, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE, 17. 1909.
VOL. XXVII.
No. 22.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
Do the Democrats want "Imperial
Ism" protected, too?
What do you think of
iels-Glenn movement?"
'the Dan-
The former Democratic platform
is now only drift-wood.
The Charlotte Observer has also
fallen from the platform.
Chicago wants a municipal Inspec
tor of pies. Here Is a job for the
pie-hunters.
Some of the tariff reformers seem
to have a view only to reforming the
other fellow.
Doubtless Governor Kitchin thinks
the Daniels-Glenn movement Is try
ing to head the wrong way.
Mr. Bryan has been quiet for al
most a week. Probably he la reading
up on his record in Congress.
Congressman Kitchin must feel
very lonely standing on that mid
night platform all by himself.
Several weeks have passed and yet
no procedlngs have been instituted
against the Greensboro Ice Trust.
If the Democrats paramount the
tariff next time it will only serve to
drive more men out of their party.
Mr. Simmons was a member of the
platform committee at Denver, and
yet he can't stand by his own plat
form. And now some of the Democrats
say that the tariff is merely a local
question. How these Democrats do
change
Wonder If Mr. Simmons would
have thought of repudiating Bryan
and the platform If Bryan had been
elected last fall?
It is to be hoped Mr. Roosevelt
will save one of his big guns with
which to fetch down the Tammany
Tiger when he returns to New York.
The Winston Sentinel, Democratic,
wants to know the use of having a
platform, anyway. That is a very per
tinent inquiry in view of recent
events.
The Democratic leaders will have
to look up another new idea around
which to build their next platform
that is, if they intend having any
platform next time.
The Fayetteville Observer says that
Democrats can always win on the
tariff, but are betrayed by those
whom they elect. They are in bad
shape, aren't they?
And now some of the North Caro
lina Democrats want Mr. Page to re
sign as member of the Congressional
Campaign Committee. His Democ
racy must be questionable.
Unless Mr. Simmons has experi
enced a change of heart since that
time, why didn't he repudiate Bryan
and the platform in the speeches he
made in the State last fall?
If the Democrats make the tariff
the issue next time will the five Con
gressmen and two Senators from this
State .who have voted for protection
be eligible to stand on the platform;
and if not, where will they stand?
The News and Observer wants to
know when shall a Democratic plat
form be binding. If you would elect
the right kind of men on the right
kind of platform, you would not fee
constrained to ask such questions.
A few days ago a Kansas City
judge turned a red-headed sus
aloose, giving as his reason that he
never saw a red-headed crook. Al
the red-headed crooks, if there are
any, wil be sure to move to Kansas
city to ply their trade.
The Danville, Va., Register says
that at present the views of one
newspaper as to what the party
stands for are as good as those o
another. That is probably very true;
but such being the case, how is any
one to know" for what the Democratic
party stands, when different papers
have different views?
One Democratic writer says that
the next campaign must be fought
on the tariff; that there is nothing
else to fight about. Then It would
appear that there will be no fight
next time. They are even worse di
vided on the tariff than other ques
tions and will not be able to con
centrate their forces when fighting
'GO SOUTII, YOUNG MAN.
uth Will Soon Become Mort Pros
perous Agricultural Community on
Earth.
Washington Post.
Last year the nine cotton States
produced 561.104,000 bushels of
corn, against 402,625,000 grown by
the eight Northern States of Penn
sylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Kansas, the Dakotas and Col
orado, and the Territory of New
Mexico, Delaware, Maryland, the Vir
ginias, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Missouri, the last three Important
grain States, are not computed among
the cotton States in the foregoing
calculation.
This year the cotton acreage at the
South Is less by 3.5 per cent than
last year; but the land devoted to
corn exceeds that of last year by 1,
000,000 acres. This Is a good sign.
When the South grows its own grain
and produces Its own meat, some
thing it has not yet done, it will
have become the most prosperous
agricultural community on earth.
But there is another advantage.
When the South devotes attention to
grain growing it will necessarily lead
to better farming. There will follow
conservation of the soil through crop
rotation, and peas and alfalfa will
enter largely Into the farm economy.
This will necessarily bring about cat
tle and hog breeding and feeding, and
ultimately the dairy, the cheese fac
tory, sheep husbandry, and poultry
arming. Already truck gardening
and fruit growing are prosperous in
dustries at the South, where numer
ous successful cannine establish
ments are located.
Cotton will some day be the sur
plus crop, and grown on land that
will produce two bales an acre. With
ntelllgent crop rotation and careful
seed selection, it will be an easy mat
ter to raise 15,000,000 bales with less
labor on half the acreage planted last
year that produced some 13,000,000
bales.
The word in Iowa is, "Go to Can
ada, young man;" and thousands
swarm into the Dominion and volun
tarily become subjects of King Ed
ward. The cotton South, even that
region of it east of the Mississippi
River, is an Infinitely more Inviting
field. The climate is all that can be
desired, and the diversity of crops it
admits of affords advantages to be
found nowhere else on the North
American continent grain, cotton,
the grasses, tobacco, sugar, rice,
truck patches, fruits such as peaches,
melons, berries, figs, and in some
sections the citrus varieties. Later
will come live-stock breeding, dairy
ing, and wool growing.
Go South, young farmer of the
Middle West. Her soil and her skv
nvite you. So do her people.
CASTRO'S GAME IS BLOCKED.
Trying to Get Guns and Ammunition
Through This Country With Which
to Fight Gomez Venezuelan
Steamer Under Watch.
Norfolk, Va., June 14. Packed In
piano boxes and ready for shipment
on a filibustering steamer bound for
Venezuela, a quantity of rifles and
ammunition, evidently destined for
Cipriano Castro's revolutionists, was
discovered at Franklin, Va., to-day.
The rifles are believed to be a part
of the 15,000 Mauser weapons ship
ped from New York to St. Louis and
back to Franklin, billed as piano
and packed to weather the trip to
South America. The flilibuster sus
pect steamer Nanticoke was lying
near Franklin, and in the black wa
ter below the steamer was her con
sort, the tug Despatch.
The Revenue Cutter Pamlico is
blockading the two suspects, and it
s not believed that either could pass
her even in the darkness, although
there were persistent rumors that an
attempt would be made to get away.
Orders have been issued from Wash
ington to take prompt action in case
the steamer should lift anchor.
The Nanticoke is not built for deep
sea navigation, but the Despatch can
navigate far off shore and the officers
in charge of the situation believe
that the plan of the fiilibusterers was
to transport the arms to another
steamer at sea.
Apparently the gigantic plot of
Castro's supporters, unearthed by se
cret agents of the government and
present Venezuelan regime, and at
first not considered very seriously at
Washington, for the overthrow of the
opponents of the exiled President,
was verified by the discovery of the
Mausers at Franklin.
Washington, D. C, June 14. Col
lectors of all ports in the Virginia
and North Carolina Atlantic coast
districts - nave been ordered by the
Government to detain the steamer
Nanticoke and the ocean tug Despatch
for supposed violation of the neutral
ity laws.
tr. C. H. Hix Will Succeed Mr. Gar
rett as President of S. A. L.
Richmond, va., June 11. It is
learned upon the best of authority
that C. H. Hix, General Superintend
ent of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way, will succeed W. A. Garrett as
president of the road. Mr. Garrett
will sever his connection with the
railroad on June 30th, and it is ex
pected that the duties of the presi
dent will be assumed by him imme
diately, thereafter. Mr. Garrett re
signs to become vice-president of the
T. H. Symington Company, of Balti
more, Md., manufacturers of railroad
B1LKINS KTGREECE
He Say the Grecians are
Highly Educated and
Up to Date.
SOME BIBLICAL HISTORY QVEH
A Rough Old World Athens, the
Home of Art and Sculpture
Where the Oceans Congregate
The Greeks Are Strong Physically
and Mentally Greece Rich in Sa
cred and in Modern History The
Land of Oratory Corinth, a City
With a History Saint Paul and
Ills Great Work Ancient Oratory.
Athens, Greece, June 12, 1909.
Correspondence of The Caucasian-
Enterprise.
I doubled back from Constanti
nople to Athens, a course one must
pursue in more than one case when
travelin', fer you will meet difficulties
at every turn in life, at home or
abroad. This iz a rough old world.
Some ov hit lz land, smooth, level
land. But the most ov hit lz water,
real wet water. An' that lz especial
ly true ov this part ov hit. The At
lantic Ocean lz still in buzlness here.
Then we hev the Mediterranean
Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Artie
Ocean, the Red Sea, the Dead Sea,
the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, A-
rabian Sea, the Sea ov Galilee. Some
ov them air not large, hit iz true.
But they air wet, very, an' deep, too.
Athens, the capital ov Greece, hez
a popuiasnun ov more man a nun-
dred thousand people, and iz the
most important city In the little
country. But hit Iz a real city. Hit
iz clean, neat, hez splendid bulldins,
publlck an' private. Flowers bloom
everywhere, an they hev several
beautiful parks.
The total populashun ov Greece iz
erbout two an' a half millions. But
that does not include awl ov the
Greeks, fer they air an educated, en
ergetick people an they air ter be
found in every civilized country,
quite a number being in America at
this time.
Greece hez awlways bin up-ler-date
az a country. Her people anr
strong, physlckally an mentally, an
hev led the world in some things
air "leaders yet. ' In the "days 'when
Biblical history wuz makin' the
Greks wuz known, an' ter-day they
air rite up with the great world pro
cession. A large mountain near Athens con
tains a vast quantity ov fine marble.
This quarry hez bin worked fer
twenty-five hundred years, an still
the end iz not in site. This accounts
fer the splendid an substantial ap
pearance ov the city, in part.
Herodotus, Homer," an Demos
thenes air among the great men
Greece hez produced, an their names
will never die. Then, greater than
the ones named, perhaps, wuz So
crates an Plato, the two world-famous
philosophers; awlso Lycurgus an
Solon, the great law-makers whose
work iz shown even ter-day in the
laws ov awl civilized countries. But
Greece awlso produced other famous
men in her day. Her people air still
strong, air still in the flte, no signs
ov decay. I wish I could remain
here an' grow younger an wiser an
better.
Greece hez bin a leader in other
respecks In statecraft, in oratory, in
poetry, history, philosophy, literature,
art an athletics. Hit wuz ter the
Corinthians that Paul wrote the
Epistles in which love iz given the
first place among the virtues. Cice
ro, the Roman orator, made hiz
spread-eagle speeches at the Fornm
in Rome. But hit wuz Demosthenes,
the Greek orator, who hurled hiz elo
quence at the Greeks from the vast
ledge ov rock on the shore ov the
Aegean sea near Athens. An they
say that Demosthenes wuz sumpthin'
ov a speaker. Hit iz not certain
whether Cicero or Demosthenes origi
nated that style ov stump-speakin
in which a great stone rostrum took
the place ov the ordinary stump. But
hit iz certain that Cicero ov Rome,
an' Demosthenes ov Athens, wuz both
top-notchers when the game ov pub-
lick speakln cum on the boards.
But thar wuz other orators in
Athens. Mars Hill, whar the ancient
court ov Areopagus wuz held, iz a
great rock. When an altar wuz erect
ed to "the unknown god." Saint
Paul's address to the "men of Ath
ens" wuz delivered from the ton ov
this rock, an' hit iz quite likely that
the great inspired apostle delivered a
speech or sermon that would hev put
Demosthenes out ov buzlness had he
been on earth in that day.
In the good old days the Greeks
sought ter perfect an' strengthen the
human form, to add health and beau
ty. Most ov them do the same ter
this day. The result iz strong men
an' women, strong physically and
mentally. The Olympian games wux
one ov the methods. At Athens a
wealthy citizen hez recently given a
million dollars ter restore the stadi
um a great, bulldln' that will seat
fifty thousand people. The seats in
this buildin' air made ov Peutellc
marble, which will last fer ages an
the race course lz more than six hun
dred feet long an' a hundred feet
wide. Here men run races ter amuse
REUJCIOJC AT, AN END.
Confederate Veterans Give Gemeral
Fred Grant Great Oration Feat
are of Day Was Magnificent Pa
radeWin Meet Next Year at Mo
bile, Memphis, TennT, Jane 10. A
frenzied demonstration of welcome
by the men in Gray tor the son of the
man who conquered them marked the
final scene of the nineteenth reunion
of the United Confederate Veterans
to-day. It took place during the pa
rade. In the reviewing stand stood
General Frederick Dent Grant, of the
United States Army.' The first few
divisions in line passed with only a
limited number recognizing the son
of the man who accomplished the sur
render of Lee. But finally a cavalry
division appeared and its command
ing officer. General Trier, of Hick
man, Ky., old and griszled, peered
steadily at General Grant a moment.
Then he turned in his saddle and
yelled:
"Come on, yon kids! Here's Gen
eral Grant come to life again in his
son."
With one of the old-time rebel
yells, the division remnants of For
est's cavalry charged upon the stand
and jostled one another for an op
portunity to shake the hand of the
son of their old-time enemy. From
that moment every gray clad veteran
who could reach the stand rushed up
to shake hands with General Grant.
The stoky army officer's gray eyes
filled with emotion as he murmured,
"God bless you ail. boys! God bless
you," giving eaefc a cordial hand
grasp.
Battle-torn banners were grouped
at his feet and waved over his head
as a salute. One old officer rode up
to the stand, seized General Grant's
hand and kised him on the cheek, ex
claiming: "God jbless you, boy! I
fought your father, of whom you are
the image, but he was a gallant, mag
nanimous foe, and I love his son."
More than one veteran was in tears
as he saw the famous Federal chief
tain's son so touched by the recep
tion. It is doubtful If any other
Northern man, even a President, ever
received such an ovation as that
which was spontaneously given to
General Grant by the Confederate
veterans to-day. ,
The parade over, the reunion was
practically ended and veterans' spe
cial trains began to leave the city at
2 p. m.
FEUD CAUSES FATAL STREET
FIGHT,
Two Prominent ' Citizens Killed at
Meadville, Miss. Three Others
Seriously Wounded State Troops
Harried to the Scene.
Meadville, Miss., June 14. Two
men are dead, two were probably fa
tally wounded, and three others
slightly wounded in a bloody street
battle here this afternoon, waged by
parties to a bitter feud that had
been previously marked with trag
edy. As a result of the affair feeling
here runs high and State troops were
rushed to Meadville from Brook
haven to-night to guard against pos
sibility of rioting.
Those killed in the affray were Dr.
A. M. Newman, Clerk of the Chan
cery Court of Franklin County, and
Silas G. Reynolds. Dr. Lenox New
man, a son of one of the slain men,
is believed to have been fatally in
jured and Herbert Applewhite, an at
torney, may not recover as the result
of his wounds. Emmett Newman,
another son, was shot in the leg. The
three were taken to Natchez to-night
for medical attention, after having
been formally, placed under arrest
Two men named Boyd and Pharr, al
leged to have been involved in the
affray, were slightly wounded but
escaped and have not been captured
L. P. Prichard, a brother of Cor
nelius Prichard, whom Dr. Newman
killed seven weeks ago, was arrested
and charged with complicity in the
tragedy.
The killing of Prichard by Newman
was the first bloodshed to -mark a
feud that had existed between the
two men, relatives and friends, for
months. This bitter fractionalism
had its inception in a political cam
paign in which Newman and Prich
ard were opposing candidates..
Newman was tried a few weeks ago
for Pilchard's murder and was ac
quitted. This served to arouse even
more bitter feeling among the rela
tives and friends of Prichard and the
Newman family and faction.
To-day's fight occurred almost on
the same spot where Prichard was
killed.
BOY KILLS FATHER WITH AXE.
Husband Had Thrown Wife on Floor
and Was Beating Her When She
Called the Boy to Her Aid.
Selma, N. C. June 14. Mr. Frank
Crawford, who lived about eight
miles north of Selma, was struck on
the head with an axe by his thirteen
year-old son, Herman, this morning
about 6 o'clock and Instantly killed
The particulars of the homicide, as
can be learned, are that Crawford
and his wife had a quarrel over
Crawford's cursing the boy Herman
the result of which was Crawford
threw her to the floor and was heat
ing her.. She asked her son to get
him off, and not being able to do so
without force, he picked up an axe
and struck his father, crushing in
his skull. Herman was taken to jal
LOST OPPORTUNITY
Democratic Spectacle in Con
gress Worse Than
Incompetency.
SHOULD REVISE DOWNWARD
Con grow Realises That President
Taft Has the Last Say and There
is Yet Hope Thai the Tariff May
Be Revised DownwardDemocrats
Advocating an Income Tax Which
Will be Unnecessary If the Tariff is
Properly Revised.
Special to the Caucasian:
Washington, D. C, June 16. 1909.
The spectacle which the Democrat
ic party presents in Congress, espe
cially in the Senate, during the pres
ent tariff discussion is worse than in
competency. it Is truly pitiable.
It has always been recognized as
absolutely essential that under a Re
publican form of government, where
the administration of the government
must be conducted by one party for
another, that a stron, virile and ag
gressive minority party had functions
and duties to perform in the interests
of good government that were no
less useful and Important than duties
of the majority or controlling party.
The Democratic party when entrust
ed with power, it is true, has proven
its absolute Incompetency to suc
cessfully conduct the affairs of the
government. Yet there was no reas
on to believe until now that the Dem
ocratic party was impotent and
worthless even as a party of oppo
sition. I
The Republican party promised In
the last campaign to revise the tariff
downward so as to lower the cost of
iving and to some extent break the
power of the trusts, which, by re
bates in conspiracy with the rail
roads, had succeeded in breaking
down all healthy competition at
home. The Democratic party declar
ed for practically a similar revision.
The Republican party In reply point
ed to the miserable failure of the
Democratic party to carry out its
pledges when it had the President,
the Senate and the House, and be
sides contended that the tariff should
be revised by Its friends and not by
ts enemies. President Taft promis
ed the people that if the Republican
party should be put in power that
this revision should be honest revis-
on downward, and the people accept
ed him at his word.
The House tariff bill made some
pretense at carrying out these prom-
ses by reducing many of the duties
on the necessaries oi lire in tne
pending law, but when the bill
reached the Senate it fell into the
hands of the standpatters and the up
ward revisionists and the ultra pro
tectionists who are in favor of revis
ing upwards instead of downwards;
and so for - two months the country
has witnessed the spectacle of pres
ent high rates being raised still high
er on sugar, cotton and woolen
goods, on iron, steel, wire fencing,
etc., on paper, and on other neces
saries of life.
What a magnificent opportunity
this situation presented to the oppo
sition party, not only to show
the injustice of increasing these
rates but to show to what, ex
tent they could and should prop
erly be revised downward. This
presented not only a great opporunlty
for the Democratic party to perform
its great duty as a minority party,
but indeed an opportunity to sweep
the country at the next election If
the Republican party should fail to
keep its pledges. Has it risen to the
situation and performed its duty and
taken advantage of its opportuni
ties? No; it has practically sat si
lent and voted whenever the votes of
Democrats were needed to help the
standpatters to keep the duties high
or to raise them still higher. The
Democratic Senators have not only
thrown away this opportunity and
failed to perform this duty, but they
have besides squarely and unblush
ingly violated their campaign pledg
es. The only voices that have been
raised with vigorous and intelligent
protest against this revision upward
have been from those Senators who
have become to be known as "pro
gressive Republicans."
Thus the Democratic party has
proven not only its incomptency to
govern, but it has proven its abso
lute unfitness and uselessness as even
a party of opposition. In short, it
has proven that it has no longer any
right to live and encumber the earth.
In short, it stands out before the
American, people self-branded, not
only with Incompetency but with hy-
pocracy and stultification, to say the
least. Of the Democratic Senators
who have thus branded themselves
and their party pledges. Senator Sim
mons, of North Carolina, attempted
to out-Herod all the rest.
President Taft Has the Last Say.
There is hope, however, that the
Republican party will yet keep its
pledges to the American people by
revising the tariff downward. Pre I
dent Taft has let it be known that
under the Constitution he is a part
of the law-making power and has the
last say and knows how to exert this
power both with "language and the
big stick." This means that Presi
ward before the bill become a law,
or else that he will veto the bill and
let the present law stand rather than
permit a worse one to be enacted.
. . Tb Income Tax Proposition.
The only proposition with refer I
eace to the pending bill on which the
Democrats have even attempted to
unite, has been an amendment or a!
proviso pro-riding for an Income tax.
If there is to be any addition form
of taxation to supplement customs
duties to raise sufficient revenue to
run the government, tfcen no fairer
tax could be Imposed than one on
incomes. But it Is beilevd by many
that the Income tax proposition is
Just now being unusually exploited to
attempt to "muddy the waters" and
to call attention from a proper re
vision of the tariff duties on the
necessaries of life.
The trouble with the present tariff
law that it does not raise sufficient
revenue Is not because the rates are
not high enough, but because they
are too high. When a tariff duty Is
placed on sugar or any other product
that is used by all the people it will
necessarily increase the price of that
article, and the higher the duty the
higher it will raise the price of that
article and the more revenue it will
raise unless the rate is raised to a
point so high that it will prevent any
Importations of sugar. When this
point is reached there will then not
be any sugar imported, and therefore
no duty collected on the same from
the Treasury; therefore we see that
a duty can be placed so high on
sugar or any other article as to pre
vent the raising of revenue; yet the
price of the article to the consumer
goes up and up and up. and this ex
tra price paid by the consumer goes
not into the Treasurer but into the
pockets of the Sugar Trust.
Now, therefore, if the Democratic
Senators were competent to under
stand the tariff or were sincere in
their professions of revenue duty and
of protection to American consumers,
they would to-day advocate a reduc
tion of the duty on sugar and every
other necessary down to a revenue
point, and if they should succeed In
getting such reductions they would
not only greatly reduce the price of
sugar and of other articles, but they
would at the same time fill the Unit
ed States Treasury to overflowing
with customs duties, so that it would
not be necessary to tack on to the
tariff law an Income tax or a stamp
tax or any other kind of extra taxa
tion In order to raise revenue for the
government. In short, the' way to
raise abundant revenues for the gov
ernment Is to lower the taxer on the
consumer by lowing the tariff rates
on the necessaries of life. Let this
be done, and the strongest advocate
of an income taxe would then not
favor it, because It would then be un
necessary. In short, the Income tax
scheme seems to be used to draw at
tention from the exceedingly high
rates in the tariff bill and thereby let
the consumer be fearfully taxed by
tariff rates and then be taxed in ad
dition with an income tax.
These plain, simple, but momentotfs
facts are gradually being understood
by the great masses of the voters of
the country, and when they are there
will be a reckoning with both parties
MILLS ASHAMED OF HIS PARTY.
Author of Tariff Bill Says Democracy
as It Should Die.
Austin, Texas, June 13. Roger
Q. Mills, former Senator from Texas
and author of the Mills tariff bill.
has lost faith in the Democratic
party. In a letter to a political
friend in San Antonio, Mr. Mills
says:
"The present exhibition which is
being made in the United States Sen
ate by Senators calling themselves
Democrats and assuming to read out
of the party all those who do not
bear the mark of their approval Is
shameful. In fact, it is a very diffi
cult matter in these degenerate lat
ter days for a real Democrat of the
old school, one who had convictions
and belonged to the party for the
sake of the principles which it repre
sented, to have any idea at all as
to what a Democrat is.
"The party as now represented at
Washington might as well pass out
of existence, for It has survived Its
usefulness and only serves now to
make a humiliating spectacle to
make honest Democrats hang their
heads in shame. I believe that men
who think like we do would rather
see the party die than to see it furth
er prostituted to serve the uses of
the base men who now seem to con
trol It."
Two Persons Badly Burned on Mail
Boat at Beaufort.
Beaufort, N. C, June 14. United
States mail boat Hero caught fire
while lying at her dock this afternoon
at 4 o'clock. The boat had just ar
rived with the mall and passengers
from Ocracoke, N. C Captain James
Morros and Mall Clerk Joseph Mason
were badly burned. They are now at
the Marine Hospital. A new boat wil
be put on the run to-morrow.
Democrats Disappointed.
Lincoln ton Times.
The Democratic pie-hunters are
sending up a holy howl like a pack
of disappointed wolves. Director
North, of the Census Bureau, and a
Democrat, has resigned and it is said
that fewer Democrats will get posi
tlons next year than they had count
FIVE MEET DEATH
Killed in Storm Which Swept
Portions of Virginia
Saturday.
PROPERTY LOSS OVER $1C0.CC3
The Storm Was Along the I J a of
the Louis 111 and Nashville KaU
ruad and Was Oae of U Severest
Ever in That Portion of Ytrgtala
Two Mile of Railroad Track
Washed Away asx Train lft
Stranded on the Track.
Richmond. Vs . June 14. A spe-
lsl from Big Stone Gap. Vs.. says.
"live deaths are reported sod dam
age to property estimated at up
wards of f 100.000 as the result of
rains and electrical storms which
wept over this sections Saturday
night and yeslerdsy. Railroad tracks
were washed out, causing landslides
snd a ten-foot rise in the slugstsh
Powell Hlver In two hours The
heaviest storm occurred Saturday
night, breaking north of lltg Stone
Gap. along the Hoes of the Louis
ville and Nashville and the Inter
state Railroad. The Interstate Koad
ost more than two miles of road In
the six mile stretch of track between
Appalachla and Stone Gap. A pas
senger train was left stranded nesr
Arno. with the track Impassable n
either side. Big slides occurred In
deep cuts at Appalachla and Dorches
ter. The Powell Valley Light and
Power Company's plant here which
furnishes lights for Ills Stone Gap
and other towns, was put out of com
mission by lightning, and crops were
njured."
AFTER THE SUGAR TRUST AtJ MS
rVderal Grand Jury Investigating Its
Working President Taft interest
ed In the Matter.
Washington, June 11, President
Taft is determined that light shall be
et in upon the workings of the Su
gar Trust, and it is a result of his or
ders that the Federal grand jury In
New York has begun an Investigation
of the trust's settlement with the
Pennsylvania company by paying
millions in cash and securities. To
bring about action, the President
called Attorney-General WIckersham
nto consultation oyer Sugar Trust
affairs. The Department of Justice.
spurred by the President, had been
examining the evidence developed In
the Pennsylvania Company's suit
against the trust, and there Is good
ground for the statement that It ad
vised the President that criminal ac
tion against the big Havemeyer con
cern under the Sherman anti-trust
law was beaslble. The presentation
of the case to the Federal jury In
New York yesterday was the first de
velopment In the result.
Opponents of the Dutch standard
and the trust have Interested Mr.
Taft to the extent that he is said to
be convinced that the tariff bam
against sugar should be materially
lowerel. The unearthing of further
candals in the workings of the trust
on top of the raw weighing frauds
would be powerful and probably suf
ficient ammunition In the tariff fight.
ATTEMPT TO RKSUE DEPOSED
SULTAN.
Several Were Killed in Fight With
the Guards Battle Lted for Hev
eral Hours.
Constantinople, June 11. News
of a desperate but unsuccessful at
tempt to rescue Abdul Hamid. the
deposed sultan from his guards at
Salonika, was received here today.
The attempt was made by reaction
aries, but their plan had been be
trayed to the Young Turks, the Sa
lonika advices say, and many of the
assaulting party were killed.
The dispatches say the attack was
made about midnight and that a con
flict was waged for several hours, the
defenders being victorious but losing
several officers.
Abdul Hamid has been confined in
a villa at Salonika with eleven of the
members of his harem since his re
moval from Constantinople immedi
ately after his deposition. From the
first the Young Turks government
baa feared that attempts to free him
and nlace him at the head of an up
rising against the new order would
be made by the reactionaries and a
considerable force of troops has been
keot In readiness to Instantly rein
force the guards surrounding him.
Three Killed and Two SerloojJy In
jured by Ughtniag.
Memphis. Tens., Jane 14. Ten of
the superintending force on the con
struction work of the New Meteo
Valley Railroad was struck by light
ning during the night. A rainstorm
was In progress and the men were all
In one tent in the construction camp
near Carlisle. Ark. Suddenly the
camp seemed to be one great blaze.
When eyes became used to the dark
ness It was noted that the chiefs tent
had disappeared. The flash had con
sumed It, killing Dan Murphy, first
assistant to the chief engineer of the
road and two brothers named Smith,
roadmen. William Walters, an en
gineer's aid, and Jim Doyle and two
others, not named, were fatally Injured.
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