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ARMY OF 70,000 »i • J, —b Have Been Selected to Number Unde Sam's Children ' INFORMATION TO COST $5,000,000 Enumerators Will Get $4,000,000 —20 to SO Cents For Farms —2 to 4 Cents For Names—soo Women Census Agents. Washington, D. C., Special.— On Friday Uncle Sam jrill begin the numbering of his children in preparation for the thirteenth ctT> sus. He estimates that he has a fkmijy of about 90,000,000 man. women and children. In some instances the work may be postponed until Saturday. This is due to the fact that the 15th falls on Friday, and among the 70,000 name takers there are some who are superstitious as to this day of the week. The enumeration will cover all of the 45 States and two Territories of the Union proper and also Hawaii; l'orto Uieof, and Alaska. The mere getting of the informa tion will cost the government the pretty sum of $5,500,000. Of this amount $4,500,000 will be paid to ■enumerators, and t"he remaining mil lion to supervisors. With a few ex ceptions ttye enumerators will be paid on the basis of the work done. In the country the remuneration will be Jjt>m 20 to 30 cents for each farm reported, while the J pnv lor names will range from 'J to 4 oenls. The districts wUI average 1,300 names 1,100 in the country and 1,600 in the •ities. In the Southern States there will be two enumerators in each dis trict, nee white, and the other black. All told there will be about 1,500 tegro enumerators, but somt> of them will UP employed in the Northern Stales. In the South tlie negroes will be visited by enumerators of their own race, a" will also the whites by their own There also .will be about 500 women enumerators. In point of numbers New York will ead the list with 6,500 enumerators, while Nevada will close the proces lioti with 36. Mammals. Reptiles, Birds Collected. Washington. Special.—Part of* Roosevelt's report to Smithsonian In ■ititutioti. Record of life collected. On tfce *rip Mr. Heller has pre pared 1,020 sj>ecinienß of mammals, "Mie majority of la rue sir.e; Mr. Ixir iti«r lias prepared 3,163 and Df. Mearnes 704 —a total 4,807 mam mals. Of .bird* 'IJT. Matoms has v pre-j pared nearly '3-100; Mr. Loriug 899, ind Mr. Heiler about 50 —a. total of about) 4.000 birds. Of reptiles and batraelMbus, Mess. Mearne> ljoriitjr and Heler collected nbont 2,000. Of flsbes. about 500 were collected. Dr. Men run collected marine fishes near Mombasa, and' fresh water fishes elsewhere in lirilisli Kast Africa, and be and 'unnin«rhame collected fishes in the White Nile. This mak«-s in all. of vertebrates: Mammals, 4,807; birds (abo#t) 4,- '•00; reptiles and batraehiaus (about) 2,000; fishes. abonl) 501>; total H,- 397. Tine Report Fish Commission Richmond. Virginia, Special.— A report was submitted to Cover oor Maim, covering the transaction of tlie State Commission of Fisheries for the five months ending March 1, 1910. The balance on October ,1 was 1>24,8t>5.2f\ to which wan added SIOO as the proceeds of a sale of old foods', making a total of $24,905.25. The expenditures for the five months totaled $19,802.37, leaving a balance of $5,002.98, which reverts to the State Treasury. Burglar Goes to the Pen for Life Newbem, N. 0., Sheriff A. J. (Jaskins has taken Jesse Whitehead, the convicted burglar, lo the penitentiary where he will begin his life sentence. He has been in jail here since his convict\fln, but when ihe sentence was changed by the Governor from electrocution to Imprisonment for life he was started to Raleigh to begin the sentence. Southern Employees Expectant.— Spencer, N. ( C., Special.—Much in terest is felt in Spencer and at all joints on the Southern Railway Com pany on account of the aeries of con ferences which !„are lieing held in WaaMnptofc between the official* of ihe cmnpam and its etnploye* relative to a wag* scale for the coming yesr. 'fhe employe* have asked for ar in crease in pay und s all departmuats are represented at Washington by strong romti.iltees who are being heard by the representative* of Uie railroad. Fiftean Killed by t>fnaaJte. Novitc, Tex., Special.—Fourteen N*eu were instantly killed and another fatally injured by the premature ex plosion of a h*avy charge of dynar inite at a construction camp oB itlie Tcxco extension of the Santa Fe T)nK -tbjfee .-.of the |nei| bate brfH 'itfeniitted, OWMCUM laci that the bodies of the men were loin * .almost icio shrcJs by the fofec,4'y 4Jftr explosion. "YES, WIR AND I ALWAYS DO A LITTLE GARDEN ING IN THE SPRING!" I I l 1 t j -J ; M I j 'i 1 •fei"' I I , ' I >; v * '| x J™ \' ' -■pvft '- : r , ] •' . ! —Cartoon in the New York Pres* PROSPERITY WAVE BOOMS WAGES OF MANY WORKIN6MEN Thousands of Skilled Workers and dustrial Plants Get Increase- Nearly Every State—Most i Follow Unrest Because oi New York City.—Substantial In creases in the wages of workingmen, especially those on the railroadß, in all parts of the United States are be ing granted. From nearly every State in the Union report* are re ceived specifying increases. Many of them are voluntary. Some, but com paratively few, are the result strikes or demands. In several in stances Courts of Arbitration have upheld the demands of workingmen for more money, and the employers have complied. Only last week Increases amounting to more than thirty-two millions of doll&rs a year were granted by th« different railroads and virtually .promised by tho United States Steel Corporation. The high cost of living and a feeling of general unrest among the laboring classes, because of differ encea [in the purchasing capacity of a dollar to-day compared with that it had ten years ago are attributed as the causes for the Increase, A wave of prosperity that has Increased busi ness all around and made profits greater has enabled tho railroad managers and employers to make the increases. Au Increase of three cents an hour has been granted to 12,000 workers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men and of the Switchmen's Union In Chicago. Eight thousand painters in the same city have been accorded an lncreasfc of Ave cents an hour. The bill posters there will hereafter receive s2l a week, a raise of $3. Elevator conductors have beeitiraisod from S6O tci.sßs -a month. * * J From Albany reports are received of a porposed increase of the wages of Its employes by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. A number of fac tories and manufacturing firms have granted increases to their *o>rkers. Me.ny of these have been voluntary. In Boston. Brooklyn and East Bos ton 1800 painters have been,accorded an increase of a week, making a wage of S2O a week for painters and $22.22 for decorators Cor forty four hours' work. The conductors and trainmen of the New Haven Rail road system have received advances in wages. The Norcross Brothers, building contractors In Washington, have granted an Increase of fifty cents a day to their marble setters and the marble setters' helpers. Considera tion is being given by the firm to a demand for an increase by the car penters. An increase o( three per cent, has been granted engine drivers on the Southern Railroad there. Prosperity has settled on the great industrial population of Rhode Island. Some increases are noted there, Wut not many. A year ago substantial advances were made, and all the fac tories are working on full time and many on overtime. j J Ten thousand femblo/et of the Con solidated Coal Company, of Balti more, have been granted a voluntary lncrease'of three per cent. The Davis Coal and Coke Company Is reported to be working on a new wage schedule tor the beaeflt of itfc employed. Ten thousand employes of the Bal timore and Ohio Railroad have been granted five and six per cent. ** Five hundred men at the Inde pendent iron plant of Moorbead Brothers St Company, in Pittsburg, have received a voluntary increhse of ten per cent. Senate ('owmlUre Find* High Coat Of Food Xot Doc to FMlght Rates. Washington, D. C. The special Senate committee investigating the high cost of food products has agroad upon a report prepared by a sub committee to tfce effect that the tea tlmony so far taken does not show ythat any paat of tho increase in prices 'is due to »i increase In the freight „J k « ' , On tbe other hand the tendency of the railroads has been to decraaae a tea la The period covered by tha In- T«*ttgat!on of the committee. Laborers on Railroads and in In* Advances Are Reported From if Them Are Voluntary, and f the High Cost of Living. The West Penn Railways and Lighting Company, of that city, em ploying more than one thousand men, has advanced wages one cent an hour, and also has announced a policy of giving pensions to its men who are unable to work longer on recount of old age, disability or other causes. All employes who have been In its service ten years or longer are to be given >6OO in mouthly payments of 18.50. The new policy grants the family of an employe $250 in case of natural and SSOO for accidental death, with a sick benefit of from $8 to 110 a week. Hero is a partial list of the com panies wbo have increased their wage scales, and the number of mefi affect ed by the raise: January 30. —Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western Railroad, 2000 shopmen, an increase In pay of five and ten cents an hour. February 11.—Iron League Erect org' Association, 5000 bousesmiths, increase thirty cents a day and prom ise of another twenty cents a day In crease on July 1. Match J.—Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1500 telegraphers, increase of eight per cent, in wages. March 12.—United Power and Transportation Company, controlling the electric lines in Reading, Pa.; Trenton, N. J.; Wilmington, Del., and Norrtßtown, Lebanon and Chester, Pa., 2800 motormen and conductors, Increase from eighteen cents an hour ip twenty-three cents an hour. March 28.—New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, practically all the employes affected by raise, increases involving $6Q,0,000 a year In wages. March 25.~ Western Maryland Railroad Company, 200 locomotive engineers; Increase of eight per cent, in wages. March 28.—Big Four Railway Company, 4arge number of telegra phers, increase involved an additional expenditure of 13400 s month for wages. March 29.—Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 105.000 men, increase of six per cent, in Wages, involving an additional expenditure on wages an nually of $10,000,000. March 30. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, 3 7,000 men, including all Its employes receiv ing less than S3OO a month, increase of six per cent, in wages. April I.—Consolidation CoAl Com pany and others, 37,000 coal miners in Indiana, West Virginia and Penn sylvania, five per cent, raise, meaning an increase of $20,000 a week ip sal aries. April I.—New York Central Rail road Company. 58,0ft0 men receiving S2OO a month or less, an Increase of seven per cent. April 1. —Boston and Albany Rail road Company, all employes receiving S2OO or less a montb, Increase of seven per cent. Aprfl I.—-Parttn' & OrendorfT Com pany, Canton, 111., 2000 employes re celre a ten per cent, increase In their wages. April 5.—-American Sugar Refining Company, all employes receive aa in crease in wages amounting to from five to ten per cent. The railroad companies were the first to recognize the expediency of a general Increase of prfy, and. other concerns seem to have been Impressed with the same Idea. Poets' Descendants at Unique Banquet in London, London.—A unique banquet was held in London, at which Lord Cole ridge presided, the gathering being composed of 200 descendants of Erlt isb poets. The occasion was the anniversary of the birth of Algernon Charles Swin burne, and the diners included the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Lytton, Lady Lindsey. Lady , Shelley anS Helen Mathers (Mrs. Henry Reeves). .There were ma*? interesting speeches sod recitations. • TAR HEEL JEWS NOTES. The Latest News of Import ance to The State. Grazing Lauds Very Profitable. David Rankin, one of America'• foremost farmers, who cultivates 24,- 000 acres of rich Missouri land and Q.OOO acres in loWa, and who makes about 1.000,000 bushels of corn, says beef and pork never will be cheap again. Mr. Rankin is a multi-mil lionaire and he made his money farm in!;. starting; without a dollar of his own. lie says: "The law of supply and demand alone is responsible for high prices of meat. There is an actual shortage of hogs. Again, there is no cheap land on which to raise cattle, and those who do raise cattle risk and often stand big losses." a are thousands of acres of unused land in North Carolina, and other Southern States that might now be turned into grazing land at & pro fit. Pardon Urged for Dewey, W. D. Blades and H. L. Cutler of Ne.wbem, who were officers in the Newbern bank that was wrecked by the defalcations of Thomas W, Dewey, appeared before Governor Ivitchin in connection with the move ment now being pressed with especial vigor for a pardon for Dewey, who will have completed his six years' sentence in the penitentiary some time iu December. It isunderstood that practically all the opposition to the pardon has been withdrawn. Throwed Rocks, Received Bullets. Kmory Sbope, a well-known young white man of the RicevilFe section, several miles from Atdieville, lies at the Mission hospital with a dangerous gunshot wound in the abdomen, as a result of a shooting in that vicinity. Creasman and Karl lei I had escort ed young ladies to their homes and were returning when at a certain point in the road some person or ]>ersoiis began throwing rocks and that one of the two men returned the rocks with bullets. Children Bitten by Mad Dog A mad dog bit a white lad, two negroes and three other dogs at Wil son. All of the dogs' were killed and the head of the maddened, animal was sent to Raleigh. A telegram was received from Raleigh saying thlie dog was un doubtedly mad. Mr. Williams took his son there for treatment. Farmer Robbed in Danville. While boarding a southbound train at the Honthern |«issenger station at Danville, George J. Wright, a well known farmer of I'elham, was rob bed of his purse, containing about SBO. The robbery was done quickly, and the culprit escaped. Whiskey Instead of "Coal Oil." The I'niled Slates revenue officers headed by Deputy Merrill of Colonel Chapman's office, Richmond, have laid hare an ingenuous fraud. A barrel which came .to Handel, marked "coal oil" was found to con tain a smaller barrel of whiskey. Charters Issued A charter is issued "for the SI an ly I'niun Warehouse Company, Albe marle, capital $ 25,00(1, for general farrifproduct storage. There is also a charter for the Land & Lumber Co., Wilmington, capital $25,000 au thorized and $.">,000 subscribed. Massachusetts Won Gold Medal. The competition at Pinehurnt for the gold medal, offered for the four best scores in the 100-target trap shoot tournament, the contestant to have shot at not less than 800 targets, was won by J. Cushing Todd, of New buryport, Mass., with a total of HH."i or scoring 97, 97, 95 and 96 14 1-4 per cent. Military Correspondence £kh>»>* Adjutant Ocneral J. F. Armfield of the North Carolina national guard says the. most gratifying results, are being attained in the correspondence s «chool Iteing conducted through Die of the State military and the United States War Department for the instruction of the captains and other commissioned officers in military matters. Congressmen Have Free (lifts. This is bulletin ami seed time at Washington. Congressmen are send ing their constituents all sorts of good things. If the women of the town and country only knew the valuable matter, concerning tho home, the kitcftin and garden ihev would get just by dropping a postal card to their Congressman they would grasp the opportunity. Mr. Webb has several thousand copies o" Dr. Knapp's bulletin on "Cotton, the (Jreatest Cash 'V>p," for the cotton "rowers in his district. "Corn Growing in the South" is an other valuable paper. The Daniel Boone Anniversary. Representative Page is preparing an address to be delivered at 1/exington on the 30th, when the Daniel Boone Memorial Association wilh hold its first anniversary. The subject of his 1 speech will .be. in a general way. [ the romantic aide of Boone'- iife." The Davidson people are going to make this quite an interesting occasion. Among other speakers'©? Uie day will be Ju(l''p Jeior C. Brilchard of Asbe vHlo. TAR HEEL CHRONICLES ~ New* Notes Gathered From' All Parti of tit* Old North But*. N. 0. Chief Dismissed in Missouri. The entire population of St. Louis is aroused over the dismissal. State is aroused over the dismissal af this city's scholarly chief of police, Edmond P. Creecy, a native of Eden ton, N. C., whose father, the late Robert I*. Creecy, was owner and pub lisher of The Elizabeth City Observer. Many call Creecy's dismissal outra geous. The newspapers are demanding fair play for him. The Times says: "At the most, nothing has been proven against the suspended chief except that he appears to have lacked judg ment and penetration." The police hoard spread upon its records the statement that "Creecy b|>d no guilty knowledge or connec tion in any shnpf or form with the Polioe Relief Association shortage." Society of the Cincinnati, At the annual meeting of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati at Raleigh, the old officers were all re-elected, a number of new members idmitted and the convention brought to a close with an elaborate banquet. The officers are: President, Hon. Wilson G. Lamb, Williamston; vice president, Hon. John C. Davis. Balti more; secretary, Marshall DeLancey Playwood, Kaleigh; assistant secre 'tarv, John Bradley l»rd. Brooklyn, N. YV. treasurer, Walter D. Carstar pen, Plymouth; assistant treasurer, Col. Ben&han Cameron, Raleigh; ihaplain, Rev. .Joseph Blount Ches hire. bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina. Sold Diseased Cow Mr. J. M. Cioss of Charlotte, who taken many shipments of tattle to Fayetteville from Mecklenburg bounty, was tried before 'Squire Overby, charged with false represen tations in the sale of a cow. Mr. J. W. Johnson testified that he pur chased a cow from Mr. Cross, which the latter guaranteed to be sound, and free from disease; that two weeks latter the cow died from dis ease. Mr. Cross was hound over to court in the sum of SSO which he ? ave - North Carolina Postmasters./ The following North Carolina Presidential postmaster appointments wei" confirmed by the Senate: Marv W„ Yarbornugh to succeed Rufus R. Harris at Louisbttrg. O. I). Wallace, to succeed Carlos McLead at Carthage. Albert Miller, to succeed himself at La Orange. Charter Oranted. A charter is issued for the Carolina Banding Machine Company, Winston- Salem, capital $,125,000 'authorized and $24,000 subscribed, by E. (i. Hes ter, E. 11. Fries, W. F. Shaffner, W. C\. Briggs, William O'Brien and jthers. Size of an Editor's Fish. Kuitor Hoy lin of The Wsdcuboro Messenger and Intelligencer, is au thority for the capture of a German iarp in the I'ee Dee river by Sam Davis, and the fish is reported to weigh 27 pounds. Davis claims to nave caught it-with a hook and line. The Army of Census Takers The army of eetiMis lakers will move upon the country next Friday, April 15, and for fifteen days they will he engaged in rounding; up the population of the eities, ;i0 days to he fiven t-o other Area*. Wade Oobie Gets Twelve Years. Wade CuMe of Julian, tried in 9uilforl superior court for the mur der of John M. Staley, was found juilty of manslaughter and sentenc ed to the penitentiary for 12 vara. Guilford Commissioner Found Quilty. The attorneys in the case of John r>. King, chairman of the Guilford highway commission, indicted tor selling the county road-building ma terial, agreed on the facts and'asked the court for a verdict, dispensing with the formality of a jury trial. Judge Adams found the defendant fuUty and imposed a fine of $5 and eosls, from which verdict un appeal was taken to the Supreme Court. Deaf and School. -There was a special session of tli*. Council of Slate with Goveruor Kitchin Saturday to hear representa tives of the North Carolina State School lor the Deaf Dumb, tou, ou a number of —matters per taining to the school, particularly its finances, . The new primary- building is' just being completed that was pro vided for by the last legislature. It is costing $27,000 ard is pro nounced an exceptionally good build ing for the amount it is osting. There are now 244 children in the school and Dr. Goodwin says this session is proving one of tl-e most satip factory they have ever had. Shepherd 'Granted Reprieve. Governor Kitchin grants a reprieve to May 10 in the case of John Shep herd of Wilkes county, under sen tence of one year on the roads for selling liquor. The reprieve is because counsel saj* that $350 has been paid in judgment ni si as a compromise on condition that the solicitor and judge would recommend pardon the time being in order to press this matter before the judge to get recom mendation for pardon. A ROYAL WELCOME —•——■ - "ii Italian Ciiizens Proclaim ROOM- 1 veil "Apostle of Peace" ' t: MADE AN HONORARY CITIZEN Never Before Have Political, Relig ion*, and All Other Differences Been so Completely Obliterated as on This Occasion. Porto Maurizco, Italy, By Cable.— The entire population of this pretty little old Italian town gave Mr. and 1 Mrs. Roosevelt a truly remarkable welcome when they arrived from Qenoa. For days the residents have been decorating in honor of the visit, and American colors fluttered every where from the municipal buildings, the houses in the streets and villas. Dead walls were covered with post ers bearing such inscriptions as: "Roosevelt forever," "Long live Roosevelt," and similar expressions of regard. The municipal council, at a Speial meeting decided to confer the otitic on Mr. Roosevelt of "honorary cit izen '' and to name the new Onore drive which is now under construction and is the pride of the town, "Roose velt boulevard." The mayor's announcement of the visit of t>he American, which has been posted in the streets, refers to Mr. Roosevelt as a man who, "as president of the Umted States, con stituted himself champion of the peace of the world, and during the Messina disaster manifested his own and the friendship of the great repub lic, proclaiming thus the bonds of fraternity and human solidarity." World's Visible Supply Cotton. New Orleans, Special.—Secretary Hesters statement of the world's vis ible supply of cotton issued Satur day shown the total visible to be 3,968,897, against .162,237 and 4,- 772,528 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 2,720,897, against 2,863,237 last week, and 3,- 721,528 last year, and of all other kinds including Egypt, Brazil, India. eto„ 1,245,000, against 1,299,000 last, week and 1,051,000 last year. Of the world's visible supply of cotton there is now afloat and held in Great Britain and continental Europe 2,- 108,000, against 2,852,000 last year; in Eggypt 1 H4,000, against 2tj7,00( > last year; in India 753,000, against 267,0i)0 last, year; in India 753,000_ against 453,000 last year; and in the United States 974,000, against 1/ 200,000 last year. Bank Robbers Kill and Rob. Pittsburg, Pa., Special.—A bank robberv with WilT West features was pulled oft' by four desperados in McKees Rocks Saturday night with the slaying of two men and the pos sible fatal shooting of another. The robbers themselves covering their escupe with volleys of revolver shots, got safely away with at least S4OO in cash from the ofticera of the Victor Banking company. Samuel Friedman, general manager of the company, was killed; his as sistant, Isaac Schwartz, who was dangerously wounded in the head, died on the operating table while the Rur geons were, probing for 'be bullet, which penetrated his brain, and Robert King, a passerby, was seri ously shot, in the groin.- "Higher Lair" Defense! Fails. * Aberdeen, Miss., Special.—John T. Carter, whose trial on a "charge of murder in connection with the kill ing of Dr. W. P. Wendel has been in progress foe a week, was declared fuilty of manslaughter and was sen tenced lo serve 20 years in Ihe Stat* penitentiary, the maximum penalty. The defense set up by counsel for Carter was chiefly the "unwritten law," although it was also contended that he acted in self-defense. Government by Commission Defeated. Guthrie, Okla., Special—ln the mu nicipal election her| the commission form of government was defeated for the second time. The majority against the commis sion plan was 87. At the former election it was Xf9. Flying Contests Assured. New York, Special.—The Wright brothers of Dayton, Ohio, made an %greement with the Aero Club of America, which assures the future of aviation contests in this country. The Wrights agree to issue licenses to those aviators who do not UM Wright machines, and the Aero club agrees to countenance no contests un less the aviators competing shall first obtain licenses from Ihe Wrights. No similar agreement with any other body will be made by the Wrights. In short, the Aero clnb will dictate the conditions of all aviation con tests in "this country during the life of the agreement. |"ire in Pennsylvania Town. Harrisburg.wl'a.. Special.r— The bus iness section of Middletown, 9 miles from this city, and an int- manufacturing. towN of about 10,000 people, was swept by fire Sat urday, about 75 building? being burn ed with a loss of about $400,000. Tb« town was in danger for two hours until by th*» ronibincd efforts of fire men of this city, Lancaster, Colum bia and Steeifon anil the use of e*« olosivefc, the fire ms stopped.
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