The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-27
FATAL SICKNESS
RESULT OF RAID
Deputy T. $. Marshal Jordan
Contracts Pneumonia While
Destroying Still.
TWENTY-O FAIRS IN STATE
Chcrokce Indians Deny That
Ross French Was Member
of Their Tribe.
Ispceial To rhc rimcs. pisnntci,

Especial to The Times Dispatch
Raleigh, y. c., November cG.-Deputy
United States Marshal j. -. Jordan
died OF pneumonia at hi home In
Cary, this county. after an i'll
ness OF only Il few days. lie con
,ractcd his fatal sickness on IL record
breaking raid of blockade distillcrics
in Franklin and Durham counties two
wccks ago, when he and Deputy Col
icctor X. w. Merritt cut up five big
suiIS and captured three hlockadcs
, llc had been in the service as deputy
marshal for twelve years and was
twice deSpcra tcly wounded first in
New Light section by n biockadcr and
last. about six years ago. i'll an un-
fortunate mistaken encounter between
Two squads OF revenue raiders. There
were two raiding parties out In a dan
serous section Of Chatham county.
They met in the darkness and each
thought the other was Il party of arm
cd blockaders and exchanged shots
win the result that Deputy Jordan
was wounded in such manner that ms
lille was despaircd OF for quite Il while
IL is thought that his old wounds and
permanent constitutional weakness due
10 the wounds made him IA victim TO
| the deadly inroads OF the pneumonia.
| which he otherwise would have thrown
OIL. ne was fifty years OLD ana leaves
| u wife and several children. The fu-
; neral Will he held SUNDAY.
Death of Veteran.
AT the Solnlcrs' Home Frida \.
there passed away Sidney Salmon
aged seventy years, who came to the
nome seven years ago from Bear Creek
chatham county. and was veteran of
Company c, IHortie,h North Carolina
regiment Confederate army lie was
buried at the home this afternoon.
>, mere have been held in this State
,u's IAN twenty-one district and coun-
~ lairs, compared with seven held
curing inc season of 1910. Major w.
=; Graham. Commissioner of Agricul-
ture. mas visitcu quite Il large number
or the fairs this seaspn. and is en-
tnusiastic in praise of the excellence
OF nearly all or them. The Indications.
too, are that there will be quite a large
increase next year in the number or
iairs, compared with this seasons
record. ana that the standard OF the
/ ialTs VIII advance very considerably
u Is. learned from, prominent citi
Eens Of Western Carolina coming TO
hnieish that the Cherokee Indians in
much put out over tho fact that Ross
French, eloctrocuted for the muir
der OF Miss Ethel Shulcr. has been
published AS an Indian. They Insist
!
ahaif-breed," with negro blood pre-
dominant The Indians feel that a
FFrta, wronE has been done their tribal
p nts5Fi tbo, through Gspa this error They
nizcd at all as an Indian. II is 4 fact
that the condemned man selected as
his spiritual adviser. while in the death
ing elcctrocutton, Rev. j. L. King, rec
tor OF the negro Episcopal Church.
~ Charter was issued yesterday for
the Board OF Trade OF Edenton. chart
cred for the purpose of enlarginE the
! business interests of this ilourishlng
Eastern Carolina city. Amang the in
corporators are L. y. Bond. Frank
I Wood. J. n. Prudoli. The board Is
chartered without capital stock
Extended Litigation.
In the hard-fought litigation of Dr.
county commissioners, involving the
office OF county superintendent OF
health, Judge f. B. PEBBLES has taken
the ease UNDER consideration, and viii
week. He told the litigants that they
could not have more complicated the
case had they employed half dozen
ri r. sIi lawyers This Is the ease
failed to agree on election of county
physician. tho board OF health es-
| poused pr McCullers for the place and
| elected him, securing for him also an
appointment TO the place by Secretary
| W. s. Rankin, OF the State Board OF
Health. under an act of tho last Legis-
| lature authorizing such appointments
when the county authorities for ans
reason fail to provide the health OH
Ger. The fight Is over the right of the
State board to force upon the county
| commissioners physician they do not
want and fiN salary or fees that they
regard excessive. In this phase of the
issue every county in the state Is con-
cerned, and the result IN the Superior
and Supreme Court is awaited with
/ concern.