North Carolina Newspapers

THE mm V1LDE CITIZEN I - SHOWERS. Cast ysur yets f 0P"rjt Contest today. VOL XX NO 241 ASHBVILLB N. C, THURSDAY MORNING JULY 13, 1905 pricb five Cents COTTON WORLD ROUSED ROOSEVELT DENVER GETS CONVENTION NEGRO ROBBER KILLS TWELVE LOSS FROM FLOOD WILL 1 1 1 , SATISFIED OVER LEAKAGE QUESTION REACH INTO THOUSANDS NflW YnVk And NrtW frlAAn beaten Kccre'ary Wll.on and Mr. " w " a W a 1 1 1 . . . lo . a., h. I..L k. . I . . II - I a u mi v, in " nil. II mr lai lfr vsSllv PirhAnnM Ak fnr Full u,H,n retary o make him a pub- uutli.HAii. railed secretary's attention to IIITOdUyauuil alleged leaks and ihnt no notice had been given thr suggestion. The sec- r tary w rote a tart reply. In which he Informed Mr. Hubbard that, lie owed no ona an aMlngy, In tlx- IlKht of hav. In done hi duly to ihe best of his ablU Ity and that hen tie got anything that looked like fart he promptly rent h to 'he aeeret rvlre officers to hunt down. Hecrclary Wilson today permitted an examination (,f the em rvHndeiice In ortler to show that as far back a five year ago he I. id taken pionipt act-Ion to dlaeorer anv leak In hla otfl e. STATISTICIAN HOLMES , MAY BE PROSECUTED Bolleved Statute Con bo Found Under Which Ho May bo Brought to Justice Washington. July 1!. The invest! Cation that will be made by Dlstrlr Attorney Morgan II. Beach Into the enamel that their ha been a leakage of Information in Ihe m.ilter of pre paling the government eotton statls tlca will bo far more exhaustive than that conducted by pee re; s-rvlce oxm atlvra. at the request of Secretary Wilson of the department of agricul ture. Acting Attorney General Hoyt ha completed Ilia rxainln.v Ion of tile pi per 9 transmitted to him by Secretary Wilson, and he thinks there Hlioulil bo a fuither and detailed legal In qulry. With that end In view he haa commlllad the entl:e muter t Mr. Heach, who Intends to comp'.-Ie hla examination of the cine before he retires from the position of I'nited Htatea attorney on August 31. He haa taken up the subject as prosecut ing attorney, and In all probability will anoint the government when the matter la brought In to the court. an outcome of the Investigation thit la believed by depattmcrvt of Justice officials to be a certainty. Kxpcnse will no: be spared In gath ering evidence of the met) tods al leged to have been employed by Kd- . win ft. Holme, the dismissed associ ate ntatl8tlcr.il of the department of agriculture, and In excising any ac complices he may have had In his op erations. Mr. Reach will have the benefit of the labors of seen: service men who wete employed by Secretary Wilaon and also of the best legal tal ent of his own office. Working on the case will be u number of men who ferre(cd out much of the evidence ifsed In the pioaecutlon of postofftce fraud. The statement frequently has been published that District Attorney Beach reported tt Bosro'ary Wilson Jiat there la no ' s'atut? under which Holmes cm be prosecuted. It "Xos aalri author!-' Mvel V tollav that the OoH sltlon of Mr.. Beach In this nutter has been misunderstood. Mi. Beach took the position that Holmes could not be prosecuted on the showing made by .the published report of' his alleged operations, but It is hi opin ion that the Investigation wis not conducted from the point of view that would be followed by a law office of the department. Secretary Wilson was determined to ascertain In the bilefcst time possible whether there was foundation for the charges made by Richard Cheatham, secietary of the Southern Cotton association, that advance lnformatlonjKas being fur nished by an employe, or employes, of the government to stock brokers When he became satisfied of the cor rectness of the charge he publisher his report ' and took steps to prevent further leakage by dismissing ihe of ficii! believed to he guilty and or ganising the method of gathering and publishing ciod statlscs. Officials of the deoartment of justice have no doubt that officials of the government have betrayed their tiust for personal gain and t there will be found gome mpjns to bring them to account. Therefore, It has been determined that the further Investigation Bhall be an expnination by law offices, assisted by secret service opciallves. In Is planned to conduct the exam ination secretly, on the grounds that It will be much more effective. It hat not been decided whether the case will be submitted to the gijnd jury prior to arrests,, If It. is found that .arrests are warranted, but It is not believed .this will be the procedure. The grand Jury has adjourned for the summer, though. If t be found advisable, a spe cial grand Jury might be summoned. JORDAN SAYS WILSON'S WORK IS SATISFACTORY Atlanta. (Ja., July 12 Pr sldent !Iar vey Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association, af er hearing the reKirl of Secretary Richard Cheat hum with ref- erenie to he Investigation of the bu reau of tatltlc at Washington, today authorised th follow Ing Interview for publication: "The report of the Inve Igatlon Into he manipulation -mil leakage of the cotton bureau reports, a conducted by Secietary Cheatham during the past five weeks, ha b en ei Irely ifac lory. The charges preferred by the as social Ion t'lve been fully subs antlnted and the investigation of the burejj Ma 1 1st li s along her Hues will b vigor ously pressed by the association, W will not be content to let the matter drop where It Is, as we are satisfied that others besides Holm s should be elleved of further connection with Ihe department." President Harvie Jordan and Sec tary Richard t'rnatham of th Sout!ic:n Co ton assocl t un left thl Ity for Washington tonight. Accord Ing to a statement by President Jor in, these offlcl lis go to Washlnglor ir Ihe purpose of looking further Intc the mil tit of the cotton repoit leak. BRITTON SAYS PUBLIC IS INTENSELY INDIGNAN1 Says Canal Work Is Being Well Done and Also Praises Wood ONLY COWARDS FLEE FROM THE CANAL ZONE' President Scores the Tale Bearers Who Tell of Ter rors of Panama Now iU'leuns, July 12. President Biitton of the New Orleans C'ottor xchunge today addressed the follow ng letter to Presldcn . Roosevelt : "Th recent exposure In the stalls 1 Icaroureau of the igrlcultuial de partinent has developed a sltuitioi which In cotton trade ci'.cles for man nonths h.s been so strongly sus Dec ted from apparent Indicitlons at to amount to a positive conviction o wrong doing. Now tha the exposur has been publh-ly announced, a feei ng of Intense Indignation pervades Jh trade Interested In fair dealings by teason of the department having been used by a clique of corrupt specu latoia to promote their individual and selfish ends, and that 4t should bi known who have been the beneflcla rles. the corruptors and the corrupter1 as well. ' LOOK FOR SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS SOON HUBBARD ASKS WILSON FOR A PUBLIC APOLOGY Washington, July 12. A new and In teresting phase of the cotton leak In vestigation vaa developed todaj througtl hV publication of he letter of Walter C.. Hubbard, president of the New York; Cotton Exchange, addressed to President ,RooaevehV In . which the "writer declared hat he members of th exchange Wad "been greaxly shocked by the recent .disclosures of venality In the department of agrgl culture" and requesting a full Investigation of he methods which led to the corruption, with a view of preventing tto? possibility of recurrence. That letter la believed . here ' to be the outcome of recent correspond -nee Oyster Bay, L. I., July 12. It Is re warded here as probable that other sensational developments nmy grow out of Ihe leak In the cotton crop re port which Secretary Wilson of the department of agiiculture la Investi gating. Nothing definite has reached the president regarding possible fu ture disclosures. In fact, by direction of the president, Secretary Wilson it conducting , the inqury along his own llnfs, with a determlnotlon .to sift the matter to the bottom. Attorney Gen eral Moody will determine finally whether criminal prosecutions are t be Instituted by Ihe government against any of the alleged' conspira tors. - i AUGUSTA EXCHANGE ENDORSES HUBBARD Augusta, Ga.. July 12. The Augus ta Cotton exchange this afternoon, through Its president, J. B. Walker, wired President Roosevelt In support of the action taken by President Hub-J bard of the New York Cotton ex change. The lelegram says that the Augimta exchange "heat tlly endorses the letter of W. C Hubbird, recently seiw you, and solicits prompt co-oper-allon In stamping out and exposing the corruption developed In, the bu reau of statistics." . PRES. HUBBARD SENDS LETTER TO ROOSEVELT New York, July 12.-iThe New York Cotton Exchange made public today the following letter: . "The Honorable 'Theodore RooseveP. President of the United State. Wash ington : "Dear' Blr On behalf of tha New Continued on page t OyMer Hay, I.. I . July 12. -President Itoosevel; d llverej a nolable addre this afternoon b.foie the Aolated Physicians of Long Island. He dls cused In the cnurse of bis speech he reliitlons physicians -ustaln with the people of th communities In which they reside and he work to be done by the medical experts In lonnectlon wi ll the construction of the Pananvi anal. declaring that, despite all illflletllti s on he Isthmus and here In he I'nltei) States, the canal would be a success. Iteferrlng to the work on the canal, the preald lit said: " lam happy to s.tv luat Hi- w,uk Is being admirably done, and I am par ticularly glad o have this chance of aylng It. Now and tii".i smii1 ntr.ini- Ist report will come from Pinamn. Just a couple of weeks ago there seemed to b-. a succession of people coming up from Panama, each one of whom had some tale or other to. tell. The people who flee from Panama will carry up here Just such for lea as the peo ple who fie from the forefront of a buttle carry to the rear with them. The people to whom this country owes and will owe fo muih are those who ;ay down there ami do not talk, but do their work, and do It well." The pr sldent adverted to the sani- tary work done In Cuba as an ex ample of what .he Cnlted States wis lolng and said that the mun responsible jbove all others for that work was Ma lor General Leonard . Wood. The president continued: "We have not been Hble to reward Wood In anything like the proper Ion that services such a his would have been rewarded In any other country of th; Art rank In the world: and there has been no meaner and more unpleas ant manifest'! tlon in all our public hls- ory than the feelings of envy and Jeal ousy manifested toward Wood. And the foul assaults and attacks mane nnon him were larg-ly because ithey grudged the fict that this admirable military officer should nave oeen a aoc- dor. Nineteenth Elk Reunion at (Terrible Crime Committed on Buffalo Closes With Spec tacular Parade FIFTY THOUSAND ELKS MARCH IN THE RAIN Garbs of Startling Colors and Designs Furnish Amuse ment to Crowds Buffalo, N. Y., July I.' 'Ihe twentieth annual reunion of lln- I :-:'cvolt'iit anil . e. live Order of Klks "III be held In lienver In INOti. on. ballot deeltl d that it the grand Iodic nice Ing today, lienver received twice as many vote as li.illas. which made i sliong llg.it. .1 by William II Atwcll. Cnlted S.al s al orney there. Atl uiM City had few suporter. Karly thl" morning the whole city wa stlr prepnrlng lor the great pa nic. It Is estimated .bat r.n.iHM) Klks mm chid over the we streets. The long march was made In n drizzling rain, hut the stt ets were lined with an ea ger throng that had to l.r h, Id in check by wires along the em in line of nviri-li. The marchers wer garbeil In uniforms of startling color nnd uniiue design', and with gorgeously de .-orated floats and trophies of surprising and amusing charai lr. combined to in ike ihe parade the most picturesque ever li Id In ihe history of the city. Shipboard Near Utllla by a Stowaway BUT ONE PASSENGER ESCAPES BLACK FIEND Young Woman Swims to Land Amid Hall of Bullets From Murderer's Gun W. B. GILLIE DIES AT REIDSVILLE. N. C. (Special to The Citizen. ) Reidsville. N. C. July 12. William R. Gillie, a well known young man of this place, died this morning at 1 o'clock after li short illness. He was about ,'IS years of-nge. and during the past few years had been conducting a saloon In Reidsville. T!ie news of his death was a great nut prise. The remains will be 'Interred In the Ore gon neighborhood .tomorrow. CREDITORS TO MEET. Charleston. S. C. July 12 Repre senta'lves of the bankrupt Independ ent Cotton (HI company met in Charleston today and appointed July 26 at Pi irllngto in for a meeting of the credltots. It Is now estimated that liabilities will ncaili 800,000, and Ihe pilncpal assets an' a number of mills and ginneries which might not Miring one-third that amount on the block. Charleston Is said to Ivive lost about $375,000 In the failure. New Orleans. July 12 One of the most shocking stories of murder I h lohbery as the motive In the annals of rime Has brought to Ihls city tixliy by 'aptalu Hans Holm, of ;lie Norw glau fruit s earner lirallan. which pile- be tween New Orleans ami Honduras ports. It was subsequently confirmed by the ofll ers of the fruit steamer Mu slim, which cninc in M er In th li I nti with a Id.lll lonal ,le Jills. The little Island of t ' 1 1 1 1- . lying off the Honduras coast, whose population Is an indiscriminate mixture of whites. Cnyinnnitc and dribs, was he scene of he tiagedy. In w lib li twelve lives w -re sai rlflced. The captain of the lit tie tin ling homier olympla was about to make the trip -o Italian. Trilxlllo and llellxe. She had -ihoiit $1,400 and was buy cattle at Truxlllo to fell at Belize. She carried a crew of four nnd quite a number of passengers, making the toial list of p ople aboard num her thirteen. Among these were two women ind a child. The schooner lt the harbor of I'tllla on June 2:t. nnd after she had been under way for a lt:ll over an hour everybody wa amused "by a shot, and rushing on deck lounil.a negro armed wl h a Winches- tor Hlle -hooting dow n the men one oft er another. This negro wa Robert Me Gill, and as It afterward developed he bad j'tow- d himself aboard w ith the In- ntloii of robbing ihe cnataln and then swluimng ashore. After he had killed all but one of the men, he ordered the l ist survivor to go below nnd scuttle the ship. When the unfortuna: re appeared on deck and reported liio ne gro shot him dead. He then put the two "women. Mi. Elsie Morgan and her sister. Mi . Walter Ron . In the dory, wl h Mrs. Roses slx-weckr-old infant, and left the bont steering fnr rhe mainland. He changed his mind about allowing the women to live and killed Mr. Rose and her Infant, th n he began shooting at Miss Morgan and wounded her In :he arm. Hhe Jumped overboard nnd started to swim back lo the Island. He fired at her Ineffectual ly, bill Ills i m munition cvld ntly gave out, for he promised her Immunity from harm If she would come back to he dory. Hhe started back and when wll.h oar length he struck her on the head INDUSTRIAL UNION OF AMERICA WILL : - AID SCHOOL AT SOUTHERN PINES, N. G. tkibton, July 12. At a meeting of the Industrial I'nlon of America. West Indie and Canada, held in this city; today, the council voted to put the; InduatriaJ ackool In Southern Pines. X C, under the direction of ehurche of seven different dennmtn.itnn and In Shu. the principal. Rev. James M. Henderson, In raising an endowment of &.. . - ... The object of the school ia. to edu cate orphan and indigent negro chil dren of Ihe south and to give them a 'horoilg.l training In domestic and mechanical studies. An . adrlsnry bonrd has been selected composed of rrprewntalves from Methodist. Epis copal, embolic. Unitarian. Congrega tional. Baptist,. Christian and African Methodist Episcopal churches. .- - , . " - 1- .' - WMMMAMAMMAMUVIMIIMMMIMMISIM with an oar; stunning her. Tlellevlng she was .1 ad he rowed away toward the m.ilnl'iid. Ml Morgan sw im hack to the Island, where she wns thrown on the bea. h by lie wave In nil ex hausted condition. She feared that the negro would follow her, o she hid In th bu.-lies and for (wo day suffered trom the heat and expo-lire mull found by woman Iwm- her WMMt-hAnif. ml res-an d from starvation. In ilie menntiine the dory had ls-en washed ashoie and there wn exelt iiieni on the Nland. n It wns lielleved the oltinpl.i had gone down will all hand When Mis Morgan tobl her stoty an Inoiii dlite search w as Illstl- j silled for M. Hill an dlhe authorities on lb maliilaiid wen- untitled. They cnugh. him al El I'onvlnlr, i Utile own on ihe road to c rba, nnd there wa- a 'l.-inoii'tiatlon. but he wn pro tected. His llf-. was saved through the presence on the coast of 1'resld. :i Ilo nllla. who was on dn fiectloii tour. The llondiioin warship Ta Tilinhla. which ha 11 k u red In o many revolu tions. Was br.nigh- Into servlc and Ihe murderer placed abonrd and sent hack to the Island. I'p lo last Sunday be wa t :lll alive. though It is firmly believed thnt he will be lorture,l 'o lrith. The law of Honduras prohibit cnpllal punishment,, bu-i Ihe peoplp will take the cae Into their own bands. Ml Elsie Morgan, the only survivor of the errlble experience, visited New Orleans thre- years ngo and I n well dncaled. refined young woman of ! years. Crops Along Neighboring Riv er and Creek toUoms Badly Damaged - " WASHOUTS REPORTED - " AT SEVERAL TOINTS ' r-r- , : Repetition of Scenes of 1901 Feared by Many but Cri sis Is Now Past RYAN SAYS HE IS MISREPRESENTED Declares He and Governor Morton Stepped In to Save the Washington Life New York, July 12. The following statement wns given out today by Thomas F. Ryan: 'The reports of my connection w ith ihe Washington Life 'Insurance com pany are Inaccurate. When that rom- pany wa-' on the verge of bankruptcy In. December from mlsmnnngement I lolned Governor Morton nnd others In subscribing Ihe necessary money to put the company In th mrong financial po sition In which It finds itself today Its business la dally Incr aslng and the policy holders are to be congratulated on Governor Morton willingness, Whol ly from n sense of duty, nVtd In spile of his advanced nge, to step In to pro vent linl tiding disaster to u company of which he hud been n char er mem ber." TOBACCO COMPANY SUED BY PLANTERS Clarksvllle, Teiin,, July 1!!. Suit was today entered by a committee from the executive committee of the Dark Tobacco Growers' association against the American Tobacco com pany and buyers, who nre alleged to have boycotted the association, for $250,000 alleged damages. The ult Is brought on behalf of 7,000 planters, who are membeia of the association, and Is based on an alleged action of Ihe defendants in trying to break up and destroy the association, in restraining competition and also for the alleged boycotting of the association's tobacco in- the Clarksvllle market;' In Hremeh nnd in other foreign market. USES BARBER'S RAZOR WITH DEADLY EFFECT TWAS ECER THUS. N. 1. Us Is tm tensr Sab, Mlawtha sia man it you want U sm what I hva ta ay ta tha trwita whan wa ra faea t , . (To-ba Continued Tomorrow.) ' xx Boston, July 12. Just after he had been shaved In a barber shop here to day Alfred Cordr, snld to bo from Nashville, Tenn., selgod the raaor from the barbers hand and cut his) own throat three tlm , besides slightly wounding Arthur J. Marendo, art em ploye, who tried to ge' the weapon away from, him. ('order, who wa about 32 years of uge, died at the Relief! no- .Vshevlil,. was yesterday threatened with another such fieshet as that' of lui. which will not soon be forgot leu by the residents of the dtjr, and even now a continuation of the heavy shower for another ft hours mlghf result In an equal number of dlsaa nous washout and overflows. . All dining the early morning hours .tha heavy nln continued, whle the French Itroad ilver. the Hwnnnanoa and all of ic'r neiirhy trlbutarlf-s rose by leapa ind bound to rushing torrent. Far Into the mottling the rain continued. The lowlands In many section of tha valley were flooded, washouts were res ported on the railroads, bildgea were washed away everything pointed to a repetition of the trials and dangera of 1901. About noon, however, the sky began to lighten, the sun came out from behind the clouds and within a few hour the river stopped rlsinf and slowly comnictfced to fall. ' Whether ni not thl fall will be but temporary and give any to another ilse greater than the one Just past depends entirely upon the weather. Prof. Gedillng of the local weather htirenu said last evening that' he thought the showers would Contlnua for the next 38 hours at leasU' Fur ther thin that he did not dare pra diet, but could not say that tha chances for clear weather were aa ba4 as thiy have been during the past ten dnys. -' V ... .-.,'. Damage Along Hominy. ' , In the Hominy section ana along th French Htoad river below the city tit worst of the flood ir over". The ef- . terts of th breaking of the Ashevilla , school dam are no- -kmger-'-felt,- tha wtiteis - released having passed on down stream, but tha path left behind th-'m In many, places win not soon bs effaced. - Report from the lands d - Joining lower . Ragsdai cteek and lower Hominy received yesterday weva to the effect Ihm the crops along tho slinm -ire almost a total loss.. The creeks rose rapidly above their bank Jfler the breaking of . ths dam, . tha fields being flooded and the wheat ao4 coin almost totally destroyed, -v W. J. Gentry of Judge Prltchatd'f 1 ourt, who hail a latge farm In th Hominy valley, said yesterday that he will be loser to the extent of tl.IOtV or $1,500, and other farm owners In the district will probably suffer losses In proportion. Along the gwannanoa, and on Ihe French Broad below the , cl;y the losses are reported ta b great, the icsldents n many places eporllng Rlmnst total losses or crops. Along the river In front of the city the loss Is not so great. ; The : lot land between the Southern tracks and the river bank was flooded during tha day, but little damage resulted.- At Riverside park the river rose as rr as the swing and entered the box ball . alleys, but the fall In the evening re- moved all danger of . an immediate overflow, , f Railroad Washouts. The trains w 'un Into and out of the city on time except on' tha Hurt phy bnnch, 'where washouts werip re ported. On the main lines -the only y serious washout occurred near Gash's creek, on the Salisbury branch, a few miles from this city. A . considerable slide, occurred Iheie early In the day. the dirt on a hgh fill washing away until the ends of the ties were almost unsupported. A large force of work men wis at once placed at work strengthening the nit and by running the trains at ft very low rat of Bpeet over the weak spot all losses of time -were avoided. , "':"i'i Dj'' The trouble on the Murphy branch was of a mote serious nature. .The . track in many places was wished out so that All traffic Is Impossible,, and -beyond Andrews two bridges, one ,on each side of the Cowee tunnel, . gave way, and penned train Noi 1 up all night tn the tunnel.; The. western bridge gave way early n the evening and the support of the eastern- bridge . broke under the strain Just fler tha, passage of the train going west. The train wits stopped In the tunnel and ( JCrmtljmed on page 4.) " . PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS ASKED T0:! ' ' ADM CHINESE TO THIS COl'IiTRY Portland, Ore.. July 12 President WlllUm Wain w right. of the chamber of commerce of this cltyt on behalf of that organisation, has sent a letter to Pres ident Roosevelt bearing upon the ques tion of fhlnese exclusion. The lett-r urges Pre-ident Roosevelt to take "step towards negotiating a new treaty with China tbal shall provide for the removal of the exacting con ditions that now attach o the entrance Into this c-iuntry of helr merchants, student snd professional men for ab solute freedom of all Chinese residents of this country to vk-it helr "own land and rtturn here, and for the admis sion during tha next tan years of a number of mile Chuiese laborers thai in any one year shall not exceed one tenth of 1 pel" cent of th population of this country. ,-v.;-.'- - . "American labor has little apprecia tion of Us own dignity and power, ai well aa its capabilities for ImprovemenC If It raises objections to each llmltei Chinese imsnlgru'loa as that ajnoun'v lng In ten years to I ss than 1 er cent, . of our population and thus endeavora to deprive the nation tif this additional menns to lis own development, not only In this country, but In tha Hawaiian ' and Philippine Islands and Panama." i The president Is asked to give pub licity to his Intentions In this regard as soon aa practicable.