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''7 X: J PRldE FIVE CENTS. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: f 8.00 Per Year, CIIARLOTTE,' N. 0., WEDNESDAY , MORNING,' JULY. 23, 1906. : 1 i I 1 ) TO SERVE SOTICEON BRYAN i IV HAT SOU pi SOUTH DEMANDS John Sliarp Williams, One' of South i ' , cm Democracy's Conservative IxmuI , ; era, WW Notify-the Nebraakan, at ' Meeting in DruKwls, That " Ho I , Wants Support of Solid utl In ' 10H. He Mrott Abandon Idea f iy ,.7 Government ) niTkhlu f Hall 'roads Not Believed t'l lial lie Will , V- Cute-ily Accept This Warning from . uw south, v ,. .. ,.- -j ;; ' SpedaW-lo -The 'Observer.' "-V ; - ' 'Urooklvn. N., Y- July'14. ' The -Eagle to-night publlheS the follow '". ing Wajtilngtpn special: If Wllllsm J, Bryan want the support of the aolld V South for the presldencylln lOOiVhe roust abandon the Idea of) advocating 7 government ownership off railroad. Formal notice to thta effect will ;be served upon him In the nat few days 'Representative, John Bharp Wll " Hams, of Mississippi, one of the moit ' conservative Democrats of the 8outh Mr,'. Williams, and Mr. Bryan will . meat In Brussels where both will at v tend -the Inter-Parliamentary Con ' cress aa delegates Mr. Williams will 1 1 speak. for the leader of the party In V't his section of the country, who nave 1 ' given much thought to the political menace Involved In the,; government ownership plank m the next wmo- "i -cratlo national platformI, Thla Is live Issue In the South, more so. In ijf fact than the people of thV other seo- 'lions of the country, cat possibly gp; ,. predate. Jf touches the very center of. that great bugaboo, race equality, ): an issue that never falls to. wipe out all political lines so far as the white j -voters, are concerned ALAR1TED BT RECENT UTTEk ' . 8outher6 Democrats have been .aUarmed by recent . utterances, ' both ' publlo and private, of Mr. Bryan on questiona anactlng tne. management . at nubllo utllttiea. It la aoDarent that the NenrasKan, oonempiates a ncucai atep. In regard to. the railroads, and Roosevelt having stolen. Mr. Bryan's thunder r In regard to rate regulaUon. the latter la now pre par Jng to take even a more advance posi tion. He has publicly advocated State 1 ownership of railroads and, . -unless called off by political friends, - will urge absolute Federal ownership. The . trend of his mind In . . tbls direction 'ha been Indicated In a private letter . received from htm In Washington. Bryan evedently thinks that publlo entlment Is fast drifting toward ad vanced socialism and that, by the time the next campaign comes around. It will bd ripe for the acceptance of .laIUo thl. tin. 'J-,," Bryka's followers- say that, Congresa Vhaving authorised Federal regulation of rates, the next logical step Is to y take over the railroads, bag and bag- gage. This ' Una of argument ' will vXdoubtlesa be very acceptable to ' the igrangers of the West but Southern 'i nnlltlHana uv It will nAt m In thalr part of the country, -. x- WHAT IT -WOULD MEAN s TO '.-" v' BOOTH. ' ' Government ' ownership' of rall- I , roads means an end to the -Jim . , . Crow cars, the continuance of. which ; la Imperative, in the opinion of vlne '11 tenth of the people of that section t : ' trreapeetlve of party.". In fact, so se . , curely is this Idea ingrafted on them . that the political leader who should advocate abandonment would Insure , Ms own political - destruction. '. Lead ' . era of the John 8harp .Williams type i believe that Bryan la not aware of .the Intense feeling of the Southern 1 .'people - on this point, consequently, C they propose te let him knew Just , -what th advocacy of. government ownership of railroads means. ' Poll tlclans are wondering to what extent Mr. Bryan will be willing to sacrifice " ls principle to political expediency. . lia record with free silver does . not r' courage the . Idea that he -will ojuletly- accept-the warning-of "the ; Bouth and not insist upon a radical . - railroad plank -In the Democratic t'platform. v - . - '. , , ' STO.VH FOR OUIRMAJif. ' . MlHsouii senator Bdng Tipped by Po . lltlral Vlsracree. as Successor Jo v- ; Ttiomaa. Taggart aa .Uead of Na tional DiwtorraUc' Committee 1 - BrysltSald to Favor IUm. ', 8peclal to The Observer. '. - ' . ; BrooklyaN. July 14; The Eagle - to-night publishes , the following Washington special: , William Joel Stone, of Missouri, former Qovernor of thaH State, and at present United Btates Senator, la being tipped by the politic! wiseacres . as the next chairman of the Democratic national . committee - to succeed Thomas Tag . gert, of Indiana, This tip oomes from the camp which files the banner of William J, Bryan and Is predicated on the aasumptlbn that Bryan will be Democracy's candidate In 1101.. If Bryan 4 nominated he will, of ' rAiirw. aalatct "h man to manarit kla campaign and his friends here prom that he-wiilnot svlect a man who Has been ' chosen for htm by other larty leadora, fie will do his own ohooamg. It Is . said, and his choice tll be a mas with whom he Is on terms of clove personal Intimacy, who' n ,- In tha MrviB hr.n rf-Tn- focracy, who Is a shrewd politician and who halls from the Went Sena tor Stone Is said to fill this' btlL Ills personal relation with the Nebraskan liave been , clone, lie subscribe to J very tenet In Bryan's articles of po litical faith. He Is a Westerner and he Is a politician par excellence. Mr. Stone still, a a political manipulator, la the boast of his friends and la ad mitted ss such by his enemloa. It ha earned 'for him the nh-k- iame of "Oura HhAe IMI1." while It ha irousht him subatantlai h'rffora in the hae of eeyeral electlone to the lower Moune of Congress, four, years 1 Jovernor of Mlourl end one eloctlnn ' the United Hi a tea, Senate. In ad dition he was choaen- to represent MIkkouH on the iHnmocratln national I'ummlttee In 1196 and - If 00, when In a tor JonoiO of Arkanaa, was at the head of the organisation, and In tlve 1100 .campaign he was elected Vvu-e chalriiian of the committee. V' In the two campaign In which rj-an made the race for the I'rea ".y, Senator Stone occupied a seat f the party council table and en id Ilryan'a ronildenee. It la known t the KrhrBukan waa: deeply lm "(! With the MlHRfitirlnn's pnlltl aciimen snd he Jia rleclared arml 1 Hi ly that he knew of no man bet- lin!l;i(l to tnuiidKB a imtlotiul ! It;n. la rontrnlo.J llmt lrynn Viwa .thd-T to Mono. ' tin lilllrr h''i1 rt r.:i soiitl d. . itlon to Hi" ( li I- --hi 11'! i In lb; J, l', vm IIABi'JE CASK BB0ADENING FTRTIIErt SENS..TIOXS PROMISTED AaxlHUnt Dlatrlot Attorney ? Rohb . onju rrcMis nui rouow Miuinia sion of the Case Which Will De- . ...vclop Pronounced ScnaUon9 In surance Agent' Swear to Finding t,Mar Edith" Letter on the Street Washington Norm - Tells Conrt Tliat Blanche Ashhy Admitted . jiiat e.110 in uiving Testimony ( ravoraue to Mrs. iiartJe. PltUburg, July t. From 'the statement made by Assistant District Attorney John S. Robb, lo-dsy, there are more sensations indicated In con neatton with the Hartje dlVorce caae than have heretofore been disclosed, Mr. Robb said that as soon aa v the Hartje case . was subipltted. to ". the court there would be arrests which wouia ueveiop pronouncea senaa tlona " 1 '...:..!: . : It Is rumored that If .anyone goes on the stand In the Hartje case and testifies that he broke open Medina's trunk, arrests will follow. It is aieo expected that a great legal battle wilt take place when Hartje's attor neys, endeavor . to show how . the Madlne love letters were secured. After several hours devoted - by counsel for Augustus Hartje to an endeavor to prove that the Susie Wagner letter was written by Mrs. Mary Scott Uartje, which she has denied . writing, the evidence In re- nuual of Mrs. Hartje's defense -took a few tuvn to-day.- , y . . . FOUNDS "DEAR EDITH tETTER i I : IN STREET.' , V:, .1- B. B. Smith, an Insurance arent. swore that he found the "Dear Edith" letter In the street, and " after eon suiting an attorney,- gave It to - Ed ward G. Hartje, brother of the plaintiff , . '. ' .-. - .; Silas Canadr. a negro from 'Wash ington, D. C - testified -that Blanche A ah by, the former servant " of 7 the Hartlea who' in her depositions says she- never observed anything Im proper - about Mra Hartje's conduct, had told him that she lied. .". . Canady aaa .put through a rigid croaa-examlnatlon . by Attorney John Freeman, for Mrs. Hartje. during which he became - confused - several fin 1 a . - Canady said ' that when .1 he learned Blanche Aahby was going to get a lot of money for lying, he wrote to M Hartje to find out If he could not get , soma money for telling . the truth.-' -'-; ' ., . . .... Attorney -E. O. Hartle. brother of the libelant' -was cross-examined by Attorney John M. Freeman, who asked him -why he had not told the-court of the finding of the letters alleged to have been written by Miss Helen Scott, in "the room of Tom" Madlne. Mr. Hartje said he did not know, and that he had not been asked In par ticular about that He also said the papers which Attorney Freeman had said were stolen from his office had been found near the Duquesne bank by a Mr. Smith and given to him by Attorney Charles Locke.; . ATTORNET. SCORES WITNESS. -The -witness was scored on eroaa- examl nation - by 1 Attorney ' Freeman ror retaining letters belonging to Mr. Freeman, which the witness said had been found In the street One of the alleged . Helen -Beott letters was made publlo to-day, al thoagh It had not been read In court It Is a letter to "Tom" Madlne. . the coachman co-respondent ' In the' case,, and - purports to ahow that aha 'coacnea". mm as , to the testimony he was to give .In' court "concerning the allegation . that. Madlne had driven Mr." Hartje to Schenley Park while Mrs. Hartje was at Memphis, and where he met a strajjge woman. an incident that has ' figured in the case heretofore. . , .. .. . , ,- - ' . . ' 's ,. PEONAGE .IN .WORST, FORM.' ' United State Offlcrrrti Armed .With Warrants for Oraorrs of an Ala if hama Lam be Oovnrany (ierumn - Imbawinrn Ttril a Tale of Croelty . and III Treatment . - ; . r Psnsaeota," Fla., July 14. Peonage In Its worst form la charged against the officers' of the Jackson Lumber Company at Lockhart Ala., v and united Bute oeputtes, armed' with warrants for- their arrest, left here to-day for that place. if the allegations are true, about one . , hundred Immigrants, mostly Qermana, ere 'held In the. lumber ramps of that company , virtually, as! slaves.'- . '7 -. . A nartr of Germans reached Mere to-day from the camps, stating they had escaped. They went to the Ger man vice consul for - protection and told him a tale of1 111 treatment, and cruelty that ha hardly a- parallel In the South. .They 'allege that they were compelled to eat after . the Americans, and If nothing was left they got nothing to eat If they at tempted to leave and were caught they were severely beaten. If -the men did not work to suit them they are stripped and while -two of them held a man ' across a log, a third plies a strap or any Instrument of torture handy. ,, . . v Negrcea Attempt Wholesale Poison- - .; ing. fc.... . , .- .'.- Meridian. - Miss.. July K.Anna Nolan, negress employed at the Lau derdale Springs Hotel, about 40 miles above . thl rlty. was arrested thla morning charged with an attempt at wholesale poisoning of the proprie tor attaches and guests of .the hotel. It Is claimed that the women pi area a quantity of rough-onrats In the coffee served to the guests for supper laat night In retaliation fori a real or fancied grievance she ' poaaeseed agalnat the proprietor. Two of the gueats are reported as very III front' the effects of the poison. 7 Georgia Ifouso Puts Ban oh Bucket , - , . 7. .Miopa,,.. ,, ;;.(, 1 Atlanta. Ga., July !4.The lower house of the Georgia Legislature to day passed .what Is known as the Boykln antl-bucket shop blir by a vote of 113 to 15, after the- long-eat debate of the present seaaton. The bill prohibits all desilngs In futures on margin and will clone all bucket shop, exchange, etc.. In the State. The bill now fcooe to the Senate, where It Is expected It will pass. had a candidate for the presidency, "free Sliver Dick" -Iand, who In all loirla should havs been the nomine of that convention. But Bryan made his "croas-of-gold" speech, the stam pede fts started and Stone delivered he Mlxnourl delegation ' , to Hryan. Itlnnd met the fate of many stateamen who have undertaken to be politician ha waa done to. death In the houae of his friend. , Other men have been mentioned aa i.oaniiiiuti.'d in connection,, with tho Democratic chalrinanHhlp but none have floured very strongly a yet Mayor Tom I Johnson, of Cleveland, aurnmarlly dlaponed "f hi premature aootn by fledurlng that he olil not want tt f'lnce. Henator Culberson has In-ill d!-ic1, but It doe not Hecm io1l l UiHt lio could be pcr- unj.'.l to tuKo the J7.HO, THE CZAttJIABKED BY BKOS WAR TO THE KNIFE is".,' RUSSIA Terrorist Impose Death Sentence on . the Kmperor and Other Olliclalsof ' the ICmplre. and lmnlor Stolypiu JHSuea a Manifesto Ordering - the . Imperial lioww to Crush Uie "Ene. v mips of 8x lety" War Office Pre- . prra wi ixpe witn me first tint. V break loUi e Clone Political CIuN Agrarian Dlsonlera In the Vlclnl- ;ty of St . Peteraburg Members of uie outlawed Douma Returning. St Petersburg, July: 14.---ProcIama tlons announcing that the death sen tence has been Imposed on the Em peror. General Trenoff. M.' Pbbleddn- oatseft. who was procurator general of tne Moiy eynoa; uenerai oriorr, tne "pacificator" of thai Baltic provinces, and others, have been scattered, over part or reterhof. v - v - . The terrorists are said to have suc ceeded In-nailing copies of the 'sen tence on the doors of General Or- lofrs and General Trenoff's Quart era - War to the. knife with revolution ana in jemre to tne nut was pro claimed ' to-day by . Premier' 8tolyptn In a telegram addressed to the Gov ernor.- Generals, Governors and pre fects thoughout Russia ' and ' to . the viceroy of the Caucasus, who are or dered to strike and spare not In ef forts to preserve order and crush "the enemies of society," vv , . 7 Included in this category, a shown by the events of the day, are not only revolutionists and socialists, but also the educated liberal and landed classes represented In the Constitutional Democratic party,1 whose clubs every where have been closed, and all the progressive newspapers, which are not permitted to lift their voices anywhere throughout the entire' land. 7 V THE PREMIER'S MANIFESTO. Premier Stolypln's . telegram la as follows: . r'V.y ' "In: conformity 'with. .Instructions received from the Emperor-with the view to securing full co-operation be tween the different local authorities. I hereby Inform you that the govern. ment expects you to exercise vigilant and untiring supervision -over your subordinates so .that order may be promptly and definitely restored. Dis turbances must be suppressed, and revolutionary movements must be put down by all legal meana . The meas ures you take must be carefully con sidered. The struggle .begun Is against the enemies of society and not against society Itself. Consequently wholesale repression cannot . be ap proved of. Imprudent .and illegal acts -are . likely to give rise to dis content Instead-of conducing to calm and cannot be tolerated. The. Inten tions of the Emperor are Immutable, The government firmly desires to as sist In the amendment of the legal procedure and 'the laws -hitherto en forced which no longer serve thelx, purpose. -Tne 01a regime win ne re generated, but order must be fully maintained.' Ton must act on your own Initiative, as , you are Invested with responsibility. Firm and vigor ous steps taken on these lines will doubtless be upheld by the best part of society."! "... 7".7 '' - v . - . The manifesto bears a remarkable similarity to the earlier compositions of Minister at. the -InWttyr piehve and Boulialn. and the' reactionary press has had alight dlfflcutly in cutting It down, aa they already had done with yesterday's Imperial manifesto. Into an appeal to tho "League -of Rus sian Men," and other old school Rus sians to rise and smite all the . pro gressive classes. 1 7- - Brew- oerore the declaration 01 tne dissolution of the lower, house of Parliament the War Office had per fected its plans for handling expected disorders, both military and civilian. General Muller Zakomelsky who Bu ttressed the Sebaatopol revolt and co operated with General Renekampff, In the reduction of the Siberian rebel lion last winter, was recalled from the command of -a corps and plaoed at the disposition of the War Office to be used wherever trouble may first be manifested. Both the government and the revolutionists expect this outbreak In the south, and that It will roll northward to the two capitals; inis may Induce the proletariat organise tlona to nostoone the declaration of a general - strike . from: St v Petersburg until contagion Is borne hp from the south. The railroaders, however, are anxious -to have this strike declared at once. Members of the Railway Em- cloves Union with whom the" Asso ciated Press correspondents here and In Moscow have talked declared that they were ready to walk out at the flrat call from the League of Leagues. with, which the union Is federated. - r v POLICE CLOSE CLUBS. - : The Constitutional- Democratic Club and two other political clubs were closed to-night by order of the police authorities. -A caucus of Con stitutional Democrat was being held at the club named at the time. Prince Paul Dolgourokoff. chairman of the central executive committee, appoint ed at Vlborg on Monday, has called a meeting of that committee, which will arrange a secret caucus to-morrow to discuss further tactics. " - Meetings are being held to-night In a dosen houses In St. Petersburg and Juat across the frontier railway em- filoyea, peasants, socialist and revo utlonlst of different shades of opin ion are discussing the best, plan of action to throw the whole machinery of the government out of gear.7" Agrarian disorders have broken out In the vicinity of St Petersburg. The estate of General Baron Fredericks, aide-de-camp te the Emperor, 40 miles from the ' capital, baa , been plundered by (peanuts. ' - ' ' . The bulk of the members of the outlawed Doema, who held a meeting at Vlborg, Finland, yesterday, and Is sued an address to the people, ar rived here to-day from Vlborg. A popular demonstration was prevented, but the member were not arrested.. BINGErt SHOPS, WRECKED. - Bombs Thrown .Into Storm llcosuse Agents ItefMMcd to nirlbuie to " the1 HeroluthMiary Cause. . Sosnowl-e. Russian Poland, July 4. Beside - the blowing up , of Singer Machine Company stores lo cated here and at Bendzln. bombs were thrown , Into ' th company's stores at Csenstochau. wrecking each of the h ps and wounding many per sona. The . bomb throwers were aants of the Polish Socialistic -party, which had made the Singer Company an example of what may happen to others for refusing to contribute t) the revolutionary cause. . Emissaries of the party asked the representative of the Singer company ronan branch to pay a certain sum for ths benefit of the party. The agent re fused to do so snd was Informed that the shop would be deatmyed. In each Instnrcr a man entered thn store and ordered the women and dorks to Wave. In soma instances employes refused to lenve-nnd the bomb were thrown without any fur ther ntteraneea. In the Sosnivvlrn branch elht pern., us were Injured, ono of whom, v III l"-n his eye alUt Four i'r,i" wi-ro nrri'flel li're. A r' n of te-rrv c ' as other i)um- MAY.ASK FOH PUBLIC HANGING, CoiiinilANtoners Likely to be Confront- rd With Petitions for Execution In , Uie Oncn of Nraroea Clianrat Wltn - Lyerlr Murder, Should c Tliejr be ; a. von victcu. .( . . '. ;. ; -,-. ,17 Special to The Observer. . , ' 'Salisbury, ; Jtly 1 4. There. Is now agitation tor, a public hanging of the alleged ; rnutderers of the Lyerlys, If they are convicted, , and the. county commissioners. will have a petition of that sort to answer, la all likelihood. It la taker ai a matter of course that some of the men a tll go to the gal lows and It is the belief of)mny'good citlsens that a publlo execution wilt serve the ends Of publlo morallaation Eleven years ago to-day Salisbury had a double hanging and . there waa a tremendous crowd. After this feat ure was over, there were baseball games and raees and ths county com missioner, who yielded In haste to that, petition, repented at great leis ure. , They were . censured on all sldesr Those iwho argue - that-open Infliction of the death penalty so drives horror Into the hearts and minds of the witnesses that - they shrink from such a fate, have a hoet . to ' reckon with. Rowan has had all sorts of. executions, publlo, half-publlo, private and under the susDlces of that severe nigger ter ror. Judge Lynch, But Rowan haJ had a Homicide at nearly every court for years and no county In the State has finer officer The fact that It haa the murder cases Is a tribute to these. 'It Is certain that strong op position to the pgbllc execution will bedeveloped and 'there will be a strong fight .road for It .. NEW WITNESS IN THAW CASE. ., V ,'k k Mysterious Woman Appears on the . , , r frt... ilmIm n..MAa CKIBU HUB, 'AlMn mruK s.uuw. L That She. Plana a Divorce, . .New. Tork, July 14. Much specu lation was caused, at the district at torneys office lata this afternoon, by; the appearanca there of a new witness In the Thaw'case, whose Identity none of the officials concerned would make known.. She was a woman past 40 years of age,.'' Bhe came to the crim inal courts building In company with P.;LL Bergoff, the detective whonj Stanford White employed when he Is said to have feared tha Injury from Thaw. The detective and the woman went to the oince of Assistant Dis trict Attorney Turnbull, where they were closeted for 'an hour, a stenog rapher belnx In attendance.; ,' Mrs. 7 William Thaw. Harry K. Thaw's mother. !' his slater. Mrs. George L. Carnegie, and his wife, Evelyn Nesblt r Thaw, psld another visit to the Tombs prison to-day. Mrs. Thaw was aakNed if It is true that she is seeking a divorce, to which she replied: -' - The story is jperrectly absurd. It Is a cruel canard. There Is absolute ly nothing- to if. That's all I have to say about It? .,s,i . -t ;'.' x , FINED FOR STRIDING MINISTER. Assailant of Rev, Dr. J.wC.v Howe Taxed With'Flva Dollars and tlw Cosu by Major Boydcn, of Salts bury, and Apologises - to Man He Struck. ''.,.. - ... Special to The Observer.- , Salisbury. July 14. The officers made a severe example of Mr. Kufua Kurty, wno asaauited nev. ur. j. t:. Rows Saturday afternoon while the minister was remonstrating with him about his swearing. Mayor Boyden 1s- wuedaA warrant for him yesterday and two ofiicers went into the country five mile after him. Chief Miller, having determined that the Incident should not go unnoticed. Trey brought back the ordinarily quiet farmer and he was given an Immediate hearing, after which he was fined ft and all costs. He was then taken before Dr. Rowe and he made the most abject apology, promising to refrain 'from-drinking ard swearing for all time. Thus a bel licose .incident transformed Into an evangelical one. Mr. Rufty, although a dangerous man With his fists. Is naturally kind and .was thoroughly humiliated. Dr. Rowe never agitated the matter.-but the congregation did and the officers did their work well. It meant a term of (0 days on the roads without some atonement'-. .' . RILLED BY MAIL t CARRIER, ' Hiram Wilson, Slayer of Two Men and On or State's Hoet iHwpcralo Men, Meet Dralli In Madison. . Special to The- Observer. , . Aahevllla July It. News waa received her - to-day of th killing ef Hiram Wilson on Slielton Laurel, In Madlaoa county, Friday afternoon, by Fred Sams, a rural mall earlier, oma 20 years .of age. Particular of th killing are lark ing. -It la said, however, that Wilson mad Bam climb down from his waaon. and that the mall carrier suddenly turn ed on the desperado and killed him. Wilson was considered the most dee- rerat man In western North Carolina, le was a blnekader and murderer, 11 killed hi brother. State Senator leeb Wilson, at Uurnavllle. Yancey county. tour year ago, and waa acquitted. ' About 20 years ago he wa tried for blockading before Judge Long, found fullty and santenoed to four years In he penitentiary. Judge Iitng had. the man ahaokled snd hand-cuffed In tha court room snd sent to Ralelah with a guard of It men. II was pardoned after a - year servmine.- - ome 11 yaars ago Hiram - Wilson killed Young Honeyrutt, In Ysneey ootinty, In cold blood. There were four trial and be was Anally u. quitted.:. ,v -.' ' ' -1 11 1 Hll 1 .f ' Tammany May Support Hearst. ; ' Kew York. July 14. Charles P.. Uiin phy, lender of Tammany Hall,' an Id to day that it waa possible that Tammany Hall would -support William B- Hearst for the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor In the next State convention. Mr; Murphy said: Mind. I don't com It myself. 1 rina't aay tliat Tammany will t for Hearst. 1 oniy aay mat me opposition to our ticket last rear will not of Itself, mil. It Impessilae for Tammany -to support 1.1m, In ,1. rW, n ., 1 1 , n ' Negro' Jailed la Time to Avert Lynch- - ing. Louisville, Ky July 14, Jfenrv Clayter, the negro arrpated yesterday n Chicago, where he 'was sbout to marry a white girl with whom be had. eloped from Irvlngton, Ky.j was placed in the county Jail here for safe keeping. Word was received by tne ponce here mat a moo was form ing at Irvlngton to lynch Clayter. ' Two New Director for Norfolk A Wentcrn. 1 , New York, July 14. At the meet. Ing of the board of directors of the Norfolk Western W. II. Barnes, di rector of the Pennsylvania Itallroad, end John H. 1 Thayer, Vice president of that company, resigned as direc tors. Henry (. Krlck snd L. C. Weir were elected to fill the vacancies. nr houiM have been .threntenel and the jubllc h llltln rontldene In ihn fi.jaar. of the police Id pre vent ftnaslcal deds f Violence, AGAINST T0BKC0 TBUST ( i' t 1 ' aissi " v : . I'd. COMPLAINT BY WARE-KRAMER, Norfolk Concern W1M : FUe- Charges iWlth Department of Justice Allcg- - ing That the American xonacco vo, , la Vkdatlng AnU-Trust Laws by .Maintaining One Price In the North -. and Another In the South A Live- , ly Fight In , Proanoct--AttemiHed : Knloivrsnciit of Mght-IIour latw - Causca Trouble Life-Term for AUU Robber. , 7' :::...' ' . 77 7; ; BY W..W. PRICE. ' Washington, . July 14. Commis sioner Garfield, of the bureuu of la bor, to-day said that the oomplalnt recently filed by F. D. Ware, iirosl dent of the Ware-Kramer Tobacco Company, of Norfolk, charging that the American Tobacco Company is maintaining one price for its products In the North and another price In the south, would be filed during tne course of the next fow days with the Department of Justice for much ac tion as that Department might 'see fit to take In the premlsea "Yes. a complaint alleging that the American Tobacco Company does not maintain the same price for Its goods In all sections ot the United BtaU where Its products are sold. In violation of the anti-trust laws, has oeen 'i:iod with this Department and ait soon as 1 have the time at my ataposai I will take up the matter, ant if there appear to be a violation- 'of the law the questions Involved In the complaint will be Immediately lodged with the Department of Justice for such . action aa may seem, proper there, . said commissioner Qarneid to-day In reply to Inquiries aa to whether such a complaint had been filed wltn him. The Norfolk. Concern says that the American people charge 11.10 and 14 per thousand for Ita cigarettes In the States of. Ohio. Illinois. .Missouri and other State where their - goods are not known, while In Virginia. North Carolina, Baltimore. Philadel phia. AUantlo City, N. J., and other sections wnere tne independent prod uct Is making inroads, the American Company charges S.lt and f I.St for its goods, with from five to ten per cent, discount in free goods. W hen - the Department of Justice takes this case up the prospects seem good for a fight to a finish to see If the' American Tobacco people are guilty of violating the anti-trust laws. ENFORCEMENT OF EIGHT-HOUR LAW CAUSES TROUBLE. Serious embarrassment 1 expected to result from the government' en forcement of tha ela-ht-honr law In accordance with the direction 'of President Roosevelt Heretofore, the government has not attempted Itself to enforce tne law, except on work performed by people directly employ ed and paid by the United States. Oh work done for the government. except when it Is performed on reservatlona of the United States, no effort waa mads to snforce the law; In fact It haa been a serious question whether the government bad the au thority, under tne law, to rorce private contractors to live up to the requirements of the . statute even though they were engaged on work ivr wi inTinimiii. ffThrfttiati flamii.l flomnapa neaaf tfent of the American Federation of Labor, and other leaders of organised labor, complaint was made - directly to the the President that the eight- hour law was being violated. They urged that he see to its enforcement President Roosevelt asked the labor leaders to present to him specific Instances of the vlolstlon ef the law and promised that he would havs them Investigated. If It should be found the law waa being violated, he said a definite remedy would be ap plied. Subsequently, Mr. uompers and B committee of the labor leaders laid before the President allegations of the violation of the eight-hour law. The paper In the various cases were turned over by tne president to Charles P. Nelll, Commissioner of La bor, for investigation, in some in stance, It was found that the law, In effect at least was being and had been violated. The reports made by Commissioner Nelll to the President were considered carefully and in some raaes the trouble was corrected easi ly. Jn others, however, the question of theysuthorlty of the government to Interfere arose. These required thought It became evident after consideration, that methods for th enforcement of the eight-hour law different from. those which have been practiced would have to be adopted. Heretofore, the government haa not constituted Itself the prosecutor of violations of the law. It considered such cases as were presented to It but the prosecution of the cases de volved on other Interested parties. So fsr as Its own work was concern ed, the government enforced the law or rather, obeyed . th law; but It did not undertake to become a de tective to discover violations of the law. ' .-,.. y under the provision of the order Issued recently by the president. It win bs tne duty 01 government or flclal and officers of the - United States In charge of government work to see to the enforcement of .the Uw and to prosecute offender against It la. pursuance of the order, directions are being prepared by the heads of Departmenta to their subordinates. Already protests against tne action ot the government are being made by contractors engaged on government work. For Instsnce,' th Newport News Ship Building Company, en gaged In the construction of a war vessel for the United States, will be required to work Ita, men on that vessel In eight-hour shifts. At pres ent the company" men Work ten hours and ten and a half hour. The company's relations with It em ploye' are satisfactory to both th employer and employes. If th order of th President is enforced the an omalous condition will be presented of men -working eight hours, on a ffoyrrnment vessel and men working n the next slip ten hour on a ves. sel being built for a private Individ ual or corporation. Thla It la suggest ed, will upset the entire working or ganisation of tha company and will be a sort' of Interference with the company's business which the gov ernment has no right to cause. -It Is evident, of course, that the Idea of organised labor, In Insisting uport ths 'enforcement of the eight, hour law In this way, Is to compel private concerns eventually to adopt the eight-hour system. By using ths government as a cluh. It seems hot unlikely that the labor leaders, lu part at least may be successful. Be fore that success Is achieved, how ever, the matter I tlkely to get Inte the courts, for private concerns cer tainly will resent th lnterferenc ot the government in the matter. That they wilt fight the case la evident from th attitude some of them al ready have assumed. , . What the net result eventually will be, la difficult at thla lima to determ ine; but It la quite certain. In the opinion of government oniclal and oiilcera of private concern doing bs I in !., fur the Unite 4 lutes. Unit th TBAIN PIUNGES INTO LAKE NINE KILLED; SEVEN ' iyJITRED Fast Mall Train on the Great Northern ; Railroad Jumps the Kails and Fall 1 Over . n Seventy-Foot Embankment Into l Diamond ' Lake Loconwitlve, Mall, Baggage and Smoking Cars Submerged In Water May be Days : Before Bodice of Engineer-,- and Firemen Arc Extricated Only Two 1 Bodice Kecovered. 7 , ;-, 7 : ;.'. Spokane, Wash., July 4. At least nine lives were lost seven per sons seriously Injured and a score of otners sustained cuts and bruises in a wreck of the fast mall train on the Great Northern a mile and a quarter east of Camden, Wash., ti miles east ot Spokane, late yesterday, when the locomotive, mall,- baggage "and smoking cars loft the rails and plung ing , over the seventy-foot - embank ment were submerged In the waters of Diamond Lske. . , : ; v.;The dead:- :7'7 -v-.- v' N. EDWARD MTJNSON. engineer, Hlllyard, Wash. FRANK BELL. flremanTHlllyard. CHARLES DANNER. malt . clerk. Spokane. . ... GEORGE R. STRICKLAND, ex press messenger. GEORGE H. CURTCEA, Spokane, lumberman. T. J. DOLBOW. Spokane. ' - UNIDENTIFIED MAN. , Immediately after the smoker struck the water there waa a blinding flash which spread over the part of the car not submerged and a fire fol lowed. The flames were extinguished by the passengers and the train crew. W. 8. Nlnnehan, a contractor for construction .work, on the Oregon Railroad eV Navigation Company, broke through a window to escape from the burning and half submerg ed smoker. ' Mr. Nlnnehan said: "Wo were coming at a fearful speed through . that tunnel and we passen ger war wondering If the engineer had lost his senses, driving at that speed with a sharp curve ahead. I think we must have surely been go ing 4S miles an hour." ' - OAly two bodies, those of George H.i Curtis and T. J. Dolbow, passen gers, both of Spokane, have been re covered. The engine is bellevd to be about alxty or seventy feet under wat er snd the bodies of Engineer Mun son and Fireman Bell may not be re covered for days. It Is thought the mall and baggage cam with the bodies of Mail Clerk Danner and Baggageman Strickland may be re covered before night The Injured are reported to be progressing favor ably. To Try Filipino Iabor In Hawaii. Manila, July 14. Th Philippine commission haa adopted a resolution favoring the schsme or the Hawaiian Planters' Association to transport Fil ipino laborers and their families to Hawaii to work In sugar plantations. enforcement of the law, so far aa private contractors are concerned. will Increase materially the cost ot work done for the government LIFE TERM FOR MAIL ROBBER. Notwithstanding the superior mod ern facilities of travel and transpor tation of malls, which practically hiv. attmln.t.i th.'din... a beries by the old method of "stsnd- and-dellver" at the point of a Win cheater. or a six-shooter. Inspectors of th Postofnce Department frequently, In these days, have lively experience. A half century ago, reports ef stag robberies were frequent but as a means of conveyance, 'the stage has passed Into practical desuetude and the bandit ot olden times haa lost his occupation. In some parts of the Rocky Mountain region, stsgee still are employed, however, for the trans portation of both passengers and malls and, occasionally, reports of stage robberies are received. Chief inspector William J. Vlck- ery, of the Postofnce Department recently received an Interesting re port from the Inspector in rharg of th Spoksne division ot th arrest and conviction of John. W. "Gideon, alia "Jack" Oldeon, for the robbery of a stage carrying the malls between Meadows and Warren, Idaho, The extreme penalty for the crime In Idaho Is life Imprisonment and Gid eon got th limit. As tha driver of the mall stag waa passing through a wild section of the State near Warren, on the 7th ef July, 1106, he waa confronted by Gideon. The eloquence of the rob ber's six-shooter overcame th driver and the stage. was relieved, of ten registered mall packagea. two - of which contained cold bullion aggre gating 11,109, mailed by tho Golden Rule Mining Company, -of ' Resort Idaho. Chief Inspector Vlckery tell th atory ot th fixing ot the crlm on Gideon: o "Oldeon formerly had been em ployed by tho Oolden Rule Company, and the manager suspected him of the robbery. Wording en that clew. our Inspectors learned that Gideon, a few day before tne crime, bad ob tained a revolver, stating he waa going on a hunting trip. It waa ascertain ed, however, that he did not leave his camp, which was only a short dis tance from the scene of the robbery. "The day after th robbery. Gideon left camp and went to Mump, Idaho, nd sent through the postornce there a registered letter to Prank Pope, Ontario, Ore. He also sent an .ex press package containing clothing to Pope. ' The marshal of Ontario, noti fied by the Inspectors, Interviewed pope. He acknowledged having re ceived the express package and ahow- ed Ita content to him. . The con tents were clothing snd provisions. The marshal finally obulned posses sion ot the registered letter, which Informed Pop , that . Gideon waa ending him a package containing valuable relics.' Then It: was dis covered that the clothing and9 pro vision were four pound lighter than the express pat-ksg wa whenit was forwarded to Pope. The discrepancy in tho weight 'waa almost precisely the weight of the stolen .bullion. , "The Inspectors visited Pope In his ramp on the Snake river and he nnaiiy aamiitsa ui ne naa taaen the bullion from th express pack age and burled It about a mile from his cabin. .In company with the in spectors, he visited the spot un earthed th treasure and turned It over to them, . 1 -,' "When the Inspector went after Oldeon at his camp near Resort. Idaho, they discovered that he had left tho place soon after the robbery. They traced him through , various places In lhsdo add finally arrested him at Ontario, Ore. He waa tried In the court of the State of Idaho nd, on evidence worked, up by, the Inspector, was found guilty and sen tenced to life Imprison ment. "Home similar cases havo occurred In various pari ef tha llocky Moun tain region la the pa-t few years, but the rl"k Is ao great that even desper ate crlntlnala now very Infrequently resort to thl method ,t raising money." BIG MEETIiNG TlFILBEET TILLMAN AND OTHERS r SPEAK The Senator Makce a Vigorous Ar gument In Favor of Continuing tlie . h State DixncuHary, Contending Tliat -. It Can be Purified He Touolsrd 7 " I'non tlte Race Question and Stated That More Negroea Than -White -Are in' School In South Carolina . ; ' North Carolina Political History ,? Recalled 1 Speeches Were - Alxo Made by Mr. F. JL Hyatt Dr. T. JT. Strait and Congressman D. K. Fla- 8peclat to The Observer. V-'7 ".' 7' Filbert, S. C. July t4. A crowd ot men, women and children estimated -at from 1.500 to I.iOO assembled in a grove here to-day and listened to speeches by Senator Tillman, Mr. F. 7 H. Hyatt of Columbia, a native of Anson county, N. C; former Con gressman T. J.', Strait' of Lancaster . and Congressman U. E. Flnley. of '. Yorkvllle, the two last named being ,. candidate for Congress. Mr. Hyatt made a short speech In favor of good roads. Dr.- Strait and Mr.- Flnley J discussed national Uaues. . The meeting was under the aus pices of tho Woodmen of the World and was a successful one at least . from the standpoint of attendance ..' and good rations, th latter , being r spread about in the grove In abund ant. Muslo was furnished by a band ' from Yorkvllle. Congressman , Flnley Introduced the speakers in an enter taining manner.- Senator Tillman, he declared, had made a greater repu tation than any other member during the past session, for 70 days ot which ' he wa in charge of the railway ' rate bllL yckk county. Filbert Is located In York county ' along with Yorkvllle, Rock Hill and other towna The Yorkvllle Enquirer Is strongly opposed to Senator Till man, and this county Is also th home . ot Senator Brice, the author ef the law under which a number of coun ties have voted -out the dispensary. A motion In the county convention to endorse the record of Senator Till man waa tabled, through the efforts of what the Senator termed the ring. ' Therefore Mr. TlBman was especially vigorous In speaking of the local stt-' uatlon, urging that representative men be sent to the Legislature. The Senator looks well, despite his hard I work In the Senate. He wears a large canvas helmet somewhat after ' the style of that of the African ext,s plorer, and It Is by no means unbe- ' coming to him. He made a vigorous" . speech, and was listened to attentive ly, and received considerable 'ap plause. His speech, however, was in- - -terrupted much by bis friends and when the Senator stopped to answer 7 . them the force of his arguments was considerably modified. He de- ' voted moat of his time to the dlspen ry question, contending that the sys tem should be cleansed, but not sbol- Ished. The newspapers The Charles ton News and Courier, Columbia. Bute and. York vlll Enquirer cam , in- 1 or consiasranie - criticism ana when he had . occasion - to 1 mention ' North Carolina affair, he had some thing to say with regard to The -Observer, which he termed "an old- V line Democratic paper." ,. ' f SENATOR TILLMAN'S SPEECH. " Senator. Tillman recalled that his first trip to York county was made to . ' Tirxah, 10 years ago, where he made the first speech he over ' delivered without preparation. He had appeared 1 ' In the county seven time, which waa 7 more than he had spoken In any other county. "Despite the fact that I have climbed pretty high," said the , Senator, "I have not gotten too big , for my breeches." Again he had no opposition, for which he was sorry,' especially on account of some people In York, who tabled a resolution en- dorslng his .course. "I actually feel ' sorry for those fellows because they, displayed thalr narrowness and yet . have no opportunity to show up." He denounced ip strong terms those . Who had prevented , the convention from endorsing him. "Did that con- ;. ventlon repreaent York?" he naked.: '' (A voice: "No."x "Well, you fellows ' plowed and did not go to the prl- marie. The question this year la how ' you are going to vote; not It you are " going to vote for Tillman, "lor you must vole for him' or nobody." The Senator then discussed the vote by , which the dlapenaary waa votd out and asserted that en man In five had . defeated the dispensary. He dlacuaaed ', the Jug trade Inte. the towns of York county, and the dispensary question -In general. It Is 'a question ' which has been settled over and over . : s gain,-snd yet Ita agitation continues, Ths effort of the aatl-dlapeasery pee- : pie was to kill th institution and try-,, to kill old Ben Tillman along with It . The speaker said he had no quarrel ., with the prohibitionists, but let them practice what theyVpreach. "I despise the fellow who pose as 'holler than thou, and whan it come to measure him up be has as many fly 'seeks as ; I have. 1 am a praotically prohibi tionist; I only drink when I want to, ' and that Is not often. I have not 77 drank as much ss if gallons In my ft yea re. Th Charleston News and . Courier la taking up a subscription , to buy m the sixtieth gallon, but ' what some of those fellows really want Is to drink that liquor at my funeral, but I am not going to die." He roundly denounced aa a hypocrite , a so-called prohibitionist who went to Columbia snd conferred with", bar- , keepers In order to defeat the dla penaary. -yf: !,, , .:'?":.' -'7;,; 7" CAUSE OF D18PKNSARY CORRUP- - .7. -k- TION. , . ; ,-,-.:?'V- . ;( The cause of the stealing was ex- ' plained. A 11,000,000 bualness waa r laced In the hands of three men at V 410 a year and after the whiskey drummers had seen them -the little . fellows , were represented as hav- Ins S100 bills In stove-pipe hats. The 7 Legislature put the dispensary In the hands of unscrupulous men in me hope that they would steal and the People would kill the system. The. , dispensary has not been In the hands 7 of Its friends In eight years, "Having put It In the hands ot bad men they come and tell you tne uiapensary system Is Inherently rotten and can not be cleaned." This he did not be lieve, but thought It could be put, on an honest basis.. If the newspapers 7 would wstch as closely to prevent stealing aa they hav to catch ateal- Ing . it would stop. J to aiscuKsea The Columbia's State's position with ref erence to the glass works and the Richland instilling company and ac cused the paper of Inconsistency. Th.s Senator devoted considerable time t an argument In favor of th i' pensary lo the cleanKlns" of it. A' -you running your own affairs, or i Brlc and tirlst boding It?" h.) 1, ed his hearers. USES. WHIP ONLY O.N' YAN 7 , "I never uno inv whip I .-"utH Carolina. I save It for Yttnk. 1 n -rasioiially uu my pitcbfoi u mi n small politicians." il M l President Itonaevelt t' 1 rotinetion lilt ti .' ; an I !, j-lii'd a ! i -. : - tl'W'Ut,. t'l women H" I 1 i "" O Mi' ry f . "1 . t. t 1 ) i i' I . I
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