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VOL XVI.
TfXAS LOOKING DRY
prohibitionists Split and Anti
Candidate is Nominated.
AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION.
AVer Man cn Dry Wave Vote
cn
Prohibition Amendmsnt to Const!
" tution Carried by 20,000. '
$450,000,000 Cotton Exported. :.
Washington, Special. Cotton, cop-
pev, illuminating cil, "wheat these ar
iicles iu the order named, formed the
most important articles exported from
the United States during the fiscal
rear just closed. The value of the
' the copper $83,500,000; of the illumi
nating oil $62,500,000, and of the
w heat $47,000,000.
Dallas, Tex., Special.4 Oscar B.
Colquitt, an anti-prohibitionist,- "was
Saturday nominated for Governor by
a- plurality which will probably reach
00,000. Cone Johnson and William.
Poindexter, the prohibitionist candi
dates, have only about a thousand
votes differanee between them. These
are now in favor of Poindexter, but
may change as some heavy ohnsoir
counties are yet; to come. ,
Former Attorney General Davidson
is about 20,000 votes behind Poin
dexter and Johnson.
The proposition to submit to popu
lar yO.te a piohibition amendment
to the . constitution has carried bv
probably 20,000. . This presents the
situation of an anti-prohibition
Democrat' - being nominated with a
party demanding the ''-submission o
a prohibition amendment confront-
ing him. This' was caused by the
prohibitionist split cn candidates. -
2,000 Less Bars.
Sr. John. X. B., Special.- There are
approximately 25,000 less open bars
vithm the jurisdiction of the national
division Sons of Temperance of North
- Aire:?-.! than existed two years ago,
secerning to" a report 'Tna'de. " at '. the
anuv.al convention of the organization
in session here last week. V
''Join D.'s Place" Cause of Pretest.
Cleveland, S 0.f Special. Because
he placed in the -window' of his saloon
a sign reading ''This' is John D.'s
place,
John D. Schnapps was ar-
rested. ; ; ' '..
The complaint was filed by Frank
F. Marmann, who says he is a friend
of John D. Rockefeller.
Marmann says Mr. Rockefeller t is
known as "John D.," and he1 asked
what the oil
man s
Sunday " school
pr.piis would say if they chanced to
pass the saloon and say that sign.
cnapps argues, as his name
John 1.)., he has a perfect right
is
to
use it on ins
sign.
Hit Bank for a Million.
Louisville, Ky., Special August
Kopke, assistant secretary 'and book
keeper of the Fidelity Trust Com
pany, one of the soundest financial
i !!::: u t ions in Louisville, is believed
t-. have made , away with $1,140,000.
the entire surplus of the concern,
;v -cording to a statement made by
'b'h:i W. Barr, president of the com
pany. Ropke is in the county jail,
where he. has been for ten days, un
ahie to furnish the sum of $25,000. .
. Kopke was a heavy speculator and
lor large sums, it is said, on Wall
St ree t and rthe Chicago board of
raJe. ' , s :r
Can Market Molasses Whiskey.'
Washington, 'Special A complete
a.'reement has been reached regard
ing the way in which molasses-made
whiskey may be marketed by the in
ternal revenue ; officials and 'all that
is now neeessary is the perfunctory
approval of Acting Attroney-General
Fowler.
Caurch Will Operate Grocary Stcre.
Washington, -SpeciaLr-As a means
of raising funds, with which to erect.
a new church here the congregation
' tho Second M. E. ; church will
M -orate a grocery store.. The c"ongre-
-t,H,n has purchased a store and 'thevDie who are looking forward now to
-,,... T" TTT 1 1 T T rf 1 1
tor, Rav. William Hogan, has been
' -vr- in charge. The name has been
''".aired to the "Square Deafc.Gro-
"Eight Hour. Limit.
Washington, Special. Attorney
General Wickersham has ruled that
the eight hour limit will apply to
ork done on and for a" battleship in
tne government" shipyards: This" decis
ion allows the manufacturers of ar
jnor which "is intended for a warship
to he built in a government yard to
wrk- their employes , on such armor
a many hours as th.t employes will
stand. - ':
The attorney general holds that the
wcent act making appropriations for
vessels to be capable of no other con.
COUNTY TO COUNTY
North Carolina News Prepared and
Published For the Quick Perusal of
Our Patrons.
Sinslodcn Skeletons.
In charge of State curator II. II.
Brimlcy, who will ifave them on ex
hibition in the museum shortly, are
parts of two giant mastodon- skele
tons, which were dug up in the east
ern part of the State at -Maysville and
Jacksonville. In both cases parties
were digging ditches, when they dis
covered the bones. In order to secure
the part of the skeleton in Jones
count (Maycsville) it was necessary
to dig for ten feet and only a skull, a
set . of teeth and the tusks were un
earthed. At Jacksonville the skeleton was
discovered by a drummer, Avho report
ed it to the curator. Mr. Thomas Ad
dicks was immediately sent to inves
tigate and found that the skeleton
was buried in the bed of a strem.
With a great deal of difficulty a part
of it was unearthed. To accomplish
the task it became necessary to divert
the waters of the stream and to build
several dams, and even then there
was greaat difficulty, as tlie water rose
ropidlv, the location being very low.
It is supposed that mastodons were
once Common throughout the country
that no composes the eastern part of
forth Carolina. They are supposed to
have existed 50.000 to. 300,000 years
ago and were somewhat larger than
the average African elephant.
Bsceiver For Electric Line. '
Miv Charlie A. Scott, a prominent
banker of Graham,-was Saturday ap
pointed, by J udg-e J. Crawford : Biggs
receiver 4 for' the; Burgrdhaw Inlerur
ban -Company. The petition was made
by the holders cf the bonds, the Inter
state Construction Company of Rich
mond, Va.f; and the Noith State
Realty Company, cf Burlington. 'Tffift
receivership proceedings were brought
on by .the great number of suits
against general and petty contractor'
who got behind in their payments or
labor and material.
The company was chartered to con
struct an electric line from Burling
ton to Haw River via Graham, and
after grading, the track the entire dis
tance, placing the ties and laying the
rack as far as Graham work was
stopped last October. Since then
nothing has been done toward com
pleting theMine. A prominent officer
cf the company stated that he believ
ed the company through the receiver
ship would be enabled to go ahead
and complete the line. The power
plant, located between Burlington
and Graham, is about seventy-five per
cent completed and it is believed that
work will soon be renewed upon the
line and the power plant and rush
ed to completion.
' A Jewell Lest and Recovered.
The romance of Miss Rena G. Jew
ell of Ch arietta, and Arthur D. Thom
as of .'Washington, who eloped last
Friday night from Washington, D. C,
and were married early Saturday
morning at Roekville, Md., has been
shattered. After the return of the
young couple Saturday with the an
nouncement of their hasty marriage,
Miss Jewell's mother and Washing
ton relatives tock the young bride
from her husband and Sunday she
was was taken to her heme iff Char
lotie. Thoma's appeal for the parental
blessing were unavailing. What fur
ther action the family of the young
'woman will take in the matter was
not announced, the mother of the
bride wishing to consult her hus
band. The couple had not known
each other but 24 hours.
135th Annual Meeting, j
The last Sunday in this Month
will be a great day at Rocky River
Bapt Ohu'vh, Anson county. From
the ur ou ding count'e; and from
SouUi Carolina will gather the peo-
the" annual "July meting" which has
been held at this point for 134 pears
with hardly a break.
A Strange Looking Bird.
Mr. John ' McDowell has on exhib
ition at his store, at Morgan ten a cur
iosity in tho shape of a young rain
crow. It is snow white and has pink
eyes or in other words is a full
fledged abino. ' The strange bird was
captured near town a few days ago.
Second Hosiery Mill for Hickory.
Hickory is to have a second 'knit
ting mill. A charter has been isssued
The capital stock is $25,000. Hickery
already 'Has oxi5 hosiery mill, the
Hickory hosiery ' mill, which has had
V verv successful career under the.
1 management of Mr. Cline.
COLUMBUb, FOLK CODMTY, N.
NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS
Life in the Land of-the Long
Leaf Pine
Rates to Rockingham Unsatisfactory.
That satisfactory through routes
and joint rates between Rockingham
and various points in South : Caroj
lina, not only do not exist, but are
refused by the railroads, ds the bur
den of a complaint filed Thursday
with' the interstate commerce com
mission. The complaint was institu
ted bv the manufacturers' freight de
partment of .Rockingham, represent
ing the-cotton mills at that - place
against the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way, and the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad Co. It is alleged that the
rites charged by the carriers on cot
ton piece goods from Rockingham
to points in South Carolina are un
reasonable and discriminatory. The
commission is requested to require
the railroads to establish through
rates and joint rates and schedules of
charges that are lower than the pres
ent rates.
Yeggmen Leave $150 in Church.
A mild sensation w-as created at
Catawba Tuesday. While several
ladies were cleaning and re
arranging the interior of the j Meth
odist church, they found a , stack
of papers which they decided to de
stroy. In removing it one of: the la
dies saw a package that she was
prompted to investigate. Ani Atlan
ta Constitution and Asheville Citi
zen, . bearing date of October, 1907,
were unrolled, in the folds of which
a large number of sheets of 'postage
stamps, "of several denominations
(mostly 2c) were revealed. A count
was -made, and $151.25 was the
amount. ' j
How the stamps got into th
church is a puzzle; but the supposi
tion is that some yeggman passed
that way and slept in the building,
accidentally leaving his -booty .or
purposely hiding it. ' It is '"recalled
that about 1007 robberies of coun-
try slo,Ts ,and small - pqsomces 1
burred. The find has been reported f
fo the department.'
Cark Defeats Congressman Godwin.
After a most turbulent session the
Sixth Congressional Convention, at
Wrightsville Beach Friday, on the
43rd bnllot, nominated Hon. O. L.
Clark, of Clarktcn. Congressman
Godwin was. defeated.
Eookfor Hockwonners.
"Hookworm Disease," by John A,
Ferrell, MD., assistant secretary of
the North Carolina Board of Health,
"for the Eradication of Hookworm
Diseases, " is the title of a booklet
just issued by the North Carolina
Board of Health. It is to be given
circulation in every section of the
State, with special effort to! get a
copy in every rural home. The book
let gives the history and the geo
graphical distribution of the hook
worm and a detailed presentation of
its nature and characteristics and
its attacks on the human system. The
treatment for eradication and the
sanitary' precautions neeessary for
prevention of the disease are also giv
en in a remarkably clear and effect
ive manner. It is profusely illus
trated. , i i
New Law Professor at University.
Prof. A. C. -Mcintosh, assistant
professor of law at Trinity College, is
elected to a law professorship at the
University of North Carolina -to suc
ceed Dr. Thomas Ruflin.
Values in Winston-Salem.
The exact figures for the valuation
of real estate and personal property
in Winston-Salem have been comple
ted, and. show a total valuation of
$11,741,605, against $10,463,798 last
year, an increase of $1,277,807.
The State After a Rascal.
The State is taking a hapd in the
effort to capture Levy Maynard, the
young white man charged with' being
concerned in the death of Bessie
Thomason, at High Point.
Governor Kitchin offered a reward
of $200 for the capture of Maynard,
who has skipped out ! from High
Point, and whose location is unknown.
The authorities are making a: fight to
locate him. 7 !
Chapel Hill Bank in Distress.:
" The business quiet of . Chapel Hill
was disturbed Thursday by the clos
ing of People's Bank. Mr. J. K.
Doughton, the State bank examiner,
posted a , notice on the door that the
bank was closed by order of the Cor
poration Commission. The condition
of the bank is by no means precarious
and it is not ; thought that' the de
positors will lose a single penny. The
officers of the bank are making every
effort to straighten out its affairs. It
is not known yet whether the bank
will be reopened or whether it will be
absorbed by its older rival, -the Bank
of Chapel i Hill. " c T
- C., THURSDAY, JULY
DEMOCRATS IN DIVISION.
Two Congressmen Nominated in Sixth
I North Carolina D istrict Godwin
'In.
Faction "Independent" Republi
cans Will nter Field.
..Wilmington, N. C, Special. Be
cause the chairman of the executive
committee, and temporary chairman
of the sixth : district congressional
convention in session here, -refused to
recognize delegates from New Han
over and Cumberland counties' for .the
reason thatjthey had been "appoint
ed'' instead of elected, in violation of
the Democratic plan, it is claimed,
the executive committee during a re
elss of the convention, deposed the
'chairman and re-elected another
chairman who admitted the delegates
from the counties. in question.
Oscar L. Clark, of Bladen, was
nominated on the 143d ballot at 1:20
a!. m. Friday, defeating Congressman
Godwin and the other three candi
dates. " The Godwin faction held a "con
vention" Friday morning: and by de
claring that Godwin should .have
eleven of New Hanover's votes and
six of Cumberland's, nominated Han
nibal L. Godwin of Harnett on the
first ballot.
Supporters of Godwin declare that
no matter who makes the race for
Congress in this district H. L. God
win will be in the fight and that no
effort Avill be made to have the mat
ter submitted to the State executive
committee.
Tliere is no doubt about the Re
publicans putting cut a nominee and
t now looks like a three-cornered
fight. Godwin's forces declare that
he can win out over the field no mat
ter how many -are in the race and in
fact this declaration was made by J
C. Clifford' of Harnett in placing
Godwin in nomination.
Sheriff Sills Seyen With Two Pistols.
: Elliott, Miss., Special. Five ne-
p
roes -were killed and two others
ere mortally wounded- Thursday
when Deputy Sheriff Cauley, who was
endeavoring .to take them. into cus
tody on a minor charge, advanced
on the oilicer with 'farming imple
ments as weapons and with the avow
ed intention of "cutting him down."
Bearing a warrant charging the
seven with assault, Cauley and two
citizens, deputized to assist him,
went to the home of Henry Beck, s
colored farmer, near Elliott. As the
posse approached, the negroes ceased
their work in the field and grabbing
pitchforks and other farming tools,
made for the deputy Cauley, how
ever, opened fire with two revolers
before the billigerents came within
striking "distance, and, before the
others of the posse had gained their
wits five of the attacking: party were
dead and the remainder wounded.
The. deputy surrendered.!
Several days ago an attempt was
made to effect the capture of the ne
groes but the arresting officer with
drew, when they employed similar
tactics to those of Thursday.
R. R. President Left Scandal.
Chicago, Special. Death came to
Ira G, Rawn, president of the Monon
Railroad, supposedly from a bullet
fired by himself, but certainly on the
eve of possible exposure as a central
figure of what' is declared may be one
of the greatest railway scandals of
the country.
Counsel for the Illinois Central
Railroad when confronted with var-
batim copy of questions and answers
at a recent investigation of the com
pany affairs, admitted that the
foundation had been carefully laid
with intent to show Mr. Rawn as pri
marily responsible for years, of crook
ed car contracts. His answers, howr
ever, had been steadfast denials of
the implied charges. .
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Hour Jumps Fifty Cent3 a Barrel.
Jeffersonyille, Ind., Special. The
high price of wheat and prospects of
a poor yield in man- localities are
the reasons assigned by: dealers for
the jump, of 50 cents' a barrel on
flour, which has been, announced here
Farmers say that orchard grass has
begun to sprout in the shock because
of the recent heavy rains,' and that
the loss will be. heavy. is
Boy Dives Upon a j Stingaree.
West , Palm Beach, Fla., Special.
Death in an almost unheard-of form
waited for. Laurence S. Baker, 'an
11-year-old Jacksonville-lad, when he
dived from . a boat while -in Lake
Worth Thursday. .': :'. : ' ''--- '
A stingaree, a huge, flat-bodied and
firruesome species of warm-water fish
was lurking under " the boat. One of
the barbed spines which1 this fish car
ries on its whip-like, tail, pierced the.
boy's neck, cutting' into the, juglar
vein He rose to the surface, crying
for help ' and bled to death within
four. miauteg.t .
28,1910.
BANK ROBBED
$600,0130
Cashier Erwin Wider
is Eadly Want-
ed Ey Police Description Given
New York, . Special.' ' Wanted :
Erwin Wider, about p2 years old, 5
feet 5 inches in height,. Weight about
135 pounds, swarthy cf complexion
with a small black mustache curled at
the ends. Wears rimless nosj glasses,
talks with a German1 aeeenr and is
timid in address."
Such is the general alarm sent out
by the police for the
of the Russo-Chinese
missing casnier
bank, although,
oddly enough, the district attorney's
oifice says that no aic has been asked
of it by the bank and that no appli
cation for a warrant had been filed. '
But this ccntradic
ion is onlv one
in a series thai have; kept step with
every development of what is now ad
mitted to be at once tae most puzzling
and the most serious defalcation in
the history of Wall Street sinee Cor
nelius Alvord stole $006,000 from the
First National bank, Served a 'term in
Sing Sing and then retired to the se
clusion of a urineely country place.
When the Russo-C !:inese bank first
made public the fac( that its strong
box was short, the ainoimt Avas given
as $80,000, all in negotiable bonds, a
list of which was furfnished. . Monday
afternoon the anjounj; suddenly jump
ed to $600,000. of which the addition-
al $520,000 is said to
be in stocks
pa.tly -owned by the
bv its customers.
bank and partly
Bids Opened Fcr Building Cites
Wa'shinaton, Social. Bids for the
sale of sites for the
erection of Fed
zed by act ci the
gre'ss were Mcn
.ipervising archi
of the citibs of
eral buildings author
recent session of Cor
(lav opened bv the s
tecf of
the Treasnrv
Roclvv Mount, Wilkesboro- and
Bur-
lingtcn
There were! fifteen offers of
ljroueriy in Rocky Mount, the prices
ranging from ,$10,500 fcr corner of
Main' and Thomas sjtecis to $26,000
fcr incpertv cn corner of Washington
and Hall. . i
There were two offers of Burling
ton property,, each f!cr $10,000 and
located cn Davis Street. ''"
Three offers ware made of Wilkcs-
fccro lots along Main street at prices
from $0,000' to $7,500
No selection will be made for these
sites until the towns are visited by
.an agent of the Trjjasury, who will
personally mspeci eaen ouer. xue
visits will probably be made early in
the fall.
Virginia Ex-Mayor Assassinated.
Ridge-way, Va., Special. Ex-Mayor
A. H. Bousman wasj assassinated by
a dynamite bomb, wjiieh was thrown
Sunday evening. He died an hour
after the explosion. No clue t6 the I
"identity of the murderer, or the cause
of the crime, has been found
Mr. Bousman had
the hot evening in a
between two trees
been spending
hammock swung
on tne . lawn in
front of his residence
The dynamite
bomb was thrown about 10 o'clock
by some one passing jalong the street.
It landed on the liammock at his
feet and in another instant exploded.
The ex-mayor's feet were torn away
by th? bursting shell and his legs
frightfully mutilated. In great agony
he died an hour later.
As mayor, of Ridgeway, Mr. Bous
man presided over khe police court
cf the town trying petty cases. It is
thought some person upon whom
Bousman, in his c'cjmrt, had .passed
sentence of punishment, held a
grudge- against him.
No State 'Tases-
-Gee Whiz!
.Minneapolis, Minn-, Special. There
won't be any Stati taxes in Minne
sota in 1911. The State government
expenses will'all be jmet .by the huge
surplus in the State j treasury.
No State taxes i an" unheard-of
thing. The conditio is supposed tc
be without precedent in the United
States, as it is in Minnesota.
Plenty Money. . ;
Atlanta," Ga., Special. Forty-on
new banks, capitalb?ed at $2,612,000
in the aggregate, commenced business
or ctompleLd organization in the
South during the past month. Six
existing , banks adcled $470,000 to
their capital, making a total of $3,
082,000 new banking capital added
to the South 's resources in the past
thirty days. ) f :
Would Be Postal Bank Depositories
Washington, Special. Among the
applications for designation as postal
savings bank depositories which baH
been ; received, are those of the Firs'
National Bank of Gastqnia, N. U, and
the National Loan
and Exchange
Bank of Greenwood,
-at Rock Hill,. S. C.
S. C, and a bank
v. v The Proper : Way.
'v ' Montreal, Special; Vice President
Murdoch, of the Order , of Railway
Trainmen, has . wired to the depart
ment of j labor at Ottawa accepting
ATiTiister Kinz's suggestion . of arbi
tration by a j)oard I to be named by
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NEW CONGRESSMEN
On Census Returns South Gets
Increased Representation.
NORTH WILL MAKE OBJECTION.
South's Population Figures Creating1
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Political
-Probable
a Sensation Presage
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Power and Importance
Fight Ahead Between Sections.
Washington, Special. Th amaz
ing growth in the Sout;h and. South
west already is becoming the sensa
tion of the 1910 census.
Fifty-one counties in Texas show
a population of 817,475 in 1910,. as;
compared with 552,906 in 1900, a v
gain of 46 per cent.
This percentage maintained
throughout Texas . will mean a gain
of 1,403,606 people m the State, or
a total population of almost 4,500,-
000. - .
For Nueces county the Census Bu
reau reported a population of 21,955 .
in 1910, as against 10,434 ten years .
ago, an increase of 110 per cent.
. Knox county showed a 500 per
jent advance, and .Tom Green county
close to 400. per cent.
Returns from . other' States are
scattering. WTithoutj exception, the
figures! from Oklahoma and from the
"Old South" Louisiana; Mississippi .
Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama
record istartling increases. v
On the present basis of represen-,
tation in Congress, a member to every
194,000' of the country's population,
the returns from only forty-one coun
ties entitle Texas to another member
of the House. If the ratio of increase
is maintained, Texas will get seven
additional members, and have a dele
gation
consisting of twenty-three.
Bcatterinjr figures from other
The
parts of the South and South-west, .
most notably Oklahoma, presage a -like
-a 4v anee .Jn political . po w er an d .
irnportancNe.. I " !
For jthis reason, talk of renewing
the Northern demand for ' limiting'.
Southern representation is becoming
general. The Northern Republicans
are practically sure to make another
effort to pass a force bill, under which
representation would be based upon
the vote cast instead of upon the
census returns. '
A bitter sectional fight is sure to
follow.! '.'.
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Finger Nail Growing on Nose.
Washington, D. C, Special. -
There was a man in Washington
Friday with a finger nail growing -from
the end. of his nose. His name
is J. B. Norris, and he hails from
News Orleans. .
Some! months ago he had the greatei
part of his nose cut away, and the
surgeons endeavored to mend the de
fect by grafting his little finger info
the gap. , v
After several months the root of
the nail which the surgeons had
failed to remove, began to sprout, and
now the patient is afflicted' with a
claw on the end of his phoboscis.
He left for New Orleans, where he
will re-enter the Torro Infimarv to
have the surgeons rebuild his nose
with their planes, saws,- and chisels.
Well, What is'"Fittcn T'eat?; v
y Washington. Special. Prosecutions
Against manufacturers of iee cream
cones containing borax are to be in
stituted by the' government under the ,
pure food law. .
Large seizures of cones were made
recently in different parts of ' the .
country by inspectors of the depart-
ment of agriculture. Analysis of the '
eones seized disclosed, the nresenco
of borax, a property which has been
held to be deleterious to the hunum
stomach. vi
Buck's Stove Co. Surrenders.
Cincinnati, O., i Special. A peaee
agreement has beeu. reached between
the Stove Founders' National Defense
Association and'' President Gompers,
of the; American Federation of Labor
This, it is believed, 'will end the pros
ecutions by the .3ucks. Stove Com
pany against officers of the American
Federation of Labor. u .;'..-.
Bie Gun Causes Another Accident.
Fori Monroe, Special.-r-Eleveh ar- "
tillerymen are dead and a number, of :
others seriously in jured,' including two '
officers, as the result of the blowing?
put of a breech block in a 12-inch gun
at the De Russeyi battery during the
coast i artillery practice Thursday. ,
The accident happened wHInS ;stn- ,
dent officers were endeavoring to sink '
a fleet of towed targets, represent
ing an imaginary hostile fleet, pro-"
ceedirig ' toward i Washington The.
battery was under the immediate
command of Sergeant Harry Haas, of .
j the
69th; company. United Statlea
coast artillery.
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