SUNBAY' CITIZEN
THE WEATHER:
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VOL. XXV. NO. 278.
AS11EVILLE, N. 0., SITND.W MoUNI'Ntt, JULY 25, 1!H)!).
PRICE FIVE CENTS. J
DIPSOPHQBIACS
IN THEIR ZEAL GOT
The Situation in Georgia.
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OA PAGES
TODAY
REPORTS COMING
HIDES SCHEDULE
GRAFTED ON DENS
IfJ FROM COUNTRY
GIVES CONFEREES
SWELLDEATH LIST
Fatalities in Gulf Hurricane
Tl
JO MUCH PLEDGE
MUCH CONCERN
Mount to Forty One And
Perhaps More
PROPERTY LOSS MAY
REACH TWO MILLIONS
With Damage to Crops Includ
d Almost Incal
culable (toy Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, July 24. With
definite reports today ftf thirteen ad
ditional deaths as the result of tho
hurricane In Texas and Louisiana
Wednesday, the death list tonight to
tals forty-one. Also six previously re
ported missing are still unaccounted
for.
Dispatches today from Angleton,
Texas, confirmed the report that Mau
rice P. Wolfe, wife, six children and
negro servant hud been drowned at
Christmas Bayou. The six children
ranged in age from six months to ten
years. Wolfe assembled his family
In a yard away from all building and
nother man helped him hold a large
tjullt over them to protect them from
the rain. What appeared t" be a tidal
wave then swept inland, drowning the
entire family. II. B. Roberts, who
helped to hold the blanket was
washed against a tree and lodged
there until the waters receded.
Others Missing.
Added to jthise nine were Captain
J. K: Cllassock, who died at Angle
ton, Texas, of shock and exposure,
and Columbus Maddox believed to
have lost his lift near Engleton, al-.
though his body has not been found.
Rock Island, Texas, swelled the list
to thirteen with the deaths of John
Flnley and David Jarvis, farmers, who
were burled in the wreckage of their
homes. Those missing are C. H. Da.1
tey, Circulation manager of The dali-
Ceit' i., and "four members of the
eret" of the schooner Columbus,
blown out "to' sea nom. Qulntantate,
Texas. ' Practically all hope for the
rescue of Mr. Dalley has been aban
doned. Property Ixws CJrows.
While the various towns and cities
which suffered damage in the hurrl-
ane have renorteu properly iobek-b
I MEN GET
OVER REPORT
Wire President and Senate.
Leaders to Stand by
Agreement.
CONCERTED ACTION
(By Associated Press.)
CHARLOTTE. N. ('.. Juiy 24
Southern mill men. alarmed by a re
port that the conferees on the tarllT
bill had decided to reduce rates on
lower grades of cotton and maintain
senate rates on finer goods, today
appealed to President Taft. Senator
Aldrich and Representative Payne by
wire to prevent such action. Th"
nvennage to President Taft was sen!
by R. M. Miller, Jr.. of Charlotte,
president of the Manufacturers' as
sociation of North Carolina, and was
as follows:
"The New York Herald rcvorts
that on the final conference on the
cotton schedule a reduction will be
made on the lower grades of cotton
cloths and yarns.
"Representing this association and
on behalf of every cotton manufact
urer In Nnrth Carolina I urge you
not to consent to any reduction from
the original schedule agreed upon for
any euch reduction would he unfair
and unjust to a new and great and
growing section of this union.
"In company with representatives
of the cotton manufacturing industry
of the whole country we visited
Washington, met and worked with you
for a fair. Just and reasonable cotton
schedule which we understood was
accepted and would 1ecome law."
Prominent men from all ovt the
Bouth were notllierl of the reported
action and sent messages to Mes.
Payne and Aldrich.
JUSTICE CLARK TO
ADDRESS "VETS"
(Special to The Cltlien )
RALEIGH. N. C. July 24 The
principal address for the annual re
union of the North Carolina division
Confederate Veterans in Charlotte
August 25 will be by Chief Justice
Walter Clark, he having Just accept
ed the Invitation.
Governor Brown Promised to
Veto Liquor Bills And
Will Do It
BELIEVES HIS PLEDGE
HOLDS HIM BOUND
Drys Very Anxious to Have
The Law Amended And
Made Stronger
(By Associated Press.)
ATLANTA, lia., July 24 Two facts
developed today in the prohibition
fight in the state legislature. The
first Is that Governor Hrown will
veto the Alexander near-beer bill as
soon as It reaches him. should it pass
both houses. The second Is that the
governor, by an ante-eleetion pledge
is bound not to tail a special session
of the assembly, even If the prohibi
tionists desire one.
That I he governor will veto the
measure is attested by his closest
friends. When asked about it, he re
plied: "When the bill reaches me. If It
ever does, 1 will announce my decis
ion then, but not until then."
(iot Too Much Plcdgr.
Before he was elected, the prohibi
tionists visited Governor Brawn and
made him siyn a pledge that he would
"resist with the veto power, If neces
sary, and attempt to repeal or change
by amendment or otherwise, the pres
ent prohibition law."
At that time, the drys did not an
ticipate the necessity of any change.
Brown's friends, however, say that
the executive believes the pledge he
gave Is binding.
That the governor would not call a
special session of I be assembly even
for the drys. is believed from a pledge
ho made before election. He then
declared that when prohibition was
an Issue, the people had a right to
know s it at the time Jeglslators ware
being elected as It might change their
votes. On this ground, he declared ho
would oppose- any liquor legislation
during his term of office, because the
liquor question was not an issue when
the present legislators were elected.
Steal March on Wets.
The Alexander bill was read a sec
ond time in the house, this morning
with a score of other bills. The ns-
(Continucd on page four.)
GREAT SPASM OF VIRTUE
E
Gertrude Hoffman Charged
With Not Wearing
Knougli Clothes.
THEY WEliE SMOI
IT
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YnliK. July 24 Kvery now
and then New York city has a
spasm of virtue and inaugurates a
campaign against questionable tbeiil
rlcal productions. A new crusade was
started today, the first by the new
police head. Commissioner Baker.
The arrest of fierlrude Hoffman,
the Salome dancer Inst nlnht, was the
apparent official beginning of the
movement. She was arraigned in
court today, but her case was ad
journed until next Tuesday. Other
arrests are to be .made, says the com
missioner, unless ccrluin performances
and particularly the dances now be
ing given in the city, are decidedly
reformed.
Mr. Maker said that he did not or
der Mis Hoffman's nrr-st until after
he had sent six persons to see her
dance. All reports agreed, he said,
that the performance was Improper.
Then he saw the performance him
self, and thought ho, tro.
Court developments today showed
that the charge in the Hoffman case
binges on the definition of "tights."
"I will let the show go on." said
Police Magistrate Sleinert, "provided
the young woman wears tlghls."
Miss Hoffman protested that she
ilid wear tights, 'but their knee lenl'th
was what caused police criticism.
AHMi:i XKITKAMTV.
flTTSIIt'Hr,, July 24 The armed
neutrality between the strikers and
constatiuiary was continued today.
There was no disorder, but pickets
stationed by the strikers preserved a
sharp lookout for strike-breakers.
Both sides "have settled down for a
long siege. Neither shows sign of
yielding.
Settled Once Upon Free Hides
And Then Reconsider
ed Matter
REDUCTION IS SURE
TO BE AGREED TO
President Brings His Influ
ence to Bear In Favor
of Lower Rates
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 24 The hid
question was settled and unsettled
today and while there seemed little,
doubt that eventually hides will fall
among the unprotected articles on the
tariff bill, tin- contest over their
status cannot he regarded as closed
When the conferees adjourned for
luncheon several of them said that
It had been decided that hides should
go on the free list. Tonight the
same conferees declare that hides will
bo free, but that the question ha
not been decided officially. I
None of the questions made prom
lnent throughout the country by
President Taft's interest In them have
been adjusted. The conferees expect
to spend a large part of Sunday In
wrestling with these problems
I'omsst of Result.
From a careful analysis made by
senate and house leaders, taken In
connection with the attitude of Pres
ident Taft, the Indications are tonight
that the conference rates upon the Im
portant questions still In dispute will
ihe as follows:
Hides, free; oil, free; lumber
rough. $1.15 a thousand feet; with
proportionate differentials; coal forty-five
cents a ton; without the house
reciprocal clause; Iron ore, fifteen
cents a ton; print paper, $S 75 a ton.
Practically one full week has been
occupied by th conferees In an ef"
fort to settle these questions.
Most of the tkme hajs been devoted
Mfllt ot in l nine nap ueem uevouiM W'tt;'J0a.
tMW"'n of 1
iect was comfpilcate by reason of
statements coming from boot and shoe
Interests that ithey iw"ere reaidy t:
agree to substantial reductions In the
duties on leather goods If hides were
put on the free list. ,
Til ft for Be.ltictlon.
President Taft Mated to a number
of his callers that he would Insist
upon a reduction to at least ten per
(Continued on page four.)
SPAIN JUIAY HAVE TO TAKE
OFFENSIVE IN WAR WITH
Reports of Many Killed
IJouse People to Clamor
for Revenge.
NAMES NOT GIVEN
(By Associated PrcsH.)
MADKII). July 24 The govern
mental press today , InslstH that the
government Rhould take the ofTennlve
in I he war now going on between
Spanlarda and Kabjle trlbeamen on
the It i fT coast and clear the entire
region from Cape Trea, as far an the
Algerian frontier. In order to guaran
tee aecurlly in the future for Span
iBh subjects.
The Imparclal ay the government,
In order to calm the agitation of Un
people fihouhl allow the married
rcserviHU to remain In tho garriaon
at home.
A report publlHhed today by the
general Ktaff sbowa that in yesterday
fighllng Spaniards lost heavily. A
colonel and live other offlcera were
killed. The report does not give the
number of Boliliern killed. 1'eoplc
surround the bulletin board bore
clamoring for the names ,f the dead.
The eteainer M. uor(uin, with eighty
wounded alxianl, arrived al Malaga
today from Melilla. where the hos
pital are over-crowded.
MKL1LLA. Morocco, July 24.
Heavy cannonading this afternoon In
dicated the opening uf a new battb
between the Spanish forces and the
Moorish tribesmen,. The outpost's of
the Moors have tleen strongly rein
forced by tribes from the central luff
region.
News received here today from Fez
says that Hull. in Hand's situation Is
better. Previous reports said that he
was a prisoner In tli- capital, and that
Mulal HI Kebir. a brother, who had
been proclaimed aultan at Zemur, was
advancing at the head of a large
force. The viziers are returning to
their allegiance, and some of the rebel
tribes are dhspowd to ak for pardon.
K?JSy-X
fC ru' or I -"
SUTTON SHOT TO MAKE IT APPEAR
SUICIDE IS HIS MOTHER'S THEORY
Reported That Autopsy Will Show That His Skull Was Fractured and That He
Was Badly Injured Otherwise Chauffeur Declares He Tried
to Avoid the Fight.
(fly Associated Press.)
ANNAPOLIS, Md.. July 24. The
mother and sister .if Lieutenant James
N. Sutton, of the marine corps, pend-'
Ing the resumption on Monday of the
Investigation Int.. the cause of the
young man's deal h before the naval
inquiry board, occupied today In ex
amining Voluminous ni'ur.ls of testi
mony so far lak. n with a view to a
mora rigid cross-examination of the
remaining naval officers to be called
, "chMffetir Owen1 testimony yester
day, which Indicated that young But
ton had tried to avoid a tight with
Lieutenant A. lams and tho other offt
cerfl who were taken to camp In
Owens' car on the night of the shoot
ing, has thr..wn the first light on the
affair from a witness outside of the
service.
Tho prlnrlpal points Owens testi
fied to went far to strengthen the
theories of those who believe the
young officer was the subject of foul
play.
Mutton's mother and sister, Mrs.
Rose Sutton Parker, were very em
phatic In their declaration today that
facts would vet be bnoight to light to
CO-OPERATION SILLED
PEACH GROWERS PROFITS
Improved Methods f Mar
keting Made Crop Sell
for Million More.
(Ily AfKMH'laled Press.)
'ATLANTA. Oa., July 24. Over half
a million .I'.llars profit directly due
to improwd methods of marketing
were ni.i.i. .ft the Georgia peach crop
this year. i. cording to figures pub
lished i..iiii.lii. This year for the (irt
time C.'.itii growers organized Into
a mutii;il I" pieflt exchange, model, d
on the llri. - of California Fruit Ship
pers' (. i iiions. The result was
that a crop of nearly 2,000 carloads of
peaches tin" year brought about
$1,000.(1011 ,,r about the same price
which a :op "f six thousand car
loads Li ..o-lit last year. The pil.e
this year ent as high a 12 per
crate.
Til. Importance of these figures for
the .South I. " in the fact that not onlv
the pea. h 'rowers but the raiser of
other gr it southern fruit crops, p.ir
tlcularlv "i ingea are organizing slml-
lar ass... 1.
ern ass..-',
iforni a eh
iriK" in U
1 .n. In each case Soulh
1 .n have follow, d the Cal-
f "keeping the crop roll
1 ht cars and selling il as
means of reliable ag. nl"
iatlun In the North.
It no
of the a
(FAIR
WASHINGTON, July 24 Forecast :
North Carolina: Fair Sunday and
Monday; light variable winds.
show that Lieutenant Hutton wan
stripped and ben ten to death on the
nljjht or October 12, ISO.
What AutoiKy Showed.
Charles Kennedy, a private In the
marine corps nt Norfolk, Vtt., who Is
said to lie nn Important witness of
the Hul tons arrived here today. The
nature of his testimony has not been
disclosed, but It Is thought he waa
an eye-witness of the shouting, with
a different version of the affair frim
that of the witness who have, ao far,
testified that Hutton MMMttitted ut
clde. In aupport of th thttHrj'f
Mrs. Button and her daughter, that
Lieutenant Hutton was practically
beaten to death. It Is claimed today
that the report of the physician who
performed on autopsy open the body
of Hutton will show that Hutt.in'.i
skull was fractured, that there was
a large lump under the cluck and
that his forehead bore evidences of
a terrific blow, Dr. McCormlck, who
performed this autopsy Is to ho ouu
of the most Important witnesses of thu
coming week.
K)vuted a Bobbery.
Uceelvlng word today that her
apartments In Washington had been
entered last nlnht and that a trunk
NEW YORK-ATLANTA ROUTE HID COMPANION S MONEY
CROSSES OLD NORTH STATE
Om.i;ils After Testing
Roads sclert run Through
This Stale as Uest.
(By AssiH'Inlcd Press. )
ATLANTA, (la., July 24. The offi
cials of Ihe New York to Atlanta au
tomobile highway completed tlo ir de
Illier.i4l.ins here tonight and an
nounced the selection of the route
Will, ll will be followed III the good
roads and reliability run between the
I wo ' it les next October
The New York II. raid s experts de
cided to adopt the road leading fr.un
New York across Htuhn Island to
I'ertli Amboy, to Philadelphia, to
fSettysburg across the historic bntllc
liehl. down through the beautiful
Shenandoah Vall.-v. through Lexing
ton and Natural brhhie to Itoanoke.
At Itoiinoke. Va., The Atlanta Jour
nals semis look lip (be chub f
roads ami s. h 1 ted from Jtoanoke to
(In eiisb.ir.1 or Winston-Halem, to
Salisbury, to Charlotte, to Spartan
burg, to ilrccnvillc and on to Al
ia nta.
The route was chosen after the
si.iiil'-' lar of Til" Journal ami The
Herald bad covered over four thou
sand mllis Tin- scouts say Dial both
Hi, 1 apital to capital, and the I'.lislol
r, ut.s a ill be built, but In Heir
J.idi' meiit at present there are too
irianv f rrl.s and no! 1 nough bridges
to JllStifV the Selection.
The route selected Is about 1,12ft
mil . h.ni; and before the big con
t. si h.-ninH next October, a sign board
will be 1 reeled at every cross to guide
lb, dilvers In the race.
lini.CK KTHIKi; OFF.
HfTI.I'.l!, Penn.. July 24. leaders
of the striking employes of the Stand
ard St. 1 I Car workB here are said to
have given up the baltletis lost, rind
that many, if not all of the men may
return to work Monday morning. A
meeting of the striker will be held
tomorrow morning at which It will
be decided filially whether or not to
resume work Monday.
had been broken open and a number
of valuable papers stolen, Mr, Hutton
hurriedly left for Washington thin
afternoon.
It.'tiiriilng hunt tonight Mrs. Hut
ton said that tho Information upon
which she went to Washington was
not quite accurate. A trunk In her
apartments had been brokon open,
but this had been done by some one
whom sho had sent there tu (jet
something from the trunk, and who,
havtnit tost the key thereto,! foreed
th lock. Tha brokftn v Itwlit hiTh
been notlr-ed by peopln In the house,
Mrs. Hutton wa notified of what
eemod an attempted rubbery.
FlflllT TO A FINIHIl.
HT. LOIT1H, July 24. Minor Merl
wether, Jr., of Shreveport, Ijt.. room
mate, claswmata and friend of Lieut.
James N, Hutton, Is In 8t. Louis. He
will not h surprised, hn uys, If an
other autopsy on the body of Hutton
shows that bone were broken In the
light which terminated In his death.
Meriwether suld that In Naval
academy fights a man never gave up
until he wua unconscious, no mutter
how many bones were broken.
IN "RAT" FQR90T
Hut Iot off Train and For
got, to Wake Him up;
Both Let off.
(Special to The Citizen.)
WILSON, July 24. A white Wo
man by the name of Lucy Htnlth was
taken in charge by a police officer
yesterday at the Atlantic ('oust Lille
depot on complaint of J. M. I'Htrlck
that the woman had robbed him on
the northbound train. The names of
both parties w re secured from mil
eage books In their pHlon,
which were Issued in Jacksonville,
Kla. When the train reached Wilson
the woman got off. but Patrick, who
had been drinking knew nothing
about It until Ihe train was s dlug
northward. He got the conductor to
put him off and he walked back to
Wilson and lodged complaint. The
woman had eighty dollars concealed
In her hair, but Patrick claimed that
he had be. 11 robbed of one hundred.
They vvre both taken to the office of
the chief of police where the woman
was scare lied, after which Patrick
counted o.r his money and found
thai eighty dollars was all that hud
been taken.
The woman claimed that she had
taken the money to keep Patrick
from Icing robbed. Mayor lirlggs,
after listening to the story of both
parti, s discharged them. The Woman
has mlleae enough to take her hack
to Jacksonville, but not a penny to
pay for food, while Patrick Is living
like a nabob, cracking bottles of bull
head ami smoking line cigars.
OLD MAN BOASTED
OF HIS MISDEEDS
HAIlKIlSHAM, Tenn.. July 24.
Walthaus Prock waa shot and killed
today by Harvey Ilriinnam. ltrock
had boasted of his attentions to Mrs.
Hiannam. Today seeing Brock com
ing down a public road Mrannam hid
behind a tree until Hrock waa ns-ar
and then leveled a Winchester and
tired killing Hrock Instantly. The
slayer surrendered and aays that he
drn-H not fear trial. Brock was alxty
years old and U ran num. Ihlrty-acven.
OF VIGE IS CHARGE
UGHNSTOFflGEO
Shake Up In Chicago Poller)
Promises Startling Rev
elation . -37 n
MILLIONAIRE AND
POLITICIAN IN LIST
Men Higher Up" Are Living
In Terror of Grand Jury's
Inquisition
(Iy AmtfMatrtl Vr.f "
TTUOA.UO, July 24 -Polh Jnp4
tor Kdward !. Mct'unn wan Indicted)
today charged lt malpractice In of
lice in tho alleged collecting of "pro
lection" money from Illegal establish
nionis of tha west side tenderloin.
McOnn'a predicament wo for
shallowed yeeterduy when an IndloU
nieiit was returned against I)etctiv
Hergeant Jeromlah (Irlflin, alleged tot
have been the collection agent irork
Ing out of McCtuin'a ofllc.
Hair a doaon wttnewwa testified be
fora the trrand Jury, It was jrtatad In
this testimony that Orlflln harvMted
as high na IK, 0(10 a month, moat of
which went to nen "higher op." Th
aggregate1 collected under thla ayitani
Is ald to be II GO, 000, . :v
Vice of wry aort, tnetudlnr tha
selling of cocaine Hi alleged to fcava
been protected. 4 J
Otlutra Indh usl.
llesldes MeCann and Orlffln foui
others nro under Indictment In tho
cam.. They are Lnuls (Yank, aald to
be a millionaire, who haa alwaya been
ttolltlcally potent In th "levaa' dis
trict of the west aide; Mlchaal Hll
ler; Morrla Hhata and M. A. Banrhoa,
who Is charged with collecting money
on the pretext that ltn Would Mourv
protection, McCatm haa been-wlthi
lh imllce departsnent 'for a xenora
tlon rising from thn rank to hit
present Mmltton. He tVeclam thai
cbivrges comn from a powerful cliuuw
which diwpalrlnK of forcing him, tut
l-PMitect vice, ha dtermlh4 to ruin
him, j 1
- Inspector MeOnnn waa itrreiHed toU
lowing thn gmnd Jury' action and
soon afterward gave bond for 20,
000 and waa released. ' , ;
Hn went lit once to the offlca oB
Acting fhlef of Polloa Bchustler mint
handed In his etar, Later flchuetler,
ordered his formal tuapenalon, aayin
that no policeman under Indictment
could work on the force until th
charge wore dismissed.
T
op raw ram
First Oonventiou of Partfl
Hi nee President Came ta
Office. , i?W ;ih
(Tly Associated Pre.) 1
NHWPOHT NKWB, Va., July I4.-4
Thn llrst republican slate convention
to be held during the 'Taft ailmlnUv
trillion will open here neat Wednea ;
'lay. , (
Thai tho president haa not over
looked the fact that this gathering of)
more than one thousand republican
will afford tho first reflection of th
Taft sentiment a shown by a tt
party gathering since his Induction
Into office a little lean than Ota
months ago, Is Indicated by tin fact
that Secretary Nagel is to be amonC
the speakers.
A. P. (llltesple, of Tazewell, In all
probability will bo nominated to head
thn statu ticket. Aa the liquor qUM
tluu will be a live one during thu com 4
Ing campaign, the platform deulara
tion of the republicans regarding It,
is awaited with Interest. . Whila
neither of the two democratic eandU
lates are advocating state-wide jro
hibltl on, both are giving the vol era to
understand that If the legislature
acts such a law they will sign it. 1
LIGHTNING BOLTS
STRUCK TWICE
AI1IANV, Oa July 24 -Llghtnln
holts In Dougherty and Mitchell
counties today struck the big publld
ginnery of the Jackson Supply com
pany at liacorrton, setting It on fire.
Its complete destruction resulting
struck the dwvlllng of Mrs. C. E
Miller near the Mitchell county line.
very one In the house being badly
shocked, and killing a goat, chicken
and pigs In the barn yard. Tha fcol
mlsi.-d a shot gun In a fantaatld
shape.
DKMF.S KKaAM V CHARGE.
DENVER, Coin. July 84. J. In
P,yrd. tha young Memphis, Tenn.,
shoe clerk, who yesterday admit tea
he was the man who killed Joaeprt
Tllack In tho Southern city, during
quarrel, will return to Memphis with
out extradition papers. Byrd atrong-,
Ir assorted hiv Innocence . of th
charge of bigamy brought aga!it
him by tha Max family of Covington,
Tenn.
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