North Carolina Newspapers

iltt 4"' 7 l" i - ' v-v ' - - i " iMJaiC . 1 " " ; : : . &. Year, Id Adranc. " FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Hat Cmoj Cwt. rv- i .... iii - --i ' 1 -' 1 1 -- j 1 - - - ' " VOL. XX. PLYMOUTH, rN. C FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1910. N0.36V U Many Letters Received Urging Passage of Bill. IBS' UNION lit!. South Carolinian Declares That They . Are Not of Advantage Either to Consumer or Producer. , m . , y Washington, D. C., Specialj-4j'T,his question involves hundreds 'of Aul lions of dollars and the welfare of millions of people," declared T. J. Brooks, of Atwood, Tenn., president of the Farmers' National Union, in opening the hearing on the anti option bills before the House eom- jittee on agriculture last wedues- lv. The proposed legislation is 'signed to prohibit dealings in fu tures on - boards of trade and ex changes. The committee room was crowded with Congressmen from the States interested. Mr. Brooks declared that dealings in tf u hires of cotton were no more 'necessary than in wheat and wool and ftrm implements. Hedging opera tions "on change" he characterized as no different from gambling on the rice and fall of prices. "On what moral principles,'1 he asked, "is one class of citizens oblig ed to make up for the losses of an other class, for where one gains an other must lose? The original inten tion of the mtton exchange to bring the buyer and seller together has Wen eliminated in the development of present exchange practices. "We are willing to abide by the Teults of abolishing futures," he said, depicting the temptation held out. to the prospective victims who later "come into the game" and get "frozen out." , Under yie shadow of the ex chauges, competition among local buyers had been eliminated in the South, he said, and he charged the existence of a tacit understanding in Ihe cotton and tobacco belts for di vision of territory. The farmers' union' which Mr. Brooks represents lias a membership extending over 29 tStates. Characterized by Mr. Lever of 'fouth Carolina as the largest con sumer of cotton in tin? South, Lewis W. Parker, a Greenville. S. C, man-' tviacrurer, contended mat. aonormai conditions ought to be represented sir the same time. He said that as a rule futures control spot cotton. He declared that the exchanges are not of advantage, either to the consumer or 1he producer and that it seemed im possible to make the exchanges real ize the fairness of the complaints against them. He said the fight of "his interests is to have the farmers properly warehouse their cotton and to market it gradually during the sea son. George W. Neville, an important factor in the New York cotton ex change, arraigned the report of Com missioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith as a "masterpiece of theory." but lacking in practicability hi the workinsr out of his theories. Claries S. Webb, a broker, v contend ed for the necessity of "hedging" against future deliveries and prfeji dieted that abolishment of the cotton exchanges would put the price of cotton in the hands of the spinners. Cotton Exchange Side of the Case. The cotton exchange interests pre sented their side of the case at Thursday's session of the hearing by the House committee on agriculture nn the proposed legislation to pro hibit the dealings in futures. Pres ident S. T. Hubbard, of the New York cotton exchange; George W. ""Neville, one of the leading members 1 ' 1 All Kinds of Weather. Louisville, Ivy., Special. Last Fri nlay the South experienced all kinds of weather. At Tampa, Fla., it was warm; rain, at Mobile, Ala.; freez ing at Atlanta, Ga., high winds at fialveston, Texas. In fact the South from Ohio to the Gulf and -from Texas to the Atlantic, had a variety of weather, real old time winter. Poor Man's Bill Passes. Washington, Special. Senator Overman's bill allowing a poor man to prosecute wiits of error and ap peals from the . circuit and district courts of the VVited States to the court of appeals without giviug bond .and being required to advance fees in- pav cost passed the Senate Fri day. High Honor for Peary. Washington. 1. C, SpeciaJ.vCont siander Robt. E. Peary has been;ma4e a rear-admiral for his achievement in discovering the North Pole. by, eatress. Ill 4 u i v . Taft Approyes Suggestion. Plans for the reclassification of public lands, suggested by Gifford Pinchot, have been ap- proved by President Taft. The action made available for home- stead settlement more than 4,000,000 acres of land included in the forest domain. of that forum, and others identified with cotton speculation in the me tropolis, were present to voice their opposition to the inhibitory bills. The committee has been receiving a heavy mail from people through out the country interested in te measures and Chairman Scott says he has received several hundred let ters from men claiming to be cotton producers urging the proposed legis lation. The opponents of the bills took the stand Thursday afternoon.. Their spokesmen included President Hub bard, of the New York Cotton Ex change; Geo. W. Neville, and other members of that body, and Mr. Sol Cone, of Greensboro, N. C, a spot cotton dealer. I). J. Neill, rpresenting the Farm ers' Union, of Texas, testified that the Texas legislature blotted out bucketshops three years ago and the only brokers in Texas that suffered calamity thereby were two men who left the state for New York and break lambs in the hands of the ex change. He asserted that the farm ers of the country had been " pros trated b; the exchanges." Uphold Exchanges. Last - Friday A. R. Marsh of the N. Y. Cotton Exchange and J. E.La tham of Grctisboro, N. C, before the house committee on gambling in fu tures in cotton, upheld the exchanges. Senator Smith of South Carolina, sought -to show that the violent fluc tations in cotton were due to manip ulation, that the men on 'change got together and compared sheets, arbitrarily fixed prices and effected a clean up. MANY LOST AT SEA. Only One Surviver Out of 157 Passengers. Pahna, Island of Majorca, By Cable. Driven helplessly from her course, in one of the wildest storms that has swept the Mediterranean sea in forty years, the French Trans-Atlantic Steamship Company's steamer General Chanzy crashed at full speed, in the dead of night, on the treach erous reefs near the island of Minor ca and all but one of the 157 souls on board perished last Friday. Only one aboard survived. No Americans were aboard. The passengers of the Chanzy were mostly Freeh officers and officials returning to their post in Algeria, accompanied by their wives and chil dren, a few soldiers, some Italians and Turks, and one priest. The only Anglo-Saxon names on the passenger list were Green and Stakeiy. There were members of an opera trope of eleven which had been engaged to sing at the Casino in Algiers. The General Chanzy sailed from Marseil les Wednesday at noon ami was due to arive at Algiers Thursday after noon. The Chanzy is ja total wreck. Night-Riders in Rockingham? ' Reidsville, N. C, Special. Several farmers throughout this section have received circulars and post-cards threatening deeds of violence similar toKhe outrage of the night-riders in Kentucky unless they pool their to bacco in the dry prizeries and stop the practice of disposing of the pro duct on the warehouse floors. German Ambassador to Spain Dead. Madrid. By Cable. Count Yon Tattenbach. the German ambassador to Spain, died last week. White Slave ' fill Passed. Washington, Specfal.-Tbe Senate last Friday passed the Bennet." white slave" bill which had previously re ceived the sanction of the House. The ' measure was so amended as to liminate the inter-state regulations originally contained in the bill, the object of the Senate being to divorce the immigration feature of the question from all others. Gets Two Years in Pen. New York, Special. Oliver Spitzer former doe if superintendent of the American Sugar Refining Company's plant at Williamsburg, was last Thursday sentenced to two years in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for his part in the recent ex tensive underweishing frauds. Diplomatic and Consular Bill. Washington, Special. The diplo matic and consular bill was passed by the House last Friday. It carries an appropriation of more than $3,700,- CITIES NOW GOVERNED BY COMMISSION. Nearly seventy-live cities in the United States now are gov- erned under the commission system. At the first of the year the following list of cities so governed was compiled, being the most nearly complete list up to date: Texas Gaalveston, Houston, Palestine. Waco, Fort Worth, Austin, El Paso, Dallas, Dcni- son, San Antonio, Greenville, Sherman, Beaumont. Iowa Des Moines, Rapids, Keokuk. Cedar Kansas Kansas City, To- peka,' Coffeyville, Leaven worth, Wichita, Indpendence, Anthony. Massachusetts Haverhill, Gloucester, Chelsea. ' North Dekota Minot, Bis- marck, Mandan. Colorado Colorado Springs, Grand Junction. Oklahoma Ardmore, Enid, Sula. Tennessee Memphis, Bristol, Etewaah, Clarksville, Richard City. Missouri St. Joseph. Washington Tacoma. South Dakota Sioux Falls. TrtaliA RriA T.pwistnn. California San Diego, Berke- ley, Riverside. New York Mount Vernon.' SENATOR BAILEY SPEAKS. Fate of Tax Amendment Lies With Palmetto State. Columbia, S. C, Special. Senator Bailey of Texas, speaking before the members of the General Assembly of South Carolina last Monday night on the proposed amendment to the constitution with reference to the in come tax declared that the fate of the proposed amendment lay with the South Carolina Legislature. It was his opinion that the only means to raise the necessary revenue for the government provided the tariff was decreased under a future Democratic administration would be the income tax. The working of a Federal in come tax was explained. A Federal income tax, in his opinion would tax according to wealth and not popula tion. Absentee landlords, the Rep ublican party and unjust riches were scored by the Texas Senator. He was cordially received. f Another Organization. Atlanta, Ga., Special. The Nation al Cotton and Cotton Products As sociation, designed to bring to gether in one organization the varied cotton interests, was organized here last week. A committee was named to consider the advisability of holding annually in some Southern city, a cotton exposition. Farmers, manu facturers, railroad representatives and prominent educators were pres ent at the meeting. A. M. Soule, president of the Georgia Agricultural College, was elected president and Chas. S. Bartlett, president of the National Farmers' Union, vice president. Will Remember the Maine. Washington. Special. The twelfth anniversary of the destruction of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, Tuesday next, is to be made the oc casion for memorial services extend ing over several days in this city and at other points throughout the country where a movement to erect at Arlington National Cemetery a suitable monument to the sailors who lost their lives in the explosion is under way. Heike Must Stand Trial. New York, Special. Charles R. Heike, secretary of the American Su gar Refining Company, the sugar trust, is not "immune." He must stand trial, beginning March 1 next on indictment charging him with other employes of the company of conspiring to defraud the government hy underweighing imports of sugaar. Bridge Classed as Gambling. Los Angeles, Cal.. Special. Guy Eddie, City Prosecutor tinder the Good Government administration, an nounced last week that society women who indulge in quiet games of bridge, old maid or any similar pastime for prizes will be arrested. They are just as guilty of a misdemeanor, he says, as the man who conducts a "blind ph?," and must be dealt with accordingly. Walked Into Gun Trap Set by Husband. Columbia. S. C, Special. Walking into a shotgun trap set by her hus band to catch chicken thieves, Mrs. George L. Necl, of Newberry coun ty last Sunday received wounds which will likely prove fatal. Kentucky Planters Plan Big Hemp Pool. Lexington. Ivy., Svcia!. Suggested by the, successful tobacco and woll pools in Kentmkv, hemp growers from various parts of the State met here lat week and took preliminary 1 tep,i icx ill iw;i-;lca c a hen ' NEWS BREVITIES Condensed from Wide Fields, Domestic and Foreign. AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY Suited to the Wants of Bus7 Readers Seeking a Knowledge of What U Going on. i At Knoxville,- Tenn., Bert Redford, of Madison, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., attempted to eject John W. Cash, a Southern Railway flagman, and was instantly killed. John L. Sullivan, the former heavy weight champion of the vorld, was last Monday married to the sweet heart of his school days, Miss Kath 'erine Hartnett, a wealthy real estate holder. J. F. Ong, a prominent contractor, of Columbia, S. C, committed suicide last Saturday at Augusta, Ga. At Long Beach, Cal., the strain of supporting a 200-pound patient, who had rolled oil the operating table, burst a . blood vessel in Dr. William Lawrence Woodruff's lungs, and the surgeon died shortly afterward. District Attorney Whitman asked for and got a $25,000 appropriation from the Board of Estimates of New York to pursue the investigation into the so-called "white-slave" traffic. That a wealthy Chinaman, whose headquarters are either in Chicago or San Francisco, is at the head of an extensive conspiracy to smuggle opium into the United States, is the belief of Federal officials whose in vestigations culminated last week in seven arrests four in Chicago, two in Los Angeles and one in El Paso. Eighty-eight letters to Andrew Carnegie, asking him to buy an or xan for the Cote Brilliaute Presby terian Chuch, of St. Louis, Mo., writ ten in the last eight months, brought a check for $1,125 last week from the philanthropist. One person was killed, one ser iously injured and 13 others more or less hurt when passenger train No. 43 on the Rock Island railroad col lided with a freight train at Fourche, 38 miles west of Little Rock last Monday. The enrollment of the North Caro lina College of Agriculture and Me chanic Arts has now reached 530, eighty new students having been registered since the new year. This record breaking registration has been made possible by the comple tion of the new dormitory. Another gratifying feature of the enrollment for this year is that there is a gain of 54 per cent in the number of agri cultural students. Luminda Lotten, a negro woman,, aged 119. years, died at Donaldsville, La., last Monday. She was a native of Virginia. Until a month ago she was engaged in active labor. Five hundred clerks employed in the general offices in Boston of the Boston and Maine railroad have re ceived notice of a 10 per cent raise in wages. The Paltka, Fla.. board of trade will have an interesting celebration upon the opening of the Putnam county highway bridge, at Palatka, Fla., on the 22d. Three thousand shirt waist work ers at Philadelphia, returned to work, after being on strike for sev eral weeks. Prof. M. M. Parks, president of the Georgia Normal and Industrial college, at Milledgeville, Ga., return ed last Monday morning from his tour of the world, after having en circled the globe in a trip that oc cupied nearly four months. James K. Patterson, president of the Kentucky State university, has announced to the committee of the State legislature that at his death his fortune will go to the college of which he has been the head for over fortv vears. It amounts to something like $250,000. The announcement of Mrs. Manila M. Ricker, lawyer and leader in the suffragette movement, that she is to be a candidate for the governorship of New Hampshire has created a sen sation at Dover. At Carrollton. Ga., in a duel with pistols, T. J. Johnson, a wealthy planter, killed his son-in-law, Henry Camp. The duel followed the elope ment of Camp with Johnson's 18-.year-old daughter. Nicholas Timmes, of Sliamakin, Pa., died last week, and in his will he left $30,000 to Miss Anna Wil liams for nursing him during his ill ness. According to advices from Chuich upa, Mexico, Indians in that viciuity are in an ugly moml, and an up rising is thought not improbable. Col onists report a number ot attlc driven away by the Indians. A report 1mm. Bay Mint t to. Bald win county, received at Mobil.'. Ala., Tuesday states every prisoner con fined in the jail at that pi are had made their escape about midnight Monda, except one man. Jwhn Eskew who stated that he had no desiro to After several conferences at the Whiie House last Monday Wade IL Ellis of Ohio resigned his position as assitant to the attorney general in the department of justice to accept the chairmanship of the Republican executive committee of Ohio and to assume charge of the Ohio campaign this fall. At Chicago Monday Henry Beck er established a new record for 100 yards on roller skates, doing the dis tance in 10 second and clinnino- 1-5 J of a second off the old mark. Ane uetrysDurg minefield .Monu ment Commission, which met in Rich mond last week fixed on the design submitted by F. William Sievers, of Washington. It is an equestrian sta tue, with General Lee on Traveler, the horse he rode during the Civil War, and the base of the monument is surrounded by soldiers of the three branches of the service. Almost every state on the Atlan tic seaboard from Maine to Florida Monday experienced the coldest weather of the winter. New Cuban Postage. New York, Special. The printing of a new issue of Cuban postage and revenue stamps has just been com pleted in this cit". The Cuban gov ernment has discarded the old de sign that has been used for several years and has substituted the por traits of men who distinguished them selves in the military service of the country. Engineers of Southern Receive Wage Increase. Knoxville, Tenn., Special. The en gineers employed by the Southern Railroad Company have received a material increase in their salaries. The increase is made effective Febru ary 1. The amount of the raise in the wage scale ranges from 17 to 20 cents dailv. World's fair will be held in New York city in 1913 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the settle 'ment of Manhattan Island. Butchered Young Girl. Deland, Fla. Special. Irwin Han chett, 16-years-old, has been arrested for murdering Mary Tedder, 14 years old. He hacked the victim into pieces wit h.'-a. knife. He was a in mate of the reformatory for boys, and considered. ji model :; youth. He barely escaped mob vengence. '"- ' ' '- The it'harcyt ""Antarctic- expedition has refurwed Jhr I -uSfft Arenas with out having- reacjiy difi ' Son.t h Pole. Victor H3flie?f;mjsian aul com- .Tlm F-5iAllfl9 lawyer ah.U State Senro5ty-jfve$f.-' , , . -; JersY? CeMral iiiHne; "Cuba: I. 'pfteldenriruesdaleUieXacka- vnaltteljf-eaJiea for JEfrSpt .tste ao sent thrgjCBontha. ,..,. r , Z,Xiu.-- Dr,-..GoiaSulJrtj be"-came-seriousJy ill -as T3wrjftHALj recent-rail in his home. I t . "' Joseph H. Choate began jhis eigh tieth year attacking the looter; of the New York Cfty. Railway's treasury. . William T. WiTd?elL capita'lisU and former pronmition canaiaaie un Governor of New York, is eighty-nine, Julius A. Van Heo. of Indiana. American Vice-Consul at Ghent, and Miss Mary Laroy were married at the City Hall, Antwerp. Eugene Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, said that the Duke and Duchess ot Manchester, the latter his daughter, will tour America. Secretary Wilson, of the Depart ment of Agriculture, says the high price of living is due to a "miserable lot of small trusts." J. P. Morgan, Jr., following Miss Mary Garden's example, claimed ex emption from customs duties on the ground of foreign residence. An offer by John D.. Rockefeller, Jr., to contribute $25,000 to defray the expenses of a white slave inquiry by the Grand Jury was declined. Judge E. H. Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, has been made a member of the Executive Com mittee of the Erie Railway Board of Directors. . " . Judge Hough dismissed an indict ment against F. A. Heinze on the ground that the participation of an expert in the Grand Jury examination was illegal. PIGS IN BLANKETS One pound of ronwd. a:et.k ; this Is to be j ut in 2 1-2-Inch square with a small piece of broaJffast b'acou in-t-ide; -oil up and iii,Av!lh toth picko; rfrt(ieVt Jaur:$d :it in fry. pan with piece of tfuffer t JS!. row n -:!; put ipttlo wi;h waJer tocr. er; t:o.p UsJfer in kettle Ion- eoug'i to covop iile cooking; cock uy:oe hours; juvt Jefore serving. add flour to thicken 'for gravy. Serve .t ylav er i?U I cup of ooy-e-t TfJ us a " berdwr, garnished wilh pr.-slsy.--i03 LOU. NORTH STATE NEWS Iteas r State Interest .Gathered and Told in Brlet ' POE STATE WATERWAY Items Carried in I&ver and Harbor BiU.'" for this State. A spee&l from Washington of last Thursday says the River and Harbor bill will carry the itema - t named below fpr North Carolina, and-- Senator imn(yns" may be able to have many otbe appropriations in- t creased. Tti& hill has got to go to the' SenateJ&pd-may undergo many changes: ,13: , . .V V Improvjj waterway from Norfolk harbor tAJbemarie sound and for ' naainteliideV.'of improvement of in-ji land water 'route from Norfolfc to 'Mt Albemarle sound through Currituck .'., ( . .,' sound, $5,000. Improving watenfrayl jiL, from Norfolk to the sound ,$3,000. u Improving harbor at Beaufort, $Sr V 1)00. Improving Beaufort inlet $7,- ; - r 500. Improving Manteo harbor, epm pleting improvement in aceordaSce " with the report submitted in Sixtieth. O , Congress, first session, $12,75S. V , ; proving Bay river, completing provement in accordance with report submitted in Sixty-firsCCoiH. gress, second session $21,000. Imprcxfc ? r in t inr:t ing ape rear rivet aouve yy umm ton, continuing improvement -wifch a view to securing a navigable 2ffch " of eight feet up to Fayettevili,--n-N,-v- cluding surveys and acquisition" land for sites for locks and dams' and completion of plans for the s"ame - in accordance with the report sub- mitted to Sixtieth Congress, first session, $10,000. Improving Cape Fear river at and below Wilmington continuing improvement to "such, depth in excess of twenty feet as"tb appropriation for the workmay per- ; mit, due regard being giyeu1to'i8 : -difference in tidal oscillation the v upper and lower portion of tbem provement, $200,000. Improving Cor- -v tentnea creek, $2,000. Improving- Fishing creek, $1,500. Improving Neuse and Trent rivers, colUlSvinq: f improvement and for maintenaiiti; ' including work in accordaw'vrV;' , the" plan for securing adeptlilJir&inr. r'--feet in the Trent rive from New born to Trenton as recommended" to Sixtieth Congress second session, $30,000. Improving New river and waterways to Beaufort, TofauvniHg. -imnrnvpment. and for maintenaneBT -11 impr New river, including inland waef wavs between Beaufort harbor and New river, and between- New river . and Swansboro, $22,700, of wbieh sum $(5,700 may be Expended upon New river in aeeordaneeisith the - ' report submitted to the Sixtieth Con""" gress, second session. Improving Northeast, Black and Cape Fear riv ers, for maintenance of improve ment of Northeast and Black rivers and of Cape Fear river above Wil mington, $7,000. Improving Pamlico and Tar rivers, $5,000. Improving Roanoke river, $5,000. Improving St'uppernong river, $2,500. Improv ing South river, completing improve ment in accordance with the report submitted to Sixtieth Congress, first session, $10,000. Waterway from Pamlico sound to Beaufort inlet, $10, 000. Improving waterway connect ing Swan Quarter bay, with Deep ,5ay. completing improvement in ac cordance with the report submitted to the Sixtieth Congrss, first session. -. $14,575. ' "3 SOIL SURVEY WORKr Additional Experimental Stations to " be Located. A special from Washington, D.'C... of last week, says a conference ;hp-- -been arranged between Dt.""Bv lKH'-"'' gore, chemist, of the North CaVorm'a' department of agriculture, and Mr. W. E. Hearn, of the bureau of 'soils. United States department of agricul ture, who has charge of the co operative soil survey work in thw State of North Carolina. Mr. Hearn will proceed ,to Raleigh "at an early date in order to discuss with Dr. Kilgore, the lQfatiou of additional field experiment supon the most im portant soil types which have been shown by the soil survey to exist in. the different port ions of North Caro . . lina. The soil conditions in various counties will be discussed. Soon after the first of March the spil survey work will be begun id Mecklenburg and Granville counties. The work of the soil surveys of theje 1 two areas will be completed about July 1st. Briefly Noted. The town of .Jonesboro at a special eleotion last Thursday voted a bond issue of $15,000 for the installing of a waterworks system. The Chamber of Commerce of Greensboro has been revived. Burlington is considering a $50. 000 bond issue for street improve ments. February term, of Jlowan court wa called oil on account of snudhwx in the count jail. Shad during the p.LHt. wk on the New Bern market were very scarce. IWs sold at $1.50, while buck . - v n 9 r