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th pH'E DOLLARS A YEAR. 99 CimiLOTTE,N. 0; TUESDAY EYENING, API?; '27, 1909. FIVE CENTS A COPY. in h car Une . with zabeth College. . . . . $l,15a Sr oo. I you need i great pro- Jo so to-day. of business ters entrust- ORS nd we live right "Mace" Refrig- krithin yo'ur reach bring- in this line. d. We have one fe Co. i : EASY TERMS A EW DENCE knd bathrodrA ic lights, hanoso"- .a MlA Jrge corner lot. car lln . 3, SALE ice easy terms W bbott & Co. HE INESS ns P I . . - H DSOME in EeaTEste , 1 THE LID JS Members of the Cabinet Are jo Friends of the Ubiquitous Corre spondents. PVEIT ACQUIRED AS CORPORVTIOX LAWYERS IS RESPOXSIBIiE per Follow W"ickerhani's Exam vein Turning the Cold Shoulder to Newspaper Men Secretaries Wilson ancl MacVeagh Alone Be lieve the People Have a Right to Know What the People's Servants Are Doins Points for Aspiring Mother of Boys. ' WASHINGTON, April 27. The lid , on. It is screwed down tight, boil ed hard and fast, and nailed an J clinched on the other side. If anything escapes itjs not because the members of the Taf t cabinet, or at aEv rate most of them, are not seated upon the cover, each with his pockets full of flatirons to prevent any stray nea-s item from leaking out and reach in; the public. - . .' In other words, the press censorship established by President Taft's ad visers at the beginning of the admin-' Ration has become so thorough and complete that if it were not for the fact that Congress happens to be in extraordinary session, the outside pub lic would scarcely know that "Washfng ton is still on the map. The cabinet officials, who are the head of the nine great executive departments of . the government .arrive and depart from their offices in awe-inspiring state, sign the various documents that are placed before them by their secre taries and assistants who, by the way, do most of the real work, of Ih aforesaid departments nd-then de part for their homes. During the five or six hours that they are in juxtapor sition with their jobs , the " catInet members see a certain number of call ers, shake a certain number, of hands, and go through a certain " routine of . conference without anything that, makes a noise like a news item. The silence emanating from' the hereto fore fruitful source of information is obvious enough to be chopped with an axe and burned in the grate. The 'censorship, or Tid," as ' the newspaper correspondents term it, merely emphasizes another one of the points of contrast between the Taft and Roosevelt administrations. .Presi dent Roosevelt was ever ready to talk and was a wonderful producer of "ccpy." The day seldom dawned dur ing the seven and a half years he was in the White House, that did not bring forth its story of public information or human interest. If events did not transpire at the capitol or in the eountry at large to make news, the President found his theme in the ca bles from abroad. His restless spirit Remanded that things happen and 4 they did. Taking their cue from their ief, the cabinet members were al ways on the move. Activity was the watchword of the administration, and T"hen as occasionally happened, a cab let official did not measure up to Mr. Roosevelt's estimate of a real live de partment head, there was another ead there in short order. If he did lot invite the slow-going minister to retire to private life, he made him ange places with some other mjm er who was getting into a rut, and the result was that both gentlemen stirred themselves mightily and the "wic realized that "doin " ' something was Th e Taft cabinet, taken as a. whole, doubtl ess owes its locked lips to the t that most nf v,, i i l 1 1 1 uicuiucxo.iiavc Pent the best years of their lives practicing corporation law. Secrets jave been eir stock in trade; public t.y has heen their bugbear. Every "8 they learned in the line of evi- ence or fact haa been reduped to ""5, ana rivitAd with affidavits. and mi as. then put in tRe strong safe of he firm Nothing less gentle than tiyr, arnite could extract the documents fro; 5nl the safa v- , . L.ciure II. was time io tria,S them t0 the attention of the o The lawyer9. transplanted omZV?VhiT accustomeii at" cretio suppression and se- m n' find almost impossible to fcolicv t!hemselves to the open door teent5, f has &overened the depart tt.S or generations. They shudder ithoutthUght f tell5ng anything end m retainer Paid in advance that th difflcultiN, in understanding o thP ey bear any different relation "WpUbli0 now than thy did when :orrn,e.re defending-the practices of "T'orations. ' The fret x.,.. . . o ... Vd,Jinet official to fasten the' lid was Attorney General ersh d by ? was clsely follow- eri0r r:PCretary Ballinger of the Tn- am. TT . nox "aiLment. Secretary of State EetretarvCrf tary f War Dickinson. retary x t i h XaVy Meyer and Sec" Jasel of the Department " of I , .iCoatinued on Page 2 ) , ON TIGHT THE AGENTS WEREGR00KS Insurance Men Embezzled $9,000 of Widows Pre miums. SUITS OVER NOTES GIVEN BY THREE"EASY MARKS' Tennesseean '. ; Named " Carlyle Sold County Rights for Quilting Ma chine, . Accepted Notes, Sold Notes (o B. F. Montague and Skipped Two Juries -'Differ Report of In spector Stringfield is Received How a Laurinburg Widow Was Taken In. CHRONICLE BUREAU, RALEIGH, April 27. Suits involving county rights, . or rather notes "that had been given by "easy marks" to. an alleged sharper for county rights to sell a quilting ma chine that was to sellvTike hot cakes and didn't, have just been tried in Wake Superior Court here before Judge Lyon with rather contradictory. results. A man giving his name as Carlyle had sold the Durham and Granville county rights toA. N. and J. N. King for $275, taking their notes. He also sold the Sampson county right to James Holder, taking his note. Car lyle sold the notes here to B. F. Mon tague.', fsince then charges of fraud have been made against Carlyle, who had gone to Tennessee and the Gov ernor of Tennessee has rfused to hon or a requisition for -him. Now Mr. Montague sued the signers of the notesw and the trials had resulted in a ver dict against the Kings for the amount of their two notes. However, a differ ent jury found a verdict in the Holder case, relieving him of the necessity-of paying the note, he gave.' Both cases will probably go to the Supreme Court.. . . ; Capt, S. B. Alexander, of Charlotte, having signified to Governor Kit chin that he will not be able to attend ihe first national road congress to be held at Seattle, Wash., July 4 to 8, rhe Governor issued a commission to Rev. C. M. Pickens, of Charlotte. The report of Inspector General Thomas Stringfield on his inspection of all the companies of tlie North CarolinaJational Guard has just bean received showing in detail the proper ties and standing of each company ior the recent series of inspections that he made just ahead of the official inspec tions by Capt. A H. Hugnet, of the United States army, under orders from the War Department! It will be some days before the summary of results can be ascertained. The report of Captain Hugnet is sure to make a much better showing than that of In spector General Stringfield as he pointed out defects "to local companies to be remedied before the army offi cer came along for his Inspection. Prosecuting ngurance Men. Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young has gone to Laurinburg this week to take part in the prosecution of W. J. Mills and A. Bequest on the charge of embezzlement and con spiracy to defraud Mrs. McLochlin of $9, COO through an insurance transac tion. Judge Crawford Biggs will pre side and the trial Is expected to take nearly all the week. '; The two men, as agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, sold Mrs. McLochlin, a widow at the time, two policies, one for $10,000 and the oth er for $5,000, all the prelimums on the $5,000 and half of that on the $10,000 policy being paid , up, these payments aggregating $9,000. Then Mrs. Mc Lochlin gave to Mills $1,400 in cash to be deposted in a. bank in Charlotte to her credit. It developed that this" de posit was never made and that the two agents never reported more than the current payments on the policies to the insurance company, retaining all the $9,000 payment the widow had made to them. Mills was arrested in Philadelphia and Bequest in Georgia. GEN. J B. BABCOCK DIED YESTERDAY Retired Officer of United States "Army Dies Aboard Ship A' Distinguished Career Ended. NEW3 YORK, April 27.--General John B. Babcock, of the United States Army, retired, died suddenly yesterday on the, liner. Prinz Friedrich ; Wilhelm, which reached the port - to-day from Bremen. ; He had been suffering from kidney trouble but his Illness was not considered dangerous. , , General Babcock was 6 years old. He served through the civil war, the Indian, wars and the,. war with Spain. No Hope For Schooner and Crew of 21 MOBILE, ALA,, April. 27. The Bchooner Addle and Beatrice and her crew of 21 which sailed for Bermuda March' 27, has been given up'vto-day as lost. She carried a car ofodls. WHllR WE LGNTHMlNG ABD UL IS Mohammed Reschad Effendi is Now the Ruler of Hamid Was bg Joint Action of Na tional A ssemblg and Head o f Moham medan Church Civil War Mai) Follow. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 27. Sul tan Abdul Hamid was deposed yester day by the joint action of the Nation al Assembly, which voted secretly and a religious -edict issued by . the Sheik Ul Islam, approving and legal izing the deposition. ; It is announced that the Sultan will be removed from Yildiz Kiosk "to-day. Mohammed Rechad Effendi, - the Sultan's brother was immediately pro claimed the new Sultan amid the wild est enthusiasm, the people in the streets carrying "The tyrants have fal len, hail to Rechad." Theceremony of Rechad's enthronement was imme diately held. CONSTANTINOPLE; . April 27. Sheik Ul Islam, the 'head of the Mo hammedan churuch, based: his decree deposing the Sltan on the ground that Abdul Hamid had violated the Mos lem religion in many inimical ' acts, therefore, it was not a sacreliglous act to dethrone him. f ' ' The secret session of the Assembly practically amounted to a trial of -Abdul on charges corresponding to im peachment as being inimical, better for the interests of the Turkish peo ple. ' ' : .'- I. ' Despite the joy in the city it is real ized , that the country 'generally , will resent the deposition and: a civil war is probable.1 It was reported at noon that Abdul Hamid had1' been taken prisoner during the night and, was now being held in the palace of Che raghan on the Bosphorus. , He was arrested during hte-night in Yildiz Kiosk by a party "of1 young Tuurks. . To-day's action was almost wholly political. The religious ceremony ceremony is expected at sunrise to morrow. , ; " - Rechad . is : 5 fyearsyOf age, and is A. Republican Evening .'' . Neiyspaper For Raleigh RALEIGH, April ; 27. The first is sue of The Raleigh Evening Republi can, a daily . newspaper, is to De issuea to-day. - It is hard to, learn "jusiit who Is to . manage and - edit the paper as no announcements wJH' bei made until Russia: Isto Protect Am ife ertean .' -. " " ' ''-'"' '.: -:j t ' ' '-" ST. - PETERSBURG, - April 27. As the result of a -conference ; between Foreign Minister, Iswolsky and Ameri can Ambassaodr John; Wx. Riddle, . the Foreign Office tb-day L.sent orders to General :SarnsHy. -iiiriS" the- relief expedition to Tabriz,; Persia, , tp: five i.i tii , iii TMmHirri, i -. i JjCi '.- , ,;":.;V;. ARB CLEANING UP FOR the oldest male descendant of the house of Othman, and is the 29th Sul tan since the. conquest of Constantino ple in 1451. , Rechad has had practi cally no' experience in governmental affairs. For the past 25 years he has practically ' been in prison in the pal ace. He lacks the craftinessand the initiative of Abdul and is expected to do what the young Turks demand. "CONSTANTINOPLE, April 27. A salute of 101 guns was fired at noon in hoonr of the new Sultan. This waa the official salute. - Soldiers at- Erzertum today arrest ed 50 of their officers and sent them to-Trebizond. It is feared here that the soldiers are reactionaries, and plans are .being, made to hurry a pun itive expedition to the scene. Among those of the Sultan's 'house hold arrested during the night is Sa ba Ed Di, .the Sultan's nephew. Ab dul's harem has been scattered to dif ferent places: MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL IN , COOPER CASE OVERRULED. NASHVILLE, April 27 Judge Hart this morning overruled the motion for a -new1 trial --for the Coopers, convicted- of- killing -Senator Carmack. The attorneys . for the Coopers m mediately gave-notice of appeal to the Supreme Court. . Castro Still Hopeful. PARIS, April 27. Castro said to day that he intended, to return to Ven ezuela and. resume his power. He still blames America as being the cause or all his trodbles.' He is still ill and claims to be penniless, but Js main taining a kingly suite in , one of the most' luxurious hotels in Paris. first issue is out, but Postmaster ' Willis Briggs and .Charles ,D.;. Wildes; it is understood, are, backing, iii . .It will be Issued through the municipal cam paign and 'longer', if the i. managers '-find they -can make it go. . . . . . ' the fullest protection to the. lives and property of American ''- in the. be leagued city. Ten thousand Russian troops are expected to reach Tabriz this week and make that city Russian headquarters for the . occupancy of qorthern Perjsja.1 and operto TAFT -WE MIGHT TH0MASVILLE MAN SUICIDES 3Ir. L. E. Peace, an Aged Employe of the' Baptist Orphiaiagc, in va Fit of Despondency, Hangs Himself Or ganizing ' a' Building and Loan As sotiution. Special to The Chronicle. v THOM ASVILLE, April 27. Mon day morning between 5 and 6 o'clock Mr. L. E. Peace, who lived in the western part of the town went to his barn, adjusted a rope about one of the joists and. then stepping on .top of a box tied the end of the rope about his . neck and stepped off the box and hung.there by the neck till death resulted from strangulation. Mr. Peace has been in declining health for some time and has acted strangely for a number of months. Once before . he made an attempt to take his life but was prevented and it was thought that he had given up such an idea. He was about 70 yeas old, a Confederate soldier, a good cit izen and an honest, upright man. He4 was one 'of the first, if not the first man to drive a nail , or do a stroke of work on the Thomasville Baptist or phanage and he has been an employe of this institution from the very day it began till the present and has been faithful to every-undertaking. He leaves a wife and a large family. Mayor W. O. Burgin.. has issued . a call for a- mass meeting to be held in the Opera Ho'use Friday nighf for the' purpose, of naming a, mayor and five commissioners to be voted on at the coming 'municipal election to be held 'Monday! May '3. . . A building and loan association is being .organized 'here . and the capi tal stock is being subscribed to 1 very liberally by. all classes of people. SHERIFF DEATON TO STATESVILLE Iredell's Sheriff? Moves from Moores- ville to the Capital Other Notes. Special to The Chronicle. . . STATESVILLE, 'April 27. Sheriff Deaton will .this' week, move his fam ily from Mooresville to ' the Poston house on West- Bell street, which he recently purchased from Mr. Poston. Mr! Poston's new residence on West Front street is not yet "ready for oc cupancy and he and his family will occupy the T. M. Mills house, corner Front and Centre streets, until his new home ' is completed. , Messrs. Isidore ' Wallace and L- B. Bristol have bought Mr. N. B. Mills' half interest in what is. known as the j joyner iarm, lyutticu. uxi me xajiuis ville macadam road, about a mile and one-half west of ; town, and they are now sole owners of this' very valuable property. The - farm Contains, two hundred acres and the price for the half interest was $5,000. ' Mrs.- R. .N. Hackett, ho recently underwent an operation for appendi citis at the sanatorium, was removed from, the sanatorium to Judge Long's Saturday.'; She "is rapidly regaining her. strength and her complete recov ery" is' "expected, v . . . Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Still Indisposed. A v NAIROBI, "April 27. Col Roosevelt and ' Kermit are : both still laid up to day at thevranch of 'Sir Alfred Pease. While the illness '.-'of - the . two Is : not considered serious they have been urg ed, by, Cirt Alfred to keep to the ranch A FIGHT FOR MONAZiTE . Large North Carolina Indus try Threatened by Small Duty. ONLY HIGH PROTECTIVE WILL KEEP IT ALIVE Germany Trust With Cheap Product Threatens the Life of the American Industry Output Has Decreased to One-Third in Four Years and Price Drops Below Cost of Produc tion Appeals to Southern Sena tors and Representatives. WASHINGTON, April 27. The monazite people of the South, most of whom operate in North Carolina, are making an aggressive fight to have a protective duty. put on the sand. As is well known by Chronicle readers several hundred thousand dollars are spent in . certain sections of the State annually for monazite and that thoae who profit by the enterprise are per sons who need the ready cash. . In talking with me about the indus try and the tariff a . North Carolina miner said: "The decline in the . monazite sand industry of North Carolina, as shown by the reports of the United j States Geological Survey, has attracted much attention, recently. The decline is charged, to the operations of . a Ger man trust, which is in control of the monazite deposits of Brazil, and it is stated that unless Congress comes to the relief of the Southern miners, the industry, which is already practically at a standstill will be entirely extin guished. . - ''The United States and Brazil are the only countries in wrhich the rare mineral is found in workable quanti ties. Its only use is f or the extrac tion of thorum nitrate, the material for. which incandescent- gas mantles are composed. The industry of min ing the monazite in this country forg ed ahead until 1905, when the production-in the Carolinas amounted to 1,500,000 pounds: " But : last year the production was less than onerthlrd. this' quantity. The sand "which is an exceedingly hard and heavy substance, is recovered by washing the gravel in and about the streams in the central and western parts of North Carolina, and in the western part of South Car olina: "The washing is done is sluice boxes in the same manner that the gravel and soil is washed for the re cover of placer gold. The miners make from $1 to $1.75 a day accord ing to the price of monazite, which in turn is determined by the price of thorium. Whole communities in the more remote sections depend on mon azite for currency, since their lands in the rough mountain sections are not adapted to the production of things that can be converted Into mon ey. Hence for ready money, they de pend on the monazite, the mining "of which has practically cut out the moonshine business. But by reason of the fact that the German trust has, by government con cession, control of the only other mon azite source, the Brazilian field,' where the; sand is mined by the cheap In dian labor, it has been enabled to sell thorium in this country at prices f arv below the cost of production here, which facts accounts for the pros tration of the monazit industry in the South. Because the monazite fields there are scattered over several thous and : square miles, the mining of it cannot be controlled and - therefore the aim of the German trust has been to make the industry so unprofitable as -to destroy It. "In the meantime the German trust refuses ' to sell the cheap Brazilian monazite, but converts it all into tho rium' through a manufacturing agree ment with a pool of German chemists, or chemical manufacturers. As a. re sult, the sale of the. cheap foreign tho rium here, the price of monazite has declined from 18 cents a pound, two years ago to 10 cents at the present time, but, as the product cannot rbe mined for less than 15- or 16 cents a pound and yield the miner a dollar a day on the average, .the industry is dying out as shown in the reports of the Department of Geology. The min ers are sending numerous letters to the Senators and Representatives of the South urging them to take action to relieve the situation, which is pe culiar in that it differs from the ordi- neary protection proposition "Monazite is taxed under the pro posed Payne act at 4 cents a pound, but the tax is insufficient at the start, avails nothing under any circum stances; first, because the only other supply is - controlled by a monopoly that does not sell the sand; and sec ond, because the thorium' (the only productof it) is taxed only 6 per cent ad valorem. The contention is that the taxing ' of the thorium an amount sufficient to equalize the dif ference in the labor cost of the Bra zilian monazite and the Carolina mon azite, the tare -t will hit the Ger man' trust only five cents a pound, with - the result that It produces tho rium for $2 a pound as compared with $4 a pound in this country. ; - V'It;is stated that the manifest ob ject of the German trust-is freezing out' the American thorium manufac turers' is to get control of the American- mantle factories. Once the Amer- jpap, wigpjy.. of thorium ;ls cut ofV th.e JUDGESHIP TOCONNORf Interesting Rumors and Possibilities Discussed : at Raleigh. ... -. ' ONE OR TWO APPOINTMENTS WOULD FALL TO KITCHIN State Officials Have it That' President Taft Will Announce' Appointment of Supreme Court Judge Connor to Federal Judgeship To-Morrow .. J. S. Manning, Judge Biggs or. Ex Judge Winston Would Succeed Con nor on Supreme Bench Interest ing Surmise, CHRONICLE BUREAU, i RALEIGH, April 2T. The eastern district United . States judgeship matter came in to-day for very much more discussion than usu al among the State officials to-day, the probability of the appointment of Judge H. G. Connor, now on the Su preme Court bench, by President Taft, being the special burden of discus sion. ' It seems that some one has confided to one and another of the State officials that they have it from very close to the President that he has made up his mind to appoint Judge Connor and is Just waiting for a formal conference .with National Committeeman Duncan and some other- Republicans before doing . so, his mirid-being already made up for Con nor. It is a fact that Mr. Duncan left" here Sunday .afternoon on No 66 and probably went to Washington, where he is expected to confer with " tfte 'President to-day. A number of the State officers are still doubtful about Judge Connor finally getting the appointment but they are discuss ing freely the probable course of Gov ernor Kitchin-in filling the vacancy on the - Supreme Court bench that would occur' if Judge Connor accept ed. ' Most frequently, mentioned a3 the probable successor to ' Connor is J. S. Manning, , Durham, who, besides" being a .lawyer.-of high , stand, manag-. ed the campaign er GoV.erfcor Kftchln. for the governorship. . However, he has "never." been on the Superior Court bench and J there seems to be spme sort of a precedent that a Supreme Court judge must, first serve on tlie inferior court, bench. If this should eliminate Mr. Manning, the impres sion prevails that the appointment would in all probability go to Judge J. Crawford Biggs, of Durham, as the Governor, it is thought, would choose his appointee from the fifth district. Then if Biggs were appointed, it is believed that the vacancy this' would occasion on the Superior Court bench would be filled by the appointment of some member of the Greensboro bar, most probably Major Charles Stedman, who was especially active in the con test of Mr. KItchin for Governor. Some think that the Supreme Court appointment" might go to ex-Judge R. W. Winston, who recently moved here from Durham to practice law 'with ex-Governor Charles A. Aycock. It is thought that the Governor would cer tainly be confined in his appointment to the fifth district section of the State unless he. went, for instance, to the Wilmington bar for his appointee, all the other sections being represented on the bench. This report that gives rise to. all this surmising- has It that the presidential appointment will probably ' De announced Wednesday. These discussions round up,' however, with the regretful expression that, after all, a Republican may get the . district judge appointment and elimi nate all these possibilities. f MR. EDWIN SHAVER, OF SALISBURY, IS DEAD. Was a Prominent Confederate Veteran and a Well-Known Temperance Worker. Special to The Chronicle. SALISBURY, April 27. Mr. Edwin Shaver, aged, 67 years, of this city. died at his home here yesterday, after a severe illness of about one week. He was one ; of the oldest and best- known citizens of. Salisbury and -was widely known as a temperance work er in the State. jte was a promi nent Confederate Veteran. He is survived by one daughter, now her-. self seriously ill. The funeral was held at the First Presbyterian chujeh here this after noon. , - mantle people who temporarily have cheap thorium will have to capitulate to the foreign trust. . . ' "There are 60,000,000 mantles made in this country annually and the rust by adding even one cent extra on the price of mantlescould swell its pro- , fits by $600,000 a year. Hence the anomalous situation which calls to protection to . preserve competition. , This feature v has excited interest among the Southern representatives. -In line with this peculiar fact, theJ largest thorium ufiers in this country, V the Welshbaoh Light Company, has , asked Congress to put a duty on tho- "rhjm to equalize the cost here and in Germany; The Welshbach company j uses "more than Jialf the thorium con- sumed In this country, but it is 'Will- ' ing to pay the higher price In order ! to keep open an -assured source w oft. Will v. i - i IP
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