HE ASHEV OITI THE WEATHER: FAIR. Associated Press. Leased Wire Reports. VOL. XXV. NO. 272. ASHEVILLK, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, JULY YJ, YMl PRICK FIVIT (T.NTS. mi ZEN. 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.)