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THE ASHBMELB;: OTEZEN: TUG WEATHES: CLOUDY. Citlxen Want Ads Erirj .Results. :-tK I iYQ. XSV., NO. 334. ASIIEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1910.- PRICE FIVE CENTS IOP ULATIOn OF STOCKS EXPOSED ir lESTiemion Commerce Commission Brings ? Out Some Startling Rev ' elatlons PILE UP CAPITAL TO CONCEAL DIVIDENDS Then Ask Public to Pay Higher Rates to Maintain Div idends CHICAGO. Sept. 19. Stock infla tion and manipulation, designed to turn over to stockholder large sunm of money without putting in the com pany'a record any evidence of more than passing fair dividends, was the subject delved Into today by the In terstate commerce commission here at the conclusion of Its hearing fol lowing th suspension of the general advance' of freight rates of Western lines which had been scheduled to take effect September 1. The stock manipulation feature of the inquiry which alms to bring out what grounds the railroads have for asking the Increase was suggested by Commissioner . Judeon C. Clements, and was Immediately taken up by' the commission's attorney, Frank Lyon, and Attorney John H. Atwood, of Kansas City. Mo., who appeared for the generals ' shippers' committee which Is fighting - the increase .Comptroller. M. P. Blauvelt of the Illinois Central railroad was the wit ness from whom the startling dis closures which followed were obtain ed. Growth of Capitalization. Commissioner Clements called the witness' attention to figures he had furnished on direct examination by the Railroad's counsel, W. H. Horton. The commissioner said: "You say, Mr. Blauvelt, that In Si your capital stock was f 40, 000,000 oh" 2.870 miles of road, and In 110 on only about 1,700 miles mora It was I IBS, 000,000. Also that In 11(1- the bonded Indebtedness was only l,800,000, while in lt tt had reached 17,000.000. Why Is this?" "Well," .. tha answer, "what would appear to be the excess Went to improve the roadway and to equip and purchase other roads." "And how was the stock raised for, these purposes sold?" continued the (Continued on Page Two.) PASTORS RESIGNATION OUSTEDH CHURCH Minister Dispossesses Four teen of Leading Mem bers, of His Church RUNS THINGS ALONE SAVANNAH, Oa., Set. 19. A sen- sation Was spsung In church circles In this section of the state when Rev W. A.. Ni8bet, pastor of the West minster Presbyterian church, dis possessed ten of the fourteen dea cons of the church who voted to ask for his resignation several weeks agd.' Thia act prevents the deacons from taking the sacrament or per forming any official duties In church or Sunday school. Among those "dispossessed" are the superintendent of the Sunday school, three of the assistant super intendents and several teachers. The act practically disorganizes the Sun day school. The "dispossession" followed the refusal of the deacons of the church to continue their duties as such un til the pastor resigns according to a request made by eleven of them. The, request for resignation was made on the point that the period of 'the pastor's usefulness to the church had passed. After the request for his resigna tion was made the pastor announced tha an Offer had been made by a doriory whom ' he did not nam, to erect $40,000 memorial church to beir the name of the donor, and that he had accepted the offer. The dea cons took the position, that as the building committee of the church they ought to have been consulted. They wanted to accept the donation under the condition that the plans of the donor would be acceptable to them. . In a congregational meeting the members of the congregation stood by the pastor, , and the deacons, among whom are some of the best known financial and business men In the city, gave np their books and declined to continue their dutlea fur t hen 'This wag followed by tha pas Irrr ''dlsOosaeeainK" them. . - ; , ' Thin act is-belrtg contested by. ihf deacons, who' claim the pastor can not take this step and that only tha Bresbrterr earn excommunicato them. DRAGON SLAYER IS FORCED TO APPEAL TO TAFT FOR HELP With Old Guard ReatyWEnd His Political Career, Roosevelt is Com pelled to Ask Favors of Man He Has Maligned. ON BOARD PRESIDENT TAFT'S TRAIN, Albany, N. T Sept. 19. President Taft and Colonel Theodora Roosevelt met today at New Haven, Conn., for the second time since the former president's return from Afri ca. Colonel Roosevelt sought the con ference with the president. It was plain from all that transpired before and after the meeting that the colon el and his close political advisers are not a little worried over the situa tion in New Tork state and came to the president for further evidence of his moral support. This the president was glad to give. Ho declared that his position in the New York state fight had been clear from the very first. He said he sym pathized with the light against bo se ism being waged by the people of the state. Mr. Taft reiterated the state ments he made in his letter to Lloyd C. Grlscom, president of tha New York county republican committee at the time of the Sherman-Roosevelt controversy over the temporary chairmanship. This letter, he added. stated his position fully and' accur ately, and he was standing on it ab solutely. Mr. Taft announced to his callers anew what he had said In the Grls com letter that he favored the di rect primary for the nomination of congress and state legislators. Ka understands this to be the purport of the Cobb bill as amended by the Seth Low and Jos. Choate memorial. He said he hoped that jk declaration for Buch a primary law would be, written- into the republican state platform, and that a candidate for governor In sympathy fclth this movement would be nominated. Steered Clear of 1919, President Taft and Colonel Roose velt did not discuss the question of the presidency In 1J12. -Mr, Taft'S position is this: Jie ia, willing to run if nominated) If his friends think there is a good chance for him to be re-elected, Mr. Taft feels that they will see to his nomination. Mr. Taft's' political friends say If the American people want him for a second term that not even Colonel Roosevelt can prevent his nomination. If the people do not appear to want him, Mr. Taft will be METALS TO SILVER BUT Dr. Lange, Alchemist, on Verge of Breakdown Financial Troubles TRAGIC INCIDENT SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 19 Re ports that Dr. F. W. Lange was swindled into buying, at a big fig ure, an alleged process for transmit ting silver were today denied by. his wife. She says that Dr. Lange Is on the verge of a total nervous collapse at his home on Madison avenue. Dr. F. W. Lange Is the amateur alchemist In whoso laboratory Ithe late Charles C. Dickinson, the bank er. Inhaled the fumes which were said to be the remote cause of hi death last May. A statement was made public In which the chemist declared he had succeeded in trans forming metal Into silver by com bining a little silver with large quan tities of base metals. ' Lange Interested a number of New York bankers of prominence, among them Mr. Dickinson, president of the Carnegie Trust company. Dickin son went to Scrantbn to Investigate the process, and It Is said that 'In a. moment of enthusiasm he stepped I too near the laboratory furnace. Af-1 ter his return to New York ha de J veloped pneumonia, fronv which'' he died. The disappearance of Dr. Lange's brother, L. A. Lange. a couplo of I weeks ago almost caused a run on I the new Schiller Building and Loan association, of which he was secre tary. He was Indebted to the associ ation more than (100,000, but made It good by beggaring himself and his father and borrowing from friends. This added -to Dr. Langc's worries. A number of suits have been re cently brought In the local courts against Dr. Lange. Two of his prop erties have been advertised for sale by the sheriff because of his inabil ity to raise the interest on two notes amounting to 129.500. Dr. Lange an nounced early this week that ha had; arranged to stay the sale, but since th "financial entanglement - Of - the Lang family have become public their creditors have been, hounding them. only too glad to submit to their de cision, - It can be stated that today's meet ing at New Haven, while tt may have been successful In its moral advan tage to the Roosevelt leaders In New York state was absolutely barren of results as to any better understand Ing between the president and Col' onel Roosevelt as to national issues or their personal relations In view of many recent events. Something In the nature of a truce seems to havi been arranged in regard to the New York state situation. After that Is over, events will shape themselves. Mr. Roosevelt is said today to have let drop the hint as to his side of the matter that something would be doing after the elections. Mr. Taft Is letting ll look out for Itself. It came out at today's, conference which In addition to the president and Col onel Roosevelt Included Uoyd C. Orlscom, Otto Bannard and Secretary Norton that the Taft administration it to be endorsed at Saratoga. No mention of Mr. Taft as candidate In 112 will be made. . - In this connection it became known today that President Taft deprecated the action of the Ohio re publicans In declaring for him in 1012, He did not think he should be made an issue. Today conference It la believed was a source of much gratification to Mr. Taft and his friends, follow ing a somewhat recent attitude on the part of Colonel Roosevelt of al most completely ignoring of his ad ministration or existence; Roosevelt Nought Meeting. Mr. Orlscom and Mr. Bannard tel ephoned Secretary Norton last Satur day and asked that an arrangement be made by which Mr. Roosevelt might hold a conference with the president during his New Haven vis-If- -. . ,; Mr. Bannard who accompanied the president to Albany,' ""explained to night that he and Mr. Grlscom thought ft would be a urooil thing to get the president and Mr. Roosevelt together again to "smooth over any apparent differences between them." This applied, however, only to the New York state situation, Mr. Ban- -""" - -i-iir"nwirimnimmjiAruvi (Continued on page four.) HEfl SECOND ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE MAY BE Mrs. Max Henrici, of Spar tanburg, Shoots Herself Through Breast CONDITION CRITICAL SPARTANBURG, S. C, Sept. It. Mrs. Max Henrici, who recently at tempted suicide in New York by Jumping Into East river, shot herself here this afternoon. Her husband, who was formerly employed on The New York Herald, is at present city editor of the Spartanburg Herald. The condition of Mm. Henrici at 8 o'clock tonight Is extremely criti cal. The ball from a 38 calibre pis tol entered the body between the sixth and seventh . ribs, penetrated the right lung and the liver. Its further course has not been deter mined. At a private hospital where she was taken soon after the shoot ing occurred, a number of X-ray photographs have been taken in an effort to locate the ball, but at this hour tha surgeons say the photo graphs do ont aid them much. .No cause Is assigned for Mrs. Hen r lei's act Bh was atone when the Shot was fired, and has made no statement that has reached the pub lie. A few weeks ago while residing In New York she attempted to end her Ufa by jumping Into the East riv er but was rescued. Since being at her home near Wre she has been apparently in the best of spirits and with the exception of occasional periods of despondency has been as well and cheerful as usual. MISt'SED MAILS. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Sept. It. Federal officers have arrested four prominent men at Annistdn, Ala,, on a charge of fraudulently . using the mails. They are: ' Lon Price, sr., L, L. Melton, L. M. Meltoa, and Ay P. Melton. The man arrested conduct a number of stores in east Alabama town nd it ia al leged that in ordering goods by malt they ' misrepresented their financial' standing. I ICavalieri Takes HerlHighNotes WithlEase. THREE BALLOONS STILL UP OR DOWN IN SOME REMOTE PLACE Others Have Come Down Widely Separated so Far Without Serious Accidenu- INDIANAPOLIS,;. Ind., Sept It. If they have not -met with disaster or landed safely at some isolated spot from which they have not been able to report, three balloons and their crews have qualified tonight as the American contestants ta tha In ternational balloon race which will start at St.-Louis Ootober ITn are: - ' . .,. New York-Cllfford R." Harmon, New York, pilot; Thomas Baldwin, New York, aide, not sighted. .Buckeya It Wade, Cleveland, pilot; A. H- Morgan, Canton, Ohio, aide, sighted at, .Charleston, W. Vs., 7 p. m., Sunday. - i,- Missopla W. T. Ansman, St. Louis, pilot; P. O. McCullough, St Louis, aide, sighted at I'omeroy, Ohio, 8 45 a. m Sunday, Nine balloons started in tha Amer ican elimination race at tha Indian apolis speedway Saturday afternoon. Four started In a free- for-all contest and all of them are down, Tha sixth of the starters In the elimination Was Very Near Death From Seizure Which Came on In Hig Office. . 'V RALEIGH, N. C, Sept. 1 Major D. V. Dixon, state auditor, barely escaped death through a terrible at tack of angina pectoris about 10.80 o'clo'ck thia morning and at one time death was expected ' most any mo ment. - Ha is still a very 111 man at ttex hospital, where he is reported to bo- resting vany. Major Dixon had been out to the old soldiers' home Just before the attack, and had not been complaining at all. Ha had not scarcely settled himself in his private office When the attack came. A hur ry call for physlclane brought Dr. Rogers, Dr. KiUhln and Dr. Rankin in a very short time. As to his con dition at the hospital this evening the statement waa made that Major Dix on Is probably out of danger and resting easy, but that It would re quire several days for him to suffi ciently recuperate to admit of his leaving the hospital. CRAZED BY LOVE. ABBEYVILLE. da.. Sept It. B. Manass today shut and killed - Mr Sarah Williams, wife of former May or Williams because ho believed she had interferred to prevent the suc cess of his suit for tha -hand of her sister, Mrs. Eugene Royal, a widow. The latter saw the shooting. As Mrs Williama expired Manass turned his revolver upon the wld r, wounding her In the hip snd tlx kilted him self. WASHINGTON, Sept- It. Forecast for North Carolina: Partly cloudy Tuesday r Wednesday fair; light Va riable, wind. Remainmg Three Will Participate in Inter national Meet, race to alight was tha America IT, which landed at Warrsnton, Va., at I.tO o'clock this afternoon. AHen R. Hawley, New York, was the pilot and Augustus Post, New Yorkth aid, , Storlo of tha flight told by 'the pi lots of the balloons which havs land ed, are beginning to; com to Indian a polls. Carl a Usher, who with (Hp, L. Bumbaugh, waa in th Indiana It, wires from Pittsburg as follows: "Wo. passed all but ' - Hawley , hi America II Saturday night during storm that blew great ,un, Jh storm , our ' aragrbita oaugbT'ln. trea top and held us two Jiours, dur ing which four balloons went by at great speed. We finally aroused a farmer who, with his son cam to our aid In a drenching rain. They climbed the trea and cut us loose, then we proceeded, tree top and all." Buffeted by Ktorms. Louis Von Phul, who piloted the Million Population club balloon of St Louis assisted by Jos. O'Reilly, d' scribed his trip: . . HEADY TO ESTABLISH 01 POSTAL BANK PER STATE Board of Control Has Plans Prepared if Cabinet Ap proves of them WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Attor ney General Wlckersham, Secretary McVcagh and postmaster General Hitchcock who constitute th board of control of the postal savings banks will have a preliminary conference before the cabinet meeting next week and It Is understood th board is ready to recommend th establish ment of one bank In each of th states and territories where It has been decided to make th experiment. It Is the plan to Issue certlncate of deposit In one form up to tt snd In other forms for 110. $20, and t0. They will be non-transferrable and non-negotiable. The application of bank desiring to become depositaries of th funds far out number th application of the postofflces to be equipped to take the savings. In South Carolina, ten banks want to be depositaries and only three poatofficca want to be des ignated, . LIGHTNING STRIKES STATUE OF CLAY LEXINGTON, - Ky., Sept ltv Lightning today struck the statu of Henry Clay In th Lexington ceme tery, shattering an arm and leg" of th figure. The memorial was un veiled in July, ItOl. Part of th coat of 1 12.000 wa defrayed by log- Islattw appropriation. Th storm to day wa one off th heaviest ever kmwn her and It total damag esti mated at $60,000. CAPTAIN RAWSOHE DEAD.' GREENWOOD, S. C Sept It. Captain I A. Ransom, manager of th Atlanta district of the Southern Cotton Oil company wa .-stricken with ereberlal hemorrhage at three O'clock this afternoon whll aboard a train enroute to Richmond, Va-, to attend a meeting of district' managers of the- company H wa taken Off tha train her and given medical at tention, but died about 11 o'clock. -..I - . i j i IN AIR "Wa had In- tha air only a short time when tha rain hampered us, Wa were coin in the direction of tha sreat lakes, Thn we struck a tours tiiat sent us south at a mar ry clip, but tha rain continued and wa were soaked. Wa threw out kal last and sought a higher altitude, I think ws srosscd the Ohio river near Wa rrl ngton, t Oh to, s s ; "Tho night waa tha West Temark.a ble 4 have evsf spenf. Neither Of us slept, much w didn't want to. Our highest altlluds was B.B00 feet "When tha sun. earn out yester day morning our worst trouble began. W would run through clouds for a while, thsn th sun would break through. The gas would expand and cause us to shoot upwards for Mm, then the rain would send us down again. If wa could have had fair weather w would have broken rec ords, At on tlm. w lighted six balloons, but when wa cam down ther was only on balloon in !ht.w OBESE ARMY OFFICERS MUST UNDERGO TEST Annual Two Days' Test on Horseback Set for Octo ber This Year, WASHINGTON, Spt, It The an nual ordeal for army officer who havs grown mors or ! physically unfit In their swivel chairs In the war department Is due October lo ll and lf-17. This Is th yearly horse back ride which former Presi dent Rooseveelt enjoined upon all of ficer of th rank of major and above, Th junior ofTJcsr r reliev ed from th test because their dally duties Impose much more physical exercise upon thi3 . i The ride will be by a circuitous route from Washington to Rockville, Md. A stop over night will b made at that point. Th party then will ride northward half a day and return without stop to Washington. Major General Wood, chief of staff will head one of tn parties. - A week later few officers, who from the nature of their dull have been exemped from th riding test will walk twenty mile as a substi tute. , HEICKE GETS MOXTH8. NEW YORK. Rem 1Mhl month In the New York penitentiary on, Blackweli' Island and a (In of $$,000 wa tha sentence today im posed uoon C'hae. R. Helcka. former secretary and treasurer of the Amer ican Hugar Kenning company, con victed of. conspiracy to defraud the United States snveen merit hv tha iin. der-wetghlng of sugar. He Is refer red to a tn man "higher up" In th sugar trust TO INVESTIGATE LO RIMER. X CHICAGO, Sept. II Senator Ju- lius C Burrow of Michigan, chair man of th senat commute which I to investigate th election of Sen ator Wm, Lorlmer of Illinois, arrrlV d herr, today with other of the committee and prepared to take up thn consideration of th charge that the -election of th junior senator from Illinois was tainted with bribery. JELLS OF Terrible Metallic Roaring In, liftid Rfinrtftrflfl Him ITn ! o . conscious : HAD PREMONITION THAT HE WOULD DE SHOT Scores Certain Newspapers For Manner In Which They; Have Treated Him NEW YORK. Sept . Vayr Wm. i, Gaynor lit a letter t hi ali tor. Mis Mary E. Oaynoi), of lUlca, N. T., which I printed thbs after noon in The Owning Post, tell in an interesting niMjiner of hi (Im pression at th tlm h waa shot on th steamship Kaiser WHhelm der Th mayor say that tt has not tend ft tin of what ha been pub lished of tha shooting, nor does b now rememoer tha nam of th man who shot him. Going over th in cident of th shooting Mayor Uaynor, after - Mating that Robert Adamaoa, his aocretary, pointed out tKat th shin was dressed with flag for him. aid: '."., . . , . ,; ,.ir "My next onsoIouiut waa rf a terrlbi matalio roar in my head. It filled my head which seined as though It ' would burst open. It walled to th highest fltch and then fell, 'and, then ros again and o alternated until It subsided Into a continuous buns. . It (was sickening, but my stomach , did not give w'. I wa maanwhlia aiirhtlr. Thought li Mas lrmr. "I do not think I fell, for whew t , beoam conscious I wa on my feet My sight gradually returned-, I becam conscious thut 1 was cliok ing. Hlood ws coming from my mouth, aud I trid all I i-ould to wallow It, so thoa around rae would not ae jt'V But ,1. found copld not wallow, and then, knew .my throat WM hurt, U m4,;thnnith It, breath through my mouth, but could not nd thought Hvii t of strangulation. I kept tliinJoiii alt the 'tlm of th Best thing to n. ', l wa mr a bit afmhi to die, tt that wa Ood' will of m. I SHlf to myself, 'Just as well now a a mt year from' now.' . -: . , j'T-i Promonhlon of Bliootlng. "In noma way I happened to closa my mouth tight, and found I "breath ed perfectly through my nose. t then believed I could ksep front motirlng. But I kept choking and my mouth kept .opening to cast out , th blood. . Though tha thing ,had not entered my head that, morning, t ws not surprised when I realis ed I wa ahot.- :I had had a feelm for aom week that I mlxbt b aa-' aaulted on account of the snnnv mou threat waa getting by maU." fk-orea Mewspatxiw, ,.;-;r Mayor Oaynor, in th lttr, scored certain newspapers for-tH manner in which they ha4 criticised him, saying that "th tlm f j at hand iwhen these Journallstle scoundnH hav got to atop, or get out. and t am ready now to do my har t h4 nd." ' f .... , .r . n,l Robert Adamson. th mayor' -' retary, said tonight that th may. oi a condition iontiaus to Improve, and that h plan to return to hi desk at city hall, on .October S. i DDO FELLOWS EF.HIPIED BT BEPIWFEIM Receipts for Last Year Ag gregated Nearly Half mil lion More Than 1909 ATLANTA, Sept It, Th predic tion that by ltlt th Independent Order of Odd Fellow wilt number 3,000,000 member if Jt continue It present rate of Incress waa maU today by John B. Ooodwln, grand . secretary of ' the ' So-reln Grand : Lodge at the - oening of - th Odd -Fellow annual convention. Th 100th. anniversary of th order fall la 11 and th present membership Is over i.ooo.oeo. , . Th igrand secretary' reported. t, tat receipts for th year as nearly, half a million dollars, ahead of laxt year' - totals, with expenditure .for relief approximately 1 1 14.100 less. In' th home of th order ther arenow t,ttl Inmate. Th total cost of the home including property value I given a $I,2:.7. Charter were issued during th year to lodge in pMuma, Cuba and New KoundUnd antljto an encamp ment In Alberta. . A constitutional amendment pro viding for th establishment of a tu berculosis sanitarium was presented to th Grand Lodge today. The or der at present ha no such sani tarium, and this amendment wa tha only on among those presented which! was not laid on the table in definitely. It wa referred to a, com- mlttee from which an early report is ' expected. GAYfJUR FEELINGS U HE WAS NEAR HEATH
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