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Alaska sentinel., 1903-02-05

In 1898 J. w. Ivey, while collec:- Or of customs, wag going up the Yu- kon, and found that two mounted policemen had an American citizen in chains on the boat without the necessary papers,. Mf. Ivey tried to persuade them that they were In the wrong; they told him to mind his business. Then he became vex- ed took down his rifle and compel led them to liberate the man and turn over to him; several thousand aolllars inst belonged to him. Now the report goes out (through American papers) that MT. Ivey had stolen the money and the Dawson authorities were about to collect it from him by law; also that he was dishonorably dismissed from the customs service. MT. Ivey's resignation was on file months be- fore it was accepted, which the same papers that are circulating the defamatory reports know. The trouble with Joe Ivey is that he is to thoroughly an American to please some men who ire posing as Americans. There was a kick against him from the time that he gave foreigners at Skaguay to un- 4erstand their place and denied to Canadian boats undue privileges in American waters to the westward. The reports against him are all Ean1ped up rot:
Alaska sentinel., 1903-02-05

It is said Gov. Swineferd thinks of going to Unga as deputy collect or of customs. Of course it is a FINE LOCATION and he'll like the place. We presume from the way he talks lie has been there before:
Alaska sentinel., 1903-02-05
Levi Ankeny has been elected

Levi Ankeny has been elected U. $. Senator from Washington. In Oregon things are in an uncertain state. MT. Fulton had 33 votes at last reports, and it now looks as if his election is doubtful, although he is the best man for the whole northwest that could be sent.
 Meat has advanced in Juneau, Steaks that sold for 25c. now costs soc. a pound'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
The CRANES NEST COMPANY.
An Important Transaction in the Development
of the Virginia Coal Fields,
fRv the Associated Press. }

Bristol. Tenn, Sept. 25.-An important
transaction in the development of south
west Virginia and east Tennessee, aud paT
ticularly of the Virginian coal fields, oc
CURED here today when the Cranes Nesi
Company was organized with a capital
of three million five hundred Thousand
dollars, for the purpose of taking over
coal properties in Wise and adjoining
Virginia counties. aggregating over ore
hundred thousand acres.
Mr. George L. Carter, is the president
of the new corporation and the organiza-
tion was effected at his office today.
The directorate is composed of the fol
lowing gentlemen:
Evans r. Dick. of Dick Bros, bankers,
New York; George Blackstone, president
of the Union Trust Company, Baltimore;
F. j. Lisman, of F. j. Lisman & Company
bankers, New York; Nelson Perrin, capt
talist, Baltimore; Otto T. Barnard, presi-
dent Continental Trust Company, New
York; Miles White, Jr., capitalist and
banker. Baltimore; Samuel Hunt, presi-
dent Detroit Southern Railroad, Detroit
Mich: Seymour Gandelbaum, capitalist
Baltimore: George Ia Carter, Bristol Va
At the same time the above named gen
tlemen were elected to the directorate O
the South and Western Railway Com
pany. and it is understood that the line
of this railroad viii shortly be complied
so as TO give transportation facihtle.
from the Virginia coal fields to the Al
lantic coast
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
THE MAJOR TIES LOU
0eImar and Dillon Hold the
Worlds Record as
TrOtterS.
lBy lie AssocIated Pres }

New York, Sept. 25.-The big event to-
day at the Empire City track was the
effort of the champion gelding, Major Del
mar to beat his own record of PA and to
bea5 the worlds record of 200 held by
Lou Dillon. He trotted most wonderful
mile. and in a game but firing finish
shot under the wire in the record time
At the second attempt the gelding went
away as steady as a clock, and, though 6
slow beginner. got to the quarter in :301s
seconds. Up the back stretch he shot with
such lightning rapidity that he flashed by
the half mile pole IN 50 seconds. Then
the grand stand rose and cheered as tic
gallant son of Delfar few around the
top turn to the three-quarter pole in
1:29 and came home to the wire in 2
minutes, thus equalling the time of Lou
Dillon Two running horses hitched tt
sulkies, one with wind shield, were pro
vided as pacemakers.
The winners of the other events were
Arzile, Alfonso Maid, Marion Wilkes and
BrOdina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
STORY OF A bat.
Colorsd Minister Insists That Telegraph Boys
Must Rest Their Bats

There was considerable commotion
among the telegraph boys of Raleigh last
night, due to the fact that a negro had
insisted that boys entering his house to
get a message should take off their hats
The negro concerned was Rev. S. n.
Vass, District Secretary of the American
Baptist Publication Society, who lives at
the corner of Person and Davie streets
The story as gained from the boys
themselves, IS In effect as follows: Vass
called up the Postal and asked that 4
boy be sent TO his house to get a message.
Norman Belvin was sent. He says that
when he went into the house, Vass said
to him Just your hat" Just what?"
asked Belvin. '''Just your hat" repeat
ed Vass. 4 don't have to-" said Bel
win. Then get went, and Vass sent
for another Belvin boy. This time Rich
ard Riddle was sent. He also refused to
take off his hat, and Vass said he would
take the message to the office himself.
Next he tried the Western Union, and
W. Putney and Coley King were sent for
the message. These boys say he told them
to lift their hats when they went IN the
house. Putney told him they would not
lift their hats to negroes, and they did
not get the message.
The News and Observer called up Vass
over the telephone and asked him about
the matter. He gave the following state
ment:
1T was not a question of the messen-
ger tipping his hat to me. l would not
have any person tip his hat to me. But
the messenger came to my house for
telegram, and without being invited came
into my wife's bedroom, and even then
H l., r., ~ hat
land repeated it. He seemed determined
not to rest his hat, said he would not.
and said it in such way that / felt he
was doing what was wrong, and told him
unless he rested his hat, 1 would not send
the message by him, and he left. An
other boy came and told NE ii depended
upon whose house he was in. I ielt that
it was simply the impoltenesS OF the
boys, and the Western Union sent a boy
that acted in the same way. Then I
began to think that after all it was not
simply the impohteness of the boys, and
so 1 carried the message myself to the
office and related the facts to the Postal
Telegraph gentleman in the Office He
told me that he did not approve their
conduct, and saw no reason why the mes
sengers should not rest their hats when
they enter residences. 1t never for once
| occurred to me 1 was doing anything un-
usual: IN fact, 1 have noticed that all
well-bred white people treat even a negro
with common respect. This took place in
my own home. in my own house and bed
room, and l feel that all reasonable citi-
zens, white or colored, view the matter
as I do. / try to treat al persons with
proper respect, and simply ask that at
least little boys should do as much The
whole matter was good-natured on my
part, and l was not even angry.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
Improvement for Hotel Kenyon,
Especial OF News and observer.)

Especial OF News and Observer
Goldsboro, n. c.. Sept 25.-If there Is
any one single city feature of which
Goldsboro can boast more than another
it Is the Hotel Kenyon. which IS not only
abreast of any similar institution in the
State, but is perhaps the leading Tar Heel
hOstelry. No more comfortable or better
furnished rooms than those to be found
IN the new annex canc be found South of
the great metropolis from which the whole
country takes its patterns. It's cuisine
furnishes gossip for the travelling frater-
nifty. who come out of their way to spend
a day or night in the hotel. and who are
the best judges of hotels as we'll as a
great many other things These gentle
men. as well as the travelling public gen
orally, WI be griltified to learn that the
progressive proprietor of the hotel, Mr.
r. H. Griffin. intends at an early day to
make still further improvements to his
already excellent service by adding an up
todate cafe to be known as the Kenyon
Cafe. Goldsboro has reached such pro-
portions as 4 city where such an institu-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
Temporary Receiver Appoint
ed for Water Works Co,
The Hearing on Application for Permanent
Receiver is Set for October the
Sixteenth.
Especial to News and observer.)

Fayetteville, n. c., Sept 25.-The hity
has instituted suit against the water COM
pany for specific performance of terms of
contract. Judge H. R. Bryan has ap-
pointed DR.. H. W. Lily temporary re-
ceiverA The papers were served this af-
ternoon. The hearing on application for
permanent receiver was set to be held at
Eizabethtown, October 18th.
Some years ago the franchise was
granted to certain Northern parties on
condition that after stated number Of
years the property was to be appraised,
and the city was to have the option Of
purchase. In accord with this provision,
the time having elapsed, the city several
months ago selected an appraiser, the
company another, and these two a third,
and on evidence submitted by both sides
an appraisal was had and an award rem
dered. Thereupon the city accepted the
award and rendered the money. The
company failed and refused to turn over
the property, claiming that in addition
to the sum stated in the award (s79, ,000)
the city should also assume a bonded in
debtedness on the plant of $4,000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
SHAW ADDRESSES BANKERS.
he Takes an Optimistic View Of Our Business
Prospects.
(By the Associated Press.) }

Newport News, Va, Sept. 25.-The
Bankers Association of Maryland and the
District of Columbia, which Is holding
It's annual convention aboard the Nor
folk and Washington Line steamer Nor
folk, arrived at old Point early this
morning After breakfast at the Cham
berlin the party came to this city and
visited the shipyard and other POINTS of
interest. Mr.. 4. L. Powell. president of
the Newport News National Bank con-
Quoted the visitors through the yard and
about the city.
This afternoon the bankers left for
Norfolk. Among the special guests on
the steamer were Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw and daughter, Comptroller of
the Currency William H. Ridgely and
Ellis H Roberts, Treasurer of the United
States.
On the way from Washington Thursday
night, Secretary Shaw made a very sig
nificant speech, taking a decidedly opti-
mistic view of the business prospects of
the country.
The secretary said that we either must
issue more bonds as a basis for national
banks circulation or provide some suhsti-
tute. The present volume of government
bonds said is insufficient and recent de
mand for $4,000, 900 of government bonds,
consequently had advanced the price OF
government bonds to figure that made
national bank circulation improbable.
But, he added, any currency system adopt
ed must provide for complete exchangeabil-
ity of every form of money, so that our
people never would have cause to look
twice at bills presented in regular course
of business. Speaking of the functions
of a bank he said its success should not
be measured by its dividends but by its
solvency, conservatism and promptness to
respond to its customers legitimate needs.
Its reserves, in his opinion, should be
available for use in times of emergency
and were not intended to be buried and
never touched The recent deposits of
public moneys and offers to redeem bonds
had not been made, he went on, with any
/ expectation of aiding the stock market
but solely to assure the bushes smen OF
the country there would be no money
/ famine this autumn.
"oG home,' said he to the bankers. "and
tell your merchants and your manufactur-
ers and your railroad people that you are
| still doing bushes sat the old stand. and
expect TO remain. Stand by the business
interests of the country and all viii be
well. The prosperity of the American peo
| pie is not measured by the price of stocks
and bonds, but by the output of ouI
/ farms and our factories and the profitable
employment of labor"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
STERN uF THE BEATRICE
A Fragment of the Steamer Lost in the Great
Storm,
lRr Ia Associated Press.


Norfolk Va. Sept 25.-The United
States Weather Bureau tonight received
information from Captain Drinkwater, OF
the Currituck Life-Saying Station, that
the stern of a steamer bearing the name
"Beatrice-New York" was pounding bot
tom up in the breakers two and one-half
miles south OF Caffey's Inlet, LIfe-Saying
Station.
Caffey's Inlet Is half way between Cur
rituck and Kitty Hawk and the wrekage
is thought to be from the fishing steamer
Beatrice which was caught in the recent
hurricane when south OF Delaware Break
water Wednesday September l6 She
carried a crew of 35 men and was loaded
with 400, 900 fish. Her captain was J. W.
Leland, of Baltimore. H. 5. Roy was the
engineer and Thomas E. Latham his as
sistant Both of these men were IRON
Norfolk There were two other white
men in the crew and the remaining thirty
were negroes.
The Beatrice, in company with her SIS
ter ship, the Atlantic and Swan, put out
from Cape Charles Tuesday, September
Is, for Delaware Breakwater with cargoes
of fish. They were Overtaken by the
hurricane and became separated. The
Swan made the Breakwater in safety two
days later and the Atlantic managed to
battle her way back to Cape Charles.
She is now in this port being repaired.
Nothing has been heard OF the Beatrice
since until tonight when boat brought
the news of her stern washing ashare.
The message says the Life Savers will
hoard the wreck tomorrow morning at
low tide. The Beatrice was owned by the
Atlantic Fisberies Company, of Cape
Charles and was valued at S25,oeo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
ARRESTED FOR SEDUCTION.
Young Girl Foiled in Attempt at Suicide
Reparstion Promised
(Special ID News and Observerl

Especial to News and ObseTver.)
Salisbury, n. c., Sept. 25.-John Disher,
aged about twenty-five. was arrested at
Statesville yesterday on the charge of
seduction under promise of marriage.
The warrant was issued by the friends of
Miss Ada Ford, of Lexington, who. it Is
alleged, has been ruined by Disher The
young man was preparing to leave the
country when the arrest was made, and
after which he agreed to go with the
officer to Lexington and adjust the mat
ter to the satisfaction of the family of
Miss Ford. When she learned that her
family had discovered her trouble through
letter which had been read by accident,
Miss Ford secured a bottle of laudanum
and attempted to commit suicide, but was
prevented from doing so by being watch
ed by her friends.
The Confederate veterans of Rowan
county held their annual reunion in Sails
bury yesterday at which gathering a
number of appropriate addresses were de-
livered. The attendance at these re-
unions IS decreasing from year to year,
and it was learned yesterday that seven
teen veterans have died since the last
assemblage of the Rowan comrades. 1t
will not be many years until it viii be
impossible to hold reunion of this kind.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26

tion is not only convenience. but ne
cessity, and it is the purpose of Mr.. Grit
fin to supply this need. Like the Hotel
Kennon. it will be second to none in the
State. Besides being furnished in the
very best of style the table will be sup
piled with the most tempting viands that
the most fastidious epicurean can wish for.
Mr.. Griffin has had the, experience neces-
sary to know how to furnish and conduct
the new enterprise and he will spare
neither pains nor expense to make the
cafe the success that he has the Hotel
Kennon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
Wife Slayer Hangs,
lB the Assyociated Press }

Bristol, Tenn, Sept. Pa special to
the Herald from Big Stone Gap, Va, says:
Clifton Branham paid the penalty of
wife murder today at Wise. Before GO
ing to the gallows he made a speech of
some length, claiming that he was justi-
fed in the killing by the circumstances.
He appealed to those present for en-
dorsement of his deed and about 800 of
the crowd agreed with him. At 1:S7
p. m. the drop feI and in twenty-eight
minutes he was pronounced dead, his
neck being broken by the fail. Branham
was forty years old. He had served a
term in the Kentucky State prison, but
before his full time wS< out Governor
Beckham pardoned him.. Soon after his
pardon he killed his wife for which crime
he paid the penalty today. A large crowd
was present TO witness the hanging.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
LECTURES IN RYGIRNE.
An Interesting Course to be Delivered at the
University.
Especial to News and Observer.)


Chapel Hill, n. c., Sept. 25.-This year
series of lectures in hygiene viii be
given by various members Of the faculty
who are experts in the different topics.
which they viii discuss intimately with
the students.
The first two lectures by Dr. Mangum
on Cleanliness, Internal and External and
Sleep" will be given Immediately after
chapel DR.. Mangum will also lecture
upon Exercise" and physical Exercise ''
The gymnasium instructor; Mr.. A. D.
Brown will lecture upon Physical cul-
ture;" Prof. J. W. Gore upon Lighting
Heating and Clothing;;" DR.. Isaac H.
Manning upon Physiology of Digestion; ="
Physiology and the Circulation and Res
piration." and The Physiology of the
Nervous System.
DR.. Charles Baskerville will lecture
upon Air and Ventilation and Water,
its Publication and Sewage DISPOSAL"
DR.. A. S. Wheeler upon Food and Food
Adulterations; DR.. r. H. Whitehead upon
Infectious" Distinctions" and Pre-
ventive Medicine and General Sanitarium;"
Judge MacRae upon Sanitary Laws or
Ones Duty to his Neighbor and Self.
Mr. D. NJ. Swink of the class of 1900, in
the University. has recently been made
manager of the city power and electrical
lighting system of Newark. New Jersey.
Dr. F. P venable has just returned
from Atlanta, where he went to attend
a meeting of the executive committee OF
the Southern Educational Association The
purpose of the meeting was to decide
upon a place for the next annual conveB-
tion of the association.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
COLLISION ON STREET RAILWAY.
Two Cars Badly Smashed and One Han Hurt
Vanderbilt at Biltmore.
Especial to News and observer)

NSpecllI 10 News anu ODSerNef.)
Aheville, n. c.. Sept. 25.-A head-on
collision occurred today between a passen-
ger and work car on Charlotte street line
of Asheville Street Railway Company S
system. Track Foreman Hart had his side
injured by being thrown against one OF
the car supports Both cars were smashed
considerably.
George Vanderbilt arrived at Biltmore
this afternoon. 1t is known that his re-
turning to Biltmore at this time is to
Investigate and straighten out the affairs
of the Biltmore office. and to sit in judg-
ment upon the case of Geo. Tennent and
D. c. Champlain, who because of dis
agreement with other employees of the Of
flee left the employ of Vanderbilt sew
eral weeks ago. Messrs. Tennent and
Champlain have submitted report setting
forth their side of the controversy and
Vanderbilt will while here settle the
matter. It is declared by those repre-
senting the Offices side of the contro.
versy that these have violated the reg
ulations of the office 1t was also learn
ed that number of employees of the es
tate are somewhat worried over the re
port that Vanderbilt has decided after
investigating the office affairs to &c
abroad. where he expects to spend year
in travel and that during his absence
much of the work now being done on the
Biltmore estate will be suspended
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26

new 4Ofh, sept. -bTduStIeet ; 10
morroY viii say:
Reports Of caution in fall and winter
trade testify to the absence of the spur
of insistent demand which year ago gave
the selling side such an advantage. The
fewness of car shortage complaints is evi,
dence alike of the later movement of
crops and of discrimination in orders by
consumers. The quieting down of demand
has become more manifest in iron and
steel, where plans for restriction of fur
mace output are being discussed and I'm
ished products lag and in anthracite coal,
where a number of cOlheries have been put
on shorter time. Building activity at
New York has not been resumed in full
and strikes of vessel men on the docks
retard shipments and advance freight rates
and high prices for cotton, with lack of
correspondingly higher prices for finish
ed products, check full resumption Of op-
erations.
Railway earnings returns are still highly
favorable, those roads reporting for the
first half of September showing gain
of 10 per cent. over a yea% ago.
Relatively the best reports come from.
ports of the Northwest, due to better
weather and crcp conditions; the South
west. which has escaped crop injury, and
the South, where. despite crop deteriora-
tion and declining cotton prices. the gen
eral outlook is still good.
Business failures for the week were
1S5 against 172 in the ike week of 1902.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-26
Bestsz' Cotton Statement.
CBy the Associated Press.)

>
New Orleans. La, Sept. 7ag-Secretarv
Hester's statement of the worF5ss vi4sfe'Is
supply of cotton, issued today, shows the
total visible to be 1882, ,633, against l.
0O4 1856 last week and !, 1,766. .667 last year.
COZ, ,633. against ALL last week and l.
S1o,667 last year, and of all other kinds
including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc, 53C
GOO. against 563, 900 last week and $500
last year.
of the worlds visible supply of cotto
there Is now afioat and held in Gres
Britain and Continental Europe 4S8.OOl
against SIS. 600 last year, in Egypt. 16.00(
against $4,000 last year; India, 294,0OC
against 267 900 last year and in the Uni
ted States S85 ,OO0 against $4,000 las
year and $4,000 year before last.
Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans
cotton statement, issued today, shows the
amount brought into sight for the week
ending this afternoon, to be 25S sos,
against 359.0S0 for the seven days ending
this date last year and 219,949 year be
fore last The total Of the crop moved
into sight for the twenty-five days of the
new season is 475,174. against 955,672 last
year and 539, ,376 year before last.
hGCelpIS aG al GutAGu states IUiNS
since September 1st. 346,372, against $685.
ESQ last week overland, across the Mis-
sissippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to
Northern mills and Canada 1.O47, against
1868 last year. Interior stocks in ex-
cess of September first 42,756, against
125, 1877 last year and Southern mill TAX
ings $4,000. against 1852 last year.
Foreign exports since September 1st
90
year.
Since the close of the commercial year
stocks at American ports and the %
leading Southern interior centers have
increased 15S,95S bales, against an in
crease for the same period last season OF
34S, ,9S2 and are now 236, 500 less than at
this date last year.
Including amounts left over in stocks
at ports and interior towns from the
last crop and the number of bales brought
into sight thus far fer the new crop,
the supply to date Is 642,973. against l.
17O,746 for the same period last year