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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
SHERIFF YOUNG OF YANCY
KILLED IN PISTOL BATTLE
But Kills His Assailant, Perry Gorge,
Before Falling; Both Men
Fall Dead

Burnsville, May 16-Citizens of
This place are in turmoil of eXpec-
1ation, wondering what evidence will
he brought out as to the, causes of
q the shooting here last night which
cost the lives of Sheriff ]. w. Young,
cf Yancey county, and of Perry
Gouge.
The two men are said to have met
on a road just outside of this place,
and their conversation, it is said
gave no hint of what was about to
occur. Gouge is said by Charles
Hitchins, Burnsville attorney who
was a witness of the shooting, to
have called the sheriff, and the two
stood talking. Gouge placed his pis-
vol to the sheriff's abdomen in a
ssjoking" manner, according to Hut
ehins' story, and when the officer
laughed the other fired six times.
Sheriff Young reeled back, regain
ed his footing and pulled his own
gun, fired one shot which pierced the
heart of the assassin. The two men
are said to have fallen dead in the
road at the same time.
The fatal shooting occurred about
s o'clock directly in front of Gouge's
home at Windon, where he operated
q general store No reason could be
ascribed by friends of the two dead
men as to the cause of the shooting,
but, it was intimated that Gouge was
,Ynder the influence of whiskey.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
RETURNS INDICATE DEFEAT
OF PEPPER IN PENNSYLVANIA

Philadelphia, Pa, May 1S-Repre-
sentative William S. Ware, running
on a platform for prohibition law
modification, led his opponents for
the Republican Nomination for Uni
ted States senator from Pennsylvania
in returns tonight from 1882 dis
tricts out of S,281 in the state in to-
days primary election.
Senator G. w. Pepper, candidate
for the forces led by Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon, classed as a dry,
and strong supporter of Coolidge,
was running second with Governor
Pinchot, independent dry, third.
Representative Wares plurality over
Senator Pepper was 1882.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
DURHAM MAN SPENDS 40
OF Sc YEARS IN PRISON

Durham, May 1S-Logan Meadows,
who had spent 40 of his Sc years in
prison, on the roads and in the peni-
tentiary, was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for three to five years in
Durham superior court yesterday for
store breaking and larceny last
week. He had been free for two
weeks when he broke in store out
in the country and was arrested the
next day.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
STATES GREAT STRIDE
IN EDUCATION SHOWN
Appropriations in A. Years Have
Jumped From $4,000 to
$14,157,2OO

In "A years state appropriations
for educatio min North Carolina in
creased from $4,000 for the bienni-
UNI 1877-78, 1S78-79, to S14,157,200
for the biennium Of 1923-24, 1924
25. This is shown in the current issue
of State School Facts, published last
week.
This issue of the department of
public instruction publication is de-
voted to Educational Approppria-
tions," and reviews the history of
state support and maintenance of the
public schools, teachers colleges, and
institutions of higher learning. The
two-year period of 192325 was the
banner biennium in educational ap-
preparations, it is shown, the total
appropriated for 1925-27 dropping to
$1O,666,O00. This drop was due to
a cut in the appropriation for i'm
provements.
The first money set aside by the
state for maintenance of its schools
and institutions was the $4,000 ap-
propriated for the two-year period,
1877-79. This money was to be
used for the support of normal
schools and teachers colleges The
maintenance appropriations for the
present biennium, as years later, to-
tails nearly eight millions of dollars
-$7,S96,000, in exact figures. Of
this amount, $3,757,500 is appropri-
atcd for the, public schools; $S56,0O0
for the normal schools and teachers
colleges; and $3,2S2,5O0 for higher
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
JURORS SELECTED FOR
MAY TERM FEDERAL COURT

The following citizens of Watauga
county have been summoned to serve
as jurors for the May term of the
United States district court which
meets at Wilkesboro on May oath:
C. C. Lewis, Villas; c: M. Critcher,
Boone; C. c. Lawrence, Zionville; w.
L. Robbins, Blowing Rock; j. B. Nor
ton, Villas; A. E. Wilson, Villas; J. S.
Mcbride, Boone; Joe Cook, Roone; E.
G. Greer, Zionville; N. G. Wheeler,
Triplett.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
STRESSES RIGHTS
OF THE STATES
President Speaks at William and
Mary College, Celebrating 18th
Year of Virginia Resolutions

Williamsburg, Va, May 15-The
exercise of the full power and influ-
ence of the states was urged here to-
day by President Coolidge while at
the same time he pleaded for nation
al unity and the doing away with all
sectional lines in political thought
and4ll actions based on geographical
lines
Speaking on the campus of William
and Mary college at exercises com
nemorating the sesqui-centennial of
the Virginia resolutions which de-
clared for American independence,
the president characterized the states
as "the sheet anchors of our institu-
tions" and called upon them to dis
charge their functions so faithfully
that there can be contraction in
slead of an extension, of the authori-
~ of the federal government.
The address was marked by re-
peated outbursts of applause especi-
ally when Mr.. Coolidge declared that
''no method of procedure has ever
teen devised by which liberty could
be divorced from local self-govern-
neht, no plan of centralization has
ever been adopted which did not re-
suit in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflex-
ibility, reaction and decline"
On Law Observance
present day problems was seen when
the president, after recalling that the
Virginians in 1776 declared for
complete independence" said:
"They could not escape the con-
ciusion that as the individual derives
bis liberty from an observance of the
law, so nations derive their indepen-
Gence and perpetuate their sovereign
ty from an observance of that comfy
by which they are all bound. AS
modern developments have brought
the nations closer and closer togeth-
e., this conclusion has become more
and more unavoidable. While the
rights of the citizen have been in no
wise diminished, the rights of hu-
nanity have been very greatly in
creased Our country holds to politi-
cal and economic independence, but
&! holds to coe1per4tion and comhina-.
ton in the administration of justice"
The exercises were presided over
by Governor Harry Flood Byrd, of
Virginia, and were marked by Will
srn and Mary College comforting
rpon the president and the governor
the honorary degrees of doctor Of
Jaws Both were in cap and gown
with the gold tassels, and other dis
tinctive marks of their doctorates
while they were escorted to the pat
form, in the rear of old Sir Christie
pher Wren hall, by the students and
faculty of the college in academic
procession. 1t is the first honorary
degree Mr.. Coolidge has accepted
Nnce he became president.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
Mclean APPOINTS LINNEY TO
co TO PARK CONFERENCE

Raleigh, May 17.-Unable to at
tend himself, Governor Mclean today
appointed DEE. c. Brooks, presi-
dent of State College, as his personal
representative to attend the sixth ma
tional conference on state parks to
be held at Hot Springs, Ark, June
J4-16. y
In addition he named IA delegates
TO the conference, including Frank A.
Lianey, Of Boone.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
institutions.

institutions.
The appropriation of money for
permanent improvements in the
states schools was initiated in 1891
by the legislature Of that year, when
appropriations of $4,000 for the BIZ
ennium of 1S91-93 were made. For
the present biennium, 1925-27, the
appropriations or this purpose total
$2,770,000. The two years of 1928
25 were marked by appropriations
for this purpose of $7,094,000. For
the two-year period, 1928, ap-
preparations for this purpose were
$4,O8O,00O.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
REGISTER NOW

Citizens desiring to participate in
the June primary or the general cleo
ton in November, should see that
their names are on registration books
and this should be done at once.
The books for the the primary will
close Saturday, May 21st.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20

An athletic and recreation center,
costing $1O,OOO,OOO, is proposed in
Boston, Mass, to be the largest of
its kind in. the world. The plans call
for a football stadium seating CO.,
600; baseball park with 10000
seats, and a building for indoor sports
and conventions with a seating ca
pacity of $4,000 to 10000.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
Look Out For Squalls

Small Boy-"Dad, the barometer
has fallen"
Father--"Very much?'
Small Boy with guilty look)-
"About five feet-it's broken. -
London Tit-Bits.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-05-20
Still Mad

Ebenezer-"Lo honey does you
done forgib yoh honey? l see you
smilin'."
Mandy@Don't pay no 'tenchion
to dat smile-ah's jes' restin' NAH
face
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
MORE HEROISM SHOWN
 BY CREW OF ESTWAY

Hamilton. Bermuda. Oct. 2G, Np - Twelve survivors of the British frcishter EStway. reported the hero ism of the engineers, liremen and radio operator. during the storm which struck the Estway last Fri day. The operator started the sos calls and was answered at four o'clock The captain was washed overheard at six o'clock The coal bunkers shifted and all but one life boat were smashed The twelve survivors took to the remaining boat about seven o'clock, just before the vessel sunk. The men in the cn- zine room and stokeholes also the radio operator. stuck 10 the ship and did not attempt to reach the small boat.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30

of Seattle, financial secretary, and established offices here and called for an invitational meeting of both democrats and republicans
 Governor Hartley said. the recall movement Was founded on selfish ness and greed" and will prove of great detriment to the State. It's real promoters are those interests which have been denied special privileges. and the purpose back of il is to prevent the enactment of certain legislation and adoption of
 he administration program. which will stop the sipshod. reckless ex- travagance of expenditure of State funds and thwart the policies which will compel certain interests to bear their just proportion of the tax burden"
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
WEDNESDAY
 tTEL EGSapAIC.
CLAIMS MARQUAM GET BIGGEST MAJORITY VOTES
 IN HISTORY JUNEAU

Juneau. Oct. 26,-The Juneau Empire in a telegram to the Nugget says, he biggest political demon- stration in the history of Juneau was staged tonight in the welcome of Thomas A. Marquam. The rally was preceded hy an old fashioned torchlight procession and the mar chers were headed by band and followed by a long line of auto mobiles. Eleven hundred and twenty people by actual count gave him an ovation when he commenced 10 speak. and applauded frequently as he piled up point after point in his indictment of Sutherland. It was the largest crowd that ever at teded d political meeting here, drawn from businessmen. miners and fishermen.
 Although Valentine and Roden had completely rcfuted the sland-
 
 Maruuam merely referred to them in passing. saying. 'l will meet the charges made against me and my family by James Wickershum ill the only place where civilized mt Il can meet such remarks. In a Court oi Law before a comprl ent court and jury of his peers. .
 Maruuam' decision to start libel pruceedines against Wickersham was greeted by prolonged applause from the whole house. Marquam confined himself To records in post ing his contention that Sutherland had forfeited all claims to political preference through slanderous mis- representations of Alaska's incom- potency and the loss of prestage in Washington. He cited the great mass of damnable publicity the Territory had received in recent months, quoting from numerous newspapers, magazine articles, let ters and official records, showing Sutherland was primarily responsi- ble for such press items.
 Marquam laid bare Sutherlands position on the Indian question. his courtship of Indian politicians, his bill to make Canadian Indians citizens of America. and his op- position to the literacy test bill that frees Alaska from the menace of an Indian controlled government
 The local legislative ticket and Mir. Marqnam will take in the Nor thern end of the division. It is the concensus of opinion that he will carry Tanakee, Sitka, Checa- goff, Heist. Chicagof, Lisianski, Point, Haines and Skag way. and will get the largest ma jority any delegate ever received in Juneau.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
McNARN OPENS OREGON
 ELECTION PROBE

Portland. Oct 2S. aP, Chairman
 McNary opened the Oregon prob",
 William simpson of salem. secrr- tary nf he Oregon World war veterans aid commission. and q democrat, testified that Walter Hayes of Washington. District of 'olmmhia. who was private secre- iary to President Roosevelt. cam to Oregon 10 help Stanfield and tu tell him that the parent company II Philadelphia which owns the Portland Electric Power Compan sent thirty five thousand through Franklyn Griffith. president of t.t. who paid il to tie Port land Oregonian, for tho purpose oi defeating Bob Stanfeld and sai ite did not trust the information tb ire or letter
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
ARMENIA VISITED
 BY EARTHQUAKE

Leninakan. Armenia, Oct. 25. (Pl than four hundred were killed and critically injured. One hundred thousard are homeless af- ter three day series of quakes, de- stroying most of Teninakna and 19 towns nearby. The cemeteries were disrupted and hndies scattered every where. gas mains and electric wires were broken. teleeraphic communi~ cation was destroyed The quake devastated over hundred miles ef territory. Leninakan is like vast sepu1chre Of ashes. one shock tore open the giant fisheries and the great volcanic mountain of Alagoz Karakala, fable of the biblical lore Peasants ran to the lower slopes of the mountain which was regarded as sacred place and prayed for divine deliverence. The valley of Arazes. as tradition has 1t, was the Garden of Eden. was swept clean of houses. trees and cattle.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
FOOTBALL sCaRRs

Seattle. Oct. 24. @-Followins Is the football scores for last Sat- Mrday games. Washington State College ., Southern California 27, Califor. nia Q.
 University Idaho 30, College oi Idaho O.
 Stanford 20. Oregon IF. Ohio State 23. Iowa s.
 Navy ls, Colgate 2.
 Harvard 16. Dartmouth 12. Brown 2. Yale Q,
 Michigan IS. Illinois c.
 Army Il. Boston University 0. Notre Dame c. Northwestern Q. Princeton 2. LehisA ..
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
GOV. HARTLEY
 SAYS RECALL MOVE
 FOUNDED SELFISHNESS

Seattle. Oct. 26, (P, Governor
 Hartley Was the principal speaker at the meeting called yesterday by the County Chairman of the Anti Recall movement. The chairman appointed two hundred supporters and planned for the circulation of 2500 petitions, each petition holds twenty names. TRe meeting eleot- ed John P Hartman a Seattle law yer as chairman; Grover C. Vim
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
ANOTHER WARNING

The fire department was called out at three o'clock this afternoon to extinguish a small blaze origi- hating in the grass around a va cant cabin at E street and Second avenue. Fortunately the quick re- spOnse of the department extin- guished the flames. which famed by the high winds. was spreading in all directions. Very little dam age was done. although bad COIL migration might have been the re- suit of some careless person throw ing . lish' ed cigar or cigarette butt among. the dry grass, which at this season of the year is so easy to ignite.
 Get busy and cleanup the dead i.'y grass around your cabins.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
NOTICE FINAL sEriLEMtN,

In the prohate court for tltr 'ffpe Nome Precinct Territory of Alaska second Division
 In the matter If the Estate of PER ALBERT PETERSON.
 Deceased NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN to. MARIA PETERSON, nrunamal1 Emmabadc Sweden. that the al ministrator of ihe Estate nf Per Al: bert Peterson has filed in said court his Final Account as such adminis trator and that Saturday, the 18th day of January. 1a27. at thc hour of two o'clock in tho rft"ruunu uf said day has been fixed by the Court as the date of bearing the ubjec- tions. if any. to said report. and that at said time and place he said Probate lud:t" will adiudpr and d'. terminc who the heirs and disti- butecS of dccedent are
 ALBERT POISON,
 Administration
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30

death near the airplane camp at Stanley TeXas Wiscley was a 'siaE sergeant when he procured his disci in order to go with the
 Wilkins Polar Expedition last win tier, h" rerntered the Army service .rr9n his return from the North
 and received thf appointment of
 Flying Cadet and was ordered to train for the regular army com
 mission. During the war he was Il !ient"nant in the infantry, he was unmarried and his home was in Cleveland.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
ALBERT POISON,
 Administrator.

In Probate Court. Cape Nome Precinct. Second Division Territory of Alaska.
 Estate of Alfred IT. Dunham De ceased.
 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator nf the Estate ot Al- fred II. Dunham Deceased and lel- ters testamentary issued tu him by the Probate Court, Cape Nome Pre- cinct. Territory of Alaska and that Creditors having claims against the said Estate are required to present same. verified to the undcrsipucd at Nome, Alaska within 6 months from date hereof.
 Dated at Nome. Alaska, this eud day of October 1926.
 HUGH O'NEILL,
 Administrator Estate of Alfred IT. Durham Deceased.
 Publish 2, 9. l6, 23. 30. 1926.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In Probate Court. Cape Nome Precinct. Second Division. Territory of Alaska.
 Estate of Andy Erie Deoeased
 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Ad- minstrator of the Estate of Andy Erie Deceased and letters testa- mentary issued to him by the Pro bate Court, Cape Nome Precinct. Territory of Alaska. and that Gre ditors having claims against the said Estnte are required to present same, verified to the undersigned at Nome. Alaska within months from date hereof.
 Dated at Nome. Alaska. this 2nd day of October 1926. & x R. w. J. REED,
 Administrator of the Estate of Andy Erie Deceased. !, Publish-oct. 2. g. 1j, .2s. 90. 1928. N
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
THURSDAY
 tTELEGRAPHiC,
EXPLOSION IN BAKERY
 BLOWS ROOF OFF

Juneau, Oct. 2S, R)-An explo- sion last night wrecked the Ameri- can Bakery and damaged the ad- joining jewelry store. It blew ar ticles across the street. Particles of the floor and concrete wer. blown through the roof of the hak- cry. The explosion was under the floor on the top sill. Investigators say that there ig no clew and don't know the motive. The building was on the waterfront next to the theatre where the independent poli- tical rally was staged last Monday night. 5 .. ...
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
TO BIZ HELD
 PORTLAND

| Seattle. Oct. 2G. (P,-J. F. Doug las. q former member of the Rr- publican state Finance Committee testified that the party passed out one hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars in he State during the 1920 campaign. Bullitt who called Doug las. explained that the evidence of fered indicated that over tw.uty- eight thousand was spent in his ed exorbitant.
 Senator McNary announced that he will 20 tu Portland Wpdnesdav to start similar hearings on the rv- pense of the Oregon candidates Piper. the editor of the Portland oregonian tcleeraphed Chairman McNary in reference to the charges that the paper received thirty-fivn thousand for political influence and said. i've demand summary investi- gation and insist hat 1t he held be fore election day"
 w. j Shaw. assistant secretary tn tn" Republican State commilttr. declared that in the 1920 campaip q he Democrats contributed more to the Republican fund than to the democratic fund because of th, strength of the uonpartisan lragur IL" said thai the republicans rc e"iv"d nine thousand dollars this year and have spent seventy hv. hundred dollars.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30

contributed s1,5OO and eight thou sand dollars by the anti-Federal Sunday Closing Law League. Keith
 Built. brother of the candidate, testified that he contributed most of the $9.03O. Bullitt demanded he be confronted with Senator Jones and requested he be given an opportunity to question B. N. Hicks the State Superintendent of the anti-Saloon League, Mrs Jackson Silbraugh. organizer for the w. c. T. U.. Burns Poe the collector for Internal Revenue. Willard Hart the Customs Collector of Seattle.
 Sam Summers. chairman of the State Republican Committee. charg- ed excessive campaign expenditures were made by Bullitt who challeng- ed Summers testimony as incompe- tent. irrelevant and immaterial and was based on hearsay Bullitt said his expense for advertising totall- ed seventeen hundred dollars and that his entire expense for adverti:- ing was three thous.,nd cr!.ars.
 Bullitt charged that Federal Agents were ordered to cease activities and that bootlegg- CTS in the Sta'e was given to under stand they would not be molestcd uptil after election. provided they to the Jones campaign.
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
GOES INSANE AND KILLS WHOLE FAMILY

Marcan. H.. Oct. 25, fPD-W. C.
 Potter aged fifty six. former Sena- tor, also United States District Al torney, in fit of insanity. Satur- day night killed his wife. two dau- ,ghters and two granddaughters one of them only three weeks old, , and then drowned himself in cis- tern in the rear of his home. He crushed the skulls of his victims with an iron furnace shaker. Pot ter has been breeding over financial losses. i'll health and loss of his position as United States Attorney
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30

Chicago. Oct. 26. R-secretary Hoover declared that if the twenty three nations of Europe follow tho American states plan of establish ing free How trade between them selves of Europe. then establish free trade relations with the rest of the world, the purpose Qf the recent manifesto tn which interna- tiOnal bankers advocated the re- mOval of trade barriers could be accomplished. Hoover said the manifesto cannot be directed with any logic at the United States. be- cause in the i've years since the present tarih. American imports from Europe increased hfty-four percent and exports to Europe tn- creased only thirteen percent and "in the face of this Increase. 1t scarcely can be contended that our tarin is destroying European trade. there Is good deal of misund erstanding In Europe and else- where about the barriers on trade with the United States. In the fist instance we have no discrim- intory railroad rates, no subsidies. we make no stipulations on money we loan be spent in the United States. we have no cartels or gov ernment price fixing. therefore onr export is wholly free of impedi- ments."
The Nome nugget., 1926-10-30
NOTICE iJptHEpiruI.

In Probate Court. Cape .>otne Precinct, Sceon't iliti-.iuu larrNjuy of Alaska
 In ike matter ot tho Estatr of Albert Nicalaus kittilsen. Deceased
 Notice is hereby given that thr has been appointed t.S- ecurriX of the Estate of AlIrrt Nj calaus kittilscn, deceased aud lei ters testamentary issued to him by the Probate Court. Cape Nomc pr,- einct. Territory of Alaska. and that Creditors having claims aeainu tht- said Estate are required tn prr. tt.lt same. verified to the uadrriisnrl at Nome. Alaska within t months from date hereof
 bared al Nome Alaska thi4 25th day uf September 1926.
 KATHRYN Ei1rII 2E55,,=
 ENe"n'tiN of f,state of Nlhert E. ialaus k.ttilsen. deceased
 Puhli3h Sept -95. p,r 2" Q 1G g. 1926