COLUMBUS, POLK COUNTY, C THURSDAY, JUNE 16,1910. 1NO. 5. SfTITS BIG LOSS 5cnator Hale "Objects" to the Appropriation. VALUABLE LANDS NOT DRAINED jlore Than 50,000,000 Acres of Lands; Will Not be Reclaimed -Delegations of Farmers Urged the Impor tance of the Amendment But $3,600,000 is Incorporated For the Pleasure of the Residents of Wash ington, D. C. Washington. SreciaL An amend- mpnt carrvin? an i appropriation of $150,000 to show the people of the South how to; dram and -reclaim ou, 000.000 acres of the most valuable land in the United States, was kept out of the sundry, civil bill by reason of the opposition of Senator 'Hale, of Maine. -The amendment was one introduced in the - Senate by Senator Foster, of Ixmisrana. and- endorsed by Southern Senators. With the elimination of the drainage amend ment, there was incorporated in the game bill by the same-ben ator irom Maine an amendment appropriating $3.tj(JU,UUU lor the purchase or eleven city blocks to atrora a better view oi the new union station from the Capi tol and office building occupied by Senators, lhe amendment that was eliminated from the bill by the Senator from Maine would have re sulted in the development of 50,000,- 000 acres oi the richest and most pro ductive land in the entire country, thus adding hundreds oi millions in dollars to the wealth of he nation. . The amendment incorporated in the bill at the instance of Senator Hale satisfied the whim of , a few Senators. The first amendment is endorsed by the farmers of the country, three hree delegations having come . to . Washington . from the South and Southwest and appeared before com mittees of Congress -to 'nrge-'tbe im portance of the appropriation forra surveywith the object of proving how this waste land may be drained for settlers and home-seekers. The sec ond amendment is endorsed largely, bv people who live in Washington City. v Senator Hale is next to the oldest member of the Senate in point ot service, and his viewpoint is largely restricted to New England. He is s product of another- day and' out of, touch with the modern thought for the development of the country. The people of Maine have decided to re tire him to private life after March, an d a s. a rp an 1 f 1i p i 4 n nt a ran d i d ata for re-election. The efforts of Sena tor Hale well entitle him to the re spite from public life that awaits him. . . Gov. Glenn on Negro Education. Cleveland, Ohio, Special. A severe arraignment of the Southern States for their failure to properly educate the negro was delivered Wednesday night in an address by former Gov ernor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina. .Mr. Glenn declared that in eleven Southern States, where the, negroes form 40 per cent of the ... population, only 15 per cent of the school fund devoted to their education-. .' He as speaking at the Euclid Avenue Christian Church. ' - "This leads," he, said "to an in crease in crime and immorality and especially noted in the illiterate leadership. : V ;. : "Thers are 30000 negro preachers, ho exercise an enormous influence over nine million -negroes. About 10 Per cent of these have received more than a primary education and ' the remaining 27,000 are ignorant men, who are framing the destinies of mil lions of their fellows." , Why Not Include Poker? liaton Rouge, La.SpeciaL If Rep resentative Derouen, of Iberia: parish, ca pass a bill, noticj of which he kas riven in the lower branch of the kgisiature, bridge whist - will be tabooed in the State of Louisiana. bill calls for "the absolute sup Pr?ssion of the playing of bridge hist." Parr an Honest Man. -Vw York, Special. Richard Parr, special agent of, the Treasury De Parhr!ent,.the man who ferreted out American Suirar Refining Com pany s fraud. Trill rnma nhn t fnn. ' :J.U!! fm the jrovcrnment for ; his rK- He may -et $700,000. ; .Graves at Gettysburg. granite monuments hronza In Mats a the rftnfiJn 10 Pfty, 1- . A 1 . . h i "'utaitf avenues to i&ae marl 1 1118 lrcn battlefield the r r'-' -wHch !rave hitherto marked at riu,tl?n of Southern brigades, P'aees cf the- iron battlefield HONOR MEMORY BILL NYE North Carolina Editors Think of Monument for Grave. Wrightsvijle ' Beach, N. a, Special. One of the features of the opening session of tjhe annual convention oi the North Carolina Press Association, which convened here' Wednesday, was the launching of a movement to erect J ft substantial memorial to the late ' Bill ' ' Nye, the humorist, whose death occurfed at his home in this State in 188, and whose unmarked grave in Henderson county is the tnecca for nfany tourists. The movement, which-was introduc ed in the bourse of an essay on journalistic problems by R. W. Yin cent, of the! Charlotte Observer, was eloquently seconded by James H. Caine, of the Asheville Citizen, in an enthusiastic speech. Mr. Vincent said, in part,: "Up yonder in the mountain fasi aesses of Henderson, in a grave un marked save by a rough stone bould er, uninscriled, which by his wish Is the only monument he desired, lies till that is mortal of an adopted son whose memojry this State has neglect ed to hono one we are proud to clajra. as of four craft the lamented Bill Nye. I was his misfortune not bo have beenb6m in North Carolina Maine claims that . distinction but thevbest years of his life were spent at beautiful Buck Shoals and the best work of his I career was done there, tt was in the Carolina foothills that he gave up tie unequal struggle, and it is there tlfat he is buried. "We cannbt more ornately mark his last resting place if we respect his wishes, ht we can erect in Hen dersonville o Asheville, or, if you will, in the -Shade of the Capitol at Raleigh, a suitable and substantial memorial to show to the world that we know our Jduty and have perform ed it." I ; Customs "Court's First. Ca6e. Washington, Special. The ne United States Customs Court, sittintl t- as a final court of aDoeals. in cus toms ,tas.es only, Thursday.; took up ttp: &st-"'trase, - the determination "as to whether, certains pamts be assess ed at 5 eerits a pound, or 30 per cent, ad valorem by the customs au thorities; i Dr. Cram, of S. p., Lands Again! Washington, Special. President Taft has nominated William D. Crum, oi. bouth Carolmas, to be minister resident and consul general at Mon rovia, Liberia; Crum is the negro whose appointment by Mr. Roosevelt as collector of the port at Charleston, S. C, raised such a storm of, protest in the Southr Cannot Float in i Polluted Water. Washington, Spetial. In a decision issued by the Department of Agn culture, It was announced that the floating of oysters would be permitted by the department if the water in which the floating! was done was of the same saline content as the water in which the oysters were grown. Wheat Crop; Very. Good. Washington, Special. The govern ment crop report shows the area sown to spring wheat is about 19, 742,000 acres or 1,349,000 acres (7.3 per cent) more than last year: the condition on June 1 was 92.8 as com pared with 95.2 on June 1, 1909; The condition of winter wheat was 80.0 compared, with 82J. on May 1, 1910, 80.7 on June 1, 1909. Did Spaniards Blow Up Maine? Indianapolis, Ind., Special. -In an interview Thursday John E. Lamb, who served in Congress. with the late Thomas B. Reed,' Speaker of the House, says that! Reed always be lieved that the blowing up of the Maine in Havana harbor was the re sult of an accident and no way chargeable to the Spaniards. :; Taft Will Be There by Proxy. ; Washington, Special. President Taft has asked Secretary of the Navy Meyer arid. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, both of whom - were in the Roosevelt Cabinet to go to New York on June 18 to meet s Col. Roosevelt on his return from , Africa. The President will also send a httcr to Col." Roosevelt by Capt. Archie Butt, his military, aide. Frtdt Shortage' $40,000,000. " Richmond, Va., Special William H. Murray, fruit expert and corre spondent of national repute for the California Fruit Growers and Ship pers ' Jo'arnal estimates-' ; the.fruit shortage- in : the United States th's Jear.as from forty to fifty million Killed Patieiit With Gcma. r St. Petersburg,; Special, Dr. Pat schenko, who, with. Count de Lassy. was arrested here about a esk ago on suspicion of poisoning Count Uoutoulin, teir to. a fortune of . $3, 500,000, has confessed that he killed Count IBoatoulin by injecting cholera THE NEWS MINUTELYTOLD The Heart of Happenings Carve? From the Whole Country. Gov. N. P. Broward defeated U. S. Senator James P. Taliaferro for the.1 Senate in Florida. Forty-two additional officers in the army are provided for in a bill pass ed by the Senate. Mr.. Cullom, of Illinois, is the sec ond man in age in the Senate. If he lives unlil November 12 next, he will be 81. The most aged man now in the Senate is Mr. Stephenson, of Wis consin. On June 29 he will be 81 years old... Andy Craig, a well-known Chicago sport, placed $10,000 on Jeffries against $6,000, wagered by Edward Dickson, broker," on Johnson. Four people were killed and one seriously injured at Haverstraw, N.. Y., when a locomotive struck- a coach returning from a funeral. Mrs. Helen Stittz, of Toledo, O., when informed that her daughter, Helen, aged 14, had been killed by an auto, lost her power of speech. Collector Loeb has completed ar rangements with the Treasury De partment for the loan of three rev enue cutters for June 18 to meet- Coh Roosevelt. Senator Frye is arv enthusiastic and successful angler, and spends the greater part of i his vacation on- the; beautiful lakes of his native State1 indulging in his favorite sport. Jules A. Silon, or Simon, stated to be a resident of San Francisco, as cended to the crater of -Vesuvius, which is again becoming active, and was killed by inhaling the fumes. The President hopes that the Sen ate will accept the postal savings bank bill as it passes the House, and if this can be brought about speedy adjournment is said to be assured. There will be no report at this session of Congress from the special committee of which Representative Olcott, pf New York, is chairman, which has been investigating the ship subsidy! scandal. u r;lJ , Charles Warner, at one time a pros perous manufacturer of canned goods, died in a Brooklyn hospital from a razor cut, which he inflicted upon himself shortly after his arrest on a charge of forgery. When President Taft nominated "Col." Thomas D. Murphy to be postmaster at Augusta, Ga., he nam ed the champion poker player of Mr. Taft's trip to Panama just before the President 's term began. Five men were . killed in the Rich ard Mine near Dover, N. J., by the overturning of a car, in which they were being drawn' to'the modth ' of the mine. The miners fell a distance of 700 feet down the" shaft. "My feet hurt and nobody caree for me. May God have mercy on my souL" was the suicide note left by Joseph Kress, a rural mail carrier whose body was found hanging in a barn at Bennettstown, Ky. At London Col. Theodore Roose velt declared that lie' had neither asked for nor would he accept any favors from the New York Custom House upon his return to America on June 18. He will pay all duties on his goods i The Georgia Bankers Association adopted-resolutions emphatically en dorsmg New Orleans as th city htted in every particular for tne holding of the World's Panama Exposition in celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal in 1915. , Vital statistics made public show a decrease in the birth rate in France. The births in 1909 were 770,000, asaiasfc 792,000 in the preceding year. Since 1851 the population o ine re public has been increased by 3,000, 000. only, while the population of Germany in the same period has ien increased by 30,000.000. The Interstate Commerce, Commis sion Has received, notice that the rail roads, on June 1 increased their rates on wool approximately 20 per cent, will reduce them again on July 7. A resolution condemning the plac ing of a statue of Robert E. Lee in the National Capitol was tabled at at the closing session of the 44th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Encampment of the G. A, R., at Harriscnburs. - The -Methodist ministers of Greater New York haye adopted resolutions calling upon voters to support Gov-, ernor Hughes in his fight for direet primaries. n ," -A " '.'. . At St.Louis Dr. John B. Murphy cf, Chicago wai elected president. of the "American Medical association and Br. Geo. II. Simmons of Chieago, secretary. " Los Angeles "was selected as the nest meet rag place. ' i. Characterizing the river and harbor bill as a jntfc barrel, " Senators Burton, of Ohio, and. Newlands, .of Nevada, severely criticized tha con ference report on that measure, which waa called up io. the-Siatfthy Se ator Nelsoa. " . - 'r.- ' -v HAPPY ON THE WAY It Roosevelt Bounding O'er the ! Ocean Wave. NATIONAL WELCOME SATURDAY Forty , to Fifty Thousand Members of j Organizations Will be in Line in ! Addition to Thousands of Visitors i Spanish War Veterans, Governors? ! 'and Other High State Officials to Join in the Warm Welcome Home : to the "First Citizen of the Land." New York, . Special. Secretary Cosby of the Roosevelt reception com mittee estimated that 40,000 to 50,000 persons comprising f local and j visiting organizations will be in line along Fiith avenue next Saturday afternoon at the time of the parade in honor of Theodore Roosevelt's return. R. A. C. Smith, chairman of the j harhoi display committee', places the esti mate of boats at something over two iundred. Many of the organizations, will be in uniform or wear ; some insignia oi their order and nearly all will have bands. To each ! organization com prizing more than 100 persons a block has been assigned T on ritth avenue Many wilj carry j Roosevelt flags ' and other society flags and the national emblem. They will not march, but will stani in their: places as Colonel Roosevelt; the Rough Riders and other Spanish war veterans go past. The Hamilton I Club of Chicago, under the leadership of John H. Bat ten, will send 100 members who will gc down the bay on the steamship Com modore and later; have a stand, on Fifth avenue. The Pittsburg Business Men's Association will send 500, mar shaled by Col. A. Moore. Omaha will send a delegation and Philadel phia, Cincinnati anil other cities will add to the numbers The Armv and Navv Union hai mf . : T 5 " - asked for a place for between 200 and 300, the Spanish war veterans, whe are to march, will , turn out about 2.000 locally and the Roosevelt Neigh ; bors Association -of Oyster Bay,1 to gether with a delegation from the Nassau county boards of supervisors will have 000 men. 4 Points From Oxford Address oi Roosevelt. j i London, By Cablei-" To be opulent and unarmed is to lecure ease in -the present at almost ;crtain costjofdis aster in the future" i ' ' Rome fell by attack from without, only because the ills within her owe borders had grown un curable.7,' j l The only elective way to help anj man is.to help himM;6 help himself.'1 ! No doctrinaire heories of vested ngnis or ireeaom ox coniraci cac stand in the way of our cutting ou abuses from tba body politic." j "In the long run there can be nf justification for onfe race managins or controlling another, unless th managment ai.d control are exercised in the interest- and for the benefit of that nths race?' ' . I "Some or you think me a ven radical democrat ; as, for the mattei cf fact, I am; and my theory of im perialism would probably suit the anti-imperialist ' as little as it woult suit a certain type of foreible-feebh imperialist. x . ! "Dryness is not in itself a measurt of value. A book which is written' t be read should be ! readable, i .This : rather obvious fact seems to . have been forgotten1 by the more zealou scientific historians, r ' "Loan Shark3" Prosecuted. ! Atlanta, Ga., Special. As a I resul of a campaign waged by newspaper! and civic associations against " loan sharks," the Fulton -eounty granc jury has returned .forty-five indict ments against local money-lenders charging usury. ; , Fake Curs Specialist Punished. .. I New Orleans, Special. Dr. Rolanc Register of ' this city, was f onnc guilty in the United States district court here of the charge of using th mails to defraud and was sentenced vto 13 months in the federal peniten tiary at Atlanta. It was alleged th a' he sent out circulars making falsi claims and guarantees of cures. Drs A. S. Dyer and Hi W. Hale, who wen fcimd guilty on a similar charge sev eral da js ago, wq re also sentenced the .former to a term of 13 months :in the Atlanta prison and a fine $l,CO0 and , the latter to IS moiu, and;-a fine df o.OpO. . ; .. . Frssident Wiil;;Get Money. . ! Washington, Special. Demoerati( members of the Ileus?, who en May 2 6 prevented the $2,000 appropria tion for President1 Taft's 'traveling ex penses jfor, the fiscal, year cf 1911 beiiig made available ;for vuse for thi closing n:ontfci of the fiscal year end: ing June 30, 1C10, will hot oppose th appropriation a3 arranged : by tin Senate- in the sundry civil 'appropria c tioar.'biilv. DEAD HWS HONORED. States' Beautiful Windows in Old Blandford Church. Petersburg, Va., Special ConfedVj erate States have honored men whA fell on the battle fields j nearby old; Blandford j church by erecting mem-; orial windows in the sacred building.! Some of the inscriptions are: j Alabama Window. ; To the glory of God and a sacred memory of Alabama's brave Confed erate band. Braye men may die, Right has no death. Truth shall never pass away. Arkansas Window. To the glorv of God and, in memory of Arkansas soldiers who died for their State. South Carolina Window. ! To the glory of God and in memory of South Carolina's sons who died for the Confederacy. ! He doeth, according to His will in fhe army of Heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. . ' Mississippi Window. To the glory of Qod and in loving memory of Mississifians of the Con federate Army - who fell around Petersburg, Va. j For their eountry they gave their lives. Greater love hath no man than this. , Tennessee Window. To the glorv of God and in loving memory, of our heroes of Tennessee. To live in fctarfcs we ieave behind is not to die. I Maryland Window. To tKfe glory of God and in loving memory of Maryland's hero sons. I Missouri Window, i Given by the Confederate Memorial Society of Missouri. Ora pro moriente numquan moriente. pro patria ! Louisiana Window. To the glorious memory of the brave men of the Washington Artilley of New Orhans "who gave their lives for the Confederate cause. North Carolina Window. In memory of North "Carolina sol diers of whom 40,275. proved their devotion to ; duty -by - their. ? death. "God bless North Carolina. "R. E Lee. ' I '. ' ' Virginia ; Window. To the glory of God and in memory! of Virginia patriots and heroes of, the Confederate Army. EternalrightJ altho ' all else fall, can never be made wrong. - j Above the west gallery of the chapel! is a window of stained glass, repre senting a cross, with this j inscription:! ' ' Glory to God in the highest, e earth peace, good will to men. ' 1 jAbove the door of the west en trance to the chapel is . a j transom of stained ' glass with a Confederate bat tle flag in the centre with these words: "Ladies' Memorial Association, Petersburg, Va., 1861-1865. In me moriam, 1866-1909." All the windows have a figure of an Apostle on them and the seal of the State they represent. ! They were furnished by Tiff any, of New York, add he is. said to have remarked that Blandford Church is the handsomest antique in the United States. The Virginia, Missouri Louisiana and North Carolina windows were un veiled sometime ago. ' ! I Entitled to Pay. Washington, . Special.- Attorney General , Wickersham has rendered a decision in which he holds that Rich ard Pharr is entitled to recover from 'the government the amount of his claim for information given against the so-called sugar trnst. Georgia Primary August 23, Atlanta, Ga., Special. The Statt Democratic! executive committee, at its 'meeting here Saturday, fixed Tues day, August 23, as the date for th State primary election, when candi dates for Governor and practieally all other officers will be chosen. Too Bad, Girls. New York, . Special. Chocolate candies and confections are likely to be made after this with mushy ex teriors, in I place of the hard and brilliant coating that has been applied in j the past. This is the last word given out by the candy manufacturers who say that consumers may blame the government if thev eeti stickv and soiled fingers from handling choco lates. U. S. Fines Woman t $5,000. Trenton. I N. J.. SDecial.r For " the unlawful importation of f articles wi th istent-to defraud the Government of the , duties,) Mrs. Matilda M. Ches brough; of ! Newton, Mass., was -ned $5?O0OO in the United States District Court Tuesday. Warning j to Bird Nest -Robbers. "Chicago, SpeciaL In sight of a younger brother with whom be had gone hunting young birds, iHarry Eul berg. 17 yeurs eld, was electrocuted Sundayby jcoming in eon tact with an electric ;wire when be climbed a pole to, ceL a nest. The. Loy legs were j. almost barned cSL - - SAVED THE STATE. American Tobacco Co. Saves N. C. Expense Extra Session. LEGISLATURE WILL NOT MEET The Great American Tobacco Com-' pany Bids Fcr $1,000,000 of the North Carolina : Forty-Year Four Per Cent Refunding Bonds State Bankers Will Take Care of the Re- maining Number. Raleigh, Special. A bid for $1, 000,000 of the North Carolina forty year 4 per cent refunding bonds re reived Wednesday afternoon from the v American 'Tobacco Company saves the State from the necessity of assembling the Legislature in extra session as , called through the recent proclamation of Governor Kitchin for June 14. This is the view that is taken here in of ficial and business circles. Bids that . will be in hand for the final sale Fri day, will easily, take , up the entire $2, 111,000 remaining of the total $3,430, 000 issue after t hie .first sale of $1,-' 219,000 bfore the call was issued for 1 the Legislature. The American To bacco Company bid leave! only $1, 111,000 to be taken care of by the bankers and through other bids that are coming in tp be opened Friday. Roosevelt Will Get Rousing Welcome. -New York, Special. On Friday next Col. Theodore Roosevelt will sail from Southampton, England, aboard the steamship Kaiserin Auguste Vic- A toria, and begin the last leg of his wonderful and spectacular journey, which will end when the ship docks in, this harbor eight days later. Since he emerged from the African jungle the latter part of March he has been the guest of nearly every European ruler, and honors have been conferred on' him whieh. were never before accorded a private American citizen. As a fitting climax to his triumphal tour, a monster reception has been planned by - representative ' citizens of the nation; ' andr wheri 1 vthe colonel arrives on June 18 he will be vwelcompd by "thousands of his countrymen from every section of thp United Stages, representing all classes. Plans have been made on a most elaborate scale, and the reception promises to be the most brilliant his torical event ever occurring in this country. j 1 Seventy Automobiles on Highway. - Atlanta, j Special. Under perfect auspices and without a single hitch, the 1910 Journal-Herald good roads tour from Atlanta . to New Yok got ' away Monday morning with over 70 cars in line: and thousands of people irowding the streets to cheer them to the echo, j The party arrived at Charlotte Tuesday night. Left Wednesday morn ing for Winston-Salem. - Damaging Earthquake in Italy. Avellino, Compartment of Campa nia, Italy, By Cable. The province of Avellino bore the brunt of the severe earthquake 'that was felt throughout Soutjh Italy shortly before dawn Wed nesday. : Fatalities occurred and much damage was j done property but up' to noon it was impossible to determine the extent'of devastation. Desperadoes and Officers Kill. Wheeling, pW. Va., Special. In a ; pitched battle Monday between a posse of deputy sheriffs and twenty ' desperadoes who had shot up a wild " west show at Devon, W. Va.,- Frank i Blankenship, ringleader of the gang, Z i. it. r i oi J James Dot ion and "Bud" Sheppard, were killed . . , ,.v Need Intelligent Southern Firemen. NewYork, Special. The New York , .fire department, widely lauded as the ' most workmanlike and " best organiz- i ed in the world, is only 40 per cent efficient in the opinion of its chief. Two firemen were smothered Tuesday in a downtown warehouse blaze and Chief Croker's sorrow at the loss was blended with anger over the manno in which the loss came to pass. Shallowed Needle, Died Years Latfo Roanoke, Va., Special.--At Lafad graff, W. Va., a negro woman named -Miranda Meeks, ,died suddenly fol- 1 lowing - a quarrel with her busband. An autopsy was held and it was dis evoered that, a needle had pierce the woman rs heart. ! A close -cxaminat ion ' failed to reveal anything indicating that the needle had gone through her body. Her husband was arrested and held, but later released. ' j-nysiciaus gave u:as in eir opinion that the woman had swallowed the hi&edle, perbiaps .when a child, and ; that it finally worked its way to; the heart, -hich. tos-ether -wit li ih eTitS x&ent oattsed her '; death. - ' 7 - , - - V - C9 . " t wmv wVALW

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