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3 'I ,1 -v-,f, ' , c'.V fit J. j . I FIEBY ;PSUYIU8 JAGGED A V A LtnUD I3T THE VOLCANIC STORM -. ; ;-.v ..-"' "-r , bCleiitlHM 1TUBK ino MWBnwui 1 wa Hpent Itacll and-tho Newspapers ftmamo . a Tone ' of Courage and , WMUtltTO "- 11- ' k Vluntuarulm Annallinc and the Mae ' nitnde of the Disaster Indescribable V - ILlnM Victor to Personally super- Intpnl, Uw Relief Work Iws to lTonertT Kstlioated at 30,OO0,0OO, and to.000 Hav Been ltendercd ' Homeless. , , , rf Naplea, April,' It Conditions to night In the Motion affected . by the eruption of MountVeuvlu ara treat ' . ly ameliorated;' Tha toll, of volcanic . - t-f , ash has diminished and scientists ex ' - v pteat ths opinion- that the volcano nas spent Itself. ' Alt the papers-to-night " s advise the publle to be calm,' pointing; v,' "out the improved condition of affairs, , The papers also eulogise Director Mat v i teaccl for his courage In returning to I i - the jtttned observatory en Mount Ves f ilvlus and ' sending from that place ' messages of - encouragement and ex ' presslons of confidence U?at , Vesuvius wilt 'soon aulet.down. s ' '.Thethreatres, cafes and places of amusement throughout the city have ' , been, closed and before 'all the sacred images in the streets canaiea are sepi !urnlng, while smaller Images are be ng carried about, in many cases' being V set down In the open air and. surround- , 'o oy canaiea. , .. TROOPS CLKAN1NQ tlOOFS. Troops are 'iuraaM'Xtn-.teirVtt':';ttM roofs-of buildings of the acoumula- t . iuii vi hjiu muu aoiieBt wuiuu vuuiin' gers the structures. The large glass - ' , covered galleries . throughout the city whlch ere much frequented have been ordered cldsed, lest the weight upon the roofs cause taem to collapse. , The vallige of 8an Oennaro has been jartlally burled In sand and ashes, and several houses have fallen. At that place three parsons were killed ' and more than twenty Injured. '. in the road at Torre del Greco three persons were found dead from suffo- cation. The people who remain at ..Torre Annunslata. are In danger of perishing from starvation, all the shops having been closed, nations for persons have been, sent there. The warships ordered, here have been doing effective service in the removal of re- . f ugees.- Premier Sannlna reached here l to-day by train, from Rome, his lour . ney having been greatly impeded. He , had ; a conference immediately after Jils arrival with King Victor Enntianu . el, with whom the premier discussed :She measures to be adopted to restore . public confidence, maintain order, aid - ' the refugees and repair, the damages caused by the eruption. ' AiMERICAN GIRLS RESCUED. . Two American girls who had head ; lessly ventured Into the Vesuvius die strict where the abandonment of the '"'train by which they were traveling caused them much discomfort and no little peril, were brought here to-day by the steamer St. Bon. . s . . . The loss of property by the Volcanic . outbreak (s . esUmaUd- at I30.ooo.000. and u is estimated that 60,000 persons nave been rendered Jtomeiess. - So widespread l the catastrophe , that' It Is estimated it will require an organised body of 100,000 men and the expenaiture of many minions of dol lars to rase houses made unsafe for habitation by the --accumulation of ashes and cinders on the roofs; erect temporary huts of refuge for the thousands who have been obliged to t . flee from their, homes; clear the roofs of buildings that may yet be saved; and extricate from the ruin of fallen structures and bury the dead. ( THE DISTRESS APPALLING. . The distress among the tens of thousands of fugitives Is aDPalUnar. ' The government has forwarded aUp , piles of food and money, several of tne Italian clue have done the same. , and private cltlsens are contributing money tor tne assistance of the suffer ers, but more help is needed. - ' , King Victor Emmanuel has placed tne royal palace at CappodimontU? sit uated, above the city, at the disposal of the Injured refugee and early In ' the day announced his Intention of ; . returning to Naples from Rome In ar , der to .personally, direct the relief work. The news caused much satis faction and when te majesties reach ,.,f ed Naples this evening, they received a most enthusiastic greeting. Later ' the King and Queen visited the suf ferers in tne hospital and. were heart lly cheered as they passed through the1 streets. 'Although the report that ,' Barno has "been- destroyed Is denied, it , 4s now officially admitted that Otta--Jano has been burled. The casualties there and In the surrounding villages , are not Known, but three hundred, it 5 is believed, would be a low estimate. ., Even Capri, a small "Island off the v coast of Campania, nineteen miles - - south of .Naples, a favortte resort for ,. tourists and artists, has-been covered with ashes and : has been abandoned ' , by Its foreign population, : which tn , .eluded several Americana. - i DESOLATION AiD TERROR. The , magnitude of the disaster la almost Indescribable.? Mount Vesuvius f-:;.j: has spread desolation and terror over an immense tract of country. ' Some Idea of the difficulties en v countered' by authorities in s obUlnlng . v accurate knowledge . of , the situation. L, may be gained' irom the . fact that v Ministers of Fnanc Aalandrn.! mnA tJnder ; Secretary ' of ' Btate v Denava were blockaded at Torre Annunslata at Castellammsre td take them from there to this city, ut even the fish ermen refused to' run the , risk of crossing the bay ot Naples as .they would have to pass. Mount "Vesuvius, which situated about half way be tween Castellammare and Naplea The ' train which brought " Premier Sonnlno her to-day from Rom waa 'jls, i t y Mn beaps and ' were compelled - to NVV o jto Castellammara in an atitomo J? bile, reaching that -place with great , difficulty. ''They, hoped- to act a boat - considerably delayed by ashes, i- K if - J,: .. ' -j' i ; j t j f s vMonurocnt for. Moore's Creek ,Dfettle ,r - . Washington. -April '.MA-The 8nate J, to-day passed bills . appropriating' $5, ' ' 000 for the improvement of the monu , ; ; ; meat on the Moore's Creek battlefield, ' -'North-Carolina; t A ' i -t f Authorising i the maintalnanca of a Moll, bridge across Tugaloo river be tween the States of South Carolina . and Georgia. t , t xA(- uj ; , - ' i - . ' r' ! '' New York Stock Exdiange Wfll Not V T . Cloae Good SViday. : v 4 " r New York, April 1L The governors of the New York Stock Exchange to-day voted not to close the exchange on Friday, This 1 the second- time in the. history of the institution that it , 'baa failed to ' close on Good Friday, - the previous occasion being in lint, "Ia during the ?a.nyVAjgerlcan war, . BATES AKD TONNAGE FIXED OFFICIALS ADMIT THE CHARGE 1 i. .t Inter-State Commerce . Commisekm's Inveetlgation - Draws BloodAir. 8carleM Denies That tlie Purpose , of the Itates is to Stop Competition , Tonnage Apportlpned Among the Hood Comprising the Association . "(Mil Hearing into . Auegcu Abuse of Coat Trade. " PhUadelpbW April iL-That rates ' are fixed by the "traffic? associaUon" eom posed of various eoalHsarrylng railroads was the ; admission drawn, to-day: from railroad officials at the finat hearing Of the inter-State , commerce ' commlssiott's investigation- intOi the alleged 'abuses of the coal trade, Throdgh Joseph G. Scar let, coel traffic manager of ' the Pennsyl vaola Railroad Company, who is. chair man of the All-Rail -Traffic Association, it was learned, that this organisation not ..z1. jm ...I 1 V . . . . ..... U. .4, omy nxes ine percentage OI Tonnage al lotted to ."each' railroad! but also es tablishes the rates. Counsel for the' com mission produced the minutes of a meet ing of the Tidewater Bituminous Steam Coal Traffic Association, held on Septem ber 19, 1900. -The records showed that a resolution offered by the Norfolk A West ern fSDmoanv eermltted 'that -comDany and the Chesapeake St Ohio Railroad to carry tidewater coal at the rat of $1.23 a ton was voted down and that' the rate was fixed at n.W a ton on Mr. Bearlrs resolution. At the meeting of the Nor folk A Western Railroad complained that meir mierests were Dejng ujurea oy ou ferenttats in; freight rates. ESTABLISHMENT' OF- RATES. " Mr. Searlea admitted thai there bad been an agreement a to the tonnage to be allowed each road and that if. one road shipped more and .another" lees a settlement was made. He said that there had been .no settlements since In explaining the establishment of rates Mr. Searlea stated that each company flxed its price which was later agreed to by the members of the association. ,. If any company should reduce the rate he. said It would demoralise the general situation. Mr. Searlea denied that there was an understanding to maintain rates. between all-rail and all-water associations for the purpose of preventing competition. It was snown ny tne recorae that the rates on soft coal were Increased in 1900. Since then there has been no change. "Mr. Searlea denied also that the Durnose of these rates was to stop competition. to. n. Aiieroury, niwrai munHijer or the Pennsylvania Railroad, wan recalled to-oay ana produced tne documents relat ing to cars and tonnage' which the com mission, asked for yesterday. - dowixs and soar At odds. Eaoli Threatens to Make Shocking Revelations as to the Other's Character Fight for Control of Zlon City to Begin To-Day. Chicago. AdHI 11. John Alexander Dowte and his counsellors to-morrow will begin the fight to regain the S20. 000.000 said to be involved In the con troi of Zlon City by filing In the courts a 4)111 in chancery, petitioning that the transfer of Zion City properties made to Deacon Alexander Granger by Gen eral vvsibur Glenn Volvia, as attor ney for Dowle. be set aside. The grounds upon which the petition win be based will be that volvia. Granger and Mr. Dowle endeavored fraudulently and illegally to despoil the '"first apoetle" of the broperty which he claims. The court will1 also be asked to issue an Inluhction orti- manding that Volvia .be . prohibited from in any way handling the estate. What other legal steps may be, taken have not yet been decided upon.! In referring to a threat, which It is asserted that Gladstone Dowle made Intimating that if his father did not cease in his attacks on Mrs. Dowle, Gladstone would reveal certain deeds said to have occurred In 187T In Aus tralia, Dowle to-day said: I remember nothing particular that occurred In the year 1877. I know of no reason why any exposure of my acts during that period of time should cause me to be - afraid. Coming-, to think of it, however, there Is one thing that happened in the year 1877 which i greauy regrei ana uni is mat me Lord, gave unto me a son whom I named Gladstone. All my life I'vetried to give him counsel and supply him with money. but -my efforts in .lead Ing him in the paths thatt I would have him waia nave been without avail. New, unless this young man ceases making these threats and insinuations. I will be forced to reveal his true character to the world; Jt will be a story of degeneracy that will be shock ing." V. "' y ;v. At the conclusion of a day of con ferences between , representatives . of the opposing interests of the Christian Catholic Church in Zlon, the state ment was made -late to-night that the whole controvesry would probably be settled by conciliation. Both sides to the dispute, according1 to , Attorney Emll C. Wetten, John. Alexander Dowle's v legal representative, are anxious for an amicable adjustment pf the whole dispute. THEIIX FATE WITH THE JURY.," Greene-Gaynor Case All Over Save tor tne verdict woage ispeer w cupics Eight Hours in His Charge: Savannah, Ga., April ll.--Judge "Em ory Spcer at W o'clock to-night con eluded his oharge to the Greene- and Gay nor Jury and -the fate of the con tractors charged by the government with frauds amounting to more than $1,500,000 now, reats with the twelve Jurors who for three months have lis tened to evidenceand arguments. Again td-nlgbt the court room was crowded "With spectators, so keen has been the' Interest ' in the - celebrated case, Thp charge of Judge Speer was of such lengjtb- that he required eight hours for ita deliverjr-and throughout the 'Closest attention- was paid by the audience.' 1 - '1 v,I v- There has teen muon speculation as to the time ; the Jury": will consume in Its deltberatlone, but there Is naught anon which a prediction can be based as to when announcement of its veiv diet will be made. It may be- to-mor row or It may oe Friday or Satur day. The court will be prepared to receive it whenever -the- Jury may be rsaay xo bojuim! -, , u . ;,.'.4 4 , i ...il, - II 1 u 1 'I ' 1 t James A. Bailey, Khowman, Dead. Nw Tortc Aoril IL James- A' nBall- ey died at 'bht home In Mount Vernon iiMlav from erysipelas. He ' was , U years df age. Mr. Baileya name 1 fa miliar ' tnrougnoui "-America, "ana cu ope as a showman and In his later years ha was. managing director of the- Barnum and Bailey snow Prac tically bis whole : life was..-spent in the ; circus -"business as employe and proprietor. He Joined P. T. Barnum In 1881 -and since that time most of the bl. circuses of the- country - have been 'consolidated, with him as direc tor. ; f . , I ' t m. n mini if" V f Winston-Salem T, P. . A. . Elects . Of- B V " 11. ,"(!; .,4 Special to The Observer, . . . winaton-Baiem, April At tne annual meeting to-nlnht of Post H. Travelers Protective AsMOctstinn of-'America, J. J. Norman" was '.elected president; F. 8. Vernsy and . C. Prnn. the latter of RHrtsvtUe.' vies., presidents, and P. T. Wilson, secretory. Ilesrates to the Rtate convention,. to be-held in Greenshnro next month, will bejea t?? TVJ INDIAN AFJWBSIN SENATE x i, i sit TllXMAJT, 15ED MAN'S CHAMPION itatenul Bobs Vn Arairi. Glvini Mr Aklrlch Time to Predict the Knd of ' tho General Debate, a,l Then Gives naoe to, tne wrongs of, trws Jtive Clvilliewl Trilie-Tbe Senator li'Jp. Souttl Carolina Makes xm. Vm tit : neat Comments and Is Drman Into More Ilia q One CoBtroversy. . Washington, April 1L In the Senate to-day Mr. Aldrlch expressed the opin ion, that the end of the' general debate on the, railroad rate Jblll. would be come, apparent before the end of the present week and that? then an agree ment "upon a day for a J vote could be reached. '.The statement- was made In response to a request by Mr. Tillman for such an agreement.. There, was no other T discussion of the rate bill dur ing the day, owing to the fact that no Senator was prepared to speak. It was announced that Mr. Spooner would re ply to-morrow to Mr. Bailey's' speech of yesterday. , ' ' . ? The session was almost entirely de voted to the consideration-of the con ference report on the bill providing for the final settlement of the, affairs of tjte .Five Civilized Tribes of Indians and in connection with j that iTeport there was a sharp controversy over an amendment inserted by the'; Senate which provided for the - ratification of the disbursement of $186,OOOi'of the loyal Seminole fund: made by Special Agent J. E. Jenklnsaand Administrator A. J. Brown. The debate turned upon the exceptional i.fact that the House was Insisting upon the retention of a Senate amendment from which the Senate was apparently anxious to re cede. The debate . was chamcterlsed by a number of spirited passages' be tween Mr. Tillman on the one side and . 1 m ,i j y. , . a. . 1. & jneBsrs. xeijer anu v,io.pp uii uio www. The South Carolina Senator contend- ed that the Indians had been defraud' ed, while hia opponents urged that if they had been the proposed legislation did not deprive them of their rights under the.' law. No conclusion . was reached. - TILLMAN VS. TELLER. tMr. Teller- defended the action of the conferees and in the course oil a sharp colloquy with Mr. Tillman ex pressed anrehenslon that before the matter was disposed of the South Car ollna" Senator would accuse him ot stealing something. , "The Senator expects nothing of the kind," 1 responded Mr. Tillman; "I con tradict blm flatly." Mr. Teller responded that Mr. Till man's arraignment of the committee did not come with good grace from a Senator who confesses that he knows nothing about the question. "If," he said, "the Senator were even a good corn-field lawyer he would know that the Indians lose none of their rights by the adoption of the Senate provis ion." .. While the conference report was pending, the railroad rate bill was laid before the Senate and Mr. ' Tillman made another effort to secure an, agree ment to fix a date for a final vote on the bill, in doing so he made com plaint that the debate on the rate bill mwstflagglng,'' . Mr ' sseftfthiilleng ed that statement, saying he had never known a time when the debate on. so important a measure had been so con tinuous and so well sustained. "If," he said, "the Senator is able to sus tain his seat for a few days until some more Important speeches are made I hops we will then be able to reach an understanding. I should say that bc fore the end of the week we oueht to foresee the end of the general discus sion." 'r j" ' v.-y . SHOULD PROTECT INDIANS. The bill was then temporarily laid aside and the discussion of 'the report on the Indian settlement bill was re sumed. Mr. Tillman attacked the Seminole payment provision, declaring that Congress should protect the In dians "against thieves whom we put In charge of their property." Mr. Tillman said that If the Secre tary of the Interior had permitted him self to be duped In the matter of the payment of the Indians he was not fit for his place. He contended, that the emits for the recovery, of tha money should be prosecuted by the govern ment., "The question," he said, re plying to Mr. Clapp, "is whether some lawyer has not come up here from In dian : Territory and bantbooxled the government." "If the Senator lias been bamboozl ed It was when he was asleep at the switch and let the provision go through the Senate originally," re sponded Mr. Clapp sharply. ' "If the Senator from South Carolina has been asleep at the switch," said Mr. Tillman, Just as pointedly, "it was when this bill was stolen froin his committee. The bill should have been considered by the committee . on the Five Civilised Tribes of which 1 am chairrhan." "That," Mr. Clapp said liy reply, "would have been a sorry spectacle." The Senate then adjourned until to morrow, , HOt'SK ON POSTOFFICK BILL. : ' . mmmm - ''''---" :'-fJ ' Hr. Rlxcy Puts in Word- Against . Itrferee on Southern Poatmastcrl . aMpe Mr.' Finley Commends the " Postal Service, . t 1 H.y ' Washington, April' ll.--Af ter "neaViy 10 days , of general debate with., the postofflce appropriation bill, aa the. ve hicle for the discussion of a wide range of , subjects,; the Houses lata r to-day reached the ' consideration ; of the bill Itself an hour having been given to the reading of the measure. ' There were a nun.be of lively debates during the day,, but tittle progress was made wlth"th Will under ahe. five minute rule," - W.-w ttt.ik ' ' Mr, Finley. of 8uth Carolina, made a general speech en the excellent char acter of the -nasta serving It f he said, the best -In ' lhV world. He also held that the Department teemed hostile to the rural service., Forty-nine routes had -been discontinued,' 48 which were in the' South. A. count of the pieces of mall delivered was now going-on, he said,: which might result In further. abandonment ot routes. He believed,, however,; that in the future there would be less cause of complaint on tbl point, v.' -" ' " i 7: t . A class of persons totally Ignored by the, bill. Mr. Rlxey, . of Virginia, re marked, were the . referees - on post masters in the -Southern States. . He Insisted - that when, the people of his district wanted a , certain person - aa postmaster - he had , a .' right." to go to the 'Postofflce Department and make their wishes' known, bat he objected, as did his constituent, to tha sugges tion of the Department M see the re feree in the - particular district He thought this absolutely uo. American. ,The House, adjourned, until to-morrow. J, , , t. W ,r In n H m,i I. . ii 111 r nv.saff ) if- The President yesterday sent -to the1 Senate the nomination of L. G. Funk- thouter as postrrster of Roanoke, Va, , . . . ... EBUPTION IN rTHE4 HOUSE .'-v.. .ny ,, 1, MAtOJT STARTED BALL ROLLING '--V J'1 "'' s 1 Arkansas 'Member's Annertion- That He Did Not Becognlzt Mr Small as.-a uenunnui inauguraiee m - IJvely DisciWHlon--8oiuhenir JFast Mail Appropriai ion the ttmse of it AO Miv Page Speaks . In Con. dilatory but Firm Manner ' and C.A Reiterates His Position on the Bill Under Contdderation John Wesley uainca raruopates in colloquy. - BY W. A. JHLDEBRAXD: Observer Bureau, '"il G Street N. W-V; - t ' ' S WAshlnjc ton. April , An eruption, characterized by Vesu vlan violepce, occurred to-day In the House It . goes without saying that tne southern rast mail appropriation was the cause of it all Mr. Macon, of, Arkansas, asserted that, in pre vious discussions, he hjrt yielded ,.to Mr. small as a gentleman but that he no longer recognized him as - such. Mr. Small, retorted, with laughter-in which the -members generally Joined, that he would, at all events, endeavor to survive. .The House declines Ho take Mr. Macon very seriously. '- This is the way the. proceedings opened and- the House then gradually warm ed up to the subject. The storrd broke out afresh' around Mr. Small's defenseless head when the irreststable and ublqutous ' John Wesley Gaines took the floor;, " and the detonations were loud and-eont!nuous for five con secutive minutes. The member from North Carolina" and the member from Tennessee also had some further con versation n the cloak room after the Gain's speech, ' when the amenities were momentarily overloked, but they subsequently shook hands across the great "subsidy, chasm. FORGOT; THEMSELVES IN HEAT ' OF CONTROVERSY. Mr. Page - followed the Tennessee member. Mr Page . spoke in such conciliatory, albeit Arm vein, that members were able to rid themselves of hastily conceived visions of pos sible meetings. on the capitol green at the cold gray dawn of the morn ing at ten paces apart. Mr. Page said : "The conduct of those gentle men who have discussed particularly one feature of the bill under consider atlon, namely the appropriation to facilitate malls, and I use this word tn deference to -their delicate senses to expedite the 'mall between Washing ton and New Orleans, leads me to re mark that- these gentlemen, who are usually so courteous, who are usually so well possessed of their tempers, have, It seems to me, departed from their dally custom. My. amiable col league from North Carolina, Mr. Small, who has made for himself here, as at home, a. reputation for courtesy and gentlemanly conduct, so far for got himself in , the heat of discussion In his speech on yesterday as to Im press me with .being discourteous to one of his colleagues from his own State (Mr. Webb.) Mr. Webb made a statement-- and - my colleague (Mr. Bmall) challenged that statement and challanvnd him la Drove, his assertion. YmmmK Webb lnternipteatim for the purpose of proving the statement that he had made, 5 my 'colleague re fused to let , him do it and so my pur pose upon this floor now, as much as any other thing, is to make peace, be tween the members of my own dele gation. INTERRUPTED; BY MR SMALL. Mr; Small: . "May I ' interrupt the gentleman a "moment?" ' Mr. Page: "Certainly, sir." Mr.-Smallr "The. Interruption, as I understood it, was for the purpose of quoting a statement made by the Second Assistant Postmaster General. I challenged the gentleman to produce any such statement by "that official. I was met by the reply that he had a private letter from the Postmaster General tn response to one that he had written-and -I -declined, and I think properly declined, to permit the letter from the Postmaster General, Mr. Cortelyou, to be Interpolated Into my remarks, not Intending any dls courteousy." -. ' :' Mr, Webb: "Mr. Chairman!" The Chairman: "Does the ' gentle man yield?" ;'V -'."v,";' Mr, Page: "I yield tor my colleague." MR. WEBB EXPLAIN8. Mr, Webb: ''My Colleague (Mr. Small) seems to object that I wanted to put into his speech " a ,- statement from , the Postmaster General. I in sisted . that the letter which' I have, and which was written , on -the 7th of this month, three days ago, was not only signed by the Postmaster General, but was initialed and countersigned W s. S," wbicn means William s. Bhallenberger, the Second . Assistant Postmaster General, and In that letter he gays as to whether the withdrawal of special facility pay by Congress would -cripple mall service between Washington and Atlanta; .'that no ap prehension Is felt "'that the service would be crippled.' That Is the state ment which I wanted, to get Into the record." (Applause.) Xt. Small: "But I would suggest that letters from the vice president of the Southern Railway and from the president 01 uie Atlantic vas west Point Railway, as read by .the gen tleman from Louisiana' (Mr! Meyer,) this morning 1 contain positive (. state ments that this special train, Ncv 97, seder 1 the present schedule for -ex pediting, malls will not. be continued If this appropriation is withheld, and take it that they .know more about the matter, than does the postmaster General. r , . v Mr, Page! "Mr- Chalrrrtan.' ! am obliged to 4ny colleagues for the ex planations - which ' they have -. both made. Now there was one other state ment 'made toy. my 'colleague,' (Mr. Small).. that I wept; to give him the opportunity to correct on his foor. In his speech yesterday .he charged that those gentlemen who had oppos ed this appropriation, to- facillate mall between Washington and New Or leans had uniformly voted for. tha ap propriation to expedite the mall f be tween - the Pacific 1 coast and : tha is land of Tahiti; i,- L . - ',' ' "Mr.- Gaines, of - Tennessee: "W i the gentleman yield for moment?" MR. PAGE,. REFUTES THIS CHARGE Mr. Page." "No sir, ' not ' now. I re fute the charge, and .If my language Is parllmentary and if no one will ask to have It taken down,-1 wllf say that., that 'statement 1 Is untrue ss touching quite a number of gentlemen upon this floor." .., --.i ' . (William ' w. .jiucoin; , -xnciudint myself. 1 ? ' ; ft .r. " iift. webo .-Ana including me.7 v Mr..,SmalU' '"May, I r interrupt lh gentleman."", ' - Mr., Page: -Teriswiy. - -, Mr. Small: "I believe It will 'bs ad mitted that up -to the time I brought (Continued on, Page Ten WANT Tlltm OLD PLACES UNION'S FIGHT A JIOPEtfcSS ONE Numbers of : Its ' Locked-Oot Km ployee of High Point Furniture . FdctoriM . Annlvinsr for Rrlnstatc- ment Some Taken Back, Others Jterused , Employment iMsttonm Organiser 1 Roberts Returns - to Wasliington and Fight la liOOked tipon as Honeless No Trace Can ''be Found of ' the Spencer v Order .Said to Have Been Countermanded Mr. Roberta Talks. , Special to The Observer. w, , Hlgh Point, April 11. The manufac turers say that more neoDia applied far their old Jobs In the various fac tories to-day than on any previous aay since the factories decided not to employ union labor. The manufactur ers are constantly being approached tn person and by letter by former em ployes asking If the applicants can re turn to work as non-union men, : Most of the 'replies are favorable, but there are' several . .agitators and disturbers that could not get back under any cir cumstances. - ' Circulars have been issued and are being sent . throughout the State of fering Work 'to men not belonging to Unions and, at good prices. This means that the manufacturers of High Point are not' going to depend on the now We men here as employes. Not that they are In urgent need of men now, but they are looking out for the fu ture. , UNION'S FIGHT A HOPELESS ONE. V It is the talk heard on the street comers, and believed by those in a position to know, that the fight the union men are making is a hopeless one, that shortly the fight will be stop ped and that those who can get back In the factories will do so while the Others will seek new pastures. Some of them have already left . Mr. F. C. Roberts, ot the Ameri can Federation of Labor, who has been here for a week or more advising with the men who left their positions in the factories, left for his home In Washington to-day. In a conversa tion with a newspaper man Mr.. Rob erta said his advice to the union men was to weed out the boys and Incom petent men and get together for the future, so that they could- demand recognition, that then the manufactur ers should and would most probably pay union wages to them. Mr. Rob erts practically admitted that he had come to the conclusion that the exist ing circumstances here, where all class es,-irom the boy employes at to cents a day to the skilled mechanic, are all together in one body, does organised labor in Its true attitude more harm than -good and that nothing can be dona for the organisation as it stands. SOME MISSTATEMENTS. Mr, Roberta seems to be a fair-mind ed gentleman, cool and conservative, and the statement appearing In the Raleigh; paper this morning, sent by a union man, in regard to the speech making; tour of Mr. Roberts through the State' next week and quoting him as saying that the lockout here would be rought y unions all over tne United States and Canada, does not exactly tally with his parting advice to tne umon men ot tne city. 1 am requested to announce .that the state ment sent to the Raleigh paper this morning In regard to a union man be ing threatened with a coat of tar by the "bosses," ss he terms them, If he did not return to work, is abso lutely false and ridiculous In the ex treme.' No good dtlsen believes it. The report that union men are being run out of their homes by men that own the' houses is also untrue, only where the renter does pot pay his rent in a reasonable time, which Is the case the vworld over. On the other hand, the factory men of High Point feel kindly towards their former em ployes. vi;A..' . : .. THAT. SPENCER ORDER A FAKE? In regard to the Spencer annulment of the furniture order on account of the lockout here, I have, failed, after repeated Inquiry, to find the manufac turer who had such a contract. The manufacturer here want it understood that they are not making a fight on the national labor organisation with skilled men but with the -conditions as they exist here.. Boys and Incom petent men are mixed up with good workmen and are causing dissatisfac tion. , , ' ROBBERS JN THE TOWN. Robbers were in town last night and put In their, work while people were on the streets. The time was about 10 o'clock and the place was in front of the First National Bank building and almost under! the nose of cltlsens. A noma and buar.tr hitched to a tree be longing to Marvin Parker,, and a bi cycle belonging to Frank Armfleld were seised, and nothing has been heard of them as yet At first Mr. Parker thought someone had played a toice on him and kept the matter quiet unfit this afternoon, for some cause. f The hitching strap was cut In two. The animal was a . dark Iron gray mare, weight UM; the buggy is a watertown open red running gear and black spindle body, stick seat and rub ber tired; $2t Is offered for -the -return of the -buggy and horse and $2B for the apprehension of the thief w thieves. Telegrams - ahd' postal cards have been sent all over the State an nouncing the , theft and reward., ;,; ; rkplv of the uaBTian Believed That tlie -;OlitdrVlbBter, to Leave the Trouble With the gtrike Commission, Will be Accepted Secrecy SonreiKU .Work of. Com mitteemen. -'';:sf?s&&?'tii&'x New Tork. April,' IL-iAfter having, the counter arbitration plan or the anthracite operators under consideration nearly all day the general scale committee of the hard coal miners completed-the draft of their reply -and m present it to the com mittee et mine owners at the ' Joint ses sion ta be held here to-morrow. The strictest secrecy surrounded, the work of the committeemen. It is believed the miners have decided to accept the opera tors' offer that the anthracite strike com mission take up the dispute, but will ask that the tribunal bs permitted to Consider the original demands with certain Impor tant modification. , VThe concessions Said to ha been de cided Vpon are 4hat. Instead of an agree ment being - -entered into between, the operators and -the United- Mine Workers of America, it be-made with the anthra olte mine workers: that the check-oft' be limited to the .wage workers who agree to an assessment to defray the expenses incurred in carrying out the miner's part ot the agreement instead : of all .' mine workers union and non-uoion-rbelng compelled to contribute, and . that the duration ot the sgreemeat be left-to the commission. ' - " " , if this proposition is accepted ft would leave the commission free to take op the demand for an, Increase; in. wages, an elaht-hour , day, uniform s pay for ail classes et employment paid by' the day er month, reconstruction, of the concilia tlort board and a tiumbetf of minor 'griev ances. The operators want 1 te limit the Inquiry to wages and a method for the adjustment ot complaints, . n , The Senate .'yesterday passed bills pro hibiting -aliens from gathering spouse in American waters and prohlbttina the use of jxwinf .apparatus ia the taking of sponges, -j :,yn' HEABING lilleston case , - V. HE . MAY GET NO NEW TRIAL Motion for New Trial on Ground of Newly Discovered Evidence Argued Before Supreme Court Commis sioner Patterson Addressee Letters to Commissioners of Other States Relative to Appalachian Forest Reserve Dead Gold-Brick Swind ler a Singular C ha ra c tr i N orris Case Reopened Supreme Court -I Opinions Powers of Police Jas - tloes Raleigh New. Notes. Observer Bureau, " 122 South Dawson Street, - Raleigh, April 11. Commissioner ot Agriculture Pat terson : has written a letter to the other ' commissioners of various Southern States regarding the Appa lachian ; forest reserve bill, notifying them that the House of Representa tives had set Wednesday, April 25th, for a . hearing on the bill. He says the latter will pass the Senate and probably the House also, if It. can be brought to a vote. President Roose velt favors It, Secretary of Agricul ture Wilson warmly . advocates It and Head Forestor Glfford Pinchot Is one of Its best t friends. Alto gether the outlook Is Very promising. provided the people themselves, llv ing in the States most interested, will give It their hearty and active sup port. Mr. Patterson urges the other commissioners to attend the meeting and also to secure the attendance of other State officials and especially owners of water-powers and of, per sons interested in preventing', the wasteful destruction of forests and the washing away of the soli. He says the opportunity has come, as such opportunities come rarely enough to the South, and that people cannot afford not to seise it. 1 A SINGULAR CHARACTER. .The death of H. D. Hawley. the gold-brick convict at the penitent! ary, removes from the public a very singular character. He must have been a very Important man to a lot of the New Tork politicians. for the endorsements he had by them, or procursd through their influence, were simply astonishing. Last sum mer The Observer's correspondent made a long story about this. The most extraordinary and sensational attempts were made to get this man out or the penitentiary, and money was offered by the thousands of -dol lars. Some of these days the whole story will come out and, to be sure, It will make a twentieth century ro mance. Hawley's lawyer, an Ar kansas man, was here two or three year 8 ago. and ordered a handsome suit of clothes sent to him at the penitentiary, showing a big batch of endorsements of men high up In politics in the North. The clothes were sent, but to this day have never been paid" for. 1 NORRI3 CASE REOPENED. A magistrate here held M. T. Norrls, a prominent Raleigh merchant, tn a 11,00a hail to appear, before. .Superior court to July on the charge of turn in a country residence owned by his wife to obtain the insurance. The State board of education has de clined' to renew sn option on J5,0OO acres of land In Carteret county, held by R. L. Woodward. No further op tions are to be granted any persons on these swamp lands, which are under the control of the board of education, until the survey Is completed and the report made. Expert foresters from the United States Agricultural Depart men are examining the timber on these tends, t State Auditor Dixon says, the total amount of taxes to be collected this year will be about the same as last year except thoss from corporations, as he thinks about 600 new corpora tions wll be put on during the current year. The taxes will be ample to run the State, which has not had to bor row any money since the spring of 1902. That borrowed was paid back. The auditor says North Carolina will compare financially with any other State In the Union. SUPREME COURT OPINIONS. The Supreme Court has filed the fol lowing opinions:' Horn vs. Power Com pany, New Hanover, new trial; State vs. Baekerville, Wake, judgment ar rested;!: Edwards vs. Goldsboro, Wayne, no error: Johnson vs. Johnson Chatham, proceeding dismissed; State vi Barrlnger. Richmond, no error: Bynum vs. Wicker, Moore, error; Ray vs.. Railroad Co., Scotland, new trial; Haire vs. Haire, Anson, new trial; Fearington vs. Tobacco Company, Durham, new trial; Freeman vs. Free man; Durham, affirmed; Cook vs. Vtckers, Durham, reversed; Alexand er vs. Telegraph Company. Alamance, no error; Moore vs. Railroad. Durham, no error; Davis vs. Smith, Durham; reversed: State vs. W'likerson, Qull Jord, appeal withdrawn by defendant. ' The-Supreme-Court, lh the Basker vllle case from Raleigh, holds that po lice justices have exclusive and orig inal Jurisdiction in the matter of mis demeanors in cities and towns,. Jus tice Hoke delivered the opinion. The defendant was tried. b a magistrate for a violation of a city -ordinance, the magistrate refusing to quash the bill on motion of the attorney who con tended that a police Justice has ex clusive Jurisdiction.- The - Supreme Court arrests the . Judgment of the magistrate, saying he had no Jurisdic tion and' that the Legislature had ample power to create police , courts. The Supreme Court In the Lytic case from Ashevllle, last term.' did 'not pass on this exclusive Jurisdiction question because not squarely .presented. HEARING LILLESTON " CASE. -In the Supreme Court to-day there was a conclusion of arguments In the very interesting and, m some respects, unique case of Bob Lilleston,' -the fa kir convicted of killing Charles - G. Smith here and who' was sentenced' to 14 years In the penitentiary for mur der In the second degrees.' Attorney Argo,- for Lilleston, lodged a. motion for ft : new trial t upon , tha ' ground of newly discovered evidence, this being that of a woman, and given since the trial In Superior Court -It Is said that the. Superior Court will hardly grant this motion- after Its action in the con ell case from .Cumberland- county, in this ease Associate Justice Douglas respited Council on toe ground, of newly discovered evidence until the full bench' could 'look Jnto that matter and pass upon sthe ' evidence The court decided 'that this was not the practice and j that there was no pre cedent. The court affirmed this doc trine in the Register case. For these reasons it is not thought that anything will come ot the motion. - , Gernn Troopa Leaving Tien Tsla. Tien Tslnj April 13, The embarkation of . German troops from ' Pekln com menced thla.mornlpg.- a ; . WATER iSCabceuk-colo:; ADVERTISED Sl'STEM mat: V " 1 . , , 11 " I .-v ' ' - A Hole In i the ' Ground About t Only Tiling Existent, of the -Gin . Reservoir... Which Secretary .l . Ilearalded Work .on ( Mains - ar- ; Reservoirs Carried on-In a Dci.. tory Fashion With Small Force of , Natives and . the JProspecta for a Plentiful ! Supply of ; Good Water Anything but ' Bright Tropical t'ndergrowth and Rotten Vegeta-; lion Not JLikely to bo Conducive to Good Sanitary Conditions. . BY WOODWORTH CLOf.' i , ' " Correspondence of The Observer..? 'j ' V Colon, Panama, March iJLrrSecre ; tary Taft. In a special report dated January S,&190d, Informs the- public ; thst there la no scarcity of water liV Colon ; that a permanent reservoir wRhj s a capacity of 600,000,000 gallons ls,ur"V der construction, with two permanent standplpes, one of 400,000 and the oth , er of 500,000 gallons capacity under" contract to be completed by April On this last day of March I am -abla to report that there 1s a scarcity of '. good water In Colon; that the work of clearing the. ground for the' 60,000 v gallon reservoir has scarcely .begun that the work on the permanent damr -is practically at a standstill, and that. . neither of the two standplpes has been) berun. ( ' I do not cite these points in con tradiction to the statements of . tha honorable Secretary of War, but to demonstrate that some of the govern mental experts on the Isthmus of Pan ama are taking advantage of the ad- . ministration. Secretary Taft , also- stated on January 8 that "7,000 feet of , permanent (water) mains have already - , been laid and that the remaining ,00O feet are bemg laid at the rate of 400 to G0 feet daily." If thla progress had ' been ' maintained the laying of tha ' ; mains would have been completed) within twenty-three days, at the out- - , side. Nearly, three months have elaps- . " ed since then, and the laying of mains : has not been completed. , ' In endeavoring to ascertain facta concerning conditions and progress on . , the Isthmus of Panama, it is indeed. , difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Colon is full of -soreheads t men who for some reason or other have acquired a wonderful grudge against the Isthmian canal commls- ; ' slon, and when they discover a pos sibillty of "getting back" at the gov-, eminent by "exposing" some rotten-' ness of administration, they are never y satisfied until they have Intrusted their tales of woe to the tender mer cies of some itinerant-Journalista But when one actually encounters these -a conditions complained of,, the aUnos. : phere clears, and the problem ot "fact- finding" is easier to solve. Upon ar-'." rival at Colon I was told , there was) ' . a water famine; that there was no , good water;, that the government was taking advantage of the situation by J bringing spring, water 4nt town and . selling it at oenta-gold 4r. galloiu. . and a hundred and one ether dread ful things that made me wish J had. avoided the place altogether. ; . . r. However, have had the pleasure paying the 2 cents per gallon for fair- , 1 ly good drinking water, furnished by y the government for a short while,, but H now discontinued; and while the, real- dents manage to get along with the , rain water and water such aa finds ita , way through the pipes from the .tern porary reservoir, there is everywhere apparent a painful economy an scon- ' my that results in the use of a single t 4 tub of water by the washerwomen la V cleansing (?) the linen of half a doxen , patrons. , . These conditions are not so bad. In, theameslves. In , fact, the people of , Colon never were better off than they . are to-day in the matter of water sup-; f. ply. The point I desire to make Is tha , progress has not been nearly aa rapld ' or commendable as has been so widely; advertised. Having, in mind the MO.OOO.OOO-gallon -reservoir, which was about ready to . furnish Colon end Cristobal with wat- ' sr. I followed , the twentyfnch ,plpa-' line leading from tha city, through, ' the tropical Jungle, pass the queer Utn v tie cemetery at Monkey; Hill, until fin--' ally, about four miles from Colon. X. reached the first dam, which: the en- -glneers told me would be the beginning v ot : the reservoir, It was about , lu , o'clock In the morning, when ail, em-, ployee should be at their , tasks, but , .' over a quarter of a mile of dam site I found only a dosen workmen. 1 Ja , maican negroes, with a negro, foreman, pumping out of a hole tn tha ground. . hoping, they eald, to find a, good base for some foundation . work. I' asked them where the great 500,000,000 reser-- voir might be found, and they pointed ' to the valley In front of them. & v 1 f ? it was a oretty little, valley.. to bo ' sure, filled with beautiful trees lux"- urlant vines, ana unaergrowin,-, vut . having In ita center a sluggish. Stag- nant stream. Upon whose bants lay, . masses of rotten timber ana omer yeg- , - station. -; - V j. ' ) "Is this the dam tnat 10. oe reaay , for use by April It" I asked. ... The foreman smuea ana , aa nut tea . that it wa. - - . , rweiLara. tner ..no aainar.- n -ciear the reservoir of this rank, vegetation T'5 ,: I persisted.., X ' ; "On.,tney are clearing, u, saia my, friend,, the foreman.,, and ; pointing ta -' one corner of the valley he showed ma "' a small 4and or Martinique negroes. -about twentyy slashing , away at. the underbrush with tbetr machetes. . For .an hour M walked around tn proposed reservoir and the, permanent dant. , In that time I did not encounter more than S0O , men working ,on , in entire project. - , 't v' . ' v rwhv do , you not nave i.owr i asked of each foreman I met They all acknowledged what I thought lo be at self-evident fact; tha tf t.OOO men were , employed ; on. - the work ; the j progress would be Just Aen time aa rapid aa with - W men. This. too, in , view of , the , rapidly aproachmg rainy 'season. , 1uca begins -, about . the middle or April. ?v The engineers .' With whom l talked said ' that the work could ba -pushed to completion- tn a short time with a sufnoient force 01 laoorers. ur returning t . town that . afternoon t M surprised to find tne streets or co- ton-full of negroes. Just arrived fr Jamaica and . the other 'Island of t 1 West , Indies More than a ti:. had been brousht in on one f but 'alt btthein-'-wrs--tin-f'-mediately : by f rati to t . Tha water-works wa l t the best Way u e 1. . the reservoir is 1 when Mr. Taft v be ready 'by . two .temporary 1 h ive l 'Nfn f 'vt Tioers w ho Hie nn , but It i not C TV 1 t: 'S3 t 1 1
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