The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-10
TRIAL WILL co ON
One Day Lost Through
HOIton's Illness.
Says He Will Proceed With the Prose
Cution Today. Wire for Assistance
Brought Late Response From
Washington.

Especial TO News and Observer
Greensboro y. c.. Oct. AT eleven
o'clock this morning District Attorney
Holton, accompanied by his physician
DIR. w. p. Bell. went to the Federal
court building, and Judge Boyd was
advised by the physician that it was
impossible for Mr.. Holton TO under
take to continue the active prosecution
of his docket in his present condition.
and that he was on the verge of seri-
Gus illness.
Mr.. Holton looks like a man just
out of a long spell of sickness. Judge
Boyd. when court opened, announced
that, owing to the sickness of the
District Attorney, the trial of G. w.
Samuels. then in progress. would not
he resumed until he could receive an
answer from a telegram sent to the
Attorney General at Washington, and
that when this answer came he would
let tho marshal notify the jury to
come back into court.
1t is understood that the delay is
for the purpose of getting authority
for the employment of additional
counsel to conduct the case owing to
Mr.. Holton's physical condition. 1t
is generally believed that a juror will
be withdrawn and a mistrial entered.
The attorneys for the defendant
have uttered no word: but it is said
that if such is the object they will in
s'st on the right to a completion of
the trial. while the government. it is
said, will contend that the offense
charged against Samuels being a mis-
demeanor, mistrial could be ordered.
AT four o'clock this afternoon no
answer had been received to the in
curry Of Washington. Judge Boyd
excused the witnesses and jurors unit!
ten O'Clock Tuesday morning. Dig
trict Attorney Holton, who has i'm
proved greatly during the day. de-
cIared tonight that he will proceed
with the trial without additional as
siStance.
The Bow of tile News
The Daily Industrial News made
It's initial appearance here yes
terday morning, and at some hour
during the day at almost every
postoftlce i'll the State, no doubt
since every postmaster in the
State is said to be on its list
of active agents. The metropolitan
appearance of the paper and its gen
eral get-up has been commented on
most faVorabiy by all newspaper men
here, who know what it takes to
make a paper. and who had not eX-
pected the first number or even the
the standard of old established pa
pers whose office force. mechanical.
reportorial and editorial. had each
got adapted to the routine and the
groove. The whole outfit is equipped
regardless of expense. and plenty of
money nowadays can obtain trained
men able and experienced enough TO
fill paper with live reading matter
on short notice.
Thirty thousand dollars is said
to be the sum expended in getting
ready the mechanical and operative
department of the paper and it is u1-
expenses for a year is SAP, 900.
With those figures. it is easy To see
that it has just got To be not only
big paper but mighty big class pa
per every day in the year for the
promoters to get their money back
out of the paper.
\ carping critic of the Weekly Tar
Heel persuasion. commenting on 1t.
said the only sign Of its genuine Re-
publicaniSm he found was that III
jumped on the Raleigh News and
Observer" ''If that's any sign" said
another. 'you don't need any more
Republican papers for Charlotte. Raj
eigh. Wilmington and other towns
have got morning or weekly papers
that do that as regular thing and
tho Republican party gets smaller and
the News and Observer gets more
subscribers all the time. The gen
eral opinion here as to the effect the
new paper will have on the patronage
of the other morning papers. is that
the News and Observer will be affect-
ed least of all from the impression.
which is general and which may be