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a lotk Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XII. COLUMBUS NC., THURSDAY, MARCH 7,1907. NO. 45; SHOOIIftG Of TWO OFFICERS N a 21- fatal Ending of a Raid on a Blind Tiger MURDERER IS LANDED IN JAIL Desperado, Whom the Police Weie Attempting to Arrest, Kills Two and Fatally Wounds a Third. Fayettcville, X. C, Special Satur day night at 7 o'clock. Chief of Po lice Chason and two policemen, Loc-k-amy and Buckingham, while raiding a blind tij;er, were shot down by a negro, Turn Walker, the proprietor of the blind tiger. Policeman Lockamy was instantly killed. Chief of Police Chason was shot through the head and mortally wounded, and Policeman Bucking bam was shot in the shoulder and side. There are little hopes of bis recovery. The negro has so far x eluded cap ture The murderer is a well-known and desparate character. With him at the lime of the shooting was a wbiie man, a stranger in the city, who has been apprehended and is now in the county jail. The wife of Walker has been locked up for sate keeping. He is a ginger-cake mu latto, about 30 years of age; five feet eight inches tall; weighs about 180 pounds, wears a light hat has a habit ually scowling face and would be rec ognized as a "bad negro" by any one. Intense Excitement. Intense excitement prevails throughout the city, the streets are thronged with an angry, Saturday night throng, searching parties are boing organized and despatched to watch all country roads and to search all passing trains. The sher iff has wired Wilmington to send bloodhounds by a special train. The haul company of militia now un der arms and a $1,000 reward has been offered by the city and county for the body of Walker dead or alive. The arrest of Walker, the murder er, at Dunn Sunday night about mid night was affected by Howard Smith, D. K. Taylor and H. L. Lamb, ne groes of the posse who had gone up on j "r i? il.. 4 il : i T!u irain o6 or me auhuui; vuasi mjuc in search of him. Walker had beat his way to Dunn on a freight train and bought there a ticket for Wash ington. He then boarded train 82 and Mr. Smith recognized him and covered him with a revolver. Walker had shaved off his mustache and had his face blacked. He was taken in charge by Sheriff Watson of this county, and Mr. J. B. Tillingham, of Fayetteville, and taken to Raleigh for safe keeping. Resolution on 1907 Cotton Acreage. The following resolution was pass ed by the great convention of Southern Cotton Association the held in Birmingham. "In view of the fact that a great many farmers have adopted the in tensive system of farming, increas ing the yield per acre and new terri tory each year is being planted in cotton that heretofore has not grown cotton, thereby increasing the. pro duction, therefore in order to main tain satisfactory and remunerative prices, we urge and recommend a full reduction of 10 per cent of cot ton acreage for the year 1907. "We further recommend that the acreage so Iredueed be planted in food crops. ' "We are' sure that unless the farmers unitedly feduce their acre age of cotton that they will be con fronted at the end of tthe season with equally bad, if not worse condi tions than they were in 1904, when cotton went down to 6 cents per Dound. "Resnectfullv submitted by the Committee on acreage.' F. G. Hudson, Chairman. W. S. Pharr, Secretary. The executive committee of North Carolina Division of the Southern Cotton Association earnestly solicit the aid of every farmer, merchant, banker and all men of the state, who are interested in maintaining a fair price for cotton, to use their influ ence to reduce the acreage for 1907 full 10 per cent from the acreage planted in 1906. We also call for help in our effort to produce on every farm in the state sumcfent food and feed crops for the needs of man and beast on our farms. Respectfully, C. C. Moore, Pres. N. C. Div. C. S. A. Executive Committee: A. J. McKinnon, T. J. W. Broom, J. H. Currie. Charlotte, N. C, Feb. 1st, 1907. TARHEEL LAWMAKER What Our State Lawmakers are Do ing Raleigh. The Anti-Trust Bill. On Thursday the anti-trust bill was a special order. Price of Rockingham led off in support of the committee bill and in opposition to Manning's substi tute. He made a territic arraignment of the tobacco trust relating his own experience as a once prosperous to bacco dealer, farmer and manufact urer. Laughinghouse, who faid he had never inadii a dollar except from f aiming and f-r the past fifteen years had not planted less than a hundred acres of tobacco and one year supported the Manning substi tute. He said no one hated a trust worse than he, but unless the tobacco trust could be curbed in Virginia and South Carolina, the only effect of the committee bill would be to drive the American Tobacco Company out of North Carolina, and literally destroy the tobacco agricultural and manu facturing industries. Avery, supporting the commitee bill, said if Durham and Winston were getting rich by harboring finan cial pirates and violating the laws at the expense of other towns and other businesses of the State, they ought not wish to continue in such caceer, or complain at being compelled to stop. Oppose Manning Bill. Justice said he thoroughly respect ed the position of Manning and had such high regard for his legal ability and civic integrity he had carefully and seriously studied his subtitute. hoping to be able to reconcile it with his sense of duty to the people and pledges made to them. But he could come to but one conclusion and that was, the Manning substitute would not accomplish the end sought. The Manning substitute was fin ally voted down without opposition and the committee bill with the agreed amendment passed its second reading, the vote being ayes 83; noes 5 those so voting being Bailey, Grant, Pickett, Pugh, Republicans; Morgan, Democrat. The bill then passed its third readinsr and tho House at 12 o'clock adjourned. The Governor's Message. Governor Glenn, in his message to the Legislature, says only seven more working days remain before the end of the session and a great deal yet remains to be done to keep the Demo cratic pledges to the people, the do minant party, through its platform, having promised unconditionally to do seven things: To give four months school term to all children; enlarge hospitals for the insane until all indigent insane are cared for; make substantial and ma terial reduction of passenger, freight and telephone rates; prevent unjust discrimination by railways against North Carolina towns in favors of other points with no greater natural advantages; enlarge the power ot the corporation commission, to enable it to remedy many existing evils, and lastly to restrict all inordinate and dangerous combinations and trusts and combines which illegally and wrongfully oppress the people. The Governor congraulates the Legislature on the passage of the bill enlarging and supporting hospitals for the insane and upon the certainty of the passage of the bill reducing passenger rates, wnich will give great relitf. He learns that bills to carry out other pledges are before the Leg islature and feaisS he would r,ot be dis charging his .lu'.y if he did not again ask enactment of a 'nv substantially reducing freight rates and righting any wrongs commited b telephone companies. He says while doing any thing possible to encourage all legiti mate enterprises, acts should be pass ed to prevent unlawful and unholy combines which tend to destroy busi ness, pievent competition and reduce prices. Corporations should be en couraged, but wh3n by combinatio.1 or agreement they act illegally tcev must be treated Lke other violators of the law. Great injury is inflicted upon jobbers, merchants and other business men of Nmh Carolina when they cannot get the same railway fa cilities given to other States with no greater natural advantages than ours. Insurance companies should bo re quired to invest or deposit a certain per cent, of the amount of their earn ings in North Carolina, and not allow ed to carry over nine million dollars annually out of the State. He re grets that the Legislature failed to amend criminal laws, but says it is now too late for this. Regarding increase of salaries, he says the Legislateure should give preference to employees and clerks as with the increased cost of living, he cannot see how they can do ef ficient work upon what they now re ceive. He asks the Legislature to vigorously push these matters,, so "We may go before the people of the State and say we have kept faith." To Increase Salaries. Graham, by leave, introduced a bill amending the constitution by giving the members of the Legislature ai annual salary of $500 and mil 10 cents per mile, and allowing presiding officers of the Senate and House $10 per day and mileage, it a special session shall be called memr bers are to receive $100 additional. The Senate next took tip the bill to fix the salaries of State officers and departmental employes as a special order, the committee's substitute be ing the subject under discussion. Ay- cock offered a substitute for the sub- J stitute, Aycock said there was necessity for an increase of the salary of State officers and knowing there was great inequality in the salaries received by several of them, he had begun early in the session to prepare a bifl to equalize salaries. He thought the State ought to increase the bond of the State treasurer. He could not se- whv the secretary of State should receive $1,000 more than the Gover nor. He mentioned many other in equalities. He said the State was not paying to its ollicers what they ousrht to receive. REVIEW OF WORK OF CONGRESS What Our National Lawmakers Arc Doing From Day to Day Debate on Subsidy Ends. General debate on the ship subsidy bill in the House terminated where upon the bill was read under the five minute rule for amendments. From that time until the recess at 6 o 'clock amendments were offered to the bill and the discussion proceeded there on. The leaders on both sides were drawn into the debate. By a vote of 112 to 127 the House defeated an amendment excepting the Sierra, the Sononia and the Ventura of the Oc eanic line from the operation of the bill empowering the Postmaster Gen eral to make contracts with citizens of the United States for carrying the mails on steamships. Mr. Fordney, of Michigan, offered a substitute for the bill providing for a naval reserve and increasing ocean mall facilities, tu which Mr. Bur-ten? t of Ohio, addressed himself, inciden tally reviewing the whole subject of subsidy legislation. "The argument for this class of measure," said Mr. Burton, "rests upon the fallacy that a subsidy to ships is akin to a protective tariff. It is not so because in the relation of the Treasury to those receiving aid, a tariff brings money into the exchequer, while a subsidy pays it out." He said it was possible to build a wall around a country, but riot around all the seas where competition is necessarily unlimited and cheapness and fitness must prevail. "The argument for a tariff would not be accepted if it was contemplat ed that for all time there would be a difference in the cost of production between this and other countries," he said. He said the tendency of all sub sidies is to induce a dependence upon governmental assistance. "Lines that have been subsidized," he added, "have not been free from a record of corruption and failure." Mr. Birdsall, of Iowa, closed the general debate for the opponents of the bill , and Mr. Grosovenor, of Ohio, for its advocates. During the morning hour the House agreed to the conference report on the military academy bill. A joint resolution was adopted creating a commission of five Sena tors and five Representatives to te vise and report to the 60th Congress upon the work of the commission to codify the laws of the United States. The conference report on the bdl relating to the '-ipatriaton of citiztrfc was agreed to.- By a vote of 241 yeas, and no noes, the House further insisited on its disagreement to the provision in the army appropriation bill relating to the retirement of paymasters' clerks. Representative Littauer reported to the House the general deficiency appropriation bill carrying $9,847, 369. To Aid Seattle Exposition. The Senate passed the bill extend ing government aid to the Alaska-Youken-Pacific Exposition, to be held in 1909 at Seattle, and debated for several hours the denatured alcohol bill, reaching no conclusion on the latter measure. Senator Aldrich stated that the distillers' trust was promoting the present bill. Senator Hansborough remarked that the distillers' trust controlled only 20 per cent of the output of spirits in the country and that the independent distillers pro ducing the remainder 80 per cent, were opposed to the measure. Sen ator Aldrich, Allison, Hansborough and Heyburn supported the amend ment requiring the presence of a gov ernment agent during the operation of the stills, and Senator Carter and MeCuzsber spoke against the "amend ment. The conference report on the army appropriation bill wa presented and by the Senate receding on the point in controversy, its proxdsion for the retirement f paymasters' elerks, a complete agreement between the two houses resumed. The Senate- confirmed the nomina tions of the Isthmian canal commis sioners sent to the Senate on the 15th instant., i including frhaii-mnn Shonts and Chief Engineer Stevens. xne senate agieen to a joint reso xntion accepting with the House an invitation to attend the opening of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Ex position. It provides that W Sena tor: and 15 Representatives shall be a$ pcLited to represent the 59th, Ceit giess on this occasion. Meat Inspection. When the Agriculture appropria tion bill was taken up in the Senate the Fulton amendment providing that no forest reserve shall hereafter be created or enlarged without an act created or enlaro without an act of Congress in the States oi Oregon Washington, Idaho, Montana,. Colo rado and Wyoming, ' was adopted without debate. The amendment ad ding 10,rGG.000 to the appropriation for improvements in forest reserves also was adopted without debate. Senator Beveiidge offered an amend ment, providing that hereafter the daie f inspections and canninar f must be placed on the label of meat premiers. ine amendment was agreed to without discussion. Mr. Beveredge then offered his amend ment placing the cost of meat inspec tion on the packers, and took the floor to address the senate on its necessity. Mr. Warren gave notice that at the proper time he would make a point of order against the amendment. Liquor Traffic Bill. The senate committee on judiciary agreed to pass over until next ses sion of congress bills relating to in terstate traffic in intoxicating li qUors, the bill to protect labor against the competition of conyici labor, and the postoffice fraud order bill. All of these measures have passed the house. j j mi . - Enraged Farmer Kills sons. Two Per- Bloomington, 111., Special. Thom as Baldwin, a rich farmer and form er merchant or Colfax, 111., shot and killed Charles Kennedy and wife, and Mrs. Sim Eisman, and daughter Cora. Baldwin was arrested. Bald win, who is 68 years old and a wid ower, is under bond charged with criminal assault on Cora Eisman, who is but 14 years of age. Short Order News. Wendell Phillius Garrison, more than 40 vears editor of for the Nation, is dead. Paul Morison was reelected pres ident of the Equitable Life Assur ance Society. Thirty-two eases of typhoid fever developed on the battleship Connec ticut. Pennslyvania railroad employes counted the ballots cast on the propo sition to strike for an increase m pay and a reduction in hours. Big Foreign Leather Trade. The leather industry contributed $150,000,000 to the foreign com merce of the United States in 1906, against hiss than 555,000,000 a decade earlier.' Cuba's Sugar Crop Favorable. Cuba will produce this year about one-quarter of the world's cane sugar crop. Her total yield is now esti mated at 1,250,060 long tons. Cotton Manufacture Active. Cotton goods manufacturing was never so active. Feminine Notes. Anna Shaw says progress of wom en's suffrage in America has been less than in any other enlightened coun try. English suffragettes showed in one day that they are qualified to take part in elections and to serve in the army. Miss Morosini, of New York City, pays $50 a pair for black silk stock ings. They must have French clocks to 'em. She says that there was a time when the American woman wore black shoes and hose with a light gown. The Field of Labor. Agreements which were expected, to avoid all labor troubles were reached between New York publish ers and the Typographical Unions. It is announced that a satisfactory settlement ha3 been reached with the conductors of the Seaboard Air Line system, who recently made demands for increased pay. France has been strangely back ward in the formation of labor unions and, with a population five times as large as that of New York, has less uian one-half as many trade unionists. HUGE PROFITS POCKETED BY HARRIMArV SYNDICATE Most Amazing Jugglery of Mill ions Ever Known. TOOK $23,724,000 IN 7 YEARS Validity of the Bonds May Be Ques tioned Laws of Illinois Hold That Fictitious Increases of Cap ital Stock Are Void HARRIMAN SYNDICATE'S PRO FITS IN ALTON DEAL. $.32,000,000 takenat6o. ' and sold at about 90. 8,000, 000 30 per cent, dividend... 6;,69,000 $22,000,000 bonds tak en at about 60, sold at 80 4,400,000 Sale' of preferred from, old to new company. 3,055,000 bale of Springfield-Peo-ria branch line . . . Bonus voted to Mr. Harriman for serv ices 1,500,000 100,000 Total in seven years (1899 to .1906) $23,724,000 New York City. When the Inter state Commerce Commission finished its inquiry into the affairs of the Union Pacific Railroad system there stood revealed the enormous financial power in the railroad world of E. H. Harriman, his autocratic domination over many great corporations and the most amazing jugglery of millions that the country has ever known. Starting in 1898 with the Union Pacific, then only emerging from bankruptcy, he has piled up issues of securities to hundreds of millions. But standing out clearly .and con cretely above all the other operations in high finance is the astounding looting of the Chicago and Alton Rail road. It has not been possible, even with the probe of the Commission, to find the full extent of this profit. The ac countants of the new management are struggling over the books. But there has been shownthat the Harri man syndicate by, its operations has secured in profits from that unfortu nate company $23,724,000. How much more was made by operations as yet undivulged can only he sur inise. - The outstanding securities and" lia bilities of the company were increased from $39,935,887 in 1899 to $122, 872,328 in 1906. During that time, according to Mr. Harriman's own tes timony, only $22,000,000 were ex pended in improvements and better ments. The investigators of the In terstate Commerce Commission figure the expenditure as $18,000,000, but allowing Mr. Harriman the benefit of the doubt, the enormous sum of $61, 000,000 watered securities was poured into this once magnificent property. The Constitution and the statutes of Illinois were read out on the last day of the inquiry by Commissioner Harlan, son of Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court. The company is incorporated under the laws of that State. Article II of the Constitution provides: "No railroad corporation shall is sue any stocks or bonds except for money, labor or property actually re ceived and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created, and all stock dividends and other fictitious increase of the capital stock or indebtedness of any such cor poration shall be void." This law calls into serious question the validity of the bonds so freely put out by the company under the Harri man management. There are two such issues, the first of $40,000,000 of which $32,000,000 are outstanding, and the second of $22,00,000, all of which are in the hands of the public. The law of the State of New York was apaended in 1900, through the influence of somebody, so that the bonds of the Chicago and Alton road were made legal for investment by savings banks. President Felton, of the Chicago and Alton, was a witness in the morn ing to verify a statement that the sum spent in improving the Chicago arid Alton property did not exceed $19,000,000 since the reorganization of the company in 1899. This was placed in contrast with the testimony that the capitalization of the com pany had been increased-from $39, 935,887 at the end of 1898 to more than $122,000,000 by the reorgani zation. HOW HILL CROWD MADE $34,000,000. Philadelphia. That James J. Hill and his associate in the control of the Northern Pacific acquired a profit of 850 per cent, on a stock allotment at the reorganization of that railroad is one oi tne astounding statements ,. .i i i- maue uy iuoSe wuu die iuiu m demanding a probe of the Hill-Mor- gan financiering of the Northern Pa- cific system. Hill and his crowd have KSlrffiT " Story of Betrayal. Mrs. Viola Bywaters told the story of her betrayal by William Bywaters at the trial of her brothers, James and Philip Strother, at Culpeper, Va. . Spnng Lamb Scarce. Spring lamb s scarce and high, the hind quarter $5 and the fore quarter $3. ' .' ' ILLINOIS FAn KILLS FOUR T" Shocking Murderous Frenzy of Thomas Baldwin, of Colfax. One of the Old Man's Victims Was Fourteen-Year-Old Niece Whom He Had Mistreated. Bloomfngton, 111. Enraged by Grand Jury proceedings to punish him for mistreating his fourteen-year-old niece, Thomas Baldwin, a wealthy farmer, sirty-eight years old, recently made a widower, began a campaign of vengeance, and when he concluded four persons had been mur dered, including the little girl whom he had so outrageously wronged. The child, Cora Eiseman. was his last victim and his murder of her was most cruel. She had just seen her mother shot to deith and was striv ing to escape by crawling through a thorny hedge when Baldwin ran up and shot her to death. Baldwin resides near Colfax and is one of the best known men in the county. He was one of the leading merchants of the town until he re tired to live on his farm. His large interests in various enterprises made him of importance commercially, and he was one of the most conspicuous church members in the place. Last October his wife died and he seemed to mourn her deeply. His lit tle niece, Cora Eiseman, lived with her mother and sister about three miles northeast of Arrowsmith, ten miles from Baldwin's home. He went there a week after his wife's death and persuaded Mrs. Simeon Eiseman to let Cora live with him, saying he would take the best of care sf hrr and provide liberally for her In his will. Soon after the girl became an inmate of his home he mistreated her on a lonely country road between Col fax and Arrowsmith. The girl told her mother, and Mrs. Eiseman, being averse to the notoriety which would attend prosecution, refrained from making formal complaint. Baldwin in the meantime gave her $60!0 in set tlement. Baldwin then supposed the matter had been finally disposed of, hut the news of his offense was carried to State's Attoraey W. R. Bach, and he propmtly submitted the case to the Grand Jury and Bald win was indicted. On being arrested Baldwin vowed vengeance upon everybody connected -Willi tllC? j,-cvrCVlfigi-A j. -.W Vtinm Nevertheless he was released on $1000 bond. During the morning Baldwin took a revolver, a supply of cartridges and a quart bottle of whisky and drove to Arrowsmith. He first went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ken nedy, friends of the Eisemans, whom he suspected of giving the facts to the State's Attorney, and shot them both dead. Then he re-entered his buggy and drove to the Eiseman home. Mrs. Eiseman saw him coming and, fear ing him, called Cora and the other children into the house and locked the door. Presently, however, she opened the door and tried to mollify Baldwin, but his answer was to fire two bullets into her breast, killing her instantly. Cora and the other children started to run. Baldwin paid no attention to the others, but with curses fol lowed the little girl whom he had wronged. She had reached a &edge and was crawling through to reach, some neighbors when he reached her. He shot her dead while she was beg ging for mercy. Baldwin then hunted up a deputy sheriff at Arrowsmith and surren dered. J RECEIVER FOR MRS. EDDY. Relatives Sue to Have Her Declared Incompetent. r. Concord,. N. H. Application was made in the Superior Court of Merri mac County for an accounting of the financial affairs of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science movement and pas tor emeritus of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The application was in the form of a bill in equity and the petitioner were George W. Glover, a son of Mrs. Eddy by her first husband, whose residence is given at Deadwood, S. D.; his daughter, Miss Mary Baker Glover, and George W. Baker, of Ban gor, Me., Mrs. Eddy's only surviving ephew, a son of the late George Sul livan Baker. BURNETT DIES IX ALBANY. New York Assemblyman 111 Leas Thau a Week With Pneumonia. Albany, N. Y. Jean La Rue Bur nett, member of the Assembly from Ontario County, died at the Ten Hyck Hotel after an illness of less than a week, of pneumonia. the news of Mr. Burnett's death wag announced word was received was was born t Mrfi Bu ue'f nyZnAa-na j t PP1ar member, of the Legis- lature. He was the third member of the Assembly to die this session. King Opens New "Old Bailey The new $1,500,000 Central Crim inal Court House, built on the site of the historic Newgate Prison, in Lon- doBf commonly known as the Old Bailey, was opened by King Edward, it was a semi-state affair and there . was much ceremony. ' ' V, ' ' ' ' ,