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r THE WEATHER; SHOWERS YOL. XXVI., NO. 221. FIVE DEATHS IN A IT Travelers Missions Ranged From Frivolous to The Pathetic TO WERE VICTIMS TO SPEED MANIA Other Deaths And Injuries Due to Usual Accidents of Machines WASHINGTON, May 29 In try ing. It la believed to drive tho IK mllea from Marianna to Washington In 30 minutes a party of three men tn an automobile were wrecked early today, two being instantly killed and the other fatally hurt. The dead are John Datlg, 30 years .old, and Harry Wheatley, 37 years old. Charles Babbett. aged ii, was crushed about the chest and is at Me morial hospital, Monongahela, with no chance of recovery. All the vic tims are from this city. The party left last night In Da tig'e car to attend a banquet at a club In Marianna. They had boasted at the banquet bf having made the run from here in 87 minutes. The night was spent In jollification and .say, they left the club. Ixidig is said to have declared that he would make .the return trip in half an hour Hat. . A few minutes later the three men lay beneath the debris of Datig's .machine which had crashed Into the abutment of the Mongahela and Washington railroad bridge near Ma rlann.i. It was nearly an hoar later hat the wreck was discovered by anntnc'r automobile party. IUI,I-KI by motoh cut. LEBANON, Pa., May 29. Mrs. Mary Kyle, mother of Or. Hhrlstian IJ. Kyle. Of .Philadelphia, died In ft hospital there tonight as the result of an automobile accident near An nivUle. ' tills county. The automobile which carried Mrs. Kyle. Ur. Kyle and his sister., and a neptiuvv. wag In ctinrge of Dr. Kyle, when the steering gear broke and the machine dashed Into a tree. Mrs. Kyle received a fractured .skull ami Continued on page three.) TIDES OF HER JAPANESE Fi California Girl's Romance Will be Ended in Reno Divorce Courts. HE WAS A SERVANT RENO. Nev., May 29 A few days ago an aged man. his wile and a wo man carrying in her arms a child of distinctly Japanese features, arrived in Carson City, and the party soon after announced that they were in tin market for a residence on a long le-ase. They were soon domiciled in a neat little cottage in the residence portion of the town, and all would have gone wi ll had not a certain wo man met th-a man of the party in the street and recognized in him the Rev Archdeacon Emery, of the Episcopal diocese of California, and it wan won lnown that the party known as Mr and Mrs. Abbott and .Mrs. Deacon and the child were none other than the oms who had figured in the sen sational stories of last year w hen the daughter of the archdeacon was mar ried tn the Japanese servant ilunjif. Aoki In the Trinity Episcopal church in Seattle on March 27. 1 909. T. J. Abbott departed Wednesday night for his honve. leaving the wo men of the family in Carson Citv. where they will remain to get the sin months' residence, which is iiecessarv to dissolve the bonds which unites a California girl to subject or the Mikado. Miss Helen Gladys Emery, a pr it v. fragile young woman, married (iun iiro Aokl, who had been a servant in her parents' former home in Seattle. n March 29, 1909. Aoki announced he Is a descendant of an old Samu rai family. His brother, who kept a fruit stand In Pan Francisco, said the Aokis had been farmers for hundreds of years. Ha said, too, Gunjiro has had many love affairs. Miss Emery's father. who was archdeacon in tho California diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church, vigorously opposed her marriage. Her mother supported her determination Th California, laws forbid the mar riage of a Caucasian to a Japanese. When Miss Emery and her mother left their home at forte Madera, a suburb of Fan Francisco, the neigh bors nearly mobbed them, threw rice and lilies at the girl and taunted and Insulted her. DAY. SUNDAY TOLL OF AUTOMOBILES THE CURTISS WINS IN SPLENDID FLIGHT DOWN THE HUDSON Flies From Albany to New York at Rate of Speed Exceeding Fifty Four Miles an Hour Without Accident. OTHER RECORDS. , . Curtlss tiles from Albany to New York in two hours and thirty-two minutes. September 12, 1614: Hen- dflck Hudson in the Half Moon, sailed from New York In his first voyage to Albany In live days. August 1", 1807: Hobert Fulton's first trip to Albany on the steamboat Clermont ' thirty-two hours. October 23, 1835: Steamliout Champlaln raced to Albany In nine hours and thirty-one minutes. 1900: Fastest railroad time from New York to Albany two hours and forty minutest. April 1. 1910: Edward V- y- son Weston walked from Al- b-any to New York in five days. NEW YORK, May 29 Ol.nn H. j Curlisn Hew from Albany to New York 1 city in an aeroplane today, winning! tho $10,000 prize offered by The New, York World, lie covered the diatance! of 137 miles In two hours and 32 minutes, and came to earth as calmly and as lightly as a pigeon. Average speed for the distance 54.00 miles on hour surpasses any r- cord ever made by an aeroplane in long dis tance flight. The start was made from Albany at 03 o'clock this morning under weather conditions as near perfect as tho most fm-tidi-ous aviator could demand. One hour and twenty min utes later he had mado hid stopping place near PoughkeopHie, where there was an hoar's intermission. Resum ing his flight at 9.26 he sped south ward and ki.fldVd within trie boundary of Manhattan Island at 10.35. A Dungr-rou-- Feat. PaulhaiVa Oight from London to Manchester 186 tnllee exceeded the Curtis fast of today In distance but notr-la f'Weil 3? and dorseer.- The FrenchWill's average was 44.3 miles and hour, and -below him lav English meadowland. fortius followed the winding; course of the historic Hud son, with jottinK in--dl.iuil. w t,! slop; a and treacherous palisad'-n. He swung niuli over tb,. i;ival l-rnli--' al l-oughkeep-tie, dipped ai tiim-a within fifty feet of the river's broad sur AMERICAN INTERESTS AT BLUEFIDLD5 WILL BE Additional Force Sent to See That Nicaraguans do Not Forget Themselves REPORT OF VICTORY WASHINGTON, May 29. The sail ing o( tlie cruisi-r Prairie from the Phitail tphia navy yard early lodav, ,n command ot Lieutenant Coniinand . r I.oomis, was ordered by the nav department in order that the vessel niif-lit remain at Colon awaiting in develnpiiieiits in Nicaragua. In case more marines are n-ceded In the opinion of this government than ar--now at Itluerlelds, the. Prairie will hurry on lor Panama wilh them. It was decided to send the prairie, said a navy ullicial today, in case need should arise for a grater fori e to prop -t American life and property in Klin-hclds. According to last re ports there were about 800 marines left on the isthmus after about 1.000 had I seen withdrawn when It vvas thought the Central American situa tion had justified their withdrawal. Th.- cablegram to Senor Castrillo. the representative, of tho Nlcaraguan prov isiontil government here. General Estrada d dared today that the pres ent situation around Hlueflclds wave tho insurgent arms "complete assur ance; of triumph." The dispatch did not go into details. It did announce, however, tho issuance of ah edict transferring th custom hotiso from Kill, fields Ilhlff to the city General Estrada declared the I'.luff had U-cn given to tho Madriz troops voluntarily for he desired to con centrate his forces in and around' the city. PRAIRIE fcIIS. PHILADELPHIA. May 29 The I nited tstiitrs cruiser Prairie loaud With ammunition and other supplies for the marines now In Central America sailed from the Philadelphia navy yard today and after a. rapid trip down the Delware, passed out to sea this Bftornoon. At Colon a de tachmetU of marines will be taken on board and conveyed to tho srene of the fighting in Nicaragua. ASHEI1LE CITIZEN". ASHEVILLE, N. face and Jockeyed like a falcon at the turns, i inly omv did his craft show signs of rebelling This was off Storm King, near West I-nint, where at a htjlght of nearly 1. 000 feet a treacher ous gust struck his planes. The ma chine dropM-d like a rock for forty left and tilted perilously. Hut Cor liss, always cool, kept both his head and his si-jit and by adroit manipula tion of his levers brought renewed equilibrium to his steed. An Auspicious Start. Cviriiss was up before dawn today and went with his mechanician and a handful of spectators to Van Hrns seliu'r Island, in the Hudson, three miles south of Albany, from' where he was to make the start. Waiting at the river brink was a special New York Central train for Mrs. Curti and It r party, who had not accom panied the aviator to the island. From the train they couhl ace the actual start, but thoBe in th. island witness ed a remarkable accii". Curtlss ros- from the ground like a rocket. There were no preliminary maneuverings there was no trial flight. The aeroplane tan hurrkdv over the surface of the island and darted straight for Its goal to the southward, turning only for a moment fo the westward go that Curtlss might comply with the terms of the com petition und' r which he was flying and technically cross the AlUmy city line. Vanishes! Quickly. Straight up soared th. aeroplane to a height of about 700 feet. In three minutes it was a minute speck in the distance. In sev n minutes it bad vanished from sight. The whole performance was over In a twinkling. With the signal thai Curtlss was off the special train, live ears and a locomotive, cumbersome now by com parison, gathered Impetus and sought to follow. Itnt so 1 1 1 1 1 " k I y had Cur tips tlown that for twonty-onu miles routhward the locomotive, runnlmt marly a mile a minute remained a laggard At 7.26, however, the train c-ime abreast of tha aeroplane and thence to New York those on board 1- -nt the aviator In sight. - Storinc-d for (J-iwolliie. At Poughkeepsle,' Curtlss turned w.'Flwnrd and then came to earth with tho precision of a bird He had lluvvn seventy-four miles from Al l anv In eighty-three minutes;. Tlvo landing pl-ire, known as the (Continued) on Page Two.) WAITING FOR A BULLET TO END HIS EXISTENCE Unable to Creep Out of Range of Marksmen While Bullets Flew HEAD TORN TO PIECES MONTEREY, Cal., May 29. His body an unseen target for the rain of bullets of h tiring srpiad at ritle practice, Chttiflo HeatlTton, a private of company K. thirteenth infantry, stationed at Presldo, who was taking measurements of the range, was lit erally shot to pieces and died after lingering in the reservation hospital for two days. The accident occurred last week but tho facts have Just come to light. An Investigation of the affair de layed the "funeral until yesterday All dining the arNmooti of the day br- was shot 1 1 '-a l her ton crept about on the embankment, peppered witfi lead w hllo the bullets whizz' d about him. His irles could not lie heard Art r the first bullet had him down In. madi an effort to drag himwif out of range but no matter which wax he turned his escape was cut off by the Hying missiles. Finally he sanH on the sand mound awaiting the shot that would end his torture. Pul lets sped obout him ripping his cloth ing and faring his flesh. When markers found him his head had beefl shot nearly off. WOULD CHANGE DATE OF MEMORIAL DAY HOSTON, May 29. Asserting that it is better not to observe memorial day at all than to make of it a Fourth of July, Commander J. Wll llarrt Brown, of the Massachusetts department of the G. A. R.. In a statement today declares a resolu tion for the changing or abolish ment of memorial day will be Intro duced at the next national encamp ment of the G. A. R. The substitution for the present holiday of a memorial Sunday to be designated annually by the commander-in-chief of the O. A. R. is to be1 suggested at that time. Com mander Drown says. C, MONDAY MORNING, i LORIMER NOT BEFORE HOLTSLAWS CONFESSION Says Bribe Receiving Senator s "Depraved" and Disappears. Accused Giver of Bribe Cannot be Found Either." Sensational Developments ; i Expected This Week. vr?.i CHICAGO, May 28. I'nltcd States Senator William lor1mer arrived here today. He departed a fow hour later and is whereabout la a mystery. The senator refused to discuss, any phase of the senatorial bribery scandal In volving his name. ,He wa asked to m,i k,j a statem tit regarding state Senator Holt.Hlaw's ronfeaslan before tho Hangairfon county grand Jury at Springfield, In which Holhtlaw admit ted that he , had received $8, 500 fur voting for Ixr!mer for enator. Holts law's confession rpe beerv catalogued "No. 4," three otlfcr WMtfaWlons hav ing been made before the Cook coun ty grand Jury, according tn State's At torney Way man here. The first con fession whs made by Representative Charlefl White, of (I'Fatlon, 111 . who said h had received 11,000 for his Lorlmer vote. Senator Iorimer in his speech to the sena to devoted himself to the denunciation of White, whom la- called depraved. "Hollslaw is In thm same Haas us White," Raid the senator today. "I will not discuss him . In fact I will not say another word. Everything I Intended to be said Is In rpy speech to the senate. I airliner IHsapix-arH. Then Senator Lorlnwr disappeared In his iutomobil with the parting Information that he wua going West SPEEDWAY TRACK MADE r FOR MORE Cleaned of Oil to Prepare for Short Distance Races Scheduled for Today. t lMJlANAI'iil.IS, Ind.. May 29 The two and one malf mile track of the Indianapolis speedway Has wash ed llrst with gasoline and then with water today in preparation for the national championship races of the American Automobile association which will I.ckiii tomorrow. The two hundred tn 1 1 tace of Sal marly lelt a broad oll-coak-'d path. dangerously slippery, anil H vvas necessary to nit I'ff tiliH stl .ci li, M ?:jrtac(. hefure hc llve and ten mil- 'lashes for the na tional ciianiii''ii!i'pM were caller! to morrow. .Vim. of the lb-Pi of drivers i-nti-reil l..r l--i- races was p-rtml-nillted to .'."ik out on the e otirH today, but it v.ii ibi- nicned lo tin-in early Initio; i All Mock -.it- classes from Ii0 to iao i ubic in- hi s piaton displacement will have inm.-iKs tomorrow and the driver hope to exceed the record sniahhiiii- spi-ed of Friday and Sat urday. Th.- caul also will Include five and ten mil'' races free to cars of unrlHRsifii l n.vv-r, a Ifty mile race fur cars of t" :!00 piston displace ment for a spei ial trophy, and a one mile speed trial for touring cars car rving four passengers. 8H0WER& "I WASHINOTON, May 2 Forecast for North Carolina: Showers Mon day, Tuesday fair light moderate west to northwest winds. MAY 30, 1910. A Graduation Question Answered. fCi, N r-Lj '" i "" , 1 i L ... 'J-13 TALKING SOMUCH AS for a few days. His destination I unknown. State Senator Broedrtclc, who was Indicted by the Sangamon county grand jury yesterday follow ing Holulaw's confession, also has disappeared. Ha Is aecus;-d jf having paid the 12.500 bribe to Holtslaw. Hroderlck dropped out of sight when the news of the Indictment, against was telephoned him yesterday and efforts or detectives to llnd him have failed. ,. ! PROBK Wlhl, OO Iwra'KR. 8PRINOK1ELD. Jl May J9. i Startling developments fa expected hers this wV, foltawlna yesxerdw'al confession by state Senator D. W, Holtslaw, of luke, to tha Bangamon county grand Jury that a was prom ised and later received It.fiOO from state Senator John Hroderlck for his vote for William Ixirlmer for senator and $700 from Senator Hroderlck as his share of the "Jackpot." Six legislators, three members of tho senate and three members of the house are scheduled to appear. They are: Henutors John Hrodli-rlok (demo oratl, Chicago, under Indictment for alleged brlliery Stanton c. Pemberton (republican), Oakland, under Indictment for con spiracy to commit a felony In con nection with tho furniture deal. I. W. Holtslaw (democrat, luka. ILL IS WAS REPORTED Is Troubled by Abscess on Hand Which Yields to Surgeon's Lance. UKlll.l.V, May 39. The abate on the emporer's hand since It was lanc ed Is taking a normal course, and, according to Doctor Hler, the court surgeon, this evening the emperor suffers no pain. The operation on the hand became necessary owing to a sharp Inflammation which developed. A headline in one of the 1! rlln news papers gave rise to the Impression thiii tin- emperor Is suffering great lv, hut his majesty has not even heen olll-ei! to stay in his room. The row n prince this morning re- iiv-i-d In audience Prince Tal-Tao. hiiiihir of the Chinese regent, and his unit', as the emperor was not abb to put on a uniform on account or tin- bandage over his right wrist and Ihiiinb. The empress also eceiv c'l the prince. At I'nlsdani. this afternoon, howev er, the emperor entertained at lun ' lieon MarrjulH Kan (Jlullano, the I'aolian foreign tninlHter with whom be had a lengthy conversation. The -riipress, the crown prince and crown princess. Or. Von Bethmann-Hollo-m g, the imperial chancellor and for eign minister. Von Hchoen, attended the dinner al the Itaollan embassy this evening In honor of the mar quis. There haB been no change In the emperor's plan to meet the king of (lelglans at Wild I'arkulatchen to morrow. It is expected that his ma jesty wil have sufflslently recovered to enable him to review ths spring parade of the Berlin' garrison on June 1. PINCHOT HOMK AGAIN. NEW YORK, May ID. Olfford Plnchot. former chief forester of the department of agriculture, who has lieen on a visit to Europe, returned today aboard the 8. 8. Arabic. who was Indicted, confessed, granted Immunity and will b qulssed (or fur ther information. . Representatives Joseph H. Clark (democrat), Vandalia, under Indict ment for conspiracy In furniture deal, ' ('has, L. McMackln (republican), Bui etn, voted for Lorlmwf and wilt be examined as witness, t, - Harvey I). McCullom (democrat). Louisville, voted for Lorlmer and will b samlned m a witness, rumlturs I)c Inquiry. . One other witness to be examlasd Is A. B, Johnston, of the - first- f JohBst.-HsAh i-tMf Springfield, who acted as local avsnt for the Ford s Johnston company In the furniture deal and whom Senator Holtslaw and Otto Frelr, of the Derby Icek company, have Implicated by their corroborative testimony. They allege that A, B. Johnston ea-reed that Holtslaw should receive II, too when the furniture was Installed In the state house. The grand Jury does not recon vene until Thursday, hut State's At torney Burke will proceed tomorrow with the examination of witnesses hA Ing received assurances that Hena- j tor I'emberton and It preeentatlve Clark would be on hand tomorrow morning. Bench warrants have been Issued for them, making their Imme diate appearance mandatory. COTTON ACREAGE SHOWS OVER 3 PER CENT INCREASE Planting Finished, and Av erage Good Stand Has Been Reported. MIC.VII'IIIH, Tenn., May The Commercial Appeal will publish-' to morrow Its first cotton crop report of the season. It follows: ' Heports from corren-iondents of The Commercial Appi-al under date of May 2f show that the acreage planted to cotton this spring exceeds that planted In 109 about 3.8 per cent. It la estimated that per cent of the total area has come up to a stand on this date, planting, except In Isolated Instance, being complet ed. Between May 14 and May 'It rains fell In all cotton producing ter ritory and were highly beneficial al though accompanied by abnormally low temperatures. What Is needed now Is warm, dry weather. The cold weather of late Aprll'ne-ccssltali-d considerable rr-plantlng In the Atlutitlc .States. Alabama and Louisiana, but this has been complet ed and most of the cotton is up, al though In thesu states there are a few complaints .of Irregular stands. "Although lacking a few days of being as far advanced, the crop and field conditions compare favorably with last year and with an average. "In the states east of the Mississip pi river there has been an Increase in ana planted and a larger use of commercial fertilizers used," COMET 18 r-'ADIXO. CAMBHIDOB, Mass., May ! A pronounced decrease In the brilliancy of Halley's comet was noted at the Harvard observatory here. Prof. O. C. Wendell, measuring (he nucleus found It to be of :ta magnitude, that Is somewhat more than a magnitude and a half fainter than three days ago. Prof. Wendall predicted that the wanderer would be visible for sev eral days mors. Citizen Want Ads Ericj Results. a PRICE FIVE CENTS. ABLE TO DISPENSE WITH JAPAHEStE State Commissioner of Labor Finds They Are Essential to Farmers ARE BETTER LABORERS THAN THE WHITE MEN Are Ambitious and Try to Rise Above Station of Servitude . ' SACRAMENTO, CaVjf,. May it.- Boms form ot Unsullied labor- such as Is now represented by the Japa nese, (s essential for ths continuance - nd development ot the specUllud agricultural Industries of California. This Is ths broad conclusion of ths - renort Of the Slete tahnv fifimmtM-ilna- .. sr. just submitted t ths governor on ths Japanese in California which was prepared after over a year ot rare - ful field work by a corps of special agents among ths farms employing Japanese. The Investigation was au thorised by act Of tits legislature Just after the ami-Japanese agitation In California In lot- sd ths renort consists ot over IGS,00t words, v. dusty! . mass oc tabulated its.. . tlStlCS, :-''Sr.V, m; ...'.v.'-tfe'-'-VK;' ;w . Ths so-cslled Oriental problem lit this slat Is thoroughly discussed In ths -report end -after searching In qulry sll sconomlo and social condi tions, finds that some form ot labor caps bis of Independent subsistence, muii:- iiiuiHii-wiiiun e flu vn-taiiiii-e iivr responsibility upon ths' smployer for continuous employment, I absolutely necessary ta California's field, or- . chard and vineyard industries tf thes vsst enterprises srs to be perpetuat ed and developed. Ths report is of ths opinion that the Jspanwss who now perform slightly mors than fifty per cent ot this labor srs second only to the Chinese In meeting those re qulrements. '.;' " 'i Hegardlng ths complaints heard agataei -Japanese In dtstrtot l-whlca- they are largely employed, the report states they arise from attempts fa secure higher wages, I is pointed eut that there are few complaints of this character except 11 such districts as ars now dominated by the Japtness througti their numbers and ths at- . most absolute dependencs- of. ths : growers upon them for ths harvesting of crops in ths shsrt tlms they have. . The average duration of employment , on farms is less than two months la the year, tn this connection tha rs- ' port points out that the Japanese ' have learned thst they can, make (Continued on Page Three.) ECCENTRIC CLUBL1 Son of Eetired Naval Sur geon Always Posed as Millionaire Spendthrift I NEW YORK, May --John Va Arntrvim Ithoades. whose, peculiar conduct for many years mads him a prominent figure In New York and tendon, killed himself In a sanita rium In Flushing on Thursday, but no report of tha suicide was mad public until yesterday, His body was removed from the sanitarium at S o'eka-k yesterday morning. Ithoades was a nrember of ths I'nlon Is-wgiiii club, He married twice. His Hint wife was Miss Pau line Hchmld, daughter of Augustus Hcbmld, a millionaire brewer. Bha obtained a divorce. Next, Ithoades married Miss Alice ttalph, daughter of Julian Italph, ns-wspaper man. ' particular attention was drawn ta tli sticlde by the efTorts made by Dr. W. etuart Brown, who has charge of (he sanitarium known as Ban ford Hall, to suppress ths facts, and by Coroner Ambler's delay In making them public. Tlw -coroner finally said Ithoades had killed himself with the blade of a safety rasor, lief ore Rhoades was placed In r- stralnt two years ago his erratic con duct often caused excitement along Itroadway. He. had an Income of $2,600 i year from his father. Major Archibald C. Khoades, a retired Bur geon of ths United States navy. De spite the smallness f his ' Income, Ithoades alw-ays told his friends he was a millionaire. He gave a dinner at one time in the Union League club for four friends, but when they ar rived they found the table set for fifty persons. i At ons time he ettemptd to Mil to London on the Baltic. Hs boarded ths vessel Just before- her" 'thins for leaving New York and found an empty state room.' After locking himself In lie defied the ship's Offi cers for a half hour. . Finally ho opened the door and sJd he had been counting his money and was sorry to say that ho was few pounds short ', of tho amount necessary to pay his fare. At that time ho wore m bright gret jitat with a- black feather stuck In ths band. - CALIFORNIA MOT
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