CITIZEN THE WEATHEB SHOWERS. VOL. XXV. NO. 159. ASHEVILLE, N. C. SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 28. 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SCIENTISTS ARE The Man Without A Country INDIANS REPULSE ATTACK OP POSSE, IN ITS ALLEGIANCE TO LIQUOR ELECTION TO ANGIENT FAITH T f. May Admire Taft Person ally But Has Little Use For His Politics Mrs. Eddy Bars New Work By After Parade of Children Harjo's Band Have Given Rev. Haldeman Attacking Her Faith Feeling Runs High and Saloons are Closed Trouble Before and Re quired Service of Mllltla t: BVN MAY 29 Pages , & Today SQUTHWAVERSNOT I0UGHT UP OVER NOT ALLOWED READ HALDEMAN SPRINGFIELD SHOO 1 10 TARIFF GRABBERS ARE NOT REPRESENTATIVE Southern Interests Discrimin ated Against As Has Always Been Case. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 27. In or der to expedite discussion of the tariff til! in the house, unanimous consent today was given that the sessions h reafter shall begin at ten instead of eleven o'clock a. m.; that a recess should be taken at six and that re suming at eight o'clock the sessions should continue until 10:30 p. m. each day. The request for unani mous consent was made by Mr. Payne vho said that there already were for- t.. or fifty members who had indicated their desire to speak. . Mr. Clark of Missouri, the minori ty leader, asked how lonlgr general de li:iti' would continue. He said he was n uch embarrassed by his. lack of in formation. When his democratic col leagues asked for time In which to evcak he found It difficult to make alklments. Mr. Payne replied that he was suffering- under similar em barrassment, but did not supply the information desired. Without any In t' mat Ion (having been given as to when the geiMral debate on the measure fhall cease the bill was laid before the house. Mr. Hardwk-k of Georgia maintain ed that the south still condemns and denounces protection in spite of what has been ssld to the contrary. He raid he was opposed to the Payne bill as a whole. He contended that it is a revision upward. He also de clared that It was not true that the south is turning- to Taft. No Change in South. ' 'iaelhfroi$Bday-lBeh-reMntativo of the south, a resident of one of -her amaller towns In the very heart of her great cotton- belt," sr.ld Mr. Hardwk-k, "that the south of today Is no more inclined to bless th-- system that loads her down with great and grelvous burdens than she hit ever been. Human nature Is (Continued on page seven.) VICE-PRESIDENT OF CUBA HEARS FUTURE OE A -a (k-ni ic Settlement of Co lonial Questions At tempted in Quaker City CANNOT BE ANNEXED 1'IIILADELPHIA, March 2". With the Hon. Alfred Zayas, vice-president "f Cuba, as the principal speaker, the American Academy of Political Social science held a notable meeting in Witherspoon hall here tonight when the past and present conditions and the prospects for the future In Cuba and in the Philippines were discussed. Dr. L. W. Rowe, professor of politi cal science at the University of Penn sylvania and president of the acad emy. Introducing Vice-President Zayas. "aid that rightly or wrongly, Cuba is now looked upon as the testing ground "f popular institutions and that the hopes and wishes of the American peo ple are with the present government on that island. Among the other speakers were Major General Leonard Wood and General James H. Wilson. Former Governor Magoon, who was unable to be present In his address ready by Dr. Power, said the two questions most frequently heard about Cuba were: Will the present govern ment of the Island continue to be stable and should the United States annex Cuba? The dangers which im peril the stability of the Cuban gov ernment, the address says, arise from the racial characteristics of the people "id it is not to be presumed that these characteristics of the two and a half millions of Cubans have been 'hanged by administering their gov ernment for two and a half years. Therefore, the address says the ques tion as tq whether that government ill prove stable cannot be answered except by the test of ttme. The former governor said that he lad no hesitation in declaring that the Cubans are capable of self-government On the question of annex ation, the address says that the United States will not and cannot annex Cuba except with the full consent of the Cubans. "I am glad to say." the former gov ernor concludes, "that the thought of annexing tha island of Cuba Is enter ' tained by but few Americana It Is. sod for a number of generations will continue to be an iridescent dream." MATRIMONY IS THE POINT AT ISSUE To Read Book Is Offense Pun ishable By Expulsion. It Is Said (Special to th Cltlnn.) NEW YORK, March 27 Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, leader of the Christian Science cult, has just Issued an edict barring all Christian Scien tists from reading Rev. Dr. I. M. Haldeman's book condemning Chris tian Science as immoral and opposed to the teachings of God. Though Dr. Haldeman's book, Christian Science in the Light of Holy Scripture," was published only last Saturday, Mrs. Eddy got quick action and it was learned today that 'the order making it an offense pun ishable by expulsion from the church for any member of the cult to possess or read the volume was issued Sun day and telegraphed to every "X" Science community In the country. Attacks Views on Marriage. Dr. Haldeman's attack on Christian Science is particularly severe with re gard to the teaching of that church regarding marriage. When seen at his home today by reporter Dr. Haldeman declared that Mrs. Eddy taught that In a few years marriage would be done away with altogether In the church, and that children will be brought into the world without the necessity of mate rial relations between men and wo men. "What is more," said Dr. Halde man, "Christian Science says that such spiritual creativenoss could be and has been invoked among mem bers of the church at the present tlm. ) "Mrs. Eddy and 'her associates as sert in print that the beginning of the- atoalMh-mwtf of .marrtago -must- be started with the wife. Who will grad ually bring her husband to her view. Mrs. Eddy's edicts seem to have a remarkable effect on members of herl cult, hut I doubt If they can alder human nature. "Suppose for tnstnee. that mar riage Is abolished, by order of Mrs. (Continued" on page Six.) ESCAPE FROM MOVING TRAINEES GUILT Also Denies Her Parentage and Maintains Croat Air of Mystery, JAIL WITH HUSBAND (By Associated Prow) PITTSBURG, March 27 Making a serxational and fool-hardy attempt to escape from a train going at the rate of thirty miles an hour: denying that she had a hand in the kidnapping of little Willie Whltla: asserting that !.e is not Anna McDermott of Chi c:i(!; Niving that numerous other stories are absolutely Incorrect, and through it all strictly maintaining the great air of mystery that has sur rounded her, Mrs. James Boyle, wife o( the man who kidnapped the Whlt la boy. left Pittsburg today for the jail ai. Mercer. Although three officers accompan ied Mrs. Boyle on the train from this city to Mercer, she scared them so badly in an attempt to either escape o.- injure herself that the experience ill never be forgotten. lioth Boyle and his wife are now In ked up In the Jail at Mercer where th.;. will remain until brought to trial for the kidnapping. Ii is likely that the prisoners will , given a preliminary hearing before Sl"ire. I W. Met 'lain early next week but the date has not yet been fixed. The charge against Boyle will be kidnapping, but the nature of the pro ceedings to be In.-rtituted agaimrt the woman has not been divulged by those in charge of the case. r .UIIMt Hllili " r.n. . PITT-HRI7RO. March 27. William 1 McDermott. the retired Chicago fire man, who believes that Mrs. James H. Boyle, one of the alleged kidnappers of Willie Whitla. is his daughter, has retracted his declaration made yester day that he would not assist the girl, and on his arrival In this cKy today is said to have retained an attorney to look after the case- McDermott did not get a chance to see Mrs. Boyle, the woman had been taken away. After the departuure of the prisoner It was learned that her sudden removal (Continued on pas four.) - NEGROES ORDERED TO STAY INDOORS May have to Call out Mllltla to Preserve Peace Monday. (By Associated Press.) SPRINGFIELD. O., March 27. Following a week of strenuous local option campaigning culminating In a monpter parade of 6,000 school child ren, the local authorities spent many anxious hours tonight fearing an out break which would rival the trouMe a few years ago. Shortly after the great parade was hleld, an order went around compelling the closing of the saloons at 8 o'clock. As the doors closed and the arguments over the situation became more heatied, the day force of the police were kept busy moving the debatora. Tha ne groes were cautioned to keep indoors and within a short time had disap peared from the streets. Sheriff Lawrence summoned his deputies and shortly afterwards word from Dayton and the surrounding towns indicated that some one had given an order for the mobilisation of the troops. These rumors could not be confirmed. COLUMBUS, O., March 27. Adju tant General O. C. Weybrecht at mid night tonight denied the report from Springfield to the effect that tie had ordered the saloons there to 'be closed. He also said that the report that he has Instructed troops to bu held In readiness was unrue. Colonel Wey breoht said he knew nothing of con ditions at Springfield beyond the knowledge that an option election was to be held Monday. PHEACHER FOUND GUILTY. (By Associated Prow.) TLOKENCB. Aki.. March 27 Itev. Dennis Livingston, a Methodist rti-cher charged with the murder of Atidiew Jackson, a -white man, last O'-tiber, was today found guilty of l-iunslaughti-r and his punishment f xed at five years in the penitentiary. L.vingston claimed self-defense. He bras.n bis sentence today. FATHER ATTEMPTS TO KIILL WHOLE FAMILY Fires at Wife, Succeeds in Slaying Little Son, and Commits Suicide ENTICED THE BOY OUT (By Associated Press.) P1TT8BUKG. Pa.. March 27 After (.ring two bullets at his wlfe, point Ir.fc a revolver at his mother-in-law, v. hen she attempted to help her daughter, and trying vainly to get his little daughter out of a neighboring house that he might kill her, Harry Smith, aged thirty-one years, a motor man, living at Coraopolis, near here, t.-day sent a bullet through the brain of his six-year-old son, Russell, kill ing the boy Instantly, and then shot himself through the head, dying In a few moments. The cause of the tragedy is said to be liquor and Jeal ousy. Smith, who has been marrlei for thirteen years, came home from work tliis afternoon and upbraided his w.ife about a domestic matter. Fear ir trouble the woman sent the two t iiildren t othe home of a neighbor. Ourlng the quarrel which ensued. Smith is said to have drawn a revol ver and fired two shots at his wife, who ran from the bouse. He then pointed the revolver at his mother-in-law, who tried to quint him, but did not pull the trigger, and left the h-.ise, going to the home of the neighbor, where the children bad been sent- He called to his girl to ome to him but the child did not reapond. Hearing his father's voice, Kussell came to th door and was (hewn a bag of peanuts which Smith on red to give him. Unsuspectingly the boy ran to bis father, but the lat ter. Instead of giving the lad the pea rt!, drew his revolver and fired a shot through the child's brain. With out paustnac the man turned the weapon upon Wmeeff and sent a bul let Into his temple, falling beside the body or his murdered son and dying almost instantly. A UTOMOBILE FIRE TO HOUSE, BOTH ARE CONSUMED Or Perhaps House Caused Gasoline Tank to Explode, Intending Purchaser of Farm Sees Machine and House Both Go Up In Flames the Premises With Owner (Spsclal to Ths Cltlxsn.) ATLANTA, March 2 7. A two-story farm bouse near Center Hill, on the river road, and 13,600 automobile. the property of 8. A. Osborn, of this city, were completely destroyed by Are following the explosion of the automobile' gasoline tank. Leas then ten minutes before the explosion three ladles and a gemtleman of the city quitted the machine, most prob ably escaping being horribly burned. The negro chauffeur, working on tha car at the time, miraculously escaped Injury. Ths accldtnt occurred shortly after o'clock. A. W. UrasHton, a woll- known pharmacist of this city, In company with Mrs. IV I. Hardman nd her two daughters had gone to a form of 8. A. Osborn, the purrhasc of which was contemplated by Bras- plton. Mr. OelH-rn's machine was used to make tha trip. SCHWAB AGREES WITH y ON STEEL DUTY Declares American Work men Will Maintain Su premacy of Our Trade (By Associated Press,) CHICAGO, March 27 "Cut the tar iff on steel or anything else, you please. American labor can stand It. I don't care," said Charles M. Schwab, president of the Ilethkihem Hteel com pany today as be stood in the lobby of r. local hotel waiting for train. ' I believe In a reduction. I feel Just as Andrew Carnegie does on that matter. American labor can -make the beyt steel In the world and with it we can compete with the world. I know nothing about other lines, that Is. technically, but I have enough confidence in American labor to be lieve that the tariff can be cut with out Injuring business. "I have been in contact with labor o." all kinds for many years, and I know what it can do. I know that American workmen can produce mutt steel In a given time than any others In the world. We have noth ing to fear from a cut In duties, bo cause we have the best goods. It Is true that we pay our workmen more money than oth- r nations, but you always have to pay skillful workmen the highest wage. Therefore the highest paid laborer Is the mot piofltable to the employer. The skill ful man makes money for his em ployer." 8HOWER& pl WASHINGTON; March Vofa- cast for North Carolina: Bnowert Kunday and Monday with slightly low er temperature Sunday; moderate winds at natty northwest. i mm ri ? y m EXPLODES SETTING Some distance from their destina tion the chauffeur had troublo with the car. He stated that something was wrong wlh Oic sparker. Little was thought of ths matter, however, and the trip continued. When the Osborn farm wh reached tha car was stopped near the farm house. Mr. Braselton. In order to inspect a peach orchard, eft the car aindi walked some distance from the road, llm was accompanied by the three ladles. The party had baen gone only a short time when they noticed a dense smoka In the direction of the house, and they made their way back With all haste, They nearcd , the anene to find both the house and ths ma chine a roaring mass of flame. II was seen that neither could be saved, but a portion f the furniture was rescued from the house. " A peculiar feature of the accident is that no one seems to know px aetly how the fire originated. The chauffpur states that after being left CRAFT CASES E Five ArroHtcd for Cotnspi ni cy to Obtain Documents Vivm Attorney's Office (IJy Associated Press) KAN KIIANCIHCO, March 27 Kive men were arrested this afternoon and locked In separate cells in the cKy prison, aax-.uaed of conspiring to secure confidential records and tran scripts of evidence of value to the do finse In tho graft cases from the pri vate offices of the district attorney 7 lie men arrested are: Heed N. I.'umlln, confidential employe of Dis trict Attorney I.atigdon, and for two yrars private secretary to detective William J. Bums. At McKinley, Will-am Corbin, K. A. Piatt and Joseph Van Wormer. After his arrest Hamlin broke rltnTi and made a confession of his part of the affair, lie was the only man In the district attorney's office that possessed a key to Burns' desk and also the combination to the safe. It is alleged that Hamlin, for a con sideration of $200 a month has been tr the practice of transcribing re cords and documents which he thought would be of Importance to the graft defense and turning them over to McKinley, who is declared to hove acted as a go-between. About :wo months ago Hums became sus picious of Hamlin and since then he bos been allowed to handle nothing of importance. Piatt Is alleged to have sold reports of Invfcstfajatlons of members of the grand Jury panels In the graft cases, and tho others are said to be impli es. ed in the matter. LAST OF FAMOUS BEAUTIES ENGAGED (By AssorlaU-d Press) ItlCHMONO, Va., March 27. Colo nel Chiswr-ll Oabney Langhorne, of Mlrador, Albemarle county, today an nounced the engagement of his young est daughter, Nora, to Paul Phlpps, of England. Mies Langhorne was a debutante of last year. She possess es all the charm and beauty of her sisters, Mrs. T. Moncure Perkins, of this elty, Mrs, Charles Dana Gibson, of New York; Mrs. Regnsld Brooks, of Long Island, and Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, of Kngisnd. No time or place has yet been announced for the wedding. While He Investigates i he drove the car to the rear of tne house for ha purpose of getting water for It. This was done, We states. with the permission of the negro oc cupant of the house. He was busily at work on the car, ha states, when he noticed that the house, less them Ave feet from Ma machine, was ablaae. An instant later the gasoline tank exploded, throwing biasing gaso line In ewry direction. Tha negro believes that m. small quantity of burning gasoline from the rear of the car Ignited the house before its was aware of the presence of ths firs in the. machine. 7 Both the machine and tha house were totally destroyed. When lb fire hud burned llMolf out th ear was only n almost unreoognlseable heap of Iron, whlln the bouse had burned to th" ground. Mr. BraeoHon and the ladles were forced ta return to the city In a wagon faired from a nearby farmer. IN ITS JUSTICE COURT Entries of Fines Blotted Out During Night; Alleged Shortage in Accounts (3pecl.il to The Cltlxsn.) KALEKHI, N. C. March 27 When Police Justice Badger opened his docket book about noon to enter cas es he found some one had Inked out numbers of entries of fines and de stroyed most of the warrants Imued during thejtt past six months. The chief of police examined his books and t: und that with a wet cloth the record of fines had been erased, some entries yet showing dimly, other be ing entirely oblWerated. The board of aldermen offer two hundred dol lars reward for Information leading to the discovery of the culprit. This e-enlng the police commission and piajor met In special session to con Klder the cast. The News and Ob server Issued an extra saying one of Its reporters had yesterday begun an Investigation of records and found a shortage of seventeen hundreds dol lar. The obliteration of the records books which were not locked up but were on top of the desks was don between midnight and nine o'clock. The matter has created a great sn stiiion. MIHIIOP IIOHrl WKIiL. (By Aseoclatexl Press) H ALTBMOI t K, March 27. Bishop K. K. Iloss of the M. E. church, south, who has been a patient at the IJo-hns Hopkins flifpttal Tor some time past folowlng an operation, will leave for his home In Nashville. Tenn., tomorrow afternoon. The bishop Is considered out of danger. COL. POIXIKB BKAD (By AswK-latcd Press.) KPAIITA.VBUIHJ, S. C. March 27. Col. L. S. Polnler. a native of Cin cinnati, O., who for twenty-one years was postmaeter at this city dfc-d to night, aged seventy-one. HI death followed a second attack of paralysis suffered three days ago. After serv ing In th tTnlon army, he came tc ftpartanhurg almost Immediately upon ttie close of the war between the states, ..." ; CHAFE AT RESTRAINTS OF WHITE MANS LAW Hundred Men Arm Thcmself And go to Village to Find It Deserted. (By Associated Press.) OKLAHOMA CITY, March 17. In a (Itched battle at Hickory Ground tcnifht between a posse of five offi cers and twenty Creek Indians of the Bnake clan, officers fid ward taunt, of Checotah, Bherman Odom Checotah were killed. Frank Jonog and William Carr, the other member ot tho pesse escaped Without Injury and fled to the settlement where the new of the battle wm telephoned to eht-tlff Odom, of Mcintosh county, rnk Swift, a membw of the posse of officer sent to th homo of CnHtla Harjo, chief of the Bnake Clan of the Creek Indian, to serve a warrant on th chief, waa not kill ed but fatally wounded. Herbert ' Odom, son of the herlff of Mcintosh county, and Edward Daum, city mar. ha! of Checotah, were killed out rlnlit. Swift dragged himself from the scene of the battle and was later picked up by William Carr, ona of thu escaping officers, and taken to Phice, station one mils away, I Yank Jones, another of the poses who escaped, boarded a train at Pierce and went to OhacotAh, bearhug ix-n e details of tho battle, l"ound Oune tVeyollod, The officers having heard that the Indians were again peaoeabla after a reoent battle approached the cabin -of Harjo near lidc-korr Ground with out fear, Aa they were entering the chief's yard, twenty guns were leveled Upn them from aa many men in tho In t re and around the ground Odom f -II dead and 'Bwlft won seriously wounded. Jones ran a few yard and v hid himself in a clum of trees until . the Indians dlsappeariMl. Iften tife hurried to Pierce. WHhln thirty minutes after the re port of the battle reached Checotah a Mindred men were arnmd. Every avii liable gun and practically alt the ammunition In town wore taken, In on hour fifty men were marching t-iward Hickory Ground. When the news reached Muskogee, off leers im mediately issued a call for men and In a short time a posse of fifty wsa tuitdy to march. From llonrtotta and Weletka men will also go to Plo-ce, the place selected for mobili zation. Art 11 o'clock tonight adju tant Goneral Conton haul wired Col onel Hoy Hoffman, of Chandler, to cull Immediately four companies of the slates guard for tnoblllttntinn, Companies at Oklahoma City, Chand ler. Muskogee and Uurant probably wi'l depart soon for Henrietta. A despatch from Checotah aaya that the R.iftks lndlaTW have been purchasing rllles and ammunition for a month and that they are supplied with pow der and lead enough to lost thorn two days. Troublesome) Itcfore. Mar Jo, who has often, within th past few years expressed his displeas ure at the restraints of law and has has often called his men Into council on that account, Is believed to have determined to make a firm stand In behalf of his Ideas of liberty. His band has been outlaws for years. It has required tho service of United States officers and the threat of a call for ths state mllltla to quell his band last fall during a session of the coun cil at Hickory Oround. Officers reached Hickory Oround today and found it practically desert ed. They returned late this afternoon and reported that four negroes killed In the light of Thursday were buried today. E Quotes Bible, Statistics and Cities Own City to Prove Theory; (By Associated Press.) Mll.WAIIKKK, Wis., March 2 Tin- first of a series of remarkable debates was 'hf-ld toolght on the; question. "Ilesolved, That prohibition, as applied to the manufacture and sain of Intoxicating beverages, la right." Mayor David 8. Itose. of Milwaukee, took the negative, and Ir. Hnmuel Kk-kle, president of Albion College, Albion, Mlcji., spoke for the prohibitionists. The Hippodrome With a seating capacity of 4,000, was jam med to th doors and throngs were turned away. There -waa no decision rendered on the depate,' A