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Associated Press.
Leased Wire Reports.
VOL. XXV. NO. 272.
ASHEVILLK, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, JULY YJ, YMl
PRICK FIVIT (T.NTS.
mi
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JLJ A B A JLjJ
GOriFEREES WILL
F
Taft'? Ultimatum For Down
ward Revision Expedit
es Their Work
LITTLE DOUBT THAT HE
WILL SIGN MEASURE
Iron. Coal, Wool. Hides And
Lumber Are Main Points
of Difference
(By Aw-odatcd Press.)
WASHINGTON. July 18.J The
tariff btU is nearlng the end of lis
adventurous journey through the wil
derness of conflicting political, local
and commercial interests, in which,
SO to speak, it has been an Imperilled
wayfarer since the beginning of the
extraordinary session of congress
convoked by President Taft immedi
ately upon bis inauguration nearly
five months ago.
The conference committee in now
nea the end of its task, and its re
port Is expected to be completed In
the last part of this week. How long
It will take the senate and the house
to pass Anally upon the work of the
conference and what will be the ulti
mate fate of the measure as a whole
la the subject of varying conjecture,
but the general impression In quarters
usually welt Informed is that the re
port of the committee wil be adopted
by both houses and will reach the
hands of the president early next
week.
Taft Will Sign It.
.Most people here expect President
Taft will sign the bill. He himself
caused a flurry throughout congress
last Friday night by the issue of what
amounted to an informal message to
congress in which he reiterated his
conviction that the national platform
of the republican party meant, and
the sentiment of the people as a whole
demanded, . bona fWe downward re-j
vision of the tarfff. After all is said,
thi.; sttejPsnifiaJJy .'surprised no
fcody "a"-th president had said sub
stahttajly the same thing in his re
cent" speech, at New Haven, but It
served lo crystallite a somewhat fluc
tuating sentiment In the committee
of conference and it may have ex
pedited the committee's actum.
Difficult ITohlom.
In all probability the live subjects
which have received President Taft'a
' (Continued on page four.)
HUSBAND WHEN FIRST
Wife Who Read of Hus
band's Death in Klon
r dike Married Again.
CAME HOME WEALTHY
(Special to The Citizen.)
NEW YORK, July IX A tale of
life In the trozen North, of the lure
of gold and of a woman's tickle love
was told yesterday to Justice Ki lun
ger In the Supreme court. The va
ried details were laid bare in a pe
tition which Herbert It. Averill, part
owner of the K. A. L. Motor company
of Chicago, presented to the court
asking that his marriage to Matlle
B. Averill be annulled. His wife
Joined in the prayer.
Mrs. Averill, who was formerly
Marie B. Antrim of !- Angeles.
Cal., the .daughter of a wealthy
ranchman, was not on hand to sup
port her plea ,ln person. She is at
present In the Philippine Islands,
mistress of a large estate near Manila
where her first husband had property
which' he bought with the gold he
won from the soil In Klondike. HI.
name is Charles R. Jenkins.
JonVins married Miss Antrim in
1892 in Los Angeles, where he was
the- manager of a hotel. For six
years they lived together happily he
fore the young husband caught the
"gold fever." He Implored his wife
to let him go to Alaska, where he
assured her he would soon gather a
fortune. She Consented and arranged
to come East to visit relatives.
Read Husband's IH-ath Siotlce-.
During her stay in luwton no let
ters were received from her husband
She walled for years but the silence
was unbroken. In 1D05 she read in
a Boston paper a harrowing tale of
hardship In the Klondike which rela
ted the experiences of a party who
were trapped In the snow on a
mountain trail an.l perished. Among
the number of the dead appeared
the name of her husband She de
clares In the papers submitted to the
court that from that hour she re
garded herself a wldojv.
Soon afterward she met Herbert
.Averill, who was acting as the agent
REranonw
BILL DUmfJG WEEK
SUICIDE THEORY
INNA VAL ACADEMY
CASE DISPROVED
Chauffeur Declares That Marine
Officet Was
low Officer And Compelled to
Fight.
(By Associated Press.)
ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 18. As the
time approaches for the opening of
the second inquiry at the Naval acade
my tomorrow into the cause nf the
death of Second Lieutenant James N.
Sutton, of Portland, Orcein, an offi
cer of the marine corps, in October
1 907, the facts that can lie gleaned
In advance tend only to throw a deep
er mystery about the cose.
The contention of Sutton's mother
and friends. Is that the young officer
met death in a quarrel at the hands
of one of his brother officers Intsead
of having shot himself as he was ad
Judged to have done by the former
board of inquiry, which conducted the
Investigation soon after his death.
William I. Owens, the chauffeur,
who drove Sutton and his three com
panion officers on the night of the
tragedy from the Carvel Hall hotel
to a place near the marine camp
where half an hour later Sutton was
found dead, with a bullet wound In
hla head, told a remarkable story to
day which promises to clear up. when
he repeats It as a witness before the
board, many of the happenings Just
prior to- the shooting.
Contradict Suicide Theory.
There are two points in Owen's
story which contradict the theory of
suicide and make him a very impor
tant witness.
"Sutton had hired me to take him
out to the camp in my automobile
from Carvel hall that night," said
Owens, "and when he came out of
the hotel, Lieutenant 10. S. Adams
and two other officers were with him.
Sutton invited them to ride in his car.
Adams got on the front seat with
me and the other three men sat in
the rear seat. We went to the Naval
academv grounds where the sentry
held us up. When told there were
officers In the car, he let us through
and we went toward the marine camp.
Ada ins Made JkVMk'-!"
'""'Btrttoifand his 'Companions' In ,
..f eemed to be very friendly,
chatting and laughing most of the
time. When within a snort oisiance
of the camp. 1 was loin hp "-.
i.i.m. limine, I down from the front
seat and taking off his coat and hat
and threw them on the ground, no
made a rush for Sutton as he and the
other two officers got out of the car.
The two officers grabbed Sutton by
the arms and 1 heard Sutton say
IS CLASH WITH TROOPS
SENT TOM MILLS
Company Sent Mounted
Troopers to Protect the
Works Surreptitiously.
ANGERKD THE MEN
(By Associated Press.)
lieTI.Ki: 1'ciin.. July I s. Taking
the sulking employes of the Standard
Steel Car company completely
snipri.se. a detachment or state con
stabulary arrived here from Punxsu
tavuiey this afternoon to guard the
company's property at Lyiidora. The
strikers! angered by the appearance
of the troops gathered, around the
plant vard and in a clash with the
mount.'. 1 troopers one .striker was
,,r tl,v latally shot, two members
of tin- crowd were w. Minded and over
ten injured. lilt-eu alleged strike
leaders wcie ai rested by the H oop
ers. According to a report current here
tonight the constabulary have been
expec ted .since est e I .lay despite the
t ,1.1,1, at of Hi" car company officials
to the effect that outside police pro
tection i-s "ol '1. d-
Strike l Spreading.
The entrance of i liundrad em
. .., ci... standard Wheel coin-
IIIClVCJ.t "i in'
pany, a concern manufacturing press
ed steel wheels, into mc i an.-,
twenty-live hundred striking nun of
the Standard St.s-1 Cur company.
makes the urination at Huuer omi
nous. The n lici t company cu.j..r,.
refused to report for work today.
The mCti on strike at ixiin plants
are unorganized. The principal con
tention of the striking men is mai
both the car and win-el companies aru
working to their capacity but refuse;
to pay wages in proportion to the
amount of work turned out.
The strike situation at the coin-nicni-'u
idant reallv became serious
early today following the attempt of
hair a thousand strikers to tear uown
Ihe car company's board fence. The
strikers! It was reported, had been
told that two box cars had been tak
en into the plant yard, loaded with
strike breakers. A rush was made
upon the plant gates but the heavy
doors refused to yield. The mob
(Continued on page slit.)
Set Upon by Fel
'flo away, Adams, I don't want any
trouble.' Then tine of the officers told
me to 'beat it.' As I turned the car
around 1 saw Adams starting for
Sutton aRaln and heard Sutton say:
'Well, If he wants to light, I will light
him.' " '
Owens said he did not hear any
shots. In crossing the bridge on the
return trip he said he told the sentry
stationed there of the trouble between
the officers and that Sutton and
Adams were two of the men.
Lieutenant Koelker. who left the
service shortly after the tragedy and i
has not since been located, and Lieu
tenant Osterman, classmates of Sut
ton, were said to lie the other two
occupants of Owen's car. Adams and
Osterman are expected to be witnesses
again at the present hearing
Other Witnesses.
John K. Griffith, the other chauf
feur, who took u party to the marine
camp Just ahead of Owen's party on
the fatal night, is summoned as a
witness and is expected to corroborate
some of Owen's testimony.
A number of officers who were on
the scene shortly after the shooting,
will be called as wilnesses.
At the former Investigation no wit
nesses were called outside of the naval
service. A large number of lay wit
nesses have been summoned to report
tomorrow to Captain John M. Boyer,
superintendent of the Naval academy.
All the witnesses will bo turned
over for the examination to Major
Harry Leonard of the marine corps,
Judge advocate, who Is to conduct the
Investigation for the government.
Commander John Hood, U. S. N.. Is
senior member of the board of in
quiry, and his uswoclates are Lieuten
ant Henry N. Jenson, U. S. N., and
Major W. C. Nevill, V. S. M. C.
Motlirr and Sister Arrive.
Mrs. James N. Sutton, Sutton's
imrthrv-ttd her daughter, Mrs. Par
ker, . who. .were instrumental In t
tmg the mrvy department to re-open
the Investigation, arrived tonight. Mrs.
Sutton believes that the evidence
produced will show that her son was
killed in a tight or In a premeditated
I assault by one or more of the officers.
J According to the findings of the
former board of Inquiry. Sutton Bhot
himself In a fit of remorse In a quar-
I rel with the officers after Lieutenant
(Continued on page four.)
SERIES OF ACCIDENTS
FOLLOW EKPLODING OF
TIRE III MOTOR RACES
Benzine Tank Blew up Set
ting Women's Dresses
and (Jrandstand on fire.
THEN PANIC ENSUED
(My Associated Press.)
BERLIN. July IS. Four persons
were killed, more than twenty seri
ously Injured and a dozen others
slightly Injured as the result of the
explosion cif a motor-cycle, and a lire
which followed, during a cycle race at
the old Botanic Hardens this even
ing. Thousands of spectators had
gathered around the track which was
opened for the llrst time a few days
ago.
During an endurance race, the (Ire
of one of the pace-makers motor cycle
burst and the rider lost control. The
benzine exploded In a hurst of flame
and the machine leaped Into the air.
The rider was thrown off and fell
against cither competitors. So terri
fic was the spied of the motor cycle
that It continued on Its course after
the explosion, crashing Into the pub
lic stand, hurling spectators right and
left, and setting on fire several wom
en's dresses. Two women were In
stantly killed and their bodies, satur
ated with flaming benzine, were burn
ed to cinders. The woodVn stand
caught fire, and the flames flashed
In the fnces of bystanders, who, with
clothing ablaze, rushed about shriek
ing with pain and fear. A panic, en
sued. In which a great number of
persons, Including children, were bad
ly trampled. Eighteen men and four
women were seriously injured, two
of the men having since died. The
hospital surgeons say that several
others are in a hopeless condition.
SHOT IV QIWIUIFX.
NEW ORLEANS, July 18. Louis
E. Hresux today shot and seriously
wounded Henry Meyers, residing next
door. In a difficulty participated In
by several members of the two fam
ilies. The trouble is said to have aris
en over abusive words alleged to have
been spoken to Mrs. Breaux by Frank
Kroeper, son-in-law of Meyers.
"Coming Events
GIVE THE NEGRO HIS CHANCE IN
it.
LABOR RANKS WHERE
Prominent Mejt of the Race
0, Living
(Ity Associated JYcwt.)
ATLANTA. Ga. July 1 S. Kqual
Industrial opportunities for the negro
was the keynote of an educational
mass meeting held this afternoon In
lilg Hcthel church here under the
auspices of the Industrial department
of Morris lirown college, negro In
stitution. The - audience of more
than fifteen hundred negroes was In
terspersed with a goodly number of
prominent whit ellucns of Atlanta
who entered active!! Into the discus
iIoik A vrhM -twn - preaid4
Dr.' James W. Lite,' pastor of Trinity
Methodist church.
The negro speakers stressed the
fact of a perfect understanding of the
social and political supremacy of the
white man to whom the nero must
look for moral and Industrial uplift.
Ir. lire Optimistic.
, The principal address was delivered
by Or. Lee, long recognized by negroes
throughout the South as a loyal
KILLED FAVORITE SISTER
Was Distributing Presents
He Had Brought Family
When Pistol Went off.
(By Associated Press.)
HltUNSWK'K, Hi.. July IK. With
In a half hour afl'-r he. reached home
after an absence of a year at Koine,
(iu., and while distributing presents
among the members of the family, J
fCdgar Smith, aged twenty, shot and
almost instantly kill-d his fourteen-year-old
sister. !! in. who was stand
ing at his side v, :it' hlng him as he
showed his latin r a pistol he had
brought home for him. The bull en
tered the girl's forehead.
The father and mother, sisters and
brothers, were -.funding on the
ground. Itene wa young Smith's
favorite of his si.'f.i" and was nearest
him. The yiiuiic a..n had examined
the pistol which v. -is one of the au
tomatic kind and Moved it empty.
He stated that "-n though he be
lieved the inngMae- contained no
cartridges, be wool. I not have pulled
the trigger, but .ltd " accidentally.
The father W. J. Smith, had made
special preparation" to welcome the
young man at hi- home coming and
It was plann'd M' ' ''Mcr he had dls
Vihuted the pp '. the family
would sit down to a reunion feast.
.IVHY ftVT AOHEE.
nARNWEl.I., S ''. July IS. Af
er twelve hours .1. liberation the jury
In the case of Cbei"r Kennedy, who
Is charged with comfllclty In the mur
der of W. Perrv V ery, announced
that It could not ni-ree on a verdrlt.
WASHINGTON, J"fr 1 Foreeast:
North Carolina: I'air alonda', Cooler
in Interior;., Tuesday fair; light to
moderate north wlnda . "
Cast Their Shadows
$J f
I in
(com ! fcSoWf
Ask Only That He Be Given an Equal Chance to Make
With No Thought of Sodial of Civic
Equality
friend. Ills talk was optimistic, and.
while deploring the recent effort to
oust negro lltvmcn on the fleorgla
rnllroad, he felt that an .era of better
feeling between the two races was
dawning which augured for the bet
terment of the South generally. ,lr
1-e said the white men of the South
could not afford to stand idly by and
see the negro deprived of the oppor
tunity to make an honest Hying.
"The custom has been. In the
North," said tr. Le. "to Desmtt. -the
ntirS -utiTTrrnT'ttis churfc,ii-4b
School, In the theatre, in the railroad
coach, bill no eiiuallty in the shop,
the foundry, or In the department
brick laying mid carpentry. The
South has been disposed to offer him
cipialltv where his rations are In
volved. Our Northern friends say
you can do whatever the white folks
do at the top of society, hut you curt
do nothing they do at the bottom.
The Southern pie say to the ne
NATIONAL CASKET HEAD
KILLEIMN ACCIDENT
Automobile (Iocs Over in a
Ditch Injuring Wife and
Her Sisters.
(Hv Associated lrcH.)
I'TICA. N. Y.. July 18. O. Will
f'happell, aged about sixty-eight
years, of Oneida, president of the Na
tional k'asket company, was killed
In an automo'i lie accident about two
miles out of I'amiKtota tonight. Ills
wife and two sisters-in-law, who were
In the party, received serious Inju
ries. avoiding a collision witn
1
bis ear Into the dlt h
with a telegraph
pole.
Mm.
osf Instantly Rilled.
arms and five ribs
broken and her two sisters.
l-'lori ucc Will- or l n. I. la and
Cochran of Unci. la i'a-tle, were
internally.
VICTIM Of APTO.
DOVRIt, N J.. July IK Mrs. Wil
liam Ilsrdln of Patterson, N. J., was
killed In an automobile accident neui
here tonight. Her husband, who win
driving the car, was slightly Injure!
as were two younger sons.
SCHOOL TO TEACH
COTTON GROWING
MTTI.E ROCK, July 13. In an ef
fort to benellt It" members In the cul
tivation and handling of cotton, the
Farmers' union will hold a six-weeks'
term of school here, beginning to
morrow for the purpose of Instruct
ing the member shout cotton, and
matters eloselv associated with tt The
school will la for members of the
farmers' union only.' .
J. Alston ciapp will be principal of
the school.
SIKH HV PltlKONBU.
PARIS. Julv 1. Sheriff R. II
Compton "f Henry lounty was shot
and probably fatally wounded here
this morning by a n"gro whom he
had under arrest. The negro attacked
the jherlff. who Is of slight physhtu.
and securing the officers pistol, fired
r.nn ah9l K-hlch took effect In th
neck. The negro escaped and has not
been captured. Feeling is high n4 a
is nigri am n
the negro Is
'ynchlng may result If
captured.
f'happell lH
i team "'f,''
nn.l rollhWj-
lie was nltri
i 'haipells
Before Them.
HE BELONGS
gro, you can work along with the
white folks in the realm of Industry
and thus make for "yourselves Iho
means to enable you to create a top
for yourselves by your own efforts and
uinoiig your own people. In the
South, the white people will have
their own top, but they have been
willing for the negro to work and
build up a top for himself, too. i
. i ' Vtutmf, Tu. yb'ttri. ' : ,.':'
! "The ideas which prevail In"' tha
Konh , svneernlng nogro , Industrial
.equality snouin run o pnmni
make a practical expression of them
selves ln,.tH Smith. It Is generally
conceded thai the North did a good
thing for the ' negro In setting him
free and , now It Is the turn of the
South to do a better thing for him by
giving, him work, so that his free
dom shall not be a curse hut a bless-
fax-Oovernor Northcn, of Georgia,
was among I hose who spoke.
SIXTEEN WAS TOLL OF
WATERS AMD COW
List of Hunday Fatalities
Swelled by Overturned
Boat.
(Ily Associated Press,)
SRVV VOItK. July 18. Sixteen
persons, live of them women, met
death by drowning In the waters
either surrounding or In the vlclnlt,'
1 of New York today. Ten of the vlc
I tlms perished after the capslxliiK of
1 the excursion sloop ltoxana.
1 The other drownings, with but one
exception, were swimming accident..
Stephen Krnst, twenty eight years
I old, of Brooklyn, was drowned off
Coney Island while learning to swim.
( Charlie lleii.lrlckson, forty-two years
i old, of Krooklyn, met death In the
same vicinity Iby Ihe upsetting or a
row -hunt. William Vaeger, a sixteen
w.-re I year old boy, of New York, slipped
Mirs on .ini' rocks and fell Into the lltid
Mr.'. ; son lo his death.
hurt ff Bclmoorc, 1 I., Charles Conn.
thirty-two years old. got beyond bis
depth and sank. (llano l.,. a la
borer, twenty-one years old. perUhed
while swimming In the Harlem river,
lastly, Kdward Wall, thirty-live years
old, of Kast Orange, N. J , wa
seized with cramps sn.1 drowned In
the Morris Canal near Newark
GRANT ON STAND IN
HIS OWN DEFENSE
RALEIGH, N. C, Jolv IX. Much
of ysterilay Major II L. Orant was
being examined by the Superior court
ne to his connection wftti the dwell
ing occupied by Maude Kelly, who,
with William Jones, a negro hunk
man. Is on trial for Immoral relations.
They claim Major Orant owned and
frcnuentv d the place ami that Jones
Was there as a servant of Mnj. Grant.
Grnnt's testimony was that he made
a loan on the house through the laic
Major S. G. Ryan and later purchased
the place to rid himself of It out
right easier, and that the llrst pay
ment he made enabled tho trustees of
Wake Fort-at college to withdraw the
loan they had on the property.
He denied visiting the people In
the house.
fir.TS CIIIXFSK PU'M.
WASHINGTON. July 18. President
! Taft has decided to appoint Charles
. 'an, ' Chicago, of the manufac-
, --
luring. firm of Crane and company,
las minister io cnina.
QUIET OF-HOLY DAY
E
'E
Constabulary Is Withdrawn
From Town Streets And
Truce Declared
PRESSED STEEL CAR
PLANT STILL GUARDED
Civic Association Is Working
Hard to Settle Dy Ar ,y
: bltratlon
' lty AsiMM'lalcO Press.)
PrTTSWWRa, July I Tha
tiw-
moll smT Incitement and general sense
of Imminent uprising and riot which
have pervaded McKees Rocks, and tha
Immediate vicinity of tha plat of th
Pressed Steel Car company for tha
past week gave way today to ptaoat
and unbroken quiet, , V
The working men's settlement at
Preston which fur days hat had the
appearance of an Intrenched ,cmpi
thrown up at the gates of barrt-
caded city, was cay with tha Sunday
finery of the wives and chidrea ol,
the strikers who flocked to and from
church or loitered at play by tha
riverside while tha men sat at aaaa
on their doorsteps smoking' and an-t
joying Impromptu af fresco concerts,
furnished by harmonicas and eecar-,
deons. ' , , '
At the various gates pf the mils-',
square stockade enclosing the various,
shop of . the comwiny 4 grenpa. ,,
deputy sheriffs still stuod guard, but
the streets, VtWch for. day bad been .
patrolled by the grtn' looking troop
erg, of the state. Constabulary, wira
left entirely free of guards. f ,
Trite Ikt'lNretl. , ' , ' ,.
, On both side therp' seemsd .to b ,
U. feeling that, a Irure had been de
clared and that If resort was had to
violence it ' wonht ..boanl -art tha
attempt by the Publrt ifeftaa .aaeo.
dHtlon, t eotopol an -arbitration of,
Ihe trouble, 'Jiatl fallad., ' " .
The move of (he association, which
l: a non-partisan civic: -organisation,'.
formed to further publlo Interest by
Invoking action by the courts, la be
lieved to bo unique in the annals of
labor disputes. The association seek '
lo enjoin the strikers from trespass
ing upon, damaging or destroying tha
property of tha company . and to en
join from discharging tha. striking .
(Continued on page, two,
WSTER STEALS BAST
T
His Religion was Uppermost
liven in His Drunken k
Ficnzy. vl
ACTIOI) LI K K MADMAN
(SM-clal to The Cltiwu.)
NEW YiiRK, July I. Rev. Rob
ert M. Kemp, for seventeen year
c urate In St. Paul's Chupel, Hroadway
anil I'lilli.n street, was arraigned In
th,. Jefferson Market court yesterday
on a charge of Intoxication.
With the minister - was "William
Detscliell. formerly the well known
"boy tenor" of St. Paul's Chapel, whu
was charged with grand larceny, It
ImIiik all. fed that he had stolen a
diamond ring valued at 8500 frrm
the minister. The latter explained
that he knew where the ring wa
and on this statement Magistral
Council discharged Detschell
The story of the clergyman trvlii
to baptize the child was told by Mix.
Detschell. but did not come out In
court. She said:
"My husband started out shout
11. SO o'clock lo go to the drug slurs,
and when ho came Iback with Mr
Kemp I was surprised, but I ws
glad, for I bad often heard Will
speak of the minister.
"My Kemp's llrst question to tue
was: 'I suppose you will raise thl
child a Christian V I told him I was
a Chrstlan: that I had been a member
of the Catholic church since I was s
girl and I proposed to make my
daughter a good Catholic that Will
had pledged ilmsl'ir to raise ..our
ehlldren In my church when he mar
ried me.
"Mr. Kemp began to shout at me
then. He was like a madman. Ha
tried to snatch Ihe baby from my
arms, and would have done so had It
not' been for Will. Will was going to
put him out of the house. Out I beg
ged him not to do anything of tha
kind, and tha two went Into tha din
Ing room.
"He asked Will to allow h(m to II
down on the sofa In the dining room.'
Will consented to this and then cam
(Continaed on pag four.)
PERVADES
SEEN
OFIMPEin
(Condrfued on pace four.)