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SUBSTITUTE FOR POLL
 AND COMPUTATION TAX. Walter Holcomb Advocates a Personal Tax as More
 Equitable. FRAMEWORK OF BILL Would Make Aliens Pay Their Share of Govern
 mental Expense.
To the Editor of the Iournal:

10 the Editor of the Journal:
 Enclosed you will find a copy of my personal tax bill and a few points which suggest themselves. Others may occur to you.
 l verify believe that this bill is far ahead of the present law on polls and communication. Of course experience may show that changes may be desir- able but that It is liable to happen in any jaw. I have stuck to the present frame work as to dates.
 Sec of this proposed bill is the same as Chapter S4 Of laws of 1905 except that the burden of prosecuting delin- quents is placed in the proper depart ment. The communication lists are now made up as to January 1st. (Sec. 2997 of statutes) The communication tax now has to be paid to the state on or before the tenth of November (Sec. 299S of statutes), So you will see that so far as possible I have preserved the pres ent course of levy and payment and the state will be put to no inconveni- ence on that score.
 At the present time no two towns pay on the same basis. There is no system except to see how much com mutation tax the town can fool the comptroller with or rather how little.
 From per cent population in some towns to 12 or 14 per cent. in others now pay communication tax, and on the other hand this communication tax f1g- ures from 9-1OO of a mill on the dollar of grand list in some towns to 6-1O of a mill in others and all the way be- tween
 At present the smaller towns pay more than their just proportion for the reason that the selectmen can see every body and they get on to one list or the other, but if this bill becomes a law every town in the state can well af- ford to make thorough canvass of the male population and the amount made will more than pay the entire cost of tax machinery. If you like the bill, push it along.
 The hearing has been had before the judiciary and I hope they will report 1t favorably, There is absolutely noth- ing In this bill to hurt the large towns. They do not now collect the head tax and they will not be obliged to under this law any more than they do now. However, that is up to the town. If the large towns do not collect this per sonal tax, they will be paying the state any more than they do now. Of course, with the inequality that now exists in the amount the several towns pay for communication taxes, it must necessarily occur that some will pay a little more than they do now and others will pay a little less, but in any event all will pay uniformly and on basis that is the nearest to a stable and equal guide of anything we have to go by.
 Very truly yours,
 WALTER HOLCOMB.
 The double list, poll and commuta- tion, is the bane of every selectman in the state. That is the one thing to be got rid of.
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Especial to The Messenger)

Raleigh, July 9.-The session OF the
governor and council of state on con-
victlabor was long. A resolution was
adopted that before the governor shall
direct the apportionment of convicts
to the various railways which were Civ
en- said convicts by the legislature this
shall, with sufficient surety to secure
the carrying out of contracts, obligate
themselves, when convicts are sallot-
ted, to furnish all materials, imple-
ments, amps vehicles and teams to
carry on said york and shall relieve
the state from all obligations TO fur
nish anything except convicts with
proper guards and maintenance, and
said convicts shall not be furnished
any of the roaos requesting them I'M
der Legislative acts unless they shall
show to the governor and the council
that they are in condition to equip and
operate said roads after they have
been graded by convicts. The peni-
IClLldIS duOpLcu al IcSOIullOl, IuIA4uS
over to the state $4O,O 900 now to cred
it of the prison. Nothing is specified
as to how this money shall be used,
but Of course it will be to carry out
the resolution adopted by council of
state. The penitentiary also decided
that it would from time to time turn
over any surplus it might have.
The remains of DR.. James Dinwiddie
late president of the Peace Institute,
who died in California, will arrive
here at 3 o'clock tonight.
The body of Wood, today's suicide
here, was sent to Shiloh church, on the.
border of Johnson county, his home.
He left a letter to his mother, Mrs.
Annie Wood, Of Garner, saying, Think
morrow hear the many proposals
The state board of education will to-
morrow hear proposals hear proposals
as to the site of the Eastern Training
School for teachers. Representatives
of Kinston are already here They will
make practically the same offer as the
first me.
Reuben D. Reid appeared before the
council of state, asking for %convicts
for the Rockingham and Caswell rail-
way, Congressman Hackett for the
Wilkesboro and jefferson turnpike,
State Treasurer Lacy said the last
legislature had appropriated all the
available funds and made it's estimates
on the basis of a hundred million dol
lars increase in property values, and
! so it would be impossible to carry out
the laW.
It was at this point that the peni-
Tertiary authorities rendered to the
state $4,000 to grade the railways
and also to further aid with funds.
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SMALL POX ON THE DECREASE
CrOataI Indians for ExpOsieiOn-Ap-
piicatfons for Teachers Certificates.
Especial to The Mcssenger.)

Especial to The Mcssenger.1
Raleigh, n. c.. July "a charter
is granted the Delburg Cotton Mills at
Davidson, Mecklenourg county. to
make yarn and Cloth; capital stock
$f00, 900. J. z. Monroe and w. r.
Grey principal stockholders.
A charter is granted the Southern
Fidelity Life Insurance Company. to
do also a health industrial and sick
Durham being headquarters. J. f.
Shepherd. John G. Dancy, II. E. Ha-
sans among stockholders:
At the state superintendent Office
it is learned that already there have
been filed Is applications for five year
certificates for public school teachers.
Secretary Richard H. Lewis. Of the
state board Of health, says reports
show a decided decrease in the number
of smallpox cases last winter as COM
pared with the previous three or four
years.
George w Hinshaw, Of the North
Carolina commission to the jamestown
exposition, spoke to the governor to-
day about a plan to take fifty or sixty
Croatan Indians from Robson county
to the exposition as an illustration of
earliest colonization of North Carolina
The state Audubon society will pas
the expenses and send Miss Mary T,
Moore to accompany Miss Card and
other ladies, who viii hold institutes
in a number of counties, beginning
this week for special benefit Of farmers
talk about protection of birds an
what it means to farmers.
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kinnS DAUGHTERS DaX.

Norfolk Va. July 9.-TOday was OBJ
served as Kings Daughters Day at
the jamestown exposition with special
ceremonies held in observance there
of in the auditorium. The features
were an address of welcome by Barton
Meyers, governor of ways and meaEs
of the exposition company; a response
by Mrs. Clarence G. Burton, of Rich
mond, and Mrs. Burton's annual ad-
dress. Miss Sophie Wright. Of New
Orleans, who was &c have made an ad-
dress could not attend.
The celebration closed with a TeCep-
ton in the Virginia building tonight.
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&.E14I BE FIGHT TO A FINISH

Striking Photographers and Companies
Unable to Reach an Agreement.
Oakland, July 9.-Following the re-
fusal Of Assistant Superintendent Mil
Ter, Jr., of the Western Union today to
meet the committee of the striking
operators President Small of the Tele-
graphers' union will leave tomorrow
for the east.
Mr.. Miller refused to let the commit
tee enter his Office. but sent them a
note stating hat he would meet them
as individuals if they sought reinstate-
ment but would meet no union man as
such.
President Small, Of the telegraphers,
much disappointed at the failure of
a peace conference, issued the follow
ing statement:
ct feel absolved from further re-
~.sponsibility inasmuch as | have made
every effort, before and after tie
% strike occurred, to bring about a CON
Il ference. In the future We will have
to pay less attention to the feeling OF
the opposition and public opinion anc
wage fight with more determination
and with the one object in view o.
crippling the enemy until thew are
willing to meet us in a peace confer
ence. Futures moves will be forclhlt
and decisive
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-12
Atlantic Coast Iinc Make Chnuges. 10
Become Effective August fsf

Affaufic Coa-s Line Make Changes. 90
Become Elective August fsr
Norfolk. Va. July S.-Edectfve Au-
gus 1st. the present four divisions OF
the Atlantic Coast Line railway viii
be enlarged to four divisions as fol-
lows.
First division from Richmond. Va.s
TO Florence. S. C., including the liAes
from Norfolk 10 Wilmington. y. C..
and from Wilmington TO Sanford. N.
! c.: second division from Florence.
S. c.. Z o Savannah Ga; third divis-
ion from Savannah to Jacksonville;
fourth division from Jacksonville
south.
The first and second divisions are to
be formed out of what is now the FIRST
division OF the Coast Line system
Effective also from August 1st. w.
NJ Newell, now superintendent OF
transportation of the present first di-
vision at Wilming ton, y. G.. becoming
a general superintendent OF the FIRST
division, with headquarters at Rocky
Mount, y. c.; and A. W. Anders ".
general superintendent of present first
division at Wilmington. becomes g,n-
eral superintendent of the second di-
vision with headquarters at Florence,
S. C. District Superintendent MuTcni-
son, ri Nilming'C-. becomes seer
intendent of transportation OF the h.St
division. The superintendent Of the
, transportation Of the e second Ill
vision has not yet been named.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-12
HOW 1T Is VIEWED IN FRANCE
See Nothing Alarming in Sending Bat
t1eShips To h Pacific.

Paris. July 9.-The French govern
ment greatly ~deprecates the aiarmist
view of the Japan-American situation
taken by the press, A section of the
Paris press prints an inspired STATE
ment. based presumably on the foreign
offices advices. placing the most OPP
timistic construction upon the plans
to dispatch the American battleship
fleet to tbs Pacific was given out this
afternoon as follows:
Much surprise is manifested in dip
lOmatic circles over the excitement
caused by the plan TO send the Ameri-
can battlaship fleet to Pacific waters.
Instead of the step causing alarm
there is easOn to believe that the de-
cision of the American government
implies that the negotiations proceed
ing between the Washington and Toxic
cabinets are making favorable pro-
gress. The American government. be-
yond doubt would not order this naval
moveme if it was likely % embar-
rass the negotiations which have been
going on for some time between the
two governments.
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UUsI1 LII11UM ID I1ElIU[
C. H. Mackay of Postal Makes
Statement
Comments on Movement to Secure
Evidence That the Two Coz porations
Have Formed Combination in Res
araint of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Western Union il Trying TO Exclude
Postal From ali Union Depots.

New York, July 9.0Ciarence II.
[HacGay, of the Postal Telegraph and
Gable company, declared today that
the statement about the Western I'm
ION and Postal Telegraph and Cable
companies is working in harmony is
nonsense.
If two companies ever competed in
the United States, he said, these two
companies are competing and the COM
petition is fierce and bitter.
Mr.. Mackay's statements were made
in commenting Upon the action of At
tOrBey General VIM. S. Jackson, 6
New York, who yesterday asked a
Justice of the United States supreme
court to APPOINT a referee to secure ev-
1dence that the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies have form
ed a combination in restraint of compe-
tition.
Afr. Mackay said:
IF two companies ever competed
in the United Ssates these two compan
les are competing and always have.
At times the competition has been
very fierce n bitter. Every merchant
and manufacturer in the United States
wherever we reach, will bear witness
to the truth of this statement.
1.-THE Western Union is trying to ex-
clude US from all union depots and have
just succeeded in excluding us from
the birmingham union depot which
is, perhaps. the finest union depot in
this country at present and we in
tend to take the matter into the court
to set aside he monopolistic contract
between the Birmingham Union De-
pot company and the Western I'm
ion"
Mr., AMackay called attention to the
cable~ to Havana which the Postal
company is now laying to Atlantic
cable land line and a new line which
he said the company is about to CON
struct through the Nevada gold fields
to the Pacific coast as X evidence of
that cOmpany's competition with the
Western Union.
He added:
1--WE are the only company that ev-
er did really compete with the West
ern Union and succeeded in doing go"
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Reading OF Governors Message Takes
Tn Most OF First Session-Wm
Elect Successor Co Late Senator Nor
gan.
Montgomery, Ala, July e.-The ad-
journed or July session OF the Iegisla-
ture opened today, the reading Of the
message Of the governor taking up
the most Of the first session. The fact
hat the governor has withdrawn op-
position to the repeal Of the tax on
foreign money loans and there being
no objection On the part of the admin
istration to the election of John H.
Bankhead to succeed Senator Morgan
deceased, leads to the conclusion that
the session will be brief.
In the senate, Mr.. Reese. Of Dallas.
presented a resolution providing that
that state place a bronze statue OF the
late John T. Morgan. United States
senator. in the statuary hall in Wash
ington.
In his message Governor Gomez
complained about the holding up of
the state railroads by injunction in the
FEDERAL courts, pointing out that Very
much the same idea has been worked
out in other states, especially in Iowa.
He said:
Discrimination has been pro- Ell
and it is a great hardship for Alabama
to be forced to go through court pro-
cess on a case already pioneered and
worked out and demonstrated"
The governor voiced approval Of TIE
law equalizing taxes, expecting it Il
make the large property holder ray mis-
share of the taxes and asserted that
wdtered stock of railroads is being
used to justify the earning of greater
dividends, these latter on dead" stuff
which is made III ~fructffy" out OF
nothing.
The message urged the strengthen
ing Of the child labor law. with which.
being himself a big cotton mill owEer,
the governor is quite familiar.
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WRECK ON MOBILE AND OHIO
One Man Killed and Two OuRerS In
jured in Itcar-cud Collision.

Mobile. Ala, July I'm a rear-end
collision on the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road near Whistler. Ala. five miles
from Mobile today. between passenger
train No. 6, and a light engine. one
man was killed and two others were
injured. Evans, the fireman. noticing
that thc train did not slow up at
Whistler station. CrawIed over TO the
engineers side OF the cab, and disCov-
erred he was unconscious. The fireman
put on the air brakes ana stopped the
train, but not until it had crashed into
the extra engine. The locomotive OF
the passenger was dcrailed and the
mail 2nd baggage cars were wrecked.
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TO ESCAPE
Geronimo Wanted TO Join His Tribe i'm
Order to Go on Warpath With Them

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Cache, l 7, July S-The old Apache
warrior, Geronimo, who terroriZed the
southwest for many years with his
blood thirsty band, while attending a
celebration at Chache under parole,
as the guest Of the Commando chief
Quanah Parker, made an attempt to
escape across the Texas panhandle
into New Mexico.
Geronimo was missed from the In
dian reservation for about eight
hours and a detail of soldiers from
Fort Sill captured him several miles
out Of Cache.
The old warrior had beard Of the
troubles of the ApacheS n Arizona,
who, according t reports, have threat
ened to go on the Warpath. The chief
says he wanted to go with his people
and help them fight
He has been having family trou-
bles lately, his eighth wife having left
him.
Recently he drank liquor to excess
and lay out on the reservation al
night.
Geronimo joined the Dutch Reform
ed Church, to which President RoOse-
welt belongs in the hope, it is said,
| Of obtaining a pardon.
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lHHEE PEHsOAs KILLED
BUILDINGS Were Unroofed and
Small Structures Blown Down
Horses and Mules Killed and Heavy
Damage Done Co shade TrccS-scN-
eral Streets Impas>able-Strccr
Service Suspended for Several Nv
Wind Reached Velocity OF IS
Miles an Hour.
,Ic' ~

Louisville. KY. July s.-Three per-
sons were killed and several injured
In n terrific wind storm which swept
this city his evening.
Many horses and mules were killed.
buildings unroofed. smalled structures
blown down and heavy damage done
10 shade trees all over the city. The
records OF the weather bureau show
that the maximum velocity OF the
wind was sixty-eight miles an hour
during the height OF the storm and the
wind blew at the rate Of sixty miles
for fifteen minutes Several streets
are impossible for blocks tonighl, ow-
ing 10 the trees which litter the road
ways. Street a service was suspend
ed for several hours. Damage ut New
Albany. indiana. by the storm Is esti-
mated at $4,000
The heated atmosphere which has
hung over Louisville for I'VE DAYS wa-
broken this evening by a severe 10
storm. Torrid temperature had pre-
vailed iu Louisville since last Friday.
the maximum today being 80. brs ~
ing the records for two years.
heat has been fatal TO "A number oil m
fants. Many prostrations OF adults
haya occurred.
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JAP-AMERICAN SITUATION
More Absorbing at The Hague IMAM
the Conference Itself.

London, July 10.-The correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph at TIE Hague
sends in a column despatch which pur-
ports to reflect the views prevailing
there on the Japanese-Amerlcan sltua-
ton. which he declares to be more alb
sorbing than the conference itself.
The correspondent states that rs a
result of his inquiries he learns the
situation is really strained although
both governments are trying to con-
ceal the fact. He asserts that since
June 20, the question has entered upon
an acute phase. Japan has been seI;d~
ing the United States extremely cate
gorical notes stating without bitter
| ness. but in the clearest terms, the
dilemma that unless Washington is
able to control California Japan will
consider herself free to act directly
with California. Nothing yet has been
exchanged precluding a pacific settle
ment. but many of the Japanese at
| The Hague are of the opinion that
| the Japanese government ought to act
without delay and not give America
| time to utilize her vast resources Ssld
economic po~tentiality, a hundred fold
greater than Japan's, to perfect war
like preparations.
In an editorial article the Telegraph
says it does lot identify itself with the
statements of it's correspondent At Tie
Hague, believing them to be charged
with undue dependency. At the same
time, the paper continues, they are
made upon a notable authority. and
they cannot be read without profound
uneasiness. The Telegraph is COLI
WINGED, however, that the statesman
ship OF both countries will be strong
enough and the instinct Of the two
great nations sane enough to hold mad
chauvinism in leash.
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PLACED ON EXHIBITION
The Flag That Inspired the Compost
ton of "The Star Spangied Banner"

Washington, July 9.-The historical
national banner - the stars and
stripes which inspired Francis Scott
Key to compose the Star Spangled
Banner and which foated over Fort
McHenry in Chesapeake Bay, during
it's bombardment by the British on the
night of September Is, 1914, has been
placed on exhibition at the SmithsOn-
ian institution in this city. The flag
is the property of Eben Appleton. Of
New York. who has loaned it to the
government. The banner is about
% by 80 feet and will be draped on
the wall in the hall of history of the
institution where it can be easily view
ed by the thousands who annually WIS.,
it the building.
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR MARCH
Parade of $4,000 With 81 Bands, Chief
Feature of Tri-enniai COnclaye Yes

Parade of $4,000 With so Bands, Chief
Feature of Tri-ennial COnclave Yes
tcrday.
Saratoga, n. Y. July "a parade Of
$1,000 Knights Templar, accompanied
by fifty bands through streets gay
with bunting. reviewed by the govern
or of New York, the Earl of Brston,
personal representative Of ki2g Ed
ward of England and by Grand Master
George M. Moulton, of the sand COM
mandry Of Knights constituted the
chief feature of the t~ri-enuial coEcla-e
of the grand encampment Of Knights
Templar today.
The parade was headed by Sir Ed
win c. Hall, of Syracuse. grand COM
mande Of New York state, AMI Gen
James H. Lloyd. of Troy. as chief of
staff Besides the marching knights
there were five hundred horsen.en and
about 200 carriages containing the
high officers.
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KING PARDONS COLONEL LYNCH
Was Sentenced TO Death for Fighting
Against England in South African

against EuSi1nu HI SoulH A1AiSS'aA
War.
London, July 9.-On the eve Oh his
visit to Ireland, King Edward has
granted a free pardon to Col. Arthur
Lynch. who was convicted of high
treason in 1902, for having fought III
the Irish brigade on the side of the
Beers in the South African war.
Colonel Lynch was sentenced TO
death for high treason in 1908. his
sentence later was committed TO i'm
prisonment for life, and il January,
1904, he was released on license"
Lynch was born in Australia Of irish
parents. After studying at Melbourne
University and Berlin University,
Lynch went to Galloway. where lie
plunged into party politics. After sus-
tanning a defeat 1t the polls in the
parliamentary election of 1892. he went
TO London and engaged in Journalistic
work which he followed until the
Boer val broke out He was instru-
mental in raising the Irish Brigade
which fought on the side of the Beers.
While in Paris after his return from
South Africa Lynch was elected to
parliament by Galway City and re-
turned to England with the intention
of taking his seat in the house Of COM
He was arrested on landing in Eng
land. and his trial, conviction and
sentence for high treason followed.