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i i THE WEATHER. Generally fair today and Friday. VOL. XC-O. 41. L..i nprvA. ii nut .w ml t m b i tt i ir i tti t i y j r i THE MODERN IDEA. To keep the money stirring you've got to keep your Advertising Going. CHATTANOOGA GETS TIE NEXTJEUNIOII Tennessee City Wins Fight to Entertain Hosts of The Confederacy. LL MERGE BLUE A!iO GRAY Confederate Veterans Accept Invita tion to Attend Fiftieth Anniver sary of thoBattle of Gettysburg Macon, Ga., May 8. The choosing (,r Chattanooga, Tenn., as the reunion ,-ity ol 1913, the unanimous, enthusias ti. acceptance of the Invitation of (itiieral Trimble, commander-in-chief ,i the G. A. R., tc merge the Blue and the Gray in a celebration at Get tsl urg in July, 1913; the crowning of .Miss Mary Scandrett, of Macon, as Queen of the 1912 reunion before 20, i ii M i people on Coleman's Hill, and a Oorgia sun melting mellowly over the ,-i:y all day, featured the third day of the 22nd annual reunion of the Con federate Veterans in Macon today. Ali is in readiness for the two big features of tomorrow, the election of a commander-in-chief to succeed the late General George W. Gordon, and he parade of the long line of gray that will file through the wide and shaded streets of Macon in the annual march of old and feeble men who fought for the Confederacy. Chattanooga's success in the fight for the 1913 reunion was a sweeping victory over both Jacksonville and San Antonio and came at the close of a rather stormy session, although the uproar which retarded the progress of the convention was' not altogether the outcome of the fight for the next meet ing place. It. seemed impossible to keep the convention in check and time and time again. General Walker, who was presiding, had to rap and shout for order before the business could go on. Even when he used his office to command he was disregarded, the roaring of a thousand voices in conversation blocking busines continu ally. The vote on the 1913 reunion was as follows: Chattanooga, 1,04$; Jacksonville. 106; San Antonio, 476. I-ate this afternoon the beautiful Coleman Hill from which Jefferson Davis made his last speech to Con federate soldiers wae a bright hued mass of people drawn from all over the Jouth to witness the coronation of .Miss Mary Scandrett. Half a dozen bands recruited from Oklahoma to Florida surrounded the dais and as the Queen and her ladies drove up on a great white float deco rated w'th lilies and American beauty roses, a roar that was heard in every part of Macon went up from the crowd. The crown was placed on her head by Colonel W. A. Harris, chair man of the reunion executive commit tee. Tonight at the grand ball at the Park auditorium Miss Scandrett and funeral Irvine Walker led the cotillon. More than one thousand couples, the fairest daughters of the 'Southland grizzled old su! vivors of a score of battles mixed, and danced until past midnight. The discussicn on the Gettysburg North and South reunion was very brief and what objections were made a ere purely on technical grounds. One or two delegates declared that the official endorsement of the con vention was not in conformity with 'he constitution of 4he United Confed erate Veterans and that they did not think it wise. None of these objec tii specified the reason for their ob- t;on beyond that it was a constitu te nal breach. However, Gen. Walk er f.en. Carr and others promptly -e to declare that the breach was forever healed, that not anywhere f ,:',d be found in the ranks of the Confederacy animus toward the sol I y of the Union and that the Get ' -sburs: reunion would forever wipe o , what fragment of ill feeling there wi-ht po-sibly be left. The objectors - ' ie haste to ally themselves with :':e overwhelming pacific element and tlx ' cs 'ution was passed with cheers. T morrow it Is generally conceded t ".eneral Bennett H. Young ,of : 1 ii-viiie, Ky., will be elected com ' - n ier-in-chief of the United ' Con ' rate Veterans. The supporters of ' tenant General Irvine Walker, of Uston, have not given up the ; ; '"it it is understood that the en- :' Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, ! :n ;r-k. Florida and trans-Mississin- 'i'-k-gates are .pledged to Young as ; nst the st ength of the Virginias, !n i and the Carolinas for Wal- ;Vhen the report of the committee '! esDH.tions was read it was found ne clause had to do with Gen- - Trimble's ii vitation for a joint l of the Blue and the Gray at ' '!' --b'irg. July 3rd. 4th, 5th, 6th and "i"! n ended that the invitation bo 1 ined. 'r f onvention as a whole, how ' r. struck out that clause and with '- ' eal unanimity adopted in its ; 1 ! one written by General C. Irviae v aixfr. accepting the invitation. It Is. i'a?sed with enthusiasm. 1 "e resolution in part, says: Wiiereas. General S. M. Trimble, ( aiiiiander-in-chief of the Grand Army (Continued on Iage 8). Republican National Body Is Called to Assemble In Chicago June 6th To Pass On the Numerous Contests 1 1 " " 111 - ' ii i i . V WT"LiMTN"n-TO"N"- "N n. TTT TT RSDAY MOTrNTnST. MAY a iqio " ' , , WJHOXlE NTTIVrRTm? 1 a SUA nmnn mnnr innr nrrTnLiiiABA . f . - - i : r iukrnii i iiiiiir I ii ii r mhi-isiiiii mini ii ini i nT ilbdv tii nrrniiin nniiniiiirni uumiu Luuutj.w.w...mLi.u HjUHMULlI A U A 111 J I ucrMUU uuMOUfrttn COMMITTEE WILL MEEKLY FIGHTS FOR OHIO DELEGATES New York, May 8. The Republican National Committee will meet in Chi cago Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock June 6th to decide contests among delegates to the Republican National Convention. The call for the meeting was issued today by William Hayward, secretary of the committee. This will be the earliest meeting held for many years by the committee and will give it -12 days to consider contests before the convention opens on June 18th. Indications that there will be an un usual number of contests this year, Mr. Hayward said, had been considered by Victor Rose water, the committee's .act ing chairman and himself in sending out the call for the early meeting of the committee. A few contests al ready have been brought officially be fore the committee's officers and many more are expected, he said, before the expiration of the time limit for filing contests on May 29th, 20 days before the convention. Mr. Hayward also announced that he would place before the committee a plan upon which he has been work ing for some time that will affect the representation of the South in Repub lican National Conventions. The prin cipal objection to plans previously suggested, he said, was the elimina tion of the Congressional district as the unit of representation. The plan he would submit to the . committee would change the basis of representa tion, he said, and still retain the Con gressional district as the unit. "What we want to do, if possible," Mr. Hayward said, "is to get the com mittee together early enough to have sufficient time to consider these con tests deliberately and avoid holding night sessions, which were necessary before." The committee will meet in the Co lisieum Building. "The question of Southern repre sentation that has been agitated in every convention that I can remem ber," Mr. Haywood said, "will prob ably be acted upon by the committee in the nature of a recommendation to the convention. While, in my opinion a majority of the delegates to the con ventions have -been-haartily In tavor of making a change i that regard, the difficulty has been that they did not desire to abandon the Congressional district as a unit of representation. The Southern districts have represen tation in Congress according to popu lation, including the negroes. Then the negroes are disfranchised. The natural result is that in many of the Southern districts there are very few Republican votes and yet, of course, they have the delegates. Now, I am working on a plan that I am going to submit to the committee which will change the basis of representation and still retain the Congressional dis trict at the unit." Mr. Hayward added that he prefer red not to make public the plan until it was submitted to the committee. ROOSEVELT WINS AGAIN Teddy Secures Delegation From Kan sas By Big Majority Kansas City, Kas., May 8. Adopt ing resolutions favoring the entire Pro gressive movement, the Republican State Convention today named four delegates at large to the National con vention and instructed them for Roosevelt. William Allen White, of Emporia, was endorsed for National committeeman. The Taft streneth in the convention was 104, the Roosevelt strength 790. When the resolutions committee brought in a report endorsing the rec ord of Senator LaFollette. the candi dacy of Mr, White for National com mitteeman to succeed David W. Mul- vane and Instructing the four dele gates at large to vote for Rooseveli, Stephen Walker, of Columbus ,a Taft delegate, moved that that portion of the resolution endorsing Senator La Follette be cancelled, that Mr. Mul vane be endorsed for -National com mitteeman and that the convention in struct the delegates for Taft. Walker's motion was lost 790. to 104, and the report of the resolutions committee was adopted as read. A. M. Harvey, of Shawnee, former Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, and a Taft delegate, in a speech to the con vention said: "When President Taft is re-nominated at Chicago, I ask you fellows" who have defeated us today to get out and wok and vote for him." "No. no. we won't." shouted a dele gate. Amid the uproar that followed Covernor Stubbs managed to mane himself heard. "Never mind boys, wc will fix that matter up at Chicago when we nominate Roosevelt, he said. SEMI-FINALS PLAYED. Finals in Intercollegiate Tennis Tour nament Will be Played Today. Atlanta, May 8. Semi-finals in the singles and doubles were played today in the intercollegiate tennis tourna ment, being played on the East Lake courts. In the former case G. Waring (S. C.) defeated Hallman (Tech) 6-1, 7-5, and Goodwin (Ga.) defeated Car ter, (Ga.) 10-8. 6-2. In the doubles, Collfns-Hallman (Tech.) defeated Wil-liams-McCarty (Techs.) 8-6, 6-1, and Waring brothers (S. C.) defeated Car ter and Cohen (Ga.) 6-1, 6-3. The finals in both singles and dou bles will be played off tomorrow. Titanic Disaster today Palace. Titanic Disaster today Palace. President Plans a Spectacular Campaign in His Na tive State. MAKES A SCORE OF SPEECHES Mr. Taft Declares Roosevelt and the Democratic Senators Have De stroyed the Utility of the Peace Treaties. Columbus, O., May 8. Plans for President Taft's swing through Ohio next week made public here toniglit indicate that Mr. Taft intends to make a spectacular and strenuous fight to control the State's 48 dele gates to the Republican National Con vention. Entering Ohio next Monday morn ing at Marietta, the President will speak at practically every city and town of over 5,000 inhabitants that he has not visited on the tour which end ed here tonight. ThePresident will travel more than 1,000. nriles in Ohio by special train, leaving a labyrinth trail across the State from the Onto river to the Indiana State line and from Cincinnati to Lake Erie. Mr. Taft will be in the State nine days and on seven of these he will be in full action. Estimates tonight were that he would speak at least 75 times. The President is expected to find some new subjects on which to con tinue his attacks on Col. Roosevelt. Friends of the President believe the developments of next week will be of great importance to Mr. Taft and eve ry effort is being made to have the trip successful. Altogether Mr. Taft made 17 speeches during the day. He swung east and south clear across the State from Cincinnati to Ironton and then west and north to Columbus, stopping at Oak Hill, Jack son, Wellston, Logan and Lancaster. His fallow Ohioans turned out in eood piumbers and listened attentively to his arguments.. President Taft charged here tonight in a speech that Col. Roosevelt, his campaign manager, Senator Dixon, of Montana, and Democrats in the Sen ate were responsible for the "emas culation" of the arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France and that in consequence of their action the pacts were so "changed as to be of doubtful utility. "For some reason unknown to my puzzle witted brain," said the Presi dent, "Mr. Roosevelt opposed those treaties, and by those men who sup ported that opposition his manager, Mr. Dixon, and the Democratic votes in the Senate, those treaties were so emasculated that it is difficult to see whether they contain anything of val ue which ought to be ratified into a treaty." Mr. Taft openly accused Mr. Roose velt of misrepresentation and misstate ment, said that in many actions for which his predecessor now criticised him, he had been influenced by Mr. Roosevelt's advice and asked the peo ple of Ohio to give him a square deal. The President dwelt at length on the Roosevelt charges that he was the friend of the boss and the tool of the trusts and special interests. He pointed out the failure of the Roose velt administration to prosecute the Steel Trust and the Harvester Trust, and contrasted it with the attitude of his own administration, which has fil ed suits against both. "I am not criticising," declared the President, "but I would like to know how many bodies of dead bosses were strewn along the path of Theodore Roosevelt when he was seven years President of the United States? I don't criticise him for that ,it was not within his function to go about with a sword cutting off the heads of dra gons like that. What he did, and what he has defended himself time and time again for doing was to use those men to get good legislation and good gov ernment if he could. I have not done any differently ih that respect, and I don't promise you if I am elected that all the bosses will die." Greensboro Gets Next Convention Officers for Ensuing Year Elect ed Exemplification of Se cret Work of Order. SAVANNAH MAN ELECTED. Becomeslmperial Outer Guard of No bles of Mystic Shrine. Aneeles. Cal.. May 8. Ernest A. Cutts, of Savannah, Ga., was today elected imperial outer guard by the Imperial Council, Nobles of the Mys tic Shrine. Dallas, Texas, was chosen for the 1913 conclave. William J. Cunningham, of Baltl former imrjerial deputy poten tate, was elected imperial potentate, succeeding John Frank Ttreat, ot far go, N. D.; William S. Grown, of Pitts burg, and Benjamin W. Rowell, of Boston, were elected imperial treas urer and imperial recorder, respec tively. The business sessions ended today with the adjournment of the Imperial Council and ifntil the close of the con clave " Friday night the visitors win devote themselves to entertainment. The nnestion of eranting charters to Roanoke, Va., Montgomery, Ala.; Fort Smith, ArtK, and Nasnville, Tenn., have been under discussion by the Im perial Council, and this led to the re port that charters had been granted. v Titanic Disaster today Palace. Tltanlc'Disaster today Paiace. l Titanic . Disaster today Palace. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, N. C, May 8. The North Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows voted this afternoon to hold the 1913 session at Greensboro and elected as Grand officers for the ensuing year: . Chas. Dewey, of Goldsboro, Grand Master. M. L. Shipman, of Raleigh, Deputy Grand Master. B. H. Woodell, of Raleigh, Grand Secretary. R. J. Jones, of Wilmington, Grand Treasurer. Frailk Eans, of Greenville, Grand Warden. The only contest - was over Grand Warden, but the opposition was with drawn and Mr. Evans election was made unanimous when a plea was made that Evans was the first gradu ate of the Odd FelloEws' orphans home uu euiiie in line lur a urana liOage office. ; In addition to Greensboro there were invitations from Asheville, Wil mington, Raleigh, Elizabeth City and HenderstcmvIBe for the next annual session. There were four entries for. com petitive presentation of unwritten work of Odd Fellowship for which the prize is the award of the GilmoreWard Bryan Loving Cup. The name of the winner will be announced Thursday morning. The four were J. A. Boyce, of Tyner; C. C. Morris, Washington, N. C; S. W. Eason, Raleigh, and W. H. Zeimmerman, Asheville. This afternoon members of the Grand Lodge and the Rebekah assem bly and a class of 20 orphans from the home at Goldsboro gathered at. the foot of the Confederate monument in Capitol Square and had group photo graphs taken. The . class of orphans gave a delightful concert for the Grand Lodge this forenoon and to night there was a joint social session of the Grand Lodge and Rebekah as sembly. . The final sessions of both will be held Thursday. MAJORITY IS DECISIVE. Underwood Carried AH Before Him in Mississippi primary. Jackson, Mis., iij&y 8. Oscar W. Underwood defeated Governor Wood" row Wilson by a decisive majority in the Democratic Presidential primary held in Mississippi Tuesday. Not more than 25 per cent, of the registered vote was polled. A spirit of apathy was manifest thrcaighout the State, except in the few towns and counties that offered candidates for district delegates to the Baltimore con vention. Returns came in today, but the fig ures in hand show that Underwood has carried at least 65 of the 78 coun ties in the State and the number may be increased by the official figures. The Democratic State Executive Com mittee will meet here Monday. Washington, May 8. Of considera ble value to the cotton interests of the South is the concession by the Bulgarian government of the right of entry of edible cotton seed oil, which is announced in a cablegram to the State Department from Minister Jack son at Bucharest. Heretofore Ameri can cotton seed oil was admitted into Bulgaria only as it had been denatur ed and rendered unfit for the table. OUTLINES The defense in the Allen case got under way yesterday and introduced testimony to show that the Hillsville court officers began the shooting. The Republican National commit tee has been called to meet in Chica go June 6th, to decide contests among the delegates to the National conven tion. Damaging evidence against Judge Archbald was given by Edward J. Williams, a Scranton coal dealer, be fore the House Judiciary committee yesterday. The North Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in session at Raleigh yesterday voted to hold the 1913 meet ing at Greensboro and elected officers for the ensuing year. President Taft yesterday announced his plans for his campaign of Ohio, which will be one of the most strenu ous he has yet waged. He made 17 speeches in that State yesterday. The situation in the anthracite coal 'region is believed to be growing more serious hourly. Three miners were shot by State troops yesterday at Min eresville, Pa., and feeling is running high. Chattanooga, Tenn., was chosen yes terday as the place to hold the next Confederate reunion and the veterans at Macon accepted an invitation to at tend the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Rev. Howard Bartlett Crane testified before the House Commit tee on Expenditures in the Agricul tural Department yesterday and show ed the committee how easy it was to defraud the consumer under the meat inspection law. New York markets: Money on call steady 2 3-4 to 3 per cent. Spot "cot ton closed iqiuiet. 10 points lower. Flour steady. Wheat, spot easy; No. 2 red 1.21 l-2i elevator, export basis and 1.24 1-4 f.o.b. afloat. Corn, spot firm; export 87 nominal f.o.b. afloat. Rosin and turpentine easy. Titanic Disaster today Palace. Titanic Disaster today Palace. Titanic Disaster -today Palace? JUDGE ARE HEARD Edward J. Williams Gives Evidence Damaging to Robert W. Archbald. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HIM Tells How Jurist Negotiated An Op tion for Culm Bank Property While Deliberating On Ligth erage Cases Washington, D. C, May 8. Charges against Judge Robert W. Arphbald, of the Commerce Court, were unfolded today before the House Committee on Judiciary, which is to determine if impeachment proceedings shall be brought against the jurist. How Judge Archbald ,in partner ship with Edward J. Williams, a Scranton coal dealer, while deliberat ing as judge on the lighterage cases to which the Erie Railroad was a pai ty is alleged to have negotiated an option from that railroad for 42,000 tons of culm dump property to be sold at $12,000 profit, was related to the committee by Williams, himself. Judge Archbald, accompanied by his two sons and his counsel, A. S. Worthing ton, heart! the testimony and occas ionally looked at photographic copies of letters bearing on the case, one of them a letter in which the judge told of his connection with the culm bank negotiations in his own words. In addition to that transaction Wil liams told of another deal in which he said Judge Archbald acquired an in terest with him in an option on a mil lion acres of Venezuelan timber land, for which the judge gave a note for $500. Williams tried to discount this note with C. J. and W. P. Boland, of the Marion Coal Company, of Scran ton, who at that time had a case pend ing before Judge Archbald in the Fed eral Court. The Bolands refused to discount the notes and later lost their cases. Williams admitted telling W. P. Boland that if he had discounted Judge Archbald's note the case might have resulted differently, but he de nied that Judge Archbald knew any thing of his making such a reiriark to Boland. The testimony relating to the culm bank transaction, including reference to an assignment by Williams of in terest in the options secured to W. P. Boland and a "silent party," whom he admitted urder examination was Judge Archbald. When asked why Judge Archbald had been afraid to act only as a silent party, Williams said he thought it was not lawful for a ju rists's name to be used in suCh trans actions. Williams related how the option for the culm bank property was negotiat ed from officers of the Erie Raflfoad and told how a sale for the property was negotiated, and that he and Judge Archbald were to divide the profits. Judge Archbald, .during the negotia tions with the Erie, told him that the lighterage case was then before his court, Williams said. "Judge Archbald showed me the briefs in the case," said Williams, "and told me it was about the light erage case in which the Erie was in terested. I didn't know what light erage meant and he told me. Then he gave me a letter to Mr. May, of the Erie, and also told me that he would see the general counsel for the Erie, Mr. Brownell, about the . op tion." How the option was given thereaf ter and a deal to sell the property at a $12,000 profit, later frustrated, to the Lackawanna and Wyoming Rail road Company, was described by the witness in detail. Another transac tion which the committee did not get to. but will inquire about when the hearing is resumed Friday, involved an alleged transaction for other culm banfc property in which Judge Arch bald, a man named Dainty and the Le high Valley Railroad were said to be interested. This deal, it is saia, was interrupted by charges filed with the Department of Justice against Judge Archbald in connection with the other cases. When Williams was first .sailed to the stand and told of the transaction involving Judge Archbald's note for $500 and the case in his court m which the Bolands were interested, Chairman- Clayton produced a photo-r graphic copy of a letter signed by Williams in which he had said he told W. P. Boland, had he discounted Judge Archbald's note the case of John W. Peeie, versus the Marion Coal Company in which the uoianas vere interested, would not have been decided against them. The letter was read to Williams and he said dramati cally: "I can swear before God that those words never came from me." "Did you sign this letter? asKed tne chairman. , "Yes, that is -w signature, but t siened it without looking at it I did not know those words were there." Williams told of being In Washing ton and of Judge Archbald telling him that the Erie Railroad lighterage cas es were then before the commerce Court. Judge Archbald showed him the briefs, he said. In the assignment of the culm BanK, which was introduced in evidence, a silent party was mentioned. "Who was the 'silent party; menuon-j The Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane Tells House Committee How Federal Meat Inspection Law Can Easily be Evaded. Washington, May 8. The Rev: Car oline Bartlett Crane, of Michigan, told the House Committee on Expenditures in the Agricultural Department today how in her opinion the meat inspection-law had been vitiated by regula tions made by the Bureau of Animal Industry in the Department of Agricul ture. Mrs. Crane appeared in sup pert of the resolution of Representa tive Nelson, of Wisconsin, which asks for a Congressional inquiry into the adminstration of the meat inspection law. The witness resented the suggestion that she charged a conspiracy between the beef trust and the Department of Agriculture. She said she simply was trying to show how the regulations of the department had lowered the re quirements of meat inspection estab lished by law and the .possibility of fraud and deception on the part of the packers. Mrs. Crane made no specific charg es of fraud against any packer. She said she knew of no substitution of diseased meat for wholesome meats passed by the inspectors. Her only contention was that under the regu lations it was possible for the packers to defraud the people and that these same regulations reduce the protec tion to the public afforded by the law. "Here is an object lesson," said Mrs. Crane, producing a lard can em bellished with the label of a well known packing house. Attached to the label was the le gend "inspected by the United States Department of Agriculture and pass ed." Inside the lard can was the gov ernment seal Quickly breaking the seal Mrs. Crane exhibited the "lard." It proved to be a couple cf pounds of brown taffy done up in tissue paper. When the laughter had subsided, Mrsv Crane passed the candy around and remarked that her object lesson showed how easy it would be to pass a can of lard to the consumer with the government's guarantee on the la bel, although it means absolutely nothing. A large audience was present to hear Mrs. Crane's testimony. Dr. S. E. Bennett, inspsctcrt.4n charge of Chi cago packing- houses, whom Mra; Crane quoted at several points ia her testimony, was there. Mrs. Crane recounted her exper1 ience in packing houses in Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City and other places, to show that the ante-mortem examination of cattle and hogs was perfunctory and that condemned meat was not so labelled, although the law requires that it be stamped and de stroyed. The witness paid a tribute to the employe's of the meat inspection service.- The inspectors, she said, she believed honorably and painstaking public servants. Instead of criticising them she criticised the department. People were being deceived, she said, by the descriptions of ante-mortem examinations given the country by so licitor McCabe and Chief Melvin and the Bureau of Animal Industry. 'Mrs. Crane will continue her testimony to morrow. She will be followed by J. W. Burroughs, formerly a meat inspector. MANY LIVES LOST IN RUSHING FLODD Relief Parties Succeed in Bring in Hundreds of ) Refugees WHOLE FAMILY SWEPT AWAY Survivors Tell Thrilling Tales of Ao'. ventures in the Swift Currents From Torras Crevasse Which Daily Widens. SMOOT DENIES STATEMENT Senator Says Richeson Is Not Member Of Mormon Church Washington, May 8. Senator Smoot, of Utah, today gave out a statement in which he denied that Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, of Boston, was a member of the Mormon Church. Sena tor Smoot said: "The statement of Mrs. Louise E. Brittain .that Clarence V. T. Riche son is an elder in the Mormon Church is a malicious falsehood. Richeson is not nor never has been an elder or even a member of the Mormon Church. I am informed that Mrs. Brittain was ex-communicated from the church a few years ago. A desire to injure and cast reflections upon the Mormon Church is undoubtedly the reason for her statement." ed in the assignment?" asked Chair man Clayton. "Judge Archbald." "What was he to do?" "He drew up the papers." "What was Judge Archbald's inter est in the culm banks ?" "Ahalf interest" -4'For how much?" "$8,000." said Williams. "Did he pay any money?" "No, no money was ever paid." "Did youi negotiate a sale of the culm property?" "I did." "What were you to get for it?" "I don't know exactly. I 'offered it for $20,000 afterwards at a $12,000 profit." "Who was to get the money." "Judge Archbald and myself $6,000 apiece." "Was a deal afterward negotiated?" "Yes, Judge Archbald negotiated a sale with Mr, Conn, vice president or tne Laurel Line, the Lackawanna & Wyoming Railroad." . "Did Judge Archbald give you a let ter to Mr. Conn?" asked Mr. Clayton. "Yes." The chairman then read a copy of a letter Judge Archbald wrote to Mr. Conn on stationery of the United States Commerce Court. The committee adjourned late in the afternoon to resume the examina tion of Williams Friday.. Titanic Disaster today Palace. Titanic Disaster today Palace. New Orleans, May 8.. Fighting against time and the rushing flood waters of the Mississippi river, scores of relief parties today succeeded in bringing in refugees by the hundreds to the different points between Baton Rouge and Natchez, still above the water. Many lives have been lost in northeast Louisiana. Nearly every incoming boat is load ed, mostly with women and children, ana tne tnnlhng tales of adventures in the swift currents from th TnrraH crevasse, which tonight was reported o,uuu ieei wiae, were only repetitions of previous days. The United States army officers are activlv directing affairs and nothing is left u,uuoue mat can De done to get the hundreds of people yet remaining in the stricken district to places of safe ty. It is estimated that more than ou,uuu persons are in the concentra tion camps. Stories of dwellings and cabins h- ing swept away with their occupants are torn every day, while today a farmer coming into New Roads told of an entire negro family, the father exceptea, Deing swept away withTtheir cabin. The negro baby was swept from its mother's lap and drown fid when th water rushed through the front door." mere were no more breaks in the main line levees today, thoueh thr were many rumors and considernhlo excitement. The work of strengthen ing tne embankments is continuing under the direction of the officers of the United States engineer corps, who gave . out reassuring reports tonight. A few more dayB . of sunshine, they say, will be more beneficial than any thing else. The situation in this city concerns more largely the scenes of activity around the relief headquarters, where carload after carload of supplies are being boxed up and shipped out to the refugee camps in central and north ern Louisiana, rather than any alarm ing condition on the river front. Two days of sunshine have served to im prove the conditions of the levees in the city limits, but the work of streng thening the line of dykes and topping low places continues, although there are now less than 200 men all told, working on the city's defense line. At Esplanade street where the Southern Pacific ferry, house is flood ed, a single line of sand bags holds back the water. The seepage at the head of Canal street has been effec tively stopped by the line of sand bags around theferry house. United States army officers at Jack son Barracks, in the southern extrem ity of the city, where some alarm was felt over the condition of the levees in the third district Friday and Satur day, sent tbeir families to the city, but tonight some of the women and children returned to their homes at the fort. Only a small force of men is now at work on the levees in that section. WITHDRAWN FROM SALE. Virginia Claims Ownership of Valua ble Manuscript Prized Letter. New York, May 8. In view of the claims of the commonwealth of Vir ginia to the ownership of 84 documents in the Benson J. Lossine collection of valuable manuscripts, scheduled for sale here this week, the conmany oon- I'ducting the auctionisale agreed tonight to withdraw the manuscripts from the sale and to refer the question of own ership, to a commission representing both the State of Virginia and the Lossing estate. The documents, whose ownership is contested, are those which it Is al leged Dr. Dossing obiained in 1862 from the government of Virginia in connection with the writing of his book on the revolution, The common wealth alleges that at the time Dr. Lossing obtained possession of the manuscripts no Legislature . was sit ting and consequently - mo authority existed to dispose of the documents. An autograph circular letter from George Washington, during his first administration to the governments of the original . States, is one of the dis puted documents. . Bristol, Tenn., May 8.- The.seconi trial of Walter D. Sutherland, cashier of the Clintwood (Virginia) National Bank, who skipped from Clintwood nearly three years ago, and is alleg ed to have embezzled about $8,000, was begun this afternoon in the Fed eral Court at Abingdon and will con tinue until probably the middle of next week. In opening the case for the defense Sutherland's counsel said that the latter was not guilty and that he skipped to shield others. The , first trial resulted in a hung jury. Suther land's wife and baby were in the court Toom with him. He is about 35 years of age. ' Titanic Disaster today Palace. . i . -eh r i St 1 - a a it. 7: if -4 1 V 4 - hi-
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