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WILSON,, N. 0., TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1911
VOL. 17 NO. 158
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MURDER CASE
I RALEIGH
J. B. BISSETT SHOT NEAR SOL
; DIERS HOME-A WOMAN
IN THE CASE -
POLITICS AND EDUCATION
By W. J. MARTIN.
Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 14. The life
less body of J. B. Bissett, was lound
about midfiight beyond the Soldier's
Home east of Raleigh, the fatal
wound being by the left collar, bone,
the bullet having ranged down toward
the heart and severed a vital artery.
Near-by were the man's top clothes
and the garmentsof a woman. Mrs.
William R. Yearby was arrested Sun
day morning as the woman - in the
case and confesses that she and Bis
eett and L. J. Norris, a pressman
formerly of Richmond, were driving
in a hack; that having no companion
for Norris, he left them and she and
Bissett droye to the woods one and a
half miles "east of the city where
Bissett's body was found. She says
"some man she J could not recognize
rushed upon them and fired at Bis
i sett while he was on hisknees and
begging for mercy. She ran to, the
hack and drove home. She says she
had told Bissett and Norris that her
husband, who is a salesman in the
Globe Clothing store here, was at
home drunk. v The woman, ' her hus
band and L . J. Norris and the negro
hackman, Haywood Penny, are being
held -awaiting developments. 'Yerby,'
the husband -of the woman, insists
that he knows nothing of the shoot
ing. . ' .' '
Mrs. Yerby is a small brunette,
who wears a mass of extra hair. She
was formerly Miss Ada Pool and mar
ried Earl -Austin a 1 number of years
ago, when she was fifteen years old,
and they had two children before they
separated. Austin died over- a year
ago and five months ago she, married
Yerby. She insists that the man who
did - the shooting was neither Norris
or her husband. She . describes him
as a stout man with a black coat or
black shirt. .
Bissett, the ; murdered , man, ' was a
native of Nash, county, and for a long
whileran a near-beer place here until
its reputation became so bad that, the
aldermen refused to renew his-' license.
For several months he has been run
ning" a sort of eating house-that has
been under the survilance of .' ths
police. Chief. 9 Police Stell says,
too, that Mrs. Yerby has been suspect
ed, for some time of being a bad wo
man. :v.vv '
" Tuesday" there will be opened in this
city the Grand Encampment of . the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows -for 1
North Carolina. Postmaster Willis
G. Priggs, -P. C P., will -deliver th.
address cf welcome and .the response
will be by v Grand Patriarch W. C Al
len, of -Waynes ville. V '
North Carolina Republicans politics
is coming in for , considerable discus
sion just now hereabouts, the " in
creased interest just now being psr
tially due to the fact that there are a
couple or so very desirable - positions
vacant in the office of the collector of
internal revenue here and Duncan and
anti-Duncan forces, are eagerly watch
ing the political plays' that involve
these ' places and also the 'manipulu
t ion Republican "state politics in geu--rU."The
most important vacancy" in
the collector's office is that of 'cashier
made vacant by the -death of William
B. Duncan, who was the father of Na
tional Committeeman E. C. Duncan:
Collector '.Wheeler.'MafUn is the clos
est, sort cf , a.; personal political f ri end
of National ' Committeeman ' Duncan
and wao made collector ; at - the' m .
stance of Mr. Duncan. ; Therefore tusf-
far; as the 1 civil, service., rules, will
permit with the most strained " con
struction it. is naturally surmised chat
Funnnrtpis of the Duncan interests
Will be g.ven these places in
the
revenue department. However, it is
pointed out that one or more of those
on the eligible list to whom under
the civil . service rules these places
would go are in . very bad landing"
with Natioral Committeeman Duncan,
being regajdedv as Morehead and
State organization men. One of these
especially inline is Frederick N. Gat
tis, who lad a clerkship in the de
partment and is charged to have been
unfairly cut off some months ago
when the levenue force was baine re
duced by order of .the Department- at
Washington. The charge is being
made now that the vacancies in the
revenue office here now are being
left open purposely to avoid having
to give a, placevto Gattis and some
others who are objectionable to Na
tional Committeman Duncan.
Swinging off on politics of' a' wider
scope it is being talked here , that
the National Committeeman is laying
lplans to nave Collector Wheeler Mar-
tin stand for the State chairmanship
against Chairman Motley Morehead
and then, in this way gaining the de
feat of Morehead, get a friendly west
ern man in as; active State chair
man. It is charged that he proposes
to use .Collector Martin purely as a
"dummy" in his scheme to defeat his
arch enemy, Chairman Morehead. On
the other hand, it is. asserted that the
most determined sort of a movement
is under way to see to it thatthe
delegation to the next national. Re
publican convention is anti-Duncan so
that Chairman Morehead or some
leader acceptable to his element of
the party wil be made national com
mitteeman. It' is being charged
against National Committeman Dun
can that he has used, the political
power of this position to coerce post
masters and other office-holders all
over the State in "shelling out" good
big slices of their salaries for pur
poses that were solely for the benefit
of some - personal - friend and had no
bearing , on the maintenance of the
Republican organization and its
work in this State. The part that the
national committeeman has played
and the wayhe has plyed in the mat
ter of efforts to have- a Republican
State organ in the State is also bob
bing' up as a club with which the po
litical enemies of the National Com
mitteeman would seek to dethrone
him! 'It is declared hereabouts that
the fight isnow to have no let-up and
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the 'political scalp" of the present
national committeman is the prize
toward which Chairman Motley More
head and his associates in the . State
are concentrating their political' ef
fort in a most determined manner.
, United States Commissioner of
Education P. P. Claxton is in Ral
eigh on a tripple mission of conferring
with State Superintendent of v. Public
Instruction J. Y. Joyner as to septs
necessary to provide the United
States Department of Education with
educational, statistics f rom . the State
that will be more thoroughly up ; to
date ; 10 look7 into the rural farm lif G
schools that are being conducted-with
remarkable success by Z. W Judd as
Superintendent of the Wake public
schools, and tg arrange for some spe
cial experiments by. Superintendent F.
M. Harper, of the Raleigh, city schools.
County Superintendent Judd is being
considered by Commissioner Claxton
as appointee to position of supervisor
of rural school development through
the Government Department of Edu?
cation. - - - , -' - .
Will Recover Unless There Are Com-
plications, y . v'
- Rome, Aug. 14 Physicians attend
ing Pope Pius announced today that
unless heart complimations occur the
Pontiff will recover.. He passed a
restful night. ... y ,
' Mr. Wr N. Bridgers left for Norfolk
this morning. . - ' -.:-r-r
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THE WEATHEE
Local Showers Tc-Night.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 14. For
North Carolina: Local showers to-
night or Tuesday.
BEATTIE
TRIAL OPENS
' A
CHESTERFIELD CROWDED WITH
VISITORS TO WITNESS
SAME
BEATTIE BEFORE JURY
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Chesterfield Court fiouse, Va., Aug.
14. Hundreds have flocked here this
morning for the opting of the Beat
tie trial. The indictment is expected
today soon after , the "grand jury
meets. - The prosecution announced
that it was ready for an immediate
trial. ' ,
Beattie and Beulah Binford were
brought here to testify bof oro the
grand jury. , . "
Paul Beattie will appear before the
grand jury today. "".
Attorney Wendenburg, for the
prosecution, announced that he would
ask that the trial be set for Thursday
or Friday.
Grand Jury Returns Verdict.
Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug.
14. The grand jury has indicted
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.
Ten-Cent Cotton.
Blowing Rock, N. C.,Aug. 14. Mr.
William Wallace, -of Statesville,' is
spending . a few days in Blowing
Rock. He was asked" what he thought
of cotton. ' Mr. Wallace said it was
not in ofder for anybody to make a
prediction about the cotton crop be
cause we are just-in the middle of a
season full of vicissitudes for the
plant. - He thought that With good
weather, there might be a large crop,
and he thought the mill3 and the
buyers of the world would scotch the
price at not less than ten cents. He
said the demand for cotton had been
fine for the last few years, and that
even if there was a very large crop,
the .mills would buy for a year or
more -ahead, and thereby, the price
would not fall below: ten cents. A
short crop might scotch it. at a price
considerably above ten cents.
,Mr. Wallace thinks thai the cotton
mill interest. has' developed too rap
idly. v There is an over-production of
cotton goods in view of the market
conditions. He thinks that ' many
evils have crept- into the interest,
especially in the selling department,
and "that some of these will have to
be eliminated. He blames no one foT
the conditions, but thinks that South
ern cotton mills may have to arrange
for the sale of their goods sooner or
later, "or have" some closer relations
with the selling departments than
they now have, v . ;
Gainesville Bank Cashier Is Caught.
Greensboro, N. C, Aug. 14. After
a chase, of a' week extending across
three States Deputy Sheriff W. A.
Crow, of jGainesville, Ga., this after,
noon, with the-aid of the local police,
arrested George W. Bishop, an ex,
cashier of a Gainesville '. bank, who
is charged with false' 'pretense and
whcCit is alleged, secured sums rang
ing from $50,000 to $75,000, from Geor
gia people ' by fraudulent representa
tions. '-' ' '..
Although Deputy Crew was armed
with requisition papers the prisoner
consented to return to Georgia with
out extradition arid, in a. few minutes
after his arrest boarded a train bound
for Georgia. Bishop says he has no
fears of ill results when he is brought
face to face with his- accusers.' V
, It is alleged that Bishop prompted
a company : to manufacture - a 'drink,
'U Lik3 It," a formula for which ,he
claims to have owned and upon which
he placed a value of $160,000. He
claims that the funds received from
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stock sold was in part, payment for
the formula. It is claimed .by the
prosecutors that , Bishop represented
that these funds were, intended to be
used in promoting the company and
manufacturing the drink. The assets
on which he worked are said to have
been less than $20.
STRIKE GET
TING SERIOUS
600,000 TRANSPORT WORKERS
HAY BE CALLED OUT : ,
TONIGHT
SOLDIERS GUARD DOCKS
Liverpool, Aug. 14. The strike is
rapidly, approaching a crisis. Soldiers
are guarding the docks agcinst the
strikers.
Tonight the ship officers will an
swer the demands of the men. 600,
000 transport workers may bo called
out tonight
Dockmen refused to return to work
in Liondon this morning despite the
settlement on Saturday.
On 1,500 Mile Trip Y
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 14. Harry N.
Atwood, has started on his 1,500 mile
flight to Boston, the. longest ever at
tempted. t
Scalded To Death.
Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 14 Conductor
Walter Finch, who was scalded in the
explosion of the Seaboard Air Line
engine on a Raleigh and Hamlet ex
tra freight train five 'miles west of
Raleigh, is dead in Rex Hospital. It
is learned that Mrs. Finch, who is a
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member of thechoir. of the Baptisl
church at Hamlet, is now under quar
antine because of small pox in her
neighborhood at Hamlet, and will not
be allowed to come to Raleigh for
the funeral. The bureal of Conduc
tor Finch, who was 38 years old, oc
curred yesterday morning at the fami.
ly burying-ground, five miles north
west of Raleigh.
r He is survived by his wife, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Finch,
and five brothers and two sisters. :
Engineer Steven Stogner and the
colored fireman' John Maxey, who
were. the other injured, are improving
steadily and will recover. The freight
train had just left John5 ston Street
station here .as No. 19, Raleigh to
Hamlet, when the accident occurred.
Inspection of the injured engine in.
the shops here shows that the crown
sheet blew out, turning volumes of
steam into the .fire box, Which admit
ted a mass of scalding steam nnto the
cab, where the three men were, En
giaeer Stogner. probably escaped fatal
injury by jumping from the engine.
Steel Committee To Recess.
Washington, Aug. 14. Inquiry into
the affairs of the United States" Steel
Corporation by a special committee of
the House of Representatives, which
has. .been in" progress since May, was
halted Saturday, to be resumed in
Octobers ' The committee voted a re
cess Until October 16th,s but it is
probable that no public hearings will
be held until a later date. '
Several phases of the inquiry are
yet to be developed and there are stilt
on the list of witnesses two of the
most prominent men in America, An
drew Carnegie and J. Pierpont .Mor
gan. Mr. Carnegie last spfing just
before he sailed Jor Europe, notified
the committee that he would be glad
to appear in the fall, and it is likely
that he will be the first witness when
the public sessions are resumed.
During the recess Chairman Stan- 4
ley is to have headquarters in Wash
ington and a force pf assistants Will
be. with him working, up evidence " to
be submitted at the fall hearings.
W. C. Temple, of Pittsburg,' who
was " commissioner . of several steel
people, testified. - He denied the ex
istence of illegal pools' at the present
time and declared that he regarded
the United States Steel Corporation
as a, model trust.
Mn W. A. Finch left for Nashville
this .morning. - ' .
To Prevent Spread of Boll Weevil.
W'ashmgton, D. C, Aug. 14. Presi
dent Finley, of the Southern Railway
Company, realizing the possibility of
the further spread of the Mexican
cotton boll weevil to the eastward Is
taking steps to advise farmers In the
territory along the lines of the South
ern Railway Company, Alabama Great
Southern Railroad Company, the Mo
bile and Ohio Railroad Company, and
the Georgia Southern and Florida
Railway Company, in localities to
which there is even a remote possi
bility that the weevil -may spread, as
to the methods that must be adopted
for maintaining cotton production un
der boll weevil conditions. Farmers
west of the Mississippi River, whero
the weevil has been present for sev
eral years, have learned how to grow
cotton successfully In spite of its
presence. They have learned this
lesson generally at the cost of short
crops for two or three years. In the
fall of last year President Finley or
ganized a Cotton Culture Department"
in charge of Mr. T. O. Plunkett, with
headquarters at "Chattanooga, Tenn.,
with seven field agents to work In
those localities where it Is possible
that the weevil may eventually ap
pear. Mr. Plunkett and all of the
agents of this Department have had
practical exprience in the growing of
cotton under boll weevil conditions.
All of the expenses of the Cotton Cul
ture Department are borne by the
participating railways and the ser
vices of its agents are absolutely free
to all farmers along the lines of theso
railways.
The work of this Department has
been so successful and the services of
its agents have been so highly r.ppre
ciated by the farmers that President
Finley has determinted to extend the
work further eastward.
Mr j, R. E. Grabel has been appointed
agent of the Cotton Deportment at
Macon, Ga., to work along the line
of the Southern Railway .between
Macon and Brunswick, arid along the
Georgia and Florida Railway in Geor
gia and-North Florida. Four addi
tional agents are to be employed for
work along the lines of the Southern
Railway, the Alabama Great Southern
Railroad, , and the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, in central and eastern Ala
bama. Unless circumstances should
make some other arrangement advisa
ble these agents will have their head
quarters at Atalla, Anniston, Tusca
loosa and Maplesvifle, Ala. Mr.
Grabel has had practical 'experience
ingrowing cotton in boll weevil ter
ritory arid four other men with like
experience are to -be selected for the
Alabama agencies. The weevil has
not spartedto any of the localities
to 'which these agents have, been as
signed and there is no reason to ex
pect its . early ' appearance . in them.
The purpose of establishing the work
in these localities is to ennble the
farmers to be thoroughly prepared
for the weevil if it shall at any time
enter their; fields. . -
Fortunately, the cultural riiethbds
advised by the Cotton Culture Depart
ment are7 identically those which the
late Dr. S. A.n Knapp, of the United
States Agricultural Department, re
' cofrimended for increasing the pro
duction of cotton whether the leevil
to be present or not.
Farmers throughout the cotton belt
will, therefore, find it profitable to
adopt these methods, even though the
weevil may. never spread to their
farms; , ).
As r. further step in aid "of the work
of the Cotton Culture Department,
President Finley has prepared a cir
cular letter incorporating Dr. Knapp's
advice which is being distributed to
farmers in all cotton " growing terri
tory along the lines of the railways
above .mentioned. Farmers along the
line of these companies may obtain
copies of this circular letter, by ad
dressing' W. W. Finley, President of
the Southern . Railway Company,
Washington, D. C. - -
Admiral Togo Spent The Day, Sight
v .. Seeing. "
New. York, Aug. ; 14. Adrdiral Togo
spent - today 4 sight-seeing. He visited
the Brooklyn navy yard Governor's
Island, - Wall street and many other
points of interest. " . .
TAFT ARRIVE
WITH VE
AS THE TOO BILLS WERE COUPLED
TOGETHER HE WILL VETO
BOTH .
HIS MESSAGE
CONTAINS OPINIONS
Washington, Aug." 14. President
Taft has returned from Beverly brlnfrv
ing the veto message for the State
hood bilL It contains his Opinions ot
the recall provision of the Arizona
constitution anda his reason for a veto.,
As the jeoolution of bothe territoriea
wero coupled together, the New
Mexico constitution will also bev
vetoed. v
SURROUNDED BY SOLDIERS
Haitian Congress Has Convened to,
Elect Leconte President.
Port Au Prince, Haiti, Aug. 14.
The aHitian Congress is surrounded
by soldiers who met to elect General
Leconto president.
ANARCHY AND
POPULISM
HEYBURN DECLARES THE BILL,
TO COMPEL THE SUPREME:
COURT TO BE UNANIMOUS. --THIRD
DEGREE METHODS
Washington, Aug. 14. The House
today considered the wool' bill.Dr,
W. D. Bigelow, assistant' chief of the.
Bureau of Chemistry, told the House,,
committee that is investigating thQ .
Wiley case of Solicitor MeCabe'a
third degree methods and domination,
of all pure food pros'ecution. , ,
- Senator Bourne introduced a bll ;
to compel the Supreme Court to have .
an unanimous decision in all cases af
fecting the constitutionality of Fed: .
eral or State laws or. State censtitu-. -tions.
Senator Heyburn said it 'was "A.
cross between anarchy and populism.''
The bill was referred to the Judi-";
ciary committee.
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TO-DAY'S MARKET
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pOTTON.
New Yirk, Aug. 14. Cotton opened,
at from 8 to 11 points higher. Futures
and spots arc dull in Liverpool.
New York... Aug. 14. -The opening
on cottonjwas: September, 11.27; Oc
tober 11.22; December, 11.23; Janu
ary, 11.18, and at 11:30 was as fol
lows": Oatober, 11.34; December, 11.28;
January, 11.21;- March, 11.26.
J' At 2 p. m. cotton was as follows:
October, 11.26; December, 11.27;i
January, 11.21; March, 11.29.
NEW YORK STOCKS.
New; York, Aug. 14. There waa a
brisk demand in the opening of the
stock market this morning with gcina
in Union Pacific, common, of 1-4;.
Missouri Pacific, 2 ; Erie, prof erred,
1 1-2; American Smelting, 7-8; Amal
gamated Copper, 1-8; U. S. Steel, 3-4;
Southern Pacific and. Southern Rail
way 1-2; Reading, 5-8; Atchison 7-8,
At the end of fifteen minutes profit
taking began and tho early advance
was lost. The market's tone becamo
nervous. The curb was dull. Am
ericans In London - are irregulr.r. " .
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago, Aug. 14 Opening in Sep
tember wheat was ( 92 1-2 to 1-8; Sep
tember corn, 65 5-8 to 66.
Chicago, -Aug. 14. At 11:30 Septem
ber wheat was 91 5-8 and September "
com 64 3-4. -
At 2 p. m; wheat was as follows:
September, 90 5-8; September coni,
64 1-8:
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