North Carolina Newspapers

. . 1 WEATHER Rain today; Wednesday fair; winds shifting to fresh and brisk East. The News- i A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL.111. NO. 79 LAST EDITION. GBEENSBOKO, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. 1908 LAST EDITION. PBICE FIVE CENTS CONGRESS FIRST SESSION AFTER HOLIDAYS BRIEF Senate In Session Four Minutes; the House (or Half an Hour. PRESIDENT URGES CIVIL SERVICE FOR CENSUS Declares That Present Noncompetitive Examinations Are Worse Tban Use less and Only Serve as Cloak for Spoils System. Washington, D. C, Jan. 6. Congress reconvened today . after the holiday re cess, but both houses adjourned until tomorrow, after brief sessions, out of respect to the memory of Senator Mai lory, of Florida. The Senate was in session only four minutes and the House for hall an hour. In a message to the House today, President Roosevelt urged that in pre paring for the work of taking the next census, the four thousand or more ad ditiorial employes needed be appointed only after competitive examination, un der the rules of the civil service com mission, and strongly denounced the "patronage system" of making tlie ap pointments, saying that the civil ser vice commission was fully capable of se curing a most efficient force. , The noncompetitive examinations used in selecting the force at Washington of the last two censuses, the President said, servd only "as a cloak to hide the naked ness of the spoils system." Such ex aminations, he declared, were useless as checks upon patronage appointments. "They prevent," he said, "the most incompetent from being appointed, but they do not secure the appointment of (Continued on page Two.) TY DUE TO BELIEF THAT HE IS HONESUMfS BRYAN Wants What's Right and Is Trying to Obtain Justice, Declares the Nebraskan. PARTY LINES LOOSE NOW Omaha, Neb. Jan. 6. Four hundred guests were present at the annual gath cring of the Jacksonian Club of Nebrai ka at its celebration tonight of the oc casion when Old Hickory and his hosts routed the British from New Orleans. William J. Bryan was the guest of honor, and other Democratic, leaders of more or less prominence in nat ional and state politics had places at the speakers' table. "The Moral Elements in Pending Is sues," was the subject of Mr. Bryan's ad dress. He spoke, in part, as follows: "The President's popularity is large ly, if not entirely, duo to the belie? among the masses that he wants to do what is right and he is trying to secure Justice to those who have been unjust y dealt with, lie lias made many mis takes, and great ones, but these mis takes have, to large extent, been over looked by those who believe that his heart is right and that he means well. This is only an indication of public at titude. An' "thsjndication is to be found in the influence of the voters. "Not since the war have party line.! hung so loosely, and this is the natural Tesult when the voters become earnest in their desire that wrong shall be over thrown and right vindicated. "People differ as to the relative im portance of the defendant issues, some placing trusts first, some regarding the tariff question an paramount and others believing the railroad question more im portant. 9ut the fact is they all point to the same issue, and that those who take the people's side on one of these questions is likely to take the people's side on cither of the other two. The is sue presented in each and all of the-e questions is whether 1 the government shall be administered in the interests of a few favorites or in the interest of the whole people whether all the people shall b taxed that a few may be en riched." ,"'." ' . Year for Prohibition Law Violator. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 6. The first viola tor of the prohibition law here waa given a sentence of one year's imprisonment, after a trial in the City Court, today. Jesse Ponder, a negro, who wpg discov ered selling whisky by the police, was the first offender. North Carolinians at Washington. Washington, D. G, Jan. 6. Judge Boyd and Clement Manly, of Winston Salem, are among the North Carolinians here. The former is in Washingtn on , business before the Supreme Court. Yes, Advertising Does Bay . BANKERS RES UME USE OF C URRENO Z FOR CIRCULATION Greensboro Scrip Is Out j Daie and Onl& Small Percen.ge of Total Issue Is OutstandingFull Return of Confidence Indicated by Depos its of Hoarded Money. At a meeting of the Greensboro Clearing-House Association, held last Satur day afternoon, it was decided to re sume the payment of currency over the counter and to call in the outsanding scrip. Formal announcement was not then made for publication and the first notice customers of the banks received was when checks were presented for payment yesterday morning. The scrip was first issued on Monday November 4, following a resolution adopted by the clearing-house on the preceding ? ! hi relay. At first, the action taken by the 'banks jointly was taken as indicating a weakness on their part and no, little feeling of 'distrust was created, but this feeling quickly wore away, and at no time since has there been any evidence of dissatifaction over the pursuit of what was generally regarded as the exercise of a conservative policy at a time when such policy was advis able. ' Scrip to the amount of about $130,000 was issued. At the close of business last Saturday, the amount outstanding was in the neighborhood of $25,000, while the amount of currency on hand was approximately $225,000, or consider ably above the ordinary requirements of business. The total amount of available cash, including deposits in other banks, is close to $500,000. E. P. Wharton, president of the Amer ican Exchange Bank, in reviewing the financial situation yesterday, made a statement to a representative of the News which is here repeated: .'. "As we look at the matter now that we are on a currency basis again, it SMITHTOWN JIM DEPARTS FROM MOONSHINE COUNTRY NOR LEAVES ANY ADDRESS King of Stokes County Blockaders to Oklahoma or Elsewhere Court's Missionary Breaks Promise, So Lands in Jail Sisk Held in $3,500. Jim Smith has disappeared from Smilhtown. A squad of revenue officers went into that community last Friday, determined to capture him if he was in that section, but the "bird had flown.'' The officers made diligent search, but no trace of Smith could be found. It was reported that he had gone to Okla homa, or some otfier portion of .the southwest.: It was also given out that Smith was in Winston one day last week,; but since then he had not been heard of. Doubtless he realized that he could not remain at his barricaded home with a reward of $1,000 offered for his arrest. He could terrorize the community for a season, but "murder will out," and Jim Smith realized that if lie was to re tain his liberty he must flee to other parts. Hope of his capture is not lost. The reward still holds good, and the officers of the government will hunt for him until he is discovered. While Smith had fled, others of his blockading neighbors were found at home. John Williams, one of the Smith town moonshiners convicted last Sep tember, but sent back.ns'a missionary among the blockaders of' Smithtown, was brought in last night by the revenue KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS AND RE PUBLICANS UNITE IN APPEAL TO GOVERNOR. Georgetown, Ky., Jnn, 6. Citizens of Georgetown, irrespective of political party affiliations, are preparing an ad dress to the people of Kentucky calling upon them to'petitiou Governor Willson to pardon Caleb Powers. This address will be accompanied by petition which will be sent into every county in Kentucky.1- The committee of Georgetown citizens at the Iiead ot the movement is composed , of four Demo crats, two of whom are fcx-Confedcrates, and three Republicans. The address and petitions ire. expected to be ready for circulation tomorrow. Hartje Refused an Appeal Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 6. The Penn sylvania Supreme . Court today refused to permit an appeal to be taken to that tribunal from the Superior Court in the famous Hartje divorce case. Harta may take his e.nsc to the United States Su preme Court. docs not appear that there was really any necessity for issuing the scrip. The banks had plenty of cash for the ordi nary run of business and there was no cause for dissatisfaction or alarm. But we found that we were meeting with a withdrawal of funds through an unusual cause. People in other towns would come here and ask local -merchants ta cash checks drawn on their homo banks, this being done in a spirit of accommo dation. Thus the banks here lost a certain amount of currency and we felt that if this practice was kept up Greens boro would bo called on to supply more cash than we could afford. Hence the apparent necessity of the scrip issue, but can add with very certain em phasis that at nil times the banks were on a perfectly solvent footing and are now better off than at any time in their history. "I believe that the newspapers gener ally did a grent, deal in aiding' 10 pre vent the spreading of alarm, and I wish especially' to congratulate. "and thank the Daily News for the sensible and practical statements of facts made in its columns, These had a decided effect in stimulatins the confidence of depos itors and business men generally. "As a matter of fact, the banks here could have easily and readily resumed currency payments some considerable time ago. lint we thought it., better to wait on New York, for a time, at least. They have not resumed currency payments up there as yet, hut cash is no longer at a premium and we saw no (Continued on page. Two.) Disappears From Home, Going officers, together with Joe Batemnn, an other blockaders. The two were lodged in jail last night. SISK HELD FOR TRIAL: FAILS TO GIVE BOND Oscar : Sisk, one of the Smithtown blockaders, and who is suspected of hav ing lired the shot that killed Deputy Collector J. W. Hendrix, was given a preliminary hearing yesterday before United States .Commissioner J. M. Wolfe. He was held in a bond of ..V00 for his appearance at the next term of Federal Court. In default of bond, he was re manded to the county jail. It developed in the hearing, in fact, was positively stated by the district at torney, that. the. officers- believe that Sisk is the person who shot Deputy Col lector Hendrix on December 20, not withstanding the statement by Sisk's wife that Jim Smith fired the shot that killed the officer. Deputy .Marshal J. T. Millikan testified that he saw n man with a gun going in the direction of Sisk's house about five minutes before he heard the shooting. lie further tes tified that he thought that man was (Continued on pa go Six.) EAT GENERAL MICKLE MAKES OFFI CIAL ANN0UNCEMENT0F THE EIGHTEENTH GATHERING. Xew Orleans, La., Jan. (1. Gen. Wil liam ' A. Mickle, adjutant-general United Confederate Veterans, today made tho following official announce ment: "The eighteenth annual reunion of the United Confederate' Veterans will be held in Birmingham, Ala., on Juno 9, in and 11, next. The people of that city promise that the gathering will be, in every respect that the wearers of the gray could wish. Committees are al ready actively at work to insure a most enjoyable gathering," Oklahoma For Bryan. Guthrie, Okla., Jan. 0. The Demo cratic state central committee here to day unanimously indorsed William J. Bryan's candidacy for the presidency, and decided to hold the state convention to select fourteen delegates to tho na tional convention on February 22, at Muskogee. ' , Ask the Man L 10R BARRED FROM U. S. STAR Carriers Shall Not Transport Intoxicants While in Perform ance of Service. BIDS FOR THIS SECTION TO BE OPENED JAN. 8 POSTMASTER-GENERAL MEYER. Washington, D. C, Jan. 6. IW-master-t.iciicrol .Meyer, has issued an order which has direct bearing upon the prohibition movement. The order is as follows: "It is hereby ordered that it shall be a condition of any contract hereafter entered into for carrying the mails upon star, screen wagon, mail messenger or special service route, that the contractor or carrier shall not transport intoxicat ing liquor from one point to another upon such route while in the perform ance of mail service." The bids for star route service in what is known as the second section., compris ing North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky will be opened on Wednesday, January 8, and as a eon sequence .'beginning. July 1 next, every contractor in the stales mentioned wiil be prohibited from carrying intoxicating liquors on. his route. The order will become effective at once:, however, in many sections of the country where it is necssary to install new and -supplementary-, servile. It is believed that this order will have a far Teaching effect and will meet the ap proval of a large number of people,-judging 'by ''the cni rinous number f com plaints that have been sent to the de partment. TWO KILLED BY DELAYED : EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE Birmingham,- A In.'. Jan. (. Joseph f!. Welsh, foreman of a 'construction gam; on the Atlanta, I'irniingham and. .Atlan tic railroad, at. I'.ivin. Ala., and a negro laborer were instantly killed -this after noon by a dynanii'e explosion. A charge failed to go itt and the men returned to examine it, when it sudden ly exploded,, killing them both. .DIM TOUT UKEU MASTER SPINNERS WILL CLOSE BUSINESS UNLESS MEN MOD- ERATE DEMANDS. Manchester, Jan.. 0. Unless the spin ners modify their demands, the cotton mills throughout the country, owned by 500 members of the Federation of 'Mas ter. Spinners,-will lie closed nnd l."0,000 employes locked out. . Already firms owning flfl per cent, of the spindles have announced their will ingness to close their mills, nnd the fed eration has sent 'out notices calling upon all firms to give notice to their em ployes that work will cease on Jamw ary o if the demands which involve an increase in wages are persisted in. The linns will not bo allowed to con tinue working, under penalty payments, as permitted on 'previous" occasions, so that the lockout will be complete. ill ROUTES fmm M'M''lu"ll"lWM.jMHlAH'."'MH fVv;rX il c f ; 'Ml: :" L'y - - I ' 1 " i Who Advertises in the Daily Industrial News. He Knows ' THA W'S SECOND TRIAL BEGINS; INSANITY PLEA Usual Curious Mob Gathers About Court Building, But Order Bar ring Women From Trial Helps Some -Three Sessions of Court to Be Held Daily. New York. Jan. C. At the close of three court sessions which marked the first day of the second trial of Harry . Thaw, for the alleged murder of Stan ford White, nine tentative jurors had been selected out of fifty-seven tales men examined by District Attorney Je rome, for the prosecution, and Martin !V. Littleton, for the defense. All of the men in the jury box are subject to peremptory' challenges, of which each s'.de has thirty, lu view of the difficulty '.experienced '..last year ini discharging five jurors after they had taken the oath of service, it was agreed i this time not to administer anv oaths until both side linnllj- are satisfied with the full panel. Ixgal insanity at the time of the trag edv is to be the sole defense. This was made clear at the very outset of the proceedings . today, when Mr. Littleton formally served notice that the former plea of not guilty was amended by the specification that the defendant was in sane, when the homicide was committed. Three court sessions.'. 'including an evening sitting, from cigb to ten o'clock, are to be held 'daily .until', the jury is completed. The trial opened with little or no ceremony, and there was distinct evi dence of a slackening of public inter est Admittance to the courtroom was rigorously restricted and all day long tliero were vacant benches in the cur tailed quarters given over to spectators. 1 he only women allowed to be present are the members of the defendant's fam ily and newspaper writers. Artists, who were barred after the first few days of the first trial, wero allowed to sketch to their heart's content. Mrs. Thaw Draws Crowd. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was again the cen ter of interest even to the exclusion of the defendant himself. She was fol lowed by throngs of curious persons as she entered and left the courthouse. She did not attend the night sitting. Every possible convenience is to be provided for the jurors, who are to be locked up throughout the trial. They arc to be quartered in One of the fash ionable hotels on upper Broadway and luncheon is to be served at an expensive downtown restaurant. Hie jury exam inations did not develop such a strong vein of unalterable opinion as was an ticipated and many of the talesmen were excused on . other grounds tban bias based upon the reading of extensive re ports of the li rst trial. Neither District Attorney Jerome nor counsel for the defense would hazard an estimate today as to the time that will be required to lind twelve satisfactory men. Usual Curious Mobs. .Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was pursued liy I crow ', us curious as ever, and had toj be escorted in and out of the court- i house by a detail of policemen. i : The usual curious crowds wero gath- j ered about' the Criminal Courts building this morning-in the hope of catching a glimpse- of .-"Harry- Thaw as he crossed the Bridge of Sighs. Iri the corridors of the courthouse there was also a throng of several hundred persons, who had come to witness the opening scenes of this new rehearsal of an old lory. A squad of fifty policemen kept, the pas sageways clear. The arrangements were uir better than at the first trial, when the crush !o get into the courtroom amounted practically to a riot. The word thai women were to be barred had been given out and thei;e wero none but newspaper writers on hand today. SENATOR SIMMONS AMONG THOSE WHO WANT CORPORATION COM MITTEE CHAIRMANSHIP. Washington, T. C, Jan. 6. Four Dem ocratic members of the upper house of Congress, among them Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, want to succeed to the vacancy in the chairmanship of the conimjttee on corporations of the Dis trict of Columbia, created by the death Of Senator Mallory, of Florida. . In addition to Mr. Simmons, Senators Bit i ley, of Texas; McLaurin, of Missis sippi, and Foster, of Louisiana, are ap plicants for the place. All are in line for the chairmanship, which is import ant only because it gives the' incumbent a committee-room and a clork. As eneh of the senators named have equal rights to the place, they have de cided to settle who shall have it by drawing lots. Judgo Dowling arrived at the court building at 10.25 and the day's session was formally opened a few minutes later. :...' Thaw was visited today by members of his counsel in the Tombs prison. He was elated over the fact that the day of his second trial had at last arrived. Mis. Ceorge Lander Carnegie, his sis ter, and Josiah Thaw, one of his broth ers, also called on the defendant and brought him a message of greeting from his mother, who is ill at her home in Pittsburg. " It was the first time in several months that Thaw had seen his .sister and brother, and his greetings were affectionate. Mrs. Harry K. Thaw Went direct from her hotel to the courthouse. Rumor Foundry Busy. There were the usual number of ru mors about the courthouse today, one of them being that the first one hundred names had been stricken from the spe cial jury panel of three hundred on ac count of the publicity given to their selection. Clerk of the Court Penny said there was no truth in the report. One hundred talesmen are under orders, to report on each of the first three days of the trial. Thaw was called to the bar at 11.25 o'clock. As soon ns Thaw appeared his (Continued on Page Five.) N. G. NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION MAKES A Declares Unendurable conditions at State Encampment Grounds at Morehead. INDORSES THE DICK BILL Raleigh, X. C, Jan. 0. The North Carolina National Ounrd Association, in session here today, registered a strenu ous kick against what is declared to be unendurable conditions at the state en campment grounds, near Morehead City, brought about, it is alleged, by the fail ure of the Morehead City and Norfolk and Southern authorities to fulfill the iibligations entered into by ech in in ducing 'he state authorities to choose Morehead rather than Wrightsville, or other sites offered for permanent camp grounds. The association appointed tien. .1. K. Armtield, Statesville; Col. J. Van Metts, AYilmington, and Maj. C. D. Har ris, Raleigh, as a special committee to take the matter up with the Morehead and Norfolk and . Southern authorities and insist, on each complying with con tracts, especially in the matter of con structing houses for officers, storage buildings, and water supply, before the next annual encampment. Failing to get satisfactory equipment the commit tee is to procure, the calling of n special meeting of the association so that a change of camping-ground can be (Continued on page. Two.) T FAILS J. 1 SEVENTY-FIVE MILE CORPORATION IN GEORGIA NEEDS $2,000 TO KEEP IT GOING. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. fl. A special from Cornelia, Ga., says: Upon application Of H. H. Dean, of Gainesville,' Ga Judge J. J. Kimsey today appointed W. P. Erwin and L. R. Adams temporary receivers for the Tallulah Falls Railway Company. The hearing will come up January ' 25. The bill alleges that, besides a bonded indebtedness amounting to over $1,700,000, the road owes over $40,000 for current expenses. The Tallulah Falls railroad extends from Cornelia, Ga.; north to Orlando, N. C, . a distance of about seventy -five miles. At Cornelia it connects with the Southern railway. II T I VIOLATES U. S IT Supreme Court Declares That Congressional Act Exceeds Legal Rights. COURT STANDS FIVE TO FOUR AGAINST LAW Even Among Five Who Voted Not To Entertain the Statute There Was Con siderable Difference of Opinion Two Cases Involved in Decision. Washington, D. C, Jan. 6. That the congressional act of June 11, 190(1, known as the "employers' liability law." is Hot. in nervrrla nnn u-itK tha nnn. stitution of the United States, because it goes beyond the bounds permitted in the regulation of interstate commerce, was the conclusion reached by the Su preme Court of the United States in de ciding two damage cases coming to the COlirt from flip fnAnra' wii,v-o nt TTam- tuekq and Tennessee, which were brought unuer tiic provision ot the law. The decision was announced by Jus-. tice White and was reported by the nar row margin of one, the court standing live to four against the law. Even among the five who voted not to sustain the Rtftt.llfp. tlierp -wprp ifToron ek..a of opinion. Much interest was mani- ii-siea in me result oi tne court s de liberations, but attorneys generally re frained from comment. The law question makes railroads and (Continued on page Two.) TAFT, IN HIS ANNUAL fiErORT, URGES HIGHER PAT FOR THE ARMY Earnestly Favors the Adoption of the Naval System In the Land Service. NEW POSTS ARE CREATED Washington, D. C, Jan. 6. Secretary Tnft is a strong advoeate of increased pay for the army, as his annual report just sent to Congress indicates. The report begins with a formidable presentment of figures showing the rapid decrease in the strength of the regular army in recent years (the loss last year being 4.42S men) and the pressing need for officers to replace those now detailed on recruiting duty or as mili tary instructors in educational insti tutions. The secretary declares that while many reasons have been advanced to explain the difficulty, a sufficient one is to be found in the inadequacy of army pay. The ' secretary earnestly favors the adoption for the army of the naval sys tem, under which the President is au thorized to fix the rates of pay within defined limits, a a means of obtaining a better discipline and a higher efficiency. He also recommends that the creation of a general service corps to relieve the soldiers of the vast amount of unmili tary wiri'k- they are. now called upon to perform. In his opinion the military service should be so attractive and de" sirable that it will not be, difficult to get and hold the class of men needed for the euli-ted personnel and to make army service a life work as it: used to be by -offering rewards for proficiency and greater increase of pay for length of service. The regular army hisl year lost 1.19 officers and L'ti.310 enlisted' men, and U t hough it was a year of peace, 14 of the officers and IMS of the men wero killed in action or died of wounds and disease. The secretary has decided to create one of the iiew regimental posts at Unguio in the Philippines and asks for an appropriation for the purpose. He also urges an' enlnrjrement of Fort Me Kinley reservation near Manila, by (1,000 acres, nt a cost of $1S."),000, and the con struction of an electric railway from Camp Overton on the north shore of Mindanao to Camp Keithley on Lake Lanao in the center of the Moro country. A profound conviction of the impor tance of the subject lends the secretary to earnestly adjure Conirress to give heed to the pressing nepds of the mili tary department, which it has overlook ed, notwithstanding - attention having been repeatedly called to it. Among the estimates submitted is an item of flSG488.(KHWor the construction of batteries at Manila nnd Subig Bav. This estimate aopears in connection with ' others for the insular possessions. Accompanying the report, ere the esti mate for the support of the military establishment during the next fiscal year, the same being $11,582,031 greater (Continued on page Two.) GONSTiTL ON