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-THE WEATHER: FAIR. . VOL. XXVI. NO. 35. Sill OIL CAfi Genera) Counsel of Company Says decree is Not Such V Terrible Blow CAN STILL CONTROL tHt, STOCKHOLDER Outlines Plan by Which Sub slttary Companies Will Mill bo iled up NEW YOUK, Nov., 23. Reports, rumor and legal prophecies to the contrary-, the Standard Oil company tlon announced authoritatively today that it had no Intention of seeking to procure an amendment to the Sher man anti-trust law, but will proceed with the appeal to the United States Buprem court," which, as already an nounced through MoKlmer F. Elliott, Its general solicitor. Is to be taken from tho decrees of the United States Ch-cutt court aV St. Paul. Until the Supreme court hen rendered a decis ion, the company will consider no oth er, plan of doing business than the methods now In use. , Mf. Elliott Is authority for the fore going. He discussed the carte with a representative of The Associated Press at the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway, this afternoon after a con ference with William G. Rockefeller and John D. Archbold. Can Still Do BuhIiicms. '"there is to be no effort on the part of the company to procure an amend ment of the Sherman anti-trust law" said Mr... Elliott, t:" '"It eems highly Improbable to me that there will ever be a foreign hold ing company organized, as you tell me Ha been suggested. The complex ity of Control exercised by the sev etal "Mate sets' too' many difficulties i the, way. "Buch, comment on the case us I havikaeen mlaaea the fact that the Standard Oil company Is not a hold ing company pure .and Blmple, as was the 1 Northern . Securities company. For Inatance, It owns outright at Uay ohhe, N. J., the largest refinery In the WftrlCU-JWro Ja nath lag In the decree to 5pevirrthe cwitrpany from continu ing Jo do business, though I admit it makes doing business more cumber some. How to Evade Derw. "Although the decree enjoins the Standard Oil company from voting IW (Continued on page four.) TENNIS PLAYERS NOT IN MIJEMiGOLF PLAYERS GET CHOICE POSITIONS' Former College Champion i Appointed Assistant Sec- ; retary of the Treasury, IS83YEAl?S'OFAIK. : MMGETO KEEPDN OQlTlB BUSINESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.1. James j NEW VOHK. Nov. 2:1. William Freeman Curtis of Boston, Mass.. now j iAlwt. wm) iv,.s in tnt. a,,artment a assistant United States district "- x 4K) Pros),,,.t ,!rklv, ney and once -Inter-collegiate " ; wa8 tuklll(f hh) ,mU, y(.8t,.rday morn champion of the United States hB j wfe (( h)m been chosen assistant secretary of thej a mmi n an treasury. I ment on the floor below, and the Announcement to the encci w.is made by Secretary MacVeugh today. Mr. Curtis succeeds Jumes B. Itcy nolds, who resigned to become a member of the tariff board, and he will have special charge of customs matters. I of Unr-; Mr. Curtis fs a gradual vard, class of 189S. ilis appointment i prove it. lie was told he would have Is in some respects akin to that of 1 1 leave the house. The stranger re bee McClung. United States treasurer. fused, and Ijowc told his w ife to go Mr. McClung gained fame In college , r,,r a policeinuu. as a halfback on the Yale gridiron. Home one got Mr. Unve's shoes, Mr. Curtis won prowess as a champion ,! wliili- lie was putting them on on the Intercollegiate links. tile man ran tlp another flight of lie has practiced law since Kvttiug i Ntuirs and got out on the roof. Iow: tils degree from Harvard. He ai ( i-.ed the trap door and lh'n finish assistant attorney general of Massa-u.d jres!)inK. policeman Noll came, a rhusetts under Attorney C.eneial - ' sdewalk a-ked the man on the roof lone and resigned to become aasist int ' what ht. was there, under United States District Attorn?v . IooliinK fr the North pole." was Hill. Mr. Curtis' appointment waa dee ded upon .some time ago, but an nouncement was deferred becafise of his engagement with what arc known as the steel combination cases in Bos ton, to which Mr. Curtis has devoted the past ten weeks. These cases in volve charges of combination of bid; ders for municipal contracts. Mr. Curtis Is unmarried and is about thlr-tv-three years old. He win ta:0 chsrge of his new duties next week. COU AXimKWS, PRIXIDKXT. WINSTON SALEM. N. C. Nov. 23 -The stockholders of the North Cc.ro- -The stockholders of th mm flHlnnil railroad h Una Midland railroad held their an- , thi afternoon The . usnsl 'annual dividend of three per.ome one ran for another policeman, . .. .k ih m-r. ' who sent in a call for reserves. Poon cem whs un ioi t-u ,,.u w,.., - elocted. ; Colonel A. rtalolgh I president. n Andrett'M lif s T HIS LIFE SEEKING LEGACY ANDFOUNDiTNQl Died Without Enjoying Repar ation Thief Made For Stolen Property CONFESSED THEFT ON HIS DEATH BED Reparation Proved Greater Affilcatlon Than The Original Wrong NEW YOUK. Nov. 23. The dejlli in Newark, N. J., of Henry Colter, who was seventy years old, a veteran of the Civil war, has revealed the fact Hint he devoted the last thirty years of his life searching for a legacy of (200,000, which was bequeathed him by a stran ger who hud wronged him half a cen tury ago. The discovery was made by his sister, Mrs. James H. Fleming, who Is past seventy and who lives with her son-in-law, Henry Helms, at No. 224 Seventeenth street, lirooklyn. She has not seen her brother in fifty-five years until she looked upon him In death a few days ago. And in nearly threescore years the only tidings she received of Mm were borne on u postal card stating that he was "alive and well." Before he was twenty .wars old Colter went to Portland, Ore., Whore, with a man named Lane, he engaged in the . wholesale grocery business. They grew rich rapidly. Kvery few months Colter went to Ran Munelsco by ship to bank the profits. Gold Stolen from Ship. On one of these Journeys, when he had 12,000 in gold In a satchel, and- the vessel was only two days out from 1'ortla'nd, Cotter' Was stricken . with fever. . tteallnlng that delirium, was about to aclae him, he intrusted the money to a young friend 'Who shared his stateroom. This companion also took the fever, und fearing to trust (he, satchel to anyone, he threw it In tt durR Corner under the berth. That was the last ever seen of It. . .The rojua, recovered. soon after the ship reached Ban Francisco. A search was made for the money, but It could not l)c found. Information that Colter received led him to suspect a RraKil Ian who had been a passenger of the vessel. Colter learned that this mail had gone to New York and he follow. (Continued on page four.) MANIAC FIGHTS THREE MEN DESPERATELY ON EOGE GE A HIGH ROOE Several Times Near Falling and Only Timely Arrival of Aid Saved Them. LOOK1NO FOJt POLK men living there could not get him to leave. ! Clad only in a bathrobe and slip pers, I jo we went downstairs ami ' found a well-dressed young man in i the hall. When asked what he was doing there the man said he lived in the flat, and produced a key to the answer. Noll -.vent to the roof and tried to compel the crazy man to come down. Then a tiirllllng fight be gan. The man who w as later Identified as Charles Wysant of No. K80 Lincoln rond, Flathush, was forcing Noll to the edge of the roof when the po liceman called to i,owe for help. Lowe took a hand in the fight, but the lunatic was a match for both. Several times he had them almost to the . edge of the roof, and It was only because each time they ran against a chimney that they were saved from a fall. After jne os ue u . ... . . , . - nearly nan an nou n.m winded both of - wv (Continued on page four.) PEN ASHEVILLE, N. s 1 EFFORTTORESGUE Congressman DeArmond of ' Missouri Btifnel to Death In Ruins of His Home FIRE BROKE OUT WHILE ; " THE FAMILY SLEPT Efforts to Reach Distinguish ed Statesman in Face of Flames Futile KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 23.- Ill a vain effort to save the II r. - of his little grandson, Congressman David A. De Armond of the sixth Missouri dis trict perished in a lire that destroyed his homo In ltutler, Mo, early to day. 1 His net of heroism became known ti'.tt? this afternoon when his body was. found, his arms locked around the blackened and burned body of the lit tle boy. Ho had caught up the six year old lad. David A. (' Waddle" l)e Armond. Jr., and rushed with him through the flames that filled hlB room. He fell with his unconscious burden, and both sank through the floor to death. What makes the tragedy unusuullv pathetic Is the fact that the boy wn.i his grundfather's Idol. The two won inseparable and often slept together. LaPt nfght the boy went to his grand father's house us usual arid after a happy evening the two retired. . Apiiealeri to Ortimlfathi-r. The next the family heard of them was early today when, from behind the smoke ami flames that em veloped the house the boy screamed: "Oh, grandpa, get me out of here quick; I'm burning to death." "Yes son, don't be afraid, (iinnd p.i'll take you out," was the reply. Then both went down to their death. The others of the family sleeping in the house ut the time of the fire, Mi'H. De Armond, her daughter, Mis. Clerk and a maid, Nettle liroyles, es eajwl; 1 Messages of condolence from all parts of the country were received by the le Armonds this afternoon. Soil Could Not Save Them. Jumes A. De Armond, editor of The Dates County Democrat, son of th Congressman and father of the hoy Who burned to death, tried to rush into the burning house to save them, but (Continued on puire. four.) DESTROYS LAST HOPE DE Exploring Parties Unable to Reach Lower Tunnels Because of Cave-ins. CUT OFF IIV FLAM KS lli;jtl:V. Ills.. Nov. 23. I lope that there might In- alive some of the IND men known to le entombed In th St. Paul coal mine, was abandoned today. An exploration into, what is known as the se(;ond vein where It was thought probably miners had barri caded themselves and managed to ex ist on oats and corn kept there for mules, showed that ureal portions, of the tunnels had collapsed. It Is thought thut many men were buried under the debris and that if the obstruction Is not soon cleared away at least one hundred bodies may never be recovered. Fire is still racing in these luiim-ls: anil these Mrtioii of tin- mini-, in which im prisoned miners might have found a retreat, are said to be full of the futal black damp. The deatli today of one 'if the survivors brought to the surface last Saturday reduced to nineteen those saved out of the "10 entombed by the fire a week ago Saturday, bodies were found today. The explorers met with groat No ob- stacles today. In on instance fire broke out In a tunnel, temporarily (cutting off the escape of twenty-five men who had ventured four thousanu feet from the hoisting shaft. The smell of smoke gave the warning above und fresh men rescued the ex plorers. Following a fclgnim sent to flov ernor Deneen today by the executive board of the miners state organiza tion, asking that some one man be designated to take charge of the mine. Mine Inspector Hector McAllister was blaced in charge of the exploring work. Despite the Are and the falling In of tunnels, the work of clearing the mine will be pushed night and any. LITTLE GRANDSON C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1909. tt Whafs The Use, Anyway? Nothing But " And A Thanksgiving Dinner Tomorrow NO URMAHA L ON THE HIGH SEAS HOT Mail Received From Colonel Astor's Yacht at San Juan Up to 17th. Efforts of Wireless Station to F ind Long Sought Yacht Fruitless. Wreck Sighted Cannot Be Identified NEW YOllK, Nov. :a. -The Astor yacht pilKKlu Is solved. Mail from Col. John Jacob Alitor and his, party reached New York today on the In- sulflr line uteuiflship Hurry l,ucl-ii-bach, which Bulled from San Juan, I'. !.. on November 17, On that date an officer from thow yacht Nounimhiil came abourd 'the lickenbav'h with the mall Just befurs the lutter sailed, for New York.,, V'. '' ' Tills officer told Cuptuln James Dalon of tint 1'iickenboch, flint tliu Xinirmahul was to sail next for some ubun port. At the time, according lo Captuin Dull on the Nournialial was ifely at anchor and showed no signs of damage The positive as surance that tlie ourmahal was safe at Han Juan on November 17 Just a week ago praei leally ends a nine teen days search, and dissipates the anxiety -which was renewed yesler duy by failure of the wireless opera tor at San Juan " say thst the yacht was there In hi mi ssage to Key West. All Was Well. William A. Iieliliyn. secretary of the Astor estat' . v celved tonight one of the letters from t'ol. Aslor brought In by the steamer Harry huckenbach today. "it was a sleiil letter, dated the fourteenth und "iicerned only bus iness matters," shhI Mr. Doldiyn. "it makes no ne nilon whatever of (lie Nournialial h.iUnit liuil any trou ble in the storm and it is apparent that at the tine- I' donel Astor wrote STRIKE IN SPENCEHSHOPS S AMICA6LY SETTLED Workmen Pd urn to Work jConservativcn oppo.se Move on Promise of Scttlenieiitj ment to Try to Control of Oreivaii' ' Coiiiiiij; Flection HI'UNCKlt, N agreement was t tween the ttoutln here and 180 m i last Haturdav, e' foremen at the sle treutment of empl force returned to ibiy force retoin- 1 , Nov. 2.'!. An died tonight be- in railway ollieiuls 1 beaded by Archbishop Turing of l inlsts, who struck ! Nancy, are beginning to question the rging one ()f the w isdom of the militant section, who . S here with brutal favor the lormlition of a league, of es, and the night Catholic voters in the coming election, -rk at once. Th" fntead, Hie former advocate a broad to their benches :,-r union, wbleli shall Include, w ith tomorrow and all departments will iiKain be in operate ii. The ut rcinn i nt provides that tie grievance of th'. employes shall ie Mken up with tin Southern officials .i Washington an. I settled between Hem und the outers of the Internution.il Association of Me- (ban Ics. A. MeOil .rav. distsiet pres-' Idem of the mcih.nlc orgnniaition, ho was in Spem i tonight, .returned to Washington immediately after the u r i, Kit.-ii,.:v ... WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. Forecast for North Carolina: Fair Wednesday. colder on coast; Thursday fair, warm- ,r' moderate northeast to east winds, CITIZEN; Isn't II Tough? SAFE BUT WHEREABOUTS he had no idea of the anxiety felt here on his uecMiint. llo stated he would cable mo when comiuuiiicullun was fe-estubllshed." , . , "The letter coinpletelly relieves us," aildeil Mr. Dobbyu, "of the f.-urs wj bud for Colonel Astor's afty." '.VT 1AX-ATM YACHT. .... , TA.Mt'A, ' M Nov. 2.1 With the eonnrmatb.n of the. wtrrfiHStif, lor yacht Nuurmahal, all efforts to locate the vessel through the Win less strtlon ut Turn nil and lit Key West have been suspended temporar ily while i he operators who h'uv'o been 1-onstuutly at work, night und day, get much needed rest und sleep. With the confirmation of the stor;' of the safety of the Nourmuhnl, the location of (lie yacht Is still as much a mystery as It was when the seurch was first commenced. Sun Juan Is its completely cut off by a heavy bunk of Impenetrable atmosphere us If it were walled in, nil efforts to establish com. miinicatlou with tin- wireless station there having failed. Not an hour dur Iiik (lie lul sixty-two bus passed without both the Tnmpu and Key West stations calling repeatedly, and having ships nearer Hun Juun repeut the (tills. The atmospheric conditions on tin- gulf and CHrribean sen are un precedented In wireless communica tion, espei billy for this period of the year. Tills, and Hie evident Indlffer etieo or Ignorance or the operator In charge at Han Juan to the anxiety which hiiH existed in the slates, has FRENCH CLERET DIVIDED ON P0L1TPL QUESTION I'AISIK, Nov ;i. Tlio more libi n I section of the French F.plscopatu, Hie I'atbolieH, other conservative for- ,i. Iil.ishop endorsing Ihe I!ii7,et or Tioucn, while Id-a that the Catholii.s . k ,. . o.nnenre felt l:i the h..,.M, ' hat th-y have lost, has .xpresf-il outspoken opposition to any uctivo intervention by the church in politico, i , ;,, ,K, ,. ,... ,. ,,f ,!, country Is republican, and that Hie. mere suspicion that the movement alms to change the constitutional re gime would be futal. "Any movement," he has Huh!, "drugging the clergy Into the political arena wourn bu disastrous for religion, and It Is the duty of tb" episcopate to save the church from a fresh ca- Uistruphc. Nevertheless, a majority of the bish ops and archbishops contl.iuu to pro nounce in favor of the league. Tin.' archbishop of Perplgnun declares tint all civic considerations must lie subor dinated to the defense of religion, be cause, he says, "political action can- not tak precedence over duty towurd and and church." i i An Egg Yesterday YET LOCATED Imposed an especial hardship upon tb" operator and not even Jack Hlnns, of republic fame, bad his en durance taxed morn severely. Oper ator llanse, of tlu Iocs I station Is almoin prostrated ami will matte no farther efforts tonight to' locate the- NoiitmubHl.- ' ' . ; j The- iii ly station ' any where In the vicinity of Hun Jusn that could oe rHTPfl-fTfl- TS" TDrfifsTTtii formutioir of the present whereabout Of the Noiirmuhul Is at Uuntitunamo, and coinmunlcutlon with that station has been cut off during the last twelve hours, , W lmt Um Wm k? Witlj the disnowir of the safety of the Nourmahul another mystery de vi lops, that o ftho identity of the sub merged vessel sighted by the Herman steumer Wotan Ji Week ugo Just ; Oft Inn northern const of Cuba. Hd fiiK As can lie learned here and at Key West, no other vessel has sighted tills wreck, mid if the tugs which Went out from Key West have reached the spot Indicated In Captain BchlakterV report nothing lias Keen heard of It, The spot Is one that Is passed only by ships coming direct to Tampa from Nlpe Usy following the course which would take them by 101 bow key, near which the submerged vessel was sighted. j With storm Indications along the northern coast of Cuba tonight it is believed Hint heavy svus will com- ((koiilinuel h mge four.) ACCEPTS REBUKE IN THE IT Mi'H. Stetson Shown no Re sentment on Account of Excommunication NKW Y'lltK, Nov. Za Although ex-comrnunlcated by the mother church In Boston and dropped from the First Church of Christ, Scientist, this city, at her own request, Mr Augusta K. Stetson, the first reader who was deposed bocuusu of "mental malpractice" is still loyal to the fulth and to Mrs. Mary linker 1. Kddy In a letter to the board of trustees of tha mother church made public in New Vork tonight she says union other things: "I have received your fuvor of the 18th Inst., advising me that my nam') has been dropped from tho roll of membership of the mother church. I nolo with duo appreciation the hope expressed In the concluding words, that your future course of action-may show your desire to again become eli gible for membership In thla church. "1 assure you that I shall not ne glect any opportunity to draw nearer to Hod, and to follow my leader, Mary IJakcr Kddy. Meanwhile, I wish for each member of the bourd of director a continued Increase of fidelity and fruitful service fo our beloved loader, and to the cause of Christian Science, of which she In the discoverer, found er and perpetual head." INDIASr FHiHTKH DEAD. MARION, N. C, Nov. 23, James Ibrd, nlnety,scven years old, pioneer Indian lighter and scout snd Confed erate veteran, died at the home of hi grandson, Hick Qulnn near here yes Associated Press Leased Wire Reports. PRICE FIVE CENTS. m w in BEEN WITHIN THE Status of Two Men Executed Will Determine Ac tion of U.S. NAVY IS PREPARED FOR ANY EMERGENCY If Americans Were Combat ants in Army Reparation Wl i to .V WASHINGTON, Nov. The de- '.lay on the part of th United States In taking any notion with respect to the killing by order of President Zo lay of Nicaragua, of tlio two Amer. leans, Oroce and Cannon, It develop ed today, Is iKcnuioned by th fiiabli. Uy of the government up to this tlins to fix the exact status In Nicaragua of th slain mun. . . It woa oxplBlned today that every effort was oelng made through gov ernmeitt agencies , to determine whether these nun were In fact menu bera of the revolutionary army or whether they "were acting on. their own respoiielblllty ut the tints they were captured. If It can bo proven, as seems very doubtful, tbttt they, were really respouslblu for the'pluntlng of mines for the purpose of blowing up troop ships of the Nlcaraguan. gov ernment, and were acting In thl mat ter on thtlr own, responsibility, 'their stutus would be very different 'from what It would be were they acting as a part of the revolutionary forces, . ; llivealluatloil .Oriienvl. , . ,' Th American vteo consul at 'Wan agua. Henry tTaldera has been in structed lo obtain all possible in formation on this su eject and It la believed thst other agencies have aN so been employed for' the same nur. poae. Until this Information is rn-' telved. It i hi doubtful If the United Mates will takn any steps looking to the chastisement of Zrlaya beyond putting its. if in a position to act promptly, ahot4dU.ovt;aslou require It. It Is believed that plmi for the Concentratlorl of warships and ma rine on Aha Nlvarnguan coast wilt continue and , it . may be that thla show of force will : have a .marked effect In atlmulatlnr the energies and hope of the revolutlonlsta and re sult In large accessions to their ar my from th disaffected portion of the country now? .heH . by Belaya' army. ,.- ,-.",,: Navy rrr)amJ, - The, navy department u in a con-t dlllott of prrparednesa for any event-) (Contlnuevil on page) four.) COST OF CHEEPS ON Last Report Shows That It Will Vimt 2m Per Cent. Moi-e Than Estimate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. Believed of It technicalities and divested of ita official phraseology the annual re port of Cel. Oeorge , - W. , : Ooethala, chairman and chief engineer of th Isthmus Canal commission, tells tha story of the year's development In tha creation of the great waterway, Perhaps the most Interesting read ing may be found In the last two par agraphs of Col. Ooethal' report, In which the matter of the ultimate coat if the canal and the disbursements are detailed. In these paragraphs it l shown that tha Drat estimate of 1144,23:1. Mil, made by the board of engineers In 1810-1901 and authoris ed by the act of Juno JS, 1902, 1 now Increased to the aunt of 1378,- 102,000, or more than 260 per cent greater than the original estimate.' Of this sum $97. 786,000 Is for engi neering and construction. In explanation of thi huge differ ence Oul. Oouthals says that "because of prospermia conditions In the United mate, cemblned Vlth the unsavory reputation that the Isthmus had re garding It hoalthfulnesa." , wage scales had to lie increased from 80 ( 60 per cent over that paid In the United Htutes In order to obtuln labor. rieslfles this Increase, gratuities naa to be and are still being paid. V . Col. Ocothala- oy that the .revised estimate la rellublc, and that It show that nearly 69 per cent more work lo nectssary In order to complete th canal than was originally contem plated, and that the unit price, du to labor conditions, coat of material and gratultlea given the ; employes, have been Increased about 20 per cent. . , Hlnco tho last report of Cut Goeth als a new system of administration has had a year'a trial,, ror the olt system of departmenui and aub-d-pnrtmenta baa bi--n substituted a dl vtolon of the construction work Into three n-at divisions, the Atlantic di vision, extending from the Carrlbean fo Gutun dam, th Central division from Oatun to Pedro Miguel, and the Pacffie division from Pedro Miguel to the. deep water of tho Pacific ocean. LAw OF NATIONS
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