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) iSIEGEOFCHEHG-FU BEGUN BY REBELS; CITY GARRISONED (Believed That Troops Can Cope With Any Organized Force of Rebels MISSIONARIES ARE WITHIN THE WALLS Question of Supplies All-Important One. May Not be Ready For Long Siege PEKING, Sept. 13. Latest advice received by the Chinese foreign board III lUlOlftU IBBKUVUa IUUIVk Cheng-Tu, 'capital of Sxe-Chuan prov ince, Is under siege, that moat, if not all, the missionary are Inside the wall and that the city is garrisoned by 1,800 troops who have had several engagements with the . besieging forces. ! A dispatch from the prefect of Tsu Chan, which lies about 76 miles to the southeast of Cheng-Tu, Sept. 11 aid that the troops were firing upon the rebels from the !Cheng-Tu alls and that the besiegers had lost many nun. The belief is held there that the garrison Is capable of resisting the attacks of any number of organts ' ed rebels from the outside. The Cana dian Methodist compound within the city has open spaces around Its own walls. It 1 believed that the foreign ers have taken refuge within this oompound. which . is considered the strongest and the most easily defend ed. Pekln missionaries who have been In former riots tn Cheng-Tu, ay that whatever Chinese troops were dispatched to guard the mission j would be stationed outside the com pound and would not be permitted un . der any circumstances to get within (the gates. No Relief Movement. 'Whether the foreigners and the na i tive Inside the walls are prepared to ! endure a siege Is not known. The 'question of supplies is all important, tand it Is probable in view of past ex- pert noes that tae miasionaroa nave taken precautions against such a eon- 3 possess no weapons, unless they have vbeen supplied-by, the viceroy: Every effort Is being made to communicate 'with. Cheng-Tu but so far there has been ho movement to relieve the city. Foreigners here seem confident of the lability of the viceroy to suppress the (Continued on Page SU) SEEKS CO-OPERATION OF STATE SUFEmTKHDEHTS Wishes to Have State and National Departments to Join Hands in Work WORK IN TENNESSEE WASHINGTON, Sept li. United State Commissioner of Education CI ax ton returned today from a trip .through parts of the middle west and south during which he sought the co operation of state superintendents of 'education In a plan to have the Na- ,1nnnl mnA ml at A an.rt m n ta nt -ii- cation join hands tn some of the work which each Is dolngv Mutual tbenaflts, the declared, would result. "The fed vral and state departments of educa tion," he explained," "have been 'gathering their statistics independ ;eatiy.. My plan Is to unify this work and I believe that by doing this both 'will receive prompter, more complete 'and better reports. The national bu reau of education not having any 'power, other than a moral one, to compel the education officials of the oountry to furnish the information we desire, our reports often have been slow in appearing. The scheme I have lla view doubtless will facilitate mat jters; and the state, too, I believe, will ;te helped." WhHe In Tennessee Dr. Claxton epeke at the dedication of the first of four normal Schools which the state Is jDnlldlng. "A sew spirit has aflsen In 'the south In regard to certain educa tional matters, particularly the quos itlon of the need of training for teach- ' ism," said Dr. Claxton. "It was believed formerly that any one with ah educa tion could teach, whether he knew Anything or not about the principles of teaching. This Idea has passed away. Tennessee, my native state, was practically the last state In the eoun- ttry to install normal schools. But now Ahat tha atep has been tak A, the state ihe. done nobly. The four cities in which the schools are to &e located having eontiieoted more than $1,000, 004 to support them." ' BIO FIRE IJf CIJTOIXXATT CINCINNATI,. C' Sept. U. Fire early this morning totally- destroyed the Cincinnati Veneer company and several lumber yards adjoining and Is -threatening a number of tenement houaea. The lose so far la estimated at tzoo.OeO. : : . CORONERDECLARES MYRTLE HA WKINS FOULLY MURDERED Second Inquest Will be Held To morrow Although Body of Mur dered Girl Will Not be Exhumed. Additional Evidence. CORONER'S STATEMENT. "Myrtle) Hawkins oeme to Iter death from the reeulta of an op- oration unlawfully performed by a person or persona unknown. -" I do not believe that any physl- clan was In any way Implicated. Th autopsy held by ' . Drafts and myself revealed the facts I am staUng. We will-hold anntiM Inauest Friday and there mny be additional pvldence which mny assist us In locating the slajr. HENDERSONVILLfi. Sept. X.i Disentangled from a multitude of con flicting rumors and sifted from nu merous theorles'presented by amateur detectives who seek to solve the mye If "y"1."a,in" 7TrJ: "fac that the young girl's body was thrown Into the lake after she had sunerea death resulting from an Illegal oper ation. This much Is admitted and vouched for by Coronet W. R. Kirk, who. In a statement to The Citisen representative this afternoon, stated that the autopsy conducted by him self and Dr. A, B. Drafts revealed the fact that the deceased met her death from tha "effects following an opera tion performed by unskilful hands. The thicket adjacent to the banks of Lake Oceola was not the scene of the operation which snuffed out the girl's llfv' Such is the opinion of Tr. Kirk, who believes that the Ill-fated operation had been conducted else where and that when death ensued the body was carried to the lake, prob ably on Sunday morning, and was consigned to the waters of Oceola which later gave up their ghastly se cret; W'-' 4 : ' ;i ; -' , Coroner Talks, 'a frhr his cverewHon wltlt Fhe dtteeir Coroner Kirk stated that the facts a stated were known to the Jury at the time of the Inquest Sunday, and that the verdict of "death from cause now unknown" was rendered with the In tent d purpose of making less diffi cult the capture of Miss Hawkins murderer. In view, of .the criticisms which have been Indulged in, how- STATE-: SUPREME COURT CONFIflraiTION T. S. DAVENPORT ET AL Davenport With Forty Men Invaded Works of Rich mond Cedar Company OTHER DECISIONS RALBIOH, N. C, Sept. li. Most notable In a batch of ten opinions de livered this evening by the supreme court, the first for this term, was State vs. Davenport,-- from Gates county. "No error." This connrms me conviction of T. S. Davenport "d others for forcible trespass in a sen sational fight of the Richmond Cedar Works against the Roper Lumber company for the possession of a tract ol timber in the dhrmal swamp. Davenoort and -forty men unaer him, for the Richmond Cedar Works, invaded the camp of the Roper Lum ber company's men carrying axes, guns and other Implements and drove the men from their shantjee and burned the "latter. Then Davenport and his principal associates were con victed and sentenced for forcible treses. The court declares it should be well understood that Individual cannot i usurp the law and by their own procedure and In violent nanner, either protect or assert their right to property and that the cry moo must not be mistaken for the voice of the law. Other opinion delivered ny mo court follow: Owen vs. Horntnai et ai Washington, no error; Button vs. w ons. Currituck, no trial; ewinaei vb. Bmaw," Beaufort, reversed; Tayloe vs. Carrow, Beauion, revsrwo, School Trustees vs. Hlnton, Pasquo tank, appeal dlmlssedi Hlnton vs. Hicks, Camden, new trlaj; Bute vs. Vaughan. Hertford, new trial; Orant vs. Mitchell, Bertie, new trial; Mlls va, Board of Graded School Trustees of Oxford. Granville, error. STABBED TO DEATH NEWPORT, Tenn., Sept While his wife and Mrs. Abe Reese were fighting. Joseph Davis was stabbed to death by Buthi Reese, a 17-year-otd firl at Nough. Cocke county, today. Mrs. Davis was getting the better of Mrs. Reese, when the daughter of the latter run up armed with a knlf Davis grabbed the girl and was stab bed In the heart, dying instantly. Both the Reese girl and her mother were arreeteeV - ever, the coroner consented to rive The Cltlsen this Interview wherein the true facts are stated. "It was our purpose," he said, "to lure the girl's slayer Into a feeling of fancied secur ity and the Investigations now being made would have been followed , by quicker results." In answer to further Questions Dr. Kirk said that In his opinion the double crime had not been committed by a physician. "The at tempted operation bore the earmarks of an unskilled hand." he said. Wisest Course.' ' "We believe we adopted the wisest course," continued Dr. Kirk. "Nor would We show our hand now If, we did not believe that there la enough evidence to prove the commission of a dastardly orinw." Dr. Kirk also authorised The Cltlsen to state that there would be a second Inquest held on Friday. The body of the murdered girl will not be exhumed, however, such action not being regarded as necessary. It is probaoie mat a new Jry will officiate at Friday". ln,u.V though nothing definite has yet been determined along this line. It is stat ed, although the report Is not authen ticated, that additional evidence, ae cured since the Inquest Sunday will be presented Friday, and It will be- of such nature, it la said, a to warrant the arrest of the person or persons iUBpeeted of having guilty knowledge of Myrtle Hawkins death. There are many rtjmors concerning the Identity Of the suspected parties, hut none stand investigation. Evident of the 1 Interest and determination of Hender- onvllte'a cltisens is found la the an tiouneement that they will raise a fund of 11,000 to be offered a a re ward for the capture of Miss Haw kins murderer. To this the county of Henderson adds (500, . . . Brother Bays "Mnrder." Standing In marked contrast to the reigning excitement la the reticence of the dead girl's family. The only member thereof who would apeak, of th. tragedy, was "Homer Hawkins brother bf fhe deceased. ' - He expressed the , belief that ee physician had a hand In his sister's death.' 'i ;" "You believe she was murdered. don't you?" ht wag asked. "Tea. I believe that; in fact. W (Continued on Page Six) GOVERNORS TAKE TRIP TO SANDY HOOK WHERE THEY HAD CHEAT TIME Watched Thousand Pound Projectiles Hurled at a Canvas Target WILSON'S SPEECH SPRING LAKE, N. T., Sept. II. Twelve-Inch guns roared repeatedly this afternoon at Sandy Hook -as twenty-six governors of states stood on the ramparts of Fort Hancock as guests of the United States govern ment and watched thousand-pound projectiles whistle 10, 000 yards over the water at a fragile canvas target, The group traveled to the Sandy Hook proving grounds by special train. All hut two delegates. Gover nors Hoke Smith, of Georgia, ' and Austin L. Crowthera, of Maryland, made the trip. After the exhibition traget practice the batery command ant announced that two "theoretical bull's eyes" had been scored and that the other two shots were but a few feet off. A cruiser, he said, ' would have been hit four times. TT.e party returned to Spring Lake in time for dinner. After reaching headquarters a dozen of the governors motored to the state rifle range at Sea Grit All fired at a bull's eye at Z00 yards. None planted a bullet squarely within the center but four governors tied for first hon ors by hitting the tarret ; The sue- oeraful marksmen are Governors Ves- sey, of South Dakota; Crttce. of Okla homa; MeOovem. of Wisconsin, and Hay, of Washington. , A system of employers liability In surance, conducted by tha state for the benefit of worklngmen, was advo cated by Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New ersey, at the conference to day. . Governor Wilson said -In. pre face that he started a "scrap yester day and did not care to start another." "In New Jersey." he said, "the In demnity companies have ralffd their rates, in some instances one thousand per cent, because of our recent liabil ity legislation. These gentlemen, are singularly unwise, but that 1 not the wore tof It; they show, clearly an In tention of raising she rates stilt higher. There must be a system of state system,' If is estimated that tm year's bumper wheat t" will be worth $80,000, 000, the com crqp $1,600,000,000, and cotton $900,000,000, RECOMMENDED THAT FARMER HOLD ALL HIS COTTON, AT FIFTEEN CENTS One ThousandMen Representing all Cotton Crowing States Declare in Convention at Montgomery That Such Figure Should be Obtained--Convention Estimates ' a. ' Crop of About 12,300,000 Dalee, .. , 1 ' v MONTGOMEHT, Ala., Bept, t. : Five hundred farmers and as many bankers, congressmen, United States senator and business Wen, represent ing every cotton growing Jtate In America declared in eonvenum today that the farmers' cotton I worth IS cents a pound, end recommended that tne rarmer snouia noia ms cotton ror that price. The resolution-followed .V... ,k. .... , t 1 America .would not exceed IS, 000, 000 bale, For finaaejgw Xb ,crofejohi. year, a resolution was adept to the effect that the farmer should dspostt his cotton In a' warehouse and use his receipt at collateral until he could sell hi produce at not less than IS cents. There wa also a resolution that th several 7 sta ( e let IS In t ure ptovl do"f er a series of bonded warehouse. De claring that organisation among the ferment and co-operation among them with the bankers and financiers was th solution of the ptobltn, tl- con vention resolved its If. Into a perma nent organization to be known as the Southern Cotton Congress and adjour ed to meet in Atlanta at the 'call of the president, E. J. Watson, commis sioner of agriculture of South Caro lina. ; ' , Jt Other Meetings. , The meeting In Montgomery is to be followed by a similar convention In every southern state, to be called by the commissioner of agriculture of each state. By these conventions the action of the congress Is to be ratified and reinforced by further steps to ward securing a better price for cot ton. Among the speakers at the con vention todny wore Renstor B. D. Smith, of South Carolina, who receiv ed the thanks of the congress for his attitude In congress toward the gov- ernment cotton report; Congressman T. Thomas Heflln, of Alabama. Con- KENNEDrS STATEMENTS SEEM TO BECONFLICTING Says He Didn't Put Poison in Her Medicine But He Knows Who Did it CARROLLTOV, Oa.. Sept. 11. "I loved that girl too much to let her live with another man. X know who put the poison In her medicine, but i didn't do It." Tims are the two con flicting statements alleged to have been made by ft. C. Kennedy today 1 upon the arrival of the sheriff of Le j county to take him back to BmlthviHe i on the charge of killing Mrs. Maude j Chllders. a bride of six months. Ken- nedy has been held In th Csrrollton jell for two days following his arrest . st a turpenutlne distillery jn Heard, county. 'iv ' He was taken to Leesburg this af ternoon, where he will tt confined In the county Jail. Me protested strongly today against being taken to Leesburg WASHINGTON. Sept. 1 1,Fore castr North Carolina Fair and cooler- Thursday; Friday probably . fair; moderate northeast winds. - ,. The Summer s Bouquet, gresaman Henry B. Clayton, of Ala bama, and Dudley M., Hug.ier,, , con gressman from the third Georgia dis trict, - ; ' ' Congressman Clayton in 'hi speoch declared his belief that within , ten years tha world would ! Using 16,- j 000,000 or 80,000,000 bales of Amerl .can cotton.'' I, . v Bmi. i l,n V . . ao numuer crop. ;; 7 President C. 8. Barrett of the Far- mer's E'dnoatiori'sE and Co-Operatlve uri4ohF.asilvereaan-ltrreeeirt;-crpK ' Oration., lie denounced s baseless the reports or a. 011 m per croiion crop, po oled ' the charge that ' the -' farmers' union was a combine to hold up clvl. Izatlonj bnd asserted that there U a combination for the purpose of ham meribg down' the price of cotton. W. P. O. Harding, president of the First National bank, or Birmingham, spoke on "Financing the Cotton Crop." - ' s ' ' Dr. W. B.' Hinds, state entomologist,- delivered a very Instructive ad dress on the destruction done by the cotton caterpillar. , ' At the result of a conference .In Montgomery yesterday afternoon President C. S. Barrett, of the farm, ers union, announced 'today that ': a Frenoh-Engllsh syndicate has guar anteed any amount of money up to seventy-five million dollar ta finance the south' cotton crop. Th deal was made with the personal representative of the syndicate. The money la to be loaned at t per cent and the cotton I to be put up a collateral. Detail of the plan are to be perfected by a com mittee to be composed of one south ern hanker and two member of the Farmer's Union, - The estimate of this year's cotton crop, recommended by the committee on statistics and adopted by the con- ventlon at the morning session, It STATE GUARDS FIRE INTO TRAIN, EIGHT ARE DEAD Were Excursionists on Way to Join in Manifestations to Madero YUCATAN, Max., Sept. II.- Bight men were killed and It wounded whn the state guards fired Into a special train of excursionists coming to Join In the manifestation last night to Francisco I Madero. According to authorities the excursionists were to! "blame. An Indulgence In too much intoxicants had ll.ted the enthusiasm t : "P tn trln h!h PUcn- M th loaaefl to it capacity, was tn-, tering the city the visitors saw the guard and, It Is 1 laimed, began firing. ' Their only victim wa a child. : Im- mediately the guards returned the j fire. On account of the crowded con dltlon of the coaches almost every bullet hit a passenger. GREAT PERFORMANCE BY THE HARVESTER ; STRACfSE. H. X., Bent. II. With l ed from Denver nickelodeons by the the weather conditions against him. , fire and police board.- ; ,, ' ;.:.. and the track heavy, the lfanroi.r, j .......h , ,. champion stallion tr .tte-, rtmAis v. , PITV8ICIAX KILLS HIMSELF, attempt at the state fair track thit ' . afternoon to Iowa.' hi, record of j - NASHVILLE, Tnn.. Sent. 1S.- He made the quarter In 10, the half 1 Bending over a shotgun and pulling In lUUti. the throe-oiartert In i:tlM t trigger with hht to. Dr. John C. and the mile in 2:CSV- The r"'i;;-.iRronnaii, i5 years old, a prominent ance Invlew of the conditions was eon ', physician of Canon county. . and ., a sldered a remarkable one. ti. lu.y if) member of the Tennessee senate, again Friday to lower the worlds ' " "'1 "i eelf rt his home la. Wood record. ' v . kurf, Ttnn todaf. , approximately 11,800,000 bates. : A resolution reported to the eon' vsntlon from-the committee on leg latlon aroused prolonged discussion and heated debate, it provided Sat the establishment of slate and national bonded warehouse, where . cotton could be stored and held and receipt Issued which wou'.d be honored the tame as currency, not only (n thl Country, but, abroad at wU. After a prolonged', discussion,: however,' the on legislation alto -recommended that depart mont of statistics be establish 4 fnv each state under dlreotion f agricultural ... departments and that each agricultural commissioner of each southern stats take up with hit respective letlsleture (he question e ucn a department. . The government was tsvsrely erltl- olied at the morning session for its inacurate crop estimate and ginning reports. Commissioner of Agrleuitur Watson, of South Carolina, and FresU dsnt Debs, r,f the South Carolina Far mer's Union, being especially severe In their arraignment of the depart ment of agriculture In this respect, Th following resolution offered by the committee on resolution wat adopted: ' "That the commissioner of agricul ture In each ttatt and each ttate pres. ldent and each ttate secretary of the Farmer's Union shall constitute a campaign committee for their' state whose duty it tha',! be to smploy lec turer and tend out literature. . "That the national president of tht Farmer Union and th chairman of thl convention and one other mem her elected by the .convention shall constitute a national commission 10 assist la conducting this work." The expentet are to bo defrayed b voluntary contribution. BEULAH'S POSING SEEMS TO EN IN 111 Larger Cities Over Country Refuse to Have Anything to do With Them CLEVELAND, O., Sept. !. The local branch of th Moving picture Exhibitor League of America today entered a protest against the exhibi tion of picture of Beulah Blnford or any other exploiting the Seattle caso i and agreed to bar them from tbetr theatres In this city. FITTSBCRG SATS WAT. FITTSBUHO. Pa., Sept, Xt Al though no attempt has yet been made here to exhibit moving picture fllit of, the Beattle murder trial. Director John Mortn, of the department of public safety, declared today that any gttempt to show them would be pro- htbited. . ,IEVER ALSO OBJECTS DENVER, Col., Sept II. -Moving pictures poted by' '. Beulah ' Blnford, who played a prominent part In the recent trial of Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., of Richmond. Va.. were today debarr- W1SG0NSIH CASE VEfi! SIMILAR TO E Sjiven-Yeat-Old Annie Lent- berrjer Snatched From Bed, Thrown Into Lake; ? MAN'S CONFEoStON OF HOkRiBLE DEED ' esssjsssssees 1-,1 (.-. Doaskln" Johnson Was First Suspected, Then Released, and Taken Aoaln MADSO.V. WIS, Sept IS. John, otherwise known as "Dagskin", John- -ton, tonight conreued to the abduo tloa and murder pf Utile Anole Lem berger, tht seven. year-old child whose body wat found 4 Lake Monona list Saturday., He wits Immediately sen tenced by Judt Anthony Donovan to life lmprlonrrtnt. a few minutes af terward Johnson u taken in tn automobile by Pherlff Andrew Brown to no ttatt prlsoa at Wupun. it had been feared thai Johnson might be lynched,, - ' , " 1 Johnson was arrested Saturday on suspicion, tut after being questions! he wat teleatad. The. offlcert had him under surveillance alt day and In t evanlng once more placed, him under arrest, Althouab. the poll strongly su pected Johnson of knowing tome thlng about the crime- they could- nu fasten guilt upoo him abeoluteiy. Oa the strength of their suspicion, how ever, he waa taken into court today plsadtd not guilty and ws placed un. der a 110,000 bond, 'the preliminary examination being set for September II. Th prisoner was then taken back to bit cell. He wa plainly frightened. - .' ' Makes t'ooriselun, ' Toward evening Turnkey John Fny was railed by. Johoon and told h wished to maka a ' onfoion, chiff of Police Ohaughnetty wat Informal and tent for District Attorney ,11," N." Nelson. The county prosecutor, !:. -f of poilcai and ;0ther official mwi gathered t ,th eourt house, whrrt the prisoner' before Judie Anthony Donovan ronfee4 to the crime. In the presence of C'llef r,t IV ,! Dlstrjft A sun ana Turnkey ley, Johnsun .1 the deed wat tha result of a su llen impulse. He had watched through the window; the Unto flrl and her sister tlmirinf at bfdllme ori numerous oc casions and on the fatal night, shortly after; the children had fallen asleep, he raited the sash and snatched little Annie from the bed, dragged her through the window and struck her unconscious to there would be no out cry. Ho then took her to ih rallroid bridge and after beating her until lire waa extinct threw the body Into Lake Monona. Johnson would not make a detailed confession. He wanted to be on hi way to Waupun to avoid mob violence which he feared and promts, ed to make a written and full confes sion after he had been ' lodged ia prison, .i , ' L liscaEPANcr in RETURNS MAKE ELEGTIO.'! IN MAINE ST1LL IND0U3T Only Official Returns Can vassed by Governor Will Finally Decide; it it , FIGURES CONFLICT PORTLAND, Me., Sept' 1. 60 close was tn vote in Monday's spe cial election on the question of, the repeal of the constitutional prohibition that even tonight when most of the first unofficial return had been re Ised by mall reports from town clerks the result Is still in doubt. '.r Figures furnished by Secretary of State Davie from August at midnight compiled from malt returns rrora all but . thirteen cities and town In th tat and with the misting thirteen supplied from' press returns show an apparent majority for repeal of J55 votes. Mr. Davis' figures from pre : return are: For- reptaU I0,tj(; agalnet repeal.-' eO,lTo.r:-rv-" 1 Between The Associated Press re turn at revised almost completely by : postal card reports from town), end city clerks and the figures of 'the see rttary of stat there is a marked dit-.. creptney, the press returns indicating at a late hour tonight a majority of 147 against repeal. The total rot as Indicated by Th Associated Prist returns -: For repeal, ',141; against repeal, g0,8.' ' ' ' V i- ' In view of the closeness cf the vote It wss believed tonlcht that only the official canvass of the s vote by thj governor end council would dcfinltel determine the Issue. - REVXIOX IX MACOW, NrCW ORIJCANa Sept. !. Oea era! Wm. E. Mlckle. adjutant general and thief ef staff of the Vnlted Con federate - veterans. 1 make ' official announcement that the 2 2nd annui reunion of the veterans will be hel i at Macon. Ga.. on M 7- I and. " XIt. ONE CLOSER IM
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