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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
WHO'S THE OWNER2
Can Georgia's Commits
sion UntangIe This?
President Spencer Says The Southern
Doesn't Own the Central, But il
it We're Sold He'd Claim
Proceeds.
by the Associated Press.)

Atlanta, Ca. Dec. S.-Much more
than usual interest gathered about the
meeting here today of the Georgia
Railway Commission. The ownership
of the Central of Georgia was the SUB
iect OF investigation and the prominent
witnesses before the commission were
President Samuel Spencer, of the
Southern Railway, and President D..
f. Hanson, of the Central of Georgia
Railroad. The investigation was made
at the inStigation oil the minority
stockholders of the augusta Southern
Railway, represented by former Con-
gresham William II. Fleming, who
claimed that the Southern Railway
control of the Central of Georgia, by
reason of its holding the stock of the
Central of Georgia, is illegal and in
violation of the laws of Georgia be-
cause the Central is made
competing line of the Augusta South
ern. The question at issue, therefore.
was whether or not the Southern Rail
way actually owns the stock of the
Central.
President Spencer testified to the eff
feet that the Southern does not own
the Central stock, but that the own
ership is in the reorganization COM
mittee of the Richmond Terminal
Company, of Richmond, Va. Pres-
dent Spencer, however, stated that If
the stock held by the committee were
to be sold, he as president of the
Southern, would claim the proceeds.
President Hanson. of the Central, con-
firmed the testimony and declared that
the Central is operated under an en-
tirely different policy from that con-
trolling the Southern and that the lat
ter road is the strongest competitor
of the Central for business.
Congressman Fleming declared that
a deed of transfer. conveying all the
property of the Richmond Terminal
Company to the Southern Railroad
Company, would substantiate the
claims of his clients. This deed was in
troduced in evidence before the COM
mttee today. but it failed to show
that the Central of Georgia stock had
been included in the transfer
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
ON CHILD SLAVERY
Powerful Address by Dr..
McKeIway at Wash
ingtOn.

Washington. Dec. 8.-The second
annual meeting of the National Child
Labor Committee began here today.
A number of well known publicists
interested in securing legislation gov
erning child labor by the national
and State governments are attending
the meeting. Among the addresses
made was one by A. j. McKelway, of
Charlotte. N. c., on Child Labor In
the Cotton Industry of the Southern
States
Dr. McKelway, after stating that
ninety-one per ceent of the children
employed in manufacturing indus
tries in the South were to be found
in the four cotton growing, cotton
manufacturing States of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina. Georgia ana
Alabama, said:
"It is a rude awakening that has
come to our people, that the abolition
of negro slavery marked the begin
ming of white child slavery; that our
pet industry. cotton, is not different
in the South from what 1t was for
a hundred years in old and New
England, an industry distinguished
for long hours and low wages, and
cursed by the employment Of children
on a larger scale and of tenderer
years than any other industry in the
world. In this year of the twentieth
century there are sixty thousand
children in Southern cotton mills,
from six to sixteen years of age, toll
ing twelve hours day, or twelve
hours a night, and reducing the wage
scale to what is necessary for the
support of a child instead of what
will support a family, at manhood
wages And the South is also awak-
ening to the fact that its characters.
tic industry has SO intrenched itself
behind all the commercial life of the
South, that it is able to control legis-
1ation in opposition TO the popular
will that would express itself in the
enactment of humane laws and their
enforcement. There is still some in
difference and more Ignorance con-
corning the extent of the evil, but
a kind hearted people may be trusted
at least to right the wrongs of child
hood and protect the coming race
from degeneration.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
REVOLT OF NEGRO STUDENTS.
Hiss Prof. Gordon on Account of Al
legged Prejudiced Conduct Toward
Their Race.

Washington. Dec. "a revolt of
about 700 students of Howard Uni
versity a negro institution of this
city. occurred today. The student body
had assembled in the chapel for the
usual noontide religious services when
the professor of the university Prof.
John Gordon, entered and was greeted
with a volume of Kisses, cat-calls,
howles and groans A scene of ex-
element followed. The students then
marched from the chapel to the
campus where the demonstration was
continued, and Prof. Gordon was still
further denounced The college eXer-
cises for the day were abandoned as
the students practically are on strike.
The demonstration against Prof
Gordon was said to be due to his al
legged prejudicial conduct toward mem
bers of the negro race.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
A TERRIBLE SIGHT
Vanderbilt and Mackay
See Train Strike Woman.
As the Poor, Suffering Creature is
Taken to the Hospital They Direct
That No Expense be
Spared.
Especial to News and Observer. }


Greensboro. n. c., Dec. S.-This
afternoon at Jamestown, seven miles
from here. while VIII am H. Wander
bit and Clarence Mackay were stand
ing near their private car on sid
ing at Vanderbilt'S game preserve
they had visual experience of an aC-
cident on Mr.. Vanderbilt's Southern
Railway they will not soon forget. A
fast through freight was approaching
and in front of it walked a woman
Mrs. Susan Caveniss and three chill
dren.
The children hurried off the track
just as the mother was picked up by
the pilot and hurled twenty feet into
a ditch. She fell in ten feet of the
wealthy New Workers. who rushed
to her aid.
The woman. who proved to be a
deaf mute, was carefully lifted and
found 20 be conscious. She was
badly bruised. one arm broken and a
hand crushed. Physicians were
summoned and the unfortunate wo
man placed on a mattress in a spring
wagon and sent to the hospital in
High Point for treatment, with direc-
tions that the bill be sent to Wander
bilt and Mackay, and not to spare eX-
pense
The scene of this accident was
within a few miles of where George
Gould last year while hunting, shot
his valet instead of a bird, The i'm
jured man was sent on a special train
to New York, with both eyes appar-
emily shot out, but one eye was saved.
A handsome annuity was settled on
the victim, who married his hospital
nurse.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10

United States Senator
Convicted of Conspira-
Cy to Defraud.
(By the Associated Press.)

Portland, Ore. Dec. 8.-United
States Senator John H. Mitchell died
at the Good Samaritan hospital in this
city at 11:40 o'clock this forenoon,
death resulting from complications
which followed the removal of four
teeth at a dental Office yesterday
morning. hemmorrhage of unus-
ual severity followed the removal of
the teeth, and despite the application
of the most powerful styptic~ known
to dental science. the flow of blood
could not be stayed.
Senator Mitchell had long been
sufferer from diabetes and other Wit
iating diseases, and in his weakened
physical condition. rapidllv succumbed
to the inevitable weakness following
such violent hemorrhages and lapsed
into a state of semi-conscfousnes
from which he never rallied. Saline
infections and powerful stimulants
were administered but without effect,
and the Senator sank rapidly until
the end.
It was only when his connection
with a conspiracy to defraud the
of its public domain was
made manifest by his conviction in the
Federal court, that he lost the political
influence which he had held for the
greater part of half a century.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10

Place of Meeting. Discussion opened
by Mrs C. H. Norton, Durham.
The Sunbeams-Our Missionary
Pledge of the Future.
Young Women and Missions-Miss
Mary E. Applewhite, Greensboro; Miss
Margaret Shields, Scotland Neck.
Apportionment-Dis opened
by Mrs Ashley Horne. of Clayton.
recommendation of Central Com
mittee. Renort of Committee on Obit-
uaries. Report of Committee on
Resolutions. Report of Committee on
Motto. Unfinished business.
:00-Adjournment.
Northumberland of Presidents
and Central Committee.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
CALL BY JORDAN
Convention of Farmers,
Merchants, Bankers
at New Orleans.
(By the Associated Pres.)

Atlanta, Ga, Dec. S.-President
Harvey Jordan, of the Southern Cot
ton Association, today issued a call for
a general convention of farmers, bank
ers, merchants and others throughout
the South, to be held at New Orleans.
January II, II and 10, 1905. The OBJ
ject of the convention will be to discuss
the work of the association, with ref
erence to organization, handling the
crop of 1906, trade relations between
producers and spinners extending the
market for American cotton and hold
ing the unsold balance of the pres
ent cotton crop for fifteen cents a.
pound. Many prominent speakers
from various parts of the country have
promised to be present and a large at
tendance is already predicted.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
c. N Hunters Son Dead.

Charles Sumner, 12years old, the
only son of Prof. C. N. Hunter, coIored,
principal of Oberlin graded school
died yesterday at noon, of acute pneu-
monia. The funeral will be conducted
from the home on Cotton street today
at two o'clock, by the Rev. j. E. King.
rector of the Church of st. Ambrose.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10

Trains. Nos. and a. connect at
Goldsboro with A.. c. L. trains as fol
lows: No. Al. Southbound; No. AZ,
Northbound; and with Southern Rail-
way trains Nos. i'll. Westbound, and
No. 1856. Eastbound.
GoIdsboro with Southern Railway
trains as follows: No. 10S. Eastbound;
No. 1876. Westbound; and with A. {. l..
trains. Nos. 40. Southbound. and 4S'
Nnrthbound.
Pullman Sleeping Car and Parlor
Car Service has boon discontinued for
the sc0Son.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
McCURDY IS NOW OUT.
Now Looms the Question From Pima
forel Where Are They?
(By the Associated Press. }

New York. Dec. 8.-The resignation
of Robert H. McCurdy. general man
ager of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company was presented to the board
of trustees today and accepted. affect
i've December 81.
The board approved the appoint
ment of Messrs. Gerry Truesdale,
Clarke, Fish. and Jarvie, as a COM
mittee to recommend q candidate for
permanent president
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
SEABOARD
Arr LINE RAII.wAN'
Between points North. East, South
and Southwest,
Schedule in effect July 2, 1906.
Trains leave Raleigh.
NORTHBOUND.
AIR LINE RAII.wAH'


No. 81 at 100 a. m. daily for Nor
folk, Richmond, Washington, New
York and points north and northwest
Pullman drawing room sleeping cars
TO Portsmouth. Washington and Jersey
City.
No. 38 at 100 a. m. daily for
Portsmouth, Norfolk, where conpec-
tions are made with steamers for
Washington, Baltimore, New York.
Boston, Providence and Nypan for
New York Pullman to Portsmouth.
No. Sc at 1850 a. m. daily for Rich
mond Washington and New YORK
Connects at Richmond with G. g. o.
FOR points West. Has day coaches to
Washington. Pullman Sleeping Car to
Jersey City snd Dining car.
soUTHBoUND.
No. Al 400 p. III. daily for all local
points, connects at Hamlet Tor VIII
mington and Charlotte. Pullman sleep
ing car for Atlanta where connections
are made for all points Southwest.
No. 43 at IT'S p. m. daily for jack
,onyille Tampa and all Florida points
connects at Hamlet for Atlanta. Pull
man sleeping cars to Jacksonville and
lining car to Hamlet.
No 81 at 3.25 a. m. for all points
south: Atlanta, Charlotte, Whining
ION. Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville
and all points In the southwest.
No. 80 at 500 y. m. daily except
sunday. Shoo-Fly local train between
Raleigh and Weldon with connections
for LouisbL-g, oxford and Warrenton.
No. 20 Shoo-Fly daily except Sun,
day between Weldon and Raleigh with
connection from Warrenton, Oxford
and Louisburg. Arrives Raleigh 1918
a. m.
For further information relative to
ntes AID time tables, address
H. A. MORSON, c.. P. & T.. A.,
Raleigh, N. @
G. B. RYAN, G.. P. A..
Portsmouth. Va
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
COTTON FARMERS TO-DAY.
Comfy Meeting at The Court House
at Twelve O'Clock.

The delegates elected last Saturday
to the county meeting OF the Wake
county branch of the Southern Cotton
Association will meet today at noon
in the court house.
There will be many coItoh farmers
in attendance and every cotton farmer
or man interested in cotton in the
county is invited to be present. The
meeting is expected to be a most inter
esting one.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
NINE TEAMS PEGGING AWAY.
Two Are Tied for First Place With the
Finish Twenty -Four Hours Away.

(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Dec. S.-Nine teams this
morning are still in the six day bicy-
Gle race at Madison Square Garden.
The finish Of the race was less than
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10

twenty-four hours away when the
O'Clock score was announced showing
two teams tied for first place. The
score of the leaders at l a. m. was
1881 miles. laps 4O5 miles and laps
behind the record
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
Mrs. w. NJ. UtIey very Ill.

The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ.
Utley will regret to learn that Mrs.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10

UtIey continues critically i'll from a
recent stroke of paralysis. Mr.. Utley
has for the present given UP his duties
as night Waterman at the Governors
Mansion to be by the side of his wife.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
Program for Saturday.

$3.50 a. m Devotional exercises in
First Baptist church.
The Margaret Home for Mission
aries Children.
Report of Committee on Time and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
NORTHBoUND
sOUTHBOUND.

Il. II. hE1Ds U. r. Ass
Chester, s. q,
l.. r. NICHOLS. Ger. Mgr.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-30
Coal Tar Butter Color.

II is an encouraging fact that the
Department of Agriculture has de
tectcd the fraud Of coloring butter
with c~oal-tar dye at or in the vicinity
Of Philadelphia. For myself, | do not
beliey9 in coloring butter with any
artificial matter, not w that extract.
ed from vegetables. 1t is not just
right, Fellow farmers. We have made
a brave fight against the manufacture
and sale Of artificial butter; now let's
not be u party 10 fraud ourselves by
adding any foreign matter to the prod
uct Of oar diaries. Let them stand or
fall for Just what they are. We can
get COWS that will make butter that is
as yellow as gold. We can give our
COWS feeG that will bring the color up
where it should be to please the most
exacting amy. That is the way to do
it. The 'dea of having butter highly
colored j. only a fashion at best. The
coloring natter adds nothing whatever
to the fs Yor of the article. Pure but
ter, Just Us it is given to us by nature
is by far the best.-E. c. Vincent.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-30
Send for Orders Early.

People that are thinking about buy
irg eggs for Matching in the latter
Itrt of winter should get their orders
in as DOR as possible in the fall. Or
dos that are sent into the poultry men
late in the winter are frequently too
lgta to be attended to. The earlier the
orders are given the surer are they to
be filed. 1t also enables the poultry
raisers TO figure on how many eggs
they will have to provide to meet the
demands made upon them. Most poul-
try men like to know in advance how
many eggs they will be able to sell in
tho winter and spring. If they have a
large number Of orders they can buy
a lew good breeders If necessary or
car at least notify the would-be buy
ors that they cannot supply the eggs
wanted
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-30

c. F. DAILY, passenger trafic mana
cor NJ the New York Central lines
west of Buffalo, and Warren Lynch,
general passenger agent OF the Big
-Four were called to New York recent
" for conference with President New
man, A plan is said to be on foot to
transfer Mr.. DAILY to New YORK as
messenger traffic manager of the New
Work Central, TO give Mr.. Lynch the
chicago post. to retire George Daniels,
general passenger agent OF the New
York Central. and to make H.. j. Rhein,
now general passenger agent OF the
lake Erie and Western, general pas
senger agent Of the Big Four. Mr.
Daniels has confirmed the report as to
his retirement. He will be made gen
eral advertising manager of the sys-
TEN.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-30

Private Customers for Farm Butter.
In building up a private trade for
farm butter. it is necessary to have
enough cows so that the butter sup
ply can be kept up summer and win
ter. The farmer that has only a few
cows and produces a large quantity
OF milk in the summer, and almost
none in the winter, cannot expect to
build up a profitable trade. He will
be able to produce butter only when 1t
is cheapest and when there is a large
amount of very cheap butter on the
market. There will be then little in
ducement for customers to seek his
butter. He will also be producing but
ter at a time of the year when all
conditions are against it's keeping quail
tiles, on account of the temperature
being so high that all germs multiply
with great rapidity. The farmer that
wishes to build up such a trade must
provide for as large a quantity OF milk
in the winter as in the summer. He
can then hold his customers the year
round. He can also make better
prices with them than he otherwise
would; for he can TX a uniform price
for summer and wi1ter. This, how
ever, can be done only when the buyer
and seller are willing to act fairly.
The producer must not try to sell his
butter elsewhere in the winter, be-
cause he can get a little more for 1t;
nor must the buyer try to buy else
where in the summer, because he can
get his butter at a lower price. Some
farmers that have built up this kind
of a trade, instead of making a uni
form Price that will hold throughout
the year, base their price on the FL
gin market report. There are many
farmers in Illinois, Wisconsin and the
~nejghboring states that nave a private
arrangement to supply their customers
with butter at several cents above the
Flgin quotation. One Wisconsin man
gets at least five cents above t'e Ell
gin price and his customers ave al
ways glad to receive his butter. That
IS because he has studied butter max
ing for several years and alwa,"d pro-
duces a fine quality. His bu;:er is
never off" flavor. His customers are
willing to pay him more thar the
market price for the satisfaction fhey
experience in always having a high
quality of butter. 1t is at this point
that profit comes in having p-'Tate
customers for farm butter. Tht'e IL
no disadvantage in a farmer scoring
private customers, if he produces but
ter of such quality that it will tiine
only the current price. In that case
it would be better for him to turn i
over to the corner grocer.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-30

A Little Farm Well Titled.


1t is stated that since 1900 the popu'
lation Of Iowa has decreased two per
cent and that the reason is c~onsolida-
ton of farms to appease the greed
for more land, which has grown upon
many farmers whose crops have been
abundant during the past few years.
We have previously alluded to this
subject, but did not imagine that it
was so serious as this. 1t means, per-
haps, that great farms are forming
and that small farms are being alb
sorbed and their owners driven to take
up new land in the Northwest or else
where or to eel land in their home
state from the very men who are max
ing landlords OF themselves. This is
a sorry state of affairs. compared with
the old regime when each farmer
owned his eighty" or quarter Sec
ton" and was content herewith and
gave it such good attention within his
means and facilities that It brought
forth a~bundantly and fully supplied
the needs of himself and family.
To be sule the disposition of the
lulllIf was anu 10 al uIIltNll ploDlCii'
h small farm cannot well be cut up
into little holdings sufficient in size
to maintain the children, as each in
turn leaves the paternal roof and goes
TO housekeeping. The greed for ore
land is making prices too high. Not
too high. perhaps, while banner crops
and prices are the order Of the day.
hlt fnn hiuh Whnp cnyonc tho time
that is certain to arrive when crops
fail to q great or less degree for a
season or two and at the same time
foreign crops succeed as they nave
not done of recent years. These events
would cause a drop in prices as we'll
as a shortage in crops and land ac-
cordingly would suffer, although acres
are always a fairly good investment
unless bought during boom times at
fictitious values.
While it is partially true thai iTwa's
less Of population has been due to con.
solidation Of small farms into great
holdings, we think that the opening
up of new wheat lands in the North
west has been 4 considerable factor
in inducing owners Of small farms to
let go" to the successful neighbor
who has had better success or fallen
heir to capital enabling him to extend
his ownership Of land. Every locality
has its unsuccessful farmers; mel
who are unfortunate, lazy, ignorant
vicious in habit, or thriftless in char
acter. These people are ready to sci
out at any time, and such perhaps
have drifted out of Iowa TO the new
land, where they fancy fortunes are
to be made by merely tickling the sol
surface. Such will not be any grea
loss 20 & district. Let us Therefore
hope that the diminution Of Iowa:
sturdy population will not lead to an.
extended depopulation of the rural dis
%tricts, but to an improvement of meth
DDS and management to the profit ant
satisfaction of every small land owne
who appreciates bounties and neigh
borhood associations.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-30
Cable Tolls to Japan.

It costs $1.76 a word to send a mes
sage to Japan; and, with war raging
in the far East, the cable tolls for war
news are something tremendous. But
as the people will have the war news
In connection with their morning dish
of %Pillsbury's Vitos, the cables are
kept busy day and night.