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VOL. 29
SMITHF1ED, N. C, FRIDA*, MARCH 4, 1910
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SAILING DOWN THE NILE
Roosevelt and His Son Leav
ing Heart of Africa
RESULTS A WORLD'S RECORD.'
Leave* Gondokoro for Khartoum and
Scientific Expedition is Practically
Ended. American Museum* Will Re
ceive Greatest Collection of Afri
can Fauna in Existence?Working
on Speeches.
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Gondokoro, Sound, Feb. 28.?Cql
Roosevelt and the others of his im
mediate party sailed today on the
steamer Pal for Khartoum, where
ithey expect to arrive on March 15.
With their departure the African
scientific expedition, under the aus
pices of the Smithsonian institution
of Washington and led by the former
President of the United States, was, |
for all practical purposes, brought to
p. close.
k ?ol, Roosevelt considers the killing 1
curslon along the upper reaches of
the Nile a fitting ending of his hunt
ing trip. The results generally, from
the standpoint of the hunter and the
scientist, have exceeded all expecta
tions.
Col. Roosevelt and his son Kermit
have killed some 500 specimens of
large mammals. The bag includes 17
Hone, 11 elephants, 10 buffaloes, 10
black rhinoceroses, 9 white rhinocer
oses, 9 hippopotami, 9 giraffes, 3 leop
ards, 7 chetahs, 3 giant elands, 3
sables, 1 sitatunga, and 2 bongos.
All these were killed in the Interest
Of science, and the specimens will
be disposed of accordingly, the great
er number going to the Smithsonian
Institution. Mr. Roosevelt will retain
not more than six trophies for him
self.
In comparative importance, the most
highly prized game may be rated as
follows: First, the giant ealnds, the
first complete specimens of which
family are now being taken from the
country; second, the white rhinocer
oses; third, the bongos, the first to
be stalked and killed by a white man,
and, fourth, the sitatunga, a species
of antelope.
The naturalists secured a remark
able collection comprising many thou
sands of other mammals and birds.
The game taken and the collections
made constitute a world's record for
a similar period of hunting and sci
entific research in Africa, and the
American mnseums will receive the
greatest collection of African fauna
Jn existence.
Col. Roosevelt will now devote his
time to writing including the prepa
ration of the addresses which he Is
to deliver in Europe. He will do no
more hunting unless during the trip j
down the Nile chance throws in his
way an opportunity to secure some
rare specimens.
Flood's Haste Saves 100.
Danville, 111., Feb. 28.?Just before
a hundred miners were to have en
tered Gray's mine today, the swollen '
V'ni>mUlinn hfnlro thrr?lich thf>
walls into the pit. There is 36 feet
Of water in the mine now. The min
ers would all have perished in the
flood had they gone to work a few
tninutes earlier.
A carriage that once belonged to
Lord Byron stands in the corner of
the yard of a wayside inn near
Port Lincoln, Australia. The name
Of the London maker is engraved on
the body of the vehicle, and on the t
panels are Lord Byron's motto and
Coat of arms. The carriage is still
In fair preservation.
TO REVIVE SPELLING BEES.
Pennsylvania Public School Superin
tendent Interested in Orthography.
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York, Penn., Feb. 27.?In order
that the pupils of the various public
?chools may become more efficient
In orthography, County Superintend
ent C. W. Stlne has planned to con
duct spelling bees throughout the
county during the next scholastic
year.
The County Superintendent has pre
pared a book of 5,000 practical words
which he will use In these spelling
contests, and prizes will be awarded
to the successful spellers.
The study of agriculture also has
been added to the curriculum la many
Of the schools of this county.
ADDRESS ON ROAD BUILDING.
Mr. Spoon, of tha Government Road
Commission, Spoke Here Wednes
day Evening.
Mr. Willis L. Spoon, representing
the Government Road Commission in
this state, addressed the Smlthfield
Chamber of Commerce in the Court
house Wednesday evening, his sub
ject being Good Roads. During the
course of his remarks he very en
thusiastically commended the effici
ent work which Road Supervisor J.
H. B. Tomlinson is doing. He re
marked that the working of the road
during the present rainy season was
the practical thing to do, for no mat
ter when the roads are worked they
will have to undergo a certain proces-a
in packing, and that going through
this miry process now, as soon as
the fair weather came they would be
in excellent condition. He said that
the most economical and serviceable
roads could be built with the mate
rials to be found right here in our
county, to-wit, clay, sand and gravel.
Dies at Age of 110.
Milford, N. H., Feb. 28.?Hichael
Leavitt, the oldest Irish-American in
New Hampshire, died today at the
age 110 years. He had lived alone
since the death of his wife, forty
years ago.
He was born in County Kerry, Ire
land. He came to America seventy
years ago.
NEWS OF INTEREST.
Announcement has been made that
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has resigned
as a director of the United States
Steel Corporation and is succeeded
by Henry Walters, of Baltimore,
chairman of the Louisville and Nash
ville and the Atlantic Coast Line sys
tem of railroads, and a close person
al friend of J. P. Morgan.
Joe Domingo de Obalida, president
of Panama, died Tuesday afternoon.
President Obaldia was elected on
July 12, 1908. He had before acted
as chief executive during the absence
of President Amador. He was for
merly Minister to the United States.
He was born 63 years ago and was
a son of former President Obaldia,
of Columbia.
The Central labor union of Phila
delphia, representing 140 unions with
a claimed membership of 125,000, has
voted to begin a sympathetic strike
next Saturday in aid of the striking
street railway employes. The strike
situation as to the street car lines
is only partially under control. Cars
are being run on some lines but riot
ing occurs occasionally.
Sir Ernest Shackleton. the English
explorer who made the "farthest
south" record, reaching within 111
miles of the South Pole, will soon
visit this country on a lecture tour.
Before he returns home he will be
presented a gold medal by the Na
tional Geographic Society. He is
expected to give his first American
lecture in Carnegie Hall at New
York, on March 29.
James R. Garfield, son of President
Garfield, and Secretary of the Inter
ior during the latter days ofthe Roos
evelt Administration, is being talk
ed as a candidate for Governor of
Ohio. Congressman Nicholas Long
worth, son-in-law of Mr. Roosevelt,
is also talked of for the place. It
will take the best the Republicans I
have to beat Governor Harmon, who J
Is one of tlje country's best known
democrats.
Ex-Governor James K. Vardaman
has been balked once more in his am
bition to occupy a seat in the United
States Senate, this time by the Mis
sissippi Legislature which last week
elected Leroy Percy to the Senate.
Vardaman is a strong, If arratic
man, and Is not to be discouraged In
his designs on a seat in the upper
house of Congress. He has announ
ced that he will again be a candi
date two years hence.
Leroy Percy, who was last week
chosen to succeed Col. James Gordon
in the United States Senate, was
born November 9, 1861. He is a
graduate of the law department of
the University of Virginia, and took
a post-graduate course in Princeton
University. He is a prominent law
yer and has taken an active part in
politics for many years, but has never
held office before. Col. Gordon, his
immediate predecessor, was appoint
ed to a seat in the Senate by the
Governor of ? taissippi on the death
of Senator A. J. McLaurin last De
cember.
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TAFT HOLDS RECORD
Travels 20,638 Miles In His
First Year in Office
AVERAGE FIFTY-SIX MILES DAY.
Also Ha* Made 348 Speeches?Will
Have Rounded Out Twelve Months
On Thursday?Roosevelt Outdis
tanced?Heard and Seen In Thirty
States?Goes to Chicago.
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When President Taft completes his
day's work on Thursday he will have
been President for one year and have
broken two Presidential records.
Such records are not easy to break,
especially when one is elected Pres
ident after Theodore Roosevelt. They
are for the number of miles travel
ed an speeches made during the first
year of an administration.
Taking an average for the 365 days
since Mr. Taft became President, he
has traveled more than fifty-six miles
a day. This includes Sundays. His
total mileage for the year is 20,638
miles, to which should be added about
3,000 miles, the estimated distance
which he has covered by automobile.
During this first year of his admin
istration, the President has made
348 speeches, of which only twenty
were in the District of Columbia. The
record of Theodore Roosevelt for the
last year of his administration was
242 speeches, and he was considered
a ready talker.
President Taft's record for both
speeches and travel was made during
his trip through the West and South
last fall, during which he discussed
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legislation with unusual freedom.
His speeches have been made over
a wide area, and the President has
been seen and heard in thirty States
and two Territories.'which hope soon
to be States.
They are Connecticut, New York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington.
North Carolina, Massachusetts, Illi
nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Ida
ho, Montana, Oregon, Californa, Ari
zona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas,
Missouri, Tennsssee, Mississippi, Lou
isiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Car
olina, New Jersey, and Vermont.
Speeches which the President made
prior to his Inauguration fill three
volumes. Plans for the second year
will probably equal the present mile
age, but hardly the number of speech
es.
H ? will begin the second year with
a trip to Chicago and through New
York State in March, and expects to
go to Alaska and as far south as Tex
as before another session of Con
gress.?Washington Herald.
A Lively Time at Clinton.
A dispatch from Clinton to the
Raleigh News and Observer says:
As a result of a fight here in a!
back lot Saturday aftrenoon, which l
assumed the proportions of a riot and
which the mayor and police were call
ed out to quell, George Jones, a) white
man of upper Sampson, is dead, be
ing shot by a policeman, death", result
ing immediately.
It seems that several men had got
ten hold of some blind tiger whiskey, j
were imbibing rather freely, and got;
into a fight. When the policemen ?
came to make the arrests the fight
was still going on. Some of the men
in it and whom the police were start-1
ing to arrest, were kinsmen of the
deceased, and he came in and was1
trying to prevent the officers from!
arresting the men, or was one of the!
participants. In the melee Policeman
J. K. Tew was knocked down. He1
rose and the deceased advanced on j
him with a large club, when Tew shot
him dead.
Preaching Appointments.
We notice in Zion's Landmark for
February 15, the following appoint
ments of Elder W. l!. Williams j
Four Oaks. Saturday aud first Sun
day in March. Hannah's Creek, Mon
day.
Oak Forest Tuesday.
Hickory Grove, Wednesday.
Black River, Friday.
Americans are the greatest peanut
eaters In the world?they would be,
even if there were no circuses. In
1907 and 1908 Japan exported 17,
000.000 pounds of peanuts, and the
United States took nearly all of
them.
SNDWSLIDE KILLS MANY
Avalanches Sweep Over Two
Idaho Towns
MULLEN ALSO SWEPT AWAY.
Large Number of Persons Believed
Buried Under Many Feet of Snow
In the Coeur d'Alenes?Fully Fifty
Houses Swept to the Bottom of the
Canyon?Slides Extend Half Mile.
Wallace. Idaho, Feb. 28.?Two lit
tle towns., Mace and Burk, strung
along the precipitous Burk Canyon, in
the Coeur d'Alenes, were burled last
night under enormous masses of snow
rock, and earth that swept down on
them from the mountain side.
The known list of dead is now 19,
while It Is probable that scores are
lying In the avalanches. Every able
bodied man in the mining district a
round Wallace is at work relieving
the sufferings of the homeless in
habitants and searching for dead and
living under the dsbrls.
Shortly before midnight last night
the first and largest avalanche de
scended on the town of Mace. Supt.
and Mrs. I. H. Pascoe, of the Stand
ard mine, in which property a large
majority of the male residents of
Mace are employed, were sleeping
when their home was crushed as an
egg shell, two sons and a daughter
being instantly killed. Mr. Pascoe is
missing, but his wife was rescued,
slightly wounded.
Between fifteen and twenty homes
were swept into the bottom of the
canyon and covered by between 30
and 40 feet of snow and boulders.
Striking at the east end pf Mace, the
slide extends nearly half a mile up
the canyon, averaging thirty feet in
depth.
Bodies are being taken out at in
tervals but because of the distribution
of the miners at the boarding house
and cabins no exact estimate of the
number of dead can be made.
Another landslide at 9 o'clock this
morning struck Burke a mile above
Mace, burying twenty-five houses un
der thirty to forty feet of snow and
earth. There is fear that the number
of dead might be even larger than
that at Mace.
A report tonight says that a slide
killed several persons at Mullan, Ida
ho, a mining town north of the towns
first struck, but details so far are
lacking.
Everett, Wash., March 2.?Latest
estimates tonight place the number
of persons killed by the avalanche
that crushed two Great Northern pas
senger trains at Wellington at forty.
While only twenty-three persons are
known to be dead nearly a score are
thought to be burled in the wreck
age. Communication with Wellington
is maintained only by men on snow
shoes. Twelve bodies had been re
moved tonight from the 150-foot
gorge into which the snow slide swept
the train.
Death's Doings.
On Thursday of last week Mrs.
Lizzie Adams, widow of Mr. John
Adams, of Meadow Township, died
at the home of her nephew, Mr. J.
H. Smith, with whom she had been
living for some time.
Mr. Johnnie Peedin, of Boon Hill
township, died Tuesday night of ty
phoid-,)neumonia. He was a son of
Mr. Amos Peedin, deceased. The
funeral was preached Wednesday by
Elder Rom Jones, of Smithfield.
Mr Jack Jones, who lived about
seven miles south of Princeton, on
the Hunter Hall place died Tuesday
night from paralysis after a brief Ill
ness. He moved to that neighbor
hood from near Kenly only a short
time ago.
The wife of Mr. Charley Game, of
Boon Hill township, died last Mon
day night and was buried Wednesday.
Everywhere everybody seems to be
talking about high prices. Congress
is supposed to investigate the cause
of the tremendous cost of all things,
but what good will it do? Since this ,
investigating talk began, prices have
gone higher still, and no one knows
where the end will be. Now the
news comes from Chicago that live
hogs are selling at $10 a hundred. It
every man was a seller then the
high prices would suit, but occasional
ly one has to buy as well as to sell.
Then is when the high price Is not
desirable. It is the fellow who buys
who complains of the high prices.
ROOSEVELT ESCAPES FEVER. |
French Missionary Who Lunched with
Him at Gondokoro Oiea the Next
Day. I
Gondokoro, Soudan, March 1.?A
fresh instance of Roosevelt luck is \
seen In the fact that the ex-President i
?nd his party left here the day before'
an outbreak of African fever. They f
railed for Khartoum yesterday, and i
at noon today Dr. Rodorlc Prosch, a
French medical missionary who lunch
ed with Mr. Koosevelt yesterday, sud
denly died of fever.
Dr, Pro?ih h?s done missionary
work in Africa for ten years, during ^
which time his health has Ujeen gradu- s
ally undermined by the debilitating
climate, and his collapse today Is at
tributed to a weakened condition that
could not resist an attack that he
might have survived a few years ago.
At a camp adpoining that occupied
by the Americans here an English
sporltman is seriously ill following
a trip to Kampala, the capital of
Uganda, one of the places at which
the Roosevelt party stopped. I
Tha niatrlrt fnni 111 Iculnnnr nf HonHrt. I
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koro, the British officials of which
were most active in entertaining
their American guests, has been,
stricken Wi*h the ttver and today
is confined to his bed.
When Co! Kfc-.>"velt and the oth
ers of his party left here on the
steamer Dal yesterday they were all
apparently In good tiQiltb and little
the worse for their rough experien
ces.
STATE NEWS.
Citizens at Nashville, Nash county,
are planning a canning plant with
10,000 cans capacity per day, to cost
$5,000.
Senator Simmons has secured an
amendment to the river and harbor
bill providing for $615,000 for deep
ening the Cape Fear river to Fayette
ville, $100,000 to be available at
once. If the river is deepened, big
boats may come to Wilmington and
move the coast line 100 miles west
ward.
Solomon Shepard, the negro who
was sentenced to serve a term of 30
years in the State's Prison for the
murder of Engineer Holt at Durham,
and who Jumped from a moving work
train at the convict camp near Laurin '
burg last Tuesday, was captured in '
the woods near Gibsonville in Gull- 1
ford county Monday morning by Mr. >
John H. Shepard, a farmer of that '
section.
H. F. Seawell, who failed to land 1
as a Federal judge, has met with 1
success at last and has been ap- i
pointed by the President District At
torney for the Eastern District of 1
North Carolina. The Senate prompt- 1
ly confirmed his appointment. Though
not big enough to sit as judge, he I
has been considered big enough to 1
prosecute the violators of the Fed- I
eral laws in this state. I
A dispatch from Rockingham to i
the Kalelgn News ana uuserver says; <
"Saturday was field day for the near- i
beer saloon here. As mauy as thirty- I
five drunken men were on our streets 1
by actual count, and the scramble for
the stuff and fight Incidental thereto, i
grew to such proportions that the pro
prietor voluntarily closed the doors i
about 9 o'clock. It Is not known |
whether the liquor came from the
near beer bottles, or whether there '
was a near-eyed tiger In hiding, but 1
our citizens became disgusted at the i
sight of so much drunkenness." l
A dispatch from Charlotte says: ;
"Because of the dangerous frequen- 1
cy with which attacks upon women I
and hold-ups of members of the fair
sex have occurred during the past ten 1
days, taken in conjunction with many i
cases of purse snatching by unldenti- i
fied negroes, the women of Charlotte
are looking to firearms for protec- i
tion. "It is stated to-day that a
revolver club will be organized by
an energetic young woman of the
smart set, and that women will be
trained to shoot revolvers and shoot
to hit and kill, too."
Twins Celebrate at 75.
Northampton, Mass., Feb. 28.?Mrs.
Laura Clark Ludden and Mrs. Lydla
Clark Hamlin, of South street, twins,
have celebrated their seventy-fifth
birthday, entertaining at a large re- i
ceptioo in honor of the occasion.
The first record of Haliey's comet
wa? B. C. 240.
Abandoned farms tn New England
. are being used for free cultivation. |
tlVERS ON A RAMPAGE
:our Thousand People in Ohio
Lose Their Homes
-OSS ESTIMATED AT A MILLION.
Numerous Plants Hava Been Forced
to Close Down and Hundreds of
Men and Women Are Out of Work
?City Authorities Are Feeding
Hundreds, Who Are Destitute,
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Cleveland, 0., March 2.?At least
1,000 people are homeless In Ohio as
i result of the flood which continues
o devastate the State. Numerous
>lants have been forced to close down
md hundreds of men and women are
>ut of work. The material damage
s estimated at over 11,000,000.
The Licking and Muskiugum rivers
lave passed their record of 1898 at
5anesville and are still rising. If
here Is no abatement of the waters
>efore morning It Is stated that the
waterworks and power plants will be
orced to close and this will mean the
shutting down of all the large com
nerclal plants In that town. Over
line hundred people are now being
'od by the city authorities. l
Only a few of the big steel works
it Youngstown are still running and
hese are pxnected to Htmnanii tn.
norrow. The tracks of the Pennsyl
vania Hailroad are several feet un
ier water and have been abandoned.
The huge gorge which has blocked
Main street In Warren has resisted
several attempts to dynamite it and
t is feared that if it breaks now the
own will suffer heavily. A
.iridge over the Auglaise river at * '
Defiance 1ms been swept away and
;he crops in the Mad river and Little
Miami river bottoms have been com
pletely destroyed.
A fresh horror confronts the people
if Mauinee, where a torrent laden
nith Ice and debris has swept over
:he cemetery and It) Is practically cer
tain that when the waters subside
many corpses will have been uncov
ered.
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WENDELL BREEZES.
Mrs H. J. Hatten. a most estim
ible lady, died near here a few
lays ago, after a short illness of
pneumonia. She leaves a husband
ind a large family of children to
nourn their loss.
The little child of Mr. Mack Flow
jrs, age two and a half years, was so
jadly burned that it died next day,
i few days ago.
Mrs. Turner Bailey and Mrs. Berry
Richardson, of Kenly, are visiting
Mrs. Millard Hales this week.
Mr. M. A. Giiffin has sold his lutn
aer plant to Roberts Bros. They are
lustllng business men, and when they
:ake hold of a Job, there Is some
hing doing. They have both nice
new residences, one in town and
jne west of town about a fnlle. They
ire waking up that section where
heir farm is located, as the new
barns, pack-houses, etc., testify.
Mr. Rice filled his regular appoint
ment here on third Sunday and Mr.
VVoodall on fourth Sunday. Both
ire young men of ability, and
give us strong gospel sermons.
The Civic Club gave a George
Washington entertainment on the
22nd. The program was excellent
ind was well carried out. A mystery
menu was served afterward, the ob
|ect being to help improve our ceme
tery, a worthy cause and badly need- ^
Ing help.
Measles is the order of the day
here and it seems that all who have '
not had it are getting their shar^
this time.
^lisses Gay, Shackleford and Atkln
son have been visiting the Misses
Mattox.
Wendell, Mar. 1, 1910.
$10 HOG ON MARKET.
Highest Price Since 1870 Paid in
the Chicago Stock -yards.
Chicago, Feb. 28,-fThe $10 hog
made his first appearaUM on the local
market since 1870 at to-day's session.
A load of 264-pound hogs, sixty-six in
number, was bought by an Eastern
shipper at that price. The was
mado early, but was "under cover"
till near the noon hour. B. L.
Strohm. of Cushing, Iowa, owned the
bogs, and they tinted him the most
money of any similar weight* hogs
in forty years.
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