STATE CAN PROVE
RATES REASONABLE
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ACCORDING TO E. J. JUBTICE,
RAILROADS' FIGUREB ARE
DfIISLEADING.
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DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
IWs|i and Happenings That Mark
ttee Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple Gathered Around ths Btate
Capitol.
Raleigh.
E. J. Justice, author©f the Justice
freight rate act and now of the depart
ment of Justice at Washington, was in
Baleigh recently in conference with
Governor Craig, Attorney General T.
W. Blckett and Messrs. Winston &
Biggs, counsel for the state, regard
ing preparations for the cross-examin
ation of the railroad officals the lat
ter part of this month with a view to
breaking down the force of the array
of figures presented by the rallroaft
companies on direct examination.
In the conference were also a num
ber of freight rate experts whom the
state will use in the presentation of
evidence for the state and cross-exam
ining the witnesses for the railroad
companies. These were President
"Fred N. Tate of the Freight Rate Asso
ciation. High Point; J. C. Forester,
irate expert for the Greensboro board
of trade; W. S. Creighton, expert for
the Charlotte board of trade, and T.
J. Ryan, expert for the North Carolina
Furniture Manufacturers' Association,
High Point.
The whole Bcope of the rtte situa
tion and the -evidence that has been
presented by the railroad companies
•were considered, and a general line
of procedure agreed upon. These pros
pective witnesses for the state were
directed to work out figures that will
break down the position taken by the
railroad companies as to contractors
direct or Injustice of the reduced rates
•prescribed by the Justice act.
After the conference, Mr. Justice
took occasion to say that he regards
the figures presented by the railroad
compaiiles as entirely and grossly
mlsleamng and that he lias pointed
out 'these fallacies* to the counsel for
the state and the experts, so that they
may work out thp real facts that
should control the final taring of the
rates. He snys the railroad compa
nies hav entirely too great a part of
the operating expenses of their lines
charged against the intrastate freight
business and have their operating ex.
ipenses placed a whole lot too high
as well.
He remarked that If the Intrastate
business for the other states served by
•.the Southern Railroad Company were
figured out on the same basis as that
applied In North Carolina, they would
represent fully 200 per cent of operat
ing expenses of the whole system.
He insists that the counsel for the
state will have no trouble in breaking
down the figures the railroad compa
nies have presented, nnd that the rea
sonableness of the rates prescribed
will be fully vindicated.
Too Late to Prevent Lynching.
Speeding - 18 miles across country In
automobiles under urgent orders from
Governor Craig to avert a threatened
lynching, Assistant Adjutant General
Gordon Smith and Capt. W. F. Moody,
commanding a squad of 40 men of
•Company B, Third Regiment North
Carolina Guard, reached their destina
tion just beyond Wendell, across the
county line in Johnston county, only
to find the body of the negro theflfe
were attempting to save riddled with
bullets and his head literally beaten
into a pulp. A mob of infuriated citi
zens had taken him from Sheriff
Grimes of Johnston county and his
deputies and taken his life for his con
fessed crime of murdering Mrs. Wil
liam Lynch recently. The victim of
the lynching was Jim Wilson, who was
arrested as a suspect at Warsaw, la
ter confessed the crime and claimed
that there were four or five accom
plices, whose navies he gave. , '
Gathering War Records.
Capt. Hollis C. Clark of the United
* States Army has returned to Washing
ton after a conference with Marshall
DeLancey Haywood relatlcve to the
gathering of copies of authenticated
Revolutionary War records for the
purpose of publishing them in a serlec
of, government volumes. Captain ;Hol
lis Is In charge of this work for the
war department and is appointing
. competent representatives in each o!
the thirteen original Btates to seek out
and copy desirable documents for th
publication.
Territory is Tick Free.
Special from Washington says th
territory In the South Fred from cat
tie ticks and released from quarantlni
has been increased by 17,106
miles by an order Issued by the actlni
secretary of agriculture, effective Fet
mary 16, 1914, releasing addition poi
tlons of Virginia, North Ter
neesee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
Oklahoma and Texas.
to North Carolina: The counties c
Moore, Hoke, Scotland, Robeson an
Haw Hanover.
Investigating Railroad Bale.
The work of taking testimony an
to the receivership, sale and partition
of the old Cape Feair & Yadkin Valley
"Railroad when it was divided between
the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line
.1 n1894 was resumed by the corpora
tion commission recently, J. W. Pry of
Greensboro and W. T. Kyle, now of
the traffic department of the Norlfolk
Southern, being the witnesses ex
amined. /
The state was represented by A. L. ,
Brooks of Greensboro as counsel and '
the railroad companies by Assistant
General Counsel Ueorge Elliott, of the
Atlantic Coast Line. I
The hearing was a continuation of
the session some weeks ago when
Harry Walters, chairman of the board
of directors of the Atlantic Coast Line,
and a number of officials of both the
Coast Line and the Southern testified
as to the circumstances of the pur' 
chase of the road by the»two roads '
and Its partition between them.
A special feature of the testimony of '
both Mr. Fry and Mr. Kyle was that 1
about two years before the receiver
ship of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Val- ]
ley, of which tbey were respectively I
general manager and general traffic 
manager, there were overtures from 1
the Norflok & Western for the con
struction of a connecting link between '
the C. F. & Y. V. at Mount Airy and i
the Norfolk & Western at the most ac
cessible point in Virginia, and that 1
some part of such a link was actually 
graded, but never Ironed.
Furthermore, they stated, that when i
-the Norfolk & Western later purchas i
ed the Roanoke & Southern, Roanoke i
to Winston-Salem, this plan for the
Mount Airy extension was abandoned, i
the newly acquired line giving inter 1
section with the Cape Fear & Yad- .
kin Valley at Rural Hall. Then there 
were overtures of traffic arrangements 
between the two roads and the officers
of the C. F. A Y. V. were invited to i
New York for a meeting to work out i
traffic arrangements that would mak i
Rural Hall and Winston-Salem basin? 1
point for freight rates much on the or .
der of, If not quite so low, as those 
Virginia cities enjoy. This meetinp
was never held and the Cape Feai ■
& Yadkin Valley soon thereafter went !
Into,,the hands of a receiver and wat
later ■ divided between the Atlantif !
('oast Lino and the Southern. ]
Report of Fish Commission.
The report of Flslv Commissioner J
H. Leßoy to the state geological board
made a remarkable showing as to dlf ,
Terences between the fisheries condl ]
Hons in this state and Virginia. (
In the first place, he showed that ,
the lack of law in this state against (
the catching and marketing of under
size mullet is making possible terrible
inroads on the mullet crop In thi(
state. Of late shipments of undersized
mullet to Norfolk and other Vlrglnis i
points have been condemned and the 
flsh not only stopped from being sold 1
but actually confiscated and destroy |
ed. Now the under-slze flsh are being ;
marketed In tills state. i
It is Insisted that the catching and 
sale of such small flsh should be pro
hlblted In this stat« to assure their be 1
lng left In the water for furthei '
growth. '
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1
Move Marshal's Office.
All of the furniture and equlpmeni
olf the office of United States marsha
was shipped from Greensboro to Ashe !
ville, where Marshal Webb will have 1
his offices tywtfte future. It is prob
able that "the offices here vacted bj '
the removal will be occupied by thf
office force of Revenue Agent Vnnder
ford, who has been directed by Com '
mlssloner Osborne to move his ofTlcei j
from Ashevlllo to Greensboro.
Nine Postmasters Confirmed.
The folowlng North Carolina post
masters were confirmed: P. H. Lin
ville, Walnut Cove; A. Elmer Powell
Whitevllle; Galther G. IRackwelder
China Grove; J. M. McCracken, Gra
ham; W. G. Rradshaw, High Point;
' F. C. Gilliam, Kannapolis; G. H. Rus
sell, Laurinburg; E. C. Winchester
Monroe; James W. Smith, Norwood.
Governor Issues Requisition.
Governor Craig isued a requlslltior
on the governor of Alabama for P. L
Klncard, now being hehd In Hunts
ville, Ala., for the North Carolina au
thoritles. He is wanted in High Point
, on a charge of defrauding the Colum
bia Furniture Company of High Poin/
out of $406.
Revenue Officers Make Raid.
I State Revenue Officers H. G. Gulley
- J. P. Stell and J. E. Lowe returned
1 recently from a Johnston
» county, fifteen miles below th etown
I of Smlthfield, where they went a few
i days ago, and where they destroyed
s two thousand gallons of beer, one bar
-* rel of molasses and another barrel ol
i low wine. The officers have for some
t time had this trip in mind, and are ot I
f the opinion that had they Btruck at
t the point at the proper time thej
a would have been able to catch the
- owners of the business.
——
Trustees Take No Action,
e After a spirited discussion of th«
:- subject the trustees of the University
e of North Carolina In annual session
e at Raleigh a few days ago decided not
g to take any action as to petitioning
y for $50,000 from the Carnegie fund
r- for the erection of Y. M. C. A. building
i- at the University, but made it cleat
i, that In the event the students raised
the 25,000 they desire and securq the
>f $50,000 from th'e Carnegie fund for a
d $75,000 building, that the board will
provide S6OO a year for maintenance.
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THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON,NORTH CAROLINA.
DOCTORS MEETING
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* "S
TENTATIVE . PROGRAM 18 AN
NOUNCED FOR TRI-BTATE
MEDICAL CONVENTION. '
BE HELD IN WILMINGTON
i
Many Prominent Physicians With
National Fame Will' Read Papers
at the Meeting Hn Wilmington on ;
February 18th and 19th.
Wilmington.—A great deal of Inter- |
est throughout this section centers in I
the sixteenth annual session of the |
Trl-State Medical. Association of the
Carollnas and Virginia which is to bo I
held in Wilmington, Wednesday anl
Thursday, February 18 and 19. The j
preliminary announcement of the pro
gram has been made which is Intend- |
ed only for Information. It is stated j
that eight or 10 prominent surgeon" 1
will read papers at this meeting ami j
that two or three from New York and |
Boveral from Chicago will also attend, j
The tentative sketch of the program |
indicates that the meeting will be one j
of the most Interesting in years. The J
Trl-State Association, embracing three !
states, always attracts a number of j
the leading physicians and specialists I
in the country. Charlotte will send aj i
large deelgatioo to this convention
and several will read papers, j
lng Drs. A. J. Crowell, J. P. Monroe, 11
John Hill Tucker, William Allan, Ad- >
dison G.-Brenizer, A. N. Whlsnant and | '
others. l „ I 1
The officers of the>Trl-State Medl- 1
cal Association are: Dr. Southgatc j
Leigh, Norfolk, Va., president; Doc- i
tors Augustus D. Knowlton of Colum
bia S. 9., Alfred L. Gray and Andrev
J. Crowell of Charlotte, vice presi- j i
dents, and Dr. Kolfe E. Hughes, uf I
Laurens, 8. C., secretary and tW?aßur
er. On the Executive Council are:
Drs. J. Sheiton Horsley of Richmond,
R. B. Eptlng of Greenwood, D. A. |
Stanton of High Point, James H. Cul
pepper, of Norfolk, Samuel Lile of I
Lynchburg, A. E. Baker of Charles
ton, Charles T. Harper of Wilming
ton, W. W. Fennell of Rock Hill and j
3. Howell Way of \Viiynosvlllet* "Ttmr-
North Carolina chairman of sections
are: T)r. E. C. Register, medicine;
Dr. D. T. Tayloe, surgery; Dr. Joseph |
Graham, gynecology; Dr. D; A. Stan-j
•ton, obstetrics, and Dr. H. W. Carter, i
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Reorganize Toxaway Power Co.
Asheville. —Developments of far
reaching importance to western North
Carolina nre presaged by the reorgan
ization of the Toxaway Power Com
pany, a corporation chartered about »
year ago with an authorized capital of
$1,500,000. When the company wac
chartered the Incorporators were H. S
Mitchell and W. E. Moore of Pitts
burg and George H. Wright of Ashe
vllle. At that time the company In
tended to do extensive electrical devel
opment along the various rivers ol
this section of the state, but the pro
ject hung fire for a time and finally
was apparently abandoned.
The new company owns or con
trols extensive water rights and prop
erty In Western North Carolina dnd
it intends! to develop power projects
along the Toxnway river In Transyl
vanla county, the Green river and
other streams on the southern side ol
the Blue Ridge. All rights, properties
options and agreements held by the
former incorporators have ben trans
ferred to the new company.
Sanden Negro But>mlts. »
Raleigh.—Worth Sanders, the negro
who so narrowly escaped being lynch
ed and took refuge HI Wake county
Jail and was subsequently transferred
to the State's Prison, has made admis
sions of guilt that make his conviction
much more certain, According to state
ment made by Sheriff Sears. He says
that Sanders told Jailor Jordan that ho
was out at tho Lynch place when Mrs.
Lynch was killed by Wilson and that
he helped him put the body in the
brush, but that; he was t*>> drunk to
have any clear recollectpn of JUBt
what did happen. Sheriff Sears has
another prisoner in jail, who occupied
the cell with Sanders, and says that
Sanders made much the same state
ment to him.
J . .
Establish Training Bchool.
Greensboro.—A movement is orivfoot
here to get the County Commission
ers to establish a training school for
boys who get Into the city courts of
Greensboro and High Point for minor
Infractions of the law. The last Legis
lature authorized the commissioners
to make an appropriation for such a
school. The idea is not to make of It
a reformatory, but a real school. Boys
sent there will be educated and taught
useful occupations. It Is believed that
the commissioners will undertake the
school.
, ✓ Three Demonstrators,
i States vllle.—Misses Cora Bell of
{ Mount Mourne, Mary Lawrence of
Olln and Essie Smith of Scotts have
1 been appointed demonstrators to have
> charge of the tomato clubs in redell
I county board of education has greatly
I increased Its appropriation for this
I work, and the Uqlted States depart
t ment of agriculture is supplementing
! the fund, which means a great expan-
I aion In the work next season. The
i clubs made a fine showing last season,
1 when only one demonstrator was em
(ployed.
POULTRY
♦MTS
GOOD MANAGEMENT OF GEESE
Many Place* on Farm Worthies* fof
Cultivation That Could Be Utilized
With Excellent Result*.
(By O. E. HOWARD, United States De
partment of Agriculture.)
Goose raising is not so extensively j
engaged in as duck raising, the condl- j
tions under which they can be suc
cessfully raised being almost entirely j
different from those necessary for suc
cessful duck raising. The duck, be- i
ing smaller, can be raised In a more i
limited apace than can the goose, the j
latter needing frep range and water,
whll« the former has been proved to ,
do equally well without water.
While the goose can not profitably
be raised in as large numbers as the
duck, stili it can not JUBtly be termed
unprofitable. There are many places !
on a farm that are worthless for cul- I
tl vat ion that could be utilized with ex
cellent results for goose raising.
Fields that have streams, branches,
or unused springs on them could be
turned to good advantage by making i
them into goose pastures. Many farm- j
era are profiting by this and adding to i
their incomes annually. The care and j
attention necessary for raising geese I
are very small when compared with !
the returns, and the cost of food is
also proportionately small In compari
son with the cost of food used for
other birds bred for market. A goose
on range will gather the largest por- j
tion of Its rood, consisting of grasses, ;
Insects and other animal and veget
able matter to be found In the fields
and brooks.
The simplest kinds of houses are
used for shelter; these should be built
sea? M/BSLi
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An Excellent Trio.
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after the plans o( those given for
ducks, but should be proportionately
of larger sise to accommodate com
fortably the number of birds to be
kept. Geese are long-lived birds, some
having been known to attain the age
of forty years, while birds fifteen and j
twenty years of age are not uncom- '
mon. They retain their laying and i
hatching qualities through life. Gan- |
ders should not be kept for breeding j
after three years of age; young gan- 1
ders are more active and insure great- |
er fertility of eggs than old ones do;
besides, ganders become more quar
rclßomo as age advances.
MILK FOR PRODUCING EGGS!
In Experiments Conducted by West
Virginia Station Milk Produced
More Eggs Than Water.
Two tests are reported from the
West Virginia Btatlon of the value of
sklmmllk compared with" water for
wetting a feed mash. In the first
test, which covered 122 daya, 22
heQS fed sklmmllk laid 1,244 eggs,
as compared with 996 eggs laid by
the 22 hens fed mash wet with water.
In the first period of the second test
60 hens fed the sklmmllk ration laid
862 eggs In 37 days, aB compared with
632 eggs laid by a similar lot fed no
sklmmllk. In the second period, which
covered 56 days, the rations were re
versed. The chickens fed sklmmllk
laid 1,220 eggs, as compared with 978
in the case of the lot fed no sklmmllk.
In every case the pens contained one
cock to ten hens. In both experi
ments more eggs were produced when
sklmmllk was substituted for water
for moistening the mash.
"Under the conditions prevailing in
these experiments, and with eggs sell
ing for 20 or 25 cents per dozen, the
sklmmllk used for moistening the
mash had a feeding value of from ltt
to 2 cents per quart. In these trials
802 quarts of sklmmllk were fed, re
sulting In an Increase In the egg pro
duction of 702 eggs, or almost an ex
tra egg for each quart used.
Technical Terms.
It Is common to call all poultry
, chickens, but etrictly speaking a
; chicken is a young fowl generally un
der six months of age, and the fowl
1 is one over that age. On the tame
1 basis a young male under one year of
age, or a young female of the same
age, are known as cockerel and pul
-1 let respectively. They become, cock
" and hen after that age.
Comfortable Houses.
1 All hen houses- should be comfort
' Able, which means that they snould be
reasonably warm, with a liberal pro
vision for fresh air. and should be dry.
fr^MRIA
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S* Promotes Diges Hon,Cheerful- J W ' K.
nessandßest.Conlains neither qj XfVrllw ,
V Opium.Morphine nor Mineral K. Il
Sj NOT NARCOTIC (Lily
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Ml lion. Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. ■ |r www
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The Pioneer.
"Who started the first exposure of
the underworld?" '
"[ guess jt was the first volcano."
STOMACH MISERY
BUS. INDIGESTION
"Pape's Diapepsin" fixes sick,
sour, gassy stomachs in
five minutes.
Time It! In five minutes all stomach
distress will go. No Indigestion, heart
burn, sourness or belching of gas, acid,
or eructations of undigested food, no
dizziness, bloating, or foul breath.
I'apo's Diapepsin Is noted for Us
speed in regulating upset stomachs, j
It Is the surest, quickest and moot cer- |
tain Indigestion remedy in the whole '
world, and besides It is harmless.
Please for your sake, get a large ,
fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin
from any store and pat your stomach
right. Don't keep on being miserable
—life Is too short—you are not here
long, so make your stay agreeable.
Eat what you like and digest It; en-
Joy It, without dread of rebellion In
the stomach. ~-v
Pape's Diapepsin belongs in your
home anyway. Should one of the fam
ily eat something which don't agree
with them, or in case of an attack of
Indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis or
stomach derangement at daytime or
during the night, it is handy to give
the quickest relief known. Adv.
It's a fine thing to be a leader, but it
is better to follow a good example
than to set a bad one.
For thrush, cleanse and dry the foot
and make thorough applications of
Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh. Adv.
Don'* a girl you are in love with
her and have an Idea that she Is go
ing to help you out
Alton tailing Tobaoeo Kemedy Guaranteed
to InatanUj remove tutf for ctgarettea or toteooo
to any form, or mon«; oheerfuily refunded. Bend
Kc and reoelro wonderful remedy by return mail.
Addrea* D»»* B, Tafcaa— » WUili. ■—■».
It sometimes requires a buoyant na
ture to keep up appearances.
They stop the tickle—Dean's Mentha"
la ted Cough Drops atop coughs by stop
ping the cause—sc at Drug Stores.
Even when a man has a pull he
sometimes has to be pushed.
Wounda cleansed by Hanford's Bal
sam. Adv.
Actors imitate mankind; amateurs
Imitate actors. , . ■ - _ ■ • , v
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that cotton doesn't need much
gSpnF POTASH 1
belon ß s t6 a past age. Few soils have I
bo av#ilaWe Potash to produce the ,
Tit a cotton fertiliser with j to 9% Potash ■ *>
"* K * init liber * u y k» nde-dressiiif*. Add to an Jl
old-style fertiliser an equal amount at Mt\
Potash Pays. Wnteto n for free book
amount of Potash from a Soo.lL bag up.
KMin, GERMAN KALI WOBKS. hwu. 42 Brostway.
jyi -arr" I
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Wfuttemom
ftShoe Pali&hea
Finest Quality Lescnet Variety
CILT F.r>CF. the only l»«W .he* drnni that poat>
a»Hr .rrniai OIL. BUcba and pobabea Udica' ae J
children'* bank aad abac*, ahinea without nth>
bins. 2V. "Frmch Clow," Ilk.
STAR grwUiiaiß hi alraoaaa aad fciadk
wk rviMvt or ten ahora. 10c. "Dandy" axe 25c.
"QUICK WHITE" im liquid loan with m.p)
quickly cleans and whitens dirty canvas ins
10c and 2V
BAIIY EUTE U obhk
arid* in havina riwtr aba** look Al. Ri*ia cola* and
, LaretoalblaadMs. PUUa with a bmah o* do*. IQa.
"Elite" aaa 25c.
H year dealer dee* net bat> ibe kind yaw want, arad
I Si ibe paice ia ataana for • Ml mm rerfceaa. charts* pa*A
WHITTEMORE WtOsTT CO.
Iba Albaky St. Cambridge, Maea
Tim OUni and Lmrgul hUnmfttmMm if
SbmPHiUmlm>lmW*U
Tuft's Pills
The flrat doae often actonlahea the InvaMd.
glvtns elasticity of mind, buoyancy of body.
GOOD DIGESTION,
regular hew da end solid floah. Price. Z8 eta
SU KODAKS
fMI Hilt elnl attention. Prlcee reasonable.
IMb Service prompt. Bend for Price Idas.
LASIBACS uet moss I Nlllssiiia. a. s,
llf HITCH Men to lean barber trade.
WW BH I PII Few weeka required.
" 1 steady poaltlon for coaa
petentyrednatea. Wonderful demand for bar*
here. Wa*ee while learning; free catalog; writ*
RICH BOND BARBER COLLEGE, Richmond, Vau
SSESfiS
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