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folk Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINOST Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XIII. COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY APRIL 9, 1908. NO. 49. (Quanta I NORTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS The News of Old North Slate Gathered and Put in Condensed form. Capitalists and Contractors Becoming Intersted in Statesville Air Line. Statesville, Special. Capitalists and railroad contractors are becoming; intersted in the Statesville Air Lwae Company's proposed road. Mr. T. D. Clairmorn, of Baltimore, a represen tative of the Johnston & Berin Con struction Company, of Baltimore ,and Mr. W. H. George, Jr., a railroad con tractor of Richmond, Va., were in town two or tKree days ago negotiat ing with the officers of the Statesville Air Line Railroad Company with a view to building and equipping the proposed road from Statesville to Mount Airy They examined the sur veys, maps and estimates of the road, which were prepared by Civil Engineer Greenlee, and were given all the information they desired. The contractors expressed' themselves as being highly pleased with the sur veys, etc. .the bonds and the prospeots of the road, they have the matter of building the road under advise ment and will probably submit a proposition to the officers of the com pany in n few days. Advantage Taken ot Decision. Asheville, Special George W. Vanderbilt, the largest taxpayer in Buneome county, has taken advan tage of Judpe Fred Moore s recent decision in the injunction hearing of the Southern Railway against the commissioners and tax collectors of this county, holding that one-third on the tax levy in Buncombe county was unconstitutional, and has refus ed to pay that portion of his tax rep resenting the 15 cent road and bridges and 18 1-2 cent interest on bonds, which amounts to about $3,000. Here tofore Vanderbilt has paid his tax in two installments. This year bis tax was almost $24,000, half of this amount having been paid in Decem ber. This week Vanderbilt through his agent paid the remainder of his tax with the exception of that portion represented bv the one-third declar ed bv Judge Moore to be unconstitu tional. It is understod that other large taxpayers in paying their taxes are holding back the 33 1-3 per cent. Salem Commencement. YTinston-Salem, Special. The or der of the exercises for Salem Acad emy and College has just been an nounced and is as follows: Friday, May 22d-r-First concert of the music festival. Saturday. May 23d Senior class exercises, literary nad musical, in the afternoon, and second concert -ti night. Sunday, May 24th Baccalaureate Fermon by the Rt. Rev. J. Taylor Hamilton, D.. of Saxony. Monday, May 25th Alumnae so ciety meeting in the afternoon and ihe third musical concert at night. Tuesday, May 26th Commence ment, the literary address by Presi dent William Louis Poteat, Ph. D., of Wake Forest College, and presenta tion of diplomas by Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler, D. D., of the board of trustees. Hardin Germany Gets Eight Years. Greensboro, Special. In the Su perior Court here, Hardin Germany, charged with sending an infernal ma chine to Mr. Caesar Cone, was con victed of an assault with intent to kill. Judge Webb announced that he would pronounce sentence later. Un der ( ross-examination. Germany ad mitted that he made the box contain ing the explosive, saying he did the work for a man whose name he did not know and whom he could not de scribe. Germany faced Judge Webb, who sentenced him to eight years in the penitentiary. Two Pardons Granted. Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn Friday granted t'wo pardons and re ' i-cd seven applications He also or dered the sheriff of Buncombe county to place Adolphus Boon on the roads to serve out his unexpired sentence lf,r larceny. Boon was given condi tional pardon, but got drunk and is 'iow in Asheville jail. Franchise Rejected. Salisbury, Special. The board of aldermen granted a franchise to the Southern Power Company, but Attor ney Coche for the company rejected it on account of certain stipulations. The aldermen gave the company until "day 2 to accept, and if it still holds ut the franchise will be revoked. Safe-Elowers at Shelby Depot. Shelby, Special. The safe at the Seaboard depot was blown to pieces Thursday night by burglars and the contents taken which amounted to about fifty dollars. There is no clue fco the perpetrators. State Farmers Union. Charlotte, Special. The farmers union delegates met here last week and perfected an organization with the following officers: President, Dr. H. Q. Alexander, of Mecklenburg; vice president, A. C. Shuford, Cataw ba county; secretary and treasurer, E. C. Faires, Cleveland county; door keeper, J. Ernest Cansler, Lincoln; sergeant-at-arms, U. S G. Phillips, of Cherokee; conductor, A. C. Stroup, Gastor county; State organizer, J. E. C. Ford, Gaston county. The execu tive committee is composed of the following-named : Messrs. Orson Morrow, Rutherfordton ; P. W. Ply er, Union; J. J. Logan, Cleveland; T. F. Cornwell, Lincolnton ; D. A. Ran dolph,' Bryson City. Mr. R. B. Hun ter, of the county, was made State lecturer. New bnsdr Factory Running. Thomasville, Special. Mr. C. C Lantz, general manager of the Bard Lumber Company, the new chair fac tory, says that his plant is now com plete and running on full time. A large supply of material is now on the yard'and the company is making chairs at the rate of 200 a day and as soon as the trade will brighten up the output will be 400 a dav The com pany manufactures high-grade chairs ranging in price from $18 to $60 a dozen. It is working now about 50 men. This factory has been built during the past six months and is one of the largest and best equipped in 1 homasville. A Cottage Destroyed in Statesville. Statesville, Special. Just before noon Thursday a six-room cottage lo cated in southwest Statesville, the property of J. M. Adams and occu pied by J. Lee Steele and family, was destroyed by fire with practically all its contents. The fire originated from a defective flue and the roof was in flames before discovered. The fire department responded to the alarm at once, but the flames had done their work before the firemen reached the scene. The house was valued at $1, 000 with $600 insurance. Mr. Steele had no insurance and his loss of $100 to $200 falls heavily on him. A Rowdy at Last Gets His Deserts. Statesville, Special. About 18 months ago, in the edge of Olin town ship, Ab Lambert, white, assaulted and stabbed Doc Daniels, white, in the latter 's store, dangerously injur ing him. Lambert ran away immedi ately after the trouble and went to the mining regions in West Virginia He was noted for his rowdyism and had a very bad reputation. Recently his father, who lives in Sharpesburg township, received a letter from a boarding house keeper in a mining town in West Virginia, stating- that he (the boarding house man) had shot and killed Lambert and had been exonerated for the shooting on the ground of self-defense. Lambert was drunk and was advancing on his host, shooting as he advanced, when the latter drew his revolver and killed Lambert with the first shot. Lam bert's father has further investigated the killing and it is understood that he realizes that his son got only what was due him. Bank Burglary at Kernersville. Winston-Salem, Special. It is learned here that the Forsyth Bank, of Kernersville, was burglarized Sun day night, but the robbers failed to gain entrance to the vault where the cash is kept. They were either fright ened away or were amateurs. They entered the building through a rear Avindow by prying off the iron bars. Fuss Over Wife. Spencer, Special. Willis Franklin, aged twenty-five years, a colored fire man on the Southern Railroad, was stabbed to death near the passenger depot here Thursday morning by An drew Linden, a colored laborer at the Spencer shops. The tragedy is said to have resulted from a quarrel over the wife of Linden with whom it is alleged Franklin was intimate. Farmer Kills Ex-Convict. Durham, Special. Effa Wimbish, a wealthy merchant and farmer, of Halifax county, Virginia, shot and in stantly killed Gregord McCrow, who made a murderous assault upon him. McCrow was an escaped convict, har ing served three months of an 18-year sentence for murder of another ne gro. When Wimbish met him the convict fired, wounding Wimbish in the arm At the merchant's first shot the negro fell dead. Wimbish was taken to South JtJoston ana piacea in the. hospital. PROSPERITY Of THE M Indications of Great Prosperi ty Throughout the South COMMERCIAL LIFE VERY ACTIVE President Finley, of the Southern Railway, Believes the Situation in the South is as Favorable to an Early Revival of Prosperity as ITiat in Any Other Par o the Country. Washington, Special. President W. W. Finley, of the Southern Rail way Company, who has been looking carefully into commercial and indus trial conditions in the Southern States, was asked for a summary of the result of his inquiries. 1 ' While business conditions in the Southern States are not as favorable as we would like to hpve them," said Mr. Finley, "I think the situation in that section is fully as favorable to an early revival of prosperity as that in any other part or the country. Throughout the South, the banking irstitutions are in sound condition and although their managers are gen erally pursuing careful and conserv ative policies, sound business enter prises are generally able to obtain all of the credit . needed. From most localities eome reports that Southern farmers are in a pros perous condition, and have substan tial bank accounts. In the United States as a whole and especially in the Southern section, agriculture is the predominant industry. Last year's crops were sold at remunerative prices. Largely as a result of the purchasing power of the farmers, re tail trade in most Southern communi ties is fairly active. In those local ities where cotton mill employes and other industrial workers are most numerous, there has, of course, been more or less falling off in retail bus iness as a result of the industrial de pression. As in all other sections there is a tendency on the part of re tail dealers in all lines to buy verv conservative and reduce their stock for goods. This necessarily has' the effect of 1 curtailing the business of jobbers, who in turn are conserva tive in their purchases from manu facturers, and this, in turn, tends to accentuate the industrial depression. "That the depression should have been so widespread and serious is due, I think, not so much to funda mental unfavorable economic condi tions as to the general uncertainty as to the futme which has prevailed and to the consequent tendency on the part of the American people generally to economize in their expenditures. The cumulative effects of all these in dividual economies passed on through retailers and jobbers, have fallen with full force upon the manufacturing and transportation interests of the country,' which are consequently feel ing the depression much more acutely than other interests. "The question of how soon a reviv al may be expected to begin is one which no man can answer with" cer tainty, for the reason that some of the reasons for the continuance of the business depression are psychological This being true, ono of the most im portant results to be brought about is the creating of a constructive senti ment based on faith in ourselves and in the future. A few weak spots in our banking system have been elimi nated ; the natural resources of our country have not been diminished and the industry and enterprise of the American people are as pxeat as be fore. Under these circumstances, be force, as a result of the prolongation of existing conditions, economic com plications arise, it it the duty of each one of us to look to the future, rath er than to the past, and to contribute to the best of his ability, to the bring ing about of such a sound construc tion sentiment as will substantially aid in return to prosperity." Cotton Seed Crushers Meet. New Orleans, Special In response to the call of President L .A. Ran son, the executive and rules commit tee of the Inter-State Cotton Seed Crushers' Association met here Tuesday. These two committees will pass upon all rules which are to e:o before the annual meeting of the association at Louisville in May. Socialists Hold Meeting in Grant Central Palace. New York, Special. Without sem blance of disorder and under the sur veillance of scores of police and de tectives, 1,500 persons took part in a meeting of the Socialist party in Grand Central Palace. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss the attitude of the authorities in not per mitting them to hold a public meet ing in Union Square last Saturday and let it be known that the Social ists were not in sympathy with the act of the bomb thrower. CONGRESS A!T WORK Doings of Our National Law-Makers Day by Day. Serious Charges Made. Charges of a serious nature against Gilford Pinchot,chief of the Forestery bureau, were made in the House by Messers. Smith, California, and Mon dell, Wyoming, during the consider ation of the Agricultural Appropri ation bill. Mr. Smith accused him of entering into a secret understand ing with the city of Los Angeles with the view of securing the city valu able water rights in the Owens Riv er Valley, as against the interests of private parties having prior claims. Mr. Mondell denounced him for, as he charged, illegally paying the ex penses of forest officials, in attend ing conventions in the West, in which the government had io part and also of spending government money to boost his bureau in the public news papers. Mr. Pinchot was defended by Mr. Pollard, Nebraska, and Mr. Scott, Kansas. The bill was under discus sion all day and every line relating to the forest service was' fought over, with the result that many -provisions were stricken out. The Agricultural Appropriation Bill. After having undergone many changes, the paragraph of the agri cultural appropriation bill relating to the bureau of forestry, was finally J passed by the House of Representa tives. Messrs. Mondell, of Wyoming and Smith, of California, continued their attacks on the bureau and in this they were supported by Messrs. Bonynge, of Colorado and Cushman of Washington. ; These embraced charged that the bureau had created timber monopolies in favor of large corporations, illegally assumed juris diction over the water rights belong ing to the Western States, and jug gled with figures in order to obtain large appropriations from Congress. The work of the bureau was vigor ously defended by Messrs. Hepburn, of Iowa, and Scott, of Kansas. Considerable time was devoted to discussing a proposition by Mr. Hum phreys, of Missippi, to increase the appropriation. for the investigation of soils, which was carried. Correspondence Submitted. The long expected correspondence between America and Venezuela re specting pending American claims against the latter ) country was sub mitted to the Senate and is almost certain to create a; profound impres sion. It will be difficult to digest the vast mass of material which Sec retary Root has placed before Con gress, but even a cursory inspection of the documents makes it. evident that the negotiations have reached a critical phase. The President's reali zation of that fact is shown by his transmission of the matter to the Senate without anyr comment, regard ing the correspondence and especial ly Scretary Root's strong presentation of the American case, as sufficient to instantly enlist tliej attention of Con- gress. All the correspondence and docu ments were referred to' the . Senate committee on foreign relations. Those members of the committee who have already jfamiliarized them selves with the situation have arrang ed tentatively a programme which consists of three propositions as fol lows: I A. Tentative- Programme. Placo a prohibitive tariff on Ven ezuelan coffee, thl exports of which constitute 45 per acent. of the entire Veneauelan foreign trade and 90 per cent, of the coffee is taken by the United States. Exclude all importations of asphalt from Lake Bermudez, the product of which has been taken almost entirely by the United Stales. Authorize the President to exercise the general power invested in him to take whatever steps he may consider necessary to treat with Venezuela in the future. In a letter to Minister Russell on February 28th, 1907, Secretary Root reviewed the difficulties encountered by the various American claimants and instructed Mr. Russell to demand remedy and redress. The letter con cluded with this statement: Root's Letter Strong. "You are instructed to bring these several causes of complaint to the immediate and serious attention of the Venezuelan government and to in sist that the government to which you are accredited shall give to each and every demand herein set forth imme diate consideration. ' ' In issuing general instructions to the American minister, Secretary Root said: "You will call the attention of the government of Venezuela to the fact that notwithstanding the long and un broken friendship manifested by the United States for Venezuela ; notwith standing the repeated occasions upon which the United States has interven ed as a friend in need to relieve Venezeula from disagreeable and dangerous complications with other powers; notwithstanding the patience and consideration which, has always 4 characterized the treatment of this government towards "Venezuela the government of Venezuela has within the past few years practically confis cated or destroyed all the substantial property interests of Americans in .that country. This has been done sometimes in accordance with the forms of law and contrary to the spirit of the law; sometimes without even form of law; by one device oi ; another, with the action of the gov ernment apparently always hostile to American interests, until of the many millions of dollars invested by Ameri can citizens in that country practical ly nothing remains." 300 Men Cnt Off From N. & W. Shops. Roanoke, Va., Spacial. Eight hun dred men were discharged from the j Roanoke shops of the Norfolk & Western Railway Tuesday. The shops under normal condition employ 2,000 men. A notice was posted that in the future the shops will work full time with the reduced force. For the past three months only half time has been made. Every department in the shops is affected by the cut. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Andrew Carnegie's income is said to be $71,000 a day. President Roosevelt has started vigorous campaign against anarchists. Prince Luitpold, Regent of Bavaria, celebrated his eighty-seventh birth day. s The Duke's name is pronounced "Abbrutsee." Second syllable ac cented. Emperor William and the Empress arrived at Venice and were welcomed by King Victor Emmanuel. Rear-Admiral Evans lett the fleet at Magdalena Bay to take California baths as an aid to his rheumatism. Father Peter Chang, the first Chi nese priest to visit America, cele brated mass in a Hoboken Catholic church. The will of James Oliver, wealthy plow manufacturer, offered for pro bate, disposed on an estate of $60, 000,000. Rome society was pained to hear a rumor that Senator Elklns had re jected a proposition to make him an Italian Duke. Chow Tszchi, ex-first secretary of the Chinese Legation at Washington, D. C, sailed from San Francisco on the Manchuria for China. M. Dutuit, who died In Paris in 1902, left a large part of his wealth to all those who could legally claim kinship with him. The court has just rejected the claims of the 747th "friend." When Senator Stephenson, the old Wisconsin lumberman, was a young lumberman he contracted the tobacco habit. About nineteen years ago he "swore off." Now he's smoking again. "My! but it tastes good," he says. Call to Newspaper Publishers. Montgomery, Ala., Special. Victor H. Hanson, secretary and treasurer of the Southern Newspaper Publish ers' association has issued a call for the sixth annual convention of that body in Charlotte, N. C, May 19 and 20. The headquarters of the associa tion will be at the Hotel Selwyn. The call savs: "The pr.st ycr.r br.? t??3 an unusual o::z from a nc'.vppcr point of view, and many important subjects should come up for discus sion. 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The measures proposed for the col lection of the poor tax on theatre tickets threatened to lead to a revo lution in the Paris theatres. The Indiana Railroad Commission issued an order cutting the rates of express companies doing business in the State from'ten to twelve per cent. Russian revolutionists, at a mem orial meeting for Paul Gershuni, de nounced the man who threw the bomb in Union Squafe, New York City. The House of Commons passed by a two to one vote a resolution offered by John E. P'dmond favoring self government in Ireland of purely Irish affairs. The New Yrk American philoso phisies: Life is our sunshine, our bappy, limited hour of brightness. Will not death be the soul-satisfying night, revealing the beautiful infinite truths that are hidden by the blind ing light of passing life? We must hope that it is so. Are a Necessity in the Country Home. The farther vou are removed from town to railroad station, the more the telephone will save in time and horse flesh. 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