EE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: FAIR Associated Press Leased Wire Reports. yOL. XXV. NO. 207. ASIIEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNINd, MAY 15, VM). VMIVK FIVE CENTS. JAIL SENTENCES Gelling Ready For Charlotte MANY LIVES LOST IT DADE FOR SENATE T INSEVERESTORMS THE ASHE BRYAN MAY ENTER uEATOH 1 IMPOSED 8Y JUDGE AND MANY RED mm bt Ol TnUSTOFFICERS AGAINSTDURKET 111 SCHEDULES Two Wealthy Men of Naval Stores Sent to Jail Under Sherman Law WAS THEIR SECOND OFFENSE AGAINST IT Three Others Fined Heavily BY Judge Sheppard. Ah Will Enter Appeals (By AMKK'taiUnf Press.) SAVANNAH. Qtt., May 14. Over ruling the motion In the arrest in Judgment by the defense, Judge Wil liam B. Bheppard this afternoon sen tenced the. Ave men found guilty of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust law, and for the ttret time so far as is known Jail sentences, in two cases: were Imposed. The sentences are: Spencer P. Shot tor, chairman of the board of direc tors of the American Naval 8tore company, three months In Jail and a fine of 6,000. Edmund S. Marsh, president of the company, $J,000 line. J. JV. Cooper Myers, vice-president of the American company, and presi dent of the National Transportation and T-ermlnal company, three months In Jail and a line of $2,500. George Mead Boardman, of New York treasurer ,of the American Naval Stores company, $2,000 fine. Carl Moller, of Jacksonville, Fla.. agent of the American and general -manager of the National Transporta tion and Terminal company In Jack sonville, $5,000 flne. ' t Was Second Offense. Mr. Bhotter and Mr. Myers were sentenced to terms In the Chatham county Jail, Judge Sheppard Imposing the punishment upon them because they had been before the court 'two year ago entering pleas of guilty. At that time Judge Emory Speer. .who who wu priming, stated that a term In prison would be Imposed If they should come before the court again. Itr ft'ini(d the fonner occasion When the grand Jury re turned a "no bill" as to him, as he was a witness before the grand Jury. Mr. M oiler's sentence was made heavy because of his connection with terminal yards In Jacksonville, where (Continued on page four. ) BAPTISTS SUBSCRIBE MONEY IN SUPPORT OF Delegates at Convention En thusiastic Cfver Reports Received from Field. COMMITTEES N A M El) (By Associated Pros.) LOUISVILLE, May 14. The South ern Baptist convention today heard reports of Its mission works and backed these reports with cash. Lu rlng the course of today's session at the armory which was packed with several thousand delegates, money and pledges amounting to several thou sand dollars. This will be used to further Baptist evangelism at home and abroad. The last of the auxiliaries to trans act Its huainess was the Woman's Missionary union which re-elected its officers today and In a f-w minutes collected $3,187.60 for missions. The union yesterday pledged itself to raise 18.500 In all for the furtherance of Its plans. It was announced to the accompaniment of much applause that there wl)l be an Increase of 48 per cent In the forces for home mis sions by the union while the foreign missions will be increased in capacity. 19 per cent. After devotional ererclses and tho reports of home and roreign missions to the general convention, impromptu discussions of the work was launched A mass meeting for home missions was held during the afternoon while foreign missions drew the attention' of the delegates tonight. Committees Named. President Levering announced the. following committees: Foreign board. Held work and fi nance committee: L. W. Wlllard, Georgia: T. H. Ellett. Virginia: W. Y. Guesenberry, Louisiana: J. H. Wright, Tennessee: Stephen Crockett. Florida: T. C. Carlton. Oklahoma: A. W. Payne. Missouri; and B. E. Garney, Kentucky. Foreign 1ard. editorial and edti rstlonal committee: B. O. Low?r. Mississippi: T. W. Boatwrlght. Vlr-f-t.- w. 8. Tyree. NortH Carolina: Philip a Evans, Maryland: J. R Sampey. Kentucky: T. P.. Bell. Geor gia; W. O. Hamlet. Texas: George With Roosevelt From New York In The Upper House Times Would Be Lively WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DOMINATE THINGS Senatorial Courtesy A TradI tlon That Ignores Past Fame And Present Greatness (By Sheldon S. Cllne.) WASHINGTON. May 14. Demo crats In congress are vastly interested In the reported possibility that Wil liam J. Bryan may seek election to the senate as the successor of Elmer J. Burckott, whose term expires March 3, 1911. A dispatch from Lit tle Itock, Ark., nuoted Mr. Bryan as saying that while he should prefer that some other Nebraska democrat be nominated for the senatnrsrtip, lis would not say that he would not be a candidate. Earlier dispatches from Nebraska had represented Mr. Bry an as an acknowledged aspirant for senatorial honors. While Mr. Bryan's advent in the senate would not be hailed as an unmixed Messing by all the democrat ic members thereof, no doubt the rest of the country would take a great deal of pleasure In seeing Mr. Bryan a senator and derive no little pleasure therefrom Then, if Mr. Koosevelt would only come to the sen ate as a succesor of Chauneey Depew the satisfaction of the country would be complete. , Would Stand Hazing. If "Sfthet Mr. Bryan or Mr Roose velt is undor the impression that upon becoming a senator he would at once step into tho leadership of his re spective party In that chamber, 'ho would as well be prepared for a rude surprise. It Is a pretty good guess that both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Koosevelt would have to undergo a course of hazing, though the dose would not be so severe, probably , as the one for instance which Is being applied to LaFolletto of Wisconsin. There are a number of democratic senators who genuinely and sincerely acknowledge Bryan as the leader of their party, but they are hopelessly in the minority. The average demo cratic senator is deeply convinced that ho himself would make a much bet ter leader than Mr. Bryan. And how (Continued on page four.) BE OG TWO FUNDAMENTALS Episcopal Congress Again Expreses Various Views On Vexed Question. UNITED IN SPIRIT (P.y Associated Prews.) BOSTON, May 14 The outlook for visible church unity was a topic which greatly interested a larnc atidl or.ee today at the Episcopal church congress which concluded its sessions aft r a number of eminent men had sjKjken. The conclusion rcai hed was that there can be no visible church unity without a full recognition of the validity of the prli sthood and the sar. ramcntal system. One of the i pcakcrs expressed the opinion that no help toward the desire. I end ran I"- expect ed from the Roman Catholic church until the id. a of a primacy at Home supplants that of the papacy Bishop William croswcll I inane of Albany. N. Y.. thought that the pos sildllty of visible church unity is not likely to be realized in this world. The Rnlseonal church was arraign ed by Dr William I'aber, D. D.. of Iietroit flf what he claimed Is lack of unity within its own ranks. "The office and work of the Holv Spirit within and without the church," was discussed hv Rev canon II. H"ti slev llansun of London. Rev. Or. Jo seph II. Barry, dean of the Nah otah. Wis. Theological" Seminary and re.-tor-elect of the church of Ht. Mary the Virgin. New York Melville IT Bailey of New York and Rev. J. De wolf ferry. Jr. of New Haven. Cnnn.. The congress was closed by a brief farewell address by Bishop William Lawrence, the general chairman. Congrr Successful. Rev. Edward T. Sullivan of New- tnn rhairman of the committee of publicity and editors of The Church Militant, said tnni&ht: "The congress was one of the most successful sessions of recent years, both In point of attendance and In the quality of papers and addresses Manv views hefd In one spirit rather .i " held In manv splriln as Philips Brooks once said. -1s the m-iW,eiill-i-e1'' -'- (Continued on pagw five.) Series of Tornadoes Swept Over Missouri And Ad joining State PROPERTY DAMAGE IS REPORTED VERY HEAVY Many Widely Separated Towns Were Struck About Same Time (By Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, May 14. A series of tornadoes In Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma late today killed a dozen persons, Injured about one hundred devastated Mollis, Kan., and wrecked a train and did great damage to property. Twenty-five were Injured In suburbs of Kansas City. At Hollls three men were killed and ten seriously Injured. The Erk- strom family of five persons Is miss ing and may be dead In the run Is of the home. Near Great Bend a tornado killed two and Injured twenty. AH wires are down In that vicinity and It Is feared that the death list may be greater. William Akerley. a Santa Fe engi neer, was killed while working with a barge gang between Great Bend and Kinsley. Frank Nicholson, a conductor, was killed. The storm spread over a wide farming area and laid waste many farm houses and harns. An cstlmat" of the rural casualties could not be oniaineo lonigni. At Holslngton, Kan., a tornado In jured a number of persons and great ly damaged farm property. At . Pond Creek, Okla., a. severe wind storm Injured four persons and unroofed several houses. Many wash-outs Interrupted traf fic. Electrical disturbances crippled telegraph and telephone wires. Twenty-fVwe persons were hurt, sev eral seriously and much property was damaged by a tornado which strttek Mount Washington and Falrmount "Park-, stlnilrhs, at dusk tonight. Tt Is believed that five of the injured may die. Among the most Berloinly Injured are: Mrs. James (VOnra. her father, mother and five year old hoy. Mrs Mary Rolinon and bahy. Mrs. George Root and two children. Mrs. Ferguson. OSIER DECLARES THE EIGHT HOAINST WHITE PLAGUE MUST NOT CEASE May Never End in Victory, But Can Accomplish Much Good At Least. CANNON MOCKS HIM (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mav 14. That tuberculosis Ih no longer a problem of the doctors, that It probably will take two or three generations to reduce lis ravages to the rate at which typhoid fever has been regulate, and that the public must be awakened to a great er sense of Its responsibility In com bating the disease, was the sub stance of nn address by Ir. William Osier, the noted physician of Balti more and Oxford, England, before a public meeting today if the National association for the study and Preven tion of Tuberculosis. Other distin guished men who spoke were British Ambassador James Bryce, and Speak er Cannon, of the national house of representatives, both of whom urged the fostering of tho Idea of childrens' play grounds as a means of keeping them in the open air as much as possible. Dr. Osier congratulated the associa tion on the work It had done, the three principal things accomplished having been, he said, the awakenln; of the public, the loosening up of the money hags of the legislatures anil of philanthropic persons, and the en listment of men and women who are thoroughly In earnest In the campaign What Must U Ioue. Three things remained to be done, he said. The first was to keep the public awake, the second to obtain more money and the third to arouse the- interest of more men and women, because the campaign was no longer one entirely for the doctors Wheth er tuberculosis will be finally eradi cated" de declared, "Is even an open question It is a foe that Is ver deeply Intrenched In the human race." Ambassador Bryce praised the men of science because he said they be. longed to all the people. The men of science he declared, were more of a link and bond of union between p-t- (Continued on page four.) INDtAN IS DANGEROUSLY SHOOTING AFFRAY ON COLLEGE ST. Wade Wilson, Who Runs Soft Drink Establishment, Admits He Did Shooting. Claims It Was tauSelf Defense. Tomahawk Was Found In the Place Later. Will Wade, an' Indian, who Is better known around Hewn as Allen "Whlp poorwlll," was shot and dangerously wounded la the soft drink establish ment at that northwest corner of Col lege and Lexington avenue about six o'clock yesterday afternoon, and Wade Wilson who runs the place. Is, held charged With the shooting, Although the Indian la snot through tile right breast, the bullet, piercing thf lung. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, who was called In to attend him at thu Mis sion hospital last lilght said that the wound Is not necessarily fatal. At midnight he Wat' resting; easily and seemed to be suffering but little. . The Indian was wounded -4n two daces by the one bullet which struck him. li passed entirely through Ms arm a lit tle above the wrist making a flesh wound, and then plowed Its way Into his chest. Unless pneumonia or some complications ensue Dr. Reynolds suld last night the Indian Is likely to get well. Can't Kind Wltm-naww. The shooting caused great excite ment In that part of College street, where there are iilways many loung ers, but Just how It occurred and why It occurred, no one had been found last night who could or would tell. although It Is known that there were eye-witnesses to the affair. Tho only accounts of tt which the police had -secured last night were from Wilson himself and from tho Indian, and these accounts differed in a most unusual manner. Wilson admitted firing the shot, but In the little he would say lie declared that he had fired In self-defense when tile In dian attacked him with a tomahawk The Indian In hi. statement made In tho presence of tho officers at the i police station and also In the pres-1 ence rif Dr. Reynolds, after he was: taken to the hospital, said that the i shooting must have been an accident i Ill EXPLOSION ON BOAT TIE II KILLED Many of Crew Arc Injured. Seven Hundred Pounds of Dynamite I Mows Up. KKV YVKKT. 111. May 1 4. In an explosion today 'n the Quarter Coat No 3. at Codjors. l ey, about -0 miles from here. onWio- Key Wst.cxteiislnn of the Florida i;.il Coast railway, three men were Insi.intly killed ami 12 others badly injured. The Injured men were brought here tontKht for medical ttentlon and It Is belli i. d that others- w n Mown fo atom ns seven hundred pounds of dynamite went off. The w omded men are now In the Louis Maloney hospital wiih Doctors Malonev ano Warren attend-, ing them. .Most of the men are Americans. WASHINGTON'. May 14. Forecast for North Carolina: Fair Saturday and Sunday: light to moderate south erly winds. Fij as neither he nor Wilson was mad at the time. Wilson, he said, had ordered him to leave the place, and In some way the pistol hail been fired. "Whlppoor wlll" had been drinking as he usu ally does when he strikes the city, and although not drunk, was very much befuddled at the time Immediately af ter he wns shot. He repeated his statement, however, that the shooting must have been an accident to sev eral persons. Walked From Place. After the shooting, tho Indian left the place and walked down. College street and out Haywood until be reached the Halthenon -buildmtsv There he became faint from Ins of blood, and staggered up against an automobile.- A police officer assisted him there. Dr. M. C. Mlllender, whose office Is in tin- building, hurried out and stopped the How of blood from hlM arm until the pollre patrol ar rived He was then taken to the Mission hospital where Dr. Reynolds dn-ssed his wounds At tho hospital When he sat up, the blond Rushed from the wound In bis breast ih a streiiin showing thnl an Intercostal ar tery had been severed but there was no Indication of hemorrhage from tho lungs. Wilson's Arrest. A witness of the urn-si of Wado Wilson told the following story of the affair I an night to a representative of The citizen. This witness was In the Hotel Rei ki ley about 6 o'clock when he heard a shot tired. He Im mediately left the hotel and looked for an officer. While looking for the l"IeeTn;ui he saw men running from the soft drink place. Wl'h Policeman Rressley he went to the place, arid found it apparently empty. They passed Into i he room reserved -for White people but could See no one. Tlon the policeman tried the door FRIENDS MISSED THEIR MARK, KILL EACH OTHER LVh While TryiiiK'to Pro tit) the Other Fired With Fatal Kesults. It'iAN'oKK. May 1 4 William Mai c and It M. Vouiu: two young Trt'-n of piomincn families of le eotintv Hum Plate, shot II II d killed Hell nOw-d while ir . ing to kill another man last nlKlit at a school entertainment a' I irvd' n Yoiine and Ifailey had an alterca tion with William JeHe oyer the mat ler of to kets of adoiiMsloiij Young and liailey ato.is. d Je-se and the lallei l r ' j - K one 'it lie lo. Je.e and Young i limbed and Itaih v. in an effort lo shoot JeK.-e. shot Young. As Yonnic ua falling he (if d aimlessly ihe ball kllllliK hi friends Ball') Jesse was shot in the side and another man wan slightly wounded. Pandemonium n Igm-d In ihe hall where the eriter taumicnt wa held Women fainted and others st reamed hysterica!!', and I' was many minutes before the friKhlelted and Ic rice - WH pai tiled. Young w :is the eon of a for tier inemh.r of He Virginia legisla ture and Itali w is a telegraph opcr- AtTOIl IMKH P WOIMW. LA I "URNS. H. c.. May 14. J. Rom Wilson, the actor who was accident ally shot here la- . night died at six o'cloc k this after won. Th body Will be sent to Ham. "nd. 111., tomorrow morning , i. i ga HURT IN In the partition which leads from the room reserved for whites to thn room for colored people but found It locked, llu then Jumped over the counter and as he entered the colored peoples' room, behind the counter, lis was told to stay back us he hud no right there. A few minutes later Cap tain PaeJ arrived and also went be hind tho counter with Policeman Prossley and soon came back with Wade Wilson. The captain Ordered, the place locked up- and too Wilson to the police station. When they roar had the station and Wilson was searched a 33-cullbre revolver with one carl ridge missing was found on hlin. He admitted to Cnptiiln Page Hint he did the shooting but refused to say anything more In regard to the affair except to Intimate that the Indian had tried to use a tomahawk, Pound Tomahawk. The establishment Is the one thst was formerly run by Hlx Mouther, who was haled before the last term of the Huprrlor court for running a blind tiger. It has been generally supposed to he closed since that time, but tho hahltues seem to have found an en trance through the Bide doors. In Wilson's statement to (,'npt. Page h declared that the Indian came In half drunk and raising a disturbance and that wtpn h ordered him from the place he got the tomahawk aimed at his head. The tomahawk wns found by ("apt. 1'nge, who searched the premises. The Indian has a police court record for drunkenness, and disorderly con duct and all the other misdemeanors that tloiior is the father' of. He comes to the city from the reservation near Cherokee ahmt every month and us ually lands In the police station each I rip. He Is known as a "Bud Indian " E DONE THE NEGRO SAYS HERBERT In Address Hefore (Jon feder ate Veterans Foret.ellH So lution of Negro Prolilem. Illy M'blt-l PrCHH. N'iH. iiI.K, Va . Ma. 14 -An ad dress by forim r Kerretnry or the Navy llilaiy A. Herbert, and a military and luc para'te marked Confederate ntmorial duy here today Mr Herbert said In pact "We lost OUt battle fol the lllde. .i hdi-nce of Ihe Conf'edi lacy. To Hint we are reconciled We all agree It is he I thai there be hut one da Willi! we have o he proud and gfati fill for ih thai at laj-l In Hie Colon with the idea of disunion fotever buried and under the flag that Is powerful enough to protect us and our descendants asalnst ail the nations of the "earth, we finally triumphed In all our over ' arpct-bag and riesfro 'rule, the crea tures of radicalism. "There Is no law among our stat utes lhat docs '.he n' gro Injustice N'-w constitutions have hecndevlsed for the benefit of boih races and I honest ly believe that now we have reached the solution. In Its main outlines, of the negro problem whk!h has been the curse of America." Confederate veterans who had pre vlously marched In line on Memorial day cllns having grown old and feeble today rode In automobiles.' Everybody wants Everybody to StopJ"altUrj And Pass Tarlif Bill MONEY GIVES ROOT SHARP CALLING DOWN Republicans Present United Front When It Comes to Voting (By Associated Prr8.) VVAHII1NUTON, May I (.Again the committee on finance was upheld when the senate today voted down an amendment by Senator Cummins to lower the duty on round Iron, eto., by a vote of .IS to A3, and Uphslil the house rate which was recommended by the He nu to committee. Almost the entire session Was giv en up to a debate on the profits ot the fulled xtutes Hteel corporation and toward the end of the day per- sonalltles were freely Indulged In by senators. This occurred after Bena lor Hoot had spoken In defense ot the nnimre committee and In criticism of senators who had complained of the failure of that commit toe to provtda more niuple information concerning vnrlnus schedules. Mr. Money, ad dressing himself directly to the sena tor from New York, resented Wht be chiiiac terlned as a lecture to the! senate and suld If the senator from New York desired lees spaakinr In the body "He should do less Of II him self." bt"P Wind Jamming1. Asking that an Interview with J. 3. Hill be rend immediately after the senate convened today, ' Senator Boott endorsed Its advice to congress that ' oratory be suspended and that con gress promptly pass the tariff bill, "This," said Mr. Bcott, "Is In llrta with lutters I am dally receiving beg ging and praying that thess gentle men," waving hU hand over the sen ate chamber, "get through with their wind-Jamming and .let ..the- otrantrjf go ahead with Its- bostneeav" An extended discussion took place on an amendment offered by Mr. Cum mins reducing the duty on round Iron ........ II. I ,1 t K I A nf mm j, rani 'M pound, and on Iron In slabs, etc., from 4-10 to 3-lft of one nent a pound. Mr. LaKollette mads complaint that he had difficulty in obtaining from the committee on finance Information to. guide him In his oourse on the tarut mil. Hetiaior hooi, in untoun" oi msi committee laid down the proposition thst tho committee on finance In re porting a house bill was under no ob ligation to furnish Information to thai senate except on those paragraphs on which It proposed amendments. Mr. Hoot said olher senators would do well to conllne themselves to cleai'-cut, short statements and "to refrain from declamation and to refrain from gen eral discussion for home consump tion." This was mid In relation to a criticism made by Mr. lAFollette. Itccomo Kan.'asthv. "IT gentlemen think that the people of the country will applaud them," added Mr. Hoot, 'In my Judgment they are much mistaken." Mr. IjiKollettn referred In sarcastic language to the "suprem ronfldsnoe (Coritlnmvf on pag four ) SESSION AT RICHMOND WantH Million Dollars to Survey SyHtem of Nation al Highways over Country (111 Assts-laied Press.) ItlCMMONI). Mny 14. The Inter- national li'cue for Highway Im provement hean Its convention horn today. Mayor Richardson made the wclc, mini: address and Governor Kwanson. reiury of Agriculture Wilson and it number of other promi nent oteri made addresses. Delegates torn all over the country were prc m I'residenl John A. Htewart of New York staled that the object of the or ganisation was to arouse the country to press upon congress the neces sity for establishing a national plan of Kood roads and carrying It out with liberal appropriations. A letter from President Tsft was read express ing hearty approval of the objects of the convention. This convention Is being held In a "hot lK-d" for highway Improvement and there Is much en thusiasm. The league has among Its officers Kugene Masters. Ht. Augustine, F1s.t vice-president; J. K. Ingram, Bt. Au gustine, treasurer: and Harry L. Brown, ft. Augustine, secretary. Final draft of a bill to be presented1 to congress for approval providing for an appropriation of 11,000,000 for survey of a system of national roal ways throughout the country, to be constructed by the state, counties anj cities. . possibly with government all was made by the executive committee of the league this afternoon (Continued on page four.)

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