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VOL. XXII. PLYAfOUTH, N, C. JbRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1011. NO. 7.
TAX VALUATION
OF THEmiLROADS
FROM REPORT OF CORPORATION
COMMISSION TAX VALUATION
GREATLY INCREASED.
AN INCREASE ON EACH ROAD
The Value of Railroad Property as
Assessed For Taxation is Over One
Hundred and Fifteen Million Dollars
Forty-Nine Miscellaneous Roads.
Raleigh. The tax valuation of rail
road property in North Carolina is
raised by the corporation commission
through the quadrenial reassessment
Just completed from $86,780,115 to
$115,229,684. The total milage is 4,424
included in the previous assessment.
The Atlantic Coast Line assessment
is raised from $28,434,900 to $32,995,
567, the assessment per mile being
$34,821 whereas it was formerly $30,
000 per mile. The mtteage is 947.57.
The Seaboard Air Line assessment
is raised from $12,500,000 to $17,500,
000, this being $29,075.56 per mile on
601.88 miles. The former assessment
was $20,268.84.
The Southern Railway assessment
on owned and leased lines is advanced
from $34,073,201 to $46,641,696, the
mileage being 1,333.08. The Southern
owns 590 miles on which the assess
ment is raised from $17,701,800 to
$23,602,400, the assessment per mile
being increased from $30,000 to $40,
004.06. The Southern operates 43.08
miles of leased lines and the assess
ments of these are raised from $16,
371,401 to $23,039,296. Especially
notable among these lines are the
North Carolina Railroad, assessment
raised from $10,573,762 to $15,S36,703;
Atlantic & Yadkin increased from $1,
610,800 to $1,800,000; Atlantic & Char
lotte Air Line increased from $1,443,
737 to $2,000,000; North Carolina Mid
land from $883,080 to $1,100,000; Ashe
rille & Craggy Mountain, and Ashe
ville & Southern, Tallulah Falls and
Yadkin railroads retain former assess
ments unadvanced; State University
road increased from $25,049 to $30,420.
Forty-nine miscellaneous railroads
having 1,694 miles, of road are advanc
ed in assessment from $11,772,014 to
$18,092,421. .. .
, North Carolina thjePjoultry State.
North Carolina ismaking rapid ad
vancement along the line of poultry
culture. Fifteen years ago last De
cember the first poultry show was
held in this state. This show was
held in Shelby, about 1,000 birds be
ing on exhibition. Since this show
was held interest in poultry culture
has grown rapidly. Today there are
twelve wide-awake poultry associa
tions in North Carolina. Every coun
ty in the state ought to have a poul
try association
Ten shows will be held in the state
the coming season, besides the poul
try exhibits at the numerous fairs.
These shows have fixed their dates
in rotation so as to not conflict
with each other which makes it
possible for one to exhibit at each
show.
The dates are as follows:
Morganton, November 22-24; C. D.
Forney, ; secretary.
Lincolnton, November 28-30; Miss
Lena Reinhardt, secretary.
Gastonia, December 5-8; H. Rut
ter, secretary.
Asheville, December 12-14; Paul P.
Brown, secretary.
v Rockingham, December 12-15; H.
L. Guthrie, secretary.
Shelby, December 14-16; J. W. Sut
tlc, secretary.
Greensboro, December 19-21; W. M.
Montgomery, secretary.
Winston-Salem, December 27-29; R.
C. Taylor, secretary.
Henietta, January 11-13, 1912; O.
R. Coffield, secretary.
Charlotte, January 16-19, 1912; O.
T. Hallman, secretary.
Spencer. The second day of the
state meeting of the Farmers' Union,
vhich convened in Salisbury was given
over to routine business
Greensboro's Water Supply Low.
Greensboro's water supply con
tinues to be sufficient for present
needs, but the amount in Reedy Fork
and Horsepen creeks gets lower every
day. When the city's pumps are run
ning they take up every bit of the
water from the two streams. If the
dry weather continues for a few more
days, trouble will be experienced here
in getting a sufficient amount to
meet the present consumption. The
local papers are suggesting that the
use of lawn sprinklers be discontinued
for a while.
MR. DUNCAN GETS FRANCHISE
Secures Option on Franchise of Road
Provided He Furnishes Pledge
of Road Being Constructed.
A-
Greensboro. The incorporators of
the Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern
and Southern Railway, in session here
unanimously agreed to give to Hon. E.
Carl Duncan, banker and former re
ceiver of the Seaboard Air Cine Rail
road of Raleigh, an option for the pur
chase of the franchise, with satisfac
tory pledge that the road, would be
constructed, upon acquiring the char
ter. Some of the incorporators, after the
meeting, expressed themselves as dis
satisfied with the granting of an op
tion to Duncan, although the resolu
tion was adopted without dissent.
This objection was based on the ex
pressed opinion that Duncan's object
was to block the building of the road
either in the interest of the Southern
or the Seaboard or both. This objec
tion was promptly met, by referring
to the pledge that if the option was
accepted the road should be built," and
the other statement that Mr. Duncan
was a man of too high business honor
to thus trifle with a big enterprise
backed by the best men of so large a
territory. .
One of the last acts passed by the
General Assembly of 1911, was one
granting a charter for a railroad to be
known as the Raleigh, Charlotte and
Southern Railway, it being given the
right to traverse the territory via
Pittsboro, Albemarle, Asheboro, to
Charlotte with branch termini if de
sired at Durham and Greensboro.
In the auditorium of the Chamber
of Commerce the incorporators of this
road held an Important meeting look
ing towards securing the necessary
financing of the road and the organiza
tion of the company, so that actual
work can be begun.
Mayor Appoints a Fire Patrol.
Taking immediate steps in con
formity with his vested rights and
folowing a resolution by the board of
aldermen, Mayor Charles A. Bland ap
pointed the first squad of men to con
stitute the emergency fire patrol to
keep watch over Charlotte for fires
during the existing water famine. The
board's action in passing the reso
lution calling upon the mayor to ex
ercise his right to name such under
the head of "special policemen," fol
lowing the offering of this sugges
tion by many citizens and indirectly
from insurance people, who are keep
ing a close watch over the local con
dition resulting from the partial cut
ting off of the city water supply.
The squad of fire patrolmen ap
pointed will probably be increased by
the addition - of more men . as ' the
situation calls for them, until about
25 or 30 men will be engaged in this
work. The quickness with which the
mayor has acted will meet with gen
eral approbation, as everybody is
agreed that concerted and immediate
action shall be taken.
Commissioners to Meet in Asheville.
Mr. C. F. Foy, of this city, the
president, announces - that the State
Association of County Commissioners
of North Carolina will hold their
fourth annual convention at Asheville,
N. C, on August 16, 1911. The in
dications are that this will be the
largest meeting ever held. Practical
ly all the counties in North Carolina
will be represented. The State As
sociation was organized at the At
lantic Hotel, Morehead City; in Au
gust, 1908. , It was authorized by the
Legislature at its session of 1909. The
second meeting was held at Wrights
ville Beach, in August, 1909; the third
meeting at Charlotte, in August, 1910.
Governor Honors Requisition.
. Governor Kitchin has honored a re
quisition from the Governor of Ne
braska for W. H. Aldrich, who is
wanted in Merrick county, on the
charge of forgery. The prisoner is un
der arrest in Waynesville. Sheriff
M. R. Her, of Merrick county, who
came in with the requisition papers,
was seen and told how Aldrich was
located. He said it wa3 learned in his
county -that he corresponded with a
certain person in Waynesville, North
Carolina. The Waynesville authorities
were then askevd to keep on the look
out for him. On the 22d word was re
ceived from Waynesville that he had
been arrested. ...Sheriff Her will leave
for Waynesville to get the prisoner
and take him back to Nebraska.
Change Grades In Fremont Schools.
, After a thorough investigation and
a careful examination of the detailed
report of our efficient superintendent,
the trustees agreed that, in considera
tion of the large number attending the
High School who will not have an
opportunity to go to college, the school
will now give seven full grades to the
elementary school, and four years of
nine months each to the High School.
The Board also added another teach
er to the elementary school and plac
ed the first grade alone under the
tuition of one teacher.
TARIFF DELAYS
m IIP TO TUFT
PRESIDENT AS DETERMINED AS
EVER TO AWAIT ACTION OF
THE TARIFF BOARD.
SITUATION IS REMARKABLE
General Revision So As to Leave Re
sponsibility Squarely Up to
President Taft,
Washington. General tariff legisla
tion at this session of congress, so
as to leave the responsibility for any
delay in tariff revision squarely upon
the president, is the slogan of the
Democratic-Progressive coalition in
the senate and the Democratis in the
house.' " "
The president is accredited with be
ing as determined as ever to veto any
tariff bill passed by congress prior to
the submission of the report of the
tariff board to congress at the reg
ular session in December.
. Meantime the Democrats, continuing
to press their revision measures, are
wondering what the president will do
when the wool bill, emerging from
conference with lower duties than the
LaFollette final compromise, goes to
the white house for approval or veto.
It is the most remarkable situation
with respect to tariff legislation that
has arisen in a long period. Despite
the apparently authoritative declara
tions that the president will refuse to
place his approxal on the tariff bills,
some of the Democrats, even Speaker
Clark, still express th eopinion that
the president may yet approve revis
ion legislation. The Democratic lead
ers, encouraged by the effective re
sults of the combination of their party
with the Insurgent Republicans in the
senate, are becoming more confident
that the tariff schedules passed by
the house will go through the senate
in some form. 'v
LAURIER FAVORS THE TREATY
Leader of Canadian Liberal Party
Speaks for Reciprocity.
Ottawa, Ont. The opening guns in
the campaign which will determine the
fate of the reciprocity pact between
the United States and Canada were
fired by the Liberal leader, Sir Wilfred
Laurier. It was in the form of an
open address to the Canadian people
and in It is set forth very clearly the
issues involved in the present cam
paign.
The question at issue is not a new
one, Sir Wilfred asserts, reciprocal re
lations with the United States having
been sought by both parties for over
half a century. The present conserva
tive party, he declared, is seeking to
reverse this life-long policy of its lead
ers of the past. The enactment of the
agreement, the premier predicts, would
further improve the friendly relations
existing between Great Britain, Can
ada and the United States, and would
be an important factor in bringing
about a general treaty of arbitration.
Sir Wilfred then referred to the rec
iprocity agreement of 1854, entered
into between Canada and the United
States, which terminated in 1866.
Standard Oil Gets More Time.
St. Louis. A decision superseding a
previous decree and allowing the
Standard Oil company six months in
which to reorganize, as was ordered
by the United States Supreme 'court,
was handed down in the United States
circiut court here. The six months
term went into effect June 21. The
original mandate of the court ordered
the Standard to dissolve in thirty days
and forbade it the privileges of deal
ing interstate commerce. This last
decision modifies the first, allowing
the corporation interstate commerce
privileges during the period of reor
ganization. Girl Slept 105 Days.
Vandalia, 111. After sleeping almost
continuously for 105 days, Miss
Schmidt, the 18-year-old girl, whose
strange case has puzled physicians for
veke3, awoke and ate three meals.
She. said she felt no ill-effects from'
herslumber. Attending physician's say
the girl's trance is broken and that
sb-i soon will be herself again.
Morgan Must Testify.
New York. It was made known
here at the headquarters of the house
of representatives committee inquir
ing into the United States Steel cor
poration that the committee is now
very desirous of hearing personally
from J. Pierpont Morgan with regard
to the absorption of the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company by the steel
corporation in 1907. That a subpoena
will be issued within a few days for
Charles M. Schwab, as also announced
by the committee.
SHORTAGE IN THE POTATO CROP
A UP TOtf
l H Hy know T To Faiu ,
(Copyright. 1311.)
NEW COTTON GOODS TARIFF
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS APPROVES
BILL SUBMITTED BY WAYS
AND MEANS QOMMITTEE.
Measure Reduces the Duties on Cet-
ton Good3 About One
Half. Washington. Democrats of ' the
the house of representatives, after a
prolonged caucus, ratified by more
than a two-thirds majority the cotton
tariff revision bill, drafted by tne
Democratic members of the ways and
means committee, reducing by nearlv
one-half the schedules of the Payne-
Aldrich law on manufactures of cot
ton. The bill will be introduced m
the house and its passage expedited.
Cotton clothing duties are reduced
from 40 to 30 and 25 per cent.; cot
ton cloth, not mercerized or bleached,
cut to 15, 20 and 25 per cent, in va
rious grades; and cloth, composed of
silk or mercerized cut from 42.46 to
25 per cent.
Some of the proposed new duties
follow :
Cotton thread, carded yarn, warps,
etc., 10 to 15 per cent, ad valorem:
Payne rate 32.17.
Spool thread, crochet, darning and
embroidery cottons on snools. 15 per
cent.; Payne rate 23.63. . .-
Cotton cloth, not bleached or color
ed average rate of 24.51; Payne rate
42.46.
Handkerchiefs or mufflers, 30 per
cent.; Payne rate 59.05.
Clothing ready made and articles
of wearing apparel of every descrip
tion composed of cotton or vegetable
fiber. 30 per cent.; Payne rate 50.02.
Sheets, 25 per cent.; Payne rate
50.02.
Plushes, velvets, velveteens, cordu
roys, 30 per cent.; Payne rate 544.33.
Curtains, table covers, tapestries,
upholstery goods, 35 per cent.; Payne
rate 50.
Stockings and socks, machine made
20 per cent.; Payne rate 30.
Stockings ond socks, hand made, 40
per cent.; Payne. rate 71.57.
Men's and boys1 cotton gloves, knit
ted or woven, 35 per cent.; Payne
rate 71.57. -
WAR CLOUDS IN EUROPE
Morocco Causes Trouble Between
England and Germany.
London. That the Moroccan diffi
culty has become acute is indicated
in the sudden order issued by the ad
miralty cancelling the projejeted visit
of the Atlantic fleet to Norway. The
battleship squadron under Rear Admi
ral Sir John ,R. Jellicoe, should have
left Cromarty for Norwegian waters.
Instead, it has been ordered to remain
there a short time and proceed to
Portsmouth.
Premier Asquith has promised a
statement in parliament on the Mo
roccan situation. According to ad
vices from Berlin, negotiations he-
tveen France and Germany were pro
ceeding smoothly. until Chancellor
Li yd-George's speech which was in
terpreted as a- warning to German in
the present Moroccan controversy.
Nebraska Democrats Forget Bryan.
Fremont, Neb. The Nebraska Dem
ocratic convention, which had been
expected to place Democrats of Ne
braska on record, so far as concerned
their preference for a presidential can
didate a year hence, failed to express
Itself on candidates or oner eommem-
dations for its own loaders. For the
trmst nart it was a peaceful gathering.
This result was not accomplished
without much preliminary caucusing;.
but the result was satisfactory to everybody.
FIGHTING THE BOLL WEEVIL
Millions Are Being Spent In Fight
Against the Cotton
. Pest.
Washington. The department of
agriculture has spent more than a
million, dollars in studying and fight
ing the boll weevil, and the cotton
states have added to this sum until it
greatly exceeds this figure.
Any effective methods of combating
the boll weevil must be based on ac
curate knowledge of its life history
and habits. It will feed or- breed only
on the cotton plant. , Clean farming
methods attack the weevil by remov
ing its food, prolonging the period of
starvation, and destroying the mate
rial in which it spends the winter. It
has been found advisable to remove
stalks and carefully screen in any
seed houses which may be in or near
cotton fields.
The most important step, however,
is the destruction of the cotton plants
by October 10, or as ; soon after that
date as possible. ; It is readily seen
that if its only food is removed from
the three to five week3 before the
first killing frost causes it to go into
winter quarters, the number, of wee
vils present during the following sum
mer and spring will be greatly reduc
ed. This measure is especially' im
portant along the line of advance of
the weevil in tterritor ynot yet in
fested. After making long flights late
in the season, ?the presence of grow
ing cotton gives he weevil a good
opportunity to feed before going into
winter quarters. If the plants have
been destroyed ' early, however, the
long flight followed by starvation,
greatly decreases the probability of
the weevil appearing the following
season in this new territory.
The Louisiana state crop pest com
mission found that when cotton plants
were destroyed 'before October 15,
only 3 per cent, of the weevils sur
vive. The necessity for prompt and
early destruction of the plants is in
dicated by the survival of 15 per cent,
of the weevils where plants remained
until the period between October 15
and 27, when the plants were de
stroyed between November 1 and 25
about twenty-two per cent, of the wee
vils survived and when the plants
were destroyed between November 25
and December 7, 28 per cent, of the
weevils lived through the winter. Al
lowing the plants to stand until Christ
mas permitted 43 per cent, of the
weevils to survive and attack the next
cotton crop. Starvation of the wee
vil before it entered winter quarters
"was more effective in causing death
than cold or wet weather during the
winter.'' If the cotton plants are not
removed the weevil is not deprived of
food for more than about ninety-four
days. If they are destroyed October
10, the average weevil must starve
unless it can go ISO days without any
food. The average time that weevils
remain in winter quarters is 150 days.
The fact that one weevil lived 255
days or eight and one-half months
without food indicates that even the
possible six months' starvation does
not entirely eradicate it, but it pre
pares the way for much more effec
tive use of other cultural methods and
spraying.
Campaign for Better Agriculture.
Chicago. The beginning of a nation-wide
campaign for better agri
culture to double andr treble the crops
of staples from the same acreage with
in ten years, while at the same time
reclaiming millions of acres on aban
doned farms is to be launched with
the incorporation at Springfield of the
National Soil Fertility League. Be
hind the project, which is describ
ed as "the most important economic
movement in the world," are many
men of prominence
WOOL REViSIDf
THROUGH SE
UNDERWOOD BILL BEATEN; DEM
OCRATS JOIN G. O. P. INSURG
ENTS IN PASSING BILL. ,
PREDATED TAFT WILL VETO
House Democrats Wiil Not Ascept the
Bill a3 It Passed the
Senate.
Washington. The fight of the Den
chaotic condition in the senate, there
tion for broader tariff revision gained
ground and it was confidently predict
ed in both houses that a conference
created compromise wool bill, the
farmers' free list bill and 'A possibly
the cotton bill, with steel, sugar and
other schedules, would be passed.
Meantime the indications are stronger
than ever that President Taft will ex
ercise his veto power on tariff legis
lation prior to the submission of tha
tariff board report in December;
Out of what had appeared to be a
ocratic Progressive Republican coall
suddenly arose coalition of Democrats
and Insurgent Republicans which
bowled over the regular organization
and passed a compromise bill for the
revision of the .woolen tariff by 43
to 32.
This new force in the senate united
on a material reduction of tariff du
ties all down the line, and, flushed
with victory,, is threatening not only
to enact the so-called house fanners'
free list bill into law, but to put
through a cotton bill as well. The
Insurgents want the sugar and steel
schedules included in the program
The house Democratic leaders are
not willing to accept the compromise
bill as it passed the senate, but they
are more than willing to meet the sen
ate conferees. Chairman Underwood
of the house ways and means commit
tee declared that although he would
not agree to the bill as it passed the
senate, that he did not think the house
would agree to it, he expressed the
belief that a bill satisfactory to both
houses was more, than likely to be
agreed upon. .
Thi swould put the wool issue up to
President Taft, and there is much
speculation as to what his course
would would be." Mr. Taft would make
no comment on the situation. ' While
the president in the past has denounc
ed the present woolen schedule of the
Payne-Aldrich law -as indefensible,
there have been strong .intimations
from the whole house within the past
few weeks that he would not hesitate
to use the veto on any tariff schedules
passed in advance of reports from the
tariff board. -
WATER FAMINE IN CHARLOTTE
North Carolina City Is in Desperate
Straits.
Charlotte, N. C. Forty thousand
inhabitants of Charlotte are experienc
ing a water famine with its attendant
discomforts and dangers. The last
drop was drained from the pond which
has furnished the supply for years,
and only 400,000 galolns, much les3
than a day's supply, remain in the
reservoir. This has been cut off from
users indefinitely, and in the mean
time the people are dependent upon
the meager supply of various mineral
water agencies.
Recently a bond issue of $300,000
was voted to bring the water supply
from the river, but it will require a
year to complete this project. The in
surance companies announce a refusal
to renew fire policies.
The city is employing squads of
men to patrol each ward as watch
men. '
The ministers liave issued a call for
the people to gather hourly and pray
fo rrain.
Reciprocity With Mexico.
Washington. Reciprocity with Mex
ico similar to Canadian reciprocity is
proposed in a resolution introduced by
Representative Burleson of Texas call
ing on President Taft immediately to
start negotiations with Mexico "look
ing to freer commerce between the
tow countries."
May Parole Walsh.
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The only
obstacle which would prevent John R.
Walsh, the former Chicago banker.
from being released on parole from
Leavenworth penitentiary in Septem
ber was removed when ' word came
from Chicago that the remaining in
dictment against him had been quash
ed at the request of United States At
torney Sims. Walsh's application for
release will be taken up by the board
when it meets September 12.