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v Delivered City by Carrier or t " . THE WEATHER. 'Fair' and continued, cool tonight. -Thursday; fair- and slightly wanner. ; .Light to moderate northeast winds.' I sent fenywtf,fcy Ma t S3 Cent Per Month, j T VOLUJ.IE jSVENTEEN WEDNESDAY, ; DECEMBER ,6, 1911' PRICE. THREE CENTS IMSflfl -' f - - i Mt5 ' '4; i - J AM r DISPATCH 4' ft 5" '..? .V' k - 4- " 1 n i in Ji-- i . ; : Wilmington, n. c:; s . A....A... ' fteliiCoti: Com ail Heat Commissioner f Agriculture Makes an Interesting and Important Re port Northern "CpPalists at Ral eigh Locke CraSs Friends Say He Will Land orr th First Ballot. , I,"--- DIspatchNews Bureau, v italfelgh, N.C Iec. 6, 1911. : Maj. W ; A.; Grah commissioner of agriculture,' tjeclafes J his annual report , . which 'was .ead- today- Before the State Board, of Agriculture, that notwithstanding l;tWt ,' the longest drouth in the1 histcff of the state pre vailed in maTsfCtions, the yield of cotton, corn a ad y heat was;; the larges't iu the sttB history. . From the Blue Ridge niourlajns to s Tennessee, he says, the corn crop has neyer been ex celled; hut from Raleigh to Morgan ton the cotton crop will not average .aver sixty per cent. fWheat has been fine, generally weighing more than ,60 Io.nnds to the bushel. ;-r-;: Farmers have purchased little, or no. corn, but have bought more hay than formerly. Farmers' 'generally have raised their own supplies, however, and many of them have, been able to hold cotton for better prices. Speak ing of the department's-; work. Major Graham says it is ; recognized as the most efficient in the Southern States. 1 In his. financial report the commis-: sioner shows that $102,035.76 has been expended since June 1st last. The re ceipts of the department from Dec. 1, 1910, to Dec. 1, 191Vwere $209,697.60, and the disbursfements , f or the same period were $211,651.74. Major Gra ham says an annual rather than a semi-; annual settlement, of the finances would, promote the work of the depart ment. - " .. . ' ' -";'! Speaking of .the work by the A. and M. College and the department, the commissioner thinks, both departments should preserve' their identity, tth soI . lege teachiBg; the young men. and Tboys ! and vthe-3elfinen ture farmer how to get the most out of his efforts, ; In this connection he shows how -cotton, and corn, under the instruction of state and federal demon strators, have increased In production per acre. : ; v ; .0 ' . ; "- Major Graham quotes a resolution adopted by the college and department boards recommending co-operation , in experimental work. .This action will be approved by the trustees and the board of agriculture. The commissioner devotes 1 consid erable space to fairs which he finds have been an improvement over their predecessors'. ' ' The commissioner'devotes space .to the various exhibits at the state and county fairs, especially" the apple, ex hibits, which attracted so much atten tion last week. The department is at tempting tOL find the "no frost zone" in North Carolina. Corn clubs ' and other organizations are diseased thor oughly and all show great progress. The State Board of Agriculture be gan its regular annual meeting today. The most important business, was the reading of the report of the commis sioner, Major W. A. Graham. This af ternoon at 2:30 Mr. Bradford Knapp, t)f the National Department of Agri culture, was to appear before the board for a cohf enrence on co-operation be tween the Aericultural College, the State Department of Agriculture , and the national department With reference to co-operation. It developed today that there has been some friction in the department. Commissioner Graham thanked 1 those members of the board who had assist ed hhn in his work, "and informed the other members that he was sorry he did not have their co-operation but that he was complying with the law. He thought it was a mistake to remove the commissioner from ; the finance committee, asanas , been ; done. , This committee met yesterday in the office of the state treasurer. Major Graham said the department should haver some body on the committee to see to the checking and auditing of items. Fortv Northern capitalists, headed by E. Z. Mitchell, president of the Elep trie Bond and Share Company, of New York, are spending a couple of days in this section. , The party arrived rear ly yesterday morning and went; on a. special train to Buckhorn Falls, return ing in the afternoon and going' to the Country Club..' They took supper at the Yarborough and left today for Blewetts Falls.' From there they will go to their homes. Colonel Chas. E. Johnson, president of the Carolina Power ancl lighf Company, joined the party nere Many ofd;he men in the party are in terested in the development of the South's resources, especially the ,elec trie plants. Fifty-four young men . are awaiting with considerable interest the result of the examination given by the State Board of Pharmacy to applicants ; for license to practice pharmaey In North Carolina;'- Robert W. Winston, Jr., son of Judge R. W. Winston, was repSrted today as (Continued on Page. Two.) llortli Carolina Dallr iair Case Today Live Question Argued 1 Before the . United States Supreme Court as to , Flight of a State to Penalize a Rail- roaa Tor Hef using. to Accept Goods v. lansponaiion Particularly : wcrns nortn Carolina. .Washington, Dec. 5. The right of the States to penalize railroads fnr r- kfusing to receive goods for! shipment u mwoiaie v-ommerce f was argued today -before the .Supreme- Court of the United States. s ;The qnestion? presented td the court concerned particularly the State of worth CaroHntu; A direct attack was bfeing j made on the constitutionality of the statute, enacted in 1905 in that State imposing a penalty of $50 a day on a railroad for every day it refused to accept goods for transportation. ; The principle involved was before the court in two different cases. One arose out .of the shipment of a ;car load of shingles by Reid & Beam from Rutherfordton,N. C, to Scottsvllle, "eUL;ea they loaded the shingles uuw a war ouu asueu me suiuou agent at Rutherf ordtbh t ship it to ' Scott ville, it was declared that he replied he knew of .no such place. It proved to be a flag station on the Knoxville and Augusta. 'Railroad, to which ;. no published rate existed. After several days delay, the goods were ; shipped. No. damages were proven to have re sulted to the shippers, but they re covered , $350 as penalty imposed by the statute for refusal to receive the goods. . ' . v The second case arose out of Mrs. By L. Reid's attempt to ship house- i T hold goods from Charlotte, N. C., to Davis, W Va. No published rate, as authorized by',, the ... inter-State' Com merce . Laws, existed between Char lotte. and: "Paris, .and the shipment:was fleTayed " ifive days" before a rate wag obtained. - A, Jury awarded Mrs." Reid $25ilsrBftagea ifatf4-fc s penalty In both cass the defendant was the Southern Railway Company. ' The law is attacked largely on the ground that; it was an interference by the St!ate with inter-State Commerce. The Supreme Court of North Caro- ina -sustained the law as cgnstitu- tinaL - The court took the position that Congress had not " legislated in reference, to railroads receiving goods for shipment- and therefore that, the subject wffsopen to regulation by the States, until Congress exercises such right. A dissenting opinion, how ever, was heard in. the other. : In the case arising out of the ship ment from Charlotte to Davis, tne Supreme Court said that it was not expected that the railroad should have on file published rates from Charlotte to every place in the union, and while the railroad might be prohibited by the inter-State Commerce Laws from shipping without such a rate being published, yet the laws did not pro hibit the railroad from receiving the goods. . - , AfilERICAHB MEETING TO PROTEST New York. Dec. 6.-A great mass meeting here tonight will be the first of a: series in the. principal cities dur ing the next thirty days to protest against Russia's xuseriminauon re garding passports ; held -cy American citizens on account oi iaeir rBiigwuu . i x : 1 : .. belief. The movement "was startedJ by New York's leading .Jews, " GIVES THEM A CHANCE John D. and Gates Invited to Appear Before Steel Probe Committee... Washington, Dec. 6. John D. Rocke feller and Kev, Fred D. Gates, manager of Rockefeller's charities, were today Invited : by Chairman Stanley, of ; the House Steel Trust Investigating com mittee, to appear before the committee next Monday, if they care to do so to reply to charges by the Merrltt Broth ers, of Minnesota, concerning tne. u, 000,000 ore properties m Minnesota. SOCIALIST C L SWEPT TO DEFEAT - Los Aneeles. Dec. 6. Socialism, as enunciatedyby Job Harriman and Alex ander Irvine, was aeieaiea nere yen terdav by an overwhelming majority Mayor George Alexander; leading the Good Government forces, was re-eiect W f nrtv thousand majority over Harriman.. The- Spur of Necessity" ; - "Great Melies Film at the Grand today. " ': I -. . :-:-!:f.:.-.:.:.w.".v. v':v:.xs:-:::A:.:.:.: :c:-yy Sx';.;::ff IMcNAHAHA 5j Lbs Angeles, Cal., Dec. 6.- John'" J; :? t -. and -James B. McNamara after' their. pleas of guilty and while awaiting sen-"" ' -'' tence were apparently "indifferent ; to their "fate. . They ate their meals' hear- tily . and talked . freely wth '. their - fuards.v Theirattprneys.all seemed re- jc,j liefved':that -thei case, which it seemed - r . . . . . ..- . . - i . would ' last for months, had been end- - ed. i Judge Bo'rdwjeil, who had pjfesidi1 " " " - ed at the trial, received hundreds letters ana telegrams offering advice and suggestions. as.Jto, the punishment : - - r he should inflict He gave, lib; ihdica- " Tf tion in advaVce' as" to the sentences'1"?"- . . - 1 j .. p". ... i 1 a j. a . - -' ' - - THE fBOIIE m Have: Been Held 'Imprisoned For Mur der Committed In Mecklenburg Coun ty Gave rnor K itch in Pardons Them at Solicitor's PIm. s ' Special to The Dispatch. i Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 6. Because the Solicitor and other; prosecuting attorj neys believe'that another party did the killing, Governor Kitchin today grant ed pardons ' to Charley Houston and Will Boyd, of Mecklenburg county men, sentenced in November 1910 to four months on roads for manslaugh ter. The attorneys aiding the Solicitor; Governor Kitchin says, greatly fear Houston and Boyd were erroneously convicted. ST. LOUIS AFTER THE Washington, Dec 6. St. Louis wants the Republican , National con vention, and aa organized effort was started today to, induce the National Committee, when it meets here next Tuesday,, to choose that city. Secre tary of Commerce and Labor Nagel, Missouri's member of the committee, heads the movement and wiH be re inforced today with the" arrival' of Governor Hadley, j of Missouri, and Postmaster Akin, of St. Louis. A FOOT FROM CHICAGO. One Legged Youth Makes a Record Walk. New York,"' Dec. 6. Ralph Tomp kins, a' one legged bootblack, of Poughkeepsie,1 completed a round trip between New York-and Chicago a- foot late last night, when he hobbled into this city on hia crutches. Tomp kins, who is nineteen years old, left here July 80th on a $5.0 wager, and beat bis time limit by twenty-four hours. . . r-u.i r- : . ' DEfiTOCRATS OF THE - cofiifiiiTTEE Meet Washington Dec. 6. The first meet ing of the Democratic members of the 1 House Ways and Means :, Committee, since , adjournment of .Congress1 'last August was "held today. - Chairman Underwood ; and his coir league discussed the general tariff situation and considered' a plan of ac tion forthe "session. " , Following the meeting no announce ment was made;;" Probably none .will be made until after the President sends Congress the tariff board's re port on wool and cotton. - The commit tee will begin immediately, the prelim inary, work' of revision,, of schedules. Included in the program for tariff re vision will be wool, cottonj iron, steel, sugar, agricultural implements and foodstuff s.4 v ' - Subsc,; he to The, Evening Dispatch. (HIOI V 1 A - 7 V ' V " W of . .v Commission" Form, of Government. De feated inTwo Cities in the State of Washingn Women Among the So cialist CaVididates Defeated.'. iW : .VanCouveri Washington Dec. 6. r The commission forin of government was defeated yesterday by a vote of more than two to one. - . " ' Another Defeat. -Olympia, Washington, Dec. 6. -Olym-pia rejected the .commission form of government by sixty eight votes major ity. The Republican ticket was elect ed .Two women were among the defeated- Socialist candidates. : -' :. BURNED. AT STAKE - BY TENNESSEE MOB "Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 6. Two ne groes and one negress were burned to death by a mob of white land tenants, who objected to their occupancy, of land by negroes near. Savannah, Tenn nessee, yesterday, according to mea gre reports reaching here I A-lynch-ing,- it is said occurred ten miles from Clifton, Tenn. ; - ' , The three negroes were traveling to a gin with a load of seed cotton.. They were waylaid and tied to a wagon load of cotton. The. mob after building a fire beath the wagon, stood guard Until the negroes were cremated.- ; . . Report Not Believed. -Clifton, Tenn., Dec' 6. The reported mob violence, by which three negroes 1 it is said were lynched near here yes terday, is believed to have originatedt by the killing of a negro, Ben Petti grew, and his two children, in this county last Friday. Pettigrew was killed by. highwaymen; there was no suggestion of mob violence. It is said several persons suspected-of the triple murder are under surveilence. v 1 fOG CAUSES A WRECK Pennsylvania Passenger -Train Go To gether. Today and Ten Injured. '. Pittsburg, Pa.; Dec 6. Io a heavy, fog two Pennsylvania Railroad passen ger trainstoday collided outside of the Union. - Station, injuring ten ' persons. The ': engine and . three coaches were wrecked, v . , .. NECESSARY MILLIONAIRE STOKES v New York, Dec. -6. It became known today that there had been a decided change for the' worse In the condition of W. E. D.' Stokes, the mil lionaire clubman,:..: who 4ia the chief witness against Ethel Conrad and Lil lian -Graham, 'the show girls who . shot I him. Ancoperationmay. be 'necessary and his condition js considered grave. Stokes - was : stricken with kidney trouble during . the ." trial of '"the slow ilifW r:r, r, A ' - X . - v LOST OUT TBIS TIHE OPERATION v.. r B1GC01HI0II 1 ; Is That of the National Rivers 4. andi narours vongress wfiivo . vuii,bnj( Today in Washingtphr-WJM iifgh t the; Estabfshment oTa, Definite Wa -th: Uhjted':stater2 . 4 - ... - ' r A. ' Washington, Dec, 6. With five thou sand delegates attending from all .set-. tions of the- country; the National Riv ers and Harbors Congress todayj began its eighth - annual convention, r Secre tary of War 5 Stimson delivered the. ad dress of welcome. Representative Sparkman, of Florida; chairman of; the House Rivers and Harbors Committee, is among the prominentpeakers. Con gress will be urged to establish a defi nite waterway policy, instead of con sidering each project separately. This afternoon - addresses., of -?j Association presidents will' be heard.' y FOUR KILLED Jll CRASH OF FREIGHT JRAIHS Pittsburg, Dec. 6. Four -men -. were killed and a score injured several se riously, at 8 o'clock this morning , in a wreck of two freight trains and an express train- on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Devil'a Bend, naif mile east of Manor, Pa. '-:::7- t ; HAVE YOU- GOT YOURS? Washington,.. Dec.4 6. The per cap ita circulation of -money in the United Stages is $34.50, according to a state ment issued by the Treasury; Depart ment. The total amount of money in circulation ..December 1st was $9,- 270,582,753. . ' A ' CHICAGO PACKERS MAY PLEAD GUILTY Chicago, Dec. 6. The selection of a jury in, he United .States , District Court to try the ten -indicted Chicago meat packers," for' alleged criminal vio lation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, began .before Judge Carpenter ' today. After' the jury is obtained it was rum ored I the packers, at midnight, would appear and plead guilty. A fine, it is believed, would be the extreme penal ty imposed by the Judge. ; . DOUBLE AVIATION TRAGEDY: RECORDED London, Dec. 6. A double aviation fatality has occurred ;at " Filey, , near Scarborough, Yorkshire. . Hubert Ox ley was : killed instantly.; and his - pas senger, Robert Weiss,;, sustained ; in juries from v which : he- died after wards. " y -, " Coing lnto Case Out In ' Los Angeles Many Things Presented For Considera 1 ation of. Such an. Inquiry Detective Burns In Philadelphia and Talk's of . the Case Labor Leaders Have Gath ered in Washington For a .Special -.Conference In the Matter. ' - : " Los Angeles, Dec. 6. A Federal Grand Jury investigation has ; begun in .the alleged nation-wide dynamiting conspiracy. :a Among - the reasons " ne cessitating an ; hrvestigatibn here, the Federal - authbrlfiesbeiieye 'i are 'fli following: 0 -v: : -' r ThepresenceVof ' Ortie McManlgal, who by his own assertion, was a par-" ticipant .m'many .dynamite plots-..1 The., presence . of the McNamaa brothers 'pending their J departure ; for SanQuentin penitentiarV.r to -': serve life and" fifteen, years imprisonment, respectively.-C':",-' The amazing quantity and complete ness of the evidence gathered against the McNamarai, .wMch;ledti.eIr cbuiiT sel to seek eagerly z for terms upon which their clients might plead guity. McManigal's reminiscences, abready given' out by him; include both trans portation of jflynamitet from State : to State and conspiracy to v blow up va rious buildings in the" country. He said he dftl many jobs of this sort, and enumerated , them. All sorts of data has been gather ed by District Attorney Fredericks through his aides. ., ' Labor Leaders In Conference. J .' Washington, 'Dec. 6. The - McNam- ara ways and , means committee pf the American 1 Federation of Labor met in the office of amuel Gompers, president of the Federation," imme diately - after Gompers -? arrived , in AVashington this morning, -y He" made preparation for the committee's meet- Ing, biitf refusedl committee's ' probable.: 'action.' ' It - was aid"that ai. statemeht j?robably would may. --continue: nttoi tomorrow ortvwjzjJSg ...Other-: labor pleaders attendmg: are F. M. Bryan, president of the1 Bridge and Structural Iron . Workers, John B. Lennon, president, and Thomas, F. Tracy, .secretary and treasurer," of the Label Trades Departmentvof the Fed eration"; William J. Spencer, secretary and treasurer of the Building Trades Department ; . A. - J. Berres, secretary and "treasurer of l the Metal Trades Department; Frank A." Morrison, secretary- of the Federation. r: - " All phases of the McNamara case, it was said, would be considered. As to the defense fund Morrison said he did not think therewas much remain ing of the $190,000, which had. been raised, although he had not seen a statement as to the expenses 'and did not know how much was left. Clar ence S.Darrow had been given a retainer of $50,000 and was paid his regular charges per day. So after this was paid, in addition to other ex penses, Morrison did not think much would be left. ' : ; ' j Burns Talks Again. Philadelphia, Dec. 6. The McNa mara . brothers were responsible ' for explosions here damaging the Struc tural ' Iron. Works on several building operations, according to William J Burns, the, detective, who-has arrived from Cleveland. Burns is positive both brothers were responsible . for all the explosions here on the Structural Iron Works during the last few years and that others are implicated. Burns says further arrests would be made in what it is alleged was a big conspiracy case. Burns says the - National; Board "of Structural Iron Workers . union appro priated certain sums of money, to John J. McNamara. Burns .believes the board knew them .- money was to be used for dynamiting purposes. CANT MOVE HIM President Will Not Reinstate Dismiss- " ed Cadets. -Washington; Dec. 6.Despite the ef forts of five United States Senators, President Taft. has. declined to recon sider the cases vef the five cadets dis-t missed from West Point ; for drinking. The President said when a cadet had ben dismissed it was not in the Exec utive's power to reopen the case. He declared he would veto any legislation aimed to place them back in the Acad emy. Senators-Swanson-and Martin, of Virginia, Bacon of . Georgia, and Fletcher and1" Bryan, or Florida,- made the plea for the cadets. Awning on Fire. " A blazing awning on the Front street side of the Southern ; building about 11:30 o'clock today attracted the attention of passersby. A few well directed bucketsful of water from a window, above served to ex tinguish, the flames. It is presumed that the fire was caused from a cigar ette or-cigar. -- V - Subscribe to The Evening -Dispatcn, 35c the month, ,- ' . ' - ProiWe ton- II Opening; inWinstonaiera Last Night With, Large Attendance Session; this Morning a-Splendid One, Marked by Beautiful Addresses and Fine Re-, ports Plea Made For Home Mission Board. - Special to The Dispatch. - ' ; ' Winston-Salem, Dec. 6. The eighty- " first Bession of the Baptist States con vention met last 1 night; In Brown Me- - morial Church. : Dr. .W. R. L." Smith, of "Chapel ; Hill, - preached the introduc tory sermon, his , text being "Says Un to the . Children of Israel, Go For-: ward.'.' -7 It: was a .very. appropriate; and ablev discourse. Organization of 1 the ; convention followed ,'and selected Rev. ; C. f H. Durham, of iLumberton, presi-: dent, to succeed W- C. Dowd, of Char lotte; vi?e, presidents, - A." IJJustice,- of Hendersonville; Gilbert tT. Steph enson, or, vvmston, ana u, w. scar- borough, j&f JWoodland, : . ' t tbis -morning's session Degaii : :.witn . devotional exercises, "-ijonducted by Rev. - James Long, ofT Morganton. President Durham announced that the ' time had arrived for report of mis sions 'and Sunday-schools, mad4 by Dr. Livingstone Johnson,, of -. Raleigh. v A very .comprehensive report ofj the work done' the past year - was given. Then a. very' thoughtful address by Dr. A. T,E. : .Brpwni..on, e "Mission 4. in Moun tains," followed. - t.. - Dr. B. W. Spillman ' delivered , the diplomas ' ' to those" - completing 5 the teachers' training course," about 40 in " number.; A 1 beautiful' address was de livered by Dr. 'J.i M. Frost, , of Nash viUe. Tenn.,. closing .with, a strong plea for the B. . Y. . P. U. The report of the-Board of. Missions, by. Dr.- W. R. Cullon), of the chair -of Bible,Mat Wake Forest College.; was. followed y bvi Vrt W. Til L.' Smithy on Ho'mejMMsipns, , 1 ;-TneTnornlng-session closed, with an able i appeal t- tori the " Home ; Mission AtkhV Oa.' V - i , ' HOTEOT KNIGHT GALLED IH COURT - Huntsville, Aia. Dec' 6. The case of John W. Knight, charged with using the mails in a scheme to defraud was called in the United "States District Court. Knight is, head1 of the .defunct cotton firm of Knight, Yancey & Co., of Decatur, Ala., and was arrested after the firm's failure, for several million dollars. He was subsequently indicted and held under twenty thousand dol lars bond. -,-." X - ...w.--. : :: T. - - a:-, -v.. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 6. The condition of Manager Huglu Jennings of: the De troit American League baseball team, . who,' with Father LynetV was injured in an automobile accident Tate. Friday night, is slightly improved. The fol lowing bulletin was. issued by Dr. Webb at the state hospital: "Hugh Jennings' condition is ;better than It was twenty-four hours ago. .Barring unexpected , developments, .we confi dently expect his 1 recovery. His inju- ' ries consist of a.'badly crushed left foot, contused left - thigh, fracture of . both JSones of . the .lower third of the left forearm, cuts and bruises about the face and head' and concussion of the bram. He is comparatively free from pain." The Philathea Class of Grace Meth odist Church -will hold its annual sale , of Christmas- articles tomorrow after noon at the home of. Miss Maude Bui luck, - Norf309 "North ' Third street. Dainty articles, suitable in every way for Christmas presents will be on dis play, and the public is cordially in vited to call; and inspect them. vention Is Week r 4 - ,- t ' M 1 HUGH J JJ t I ' 1 1 f At It
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