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VOL. XI. MARSHALL JN. 0. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1909. NO. 41.
Battle off Kings Mountain Commemorated With
Grand Monument Day of Speech-Making
and Patriotic Pride.
King's Mountain Battle Ground,
Special. Thousands of people jour
neyed Thursday on a patriotic pil
grimage. The battleground of King's
Mountain was .the shrine of their
-seeking. Here in the presence of the
official heads of North and South
Carolina two United States Sena
tors and two Representatives in Con
gress besides others prominent in
the officialdom of two States, official
dedication was accorded the King's
Mountain monument a signal recog
nition by the Congress of the United
States of the valorous part played in
the war of independence by the sol
diers of the south.
It was a day of many features. Pre
sided over by Gov. Marin F. Ansel of
South Carolina, the exercises of the
morning which were prolonged into
the afternoon were entirely interest
ing. Undoubtedly they were to the
. audience gathered from a vast ex
panse of many counties in two or
more Commonwealths. For never be
fore did such an audience, of whom
the majority stood the entire time,
listen for three hours and a half to
constant making of speeches without
the slightest exhibition of restless
ness. Never had lonesome Kings Moun
tain been host to such a concourse.
For a day or two in advance strag
glers had been coming in wagons,
harbingers' of the hosts to follow.
From Gaston, from Cleveland, from
York, from Chester, from Spartan
burg, from Mecklenburg, ' from Mc
Dowell, "from Cabarrus, frou Lan
caster, from Union, even from Bun
combe they bad Come, the earliest ar
rivals pitching camp by the roadside
and in the woods in true pioneer
fashion.
Before dawn an endless stream of
carriages and buggies and wagons
were rattling and rumbling along the
winding ways. Three roads, that
from Kings Mountain, that from
Grover and that from Yorkville had
been put in excellent condition by
public appropriations and private
subscriptions inspired by civic pride.
Contributing most, brightly to the
animation of the occasion was the
delegation of Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution from Charlotte, from
Yorkville and other places. The
Charlotte delegation, of course, in
cluded the' delegates who were there
attending the North Carolina Con
gress of - that organization. It ' is
doubtfull if ever before so many rep
resentatives of feminine culture, re
finement and loyal patriotism climb
ed breathlessly the cliff . which the
plateau overtops. .
- Seveif companies of the national
guard of North and South Carolina
were present. Friday they reproduced
the battle of Kings Mountain with
the deathless cartridges. One . of
these companies is from North Caro
lina, the Dallas company, under the
command of Capt. A. L. Bullwinkle.
The others are respectively; from
nocK mu, x or, juui. oiumDia lyoru-
TT'I1 tSTMl "I 1 r
walL Yorkville and Spartanburg. In
. tt " rr i mi ct t i r
eommand of these' provisional troops
DRIFTED BY THE STORM
' Port Arthur, Tex., SpeciaL Water
logged, dismantled. And. with the decks
fcftMly- above the water, as she was
being towed by the Guffey Company
steamer Winifred, the Kate . Flore,
Capt. Whitney, from Mobile to Cuban
porta, limped into poet Friday with
what was left of the crew in the
throes of starvation. - Of the crew of
seven which sailed from Mobile, Fri
day night five are in " the hospital
THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY - IS STILL DUBIOUS
ing resolution - was adopted at the
meeting of the board of managers of
the ' National Geographical Society
held "at "Hubbard Memorial HaO as
an introduction to the reports of Dr.
F. A. Cook and Commander R; , E.
Peary, to be printed in the magasine
of the society:
"We print' herewith the reports
of Dr. F. A. Cook and Commander R.
E. Peary announcing the discovery -of
the North Pole April 21 1908, and
April 6, 1909. Before the society ean,
was CoL W. W. Lewis of the First
Infantry. In general charge of the
whole exercises was Col. J. C. Boyd
of Columbia, S. C, Adjutant General,
The monument is the third erected
in honor of the heroes of this turning
point of the revolutionary struggle,
.Col. Asbury Coward, chairman of
the executive committee, in present
ing Gov. Ansel to preside over' the
meeting said: i
"This beautiful day ushers in
day rendered glorious for the deed
accomplished on October 8, 1780. It
is the most notable that can be found
in all our. annals..
"It is peculiarly a matter of com
pelling pride because the result of the
battle was due to the spontaneous ini
tiative of the plain people of that
whole section and others contribut
ing of their men to the American
forces on that occasion. It was here
on this lonely spot that the repres in
tative of a foreign power was over
thrown and a triumph achieved which
laid the foundation for the reahza
tion of the Declaration of Indepen
dence and the existence of the con
stitution of the United States the
repository of all our liberties.
"The dead were left unburied after
the battle and the place was avoided
as haunted territory. Then, about 30
years later, the neighbors came again
bnried them at the foot of a stone
which recorded their deeds in simple
language. In 1855 the counties recog
nized the significance of what had
happened and gathered to give ex
pression to appreciation. Men like
John S. Preston and the great his
torian Bancroft, spoke with eloquence
of the part played by the men at
Kings Mountain. Later came the
other monument. And so. the recog
nition has spread. First the neigh
bora then the counties, then the State
and now the United States has placed
its seal of approval and appprecia-
tion."
The monument first erected is
simple soapstone slab. The second
is much more pretentious in monu
mental form, and is quite creditable.
The third for which Congress ap
propriated $30,000, is a granite shaft
831-2 feet high, with inscriptions as
follows :
On the north and front face:
Erected by the
Government of the United States of
America,
to the establishment of which the
heriosm and patriotism of those
who participated in this battle
so largely contributed.
West face:
To commemorate the victory of
King's Mountain, October 7, 1780.
On the east face the names of the
killed, the mortally wounded and the
less seriously wounded are inscribed
President Snydor of Wofford Col
lege, was the orator of the day. He
was measurably brief but eloquent
and historic to the delight of the vast
assembly..
Senator Overman and Gov. Kitchin
of North Carolina, Senator Smith and
Congressman D. E. Finley of South
Carolina eaoh addressed the enthusi
astic audience. Congressman Webb
was detained at home by sickness of
his son and his address was read by
Congressman Page, his colleague in
Congress. : "'; ''''
The whole occasion was the exe
cution ,of a program 'most inspiring
to young patriots and pride insipirihg
uo me descendants 01 me neroes
It l .it 1
whose noble deeds the handsome shaft
stands as a perpetual memorial. ' '
THEY WERE PERISHING
with slight ehanees of recovery, while
another was washed overboard in the
recent hurricane, and a second died
of starvation shortly-before and came
to the helpless vessel, washed hun
dreds of miles out of her course. '
The Kate Flore sailed from. Mobile
about September 12, with a cargo of
lumber for Cuban1 ports. Encounter;
ing the hurricane, the boat was strip-;
ped to the decks and waterlogged.
however, accept . the conclusions of
either Commander Peary or Pr. Cook
that the North Pole has been attain
ed it will be necessary thtt the scien
tific records and data of each explor
er .be carefully - examined " by ; its
committee on research or . by some
body or commission acceptable to the
board. '. i ?-'---.v i y"'i .-".'' .'
"The society takes this position,
not from any distrust of the personal
integrity of either explorer r but 'be
cause of the" many calculations that
enter into the determination of the
pole." ; : v.;---, ,':
COTTON CR0PN0TS0 GOOD
Most Unfavorable Report Issued by
the Department of Agriculture at
This Season of the Year in Many
Years..
Washington, Special. The most
unfavorable report on the condition
of the cotton crop issued by the
Department of Agriculture at this
season of the year for many years
has just been made public. Financial
and weather conditions combined to
make the report unfavorable.
The . official report indicates that
on September 25 the condition of the
cotton crop 'was only 58.5 per cent.
of normal, as compared with 63.7 per
cent, on August 25, 1909; 69.7. on
September 25, 1908, 67.7 on Sep
tember 25, 1907, and 67 per cent
on that average for ten years on Au
gust 25, 1909.
After the .announcement by the
Department of Agriculture of the
figures recording the average for this
month, Dr. S. A. Knapp, chief of the
co-operative demonstration work for
the Department of Agriculture in the
south, after the conference with Sec
retary Wilson, said that- the serious
falling off in the figures, especially
for Louisiana and Mississippi, were
due to two conditions. One was the
excessive rainfall in the early part
of the cotton crop season, followed
by a serious drought and the second
was the failure of cotton planters to
obtain advances on their crops from
bankers. The latter reason forced
the planners to dismiss a consider
able part of their labor at a time
when the boll weevil was a most seri
ous pest.
Dr. Knapp Gives Reasons.
Dr. Knapp stated that another res
son which induced a falling off in the
general average of Louisiana, was
that there was practically 30 per cent.
less of acreage in cotton than in pre
vious years.
The boll weevil did serious damago
during the past year in the southwes
tern quarter of Mississippi.
"In my judgment," said Knapp,
"the really serious trouble, which
applied to all of th)e cotton States,
was brought abont by the excessive
rainfall in the early part Of -the sea
son and the excessive dronght in the
latter part. In some of the States
planters scarcely could obtain water
enough for their live stock. This
was particularly true of Texas and
Oklahoma. What is known lis the
New Orleans storm, which passed up
through portions of Louisiana and
western Mississippi, blew - out im
mense quantities of cotton and served
seriously to detract from, the excel
lence of the crop."
Secretary Wilson declined to make
any statement regarding the figures
given out by his department. He
said that he could talk about the
wheat crop, about the condition of
cattle in the west and about almost
anything else but cotton He said
that Dr. Knapp knew more about the
cotton crop from practical observance
of conditions in the south than any
other . man in the department, and he
had nothing to add to the statement
made by him. .
Comparisons of conditions by
States on September 25 and the 10
year average follow:
10-yr.
1909 1903 Av.
Virginia ..71
North Carolina .. ..70
South Carolina .. ..70
78
69
68
68
72
70
70
55
71
70
78 -70
70
;69.7
7o
70
69
69
71
67
Georgia.... .. .. ..71'
Florida .. .. .. ..67
Alabama.. .. .. ;..62
Mississippi. ..53
68
67
63
67
72
74
69
67
Louisiana A
...39
..52
.JS4
. .68
'.J72
Texas,,, v.
Arkansas ,.
Tennessee. .
Missouri.,,.' ,. ..
Oklahoma
..55
United: States.. t.58J
.V, Curtias Makes a' Flight
St. Louis, Mo., Special. Under ad
verse conditions, Glenn H. Curtiss, by
a flight in his bi-plane late Friday
afternoon in Forest park, received the
applause and cheers of the ' many
thousands of persons who had waited
for hours for- the wind to slacken.
George Francois. Ozmont and HugR
Robinson of St. Louis 'attempted .t
make their machine- fly; but j failed;
Ozmont, after Curtiss had made his
successful flight, tried a Seconal time
and' his machine was 'damaged by
striking the ground, but .he was un4
injured;' .' , . . . . , !
- Four Persons Burn to Death: - '
Nashville, ;. Tend - Special. Fire
broke out here Friday morning while
occupants of the house were asleep.
ever a store. . Four of the fire com
panies arrived on the scene, but in
spite of heroic efforts to enter their
apartment in the face of flames burst
ing from the windows, every member
of the Fishman family but tni -perished.
Miss Rachael Markeson, the oth
er victim, lived in same apartment.,
GULF COAST STORM
Key West is Caught and Suf
fers Severely.
FATALITY NOT GREAT HOWEVER
Estimated Damage $2,000,000 Wood
and Brick Buildings Tumble Alike
Storm Takes to the Ocean and
Relief is Felt.
Key West, Fla, Special. As a re
sult of the hurricane which struck
the Southern coast of Florida Mon
day morning, Key West Monday niit
is a mass wreckage and the damage
to property is estimated at $2,000,
000. Martial law was proclaimed by
the mayor at 6 o'clock and the Key
West guards are patroling the city.
The United States government was
asked to dispatch troops here without
delay, to assist in patroling the storm
swept area.
Chaos reigned on every hand and
few people remained in their homes,
hundreds of which were either totally
wrecked or damaged.
It is known that many persons have
received more or less serious injury
and reports are current that several
lives were lost.
The storm reached its height at 1
o'clock in the afternoon, when the
wind reached an estimated velocity of
100 miles an hour. There was a
hard, steady blow from 8 a. m. to 3
p. m., when the wind began to die
down and by 4 o'clock the center of
the hurricane had passed this point.
The hurricane is the worst that
Key West has ever experienced. Of
one hundred local vessels in the har
bor Monday but five remained at an
chor, the others having either gone
to sea or been washed upon the beach
es. The streets along the water front
were a mass of wreckage.
Brick as well as frame dwellings
throughout the city suffered alike
from the fury 'of the heavy wind and
many miraculous escapes from death
or serious injury have been reported.
Besides the several' score of resi
dences either totally wrecked or
blown from their pillars, nine fae-
lories were partially destroyed, in
cluding the Havana-American, Mar
tinez, Nichols, Ruy Lopez, Manuel
Lopez, Flotas Torris, Cortez and
Wolf cigar manufactories.
No. 1 and No. 2 engine houses of
the city fire department were de
stroyed, the firemen narrowly escap
ing, but several of the horses beinu
killed. The top of the First National
Bank was blown off, the postoffice
damaged and two running gears of
the government coaling station were
wrecked.
Every telephone and electric light
pole on Duval street, the principal
thoroughfare of the city, were blown
down.
Great fears were suffered for other
points-alone the coast, but at 9:30
Tuesday nisjht the weather bureau re
lieved further fears with the follow
ing dispatch:
"Down hurricane warning 10 p, m
Mobile, Pensacola Panama City. Ap-
palachicola. Carrabelle, Cedar Keyj,
Rockwell, Tampa, Punta Gorda, Pun
ta Rassa, Key West. Storm centers
southeast Florida moving northeast.
Apparently no further danger on the
G"Uf coast.
Cuba in Storm.
t Havana, By Cable The most ser
ious cyclone since the big blow of
October 17, 1906, struck Cuba early
Monday morning, causing extensive
devastation through the whole west
ern Ttortion 'of the island. In the citv
of Havana many minor buildings
were blown down or unroofed,, almost
all the trees were uprooted and five
persons were killed one by an electric
wire and the others by falling, build
ings." About twenty-five persons were
injured. ; ' ';
. S,A. Ik Makes Progressive Step.
'Richmond, Vs., SpeciaL John
Skelton Williams is back from , the
meeting of the reorganization com
mittee and the board of directors of
the Seaboard Air Line system in New
York. He speaks encouragingly of
(he system and the harmony and. co
operation .hoped for among interested
parties.- The system has recently ab
sorbed five smaller systems in the far
South aggregating nearly 400' miles.' t;
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yvf Seems Horrible Murder.; r
4liyerjton, R. It SpecialAThe find
ing of the severed legs of a woman in
a' dre suit case among some bushes
10 an outlying section of this town
Monday brought .to Jight whaj' the
authorities are convinced is a ea.se of
murder. The discovery ; of a New
Bedford newspaper of Sunday's date
with the portions of the limbs is re
garded as the most important clue
thus far nWsincd, indicating possibly
the place bt the murder, if murder
there wasr The authorities were of
the opinion hat the woman was mur
dered in New' Bedford.; ; ; ;
PRESIDENTJAFT'S TOUR
Enthusiastic Thousands Greet Sia
On His Western Trip.
As he was crossing from the Oak
land to San Francisco the army
transport Thomas was setting sail for
the Philippines and by the Presi
dent's request the revenue cutter
Golden Gate, on which he was a pas
senger, was drawn up alongside the
big vessel, the sides of which were
lines with soldiers and the families of
officers.
On the bridge of the transport the
Philippine constabulary band was
drawn up and was playing, "Hail to
the Chief as the President shouted
across the water to khaki-clad sol
diers :
"Good-bye, boys; I wish you a
pleasant voyage."
Answering cheers came back to the
President.
"Does it make you feel homesick,
Mr. President?" asked a member of
the President's party.
"Indeed, it does," replied Mr.
Taft, "and I would give anything if
I were going with them."
One of the most pathetic incidents
of the President's trip marked his
stay in Berkley. He passed in re
view of the pupils of an institution
for the deaf, dumb and blind. The
tribute of flags waved with unseeing
eyes, of silent nods of the dumb, and
cheers from the blind deeply impress
ed the President.
An all-day stage ride over thirty
four miles of mountain road brought
President Taft Thursday night to this
little sierra retreat, eight miles from
the entrance to the Mariposa grove of
big trees, whither the Chief Executive
started at sunrise Friday.
News that mountain lions were in
festing the park held out hope of ad
venture for a time, but not even the
tracks of one were seen on the road.
The President declared that Thursday
was one of the most enjoyable days
of his life. It was the first glimpse of
the Yosemite and the impressive sur
roundings, the bracing mountain air,
the freedom from speech-making all
contributed to the pleasure of the first
day of roughing it in the Sierras.
His constant coach companion was
John Muir, the noted naturalist and
explorer.
He alighted from the stage during a
portion of the trip and walked a mile
op- more up the mountain road. It
gave him a splendid appetitie for the
picnic luncheon of fried chicken, pota
toes, fruit and jelly served in the
Grouse creek pine forest.
The President arrived at Glacier
Point Friday evening. The drive from
Wawona, where he spent the forenoon
visiting the Mariposa big tree groves,
was over twenty miles of mountain
road and the President was ready for
bed immediately after dinner. He
arose before dawn and started for the
sequoia trees in a dense fog, which
quickly cleared, however. He was
deeply impressed with the immense
trees, especially in the upper groves.
He was photographed at the base of
the "Grizzly Grant," the biggest and
oldest tree in the world; and he was
snapped in the stage as it passed
through the trunk of' the Wawona,
one of the largest of the forest mon
archs.' The President's speeeh at Fresno,
Ca., Sunday was in reality another
Sunday sermon, "the third he has
preached since his trip began.
His text, quoted from memory, was
"He Who ' Conquereth Himself is
Greater Than He Who Taketh a
City," and from it the President drew
the lesson that popular government
must always be a failure unless it is
based upon sound common sense and
the self-restraint that goes to make
the good loser. : He drew an anology
between, the American people in this
respect and those people who in their
attempts at self-government follow
an election with a revolution.
On his way here President Taft at
tended morning service at the Presby
terian church at Merced.
A feature of the President's visit
to Fresno was the presentation of
good will from the Japanese residents.
"We hail yon, sir, as the honored
Chief of a . grea. . nation which we
are glad is on the friendliest terms
with ours,?' they said, and we also
rejoice that our beloved -country
Japan, has the honor find great priv
ilege of reciprocating1 such fraternal
regard." ;,.':
. . After an all-day stay at El Paso
Sunday he President starts on anoth
er long jump, San .Antonio being his
nevt stop, and there he' is to accept
on behalf of the United States army
a' magnificent chapel and library
building, the gift of San Antonians,
as an appreciation of the American
soldier. :. '.!.;:;v,V' ':.'':'- i; '
SNAPPY AND BRIEF
SSf.;?-..;-
Items Gathered and Told White
You Hold Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered From the Fields ef Action
at Home and Abroad.
Dr. Cook says he will acquesce in
a request by the American Geograph
ic societies in requesting the Copen
hagen University to waive its claim
to prior examination of his records.
In doing so it was to meet the de
mand in America for a scientific test
of the claims both of Cook and Peary.
Copenhagen does not take well to it
but Dr. Cook hopes to make it right
and let the examination go on.
Samuel E. Herman fell overboard
a gun coat ana was drowned and a.
Daniels and E. Hermaine were aspyx
ated with gas in a room as naval
casualties last week amid the great
Hudson-Fulton celebration.
Sheriff H. J. Pope, of Taylor coun
ty, Ga., was terribly it not fatally
wounded, being shot three times by
J. R. Brown, whom he was attempt
ing to aiTest Saturday night.
President Taft was moved to tears
Saturday at Portland, Oregon, by
school children in drill. They spell
ed Taft by rising with flags in form
to make each letter and then in on
burst pronounced the word.
Two men were killed and a number
of other street car passengers in
Pittsburg, Pa., were injured Sunday
by the breaking of an axle which
eaused the car to tumble over.
Arthur Wright was arrested Sat
urday at Portland, Oregon, as ho
pressed too hard to get near Presi
dent Tai't with a camera. He was
found to have a revolver of heavy
calibre with a pocket full of cart
ridges. Upon further examination it
is now believed that he really had no
bad intentions toward the President.
Albert Pulitzer, brother of Joseph
Pulitzer, the phenomenal genius of
the New York World, committed
suicide at Vienna Sunday evening.
lie had been a great sufferer from
nervous breakdown.
The difficulties of Spain, with the
Moors in Africa, in which Morocco
is about to be involved, is assuming
the attitude of a holy war and the
tribes seem frantic.
Charles A. Gordon, who, by con
fession of the woman was criminal
ly intimate with Mrs. Wm. N. Fault
ing and killed him on account of
these conditions, was sentenced to
life imprisonment at Walthonrville.
Ga., last week, and Mrs. Faullin;'
was banished from the State.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson, of
Duncannon, Pa., have a living child
weighing less than two pounds and
that could be put into a quart cup.
In France recently a man was tried
for killing his wile. He explained
that he did it as an act of mercy at
the request of his wife, who was a
prolonged and intense sufferer. The
jury pronounced him not guilty.
St. Louis, Mo., is celebrating the
city's centennial in a jubihe of a
week. It began on Sunday by 15,000
children in exercises.
A farmer named Vostburg, near
Lake Champlain, N. Y., recently
plowed up some gold eoins. He went
to digging out till he had more of
the eoins than he could carry, prob
ably $50,000. It is believed that the
money was put there by some thief in
the Burgoyne campaign, who never
lived to make use of it
James E. Martin, Jr., is a babf
living on Long Island, N. Y- and is
heir to $500,000: His widowed moth
er asked the court for an annual al
lowance for his rearing and here are -the
items as allowed: ' For a home,
$4,000; for maintaining same, $7,500; "'.
far an automobile and its keep. $3,-, -000;
for entertaining, recrations, and
exercise, $1,300; for medical atten
tion and medicines, $200; for cloth
ing, $750; total $15,750. r !
Captain C; E. Borchgrevink, tb
antartie explorer, opposes the propos
ed submission of Dr. Cook's records
to the university at Copenhagen and
to the committee of the American Gee-
graphical Society. He declares that
this would not prove Satisfactory.
both bodies being, he thinks, ! prej
udiced in favor of Dr. Cook. V Cap
tain Borchgrevink suggests that the
Geographical Society ,of vOenoa, . as
an unprejudiced body, should be Ask
ed to' settle the matter.- ' "
The little ' son of Congressman E.
T. Webb, being critically ' ill, Mr.
Webb could not attend the King's
Mountain celebration on Thursday
and Friday. ' ';'- '