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'V I THE WEATHER Fair and Colder. .VOL. XXIII. NO. 50. a cmzxar wast ad. will IWX1 THAT VACANT ltOOM. . ASHEVILLE, X. C, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1907. FLORETTA WHALEY AND HER PREACHER LOVER ARE v AGAIN FORCED TO FLEE Diseovjejed Living in Saa Francisco, They Steal A war iu Darkness. TELLS STORY OF HIS FORMER LIFE Policy Declare that no Ef fort is being made to Apprehend Them. ( AMOclste Press.) , 8AX FKANC18CO, Dec. 30 lo a pelting rain and bfora daybreak tho Rav. Jer Knod Cook, formerly pas tor of th fashionable St. George' church ot Hempstead. L. I., and Kloretta Whaler, the 17-year-old heiress with whom ha eloped eight month ago, deserting a wife to whom he had been married for nine years, stole away .today from the little flat QUAKE EVIDENT FOR ONE HOUR Somewhere in this Dig Busy World Old Mother Earth Did Her Stunt. WASHINGTON. Dec. JO. A Very heavy earthquake was recorded on the instruments at the Coast and Geo detic Hurvey Observatory at Chelten ham, Maryland, this morning. It commenced at 3$ minutes 30 seconds past midnight and lasted over one hoar. The weatlir bureau Usued the fol lowing bulletin relative to the earth' quake: A distant earthquake of consid erable intensity was recorded by the seismographs at the weather bureau this morning, commencing-at 11:31 a. m., seventh-fifth meridian time and lasted for over one hour. The first , prellmlnery tremors continued r which they had occupied at ll Oreen street. In this city. wher they four minutes and fifty-five seconds were discovered yesterday living un-,nd the strongest motion occurred Uer tha nam ol Mr. and Mrs. Gerald at 12:48 a. m., at which time the jr. llalcom. taking with them their baby boy, Balcom, born two months ago. They left behind all they had saved .; during tlie eight month that search . for .them had been made throughout ; tha country. . The police declare no effort U being made to locate or ap- r prenena me. coupie. 't . The discovery was made through '. tha fact that Captain Cleary, of the Horse Patrol Agency, who had met then! as Mr. and Mrs. Balcom, when they arrived here last June from Lo Angeles, recognized the girl's picture, published last week in connection : with a dispatch from Louisiana stat ing that Cooke had deserted Floretta f Wlialey, . who had given her "away to a family there who was educating lier. . Admits Identity. - Yesterday afternoon a representa tive, from a local newspaper called on Cooke, Cooke admitted bis Iden tity but asked the reporter to lower his tone so that the girltu the next room might not learn of the discov ery of their identity. - "Mj' Ood. What an awakening from our happiness," exclaimed Cooke. All ! Want te a chance to get away.j don't mind fling Sing or hell, but it li she. The child was born two months ago, and discovery and nppre tension would kill the mother." Pacing back and forth, Coolie told the reporter the story of his life and of his elopmcnt with Mists AVhaley. "The inexorable law must bo main Uined" he suld. "I have preached it ko often I ought to know. There is nothing that will paint a black sheep white. Hut I have my reasons. For ten vunrs t '"have 'kept silent 'or the last eight months. I have borne without murmur all the abuse, the vilest Ilea that newspapers could con roct." Cooke's father died when h was five years old. Ho was adopted by on tmcle and learned tho trsdo of paper hunger and decorator. He worked tiU u'av through Yale nnd finally entered the ministry. Since his disappearance he has Iwcn work ing at oaiiitlnK and any other work he could got. Cooke told of his marriage and his unhuoDliwMts after that time. He declared that his wife admitted to him that she had married him for no other reason than that it would prove a convenient stepping stone for her social ambitions. He added It would be "caddish to dll;it ou my marriage troubles" 'Then I awoke to love and every thing else was worthless," bo con tin tied, "you know the end. On the one hand wag a loveloe life with honor and position and wealth, and n the other hue and poverty. I chose this." He pointed to the scan tily furnished rooms. "1 don't praise mvself for tlie step I took. It was weaknens, it ivaa unmanly: but I am only human and us 1 am to be Judg ed by human beings, it Is but right that they nhull know that I gave Hp a!! that I hud fought for and won. Now all I ask Ik to be let alone. "I am doing it mn'a work. I have Pinned but T have suffered. Now I beg tlie world to let me alone With my wife und child- I can live the ( OmUnned on page 5) i actual movement of the ground at Washington was about five mllllme ters. o (Signed) "WILLIS-. MOORE.' -. -"Chief of Bureau." FELT 'AT ALBAJfY. ALBANY, Dec. SO Early, today an earthquake of large proportions was recordsd on the seismograph at the State Museum Station in this city. The vibrations of the needles set up on both machines were severe, those of the northsouth penduleum meas uring S Inches In maximum amplt tudo. The disturbance begun at 12:33 ',4 o. m., and, it took an hoar for It to pass through this region. The preliminary tremors lasted about 8 Mr minutes. The earthquake appears to have occurred at about 4,(00 miles from Albany, with tha center of the disturbance in the cordllleran region of,' Central or South America, or else out In the Pacific ocean, west of Mexico.- ' . i ; '--,- ) -- ... ... NEGRO ARRESTED ON SUSPICION Police Believe that They Have Young Girl' Assail ant In the Toils. TAFT MAKESJI FIRST SPEECH OF CAMPAIGN Greeted With Cheers bv Guests at Boston Mer eliauts' Assn. Banquet. BROAD DEFENSE ' OF, ROOSEVELT Carefully Avoids any Refer ence to His Own Presi dential Aspirations. (Bj Associated Press.) SCRAN'TON. PA.. Dec, 30 Robert Perry, a negro, was arrested here to night by the police In suspicion of be ing the assailant of the three youm wonwn who, during the past six weeks, have been knocked down end left for dead, by some apparently crazy or degenerate fiend. Perry was caught in Green Ridge lalu tonight, acting In a auspicious maimer When searched, a section or a wagon tongue, three feet long, with the butt end padded, wa found slung across his shoulder under his overcoat The police officials are confident that Perry committed all three results. The last of the three girls, recently y Asseeiatsg Press.) BOSTON. - Dec.- 30.Greeted with Cheers as "the next president ot ths United States." a topic which he care fully avoided In tils pwn remarks. however. Secretory-, of War William H. Taft, delivered his first public speech since his world circling tour tonight at the annual banquet f the Boston Merchants' Association at the Hotel somerset The banquet closed a '" long and strenuous day for tha secretary of war during which ho delivered brief ad dress bernre 400 ministers ; in the morning and attended a reception and spoke before a large gathering of the Jews of the city at tha Elysium Club In. the ' svfternoon. During his visit to Boston which ends tomorrow morn ing. Secretary Taft, Is tha guest 6f Samuel Carr. a Boston banker and a relative of Mrs. Taft' A mora notable gathering, of prom' lnent and representative business man has seldom been seen In Boston thin that wljlch greeted the secretary to night In the banquet hall beautiful : de corations adomed tha tables, i which provided for tha seating of over" 000 guests. , Notable Present President Jerome Jones, of the Bos ton Merchants Association, presided. The guests Included besides Secretary Taft, Congressman Hherley, of Ken tucky; Lieutenant-Governor B. 8. Draper, of Massachusetts; Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, and Right Jtcv. William Lawrence, Bishop of Massa- chusetu. In Introducing Secretary Taft, Prss- Ident Jones said: "W are favored this evening by the presence of a man from tha middle west who has Impressed us all with his fitness for tho most Important po sition a great and powerful nation can bestow, arid In brief, an official of great strength and wisdom. He has recently put a girdle around the earth as an ambassador of peace nnd good will, by Uniting the great rulers of mighty nations nnd we want to hear him talk to us." As Mr. Taft rose all the guests stood up with him and filled the air with f long continued cheers. Hecretary Taft read his speech from manuscript throughout making no comment relative to his own can didacy for the presidency. IH-fei-M of "Teddy." Mr. Taft's speech was In the malu a broad defenw of President Roose velt and the administration In deal ing with the trusts and with tho re cent financial crisis. Those respon sible for the panic, he said, were the "guilty managers of some of the large railroad and financial enter prises," and not those who lit the course of their official duly hsve made known to the business world the facts and commented on thetn. Hp denied that the administration had arraigned the whole business world us dishonest Tlie president had condemned the law-breakers and HON. WM. II. TAFT, Tae lsr.t a Was CmImwi t a ttklag tse the ftMlSMsnal . i.'-.. V 'V '';' : V -,v. --X' . ; '.''.'. j f ... . . .. v .. 1 : ' "V; ? V.V'. .' ': ' J;:ri 'Vvi'-,:,.k''- ' ; . :.r-: .' xi ' " .';.;'.''"-.-. -r , ;'..;"" .". s' ;;''"::("'' . ,rlt.;','-" mi vwiiilloil l,lenflnri her iiKSllunt SH a negro, Tho other two were struck I convinced those who had unlawfully from behind and did not ste who I accumulated enormous power and struck them. In each instance, the capital, that they were not Immune. victim was rendered unconscious, tut , The pres tit he declared, had never only superficial wounds Were Inflicted, j ""'l otherwise than that the business This, the police authorities attribute , to the heavy padding on Perry s clul. j NEGRO BISHOP GOES AFTER ROOSEVELT 6t A0clat.d Press.) HOSTOA, Doc. 30. Bishop Alexan der Waters, colnrod, leader of Jersey, in an address st th Twelfth Baptist church tonight severely criticised President Roosevelt ami Secretary Taft for their attitude on the Browns ville, Texas, shooting. Me advised all his people to "give their money, tal ent and time to the defeat at the polls of any man or measure Inimical to th.j beet Interests of tho negroex. LIGHT IS THROWN ON MYSTERY BY INDENTIFICATION OF BODY NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Some light? murder through the newspapers and was thrown today on the mystery j saw that the description of the dead ' surrounding the death of the woman 'woman seemed to Ot her friend she whose nude body was found last Informed the police that ah believed Thursdnr half hidden in the muddy j that the murdered woman was Mrs. ooze of a pond near Harrison, N. J Toung who had heen eruptorad at -when Mrs. Krunk Hull of this city.jona time as a stenographer and typ .. ... th Kewark morgue and de- writer In a west elde hotei. Hhs said flared poelOvBly that the dead woman that Mrs. Toung was the wife of an was Mr. Agnes Voting, who former- engineer but that she had not lived i K lived with her ano VLtar Wlltl a wua ner nuinaoa for arvrnu jmrm. ilrs. King I" Brooklyn. Tha polRs t Mm. Hun said that when they left believe that Mrs. Hull's identification j Mrs. King's home on Chrtstmaa moru la, correct Mrs. Hull suid that she log Mrs- Toung had J In her l-rnt t Jersey Otv with Mrs. Wong purs and wore a diamond ring. On ... . ..-..ii .,rli. I thi-tr arrtval st Janrr Cltr th-T m . "" j her eoinoanlon. I met by a man whom she named with 1 b (ocressed temporarily. Ha bellsr- wljo. she understood. wts going on tj whom they had luncheon. When the) ed that had there been sncU a eur- Kewark to Join a hmo-boat parry i tunrneon l-J TT - t-. Mrs. Hull learned of the turned to thlo do. i I . (Cowlnne oa page 1) men of the country as a whole were honest and their methods sound. "In deed." said fr. Toft "It Is chiefly ! in the interest of tho great body of I honest business men that he has made I his greet fight for lawCul business i methods " l That the railroad "rate law was re- l sponsible for the financial panic, Mr. Taft characterized as absurd, and as for the HhriuUag In the value of rail road Btru-k"i. he said, that neither Mr. RoosevHt inr his administration were responsible for tat legislation ssaiiii-t railroad "Instead of mak ing a panic.'- lie Maid, "the national policy ending the lawlessness of corporation In Interstate commerce and of taking away their power of issuing, without supervlalon. stocks and bondn. will produce a change In their management and remove one fruitful cause for loss of rubllc con fidence." Mate's Actions. Tlie action of the state legtulatures against railroads, he declared, was Occasioned by the same revelations of lawlessness and discrimination la railway management that made the federal rate bill a necessity, but, he aid: "lf the stata measures have been too drastic tho causa of tho- Injustice ts not with the national govm urgent" Mr. Taft Jauncned upon the sea of government ownerships of railroads and dorlared tbat ho was opposed to the idea, became It meant state socialism and an increase In the pow er of th. central government that would be daagerwaa On tho auhjoct of the United Mates currency system. Mr. Tuft comment ed upon the fwt that It was not for arrange! as to permit Its vol am to 1 ''"" -wX ". t r. -.4 - I - -? i f.-i. tt l , .. . ! , ; .jr .. .win, ' v..vk'.r;;y... t, V u i Llfem4' .... ' M rviAVJJrzjrss J: . yA F . M Jt M I DRUCE VAULT AT LAST GIVES UP ITS SECRET Finding of Body in Coffin .Refutes Mythical Stories Told at Trial. , PUTS NEW .YORKER IN A TIOIIT PLAGE Star Witness Is Amsted . Charged WitlvWilful ' CoiTujit Perjury, ' Copyright, U07, by C. D. Frey. ALL HINGES ON A TECHNICALITY Oa. Liquor Men Gaim that Wording of New Ijjiw (lives Them another Da v. (Bv Auoclated Prsss.) ATLANTA, OA., lh-e. 30. Because the prohibition law enacted by th last session of the Georgia legislature prohibits the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors, "from and after January first, next." the point has been raised that tho law does not be come effective until January second. It ts tho opinion of leading attor neys that the point ts well sustained, but as all city licenses expire Decem ber 3 1st It Is pot believed advantage will he taken of tho additional day by saloon and wholesale houses. Notwithstanding that only one more day la left before prohibition becomes effective no disorder Is seen and no trouble Is anticipated. The city au thorities are prepared to act Quickly should the occasion arise. Several sa loons have already sold out their stock and closed up. f:r;Ro kim-s hih wuk (Bv Auoetsted Press.) ABBEVILLE. MIH., IWH?. JO KrneKt Mongomery. a negro in a nt of jealously today killed his wife and two negro men. Montgomery killed the woman with a shot gun and then stampeded nearly all night otr the plantation, killing two as ha chased them. U was arrested. PRESIDENT BACK FROM HIS OUTING Returns to tlie Capital After His Five Day Trip-Looking Picture of Health. FAIR FAIR ANO OOLDKR WABHIVOTO'. Pec east for North Carolina.' colder Tooeday; Wednesday fair; brisk west te northwest winds.' !. Foro. Fatr and WAHINOTO.V, Dec., SO. Looking the picture of health and with vey appearance of having enjoyed hit out' lug of five days at Pino Knot, Va where Mrs. Roosevelt has a oottage, President Roosevelt arrived tier to- night at :K0, over tha Ho ut hern Rati way. The party cams in a special train which made the run from North Oarden, the railway station nearest Pine Knot, without mishap, having left there at 6:i0. After assltlng Mrs. Koosevelt to tha plotform, tho president converged a few mo menu with those who had gathered around his car. One member of ths party laughing. ly inquired of the president If he had bagged any big game. "Oh 1 didn't go after any' was the quick response." X lust took the children to the coun try for an outing. Ws all enjoyed our. selves immensely." 8oon afterward he was being driven to the White House, where he ar rived a few minutes after nine. There it was stated thai no engagements for the evening had been made. FAMILY TROUBLES LEAD TO SUICIDE (By Aseeelatsa Press.) JACKSONVILLE, FLA., tstc . I With a bullet bole In his temple tha 1 body of Otto Wltsthan. bookkeeper In .the People's Bank and Trust Com pany, was found at 16 o'clock. Wit arhen and his wife quarrelled Friday night and she left homC : It ia ths belief of tho polico that Wltschen killed himself Saturday morning, as tha body Indicated that h had been dead for mora than a day. Hia ac counts at the bank war straight aad, while he left no note, H la thosgbt family trouble caused him to commit tho rasa not ' j LONDON, Dev., le.TUs body of Thomas Charles Druce. In High Oats oemetsry, was exhumed this morning, Just forty thrsa years to a day after Its bdrlaL ,Tbs coflln was found to ountain tha remains of a human body, thus exploding tha romanilo tale told by Robert C Caldwell and others dur ing the recent hearing ol tha Druce perjury cms that it contained e roll of lead. .ri. Th official statement given but by the home office and others officially present at the exhumation seemed ef fectively io prove that the body burled in ! was actually that of T. C. Druce., Tha authorised latenmnt follow;"' : :''';":" '.'. ..'';.'.".'''.''. "The coflln 'ua opened and found to contain th body ol an agvd, bearded man, the plate on the onflln bore the nam Thomas Char! Druce. Th scene at High Gate cemetery this morning when ths vault? was op ened ' wna remarkable. All the en trances to th oemetsry were ur rounded by cordons of police.- Only those persona who had passes from the home office were admitted to the grounds, Cteorge Ilollamby Pruos, who claims ha, I the rightful heir to the Portland. dukedom and to its vast estate, tried Unsuooesstally twice' to get Into ths cemetery, . ' Opening of Vault The operation began at duybreas with the removal of tha topmost cof fin In the vault, containing the bodies ot tha wlf and a eon of T. C Drue, It traa nearly half past eleven before th coffin was brought ready or open leg and inspection. Th - top ,was quickly unscrewed and the Inner ca Int of lead nut open. Ther was ne need for file dictum of the eminent surgeon, Augustus. J. Pepper, to assure all prate nt that human reranlna Jay In the coffin, Th Drue, vault has thus given up Us secret after ten year of legal proceedings which have cast considerable fortune.; A larga part or this money was obtained from servant girl and other worker who were In duced to buy shares in a companj formed to prosecute tha claims of Qeorg Hallamby Drue against the estate of tho Duke of Portland, Th charge 1 of perjury against Herbert Drue Is effectively disposed of and those person who have sworn to the placing of lead instead of a hu man body In th coffin have been dis credited. ; .. MUST ANSWER A CHARGE 07 PERJURY - (By Assoelstsd Pra. ' NEW lORK, leo 0, Hubert -C. Caldwell, whose testimony a a Wit ns in tha Druce cam led to th re opening of the grave of T.. C. Druce today. Is now at th home of hi daughter t New Brighton, Huten Island. He is under IS.COS bend to answer to a charge of perjury pre ferred by the British authorities In I connection with the story he told In the London court. Caldwell was ar rested when he arrived her from Europe December ft. Caldwell' story of tho alleged dual personality of th Duke of Portland was th real sensation of on of th most remarkable legal case which ever engaged the attention- of the British courts. The re-opening of the Druce grave was undertaken as a final effort of the government to prove their charge that Caldwell'e t tlmony was "wilful and corrupt per jury." Caldwell's story was to the f fect that the duke of Portland and T. C. Druce, a Ixndon atore-fcoeper were one and the sum. Me had known the duke-of Portland under both names, he said, and at the re quest of the duke had arranged a pre tended death and mock funeral ot Druce so thut his dual - personality could bo buried. II swore that a cof fin buried In High Oat cemetery and which was supposed to bold the body (Oontlnuud oa page 1) PRICE FIVE CENTS' BIG SEND-OFF IS GIVEN THE VIgCOUNJ AOKj Official AVashinctoa Well ';, H Represented At Btatiou . to Bid Him Good Bjc' HAS KO FEARS OF, " SERIOUS TROUBLK Importance of Friendly 'lie ; lations Too Great to Per mit Rupture. , - AsseelaUd Press.) WASUINUI'UN, Dee, lo "W shall take back borne with us to'Ja, pan only the kindliest feelinge r i Amerloa and for her people and t highest regard for tier lnatitutioi.- said Viscount Aokl, the Japanuu S;. bessador today to an Associated pre representative just prior to bis depr, tur for San Franolsco with Viscoui.t- Aokl, from, which phic they wm soil on January 7 for homo, Dm ambassador return to Japan at th Instance of hi government, w hie h il - sire to consult with hint freely re garding condition affecting Jptti lntorents in America, notably those re lating to th question of Jspnn enilgrauts to the United etatea, count Aokl ha represented Jtimn u ambassador to the United tastes l about a year and a buif and duritis that time ha manlfcnted the utm activity end Interest In all matters bi fueling his countrymen. He was ti" first ambassador accredited to tl United mates from Japan. II said to day that his relation with th Ami-ri-can governmnnt alway has bsi-n or n most Bcrcealiis and tluaant c!i r . tar. j Wuy lU'lng Paved, .'I am eoiilldent that an nriilmlil understanding will be reached on thM linmlgcatlon " question th only iw of any consequence that I now mu tating tha people of th two countrlox' aid Ambassador Aokl, . "I am csrtsin that Japan . will make every ttonor. able concession within bond and fiit l equally confident that the A" rl ciut government will not Inaist ui -m anything unrcuMonalile or that In any wv will ooinprlue the dignity or t:.,5 honor of the Japanese guvernmunf oth governments gr striving to reach an honorable solution of the Irrtmlgrulinn question and the lnt.-t advice that . we have received from our government Indicate that the way Is gradually being paved with that nd In view. As I, hav auid (gam and again there I vrjr reason in the vorid why both countries should hav the most complet understands Ing and continue In moat arnica bi.v relation. Japan I anxious to be at, poaoa with the world and tq no coun-. try doe this apply with greater forc than to th United States to hor In. a large tneaaur 1 do Japan treat rise and progress among tha nations ot th world, It will b my effort to advene and strengthen th existing friendly relations la every, way that lies In my power." :-; Importance of Peaco, Ambassador Aokl Impressed upon hi Interviewer th Utmost Important of the United fttatsa and Japan keep ing on the moat friendly terms and) that their relation should Inspire con fidence, on with th other, f Id not snse, ha said, wa thl mor import Unt that from th commercial stand point.; Japan needed American capi tal In the development of tha cumber oue enterprise which have com to the front sine the Chlnes-Japft war of the last century and more p ar ticular ly because of the development sine the war with Russia. Amsrlosn, capital could find splendid opportune tie In Japan and th ort of ail persons of both countries, th Ambas sador declared should be concentrat ed toward th cementing of th great est friendship without which Much that could othrwls b aooooiphsa would b Ioati'..-...i'r:'i.,::--- ' Th ambassador and bis wlf 'let Washington over th Pennsylvaai Railroad thl afternoon, They wr. Moompnnled by Mrv T. Iwakoshl, th chancellor of the embassy, who wilt go to Japan with them, and by several servants. Th party expect to arrtvw In itaa Francisco January Ird., r ttttw - i CIvfM 8md-0(f i-i V - Official and diplomatic Washing! ow was well represented at tha station t . bid Viscount Aokl and his wit good) by. Every mom bey of th cabiuei (Continued on page "UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS"IS REASON GIVEN BY VARDARtitiU (By Aaeeelated Prsss.) ., WA8HINOTON. Deo.. I Among ether matters of complaint lodged with the stato department by th Ital ian embassy hara sometime ago was the case of some f fallen children who had been don led the entrance Into tne state of Mississippi- Tho departsMnt transmitted this complaint to Gover nor Yardaman with a courteous re quest for an mvMtlgatloa and report upon th facta . Th governors reply amount ta a decline to admit th cbll dren on law ground thai they ar ca deslrabl Immigrants and a such may properly be excludrd by state official affidavit collected by atete agents aad accompanying th governor's re port ar to th effect that the children1 ar of cleanly habits, fre from di s, aad hav been pupils tat the pub. lio schools In New Orleans. It also M set out In th affidavit that thes chll drea ware born la New Orleans, ar ennoequently American in th ara degree as any native bora eltiiea end therefor ar free to travel as they will In the United States, Tho ua department, however, has done ail it caa la this matter of the limitations upon th exercise of federal authority and the only resource U-r tha psrenrs er guardians of the children is to ply to tbe local courts, 15