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Tribune. VOL. XIX. Price 40 Cents a month. CONCORD, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1909. Single Copy 5 Cents. NO. 156. Evening HE EDUCATIONAL 0ATHERINO. gOTthtrn Educational Allocation in Session at Chariot Charlotte, N. C, Dee. 28,-Sixteen States have sent delegations to the an nual convention of the Southern Adu eational Association, which met in this city today for a three days' session. The various State superintendent of public instruction as well as many eourtty and city superintendents are in attendance, and there are also present many noted edueAtors who have been invited to address the gathering. Prominent among the latter are form er President Elliott of Harvard Uni versity, President Judson of the Uni versity of Chicago and President Jor dan of Leland Stanford University. Among tbe noted So nt hern educa lors who are scheduled for addresses are President Hill f the University of Missouri, Chancellor KMdand of Vandorbitt University, President Mese of the University of Texas, President Denny of 'Washington and Lee University, President Abererom bie of the Univesity of Alabama, President Verrable of the University of North Carolina, President Mitchell of the University of South Carolina, President Kincannon of the Universi ty of Mississippi, and Prof. Claxton of the University of Tennessee. In conjunction with the meeting of the Southern Educational Association sessions are being held by the Amer ican school peace league, the South ern association for the Improvement of public school houses, the religiou of public school buses, the Religius Educational association and the South ern Society of Philosophy and Psycho- lory. ZELAYA ENTERS DENIAL. The first session was held at 10:30 in the morn inc. On bdbalf of the State Superintendent J. Y. Joiner delivered a welcoming address. Mayor Hawkins also welcomed the visitors and a re sponse was made by Mr. R. J. Tighe, of Asheville. The morning and even ing sessions were largely attended. Many distinguished visitors are in attendance. EOSE HILL VISITED BT SERIOUS FIRE. Wilmington, Dec. 28. Rose Hill, a small town between Wilmington and Oolduboro, w visited by a disastrous conflagration this morning. Private advices received in this city stated the Are raged for five hours be fore it was suppressed. The Bank of Rose Hill was destroy ed along with thirteen business houses. Papers, currency and documents in the bank were saved. The building was insured. Agregate loss of other structures beyond amount of insurance carried is 40,000. It is stated in a letter received that outside communication was interrupt ed by the fire. The people of Rose Kill ihave al ready started clearing away the debris preparatory to rebuilding the struc ture destroyed, DAVIS DRUG COMPANY. State lianas Charter to the Saris Brag Company of This City. The Secretary of State on yesterday issued articles of incorporation to the Davis Drug Company of thia city, the mum being the incorporation of the company baying out the corner utore of 8. W. Williams, and incorporated by Messrs. L. A. Brown, J. I. Davis and others, with a capital tock au thorised at $10,000. v The new com pany fcaa charge of the store and Mr. William is out.' " , Declares That He is Not a Prisoner in the Hands of the Mexican Officials in Any Sense of the Word May Go to Belgium to Live. Cordoba, Mex., Dec. 28. Jose Santos Zelaya denied today that he was a prisoner in the hands of the Mexican officials in any sense of the word. He stated emphatically that such was not the cave nd that he was free to go where he choose. Zelaya declared that 'he favored friendly intervention on the part of the Mexican and United States gov ernment, to the end that a consolida tion of all the Central American re- pnblices might be brought about. He 9aid he believed (Secretary Knox was now realising the injustice of his attitude toward him and declared he never understood why the Secretary should have molested him. He might go to Belgium to live, he said. In any event, he would not re turn to Nicaragua until peace is re stored. It was his opinion that the war would end within two months, but he would not venture an opinion as to which of the combatnn'ts would be -finally successful. The report concerning his wealth Zelaya sad, were grossly exaggerat ed. 'His fortune is not over 2,000,- 000 gold and is invested mostly in Nicaraguan government bonds. He claimed to have a-vanced the $50,000 paid on the Emery -claim as a person al loan out of hk own funds, there having been no money in the govern ment treasury at that time. This amount, he said, had never been re funded to him. lie strongly denied that he had wrongly obtained any part of his fortune through conces sions of which ho had the disposal. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY I . We are now selling Ledgers and Binders for the new year. With the coming of another year there are many who will want to make changes in llieir books and nothing should he decided on until The Peo ples Print Shop is consulted. We 'have been selling these goods luring the month of December to those who are anticipating their wants for 1910 and as a consequence our stiock lias been somewhat reduced. The time to decide on what you will need and 'want i now at hand-;, and as we will be constantly making orders dur ing the next few weeks, we tnist that those interested, or expect to be later, see us at owe. ft is a mistake to wait too long and then perhaps eicrieiice a delay in getting orders filled. Call and let us talk over the matter with von. Peoples Print Shop. THE YOKE Of DOLLAR MARK. . Affected Electrio Light. La Orange, Dee. 28. The dimness of the electric lights recently caused the manager of the plant much un easiness and for sonic time the trouble eontd not be located. Finally be ex amined the bos under -the water wheel and great mess of eels was found. Thee were jammed in so fast thai it impeded tb taming of the wheel. One hundred nd fourteen large eel were removed, weighing 158 pounds. .The j ItgtU are all right now. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. Six Die by Accident or Assault at Blnefleld Coal Field. BluefleM, W. Vs., Dec. 27. Death by accident and assaults .reduced the population of this coal field by at least half a score during the Christ mas celebration. All are said to have been drinking. The dead are: He-rgert Oose, shot nd killed by Lee Findley, near St Paul, Va. William White and Wash Jones, ne groes, killed by each other in a pistol duel at St. Paul, Va. James Hill, shot and fatally wound-1 ed by man named Widnener, near Vir ginia Crty, Va. x J. R. Sawyers, run over by train at Huger, Va. C. Leveriey, found dead on track at Vulcan, Va. jonn ratrvcK, leu irom moving train at Cedar Bluff will die. John Willis, throat eat in fight with William Odell at Tom Greek, Va. "Two unknown men, one a negro, kill ed by train at Landgraff. Farmers' Meeting. There will be a regular meeting f the East Cabarrus Farmers' dub Sat urday evening, annary 1st, in Mt. Pleasant at 1 o'clock. A full attend ance is requested that eaeh member may receive their premium. W. H. FISHER. - Mr. Locke Erwin returned to the city this morning on No. It Supreme Curt Justice Howard, of New York Make Some Very Per tinent Observation. Troy, N. Y., Deo. 28. "The age of patriotism has yielded -to the age of commercialism. Uppermost in the hu man mind today is not, the 'stars and stripes, but the dollar mark." Such was the declaration of Su preme Court Justice Wesley O. How ard, in an opinion today reducing the compensation of members of a com mission appointed to appraise dam ages to property resulting from the ages to property resulting from the construction of the Ashokan reser voir in Ulster county, which is to furnish a water supply for New York oi ty. "While the commissions furnish avenues for the wreckless escape of many dollars, there are other channels of leakage and wastefullly as ap palling," said Justice Howard. "It is to be greatly regretted that no public enterprise can be projected ind consummated without this appal ling loss, ailed 'graft.' " Graft if lot necessarily an illegal expenditun f money, but it is tht unnecessary vasteful use which characterizes th oustruction of every public welfare "At lest forty ier cent of all tht noney appropriated for public use is lost in graft. All things could be possible if this frightful leak could be stoped roads, canals, libraries, asy lums and hospitals. "draft is a product of our times and institutions. It is the people who we responsible. They expect graft, and even spoil and booty, to deplete their esources whever any great un dertaking is ventured by them; and they look with complacence and tol eration and indifference at ravages upon tiu-ir property. Graft is as much an clement to be reckoned with In computing the cost of a public struc ture, as is cement or lumber. It has ome to be a matter of course this ake off a loss reeonized bv all 'who makes the estimates of cost in such cases. A public structure built hon estly would be a freak." Justice Howard declares that the "whole project of the condemnation of land in the Ashokan Valley is char acterized by waste, disorder and con fusion. " OFFICER NABS A BLOCKADE DISTILLERY. Jefferson, Dec. 28. Oliver Ham, deputy sheriff of Horse Creek town ship, Ashe county, came to Jefferson last night with a distillery, complete with cap and worm, and with Sam Miller and John Hall under arrest. The deputy sheriff delivered the pris oners into the justice's court here and upon examination by the justice they were discharged, it appearing to the oourt that the wrong men had been arrested. The jailer has charge of the still and fixtures. When the deputy sheriff found the distillery there was about sixty-five gallons of "backings and singlings' and the fire had just been drawn from the furnace. The men 'who were arrested were at the still when found and were supposed to be the operators, hen-ee their arrest. Oliver Ham is an efficient deputy sheriff, and if Ashe county had enough of such men in office the traffic in liquor and blockading would Tiost assuredly be stamped out. The "backings and singlings" were de stroyed by the deputy sheriff. THREE ALLEGED SWINDLERS CAPTURED THE PROJECT TO BE COMPLETED umington, J-ec. jb. It is an noumsed here today that at a recent meeting of the bondholders of the Rockingham Power Company in New York at Which 97 -per cent of the bonds were represented, the inde pendent bondltolders, -plan proposed by the North Carolina -insterests was substituted for the plan of the re-or ganization committee, and a com mittee composed of J. P. , Council Hugh M Rae of North Carolina and Robert E McCormick of Chicago was appointed to put the plan in effect. It is believed now that the obstacles to the sueoessful financing of the de velopment are out of the way and that the property will be speedily completed along the lines contemplat ed by the original promoters. PROGRAM OF DEMOCRATS. To Keep Down Appropriation Bills and to Vote Against Ship Subsidy, Washington, Dec. 28. 'The pro gram bf the Democrats in the House at this session is to keep down the amount of appropriation bills and to vote against ship subsidy," said min ority leader, Champ Clark, of Mis souri, today. "The House leaders are rushing everything to ge the appropri ation measures through, and that sub ject and the ship subsidy proposition seem to be about the only two things that are to be taken up. We are op posed to the ship subsidy bill.. We favor river and harbor bill. I look for adjournment of Congress in April, certainly by May 1." Mr. and Mrs. Los BlaekweWer, Mr. Lee Foa and Miss Ella Moose, of Mt. Pleasant, left thia morning for Char lotte. They iwiU spend the day in the tty and see "To Builder or Bridges" there tonight - - Wilruingtn, Dec. 28. Sheriff E. W. Summervillc and Deputy S. W Wellum of Onslow county passed th rough the city -today conveying to jail at Jacksonville, ('. Arthur Fisher, B. B. Fisher and G. H. Fisher, charged with defrauding the b.inks at Rich Lands and Jacksonville, Onflow coun ty, of about $400, on bogus bills of lading for cotton alleged to have been shipped from Verone in the same count v. They were captintxl Sunday at Cer- ro Cordo, Columbus county, by Mr. C. S. Ifioks, formerly cashier- -of the bank of Whiteville, who, is said to have been defrauded bv a fourth of the Fisher brothers not yet captured and Deputy Sheriff Amnions of Whiteville. The Fisher brothel's are said to be natives of Onslow but have been living in Georgia for some time and are . aid to be wanted inseveral States for swindling banks in much fhe same manner as they operated in Onslow. ZELAYA DECLRAES HE IS STILL PRESIDENT. Cordoba, Mex., Dec. 28. Jose San tos Zelaya declared tonight that he is still President of Nicaragua, although he may never go back to that country to enjoy the privileges of the office. Madriz, he asserted, is only a pro visional President and that he (Ze laya) has not relinquished the execu tive office. Little Brother Kills Sister. Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 28. Minnie Hurd, .(he seven-year-old dnuhter of Charles Hurd, residing eight miles east of this city, was hot and in stantly killed by her small brotther James, at the home of their father today. The little boy was loading a shot fun when it was accidentally dis- cbaiged, a load of heavy shot nearly blowing off his sister's head. 11 II : i i4t riutj 1 1 " cc? ?o."yOo7) tvnvt M MO) fc tXA JUL' ;4strent-token! oa H. L. ParKs Co's. Department Store. Special Prices this week on all Holi day GoodsToys, Dolls, Etc., in the Grocery de partment are cut to about half price. $1.00 and $1.25 dolls cut to . , $1.50 dolls cut to 5c China Dolls 2 for 5 cents. Tin wagons, Trains, Magic Lanterns, Iron Toys of all kinds at almost half. TOc 70c H. L. Parks $ Co. The Horn of Good Merchandise. Choice Furniture for Your G I F" T At the Craven Bros, store yon will find just the things that will most please the ones that you do so much want to please. Then why not supply these gift pieces at the Craven Bros.store7 Our big building is just filled with suitable Christ mas gifts the useful, practical, satisfying kind. Make your Christinas present choosing easy, it will be very easy, if you'll do your selecting at the Craven Store.
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