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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
RICE CULTURE IN NORTH CAROLINA

Some DAYS ago we made local notice
urging the farmers of this section to give
more acreage to rice in the casting OF
their crops for the coming year, and we
again urge them to give more than a
passing thought to this important crop.
While the culture Of rice in, North
Carolina has Increased TO a considerable
extent within the last five years, yet
it has not kept pace with the increased
demand,
The import duty which was increased
about four years ago from three-quarters
to two cent per pound, has proved a
strong stfmulant and made rice growing
very profitable. Before This increased
duty was imposed probably three-fourths
Of the rice consumed in the United
States was imported from foreign coun-
tries. while now, barely one-haH our
supply is imported, and it will be many
q year before the United States Will he
able TO raise their entire requirements
at home.
In addition to our domestic demand, we
have to furnish Porto Rico, which III IT.
self is a heavy drain on our STOCK, Inc
Porto Rican trade is secured to the Cnl-
ted States on account OF the dlscllml-
mating duty of two cents per pouna
against countries, whereas we pay no duty
for our exports to Porto Rico
The rice mills in North Carolina have
been unable to buy sufficient rice in this
State to run their mills, and have TO
look for a good part of their milling sup
plies from neighboring States, even so
far as Louisiana on which the freight
charges have been considerable.
Why is it that our farmers don't take
advantage of this situation and plant
all their available land suitable for rice
culture in this cereal?
We feel confident It would prove the
most profitable crop they could raise
we know of a number of planters on the
Cape Fear whose rice crops yield them
from five thousand to fifteen thousand
dollars each
The following figures arc based on
very conservative estimate:
Say one acre of.average rice land yields
30 bushels at 75c., $4,000; one and a hall
tons rice straw per acre $500. TO $500;
total per acre of 5000; and 50 a one
horse crop of thirty acres is equal TO 81
$50 The cost of cultivating and mar
vesting & one-horse crop should not ex'
coed $3.50, which would leave net prohl
to each horse crop of $500.
There are lands which yield as higl
as sixty bushels per acre, and some ebolc'
varieties Of low land rice has sold TINS
season as high as $l1o per bushel HOW
ever. it is not we'll to figure on the hgh'
est attainable results.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
THE SHERIFF HID THE KEYS
But This Did Not Stop the Lvnchers at jackson
Friday Night.

The following additional account of the
lynching of Jeter Mitchell at Jackson,
was received by the News and Observer
yesterday:
Last Friday night at 10 o'clock about
one hundred masked men came in and
called on Mr.. j. f. Grant, the jailer, and
demanded the keys at the point of shot
guns. Mr. Grant had only the key of the
lower jail Sheriff Joyner fearing trouble
had taken the combination key with him
to Jfarysburg. They procured hampers
and chiscls, broke open the cell and took
the wretch to a nearby oak in the court
house square and hanged him to a limb
fifteen feet high. The body was left alone
where it dangled until next day about
o'clock There was no coroner in the
county and the authorities finally had it
taken down.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
The Floods in Virginia.

Roanoke, Va, Dec. 30.-Railroad traffic
in Southwestern Virginia has been seri-
ously interferred with for the past forty
eight hours, owing to the heavy fall of
snow and rain during the last two weeks.
Many washouts are reported on the Nor
folk and Western main line, the Roanoke
and Southern and the Shenandoah VAL
ley railways.
John Wright lost his life in this county
last night while attempting to cross a
swollen stream on a horse.
heavy fall of sleet and snow at
Christiansburg today has Frustrated the
telegraph and telephone lines in that vi
entity.
A telegram from Radford tonight says
New River has been flooded again for
the fifth time this year, breaking all
records. The water rose twenty feet
and spread over the adjacent country,
partially submerging trees, houses and
railway tracks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
sEABoARD's FINE NEW TRAINS
Observation and Dining Cars on the Limited
After January 18th

1t was learned yesterday that the Sea-
board Air Line would put observation
cars and dining cars on 81 and "a, the
Florida Metropolitan Limited, after
January Is. These trains will be made
as fine as any in the country, and the
present arrangement is to operate them
through to ST. Augustine, Fla.
Mr.. r. w. Stump, the popular and we'll
liked ticket clerk of the Seaboard Air
Line at the Union station, left yester-
day for Washington. where he takes a
more desirable position in the service of
the Scaboard Air Line Mr. Stump made
many friends in Raleigh, who wish for
him the largest measure of success.
Mr.. A. w. Huntley, an efficient and
clever young gentleman from Sanford,
succeeds Mr.. Stump as depot ticket clerk
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
District Stewards Meet.

The district stewards of the Methodist
church met last night at Edenton Street
church. Among those outside of the city
present were Rev. B. B. Adams, of Four
Oaks; Mr.. e. B. McCullers, of Clayton,
and Mr. Willard Mial.
The stewards appropriated conference
collections for the year and passed upon
mission and other church subjects that
come before them annually.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
Dewitt IS
witch Hazel
g I'D " =.
a woVE known euro for Piles
DR.. George a. Rem Here.

Dr. George Rem arrived in the city
Sunday on his return from the Philip
pines, and he was given the glad hand
by his host of friends here. DR.. Rem,
VINO is here on furlough, is surgeon in
the United States Army and has been in
active service in the Far East for two
years.
He was on the transport Mcclellan and
encountered two rough storms He speaks
highly Of the future of the Philippines
under American control. DR.. Rem is
now spending a few days with relatives
in Durham.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
A Popular Educator.

Prof r. L. Madison, the efficient prln-
cipal Of the Cullowhee Normal School, the
Secretary of the North Carolina Associa-
ton of Academies, who has been in the
city this week at the meeting of the asso-
citation left this morning for his home in
Jackson. Prof Madison is a successful
educator, and an all round good man. lie
is deservedly popular with all who know
him, and his many friends in Raleigh were
glad to see him in the city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
yadkin Division Main Line--Train leaves

Yadkin Division Main Line--Train leaves
Wilmington, 900 a. m.. arrives Eayette-
vile 1905 D. M, leaves Fayetteville lao
n. m. arrives Sanford 1.43 D. m aeturn-
ing leave Sanford sos p. M. arrive ray
etteyille 4.30 .. m, arrives Wilmington
9.25 p.m@
Bennettsyille Branch-Traiu leaves Ben
nettsviIIe sos a. m, Maxton g.05 q. m,
Red Springs 951 a. M, Partition 1O.41 a.
m. Hone Mills 1855 g. M. arrive Fayette-
vile II 10 Returning leaves Fayetteville
las D. m, Hope Mills 500 o. M, RED
Springs 5.43 p. m, Maxton e.lS p. me-
arrives Bennettsville Tie o. m.
Connections at Fayetteville with train
No ~ at Maxton with the Carolina Cen"
trail Railroad, at Red Springs with the
Red Springs and Bowmore railroad, at
Sanford with the seaboard Air Line and
Southern Railway, at Gulf with the Dur
ham and Charlotte Railroad.
Train on the Scotland Neck Branch
Road leaves Weldon 3.55 p. m., Halifax
air D. m, arrives Scotland Neck at 5.eS
n. M. Greenville est p. m, Kinston 1.bs
n. m. Returning leaves K.nston 100 a.
N Creenville $50 a. M, arriving Halifax
ct 11.18 a. M, Weldon 11.SS q. M oaily
except ouHudJs
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington $40 a. m. and 2.S0 .. M arr
rive Parmele 80 a. m. and 400 D. m.,
returning leave Parmele 9.35 a. m. ana
$40 D. m, arrive Washington D.OO q. ~
and 1880 D. m, daily except Sunday.
Train leaves Tarboro, N c., daily e1-
cent Sunday $50 D. m, Sunday. Alb p. m.'
arrives Plymouth 7.40 p. m" s'lO D. IN.
Returning. leaves Plymouth daily except
sunday 75Q a. M, and Sunday 800 q. m,
arrives Tarboro 1910 a. m, tl.0O o. m.
Train on Midland N. c. Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily, except Sunday 500 q. N 4
arriving Smithlield 610 a. 10. Returning
leaves swlthfeld SEQ a. m, arrives a.
Goldsboro S.25 a. m.
Trains on Nashville Branch leave
Rocky Mount at $50 a. III. $40 p. M
arrives Nashville 1920 a. M. 4.O3 p. mr.
Spring Hope 11.O0 a. IN, AIS p. M Re
turning leave Spring Hope 11.20 q. M
455 D. M, Nashville 11.45 a. M, b,25 p.
M. arrive al Rocky Mount l2.lO p me-
500 o. M, daily except Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves war
saw for Clinton daily, except Sunday.
i1.lO a. m. and 4.25 p. m. Returning
leaves Clinton at 645 a. m, and ESQ ?. ID.
Train No. 70 makes close connection at
Weldon for all points North daily, all rali
via Richmond.
H. NJ EMERSON,
General Passenger Agent
T. r. KENLY. Cen. Manager.
T. d. EMERSON. Traffic MANAGES.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
STARTLING REVELATIONS
IN THE CROPSEY CASE
Alleged Evidence That Wilcox Was Seen
Struggling With the Girl the Night
She Disappeared.
EMPTY BOTTLE FOUND ON RIVER BANK

told Hall that if he did not leave town
he feared he could not protect him. The
preliminary hearing of Wilcox takes place
next Wednesday morning. There is still
thirty minutes for him to account for on
the night the girl was missing and every
one is eager to know how he will do it.
III. A. CHAPPELI4.
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CONGRESS MUST vIND1cATE him
schley Regards His Case as Closed, Says Cap
tain Parker
lBy the Associated Pres.

(By the Associated Press.)
New York Dec. 30-Captain James
Parker, of Perth-Amboy, n. j., one of
Admiral Schley's counsel, said today that
Admiral Schley regards the case as
closed, but that his friends will ask
Congress to vindicate him by retiring him
on full pay and reimbursing him for The
expenses of his trial.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
A Great Dam Broken.
(By the Associated Press. J

Montgomery Ala, Dec. 30.-The flood in
the Tallapoosa River has broken the dam
of the Tallahassee Electric Company. $50
of the $40 feet of solid masonry giving
way. The dam cost 100000. The power
was to have been turned into Montgomery
carly in January. Two hundred feet of
the Tallahassee Cotton Mills stone was
broken and the loss is estimated at $780,
600. The rainfall was over seven inches
and ten feet of water poured over the
whole length of the power company's dam.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01


Wilcox Is that&nc was seen struggling
4 with Miss Crorsey in front of her home
in an effort to drag her to the river. 1t
is also claimed that Wilcox can not ac-
count for all his time that night nor why
re chose an unusual route to reach home
A part of the Citizens Committee be-
lieves it has strong States case.
"A soldier says that when Wicoxs sis
ter visited the Jail the prisoner said it
was no place for her, and on her asking
what she might do for him, she was told
to bring a quart of whskey.
The confinement is already telling on
Wilcox and it is believed his stoicism will
vanish before the trial next spring. Law
yer Aydlett says Wilcox may make an
other public statement soon. He says
many untrue reports have been circula-
ted against his client
There are some Elizabeth City people
who believe the Wilcox family is now a
more fitting object of sympathy than the
CrDpseys. Lawyer Cropsey on the funeral
train discussed the case freely.
AS to Wilcox's alleged struggle with
Miss Cropsey, the correspondent OF the
New York Journal says:
Another witness who may be called
upon to testify is r. +. Parker. He told
his wife the night after Miss Crorsey
disappeared that he had seen Wilcox
dragging girl across the road in front
Of the Wilcox home. 1t is said he now
henies this. The committee will examine
him on his point soon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
GUY HALLS ABSENCE DESIRED.
hizsns Decide to Ask Him to Leave the
City.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer)
Elizabeth City, N. c., Dec. 30-Tcday
The remains of Miss Cropsey were sent to
New York. accompanied by the uncle. The
ever present committee and crowd OF
citizens followed to the depot and saw
them off. This is the way Elizabeth City
people do things This is the end of Miss
Nellie Cropsey in Elizabeth City, but the
conviction of the murderer is still In the
hands of the committee and they have
not disbanded, but will hound him to his
grave.
,rhg-e is in town one Guy Hall today.
Crowds collected on the corners ana de-
ci,icd to ask him to leave the city. Hail
is fhe man who. was run out OF NoriosN
beeause Of his connection with the Can
non affair. He has been run out OF Eden
An FIR similar offcnse and cannot re-
turn. A.
n, the night of the disappearance OF
Miss Cropsey about eleven O'Clock Cap
tai, owens and his mate on a barge saw
.skiff glide across from the opposite
e,,,,ra "a the Cropsey side and skim under
the bushes 4, t,,s
FROM Halls actions and otner tnines
= e believed he is Wilcox's ally But
time will show.
..r-suu,;s case promises to eclipse even the
us case in interest. Almost eseis
believes Wilcox guilty
Understood that the mayor today
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
AS TO RICE CULTURE.
An Offer b the Carolina Rice Mill, OF
Goldsboro, That Should Set Our
Farmers to Thinking,

Farmers to Thinking.
Editor Argus:-Your editorial of yester-
day, giving the statistics of rice culture in
this State. and how far short it falls of
the milling demand of the State alone,
rot to speak of the commercial demand,
should. indeed, set every farmer in Eas-
tern North Carolina to thinking and slim
ulate them to devote, at least. a portion
Of their acreage to rice the coming year.
Your reference, too to the protection
afforded American rice by the govern
ment duty on imported rice is timely,
and should encourage the increase of
rice culture wherever suitable land is
available.
In order to further stimulate the farm
ers of this State to venture on more
extensive scale in the planting of rice,
the Carolina Rice Mills of GoldsbOro will
make contracts at this time-before the
planting season opens-with every farmer
who may wish to plant rice to take his
entire crop Of 1902 at stipulated price
and a liberal price, at that.
BY this offer all element of doubt as
to price is removed, and there are SO
many, many acres Of land throughout
Eastern North Carolina that could be
planted profitably in rice. that it seems to
US the farmers of this section should
give weighty thought and favorable &C
ton upon this proposition.
Very truly,
HENRY WE'LL
President Carolina Rice Mills.
Goldsboro. NJ c., Dec. 4, 1901.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
Fpworth League Officers.

The Epworth League at Central M. f..
church elected officers last night as fol-
lows:
President, D. A. Pierce.
First Vice president, r. e, Prince.
Second Vice president, Miss Gertrude
Royster.
Third president, Mrs. S. A. Camp
bell.
Secretary Miss Minnette Woodal.
Pianist, Miss Annie Love.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
All on Board Accounted For.

Lynchburg, Va, Dec. 30-DeveloDments
so far concerning the wreck last night
at Reusens, do not disclose any fatalities
in addition to the four already reported.
Machinist Baker, of Clifton Forge, who
was unaccounted for last night, turned
up all right today. Some of those who
have been to the scene of the wreck in
siSt that some passengers were lost, but
so far as can be learned all who were
not known to have been on the train have
been accounted for The high water has
retarded the clearing of the track.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01

Grippe h nockers cure any cold. Sr any
case Of La Grippe In 10 hours. Csc. at
your druggist.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01

CULTIVATION OF SWEET POTATOES
CUTTINGS VS.. DRAWS.
Recently cleared sandy loans are
usually most suitable for sweet potatoes
Old lands can be made productive as fol-
lows:
Construct with a pillow trenches of
proper width and depth from 31z to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01

ATLANTIC COAST LINE X. R.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
Was This Bottle Droppedt
There by Wilcox?
EXCITEMENT WAN S AT ELIZABETH CITY
The Funeral Sunday. The Body Sent
North. Guy Hall to be Asked to
Leave Town Mr.. Aydett May Waive
the Preliminary Hearing and Allow
Wilcox's Case to go Direct to the
Grand Jury. sympathy For the Pris.
oner's Family.
Especial to News and Observer


Especial to News and Observer.)
Suffolk, Va, Dec. 30--A sad faced COM
Iary of over 800 people this afternoon
assembled at the Elizabeth City station
TO say silent adieu to all the mortal
part of Ella Maude Cropsey as it was
started to it's Northern resting place.
Nells mother was too unwell to ride
down. The interment will occur about
IL o'clock tomorrow in New Utrecht
Reformed Dutch church burying ground,
S4th street and Sixteenth Avenue. Brook
lyn.
When Ella was a school girl she trip
ped by there every day. said Nawyor
Andrew G. Cropsey, who went with the
body
Prosecutor Ward said today: You can
state that there will be enough evil
dence before the grand jury next March
- secure an Indictment This is hard
but no stone will be left unturned.
some very damaging testimony
ieve would insure his convic-
ce is doubt as to its admis-
near the river bank
osey home local
ntified the bottle as
him, and declares
las gotten by .Mile5x
sa eyed ayidQneS against
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
CONDENSED SCHEDULE.

Dated January 18th. 1901.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01

7. r. KTNLY. Cen. Manager.
T. Do EMERSON. Traffic MANAGE
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-01
cirlr1nAr1oN OF SWEET POTATOES

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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-01-31
NeM-YORK.

81 80 que castig& ell secuestro,
y que es unO de los mejores del Co
digo complete en- cusnto q los he.
chcs que prevee y justo en- la pc
ma.
Ell 40 castigando ell robo de nj
nos, pudo formar parte del terce-
70.
El so del sRobos no es para
tratado aquf.
Ell 90 sPrision ilegalo Les mis-
mos codifcadores tienen que reco-
nocer que no es este quiza Ell mejor
sitio en- ell C6digo para tratar Ia pri-
sion Illegal dellto contra 10 liber-
It'd individual garantizada por ID
Cons stituci6n.
Lo mismo puede decirse del Sc
cuestro.
Y terminemos este articulo con
ell CApitulO 9 que trata del SLlbelo
infam Atarios Els uno de los puntos
en- que mas Sc ha atacado al nuevo
C6digo quizas con raz6n mas spa-
rnnte que real.
Empiezo por sentar que soy par
tidario decidido de one Sc de a la
p:ensa l& mayor libertad, porque So
10 ssf puede cumplir dignamente su
sagrada mission. Pero al mismo
tempo que pido ESQ para e. perio-
dista que eierce su mission como un
sacerdocio, pido, deseo el mayor ri
gor en- ell Castigo del libelista que Sc
vale de las Columns le un peri6di-
co para msnchar vidas y repataclo-
nes que no deben mancharae; y 10
mismo en- cuanto al libelista que no
puede asaItar ell periodicO, y approve
cha Ia Ghoia sueltaD Il otrO me1iO
analc go.
Hay Que acostum brar todos en-
nuestro pals 8 respetar la honra y
Ia buena fam" de cAda uno; y va que
la carload cristisna no puede conse-
guir ESQ, 10 Consiga el C61igo Pc
nal.
Por ESQ estoy 20 conforme con
que ell libelista sea persaguidO Gde
OfcioS, y no Sc espere para casti-
garle, q que Ell ofendidO reclame. La
gociedad entera est& interesAda en-
que ell honor de cada unO de sas in
dividuos sea respetado por los de-
| mae
Els libelo, seg1u Ell artfculo 240
la m1aAci0sa difdno0ci6n expires ada
por escritos, imprescs, etc, tenden
tes & denigrar la menOria de un
muerto 8 & impugnar Ia honradez,
integridad, virtud y bu ana fama de
un vivo, 6 publican sus defectos ma
turales 6 supuestos exponi6ndole
asf al odio, desprecio 6 rid1culo pd-
blicO.
Como SO v6 es necesario que ha.
va ana dJanaac16e m0licjos0, es ds-
cir, ono ell REQ Sc haya propuesto,
sin causa jusbifcable, difamar q un
determi4ado individuo; y que por
virtud del escrito del REQ quede Ell
ell individuo de que Sc habls expues-
to, sin rAz6n alguna al odio y des-
precio pdblico. Afrmsn esta OPT
0i6n mfa,, ell artfculo 206 que permi.
te probar que habo motive justifca-
BILE para hacer la publication; y ell
a-tfculo 307 que permite prObs1 la
Yerdad de los hachos imputados Y
la sana intenci6n con que se hizo Ia
publicacion;@% ~ a6u el sr;lcul0 205 al
exigiI cc mo preciso en- la persona q.
publica ell llbelo la <malicil sa inten-
ci5n de perjudicar & Otra.~
La penR que Sc impone al libe-
lista es de multa m&xima lie 5000
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dollars carcel por un af1c, como
maximo.
Inconforme con ell artfculo 209,
porque creo que la responsabl,lidad
pOr los escritos que aparezcan en-
IN peri6dico, 6 libro, debe ser exi-
gida al autor, y no al editor 8 pro-
pietariO, q menos que fuera imposi-
BILE Averiguar quien es Ell autor del
escrito; porque 20 entiendo que el
que en- su periodico acoie escritos
an6nimos, Sc hace solidario de ellos.
DeclarR el art1cnlo 2l4 il1cita Ia
publication en- perl6dicos etc, de re-
tratos de persona viva residente en-
Puerto Rico, sin el permiso escrito
de Ia persona retratada. Excep-
t1anse los retratos de los funciona-
rios p6blicoe; y los de personas con.
victas de crimen Este primer irci.
so del srt1culo no merece los comen-
tarios que SO han hecho; es una dis
pOsici6n tan tOnta, que no puede du-
darse que Ia Camar& no pasara por
ella IA que, pues, lOrgos art1culos
para combatirla 81 de su propio Pc
so Sc cae?
En- cuantO q Ia prohibition q. ha
| ce ell 20 lnclsO del mismo artfculO, es
harina de otro costal. La caricatu
ra ha sido siempre lfcits; y, mi vez
! solo en- los cases en- que su publics
ci6n sea, no stendente> como dice ell
C6digo sino 'evi1entemente" aten~
taroria al honor del caricaturado, 6
a Ia moral, sera penable. Y en- 10
que toca q hacer responsables de Ia
| caricatura, retrato, al dueno, edi-
tor redactor, grabador y administra
dor del peri6dico,~ ESQ es de tai modo
absurdo, que 20 GO dudo, nj por un
momento de que IA Asamblea 10 ha
de rechazar, sin que shaya NADIA su-
ticientemente poderoso a hacer que
los individuos de esa Asamblea &cep
ten tai atrocidad.
Y basta por hoy.