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THE ASHE YIELE CITIZEN. Till! WEATltEE! SHOWERS Associated Pires& Leased Wire Reports. .VOL. XXV.- NO. 280. ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY MORX1XCI, JULY 27. 1!H!. pkici-: five cents, j SEHATE LOSES TO HOUSE IfJ TARIFF BILL "SKIN GIF" Hides Being The (Matter In Dispute They Will be Made Free LEATHER GOODS ALSO WILL BE CUT DOWN Agreement if Carried Out May Mean Something to Ultimate Consumer (By Anmu'IhUmI Press.) WASHINGTON, July 2B. Hides will be put on the free lint if boots and shoes and other manufactures of leather are reduced ibelow the rates fixed by the house bill. Unless the advocates of free hides are able to carry out this bargain the whole pro gram Is to be railed off. A decision to this effect was reached by the tar iff conferees today. The conferees adjourned tonight until 11 a. in. to morrow, but the house members will assemble half an hour earlier to plan for executing their part of the agree ment. It Is expected that they will have a report from the house leaders as to the possibility of passing a rule conferring Jurisdiction upon them to agree to rawer rales on leather than those named In the house bill. Senator Aldrich has Informed sen ators from northwestern Rtates that he will not consent to the abolition of the dty on hides unless there Is a material cut in the rates on iboots and shoea and other leather goods. Senators from cattle raising states In sist that the only way consumers can get any benelit from, the removal of the protection on hides will be by corresponding reductions In th.? duties oti boots and shoes and har ness. ''"ifxsa Have Trump Card Loft, If, for any reason, anything should occur to upset the plan to give the conferees Jurisdiction to ad-opt rates lower than those named by either houss,. th conference committee is holding hat Is regarded as a trump Card In reserve. ThlB provides for the preparation of a conference report putting hides on the free list and re ducing the rates on shoes and other leather manufactures. This report, it is said, then would be presented to President Taft anil It would devolve upon him to secure Its support. In the event of failure, the fConllhuil on page four.) I WROTE LETTER TELLING THEN KILLED HIMSELF Delivered Letter in Person to Police Station and Tried to Head It, BOTH WEKE YOUNG (By Associated Press.) NEW HKDh'Oltl). Mass.. July, 21!. rn a state bordering on Insanity said to have ben n brought on by drink and the fact that his wife hint refused to Uvs with him. Robert M Fanning, aged twenty-eight years came to the public station here from his home In West Port, early this morning and af ter producing a letter which he hud written of having murdered bis wife, shot himself in the bead causing in stant death. Following directions given in the letter Lieut. Thomas V. C.uu.stock and other officers went to West Point. About seven miles from here, and at 4 spot indicated about half a mile from her home, found the body of Mrs. Fanning who had apparently been killed with a hatchet. Fanning arrived at police station in his automobile. He was in such a condition that It was with difficult.! that he made himself understood. He. produced a letter from his pocket and after making several futile attempts to read it himself handed it to Lieuten ant Comstpek. His Explanation. After the lieutenant rend the letter hs asked: "What do you want me to do about It?" "Just this," was the reply. and Fanning with a quick motion pro duced; a big revolver, placed the mi lie to his mouth and fired. He fell dead instantly. Mrs. Fanning had told her husband last night that she would no longer live with him. The couple went for a walk to confer on the matter, and Mrs. Fanning did not return. Fanning, was the son of Robert Fanning, a, rubber mill overseer at OlneyVllle, R. I. The son formerly was a rubber worker. He did not Inform his parents when hs married, lira Fanning was about (Continued n page four.) JUSTICE POISES HER R USTY SSCALE AFTER 12 YEARS Jury Impaneled Breese And Dicker son on The Charge ofConspiring to Defraud First National Bank. The trial of Messrs. Willlum E.. Breese and Joseph K. Dickerson was begun in the United States District court yesterday morning anil when court adjourned for the day at 1.30 a jury had not only been selected but part of the documentary evidence on which the United States rely to sup port the claim of conspiracy to de fraud the failed Kirst National bank had been Introduced anil this morning at 10 o'clock District Attorney A. E. Holton will outline the government's case to the Jury. A jury of 12 men was obtained with surprising ease considering the wide spread fame of the case in this sec tion and although some time was spent In consideration of a motion by counsel for defendants for a postpone ment for ten days or two weeks in order to give them the opportunity which they said had been denied thern of fully examining the hank's books it was but a short time after noon when the spectators, who were limited In numbers considering the fume of the case, realized that t lie fifth trial of Major Breese and the second trial of Mr. Dickerson was actually under way and that for weeks to come, cer tainly not less than two, possibly as much as six, Jury and court officials would be anchored in the white wall ed room of the U. S. building. Ancient Case Begins. Upon the opening f court mutters proceeded prosaically. Judge W. T. Newman, of Atlanta, who is asslgnod to preside not even wearing the black silk gown worn by some federal ludges, this jurist who has won high esteem here being of simple, yet cour teous manner, In a manner not at all suggestive of the fact that the original cause of Indictment, the failure of tho first National bank, which occupied the present library building occurred 1Z years ago on the 30th of this month, a period ao long past that boys and girls who cannot remember the failure have married and boys have gone out to work for themselves and death has removed hundreds who were profoundly moved at the time the bank closed. The defendants have grown gray, a fact possibly not sur prising in view of the years that are gone during which nlways the shallow of danger lias overhung them. Two judges who were connected with the case have died, three lawyers con SHOCKED BY CLOTHES- Would Make It Felony for Ladies to liide Any Beast of Both Sexes so. M'LENDON liKPOUT ATLANTA, C.a., July 28. Any wo man in the state of (leorgla who rides astride will become a felon, If the bill Introduced in the house today by Representative Wright, of Stuart county, becomes a law. The statesman from Stuart never saw a woman ride astride until he came to Atlanta. lie whs shocked and horrified by the sight of a pretty girl In divided skirts whirling along on the back of a mettlesome horse. So he hied him to bis chambers and prepared this hill: lie it . n.icted by the legislature of Oeorgia. that on ami after the pas sage of this act. it shall be unlawful Tor any female ..o r the age of twelve years to ride astride any horse or mule or ass or other animal of both sexes upon any street or road or pub lic hlehw.iv or any ..titer public place within the state. Provided, nothing In this uct shall ' prohibit the riding astride of am female cir cus performer within a tent or other enclosure." The measure carried a fine of frdm ten to one hun.lr. d dollars or Impris onment. With a smile Speaker llol den remarked : "Referred to the committee on temperance." McUmlon Report. Without recommending any action whatever the Joint legislative com mittee which Investigated the record of State Railroad Commissioner S. ( McLemtou made Its report to the house and senate this afternoon Mc Itidon was suspended by former Gov ernor Smith on the ground that he had violated c mpaign pledges and had favored the railroad's to a de gree displeasing to the governor Dur ing the Investigation It developed that Mclendon, while commissioner had made a profit out of selling bonds of the Athens, Oeorgia Street railway. McLendon held that this was lawful but was disputed by other state authorities. to Tty Messrs nected with the defense, J. C Pltch ard, Frederick Moore and J. S. Adams have been promoted to the bench, one of the lawyers for the government has died, Mr. Covington, and another ran a meteoric raee in polities and has passed from public view, E. Spencer Hhickhui n. he of the "'Red Hose" uriecdote, and there re mains but A. H. Holton, the same alert bundle of energy, the same dreaded prosecutor as he was In 1S97. Trial Is Called. But nothing of these matters show ed when Judge Newman called the case and Mr. Holton announced that the government was ready. Judge Chas. A Moore, who with lion. Locke Craig appeared for the defendants, J. S. Adams being temporarily absent, asked for a continuance for ten days or two weeks and In support of this request presented two affidavits made by Breese and Dickerson. The first was made June Hist and the second supplementing It on July L'lith. They set out In effect the Inability of de fendants to be ready for trial because they had not bts-n permitted to ex amine the bank's books. It was al leged that the books had been under the control of the district attorney since the bank closed; that after the continuance last summer defendants applied to the clerk to examine the books and were told he did not have them; that application was then mnde to Mr. Holton several months ago and he said he would arrange for an examination but the books not being forthcoming they applied again to the clerk, who said he did not have the books but had a letter from Judge Newman stating that defendants should have an opportunity to exam ine them and copies of this letter were sent to the district attorney but weeks elapsing without the books ap pearing they addressed a- letter to the clerk who sent the letter to Judge and district attorney and the former again wrote suggesting defendants be allow ed to examine the books but not until June ISth, were they notified that Assistant District Attorney Coble was here to allow them to see the books. V. K. Hreese was then In Brevard nnd J. K. Dickerson In Greensboro, but W. II. Penland examined the books (Continued on page five.) FOR PRESIDENT TAFT Capital Polk Make the Flights Brilliant Social Events. VVEAT1IEU WAS BAD (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 2 While Orvllle did make a two and a half minute flight, under very adverse con ditions, With his aeroplane at Fort Myer this evening, the occasion by reason of the presence of President Taft and a ttirllllant assembling of Washington official life and an Im mense crowd of mere people "ulti mate consumers." as one witty con gressman described them bore an uir more sixial than aeronuatic. Everybody had expected Wright to make today the first ot his official tests of the aeroplane- the so-called "endurance test" of un hour. In the air with a passenger and nobody had forgotten that the lust time he at tempted this feat, only ten months ago, it i'o.'.t in.- hi, ..I l.e n;. uafit Relfredge of the signal corps, and broken thigh and ribs for Wright himself A stiff wind, blowing m puffs an 1 at times as high as twenty miles an hour, caused the postK.nemeiit of the expected trial and all that Wright at tempted was a brief flight, without n pa-senger. in order to show the presi dent that the aeroplane really could fly, and to avoid disappointment for the great crowd. Heretofore it has been the practice of Orvllle Wright when giving flights at Fort Myer to use a thirty foot der ricks and weights to project his aero plane Into the air. Today, however, he discarded these artificial means of gaining his Initial impetus and soared easily and gracefully from the mono rail by the aid of the motor's own power. Ths two brothers made known to the French ambassador, who was at Fort Myer, their satiwfactlon at hav ing been decorated by ths French' (Continued on pag seven.) Asheville Militiamen Leave Today For SA1 fttUR,, HOVib YOU LKl ra NAVAL OFFICER'S VAUNTED HONOR NOT ABOVE COERCING WITNESSES 'i 1 Marine Private Called for first Time in Sutton Case Gi ves Damaging Evidence Against Lieut. Adams Declares Dead Officer Tried to Avoid Brawl Till It Was Forced on Him. ANNAPOLIS, Md July 28. To day's session of the board of Inquiry at tho Naval academy which Is In vestigating tho Circumstances sur rounding ths death of Lieutenant James N. Sutton, Jf,; of the marine corps, who was mysteriously shot, two years ago, afforded nm nurprlst th testimony glvof by Charles "vV. Kennedy, now a 1prr?at In the. iar rine corps at Norfolk, and Burgeon A. D. McCormlck. II. 8. N. Kennedy dropped Into the situation like a bolt from a clear sky, and told a frank, straightforward story of some of the Incidents prior to the shooting which had not been men tioned by nny of the young officers who hawi already testified. Has Not Ibftn Called. Though nn eye witness to the earl ier encounter between Mutton and Lieut. Adams on the night the for mer was shot. Kennedy's name . has not been mentioned by the witnesses concerned In the affair. His testimony supported the contention of Sutton's mother and sister that Sutton did not sock the fights with Adams and the other officers. In attacking his credi STAYED FROM BROTHER S WEDDING TO KILL HIMSELF No Reason lor His Self De st ruction Can Be Assign ed by Family (SiHxinl to The Citizen.) SALlHilUHV, Juli 80. Sealed up on a bed In his room at his home near Salisbury Huml.n afternoon Clarence Kluttz, aged twetitv one a well known young farmer ended his life by shoot Ing himself through the heart. i. small rifle found near his side war the weapon used uel the suicide use.i his toe to pull Ho- trigger. No cans, for the rash ml has been found. At the hour of tie tragedy a brother "I the dead man i i- being married at church near tie Kluttz home. Re fusing to see hi brother married h' remained at lion lly returned fy their home tin the young mmi In his room d through his h-a :i nil when t he la in i the services to . re horrltieil to find s in across the In d .1 with a rllle ball and the weapon, a I-', his side. voung man wa1 ' . . orge O. KI11M7 .1 1 "f Chestnut Hill Mr. John W c Mme chief clerk to . and at one tioo 1 ounty republican small rifle, lyim: The unfortine.t' cousin of Mr ' omlnt-nt cit i. n and a brother ..f Kluttz, for n t o .. Postmaster Kam chairman of He executive comnn't . The coroner ale! left this afternoon 1 l.e dead man. Undertaker Iia: for the home "t SHOWERb WABItlVflTfiS. Jul' 2 Forecast: North Carolina: l-'nscttled weal her with showers Tuesday and Wednes day, not much chang In temperature; light to moderate south winds. 1 r bility, Major Leohard the Judge udvu cntX, showed he had been disciplined on several occasions. Kennedy said he had le en reluc tant to mention lls part In the affair because Lieutenants Ulley and Adams his superiors," had admonished him to V tlUlet.'VjQR his way, to relieve a rWtn ?!'&' iom upon ' Sutton, hWmil, mtermnti and TTtley in an 'an gry argument, he said. Didn't Want right. "Adams, If you want to fight, I'M flgllt you," he heard Sutton say. the witness testified. They fought hard for a few minutes and Sutton's face was bloody, when Lieutenant Utlcy Inti rferred. A second time he saw Adams and Sutton coinn together as he was going away to Ids post, Ken nedy said. Half an hour later Ken nedy beard the shots from post nt the naval hospital. Soon after Adams appeared and told Kennedy thru Hut ton had shot himself. Utb y also told him that Sutton had shot himself, the witness said. Next morning they both cautioned him not to siiy anything about the affair. On the following morning the witness said he saw BIG BLUFF IN Mil May Bp for I'iiiosp of (liv ing Slcinp Larger Slice of State Pie. (My Associated Press.) NKWPOIIT NKVVH, Vs., July 21 Kncourageil by President Tuft's-deslni for an active opposition In the South, Virginia republican leaders are deter mined to b.gin at the state conven tion wlii. b will he held here July 2H and 2!, the work of building up an ..1 ganl.al ion In I h. hop. of a. ri-pub-li.an leton In Virginia at the next n.ilc.lial 1 I. 'Hon II as expected that Seclelary Na r, I ot th. department of commerce ..rid labor, would all. rid He conven tion and .1. Ilv. r the 111imip.il address to . delegates bllt Ml N.lgcl Wl.l t. iilac from New v. ok that lie would be nimble to attend !v potting up tin- strong, st stale tit Let Hi. v can muster on a platform , ndoi -un-' the parly ib 1 lara 1 Ion of .,, ,, . 1 , lion Hie Tafl .idnniilhti a 1 em and th. Abli li li -Payne lanfl loll, arid 1 ontaining planks on u. oate issose, the republicans will pr.pirc for an active liihi dur ,;. in, approaching Kiiheniat.-ial , ampao-n. N'-xi . ar. b. li tin- 1 011 gi.".e.nal b . lions will b. held, c.in- ,ji1a Alii put in I le held in each ,,r in, t.11 .11 am Is and trong efforts W,H I,, r b- to bier. as. I he party repr-.-. nlaie.n In ' "in:i ' "" ""w ''"" ,,r, ,1 .niiidy In liepreseiiiativ. tfl' lop Th.- li'iu-.r .pie-Hon pn.bnbly Is the llvest slate ii-suc in Virginia at this time. ;c ih- Arisj-S ilssan l-nr.ie has been' making 'trong light for state wide plollibltloll. I'.oth of lb. two candidates coni'-st- ing for th tie for covern .r are ratie nomination favoring local op tloii Willi the understanding, however, that tbev would nign a prohibition bill If pnsed by th" legislature. Mr. Slmp say that the republican, con vention probably will advocate local option and Hi- adoption of the county unit system In local option counties, Morehead City. Lieutenant Htley go to the edge of the pariuiV grounds and pick up a 8 cullbro Colt service revolver. Knncdy's testimony was not shaken by the cross examination of Adnms' counsel Mr. Harney, nor by that of Major Leonard, Doctor Called. Prs- McOormlek was present' at the autopsy iheld dn Button' body and wramlned the bullet wound hff -testi fied. He located the wound liack of and slightly above the right ear, while Dr. Plckrell testified It was near the top of the lnad. There are no other navy witnesses on hand and It Is expected Mrs. Mut ton and her daughter will testify to morrow. To substantiate Kennedy's testimony Lawyers Davis nnd Van Dyke, Mrs, Sutton, Mrs. Parker and several newspaper men went to the parade grounds after the adjournment und took the various intuitions from which the witness said he miw and heard the fights. Lawyer Davis said after wards that their rase would rest prin cipally on the testimony of Kennedy and Mrs. Parker. PRESIDENT TAFT WILL MEET THE CANAL DIGGERS Not Heal One, but the Man Some Instance Behind the Shovel. t (ly Auhim luted Press ) WASIIINHTON, July U- President Taft today accepted un Invitation to attend Ho- convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways association to be held at Norfolk, V11., November 17 . The president expects to bo In Norfolk November III. The following day lie will go to Hamilton Normal Institute to deliver fin address. The loiivenllon originally was set for Oc tober but the date was changed to suit tlie president's convenience. The delegation which extended the invitation Included Senator Simmons of North Carolina, Keproneiitall.es Small of North Carolina, Maynnrd of Virginia, and Moon- of Philadelphia. The di li Ration Invited llo presi dents attention to the project known as the llostoii leuufort waterways With Its extension to Key West 11 lid along the Hull ..f M.'ilni to New Or leans. The project calls f..r an inside pa-wage bv wai.-r through existing canals and rivers, a distance of about I, Hint miles down I lie Atlantic coast. Work has begun upon a section of this waterway between Norfolk and Ue.'mfort. N. C. The work of con structing a canal through Capo Cod also is under way. The principal argu ment In la-or of the ciiiliuiiance of the inland passage Is the avoidance of outside danger points arouml Cape Cod. Cape llaliera. and the several shows ulnng the coast. TWO SALISBURY STORES ROBBED (Kpcclsl to The Citizen.) S.W.IHIU'ltY, July 2. Th" store of K. J. Knba III this city was rob bed by unknown parties latm last night more than ono hundred dol lars being taken from tho premises. pn entrance was effected by breaking open a wndow. Another establishment In the same vicinity was also robbd and Will Jones, colored was placed in jail charged with the crime. POLITICAL RIOTS IRK BEGINNING OFDM CAMPAIGN Namo of President And Run nlng Mate Hooted And Orators Stoned MOB IN SET BATTLE WITH STATE TROOPS Fine Hotel Wrecked. Many In, Jured And Two Re. ported Killed (lly A uun Intoil Pro.) MEXICO CITY. July 2fl Ovs two hundreds arrest have, been made, a M om or mor e, morn or leas scrlolisJir Injured Including two Americans, and two are reported dead as a result o( political riots in tho city of Guadala jara yesterduy afternoon and last night. A mob broke up a meeting which WAS being uiUlreuHed by orators whi spoke In behalf of the election of President Dius and Vlce-Prssldsnt Corral. The rioters shouted "down with Dins," "we want Reyes." During the night they stormed tha Motel Ionia, where the Has orator hud stopped. Kvery window In th structure was smashed and ths ar, inlce nnd barber shop looted. Ilattlc W ith TrooM. The pollco charged the crowd again and again but were repulsed. Htats troops were called nut am a number of volleys were llrert In lha aJr wlth out effect. Members of th mob erected a barricade In on of ths sld streets and shots were exchanged bM tween them ami the soldiers. Big mounted gendarmes and two police-, men were "wounded. ? A four-year-old Isiy member of ths lower riant, is jail 11 to Imve boon killed. Conalilerabl American property was destroyed and two Americans wound!!. . Th Amer icans havo nuked tho American Pun- sulala for protection. Ths name at llin Amiivliriitii wiottulMit ttrjk Mimiartie, : to bo, V. 11 In tan and It. Murphy, - Absolutely no press messages hav renchnd this city from Ouadalajarsi during the day, although commercial business lit being transacted as usual. This lends color to a rumor that censorship has been established by the federal fliithnrttl1, HM'nkors Attacked, rullticnl speakers Who in cam paigning In ths Interest of Diss and Corral were received sullenly when they arrived at the station In Ouad nlajara and on their trip to the Del- garda theatre,' where th meeting was to bo held, they wore hooted and Jer ed. At the theatre the crowds refused (Continued nn psgs four.) "FOR EXPENSES" LOCKED SAFE ANO ABSCONDED Took Fifty Thousand and But Time Lock on Ov er Sunday. J MORN MAY m (K)NE (liy AsMM'tnu '! Pre.) TIPTON, Ind., July 80. Th First National bank, of Tipton, 1 closed lonlght and Its awilntunt cashier, Noah II. Marker, gone taking with him be tween :,(, noil and Itiu.uuu. all th -ash that was in tluv. bunk's vault it Hie close of business Saturday. Marker, after sweeping together the money, et the time lock un ths H.ife so that It could not b opened until nine o'clock today and left Tip ton on a traction car for Indianapolis Saturday evening Idling bis wife that he would spend Sunday with his falh- r nnd mother. Nothing further has been heard from him. V Marker b ft a noli) on the desk of .., brother. Willlum Marker, cashier of the bank, saying that he had gon lor.v.r mi. I that be had taken -enough money to puy his expenses." The fad that b bad emptied ths . ash was not known until the Urns lock g ive admittance today. Whether Marker hud previously taki ii money and covered up the de falcations by making false eiitrlw in Hie books cannot be known until th arrival of a national hank examiner. II was decided today to suspend th bank's operations until the examiner could examine the books. May Have Taken More, Tie- bank has been Involved In liti gation for the possession of 40,004 of Cuyahoga county bonds. Th -bank's president, K. W. Shirk today inUiaed bv tils attorneys' in Lima. Ohio, that they had obtained by re plevin suit these securities which had , been held by the Farmers and Citl isetis' Live Block Insurance 'company,, Of Lima, Ohioand had given' bond lof double their value. Thesd bonds had J (Continued OA pag four.) CASHIER TOOK ENOUGH