THE SUNDAY CITIZEN THE WEATHER FAIR Today VOL. XXV. NO. 194. ASIIEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 2, l!0!. PUICE FIVE CENTS. RESISTS PAYMENT OF POLICY ON LIFE BEFORE HIS DEATH Deposition of Men Wljtf.tt4.m3 To Bo lnsuredOfTered . In Cntv ' HAS BEEN more;thanW YEARS Tells RemarkobJe Story of His Abduction Ana prug glng by Relatives. (By Associated Tress.) ST. LOUIS, May 1. Another devel opment In the extra-ordinary Insur ance case was revealed today when attorneys for the New York Life In surance company filed In the United States Circuit court the deposition of Andrew J. White, a convict in the Auhurn, N. Y., state prison. White declares he Is George A. Kimmel, cashier of the Farmers' State bank, of Arkansas City, Arkansas, who dis appeared more that ten years ago. The witness graphically tells a story of being drugged and Imprisoned In a rooming house In St, Louis for three weeks. The convict's Identity as Kimmel denied by Klmmell's relatives, who are suing for Insurance on his life. Kimmel had already been declared dead by the Ht. Louis court, but the United States Circuit Court of Appeals declared the evidence Insufficient, the Judgment against the Insurance 'com pany was annulled and the case is to be tried anew. Was Heavily Insured. Shortly after insuring his life for 125.000 In 1898, In favor of his sister, Mrs Edna K. Bonslett, Kimmel dis appeared from Arkansas City. Detec tives followed him to Kansas City, hut could find no further trace of him un til White, an Inmate of a New York asylum for the criminal insane, three years ago, declared himself to be Kimmel. The latter was pronounced aafie and transferred to Auburn. Klmmel's explanation of his disap pearance ,1s that a relative was Im- Ttlcate'd in the embezzlement of 1100, 00 front the Pacific Express company .and that he had damaging evidence .gainst him. He declares the relative and others caused him to ibe drugged and kept a prisoner In St. Louis. When he escaped he was beaten on the street by the relative and the lat ter's friends. Kimmel says that he awakened from the second encounter In a hos- (Continued from first page.) UTE EMPEROR S BODY BORNE INTO REGAL STATE TO LIST OESTI PUCE Ceremony Accompanied By All Pageantry and Splen dor of Oriental Custom. COSTLY MAUSOLEUM I (Ily Associated Press.) PEKING, May 1. The body of Kuang-Hsu, emperor of China, who died In Peking last November today began the long Journey to the Western Tombs, eighty miles away, for final Interment. The ceremony, one of un usual oriental splendor and dignity, was witnessed by many foreigners In cluding the members of the diplomat ic corps and the members of the sev eral missions sent to Peking by for eign governments expressly to repre sent them at the final obsequies. The dowager empress will not be Interred until the fall. Meantime her body will remain In Peking. The regent accompanied the cata falque as far as the city gates. whence he returned to the palace, The procession started from the precincts of the Forbidden City at 1 1 o'clock In the mornms The march to the Tombs will take four days and the entire route Is to be over the great highway especially constructed for the passage of the imperial coffin. The coffin In which the body Is to be In terred Is heavy and massive. The In side is lined with cypress wood; then comes a covering of catalpa wood, which In turn Is encased in rhinoceros . . .. . .1 ,.-tth : hide While the wnoie is u""' " V'l,h occasion were exceptionally en . .., .hiiH made from the nine.1"" .. of the water buffalo. There were 128 catafalque bearers and It took the pageant w hich was two miles long, two hours and a half to Set clear of the Forbidden City. The widow of the late emperor will travel to the tomb by rail, leaving here May . t The imperial tomb will not be com pleted for two years, and the actual Interment of the remains of Kuang Hsu will have to be deferred for this length of time- The Tomb will cost, when completed, considerably over M0,000. STORM SWEEPS ON TAKING ITS TOLL OF HUMAN LIVES Abated Little Third Day As It Passed Ou To Sea. (Ry AiwKiatcd I'rcNH.) WASHINGTON, May 1. A fair Monday everywhere east of the Rocky mountains, but yet another storm brewing out In the West and headed this way, are promises held out by the weather bureau tonight. In Arizona there Is r storm center that Is moving rapidly eastward, and official figuring 4 tonight schedule It for the Atlantic coast Wednesday or Thursday, but Its real extent Is problematical. May day 4 snow flurries fleck the country In spots. particularly about I the Great Lakes and In Ohio, and even in the South. Ro- anoke. Va., had Its coldest May day for many years. Snow fell tonight In the Virginia 4 mountains. 4 4 4 4444444444444444 ATI -A NT A, May 1. The storm which for three days has been sweep ing eastward across the Southern states tonight was passing out of the South Atlantic states Into the Atlan tic ocean. Despite three dnys of snuffing out human lives, crushing habitations, do ing perhaps millions of dollars dam age and for a few hours in some ex tensive sections well nlsht demoral izing business and communication, this tremendous atmospheric disturb ance today apparently had lost none of Its vicious energy. late this afternoon wires suddenly regained flashed the news of thirty four more deaths In Georgia, lives tnken by a storm of the coming of which some of the victims had been reading for two dnys In the news papers. Last night when the news of the extent of the destruction l:i Tennessee, with (between sixty and a hundred deaths was speeding by trains from' the presses toward Albany and Cedartown, Ga., and when, even old hands at predicting the course of tor nadoes were drawing a sigh of relief and saying it was all over, the winds were racing with the trains toward those towns. Hefore daylight the tor nadoes struck both places killing twelve In the vicinity of Cedartown and six a few miles south of Albany. Georgia Heath Ijlst. The Georgia death list by towns p.f received by The Constitution tonight Is: ! SLAUGHTER OF LIONS BEGINS AUSPICIOUSLY IN JUNGLESJF AFRICA Col. Roosevelt's Party Oct Four and Much Other Came in Day's Hunt. KEKM1T KILLED ONE (By Associated Press.) NAIROHI. British Fast Africa. May l.Kour lions are trophies of ex-I'resld'-nt Roosevelt's camp In the Mnu Hills tonight and two hundred or more native followers the joining with the American parly in the cele bration of the unusually good luck. The lions were bagged yestcrdnv, and Colonel Roosevelt's mighty g'ln brought three of them, each on th; first. Thus one of the president fondest ambitions has been realized, arid he is proud, too. thai the fourth of the jungle kings fell before th rifle of his son Kermit. who, however, took three shots to kill his quarry. Roth father and son are jubilant. It Is their first lion hunt, and so mag nificent a kill was far beyond their expectations, but lions have been plentiful in the hills for the past months and the English hunter. F. '". Scions, has been out for several dass laying plans for their extinction. How well he succeeded can be seen from the results of yesterday s chase. Mr. Selous accompanied the former president, who also was attended by the usual retinue of hunters. As a rule the beaters go Into the jungle with considerable trepidttlon. but as Colonel Roosevelt's reputation as a hunter had reached her long before he arrived In person, the beaters on thuslastlc. They seem even eager to play a part in the first hunt of the distinguished American. The caravan started early Thursday morning from the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease on the Athi river and proceeded slowly to the Maul Hills. The native beaters set out early In all directions under the Instruction of the "head mas"' armed with all sorts of noise marking devices which could arouse any game within ear shot. Some of the beats proved blank. ut r nightfall no less than tea kind of came bad been tagged. of Its Furv On Buchanan, thirteen reported dead Albany, six; Meigs, one; Cedartown twelve; Howden, one; Gainesville one. At Savannah the tornado had lost much of Its fury. It tore through the old town, however, unroof' many houses and destroyed mu nroperty not only In the city but In adjn?:.t country. From Norfolk came news of high winds and some damage to 'property, while In th towns in North Carolina and many In Florida contributed their auota o storm devastation. That the worst Is over now seems certain and It only remains to cast up the cost In human life and prop erty. That this list will be Incom plete for several days Is probaltde. for wires are down and railway commu nlcatlon Is seriously Interrupted In the Interior of several etntes In the pafii of the tornado. With the Information at hand, however, It seems certain that at least two hundred have been killed, probably twice as many In Jured and that property worth several millions of dollars has been destroy ed. TFANKSSF.E'S MSS GROWING NASHVILLE. Tenn., May 1. Calm has followed the great storm of Thursday night In Central Tennessee. The weather tonight Is clear and cool, and the telegraph wires, as they an revived, bring reports of loss of II f-' and property destruction greater than first advices. Today a number of cas kets were shipped to the stricken dlstrlrts. At Pulaski and In some sections of Giles county, the destruction of prop erty is quite heavy, and It Is said the (tenth Hist will 'numlber Jtwcnt.v-flvo with at least thirty others Injured. In (he home of Mr. Hardison, just south of Hlllsboro, In one room were the Itodles of the two Marlln hoys who were Iblown with the house Into rthe creek. In another room lny Cur- roll Marlln. aged twelve, dying. Near him on different beds were their fath er, whoso shoulder 'blade and coll lr bone were broken, and their mother, whose hip was crushed. Damage Is reported from a score of other places and Gibson. Madison and the surrounding territory furnish a list of eight or more dead. Lincoln county's fatalities arc heavy and the storm seems to have prart rally cov ered the entire state. The casualty list Is still Incomplete and It Is ne- ' Continued on page four. NORTH! SECTION OF STORM PLAYED HAVOC WITH LAKE SHIPPING Three Vessels Lost, One Crew, and Another Is Found Deserted. V,S DAY OF DISASTER (Ily Associated Press.) DKTHoIT. Mich, May 1. Three vessels lost, one of them with her crew of seven men, and a ,ourth craft found floating deserted on Lake Michigan wilh the fate of her crew unknown Is the day's summary of dis aster from the storm and Ico on Ihe Great Likes. On Huron Island Inst night the schooner George N'-stcr, of iJctrolf, was torn lo pieces and all of her crew of seven were lost. On l.ake Huron the package freighter Russia, of Port Huron, suc- combed to the waves after her cargo bad shifted, and went lo the bottom Her crew of twenty-two men, how ever, succeeded In safely putting over their small boats and escaping. tin l.akc Michigan, the Ann Arbor ferry No. 1. picked up nine miles south of, Kos Island, the big steel lighter Hatavia. deserted by her crew, and with no positive evidence as to whether they perished or were taken off the lighter by the steamer which is blleved to have been towing her. To these fresh stories of marine dis aster was added for from Haulte 8te. Marie with the arrival there of the crew of the steamer, Auranla. the first story of how she was crushed by the Ice and sand and how the members of the crew made a perilous way over nearly four miles of Ice floe to the steamer J. H. Rartow. Few days In the history of naviga tion on the Inland lakes have brought such tales of death and disaster. ICE GOING IP TOO. NEW YORK, May 1. Most of the independent Ice companies of great er Xew Tork today followed the lesl of the American Ice company and other producers who have acted here tofore. In raising the wholesale price ob Ice from ft to IB a ton. MAO YOU ffOTICtO Trti OWOP if COMPARISON INDICA Democrats Who Have Qualified to Vote at City Election Outnumber Republicans About Five to One. Republicans Express Dissatisfaction With Manage ment of Municipal Campaign. There was a rush lo tho office of the county tajt collector at the court house yesterday to pny poll taxes. So great was the rush that the whole of- flco force was kept busy all day and long after tho closing hours In re ceiving money and Issuing poll tax receipts. This of Itself la not so unusual on the last day allowed by law for the payment of the tax to quulify voters to cast their ballots at the elections of the year, but the number of dem. ocrats In comparison with the num ber credited to the republicans who appeared for that purpose was un usual, and Indicates that the demo cratic voters were ffully alive to tho Importance "of maklna; their votes count iiext Tuesday. Yesterday was the last day for the payment of the tax and a com parison of the numbers credited to the two parties will give a pretty good forecast of the result of the city elec tion to be held Tuesday. The democratic committee has lists of all the democrats In th city, and has by unremitting effort succeeded In getting a large majority of Its vot ers to secure tlulr poll tax receipts. Hefore the collector's office closed yes terday there were on the tax books! RRAICNEO ON VERY SCENE OF HIS CRIME Man Who Slew Neliew Re fuses to Enter l'leii When Charged with Murder. (Ily Awclatrd Press.) OF.TItolT. May 1. Htandlng on the spot where bis nephew, Hurtoon iai- tanlan yejdTday fell dying from the bullets he bad bred Into his body. Or K. Hoyajlan today stood mute when asked to plead in police court to lit harge of murd r. Beneath the doctor's feet as b stood In the prisoners dock behind hlrn wi re fr siily scrubbed spots where the blood of his dead nephew yesterday himIip il the floor. At no time (luring the doy did ..the doctor show any 'motion over the death of hi nephew When the news was given him today at police headquar tcrs he adopt--! no comment arid showed no f- ' iirig. WIN'S KI IXT OFFM Kits. ANN'AI-'il.lS. Ind.. May 1. Today's session of :re twentieth annual con gress of the Sons of the Arnerb-an Revolution vhi'-h trt-gan yesterday at Unltlrnore w;i." U Id at the ntate house lu re In the hNtorlc old senate r barri ber where H':i.;h I ngton resigned hi commission h." ommander-ln- hef of the continental army. The nnual election waf b'ld n the chamber of the house r,r delegates In tho stale house, during the afternoon. WASHINGTON, May 1. Forecast: North Carolina: Fair Runday and Monday, warmer Monday; moderate west winds. si tun ii ii Hsitir .m t i i sn COlt4 OF POLL TAX PAID TES DEMOCRA TIC VICTOR Y marked "paid" approximately 1,600 democratic names. The number of republicans who had paid their tax had not been kept with the sume accuracy for the lust two days owing to the rush of work put upon the democratic workers In keep Ing track of their own voters. How- ever, two dnys ago there were but 205 republicans who had qualified for the suffrage by paying their tax es, and since that time tho number who have paid Is very small. The total number of republicans who have qiiulilled, It Is estimated by the demo. cratlc committeemen In charge pf this part of the election work, will hardly exceed three hundred. The entire registered vote of the city Is about J. 800. Of this number not more than 2,200 probably, are really voters, the remainder being dead, or removed from the city, or for other reasons barred from partici pating In tho city election. At the last city election tho repub licans polled about 4G0 votes. At the general election last full their vote was swelled to something like TOO or H0 owing to the fact that It was a national election. The normal and actual republican vote of the cllv Is estimated by Impartial obsar- ers io tie not morn than 1100 st the MYSTERY INCASE DEAN ATTEMPTED ADDUCTION' New Trial Kofiwed Wealthy Man Who Tried to Steul Mis.s Lucile Linton. (I Associate! Pre., ATLANTA. Oil., April I - 'I'll- Mitch-; ell l.lnton rnjstery. one of the most I tho Ix.omliig or salutes and Ihn ex iiniiNuril crises ever threshed out In change of official visits, Ibe Japaiiess rleor-gla courts will not be retried a ' Of III lilne. Tills Mas tile decision of J'idge Itoan. of tin- Superior court, here to'l.'iy, in - d ti log VVIIIium H Mitchell. OH'- Of Hie W'lllttll'Ht illl'l most prominent resid' nt-i of 'j'homas ilie. tia , a ro w trial on the charge of attempting to abduct his lownswo man, Miss l.ueile Union, well known throughout the state oh a wealthy and ' iiliiir' d woman The feat iiro of (he first trial was the Judge's verdict In sentencing Al it' li. II to one year's Imprisonment for ii-saiilt and buttery. He told ih 'I- fi ii'lant that be did not In lleye that Hi. Will Mil. bell who stood before him, r .-K"-( led by the nt!re couimuri tui'l been guilty of assault arid bat 1. ry. but that It was "another Will .vht'li' ll. a sort of Or. J. lill and Mi 1 1 .1.- . ase." Mitch.-!! was .-barged with stf.-mpt-tlrig while disguised H a negro wo man, lo mirv Miss Union to a fortl-(l.-.l Iioiih. h lonk'irii to him The trial failed to show any motive for in. b an a tie nipt. The . -" will be uppeal'-d lo the Hu. preme court. REV. THOS. DIXON SR. DIES AGED NINETY (Br Assoc-latcd Prewi.) HAI.F.IOH. N. . Mav 1. f". Thomas Ilixon. Sr., died her tonight in Ihe ninetieth year of his age. He was one of th- best known Baptist prear hers of North t'aroltna, and came here recently from Hhelby, where he held a pastorate for slgty Itve years, to visit his daughter. Or. Oella Klxon-Curroll. He will be bur led In Cleveland county. Mr Dixon wss the father of Thomas Dixon. Jr., the author; Hev. A. C. Dixon, pastor of the Moody church In Chicago; Dr. Frank Dtxon. of Washington, a lec turer, and Dr. Delia Jjlxon-Carroll, of Raleigh. m rv 0N UXf outside, and with only 300 of this qualified to voln by payment of the poll tax, the democrats sew victory aneaii and are correspondingly Jubl i a ni. Kven the moat optimistic republl cans when confronted yesterday with tho result of the poll tax payments by memllMirs of the party admitted that the prospect of success for his party Is not a cheerful one. Many were not slow to express their dlssiitlRfnc. tlon with Ihe management of the re publican campaign; and to blame those In charge of It for carelessness in permitting so many polls to re main unpaid. Unquestionably the democrats have outplayed their opponents In Ihe pre uminary work of the campaign. They have worked In harmony, with unanl. mlty and singleness of purpose, and not only the candidates, but every faction of the party, has united lo align the democratic forces In solid array for Iho battle of bullots next Tuesday, Thsl these efforts have accomplish ed wonders In a very quiet but f. fectlve way, and that they will pro duce satisfactory results, seems to lie the Irresistible conclusion from the poll tax figures as gathered from the collector's office. NO SLIGHT OEFEREO TO JAP WARSHIP IN FRISCO Keeeived in Harbor With Due Ceremony and Vinit ed by Official IJodieM. (Ily Associated Press.) HAN I'ltANdWVl, May 1 WIMl training squadron, commanded by Hear-Admiral II. ' IJIihl anchored within a riibbs bnglb of Hear-Admiral Hwliiburne s Pacific fleet. In Kan Km in ls. ii bay today. IllxtlUK'llsheil representatives of the city, state and federal government w-re on hand lo welcome the Japa nese commander and his men when the two cruisers Aso and Hoya enter ed lliu liolden (late Willi an escort of rev. nil. cutters mid excursion boats Thousands of Japanese residents of Hun Kruni ls o and nearby cities, unl- ted with a committee represent Ing the important commercial organizations "f th" city In an unofficial welcome lo 'h'- visitors After h.- bad received bis official callers. Admiral IJl. Ill said. "The I 'nlled Ktates arid Japnn are iin'-bor.-d on as firm u basis of friendship to day as they have . vi-n b. .-n In tb past, aud I cannot foresee arty possi bility of an Interruption or breach of th.- sacred relations. The.- two great nations .if the Pacific are not going to war with . a.-b olh'-r for any i-uus'-that we of today . an predict.'' Admiral IJI. bl and his officers came ashore- Inler and returned the calls made by Major General Weston, I'leut'-iianl Oovernor Porter, Mayor Taylor, and lb" representatives of va rious commercial b.idl'-s. Il 1.1, IS KTHKKT. I.KXIVOTOV. Miss.. May 1. Do mestic troubles. brought - about a pistol duel on the streets' j hem' to day between Walter tin He and. ftaftl llushart, farmers, whlel) termlnefud In the killing of RallaMiCs. f, ji i ' ':' KKW AITO ItKOOKD. NAHHVIIfK. Tenn.. May 1. Ar thnrOrsnler of Chicago broke the amateur Ave mile automobile record today on the Cumberland park one mile circular track, going th route In ff.l? thus reducing the former mark by on ateond. . , r'U T E- Conflict Between Moslems And Armenians Raged From Street to Street BUILDINGS SET ON FIRE THROUGHOUT CITY Two American Missionaries Killed While Trying to Savo Glrl'sSchool. (Ity Associated l'iraa,) CONSTANTINOPMS, May l.-HSta-plu n It. Trowbridge, a missionary. was the only American or Huropean to witness In Adana ths death ot t. M. Rogers and Henry Miiurer, fellow missionaries at Adana. He has sup- lleil an account of the occurrence. dated A.ltinu, April 4, In part as tal lows; 4 "Firing and fighting began April 14 between Moslems and Armenian!. By night fall it was clear that Incendlar i-.'s were at work, for several districts of the city were covered by clouds cf smoke which rolled out far Into tho country, where vineyards and country houses also were burning. The wind funned the flames next morning ind drove them In our direction. Mr. lingers was guarding th home' of Miss Wallace and . the .'.dispensary across the street from the school. It was clear that Ilia large suhnol, a building of brick and wood, wag In danger. We ' spent tht morning In ripping off projecting woods work and the porch poets. Up to that tim no one had dared to go on the streets uccausn of the shooting from ens end by Moslems and the other by Armen ians. Moslem pillagers, armed end In desperate mood, were looting the houses opposite the buildings on; lira, Authorities Did Nothing. "Mr,, Mauror and I took crowbar and an axe and crossed the street to destroy the wooden porches, shuttora . and stairways of tha house between the (Ires and the girls' school, All this time there had been no sign nf any effort on the part of tha govern ment authorities to Stop tha rioting, plllnge and burning. No soldier or policemen had appeared, nor had any pumps or apparatus for fighting the tiro been brought out, Th only news we hud of the soldlors was tha galling rifle lire from th minarets. This shooting apparently was directed at the houses where the Armenian were resisting toy a return flre.'V' Mr. Trowbridge then described how he ami his co-workers were accosted by armed Moslems, who assured them that they would not be harmed. Ktoilng Everywhere. "In every direction there was riot Ing and shooting," Mr, Trowbridge con i in ne. Mw came back to th school and asked for volunteers, Mr. lingers came at once. II carried wa ter back and forth three time. Mr, Maurer was using th crow-bar and 1 further up on the roof was pouring I iT""" "''in? iiiii lmaisiuiSisiiiss TWELVE KILLED IN FIGHT AND SOUADJF OFFICERS May Day Celebration in ImenoH Ay res Ends in Uloody Conflict with Reds HUNDRED WOUNDED AsMM-lalrd Press.) I'.I'KNOH A V It KB. May t. The May day celebrations organised by the iBiioii.i workmen' unions resulted In serious demonstrations today and an engagement between the rioters snd poll. .-. In which flws men were killed e:id n large niimftjftf were wounded. According to official statements a group of anarchists !lrd upon the police, wounding five of the officer. The police charged their assailants with drawn sabres and revolvers. They fired Into the mob and struck rlgnt and left iwlth their swords. Fla of the rioters were killed, twelve wera seriously wounded, while more than score f-scaped -with lesser Injuries. The police succeeded in, dispersing the mob with considerable difficulty. Heteral of 'the wounded died this evening, and . it Is stated that th death ttow ntimbcr twelve. Not less than one hundred persons were woun. led.'" The conflict between the police and the mnnlfestanta was provoked by sn anarchist, who killed the horse nf one of the police with a bullet front his revolver, at the same time wound Ing the officer. When ths police charged, . there ws ,a fusillade M shot and within a few minutes the streets appear uttered with dead, . and dying, the remalnded of the riot ers fleeing In all dlrfVt'HM, Seventy arrests hava beta male. GRAPHIC ACCOM ORMASSACRETOLD by

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