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THEENTERPRISE \ r _ —■ Published Weekly. WILUAMBTON, NORTH CAROLINA "Starve the fly" la much the better •loon ■very baseball team la a pennant winner Juat now. Women will wear atballer hata, bat hata are not sold by the square foot Now York'a spring cleaning will ooat SIB,OOO. It will be dirt cheap at that Announcement of the centenary of the allk hat reminda ua that tbe good die young. No man need be devoid of pride when he can preaa hla own trouaera successfully. Even a peraon without much other culture may point proudly to hla ap pendlcltla acar. A California man la breeding atrlped rata, but what kind of liquor he la oalng la not stated. There are no new names to call the umpire, of courae, but then there are alwaya new umplrea. No wonder the man who gave hla wife thirty hata failed to win her love, considering the styles. The simplified spelling board Is go Ing right on simplifying worda that refuse to be simplified. There Is reason to think that those fceppelln airships are dangerous con trivances —to those on board. Our respect for China la consider ably enhanced by the Information that the Chinese do not eat chop suey. Archaeologists announce that Egypt fought a money trust 4,000 years ago. And look at what happened to Egypt! JP , There be thoae who maintain that It • is cheaper to treat yourself to grape fruit every day than to pay doctor bills. Egypt had graft scandals, a Bertll lon system and lots of other things, Including gesturea that cannot be Imi tated. The suggestion has been made to have the man given away, too, at weddings. If coyly done, it will be a triumph. It may be true that mualc makes hair grow on bald heads, deaplte the , fact that Richard Wagner wore a skullcap. T ____________——_— As for rabblta, turtles, guinea pigs, etc., Inoculation with aome form of germ seems to be the badge of all the tribe. A dispatch says "lobatera are to have state protection." 'Tia well to protect some lobsters for proper an nihilation. An actress advises girls to wear hat plnless hats to make a hit with men. The advice la so shrewd as to be fair ly diabolical. Wife of a millionaire eloped with a butcher. - Probably had extravagant tastes and wanted meat three or four times a day. An eastern woman claims she would rather be very thin than otherwise. At least she takes a broad outlook of the situation. According to a Chicago professor, clothes'are worn primarily for orna ment. Then how does he account for the derby hat' It ts announced that a new Velasquez portrait has been discov ered In London. But it is not announc ed who painted It. In China the breaking of a cup means an oath of brotherhood. In an American restaurant It means one from the proprietor. What has become of the old-fash ioned man who used to write to the newspapers to say that "woman'a •pbere Is at home"? Boston college girls propose organ izing a chain of don't wed clubs, but aay the membership will be limited. Limited to girls over sixty. New York. It Is reported, has an over-abundance of apartment houses and confidence'game workers Sort of too many.flats and sharps, as It war*. » There must be a lot of poor shots In the old world. Dispatch say*, that eight out of every ten noblemen who come to America to Inveigle heiresses la marriages, fall as fortune huntera. A funeral cortege was arrested foi exceeding the speed limit In Spokane recently. How hard It is to lose the western habit of "hustling!" Insonula la contagious, says a late medical report 'Quite so, especially when the baby of the house begins to show even the alighteat symptoms. Aa English woman, on separation Cram har husband, la to have 970.000 • year, • town bouse and • country house. Talk abou) the land of the fr~! LAND OF THE LON6 LtAF PIKE Short Paragraphs of State News That Has Been Condensed For People of the State. Raleigh.—John T. Pullen, 50 yeai* old, well known as a banker and phil anthropist, died here after a short 111- neaa. Durham. —The city schools have an nounced their commencement pro gram for thla year, and included In the list of announcements about tbe finals are many Interesting Innova tion s. Cullowhee. —Cullowhee Normal and Industrial school has just closed one ot the most interesting commence ments of ita history. The exercises, without exception, have been well at tended and the order at these exer clsa has been unusually fine. Durham. —The contest for the po sition of city attorney is being waged among a number of tbe younger at torneys of the city. J. L. More head, a member of the present board of al dermen, Is a candidate for tbe posi tlon, and so is Charles Scarlett. Dunn. —At a regular meeting of the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy quite an interesting pro gram was arranged for the exerclsei to be held at Chicora cemetery May 10. Mr. Charles Ross of Lllllngton will deliver the address. He will be introduced by Mr. Clarence J. Smith. High Point, —The temperature in politics seems to be still rising. Re cently there was a large mass meet lng of voters at the Industrial Hall, where speeches were made by Mayor Tate, Dr. Fred Peacock, Doctor Bur rus, Rev. Mr. HUllard and others Mayo/ Tate made an extended speech explaining In detail the needs of the city in the way of increased school facilities and waterworks. Salisbury.—H. Clay Qrubb, a proml nent citizen of Davidson county, was painfully Injured and had a mlracu lous escape from death, when his au tomoblle skidded and turned com pletely over. He was on his way to Salisbury and waß riding alone and at a rapid rate of speed. A shoulder blade was dislocated and he was bad ly bruised. . Washington. Senator Overman came to the bat again recently with further charge against the admlnis tratlon of the civil service laws. While he did not charge that frauds had been committed, he quoted President Taft's Efficiency and Economy Com mission against the Republicans, to porve that the law was not being ad ministered properly. Lenoir.—At a mass meeting called for the purpose of uomlnating trus tees for the Lenoir public schools the following gentlemen were named: J J. Whisnant and Dr. C. B. McNairy for a term of three years; W. B. Wat son, John Deal, J. M. Bernhardt for a term of two years and Rev. C. T Squires and V.'H. Beach for a one year term. , Blowing Rock.—Running a foot race from Boone here and return, r. distance of 20 miles, R. L. Alexander, a student of the Appalachian Training school, carried off the honors in the time of 2 hours and 20 minutes, his time being verifed at this place by the postmaster, who gave him the hour stamped on a piece of paper. Fourteen boys , divided Into two teams of seven each, entered the race Raleigh.—Raleigh has had a police commission for the past two year* that retires with the Incoming of the new commission form of government in the near future. The final report of the commission shows that up wards of SIB,OOO was collected in fines aud costs from the police court the past two years, compared with less titan $2,500 for the two years pre vlous, without commission manage ment of the police department. Newbern. Edwin Black ledge antf Hugh Orayborne, colored, who are said to have thrown rocks at the At lantic Coast Line passenger train as it was en route from Washington to this city, one of which crasher' through one of the car windows and seriously injured one of the passen gers, Mrs,- Nancy J. Morris, of Mays ville, were given a hearing here beforr Mayor C. I. McCarthy, From the evi dence Introduced at the hearing Blackledge was held for the next term of Craven county superior court undei a bond of SIOO. Conover.—Conover has taken on a business boom never known hereto fore. Arrangements are being made to Install an electric light system and the organisation of the company Is practically assured. A lino will be built to the Southern Power Com pany'a line. Raleigh.—The secretary of state charters the Manning Hardware Co., Lexington, capital $50,000 authorised, and $15,000 subacribed by L. F. Man nlng and others; also the Nelsette Lumber Company, of Statesvlile, cap senbed by R. Jackson and others. Salisbury— The Salisbury Civic League will give prises for the largest number of flies killed and delivered to the sanitary officer at the city hall. For the greatest improvement In prem lses within the city limits sultaltfe v prisea will alao be made. Salisbury.—Without opposition the nominees of the Democratic primary held in Salisbury recently will go to the polls and will be duly elected The nominee for Mayor Is Hon. Wal l ter H. Woodson, a .well known young attorney. For several years he has been chairman of the Democratic ex ecutive committee for Rowan >/»•« CRISIS IN ALBANIA TROUBLE IS PASSED MONTENEGRO HAS ABANDONED SCUTARI AND LEAVES FORT RESS WITH ROWERS. SENDS TELEGRAM TO GREY A Meeting of the Ambassadors Will A be Held When the Future ef the City Wilt Be Discussed.—Very Sat I elector/ Move. London.— King Nichols* of Monte negro, having placed the future of Scutari in the hands of the European Power*, the settlement of the Albania trouble now depends upon whether Essad Pasha and DJavld Paaha will obey the orders sent by the Sublime Porte to withdraw their armies to the Turkish Empire. It Is believed that as Montenegro has abandoned Scutari, Essad Pasha will recognize the futility of his aspirations to the kingship of Albania In the face of the threatened Austro-Italian expedition to expel him. One of the Ambassadors at the close of the ambassadorial confer ence here said: "The situation Ik saved and the crisis is past. The reported Austro- Italian action in Albania has no point now." Another meeting of the ambassa dorial conference will be held when arrangements with regard to the fu ture of Scutari and Albania will be discussed at the close of the Ambas sadors'. conference In London an offi cial communication was Issued read ing as follows: "The fact that the King of Monte negro has placed the fate of Scutari In the hands of the Powers Is a mat ter of great satisfaction. The Gov ernments of the Powers will now con sider what arrangements shall be made In the immediate future in re gard to the town." Solar Physical Observation*. Wellington, N. Z.— I The mission of linking together solar observations throughout the world, undertaken by Miss Mary Proctor, of New York, a daughter of the great English art rone* mer, Richard A. Proctor, who died In New York in 1888, has been brought to a successful conclusion after five year's work. The establishment of a solar physical observatory In New Zealand was assured by the donation of $60,000 by Thomas Cawthorn, of Nelson, N. Z. Latest Report on Flood Situation. New Orleans. —An account of the slow return of the Gibson's Landing crevasse waters to the Mississippi rlv* er through the Red river, the weather bureau lowered the maximum flood stages previously forecast for Haton Kouge, Donaldsonville and New Or leans. The prevent Indications are that the maximum stages In the lower river will range from half a foot to more than a foot below the high record stages of 1912. Decision By Supreme Court. Washington. Peraons .exporting arms from the United States to pro mote revolution in may be ar rested by American authorities, for violating the neutrality proclamation of 1912, before the arms have actually left the United States, according to i decision by the suprerme court. The decision reversed the district fedora* court of Western Texas, which an nuled indictments against Arnulfe Chavez, and Jose Masa. Phagan Murder Still a Mystery. Atlanta, Ga. —Despite diligent ef forts 4o discover the identity of the person or persons who murdered 14- year-old Mary Phagan and hid her body in the basement of the National Pencil Company's factory here, wherr it was discovered over a week ago police and detective* are apparently as far as ever from solving the mys tery. Inquiry Into Coal FleM Situation. Washington.—After reading a state ment by Governor Hatfleld of West Virginia, denying allegations of peon age and a reign of tevror in the Paint Creek and Cabin Cre«k coal district*. Senator Kern reiterated his intention to press his resolution for a federal inquiry into the Weßt Virginia coal field situation. "I have never pre tended," declared Senator Kern, "tp have had personal knowledge of co? dlttons in West Virginia. I have stat ed facts as they have been presented to me." College Men Reserve Corp*. Washington. College men under the latest scheme devised by war de partment will be organised into a re serve corps of officers available for the command of volunteer troops In case of war. Secretary Garrison and Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, would establiah two campr of inatructien, on* at Gettysburg and the other at the residto at Monterey, Cal., to which the college students would be sent to be placed under the direct Instruction of regular army oI- Scera. •. — _ 1 f FREAKISH STYLES SEEN IN PARIS ■ I ;■ i M I i I Even the gentlemen of Fcance stopped and gased at theae beautiful Parisians In their most startling display of spring fashions at the Long champs races. BANKS. TO PAY INTEREST ALL DEPOSITARIES, BEGINNING • JUNE 1, MUST PAY 2 PER CENT PER ANNUM. WILL INCREASE CIRCULATION McAdoo Says With Banks Paying Interest Govsrnmsnt Deposits * Will Ba Increased Washington.—The fiscal system of the United States governing deposits of federal funds In national banks ; was revolutionised by Secretary Mc- Adoo, of the treasury department, with an announcement that all govern ment depositaries, whether active or Inactive, would be required to pay In ' terest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum beginning June 1 upon deposits of the government. Simultaneously with this action the i secretary authorised an immediate In crease of $10,000,000 in government de posits in the national banks, making the totmd $(2,649,964, from which the i federal treasuhy will earn, under the new interest order, $1,063,000 annually. There are indications that Secretary i McAdoo intends to release still more • surplus money from the treasury ( vaults and place It in general circu lation through increased deposits with the national banks. In a statement Secretary McAdoo said: "With the banks paying interest on government deposits the secretary may be justified in keeping larger balances in the national banks, thereby increas ing the volume of money in circula tion and to that extent reducing the amount locked up In the treasury." GREAT FLOODS IN LOUISIANA i Many Towns Are Being Inundated and Much Suffering Vldalla, La.—Flogd water from the crevasse near Gibson's Landing has • covered Harrlsbure, a town of 500 in • habitants, but the rise Is slow. The gap ' is now 2,600 feet wide, according to a ' report by Capt. C. O. Sherrill, United > States engineer, who Inspected the break. Government tugs, barges and the ' New Orleans and Northwestern rail road took hundred* of refugees to Natches. The United States tugs Harengo and Tunica alone transported 760 persons and 1,600 head of stock. t Americans Forced to Pay Ranaom. Washington.—Mexican constltutlon t allsts at Sap Dimas have forced , Americans there to pay ransoms of i 18,000 Mexican dollars and have con- I flseated their arms. Official reports I from Masatlan say great unrest pre . vails among American residents there, , as the Hureta forces are said to be In sufficient to protect property. Feeelgn merchants in Pledras Negras are I alarmed over a proclamation by Gov ernor Carransa, chief of the state troops, authorizing an interior debt of 8,000,000 pesos. r War Urged on Peace Delegation. London.—The British delegation now on its way to the United States r now on Its way t cnrfWyp fwypp | for the celebration of the Anglo-Amer lean peace centenary may encounter . some hostile demonstrations. Certain r leaders of the extreme Irish and.laboi ' movements are advising their Amer • lean friends to expresa opposition tc ' the British mission. Suffragette lead' r era are appealing to American worn en to denoanee any friendly dealing! between the two countries an til Bag gj land gives the vote to women. LAND SUIT WON BY U. S. LAND WORTH MILLIONS OF DOL LARS IS WON BY THE GOVERNMENT Southern Pacific Ordered to Return Property Valued at $60,000,000 to United States Portland, Ore.—Land stipulated to be worth $30,000,000 and estimated by experts to have a value of $40,000,000 to $60,000,000, was ordered taken from the Southern Pacific Railroad company and returned to the federal govern ment by Judge C. E. Wolverton in the United States district court. The Oregon-California land grant case, involving more than 2,300,000 acres, will be carried to the circuit oourt of appeals, sitting at San Fran cisco, and later to the United States Bupreme court for final adjudication. The case was submitted without argument after an agreement ot coun sel out of court This case was Instituted in 1908. Early in the history of the case, A. W. Lafferty filed about sixty private suits for men Induced to locate on the lands. The main case, demanding forfeiture of 2,300,000 acres remaining unsold, then was filed. In the decree authorised, the Laf ferty and all other intervening cases were ordered dismissed and the gov ernment's main contention for for feiture was declared the final verdict lower court. A total of 820,000 acres of the land has been sold, some ot it as high as S4O an acre. Mother Throws Sons Into Btream. Logansport, Ind.—Mrs. Nellie Paugh, 36 years old, threw her two sons, Don ald, 12, and Delbert, 6, from a bridge into Deer creek and Jumped into the stream. The mother and the younger boy were drowned, but Donald swam ashore. Before throwing the boys off the bridge the mother told them she was doing BO because no one loved them. Father of SO Children. Walnut, Ark.—A table of "Uncle Tom" Ellison's progeny, recast after the birth of a child to one of hia granddaughters, showed a surprising record. Ellison, 93 years old, has been married three times. The table showed that he was the father of fifty children; grandfather ot 126 children; great-grandfather of 60 children; great-great-father of 27 children. Surgeone to Change Man'* Face. Los Angeles, Cal. —Ortle E. McMan igal, confessed dynamiter, plans to have his appearance altered by sur gery when he la released. It la re ported his release from the county Jail may be granted at any time, and McManlgal hopes to so change him self that no one will know him as the man whose testimony sent the McNamara brothers and more than a score of labor union officials to prison. Detectives say the time of release will be. kept secret, to aid him, ac cording to a statement published here. Nearly 3,000 Patches in Quilt, Senola, Ga,—Mrs. W. C. Wollen welder, who resides near Senola, has a quUt with 6,600 patches or scraps, which she made in 1898. The scrape are, perhaps, the smallest ever pat to gether In a quilt Another unlqae relic In this community Is a plush pocket book owned by Frank Pope. The > plush Is covered with heads worked Into leaves, fourteen colors of heads being used. The pocketbook was i made by the Indiana and presented to Mrs. Cobb before they left this oooaty more than lot years ago. j CALIFORNIA PUSSES IH EMIMIEII BILL SENATE REFUSES TO PASS RESO LUTION DEFERRING TO PRES IDENT'S WISHES. OBJECTIONAL PART COT OOT Amendment Adopted Permitting Inel igible Aliana to Laaaa Lands for Not Exoeedlng Thraa Yaara ▲ A A Maaaura Passed by S6 Votaa to 2. A A A- A The administration anti-alien A A holding bill, drawn by Attor- & A' general Webb "passed the sen- A A ate by a vote of 20 to 2, after A A nearly ten hours of debate. • A A The only negative votes were • A A cast by Senator Cartwright, A A Democrat, and Senator Wright, A A Republican. A A Governor Johnson will sign A A the alien bill as soon as It A A comes to him. reserving a "rea- A A sonable time" in which to lis- A A ten to protests. A A "I have assured Mr. Bryan," A A he said, "that when the bill A ' A comes to me from the ieglsla- A A ture 1 will wait a reasonable A A time for his protests. I can- A A not say how long." A A A AAA AAAAIAAAAAAAA Sacramento, Cal. —The California senate showed a resolute determina tion to put aside the recommendation* of President Wilson and his envoy, Secretary Bryan, and pass an act pro hibiting Japanese and other aliens in eligible to citizenship from holding land by purchase or by lease for more than three years. In phraseology, the bill as redraft ed by Attorney General Webb after many conferences with Governor John son and the administration floor lead ers, omitted the words "ineligible to citiienahip" which are offensive to Ja pan, but those in charge of the bill repeatedly admitted in debate that the end sought was the same. Democratic opposition was purely tactical. The minority confessed Its sympathy with the ends sought and freely criticised the bill, not as too drastic, but as too weak. Where the minority differed was in its Judgment of the means wisest to employ. This attitude found its expreaalon In a res olution offered by Senator Curtin and defeated by a vote of 10 ayea to M noes. The adminlatratlon majority for the bill was solid with a single excep tion. . In opposition were eight out of ten Democrats, one progressive and Senator Wright, of San Diego, the lone Taft Republican in the chamber. RESCUE STEAMER SINKS Two Whites and Eleven Negroea Lose Llvee When Boat Sinke. Natchez, Miss. —The steamer Con cordia, of Natchez, which was engaged In rescue work In the flooded sections of Tensas and Concordia parishes, struck the iron railroad bridge at Clay ton, La., and sank. Eleven Negro refugees who were aboard the steamer were drowned wheu the boat went down. The Concordia probably will be a total losa. as ahe was badly wrecked by the collision with the bridge and is submerged in about 26 feet of wa ter in the Tensas river.' The steam er* had about 130 Negroes on board when she went down. The Concordia waa bringing to Natchea flood refugees rescued from housetops and second stories of build ings Just above Clayton, which la sev eral miles inland from the river. The steamer has been navigating crevasse water ranging from 8 to 15 feet deep where less than a week ago there were fine farms and prosperous villages. Four-Year-Old Child Seta Barn Afire. Elberton, Ga.—The 4-year-old Child of O. L. Wallace, Bowman, In thla coun ty, crawled inter a barn next to the warehouse in Bowman, set lire In some way to the building and was cremated. Until its crisp body was found It was "not known the child waa In the barn. Bandit Raid* Train. Robbery of the Joplin millionaire was the primary object of the giant bandit who held up a Kansas City Southern passenger train in the Kan sas City suburba. According to the police theory. After a pistol light with Mr. Short in the Pullman, the robber fell off the train wounded, car rying SI,OOO of Short's money. The mine owner was left dying in his berth with three bullets In hla body. Physicians say Short will recover. The total amount obtained was $l,lOO la money and a diamond. Auto Slayer le Given 14 Years. Chicago.—Lawrence Lindbtoom. a , chauffeur, who in 1910 ru over and killed Joeeph Weiae, waa found guilty ; of murder and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment. The evidence i showed he was driving about 85 miles an hour when the car struck Weiae. In instructing the Jury Judge Cooper . 1 aaid if it had been shown thst Lfnd 1 bloom waag driving hla 'machine in such a manner as to endanger human life they should find hla guilty wheth -1 er the killing was accidental or inten- Jtlonal. -H,
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