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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-09-01
Reduction In Coal Rates 10 Carolina.

Charlotte Effective October Is. The
Norfolk q Western. Southern, sea-
hoard and Atlantic Coast Line rail.
roads. Tuesday. announced a reduction
Of ten cents a ton on coal hauled into
the Carolinas. The new tariff IA sub
ject TO the approval Of the corporation
mmissIon. aud will. II effected. re.
suit In saving OF thousands OF dol.
lars TO The manufacturing industries
OF the two states. While the railroads
give no reason for the voluntary re.
dnctlon In rates. u Is the impression
that the continued water power de-.
velopment In this section and the cJn-
acquent decrease In coal consumption
Is responsible.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-09-01

Serious Charge Against Young Man.
Asheyile. The officers of Bum
combe county have thus far failed 10
locate Blount Hall, a young man OF
the Black Mountain section, wanted
on a charge of attempted criminal
assault upon Miss Romie Alexander.
near Black Mountain station. Sunday
afternoon. II is believed by the Off
GERS here that young Hall, who "a
widely connected and acquainted In
that section of the county. Is still
near Black Mountain and that he
will be picked up before many days.
There was little If any effort, II Is
said, TO follow the man and arrest
him after the alleged commission Of
the crime until deputy sneriff was
sent from Asheville. This, II is said,
was due TO the fact that Black Noun
tain Is practically without city gov
eminent by reason OF the contest
over the Office OF mayor OF the town
The case is now pending, Mr.. Nor
gan. who was elected by one vote
but who was disqualified by the cleo.
ton judges on the ground that he
was NONRESIDENT. having won in
the superior court against Mr.. Hall
father OF Blount Hall, who was giyer
the Office after Mr.. Morgan had beer
disqualified, Mr.. Hail and Mr.. Nor
gan at the time Of the municipa
election being opposed to each othel
for the mayors place.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-09-01
Her Preference.

'May-You seem TO prefer the
beach to the piazza.
Maud--Ycs prefer 20 be burnt
BY the sun than roasted by the gos-
sips. Judge.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-09-01

To so through Antictam and
Gettysburg only 10 be killed In d
train wreck half q century later ii
pathetic tragedy. Philadelphia Led.
ger.
There Is no need 20 worry about
the kind Of senators New Mexico
aud Arizona may elect. They can't
do any worse than some OF the older
states. Kansas City Star.
Conceding that the democratic
tariff bills arc not the perfection Of
human wisdom, are they not Infinite
~ better than the robber duties OF
what President Taft has declared
the best Of all republican tariifsgf
philadelphia Record. y
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-09-01

lie was brought to the city and car
ried to physicians Office, where an
examination showed that his skull
had been fractured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
TRUTH ABOUT ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON DINNER
Negro Tells of Invitation White House. His Acceptance
and Sitting at Table With the Presidents Family

After a silence of nearly ten years
Booker T. Washington at last has
given his version of the famous din
ner with Theodore Roosevelt at the
white house. His, it may be stated
is the first authoritative statement
that has been made regarding that
famous-or infamous-affair. He
sllences those apologists who have
pooh-poohed the remarkable indis-
erection as one of impulse and of no
serious breach OF the proprieties.
1t was claimed-and may be be-
lieved-that on that fateful day eight
or nine years ago the negro leader
called at the white house quite by
accident or for an incidental chat.
Inc most current and most accepta-
Die explanation had it that the pres
ldent was called to lunch while in
conversation with Washington. I'M
pulsively, the report went, Roosevelt
directed that light repast be served
IN the office, and, turning to his
guest, asked if he wouldn't partake
OF refreshments; that the negro, re-
garding a presidential invitation as
command, accepted and lunched
informally alone and quite boufet-
like with the chief executive of the
nation.
However, here comes Washington,
and in a spirit of seeming pride over
an incident that did him and his peo-
pie great harm, declares that the in
vltat1on was extended formally some
time before the entertainment and
that he not only broke bread with
Theodore, but placed his legs under
the white house mahogany and dined
quite freely and formally with all the
Roosevelts-the presidents wife and
children included.
In an article in Worlds Work de-
failing his achievements Washington
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01

states that while travelling in Missis-
slppl ne received word that President
roosevelt desired to confer with
him. He seems to have written that
he would be at the capitol at a GER
tain time, and would stop with a GER
tain friend. He goes on to say:
Immediately after finishing nv
work in Mississippi l went to Wash
ington. | arrived there in the after
noon and went to the house OF a
friend, Mr.. Whitefield McKinlay.
with whom l expected to stop dur
ing my stay in Washington. This
trip to Washington brings me to a
matter l have hitherto constantly re-
fused to discuss in print or public.
though l have had a great many re-
quests to do so. At the time | did
not care to add fuel to the contro-
versy it aroused, and l speak of it
now only because it seems to me
that an explanation will show the
incident in it's true light and in it's
proper proportions.
When reached Mr.. McKinlay's
house / found an invitation from
President Roosevelt asking me to
dine with him at the white house
that evening at 8 O'Clock. At the
hour appointed l went to the white
house and dined with the president
and members of his family and a
gentleman from Colorado"
1t is we'll that the negro leader
has given his side of an occurrence
that constituted the most fragrant
slap-in-the-face the white people of
the south have ever received.
And it is by no means compliment
airy to our erstwhile reputation for
constancy for It to be claimed now
that Roosevelt is the only republi-
can who could "break the Solid
South. Augusta Chronicle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
WHAT GEORGIA MAY GET
States Share of $40, sol ,O31 in Ap-
preparation Bill. $3,OOO,OOO
for Canal Protection,

WASHINGTON.-The sundry civil
appropriation bill, carrying S140,-
5SO,O31, including 100000 for
terrifying the Panama canal, was
completed by the appropriation COM
mittee today and Immediately re-
ported to the house. This is a. cut
of $14,486,5O3 from the estimates.
For the construction of public
buildings the bill carries $21,311,-
245, an increase of $16,579,726 over
the current appropriation.
The sundry civil bill contained
the following items for Georgia:
For the exchange and conveyance
of the new federal building site in
the city of Augusta to that part of
the city bounded by Walker, Ford
Telfair and Jackson streets and to
pay the city bonus not exceeding
$4,000; provided, however, that the
city shall purchase the present fed
eral building and site at fair mar
ket value.
Observation-Disclosures of site,
$1,000.
Cordele-Sfte and completion of
postofice building, $4,000.
Dublin-Site and completion of
postofice. $4,000.
Grift1n-For completion of build
ing, $4,000.
LaGrange-Site and completion of
building, $4,000.
Milledgeville- and completion
of building, $4,000.
Newnan-Completion of building.
$500. Q
Quitman-For commencement of
building, $4,000.
Rome-Completion of building,
$1,000.
Observation-Disclosures of site,
$500.
Thomasville-Sibe and commence
ment of building, $4,000.
aycross-Additiona land and to
complete building, $4,000.
For the United States penitentiary
in Atlanta $158,080 for maintenance
For continuing the construction of
the penitentiary and the wall around
1t SIS, 900. The salary Of the stew
ard and storekeeper has been cut
from $1,000 to 5000. The appro-
priation committee abolished the DO
sitIons Of one cook and one baker.
$72O a year each, and added a new
item, head cook" $1,000. The
salaries of the remaining officials
and employees of the penitentiary are
/ continued at the present figures.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
WIFE SENTENCES HUSBAND.
AS Judge She DEGREES He Shall Stay
Away From Her Ten Days.

AS Judge She DEGREES He Shall Stay
Away From Her Ten Days.
At West Hammond, Ind, Mrs.
Thomas Lickey, claiming her hus-
band had hurled sundry breakfast
dishes a her, caused his arrest. Trial
was held before Judge Frank Green,
who after hearing the witnesses on
both sides called the wife to the
bench and said:
Now, Mrs. Lickey, you have
heard the evidence on both sides. I
want you to be the judge and you
may impose any sentence on your
husband in conformity with the
law"
Lickey's face blanched as he said:
Here's where ! got to go to Jail I'M
til warm weather"
Mrs. Hickey wept softly and said:
tom, I sentence you to ten days
separation from me-"
Judge Green gasped and exclaim-
ed: ''Woman's vanity! Is that the
worst punishment you can inflict up
on your husband?"
Mrs. Hickey told the Judge it was,
and Lickey said he would take ten
day rest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
RAILROAD ROBBERS CAUGHT
ROUNDED UP IN THE MOUNTAINS
OF NORTH GEORGIA.
Men Who Robbed Southern Express
Car at Gainesville Believed to
Be Locked Tn.

GAINESVILLE, Ga.-Three men
have been arrested and more than
$4,000 in money and jewelry has
been recovered as a result of the
three days search for the gang of
bandits who held up and robbed the
Southern railway fast mail train at
White Sulphur Springs Sunday
morning. 1t is the belief of the Of
ficers of the express and the railway
company that the entire gang has
been rounded up, but their identity
still is unknown.
Following the capture of one of
the robbers about four miles from
Dahlonega early yesterday two other
members of the gang were arrested
this morning by a posse headed by
ex-Sheriff Edwards of Lumpkin
county The men were surprised
on a public road about fourteen
miles from DahlOnega, and offered
no resistance.
Nearly $1,000 in cash and jewelry
valued at between $500 and $500
was found on the two robbers. They
refused to give any names, but their
talk indicated that they were for
eigners. While they kept their own
identity secret they stated that the
man arrested earlier near Dahlon-
ega was one Of the ring leaders of
the gang, and was known as John
D. Anderson. He is said to be an
old hand at the game.
Ex-Sherif Edwards, in reporting
the capture of the two men, said the
only resistance made by the men
was to point an old pistol at their
captors when told they were under
arrest. The pistol was found to be
empty. When handcuffed the men
broke down and confessed their par
ticipation in the express car holdup.
They refused, however, to give any
details further than to implicate the
man who was arrested near Dahlon-
ega.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
Came From Stephen Heard.
RIGHTS OF DRUNKEN MEN.
According to Decisions of Kentucky
Court They Are Mighty Few.

1t seems from two decisions just
handed down by the Kentucky Court
of Appeals that drunken men have
mighty few rights on the trains in
that state. In one case a drunken
man fell from a train and sustained
injuries. He brought suit for dam
ages The lower court gave him
several thousand dollars in a verdict
Upon appeal the higher court re-
versed the finding, and said the man
had no right to recover damages be-
cause of his inebriated condition In
the other case a drunken man was
refused admission to the train by the
conductor, but he sneaked on any
how. After the train was under way
the conductor found him, pulled the
bell rope, stopped the cars and then
dropped him off on a soft spot on
the roadway. A damage suit fol-
lowed, resulting in verdict for the
plaintiff of several hundred dollars.
That was appealed, and the higher
court reversed the finding on the
ground that the conductor was right
when he refused to accept a drunk
en- passenger, and right again when
he dropped the aforesaid passenger
in the woods. But will not such de-
cisions tend to depress a certain
great Kentucky industry?-Savan-
nah News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
BOIL WEEvIL PLOT OF 1904
1T WAS SIMILAR TO THAT RE-
GENTLY REPORTED.
The Informant Never Showed Up at
the Trysting Place, Nor Did the
TranspIanted WeeviIs.

1t appears that there was a "boll
weevil plot" sensation in 1904 sim
liar to the one reported recently.
1t attracted sufficient attention to
cause Secretary Wilson to send Sc
cret service men to the section con-
cerned, and these, as might have
been expected, were unable to find
any trace of the alleged plotters.
We find the story in news re-
port in the New York Sun of a de
bate among cotton operators" in
New York following last weeks re-
port Of new conspiracy. "One OPP
orator." reads the Suns account,
who says he is not in the market
now related that in 1904 he received
ar anonymous letter from a city in
the south saying that a certain dis
reputable character had collected
sacks full of boil weevils and that
he intended to pass all over the rail
road lines in Georgia scattering the
bugs out of the car windows. This
he cOnsiderd alarming intelligence
perhaps because he was a bear then.
At any rate he got right on a Wash
ingtOn train and hurried to the Of
fee of Secretary of Agriculture Will
son.
when Wilson heard the story
of the plot he lost no time in COM
municating with Chief Wilkie of the
secret service, and the sleuths were
unleashed. The cotton operator who
had received the anonymous letter
answered it and learned the name
and address of the man who knew
Of the plan to ruin the state of Geor-
gia. He tried to arrange a meeting
with his informant; the informant
was agreeable. Secret service men
were stationed all about the tryst-
ing place and the cotton man went
to keep the appointment. But the
secret betrayer of the plot did not
show up. Neither did the trans
planted weevils, and that was the
end of it, except that Secretary Will
son managed to have a law passed
through congress making it a fell
ony to wilfully transplant harmful
parasites from an affected district to
one unaffected"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
17-YEAR LOCUSTSs oPEAR
,nvANCE GUARD TO p
FARMER HAS ARRIVED.
And The Chlnks Are All Happ,

rbay Roast Them, Eat Them, Make
salads of Them, as Well as Pre-
mare Many Choice Dishes. The
Farmers Are Warned.
NEW YORK.-The 17year To-
ors+s which are due to return to
nlague the American farmer this
srmmer. after being absent since
1894 have made their appearance
~ the vicinity of New York city.
Curator Ditmars of the New York
zoo)ogfcal Society has discovere i
the first grubs, several thousand in
number, in an excavation near Ny
ark, n. Y. By the time the frost is
ont of the ground these thousands
will be millions, he says.
During the previous visitation
The locusts literally covered subur-
ban New York, stripping trees, bush
es hedges, lawns ana truck farms of
everything green, and then moving
in vast clouds which obscured the
sun. journeyed to fresh fields. The
individual locusts lived only a few
DAYS. but each female in that time
found time to lay about 500 eggs on
the branches of denuded trees. When
these Matched they fell to the
ground and burrowed straight down
for more than a foot. There, it is
said, they have rested for II years
before the process of Matching has
completed, and as soon as the frost
leaves the ground they will dig their
way to the surface and appear as
small oblong shells.
The grubs found in the excavation
at Nyack are said to be completely
formed and ready to come to the
surface as soon as the earth warns
up.
Chinatown will welcome the visit
alton. The Chinese cook roasts
them, eats them as salad and dresses
them in many mysterious ways, and
even New Workers have found some
of these dishes palatable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
EXCURSION FARES.
Special Rates Given by Central of
Georgia Railway.

opeclaL hates Given by Central of
Georgia Railway.
To Knoxville. Tenn, account Sum
mer School of the South, to be held
June 20-July %, 1911.
To Atlanta, Ga, account Southern
Commercial Congress, to be held
March $40, 1911. This congress
will be attended by the president of
the United States, two members of
his cabinet, several ambassadors, a
number Of southern governors Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor Will
son and other eminent men.
To Jacksonville, Fla, account Con-
ference for Education in the South,
to be held April 1921, 1911.
To Jacksonville, Fla, account
Southern Baptist Convention, to be
held May 1923, 1911.
For further information apply to
nearest ticket agent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
THE FARMERS ARE WARNED.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington Issues Statement.

Washington Issues Statement.
Washington, D. Clock out for
the locusts," is the watchword of
G. L. Marlatt of the department of
agriculture, sounded today, and de-
scribing their coming this year. He
said:
Two important broods of the pc
riodical cicada will appear this year.
One of these belongs to the 17-year
race and extends from New York
southwark into North Carolina, in
general lying east of the Allegheny
mountains The other Is one of the
largest brood of the southern or 49,
year race, and covers the lower half
OF the Mississippi valley. Both Of
these broods have been very well
studied in past years, and their dis
trlDution has been satisfactorily and
in the main probably accurately de-
termined. The approaching reap
pearance, however, of these broods
OF the cicada is already leading to
inquiries, and this circular is issued
10 meet such inquiries, and also for
the purpose of securing reports of
occurrence to add to the present
knowledge of the distribution of
these broods.
The brood, in the main, occupies
territory Immediately east of brood
Ia scattering brood appearing in
1910. This is one of the best re-
corded broOds, since it's almost ex-
ciuslVely eastern range brings it into
Jhe immediate vicinity of the larger
towns and more populated districts
oL the Atlantic seaboard. 1t has been
reported in Connecticut regularly
every seventeen years since 1924,
ana in New Jersey since 1875, and
Almost equally long records of it in
other states have been made. At its
iast appearance in 1894 it was care
IuIiy studied, to determine distri-
Buuon, for New Jersey by DR.. John
b. smith, for New York by Dr. A.
d. Inter, and for the other states
covered by it's range by this bureau
and with the aid of the state ento-
moIogists and local observers. Some
vi the southern records obtained in
1881 are doubtful, and this applies
especially to localities in North Car
OIlha, because of the appearance the
same year of brood XIX of the 49,
year race, which, in North Carolina,
may touch or overlap this 17-year
brood. 1t is therefore very desirable
mat all observers in South Carolina
report occurrences this year of the
periodical cicada to clear up these
doubtful records.
As already indicated this is one
9 o. the largest of the 13-year broods,
ul'idlng this honor with brood XIX.
brood XIII, appearing this year,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
MAN WILL LIVE ON TABLETS.
Scientist Discovers New Food to Re-
place Vegetables and Bread.


News dispatches from Chicago
that DR.. Herman Hille. a wealthy
scientist, had discovered that it is
possible to manufacture food for the
human species from the earth or
from air attracted considerable at
tention yesterday in the city, and
recalled clearly the startling theo-
ries of John Jacob Astor on the same
subject.
DR.. Hille in an address before the
chicago Medical Society announced
his discoveries.
Mr.. Astor wrote on the food prob
lem, and his main theory was that
we may find in the waste substances
of the earth sufficient nutrition to
cause us to look with equanimity
upon the disappearance Of vegeta-
bles or the scarcity of meat-produc-
ing animals. Either we should find
some way of eating those waste
products or we should evolve edi-
Bile animals that could live upon
them. =
DR.. Hille, who is a graduate OF
German universities, declared that
all life is chemical and that he had
discovered a chemical compound
which contains in solution every
chemical form in the human body.
that by the use Of this vegetables as
food may be eliminated, and the
chemist of the future, instead of the
butcher and baker, will supply the
| food of the populace.
He declared that DR.. Swan of
| South Chicago had cured one case of
tuberculosis with organic copper,
while DR.. Webster was employing
it on another case with fattering
7 results.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01
Mr., HEARD HAS A CLAIM
"Hell-Roaring' Bill" of Heard Coun-
ty Wants $4,000 as Pay for
His Farm PrODerty.

ATLANTA.-William J. Heard of
Heard county, better known as ''Hell
Roarin' Bill of Heard's HILL" proba-
bly, the most picturesque surviving
civil war character in Georgia, has
gone to Washington, D. c., accompa-
MED by distinguished legal counsel,
in the expectation of at least secur-
ing the $4,000 claim he has against
the federal government. It is be-
lieved here that he will succeed.
Mr.. Heard's father was a very
wealthy Georgia planter before the
civil war. His property, amounting
to over $4,000, was confiscated by
the invading army. One of the things
that has thus far stood in the way
of Mr.. Heard securing the payment
of the claim was the clause in the
law making loyalty to the union one
of the requisites on which the money
could be recovered. Congress, how
ever, has wiped away this qualifica-
ton with reference to the individual
owner of the property, and nothing
now seems to stand between Mr..
Heard and his fortune. For the past
three years he has been an inmate
of the Fulton county almshouse.
Mr.. Heard has yelled his way into
prominence more than once since
the civil war. Six years ago he STAN
peded the Georgia legislature by ap-
pearing in the gallery in high state
of excitement and denouncing the
whole legislative body as gang of
-- rascals."
Came From Stephen Heard.
Hell Roarin' Bits" father lived
in Wilkes county, Georgia. He was
John Allen Heard, remembered by
many of the older generation as a
well-to-do and patriotic southerner
The son, William Heard, was the
Oldest of eleven children, and served
throughout the war under Gen. Joe
Wheeler, by whose memory he still
! swears, and he is member of the
leading U. c. V. camp here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-01

occupies the Mississippi valley from
northern Missouri and southern Illi-
nols 10 Louisiana, covering particu-
iarIy the states bordering on the
mississippi river.
The periodical cicada is 80 we'll
known that a general account of it
n this place is unnecessary. When
appears in great numbers 1t natur-
causes considerable alarm and
'es fears for the safety of the
81 srees and orchards. The actual
dah &c, however, is usually slight,
except in the case Of newly planted
orchards, and even here by vigorous
pruning back after the cicada has
disappeared much of the injury caus-
ed by the egg punctures can be OBJ
Waited.
Ordinary repellent substances,
such as Kerosene emulsion or car
Dolic acid solutions, seem to have
very little effect in preventing the
opposition Of these insects. Some
more recent experience, however.
indicates that the trees thoroughly
sprayed with Bordeaux mixture or
lime wash are apt to be avoided by
the cicada, especially If there are
other trees or woods in the neigh
borhood on which they can ovipos!t.
The most reliable means of protect
Ing nurseries and young orchards is
by collecting the insects in bags or
umbrellas from the trees in early
morning or late evening, when they
are somewhat torpid. Such collec-
lions should be undertaken at the
first appearance of the cicada and
repeated each day"