Madison County Record from Marshall, North Carolina • Page 8

HELD DP AND ROBBED GREENSBORO'S BIG WEEK NORTH STATE Occurrences gf Interest Gleaned HAPPENINGS From All Section tf the Busy and Miiia Oat Hay For Horses. Cat hay makes an excellent feed for horses, from the pure straw point of view, with the seed threshed out. Oats furnish the very best Coarse cereal roughage. Many persons feed oats in the straw The ljprses relish both straw and grain in this form. In certain sections It is quite a common custom to sow oats in the spring, and later when the crop is well advanced to cut and euro as hay, the same as one.

would handle timothy or 'other hay crops. In this case the crop Is not quite so mature as it would be if treated for thresh Ing out the grain. If well cured this makes a bright and very palatable hay. The experiment stations say oat E. Murom, a Durham Liveryman and Hone-Trader, Held Up Near East Durham by Three White Men and Besides Being Bobbed, It Shot Twice in Arm.

Durham, N. Special Late Wednesday night C. E. Mangum, a liveryman and horse-trader of this city, drove to police headquarters with two pistol balls through his, left arm and a hole through his trousers, made, he said, in a fight for his purse of which he was robbed and with it $3,700. Mangum had been to Raleigh trading horses, collecting money and foreclosing mortgages.

The trip through the country rras made in a single buggy and he was leading four norses. jNear East Uurham, under a tree, three unmasked men ran out and seizing him by the throat, took his pistol from his belt, while he squalled so as to alarm the neighborhood. The robbers tore his clothes nearly off and, securing-his purse, jerked him out of the bueev. They opened fire upon him the ten remembered snots lie says aewas touched three times. The men ran and Were not identified.

Mangum came first to" 'Squire Morton in East Dur ham, about 10:30 and gave the alarm. Sheriff Howard aud nil officers were notified and began a search. He is inclined to hot air, but the officers say they have seen him recently dis porting unusual amounts of money and one policeman vouches for the amount alleged to have been lost. Springfield Rioter Found Not Guilty. Springfield, 111., Special.

Abraham Raymer, charged with leading mob that lynchecTWilliam Donnegan, a negro 80 years old, during riots, was found not guilty. The jury was out three hours and took only one ballot. As soon as the verdict was announced Raymer grasped the hand of each juror and made a speech thanking them. This is the first not case involving a total of 117 indictments. It was proved that Raymer was a member of the mob and the court held that any member of the mob was guilty in the eyes of the law, but the jury acted on the lack of evidence to prove that Ray mer had a hand in the actual lynching- Mayor Commits Suicide.

Tampa, Special. In the presence of his wife, who had just told him good-bye, intending to begin proceedings for divorce, Francisco Mi-, lian, mayor of West Tampa, com-' mitted suicide in a bedroom at his residence Wednesday afternoon by placing the muzzle of a revolver in his mouth and discharging two bullets through his brain. His wife had decided to leave him and when she said farewell, Millian replied: "It is best to end everything now," and suicided. Millian -served terms as mayor of West Tampa, and enjoyed the respect of all citizens. He was a Cuban by birth.

Louis Millian, a son of the deceased, states that he had made two attepmts to commit suicide recently. The Hains Trial New York, Special. An extraordinary term of the Supreme Court in Queens county was convened Monday with Justice Garret; J. Garret-son presiding, to facilitate the trial of the Hains brothers for the murder of William Annis. Attorneys for Capt.

Peter and T. Jenkins Hains likely attempt to delay the trial as long as possible and it is unlikely that the brothers will face judge and jury before next month or November. "The special term of court was ordered by Governor Hughes in order that the Hains brothers might be tried without unnecessary delay. Forest Tires Still Raging. Bhinelanderj Special Satnit a settlement of half dozen homes, three miles east, of Rhinelander, was destroyed by fire Tuesday.

The settlers fled to Moens Lake, where they are cared for. No loss of life has been reported. Rhinelander is now regarded as safe, and the fires have quieted by-lack of wind. Case Goes Against B. O.

Baltimore, Special The application of "the Baltimore Ohio Jtail-road Company. -for preliminary in junction to restrain the 'Interstate Commerce Commission from snfore ing an order relative to coal car dis tribution was "denied by the States Circuit Court here. The order which thT railroad, company objected was one Teqniring the railroad company to include so-called and "foreign railway ifuel" ears a making np its percentage of i allotments or. cars. Escaped Convict Taken.

Lynchburg, Special fleorge Wilson, colored, was arrested here Monday a'sa fugitive from North CaroUhar where he escaped while doing a fifteen-year term for criminal assault. He was sfnt up from Smith-field to Raleigh and escaped from the road -force in Hyde county some months ago. He was picked. up. on suspicion by Special Agent Fortescue and made a confession.

I Centennial Will be an Occasion of More Than Ordinary Interest. Greensboro, Special. The week ot October llth-17th will be observed here as "centennial and home-coming week," in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the found ing of the village that has grown intc the prosperous aud progressive cit.v of Greensboro. Committees of lead ing citizens have been at work foi months planning to make the-event the greatest affair of the kind evei witnessed in any Southern State. Nothing has been left undone tb add to the comfort, pleasure, instruction and edification of the many thousands of visitors expected in the city during the week.

The municipal, county, state and national govern, ments are contributing to the sue cess of the occasion. The centennial exercises proper will open Monday, October 12th, with a parade of 10,000 Guilford county school children, headed by a United States military band and reviewed by Governor Glenn, Senators Simmons and Overman, and distinguished educators. The parade will end at the auditorium where the centennial oration will be delivered by Dr. George T. Winston probably the foremost living Nort'i Carolinian.

At 2:00 o'clock in the af ternoon will be held the opening ses sion of the United States Peace Con gress, which will be one of the great est features of the centennial. Sessions of the congress will be held daily during the session and amonj; the distinguished non-resident visi tors expected are Hon. James Briee, ambassador from Great Britain; Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson, a member of Congress from Alabama, and United States Senator McCreary. of Kentucky, president of the congress.

Thursday will mark one of the most important features of the occasion, a good roads conference, participated in by delegates from all sections of the country. The annual fair of the Central Carolina Fair Association will be held during centennial week, and in view of the large influx of visitors expected, the management has planned to make it the greatest and the most cerditable exhibition State has ever witnessed along lines. The railroads will give ii'- duced rates. North State Brevities. Col.

J. R. Lane, of the immortal Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, is desperately ill at his home in western Chatham. He has pneumonia with some other complications. The Warsaw graded school and county high school has closed the first month of the current term with the largest enrollment and the best average attendance of any month in the history of the rschools.

Miss Anna T. Jones, who for the past four years taught in the High Point public schools, has resigned Miss Jones some time ago volunteered as a foregin missionary and will go to East Africa in November. Mr. A. H.

Slocomb, of Fayetteville who was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the sixth district and who at first declined the nomination, has decided to acccept the oner, and will make a canvass of the district. Saturday, October 3d, will be a big day in the history of Thomasville. A grand fireman's tournament has been arranged and an interesting programme will be carried out. It it the intention to make the day brim full of excitement from early in tht morning to very late at night. The programmo lias been arranged for the benefit of the Thonjasvillp fire department.

While attending recently the convention of druggists at Atlantic City. Mr Charles R. Thomas, of Thomasville, entered the contest in the exhibit halWor the identification of 50 specimens of botanical druge mentioned in the United States Pharmacopoeia and Saturday he was notified that he had won third prize and would receive it in a few days. This contest was entered into by druggist from all parts of the United States. Buys Fine Wood Inn.

Southern Specials-One the most important events hat hat transpired in Southern Pines, recently is the sale of the Piney Woods Inn to J. M. Robinson, who has for two years been at the head of two of the Pinehurst hotels!" Mr. Robinson is a hotel man who has made a success at the business aad win. take the Piney Woods Inn, which is one of the largo hotels of the and put it on a business basis.

Double Tobacco Sales to be put on. W.inston-Salem, to the "enormous quantities of tobacco coming to the local market, double saleswin be started at all the warehouses. Good prices will rule and the farmers are mightily pleased shows up well now, exparts say. The better qnalities are coming, in. Some record, "breaks expected this week.

eel State New Steamboat Line in Operation. Washington, N. Special. The new steamboat line recently organis ed in this city by Captains J. Dixon and H.

M. Bonner, who form erly were in the employ of the Nov folk Southern Railroad Company on the steamer Hatteras plying be tween this citv and Belhaven, which recently discontinued, has now com menced runnning on schedule time, The steamer Blanche has been chart ered by these gentlemen and is now giving a tri-weeklv service between this1' city and Belhaven and other points on lower Pamlico river. The steamer leaves this city one day and returns the next. It is rumored that these gentlemen will put on another large steamer at an earlv date for handling freight exclusively. Drug Company Placed in Receiver's Hands.

Goldsboro, Special. 'The Higgins Drug Company of this place, went into the hands of a receiver upon nu action of the National Bank of Golds boro. Judge O. H. Allen, of Kinston at chambers appointed l(r.

B. H. Griffith, proprietor of the Kennon Hotel, temporary receiver who was bonded in the sum of The assets are estimated at $7,500 and the indications are that the firm will be able to pay all indebtedness and in a short while resume business again. Supposed Murdered Boy Turns Up. Winston-Salem, Special.Jarfield Tilley, the young white man who disappeared Tuesday night, alarming his family so that they feared foul play and had the sheriff and a score of deputies scouring the woods hereabouts in a search for him, appeared at his father's home in good health.

He would not say where he had been since Tuesday night. Immigration Office at Wilmington. Wilmington, Special. W. R.

Morton, of Norfolk, has been designated by the government to open an immi gration office here during the heavy shipping to and from foreign ports during the cotton season. Mr. Morton has already arrived. Items of State Interest. The Carolcen-Henrietta cotton mills are now running on full time which, because of the continued depression in prices is more an accommodation to operatives than profit to the owners.

The bridge-committee of 4he Fay-etteville board of aldermen last week rejected all bids for the erection of a steel bridge over Blount's creek to replace the "half way" bridge, which was damaged by the recent flood. The graded schools of Caroleen and Henrietta opened last week with more than usual interest intensified by the recent educational revival there. Professor Moore, of Shelby, is in charge of the Henrietta school and Professor Beene, of the Tennessee University, conducts the school nf Carolecn. Bids will be opened September 20 for the erecction of the propose Nathaniel Jaccobi Memorial Building on the grounds of the I. 0, O.

F. Orphanage at Goldsboro. The Shelby Coton Mills is reported as having plans and specification prepared for an additional building lo hold 2,550 spinning and 6,500 producing spindles. Prof. W.

C. Riddick, of the A. M. College, Raleigh, has -completed surveys for construction of-water-? works and sewerage systems Wel-don and submitted the- report to town authorities, together with profiles of streets, showing depth of cuts, grades, sizes of pipes and manholes, and blueprint' map showing location of sewer lines, waterpipes and hydrants. The cost is estimated it $37,526.50.

TL, W. Bishop, patent attorney, Washington, C. "reports the issue of a patent on the 22d instant lor a garment crease to George L. Edgcr- of Goldsboro. 1 H.

for-many years one of the 'proprietors of the Buford Hotel in Charlotte, and one of the most popular and best known hotel men in the South, died Thursday. The Harnett county board of com missioners let the contract for two steel bridges Monday, to be built rightuiway. One is at Luhngton and the other at Duke. The Carolina En gineering Conipany of Burlington got I tne contract lor No Law To Deport Early. Washington, SpecialIt was in effeet declared by corporation coun sel of the District of Columbia that there is no law by which the leper John R.

Early may be deported back to North Carolina and that it is the duty of the Federal government to take charge of the man. Tbis opinion is practically in accord with that given out'byVthe Assistant Attorney General of North Carolina a short while ago. 1: Tar If Severe Damage to Soils. In a bulletin iust issued bv Joseol Hyde Pratt, of the State Geological Survey, the terrible loss to the softs of the State occasioned by recent heavy rainfall is given. The bulletia in full follows: The heavy rains during the last of August not only did an enormous amount of damage to crops, bridges, railroads and roads, but, according to an estimate made by W.

W. Ashe, Forrester of the North Carolina Geological Survey, the upland farming lands of the middle portion of the State have been washed to an extent of more than half a million dollars, the damage being heaviest in those sections where the country was most hilly and the rainfall most concentrated. This estimate, which is based on the amount of soil which was shown to be in the water of the rivers during the floods, indicates that more than 1,500,000 tons of soil were washed from the hills of the Piedmont during that one week of rain. About one-fifth of the solid matter which causes the muddiness of the water during floods is humus, which i-i washed chiefly from the hillside farms. At two dollars a ton, which is probably less than the cost of replacing it, the loss to the farmers of the State only in the impovishment of their soils exceeds $00,000.

This is a loss which is mueh underestimated or entirely overlooked by the farmer because it is a loss which takis place so constantly. In the aggregate, however, it is so enormous thnt it is one of the chief, if not the chief reason for the poverty of so many of the red clay hillside farms, and is keeping them depleted of the hunr.is or manural portion of the soils. This is a loss to whieh northern soils are nol nearly so subject on account of the lighter rainfalls and their more general character. The rainfall at Raleigh and at many other points in middle Nort'i Carolina was 12 inches in four days; at points in upper South Carolina 15 inches fell in two days; while more than 4 inches fell in one day a many places. Such concentrated precipitation, tropical in character, does not occur in the farming regions of the northeast.

It follows that if the farmers of the South wish to pre serve their hillside lands they must not only use every possible means of preventing erosion which are used ar the North, but additional means as well; not only deep plowing and cover crops but terracing as well; not hillside ditches, but level ter races. There should be no land lying idle without a crop of some kind it protect the soil. All land -which is not in cultivation should be protected from washing by keeping Hit in timber. In North Carolina there ore about 3.,000,000 acres of idle farming land which should be planted in timber if no other reason than to prevent it from washing, but timber will make a good investment besides, as it wiil growing all the time without any -cultivation, and will soon be large enough for posts, barn poles, and ven small saw logs. For any information about how to plant old gullied fields in young trees, write the State Geologist, Chapel Hill, N.

C. Mills Resume Work. Salisbury, Special. The Patter-eon Cotton Mills at China Grove, Rowan county, have rresumed operations on full time after several weeks running at half time. It is said the mills will not curtail its force again this year.

The mills at Cooleemec Davie county, are also running on full time, having occupied a large new building in place of one burned last spring. New Hanover Votes Boad Bonds. Wilmington, Special. By a majority of 370 New Hanover county voted an additional $50,000 for continuing the system of permanent road improvement inaugurated here in 1901, since which time approximately $100,000 has been spent. The vote was light but very decisive, few ballots being east against the improvement.

Arrested on a Charge of Pre- Winston-Salem, Special -Oliver B. Cox, a young man of good appearance, was arrested in Mount Airy -on the charge of obtaining goods from merchants of this city on bogus checks. He will be brought here fur trial He says he worked with Har-wood contractors. He first put in a bogus cheek for $100 in tle Wachovia National Bank, got a baf i book and then three different merchants cash checks of various amounts. The same game waa worked in Mount Airy, the police say, Verdict for $4,000 Against Souther.

Asheville, Special. In Superior Court, Mrs. F. C. WatHnsof Black Mountain was given a verdict against the Southern Railway Company for $4,000 for personal injuries sustained January 19th, 1906.

Mrs. Watkius started to board a train at Swan-nanoa station when she "stepped through a hole in the platform and sustained permanent injuries. Growing Fence Posts. When growing catalpa trees for fence posts the practice of allowing the tree to grow two or three years before pruning Is not to be recom mended, since although a long stem Is usually secured It Is apt to become top heavy and easily damaged by the wind when the foliage is wet. The better plan is to keep the trees grow ing straight from the start In cases of crooked trees, these should be cut to the ground regardless ot their age, Farmers Home Journal Importance ot Sire.

The Importance of a boar In a herd should not be asserted at the expense or the sews, -bor Ms-importance must not be overlooked, "-for he represents fifty per cent, of the breeding power of the herd. "One thing not to be overlooked, a superior boar may be used with a herd of Inferior sows with good results, but an Inferior boar used on a herd of high class sows will bring disastrous results, The raising and lowering of the stan- aarn or a nera depends upon the boar n- Colman's Rural World. Preserving Eggs. The Industrious Hen says that Consul Murphy, at Bordeaux, France, reports to the State Department, "a new method of preserving eggs, The alleged "new" method is to cover the fresh eggs with lard. This meth od may be new In France, but It is quite old In this country.

We re member that this method was practiced moVe than fortr aoro on the farms In Kentucky, and it was regarded as quite effective. Fill a large earthenware crock with eggs and pour the lard in ntll all the eggs are covered. Be careful that the lard Is not too warm. It should be only warm enough to pour conveniently and fill In all the spaces between the eggs. Potatoes For Poultry.

Potatoes are mostly starch, and are not suitable as an exclusive food for, poultry, but If they are fed In connection with some kinds ot foods to balance them they are excellent. They should be bolted, but require no mashing, as the smallest chick could pick them to pieces. If mashed, however, and a suitable mess made of them, take ten pou-ds of potatoes, four pounds of bran, one pound of linseed meal and one ounce of salt, and mix the whole, having the mess as dry as possible, using "no water unless compelled. Such a meal should answer, at-nlght for 100 hens, and the morning meal -should consist of five pounds of lean meat, chopped. Hens -so fed should lay, and pay well, as the food Is composed ot the "required elements for producing eggs, and also for creating warmth of body In winter.

Poultry Record. Karly Laying Pullets. A tendency to early maturity gives Its Indications both In the male and In the female. To Increase the habit of early laying, keep the pullets that develop the most and the cockerel who asserts the best, masculine traits without being unduly overbearing or excessively Continue' this kind of selection for a few years, and the trait of early laying will be pretty well established; but do not mate young birds together In the breeding pen. Balance youngsters on the one side with well matured cocks on the other.

A good many. farmers make the mistake of selling their best pullets andxockerels in the market because these are the ones that will bring the biggest prices. It is always sensible to sell alLthat we have not room for, or that we caff not "well car 5 1017 but to sell promising pullrts Just because they will bring a good price is something like selling the goose that lays the golden egg. Epltomist. To Make Churning "nsy.

Director Scoville, of the Kentucky station, claims that it is difficult, without knowing what food la fed or how near the cow isto calving, tell why th does not come when churned. If the "cow is due to soon, it is best not to "try to churn the, cream. It not with is not to-calve for some time, give a. drench consisting orep- som salts -14 pounds and one table-spoonful of ginger; and feed no grain except bran 6r oats. Give all the clover hay she will eat It wilTbe vell to feedthe bran or oats in the form of a mash.

The cream," if churned, should have as "little in it as possible. -'Strlpplngs' should not be added to the cream. The cream should be kept in a cool place until there Is a sufficient Quantity for churning. Then it should be well cured at a moderate temperature, end "be thick before put in churn. It la usual to churn cream at about Bitty degrees EV If, after taking the above precaations, the butter does not come in the ordinary time, let the temperature run up to sixty-nine or seventy degrees before churning.

If these precautions do not remedy the difficulty. 'the best plan will "A to add the cream a cow comparatively fresh. Weekly Witness. hay is ranked as materially better than timothy, the former containing 4.3 per cent, digestible protein and 46.4 per cent carbo-hydrates, com pared with 2.8 per cent, digestible protein and 43.4 per cent, digestible carbo-hydrates In tnotby. Naturally the greener the condition of the oats when cut the poore will be the crop in digestible food.

When cut for hay the oats should be mown as in other grass, and treated In a similar manner. Heavy succulent oats may be cut In the morning after the dew is off and then kept stirred to let in the air so as to cure outsell. With warm drying weather it may be cocked the same -afternoon, and if opened up and exposed the next day to a bright. clear sky, possibly may be hauled in that afternoon. Of course the essential thing Is to get in the crop free of excess moisture so that it will not mildew In the mow.

It will quite likely take three days to do-the entire Job. One of the commonest faults in feeding horses Is the lack of variety In feed. Con sidering the number of different grains and feed stuffs it does seem strange that every team owner should not provide for his animals a ration that would be perfectly acceptable to Its system at all times. It Is a fact, however, that no more than twenty per eent. give what may be termed a well balanced ration.

The. other eighty per cent, still cling to the old -ration of corn and hay, or oats and hay, which practical experiments have long since proved to be expensive and wasteful. If you want the best results feed ration that contains all the ele ments Of nutrition in properly balanced portions. Corn alone is not well balanced grain for feeding. neither is oats or barley.

Ot the three grains, oats is probably fed more extensively than either corn or barley combined. Barley is rapidly gaining favor as ajteed, however, and When properly combined wim tne otner grains make an ideal ration. When you feed a ground ration you prepare it more readily and there is practically no waste. It should be remembered that the horse digests its food quickly, and whatever ration you feed should be prepared with a view to supply the nutrition the horse needs. Your horses will work bet rter and keep in better condition on five or six quarts of ground feed mixed than they will on eight quarts of whole grain.

Feed a variety ol. grains properly Jtalanced and have it -well ground, and you will not onlj have better horses, but it will cost you less money to obtain this much desired result. J. P. Fletcher, is the American Cultivator.

Notes of the Farm. Don't Plant too many fruit but enough so you can give them the right attention. Keep your orchard as near like garden as possible from time it is planted to the day of its death. Every farmer should take an in terest in the forestry question. Its vitality concerns the farmer as well as others.

Don't cut the price of milk and but ter, Mr. Dairyman. The grain market, local hay- crop and, pasture con-' dltions are all against it. In' taking up young trees for transplanting they should be marked sc they can be put in' the ground Jnsl the same as they out It does not pay. to doctor a fowl -that -is 'hopelessly ill, or sufferini from a contagious disease.

The latter" are never permanently ured, and will transmit their weakness 'to th offspring. l' "Every one who has tried it knowi that pigs will thrive on clover pasture. They eat it with relish an4 tramp less than cattle. With a good clover run during the summer, the will finish into, fine pork. Give the turkey torn a little special He sometimes does not eat enough nutritious food and does not make sufficient use of the dust bath -It will be'proflt on yourslde to fee.

him well aud keep him free from ve min. Thought God Had Overlooked Them Kthel. VisltlDZ aunt In the country came running from the grape arbor, holding out tY small bunch of the unripe "Look, auntie," she cried, some peas God forgot to put the rodj ou." -Boston Transcript.