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CXcaa YMr, la Adraac. FOR OOD, FO COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.- Hagto Cpy Cassia. VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH, N, C.. JbRIDAY, MAY 5, 1911 NO. 4G. I0WIND0WUW 11 THESE PUCE ALL TOWNS UNDER 10.CC0 POPU LATION EXEMPTED BY STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION. STATESVILLE LED THE LIST Names ct Stations Omitted From i Provisions of Act Regulating Book Mileage" Exchange For Tickets New Bern Largest City Escaped. Raleigh. The list of towns of 2,000 and more inhabitants, exempted by the corporation commission from the necessity of keeping open two win dows at the stations for the service , of travellers with mileage books has been made public, there being 21 on the Southern, 7 on the Atlantic Coast Line, 11 on the Norfolk and Southern and 5 on the Seaboard Air Line. The exemptions are subject to be revok ed at. any time. No town of more than 10,000 popu lation is exempted. New Bern is the largest town exempted, it having 9, 961; High Point next with 9,525; towns of over 8,000 exempted include Eliza beth City and Concord. Of the towns exempted, Statesville, with an average of 36 tickets exchanged per day led the list, Gastonia next with 32.1, Con- cora u.o, iew uern witn zs. me nst follows: Atlantic Coast Line: Tar boro, Greenville, Washington, Ply mouth, Selma, Dunn, Kinston. Norfolk and Sotuhern: Belhaven, Eeaul'ort, Edenton,. Elizabeth City, Greenville, Kinston, Morehead City, Newborn, Plymouth, Washington, Wilson. . ' Seaboard Air Line: Laurinburg, Lincolnton. , Sanford. Shelby, Rock Ingham. Southern Railway: Albemarle, Burlington, Concord, Gastonia, Gra ham, Henderson, Hickory, King's Mountain, Mooresville, . Morganton, Mt. Airy, Newton. Oxford. Reidsville, Waynesville, Lexington, Goldsboro, High Point.' TheConcord exemption is for thir ty days, to Nbe supported by petitions that double window service is not needed. Instructions to Tax Assessors. .. ' In response to inquiries from county "tax 'assessors under the new state machinery act as to the methods of assessing personal property in North Carolina for taxation the corporation committion instructs the assessors that the assessments must be at money value and that the assessment be that made personally by the asses sor, or, if the valuation of the owner is taken, it-must be entered as the owner's assessment. Also advises the assessors that there should be the greatest care' as to getting in the as sessments 'of income. That this is a fair and general law and that as far aspc-ssible it should be seen to that people with incomes oyer $1,000 are gotten on the books for this tax Cor rect assessments of farming lands is also another purpose of the act. Salaries cf Baptist Preachers. The salaries of the Baptist minis ters in North Carolina is made the subject of some, interesting calcula tions by Statistical Secretary E. L. Middleton of the North Carolina Bap tist State convention. He find3 that in the latest complete reports from churches there are 1,590 churches reporting salaries to pastors, the to tal being $278,400. He finds that there are 113 churches that main tain preaching every Sunday, CtJ for half the time and 1,311 churches that bave preaching only once each month. His estimate is that this would give an average of 474 pastors for full time and that their average Ealary is $587 a year. He thinks that there are mission fund3 paid to pas tors in mission fields not included in the salaries reported that would bring up the average salaries to 600. - Mooresville, No stone will be left unturned to secure the interurban line from Charlotte to Salisbury. . Lot3 of Foreign Capital Coming. The American Agricultural and Mechanical society cf New London, Connecticut, having $50,000,000 capi tal domesticates in this state with principal Carolina headquarters at Wilmington for:. the manufacture of fertilizers and chemical's with by-products. R. E. Warren,' Jr., is, to be in charge of the enterprise. Another notable, domestication is the Dixie Realty company of Minne sota, capital 250.000 , nnd principal North CaroliJia headquarters at Clar endon, Columbus ccrnty. WORK OF THE ODD FELLOWS Grand Secretary Berry's Report Ready For the Grand Lodge Inter esting Statistics. Raleigh. The grand secretary of the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows has rounded up his re port for the annual session of the Grand Lodge. He finds that the value of propertyiof the subordinate lodges has increased from $103,725 to $230, 148 during the past decade. In ad dition there is the splendid property of the grand lodge in the orphanage at Goldsboro, valued at $100,000, and that is now caring for 160 homeless children at an annual cost of about $15,000. The grand secretary says the order in this state has observed a rigid watch over the standing of members and has eliminated members to the extent .that in spite of the ad dition of 1,646 new members by ini tiation and 266 received Jay card and 35S- reinstated, the total membership in the state shows a loss of 296. He says, though, that since the new year the gain is decided, 480 mem bers having been added the past three months. The nine new lodges instituted the past year were at Raeford, Hoke county; Paulson, Cleveland county; Rock Creek, Wilkes county; Ola, Haywood county; Saw Mill, Caldwell county; Boone's Ford, Yancey county; Oval, Ashe county; Moxley. Wilkes county; Broadway, Lee county; White Oak Mills, Greens boro, and Walnut Cove. There have been suspended lodges reinstated at Clayton and Edenton. The order paid out last year for relief $25,696, coin pared with $112,954 ten years ago. The grand master is Frank Hackett of North Wilkesboro and the grand secretary is B. H. Wooddell and as sistant grand secretary, J. D. Berry. Products of County School Farms. Reports from the farm3 operated in connection with the county schools during the year 1910 shows a total earning of $898.20, or an average of about $75 per farm. The farms yield ed 5,036 pounds of lint, cotton and 725 bushels of seed. The Wakelon High-school planted an acre in Irish potatoes which yielded 50 bushels. Two farms planted in corn and ,'c-rie in cotton have made no report.' This i3 the second year these farms nave been operated in connection with the schools and the results are gratify ing. The Bay Leaf High school pro ducts brought $1S3.91. the highest of the farms. There were twelve farms. Officers Academy of Science. The North Carolina Academy of Science, in annual session, elected officers as follows: President Br. H. V. Wilson, professor of zoology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Vice President Dr. W. A. Withers, professor of chemistry, A. &. M. college, Raleigh. ;' Secretary Treasurer Dr. E. W. Gudger, pro fessor of biology and geology, State Normal college, Greensboro. ' Execu tive Committee Dr. J. J. Wolfe, of Trinity college; Franklin Sherman, Jr., entomologist, Raleigh; Prof. N. H. Patterson, of Chapel Hill. North Carolina Branch, American Chemical society, re-elected all eld officers. Rich Chinaman "Remains in U. S. A. Washington. The Chinaman, Lee Thung, who has been figuring before the department of commerce and labor recently because the immigra tion officials held him up upon his return from a trip to China and threatened to send him back home, will not be deported. On the contrary, he will be al lowed to proceed to Wilmington to accumulate more bank stock, steam laundries, truck patches, etc., with which he i3 said to be well supplied. Thung owns ' stock in one of the strongest banks in Wilmington and has other property worth in all about $25,000. Important Decision on Tax Question. The supreme court affirms the low er court in the case of Corporation Commission vs. Morrison, from Ire dell county, involving the right of a corporation to deduct from the tax assessment of its capital stock hold ings of the corporation in the stock of another corporation that pays its taxes. The corporation commission ruled that this could not be done and the supreme court affirms this ruling. The opinion i3 written by Justice Brown. Two Eig Events at Hendersonville. The North Carolina Bankers' asso ciation and the North Carolina Mer chant's association will both be in session at Hendersonville during the week of June 20. Ample accommo dations will be provided. Seaboard Hit for $2,0C0. A verdict for $2,500 has been award ed to W. F. Wyatt in his suit against the Seaboard Air Line Railroad com pany for $5,000 through the burning of the old Wyatt tannery near Ral eigh. The case consumed two days. SOUTH 10 REJOICE OVERTHE CAHAL BIG CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD IN NEW ORLEANS IN 1913. TO PRECEDE 'FRISCO SHOW Southern Commercial Congress .Plans to Commemorate Completion of Canal. Washington. On hi3 return from a visit to New Orleans, Managing Di rector G. Groscenor Dawe of the Southern Commercial Congress, said that two years hence the congress representing the whole South would commemorate the completion of the Panama canal by holding a great cel ebration in the Crescent City. Mr. Dawe adverted to the fact that water Vould be turned into the big ditch ecmo time between September and November, 1913. He thinks that event will mark the a actual comple tion of the canal, though it will not be coincident with the opening. '-- Net an exposition, but a celebra tion, is planned for New Orleans. The Southern Commercial Congress will iDvite the leading figures in the na tion to participate. San Francisco has been awarded the Panama exposition, but New Orleans proposes to do a little celebrating on its own account some eighteen months earlier. In the course of an interview . tell ing cf his trip South, Mr. Dawe said: "Under the guidance of the congress there will be held a series of conven tions affecting every chief interest of the South, and running throughout the month of November. Concurrently with the convention, Louisiana will arrange a series of lasd and water pageats, historical and allegorical, setting forth the progress of the na tion from the time cf the savage FRAME-UP SAYS GOMPERS Labor Leader Ciscusses Arrest" of Al ' leged Dynamiter. Indianapolis, Ind. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, arrived and immediately went into secret conference with for ty labor leaders of national and state organizations. After the conference Mr. Gompers said that the McNamara case was discussed, and that the ex ecutive council of the American' Fed eration of Labor would take charge of a defense fund, which would be raised by contributions from the vari ous labor organizations of the coun try. . - Mr. Gompers, in discussing the case, said; "This whole thing is a frame-up, . deep-seated and deep-rooted. I am firmly convinced the men are innocent. It is an outrage and the American Federation of Labor shall leave nothing undone in defend ing the men now imprisoned in Los Angeles. .No means will be spared in the matter of counsel for our men. . "We propose also to press the kid naping charge to the fullest extent. McNamara was spirited out of this state without an opportunity of a hearing, and I am not so sure that he may not be brought back to Indiana for trial." PEACE EN JOYS ARE CHOSEN Mexican Rebels anTr Wri Are Now Ready forf .Conference. El Paso, Texs.Mn a low adobe house on whichthe sun beat fiercely, the leaders ofthe Mexican insurrec tion, political and military, sat four hours, formulating a program to be presented to the Federal government through its peace envoys. At the con clusion of t'he conference, Francisco I. Madero, jr., president of the pro visional government, announced the election by' ballot of Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez, Francisco Madero, Sr., and geno Jose Pino Suarez as the peace commissioners of the Rev olutionary 1 party. With th provisional governors from the states in which the insurgents have organized their government pres ent, a definite basis of peace term? &s agrejed upon. Though no official announcement was made, it wa3 ad mitted by many that there may be breakers; ahead. lj3angor, Maine, Bums. Bangoty Maine. Property valued at upwards of $6,000,000 was destroyed, hundreds of people made homeless and alnjiost the entire business sec tion devastated during a conflagration which 0wept this city. Mayor Mul len caliled cut the local company oi the Najtional Guard and placed the city under martial rule. Portland, Au gusta, Lewiston, Oldtown. Brewer and every cther place within reach sent help, j A score of buildings were also blown up la an effort to check the NATIONAL CONGRESS uftiit, iJii. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is LABOR LEADER8; !N JAIL LABOR LEADERS ARE NOW IN '"JAIL IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.; . Expected Trouble Did Not Material ize, Although Crowds Met Train. Los Angeles, Cal. John J. McNam ara, secretary"" of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Association; his brother, James N. McNamara, and Ortie E. McManigai, the alleged dynamite conspirators, ac cused of blowing up The Times news paper plant, last October, killing 21 men, are in the Los Angeles jail, in separate cells, surrounded by extra guard3. All three are charged witn murder. The alleged conspirators arrived at the jail in automobiles, after running the gauntlet of two crushing crowds, which, in their eagerness to get a glimpse of the prisoners, overbore the efforts of more than a score of de tectives and deputy sheriffs detailed to hold them back. Conspicuous in the crowd there was Mrs. D. H. Ingersoll, the woman who is expected to play a prominent part in the prosecution. Mrs. Ingersoll is the San Francisco boarding house proprietor in whose place the man known as J. B. Bryce stayed prior to the destruction of The Times build ing. Seated in a third automobile, drawn up by the side of the one which was to transport the prisoners, she peered into the face of McNamara as he climbed into the machine. , The man was shackled to an officer, but he kept his unbound hand before his face. In spite of this, Mrs. Inger soll declared afterward he was Bryce. "OLD GLuhi" !S LOWERED Holland Runs op her Flag on Pal mas Islands., Manila, P. I. Delayed advices re ceived here via Jolo reported that the Dutch have taken possession of Pal mes islands, GO miles southeast of Mindanao, lowered the United States colors and substituted the flag of Hol land. - It is understooS here that Washing ton doe3 not intend to p.-test against the action of the Dutch, tha United States government regarding taevisi- and as valueless. . Washington. A little head native Filipino found proudly wearing a cap, evidently the gift of a Dutch cap tain. Drecinitated the issue of sover eignty over the Ualmas islands about two years ago The Washington government has no particular desire for the Palmas gioup, although it' has ben deemed a part of the Philippine archipelago. Down where the Palmas natives live without an American among them, there is nothing to interest the gov ernment, and neither the United States nor Holland has ever felt call ed upon to leave anybody in author- itv on Palmas domain. Probably halt a hundred Filipinos constitute the en tire Palmas population. "s- Lorimer Bankers Arrested. Snrinefield. 111. Edward Tilden, Chicago packer, and William C. C mo rnings and George M. Benedict, pres ident of the Drovers' Trust and Sav ings bank of Chicago, were arrested on a contempt charge by the Illinois senate. This action by the senate was taken on recommendation of the Jen ate bribery investigation committee after Tilden, Cummings and Benedict, through their lawyers, had refused to produce Tilden's personal bauk ac count for the months of May, June, July and August, 1909. OF Is! OTHERS MEETS the Hand That Rules the World." CAMPAIGN TO BOOST SOUTH Great Advertising Campaign Planned by Railways and Business Men. Washington Gathered in Washing ton to discuss plans for a compre hensive scheme of advertising' to, pre sent the boundless resources and wonderful attractions of the South to the people of other sections, were the representatives of practically all the Southern railroads and connect ing lines. Atherton Brownell, president of the Century Syndicate of New York, was the principal spokesman and outlined to the railroad men present the plan he had in mind. While the meeting was an execu tive one, and no statement was given out as to the specific details of the measure discussed, it i3 known that the plan which received the most at tention calls for co-operation by the Scuthern business men and industrial corporations generally, though the railroads are expected to contribute a liberal share cf the sinews cf war. In addition to newspaper advertis ing, a monthly magazine similar to those published by the railroads of the West, was discussed. The sug gestions were taken under advise ment by .the gentlemen present who expressed deep interst in th scheme and appared to believe that it was ntirely feasible, if the funds can be secured. would punish speculators Attorney General Wants to Punish Cotton Market Bulls. Washington. Attorney General Wickersham will appeal to the Su preme court to, sustain the so-called "corner counts" in the government's indictments of James A. Patten, Eu gene C. Scales, Frank B. Hayne, Wil liam P. Brown and Robert M, Thomp son, charged with leading the May cotton corner of 1910 on the New York exchange. Judge Noyes, in the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York, sustained all of the counts of the indictment except those charging a corner to fix the price of raw cotton. He condemned the prac tice unreservedly, but held ii did not come within the jurisdiction cf the law upon which the indictments were based. Attorney General Wicker sham's appeal is from that pait of the decision. Underlying the appeal, however, is a move regarded Ly the department cf justice as far overshadowing in im portance the cotton corner case it self. It is Mr. Wickersham's attempt to find a means to finally prevent the fixing of prices by speculation, on ex changes of commodities in daily use by the people. A weapon more effective than any the department of justice now has for the prosecution of trust3 an monop olies will be at hand if the Supreme ccurt rules that price-fixi&g by Wer ners of the markets comes within the purview of the anti-trust law. President Taft and the attorney general are receiving daj-y protests and resolutions from farmers' unions and granges in the South, condemn ing the government lor it3 prosecu tion of the cotton bulls and its ap parent inn!rn regarding the bears. New n uirtn Statistics, New York. Figures which throw light on what matrons of various na tionalities are doing in the way of increasing the population of the city ot New Ycrk have just been issued by the health department. In the Jewish district flhe birth rate i? the highest, averaging 55 per l.OuO of the population. In typically Italian sec tions the rate is 50.5. In the negro districts the birth rate averages 26.0. But in the high class native Ameri can private residence district the rate is les than 7 per 1,000. OVV OR NEVER FOR REGIPROGITY PRESIDENT TAFT DEFENDS CAN ADIAN PACT IN ADDRESS TO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS. DEMOCRATS ARE LAUDED Taft Says House Democrats Have Acted in a Statesmanlike Manner. New York. Reciprocity with Can ada must be adopted now or never, and must stand or fall by its own terms. So declared President Taft in an address at the Waldorf-Astoria at the fourth annual joint banquet of the Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publishers Association. His address wa3 the first of a se lies in which he plans to evoke pub lic sentiment in support of ht3 poli cies, and he appealed to the company cf editors and newspaper owners gain ered from all parts of the land to impress in the public mind that reci procity, should stand alone and ought not to be affected in any re gard by other amendments to the tar iff law." His recommendations were warmly cheered. . President Taft devoted most of his address - to the Canadian reciprocity agreement. - The president contended that the reason why meats were -not- put on the free list was because Canada felt that the "competition of our packers would injuriously affect the products of their packing houses." The effect of the agreement, the president said, is not going to lower the specific prices of agricultural products in our country. It is going to steady them and it Is going to produce an interchange of products at a profit which will be beneficial to both countries. The president declared that anoth er reason that should lead to the adoption of the agreement was that Canada offered a constantly increas ing market and an ever-increasingj trade. , The talk of annexation Is bosh, the president said. Every one who knows anything about it realizes that it i3 bosh. Canada Is a great, strong youth, anxious to test hi3 muscles, rejoicing in the race he i3 ready to run. The United States has all it can attend to with the territory it is; now governing. - ', In concluding his speech President Taft said; "I desire to express my high appreciation of the manner in which the present house cf represen tatives has treated the reciprocity; agreement. ' It has not 'played poli tics.' It has taken the statesmanlike course to adopt it "I am very hopeful that the senate will treat the agreement inthe same way and that no amendment will there be added to the bill. I think, they, are dangerous. 433 huuat MEMBERS. Democrats Put i nrough Reapportion ment Bill. Washington. Under the reappor tionment bill, which for the second time passed the house, the size of that body is increased to 433 members, giving Georgia oue additional mem ber. The measure again goes to the sen ale to try its fate there. At the last session the senate failed to approve the increase in the size of the lower branch of congress. What it will do tins time is somewhat problematical, but the strong hope is entertained that the senate will permit the house membership to have lt3 way in this regard. Representative Bell, who is a mem ber of the committee on census which reported the bill, said there was some talk in the committee of making the membership 431 or an increase of 40, but that would have cut Iowa and Ma-ne out of one member each, and that aroused considerable opposition. The Houston bill, passed, leaves to the legislatures of the different states the power to rearrange the congress? slonal districts in their respective states on the new population basis of one member for each 211.S77 of in habitants. AnneA.. House, Washington. Another declaration that annexation is the desired euu of the Democrats in pushing reciproc ity and a speech by a new member, revealing rumors of a tariff light la congress featured tha debato on the free list bill. Mr. Prince cf Illinois iRep.) sounded the annexation note. President Tai'c's speech in New Yo?k furnished his text. He said the pour ing of Am2ricaii3"'tnto the Canadutn. r.orthwest and the attitude of the Dsmociutic purty could it-eaa nstaicy else than annexation.