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VOLUME XII CAMDEN, 8. 0., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1U0D Mill. OWNERS MEET Cotton Manufacturer* Urge Cur tailing Agreement. Phpartty B?two?n Prict of 3Upl? e?4 Cot too (ioo,di Th*y S?jr, Pratltt^M Operation ?l MilU. ' "_l ' ' ' ? Charlotte, n. C. ? That the present dispmiiy between the price of cot' ton and cotton goods precludes the possibility of the eucceesful operation of southern mills Is the unanlmyus opinion of the hoard of governors of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Awodatlon, which vat in awMrton her*. Resolutions were adopted by the Sard setting forth this fact and ap lntlng a committee of five to formu e a curtailment agreement which every mill in (ho uouth will he Urged to sign. Tho following prominent manufacturers were named as the committer: L. W. Parker, Greenville, 8. C.; W. A. Erwln, .Durham, N. C.; D, A, Tompkins, Charlotte, N. C.; E. A. Smyth, Greenville, S. C.; T. fl. Ronnie, Pell City, Ala. Charlotte waa eelected na the place for tbe 1910 meeting of the associa tion, which will be held the fourth Tuesday in May. Atlanta, Richmond, hi. Louis, Memphis and a half dozen other cities extended Invitations. MAYOR m fULICE AHME3IEI). Official* of lowa Town Held by ths Government. Davenport, Iowa.? -Mayor O, L. In* gledue of Marshalltown, lowa, his chief of polico and the entire police force, as well as Deputy Sheriff C. B. Kelson, were all Indicted by a federal grand jury for imprisoning for more than twenty-four hours gov ernment agents who wero seeking ev idence agalmst Marshalltown saloons. Mayor tngledue and his officers -are charted with throwing Everett' E. Van Wert, a special offlcor of the United Stales Indian service, Into jail at Marehailtown and keeping him there more than twenty-fOur -hours. Van Wert had been detailed to Inves tigate alleged Bales of liquor at Mar shalltown to Indians from the Tama reservation, eomo miles distant. He Is said to have sent an Indian Into Wenger's saloon to buy liquor In order to obtain evidence. The Indian and Rev. Mr. Smith, a Jocal minister, were arrested and placed in jail with Van Weit. . ' KISSES LEAD TO DIVORCE, Nebraska Woman Says Husband Was Too Affectionate, f Trenton, Neb.? Mrs. Harriet Ms Grew Insists that there Is a limit to all things, even to the kisses of h?r HUSband, John P. McGrew. As a re-: cult of his exceeding the limit, she _ has nought the . divorce courts of Hitchcock county, where she has ap plied for a divorce^ alleging that he has kissed and insisted uptfn pissing until the cruelty stage has been reached. ? . In her petition Mrs. McGrew sohrrfj that for six months she stood the kissing without n murmur, supposing that in time tbovpracllce would Be dropped to a certain extent; but In stead of becoming less the kisses have bccome more frequent. She avers that while her husband hae been spending his time kissing, the weeds have growni "higher than .the wheat and tho hay, hnd generally things hnve.jgono to the bad. VNmm iiTdoel Florida Men Settle. Quarrel With Pistols. Jacksonville, Fla. ? In a pistol duel at Lake Butler, C. A. Rich and John - Parker wore both killed. Rich, who Is a son of N. L. Rich, president of tbe Bradford County Bank, met Parker, who Is a travel ing man out of Gainesville, In one of the Lake Butler drug stores, where they quarreled. Both left the store, but met at the railroad station later and commenced to fire at each other. Rich was Instantly killed and . Par ker received a bullet wound In the breast, which caused his death half an hour later. HEAL BANK lg PAY DIVIDEND. Defunct Atlanta Bank T^a? Sold Val* ? Uable Cuban Landa. Atlanta, Ob. ? By the sale of $700, 000 of tho -big tract of Cuban land owned Jointly by the defunct Neal Bonk Of Atlanta and G. T. LajlSon, $45,000 is added to the funds already to the ' credit of the depositors and makes poealble nn immediate dividend of approximately fourteen per cent. Whether or not f uch a dividend will be paid H problematical and some thing to be determined later on. If the plan of the receiver to pay no dividend lesa than twenty per cent Is adhered to, ro dividend will be paid until more funds are available. 17 KIILEO IN TRAIN WRECK. . . Work Train en the Santa Fm Collided With Freight Train. - ? Top?* a; Kan*.-? Seventeen person a were killed and ten aeverely Injured In a collision between a freight train and a construction train on the Atch ison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad near here. Among the dead are 11 Mexicans. The work train waa backing Into Topeka with fifty Mexicans riding on the flat cars. As the' train was round curve the northbound freight . crashed into It. The engine on the freight rai over the four flat cars comprising the work train and almost a score" of men were slpned down. mm mi nmm. Admiral* Dfw?y m4 Cvuh Say Jt k Not a Bluff. Washington, D. C. -Defending with characterlatlc vigor the American nav/. Admiral George Dewey MHHtrl od that not only la our navy not a "bluff," but ttiat bo la confident It would give ? good account of Itself should war over oome. The admiral a remarks were called forth by a atatement attributed to for mer Representative Laud is of India* na. who, In a receut speech at Cin cinnati, Ohio, In advocating ahlp sut*. ? H7, la reportad to have aald that, "tboae Americana who are Informed consider our navy a bluff." The expression waa characterised by Admiral Dewey as an unfortunate oc currence. Admiral Dewey aald that, of opuraa, what Mr. Landls meant wm that the navy would be comparatively uaeleaa In time of war without necessary auxiliaries drawn from the merchant marine. "He," continued Admiral Dewey, "wante A subsidy for our shlpa of commerce and ao do 1." Washington, D. C.? "I am In sym pathy with every word the president baa raid aa to the necoaalty for ahlp subsidy and with that movement"* ag a whole, but I haven't any patience with that class of Individuate who. In their advocacy of that program, try to belittle the American navy." That was the cauatlc comment made . by Admiral "Fighting Bob" Bvans re? ;urd!ng the speech at Cincinnati by former Representative Charles D. Lan dls, wherein the Indlanlan declared that "those Americana who are oln formcd consider our navy a bluff," In the course of his plea for a mer chant marine from which could be drawn the snllora for Uncle Sam's ships. "Mr. Landls," said the admiral grim ly, "makea the mistake of a lot of gentlemen of his profession ? that of talking of things about which he knows nothing. Of course, we noed a merchant marine, but this talk about the navy being a 'bluff' Is all ? d rot." , FIVE mm IN FIBL Fire of 8uppos?d Incendiary Origin In Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn. ? The grocery store owned by J. A. Thuss at Blghth ave nue, North and Jefferson streets, waa burned early and four persons perv ished in the building and one subse quently In the city hospital. The fire | Is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. It appeals that tho building was in full blaze before any of the family awoko and the destruction of the stairway cut off their escape. In dications are' that the Ore originated undor the stalrwayX Tho amoke filled *he upper floor and Nlhree of tho vie Urns died of suffo^au^n.^, y?,09i)^gPnmtniUAUs bauds. Iltv*r> of the Southern ftis&ea Are Are Constructing Highways. Acheville, N. C.-^-ln an address be fore the Southern Appalachian Good Roadrf Convention G. Grosvenor Dawe, managing director of the Southern Commercial Congress, announced that eleven Southern States had, since March, voted $17,956,000 In good ,road bonds. The states voting over $1, ouo.uoo were. In the order named, Tex as, Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida and Virginia. Aoto Relay Kace tods. Seattle, Wash. ? '1 he Philadelphia Press relay automobile run ended at tho steps of the Washington state bul.'dlng on the Alaska- Vukon-Pacliic exposition grounds, Octobcr 6, wiien H. J. Kingston and Lewis C. Straus, the couriers, formally delivered to President J. B. Childbourg of the ex position, Mayor John F.. Milton of Seattle and Governor* M. B. Hay greetings from President Taft and va rious governors and mayors. The first car left tho city halt at Philadel phia at 13:30 p. m.. September 25. new Directors far Seaboard By. ? v New York City.? -The reorganiza tion committee of the 8eaboard Air Line Railway at a meeting with the board of directors increased the dl rectorate to nineteen members. Three directors, Thomas A. Ryan of New York, Major J. H. Dooley of Rich* mond and William A. Garrett of Nor folk, were not re-elected. The fol lowing were elected to fill their placet and the three positions created: L. P. Lores, John B. Ramsay John Skel ton Williams. J. William Middendorf, Franklin C. Brown and Hennon Jen nings. ? Jlgetf Woman Sees First Train. . Asheville, N. C.? Mrs. A. M. Buck* ner of the Big Ivy section, arrived in Asheville and saw, for the Anytime in her life, a street car and a rail road train. Mrs. Buckner, wbo has spent the seventy-live years of her Hfe 25 miles from this city, Is the mother of seventeen living ohlldren, and It in fnll possession of her faculties. Canker Walsh Must Serve 9 Tears. Chicago, 111. ? The United States cir cuit court of appeals handed down* dcctslon, confirming the decree of ths lower court sentencing John R.Walsh to ths federal penitentiary at Port Leavenworth, Kans., for Ave years, for misapplying the fundi of his banks. Hs will appeal hie case to the United States supreme court. ' ; < v Sunday Baseball UtefaL ~ Indianapolis, Ind.-r-Jndge PritchareS hold as unconstitutional ths law per* mttQMr Sunday baneball in his 111* structlons prepared to he delivered to the Jury In the Carr case, after ths attorneys had completed their argu ments. a Prairie Hre -vtJHH of western Canada >as been raging 1 between here and Hutton for the past NO JOINT MANEUVERS Regular* and Militia Will Camp Together Every Second Year. | IS UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP C ft tie* ?f tkt RmmI M?u?T?ri Around B? >w Claim TUt Guard ?? IM No Food for Ortr 24 Hoert. Washington, D. 0. ? Joint maneuv er* of the regular army and the Mr Uonal guard are a xhUa* vt tb* past; at leaet there will be no repetition of the reoent Boston campaign, aa long aa the present directing forces In the war department are in control. Soma valuable lessons were lea rued Id that period of atreaa and privation, but the coat In human Buffering la held by the war department officials to have b?*n out of all proportion to the benefits derived. They are now convinced that all of the real utility that waa taught to the militiamen could Just aa well have been Imparted through other mean* and without filling tue hospi tal cota during the campaign. The general officers of the regular army and of the national guard, who Jointly planned and participated In the -Boston campaign inalai that It waa a great success. Not so' the of ficials of .-the war department, who are now rsokonlng with the results. It Is true that the mllltlaffien got a taate of conditions aa they max lat In actual warfare. But for tho moat part, they returned to their homes a disheartened and dlsoourag ed Bet of men. Crltlca of the maneuvers now de clare that the brunt of the suffering fell upon the private, who, It la claim* ed, did not need that sort of Instruc t ton , while the officer could' have re ceived it otherwise. They - contend that oompany, regimental at}d battal ion drill Id any of tho usual yearly encampments of the national ?uard with the addition of a little system atic cross country marching from tlmo to time, will* sufficiently tnatruct the prlvata; while larger and more com plex Information needed by the mili tia officers can be imparted through officers' schools. Complaints from the guardsmen en gaged In the Boston maneuvers alleg ed bad food ; no food at *11 for 24 hours at a time; lack of transporta tion; Ill-fitting shoes and*-ta*flitng un suited to the weather. "For these things the staff officers of tho guard, it is declared here, were largely to blame and systematic Instruction by regular officers and i<iacikui ohaorva tlon of the manner In which they han dled their own mon would have pre vented many lamentable faults. Taken as a whole, last summer's campaign Is held to have taught some lessons almost worth th? cQ6t. For Instance, it was shown conclusively that men of sedentary habits cannot safely be called Into open field service wltkout gradually being Inured into Its hardsnlps and that a week's en campment under wall tents In a care fully prepared camp does not fit the men .for the hardships of a ^eal field campaign. Nor can a drill once a weok In a sheltered armory place tho guardsmen on a footing witty! tho reg ular soldiers. The guardsman has still to learn how to take clfrc of his health;? tb pitch hla own Ttent and cook his own meals*, to find shelter In action, even at the expense of apt itude in marching movements and finesse In the mauual of arms. JPINT MANEUVERS ' I DEFENDED BY WOOD New York City. ? The crlttc8 of the joint maneuvers of the regular army and "the national guard, vho havo bean predicting that the Boston cam paign of the past summer will be the last of such joint 'operations be cause 6f hardships and suffering of the militiamen was all out of propor tion to the lessons learned, were an vwered by Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the department of the east. General Wood slid: "It is not true to say that the hard ships were all out of proportion to the lessons learned. In the . flrat place, thefo were no hardships. No complaint has come from the men or officer*. There were possibly 5 per ceqt of the militiamen dissatisfied wtlh the manouvers, and they were the proportion which would prefer life In a camp. * "On the other hand, the lessons learned wero Invaluablo. One of them is that we haven't enough regulars or militiamen ready for mobilization to defend a city against such an attack aa was made agaln6t Boston. The other Is that it builds up the spirit of co-operation between the regular army and the national guard. 'The total cost of the whole cam paign, with all its incidental expenaes, has been under $100,000." EHflimiHa BtU TAX Tsnnaaaea Dealers Are Uable for $V 600 Per Yssr, ,y Nashville, Tenn. ? It ban been offi cially decided that near beat dealers her* are liable for a tax of $1,600 par year each, the atata, the county and the elty each getting $500.. Pursuant to instructions received from Jamea R. Jetton of Murfreesbo ro, state revenue agent' for middle Tennessee,. Courity Clerk P. A. Shei. ton will commence the collection of a state and count ytax of 91.000 per year from proprietors of stores where are eold near beer, beerttte, neubru, etc. There la now due from each deal er payment* for two quarters, or six months. 1 tPKBAT ITUBT MMEB. ' ^ ?mdsirta W DoJ^hefr Work la , tlx Da ye. Anstla, Texas.? in his adlreeee* to cmh ctmtnet joint Gofmorof AUIhrom Hu No Confidence in Uttfiity el Job??. Montgomery, Ala.? Governor R. I). Comer, In an lutervlew for the press, frankly states that he has no confi dence lu Thomas G. Jones, judge of the federal court, for the middle and northern districts of Alabama, and make* a fierce attack on tho integrity of the Jurist In answer to an interview given out by Judge Jones attacking the governor some weeks ago, The trouble dates &ack two years, 1 to the time When Judge Jonoe enjoin- 1 ed the rate laws made by the legisla ture, and the threats that were then made that no attention would be glv? en to the rulings. it* that tleo? Governor Oom?r w4 to Washington to get President Roose velt to take a hand against the rul ings of Judge Jones, but wai told, he says, ,that the president could do nothing, this being a matter lor the courts, but the president did tell him, he said, that If Jones sent any state officer to Jail for contempt of oourt, appeal might bo taken to hlin, Inti mating that he would help in this way. "I have criticised Judgo JonoB, Gov ernor Comer says, "and have ' stated that on account of his environment he was not fitted to sit upon the rate cases In Alabama." , WANT NAliUNAL KUKI AU Of HEALTH. President Taft Will Make Reoommen datior) to Congre?. Washington, p. C. ? President Taft will recommend to tho next session of congress the establishment of a na tional bureau of health to be under the supervision of the federal"govera ment and to comprise all the various government agencies which are now in oxlstence for tho preservation of public health. The idea is to-oonsol idate under ono hoad all the present bureaus, and this would tako In the Inspection bureau of Immigration san Ration now conducted by the war de partment, pure food Inspection at pres ent "carried on by the department of agriculture, and tho quarantine work of the public health and marine hos pital service, which is under the ju risdiction of the treasury department. ANNIVLKSAKT UF FAMOUS BATTLE. Monument Erected on Kjng's Moun tain Battlefield by Government. Charlotte, N. C.-? 'King's Mountain Day," tho anniversary of the battle of King's Mountain, 8. C., In which 900 brave "mountain men" won a vic tory over the British forces, num bering 1,200, on 'October 7, 1780, dur ing the struggle of the United Colo nics for thoir independence from Great Dritain, was fittingly commem orated in both South Carolina ana Tennossoe. ' . On tho buttlcfield a monument wliteli has been erected by the United States government at a cost of 930,000, was dedicated with appropriate cerormF nles. *? At Fort Watauga, near Johnson City, Tenni., the point from which the men under Campbell, Shelby and 8ovIer started for King's Mountain, the Daughters of the American Rev olution dedicated a monument. immlim chiloben~ barred. Race Butcld* Landlords May Have to Let Children In Apartments. Chicago, ill. ? Raco suicide * land lords In Chicago must submit to a test In the courts of a new state law, which bocame effective July J, last, forbidding them to refuso to rent apartments to families with children. R. P. Longenecker, a tenant, re fused renewal of a lease of an apart ment" hecauBe a child had been born to him therein, brought suit against the landlord undor the new statute, demanding that the landlord bo forc ed to renew him the lease. JUSriCE MOODY ILL He May Never flit Again on Supremo Court Ben6h. Warhlngton, D. ? C. ? Associate Jus tice William H. Moody of the supreme court of the United States may never sit on that benoh again. Information received by friends In this city in dicates that hie condition as he lies In his homo at Haverhill, Mass., is desperate. . T. W. Leary Heads Southern Express. New York City. ? T. W. Leary of Atlanta, Ga., former first vice presi dent of the Southern Express Compa ny, was elected president of the coro pany at a meeting of tho directors nere. > ^ Newsy Paragraphs. When seen at Nashville, Tenn., re garding a special dispatch from Wash intgon published in Now York to the effect that he was contemplating re signing from the cabinet because of Illness in his family and the recent death of his daughter-iu law, Secreta ry cf War J. M. Olcklnson said: "I am not contemplating resigning from the cabinet." The International balloon race for the Oordon Bennett cup was won by Edgar W. Mix, the American aero naut of Columbus, Ohio, who . will take the cup to the United States. Mr. Mix started from* Zurich, Ger many, and landed north of Warsaw, In Poland Russia. He won with plen ty of time to spare from Alfred Le Blanc, the French pilot, hie compan ion in the St. Louis race of 1907, who came down at Kubln, Hungary: Evelyn Brlggs Baldwin, Command* ?r Peary's paeteorologiat in 18*93-94 and leader of the Baldwln-Zeigler expedition of 1901-02, announced that he Intended to try to reach the north pole by drifting with the toe across the North Polar sea. He expects to be prepared for a stay of four years. Two weeks of mimic warfare, par ticipated in by the companies of the coast artillery stationed at Fort Bar rancas, Pickens and McRae, com menced - at Pensacola, Fla., when four companies went acrose the hay "t?r~8dfettd Tort rickeaa from attacks, from the other forts. 'About ?one thousand men will take part la the maneuvers of the regular troops on the gulf coast. One of tho feattires fibroin tho golfcX numbW.uC lunny mm OH GUlf GQASl Key West is Caught and Suf fers Severely. ? .? I FATALITY NOT GREAT HOWEVER Estimated Damage $2,000,000 ? Wood and Brick Buildings Tumble Allk? ? Storm Takes to the Ocean and Relief la Tell. Key West, Fla., Special. ~-Aa a re-, suit of (he hurricane which struck the Southern const of Florida Mon day morning, Key West Monday night is a mass wreckago ami the dnmago to property in estimated at .$2,000, 000. Martial law wan proclaimed by the mayor at 0 o'clock and the Key Went guards are patroling the city. The United States government was asked to dispatch troops here without delay, ,to assist in patroling the storm swept ana. Chaos reigned on every hand and few people remained in their homes, hundreds of which were either totally wrecked or damaged. It i? known that many persons have received moro or less serious injury and reports are current that several lives were lost. The storm reached its height at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, when the wiml reached an estimated velocity of 100 miles an hour. There was a hard, steady blow from H a. m. to 3 |-p. m., when the wind began to die down and by 4 o'clock t ho center of tho hurricane had passed this point. The h.urricaue is the worst that Key West has ever experienced. Of one hundred local vessels in the har bor Monday but five remained at an chor, the others having either gone to sea or been washed upon the beach es. ? The streets along the water front were a mass of wreckage. Bric.k ns well as frame dwellings throughout the city suffered alike from the fury of the heavy wind and many miraculous escapes from death or serious injury have been reported. Besides tho Bcveral 'score of resi dences 'either totally wrecked or blown from their ^pillars, nine fac tories were partially destroyed, in cluding the Havana-American, Mar tinez, Nichols, Ruy Lopez, Manuel l.opez, Flotaa Torriw, Cortes and | VVoit cigar manufactories. ~ No. 1 and No. 2 engine houses of | .the riity firo - depart menfr were dc stroyed, tho firemen narrowly escap ing, but several of the horses being killed. The top of the First National Hank was blown off, tho postoffice damaged and two running gears of the government coaling station were wrecked. Every telephone and electric light pole on Duval street, tho principal thoroughfare of the city, were blown down. Great fears were suffered for other points along the Voast, but at 0:30 Tuesday night the weather bureau re lieved further fears with tho follow ing dispatch: "Down hurricane warning 10 p. m., Mobile, Pensaeola, Panama City. Ap palachicoln, Carrabelle, Cedar Kcyj, Rockwell, Tampa, Punt a Gorda, Pun ta Hassa, Key West. Storm centers southeast Florid* ' moving northeast. Apparently no farther danger on the Gulf coast. Cuba in Storm. Havana, By Cable. ? The most ser ious cyclone since the big blow of October 17, 3900', struck Cuba <yirly Monday morning, causing extensive devastation through the whole west ern portion of the island. In tho city of Havana many minor buildings I were blown down or unroofed, almost all the trees were uprooted and five persons were killed one by nn elect ri* wire and the others by falling build ings. About twenty-five persons were injured. ? " t S. A. L. Makes Progressive Step. Richmond, Va., Special. ? .John Skclton' Williams is back from the meeting of tho- reorganization com mittee and tho board of directors of -the Seaboard Air Line system in New York. Ho Spooks encouragingly of tho system and the harmony and co operation hoped for among interested parties. The system has recently ab sorbed five smaller systems in the far South aggregating, nearly 400 miles. Seems a Horrible Murder. Tiverton, R. I., Special. ? The find ing of the severed legs of a woman in a dress suit case among some bushel in an outlying section of this town Monday brought to light what the authorities are convinced is a case ol murder. The discovery of a New Bedford newspaper of Sunday's dat? with the portions of the limbs is re garded as the most important elue thus far obtained, indicating possible the place of the murder, if murdei there was. The authorities wire of the opinion that tho woman was mur dered in New Bedford. Tells Friend of Killing Man and ia :?> Arretted. ; ? ? ? . Tampa, Fla., Special.? Wanted in 1 Clinch.. county, Georgia, for the mur J.der of Christening, W. Wl Delks wai arretted here Monday night. Delki was telling a friewd of U?a killing while riding into TWW heiaiha man wanted and $p Gaofcia authorities have been with. ' illlH Hi Battle of Kings Mountain Commemorated With Grand Monument? Day of Speech-Making and Patriotic Pride. King's Mountain Bottlo. Ground, Bpeeirj. ? Thousands of people jour-, noyed Thursday on a patriotic pil yi imayy. TJw? Jog rvvivJ Kifty '* Mountain wan tint shrine of their Booking. Hero in t ho presence of the official hoods of North and South ] Carolina two United Slates Sena tors and two Representatives ip Con- 1 gross besides others prominent in the officialdom of two States, official dedication was accorded the King's Mountain monument a signal recog nition by tho Congress of Ihe United Stales of tho valorous part played in the war of independence by the sol diers of the south. It was a day of many features. Pre sided over by Gov. Marin F. Ansel of South Carolina, Ihe exorcises of tho morning which were prolonged into tho afternoon were entirely interest ing. Undoubtedly they were to the audience gathered from a vast ex pause of .many counties in two or more Commonwealths, For never Ihj fore did such an audience, of whom the majority stood the entire time, listen for three hours and a .half- to constant making of speeches without tho slightest exhibition of restless ness. Never had lonesome Kings Moun tain been host to such a con course. For a day or two in advance strag glers had been coming in wagons, harbingers of the hosts to follow. From Gaston, from Cleveland, from York, from Chester, from Spartan burg, from Mecklenburg, Worn Mc Dowell, from Cabarrus, from Lan caster, from Union, even from Bun combo they had come-, tho earliest ar -rivala. pitching camp by the roadside and in tho woods in true pioneer ioahion, ? ? Before dawn an endless stream of carriages and buggies and wagons were rattling and rumbling along the winding ways. Three roads, that from Kings Mountain, that from - Grover and that from Yorkvillo had been put in excellent condition by public appropriations /and private subscriptions inspired by civic pride. Contributing most brightly to the animation of tho occasion was the delegation of Daughters of Iho Ameri can Revolution from Charlotte, l'roni Yorkvillo and other places. Tho Charlotte delegation, of course, in cluded tlvj delegates who woro there attending tho North Carolina, Con gross of that organization. It .is doubt full if ever befox*e so many rep resentatives of feminine culture, re finement and loyal patriotism (limb ed breathlessly the cliff which the plateau overtops. Seven companies of tho national guard of North and South Carolina wore present, Friday they reproduced tlio battle of Kings Mountain with tho deathless cartridges. One of those companies is from "North Caro lina, "(he Dallas company, under the command of Cnpt. A. L. Bull winkle. Tho others are respect ively from Hock Hill, Fort Mill, Columbia, Corn wall, Yorkvillo ami Spartanburg. In command of these provisional troops' wa* Col. W. W. Lewis of tlva First lnlantry. In general charge of tlk> whole oxerciaea was Col. J. C. Boyd of Columbia, 8. C? Adjutant General. The monument ia the third erected in honor of the horoea of this turning point of the revolutionary struggle. Col. Aahury Coward, chairman of the executive committee, in present ing Gov, Ansel to preside over the meeting said: } "Thia beautiful day ushers in a day rendered glorious for the deed accomplished on Oetoher 8, 1780. It i? the most notable that can be found in till our annals. " It ia peculiarly a matter of com pelling pride because the result of the battle was due to the spontaneous ini tial ive the plain people of that whole section and others contribut ing of their men to the American toreeH on that occasion. Jt was here oh thia lonely a|x>t tlmt the represen tative of a foreign power was over thrown and a triumph achieved whieh laid the foundation for the realisa tion of the Declaration of Indeipen dence and the existence of the con stitution of the United States~~the repository of all our liberties. "The dead were left unburied after the battle and the place was avoided an haunted territory. Then, about dO years later, the neighbors came again, buried them at the foot of a stone which recorded their deeds in eiaaple language. In 1855 tho counties recog-?; nixed the significance of what had happened and gathered to give ex pression to appreciation. Men like John S. Preston and the great his torian Bancroft, spoke with eloquence of the part played by the men at Kings Mountain. Later came the other monument. And so the recog nition has spread. First the neigh bors then the count ietL-tfem the State and now the United States haqr placed its m'iiI of approval Wd apppreeia tiotf." The moiiui'iioiii first erected is a simple soap >t one slab. The second is much more pretentious in monu The third for which Congress ap propriated $'50,000, is a granite, shaft 8.11-2 feet high, with inscriptions *ai follows: On tho north and front face:. greeted by the Government of the United States of America, to tho establishment^ of wbieh the heriosm and patriotism of thosa who participated in this battle so largely contributed, ~ . ' ?' ' West face: I commemorate tho victory of King's, Mountain, Octdbcr 7, 1780. On the cast face the names 6f the killed, the mortally wounded and the less seriously wounded are itfscribcd. President Snyder of Wofford Col lege was the orator of the day. He was measurably brief but ejoquent and historic to the delight of the vast assembly. Senator Overman apd Gov. Kitohin of North Carolina, Senator Smith and Congressman D. E. Finley of South Carolina each addressed the enthuai astie audience. Congressman Webb was detained at home by sicknesp of liis son and his address was read by Congressman Pag*, his colleague in Congress. The whole occasion was the ege cut ion Of a program most inspiring to young patriots ?nd pride insipiring to tho descendants of the heroes whose nobte deeds the handsome shaft stands as a perpetual memorial. DRIFTED BY THE STORM Port Arthur, Tex., Special. ? Water logged, dismantled and with the deeks barely above the water, as flbc was being towed by the OufTey Company ?tcamer Winifred, the Kate Floro, ! Capt. Whitney, from Mobile to Cuban ports, limped into f>ort Friday with \yhat was left of the crew in the throes of starvation. Of the crew of ?even which sailed from Mobile, "Fri day night five are in the hospital THEY WERE PERISHING with slight chances of recovery, while _ another was washed overboard in the. recent hurricane* and a second died of starvation shortly before and came to the helpless vessel, washed hun dreds of miles out of her course. The Kate Flore sailed from Mobile about September 12, with a cargo of lumber for Cuban ports. Encounter* ing the hurricane, the boat was strip ped to the decks and waterloggwfc THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY IS STILL DUBIOUS Washington, Special.? The follow ing resolution was adopted at the meeting of the board of managers of j the National Geographical Society held at Hubbard Memorial Hall as' an introduction to the reports of Dr. A. Cook, and Commander R. E. Peary, to be printed in the magazine of the society: "We print herewith the report? of Dr. F. A. Cook and Commander R. B. Peary announcing the discovery of the #ortfcPolpr April 21, 1908, and April 6, 1909. Before the society can, WEsrom JMINS colli Topeka, Kan., Special. ? Seventeen persons Were killed and ten severely jinjnrcd in * eottt*i6a"^^lween a ' freight train and a construction train on the. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo railroad near he*e Friday. The dead are eleven Mexican*, four *;<*ion licvod some of tjfe injured are faURy F lajnred. The work- 1 , into Toneka wUh <11 linion the flat car*. however, accept the conclusions of either Commander Peary or Dr. Cook that the North Pole haa been attain ed it will be necessary that the scien tific records and data of each exploit er be carefully examined by its committee on research or by some body or commission acceptable to the bo?rd. 41 The society takes thia position, not from any distrust of the personal integrity of either explorer, but be cause of the many calculations that enter into the determination of" the pole." DE Wm SlMf SCVtNTtai