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VOL. 28. SMITHFIELD. X. C.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1U09. MO. 4<)
IMMENSE YIELD OF
FARMS FOR 111
IT IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS OF
ALL YEARS.
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Total Value $a. 760,000,000. An In
crease of $869,000,000 Over Preced
ing Year?Secretary Wilton Pic
tures Results of Farm Work for j
the Year in Most Glowing Terms?
Secretary Gives Some Unique Re
sults of Investigations as to Beef
and Pork.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 30.?la i
glowing terms Secretary Wilson, of \
the Agricultural Department, in his
anuual report pictures the results of
the farmers work for the year end
ing June 30 last. "Most prosperous
of all years is the place to which
llJOT is entitled in agriculture," is
the way the secretary puts it. The
value of farm products was $8,760,
000,000, a gain of IS69.000.000 over
the preceding year.
Of great popular Interest are the
results of a unique investigation con
ducted by the department which
shows that in fifty cities the total
retail cost charged to consumers for
beef above the actual cost paid by
the retailers averaged 38 per cent.
The lower the grade of beef, the
greater was the percentage of gross I
profit.
In the upward movement of beef
prices the farmre, the report says,
has not shared equally with the pack
er, wholesaler and retailer, but as to
hogs the case is different, the farm
er receiving nearly his fair share of ^
the higher prices of pork ia the in- |
creased price of his unfed hogs.
Secretary Wilson notes a great !
forward movement in enforcing the
food and drug acts, the willingness of
manufacturers to comply with the
laws and to co-operate with the de-'
partment. making its work largely
educational.
EIGHT MEN ARE ENTOMBED.
Seventy-two Escape When Copper
Mine Catches Fire.
Bucktown, Tenn., Nov. 30.?Eight
men are entombed in the Loudon
copper mine, of the Tennessee Copper
Company, near here. Fire in the
breaker and shaft house resulted in
a cave-in. Seventy-two men made
their escape. The mine is 600 feet
deep, and the men entombed are
near the bottom.
FOR CLEVELAND MONUMENT.
He Was Embodiment of Public
Spirit and Integrity, Says Goldwin j
Smith. J
Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 28.?Writing in '
the current number of The Cornell J
Bra, Goldwin Smith, the historian, '
says of Grover Cleveland:
"It Is pleasant to all that a mon
umerit, is to be erected to the mem
ory of Grover Cleveland. For glory
won by dazzling achievements hom
age is always easily obtained, but
that which claims our homage in
the case of Grover Cleveland is pub
lic duty, with nothing dazzling a
bout It, precisely, faithfully, and, de
spite all opposition and detraction,
unswervingly performed.
"Some years ago I was at Prince
ton for the reopening of the univer
sity. The ceremony was followed by
a public meeting in a large hall fill
ed by an audience partly academical,
but principally general, to hear an
. address on general politics from Gro-;
ver Cleveland. The address was |
written; It was wise rather than
striking; not well delivered. Put
the feeling of the meeting for the
man could not be mistaken. Heart
felt homage was evidently being paid
to one regarded as an embodiment of
public spirit, integrity, and wisdom.
There could not bo happier omen for
the State."
HILL SEES CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Says Margin Between Food Produc
tion and Consumption it Narrow.
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 26.?While
not entirely agreeing with the recent
statement issued by Ifradstreei's.
which intimates that the consump
tion of food products in this coun
try has caught up with production,
James J. Hill says that the point
has been nearly reached, and that
we are so close to It that there is
reason for alarm.
"It is a matter which should he
seriously considered," said Mr. Hill
today. "Our present balance of
trade is an indication that the mar
gin between our production aud con
sumption is becoming narrower. A
comparison of the figures of ten
years ago and those of today shows
that our enormous balance of that
time has dwindled away. We are
not exporting foodstuffs as we were.
We are consuming them ourselves.
"The increase in price this year
over last year is a matter of supply
and demand."
AT 81 ELOPES WITH BRIDE
First Marriage of 111 i on i s Fartnei? ;
His Wife Is 82.
Chicago, Nov. 27.?After scorning
the wiles of Cupid eighty-one years,
William Tursk's heart finally was J
pierced, aud now he is living happi
ly with a bride aged 82 on his lit
tie farm on the outskirts of Evan
ston.
A romauce which dates back for
years came to a climax when Tursk
and Mrs. Caroline Weese eloped to
Chicago a week ago and were quiet
ly married. Mrs. Weese's first hus
band died on Thanksgiving Day. 1908, |
and shortly after Tursk's sister, with
whom he had been living many years,
died.
Tursk and Mrs. Weese had been
acquainted for years, and a short
time ago decided they would be hap
pier if they became life companions
and the plan was carried out.
William Jacoles, his wife, and four
children, while riding in their auto
mobile in Los Angeles, were run in
to by a trolly car and instantly killed {
last week.
WRECK ON COAST LINE
ENGINE RUNS IN OPEN SWITCH
AND TURNS Oy ER.
Local Passenger Train Smashed Up
Entering Petersburg Tuesday. En
gineer Killed and Fireman Was
Injured.
Petersburg, Va., Nov. 30.?Just as
local passenger train No. 34, which
runs between Richmond, Va., and
Rocky Mount, N. C.t entered this
city, northbound, about noon today,
on a down grade at the Mt. Airy
yards, it ran into an open switch and
the locomotive and tender were
wrecked and rendered a mass of
twisted rods and scrap iron. The
engine was overturned, after running
a distance of over a hundred yards
on a side track.
The engineer, J. W. McAllister, of
Manchester, Va., who stuck to his
post, was instantly killed, being
caught under the engine, and the
negro fireman, who was'slightly in
jured, escaped death by jumping from
the cab. Mail Clerk H. N. Craven,
of Washington, D. C., suffers with a
sprained back. A wrecking party
soon opened the track to traffic.
The passenger cars all remained
on the main line, and none of the
passengers, though severely shocked,
were injured. The train was in
charge of Conductor John Cotton.
The coroner held an inquest.
GENERAL NEWS.
At Niagara Falls. Thursday of
last week, Orrin Watson was killed,
and Louis Boore badly injured in an
automobile accident.
Patrick Short, a contractor of
Luckahoe. N. Y., died suddenly
Thanksgiving Day while attending
Thanksgiving Mass. Heart trouble
was the cause of death.
Donald Geiselnian, 17 years old
accidentally shot and killed his fath
er near Wooster, Ohio, last week.
The son fired at a bird and the
load struck the father.
Mrs. Bessie Speck-Williams-I-ar
cum, aeed J9, was prevented from
a third marriage on Thanksgiving
Day by the court. The would be
husband applied to the same court
for lie. nse that had just the Mon
; day before grante Mrs. Jjircum a
divorce. The court decided to make
further investigations regarding the
divorce.
NO AMENDMENT
IN ALABAMA
DECLINES TO PUT PROHIBITION
IN STATE COSTITUTION.
Majority Estimated at 20,000. Elec
tion is Considered Rebuke to Ex
treme Temperance Forces and the
Present State Administration.
"Wets" are Encouraged, and Will
Seek the Next Legislature.
Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 29.?Al- t
though Alabama is "dry" by legisla
tive enactment, the people of this
State today defeated the prohibition j
constitutional amendment by 20,000
majority. The majorities are pro
nounced in almost every county ex- |
cept six of the sixty-seven. The
counties voting for the amendment
returned small majorities for it.
It is now believed that an ener
getic campaign will be waged by the
"wets" to capture the next legis- j
lature in au effort to repeal the law
making the State "dry."
The majority of 20,000 out of a
vote of 100,000 today is overwhelm
ing and repudiates the administra- J
tion of Gov. B. B. Comer and tears
down his right hand man. Judge S.
D. Weakly, who is making the race
for governor as an amendment-com
er man, and has cast his whole
political career upon the succesj of
the amendment. Author of the
drastic prohibition law at the lat
est extra session, the judge had be
come noted as the most extreme an
ti-liquor leader in the South.
Gov. Comer has gone from one
end of the State to the other urg
ing the adoption of the proposition
as an indorsement of his administra
tion and went so far as to say that
all who go against the amendment
are deserters of his cause and cow
ardly skunks.
HARNETT FIRST THIS YEAR.
Johnston a Close Second in Settling
Taxes With the State.
Yesterday afternoon Sheriff J. B. J
Lanier, of Harnett county, paid into
the state treasury the sum of $10,
743.10, thereby gaining the coveted J
honor of being the first sheriff in
the state to pay up.
Bright and early this morning |
XSheriff R. M. Nowell, of Johnston, j
accompanied by Deputy Sheriff A. M.
Sanders, arrived here with $20,743.54
t<> settle up his taxes, but was just
a little too 'ate to carry off the
houors this year.
It is said that this is the second
time in 20 years that Johnston has
failed to be first, the other time the
Johnston sheriff lost by a few yards,
Vance's sheriff being less than a min
ute ahead of him.
The year ends on November 30,
and Sheriff Lanier arrived here that
day. Sheriff Nowell says he had to
stay in his office yesterday and could
not get here until this mroning.
Both of these sheriffs are most ex
cellent officers and good collectors,
aod it was a case of nip-aud-tuck as
to which would get here first.?Ral
eigh Times, Dec. 1.
PATTI'S $4,000,000 VOICE.
Has Earned That Sum Since Her
Operatic Debut, Fifty Years ago.
London, Nov. 27.?Adelina Patti
this wek celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of her debut as an ope
ratic singer ai the New York Acade
my of Music, November 24, 1859.
when she appeared as Lucia. She
whs then under 17, but had made a
public appeaiaiitc on the concert pit'
Ctiii nine y*:ars before.
In the yeare of I'atti's operatic !
debut Strakosch paid her $100 a
week. At her first operatic appear
ance in London in 1861 p.he received
$750 a month. Previous to her first
marriage In 18C9 her earnings never
exceeded $600 a night, but later
when lime. Nilsson was engaged
for $1,000 Patti got $1,050.
Although these prices cut a small
figure In comparison with those the
>ng birds receive at th-3 Metropoli
tan and Manhattan, it is calculated
that Patti'a voice has earned her
about $4,000,000.
Twenty thousand switchmen are
ou a strike in the Northwest.
LAW MAKERS
BETTING READY
THE SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS TO
MEET MONDAY.
First Wi.;ter Session of the T aft
Adminisration Promises to be Un
usually Active. Forecast of Leg- |
islation and Important Appoint
ments.
The congress that meets Monday,
December 6, next will be the first
regular session of the Sixty-first con
gress. The session that met Mon
day, March 15, was a special one.
called by President Taft to consider
the tariff.
The session will be unusually active
if it undertakes to carry out the
expectations of the president, who
returned from the record presidenti
al jaunt November 10. Some of
the things outlinnd by him are the
following:
oi rirst consideration are the con
servation of the country's resour- I
ces and the recallmation of arid I
lands. The'presideut was evidently
impressed in bis journey with the
earnestness of the west on these
propositions.
He will recommend that the gov
ernment shall reserve some control
on the water power sites and the
coal lands and phosphates of the
country in order that they may not
come into the control of any one
corporation.
He will ask for legislation for a
more rigid enforcement of the anti
trust law that it may be more effec- ;
tive.
He will also ask an amendment to
the Interstate commerce law in order
to give the interstate tribunal more
p?wer to prevent th ? delays whi"b
are now incident to appeals to the
courts. To do this he will suggest I
the creation of a special court and
have a court that will be charged
with the knowledge and practice in
regard to railroads, so that whatever
comes up may be promptly dispos
ed of.
He will strongly favor a postal
savings bank. He hopes that the
monetary commission in its report
may point out some steps to reform j
what he regards as nothing but patch
work in that respect. He will recom
mend an improvement of the legal
procedure of the country so as to
make it, both in criminal and civil
cases, more simple, more rapid and
less expensive. To this end he will
recommend to congress the appoint
ment of a commission to take up
this subject with respect to the fed
eral procedure, and if by the federal j
procedure satisfactory results are j
achieved it will form a model for
the states.
What other matters may be rec
ommended remains to be seen, but i
those mentioned are full of live in
terest, and some of them will bring
the two wings of the president's par
ty face to face. While President Taft;
is of a sunny and optimistic tem
perament, he is an everlasting work
er and will doubtless show that he
can be as vigilant as was the late
President Cleveland.
In addition to recommendations to
congress, President Taft will have
other important matters to consider.
Appointments that concern the coun
try are to be considered very soon,
but it Is intimated that they will not
be made before the new year. A
minister to China will probably come
first, growing out of the recall of
Charles R. Crane. A successor to the
late Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court Itufus Wheeler Peck
ham is to be selected. In all proba
bility an ambassador to the court of
8t. James will be named before long
to succeed Ambassador Whitelaw
Reld. An assistant secretary in the
department of commerce and labor
Is to be named.
The Republican majority In the
senate will be reduced by one on ac
count of the appointment of Foun
tain U Thompson of North Dakota
to fill the vacancy caused by the
d> ath of Martin L. Johnson, which
occurred after the adjournment of
the special session. Johnson was a
Republican. Thompson is a Demo
crat. His appointment to fill the
vacancy was made November 10 by
Governor Uurke, who Is a Democrat. ^
Thompson is on* of the leaders of ^
his party iu bis state, but his office- |
holding has been confined to country
offices. Iu tbe lower house a uew .
representative will take tbe place of
William Lorimer of Chicago, who
was elected United States senator
last spring by the Illinois legislature. 1
However, the Republicans will con- |
tinue to have a majority in both |
branches. I
Practically a uew face iu the low
er house will be James H. Cassidy,
elected last April to succeed Theo
dore E. Burton, who was elected
United States seuator from Ohio last
winter. Burton bad represented the
district In Ohio comprised of the city
of Cleveland Cassidy was elected
to succeed him last April. He was
present during a part of the speci
al session and had the distinction
of being *h<> youngest representative.
Tbe re-election of Speaker Can
non at the beginning of the special
session does away with an excit
ing and interesting event that usual
ly comes before the lower bouse of
a new congress.
The new executive offices will be
thf> most spacious yet. provided for
a chief magistrate of the United
States. Sine. August workmen have
been adding to the old executive of
fices of he White House proper.
The new additions is built over the
old Roosevelt tennis court. The i
court lay just outside of the old pres- <
idential offices, and it was there that
President Roosevelt and his so call- 1
e "tennis cabinpt," composed of
the younger members of the admin- :
lstration, took their exercise. The i
cost of the new offices, combined
with the cost of the officers erect
ed during tht> administration of Pres- 1
ident Roosevelt, will represent an
actual outlay of about. $100,000, exclu
sive of the cost of tearing down the
o'd building preparatory to erect
ing the uew addition.?Washington
Herald
GREATEST OF PAYMENTS
$25,000 TO HEIRS OF HON W. A. !
STEWART.
This For Death of Prominent Attor- j
ney Who Was Killed by Atlantic
Coast Line Train as He Was on
His Way From His Office to His
Home.
The heirs of Hon. W. A. Stewart,
of Dunn, who was killed by the ?
movement on an Atlantic Coast Line
freight train, are to receive $25,000,
and there is to be no appeal by
the Coast Line people.
The case asking for damages a
gainst the Atlantic Coast Line for
the death of Stewart was tried last
week at Lillington, in Harnett coun
ty. Damages to the amount of $75,
000 were asked, aud the verdict of th
jury gave $35,320.
Since that trial there has been a
conference between the railroad peo
ple and the counsel for the heirs of
Mr. Stewart. At this it was agreed
that there would be paid $25,000 as
damages, a consideration being that
this be in cash, and that there
would be no appeal. The money 1s
to be paid over to the administrators
of Mr. W. A. Stewart.
The Judgment is the largest re
corded in the history of railroad
deaths. Mr. Stewart, while on his
way home from his office late one
afternoon, was kept at the railroad
crossing by the blocking of cars.
While he awaited the clearing of the
track, standing by a box car on a
side track, an engine struck tfce
string of cars, Mr. Stewart beiag
struck by the end car and Instantly
killed.
The judgment of $33,320 and the
payment of $?5,000 is the largest
amount ever received In this State
because of a railway accident. Mr.
Stewart was ranking among the lead
ing attorneys of the State and on the
evidence to the Jury his heirs were
awarded $33,320. The $25,000 agreed
upon by th" counsel in the case was
th'tf this amount be paid in cash.
Tl'Is ends the appeal in the case. Mr. I
Stewart stood high among the attor
neys of the State, bin death causing
a shock. With the agreement of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway to pay
$25,000 In damages tho case ends.
Mr. Stewart was well known In the
political life of the State and his
death caused much regret.?News and
Observer Sunday.
BLIZZARD SWEEPS
OVER SOUTHWEST
OVER SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN
TEXAS PAN HANDLE.
Kan us and Oklahoma Suffer Heavi
ly.?Snow Blockades Trains?Many
Wires are Down. Two Days of
Snow, Rain and Sleet Doing Cort
stderable Damage. , (
~"'W' ' ' ~ J
Woodward, Ok la . Nov. 29?Com
munication with (itiyuiou. Braver and
other townti o( the Pan Handle at
Oklahoma has Iiwl lost and the ri
te lit of today's storm cannot be
learned. Dispatches from Amarlllo
say that six inch**) of snow tell over
the Pan Handle of Texas today and
that a blizzard is raging which will
cause great 'oss of livestock if It
continues.
A Rock Island traiu fs reported
snowbound in Northwestern Oklaho
ma, but thin cannot be confirmed.
Rain has been (ailing throughout
that section (or twelve hours The
temperature is rapidly (ailing in
Woodward tonight
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 29?Over a
thousand telegraph poles and sever
al miles o( telegbaph wires are down
on the western Kansas division of
the Chicago. Hock island and P^
cific and Atchison, Topeka and San
ta Ke railroads as the result of the
rain, sleet and snowstorm which be
gan Saturday and lasted over today.
The storm was abating today.
Snow and sleet were confined to
the western part o( the State, but
rain was general over Kansas. All
trains from the West are delayed.
El Paso, Tex.. Nov. 29.?Trains on
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad, bound for El Paso, are re
ported snowbound near the Oklaho
ma State line Heavy snow alKO has
(alien at Dawson and Duran, New
Mexico, and the temperature has
dropped perceptibly at El Paso, with
promise of snow.
Pueblo, Col., Nov. 29.?Almost ev
ery train (rom the East was late
today on account of heavy snow in
Western Kansas last night.
GREAT 25-STORY BUILDING.
Big Structure to House All New*
York City Departments.
New York, Nov. 29.?Plans for the
(7,500,000 25-st.ory municipal building
were approved by the board of esti
mate today and contracts for the
work will be let within a few days.
This great structure, which will
house most of the city department,
will be erected near the Brooklyn
Bridge and will have 650,000 feet of
floor space. It will be 550 feet high.
GOV. GLENN BOOSTS HARMON.
Former Governor of North Carolina
Advocates the Governor of Ohio as
Presidential Timber.
Richmond, Va.. Nov. 28.?Former
Governor R. B. Glenn of North Caro
lina made two addresses here today
in behalf of the home mission work
of the Southern Presbyterian Church
and of the Laymen's Mtssionary
Movement. In an interview he said
with regard to political situation;
"Judson Harmon, Governor of
Ohio, will be the next presidential
nominee of the Democratic party, ill
my judgment. Everywhere X have
been in my tour of the country I have
found Harmon as the leading candi
date in public and party opiuion.
"I am of the opinion that the
South should demand that the next
vice presidential candidate of the
Democratic party be a Southern man.
We do the voting and w>> ought to
be represented on the ticket.
"The war is over, and the people
of the North. I believe, will sup
port a Southern man as r.-udily as
any other."
ESTATE WORTH $149,000,000.
Final Appraisal of E. H. Harriman
Holdings Completed by Court.
New York, Nov. 30.?The finul ap
praisal of the estate of the late E.
H. Harriman, as completed In Orange
county today puts it at $149,000,000.
The estate is made cup of railroad
stocks and bonds, principally Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific, and real
estate.