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THE ASHEm.EE CITIZEN. JPHB WEATHER Associated Press Leased Wire Reports. CLOUDY. V !VOL. XXV. NO. 190. AS1IEVILLE, N. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1905J. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUrJTING GLUB 10 nillFICENT III 11 Final Arrangements For For matlon of Organizations Have Been Made WEALTHY CHICAGO MEN ARE BEHIND SCHEME Mr. H. F Adlckes Who Has Promoted Project. Reserves Right For Local People. The greatest hunting and Ashing preserve In America la to be that se cured by Mr. Frederick Adlckes. jr., of this city by leave from George W. Vanderbllt and a big timber company, and which is to be used by a club promoted by several Chicago men and Including In Its membership prominent men in New York, New England and Western states. The preserve includes eighty thou sand acres of Mr. Vsmderbllfs Plsgah forest and an adjoining tract which embraces about sixty thousand acres or more.teklng In mountain and vir gin forests and scores of miles of trout streams which flow from the Chestnut ridge to the French Broad rivers, an expanse of 140,000 acres of marvelous beauty, stocked with game and abounding In mountain and Cali fornia trout of marvelous size. Brief ly It baa no equal in the United States. Within its bounds roam deer, bear, pheasants, quail and even wild boar, these being the offspring of hogs which years ago ran wild, big tuskers, lank and fleet, and it adjoins the pro tected estate of the Toxaway com pany. Plan Grew Dig. Tha Cltlien has told of the option secured by Mr. Adiches on the Van derbllt tract and his intention to form hunting and fishing club which Include many out or town memoers, , tout since that time so numerous were the requests for membership from all ;iarts-'th outry-that, the project -outgrewi Mr. ' Adlckes original plans and these were greatly enlarged by the acquisition of the game rights on a sixty thousand acre tract and the determination to form a club consid erably larger than was at first con templated. A group of wealthy and prominent Chicago men were inter ested and many others sought admis sion. At a meeting Monday night of (Continued on page Four) TURPENTINE CASE IS : FAIRLY ON ROAD TO ITS FINUJIISPOSITI The Jury Box Was Yester day Filled In Space of Fifteen Minutes. ' MANY WITNESSES. (By Associated Press.) SAVANNAH, Ga., Alprll '27. With a "jury ready, the prosecution and "defense fiaving outlined their contentions, and the first of a mass of documentary evldenco having been introduced, the '"turpentine trust" case at the adjournment of today's aession of the United States court here, had reached the testimony stage and it is expected that the first of several score witnesses will be placed on the stand tomorrow. Despite that the case will contain much that la tecnnical and that the questions asked prospective Jurors In the eligibility test Were searching to the last extreme yet fifteen minutes sufficed to fill the Jury box. The defendants are the American Naval Stores company, the National Transport fo'n and Terminal com pany of New Jersey and six officers of the former company, who are charged with conspiracy In restraint of trade, and other charges of brib ery, fraudulent grading of Naval Mores and the diverting of naval store from lt natural port to anoth-, er. ENDORSE BRYAN AS REBTJ KE OCLARK ' (By Associated Press.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla.. April 27 The Florida house of representatives today adopted a resolution endorsing the democracy of the- matchless and peerless leader of the democratic par ty. William Jennings Bryan." This 'In the nature of a rebuke to Congress man Clark, of Florida, who recently criticised Mr. Bryan In a speech in congress. .. v Governor Gilchrist win entertain ntr. Bryan an the occasion of the Ne braskan's visit to Florida to make an swer to the erttlclsms of Representa tive Clark. .. j.'.J,,...-''?-' . ' " ' . BILTMORECOVERTS ABDUL HAMID SEES WILL OF "ALLAH" IN DETHRONEMENT Brother, Full of As Sultan on Empire Deposed Ruler Pleads For Himself And "Family. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 27. The reign of Abdul Hamld II ended today with Ills deposition and the accession of his brother, Mehemmed- Relschad Kffendl, as Mehemmed V a variation of "Mohamet," It being considered inappropriate go assume the precise name of the prophet, Me hmed V Is the thlrty-fiffth soverlgn of Turkey In male descent of the house of Osman, the founder of em pire, "and Is the twenty-ninth sul tan since, the conquest off Constanti nople. The two houses of parliament, meeting as a national assembly In the forenoon, approved the decree of deposition which was read by the Shelk-Ul-Islan, chief of the Memos and supreme Judge on ecclesiastical questions. The document recited that Abdul Hamld's acts were con trary to the sacred law, and sot forth a long list of crimes, the whole making a terrible Indictment. The assembly chose Mehemmed-Relschad as sultan and appointed committees to notify the dethroned soverlgn and his successor of its action. The fir ing of 101 guns announced to the waiting people that a new sultan had been proclaimed. New Sultan Takes Oalli. The ceremonies connected with the transfer of the power were simple. The newly chosen ruler came from his palace In OQalata throuKh streets lined with troops and cheer ing thousands, and took the oath at the war office. He then proceeded to the parliament and later went to the dolmabagtsche palace as head of the empire, where'for so many years he had practically been a prisoner. Martial law was relaxed tonight and the people gave themsevca over to celebrating the victory of the Young Turks' party and the end of Abdul He-mtd's reign. Many build ings were Illuminated, and thousands of rounds were fired hy the soldiers for Joy. General good humor pro vails everywhere. The question of the new cabinet has not yet been settled but It Is thought that Ahmed Rlza will b. grand vizier, while some of his as sociates will probably ibe Hllma Pa sha, the former premier, as minister of the Interior; Djavld Roy as min ister of finance, and Rlfast Pasha as minister of foreign affairs. HIS JURY SELECTEO AFTERIFFORT UST1NE niRTHEOmBE WEEK Opinion Now Dominant that Lunacy Commission Will Sit on Prisoner's Sanity. INSANITY THE PLEA (By Associated Press.) FLUSHING, N. Y , April 27. The jury that is to try Captain Peter C. Ha ins for the murder of William K. Annls. his one time friend, was finally completed today. It took Just seven days to select the twelve men and In that time 450 talesmen were called and .ramlnnH The dtiitf. will nrcsent Its case, beginning tomorrow, and from that time on the case will move ex peditiously. All of the Jurymen are married with the exception of Otto J. Nieholas, who Is twenty-seven years of age and the youngest man In the Jury box. Main's lawyers contend that he Is In sane now, as he was in their opinion for months before he killed Annls. The Idea that a lunacy commission will be appointed to pass upon the captain's present mental condition Is dominant In the minds of those who have followed the ease. If this be done, It will come as soon as the first evidence of Insanity Is presented by the defense. Otherwise the trial is likely to last four or Ave weeks .and thirty or forty witnesses, Including the Insanity experts, will be railed by both sides. There will be a tinge of military color at the trial In the presence of several army officers, witnesses for the defense, who were attached to the posts where Captain Halns was sta' .i a H,,rnr hia irmv career. They will testify as to Irrational acts of the defendant. TO RATIFY AGREEMENT. WRANTON, Pa.. April 27. The trl-distrlct convention of the Anthra cite Mine Workers, which will to morrow ratify the proposed agree ment that It Is expected to be sign ed by the representatives of the men and the mine operators In Philadel phia on Thursday met this afternoon, organised an adjourned tfntH o- nmlns when the report of ,. MmntttM of seven will lav the agreement .before the delegates. Years, Will Sit The Throne of "Drtlirone Him." The Bheik-UI-Islam. supported all the principal personages of the higher church administration, issued tha fetva, as the decree of deposition Is called. It informed Mehemmed Relschad Effendl that bc was chosen sultan by the will of the church, the will of the parliament, the will of the army, and the will of the people. It admonished him to serve God and keep the sacred law as communicated by the prophet. This Relschad hihnbly promised to do. The fetva was prepared last night, both Abdul Hamld and his brother, Prince Relschad being Informed at an early hour this morning. The Shelk-ITl-Islnm, It' Is said, personally visited the sultan and read him the decree. He Informed his majesty that the question having been put In canonical form before the shclk and his asso ciates as to whether Abdul Hamid had not forfeited the right to rule over the faithful they had decided "Yess." Abdul bowed his head, saying: 'It is thee will of Allah." At a se cret sitting of the national assembly In the morning the decree was read. It declared that Abdul Hemld II must abdicate or be dethroned. The assem bly unhesitatingly shouted: "Dethrone him." A deputation of two senators and two deputies thereupon visited the palace at Yildls and communicated to the sultan the aasembly's resolution. Abdul Hamld replied: "I expected this; it is fate. My only wish Is that the lives of myself and my family may be safeguarded and that I may- reside at the palace of Cheragan, as I wish to dig where I was born." 1 A similar deputation prooeoded to the Dofmabagtache palace In Oaiata, and Informed Mehemmed Rleschad Kffendl of the nation's will. The new ly proclaimed sultan replied that he bowed to the will of the people. Discuss Future. Later the assembly debated the mo mentous question of Abdul Hamld's future residence. The suggestion that he be allowed to travel ahroffd was strongly opposed on the ground that ui.n.n n " i i,,in-uV-.---ii---i- (Continued on page four.) TAX ON INCOMES IS NOT INQUISITORS SITS SEN, BIILEYJF TEXIS United States Is Not Yet a Nation of Liars He Declares. PROVES HIS THEORY (Ry Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 27 Senator flalley today resumed his speech be gun in the senate yesterday, carefully reviewing Incidents connected with the framing of tb,e constitution with the purpose of laying a foundation for his argument upon the income tax He discussed the nature of direct tax ation and said that the question had never been satisfactorily settled by the eontlnental congress, by the federa tion that followed nor by the consti tutional convention. He said it was a matter of regret that framers of the constitution did not satisfactorily de fine what a direct tax Is. Reviewing one case after another, Mr. Bailey quoted from court opin ions and other authorities to substan tiate his contention respecting the constitutionality of an income tax. He then departed for a time from his purely legal argument and launched Into a denunciation of men who he said, resist the Income tax as Inquisitorial and calculated to make the United States a "nation of liars." "That this tax is inquisitorial," said Mr. Bailey, "Is true, but not more so than any other tax. To compel me to tell the source of my income, as Is done In the state In which I live, is as Inquisitorial as to compel me to tell the amount of my Income. KILLED HER LOVER. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. April 27. Isaac Morse, a well known young business man of this city was shot and almost Intaantly killed today by Gertrude Douglas In khe office of the American Dry Cleaning company. At police headquarters, Miss LJoug las said: . "Ike Morse has betrayed me. ' Re has been going; with me for the last nine years. He could not throw me over tad I!" ' - . ;. m-?!', Heavy, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN REAL When Kenilworth Inn Safe Five hundred' dollars In bills so ut terly charred that they dissolved Into ashes when touched, record books so Incinerated as to be undecipherable, and coin almost fused, were the spec tacles which met the eyes of those who witnessed the opening of one of the Kenilworth Inn safes yesterdav morning. The other safe, will be opened Thursday, but as its exterior condi tion la far worse than -that of the opened safe, Ks door sheeting yawn- In to show a great craefe. nOone i1 entertained tnat fm Hotel ano, per sonal records of Mrs. Annie D. .Mar tin will ibe more than cinder. The safes were found under a great pile of brick from a fallen chimney and being dug out, expert Marstollcr spent three days In working on the combination of the smaller one, an alleged Are proof receptacle about four feet In height and 88 Inches square, the safe locks responding yesterday morning when attaches of the hotel were notified and camo t' take out the contents. In Had Condition. Those Interested know that the safes had been exposed to the fierce heat engendered by the great fire cll- JUDGE OVER-RULES THE MOTION IjEWTRIIL Case of the Coopers, Convict ed of Murder,- noes to State Supreme Court. (By Aw latd Pre.) NAKHV1M.K. Tenn.. April 27. Judge William II Hart today over ruled the motion for a now trial In the case of Colon' d Duncan ft. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper, his son, both convicted of the murder of former, United Stales (Senator Carmack. Tlioj court's opinion win that there was no ground for settlnn aside the verdict I of the trial Jury. The defense at once ! gave notice of an appeal to the Ten-, nessee Supreme court. The app- al was granted. The bond rcnuilns the some and the same bondsmen qualified. The de fense demanded thirty days In which; to file a bill of exceptions. Decision i on this point was deferred till Hatur-i day. COSTLY BLAZE IN CRESCENT CITY (By Associated Pre-.) NE WORLKANS, April 27. Fire j early tonight which threatened for a j time to extend throughout an entlre bloc k In the center of the wholesale j district, and which brought out thej whole fire department of the clly. '. was confined to the building at 027 Tchoupltoulas street, occupied, by the j Importers Coffee company. The loss is about 150,000 covered by insur- j ance. i t I "WASHINOTON. April 17. Fore cast for North Carolina: Cloudy, fo. lowed by rain In Western section. Heavy, Hangs Over Your Head, MONEY FADED AWAY AT TOUCH Was Opened Contents Found Burned and Scorched till It Was Impossible to Save Anything. fers a Further Loss. v rectly as well as that caused by the slowly cooling white hot brick which entombed It ibut they were hopeful that the contents would be suibstan tla.lty Intact. The door was swung open and the contents of the Iron box showed fire scorched, the boxes blackened by the heat and the Wool work of the compartments consum ed. But In an iron compartment a stack of bill amounting to $500 seemed reasonably unharmed! the print of .the government showing "" " ' ' ' " 4 .. it! Money Faded) Away, Rut this was a delusion, a fantasy like that seen when a printed paper Is cast on red hot embers and burn. Heaving behind readiablo rhnractnr on that faint remnant which a ibreath can destroy. At a touch the brittle residue of the hills fell In fragments, It being Impossible to handle them by any device of care or running. However, what was left was taken to the American Notional bank end although President J. H. Carter ex pressed the opinion that the goverrt ment will not redeem the ashes with; new bills because the denominations cannot be told, they will be sent tm HUNTERS IRE THE TRAIL B Roosevelt and Son After Brief Rent are Once More in the Hunting Field. Hy Awoclatcd Press.) NAIROBI, British Kast Africa, April 27. Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermlt had suffci ntly recovered from the fatigue connected with their shooting trips and their Journey from Kapltl Plains sUitlon to the ranch of Hlr Alfred Pease, on the Athl river, to go out shooting tlilx morning for small game. They secured a grants gazelle and a bart' tieest. part of the Roosevelt camp already has been established at the Pease ranch, the remainder of the caravan will move over to that point tomor row morning. The Roosevelt party decided today to remain for nie week at the pease ranch and with this stay In view a number of eases of stores wero sent Into the American camp today. The smallpox among the porters of the Roosevelt caravan has been ch'ked. NEGRO THREATENED BY LYNCHING MOB ny AssHtatcl Press.) SAVANNAH, (la.. April 27. Orlv-n ihy report that friends of Clifford Rutherford of ly-nox, Oa.. were marching on the Valdosta Jail to lynch Rutherford's slayer. Marshal Iewls. colored, officers today .brought the n ro to ftsvannah for safe-keeping. I Is has tteen In three Jails In twenty-four hours It was stated that the fears of the officers were well found ed, and a number of men are said to have gathered prepared to punish the slayer. BABCOTK IS DEAR. (Ry RHeldon B. Cllne.) tt'AHHINGTON, April 27. Former Representative Joseph W. Bsbcock, of Wisconsin, member of the lower house of congress for fourteen years and for many years chairman of the na tional remibllcan congressional - com mittee, died here today at his hom. He was fiftr-nlne rears old. Mrs. Martin Suf. the treasury department In the hope that they may be duplicated. The record 'ibooks wero In hardly hotter plight, and it la hardly possl hie that anything of their content can ever deciphered. The Inten ally of the heat within the safe ws shown by the fact that coins of differ ent dhnmlnatlonsfo the amount of several aouar Were blackened Just a if they had been directly exposed vIt was the eustoni at the Inn' tii make dally deposits at the bank, but by lit fortune It happened that the emnlng before the fir many guests paid their bill snd, Iby still worse fortune. In bill and7 not In checks or coin. Valuable Record Oonr. The unopened sntfe contains, or did contain at the time of the fire, many books containing the records of the hotel, of Mrs. Martin's affairs and probably some of the hotel Itself but It Is hardly possible to hops that they will be in as good condition as those In the safe which was opened because the door show a wide crack where the metal sheatlng has been warped. Roth safe are of good make, In fact are high class safes of their typei BARTON PLEADS GUILTY ANO KTSFIWE TEARS Man Captured in Asheville Receives Penitentiary Sentence and Heavy Fine. (By AssfN-lsled Press.) OltKKNVH.I.K, 8. C, April 27 Oeorgn Rarton wits sentenced to five years Imprisonment In the federal prison at Atlanta, On., and to pay a line of 1 1,000 for his connection In several postofTlee 'robberies In this llurton sprang a surprise today by his Idea of guilty, and brought his trial to a sudden close. NECKTIE PARTY IS DUE IN FLORIDA (Ity Associated Prms.) HARTOW, Fla. April 27. At s late hour last night Charles Carboro. a negro, attempted a criminal assault on Mrs. Taylor Frlerson. a promln"ht lady of Fort Myers, who Is visiting the family of Dr. F. M. Wilson here. The negro made good his escape after having been frightened away by Mrj. Frlerson's screams. A posse was dt onco formed and haw been In (march or the negro all day and If he Is captured ho will undoubtedly De lynch:d. PRESIDENT TAFT AT QUAKER CITY PHILADELPHIA. April 27. Pres ident Taft tonight was the principal speaker at the Orant birthday of the Union league In this city tonight. The president was mot at Broad street by an Immense throng. Entering an au tomobile, he was escorted to the Union Deague club house by the first city troop of cavalry. The way to the Union League club was lined with thousand who cheered Mr. Taft vo ciferously. PKTKR8 DIIOPPED DEAD. BRIffTOr Tenn., April JT. Col. L. B. Peters, general manager of the Bristol board of trade, dropped deed this afternoon at five o'clock, while engaged at a meeting of the executive committee of that body. Heart fail ure Is given as the cans of his death. He was sevsnty-on years of age. PICE OF "CON" T Von Vllsslngor. Who Forged Mortgages For Cool Mil Hon. on Stand MADE CONFESSION , FOUR YEARS BACK Men Whom Ho Duped Kept Quiet In Effort to Re cover Money. (P,jr Assorts ted Trees.) CHICAGO. April 7. Peter Van Vllsslngen, who last winter confess ed that he had forged mortgages to the extent of 1 1,000,00 thereby causing a great sensation In Chios go where he bad been known for twenty years a a leading real a tate man, exploded a fcomhshell In tha bankruptcy court hers today when he stated that hi confession a few month age was antedated by four" years by a confession made privately to men who held '1400,000 Of his spurious paper. . : f. s Van Vllsslngen was brought back to Chicago from prison today to tes tify before Referee In bankruptcy I Wean, who IS attempting to locate the valid assets of the prisoner. Van Vilsslgen declared that In 1104 h was compelled to confess to Maurice Itosenfeld, at ' that ' time s- dlreetor of the now defunct Chicago National flank and Iternhard Mosenbnrg, a real estate dealer, that the mortgages held by them and valued at 1 400,00V ' had been forged. '- Admitted Fraud. " ' "They discovered some Irregulari ties In the paper In that year," mid the witness, "and cams to my office . (or a conference, I --admitted th forgeries and said! '1 will go bsfora the state's attorney, tett him Just what t have related to you gentlemen about these wholesale forgeries, plead guilty and go to pMonIlk a man.' ' "Ws wanfr our money,' they said. "I can vet'it,;.! tntd them, tint I must dupe others, u I hava duped yon men.' " ' "Ws bad another conference soon after," contiiiuedt tha witne. 'Final ly I proposed to setttw wlrhr them. I promised to paythem 11,000 to tJ.OOO a week. Altogether I paid them ap proximately IJHO.OOO.", f'' Further conferences were held from time to time. At one of these t Van Vllsslngen said they said: "We want our money," Hs roplled he wna getting It as fast as he could raise H. . " ' " 'We don't want to brow how you get the money,' they toid me at on conference held In December, 1904.? O)oratect Twenty Years, Pern hard Itosenburg likewise hag been prominent In the real ' estate business and In Jewish society circles for many years. ' Van Vllsslngen's face was. pals snd hi hand trembling as he told his story. His eye were bloodshot and hi lips twitched as h faced counsel nd recognized former friends amonjt tha spectator. The witness stated that his forgeries had continued for twenty years bat that ho did not know the (pact ex tent of them. "Will they eggregato ! million dol lars?" 'Hurely." "And may be more?" Yes." 'Have you any property or other assets not accounted for at present V Van Vllsslngen was asked. 'No, except my clothing. I hid , nbout 1 1 50 dollars when I reached the prison at Joltet but I sent that back to my wife." I told rtosenfeld at least twenty flvn time and Itosenberg half as of ten," said Van Vllsslngen, "that I mild reimburse them only through II egnl business operations. (Cnnilnued on pass fmir. FLOCK TO THE Oft Man Who Shot Him Waives Preliminary Hearing. Bond 1.8 Incrcafled. (Ry AsNtxIsted Pre.) WAItltKIsTON, Va., April 27. Pre liminary hearing was waived today In the case of J. D. Harris, principal of the high school here, who shot W. A. Thompson, associate editor of Th Warrenton Virginian, Saturday last. on the main street here, Thompson dying In Washington the following day. Harris was held for th regular grand Jury which begins Its sessions May 24 next His ball, first fixed at 120,000 was Increased today to $10,- 000, two extra bondsmen being readily found. . , . Thompson was buried this after noon from the Baptist church, a large number of people coming in from th surrounding country to witness ths . funeral. During th entire day feel- - Ing of suppressed excitement prevail ed throughout ths town, Marshall KcCormack has been retained as ad ditional counsel for tha defense. (M TELLS IS REMARKABLE TALE