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T THE ASHE VILLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHEE: Associated Press.. Leased Wire Reports. VOL. XXV. NO 349. A8IIEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1909. P1UCE FIVE CENTS. T E Nothing Doing. DEATH OF FEUDIST T NOTHING, DOING SCIENTIFIC MEN IN HIS RELIGION SONNY , YOU LI HAVE TO GROW Some READY 0 SUBMIT CABIN ETPilEMBERS PRESID T -SHOWS DATA TO AHfUd MS PUT OSESTO BROAD LIBERALITY RECALLS WRONGS . .' i . ,' I J I 6R ND5T0NE AGAIN iFT' i 9 v t w x'ssur Ah' i ix- a . i i m m s 1 w Dr. Cook Is Willing if Danes Will WalvoThelr Rights to Records RECEIVES POPULAR OVATION AT CAPITAL But Official Washington Con sptcuously Ignores The Explorer WASHINGTON. Oct. 3 Dr. Fred erick A. Cook, the Arctic explorer, announced tonight shortly after his arrival from New York to deliver his lecture here, that he will acquiesce In the proposition that the University of Copenhagen be asked to waive H claims to a prior examination or his records, In order that American Geo graphical societies, and other scientific bodies In this country may be enabled to review his data. He said he would be satisfied to have the decisions of Rj lof these tribunals awtjjunced simultaneously. Dr. Cook reached Washington at 6 40 o'clock this evening and was driven Immediately to the new Wil lard hotel where he Tiad dinned and talked with newspaper men, before going to a local theatre to deliver his lecture. Man lok For Anottwr. Frantynss characterized Dr. Cook's answejjft5t every question asked by the nhjpttaper men, although the ex plorer added, but little to what he al ready has said and published since he returned to oivillzatiun. When asked If he would In the future lit up an expedition to go to the 'South pole, Dr. Cook said he was not yet prepared to answer that point, but he added that discovery of the South pole would i be .Tendered much easier thate. J&tSiole, and would be attended $yfa-rtles dangerous risks. He' pointed out .thajsprobable route, to the South pole would be along stretches fit laud, on. , which stations might be established, and that this would mean a quicker discovery. Throng Greets Him. An enthusiastic crowd of several tliousand people greeted Dr. Cook upon his arrival at the Union station, urn! throngs In their eagerness to or get near him was kept back v. ith difficulty by several score of po lice and detectives At the station (Continued on Page Three.) UPSTATE PEOPLE WILL HAVE CHANCE TO SEE THE PRIMITIVE NAVAL SHOW Hudson-Fulton Celebration Take its Way up Hud son River. HUGHES WILL FOLLOW NEW YORK, Oct. 3. The Hudson Fulton celebration after a week of pomp and pageantry in New York has moved up the Hudson and for another week the cities lying 'to the north will vie with each other in do ing honor to the memory of Hudson and Fulton. The Half Moon and the Clermont with the naval escort, now at anchor at Poughkeepsie, will con tinue thely voyage .torthwa.d stop ping at Kingston, Catskill. Hudson, Albany and Tr:y. where elaborate local celebrations have been planned. During the week a military tour nament by United States troops will be held at Cnmp Oliver, on Island park neat- Albany. Governor Hughes, who attended a sacred concert in Carnegie Hull. New York tonight will begin his up-state trip tomorrow. During the forenoon he will receive a parade at Ynnkers going on to Poughkecpsie in the aft ernoon where a banquet will be given In his honor. On Tuesday the naval Ruuadron. with The rfalf Moon and Clermont will move on to Kingston. Catskill will be the scene of Wednes day's celebration. A special trip to the haunts of Rip Van Winkle in the Catskill mountain!: under the auspices if the llWlland society has been ar ranged for be officers and men of the Half Moon. Hudson will receive the flotilla nti Thursday. The capital of th( state will be reached on Friday. As the naval parade passes tip the river on the following day on me way to Troy it will be saluted by the Watervllct Arsenal. At night a chain of signal fires on mountain tops and other eligible piints from Staten Island to the head of navigation will mark the end of the two weeks celebration. On the following Monday the fleet will pro- (Continued on page six.) Official Washington Will Be gin to Busy Itself Dur ing Next Week ONLY TWO OFFICERS TO HOLD DOWN LID Will Have Plenty of Work to do to Carry Out Plans of Administration WASHHINGTON, Oct. 3. Wash ington will soon be In the full swing of governmental work under the di rection of the heads of the depart ments. Two memb.ra of the president's cabinet Serrftary of the Navy Mey er and Secretary of Agriculture Wll- m are tonight "sitting on the lid" of the government and two others Attorney General Wlckersham and Secretary of Commerce and Lubor Kagel are expected Tuesday. Secretary of bu-te Knox, who spent most of the Mjmmer at his country home at Valley Forge, is expected In Washington the lwst week In October. He will consider the Hankow railway loan question and the re-organization of the bureau of the department and will decide whether the United States should protest against the two trea ties recently negotiated by China and Japan involving Manehurinn Issues. Secretary of the Treasurer Mac- Veagh is. at Dublin. N. H., near the White mountains. With the Improv ing situation in the treasury the ques tion of the I snu- of certilicates of In debtedness under the discretionary nuthorlty given by congress has been pressed into the background lor the time but thla, together with other matters of financial Import will be dis cussed In his unnual report. Wirkcrhham's Tasks. Attorney General Wlckersham Is to participate lit tlx argument of the gevernment's suit against 4he Araer- lean Tobaccn company, for alleged violation of the anti-trust laws in the Supreme court of the United States on October 12. Th" proposed legislation of u sweeping character to overcome the weaknesses of the present inter state common o law for which a bill Incorporating the administration's ideas has been tentatively drafted, the conservation of anti-trust prose cutions, the lciral ends of the re-organization of the executive depart- (Contlnued on page four.) EIGHT MEN PERISH IN AN INFERNO OE FLAMES AS EAS EXPLODES IN MINE Fire Shoots in Air and Sets Fire to Buildings in Ad jacent Mining Town. WATER SUPPLY OFF. ROSLYN, Wash , let. 3 At least eight men were killed and three per haps fatally inured In a gas explosion In coal mine No. 4 of the Northwest ern Improvement company near here today. When the explosion occurred a col umn of fire was thrown hundreds of feet Into the air. igniting the shaft plant and adjoining buildings. Un der the intense heat the hoist of the shaft crumbled and fell Cinders vt.T" blown in all directions, several buildings In parts of the little mining town taking lire The citizens were unable to extinguish the tires and the Hoslyn fire department was called out. The mine in the neighborhood of the shall was burning llercely late tonight, flame shooting up from the shaft nearly leu feet into the air. The electric pumps which supply the town of Knslyn with water were cut off and the water in the city was very nearly e--handled. it was reported that the shaft was caving In and that other explosions might occur at any moment. Rescue parties will be sent Into the mine from til (dope connecting with the shaft as soon as it is safe for men 'to approach. RKVOI.lTK I PARAGUAY. WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. Revolt! tionists are act!'. In Paraguay accord ing to advices received at the state department today from Minister ti'HHen Th - uhnlp reniihlle is In censed, the rovernment forces have lest twenty men and the revolution ists a himrirt'l. according to the dls patch. The government has eight ihnnwinit nliMtf.rM and the revolution ists fifteen h indrcd. according to the cablegram, which seems to have been confused In transmission. Officiates at Cornerstone Lay ing of Universalis. Church ThJs Time NO DISTINCTION AS BETWEEN SECTS Declares Churches Growing Together In Contest.for Righteousness :t, PORTLAND. Oregon. Oct. 3. President Taft today preached anoth er sermon, this time at the corner stone laying of the First Universalis! church in Kaat Portland. The presi dent handled the silver trowel and worked hard to see that the stone was properly adjusted. The president's train left at 10.10 p. m.," over the Southern Pacific for Sacramento. Calif. Mr. Taft attended the morning services at the First Uni tarian church in Portland, and listen ed to a sermon by Rev. W. G, Eliot, Jr. Afterwards he was the guest of honor at a luncheon by Senator Bourne. In the early afternoon the president visited St. Mary's Roman Catholic school and made a five minute ad dress to the school children In which he declared that loyalty to a church meant fidelity to country. lbs-alls Temple Episode. At the cornerstone laying he said: "I don't know that any one questions the propriety of my being here' and officiating on such an . occasion as this, or that an explanation of any sort is called for. But I want to say that I believe It to be the duty of the president of these United States to welcome and to suggest every Instru ment by which the morals and re ligion of the community may be elect ed and maintained. Not long ago I officiated at the cornerstone laying of aj orthodox congregational church In Washington,. , Then ! appeared In the pulpit of a Jewish tabernacle at Pltts burg. Rut a few days ago I helped to lay the cornerstone of a Catholic institution at Helena. Mont. "Anil now it Ih my great pleasure to assist here today in laying that cor nerstone of this 1'nlvorsallst church which like my own. the Unitarian church, Is known us a liberal one. "I am glad always to be present at in h occasions as these, for I believe (Continued on Page Three.) SEN. GAZAM WILL AID She Sent Him Flowers When He was Hurt in Kenilworth Fire. LON(J ESTRANGED. PHII.ADKI.PHIA. Oct. 3 For the first lime since his daughter. Miss Antoinette (latum, whose home Is at Cornwall-on-the-Iludson. New York, has been sued for 1 150,000 damages by Mrs. Marahe.ll Clark of Chicago, for alienation rf the affections of her husband, u fortune teller, Joseph M. (lazzam revealed his attitude in the case and his position In his wife's dlvorse suit, winch led to his reported estrangement with his daughter. Mr. Gazzam la still under the car of a nurse at bis home, No. 26.1 South Nineteenth street, as a result of the Injuries he received In escaping from burning Kenilworth Inn at Asheville, lust spring. With tears he regretted that he was unable to go Immediately to aid his daughter in contesting the suit against her. "But I douut It I would be allowed to see her." he said. "There is but little doubt that she has been held virtually a prisoner In the big home her mother willed her on the banks of the Hudson. Telegrams and letters are usueless. I have tried this before. even this week, after the suit has been brought And I know that they are Invariable Intercepted, opened and then destroyed. 1 have not heard If she has left her home or has been spirited away from It. "But I will help her." he added. "Although I am in Impaired health. and although her mind has been pols oned against me. I will either go In person or will send help to her. I am confidant she U not guilty of the charges. Antoinette, although twen ty-seven years old. has had little ex perience with affairs of the world and has been made the victim of a deen Dlot. the iiTm of which It to either steal h r fortune of approxi mately $ 2,000.000. or to gain control of It" Mr. Oazam declared that since his first wife, the rcnther at the girl, and who was a daughter of John S. Read ing, a millionaire merchant, had ob (Continued on page four.) CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS DEPOSE ONLY POSSIBLE H Mrs. Stetson Who Has Long I NEW YORK. Wt. . Tho most Important event which Could occur In Christian Science circles outside of the death of Mrst Eddy Is the an nouncement that th officials of the mother church In Boston have de posed Mrs. Augusts, E. Stetson, who has long been' the dominant influence in the First Church of Christ Scien tist, In- this city. Her card has been removed from- Th" Christian Science Journal and her Itcene as a practi tioner has been revelled by the ofllo 11 ., k '? '' For a long-time. Mr Btetson lias been regarded by many people as the logical successor ' of Mrs. Eddy as the head of the church, in spite of the fact that most Scientists declare that Mrs. ftddy can hove no successor and the action taken against her In dicates that tne prevailing Idea In the church at this time Is that Mrs. Eddy shall have no successor. The princi pal charge which was made against Mrs. Stetson was that she obtruded her own penona!lty Into her teach ings, and cmt'-axored to obtain a per- icnal control over her pupils which! Is closely allied to hypnotism and which Is strongly condemned by Christian Hci.-me. In addition to this It Is declared that she was trying to build up a single church In this city which was to be the one and only church In thin city whereas the by laws of the church provide that when a church membership outgrows the capacity of ItA edifice a new church shall be formed. Calls Her Church Supreme. Eugene R. Cox, formerly of Chi cago and now lead of the publication committee for the Christian Science church In th city, when risked con-j REVENGE OR QUARTER THEIR KERF II LIFE Oltl Man Follows Man Vli Robbed and Tried to Kill arid Shoots Him Dead. CHICAO". fct. 8. Patrick M' Cabe, twenty-live years old. of I'i'ts burg, I'n., vv;n hot and killed here today by Frank Mee, sixty years old According to tho police the murder grew out of an alleged uttempt by McCabe and an unidentified lompan lon to kill Mee by throwing him from a moving train near Perorla, III.. Thursday nlht, after robbing him of thirty cents Mee, whos- hands and face arc badly lacerated, told the police that he followed McCabe here to revenge himself. Mee said that he found McCabe h- re t' lturday and after se curing a revolver shot and killed him today. "I suppose 1 will swing for it," said Mee, "but he tried to kill me and 1 wanted to itet even with him." tf Am- WASHINGTON. Oct. 3 Forecast: North Ccrollna: Fair Monday and Tuesday, not much change In temper ature; light to moderate winds, most ly north. " SUCCESSOR Been Regarded as Next in the Chur ch is Forbidden to Practice Stripped of Her Authority. cernlng the reported action on the part of the mother church officials, gave out the following statement: "An Inquiry under article xll, sec tion 8, of the by-laws of the mother church, has been held by the Christ ian Science board of directors, which was concluded on September IS, IVOf. "At the inquiry twenty-six persons with whom Mrs Augusts, H. Btetson, of New York rlty, has held dally meeting called 'practitioners' meet logs' ---were- summoned em ...vr!tnei . fd; ; Bll but- en, attended,- Y- unirvoidttbly -prevented I torn, coming. Mr Stetson was not summoned, h having only recently been questioned before the directors regarding her teaching and practice of Christian Science. All but one of the twenty five persons thus examined were stu dents of Mrs. Stetson and all of thtm were a select body of students chosen by her, or a board of which she was a member, to be representative prac titioners of Christian Science. Directors' Findings. "After hearing these witnesses the directors unanimously decided: "1. That Mrs. Stetson teaches her students, or those with whom she hhs been holding dally meetings, that the branch Church of Christ. Scientist, of which she Is a member, Is the only legitimate Christian Science church In New York city: and she teaches students, or wild group of students, not to regard the other branches of the mother church which are. In the city us Christian Science churches. "2. That a eonslderabln number of the witnesses whoso testimony the di rectors have heard exhibit as Mrs. Stetson's teaching an erroneous sense of Christian Science, particularly In DIRECTORS WILL MEET TO WONTflACTS Will Consider Plans for Ne gro Training School to be. Opened at Durham. mrrtllAM, N. C. 't. .I The board of advisors for the National Religious Training school and chatau- quu for the colored race which Is to be built In Durham, will meet here Thursday, October 14. for the purpose of electing the type of structure and awarding the contract for the build ings). Twenty of the board have written that they will f attend. Among these are Hev. C. H Parkhurst, of New y.,rk; Rabbi Abram Hlmon. of Wash ington; Judge Jeter C. Pritehard, Of Ashevllle. N. C; Rev. Thomas B. Shannon, of Newark i Oenerai B. W. Green, of Little Rock, Ark.; Benator U-e 8. Overman, of North Carolina; tilshop Robert Strange, of Wilming ton; I. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte; Dr. John A. Earl.-, of Chicago, and Rev. Dr. J. C. ' .Massee. of Chattanooga, Tenn. The founder of the school, Dr. James K. fihepard has on his com mittee two Confederate generals and nearly all of the directors are White men with a good number of Southern ers. His most substantial contribu tions have been from Southern white men. The school will be designed es pecially for colored ministers and missionaries. The erection of the In stitution will begin November 1. i TO MRS. EDDY Succession to the Head of Healing and -i'-WU regard to the Application of Christian Science to human needs and condi tions. "S. That Mrr. Stetson endeavor to exercise a control over her' students which tends to hinder their TAOrnl and spiritual fsowth. :;" 'f . ; . Tht 'Mr. Utetaoti ndvor to obtrude "Jters1f tipbt) the hentloti of her stnileritsln. such r r us t turn t!'-i M.-iion - pi riiui (h : v . -r --(f ..-- ,. ..... i "li That'1 MM.' Stetson' practise Mid teaches ' preUfAed . 'Christian Sclencs contrary,, te the statement thereof in Science and IlealtlV with Key to thf Scriptures,' partloularly by treating persons without their request or con sent, and by teaching a select body of her students to do likewise. : "6. That Mrs. Stetson attsmpts to control and to Injurs persons by mental means, this being utterly con trary to the teachings ot Christian Science. "7. That Mrs. Stetson has so stray ed from the right" way as not to be fit for the wor of a teacher of Christ Inn Science. "For these reasons the directors' removed Mrs. Stetson's card as practitioner and teacher from The Christian Science Journal; revoked her license or authority to teach Christian Science; forbade her to un dertuke the work of a teacher of Christian Science until her fitness for such work should be proved and de cided, according to article 12, section 1, of said by -lays, and admonished (Continued on pegs four.) STARVING ESKIMO KILLS UNO EUTSjlSOl CHILD Then Kills Tribesmen Wlio Attack Ilim and E;9cape Into Wilderness. j , ST. JOHNS. N. F., Oct. J. Tragedy in the fur n irth formed the burden of the news brought to part today by the Hudson Hay company's steamer Adventure which arrived with the crew of the ost Oundee whaler Para dox and the story of an Eskimo who, driven to cannibalism by starvation, ate his child. The Paradox, one of the fleet of whalers, met thn fste of her compan ion ship Rnowdrop when she was crunched In the Ice floes off Baffin Land, early In August a year ago. The crew, with scanty provisions, made their w-j.y over fhe broken Ice toward tho mainland and were picked up this fall by the steamer. The Hudson Lay mounted police report through dispatches brought by the Adventure, the cannibalism of a stsrvlng Eskimo. The man's fishing and hunting season hod been a failure and driven mud by hunger he cut the throat of one of his children and then ate the little victim. When the man's neighbors learned of the horribl-3 crime they attacked him according to the primitive law of their race. The outcast beat Off all assailants, shot down several of the attacking party and escaped Into the wtldneas. His fats is unknown. JUDGE DUFUY DEAD. ROANOKE. Vs.. Oct J. Judge J. A. Dupuy, a prominent jurist died he;re today after a brief Illness of acute brlghts disease. He was tS yeags old. HE HADTO SUFFEfl Was Defrauded of Large - mil by Man He Thought to be a Friend WORRY OVER LOSS DROVE HIM INSANE While Demented Killed His In. dlan Wife And Was Sen-;, tenced tofrisoii WASHINGTON, Oct. t.A romaa tic story has been disclosed by post ' office Inspectors regarding Harrlsosl Hatfield, or the family of feudists ot that name, who died recently In ths penitentiary at Moundsvlllei W. Ys' Harrison Hatfield lived near Horse, pen In ths mountains ot "West Vlrv gin la. He was widely known as "Old Hatcher", and was leader ot ths . Hatflalds In ths McCoy-HatfWld feud ' which amounted almost to civil war and disrupted several counties on ths borders of West Virginia and Ken-, tucky. One or his eyes was shot ftut during a raid which ths Hatflslds mads Into Kentucky several years ago. Ths Hatfietds owned tart areas of land In West Virginia from which they realised considerable money. Warned Against fire, "Old Hatcher" deposited 12,18 In' ths auyan Valley bank at Irn, W. Vs. Subsequently, having heed, ot ths money hs authorised Alexander H, Trent, postmaster at Hursapen to di rect the ban to forward to him ths. money by registered malt HatfUM galled at tWpostalTIc repeatedly tor a registered letter, but'when It arrivsl on April I4j ti07 hs bad lft the of fice only ft short time before to aasUt an Intoxicated friend who could ret sit astride Ms mule stone. I I'rvetl'd l'(.,l it r Ti ellt M ..'r, cure of tint I i'. 1- -- : l(rly ou loii iw o'.f i' ' , pastorate 'teas destroyed by ill t-. i oontunts of ths nf alone being saved, Hatfield's Istler was not In the ssfe. Postmaster,, Trent, declared hf had. placed ths letter with ih ordinary mall, all of which was burasd. - , An Investigation of ths Or and of ths disappearance ot ths letter was mads by postoftlcs Inspectors, It was AiumvAreri that Postmaster Trent hnd obtained a typewriter rrom a Chicago? concern by fraud ulsnt representations to which hs conressea, j-ater rosi-; master Trent and nls rather were In, dieted for having stolen ths regUter-v ed letter. Postmaster Trent finally nnnsaued to the theft and made prop ositions looking to th refunding ot the money. He produced from a jar -hidden under ths barn ths sum of $1,280, which, with $600 obtained from hi bondsmen was svsntually iini mu to Hatfield. Trent was convicted of ths orlm. but escaped from Jail and Is a fugitive from jus tlce. j v Became Insane. , . Uecomlng Insane frpm worry over the loss ot his money and ths sudden elation at th recovery of a consld. erabls part of It, Harrison Hatltsld poisoned his wife, who was an India woman. He was sentenced to th paJ t i.niim for. life and titer hs died only a few days ago. It was not until his death that the posiortic wspec tors felt Justified In revealing all th facts respecting th cs. ' , ' ' DROPPING FROM GREAT HEIGHT WIATOHS' SPORT tlatfiam Makes Crowd Gasp as He .Lets His Machine P'all Thrt"C Hundred Feet. JoHannisthal Germany. Oct. 1 Aviation week was , brought to fi end today befo-e a very larg crow which wo compensate. tf a sens tlonal flight sfter sunse W Hube Latham. Alter tnree iviur., made an easy start two minutes a sunset, and although hs. hed i height officially estimated at 80 ft-, twenty feet higher thanv, JTouglcr record of yesttiday, he wo a'squi1 fled because of the: hour. A j "f Latham rose Immediately to a ' height and flew repewtedly uroufl'l tn' field. He hoverrd above the yl'""1" with o-bsolute stability, . .' ami a enthusiasm o.t the port , of wMsctotOTT When he reached his highest altltud he stopped the engine k gnd gl'a down so swlftl that.h PPerd t fall fully threes hundred feet whl everybody held tbefr brth'' A' th point he started his me'or again at mad a safe anJyauy landing. Hu dreds of ths spectators leaped the bn rlers and carried lj'an to tne ' where he was the' ort Upro trl. demonstrations. , .'"' v ' Latham estimated that he ascer ed between is" hundred ad thousand reek jut the cfflclals elgr.
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