Whs iffy if lY ! r - i- Wily J II "T J f ' ' ' ' . - . W Year, ! Adrmnc. , ' , FOR OOP. FOB COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." u a rr VOL. XXII PLYMOUTH, N, C JB rTd A uTf l7t9 NO. 5. r-- '. i : 1 " i : GRANTS PARDONS J. 8. BECKWITH OF CUMBERLAND IS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES FIVE OTHERS. HIS REASONS FOR PARDONS The Governor In Granting the Six Pardon Cites Conditions of. Health and of Conduct and Says Petitions Have Come From Many Sources. Raleigh. Six pardons were granted by Governor Kitchin and among these was one to Hillman High, of Wake county, who, in 1900, on being found guilty of forgery, was sentenced to six years on the roads. High hatl "forged the names of parties in Cedar Fork township to various orders for goods, and his pardon comes because of his bad health, physicians saying that further confinement will en danger his life. He is required to be law-abiding and to give bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance at the first criminal court of each fall and spring term of Wake Superior court for the next four years to show his good behavior while living in. this state. Another pardon is that granted to James S. Beckwith, of Fayetteville, 'sentenced in Cumberland at the May term, 1911, to eight months in jail, for an assault with a deadly weapon, having shot and wounded a man after having been cursed by the man. While in jail he has given information which prevented the escape of another pris oner. He is a young man, a member of a prominent family, and his par don was asked by many leading citi zens and' officers. "The other pardons were granted to "William! Henry Alston, of Halifax, fou' years for larceny, sentenced in 1909; Arthur Huntley, of Guilford, six months for robbery, sentenced in 1911; Barney and Corbett Martin,, of Rockingham, sentenced in 1911, for larceny to two years on the roads. An Increase in Wilkes County. The new assessment of property for Wilkes county amounts to $2,849,488, as compared with the 1910 assess ment of $2,158,175. The increase is $691,313, or 32 percent. In Somers township the increase. ,. was 78 per cent, while the smallest was 17 per cent in -Union. The assessment of real estate for North Wilkesboro is $576,317, representing an increase of 21 per cent, and for Wilkesboro it is $288,727 with an increase of 32 per cent. The big good roads celebration planned for July 21 here, is expected to draw a large crowd and result in an active organization for the im provement of roads in this county. The Southern Good Roads train will arrive here on the date specified at two o'clock, and besides the speeches by the experts accompanying the train, the address of the day will be made by Congressman Robert N. Page, and Mr. H. B. Varner, presi dent of the State Highway Osteopathic Physicians Licensed. The annual examination and regis tration of the osteopaths of North Carolina was held in the Guildford Hotel, the examination being given by the State Osteopathic Board. The successful candidates making passing, grades were: Paul R. Davis, D. O., of Waynesville; Richard A. Shepherd, D. O., Fayetteville; William E. Crutch Held, D. O., Durham, and W. R. Mun ger, D. O., Salisbury. The officers elected for the coming year are as follows Dr. Elizabeth H. Tucker, Greensboro, president; Dr. E. J. Car son, of Fayettevjlle, secretary and treasurer. Gain In Franklinton Township. I have just completed the town graded school and township tax list for Franklinton township. I find from best information that we have in creased about $200,000 in this town fchip. There has been no complaint to speak about only one or two who made complaints, and that was so small that it is not worth mentioning. Could Not Locate Owners of Still. The revenue officers, K. W. Mer ritt and J. B. Jordan have been un able to locate the owner of a big still which they captured and the warrant has not been served. They were in Lebanon township and ran across a big still that had been suddenly mov ed. It had been spotted before and the officers were prepared to swoop down upon the makers of the whiskey. When they came up it was- gone, but there were reminders of it. In their hurry to get away they did not take their belongings. ON RAILWAY ASSESSMENTS Report Will Soon Be Ready Repress entatlves at Commission office -Mr. Travis Out of City. Raleigh. At the Corporation Com mission there was held an informal conference between the' Commission and representatives of the Seaboard Air Line. Those present for the rail road were Judge L. R. Watts, general counsel for the Seaboard; Major John D. Shaw, of Rockingham; Mr. James H. Pou, of Raleigh; Mr. W. L. Stan ley, of Portsmouth, general tax agent of the Seaboard; Mr. Murray Allen, of Raleigh, and Mr. B. S. Burgess, from the Portsmouth offices of the Seaboard. This was not a formal hearing, and nothing was given out by either the Commission or the Seaboard attor neys. Chairman Franklin McNeill, of the Corporation Commission, stated that while hearings on railroad as sessments were nearly over definite figures could not be given out for some days. Early next week, how ever, .railroad tax figures will be ready for publication in complete and defi nite shape. Mr. L. T. Nichols, of Chester, S. C, superintendent of the Carolina and Northwestern Railway, was at the Corporation Commission office on bus iness connected with the assessment of his road. Mr. H. C. Stewart, county assessor of Harnett county, was a visitor at the Corporation Commission. Mr. Stewart has not made his final re port on the Harnett county assess ments, for the Board of Equalization in Harnett will not complete proceed ings until some time next week. It appears, however, that the Harnett county valuations will show an in crease of about forty per cent. The new Commissioner, ex-State Senator K. L. Travis, who succeeded Mr. Henry Clay Brown, Is out of the city, but will sit with the Com mission at the next meeting. The Tobacco Crop Is Off. Director C. B. Williams ofthe Ex periment Station returned from Gran ville county, where he inspected some experiment work the North Car olina Experiment Station and the United States Department of Agricul ture are carrying on at Creedmoor on tobacco wilt, infested soils. He was accompanied by Dr. W. W. Garner and Mr. E. G. Moss of the United States Department of Agriculture. Director Williams reports that the tobacco crop on account of excessive dry weather is generally small and of a poor stand and that' in the lower portion of the county the wilt is beginning to show considerable damage. It is estimated that the loss that will be sustained by tobacco growers in the section around Hester and Creedmoor will this year be at least twenty-five per cent of the crop due to the ravages of the tobacco wilt. The Experiment 'Station and the United States De partment are co-operatively conduct ing field work at Creedmoor with, an endeavor to produce commercially re sistant strains of tobacco that will be suited to the Granville growers' markets and soils. Breeding and 6oil treatment ' of different kinds are in progress. It is planned to conduct some tobacco curing experiments near Creedmoor during August To Extend Black Mountain Railroad. At an election just held in Burns- ville township, the latter by a majority of 180 to 2 directed the issuance of $20,000 in township bonds to the Black Mountain Railway to insure its imme diate extension to the county seat. The road is now in operation from Galax, on the - Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio, to Micaviile, a point per haps five miles from Burnsville. It will be recalled that last fall the county voted bonds to aid in the construction of the road from Boon ford, by way of Burnsville, to Cape River, in the heart of the county. nd that work was at once begun. The directors, however, decided to make the starting point Galax instead of at or near Boonford," as the contract read. The commissioners, two of hom fought the proposition from the outset, refused to grant the bonds, nd hence the necessity of another election. Other townships it is under stood, will soon vote upon a similar prepositions to that which has just carried in Burnsville. To State Oral Hygiene Movement. Dr. L. V. Henderson is preparing to inaugurate an ' educational move ment in oral hygiene among the children of the county that will with out doubt be of great service in ini proving the health of the county. He has ordered a text-book on this sub ject, a copy of which will be donated to every one of the fifty rural school libraries, in the county. He will offer one or more prizes for the best essay on care of the teeth written by a boy or girl in the public schools. He has planned a number of lectures. SENATE TO VOTE S T VOTE ON WOOL BILL JULY 27 ; ,.FREE LIST BILL AUGUST OTHERS AUGUST 3. DATES ARE SET FOR ACTION Action on Statehood Bill August 7. May Be General Revision of Tar iff Before the Close. Washington. The senate will vote on the Canadian reciprocity bill July 22; on the wool tariff revision bill July 27; on the free list bill August 1; congressional reapportionment bill August 3; statehood bill for Arizona and New Mexico on the legislative day of August 7, and will adjourn quckly thereafter. This voting pro gram, decided upon after prolonged conferences that have covered many days, was agreed to by thesenate. All the measures mentioned have passed the house. President Taft was quickly acquainted with the senate's action and expressed his gratification, especially over the precedence to be given the reciprocity bill. The house Democratic leaders are undecided as to whether they will agree to an adjournment upon the passage of, the bill embodied In the agreement adopted by the senate. Speaker Clark expressed the onin ion that congress would not nut un the shutters until about September 1. Chairman Underwood of. the ways and means committee refused to com mit himself. He seemed to be "of the opinion that the Democrats would not insist upon, action by the senate on the cotton ' revision bill, which will probably be reported next week. It is known that Mr. Underwood is anxious for an adjournment immedi ately upon the passage by the sen ate of the reciprocity bill, the free list and wool bills and the reappor tionment bill. He has taken the po sition that the house Democrats can afford to wait until the December ses sion for action by the senate on the cotton (revision bill and other tariff measures. Mr. Brantley and some other mem bers of the ways and means commit tee insist that the Democrats should make their tariff record this summer. They declare that now is the accepted time. They point out that in the De cember session there will be a tre mendous volume of general legislation aside from that tariff,' and that ac cordingly the attention of the house will be diverted to some extent from proper consideration of measures in amendment of the Payne-Aldrich law. This question is now in conference among the Democratic leaders. They are far from an agreement. The chances are that the matter will be submitted to a party caucus. If the advice of Chairman Under wood is followed, congress will quit in August, about the time set by the senate leaders. Should the will of those who are opposed to the views of Mr. Underwood prevail, congress would remain in session far into the fall. Leader Underwood, with the support of the speaker, has generally had his way. The speaker's sugges tion that congress may be in session until September 1 or therabouts, is understood to be based on the view that the house Democrats will insist on action on the statehood bill, what ever agreement may be reached be tween the two houses on other meas ures. Senator Cummins, Insurgent of Iowa, after adjournment expressed conviction that despite the program, there would be general tariff revision before the close. He based his be lief on the faef'that the Democrats and Insurgents would stand together and force amendments to the free list bill, adding wool, sugar, steel, cot ton, etc., to that measure. "At least we shall. have legislative revision before we adjourn," he said. 'T do not know what the president will do, but we will give Mm a chance to speak for himself." Recover $750,000 for Government. New York Three-quarters of a mil lion dollars has been recovered from the concealed assets of Gaynor and Greene, who defrauded- the govern ment of $2,000,000 in Savannah har bor dredging contracts in 1S97. This was developed by inquiries at the de partment of justice. E. I. Johnson, an expert accountant, and United States District Attorney Marion Er win of Savannah, Ga., are responsible for the recovery. NEXT TU "GOING UP" CopyrlEht. 1911. HOODLUMS RUN ELECTIONS SAYS HON. CHAMP CLARK IN A SPEECH BEFORE THE CHRIS TIAN ENDEAVORERS. Atlantic City, N. J. With the big audience swayed to the tune of Dixie, Speaker Champ Clark was introduced to a record throng on the million dol lar pier as the principal speaker be fore the Christian Endeavor conven tion. "There is no room in the United States for a pesismist or an idler," he declared at the outset. "Any one who misses two general elections ought , to be disfranchised. Our fore fathers did not fight so we could sit at home. They wanted us to have our own say at election. "If I had one prayer that I was sure to be answered, it would be that every citizen should acquire sufficient education to read his own ballot and cast It as an American citizen should. "Hoodlums run nine-tenths of our elections, and the hoodlum who goes out and votes is a better man than the citizen who fails to cast his bal lot. It is the duty of every Chris- tian citizen to take a hand in poll tics. These fine-haired citizens who say they are too busy to enter poli tics are bad citizens. "The great question before the American republic is the question of good citizenship. I don't believe the United States is going to the dogs, no matter whether a Republican or a Democrat has the administration. "The world in general is growing better and particularly our part of the country. In my opinion we will soon devise a scheme that will give labor the benefit of its toil and keep riches from a few greedy souls. Signs point that the change is in tight and the employer - will soon share his profits with his workmen. The pension sys tem already in force on most of the big railroads puts to blush the sys tem maintained by the United States government. Thi3 is not the age of controversial, but of practical relig ion." SECRETARY SIMPSON SAILS Accompanied by His Wife He Will Inspect Panama Canal. Washington. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, with his wife and Brigadier General Clarence Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, has sailed by the United Fruit liner Santa Maria to make an Inspection of the work on the Panama canal. Secretary Stimson said that while he is in the canal zone he will meet the fortification board and have a talk over fortification plans, Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, commander of the department of the east; Col. Webb Hayes and Lieutenant Howze went to the ship in a launch from Governor's Island and gave the secretary and his party goodbye. He will be gone about month. He will be joined later by laj. Gen. Leonard Wood. Violated "Jim Crow" Law. Shreveport, La. That a negro wom an cannot occupy a berth In a sleep ing car where there are white pas sengers even as a maid, in the state, was ruled by Judge Blanchard in po lice court. Two negro women were taken from a berth of an incoming train on the appeal to the police offi cers by several white passengers. A vigorous protest was made to the ejec tion of the negresses by a white pas senger, who claimed the women were traveling as maids to his daughter. WICKERSHAM WAS BLIND So Charges Delegate Wickersham Be fore House Committee on Judiciary. Washington. After secret, consider- eration of charges made by Delegate Wickersham of Alaska that Attorney General Wickersham deliberately per mitted the statute of limitations to run against agents of the Alaska syn dicate who defrauded the government through perjury to the extent of $50, 000, the house committee on judiciary has determined to report favorably a resolution of inquiry offered by Del egate Wickersham. The resolution would call upon the attorney general to furnish the house with all documents, affidavits and tes timony in his possession relating to an affidavit submitted to him more than a year ago, and sworn to by H J. Douglas, former auditor of the Alaska syndicate in 1908. Delegate Wickersham - startled the committee when he produced a copy of an affidavit relating to an alleged criminal act committed by Capt. D. H. Jarvis of the Alaska syndicate, and formerly prominent in the government revenue cutter ervice, who commit ted suicide in Seattle on June 22, the day following the introduction of the Wickersham resolution, calling for production' of the papers in the case, and by John H. Bullock of the Sesner Coal company of, New York. Through connivance of these men, it was charged the government was defraud ed on coal contracts and evidence to that effect was permitted to remain unacted upon in the attorney gener al's office for more than a year un til the statute of limitations expired last May. Delegate Wickersham fur nished the committee with photo graphic copies of a letter an attor ney for the Alaska . attorney to D. R Jarvis admitting the expenditure of money to control government wit nesses in the hazy murder trial in 1908, wherein an agent of the Alaska syndicate was accused of murdering laborers employed by rival interests A photograph of an expense ac count for $1,133.10 of M. B. Morris sey employed by the syndicate, it is claimed, to entertain government wit nesses and jurymen in that connec tion also was submitted to the com mittee. This evidence Delegate Wick ersham declared, also is in the pos session of the attorney general. Del egate Wickersham urged on the judi ciary committee the Douglas affidavit involving the representatives of the Northwestern Commercial company, one of the Alaska syndicate concerns, and the Sesnor Coal company. "On May 24, 1910," he said, "I sent to Attorney General Wickersham a copy of the affidavit, calling his at tention to the fact that the govern ment had been defrauded of $50,000 by perjury and a combination of these two corporations in the sale of coal to the government for miiltary post in Alaska. -., I asked him to make an investigation and prosecute those peo ple for the crime committed in that transaction. I received a letter of acknowledgment May 31, 1910, and we had considerable further corer spondence and on July 13, 1911, more than a year later, I received a letter from the attorney general stating that the statute of limitation had expired." No Trace of Letter. Cincinnati. At the request of Pres ident Taft the letter files of his bro ther, Charles P. Taft, were searched for possible correspondence with the president, Richard S. Ryan or other persons regarding Controller Bay af fairs or Alaskan lands. A statement was made declaring that no letter bearing upon this subject in the re motest degree was found, and that so far as the files in Mr. Taft's office show, he has no acquaintance with Mr. Ryan or any Interest in any Alas Van investment. F 1AKES STATEMENT TELLS INVESTIGATING BODY "DICK TO DICK" LETTER CAN'T BE FOUND. BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ;' Says Department of Interior Will Probe Controller Bay Scandal. Washington. Secretary of the In terior Fisher wa3 the star attraction when the house committee investigate ing the Controller Bay scandal met. Mr. Fisher told the committee that the now famous "Dick to Dick" letter was not In the files of the interior department, but if such a letter had disappeared from the files steps would be taken to recover it. "I have a deep Interest in this question, in view of the two points involved. First, whether anything has been done that the commitee has learned of which will jeopardize the public interests in Alaska that is, if anything has been done in my de partment which could be rectified now. , I want to learn of these things, because it might be expedient for . my department to take some imme diate action. "The f econd point In which we are interested concerns a letter, the ex istence of which, in my department, has been suggested by stories said to have been circulated by a Mis3 M. F. Abbott. "We have searched the records in the department and have been unable to locate such a letter. We are par ticularly anxious to get all the infor mation possible about this letter, be cause if any such document has dis appeared we will take steps' to re cover it." . Secretary Fisher asked that Miss Abbott be placed on the stand ' as early as possible. He told the com mittee that his department copies all documents relating to the Controller Bay affair to carry out the provisions of Senator Poindexter's resolution, which calls for these papers to be presented to the senate. . Chairman Graham requested Sec retary Fisher to send to the commit tee a duplicate of the copies being made for the senate. "It is my earnest desire," declared Mr. Fisher, "to help this committee in every possible way. We have no desire to protect anybody, or with hold any Information from this com; mittee." Secretary Fisher then gave a de tailed statement of the location of the Controller Bay lands, describing the three entries made by Richard S. Ry an, which, it has been alleged, Ryan took up for the Guggenheim syndi cate. NEGROES URGE A REWARD Alarmed at Many Slayings of Negro Women In Atlanta. Atlanta. Alarmed at the many murders of negro women .during the past two years and the failure to apprehend the murderers, negro citi zens of Atlanta are circulating peti tions to the governor and mayor urg ing that suitable rewards be offered for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for these deeds of blood. The work of getting signatures to these petitions is in charge of H. " A. Rucker, former collector of inter nal revenue, and Rev. J. A. Rush, pas tor cf the Central Avenue Methodist church (colored). On these petitions are signed the names of many, of Atlanta's foremost citizens, and to the committee circu lating the petitions several prominent Atlantans have expressed hearty sym pathy in the movement undertaken by the negro citizens. One promi nent attorney urged that a fund be raised by white citizens for running down . the murderer, and offered to contribute liberally. The petitions point out that within the past two years there have been seventeen murders of negro women, and that the hangman's noose has not been resorted to in any case. Names of the victims and the dates of the murders are given in them. Finest Crops Ev-ir. Valdosta, Ga. Almost without ception this portion of south G-or has the finest crops in its hist. sry. This is true especially of corn, m fields in this and surrounding ci ties 'equaling those of the Ohio Kentucky river bottoms. Cotton, and other crops are just as f.r the farmers could wish for, - the present almost ideal season tinues, the record-breaking yieR flood this part of the state w: greatest prosperity it has x- joyed SECRETARY

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