North Carolina Newspapers

TH3 LZZCZUlTZD PHTC3 LAST EDITION. : 4:C0P.Ii Weather forecast: ; i . Fair; Wamtr, , .VOL. XIV. NO. 227. ASHEVILLE, N. P., SATURDAY AFTERNOON,- OCTOBER 30, 909. 3c PER COPY UIOSJURf IS IT AGED The Twelve Men. Had Not Re tured a Verdict at 4:20 O'clock This At-lernoon. SURVEY OF STATE A!l tbgs getecrdly put of place, the strangest hodgepodge ever seen. And even perils make a face on Halloween; STILL DULLISH FROM THE CAPITAL THEreUHS ROARED WAfiM WELCOME Business bv; Jonaily Active at the Start; W " May Deliveries to the 15 Cent Level. FLUCTUATIONS NERVOUS AS RESULT REALIZING At the Opening May Cotton Was $5.35 a Bale Above Last Saturday's Opening. ' ' New York, Oct. 30. A continuation of the bullish excitement in the cotton market sent May; deliveries up to the 15 cent level this morning, that posi tion selling at 16:01 at the opening, while December sold at 14.85, or 15 to 17 points net higher , on big gains in Liverpool, and the bullish visible sup ply figures. Business was sensationally active at the start, but became rather less ex- ,i cited later, with fluctuations very nervous as a result of heavy realizing and rumors of less satisfactory con ditions In some of the southern spot markets. At the opening this morn ing. May cotton was 15.35 a bale, above opening price of Inst Saturday. Reactions were very slight, however, and the market was at practically Its highest point late In the morning with a close steady at 14.78 for December and 14.98 for May. The general list showed a net gain for day of from 9 to 26 points. THEY HAVE CONFIDENCE I J. A Member of Chicago Citizens Have Planned to Give a Banquet in " His Honor. " ' Chicago, Oct. " SO. An Invitation signed by fifty Chlcagoans, who are leaders In the city's commercial, pro fessional and social endeavors, has Siteen sent to Charles It. Crane, whose resignation as minister designate to China recently attracted attention. Mr. Crane, at present in New York, Is nBked to be the guest of honor at a dinner to be- given at Mr. Crane's convenience. The invitation speaks of the recall of the former minister designate, up holding his attitude In every respect Among the names attached to It are the following: C. T. Hutchinson, Duvld R. Forgan, H. H. Kohlsaat, Harry Pratt Judson, Charles O. Dawes, George K. Roberts. George R. Peck, I). H. Burnham, James B. Forgan. S. M. Felton. A. J. Eearllng and Victor F. LawsOn. The invitation reads In part: "We desire In this public manner to express our appreciation of your char acter and disinterested public services. We regard aanot the least of these services your vigorous advocacy of the protection and extension of Amer Ica'n commercial and political Interests In the Orient, In full accord with the well known views of .President Taft and with his epoch-making speech at Shanghai In 107. "Your unusual discretion, prudence, wisdom, and: modesty had been deter mined to us by an acquaintance ex tending over twenty-Hve years of an active business and social life, Bo far no conduct of your own has dimin ished . our confidence in your fitness. We believe that the published circum stances, t 'vial In themselves, were unfairly made use of In an attempt to humiliate you without adequate cause! and we wish by this means, publicly to psotest against such meth ods which cannot fall to have a ten dency to discourage prominent private cltlsens from accepting public office." ill LIVES ARE LOST III HERIIIT FI Bt. Johnsbtiry. Vt. Oct 30. Nine persons were killed, four seriously In Jured. as result of fire that destroy , ed the City Savings block, a iivo story brick structure, here, early to day.- . - ." ' . . Wins S 10,000 Aviation Prise. Johannstal. Germany. Oct SO. Hans Grade, a German aviator, won the Lans prise of $10,000. He com plied with all the conditions, flying two and one-half kilometres (a little ' more than a mile and a half) In two minutes and 41 seconds. - Roper Co. Buys K. and C. Co. Norfolk, Oct 10. Announcement Is made of the sale of the Klnston Carolina Railroad and Lumber .' ! i.iiv to the John L. Roper Lunv i r .- .(.iinv. under receivership pro- i-t irinxton. CASE WENT TO JURY AT 3:15 THIS AFTERNOON Solicitor Brown in Closing for tne State Presented the Case Forcibly and Did Himself Proud. fr The Jury at 4:20 thla af- ternoon had not agreed on Its verdict. At that hour It was 4 rumored that the Jury might deliberate for several hours; f In fai t, that it might not agree this afternoon. 4 t I-H-M I I I 'I I I I I I"1 1 M-i. 'The Watklns' murder trial," as,-for a week the case against Constable F. C. Watkins of Black Mountain In Su perior court, has been commonly term ed, is at an end. The closing argu ment by counsel was ended shortly after noon today; nn argument by the solicitor for the state; an able argu ment; a presentation of the facts as the state viewed thi-m that reflected credit on Solicitor Hiown. With the concluding argument the able charge to the Jury was delivered by Judge Adams, who had presided so fairly and so Impartially during the long days of the trial, and the question at Issue; a question Involving the guilt or the Innocence, the liberty nr the imprisonment of the man standing at the bar of justice, now rests with the 12 good and true men chosen and sworn to render their verdict acordlng to the law and the evidence. ... - " Mr. Craig's Argument The closing argument .tor the de fense was made by Hon. Locke Craig. U .wa powerrul presentation -of the case for the defendant; a mighty plea for the vindication of an officer of the law doing only his sworn duty, as Mr. Craig put It . Mr. Craig began his argument to the Jury yesterday afternoon and with the adjournment of court had still more than an hour to speak, t This morning, with the re convening of court, he resumed his argument and, -after devoting some time to the defense's special Instruc tions which the defense' asked the court to give, laid down his notes, re moved his glasses and devoted the re malnder of his time to a general re sume of the Incidents and the evl dence of that tragic affair-- at the Gladstone hotel In Black Mountain on the night of August (. Mr. Craig de clared that the evidence showed that on that night Bunting and Collins not only violated the law of the state, but that they violated every law of decen cy by their vulgarity, their profanity and their vile talk; that on that night, with guests In the house upright men and pure and virtuous women with In earshot of their voices they used the vilest, the dirtiest and the most vulgar language that ever fell from the lips of mortal man. Mr. Craig declared trtnt he di not say and would not say that these men should- be -shot down because, they used such language; that his conten tlon, the contention ' of the defense, and the claim for acquittal, was not based on any such ground; but that he did say and would sny that If Fleet Watklns and any .man In that court house should go to Wilmington, to the proud city of Wilmington by the sea. should go to the Hotel Orion anu should use the same vulgar language that Bunting and Collins used at the Gladstone hotel on that fateful night In August they would be taken from their rooms and tarred and feathered on the streets If Wilmington. The Judge's Cliarge. Judge Adams' charge to the Jury was manifestly fair. He gave the law clearly and concisely. He reviewed at some length the evidence and charged the 11 men to render their verdict ac cording to the law as given by the court and the evidence as tney ne llf veil it. Jiiii Adams' charge to tne jury was not concluded until shortly after S o'clock. - ' MiPRrMK K. OP R. AND 8., K. OP P.. DIKH IN N ASH V Hili. Dr. R. U O. White Was On Booth's Widely Known Men Held Portion Years. .- of . Nashville. Oct. SO. Dr. B. L. O White, one of the most widely known men In the south and for 12, years supreme keeper of records and seals Ruoreme Lodge. Knights of Pythias, died today, aged 01. Guilty ol First Degree Murder; Merry , llccommciKieo. T.im O.. Oct. 10 John W. Beam a negro attorney. Is found guilty of murder In the first degree. Tor Kinin Mrs Maude Dllts.. white. The Jury recommended mercy. Beam shot the woman while In a Jealous rage, then attempted suicide. . TUB WEATHER. Forecasts until, 1 p. m. Sunday, for Ashevllle and vicinity: Fair anu warmer weather tonight and Sunday. V v -A i m x i 150 RACERS GOT OFF, AT 8 O'CLOCKTODAY he Race for Vanderbilt Cup Has Been Reduced to an Ordinary Stock Car Contest Motor Parkway, I I., Oct. 30 (liiiltolin) Ak-o wins the VaiidtThllt up. Alco's time was four hours 25 min utes, 42 seconds. Flat1 finished sec ond In four hours, thirty minutes, 5S S- seconds. Only two finished. Motor Parkway, u t. Oct. so. With eleven of the full 22 laps In the Vanderbilt cup race completed after JH hours of racing leadership was all with two Chalmers-Detroit entrh-s. Driver William Knlpper hal held first place from the second lap on, and Driver Lorlmer had worked his Choi- j mers-Detrolt up from fourth to second place. Harding, In an Apperson had been third up to this time, when his car overturned at ; Maasapequa lodge. Neither ho nor his mechanic-Ian wus injured. Lorlmer. who gained lirnt position In the twelfth lap In his Chalmers-Detroit blew out a cylinder while making the thirteenth lap, and was permanently retired, from the race, leaving Knlpper In another Chalmers-Detroit with a safe lead. Cltalinrrtt-Detroit Wins. Just before the eleventh lap was reached, In the Vanderbilt contest, one of the small cars Massapequa event was nnlshed, and honors In that too had fullen tn a Chalmers-Detroit, Jon Matson, having made the required ten circuits of the course, or I2K.4U miles In two hours, 02 2-5 seconds. Doorley In a Maxwell, wus second, and Arthur Ze, In a Maxwell, was third. Jos. Matson, In a Chalmers-Detroit, won the Massapequa trophy, which was for ten circuits of the course; or 120.60 miles; time. 1:21:02 2-5. Harroun, driving a Murmon, won the Whentley Hill sweepstakes. The Hlart The fifth Vanderbilt cup race, re duced to the level of an ordinary stock car contest wus started at 9 o'clock today. In conjunction with the Wheatley hills sweep-stakes, and the Massapequa sweep-stakes, and the two short distance races for sroull ears.1 Weather conditions are Ideal, and served to bring out nearly a quarter of a million people. Twenty-flve cars were sent away In three detachments. The first consisted of six cars, 20 to 25 horsepower, competing for Mas sapequa trophy, the Wheatley . hills sweep-stakes ears, four In number, followed next Fifteen contestants for the Vanderbilt cup made up the third division. , . Forecaster at Kea. Nsw York, Oct SO. With the vot ing time less than' 72 hours away. In dependent political foreoasters todsy confessed themselves very much at sea a to the outcome of this city's hard fought mayoralty contest WYOING ME HAVING TROUBLE Cattlemen and Sheepmen Pouring into I the Basin and Militia Is Being Held (or Service. Sheridan, Wyo. A detail of t.-n militiamen wa ordered to the ISuhIii last night mill the remainder f tin local company was ordered to lie lii lil In readiness tor Immediate service.' Caltlcnicti ami Kheepmen are pouring Into the liasiii und trouble is feared In connection ttn tne re-arrest oi live men i li.irt;. .! with complicity in a raid In which three sheepmen w re killed. BAD BLOOD STIRS IN FEUD COUNTRY ii It Looks as il Feud and Political Mix-up -it Will, Cause Trouble In Jack son, Kentucky. Jackson, Oct. 30. In a statement County Clerk Hurst of Jackson de nies that he took ballots to lie used In Tuesday's eleetlon,. by force. Hurst says he gave bullots to Will- Seelms tlon, a deputy sheriff,- to tnkte to Crockettsvllle preclnat to prevent the Cnlahan faction from securing them. The Calluhun faction are democrats, while the Heelmsiutna are' republi cans, snd they are old time feud enemies. FactloiiiNlrt lluvf) Court House. Louisville, Ky.. Oct. 20. A dis patch from Jackson says the demo crats or Cullulmn-RedwIn faction are In possession of the court house there. Armed men were sent during the morning, going into the Crawford and Hargls building nearby. Trouble Is feared by election day. HE WAS DRUNK AND ANGRY; BARKEEPER REFUSED HIM Tluit M Olnyattlck'a Explanation of Wiot lie I I red. Causing a Sensation. Cleveland. O., Oct. 30. Joseph F, Olayenlck, an .Austrian painter, who caused the sensation yesterday, by nr ing a bullet through the window or a downtown, cafe at the time Mayor Johnson was entering, giving rise to ths rumor that an attempt had been made upon the life of the mayor, was arraigned in pollc court today. He said, he wus Intoxicated at tho time he fired the shot and was angry because the bartender refused to serve him. ... - -'! ' . . ., - '1 v' GLOBE DEMOCRAT HEARS OF WAR War Has Broken Out Between Salvador and the Zelayan Government of Nicaragua. St. Willi, Oct. nn A cnblt-grum to the (;iol-leniot-riit rio:n Paminiu sit vk: I'nsKeugi rs iirrlviMg from the I'li'-IDi- cwiHt points north of here re- 1 po't that war has broken out between : Salvador and the Zelayan government 1)f xu-arnuun. President Flguroa, of Salvador has Iwiiied an order mobllU- ing t,0 Salvadorean army for the I piu-poHe of repelling the invasion of Nii-arnKUHns and the Halvadoreun ex j lle under command of General Alfaro, 'ami with a view of aiding the Nica ragua!) revolutionists in their fight ,'iKiiliiHl Zelnya. THE ELKS PLAN TO START SOMETHING Beginning Tonight the Lodge Will Give the First of a Series of Saturday Night Entertainments. Tleglnnlng tonight, the Ashevllle lodge of Klks will give the first of a Mes of Saturday night entertain- ments. Included among the numbers on the program Is a debate, upon the subject: "Hesolved. thst Dr. Cook Discovered the North Pole." F. W. Thomas and I)'. O. Noland will uphold the affirmative while J. H. Calne and F. A. Humncr will have the negative. W. F. Stoner, Dr. J. M. Parker and F. W. Johns are the judges. Marcus Krwln Is the director of tbs program Following are some of the other num. bers: "Sir Dick Richard Wagner Weaver has kindly consented to direct the music on Saturday night at Elks' first Winter Fun Feast, assisted by Bra, Orpheus Stoner, Doo. Ooodtlmes Dennis Noland, and deorge Rlngling Hanger. "The serious side of the question will be treated by Prof. P. E. Page, K. L., who will read an able paper entitled: 'The Effect of the Aurora Koreans on the Talc Trade; or. The F.conomlr Significance of Recent Polar Discovery." 'I ' "Hon. Marcus Krwln. the Inlmlta ble genius of Elkdom his songs and his sayings stump speeches ana im personations." Two Ar Killed. Philadelphia, Oct 20. Two men were killed, and third scalded by the derailment of a freight train at Han- nastown today on the Pennsylvania, South Eastern Passenger Association Extends the Date of Sale of Tickets ' (or Farmer's Congress. THE NEGRO STATE FAIR VERY CREDITABLE EXHIBIT Dr. Rankin Speaks of the Gift of Mr, Rockefeller to Provide Means of Fighting Hookwrni. The Oasette-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, llollemon Rulldlng, Haleigh, Oct. 20. President Benehan Cameron of the Farmers' National congress has of ficial notice from the Southeastern Passenger association, covering rail ways south of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi, that by permission of the Interstate commerce commis sion It has extended the date of sale of tickets to the congress, at Raleigh. November 4-8, so as to make these valid for delegates arriving as late as November S, and making the final return limit November 12. This will be a very good convenience. It w originally planned that the convention should open November 3, but the date now fixed Is November 4, At the Negro Fair. At the negro state fair there Is a very striking and varied exhibit, show Ing the work of several of the depart menu of Shaw university. This ex hlblt Is not in competition, neither Is that of the A. and M. cullege. at Oruenshoro, which latter shows many practical things Including furniture, etc. The state school for deaf mutes 1 and blind at Raleigh shows brooms and mattresses mado by the blind and a great deal of work In cloth and wools, etc., by the deaf mute girls, everything being highly creditable In taste and workmanship. Some of the colored farmers make exhibits as good as those which were only a few years ago shown at the white fair and the variety of these agricultural exhibits show what the-negroes are doing. It la to be observed that they are prompt to recognise , fully the great aid which the white people In the state have given them. Yesterday wns educational day at tho fair and addresses were made by John C. Dsn cy, colored, the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia; Kev. W. A. Avunt of Newbern and Dr. J. E. Shep ard, the heud of the Bible and Indus trial Training school at Durham, which Is soon to become very promi nent In the education of his race. Thla was college and school day at the fair, with football as a feature In the afternoon. The addresses have attracted atten tion at the fair. Mayor Stanhope Wynne made a clever talk, being In troduced by James It. Young, a very prominent negro here, who declared that ,rohlbltlon was doing a great work for the negroes In North Caro lina. President E. J. Young of the Fair association, who has been re elected, made a short speech. Intro ducing II. K. Goodson, who Is the president of the Negro State Farmers union. A brief speech by Secretary Joseph K. Pogue of the white state fair, was followed by an address, ad mirable In tone, by Editor Josephua Daniels of the News and Olwervcr. The Negro State Business Men's league, organized during the fair, has elected James Merrick of Durham Its president, the corresponding secretary being Charles M. Hunter of Raleigh, nnd It will have a state organiser, and will co-operate In the movement for the holding of a negro exposition in 1913, to mark the aeml-centennlal of the emancipation proclamation by President Lincoln. At the negro Institution for the blind and deaf mutes here there are S5 cases of measles, none of a severe type, and without any complications. The number of students In the Insti tution Is larger than ever before. Prisoner Taken to Atlanta. Four prisoners, one moonshiner and three counterfeiters, were yesterduy taken to the United States prison at Atlanta. They were convicted at Newbern. The counterfeiters made th dollars and five cent pieces. n this county partridges and turkeys cannot be shot now before November IS, the hunting season ending March 1. No hunting of any kind la per mitted in this county, with dogs or guns ,or any other way, for any birds or any quadrupeds between March 1 and November 1. This law la Intend ed to knock out the pot-hunters, who, on the excuse that they were after squirrels, would kill anything they found In the woods and fields.. Thousands of North Carolinians who have been to Morshead City and have gone with sailing parties In boats commanded by Capt Ben Plner, will regret his sudden death. For over 40 years he had been engaged in thla business. Chairman McNeill of the corpora tion commission goes to Wilmington to look after property owned by the Seaboard Air Line, on which the county of New Hanover has levied taxes and seeks to collect It, the county cutting the value of the prop erty, real estate, at Ml. 000. The road claims that thla property was listed with the corporation commis sion, and that the latter had provided for It In the assessment and dlstrlbu tlon of mileage among the cities and counties. Judge Connor of th Federal court will be here Monday. The governor honors the requisition of the governor of Georgia for II. C. Continued on page three. A Hundred Thousand Enthusiastic Citi zens Greeted the President at New Orleans This Forenoon. v;-::''T-rr-'.'-.-;'" .J THE OCCASION WAS MUCH ENJOYED BY THE PRESIDENT The Trip Down the MIsmIhhIpiiI Wb Tula I 'orenoon Drought to a Sue rcsxful Conclusion. New Orleans. Oct. 30. To tho roar of guns from the warships at an chor In mid-stream, sal " ted by th deafening shrieks of sirens, . the clanging of bells, and the shrill cheers of one hundred thousand enthusiastic cltlsens, who lined the banks of the Mississippi. President Taft arrived at New Orleans this morning, bringing to a 'successful conclusion his long trip down the river from St. Louts. It was reception well worthy of the big president and thai he enjoyed It, waa evident. Standing on tho bridge of the steamer O'Leander he bowed and smiled happily at the enthusiasm, of the throng. , President Was Delayed. Delay In tho arrival of President Taft postponed the opening session of . the Lakes to the Gulf deep waterways convention. Standards of states on the rtoor of the convention hall made, the occasion look like a political con vention. Marching delegations with bands of music added to the Illusion. Texas with a noisy crowd seemed to attract most attention, until the delegates from Missouri got the middle of the aisle. Then the 'show us." and "we will show you" representatives were tho center of attraction for a while. Following Mayor Beherman's ad dress of welcome President Kava naugh of the Waterways association delivered his annual address. Mr. Tsft Is expected to address the convention this afternoon. THE GONFEREHGE Mr. Hackney Tells of the Plans for Holding the Big Methodist Con ference Here Next May. Preparations are already making by tho Methodists of the South for tho big Oeneral Conference to be held In Ashevllle next May, convening the flirt Wednesday in that month, ami continuing 20 days. George L. Hack ney of the Hackney A Moale Printing company of thla place, returned last night from Nashville, Tenn., where he succeeded In closing a contract for the printing of the conference official paper. The official publication will be known as "The Dally Christian Advo cate:" It will be a paper probably Ave columns and eight oagee In size, will be printed during the night and will contain every word uttered on the convention floor during the confer ence; also all addressee delivered and sermons preached while the confer ence Is In session. The paper will bo edited by Dr. Q. B. Wlnton and a competent corps of assistants. Since the publication will contain dally everything that Is said and done dur- ng the conference It will be a paper of no mean size and also a paper that will be eagerly sought by at least the ministers In the Methodist church. South. Incidentally the Oeneral Conference that will meet In quadrennial seeslon here next May will be one of the most Important, If not In fact the most Im portant, for half a century. It la cer tain that six bishops will be elected and possibly more; likewise, among the many Important matters to come before the conference for determina tion, will be the question, now agitat ed, of removal of the time limit for ministers, and the election of bishop for a stated period rather than for life. This question of the removal ot the time-limit, as is well known, has been agitated for many years and It Is believed by many of the prominent ministers and laymen In the church thst the time-limit must go. The commission on tho revision of the creed will also make report during the conference. The sessions of the conference will be held In the City Auditorium on Haywood street REBELLION SUPPRESSED GREEK OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE Neverthetam Dangerous Revolt Will Kxlst While Mutineer Remains , at Large. Athena, Oct 10. The miniature rebellion has been suppressed, accord ing to official announcement Never theless a dangerous revolt, breaking out In new places, will exist so long as the mutinous Greek naval lieu tenant remains at large. Three of the revoltera were, killed and several wounded, when a shell fronr the government's hind butt-iv strurk the mutinous torpe-1 t Hhenona, during sn ' ' lerdiiy. PHIS FOR ' ' ' P. " ; lis' ' Mil f'f i V. t I . I ' . Vj