X 'TES FOR PONY OUTFIT ON NEW OR RENEWAL SUBSCRlt^TIONS TO THE NEWS HELPS A FAVORITE I THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. I V N ’ L . 43. NO. 7065 CHARLOTTE N. C., TUESDAY t,VENlNG‘JUNE 27, 1911 p’Dtpp'I In Charlotte 2 Cents ft Copy aDily- Cents Sunday. Outside Charlotte S Cents a Copy Dally and s'undfty. p, ectives Summoned . j Witnesses in The ' 0 r im er Case •g Sensation Yes-\The Weather Oil Declaring he Had\ owed,Funk Strings i Surprise at lcday*s Ova CounUy it Three of TheDe- Vv'eie Present at Committ e e Im- Orders Them to 5 Witnesses, ' . .Tun* 27 —There ii'ic • ; usode in the (ane today ~ Fir k. crnerol man rnaMonal Harvester . d ti at th^'ce of the . I ' \v ipe purveil nir-lrtce yesterday. t'>day .-. st^^ion. The •n-d the detectivcs i .T't-ntion to the iM'- in., of todays •ne .-cnate coramit- fi.od »or the tes'i- who, Mr. f fday. were hire^ 1 By Associated Press. Washington, June 27.—The area of low pressure covering the lower Mis sissippi and upper Mississippi valleys yesterday morning has moved to the { northeast and is now central over [ lake region. It has caused rains ge* erally over the north central states east of the Mississippi river as far south as central Kentticky. There have also been rains over the north Pacific states and scattered showers in Missotni. Arkansas, Oklahoma. Georgia, and Alabama. There has been no rains of consequence, how ever. over the central states west of the Mlssissinpi river. Maximum temperatures above 90 fjeerees yesterday v.ere mainly con fined to states south of Kansas and the Ohio river. The high area of pressure over the Southeastern states developing westward and ha& now spread into the ' lower Mississippi valley. This wiH cut off the supply of moisture from the ?ulf and bring an end to the present rainy period in that section. Piobing Jewehy Smuggling Case By Associated Press. New York. .Tune 27. -Customs ottl- '•^• tive agency to cials are seeking today evidence that f whom, .Mr. Funk may bring to ligl^-t every phase of the Jenkins $300,000 jewelry smuggling case, the ramifications of which are now said to involve a New’ \ork financial man. The New Yorker is said to have '►* >ed the nature of rnd the identity of '-3tc!y proceeded "mat ion of ’ •' ,od reqiicst been the father of the scheme where- ' :'.vard Hines for an. r>y goods valued at nearly $2,000,000 r ► ster Company con- ^ v, ere sniujcgled into this country. Two ' to reimburse! and possibly more customs officers tributed SlOo.ooo to are &aid to be in the plot, which ' a* Springfield." i had its inception several years ago. publicly announced' These officers received, it is said, $100 who admitted he' for every trunk they passed \vith d to shadow him * only a casual inspection. The New and belonged to a , W orker not only was able to smuggle i valuable, goods, including much jew- rhe witness! elrv for himself, but thousands of dol- ■ -! niony thftt Mr ' >ars of dutiable stuff for others, who • ro ''e under the; became in this way obligated to him. r when the alleged; There win be no compromise in tne ■r n»’i fontribution 1 Jenkins smuggling case. I Deputy Surveyor Parr is the author ity for the statement that he learned of the smuggled goods some time be fore he confronted Mrs. Jenkins m the n^atter. The Federal prosecutoi is still considering the cases of a inject, i western manufacturer and a Southein w I potemm Head of Mormon Chwch Was Stai Witness Ai Healing Senate Rejected Root Amendment By Associated Press. Washington, June 27.—Out of the smoke of battle over the Root amend ment to the wood pulp and print paper schedule of the Canadian reci procity bill, which the senate rejected yesterday, came a widening of the scope, over the bill beginning to day. Thep ro-reciprocity speech of Sena tor Tow’^nsend, of Michigan, was ex pected to be one of the features of the discussion. The reports—both majority and mi nority—on the New Mexico and Ari zona constitutions, favorably acted upon by the senate committee on ter ritories last Saturday, are expected to be submitted to the senate any da.y now. The house adjourned over yesterday until Thursday, when it will meet and adjourn until Monjday, having no particular business to consider. Sev eral investigating committee con tinue in session meantime. ‘ER—ER—HOW YOU’VE GROWN!' Last Day to Register For the BondElection.Great Needs of City 0 Mi never seen nor even smoke a Tof TO do with this red n-.tor Kern. > meant. coal operator in connection with the case but whether the grand jury has hand as yet is not the matter known. m -■iomt. too ” it would be offen- •n *'h ca«!o if he took n.-.r -r Kenvon. I/O witness stand ni Duluth, Minn., a sworn. t r>.!es:ed con versa- - it a ' nicago ho lt was at that •r!; red. Mr, Hines 1 - : v-ng a h— ot, By Associated I^ess. :r’or' . ' Mr Cook testl-1 cial Brokerage Firm In Bad Hole I Charlotte, June 24th, 1911. Every man interested in the devel- Mr. W. F, Dowd, Receiver, opment of Charlotte is reminded of the Charlotte Auditorium Co., fact that this is the last day on which ! Charlotte, N. C. to register for the bond election, July ^ j information j 4th. I can with reference to the Charlotte By Associated Press. jf you haven’t registered when you Auditorium, which I constructed some New York. June 27.—A report that The time since, the W estern Union Telegraph Com-1 , , , . ^ I I used cement mortar in the walls pany was interesting itself in the lines books close, you know' at suna ^ from top to bottom with a liberal of rival companies in the southwest, “Is your name w’ritten there?” The amount of steel piers and braces, and was accounted for here today by the 1 ^natter of bonds is of vital importance l can safely say, without boasting, explanation that the Postal Telegraph ■ charlotte The failure of the bonds ' that there is not a better-built building Company, of Texas, was seeking a new j • ,11 in the city, so far as durability of traffic arrangement for the outlet of its ^ to carry means th« crvy^lSiig of al construction goes, business in that territory. ! progress in Charlotte for years to j consider it a calamity if The Postal Telegraph Company, of, come. ^ the citizens should fail to authorize Texas, operates in Texas. Oklahorna means, as far as the water bonds the bond issue for barn© that the city and Arkansas, and is distinct from the Pfesident Joseph Smith Caaeii to Stand in Investigation of Sugar Trust — Interest of Mormons in Beet Sugai In- dustry. SyiT iO OISSOLIIE SO-CmLEO ^ ^ ^ I nrp ronrprnpd that unless the water may ow'n it and be maintained as an Postal Telegraph Cable Company, the are concerned, that unless tne water Yours very truly, larger concern of international scope. Last March the latter company noti fied the Texas concern that it would bonds Qarry Charlotte will continue to be threatened at any time with a ; J. A. JONES. , ,,, rr — -- Register today and vote for bonds discontinue handling the Texas corn-1 x j moiTi+air. 5.nHi+oHnr.i pany's business outside the three j existence. That such has not occurred to maintain the auditorium . states, where the ^jmaller corporations j before this, is Charlotte’s good luck, had wires. The reason given w^^s [ rpjjg water supply is this summer low- that the Texas company was controll-1 ^ ed bv the Bell Telephone and Western oeiore. Superintendent Vest has been Im pelled ever and anon to ask consum^’s to use as little w'ater as possible. A water famine has been iniinent throughout t«e long drought and heat- ! conflagration that may wTpe It out of Union interests. This w^as denied by S. M. English, of Dallas. Texas, pres ident of the Texas company. It was said said at the Western Un ion ofHce here today that any state ment regarding possible negotiations T Kir,i) n.- Philadelphia, Pa., June 27.--Finan- circles received a disagree-ab.e •id, there Is old; shock today when it became known ; ?ot him elected that the liabilities of the stock b^K- and started ! erage firm of Norman, McLeod & ..0., •mhpr. The South-1 which suspended yesterday, aggregate r p •. •or.'^r of the; I1JS2.173. while the assets are given W -. said he would j as $410,884. n ip one day and! — would flop.” I ASHEVILLE EP^SCOPALI^S >■ committee room.: START MEETING TODAY. Ir’-.L'h'^d over this' t 80 with Senator Special to'The News. ^ .fi’na, a Southern Asheville, June 27.—The 17th annual J^^^nator Flptchr-r. ■ convention of the Episcopal missionary Senator Johnslon,' district of Asheville convened at All r.fltor joined in. Soul’s church, Biltmore, this i^rning • e! his Springfield for a three-day day’s session. Quite a 1.; an alleged tele- lengthy program has been • Hir.es had from and a number of prominent speaKers !'> Springfield the are expected, among whom are R®"'''- ,f r was elected or Walter C. Whittaker, D.p., rector ot St. John’s church, Knoxville, and R^v. \V. T. Capers, dean of the Cathedral, Lexington. Ky., and Bishop Hefner. Dr. Whittaker delivers an address Tuesdav morning, as will Blslwp Hor ner and Dean Capers speaks Tuesday afternoon. . I The woman’s auxllliary are ■ Ion at this time, convening on Wed- 1 nesday morning and the junior auxll- T No fewer than 6,- liary meets Thursday morning at i th« King’s af-, which there will be an address by Miss JvirKinirhani Palace Lindley, secretary of the organization, the largest af- yhe entertainment includes a drive * • f held in the spa-' over the Biltmore esteate. ir maiesties liOn-! * Statehouse Commission ov. ring fifty acres,! Raleigh. June 27.—The subcomnii - barii:iiiK I'icttire. A slon of the state building commission •1 tiio ‘n tival and the 1 met here yesterday afternoon to g I * 'ilti rnlored flower 1 over some of the details of the pia • in the center,! of the architects of the ® administration building. ^ 1 Itareec manned by, mission will meet tomorrow to a P or altrr the plans sub-committed. Here yesterday for the subcommis sion meeting were % Horne, of Clayton, and J. A. Long. oi “avZ the plans are' "wHy ed the commission will for bids. This building i» to be erect- between that company and the Texas j ed term. j Postal for a traffic arrangement By voting for water bonds, you, as i take the place of the one about to be a citizen of Charlotte, will be doing | abrogated wotild have to come from I your part to relieve the tension that President English. ''— or,/i Unknown Man Kills Patrolman s Afternoon ty was Bnlliant Warwick, R. I., June 27.—Walter G.f McQuarry, a patrolman In Appanauge, was shot and killed, and Charles Fol- lett, a companion of the patrolman, was shot through the mouth early to day by an unkonwn man whom they accosted on the East Greenwich road. McQuarry asked him to give an ac count of himself whereupon the un known man drew a revolver and fired. The patrolman died almost Instantly. Follette Is expected to recoveri isimciiED ONSIINO Special to The News. Raleigh, June 27.—The day in the* has been felt this season, and be d6ing |, your part to protect this beautiful city i ■ from disaster. Should disaster come By Associated Press, is your property immuned? Those Atlanta, Ga., June 27.—Tom Allen, who vote against an adequate supply young negro charged with attacking of water being made possible may be a white woman in Walton county sev- the first to suffer by a lack of water, eral weeks ago, w^as taken off a train Have you thought of that—you who near Social Circle, Ga., this morn- oppose the river as a source of water ing., tied to a. post and shot to supply? death. He was being returned The first requisite of a town or city to Monrpe for trial. Some is water. There never has been a’nd time ago he was taken there un- never will be aji influx of people into der guard of state troops, it being a town where there is not abundant feared hew iuld be killed. The judge water supply and wholesome supply, postponed the trial and declared the To grow, Charlotte must have water presence of soldiers was not necessa- more water. The present water is ry. He was returned to Atlanta for wholesome, as the analysis of the state safe keeping. chemist and other chemists shows. ! Allen was in charge of three ofli- But Charlotte must have water to pro* cers, being handcuffed between two tect the homes, the business houses, of them. When the train stopped, the various industries which her citi- members of the mob entered the car, zens have planted here. and, at the points of guns, took the Register today and vote for water twd officers the negro was chained , to. The third officer escaped. Out- Schools. 1 side, the mob detached the negro and To be a big ctty Charlotte must not trial was post- only have water, but good schools and and he was brought to Atlanta, more schools. The need of niore attorneys asked for a change of schools IS apparent to every parent in fearing mob violence. It was this town. How far does your child J^^ied. go to school? How many children is gocial Circle is about 40 miles from your child crowded into a room with. Georgia Railroad. ' Register today and vote for school bonds. I four DAYS FOR CORPORATIONS Streets. To be a big city Charlotte must have ’ TO PAY THEIR FEDERAL TAX. ■ : ♦ ariier days to r^mjiorary struct- 1 on the lawns ' wore stationed fjfp-- ' MI. f Ti Mary, with . • o. ted hv the ' , tmued the! ed at the corner of Salisbury, Morgan ' r-K I ,.-,ion flunng the and Fayetteville streets at me oihor KnePts forming Haywood house site. r 'i ' iial party aj)- — Prohibition Issue. ' I o^tles guests were ; By Associated Press. . i-^^^lnding .Mr. and ‘ Salt Lake City, Utah. June 27. P T;ift and .Miss Taft; ; hibition will be adopted or ^»n Ambassador Ham- ; at a special election today in Hammond and others, j Utah towns and cities and in ’ ' i ihf* .\nierif;an am-1 county units outside the towns ' ; Mr^. Rt'id and the campaign in Salt Lake City and g was a guest at the den has been very lively. Most of : resented by the country towns are conceded to '.'..t ;,i,nn medal. ‘against the saloons. Ware-Kramer Company vs. The Amer- j good streets. A city is judged by the gy Associated Press. ' Tobacco Company damage suit outside world by its streets as much Washington, june 27.—Four as anything. Charlotte has as good fire limits ^d trial was characterized by sharp tilts between counsel over the admissibil ity of evidence in the further exam ination of President D. Ware, of the Ware-Kramer Company. The court out as evidence the declara tion of R. G. Brlgss, president of Wells-Whltehead Company, a part of the American Tobacco Company, threatening that if the Ware-Kramer Company stayed in the cigarette bus- iness the trust would make war on them the countr yover, following them across the seas to China, Japan and even to the lower regions. Judge Con nor ruled this out on the ground that for a couple years after this the plaintiffs did ap ro&perous business at Wilson and even at Norfolk, and that considerable time before the plaintiffs’ business turned to the bad, R. G. Briggs had sold all interest iij the defendant corporation. T.^e special drift of the Ware evidence was to show that he extended his territory from one section to another in an effort to avoid the flght the American Tobacco Company made against them. f streets in the fire limits ^d down South Tryon street. But what about North Tryon—East avenue—West Trade—Church—College—to say noth* days remain in which corporations may pay their federal tax. A penalty will be assessed against all that have not paid when the treasury clos-es its doors on June 30. While th6 govern Ing of the side streets? Are they mgnt's estimated income from that what they should be for a town that has the preflex—“greater” before its source this year is $26,000,000, only $14,000,000 had been received when name; that aspires to be the metro- treasury began business today, polls of the state? ' More than 260,000 concerns have Register today and vote for bonds made returns. for street imp^vements. j \ Aaditorlum. { qqTY WITHDRAWS If Charlotte wants to be p. conven- j FROM RACE. tion city—as want it does—then it j • must have a building large enough for i jackson. Miss., June 27.—H. L. conventions to meet in. Such a build- Doty, a member of the Jackson bar, ing is here in the Charlotte Auditor- today announced his withdrawal from ium. But^ for Charlotte having the ^he race for lieutenant governor of Auditorium the most famous conven- Mississippi, stating that the condition- tion ever held in the state—the Demo- of his health would not permit him cratic Convention of 1908—could not to make a canvas of the state, have been held here. There would have With the retirement of Doty from been no place to have held it. Char- the field* three of the participants are lotte, as a city, needs the Auditorium, left. They are; That it Is a well-built building and a T. O. Yewell, of Carrollton; Wiley desirable asset for the city to own, is N. Nash, of Starkvilie, and T. G. shown in the following letten Bilbo, of JPpplftryiUe, By Associated Press. New York, June 27.—A civil suit was filed in the United States court today for the dissolution of the Peri odical Clearing House and against about a score of other magazine de fendants. The petition, filed by Dis trict Attorney Wfse, alleges unlaw ful combination and conspiracy to restrain intersetate trade and foreign commerce in magazine and other pe riodical publications. The petition charges that the defen dants since July, 1909, have been en gaged in an illegal combination, a dis solution of which is asked for. The proceeding in equity is against the Periodical Clearing House, Double day, Page & Co., Crowell Publishing Company, S. S. McClure Company, Current Literature Publishing Cob- pany, Phillips Publishing Company, Harper & Bro., Leslie, Judge Co.; Re view of Reviews Company, Interna tional Magazine Company, New Publi cation Company; Butterick Publishing Company; Standard Fashion Com pany; New Idea Publishing Company; Ridgew^ay Company; American Home Magazine Company; Short Stories Co.; limited; (hereinafter referred to as de fendant publishers); Frank H. Double- dav, Herbert S. Houston. Frederick L. Collins, Charles D. Lanier ^and George von Utassy. The Periodical Clearing House in the petition is described as a corpora tion organized under the laws of the state of New York carrying on busi ness throughout the United States and foreign nations, with its officers and principal place of business in this city. Its authorized capital stock is of the par value of $2,000 consisting of 20 shares of the par value of $100 each, of which fourteen are issued and out standing. The Suburban Press, 'S^ New York corporatibn, Good Housekeeping, a Massachusetts corporation, and Hamp ton’s Magazine, a New York corpora tion, together with the defendants, are the stock holders of record of the de fendant Periodical Clearing House; Doubleday, Collins, Houston, Lanier and Von Utassy constitute its board of directors, and Houston, von Utassy and Lanier are respectively Its president, vice president and secretary and treas urer. These officers of the Periodical Clearing House are officials also of one or the other of the defendant corpora tions engaged in the publication of magazines. . The petition says that prior to July, 1909, there were and are now In this country upwards of twenty thousand corporations, co-partnerships and indi viduals engaged in producing, publish ing and selling periodicals in open and free, competition; that following the organization of the Periodical Clearing House in July, 1909, notices were sent to the principal subscription agencies and agents In the country “notifying them that they would have to sign the contract with the Periodical Clearing House, if such agencies intended to further business with the ‘members’ of said Periodical Clearing House.” The petition then recites that the Periodical Clearing House prepared a so-called “official price list” of ma gazines and periodicals containing rule^ governing of subscriptions and “the publishers wholesale price list." The petition continues: “The contracts force upon agents and require them to sell all periodi- icals not listed in the aforesaid lists at the regular publication price with out any reduction whatsoever. The purposes of many of the periodicals listed in said lists have been and are willing that the agencies shall sell their periodicals to the public at prices less than those fixed by the defendants in said price lists, but said agencies have been and are pre vented by the aforesaid contracts from selling' such subscriptions at less than the prices fixed by the de fendants and set forth in said lists." It is alleged that the clearing house had a system 9i fines for of- , f^di^g fi|§nt8i Smith Tells of His Control of 5,000 Shares in the Utah- Idaho Sugar Company—In- teiesting Testimony, By Associated Press. Washington, June 27.—President Joseph F. Smith, of the Mormon church, was the principal witness at today’s hearing of the house commit tee on investigation of the so-called sugar trust. The oath w^as administer ed to him by Chairman Hardwick. Mr. Smith was accompanied to the hearing room by Senator Reed Smoot, Bisnop C. N. Nlbley, business manager of the Mormon church; Thomas R. Cutler, a former bishop of the church, and Representative Joseph HowcH. With the party also was R. W. Young, of Salt Lake City, counsel for the rep resentatives of the Mormon hierarchy. This was not Mr. Smith’s first ex perience before a congressllnal com mittee. Many present today when the Mormon leader appeared recalled his visit during the investigation into the right of Senator Smoot to retain hia seat. Though his mission today was an en tirely different one—submission to ex amination as to business relations of the Mormon church with the American Sugar Refining Company, through the Utah-Idaho Sugar Refining Company—• it was expected that the interests of his people in Mormonlsm would not escape Inquiry. Of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Refining Company, in v/hich he has trustee holdings, more than 400,000 shares are owned by the sugar “trust” Henry O. Havemeyer having taken a personal interest in the experiment of the Mor mons in the beet sugar industry and financed their enterprise. “Have you any official connection with the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co?” asked Chairman Hardwick at the outset of today’s session. “I am president of the company,” Mr. Smith replied. “Do you own any stock?” “Yes, sir, I own about 5,000 shares Individually.” “Do you own any stock in a repre sentative capacity?” “Y'es, I hold 49,815 shares for the church. Little is held in the name of Joseph Smith, trustee.” Mr. Smith said the church became Interested in the Utah-Idaho ougar Re fining Company when many people w'ho subscribed failed to pay for their stock and the company under bond to complete a beet sugar factory was un able to do it. The church was appealed to by tne subscribers to assist, which it did to the extettit of $50,000. “Did the church veer go into partner ship with Henry O. Havemeyer?” “The church never did, but the stockholders did.” “Did the church take legal advice as to w'hether the combination with Mr. Havemeyer w'as lawful or unlaw ful?” “The church didn’t, but the com pany consulted its attorneys, I think, as to the legality of the deal. I am not sure of that, but reasonably certain that it was done. The chhurch Itself has nothing to dD with the business investments or holdings. .Its business holdings are looked after by me as trustee'and I do the best I can. The church itself takes no part.' To Form New Cabinet. By Associated Press. Paris, June 27.—-Joseph Caillaux to day formally accepted Prasedlent Fal- lerles Invitation to organize a minis try to succeed that of M. Monls, whicu resigned' after being In power not quite four months. BiiGE mo? IT By Associated Press. Elkins, W. Va., June 27.—Randolph county authorities early today had un der control the American-Italian race riot that has been going on for the past few days as the result of which three Italians are dying and one Ameri- ican is in a serious condition from stab wounds. While there are stUl open threats of vengeance. Sheriff Prftt, with a force of 90 men said he could prevent further _ bloodshed. The trouble started at Weaver, 15 mile» from here, Sunday night, when an unidentified Italian from Junior, and Z. E, Shuffer, an American, were stabbed. Italians from Junior took up the cause of their countrymen and last night started the fighting. Shotguns, and long knives were used. The nattTes of the little mining village fled terrl- fled, and it was their exaggerated ro- ports that summoned a strcuSLg toro*

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