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ATEST STATE PDL Fi EVER HELD REPARATIONS ARE BEINGNMADE F0R THE GREAT EVENT OF THE YEAR. SECURE GREAT ATTRACTION V iir be Unrivaled 'Attractions There to be Seen by All Who Come to Raleigh During Fair Week and Thousands Are Expected. Raieii'.i. Just a few more days and be srent state fair will be here in all its attractive features and its great fathering of the people of the state. There- is no other time like the time of the suite fair in North Carolina, and from October 16 to 21 every day vill be a great day at the state fair. A great attraction has been secured tv the fair.-as part of the midway, 2'n( this is California Frank's AU ctar Wild West Show. It carries three hundred people and horses and fifteen carloads of equipment, and is enough to have sent ahead an adver tising car. That came and the men gre now at work advertising the at tractions. - ! The birdmen are another great at traction, and when these go up hi the Cuftiss aeroplanes all will see great stunts in the air. There will be flights every day, and the people will be highly entertained. The midway is to be a great one this year, with a class of shows .which all may attend. They, will be shows worth while, full of amusement and gaiety and will make things lively. The calls for space and the entries for exhibits are such already that the management is hard put to it to find space to take care of all who want to be a part of the fair. The indica tions all point to v the greatest state fair ever held in Raleigh. There will be great crowds of peo ple here at the fair to hear the ad dress by Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio. He is one of the country's big men and he is apt to say something that is worth while. He will be given a big reception in Raleigh, and Gen eral Julian S. Carr, of Durham, has accepted the invitation to be the chairman of the reception committee. Before Corporation Commission. Henry W. Miller, of Atlanta, as sistant to the president of the South ern Railway Company, appeared for the railroad company and M. L. Ed wards of Rutherfordton for the people of that town before the Corporation Commission in the resistance the Southern is making to a position from the people of Rutherfordton that the commission require the two railroad companies to join in a union station which shall be something like equi distant from the present separate sta tions of the roads. The Southern opposes this petition on the ground that the commission hasn't the power to require it since the present station locality at Rutherfordton has a sepa rate corporate'charter as Hampton rille and this would stop the com mission from requiring another station within 5 miles limit. Brought Two Men To The Pen. Deputy Sheriff W. H. Cox 'brought to the state's prison from New Han ger county, two prisoners, one fo; fifteen years, the other for twenty years, years. He had expected to tang the white man, L. M. Sandlin, under sentence of electrocution, but iH not bring him till later. The Prisoners brought are James E. Tis- dale, recently convicted of complicity 'th Dick Cause in the. murder of xed Gibson and sentenced to fif teen J"ears' imprisonment, and Sol.. Davis, colored, sentenced to twenty years for the murder of Will Stephens, col crif Tisdale was convicted at a recent term of Pender superior court, Te cases having been moved from ' ew Hanover county, on affidavit of "e solicitor that prejudice against capital punishment was so strong here at the prisoners could not be-iven a fair trial. Mr- Montgomery's New Book. M Aociate Justice Walter A. owsortii-ry of the North Carolina - premfi Court has returned to the ith iiis family from Washington, sj.-e l!G spent the Past year for the cia impose of making extensive cial arches in connection with his spe tookrk Ut writing his forthcoming the r 'Th Civil Administration of bini ',Jt ra'te Government and Its in 'WlaUc Helations." This is to be is t' ,Vo,;imes and the first volume month pul)lisllel some time this Unit f Back Home Movement. man i Kl3tes Senator Lee,S. Over born oh vaH here on his ay hom Mrs J", Hm t0 visit his sister, deni ofdnUi11' r,ays e is as Presi tee dee i home-seekers commit- state bo- ,lnterested inducing the the oruCarC" f agricultufe to create Nation 6 f Commissioner" of lmmi a en trh that thIS state may have ter 0( alnf 1 man to press the mat ron, espl :ti?g desirable immigra- Caroliniaraa:iy the return of Nortn left it vpS t0 tliis state- Those -arho wrs ago. START A STUDENT COUNCIL It the .Executive Head of the Honor System at the State University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill.-The fomal inaugural tion of the Students' Council, the ex ecutive head of the' honor system in Togue ; at the University took place In Gerrard HallL President Francis P. Venable, after making a short talk in which he described the necessity, that gave rise to the movement on the part of the students for self-government; the gradual growth - and devel opment of the system through years of trying vicclsltudes till now it has come to be looked upon as a neces sary part of life at the University, and finally the manner in which the Coun cil works- in co-operation" with the faculty, introduced to the assembled students the following men who will form the Council for this year : R. A. Freenian, president of the Senior Class and of the Council; R. O.Huff man, president of the Junior class; C. E. Blackstock, president of the Soph omore class ; Richard Allison, presi dent of the second year Medical class; Alec Webb, representative from the Pharmacy class; Cyrus Hpgue, repre sentative from the Law class; C. E. Teague, representative from the Se nior class, and R. M. Hanes, '12, rep resentative from the student body at large. Following the inauguration, Mr. Freeman as president of the Council, made a short address in which he de scribed the relation between the stu dents, and the Council. The duty of the Council was, he said, to act not as a body of spies, but as a company of councilors to investigate charges and to decree punishment for breaches of conduct which it was the duty of the students to report. Created and inaugurated by the student body, the Council could work and do its high duty only with the aid and co-operation of the student body. Dissented From Other Justices. Chief Justice Walter Clark and Associate Justice W. T. Hoke, of the supreme court, dissented from the othor justices in the Rocky Mount case of Pettitt vs. Atlantic Coast Line for damages on account of the death of a 12-year-old messenger boy who was run down by a Coast Line train on the extensive yards of the Coast Line'. The case had been non suited below and the majority of the supreme court affirmed the non-suit on the ground that the boy accepted the hazardous employment and there was no entitlement to recovery. How ever the chief justice and Associate Justice Hoke took the ground that a 12-year-old boy could not discrimi nate as to the hazard of the employ ment and that it appeared that the railroad people had xot warned him in any way of any danger. Petitions Urging New Freight Rates. Petitions from citizens Of Duplin county were presented to the cor poration comnflssion urging that the commission require the Hilton Lum ber Co. to provide freight service on its lumber road from a point near Wallace, nearly 10 miles toward Halls ville, and establish a freight station at Chinequepin, five miles out from Wallace, also they want an under- standing that these stations shall be provided about every five miles as the road is extended, the charter of the railroad extending through the county and across two other counties. Also they want- passenger service provided when the road is built 10 miles. Plan To Establish Reform School. A committee was appointed several days ago by the board of aldermen of the city and other's interested to go before the county commissioners with a plan to establish a reform school for the city and county. It was the intention of this committee originally to lay a plan before the commissioners to establish the reform schools in connection with the chil dren's home. In that plan it was the idea of those interested to have the city sell the childrens' home situated in Woolsey in the northern suburb of the city - and use the proceeds in co operating with the commissioners in establishing the combined institutions. Newton Mr. Luther Smyre says there are ten worms on every cotton leaf on his place and they have run the pickers out of the fields. Order An Election To Be Held. The board of county cpmmissioners ordered an election to be held in Gas ton county on November 11th for the purpose of determining whether or not the people of the county desire to levy a tax of 3 and 1-2 cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property and 7 1-2 cents on each poll to establish a Farm Life School in this county. This movement was originated. The Farmers Union, and a petition with more than 1,500 names asking for the election was presented to the board. Best Concealed Still He Ever Found. Deputy Revenue Collector Davis has returned " from Alexander county, where he and Sheriff Adams, of Alex ander, destroyed an illicit distillery located on a little Stream in the Brushy mountains about four miles from Taylorsville. Mr. Davis says the still was one of the best concealed he has ever found and its presence might never have been discovered had the moonshiners found a way to get rid of the snu.ke from the furnace. They had carried everything to and from the still by band. CORNELIUS BLISS HAS PASSED AWAY A VERY PROMINENT FIGURE IN v NATIONALy POLITICS FOR MANY YEARS. WAS IN M'KINLEY'S CABINET He Served As the Secretary of the Interior, For Two Years and Had Twice Refused Nomination As Gov ernor of . New York. , New York. Cornelius Bliss, for years one of the prominent figures in national Republican politics and oth erwise .well-known as a merchant and a member of the dry goods firm of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., died at his home here, aged 78, of heart disease. N The end was not wholly unexpect ed, as Mr. Bliss had been ill for a year. While death is attributed to heart failure there has been a gen eral breaking down which comes of old age. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Mr. Bliss was born in Fall River, Mass., in 1833. Mr. Bliss was treas urer of the Republican national com mittee from 1892 to 1908 and pre vious to that he had been chairman of the New York State Republican committee. With the late Senator Piatt, Senator Depew and ex-Governor Levi P. Morton, he had for years represented New York state at Re publican national conventions. He twice refused to- become a candidate for Governor of New York, but , fol lowing the national campaign of 1896, in which William McKinley was elect ed President, he accepted tthe posi tion of Secretary of Interior in the McKinley Cabinet. He held this post for two years and then resigned be cause of stress of private business. Mr. Bliss had amassed a great for tune. He was always active in move ments - for municipal reforms. He was a member of many organizations. For some years he was president of the American Protective League. May Open Canal in 1913. Bellingham, Wash. President Taft predicted that the Panama canal would be ready for use on July 1, 1913. "The canal," he said, "is the greatest constructive work since the Christian era." The President also declared that Canada was going to be sorry that she had not adopted the recipro city treaty. Speaking of the opening of the Panama canal the President said he would let the people of Bel lingham "into a little official confn dence." "If nothing untoward" hap pens," he said, "you can count on the completion of the canal not later than the first of July, 1913. It haspnly been promised qn the first of January, 1915, and it it is not ready until then, you must not say that anybody made a promise that it would be completed before." An Amateur. Wins Prize. Philadelphia Averaging more than 61 miles an hour for the entire dis tance, Erwin Bergdoll, a young Phil adelphia amateur automobile driver belonging to a wealthy family, risked his life and won fame by capturing the fourth annual 202 1-2 miles road race over the Fairmount park course with a 90-horsepower Bentz. The daring Bergdoll not only lowered the record for the lap but also reduced by about 11 minutes the Fairmount Park record for the distance of the race. His time was 3 hours 18 minutes, 41.35 seconds. He reduced the lay record from 7 minutes 38 seconds to 7 minutes 28 seconds for the 8 1-10 miles. A Prominent Man Dies. - Hot Springs, Va. Archer Harman, a prominent railroad man of New York and Ecuador, died here from in juries sustained in a fall from his horse. Drs. Fisher, Finney and Thom as of Johns Hopkins University, ar riving by special' tcain, performed an operation in a vain attempt to save Mr. Harman's life, by relieving brain pressure from a fractured skull. The McNamara Trial Is On. Los Angeles, Cal. The trial of the McNamara brothers, both of whom are under indictment for murder in connection with the explosion which wrecked The Los Angeles Times October 1, 1910, was virtually begun before Superior Judge Walter Bord well, although perhaps nobody except District Attorney J. D. Fredericks knew whether John J. or James B. McNamara will sit in the prisoner's chair when the case is called. Indi cations pointed to James B. McNa mara as the first man to be tried. Hearing in Contempt Case. Washington. The District of Co lumbia Supreme Court vacated its judgment in the original Bucks Stove and Range injunction case contempt proceedings against President Gomp ers, Vice President Mitchell and Sec retary Mdrrison of the American Fed eration of Labor, in accordance with the decision or the Supreme Court of the United States.- The Supreme Court held that the jail sentence against the labor leaders were illegal because the menv were found guilty of criminal contempt in a civil case. MECKLENBURG COUNTY FAIR Plana Are Being Perfected By Officials of Fair Association For the Great est Fair Ever Held. Charlotte, N. C Elaborate plans are rapidly being perfected by the of ficials of the Mecklenburg Fair Asso ciation for the greatest fair- in the life of the association. The fair will be a $10,000 event, slightly more than this amount of money being offered as prizes for agricultural, live stock and other exhibits, purses and prizes for the races during the four days and for special free 'attractions. The agricultural exhibits this year will hardly average as high as they did last year on account of the exceed ingly bad season. The exhibits of live stock, however, will be better and lar ger and the poultry show will be well up to the standard of last year when the high water mark was reached in this interesting and important depart ment. The free attractions will be one of the special features of the fair, the most conspicuous of these being the United States Marine Band, which will be here on the 25th instant for two concerts in front of the tremendous grandstand. Never before in the history of the State have the farmers of this section been devoting more attention to stock breeding, poultry raising and scientific farming. Never before have the boys of the farms bean so thoroughly inter ested in the industry. Having this in mind the directors of the fair are pay ing especial attention to the exhibits and the educational end of the fair generally. All sorts of improved and labor-saving farming implements will be shown and demonstrated and every opportunity that is offered to increase the value and scope of this feature will be utilized. However, the amusement feature is by no means being neglected. The management of the fair Is particular to see that no undesirable features are given space on the midway, but there will be a larger number of whole some and innocent attractions so that no visitor to the fair will be disap pointed. All in all a better rounded and better fair is in prospect than those that have heretofore won the praise and approval of the thousands of people who have visited them. Bees Found in a Well. Mooresville, N. C. A few days ago the preihises of Mr. B. W. Kerr, in the heart of town, was literally covered with honey bees, a stray swarm hav ing decided to take up with him. Mr. Kerr got busy and made a hive- in which to catch them ,but instead the bees sought the top of the well shed. They were left there. Next morning at quite an early hour Mr. Kerr went out to look for his bees but they were gone. Not caring, but wondering what became of the bees, he sought to draw a bucket of water. When the vessel reached the top of the curbing, he found that he had a bucket full of bees, the little things having gone down into the bucket and the well. He drew bees and honey from the well at various times all during the day. A Prize .Acre of Corn. Anderson, S. C. The prize acre of Guy H. Norris produced 113 bushels of corn. The crop was gathered and weighed under the supervision of three representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture. According to the records kept by these gentle men, the entire crop weighed in the shucks 7,727 pounds; on the cob with the shuck removed, 7,031 pounds; shelled, 6,828 pounds. The latter figur ed divided by 56 pounds, the weight of a bushel of corn, gives 113 bushels ;athered. These figures are field meas urement, and do not take into consid eration any moisture, and if Mr. Nor ris' corn does not contain a greater amount of moisture when a chemical analysis is made at Clemson College, the record of 113 bushels will stand. Perfecting Case On Appeal. Richmond, Va. Seventeen bills of exception have been prepared by pris oner's counsel and duly aproved and certified to by the trial judge in the case of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., con victed a month ago of the murder of his wife. The state supreme court will convene for its autumn session November 8th and the appeal in the case will, be presented promptly at that session. Cotton Pickers Come High. Fayetteville, N. C. Mr. R. E. Lewis, a former Fayetteville boy, but now liv ing in Georgia, writes as follows: "Cot ton pickers are in great demand in this section of the state. A one-half crop per in the lower side of the county paid $1.50 a hundred to have upland cotton picked. He paid for the gin ning and had $7 left to his part. Scores of farmers say that they never again expect to plant more cotton than they can gather with their own force. Several fields near Nashville are white, and not a lock has been picked." Indians to Be Brought Home. Washington. Forty-six Indians from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota," who were taken abroad by Gaston Akoun, a showman, last April, arrived in Paris according te advices received at the State Depart ment from Consul General Frank H. Mason. The Department of the Inter ior has been asked what disposition is to be made of . the case. The show man was required to furnish a bond of $5,000 to guarantee the return of the Indians to the reservation. It is probable they will be brought home. HAS GUARDED the secret service nearly 12 years. Six of these have been spent guarding; presidents and making their road to the people easy and safe. He is stockily built, weighing exactly 175 pounds stripped. In his stocking feet he measures' Ave feet eight inches in height. He has the reputation of being one of the strongest men physically in the service. His nerve has been tested in many ways and never has been found wanting. Up to the time President McKinley was assassinated at Buffalo In 1901 j the president of the United States was poorly guarded in times of peace. The1 guarding of the president and the making of preparations in advance when! traveling really originated with President Roosevelt's administration. But lti was after President Taft was elected that the guarding of and caring for the president when traveling was perfected. TO COLONIZE The greatest territorial magnate in Great Britain, the Duke of Sutherland, is about establishing in the new world a system of tenant farming similar to that practiced in England from time immemorial and is now in the 'Cana dian northwest. The duke owns 1,500, 000 acres in England and Scotland, most of It in the County of Suther land, in Scotland, which is named aft er the family. For some time he has been gradually getting rid of his land ed estates and investing the money in the provinces of Alberta, ' Saskatche wan and British Columbia. The lands purchased there he intends colonizing and his plan is favored by the Cana dian governments , which wishes to see settled on these virgin acres the hardy tenantry of England and Scot land. The duke believes the tenantry will be as faithful to him in the new world as they were to his family for many generations past and the work of colonizing will soon begin. The duke is Well known In this country, which he has visited many times. He has hunted big game In the west and has roughed it over plains and; mountains. On one of his trips the duchess accompanied him. She is one of1 the most charming women in England and for years has been engaged in, philanthropic work both among her husband's tenantry and amid the slums' of Whitechapel. One winter she spent in New York, strictly incognito, study ing the various phases of life among us, with the purpose of applying some of that knowledge to conditions at home. A FRENCH CANADIAN JUDGE visers. This is referred to greatly by in encyclopedias. LAWYER IN McNAMARA CASE Clarence S. Darrew of Chicago Is the attorney who marshaled "the legal forces for the defense of John J. Mc Namara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. Seven lawyers in ail were engaged, by the American Federation of Labor to con duct the defense. Leo M. Rappaport, attorney for the Structural Iron Work ers' union, at the. instance of the of ficers, selected attorneys who, In his mind, were capable of waging a great battle. He selected six hvwyers, the most noted of whom is Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago. Darrow is fifty-four years old and is Independent in politics. He has de voted his time and proffered his aid gratis in many instances to the cause of labor. His success in this class of cases has been phenomenal. He was legal adviser for the United Mine Workers of America during the time of the arbitration of Pennsyl- vanla's great ccal strike when John Mitchell was at the zenith of his fame.' He directed the defense of Moyer, Haywood and Petti bone, charged with tne; murder of Governor Stunenberg of Idaho. Victory marked all his efforts ini these cases. Darrow said on being asked to take part in the defense of McNamara: that he would do so not for the money or glory in the case, bu purely" tot'i the interest he takes in organized labor. Nevertheless he received a retain i lee of ?50,UC0. - : ? TAFT ON TOUR Lucien Wheeler, or "Jack as he lj known to " every : railroad official "&d.j nearly every police chief and netfs-i paper reporter In the United StJttes.j is the man who perfects the arrange ments for presidential trips, such as; President Taft has been making. It Is he who weeds, the goats from the sheep, and has every railroad connec tion, every social function and every banquet working without a hitch and assures the president of smoothness and safety in his journey. He is, the advance agent of the presidential trav eling show. President Taft has trav--eled close on to 100,000 miles since he was elected. Lucien Wheeler has traveled a trifle over 100,000 miles ahead of him. Lucien Wheeler is in every way an American. He was born in Iowa, . He" received bis education in the schools; of Cedar Rapids and among the peo ple of the whole United States. -He is. thirtytfive years old and has been in A VAST AREA The first French-Canadian ever ap pointed to the superior court in thei old Bay state took his seat on thei bench. when Judge Hugo A. Dubuque, presided at the opening session of the fall term for Plymouth county at Ply-i mouth, Mass. It fell to the lot of the Fall River practitioner to be named! for this responsible and honorable po-i sition by Governor Foss when the1 . legislature authorized the addition of three new members to the court to help clean up the congested docket. Hugo A. Dubuque was born In Cav ignac, Quebec, Canada, Nevember 4,; 1857, but has lived in Fall River since, 1870. He was graduated from Boston! University of Law school in 1877v In 1907 he was appointed by Governor! Guild as a Massachusetts delegate ton Luc i.xau.uuiii. iiu ;um ci eii-t3 ueiu Columbus, O. In 1890 he published an article which was reprinted in the American Law Review on. a phase oft duty of judges as constitutional ad Judges In supreme court cases and also
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