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' ' II fi- a Year, In Adrance. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Statf QVf Casta, y 1 HI. I N 1.1 I II II ! I I II I I " I I I .... 1 1 W I ' ' HI II , I I I I. . IIHIII l III I. I. I Tfc VOL. XX. PLYMOUTH, N, C. KID AY MAKCH 4, 1910. NO. 38. nam m m In more than 50 decisions the su 1 preme court of the United States Monday passed ow the administration of justice as it had appeared in the lower federal courts and State tribu nals in more tan half the States in the Union. Many State laws were declared unconstitutional, more up held, and the laws of the United States given a final interpretation. The State of South Carolina like wise won a victory ove rthe railroads in that State when the court adopt ed the view of the supreme court of South Carolina that the law requiring railroads to pa ya penalty of $50 for failure to adjust within 90 days claims for losses applied only to in trastate traffic. The State of Alabama had its statute leyving a franchise tax on foreign corporations declared uncon stitutional. Railroads brought the ase to the supreme court. The State i? 1 i i ? A ueorgia iosi in mosi oi us con tentions in the attempt to levy on the Georgia itanroaa and uanKing com pany property for franchise taxes, despite charter exemptions. 'Cotton Leak Scandal." Indicted in connection with the "cotton leak scandal" of the depart ment of agriculture whick occurred in 1905. Moses Haas, Theodore II. Price and Frederick A. Peckham, who have been fighting against their extradi tion from New York, must come to Washington for trial, according to a decision rendered Monday by the Su preme Court of the United States. When indictments were made to two jurisdictions, as in this case the court Iield that the government may elect where the accused shall be tried. The appeal to the Supreme Court was from the refusal of the circuit court of the United States for the southern jurisdiction of New York to release the men from the custody of the United States marshal. I Tar Heels Fighting Hard. v The controversy over oleomarga rine is spreading in North. Carolina. Many letters, some for and some against, the 10-eent tax arrive here daily. Senator Simmons and. Repre sentative Kitchin are very pronounc ed in their views on the subject. Both oppose the tax and would dis continue it. Representative , Small lias declared himself in opposition to the law. All think that the label should carry the name of the pro- j i ii. -i t' j: -uuci uul ufuee mat iimf inx is ues "criminatory and should be removed. In Memory of Francis Willard. Exercises in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the unveiling of the statue of Franeis E. Willard in the national hall of fame were held at the Capitol Tuesday under the aus pices of the Woman's Christian Tem perance Union. The speakers includ ed Miss Bell Kerney, of Mississippi, oaitonal lecturer. Coffey to Lecture at University. Dr. Venable, president of the North Carolina State university, through Senator Overman, has secured the cervices of George M. Coffey of the United States soil survey for a series of lectures at the university the last week of April. Mr. Coffey, who is very capable, is a North Carolinian and a graduate of the university. Would GivJ Passes. Representative Taylor, of Ohio, out in a bill that will be cood read- --. m t ., ing to the families of a lot f railroad men throughout the country. It is for the amendment of the Hepburn law to permit railroad companies to give interstate passes to the widows and children of railroad employes. Lights Along the Coast. Senator Overman of North Caro lina got the board to approve his and Representative Godwin's bill provid ing $21,000 for better lights along the coast. I Toxaway Hotel Co. Wins. The Toxaway Hotel Company f North Carolina is a corporation mere ly for conducting hotels, and so hot subject to the national bankruptcy acts, held the Supreme Court of the United States Monday in deciding a case from the United States circuit conrt of appeals for the fourth cir cuit. Money For Immigration Commission. The action of the house Monday assured an appropriation of $125,000 for" completing the work of the im .jiiigration commission, this being the" full amount desired by the commis sion' for that purpose. The soil and climate of Arizona are adaptable to the successful grow ing of Egyptian cotton, according to Ulie" announcement' of the bureau of Indian affairs on the accomplishment of its experimental Station at Sacafon, near Phoenix, Arizona. While the boys in the East are heaving the farms and seeking employ ment elsewhere there is room for op timism as to farm life in. some parts of the country, said Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Tuesday in dis cussing the protection of National Grange of West Virginia against the figures in his annual report relative to the value of the wealth of Ameri can farms. The Secretary said the figures, $8, 760,000,000, mentioned in his report as the value of farm produots last year, merely represented the visible wealth of the farms of the country, including stock, cattle, grain, etc., and had nothing to do with the cost of making the crops. He added that the department had not reached the point where it was able to give the net profits of the Amerioan farms. "I know," he said ,"that some far mers claim that the corn and grain should not be counted in, along with the stock, as the grain is fed to the stock. But doesn''t that make the stock more valuable?" The grange complained that the fig ures were misleading and represented the farmer rolling in wealth, giving no data as to the comparatively small profit he made after the hardest sort of work. Last year, he stated, 12,500 boys on Southern farms raised an acre of corn each, and some of them did splendid work. Tlis year the department is giving instruction to the young men in hog raising. "We are trying to reach the old people through the young ones," he said. Labeling of Whiskey, President Taft's decision in the liquor controversy that "whiskey is whiskey" whether it be blended or straaght, has been formulated in a set of regulations prepared by the board . of food and drug inspection. of the Department of Agriculture. The regulations were completed last week and approved, as required by ihe pure food law, by Secretary Wil son of the Department of Agricul ture, Secretary MacVeagh of the Treasury and Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor. In brief, the regulations declare that all unmixed spirits distilled from grain, prepared in the customary ways, are entitled to the name "whiskey."' without qualification. Blended whiskeys must be labeled as such. - The term "whiskey," however, is restricted to distillates from grain, and under the regulations, distillates from old substances, if labeled "whiskey" are misbranded and the person guilty of misbranding may be prosecuted. May Have to Buy .Mail Boxes. Pei-sons who live in cities and have no mail boxes in front of their residences are liable not to receive any mail at home after June 30, 1911. Certainly they will not if a provision of the Postoffiee Appro priation bill becomes a law. The provision prohibits any letter car rier from delivering any mail at any house unless there is a suitable mail box on the outside to receive it. It means that Uncle Sam is tired of having his uniformed carriers wait for" people to take their time in answering their door bells. To Abolish Pension Agencies. - The abolishment of seventeen out of eighteen pension agencies in the ceuntry is recommended to the house by the appropriations committee in the report on the pension bill. The only agency will be located at Wash ington. The seventeen agencies thus cut off are located in Augusta, Me.; Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, O.; Concord, N. H.; Des Moine3, la.; Detroit, Indianapolis, Knoxville,, Louisville, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, San ITraa ciseo and Topeka, Kan. Japan Raising Peannts. Japan is becoming a competitor of the Southern States in the raising and delivery of peanuts to America. The exportation of Japanese pea nuts to this country during 1908 aggregated 4,929,141 pounds, out of 6,21S,771 sent to all parts of the world. On the island of Formosa more than 50,000 acres of peanuts are under cultivation. Overman Secures Picture. ' Senator Overman f Nerth Caro lina saw Cj6 chief of the lighthouse board last week and got him to do nate a framed .picture of "The Knuckles" at Frying Pan Shoals to the city of Wilmington. The pic ture was one of the most intreesting on exhibit at the Seattle exposition. Fftolish to Vote. Saturday before an , audience of young women at the George Wash ington Memorial meeting, President Taft told them it was foolish for women to want to vote in the Dis traict of Columbia. NORTH STATE NEWS Items of State Interest Gathered and Told In Brief. Wilmington Has Bad Fire. A distastrous fire Sunday totally destroyed two Avarehouses at the freight terminals of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in Wilmington. The conflagration was one of the most disastrous in recent years and will seriously impede business until the buildings are replaced. An estimate of the damage places it in the neighobrhood of $200,000. The fire started in the end of the Monoth building completed only a month ago. In this was stored chem icals, fertilizers, nitrates etc., own ed by Armour and Company and other firms. This building was soon a mass of flames. The blaze next spread to warehouse C, leased from the Seaboard by Armour and Com pany and this was totally destroy ed. The German stc(imship Jarls burg was moored at the docks. River steamers and the revenue cutter Sem inole pulled the steamer in mid stream after small boats aiul' tthe1 bride had been burned. Loud ex plosions of chemicals caused much excitement throughout the city. The fire occurred during a driving rain and wind storm; the rain had no effect upon the flames fed by the Chemicals. Water pressure was poor owing to installation of a new water works system. Work of building the warehouses will probably start immediately. The destroyed buildings formed a part of a chain of immense warehouses erected here by the Seaboard for storage purposes. ' Slayer of Rose to Die.. Many acquaintances througout the State of Mr. Benjamin Rose, formerly of Winston-Salem, and who was murdered in his room in New York where he had been living for the last few years, will be interested to know that Edward F. McGrath, a former pugilist, has been convicted of the crime and will pay the pen alty of electrocution. The jury at the first trial found for murder in the second degree, which carries a minimum sentence of twenty years imprisonment, but the defendant's laAvyer, upon moving for mally for a new trial on -the gorund that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, was surprised to have the judge grant a new trial, immediately;- The accused man's second trial has resulted in the imposition of the death penalty. Machinists Want Increase. A committee representing the various unions organized throughout the South, left Spencer Sunday night for Birmingham, Alav, for a con ference with representatives from all points on the Southern Railway system relative to an increase of wages, which is asked for by all machinists in the Southern's ser vice. The conference, which con vened in Birmingham will, it is fid, arrange a schedule of wages which will be submitted to the officials of the Southern Railway Company. Exemption of Hospital Bonds Sus tained. Judge Oliver II. Allen .rules in the test case of Parker vs. Raleigh Sav ings bank that tho issue of $500, 000 state bonds for enlarging the state hospitals are not liable to tax ation when held by banks as invest ments for bank surplus, the ruling of the North' Carolina corporation com mission to the contrary notwith standing. The ruling merely sus tains the legislative exemption stamp ed on the bonds, but which the ruling of the commission threatened to up set. Solomon Shepherd Captured. Solomon Shepherd, the convicted curderer of Engineer Holt and who a few weeks ago was sentenced to serve a 30-year term in the penitentiary and who escaped from a railway con struction camp near Laurinburg, gave the people of Alamance a lively chase Monday and was finally captured and returned to the penitentiary by Offi cer G. L. Patillo and Deputy Sheriff C. D. Storv of Burlington. Negroes Start Hosiery Mill. The Durham Textile Mills com pany (incorporated) .is the name of a new corporation operating a hosiery mill In Hay ti, the colored settle ment of the city. ' To Purchase Dredging Machine. Arrangements are being made by the Rowan County Board of Com missioners to purchase a dredging machine, which it is proposed ,to use in dredging the creeks and rivers of the county. NEWS BREVITIES Condensed from Wide Fields, Domestic and foreign. AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY Suited to the Wants of Busy Readers Seeking a Knowledge of What if Going on. Announcement of a national "Tu berculosis Sunday" to be held April 34, in 215,000 churches of the United States, has been made by the Na tional Association for the Study ani Prevention . of Tuberculosis. AHeging that garbage iunped by the railroad near his home caused his family to be' stricken with ty phoid fever, James H. Overby, of At lanta, Ga., last Wednesday filed suit against the Central of Georgia Rail road for damages aggregating $62, 500. Th" Supreme Court of Ohio last Wednesday held that all saloonists selling near-beer in "dry" counties must pay the Aiken liquor tax of $1,000 a year. About $1,000,000 is involved throughout the State and the decision is admitted to be a blow at the liquor interests. Citizens of Granville county, ICorth Carolina, have organized a Fair Association. A warrant has been issued charg ing Dr. James R. Hull, of Munroe City, Mo., with murdering Professor J. f. Vaughn by strythine poisoning. A serious wreck occurred Thurs day near Medulla on the Winston & Bone Yalley railroad, in Florida, five miles, south of Lakeland, as the result of a head-on collision between a passenger train bound to Fort Meade and an extra work train. Sev eral were badly iiijured, but all pas sengers escaped. The sand dunes in New Zealand, as stated in an official report by Dr. Cockayne, cover 24,000 acres in the South Island, and 200,000 acres in the North Island, the dunes of west am Wellington stretching 170 miles along the sea with an area of more than 90,000 acres. The replies of the Southern rail roads to the wage demands of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conduc tors were opened at Cleveland, O., last Thursday. The refusal of the roads to meet the men's terms were unanimous. At Charleston, S. C, Friday the South Carolina Cotton Seed Associa tion voted to, continue the organiza tion five years and four more months at least. That what is knawn as the "black listing" statue of Texas is not con trary to the Federal constitution, is' the opinion of the court or eivn ap peals for the Fifth district of Texas in a ease wherein a brakeman was given a verdict of $2,500 against the St. Louis Southwestern" Railway Co. The case will probably be appealed to the United States Supreme Court. At Fayetteville, N. C, the family of S. M. Beasley, roadmaster of the Atlantic Coast Line, had a narrow escape from being burned alive in their home, which was set on fire by an incendiary, evidently with the purpose of robbery. Personal friends of Charles W. Morse, the convicted banker, are pre pared to spend more than $1,000,000 in working for his release from the Federal prison in Atlanta, Ga. Officers were elected by the Na tional Association of Cement users iff convention at Chicago, 111., Thurs-J m ti. m v -r-r l i -r-kt '1 day. Kicnara 1j. numpnrey, oi rnn adelphia, was re-elected president for the sixth time. From the records in the geological department of Hampton College, at Utica, N. Y., it is computed that the fall of snow there this winter thus far has been 93 inches. This is a reeord for central New York. William Sevier was charged with the responsibility for the death of Jan Adams, at Atlantic City, N. J., by the coroner's jury last Thurs day, after a hearing that lasted 25 minutes. The agricultural appropriation bill was reported to the Senate Thurs day. It carries $13,512,035, an in crease of only $182,339 over the amount voted bv the House.' Of this. amount $40,000 is an additional amount to. be; used in stamping the boll weevil out,' making $225,000 in all for this purpose. Edwin L. Quarles. secretary of the Petersburg (Va) Chamber of Com merce, has resigned his position, inf order to give his entire time to theQ field work of the Southern Comme rcial Congress among educational in stitutions and commercial organizations. More than a thousand hens from the United States and Europe will meet in an egg-laying contest at Mex ico, Mo., next fall if the plans of T. E. Quissenberry, secretary of the Missouri State Poultry board, are successfully carried out Woman's Day was celebrated by the Socialist party throughout the United States Monday and meetings to boom the suffrage movement were held in many eities. Thad A. Davenport, of Kocky Mount, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Tie liabilities are about $6,700, and the assets, $0,400. S. Cooper, also of Rocky Mount, filed a voluntary petition in bank ruptcy. The liabilities are about $21,000, and the assets about $10,500. - Expect Good Fishing. The fishermen of Eastern North Carolina are looking forward to a prosperous fishing season and are making preparations accordingly. Mrs. Gibson Arrested. Mrs. Sallie Gibson has, or has not, funds or property sufficient to satisfy a judgment of $100 and costs render ed against her by Magistrate Fowles in 1907 at the suit of Mr. R. L Shu ler of New Brooklyn. She has been arrested in order that she .may be examined under oath as to her finan cial status. This is the Mrs. Gibson who about a jrear ago was beaten and robbed of over $60,000 by a Colum bia horse trader with whom she had gone to Texas. The money was re covered and he was tried for his life, but was acquitted. Charged With Murder of Hnsbr.-;d. Kirksville, Mo., Special. Prosecut ing Attorney Reiger announced Sat urday night that a warrant charging Mrs. Alma Vaughn with murdering her husband, Prof. J. T. Vaughn, would be severed Sunday by Sheriff Williams. Prof. Vaughn died last October from strychnine poisoning. The war rant for the arrest was issued late to day, following the dismissal of the special grand jury that has beer, in vestigating Vaughn's death. $1,600,000 to Be Distributed. Lexington, Ky., Special. It is ex pected that $1,600,000 will be dis tributed at once to claimants against the Southern Mutual Investment Company as a result of the con firmation of the report of Receiver J. C. Rogers by the circuit court here Monday. The "investment com pany failed several years ago with nearly 3,000 claimants residing in cvtry state of the Union. Fruit Trees Budding. Statesboro, Ga., Special. Despite the most severe iwinter known in Statesboro in many years, and up to a few days ago, freezing weather having been experienced, fruit trees, especially peaches, are said to be budding. Monday was the first spring like day Statesboro has had. Saw Cut the Workman Dead. Durham, N. C, Special. At C. G. Hare's wood yard in Hayti, suburban solored section, late Saturday even ing, Haywood Cozart and Alexander Lyon, both colored, were instantly killed while operating the saw. A piece of it struck Lyon across the head, killing him instantly. The broken saw flew to nieces and one of the teeth 'struck Cozart, going r.' moit through his head, though he lived a few minutes. Taming to the Right. Here i3 a good explanation of the reason for Americans turning to the right and of the English turning to the left when passing. . In the good old Colony times when we all lived under the King tho principal draught animal in this country was the ox; now In driving a yoke of oxen the driver neceeearily walks on the left side of his cattle in order to hold hi3 goad in Ms right hand. In pass ing another farmer on the road sim ilarly equipped if he passed to the rlsrht he could thus see aud avoid collision. Per contra our English cousins, vtko used horses instead of oxen in the good old times found, as we do, tbat sitting on the right side of the wagon seat was the- best and most comfortable way to drive, and that turning to the left enabled them to see and avoid collision.? while piss ing. Tho-D.as H. Morrison, in tin New York Times. Mercury's Freezing Point. ' Mercury freezes at minus 40 de gress centigrade. SLIDE KILLS MANY. f m Whole Families are Buried Be neath the Snow. IN TWO IDAHO MINING TOWNS- Snow is Thirty Feet Deep in Places-i-Disaster Similar to That of Burke in 1890. ' Spokane, Wash., Special. In Nor thern Idaho, in the rich Couer D 'Aleno' district, at least sixty lives were snuffed out Monday. Twenty-five houses in the little town of Maee, in which the occu pants were sleeping, were swept down the mountain side in a mass of snow and ice to the bottom of a canyon. In Burke a little town of 900 in habitants' another slide occurred, crushing a score or more ' house under tons of earth and snow. It is feared that the death list may total far above the present, es timate. However fifty or sixty dead is believed to be about correct. Because of the record depth of the snow some uneasiness has been felt in both these places, although for sixteen winters these towns have escaped devastating slides and so strong had the confidence of mine residents that their homes and fam- ilies were safe that no precautions had been taken. . , Thirty-five Italians sleeping in art outfit car on the Northern Pacific who were swept to the. bottom of the : canon, used the tools in their car to dig themselves out; - - -.: The . noise of the slide was heard", five miles distant. If buried 5 families or about 100 persons. How many of these are dead will not fee known until some time later and perhaps for many days, for reports tell of snow filling the canyon to a depth of 50 to 75 feet. Twelve dead bodies are reported to have been recovered and 25 people have been taken out alive. Superin tendent Pascoe, of the Standard mine, is said to be missing but a child of his was found alive. 4 Never siuce Burke, another little canyon mining camp was 'almost wiped out by a landslide on Febru ary -1, 1890, has a Coeur D'Alene town been so sorely stricken, On that occasion the canyon filled 1,000 feet across by a grinding mass of trees, stumps, earth and boulders, 50 to 75 feet deep, packed almost ".as solid as ice. Its track lovu ' the mountain side was swept, as clean as a floor. During the winter of 1888 t the snow piled high in the canyons and never since has such a heavy fall been recorded as this year. Chinook winds accompanied by rains have prevailed since .Thursday with the snow from 2 to 10 feet deep. Military in Control. Eldorado, Ark., Special. Follow ing the wounding of three white men, the formation of a mob and an attack on the negro section of the city, Eldorado Saturday night was under control of the military and w-hat threatened to develop info, a serious? racial clash has been suppressed for the time being, at least. This disorder began in the early afternoon, when a white man was crowded from the sidewalk by a negro. A mob quickly formed and had be gun the destruction of negro cabin and property when Governor Don aghey was appealed to and the local militia company was ordered out. Rich Youths Write Love Letters. Pittsburg, Special. Twenty of Pittsburg's richest "gilded youths"' are shaking in their shoes because of the finding of startling love letters in suit cases belonging to Lillian Smith, seventeen-year-old ''Girl of Mys tery." ' The police are certain that they -have unearthed evidence tending to show the existence of a gijantie blackmailing plot, which ;older heads--than the girl's were concerned. Cook's "Proof" in Museum. Copenhagen, Special. Visitors to Copenhagen may now see the tran script of Dr. Cook 's North Pole diaries and proofs, which the uni-" versity handed over to the chief of police in its museum. The chief ha filed alleged proofs f the North Pole discovery with papers and documents relating to grand forgeries, thefts, etc. Wouldn't Pray, Eivcrca Granted. Tonekn, Kan., Special. Because his wife would not pray. A. F. Barker, 73 years old, was arrant ed a divore Moatlav. Mrs. Barker is 63 years old.