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CHARLOTrE, N. C.. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1911
PRICE 5 CENTS
rty Thousand
jottars Is Paid
For Vernon Place
ntal {>f $! for
’•..:u’ty during the
■; a'ie srvoot dwell-
i b' Mi'. K. L. Vrrnon
\)n inio the
\ I of tho firm
' anr.-Miy. roal op-
1 ■ 'A luirt'has-e- - itV
. . h*r thive that
1 > i*!tl - adjoins
purchased
I itia,' h\ Mr
~ • >;rthpv a front-
' 1 >trrct. divorly
.'.•'itcs N’int. that
d',>:.rt niont
i- 'Ui hiii!;I
‘ I V. il' tu ak '.^1'
• r\inior por-
. :ii Tower ('ntii-
.>!• ;’nj. » rect a
htMV in
N ■ V O h'.i Tiam-
■','li' nrhot)d as
- :f\ T\’nch
' • lat' 'n tho
’ ^ i'^up' piacffi
fhr Trnwlp'
-• \';ir''c Park, pur-
1 ■ -r- w hjt'h ro-
‘ : for
n v ompan'- wi'i
- f -ihr. will br
• M'i'urt'an iint- f>\
> lo ivint.'- M'tun-
i-A.nor. is con-
V' rhr f>\pr«^ssioii
t >. . I'id ottou
la I ^ome are
-'ip r> .'i^.vrv now
> .1. haspd
1 \f n. n from
> .i.i’iiii It ha?
In tl'Tt tiiue.
,’i'f di. i i i.at
■■'t i-n hundr-'-d
■ he next fivo
- : ■r.'-i'! "i to the
Ot ■ ' iiif) by
h^pp
i ' 'IUm . \. and
, 'hr'*'' o*'
■ -IV ; r.^ hf'inu
■ ■.■ivuiv’''''Or*, it i -
V ri \ a'! a onnd
I tho i)OKtofRco that can be bought is be-
! in.u sought by real estate men. Busi-
; nesb- bids fair to switch just a trifle
I from Indopcudeuce Square towards
; the depot.
I Further down Trade street is the
\\ ilknr. pro(iorty about which much
has bppn said of late and upon which
it was inHmated the shops of the
intertirban would bo placed. An op
tion has been held on this property for
some tnne.
Whole Section Involved.
That this whole section ol the town
is involved in some ?reat project, or
I de\elopniont, is Mire. The property
I owners on Fourth street from the
I'rowley property, sold several days
I ago to the railroad have been ap-
I proachod by roal estate men within
■ the past lew days, in regard to sell-
inc. Tlip V hole blo'k is inchiiled in
a wotild-i>e i>iircha£e..
Those approached in regard to sell-
ins are Messrs. C'has. Moody, \Vm.
Anderson. .1. \V. Zimmerman, H. C.
Irv\in. K. B. Littlefield and tieorgc
Xewcomb. I'lie News learns that Mr.
Moody has put his^ tiguros at .SiT.onu
Paid iv!r H. C. Irwin today
don’t know what lo do i hate to
sell my p'ace for it is very convenient
and suits nu’ familv i think my
neighbors feel as I do about it."
Nor aro necotiations confined to
T'ourth street. F'ronositions have-been
made to .Mr. W. P. Buchanan for his
three pieces of property on Mint
irirect. faring Tan^e Park, also to
Mr. R .1. Sifford for his two laces,
are on the corner of Mint and P'ounh,
1 (' othvi on Mint just in rear of the
corner.
It is understood that the real estate
conipanv owning the rresb>terian hos-
pit.^1 building \ alues its property at
$inO.p-Mi. The property sold several
years a so at
i^un’or that Mars-hall Fields ihe
great department store kingi; from
diicggo. T\ould come to fharlo'te is
' denied by those who are in a posi-
!tlon to know. Bui x^hiie this firm may
I not locate here, it is believed that
i other rapitalists from away arp con-
] "idorably interested in the growth of
j the Queen City and use an opportunity
I to nurchase now before Charlotte dirt
t bf'eo'noif^ au\ dearer.
^ Vv
m
Secret Behind Decision
To Mobilize Troops
Gradually Leaking Out
Washington, March 11.—The secretj around that Ambassador Wilson had
history of the orders to 20,000 Unit- made very gloomy reports about the
ed State® troops to guard the Mexi- conditions in Mexico and the inabil-
can border is gradually unfolding atjity of Diaz to i.on;roI the situation.
oard of Governors
Southern Commeicial
Congi ess Holds Meeting
' - The ne\^ ly
• of Ihe
C' nuess mot
11(1 u') tiif ItUoi-
■ .. V hil l; closed
I r a xt \ ear's
• ft t-' th- pxecu-
ii-ni'd adoi'tod
I'esiilent Taft,
.le other si ^ak-
!i -'fending, and
r :ariiza’ions of
i ! f he nipeting a
’o enlarge th'
■ r!\ by c.reat,-
.: i' nrr of good
11.—Stales
oiM'ained a stib-
:• ( niied States
Haile' , of Texas,
I wime.^s in the
S‘naior John J.
ho is chargpd
' nator David H.
: hun SL’.oOO for
'.'■'inier for Unit-
^ deposit slip
■ htate hank of
aid he deposited
■as taken to '^^'aslJ•
. i:)mraitiee invei^ti
'• Iion and the last
■ in>re?bouts of t.lio
■la'fr,- fiiiiley held it
: siieech in the
! Loriir.er and dc-
• M^'or\ Bailoj’s e.v
V iiilc he was ad-
■ ;i' >ome one took
1 nnd and that lie
ho It was
■ ' ;.et fur trial Mon-
lie Statement.
iireh II.—Although
li' 'o a late hour to-
1 : (M ved with the sub-
Jiini to testify in
> S(;nator Broderick,
'■n ;i i.tateinent con-
• ‘I'l'^arance of an aflfi-
■I' relative to the de-
n the state national
■ i'- ScnuU»r Holstlaw,
' iiavc taken place in
roads and commissioner of education.
The new hoard of governors includes
thf* following;
i-''lorid:). Senator Duncan T- Fletch-
ei'. .iucksonville, and Dr. Lincoln i-lul-
ley. D-,land.
(^•eor da—.Vsa G. Candler. Atlanta.
N rth Carolina—General Julian S.
C'^'■r. Durham, and C. N. Evans, Wil
mington.
South Carolina. H. J. Haynsw’orth,
Greenville, and John J. McMahan, Co
lumbia.
Mrginia—Thomas S. Southgate, Nor
folk. and flenry’ C. Stuart. Elk Gar
den.
\\>‘st \ irginia—R. B. Naylor. Wheel
ing, and Dr. 1. C. White. Morgantow^n.
Anti-T. reatmg
Bill Is Passed
Jefferson City. Mo., March 11.—'^he
anti-treating bill passed the house this
afLornoon by a vote of 82 to 17. If the
;-enate should concur in this action
and tho governor sign the bill, it will
no longer be lawful to invite a friend
to partake of a cooling or invigorating
libation in a thirst parlor.
Mr. Bedsworth of Callaway county
called the measure under the suspen
sion of the rules, and to the surprise
even of the legislators themselves, it
was passed. Some of the members re-
forving jocularl.v to the provisions of
th(/bill but a large majority considered
it seriously.
The act in brief applies only to
ireatiiig places where liquor is sold.
It will not liar a person from '‘Betting
'em up'’ in his own home.
CPiurbER MONTANA COALING Hon CRUISE.
In this picturr is shown one of Uncle Sam’s great fighting boats in the act of coaling for the cruise to
r/Iexico which will btart in the immediate future. This is one of the ships of the Fifth division that has been
ordered to prepare for active service immediately and as soon as the orders are given it will proceed with its sis
ter ships of the sauadron to the waters off ih? Texas Const.
In the top left hand corner is shov.'n a piciiure of Captain J. G. Quinby who has charge of the vessel.
Mrs. Rosa Hayes
Was Justified In
Shooting FlOy
d
So Says a Jury at Whiteville
the
Mexico City. March 11.—The repub
lic of Mexico is now'^ under a mild form
ofmaruallawasthcresultof cmfwyE m
of martial law as tlie reault of the
suspension of the constitutional guar-
[ latter one was nolle pressed at
beginning of the trial this week. , - • ,
hii ;7« V^r/iirf Tnt^l much time was'lost in securing; antees by the government this after-
uy lib VcraiCl Jxenucieu LrUie\ ^^ men^' er of whieh wis noon. Tlic; !-'r:>.-l3irtation also ordered
I minister of the (.fospel and who fon- summary military trials for the accus-
ducted religious services while the ed and craf\\ ypshrdletaonicmfypwcmf
jury v.as in its rooms eacli night. Tho
student from
Yesterday Ajternoorr, Ac-
quitting Her of Murder.
[Rl
OUT INFIBHT
WITH mum
■ ■' for High Point.
arc preparing plans
or .Nir. S. U DaviK, and
-f" cL ot Uiuli Point.
New York, March 11-—After a
;-.iruggle which has been going on for
three years, during which German op-
po.sition and local prejudice have had
to be fought constantly, the right to
develop the vafet mineral wealth of
I (iuatemala has at last been secured
■ by a group of American capitalists.
' At the head of tiiis combination are
former Govil'nor A. E. Springs, of
Montana; former Senator William A.
Clark, of that »tate, and a number of
capitalists closely identified with the
Guggenheim Interests. French capital
|s also invested In the deal.
Kidnaped Boy Escape*.
Corry, Fa., March 11,—James, H*
ycav-old adopted son of Edward Beck-
• or was kidnapped by a strange man
late yesterday, but he jumped front
j tbo buggy five miles from here and
' walked home, arriving about midnight.
^ Meanwhile his relatives had searched
' the town.
She Pleaded She was Defend
ing Her Honor When She
Fired With Automatic Re
volver Bullets Into Boay of
Medical Student,
Special to The News.
Whiteville, N. C., March 11.—"Not
guilty” was the verdict of the jury
late this afternoon, and Mrs. Rosa D.
Ilayes, who some time ago shot to
death Robert M. Floyd, a popular med
ical student from Charleston who havl
been called to her home to treat a
mole on her face, walked from tne
court room a free woman. Her hus
band who had been charged with ac
cessory to the murder was also acquit
ted and he accompanied his wife to
the home in the door of which Floyd’s
dead Ijody lay some weeks ago, with
more than nine bulMs throngli it.
Never before in the history of White-
,-lile has the place been so aroused as
it has been by the killing of the
young man. Floyd was popular with
all who knew- him. He had kuown
Mr?. Hayes before her marriage, was
well acquainted with her husband and
had been in Whiteville but a few hours
when his lifeless body was talxn from
the stoop of the Mayes home. Stand
ing above the body was the young
wife with a smoking automatic revol
ver in her hand.
She had fired in defense of her hon
or, so she graphically told the jury,
and the tw'elve men believed her re
cital of the facts and justified her
act. Able counsel for the state and
for the defense had argued all of the
day. Every phase of the case had been
dwelt upon. As a woman scorned
Mrs. Hayes was pictured by the pros
ecution. It w'as attempted to show^ that
she loved Floyd and learning that l.e
might soon be married, shot him. In
contradiction to this was the testimony
of the woman defendant—the only eye
witness to the shooting.
Floyd, so she told the jtiry in a
straightforward manner, with but little
evidence of nervousness, came to her
home in the afternoon .after having
just left her husband’s harbor i-hop.
He inquired how' the mole on her face
w-as getting along, and then forced
himself upon her. In a tussle both fell
upon the bed. and she reached under
a pillow, found the automatic revolver
and, backing away from the man com
menced to fire rapidly. Not until the
revolver w'as empty did she 2ease. and
even then she found another revolver
and fired two shots.
Literally riddled with bullets the
young medical student fell just in the
door. Death was almost instantaneous.
Hearing the shots Mr. Hayes left his
barber shop and w'ent to his home and
there learned from his wife what had
happened.
WMthin a few hours afterw’ards Mrs.
Hayes was arrested and charged with
the murder. She all along said she
shot in defense of her honor. Soon af
ter her incarceration her husband was
arrested as an accessory and another
member of the family was soon, too,
I in the toils. The case against the
.^tate offered a young
C’harleston who qualified as an ex
pert in handwriting and who testified
to having read letters from Mrs. Hayes
to Floyd in which she spoke in tho
most affeciionat.e terms. One letter
had requested F'oy dto come to White
ville and treat the mole on her i'ace,
there being some fear that it was a
cancer.
Many witnesses testified to the ex
emplary character of the dead man.
All praised him in the highest terms.
None spoke ill of Robei't Floyd. His
relatives employed eminent counsel to
assist the prosecution and every inch
of groimd w'as contested.
Hayes retained the best counsel
who made powerful appeals to the
jury in behalf of Mrs. Hayes. With her
little child playing about her, inno
cent of all that was transpiring, Mrs.
Hayes presented a picture on the wit
ness sta'nd that appealed at once to
the jurymen. They believed her every
word, for they did not deliberate long
when given the judge's charge.
The argument had all ended early in
the afternoon and both sides submitted
charges to the jury. The judge read
the charge in the afternoon, and amid
intense silence the jury filed out of
tbo room with the fate of the young
wife and mother in its hands.
When a knock came on the jury
door and It aws announced that a ver
dict had been reached, the court room
was crowded. The drop of a pin could
have been heard, so Intense was the
suppressed excitement.
“Gentlemen, have you arrived upon
a verdict?” asked the court.
The foreman handed the indictment
to the clerk and in a clear voice the
words rang out: ‘'We the jury find
the prisoner not guilty.’’
Mrs. Hayes leaned slightly forward,
breathed a deep sigh of relief, and
turned to her husband in whose arms
she w’ept. After the congratulations
of their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes
returned to their home, the first night
they have spent there since the terri
ble tragedy that shocked tw^o states.
ed of pillage and of destroying rail
roads. telegraph lines and all other
public servicep roperty. The cival
trials have been stopped.
the state department and the war
department.
It is stated that disquieting and
alarming dispatches w'ere being from
time to time received from Ambassa
dor Henry Lane Wilson in Mexico
and he stated himself this morning
that he was summoned to Washing
ton. On his arrival here all the offi
cials, from the high and to the 'lewd
est, declared that he came home en
tirely for personal reasons, although
he stated the opposite himself in
the interview given out last night at
Indianapolis.
Mr. Wilson was called into confer
ence at the state department on Mo:i-| .
day, the day before the orders were caled
issued for the troops to move. His
conl’erence was with Mr. Huntington
Wilson, the assistant secretary of
state. On that day, the result of the
talk between Ambassador Wilson,
and the state department was com-
mtinieated to the secretary of war,
and the secretary ordered the quar
termaster’s department and the com
missary department lo get up a plan
in conjunction with the '"hief of staff
and general Witherspoon, the head
of the war college, for the mobiliza
tion of a division bf the army. In
structions were also sent to the navy
department to prepare tentative or
ders for the immediaLe sailing of
the cruiser squadron from New York.
No orders w'ere issued for the
movement of troops on Monday. The
cabinet meeting was to be held on
the foiiowing day. At 11 o’clock, the
time for the meeting of the cabinet,
the president still withheld the orders
for the troops to move. Secretary of
War Dickinson went to the whits
houes at It o’clock, but he returned
in haste to the war department and
sent for Huntington Wilson, with
whom he had a half hour’s confer
ence. Mr. Wilson also saw General
Wood, the chief of staff.
After this conference Dickinson
returned to the white house at mid
day, the hour to which the cabinet
meeting had been postponed. General
Wood and his staff remained at their
posts ready to send the orders and
a few minutes before the adjourn
ment of the cabinet, Col. Bailey, who
is now with a regiment at Galveston,
rushed over -fo the war department
official and said:
“Let her go,” and it went.
Later in the day it w'as buzzed
Those outlaws w^hohavebeenscourg-
Thot-e outlaws who have been
scourging Mexico during the revolti-
tion, under the provisions of today’s
proclamation, will likely meet fate,
but little less- severe than that dealt
out at the summary trials of brigands
soon after the adoption of he Mexican
constitution in 1857, wiien every accus
ed offender was shot.
The Mexican constitution, changed
from its original form by several
amendments, is now' almos-t identical
with that of the United States. Each
state has its ow'n judicial officers and
its ow'n special code, but the federal
laws always supersede.
Those Killed At
Casas Giandes
JOSE LIMANTOUR RILED AT
THOUGHT OF PRESIDENCY.
New York, March 11.—Senor Liman-
tour, the Mexican minister of finance,
was manifestly indignant tonight when
his attention w'as called to the story
that American financial interests with
dominating holdings in Mexico have
on foot a plan to procure the resigna
tion of President Diaz and to set up
Senor Limantour himself in the execu
tive chair.
“OUR MEANING PEACEFUL,”
SAYS TAFT TO DIAZ
And that perfectly explains
the mission of the great num
ber of News “Want Ads” print
ed today—more than printed in
any other newspaper published
in the Carollnas.
Soldiers of Fortune that Car
ry the Password.
By OTHEMAN STEVENS.
El Paso, Tex,. March 11.—The mem
bers of the foreign legion killed at
Casas Grandes on Monday were;
Raoul Madero. brother of President
Francisco I Madero; R. A. Harrington,
captain of American legion, soldier of
fortune, former resident of New York
city; Gius>eppi Garibaldi, ranking ma
jor and member of the staff, grand
son ot Garibaldi, the Italian patriot
and liberator. Young Garibaldi is a
well known soldier of fortune of the
present generation. He served as-at
tache under the British in South Af
lica and held the commission of cap
tain in the Italian army and has been
colonel of cavalry in Venezuela and
Nicaragua and other south and Cen
tral American republics. John Greer,
former deputy sheriff at Lincoln, N.
M., and well known in El Paso and
vicinity; Lieutenant A. Valencia, of El
Paso; Roderiguez Gutien z de Lara,
Mexican socialist, former judge at
Guerrero, late of Los Angeles; Cap
tain F. J. Casavantes, engineer from
Guerrero; f^eorge Moore, Sergeants
Heath and Bedwell.
It wa.s understood that all American
officials were disinclined to say pub
licly that Ambassador Wilson v as
the authority tor tiiese alarming re
ports which reflected on the Diaz
administration for the reason that
they would naturally make him per
sonal non grata, either at This time,
or in the future.
The mystery of the Pituation that
existed from .Monday until Tuesday
at 1 o’clock is wliai was the addi
tional information received specifical
ly between 11 a. m. and 12 middav
on Tuesday v.hicii Secretary Dickin
son took with him fo the cabinet
meeting on which Col. Bailey predi-
his famous order, “Let her
so.”
It will, of course, require the pro
duction of the official correspondenco
to detcimiiie whether the Ambassa
dor Wilson reports and what the
daily report.^ from consular ofticets
were alone sufficient to justify the
hurry orders to the troops.
Tt will reqtiire these documents
also to'show whether or not Ambas
sador Wilson iirouaht any personal
requests from President Diaz.
The message of President Taft to
President Diaz in w’hich he says It is
the duty of the American gover,nment
“to maintain Ihe sovereignty” of tho
other republics is regarded here as
Taft’s definition of the Monroe doc*
trine.
It has been taken to mean that
President Taft is to sustain and
maintain the present sovereignty of
Mexico as against any attempt from
the outside to interfere with Its in
ternal affairs. This is, how^ever, only
another way of defining the tradi
tional policy of the United States
with regard to the republics on the
western hemiaphere. In qr.oting Pres
ident Taft’s language Ambassador de
La Barra intimated very strongly
that the United States would apply
this doctrine with intensive force to
Mcxico as against interference by
foreign powers.
Reports from Mexico are that the
ambassador has not been popular
among the Ame'iran residents there.
Though accredited lo a Spanish
speaking ■ repui.iic, tie doe.' not un
derstand the Spanish language, an
impediment, it may be pointed out,
agaihst a thorough and complete un
derstanding of the situation in the
country to '-vhich he is accredited.
^ THE WEATHER.
♦ Washington, March 11—Fore-
♦ cast for Sunday and Monday—
♦ North Carolina, fair Sunday;
^ Monday fair in southern, prob-
♦ ably rain in north portion;
slightly warmer Sunday.
^ South Carolina, generally fair
♦ Sunday; Monday unsettled;
moderate northeast to east
^ winds.
E
CO. MEN STRIKE
No Right to Interfere.
New Haven, Conn., March 11,—Pro
fessor Arthur M. Wheeler, head of the
history department of Yale, said to
night that America has no right to in
terfere in Mexican affairs except un
der extraordinary conditions. “This
should not be done” said Professor
Wheeler, “unless some overt act affect
ing our interest w^as the result of in
surrection now' in progress, or unless
the Mexican government asked us to
interfere, when we could interfere if
we cared to do so.
Watch the Want Ad Page 8.
Black Hugger Sentenced.
Media, Pa., March 11.—Seven years’
freedam from the unbidden endear
ments of Alonzo Madison, the colored
hugger, were guaranteed the w'hite
women of this section who the negro
had annoyed, when Judge Broomall
sentenced the man to the Eastern
penitentiary for that term.
Madison would hug his victims and
murmur endearing terms to them.
OAY WITH TE
SOLDIERS m
IT
New York. March 11.—Fifteen hun
dred drivers employed by the Adams
Express Company went on strike to
day and leaders of the greater New
York district council of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters an
nounced tonight that the strike would
extend Monday to all large express
companies.
Statements declaring a determina
tion to fight to a finish were issued
by both the union and the representa
tives of the Adams Company. Attempts
by the concern to move freight with
the aid of strike breakers resulted in
a few incidents of violence during
the day.
The union members assert that the
express companies since the settle
ment of the -strike last fall on an
“open shop” basis, have been deliber
ately weeding out the union members
from the roll of employes. A statement
by the district council said: —^
“Realizing that they would be cn- can, commander of the department of
tirely wiped out if they did not take Texas and a squadron of cavalry. He
a stand in the matter of a strike im- was taken at once to the manouvre
mediately, the Adams Express men grounds. As thirteen cannon boomed in
came to the conclusion that it would, salute the entire camp w a.s not.ificU
be advisable to strike now, while the j of his arrival. General Duncan at once
express season is still at its height, I turned the command over to his supo-
rather than lose their entire member- rior officer. Waiting in camp for Gen-
ship. The same sentiment exists eral Carter were Brigadier General;!
San Antonia. Tex., March 11—With
the themometer above ninety degrees
and the*sun pouring down on an un
sheltered camp, the officers and en
listed men arriving at the manouvre
grounds at Fort Sam Houston, are
suffering terribly. Many of them came
out of the North and the change was
very sudden. Summer clothes are be
ing Issued but this has done little to
relieve the situation. A number of
prostrations from heat occurred dur
ing the day, btit none of them are of
a serious naliire. The dust at the
camp is terrific and this is adding
greatly to the discomfort.
The day was without developments
of a sensational nature. The feature
was the arrival of General \\ illiam H.
Carter, who immediately assumed com
mand. The officers were kept busy
arranging for the arrival of new^ bodies?
of troops. Since before daylig'ht this
morning train after train load of sol
diers have been rolling into Fort Sam
Houston. The terminals of the three
railroads in San Antonio are packed
with cars. The trains came so rapidly
that the spur to Fort Sam Houston
could not accommodate them and the
soldiers had to V'c detrained in the
,\ards of the various railroads. Thia
resulted in column after column of
troops march’ng through the city to
the sound of drums and bugles.
At 6:4^ o’clock this morning Major
General William H. Carter arrived in
the city. He w’as met at the depot by
Brigadier General Joseph W. Dun-
among the express drivers of all of
the other companies. The strike will
become general on Monda.v.”
Union leaders said that the men
would fight for a closed shop this time.
Conflcting Lav^s Clash.
Lancaster, Pa., March 11.—A con-
flicet between the State Health de
partment and the City Board of health
has resulted in the arrest of Dr. J.
M. Shartle, of this city. State Regis
trar. A local ordinance requires that
hpysicians shall report deaths to the
City Board of Health, under penalty
of a fine of $10.
Dr. Shartle holds that, having re
ported to the State Health Department
he had fulfilled all legal obligations. As
it is desirous to determine the author
ity of the state in the premises. Dr.
Shartle will be represrented' by the At
torney General’s department.
F. A. Smith, R. W. Hoyt and Joseiih
W. Duncan. Brigadier Generals M. P.
Mans and W. S. Schuyler arrived to
night.
Before 0 o'clock General Carter had
inspected the camp and complimented
Brigadier General Duncan on the ex
cellent and ^tompleleness of tho prep
arations which had been made.
The tents went up like magic. There
.are now on the tented fiehl more than
ten thousand officers and enlist,ed men.
By Sunday night the full 17,500 will be
in camp.
Acid Tinge to Contest.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 11.—The
hearing in the McLean-Bowman Con
gressional contest was enlivened by
Congressman Bow'man insinuating that
one of the lawyers against him was a
liar. Then it looks as though there
would be a big row. But things wer«
finally quieted down.