THE CITIZEN. Associated Press. V Leased Wire Reports. VOL. XXV. NO. 239. AS1IEVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY MORNlNtJ, JUNE 1(5, VM). PRICE FIVE CENTS. MYSTERIOUS BOAT Oh, You Kid I IE f ', THE WEATHEE: SHOWERS. AlllCH MAKES MRS.GLEVELAf.DQf B BE AND TO BE EMPLOYED IN CARRYING COFFEE CONCESSIONS TO THETDBACCD MEN BRANDENBURG GAS Castro's Supposed Navy Turns Out o be Nothing But Trade Ship HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY VENEZUELAN TRADER Reduces Quantity That May be Imported Free From Philippines by Half Government Search Failed to Reveal Any Arms or Oth er Contraband Articles ! (By AssociHled Press.) NORFOLK, Va., June IS. The steamer Nantlcoke and the tug-yacht Dispatch, the former detained tet Franklin, Va., and the latter at Nor folk for alleged violation of the neu trality laws In connection with a sup posed contrail ii expedition for Venezuelan revolutionists, are ly ad mission made hero today by their New York agents, bound directs for Mar talbo, Venezuela, but It Is denied that the vessels have any connection with any fill blistering project. Ira M. Levy of New York, representing the New York firm of Kates & Co., exporters, has died application with Collector of Customs Floyd Hughes at Norfolk, for clearance papers (or both the Nantl cr.ke and the Dispatch. The destina tion of each is Riven in these papers as Maracalbo and Captain James Tld marsh, commanding the Nantlcoke, says he expects to have his clearance papers so ftiat he can sail tomorrow. Mr. Levy stated that Collector of Cus toms Hughes has forwarded to Wash ington a report that tt careful Investi gation has failed to develop anything suspicions against either the Nantl coke or the Dispatch and that local customs officers have advised him that the way would bo clear by three o'clock this afternoon for the Issuance of clearance papers for both bouts, found No Arms. Collector' of Customs Hughes and special government agents have made a thorough examination of both the. Nuntlcoke and the Dispatch but found nothing aboard of either but coal, wa ter" SnalS-oVlslons. ' The " customs agent Jater yesterday broke an closed comjTtlr:bt:ttB''Rantk;oko but found not hint contraband. The revenue cutter Pamlico came tip the Black Water river last night and anchored close by the Nantlcokc. Her officers today re-Inspected the sus. (Contlnud on page three.) ACTION AROUSES SHARP CRITICISM Senator Borah Declarse That he Will Vote to Give Fil ipinos Independence (By Associated I"resn.) WASHINGTON, June 15 Indulging I" a vigorous denunciation of the com mittee on finance because of Its change of front over night on the subject of tobacco Importation In the Philippine Inlands, Senator Gturkette, of Nebras ka standing face u face with Sena tor Aldrieh, chairman of that com mittee today declared that Its action looked to him like politics." Ho characterized this action as an effort to hang the senator from Wis consin "up In the air'- and finally de clared that this event afforded, sena tors a good opportunity to vote a lack of confidence In the committee." This tart language followed Mr. Aldrleh's statement that the commit tee on finance would accept the amend ment proposed by Senator Bulkeley to reduce the number of cigars to be admitted free of duty from the Phil ippines from 150.000.000 to 70,000, 000 and the quantity of filler to bacco from a million and a half to a mil lion pounds together with a provis ion that tho wrapper and filler to bacco should be unstemmed when re ceiving this concession. AldrlHi Magnanimous. The support back of the Hulkelcy amendment was evident when tho two Pennsylvania senators gave their sup port to their colleagues from Connecti cut, all of whom had read strong pe tition from cigar makers for the ac tion tney desired. Mr. Aldrlch, re plying calmly declared that thero were men whose denunciation was the high, est commendation, and said the cam. mittee's action involved no mystery or petty politics, but that it proposed in the future fo change a schedule when convinced that a mistake had been made, as ft had done In tho past. He expressed the opinion that the actual Importations from the Philippines would not total the number named In WITNESS sum III E Declares Signature on Times Article Not That of Her Husband EDITOR TELLS HOW STORY CAME TO HIM Another Pretended Ex-presl- dent Had Promised to Give Him Interview (By Associated Prow.) NEW YORK. June 15. Mrs. Fran els Kolsom Cleveland appeared In public today for tho first time sine her husband's death to testify for the prosecution In the case of Rroughton Brandenburg, a magazine writer who is charged with selling to The New game of potty ("York Times a political articlo pur porting to have been written by for mer President Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland was dressed In deep mourning but was self-possessed though pale, while on the stand. She declared emphatically that the sig nature to the article In question was not that of her husband. Also, she pointed out the differences between the signature and the genuine Cleve land signature as it appeared on ecv- ral checks which were handed to her. Court Honored Her. Tho former president wrote with a very unsteady hand during the later years of his life, tho witness said, whereas the name signed to the Bran denburg articlo was written In a com paratively bold, legible hand, more like that of Mr. Cleveland during bis younger days In the white house. When Mrs. Cleveland entered thi court room Justice Fitzgerald, Assis tant District Attorney Nott and the other court officials arose and bowed low as a mark of respect. A large crowd gathered to hear the testimony or the former "first lady of the land. Denied Signature. VIRAGO. SERVANTS SAYOFMRS.GOULD IF EmployesjAround Castle Gould as Witnesses For Husband Give Damaging Evidence (r HER CUPS OF SHAME ARE FILLED TO BRIM HENEY ANDHENEYISM ROUNDLY SCORED B Y CALHO UN!S A TTORNE Y 'Frisco Prosecutor Has Tried to Make Himself More Important Than Guilt or Inno cence of the Railway Magnate Argument Centers About Him and Shows Up His Consummate Egotism. (Continued on pago six.) (By Associate! Pram.) BAN FRANCI800. June 15. An alysis of the testimony and reviews of evidence in the Calhoun case occupied the court today and A. A. Moore, se nior counsel for Patrick Calhoun be gan his argument on the charges of brltbcry against the. "president of the United railroads. Alexander King of Atlanta, On., devoted nearly Ave hours to a dispassionate Review of the case from tho standpoint of the defendant and concluded In -time to give Mr Moore two hours for his Introduction. Mr. Moore's argument Is expected to occupy tomorrow's session, of the court, .He will toe followed s by Mr. Mrs. Cleveland told about meeting I Heney. The case Will probably go John a. Carlisle and F. 8. Hastings, I to the Jury Friday" B' executor of her husband's estate. in this city, and discussing tho arti cle, which appeared In The New York Times, August 30, 1908, over Mr. Cleveland s signature. "Did you hear Mr. Hastings say that the signature was genuine?" asktd Itrcnarks Caustic Mr. Moore's remarks were tinned with the utmost .sarcasm and oltter ness, and wero first directed to the payment of the chief prosecutors of fice expenses by Rudolph Hprooklcs and then to portions of assistant dis trict Attorney O'Qara's address of I said. The poorest iboot-htecka in B'i yesterday. Francisco Is well qualified to rub sir, Mr. Moore opened with a declare-1 Henry's shoes, or his heads as occa sion snouici arise. Any cose that has to depend on tion that the defendant had answered "ready", on forty occasions following the return of sewn Indictments against him In 1907, and that he hail once refused a hearing, because, as he said, "tho hired prosecutor, who works for fame or glory, or money, or all. had chosen to let James L. nallnghor, his chief witness, leave the state." Heney No Kins;. "I am sorry to note In Mr. O'Qari's discourse the tendency of the prose cution to claim that the rich are op pressing the poor, thai streals are Jseslea and srriteeTyv MHiiurtteil rejnfl rth'ir rtthten. ! The evidence" shows that you should therefore convict this defendant. It was unworthy of coun sel and the poorest kind of policy. And when he turned to us and said 'no one of that crowd Is lit to rub the shoes of Francis J Henry,' It was somelhlnK no prosecutor should have matter so insulting to any man, servile and so Indecent In Its refer ence that needs must full the avenues of this city with gum shoos man and pistol men and hatchet men, such as those who sit behind Mr. Ifcney, a bogu case. Bprwkme Money. "This Is the first lime In history that a prosecuting officer has 'been appointed' to offloe 4r person wMh property Interests at stake end lM served without pay to prosecute aa- Weeps And Hides Her Face as Stories of Her Profanity Are Related In Court that he and his partners received 163,000 from this patron nnd thai Mr H-ency IndlvJdurilly received I2S.0C0 In two years, for nfflcn expenses If vou like, hut 123.000 Is 129.000. Mori humble members of the profession pay their own office exoense. I Continued on page three.) T OF CONSTITUTION TO PROVIDE AN INCOME TAX President Taft Will Recom mend Special Tax Corporations Meantime on IT PLEASES NOBODY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, June 16. Presi dent Taft Will tomorrow send to con gress a message urging the pihssugo of an amendment to the tariff bill Imposing a tax of two per cent on the undistributed net earnings of cor porations, and the adoption of a res olution submitting to the several stales an amendment to the consti tution giving congress the power to Impose a tax on Incomes. This un derstanding was readied at a session of the cabinet today anil was sp provedr ihy republican leaders of the senate who conferred with the pres ident. Attorney deneral Wlckersham, ac cording to present plans will draft both tlw amendment and the resolu tion It is expected that the corpo ration tax amendment, when Intro duced, will be referred to the com mittee on finance and that the reso lutlon siihmlttlncr the question of nniendln the constitution will co t" Hie committee on Judiciary. Doubt less, holh of these committees will report Jtiromplly. so that all of th nuestlon Invnlucd may be disused of "n Friday, when the pending Income a amendment will be taken up for consideration. " In view of the emphatic stand taken bv President Taft against a direct tax "Pon Incomes. In the face of the de cision of the Supreme court of the t'nited Htates on that subject. ind hi. t rrferrence for the "proposed tax upon he earnings of corporations a number of the progressive republicans have signified their intention of following us recommendations. At the same time not all of the progressive repub licans are satisfied with this adminis tration program and It Is prohnhlc that some of them will vole vigorous firotests. Democratic senators alo sre expected to indulge In strong criticisms denunciatory of the tax on corporations, as a substitute for a direct tax on incomes. WRESTLE WITH PROBLEM OF GETTING SHEET OUT Newspaper Men Talk Over Ways of Keeping Devil in and out of Office. THEN CO TO SMOKE (By Associated Press.) BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. June 15 The Kmithcrn Publishers' association met In annual session here today with Pn-sldcnt J P. Caldwell of Charlotte N. C. presiding. The discussions at today's session took a wide range. Among ttK questions considered were the following: What can employers do. and how, to keep their employes !-yal to them, satisfied and contented, working every dav of eaeh w ek ? How can the! composing room force be used to the best advantage? What about a number of members co-operating to establish a first class news bureau in Washington, with a number of good m n in charge, who would send out for simultaneous publications a 'budget of general Southern news as well as news pic tures and .news features? What effort is br ing made by mem bers of this association to secure a special newspaper rale of postage of nne-half cent per pound? Are Southern newspaper generally discontinuing the return privilege of news dealers? If not discontinued entirely, what percentage Is allowed? What effect has the limiting of return privilege had on circulation? The attendance Is said to be as large as that at any pt vius conven tion. The association will conclude with a banquet at the Hotel Hlllman tomorrow night. TROOPS STILL PATROL STREETS OF SMILE TO PREVENT' OUTBREAK 4 Those Hurt in Political Duel Not Expected to Live. Some Disappear. IGREEJPOB UMPIRE Settlement of the Georgia Strike Delayed by Failure to Get Together. IS TRAIN; MORTALLr HURT Young Man Succumbs to Injuries Received at Gus tonia on Saturday. ANOTHER TRAGEDY JTSTIFIAIM-K KIM-IVG. ROANOKE, Va.. June T, Deputy Sheriff W. N. Morris who on Sunday shot and killed Rev John W. Phil lips in Tazewell county, was last even ing given a hearing iefore Justice of the Peace Dillon, at Poehahnntas, and acquitted. Morris was trying to serve n warrant on the preacher when the latter drew a revolver and attempted to shoot the officer, ris fired first. MKADVIM.K, Miss. June 15. While Meadvllle is still being patroll ed by state troops and the civil au thorities are taking every precaution against a possible recurrence of blood shed, following yesterday's feudal bat tle In which Chancery Court Clerk A. M. Newman and Silas (J. Reynolds were killed and tlve other men wound ed, tho situation tonight seemingly holds little prospect of further en counters. Dr. Ienox Newman a son of one of the slain men, was taken to Natchez today for medical treatment and re ports from there tonight Indicate lit tle hope of bis recovery. It Is said that Dr. Newman was driving along the street in his buggy when he was nri-d upon from a room In the second story of tho Butler building by W. I,. Ho yd and Vlrull Karr; that Ncwrrran lumped from his buggy and approached the entrance to the building when he was attack ed by Reynolds and Attorney Apple white, political and personal enemies Within a few minutes Ham, Kugene, Monroe Inox and Ernest Nowma.i. sons of Dr. Newman, were engaged In the street light, Sam Newman usin repeating shot gun effectively on Royd and Farr. Inox and Ernest Newman were badly wounded. Doyd and Karr, both bclievM to have been dangerously -wounded. hav- not been apprehended. Sam and Eugene. Newman and I.. P. Prlchard, who were arrested last niKht for participating In the tragedy were released today on bond pending their preliminary hearing next Mon dan. Herbert Applewhite and Ernest Newman, who are In Natche hospitals will, It Is believed, recover. The excitement existing as the re sult of yesterday's tragedy was In tensified today by a report that Theo dore Clay, a member of the board of supervisors of Franklin parish, had been shot and mortnlly wounded hy Deptuy Sheriff Wren Jones. Jones Mor- w engaged In unloading a magazine gun when the accident occurred. - (By Associated Prestts) WASHINGTON. June 1 6 A further conference was held today In Ibe of fices of the inler-state commerce com mission by the arbitrators of the Georgia railroad strike, former Hnrre.i tary of the Navy Hilary Herbert and! Representative Haplwlck, of Georgia. I An effort was made to agree upon th appointment of the third arbitrator, but It was unsuccessful. Several nanus were suggested, but none of them was satisfactory to the two arbitrators. It developed today that the arbi trators were In eoromunicatloij with tho powers which appointed them arid that the probabilities are that no third arbitrator who Is not Satisfac tory to the parties In the controversy will be appointed If this disposition be manlfcsti iM, ultimate conclusion, the likelihood Is that, by the terms of the Krdman act. the appointment of the third arbitra tor will have to be made by the board of mediation, Chairman Knaini and Dr. Nelll. Mr. Herbert and Mr. Hard wick will hold another conb n nee In an effort to agree upon the third arbitrator. Mr. Herbert said tonight that the names of the men considered and n Jected cannot be made public at Ibis t)me. He declared that if the third ar bitrator Is not agrc d upon by Satur day, he will be selected by the media tion board. 22 SHOWER& WASHINGTON. June IS. Fore cast: North Carolina: local show ers Wednesday; Thursday fair; light variable winds. (Sixi-lnl to Tin Cltlwn.) OASTONIA, June 15. Tragic In the extreme was the death here Sunday morning shortly after 10 o'clock of Mr. Leonard Holland, who died in the city hospital as the result of In juries sustained Hat unlay night at 11 o'clock when he jumped from fust (rain No 3:i as It passed through Gas. tonln. His skull was fractured In at bast two places, his head bore two or more gaping scalp wounds, both lets were broken and other marks of the accident were apparent on bis body. Just how the accident occurred Is riot ,. linih lv known. Young Holland bad n ticket, It Is understood. to lilac ksburg. H ('., the only stop De tun n Oaflncy and fbarlolte. To a frb nd who was on the train with hlrn, a Mr. Newton, of I.lncolnton, he remarked that II" i lie train was not going too fast be would get oft ut flas tonia; If this was not practicable b" would go on to Charlotte and spi nd tie- nifht. The train went through G.islonlit at a rati' of about thirty inllis an hour. The night telegraph operator was the only one. so far as has been ascertained, who saw Hol land Jump. Expecting htm to be ground lo death under On wheels, the operator turned bis head away to avoid witnessing the tragedy. Hol land's clothing was bftdly torn and thi supposition Is that bis coat or sorn- part of his clothing caught on the car and that he was dragged some distance, as his shoe, fir one shire, was found thirty of forty feet west of where his body was picked up. Leonard Ifotland. known to nil his friends as "Huh." was the youngest son of Capt and Mrs. J. q. Holland, one of liAstouia's most prominent fu mines. BESIDE RAILROAD TRACK Spencer Man Supposed J lave Peen Struck Train to by tci:i t niMi.H in iu if. rorxnti. NEW YORK. Jnm 13. The ninth council of the Alliance of Reformed cWtirrhis holding the Presbyterian system organized at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church today. Of the more than three hundred delegates marly one-third have come from Eng land. Scotland. France, Holland and other countries of Europe, and In clude many of the most prominent divines of the Eastern assembly of thi church. (KMHnl to Ttie Clllcn.) KAI.IKMItRV. June IS. Mr Walter Iioby, a young white man of about 30. was found dead by the railroad track mar the Vance mill shout I o'clock yesterday morning. He had 'lieeii hi' and run over. It Is assumed by a Houthlround freight and was badly mangled. The right arm was almost m vered, the left badly crushed above the elbow, his back bore nil lliei'iills cuts above the hip, the left leg was broken Is low Hie knee arid the rluht foot almost nminitntid The liodv was discovered l,y Mr. Hen Mr CtihliiriK. a night operator al Spencer, who was returnlnK to bis home In Salisbury on a wheel. It whs lying beside the truck and lire bud probably hei-n extlnce for some time when II was discovered Mr McCubblns hur led to Salisbury arid reported hla Kruesorie- discovery arid the body w.l'i later taken In charge by ndertaker Wright. Just how Mr. Dohy rrii I his death may never be known. With bis fam ily lie made Ills home with his falh er It Is supposed that he had been to Spencer and while returning fall'-dj observe the freight approaching a i to behind him. The deceased was about :I0 old and was tt carpenter by trad lie leave several children. WtKMMi: IS NKKMIOM. (Ry Associated Press.) NEW YORK, June II Tor with anger and extreme humiliation, alter nately flushing with shame, sobbing" or clenching her hands In exasperation, Kslherlne Clemmons Gould sat through a trying ordeal l the Su preme court today at the continua tion of her suit for separation against Howard Uoiild. Mr. Gould's attorneys sought to bring out that Mrs. Gould's habits were such that her husband was justified In leaving her. In the event of proving this, the defense holies to undermine tha charge of abandonment, the only phrase of the plaintiff's case which has yet wllh stood the attacks of opposing coun sel, Justice Dowlln.g having ruled out the charges of cruelty and n on -support yesterday. Howard Gould will . lake the stand tomorrow. Mrs; Gould, having naively told yea. lerday what It required of woman of fashion In the matter of dress at Palm Reach and elsewhere, witnesses for the defense recited today the In dulgence of the same woman of fash Inn In the matter of alcoholic .stimu lants and told further, while tho heav ily veiled Mrs. Gould burled her burn ing face In her hand, of certain re mark and conversation not exactly In keeping with $100 gowns and the palatial Castle Gould on Long Island. Inguag Unprintable, , ' It was during this testimony con cerning some of the -alleged violent and profane Innguuge some of it as related too strong to be printed with propriety that Mrs, Oould wept most. .. X, she recovered tte'rstrlftilclrf). and -at the time coached her lawyer, v freshing his mind on pertain tnoldenig with suggestions and "reminder. ' Specific statement that Mrs. Gould had been Intoxicated on various occa Ions, that she called Howard Oould "you little hound" one night; ths( once she was apparently so under the Influence of liquor a to stagger against the banister at Castle Gould; that her maid brought liquors to her; ' room. Including some times two cock talis before breakfast were among the , statements brought out as the em ployes of the Gould estate related . their experiences with their former mistress. Mrs. Gould's lawyer, Clarence- 3. Hhen rn Injected Into the case the rath. er novel argument that admitting even that, his client hud been intoxicated. this should have strengthened rather than have weakened the ties between wife and husband. . ' "It has bem held," he said, "that If husband drank he needed the love and company of his wife more than If he were sober. I It not thi equally true In the case of the wifeT" Drratic Manager. Whether or not fit fur managing a t household. It was a rather erratic ad- ' mlnlslrallon that Mr. Oould conduct- I at Castle Gould, according to most of the testimony. Verbal clashes with the manager of the great estate, heat- d arguments at the hen coop with iirpentcrs, one of whom testified that sin couldn't walk straight," at tho nine, a period when she remained In her room for two week, consuming duiliiK that time seven hot tin of brnn- ly with oilier liquors these Incident w,-iiMNiisA'ise I Continued on paare three.) TEACHERS ASSEMBLY AT MOREHEAD CITY OPENS HETROIT. Mich, June 15. Hover en Camp, Woodmen or the World, In convention, here tonight Initiated s class of five hundred candidates Int" the order, the degree work being ex. emptlfli d by Greater Cleveland ramp, of Cleveland, Ohio. The soyeri gn 'nrnp will conclude Its sessions Saturday, .ft'MOIt Oltlll R KKSKIOSX. DETROIT, Mich, Juno 15 Black hand outrages and their elimination by means of more rigid Immigration laws which will bar. out member of the society, h one of the matters be fore the thirtieth biennial convention of the National council, Junior Order of American Mechanics which opened here today with HI 2 delegates present, represented practically every state In the Union. )v. Hill and Governor Kit cliin the Speakers at First Session Last Niht. -The (Special to Ttiei fltUen.) M'liiKHK.Wi CITY. June 1- Norlh Carolina Teachr' assembly i unveiied In Its twenty-sixth annual rrioetlng at the Atlantic hotel here to night with su attendance running Into the hundreds. Tho outlook I for one of the most Interesting as-Hciipblli-s ever held in the state. The oiH-ning address tonight was made by Dr. I). H Hill, president of thse A. aid M college, who was followed by Governor Kltchln In an Interesting address In which h' outlined his pol icy of liberality and encouragement toward th public school system of the state. The sessions will continue unlit Saturduy and many educators of note are on the program to speak. The Woman's Betterment association meets this year In conjunction with the teachers. : Superintendent C. A. Tlejnolds of Buncombe, together with about score of teacher are In att-endanJo. r;

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