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THE POLK COUNTY NEWS IS READ IN MORE POLKOUNTYiHOlIES-EVERY .WEEK THAN ANY OTHER WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED.
VOL. XIX. NO. 42.
TRYON, POLK C OUNT Y,: N. C , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914,
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1&4.
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500 BANKS ENTER
RESERVE SYSTEM
TITUTIONS THAT HAVE NOT
COME IN NEW SYSTEM
ARE SMALL.
3IN FIGURING RESOURCES
s Than Fifty National Banks Failed
to Respond Some State .
Banks.
Washington. The new federal re
ve sj'stem will begin business with
nembership of at least seven thou
id five hundred banks. vThis was
)arent when, the close , of the
t day on w hich national banks could
nify their intention of accepting the
ms of the currency law, less than
:y of the 7,493 national banks of
country had failed to respond fa
rably. More than' enough state In
tutions had applied for membership
bring the total to 7,500. -Official
count of the banks and tab
ation of their resources and liabil
es will begin at the treasury depart
ent - '. ; '
Most of the institutions that have
)t come into the . new system are
mparatively small," and' it is esti
ated that 97 per cent, of all the capi-
and resources in the present na
onal bank system is represented : by
lose Whose applications are in;
ILLA'S STORY OF KILLING
ebe! Leader Says Englishman Tried
to Take His Life.
Chihuahua, Mexico. General Villa's
Itory of the killing of William S. Ben-
on, told to reporters liere, differs but
ttle from the official statement given
iut at Juarez.
The Juarez statement declared that
hen Benton reached for his hip pock
it Villa 'knocked nlni nadwh :with a
jlow rof the fist Villa said that when
Benton made this move he poked his
)wn pistol into Ben tons stomach and
ien turned him over to " the guards.
Villa insisted that Benton came to
take his life, and referred to Benton's
mission concerning the welfare of his
ranch as a pretext to gain admittance.
According to Villa, Benton! after the
verdict of the courtmartial,, confessed
lib guilt and declined to ask for mer-
y. He merely requested that his prop
erty be turned over to his widow.
Villa contradicted his official report
to the American consul at Juarez that
Gustav Bauch, a German-American,
accused of being a spy, had been
brought' to Chihuahua. Villa said he
knew nothing of him.
The rebel general marked another
milestone in his political and military
progress from the rustic outlaw of
three years ago to the dictatorship of
northern Mexico, jwhen . he received
the homage of his 'officers and promi
nent citizens at the gubernatorial pal
ace. College Course for Winners.
Washington. Substitution, of a
year's course in practical training at
some agricultural qollege instead of
annual' trips to Washington for the
young prize winners of the corn, can
ning, poultry and other agricultural
clubs, is the recommendation of the de
partment of agriculture. :In the event
the young champion's academic train
ing would not enable him to enter the.
state agricultural college, the rdepart-
ment suggests elementary courses n
instructions, teaching Jess advanced
instruction work- Officials of .the -de
partment express " belief that such
courses would be valuable.
Ex-Senator Teller Dead.
Denver, Colo. Henry Moore Teller,
secretary of the interior "in President
.Arthur's cabinet, and for more than
thirty years United States v senator
from Colorado, died here at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. G. E. Tyler. Sen
ator Teller was' 84 years old; had been
ill two years during , which he had
many sinking spells, but from which
he rallied. In the late seventies, Sen
ator Teller became a person of wide
repute because of his activities in the
United States senate. His most ar
dent work was his opposition to the
standardization of gold in the mone
tary system of the nation.
Mississippi Race Riot.
Robinsville,, Miss. There were no
Indications here of further -trouble be
tween' whites and negroes after the
race riot, in which Morris Love,' white,
and two negroes were killed. White
en, said to have been incensed lay
noise a score or more negroes tnade,
formed a posse to arrest them. The
negroes, it was claimed began shoot
lns and Love fell dead. In the ex
change of shots two negroes were kill-(1-
The white men retreated when
their ammunition was exhausted and
tte negroes fled. v
CONGRESSMAN MAN AHAN
Congressional Inquiry Into the or
ganization and operations of the Chi
cago and Duluth boards of trade and
the Minneapolis chamber of commerce
to determine their influence over
wheat and flour prices in the country
was proposed in a resolution intro
duced by Representative Manahan of
Minnesota. ,
BORDER PEOPLE AROUSED
MEETING IN EL PASO CHARGES
GOVERNMENT IS CONCEAL
ING THE FACTS..
Resolutions Declare Mexicans Have
, Killed Americans Because They
. Were Americans.
Washington. A slumbering Mexi
can situation was brought quickly to
a point ofilntease international-inters
est by the flash of a message saying
William S. Benton, a British subject.
had been killed in Juarez by order of
Gen. Francisco Villa, the Constitution
alist commander. .
" Sir Cecil Spring-Rico, British am
bassador, conferred with Secretary
Bryan about it; President Wilson and
his cabinet discussed it briefly and
the" state department ordered a thor
ough investigation by consular repre
sentatives on the border.
El Paso Texas. Two more English
men are reported as having "disappear
ed" in Juarez. " -, ,
Gustav Bauch, who was on trial for
being -a spy, also disappeared in Jua
rez. Thomas D. Edwards American
consul at Juarfez, said that when the
friends of Bauch went to visit him
with bedding and f6od he was not in
the cell where he had been held in
communicado '
A storm of indignation broke out
along the border when it . became
known that William S. Benton, a Brit
ish subject and wealthy landholder in
Mexico, had been executed by rebels
in Juarez,
SUPERVISION FOR STATES
Administration Contemplates No Sur
render of Power, However. .
Washington. Conservation partic
ularly as it affects the building of wa
ter power projects in the navigable
streams of the country was added to
the chief administration policies un
der discussion. Conservationists have"
learned in a preliminary way the an-
owr whlr.h the Wilson administration
has prepared to the question f wheth
er the federal government of the states
shall be supreme in the matter of wa
ter rights of navigable rivers.
Briefly-the plan's general outline is
as follows: ;
Federal permits for water power
projects would be given only to indi
viduals or concerns duly incorporat
ed' as public utilities.
: Public utility commimsslons of the
various states would be expected to
reeulate operation of the plan' by such
supervision as would prevent practices
of discrimination or monopoly.
Water power rights would be given
only to those states which had good
nublic utility Jaws so tnat an incen
tive ' for careful supervision through
new laws would be provided in states
having inadequate laws. ,
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Robbers Get $40,000. V'
Birmingham, Ala. Queen and Cres
cent passenger train No, 1, New. York
to New Orleans, running, forty minutes
late, about twelve miles norm or uir
miTiffham. was held up by three mask
ed robbers, who secured four sacks of
registered mail, said to nave conuneu
r $40,000. At Attalla' three men
boarded the engine and : one v and a
half miles south of Attalla held up the
nine crew at the point oi revolvers
Tin w then ran the train to within
five miles' Irondalc, where they
robbed it.
GOLD WAVE OVER
THE UNITED STATES
STORM SWEEPS' ACROSS CONTI
NENT, CAUSING MUCH DAM
AGE AND SUFFERING. ; '
NUMBER OF STATES SUFFER
Rain in South and a Blizzard for the
Valleys - of Ohio and "
" ' Mississippi.
Washington. A violent . storin
swept across the continent from Col
orado, causing rain" in the ' Southern
states and snow in the Mississippi and
Ohio valleys, the lake regions and the
north Atlantic states
St. Louis. Hail began to fall
throughout Missouri and by night had
coated the ground in many places with
more than an inch of ice. The storm
was accompanied by a 30-degree drop
in, temperature.
Sioux City, Iowa. Northwest Iowa,
eastern South Dakota and northeast
ern Nebraska are in the grip of . a
stprm. In Sioux City and vicinity the
heaviest snow of the, season fell, ham
pering streets and' railroad traffic. Re
ports from South Dakota indicate a
6-inch fall..
ChicaSo.-A 36-mile an hour wind
piled snow in great drifts delayed traf
fic in IllInols Several inches of snow
fell. , The thermometer ranged from
22 to 16 degrees above zero. Frank
Kachelhoffer, 75 . years old, and his
wife, aged 70, were- found dead by
neighbors in a two-room- shack near
the river. Death ..was said - to have
been caused by lack of food and coal.
Kansas City. A storm of sleet and J
snow swept over western Missouri and
most , of Kansas. ; Telegraph and tele
phone service was badly demoralized, I
few wires working out of Kansas City, j
The wire situation was; worse to west I
and north and but meager reports are J
coming in as to the extent of the
storm. : i ' - ?: v s.:.. v: ':V a :l.cMx:pmDerQnaliuidl-learped . that
Los Angeles Cal. So far as rail-1
road communication was concerned, 1
Los Angeles and southern California j
remained cut off from the world as aj'
rsult of the record-breaking, stornr of
rain and wind, which swept this re-
gion for three days. Reports from the j
six counties most affected did notrma
teriaiy change the estimate of the to-
tal damage amounting to about four
and a half million dollars. The great- j
est anxiety concerns the situation of j
the three hundred passengers maroon-
ed-aboard the California -limited and
tha Phoenix express of the Santa Fe
train. : I
DAM AG E BY FIRE IN ATLANTA
McKenzie Building, One of City Land
marks, Gutted by Flames.
Atlanta. Fully twenty-five thou
sand spectators in the vicinity of the
Candler building throughout Sunday
afternoon watched nearly every lire-
man la the city battle with one
of the most dangerous downtown fires
in years, which , almost completely
wrecked the McKenzie . building at
James and .feachtree streets, . a city
landmark.
Damage is estimated at - being be
tween one hundred thousand and one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
" Five firemen were Injured. A numr
ber were suffocated' by smoke and
fumes. One ladderman, E. A. Davis, of
engine house, No. 1, fell from the top
of a 32-foot . ladder, in front of the
Johhson-Gewinner , flrm,ywhen it slip-
ped and crashed to the sidewalk v He
was carried In a semi-conscious condl-
tion to the Ansley hotel, where he re-
ceived medical attention v : Y
The other injured firemen were hurt
by flying glass and falling .timbers.
None of them were wounded seriously,
They were Hoseman Bill Gilbert of
headquarters; -James Dooley, engine
house No.2; J. G. Medlin,. an engineer,
engine house No. 4, and Bill Cody of
headquarters. Y v;
. The firms that suffered from the
flames were the " Johnson-Gewinner
company, the Stoddard company, the
Stephen A, Ryan real estate office, the
Pickard J)eans Drug company, the
John Chalman Tailoring . shop, the
Georgia Realty and Trust company,
the Woodmen of the World lodge, the
Jbhn D.: Babbage real .'estate offices
and the W. R. Jeter contracting, con-
cern.
Father of Nation Honored.
Washington. President Wilson was
ine central figure at a mass meeting,
In a downtown theater here under the
auspices' of -the Sons of the Revolu-
tion " In"' commemoration of Washing-
ton's- birthday. Joseph W. Folk, solic-
Itor of the state department. In &n
address, paid tribute to the founder ofjtilizer for interstate commerce. t See
the T republic as a man "imperfect,
enough , to be Intensely ; human and
near enougn periept to oe an mspira-
tion to all1 who honor justice and wor -
ship liberty." 'President -Wilson did
not speak.
MISS ELEANOR CONNOLLY
w -1
Miss Connolly, daughter f Con-
preKsman and Mrs. Maurice Connolly
of Dubuque, la., ,ls one of the belies
or Washington society this season.
MS. IS M08I PROSPEROUS
PANIZATION COMMITTEE HAS
1 FOUND PROSPERITY ALL
OVER COUNTRY.
Federal Reserve Bank Organizers Jubi-
lant About Business Conditions
lp Disclosed on, the Trip.
Washington. The federal reserve
bank organization1, committee, back in
Washington after a five ' weeks', trip
through the", country, in a statement,
announce that its selection of federal
reserve cities and definition of reserve
districts : would not be made until it
had - carefully considered information
acccumulated on the trip. .The .state-
mentr said the t committee - found; the
bankers and business men are confl
dent4 of the success of the" banking
system. ' .
In a supplemental statement, Sec-
retaryr McAdoo declared he, hoped the
new system would be established in
time' to take care of crop-moving con
tlngencies .next year, Y but that If it
were not' the treasury department
would stand ready to place its funds
again at the disposal of business men.
The committee's statement, in part,
is as follows:
"We have spent practically frem the
4th of January to the present time in
hearing the views of business men and
bankers on the problems of dividing
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uui uiuio wau iwckc wsuivib auu ui
locating in each district the main office
of a federal reserve bank. Of the two
questions, the division of the country
Into districts is the more ; important
andj difficult
The committee asked
those' who apepared. before it to direct
their attention to these two problems
a. great many able and impartial busi
ness men and bankers have submitted
their vbest information and opinions
ani always in a spirit of great fair-
nesg
LAST TRIBUTE PAID BACON
Funeral Services Conducted at Christ
- . Church in Macon.
Macon, Ga. The body of United
states Senator" A. O. Bacon reached
Macon on a special funeral train. from
Atlanta. .Hundreds of Macon people
were in waiting at the station and
stood with bared heads as the casket
was taken from the car and placed
in the hearse and transported to the
city hall.
The line of carriages on the trip, to
the city hall was headed by the Macon
drum and bugle corps, with muffled
drum, and ' the three' local .military
companies. h Y Y Y
With a sergeant of one of the local
military companies and a Confederate
veteran In gray uniform at either end
of the casket, - thousands ' filed by tc
J view the body.' It was 'a tribute such
as Macon never pid tp any other
man.
' The body lay in state at the city
hall until"10r45 o'clock Thursday, when
it was taken to ; Christ 7 Episcopal
church, where the funeral, services
were conducted at eleven o'clock by
Rev. John H. Bunting, the rector.
Food Fish Opposed for" Fertilizer.
Washington. State : fisheries offl
I cials, Eastern fish dealers and repre-
sentatives of fish and game organiza-J
tions were before the house interi
state commerce committee to . discuss,
the Linthicum bill to prohibit the use,
0f food fish in the manufacture of fern
retary Redfield of - the department of;
commerce called tack to his office be-
fore he : could testily teiepnonea nis
1 approval of the measureA Most of the
I witnesses favored the passage of the
bi"-
CHARLES BECKER S
GASE IS REVERSED
SUPREME COURT GIVES ' FORMER
NEW YORK POLICEMAN A
- NEW TRIAL."
JUSTICE GOFF IS CRITICIZED
Accused of, Prejudice Cases Against
Gunman Stands-Date of. Execution
of Gunman Will Soon Be . Fixed by
The - Court. ;- vy,Y'-" '2Y
Albany, N.IY. The conviction of
Charles Becker, a former New York
police lieutenant, of the murder. ; of
Herman Rosenthal, "was reversed and
the convictions of the four gummen
for the .same crime was affirmed by
the court of appeals. V
Justice Goff , the court held, erred
in many of his rulings in Becker's
trial, and appeared to be prejudicial
In his attitude toward the defendant.
The reversal was based solely On
these grounds. No attempt , was made
by the court to say" whether Becker
was sufficient to warrant his convic
tion. It was pointed out, however,
that the testimony against him was
given by witnesses of . low class,' and
as much' of it was .open to doubt, he
therefore, was entitled to a fairer trial
than he received.
All of the seven members of the
court, except Judge Werner, who act
ed as presiding judge when the appeal
was argued, concurred in the prevail
ing Becker opinion, which , was written
by Judge Hiscock. . In a dissentirfg
opinion Judge t Werner said that the
main contentions of the state had been
amply proven to warrant conviction
The much-moored question as to
the status of San Schepps, who, the
jury in the Becker case decided was
notn an accomplice to the crime ..jaiHl
toSrely samMelre
minds of some of the court as to
the property of. excluding Schepps as
an accomplice.
The decision in the case of the
four gunmen, "Gyp the Blood," "Whit
ey Lewis' "Dago Frank" and 'Lefty
Louie" was unanimous.
t They had averred that the evi
dence against Jiem was insufficient
to warrant , conviction and also that
the court had erred in handling their
cases, but these contentions were held
to be groundless.
The date for the execution- of th
Lgunmen soon will be fixed by the
court. . . - " . ;
Chicago Women Vote. '
Chicago. Thousands Of Chicago
women had their first real experience,
with the ballot box and took part in
the actual nomination of candidates
for the city council. In wards In which
women candidates were running in op
position to men for places in the city
council, the women candidates toufed
the wards and hustled for votes in ap
proved political fashion.
A snow storm early in the day de
layed5 many voters and a '' movement
fostered by many suffrage leaders,
who believed ' that women should not
formally ally thmeslves with any spe
cific party, kept hundreds from voting
at the primaries. Y '
Burned in Store.
Barber's . Junction. The charred
body of Preston Lyerly, a clerk, and
the testimony of citizens who say that
they saw the safe door open and a
lamp , turned low and burning feebly
on.the flor near the safe 'when, they
were atracted to H. T. Smithdeal's
store at this place by a pistol shot at
So clock, go, to indicate that a safe
was , cracked and ' murder probably
committed 'before the guilty person
or persons fired the store and, fled with
tre spoils. . ..
Suspends Considering Freight Rate.
Washington. An increases ,of two
cents a hundred pounds in the freight
rate on cement from Indiana points
to, Memphis, ,Tenn., New Orleans, and
other destinations in the South, pro
posed by the Southern and ; South
western Railroads was suspended by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
until June 26. An" inquiry Into the
advance already has been instituted.
Two Steamers in Plight.
.Norfolk Va. -With a severe snow
and wind storm raging on the coast
the British steamship Sachem, ashore
near Hog Island, north of Cane Char-
les, and the, Ruyersdale, standed near
Little Island,, south of Cape Henry,
were In more danger than at any time
since they struck recently, when It
struck, one on Saturday and the other
on Sunday. The wind at the Virginia
Capes was blowing between ' 35 and
40 miles an hour from the northeast
and, the seas were '( running high - and
the" weather cold.
eUSIHESSlOGALS
ARBUTUS SAniTARIOr.1
Tryon, Polk County,- North Carolina
V FOR PULMONARY TROUBLES
Booklet mailed free upon request
John P. Lockhari & Co.
CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS
New Work or .Repairs
Phone No. 74. ; .: Tryon, N. C.
John G. Monroe
PAINTING,. PAPER HANGING,
DECORATING! A SPECIALTY.
Estimates by Request.
Tryon
North Carolina
Finger Lumber Co.
Dealers" In -
Building Material
Everything necessary to build a home
Phone 1. Landrum, S. C.
Swann's Livery
At Fisher's Barn.
tryon, North Carolina1 '
Saddle, and Driving Horses. ' C
Hacks" meet all trains. Baggage and
Express looked after with Special Care '
Phones Stable, 106; Residence, 36B
D , J. E. IIAUTHORIIE
DENTIST
; of Asheville, North Carolina
will be at his office over Orr's . Store,
LTryjsn, -Friday and- Saturday of ach r
week All workrguaranteed. '
J. R. RICH COMPANY
21 N. Main St.
Phone '364
ASHEVILLE, N. G; .
Plumbing Hoofing Tinning
We have the oldest plumbing and
heating house in the State, and are
prepared to give prompt,' satisfactory
service. Call on us when in need of
anything in our line. We give free es
timates on new or old work.1
"The Famous Ford
Now that good road buildlng-ls go
ing on all over the county, every up-to-date
farmer and business - man'
needs an automobile. ..
The Ford car can go anywhere that
any other, car can go and. a good many
places that the other cars cannot go.
They cost about half as much to keep
as a horse and buggy. They get you
around about three times as fast, and
do not get tired or too hot to travel.
They cost less .to buy,: cost less to
keep, and cost less to run vthan any
other good. car on the market.
: 600.00 for Touring Car.1.
$550.00 for the Roadster .
. t , DR. E. M. SALLEY
" V Y' . . -Saluda, N. C. -Agent
for -Polk County:
FOR SALE
PINE HILL COTTAGES
iA choice hotel property, with modern ;
conveniences. " - Y
f,Teh:t acres of land, splendid view. .
No 'fetter location for a tourist hos- 1
elry in this vicinity. - ,
Y JJ Dr .Sal ley's Property.
' One of the .very few nice homes with ,
choice-location that' can be bought In
the heart of Tryon; A quiet' retired v
situation, and yet la 5 minutes' walk
of the postofflce. Very reasonable '
terms can be - had on both7 of thes
properties. Apply to ,
DR. E. M. S ALLEY, Saluda, N. C.
RUSTIC TABLES
ROCKERS and SETTEES
Hand-made in the mountains. . Strong,
durable' and - cheap. Price from $2.00
each, up. Serviceable souveniers from
the "Land of the Sky.",? ; ' - -
Mid woocl Rustic Worfest'
See them in News office, Tryon, N. Cv