purity. eaa get such witnout going to ao expense. Two of the leading riti sens, men who are in a position to carry out any plant thay mke, have offered to erect furh a building and turn it over to the city to be oper ated. This ii a matter that is up to the cituiens and the Journal would be glad to hear some expressions from tbeni on the subject. Commenting upon New Bern's astion in purchasing another motor driven combination tire engine, the esteemed Kinston News has the fol-j lowing remarks to make: j "New Bern's city council has just I voted to p urchase a second auto fire truck at a cost of .0M. The Kim City somu time ago added to its equip- i lent a similar auto tire truck and the fact of its doing so was of sufficient importance to attract a representa tive from the Underwriters Associa tion to look into the matter of low ering the insurance rate. Nothing is too good for Kinston, and this item is passed on to the city fathers for consideration." The local officials of the Norfolk Southern Railway Company have of late been caused a great deal of trou ble by loafers hanging around the waiting rooms and annoying the pat rons of the company and they have asked for police protection. New Bern is not the only place in the State that is having trouble along this line as is evidenced by following clipping from the Mount, Olive Tribune: "The town is full of loafers who seem to have nothing else to do but hang around our streets, aud at the depot especially. They are always ea hand at the depot at. train time aad make a perfect nuisance, being in I he way of the traveling public and others who have business at the place. We believe our ordinances forbids such doings as the above and thejaws should be enforcedThc nuisance would be speedily ended if the police would spot. and arrest some of these always-n-handers at the depot and on the streets. After twelve years of penal servi utde, Jim Wilcox, sent up from Pas quotank county for the murder ot Nellie Cropsey, his sweetheart, de elares that he did not kill her and does not know who did commit the deed. Jim told that story to twelve vmen years ago and they did not believe it and said that he was guilty of this brutal murder. Twelve years later he sticks to his story and there is room for doubt as to whether he did commit the act. Wilcox is said to be dying and an attempt will be made to havo him pardoned. Maybe this will be done and maybe the governor will refuse the plea for clemency. It is indeed a hard problem to de cide. : If the man is innocent, he has been done a great wrong. If he is guilty he should be made to serve the full term. It is a recognized fact that New Bern's Chamber of Commerce is a "live wire" organisation but we all like a little flattery now and then and the following praise from the Wilming ton Dispatch is heartily appreciat ed: "New Bern has a live Chamber of Commerce (however, New Bern is a generally live town anyway) and its annual banquets are events of impor tance. The commercial body never (ails to present some of the country's notable men as speaker upon these occasions, and so included in the list f speakers for the yearly event, which takes place next week, is Hon. David Houston, Secretary ot Agricul ture. The Dispatch returns thanks for an invitation to be among the lucky attendants." The first aspirant for one of the . offices of the city of New Bern which . will be awarded by the people at ; the next election, has "thrown his - hat into the ring." Step right up gentlemen and ' follow In his foot- : a ' mt. I i' a. i 1 : steps. t x uv people warn to xnow wh the candidates for the various plaees are to be and there' ao matter time to let them know that t the ' present. ;r;;L".JV' v ' Last year we took to boasting about the faithlessness of old man O. Hog, easting reflections on the varmit and seoffing' at the Idea that he had ao more eontrol over the weather man than a stripped oat on a back fenoe ' at 1 g. m. and lo and behold. Col. Joe Reeee of the Greensboro Record took the critter's part and succeeded ia bringing most vividly to mind that all "of our '. "Imprecations on the ani- mal wtre a nil. This seer tni we intend to sit - tight until after the allotted period of suspense I psnsed and then say what we v" :'l we want to tnj. . DYING, WILCOX TELLS nEPORTER HE K INNOCENT Famous Prisoner Again De clares He Did Not Kill Nell Cropsey A PITIFULFIGURE j Twelve Years Confinement! Have Sapped His Life And Energy , Bv W. O. Sa under.. j EluaWth City. K.b. 4 K.r thej first time since he was tried and con victed for the murder of Nellie Crop sey more than twelve yean. k. James K. Wilcox has talked to ati Elizabeth City newspaper man. lb talked to me Friday in tin oftio ,.f th. State prison at Kaleigli. For twelw linir year. tln man had held his t,n.-: II. held In- tongue from the lu In was arrfsted I on suspicion. Acting upon the ad vice of his lawyers, he held it all through the subseqiien' trials. And when he was carried away to the pen- j itentiary. convicted on circiimstan- tial evidence and sentenced lo ll iilv veurs imprisonment at hard lalmr. In , still held his tongue, except for a ; muttered curse or two for tho.r who had hounded him for n is life. j Who hilled Girl ' There has existed in many minds a j suspicion that Jim Yilcn knows; something that he lia not told. ' Manv who believe him innocent of j the crime for which he was convict- ed, still believe that lie knows M,nie tbings about the manner in which Nell Cropsey met her death. I asked j Wilcox if be had any idea or any theory about how the girl met her . death. 'None in tile world!'' he said. The ring of truth was in his tones j There was no faltering of the lips j that spoke, no shifting of the eyes.; "None ill the world!" Ill four words he answered a qu stion that lias been on the public lips for more than 12 vears. For twelve years, in close confinement, with not much to do but just think, think, think, forever. think. Jim Wilcox has thought out no theories to explain a murder of which he declares he is innocent. Il struck me that a guilty man would m twelve years have fabricated a dozen explanations to vindicate himsell. Lying on bis back night after nigh for 4.:iS:5 night, shut in by the damp and gloomy walls of a cell nine feet long by live feet wide by seven feel high, one would think that a murder er protesting his innocence and hop ing for pardon would have concocted all sorts of theories to square himself. "'None in the world!'' say Jim Wilcox. May Make Statement I suggested that perhaps he might want to make a statement, but want ed more time to think about il; that 1 would not press him lo lalk then; he could write it out and mail it to nie. "T may do that." said Wilcox; 'I'llj think about it: you will hear from nie perhaps in one or two weeks." Week are days and days arc weeks in a penitentiary. But if he writes that statement. i will not be in the nature of an explanation of how Nellie Cropsey might have come to her death; it will be a simple pro- testation of his innocence, perhaps a review of the weakness of some of the links in the chain of circumstan tial evidence upon which he was con victed; perhaps an appeal to a sym pathetic public to give him a chance in life before it is too late. I have no idea that it will be anything more. A Pitiful Figure Wilcox today is a pitiful figure. The Great White Plague has laid its finger upon him and his days in prison are numbered. His condi tion is such that the prison physician has ordered that he do no more work. A few weeks ago he was removed from his cc.d and narrow cell to a ward in the prison hospital. In the prison hospital ho will spend his re maining days, unless he should be pardoned. "I have been here a little more than 12 years now," said Wilcox; "1 was 24 years old when they brought me here, that makes me 3ti. But the 12 years I have been here don't count, I feel like I still ought to be just 24. I won't be here much longer. This tuberculosis has got me; I'm of no use to the Mute; I can't work. I am just a useless piece of scrap here. Want to Be Free "I don't want to die here. I be lieve there is a chance for me some where. I believe if I could only get otit of here 1 could go west and get welL Others have done it. They don't need me here anyway. . They discharged a man here the other day, pardoned him because he got one of his legs .cut off.'. , To understand . Wilcox fatter,- it should be known that he was until recently one of the ' most valuable men in the State prison. He was the handy man of the place, He could run the prison . electri plant and keep it in order, or ant as nurse in the hospital equally "well. He came to regard himself as a necessary part of the prison machinery. Thrown out of this employment, relegated to a hospital ward, it is natural that he should lay stress upon the point that the State doesn't need him any more. Does the Stale lvi him behind FINED S50 FOR VIOLATING LAW Isaac Simmons Charged With Connecting Elect ric Wires The largest fine put on any defend ant by Mayor Bangert in several months, was placed on Isaac Rim mors, colored, at yesterday's session of Police Court, when be was fined fifty dollars and taxed with the cost for using electric current without first obtaiuing permission from the city clerk and the superintendent of the Water and Light department. The defendant conducts a pool room in Frog Pond, and it is alleged that he connected the wiring of the building which he occupies, with the city wires, but just liefore time for the meter to be read he would die conneel the wires, and take out the fuse plugs and globes, and as soon as the man had been around to read the metii- he would connect them up again and use the current until time for the meter to be" read again. The man who reads the meters had he-j come suspicious and yesterday he w ent to Simmon's place and found the lights wi re connect :d and he was us ing the city's current without pay ing for it. In making the s-nti m e Mayor Range t slated that h, w;is di s. ring to be bound ovfr lo Superior Court, but instead of doing this he would go the limit and tine him fifty dollars, and in case that he wanted to take an appeal he would li the bond at one hundred dollars. BANKS OF DIXIE IN FINE SHAPE So Says Noted Banker While In Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta. Feb. I The banks of the Southern Slates are in healthy financ ial condition and there is no cause for worry over n shortage of money, ac cording to I,. V. (lamntun, manager of the protective department of the American Hankers' Association who was in Atlanta today en route to New York. Mr. Camion had just completed a lour of Southern cities and had talked with leading bankers who gae a mosl optimistic report of the money conditions in their re spective localities. "The financial condition of the South." said Mr. Cannon, "appears to be most satisfactory, and if any thing better than the situation in the East and Middle West. The war in Europe created a very dangerous ef fect on the' banking interests in the East during the first few months of the struggle, but now the w hole coun try is apparently forgetting about the war and bankers have no complaint to make of business. Mr. (iammon was the originator of the protective branch of the American Bankers' Association after he resigned from the secret service department of the Federal Co, eminent. The pro tective department is directly affili ated with the American Bankers' As sociation, which has a membership of lo.OO national, Stale and private banking institutions. While in Atlanta, Mr. (iammon was the guest of (leorge H. Broadnax, spe cial rercsenlative of the American Bankers' Association in this city. SHIP PURCHASE BILLTO FRONT Champions and Opponents Making A Hard Fight Washington, Keb. 4. Champions and opponents of the administration ship purchase bd rounded up forces today for continuation of their strug gle, each seeking to strengthen their ranks with additional votes. Democratic leaders planned a sur premo effort to save the bill by re committing it despite instruc tions for amendment, while the Re publicans were to seek to recommit without instructions, thus pigeon-holing it for the present session. Ma jority leaders were unable yesterday to muster sufficient votes to oarry out their progress, and they hoped (or the appearance today of Senator Lewis and Senator Smith of South Carolina, They were also counting on the support of Senators Norris and LaFollette. Republican leaders hoped for the return today of Senator Penrose to add one more vote to their side They were confident that with that they could recommit the bill without instructions, and insisted that in any event the measure could not reach a vote at this session. On the other hand the Democratic leaders declare the bill was not dead by any means, . bars any moref .Would Pasquotank cry for his . blood today- a' it did thirteen years ago? Are the people willing to let Jim Wilcox "go west" and have, a chancel" These are questions every man, woman and child in this county and section may answer for themselves. Another ef fort is going to be made to get Jim Wilcox a pardon. OFFERS 10 BUILD ; A MARKET HOUSE IF 1TJSWANTED Would Be Modern In Every : Particular and Also . . Convenient , ITS UP TOTHE CITY J. V. Blades Ready to Erect the Structure At - Any Time There has lone been talk in this city of securing a eity market, a central exchange where all meats, fish and oysters could be sold under munioi papal supervision, but the city has not eared to go to the fxptnse of erect ing such a building. However, they will not have to do this if they care to go to the trouble of Wking charge of such' a building and employing an in -poet or to look after il. J. Vernor Blades, one of the lead ing citizens and who Is taking a par ticular interest 'in New Bern's food supply, stated yesterday to a Journal reporter that if the city really wanted such a market, that he and his father, J. B Blades, would erect a concrete and marble building on lower Middle street on the vacant lot between the Model Steam Laundry and the build ing known as tin Blades' concrete building and let the city have full charge of it, renting out the stalls. attending to the inspection of the meats, etc. Perfectly Sanitary In constructing such a building it is Mr. Blades idea to have it erected in such a manner that everything would be perfectly sanitary. The re frigerators would be of the iceless type, coils of pipe being run through these from their modern ice plant which is located just in the rear of the proposed site, and it would not he necessary to use any ice in the building unless the occupants of the various stalls especially desired to do so. A large cold storage room would also be located in th" building and this could be used by any ont who desired fo do so upon the payment of a small sum. Cold Storaiie riant. The Messrs Blades now operate a cold storage pjant in connection with their ice plant and as this is being wel) patronised there is every reason to believe that one for publio use would receive an equally gratifying patron age. The stalls cotiiu be rented out at a nominal price and every meat, fish and oyster dealer in the olty could have space there. This is a matter in which the publio is vitally interested and now, that the Messrs Blades have offered to erect the mar ket without expense to the city, the matter will be taken up with the offi cials and they will be asked to take some action upon it.. BELGIANS READY TO COME HERE Two Hundred Families Can Be Secured At This Time " If the land owners of" Craven county desire to have a colony of Flemish farmers oome to this seotion and settle they must act quickly and make their decision. -r SeeretaxyGeorge Green of he Chamber c Commerce is in receipt of a message from the Southern Settlement and Develop ment Organization of Baltimore, Md., stating that they have two hundred families of selected Flemish farmers now at Rotterdam Veady to sign con tracts to come to .this seotion and that if they are wanted, the organiz ation must be notified lit once. In agreeing to take these farmers the land owners must enter into a contract to pay " their steamship fares to this country, ..furnish them with land and tools with whioh to work, give them seed, fertilisers, etc., and in fact to finance them for a season for which the farmers agree to reimburse them when they are able. Several colonies "of : these farmers have been brought to this country and settled and are making good. If the land owners of Craven county are to act, they must do so at onoe. Any land owner who is interested in this matter should notify Mr. Green at once. -..,. . - THE PLAINTIFF WINS Life Insurance Company Loses .; ;-' '-:.-,--; Salt. ' - A verdict in favor df the plaintiff wat rendered yesterday by the jury in the ease of J, B, Barrow against the Philadelphia Life Insurance Com pany. The plaintiff was suing for the payment of a three thousand dollar insurance life on the life of W. M. Bagley 'the dffepdant company refused to pay it, claiming that the policy was secured by misrepre senting the condition or the Insured's health. The plaintiff was represent ed by Moore and Dunn, and the de fendant by Ouion and Guion. of this city and Rouse and Land, ot- Kins ton. 'All of the attorneys in this case wtre able men and it was a legal battle from beginning to tbs end. In the ease of the Kfate and Pol look vs Bennie Brown, the plaintiffs wire awarded a Judgment of fifty dollars. all alo:;g the line of battle FIFMFIGIITINu No Cessation of Hostilities, Not Even for A v Moment . . " - . GERMANS ACnVE The Kaiser's Forces Seem to Have Made .Some Prop-ess Vienna. Fehw 4. The Austro Geranana operating in the Carpa thians have captured a thous and Russian prisoners, and sev eral machine gnne. The Rus sians are today en the offensive at aeveral points. The situation In southern Poland and Western Gallcia Is unchanged. Furious Attacks. Petrodrad.Feh. 4. Furious Ger. man attache have been made upon Bsura, southwest of Warsaw. Rus sian aviators rained bombs with very deadly effect upon German concentration camps, situated at Rawa and Brae xl my, west of War saw, and in the regions ol Gou mln and Borshymow, south ot Bsura. Heavy artillery fire con tinues day and nldht. The Rus sians have achieved a victory north of the Vistula. The attempt to drive the Prussians back upon their fortress of Thorn has been resumed. Hundreds of wounded Russian and German soldiers are arriving at Warsaw, most of them from the Bsura rerfion. It is offi cially announced that the Austro German forces are stubbornly resisting the Russian forward movement In Hungary. Germans Active. Paris, Feb. 4. Reinforced, the German armies are. making violent attempts to take the offensive and force back the Alliod lines from the coast of Arras. Heavy cannonading continues in the region of Nieuport. The Germans are dropping shells across the Allied lines into Fumes, near Notre Dame Lorette. French shells wrought havoc with a German regiment convoying ammunition trains in the Woevre region. By the thaw in the Vosges region mountain Streams have been converged into rushing fqrrens of wter. Fjoods threaten to hinder the, operations. Russian, Statement. Petrograd, Feb, 4, The general staff of the Russian army today is sued a report on the progress of the war which reads as follows! "In east Prussia our troops have strengthened their positions near, the village of Gross Medunisohken on the left bank of the Angerapp. "On the left bank of the Vistula our encounters with the enemy have become more frequent. Engage ments of considerable importance have taken place on the front be tween Lipno and Bejune. Our troops took by assault the town of Skempe, to the east of Lipno and repulsed an attack of the enemy on the village of Hliho, inflicting fyeavy losses on them. "In the fighting we captured the commanding officer of the battalion, three other officers aid one hundred soldiers. "One the left bank of the Vistula the fighting on the front between Borjimow, Goumine and Wola Ces- noska continued February 2 with the same energy. The enemy brought into this engagement fourteen reed ments of first tne troop and quant ities of artillery, including their heavy heavy pieces. The artillery fire- was continued day and night. An en- a i , .. . , fagemenF oi particular seventy iook place at the village of Goumine where after sanguinary hand-to-hand fight ing we repulsed the various attacks of the enemy. The Germans, here sustained immense losses, . but their continued to bring fresh troops for ward to the fight. "A , demonstration of tho enemy alone the Nida river did not result successfully. ' The fighting in : the Carpathians is continuing and ' the engagement! are becoming more and more tenacious in character. . It is apparent, he considerable forces of CASK PF GLANDERS State Veterinarian Learns of This Fact. (Prom The News and Observer) Dr. B. B. Flows, State Veterinarian yesterday was notified over the long distance telephone' by Assistant Vet erinarian E. 0. Hargelt that a case of supposed . glanders at Winsdor that Dr. Hargett was tent to inves tigate was a gepuine case. 'hie if) that section of the state, Dr, Hargett will administer the antl-hog cholera serum to a number of hogs In the neigh horhood of Scotland Meek where small epidemic of cholera has broken out. - ' ' ' . ' ' (Dr. Hargett Is a former New Born ian, and at the time that he accepted the position as assistant Slate Vet erinarian he was employed by Hoard of Aldermen as meat and milk in spector of this city.) j E. M. Ltipton lH yesterday morn ing for a huni nee visit ' to Vanc bre I Farmers Atteniioa ! ! J WE ARE STILL SELLING GOODS TO FARMERS AT FARMERS UNION PRICES Farris tesef C L. SPENCER Hay, Grain, Feeds tuffs, Etc. New Bern, N. C. THE ' BEST SHOE ..FOR.. BOYS . IS THE .. WALTON "It Will Wear,' To Our Out-ol-Town Customers You are cordially invited to make our stores head quarters when in the city and when in need f ay thing usually carried by a first class drug store sead us your order we will give it prompt attention arid' mail it to you on the first outgoing Parcel Post. Bradham Drug Go. The Rexall Stores . Cor. Middle & Pollock TO BUILD BRIDGE OUT ON R, F. D. N0.1 Citizens Say Mill Swamp Creek Not Passable In Bad Weather W. A. Harrington and W. II. Dunn who live out on R. F. D. No. 1, hive been in New Bern this week circu lating a subscription list which has as its objeot the-securing of suffi cient funds to defray the expense of building a bridge over Mill Swamp Creek in that seetion of the county. These gentlemen caim that, during rainy weather that it is almost im possible to iret acrpss this creek an4 that this is pausing fhe residents of that seotion a groat deaj of fouble and that, in consequence; they are determined ' to remedy matters if there is any possible : way of doing so. The list has 6n it a large numbsr of subscribers. - Many have agreed to give; money to aid in tho work of constructing the bridge and those who'did not feel able to contribute cash, have agreed to give their' la bor. It is understood that the work of putting up the bridge will begin just as soon as possible. NEW HERN COTTON MARKET, MBy 0. W, Taylor apd ISpps) , , Middling j o Strict Middling e Mo Good Middling l-2o - Receipts yesterday 20 bales.. MANY-PRISONERS : IN COUNTY JAIL ".'-, ' tl ,., " .. v v.. .., V, , ' m". ' 1 ' 1 " ' "V 'I Large Number , of Law . Breakers Arc Awaiting Trial . " There are only a few of the fifty six prisoners now - confined In the county jail - serving sentencss. - At least"teventy five per cent of this number are awaiting "trial,- and it is expected that the entire of uoxt week's session of criminal court will be taken up by the disposition of these eases ... . ..... t- The phaigee against thone who are confined in that ingUtqtion 'range from the sale of one half pint of whis key to murder. It is expected (hat Jesse Creel, the white man who stabr bed- Oaunon Fulford to doth op the eorner of Spring and New South Front street on Christmas Eve night, will be placed on trial for his life during this session. ' There are an unusual number of blind tlgor canes on the dookct and Judging from Judge Carter's record made in Aheville . . m ... (and other places ly tnci manner m which he deals with this class or the Criminal element, Ihy may not ei Ial le gt eT ri!y. 66-68-70 Middle St. RING TOE And let USlfit them with The Celebrated : WALTON SCHOOL SHOES Full Line Dry GomU and Clothing for the whole family. A. B. SUGAR Cor. Broad & Middle . LIMIT IS SET ON FRANK ARGUMENT : '" '"'-''vQ:!?'!,; v Three Hours U ' the Time, to Be Allowed te Both Sides, Atlanta.;Feb, 1 Counsel for th ' State and defense In the Leo M. Frank case will have to get all thetf arguments pro and con be for the United States Supreme Court within a , period of three hours when Frank's appeal for habeas corpus Is heard February 23. ' . ; Under the rules of the jSupreme Court, retfujatlnrf Arifurwent.'ea'ch side will be limited to one fVAu'r, anda half. It lit possible tp1 obt'ai an Increase (n this timet but ftt' torneys fpr both sides said today they thought such a request would be unnecessary. . - f , r w "I think the whole argument easily ' can be made within the . three-hour time limit,.", said At torney . Harry ,i A; Alexander, r of -counsel, for the defense. ' 1 - , , Attorney Louis Marshall ol New York, will make the only speech in behalf of Frank. It has bo ' heed definitely determined wh? If!; . er both Attorney; General price, and Splicltpf Dorsey wllf speak foe - th8tttv--fiiu--:'- U. S. CHAMBER OF -COMMERCE MEET Another Interesting Session 1 f, ' Was Held Yes- " ; ' terday :'".- , Washington, Fob. 4TThe aUjtuda of tho administration toward Ameft " -y lean investors in foreign countries was -" -outlined today before the Chamber of , Commerce of, the United States at today's .season of its annual oonven- t!0Bj.---t- r-.r- , -;- ' Secretary of the Treasury, McAdoo discussed tl development , of the ' American X e-chant marine, report- ' , ing oh the growth of American flag shipping since restrictions of regis tration were removed. Kenator Theo dore Burton, of Ohio, Joncph B. Davis commissioner of corporation, Paid T. . Cherrington and Harry A. Whec.irj the Utter mmber of Jho . organise . tionr'f wore', among the. speakers to . day.. Bocrotary of Commerce lfs field and Hn. Charles H. , Hamlin,. - , governor of the Federal Reserve board will speak at Ihe banquet tonight,; , r r. II. Meadows Is quite 111 at his home, No. HI Rroad .Ireet. lie wsi ilxlcken a few days ago and his eon diiion is such a togivs a'arm to hiJ family asd frisadt.
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