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VOL. XXVL, NO 32.
ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1909.
TH
DELEGATES ALL
ELECTED AFTER
mm
SITING
Conference Disposed of Trou
blesome Matter In Which
Was Great Rivalry
WILL HOLD MEMORIAL
SERVICES TODAY
Several Matters of Routine
Business Cleared up Dur
ing Two Sessions
HICKORY, N. C. Nov. 20. With
t the completion oik the delegations, lay
I and clerical to , attend the general
? conference of the Methodist Eplsco
' pal church at Ashevllle next May,
the state conference today disposed of
j one of the most troublesome matters
I with which it will have to deal out
j side of the appointments,
j The elections yesterday left two
I lay alternates and four clerical del
egates to be elected. These remajnlng
j Places were filled today by the elec
; tlon of J. 8. Martin and A. 8. Hayes
j as alternate lay delegates, and Rev.
J. C. Rowe, Rev'. H. K. Boyer, Rev.
G. H. Detwller, and Rev. W. L. Sher
' ri" as clerical delegates.
1 The . conference ' ueaM several In
teresting addresses at its two sessions
and cleared up considerable routine
business.
, Morning Session.
Conference ' was called to order
promptly at nine o'clock by Bishop
James Atkins. Rev. Z. Paris conduct
ed the opening exercises.
The second ballot for the clerical
delegates to the general conference
which, was taken yesterday, but was
not announced, was announced this
morning. 1 1t showed no election. The
ballot taken for the lay alternates was
announced and showed no election
had been made. Another ballot for
each was token. This ballot showed
that J. S. Martin and H, A. Hayes were
elected as alternate lay delegates.
Bishop Atkins called questions-1?
and It and the characters of the
supernumerary and superannuated
j4nlBters---wreu passed; : Thosa who
wr present spoke to the conference.
) Three additional names were re-fein-d
io tno committee on conference
relations for the superannuated rela
tion and one for the supernumerary
relation.
The tellers, of the election for the
clerical delegates announced the result
of the second ballot. It was as fol-
(Oonttiiued on page Hirer.)
PROFESSOR COULD NOT
STAND BABY SORE TOOK
THE POTASSIUM ROUTE
Life Made Unhappy Be
cause He Was Not Made
for Married State.
LEFT HIS HOME.
URBANA, 111., Nov. 20. Professor
Wilfred C. Wheeler, first assistant
chemist In the engineering experi
ment station of the University of Illi
nois, committed suicide on the col
lege campus yesterday by taking a
dose of potassium. He was an expert
on poisons. He left a note to his wife
saying thai he was "tired of living."
The suicide of the chemist, who
was thirty years old, and was. abso
lutely free of financial worries, was
the culmination of months of brood
ing. Everything discovered today
about the man tended to show that
he was unhappy in his married life,
not the fault of Mrs. Wheeler, but be
cause he was so peculiarly organized
that he could not endure domestic
life.
Confessing to a dislike for babies.
Wheeler had viewed- the arrival of a
c!hlld at his home with an indiffer
ence that was a scandal. This was
heightened when he left his family
table and took his meals at a hotel,
saying that he could not stand the
noise of the child.
Wheeler had threatened some time
ago to end his life, and 'his associates
were somewhat concerned but there
appeared to be no reason at all for
such a deed. Last night he determined
on the step, and mixed himself the
poisonous dose with whlcJh, he com
mitted suicide.
Mrs. Wheeler, fresh from Lawrence
Kan., where she met her husband
when he was a student in' Kansas
university, bore her lot with patience
and was never heard to talk about
the strange life into which she came,
ghe explained her husband's Idiosyn
crasies as the remit of his extreme
nervousness. Not a long time ago she
appeared with a badly discolored eye,
which ;was Jokingly alluded to by
Wheeler's associates, who accused
him of being Kuilt.
Their jokes ceased when it be
came known that the bruise was the
result of his own hand In reality.
(Continued on page four.)
MINERS RESCUED
ALIVE AFTER WEEK
IN TOMB OF DEATH
Searchers Bring up Score Who
Survived Awful Experience in
Which Hundreds of Their Com
panions Died.
CHERRY. Ills.. Nov. 20 The
gamut from deepest despair to an
hysteria of hope was run here today
when twenty miners, entombed In the
St. Paul mine for a week, almost to
the hour, were brought to the sur
face alive.
The story of their sufferings and
the heroism of their resourceful lead
ers Is one of the most thrilling in all
the black history of mining disasters.
Dawn broke with the bearers of
stretchers moving from the pit mouth
to the tent which served as a morgue
with bodies swollen and scorched al
most beyond human semblance. For
ty of them had been brought up and
most of them identified when the
marvelous report hot through the j
prostrate communityy.
"They've found them alive they've
found them alive!"
Desert Dead for Living.
In a moment the morgue was de
serted scarcely to be revisited while
the crowd, fairly insane with the
great hope which had sprung like a
miraculous Hame from the ashes of
despair, rushed to tha pit.
All thought was of the men who
were alive. It took six hours to bring
the survivors to the surface. Mean
while a report spread that seventy
or more men were alive in u far
reach, of the mine, cut off from es
cape by a bank of black damp be
tween their barricade -and the main
shaft.
Further Search Kails.
But two oxygen helmets remained
at the mine, the others bavins been
staiteil back to Pittsburg today and
with this seanl equipment two experts
began a new exploration. At 9 p. in.,
they emerged, their oxygen tanks be
ing exhausted and reported no sue-1
cess.
"There are other resourceful' lead
ers among the missing and they like
Walts. Clellaud, and others may have
led their men to comparative safety,"
said States Attorney M. I Eckeit to
night. "The search Is now for the liv
ing." Less optimistic notes were sounded
by others, but the women, with hope
born afresh, refused to believe, any
thing but the best and haunted the
mine fur into the night, seizin? fran
tically at every straw of encourage-
ment.
HE LAID DOWN FOR HIS
WIFE HE BROKE HIMSELF
Four Read in Court Show i
That He Wanted All the !
Olorv and Honor.
RESTRAINTS 'OX HER
I
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 20.
When Mrs. Minnie Root was married'
she promiseu to "love, honor and j
obey" her husband, Frank. Hut that;
was not enough for him. He laid
down ten commandments for her gov
ernment as a wife. She vows she has
tried to obey them. But she declares,
too, he has broken all the command
ments that should rule the conduct of
atruly good husband. So she Is suing
him for divorce. Pour of his ten com
mandments were read daring the
trial of her suit in the Circuit court
today:
"First Thou shalt wed none but
thine own true love, neither far money
or social position, nor because thou
are lazy.
"Second Thou shalt look with one
hundred eyes upon a man before thou
marriest him, but thou shalt wear
blinders after marriage.
"Third Thou shalt accept thy hus
band as he is. and add not to him
nor take away from him thine vain
Imaginings, for behold, the man thou
old marry Is a good fellow and the
one thou dreamest of does not ex
ist "Fourth Thou shalt beat upon the
cymbals and proclaim thy husband
'Master.' "
It la whispered that the other In
junctions in this marital decalogue
are:
"Fifth Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor's costly gowns, nor her dia
mond ear-rings, nor her sable coat,
nor her silk stockings, nor her com
plexion, nor her busbanit, nor any
thing which is thy neighbor's.
"Sixth Thou shalt not run up bills.
"'SeventhThou shalt not waste
kisses and aTfeeJJon upon a cat nor
take to thy bo6m a ki-yl.
"Eighth Jniou shall not commit
thyself of uch follies as the festive
cocktail an the Insidious cigarette.
'. ContlUued on page four.)
Fire. Breaks Out Again.
At midnight a small tire uroke out in
the mine, cutting off the rescue work.
Fire apparatus had to be lowered and
a stream of water was turned into
the mine. It is feared If the lire Is
not extinguished shortly many of the
men supposed to be alive will perish.
Up to midnight only twenty men had
be'en brought to the surface.
The fire appears to be spreading
and the heat grew more Intense. K.
E. Maxwell, a mining engineer In the
rescue party .was overcome ond had
to be hurriedly brought to the surface.
SAVED f ROM STEAMER
Over Hundivd Persons Oct
Ashore From Burning
Ship olT California Coast
LOS ANGELES, Cal Nov. 20 The
City of Topeka arrived at Hedondo
ut 8 o'clock and reported passing the
burning hulk of, the steamer St.
Croix three miles off Point Duma at
about 5 o'clock this evening. Not u
person was in bIkIU in the wreck. The
steamer was a iiiiikh of llafue and the
city of Topeka was unable to net
elosu to her.
The sea was calm but? a heavy foi?
had settled over the water. The city
of Topeka after acertalning that no
life, was aboard the doomed vessel,
proceeded to Kednndo and reported
the wreck. The St. Croix left San
'Pedro1 ''pf-rfl-'frVtnc this morning for
Han Francisco.
The St. Croix had one hundred and
twenty passengers and u crew of
1 1 i i r ty - li v nT n" boa r d .
A telephone message has Just been
received from first officer F. Mills
of the steamer St. Croix saying that
all on board are safe ashore at Point
Duma.
E WARSHIPS WILL
BE
T TD PROTECT
Situation Between This
Country and Nicaragua
Reaches Critical Stage.
KNOX IMPERATIVE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. That the
critical situation between this coun
try and Nicaragua has reached the
acute stage was evidenced tonight
when Secretary of Slate Knox sent for
his colleagues in the state department
and for the acting secretary of the
navy and bis aides to meet in con
ference in his home. For nearly
three hours the statesmen went over
the situation. The result of their de
liberations was not made public, but
it was not denied that more warships
are to be dispatched South at once.
Acting Secretary Wlnthrop. flanked
on either side by two rear admirals
on leaving seeemingly was Impressed
by the weight of the responsibility
the conferees had placed on his de
partment. "When does she sail?" he was
heard to ask Rear-admiral Potter as
he came down the steps of Secretary
Knox's residence.
"Monday." responded the naval of
ficer laconically. Neither would ex
plain the meaning of their question or
answer. The others likewise infused
to dwell on the result of their -deliberations.
Official conflrmtaion today of the
execution of l-roy Cannon and I,eon
ard Oroce. Americans, by the Zelayan
government In Nicaragua was fol
lowed by a statement from the Nl
caraguan legation here Justifying the
action on the grounds that the men
confessed to locating mines In order
to blow up two vessels carrying gov
ernment troops.
The state department received a
telegram today from the American
vie-vonuul at MiUWgUH In which he
says that the Niacaraguan minister
for foreign affairs had Informed him
that the Americans, wio were exe
cuted on November 12 fit ten a. nr.
had made a confession in which they
had admitted laying mines In the sea
San Juan river with the object of
blowing up Nlcaragtian ships. The
minister also stated that the Ameri
cans were tried by court martial.
fill ji
mum u w
POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPANY
Right'of- Way From Knoxville And Morristown to This City And Thence
to Spartanburg Secured. Expects to be Operating Here in
Ninety Days. Step o f Unusual Importance.
The Postal Telegraph-Cable com
pany will be operating in Ashevllle
within nlnejly days.
Such Is the statement and expecta
tion of Mr. 8. II. Price, general super
intendent of construction for the Pos
tal company, who has been In this
section for the lust two weeks, secur-
Jlng the rights o way trpm Knoxville
ond MorrUowtt.tAl"Viue. ana aim
from AshevlUe to Sputtnhbii.l'g, the
Inst "leg" of which will connect Ashe
ville with the Postal service In all
parts of the world. These rights have
been secured, and Mr. Price will return
to Ashevllle within a few days to se
lect a location for the telegraph oftlces
in this city, it Ih more than likely
that one of the most prominent build
ings on -Puttnn avenue, not a thousand
miles from The Citizen offlce. will be
secured for this purpose. Ollloes have
already been selected at Morristown.
Mr. Price says Ins company will not
PRESIDENT TAKES HOLD 'FEDERATION REELECTS
AS TRUSTEE OF HAPON; ALL FORMER OFFICERS
Attends Meeting of Board
With Many Prominent
Educators. 1
RICHMOND, '.! . Nov. 20. Assum
ing bis duties im 11 member of th
liourd of trustees and declaring that
he wished by that representation to
testify to the interest of the American
people In the problems being worked
out by the school. President Taft spent
all of today at tin- Hampton Normal
Institute for Indian and negro boys
and girls. lb- attended during the
morning h meeting of the board, In
spected the buildings and guns, re
viewed the snub-tits, was entertained
ut luncheon and together with a num
ber, of prominent educators gathered
from all sections of the country, made
an address to the students and to.
large gathering of white people in
the school bite today. About dusk the
president and party went aboard the
Mayflower, weighed anchor and head
ed for Washington.
The president in a brief address suld
he believed that is Institutions Ilk.
Hampton and Tuskegej-, and the spin:
of co-operation ulilch they engender
ed among both white and colored
people for the general uplift of hu
manity, are doing more for the solu
tion of the Ko-i-allcd race prob'em
than any other Tutors that could be
brought to bear
WASHINGTON, Nov, 20. Forecast
for North Carolina: Fair warmer
Sunday; Monday fair moderate South
to Southwest Hinds.
Don't Forget The Poor, On Thanksgiving.
GAINS FOOTHOLD
follow the railroads entirely when It
erects its poles. The best possible
construction will b placed along th
lights of way that have been ieeured.
It Is understood that the company will
buy existing telephone pole lines
where Independent companies desire
to sell same, but no purchase will be
made by the Postal people with a view
of consolidation with the Independent
companies, the purchase of polo lines
being made solely; to simplify this jw
qulsltlon of construction route.,.
Fins Kquliuatent,
It Is a well known fact that the
Postal Telegraph company furnishes
the highest priced equipment known
In the telegraph and telephone world,
and Us offices are the most hundsomely
appointed in the country. It is the
Intention of the company to place s
large olllce In Ashevllle with a strong
force of operators and clerks. This
city wil probably be made division
headquarters with a local superintend
ent. This means that Ashevllle will
be made a large distributing point for
this terrtory. Should this letter plan
be followed out It would bring to this
Three Executives May have!
to Spend Large Part of
Their Term' in Jail.
TORONTO, tint.. Nov. 20. After
tinnnimounly re-electing President
Samuel (Jumpers, Vice-President
John Mitchell, Secretury Frank Mlr
rlson and other exeeiillve officers and
selecting St. I,otils as the place for
holding the next meeting, the twenty
ninth annual convention of the Amer
Ican Federation of Ijib'or which has
been In sesKlon here for two weeks
adjourned finally today.
t'neertainty us to whether n ap
peal to the I'nited Stutes Supreme
court will be allowed In the Bucks
Stove and Range company contempt
proceedings and the possibility that
(Jumpers, Mitchell and Morrison may
have to go to jail ill the near future,
tiling like a cloud over the closing
days of the convention uild the re
election of the trio was the signal for
noisy demonstrations of approval.
President tJompers In thanking the
convention for Its action, declared
that It meant that the principles for
which he and his colleagues hud dar
ed to stand, have the unanimous ap
proval of the lalxir nn-n and women
of the entire continent, and pointed
out that the Injunction in the Ducks
Stove and Ranpe company case ap
plied to every one of the two million
workers in the federation.
Most or the delegates left here to
day but the members of the execu
tive council will remain over for a
meeting on Monday.
TECH DEFEATS
UNIVERSITY OF GA.
ATLANTA. CJa., Nov. 20. Georgia
Tech defeated the University of Geor
gia here today In one of the cleanest,
hardest fought -gam ovur witii ou
the local gridiron. Score 12 to G.
Tech made frequent fumbles at crit
ical periods, twice with the ball with
in one yard of Georgia's goal llnf.
The star player was loc Wilson.
Tet'h's quarterback, who enlivened
the plav with nensatlonal running and
his successful manipulation of the
forward paxson several occasions.
3
IN ASHEVILLE
elly a force of high priced clerical
help, and naturally a heavy puy roll.'
AkIicyIIIc. to Spartanburg,
The rights of way from Ashevllla to
Spartanburg have been secured and ,8,
fore of men will start on construction
work from that point to Ashevllle
when the force now working between
Knoxville and Morristown starts this
way from the latter city.'" When ths
loop between Knoxville, . Morristown,
Asheyllle and Spartanburg has been
r riiumpleted H will grvo this city
THr.pBl(j mittet'througfc VJha,;. Mj
tele
eastern
j seaports, direct to the Western mar
ket, without having to go through At
lanta or Hlrmlnghnm as Is now ths
CUM. ...jiT
Ashevllle being about ths center of
this loop, It naturally follows that this
city will be a large relay offlce. Few
people can realise at this time What
an Important step this would be to
ward the prosperous era which Is gen
rally Anticipated, It means not only
sn Important step for local Interests,
but also one that makes for the nation
al advertising of Ashevllle as a tele
graph center.
LAWYER KINOLY OFFERS
TO MARRY MRS.BELMONT
Her Suffrage Views Meet
His and Thinks They
Would he Happy.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 Mrs. Oliver
II. P. Belmont hus disapproved one
of the thief arguments of the antl-suff-ruglsts
that the ballot for women
would prove an effective non-eottduc
tor to matrimony. She received an
offer to matrimony yesterday as ths
Immediate result of her campaign for
votes for women at the suffrage head
quarters, No. SOB Fifth avenue.
The writer for the offer came by
malt described himself as a Western
lawyer, said he had been deeply Inter
ested In her work for the csuse so
much so, in fact, that It Had caused
him great unxlety. He pointed 6ut that
while women should have the ballot,
no women should labor to obtain it
she "should always work through a
man."
In order to make this possible In
Mrs. Belmont's case, the lawyer told
her, he was assured the 'unroh of her
money and his brain would bring
about a political revolution, and said
h was willing to 'come on and marry
her.
Mrs. Helmont lust night refused td
' divulge his name. She admitted that
I he had omitted to give the color of
his hair and eyes, his age, height,
' weight, flnunctal position, and wheth
: er he had a disposition t(f be relied
!upon.
i It was learned that others at the
: headquarters had also received offers
I of marriage since they have appeared
! on the firing line of ths suffrage' move-
ment In New York.
I The suffrage headquarters la now
besieged with Vriifiks7who "hare-ll
j manner of schemes, requiring a large
I expenditure, by which the human
j race may be saved. A man who has
i Invented a car wheel and a woman
j who wants to put up a million dollar
hotel on a plot of ground at Fort
j Washington are two of the most per-Is'stent.
WRECKED VESSEL
IS BELIEVED TO BE
J.J.ASTWSYACHT
Steamship Reports Sfghtlr g
Submerged Wreck Off Tho
Cuban Coast
NO OTHER VESSEL HAS
BEEN REP0R.ED MISSING
Lying in Shoals so That Closer
Investigation - Could
Not be Made
TAMPA. Fla Nov. 19 .That a sub.
merged wreck. In latitude HMO. lon
gitude 11 west. Is that of Colonel John
Jacob Astor's yacht Nourmahal, is
generally believed by Maritime men
here as no other bon(. In ths path of
the recent storm In Jamaican waters
ha been reported missing or unae.
counted for. The wreck Was siirM.,4
by the German - steamship Wotsn.
which arrived hers yesterday.
Captain Hans Schlalkler. of ., ths
Wotan, who reported the wreck said
that his ship did not approach close
enough to make sn Investigation, ths
wrecked vessel evidently ? being In
fchiml water. With classes ha" saw
what appeared to bs threa soars ahnvs ' .
ths nater, one of them about fifteen
ftet above. Ms Is not certain that Uis '
middle one wua a mast. . . , . '.
According to tha location given by'
Captain Hchlalkler, ths '. Nourmahal"
wa considerably out of her course.
having been reported a bound from-.
Port Antonio, Jamlea, for. Bun JTuttn,
P, R If this really la colonel Astor's'
yacht. But In ths fierce blow recent
ly .this Is readily accounted for. The,
su bmerged vessel was reported lm-
mediately after ths arrival of ths Wo
tan at Tampa. .
- . tt'lit b.m '
Tonight Ih wlruless station hers is
Seeking the revenue flitter Algonquin -with
instruction to proceed st once
to ths point designated In ths report
of Captain Schlalkler. but so far the
local station, has been una bio to locate
tha cutter. All other ships In -ths
tons of the local station have been
notified tA look out tar inv anhmrvA f
or crippled vessel and reoort Imme
diately by wireless, But In the pre-
Vlous Instructions no locations was
given, , ' i ' -
According to advices received here
no other vessels In the storm lone
have been reported missing without
being accounted for, and this lends ad-
dtllnnnl pause far hellnf Ihnt tha III.
fated Vessel sighted by ths Wotan Is
Colonel Astor's yacht.
YAMACRAW KAILS.
TAMPA, Fla., . Nov. 30 At M0
o'clock tonight ths local wireless sta-
tlon spoks to ths revenue cutter Yam-
acraw at Charleston, giving her ths
latitude and longitude of ths submerg
ed vessel. Ths captain of ths Yam
craw advises that hS will leavs
Charleston at ones for ths spot Indi
cated. Bo far ths Algonquin has not
been located by wireless.
CTOA SEN OH SHIP.
HAVANA. Nov. f 0. When Presl-
dent Qomm was appraised of ths
probable loss of the Nourmahal, he
said hs would: instantly dispatch
naval vessel to the scene of the wreck.,
which Is off ths north coast of ths
Island. -
INCITE TCKID INDIANS TD
. ILOMLInTl
Man Charged With Crime
Rescued from Lynching
Party by Officer.
DEPUTIES SENT OUT.
HOBART. Okla., Nov. 0. Ths
killing of A. H. Heape, a full-blooded
squaw of the Tokio tribe at the To-
klo Indian mission, fourteen , miles
southwest of here today hai greatly
Incensed the Indians and a clash b
tween them and county authorities Is
Imminent tonight
The alayer of ths woman Is un
identified. Indians, however, charge
Klchard Stanley, a part Cherokes .
horse trader, with the crime. Soon
after the killing Indiana captured him
and threatened his life.' He was rea
died by Kiowa George, a government
policeman and hurried away on horse
back. Stanley'! wife end ten-year-old
daughter weee left behind, how.,.
ever, and It la feared the Indians
wilt torture and possibly kill them to
get revenge for tha crime they aver
Stanley committed. Five special dep
uty sheriffs were sent from here by
Sheriff Parhara tonight to rescue the
woman and her child. , The deputies
are heavily armed. .