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VOL XIII.
COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY MARCH 19, 1908.
NO. 46.
FOUR MEN COilGTEO
IN CAPITOL GRIFT
Sanderson, Snyder, Mathues and
Shumaker Guilty.
TRIALS AT HARRISBURG, PA.
IN BETTER SHAPE THAN
AT START, EVANS REPORTS
Great American Fleet Arrives at
Magdalena Bay,
SHOPPING ANARCHISTS BACK HOME.
READY FOR ANYTHING, SAYS BOB
Two Years' Imprisonment and $1000. Battleships Make a Splendid Voyage
Fine Maximum Penalty in Penn
sylvania Los of $5,000,000
Claimed by State.
Harrisburg, Pa. The jury in
first of the Capitol conspiracy cases
to be tried gave a verdict of guilty as
to every one of the four men who
have been on trial here for seven
weeks, after sis. hours' deliberation.
There were two ballots taken, but the
jury did not come into court until
two hours after reaching a conclusion.
The men found guilty are: John II.
Sanderson, contractor; William P.
Snyder, former Auditor-Gencril; W.
L. Mathues. former State Treasurer,
and James M. Shumaker, former Su
perintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds.
Motions for new trials were made
in each case.
The jury came into court at 8.52 in
the evening, and a minute later Fore
man Dunkle, in reply to- Clerk of the
Court Warden, announced that they
had agreed upon a verdict.
It was read to the court and then
aloud. The jury was not polled, but
when the clerk read the verdict con
victing all of conspiracy, each man
gave his assent by a nod. Judge
Kunkel thanked the jurymen for
their patience and the eare given to
the case, and dismissed them with the
customary thanks of the court. The
entire proceedings occupied ten min
utes. Only Sanderson and Snyder were
in court when the verdict was given,
and neither would talk. None of the
counsel for the defendants would say
anything about the case. The State's
attorneys said they were pleased at
the result of their hard work. The
maximum penalty for each defendant
in this case is two years' imprison
ment and $1000 fine.
The four men were convicted of
defrauding the State in furnishing
the new Capitol, which cost the State
about $13,000,000 instead of $4,000,
000, the figure at which the contract
was estimated. The present case con
stituted one of the longest jury trials
in the history of Pennsylvania courts
and it attracted much attention
throughout the country.
The prosecution of the alleged
frauds was the outcome of the politi
cal upheaval in Pennsylvania in 1905
which resulted in the election of Will
iam H. Berry, a Democrat, as State
Treasurer in the fall of that year.
Berry threw open the books of the
State Treasury and showed that the
cost of building the Capitol was more
than three times the amount of the
contract. The case was laid before
the Attorney-General and indictments
were found against fourteen persons.
When the cases now pending
against the four persons who were
convicted are concluded the other de
fendants will be heard. The State
claims that there are frauds amount
ing to nearly $5,000,000 in the fur
nishings of the Capitol.
FIVE YEARS FOR JOHN R. WALSH
Released on a Supersedeas in $50,000
Bail by Judge Crosscup.
Chicago. A new trial was denied
John R. Walsh, former president of
the Chic-30 National Bank, by Judge
Anderson,' of the United States Dis
trict Court. Walsh was forthwith
sentenced to serve five years in the
Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth.-'
It was the general opinion that
counsel for the defense would con
sume a long time in arguing the mo
tion for arrest of judgment, but after
Mr. Hart had spoken for thirty min
utes the court interrupted him, say
ing: "I think you may place those mat
ters before the Court of Appeals, Mr.
Hart. You are making no showing
here."
Turning to the prisoner, Judge An
derson said:
"Mr. Walsh, have you anything 'q
say why I should not now pronounce
sentence upon you?"
Walsh, without arising, shook his
head slightly, and the court said:
"The character of the evidence and
tno character of the crime of which
-this defendant has been found guiltv
call for extreme judgment. The facts
are, however, that this defendant is
seventy years old, and tht mere im
prisonment is of itself so heavy a,
punishment in a case of this kind I
have concluded that the law will bs
satisfied with the minimum penalty,
which is five years."
The court further directed that all
the counts in the indictment be served
concurrently, and further directed
that the defendant pay the entire cost
cf the trial.
An application was- immediately
inade to Judge Grosscup of the
united States Court of Appeals for a
supersedeas, which was granted, and
Walsh was released under bonds of
?-O,O0O pending the hearing of his
appeal.
Rosebery Fears Socialism.
n ?rv RosebeiT, speaking to the
British Liberal League, declared that
tne House of Lords is the only barrier
remaining between socialism and the
people.
After Target Practice There
Remains Only a Junket Along
the California Coast.
Washington, D. C Rear-Admiral
Evans reported to the Navy Depart
ment that the battleship fleet he com
mands had arrived in Magdalena Bay,
Mexico. The fleet's voyage of 3114
miles from Callao, Peru, was made in
eleven days, twenty hours, and it ar
rived two days ahead of scheduled
time.
"Fighting Bob" Evans characteris
tically adds in his report that every
vessel in the fleet is in better condi
tion than when it left Hampton
Roads, Va.f December 16; that th?
fleet is prepared to meet any emer
gency that could arise and is ready
for any service at a day's notice. The
Admiral adds that the fleet will begin
target practice as soon as the ranges
can be established. Four colliers
awaited the battleships' arrival.
A feeling of exultation pervaded
the Navy Department, a feeling whose
impulses are expressed partially in
the telegram which General Horace
Porter, president of the Navy League,
sent to Admiral Evans:
"The Navy League of the United
States greets the commander, officers
and men of the splendid fleet which
has vindicated the judgment of the
friends of the Navy by its successful
voyage, evincing readiness, efficiency
and discipline and assuring national
protection and continued peace, and
extends to them its congratulations
and pledges them its continued
friendship and support."
The battleships left Hampton
Roads December 16; sailed 185 0
miles, arrived at Port of Spain, Trin
idad, December 23, remained six
days; sailed 3100 miles, arrived at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, January 12,
stayed ten days; sailed- 2228 miles,
arrived at Punta Arenas (Magellan
Strait), Chile, February 1, remained
six days; sailed February 7, passed
Valparaiso, Chile, February 13,, and
having steamed 2666 miles, arrived
at Callao, Peru, February 20, stayed
nine days; sailed February 29,
steamed 3114 miles and arrived at
Mhl salena Bay March 12, having
traversed 12,948 miles in seventy
eight sailing days and having passed
fifty-three days in port.
Naval officers emphasized the fact
that the latest and longest "leg" of
the cruise, the 3114 miles from Cal
lao, was covered at the fastest rate
of steaming, so verifying, if that was
needed, Admiral Evans' statement
that the war vessels are in better con
dition than when they started. They
said, too, that taken primarily as a
practice cruise, the voyage has
equalled expectations and ample and
repeated opportunities have been
given for drills, evolutions and other
tactics, as well as opportunities for
careful and exacting seamanship in
waters in which many American naval
men are comparatively new. Above
all, the fleet has finished the voyage
without an unpleasant happening.
FLEET TO VISIT AUSTRALIA.
To Sail From San Francisco on July
G For Hawaii.
Washington, D.C. Admiral Evans'
battleship fleet, after leaving San
Francisco, will visit Hawaii, Samoa,
Melbourne and Sydney, Australia;
Philippines, and return to New York
by way of the Suez Canal.
Secretary Metcalf announced the
future movements of the fleet after a
Cabinet meeting. It will leave San
Francisco on July 6 "for our Pacific
possessions," as Mr. Metcalf styled it.
The vessels will first touch at Hawaii,
where they will coal. After that they
will go to Samoa, following this up
by a visit. to Australia, where they
will stop at Melbourne and Sydney,
the invitation of the Australian Gov
ernment to visit that country having
been supplemented by an even more
cordial one from the British Ambas
sador, Mr. Bryce. Leaving Australia,
the vessels are to go to Manila, and
while in the Philippines the annual
fall target practice will be held.
Thence the return will be made to
the United States by way of Suez,"
stopping only at such ports as are
necessary for coaling.
RIG CORPORATION CUTS WAGES.
I
Amoskeag Cotton Mills, Employing
15,000 Hands, Reduc-s 10 Per Cent.
Manchester, N. H. Notices were
posted in the mills or the Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company, announcing
a wage reduction averaging ten per
cent., to take effect on March 30. The
Amoskeag Corporation has the largest
cotton manufacturing plant in the
world, and employs about 15,000 op
eratives. Nashua, N. H. Notices were post
ed at the mills of the Nashua Manu
facturing Company and Jackson Com
pany announcing a reduction of ten
per cent, in the wages of operatives,
to take effect Marcn 30. It was
further stated that the forty hours a
week schedule, which has been in ef
fect since the first of the year, will
be continued indefinitely. About
4000 operatives are employed in the
cotton mills here.
F. Bowers, in the Indianapolis News.
DEAL8NG WITH ANARCHY BEGUN
Washington Officials Admit Difficultics-Not Optimistic as to Outcome of the
Latest Measures-Effective Measures Too Drastic to Receive Popular Sup.
port-Restrictions on Immigration Inadequate to Keep Out Anarchists. ,
Washington, D. C. It may not be
reassuring information, but the Wash
ington officials are none too optfmis
tic about the outcome of the attempt
to drive all the anarchists front the
United States. Those officials whose
duty it is to deal directly with the an
archists cannot talk for publication.
The officials who can issue orders to
immigration inspectors telling them
to be alive to their duty have talked
for publication, but the talk, like
much of the work done, is impotent.
Some one here has said that anar
chists are made, not born. This is
largely true, and anarchists will be
made as long as there are anarchist
teachers who get within touch of re
ceptive pupils. This means that as
long as there are anarchists in the
country their ranks will grow daily.
Since the shooting of the priest at
the altar in Denver and the attempted
killing of the chief of police, Shippy.-!
IB Cnicago, the Senators and Repre
sentatives have heen busy talking
about immigration measures, but they
have confined their talking largely to
the corridors and cloak rooms. Most
of ,them are just as afraid to-day to
pass a restriction bill that means re
striction as they were before the
shootings gave them sharp excuse for
the passing of an absolutely drastic
measure.
One member, who is not more than
one generation removed from being a
foreigner himself, told your corre
spondent that it wouldn't do to draw
a line part way up the continent of
Europe and to say that no one from
below the line should come to this
country. "What we ought to do," he
said, "is to draw a line down the mid
dle of the Atlantic Ocean and another
one down the middle of the Pacific
Ocean, and to say no one shall cross."
Restriction Problem Difficult.
When a New York Representative,
on the floor of the House, spoke in
advocacy of a really restrictive immi
gration measure, several Representa
tives whose constituents are largely
Southern Europeans, at once began
missionary work. They told the other
members what a wrong it would be to
punish the many because of the fail
ings of the few, and they did not neg
lect to touch on the matter of power,
the balance of power, of course, which
the men coming from some of the
European countries hold at the polls
in America.
One member, an Illinois man, told
a colleague who was urging no action,
that it would be tar better for him
and for his people in the future to
have all immigration stopped from
their native countries for a series tf
years, until the United States had op
portunity to assimilate those that
were here to that point of assimila
tion which means the dropping of hy
phens and writing of themselves as
Americans, not only to the full letter
of the law, but to the full of the
American spirit.
The men who have given the sub
ject of immigration the closest study
seem to feel that the work connected
with the keeping out of the criminal
and the anarchistic classes should be
done on the other side of the water.
They believe that a means can be
found by which every intending em
igrant from a foreign country can be
made to "prove his record" before he
shall be allowed to step on shipboard.
The immigration inspection laws
were useful last year to the extent of
keeping out something fewer than
1000 undesirable citizens. The rec
ord was 300 better than for the pre
ceding year, and yet the man who at
tempted to kill Chief Shippy came in
as a "desirable," and it took him only
a few months to do something more
than prove his undesirability.
Educational Test Inadequate.
The reading and writing clause
which it was proposed to put in the
last immigration bill would not have
kept out Lazarus Averbach, neither
would it have kept out the Denver as
sassin; and, in fact, it wouldn't have
kept out one in a hundred of the real
anarchists who seek America. Some
other means must be found, if the
desire be to debar from the country
the men whose "thinking drives them
mad."
There is recognition in Washington
of the fact that in the heat and pas
sion following the recent Denver mur
der, and the attempted assassination
in Chicago, there is a disposition on
the part of the police officials to con
fuse anarchism with socialism and
with other forms of thinking and
practice which take no cognizance of
violence in any shape.. The difficulty
is that in the heat and passion the Of
ficials are apt to do things which they
ought not to do, and which tend to
increase, rather than to diminish, the
plague which they are seeking to
eradicate. Another difficulty is that
when the heat and the passion have
passed, there comes forgetfulness and
the officials lapse into the old state
of apathy,, to stay in it until some
new violence rouses them.
All that has been said within the
last week was 'said immediately fol
lowing the assassination of President
McKinley. Then anarchism was to
be killed, and anarchism kept on liv
ing, and, froth all appearances, it is
. pretty much alive to-day. The Wash
ington preaching is for systematic
and continued pursuit of the anar
chists, but the preaching, if one may
judge by the past, will not be fol
lowed by the practice. Congress can
do much with a proper form of immi
gration bill, but there is no present
prospect that Congress cares to un
dertake the work.
PANAMA CANAL MUST FAIL, SAYS STEVENS.
f ormer Cliief Engineer
of Istlimlan Waterway Gives
For Prophecy. . -
Reasons
New Haven, Conn. John F. Stev
ens, a vice-president of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road, and a former chief engineer of
the Panama Canal, has issued a state
ment regarding the latter enterprise,
in which he prophesies a failure of
the undertaking.
In this statement Mr. Stevens says
that the canal will not help the Uni
ted States in its trade with South
America, as practically all of the in
habitants of the Southern Continent
are on the east of the Andes, so that
It would be of no advantage to make
use of the canal to reach there. Mr.
Stevens also says that in our commer
cial relations with the islands of the
Pacific and the Far East the canal ;
will be of little value. Our coal and
wheat centres are inland. Their pro
ducts have to be started on their way
by rail. When loaded on cars it would
not be cheaper to ship to the At
lantic and then ship to the East by
the way of the canal than it would be
to send directly to the ports on our
Pacific coast and then get on board
ship.
Furthermore, Mr. Stevens believes
that our coal supply is fast diminish
ing and that China will be the coal
country for the future. Siberia, he
says, will be the wheat country of the
future, with India a close second.
Mr. Stevens maintains that the
Panama Canal cannot hope to become
anything more than an expense. It
will not meet expenses and it will cost
more than is expected. It will be an
advantage, yes, but an advantage to
European countries and not to us.
The idea of the canal being of
great value to us in times of warfare,
since our naval forces can be quickly
sent from jone coast to the other, he
says, is utterly absurd. It would take
days for the ships to get around, and
during that time hostile shells could
have done their work. Mr. Stevens
believes that it would be a far wiser
plan of defense to put the money that
the canal will cost into a greater
navy.
Mr. Stevens Is not unique, however,
as a prophet of evil for ship canals.
Forty-odd yeai-s ago many British and
other mercantile economists were
cocksure that -the Suez Canal could
never pay expenses. Yet for years
the directors of that work have had
periodically to reduce their tolls on
shipping in order to keep their net
yearly profits from exceeding the
twenty-five per cent, permitted by the
cbarter, and the $20,000,000 worth
of shares which the British Govern
ment purchased in 1875 are now es
timated to be worth fully $155,000,
000. There is no objection to Mr.
Stevens keeping company with those;
who went so wide of the Suez mark, j
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Wholesale Prices Quoted in New York
MILK.
The Milk Rxchange nrice for standard
luahty is 3e. per quart.
BUTTER.
rearaery Western, extra. $
Firsts.. ..... ..
Seconds . ,m ,
btate dairy, fair
Factory, seconds to firsts..
BEANS.
Marrow, choice 2 221'( 2 25
Medium, choice ' 2 .TO
Jttea juaney, choice 2 05 fa) 2 10
.fea
Yellow eye 2 00
White kidney 2 40
Black turtle soup 1 75
Lima, Cal 3 25
CHEESE.
State, tull eream.
Small
J'art skims, common.. .
FulK skims
EGGS.
lersey Fancy
Hate Good to choice....
Western Firsts
Duck eggs
FRUITS AND BERRIES FRESU.
ipples King, per bbl 2 50 (3 4 50
Greening, per bbl 2 00 (5 5 00
Lranberries, C. Cod, per bbl 6 00 (2)12 50
Jersey, per bbl 9 50 (S10 50
strawberries, per qt
DRESSED POULTI.
Turkeys, per lb
Broilers. Phila., per Jb...
powis, per Jb
Japons, per lb
Ducks, per lb
LJeese. Der lb
Squabs, per dozen 1
HAT AND STRAW.
Hay, prime, per 100 lb (2) 1 05
Jos. 3 to 1, per 100 lb
Clover mixed, per 100 lb.
Straw, long rye
HOPS.
State, 1907
Medium. 1907
Pacific Coast. 1907, choice..
Choice, 1906
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes, Jersey, per sack. 2 25
Long Island, per bbl 2 50
Sweets, per basket 75
Tomatoes, per carrier 1 00
Kgg plant, per box 1 00
Squash, per bbl 2 00
Peas, per basket 1 50
Peppers, per carrier 1 00
Lettuce, per basket 75
Cabbages, per bbl 60
String beaus, per basket... 2jX)
Dnions.Conn.. white, per bbl 5 Off
Yellow, per bbl 2 50
Orange Co., red, per bag. 2 00
Carrots, per 100 bunches... 2 00
Beets, per 100 bunches.. .. 2 00
rumips, per bbl 75
Dkra, per carrier 2 50
jmn. beans, per box 2 00
Cauliflower, per crate .... 2 50
L'ucmnbers. per basket .... 2 00
Parsley, per bbl 2 50
Leeks, per 100 bunches. ... 2 00
Shallots, per 100 bunches. . . 3 00
Celery, per case 2 00
Watercress, per 100 bunches 1 00
Spinach , per bbl 75
kale, per bbl 40
water plants. 100 bunches. 3 00
Horseradish, per 100 lbs 2 00 (2) 5 00
Brussels sprouts, per qt.... 8
Parsnips, per bbl 75
GRAIN. ETC.
Flour Winter patents .... 4 60
Spring patents 5 30
Wheat. No. 2 red
No. 1 Northern Duluth
Corn, No. 2..
No. 2 white.... ......
Oats, mixed .. ..... ....
Rye. No. 2 Western
Lard, city ..
' LIVE STOCK.
Beeves, city dressed 7 (3). 9
Calves, city dressed 8(2) 13
Country dressed 8 (2) 12
Sheep, per 100 lb 4 00 5 00
Lambs, per 100 lb 7 15 CA 7 75
Hogs, live, per 100 lb (a). 4 90
Country dressed, per lb.. 5 7
BUSINESS IS INCREASING.
82 (2) 1 00
70 (2) 90
65 70
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MOTHER THE ONE SUPREME
ASSET OF NATIONAL LIFE
Roosevelt Addresses Congress of
Child Life in Washington.
MORE HONORED THAN VETERANS
Farm Reserves Are the Lowest For
Two Years.
New York City. As proof that
business ik increasing it was reported
that fewer than 300,000 freight cars
are now idle. The railroads expect
their worst reports to be for the
month of January. Baltimore and
Ohio is said to be preparing a very
bad one. The crop situation is re
ported much improved. Winter
wheat Is in excellent shape, and the
farmers are all preparing to put in
the largest acreage on record of all
new crops. Farm reserves, as report
ed by the Government, are the lowest
for two years, there being only 148.
721,000 bushels of wheat in farmers'
hands as against 2 06,644,000 a year
ago. The visible supply of wheat is
about 75.000,000, making a total of
about 225,000,000. Of this there
will be 100,000,000 consumed before
July, and it will take 30,000,000 for
seeding. The normal export move
ment will consume at least 43,000,
000, so that by July 1 there will be
only 50,000,000 bushels to be carried
over. Last year there was a carry
over of 135,000,000 on July 1. The
nnnntitv nf fnr in farmers' hands
on March 1, 1908. is estimated at j
962,429,000 bushels, as compared
with 1,298,000,000 bushels of the
crop on hand a year before and S82,
707,000 as the average for the past
ten years. The quantity of oats in
farmers' hands is given as 267.476,
000 bushels.
Will Start Wool Exchange.
Plans for tht? establishment In
Omaha, Neb., of a wool exchange have
been completed, and storage facilities
for 20,000,000 pounds of wool have
been provided.
Railway Payroll Decreased.
The January payroll of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company was $2.
200,000 less than in January, 190-7.
The company has 232 "dead" locomo
President Condemns Brutality of Mea
Toward Women and the Women
Who Fall in Their Duty of Moth
erhood Marine Band Plays.
Washington, D. C. The White
House was the scene of the formal
opening of the first international con
gress on the welfare of the child un
der the auspices of the National Moth
ers Congress. The 200 delegates
representing all the States and Terri
tories and a dozen or more of the
leading countries of the world were
received at the White House when
President Roosevelt delivered an ad
dress to them, in which he declared
that he placed the society ahead of
the Civil War veterans, because, he
said, in the final analysis it is the
mother only who is a better citizen
thas the soldier who fights for his
country.
The President made the occasion
decidedly more than an informal re
ception by having the Marine Band
in attendance and his military and na
val aids in full uniform.
The President said in part:
"I receive many societies here In
the White House, many organizations
of good men and women, striving to
do all that in them lies for the better
ment of our social and civic condi
tion,' but there is no other society
which I am quite as glad to receive
as this. This is the one body that I
put even ahead of the veterans of the
Civil War; because when all is said,
it is the mother, and the mother only,
who is a better citizen even than the
soldier who fights for his country.
The successful mother, the mother
who does her part in rearing and
training aright the boys and girls who
are to be the men and women of the
next generation, is of greater use to
the community and occupies, if she
only would realize it, a more honor
able, as well as a more important po
sition, than any successful man in it.
"No scheme of education, no social
attitude, can be right unless it is
based fundamentally upon the recog
nition of seeing that the girl is
trained to understand the supreme
dignity, the supreme usefulness of
motherhood. Unless the average
womaa is a good wife and good
mother, unless she bears a suf
ficient number of children, so
that the race shall increase and not
decrease, unless she brings up these
children sound in soul and mind and
body unless this is true of the aver
age woman no brilliancy of genius,
no material prosperity, no triumphs
of science and industry will avail to
save the race from ruin and death.
The mother is the one supreme asset
of national life; she is more im
portant by far than the successful
statesman or business man or artist
or scientist.
"I abhor and condemn the man
who is brutal, thoughtless, careless,
selfish, with women, and especially
with the women of his own house
hold. The birth pangs make all men
the debtors of all women. The man
is a poor creature who does not
realize the infinite difficulty of the
woman's task, who does not realize
what is done by her who bears
and rears the children; she. who can
not even be sure until the children
are well grown that any night will
come when she can have it entirely
to herself to sleep in. I abhor and
condemn the man who fails to recog
nize all his obligations to the woman
who does her duty."
BAN ON BETTING NEWS.
Los Angeles Council Passes Ordinance
Affecting Newspapers.
Los Angeles. The City Council,
over the" veto of Mayor Harper, passed
an ordinance which will prohibit sell
ing or giving away in Los Angeles
any newspaper or any publication
containing information regarding bet
ting on any contest of any sort. Thii
not only covers horse race: , but all
forms of athletics.
The new law prohibits tips on any
event and entries may not be pub
lished unless they run in alphabet
ical order, uniform type, flush with
the left side column rule. If en
forced, this would bar nearly everj
newspaper in America containing
sporting news.
The ordinance also prohibits pub
lication of betting odds on Presiden
tial elections or baseball games. It
also takes away from sporting editors
tne time honored right to decide all
the bets in the universe.
The general impression here is that
the law will be ignored by the daily
newspapers.
The recent murder of Mrs. Char
lotte L. Noyes after a quarrel ovei
race betting v created sentiment io
favor of the new lav.'.
CALIFORNIA EOAB FINED $13,000
Guilty of Granting Rebates to a Lum
ber Company of Kansas City,
St. Louis, Mo. The St. Louis and
San Francisco Railway Company wa
fined $13,000 by Judge Dyer in the
United States District Court, the com
pany offering a written plea of guilty
to the thirteen indictments charging
that the road granted rebates to the
Chapman & Dewey Lumber Company
qt Kansas City.