VOU VI NO. 42.
Salisbury N, O., Wednesday, October 6th, I9IO.
W m. h. Stewart, Editors
LABOR' UNIONS ARE BLAMED.
Unknown Enemies Blow up Los Angeles
Times Banding; Many Perish in Ruins.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct, 1. An
attempt to destroy the residence
General Harrison Gray Otis, pub
lisher of The Los Angelea Times,
by means of an infernal machine
was made late today, following an
explosion which early today caus
ed great loss of life and destroyed
the buildings and plant of The
Times, entailing a loss of nearly
half a million dollars, and a sus
pected effort to blow up the auxi
liary plant of the paper. A pow
erful infernal machine was also
found today in the residence oi
Secretary Zeehaadelaar, of the
Merchants and Manufacturers As
sociation. Genertl Otis, who ia on his wa
home from Mexico, and the oti.e:
responsible heads of The Tiiii s
unequivo'lr charge The Tim a
building au'ustor and the narr
ly averted attempts at futtbs.-.? dt-'structio-u
of life and propyl ty tt
labor union sources.
With equal emphasis, th lead
erB of union lahor repudiate th;
accusations and offer at; aid
their power to detect the culprits.
This afternoon The Times made
publio the following telegi am f ron.
General Otis :
"Your wire with its terrible
news reached me this morning.
am amazed at the desperation o
the criminal conspirators in de
stroying The Times building and
slaying its loyal defenders, whose
loss I deeply deplore; but The
Times itself will live on, bravely
defending the vital and essential
principle of industrial, freedom
nndor whir.h n.nat. vat fri.
umph in the entire nation .
(Signed)
. "HARRISON GRAY OTIS "
' For twenty 4 years," following a
quarrel with the typographical
union and the changing of The
Times to a non-union paper, Gen
eral Otis has fought unionism with
every resource in Mb command.
He has been ably seconded in the
fight by the Merchants and Man
ufacturers Association, whose sec
retary was the object of frustrated
dynamiting today.
Feeling ran high throughout
the city during the day over The
Times disaster and was augment
ed by the discovery that a dyna
mite bomb bad been found under
the residence of Secretary Zeehan
delaar. The public reached a
state of alarm and consternation
when the "attempt to blow up
General Otis residence became
1 "
&nown.
The Otis home, known as "The
Bivouac," stands on Wiltsh ire
Avenue in the most fashionable
quarter of the city. After the
finding of the infernal machine at
the Zeebandelaar residence, De
tective Bice was sent to ''The
Bivouac" to search the premises.
Aided by Charles Flocker, the
gardener, he found a suit case
hidden in a bunch of vines under
a bay window on the side of the
house fronting West Lake park.
Detective Rice telephoned Chief
of Police Galloway, who went im
mediately to General Otis' house.
The officers examined the suit
case." Chief of Police Galloway
waited to take it to the police
station without opening it.
Rice insisted on opening it there
and finally stuck a knife through
the side of the case. A buzz of
mechanism was heard and smoke
oozed out. Convinced that the
suit case contained explosives,
Chief Galloway hurled it as far as
he could. It landed against the
curbstone on the opposite side of
the street running along the p'ark.
Immediately there was a loud
explosion, and the suit case was
shattered into a thousand pieces .
A Eole was torn in the ground and
the curbstone was ripped out for
some distance.
In the house at the time were
Mrs. Marion Otis Chandler, wife
of the assistant 'general manager
of The Times and another woman,
two children and the Otis ser
vants. The infernal machine found at
Mr. Zeehandelaar's residence was
composed o fifteen BtifiJuigjgiant
powder, attached to a fuse and set
by clock-work to explode at one
o'clock in the morning, the same
hour at which the explosion oc
curred in The Time office. The
bomb was first discovered at the
Zeehandelaar home by a servant,
who called an officer. Had not
some part of the mechanism fail
ed to work, the honse would prob
ably have been demolish9d and its
inmates killed.
Assistant General Manager
Chandler of The- Times says that
an attempt was made to blow up
The Times auxiliary plant at Col
lege and San Fernando, streets a
few minutes before thoN explosion
destroyed1 the main building.
The succession of tragic events
and the rumors of other attempt
ed outrages set the populace of
Los Angeles in a state of mind
bordering on panic. Hundreds
of policemen and detectives were
busy in every direction running
down clneB and endeavoring to
find the perpetrators of the crimes.
Only two arrests were made and
there is little indication of com
plicity on the part of the prison
ers. '
The president of the local typo
graphical union issued orders that
union printers may work in con
junction with the non-union print
ers of The Times in any of the
local newspaper offices in Betting
up copy for The Times. This was
announced after a consultation of
the union men and the managers
of the other newspapers .
The city council met in special
session today and appropriated
$25,000 for the purpeseof determ
ining the cause of The Times ex
plosion and provided a reward of
$2,500 for the capture of those
responsible for the outrage.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 2. A
large force. of .workmen, after dig.
ging for thirty hours into the de
bris of The Times building, wreck
ed by an explosion Saturday
morning, have unearthed five of
the fifteen bodies buried in the
ruins. The men are still at work
tonight, aided by a huge railway
crane and derrick, which is lift
ing out the masses of heavy steel.
In the meantime the police are
guarding the homes of General
Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of
The Times and of General Mana
ger Harry Chandler.
Guards are also watching over
the plants of several concerns re
cently involved in strikes .
Three arrests have been made
since the explosion, one of the
suspects is an alleged anarchist,
Martin Eagan. In the hope of
securing information as to the
perpetrators of the outrage, Mayor
Alexander increased the city's of
fer of reward today to $10,000.
This, with the offers of local
newspapers and labor organiza
tions, whose leaders have announc
ed a determination to assist in the
search of the criminals, raise the
total amount of rewards to $13,-
500.
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Some of the interior furnishing
of the Brown-Palmer Clothing
Company's store has arrived.
This company proposes to make
their establishment second to
none in the city.
. If you have any Doubt
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DEBATES ARE FINISHED.
Mr. Doughton Extends to Mr. Cowles an
Invitation to Continue Joint Discussion
but the Wilkes Man Respectfully De
dines.
Albemarle, Sept. 20. Farmer
Bob Doughton completely wiped
the earth , up with Congressman
Charles H. Cowles here today in
debate. The joint discussion had
been well advertised by both par
ties and there was a large crowd
present, a great majority of which
was Democratic.
Cowles led off for an hour in a
wrangling speech, very dry, even
to his own party. He failed en
tirely to stir up that old time en
thusiasm, which once followed E.
Spencer Blackburn, Zeb Sanders
and Spencer B. Adams,' in Stanly
county. He claimed, however, to
have done many wonderful things
for the United States and especi
ally the eighth North Carolina
district. One thins and about
the only one that he called special
attention to was the great saving
which he had been to the United
States, while in CongreB.
The reason of his having gotten
a special tax on brier-root pipes,
thereby putting some more than
enough to pay his salary in the
treasury as well as enabling the
people to purchase said brier-root
pipes at such low ngares. As'
asual he spoke in high terms of
the Payne-Atdrich tariff law,
pointed with pride to the high
price of cotton, abundant corn
and wheat crops.
Mr. Doughton followed with an
hour Bpeech whieh was a master
piece of argument. He completely,
answered every word of f Mr.
CowIbb' argument. No one ex
pected himto so completely an
nihilate Mr. Cowles, not even the
Democrats. Mr. Doughton de
nounced the Payne-Ardrich "'tariff
law, stating that it had the right
name as it caused a pain to every
decent Republican every time he
thought of it . H told Mr. Cowles
that it would cause him the worst
pain in Novt mber. He pointed
with sarcasm to the record of the
Republican party Taft, Cannon,
Aldrich and Company. He chal
lenged Cowles to point to one sin
gle North Carolina Republican
administration which was in his
opinion in the neighborhood of
decent.
"Dxyou .approve of Russell's
administration?" asked Mr.
Doughton of Mr. Cowles, and,
amid a shower of hisses, and
shrieks, Mr. Cowles answered net
a word. Miu Doughton denounced
the radicals for claiming that
their party wa9 a guarantee
against panic?, hard times 'and
shut-down mills, because he said
they failed to make good their
guarantee. Mr. Dughtou made
a hit even with some of the old
line Republicans by his able,
frank and forceful argument and
the resnls of his address will' be
felt here in November. Many Re
publicans admitted that Mr.
Cowles had more than his hands
full
In his ten-minute rejoinder Mr.
Doughton challenged Mr. Cowles
to speak jointly with him, either
once a week, six tinwm week, or
twelve times a week - from now
until election and demanded that
he accept then and there or de
cline. He offered to give him his
own time in whioh to answer. Mr.
Cowles arose before the crowd
and politely declined further joint
discussions . Special to Tho Char
lotte Observer.
MR. ELLER SEES ViCTORY.
State Chairman Says Marion Butler's En
try into Politics will Help Democrats.
WinstonSalem, Sept. 19.
State Chairman A. H. Eller was
here on a brief business trip to
day, returning to Raleigh tonight.
He expressed the greatest confi
dence in a sweeping victory for
the Democratic party in State and
county. He said he believed that
the insurgency of Republicans
who were disgusted with the fail
ure of their party to live up to its
pledges would result many of
the rank and file turning to the
Democratic party. Marion But
ler's entry into active political
activity would be instrumental,
hi declared, in giving the biggest
Democratic majority that will
have been cast in many years in
North Carolina. Correspondence
of The Charlotte Observer.
HOVEL PARADE MfiBOMISED.
Ringing Brothers' Ck Presents New
Ideas In
Something entirely new to page
antry will be seen on the streets
of Salisbury whenIMngling Bro
thers' World's GreMBt Shows ap
pear here on Tuesdayr October
i8th.' . '4i.l: - '
The people of a hundred nations
and tribes will bfseen; There
will be a large menagerie display
ed in open dens, 1ift"y corps of
musicians from savage tomtom
players to modern - braas bands,
twenty camels in one learn and
teams of zebras, elephants and
llamas An ehdlesstlpanorama of
world wonders will!' be unfolded
before the eyes. f
The parade is three miles long.'
vlt displays 650 handsome horses
ana iwo-tmras 01 tne.eiapnants in
America. .There are 1,280 men,
women and children in the line.
Among them are Oriental rajahB,
ameers, pashas, caliphs, sheiks,
barbarian chief s and savage des
pots. The grandure' of empires
and kingdoms is ,r&3ected by re
tinues in regal tableau floats,
sumptuous coaches of state, gor-
geous chariots, and palanquins
and richly decorated' howdabs.
The performance in the main
tent is in keeping with the street
spectacle. The acts ake place in
three rings, on, two stages, on the
race-course and in the dome of
the tent. The talent of the world
is there assembled! There are
375 artists. Of thes 300 were se-
lected last winter by the foreign'
agents of the show fpm the am
phitheaters of Asia, England and
the European continent. There
arejTfifty olowns r $raong them.
They are as funny aband of fel
lows as ever cracked avowtry jest.
;:TgTiadiri: .'. city.
Bit up and take notice. The news
papers there said it waB the best
in every particular that ever went
into Madison Square Garden.
Night after night and day after
day thousands were turned away
unable to find room in the big
building. It was a great circus
engagement.
In Salisbury each performance
will be given in every detail just
as seen on the opening night of
the show ia the spring,.
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Resolutions of Respect.
Whereas death has taken from
the fellowship and' protection of
this Order our beloved brother, L
0. Carter, and while we humbly
submit to that Providence whose
decrees we are not permitted to
know or comprehend but which
we are persuaded, are wise and
juBt, still we are deeply grieved by
our sad misfortune and therefore
adopt these resolutions in honor
of our brother's memory :
First, That Rowan Council, No.
193 Jr. O. U, A..M., in the death
"of Brother Carter, has lost one of
its most worthy and efficient
members;
Second, That we as members of
this Council tender our sincere
sympathy to the members of the
family of our dead brother;
Third, That our charter be
draped for sixty days as a token of
regret and that these resolutions
be copied in the minutes of our
council as a witness of our esteem
and as a perpetual memory of his
many virtues ;
Fourth, That a copy of the
same be sent to the family of our
deceased brother and also be pub
lished in The Carolina ' Watch
man and Rowan Record .
C M. Lykrly,
, S. A. Earnhardt,
HJP. Lykrly,
committee.
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TRAVELLER HEIRS ''BAD", SECRETS.
DoughtOD Is Uaklng Votes In His Campaign
With Cowles.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Hickory, N. C, Sept. 17. I
have been nosing around the
mountains and here and there
sniffing the political breezes from
afar. I have talked with Demo
crats and Republicans and have
incognito heard many 'political
secrets. There never has been a
year in my recollection (and I
bave been through many political
years in the thickest of the fray)
when Democrats in the mountain
counties this early in, the oam-
paign have been as enthusiastic
or as much encouraged,
BOB DOUGHTON's GAME FIGHT.
Bob Doughton is the livest pro
position, ever seen in Eighth Dis
trict politics. If helloesn't win,
no Democrat on earth could have
won. He goes at it like fighting
fire. There has been -much talk
as to the joint campigan between
him and Cowles and aB to whioh
One carries off the laurels. There
is no doubt on earth as to who
came out on top at Lenoir.
Cowles was badly whipped in
spite of all that has been written.
His advisors gave him some
points afterHhe speaking and I
understand that at Boone Monday
Cowles did muoh better and the
Republicans had gathered m a
great crowd .to yell for him.
Doughton led out and wore out
his voice in the open air and
when bis rejoinder came was so
hoarse he could not be heard. But
there is no doubt but that
the undercurrent is with the far
mer r candidate. The Watauga
people have great confidence in
Doughton, and it is freely pre
dicted that he will carry the
county.
FAITH.
John Rinehardt and wife, Chas.
Peeler and John A . Peeler, went
to Jacksonville, Fla., on the ex
cursion a few days ago.
Henry Shive bought a fine horse
from J . T. Arts and a new two
horse wagon in Salisbury today.
M. A. Kluttz & Co., passed
through Faith today, with several
wagon loads cf their saw mill,
moving it from Henry Agner's to
Mr. Kluttz's house.
Rev. E. Feltner was in Faith a
few nights ago and organized a
camp, No. 31, Patriotic Order
Sons of America. It was no
trouble to get the required num
ber to start off with.
J. T, Wyatt received an order
today for four thousand eight
hundred feet of street curbing.
The Faith Granite Co., has just
shipped two car loads of building
stone to Aiken, S. C, for the U.
S. postoffice there.
The big crowd of paving block
makers at Granite Quarry are
spreading out on the granite belt.
They have come in and around
Faith to make blocks. Some of
them are boarding in Faith . It
won't be long until there will be
hundreds of them all around
Faith, as we have the finest gran
ite in the United ' States for the
business and the outside world is
beginning to find it out.
The little two-year-old girl of
John Wilkerson died last night,
September 30th, 1910. It had not
been well for the last month.
Peeler Bros, have started up
their cotton gin for this season
and have ginned six bales.
Faith will be represented at the
National Good Roads convention
October 4-6, 1910, at Oklahoma,
City, Okla., Governor W. W.
Kitohin having appointed J. T.
Wyatt as a delegate from North
Carolina.
Young lady at Milton Hoff ner's,
September 9th, 1910. r
We had a fine rain Thursday
night. :y
Mr j. John Kuykindall is con
fined toNher bed with fevers. Mrs.
Kuyknidall's mother has come
down from Asfieville to be by her
bedside while she is so very low.
Vehus.
WHY MEAT IS HI6H.
ifiliar Cat Explanation of why Prices bare
increased and Other Information.
By Clyde H. Tavenner.
Washington, Oct . 4. Special
When the Payne-Aldrich bill was
before the Senate,' blind Senator
Tom P. Gore of Oklahoma staked
his reputation that if the measure
was passed extreme high prices
would follow,
The prophecy was fulfilled.
Average prices rose more than 17
per cent, from June to December,
1909. The prices ol steel - trust
oommon stock more than doubled
in six months in 1910.
It is the history of all protec
tionist countries that tariff re
viiion upward means increased
prices. It is not generally real
ized how rapidly the price of
tariff-protected artioles rose after
the passage of the Dingley law in
1897. From July 1, 1897, to Jan
uary 1, 1900, the first three years
following the Dingley law, the
cost of living advanced 31 per
cent., or at the rate of 9 per cent,
a year . More trusts were formed
during this than during any ether
similar period in our history.
The price of wire nails rose
from $1.36 a keg, m August, 1898,
to $3.53, in December, 1899, 160
per cent, in 16 months.
The price of barb wire rose
from $1.65 per 100 pounds, in
August, 1897, to $4.30, in Decem
ber, 1899, 150 percent, in 2 years.
The price of window glass roBe
from $1.75 a box in April, 1897,
to $4.80, in April, 1901, 175 per
cent, in 4 years.
The Dingley tariff made the
trusts, and the trusts put up the
prices. But few, if any, trusts
were formed during the three
yearB of the comparatively low
duties Of the Wilson bilL
When the German government
introduced its tariff law in 1902,
it published an explanation which
contained the frank statement
that "inland prices are raised, so
far as a consideration of the cir
cumstances of the last ten years
will allow us to judge, in propor
tion to the duties."
In France, Italy, and some oth
er European countries a part of
the municipal revenue is raised by
duties on goods entering the
towns. At the gates of such towns
there is an official who collects
this tax, and it is found that the
difference in prices of articles
purchased outside of the towns
and within the towns is in nearly
every instance exactly the amount
of the duty. The same happens
in trade between nations.
The reason the sugar trust, the
steel trust, the lumber trust and
the harvester trust are willing to
contribute large sums to the cam
paign funds of President Taft and
republican candidates for congress
and are unwilling to contribute to
the funds of Democratic candi
dates, is that the Republican
party is the party of excessive
protection. The tariff revision
upward means increased prices,
and the new profits whatever sums
they may invest in in the Repub
lican campaign funds.
AFTER ELECTION !
The republicans promise to
make public the source of their
campaign contributions, after the
November congressional election. '
The report of the standpat Re
publican members of the Balhn
ger investigating committee is to
be made publio, after the elec
tion, Nothing further is to be said of
the $5,000,000 Taft-Humphrey
shipsubsidy grab bill, until after
election.
The soft pedal is to be applied
to the Oklahoma Indian lands
thievery, until after the Novem
ber election.
Nothing is to be done with the
Lorimer investigation, until after
election.
No step is to be taken in the
sugar trust-friar lands Philippine
scandal, until after the November
election. . I
. And, last but not least from the
standpoint of relative importance,
the National Monetary commis
sion, of which Senator Aldrich is
chairman, will not make its re
port recommending a central gov
ernment bank; until after the No
vember election.
ANOTHER CASK OF LARCENY I
The national republican plat
form of 1892 contained the follow
ing paragraph :
' We denounce the efforts of the
Democratic majority of the House
of Representatives to destroy - out
tariff laws piece-meal, as mani
fested by their attacks upon wool,
lead, and lead ores."
Times have changed. Repub
lican candidates for Congress,
upon the advice of President
Taft, are now advocating and
promising tariff revision "piece
meal" with the intimation that
the schedules enumerated will be
the first ones tackled. In other
words, the Republicans have ad
opted another Democratio idea.
why meat is high,
Thirty-five per cent, is the
amount of profit Arniour & Co.,
forced the publio to pay last year.
This became known through a
statement submitted by Armour
fe Co., in connection with the list
ing of a bond issue of $80,000,000
on the stock exchange. The com
pany by its own showing made a
gross profit of $10,582,000 for the
year 1909 on a capital stock of
$20,000,000 and earned a surplus
of $7,127,926, or the equivalent of
a dividend of 85.6 per cent. As
the price of beef was boosted with
the beginning of 1910 it would
appear that in the opinion of Ar
mour & Co., ia 35.6 per cent,
profit on capital stock, is not am
ple, even though the commodity
involved ia one of tho necessaries
of life. Armour & Co., is one of
the beef trust firms whioh enjoyed
perfect immunity from prosecu
tion by the government until Fed
eral Judge Landis of Chicago, an
insurgent forced the Taft admin
istration to take cognisance of
the tact that the beef trust was
illegally holding up the public .
THE POSTAL BANES CHEAT.
a Twelve hundred and fifty
banks in various parts of the
United States already have made
application to the postoffice de
partment to be designated deposi
tories for postal savings funds,
and 648 postmasters have made
requests for the establishment of
postal savings banks in their of
fices. About 80 per cent of the
applicants will be disappointed.
The government intends to start
but one or two postal banks in
each state for the present. Some
day, perhaps, possibly when a
central government bank which
can be manipulated by Wall
street comes into existence, the
postal bank system may be ex
tended. Reaching the Top
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well stop that cough.
A barge with . 90 blue-jackets
aboard sunk in New York harbor
Sunday and 30 of them were
drowned. Phifer Quinn of Salis
bury was among the number but
was rescued.
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