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- 'i,--.t:; 'r" ' .:- -1 '5 The News . v:- ; l' '. A. ..... - -4 -i ' is .uevotea 10 me jj Upbuilding of.... . ; ll S Polk County. I OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF POLK COUNTY. 5 The News : ; V -Is Unsurpassed as an Ad- - " vettiBiag Medium . .... g Rates Low. jj INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINQS. IX. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $..oo PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. DESPERATE MALEE SUNDAY In the "Red Light" bis trict of Our Neighbor City; TWO PEOPLE FATALLY HURT Bunk" FInley, of Marion, Is Shot Twice By Bob Lee A Stray Shot Hits Ida Smath ers in the Breast Lee and Finley Were Drinking. Asheville, Kov. 30 A desperate fight occurred yesterday afternoon "shortly after 3 o'clock on Mountain street, in the "red light'1 district of the city, be -'ween "Bunk'' Finley and Harvey i u ens ley oi Marion; and Bob Lee and a friend of Lee's, whose name the officers have not yet learned ' : It seems that all the men had been drinking. Finley and Hensley had left a notorious house and had started up the street, and when almost at the cor ner of Mountain and Pine street met Lee and his friend. Here a row was started, Lee claimingLthat Finley began the row by cursing him. ; A- er .quar reling' for several minutes th( igbting commenced, Lee Using a nis.ro! and Finley a knife, Lee fired; r re times, two of the shots, taking effect in Fin ley's body. The first bullet struck the man in the left breast just a? ove the heart and ranging1 downward came out near the back. The'second shot enter ed the right side and came - out at the left. Lee was cut twice but was not seriously hurt. It is said that after Lee had'shot Finley and after he had empt ied the five chambers of his revolver, he rushed at Hensley, who was. 'stand ing several feet away, and struck him over the eye with a heavy club. Hens-lev's forehead was badly bruised, near ly all the skin being torn from over the ere. . ' :... - . . ':- r : V. Ida Smathers, who keeps a disorder ly house on Mountain street, went to C?UM,BU N.; C.v DECEMBER. 10, 1903. one of the: lower windows andl-was waicnmg the men quarrel. Th h, is situated down; the hill from where, uie man stood and perhaps 40 or 50 yards away. The. woman was standing w tue wmaow 2 when he began shooting. One of the bullets fired at r miey went wildj ranged down the mn crashed through the window and entered the woman's breast,; inflict ing, his alleged, a fatal wound. ' ' As soon as the fighting had ceased a large crowd congregated in t w won. a physician-was hastily sum: moned to attend the Smathers woman; w nine friends secured a rarr?o-o . fc ximev was removed to the Mission nOSpitaJ. Lee after he had struck Hensley with the club, started in the direct.! nf tW jail, but after reaching it inet ncnnt,, Sheriff .Ta nuuiu xio gave mm-- sen up, and Mr. Jarvis placed the man in jail. Sheriff Reed while on his way to the sceno of the tragedy met Hens ley, whom ho placed under arrest. The sheriff removed from Hensley 's pocket a pair of "knticks," and took him on to jau. j.ne sneriff not thinking about the men renewing the fight, placed Hensley in the same cage with Lee and locked the door. -Hardly had the sheriff got ten steps away when he heard scuffling in the caee and hastily unlocking the door -saw PTono'u,, j " -T , " "vuoicji nuu Lee engaged in a desperate hand to by tae collar and shnrpH TiiT t, - cell by himself and locked him ud sxu luree ui me men are reported as being desperate charaff,pjc uhan the influence of whiskey. -j.nere is very, little hope entertained by the attending nhv.?iinfia frn fV.Q t. covery of either Finley or the Sraath- cis woman. . .. NO 35. WVAIivllVvvi 1 .-. j ears At HaVxl Labor is the Sen tence I the Court De-v t cision. MOTION FOR APPEAL IS TAKK1 How a Good School Helps. Monroe Journal. The writer has been informed thf Since the DeODle of Indian Trail hciron their school building, every available farm in reach of the school has been sold or rented to outsiders who will move in. One man told the writer that he would be compelled to leave because the farm he had been rontintr had been old to a man from another county who was coming to it, " and he could not rent another.. VH1 school puts life into the bones of a com munity; Jne J " ry, Brought in a Verdict I uesday lyiorningf of Murder in Second Degree Jay is Un moved by Sentence Says He Should BejContined. I Asheville, Dec. 1. The jury in the Jay murder trial returned a verdict of murder in the ) second degree against the defendant, Dr. J. V. Jay, who was charged with the killing of his three cnnaren. if thfe verdiRt hnA hcon f. acquittal, the flefendent would have been released, as he was hot tried for killing the other children. The" papers filed in the clerk's office show that the defendent was only charged with killing trie oldest child,) Laura Jay, who was six years of age. I ; The verdict was announced yesterday. mojning at 9:30 o'clock,; when court opened in the presence of the defend ent his wife, Mtfs. Jay, and a number of witnesses who! testified at the trial. There was also seen a number of city people in the court room. R. C. Clay ton was the spokesman for the jury; The room was quiet and the defendent did not appear toj be annoyed when the verdict was announced. ; : 7: Judge H. B.' Carter, who has been assisting William J. Cocke, then made the motion for a new trial. The at torneys continued that there were er-; rors in the trial. The motion was over- culed and a motion for appeal was entered. . ,': '- " :-! Judge H. B. Carter, who' has been fljcxisfinw- At.fcnrniotr VWfllion T counsel for the defense, had made the motion for a new trial, i which Judge J ones entered in the books, the Judge stated that he thought the case should end at once. He continued: wurse you nave a . right to ap pear 1 ne prisoner had been ably de fended and ably prosecuted. I think th verdict of the jury is eminently prop er. They have given him the benefit of the doubt. If he had deen he would not have been; released, as there were two other counts upon which he could be tried. I-believe, in the' interest of the prisoner and state that ue case snouia ena nere. It is as In telligent a jury as you can find in any cuuru ine spirit of Christianity must nave prevailed with the jurors for them to have rendered him that veVdict. T desire to congratulate the neonln nf - . tr rsuncombe county-in letting the law take its course. Public sentiment has let the law take its course Judge Jones thanked the jury for their verdict, as soon as its spokesman had announced theverdict. '-. Before pronouncing the sentence Jndge Jones asked the age of the pris oner. He was" informed thatf he was thirty-five years old. The judge then pronounced the sentence as follows: : "It is the judgement of the court that the defendant: f J. V. Jay, be imprison ed in the state penitentiary; at hard . la bor for the term of thirty years." ? Dr. Jay was. seen yesterday afternoon by The Citizen in the county jail- where he will remain until the appeal "is dis posed of by the Superior court or until it is withdrawn. He said when asked if the sentence was "right. "I don't know.; My brain is so I can't tell.' I don't care, through, I ought to be lock ed up because I am insane.4 I haven't any hard feelings againt any one. I can't read but a colnmn of. The Citizen at a time. Some neoole told Hps on nift when they said I used cocaine, I never used cocaine and don't know wWt' it 'effects are.-i; r'i1 ' :- 'J ks'J- RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN 1903. Larger number Killed ; and Injured man in Preceding Year. i Washington " Nov. 17. Accident, hit! letin No.8, issued by . the Interstate commerce commission, renortins- the railroad accidents in the United "States ior tne year ending June.H903. shnw . .: . J W J U large increase. in the number of casual ties compared with the nrecedi ntr vffli x nere were J,554 persons killed .nd . luj m cu uuring ine year, as against 2,ol9 killed and 39,800 injured in the preceding year. . - - . ' xhis large increase is partiallvexnlain- ed. by; the large increase in railroad traffic that has taken place during the past year and the fact that there were therefore a much larger number of morr at ristc. T.henumhfir nf man ea in tram service on June 30. 1903 . was-la per cent, greater than on June There is also a good explanation of tne increase to be found in fact lhat the interstate commerce . commission ha been persistent in requiring 'full re ports of-all accidents from all railroads u hi iu( biio past . year, and as a conse quence accidents are much more fuljy reported at tne present time than they were a year ago and previous to that time. ' . ' . ' Almost $30- Per Capita, Bradstreet's Journal. A remarkably heavy increase -in the volume of circulation is recorded for the month of October. 1 Tho circulation on November 1. arwTninr to Official Statistics, am on ntpd fttf 197 394868. This -represents an incrfinsp. i L rtnn rrrs x,. . l . ui over os, t uu,uuu tor the month, and of over $9L 200,000 as compared with the corresponding date last year. V The most -noteworthy increases for the twelve months were" one of nv srks 800,000 in gold certificates and another oi ? oyer $ii,uu,uuu m national bank notes. The decreases we of small amount, except in the case of treasury uuues ui ioav, wnicn ieu on over f 8,900, 000f or over one-third. The circulation per capita ; came within a cent . of reacninff the thirtv-dollar nnint. (ma 99), showing an increase of 24 centsfoV due mOQin, ana OI bJ RP.ntS n rlranarad Yfjx pncjem oer l t)i -last y ear: DID NOT FIND BILL. . Jury Failed to Act in the "It" Case, ; The grand - jury adiourned wiinnnf finding, an indictment acainst Sitton, who was bound to court on th charge of foistinsf on the PrestinA p". rifled company a fake petrified man and of cement or similar ineredients. and not a natural product. Mr, Sitton's . friends say the failure of the grand lury to act" is significant.. Tha cution, however, says that it introduced -no witnesses before the grand jury be-: cause it did not have all the witnesses it needed tomake an Rhenium nr. against Mr. Sitton and wait until it could bring to the next grand jury witnesses who win : ; - .--M.WTT - WW - V every move - in the plot to bury the person and then dig him up. The DrOSeCUtion hnc nnt. na art Mln T . found G, C. Nanney and bound him to court in $400 bond to appear in next term of court to answer tha nnar. .. being one of the plotters of the "great - It is Said that Nannev will toll oil tw . " " .i vvii nil. u0 knows. He was located in South Caro lina ahd waived process to .bring him here. . ' .,- ..... Now John LbnP1 is. wnnteri Tr, i the man .whom Witness Will Carter. told the - examining ' maaiat.rnt r lioA.i .: told him and othere that he aided in planting the object on Squire Sitton's land in November 1902, ' - So anxious is the nroRepntion tn Long that Sheriff Jleed is prepared to pay to any one who delivers Long -to him in Asheville. : - .t- ; ' Sn ni rn Sit. t.nr Vao Koon WamuitA A , mark that : his time : was coming and : that some one should answer fm- thc criminal charges- made against him. The members of the-compamy say-they .: were advised by ffood cou nsel .. hef ore5 proceeding-with, this case ' and deride the idea of Mr. Sitton's t.nki nor v action. Citizen. . . ' I Ml The Most Complaint U '-iyi The individual who treta ttne fo - - & . . a v vgu , letters, makes the most complaints td the postmaster; the man who never had -a good meal at homo growls at the ho tel accommodations: th fi Person wnn-. complains most of his neighbors is . the meanest oi tne , lot; the member who ; pays the least to the preacher's" salary finds the "most faut at his nreanhinor nnrl ' complains.of the bad management of Autumn withes whistlmg winds and frosty mornirigs tells us that winter is near. The Eall Clothing question is now an all important matter for consideration, and we take great pleasure in cordially inviting every Man, Boy, or Parent who will have clothing to buy during the season, to call on us for the purpose of looking at, and examining the new Clothing Hats Furnish mg Goods we are now showing. To show our new styles affords usgreat satisfAiction. ALL THINGS ABE IlEADY COME Men Suits .: The young man who insists upon Fashiorfs latest whims,' naturally comes to Fashion's Headquarters for them. ' As you know, that means he comes here. As soon-as"he lands he puts on a Suit, and the Suit gener ally lands him at once. r . . The smartest and newest double breasted Sack Suits are he as well as the new, firm, high .shoulder, narrow lapel, single breasted Sack Suit Worsteds, Fancy Cheviots and Scotch Suitings are the, favorite fabrics. " This way, yoi ig man At you. want a Suit of clothes that's t.trictiy "It!" THE NEWSAC CLOTHED jl Vai'p' 1 - The good features of our Overcoats proclaim themselves. - There are a dozen kinds and styles. What's your, particular prefer- j ence long, - short or medium ? We have it.- You Macke the Decision. By the time we .have shown you what Over- , w coat styles areworn, . - you will be able to de cide which one becomes ' yon and what cloth you want. ; All cloths, all colors, all styles, that" deserve to be iere,arehere. ;v'- J -1 Overcoats at $5-o, $7.50 $i 5. 00, and away up to $30.00". - !' ftfbney'back if you'want it . ' i The weather ii rather Overcoatish ndw don't you think'so? " The clothes question for the : growing Boy is- a perplexing proposition at best. - Parents, who have raised an ' . assortmept of boys, kho(w air about it. The boy ;must be : pleasetl as well as the parent. We have Boy's Suits that will satisfy all hands . and promote contentment in the. family circle. ' . . . -: Our handsome Short Pant Sqits for Boys from 5 to 16-years, in two or three piece styles; will ! - ' fill; the bill exactlV $1.00, $2.00 or $4.00 are some of prices. The Suits are . handsome , and have style enough to please both the boy and his mother, as well as that, substantial "wear his father will insist irpon having. . , . - Bring the boys here for all round clothes satis-: faction. - :'-C'?- "' ' TO 11 MI TT A TT T7 TTTVyr v SnmA nf vnil wh fl lASirl this. nlCLV not kilOW tla.t Wfi QaII T.r1tv knirl Irliccnc Ta SIaW OJ.saL 1J 7 II - , g II 11 II I f' ' - ww J " .... -T -T ' . T. . Z' wiiu ,A UUUi-i'lUUC OUllS V - in athything you wear; except shoes and hats. The styles acre fetter than you can have: them rnsLde by the best dressmakers end our.; prices re less than you cocn bxiy 1he goods aCnd have them m.de for. We only, have one fair price to every ori end sell for ciash only but should you jbiy something you fihd you do not waLnt, you can send it ba.ck and get the money for it. This is our way of doing busi nessAnHurAUwillS f - i 62-64 MORGAN SQUARE, Spaft i . 1 ;..
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