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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
FIRST FLIGHT AUGUST "A
MIR. INSTEAD ABOUT READY TO
GO on ROAD.

A letter from MIR. J. n. Umstead,
Jr., to Mr.. r. o. Everett announces
that the first fight in his new aero
plane will be made at Henryville,
KY. August oath.
All arrangements have now been
completed for making fights and Mr..
Umstead will be on the road all the
time after the date of this first fight,
filling the engagements that he has
made throughout the west. Mr..
Umstead has sent home a beautiful
photograph of his machine which
is OF the latest type and the most
beautiful construction.
The following clipping from a
Henryville paper tells Of the fight
pf Mr.. Umstead at that place.
"A feature OF the Home Corners
and New Corners celebration that lis
to be held at Henryville on August
"a. will be a free trip Of the aero
plane now being completed by Ed
ward Gray, Of Memphis The fight
will be under the supervision of J.
N. Umstead. Jr., who is at the head
of the Umstead Aviation Company,
of North. Carolina. for which cor
poration the machine is being con-
structed. II. +. Callahan will be
the navigator. The indications now
are that 5000 persons will attend
the celebration"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
ON CHARGE OF LYNCH|NG
FIRST ARREST FOR paRTIcIpaT.
ING N BURNING OF NEGRO.

Coatesyille. Pa, Aug Ie.-The
first arrest in connection with the
burning Of Zack Walker, on Sunday
night. was made here last night
when Kennedy Boyd. aged 30. a line
man in the employ 81 the Chester
Sully Electric Company, was taken
into custody. Boyd came heer from
Westchester about two months ago.
He vas sent for BY the police yes
terday TO be questioned. Under the
severe crOss-examination. II is al
legged, he admitted enough to war
rant his arrest. II Is said that he
gave the names OF a number OF
others who will also be taken into
custody.
Tht coroner's jury which has been
investigating the iynchIng OF Zack
welker, the negro who shot and
killed I'd Rice. rendered It's verdict
last night. Notwithstanding that
more than 1000 persons were In the
mob that dragged Walker from the
hospital and threw his body upon
the pile Of hay and fence rails.
which was fred By the mob, not 4
name Is mentioned BY the jurors.
The verdict VAS as follows.
We, the undersigned jurors arc
Or the opinion that Zack Walker,
c0lored. came 10 his death On inc
night of Sunday, August 18th. In
East Fallow Field township. Chester
county, end believe the crime was
lcor.mitied By persons unknown to
the jurors"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
WHAT SMALLPOX
COST THE STATE
Board Of Health Issues Statement
About The Disease

Raleigh, Aug. 17.-Dr. w. 3. Ran
kin. secretary OF the North Carolina
board OF health. gives out state
ment showing that there are ~ foci
CT infection in smallpox In thcastate
between October and February last,
that Is cases that made independent
appearance in the state and that
from. these there developed 9l5
cases that cost the respective coun-
ties s9,775. or $3.50 per case. This
shows IL ST cases developed from
each foci. He gives a tabulated
statement showing that in the cost
of smallpox In the state. Wilson led
with IL foci, costing the state
$3.50, and Forsyth is second with
16 cases and cost Of $4,000, Wake Is
next highest with foci that cost
5000, and the others OF the 20 coun-
ties included In the report show
from one TO three ,foci and cores
p0ndingly low costs OF treating the
cases. Furthermore, II is shown that
Virginia cost this state two foci and
$500. Georgia four foci and $500.
He says the most remarkable control
CT the disease was In CASTOR county.
where DR.. l.. n. Glenn had six indie
pendent foci Of the disease and not q
single additional case developed
from either OF them. Also in Gull
ford county County Superintendent
Edmond Harrison had nine foci Of
infection and only 33 cases deyel.
oped. this. Or. Rankin says, is espe-
ciaily remarkable in that Greensboro
and Guilford are In such close touch
TO Forsyth county which was next
to the most disaSrous county in the
report from the viewpoint of spread
OF the disease.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
I.asr Derriyer.

Prof. John Dewey, Of Columbia.
was talking about legislator who
had turned traitor 10 the suffrage
cause
"A man who could be 70 mean 10
woman. he said, must be the origi-
nal Of the Clayton jail story.
"A convict In the Clayton jail,
you know. managed 20 do a little
flirting over the wall lie Hirted
for some weeks with girl who
MIXED the COWS In held adjoining
The jail, and one evening he called
10 her. and they struck Up con-
sersation
Every day after that. for year
or more. the girl came 70 the wall.
Tben the convict. getting tired Of
her. told her II was no use waiting
for him. a. he was In iYr life
Washington star.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
MUST ENFORCE
SANITARY LAWS
Proceedings Begun Against OFF,
claIs Of Town Of Hillsboro
PROTECT CITY WATER SHED
May Mean Indictment OF Hillsboro
Health Oflicer and Town officials.
No Pollution Of Water as Yet. Hut
Durham Officials Desire to Guard
Against Future Contamination.

Proceedings have been begun
against the health officer and town
officials of Hillsboro for failure to
enforce the sanitary laws of the state
by City Attorney Sidney c. Cham
bers that may mean the indictment
OF these officials before a grand jury.
At the time OF the typhoid fever
epidemic In Hillsboro, the Durham
board of health sent a committee of
physicians to Hillsboro TO inyesti-
gate the extent OF the sanitary pre-
cautions that we're being taken. The
Durham board OF health Was Inter-
ested. in that Hillsboro is situated
on the Durham water shed. This
committee found that the sanitary
laws OF the state were not being en-
forced by the Hillsboro town officials
and the health officer OF the city.
The special provision OF the laws
that we're not being enforced were
those In regard 10 the situation and
care OF dry closets and the throwing
OF waste material on the ground.
The matter was taken up with the
health officer and the mayor OF the
city. but both seemed TO be entirely
Indifferent In the matter. The
health officer OF Hillsboro Is accused
Of allowing typhoid infected waste
to be thrown upon the ground with
no precautions for preventing the
contagion from getting into the
water supply or otherwise spreading.
One case is pointed out by the conf
mittee ir which the HIllsboro health
officer killed dog on the streets OF
the city and allowed the dead car
eass to lie several DAYS. The car
cass had to finally be buried b.
Durham people. the committee re
ports.
All OF the findIngs OF this com
mlttec have been transmitted to At
torney Chambers BY the Durham
board Of health and he il asked a
begin proceedings against the Hills,
boro authorities.
The matter will BE- FIRST taken IN
with the state board Of health and
II no relief Is secured from this
source. indictments will be brought
against the town officials before a
grand jury as provided By Law.
In the meantime. the sanitary ron.
ditions at Hillsboro are being looked
after by the inspector for the Dur.
ham Water Company and ever,
preeautlOn is being taken 10 prevent
pollution OF the Durham water sup
ply. Examinations are being mad,
every other day by the state chem
Isl and no pollution whatever has ~
far gotten into the water. The oh
jcct Of the proceedings Is 70 guard
against contamination that Is llabl.
10 result at any time from The care
lcss handling Of the situation BY IN.
HillsborO officials.
Several years . ago, q suit va
brought against the Emo Cotton
Mills Company az HilIsbaro 10 en-
join the company from unsanItary
practices. Since thar time. the mil
has, been taking the precautions re-
qulred BY Law. and there has been u.
further trouble. The unsanlfar'
practices Of which the Durham boar,
OF health IL complaining nov are II
the mill districts % the city whIeI
are under the Jurisdiction Of N.
health officer and the town officials
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
DR.. TUCKER LOCATES HERE
WILL PRACTICE osTEorATnr
WITH ms BROTHER

Or. S. W. Tucker. OF Greensboro.
brother Of Dr. A. r. Tucker. OF this
city. arrived In the city this morning
and viii make his home here IN the
future. DR.. Tucker Vas once q eiti-
zen OF Durham. but some years ago
moved u Grccnsboio. where he took
w the work = .steopathy. While
Ia Greensboro. DR.. Tucker Ncumu-
lated a large practice and WAS ycry
popular with tho Gate City people
Since leaving this cify DR.. Tuck
er's brotser. Dr. A. 4. Tucker. has
had such large practice thrust
upon him that help was needed -
his brother -has decided 30 come %
this city 60 make bis home In the
future. lie viii be associated with
his brother in the Trust building.
and has purchased q home al No
ei2 Mangnm street.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
Penn.rIrania pemeern,. Ae,l,c

Harrisbufg. Pa. Aug. 1.-THE
members ~ the Democratic State
Central Committee assembled here
today for a meeting. the purposes
OF which are TO consider proposed
changes In the party rules. 10 be
recommended To the next State Con-
ventIon for its approval. and 10 car
~ out plans for the redlstrlciing
Of the State. 20 as 10 abolish the
nine districts now existing aud 10
establish ~ divisions. one Tor each
congressional district.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
CAPITAL OF sI.soo.me


Trenton. n. j.. Ang Is-The shu.
bert Theatrical Company was Incor-
porated here Yesterday with an au-
thorized capital Of si.s0O.0oo. The In.
corporaiors are William Klein, Char
les A. bird and Josiah w. Jacobs, Of
New York.
The charter Indicates that the cor.
poratIou n 70 take over all The prop
erty and business OF me New York
company operating under that name.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
EAST coisT CELEBRATION
WIN Mark Completion 81 Oversees
Florida Railroad.

Washington. Aug. iG.--Reeogni-
ton was accorded by the house yes
terday 70 The proposed exposition at
Key West. Fla. next January In
celebration Of the completion Of the
florida East Coast railway, the over
sea road between the Florida main
land and Key West The house
passed resolution introduced by
Representative Hf'in. ~ Alabama.
requesting the president 10 invite
foreign nations 10 participate In The
exposition. and that he have the
South Atlantic fret sent 10 Key West
~ that time.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
Mr.. IIarI,..r M.

Mr.. =. ~. Harper. who 10 sick az
the home Of bis sister In Durham
and having resigned his position as
manager OF Orphan Asylum printing
Office. Is succeeded BY SIR. Fowler. of
Greensboro. Nr. Harper Is a capt
tal printer and has served the asy
Ium falfafally and we'll. and VIC wish
him an early restoration TO health
Oxford Banner.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
MRS. MATTE BURTON DEAD
succrMBs TO COMPLICATION OF
DISEASES.

Mrs. Matte Burton died al her
home on Silver street this morning
after a long illness with compiled.
ton OF diseases
Mrs. Burton was 81 years Of age
and Is survived by a son and dsugh.
ter. They are Mrs. Ida HamlIn, and
Mr.. FLOYD Burton, Of Durhafn
The funeral services will be held
from the McMannen chapel Thurs
day afternoon IT ! o'clock, con.
Quoted by Rev. Carl Barth.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18

II answer to the question. WHAT
are The Bye grea; races Of mankind ?"
. Chinese student replied. the 100
yards. The hurdles. the qnarter-mIle,
the mile and the three miles Kan
sss City Star.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18

n Mississippi, while. cooling on.
doesn't keep cut Of the draught 81
outside opinion. she may get cold
in her head Memphis Commercial
Appeal
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18

One subscription this week mas
BE- worth tao next week.
Douglas Island news., 1911-11-08


 while supposedly directed to one of the steamship companies operating in Alaska, was, to the many transporta< tion men present., direct onslaugm against the sportstion companies operating to aud from and within Alaska. Both Poindexter aud Pinchot deliberately stated at the Commercial Club that the greatest danger to Alaska was the transportation monopoly to be feared from the Alaska Steamship com pauy, and that the company controlleE the situation. Without going iRto any discussion as to the merits of conserr vation, or MT. Pinchot's personal coal holdings in the East, or his anlmoslty toward the owners of the Alaska Syn dicate, the aim of this editorial Is purely an effort to point out to the business men of Seattle these perti- nent facts: The Commercial Club is supposed to represent the commercial interests of Seattle, which interests are tae ones most directly harmed by the application of Pinchot'S policies throughout Alaska The Commercial Club, by permitting and, it is assumed, advocating this wholesale attack upon the steamship companies operating ln Alaska, thereby gave it's approval or endorsement to an attack upon the wholesale jobbing and supply houses of the City of Seattle, as we'll as other Puget Sound points. Every business mau ill this town knows, or at least he ought to know, that there is no trans portation monopoly ia Alaska, and all, except those people of the Pinchot type must know that the Alaska Steam ship company does not control one tenth of the traffic to and from Alaska. Pinchot and PoindeXter went far be- yond their personal animosty to this cue company and by their wholesale charges of monopoly attacked the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, the Pacific Coast Steamship company
 Alaska Coast company, Humboldt i Steamship company, Northland Steam ship company, Alaska Barge company, Panama Valley Railroad, White Pass & Yukon Railway, Alaska Northern Rail- way and various other independent concerns, not one of which is directly or indirectly connected either with Che Copper River route or the Alaska Steamship company, and thus attack ing the transportation companies of Alaska the burden of the dire results falls upon the Puget Sound jobbers aud manufacturers. During the tEe years Pinchot has held back Alaska Seattle jobbers have lost the enormous sum of s10O,OO0,OOO, ia conservative figures. and there is 20 telling hos much they will lose for the next five years or until such time as Piuchot Is once and forever suppressed. The transportation companies, be it re- membered, are the pathflnders and up builders of the commercial growth of any great city or commonwealth. Is it not time for them to receive fair play at the hands of the commercial inter- ests? Is it not time for someone to champion the rights of the common carrierP Is the hour not at hand when the thoughtful commercial interests can voice their protest against speh clap-trap demagogic attacks as thisla2e at the Seattle Commercial Club s'tnbs like boomerang, falls at the,Vegy eep- ter of seattle's commercial actiFiK''
Douglas Island news., 1911-11-08
The N0rthI2nd The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Skagway has a 27 foot tide.

Skagway has 2l foot tide.
 For some reason the government failed o provide for school at How. kan this year.
 The canuery at Kasaan burned last week. Thirty thousand cases of sal mon were lost.
 An Alaska earthquake shocked New Orleans but it wasn't the first time New Orleans has been shocked.-EX.
 Six new steamships for the Pacific coastwise trade are planned by officials of the Pacific Coast Steamship com pany.
 A new organization at Seattle is known as the Alaska Square Deal League" which in itself is sort of ad- mission.
 The Arctic Brothers of Skagway are making preparations for the Christmas tree, which the order produces an- nually for the children of the towG.
 The steamship Seward, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,, recently reached Se- attle with the largest cargo of canned salmon ever brought down from the canneries of Alaska-120000 cases.
 The Methodist preacher at Ketchi. kan raises his own chickens, and has recently imported some fancy bred fowls which the editor of the Miner says are beauties Look out for lem.
 Senator Smith, of Michigan, who is on a trip of the Pacific Coast states, announced that the committee on Ter ritories would make a trip to Alaska next summer for the purpose of inVes tigating for themselves the situation as it really is.
 The latest political "dope" is that Major Strong has declared he is not a candidate for the nomination for dele, gate from Alaska. This clears the way as far as the Democratic side of the fence is concerned, for Robert W. Jennings, of Juneau. = Ketchikan Miner.
 Talk about seeing things. The Ketchikan Miner says: "Thursday, about noon, local folk were surprised to see in the clear sky what looked like star. investigation with glass re- yealed the fact that it was some kind of heavenly body, but whether planet or comet it were hard,tO say"
 Capt. E. E. Brown, for many years a navigator on the Yukon river, who was Isent as an expert to investigate the type of boats best suited for the rub. Der trade on the Amazon, will take with him to the tropics twenty Alaska steamboat captains and engineers to operate the fleet now building in Pitts burg.
Douglas Island news., 1911-11-08

A commencement has been made in the alterations of the steamer Al Xxi, which was recently purchased by H. C.. Strong, of Ketchikan She will be converted into an oil burner, two new Scotch marine boilers will be installed, and her engines completely overhauled. She will have a d. w. carrying capacity of about 1900 tons, and accommoda- tion for 50 first class passengers. The work will be completed early in De cember, when the vessel will be put on the Southeastern Alaska route, and will be operated by the Northiend Steamship company.
 In response to the call from the Tea Party town, mass meeting was called at Skagway to elect delegates, but not man showed up. The Skagway Daily Alaskan mourns as one without hope. In the course of its lamentation il says: "Skagway is getting more and more lax iu all matters which should have our best attention and thought, and to
 let the call for the meeting last night go by default is but another evidence of the fact that we are passing into a lethargy which will soon become so in- tense that it will not be broken until the sound of the trump"
 The work of surveying the Valdez lownsite is progressing under the supervision of J. K. Warner, special representative of the department of the interior. Application was made last spring for patent to the ground occupied by the town. This is the first townsite plating to be done by the government. Heretofore the work has been done by local surveyors under contract, but the work has cost so much that the department decided to have it's own men handle it hereafter. At Wrangell the cost of plating the townsite amounted to more than Sl2,- coo. The surveyor who had the con- tract took the work by the day and now has in bill for 900 days time Ex.
 Fairbanks. Alaska, Oct. 3O.-Fhe prestige of Delegate Wickersham suf- fered in his debate last night with At torney R. F. Roth on the question of the powers which the territorial legis- lature would have under the Wicker sham home.rule bill. Mir. Roth con- tended that it would have less power than any territorial legislature ever constituted and would be merely an advisory board, leaving all real power in the hands of Congress. Re read the the thirteen citations of authorities offered by the delegate and argued they all were false. Mir. Wickersham turned from this question and made a political speech, denouncing the ad- ministration, the Guggenheims and the local opposition. MT, Roth, gin rebnt- tai, accused the delegate of fippaney and insiucerity on serious question. Mir. Roth was warmly .applauded, though the house was originally with the delegate.
 The Railway and Marine News says: "The Commercial Club of Seattle re- gently went out of its way to entertain Clifford Pinchot, the man responsible for Alaska's strangling and the lull in Seattle's commercial advancement. Transportation men and jobbers all over Puget Sound have been freely dis cussing this tactless break on the part of the Commercial Club, for the
Douglas Island news., 1911-11-08

With stick of dynamite at his head, one on his breast and another piece at his feet, all with fuse attached, and wl.h twenty four sticks under his back, Peter Julius Johnson blew himself into eternity. The deed was executed in a sequestered spot near Acklen ditch, back of Dawson.
 Tue Seattle Chamber of Commerce has taken the question of Alaskan legislature up with Tacoma, and urges that city to assist the Seattle Conner cial Square Deal Club to raise fifty thousand dollars to be held until the coming session of Congress, and then to be used in getting needed legislation for Alaska
 The Tolovaua river is characterized by D Cassels, of Fairbanks, as the most beautiful stream in the world, not excepting the Hudson or the Rhine. The river is fifteen or twenty feet in depth; the water perfectly clear; there are no cut banks nor sweepers, while the grass and trees grow to the very waters edge.
 Suit has been filed in the District court by H. B. LeFevre, as administra, tor of the estate of Alfred Dicker against the North Pacific WharVes and Trading company to recover damages in the sum of S10OOO for the death of Alfred Dicker, who was killed by rid ing off of Moore's wharf at Skagway on the evening of May 20, 1910.
 E. w. Griffin, the Cinema merchant, is moving 200 tons uf freight from the Iditarod to the scene of the Indian river strike, up the Koyukuk. The In, dian river, or Red Mountain country, lies only short distance overland from the Koyukuk and town has been established at the point of landing, from which the freighterS will move goods to the diggings as needed.
 According to John Horn, who arrived over the circle trail on Tuesday last, large herds of caribou are now moving. On Eagle creek numerous large bands of the animals have been seen, Dur ing his pilgrimage he sighted two sep arate bands which would aggregate a thousand animals. The Gardner brothers, who conduct the Eagle road house, report that two weeks ago. they saw one herd containing over two thousand caribou.-Alaska Citizen.
 The officers of the Peterson, which returned from Chicagof island yester day, report that Private William F, Long, of Company "F," 16th Infantry, who was reported lost about week ago, had been found in a small village on Chatham straits, and that he had returned to the post on the Peterson. The hunting parties were fairly suc- cessful. Co. "F killing thirteen deer, Co., "K" bagging six, and the hospital corps bringing home two.-Alaskan.
 "If new lighthouses were to be estab- lished until the Alaskan coast from Point Barrow to Dixon entrance was one bright blaze of light, the annual crop of Alaskan marine disasters would still be harvested as long as steamship companies insist that their masters operate their vessels on sched- ule through fog and thick weather" ]" The above statement is credited to Commander E. II. Tillman, in charge .of the Alaska Lighthouse district, in a jracant issue of the Seattle Times
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-04-27
NEp CONDITIONS

I'" me barre IImes.)
rue reu"sreSsion OF Vermont. a famil-
lar TOPIC with us. has never been so fully
ana officially ct forth as BY Mr. Rossi-
terS report, an abstract and digest of
when We print on another page, to-day
what Vermont can do to arrest this ret
repression 1t Is difficult to know. but
SoinethiHg must he devised. Boston
transcript
by taking bald figures. one might make
out rather bad story for any State in
the union. that is, for some phases Of
such state. For instance. il might he
possible to show that the rural nopuIo-
lion in Massachusetts is on the decline
that there are less farms through the oc-
quirement OF several by individuals. and
from those facts II ,,,i,,h, ho ,o.s,.,a -,