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Hal J,l, LAND MUftTIM ca .40 M H. L . Editor Reporter SUAKBimON SATES $1.00 .50 .2o ItaJwul cma complete pitas tfgrtiiWd by lb Central News f Aaiariea Prats Association and in asttition to this, fully eovers Eastern Maria Carolina by special correspond at the port office in New as aseond-elass nail matter. Y. MAY 7. IMS New Barn did not give George E BMM many votes but as Ions that (an tie man Is now representing the Third Congressional District in Con sjrisj, he might as well repay this ' itjr lor the votes they gave him and the best he ean do t bis will be to get the government to put National venae in decent shape. At present that thoroughfare resembles a rural road in some back woods section and is being cussed and discussed by every om who uses it. Mr. Hood will in deed be doing an act worthy of commendation if he will see that the road referred to is improved. With the biggest saw mill in this section working day and night, with a new saw mill going np and with ether plants working lull time. New Barn ean get off and give the merry bat hat to any alligator-skinned cuss who is gurgling "hard times" every time that he cracks the slit in his face which serves as a dumb waiter for the staff of life which he takes good care to throw into his system very six hours. Reading the announcement in the Journal that New Bern is soon to become a member of the "jitney teed" cities and towns, some fair, at least we suppose she was fair, tady called us up on the telephone and asked for a definition of the word "jitney." While we know that a 'jitney" Is a fifth part of two bits or the half of a two-jit piece and is eomposed of five coppers, we are really unable to say whether Daniel Webster. efver set down anyrreaJi definition for the word or even whether Blackstone ever mentioned if in Ms discourses. This we do know, however, that when the line is in operation and some wall-eyed clam Agger attempts to flush the cash ' register with anything less than a nickel, ha will mighty soon find out the real definition of the conglom eration of alphabetical letters that wnprise the word. postmaster L. G. Daniels is not Searching for any publicity but the mere fact that he is one official who ' wilt ran his office as he sees fit and not take any dictation from anyone, makes his actions public property Mr. Daniels is a rarity, he is uniqm in his methods and is making good ana tnere is every, reason to neiieve ' that the local postoffioe is going to how Up better under his regime than 1 'has eve? before been the case. The New Bern City Baseball Lea gue opened its 1915 season on Wed uesday of last week. So far t wo games have been played and these have been well attended by the local enthu siasts of the national game and we ire glad that such is the case and sin eerely trust that this attendance will grow even larger. The players are endeavoring to give New Bern clean base ball and they deserve the support of the public. What might have happened had .the Craven county Board of Com missioners yesterday taken- up the matter of calling an election giving the voters on the Houth side of Neuse river an opportunity of expressing their views on the stock law ques tion, is a matter of ipeeulation. Strong delegations both for and against the measure were on hand and therr would doubtless have been a verbal battle fought before the Board de tided. However, those who are op . posed to the law might lay aside flair prejudices far the time being BwImOAm ttltchNtttsi .... and let the question be settled by a vote. Then, if it is defeated, all side will be vindicated, whereas if it Is ever put to a vote, those for it will never rest until they have gained their . Ad. Bays the GreentiUe, N. C, Re setor: "A new three-story hospi ' 3HMPaa Just been eoesairteri at New Bern. Klnston, Wilson and Wash . lagtoa and other towns near us have Wspitals. It (fatal that somebody Ought to start a movement for one ham, for this is certainly something tan towns needs." By all means Graen villa should havt a hospital. That town Is a lire-wire place and we are surprised to know that it is tanking In auoh a netaasary institution and we venture tto assertion that tf the Reflector wtt wneuu things np for a while, that sank will ha isttirsd. GOVERNOR CRAIG GRANTS PARDON! iberty to Man Who Killed His Father Uakigk. May Qersw Craig today pardoned Dunoan Carter, of Scotland Neck county, a young fel- tW who is serving two year for slaying his father. The Governor's reasons for i-ie- nsstey are that Carter killed his father when the parent was making an assault upon the younger Carter and the mother of the boy with a heavy poker. Judge W. J. Adams, wo tried the case, and Solicitor A. M. Stack, who prosecuted the de fendant, join in the peition as do many citizens of Laurinburg. Young Carter has been in prison and in jail twenty months. He is only 21 years of age but bore a good character before the homicide. The Corporation Commission Wed nesday goes to Washington to repre sent the state in the protracted quar rel with Virginir ovet the freight rates which the state has gained against the protest of Virginia. The Interstate Commerce Com mission heard the first installment of evidence in Greensboro, the corpora tloneomruission of Virginia making the complaint for that state's ship pers. The North Carolina commiss ion has every good reason for believ ing the Interstate Commerce Com mission is not going to upset the ad justment which lias meant so much to the State. MURDERER HAD KEYS TOiJAIL Bouthport, N. ('., May if. Wooden keys that would fit the jail locks were found in the possession of J. C Walker, in jail, charged with the mur der of Sheriff .lack Stanland, the past week by Sheriff .1. E. Robinson. The sheriff had an intimation that Walker had the keys hence the search. Walker is somewhat a me chanical genius, and if given a half opportunity would fit up a contri vance that would (urn him out of the Jail. A guard watches him every night, and drops around frequently during the day. Since being in jail Walker has made a number of hand some wool shawls for sale. He will be tried at Burgaw the last week in May. and it is thought now that a number of Southport and Brunswick people will attend as spec tators. There are a number of wit nesses, and so a goodly number of Brunswick people will visit Pender at this time. HE WILL RUN THE LOCAL POSTOFFICE So far no appointment has been made to fill the vacancy in the local postoffice caused a few days ago by the bouncing of Substitute Clerk James C. Smith who was charged with misrepresenting Postmaster L. 0. Daniels to the Postoffice Depart ment and also with insubordination. Postmaster Daniels is determined that while he has charge of the office he is going to run it to suit himself and he will not tolerate any "mon key business'' on the part of subordi nates. He has told the employes that he will treat them with the great est consideration and will do any thing within his power for them but that they must perform their work in a thorough manner and t hat they must comply with all rules of the de partment. Smith is the first white man fired since Mr. Daniels took charge of the office in 1014. JUDGE CONNOR TO WILMINGTON NEXT Goes There Next Week Important Cases Be- ' fore Him Wilmington, May 3. Charged with violating the inter-state laws by rob bing freight trains at Fayetteville ant at' Hamlet six white men will hp given trial before Judge Henry O. Connor in Fedpral Court which con venes here next Tuesday. The defendants are C. H. Williams, W. B Wilson. P. L McDuffy, C. J Heath, R. C. Dorsey, in the Hamlet case, and John u. Smith in the Kay ettcville case. It is alleged that the men have removed valuable articles, worth probably $l,(KK) or more, from freight cars engaged in inter-state traffic. The court will be formally opened Monday morning by Clerk 8. P. Col lier and Marshal W. T. Dortch, but Jndge Connor will not be present un til Tuesday morning, when court will actually begin work? Another ease of some interest Is that in which II. L. Powers, a young white man, is charged with viola dog the Mann "white slave" law. He will ha tried during the week. He i in jail here. ' A numW of cases charging the il licit rrmniifoct tin and U of I in u or wW be tried. The court will devote most of the first week to the trial of criminal cases, and the second weak to equity and admirably suits and totion. Giv.L TWO MOTORCYCLE RIDERS INJURED Collide On Race Track At Norfolk On Sunday Afternoon Norfolk. Va May 3 Mack Gre gory and K 8. Jernigan were a badly injured in a head-on-molor- . v.-! crash i the JaraeMown race track yosaerdav afternoon both of them are at the Sarah Leigh hospital. Jermgan, who lives on Forty-first street and is employed by ths Haver ford Cycle Company, was the more se riously hart. It is feared he has a fractured skull besides a broken knee and scores of bruises about the body Gregory's right knee was fractured and he was severely bruised about the body. That neither one of the riders was killed outright is considered remark able by those who'saw the accident. Gregory was going between 60 and 70 miles an hour and Jernigan was mak ing almost the same speed when the two powerful machines with their trottles wide ojien crashed into each other. The accident was due to Jernigan going the wrong way on the track. He had been circling the course in com pany with a squad of riders but when half way round the track turned his machine and started back around the track in the opposite direction. Gregory was leading the tit hers, his seven horse power racing machine open to the limit. He was hug ging the rail but on one of the curves swerved wide to make the turn and with head tucked down over his handle bars had about cleared the curve when he saw Jernigan approach ing. Before he could swerve his ma chine from its headlong course. the two motorcycles crashed together. (lose behind Gregory was "Billy Fuerstein, also astride a powerful nic ing model. Fuerstein saw the two crumpled machines with their bleeding riders prostrate in the dust dose by just in 'time to avoid running into them. He stopped and called to the of her riders. They found Jernigan un conscious with blood streaming from a gash in the head. Both men were placed in Ed. Whaley's automobile and rushed to the Sarah Leigh hos pital. Jernigan did not recover con sciousness for four hours, the accident happening about 4:30 o'clock. WAVE OF TERROR 4 OVER BIG SHIP New York, May 3 A wave of terror swept over the Cunard liner Lusitania just before sailing today, when 59 annonymous telegrams ad dressed to prominent persons who had taken passage on the ship warn ed them that the vessel would be tor pedoed and unk before she reached Liverpool. Close on the heels of the telegrams came a number of mysterious men whose accents were foreign and who passed among the passengers and their relatives and friends upon the Cunard liner, whispering that ''death would accompany the Lusitania on this voyage." "Don't go." was the mysterious warning. "The ship will never r;-ach Liverpool. It is death." The message spread through the crowd with astonishing quitekness. And yet when search was made for the men who had given the warning not one could be found. However, the telegrams were there, a,nd while the words of the messages was not iden tical, all conveyed the same warning. Among the recipients of telegraphic warnings was Alfred Owynne Van derbilt. His telegram read: , "Cancel passage at once. Have learned on the best of authority that the Lusitania is to be torpedoed." It was signed "Mortc." Relatives of persons who had book ed passage pleaded with them not to sail. The usual gayety which ac companies the departure of a ship was gone. The anxiety was height ened when it was learned that the Anchor liner Cameronian had can celled her sailing at the last minute. Among the passengers on the Lusi tania in addition to Mr. Vanderbilt were Rlbert Hubbard, D. A. Thomas, a mulit-millionaire coal mine owner of Wales; Charles Frohman, Lady Mack worth and Charles Klien, the playwright. THE WAR IN BRIEF London, May S The sink- tnd of three more veaaela In the North Sea by German submarines In their new cam palrfn Is reported today. The SwrrdUh ateamer Hilda went to the bottom In leee than three minutes after aba was torpedoed, but the etdbteen persons on board escaped. Trawlers reaching Aberdeen report that two veaaela In a flahlnrf fleet less than thirty miles ol that port were auak Sunday. lames douum. colored, was ar rested yesterday by Policeman Whit ford, on luspinion of having a pistol concealed on hie person. After the arrest an examination revealed a KSIONERS TAKE NO ACTION AS TO STOCK LAW: Were to Have Considered Calling An Election for Parts of Craven MATTER HELD UP Will Be Definitely Decided At the Next Meeting of the Board Cootrar . lactations, the Cra ven 'count Hoard of Commissioners, in session ' - yesterday did not take up r mattei of hearing peti tions askin .at nn election be called whereby tb citizens living on the south side oi N'euse river could vote on the stock aw question. W&x Of Great Interest This ma"''', in whieh there is great inter, -i had been set for yes terday am! . large delegation of local c iti sens who arc in favor of the law were- on hand as were delegations from all par's of the effected district and who w. n opposed to it. J. B. Blades, representing the local dele gation, stat'd to Chairman C.' D. Bradham that they had practically enough names to their petition to ask for the election but that he de sired to gie each and every one a square deal and that in order that the affected districts might be fully represepteil at the mvcting, he would suggest that the matter be deferred until the next meeting of the Board, and this was done. Jtelcgatlon There A delegiii ion of citizens from Vanoe boro was on hand to ask that they be insndeil in the election if it is called. The people over In that section an in favor of the law and are anxinti- to see it carried, There's no doubt about the fact that then - going to be a hot time when the matter oomes up before the Board. T;n antis were on hand in full force yesterday and they were primed to 'lie muzalo with all sorts of argument r Will It Carry? It is the gncral impression, how ever, that l he Board will call the election n' their next meeting, and that if sue! is done and the matter voted upon M will doubtless be carried. CAPT. T. MARRINER LIKESGERMANS Popular Conductor Visits Norfolk and Sees Pnnz Eitel Captain Thomas J. Marriner, the popular conductor on the Norfolk Southern's Oriental branch, has just returned from a visit to Norfolk, Va., and while there lie paid a visit to the navy yards and took a look at the German ship Prinz Eitel Friedriob which is interned there. Captain Marriner also conversed with a number of the members of the Ei tel's crew and, while he is not an advocate. Of the "Kaiser, he feels much more like "hocking der Kai ser" now than he did before his visit Captain Marriner was told by sev eral of the' men ou the boat that they were sorry that the vessel had beep-interned; that they wanted to get out and fight for the Father land and that the inactivity forced them was not to their liking. In speaking of the personal appearance of the men, Captain Marriner de clared that they were the cleanest appearing bunch of sailors that he had ever set his eyes upon and that they seemed to be vet-y intelligent ALLIES ADMIT HEAVY LOSSES London, May 3. Thn war office to day admitted that the Allied troops are losing even morn heavily than had been 'feared in the operations around the Dardanelles. It Is said the French feth-ment from the Am' at ic side was the result of orders and not hecauw they were drivon out, as the Turks claim. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Howell, Jr., left lant night for Uoldsboro. They will return tomorrow by automo bile, n CARRANZA IS MAKING CLAIMS Washington, May 3. The Carran- sa agency here today claimed a vic tory over General Flore' VifJiitas, Mr Nuvojoa, with 2,000 killed and wounded MM captured, of the letter's forces. The State Department today in structed Ambassador Gerard at Ber lin to advise the German foreign of flee of German aviators' attack upon the American steamship dishing off the Dutch enact. Minister Van Dyke, at The Hague, has been asked to get eH the details from the consul at Hot tenia m. JONES COUNTY MAN IS IN JAIL W THIS CITY George Henderson Again In Trouble An Old Charge JUST HIS LUCK Pleaded Guilty Last October to Fraudulent Use of Mails George Henderson of PollocksviUe is in jail in New Bern for the 'um- steenth" time during the past few years. George and P. G. Watson were before Judge H. O. Connor last week oa a charge of breaking into the express office at Pollocks viUe several weeks ago and purloin ing therefrom several packages of whiskey. The jury heard the evi dence and brought in a verdict ac quitting Henderson and finding Wat son guilty. Waa "In Clover" As far as that particular c.(,se was concerned, Henderson was in clover but last October he was again be fore Judge Connor on a charge of using the mails for "fraudulent pur poses. He entered, a plea of guilty and judgment was suspended upon agreement that he pay the costs in the case by the time that court again convened here and also that he show good behavior during the interim. Well, he appeared before Judge Con nor again at this term of court but instead of showing that he had been law abiding, he was under indict ment, Ordered To Jail Taking this into consideration Judge Connor ordered that he be placed in jail until he could think over the matter and decide what should be done with him and in con sequence Henderson is now iu dur ance vile. There are many people who think that the man has a weak mind. He has been to the Federal prison in Atlanta, Oa., for violating the Fed eral laws and upon his own assertion", violated them again when he was re leased from the Georgia prison. BUSINESS IS GOOD IN THIS SECTION Big Saw Mill Working Day and Night A New Mill Business is not dull out at the local plant of the John L. Ropor Lumber Company, in fact it has picked up to such a degree during the past two weeks that the mill is now working full blast both day and night and thousands of feet of dressed lumber are .being turned out every twenty four hours. The mill was closed down for five or six. weeks a few months ago due- to the fact that a number of repairs had to be made but as soon as these were complet ed, operations were resumed and the plant has been operated on full time since then. In oounection with the lumbering industry in this section, it might be of interest to the public to know that a large force of men began clearing away the Old Elm City mill on Sottth Front street yesteraay morning and on this site Charles H. Hall, a well known lumberman, will erect an up to-date planing and saw mill. COMPILE REPORTS ABOUTFARMING Local Committee Working On Valuable Infor mation During the past few dayg the com mil lee appointed by the Chamber of Commerce to compile statistics of tobacco and truck to be grown in ('raven county, have been very busy in different parts of the county pro- paring a report. The oommittee is composed of Edward Clark, chair man; B. B. Hurst and George D. Dail, and Mr. Clark stated to Journal reporter yesterday that they would probably finish the canvass during the next ten days. Whon asked about the increase in the tobacco acreage this year Mi Clark stated thatsn the sections where the committee has been, he found that the farmers who cultivated thn weed last year, are increasing a little and a few who did not plant any last year are planning for small orops this year. He also stated that the a ere age in trucking has been slight ly increased. JAPAN TO SEND CHINA ULTIMATUM Toldo, May 4. inet has decided tnm to Chum. I Japan's demandi ions, according Thf Japanese cab id an nttima a time limit it aoquieeoe to pecial cosjias horitativa in- farmers Attention ! ! WE ARE STILL SELLING GOODS TO FARMERS AT FARMERS UNION PRICES Farris Nassef C. L. SPENCER Hay, Grain, Feedstuffs, Etc. New Bern, N. C. 1 0A1LY JOURNAL M PFR jj SELLING OUT- Harmony Double Disc Records at Less than Cost' If you like Music, come to see my stock of records as I am closing out this line, will sell them at your price in any number wanted. A. B. SUGAR, : Middle Street To Our Out-of-Town Customers You are cordially invited to make our stores head quarters when in the city and when in need of any thing usually carried by a first class druft store sead us your order we will give it prompt attention and mail it to you on the first outgoing Parcel Post. Bradham Drug Go. The Rexall Stores Cor. Middle & Pollock Cor. Broad & Middle ew Bern Banking & Trust Co. IN ADDITION TO. OUR Banking and Savings Departments THIS COMPANY IS Fully Equipped to Serve the Public in Any Trust Capacity CAPITAL - - - - - $100,000 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings and Time Deposits 4 Times a year 1 Mr. Farmer: Make your farm stand for something, give it a name and use Stationery the same as any other business man. Write us for prices on and Samples of Letter Heads, Bill Heads Statements, Shippnig Tags, Envelopes or any other form you want printed. Prices righ ---work and stock guaranteed. Phone or Write Us $ $ E. J. Land Printing Co. 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