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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-06-26
4 q BOOM vArAUcA COUNTY,, THURSDAY, JUNE Y, 1918


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Sec. Daniels y = close dent
q the Bible, ~ 8 exchang
Mr. FIN. WnliAl a. took charge I
Of the post ofdca ct Newton last
Monday. 8Sss 8ss
Friday, jane 10. i concsdsd
to be the coolest June day for
86 years.
At Cinciusttl, Ohio, on the III
inst. thrss men were kills1 and
rs prostratsd by the heat. I. \
Mrs. Emile Nelson Of Mt. vsr.
non q cousin d Vim. Jsnn,nss,
Bryandisd Of apoplexy June 1S.
The tenth annual meeting oi
the N. Caro-. Building and Loan
League was held ut BurlingtoDi
last week. aliSti
Pres. Wilson will not attend
the anniversary Of the battle Of
Gettysburg on the battlefield
next month.
Mr.. Charles Hodges. Of Sands,
Watauga county. has been slec-
ted president oi the high school
at Hideuite, says the Scout.
The Turkish Grand Visier Ma.
hamond Scheiked Pasha, W q .
shot at Constantinople on the
11th. gal8,
The 17lh was the hottest day
Of the year In N. Y. Thermome.
ters at the street levels recorded
as highas 102 degrees.
! Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has
sailed for Europe. Col. Roose'
velt plans to 20 west ID July fol
q hunting trip accompanied By
bis son, Quentiap:: j,
Supreme Court has adjourned
until October. Twenty Eve ca.
ses were laid over, which were o
much Importance.
Editor Clarence Poe, and Mr.
j. q: Greene Of tho, Farmers Un
ion Dept. are of on q trip to tn
northwest to study rural coop
GRAFTON. St
The annual convention Of th'
National Press Association Q
America opened at Colo. Spring
June 18th with delegates iron
all parts Of the y. =.
The News aud Observer say
that Geo. W. Guthrie, Ambassa
dar to Japan, is in Washington
to receive final instructions pre-
paratory to going to Japan.
Miss Sybie Hyatt il one Of th
staff at the N. G. schools for th
feeble minded. She ID attendin
the second field workers coDares
for the study ofsugenies, at Col
Spring Harbor, N. Y.
Dr.. Guy Briukley formerly q
Charlotte, was shot through tb
heart by Mrs. 'Whisnant, swh
then put q bullet through hl
own temple. This tragedy o.
CURED at Savannah Ga. on !tt
10th.
Asheyille IL to have q SIS, ,O0
hospital to replace the Missio
Hospital. The board Of tru,
tees Of the local public institutio
will start q campaign for funds
says the Asheville Citizen. q
course this will succeed as hus1
ling Asheville always succeeds i
her undertakings.
Bishop Horuer. Of Ashsvill,
appealed to the President La
week to commute the sentence {
VIM. Breeze, who was convicoe
OF violating the National Bank
ing laws at Ashsville. Gov. Crai
ex- Gov. Glenn and Senator Sim
/ a - 4 n a "
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-06-26

The man into whose head 0ue
has to hammer everything srsn I
then seldom gains kno~ledgs 6ys
the, pound. M
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-06-26

John D, Rockefeller has erect
ed an Ice factory near hls residence
What John D, really ought to do
is toIsolidify some of the water
in Standard Oil Stocks
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.SUFFRAGISTS READY
FOR CAPITOL ATTACK
Band viii Swoop Down ON the Hill
in an Effort to influence
Legislation.
WILL MARCH BEHIND BAND

All the missives were sealed and told-
ed last night, and the names of the 53l
determined suffragists who will carry
these missives to their Congressman,
were on the lists at headquarters: the
bands have been engaged, the leaders
been appointed. and all else is in readi-
ness to set the invasion of Capitol Hill
in motion tomorrow, when, the women
say, Representatives and Senators will
be given more food for thought than the
mere matter of altering a tariff.
Tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock this
dauntless band of women will meet in
the Columbia Theater. where they will
be exhorted to do their duty in the work
Of the afternoon.
Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the COM
mittee in charge of the invasion, will
make her first public appearance as a
speaker at the mass meeting tomorrow,
when she will preside.
At noon the beat of the drum will
call the women from the theater They
will fall in line behind the music. This.
probably, will take place at the dozen
or more open-air meetings which will
be held all around the Capitol after the
missives are presented.
Mrs. Emma S. Tenney, of the Rocham-
beau, sister of the Countess Won kroc-
kow. who also will take take part. has
been made chairman of the delegation
from South Carolina In this capacity
she will have the task of attacking the
fiery Senator Tillman, who lately threw
q pitch-fork into the suffragists' camp
by declaring that all women who want
the ballot are crazy. Mrs Tenney says
she Is not afraid.
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APPARENTLY
Wins FLOOD fight
River Ceases to Rise and Bulwark of
Sandbags Holds Water at
Safe Level.
TO FACE SANITATION QUESTION

Cairo. H., April 5-Cairo apparently
has won the fight with the Ohio River
flood. The great bank of sand bags
built above the Ievees still is holding
back the river. The gauge tonight stood
we'll below the SIT mark, the high point
reached.
Tonight 1000 men are standing behind
the sand bulwarks on constant guard
The fact that the river Is not rising is
attributed to the breaking of the great
Drinkwater levee two days ago and the
flooding of the large st. Francis Basin,
on the west side of the Mississippi.
The question of sanitation is worrying
the officials. State troops today were
turned into a sanitary force, and the
streets and alleys along the levee were
cleaned of rubbish. A meeting of all
the doctors in the city, including the
medical corps of the Militia and Medical
Reserves, has been called, with a view
to planning a definite line of action to
prevent an epidemic. The city is with
out drinking water.
Word came from Shawneetown today
that supplies were badly needed there.
and the steamer Illinois left tonight,
plies. Stops will be made en- route, and
all refugees in need will be supplied.
The levee at Mound City Is holding.
An expedition was sent to the Ken
lucky shore this afternoon to take sup
plies to several marooned families.
Much driftwood is passing in the Ohio
River at Cairo, making precarious the
operation Of boats by Naval Reserves.
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KEYSTONE SKATERS
ENTERTAIN GUESTS
Pennsylvania Society Holds Meeting.
Addresses and Songs Are Heard.
Dance Closes Evening.

The Pennsylvania. Society, Of Wash
ington, held its regular monthly meeting
at Pythian Temple last night An I'M
usually good programme was presented.
Col. S. r. Strattan, president of the
society, opened the proceedings with a
short talk. After the singing of Amer
ica' by the full society, Miss Marie A.
Peterson sang His Buttons Are Marked
L. s." She was accompanied by Miss
Marguerite Sweeney.
A. Y. Casanova made the principal adj
dress OF the evening. His subject was
"Braddock Road" telling of historic in
cidents which have occurred i'm its
vicinity.
Miss Marguerite Sweeney sang Sweet
Aileen ashore" She was accompanied
by Miss Mary Sweeney. recitation by
Miss Ethel Wolfe, a solo by Mr. r. r.
Grooms, a serenade, composed by Mrs.
Middleton Smith: experiments i'm leger-
demain by Robert lie Marie, and remarks
upon Pennsylvanians, by Middleton
Smith. completed the regular pro-
gramme. The evening closed with dane
ing.
The next meeting OF the society will be
on May 8. Parker Trent will be chair
man of the entertainment committee
Members on the committee in charge
OF last nights entertainment were Mid
dleton Smith, Robert K. Smith, E. Kern
Smith, Miss Florence G. Smith, Col. s.
r. Strattan, Mrs. s. r. Strattan and her
daughter, Miss Mabel: II. E. Stauter,
Paul J. Shaw. Miss Eliza Stuckler, Mrs.
F. Souder, Mrs. r. J. ladder, and Miss
Grace ladder
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torney was made after he had conferred
with Attorney General McReynolds
The evidence in the case apparently
was submitted to the Attorney Cen
eral, and presumably he approved of
the action taken by the District i. t.
torney.
This action by the prosecuting officer
Of the District forecloses the possibility
of any court proceedings in the District
against the Senator
AS soon as it had become known that
the District Attorney had declined to act
in the case, ]. r. Jacobs of Oklahoma
City, Okla, called upon James M. Baker.
Secretary of the Senate, and handed to
him an envelope containing charges
against the Senator. These charges, II
Is understood, were substantially the
ones laid before the District Attorney
and were in the form of an affidavit by
Jacobs. Jacobs is said to have been one
of the witnesses in the case He des-
cribes himself as a former Democratic
national committeeman of Oklahoma, and
business man of Oklahoma City.
Secretary Baker. on breaking the seal.
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Representative Hayden
Shoots Huge Crocodile
arizona Member, Hunting in Panama, Kills One
Sixteen Feet Long and Brings Back Its
Teeth as Proof of Deed

. Representative Carl Hayden. who used
to hunt bears and things back In his
home State of Arizona-at least there
ought to be bears in Arizona-yesterday
returned to Washington from Panama
with a new trophy-a full set of croco-
die teeth from sixteen-foot crocodile
he killed on the isthmus. He brought
the dental exhibits of his prowess with
the rife back in a cigar box and Is
thinking about giving them to his col
leagues for watch charms. Crocodile
teeth, he believes, make ideal watch
charms.
Mr. Hayden shot this particular croc-
odile in the head-also in the Bayano
River. The weapon used was Spring
field army rifle, borrowed for the occa-
sion from the arsenal of the American
troops on the isthmus. I
After wading through apparently end
less miles of morass and swamp. the
mud reaching UP to the waists OF the
members of the party, some one sighted
a crocodile. Taking careful aim, MI.
Hayden shot the crocodile.
The crocodile measured sixteen feet In
length, and sixteen-foot crocodiles are
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civil SERVICE MEN
FORM ORGANIZATION
DELEGATES to Convention Here Choose
Temporary Officers As Per-
manent Ones.
RHINELANDER WALDO SPEAKS

Burying the hatchet and forgetting
trivial differences, the delegates to the
first annual conference of civil service
employees got together late yesterday and
effected the Organization of permanent
body to conduct the fight for some def
mite pension fund. The new organiza-
ton was christened the United States
Civil Service Employees Association. The
officers of the temporary organization
were elected to serve for the coming
year.
The necessity for presenting a united
front to Congress in order to secure q
definite pension fund. was the keynote
of the addresses made yesterday. Rep
resentative James II. Hamill of New Jer-
sey openly declared that ne did not
have the slightest doubt but that Con-
gress would pass a civil service retire.
ment bill IL the employees would present
a united front.
He cautioned the delegates against pre-
senting a divided front as had been the
case in the past He asserted that IL
the clerks were to get together ana
agree upon some one plan there could
be no possible objection to the general
plan of retirement.
Rhinelander Waldo, Police Commits
sioner of New York. spoke in favor OF
straight pensions. He advocated an
automatic pension system so that man
would know just how he stood every
year he remained in the service. Com
missioner Waldo opposed a ccntributory
system. He declared himself in favor OF
granting the employees per cent year
of their salary for every year they re-
manned in the government service. He
also advocated that in case a man was
disabled in his line of duty that he be
retired on half pay.
Representatives Thomas l.. Reilly OF
Connecticut, Michael Donohue Of Penn
sylvania, J. Washington Logue Of Penn
sylvana, and Representative-elect Ogles-
by of New York also declared in favor
of a pension system. and urged the con-
vention to harmonic its differences.
A rising vote of thanks was extende0
Joseph J. O'Reilly, of New York, editor
of the Chief. for his assistance in pro-
noting the cause of civil pensions. The
convention extended vote Of thanks to
William E. Russell. Of New York, presi-
dent of the United States Service Retire
ment Association, and his associates for
their efforts to bring about harmony.
Police Commissioner Waldo was likewise
honored by the convention.
The reports of the various committees
and the adoption of a constitution and
bylaws and the approval Of the asso-
citation plan for general retirement fund
marked the closing session of the con-
ference late yesterday afternoon.
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nothing at all to pack up in a valise and
carry home as souvenirs. Consequently.
Mr.. Hayden cut of the crocodile's nose
and took that along. AS everybody who
has read natural history knows, croco-
diles have long noses, under which are
large sets of teeth. Hence, the teeth
Mr.. Hayden went to Panama with
Representative O'Shaughnessy Of Rhode
Island about a month ago. He spent two
weeks on the isthmus. going over the
canal with the Naval Affairs Committee
Engineers on the canal expect the big
ditch to be open for navigation by Octo-
Der. according to Mr. Hayden. The re-
cent slides are not in any way serious
he said. and work is progressing rap
idly.
On the way back the steamship Ancon.
on which Mr.. Hayden was a passenger.
sighted the liner Advance. which sent
out an IS. o. s." call about a week ago.
The heavy seas had done considerable
damage to the Advances superstructure,
according to Mr.. Hayden, but the ship
was entirely seaworthy and was making
good speed southwark. She was sighted
in the Windward Passage, OF Cuba
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FIND FLAW in new
INCOME TAXLAW
Financiers Point Out that Clause in
Bond Issues Exempts Holders
of Securities.
CORPORATIONS MUST PAY

New York, April Sit has been discov-
cred that since 1894 that nearly every big
bond issue of corporations in the coun-
try has had put in it a clause guaran-
teeing the holder of that form of cor
porate security from all forms Of taxa
ton. This, IT was held today in the
financial district, is quite likely to make
necessary a change in the phraseology of
the income tax bill now being drafted.
The importance of the discovery is IL
Illustrated by the case of Andrew Car
negie's ownership of 300, Co., 900 bonds of
the Steel Trust. These bonds pay per
cent Under the proposed income tax
law Mr.. Carnegie would have to pay to
the government annually s675. 900 in taxes
on his Steel Trust bonds alone. But the
following clause in the bond shields the
Laird of Skibo from that huge annual
payment to the government:
"AlI payments upon this bond, both
of principal and interest, shall be made
without deduction of any tax or taxes
which this company may be required to
pay, deduct. or retain under any pr esent
or future law of the United States or
of any State, country, Of municipality.
This would mean that the Steel Trust
would be required to pay the tax that
would be levied on Mr.. Carnegie's bonds
and at the same time pay him his full
per cent
In the end, therefore, the stockholders
of the Steel Trust would have their an
nual dividends cut down so as to per-
nit the corporation to meet the gov
ernments tax on it's bonds.
What is true Of the Steel Trust is true
of virtually every industrial and finan-
cial corporation that has made a bond
issue within the last twenty years.
1t is believed that the drafters of the
bill at Washington will now change
their original purpose so as to lay the
tax directly on the bondholder.
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found that there was an inner envelope
addressed to the President pro tempore
of the Senate. He Immediately de-
lfyered the envelope and its contents to
Vice President Marshall.
Mr.. Baker then issued this statement:
Il received a communication about
noon today from j. r. Jacobs. Of Okla
homa City, Okla, addressed to the
President of the Senate, and I deliv-
cred it to the Vice President in per-
son. 1 did not read the communication.
Therefore, do not know its contents"
Vice President Marshall declined last
night to comment on the affidavit in
his possession or to indicate what
course he will pursue He said that
he would have nothing to announce
until Monday. The Vice Presidents
friends were firmly of the impression
last night. however, that he will de-
cline to entertain the afiidavit or lay
1t before the Senate.
If this action is taken, an attempt
undoubtedly will be made by Jacobs
and other complaining witnesses to get
Senator to introduce the affidavit on
the floor of the Senate.
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COLOR CAUSES TROUBLE.

Painting the street letter boxes red
in accordance with the recent order by
the PostofYice Department is causing COM
plants among fire department officials in
many cities where, it is asserted, the mail
boxes in their new color to closely re-
semble FIRE alarm boxes.
In Washington. however. no such con.
fusion is probable, Chief Frank ]. Wag-
rer. of the Fire Department, said.
Mr.. Wagner stated that the letter boxes
are easily distinguishable from the fire
alarm boxes in daylight, while at night
the red lights surrounding the fire alarm
boxes will readily show their location.
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VICE PRESIDENT
RECEIVES CHARGES
District Attorney, However, Says Ale
cations Against Senator Do Not
Warrant Action.

District Attorney Wilson. who has
been investigating certain serious
charges in regard to the conduct Of a
Western United States Senator toward
a married woman, late yesterday after
noon made this statement:
ct have heard the statement of the
complaining witness and her friends
whom she brought to this ONCE to sup
port her accuse tions. / find no justifi-
cation whatever for laying any COM
plant against any United States Sena-
tor before the grand jury"
This statement by the District At.
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FULL CREW LAM
CAUSES STRIFE
Representatives, Of Fremen
and Railroads Have Sharp
Tits Over Observance.
CARTER MAKES CHARGES
Elisha Lee, in Reply, Declares Public
Win Pay for Increased
Wages.
CARTER MAKES CHARGES

New York. April 5.-The session to-
day of the arbitration committee hold
ing hearings on the demands of rail-
road firemen for increased pay was
marked by sharp Tits between the
representatives of the railroads and
the disaffected men over the manner I'm
which the "full-crew'' law, just enact
ed in New Jersey and New York, shall
be observed.
w. S. Carter. speaking for the men.
ipsisted not only that the laws had
been badly needed, but also that >the
managers should not use the extra
men to be put on the engines for any
other work than that of assistant to
the firemen. He also pleaded earnestly
for a modification of the Federal six
teenhour law, declaring it led to the
overworking of train crew and in
efficient handling Of trains. He reiter-
ated his former contention that the
wage scale has not increased with the
increased cost of living.
Reverting to the subject OF the sixteen
hour law, Carter said that the firemen on
the New Haven road worked in eight-hour
shifts, and that for overtime they re-
ceived regular rates. but that carpenters
and hodcarriers get double pay for over
time He admitted that the brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
largely is responsible for the neglect of
yardmen. In answer to questions by
Judge Chambers, he said that the reason
yard brakemen received higher pay than
yard fremen was the result of conditions
that existed years ago.
Holsters Deserve Increase.
Arguing for the wage increase for loco
motive hostlers, Carter declared that they
have responsibilities which are not prop
erly taken into account. Speaking of
negro firemen in the South, he said that
the railroad managers in that section are
in many instances intrusting the care OF
SIS, 900 locomotives to class Of labor
that they wouldn't trust near their s2,00)
automobiles.
They don't have to sign their names"
said he. 'All they have to do is to
throw coal into the firebox. So long as
the railroads are contented with cheap
labor like this they will get It,"
Mandatory legislation against the rail-
roads. as represented by the recent pass
age of the full crew. law in this State.
as well as the demands OF the firemen for
increased pay and two firemen on each
locomotive. We're bitterly attacked by
Elisha Lee in summing up the case of
the railroads.
He declared that the wages of men in
train service was entirely out of line with
those paid in other lines Of work, and
the present tendency was to add expense
and men to the railroads burden under
the plea of social betterment."
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Held for killing Chor.. Girl.

Savannah, Ga. April San indictment
charging involuntary manslaughter was
returned today by the grand jury against
Isaac Silver, who injected morphine into
the hip of Esther O'Mara. a chorus girl.
and which physicians claimed caused her
death. Miss O'Mara. who was the daugh-
ter of Boston widow. was known on
the stage as Marion Leonard. She was
with the Around the Clock" company
Silver admitted injecting the morphine to
ease the pain in the girls hip, but said
IT was insufficient to cause death.
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Fear for Live. of, 200 Men.

Rome, April 6--Grave fears are felt
for the safety of 200 laborers and engi-
neers working on the Funka Pass, across
the Alps, who were blockaded yesterday
by an avalanche near Domodossola.
Some of them are reported to have died
from exposure, as the weather Is un-
usually cold for this season Of the year
But little Roadway ID being made Ia the
way of rescue
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Powder Explodes, Roy I'm Hospital

Cecil Garrett. six years old, Of 42S
Eleventh Street Southeast, was severely
burned about the face, hands and arms
last night at Fifteenth Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast, as the
result of the explosion of charge
Of photographers flash powder Garrett
was handed a charge OF the powder by
some playmates. Placing it on the
ground, he struck match. He was
taken to the Casualty Hospital for treat
ment.
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Fifty-nI,e Ind,cted for Arson.

Chicago, April 5.-Fifty-nine indict-
ments were returned by the Federal
grand Jury, which has been investigating
the arson trust operations here. In all,
the true bills contain 259 charges against
fifty-six men. The grand jury made a
special report. asserting that half the
fires in Chicago afs tncendiary.
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DEMOCRATS TO CELEBRATE.
Young Mems Democratic Club Will
Banquet JcTerson's Memory.

The Young Mems Democratic Club. of
versary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson
at banquet on the evening of April IA.
Committees appointed by the club at
a recent meeting are perfecting arrange
ments and will report at meeting tc
be held Tuesday evening, April 8. Men
of prominence in the party will be pres
ent as the guests of the club.
The Young Mems Democratic Club was
organized in 1884, and is presided over
by ]. Fred Kelly as president, and under
his leadership has participated actively
in every campaign since its organiza-
ton.
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Bona, Belgian Congo. April 5-Twenty-
three persons were killed today when a
passenger train plunged through a rail-
road bridge over an arm of the Congo
and fell $50 feet into the water. Three
Of the victims were trainmen. the others
passengers