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" I THE WEATHER: V VOL.. XXVI., NO, 191. f, ISjiD 1LES AT; ' . DOE SINGLE GULP And Thus The May Corner In Cotton Passes Quietly " Into History DELIVERIES CALLED FOR FIFTEEN MILLION Patten. Hayne and Brown 1 Crowd Have Cleaned up Neat Profit on Deal ; NEW YORK, April 28. Two hun dred thousand, bale of cotton were wal;owed by "the bull clique on the Nev York! cotton exchange op this the flrst day of May "notice" without so roucn as a tremor. Fifteen million dollar, , It Is estimated, went from bull pocket In the course of trans actions, but so easily was the cotton absorbed that, after a preliminary flurry, there was no great excitement. At the end of the day's operations bull leader Patten, Scales, Hayne and . Brown, -were apparently more strongly entrenched than ever. Transaction were twice large as any previous day's business In the history of the ' exchange. f. .: "inasmuch as the shorts have until Stay 1 to meet their contracts It had been predicted by some thai? today's transactions would represent only a part Of the cotton to be delivered, but s the day progressed it was the opinion 'in the trade that the bulk of the Staple they must produce was turned over. Although the "big four" are known to have cleared a large sum, ao authoritative estimate of the amount could be obtained. Will Tackle JTaly. None of the bull leaders would In dicate the .amount ; of cotton which he bad under Contract or which was to be delivered on Monday. Their ultimate profits will depend largely on t,brir success in disposing of their holdings to spinners. Nevertheless, the May situation Is regarded as being fairly netl cleared up and.lt is ex-pected-that ihr;bUI will turn AO the Juijr'iaret, tfl Which they are al ready heavily iong with the hope of repeating Successful operation, i Cbverisisj by; scattering short Inter- i ests today sent up prices sharply and the advances for the day In the gen eral market ranged from t to 26 points above yesterday's closing, while May contracts cloeed at 14.76, or $1.35 1 a bale above the close of yesterday. 1 IT OF PADDIRG PAY ROLLS OF fEIS MANIA CAPITOL' . I Is Fifth of Bunch of Graft ers Who Were Rounded Up in Investigation ASKS FOB NEW TRIAL tlARRISBURG, Pa., April 29 Capitol architect Jos. M. Huston was today convicted of conspiracy In false ly Certifying to a padded bill for desks for the state capltol after a trial of almost four weeks, and by a Jury which deliberated almost twenty-six hours. The verdict was reaetsed shortly after five o'clock this evening when the twenty-seventh ballot was taken. The verdict was accompanied with this recommendation to mercy. "The Jury would recommend leni ency on the part of the court In pro nouncing sentence on account of his irreproachable reputation prior to this charge." A motion for arrest of Judgment, or suspension of sentence, so that reasons might be presented for a new trial was made at onre and granted. Huston was not In court when the Jury handed Hs verdict to the Judge. The trial Is the third of a series re " suiting from the exposure of frauds in furnishing the new state capltol and Huston Is the fifth of seventeen men Indicted on charges of conspir acy to cheat and defraud the state, to be convicted. The others convicted were ex-Auditor W. P. Snyder, ex State Treasurer W. L. Mathues. ex Superintendent of Pub ic Grounds and Buildings J. M. Shumaker. and furni ture contractor 3. H. Sanderson Sanderson and Mathues are dead and the other two are serving a two years' sentence In the Eastern peniten tiary. They were convicted In a case from which Huston was severed In January, 1108. -Huston is defendant In thirty four other cases, charging conspiracy and false pretense and Suleo Is a respondent in the anion In Jequlty to recover 5,000,000 alleged to iav been wrongfully paid for fur nishing ths capltol. , BULLS fALOlV THE COLLEGES APT TO IGNORE PflRTOF Devote too Much Time to Specializing Declares Am bassador Bryco ADVOCATES TRIED - AND PROVEN METHODS Hlstory.Humanlstlc.and Phil ology Substantial Basis of Education IiAWRENCE, Kan.. April 29. Three-fourths of the mistakes that man makes are made because he does not really know the thing he thinks he knows, said James Bryco, atnbas sador from Great Britain, in an ad dress delivered here today to the stu dents of the University of Kansas. Mr. Bryce urged upon his hearer the necessity of knowing history, an dent as well as modern and said the habit of sound, careful and Indepefid ent thinking was the best Intellectual quality a young man could start with in his life Journey. Mr. Bryce's sub Ject was "The Educational Advance ment in the United States." Ambassador Bryce paid special tribute to the universities of this country, saying that there was noth ing In this country which he noted with greater pleasure than the con tinued advance of the American col' leges and universities., Mr. Bryce said he loved the Amer ican universities; he admired the earn estness which the teacher threw into their work, often insufficiently re munerated. There was, he believed. no other country In the world In which so large a proportion of the young men and women were not receiving education of the university type a here In the United States. The am bassador expressed the opinion that the United States possessed now, thanks to the munificence of the state and private benefactors, all the Insti tutions of that kind that would' be required and that what was now need ed was to develop 4ha. efficiency -f these' institutions (by'' increasing the teaching staff, and by providing higher salaries so as to secure the ablest men that could be had, and to develop the teaching of these subjects which were less likely to be popular because they did not seem so directly practical but which, nevertheless, were essen- (Onntlnued on page' six.) E democrats fn amending taftsjaiiiad bill Combined Forces Not Suf ficient to Change Measure as Desired PHYSICAL VALUATION WASHINGTON', April 29. The test vote on the railroad bill was taken In the senate today and re sulted In a victory for the adminis tration. The Cummins amendment, which would require all traffic agree ments made between railroads, and all rates, fares and changes to be ap proved In advance by the Inter-state commerce commission was defeated by a vote of 29 to 85. Eleven re publicans, most of them from the in surgent ranks and 18 democrats voted for the Cummins provision. Ail of the votes against It were cast by republicans The Cummins provision was' offer ed as a substitute for an amendment Introduced by Senator Crawford which was favored by the senators The insurgents and democrats con tending that the purpose of the Crawford provision was to take the railroads out from under the Sher man anti-trust law. It would per mit that each rate, fare and charge should be submitted to the commis sion In advance of It going Into ef fect. Those who oppose the Crawford provision will aeek other opportun ities to amend It before permitting a vote. The administration senators hope to dispose of the entire section tomorrow.. In the house the railroad bill was under consideration also numerous amendments were offered, most of which were voted down. An amendment making provision that the physical value of railroad properties shall be ascertained wo offered by Mr. Madden of Illinois and adopted after Sn extended discussion. The provision adopted yesterday for Inclusion of telephones and telegraph companies within the scope of the Interstate commerce law was today further amended so as to permit of dtfferWit 'charges being made for press dispatches and for night mes sages than are made for commercial dispatches. LITERARY MISSIONARIES IN ASHEIUBE tfflZEN1. ASHEVILLE, CANNIBALS KILL Then Make a Feast off Their Bodies With Horrible Rites of "Corroboree" NATIVE CONVERTS MANAGED TO ESCAPE Chief? Donned Missionaries Clothes After Devouring Their Bodies SEATTLE. Wash. April 19 Details of the eating by cannibals on .Febru ary 10, of Rev. Horatio Hopkins and his assistants Rev. Hector Laurie MacPherson, missionaries of the Pres byterian church on Savage Island, were brought by ths -' Barkentlne Mary E. Wlnkleman, which arrived today at Mukllteo, Wash., from the Tonga Islands In the Bouth sear. While the barkentlne lay at Tanga tabu in ths Tonga Islands, a canoe load of' mission natives from Savage Island arrived at Fau bringing news of the butchery. The natives said that Hopkins and MacPherson wer? In the mission building In the little harbor of Savage Island when 200 unconverted savage howling war cries and brandishing clubs and spears, descended on them and took It prisoners. The missionaries had 20 converts In training at the time and only nine of them escaped. Both missionaries were bound with thongs and left lying on the beach in the tropical sun .for several hours. While the savages took the native captives Inland. The cannibals then returned to the beach and carried the missionaries on litter to the crater of the extinct volcano, Vanlue, in the center of the Island. Thfita for two daya-anA night they held a "corroboree". At times their dancing and reveling-could b seen plainly by the fugitive christian natives. While most of the cannl. bals were sleeping the captive natives escaped. Their going was hastened by the sight of two of the cannibal chiefs donning the missionaries clothes. The clergymen had already been eaten. , EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE AMONG VA55AR GIRLS Five Students Have Ended Their Lives Within Five Years PRINCIPAL'S DENIAL POruilKKEPSrE. April 29. The suicide of Miss Ada H rooks, a Vassar Junior, In her home at Andover, Mass., has aroused critical interest etnong the authorities of the Poughkeepsle Institution aim emtcaxors irenerally, because It was th third suicide of H Vassar girl within five years and the second within a few months. Her death was the result of over study end It ha opened a controversy a to the mental and physical make up of college girls and the strain forced upon you"ng women In the cause of modern education. Statistics show that a large percentage of young Women who try to enter the leading colleges fall to pass the preliminary examinations. Physical and mental breakdowns are not uncommon through overwork, but colleges are frequently blamed for the trouble. Miss Ensign, the first suicide, was a freshman and had been In college but a few weeks. She had been homesick and her friends say she feared that he would not be able to stay at the college because of her poor showing In her studies. Her friends said that shn had studied hard for several weeks and had taken much black coffee to keep her awake nights that she might be Able to longer work over her books. Miss Ensign boarded at the Putnam Schools for Girls, a pre paratory Institution, The second supposed victim of over study was Miss Marguerite Dougherty, a freshman, of twenty, daughter of a Methodist minister at Hughsonvllle. near Mattaewan. She drowned herself In a cistern at her father's home hast rail. In this caae it was admitted Miss Dougherty had slain herself because she was unable to keep pace with her classmates. One Sunday afternoon a few weeks after college opened Miss Dougherty disappeared. Bloodhounds were set .upon her trait , When hope was about abandoned, ;,a detective asked If the well had been looked lnt.f (The girl s .,-'., v -- .' TRAINING SAVAGE REVELRY f (TooU'incd on pa;, four.), m N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1910. Don't J 'riEGLtCTEDtrO ' p f I ' Ll pAkY YOUR POLL J Oic.. L. HEARST REPLIES TO G AYNOR.SAYING .. And Gaynor"a Secretary Declare Hearst Doea Uot Know :, Political Quarrel Between Erstwhile Rival Candidate May Lead to Lawsuit, " ' NEW YORK. April , Mayor Gaynor and William Randolph Hearst both Issued - statements to night os? the issusi of veracity raised last night at the joint banquet of The Associated Press and ths Newspaper Publishers association ,. when the mayor said that' Mr. Hearst was a forger and a falsi fer. Supplementary statements were issued by Comptrol ler Prendergrast. former Comptrol ler Mots, and the district attorney' office, fallowing., rumors -that there was peseiDiiur w, rtuureaegai pro eediAis as a result 01 tne mayors j d dress last night. Mr. Hearst's statement follows: , "I am siot entirely familiar with all the accusations against Mayor Gay nor or his attempt to. divert atten tion fror- himself by an attack on The Ale jlcan- I have Just returned from Mexico. It Is obvious to any one, however, that the mayor's defense Is false up on Its face. "His attack upon The Amerkan is entirely dlsenguous and wholly un truthful. His only claim when it Is malyxed is that The American failed o print clrly ihe date on a photo- CHINESE PRINCES HAD NO LIKING FOR STEEL MILLS Got Out in a Hurry When Detonation From Works! Began to Boom PITTSBl'li'i. April 2f.- Chinese rlnce Tsui T; nd bis party had n bad scare In the armor plate depart ment of the Homestead Steel Works this afternoon. The prime was booked to visit Carnegie's In.-tiiule during his short Stay here, but he preferred to vlxlt the Carnegie mills at Homestead, particularly the armor plate depart ment. The publli have been told that the armor plate department Is a se cret affair, hut the Chinese visitors Insisted on limKng Into everything- The fun bexan soon after they en tered the armor plate works. Work men, evidently under instructions, poured salt on the great plates as they started them through the rolls, and the detention which follow ed almost lifted the steel roofs. ! Prince Tsal Tai was standing near , 1 , first explosion" he started to run, and might have fallen Into the pit of a flywheel had lie not been caught by j ii - I "' oajl engine near by a workman. A let out completed he terror of the Chinese, who fled pell mell 1 rv every direction. The prince aked through an In terpreter thai the name of president Taft be written down for him, and he hopes to master It by tha time he reaches Washington tomorrow. WASHINGTON!. April JfliFen cast for Norta Carolina, South .' Carolina arfil Georgia; Fair and warmer Batur-. (lay; Sunday fair; modern to southwest winrtK. . , i Let This Happen To You. NOTHING DOING MR. VOTER - YOU iNE<CTEDrTO PAY YOUR POLL TAX l . . i VI t" Si a & S B t a I ssv CHARGES AGAINST HIM ARE TRUE graphic fac-tmHe -of one f ths doc uments In ths ease aamtt- him. al though Ths American carried ths same data of ths same - document In clearly printed type in -ths-test of ths article. What a quibble for petty man who holds an Important posi tion, .:,,,. ' ttajrnom Tti:nk HydiH . "Finally anybody whoj can ; read and think can see clearly that the date In question is not tbs .Important cats anyhow, but that ths Important data is ths data of January. date in Mayor Oaynor's administration upon which the payment to Cohankm of 48, 600 was finally signed and actually authorised. The January 4th signature was affixed by tha assist ant chamberlain In the office of Chamberlain Hyde. Mr, Oaynor's law fartner. This latter entleman who la popularly known a "Oaynor's Thick Hyde. Is only Oaynor's law partner, but the person who figures conspicuously in Oaynor's olf ball decision In fjivor of race trat'k gamb ling. "Hay your law partner paid the warrant. If you please., Mr. Gaynors say your law partner assistant. paid 1t GIRLS CAN BE BOUSHT College Women Employed by City to Investigate Purchased Four NEW YORK. April 29. Although lite Rockefeller grand Jury which i-its recently impanelled to Inquire into white slave truffle In this city lias made no formal report. District Attorney Whitman lias obtained posi tive proof that it Is 'possible to buy girls for immoral purposes In Now Vork. Tonight foul- young girl who were purchased by spcclttl agents of the district attorney arc In Ihe care or his office, Mr. Whitman announc ed, and three persons accused of vio :.4ting the law against procuring are under arrest. Two women, one a graduate of Smith college, and the other of Rad e'lfTe, t nd.. and a man formerly con i.ected with the government servhV re employed a tne agents In the . i IcKse. In negotiating for the purchase !of the girls, It was explained tney represented themselves as procuring i " " ,, . . Z, , , laifents for disorderly houses In Seat tle, Washington, and Juneau, Alas ka. Hy famlllarlxin themselves with the tenderloin of Seattle they were olle to win the confidence of denl aens or the underworld here and to make their purchases. On the evidence obtained more ar rests are promised by Mr. Whitman j ,.a ...i,,.- .nuitinntl daveloDmenta ' ure hinted at. TUB COMCT TODAV. April 0: Halley's comet rl today 2.S8 a. m. and to morrow 2.51 a. m. Sun rises 4.S5 a. m. The comet's speed todav about lOt.140 miles per hour Comet's distance from the earth today about 7,000, 000 miles, but diminishing by several millions dally. After ?S years of wafting the greatietl- inii comes next month. What he is Talking About. for you If you ileno;( but at least explain why warrant which tha former administration held up as ex orbitant was pald by your adminis tration without question and without hesitation, Aka Home) Questions, ' "Answer, Mayor Gaynor, as a mat ter of duty, a a matter 'of decency, and as a matter of decency, and as matter of public policy., ' "Was not cohanUm tha Intsrmedl- ry between you and Charley Mur phy and was he nor largely Instru mental' in gettlnjf ou the Tuininany Hall nomination, , ' Was not Cohanlon concerned In tha attempt to steal for you the nomina tion of ths Independence league, which . piece of political ' porch climbing; Justice Oerard. an honest judgo effectually stopped? , v - "Dn not Comptroller Prender gat after you had been , scaled - as mayor call your attention to ths war rant for Cohanlon's IIS.OVP which was in your office? "Did not Comptroller Prendersast explain to you what It was, and tell (Continued on HIGH PRICES HAVE NOT ISCRUSfD, ACREAGE Report Shows Comparative ly Small Increase in Cot ton Planted MKMI'HIS, Tenn., April 2.In fi statement issued today by lv) Nation al Olnners sssoclutlon it Is estimated that the aefeago planted In cotton In lh Southern suites on April aHth had liecn increased by seven-tenth of one per cent as compared with the same date lust year. In the Atlantic states a small Increase Is represented while the valley states show a slight de crease because of tho spread of tha boll weevil. Texas shows a slight de crease and Oklahoma about 10 per cunt. This Is explained by the scar, city of feed stuffs Including the acre age In corn, oats and alfalfa. Reports to the association show that sixty-four per cent of the crop has been planted The greater part of the plants which were up before the recent cold weath er were killed except in Central and Ho ut hern Texts and It la estimated that 14,000,000 acres should be re planted. With average weather a loss of ten per cent Is predicted. JfBW Jf. ANI W. DIRECTOR. HO A NO KB, Va., April If). J. II. Thayer, third vice president of ths Pennsylvania railroad, was yesterday elected! a member of tho board of directors of the Norfolk 4 Western railroad at a meeting of the board at New York. He takes the place on the board made vacant by ths death of I C. Weir. The AsheVllls Citlsen: 1 . ... v I have reason to believe that I hare been missed by the cnumcr- a tor In the recent census, and am desirous of having my name enrolled a a permanent resident of this- cltyf .ji "...:-!.:,.. NAME,, Street and Number srvar (Fill In and Mall Citizen' Want Adj Erics Results. , . . -; PRICE FIVJB CENTS.1 ILIEflGEIS ! Characterizes Giaviss Stato merits as Willful and Do- 2 liberate Lies ; , f ROUD OF ROOSEVELT'S HIGH OPINION OP HI VI Wl 1 be Turned Over to Cross Examiners Today and Then , WarllJ Come i WAHHINUTti.N, April 2" Indig nnntly denying that he had been guilty of any wrong doing nieliard A. Unll Inger. secretary of ths Interior, made ' bitter attnek'upon bis critic while a Witness before the DntlliiKer-Ptn-chot Investigating committee ' today, and characterised many of ths sworn statements of his principal accunor. 1 R. Olavis, as "willful and deliberate lies." ' ' '.;.' ,':' Led on by his attorney, Mr.' Ver trees; the cabinet officer answered, ou by one, ths Indictments of those who would incriminate him. He referred With apparent pride to -: Theodore Roosevelt's oft expressed estimate of him, particularly In the former pres ident'' statement when he was com missions of ths land ollloe, that be bad secured a 120,000 man for S,000. ! Hs defended his conduct In connec tion with tha Cunningham coal eases nd stated Impatiently that, ho would take the same action today as lie dui When at the head of the land m- If hs hud the snme record beforu lilin, tiot TravtMIng ICxiN'uam, f i After leaving the kind olllce. Mr. flalllngcr declared hi only connection with ths Cunningham cases was i)t bringing east from teitile tut nlllibi yit of Clarence t'uniiliiKiinm mid pnv senlltiB it tn fJccrelnry Omtleld, l this service he said h reeelveit 1300 or IJfit, which he rcKin'ded as trv ( Ing expenses. He said liu n-fiiHea to pass uMvn any rlnlms In nuy way., : Alturney Vrli i)i'S allll lias to exam ine Mr, Hiilllimer m tln enLl.- t of watcr"pownr nen botoivj tiuuiii lilm nw to Mr, llrtilidcla, , coiiimel fof Oluvls, anil Mr, Pcpinr, .'attorney for ; I'inchot, for exHtnliiatluii.. ; ;,' , 'v ' The secretary's test imony today dealt : almost exclusively ' to , the Ola vis charges: tomorrow it will cm, brace hi attitude toward eonservn- tlon and the bpglnnlnil of his testi mony, with regard to former forester , Plnchot, The dofenrri liois to cin t'lude by noon tonfnrrbw.' If this dope Is realised Mr. Brsmdi'l will iiavit". Mr, Uallinrtcr In huml all tha after- : noon,- . ' mamma President Runs Away for Week's Trip Through the Middle Vest , ( V ' -' WASHINGTON, April JJ.-IprVsl- dent Tsft left ' Washington at I o'clock tonight for Buffalo, which I tn be his first stop on t seven 'day trip Into the middle West, i From I'l'Talo the president goes to I'ltts Imrjr. thence to Cincinnati, to , frit. Ioul and back home, reaching btre Friday, May t. . : Mr. Tuft was accompanied bv ( retary of Htate Knox and Reprusm- ' . bitlve Alexander of buffalo. . Mr. Knox goea on with the president for tho two days visit t I'lllsburg. Tli Herman ambassador. Count voir Dernstnrff,, nd Charles P. Taft. will Join tha president at Pittsburg and to alfh him to Cincinnati. .i The president will spend two days1 In Pittsburg where b!s principal en- " rscement is an address before tha - Amerlcus club. . ' At Buffalo tha president will lunch with the ISUffalo Ad. club and will dine with the chambor of commerce. Tha Sunday In Pittsburg will bs .; ' quiet one ,the president attending scr vires st the First Unitarian rliurrh. The second day the president will at- , tend the Founders' day exerelava f Carnegie Institute. In the afternoon C, he will attend the baseball game be-, tween the Pittsburg and Chicago National league clubs. The Americas" r dinner comes Monday evening. In Cincinnati the president, will st-' ' lend the May Musla festival 'and the unevillng of a memorial to Theodora 1 homas. - - . " ' i Meeee to The Cttfucn.) PEEVISH Hi USES SHORT.LIGLY ViDHD
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