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QUICK RESULTS USE THE NEWS" CLASSIFIED ADS—THEY BRING BEST RESULTS—ONE CENT A WORD’ Pages SECTION. B B IE CHARLOTTE NE V\^ 20 Pages » * • ONE fSCTION. , 2, NO. 10 CHARLOTTE. N. C.. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 19. 191 1 PRICE 5 CENTS t Street Fi om "ourth To First Bought By Muiphy Value of Property, h'ch Interurban De- to Be Built, Will Than $200,000. ded Are Silent Wit- Large Transactions Power Company j Moving Spirit, TO mmm i ;n the ngpreg?ite m' i.i, and lying in >- n l-o\irth and First T corners of the in- ^ht'ares, has been al etitate firm of . ' ouipany. a glance V oflice of the #eg - '''ing this and be- (iouce to warrant a of this propertj •' of some mam- r;r'dings. .•p 1 f’nubr blit tha’ . (\>D’;nay is be- ' a; ■, that upon . f- two crovs Th>- two 1 I j; 'enuor, are to ib inrenirhan 1 'h.. r'lii tc and - . li Every . o; ?*iint street i '.o First \vas yur- ^ r nipany. %vitli »ne k'rowloy plare I Fi>iirrh a »1 -i ,g Vanre C ourt. . .. d b;. F. 1'. Al»- , tl;.‘ iii'ioe paid be- F d Per All. im all tho ( . '",v1pv pki( Mur- .'■II A;il;“tf tS: C'oui- • • 'er fov real es- ' jr ill ho ’.llOIltll, • ; . ;t; I- U' ; itea .vb-f>i. t'vhi' a> "it'd l.r f ’ .1 /. V T-v )i> I .>& i'U' •'t! tr' ui cnn - 'r^a- . , ,, vh'"' f ; lll»^ ■ -i, . ig.irb- ,r is andei- I tils proj"'rty o:i H- «''n-taiiil,N irrie and it was said • . •’ ! aiid b-1 has .nioilpr part ot ,i ;ils wvve made •\ugusta. Ga.. March IS.—President Tafi will, it, is stated here tonight, appoint. President Abbott Lawrenoo Lowell, of Harvard I'niversity, a mem ber of the commission to investigate the second-class mail rates and recom mend a price at which magazines shall be hauled. The two members of this commis sion already appointed are Mr. Justice Hughe.**, of New York: and former Solicitor General Lawrence Maxwell, of Cincinnati. While the president has not definitely decided to name Mr. Lowell, it is practically certain that be will do so as soon as he returns to A'ashington. Thp president’s vacation comes to an end tomorrow. He will leave at 3 o'liock in the afternoon over the Southern Railway for Washington, ex pecting to arrive there at 9 o’clock. He looks better than he has for months. He has acquired a respectable tan and has lost the worried look that marked his countenance during the closing days of congress. Wliile here the president succeeded admirably in “just loafing” as he himself puts ii. When he arrived he said that he did not propose to do one more bit of business than he was compelled to do and he has not. He brought the Charles W. Morse and John D. Walsh pardon papers with him and after opening them bundled tliom up again for inspection after tie pets homo. While here he received reports daily from the state, wf;r, and navy departme^its as to the changes in the Mexican situation but he initiated no new moves in that direction, prefer ring to wait until be reaches Wash- iagton tu prosecute that matter furth er. One or two business engagements were made by the executive while here. bu they were of minor inipor- tancp He s'ply ^r^ve himself cer to eolf. moToring anti loafing, knowing full ■‘>>'11 that he \\ill have plenty to do whon he again reaches the White House. This morning the president played his last game of golf and won. This afternoon he drove to a fishing club near here. til.- rt-'gisier of , . however. vtHli.inu t‘-. re:-ui ,;:’i;ible p'jnsider- .-■i' to determine J • 0 of property 'h-'s^e ■'^•ho did sell . ...>'"9rtained and V..IP easy tf> arrive alue of more thanj ^^-n are clam-like ' IT' tt.e subject -v-'h ^he pvop- f them to deny i.' r the Southern 'O they take the to,-' pr. to Talk of II' none of the M tr'Hn.-ierred from ' ;fure holders. But lar'ferred. there •T finding out how ni'i, except by see- • . sold of Property. • t,f the proper I.V haudft, deeds for •u tiled In the court ' :,flue:hlln, hoUHe and !*ii Btreets; Julia M- .■-•-y p, property lit Pop- .' •otp, Hattt© L and ■'’'nt Hireet between : b rd streets; W. P. Second and Mint • 'A. Meyer end wlfp, •■'.vnn street*: H. r!, Mint hetwern -tropta; M. A. Rnd • > "i;d street between p'rcetH: E. B. ■ ''f.', .Mint itreet near -!"*th and wife, Mnt ; and Fourth Btreetw. :.r, A. and B. H. n\l Third p.ireetn; W, D, ■ ‘ hetweon Third Rhd T. M. Shelton and tf»'et between Third -roetg; A. H. Rynn. 1 '..hurch ind Poplar, .1 Heveral loti. Mr. Murphy hud iis on all the ‘‘iey place and Mr. Ab* • d thli lait week. It 'rom Fourth to First ':nt street the Southero ciny—it la an almost re- that the company rn,,erty, the real estate only at agent«-—owns •jad every lot ^.nown that the Interur- I. Charlotte and Klugi 1 come Into the city ' »And it Ifl alao a fact , jeation that two depots erected at the terminal ■one large freight depot I’lally as large, If not -t*nger depot. All of the f-r side of the street will • these structures. They Jern In every way and ag reat extent in bring- lnu«d on Page Five.) TRINITY DEFEATS ELON COLLEGE IN SLOW GAME. Sp^> ial to The News. Durham. X. C’., March IS.—In a very slow game of baseball Trinity defeat ed Elon College here this afternoon by the score of 7 to 2. The batteries for Trinity were Sam Gant and Maddox; for Elon, Pearson and Dickie. Trinity made 11 hits and 4 errors, and Elon made 2 hits and .=> errors. Trinity scored 3 runs in the first inning, 1 in the second, and 3 in rhe seventh. Elon’s only 2 runs were scored in the seventh. CONCLUDING ARGU.MENTS IN THE WALKER DIVORCE CASE. Newport, R. I.. March IS.—The con cluding arguments were presented this afternoon in the divorce proceed ings which Mrs. James W. Grimes Walker brought against her husband, the well known civil engineer, for the custody of their children, but decision was reser\ed by Judge Darius Baker until lawyers for both sides have done their utmost to effect a recon ciliation. ‘Judge Baker- said he had talked to the children relative to their parents and their attitude had impelled him to take this course. THIRTY DEAD FEDERALS ARE FOUND BY CORRESPONDENT. Cr &1HCE H&riSARP A^OUrme VEJWW IN TWE VATS, ME PREFERS TO Wye Mlt> TDOPE EVTERNALOf' AH ACTIVE VOLCAKSO 1 ^'IL Bride Oj A Month Attempts Suicide In Greensboro Hotel AtTTENTtON ? ^ mt- •mSY'LL &OOH 0E HERS. 1 BEID BACK Driven to Desperation Because She Says Her Husband Had Deserted Her, Mrs. Farrar Royster Shot Heiself in Hotel Parlor, CARTOONLETS ON CURRENT TOPICS. TheMexican Situation F u II u Reviewed El Paso, Tex.. March 18.—A news- pai>er rorrespondent, writing from Ca sas Grandes, says the insurrectos have disappeared to the south, evidently in the direction of Chihuahua. He says fifty soldiers recently sent out from ('asae Grandes failed to return and laier others who were sent out saw a great flock of buzzards and on in vestigation found thirty dead federals. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN IS 51 YEARS OF AGE SUNDAY Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—William Jennings Bryan will b© 51 years old tomorrow and the anniversary of his birth wiU be celebrated elaborately at Fairview by democrats of the Bryan belief w-ho will assemble from all parts of the country. “Three Cent Mayor'’ Is III. Cleveland. O., March 18.—It Is said today that Tom L. Johnson, the finan cier and politician, Is critically ill and that his physicians have little hope for his recovery. Mr. Johnson Is the famous “three cent mayor” of Cleve land. THE WEATHER (By OTHEMAN STEVENS.) El Paso, Texas, March 18.—A bit of T\ar machinery from the time of Maxi- milau is likely- to play hot shot on the Federals and has the possibility of becoming a matter for grave delib eration by the state department. For last night, some one, presumably an insurrecto colonel, swiped a 4-potmder cannon which was E^n ornament to the El Paso city hall. It was a piece which Maximilian had purchased over 50 vears ago in this country and which the government then confiscated. It finally fell into the hands of a Mc- Ginnity club and was used for punc tuation to political harangues. One day it was fired and an ex cessive charge of powder shattered the ^\indow' glass for some blocks, for which tho club was called on to pay. it was thei' prPheiited to ihe city and rhreshcd by cbains in fr.mt of the ‘Ouncil chamber. This morning at lialf past three ihe old piece was seen churning its way down Myrtle avenue, hitched behind an automobile, rumbling like a steam roller. El Paso police force and the deputy L'nited States marshals did not hear the creaking of the gun carriage and today no sign of the gun exis-ts. The junta of this city disclaims all kiiowledge of the affair. Colonel Mason, the veteran of many Central Amer ican wars, was naturally suspected. When he came from his hotel this moi'ning he w as asked if he had the cannon. Colonel Mason amiled amiably and turned his pockets inside out as proof that he' was innocent and even offered to allow his suit case to be searched. Later he seemed to have disappeared, for a search for him by the corres pondents failed to find him. Lew Dockstader came to town and mourned the fact that Colonel Mason or any one else had captured the can non. “As soon as I found it was a smooth bore.” said Dockstader. "I wanted to use it on pass seekers. They would make smooth bore ammunition.” The cannon is a muzzle loader. In surrectos tell me it is just what they want. It can be fired with black pow der and loaded with stones, frijoles, Juarez- cigars, or any other deadly mi&sle at hand. FYom Albuqerque comes the story that Colonel Roosevelt is having his sw'ord grounded and his epualettes burnished ready for service. He is said to have told Governor Curry there, Curry being one of his rough riding comrades, that the United States \va.s soon to be in very serious trouble and that the intended to raise nine regi ments, the command of one being placed at Governor Curry’s disposi tion. This statement, taken in connec tion with the colonel’s capacity for commanding rapid ftre batteries of typewriters, may be of interest Tokio. The- iUdy be true it import r.nt. ♦ Chihuahu-, from tiic city of Chuhua- hau north, remains in a condition of splendidly melancholy isolation. Sonora remains in the same i redicarnent. But military operations on each side seem- sw'ord ground and his epualettes for 48 hours. The bu::zard& are the only busy creatures in that region. Down by Colonia Dublan. some people saw' great flocks of buzards and where the buzzards were creaking the torn bodies of 30 Federal soldiers were lo’ind and what was left of them w’as given a decent burial. This is the sombre side of the comic opera war stuff which has been woveri about this very serious little revolution. Peace talk has ceased. The dove has not chirped today. Junta officials still talk stolidly about the abdication of Diaz before negotiations can be considered and offer no plan of half way concessions. Meanw'hile Senor Limantour is hast ening to ChapulTepec with his propos als of concessions and General Diaz, with his chin sticking out like the prow of a battleship, is expected to call a new election for the pi'esidency. Possibly . blind man may see him dropping this, but no one else will. Sensational Statement Jhat Japan Is Preparing For Gieat War With U. S. Young Lady Reniged On Physical Examination Omah, Neb., March 18.—Had it not been for the inflexible rule that Uncle Sam has laid dowm that every appli cant to the na\T must submit to a physical examination. Miss Helen Ak ers. as she gave her name, might be on the high seas, scrubbing decks on some warship along the Mexican coast, or taking part in the Maneouvres. Miss Akers, wearing men’s clothes and giving the name, Heniy Akers, applied at the local navy recruiting station for enlistment. The applicant had all qualifications as to height, weight and wind. "Now' strip and we will finish with you." cominantleii Lieutenant Do-wns, as he recorded on the application the observations he had made. Here "Henry” balked, say ing. “I guess I don’t want to go to w^ar.” “But you have enlisted now, and you have got" to go, no getting out of it.” Here the applicant broke down and confesFed “'be” w.i; ejri, that ohp was 2- .veaiT, cf agt; tha’r/ i e rah away from hone in New ^o.k four years ago. taking an assumed name, and had since passed as a man, doing nearly every kind of ^'‘ork that would be expected of a man and that her latest ambition was to become a ma rine. She said her parents were well- to-do people but that .she had not heard from them for more than three years. New York, March 18.—In a state ment w'hich Joseph G. Robin dictated today to his law-yer, Samuel J. Gold smith, he tried to shift all the blame for the shady transactions that went on in the Robin enterprises upon FVed- eiick K. Morris, w'ho was Robin’s confidential man and James T. Wood, who held positions in many of the Robin companies. Both Moris and W'ood have been indicted by the gi'and jury and Morris has turned a state’s witness and told District Attorney Whitman some things that have been of considerable avail to him in the investigation into the Carnegie Trust scandal. Morris has asserted that it was Rob in who was responsible for all that oc- cured in the Robin companies; but Robin maintains that Morris, Wood and the others associated with them are in a conspiracy to make him the scajDe goat. Robin is also engaged in a desperate effort to keep William Travers Je rome, his former counsel, from proving him actually insane. Jerome, who stepped out of the Robin case after Judge Swan had declared Robin sane, has perj;isted in having the discredit ed financier sent to an asylum. WTiat the motives of Jerome are in his at tempt to have Robin sent to an asy lum are not known. Charles H. Hyde, Mayor Gaynor’s city chamberlaid, has offered to go before the grand jury and toll what he knowTi about Carnegie trust compa ny. The offer has not been accept ed. Noted Railroad Buildet Dead New York, March IS.—Divid H. Moffat, the multi-millionaire financier and railroad builder, died today in his apartments at the Hotel Belmont, af ter only a few hours illness. Although he died at 10:40 o’clock, the news did not. become public until late in the afternon. Physicians said heart dis ease was the cause of death. It was said by one of his business asociate that Mr. Moffat was conscious up to the last moment, and that he gave final instructions for the hand ling of his vast estate. Washington, March 18.—Most re markable confirmation of the hostile attitude of Japan tow^ard the United States came today frovii J. de Savorn- in Lohman, a citizep of Holland, who has arrived in Washington direct from the Japanses Empire. Following is Mr. Lohman’s startling statement: “Since my arrival in this country, I have been surprised at the indiffer ence of the American people toward the attitude of Japan. I mingled with all classes of people in the different cities of the Japanese Empire and ev erywhere I went it was the main top ic of conversation that Japan hates American and Americans. They do not conceal this hatred. They are pos sessed of a supreme confidence that they can crush • this nation. Japanese army officers and army officers of foreign nations stationed in Japan are of one opinion—that in a war with the United States Japan would win. The Japanese have their e.ves first on the Philippines, then on Guam, Samoa and Hawaii. W*hy? Be cause the Japanese are indigna.nt. in censed that this country should have placed a ban on Japanese immigra tion. That there is going to be trou ble with the peopls of the Asiatic countries I fully believe. “There is no doubt in the mind of any one who has recently visited Ja pan that the country Is a bee hive of industry in preparation for war. There is only one thought, that this w'ar must be directed agamst the United States.” The gentleaian who sounds this warning is not an alarmist. On the contrary, he is a staid conservative but observant Hollander, eon, it is to be noted, of A. H. Lehman. Washington, March 18.—Fore cast for Sunday and Monday: North Carolina and South Caro lina, unsettled with probably rain Sunday; Monday unsettled. Says Man She Ran Away With Has Wife In Goldsboro -Shot Him Five Times Shreveport, La., March 18.—C. G. Kornegay, a railroad rate clerk em ployed by the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway, was shot five times and died almost instantly here today. A Mrs. Hayne who says she formerly lived at Greenville, Miss., surrendered to the authorities. The woman called at the railroad office and asked to see Kornegay. He went from his desk to a window at the pay counter when she opened fire. After the man fell the woman turned the revolver upon her self and snapped it, but the cartridge failed to explode. To the authorities the woman made a statement in which she declared she had killed Kornegay because, after leaving her husband and two children and coming with him to this place, she learned that he has a wife and six children at Goldsboro, N. C. Every License Knocked Out. New Castle, Pa., March 18.—The temperance forces won in Lawrence county when Judge William Porter refused every applicant for a liquor license, including those filed by the local breweries. It was one of the most bitter fights ever waged in this county, and the temperance forces are jubilant. Following the revival held last Sep tember by ‘Billy” Sunday the Minis terial x\ssociation began an active cam paign, hired detectives and obtained evidence, which w’as presented in court, showing that saloons had vio lated the law. Verdict Against Standard Oil Bis marck, N. D., March 18.—The jury in the case of Anna and Daniel Nickish vs. Standard Oil Company brought in ^a verdict for the plaintiffs for $13,000 for the former and .$3,000 for the latter. Last summer the plain tiffs w’ere seriously injured by the ex plosion of a lamp. It w^as discovered later that the supposed kerosene which had been purchased from the Standard Oil Company contained a large amount of gasoline, which was responsible for the explosion. The plaintiffs each sued for $60,000. The two cases were heard simultaneously, the jury returning separate verdicts. Jo Sell Neuse River Mills Special to The Sunday News, Raleigh, N, C.. March 18.—Proceed ings v.ere Instituted in Federal court to procure the immediate appointment of a commissioner to sell under fore closure the Neuse River Cotton Mills, six miles from Raleigh to satisfy a $75,000 bond issue held by the trust company of America, the mill having defaulted this January in interest. Mr. A. A. Thompson is president. MILLION BUNCHES OF FIRE CRACKERS CAUSE DISTURBANCE Muscatine, Iowa, March 18.—One million bunches of firecrackers en route to the east from the Orient fig ured in a sensational freight WTeck on the ?.Iilw'aukee line here this after noon. Twenty-nine cars loaded with fireworks leaped the track and rolled down a high embankment. A fire hose from the Lutheran orphans’ home, near the wreck, prevented an explos ion. Firecrackers are piled a foot deep about the wreck. IS RACE HORSE LEG WORTH $40,000 IN REAL MONEY? St. Paul, Minn., March ItS.—Is the tendon in the leg of a racing mare worth $40,000? M. W*. Savage today filed suit in the Federal court for the above amount against the American Express Company for an alleged in jury to a tendon in the leg of Rena Patch, daughter of the famous Dan Patch, said to have been received while the animal v.as en route from Chicago to Grand Rapids. COLONEL ROOSEVELT OPENS GREAT DAM IN ARIZONA. Coast Artillery Arrives. Galveston, Tex., March 18.—The transports McClellan, Sumner and Kil patrick. arrived here this afternoon from Hampton Roads with troops of the coast artillery who are to form tw*o provisional infantry regiments of the brigade assembling at Fort Crock ett. RooseA-elt, Arisona, March 18.—Col onel Theodore Roosevelt formally opened Roosevelt daiu hero at 5:48 o’clock this afternon. The dam is situated seventy miles east of Phoenix and many citizens of Phoenix accompanied the party here. The former president . and family will spend Sunday afternoon and night at Messa, 20 miles east of Phoenix, where Archie Roosevelt is attending school. Great Commotion Among Guests—She Had Lejt Note With Friend Explaining why She Attempted Rash Act— May Yet Survive, Special to The News. Greensboro. March 18.—Mrs, Far rar Royster, who was Miss Sadie Mitchell, of Burlington, who was married a month ago to Farrar Roy ster, of Greensboro, shot herself in the parlor of the Guilford Hotel here at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Guests were painstricken, when upon the crack of a pistol, the hand some young woman s^^ ooued from her chair, and began writhing on the floor, crying tor some one to kill her, that she was suffering so and wanted to die. The ball entered just above the right breast end later at the hopital it was found it had punctured the right lung. Physicians, however, say she has good chances to live. After shooting herself, Mrs. Royster said to the physician of the hotel, who raised her up, that she had left a note with Sam Bradshaw which would explain fully the cause of her taking her life, declaring that her husband of a month had deserted her; that she could not find him; that she loved him to death, and hoped to have succeeded in taking hor life at once. Calling for water and crying from pain in her side, she swooned into unconsciousness, recov ering in the ambulance on the way i to St. Leo^s hospital. ' The husband Is the son of excellent i and prominent people here, his father. George H. Royster, being widely' knov.^n in Virginia and the Carollnas. He is a native of Virginia. A month ago the marriage took place at the home of the woman’s father, a re spected contractor of Burl.ngton, A. C. Mitchell. The two had been lovers for two years, and the young woman was much admired, being bright, pret ty and intelligent. Two days after the marriage, which was not known until a week later, Mrf^. Royster came to Greensboro in search of her hus band, and she gave to his family their first knowledge of the alliance. Young Royster is reported to have gone ti Texas. The wife has been making frantic efforts to locate him, repeat edly soliciting his known Intimates to give her his address, that she might appeal to him to come back to her. She arrived here from Burlington at 1 o’clock. Going to a drug store, she sent for Sam Bradshaw, a mutual friend, and asked him for Royster's address. Mr. Bradshaw told her he could not give it. She then handed him a sealed envelope, laughingl.v making him promise not to open it until he heard again from her. The Guilford Hotel was directly across the street and in five minutes the commotion there caused Mr. Brad shaw to run over, when he discovered the attempted suicide w-as his laugh ing companion of a few moments be fore. He had not broken the seal of the envelope, concluding if the woman survives to return it to her, and If she dies to deliver it unopened to her parents. Great sympathy is felt for the young bride whose known desperate condition, betrayed and deserted, im pelled the desperate deed. Equal sympathy is expressed for the excel lent family of the young man, but for him maledictions are universal and unsuppressed. For Direct Vote on Senators. Sacramento, Cal., March 18,—Sena tor Sanford’s joint resolution for the direct election of United States sena tors was unanimously passed by the senate today. INSURRECTOS ISHOOT TWO MEN AS SPIES AND RELEASE ONE Mexicali, Mexico, March 18,—Felipe Rios, a Maxicani saloon keeper and an unidentified man were shot as spies by the insurrectos in the bull pen nero last night. Frank Henera, v/ho wa.s also ar rested, was found not guilty by the rebels and released. Captain McDonald, of the United States infantry, jiosted a guard to watch the house with orders to fire, if they started to cross the line. Lakes In Central Park Are Being Dmgged For Body Of Miss Arnold Big Bid for Food Supplies. San Antonio, Texas, March 18.—The United States commisary department today asked for bids from local job bers for $250,000 w-orth of food sup plies for the mobilized army. This is in addition to the recent bids for $200,- 000 asked for and is taken as signifl cant of the possible prolonging of the encampment here. New York, March 18.—The lakes in Central Park were dragged today for the body of Miss Dorothy Arnold. Searchers working under orders of the park commissioner will keep up their efforts until every inch of water covered ground is combed. Heretofore earchers in the park have been handicapped by ice. The recent thaw, however, has caused all this to disappear. The men today worked in three crews, each taking one of the three of the lower lakes. Nothing was found today that would warrant th» belief that the body of the girl is in the water. A report was circulated today that Miss Arnold was seen recently in Porto Rico, and this, linked with the fact that Lorenzo Armstrong, one of the Arnold attorneys, has gone there, caused considerable comment.