North Carolina Newspapers

Ik Jix liYMr( la A4rnc. " "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Ctfy Cmxtm. n - - - - - - - '4WHMHBMHMMHHHMMMMMMV VOL. XXII. PLYMOUTH, N. 0.. kRW AY DECEMBER 1. 1911 NO. 24. fi FIGHT AGAINST THE FJEJEETLE IS AN INCREASING MENACE TJ THE FARMERS WHO. OWN , PINE FORESTS. " AN ORGANIZATION IS FORMED Mecklenburg Farmers Unites in Form ing An Association to Wage Actively and Co-operatively Against Destruc- : tive Pine Beetle. Raleigh. A special from Charlotte states that the pine forests are ex tremely valuable; that the "pine bark iheetle" Is a serious and increasing menace to them; that farmers and owners of pine forests are powerless to combat the evil individually but can become absolute masters of the situation J.? they act in earnest co operation and that the only time to work is the present, sums up in a sentence the outstanding features of meeting fostered by the Greater Char lotte Club at tho Selwyn hotel for the purpose of devising ways and means to combat the pine beetle invasion. : A Mecklenburg Pin Beetle Associa tion was formed for the purpose of carrying into effect the recommenda tions ol the government experts, Messrs. E. B. Mason and T. E. Sny der, who had come down from Wash ington for the purpose of advising with those interested and arrangments .were perfected for two big demonstra tions to be held in two different parts of the county at which, all farmers , particularly such as own pine forests, were cordially invited to be present. . Active and determined interest and . ;a keen desire to become informed on "the best methods suggested by the : government experts for the battle .against the insects that are doing so much damage to the pine forests char acterized the meeting. Mr. J. Y. Moyner Has Returned. State Superintendent of Public In struction J. Y. Joyner has returned from Chicago, where he participated In a conference of the committee of eleven o,? the National Council of Education, of the Nationaal Education association, the committee having in hand especially the investigation .of the condition and needs of rural schools the country over. The com mittee has inaugurate d its work - which it is intended shall be of the C mwt thorough sort, requiring prob- ably v0 DV three years. There will bo periodical reports of progress and conclusions with recommendations to ' ?he National Education Association as the work progresses and the Na - -tional Education association will give "the state departments of education the benefits of the committee reports Had A Cure For Pellagra. Dr. J. O. S. Terry, an African phy sician who was in Raleigh, for special training at a well-known negro hos pital, was buried a few . days ago. He possessed a formula compounded from African herbs that is said to have cured many cases of pellagra. From his parents, who were "medi cine folks" in their tribe, he obtained the formula. Every six months he would receive a fresh supply .from his wife, who 'is still in Africa. It is said on good authority that he ef fected many marvelous cures, even among white people. The formula was never revealed and since his . death diligent search is being made for It. Wholesale Arrest On "Blind Tigers." A wholesale arrest was made on "blind tigers" in Goldsboro, about 25 warrants being issued. Some are . charged with selling beer and others "Old John Barleycorn." The above arrests were the result of the work c,? private detectives, who have been working on the quiet for the past three weeks. United States Com mission has also been busy hearing blind tiger cases, and from presen ; in dications Goldsboro will be largely represented in the Federal Court to be held at Raleigh. , Two Corporations File Papers. Two new corporations filed papers with the secretary of state, these be ing: The Epperson-Tilson Company, of Lincolnton; merchandise; author ized capital, $20,000, with $5,000 paid in by T. M. Epperson, E. V. Tilson, T. H. Thompson and others. The Berkley Club, of Charlotte; social club for benefit of its members; author ized capital, $1,000, divided into shares of $50 each, but the club will begin with $150, the incorporators be ing J. W. Lomax, S. A. Harris and 8. A. Coles. WILL REFUSE TO PAY REWARD C? $1,000 That Was Offered For the Assaillants of Revenue Officer Henry Who Was Shot. Greensboro. That the government will in all probability refuse to pay rewards c ?1,000 offered for the cap ture.of two assailantB of a revenue of fice r"Robert Henry, who was shot and nerlmisr? wounded in a raid in Wilkes county two months ago because of the alleged collusion between tne captors and the men for whom the rewards were offered, was learned here. Spe cial Officer Roland, who has been in vestigating the matter, has made a report to Marshal Logan, recommend ing that the reward be not pam. iue reports say further that evidence points strongly to a "frame-up" be tween the prisoners and their cap tors, whereby the $1,000 reward, or a nrt n.p It. was to go to We men charged with the shooting of the of ficer to help defray the expenses 01 s trial. The alleged assailants for whom the reward was offered sur rendered to neighbors and in turn w, surrendered to the United States commissioner at Wilkesboro. Poultry Show Was A Success. i ' rjoultry show held by the Burke poultry association came to a close at Morganton It was a great success, uuiu uuouv,..., j .i,in(r niirh a ereat number ia cnnaled if not excel- Ol V lil ivilCO i , , . - . dam in led, any poultry snow - the state. The snow was -attended, many visitors from the sur rounding towns Deing pret. far nhnve the expectations of the promoters of the show and extra roomage had to De yici""cu - - hour. Over 1,000 entries were made a m Y. A I-t nr A Y H and hundreds and Diue riuuim awaiueu, wb""" hv tho local firms. Jiin- J .J tnffotlier Willi LliO VMU prizea unci ou j tries from seven different states were j a imina nut of here were maun u.uu . loaded to their utmost returning the birds. The show proveu bui;m." a that nlans'are already CeilCUl bing made for a much larger one to be held early next Ian. Closed. urn isimii - . The North Carolina and Virginia Christian Conference, in session at Bethlehem, Alan;ance county chose Greensboro as the next meeting place. After the appointment of committees for the next year ana auuimiiis i iia in ormrpr.iation of the hospital ILlliUUJ i . - t nnnffirence hosts, the body adjourned. The conference officers for the next year are: nev. j. vt.n.4 Burlington, president; lie v. . T)oai T.inn nolleere. vice president; Prof! W. P. Lawrence, Elon College, secretary; D. J. Sipe, Greensboro, as ootot cofrAtarv: D. S. Farmer, News Ferry Va., treasurer. The church let ters and ministerial reports indicate a splendid year s work, r.riminai Docket ComDleted. The crminal docket in Lee superior court has been completed. Much time was saved by seven blind tigers sud- mitting their cases to the judgment of the court. It was agreed with the solicitor that he would recommend, upon payment 6.? cost, that execution of judgment would not Degm unm De cember 1, giving the tigers a chance to leave the state. They were given a whnifisnmft lecture bv Judee Cook. who sentenced each to two years on the Anson county roaos; dui u tney elect, they may quit the state and start lift over aeain where they are not known, and if they take his advice and reform. Counter Appeal in Watkins' Case. Counsel for the prosecution in the case o,! state vs. F. C. Watkins, charg ed with the killing of John Hill Bunt ing at Black Mountain over two years ago, have filed a counter case to the appeal prepared by the defense some time ago. Watkins having been con victed before Judge James I. Webb and sentenced to '18 months on the roads. It is expected that the Supreme Court will decide the case early in December. Raleigh. A charter was issued for the board of trade of Edenton, char tered for the purpose of enlarging the business interests of this flourishing eastern Carolina city. Among the in corporators are: L. D. Bond, Frank Wood, J. N. Burden. The board is chartered without capital stock. Governor Has"Accepted Invitation. Governor W. W. Kitchin has accept ed an invitation to deliver an address at Shelby December 4, when the Farm ers' Union iWill hold a rally as a cli max to aseries of local rallies held throughout the county this fall. Mr. R. M. Gidney, chairman of the exec utive board of the Farmers' Union, re ceived a letter .from the governor ac cepting the invitation. An interesting program will be arranged and it is planned to have a great day. The union is very strong in Cleveland county. ,835,000 BALES FOR COTTON CROP FINAL ESTIMATE FOR THIS YEAR IS MADE BY NEW ORLEANS TIMES-DEMOCRAT. REPRESENTS ACTUAL CROP Concensus of Correspondents' Opin ion Shows 1911 Cotton Crop to Have Been Largest in Years. New Orleans. The Times-Demo crat presents its correspondents' final reports on the cotton crop or laii. The concensus of opinion Indicates Ihe following results; Alabama, 1,500,000. Arkansas and Missouri, 950,000. Georgia and Florida, 2,650,000. Louisiana, 375,000. Mississippi, 1,150,000. . Oklahoma, 960,000. 1 ' North Carolina and Virginia, 1,000,- )00. South Carolina, 1,500,000. Tennessee and Kentucky, 450,000. Texas and California; 4,300,000. Total, 14,835,000. ., This forecast relates' to actual rrowth, exclusive of linters, repacks ind similar additions. .;' , . New Orleans. There ought to be levelopment of interest in the ?cbt ion market this week, with the com ing in of December as a spot month, rhe first notice days for that deliv jry will be watched carefully, for the '.rade wants to get a line on what :he big spot interests intend to do in Ihe matter of deliveries on contracts, rt. has been the gossip of the market tor some time past that certain lnter- 5sts have been selling futures heavily with the Intention of 'delivering - low rade cotton against'hem. LIQUOR RECORDS;, BROKEN oroduction of Alcoholic Liquors the Greatest Ever Known. Washington. The annual report of Roval E. Cabell, commissioner or in lernal revenue, given out here, makes jAVfiral startling declarations. All records . were broken in the past fiscal year in the production of ileoholic liquors. The smokine of opium is a wide ?nread vice in this country, and Dpium "joints" exist in every city af considerable size. Tho double system of taxing oleo tnragarine is corrupting grocers, and gross frauds are being perpetrated on Hi a hnt.ter-buying public; The internal revenue receipts last rear were 322,526,299, the greatest in the history of the government. Corporations making returns under the new corporation tax law number ed 270,202, with an aggregate capital 3f $67,886,430, 519. The aggregate net Income to the stockholders was $3, 360,250,642. The year's production-of distilled smirks amounted to 175,402,395 gal lons, nearly 7,000,000 gallons more than in the previous banner year 1907. The production of beer, ale, etc., amounted to 63,216,8ol barrels, The amount of liquor held in bond ed warehouses for ripening now reaches the enormous total of 249 279,346 gallons. BEHEADED WIFE AND LOVER Wisconsin Italian Driven Mad by the Unfaithfulness of Wife. Kenosha, Wis. Tortured by the nental picture of his headless wife and her paramour, whom he slew, Pasouale Marches!. 27 years old, a merchant, went to a priest and con fessed the double crime which had theretofore not been discovered. The young, avpnger of his honor was turn ed over 'to the police, who are closely guarding him . for fear' of possible mob violence. According to Marches!, he went home and found his wife, Roxsaria, and his cousin and. namesake occupy ing Mrs. MarchesTs bedchamber. The younger Marchesi, who was not of ace. had been a favorite of the hus band, and the scene drove him mad, he said. Without allowing his pres ence to become known, Marches! went to a woodshed, procured a hand- ax. crept to the bedroom and cropped off the heads of the two lovers. Plumbing Trust Capitulates. Washington. The plumbing trust." which government officials say controls the sale of plumbers' supplies in most of the Rocky Moun tain and Pacific Coast regions, has capitulated to the department of jus tice and i3 seeking to avoid court proceedings. Representatives of the "trust," it became known here, will present their ideas of dissolution and compliance with the Sherman law at a conference to be held at the de partment. The evidence against the combination, it was said, is strong. KEEPIN' 'EM (Copyright, 1911.) TO " AID COTTON GROWERS DEAL ARRANGED AT CONFER . ENCE OF FINANCIERS AND GOVERNORS. X There Will Be No Interest Charge. . Fund Placed Through State Committees. . New , York. New York bankers who; have been conferring here for the " last few days with representa tives of the governors' conference and Southern cotton congress, an nounced that they had raised a fund of-. $50,000,000 to be placed immedi ately in the cotton belt states for the purpose -of handling the cotton crop of 1911 - and enabline growers to par ticipate J-n any rise in the market. The negotiations were conducted on behalf of the South by Gov. Em mett O'Neal of Alabama, Senator Bai ley of Texas, who has been advising his colleagues as to the legal aspects of the proposition; E. J. Watson, the president of the permanent South ern cotton congress and commission er of agriculture of South Carolina, and Clarence Ousley of Fort Worth, Texas, representing the governor of his state. The bankers who will furnish the fund, according to the statement, are headed by Col. Robert M. Thompson of the brokerage firm of S. H. P. Pell & Co. of New York. The finan cial support of several of the strong est banks in New York has been given to tbs plan, the statement con tinues. The plan proposes to advance the grower $25 per hale upon his cotton, based on the market value at the time of the loan. No interest will be paid upon the loan, the only charge being $1 a bale, which is regarded as a le gitimate minimum charge for expense of grading and handling. The cotton is not neld nor taken from the chan nels, of trade, but is placed at the best advantage. The grower is given the right to designate the day of sale prior to January 1, 1913, Details of the plan are yet to be worked out It has been decided, how ever, to place the fund through state committees- named by the governor or commissioner of agriculture of a state, and these committees shall be empowered to sell when cotton has reached 12 cents and compelled to sell when it reaches 13 cents regard less of advice from the growers. Pro vision against any violation of the Sherman anti-trust law is contained, the promoters believe, in a clause empowering each committee to name the day of sale in event the market climbs to 12 or 13 cents. $700,000,000 for $1,000,000. Washington. Alfred Merritt of Duluth. Minn., first president ot the Duluth, Missabe and Northern rail road, who styled himself a "lumber- iaek." unacquainted with the meth ods of the "money trust," told the house steel trust investigating com- mittpe that through loans of less than $1,000,000 from John D. Rocke- fpllpr he had lost his holdings in the Missable Iron mines, and the rail road properties now owned by the steel company estimated to De worm $700,000,000. Women Barred From Juries. Sacramento. Cal. Attorney General U. S. Webb ruled that women can not serve as jurors in this state, the mixtion havinj: been raised as a re- of the equal suffrage constitutional amendment. "Under the common law, says cbb, a stine of twelve free and JU1 J lawful men and under the same law women were not eligible to jury duty. I think our code did not change the common law rule. Suffrage to woman has not affected the question of eligi bility for jury service." TWIRLING WILL PROBE EXPRESS RATES Alleged That Express Companies Make 38 Per Cent. Annually on Plant Valuation. New York. Criticisms and reme dial recommendations, ranging from mild to radical, were presented to the interstate commerce commission at ' the opening here of a series of hearings to be held throughout the country in investigation of the ex press business. The magnitude of this business was brought out by Attorney Frank Lyon, counsel for the commission, who said that the combination ex press companies operate more than two hundred and seventy thousand miles of railway and do business through 31,328 stations. He placed the cost of operating the express plants at $27,000,000, the , operating net income at $10,000,000, or a trac tion over 38 per cent, on plant valu ation. Congressman David J. Lewis of Cumberland, Md. one of the first wit nesses, declared that government ownership would ultimately prove to be the only logical solution of the express business. He had abandoned the idea, he said, that a parcels post would give the required releaf. "Express rates are prohibitively high," he continued, "being sixteen times the freight rate $31.20 per ton for express and $1.90 for freight. Par cels post schemes, per se, impose a rate of 8 and 12 cents a pound. At 8 cents the cost would be $160 a ton or five times the average express charge, and eleven times the Euro pean parcels post. Above three pounds, the express companies now give much lower rates than propos ed by the parcels post, and fcelow three pounds they give rates as good." Contending that there should be a more natural ratio of express to freight charges, Mr. Lewis declared that there was a margin of profits made by the companies, he thought, on which the interstate commerce commission may operate to give re lief to business interests without jeop ardizing the investments and opera tions of the express business. To remedy- some prevailing condi tions, Representative Lewis sug gested: "Fast service is iiW provided by the railways. But the main need is an articulation of the' ffduntry and suburban points with the fail ways; which may be accomplished by ru ral delivery agency. Express railway contracts should be secured by the postal department to obtain low rail road rates. Cheap capital and a pub lic service motive, both of which the nation can certainly provide, is nec essary. Unification of express plants with the postal system is needed to secure simplification of methods and fullest economically feasible exten sion of collections and delivery." Rockefeller's Methods. Washington. Further details of the high finance methods of John D. Rockefeller in the ore fields were giv en before the Stanley steel investigat ing committee, and, as a result, it is expected that the oil king will be summoned as a witness. Doubt Feasibility of Cotton Plan. Dallas, Texas. A lukewarm recep tion of the announcement that New York bankers are ready to advance $30,000,000 to farmers on a cotton- holding plan, was accorded in inter views by cotton men in several of Texas' leading citizens. While some favored the object, nearly all express ed doubts about the possibility of making arrangements that would suit any considerable part of the cotton producers. Cotton middlemen gener ally said the project would not be accepted. BANKERS APPROVE THE Mill PUD REFORMATION OF MONETARY SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES APPROVED. URGE CONGRESS TO ACT Dealing With Question as an Eco nomic Problem Asked for by Anjfcrican Bankers. ' New . Orleans. With but one dis- sentim? vote the American Bankers Association gave its unqualified ap proval to the proposed Aldrich pian for the reform of the monetary sys tem of the United States. Coneress was urged to deal with the croDosition as an economic ques tion outside the domain of party pol- itics. Confidence was expressed tnax "the high purposes actuating tne na tional monetary commission assure the working oat of the details in ac cordance with the sound principles stated in the plan, In such a manner as to gain the confidence and support of all classes." Following the election of officers, the thirty-seventh annual convention of the association came to a close. Detroit was unanimously chosen on the first ballot as the convention city in 1912. Boston, Atlantic City, Chica go and Jacksonville, Fla., gave notice that they would ask for the conven tion in 1913. Vice President William Livingston of Detroit was elected president and C. H. Hutting of St. Louis, vice pres ident The convention then adjourned. BEATTIE IS ELECTROCUTED After Confessing Young Wife Mup derer Pays Penalty of His Crime. Richmond, Va. Henry Clay Beat tie, Jr.,: went to his death the Belt confessed murderer of his young wife, although the confession was nol 1 made public until four hours aftei he had paid the toll exacted by th law. He maintained to the end th remarkable "nerve he had exhibited since first he was accused of killing his wife on the ' lonely Midlothian turnpike last July. His last expres sion was a smiling sneer when h eb served the chair that wa.8 to laund him into eternity. The confession was made public ii the rotunda of a down town hotel bj the Rev. Benjamin Dennis, one of thf ministers who had labored -with Beat tie to repent. As a matter of. fact, il was acknowledged by the minister Beattie first admitted his gu.iU H vember 9, the first dy after )x9 eff tered the deatl chamber, , -1 The extraordinary document fol !owsj-"t, Hshry Clay Beattie, Jr., de sirous of standing right before! Cktf and man, do on this, the '23d day o! November, 1911, confess my, guilt cf the crime charged against me. Muct that was published concerning the de tails was not true, but the awful fact without the harrowing circumstances remains. For this action, I am trulj sorry, and believing that I am a'' peace with God and am soon to past into His presence, this statement l' made." J MORSE LEAVES U, S, PRIS0& Banker Moved From Federal Prisoi to Fort McPhersert, Atlanta. Charles W. Morse, . tia New York banker who has been ii the Atlanta Federal penitentiary foi inafty months, left that place, not ai a frea man, but to go to the arm; hospital at Fort McPherson. Col. J. T. Van Orsdale., in commanj at Fort McPherson. received a com munication from Washington order ing him to prepare for Morse s trans fer. The orders from Washington dli not state the length of time tha Morse would be kept in the Fort Mc Pherson hospital, simply requestini that accommodations be prepared fo: Morse, who would be kept under mea snnervision during his stay. I is said that the former banker Is in curably afflicted with Bright'a diseasi and it is for this reason his transfer is permitted. Tar Party Sentenced. Lincoln .Center, Kan. Two of thi three men charged with complicit; in th etarring of Miss Mary Cham berlain, a - school teacher, Johi Schmidt and Sherrill Clark, wen found guilty of assault and batter; by a jury while A. N. Simms, thi third defendant, was acquitted. Thi jury was out for nearly thirty hourt Sentence was deferred to permit at torneys to argue for a new trial. Thi court imposed sentences of one yea each in jail, the extreme penalty, the four confessed assailants.