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GOVERNORS MEET AGAIN Conservation Conference Calls Them Together. IN WASHINGTON TODAY Distinguished Men From All Parts of America Assemble to Put Into Shape Report on the Country's National Wealth to Be Hubmitt-i to Presi dent Roosevelt Jan. 1?Water, Lands, Forests and Minerals the Topics of Discussion?Retiring and Incc rung Presidents to Speak. Washington, Dec. 8.?Not since last May. when the governors of the states met here In response to the Invitation of President Roosevelt to discuss the ouestlojk of the conservation of the cation's resources, has the national ?'apltad been the scene of so notable a KfctlvrtnK as that which assembled lie re today. Tht governors of the states are again tfiMrt*. either In person or by proxy, -with a great throng of other distin guished men. The purpose of their GIFFORD PINCHOT. meting Is a Joint "conservation confer ence" with the national conservation commission iu order to get under way th# most important part of the work of the conference?the report to the pres ident on the national resources. The report is due Jan. 1. Roosevelt and Taft to Speak. Today's sessions began this morning with an informal meeting in the red room of the Willard hotel for the pur pose of organizing. This afternoon there will be a great general meeting In the Belasco theater, at which Presl dent Roosevelt and President Elect Taft will be among the speakers who will address the members of the joint conservation conference, the rivers and harbors congress, the southern com mercial congress and other organiza tions with allied objects whose ses ?Ions in Washington help to make up ?what has been called "conservation week." After the opening session the Joint conference will take up its business in ?ameit at the Hubbard Memorial hall. The plan Is to take up one after an other, the main subjects which the na tional conservation commission tinder Chairman Gifford Pinchot has been studying?waters, landH, forests, min erals Meeting of Distinguished Men. Distinguished men. Including gov ernors. senators, representatives, bank era, business men and others, will ad dress the meetings. J. J. Hill. John Mitchell. Andrew Carnegie and a seore of other representative men have ac cepted Invitations to be present. Since the conference seven months *go, when the president quickened the Interest of the entire nation in one of Its most perplexing problems, the na tlonal conservation commission has made an inventory of the natural re sources of the country. This Inven tory will be presented to Chairman Plnchot. who in his report to the pres ident .Ian. 1 will make recommenda tions which both the work of the com mission and the Joint conference may suggest as vital in solving the conser vation problem. The Inventory Is completed now as far as present knowledge can go. The members of the commission declare and the country as a whole is con vlnced that the state of affairs is | one that requires Immediate and ef fective action. Effective Action Needed. Th* problem that the Joint confer ence must help to solve Is what form this action must take and In what direction It must be pushed to be most effective. This Is a task which de mands the shrewdest Judgment which the national conservation commission ran call to its aid. The commission declares that it realizes that It has r<*iched the critical point In Its work All the Information It has gathered in tt* months ot study will result In nnth Ing of permanent value unless It can l>e made the basis of a practical pro irran) of constructive activity. Bank Hold-Ups Get $15,000. Portland. Ora., Dec. 8.?The East Side bank was held op by three meo ? nd robbed of $15,000. ? OIL TRUST'S PROFITS On* Company, Capitalized at $1,000,000, Karnad W4.000.000 In Sevan Year*. N?"w York, Dee I.?Figures showing some of tbe profits of the Standard Oil cunpau became part of th* court recoid lu the federal suit to dlaaolve the Standard company, when John D. ArchboM iteamed the atand for a brief examination. and Preaident Henry Til ford of Hi* Standard Oil Company of California, testified at aome length as a wliiie*, for the defense. The govern ment Inquisitor, on figure* submitted, showed that the Continental Oil com pany, a Standard subsidiary In the middle *e?t, made profits of 111 per cent on Its capitalization of $300,000 and tbai the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. on a capitalization of fl,> 000,000. <>Mined about |.r)5,000,000 be tween ,11** and 1906. T f-? r Tllfnrd the counsel for ? lie " Miiuent (ought to bring out that in < slifornla and other state* of the far ???t the Standard had made r-ontia'K ?Itb its competitor* where by the Standard obtained all the crude oil suppl\ and thereby enjoyed the reflniiiK Weld to Itself. Mr. Tliford said h* bad little knowledge of these con tract ?< deferring to oil trade rate cutting In Colorado and In the far west. Mr Ttlford said that the Stand ard n?vei cut prices to undersell Its competitors, but simply lowered r*tes to meut the reductions of Its rivals. KING IN POOR HEALTH British Ruler Going to 8easide Resort to Recuperate. Ixuidon. Dec. 8.?King Bdward has had rlitfl. ulty In shaking off the cold and toil' b of rheumatism from which he lis* been suffering for some time. He wa* obliged to remain in the house at Ran.11 lugiiiim all last woek, and hi* projected visit to Ivord and l.ady II chester this week has been abandoned. His ma.ie.ity intends going on to a re sort on the south roast, where the weather Ik milder, to recuperate. CONGRESS IN SHORT SESSION Listens to President's Message and Adjourns. Washington. Dec. 8.?Following the usual procedure in such casea, tbo two house. of congress adjourned today after li?i?oing to thn reading of tlie inxst-js? ri.iiu the president. Th? landing was followed with In terest by most of the senators and represeiiiailves, there being a general feeling thai this mark of attention was due to tb* last annual message sent to congi by President Roosevelt. The salleui points were closely followed. Intur-' t in the short session of con gress i? ?ulered in the changes in the senate < ominittees due to the death of Senaioi Allison, who was chairman of the comuilitee on appropriations, the most important on the list with the possible exception of the finance com mittee. There will be few changes of importance u the house of represen tative* Senauir Hale, of Maine, is the rank ing mmibei of the senate appropria tions committee. During the short ses sion. bo#ei?r, Mr. Hale may retain his pi* ? as chairman of the naval commitie? and at the game ti?io be J acting i hainnan of the appropriations commit i Thia would make him eaa 11v on* 01 ih? two most influential men in the senat*. the other being Senator Aldrli 11 uf Khode Island, chairman of the com mil on finance. TAFT AT RED CROSS MEET He U President of Society, Which M??t> In Washington Today. Washington, Dec. 8. ? The annual meeting of the National Ited Cross so ciety, held here today, was attended by President Elect William H. Taft, president ot the society. Koutine busi ness onlr will be transacted at the meeting* of the society, it Is expect ed that tiie present officers will be re elected. Judgr raft's attendance at the meet ing, de?|ilte his other pressing engage ments. wai due largely to the efforts of Mls? Mabel T. Hoard man, of Wash ington. member of the executive com mittee of the society, who is very active In Its work. Judge Taft has been (really interested in the society since its reorganization in 1905, when he wa* elected president. HIS MIND A BLANK Weli-Dreased Man, With $600 In His Pockat. Picked Up In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Dec. 8.?A well dressed man, who aapareully stepped from the fit. Lout- limited express train on the Penns Ivania railroad at North Phila delphia station, is a patient In an up town hospital, suffering from a form of aspbnsis. The man's mind is blank so far a? any knowledge of himself Is concerned, and the authorities have been unable to learn anything about him. lie ?as found In a bewildered state at the railway station, and the only clue to his identity is In the form of a ? aid found In his sut case on which i? tho name W. O. Mackey and the addrsas Marlboro. Ulster county New York. The man declares he doet not kno* Mackey. His black suit and oven oat ate of excellent quality, and he in ua?i>esttonably a man of good I drcumstaacea. In Us pocket was found ??>?>?. PRIESTS AND NUNS LOSERS . Concern That Financed Catholic Buildings Collapsed. A $4,500,000 FAILURE Receiver Takes Charge of the Fidelity Funding Company and Saya There Are Virtually No Assets?Declares Books Are Missing?Churches, Semi naries and Colleges Are Involved. Now York, Dee. 8.?That the attain of the fidelity Funding company, which was organized under the laws of this state In 1899 to finance the building operations of Catholic churches and allied Institutions, are in an exceedingly tangled condition U as serted by the receiver, Thomas F. Gil roy, Jr. P. J. Kleran, recently president of the company, could not be found when | sought for a statement In connection with the company's affairs, and was said to be out of the city. Gllroy said that the company's lia bilities will aggregate not less than $4,DUO,000, with virtually no assets. Its creditors Include at least fifty churches, seminaries, colleges and many priests and nuns. These are lo cated all over the country. Chief among the company's credi tors is St. Mary's academy, of Nauvoo, 111., which Is involved for at least $500, ?juu. . "I cannot give even an approximate 1 Idea of the company's affairs at thlF time," said Receiver Gllroy, "as some 9f the most Important books and pa pers are missing. 1 understand that Mr. Kleran claimed them as his per lonal property. H1b lawyer, llalnbridge Colby, has promised to yroduce these | books and papers." As explained by the receivers, most 3t the Fidelity bounding company's loans were to rua for twenty years. The company also Issued life Insur ance against the lives of priests and uuns. A rate of interest ranging from ; l> to 9 per cent was charged for both loan and insurance. The Fidelity Funding company, it seems, also sold Its bonds to represen tatives of the Catholic church. These are secured by mortgages on property but how much may ba recovered from this source it is as yet impossible tc say. Besides the Fidelity Funding com pany. Kleran conducted a number ol subsidiary companies. These were th? Columbia Construction company. Fed eral Construction company, McBride Studios company and the Western llii nols & Iowa Kallroad company. All these, Receiver Gilroy declares, were financed by funds from the Fidel ity Funding company, though in no way allied, but are not asserted to be involved in the Fidelity Funding com pany's troubles. The authorized capital of the Fidel ity Founding company was $5,000,000 and $2,500,00(1 surplus. Of this amount | not more than about $100,000 was act ually paid in, the receiver says, the l buyers of the stock being for the most part priests and nuns. Former Secretary of the Treasury I i site M. Shaw is down on the com pany's books as having made a loan of $?0.000 to Kieran. This Is secured. Mr. Shaw also purchased $10,000 of the company's stock, the books show. The present ho?d of the company is Duncan H. Sill, and among its former directors were F'ather i-antgan. vicat general of the Buffalo diocese, an I F"ather Fletcher, pastor of the Balti more i. aiuvurai. HURT IN HOTEL FIRE Woman Jumps From Third Story Win dow of Atlantic City Hostelry. Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 8.?Half a hundred guests in the l^aschelle hotel, in South Carolina avenue, had a re markable narrow escape from death when the house was destroyed by fire. With one exception all escaped with out serious injury, but they saved none of their clothing or personal effects. Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, an aged wo- j man. whose home is in Wilkinsburg. | Pa., was fo-red to Jump from a high ( window. Both her legs were broken and she sustained other injuries. She died several hours later. The house was wrecked and It was only by the greatest effort that the " firemen prevented the blaze extending to adjoining property. Crlmly Tells of Approaching Death. Toledo, O., Dec. 8.?"1 won't be with you much longer. The doctors tell me that I may live a month, but not longer than six months." In a voice that showed no more emotion than he might exhibit In one of his regular sermons. Kev. John P. McCloskey, as sistant rector of the Church of the Im maculate Conception, told his congre gation that his death is near. He in formed his listeners that he was suf fering with cancer of the esophagus, in Incurable disease, and that his phy sicians had told him an operation would be useless. Shot Boy For Snowballing Him. Schenectady. N. Y.. Dec. 8.?Goaded is desperation by the persecutions of boys who were snowballing him, Adolph Schultze. aged forty years, shot and mortall'- wounded Mark Klllgalen. aged seventeen, one of his alleged tor mentors. Thf boy died two hours later. Schultze was arrested. MUST BE PUT TO DEATH Iheuld Physician Rsvive Prisoner Hs Will B* Elsctrocuted Again. Trenton, N. J., Dec. 8. prosecutor William J. Croasley, speaking of the jrop"-"<1 test by County Physician to sae If life can be restored Ui? irocutlon. which test Is to ba nan* In the case of Jr"jn Mantaaanoa, *ho is to go to the electric chair the ireek of Dec. 21, said that If the test ibould result in restoring Mantasanua o life the prisoner would have to be itoctrocuted over again. This, he said, voulil be necessary In order to carry >ut the sentence of the law that the prisoner be "put to death." County Physician Scannell, when old of the prosecutor's statement and isked If it would have any effect on he proposed test, said it would not rht- test, he aald, would be made. The :ounty physician, however, said he tad not the slightest notion that the est will result In restoring life. He laid the test was merely going to be nade In order to satisfy public centl nent because of the cont^ptlon that tad been made that electrocution does lot cause, death. Dr. Bcaonell said bat personally he was satisfied that he test would prove that the electro :uted man was dead. GETS WILFLEY S PLACE Rufus Thayer Made Judge of United States Court at Shanghai. Washington, Dec. 8. ? President ftoosevelt has appointed Rufus Thayar, >f the District of Columbia, as Judge >f the United Btates court at Bhang lal. China, succeeding Judge I,ebblus L Wllfley, resigned. Judge Wllfley was for a long time under serious ^barges brought by Americans In Shanghai, but was exonerated. Hid esignation Is understood to be ?ary. WIRELESS WORKS UNDERGROUND mentor Telegraphs by Means ol Tubes Sunk in Ground. Wilkes Barre, Pa., Dec. 8.?Father ioseph Murgas, of this city, who hag patented an aerial wireless telegraph lystem, the practical usefulness of which he has demonstrated, has de eded to establish a station at Bing namton, N. Y., and also, as soon as patents for his new underground wire ess system are received, to have an mderground wireless station at Blng lamton. to fully develop his sending ind receiving apparatus. Rev. John Porubeky, pastor of the Binghamton Slovak Catholic church, will have charge of the station there. Father Murgas has conducted under troiind wireless experiments at a dis ance of half a mile. At each of the aalf-mile stations he has sunk to a iepth of thirty feet an aluminum tube coated with silver. This is Incased in mother tube containing oil. He says ae can send underground wireless messages from New York to San Fran ?isco with only three stations. HELD FOR"READ" MURDER Bridgeton Mayor Commits Three Men : to Court on Homicide Charge. Bridgeton, N. J., Dec. 8.?A hearing , was given Walter Zeller, Cline Wheel ?r and Herbert Orlgg by Mayor George ' Hampton on the charge of murdering < William Road, a retired contractor, , iear Vlneland on the evening of Nov. 13. Detective Frank L?re was the only witness, and the trio was recommitted , o jail to await the action of the De cember terra of court. Dying ef Hiccoughs. Chester, Pa.. Dec. 8.?George Samp ?ell. aged forty-flve years, of 1017 West ' I'hlrd street, this city, 1s hiccoughing limseif to death. Six days ago Samp iell was taken ill with erysipelas in his -ight arm. and about the same time was seized with a hiccoughing attack, rhe hiccoughs occur at intervals of a ' 'ew minutes, and the man Is wasting iwaj. He is unable to eat; his heart lotion keeps growing weaker and the pain he suffers is excruciating. Herman Bllllk Gets Reprieve. Springfield. 111., Dec.' 8. ? Herman Billik. sentenced to be hanged Dec. 11 tor the murder of Mary Vzral, was granted a reprieve until Jan. 29 by Acting Governor Sherman. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. The Latest Closing Prices In tho Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA ? KLOUR firm; sinter extras, new. 93.75{j3.90; Pecn lylvania roller, clear. 84@4.25: city nllis. fancy. 95 8506. RYE KLOUR juiet: per barrel. 94.15@4 25 WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, western. 91.06^ 1.06*4 CORN quiet. No. 2 yellow, lo -al. STVic. OATS firm, No. 2 white. Mipped, 56c ; lower grades. 84c HAY steady; timothy, large bales. (14.50 POULTRY: Live steady; lens 11H@12V4c.; old roosters, gWc. . ,">re*s?d steady; choice fowls, 14c.; old roosters. 9Vjc. BUTTER steady; ex :ra creamery. 3?c. E<'.GS Arm; se eded. 40? 42c.'nearby. S6e.; western. 16c. POTATOES steady; per bushel. <3? 85c. Sweet Potatoes, per basket. 10 (d 50c. HAI-TIMOTHS?WHEAT firmer; No. ! spot, $1.08\@109; steamer No 2 spot. $1.03^01.04; southern. 91.?5<r 1.06. CORN steady: contract mixe 1 spot. 67*s067Hc.; steamer mixed. <4 U"64t4c,; southern. 62"4 0 67Vlc.; year, 57%'8?7%c. OATS Arm; white. No. 2. >5V4c.; No. 3. 54'i?55c.: No. 4 52H? i^jc.; mixed. No 2 53S?54c.; No 3. >2H@53c. BUTTER firm; creamery separator extras, 31631 He.; prints, 32 333e.; held. 23#24c.; Maryland and Pennsylvania dairy prints. 170lxe. EGGS Arm; Maryland. Pennsylvania u>d Virginia lie.; W??t Virginia, lie.; southern, 90c. per desen. INDICTMENTS ARE 123. Returned by Grand Jury Investigating Raids of Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake. Union City, Tenu., Dec. 5.? Twenty-four additional indict mante were returned today by the grand jury investigating the recent raids of the night riders )f Ueelfoot Lake, bringing the otal number of indictments so far returned to 12?'5. Other than the majority of the indictments charge capital offenses the strict est secrecy is maintained as to thelrgcontenls. Thedecision of Judge Matthews in ordering the release, under bond, the men in the Nashville jail, will affect but little the plans of the prosecution, as when the men are returned to Union City they will be immediately ? re-ar rested on capiases, |which Judge Matthews declared not properly served, nndon other indictments. The efforts to secure their re lease will be renewed in the cir cuit court here. GltlST MILL POK CLAYTON. Bring your corn to Clayton and have it ground at my ? new mill near the depot and get good uieal. W. E. Stallings. Sensitive. "I hear you is out of a job, Willie?" "Yes, I may be little too sensi tive, but when tbe boss sfz, 'Git to blazes out of here before I kick you out,' then I got mad and resigned my position." J. P. Morgan's $5,000 Bible. London, Dec. 8.?It is learned that J. P, Morgan was the pur chaser of the King Charles I copy of the Cambridge Bible, which was sold on Thursday last at the dispersal sale of the library of Lord Amherst, of Hackney. The price paid was $5,000. DOG STRAYED. From me Sunday December G, a dark brown bird dog (setter) about a year old. Named Zeb. Any information leading to his recovery will be rewarded. W. J. Alford. Smitbfi9ld, N. C.. R F. D. No. 1. Dr. W. H .Wakefield, of Char lotte, will be in SmithBeld at the Hotel on Wednesday, Dec. 16th. one day only. (At Benson on Tuesday. Dec. 15th.) His prac tice is limited to diseases of tbe Eve, Ear, Nose and Throat and Fitting Glasses. * ' The Laws of Mutual Benefit GOVERN In the Management of The Bank of Wayne! =^===== This is the \A/ H Y of our large resouiv ces. We have pros' pered, by helping our customers pros' per. If you ard look' ing for a Bank which will have a care for your interests A THE BANK OF WAYNE IS THE ONE! Nearly a Million of Resources And Still Growing ? ?? 4 Read This and Fail Not! 1 have a nice selection of Mew ^Buggies and Wagons and Harness to suit everybody. Also a fine lot of Pall Buggy Robes that I am of fering at Cut Prices. Be sure to see them before you buy. I have several second hand Buggies that can be had at a bargain. Just received a car load of Piedmont Wagons. I -want your cotton seed and will pay the high est market price in cash or meal for them. See me before you sell. Yours for business, Alonzo Parrish. BENSON, N. C. ^ Direct from Manufacturer to your walls J C at cheapest possible prices. Signs of all J X kinds made to order, Old picture frames J C made to look new. \ \ The United Art Company S Riley R. Gulley Clayton, N. C. Wade H. Ellis
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