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z THE UPLAND SOUTH IS TO AN AMERICAN WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NOT LOCAL A PAPER OF THE HILLS AND MOUNTAINS. BECOME THE FUTURE "NEW ENGLAND" THE INDUSTRIAL RENTER OF AMERICA. r For the Progress ot the Piedmont-Mountain South. VOL 4. NO. 6 SHELBY. N.C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1913 PRICE, $1.00 the Year, 5c. the Copy. MORE THAN DOUBLETHE CIRCULATION OF ANY OTHER PAPER BETWEEN CHARLOTTE AND ASHEVILLE 3 WORK DONE BFJMBS EILL TO INCREASE NUMBER OF JUDGES SENATE LIKE HOUSE PASSES MEASURE. TO CONFERE AS TO RATES Governor Craig Appoints Senator! Council, E. J. Justice and Broughton as the Commission' N. B Oth er Work Done by Both Houses. Senate Wednesday. The senate discussed at consider able length, the question ot whethei constitutional amendments shall be submitted to the people bp this sea sion or by a special session next full Petitions were sent up by Senators Brown, Coffey, Hall, Ivie, Payne Barnes, Peebles, Evans of Bladen Bryant and Davis for a six-months school term and compulsory educatior law; by Hooks, from Woman's Club ol Coldsboro, for right of women tc serve on school committees, for bet ter laws regulating labor of woiner and children and for a. vital statis tics law: by Pharr from the Eclectic Club of Charlotte, for the vital statis tics law. House Wednesday. There were numbers of petitions re ported from various sections of the state for the child labor legislation six-months school terms and cotnpul sory attendance, better roads, searcl anad seizure law, and petitions for the state to provide for the expenses o: the state militia in attending the in .auguration of President Wilson. Bills passed final reading as fol Jows: Gordon bill to require preparatioi :for University and four-years readin? medicine before persons can be li censed to practice. , Senate bill to authorise the sura inuuiiIl'u7srom for the trial of causes in certain cases House bill to prevent infant blind ness. House bill to prevent he use o firearms by children; parents an guardians being guilty of niisde meanor under certain circumstances Senate Thursday. Raleigh. The Senate voted 37 to H for the appointment of the legislativi committee of five from the Senate anc eight from the House and the com mission of five by the Governor as t constitutional amendment comniis sion, a3 recommended by the Join Committee on Constitutional Amend merits. , A message from Governor Craisr sub mitted the proposition from K. C Duncan to buy the State's stock in th A. & N. C. Railroad for $94!),950 it cash, 75 per cent of par value. Among reports of committees was an unfavorable report from the Com mittee on Education. House Thursday. Petitions from many parts of th atate for six months school terms, fo compulsory school attendance, chile 'labor legislation, special school ta: levies, woman's suffrage and state-widi dog tax. A message received from the Gov ernor, transmitting without recom meudation the proposition of E. C Duncan to purchase the state's stocl In the Atlantic & North Carolina Rail Toad Co., was referred to the Finance (Committee. 1 Bills passed final reading as fol flows: Relative to fbe issuance of bond! Iln Forsyth county fo rthe Roanoke & Southern Railroad. To validate" electric light bonds li lAsheboro. To allow Red Springs to Issue pchool bonds. ' Senate Friday. The Senate passed the Judiciarj Committee's substitute for the Nortt Carolina Bar Association jury billi providing for 12 peremptory challenge: by the defendant in capital cases anc four for the state, the state to stand none at the foot of the panel, and do ing away with the requirement that Jurors in the box must be freeholders Petitions were received from citi sens of Northampton county for bond ing railroad employes; front citizeni of Littleton for an appropriation ol $20,000 for the Oxford Orphanage; from Farmers' Union of Halifax coun ty for six-months school term and compulsory school law; from Junioi Order Councils at Statesville, Gas tonia. Pilot Mountain, Franklinton and Asheboro for better child labor law and compulsory .sdiool law. House Friday. In thfe House the Kellura bill passed .by a good-sised majority, directing the Corpcfltion Commission to investi gate, the receiver's sale tq.thg A. Yl Railroadana subsequent divisiou of the old Capo Fear & Yadkin Val ley Railroad, Wilmington to Mount Airy, by the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line, and report to the Attorney General as to findings that indicate conspiracy to throttle competition in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The following bills were ratified: To authorize Commissioners of For syth county to issue refunding bonds for the Roanoke & Southern Railroad. Senate&Saturday. The senate passed the house joint resolution for the governor to ap point a committee of three to con fer with officials of railroad compa nies in effort to settle contest over freight rate discrimination without retaliatory legislation at this ses sion. House bill to amend Revisal so as to require hunters starting tires to ex tinguish them passed final readings. The-following alBo passed: Senate bill fixing boundary line" be tween, two school tax districts in Wilkes. Senate bill to empower Madison county to buy land adjacent to court house for better fire protection. Senate bill to appoint magistrates in Nash and ratify their acts. Senate resolution to pay expenses of Vacation Committee on Home for Wives and Widows of Veterans. Announcement was made of the consideration of all divorce bills by the two judiciary committees on Tues day afternoon at 3 o'clock in the senate chamber. House Saturday. There were, petitions introduced ad vocating six-months minimum terms of public school;, for compulsory attendance; for location of the proposed Western Carolina Teacher Training school and for child labor legislation. Representative (Hark of Pitt coun ty introduced in the house a drastic anti-cigarette bill as follows: "Whereas, the public welfare de mands that tho health of its citizens be protected, and that the young men of our state be allowed to grow to a fully developed manhood; and whereas the use of tobacco in the form of cigarettes 1b admitted and recognized as very injurious to tte. human system, '.therefore the genei 3 "Section 1 That it shall be a mis demeanor for any person, firm or cor poration to manufacture or sell, of fer to sell, or to bring into the state for the purpose of selling, giving away, or otherwise disposing of, anj cigarettes, cigarette papers or sub stitute for the same; and a. violation of any of the provisions of this acl shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $50. Senate Monday. . A bill introduced in the Senate by Weaver would regulate the use ol assumed names in partnership. The following bills passed final read ing: Senate bill to consolidate anc amend laws relating to graded schools of Wilson. Senate bill authorizing bond issue for Henderson Graded schools. Senate bill authorizing Hunters ville school district No. 1, Mecklen burg county, to issue bonds. House bill authorizing addition roac bonds for Franklin township, Franklin House bill amending .act of 1909 relative to road bond election in Unioc county. House bill providing for good roadi in Robersonville township, Martir county. Senate bill to amend and consoil date road laws of Madison county. House Monday. Several petitions for compulsorj education and six-months niinimurr schools were offered. Bills passed final reading as fo! lows: Road law for Stokes county; sent to the Senate. Bill for school bond issue in Scot land county. This was ordered en rolled for ratification. For building a bridge across Soutt River by Sampson and Cumberland counties. Road law for Person county. To encourage stock raising in Ma con county; sent to the senate. To create the office of county audi tor for Henderson county; ordered enrolled. Senate Tuesday. Petitions were received from em ployes of Rutherford county cotton mills against the enactment of furthei laws restricting the right of employers to contract for labor; from citizens ol Wayne county for law prohibiting use of two-wheeled log-drags on public roads; from Waynej Durham, Madi son, Forsyth, Cabarrus counties for six-months school 'term. Tho Nimorks amendment was lost by 7 to 40 and Bryant's by 17 to 24 The bill was passed on the second reading by 37 to 6, and after it pass ed the third reading, on motion ol Senator Jones, the rote was reconsid ered and that motion tabled, clinching the Senate'.1 .af.tioji. NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD A CONDENSED RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE WEEK. SEVEN DAYS' NEWS AT A GLANCE Important Happenings In All Parts of ' the World Summarized for the Busy Reader. Southern. The British steamer Fredericke, 16 days overdue from Middleboro, Eng land, and for which grave fears were entertained, reached Savannah, Ga., Capt. Robert Fretwurst reporting a terrific hurricane in latitude 44 north, longitude 20 west. The seas were the largest he ever encountered. The cabins were half filled with water, and everything movable was strip ped. The wind velocity was enor mous and the barometer sank to 27.70. The failure of a fuse to burn was all that saved the mother-in-law and wife of J. G. Hall, when he threw a stick of dynamite under their feet at Haylow, Ga. Hall fled, but was soon arrested and put in jail at Statenville, Ga. He had not been on good terms with his wife, who went to the home of her mother. Mis. Cordell. They were standing on the porch when Hall ran bv. throwing the explosive at them. C:tUini;- at the home of Mrs- Alfred Morton, Henry Steele, a traveling salesman, 28- years old, asked to see Miss Klsie Morton, with whom he was acquainted bci'oie he went west. When tola that she had become the brido of another man and could not see him he pulled a pistol and sent a bullet in bis brain at Birmingham, Ala. He had i-eturnedM'rom the west and heard of t'ie marriage of .Miss .Morton after coining home. It is estimated that the loss caus ed by Savannah's- liver front fire will reach a million and a half dollars. Ex act figures cannot be had for several days. The National Hobo convention has come to an end in New Orleans. Ac cording to announcement made by orKoni.ation has been wrecked on the rocks of Socialism. He said. that the attempt, to hold a convention in New Orleans had been a flat failure. Mrs. Anne Gartreli Grady, mother of i he late, Henry W. Grady, is dead at the homo of her granddaughter in Atl inta, Ga. The Fusionists of Tennessee scored a sweeping victory in Tennessee by electing their candidates in three contests for state officers. Dr. F. M. Ridley, Sr., of LaGrange, Ga., has been tendered by the 1'nited States government the posiiion of chairman of a commission of public health. Doctor Ridley is one of the most distinguished and best known men in Georgia in his profession. . General. Another attempt to place William R. Nelson.' editor and owner of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, in jail for contempt of court was blocked when Sheriff Winstanley, in the Kansas City court of appeals, repudiated a mo tion filed in his name by "friends-of the court' of Circuit Judge Joseph A. Guthrie, asking that a writ of habeas corpus, on which Mr. Nelson was re 'leased, be quashed. As a protest against the withdraw al of the franchise bill by the Eng lish government, the suffragists have resumed their militant tactics in Lon don. While a deputation, which the chancellor of the exchequer, David Lloyd-George, had refused to see, was trying to force its way into paMia met t against an overwhelming force of police, and women were being ar resist! for resisting the officers, the other bands of women went through Whitehall breaking windows of the government offices and through Cock spur, and other... streu..w;jjere th . House Tuesday. There were numerous petitions rel ative to six-months school terms, child labor, for expenses of military com panies to the inaguFation of Woodrow Wilson to be paid by the state, against the proposed state fish commission, and for the usual appropriation to the Oxford Orphan Asylum. Bills passed final reading as follows: House bill as to the rate of interest to be charged for waterworks bonds for Lillington. House bl) to allow a bond issue for schools in a certain Cleveland County district A message came from the Governor to the . effect tbat"he has appointed Senator W. C. Council, Representa tive E. J. Justice and N. B. Broughton as the special commission, under the Justice resolution, to confer with rail road officials and report as to the pos sibility of amioablei elimination of the freight rate discriminations agstnst North Carolina shipping; . points sa mncVt fomjrtslneS of st this lime great'plat e "glasswlnd6ws'rin" the" e p tablisbments of shipping companies and other establishments were ruth lessly smashed. Eight United States senators were elected in eight different states of the Union. Six of the number are Demo crats and two Republicans. Three ol the number are members of the na tional upper house and were re-elected. The new senators are William H. Thompson of Kansas, William Hughes of New Jersey, Judge W. M. Kava naugh of Arkansas, Representative Morris Sheppard of Texas and Key Pittman of Nevada, all Demociats, and A. B. Fall of New Mexico and Francis "F.. -Warren of Wyoming. Re publicans. B. R. Tillman of South Carolina was re-elected. Katherine Scanlon of PiUsburg, Pa., hid $500 in her hair when she heard a burglar ransacking the house and, although he searched the; room where she was, he failed to find the money. A message to .President Taft an nounces that the work of excavation on the canal would be completed soon. A bill has been Introduced in the Minnesota senate making it a felony with a prison sentence for one fam ily to steal a servant girl from an other." The father of the bill declared the family friendships were ' broken by the enticing away of maids. With the palace of justice under a heavy guard of armed troops end gen darmes, the trial of twenty automo bile bandits who created a reign of terror in Paris last year began with vast crowds present. King Mcnelik of Abyssinia is dead according to a dispatch received In London, Engiand, from Addis-Abeba. His successor, Prince I.idj Jeassu.one 3f his grandsons, entered the capital with great pomp. It is officially announced that hos tilities have begun both at Adriatio ple and Tchatalja. At Adrianoplo the allies began bombardment. At Tchat alja an insignificant skirmish occur red. The armistice iasted two months. Bulgaria turned a deaf ear to the remonstrances of the powers, and unless Turkey yields to the Bal kan demands, the allies will attempt to drive het completely out of Eu rope. Prosperity favored the Federal gov ernment during January, large cus toms and internal revenue receipts turning JoBe'i V fiwaj-y prnt a surplus of $5,415,63.". Woodrow Wilson accepted the offer of the students of Princeton univer sity to escort him from his homo in Princeton to the white house on the day he is inaugurated. Just a century ago Princeton gave its last president to the nation James Madison. The centenary will be celebrated in a unique way, to which Mr. Wilson has given his consent. The rogues' gallery of New York City, in which it has been charged that there has been favoritsm, will be investigated by an aldermanic com mittee. The peace negotiations, which reached. a deadlock over the cessa tion of Adrianople on January H, were finally broken by a note which the plenipotentiaries of the Balkan allies presented to Rechad Pasha, head of the Turkish, delegation. The plan of the allied governments, so far as the plenipotentiaries are informed, is to concentrate their forces on Adriano ple immediately after the expiration of the prescribed four days, if the surrender of the fortress does no: oc cur in the meantime. A bandit robbed the safe of an ?xpress car and escaped with a bag of , currency said to contain several thousand dollars. The car was at tached to a Chicago special express train em a branch of the Pennsylva nia railroad. LEGISLATOR MILLER S BILLS Progressive Measures for Which Cleve land's Representative Stands at Raleigh In response to a request from The Highlander for a summary of the measures thatMaj. R. B. Miller. Cleve land's representative in the State legis lature, is fathering and favoring, he very kindly sent the following tele graphic dispatch:4 Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 5. The Highlander, Sheldy, N. C. (1) Read bonds for No. 5 and No. 7 townships: (2) Shelby bonds to pay bal ance electric and water debts; (3) Elect graded school committee; (4) Amend Boiling Springs charter; (5) Limiting taxes and fines for roads; (6) The in corporation drainage la,w to meet local conditions. (7) Pure shoes; (8) Resti tution for etolen property; (0) Employ ers liability for extra hazardous employ ment; (10) Amend educational require ments granting license to physicians; (11) Corrupt Practices Act; ,(12) Tor tens bill; (13) State primary; (14) Build ing Beeociation limiting oorrowing to thirty percent of paid stock; (15) Aus tralian ballot; thin pwHits action on State primary which will be considered t'-nigbt. i R. 11. Miller. GREAT MONAZITE MASS MEETING The dead monazite industry of the Carolinas will blossom into life again and prosperity flow more freely in the channels of trade in this section if Con gress heeds the resolutions adopted here Monday at the mass meeting of repres entatives of the monazite mines of the Carolinas. It was a meeting of great enthusiasm, well attended, despite the downpour of rain and one shared the common desire to Bee this great mineral flourish once more. W. D. Lackey of Fallston was elec ted to preside over the meeting. W. H. Miliar was elected secretary, with the members of the press present as assis tant secretaries. Geo. L. English, who had been most active in the promotion or the mass meeting and who has been doing valor ous work looking to the restoration of t!ie monazite industry, was sick at home and could not attend. Representative R. B. Miller came from Raleigh at the special request of those interested in the meeting and de livered a stirring address on the wrongs perpetrated upon the miners of North and South Carolina by a combination of American and German manufacturers of thorium and monazite products in the framing of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. He argued that it would not be other wise than Democratic to urge the pres ent Congress to undo the work of a pre vious bill that had as its aim the des truction of an industry. It was repres ented to Congress in 1909, he said, that all the mines in this section were owned by a trust and that the lowering of the tariff on thorium and monazite would kill the trust, while the fact of the matter is that the mines are owned by thousands of landowners over sixteen counties embracing 10,000 square miles. He closed by urging the adoption of the resolution memorializing Congress to re store the original duties and to reduce the duty on mantle scrap to the origi al duty of 20 per cent. Recorder J. A. Anthony made a few minutes talk, telling marnteregtiri tilings about the development of the monazite industry here and the mani pulations and schemes of the German Brazilian monazite combination. The resolutions, appearing elsewhere 'n this paper, wero adopted unanimously by a rising vote. MR. HICKS' APPRECIATION To the Editor ot The Jlisrhlander: Lawndale, R. 1. Please allow me space in your columns to thank my friends for the interest they manifest ed in my behalf in the contest just closed. I cannot express in words my appreciation of the great number who subscribed for my own special benefit. It is true I did not get either of the prizes, but I have something I prize higher, and that is a host of loyal, true blue friends. Therefore, under the circumstances, that while we lost the ccveted prize auto, we have as much or more than the real winner. B. C. Hicks. Church Notice There will be services in the Episco pal church on Sunday, Feb. 9th, at 7:30 and 11:00 a. m. See page 8 for the first specimen Australian ballot ever printed by a newspaper in this State. The Highlander as a "lamp of light" in nearly every home with in a radius of eight or ten miles of his hospitable domicile in No. 7 toweship. He has the con ciousness of increased friend ships and of having promoted a good cause, even though big suc cess in the finals did not come his way. J. B. Hamrick, who won piano, takes gracefully the defeat of his hopes for the auto. There is not a bigger-hearted man in the State. To win second in so great and so hard fought a race is great honor. Mr. Thompson of Rutherford county had less competition than the others. His capture of the automobile tell?, also, a story of the large devotion of a legion of f riendf. He is a popular, prosper ous, hospitable man. He comes frim the same township as the winner of firet laurels last year. 'Our hats off to him. THOMPSON WINS THE AUTOMOBILE J. B. Hamrick Award ed the Piano POPULARITY CONTEST WAS A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS By Far the Greatest Ever Con ducted in This Section About Seventy-Five Million Votes Cast --$1,500 Worth of Prizes-Our Circulation is Now 5,000 JUDGES' AWARD We, the undersigned, judges in THE HIGHLANDER'S fODU- larity Prize Contest, hereby declare that the following is the true and correct result of our count of the ballots cast for the six highest can didates: Ed Thompson 12.595,700 J. B. Hamrick 11,761,990 B. C. Hicks 11,489,710 J. A. Wilson 7,349,525 Z. R. Walker 5,756,130 J. F. Eaker 5,338,135 We further declare it to be our opinion that, so far as we could observe, the contest was conducted in absolute fairness to all. Especially was this true in the handling of the final turn-ins, covering several days, which had come through the mails and were left for us to open, count the money and credit the votes. (Signed) D. Z. Newton, George Hoyle, J. F. Ledford. above is the report of the j uilg-es" seit zled'Tfy '"tire : igeuLng candi'Iatas. It to-ils a story of perseverance and herrjlean efforts on the part ox contestants and their many friends. Out of about two hundred can didates, originally entered, the above stand as the ones who re ceive the laurels of achievement over all. Even those of the above who do not win high prizes, including such worthy men as Gus. Jolley, Marvin Blanton, Sylvanus Gard ner and W. W. Washburn, have the satisfaction of knowing that they have more friends than they suspected they had and this re servoir of friendship is a more valuable possession than auto mobiles, pianos or the world's glitter and tinsel. Messrs. B. C. Hicks and J.jB Hamrick are two men who lacked but a comparatively few votes of winning. They each have legions of friends. Mr. Hicks was The Highlander's ambassador -of Upper Cleveland. He and his . friends have earned the eternal gratitude of this paper for the great advancement of its cause in a section where it was for a ' time misunderstood. Mr. Eaker was another original pioneer of the contest and lead for a long time. He is a popular leader of his vicinity and of the county. He is a splendid man, all around, and his vote records a tremendous popularity, al though it does not reveal the full extent of his influence. Busi ness duties kept Mr. Eaker from active interest in the contest dur ing January. 0 The man who stood fourth came within a week of landing first po sition. That is to say, had the ac tivity of himselfand friends been as strenuous during the week pre vious as they were in the final stretch, the victory would have been his. That noble knight-errant among THE HIGHLANDER'S friends was the scholarly and popular J. A. Wilson. Mr. Welk.T . f NT". 7 planted (Cfuii'iucu in colum to Jhtif ft I, T t ft-.;-; I. 'v. . I. w