Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-10-11
STATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest Gathered From the Allan.
tic TO the AppaIachIans,

Forby-seven ten pound box 20
of manufactured tobacco made
hy Brown & williamson Compa-
ny. Winston-Salem, were found
Saturday hidden in the hay in
Morris livery stables, Raleigh.
They had heen stolen Monday
froma freight car on the South
ern yards and the crime has been
fixed on Walter Johnson, a ne>
gro. who has been bound over to
the superior court. He used a
team owned by Morris to haul the
tobacco, but Morris CLAIMS to
know nothing of the presence of
the tobacco in his stable. There
have been other thefts recently
from the railroad yards and
special agents of the COMPANY
are here doing some fne.tooth
searching for the thieves.
1t develops that the tax valua-
ton of property in Raleigh for
1911 is $10.71O,461 as compared
with $10,084, ,0S6 under the for
mer assessment.
Raleigh entertained Saturday
nearly six hundred jackies from
The United States navy maining
ship Frankli !, they being here
for the A. & M. football game
which took place Saturday after
noon. Arriving at 12 40 en-
special train tho sailors marched
through the city to capital square
where a wreath was placad on the
statute of Worth Bagley and then
they proceeded to Nash square
where the ladies served filler TO
them and presented each with a
"Wide-a-Wake Raleigh" silk
streamsr.
On November 1, the Observer
Company is to undsr go reor-
ganlzatlon. On that date Mai.
James G. Hemphill is to become
the editor of the Observer and A.
=. Gonzales is to assume the Of
flee O. publisher and managing
director. Both of these gsntle-
men become stockholders in the
company. Two other new stock
holders will be George Stephens
and Word 81. Wood. D. A.
Tompkins will not only retain
stock i'll the company but the pa
per will continue to have the
benefit of his lolg experience
with it. Major Hemphill is one
of the best known and one of the
ablest editors in the south, hav-
Ing won renown as editor of the
Charleston News and Courier, on
which paper he spent twenty years
of his journalistic career. For
tvs years he has been editor of
the Richmond Times D spatch.
J.Z Green, State organizer of
the North Carolina Farmers'
Uulon, who was in Greensboro
for the meeting of the executive
council, gave out the following
statement in regard to the work
of the organization: "The Far
mers' union continues to gain
strength, both in new and old
territory. We now have more
than 1900 chartered local unions
i'll the state. We have taken in
$4,000 members In North Caro-
lima since the annual meeting in
Greensb )ro last December.
Thornwell Andrews, a Green's
boro young man who has been
north and learped the art of ma
nipulating flying machine, has
returned to Greensboro bringing
with him new Ourtiss bi.plane.
which belongs to the Lindsey
Hoys Aviation company, of that
city. Mr.. Andrews has assem-.
bled the machine in the fair
grounds and is making two flights
daily. practloing fer the Central
Carol ma fair this week. Mr.,
Andrews will also go to other fairs
of this section and give exhibi.
tions of flying.
News reached Washington city
Friday of the murder of Alex Har.
per, coloreh, near the township
of South Creek and about forty
miles from Washington. 1t
seems that Harper, who was the
sexton of a colored church there
became very much enraged be-
cause woman, Josephine Yates,
proceeded to ring the church bell