; tuii imm..- : , : . - ' . ; . - v - .....'.....-... '..,,...) ...;.: - v. . v ' .v- , . ....... THfc ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION. 4:00 P.M. Weather Torecast: " . V Fair. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER, 18, 1909. 3c PER COPT SANTO DOMINGO DISTRICT HO W MR. TAFT WOULD LOOK THE WITH OF V DISTURBED BY REVOLUTION IF DRESSED BY MEXICAN ART ? . T TAFT TO REST FOR FOUR DAYS T W.'T. Sharp Receives Letter Telling Him Must, on Pain of Death, Leave $1000 Under Church. DYNAMITE IS VERY CHEAP, v ,. MR. SHARP IS REMINDED Rumor Is to the Effect That Officials of Champion Fibre Company Like wise Received Threaten ing Letters. Special to The Gazette-News. Canton, Oct. 18. A daring and cow ardly attempt at blackmail of W. T. Sharp, one of the wealthiest If not the wealthiest citizen of this town, nnd prominently Identified with Canton's commercial life, "has Just come to light, and with it facts which lead to the conclusion that a gang of the "Black Hand" are operating in this town. Since the attempt to bluek mail Mr. Sharp has become known, there are rumors afloat, which have received a certain amount of verifica tion, to the effect that officials of the Champion Fibre company have also received lefter from the "lilack Hand" threatening to blow up part of the plant if they did not obey their wishes In regard to the employment of cer tain men. A well laid ruse Fr'day niKht, however, failed to trap the per petrator. A letter was mailed at Can ton, postmarked at 9 o'clock Septem ber 27, addressed to W. T. Sharp and reading as follows: "On Oct. 15, before 11 p, m., you place under the S. E. corner of I-cus Field church, $1000 in large bills; failure to do so means certain death to yourself and perhaps your family. Dynamite is cheap; Spies means same thing.' MJni v iSlirned) "BLACK HAND." fpoVi.' receiving the' "letter, Mr. .Sharp hardly knew what to do, and after several days thought he decided to consult friends, and after a consul tation it was decided to lay the mat ter before government officials. The first part of the letter was written in a poor hand, but the last line or so and the signature showed a well de veloped style of writing. "Locus" and "means" were the only words not grammatically correct, so that the writer must be a man of some degree of education; evidently trying to dis guise his handwriting in the first part, nd becoming impatient towards the lust, completed it in a characteristic . lift 11,1 writ In r At the Church. Friday night was the night the money was to be deposited, so late Friday evening two government offi cials left Asheville, and leaving the train near the high trestle, walked to wards Canton by a circuitous route, where a package with two dollar bills was prepared to be deposited at the church, In the meantime, Mr. Sharp, luting at the Instance of detectives, drew from the bank $1000 in cash which he was told to leave In his safe, rnrk came on, and the hour drew near focjthe deposit of the fake-package at the church, and Mr.. Sharp wns told by the detectives that he should In person go to the spot and deposit the package. In the meantime, Depu ty Sheriffs Lyerly and Cabe, and Stans bury Smathers, accompanied by the government officials, went to the lone ly church and graveyard, a distance of about one-quarter of a mile from the center of town and took up the watch "waiting at the church" as it were. Two of them hid out In the graveyard behind tombstones, and the others so that they could guard every approach to the church. It was about o'clock that Mr. Sharp was due to leave his home for "the lonesome graveyard; but a the hands of hi watch approached the hour his emo Hons were aroused; to go perhaps meant death to himself, and not to go might mean ruin to his whole family; It was a crucial moment; he looked out of the door; the, night wns very dark; only here and there the light of an electric light and over across the railway the giant plant of the Fibre company ruining smoothly along; he started to go; but no, he could not go Hlon; the graveyard was "haunted;" the way was dismal and f ark and who knew but that the very ''Black Hand" would reach out of the Stygian dark ness and "snuff out" his life? Then he thought ofahe $1000; that would he some protection If he was waylaid; but again his heart failed him. and he consulted friends. Two finally agreed to acorn pan y him 'part of the way; but the road was being paved: it was dark And full of holes; what If he should fall Into one of those. A thought came to him, ansV from the closet was brought an old bull's eye lantern. Ah! that would light the way. So the three proceeded and aa the dreaded churchyard was neared his compan ions fell back In the shadows ' of the trees ana alone and with faltering tept. guided by the lantern's light. Mr. Sharp reached the church or rather a corner of it. He stopped not to see what corner It was, but. with an almost Dallied hand deposited there the package the corner, how aver, was the northeast. Then taklna a isw forced steps ha broke and ran bark to his houser ' o The officers watched and waited: the hour of midnight arrived and yet DUTRICX, T WILL BE it Is Thought the Death ol Williams Buchanan in London Was Due to Heart Failure. ..Iindon, Oct. 18. An autopsy wtiH held llil-i afternoon following which It was otlh tally uiuioiineed Hint V. I. Itiii'liaiiun had died of lieiirl rail lire. London, Oct. 10. The Inquest Into the death of William I. Ituehanitn. the American diplomat. wIiohm body was found In Park Ume Saturday IllKht, will be held . 'Wednesday. The investigation thus far has failed to throw any Unlit on the movements of the diplomat duriiiK the few hours preceding his dentil. Friends who had seen him during the day say he appeared to be then In the best of health and spirits. I!e left the hotel just before the dinn hour Saturday. There were no ev idences of assault or rubbery and it in supposed dentil wiim due to heart trouble or oppoplcptlc: stroke. Mr. Buchanan wns formerly Amer ican minister to Vanamn. At the time of his death he was under ap pointment as agent of the ... United States for, future.' arbitration xiit the Hague of matters still pending with Venezuela. RECEIVERSHIP Judge Pritchard Issues Decree That the Property Be Turned Over to the Company. Judge Pritchard will this afternoon sign a decree to the effect that the Seaboard Air l.ii' receivership will end November 4, when it will be turn ed over to the railway compony In accordance with the plan of reorgan ization which has been approved by the stockholders. lion. I-Kh It. Watts, general counsel for the Sen board Air Line, and James F. Wright, assistant general counsel, of Portsmouth, Va., appeared bclore Judge Pritchard this afternoon for the railway company, ami Innes Hrown of the firm of Pnrnett Cutchlns of New York appeared the Continental Trust company for of New York. It was upon the complain of the Continental Trust company that the Seaboard Air Line on January -. 1 was placed by Judge Pritchard in tin hands of 8. Davies Warflehl. It. Uin- caster Williams and K. C. Duncan as receivers.,. Tho receivership will have lasted 23 months when It ends. This action means much for the develop ment of the property ...id that sec tion of the country through which II operates. SEABOARD LETS CONTRACTS FOR ENGINES, CARS, ETC. Will Have 20 New Knglncs. 1000 Ilo t ars, 2.1 Stock Cars, anil (Nlicr Equipment. Norfolk, Oct. 18. TheBeoboard Air Line has awarded contracts, for 15 passenger and five switch engines, 1000 box cars, 25 stock cars, and one 6000 steam wrecking car, together with passenger equipment. The Well n- n nnlv reiterate. It Is eco nomic follow'to build a high wall of costly "protection" (discrimination) which no subsidy ladder, no matter how high or strong, can permanently surmount. Let Ui hegln the estab lishment of a merchant marine upon sound principles; not upon a "Vitem of graft whlct the taxpayer will de stroy when he wakes up to the Iniqui ty of It. ' - ' A rrlnceM Confirmed. nrlln. 'Oct. !. Princess Victoria Louise, daughter of the Oerman em peror, .was confirmed in the Church of Peace at I'oisuum wuiw. xi. i. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Mo IKES HELD WEDNESDAY MD OUT faKEHALi RAMOrf CACERESJ, HAD TO LEAVE TO Officials of the Zelayan Government Are Given Choice, and Are Ban ished by Estrada. ' New Orleans, Oct. IX. .Several prominent olticluls of the Zelayan Kovernment in Nicaragua have ac cepted luiiiiHlimenl at the hands of General Estrada, in preference t prison, accordliiK to special de Hiatchs received here. Annum llieiu is Former (loyernor,, I,opex, of the Minefield district, a relative ol pres ident' JCelaya. IS SHOTTO DEATH Two Brothers Arrested Shooting Said to Have Grown Out of a Blind Tiger Case. peaufort, N. , Oct. 18. Charged with the murder of 11. 'i. Newberry, mayor of Newport. N. (',, who Satur day night was shot to death at tin door of his home there, 8. J. Sanders today is in Jail here, w hile his brother, 11. F. Sanders, also Is under arrest as accessory. The prisoners were brought here last nighl by Sheriff Hancock af ter a coroner's jury at Newport had returned a verdict Hint .Mayor New berry's death resulted from gLIshot wounds Inflicted by S. J. Sanders, and that his brother also was Implicated In the shooting. The assassination of Mayor New berry was the direct outcome, it Is said, of the prusecnJion of n "blind tiger" caw. Ureal excitement pre vailed In Newport after the tragedy occurred. ' The dead man's wife was ill In lied at the time of the murder nnd his lit tle daughter 'stood by his side when he was shot. A SENSATIONAL FLIGHT mi er de Lambert In Wright Biplane He Sails from Juvisy, Circlet Eiffel Tower, and Then Returns. Paris. Oct. 18.1 -Count Do Lanr liert, the French aviator, made a re markable and sensational IllKht in a Wrlitht biplane this afternoon. Leaving Juvisy aviation Held he flew to Paris circled nlxiut the Klfel tower, at limes reaching A height of about 1200 feet, and then returned to Juvisy. A UlsaMlrouH Fall. Alfred M. Hlunee, a French aer onaut attempted his flight In a Itler- lot machla. Shortly after njicendfng the monoplane, as a result of a fulse shift of' the rudder, fell, mortally wounding a woman and injuring a doxen other persons. The Columbia Has Accident. New York, Oct, 18, The steamship Cltv of Columbus, reported by wire less, while off Cape Henry, enroute from IJoston to 8avannh. that she had struck some obstacle anil, broken two of her propeller , blades. The steamship reported she . was making about ten miles an hour, and having ESCAPE PR SON NEWPORT S MAYOR good weather. Spends Busy Seven Hours in San Antonio Before Setting Out for Charles P.'s Ranch. WILMINGTON IS PLANNING FOR PRESIDENT'S VISIT Expects to "Delight nnd Dazzle" North Carolinians Who Go to See , Him on the Ninth of November. San Antonio, Tex.. Oct. ,s. resi dent Taft spent a luisj seven hmin here before leaving f.n- his brothel ranch near the southern erd of tic state, where lie Is to fpend tour d.i res'iiiK. Charles P. Taft has had a If course constructed on the ranch iiml between this favorite ,oort anil horsebnek ridlnn the president cxpeco to have a thoroushlv koiI time The president visited Fort Sam Houston today. The President'-; Toa-I. San Francisco, i t Is. President Tall s toast to the Porl.d i festival has Iii-cii cabled to linli'ii. Paris. Vienna Heme. Herlin and tin- HaKiie, to to il at bamitiets l i held at tin- American emlmndes in ibose cities to morrow at noon in honor ol the open- ini; of li rtola. At Wllniiimtiiii. Wilmington, N. '. net. is Presi leiit Tart.,, on- his record brtakinu 'sA-iiiK around the iivh ." enibraeiiiM a journey of 15,00a miles across tile ntlneiit nnd return, lias now reached the lind of Cotton. The president's oiivney is rapidly diawinit towards Wilmington where North Carolina will Kreet til tit hy thousands on Tuesday, November 'I. WllniliiKlon will put mi her best Iors to re tivo the president. The ' onimltleeV j deeorntions and illuminations liavi taken steps to de IlKht and dazle the visitors who ar comliii.' here In sen the republic's chief innKislrntc. Twdvi blocks of the slu els will h converted into a great "While Way. ' because of Pie lact thai they will be lllunilnnleil by a system of i leetrlc liUhtlliK de- ices that AM 11 impart a mi'Kt beli.itJiii! and dll7.zliln; ell-i t to the city's thon im'hfares. Tin- illumi nation will I" .lone nct-orilini; to a new plan, ami it Is proposed to make this feature n petmnnent thiiiK for tin- down-fo-.ii districts. A brilliniillv IlKiited city is i k'ein niii.nil niiinii i palllles. ami tin- effect on strangers as well ns home people is so pro nonnceil, that most OlectiM' cltv The decorati. will be prof ii. principal Sclleti the fact that II l.ong-Liaf Pin. from I ted Cro Market from il str.s-t, line spe. trees llfteen fe. is rcwi;iiicil as a Ivrrtlscineiit for a i n for the Taft vlsil and elaborati. the being to emphasi . is "The I .a ii. I of lh. Along Front sired - to Market, ami on i harbor to l-'oiirtn t'leni of loim-leal pine i high will he plant.-1 twenty f c I apart on either side o the streets. V. h Ii trolley pole lili.n' the streets will ily a brace of Ian;-- 1'nlted States ll ins attached to cross spears, nnd tin irolley guys overhead from post to post will be decorate.) with flags and Minting. A welcome arch to be erected on Front street immediately opposii Wilmington's handsome brown slon postoltlce will lipify Wilmington's tUu.l hand lo tin pi. -i.lent and to her vi-i lors from alar md near. Tin- arch will he a pretu architectural design tastefully and ;.i tistlcally decorated ami It will be illuminated bv elec tric iTcslgns that will make It a thine; of jieauiy. Kiiclri'ling tlu- top will ! Wilmington's hearty greeting': "Wel come to the Land of the l,nnK-l.eaf Pine." ALFONSO IS ANGRY Said to Have Had Violent Quarrel With Him Over the Ferrer Execution. Paris, Oct. 1 . A specli.l from Madrid says King Alfonso has had a violent quarrel with the premier be cause of the latter' failure to give his majesty opportunity to exercise the royal prerogative of. pardon In the case of Ferrer. The dispatch says an unpleasant In terview followed when the king learn ed of the tempest that had been rale ed abroad by Ferrer' death. KPAXISII FOHCKH VIPfOKIOl'S: MOOIUHII lONKH M'KHK HKAVY Melllla, Morroeco. Oct II. The Spanish forces, while reconnnlterlng yesterday west of Nador, engaged and defeated the enemy. The Spanish then retired, having lost a comman der and two, captains i killed, and fourteen men wounded. - The Moor ish losses wer heavy. , WITH THE PREMIER one of the si. HI' artists of F.I lleraldo the alioye softest Ion -.a;ariliUK a feature of the wardrobe for the use of President Tall when he dossed the in ti Kiiest of the Mexican republic and President Oiaz. Mow tin- American president won1 d look encaaed In a Rlovc-IIWc charro ostiiine. with everything of his ordinary appearance altered except the faiy.ns smile, Is happiU portrayed hy the Imaginative artist in a manner winch would doubtless appeal to the :ini of tin- cartoon lilnis. It. "JUSTIN TIE" Mr. Roosevelt, the Mighty Hunter. Had a Narrow Escape When Shoot ing His First Elephant. Nairobi. Pnlish l a t Alriea, Oct 17 I 'reaswell. the unyernmeiil cnginc-i .it Nyori, came inlo Nairobi this aflei noon, and bronelit word Ih.-it Mr Uui.Mivell bad a very narrow escape win ii mIi-! i n bis lust elephant bull. Mr. liooscM ll. accoiiiianled by Mr ('niiiiiiiKlianie ami guide, followed Hie usual pi eiliire and killed his ele phant at the sec I shot. Suddenly, before Mr UnoHevcIt could reload, un-otl-er elephant bull cIuhki'I lilm at eli.-e iiiiikc. Ilolli I 'iiiilllnuliliine all I lloosevelt Hot helllllil trees, mill Mr. Cunnlnghaiiie tired ami t mini tile bull from .Mr. lloosevelt Just in time. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW FINDINGS IN M'CUE CASE This Is Case in Which Liability to Pay Insurance on Mfe of a Man Who Wax Hanged Is t'udcr Tost. Washington, Oct. !. The Hit preme court announces Its determina tion to review the findings of the low er courts In the case of .MeCue vs the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company. This Is the cwse wherein the estate of Mi'Cue, who was hanged for wife murder, is suing for the Insurance on McCue'e Hie, and Involves the nov el point whether an ordinary Insur ance policy Insures against death by hanging. Union hhop In Still In nunlncsH. plnce the unionising of the J. It. Mich plumbing establishment several days ago some people have been led to the conclusion that the Union Plumbing company nt No. 7 Houth t-exlngton avenue had gone out of business. This Is error. The estab lishment was purchased by J. C. Cu tilde and F, M. Llndeey, two of the union plumbers originally Identified with the shop, who are continuing the shop at the same place under the name of the Union "Plumbing com psny. The company employes' only first class men and guarantees nil work, i ''. ELEPHANT TURNED of the City of Mexico has produced rnalional boundary line to be the humorous sensibilities ol' even the ' SUDDEN DEATH OF JUDGEH.MIE The End Came Last Night and All Class Work Has Been Suspended for the Day. Special lo The (!nzette-New s. Chapel llll!, N. C. Oct. 18. Judge .lames Cameron MncKae, head of the law department of the university, died last nlKht of heart failure, in his sev-enly-lirst year. lie was formerly Judge of the Supreme and Superior murls, and a member of the univer sity faculty for ten years. Ills stu dents, nnd all who have come under his kindly presence, will mourn his los. All classes are suspended In Ills honor today. MRS. BATENYI'S DIVORCE CASE AGAIN UP FOR TRIAL Two of I lie tJiiCHtloiiH to no Decided Itclatc to defendant's I'll- fllllllflllllCMM. New York. Oct. 18. The second trial of Mrs. Francis Ilurke-Hoche llatenyl's divorce suit against Aurel llatenyl began here today. In outlin ing her case, Mrs. llatenyl's attorney told the jury that two of the questions to be decided relate to the defendant's alleged unfaithfulness. ' llatenyl was on hand when the case was called but his wife had not ap peared by the time a Jury was ob tained. N'rgroes Would Not Work. Memphis. Tenn., Oct. II. The Johnaon-Kctehel nght had Its effect on the steamboat service on the Missis sippi, according to reports fromrlver men who said they found difficulty In curing deck hands from the negro race, ns they wanted to remain ashore to get returns from the fttc battle. TIIK WEATHER. Forecast until I p. m. Tuesday for Asheville and vicinity: Fair weather tonight and Tuesday. . King Manuel Confined to Ills IImI. Lisbon, Oct lScKIng M" ' confined to his bed with Intestinal trouble, accompanied with light fever. Facts Relating Thereto Are Giv en in the Annual Report of the State Corporation Commission. FIGURES ARE PRINTED OF INTEREST TO ASHEVILLE The Earnings of Asheville Electric Com pany. Were Larger Than Were Received by Any Other Road in State. The report of the North Carolina corporation commission, covering the year Urns, which has Just been Issued, shows many Interesting facts regard ing the wcaPh of iiiiasl-publlc corpor ations in North Carolina, and also sonic figures of local Interest. The report covers railway, street railway, telephone, telegraph anil express com panies as well us bunking Institutions, and nl.-o contains h digest of the cases which It has decided during the past year I Jis-t year there were ! railway companies operating In the stnte with 4,::.r. I miles of single track, am! 829 miles of siding ami double track. Tha Southern railway operated l,:t:S2 miles of main Inn- ami -M of siding; the Atlantic Coast l.lno !M7 miles of main liin- ami -.'.'.! miles of sidings: the Sea board Air Line railway Oil! miles of main line and IT.:i miles of siding and the Norfolk and Southern 407 miles of main Hue and 71 miles of siding. Til.- Carolina Clinchlleld with Its lino fo Hostlc added 24 7 miles of main lllle. The Sleain ltoads. The gross earnings of steam roads for UtOH was $27.2,IS.130. of which J7, 712. 246 came from passenger and 1U, 247. 048 from freight and $278,833 from other nuurces. The operating expenses utniilinled to 118,981,209. The state received in tnxea from th: rail ways JS4l),4:iS. Ourlng the year )"0 persons were killed and' 94 In lured 'n railway operations. Of those killed six were passengers, 34 Were employes ami 42 were trespasser: of those Injured ""4 were passengers, 448 employes and (ifi trespassers. The rail ways transported SS,s69,626durlng thrt llscal year and employed 17.H0H per sons within the state. The corpora- lion commission assessed altogether 2 !S2.r,U against 191.724,853 for l!i7, the chief Increase being In the railway properties. There were 111) miles of street rail- win In the state, assessed at 14.184.. i against .1 . ? 7 1 . 0 0 In 1907. Tho street railways transported iri.999.2A0 piiMsengiTH. There were 102 telephone companies In the stnte assessed at II,- 401. .LH, with .1.868 miles of poles and to.: I . of wire, with 11.945 business and lx.(i:,7 residence Phones In use. In the state In 1908 were 306, atate, private ami savings banks, with a total resource November, . 1908, of (47.91.1.076; capital stock $7.602,0118, and deposits S3 1 .99 5,993. IsmiiI Klrctrlc Coininnlcn. of particular locul Interest In tho cominlasloner's report, la that having to do with street railways. The Ashe lllo Klectrlc company, with Its 13 miles of main line track and one mile of siding, earned $272,108.16; Its op erating expenses were $175,088.(1, making Its Income from operation 197,(117.66; while It received $896. 1 from other sources, making Its total Income from nil sources $97,913.14; the largest income of onv railway company In the state. The nenrest approach to these figures Is the Tide water Tower company of Wilmington, whose Income from all sources was $97,017.65; while it received $89.1 Fries Manufacturing and Power com pany of Winston. $75,1 17.39, while the Chi.rlotto F.lectrlc and Power com pany's Income wns $!1,303.42. The Asheville Klectrlc company also car ried the greatest number of persons,, 3.471.221. Charlotte Eloctrlc and Hnllwuy company being next with I. 341,766, and the Tidewater Power company third with 3.387.209. Th Asheville Electric company carried 267,017 per mile of track. Charlotte 25A.sr6, and Winston 210,865. Ashe ville Electric company has IS miles, Asheville Knpld Transit company 6.J1, Charlotte i;25. Durham t.0. Win ston 8.80. (Ireensboro 11.5, Raleigh 8.24. Salisbury and Spencer 4.11, Wil mington 15 miles of 'main line electrlo railway. However, the Asheville Electrlo company, awarding to their statement to the corporation commission did not rle-ir 897,913.84: but paid Interest on funded debt $37,500, sundry 'Interest $8,491.38, taxes $13,350, permanent Im provements $6,273.28, and other de duction from the Income $26.84$. 12, leaving a net Income for 1908 of $5, 4 5e 96. The Asheville Rapid1 Transit com pany during 1908 carried total of 197,714 persons, but lost $3,388.57. The company has now changed hands, the old company being placed In hands of receivers and the property sold. Tho Tax Awiicosinent. - The plant of the Asheville company la assessed for taxation greater than any in the state, being; $181,888: the Asheville Rspld Transit company $11, 050; Charlotte Consolidated Traction company $218,895; Durham Traction company $154,100; Flies Manufacture Power' company $57,690; Qrnenaboro Electric company $34,147; (Continued on t S . .(Cot." ed on paf S. ' 1 Canless, a, nine-pound son. i