M
u
r
A0
Year, la Adraoc.
FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
VOL. XXII.
PLYMOUTH, N, C. HID AY DECEMBER 15, 1911
NO. 26.
v
"V-
v
V
EIFIEEN PASSED
FROM FIFTY NINE
HIRtY-SIX WHITES AND EIGHT
OF THE NEGROES FAIL ON
PHARMACY.
ONE WOMAN , SUCCESSFUL
Held Examination' In Hall of House
of Representatives Conducted By
the State Board of Pharmacy
Names of Those Who Passed.
Raleigh. The State Board of
Pharmacy made its report as to the
examination of applicants for license
to practice pharmacy in North Caro
lina, and the report is that of the
fifty-nine who made application only
fifteen passed, forty-six having failed.
In the list of successful applicants
there are ten whites and five negroes,
one of these a woman. The failures
number thirty-six whites and , eight
negroes, and this percentage of fail
ures is larger than usual.
The examination was held in the
Hall of the House of Representatives
and lasted for two days, being con
ducted by the State Board of Phar
macy, this consisting of Messrs. B. V.
Zoeller, of Tarboro, president; F. W.
Hancock, of Oxford, secretary; W. W.
Home, of Fayetteville, I. W. Rose, of
Rocky Mount, and J. P. Stowe, of
Charlotte. In speaking of the exami
nations, and that several of the ne
groes, perhaps four, who passed, had
tried the examination at other timep.
The papers are inspected by num
bers and no names are known until
the papers have been passed upon.
Those who passed the examinations
are: ,
R .E. L. Wheless, of Spring Hope;
,T. J. Andrews, of Durham; J. N. Pitt
man, of Oxford, F. F. Fetzer, of Wades-
boro; C. A. Brady, of Newton; C. V.
Knight, of Greensboro, V. O. Hop
kins, of Saluda; J. N. Stinson, of
Morganton; G. A. Westbrook, of
Greensboro; I. O. Wilkerson, of Dur
ham; B. J. Burnett, (col.), of Greens
boro; J. B. Christian' (col.), of Winston-Salem;
C- W. Dunston (col.), of
Raleigh; Malevia E. Dye (col., wo
man), of Charlotte.
The Baptist Convention Adjourns.
With a mass meeting in the interest
of the work of the Baptist Young
People's Union in which a number of
short, but interesting, addresses was
delivered the eighty-first session of
the Baptist state convention came to
a close. It had been a happy ses
sion, enlivened with good feeling and
fellowship, magnificent reports and
eloquent addresses, a fitting culmina
tion to a year of marked success in
every department and along all lines.
The entertainment has been superb
and every desire of the hundreds of
: delegates and messengers from every
section' of the state anticipated by
the people of the church and commun
ity -
Forestry Association Held Meeting.
Through the efforts of Mr. A. C.
StroiiD. vice president of the North
Carolina Forestry Association, a meet
ing was held in the court house at
Gastonia to consider the ways and
means for carrying out the methods
recommended by the U. S: Bureau of
Entomology for the control of the
Southern pine beetle. This Insect has
done enormous damage to the pine
. .. J'-'orests of Gaston and surroundins
!"e'ounties, and the people have begun
to realize that something , must be
done, if possible, to prevent further
depredations.
North Carolinians Granted Patents.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant to
eitizens of North Carolina of the fol
lowing patents: W. G. Bulgin, Frank
lin, smelter smokewasher; H. M. Par
ker, Willets tilling machine; J. F.
Prather, Mount Airy,' display and
storage cabinets for shirts, etc.
Monroe. Work of doctoring the
acoustic conditions in the Monroe
court house was begun.
Farmers Fight The Meat Trust.
The Farmers' Union of Guilford
county has inaugrated a fight on what
It calls the meat trust of Greensboro,
and has called a meeting of the mem
bers of the union in the county to be
held in the court house Dec. 16 to
consider the advisability of establish
ing a market for themselves. A com
mittee was appointed some time ago
to consider the matter and this com?
raittee will be ready to report. The
farmers say that the wholesale and
retail men of Greensboro have enter
ed into an agreement.
BEAUFORT HOT AFTER TIGERS
Latest News of Interest to the People
That Has Been Collected From
Over the State.
Washington. A large moonshine
distillery was captured in this coun
ty near Latham's Crossroads by Depu
ty Collector C. C. Fagan, M. L. Wood
and Deputy Marshal J. A. Potter who
had received' information that a dis
tillery was located somewhere in that
vicinity. The officers after searching
for sometime located a large 75-gallon
distillery which they took possession
of and brought back to this city. A
number of empty barrels were found
near the still house, but no booze, evi
dently preparations for a flourishing
business during the Christmas holi
days. No arrests were made, as there
was no one in the vicinity of the still
house. The county authorities it is
understood believe that there are seV'
era! other moonshine distilleries in
the county and efforts will be made
to destroy these also.
Recorder W. D. Grimes and the
local police force under the able com
mand of Chief George N. Howard
have been conducting a very success
ful campaign against blind tigers and
vagrants during the past two weeks
There have been fifteen blind tiger
cases up before the recorder for trial
and a number of vagrant negro wo
men. At present there are several
prisoners in the city jail on these
charges awaiting the Judgment of the
recorder. There have already been
several convictions of blind tigers and
the recorder and the police are de
termined to exterminate them all in
this city.
Farm Demonstration Work.
For the past few days Mr. E. S
Millsaps, of the United States Agricul
tural Department, district agent for
Western North Carolina, has been in
this section with the view of estab
lishing a farm demonstration move
ment, thereby educating our farmers
to better methods of farm work. For
the present the corn crop is the only
crop in this section they want to
keep a record of.'. Mr. G. M. Goforth
a successful farmer, who resides about
a mile west of town, is the local rep
resentative, and will have charge of
the work in Catawba county. The
western district comprises the coun
ties west of Guilford. Mr. Millsaps
has recently visited many of the coun
ties in the mountain section of the
state. Mr. L. S. Denton, of the Uni
ted States Agricultural Department,
recently made a trip through this part
of the state, and Is very enthusiastic
over the apple culture in this sec
tion. There has recently been an
appropriation by the government for
the purpose of testing soil and investi
gating climatic conditions in Western
North Carolina to ascertain the exact
conditions of soil and climate, rela
tive to apple culture.
Has Retracted His Statement.
In the session of the State Board
of Agriculture Commissioner W. A.
Graham made a statement retracting
as not fair or just to State Chemist
B. W. Kilgore and Entomoligist Frank
lin Sherman for him to have referred
to them as he did in his annual re
port to the board, each ably and ac
ceptably filling the positions they oc
cupy on the board. They had been
designated by the board six months
ago to report as to means of elimina
ting duplicative experimental and
other work by department divisions,
a work that Commissioner Graham is
insisting is his prerogative. He refer
red to the two gentlemen as "im
ported regulators."
North Carolina' New Enterprises.
There were filed- in the office oi
the secretary of state the following
charters: The Asheville Timber Com
pany, is chartered with an authorized
capital of $1,000,000 subscribed, $1,
600, by J. Montgomery Smith, John
B. Anderson and Henry Stevens. The
McLean Grocery Company, of Rae
ford, with an authorized . capital of
$25,000, will begin business with $1,
800 by Hubert S. McLeand and others.
The Bowles and Martin Furniture Co.
of Hickory, begins business with a
paid in capital of $25,000, the Incor
porators being: J. C. Martin, J. W.
Bowies' and J. A: Sellers, all of Hick
ory. Raleigh. Apex has just voted a
bond issue of $10,000 for street Im
provement and fcr a market house.
Attorney Took Nol Pro In Case.
In Federal court at Greensboro
District Attorney Holton took a nol
pros In the case of W. W. Moss,
charged with impersonating a reve
nue officer. Moss came to the city
last spring and visited a number of
tobacco dealers saying that he was
a special revenue officer and exhibit
ing a badge of that department. He
was given admission to the stores
and he broke open a number of pack
ages. Finally he wound up with an
Inspection of the ' Elks club and it
was whil there that he waa arrested.
100 III KILLED
IN MINE EXPLOSION
DUST EXPLOSION IN TENNESSEE
COAL MINE CAUSES DEATH
OF MANY MINERS.
RESCUE WORK USELESS
Rescuers Who Penetrate Workings of
Mine Found Only Dead and
Mangled Bodies.
Briceville, Tenn. Somewhere In
the depths of the Cross Mountain coal
mine probably one hundred men lie
dead while their sorrow-stricken fam
ilies kepe vigil at the mouth of their
tomb, hoping against hope that their
loved ones may be alive when res
cuers reach them.
Eight torn and mangled bodies had
been brought forth when search was
abandoned for the day. Outside of
the immediate families of the entomb
ed men no one in this little mountain
village believes that any living thing
in the mine survived tHe terrfic ex
plosion of coal dust that wrecked the
workings.
For more than thirty-six hours ev
ery "surviving miner in thi3 region
had toiled with no thought of food,
sleep or pay, to remove the debris
and force fresh air into the inner
most recesses of the mine. They prac
tically have penetrated to the main
entry head, nearly three miles in
They expect to be ready to work the
cross entries in which the other bod
ies have undoubtedly been cast by
the force of the blast.
Black damp developed and retard
ed progress, but the silent force push
ed dauntlessly on, some of them till
they were carried out overcome by
the noxious gases. 7
Thousands of the morbidly, curious
flopked into the village , ind-crowded
about the main entry of the mine
They saw nothing because there was
nothing to see but the pitiablfif grief
of the stricicen families.
It is generally believed that the
disaster was due to a "dust explo
sion," which it is claimed is occa
sioned from the presence of an ex
cess of fine coal and mine dust upon
the floor of the mine; When the com
bination of gas and dust are ignited
an , explosion and concussion follows,
with terrific force and terrible effect,
M'NAMARAS ENTER PRISON
Dynamiters Arrive at San Quentine
to Serve Their Sentences.
San Quentin, Cal. The McNamara
brothers entered San Quentine peni
tentiary, where James B. Is condemn
ed to spend the remainder of his life
for his confessed crime of murder in
connection with the Los Angeles
Times explosion," and where John J.,
secretary of the International Associ
ation of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, is sentenced to fifteen
years' imprisonment for dynamiting.
The men entered the prison, it is
fairly authenticated, believing they
had achieved much, for the cause of
union labor and. had been misunder
stood in their efforts and the results
they obtained.
Whirled from Los Angeles on a
fast train, the men were taken from
it, at sunrise, put on a little river
steamer and landed, two hours and
a half later, at San Quentin prison
wharf on the shores, of San Pablo
bay.
As the prison clock struck 10, John
J. stepped over the threshold of the
jail door, with his brother directly
behind him. In five minutes James B.
had become convict 25,314 and John
J. number 25,315. They were meas
ured for jail clothing, photographed
in two positions, given a carbolic
tinctured bath, put into . stripes,
shaved and cropped and re-photo
graphed within an hour.
Cell 18, into which they were lock
ed, adjoins the tier in which con
demned murderers are kept and the
balcony outside, Is cut off by a little
grate. Further down the row toward
the other end is the cell of Abraham
Ruef, serving a 14-year sentence for
bribery in connection with the San
Francisco cases.
Postal Service Shows Surplus.
Washington. The annual report of
Postmaster General Hitchcock states
that the first time since 1883 the an
nual financial statement of the post
office department shows a surplus in
stead of a deficit. The revenues for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911,
amounted to $237,879,823.60 and the
expenditures to $237,660,703.48, leav
ing a surplus of $219,118.12. At the
beginning of the present administra
tion in 1909 the postal service was in
arrears to the extent of $17,749,-T70.47.'
HURRY UP!
(Copyright, 1311.)
M'NAMARAS ARE SENTENCED
JAMES B. " McNAMARA GOES UP
FOR LIFE WHILE JOHN J. Mc
NAMARA GETS 15 YEARS..
Judge Bordwell Bitterly' Denounced
Brothers When Passing Sentence
Upon Them.
.. ;
Confession to the Court
by James B. McNamara.
Los Angeles, Cal. The confes-
sion which James B. McNamara
had written out and which was
read in court before he was sen-
tenced. follows:
"I, James B. McNamara, defen-
dant in the case of the people,
f haviftg 'heretofore pleaded guilty
to the crime of murder, desire
to make this statement of facts:
"And this is the truth: On the
night of September 30, 1910, at
5:45 p. m., I placed in Ink Al-
ley, a portion of The Times
building, a suit case containing
sixteen sticks of 80 per cent.
dynamite, set to explode at one
o'clock the next morning. It
was my intention' to injure the
building , and .... scare the owners.
I did not intend to take the life
of any one. I sincerely regret
that these unfortunate men lost
their lives. If the giving of my
life would bring them back I
would gladly give it. In fact, in
pleading guilty to murder in the
first degree, I have placed my
life in the hands of the state."
"JAMES B. McNAMARA."
Los Angeles, Cal. James Boyd Mc
Namara and John J. McNamara, bro
thers, natives of Cincinnati, Ohio, felt
the strong hand of justice which they
long had sought to evade. James B.
McNamara was sentenced to impris
onment for life for murder commit
ted in dynamiting the Los Angeles
Times building and killing twenty-one
persons, and his brother to fifteen
years in the penitentiary for blowing
up the Llewellyn Iron works.
It was the retaliatory' action of the
law against those lawless methods
which John J. McNamara, secretary
and treasurer of the International As
sociatio nof Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, pursued in fighting em
ployers who kept open shops.
Though the younger brother, James
B., in formally presenting his confes
sion' to the court, declared that he
intended no murder when he placed
sixteen sticks of dynamite beneath
The Times building on October 1,
1910, John . J. McNamara, recounting
to his attorneys his principles, broke
down as' he muttered that he fought
against great odds
A few hours after the sentence was
pronounced by Judge Bordwell, word
went forth that subpjoenas would be
issued for both Mcamaras to appear
before a Federal grand jury to, di
vulge further details of their dyna
miting conspiracies.
The United States government will
demand of them information concern
ing interstate trafficking in dynamite,
Mexicans Lynch Eleven Men.
Mexico City. "Che" Gomez, whose
rebellion at Juchltan resulted in a
clash between President Madero and
the governor of Oaxaca, was lynched
at Rincon Antonio. Ten of Gomez'
partisans met a like fate. Gomez,
who was on his way to the capital
accompanied by ten of his followers,
was. taken from the train at Antonio,
and placed in jail by order of Gover
nor Juarez, in spite of the fact that
he had been promised safe conduct
by the president.
PLAN TO FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL
A Number of Articles Are Restricted
When They Originate Within
the Quarantine Area.
Atlanta. Following a session of
the entomologists of the South, who,
in company with a number of trans
portation ' men and prominent manu
facturers, have been discussing the
best possible way to quarantine the
boll weevil, a permanent organization
was formed by the entomologists and
a number of recommendations were
adopted.
The recommendations, ' designed to
meet modern conditions, remove lint
cotton from the quarantine list, one
of the most Important changes effect
ed since the first agreement between
the Southern entomologists, made in
1892. Dr. W. E. Hinds of Alabama
will be the permanent president of
the organization, while A. F. Conra
die of South Carolina will be secre
tary. The last meeting was held in
the office of State Entomologist E.
Lee Worsham.
The association adopted the follow
ing recommendations for articles to
be restricted, when originating with
in the quarantine area:
1. Seed cotton. .
2. Cotton seed.
" 3. Seed cotton sacks, cotton seed
sacks, cotton pickers' sacks which
have been used within eight months.
4. Cotton seed hulls between Au
gust 1 and December 30.
5. Spanish mos3 and corn in shuck
between October l'and June 30.
6. Household goods containing any
of the foregoing during the period of
quarantine apply to each.
7. Living weevils in possession of
any person outside of the infested ter
ritory except a qualified entomologist.
It adopted these recommendations
for articles not to be restricted, when
originating within the quarantine
area:
1. Bales of cotton, flat or compress
ed, with no restriction as to season.
2. Linters and loose cotton lint.
3. Cotton seed meal, cake and oil.
4. Corn shelled or shucked or with
shucks removed, oats or any other
seed except cottotn seed.
5. Cotton seed shown by affidavit to
have been sacked nine months or
more.
6. Cotton seed for planting pur
poses only after fumigation with car
bon bisulphide by competent ento
mologist. 7. Hay.
8. Empty cars.
The following principles of law
were decided upon:
1. Legislative enactment to provide
for quarantine under an official board
of not over five, to constitute respon
sible body which shall be charged
with formulations against insect pests
and plant diseases.
The law should provide competent
state entlmologists of proper training
2. All specifications of dangerous in
sects, plant diseases, etc., and all reg
ulations relating thereto shall be
adopted and published by said board
and subject to change under proper
public notice and announcement.
3. Law should provide suitable
means of prosecution of violators of
regulations and fix penalties therefor,
including fine or imprisonment.
Russian Treaty Hotly Attacked.
New York. Abrogation of the
treaty of friendly relations between
the United States and Russia made
in 1832 was urged in speeches deliv
ered by a dozen or more men of na
tional prominence and in resolutions
adopted at a meeting held here. The
meeting was under the auspices of
the national citizens' committee,
which plans a series of similar dem
onstrations in protest against dis
crimination by Russia in her refusal
for many years to honor tlw pass
ports of Jewish-American citizens.
MAINE BLOWN UP
FROM OUTSIDE
NAVY DEPARTMENT ISSUES A
SHORT STATEMENT OF DE
STRUCTION OF SHIP.
WAS DESTROYED BY A MIME
An Exterior Explosion Caused Six
Inch Reserve Magazine to
Explode.
Washington The battleship Maine
was blown up in Havana harbor by
an explosion from the outside.
This is the gist of a short state
ment issued by the navy department
based on findings made by the joint
army and navy board, which spent
several months in Havana harbor In
vestigating the wreck. The state
ment was as follows:
"The board finds that the injuries
to the bottom of the Maine were caus
ed by the explosion of a charge ot
low form of explosives exterior to
the ship, between frames 23 and 31,
strake Br port side.
Secretary Meyer announced that
there mieht be a further statement
on the report of the board after it '
had been considered by the president.
One member of the board was of the
opinion that the report never would
be published in full, but would be
kept in the confidential archives ot
the navy department.
The declaration that a "low form of
explosive" was used in the outside
explosion, indicates a belief that a
mine, and not a dirigible torpedo, was
the instrument of destruction.
This only deepens the mystery of ,,
the destruction of the Maine. A mine
charged with sufficient gun powder '
to blow in the bottom of the ship
must have weighed several hundred
pounds. To plant such a mine and
lay the electric connections neces
sary for its discharge would have re
quired ,the services of a number ot
men.
TOBACCO TRUST DISSOLVING
Stock Has Been Divided Among the
Common Stockholders. -New
York. The American Tobac-.
co company announced that the va
rious percentages of stock in Its old
subsidiary companies is to be divided
among the trust's common stockhold
ers. Announcement was also .made
that the holder of each share of com
mon stock in the trust would be en
titled to purchase at par 214964-401824
of a share of stock of the P. Lorillard
company, two of the new companies.
For each share of common stock in
the American Tobacco company, it
was announced the shareholders will
receive the following proportions ot
stock of the trust's subsidiaries:
For each share of common stock la
the American Tobacoc company, it
was announced, the shareholders will
receive the folioowing proportions ot
stock of the trust's subsidiaries:
"American Snuff company, common
stock, 7590S-401S24; preferred stock.
23764-401824; George W. Helm & Co,
27602-401824; Weyman-Bruton compa
ny, common stock, 27602-401S24; Mac
Andrews & Forbes Co., common stock
21129-401824; J. F. Young company,
common stock, 7043-401824; - Conley
Foil company, 4950-401824; Johnson
Tinfoil & Metal company 1800-401824;
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company;
500000-401824; Corporation of the Uni
ted Cigar stores, 60000-401824; Porto
Rican American Tobacco company,
13236-401824; British-American To
bacco company, limited, 5270892-401
824 shares of a par value of one
pound sterling."
Mar.chus Slain by Thousands.
Pekin. The first direct, and uncen
sored news received from Sian Fu
since the outbreak there was brought
here by messenger. It consists of let
ters to the British and American lega
tions and the director of posts. The
letters say 8,000 ManchUs were slain
by Chinese and that there was much
looting. Several mission houses in
the province were destroyed and eight
foreigners, some of them children,
were killed. Four of the dead were
Americans.
McNamaras Will Tell Nothing.
Los Aneeles. Th scope of the la
vestlgation undertaken by the Fed
eral grand jury here and the one 'ia
Indianapolis, Ind., so far as could be
learned, has not been sharply defined.
Government officials, it is thought,
will be able to determine only after
testimony of witnesses has proceed
ed further, whether to return indict
ments here or in Indiana. James IX.
and John J. McNamraa remained in
their cell3, reiterating that they
would tell nothing, even if called be
fore the grand jury.