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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
PRISONERS PREVENT BIG FIRE.
Harris Gives officers the slip---Death Of an
Estimable Lady.
(Special TO News and Obser

Especial to News and Observer)
Greensboro, N. c., Sept. Sat three
O'Clock this morning, the prisoners in jail
discovered that the tobacco dry house
of E. j. Stafford & Co., was on fire, and
Immediately gave the alarm. The prompt
response OF the fire department prevented
a serious conflagration. 4ne fire was ex-
tinguished, the damage being about five
hundred dollars, fully covered by insur-
ance. The dry room, containing two
hundred pound gums of twisted tobacco,
was kept hot by coal stoves. Investi-
cation showed that some one had priced
open window and in trying to lift one
OF the gums out, had been unable to do
So letting it roll back. 1t had stopped
against an elbow Oh the stove pipe, dis
jointed it, and had thus caught fire from
the heat of the stove.
The excitement in Mecklenburg county
police circles over the negro outlaw, Will
Harris, spread yesterday to Rowan coun-
ty, was communicated to Davidson, and
reached on down to Guilford. Chief of
Police Scott was notified early last night
by the sheriff of Rowan, to meet train
coming to Greensboro, for it was thought
that Harris was aboard. The chief was
at the station all ready to capture the
outlaw, to reap fame and reward, but
was informed by the train dispatcher, be-
fore the train pulled in that the supposed
outlaw had jumped the train just before
reaching Lexington and escaped.
The Boards of County Commissioners,
and Highway Commissioners after an in
spection of the roads yesterday decided
late yesterday afternoon to macadamize
the road leading from West Market street,
via DR.. Foxs residence to Guilf0rd Col
lege, a distance of seven miles.
The present macadam on the Pomona
road will be extended for one mile. 1t was
also decided TO macadmize the road lead
ing to High Point the entire distance of
fifteen miles.
The mass-meeting at the opera house
last night to raise funds for the reunion
of nonresident North Carolinians was
not largely attended, but very encour-
aging progress was made towards secur-
ing the money needed by the Committee
on Arrangements. The sum of $3.50
was pledged last night, and with this be-
ginning, the Finance committee say they
have no doubt of getting at least $4,000
within the next ten days. >>@.
Mrs. w. c.. Porter, one of the most
estimable of Greensboros women, daugh-
ter of Mr. Robert NJ Sloan, died last
night, aftersa protracted illness OF typhoid
fever. The funeral will take place tomor-
row morning Mrs. Porter was fifty years
of age and leaves three splendid chill
dren, Miss Ruth Porter, Miss Logan and
Waldo Porter, of Greensboro, who were
al her bedside when the end came at mid
night.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
Assessments in Wake County.

To the Editor: | wish to commend youl
editorial in Fridays issue, IN which you
recommend a reduction of taX-rate Getty
and county,. 90 per cent, and to express
the hope that you may have sufficient IN
fiuence with the powers that be TO Sc
cure same; yet l can hardly hope Tor sucn
result, as to the county, when am IN
formed that there has been 1or seVefa
wears considerable more money spent than
received from taxes. In this connection
hermit mo TO saw that the complaint OF
The taxpayers in Raleigh township is not
simply on account of high and unequal
assessments in said townships; but also
of which 7 complain, the unequal ano
high assessment of property in Raleigh
township. as compared to assessments IL
ether townships in the county
l find upon investigation that only
few townships, other than Ralelgn, mas
there been any substantial raise III Valut
of property, and where there has been {
raise it is vastly lower, with rev eHcep
tions. that that of Raleigh township NOW
| contend that it is manifestly UNJUST tC
assess property in Raleigh township at III
full value at a high rate, when the grea
body of the county is paying taxes ohiS
at about two-thirds actual value, at
lower rate-and in some instances, which
| can name, if necessary our Board O
Commissioners and Board OF EqudllzaIloi
and private citizens, who are assessor
low vaIuation-about half value OF prop
erty. To be more specific my propert!
in Raleigh township which IS out OF CIT!
limits is assessed at full vaiue anu DIT
high rate, while my property "hlch
own i'm other townships III the county
assessed as that of other citizens IN thos
townships at "a dow valuation anu d'
lower rate. a..
make this personal reference 50 tina
the unequal valuation ana music o:'i
be clearly seen. 1 am in favor OF the prln
ciples of assessing property DIT ac'ud
value and at IA low rate ,whicn Is Tn
only fair and equitable way put dni "li
uetterablv opposed to applying that rat
| as to value at high rate to part oi IN
county onlv to condition pretext or poiic
can sustain it. ..ot rou,d
We have asked relief on that grouno
which has been refused. we go on
will MOI endure such unjust admlnlstra
ton of the law long, for there Is d rem
Guy "iii'n 'o H. E. NORRIS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. L. P. wilkins, of the firm of Will
kins, Kicks & Co, arrived here the first
OF the week and is now making arrange
ments to open their store the first of
next week. Mr.. wilkins has just re-
turned from the Northern markets, where
he purchased a large stock of goods some
of which have already arrived. The firm
will occpy two rooms in the Scott brick
building and expect to do big bust
Iess.-Sanford Express.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
Talking About Cotton.

There is a world of sense in the follow
ing from the Wadesboro Messenger and
Intelligencer:
people talk about the present price of
cotton as if it was unprecedented and i'm
possible of being sustained. The truth is
cotton is not relatively any higher than
other staple prices of commerce. 1t must
be remembered that when the staple was
selling around and cents that meat,
corn, wheat, iron and, in fact, nearly
everything else was very much lower in
price, than the same commodities are now
Mr.. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the
Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore,
writes interestingly as to the price of
cotton in the past as follows:
I'm view of the recent diatribes against
the present boom In cotton prices the
statement of the range of prices for cot
ton during the nineteenth century is most
interesting, Early in 1900 cotton sold at
A cents a pound, and it was not until
1859 that it declined below Is cents a
pound, as the average price in New York
for full year. In 1S4041 it dropped to
91a cents, and then declined until 1894,
when it reached 5.63, as the lowest aver
age price ever recorded Then it rallied
until finally it reached 1924 in 1S49-5O.
Between 1850 and 1860 the average price
in New York ranged from 9.5 cents in
1852 to 1851 in 1S55-57. For some
years after the war the price fluctuated
between AZ cents and 13 cents, but be-
tween 1852 and 1890 there was only one
year in which the New York price fell
below 10 cents, and that was in 1856, when
the average was ga cents. Beginning
with 1890 the price steadily declined from
9O3 in that year to cents in 1898, but
between 1891 and 1902 the average New
York price never got back to as much as
9 cents pound. In the last 100 years
there have been only two periods in which
the average price of cotton was not above
10 cents a pound"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
J. C. MASSEE.
MR.. NORWOOD WRITES IN DEFENSE
OF MR.. MASSEE.


To the Editor: AS one of those present,
at the Baptist Tabernacle prayer meeting
last Thursday night, and having read the
newspaper reports of that meeting,
desire to comment a little on the Ian
guage used in that meeting. and the i'm
preston it made upon me.
| am not a member of the Tabernacle,
but am member of church of another
denomination. / happened to be at that
prayer meeting, because / have enjoyed
the lessons brought out in these meetings
by the pastor, in the study of the book
of Job-his method is ito read the chap
tiers of the lesson and comment upon the
verses or paragraphs as he progresses,
and he sometimes makes an application
to our own day and time, as was done
at that meeting.
"The Raleigh Times quoted him as
saying that che did not blame the ne
groes for stealing" l am sure he did not
say that. He said that he did not wonder
that the negroes would steal, when the
wages paid them was sometimes so small
that they could not live honestly upon
the amount they received for their labor.
This is the statement which has caused
all of this mountain of criticism. One
would be led to think that the whole
text, and discourse, was upon the, negro
question or race problem, just to read
what the city papers have said about
that meeting. am, as l said in the be-
ginning, a disnterested party in this mat
ter yet / would like to see justice done
to every man, and if the reporter had
been present at that meeting all of this
4ro
/ am positive that Mr.. Massee, as a
Southern man, recognizes the superiority
of the white race, and l believe he dis
tinguishes the line of social difference
just as does every true Southern man
the thing that has caused so much com
ment is that just little of the meeting
was reported, and just that, was printed
which would lead one to think that ths
whole time was taken up in justifying the
negro in his meanness.
If every negro in Raleigh had been
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

When an individual minds his own
business he is one kind of monopolist.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Dunn, N. c.. Sept 5.-The grand jury
before adjournment yesterday found a true
bill against S. D. Stone, of this place, for
selling whiskey. His case will probably
be continued until next term.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Dunn, N. c., Sept. 5.-The County Com
missioners have been recommended by the
grand jury and the judge to purchase a
farm as near the county site as possible
and to build thereon suitable building
to care for the poor and infirm of the
country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
Industrial Items.

Sanford and Jonesboro will probably be
connected with Ellington by phone in
the near future. Messrs. Garner, of this
place. and Cole, of Carthage. were in Lii
Engton, last week to see about establish
ing the proposed line.-Sanford Express.
The Fitts-Crabtree Manufacturing Com
pany tell us that they shipped out about
81 700 worth of material during the month
of August. This company employs quite
a number of hands and promises to be.
come one of Sanford's most successful
manufacturing concerns.-Sanford Elk
press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

The latest test of the automobile in
the mail service on rural routes has
concluded in Michigan. While salts
factory from the point of speed and
reliability the question of original
cost and maintenance is one which
will keep them out for some time. The
average rural carrier cannot afford
to purchase an auto. nor can he af-
ford to keep one in repair on the
meager allowance now paid by the.
government. There is a possibility
for the employment of automobiles in
the rural mail service. perhaps not
many years hence; for the time is
coming when the rural carriers will
organize and secure higher salaries.
and also when the price of the auto
will be much lower than it is at pres
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
COUNTY TEMPLE.
Transfers.

Jan, Aaron \. Wolfersperger to
Louis F. Barth, swH 90, seq, nwH So,
10, CIV. $1,000.
McMaster Blackburn to Lawrence
Kramer, undiv. 1-6. sublot 4, lot 8,
block -. Old Town of Rock Island,
S2s4.5O.
Ira Akeley to Sarah j. Mckee, e%
lot 81, South Rock Island, 81.
John Carlson to Marguerite F. In
gelsOn, 1905 feet of 1906 feet lot
Il. Mrs. l.. y. Warmers First add,
East Moline. $3.50.
McMaster Blackburn TO Louis F.
Requa. undiv. 1-6 of e1h of WIZ. lot T.
block Is. Old Town of Rock Island.
S1SS.
William Jackson. ct al. to Gust Ed
lots l and ,. block l. Third Wheelock
Fifteenth street add, Moline. $500.
Louis Mosenfelder to Louis +.
Requa, lot II. block ,. Black Hawk
Fourth add. Rock Island, 1923.
Ruth Ann Hendren to Louis Reitz-
Ter, 40 feet of 12O feet. lots ! and
s. block IS. Chicago or Lower add,
Rock Island 81 500:
Pleasant f. Cox to Herbert f.. Cas-
teel. swH. nwA, %, 10, 2e. $1,000
Martha f. Adams to Almyra Griffin.
lots 10 and II. block 1. William Dick
sons add. Milan. $500
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
A Knock out for Col. Marsh.

Announcement is made from Wash
ington of the appointment of +. Fl.
Aldridge as postmaster at Plymouth.
The Plymouth pOstoffice has recently
been advanced to the presidential
class and the salary advanced to ST.
100 with an allowance of $500 for
clerk. The office is at present filed
by f. W. BickfOrd, who has had two
terms and was again an applicant for
reappointment. He had good many
hackers and strong fight for him
was made by Congressman Marsh.
Nevertheless most of the business
men of Plymouth had signed the pc
tition of Aldridge and that gentle
man had the support of both Senator's
Cullom and Mason. The appointment
was really a fight between Marsh and
the senator's and the senators won on
the ground that although the place
was in Marsh's district he is not actu-
ally representing it in the present
congress. This is not the first in
stance wherein the Illinois senator's
have interfered in the matter of max
ing postmasters in this congressional
district-but they have not always
won so handily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
Legislation Needed to Fight Trust
COnSpiracieS.

The investigation of an alleged con-
spiracy in the state of Missouri
among Armour, Cudahy, Hammond
and other packers to limit competi-
ton and raise prices of meats and
maintain them at high prices. has
been productive of reports which
find the packers guilty of the charge.
The investigation only covers Missouri
territory, and what may be done in
this immediate case will not be pro-
ductive of any good in Illinois or oth-
er states aside from Missouri. .
Nevertheless the case in Missouri is
of considerable interest. Missouri is
in the same boat with Illinois and
much the same condition exists in
both states. The investigation shows
a weakness in the law to prevent
such a conspiracy to rob the people,
but also shows conclusiveIy that of
ficers of the law are greatly at loss
how to proceed against alleged viola
tors of antitrust laws. There is a
great demand for more forcible and
particularly for more simple laws,
the application, meaning and power
of which cannot be doubted
With such conditions as exist today
in Illinois there is demand for such
legislation. Prices of coal are deplor-
ably high. Prices of meat are I'M
bearably high With coal and meat
so high there is a crying need for
legislation that will prevent fuel and
food conspiracies.
The Missouri case will probably be
productive of action in defense of
the enactment of better Interstate
antitrust laws and that is why the
Missouri case is attracting such wide
a attention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08


eight or 10 years. In state politics
he has always been identified with the
Tanner organization and it was due
to friends of the late governor that
he was selected as the organization
candidate for speaker. In the last as
sembly Mr.. Miller was a member of
the appropriations committee, was
one of the men who framed the sena-
tOrial reapportionment bill, and serv-
ed also on the committee on ware
houses and other less important com
mittees.
During that term he made no par
ticular record either positive or mega
tive, and was not heard great deal
either in debate or in committee. but
the machine knew always where he
stood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
The New Speaker at sprinsfield.

John II. Miller, just elected speaker
of the Illinois house of representa-
tives, is a banker at McLeansboro,
and is now serving his second term
as a member of the Legislature. Mr..
Miller has since 1893 been the propri-
etor of the Peoples bank at McLeans-
boro, and he is rated a man of mod
crate means. he was born in White
county so years ago, and has lived at
McLeansboro for the past 81 years.
He taught school for five years as a
young man and then engaged in the
hardware and agricultural implement
business. in which he remained until
he started the Peoples bank.
In 1894 he was elected member of
the republican state central commit
tee from his congressional district.
Prior to that time, he bad been chair
man of the county committee for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
Ladies' Can Wear shoes

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Cures and prevents swollen feet,
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druggists and shoe stores. Trial
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
The Secret of Long Life

Consists in keeping all the main or
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ters regulate stomach. liver and kid
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ders in curing kidney troubles, female
complaints, nervous diseases, consti-
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orous health and strength always fol-
low their use. Only so cents; guaran-
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oiSts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

y new stamp is about to delight the
philatelists. 1t is that of the New
Hebrides. and as it will only circulate
in the archipelago it will be all the
more valuable. Letters for other coun-
tries will be stamped, as before. with
the stamps of New-Caledonia or New
South Wales, as they travel by French
of English steamer. The value of the
new stamp will be three centimes.
five cantimes. fifteen centimes and
one. franc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

Cuba has sent a minister TO Spain,
Alfonso having expressed himself IA
vorable TO the plan. Thus does demo-
cratic government grow. Every CEN
fury we approach nearer to the full
fillment of the prophecy that the gov
eminent of the world will be one day
democratic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

The spectacular Charles NJ. Schwab
is said to possess a hunger for some
of the shares of stock offered by the
United States Steel corporation to its
employees. Charlie would be able to
make a dignified investment out of
his paltry salary of S1,OOO,OOO per an
nlIn1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

neglected cough or cold may lead
to serious bronchial or lung troubles.
Don't take chances when Foley's
Honey and Tar affords perfect secur-
ity from serious effects of a cold.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
The crowned heads of every nation,

The crowned heads of every nation,
The rich men, poor men and misers
All join in paying tribute to
DeWitt's Little Early Risers.
III. Williams, San Antonio, Texas,
writes: Little Early Risers are the
best 1 ever used in my family. I'M
hesitatingly recommend them to ev-
erybody. They cure constipation,
biliousness, sick headache, torpid iv-
er, jaundice, malaria, and all other
liver troubles"
Harper House pharmacy; A. ].
Reiss drug store, corner Seventh ave-
nue. and Twenty-seventh street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

SbAIC OI 1lunOlSs
Rock Island County.
In the Circuit Court May term, 1903.
Court of Honor,
Frederick C. Skinner Harold A. Jensen.
Afidavit of non-residence OF the d. PENDANT,
Frederick c Skinner. impleeded with the
above defendant, Harold A. Jensen having
been fled In the clerks once of the cir
cult court of the said county, notice Is
therefore hereby given TO the said pom
resident defendant that the complainant
nled its bin of complaint in said court on
the chapcery side thereof, on the 9th
day OF January, 1903 and that thereupon
q summons issued out of said court wherein
said suit Is now pending, returnable on the
first Monday In the month of May next, as
Is by law required. Now, unless you, the
said nonresident defendant above named;
Frederick g. Skinner, shall personally be ana
appear before the said circuit court, on the
first day of the next term thereof. to be hol-
den at sock Island in and for the said county
on the first Monday in May next. and plead,
answer or demur TO the said complain ants
bill, of complaint the same and the matters
a nd things therein charged and stated VIII be
Z AIKEN as confessed aud a decree entered
against you according to the prayer OF said
bill
GEORGE W. GAMBLE, Clerk.
Ro * and. Illinois. January 9Th. 1913
WILLIAM q Rise. ComplainanVs Solicitors
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

Sherman on the floor of the house
at Springfield may be a harder prOpo-
sition for the republican machine to
go against than Sherman in the chair.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

Gov. Odell. of New York. was sworn
in with great eclat in spite of Tom
Platt's efforts to make the layout re-
semble a cold-storage plant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

TERMS-Daily, 10 cents per week. Weekly.
100 per year in advance.
Recommendations of political or argumen-
tatiye character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publication No
such articles will be printed over fictitious
signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town.
shipin Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08

Strange to say. but Gen. Greene is
making some of them New York po-
licemen look blue and some look
black
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924 Second
Avenue, Rock Island, Ill. ENTERED at the
Postofhce as Second-class matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-08
Thursday, January s

1t is reassuring in the extreme to
read the news from Berlin that Kaiser
Bill * still our friend.