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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-02-15
LEGISLATIVE SIDELIGHTS.

Theodore Christianson, L. o. Teigen
and J. B. Gislason are authors Of bill
requiring all hearings before the state
parole board to be public, and requir.
ing all prisoners to serve at least halt
the maximum sentence imposed for
the crime, before being paroled.
The same committee recommended
Mrs. Macbeth Hurd Paige's bill reduc.
ing the age for admittance to the wo-
mems reformatory from IS to 16, and
two bills by 8. T. Mcknight. One
makes 1t a felony to abduct or lure
away any inmate Of the school for
feeble minded. and another provides
for payment of transportation expense
for pupils Of the schools for the deaf
and blind at Faribault
Chairman J. B. Pattison of the house
judiciary committee introduced the bill
backed by the state bar association,
giving the association power to make
rules for the practise Of law and to
discipline attorneys guilty of dishonest
or unethical conduct. Control Is given
to an elected board Of nine commits.
sioners.
Hennepin county members of the
state senate refused to introduce in
the senate the bill backed by Mayor
Leach Of Minneapolis requiring mem.
bers OF the legislature who are attor.
neys for corporations to file their
names with the secretary of state and
prohibiting them from voting in the
legislature on measures in which the
corporations employing them are inter.
ested. b.
Bills to license gasoline measuring
devices and public weighing machines
and provide for state inspection are be.
fore the house with favorable report
from the house committee on com.
MERGE, manufacture aud retail trade.
%
State banks must carry a 20 per cent
surplus and must have q larger capital
to begin business under bill by A. 8.
Pearson and Sumner T. Mcknight. Il
grades the minimum capital up from
$4,000. in towns OF less than 1000.
compared with $4,000 in the present
law. to 100000 IN cities Of over $1,000
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-02-15
London's Ivory Warehouse.

One of the most " wonderful places in
the London docks is the ivory ware.
house, where tusks to the value Of half
a million pounds are usually In stock.
About so tons of ivory are used every
year for making knife handles and
for decorative work. The value Of the
material Is about f1,OOO ($5,0O0) per
ton.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-02-15
Tho Lesser Evil,

Old Grump-Why doesn't Ethel mar
~ that young idiot? I'm getting
blamed tired Of his coming here so
much.
His Wife, believe I'd prefer to
have him come here-if he marries her
he'll stay here.-Boston Transcript.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-02-15

Il IL usually the girl who never had
q proposal who boasts of having Tilted
q number Of men.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-02-15

There's the Rub.
Love-making may be an art, but IN
that case it is likely to drift into
artfulness.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
Watauga Court Is
Now i'm Session

The fall term of Watauga Super
ior Court convened at nine o'clock
Monday morning with an immense
crowd of people present. Judge T. B
Finley is presiding and as usual Sol
icitor johnson j. Hayes is present to
prosecute the violators of the law
1t was not the Democrats pleasure
unfortunately to hear Judge Finley's
charge to the grand jury but we have
scarcely heard Of SO much favorable
comment. 1t covered every phase of
the criminal law and was delivered
in such a plain concise manner and
couched in language so comprehensive
that the most ignorant of his hearers
could grasp its meaning. This is the
Judges first court in Watauga and
he has come up to the highest expec-
tations Of our people, as great jur-
list. He'll is firm as adamant in his
convictions yet he is possessed Of the
faculty Of tempering judgment with
mercy.
As soon as the charge was COM
pleted the state docket was taken
up and up to the time Of closing. our
forms it has not been completed. A
few cases have been tried but there
are many others, as the criminal doc
ket was very heavy (for Watauga)
at this term. We had hoped and ex-
pected to give the proceedings in full
this week, but will be forced to wait
until our next issue. There are no
cases of unusual Importance.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
Confederate Reunion
Now on in Boone

As we go to press the remnant
of Camp Nimrod Triplett of Confed-
crate Veterans who followed Lee and
Jackson in ''the days that tried mems
souls" are assembling at the Train
ing School, through special invita-
tion, to hold what may be their last
annual reunion. Their numbers are
few but they are among our most
highly respected and honored citi-
zens. Each and every one Of course
is bearing the burden of many years
hut their hearts are light while their
steps are slow. The oldest man in
attendance is our esteemed towns
man, Mr.. James H. Taylor who is
now 81 years old, and Mr.. John Hod-
ges is the youngest being 70.
The doors of the town, as well
as those of the school are opened
wide to these dear old boys and we
want it fully understood that there
is nothing we possess too good fol
them. Here's hoping that every houl
spent by them in our town will b,
filled with pleasure.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
Later Reports Give
Dead at 800, 900
Japanese Disaster Spared None Com
plete Destruction in Some Districts
of Country Changed.

BY Associated Press Sept. $50
vast an area of Japan has been de-
vastated by the great earthquake in
the history Of the country that it will
be long before the actual loss of life
is known. The most reliable estimates
of the dead up to the present reach
as high as 200 to three hundred and
forty thousand.
Toxic and Yokahoma are in COM
plete ruins For two days Toxic was
swept by flames and apart from the
loss of lives caused directly from
the falling of buildings, thousands
may have died in their attempt to
make their way through the fire zone
and other thousands from exhaustion.
Yokahoma, Tokio's busy port is
city destroyed. Probably more
complete destruction has been there
than in the capital itself, for it's great
docks were torn asunder, its shipping
wrecked, it's public buildings and its
homes levelled to the earth.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
FARMERS PICNIC AT BEAVER DAM
GRAND SUCCESS 1900 ARE PRESENT
FATHER SHOOTS
HIS BABY. IN ITS :.
MOTHERS ARMS
Posse of Officers Searching for MUIR
derer, one Miles Love of the Beech
Creek Section.

The news reached here yesterday
that Miles Love of the Beech Greek
section of Watauga County had shot
and killed his baby child with a bull.
let that was intended for his wife.
The story goes that Love had been
drinking heavily for some time and
was most abusive to his wife. On
Sunday he became enraged and on
leaving the house fired his gun. Mrs.
Love went to the door with a little
child in her arms. The infuriated IA
ther and husband seeing his wife ap-
proachhgs turned the weapon on
her and fired, the bullet taking effect
in the body of the little child, from
the effects of which it died, accord
ing to reports, yesterday morning.
AS soon as the report reached this
place posse of officers and the coun-
ty coroner left for the scene and
We take it that no effort will be
spared to bring the murderer to JUS
tice.
If true, and it seems there can be
no doubt of it, it is perhaps the most
unspeakable crime that has been COM
mitted in Watauga.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
Big Still and Its
Owner Captured

On Tuesday our alert and efficient
Prohibition Agent, Ralph Bingham
accompanied by agent j. c. Sheriff.
of Lenoir swooped down on Elk town
ship and captured one Baxter Ken
dali, in a well appointed and equip
ped distillery. The plant was not in
operation but thre hundred gallons
of beer and other prerequisites were
destroyed. Kendall and his "Hel pot
was brought to Boone where he was
lodged in Jail to await trial, and the
still which was good one, was de-
stroyed,
Baxter will doubtless be tried al
this term Of court and being caught
red handed it is a safe prediction
that he will make no more moonshint
for a while. at least.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
Airplane Viii Land
on the Big Bald

One of the big attractions at the
sale of the Patterson Lands on Mon
day by the eAtlantic Realty Company
Of Winston Salem, will be the landing
Of an aeroplane on the broad ex-
panse of level land on the summit of
Big Bald. Four flights will be made
during the day, entirely encircling
this great elevation within perfect
view of the great crowd expected.
The advertising manager has kindly
offered the editor of this paper a
whiz around the circle in the plane,
which he declines with thanks.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
A Wonderful Opportunity

Until recently the North Carolina have been read
ing daily from Tennessee Not however, they pre-
ferred Tennessee North Carolina papers but because
they could not get North Carolina daily paper was two
three days old, NOTHING DEADER THAN YEsTER
DAYS DAILY PAPER.
This undesirable situation has recently relieved
by the Winston Salem Journal which has at its own
expense bus Inc from Wnsonsaem Boone, making
on at Boone with lines for Trade Tenn
rylng The Morning Journal to practically every post
watauga County same day is published So it is no longer
necessary for the people of North Tennessee
papers in order to get the 'hot the grddle"
The Winstonsaem Journal has for of years led
the fight to redeem the Provinces and in that
fight support the people of northwestern
North Carolina
AS sheet the Journal has superiors North Car
ona has full Associated special correspondents at
Washington and Raleigh sixty state correspondents
Also features markets. public opinion DRAMA music
movies, sports and editorials
North Carolina people should Carolina daily
The Winston Salem North Carolina daily
in thoroughly things of the
greatest interest North Carolina people newspaper modern
complete and reliable it gives its morning
best that be had
The subscription of the Journal IS
per year, daily and Sunday IA cents per day.
Watauga is blessed with of weekly county
in North Carolina For thirty years Watauga
Democrat has been fighting good government order
good roads and schoos and striving give people
the county the complete newsunbiased
Every family to their county to take
their The subscription
only per year. per
''~v- ,:-r. s. '-Fss.:
In order that the of may en-
the of
time read local without
has been between mana:e
whereby the papers OCTOBER 1ss
the unheard of price of whoe year. applies
and renewals where back subscriptions paid
is opportunity you can't afford o mss Begin Now
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
Revival Services Will
Continue Thru Week

Evangelist Norman H. Camp is bu-
sy these days preaching the Gospel
of Christ. Last Monday he attended
the opening of court and being a
lawyer by profession occupied seat
with the lawyers of the county. At
the suggestion of Attorney Jno. H.
Bingham, Judge Finley announced
that he would preach in the court
room at 1:15 o'clock, which he did
and has continued each day at that
same hour. He is also speaking each
morning at the Appalachian Train
ing school at the suggestion of Prof.
B. B. Dougherty. These talks are en-
joyed by the students; also his sing
ing.
The union meetings at the Baptist
Church continue every afternoon at
3 o'clock and every night at o'clock
except Saturday. The prayer meet
ings also every morning at 9 o'clock
A few earnest Christians together
with tie pastors are praying and
laboring for a real revival. This is
certainly needed in Boone and unless
It comes we may expect the wicked
ness and lawlessness manifested up
on the part Of some to increase. The
general conditions which prevail thru
out the world will sooner or later
prevail throughout Watauga County
unless we have the blessing of God
I in answer to prayer and consistent
Christian living. Let every Christian
do his or her duty at this time.
The special address given by Ev-
angelist Camp last Sunday afternoon
created considerable comment. He
spoke on 1.-The Significance of the
World War and Gods Program fol
World Peace" He emphasized that
God is not the author of war but OF
peace; but just as the absence OF
light produces darkness, and the ab
sence of life produces death, so <hi
withdrawal of Gods presence anc
power, permits the devil, who is the
author of war and strife to operate
The great trouble of the world today
especially in so-called Christian coun
tries which have had the light of the
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL
HAS LARGE OPENING

The Deerfield-Bamboo consolidated
School opened Monday with los pu-
pilsin attendance, and registration is
ill going on. The faculty is composed
of Professor Lewis Reese of Beaver
Dam, this county, Miss Jones of Aske
and Miss Miller of Allegheny.
There was great gathering Of the
patrons at the opening and they are
justly proud of their splendid new
building, and the prospect for a big
school. Indeed the good people inter-
ested are to be congratulated as ma
ny obstacles had to be overcome.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND REPORTED
DEAD IN Big QUAKE In JAP. COUNTRY
D. F. Brown Passes
Monday Morning
Prominent Boone Boy Buried on
Tuesday Afternoon-Court Was
Adjourned and Highway Work
Suspended During Funeral

On Monday morning at nine o.
clock Doctor Franklin Brown whose
critical condition as result of an
automobile accident was chronicled
in these columns last week passed.
to the Great Beyond in Longs San
itorium in Statesville, N. C.
The body was brought to Boone
Monday evening, and on Tuesday af-.
ternoon interment was in Boone cem-
etery, the services being in charge
of Watauga Lodge No 273 A. F. &
A. M. and ASHER Lodge of which
the deceased was consistent men,
ber. At least IS members of the
two lodges were participants in the
burial services.
"Dock" had been for some time
an employee of the State Highway
Commission working out of Boone
on the Boone Trail Highway and so
great was the sorrow Of the road men
at learning of his seemingly untim-
ely death that all Interpretations were
stopped during the funeral. Watauga
Superior Court now in session, Judge
T. B. Finley Presiding was adjourn
ed for the hour, and perhaps the larg-
est crowd ever assembled on such an
occasion gathered at the Baptist
Church and at the grave to pay their
last respects to the departed fritend
and brother.
At the church Reverend F. M. Hug
gins conducted short service fol-
lowed by brief talks by Professors
B. B. Dougherty and A. j. Greene,
former teacher Of deceased. The bea-
utiful tributes paid to his life as seen
by these men who had helped t.
mould his destinies in sense, were
most fitting. The Masons then took
charge of the body, conveyed it to
the graveyard where the beautiful
masonic burial services were used
in an almost sublime manner. Dock
was really Mason, and took great
interest in the work, therefore the
end was in the way he would have had
it.
Deceased had been "a resident of
Boone and vicinity for the past thir-
teen years, and had endeared himself
to all those with whom he came in
contact in his daily walks of life.
Not long before his death he had
purchased valuable property near the
town and was prosperlng as he de-
served to prosper. Although scarce
ly more than twenty five years Of
age he had an exceptionally broad
view of life and its many compleXi-
'ties, and his policy was to smile re-
gardlcss CT what provocation might
arise, and possibly this cherry dispo-
sition is one of the reasons why the
throngs are mourning today.
Surviving the deceased is wife
and small child, number of brothers
and one sister most Of whom were
at his side at the end.
One Of our best young men is
gone from among US, and it would
be no easy matter to find the like
of him. To this little sketch we
would affix that simple phrase, so
seldom truthfully used in it's greatest
sense: "He was a man."
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
THREE BROTHERS CELEBRATE
SAME BIRTHDAY

At the home of Mr.. J. B. Fox on
Banner Elk R. F. D. September the
first, his three sons, aged Ia, 16, and
20 years celebrated their birthdays,
all of which came .on that date.
This is rather a coincidence and
we doubt if another case Of this kind
could be located in the county. This
event has never been called to our
attention before through all the years,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06

Robert Shearer, an honest and re-
spected colored citizen Of Boone died
at his home Monday, interment being
made in the colored cemetery Tues
day.
Bob was an inotfensive upright
man, and a consistent member of the
Church, living up to its teachings as
best he knew.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
LUTHERAN SERVICES

Rev Jeffcoat the new Lutheran
minister in charge of the Watauga
pastorate will conduct services in the
Episcopal Church in Boone at 7:3O
next Sunday evening. The public gen
orally is invited.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06

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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-09-06
Dead and Dying Scattered Every
where Within Radius of so Miles
of Toxic, The Capital of Japan
Now a City of Tombs and Ruins.
Death and Destruction is
Spread Over Wide Area
Yokahoma and Toxic with its Two
Million Population and Neighbor-
ing Cities Described as Like He'll
United States Naval Station May
Be Destroyed.

San Francisco Sept. 8. Toxic is
under martial law. Nobody is admit
ted into the city unless the have their
own provisions. A railway man from
Toxic says casualties there are esti-
mated at 100000. Several more earth
quakes were felt at Yokahoma or,
Sunday afternoon.
Toxic is still burning and explo-
sions there are frequent.
Toxic, Yokahoma and neighboring
cities are burning ruins, while more
than 100000 persons in the vicinity
of these cities were reported dead
as a result Of Saturdays earthquakes
according to advices received in San
Francisco by the Associated Press
from it's Shanghai correspondent and
by the Radio Corporation from its
station at ~omjoka.
Death and destruction were spread
over an area roughly compromised
within a radius of so miles of Toxic.
How extensive casualties and the ma
terial damage outside that zone is,
has not been determined as all COM
munications with Japan are still in
terrupted except for brief connect
ions with Tomioka and occasional dis
patches from Japan to Shanghai.
The city of Nagoya is virtually de-
stroyed. The Japanese naval station
near Yokahoma was enrulfed by a
tidal wave and the IMPERIAL palace
at Toxic is endangered by fire. Nag
oya has a population of 100000. 1t
is about 70 miles west of Toxic.
With railroad lines, telephone wires
and all other means of commusica-
ton and travel between the remain
der of Japanese and the outside cut
off, Toxic and the other cities on the
eastern central seacoast on the Is
land of Hondo are isolated in their
desolation.
The cities of Yokohama and Toxic
were described by the superintend t
of the Japanese government wireless
station at Tomioka, which operates
via Radio Corporation as like Iiell!'
Buildings were falling fires were
spreading everywhere; dead and dy-
ing were on all sides; there were ex-
plosions and cries of horror and fear
by the panic stricken population.
What quake or fire did not destroy
on land tidal waves are reported 70
have crushed or sunk at sea.
The fate of the ships in Yokahoma
harbor and what ships were there, still
remains to be determined.
In Yokahoma the fire started in
the foreign section, spreading rapidly
to the business district which was
wiped out
Tens of thousands of guests at
resorts near the city were driven out
from their quarters by quakes and
fires. They were panic stricken. The
number of casualties were undeter-
mined.
Evening star., 1923-02-07
TRADE LAWYER
RAPS STEEL TESTIMONY
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. February 7.-Assertions
that the United States Steel Corpora
ton, in it's defense in the Pittsburgh
cost plus case ignored essential factors.
were made yesterday in hearings be-
fore John w. Bennett. special exami-
ner of. the federal trade commission,
by X. E. Steinhauer, counsel for the
commission.
The objections applied to the testi-
mony of Alfred V. Winter, chief clerk
of the invoice and pricing department
Of the Illinois Steel Company. who
introduced exhibits in an attempt to
show that the prices actually charged
by the steel company, subsidiary of
the United States Steel Corporation,
varied considerably from those quoted
by the steel trade press Is uniform dur
ing the years 1908. 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914
and 1915. Mr. Steinhauer claimed in
some instances Mr.. Winters figures
gave the date of the invoices of the
steel and not the date Of sale when the
actual price was made.
One specific objection was that the
steel company failed to show the kind
Of steel sold in bulk shipments. 1t be-
ing charged that a guess" had been
made as to the content of an order
and the price fixed for that commodity
which was lowest in cost, instead
OF following the market as it ex-
listed. The corporation will continue
its defense tomorrow.
Evening star., 1923-02-07
BY WILLIAM r. HEFFERNAN.

NEW YORK. February THE early
decline today on the curb exchange
from the high levels of Tuesday could
be set down as nothing more than
natural reaction after concerted
buying movement, in which stocks
had been pushed forward vigorously,
many of them to new high records. 1t
was brought about mainly by profess
sional operators who were content to
take their profits on purchases made
earlier in the week.
Heavy realizing sales We're en-
countered throughout the greater part
of the list during the first hour or so,
but after these had been absorbed the
market again turned definitely strong
although the buying movement was
not as pronounced on the previous
day.
\ feature of the market today was
a renewal of operations for the rise in
Durant stocks. The first thousand
shares of Durant of Delaware were
dealt in between 90 and 5Sk. after
which a reaction of close to points
Evening star., 1923-02-07
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office.

occurred. Buying orders were then
encountered and the stock advanced
4 points from the close of last night
before the rise was checked. The In
diana shares moved up sympathetical-
~. Motor stocks generally resisted the
early selling in other sections. and in
the afternoon substantial advances
were recorded in Gardner and Cleve-
land.
Operations for the rise kept Oh in
the mining stocks Goldfield issues
We're leaders in point of activity. and
GOldfield Florence at one time was up
points, but fell back later to around
20. Goldfeld Deep Mines and Gold
field Development were active at
slightly better quotations. Hollinger.
Fortuna and New York Porcupine
We're others to show Improvement.
Imperial Oil OF Canada failed to
respond to the declaration of an extra
dividend of 81 in addition to the reg
ular quarterly disbursement or 70
cents share. Oil shares quickly
made up their early losses and some
of them got well above the high
prices Of the previous dan. Phoenix
Hosiery common gained fractionally.
while the preferred lost about a half
point.