fl.ee Year, la Advance.
"FOR OOU, FOK COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH "
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VuJL. XXI
PLYMOUTH. N. C RID AY JUiNE 1(5. '1911
NO, 52. "
A VERY HARD TASK
PAGES TRUSTEES
SELECTION OF SITE FOR NORTH
CAROLINA SCHOOL FOR
FEEBLE-MINDED.
DECIDE AT KINSTON JUNE 22
Kinston, Washington, Lenoir, Lllling
ton, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham,
Fayetteville, and Possibly Other
Towns Will Ma!:o Proposals.
Raleigh The trustees of the pro
posed North Carolina school for,
feeble-minded took recess to June 22,
when there will be a meeting in Kins
ton. By June 21 all bids must be in
and the location will be definitely
settled at the Kinston meeting. In
the meantime the trustees will per
sonally inspect the locations offered.
Kinston offers one tract of 600 or
another of 370 acres. Washington
urged the board to pay the town
a visit and guaranteed adequate in
ducements. The town of Lenoir offer
ed 1,000 acres of land and abundant
supply of best water-works water for
five years without cost. Lillington
offered $10,000 cash, 1,000 acres of
land and a spur track from the Ral
eigh & Southport railroad, much of
this being guaranteed by President
John A. Mills of the railroad company.
There are yet to be definitely pre
sented proposals from Raleigh,
Greensboro, Durham, Fayetteville and
possibly other towns.
The board heard reports from the
special committee that visited insti
tutions for the feeble-minded in
Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts and other Eastern
states, the committee consisting of
Dr. Kent, Dr. Hardy, W. SA. Thomp
son and Dr. McBrayer.
The board has investigated condi
tions in this state to- the extent that
it is estimated that there are about
five hundred persons in alms houses
and jails that ought to be in the school
for the feeble-minded; then there
ere hundreds of others that should
be gathered from homes in all parts of
the state.
The institution is to be planned so
that there can be proper classifica
tion of inmates. The board has in
hand plans for buildings and after
the site is chosen the actual building
will begin speedily.
The board of trustees consists of J.
Y: Joyner, chairman ex-ofneio; Dr.
Ira M. Hardy, secretary; W. A.
Thompson, Aurora; Mark Majette,
Columbia; Senator J. R. Bagett, Lil
lington; Dr. L. B. McBrayer, Ashe
ville; R. E. Austin,. Albemarle.
WILL CONTINUE BUSINESS
Dealers Will Take Out U. S. License
and Hold Niar-Beer Stands.
Internal revenue officers say that
he near-beer dealers at Raleigh and
throughout the state for that mat
ter, are preparing to take out liquor
licenses again June 30, the plan be
ing for their places to go right on
alter July 1, when the act of the last
legislature prohibiting near-beer sa
loons goes into effect all over the
state. The leading dealers are free
to admit that they do not expect to
close out their business at all. They
will take out the government license
to relieve themselves from the sur
veillance of the revenue officers and
then they will sell brands of drinks
that will eliminate the beer idea.
The liquid may and will probably
very much resemble beer, they say,
but there will be no beer or near
fceer brands and the bottles will be
different. The applications for re
newal of government licenses are al
ready coming in in anticipation of
the expiration of the present licenses
July 1. The change of the size of
the bottles and the brands they bear,
it Is said, will constitute the princi
pal changes that will take place in
the near-beer saloons and their ser
vice. The near-beer men insist that
they will comply with the law and
they will be relieved of the state and
lecal tax they have had to pay here
tofore. Enormous Property Loss by Firef..
Every community and . individual
in North Carolina should look out
for and remover conditions likely to
cause fires, declared State Commis
sioner of Insurance James R. Young.
He says the official reports show that
lire waste in America during May
aggregated $21,422,000, a gain over
May of 1910 of; $2,59S,S00. He finds'
that the fire waste for the first five
months of 1911 round up $10S,S99,800,
or an increase of $22,951,500 over the
losses for the corresponding months
of 1910.
SELECTING SCHOOL BOOKS
State Texf Book Commission Has
Hard Task to Perform Agents
Big Publishing Houses
Raleigh. When the State Text Book
commission met to canvaC. th. bids
which had been submitted &nd to
check up the exhibits it was found
there was no dearth ofcompanies de
siring to supply the youth of North
Carolina with text books for the next
five years. In all there were some
thing over 30 bidders, many of whorn
are asking to furnish the entire outfit
for the schools. The adoption ex
tends only through the seventh grade.
For quite a while Raleith will be a
mecca for book agents, practically
every large publishing house having
some of its star men on the job.
A joint session of the State Text
Book commission was held, with the
members of the sub-commission,
when points in regardr to examining
the text books submitted were out
lined. This sub-commission, composed
of six men who are engaged in teach
ing or superintending, will hold public
hearings in the capltol building and
will continue in session from day to
day until a1" he subjects are gone
over and all ) agents had their say.
Then they will make their recommen
dations to the text book commission.
The members of this sub-commission
are, Prof. N. W. Walker, of the
Department of Education of the Uni
versity of North Carolina; County
Superintendent A. C. Reynolds, of
Buncombe; E. T. Atkinscn, of .Wayne;
Z. V. Judd, of Wake; R. J. Cochran,
of Mecklenburg, and City Superinten
dent N. C. Newbold, of Washington.
Leaf Tobacco Sales In May.
Sales of leaf tobacco on the North
Carolina markets during May were
157,778 pounds compared with 1,-3-)0,893
pounds during May, 1910.
Winston-Salem led again with 107,
03C pounds, only seven of ;he mar
kets haying any sales at all during
the month. The other six were:
Reidsville, 27,160; Durham, 11,446;
Madison, 4,555; Stoneville, 2,940;
Mebane, 2,038; Mount Airy, 2,603.
Will be no Championship Shoot.
It is officially stated that all prob
ability of any contest involving the
recent championship rifle range shoot
here by the . teams from the three
companies of the North Carolina
Guard that made the highest scores
in the regimental shoots at Raleigh,
Goldsboro and Gastonia is past. There
had been exceptions to. men shoot
ing whose enlistments had expired
and not been renewed, but it was
found that this was the case with
all three of the teams that partici
pated. So the Dupont trophy cup that was
won in the regimental shoots by the
Raleigh company and generously put
up again for a championship shoot
here, will go to the Lumber Bridge
company.
Important Ruling on Lam Titles. " "
. Assistant Attorney General G. L.
Jones has just made a ruling for the
department of education as to the
reversion of property that has been
condemned for school purposes and
the right of the school authorities
to deed this property in . fee simple
to parties other than the owner from
whom it was taken by condemnation.
He holds that good title can be given
for the reason that the law provides
that where condemnation has to be
resorted to the school trustees get
title in fee simple and any property
so held can be conveyed. This ques
tion has arisen in Gates county, but
is one that may develop in most
any part of the state under the pres
ent activities In consolidation and
changes of school districts.
July 4 Highway Day in Wake.
The Wake Board of County commis
sioners passed a resolution setting
July 4th as Central Highway Day in
Wake county. The resolution provid
ed further that during the week fol
lowing all citizens along the proposed
highway in Wake county be urged tc
go to work and construct thi3 county's
portion of the highway, or if they can
not denate their time to donate an
equivalent amount of money. The
chairman of the board is to appoint
the supervisors of the work.
Elizabeth City. The outlook fcr tht.
Irish potato crop in PasqucVmk coun
ty is not very promising.
Trustees Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
Governor Kitchin issues commis
sions to Dr. I. K. Greea, Weldcn; J.
D. Daws, Elizabeth City, and W. E.
Breese, Jr., Brevard, as members ot
the board of tru?tee3 fsr the North
Carolina Tuberculcs'T sanitarium.
Postal Bank for Raleigh.
ifaleigh is to have a Postal Ravines
bank some time about Ju;y first. Tint?
information was conveyed to Senator
Overman at the poU!fice depart
mt-nt, where he called to confer Jibcut
other matters. -
SENDS CRUISER
TH DEUO
CHINA SENDS WARSHIP TO COL
LECT SIX MILLIONS IN GOLD
FROM MEXICO.
AN APOLOGY ALSO ASKED
Indemnity for the Death of 303 Chi
nese at Torreon la
Wanted.
Mexico City. An indemnity of 12,-
000,000 pesos, the equivalent of $6,-
000,000 in gold, will be demanded oi
Mexico by the Chinese government
for the slaughter of Chinese subjects
in Tbrreon. The demand will be back
ed by a cruiser, which is already on
the way to the Mexican west coast
ports.
Three investigators returned from
Toreron and placed in the hands of
Shung Hal Sun, cnarge d'affaires ot
the Chinese legation, a detailed re
port of the carnage. The report shows
that 303 Chinese were killed, many or
them in a most inhuman manner, and
that besides a bank and club house,
eighty-nine places of business were
sacked.
In 'addition ' to the indemnity, an
apology for insult to the Chinese flag
will be demanded; also that aid be
extended to destitute families of the
victims; that the guilty . be punished
and the constitutional guarantee oi
protection to Chinese lives and prop
erty be made effective.
CARRIE NATION IS DEAD
Passing of Saloon Smasher Ends a
Spectacular Career.
Leavenworth, Kan. Carrie Nation,
the Kansas saloon smasher, died here.
Paresis was the cause of death." For
several months Mrs. Nation had been
in poor health, and on January 22 she
entered the local sanitarium in which
she died, hoping there to recover from
a nervous breakdown. .
Mrs. Carrie Nation was born in
Kentucky in 1846. Her maiden name
was Carrie Moore, and as a girl, it is
said she was absolutely fearless. In
her early life she married a man ad
dicted to the use of intoxicants, which
created in her an intense aversion to
the saloon. When she died she de
termined to devote her life to the sup
pression of the liquor traffic. Later
she moved to Kansas and married
David Nation, who sympathized witn
her temperance, principles.
Erratic as her life has been, Mrs.
Nation was responsible for the great
eat temperance awakening in Kansas.
TAFT TALKS TO THE SOUTH
President Points Out to Southerners
Advantages of Reciprocity.
New York. "The bill, tne whole
bill and nothing but tlie bill' .Thus
President Taft summed' up an earnest
plea for the unamended adoption by
the senate of the Canadian reciproc
ity agreement before a representative
audience of Southern men.
The occasion was a banquet given
by the New York produce exchange
to the Interstate Cotton Seed Crush
ers association. The banquet hall re
sounded to a roaring welcome for the
president, as he entered the room.
In his address, President Taft point
ed out to the Southerners the advan
tages which their section would de
rive from the enactment, of the agree
ment with Canada, but 'did not neglect
to recur to his main argument for the
pending billion the broader lines ol
general national interest..
Aviators Fall 6,650 Feet.
Johannisthal. Germany. Herr Schen-
del, who established' a German alti
tude record of 6,594 feet in an aero
plane, fell with his mechanic, Voss,
and both were instantly killed. Schen
del was trying, to eclipse the world's
altitude record with a passenger. . The
aviator, who was practically a begin
ner, arose in a Dorner monoplane and
had reached a height of 6,650 feet
when the monoplane was seen to as
sume a vertical position and it is be
lieved that Schendel was trying to
,glide to earth with his motor cut off.
Mexican" Rebels Still Fiflhting.
El Paso, Texas. Pascual Oroszo,
commander of the insurrector troops
surrounding Chihuahua, declared that
he will attack the state capital at
once, regardless of peace or peace
prospects, because two of l's men
who were visiting in Chihuahua with
out arms were thrown into jail. His
demand for their release was rejected.
Governor Abram Gonzales, Maderist
governor of Chihuahua, left Juarez for
Chihuahua, although advised that he
had better not come until the Federal
troops had left.
"SWAT
(Copyright, 1911.)
The National Slogan This Summer.
ROOSEVELT BACKS TAFT
PRESIDENT IS TO HAVE ROOSE
VELT'S ENDORSEMENT FOR
SECOND TERM.
Colonel Roosevelt Met Taft at Cele
bration in Baltimore in Honor
of Cardinal Gibbons.
Washington. President Taft, in his
candidacy for the presidential nomina
tion in 1912, will receive the unqual
ified endorsement of former President
Roosevelt, which will be uttered just
as cordially as it was prior to the
campaign of 1908. This is the best
political news Mr. Taft has receiveu
in many months, and it comes to nim
in a manner that leaves no uouot as
to it3 authenticity.
The iurormauou tha tColonel Roose
velt, under no circumstances will al
low his name to be presented to the
Republican national convention was
conveyed to the white house several
days ago. That Colonel Roosevelt
feels tnat the Tfat administration
should be continued was Drought out
partly as the result of a coruiul greet
ing between the two men at, the Car
dinal Gibbons jubilee in Baltimore.
Whether tne Roosevelt approval of
Mr. Taft's candidacy will go far
enough to take the former into the
campaign as an active stump speaker
is problematical, but that the force
of his personality will be with the
president is assured. This fact is not
expected to prove pleasing to "Repub
licans ' who have made no secret ot
their desire to bring Colonel Roosevelt
forward as a formidable rival for the
1912 nomination.
The information that Colonel Roose
velt would be found aligned with the
president, rather than against him,
was brought directly to Mr. Tart from
Mr. Roosevelt by a mutual friend hign
in official life who was , connected
with the Roosevelt and Taft adminis
trations in a capacity that enabled
him to gain and letain te commence
in fact, the warm personal friend&nip
of both men.
CARDINAL GIBBONS HONORED
Greatest Non-Sectarian Tribute to a
Churchman Ever Accorded in U. S.
Baltimore, Md. The greatest non-
sectarian tribute to a churchman ever
accorded in America was paid to Car-
dinal Gibbons, head of tne Catholic
church on this continent. It was a
national tribute, in which joined the
nation's head, President Taft, his pre
decessor, Theodore Roosevelt, sena
tors and representatives.
The occasion was the dual anniver
sary of his eminence the fiftieth auni
verysary of his ordination to the priest
hood and the twenty-fifth year of his
elevation to the high official rank of
cardinal. . ..
There were no ceremonies other
than those held at the armory of the
Fifth Maryland regiment and in keep
ing with the cardinal 8 well-known de
sire for simplicity, these were arrang
ed to last only two hours.
Caidinal Gibbons was not only paid
tribute for his high rank as tne only
American cardinal, but as a citizen
Object to Cotton Revision.
Washington. A memorandum was
filed with the ways and means com
mittee by members of the tariff com
mittee o2 the American Cotton Man
ufacturers' association, protesting
against alny change in the cotton
schedule of the Payne tariff bill. R.
M. Miller, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C, is
chairman of the committee. Among
the other members are Lewis W. Par
ker of Greenville, S. C; Stewart W.
Cramer and D. Y. Cooper of Hender
son, N. C; C. D. Tulter of Atlanta,
and T. I. Hickman of Augusta, Ga.
THE FLY"
TAFT OPPOSES AMENDMENTS
Will Fight Any Attempt to Change
Canadian eMasure in the
Senate.
Washington. All doubt as to Pres
ident Taft's reciprocity plan was ab
solutely and finally settled when Sen
ator Stone of Missouri called at the
white house to ask the president on
behalf of himself and other senators
what the executive's attitude was con
cerning the reciprocity bill and the
proposed amendment to the measure.
The president told Mr. Stone that
he was firmly , opposed to any and an
amendments to the bill, including the
Root amendment, and that he would
fight any attempt to amend the meas
ure in the senate.
With the arrival of the president
from his Chicago trip and the report
of the senate finance committee on the
agreement expected this week, the
reciprocity fight began to assume a
sharper turn.
President Taft immediately upon his
arrival began to summon senators to
the white house and to impress on
them, as he had upon Senator Stone,
that he would not stand for any
amendments to this bill, not even the
Root amendment, designed to protect
paper manufacture of New York state.
The president, however, is not go
ing to have his way unchalleneged,
for many members of the upper house
are opposed to reciprocity and will
fight -to the last to kll lthe measure.
President Taft's speech on reciproc
ity in Chicago, in which he charged
that there was co-operation between
paper manufacturers and lumber deal
ers to defeat , the bill, has aroused
much resentment among those sena
tors who- are opposed to reciprocity.
LEGISLATOR PLEADS GUILTY
Ohio Representative Turns State's
Evidence.
Columbus, Ohio. Representative
Owen J. Evans of Stark county,
charged with 'soliciting a bribe as a
member of the legislature, pleaded
guilty to the crime before Judge Kink
head in the criminal court, and in
view of his agreeing to go before the
grand jury and turn state's evidence
in the probe into alleged legislative
grafting still being conducted by that
body, was let off with tne minimum
punishment, a fine of $500.
Evans went immediately before the
grand jury and will tell all he knows
concerning alleged cooaling in the leg
islature. He promised the court tc
make a clean breast ana, with tears
streaming down his fact, the legisla
tor asked for the clemency of the
court.
Girl Sleeps Seven Weeks.
Vandalla, 111. After seven weeks of
slumber, from which physicians have
been unable to arouse her, Miss Ha
zel Schmidt, has just awakened twice,
each time for about an hour, asked for
something to eat, and then again
dropped off to sleep. Her case has
puzzled scientists asking about her
condition. At the beginning of her
sleep, Miss Schmidt told her mother
she was going into a trance.
Mobile Votes for Ccmmission.
Mobile, Ala. By a majority of S29
out of a total vote of 3,612 the city
of Mobile adopted the commission
form of government. The campaign
which has been carried on for the
past three weeks has been one of the
most warmly contested of any in the
history of the city, and toward the
last aroused much bitterness. It was
a sharply drawn contest between the
political-machine which has ruled the
city for years, and the business, pro
fessional and working men of the city.
HQUAKE KILLS
HIT MEXICANS
THE REPEATED SEISMIC SHOCKS
SPREAD DESTRUCTION IN
CAPITAL OF MEXICO.
SHOCKS FOR 14 MINUTES
Majority of the Dead Soldiers Who
Were Crushed When Their Bar
racks Were Wrecked.
Mexico City. Sixty -three killed; 75
wounded; property loss, $100,000.
These are the net results of tha
earthquake' which visited the capital
and injected a note of tragedy into
what was expected to be a day of pur
rejoicing. When tne work of search
ing the ruins is completed, it hi pos
sible that the list of . oead will be
lengthened somewhat, as hiding hero
and there throughout the city there
dout'aess are many wounded who.
with traditional fear of the authori
ties '-'id government hospitals, are
anxiotrj to evade discovery.
The property loss is but an ' esti
mate, and is , based upon calculation
made by owners and contractors. Liu
tie of tne loss Is covered by insur
ance. .
It was 4:25 o'clock when, the first
shock was felt. According to the ob
servatory, the greatest Intensity waa
reached at the.:, end of the first, min
ute, but the instruments "Continued to
lecord the shocks for fourteen min
utes more. It was of a vacillatory,
twisting character, hut almost tree ot
trepidatery motion. .
: More than half of the dead account
ed for were soldiers. They were
caught beneath the falling walls of
the artillery barracks in San Cosme, s
locality near the Mexican Central sta
tion. Anotcer place where the earth
quake took its toll of death in con
siderable numbers was at the city
power plant, of the street car com
pany. Here bIx were killed and six
wounded.- - ,
Witn these two exceptions the death,
list was made up of single cases or,
in some instances of two and threW
caught beneath falling walls in tae'
poorer buildings of the district mo4
seriously affected.
No personal property of . Americana
was damaged, and with the exception
of one Chinese, no foreigner was In
jured. In the barracks where the sou
diers were killed twelve women also
lost their lives. They were the wives,
of the artillerymen.
The fury of the shock was spent la
the northwestern and western part ot
the city. The most damage done was
in that quarter of the city known a
Santa Mafia, although cracks in the
pavement and waiis 'toppled over
serve to mark its course as. far to the.
south as Colonia Roma, a' district in
habited largely by Americans. In this
district, however, little real damage
was done and no deaths have been
reported.
Cracks show here and there in the
pavement throughout the district af
fected, and now and then the asphalt
is buckled until the ridge is 3 to 6
inches above the lever of the street.
Walls made usually of a soft stone or
even of adobe bricks have fallen l
scores of places.
A LIE SAYS COL. ROOSEVELT
Colonel Denies He Promised to Sup
port Taft in 1912.
Springfield, Mass. Col. Theodore
Roo&evelt said with reference to a
published story that he would support
Taft in the next presidential cam
paign: -. '
i here is no truth in the report
that 1 have agreed to support any man
for president in 1912. I have neither
made any such statement nor even,
discussed the matter. Tha story i
made out of whole cloth."
State Backs Woman Mayor.
Topeka, Kans. Attorney General
Dawson notified the five members ol
the council at Hunnewell, Kan., that
they, must co-operate with the woman
mayor of the town, Mrs. Ella Wilson,
and that "no more trifling would be
tolerated. I notified the councilnien
that the joke had gone far enough,'
said the attorney general.
Camorrists Trial Resumed.
Viterbo, Italy. The trial of the 38
Camorrists, for the murder of Gen
naro Cuocolo and his wife, which was
adjourned because of the illness of a
juror, was resumed. A notorious tuiet
named Santaitde was called as a wit
ness and smilingly recounted his crim
inal adventures. These Included an
attempt at burglary at the home ot
former Deputy Seaimi in 1S91, when
the witness was arrested, togethei
with Gennuaro Cuoccolo, who had or
ganized the operation. The booty at
stake was estimated at $15,000,