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V. 1f I n fl rTT itr rTW "ITT i 1 If 1 ' s ' .-ua- Yr. la Adraoc ' FOR OOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " " glggl Cfy j Ct?'y VOL. XXII, - PLYMOUTH, N, C.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1911 J; . ' NO. 8. WATER COMPANY APPEALS TO CITI ALDERMEN MEET AND APPOINT COMMITTEE TO CO-OPERATE iN THE MATTER. THE SITUATION IS BETTER Recent Rains Increase Capacity of Water Plant Aldermen Pass Reso lution Giving Water Committee and Mayor Power to Act for Relief. Raleigh. The Raleigh Board of Aldermen took preliminary steps to ward action in regard to the water question, when, at a called meeting, it authorized the water committee and the Mayor to take the proper steps, acting In co-operation with the water company officials toward reliev ing the, present situation. The water committee is composed of Alderman Webb, chairman, and Alderman C. A. Johnson and Joseph G. Brown. The meeting was called upon the request of the water company officials. When the object of the meeting had been stated, Alderman George M. Har den introduced a resolution which 'was seconded by Alderman Brown. The water company was represent ed by Attorney Ernest Haywood, who stated theobject of the meeting and ;asked the city's co-operation in meet ing the situation in time of emer gency. Those of the board of-directors of the water company present were Messrs. Julius Lewis, F. H. Briggs, Grimes Cowper and William Boylan. Superintendent Bain was Also present. Mr. James H. Pou was also present and stated that, as a citizen of Raleigh he wanted to see relief from the pres ent situation and thought that action should be taken. Superintendent Bain stated that he had been reliably informed 1 that there were 9,000,000 gallons of water pass ing the Durham intake daily and that there were available 15 tank cars with a capacity of 8,000 gallons each, -which might be used in case of an 'emergency. The Wake Water Company will continue its investigation of leakages .and every pffort will be made to pre vent the waste of water. Although the rains relieved the situation to some extent, the .plant did not catch np and it is still necessary to use .precaution. The citizens of Raleigh will all co operate cordially with the Wake Water Company and the Board of Aldermen in their efforts to avert a water famine. It is tough to have to do it; it would be tougher to have a water famine. Let Us all help by economizing all we can now in a crit ical emergency, and when the crisis is over we can then all work together More Suits Against Seaboard. Six more suits against the Sea board, the complainants ieing Robert Page, Zelma Webb, Tom Bailey, Lon nie Bailey, Percy Gunter and Irene Bailey. The aggregate of these thirty eight will run near as many thousand if not more. The injuries cover a wide range of application of the rule of damages. The law firm of Man ning and Everett received these last six and the thirty-eight are generous ly scattered over "the city." It was this firm that first suggested investi gating the Hamlet wreck with a view - to prosecuting the road criminally. Governor Revokes the Pardon. The pardon of Wylie P. Black, the notorious and wealthy Asheville man, which has stirred such a sensation and criticism in the Asheville section for some weeks, is revoked by Gov ernor -Kitchin and Black was taken into custody in Asheville, preparatory for recommitment to service on the roads. He had served 7 months of a 22-months sentence when he was pardoned. Governor Kitchin calls at tention to the fact that in granting the conditional pardon in January, 1910, now revoked, he was constrain ed to do so by almost unanimous re quest of the people of the section. Officers Destroy Illicit Still. Deputy Collector Merritt and Dep uty Marshal Jordan succeeded in de stroying an illicit still near Youngs ville, Franklin county, and in captur ing the operators, Wade Barnette and Sid Driver, both of whom they brought to Raleigh. Barnette and Driver were committed to jail to await a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner John Nichols during this week. The still was a small one, compared with some that have been captured by the revenue officer. NORTH CAROLINA'S PROGRESS Commissioner of Labor and Printing Has Gleaned From Latest Census Returns of Government. Raleigh. In accordance with his policy of keeping as closely in touch as possible with facts relative to th progress of North Carolina in order that inquiries to his department may be answered promptly and the most accurately possible, Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. L. Shipman has gleaned from the latest census returns of the government statistics as to. North Carolina progress that are most creditable and interesting. He finds that Charlotte leads in the number of manufacturing enter prises, having 108, and being follow ed by Wilmington with 64; Greens boro, 61; Raleigh, 55 ; Asheville, 55; Winston, 52. In general growth Raleigh leads with a percentage of 120 2-3; Char lotte is second with 85 per cent; Asheville, 63 2-3; Winston, 41; Greens boro, 22; Wilmington, 16. In the value of finished products Winston leads with $16,778,000; Char lotte shows $10,460,000; Asheville, $3, 250,000; Wilmington, $3,005,000; Ral eigh, $2,376,000 and Greensboro, $2, 032,000. In the percentage of increase in volume of products manufactured Raleigh leads with 119 per cent; Charlotte, 116; per cent; Asheville, 69 per cent; Winston, 48 per cent; Greensboro, 17 per cent and Wilming ton 3 per cet. In capital invested Winston leads with $12,856,000; Charlotte, ?9,45J. 000; Asheville, $2,827,000; Raleigh, $2,027,000; Wilmington, $2,022,000; Greensboro, $1,697,000. These figures are made' up by Com missioner Shipman from the 1909 census figures and are compared with deductions from 1904. Equllizatlon Board Reports, The Board of Equalization met in the county courthouse and adopted the report of the committee appoint ed at its last meeting to equalize tax values.' The assessment of property in Barton's Creek, Cedar Fork, SL Mary's, Wake Forest and White Oak was raised ten per cent. The other townships were left as reported by the assistant assessors and then later all were reduced ten pet cent. There were many property owners present to make complaints about the valuation of their property and most of the time was consumed in argu ment. Commissioner Brewer object ed to the committee's report but County Attorney Beckwith told him that what was being done was to lift the burden from the shoulders of the poor man and make the rich man bear his share. The valuation of much property was changed. Report of State Board of Health. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health for June has been issued. It contains the annual re port of the Secretary of the Board for 1910-1911; the report of the assistant secretary for tuberculosis; the repon of the State Secretary of Hygiene fc1 1910-1911 the annual report of th assistant secretary for eradication o hook-worm disease, and an article c: quarantine by Dr. Chas. O'H. Laugh inghouse. The various reports from c most interesting review of the work done by the officers of the State Board of Health during the past year. the officials going into details in specifying what has been accomplish ed, and in indicating work for the future. The issue is a readable one, and going to 20,000 homes in North Carolina, the people will learn of the value of the work done. First Regiment at Camp Glenn. The first and second sections of the special train of troops from Wes tern North Carolina arrived here, comprising the First Regiment, North Carolina National Guard, at Camp Glenn, near Morehead. On board the first section were 307 passengers, they being from Shelby, Charlotte, Con cord, Gastonia, Mount Airy and Winston-Salem. There were 358 passen gers on the second section from Ashe ville, Hickory two companies from High Point, one being the hospital crps, and Statesville. A new com pany in camp is that from Goldsboro, known as the American Boy Scouts. Bertie People Have Reunion. The great annual reunion of all the people of Bertie county took place here. Three thousand people from this and the adjacent counties as sembled for a d?.y of unusual pleasure. It is their annual cu3toin. The oc casion which brought them together was the annual meeting of the Bertie County Confederate Veterans' Asso ciation. This occasion is held in joy ful anticipation for weeks. Other In vitations are passed aside because they might conflict with "old soldiers' dy" at Windsor. FOB PRESIDENCY PRIMARY ELECTION WILL BE HELD TO DETERMINE STATE'S PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE. LIVELY CAMPAIGN PROMISED Unique Plan of Arkansas Democrats Meeting With Approval of the Candidates. Little Rock, Ark. In all probability the Democrats of Arkansas will de. termine the state's choice for the presidential nomination at a primary election. This unique plan, originat ing with the Woodrow Wilson club, has been tndorsed -by the , supporters of others mentioned in connection with the nomination, and members of the state executive committee have expressed themselves as favorable to the proposal. If the plan works out, Arkansas will be the first state to adopt the method. Heretofore, as in other staters, the state convention has made the selection. Although party primaries will not be held until March 4 of next year, fac tional leaders are organizing their forces and a spirited campaign is in prospect. The Woodrow Wilson club has been In existence for several weeks, and now those who espouse the cause of Governor Harmon of Ohio announce their organization ready to be launch ed. From Governor Wilson a mes sage has been received stating that the endorsement of Arkansas would be gratifying. Guy B. Tucker, Democratic nation al committeeman, however, does not sanction the presidential primary COL ROOSEVELT TESTIFIES Former President Says He Permitted Steel Trust Merger. New York. Theodore Roosevelt stalked boldly before the house of rep resentatives committee of inquiry into the United States Steel corporation here and voluntarily told how his ac tion in consenting to the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com pany by the Steel corporation in 1907 averted a disastrous panic. The former chief executive's action in submitting to a congressional re view of acts of his own administra tion was almost unprecedented in the history of the United States and was thoroughly Rooseveltian. He arrived unheralded at the city hall, vigorous ly shook hands with members of the committee, declared himself delighted to see everybody . and got down to business. First and foremost he placed upon himself responsibility for approving the absorption to save a perilous finan cial disaster in Wall street and con demned any man who would be so weak as not to act as he di din that crisis. Not to have done as he did, he said, would have been criminal. Probably nothing in the vigorous life history of Theodore Roosevelt was more dramatic than his public appear ance at the crisis of the investigation of the transaction which has been re corded in a hundred pages of congres sional inquiry. The chapter he contributed not only dealt with his part in the momentous events of that threatening time, but he gave the committee some interest ing opinions on the trust question that loomed up in their import even more than his recital of facts in the Ten nessee Coal and Iron transaction. Af ter declaring that his object in ap proving the sale of the Tennessee company was to restore confidence, the former president, in response to inquiries by Representative Littleton, relating to the case as presented to him by Judge Gary and H. C. Frick at the memorable white house confer ence in November, 1907, said: "The situation was so critical that It was liable to break at any moment until the action was taken and the in etant it was taken an enormous. im provement occurred and as said in the poem of Mr. Emerson, with which you ar? fill so well acquainted: the red slayer thinks se slays, Or if the slain think he is slain it matters not.' " Feace Treaties Given Publicity. Washington. The senate adopted the rather unusual, but, not unprece dented, course of making public the text of four treaties which have not yet received action at its hands These were the Anglo-American and the Franco-American general arbitration treaties and the treaties providing for th adiustment of the finances and customs of Honduras and Nicaragua. Publicity was given to these import ant conventions at the request of the administration. THE CITY COUSIN Copyright, 13U.I , . FREE LIST BILL PASSED House Measure Beaten by Tie Vote, and Compromise Is Put Through. Washineton. Th farmers' free list bill as it came from the Demo- sratic house of representatives failed of passage in the senate by a tic vote of 39 to 39. Senator Bailey of Texas was the only Democrat who voted against it. Had another Dem ocrat been present and voted the house bill would have carried and been sent to President Taft. It will now go to conference. In order to secure enough Insurg ent Republican votes to pas3 the bill the Democrats were forced to support an amendment which in effect strikes from the house bill meats of all kinds, lard, flour, cereals, breakfast foods and sweet cakes. As thus amended. the measure was passed by a vote of 48 to 30. In addition to the solid In surgent vote with the single excep tion of Senator Bourne of Oregon, the bill as amended was supported by Senators Nelson of Minnesota and McCumber ,of North Dakota. VARDAMAN BEATS PERCY James K. Vardaman Will Be Next Senator From Mississippi.. Jackson, Miss. That former -' Gov. James K. Vardaman has been chosen the Democratic nominee for United States senator equivalent to election is conceded by both of his oppon ents in primary, United States Sena tor Leroy Percy and C. H. Alexander. In the race for lieutenant governor, the returns indicate that State Sena tor Theodore Bilbo has polled equal- DEFEATED BY VARQAMAN. LEROY PERCY United States Senator From Missis sippi. ly as large vote as Mr. Vardaman and hi ;3 nomination without the necessity f a second primary is regarded as as sured. At Vardaman's headquarters it is stirrated that he will have in excess of t n thousand votes over the com bine i voie of his two opponents. Mr. ilbo makes claim to an even great r majority. The returns revised give lei:ider a slight lead over Senator Percy. Dorothy Arnold Not Dead. New York. "Dorothy Arnold is not dead. She is abroad and her parents have gone there to look for her. That s all that can be said now." Miss Griffith, companion to Mrs. Rufus W. Peckham, Dorothy's aunt, Is quoted to his effect in a dispatch to the World from Biddeford Pool, Maine. "Miss Arnold was heard from some weeks , yes, months ago in an Indirect, I might say, in a very indirect man ner, but she is safe and will return to her parents." COTTON CONDITION 89.1 COMPARED WITH 88.2 LAST MONTH, 75.5 LAST YEAR AND , , 79.4 10-YEAR AVERAGE. . "i . I- The Condition of Cotton Crop In July Is the Best in.. Years. Washington. The oondltion of the growing cotton crop of the United States on July 25 was 89.1 per cent of a normal, compared with 88.2 per cent, on June 23, 1911; 75.5 per cent, on July 25, last year; 71.9 per cent, in 1909 and 79.4 per cent., the average of the past ten vears on July 25, accord ing to the reports of the United States department of agricutlure's agents to the crop reporting board. Comparison of conditions by states follows: - . - - Ten States..' 1911 1910 Year.Av Virginia. . . .102 80 81 North Carolina . 87 71 79 South Carolina .86 70 . 78 Georgia. ... 95 70 80 Florida' .. . . 93 ", 70 "82 Alabama. ' . . ."94" ' 71 79 Mississippi ... 86 71 79 Louisiana ... 84 69 78 Texas 86 82 . 79 Arkansas. . . . 94 73 79 Tennessee . . . 92 76 82 Missouri .... 96 72 83 Oklahoma. ... 88 87 s- 81 California ... 90 98 UNDERWOOD SCORES BRYAN Democratic Leader Denounces Bryan on Floor of House. Washington. Standing upon chairs, waving handkerchiefs and yelling at the tops of their voices, Democratic representatives acclaimed Representa tive Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Democratic leader, of the house, when he fired a verbal broadside at Wil liam Jennings Bryan for criticising his position on extension of the tariff re vision program. It was the most re markable scene in the house since the beginning of the extra session of con gress. Excoriating the three-times candi date of the Democratic party for pres idential honors, Leader Underwood de nounced Mr. Bryan's statements as false, defended his (Underwood's) at titude as to revision of the iron and steel tariff schedules and said Bryan had placed upon every Democratic member implications unfounded in fact. He called on his Democratic colleagues of the ways and means committee for corroboration of his at titude in committee and in caucus. Chicago. Voluntarily assuming full responsibility for the editorial recent ly' published in his weekly paper, wlr'ch caused Congressman Under wood of Alabamae to brand him as "falsifier"' on the floor of congress, William Jennings Bryan replied to the attack and declared that he Intended to give the Democratic leader of the house a nearly opportunity to' discuss some other things. Glidden Tour Coming South. New York City. The Glidden auto mobile, tour of 1911, originally planned to be run from Washington to Mon treal by the way of New England points- last June, will be run to the South, lustead, according to announce ment. The tour will be run in Octo ber over the route of the national highway, extending from New York to Jacksonville, Fla., by the way of At lanta; The Glidden tour is the great est road event known to the automo bile wcrld. RE MEMBERS TO BE JHCREASED REAPPORTIONMENT BILL PASSES SENATE WITH TWO AMEND MENTS. GEORGIA GAINS A MEMBER, The Measure Add Forty-Two Members to the House and No States Lose. Washington. Bearing an initiative and referendum feature to safeguard against gerrymandering in a number of states, the congressional reappor tionment bill passed the senate. It fixes the future house membership at 433 with two more when Arizona and New Mexico attain statehood insteadtfof the present 391. There was not even the formality of a roll call on the final vote. Two amendments, both offered by Senator Burton of Ohio were attached to the house measure and on these a conference with the house will be held all that stands in the way of Pres ident Taft's approval of the bill, which is to take effect March 4, 1913. The Increase in the membership of the house will mean an added expense to the country of approximately $400, 000 a year. The salaries of the 42 new members will aggregate $315,000. Each member will have at least one clerk at $1,500, which will add $63,000 to the total. Mileage and other inci dental expenses will still further In crease the sum, bringing it to the amount first named. , The reapportionment bill Is so drawn that no state will lose In rep resentation, but in some case3 there will be 'a decided increase. ' New York heads the list with an in crease of six members, Pennsylvania four, California and Oklahoma three' each, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey,. Texas and Washington two each, and Alabama, Colorado, Florida Georgia, Idaho, - Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Da kota, Utah and West Virginia one each. " . The average congression district will contain over 17,000 greater popula tion than at present, the average dis trict comprising 211,877 under the new plan. The initiative and referendum pro vision was tacked on the bill just be fore its passage. It was one of the Burton amendments. It provided that in case of an increase in the represen-. tation of any state, the redistdcting, instead of being done by the state leg islature, as provided - by the house, should be "in the manner provided-by the laws" of the state. The other amendment adopted pre scribed that "candidates for represen tative or representatives-at-large shall be nominated In the same manner as candidates for governor unless other-, wise provided by the laws of such state." COTTON TARIFF IS REDUCED Bill Passed Reduces Tariff on Cotton Goods 21 Per Cent." Washington. Supported by all the Democrats and by thirty Insurgent Re publicans, the Democratic cotton tar iff bill, the third of the big tariff re vision measures brought forward by the Democratic house of representa- . tlves, passed that body by 202 to 91." The bill cuts the average tariff on ' cotton manufactured goods ft-om 431 to 27 per cent, ad valorem, 21 per cent, reduction in duty that the Dem ocratic leaders estimated to reduce revenues by about $3,000,000. ' Not an amendment was offered to the bill, although the Republicans at tacked it vigorously on account of al leged increases in certain items over the rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff . law. Caterpillar Ruins Louisiana Cotton. Grand Cano, La. Reports of tha ravages of the cotton caterpillar In this section continue to come in, the farmers resorting to the use of paris green for relief. Planters say that continued rains are also making the boll weevil worse. Tobacco Trust Must Dissolve. New York City. The United State - circuit court under whose direction the American Tobacco company will work out its dissolution, handed down on the mandate of the United States Supreme court, an order outlining the conditions under which the company may perfect plans for dissolving. A lause In the order enjoms the de fendants from doing any act which may further enlarge and extend - tha ower of the combinatldon prior to iu isintegration. '