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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
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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