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VI
COMMONWEALTH OF
OLDIiORTH STATE
NORTH CAROLINA LARGER THAN
ENGLAND HAS 52,250
SQUARE MILES.
500 MILES EAST TO WEST
One Hundred Counties, the Largest in
Square Miles Being Robeson, Small
est New Hanover Produces Greater
Variety of Products Than Any State.
. Raleigh. North Carolina is a great
state, a great state in territory as
well as in a great many other things.
The Sanford Express says:
; "Few of us realize what a wide
spreading 'domain North Carolina is.
It is larger than England. It has
62,250 square miles of territory.
Its length from Currituck county in
the east to Cherokee county in the
west is 503 miles. If a Tar Heel
citizen will put a string down on
tho sands of the sea at the
pastern end of the former county
and Btretch it across the mountains
in the western end of the latter,
and, hitching one end of the string
i to Currituck, carry the other end
due north it will land him in the
middle of Lake Champlain in New
iYork state, crossing Virginia, Mary
land, New Jersey, Delaware and
more than half of the Empire state.
iNorth Carolina is longer than from
'Asheville to Chicago or from San
ford to Buffalo. Its breadth is 188
miles at the widest point. It has
100 counties, the largest in square
miles being Robeson with about 1,
000, and the smallest, New Hanover,
with less thaii 150. It produces a
greater variety of products than any
of the sisterhood of states. The first
declaration of independence was pro
claimed on its soil and it has led in
many other things, always doing its
duty alike in peace and in war. Just
now the outside world is beginning
to take note of the marvelous re
sources of North Carolina and every
thing indicates a marvelous indus
trial growth and expansion . here
within the next few years."
Another Competitive Rifle Shoot.
General order No. 6, by Adjutant
General R. L. Leinster of the North
Carolina National Guard directs the
holding of . a rifle practice and com
petitive shoot on the range at Raleigh
June 5 to 7 by the three teams that
made the highest scores in the three
regimental competitive shoots recent
ly held at Raleigh, Goldsboro and
Gastonia. They are Company K, First
Infantry, Asheville; Company L, Sec
ond Infantry, Lumber Bridge, and
Company B. Third Infantry, Raleigh,
The order details the regulations for
the shoot. The expenses and the
pay of the men are to be provided
by the government. There will be
still further competitive rifle ranga
practice at Camp Glenn, Morehead,
during the regimental encampment
later in the summer. Then in Au
gust there will be the selection of the
North Carolina team to represent the
North Carolina national guard in the
competitive rifle practice at Camp
Perry under the direction of the War
department and including teams
from all the national guard.
Mr. Ayock is a Candidate.
Former Governor Charles B. Ay
cock gives confirmation to the report
that he has determined to get into
the race for the United States equ
ate with Senator Simmons, Governor
Kitchin and Chief Justice Walter
Clark.
Engineers Will Help on Reads.
In response to requests "from Dr.
J. Hyde Pratt and other trustees of
the Central Highway association,
Senator Simmons called on the direc
tor of good roads" and secured from
him the promise to send an engineer
to the state to aid in the location and
construction of roads with the as
surance that in a short time one or
to additional engineers would be
detailed for the same work.
Interesting History Exhibit.
There has. been installed In the hall
of history a' notable .. exhibit from
Salem that is attracting a Very great
deal of attention.' ,It came as a loan
from the Wachovia Historical society
of Salem and consists of about 200
articles illustrating Moravian life and
industry from 1756 down to the close
of the civil war. There is a section
of pipe that was used in providing a
system of water supply for the old
town of Salem from 1791, when Wash
ington was a visitor in same, down
to I860. ,
1 ELKIN & ALLEGHANY UNSOLD
Further Investigation as to the Possi'
bility of Financing the Enterprise.
Good Prospects.
Raleigh. There was another con
ference of Governor Kitchin and the
Councils of state With officers of the
Elkin & Alleghany Railroad company
and President John A. Mills of the
Raleigh & Southport relative to the
proposed sale of the Elkin & Alle
ghany to Mr. Mills under a proposi
tion from him to take over the right
of way Elkin to Sparta and the 12
miles of grading that has been done
with convict labor by the state and
complete the grading and equip the
road, and most probably extend it 20
miles further to Jefferson, making a
road more than 60 miles in length.
The proposition made by Mr. Mills
was not exactly satisfactory to the
council of state with the aproval
of the state board of internal im
provements. This has necessitated
further investigation as to the possi
bility of financing the enterprise un
der the proposed' new conditions by
Mr. Mills. q he and President Hugh
G. Chatham . of the Elkin & Alle
ghany will go at once to New York
to finally adjust matters to conform
to the conditions stipulated by the
council of state.
It can be said that the gentlemen
interested in the enterprise are con
fident that the conditions will be
met and the transfer of the property
made, assuring the immediate com
pletion and operation of the road
from Elkin to Sparta and Jefferson,
with early extension far into the
western section, thus opening up a
new and direct short line from the
west into the central Carolina terri
tory. Favorable Report on Cotton.
From all parts of this section of
the North Carolina cotton belt there
come reports that the best stands of
cotton that the farmers have had
in many years are developing. The
germination of the seed' was consid
erably delayed by the cool spring
conditions and by some lack of rain,
but under the present warm and very
satisfactorily moist conditions the
seed and little plants are responding
finely and the development is very
satisfactory indeed.
Senator Simmons Very Busy.
Senator Simmons has recently re
ceived quite a number of invitations
to deliver addresses at school com
mencements and other public and
patriotic' occasions in North Carolina.
He Is a member of the finance com
mittee' of-the senate, which is considering-
the reciprocity treaty and
other tariff matters, and he feels that
his duty requires his attendance at
the meetings of the committee and
of the senate.
Question of Near-Beer License.
Because of the expiration of coun
ty licenses for the sale of near beer
on June the first and that the act pro
hibiting its sale becomes effective on
the first day of July, there has been a
question raised as to the issuing of
license for one month.
In regard to this State Treasurer
Lacy has sent out to the sheriffs of
the various counties the following let
ter: "By the advice of the attorney
general, I have decided to rule that
the sheriffs will' issue near beer
license for the month of June and
collect for only one month. I do this
on account of the conflict in the law,
butit must not be understood, except
when the law conflicts, that I will
agree to pro rate a license."
The matter of licenses by towns and
cities remains as heretofore in the
hands of their governing bodies.
Very Valuable Farm Bulletin.
A very valuable bulletin is just is
sued by the state department of
agriculture setting out the more gen
eral work and results on the Bun
combe and Transylvania county state
test farms, covering the clearing and
improvement of the lands, rotation of
crops and yields, buildings and
equipment of the farms. It is by
Dr. B. W. Kilgore, drector, and R. W.
Collett, superintendent of the farms.
These farms were established in 1908.
Cattle and sheep, corn, oats, rye and
wheat, also hogs, are the principal
products with which experimentation
is carried on along with demonstration
work for the surrounding country
Enjoyed Liberty Twelve Years.
After 12 years Henry Ross has
been arrested on the charge, of run
ning away with the proceeds of two
bales of cotton in Wake county, at
the instance of Dr. L. P. Sorrell, who
sent Ross to the Durham market
with cotton to be sold for him.
Large Number Insurance Companies.
There are a total number of 143
fire insurance companies licensed to
do business in North Carolina, about
half of them being in the Southeast
ern Tariff association.
GOVEHENTPHE
FOR LUMBER TRUST
CHARGES OF GIGANTIC CONSPIR
ACY MADE BY ATTORNEY
GENERAL WICKERSHAM.
ORGANIZATIONS ARE NAMED
Sensational Charges Against the East
ern States Lumber Dealers'
Association. 1
New York. In the first Federal
anti-trust proceedings brought under
the Sherman anti-trust proceedings
brought under, the Sherman law as.
Interpreted by the Standard Oil decis
ion, the department of justice filed
suit in the Federal court here against
various constituent organizations of
what is properly known as the "lum
ber trust'' alleging the existence of a
widespread conspiracy, "unreasona
bly," to restrain the lumber trade in
this country.
It is said the suit may be the first
of a series planned by Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham looking to the break
ing up of alleged agreements among
the retailers of. many of the commodi
ties of life to maintain .high prices,
to force all ultimate consumers to
buy from retailers and to blacklist
wholesalers who sell to others than
members of the retail organizations
Ten trade organizations and more
than 150 individuals are named as de
fendants in the suit. It alleges viola
tions of the Sherman anti-trut law
and seeks a permanent injunction re
straining the defendants from contin
uing the conspiracy charged.
The elaborate system of blacklisting
attributed to the alleged conspirators,
copies of circulars sent out by the
various organizations classifying con
sumers as "proper" and "improper"
trade, extracts from reports threaten
ing "short shrift" to 'dealers daring to
violate the rules bf the organizations
aTid branding such offenders as
"poachers," "scalpers," "mavericks"
and "illegitimates," are fully set forth
in the government's petition.
FARMERS ARE PROGRESSIVE
Rapid Spread of Telephones In Rural
Districts Indicate Prosperity.
Atlanta. The continued progress of
the farmers of Georgia and Alabama
is indicated by the records of the
Southern Bell Telephone' company for
the month of April.
During the month of April 668 farm
ers 296 in Georgia and 372 in Ala
bama installed telephones In their
homes and connected lines with the
Bell system. Since January 1,283
farmers in Georgia and Alabama have
taken telephone service. Of these 1,
035 are in Georgia and 1,148 in Ala
bama. The rapid spread of the telephone
in the rural districts is also regarded
as an indication of the prosperity of
the farmer, because in each case the
farmers own the telephone line and
their telephone instrument's. Through
a co-operative plan they build their
line3 and connect with the Bell sys
tem, each farmer often receiving serv
ice "as low as 50 cents per month.
While the Southern Bell company
operates in seven states and has 25,
050 farmers connected with it, more
than half of these 13,208 are in
Georgia and Alabama.
NEW ARBITRATION JTREATY
Secretary Knox Submits New Treaty
to England and France.
Washington. The principle of arbi
tration on practically all disputes be
tween nations, including even ques
tions of vital interest and national
honor, assumed vitality when Secre
tary of State Knox submitted to the
British and French ambassadors at
Washington the draft of a convention
to serve as a basis of negotiations.
Secretary Knox has evolved a docu
ment which has received the approval
of the president and other members
of his cabinet providing that all dif
ference which are Internationally
justifiable shall be submitted to arbi
tration. It expands the scope of the
existing arbitration treaties by elimi
nating the exceptions referring to
"questions of vital interest and na
tional honor." This elimination is the
real accomplishment of the proposed
treaty.
Doctor Dargan Heads Baptists.
Jacksonville, Fla. A complete sur
prise was sprung at the convention of
the Southern Baptist convention, when
Dr. E. C. Dargan, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Macon, Ga., was
placed in nomination for president
against Joshua Levering, who had
ben proposed for re-election to that
office. When the votes were counted
it was found that Doctor Dargan had
been elected. When the convention
was called to order, 1,200 delegates
were assembled in the hall of the new
Shriners' Temple.
THAT "'NEW
(Copyright, 1911.)
Moral Dont
DECISION DISAPPOINTS TAFT
STANDARD OIL RULING IS IN DI
RECT OPPOSITION TO VIEWS
OF THE PRESIDENT.
Opinion Seems to Be That the Court
Reversed Itself In the Standard
Oil Decision.
Washington. Governmental Wash
ington in all its branch legislative,
executive and judicial gave over the
greater part of a day to a discussion
of the Supreme court's disposition of
the Standard Oil case.
While there was much gratification
In administration circles over the or
der, for the dissolution of the giant cor
poration, which had been declared "an
unreasonable combination and monop
oly in restraint of trade, there un
questionably was also some misgiving
as to the . interpretation of the anti
trust law giving to courts the right
to determine whether or not a monop
oly was "reasonable" and declaring a
"reasonable" monopoly not to be" in
controvention of the statute.
President Taft, who a little more
than a year ago, In a special message
to congress declared that under Su
preme court precedents there could be
no such things as "reasonable" and
"unreasonable" restraints of trade, or
in other words "good trusts" and "bad
trusts," was said to have been rather
keenly disapointed that the court
should have seen fit to revrese itself
in this important matter.
Justice Harlan held that his brother
judges had no right to usurp the func
tion of the legislative branch of the
government by writing into the stat
ute a differentiation between "reason
able" and "unreasonable." He de
clared that congress had resisted all
appeals to so amend the act, and that
there was every reason to believe that
such an amendment never could, be
put through the legislative branch.
Justice Harlan decKned to be a par
ty to such a reversal and hence his
dissenting opinion. He denounced as
"the most alarming tendency of the
day" the tendency to judicial legisla
tion. Men of power, he said, always
were trying to get the court to do
what congress would not.
A $50,000,000 BOND ISSUE
For Expenditures on Account of the
Panama Canal.
Washington. Secretary MacVeagh
invited popular subscription to a $50,
000,000 issue of government bonds to
reimburse the treasury general fund
for expenditure on account of the Pan
ama canal.
Treasury officials expect the loan
will be largely oversubscribed, and in
distributing the new securities, the
government's announced intention is
to give preference to smaller bidders.
The new securities will be at 3 per
cent, interest, payable quarterly; will
be free from all national, state or mu
nicipal taxation, and will be in denom
inations of $100, $500 and $1,000. They
will be dated June 1, 1911, and will be
payable In fifty years.
So lexis Sought Bribes.
Columbus, Ohio. Senator Edgar T.
Crawford and Representative A. Clark
Lowry, Republicans, and Representa
tive Owen J. Evans, Democrat, were
indicted by the grand jury for bribe
soliciting. Crawford is alleged to have
asked '"$200 from W. H, Cook, secre
tary of the Ohio Butchers and Gro
cers' association, in connection with
trading stamp legislation. Evans is
alleged to have solicited a bribe of
$650 from the Stark-Tuscarawas brew
eries for his vote on one of the oity
local option bills.
STRAW HAT
Blame Your Wife.
STANDARD OIL A MONOPOLY
Dissolution of the Great Combination
Is Ordered Within Six
... Months.
THE OIL DECISION
IN A NUTSHELL.
The Supreme court holds:
That the Standard Oil company
is a monopoly in restraint of
trade.
That this giant corporation
must be dissolved within six
months.
Corporations whose contracts
are "not unreasonably restrictive
of competition" are not affected.
Other great corporations whose
acts may be called into question
will be dealt with according to
to the merits of their particular
cases.
The court was unanimous as
to the main features of the deci-
sion, Justice Harlan dissenting
only as to a limitation of the ap-
plication . of the Sherman anti-
trust law.
President Taft and cabinet will
conside immediately the entire
trust situation and the advisa-
bility of pressing for a Federal
Incorporation act.
A decision in the Tobacco
Trust case, which was expected
simultaneously, was not announc-
ed, and may be handed down on
May 29.
Washington. The Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey and its nine
teen subsidiary corporations were de
clared by the Supreme court of the
United States to be a conspiracy and
combination in restraint of trade. It
was also held to be monopolizing in
terstate commerce in violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law. The dissolu
tion of the combination was ordered
to take place within six months.
Thus ended the tremendous strug
gle on the part of the government to
put down, by authority of law, a com
bination which it claimed was a men
ace to the industrial and economic
advancement of the entire country.
The opinion of the court was an
nounced by Chief Justice White. In
printed form it contained more than
twenty thousand words.
LABOR LEAD ERSE SCAPE JAIL
Supreme Court Sets Aside Sentences
of Gompers, Morrison and Mitchell.
. Washington. Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison,
president, vice president and secre
tary of the American Federation of
Labor, respectively, stepped from
without the shadow of the jail when
the Supreme court of the United States
set aside their sentences of imprison
ment for contempt growing out of the
litigation between the Bucks Stove
and Range company and the Federa
tion. The highest tribunal in the land
has left with the lower court, how
ever, the right to reopen the contempt
proceedings. This grant or power
probably will not be accepted and the
case practically is ended with the de
cision. The basis of the court's decision
was that the proceedings brought
against the labor officers was for civil
contempt, which could be punished
only by the imposition of a fine. The
sentence of tae lower court to impris
onment was the penalty for criminal
contempt and in the premises it was
therefore not a legal punishment
The case, which grew out of the so
called boycott of the stove corpora
tion by the American Federation of
Labor, three years ago, is one of the
greatest importance alike to union la
Dor and to the employers U union
, labor.
DIAZ ANNOUNCES
HIS RESIGNATION
EVERY DEMAND OF MADERO 19
GRANTED SURRENDER OF
DIAZ COMPLETE.
VICTORY FOR THE REBELS
Agreement for Cessation of Hostilities
Signed by Madero and Agent of (
the Mexican President.
City of Mexico, Mexico. President
Diaz and Vice President Correl will
resign before June 1.
Minister of Foreign. Relations de la
Barra will become president ad inte
rim. Francisco I. Madero, the Revolution
ary leader, will be called to the City
of Mexico to act as de la Barra' s chief
adviser and as the greatest guaran
tee possible that every pledge made
by the government will be carried out.
As viewed by the public it will, be
virtually a joint presidency, pending
the calling of a new presidential elec
tion. .
The cabinet will be reorganized. The
minister of war will be named by de
la Barra. The foreign office will be
in charge of a sub-secretary named
by de, la Barra. Other cabinet mem
bers will be chosen by de la Barra and
Madero acting jointly.
A new election will be called within
six months.
Political amnesty will be recom
mended to the chamber of deputies.
These are the conditions upon which
President Diaz will compromise. Vir
tually they are admitted in high quar
ters to be a complete suwender to tha
Revolutionists.
The resignation of Diaz and the
"joint regency' of del la Barra and
Madero are said to constitute a guar
antee so complete that the original in
surrecto demand for fourteen govern
ors no longer needsto be consideredj
The cabinet was 'in almost contin
uous session for two days, despite the
severe illness of President Diaz. The
president's entire face is infected from
an ulcerated tooth. His upper lip la
swollen far beyond its normal size,
and his face is dnfiamed. He showed,
fever, but this symptom was eliminat
ed later. He speaks with the greatest
difficulty, but while he is in severe
pain, his condition is not regarded as
calling for alarm at this time, despite
his advanced age.
Juarez, Mexico. Judge Carbajal,
representing the Mexican Federal gov
ernment, and Dr. Vasquez Gomez, Jose
Pino Suarez and Francisco I. Madero,
Sr., representing the provision govern,
ment, agreed to declare a five-day ar
mistice throughout Mexico.
Judge Carbajal received instructions
from Mexico City to sign the general
armistice which Provisional President;
Madero already had signed earlier. A
general armistice of five days is now
in effect throughout Mexico.
It is stated on authority that Pres
ident Diaz has no wish nor intention
of leaving Mexico following his resig
nation. He is an old man and new
scenes and faces have no attraction.
He has no fear of remaining among
his countrymen.
VETERANS SELECT MACON
Gen. George W. Gordon Once More it
Chosen Commander-in-Chief.
Little Rock, Ark. Macon, Ga., was
chosen by the United Confederate Vet
erans as the next reunion city at the
annual encampment of the old soldiers.
The following officers were re-elected:
Commander-in-Chief, Gen. George W.
Gordon, Memphis, Tenn.
Department Commanders Army of
Northern Virginia, Lieut. Gen. C. Ir
vine Walfler, Charleston, S. C; Army
of Tennessee, Lieut. Gen. Bennett H.
Young, Louisville, Ky.; Trans-Mississippi
Department, Lieut. Gen. K. It
Van Zandt, Fort Worth, Texas.
Seven cities sought the reunion next
year. Adjt. Gen. William E. Mickle
read invitations from Macon, Houston,
Jacksonville, Louisville, Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Fresno, Cal., and Atlantic City,
X. J. When the vote was announced
Macon had a long lead, with Houston
second. The count showed, however,
that Macon had ouly a plurality of the
votes cast. General Van Zanddt ruled
that a majority vote was necessary,
and on the second ballot Macon won.
Georgia Mob Lynches Negro.
Swainsbcro, Ga. Twenty minutes
after Deputy Wood, his victim, died,
John McLeod, a negro, was dragged
from Emanuel county jail and hanged
by a body of men, orderly but deter
mined. The body was suspended
horn a tree aud riddied with bullet3.
There was no excitement to speait of.
Hidden keys to the jail were found,
and the victim quickly strung up. Fol
lowing the lynching, all parties disap
peared. The coroner's inquest found
ceath caused by "unknown- parties."