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The San Francisco call., 1909-09-17
FREE FARE

10 tunnel men, miners machine and hand
and Enuckers for big tunnels Of Santa Fe
". p. r. r.. 5. p. r. r. and o. S. r. r..
So 80 10 500.
SHIP DAILY-ALL FREE FARE
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-17
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL FRIDAY. 1sEPTENIBER 1909

BERKELEY ROOMS AND BOARD
FURNISHED rooms in refined private family
beautiful grounds and surroundings; board op-
tional; near station; references ~ snat
tuck av.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-17
FLATS WANTED

wAxTED-5 ROOM UNFURNIsHED FLAT
NEAR CAR LINE; MUST BE NV AND y,
PARLOR; MODERATE RENT PARK LOCA-
TION PREFERRED ADDRESS BOX loF.
CALL OFFICE.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
OPPOSES THE CHANGE.
Former County Commissioner Does
Not Like the Idea OF State Control
OF COnViCtS.

Winston-Salem, y. c., Jan. 8.-Thc
suggestion Of superintendent Mann
that county management of conVicts
be ended and that all convicts be con
trOlled by the State and hired back
to the counties to work the roads ar
one dollar per day is not approved by
former chairman NJ. y. Bailey.
The law might be a good one for
those counties which have not yet
earned to ana their c~OnVicts,
said Mr.. Bailey, but it would not be
OF any advantage to those who have
learned how to work their convict
forces. 1t would be a d~isadvantag
to them. | do not think the state
would be able to handle all Of tire con-
victs. They would probably have to
be let out, to contractors and the State
might make a little money on them.
They have made money in working
the farm, but if the Management Of
this is changed they might lose. The
state would be swamped with con-icts.
Il think that Forsyth county,is get
ting good returns from it's convict
force and is managed as wei as any
II them. Most of the good, steady
hands nave regular jobs, and the ones
employed by the supervisors arc una
bic to do a full days work and the
county really loses about so cents a
day on them. The convict forces can
be controlled a great deal better than
laborers as you can make them work
WAen they are needed, but YOU cannot
make a free negro work. ] think that
the present system is preferable 10
turning all Of the convicts over 10 the
State"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

-.Frah'1 man
in the hands Of every
in the state. med
Serious trouble for 2 LILY r.rveen
immircnt: there was a conn. and
state and Federal aHtitoi low
much bad blood ensei'I1 ies pre-
80 cool heads on both =-' ~,
vented any actual outrrea', fair
last a compromise that } q a state
10 both the railroads anu $3.50 was
was effected, which aSi' axtra
ratified BY the Legislalut. has
session. Since then no l!H did
existed; for. while the i'l-. AL and
not put the mileage books or l.5tted
for use in the mannet 1"- nor
by the agreement. ana e. +-+tar of
in the spirit. even II ln d' meets
the compromise. ~ ".'4' --rr-5 with
they have faithfr.iE ,1ament
their agreement, II the ,aonle
has proved u blessing ~ - rail-
and in no way injurious -' .'@
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

and patriotism have increased,
the trend being upward. and the
people never more wide awake TO
doing all things that make for maj :
upbuildings and Gods glorv. As /
said in my THANKSGIVING Proclama-
ton of 1907. the people seem 20 nave
millions for Improvement. investment
and education. but are tired OF see
ing money ~squandered for strong
drink, which only brings rum and
shame; for they have ascertained that
the true worth Of a state is not al
WAYS 10 be guaged by the amount OF
its nanceS, the strength of its military
or the value of its products, but by
the character and habits Of its men
and one
By authority Of an act passed by
the last Legislature, q c0~7rE.%@ion.,
with the Governor as chairman. was
given power To adjust the States in
d~ebtedness, and this was done 10 the
perfect satisfaction of our creditors
and with honor to the State. Now all
indebtedness except the inIqultous
special tax bonds. which were repu-
dated both by the Legislature and the
people, mas been finally settled OH q
perfectly jIst basis. Today We can
ruly say the State owes nothing; for.
while It's bonded Indebtedness due in
.1918 amounts to $6,8S6.000, and the
par value of our stock is only $4,403,-
10, still. when we learn that the stock
in the North Carolina Railroad is
worth $16S per share and Will sOon
Q more, we find that not only can we
| pay off our indebtedness. but still have
more than a million dollars balance
to the States credit.
The last General Assembly appro-
| priated $500, 900 to more ~adeQuatelS
and humanely care for our helpless
insane. and by authority of the law
appointed a commission to cary out
it's provisions. After carefully anC
impartially considering its work, l car
endorse what the commission ha:
done, and ask that it be continued un'
I'll it completes what it has begun
Some people, not knowing that all tn
money appropriated was not at once
available, and not considering tina
land had in some instances to b.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
UNPRECEDENTED IN THE STATE,
\. l.. Simmons. With no Military Ex-
perience, Made Captain of Washing
ton light

washington, n. c.. Jan. Am I'M
precedented occurrence in military
circles ~hereahouts If not in the en-
TIRE state. ard a decided. compliment
10 d nrlgnt young lawyer of this city
was the election of Mr.. N. L. Simmons
to be captain of the Washington Light
Captain Simmons has had
no previous military experience. In
a talk to the members after the cleo
ton he outlined his future policy; he
VIII use rigid discipline as the factor
most important to the sue
cess Il Will strive to make il the
best, the banner of the
state, he told the men and was
cheered with enthusiasm. Cantain
Simmons is expected to be commits
stoned by the governor within . fou,
daNS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

two were to spend the night in the
lake region the band was .o'o -
meet at a designated point. and. to-
ward midnight they donned their
fantastic garb of long cloaks and
masks and marched to the Walnut
Log hotel where Captain Ranken ana
Col. Taylor had quarters. Forcing
them to hastily don their clothes, 1t
is related, they marched them TO a
selected spot among the wooded re-
cesses of the lake. Here a snort par
Icy ensued land not reaching a satls-
factory termination to the riders. the
rope by which Ranken was led from
the hotel was thrown over 81 forked
limb of q tree and the man drawn
into the air. A volley of shots fol-
lowed and within a few seconds Ran
ken was dead.
In the meantime Taylor had plead
ed for the release of Ranken and his
substitution. When he saw h men
were determined to Kill both he made
a dash for liberty swimming the
bayou. or the banks of which the
1%Nnching occurred, and though sew
lowed him, he succeeded in escaping.
reaching a place of safety after SO
our spent in the marshes.
Two days later Governor Patterson
and two companies of State troops
arrived and the work of hunting
NONi III ptI l1ti o1Soii. u U.s.
by the wholesale were made and the
county was placed under military
rule. A military post was establish
ed at ReelfoOt Lake n those who
were arrested were held practically
incOmmunicado. Several of those ar
rested confessed and gradually those
Who were deemed not guilty were
weeded out and allowed to return to
their homes.
The ten men held most responsible
for h raids of the band We're taken
% Nashville for safe-keeping and in
the iails there two of them died. The
other eight sought release under writs
OF habeas corpus and were ordered set
at liberty on the charges on which
they were held. other than that Of the
killing of Captain When
they were returned to Union City,
however, indictments charging murder
had been returned and they were i'm
mediately re-arrested.
Their trials began a month ago.. and
the court was the protection of
the military. During the sessions
armed soldiers were constantly on
guard and during the night the men
We're under the care of the military,
as were others held to await trial.
During the trials several of the alleg-
ed members of the band told of the
working of the clan and of the raids,
describing the murder. of Captain
Eanken, showing it to have been most
brutal. These will be granted par
dOnS.
The present term of court is the
SECOND special term called to consider
the night rider cases. The first term
was called Immediately on the arrival
of the troops and it's legality, because
of a failure to announce the fact of
its converting in advance, was ques-
toned. This was remedied at the
present term, the trials being deferred
until the present terms began.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
II the Joint .
rday.

bought and material supplies, have
seen fit to criticiSe the commission 70
being too slow: but when all is under
stood and it is known what steps a
already been taken and what will b
accomplished in the end. they will b
ready to eXclaim with me, Wei
done" l will enumerate what ha
already been done and what will sOol
be available: A good tract of lane
on which to build an epileptic hospita
has been purchased at a fair price
This will also furnish a good farm
on which the patients can work, thus
making them more healthy and ais,
adding to their support. A wing to
the Eastern Hospital which accom-
modates 100 patients has been com
pleted. a nurses home at Morganton is
about ready for occupation. and. when
the nurses move into it, will give space
Tor 100 more patients in what are now
the nurses quarters. Another build
ing at Raleigh for 100 women is now
under rapid construction; three brick
buildings, colony plan, at Raleigh, for
100 conValescent patients; also six
more brick buildings at Raleieh-
three for 100 epileptic women and
tnree Tor 100 epileptic men
Will be finished by April 1st.
TNr rrrch buffu1rTgs at-rireeeefsa
ored hospital at Goldsboro for forty
ep!ieptic patients. and two frame
buildings for forty tubercular patients,
besides all needed repairs q
the hospital having been made
snow how the commission has
trled to carry ont the will
OF the Legislature. The Commission
VIII also at once erect another COLONY
at Morganton for 100 more
patients and this will upplv all need
eel W4ntC Thny- Ino~o - 49,
III this | concur to keep all epilen-
TIC patients at n hospital and all tn
pefcular patients at the other. Tins
keepln these classes of patients son
arated from the physically healthy in
mates; and, with trained physicians
to treat these particular dis
insured. o"ies IS
What the last Legislature did for
these unfortunates cannot no cow
mended too much, and 7 earnne+I,,
nope that your body, actuated nv Tho
same merciful spirit, will comnlnta
the work so nobly begun.
Inc last General Assembly naecad
an ACT llHlng maximum passenger and
lieIsht rates for railroads. In NV
message | recommended a Dassanga
rate OF , IL cents per mile ,yi+h
fequest for a 2-cent mileage hoa1e
me Legislature d~isregarded INV e,n
IL HiIS-i
sestlon and fixed a 2 1-4-cent rate No.
mile, and also fixed freight ratos
hearing that the railroads intended
TO refuse to obey the law. baa
conference with certain railroad o.,
liiorlties' and proposed that the new
raw be given a fair trial for siv Nv
tnsnl months. and if the Increase IN
~ iiaue II remuneratiVe the law
should stand. but If it were show wv "N
ne Iallroads were losing money
! once nVen the Legislature
nv ask them to remedy the wrona
ne railroads refused to agree 70 ~
plah' and also would not ohav ~ |il9
out TOOK out injunctions in the Fedarsi
to 10 WIN no feeling of bitterness
~ ne railroads, but believing it NV
sworn duty to enforce the Law nosaag
by the Legislature, whether p"naeu
ca or dlsapproved the rate fixed ~
mp'eo 70 enforce the law. and wcu1d
oohe SO II it had taken 60
-" III me treasury and put arms
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

comply with your request
| also recommend that certain un.
Just penalties against railroads b,
modified, for sue laws are wrong, ant
in the end the penalties are usual,
collected out of the public, which get!
40 part of the penalty. | will give
one instance: A party ships an ar
tlcle; 1t IS lost; the railroads canno
show how. n SO a penalty of s.:
for the first day and IS for every day
thereafter is eXacted.
Instances have come to nv notict
where the parties not only recovered
the value of the goods, but also enor.
nous penalties, although the actua
value OF the property did not exceed
one or two dollars. The true ruI,
hould be a recovery Of the property
together with any actual damage sIs
tanned by reason of the loss. Let tn,
Legislature review all these penaIt,
laws, and modify and change them 81
as to be perfectly Just to both shin.
pers and railroads.. No person but
oemagOgue desires to unjustIy inlur,
0 Tor they are the great ar
terles OF commerce., and perhaps I'd,
more than any other one factor At,
bulld up a States aR6
instead Of e4re;~ 1893
they should be encouraged and nro-
tected, provided they do not violate
he law, and then they should be
Controlled and made to obey. Just as
individuals have to do.
Many other important matters were
by the last General Assembly,
[ only feel it my duty to ell 1ur
to these, as they hay, vi .ly
the States prosperit-, and
must be in many respects sustained
and added to by you.
| will now call your attention. as
enJolned upon me by the Constitution,
to such laws as. in my juogment,
should be enacted by you, not in a
spirit OF ~dictation. but only IS sug-
sestlons, that Q may accept or re-
ect, as to you they may seen eXpe-
or unwise.
l would not say in the language of
one OF u leading newspapers. that
1t would be best for you to elect a
United States Senator and then ad-
lourn; but | will say there arr not
very many pressing laws now needed
TO De passed, and the fewer you Ass
aHo the quicker you adjourn, the oct
~ NY judgment, will it be for the
IN the very first days OF your session
l ask you to increase the Governors
salary from $4,000 to $4,000. and the
salary OF the Commissioner of Labor
M printing to $2,500. All
other salaries except these were
at the last session.
of Congress get ST.
~ per year, work about half a
NJ, n can engage in other work.
ran slleFl1fs n clerks in North
get over $4,000 a year. yet
~ Governor. who cannot engage in
liner work, but works all the time and
20 go entertain a great deal. only gets
Z l,VVV. Gentlemen. it is not enough.
Sang TINS Increase can do me no
5oou' lor IN less than a week | return
70 private life. I have lived ono
and yet each wear have spent
cL,ooo more than have received. A
y oIernor ought not to desire to make
a uoi,ar' Tor to hold the office IS a
sreat honor, but he ought not to be re-
tha = 70 serve the people for less
tthhan ms actual / ask you,
piSlclore TO at once increase the
'iN OF me Governor and the LaIsr
'oontlnued on Page Three
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
THAT FEDERAL JUDGEsH|P
Is Ring Playing Double in Recon-
mending Adams?
Is the Plan 20 Kill Skinner and Give
Plum to Wheeler Martin so That
Willis Briggs Can Be Collector and
William Andrews Get Job of Lick
ing Stamps.

The Editor: It is no fault of South
ern Democrats that the federal judge
ship Of the Eastern District has got
into a laundrying process. 1t is also
no surprise to Southern gentlemen.
Such is the material President Taft
will have to combat in order to es-
tablish a party of respectables out Of
a mass of irreconcilables in the South.
The South will regard Mr.. Taft's
policy as it regards its IDIOTS.
A federal judgeship would be re-
spected South like our other judge
ships herve-been respected were these
udgeshlps given to proper persons.
And by proper persons / NEAR men
OF legal attainments, judicial poise
and some useful characters. People
seeking vindication on account of viii
fcation should not first seek ratif-
cation ~ executive appointment. |
refer directly to Spencer B. Adams,
he ring-recommended candidate fer
Judge Purnells toga. Is there no
competent Republican lawyer in the
East? Is there no Democratic lawyer
n the Fast to build up a radical
party-with-upon? Must we have
a man INTERCEPTED upon us? For what
political ~exigency?
Only a little While ago did MI.
President give away the Florida
udgeship TO n Carolinian who had
never gone there to live (Tom Set
-le) Or did he give it to another one
who lived there only long enough to
prove an alibi in North Carolina. and
S now back here recommending Spen-
Ger Adams? Curious, too, thai the
accidental Congressman from the
Western District recommend a west
arn man for the ~iudgeshiD somewhere
else. Why don't they keep him home
or send him again to the Indians?
Can 1t be that in order to rehabilitate
ne party Mr.. Taft's progenitor will
appoint a man who was more re-
spectacle for the reprehelsible record
OF Republicanism in the South of late
than any other man: to a judicial
position in a land where he is most
cordially despised?
But the ring is for Adams. It is
whispered so, but all people do not
believe the ring has shown its real
front. Some think spite provoked it's
affectlOn around Adams in order to
XIII Skinner by muddying the waters
Wnlle 1t could settle on something
suitable. This something suitable will
come about in gratifying a grutch.
a place for the rise of one
man n the incubation of a new
man: more easily than if Skinner was
given h judgeship.
In short, it mea that the Adams
by play, is for Wheeler Martin to he
Judge, Willis Briggs to be Martin.
ana Andrews to be Briggs. This
would suit all hands.
Rut nobody has ever accused Presi-
dent Roosevelt of being an ordinary
1901. He knows there are as good
east as west. here and everv-
where else. A. V. DOCKERY.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
HIGH POINT MASS MEETING
TO Discuss Proposed New Charter
Death OF Mrs. Parller-Stalcy Bros.
Go Out of Business.

Especial to News ana Observer
lis Point, y. c., Jan. 9.-The
Commonwealth Ladies Orchestra. Of
Boston. appears here the night of AIN
uary 18th. in the auditorium.
Staley Bros. jewelers. are going ont
OF the business and are disposing OF
thelr stock with this end in view. Mr..
a. +. Staley and wife will go 10 Texas
the middle of February and will travel
through the West before returning
mere 1T the fall when Mr.. Stalev will
open up his optical business and be as
Soclated with his brother Mr. p Z
Staley, who will look after timber in
terests while his brother IS away. The
Staley Bros. nave conducted a large
and successful business here and are
retiring Dr. account of their health.
n work being too confirming.
Miss Edith Moore is the recipient of
a much-priZed souvenir in the shane
or a program issued by the
government during the recent visit or
the United States fleet there.
Mrs. Parker. mother of Mr.. Marvin
Parker, died at her home three miles
out yesterday. She had been an in
valid for sometime and her death was
not unexpected. The funeral s.,-
wees were conducted TO-DAY.
Next Tuesday night there will be a
mass meeting of the citizens 70 dis
cuss the proposed new charter in de-
tan under which il is proposed High
Point shall work in the future.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
''TWASN'T THE PREACHER
Fact Established by Means Of
Two False Teeth
eWard of $500 Offered For Rev. j.
II. carmichael Who at First Was
to Be the Victim OF the
tragedy in Church. But is Now a
Fugitive.
(By the Associated Press.l

Port Huron, Mich, Jan. S.-By
means of two false teeth it was defin-
ltely established this afternoon that
GIDEON Browning, of Adair village.
was the man who was butchered last
tuesday evening in the little Rattle
KUN Methodist church in Columbus
township. With part of the mystery
which ~enshrouded the brutal crime
mus cleared the supervisors Of st.
Car county Immediately offered a
reward Of $500 for the arrest Of Rey
john II. Carmichael. of Adair, pastor
OF the church and the man who was
at first supposed to have been killed.
dlsmembered and then burned in the
church stoves.
efforts to discover some
motive for the destruction of the car
penter by the minister have proven
fruitless.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

Especial to News and Observer
(Spencer, n. c., Jan. 8.-HailinS
from New York city a stranger, Civ
ing her name as Mrs. n. V. Petit and
claiming to be the wife of a well
known iron manufacturer in the me-
trOpoliS, created q small sensation IN
Spencer last night when she alighted
from, an automobile and asserted
that she was in search of her nus
band. TO a representative of the Car
DINA News Bureau h stated that she
had left New York two weeks ago by
rail to Charleston, thence BY steamer
back to New York. returning by boat
to Norfolk, where she again took a
train to Charlotte, arriving there yes
terday morning. Learning that her.
husband was at Kannappolis, a small
mill town in Rowan county, she took
an automobile. arriving there late
Yesterday, where Mrs. Petit states
she found her husband together with
a Well known citizen of Charlotte and
a we'll known citizen OF Concord, IN
such a condition as to give her
grounds for q divorce at once. II
caught my husband red-handed, and
am thoroughly satisfied said Mrs.
Petit to the news reporter. You
can put it in your pipe and smoke it,
that 1iW y expose not only my huS-
band but likewise the Charlotte and
Concord gentlemen who have led him
ett'tA ~ , - oSN il, WV VIC L
have she said as she walked the
floor. Mrs. Petit did not hesitate to
give the names of the Charlotte and
concord gentlemen whom h alleged
had caused her husband to desert her
for another m She talked eX-
citedly of the incident. stating tina
she had not slept for seven days and
nights in her search for MIR. Petit,
whom she said was supposed TO be
off on n business trip in the interests
OF the large plant which he owns on
the Hudson river. near New York city.
Mrs. Petit, who appeared greatly ia
tlgued and, worried, declared that she
is a sister of the welt known Hettie
Green of New York and tina she
God that sne IS a Northern
lady. She further declared that
Southern men and women too are
weak and tickle.
Mrs. Petit stated that the officers
at Charlotte had been kind to her and
had furnished a body guard in the
hylng automobile trip forty miles
through h mud in search Of her
husband. When she found Mr.. Pet
TIT, the wife states that she offered
not to disgrace him if he would at
once sign an agreement to an ahsu-
lutte divorce but his he refused to
do.
Leaving here on an early train to-
day Mrs. Petit returned North
though her destination is unknown
those who talked with her here are
greatly mystified at her apDearancp
ana demeanOr. 1t is not known wha1
became of Mr.. Petit.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
You Can't Afford to Buy a PLANO OR ORGAN

,,o+u which nobod know anything except n sener-nor, an 1nSromen'
~ Ibs nmbng to commend it but a iow price. Iht lei a 10" pse
bbMde The truth Of h matter. Try to think ut the problem oil nut"eet ,d tnen NJ
inonr ra terfal and O n tied up pin our factory. An mleinset 9aatSo
toi ~ ~, Hu vu no GOO rune "a be sold for next 10 hUlhhS
49, 80 .f curse is 70 20 to a equitable Piano or Organ dealer, py u
rrmannail price n get a reliable guarantee. When EoI DS an a rmm
o go Pow nome there's nobody to complain to- if things go wrong
NJ $3.50 $50 Of this store. the thing on which it chiefly prdes ITSELF is ns
- -.ud Of sonore and upright deanng-t is a record OF seihng renaEie
tSsMnonc a the lowest prices to be our in NY store, IN any part u inns
80 oanntrv Of the undred of people h nave bought rune OF
sl cWs SOW mat we have not always been cautious. onsderate
atfennt1e ad fair Come in n see easy we a make terms ina
IN aatL Won, 10 hv q good Piano or Organ right here at nome. under q
o1arantee that means something
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12
n Night Riders Raid

The worst night riders are calomeI
croton oil or aloes pills. They raid
your bed to rob YOU of rest. Not SO
with DR.. Kings New Life Pills. The
never distress or Inconvenience hut
always cleanse the system. curing
COLDS, Headache, Constipation, Ma
laria. csc. at all druggists.