Year, In Adraoc.
"FOR COD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.'
VOL. XXII.
PLYMOUTH, N, C.. iRIDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1911
CAROL!
FORESTRYMEETING
AN ORGANIZATION TO PROMOTE
THE PROTECTION OF OUR
FORESTS FROM FIRE.
SOME IMPORTANT MATTERS
"Constitution Was Approved and Rec
ommended To Next Annual Meet
ing For Adoption Who the Mem
bership of Association Shall Be
Raleigh. At a meeting o the offi
cers and executive committee of the
North Carolina Forestry Association
held in Raleigh, recently, two impor
tant matters were discussed, I. e., the
adoption of a constitution for the as
sociation and the lines of work to
which the association should devote
itself for the present. At this meet
ing the following gentlemen were
present: Dr. D. H. Hill, Raleigh,
president of the association; J. S.
Holmes, Chapel Hill, secretary; E.
B. Wright, boardman, and Clarence
Poe, Raleigh; all members of the
executive committee; and Prof. J. F.
Webb, Oxford, and W. J. Peele, Ral
- eigh, vice-presidents of the associa
tion. The constitution, which was ap
proved and recommended to the next
annual meeting for adoption, con
tains the following salient points:
"The object of this association is
to promote the protection of the for
ests of North Carolina from Are and
from destructive insects, and to pro
mote their perpetuation by wise use
and by the reforestration of cut-over
and abandoned lands.
"The membership of this associa
tion shall be composed of all per
sons, firms and corporations who
have registered with the secretary
and all those who may hereafter ap
pl to the secretary and have their
names enrolled aa members.
vThe officers of this association
shall consist of a president, a maxi
mum of thirty-nine vice-presidents,
one from each senatorial district of
the state, and a secretary-treasurer,
who shall hold their respective offices
for one year, or until their successors
shall be duly elected and qualified."
Destroy Four Illicit Distilleries.
Revenue officers at Winston-Salem
reported that they destroyed four big
illicit distilleries on "Runnet Bag"
creek in Franklin county, Virginia.
They arrested one man, John B.
Sneed, but he claimed that he was
only at the distillery to get some
beer and had nothing to do with its
operation. Sneed was released. One
of the stills was practically new, a
225-gallon copper one, and one officer
stated that he did not remember ever
having cut up a better equipped plant.
No whiskey was found, but almost
2,000 gallons of beer went to waste.
Mr. Hendricks reported that seven
teen blockade plants have been de
stroyed in the same section within
the past few weeks.
False Rumors At High Point.
"It appears that many of the coun
try people around High Point have
recently "Been greatly stirred up and
dissatisfied by certain unfounded ru
mors that have been maliciously cir
lated by certain parties to the. effect
that, the city authorities would pre
vent the farmers from disposing of
their produce in this city unless a
heavy tax would be paid by them.
Others had it that the people from
the country would not be allowed to
sell their products in High Point at
all Mayor Tate has found it neces
sary to nail these falsehoods.
Board of Examiners Pass Nurses.
Dr. Oscar McMullan of Elizabeth
City and Misses Ferguson, Hobbs and
Allen, constituting, with Dr. C. A.
Julian, of Thomasville, the state
board of examiners for the nurses
of the state, passed eighteen can
didates for registration after a two
days' session at the Watts hospital.
The examinations were the first of
the semi-annuals held at Durham.
Turnersburg Road Improved.
The Turnersburg road, which is
one of the principal roads in the
county and a portion of which has
been very bad have been improved
and now there is a good road all the
-way from Statesville to Turnersburg,
a distance of 12 miles. The trip 13
now a pleasant one, saving on teams,
harness and vehicles, as well as sav
ing time. All of the road except the
las "'s Is macadam. 'The chain
gs v the work and is still
v 'j-r rsburg, j'A bridge
63 TV .' y creek.
'CHANGE OF FREIGHT RATES
Corporation Commission Orders Re
ductions and Changes in the Reg
ulations of Classes.
Raleigh. Orders issued by the
North Carolina Corporation Commis
sion make important changes and re
ductions in the freight rates and reg
ulations in a number of classes of
freight, the changes to be effective
December 1.
It is ordered that the rates on
rattan, reed and willow chairs be
changed on the furniture schedule
from a rate three times first class
to double first class in less than car
load lots, and in carload lots at third
clas3, 8,000-pound minimum. The rate
on tobacco baskets, nested or in bun
dles, is changed from first to second
class, and in timber shipments of
dogwood, hickory, persimmon, gum
wood, in carloads of 40,000 pounds
minimum, poplar is added, and the
application of the rates now in force
ranging from $5 for 14 miles to $i4
for 100 miles is extended to 300 miles
at $27.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company notifies fthe Corporation
Commission from its Norfolk offices
that the Seaboard freight rate on
cottonseed from Wagram to Char
lotte, so as to make the rate in a
.Laurinburg corporation, Is $1.63 a
ton.
North Carolina New Enterprises.
The Standard Turpentine CompanJ
of Wilmington is chartered with
$125,000 capital, subscribed by such
well-known business men as H. C.
McQueen, Alexander Sprunt & Son,
Walker Taylor and M. J. Corbitt. The
purpose is distilling of turpentine and
other wood and vegetable products
and dealing in crossties and other
timber products. Another charter is
for the Hoke Hill Real Estate &
Development Co. of Tryon, Polk coun
ty. The capital is $50,000 by H. M.
Hoke, Greenville, S. C, A. L. Hill
and others of Tryon for real estate
development. Also there is a char
ter for the Granite Company of Ral
eigh, having for its purpose the de
velopment of extensive granite quar
ries in the eastern section of this
county. The Incorporators include
Joseph G. Brown, B. S. Jerman, W.
A. Cooper, P. D. Gold, Jr., John C.
Drewry and others prominent in
Raleigh business circles. They sub
scribe $100,0000 capital.
State Geologist In Great Demand.
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, the state
geologist of North Carolina, is in
Chicago attending the meetings of
the National Mining Congress as .a
delegate from North Carolina, and in
connection with this also a meeting
of the Association of state geologists
and the National Association of Min
ing Schools (representing the Uni
versity of North Carolina). Dr. Pratt
has a special invitation to attend the
Mines Demonstration Exhibit of the
United States Bureau of Mines at
Pittsburg. He will make an ad
dress at Asheboro, North Carolina, in
the interest of good roads and a bond
issue, and he is to address a good
roads meeting at Concord. He has
been Invited by Mr. Logan Waller
Page, president of the American As
sociation for Highway Improvement,
to preside on Association Day, Nov
ember 23, at the Goods Roads Con
gress to be held at Richmond, Vir
ginia. Liquor Seller Is Pardoned.
Buck Rollins, of Anson county, con
victed at the April term, 1910, of the
crime of selling liquor, and sentenced
to 12 months on the roads, pardon
ed conditionally by the governor, the
reasons for pardon assigned by him
being:. "A strong application for
the pardon of this prisoner last
March was presented. Since then
those in charge of the prosecution
and who opposed pardon have with
drawn their opposition and now join
in the application for clemency. The
trial judge and the solicitor ask that
the sentence be reduced by a pardon.
A majority of the jury and a great
many good citizens join in the re
quest for clemency. I therefore par
don prisoner on condition that he re
main law-abiding and of good be
havior." Washington. Asheboro and Slier
City were designated as depositories
for postal savings funds, effective
November 23.
J. Y. Joyner Spoke at Gastonia.
State Superintendent of Education
J. Y. Joyner spoke at the court house
at Gastonia in favor of the estab
lishment of a farm-life school in Gas
ton county. He was followed by Mr.
O. F. Mason of Gastonia, who spoke
briefly but strongly and enthusiasti
cally in favor of the preposition. Dr.
H. G. Alexander, president of the state
farmers' union, was a'so scheduled
to speak but was called' to New Or
leans on business. The crowd was
a sma'J one but was t ;1-?My in
terested and listened w' attentively.
1,072 DELEGATES
INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP OF
COMMITTEE THAT WILL NAME
G. O. P. CANDIDATE.
REAPPORTIONMENT IS CAUSE
There Were Only 980 Delegates In
the Last National Convention
Held in Chicago.
Washington. The call for the Re
publican national convention, to be
isued by the national committee when
it meets in Washington, December 12,
will provide for 1,064 delegates, to be
iacreased to 1,072 if Arizona and New
Mexico become states before the con
vention is held.
The Increase from 980 delegates,
which comprised the Chicago conven
tion of 1908, is the result of the re
apportionment by congress which in
creases the size of the house of rep
resentatives from 391 to 433 members
or 435 with the two new states. A
table showing the apportionment of
th delegates to the 1912 convention
has been prepared by Francis Curtis,
in charge here of the combined pub
licity headquarters of the Republican
national committee and the Republi
can congressional committee. This
arrangement is expected to be adopt
ed without change by the committee.
The distribution follows:
Alabama 24, Arkansas 18, Califor
nia 26, Colorado 12, Connecticut 14,
Delaware 6, Florida 12, Georgia 28,
Idaho 8, Illinois 58, Indiana 30, Iowa
26, Kansas 20, Kentucky 26, Louisi
ana 20, Maine 12, Maryland 16, Mas
sachusetts 36, Michigan 30, Minnesota
24, Mississippi 20, Missouri 36, Mon
tana 8, Nebraska 16, Nevada 6, New
Hampshire 8, New Jersey 28, New
York 90, North Carolina 24, North
Dakota 10, Ohio 48, Oklahoma 20,
Oregon 10, Pennsylvania 76, Rhode
Island 10, South Carolina 18, South
Dakota 10, Tennessee 24, Texas 40,
Utah 8, Vermont 8, Virginia 24, Wash
ington 14, West Virginia 16, Wiscon
sin 26, Wyoming 6.
Territories (2 each) Alaska, Ari
zona, District of Columbia Hawaii,
New Mexico, Philippines, Porto Rico.
The basis of delegates for the Re
publican convention is four at large in
each state and two for each congres
sional district.
JOSEPH PULITZER IS DEAD
Proprietor of New York World Passes
Away at Charleston, S. C.
Charleston, S. C Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World
and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and
one of the most commanding figures
in modern journalism, died aboard
his yacht, the Liberty, in Charleston
harbor.
The immediate cause of Mr. Pulit
zer's death was heart failure. He had
been in ill health for several days,
but until a few hours before the end,
none of those around him had any
suspicion of the gravity of his condi
tion. For more than a quarter of a cen
tury Joseph Pulitzer had been one of
the leading figures in American jour
nalism. Born in Hungary in 1847, and
educated there, ho came to this coun
try in 1863, enlisted in the Union
army and served as a cavalryman un
til the end of the war, when he set
tled in St. Louis, which was for many
years the scene of his journalistic ac
tivities. His early newspaper train
ing was as a reporter and afterwards
city editor, managing editor and part
proprietor of the Westliche Post, ed
ited by Carl Schurz.
He bought the St. Louis Dispatch
in 1878 and united it with the Post
as the Post-Dispatch, which, under
the management, became in a few
years, one of the best-known and most
widely circulated journals of the sec
tion. Mr. Pulitzer's entry into New York
journalism occurred in 1883, when he
bought The World, then a paper of
small circulation. Its circulation and
prestige grew rapidly under his gener
al direction.
Mr. Pulitzer's sight began to fail in
in the late eighties, and after a time
he became blind. Ever since he had
been a partial invalid,
Panic Among Manchus.
Pekin, China. The situation in Pe
kin Is becoming worfce. A veritable
panic prevails among the Manchus
and the Manchu women are adopting
Chined dress. Some of them are at
tempting to make their feet appear
small by peculiarly constructed shoes.
Most of t" e trains leaving the capital
are drawn ly two engines, so heavily
are they k . led, the people sitting on
top of theirj household belonging. O'
ficlala are , Peking asylum
wives r ' M,.!rea w-
THE MORNING AFTER
rCopyrleht. HID
REBELLIONS JNJWO LANDS
CHINESE AND MEXICAN REBELS
SUCCESSFUL IN DEFEATING
GOVERNMENT TROOPS.
Chinese Royal Family Is Preparing
to Flee From Pekin Mexic Cap
ital Threatened.
Pekin, China. Further .defection to
the rebels, including Nan Chang, cap
ital of the province of Giang-Si, and
Kwei-Lin, capital of Kwang-Si, have
served to increase the tension here
of the revoluton.
It is commonly reported in Pekin
that the imperial family is ready for
flight. The road to Jehol, 115 miles
northeast of Pekin, is studded with
troops. Other rumors designate the
foreign settlements in Tien Tsin 'as
the possible refuge.
To add to the seriousness of the
situation, the Tsu-Cheng-Yuan, China's
first national assembly, gave to the
Manchus what the legations consider
an ultimatum. The assembly im
peached Sheng-Hsuan-Hua, president
of the ministry of posts and commu
nications, and demanded hi3 dismis
sal, with severe punishment.
Mexico City. Shocked by the reali
zation that the forces of Emiliano
Zapatista had entered the Federal dis
trict, sacked a town and then stood
off a detachment of the Federal army,
the chamber of deputies demanded
that the acting minister of war and
the minister of the interior appear
before that body and render full re
ports regarding the insurrection and
the measures being taken for its sup
pression. It was agreed to remain in
session until the ministers appeared,
and that should the head of the war
department fail to report before an
early time, to go to his house in puD
lic protest.
TOBACCO TRUST DISSOLVING
Plan Is Opposed and Supported in the
Hearing.
New York. Opponents and support
ers of the plan which the American
Tobacco company has mapped out for
disintegration both had their innings
in the United States circuit court
here. Counsel for the so-called inde
pendent tobacco manufacturers and
producers had filed their brief of ob
jections but a few hours, when a law
yer for a committee of the preferred
stockholders of the trust petitioned
the court to be heard in support of
the plan.
The attorney declared that he repre
sented owners of 458,000 shares of the
trusts preferred stock. The plan, he
oaiH not. onlv would fairly and honest
ly dissolve the corporations, but would
safeguard the interests or siockuoiu
ers. Should the court grant his peti
tion, he will submit his "conditions at
the 'public hearing October 30, or as
soon thereafter as practicable.
Counsel for the objectors in their
brief opposing the proposed dissolu
tion plan, after declaring that it does
not, in reality, dissolve the trust so
as to make competition among its
segments possible point out that the
plan contemplates leaving intact the
United Cigar Stores company.
Cattle Ahead of Human Beings.
New York. Cattle vrecelved more
attention than human beings in the
appropriations' by the last New York
state legislature according to a com
plaint of the state sanitary officers
associ
latlon embodied in a v -
passed
at its annual convf'
The r-"HA'"Mriii deplores r,
v -are in
THE NIGHT BEFORE
REBELS FIGHT WITH FIRE
Milpa Alta Completely Destroyed by
Zapatista's Followers Thirty
Mites From Capital.
Mexico City. The town of Milpa
Alta, in the federal district, and with
in thirty miles of the capital, was al
most totally destroyed by fire and dy
namite by Zapatistas, who fought
what appears to have been a drawn
battle with Federal troops lasting for
more than five hours on a mountain
road, a short distance from the ruined
town.
Che insurrectos returned the fire of
the government troops shot for shot
and are said to be now occupying the
village of Nativas, only two miles
from Xochimilco. Fearing an attack,
the residents of the latter town, the
source of the capital's water supply,
are in a state of terror.
The Zapatistas, who entered Milpa
Alta were a detachment of the insur
rectionary army which threatened to
attack Chalto, in the state of Mexico.
Finding this town better guarded than
it had been for some days, they made
a detour .wreaking their vengeance
upon the little town in the Federal,
district, numbering some 7,000 inhabi
tants. Guarded by only eight police
men, absolutely no resistance was
made. Frightened by the attack, the
little municipal guard led the flight
which was joined in by a large num
ber of the residents.
A considerable portion of the peo
ple of Milpa Alta, however, as though
by previous agreement, took part in
the looting and burning. Throughout
the night the raides, whose number is
Is estimated variously from 200 to 500,
continued their work of destruction,
applying the torch to the thatched
huts, hurling dynamite bombs into
the adobe buildings.
GRAIN CASES ARE DECIDED
Commerce Court Makes Ruling Fa
vorable to Southern Cities.
Washington. The commerce court
granted the petition of the railroads
in the Nashville grain cases by is
suing a temporary injunction against
the decision of the interstate com
merce commission, wherein it ordered
the roads not to grant reshipment
privileges on grain and hay at Nash
ville until similar privileges are grant
ed to Atlanta, Montgomery and other
Southern cities.
The commerce court's injunction
was on the ground that the Nashville
commercial interests would sustain
greater injury by the sudden taking
away of the privilege of re-billing and
re-shipping of grain and hay than the
shippers at Atlanta, Columbus, Rome,
Athens, Macon, Albany and other
Georgia points would sustain by the
continuance of tne iasnvue pnvi- ' f
lege. The commission had order?' y
all railroads operating in the S. JF
east to desist for two years ber'i
November 1 from giving the
shippers these privileges if
the Georgia shippers. Thy
taken to the commerce
Nashville grain exchar
of trade and by the,
Nashville and Nash''
and St. Louis raiV
will hear argur
final action.
Renorty
Vienna.
Charles,
Joseph.
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THE STEEL If
DISSOLUTION OF UNITED STATES
STEEL CORPORATION DEMAND- '
t
ED BY GOVERNMENT.
GREAT FINANCIERS NAMED
Steel Corporation Will Make No Offer
to Readjust Its Intricate
Organization.
Trenton. N. J
The government's
long planned suit t
?r no the SO-
called "steel tniSt vjb-teegun here
is the most sweeping anti-trusts action
ever brought by the departmentoj
justice.-4- -w1
; Tife government asks not only for
the dissolution of the United. States
Steel 'Corporation, but for the disso
lution of all constituent or subsidiary &
combined in violation of the' Sher
combine din violation of the Sher
man law to "maintain or attempt to
maJMain a monopoly of the steel busi
no: There- are thirty-six subside
iary corporations named as defend
ants. J. Pierpont iMorgan, John D. Rocke
feller, Andrew ' Carnegie, Charles ML
Schwab, George W. Perkins, E. H.
Gary, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry
C. Frick, Charles Steele, James Gay- ;
ley, William H. Moore, J.. II. Moore,
Edmund C. Converse, Percival Rob
erts, Jr., Daniel G. Reid, Norman B,
Ream, P. A. B. Widener and wuuam
P. Palmer are namediictlTvMually as
defendants.
The tyrCX States Steel Corpora
tior,'carnegi Steel company, Came- 4
Company of New Jersey, Federal
Steel company, National Steel compa
ny, American Steel and Wire Com
pany of New Jersey, National Tube
company, Shelby. Eteel Tube compa
ny, American; Sheet and Tin Plate
company, American Sheet Steel com
pany, American Steel Hoop company,
American Bridge company, Lake Sa
perior Consolidated Iron Mines, aU
of which were organized under the
New Jersey laws, and the H. C. Frick;
Coke company, Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad company and the Great
Western Mining company are named
as corporate defendants.
Louis W. HiHrIames J. Hill, Walter
J. Hill, E. T. Nichols and J. H. Gru
ber are named ast trustees in connec
tion with ore companies.
The steel corporation's lease of the
Great Northern railway's ore proper
ties is alleged to be' illegal.
New York. Steel corporation secur
ities slumped, badly on the stock ex
change as a result of the Federal suit
to dissolve the ' "billion dollar", steel
combine; There was an outpouring of ;
steel stocks, throughout the day, and
the commonsold down to 50, a new
record point 'for several, years. The
preferred was also weak, selling down
to 103, a loss' of '5 3-8. Other stocks
were weak in sympathy.
The entire force of deputies under
United States Marshal Henkel was
put at the disposal of the government
to finish the task of serving copies
of the bill of equity in the Federal
suit to dissolve the United States
Steel corporation ' upon officers and
directors of the alleged trust, resid
ing here.
J. P. Morgan 'and E. H. Cary receiv
ed service, -but 'thirteen others re
mained to be served In this neigh
borhood. According to a statement given outs
at the office of the United St aciVv
shal in Trenton, y -'tJ ""l1.
this service
followed
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