North Carolina Newspapers

0 jtmm mi hi m wm MnanmB s I 3XlL PAGES I TODAY' : i' J i ' hi' i ii If SUN CITIZEN THE WEATHER: 'FAIR. .VOL. -XXV. NO. 348. SHEVILLE, N. C, SUNC AY MORNING, OCTOBER, 3, 1909. THE DAT PIMCF FIVE CENTS. . ' GIVES TAFT PARTr A SEVERE SHOCK 1JL ':'. Was Arrested as He Tried tj Get Picture of President's Front Elevation l SPAIN WILL KEEP Another Wet Spell T BRINGS REIRS TO E, DEAD MAN'S MONEY C0TT0NS0RM UP WAR AGAINS c MILLS MAY MOORISH TRIBES ARMED CONFLICT HAVE TO SUSPEND WisV'";' After Serious Defeat Will Send Heavy Reinforce merits to Front NATIONS GUARDING AGAINST AGGRESSION Will Permit Spaniards to Oc cupy Territory Until In demnity Is Paid MADRID. Oil. 2 Aggressive oper ation against the Moors are to be continued, it is understood here, this decision having been reached by the government after consultation with General Marina, the commander of the Spanish lorces In Morocco. Reinforcements to the number of 16,000 men will in sent to Africa, and a regiment of Lancers also has left. Mount Gurusa will be permanently occupied and In i million the (Spaniards will hold a big piece of the territory with Teutan us a base until the pay ment by Morocco of an indemnity of $20,000,000. Further dstaMs of the engagement fought two days ago in Morocco be tween the Spaniards and the Moors has been received. The Spanimls lout a total of two hundred and thirty killed and wounded including General Diaz Vicario, who lost his life. A single battalion of Chasseurs had nineteen officers and eighty men wounded. CaiiKlit in Defile. The Spanish xpedition was recon- noltering In the direction of Sokel Jem is. The Moors at first retired before the Spanish advance, which was sus tained by artiileiy, but they gradually reformed behlnl the heights of Ar gan and Mount Mlllon and when the Spaniards entered the rocky denies below their position, where the horses hardly could keep their footing they , Tvre.attHjeke1 famously. The column mdeGnerttlViearlo, Which was In the advance r act Ived orders to retire and the movement was being accom plished tn good order under cover of the Meld machine guns when General Vicario was shot dead and fell from his horse. General Tovas then took command and rftcr fierce fighting the Moors were I eaten off. The entire expedition retired to Zeluan. The Infant Don Carlos is going (Continued on page two.) Spectacular Carnival Pa rade at Night Closes Gotham 's Celebration. MONUMENT TO WAYNE STONY POINT. N. Y.. Oct. 2 A monument to th madness of "Mad Anthony" Wayn-, the Revolutionary general who !od a successful attack against apparently hopeless odds on Great Britain's Stony Point Gibraltar, 130 years ago, was dedicated here to day as one of the opening events of the up-state Hudson-Fulton celebra tion. The monument, a great memorial nrch built of the rough stones over which YVayn led his colonial troops, stands on a commanding eminence of the rugg'-d promotory where the bat tle occurred. The site Is now a Btate park. The nrch Is the gift of the Daughters of the Revolution. SKW YORK SHOW KM)KI. NEW YORK, Oct. 2 New York's share in the lljdnon-Fultun celebra tion ended toni.-bt with a carnival parade and a rib-play of fireworks and warship llluminaMons on the Hudson river. . Tomo. -ow most of ihe half hundred rnen n, war anchor-d here will hegln- their preparations for de parture, and the city's half million visitors will -. their trunks and turn honicw.i-d. Leading tti. pegeant was an orna mental car i'l the shape of n giant dragon spouting flames and surround ed hv fire. For all the floats and thlr marching is-oris. German. Swiss. Austrian and other societies provided the charactera, who were dressed In appropriate cor, time, sparkling with spangles find Kilt braid beneath the half million electrics, which blazed along the course. At the end of the parade was "Uncle Sam we'romlng the nations" preceded with wnderella with her slipper and her prince. Because Of weather conditions there were no'tlighta by Glenn H. Cur tlss or Wilbur Wright from Govern or's Island today. 1 One Claimant Dead Another Dying And Third Serious ly Hurt In The Battle CLOSEST RELATION NEPHEWS AND NIECES Aggressors Open Fire And Shoot Fleeing Men In , Their Backs MOUImiE, On., Oct. 2. At the old homestead of I tie late Nathan Klowers, In the lower part of the county. Kert Williams is dead, Wright Klowers Is dying and it Is believed Klowers is fatally hurt as the result of a -terrific six-handed battle with rifles and pistols. ncvs of which reached here today. Sheriff lloyd and a big posse of deputies are on the trail of John Hart and his two sons, who are charged with the shooting and who are at large, fully armed, it is alleged they took Williams and the Klowers broth ers by surprise and because of this all the casualties in the battle were one sided, the Harts, father and sons, ranging against the three men who were shot. yuarrcl Over Folate. The trouble occurred over a dis pute about the division of the estate of Nathan Klowers He died leaving no children and since his death John Hart, who married a niece, has been living on the home place with Mrs. ' Flowers. The Klowers boys are nephews while Williams married a niece. Since Nathan Klowers' death there has been a wrangle over the estate, it is alleged, and trouble had been feared. It Is statd that the six men met at the ' homestead and the quarrel was renewed, the shooting ending the dis pute. ', '. - "-it. It Is alleged that the Harts were better armed than their opponents In l"fhe fight and some of the bullets were fll-ed while the defeated party was In flight, since It is said that two of them received fatal wounds In the back. No word had been received since the sheriff and his posse left here, but It is feared thai trouble will fid low the attempt to capture the Harts. UNCLE OF HART M'KEE GAVE UP WIFE RATHER Wife Ignored in Will and (Jay Young Man May Get Large Legacy. WAS MAKKYING MAN PITTSHI'HG. Oct. 2. William D. Hartupee, the millionaire glass manu facturer, who died a few days ago In the Hotel Shenii -y. has practically ig nored in his will the wife who neficll ed against him for his refusal to dis own his nephew. A. Hartupee McKee, the often-married and frequently di vorced society man. It is believed that among the many relatives who benefit by the Hartupee will McKee holds ah enviable place. It also became know I "lay that Mrs. llartuirce. a handsome woman of forty-hie, has lived for years on the same lloor of the same hotel with her husband, but has not spoken to hltn In all that lime. It was learneil that Hi- basic rea son for the break between tin Hartu pees was the insistence of Mrs. Hartupee that her husband disown young Hart .MeKee arter the latter's affairs of the heart had attracted widespread public attention. Hut the old uncle was very fond of the young man. and pusitiiely refused to inter fere in his affair. Mrs. Hartupee was a warm admir er of Hart MeK'ee first wife, who was a Miss Sutton, of ihe North Side, and it has been sard that she fur nished some of the funds with which the young wife obtained evidence for a divorce. Resides a decree she ob tained a J.Kin.fllHI horn" at Ixing Rrarich. N. J When Lawrence Phlpps took his own children secretly rrom the hotel. In New York, because of the alleged attentions being paid to his wife by McKee. Mrs. Hartupee protested to her husband against further recogni tion of his namesake. The final break came, however, when McKee had a special messenger waiting for the de cree of divorce here and rushed with It to New York, where he married Mrs. Cornelia Baxter TeviS neTtt morn ing. " - President Tanner Sees Crisis ' Approaching For Spin ning And Cloth Mills MEETING CALLED TO CURTAIL PRODUCTION Manufacturers Will Meet at Charlotte This Week to Consider Situation CHARLOTTE, N. C.. t 2. A critical situation and one of rare oc currence confronts Southern cotton mills because of the high price of raw cotton and unless thore t a decided drop in the price of the sta ple In less than two weeks, accord ing to ex-President H. B. Tut'fter, of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association. Southern mills will be forced to shut down. "It Is a very easy question to an swer.'' an id Mr. Tanner "as to what the mills, both cloth and ynrn, will do In the event of thirteen cents cot ton continuing as af present. "It will mean that there will be no money in textile products and the millls. after using up what small stocks of cotton they have on hand, will have to shut down that Is If cloth and yarn, especially the former, do not lake a decided Jump upwards, a bigger Jump than cotton manufac turers would expect under the circum stances." Mills Not Haying. It was further declared that the mills are buying practically no raw cotton t prevailing figures thirteen cents nor will they lay In stocks at that figure, for the quotations on cot ton goods and cotton yarns are far too low to leave any profit to the manu facturer today. In other words the mill that makes yarn or cloth out of thirteen cent cotton and sells Its product at prevailing prices will lOBe Its profit and . great deal. more in fact the proposition Is Impractical and will not be experimented In by any of the manufacturers. Many of the mills have some little cotton on hand which they stored when cotton was bringing ten and eleven cents, but these wocks are short and will shortly be exhausted. President Parker, of the American Cotton Manufacturers association, (Continued on page four.) WIFE BETRAYS A FIEND ABOUT JDDESERT HER May Fix on Him itiilt for Wholesale Murder, Rob bery and Arson. WAS GOING OUT WEST BU'Ki'lK.LI), W. Va., Oct guilt of Howard Little, who rested about a week ago. 2 The was ar eharged with Ihe murder of "Aunt Relay" J ust Is, George A. Meadows and wife and three children seems now to be i-sla hlishcd beyond a reasonable doubt. Ills wife confessed today to having washed hi Moody clothing the day after the murder and In her affidavit she says also that he left their homo about dark on Ihe night of tie furrier and returned the nexl morning with his clothes all bloody and torn and said that he would kill her if she told anything about his condition. He borrowed a thirty-two calibre revolver a few days before the crime was committed and return ed It on the following Wednesday with two chambers empty. The body of George Meadows was exhumed and two bullets taken from it by Doc tors Richardson and White were al most identical in weight with the balls taken from shells belonging to the weapon Little hail borrowed. Llttb's wife also turn'-d over the lantern that he brought home with him, which marks where he had tried to cut off the blood stains. lie was seen in the barn next morning fold ing papers across bis knee apparently counting money ant he gave twenty dollars to a woman with whom he had planned to start for the West a few days after the murder was com mitted ' with which to buy clothing and prepare for the train. Having done this she returneLne dollar and eighty cents to Little at which time she swears he threatened her life if she revealed any part of their secret. Requisition papers have been ap plied for and as soon as they can be secured Little will ba removed to Lebantfn to await his trial. Threats of lynching are freely mad. 'i&MJ sss COOK-PEAR Y WHILE CO Dr. Cook Saying His on Confreres iPORTLAND. Maine, Oct. 2. An animated conference, lasting nearly an hour, between Commander Rob ert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer, and General Thomas II. ffiblydv presi dent of tho Peary 'Arctic club. Was held In the big train shed of the Un ion station here this evening. Gen eral Hubbard was on his way from Bar harbor to New; York. Comman der Peary was at the station to meet him. .'? After A heartshake. of the hand, the two men paced up and down -the train shed in earnest conversation. At one of the pauses the explorer unbuttoned his navy blue sack coat and fru.i the Inside pocket pulled forth what appeared to be a bulky white envelope. He shortly after made several notes on a piece of pa per and handed it to General Hub bard. The general put both In his Inside pocket. "I have no remarks to make," said Commander I'eary. "General Hub bard and I have Jtut had a very pleasant conference. I do not care to state what we talked about. I un SENTENCEJUR YEARS New Trial Denied, Prisoner Appeals nnd Is Released on Heavy Bond. WAR RENT' N, Va., Oct. 2. Fol lowing closely the verdict today of the Jury sentencing Professor J. I). Harris to four years In the peni tentiary for voluntary manslaughter In connection uith the killing of W A. Thompson, .-.fsoclate editor of The Warrenton Vri-nian on April 24 last, the court ib nied the motion of the defense for a new trial, which had been asked for en the ground that the verdict was lontrnry to the facts and evidence. Counsel Imrm rttntety gave not ir of an appeal an, I the original bond of $.10.(100 under which Harris has been at liberty since the tragedy, was re newed. MarrU. accompanied by mem bers of his f, mlly and friends left late today for Norfolk, Va. IU Kt.LAItS BUSY. (SALISBURY. N. C, Oct 2. Jewels valued at one thousand dollars were stolen from the home of Mr. J. l Gorman, in Ihn city yesterday during a circus parade, the theft being com mitted While the family was watching the show. An cntrnnce wns effect,-,! by unlocking the door. Two other dwellings were robbed In a similar manner and the thir-vn escape with out detection. wm WASHINGTON, Oct.. Forecast for North Carolina: Fair Sunday and Mon" day no decided chanre In tempera ture; light variable winds. , SQUABBLE SMOULDERS UNTLESS SHEK ELS R OLL IN Lecture Platform at so Much Frame Up Counts of Indictment Against Him. derstand that the Ptary Arctic club Intends to make, a public statement some time next week." , Commander and Mrs. Peary tomor row will leave f ir their home on LAgle Island, Caaco bay. Commander Peary, after a two days nfcsence from the city, arrived back buna irom Ni-w.York. today. NEW YORK. Oot. g, Dr. Fredori Iclt A, Cook returned to Ne York early toda;- from Boston and lectured tt'BfoolilV'A tonight Harry Whitney, the New Haven sportsman. with whe-m Dr. Cook entrusted rwords and Instrument, was on ' the train wltn the explorer, according to one report, but Or. Cook ep.ld tonight that he had not seen Whitney and was inclined to think that he had not come to New York today. "I shall probably not see Whitney until October 12, after I return to New York from my loeture tour," said Dr. Cook. Dr. Cook's lecture in Brooklyn to night went over the same ground that he has covered heretofore. He Action of Grand Jury at Hughes' Instigation Will Probably Close Tracks. NEW YollK. Oct. 2. Governor Hughes' renewed activity against bet ting at the lace tracks, It was SB id J today, has resulted In the Indictment by the KIiiks county (Brooklyn) grand Jury of the f'nney Island Jockey club and the Brooklyn Jockey club charg ed with aiding and abetting the mak Ing of gambling "books. Though the customary -rand Jury secrecy still surrounds the case, It was gem-rally reported that the four Indictments re turned yesterday had been swelled to thirty, Including certain officers of the clubs named, cne Important police official and several private detectives in the employ of the racing associa tions. No warrants hnd been served to night but general opinion among rac ing men was that officials of the rac ing associations will be asked to ap pear in court Monday morning for their clubs. W K. Vanderbllt Is said to control ninety per cen". of the Coney Island Jockey club stock. The action generally Interpreted today Is the most drastic since the passing of the Atfrn-w-llart antl-t):t-ting bill. Many were of the. opinion that If prosecution is Miicceesful every track In Kings and gueens counties the rich metropolitan district the Kmplre City at Yonkers and the Sara toga courses, will be forced to clean house. BATKS WILL HANG. fiPARTANRl'RG. . C. Oct. 2. Joe Hates, a former policeman, was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, October 2, for the murder of Mrs. Dora Bolter on August 2, last. The woman. It Is said, formerly lived with Bates, but had married a farmer' re siding In the county. Bates shot the woman Ave times, killing Iter Instantly. Per, While Peary and His will lecture In Washington tomorrow night and on the following seven days will lecture at Baltimore Pittsburg, Hi. uiu. Kansas City. Chicago, Cin cinnati unit Milwaukee, HOONKVK1T GUARDED. NEW .YORK. Oct. t The Itoose velt. Commander Peary's Arctic steamer returned to New York today from her trip up the ' Hudson river witn -tno naval parade3 yesterday. Bhe made her wa te (he 'Brooklyn navy yara, wnera a apmtai guars wit hroteora'frofn tomirtrntsr, Herbeit L. prldgman, secretary of the Pry,Arctlc.d")ub guvs-ah Interesting account .tonight as obtained - from Commander Peary of the . Eskimo boy, Menes, return to the Fas North a desire which he so persistently op pressed here that ho was taken up on tba schooner Jeanle. Ho was put ashore at North Star bay, Greenland, provided by Peary with rifle, am munition, wood for stodges and other material enough to last a year. Menea Is the sole survivor of - tho party of Ksktmos brought South by Comman der Peart after a -previous expedition. DUTCH filRLS LIKE TO FLIRT WITH NEGROES Government Takes Hand to Stop Their Nonsense with "Black Princes." BERLIN, Oct. 2 The government has Issued a warning to parents and teachers regarding the exchange of letters between German girls and ne groes In the German-African colonies. While In most instances such corres pondence has been harmless the offi cial communication says the custom still Is to be deplored. In a majority of cases the corres pondence was begun by Oerman girls as an odd experience, their principal object being to receive African curios ities, and photographs and letters from a "black prince."' The girls also, havo sent their photographs to Africa so that in the houses of many negroes in the colonies hang the pic tures of young German women of good family. This has been seriously objected to by Germans residing In the colonies. TESTING THE BANK GUARANTY LAW GUTHRIE, Okla., Oct. 2. A tem porary Injunction restraining the of ficers of the Columbia Hank and Trust company of Oklahoma City which failed recently, from paying out any funds of the bank was grant ed by Federal Judge Cotteral hero to day as a result of the a suit suit filed by the National Insurance company of Chicago and G. C. flmlth of Spring field. Mo. Alleging hopeless Insolvency Of the bank and the Insufficiency of assets to pay depositors tn a full, the peti tion aakes the court to compel the distribution of the funds pro rata. The petitioners ask. also that It re ceiver for the bank be appointed. NEW POOL CHAMPION. KANSAS CITr, Oct . John Kllng, the well known baseball catch er, tonight won the pool champion hrp of the world from Charles ("Cowboy") Weston.' of Pittsburg, Pa., the final score being 800 to T80. PORTLAND OUTDOES HERSELF IN WELOOMB Day's Ceremony Less Exact ing And More Enjoyable Than Preceding Ones PORTLAND, Ore.. ,OcC I. Carry Ing out a program which was arrang ed with espocuu reference to hl comfort and convenience and yet cal culated to glvo the people of tho en tire city an pportunlty U seo him. President Taft spent tn Portland o day what may bi declared io 'be one of the pteasantest days of hit West ern trip.. ' The day of the president's visit w.ts one of cloudless skies and a aummef sun. There were but one untoward Incident the arrest of a man who carried a camera and In his efforts to got Into the front rank of spectators Just as the president was leaving his hotel caused his apprehension by tho police, When the map, who gave his name as Arthur a. Wright, , was searched, a revolver and an extra supply of ammunition wns found upon him.' . -7 r-rt::-- - . ' W No Crank. Wright tells a straightforward sto ry. He states that he Is a draftsman tn the employ of C. W. and F, Smith Iron eompany of Roxbury, Mass.. and that his mother lives In Bllllarlcn, Mass., and his father at Lowell, In the same state. . i, Wright exn'nlrtd his possession bf a special police badge by saying It was given him five years sro by Chief Of Police ; Hjismer, . Wright sayf he has been on a threo months' pleasure jaunt through the West. : The pollen will Bold htm jwnrtlng further esaml ItatlOB Into; hi jmtei.vdtnt ' fe'hool Children Drill, ' ' , During the forenoon, the president. -am.i..-. nan M.k..l nkn.l.M tribute which brought tears to his eyes. The boys and girls were bank ed in red, white and blue rows In the grand stand on Multnomah field to form a living flag. i Tho president . entered the : field through a gate st the crest of a hilt and the view of the children bursting on him alt at once called for an ex presslon of wonderment and delight Ml entrance waa the signal for an out burst of cheering "rom the fresh young voices who continued until Mr". Taft had taken . the place arranged for him on a stand directly facing the "flag." Then he witnessed a drill by the children which combined with their cheers Inspired him, he declared. as had no other site In alt his trav els. ' IH A LITTLE Ql'KEH.. LOW EM Mass., Oct. I, Arthur O. Wright, who was arrested In Port land, Oregon today, on suspicion ot having designs on the life of President Taft, was born In Chelmsford Center, five miles from here, , twenty-eight years ago, ; , Wright's father says that several years ago Arthur caused to be pub llshed a report that he had emmit tnd suicide for the purpose of "seeing what effect It would have." COURT ORDERS SALE OF II But Provides That Rights of Minority Bondholders Shall Be Conserved. " i ' NORFOLK, Va., Oct. t. Federal Judge Waddlll, In the Norfolk and Southern railway receivership litiga tion, involving motions for and against the Immediate mil of that property under foreclosure by the Trust com pany of America trustee, today, alw lowed the filltu of the petition of Fer gus Reld, minority bondholder, who sought a stay of sate pending a court Investigation of the original organ ization and financing of the consoli dated properties with suits l for the recovery of funds wrongfully :, ex pended, but decided -that a de-. cree of sale thould be entered forth-1 . with as desired by. the owners and i set October at IMchmond, Va., a the date to hnuf argument upon .the proposed decree of sale as already, presented by truiisel desiring f thla course. The court In. declaring tne sale of the property held tb; the. rights of Roll must be reserved and that the sale must be Subject io any rights and Interests that may PPear. The. receivers, It waa further announc ed by the coart will be eontlnued pending the Investigation nd special counsel will bo named st once for Uiem.'"'..',..-' .:.;v'. ;:r '' i ".- - '.,' Judge , WutdlH later appointed Thomas H.', Wilcox aitd Robert M. Hughes as special counsel for tho receivers.