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. f LAST E2ITICIJ 4:00 P. U.' Weather Forecast: Unsettled. 4. 9 15 VOL. XV. NO. 177. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 21910. 3c PER COPY. rni mm mm. ' DISPATCHES :'iinr nnmrn .y,' o - Cracks His Skull With a Stone Woutd-Be Robber Had Held up Train on Colorado Midland, Near Divide, Colorado. TWO BROTHERS ARRESTED IN THE BRUSH NEARBY They Say They Wore Riding Blind Bag gageEngineer Stewart Shot In Leg by Bandit, Before the Stone Was Thrown. C OLORADO 1- SPRINGS, COLO. Sept. J. In a desperate at tempt to hold up west-bound t'oloradd Midland ' train" No. - 8, four miles 'West of Divide early this morn ing, an unknown bandit was instantly killed by a rock thrown by Engineer Frank Stewart, after he had shot the engineer In the leg. ' Two young men who wore found ' near the scene -are held for an Investi gation. One of them is slightly wound ed In the head-by a bullet. The high-; wayman crawled over the tender as the train slowed up at a siding to meet an east bound train. As- he stopped the train, Stewart turned to see the fireman standing with - his hands above his. head and heard the robber say, "put up your hands dr I'll' blow your head off." The robber forced both nien to leave the engine and marched them before hlra to the express car. Ha ordered them to tell the express messenger they were in peril for their lives, that the train had been held up and the robber was de termined to have the money In the express car. ' .;, . Engineer's Story. , Stewart says the robber fired sever al shots at passengers who looked out to see what was happening.' .He says the fireman dashed under the car to shoot at him and the engineer struck him with all his strength with a rock he had picked up as ha Jumped off the tender. A he did so the robber whirled arid shot' at- himj; th 'bullet hitting his leg. ."I guess the " blow finished him," said Stewart, "for hs never moved after the rook hit him The engineer then tainted. His condition Is not serious. , Fonml In .the BrusW'- Shortly after the hold-up the sher iff and a posse scoured the country and round the two brothers hiding In the brush, one of them dated by a bullet wound 10 the head, which his brother said was from a. stray bullet from the bandit's gun. They claimed they ware riding the blind baggage, on their way to Grand Junction. There was nothing .on the bandit's person to Identify him. He wore a cloth mask and had, a gunny sack tied around the deck. He was armed with two revolvers. His body was taken in charge by the coroner at Cripple Creek. There was no un UBual shipment of money in the ex press car but the bandit told the fire man while marching along the train that he Intended to rifle the passen gers as well as the Wells-Fargo box. It Is believed the desperado had a confederate secreted on the train. Members of the crew and. passengers report havnlg seen two men run from the scene immediately after the kill ing. It Is doubtful If the evidence will be sufficient to hold the suspects cap tured. The scene of the hold-up Is one of the wildest , In the , Rocky mountains. - POPULATION OF NEW YORK INCREASED OVER MILLION Onw of 1010 Shown That the Great er City Has a Population of 4,7B,8H3. .- Washington. Sept I. The popula tion of greater New Tork is 4.766,883. n Increase of 1, 329,481 or 38.7 per cent, as compared with 1,437,201 In 1900. Borough of Manhattan Z.331.S4S.( Queens borough 184,011. Richmond borough 85,969, Brooklyn borough 1. 634.351. Bronx borough 430,S0. The population of Brooklyn N. T., Is 1,634, SSI, an Increase of 447.769 or 40.1 per rent as compared with 1,148 IU In 1900. Of Elmlra. N. T., Is 37,174, an Increase of 1.164 or 4 3 per cent as compared with 36.473 In 1900. Of Yonkers. N. T 73.783. an Increase of 31.173 or 11.1 per cent as com pared with 47.131 In 100. Of James town, N. V., Is 331.207. an Increase of .40S or 34.7 per cent as compared with 33,811 1100. Alaska Pacific Steamer Is Aground. Seattle. Wash., 8epU 3. The Alaska Far I do company's 18,000 ton steam ship Watson went aground at mld- ' night on a reef Island, near Neah bay, and lies In a dangerous position on the rocks. Although there was a heavy fog, the sea Is comparatively calm and all tha 1! oassenaers were landed In small boats and are safely ramped on a rugged Island awaiting the arrival of rescuers, who are hurry Ing toward them. The shin was bound from Seattle fu Frisco. ,fhe vessel U no immediate .lang.r, TUB WKATHKO.' For Ashevilla and J-Mnlty: Unset tled weather tonlKhr a,nd Saturday. For North Carolina: Tartly cloudy tonluht and Hnturduy, not much Change In ti inp.-rutur. urn iiflf.it HURLED AT HIM , "' i .v ' ' "l ' -i -.. ' . - ' . . , t . - Him of Course Meaning the Col. . -He' Wouldn't Get up and the Crowd, Became 1 Peevish; HE HEARS HIM PROPOSED AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT Is Having i Big Time in Omaha Today . and Will 60 on to Sioux Falls Tomorrow Morn ; Ing. 0' MAHA. Sept. 2. When Th.sodore Roosevelt's train i reached St. Joseph early this morning there were continued calls for a speech from the large crowd, i The colonel being asleep did not respond and' the crowd, as if retaliating, began chees ing for Taft. : After, breakfast 'Governor Challen berger and Mayor Dahlman of Omaha called on Roosevelt.' The latter left the Omaha club at noon for the Oma ha Field club for an Informal lunch to which 400 guests " were Invited. Roosevelt will deliver Jils Omaha speech in the Auditorium this after noon.- Senator Burkett will make theJ au areas - or. introduction. Jtooscvelt will then go to Omaha club where din ner for 160 guests, will be served. Roosevelt will spend the night at Ihe Omaha club and In the morning will leave for Sioux Falls. . In Kansas City. Kansas , City, rrept. 3. As the guest of honor of the Kansas City Commercial Club, Theodore Roosevelt last night drank a toast to the presi dent; was himself toasted as the "first citizen of the. United States," and lis tened to a rollicking song to the tune of The Good Old Summertime." pro posing him at next president. . Among the guests were Governor Had ley, of Missouri, Governor Stubbs, of Kansas. Gifford. Flnchot, James R. Garfield, Colonel W. ft? Nelson, pro prietor of -The Kansas City Star, Sen ator Brlstow and Representative Mad ison, of Kansas. "When I began, as president, the movement against .rebates that were universally demanded and given, the practice was so general that the fact or giving them and asking lor tnem had become a purely conventional crime," said Colojiel Roosevelt, "No one spori of the giving or re bates as a crime, and as that practice was freely indulged In by the great mass of people others were driven to commit the crime, having the alter native of being ruined by their com petitors If they did not get them. The shippers demanded rebates of ' the railroads and the railroads granted rebates to certain shippers until they got In a network of preferences from which they were unable to extricate themselves by any Individual action on their part 1 After some difficulty, accompanied by the usual statement that I was ruining the business In terest of the country.' we got the re bate practice definitely stopped. Of course no great change of that kind comes, without Incidental hard ships being suffered by many good people. Tou cannot make a cnange and not suffer from the dislocation. Some good people and some commu nities did suffer and I think that Kansas Ctty was the community that for the time being suffered consider ably. Kansas City had rebate that I think at times were as nign as id per cent and I was quite prepared for n outburst of dissatisfaction from Kansas City. But It Is Immensely to your credit that I received unanimous approval.", y. , MRS. R.M. FUR MAN DEAD Widow' ot Well Known Jotirnallut and Auditor of North Oarollnu Died La Blight In Washliigton. Mrs. B. R. Fakes last night received a message from Washington telling of the death In that city of Mrs. Furman, widow" of Robert M. Furman, at one time state auditor and later, and until his death, editor of the Raleigh Morn ing Post '4 -,' '' The news of Mrs. Furraan's death comes as a shock to her many friend in Ashevllle. She made this city her home for years until Mr. Furman was elected state auditor In 1843 and then removed with her family to Raleigh. She dwelt in that city during the years that Mr. Furman was auditor and also while he was editor of the Post Prior to going to Raleigh Mrs. Fur man made many warm personal frlendr and many other hundreds of acquaintances here. Mrs. Furman was bout 10 years of sge and surviving are a daughter ana a son. , Gazette-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Building, Raleigh, Sept. 3. The remains of Mrs. Furman ars expected here from Washington to morrow morning. t Frank Sluder Dead. News has been received here of the death of Frank Sluder of Llcester township, whlrh occurred Wednesday nlaht Mr. Sluder was about SJ years of rk and one of the best citizens of the township. New Tork Herald and The Gazette-News. "I AM OPPOSED TO MOB RULE." ORDERED CO OR HIS 01 0 Such Is Theory in Case ol F.D. Overby State Farmers ElecK Or. WhitakerVice President.- , " Gazette-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Building, Raleigh, Sept. 8. F. D. Overby, foreman of tha'John fon ice factory here, is believei to have committed suicide and a general search Is being made for him. This forenoon he went to the undertaking house of J. II. Brown & Co., and pur chased a corrln, telling th- undertaker It was for a man about his size, H. D. Overby, who, he said died September 1, and the funervl was to be this after noon at Wlnsworth church, out In thi country. , He was to havo returned soon for the coffin Jg. It Is thought he was drinking. He had talked of suicide the past day or two. . . Farmers Elefct Officers. ... Tn rnmidlnr ud work the itate farm ers' convention elected Frank Shields of Halifax county president. Dr. A. H. Wheeler of Biltmore vlco prcslaent and Prof. I. O. Schaub secretary. The convention adopted resolutions aRklng that the excess in revenue from the illuminating oil inspection act, which promises to be considerable, be turned over to the state department of agri culture; that county agricultural schools by fctate aid be provided; ex pressing appreciation 01 tne worn 01 the federal authorities In the elimina tion of the cattle tick and urging those counties not having a no-fence law tn adoot it at once and aid in tne fight against the cattle tick; that county fire wardens should be provid ed by the legislature, under the direc tion of the state geological depart ment , - 1 HOOKWORM CAUSE OF This Is Theory In Case ol Peadon, a Farmer Who Lives In Pitt County, Virginia. . Richmond, Sept I.Physlclans here tre greatly Interested In the case of IS. U Peadon, a Pitt county farmer, who is In a hospital fortreatment to prevent a form of unification. His condition Is regarded as due to a form of hook worm dlaeaa". Which he suffered two years ago. Six months ago he no ticed a, hardening et the muscles of the feet, llmbs-and hands. They con tlnued to such . an alarming extent that the muscles would crack when Jarred by walking. Joints of Peadon's elbows and Angers developed boll-like ulcer, The physician In charge says Peadon is suffering from hardening muscles and that it is yielding some- a hat to electrical treatment Oil Reduced 15 FoinU. New Tork, Sept i. The Standard Oil onmpany announces a reduction of li points on all grades of refined OSlluATl petroleum. - j. THE PARALLEL Ml -Jill 3 : 'j .e. KILLING OF SWINK WAS JUSTIFIABLE SSBBBBBBBBBBBB1SSBBBBBSSBB1SBB So Reads Verdict of Coroner's Jury, and Sevier and Boynton Are Given Iabcrty Considerable Testimony as to ; the TragedykYesterday Horning Taken at Inquest ; , r The Verdict Was Quickly Reached: ' - The Jury of six men, George Cathey J. H. Reed, P. H. Thrash, W. H. Las ater, R. F. Lee and R. O. Patterson, summoned by Coroner Morris to in vestigate Into the killing of Will Swink by Pete Sevier early yesterday morning, listened to considerable tes timony of witnesses late in the after noon and with the .Investigation con cluded returned a. verdict In effect that Will Swinlc came to his death at the hands of Pete Sevier and that the killing was Justifiable. The first witness to testify was W. P. Dagnel, proprietor of the cafe on South Main street where the killing occurred. He said that it was nearly 2 o'clock when he heard Will Swink say something about getting even with Judge G. S. Reynolds: that soon Judge Reynolds went over to Swink and had some conversation with him and that he heard Swink say he was going after Pete Sevtor and get even with him; that he heard Swink say he had a "smoke pole" In the pawn shop and that if he didn't get even with Sevier that night he would get his gun out and Ox him the next morning. Witness also testified that Swink said he knew Sevier had a "smoke pole" and that he was going to make the "squint-eyed s of a b use It that night" Witness further testified that later he saw Swink go toward Sevier with a knife in his hand and his arm upraised. Two shots were fired and witness ran to where the shooting was done. Witness said that while-Swink was doing his talk ing Sevier apparently paid no atten-1 tion to him. , , Judge Reynolds Testifies. Judge Reynolds testified that he walked into Dagnal'a place and began talking to 8evier near the lunch counter; that "Buddie" Earwood and Swink were In the cafe; that Sevier and Earwood took witness off and told him that Swink was making threats against witness on account of a 150 fine that Judge Reynolds whjle police Justice had Imposed on Swink. The witness testified further that he went to Swink and asked him what he wanted to be "knocking" witness about; that Swink replied that he had not done it; Swink saying that Se vier was doing all the "knocking" and that he was going to "nx" Sevier in the morning If he didn't do It that night Witness said that he walked away and coming back saw Swink change a knife from his trouser's pocket to his coat pocket and later saw him attack Sevier with the drawn knife. He said Sevier drew his pistol and shot twice; that the men grap pled and foil to the floor, Sevier fall ln on top of Swink. Witness test! Mod that he went to' the men and rabbtnr the pistol took It from Se vier's hand and went to the back of the cafe and that when he came back Swink had left the place. Witness said that Swink made his threats against Sevier loud enough for Se vlor to have heard them. Evidence Corroborated. ; The testimony of "Buddie" Ear wood was similar to that of Judge Reynolds and corroborated the Judge with the exception that Sevier and others attempted to remonstrate with Swink to keep down any trouble. Wit ness testified that Swink had told him that the wounds on hi head were I AM OPPOSED TO made by a hackman during a scrap earlier In the evening. Witness heard a shot but thought It missed ;that he heard another shot and "heard a man holler." Frank Townsend testified that he was standing In front of the cafe at the time of the shooting; -that he heard the shots but did. not kjiow anything about the trouble ' until Swink came out and walking a few steps down the street sat down in a chair with his head hanging down; that in a few seconds Swink got up and walking Into W. H. Bush's cafe fell on the floor a short distance from the door. Police Testify. Patrolman McConnell and Capt Lyda testified. Mr. McConnell said that he was going down South Main street toward the cafe; that he found Swink lying on the floor; that Swink told him Pete Sevier had shot him and that J. K. Boynton had beaten him up. The officer testified that Capt Lyda had already arrested Se vier and that he went Into the place where the shooting occurred and found Boynton and arrested him. Mr. McConnell said that Sevier told him that he did not know he had hit Swink and that he was sorry he had shot the man but that he had to do It Capt Lyda said that he arrested Sevier and that later Swink made to witness while on the way to the hos pital the same statement as to facts that Mr. McConnell had testified to; that Sevier shot him and Boynton beat him on the head. Witness also testified that Sevier asked him not to arrest Boynton; saying that Boynton had nothing to do with the shooting. Courin of Deceased Testlfle. Fred Swink, a cousin of the de ceased, testified that he saw his cous in while lying on the floor In Mr. Bush's place and that his cousin told him that Sevier shot him and Boyn ton beat him over the head. . The knife that Swink Is aliased to have had at the time of the trouble was put in evidence. Earwood Identi fied the knife as the one that Swink had when the shooting occurred. After hearing all the testimony the Jury retired and shortly returned a verdict of Justifiable homicide. Following the verdict It was stated that further action might be taken by R. & McCall, representing the private prosecution, and that the two accused might be re-arrested. No action along this line has been taken thus far today. The defendants were rep resented by Jones A Williams. A NOVELTY IN SVIC1DE. New Tork Rewtanrant Man Sticks His - Head In Gas Range, After 1 Opening' Burner , , New Tork, Sept I. William Hoff man, aged 15, proprietor of a, 'Lenox avenue restaurant, committed suicide today in an unusual way. IT' was found lying on the floor of the res taurant kitchen with his head in the oven of a gas range, four burners of which were open and unllghted. He left no note indicating a reason for suicide. He had a wife and two children, ",.. SUPREME COURT RULE" Gil THE COTTON CROP Estimates of 1 Condition ol Crop in Various States Given by Re-. u. .'; .... V' .r. '.i-i' ..,' : - porting- Board. :.. Washington, Sept. 3. -The crop reporting board of the department of agriculture estimates the average con dition of the cotton crop on August 25th was 72.1 as compared with 75.6 on July 25, 63.7 on August 25, 1909 76.1 on August 25, 190S and the 73.1 average of the past ten years on Aug ust 25. The conditions by states: Virginia 82; North Carolina 76; South Carolina 73; Georgia 71; Flor ida 74;. Alabama 72; Mississippi 71; Louisiana 60; Texas 29; Arkansas 78; Tennessee 78; Missouri 78; Oklahoma 85: California 95. While the average condition of cot ton on August 25 is 8.4 per cent, bet ter than it was on the corresponding date last year It Is lower by 3.4 per cent than In 1903 and one per cent below the average for the last ten years. ' Officials of the. department decide to estimate the effect of the figures. The old crop of cotton, by reason of the existing high prices, has practi cally been exhausted. "Twenty cent cotton, has called substantially every bale of spot cotton from Its hiding place .according o the officials. Just now .the new crop Is beginning to come Into the market. In southern Texas the crop is being picked and ginned as rapidly as possible, and from now on the crop marketed will continue to increase. I ROOSEVELT IS CALLED He Is Given a Severe Raking by Social Ists, at Their jntornational Congress. - Copenhagen, Sept S. Theo. Roose velt came In for a raking Incidental to the discussion of' antl-milltarlsm at the session of the International Socialist congress here. Several speakers turned their guns on the American, the most bitter being made by George Ledebour, socialist member of the German Rolchstag, who described him as "a political drummer." Among other . things he said: "He has for gotten that he represents a demo cratlc nation whVse existence was due to revolution. Shame on him - for Joining British rulers against Egypt lan patriots." On the general subject of antl-mllltarism ao many opinions were expressed that the congress was In constant turmoil. The committee on International disarmament were unable to agree among themselves. Imllan Police) Inspector Shot. Simla, British India. Sept I. The native police Inspector, Sarat Chan dra, has been shot and probably fa tally wounded at Dacca, where a num ber of young Indians are on trial for conspiracy against the government Ills assailant are youths of good Zim OLIVER TALKS OF HIS PiflllS He Says if He Finds Encourge- la ment Here, His Railroad Will PassAsheville en Route ! to the SeacoasL WE CAN HAVE IT SOON . , IF WE WISH, HE DECLARES For Any Railroad Promoter to Overlook Aihpville Mr. Oliver Thinks Would Be a Serious Mistake. AT the "boosters" meeting this morning for the Appalachian exposition the most interesting development, to this section, perhaps, , was the statement made by W. J. Oliver, president of the Appalachian . Exposition and the Knoxvllle, Sevier- vllle and Eastern railway that "any railroad promoter who ; overlooks Asheville in any projected line Is making a big mistake." Mr. Oliver, who Is man noted for "doing things," stated that his road was headed this way, and that the - industrial outlook for this section is encouraging. He stated that all that he' wanted was some local encouragement and be; would build his line through from Se- -vierville into these mountains on the way to the seacoast His projected line will be a 48 miles shorter route between Asheville and Knoxvllle than the present line. . Mr. Oliver stated -that if the people of this section wish the line, it would be only a short while before it would be constructed. The extension of the Greenvtlle Knoxville railroad through Transyl vania county from South Carolina Is assured by the recent voting of $100. 000 In bonds. The . proposed line would cross Buncombe and Haywood counties, and go down the - Pigeon river foll'owlfig the proposed Tennes see and North Carolina extension, to connect atJSevlervllle, with Mr. Oli ver's present rbad.'-"'he "coming of. Mr. Oliver's road into this section,' he stated, would be the means of giving . greater transportation facilities, de veloping undeveloped - country, and also forcing other -lines to come Into this section. - . ' GLEN CURTISS MAKES A SENSATIONAL FLIGHT Flies Over Lake Erie and Beats Train in Distance 60 Miles by 17 Minutes. i ' " . v i ' v Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 2. Racing with a fast Lake Shore railway train, Glen IL Curtiss, the Hammondsport, N. V., aviator, yesterday drove his bi plane over the water from Cedarpolnt to Euclid Beach, an air line distance of 60 miles, completeing a 120 mile . round trip flight begun the day before and establishing an unquestioned world's record for over the water flights. Incidentally he beat the train into Cleveland a full seventeen min utes. Encountering contrary air currents Curtiss was unable to maintain a high rate of speed, taking one hour and forty-two minutes for the flight The actual distance traversed, esti mated at the United States Hydrogra- j, : phio office was 63 miles. A drlnllng' rain was falling when Curtiss gave tne order for the starting- of his motor. All morning the weather conditions ' had been unpropltious, and thousands of excursion lats, who had gathered at' the point, had almost given up hope of seeing the flight At noon, how ever, the aviator announced that he would make a trial flight which he JI!, reaching an altitude of 500 feet, wnlch he maintained for eight min utes. He then determined to start on his 60 mile Journey at 3:16, but when It was found that the train bearing Mrs. Curtiss would leave Sandusky a little earlier, he changed his mind and set out despite the rain. He encountered considerable dlffl- . culty In navigating the treacherous currents above Lake Erie. The first ten miles were covered In 13 minute Off Cleveland harbor the velocity of the breese had diminished to 11 miles an hour but It was unsteady and the e hundred thousand persons lining the lake front and perched on top of every available building had an op portunity of Judging the difficulty of air navigation under unfavorable con ditions, i Statement of Bank Conditions) Called ... For. Washington, Sept t. The comp troller of the currency has called for statements of condition of national banks at the elbse of business Septem ber 1. - ' " , .,! The revenue officers here today re ceived notification of the destruction of tr:' illicit distilleries In Franklin oounty, Virginia, and the capture of two barrels of whlakey anil the si.-mr,' of one distillery in Halifax trnm1!, Virginia, - - -; 0 0
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