North Carolina Newspapers

THE WEATHER: SHOWERS VOL. XXV. NO. 300. Supervisors Who Violate In structions Will be Prompt ly Fired out PRESIDENT SENDS OUT PARTIAL LIST Appointments Made For All But Three Districts or This State ' (By Associated Press.) BEVERLY, Mats.. AiiriisI 15. In a letter addressed today Id Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor. -President Taft served no tice that any man eiicne,,-,! In the taking of the Ibjjbcntli census of the United Stales who engages in pol itics In any way will he dismissed im mediately from the service. At the same time announcement was made of the appointment of I'M additional supervisors. Outside of casting their notes the president believes that census snper vleors and enumerators should keep clear of anything that savors of pol itics, national, state or local. Must Mot Play Game. In his letter President Tal't orders that the secretary of hhiiiiii n e an. I labor and the director of the census embody In the regulations governing the taking of the census the rule so forcibly laid down in his letter Mr. Taft says that ill appointing census supervisors if has been found necessary to select men recommended by senators and congressmen In their districts. He says ho realises that this method of selection might easily be perverted to political purposes, and it Is to take the census of politics, so far as the actual work is concerned, that he has explicitly expressed bis desires as to the regulation. Names Announced. The census supervisors announced today were as follows: Arkansas: First district, George Thomas Breckenbrldge; second dls trtct,9.harles O. Henry; third district, Elishe E. Amnions; fourth, Robert T. Whits; fifth. Tom D. Brooks; sixth, John W. Howell; seventh, Samuel Rogers Young- Georgia: First district, Francis Sa vler Douglass; second district, Kugene Ernest Hickcy; lilfth district. Alon.o 'Ceri'ueil on page two ) AN Many Lives Lust and Hun dreds of Buildings Are Destroyed. TjrnADTc .x? mi,1 riTTT? XXllJl. UIVJ O iAJA-Li Jlljiiviutl 1 (By Associated Press.) TOKIO. August K,. -Reports re ceived today concerning the earth quake In Central Japan Sal n; da y af ternoon show that there were a num ber of fatalities and that great dam age was done to property. The dead at present is said to be thirty, though It Is feared that the fatalities will be greatly Increased when the outlying districts are heard from. The niimhcr of persons Injured is eighty-two. Thus far 3S2 buildings including many tem ples, are reported to have been de stroyed and more than one thousand others badly damaged. The shock Affected a wide area In the Rhinga and Gifu prefectures. The town Ozaka. in Glful, .suffered terri bly. The banks of the Hida river there broke and the surrounding country was Inundated. The people of the district fled to high ground and remained In the open aill night. Intermittent shocks were felt throughout Saturday night and early this morning. The mountain Ibuki, a short distance west of Gifu, emitted smnkn in the early stages of the earthquake and then collapsed with a tremendous roar. The forma tion of the mountain was completely changed. Slight damage was done at Nagoa, to the fiopthw ard of Gifu!. and neigh boring villages. DEATH FOLLOWS MOTOR ACCIDENT WRIGHTSVIt.T.K, Ga . Aug If,. MIsb Nina Tompkins, daughter of a well known banker, who with live others was frightfully injured in an automobile accident here yesterday, died at three o'clock this morning, physicians today performed an oper ation on her brother. Uogi r Tompkins (n an attempt to save his lifre, but it 18 said his ease is hopeless. Miss Emma Tpmpkins. William Tompkins and Oswald Tompkins, all more or lee eriously injured, will recover. fiO CENSUS JOB FOR CHINESE WOMAN POLITICIANS WHO C IT BREAK HABIT IE nn STABBED TODEATH IN ORIENTAL DEN Tragedy Reveals Half a Doz en American Womon Married to Ghli.ks POLICE FIND NO CLUE TO CRIMINAL Following Slgel Tragedy. The Crlmo Causos Great Excitement (By AssnvlHtod Press.) NKW YollK. August IT, -Chinatown boiled over again early today on discovery of t lit- murder of the most beautiful of the tew 1'hinesc women In New York. liow Kim. twenty-one years old, who came here from San Francisco about a year ago with, all Americanized Chinaman. Chin I .en, thirty-one years old. It was about tvvo o'clock Ibis morning. Just as I tit usual .tniniin night revelries were quieting down that Chin l-n. dasheil uuof a telie- ent house at 17 Moot street, cry- Ins: ".My woman been murdered " The street, tilled with loitering Chinamen and parties of Ann rican sightseers" all of whom quickly n ailed the sensation murder of Klsie Slgel. the missionary girl, was thrown into excitement. Tin- police hurried into tin- bouse under Leu's direction. The murdered woman lay on the Hour of a bedroom slabbed in half a dozen place. Ili-r slender neck was ringed with bloody linger marks, indicating a struggle wl'.ii her assailant Beside her lay a cm. ted hunting knite. Auicrh-an Woman Found. it was evident that the woman bad been dead for two or three hours. On the stairs were found traces of blood and also on a door leading to the store of Yin-n Chin K- Co., on the ground floor Three Chinamen there wire arrested although tiny denied any knowledge of the murder. Six American women, who declared themselves to be the wives of China men, were found In the house and ar rested, but none Would amit any knowledge of Bow Kim's death. In the murdered woman's room were found many business letters in Chinese but none that gave a clue. 1 .en's account of himself was that lie had spent the early evening with (Continued on page si-vn.) CRETE PENDING FINAL DIPLOMATIC ACTION Correct Attitude of (ireer I Lis Restored Knt elite With Turkey. SOLUTION KASV (By Associated Press.) LONDON, August IT,.- A peaceful solution of the Cretan situation ap peared practically to haw been pro cured last week iiirongn in,- ino-i venllon of (lie four protecting pow, is and th" scrupulously correct altitude adopted by the Greek government in its diplomatic Intercourse with Tur key. The young Turkey party plainly mistrusts the present Tnrkhh minis try, and fears that Turkey will lose suzerainty of ( ret", a.s she lias nisi that of Iltilgaria. A.s a result of tin- refusal of the population of fell- to haul down the Greek llaig which was raised when I he troops of the powers. Great Britain, France, Italy and Kusla, recently evacuated the island, th, p,,w, rs have ordered warship to ' i 1 1 and proba bly will re-occupy lb- Islands In or der to force compliance with Heir wishes. A dispatch from Cam a. Cr- tc. say-: "The British battleship Swlftsure arrived today in Sudabav in tin vvst- rn portion of th, island." Th, Cretan gov i rumen I ha--, r, sign ed and tin- administration of the isl and has entrusted to provisional com mittees Th,s, conitiiitle, s have had the arli i-d isants t xp, Ih d from t he fortress, which they occupied Satur day night intending to resist the or der of the powers that the Greek tl.ig be lowered. The committees, how ever, have not had the Hag pull'd dow n. Th, entire pr, s in On it.- adv ises the Cretans to lower the Greek Hag over the fortress at Canea and not show defiance to the protecting powers. ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. AN1IKVI KM, N. E F Mad Mother Slays Her Three Babies And Then Turns on Gas For Herself WHITES AND BLACKS FIGURE IN THE NEWS Wherein Human Passions Run Riot Over The Belter Natures of Mankind CHICAGO, August l.'i. Mrs. Marie Hand.. I today tinned on the gas in the bathroom and coinunlteil suicide, nnd slew her three In. v I, allies She carefully bathed and diesscd her three children, one four year oldl. and twins two v cars old. and carried tilt in into III, bathroom She had closed the hath room and tinned on the gas The smell ,, gas awakened her husband. lie broke open the door of the bath room and found the dead bodies. The twins, wrapped In a iiullt. were lying in the tub, while the elder boy was clasped tightly In the mother's arms. Mrs. llandzel had been III lor some time. She left four other children, ranging in age from six to sixteen years. i ,v n 1 m n t : i 1 1 1 1 1 ; vi i ri ;i. CAlcTKIiKVII.I.F. ;a.. August If. The jail here is being guarded by depul,.s to prevent the threatened lynching of K. J Wort lilngton and his nineteen-year-old n.phey, John U ort hiiiKton. white, who are charged Willi criminal assault upon Miss Mary Klrod, of tiakgrovc. lia, Tuesday night, last. While denying the com mission of the crime, both of the prisoners admit being with the girl on the night nam,, I. SHOT FROM AMBURH. BIRMINGHAM, Ala,, August 1. John B. floiiten, a well-known bar artcr. was shot from ambush and killed last night by unknown persons at Ci-uind Hog. in I he extreme north western part of the county. His body was found this afternoon vvllh a shot gen u.oiiid in tin- side and a pistol ( i 'out inn- page six ) FIRES SECOND BULLET AT CLOSE RANGE TO IE E Coroner V;is iiliout to Ken drr Verdict: of Suicide Found Second Wound. SLAY KM IS UNKNOWN H A!riMi 'UK, A igi It .If,. Th. dead hodv of Stephen lhwti4HUa.it. .-.iclili. nn rdcar.V Id. )Was f,uin( m Cin'oll pa.rk. near G.vynns Kalis this iiNTnlng. Over a bullet vwinnd in the biei.sl, the -hlrt had Ih-.-ii 'burned, apparently bv the ft a di of a pistol. Tills l.-.l to a coi on.-r's Jury. : it ling t.oiight, to re lode lhal th youth had e.immitle suicide, thoii'.:h the jH.xtol ns-d could not he found and th.-re win no money on the body, vv herons 1 .m hi risk i is known to ,ha' h-ad alvout vv lien last k--u alio- by friends. The coroner was alitoiiit to make out tie- paiM-rs oio I turn -the hody ,,vr to ail undertaker when, happen ing to place hi;-i hand baek of f'rlll binski's hea.'l. Ii" diwoven-d wha.t ap M-a.rs to 1m- another bullet 'wveiiid About this th.-re Is nM htlng to Indi cate that it w.is tired at very close r;wie us though by the youth hiU S' If. An autopsy will l- -h'-ld tomorrow Tie- ..die,, are be. king for lfowar-1 M. Pearl, who m u'M.ted a having said he was with Domhimkl Thurs day nUrlit until noon rm Friday, when he left him with two men. who nr. urikmovn to p--arl, in Camden -Nation. ATLANTIC CITY THROWS LID AWAY ATLANTIC CITY. N' J. Aug. If.. Ftaloonkef p.-rs and proprietors of amusement places here todav bade de fiance to the reformers nnd members of the Lord's Day Alliance who are trvlng to enforce the Sunday closing' laws In this resort. Although a half hundred liquor dealers are under bonds following their arrest last week, practically every bar nnd cafe In the resort was open as usual. Fxtra force of bartenders were emploved to serve what Is claimed to be the greatest crowi of visitors ever gathered here. TE R CRM GRUESOME ENOUGH OR 1ST MORBID C. MONDAY MoifNIMi, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY Charlos D. Norton, who has boon treasury, ha Dee for the last four Mutual Life Insuranoo company. Ho tered an Insurance office In Milwaukee at the age of 1R. After two years he left to enter Amherst college from which he graduated. He then entered the insurance business In Chicago. BINGHAM TAKES WHACK AT GOTHAM'S JUDGES Declares Theiji Crooked, Supine or Weak and Blames Graft in the City to Them. Methods of Criminals. I (SH'cial to The niiwii.) NKW YORK, lAURUHt 15. "A k- crooked, siiplna uf, liKJomiiotnttt Ju diciary," Is whsjt matter with New York, according to Theodore A. BlnKham, former pollen commis sioner. ill an article mitten for the forlb comlnt; .September number of Hamp ton's Maa.iiie, G4ieral lllnchain makes that assertion very frankly, und Hives liist.uiLes to support his as sertion. Another strong sentence d.clare.s that each y. ar 1 1 00,000,000 in Kraft and blackmail changes hands In this city, and that In- could have mado 1 1 ,000,0110 in a v.arof his i. rm. Tam many, he il.-i lareil, is responsible for tills, and Taniinaiiy could h, destroy ed In ten v.-ars, Ii. adds. Mere ate som. abstracts from the BiftKhani art), .- "LtKhty p,-r . -ii! of criminal cases in New York .it- lir-t h.-ard in th. lower courts, ..lid between sei.nlv and eirhtv p r ,-nl .f the atr.-si.-. mad.- fot po. Kl t-.i. kiriK, hotisehr. ,t I-. till; and Ida. km.iiliiil: arc drawn from the alien class.- ,. so-called. "The iKnonmi i',ieif;n.-rs. pa. do d into the t.n. ne nt of the ciow.bd l'a,st Si,.-, are .-c-ily handled l, the poltti. iatis. Tie v are poor; Ih. y n e. ARIUiyOFREBS WILL MARCH DcI'cikIci'.s Si iiI Out Ilxpctli Hons In Mi'.slroy Mritli-s to Block .Vlvance. By BOSTON, Ah lied I'rcss.) I .. A bridge d i to hamper the stroyintf xpe.li movements ..I ih. army of the It.-d ii "i a private oi th. .-.ii'' the most w a rl 1 1. in the work of th, lie- In camp near ! : i.dlnir Boston IT. on i in- .South by the lied w..r (tame. Tim otit,--i strenuous Sundav , t, I., d by Governor Kb l liriirailler General re of ., avail -. neineiit of hostil- and the enptui Invudltx; atim features tod.r army of the BridRowatcr, an ntta. k It". army in mini Inal plans . which had I..- n S lunpei William A I ' cause of tie iti.-s last ni.-li &H0WER& i WAKIHNOTOX. August 15. Fore cast: North Carolina: Showers Mon dany and Tuesday; moderate south winds. AUOUST Hi, 1001). appointed flrat assistant secretary of th years general agent of the Northwestern was bom In Burlington, Wis., and en work, and often charitable aid. The politicians help them to Jobs. AcctiNcs lawyers, "A prominent Tamiiiany loadar and memhor of the hoard -of ailr mn, never accused of being- morally fastidious, recently admitted frankly to me that he was the friend of thieves. '.Sure I am,' he emphasized. 'An' why shouldn't 1 be? Boor dlvlls, tiny liavo no friends. Hure I'll bail ilieui out and K' t them a lawyer. "When such a man sends word to a police jiidi;c, a man on whom that judirc depends for political profer ment, to be easy on Ho-and-Ho, It Is not bard to see why the maglslratu brow-brats and abuses Iho pollen, Klves every ndvaiitaire to tho shyster lawyer In defense, and finally shouts I hat the ev idence Is Insufficient, dis charges th.. prisoner and arrulirns the police for arrestlUK honest cllUetis on such evidence. "I have reason to fiellevo that one attorney, whose shadow frequently falls around Tammany hull, collies pretty ii.-ar repi es. ntliiK all the good pi. kpo. ki ts In New York. Another, who a prominent member of the Bar association, has ii record for puIllllK KUIhhllUK bouse chestnuts out of the pre, while two or three others have boasted of their ability to se em, immunity for violators of the . v. ise law, Ibouts'h these case are unite easily disposed of CONGESTION OF CITIES MENACE TO THE PUBLIC I-Yitflit fully Crowded Condi tions of Tenements Make Home Life Mockery. NKW YOltK. Aug. 15. Amerb-an .Itics arn pronounced twenty-live years behind progressive Germany, !n a bulletin Issued today by the com itilMee on congestion of population hi N w York. The worst evils of unsan itary, immoral and crowded houses in, t, he found, according to thn bul , tin, In New York, with Chicago a ,os. second, and Philadelphia, Kt. Louis and Cleveland following In the ord- r nam' d, Th. most rowded block In New York bad a density In IftOl of slightly und r tour hundred. In Chicago two blocks are t porteil as containing two humlr.-d inhabitants Bill! id' -tphia lias K-ss congestion to the a.l. lei.iose there are fewer five and six si"iy apartim-m houses, but one 1. I, llu-re were found Hit singh in "house keeping upart- merits To call such a habitation a home i Is a rno. k' i v There is no home life and no privacy possible," says the i bulletin. I'KI-li lOUTY FEIST. NAKIIV II.I.K, T. nn., August 15. j Tommy Gilbert, twelve-year-old, fell forty fe.-t todav over a bluff on the I bank of the Cumberland river in IWest Nashville breaking his neck and dying Instantly. He was with other boys, playing along the bluff. BANK DIRECTORS ' MUST LOOK AFTER BANK S BUSINESS OFGREATSCM Investigation Proves That On ly Small Number Attend to Their Dutlos STRICTER SCRUTINY OF LAX INSTITUTIONS Dad Banks Will be Examined Four Times Yearly And Directors Must Attend (Snm'II to The ( Ul.i'll.) WASHINGTON, 1). C, August la. A Mtaitlln lack of kiiowle.lKo of the business details of their Inslltu HotiH Is dls4-losed In a report mndo to t'oiiiptrollcr of the Currency Murray by the directors of national banks throuKh.uit the country.. Mr. Murray baa been dolnu a lot of hoiiseelcanliiK In his department since his appointment by l'lesldent Boosevelt. lie b.-Klin with the bank examiners, mid went after them so se verely for Inefficiency that he had a row on his hands. Now Mr. Murray Is after the directors of national banks There are RO.O00 of them, mid ii short time tufo they went astonished to re ceive a letter from the comptroller of the currency iisklnit them what they knew about the loans antl ills counts their cashiers were mitkllor, the signatures and collateral of borrowers, anil the Kcneral habits of employes of their banks. In other words Mr. Mur ray wauled to know If the directors were really direct I nir. There were Iwctiy-nlno questions In the letters sent out, and a kooi! many of the directors fumed and snorted at the curiosity of the complfoller. Mr. Murray, however, belnif the boss of national banks, they answered his questions, and Incidentally disclosed some Interesting If not startling Infor mation. State of Affairs. There are altout 7,000 national banks In the United fitulu's, with abnlit 60,000 directors. Hlxty-two per cent of theme director wre present when the comptroller's letter was considered by their respective hoards. The Information now In the posses sion of Mr. Murray Is to the effect that only 2f per cent of the national bank directors are familiar with the conditions of Ihelr banks In all de tails. Kour per cent practically admit ted that Ihey knew nothing of the state of the banks with which they are connected. Ivuns were approved by directors In only 31 per cent of all casew. The officers had full control and used their own judgment as to loans In nearly one-half of all the Institutions. Rljrhty per rent of the directors could not certify to the ki-iiuIiichm of signatures on notes discounted by the banks. Hlx ty per cent tacitly allowed officer to permit overdrafts. Is Wrought I'p. Comptroller Murray Is particularly wrought up over the laxness displayed In the examination of loans and col lateral! by directors. In 800 cases this examination was ma.do only once a ear. In only one half of the banks was the condition or the reserve regularly Inquired Into by Iho directors. The cash, however, was counted periodically by a commit tee of the directors In a substantial majority of the Institutions. Violations of the law by national batiks do not appear ho strange to Comptroller Murray since the replies Continued on pagn six.) 010 NOT APPRECIATE SILVER SERVICE CIET That (liven by South Dako ta Has Heen Stored Away for Five Years. WAKMINGT'iN. ugimt IT,. When ever Captain .lames T Hmllh, coin inundlng the battleship Mouth fiakota wishes to decorate his table with a magnificent, silver service he can" do so by merely making a re'iuesl of the navy department When In 1901 II was decided by the department to name a battleship for South Dakota tin- pi id- of the people of that m w and thriving state was so excited that they at once decided to follow the example of other states and present u sliver service to orna ment the mess room of the new war engine. In 1H!H. long before the craft was ready to be put afloat, the gift was mude January a year ago the South Da kota was launched. The gift of the people of the state for which she was named appears to have been forgot ten. The sliver service had been boxed and stored In the New York navy yard. There It Is supposed to be today. No one seems to be es pecially charged with the duty of de livering It to the vessel. The people of Hauth Iak'da have become restive under w hnt they fcgard as the Indif ference shown toward their generos ity, i Associated Press, Leased Wire Reports. PRICE FIVE CENTS. J LITTLE DIXIE GIRL PUTST0SHAMEART1 Designs Monument to Wo men of -Lost Cause" In o, Place of One Rejected MODEL STRKIES A RESPONSIVE CHORD Shows The Confederate WirJ? man as She Was. Heroic And Self Sacrificing 1 (ity Associated Preas.) ATLANTA, August 15. Rellttlng IH nobility of conception and beauty ol execution the subject It la to com' memortite the design for the monu ment to tho women of the "Lost Cause" has been completed. It la the work of a Dixie git I. Mlsa Bella Kilt ncy, of Nashville, Tcttn., and hlf been accepted by several statea, It la probable that all tho state which, left the union In the Civil war, will adopt the design and that replica t( tho monument will be placed In tp.J capltols of each. ' Tho design for the proposed monue mcnt Is very beautiful and elevating, Tho central figure, of heroic size, ! the goddess of fame. At her right. th reclining figure delicately featured, beautiful, but with an expression of exquisite iiadness, represent! the eel,-, sacrlllclitg H.mthern woman ef th wan time. Fame I represented a placing a wregth upon Iho Southern woman's head, while she supports, at her UfC a dying and emaciated Confederate soldier, to whom the Southern woman la extending even in death, tho palinj of victory. "' The design Is such that It readily) lends Itself to reproduction In marblaj or brone. , t J lU'Jected Foreign Design. A year or more ago the Daughter or the Confederacy and th Son Of Confederate Veteran decided :v upon' tho erection, of these monument' in' every ta,te capltol in Plate., That worlct wa to have been done by an Italian ecu Hi tor. When hi design waa ub ntltted ai tha lata Confederal run Inn in Memphis; H raised atorm ot protest. Tha artist had pictured th ' Southern woman am m militant and anrnxonlan figure, carrying In ona hand a sword and In the other tha banner of the lost cause. Thla con ceptlon was so foreign to th gentl, suffering and patient woman of tha Southland as those who loved her had known her, that tha design was ra Jected by an overwhelming vot. Tha angered artist declined to aubniif another and Mlsa Kinney wa appeal ed to. Tennessee has appropriated It. 600 through the Daughter and Bo'na of the Confederacy for a brons ca of the dMlgn. Other state are r4 Ing funds for the purpose and It 14 believed that by fall each of the for mor confederate state wlll hav foM lowed suit. ' Is But Twenty-Two. Mis Kinney, tha artist, I bul twenty-two years of age and I al ready a sculptor of mor than na tional fame. She was recently award)! the contract for a heroic statu of tha late Heiiato. Kdward W. Carmack of Tennessee, killed by the Cooper. When but a child she received a prtia at the centennial In Nashville for 'a bust of her father. She received her education In art at the Art Institute at Chicago and later studied abroad. She was awarded the contract for twenty Igorrote figure at ths Field Museum and has attracted a good deal of attention In art circle throughout tho world, ,., ,-. After File Had Made Head way Hold Was Flooded tq Cheek Ravages. j (By Associated Press.) ' MVKKPOOI., August IB. Th Canard line steamer Ijtrcanla lie sub merged tonight at the Husklsson docH seriously damaged, having been al- - -most gutted from her funnel totm w ard by lire which broke out on board) the liner at 7 o'clock Saturday vi nlng. r The flames are supposed to hava originated In tho saloon kitchen bus gradually worked forward until the, -reached tho steerage, consuming ev cry particle of the wood work there, and then played havoc with the fore hold. Homo of the plate of tha vea c were warped. , At three o'clock this morning It wag decided to flood the vessel by admit ting water Into her from tha dork. Boon ihu heclod over and her funnel came In contact with the crane an the dock and were badly damaged. A " fleet of tugs then wa brought Into requisition and pulled tha liner up- right and held her until aha aettled, 1 firmly on the mud bottom. - ; It wa 16 o'clock thla morning, ban .- fore the fir wa under control. J :