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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER FRIDAY. NOVEMBErl 23 1906 AVegetablcPrcparatioalbrAs similating theToodandReguIa ting theStaoachs andBcwels of Promote sTresUon,Cheerful ness and RestXoatains nrittjcr Opnui Morphine norMmeraL Not Nahcotic. fitape of Old DrSAMLTZPlIUlLS JUcJenn sfniiJt ffapeTnutf - BtCaricnaltSoia ' JrZrm Seed -fiaifitd Suartr . Wntvyrw flavor. A pcxfecf Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions Jeverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW "YORK. EXACT C0PVOFyBAFPEB, ...A , ,crC.yy: ki I, nn n imi'ot i Mil lis if Is now on for sporting goods cf all kinds and we wish to call your attention to the following cele brated make of Guns. The Baker Special $18. The Batavia Leader $22.50 Also all grades of Remington Hammerless Guns Full line of Winchester Rifles, Leggins, Gun Cases, etc. W m, E, Springer & Co "Wcell Building, GREAT BOOK HEWS Mj,uaV.Cjamj-Ar1..I "if- St Vlj READ IT. 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Wihrdiigtoa, M C A VOLUME DeROSSET 132 No, Front St 3 fjf& n 1 mj m-w ttw if i a u f I of JMl For Over I Thirty Years SMffllft I; lUJIriiiVJ) UM irJ in I i i "fit i MONUMENTS ...AND... HEAD STONES i 31Q NORTH FRONT STREET. TO REMOVE BODY OF JAS.WILSOFJ Disinterment Will be Witnessed by Distinguished Persons. He was a Noted Lawyer and I lad the Reject of all Who Knew Him. State's Financial Condition Several Cases of Smallpox Charters by the I State Other KaleJgh News Notes. Messenger Bureau, Raleigh, N. C.f November 19. State Treasurer Lacy, speaking today about the fact that at the end of the fiscal year there "would be a balance in the state treasury approximating $800,000, said that he would have to have in January $550,000, aa that sum would be called for, Including $275,000 for pensions, $60,000 interest, $200,000 for the public schools and $75,000 for ithe legislature. He says that uniesd the sheriffs settle with him very promptly he will find it a close call. Charters are granted the Pollocks- ville Banking and Trust Company, cap ital $5,000, to do a commercial and savings business; The Aurora Odd Fel lows Home Company, of Beaufort county, to care for Odd Fellows and other fraternal orders, J. M. Litchfield and others stockholders, capital stock $5,000. Two corporations were dissolved to day; the Fonveill Grocery Company, at Goldsboro, and the Tarboro Cotton Warehouse Company. Insurance Commission Young an nounces that the German Insurance Company of Freeport, 111., has re-insur ed all its outstanding policies in the Royal, thus making everything safe so that North Carolina policy holders may feel no uneasiness. The health officer here had a busy day yesterday, in a Degro settlement1 near the Seaboard Air. Line in the northwestern part of the city, where he found nine cases of small pox, and five suspects, all of whom were hurried to the pest house, in which there were already two cases. Today another case was brought in, a negro, from 42 miles north of the city. The negroes say they caught the disease from a negro named Tom Clegg, from Durham. It is said that some of them have been sick two or three weeks. The officers were today looking for more cases. In the northeastern part of the county not far frm the line of the Raleigh and Pamlico Sound railway, it is said that there are several other cases. The total number of small pox cases in the pest house is now 12 and there are five sus pects. Only one is white. The pest house is a mile south of the city and far from any road. The supreme court will next week hear appeals from the 13th district. The court will not sit tomorrow, but will call the docket Wednesday. The court will file opinions that evening, among them will be the long-expected one on the Anson cunty lynching case The latest gift to the state historical collection in the museum is a scalping knife used by the North Caroliniaus as it was found in a mound not far from Raleigh. Chief Justice Clark, Lieutenant Govenor Winston and a number of other prominent gentlemen will be at Edenton tomorrow, and at the Hays estate will witness the disinterement of the remains of James Wilson of Pennsylvania, late associate justice of the United States supreme court. Wil son, through the fraud or carelessness of hte lawyer, became embarrassed fi nancially by some land, deals, and came to Edenton from Philadelphia. Ho was a very honest man, and able writer, and was a man of note in every way, (having been a signer of the declaration of independence, and had represented France in this country before it had an ambassador or minister here. At Edenton he enjoyed to the last the wevoted friendship and regard of such men as Joseph Hewes, Governor Sam uel Johnson, and others, and when he idied his body was buried in the private burial ground at Hays, where the Ire dells lie, and also Governor Johnson. the owner of that famous estate. Tnooe great men spent much time together, and Judge and Mrs. Iredell cared for Mrs. Wilson after the death of her dis tinguished husband, until her return to her home in Philadelphia. A urge nartv of distinguished Pennsylvaniaus are at "Hays" to take part in the cere monies. The number of teachers in the Ra leigh public schools is now 68 anl the number of pupils is 3,616. The penitentiary authorities stale that the number of convicts now totals 658, which, strange to say, was exactly what it was two years ago, at tni3 aaie. Up to this time there has been a de crease for more than twenty years in the number of convicts. The greatest number ever recorded was 1,478. It is announced that the postofnee department will put a mail service be tween Raleigh and Fayetteville Decem ber 1st, on the Raleigh and South port railway. William A. Graham, acting commis sioner of agriculture during the illness of Commissioner Patterson; Tail But ler, state veterinarian, and B. W. KI1 srore. state chemist, will represent North Carolina at Jacksonville, Fia., at the annual - meeting of the southern commissioners of agriculture, state chemists, etc., and all will speak, Mr. Graham making the report of the work done in the state in a general way. A charter is granted to another cot ton mill this being the Dixie at or near Mooresville. W. W. Brawley or mat place being the principal stockholder. Capital stock of the mill i3 $100,000 and it will manufacture warps and yarns. Nesro Troops Will be Discharged Today. vnrt Reno. November 16. The dis charge of the three companies' of the three negro troops from Brownsviue, Texas, will begin tomorrow. Major Wallace of Fort Sam Houston arrived this afternoon to act as paymaster. The final orders have been received from wacMnTtnn nd all details made ready for the dismissal of tne discharged troopers as they are paid off. OKLAHOMA, Youngest Member of Uncle Sam s Family Immensely Rich None of Her Older Sisters Has Future More Full of Promise. (By Ira E. Bennett.) Guthrie, Okla., November 13. . No state has ever been admitted in to the Union with more of the attri butes of greatness than Oklahoma, On November 6th In accordance with an act of congress of June 16, 1906, the Territory of Oklahoma and In dian Territory voted in favor of ad mission into the Union as a single state. Delegates to a constitutional convention were elected, and, at the ; proper time, the constitution will be submitted to the people for their rati fication. The constitutional conven tion is composed of men of high char acter and ability, and It is reasonable to expect them to draft a constitution that will meet the approval of the people. Upon the ratification of the constitu tion and the certification of the vote, the President will issue a proclamation announcing the result, and "thereupon the proposed state of Oklahoma shall be deemed admitted by congress into the Union, under and by virtue of this act, on an equal footing with the ori ginal states." The jointure of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory brings together two communities of distinct character. One might be called the finished product, and the other, the Indian Territory, is in the rough. Conditions are crude and the struggle of the white man for existence has been almost intolerable. Ever since the right was given to the Indians, ten years ago, to lease cer tain lands for grazing, farming, min ing, etc., the white man has been in the Territory solely by sufferance. It affords a remarkable instance of that forbearance that characterizes the American and his determination to stick doggedly to a thing until he works out success, no matter how ad verse may be the surroundings or how discouraging the prospect These lessons gave the white man simply the right to farm, or otherwise develop the lands he held; beyond that he secured no rights that belong to the farmer elsewhere. There are no schools for the white cliildren, except such as are maintained by private subscription; no roads, for if roads were made an obstinate Indian could fence them up, and there was no au thority to invoke against him; no courts except those of United States commissioners, and these officials are widely scattered, and their authority in many cases exceedingly doubtful; Ho hospitals, asylums, or other institu tions for the care of paupers or others who might become a public charge. Under such conditions, 500,000 Amer ican citizens have moved into the In dian Territory, leased lands, and en deavored to build up the country. In this territory there are 80,000 Indians, each with an allotment of 500 acres of land, making 40,000,000 acres of the most fertile land in all the country, tied up so that no white man can se cure title to a foot of it. If the agri cultural lands and the hich mineral re sources of the territory have been de veloped largely under such uninviting conditions, what may be expected when the benefits bestowed by the enabling act become a reality? Under the provisions of the last In dian bill and the act providing for the admission of the two Territories as a state, the titles to the greater part of these Indian lands may change hands. The Indians, by the legislation, are permitted to alienate their allotments with the exception of forty acres, which they must hold as their own home stead for twrenty-one years. This pro vision was intended to prevent the Indian from disposing off all his hold ings and making himself a public charge, on the general theory that if permitted, he would convert all his property into ready cash, thinking only of the jovs of today and forgetting the necessities of the future. These two acts, therefore, throw open to American citizens through purchase from the Indians, 36,800,000 acres, and endow the Territory with the legisla tion that will at once lead to the es tablishment of those conveniences and legal institutions that work to the sat isfactory development of a state. The Indian territory and Oklahoma are about the same size. Indian Terri tory is far richer in agricultural and mineral resources. There are immense areas of coal lands, particularly in the territory of the Choctows and Chick- asaws. Oil is found in abundance in the Creek and Cherokee nations. There are extensive timber lands and as phalt deposits, marble, etc All kinds of crops are raised, among them cot ton, corn, and wheat Nature has dealt generously in bestowing her bounties on the lands of these wards of the nation. Under the provision of legislation enacted a few years ago, the white man was permitted to hold property in town sites, and a number of these towns were laid out in suitable portions of the Territory. Muskogee is a fair sample of these Indian Territory towns. More Indians may be seen In the streets of Washington, than in the streets of this town. It has electric lights and power, electric street railways, waterworks, and every other necessity of modern civilization, while without Its boun daries are lands being developed from which the white man can haul his crops only through the sufferance of full-blood or half-breed Indians. With the admission of this Territory these conditions will pass into history and form another of the memories connected with the development of the empire of the West. In Oklahoma there are no more lands to be had. There it will be simply a question of development In 1901 the northern border of the State wis thrown open 46TH. STATE to settlement through one of the most spectacular lotteries ever held under the auspices of the Federal government. Over 126.000 farms of 160 acres each were awarded to settlers by lottery. The figures show that nearly all of these awards went to people from Texas, Missouri and Arkansas. Oklahoma, wisely following the Teaxs pattern, has 6et aside an unus ually large proportion of her laJds for school purposes, and it is to the credit of the Territory that sentiment of the pecv le is almost unanimous against any proposition looking to their sale, in ; e face of a clamor from outsiders for their disposition. Two sections in each township are set aside for the schools, and in addition there is a lib eral allowance for state Institutions, normal schools and college. There are a number of Indians in Oklahoma, but they form on insignificant portion of the total population. v The political complexion of that por tion of the new state which is now Indian Territory depends entirely up on the section of the country from which it draws its immigrants. There are now 500,000 white people there, chiefly from the southern and border democratic states, and as it stands to day the Indian territory undoubtedly is demociatic. Within the next ten years anotler half million people will in vade this Territory and buy homes. If diana, Kansas and Nebraska, the polit they are farmers of Illinois. Iowa. lu teal complexion of the Territory may change. Some of the Indian chieftains are powerful among their tribes, and in the congressional districts where the more populous tribes reside it is reasonable to presume that a full-blood Indian may soon have a seat in con gress. The preponderance of white people, however, preludes the idea that any one other than a white man will go to the United States senate. In some measure at least, the In dians of the Territory are fitted for self government. They were made citizens a few years ago, and for a long time have been controlling their tribal af fairs through elections, which have been fairly and honestly conducted. Tribal relations recently ceased under the provisions of the Curtis act r The Territory of Oklahoma has all the economic requisites for the making of one of the richest agricultural and industrial states in the Union. It has a cosmopolitan population, drawn from the most substantial elements of the older commonwealths. It is made up of men who sold their farms in the East, North and South, after making a success of them, and sought a larger op portunity than the old conditions af-:":-ried. . If Horace Greeley were living t'day he would be more specific In his advice to the young men, and tell them to go to Oklahoma, for it is in such a new community of splendid re sources and progressive spirit that suc cess is found. The total population today is about 900,000 distributed mostly over the farms of the state. The 427,000 remain ing homestead lands were taken up in 1905. A half million acres of the re maining Indian lands will be sold un der sepd bids in 160-acre tracts early in December. This land is situated on the southern border next to Texas line, and Is considered as rich as any in that section. It Is part of the ori ginal Kiowa, Coanche, and Apache Indian reservations, and was used by the Indians for pasturing their horses. So great Is the demand for this soil that the land office officials expect to do a real land office business at $50 an acre. This will be the last of the ex tensive tracts thrown open to the pub lic in 1891 and 1893. In the fourteen years up to 1905 a total of 21,298,354 acres had been taken the balance of the 24,718,354 acres of land surface of the state being turned over to the new state for school purposes under the Statehood act Agriculture is the foundation rock upon which stands the prosperity of the new commonwealth. Wheat was the chief crop immediately after the "great opening," but the secretary of the Ter ritorial department of agriculture soon brought in a car load of cotton seed, with the result that the northern farmers learned from the experience of the southerners how to raise the sta ple. From that time cotton growing has extended, until this year nearly 500,000 bales are being marketed. Without the prejudices of the older communities, the farmers of the new land quickly adopted the most up-to- date methods. This is especially true in the raising of corn, wnlch in the new state is not in danger of killing frosts, as it matures by September 1. The crop this year will amount to more than 50,000,000 bushels. Tae total income from all agricultural products in Ok lahoma this year is estimated at $60, 000,000, a healthy asset for the latest of Uncle Sam's family. Those farmers who have migrated from New England and the Middle States have tried to transplant some of the conditions they knew at home. Hence the extensive orchards of ap ples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes and cherries, the products of which are shipped to New Orleans, Kansas City, and St Louis. And as the cli mate of the new state enables the gar dener to supply the table with fresh vegetables seven months of the year, from April to November, truck garden ing has become an important industry. Oklahoma melons are famous. Two crops of potatoes are grown on the same ground in the same season. In 1900 five carloads were sent north. This year more than 600 carloads were ship ped. Oklahoma live-stock raisers took some of the best prizes at the St Louis exposition. Oil Is a big industry in the northern, or Indian Territory, portion of the new j state, but during the past few months It has fallen off temporarily, because the supply has exceeded the demand.. It is claimed that the Standard OO Company has reduced prices la order to make production, unprofitable. The further growth of the oil industry seeems to be dependent upon the up building of manufacturing towns. The prople of Oklahoma Territory alone have been taxed only 6.4 mills on $93,130,721. which Is only 16 2-3 per cent of the total valuation of $560,000,- 1 000. . The people of the new state will be equally free from heavy taxation. The growth of the new state has been so rapid that the railroads have been unable to keep paco with it. de spite the fact that during the past year and half about 1.000 miles have been added to the transportation facilities of the state. Every county In the state will be well supplied with transporta tion, and several cities will have from three to five lines runnmg in and out. thus placing the producer, manufac turer and merchant in compoUUre touch with the markets of the larger cities. Two lines to the Gulf bring the mar kets of Europe within reach. Seven teen new roads were chartered In 1905. The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and San Francisco roads are the principal trunk tines. And yet it Is a fact that Oklahoma shippers are hampered bo cause of want of cars to haul their pro ducts to market All the railroads throughout Okla homa are heavy carriers of passengers. The people of this region are restless, wideawake, keen-eyed Americans. Tra dition has no weight with them. They are fond of smashing precedents. The newspapers cf Oklahoma are up-to-date inclined to sensational, and always outspoken. Some of the lartrcr cUJes are' as finished. In spots, as the cities of the east. Trolley lines run every where, uniting country and town, and illustrating vividly the change that has come over rural life in the Uni ted States. Isolation is becominc memory. NTOVS OF STOUM l.M.fSIC Hailrruuls Suffered Severely Tjrwsejt Throughout the South Will Hun Into the Hundreds of Thousands of Dol lars. Memphis, Tenn., November 19. No other fatalities have been added to the loss of eight lives, rejorted last night as a result of the storm Satur day night and Sunday which swept the greater portion of West Tennes seee. North Ontral Mississippi, North Alabama and Eastern Arkansas. Telegraphic communication is grad ually being restored, but railroad traffic Is greatly impaired and In many instances demoralized. Reiwrtfl from the western section of Tennes see show that the railroads havo suf fered greater damage than ever bo fore. The Nashville. Chattanooga and St Louis, the Mobile and Ohio, tho Southern and the Illinois Central arti unable to operate trains at all througU Jackson Tennessee. The damago done by the wind and rain will amount well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. NEGRO PROBABLY LYNCHED. Had Fired on Two Will to Men, bat Neither of Them wan Hit. Columbia, S. C, November 19. A special to The State from Newberry.. says: Mark Davis, a negro under arrest was being brought to the Newberry jail Saturday, when ho was taken from the officer by a mob of masked men and it is thought he has been lynched. Davis got into an altercation with Will and Alf Dorroh over sonio corn, and fired at them with a single barrelled shot gun. Neither of the Dorroh's was hit They returned tho fire and tho negro ran away. Later Constable Yancy Floyd, with a posse went in search of Davis and ar rested him, placed him in a buggy and started for the Newberry Jail- At Smyrna church, about five miles from Newberry, a party of masked men sprang from the bushes on the roadside and overpowered the constable and J took the negro away with them. The work was done rapldlytand In silence. NEW YORK HORSE SHOW. Opening of the Grciit Social Event Is n Splendid Suooww. New York. November 19. The horses and the leaders of society, the votaries of wealth and fashion in New York, and other cities, combined today to make tho opening of the national horse show in Madison Square Garden a splen did spectacle of life and color. Thia evening with the epacioua tanbark alive with competitors for the coveted blue ribbons, and the boxes and tho great spaces encircling the area crowd ed with spectators, the ehow was as regally metropolitan in the display of wealth and beauty as in any of tho years that have marked it as tho sea- eon's so-called event Gay with drap I ing with orange and black, the asso ciation'H colors, the garden was filled well this morning at 9 o'clock when the bugle call announced that tho exhibi tion had begun with a fist of entries of almost two thousand horses, in tho various classes. As the day wore on the number of spectators grew until by the middle of the afternoon the garden was quite crowded. During' the day a largo number of classes were judged. CASTOR I For Infants and Childrta. Ths Khd Yon Haw Atosjs C33 Bears the Signature of aaaaB Mrs. Ben W. Stxrtheriand, of 2IL. . m tU n 1 1 T "