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VOL. XV. NO. 53.
ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 1910.
to PIS OOPT
TUT MUTING
She's Kidnapped,
Father Believes
OB. B. C. HYDE
Hols' Fat Dutch Frau
Is Sold for $137,000
13TH CENSUS
IS REASSIGNED
rHf1 ARGUMENT
HIS OCCURRED
IS ARRAIGNED
STRRTS FRIDAY
Supreme Court Will Again Hear
Argument in Famous To
bacco and Oil
Cases.
CAUSED BY DEATH
OF JUSTICE BREWER
It Is Believed That Court Was Evenly
Divided, and Was Loath'
to Give Deci
sion. Washington, April U. The United
States Supreme court to Jay realigned
for argument the canes of the United
Stairs n gainst the American "Tobacco
company and the Standard Oil com
pany. The re-arguments of there cases
comes as a direct rtsult of the death
of Justice Brewtr. The noted jurist
died just 8 few days after the Stand
ard oil case had been argued. As
Justice Moody was unable to appear
to participate In consideration of
these cases only seven Justices were
left to give a Jecislon.
How the court was 'divided in re
gard In the decision in these cases is
still as much a mystery this afternoon
as liefure the assignment of the cases
for re-argument. It Is believed, how
ever, that the court was evenly di
vided, or almost so. and that It prob
ably was loath to give to the country
a decision not supported by a ma
jority of the full court.
lYiccs Were Kffectetl.
New York. April 11. The United
States Supreme court's order for re
arguenunt of the Standard Oil and
American Tobacco cases surprised the
financial district, where the news was
greeted with a sharp upturn In prices.
Prices bounded up from two to five
points when the ticker Hashed the
news.
Todays action, it is generally re
garded, puts Judge Sanborn and
Judge Ynndevi liter, members of the
circuit court which passed on the
Standard oil case and are mentioned
for the vacancies, out of the class of
possibilities. The president Will be
urged to rill the vacancies before the
senate adjourn this summer, so the
cases may be re-argued early next
tietober.
Commerce Commission Says It Is Un
reasonable to CharQe Equally
for Upper-Lower Berths.
Washington, April 11. The Intermit.-
commerce commission holds It
to be unjust and unreasonable" for
the Pullman company to charge
equally for the upper and lower
bertha in the sleeping cars. Differen
tial changes are ordered In several In
stances and J'ullman rates from Chi
cago tu the I'aeltlee ire ordered re
duced.
While this ruling of the commission
orders reductions in rates which were
specifically complained of. It Is re
garded as the parting wedge of read
justment of the sleeping car rates
wherever they exceeded the average
h!ch the commission holds, should
carry a rate of not more than 11.50
for a iwer berth and $1.10 for an
Upper.
nig Earnings of Company.
The report, written by Commission
er Franklin H. Lane, Is brief, and
does not disclose the exhaustive ex
amination which was made of the
Pullman company's affairs. Hut the
record shows the commission's Inves
tigation of the sleeping car com
pany's eontraots. general system of
charges lina- earnings revealed annual
dividends of nearly 1(0,000,000 from
1899 t 190 exclusive.
ilN OF YOUNG THIEF
ABNORMAL. MOTHER SftYS
Boy Robber Arrested in Savannah Is
Son ol a Woman Physician of
Richmond.
Hlchmond, April 11 Dr. Emily K.
Human, mother of the youthful
UarTI. William n,.- .. I,,. f
Jr rrest In Savannah confessed that
a stole for the Inv of excitement
deeply distressed T-r-T, Bfw of
er son s misdoings was fmlMlint
to her.
The boy g mother is noted here as a
C woman physician and suffragist, flhe
W the i,y nB. an abnormal brain
ch an operation will reader nor-.
tnnyan ran sway three weeks ago.
m"ih"i let; t,v to plead lor the
DECISION AGAINST
PULLMAN COMPANY
Col. Roosevelt and Gifford Pirt
chot Confer in Seclusion
of Forest Near Porto
Maurizo.
MR. TAFT SENDS TELEGRAM
TO THE ITALIAN MAYOR
Replying to One from That Official.
Telling 01 the Great Wel
come Given Roose
velt. Porto Mauflslo, April 1, Col.
Koosevelfs widely heralded "meeting
with Clifford Plnchot, the deposed
forester of the United States, occurred
on the veranda of Miss Carew'i villa,
overlooking Muurlzlu Pay, this morn
ing. The interview between the for
mer president und his friend took
place In the seclusion of the forest
that skirts the town.
Mr. Plnchot came direct from Co
penhagen. He appeared to derive
Considerable satisfaction out Of the
manner in which he had concealed
his Identity when he went aboard the
steamer President Grant at New
York. It Is apparent that Roosevelt
will have several interviews with
Plnchot,
.Message from Mr. Tart.
Replying to a message sent to Pres
ident Taft the mayor of Porto Man -rlxlo
received the following message
from President Taft;
"1 received your courteous telegrum
announcing former President Roose
velt's arrival and that he was receiv
ed with enthusiasm by the whole
population and your city was proud
to welcome him. In reply. 1 assure
you and your countrymen the Ameri
can people are very grateful for and
greatly appreciate the reception which
the Italians, from the sovereign to
(nimblest .subject, have accorded our
most distinguished citizen."
T
Daughter of "Lucky" Baldwin Is After
Part of Estate Valued at Twenty
Million Dollars.
lioston. April 11. Baaing her
claim on the ..negation that she is
the legitimate daughter and rightful
heir, Beatrice A. Baldwin, sixteen
years old, has begun suit in Ixis An
geles for one-third of the 120,000,000
estate of the late E. J. (Lucky) Bald
win, the well known turfman.
Mrs. Turnhull. mother of the claim
ant, alleges that she and Baldwin
contracted I common law marriage,
which Is binding under the California
cede, und that the claimant was born
of that marriage.
ENGAGED IN 1 EIGHT
One Knocked Unconscious by the Other
Probably Quarreled Over
Bribery Case.
Jackson. Miss.. April 11. About tka
iin,u in,, senate toduv resumed prob
ing Into the bribery scandal an up
roar was heard in tne nouse stue ui
the capltol. Those who reached that
side first found Representative Trunk
Hurkett and Director of History Dun-
. . ,.. .. i, , .,,1
oar unw limn t'oH"H'., in b
1 . nki Hurkett. a very large
man, was being vigorously pumellcd.
Burkett finally got out irom asm
hi. amaii.,r nntuffonist and hit him
over the head with a cane. The blow
rendered Rowland unconscious. The
row, it Is supposed, started over the
bribery Investigation.
Will Be Married.
Richmond. April 11 Miss Frances
Prlton Gibson, daughter of the Epis
copal Bishop of Virginia, will be mar
ried In June to Rev. Edmund Lee
Woodward, medical mlsslonsry at
Anking. China, according to an an
nouncement made today.
THE WW
forecast until p. m Tuesday for
.i.hevllle and vicinity Ram tonignt
ir Tuesday; warmer tonight.
ism us Wins am Points.
Sidney. X. S. W April 11 Toiums
.. ,.n inta from Bill Ijing
i. in ii .- - -
heavyweight champion of Australia In
the twelfth rounn ir tne niiKini.n.n
iltl,. today.
BROUGHT B
BEATRICE BALDWIN
She Is 20 Years) Old and an Actress
mid Has Disappeared from
Xew Jersey Home.
White Plains, N. Y., April .
Whether the art of kidnapping has
reached such perfection that it bus
become possible to kidnap an uctress
20 yeurs old is a question which has
been submitted to the unsophisticated
White Plains police.
The constabulary were told by A.
L. Smith, who lives at the Hotel El
beron here, that he thinks his da ligh
ter Marie, who. is an actress, has been
kidnapped. When last seen she was
wearing a blue tailor made suit and a
big black hat with an ostrich plume.
She bad told friends she intended to
return to the stage.
Election Today Follows Fierciest Muni
cipal Campaign in Nebraska
t
History.
Lincoln, Nat)., April 11. Before to
morrow morning the people of Lin
coln, the largest city in Nebraska un
der prohibition, will know whether
their city Is to continue "dry" or re
turn to the "wet" column. Today's
election on the saloon question fol
lows th fiercest municipal campaign
ever conducted in Nebraska, For
weeks the contest has been bitterly
waged on both sides. Nightly rallies
have been held at Which prohibition
an antl-prohlbltion speakers of na
tional reputation have been heard.
Lincoln has been without saloons
for the past year and the prohibition
law has been rigidly enforced. It Is
argued that II prohibition Is turned
down at today's election and the sa
loons installed again, prohibition will
ha considered a failure and there will
be little or no chance for the untJ
saloon state campaign to be success
ful. On the other hand, if prohibition
in Lincoln Is continued, especially by
an Increased vote, the slate voters
will look upon the test as a success
and the state will probably go "dry"
at the nextvelection.
it Is generally conceded that the
sn loon (iiiestlon will be the' chief Is
sue of the approaching state campaign.
Democrats are more or lew spilt over
the Issue. Governor Shallenzcrger is
with the anti-saloon people, und May
or James Dahlman of omahu, who Is
to be Governor Shallenberger I oppo
nent in the i. run. i i i. is for license
and a liberal state administration.
Mayor Dahlman, on hearing tnat
William J. Bryan opposed his views
.... (hi. vile of Uauor. promptly an
nounced his opposition to Bryan.
Friends of the governor oeneve mai
Dahlman's opposition to Bryan will
insure all thu rural counties to Gov.
Hhallenhcrgcr In the primaries. Mr.
Bryan does not favor state-wide pro
MMtlnn. but has declared for county
option. He dislikes the saloons bc-
eie an ilc trom Ills sirici ihiifi-
ance practices, which are well known,
i... i..ll,.w that the brewery and sa
loon element supported Taft In hlo.
Indiana. New ork and rxeurasKu at
the last election, and. on the other
hand.t supported the democratic can
didates for governor In these states.
The local campaign has not been a
party contest, as neither republicans
nor democrats have, officially, Indors
ed either side. The canvass was con
ducted strictly along the lines of
"whisky or no whisky," with no dis
turbing side Issues, and has been
clean-cut between prohibitionists and
,1,.. iii .p. , I element, and each able
concede that as Lincoln goes tod-.y,
so will Nebraska go nest fall.
TO DISPOSE OF HAINSCASE
BILL PASSED BY SENATE
Secretary of War Authorised to Drop
front Rolls Officer Who Han
Served Prison Terms.
Washington, April II. --The senatr
today passed it OH1 auth. ixlng the
try of war to snip from the ar
my rolls any officer who may serve
a term of four months or more In
prison.
This measure Is Intended to author
ise summary action In the ease nf
Captain Peter ft. Pains. Jr.. now In
prison for the murder nf Wllltnm K.
Annie.
LIQUOR ELECTION
IN BRYAN'S TOWN
Intense Interest in Trial of Man
Accused of Murder of Aged
Millionaire. Colonel
S w o p e .
NUMEROUS INDICTMENTS
CHARGE USE OF POISON
It Will Be Contended That He Tried
to Kill Several More People
Than He Did
Kill.
Kansas City. April II. Dr. Ii. '.
Hyde appeared in the Criminal court
today to answer the charge of mur
dering Col. Thomas H. Swop , million
aire philanthropist, and uncle of the
physician wife.
Intense Interest Is manifested here
and throughout the state In the Im
pending hearing today. Dr. Hyde will j
have to face a series of eleven indict-j
men's, two of tbem charging him with
murder In the first 'legree. one with !
manslaughter and eight with attempt
ed murder. The case, which has feat
ures of unusual ami highly sensational
interest, promises to be the "cause
eclebre" of this Section. of the state.
The most serious charges under the
indictment which the grand Jury
found again Dr. 1! Clarke Hyde on
March R, of this year, are that he
caused the death of Col. Thos. H.
Swope and Christina Swope by giv
ing them strychnine. The indictment
for manslaughter Is based upon the
charge that Dr. Iili cause! the death
of James Moss Iltinton. a cousin of
the late Col. HwOn . by bleeding him.
Perhaps not qui It so serious, but f.r
more sensational are the remaining
eight indictment which charge Dr.
Hyde with having attempted to mur
der Marguret 8wpe, Stella Swope,
Surah Swope, L,ury Lee Swope, Nora
Bell Dickson. Georgia F. Compton,
Mildred Fox and Ionora Coprldge by
Inoculating them with typhoid fever
germs.
Son or llnpltsi Minister.
Dr. Bennett -CUupc Hyde, the de
fendant, is the son of a Baptist min
ister, now retired, at Lexington, Ho.
He was graduate! from the Wcnt
wortb Military academy at Lexington,
and went to Kansas Clly In the early
90's, and studied medicine. A short
time after he had been licensed to
practice Dr. Hyde was appointed po
lice surgeon by Mayor Webster Davl.
Before he hail served a year he was
removed for unprofessional conduct
When In October, 1898, several unusu
ally bold grave robberies were com
mitted. Dr. Hyde's name became con
nected with the matter, but no suffi
cient proofs were found against him.
It was three or four years later that
the announcement was made of Dr.
Hyde's engagement to Miss Frances
Swope. daughter of Mrs. Margaret
Swope of Independence and niece of
the late Col. Thomas H. Swope.
The engagement was strongly op
posed by Mrs. Margaret Swope, but
Miss Frances was determined to
marry Hyde and even the fact that
several breach of promise suits were
tiled against him, which did not reflect
crelit upon his character, did not
change her determination. She be
came the) wife of Dr. Hyde and, after
a While, truce was declared and a
fairly cordial entente established be
tween the Bwope family and Dr. Hvde.
The door of the Swope home was
opened to the young doctor last sum
mer and soon thereafter began a
chain of events which caused the
death ol three persona an I came near
wiping out the entire Bwope family.
The first victim was .lames Moss
Hunton, a cousin and trusted confi
dent of Col. Swope. He died Octo
ber 1, ltfOH, and apoplexy was given
as the cause of bis death. Subsequent
Investigation developed the fact, how
ever, that death was not caused by
apoplexy and the state will attempt to
show that Dr. Hyde was in some way
responsible for the' death of Mr. Hun
ton Col. Thomas ft. Swop", a millionaire
real estate ami mine owner, who gave
Swopa Purk to Kansas City, 'lied sud
denly on October S, 1909. shortly af
ter having taken a capsule at the di
rection of Dr. Hyde. Drs. Hektoen
and Haynes of Chicago, two eminent
experts, who made an S"Mysia of the
vlseeru of Col Swope found strychnine
In his stomach and liver.
In the month of Dcct nibci per
fect epidemic of typhoid fever broke
cut In the Bwope household On De
cember 1. Miss Margaret Swope, a
niece of Col. Swope, came down with
typhoid fever Two days later Chris
man Swope. her brother, developed
syinirtoms of Hie disease air I on De
cember 0. he died In Independent'
after having taken a capsule given to
him by direction of Dr. Hyde. Like
Col. Swope young Chrlsman Bwope
died after violent convulsions and an
analysis of bis stomach also showed
the present e of strychnine
Between December S and 21 Ave
other members of the Swope family
and a colored maid became III with
typhoid fever, but all of them re
covered All of them ure legatees
under the will iLCuL Bwope. who left
an estate nlflea Tf more than ."..
000.000. It will be contended by the
state that Dr. Hyde had contemplated
to murder these legatees to increase
his share In the estate and that he
had Inoculated them with typhoid
fever germa which he hod obtained
under a plausible nretext from Dr. K.
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The Highest Price Ever Paid for a Canvas at Auction in
This Country Forty-Nine Paintings in the Yerkes Art
Collection Brought $595,250- One Turner, $129,000.
New York, April 11. Greater aln
property ever held in the United iSt
the late Charles T. VerkeS has poll
Ings were disposed of in Mendelssohn
under tin- auspices of the American
Which was the "Portrait of a Woman.'
000. the largest sum ever paid for
This overtoil the record of the nilit
Blue Lights" brought $1'.,000 under
of that session.
The Hals picture v-aa boHaM ' ''e
represented.
The Fifth avenue home and gallery
hammer today M un upset price of
MR. SMITH IS
Claude Kitchin's Pennsylvania Friend
Has Now Been Assigned to
Duty in Mexico.
Washington. April II, William I.
Kent of Irglnla, who resigned the
post as consul general to Guatemala,
to make a losing light for the governor
of Virginia on the republican ticket
last fall, was today nominated by
the president to be consul at St. John.
New llrunswlck. Canada. The presi
dent also named A Donaldson Smith
of North Carolina, consul at Agnus
Callentes, .Mexico
GANNON AGAIN DEFIES
T
"Unless You Fire Me, I'll Be Speaker
Until March 4, Next,"
He Says.
Wasliinglon, April II. Speaker
Cannon has again delbd 'Insurg
ents" to depose MM Irom the speak-,
ershlp. dei luring in a spec h on the
floor of the house thHi "unless repub
licans who id not approve of the
personality f the spesker have the
courage to Join the solid minority. 1
remain speaker until March 4. ttegt."
nwdlcls ItetH'wal r ltcpubli.au
Power.
Speaker Cannon predicted during
hta speech that the republicans would
be returned to full control of the gov
ernment next rail and told the demo
crats they would be shown t be
"false propln ts. as you have been
during the last decade."
Mono for ills Motor tar Kefosed.
A collision between republican "In
surgents" and democrats against tin
provision In the legislative MB ap
propriating 12 r.. 000 for the mainte
nance of Speaker Canon's automobile
resulted In rejecting that pnrt of the
conference reMirt by the houee.
Kleven l'axwiigeri Injured.
I)es Moines. April 11. Kleven pas
sengers were Injured, one perhaps fa
IgtHr. when s motor train on the Itock
Island, near Harrison, crashed Into a
freight train early todey.
Wc-lon RewiiiiMx Ills .1 wy.
Toledo. Om April 11 - Knwurd Hay
son Weston, the ietletrlan resumed
bis wslk from Los Angeles to New
York this morning.
U FAVORED
ad than any public sale of artistic
utes. tin- si UiiiK of the treasures ol
beyond I .Z V.4UD. Forty-nine paint-
hall, No. ID! West Fortieth street.
Art association, for to!.'). 250. amonif
by I'ra ns Hals, which brought 13".-
nny canvas at auction lu this country,
before, when Turner's "Rockets and
the hammer, $7011,200 being the total
ulcif, vliu refused to say whom they
of Charles T. Yerkes went under the
tl.400.0U0.
LEAGUE SEASON
T
Chattanooga a Member of Southern
League. Charleston Having
Been Dropped.
Macon, tia.. April 11. Tile South
Atlantic Daseball league opened to
day. Chattanooga is now a member
of the Southern league. Charleston
having been dropped to make the
Irciiit more compact. The opening
games will be played as follows:
Columbus at Macon.
i 'olumbla at Augusta.
Jacksonville at Savannah.
TONE WAR IS RENEWED:
FOUR CHINESE KILLED
Big Police Guard Poured into New
York's Chinatown to Keep the
Peace Today.
New York. April 11. A big police
guard was poured into Chinatown to
il, t to prevent last night's renewal of
long war Trom spreading, and further
disasters. Two men are dead here
.mil two in Philadelphia as a result
ol the clash among feudists.
Chung Fook was shot three limes
In the chest while standing on a
street corner and died before he could
be carried to a hospital. Chen Hen
was arrested.
Ing Mon, u laundryman. was found
di ad In a Store In Doyer street with a
bullet hole In his right side. Nobody
has been al rested.
chu Moy Yen. a wealthy and benev
olent merchant, who wob formerly
Chinese agent lu New York for the
Northern Pacific railroad, was shot
three times In both thighs by an as
sailant who escaped. He will recover.
No arrests have lieen made.
Since How Kum. a Chinese girl, was
murdered last fall In her rooms by
assassins who never have been dis
covered, although arrests were made
and n trial held, there has been a
slitmlH-rlng long war between the Ong
Leong Tong and the Four Brothers,
thi latter a society of ancient origin.
The outbreak, long expected, came
yesterday.
Three white men walked Into the
Tuxedo, a Chinese restaurant. In the
afternoon and tried to carry off the
cash register. The prorietor and two
Chinese waiters saved the monsy at
the expense of broken heads. The
would-be robber were arrested.
S OPENED
Director Durand Thinks 90.
000,000 or More Folks Will
Be Found It Costs
$5,500,000.
THE APPROXIMATE RESULT
WILL BE KNOWN ERE FALL
The Exact Figures as to Population Will
Be Made up Some Time
in Next Sep
tember. Washington. April 1 1. April IB
a host of seventy thousand in
terrogators, men and women, white
and colored, will be turned loose
in pursuit of the people of the
United States. On that day Uncla
Sam will begin the numbering of his
children In preparation for the thir
teenth census. He estimator; that ho
has a family of about 90.000,000 men.
women and children, and he already
has employed and will then put to
work a body of enumerators consid
erably greater than the standing army.
Some Dislike tu Uegin on Friday.
The law provides that the enumer
ation shall begin on the K,th, but it Is
not so peremptory about the com
mencing time as about the closing
time, and already Intimations have
been received that In some Instances
the work may be postponed until Sat
urday. This Is due to the fact that
the 15th falls on Friday, and among
the 70.000 nam" takers there are soma
wlio ure superstitious as to this day
of the week.
The enumeration will cover all of
the 4"i states and two territories of
the Union proper and also Hawaii
an i Porto Rico, Alaska, the Philip
pine Islands and Guam will not be
included, as especial arrangements are
made for numbering the people of
those dependencies."
Must He Finished in a MonUl.
Under the statutes governing the
w ork, the entire enumeration must be
completed within a month, and In the
cities the work is limited to ID days.
It Is expected that some of the returns
from the cities will be received as
early as the first week in June, but
the exact population of the entire
country will not be determined before
some time in September. The census
officials will, however, know within a
few thousand of the number long be
fore the close of the summer months.
They will be able to reach a substan
tially accurate conclusion by their
payrolls, but thin will be more or le
speculative, and the figures will not be
given out
Durand Counts on 90,000,000.
Director E. Dana Rurand Is count
ing upon a roll of not fewer than so,
000,000 names. This estimate Is based
upon calculations of his experts, and
makes allowance for an Increase ac
cording to the tendencies shown in
the last three previous censuses. Be
tween 1870 and 1R80 the Increase In
the-population was 30 per cent: be
tween 1880 and 1890, 25 per rent .
between 1890 and 1900. tl per cent.
If the decrease should continue at
the same ratio there would be a fall
ing oft this year of the rate of gain
to 17 per cent. The immigration
liguros for the past decaiJe have been
greater, however, than for any of the
previous ten-year periods. Making
allowance for this augmentation from
outside It Is calculated that the in
creases for the past ten years will be
about 18 per cent, and as. In round
numbers, the figure for 1900 was 7S.
000.000, it is now calculated that there
will prove to have been an addition of
about 14,000,000 souls.
"Race Snlrlde" Question.
Much interest Is felt as to the
showing regarding the purely native
increase. The enumerations between
1X70 and' 1900 shov a startling ten
dency towards "race suicide," and It
is Mr. Duranvl's fond hopd that th
reports of his 70.000 subordinates mat
be abb to check this apparent decline
Man of figures that he Is. he does not
however, permit his optimism to
shade his facts, and until the actual
returns show something better, he will
hold to his ninety-million estimate.
Some Innovations.
There wll be some Innovations in
tin next census, and they are ex
pected to improve the reports For
Instance, the country farmer la to be
afforded an opportunity to consider
In advance the statements he shell
make as to the conditions prevailing
with reference to his hoMings. In
bo til cases sheets are to be passed
around before the official calls of the
enumeration of their households. Tn
both cases sheets are to be pasaisl
around before the official calls or 'he
enumerators In the hope that both ru
i a list and urbanlte will be more com
plete In their returns than otherwise
they might be. There also la to he
unusual care In the supervision of the
work of the enumerators In the
cities supervisors will camp on the
heels of the men with the pencils dur
ing the first day of their work and In
the country dlatr'c the sheets them
selves will be esp , ially scrutinised.
The inquiry will comprise three
principal branohea: Population, agri
culture, and mining and manufactur
ing. The questions will cover the
acreage, the value and the product of
farms, including an especial enumera
tion or animals, as It will the oapltai
Invested, the value of products and
Con Otto cd o