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UNDAY CITIZEN THE WEATHER FAIR A:'HEVILLB, N. C., SUNDAY MORKlN(i. SEPTEMBER 17, 1911 VOL. XXVII., NO 329 PRICE FIVE CENTS THE LO TODAY TUFT ENDS FIRST DAY OF LONG TRIP; THBEEjjPEECHES Says He's Not Going at "Top, $peed" at First Over Four Speeches Dally DEVOTED OPENING DAY TO PEACE TREATIES 'Suggest s Compromise by Which Senate's DlgrfltyWIH Not be Trampled -on ERIE, Pa., Sept. 16. President rTat Hjw1 Ihn flrat nf hi AA dfli-i nf epeechmaking with an atuireas to a big throng In the auditorium hem to night. Before reaching here he had i spent nine hours in Syracuse, where he made three speeches. The president-said he had determined that his average during this trip to the far west would be (our and a half speeches a day, go he did not start out at top speed. Mr. Taft reserved his most import ant utteranoe of the day fo r the speech here, when he outlined a plan by which heihopes to wipe out objec- ' tlonB In the United States senate to the recently negotiated treaties of ar bitration with Great Britain and France. These treaties have ben ' held up and threatened with defeat, largely because several senators con ttnded that the proposed high com mission which would determine whether or not a question should be sent to arbitration practically robbed the senate of its function of passing upon the question. ' Compromise Kiiggffltcd. The president tonight suggested as I a compromise that , the American members of the commission should be confirmed by the senate If congress or the senate thought It dangerous to trutsth president only to make the I .. . .. - TV, ft lMoB tViat he would go further than this, and be .willing to wipe out the Joint high jotnmlsaion entirely If need be and aaVave the derision 'as to whether or not ontlnn fa arbitrable to a board' Of iltrattriiTHrB; would also' be willing to have this board pass not only upon the merits of the question but upon the Jurisdiction. "Either we are In favor of arbitration of Issues which are ltkefv to lead to war, or we are nt atcI jLlmpil thA nresldent. "If !we arc In favor of war as the only ! means of settling questions of Import ance between countries then let us recognise It as a principle and decline all arbitration but If we are really in favor of arbitration as a meuii of avoiding war, then why should we not be willing to submit to impartial men the decision upon a question rather than to leave . It to the result of a bloody battle, In which, with a fair (Continued on Page fill) DR. WILEY GRATEFUL FOR .Speaks Kindly of Hav- r ing HacLSupport of Most , Newspapers EXPECTED RESULT OKLaJSnCOlNT, Va., Sept. 18. Dr. fjiaTvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau lef chemistry of the department of agriculture, expressed himself more folly today upon President Taft's letter madafpubllo yesterday In which the dhemlatry bureau was completely 'vindicated and oleared of the charges jnade against him by the personnel I beard of the department and the case ckwed so far as Dr. Wiley was concerned. In a statement to the Associated .Press, Dr. Wiley said ' "I have read the text of the pres ident's letter and am deeply grate ful for the sympathetic and com- ortlng expressions contained therein. 1 rejoice too, that Dr. It as by has been found free of fault, and am sorry that It was found necessary to reprimand Drs. Kebler and Bigelow, both faithful and conscientious work ers. Their offense was In the prac tice and not In the heart. I always felt certain that the president, with hi high sense of Justice, would fol low the course which he did. I am grateful also to the press of the I United States for the practically .unanimous support which It has giv en me during this ordeal I fell that the tribute Is not a personal one, but to cause which I have endeavored to j spouse. j "I cannot now say anything a the ' future save that as long as I remain j in the public service. I shall endeav- or to carry out the purposes which have actuated me In the past I desire to' take this opportunity of ex pressing my gratitude ot friends and unknown, who have written and wired De in tha past few weeks and whoa messages I have yet ba un able to answer." DEATH SCREAMS OF MYRTLE HAWKINS HEARD ACROSS LAKE Such Testimony Adduced at Inquest i esieruuy vr Hopeful of Landing Guilty Parties. Inquest Continued till Tomorrow. HENDERSON VILLE N C, Sept. 16.-Upon the question whether it was , . , ,,,, iu., Wednesday or Thursday night of last week that a woman's piercing scream echoed and re-echoed across the w- ters of l.ke Osceola hinges now de- velopments of a far-reaching nature In the Myrtle Hawkins mystery. It was the discovery of evidence along this line which caused an adjournment of the inquest this morning at the re quest of Morgan Bradford, Jr., the Washington detective who is working on the case. Mrs. Reuben White told a Citizen screaming as though In great pain. She arose from her bed and went out on her back porch. The screaming, i n . kranaltv eVinnirerl to mOAnB Bn?i piuuuunv - which finally died away in the stillness . t . v. . i ..1, i Mrs Wrllfht aavs she of the night. Mrs. Wright says she was greatly frightened and tqld her son anddaughter of the occurrence. "Nprto HearU Scrwun, Frank Brown, a negro Jiving near Lake Osceola, declares that he heard a woman screaming about midnight Thursday of lost week, arrti will so testify at the inquest Monday after r,.,nn A Mrs. Winters, of Lake View inn, near the lake. Is another person, who heard a woman s loua cries u" Wednesday night. The authorities find murh difficulty In making the conflicting statements dovetail, as there are witnesses who will swear thit they saw Myrtle Haw- kins Thursday afternoon of last week. Vn niii-raiita have yet been served In connection with the case nor Is It like- ly that such action will be taken be- fore the close of the inquest xnonany, but the authorities fel much more i .) . . . ,aT,aik& rAaiilta theroat. confident of tangible; results theroat. No Action Taken. For several hours tonight Mr. Mor gan Bradford, Jr., chief of ths Brad ford detective service, sat In confer- U- 'iaWvera retained by the Haw- .r,r with station a Rector, a, tocai f kiSnimty debating whher- W.a tne eviaenoe oi mr. mum, wini.n and the negro Justified the ser1ng of warratit on certain parties believed to have guilty Knowieoe oi the death of Myrtle Hawkins. No - . . , .. A Vta action was taKen, nowevor, ouu in- i , htv,i est pitch for the last three days, re- j mains unrelieved. But that the net j of law wll not bo spread In vain j Is practically assured-by the disoov rrv tndav of link after link of What Is regarded as valuable testimony. Th death cries of Myrtle Hawkins, hrd at three separate points, seem in nnn na nrnnv trails, running from 1 the garments wherein she was mur- : dered to the blood-sxalnea pieces ot paper picked up on the banks of the AS BID COITION IS HIS INTENDED VICTIM Premier Stolypin Progress ing Nicely and Little Doubt of Recovery PRISONER "UPSET KIEV, Sept 18. Premer Stolypin Is progressing toward recovery. Ths at tending physicians found his condition satisfactory throughout tha day and tonight's bulletin announced that no particular change bad occurred. The premier's temperature was given as normal. The court martial of Dmitry Bo groff, wio shot the premier., will be gin Beptember 20. Colonel Kullabko, chlof of the secret police of Kiev, who Is responsible for BogrorTs presence In the theatre. Is prostrated, as Bogroff enjoyed his confidence. When asked to attend the interrogation of the pris oner, Colonel Kullabko wee plngly beg ged permission to tewtlfy In writing. At the Inquiry Bogroff manlfeBtert much Independence and unconcern. He said that when he approached Stolypin the premier was completely unguarded. He drew a revolver from his hip pocket, covering It with his progrant. i When Count Potocky, who was close to Stolypin. hesitated to identify Bo groff, tho latter blurted out: "Tes, I shot him." On the way to the fortress Bogroff asked for a cigarette, remarking: "The vhole business has upset me dreadfully. I have not yet come to mypelf." " The prisoner's wounds Include a sa bre cut on the bead. Two teeth Were knocked out, and his whole body is a mass of bruises from the trampling he received. . . 8TOHM SOITH OK IfAYTt WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Warning of a storm south of Haytl, probably moving westward., was Issued by ths weather bureau today. , Vessels bound for the western portion of the Carri taan sea were advised to be alcr mm. iveuotu nunc u-,u v. . . . - j sala snortiy Deiore itiiuuihoi iiiuio representatlve this afternoon that lust , day he wa atttlng on his front porch vrAraa,i a v niirht sh heard a woman uawA UNiman Borflnilnir In , . iwihiui.ww. lake and a penciled memorandum j " " h . The tracks of buggy wheels several " . ' . . . ,, days old but still pointing to a teii- Joufnfy lrom Ulk.ket to lttKw i lliaJ, prove l0 De lne avenue to start- j Ung discoveries. At auy rae ue . j thoritloa feel greatly encouraged to- I nlarit sn fttl m tint m I ti .. . lull i tutl night, and feel eontiunu in-, uc nun loliowed throughout the day by De tective Bradford will lead to tanulble results at the inquest. The story of the negro Brown Is no less Impres sive than that of Mrs. Wright. In conference with Mr. Bradford ! and the Hawkins lawyers tonight, he I Rgony. Brown's house Is at the head j of tne iayte ana the cries, he said, ,eome(i t0 come from the direction of . i 1 1 ' U lifmun'm u-1fA lne OOSl IIUUO. "Bii ( returned from a prayer meeting he I . . i . ... v. .. . i. v. A Kuril "Marl'." IU1U 1 1 ' I WllRt H ' . . . ' ' he said, "I heard a woman screaming terribly Just now, and I am afraid somebody has been hurt. Brown s testimony outside the fact that he places the time as midnight Thursday agrees with Mrs. Wright's statement that the cries, lasting for fully three minutes, gradually died away to moans of a most nltlful nature. ConvRrnatlon Recalled. It ( worthv of notb that on his way ' to town next morning (the Friday pre- re(1ng tfl8 nndlng of Myrtle s body) j Brown mel one 0( his neighbors named Green whom he sstloned concernnB; the occurrence of tle night I before. Green stated that he had also ! v,.at.j thm nn,l h had wondered If j tn,ra had been some accident on the , jake roa(j Both men wers present wlwn Myrtle's body was dragged from . tne )ake gunday morning and they re- i , , . . v. , .. nAnAHfltin, irHnv The postponement of the inquest this morning until Monday afternoon caused no surprise as It was learned that new and Important evidences which, might serve to placs the. r- spobslblUty for Myrtle's death where Myrtie s aeain wnere been, .discovered '.last &Jf! -h nlvht and thla mtmilntf. and that fur ther investigations were being rapidly pushed to achievement. The dead; girl's bicycle, which in life she con stantly rode In her trips to and from the country, will be an Import - -. --- - - - ant factor In the chain of evidence to be presented Monday. Her last Jour-. noy will be followed step by step until tne manner or ner aeain win u miu bnre. With tbP gvnTal elimination of valueless theories go the "trained nurse" and the woman operator. TnluKtlrm Iorti Nnnw, In this connection It might be stat- A Tiat & o-rava tnfuRtlce has been done Miss F.stella Orant, the trained (Continued on Pago Six) FLIC TRIP TO PARENTS Same Young Man's Cousin Expects to Attempt Trans continental Trip WANTS TO SEE HIM HAVRE DE GRACE, Sept Id. Lieutenant John Rodgsrs, U. 8. N., Instructor of aviation at Annapolis, Is ths first man in this country to pay a visit to his parents by aeroplane. He left College Park. Md.. near Washington early this afternoon. passed over tbo nojrth western section of Baltimore and descended at the Pamlico race track. Just north of that city at 2.30. After renewing his sup ply of gasoline he again went Into the air, circled the track for half s t hour at arylng altitudes and started for Havre de Grace at 4.30 o'clock. He arrved at the Rodgers home at Zlon Hill, two miles from this city, at S.3S p. m. The lieutenant's parents. Rear Ad miral and Urs. John A. Kodgrrs and his brother Robert were In a field 200 yards from the house and as soon as he slighted his mother ran to him and (rreeicd him affectlonatt'ly. Lieutenant Rodgers. announced to night that he expected to leave In his aeroplane for New York , city to morrow morning If weather condi tions ars favorable. He hopes to reach New York by 3 p. m., at which time his cousin, C. P. Rodders, Is scheduled to leave Sheapshead Bay In an aeroplane for San Francisco to compete for the 15.000 Hearst prize. When word was received from Bal timore that Lieut. Rodgers was on his way to his old home through the air, the streets, hilltops and railroad embankments were soon crowded with people and a great shout aroso as the naval oftlcer hove In sijht The aviator followed the Una of the Pennsylvania ral road from Baltimore to this clt'. He had but one .quart of gasoline left when be reached this Disc SALISBURY YOUNG GETS IS VERY IS TROUBLE iPostoIflce Inspector Bolar Swears Out Warrant For Chaiies F, Stewart i FRAUDULENT USE OF MAILS IS CHARGED Claimed That hd wrote :a k Hand" Letters to tne Cash ier of a Bank , SALISBURY, K. Ci nder a war rant sworn out by Post Off lea Inspec ; tor Bolar, Charleijr". Stewart, a wsll I known young Sallaburlan, was Julled : here last night charted with usinti ; the malls for fraudulent purposes and was release from Jail tonight undetr a bond of 11,000. The trial Is I se, for next Tuesday. Tho . affair (caused a sensation here on account of the clcunistances leading to thi arrest. . It Is stated that W. F. Snider, cash ier of the Wachovia, Bank and Trust and Trust company In Salisbury, a leading business man t( this city, had received a number of Mack hand let ters during the past two weeks. In these letters a large sum of money was demanded under threat of death. No attention was given to the de mands until the last on came de manding that Mr. Snider appear at t p. m. September 15, at a certain bridge near Salisbury, that he carry a white flag over Til head arid pro ceed along a road until a bell should ring. At this place he was to And a bag Into which ha should place the money. Sheriff McKlntle, Deputy J. Tt. Cruse, Inspector Bolar and a number of officers lined the road last night jand Deputy Tolbert carried ths fia? as demanded, until bs found bait. To ths bag ''was attached a string which ths offlesT followed to a point on the yard of Stewart, who It Is said was found holding tha other ndv He was taken by the officers and jailed to wait mL He claims u?sjajis Men ,B4omr tur-the plafl' fo TotrWWtkeY;-. U -ha.Ys"ben ajoanr; taltis pfatt frt ths evidence to be conclusive. Stewart is of a'gopuVfarefl ,4l,i was well known here. Through tho U. S. mall Mr. Snldnr during the past two weeks had received a number of black hand demands for a largo amount of motiey. Kach demand was typewritten and folded In a diamond shape.' HppclnV Instructions were giv en In each letter as to how .and where the money must lis placed; Iat letter In Full The last letter which Is similar to the others and which came through Jhe malls yesterdny. was as follows: j "'We simply U-ne It to you whether ; you live or die, In the next few days, j whether your family are to remain here or are gotn to the cemeterv with you, they will certainly not go together, but It In a choice with you now how soon ihry will be carried away one at a time. There are enough unexpluiniid murders In this oountry every dy to show you how simple a matter It Is for our society to fully carry nut their threats and cover up their tnmks. Better keen ' V" 'n""na nav vun! J 1. Z . 2 7 V WIU1 '""ihad ma.le It too dangerous to take ; goods as dlre ti-. September 16. leav- i .... Ing town at p. n, und going straight out the rood towards "Faith, carrying a white flag wltlwit any company are tho simple drrenloiis he Is to folitiw, and you will understand your part without further .-xplalning. Time's up." Ietalls of Capture Detective Hohir, Sheriff McKlnsIn and seven othor Dfflcers wero sta tioned at Intervals along the main road leading from Salisbury soon af ter dark last night. Mr. SnMer left the city walking .iiid sarrlod a small package under h-r arm until one mllu from town he m-t the di-tectlve. At this point, Ix-j'itv Toiburt took tho white flag corriKi l y Mr. Snkler. He proceeded on ih umo road until he hoard a b'-i. ring. H walked up to a fence p on which the hell was attached n I follownd the bell cord two huridn I et out Into a field heavily covered u'.th we-ds Hashlnx his light to fror.i he discoverer! Ktew art holding the i-nl of the cord. He was arrested I ife and the othir officers closed !r, and brought th prisoner to Sa!i: iry Jail. Today the house of Stf,iri, located t the scene of the urn!, was searched and a newly loaded i stol. found. nlo a typewriter an- - r,g the description used'ln the biai-k hand letter, stew art admits that i.- wrote the letter, saying thit he : ! heard of such plans proving s-i.---et.gful arid though! lie could work i'-e game. ..ftart gavo bond tonight, Mr. Snider, the man whom hf had ; so serious'y threatened, buUiu en his bond. FAIR ; WASHINGTON'. Sept If Fore cast; North Carolina generally fair Sunday- and Monday; not much ange in lemoerature; liht variable winds.1' . A CRASHING THROUGH FENCE WILD AUTO KILLS NINE PEOPLE Occurred Within Three Miles of End of Fifty-Mile Race at Syra cuse, N. Y.Cars Driver Escapes With Slight Injuries. SYMACirSE. N. V., Sept. 18. Nine persons were killed and fourteen in- lnrnH f (hn, ..,,! ,.K ,i a resiilt of uu accident In the fifty mile automolille race at tho stute fair track late tills afternoon. A Knox racing ear. driven by Lc Oldfleld, crushed through tho feno on the turn after leaving the stretch In front of tbo grand stand and plunged for some distance Into the crowd, causing tho catastrophe. Old field was not seriously hurt. The blowing up of a tire on Oldlleld's ma chine was responsible for the acci dent. The dead Clnude Hamll, Hammond, N. Y. Fred J. Arnold, Syracuse, Jf. Y Charlos Batlantlne, Syracuse. N. Y. James Coin, Alexandria Pay, N. Y. Fayette Funk, Fsrleyvllle, N. Y. Leo Flalpln. Syracuse, X. Y. Unknown man, 60 years old. link no wn man, 25 years old. Unknown boy, 10 years' old. Every ambulance tn Syraoua. wm;Bo .nr.; won m he reaver. w!H rushed to the scene and vehicles at the park also were pressed Into sor. vice, to aid in the relief work, -.: The woman's buildings was turned Into an emergency hospital Near' Kurt of Hare The accident happened during the forty-seventh mile of the raco, Old- nem was a lap oenina itaipn uer-ei- ma and running even with him. Old- field had had a bad tire on his ear for over 27 miles but It did not blew until the' race was within three miles of the finish. At tha time It explod ed, DePalnia and oldfleld were neck and neck. They had just taken the turn at a terrific speed that had the spectators 'almost In frensy. Then earns the crash that was heard .all over the field, followed by screams of women and children In the stand, the paddock Inside of the track. 'Efforts were made by ' prominent Syracuaans to stop the meet at once. Starter Fred J. Wagner of New York. ' w '"r "JMJ the day within five minutes after the track had .beeh, cleared.. ' the Iftut of dead may W Irtrreaatxi ss It Is believed several of the In jured are so badly injured that they cannot live. Oldfleld Is among the Injured. The aorldent came as the fatal ter mination of the biggest day the state fair has ever had In point of attend ance as well as In the matter of at tractions, The honored guest of the fair to day was Presldwnt Taft. It was but a short t'me after he had left the grounds that the trasedy occurred. Just before he left President Taft took a short ride In an automobile on the truck which was wet to keep down the dust for the president and his prtv. This wetting was much as to cause drivers who were to compete In the CO-mile event to protest. Trui k In Bad Couilllion When the race was callod Ralph De Palms and Bob Rurman, who had been driving In previous races, re- fn.i.il In v.. ,., l.,.r.,,BA Ik. n m I tlon of the track, saying the waforiheM at Spring Iake, N, ng which the trHfk dried somewhat, j ths value of expositions, and especlal The race was calld and Ie Pnlma j ly the Appalachian, and flurmsn were both entrants Oovernor and Mrs. Harmon left to along with oldfl.-ld and six others. ; night for Cincinnati. A reception to Tho accident happened In thei the distinguished visitor under the forty-third mil-. De Palma was ' auspices of the Knox county demo- loading by a. lap with Oldfleld trail ing him ns they entered the first quar ter of that mllo. The big cars, trav eling, It Is estimated at seventy-Ave cue ewes of i.c.1. LINE SIPS 9N STRIKE Other Shops Will be Asked to Join, Sympathetic Strike Considered Itor'KY MorN'T. N. C Sept. if. Car repairers In the Atlantic Coast ! I. Ire shoi.s. numbering 875 men, walk ed out here today and the unions of , l,o !U -rmakers. rrachlnlsts snd black-1 smiths were In seealon tonight consid ering u sympat'K-ttc strike on Monday, j It ls sts'ed that :r repairers in the; Kl .retice. 8. ., shops will be aftTire) tot 'el-i grlcvaneo of the men Is that they are required to work, out j ' ft r ;! ut pier? rates the same j I t? r n hor '-ars and that they arc un- ! aide in wake remunerative wages on ' tho rab're cars. Officials at headquarters at Wll-; minrt n X. C , proff to know little If unythliiK of tie trouhlo M-x.rioFi vr..n ocnimaK CHFOf ASHA. Okl.i., fipt. 1. "These psrts are hsunteil and rj ei erally unlieslthy for negroes." This noUce. t!f .il "CitUtens." found posted In several p'ai In a t.ero Is.mi;. community notrh of h;re today, has lo alarmed the negroes that many of them are leaving. They fear an out break of troubles si ml 1st to that near Caddo three weeks ago. miles n hour, were running side by Me ,.v ..,... .,, : " " " mill, aiir passing the grand stand. As they took the turn there was a re port. Ths car driven by oldneld leaped Into tho air. Then It swerved to the ou'er side and crashed through the fence, The crippled machine, be yond the control of the driver, ploughed through hundreds of per sons lined along the fence. ; For m r than twenty miles, spec j tetors declared, Oldfleld had .en aming nis csr with one of the shoes Dapping, in the hope of heating out De Palms. However, his manager, instead of slopping him. It Is said, urged him to Increased speed. In pita of the fact that It publicly be came known that many had been kill sd and Injured, the officials In charge refused to call off the rare and the last few miles were run while hund reds thronged the track oldfleld,; the driver, who Is In a ( fit V tlftttt-lltat tm kains snseaaJ h... tsV be arrested. THRFJE IIECOHD8 BROKE. SVKACl SR. N. pu i.-,.alph De PaJma, in a Simplex, broke two world-s records In the race meet at the state fair (rounds In the eO-mlls race ' durlns; which Lee Oldfleld j .rl,,hPd through the fence, killing nine persons and Injuring scores. r tr'x-a mnde ths records for both II end SO miles, ths ttmrs' respectively being JJ.in 15 end T., De Palma" ' " w . " ' , also won the I f -mile event fee r.r, h-r "'" r.afttf - they , had , left under 00 eubie Inrhee piston ilia. th etMm 1'om wlVn h m.0B,'r- ni1 placement Burman brolie tha lt- wr P'n abandoned ,-mine, u fair trsck record, xtn ---V" mn appeared In the road. Without 41.11. As he rosed the line a piston I warnlnn, he opened fire with a revol in hi a Blltsen Hens' bfoke. badly '. '.' another man eame Into view wrrklng the world's fastest car. (. GOV. HIRMON SPEJIKS RT Reception to Distinguished Visitor Waj Abandoned. h- ,-. -.1' t . ' I , Plans Changed , KNOXVIUJB, Tenn,; Sept. Governor Judson Hsrnion, oof Ohio, was the guest of the Appalachian ex position for a few hours tonight, speaking at I o'clock In the e po sition auditorium to large audience. Accompanied, by Mrs. Harmon, Ohio's governor reschod Knosvllle this ternoon together with a reception committee headed by President Tyson of the exposition company, who had gone to Greenville to meet them. The governor delivered his sddress st I o'clock tonlfht. Introduced tn his audience by President Tyson, Oovernor Harmon referred briefly to the conference of governor! recently J., and then launched Into a-speech which wss , u.r -i.t, crattc club planned for tonight had to be called off owing to a change of tha governor's speaking dates, oc casioned by a storm. IKE OF WARD'S FLIGHT Aeroplane Falls Into Fence and is Injured Hopes to Start Again Monday Ofl'EOO, N. Y., Sopt. ?. Kntrine trouble brought "Jimmy" Ward to grief here late today. He was taklnir wing asj-iln to resume his coast to coast 'flight and had Just loft the ground when, without warning the Id- plane dropped from a height of 20 i feet Into a fence. The supports of the front control , Wf smashed, both balancing planes j were d-vjiollsr."!!. while the wheels collapsed. The engine, rear planes and rudder r-vaped damase. Ward was thrown from his seat, but was not hurt. He expects his mechanician can repair the machine In tlnte to resume his flight Monday. Ward amerced from the wreckage with nothing mo.ta eerlous than a tear In his trousers. After surveying the w reck the young aviator calmly, lit a cigarette und said: Thl ihe flrst time I have had an stride it like-this In a year.'' Then, noticing the . tear In his trousers, he added: ' This is more serious than I at first sup!'si." ' The aviator flew ti miles today and In all has traveled til miles from New Tork. More than half of his flight today from Callk-oon. Pa., here, he did at nesrly a mile a minute. 1W uu ire BI-WEEKLY WAGES INSTANTLY KILLED Was Driving to Mines of 6 Pittsburg Coal Company When he Wet Doatri TOPPLED 0VEK1NT0 HIS FATHER'o ARMS Italian Suspect Has Been Ar rested The Money. $3,400 Was Not Secured ' 1 PITTSBUUa. PS... Bept. !. While drvlng to the mines of the Superior Coal, company near here today, with the eemi-monthly pay for. the miners,; David Steen was shot knd Instantly killed by highwaymen. His father Win. i. Steen, who was tn the buggy ' with him, eaught the body of h' son as It toppled oer. The money, 13,400, was saved. . ' . . . Later In the ..Hay,' Quart-it" hell), an Italian,, wis . arretted, gut parted of knowing crime, end It was with difficulty thai troopers of ths ' stats constabulary prevenieu tne ciuer Bieen irum tnroi tllng hint. The shooting occurred at most within a stone's th.-ow of tha Btosn ; : residence vnear VWoodvllle. Father and son (.were driving slont the road when two man appeared and opened Are, one with a revolver and the other . with r a shot gun, :;t The Steens wsre each armed and remem bering the experience f other, pay masters In the eosl country of west ern Pennsylvania, each had, his hand on his revolver. ''," , d t ... sleH Man. tn Itaad, from the other side. He lifted a shot gun arid flred. ' Doth shots were i' rected at David Steen, who was drl Ins, and beth took effect Ons hoi ivr. tun ninh imnu, ruiviiif reins, and. the other buried Itself In" his -tfidy -rnesr the heart, - The reins dropped end- friithunedV horses sprang forward, s Wit b ros the dying man toppled .ovr toward his agsd fsther who snplrcted him wltU one arm, drawing his revolver, began hootm: t he barellta, ; - They did- not ifply "; and after standing la astonishment 'for a mo. tnent, turned and ran swiftly toward the hills. Ths elder fltsen. after em ptylng - his reolvr,; aught up the reins, and shouting for help, drove furiously to the Superior mine. There he gave the alarm and summoned a doctor but before the doctor arrived, the man was dsad. ' , foaea Organised K posse was . quickly organised. From their home, scarce a hundred ' yards from the scene of the shoot- - af-hng, Mrs. John Nloholl 'snd her son Oeorge and Joseph, had witnessed the crime and the fit ht of the bandit. The boys were eager to follow, but were restrained by their mother until the posse came up, when they went racing before them over the hills. - Late in the afternoon state con- ' stabulsryitroopers captured two mtn (Continued on Page' Six) CALLING FOB GENERAL T STRIKEJf miCKMEN Delaware, Lackawanna it. Western Eailroad Face Labor Toubles ; EFFECT NOT KNOWN SCANTU-V, I'a Sept, .16. -A pro- ; clamatlon was Issued to the Dels . ware, Lackawanna snd Western track men, numbering amout 1,300 men. oa the entire system, was Issued today and went into effect at f oe'lock to- night It is claimed by the trackmen : that ninety per cent of the men voted ..: to strike when a ballot, was taken . three weeks ago. flow genera, will be the response eanaot be known "un ' tli Monday morning. The company has been quietly bringing men ti Hcrsnton to be detailed as special ef flcers fur the protection of the road, Tiiese men were dispatched to dif . ferent points along the line. ' ' The strike grows out of a demand . on the part of the men for better ' wages and korklng conditions. The -unionizing Of the men had been going ' on foe some month, . The brotherhood has given cot the following aa amonj tha demands of the men: f ; ' ' , -' ' A ten hour day with eight hours oa Saturday. Time and a. half for all work 'In excess of ten hours and for Sunday work. Promotion by . senior-. .. Ity, where, merit and ether quail . n,.p.,,, . a.: full and Im partial hearing f,. ij. r discharge t , pait,iI;l,;,'i;;::L' i-';''aiy:tftpioye dla Charged, het'Trecsive pay for time lost if W , . 7 that he. be t-losUted- fl