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CITIZEN. THE WEATHEB: iEAIN' . CITIZEN WANT AD3 BRING KESULT8 ASIIEYILLE, N. C, FRID AY MORNING, JULY 14, 19; 1 VOL. XXVn., NO. 266 PRICE FIVE CENTS FORTY KILLED Jfi BUTTLE BETWEEN SEE FOUND GUILTY Hgve You Ever Noticed'- OF OF TO LORIMER TO LAST F ES Statute FUes Penalty Frpm Flatly Contradicts Edward H. Federals and Maderistas En gage In Bloody Fight Last ing Day and Night And John Sharp tyililanis h Not Slow in Calling His Ungenerous Remarks ; One to Ten Years In the State Penitentiary Hlnes' Testimony as to Tele phone Conversation HEASHEllELE GOVERNOR DENEEN GLA1MS HE FOUGHT SENATOR HEYBURfl ABDUCTION SEEMS UNABLE MEXICAN OGES MILDRED 116 TRIED JO HOLD MEN, ' IN LINE FOR HOPKINS Says Anyone Could StaKe Rep utation Upon There Having Beert 'Jackpot" WASHINGTON. July 13. Gov. Chas. Deneen, of Illinois, today fur nished "eld day In the Lorlmer elec tion investigation by the senate special committee. He dclared that he did not assist la the election of Senator Lorlmer, a aome of the senator's trlenda claimed, but fought against It to the' last. He flatly contradicted the version which Edward Hlnea, a Chicago lumber man who la charged with having asked for a Lorlmer (lection fund contribution, gaw of the famous telephone conversation be tween the two on, the day Senator Lorlmer waa efected. May l, 10. Mr. Hlnes had testiOed he (Hlnea) telephoned front Chicago to Deneen that hp "had Just come In thla morn ing from Washington, and waa on my was to Springfield to .bring the mes sage to you t Deneen) from Aldrlch and' the president, urging upon you to do all you poaalbly can to assist In the election of a senator at the ear Heat possible moment." and "that they understood that Lorlmer could be elected If you will assist;'' further Mr. Hlnes testified that he understood De neen to say he would asalst In Lari mer's election and would ee Lorlmer In ten minutes. Gov. VDeneen testified today that Hlnes asked him if he received a re port from the president in reference to Lorlmer. He said Taft had sent a message to support Lorlmer. "I asked him," continued Gov. De neen, "If he had the message, and he answered No.' He iald that the president had sent It and that he had Intended to' come to Springfield him aelf but had missed the train iT ve 1 Mked him If President Tift sent that message, for I thought It strange - h. n.Mnt tn tell me that. He U - aid, 'Why he sent K. tnrougn oenawv Atdrteh-o ewe h would sot aend W t T dlrectty-rwho would Vsom munlcate to you through George Rey nolds, of the Continental bank. I nynfww VERDICT OF JUBY FIS TO SATISFY ETHER SIDE. Total Judgment Against the American Tobacco Co. j Amounts to $70,000 NEW TRIAL ASKED RALEIGH, N. C.. July IS. The Judgment against the American To bacco company for $70,000. and the costs In the case, was drawn this af ternoon and signed by Judge H. O. Connor, of the Federal court. In the suit of Ware-Kramer Tobacco com pany vs. American Tobacco company, In which the Jury today returned a verdict for 120.000 damages, flncrlng that the American Tobacco company Is a combination in restraint of trade nd that the business of Ware-Kramer company, Independent cigarette manufacturers, was destroyed by un lowful acts of the defendant In the conduct of its business, the use of coupons, free goods, special Inside georet discounts and other means. The verdJot for HMM multiplies to f 10,000 under the provision of the Sherman aatl-trus act that gives treble damages. Also Judge Connor under this act. taxes the counsel fees for plaintiffs oounael, allowing $10.- 00 In this case. The American To fcaoeo company gives notice of appeal. Counsel for the plaintiff express gnat dlssalaf action ar the amount of .damages and at first intimated pur pose to Join in a motion by the de fendant for the verdict to be set aside nd a new trtal ordered C. C. Daniels, for tn plaintiffs, set out that the Ware-Kramer company, received, la In debt tTa.OOt and that all he $0, 00 verdict wfll go to the creditors leaving nothing for' the real plaintiffs. However, this afternoon In cham bers, plaintiffs counsel signified their acceptance of the verdict. , The suit ms for $ 10,00 damages. I It 4s a notable fact that In the oat come of the" litigation neither Ware or Ksamer, who were the active business management of the III fated .Weree-Kraroer company, receiver, thing out of the litigation beyond their witness fees, .creditors coming in for all the damage asset. - EDITOR. W DROWNED , QfJINCT, Mass., July ll. Edgar L. Robbtna, assistant city editor of the Boston Traveler, waa drowned last night while swimming her. : : .-v.'"'.-. '. - THREE MEN FIRE INTO BULL RING Both Sides Take up Firing Each Side Thinking Other Was' v Responsible . PUEBLO, Max., July 13. Fighting between federals and Maderistas, which began last night and lasted until daylight, was resumed this af ternoon at Cerro San Juan, alose to this city. Today's battle raged for three hours and Is said to have claim ed more than forty In killed and wounded. . A party of Maderistas who flod from the bull ring last night engag ed In a stiff fight with the federals, cut' the Inter-Oceanic railroad at Fabrica de Mattenso, took possession of a train and proceeded to- San Martin, ZS miles to the north, to procure rifles and ammunition with the avowed Intention fo return and renew the attack. ' r( Last night's fight, according; to witnesses, was 'provoked by three w. m n a "9 wrt.n waa an A tn Via a son of former Governor , Muoclo Marttnes, who passed the. bull ring where the Maderistas were Quarter ed and fired into the place 'and Into the barracks of the Z&ragosa . bat talion of . state troops oposlte. , . The fire waa taken up by both aides, each thinking the other had started trouble. The fight was bloody and among the forty dead were several women and a federal lieutenant col onel, Molse Breton. The 'affair la laid by the revolutionists to 'the door of the dentines, who It Is claimed, had arranged the details tn advance and calculated upon the effeot of the preliminary shootjng. By others, the clash was saldft have been provoked by an attack of drunken revolution ists on the penitentiary with the. In tention of liberating the prsoners. ; -' TTJKF WRITER DEAD . -': ; NKW TORK. July . Boykln Ford, way knew aa a. writer fcirf topics and at on time owner of a racing stable, died her tonight from a complication of diseases. Mr. Ford was born In Savannah, Oa., apd his body will be taken there for burial. JOHN ABBUGKLE MAY BE TOO ILL TO CO BEFORE E OF IHOUIHY If So, Sub-Committee Will be Sent to His Home to Qet Deposition flJJt EXPECT MUTCH OP HIM WASHINGTON, July lt.-Whp the house "sugar trust" Investigating committee goes to New Tork next week to continue Its Inquiry, It w(l send a sub-committee to the home of John Arbuckle, head of the firm of Arbuckle Brothers, if Mr. Arbuckle la unable to appear at the hearing there. He is too 111 to come to Wash ington in response to the commit tee's request, and probably will not be able to attend the New Tork hearing. Mr. Arbuokl. whose Interests are competitive with those of the Ameri can Sugar Refining company. Is ex pected by" the committee to reveal vi tal information concerning the opera tions of the trust and its control of the country's sugar business. Wash ington B. Thomas, of the American Sugar Refining company, will be a witness hi New Tork. Today Milton D. Purdy, former assistant attorney general, told the committee that he did not know why fornfer Attorney General Bonaparte did not prosecute "sugar trust' officials for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law in the Pennsylvania sugar transaction, after he (Purdy) had recommended that the case be pressed in 10. Mr. Purdy declared that his opinion that the' Information presented to him In that case. If proved, warranted prose cution never had changed since the oase was outlined to htm. A delega tion of Louisiana cane sugar planters and manufacturers will be heard by the committee tomorrow. LIGHTNING PLAYS A . TRICK WITH BICYCLE SOUTH WINDSOR. Conn.. July II. During an electrical storm last flight a flash of lightning struck. the .handle bars of a bicycle standing beside an elm tree In the yard Of Charles Ryan. The handle bars were torn off and driven' from the foot of the tree up 10" feet, removing , the bark as smoothly as If the work had been done with a knife. The bars were then turned back, slid down five feet and hurled themselves eight Inches deep In the wood, - none the worse for their Jou.rcjr.y HE WAS FOUNDER OF ABSOLUTE LIFE CULT Father of Clrl Instltulng Suit for Divorce. Alleging Ali enation by See CHICAGO. July II. Evelyn Ar tnur See, founder of the Absolute Life cult, tonight waa found guilty of the abduction of Mildred. Bridges, a 17-year-old disciple of . the cult The jury was out a little over an hour. The statute flies the penalty at from one to ten years In the peniten tiary. Counsel for See made an im mediate appeal for a retrial of the ease. See's flat, the home of Abso lute Life, named In the cult publica tion as "the House of the Lord,", was entered by the police in January. See was arrested, and two young girls, Mona Rees, aged II, and Mildred Bridges, aged IT, who had been II v tng In the apartment, latere taken Into custody. Mrs. Felicia Rees and Mrs. Lucille Bridges, mothers of the girl and followers of See, also were closely questioned. The police Investigation resulted In a charge of abduction against See. Stephen Bridges, a .wealthy-jeweler.' father of Mildred, k whose wife admitted she had con tributed f 1.000, f 500 and many small er monthly sums to See's suport, aid ed the police in gaining evidence. He alto began action for divorce and suit for alienation of affections against Sea. ' While In Jail See continued writ ing and preaching his doctrine of a perfect race, to be established through -the new belief. See refused to take the stand In his defense, the chief witnesses being the girls and their mothers, all apostles of See. The girls repudiated an al leged confession, aatd to have been made to the police, that the See fiat nad been used for immoral purposes. and took refuge In the language of Absolute Life, which to most of those ht the court room proved unintelllgl Me. ; '--- ' Mr. Bridges,' for the state, testified that his daughter Jiad refused to re arn' bttme- after being quarantined with scarlet fever In See's. Bat. He also testified that on returning sud dealy from out of the city he had found Mrs. Bridges at the home of Absolute Life. '.,. TWENTY THOUSli ELKS VERY ATTRACTIVE SH0V7 Portland Carried Off All Prizes for Greatest Mileage Represented MANY OTHER PRIZES ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. Jury 11. Twenty thousand Elks marched through the principal streets of this oHy today in annual review. Atlantic avenue, the main thoroughfare of the resort over which the big parade countermarched, was densely packed by an enthusiastic crowd that waa kept Interested from the moment Chief Marshal James R. Nicholson, of Boston, came Into view with his staff until the rear end of the line maithed past. The parade waa a big success. It was divided Into ten divisions, and every division had something, Interest, tng. There were Elks la the conven tional dress suts and Elks tn the most fantastic uniforms. All of them got an enthusiastic hand from the thronga. The following prises were awarded: Lodge having the largest number of men in line, aggregate mileage. First prise, Portland. $180; second prise, Nw Orleans, $100 third prise, Bt Louis, B0. Lodge making the best appearance m uniform First prise, St, LouH, $J50; second prise, Elisabeth, $110; third prise, Cincinnati. $100. Lodge coming great distance First prise, Portland, $1S0; second prise. New Orleans, $S0. Lodge having the largest number of ladles in line, sggregate mileage First prise. Portland. $100; second prise, Cincinnati. $100: third nri. Syracuse. $60. Lodge having the most attnotii floats First Drlxe Oranea. t:eo- ond prise.' Newport. $100; third prize, rortiana, se. Lodge having most beautiful baa ner Philadelphia, $100, . : 'L'"y.--;.y- locusts w cosxEcncct ; NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Julv II The 17-year locusts which made thai appearance through Connecticut this year win disappear this week and the larva wU remain in the ground until till, f The locusts hare left destruction In their wake and experts figure the daman to trees and etatlen la, this stats at more than IIM.000. - IL (0 BUT CNT UfT f DISH g X-yJV TOWEL WITHOUT A OtRrUtK 5 HE. CAN TE A COLLEGE V lCV 1 j IN UNSPARING TERMS VFOLLETTE CRITICISES TAFTS ADMINISTRATION . aaNeeMSBBsasssMBBnMsaeaaneMMMs) r "' '; v- Wisconsin t Senator and Bristow, of Kansas Introduce Their Amendments With . Speeches Against Reciprocity Measure At Same Time Senator LaFol--' ( : . lette Takes Occasion to Boost TafCs Predecessor WAHHINOTON, July 11,-r-Two lm- portan t Insurgent . speeches) 'against the Canadian reeriproclty bill were mad today when Senator LaFol lette of Wisconsin, and Bristow, of Kansas. Introduced their amendments to that measure and spoke In favor of them and against the specific features' of . I I .,,, .... . F Jr . . . Senator LafoUefte excoriated Presi dent Taft's administration," not only with reference to the . tariff teglala tion pro psd, but also on hta conser vation ipolloles-l Senator Bristow re newed his fight against the present sugar tariff, and urged the repeal of tha "Iff Dutfjii. standard," teat on Imported; augag. which, be declared op rates entlcely; li fhe. Interest It tha American Bugaf Refining, com pany. Honing t rearK a-voU.o the reciprocity ; bill aat v week, which Chairman Penrose, of the aenate ' fi nance corormuee, ; regaras as "nest to a certainty," managers - on both Ides of the senate, chamber are fig uring seriously on the- subsequent program. Most of them, havs counted upon getting away after perfunctory votes on the democratic free list and woolen brils. but today It became evi dent thsv other legislation will be pressed for consideration. The friends of tha Aritona and New Mexico statehood and reappor tionment bills, especially wiU de mand votes, as win advocates of the campaign publicity bill, . Whatever their fate, these bHls J. Y. JOYNER. OF RALEIGH DN NEWJRUSTEES' BOARD F. M. Harper, One of Direc tors of The National Edu cational Association SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 13. Carroll Gardner Pear, superintend ent of schools of Milwaukee, was ejected president of tha National Ed ucational asoctatlon today to succeed Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, of Chicago. With Pearse. were elected all can dldate on the Insurgent slate. The Insurgents succeeded In tabling until 1113 amendment to the by laws submltied by a eommlttoe ap pointed two years ago. J. T. Joyner, of llalelgh, N. C. wnn elected a member of the new board of trustee. The directors recommended to the executive committee that St. Paul be the next meeting place. . It is customary f follow this rec ommendation. Among the directors of the Nation al Educational association are: North Carolina F. M. Harper, Ra leigh. SoOth Carolina D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill. Virgin Maurice M. Lynch, Win- chaster. CH0WER& ) WASHINGTON. July I-rorecat for. North Carolina: Local thunder- showers Friday and probably Satur day;, light variable wind. must necessarily be taken tnto' con sideration In all adjournment calcu lation. .. ,'. ,' ' :. Senator LaFoIlette, In g speech against reciprocity, today reviewed, act by act, tha. administration of President Taft (n unsparing term and declared that the contest In volved waa thg "fight between the plain people and confederated jrlvl. lege." "Considered a a measure of re- clprooltw," said he, ''the Canadian agreement violate every tariff prin ciple, of reciprocity heretofore ex pressed In the platform of tha repub lican party and recommended toy for. mer republican president Considered as a tariff bfli. It violates every tar Iff piinctpH and. platform promtae vim. wtjlch Wmf j, Taft jra ltl pfealden. The reelproolty bill reduce no duties the effect ef which can ever reach the people, bat It reduce du tie for the millers,: the packer, Standard Oil, the Brewers, tha coal combines, and in some measure for the already grossly protected inter est. It Is nothing that It pretends to be and professes to be. nothing that it Is. It is a lltW brother to the Payne Aldrlch bill, tha greatest legislative wrong Inflloted upon the Amerlcaa pelple In' half a x!ntury."! Continuing hi criticism of Mr. Taft's administration Senator Lafol lettev said: -' j "Throughout the first page of his first general message he found no i T CRASH, SEVERAL iNJIIRED Five Oars ' Loaded With Stone Crash Headon Into Train No. 23 SPENCER; N. C, July 1J Engi neer A. J. Helllg, of Norwood, was severely Injured and six passengers slightly hurt today at Granite Quar ry on the Tadkln Branch of the Southern railway a result of Ave cars heavily losded with stone, crash Ing headon Into passenger train No. 23, bound from Salisbury to Nor wood. Vrhe passenger train was malt ing good time when the stone cars broke loose from a shifting engine on a steep grade and dashed with terrible force Into the train on the passenger track. The locomotive was demolished, the track torn up and the fireman saved himself by lumping. A baggage car was smash ed and the beggagemaater left un harmed. . The engineer wae badly aided and bruised and wa carried to a Halisnury noepual for treat ment- 3,000 DOGS KILLED BY BOSTON DOO CATCHER BOSTON, July, 13. Three thousand stray dogs have been killed during the past 13 months by Boston's of ficial dog catcher. The official dog catchers are Huntington 8mlt,h Ju lian Codman and Dr. Frank J. Sul livan, all'Vealthy citizens. They are officers of the Animal Rescue league and volunteered their services. The dogs have been picked up by the league employe. i Although the law prescribe ' a liberal fee to the dog catcher for every animal killed, the three desig nated officials will not present a bill to the city, as th law definitely pro vides that thay must themselves doi the catching and killing. Th of ficial dog catcher ar understood not to have had either the time or In clination to go through th olty dally catching dog. space to Mr a word for the great measure that bad mad the name of his predecessor (Mr, Roosevelt), rev ered and loved everywhere In the united state.", ,.',. - -- ', "In all the record of this admin Istratlon no more glaring example 1 presented of the templet surrender to specie Interest and th complete reversal of Koossvelt'a progressive policies than that shown In dealing wtin me amendments to. th Inter stale commerce act it would have been difficult to frame a piece ot legislation arresting Interstate commerce mora harmful te th nubile interest than the bin drafted by the attorney general- and : recommended to congsa by President Taft." ,. "IIMr t th Rooasvelt policies a reldaiia aMllda. -Mn -Taft was a pronounced progressiva : and the leading nod most enthusiastic Jtoo. velt champion from the first to th last of the campaign. - f "Three month after he waa In augurated he seemed to have forgot ten that there ever bad been any wall known Roosevejlt pollfll. He ha -a 9 sooner taken til 'oath of offlo, than ha sacrificed th progressive can for th support of Aldrioh and Can non and their reactionary pregram. "Roclproplty I g popular , eatoh word. The president seised upon It, He. made an exetrutlve compact the Baal, riot org reciprocity treaty, but (Continued nti Psge rive) ONTARIO FOREST FIRES L No Further Extensive Loses of Life or Damage is Ex pected to be Found TORONTO, fltnt, July II. Report tonight from Northern Ontario points are to the effect that the forest Are which for several day have swept over a section of country etendlng 100 mile northward from North Bay and covering a wide section east and west have either been extinguish ,d or ar under control. , No further extensive damage or loss or lire la expected. Th towns of Cocheran. South Porcupln and Pottavllle have belfh obliterated, Th fir swept clean th township of Langmulr. Eldorado, Shaw. Deloro, Ogden, McArthar and Cripple Creek . district . The- known dead total 123, the majority of whom lost their lives at South . Porcupine There are believed to have been many otner raianties, and estimates based upon unverified ' reports run a high as 400. - Among the 121 victims known to havg perished In th neighborhood of Porroiplne.ls Jules Metayer. 39 year old, the French consul, Twenty-seven foreigner lost thelf live In the West Com shaft and thirty, other war killed In. another of th Dome abaft. There ar believed to have been many other fatalities among the foreign la borer. .... ''-'- ' ' A relief trln left North Bay this afternoon for Porcupln with sup plies. Plenty of funds have been subscribed In this city for Immediate help. Refugees from the burned are say that It cover l.OOO , square . .miles, comprising a district that housed t.000 people. ; From. every quarter have com fugitive who escspsd i th flame, many of them badly burned in their effort to sav valuable's in' their flight. ' It I evident that It will be some day and perhaps week before any sccurats Idea of th total number of j dead le available. - Many of th ter- ror-auicken ned into th interior of iCoTrtn4 on Fax Eight) HEYBURN ATTACKED CONFEDERATE CAUSE Question of Paying Davis Bodyguard and keeper or ' : Seal of Lost Cause up 1 WASHINGTON, July JL-Th reel, nrocltv dhtA tit th ant iMt.u.-... preceded by the endorsement of the plea or Senator' Jo bit Sharp Williams, ot Mississippi, ter the-retention on th senate pay roll of "Jim" Jone. an aged negro bodyguard, of Jefferson bavia. in uportlng Senator WIU llama, th senate overthrew lis own commute on ' patronage, which : hail reconynenqed the removal of Jone from th pay roll. -, Blttsr words were exchanged between Senator . William and Senator Heyourn. of Idaho, ever Mr. Meybtfrn'a characterisation of th Confederacy aa n "Infameu cause,' Mr, William retorting that he wa unprepared to hear that oxprslon from a "elvtliaei man. '"But for th i parliamentary yule that restrain me." declared Mr. Wil liam, "I would have a few words to say about tha kind of human being In' whoa heart inch thought exist. . ' Senator William had asked to hav "Jim" Jonea, the 1 1-year-old negro who had been Jefferson Pevis' body guard, and In who custody th seat of th Confederacy waa intrusted, re tained on th senate pay roll a a !-' borer. , . .f'.vs-'f, ! 5 ' ; Senator Hlyburn acquiesced In re tention of the negro for hi service formerly riven to the senate, "but nut 'because ot loyalty to th glory of an Infamous cause." ' 1 Senator William replied with yrent feeling that he wa 'nat preiarel to hear a civlllxedan In th twnnii, j'i eentury fall 'en Infamous canoe' ti.a cause for which hi f William' tutn-r laid down hi life." ?tue and Jackson may have bn wrong," added Mr. Williams. That .th government 1 now In xihteni- a cause for congratulation t. p hllurtn of the mn whrt ". ,1 Le and faekon, but I cannot r th sentlTient I hav for a hu ' tng In whom uch sentiments " re main hav been' expressed hole." 'Ther I no right of Amerlcsn clt Isenshlp.'" he added, "that permits a man to Insult th dead. ' "Wtl, wa It t a glorious cause 1" asked Mr, Ilayburn, "Thjir waa -muoh of glory In It.' replied Mr. William. - The snt sustained Senator Wil liams by a vote of IT to It, leaving Jone on th pay roll at ITI0 a year a g laborer; ' ' Mr. Heybum, following his bitter altercation with Mr. Williams, voted against th negro. ' ' . Senator Heyburn' ' us ' of th phrase-"Infamoua .cause" md to enrage Senator . WBIlam. . WaVklng Into th middle, aisle and shsklng hi baad at th gentleman from Idaho ha exclaimed passionately; , ' , -. "Loyalty and courage and honor ar thing that ar precou to honor able men. The senator from Idaho seems to have constituted himself a censor to see that no kind word I ever spoken of th men who wore th gray. Whenoa com thin ' , censor shlpT" When Senator lUybum re joined that h wa simply exerclslnif his right as an American eitlsen, Mr.' WlMtam retorted! :; . ;;;' "Ther I no Inherent lght In aa (Contlrwd on Pag Eight) THREE CORNEREO PISTOL DUEL ON UN H KILLS io:i Two Policemen s Injure Train Betunng From Columbia to Charleston IN BUOEINO CAB CrlARLOTTIB, N. C, July ll.-k-la i three-oornered pistol duel on board a i negro excursion train, returning to night about' l.l "o'clock from Colum bia, S. C, to, Charlotte. John Reeve, colored, of Rock Hill. 8. C. was killed. Special Policeman 3. A. Bskrldge, of Charlotte, wa dangerously wounded. -and Special I'ollceman J. T. Wilson, . also of this city, wa grased by a but let from Reeve rvolvr, ' . , ; Th trouble occurred In the smok ing ear of tha train between Rock Hill, and Fort Mill.- S- O., when tha negro began firing hi pistol out of the , window. H was ordered by Wilson, . who wa detailed to preserve order on the train, to surrender hi pistol, but Instead' 6pehd fire, on of the bul let striking . Policeman Kskrldge. wbo wa ataudlpg In Hi able. Wil son says he than pulled his pistol and shot Reeves dead. Eskridge. however. also maintain that, bo fired th fatal . hot'.- ... .":' . ) . ls " '. Bskrldg la In a precarlou ondltloa la a Jteaoltat hare. . t : - .. "'.; : ;: . ..:'v:'