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F.S FOR PONY OUTFIT ON NEW OR RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE NEWS HELPS A FAVORITE / Edition Latest Edition 43. NO. 7053 CHARLOTTE N. C., TTESDAY tVENlNG, JUNE 13, 191 I pTDTOTj'( In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy aDlly—5 Cents Sunday. r ^•*^1 Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday. ■( procity Issue ^aches Senate 1’ or Discussi,^n Bnde oj Five^ lys Meets Tf'f ic End rattee Reports \r'apTOCity Bill Amendment At- was Presented j * Cavendar, of I|enver. a . .i.TTi^indCtlOTl, o! five days, recaiveci iiijir.’ies Ry .\ssooiated Press*. Colorado Springs. Col.. June 13.— bride trom ' whicb she died without regaining I cons*iousnoss and nine others were lariff s rio'i«iy hurt when the observation . cr.r on the Short Line train from Crip- V- as Consider- !'lc i ieek yesi.orday left the rails while rouiKlnig a curve in North Cheyenne cmyon. nine miles west of this city, ana turned completely over. Mrs. Cav- cnder. accompanied by her husband, was on her hone.N nnoon. The husband was onl' sli‘’hily injured. The ohserva’ion car was the only I av to leave the track. There were 35 p.tj=sengers on the train. r. TWCOd Agree to Bris iCni to Direct ,f 1' —In the i I . •; I .pr.irity fin-i tiK tinance com-' ' .:h the Koct j br' without rec-1 Opening Day Of Coronation Meeting 'f tho Tndor was fxpcct- ‘liy. \\h/e -.f, 1 ••fru-'i ’ r- r.'uewed ;.i- ’.\ cs from a ,.d to cou- L.i'on fin- i'.i sed by r ■ "aN* a I;' rial irkss GGvemoi Dead :-Mrs. E. .■■r 'iovernor a:. -1 at her I H-: Vh-Tf.-M' . d ni,' \\v 'tc-aMtr : !• : he \y •' I lad' t • f. - n -ly eni -u ■n ■ 1 iie ti-r- • ; s'l* me CT lOPCS!’ ION, 'ht‘ jcnate .■ ' a ..,,.-1 tuiion •V bv o Hy A?POciated Press. As;'(;t Heath, England. .Tune 13. Never has Ascot looked better than this, tho opening day of the coro n.t’ion meeting. The weather was la'her uncertain, but not sufficient ly so to have any effect on the at tendance, which wa°. the greatest, in years. King George and Queen Mary, with tlv_* mrmbeis of ;lieir house party at \Vin;lsor came hi in semi-state, in eiglit landaub. ea; h drawn by four lays, while three landaus drawn by I airs carried their suites. I An’.ong the occupants of the state ;arrlag ■ werc^ count Mansdortf-Pou- illy-Dtitricns'ein, the Austro-Hunga rian an’lar:'.?-dor in London; Count "ckondorff. the Russian ambassador to viiea: Britain: the Countess Benck- . ndorrf: members of the royal family; •lie Duke of Roxburghe and the iachess, who waw Miss May Goelet, ot New \ork- the Earl of Granard, and cou!.tt4s. formerly I*iiss Beatrice .Mills, of New York. ][ i'; the strict rule of their majes ties f' It the. ro.vai enclosure mut not he ort'\V(’cJ and a'^cordingly the lord ■ .'mi l rlain. :)ie Earl of Shafte.s- : .i:\\ V a.. iihlit,ed to refuse thoiiL^and: ■ a-':>'’.cnH, n» ior admission to 1 laco. .\.;ni uc tiioso iiresent to.iay be-=;ides ! th.' kir.n:s \Viiuls;ir .quests were the \ i o’. ni;.I .'^t?te- ;nf n and their M'ives jnnd nvMiy di-^ti; "ui'-hed persons from : r". dominion". An ' ri'-an Vnibassadov Roid was not in'. ie to he presen today as he has ;i'I fuM .• recovered Irom his recent I indisj'osition but he hoi'es to be piesent at the races ou Thursday. % Recorder Smith Lays Heavy W, 7, J, Blackman Manager, and E, L. }ohnson\ Em- ployee, of Commercial Club Severely Dealt With by Re corder Smith, IT SEEMS AS IF HE’LL NEVER LEARN. F THE CHINGIiFILLO yiLROAD Sugar Tiust Man Who was Connectea with Noted Counterfeiting Case Gets Long Sentence and Fine on Perjury Charge in Greens boro this Morning. Marks the Last Chapter of Carolina's Greatest Counter feiting Cases — Oper at or Thomas Secures Conviciion- Appeal to be Taken by Allen. Washington, June 13.—An effort to discover v^^hether non-competitive zones had been established by the By Associated Press. Spartanburg, 3 C., June 13.—The . ^ , 1 i. i: Bv Associated Press, persistent rumors ot the last few j months that the Claesapeake and Ohiol railroad was to lease or acquire control | of tho Carolina, Clinclmeld and. Ohio j raiiNsay, was practically' confirmed; gffort to control prices, marked the with the amendment that the Seaboard! resumption of the “sugar trust” in- Air Line is also interested in the deal,' Qhiry today. Edwin F. Atkins, acting ' ^ I. „ head of the sugar corporation, declar- upon the arri\al m Spaitanburg ove American Sugar Refining Co. the Cliuchrield road Sunday night of j p ^ctically rwned a :-iajority of stock ^ o o- mqtuIov ' m sugar reflneriffe in California The Rack R Investigation MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS CONSIDERED • -^’v’np .i.'-rvision J 44 lo 44, :n- ’hrt ^!e■ r',> ndv ];a^ ■ t'n. •!l’ By Associated Press. Lisbon, June 13.—The cabinet yes- y considered the question of nio- bilizinc the army. It was decided to , !'oinf''rce the troops on the frontier ; and in the j rovince of Algarve in pr itest-' Qf n^ce.=isity. n official accot.nt of the meeting of the min'ster &ets forth that, the dis- ( i;j.,iou of the mobilization had to do merely with the plan for the re-organ- ization of the army. ca.-^tw'.u' ' ; i .11 ijy Lr's.nw ! deral sn ier- i .'S the iii; 'i to act. 'f i-..,.;olnTi.-1. . na;i>• ar '.it- 'o' 'te. ■ tirn Ifok- i'llilCMl of th; n- H.n. ry 2 ells CjHei Wojk MANY DELEGATES AT GROCERS MEET. Bv Associated Pres.s. Denver, June 13.—Nearly 1,500 vis itors. including 500 accredited dele- j;ates, are attending the tenth annua convention of the National Retail Giocerfcf' Association, which opened here tod^y. Four cities, Washington, D. C.; Co'iiioil Bluffs, Iowa; Cleveland, O., and Oklahoma City, Okla., Okla., are ! ( arh tr iiig to secure the convention for ne.vt ye.pr. ti in'^rest c ?^outh- \/. (\ A. -'in2:fr a re- (if ^crib- i'] h irtishii H : ftn years’ I rt if 1 hn. e is ' ii. .sionanes ri‘ * n .Va.^h- ■ • Til,.-, ion field. ? W I). Wf.ith- liH t‘ ^'Pilier of n'- Y. .\I. C. •:.f jilan-. of the MK SUIT IS Special to The Ne'vs. Raleigh. N. C.. June 13.—The Ware- Kramer Company vs. the American Tobacco 'oinpany, the million-dollar I dairagc suit, was began in the federal I court today, Judge H. Conner pre- I .aiding. I The selection of a jury required on- ■ iin-f hours and the reading of the com- ‘ USl plain) and answer consumed the re- I mainder of the morning session. The Jurors are: Robert W. Wright, of Franklin county! Jos. P. Burke, or Chatham; J. David Womble, of Chat ham; W. P. Bremar, of Moore; Ken- chern Taylor, of Northampton; Barnes Daniels jr., of Wilson; Daniel Young, of Person; W. F. Garris, of R chmond; Phillip lee. of Wake; hour, of Wayne; J. M. Parrish, of John ston; John Powell of Warren county. The trial is expected to continue month or longer. ■\ suhjiorna • ' r'I \ f> :i pprar • ' ri' 'n Frednrick .■■■ ’t 11 II Kugone tl «■ Cana,dim t o depart- tiio house i-'lit n* - in the • ! to have been iMit i,fi;ity of Mr. .if I f of papor to ‘►■e Tomorrow. •I'lnr 1.3.—I’he »1 'he Intoma- -ili'n ha.s been deti- ' K.ii tomorrow Purchased Big Railroad. By Associated Press. Palestine, Texas. J”"® J?. mitfee said to represent Gould in terrsts purchased the & Great Northern Railway er»hip sale here today. The road add for $12,645,000. a party, including Edwnn Hawley, Frank A. Vanderlip, President George W. Stevens, Vice-President Decatur Axtell, Frank Trumbull, chairman ot the board, and other directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio, and S. D. War field, formerly one of the receivers of the Seaboard Air Line. They were ac companied by M. J. Caples, vice-presi dent and general manager, and L. H. Phetteplace, general superintendent of the Clinchfield. One of the local entertaining com mittee mentioned to Mr. Hawley that it had been rumored that the Chesa peake and Ohio w'as going to take over the Clinchfi6ld. “That’s v.hat we’re down here for,” said Mr. Hawley. When asked further questions con cerning the taking over of the Clinchfield, the official rewarded the reporter’s efforts with the statement that, as it was Sunday, he did not care to further discuss business matters. The acquisition of the C. C. and O. by the C. & O. and the S. A. L. will result in the extension of the Clinch field road from its northern terminus at Dante, Va., to a connection w'ith the C. & O. at Elkhom City, Ky. t'rom Elkhorn City the C. & O. has a straight line to Kenova, on thg Ohio river. The contract 'or the ex tension of the Clinchfield, a distance of about 35 miles, was let two years ago, but held in abeyance until it could be learned what v.ould become of the C.. C. O. The leasing of the Clinchfield by the C. & O., and ihe Seaboard makes the shortest route between Chicago and Florida. The Seaboard connects with the C., C. & O. at Bostic, N. C., and the fear v.^as expressed here to day that the Seaboard might divert by way of Charlotte traffic which otherwise w^ould pass through Spartanburg. An experienced rail road man said, however, that con ditions are such that this would be inadvisable. For one thing, he said, it would be unduly expensive for the Seaboard to place its line from Bostic to Charlotte in such shape as would be necessary to care for the traffic. Since George L. Carter, builder of the Clinchfield railroad, was succeed ed in the presidency sev.rai months ago by Mark W. Potter, it has been suspected that a change in ow^nership or management was impending. This suspicion was strengt:iened by a re cent iusiiection trip made over the line by Northern capitalists. The fact also that the C. & O. directors voted not long ago to issue a vast amount of bonds for the purpose, among oth er things, of acquiring other lines, lent color to the report that that railroad was interested in the C., C. & O., which would give the C. & O. an important Southern outlet. The value of the C., C. & O. to the C, & O. and the Seaboard lies in the fact that it is by far the shortest route between the Ohio valley and the South Atlantic states. The road is only 234 miles long and the largest town north of Spartanburg is Johnsop City, Tenn., which has only about 10,000 people. The C., C. & O. has, however, strategic importance and. In addition, taps the rich coal fields of Virginia. and that it did not attempt to compete with them.' He gave as the reason for thi:, abandonment of the coast busi ness the freight rate difference of a half cent a pound on sugar transport ed from the eastern refineries. The witness said that 50 per cent of the Western Sugar Refining Co. in California \was owned by the Ameri can Sugar Refining Co. while the Spreckles family owned the other 50 per cent. The American also ow'ned 49 per cent in the Almeda Sugar Co. What the purpose of the purchase of this stock was, Mr. Atkins w^as unable to tell the committee. “Do you have any understanding that there shall be no competition?” asked Representative Malby, of New York. “So far as my knowledge goes, there is not the slightest.” The sugar tariff according to Mr. At kins enables the Pacific coast sugar refineries to make a larger margin of profit than the eastern refineries. The I price of sugar is the same on the Pa- ! cific Atlantic coasts; but the Pacific manufacturers are able to sell as far east as Chica.go while the eastern re fineries cannot ship further w'est than Kansas City and Omaha he said. CLERKS OF Bie 4 NOT ULLOWLO TOIESTIF! mUNITlS OF ABiioy By Associated Press. Mobile, Ala., June 13.—The Norwe gian steamer Harold sailed this morn ing for Ceiba, Honduras, with, as part of a general cargo, several cases of rifies, bayonets and ammunition. 'The clearance papers show that the vessel is bound for no other port and that the arms are for the Hunduran govern ment. Ashbei Hubbard, local head of the steamship line, denied ihat they w^ere for revolutionists in Central America. A strange feature of the shipment of arms, and one w'hich has not been explained, is that the rifles of which By Associated Press. Cincinnati, O., June 13.—Ruling out testimony of clerks of the Big Four Railway as to tho contents of cash books of the road that have been de stroyed, Judge Charles T. Hunt, pre siding at the trial of Edgar S. Cooke, for alleged embezzlement of $24,000 from the Big Four Railroad, caused interest in the case to reach a high pitch today. The ruling preceded the appearance on the stand of Charles L. Warriner, self-confessed defaulting local treasurer of the railroad. When Warriner, wearing the barb of a “trusty” in the Ohio penitenti ary, took the stand, the voice of the j there are about 1,000, are of a pattern man who told how he had stolen i not usually purchased by governments $643,000 from the road was heard in { but are the kind so popular with Latin- public for the second time since he j American revolutionists because they stood up in court to receive sen-1 are cheap and simple to repair in the tence. Warriner testified at the trial field. They shoot a heavy lead bullet detectives the secret service opera tives Every move made by the men from the time they w'ere suspected of making the spurious money was fol lowed by Operative Thomas, and h« was able to report to the jury his findings in such a manner as to in stantly convict one of the men and so seriously implicate the other that a warrant for perjury w'as immediate ly issued for him. The facts as brought out in the trial of the men are as follows: The tw'o men left their homes near Hillsville, Va., Feb. Sth, 1910. and wx^nt from there to Christiansburg, Va., where they pretended to be selling a patent wagon brake. On the next daj’ Special to The Newa. Greensboro, N, C., June 13.—Judge Boyd, in the federal court this morn ing sentenced Sidney Alien, convicted last night of perjury, to two and a half years in the federal prison at Atlarita and fined him $500. Allen’s counsel was allow'ed a writ of error for the circuit court of ap peals. He gave a justified bond of $5,- 000, signed by four of his brothers from Virginia, to appear at the Dec ember term of court. Court adjourned to the first Mon day in September, all the jurors be ing excused until that date. After two hours’ deliberation, fol lowing a four days' session of the federal court in Greensboro, the jury last night returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Sidney Allen, of Carroll county, Virginia, w'ho was on trial for perjury for false swearing in a case against him for counterfeit ing at the last term of federal court. This case was by far the most im portant at this session and there was more time given it than any other. It will be recalled that Allen, at the I'ast term of the court w’as arrested and tried in connection with Preston Dickens, on a charge of making $20 counterfeit gold coins. Dickens was convicted on the counterfeiting charge and is now serving a 5-year sentence in the federal prison in Atlanta. At the time of the form.er trial Allen was released on the counterfeiting charge but the detective in charge of the case secured an indictment against him for false swearing and perjury and he was rearrested. The conviction last night w-as the result of the second ar rest. Judge Boyd was on the bench and District Attorney A. E. Holton con ducted the prosecution. Allen w^as de fended by Attorney Buxton, of Win ston-Salem, and Messrs. Tipton and Worrell, of Virginia. All of the attor neys made brilliant speeches in the case, but the evidence was so strong against the man that a conviction was practically assured. In fact, the case was so w'^ell handled by Secret Service Operative H. E. Thomas, of Charlotte, that District Attorney Holton made the remark that it was the prettiest piece of detective work he had ever seen. Ttat it followed the movements of the man on trial so closely that there was nothing left for him to do but merely bring out the facts as pre sented to him by Operative Thomas. Allen is a prominent m.erchant t)f Carroll county, Virginia, and is I’e- ported to be w'ealthy. It was brought out in the trial that he is generally known as a bad man in the county \vhere he lived. He also has made a trip to the gold fields of Alaska when the gold fever first struck this coun try. He has a wife and two children living in the county from which he came. _ The history of the case is interer-t- ing and brings out some of the meth ods emploj'ed by that great body of Can Pay $250 and Costs And Discovtinue Bus in e ss, or $5G0 Each And Go to Jail jor Four Months — Under $1,000 Bond. In the recorder’s court this morning W. T. J. Blackman, manager of th3 Commercial Club, on South College street, and E. L. Jobnston, an em ploye of the ciub; v.-eie each found guiltj’^ on a charge of retailin.g and maintaining a club where liquors are kept for sale. Final .iudgment was surs- pended until tomorrow morning. Each w-as placed under $1,000 bond antil that time v^hen they can choose the following alternative-: A fine of $;350 and the costs and discontinue their business; or a fine of $500 each and four months on jail if they prefer to continue their bu&iness.' Blackman is the manager and John ston ,the assistant of the Commercial Club,* which is located in the second block of South College street oppo site the old freight station. Both Blackman and Johns-ton w^ere arrested on the night of June 3rd and their case came up for trial on the sixth, Tuesday last. The case was continued until this morning when it came up, with the above re sult. Blackman is the manager of the club while Johnston is employed 'at the club as an assistant. The war rant charged them with' maintaining a club where liquors are kept for sale. The charge was pieferred that they sold w'hiskey to T. M. Allen, w'hite. The defendants entered no evidence. I'ney v.'ere represented by Messrs. J. D. McCall and Plummer Stewart. The • Coniniereial Club secured its charter in February last and has been in operation ever sinc^ The police department secured the evidence on w'hich the defendants were convicted. They have had tho dragnet out for some time and there is now no telling what a day - may bring forth as the result. c 10 POOLS IN for alleged blackmail last year of Mrs. Jeannette Stewart Ford, “the w’oman in the cas-e.” and at that time asserted that he had given to her and Cooke something more than $100,000. In terse sentences Warriner out lined his dealings with Cooke. He told how the latter, receiving $90 a month, had handled millions, of the road’s money. Warriner testified that when he discovered the alleged dis crepancy of $24,000 in Cooke’s ac counts the latter at first denied but later admitted it. “He said he had become involved with Mrs-. Ford and had tried without success to recoup his losses in the stock market,” related Warriner. He told me he had $9,000 .of the money left and I said I would take care ot the balance if he would return the $9,000.” and not the steel-jacketed kind gener ally adopted by military authorities of a government in power. A Knowing Bunch Was This ON LAST STAGE OF AEROPLANE RACE. By Associated Press. Rome, June 13.—Frey, the German aviator, started at 6:55 o’clock this morning on the last stage of the Par- is-Rome-Turin aeroplane race. Several houi-s later when no word had been received from him, some anxiety for his safety was- felt. He planned to fly direct to Florence. Frey is the onjy competitor in the race who has continued beyond the city. By Associated Press. New Orleans, La., June 13.—Sixty applicants—Italians, Russians, Turks, and almost every other nationality — anxious to .swear allegiance to Uncle naturalization yesterday. Some of the i the men went to ° candidates naively admitted that they I there to Petersburg where the fl ^ ■ tempt to pass the fake money was w^ere anarchists and polygamists; that they had never heard of the Con stitution of the United States; that they did not know' how a congressman got his job and a few other things that a well-regulated citizen is in clined to profess knowledge of. One. r.Ti Micc uontvipc t nns-- of the applicants emphatically declar- Pf ss t e J ' The man made. They did not get away with it however and made their way back to Roanoke and from there to Wiiteton- Salem, in this state. They arrived in Winston on Feb. 10th about 2:30 p. m. and the first attempt w'as made to By Associated Press-. Washington, June 13.—Organiza tion of the United States Steel Cor poration in 1901 put an end to^ pools and agreements in the steel industry^ declared James Gayley, former vic& president of the corporation, today before the house “steel trust” investi gating committee. Mr. Gayley denied that combinations or agreements ex isted in the steel trade now'. Mr. Gayley said that prior to 1901 there were agreements by which man ufacturers were apportioned certain shares of the steel business and those who failed to get their allotted share were provided for with a pioportioa of the general profits. Mr. Gayley declared that for a long time' bkore 1897 the price of steel rails was practically uniform at $28 a ton. It represented an un derstanding between manufacturers of rails and the railroads. He admit ted that previous to 1000 agreements were made among various manufac turers regarding other s-eel products in which the Carnegie Steel Company participated. These agreements pro vided fines for violations. Mr. Gayley did not know what body impc£-3d the fines but said he thought the fine or fund was divided pro rata among the aifferent compa nies. When asked wiio could explain the agreements and fines. Mr. (rayley said iie presumed Chailes M. Schv.'ab, the president or E. A. Peacock, the vice- president of the Carnegie Company, could tell. Mr. Gayley further admitted that before 1900 there were agreements as to the proportion of business each manufacturer was to have. Mr. Gayley said he understood that if the companies did not get their share they were given the profits anyway. That there were any such agree ments now, Mr. Gayley denied. He described changed conditions in the steel business since organization of the steel corporation and dis-cussed the Gary dinners. He said he first was opposed to the Gary co-operative ideas but later came to believe in them. ed that New Orleans was the capital of the United States and that there W'as only one house of congress and that the president occupied that. He confessed, however,, that h'l was Inti mately acquainted with the Constitu tion. A former citizen of Turkey stat ed that there w^ere 371 houses in con gress and that a congressman serves as lon|i as he lives. worth, at her father’s store. The man failed there and went to T. B. Doubthit where he again failed to get I'eal mon ey for the fake. They then went back to the depot and Dickens got a hack and went to a disreputable house where he passed one of the $20 coin off on Fannie Dryer and got $8.20 cts. for it. He then went back to the sta- Continned on Page Two. Church Union Is Valid. Nashville, Tenn., June 13.—.John ?»I. Gaut, attorney of this city, this morn ing received a telegram stating that the Mississippi supreme court had af firmed the chancellor in the case of Carothers vs. Moseley, involving the validity of the union of the Cumber land Presbyterian and U. S. A. Pres byterian churches. The chancellor up held the validity of the union.
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