"POR flOO, FOK COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
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VOL. XXII.
PL Yftf dUTBy N, C. FRIDAY; AUGUST 1 8 , 1911
NO.-S).
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TEXT-BOOKS ARE
AT UST ADOPTED
MANY CHANGES HAVE BEEN
t.t
MADE FROM LIST PREVIOUS
LY USED IN STATE.
MR. JOYNER READ" REPORT
The Text-Book Commission Which
Began on Eighth of June Made Its
Report Except as to-United States
Histories and Arithmetics.'
Raleigh. It was an . anxious and
expectant crowd of book men 'that ac
cepted the invitation tQ enter the Hall
of this House to hearVthe awards in
the adoption of booksfor use in the
public schools of Noifth Carolina for
the next five years. -;jn the "previous
half hour of waiting "after a notice
that the award woula soon pe made
the book men, some'; forty or more
being present, had left the cool shade
in Capitol Square and;' in the rotunda
of the Capitol let f off the nervous
strain by singing a Vumber of songs.
There had been a; revival of the
talk as to the proposition made by
W. C. Warfield, representative of the
World Book Company, as to getting
the influence of some friend to se
cure the adoption of certain books. A
number of the book men were calleu
in by the Commission and tesimony
was given by some of 'these that Mr.
Warfield had said 'he had stock in,
or was a member, of the World Book
Company. ,.v
The report of -.the "books adopted
was read by state superintendent of
public instruction ir.- Y. Joyner, who
prefaced his remarks by saying that
he extended sympathy to the men
who had not won, V. but that there jhad
been a close study of the" books and
the decision was made after much
deliberation. The list of books
which hVread showed that there were
many changes from the books now in
use, these being replaced by new ones.
The outside report is that in the
main the vote of the Sub-Commission
on the books was four for and
two against some of the books . se
cured. The list of the books adopted does
not include United States histories,
which are to be recommended by a
sub-committee and later adopted by
the full committee. The present
United States histories are White's
Beginners and Chambers Higher His
tory, published by the American
Book Company. Neither does the
list include arithmetics, though the
talk Is that a question as to price, thi3
to be later arranged, was the only
thing that kept back the announce
ment that the award would go to the
American Book Company, for Milne's
Arithmetic. The books now in use
are Colaw and Ellwood's Primary
and Advanced, and Colaw & Duke's
Intermediate, published by the B. F.
Johnson Publishing Company. '
Matters Should be Given Attention
president: H. E. .Litchford, of" the
Raleigh chamber of commerce has
presented to the business men of
Raleigh a striking list of things that
the members of the chamber and
citizens generally should give their
special attention and effort ' to the
accomplishment of in the immediate
future. They Include: Co-operation
between the aldermen nad .county
commissioners; widening Hillsboro
street, fine roadway to the state fair
grounds;, belt line of railway-, great
boulevard; improvement of sanitary
conditions, including at least two
places of public comfort; lower city
and county tax rates; sale of the pres
ent market; stoppage of any move
ment on the part of the Seaboard
Air Line to cut Raleigh . from the
main line; induce Atlantic Coast Line
to build here from Rocky Mount and
Spring Hope; aid the city bond issue
and farm-life school for Wake; aid
Wake Water Company in..' securing
ample supply of water ' '
Carthage. The cost to the county
of Moore for the listing of taxes and
assessment of property for this year
amounts to about $20,000..
Must ' Answer to Murder Charge.
Zack Marks, who Is under arrest in
Florida, is to be brought back , to
Harnett county, this state, where he
formerly lived, to answer the charge
of murder. He is charged with kill
ing Charles Ellen in Black River
township. The killing was October
22, 1902. Governor Kitchin has is
sued the requisition on the Governor
of Florida for the prisoner and the
Florida authorities are willing to rt
turn the prisoner to this state to r'
swer to the graver charge which
been placed asuvinst hirn-
FOR THE GOOD OF RALEIGH
A Meeting of Committees of Chamber
of Commerce A Particular Sub
ject is Assigned to Each.
. Raleigh. The committee of the
Chamber of Commerce held their first
meeting. Directly after the reorganiz
ation of the chamber, President Henry
E. Litchford named the directors and
called on each of these to name two
associates, the three constitute a com
raittee. Then each director is the
chairman of a committee, to which
a particular subject is assigned. The
committee appointments are ; all com
plete except as to the one on trans
portation, and the two names on this
will be announced in a few days. The
chairman of v one important commit
tee. Dr. Wade,R. Brown, is in Kan
sas, but will return in a few days,
The following is the list of the com
mittees: .
1. Adevrtising and Publicity:
George C. Hall, chairman; J. L. Mof-
ford, M. W. Tyree.
2. Streets and Highways: J. H
Seara, chairman; John C. Drewry, W,
A. Cooper.
3. Industries; John A. Mills, chair
man; J. C. Little, W. G. Womble..
4. Cotton and Produce Markets:
Clarence Poe, chairman; Charles E
Johnson," W. A. Simpkins.
s 5. Membership: Virgil J. Lee,
chairman; Charles B. Park, William
H. Sawyer. .
6. Improvement - of Relations Be
tween County and City: Herman He!
ier, chairman; George Little, J. P,
Wray.
7. Meetings and Hospitality: C. T,
McClenaghan, chairman; Josephus
Daniels, C. W. Gold.
8. Conventions: W. B. Drake,
chairman; Dr. W. S. Rankin, B. H.
Griffin. ,
. Legal Matters: W. H. Pace,
chairman; James H. Pou, R. N. Slmms.
10. Freight Rates: N. B. Brough
ton, chairman; N. A. Dunn, E. L,
Harris.
11. Entertainments: Wade R.
Brown, chairman; Joseph E. Pogue,
W. H. Bagley.
12. School Questions: B. F. Mon
tague, chairman; J. Y. Joyner, A. B,
Hunter.
13. Trade Extension: W. G. Briggs,
chairman; F. B. Arendell, John 'F,
Sprague. 1
14. Transportation: Maj. J. J. Ber
nard, chairman.
15. Civic Betterment: Dr. H. A.
Royster, chairman; H. P. S. Keller,
N. L. Walker. ,
16. Public Health: Thomas M.
Jordan, chairman; George W. Lay,
Charles J. Parker.
At the meeting President Litch
ford was in the chair and Fred A.
Olds at the secretary's desk. Presi
dent Litchford called on the various
committeemen for suggestions. .
Should Drain Beaver Dam Swamp.
Suggestions for draining Beaver
Dam swamp in Harnett county, N. C,
which were requested by Represents
tive Godwin from '.he drainage engl
neers of the Department of Agricul
ture, were submitted in a report re
ceived by him. C. W. Mengal, the de
partment engineer, after a survey of
the tract of 7,000 acres lying across
the Cape Fear river from Dunn,' re
ports that to secure good drainage a
system of ditches should be cut from
the midst of the swamp to the river
at intervals of one mile, and that the
present ditches should be enlarged and
deepened. He suggests also the most
practical plan to guide the local engi
neers in locating the proper and nat
ural location for the ditches. Land
in the section affected by the swamp
is now worth from $15 to $20 an acre,
and it is estimated that the same land
would be worth $50 to $75 an acre
when the Beaver Dam swamp Is drain
ed. .
Farmers' Institute Meeting Closed.
The most successful and largely
attended institute of farmers of For
syth county has ended, the sessions
being held in the court house. A
particularly interesting and instruc
tive address was made by Mr. F.
Sherman, of the state department of
agriculture, on the best- methods of
growing tobacco; a topic peculiarly
attractive to farmers in this nreat to
bacco belt. Mr. I. C. Ross of Stokes
county made a fine talk stressing the
importanceof improving fram lands
by rotation of crops. , '
Sale of Tobacco For Month of July.
The sales of tobacco from the five
North Carolina markets reporting for
July amounted to 163,929 pounds. The
first-hand sales were 116,440; the
dealers' sales 20,808 and the resales
were 26,681. By markets, sales were:
Towns. First-Hand. Resales.
Fairmont .. ..- .. 52,545 65,82
Fair Bluff .. .. .. Ci.Sn
Risville fj, 722 f.,543
,:!on?Salem .. 2,714 20.496
am 2.210 2,216
PENNSYLVANIA IB
CREMATES NEGRO
VICTIM OF NORTHERN LYNCHERS
HAD KILLED A SPECIAL
POLICEMAN.
WAS TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL
Wounded Black, jSrtapped to a Hospi
. tal Cot, Was Placed on a .
Fire.
Coatesville,- Pa. -Zachariah . Walker,
a negro desperado, was carried on a
cot, from the hospital here and burn
ed to a crisp , by a frenzied mob of
men and boys, on a fire which they
ignited about a half mile from town
The negro, who had shot and killed
Edgar Rice, a special policeman of the
Worth Iron Mills, was first dragged
.to the scene of the shooting begging
plteously for mercy. He had .been
arrested by a posse after a search
which had- stirred the countryside
When the posse finally located him,
he was found hiding in a cherry tree,
and, with the last bullet in his revolv
er, shot himself in the mouth, falling
from the tree. He was removed to
the hospital and placed under police
guard.
A crowd, numbering almost a thou
sand persons, appeared at the hospi
tal. The leaders were unable to gain
admission, but quickly smashed the
window frames and Crawled through
the corridor.
When Walker was taken to the hos
pital he was strapped down in order
to prevent his escape. The mob, see
ing this, gathered up the bed, and
placing 't on the shoulders of four
men, started for the country. They
left the town by way of the Tower
ville road, and, when half a mile from
the hospital, stopped at a farm house.
Here they entered a field,, and,
quickly gathering up a pile of dry
grass, and weeds, placed the bed con
taining their victim upon it. The ne
gro ws begging plteously to be re
leased, but his pleadings fell upon
deaf ears. A match was placed to the
pile of grass, and the flames shot up
quickly, entirely enshrouding the
screaming victim.. That not a vestige
of the taurderer be left, the mob tore
down the fence along the road and
piled the rails upon the burning ne
gro. After waiting for half an hour,
the mob dispersed as quickly as it had
come.
A-curious feature of the burning
was the fact that, there were almost
as many women in the crowd as
men.
BIG STRIKE CAUSES RIOTING
Troops Called Out to Assist the, Police
in Liverpool.
Liverpool, England. Serious rioting
growing out of the strike in progress
has occurred. One policeman was
kille dby being struck on the head
with a brick and many persons were
injured.
An altercation between a policeman
and a striker during a transport work
ers' demonstration at St .George's
hall started the trouble, which culmi
nated in a general melee.
- One hundred thousand men were
gathered in groups about St. George's
hall listening to speeches by fabor
agitators and the scenes of violence
fololwing the attack upon the pdlice
men necessitated the calling out of
police reserves. When they arrived
one party of fifteen policemen were
surrounded and disarmed,, the rioters
attacking them with their own batons.
In the fight the commanding officer of
the police was dangerously wounded.
So great was the disorder that the
riot act was read and troops were call
ed out to assist the police.
Oklahoma Mob Lynches a Negro.
Durant, Oklahoma. A mob of 500
whites captured and shot to death an
'unidentified negro who attacked and
shot Mrs. Redden Campbell, near here,
and afterward burned the negro's
body. ' The negro was killed after a
running fight in which he exhausted
his ammunition. When he fell, volley
after volley of bullets were poured
into his body by the mob. . It was then
taken to the home of his victim and
identified.
N
ew York-Chicago Limited Wrecked.
Fort Wayne, Ind. Four persons
ere killed and 30 injured when the
Pennsylvania 18-hour train en route
from Chicago to New York, jumped
the track on the western outskirts oi
the city while going fifty 'miles an
hour. In leaving the rails the two
gines pulling the passenger train
eswlned a freihsrt engine and the
t-ee piled up in a mass of bent and
twiMod iron. The baggage car, smok
er, bi;f;'et and two s 'copers turned over
in' the ditch.
HAY FEVER SEASON
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GENERAL GORDON IS DEAD
Heat Hastened End of Chief Officer
of the United Confederate
Veteran.
Memphis, Tenn. George W. Gor
don, soldier, lawyer and statesman,
is dead.
Worn by an illness dating from his
last political campaign, when he was
re-elected to the national house of
representatives, the last general of the
Confederacy to serve in that body,
answered the summons to join the in
visible majority here.
George Washington Gordon was
born in Giles county, Tennessee, Oc
tober 5, 1836. In his early boyhood,
his parents removed to Texas, and
later to Mississippi, but as a youth,
he returned to Tennessee and entered
the Western Military academy, from
which he was graduated in 1859. His
first activity was as a civil engineer.
At the outbreak of the Civil war,
General Gordon enlisted as drill mas
ter of the Eleventh Tennessee infant
ry, C. S. A. Within a few weeks he
was made a captain, and was later
promoted to a lieutenant-colonel's
rank, and in about a year was com
missioned colonel. In 1864 he was
named brigadier general. He partici
pated with distinction in a number of
engagements, and at one time was
taken prisoner, but was exchanged in
ten days.
At the close of the war General Gor
don studied and practiced law.
He was elected a member of the
Sixtieth congress from the Tenth Ten
nessee district, and re-elected to the
Sixty-first and Sixty-second congress
es. He was the only Confederate gen
eral numbered in the present con
gress.
General Gordon was chosen com
mander-in-chief of the United Confed
erate Veterans at the reunion of 1910,
at Mobile, Ala. He wa3 re-elected to
that position at the 1311 reunion at
Little Rock, Ark., last May.
New Orleans. As the next senior
officer of the late Gen. George W. Gor
don, Lieut. Gen. C. Irvine Walker as
sumes command of the United Confed
erate Veterans in orders Issued
through the office of William E. Mlc
kle adjutant general and chief of
staff.' ...
OCEAN STEAMSHIP SINKS
93
Lives Lost When French Steamer
Sinks.
Gibraltar. The French steamer
Emir foundered five miles east of Ta-
rifa, Spain, in the Straits of Gibraltar.
Ninety-three persons were drowned.
An hour later in a dense fog she
collided with the British steamer Sil-
verton bound from Newport, England,
for Turanto, itaiy.
The crew of the latter rescued 27
the Emir's crew and passengers.
Th a Silverton later nut in here with
her starboard bow stove in and her
re peak full of water.
The Emir sunk a few minutes after
he collision. Sixty-nine passengers
of the crew went down with the
ip. Twelve of the crew and 15 pas
sengers were saved. All the passen
gers were French . :
Canadian . Burns Our Flag.
London, Ontario. Thomas Midge-
ley
who prides himself . in the title
aakc-e hater," publicly burned the
Stars and Stripes In the streets of
the
town of Woodstock. A few hours
be
fore seme one In a spirit of mis-
chk
ef had nailed an American flag
above the door of his shop. When
Midgcley saw the flag he called his
ghbois around him and walking to
the middle of t.ie street liplitol a ir.-o
and Burned the flag. Tfcen ho scat
'.trod the as-l.es about th. strt
TWO NEW STATES ADMITTED
NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA ARE
GRANTED STATEHOOD BY
THE SENATE. v
It Is Said the President Will Allow
the Bill to Become a Law With
out His Signature. -
Washington. The bill granting
statehood to New Mexico and Arizo
na, legislation that has been for many
years the dream of the people of these
territories, was passed by the senate
53 to 18 after rejection of the Nelson
amendment, which proposed striking
out of the Arizona constitution its ju
diciary recall . provision. '
The bill as passed by the senate dif
fers only slightly from the house
measure, and it is said may be unsat
isfactory to President Taft. He has
contended all along that he would be
glad to sign the statehood bill if the
Nelson amendment prevailed, but that
it was a grave question whether he
would be willing to sign it if the
amndment were defeated, as it was,
by 43 to 26. The indications are
that the bill will become a law with
out his signature.
The bill as passed compels Arizona
as a condition precedent to entry into
the. Union to submit the recall propo
sition to the voters f cr final decision
as to whether it shall remain in their
constitution. New Mexico must vote
on a proposition embodied in the bill
which would make the constitution of
the state easier of amendment.
Lower Prices Paid Farmers.
Washington. The problem of the
high cost of living apparently is be
ing solved, at least so far as farm
products are concerned, for the farm
ers are getting lower prices for their
products this year than they received
a year ago. According to official fig
ures issued by the department of ag
riculture. Potatoes were the notable
exception, their price having more
than doubled. Potatoes averaged 109;6
per cent, higher and hay 29.9 per cent.
higher. ,t
Washington to Mississippi Road.
Bristol, Tenn. With a view to con
structing a national highway between
Washington, D.. C, and the Mississip
pi, there was organized here the Bris-tol-to-Washington
Highway association
in a meeting attended by many prom
inent Virginians. ' The purpose of this
organization is to take up here on
the Tennessee-Virginia border the mat
ter of extending the Mempals-to-Bris-
tol automobile and tourist stone , high
way to the national capital.
Earthquakes In California.
San Bernardino, Cal. The most se
bere earthquake shock felt in this vi
cinity in years shook the business
buildings with such severity that the
occupants fled into the streets. The
damage was trivial. A previous shock
had been felt.
Los Angeles, Cal. A slight earth
quake shock was felt here.
Agree on Wool Revision.
Washington. Doffing their coats
and for the first time in history in
viting the press to be present, the con
ferees on the wool tariff revision and
farmers' free list bills sat down in con
ference to compromise their differenc
es. Finally they effected a complete
agreement on wool and bot:an consid
eration cf tV.'1 fi'i,,; i'i bid. President
Taft Is cxiiected to veto the bill as
it now stands. liTe committee wiii
cow ti'c vp '' free list "bill.
SPIES NUMEROUS
IN UNITED SITES
ARMY SECURES STARTLING EVI
DENCE OF ACTIVITY OF
FOREIGN SPIES.
STEPS TAKEN TO PUNISH
Many Foreigners Are Carefully Study
ing Fortifications of United
r States.
Washington. Startling evidence of
the pernicious activity of foreign epie3
is In the possession of the army gen
eral staff, which accounts for the' se
rious consideration that is noW being
given to the most trifling report at
attempts to discover the military se
crets of the country. Some of these
incidents are of comparatively recent
date, and it was upon the submission
of such information to a secret ses
sion of the judicial "committee of the
house that legislation was secured at
the last session of congress providing
fnr fho coirDra nnnlehmant rsf enia in
tlmfl Clf Tl.
An Englishman in Calcutta picked
up in the streets a small package of
blue-prints showing every detail 'of'
the defenses of Corregidor island, the
main stronghold of the United States
in the Philippines. The prints were
not copies of any drawing or charts
iyepared for use of the United States,
buti were evidently, the result of a
careful and deliberate investigation
of the official and confidential records
of the United State3. hTe existence
of the blueprints made it evident that
there were otner copies m existence.
The Englishman sent the papers ' to
war department here, but the most .
careful investigation failed to discover
the means by which the Information-
had been obtained.
A waiter In a Seattle hotel was
found to be a foreign officer in dis
guise, possessing many drawings and
notes he had made of the Pacific coast
defenses. '
An' American ambassador' notified
the state department .that a f certain
captain belonging to the army of the
country here he was stationed had
been detailed to spend , three years
secretly investigating the American
countries and studying their military
onditions. , '
Even the Panama canal has not Vs
caped; one of the engineers found a
foreign officer, an attache to one of
the American countries, secretly study
ing the canal from a stretegic stand
point, and he understood that there
were six or seven other officers of the
same nationality in the United States
gathering military information.
A New York policeman arrested an
American for a trivial offense and
found in his trunk military maps and
information in which convinced the
officials that he was in the .employ-of
a foreign government, but the inci
dent that convinced the judiciary com
mittee of the necessity for the pro
tective law occurred less than a year
ago in the Philippines.
An enlisted man in the engineers
was offered $25,000 by two foreign of
ficers for the plans, of the defenses
of the Corregidor island. "Being the
official photographer, he had ample
opportunity to get all the necessary
pictures, having first informed his su
perior officer of the attempt. A trap
was laid and the two foreign, spies
were captured. But habeas corpus
proceedings were obtained and they
were released, as there was then no
law in the Philippines or United States
under which they could be prosecuted.
Washington. For the first time in
many years the war department is
perturbed over the case of an alleged
spy in the army.
Capt. James, Wilson,, the army re-
curitlng officer at Indianapolis, has ad
vised the department that he holds
affidavits accusing Private George Pe
ters of being an Austrian secret agent,
and the department is working on
the charges to determine a course of
action.
It is not believed the chargeB, if
well founded, indicate that the Aus
trian government, even remotely, con
templates future hostilities with Amer
ica. The probable object of the al
leged spy was to discover for his gov
ernment the composition of the re
markable high explosive "dunnite,"
political War Divides Mexico,
Mexico City. Dr: Francisco Jom
anr.nounccs his willingness to toco:
no
a candidate fur the presidency cf t
he
republic. . It becamo known tb'U t
old fi:-ht bet'.M-on t'.iureii tin 1 t'.
would Le re.-;iM(M i'i ?' .ico, N'
withstanding th? separation effect
by Benito Juarez, almost half a
tury ago, the Catholic elwci, r-c5
throitva the- National CathoJIO; 'r
has ILHcd a-caii tor i convv