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i iHEliLLE OITIZEN.' THE WEATHER: . SHOWERS Sworn Daily 'Average for May -Ail SJ VOL. XXVIL, NO. 239 ASHEYILLJS, N, SATJJRjgir. MORNING, JUNE 17, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS 'THE DESCENDANTS OF ALL PRESIDENTS SINCE '61 INVITED Records Have Been Searched That None Will be Misled at 'Silver Anniversary MK1NLEY FAMILY IS NO r COMPLETED Elaborate Preparations for s Greatest White House V Event In History . ... WASHINGTON, June !. D acettdant of every prealdent of (he , United -States since 1S1 have been Invited tp the stiver wedding celebra tion whlch the fpreeideni ana Mr a. left Will five at the white tiouee-June . II.' Record of the white house and tatfc department have been carefully eearched to find the namea or living blood relatione of all former prest denta'and the list la believed now to Be' complete except the retail vea of ., President ( MMcKlnley. The white houee ha Appealed to George B. Cor- v teljou, formef , aecretary to Mr.-lc-Klnley,' for the name of members of the Me Klnley family who are atlll llv Inir and Invitatlona will be forwaraed to them with all poaalble expedition. , . Just how many of the invitations will be accepted la not known at the white house. Col. and Mrs. Rooeevelt ' will be unable to be preaent but it la probable that membera Of the Roos ' evt family will attend , the reception Monday night. Elaborate preparation have been . made for the entertainment of prob ably, the largest .crowd; that naa ever been present- at ' a,, function In the White houseThe manaton ,t;aelf will s be lighted throughout with hundreds ef electric temp, the grounds, In the rear 'will be near a like day a arti ficial tght can make them' two bands will furnish music, and the fountain In the rear of the house will be played upon by a blr search light erected on the east ffont of the atnte, ar and : pavy building just across the ayenue. Q, UftieM b4 weather Interferes with (1 plan : fresldent and Mrs. Tart will eeetve on the lawn back of the white house,' Mat A. W. Butt, theMreat I dent'a aid who makf h Jtreeanta-llio)iav?etev-ttti Tnor than 8,900 hand. :' MIm Helen Taft will assist in. re ceiving the gueata. -- The white house lawn win not be the only attractive point during the evenlnjr. ;;-'.' Continued on pago -eight 1 COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE CONTENDS THIT USE Of COUPONS NOT ILLEGAL That' Cjo'fc- fees Prohibited Them in 1887 but Repeal ed Law in 1902 IN TOBACCO CASE KALEIQH. N. C, June Depo sition by tobacco jobbers In Char lotte, Atlanta.- Waahlngton, Charles ton, Columbia and Raleigh were fea ture of the progress of the Ware Kramer Tobaooo Company va Ameri can Tobacco Company damage suit in which , a recess was taken this afternoon to Monday. ' Evidence wa a continuation or me purpose m ine plaintiff to show by the Jobbers that the use oX single coupons and double coupons, free goods and apeclal con cessions of' various kinds by the American ToMcco company drove the "White Rolls" brand of cigarettes that Ware-Kramer company made off the market In every section of the country they entered, These all tes tified to similar,. condition of the to bacco trade as the cigarettes ln- olvlnfithe Ware-Kramer -wnite Jle. J. 1a carr, jr.. saia me eeu- feetare of ''Piedmonts ' .were cou pons and base ball picturee and when tneee features were put on tney ai caoet knocked "White Rolls" In the R.e4. , V . W. 1. Toralln brought out the fea ture that coupons and premiums kill ed "White Rolls" on his market. The customers liked "Whilte Rolls" beet, he said, but they liked that two cent rebate that the trust 'coupona gave " 'them.-'1"::1, t e. t., In view of the trend of the evi ' dence to show that it waa the coupon " feature ' ef the American Tobacco oompayttaT"w6r'bWinte Waf ut ot Ware-Kramer company gopds s competitors there appeared the purpose en the part ofcounel for ' the defense to contend that the use of conph was In nq way illegal a the ' time, they .were being oaed, , , . , . t In 1117 congress passed a law pro i hiblting the aae of coupons, but this waa repealed In lt, and the use ef coupons ha since that time been leiral.:;,.:-.:-.:.-'''; rt!,,.; The -court will tomorrow in chant bers cooalder" formal issue that are I ka Bataaltted tar the iorrW - ENRICHED BY, MORE THAN HALF MILLION IN SUGAR CO. SALE Testimony Shows A lleged Methods of Sugar "Trust" in Acquiring the Weaker Concerns Witness Tells How to Make Sugar Cheaper WASHINGTON. June 'II. The story of the birth, of the beet sugar Industry In America, its trial and temptations ever since and how the Oxnard brothers were enriched by more than half a million dollars pro fit through "the little transaction1' of selling their cane sugar refinery In Brooklyn, valued at $200.000 to the first, eugar ''trust" In 18ST. were the features in the testimony that Henry T. Oxnard gave today to the house sugar invettgatlon committee. . Mr. Oxnard waa on the stand all day and will be followed Monday by James H. Post,, president of (he National Sugar Refining company. Mr. Oxnard asalgned as hla reason for attempting to Introduce the making of augar from beets In. this country, the sale to the "trust" of his refinery t Brooklyn and his belief that the In traduction of the beet sugar Industry would be "profitable and patriotic." He then told the story of the organi sation of the American Beet Suagr company. Of that 120.000,000 company, he eald the Oxnard brothers at one time owned sixty per -Cent. ' He ' would not admit that thS stock was water ed, testifying that the valuation of the property was about f 12,000.000, while the preferred stock today Was worth about 15,000.000 and the com mon stock about $7,500,000. He waa unable to tell why the capitalisation wa fixed at 120,000,000 saying that was the "banker business." "What Induced you to sell your stock?" as lied representative Jaco way of Arkansas. ; 'There was no Inducement," waa the response. Representative . Madi son asked Mr. Oxnard If In reality the American Sugar Refining com pany Vhad not tried to use ita power In 1101 to drive the beet augar .re finers out of business by unfair com petition, that Is, cutting prices be- I low cost In the Missouri river terrl tory." ' .. ."J think Ita fair presumption that It waa designed 'if drive ua ouV-re-4 "Why didn't they succeed?" con tinued the congressman. "Well, our contracts with the groc ers were to sell at a price lea than the 'open' market price on the day of delivery. The American Sugar Refining; company evidently thought by reducing the price about the time MORE THAN 2,000 BIDS WILL OE OPENED TODAY 01 ID M'VEICH ULnAncf era Interested in ' What Panama Bond Isue Will Bring- DELIVERY JULY 1 WASHINGTON. June !. More than 2,000 bida for the government's $50,000,000 issue of S per cent Pan ama bonds will be opened by Secre tary MacVeagh at 4. o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Financiers are greatly In terested In what price the lasue will bring. These are the first government bonds not available for national bank circulation. The bonda have been selling on the NW York curb as high as 101. Government' official tnink the .average price bid will range from ll'to 10a. Although three or four large syn dlcatea have put m bid for almost the entire Issue, the treasury haa not changed Its plan of giving preference to the smaller1 Investors. A large force of clerks will erk to morrow night and Sunday tabulating the bids snd the results may not be known before Tuesday. There seems t6 be no doubt that the Issue will be largely over-eubecribed. The securi ties will be delivered td the success ful bidders about July 1. SCORES WOMAJT SUFFRAGE BALTIMORE, Md., June 1 Car dinal, Gibbons, in an address yester day at the commencement exercise of St. Joseph's 'college and academy. Emmettaburg, scored woman's suff rage.. He said: - , , '1 think . the plaoe for wpmnl Ml ,MMI. Mm Jfonw should not want to vote, but if they took such Inter est in the affairs of their husbands and brothers .they could eaailjr have .$5ft? iut balrote In the right manner. , in ooing iuia. woman will the champion. f what Is right' ITBGRO PTjATS WITH,!APrfn. ' WINNIPEG. Man.. June If. am Longford -and Tony Caponi. of Chi cago,! fooght a ten-round draw to night, in four ' rounds Xangford placed with Caponi, - In the seventh the .negro, had Ca poni in sucH bad shape that the police stopped the fight for 'a time. The brat ftnally-wa allowed to go the fall ten -round. Both of the fighters were oa Ueir feet at the finish. of our deliveries that wa would be unable to fill our contract But that word 'open' saved us. We toll the grocers eugar com Id not be purchas ed In the 'open' market at the re duced price. If they could, we au thorised them aa our agenta to buy a large quantity for us. They could not do so." Mr. .Oxnard aaid that the only time the American Beet '-Sugar Re flnlng company had any agreement with the American Refining company waa In 102 when the fromer became the "selling agency" of the latter, that contract was cancelled, he said, when Wayne MacVeagh, a lawyer, In 10. gCve an opinion that It would bud In .! to the penitentiary IX they continued. He protested against the reduction of the tariff on sugar, but added that he would leave it to the "refiners" to fight for the duty' on refined sugar, "What will make augar cheaper?" aahekd Chairman Hardwlck. "Reaving It alone until the sugar industry Is able to compete with the world, ' The advancea In the Industry have been rapid here and they will go If you give the Industry a chance." FIRE UNDERWRITERS' CONVENTION CLOSES WINSTON-SALEM, NC. June 1. The fourteenth annual convention of North Carolina Fire Underwriters' association adjourned today to meet next year at Ralehjh. officers were elected aa follow: President. T. W. Miller." Charlotte; vice prealdent, S. F. Solen, Winston Salem; Ernest Daan, Salisbury; secretary-treasurer, J. M. Harrell, High Point A resolution waa adopted asking the aid of the state Insurance jrom- miesioner In securing the passage of a law governing the qualifications of Insurance agenta. ' A barbecue and oaten! game entertained the ylel- to -efteraooa. MINISTER IIK8 PITT6BURG. Pa., June !. The Kev. Solomon O. Merrick, of Miami. Pla., who was visiting his mother-in-law, Mrs. H. O. Fink, at Sprlngdale, a suouro. died today after a few days' Illness of heart trouble. The body will be taken to Miami tonlgh t. PAGEANT PRESENTED SIGHTSEERS ON STREETS fN LONOSN Vari-Colored Street Decora tions Mingle With Showy Costumes LONSDALE BALL LOUDON, June 1. Londoij pre sent an ever changing pageant to the elghtseer. The bright coloring of the street decorations la -now heightened by vivid patches of east ern tints In the garb of the corona tion visitors who are arriving In quick succession. Sultans, rajahs and Chinese and Abysslnnian delegates with the'lr ladle In picturesque glit tering national cuetumea everywhere are to be seen. King George and Queen Mary will return to London from Windsor to morrow o win remain her until July 1. Premier Asquitb and Mrs.' Asqelth will give a dinner to their majesties in Downing street on June J. - The Asqulth residence is too small to accommodate a large party and therefore Sir Brward Grey, the for eign minister, will give a dinner in honor of th king and queen at the foreign office June II, which' will be one of thejnost brlilisnt functions of the season. . Tonight's leading social event was a coronation fancy costume ball at the. Botanic ' garden, arranged by Lord Lonsdale In aid of charity. Theusands o persons attended but the brilliancy 0f the affair wa polled by (he heavy rain. The Illumination in" London on coronation' night an the Friday night following will be on eueh a etapenduooe scale that tha en notice that they will be unable to supply any more currept than al ready ha been arranged for.,, DIAZ IX SPAIK CORUNNA. Spain,. June 1. The steamer Tplranga. with Former Prea ldent Dies of Mexico en boardr. ar rived . here . this evening. . The gov ernorand the Mexican consul greet ed Genera Dta. The Mexican -, president did net land and the vee el wocaleded en bar voraaa. '.. . HE I "TO KEEP STILL" . ,' $l-, . a Alleges Chief of Consular De partment Said It Was Not Advisable to Talk DAY VOUCHER CASE BECOMING WARMER Asked If He Had Made Further Effort to Find How Voucher Got to His Room WASHINGTON, June ls.-Thomas Morrison, disbursing clerk of the mat department, told,, the house committee on expenditures la that,, department today that he had been Instructed, when the missing oucher in the pay portrait case under Investigation wa found on the floor of hi omce a tew days ago, to keep still about the dis covery. This Instruction, he id, wss given him by Mry Wilbur J. Oarr. chief of the consular bureau, who aald It waa not advisable to say much about It as it would be Investigated. The disclosure wag made when Chair man Hamlin ked him If he had made any further attempt since his examination a few day ago to aracov. er how the long ' visaing voucher came to he on the floor of hi office. The serious view; taken er me mat ter by state department officiate was reflected In a copy of a letter from Chae. Denny, consul general at Vi enna. Austria,' former vhlef clerk of the state department tinder Secretary Root, when the first Investigation into the mystery of the $1,460 voucher for an 1850 portrait was made. Secretary Knox submitted this letter, dated Vi enna, May SO, 1 111, and a cablegram previously received. Answering Mr. Xnoxli flrt cable, gram for an explanation or the por trait payment, Mr. Denny canted rrom Vienna on May Zt: ;' "No written report was male. Care ful preliminary Investigation failed to convince department that criminal ; chargea could be sustained." Report lng by mail Mr. Den by explained that 'he voucher discrepancy was discov ered in' 100 when tha department ne. gfttiated for a portrait of Secretary llajv and that prier t:" 'the Root l"e glem It wa customary, to Include Jn one voucher smaller' aunt paid for a number of expenae out ef the ap propriation allotted to the'department to be expended at the secretary's (discretion.- Aso the result of tits ?nve tlgatlo conducted by the department In 16, which Mr. Denby was (Continued on page) eight) End of Famous Political Perjury Suit Seels to be Almost in Sight CINCINNATI, O., Juna 1. Cnles Prosecuting Attorney Henry T. Hunt can deviite some plan that now ap pear to be unknown to legal au thorities the end of the case In which George B. Cox, political leader and financier, was charged with perjury, was reached today. Judge Willam Dlcklnaon. on the hearing a motion from the proeeeut-4- Ing attorney today asking for a re hearing of the iHe overruled' the motion. In the iane breath he quashed the second indictment against Cox, the prosecutor pr vlfsly (having announced th he would elect that Cox be tried on the first Indictment, one of two indict ment had already heen quashed by Judge Dickinson and It wai the In tention of the pronecutlon to bring Cox to trial on the other Indict ment. M'STEA PLEADS SOT tirilTV ALBANY. N. Y . June 16 Charg ed with muder In the fir degree John V. McStea, the theatrical man ager from New Orleans, who hot and killed Arthur J. Brown, first base men on the Alhanv State league baseball . team laet night, was' ar raigned In police court today, HI right eye and right cheek were bruis ed and .dlavolorr'l. He pleaded not gulMy and was held to await the ac tion of the grand Jury. Mra. McStea,-who was. with Brown at the time of the ahootlna. waa questioned today by the district attorney and being dets lr ed ss a witness. CHOWER&? WASKIICOTOJif, ; June. H-Tore-cast for North Carolina:' Unsettled, 'eocaefmal showers Saturday and San- ajr.,-inoderate vaiiawe'.wlnoa. - ADVISED I f V ITT f l TTM i HI ADVOCATES DESIRE TO VOTE AS IT IS Opponents Want More Time for Speeches and Will Try to Talk Reciprocity Bill to Death Penrose Expects Early Vote WASHINGTON', June 1. Tnefl. termlnstion of the senate finance com mittee to push through the Canadian reciprocity bill with all possible speed and the confidence of the aenate lead ers that there I a clear majority in favor ot the bill without amendment, waa made plain today when Chairman Penrose of 'the 'committee, forced the bill Into It lewndVeading berore tha senate and announced It probable early passage. Consideration of the measure today waa brief, a no one was prepares to speak at length upon 11. Senator Hoot pulp wood amendment waa of fered'' but no attempt was mad to vote on It. Ilefore the senate aaeem bled Senator Penrose had given out a formal statement, claiming 0 votea In avnr of the passage of the bill, and more than that many , votea against the Root amendment which affects the Importation of pulp wood and paper, Chairman Penrose said, replying to question, thst he believed no peeches would be ready before next week. i ' He had found, he said, that few friend of tha bill cared to speak on It, but preferred to vote as quickly possible. The opponents of the meas ure, he aald, wanted more time to pr. par their argument. - ' "Do I understand that no on want to pek In behalf of this bill,". asked Senator Smith, of Michigan. ' "Not so many as want to apeak against it," replied atr. Penrose; "th friend of 'the measure are. ready to vote th la-afternoon. The bill tiM ben before the country for six 'month and both side have - been : discussed at length." . "It seems strange,' said Senator Smith, "that a meaiur to bring tnto competition with our people an em pire larger, than our own aoe not have any apologlat or champion in th committee that ha bean discus lng It for eeks." ,. . i r Senator Penrose said that for hi own part, he wa ready to vete today., Other member auggested -that the president n nny other leading re .puhilcanaMiAdoifMJa,, piainea and endorsed the Dill. : sen ttnr Smith then sstd he waa not ur prled that a measure so devoid of merit, should find no republican will ing to stand up and risk n;s reftiita tton Ita champion.' - "I thought when the hill cm here,", aafd Senator Smith, "w would be greeted by a great "burst of wl dom that would flood the country J HE GASTRO WAS ON SHIP Seems That Whole Matter Was Nothing More Than Comedy of Errors WASHINGTON, June 1. The last scene of the comedy of error In volving former President Cestro of Venexeuela was laid In Port au Prince today when the Haytien mln later for foreign affair waited upon American Minister Furnlas and sol emnly aasured him that Castro wa not now and had not been at all on board the mysterious steamer Consul Grostuck. "Moreover," he told Mr. Furnlss thst sui-.h had been the precautions taken by the Haytlan government, he was sure that Castro could not have slipped ashore with out being detected. The minister ad mitted, however, that there waa no one on the lookout who could Iden tify f'sstro if he had been there. The minister told Mr. Furnisa that the Conaul Grostuck had admitted he waa Joking when he eald the Vene zuelan was on his ship. CIIAMPIONKIIIP TO CALIFORNIA. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.i' Jiitt I, The women's national lawn tennis championship will stay In California another year. Thla waa aettled today by the result of the final round In sin gle in the national tourvy at th Philadelphia Cricket club wnen Mis Florence Sutton, of Los Angeles, de feated Miss Eleonora Sears, of Bos ton. Tomorrow morning Miss Sutton win meet In the challenge round Miss Haxel Hotchklss, ixt Berkeley. Cel., preaent champion of, the Cnlted State. The acor -, t I,-fairly in dirate th relative ability of the play "k ''' . ' " .'.,' SFRIOt S CHARGE. WASHTNGTONrir Norrls, chairman of the paper com mittee of the American Newspaper Publishers' sssoclatlon, he Issued a circular to publisher charging that th refusal of the International Paper company to furnish Information called for by the . senate committee on fine ace. was due to the fact that the date If furnished, would have ehown that the International Paper company had hought mill and (topped their pr4uctioa ' of new' print paper- to rebreee. competition. ,A,j " AS EARLY POSSIBLE with light, and that would cement the people of the country together In spite of this agreement. Instead all light are out. The country 1 In darkneaa o far aa anything has bee'i revealed in favor of thla nieaaure." "Don't you consider the president's speech at Chicago aa enlightenment on thla bill T" asked Senator Kern, of Indiana, "The prealdent na been able to make intelligible many public question.' replied Senator Smith, "but It I amaslng that of all thing he haa dlacussed nd of an the aug gettluni he haa made, thl reciprocity agreement la the only one that hs found favor on the democratic side ef the chamber and that find no championship on thl aid.' . Chairman Penroa volunteered no statement to the senator "who would peak tor th bin, it any. ' The tenet adjourned until Monday at the eonclualon of the aecond re 5. ing, Front that time forward speechee re expected every day upon tha bill until it la finally disposed of.; . - ; Senator Townsend. of Michigan, an nounced that he. would offer an amendment Instructing th president td '. undertake further negotiation looking te a wider reciprocity ar rangement with Cnd. . GIRLS ARRAIGNED , FOE FOURTH TIME 'KCW YORK, June l.-For ' the fourth time since the shooting of W, K.. D. Stoke, th millionaire horae man, on June T Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, th ahow girt and the young llluetrator, charged with th hooting, war arraigned today before Magistrate Frch and their . ball afaln redufed. It wa originally et at j5.oa but In Mbaequent arraign ment It was cut to '111,000 and today to 110,000. Mr. Stoke I Hill under the care of a physlclsn at his .coun try home (n Long Branch, N. J. HI counsel emphatically, denied ? today that hi client had In anv wla alter. narf f , must the girls. nfclA FIGHT STOITKI , ' TAMPA, Fl. June II Prepare tion for a bull fight here In regula tlon .. Spanish t style rwer .; halted tq night when announced . w mad that th authorities would riot per mit the exhibition. 1 - Twn niflprnf IdLLJ, IliU'DAbbLnO TRIPLES AND HOME RUN Expert Glass .Worker Makes Fortune, Goes Back With Large Family PITTSBURG, Pa., Jun It Augu ta Clondeaus. aaed 41. an- exnart glass worker of Ford City, near iWre left there today, en route to Belgium his native land, accompanied by hi wife and 14 children. Incidentally he in taken with him a comfortable fortune made In the glaea industry In the Allagheney Valley. Clon deau and hie wire came to thle country-21 year ago, a hort time after their marriage. The family wag happy today. Clondeaus ' wa eapeclatly . joyoue, He la a great admirer of baaeball and described his family and dpar tur follow: "The score Is 24 to 6." (He meant none of the children had died). "It wa a great game, too thlr teen singles, four two baggera and a triple. Now we make a home run. WOOL "TRUST" PKFEMOED WASHINGTON, June H.-Defense of the American Woolen company, a resolution for the Investigation of which I pending, waa made In the houie today by Representative Week, of Mfachuset, who declar ed that tha company -could not be considered a trust under any defi nition , of monopoly he had ever heard.- The woolen schedule occu pied th house all of today. Repre sentative Week and " Long worth were among those who spoke against the bill and Representatives Macon 'and Oldfleld. both of Arkanaa, and Ayere of New Tork, for If. The house held a night seslon, at Chairman Underwood of the way and mean committee delred to have air general debate on the bill closed by ' Monday next ' ' ' " . ' While- no date ha been fixed, Mr Underwood hopee fo reach a vote by ' the middle of next week. ' . BA-ERsr-Er,i3f?TWr HOT SPRINS, Va.i June 1 .--Indications point to a warm conteel to morrow at the annual eelotlon of offi cers by (he Virginia Bankers' asso ciation In session here. There are sever! 1 candidate for ' every office except that of treasersr.. H- P. Oat ling who retire aa '. secretary fter ten year service wa presented with a, handaem sliver urn - by hie- col league thl afternoon. , The bankers hold their annual banquet tonight. , E OF ll af AH n P aral f sn Cf al a m J lAaaA vvuiiaoi iui omiaaui uciciido InnmiKK. Ik.,, tiMII r-.-. m uiiiuuiiuu iiui m 1 a- flo All Aigumont STARTLES HEARERS BY DEFENDING WARR1NER Declares Latter Was Not Short and He CouW Prove It If Given Chance ; . , CINCINNATI, o June. II Th end of . the trial of Kdgar S.'Cook charged with embeixlement of I84 000 from the Big Four railway, cam today when counsel ft a the tatt and th defense announced that they would forego argument to th Jury, Th tourt thereupon announced that Instructions would be given to' h Jury tomorrow. Cook denied emphatically that h had ever stolen a dollar from the Rig Four railroad or committed any, dishoneet art In hla life. Cook denied . also - tht he was - wr "v vnerw j vvurnner waa snort .. S44I.OOO. thst the account or Frank Comsteck, Warrlner' predecessor " Cincinnati treaurer of the road, r nn wni way anouia nave eeen or ; that there wa anything irregular in the conduct of the corporation, He startled hi hearerhy declaring, .''I ' know that Warrlner' was not short and I can prov It If It get ; th chance'. , , , s Cooke denied that he , had ver given Mrs. Ford 2!,6O0 In small bill and accounted for hi prosperity ' whll ha resided wllh , her In New Tork by stating that h hd Inherited 210,000 from hi mother. An in slnustlon on ro examination that he had trausfersd vert In fund to hi wife, wee met by the further de claration that Mra Cooke had In- ' herlted about IJ0.0 form hef fa ther' estate. Cooke declared' that reference In hi letter to Mr. Jeannette Stewart Ford to money matter were writ ten with a view ta misleading Mr. ror4,.iinl.tq .keen Jr from nakmv nemenas on mm, . ne said he reuiiy . was not without fund a he wrote but he only told Mrs. Ford so ta make her beileve that h wa poor and took (mail sum from her with the same purpoee In' tnlnd. . "Did yriu get any- money from Warrlner?" be wa, asked. ' "Ye, to pay Mrs. Ford' bill." , "Hoe much! a thousand dollar?" . "Oh, that would not b anything." , Cooke eald he had : no Idea how -much 'money Warrlner had .given la' him -for Mrs. Ferd' expense. . i iV.K..VIII.DEBBILT,S;SC;i fliy "ii : ieout so-hue Launch Burns by Backflr ing When He Tries to ; Start Engine EYES NOT INJURED RED TOP, Conn., . Jun II. Th launch Vagrant, owned ' by Harold Vanderbllt, son of W. K, Vanderbilt, which wa moored beald the John! Harvard, wa burned thla afternoon. Mr. Vanderbllt wa badly burnad about the face and hand but luck ily his eyesight le not Impaired. The s launch had been uaed by Mr. Vender-. but during hi day at the Harvard crew he Jquartere. .This afterijoon he' tried to atari the gasoline engine but It backfired and. set th woodwork afire. Mr. Vanderbllt had to Jump overboard and the launch, being free. : drifted to the government light, , a short distance below. - The launoh drifted until it struck a ' snag and went down before the lire reached the gasoline tank.' Mr. Van derbllt had gotten ahore end had hi ; burn dreseed. - st - NO DEVKLOPMMENT NOW. i HAVANA, Jtine II "No further development of Importance In Con- : nectlon with the uncovering of the,: wreck of the battleship Maine are probable within the - next ten or . twelve day." said Gen. W. H. tlliby tonight, following the complete err-' - eumnavlvatlnn .nf t the' wreek . ln a launch by the boerd. ef American pf fleers who are uprvilng the work. 1. . A minute examination waa mane ot el ' portion ttf the ehlp now exposed to vtew, . ':': v."-v '" --.!-v'"- ' Thla survey .convinced the hoard - that before exploration I possible it ,wlll he necessary to remove masses of . itiutf 'a"gp:1-egatlUg'"htJrtdls-efiSr;J-k en the apar deck 'and almost com- -ptetely filling the Interior apace of ' the Ill-fated Vessel. ' The greater por. t tloa of the mud Is a tenacious, tr- rjlke mass, extremely difficult of dism- legraiion ana removal, ana rompieieiy prevente any satisfactory examination being made. ' In many place the mud . I five to gig feet thick and ran only be'ratnoved by the nee of streams of water projected by the most powerful S pump. - ,. ,! '; " GOO EM T O DEN AL EMBEZZLING CM du
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