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VOTES FOR PONY OUTFIT ON NE^^ OR RENEWAL St|^CRIPTIONS TO THE NEWS HELPS A FAVORIT E 20 Pages ^ ONE SECTION. ■ 'HE CHARLOTTE NE :ws. 1^-—- “ SECTION. VOL 2. NO. 25 CHARLOTTE. N. 0.. SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 2, 1911 PRICE 5 CENTS Long Lu>t of Express Companies To Be Probed By Gov't. Southern Exptess Company and Practically Alloj The Conceins irt America to Be Investigated by Interstate Commerce Commission. Anticipating Such a Step The Companies Rush to the Com mission With Revised Tariffs —The Probe to be Thorough Washington, July 1—The interstato commerce commission has decided to subject the express companies to an vestigation of the most searching char acter and the express companies, evi- dentiN to meet the Investigation, have reduced their rates to taxe eltcct An- gust 1. There will he a probe into rat>?. classifications, regulations and practices of all the express compa nies The commission wfll go thoroughly into the question of alleged division of territory among the several com panies, pooling arrangements or gen tleman’s agreements in any such cx- i!»t. The character of freights carried by the express companies, the amounr. of matter that would be mailable if fft-csented to the postal service, and the * pi charged for such matter with revenues derived therefrom will form, also an important ami intercbt- Ing feeature of the commission'a prooe San Francisco, July- 1.—One man dead of fright and several people cut and bruised, in addition to minor dam age to buildings the breaking of glass and crockery are the results, so far as known thus far, of two distinct shocks of earthquake that shook San FYancisco and the state of California from San Jose at the south, to Fi'esno in the north and reaching into Nevada at two o’clock this afternoon. The name of the dead man is Herbert Had ley. He roomed at a lodging house and fell dead when the shocks were first felt. The duration . of the tre mors was about thirty seconds. The quake did not appear to follow tlie old “vein” in the earth’s crust that has been the stamping ground of pre\ious earthquakes, but appears to have ex tended from the Pacific ocean east ward to the Sierra Nevada range. In San Francisco the first tremor was accompanied by a deep, rumbling re verberation which usually presages a disturbance of serious extent. In downtown stores, cafes and mercan tile houses, there was a panic, people rushing into the streets and running in every direction. Within a few sec onds of this shock many of the build ings in the business district were de populated. The telephone operators in the cen SENATOR WILLIAM LORIMER T Chairman Underwood Ex presses Opmion That^i^aie Will Pack Vote on mprt- ant Measure Soon An^ Ad journ August Pint One the eve of the promulgacion of tral exchanges left their switchborirds thi' order of inquiry, the ^sxpiess and communication was interrupted companies rushed to the commission for some time. This led to the wild- a revision of their tariff ratas. While est rumors concerning loss of life and but a cursory examination of the new damage, many people thinking that rates have been made by the t-iviff with the failure of the telephone vires experts of the commission it is evi- that much damage had been done in dent the express companies have mada the center of the city. Heavy stones toping reductions In their rates, lO in the cornice of the Mechanics’ Bank hccome effective August 1, the law re- bi^lding were moved sligh1:ly out of quiring thirty days’ notice of change plumb; cracks were made in several in rates. In the case of long hauls of large office buildings, the cornices of express packages to non-oompetitive' the new postoflRce building were mov- points the reductions amount in some ■ ed slightly and small damage was done Instance.s to 10 per cent. There rreiln many cases to the interior w’alls of eubstantial reductions on 90 per cent a number of other buildings, of the tariff handled by the express At San Jose, in the southern part companies. There has tieen abandon-; of the state, the tremor was the heiav- men' of th« double giaduate system of [ iesL since the shock of 1906. One tel- charging for expvess packages 'indcr ephone girl jumped from the third 100 pound weights. - | Htory window of the telephone ex- Every express company formerly I change, but landed unhurt', in a tree, charged its own rates for the distant. Stockton, Sacramenta and Fresno were hiiuls while under the new'schedu’es' frightened by the shaking, but there the charge will be based on a through ! was no damage. Many of the builalngs haul. In these three cities were deserted iUj The only express Qompany that tail- the twinkling of an eye. ed to get in with new tariffs v.aj ine At Reno. Nevada, a session or the Long Island Company. federal court was adjourned wuhout The tiling of the new tariffs, how- formality and judge, jury and la\\>ws ever, will not change the plans of the rushed into the street when the commission. No regulations of any rail i shocks were felt. road or set of railroads, no rates or At the observatory in Santa Uara classifications by such railroads, have college, the seismographs were been subjected to a more exhai’sti ve _ damaged by the auake. both Invef'tlgatlon thans is to l)e made bv . ing thrown - the commission Into the rates -ind af-1 were quickly replaced, but not ^i e fairs of the express companies. The, to pres€r^e a perfect record of tn work will Include public hearings in waves. The big clock at * ashington and elsewhere by the com- vatory in the mi.Hon to shippers, with the right | stopped for the first t ^ the express companies o make de- the big earthquake of A'® 5 fence Kxantiners and investlentors of I A remarkable feature of the di.turb- —jii fh'.-rnijrh Bucc lu Sau Fraiiclsco was teli groan ing and creaking of the steel skyscra ” , -n-inT-o The Lonmei Com mittee Adjourns Washington, July 1.—The commit tee which is investigating the elec tion of Senator W'illiam Lorimer, ot Illinois, adjourned today to meet again in Washington July 13. The recess is taken for these reasons: To give President Taft an opportu nity to answer in full t.he testimony of Edward Hines, of Chicago, that he was anxious for the election of Lori mer. To give former Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of' Rhode Island, and Senator BoiS’e Penrose, of Pennsyl vania, an opportunity of appearing to explain just how much they had to do with “putting Lorimer over.’ To give the counsel for the com mittee an opportunity of thoroughly familiarizing themselves with the maze of testimony already obtained, with a view—if circumstances war rant—of prosecuting certain of the witnesses for perjury. Lastly, to follow certain avenues of information suggested by the hear ings already held, and to prepare a list of new' witnesafes. The committee will hold hearings in Washington for some days follow ing July 13. Shortly after that date, it expects to go to Chicago and hold sessions there, , The one thing which stood out about all others at today’s hearing was the absolute accuracy with which the witnesses could remember every detail of events on May 26 and 27, 1909—over two years ago— but could recall nothing which hap- the commission will be sent through out the country, and l.be bool;s of ihe various companies will be searched. The probe of the express corr.panies is undertaken by the commission on lie own initiative under a recent amendment of the railroad rate, law ghlng the commission that right, mu the commission has before it spec’fic charges against all the express com- Co.’s Exi)r€98; Davenport & Mason’s who contends that the rates, classifica tions and regulations of the expT-ps companies filed with the commission are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly dis criminatory, unduly preferential and prejudiaclal and otherwise in violation o fthe nets to regulate commerce. The express companies to be inves ligated by the commission are: Adams Expre?; Company; American I-ixpress Company; Borough Express Conjpan/; Boston and Worchested Despatch; Ca- pcidian Express Company: Canadian Dart ^ pers and this noise did frighten the people than shocks themselves. more to did the Drum Corps Benefit at Lakewood Park The Drum Corps and the Cincinnati Amusement Company have arranged an evening at Lakewood this week by which the drum corps is to receive 2a , per cent of the receipts of the evening i This is done to help the drum corps Rochester fund. Fire on Steamer. Liverpool, Jul.v 1.—Fire was dis covered along the bedding in the cabins of the steamer Canada while the vessel was at her dock here this afternoon. The blaze was easily ex tinguished and before any damage of Northern Express company; , _ l’'> \ Exjress; Davenport & Miscn'i consequence could be done. E.';press; Dodds & Child’s Express Company; Earl and Prew’s Express; Globe Express Company: Great Nortn- ein Express Company; Knlckerbc.-’- Express Company; Manhattan Dellv er' Company; Morris European ani American Express Company; National Express Com))any; New England Des patch Company; New England Express Company; New York & Boston De spatch Company; Northern Express Company; Pacific Express Comnany: Southern Express Company; United Elates Express Company; Wells Far go & Co.; Westcott Express Com- pan\ and the VN'estern Express Conipa- n.> Declares Reciprocity ts to Pass the Senate Any A menment- Thinik for mers Will Then Sming Around. W'ashington, July 1.—A senate, vote on reciprocity within two weekf and adjournment by August 1 was predict ed this afternoon by Osear Uaderwood, chairman of the houec and means committee. ' . “I think that the senate' will get a vote on the reciprocity bill within two weeks,” said he, “and it ought not to take more than two weeks to vote on the free list and wool bills. Mr. Underwood intimated clearly that the democrats will sUuhd by reci procity, without amendment, and that following its passage, they Tsill insist upon a vote on the free list and the wool schedule, as well as a new cot ton schedule, which the house will pass about the middle of the month. “Reciprocity,” declared the democra tic leader, “is certain to pass the sen ate without any amendment. “I predict that as soon as the reci procity bill is on the' statute books the farmers of the country, especially of the great middle western states, will swing away from the high protective principles. They have only been held in line in the past by the plea that th,ey must pay higher prices for man ufactured articles in order that they might get their share for farm prod ucts. The passage of reciprocity means that the republican party admitted there is no benefit for the farmer in the protective tariff. “Immediately there will be a general demand for a reduction V>f the tariff that will sweep the coustry, and rc publican candidates ber^^t of their stock arguments, lining up behind the ,$ei5iocrati candidates who hiive all afbng stood by the doctrine which the repv.lbican leaders of today have come to iiHopt." Though the house will send along to the senate a cotton schedule, action in the upper chamber may not be in sisted upon. The senate, after a brief session to day, adjourned over until next Wed nesday. Many senators left the nation al capital this afternoon for a rest of three days. The general expectation is that soon after they come back to work they will enter into an agree- Second Scene Dynamiting Laid In In Case London MRS. JOHN W. SPRINGER John W. Springe) Granted a Divorce Denver, Col., July 1.—John W. Springer was granted a divorce today in Judge Allen’s court fro misabella Patterson Springer. Thee harge was mental cruelty. . Mr. Springer, who is a wealthy banker of Denver, brought S'Uit for divorce following the slaying of Bal loonist Louis von Phul and George E. Copeland by H. F. Henwood here last May. Developments of that trag edy brought in the name of Mrs. Springer as an alleged source of enmity between von Phul and Hen- wofod. E EFFEG- TED IN MILITmiY y, C. T. CLOSES eREAT MEETINC Columbus, O., July 1.—The su preme council of the United Com mercial Travelers of America, today concluded its 24th annual session with the election of the following su- preme officers: Counsellor—Charles B. Griffith, Denver. Junior Counsellor—C. W. Hobson, Portland, Ore. Past Counsellor—George W. Rodg ers, St. Paul. Secretary—C. C. Daniels, Columbus, O. Treasurer—R. N. Hull, Columbus, O' Conductor—Claude Duval, Hutchi son, Kansas. Page—E, E. Valtoft, New Orleans. Sentinel—Frank S. Ganiard, Jack son, Mich. John Dickey and S. H. Strayer both of Columbus, O., were elected members of the supreme executive council. Londor^Authorities Issue War rants for Arrest oj Kaplan And Schmidt, Charged with Connection mth Los An- geles Dynamiting Case, SCANDAL IS BY REP. SISSON pened on days much more recent. These witnesses were brought here bv Edward Hines—to help him re- ,ment to close the debate on the leci fute the testimony of others who said they had heard him boast of electing Lorimer at a cost of $100,- 000. The witnesses were Miss Frances Carroll, telephone operator on Hines Lumber Company; Wilbur W. W^al- ton, a stenographer of the Continen tal & Commercial Bank, Chicago, of which Hines is a director; Fred Car ney, Jr., of Marinette, Wis., who was trying to sell Hines about $250,- 000 worth of lumber when the inci dents occurred of which he testified; and Charles L. Hall, a lumber buyer employed by Hines. 2o Visit Texas Large Oil Refineries Mr. Jas. B. Pratt, district chemist with the Southern Cotton Oil com pany left yesterday afternoon for Texas for a few weeks’ holiday. While in Texas, he will visit Mr. C. W. Sims, formerly of Charlotte and chem ist for the Southern Cotton Oil com pany, but now in Sherman, Texas, with the Sherman Cotton Oil company. Mr. Pratt hopes to visit many of the large refineries of Texas and see something of how oil is handled in that great cotton state. PRESIDENT TAFT REACHES SUMMER HOME SATURDAY Wags And Means Committee Ready To Tackle Revision Oj The Cotton Schedule Beverly. Mass., July 1.—President Taft, who arrived here today from ashin^ton. starts on his trip to Ir di:'n-' firm In the be- Her that eai'l.’ in .V'lgust he will re turn here for the remainder of tie summer. The president believes that the real opposition to reciprocity Is ended and that It Is now simply a que6tl6n of certain senators regis^er- inc: their opinions on the fioor of the eenate before a vote is reached. The jresldent enjoyed his day at had he Washington. July 1.—Democratic leader Underwood announced today that the ways and means commlttfee would begin drafting a revised cotton tariff schedule next week. Statistics on which a sub-committee has been at work for a month will be ready then. Mr. Underwood added that there was ap rospect that the extra session might end August 1. / Action in the senat on the cotton schedule will not be insisted upon by the house leaders if the upper branch disposes of the other measures. The cotton schedule will not be ready for action in the house for two weeks or more. proclty agreement in short order and take a vote. The four or five insurgent republi cans who are bitter in their opposition to the agreement and who started out to talk against it for several weeks, are showing unmistakable signs of tir ing of the task. They have discovered that the coun try", being for the agreement, is ap parently not greatly interested in what they are saying. Some of them have been embarrassed by information from their own states that their course is not approved by the people. With a victory for reciprocity as sured within the near future the only hitch in adjournment plans w'ill come over the question of general tariff re vision. The democrats assert that they have no desire to debate the wool schedule and the free list bill and will be satisfied merely to have a vote tak en on each. There is a disposition among the republican msurgents, how^- ever, to debate these bills and syeci- ficaliy to seek a compromise with the democrats on slightly increased rates on raw wool and slightly decc3ised duties on manufactured products. The thing aimed at is to put Pres ident Taft in a hole. If the senate dem ocrats consent to deal with the insur gents and the house wool schedule is amended and passed and sent to con- ference, no one can tFien tell to what extreme length the session will oe drawn out. Congress Closes Till Wednesday. ■\\''ashington, July 1.—Both houses of congres-s met today but almost immediately adjourned until next Wednesday. Many senators and rep resentatives have left thee ity to de liver Fourth of July orations. WOULD SETTLE DOCK HANDS STRIKE. Washington, July 1.—The military establishment of the United States returBed to a divisional basi& toda,y. Thee hange is made to make the'or ganization in time of peace con form as nearly as possible as that in time of war. The country is split in three di visions, eastern, central and western —centering at New York, Chicago and San Francisco respectively'. Dis-' tributed among the divisions are seven departments and three inde pendent posts. The functions of the divisions concern administration and supply while that of the depart ments is primarily tractical. The de partments are organized as brigades and the general officers at their head, relieved of administration, will devote their time to troops in the field. The nine departments existing until today have been reduced to seven eliminating the department of Colo rado and Dakota and distributing their territory to other departments. The eastern division embraces the departments of the east and the gulf. The central division comprises the departments of the lakes, the Missouri and Texas and Forts D. A. Russell, Wyoming; Leavenworth and Riley Kansas. The western division includes the departments o fCali- fornia and Columbia. The Philippine division is left un disturbed. Brave Woman Fiied Bullet Through Heart Of Buiglar- Men to Give Her a Medal Fort Worth. Texas, July 1.—While B^vrrly hugely. No soone’. , - - . . vt.nr. hpd "Paramatta^’ the cottage alone in her home ■which Is to be the summer White old baby at House, with the kind permission of j E. T. Goodwin heard a negio tearing CDngresB. then he hiked for the Myopia ' away the fastenings ^ ' linkB, where he played eighteen holea. She waited until he opened the door into her room, then fired twice, kill ing him with a bullet through the heart. The police and business men have started a subscription to give Mrs. Goodwin a medal for brav- •ry. Liverpool, July 1.—it was officially announced this evening that the Cun- ard, the White Star and other “com bine” lines and the Harrison line had agreed to recognize the dockers union and to attend a inference within a month for the sett’iiment of the que». tions of wages and conditions of em ployment. Minister Tang Talks. Mexico City, Mexico, July 1.—Chang Ying Tang, the Chinese minister, ad mits today that he came here owing to the delay by Mexico in payin.g the indemnity demanded for the Chinese who were killed in the Torreon massa cre. Minister Tang said: “I came here to enforce the collec tion of the indemnity for the country men killed in the massacre. I cannot say how much China demanded, but matters seemed to move too slowly in regard to the payment and I shall scay here until the payment is made.” Comegie Cables Hi*i Opinion London, July 1.—Andrew Carnegie today addre&sed the following tele gram from Skibo Castle to the Lon don office of The Associated Press;- “My view is that the indictment of the directors of the steel wire com panies is made in strict obedience with the law but the result of the trial will determine whether it will be correct. The punishment or release of the directors, however, is of trif ling moment. “What we must recognize is that combinations do take place and that these cannot be allowed to determine prices. The court of commerce which is already regulating railroad charges, will be found anmply sufficient to regulate combinations. There can ,be onlv one result of all this agitation, and' that is that the court of com merce will have access to all papers of industrial companies and fix prices liberal and fair to the actual capital invested and fair to the consumer. “To thiS’ complextion must it come at length. (Signed) “ANDREW CARNEGIE.’ THE WEATHER. Washington, July 1.—Representa tive Sisson, of Mississippi, through a resolution of inquiry introduced ia the house today, intimates that members of congress or their fami lies and friends are interested finan dally in the purchase by the gov ernment of a valuable tract of land to add to, the capitol grounds and to afford a broad avenue entrance to Union station. Purchase of this ground, or its condemnation is under the direction of a commission composed of Vice President Sherman, former Speakerjali, negotiations must proc^d Cannon, and Elliott W'ood, superin tendent of the capitol and capitol grounia. The original purpose of the purchase was to creatc a park or plaza from the capitol to Union sta- ticn. The cost was estimated at $3,500,000. Mr. Sisson says the cost will be nearer $8,000,000. The original resolution of congress authorizing the purchase provided the land should be be acquired by a special committee consisting of the vice president, the speaker of the house and the superintendent of the capitol. Last December, after the democrat.c had carried the house, this resolution was amended so as to pro vide that Joseph G. Cannon should be a member ol the purchasing com mission 'nstead of “the speaker.” No purchase=^ have been made by the commission. The law limited the expenditure in any one year to $500,- 000. There is now available for use by the commission $1,000,000, two years having pasised since the resolu tion was enac:.3d. For Dome time there have been rnmora ihat a Baltimore land coi'i pany has been acquiring this property needed to make the park and avenue planned by the government. Its offi cers are not known, but ;'Ir. Si&.5on throws about the transaction a sus picion that they may be known to and friendly with certain high offi cials who will have influence in the final purcahse of the land. Mr. Sis son wants to know why the law was changed Ifl the last congress substi- tu'ing Mr. Cannon for the speaker of the house,after the democratic land slide when it became evident Mr. Cannon would not continue to be E-peaker but was tc be supplanted bj Champ Clark. This Follows Visit oj Detective Bums to London —Men are Said to Have Purchased the Dynamite Used to Wreck limes Building. London, July 1.—At the request of the American state department the magistrates of Bow street court today issued provisional warrants for the arrest of David H. Kaplan and Milton A. Schmidt, The warrants were placed in the hands of the Scot land Yard detectives. The Scotland Yard men insist that there is no evidence that the parties wanted in connection with the dyna miting of the Los -Angeles Times building are here beyond the belief of the California authorities that they came this way. The British po lice received the usual printed cir cular giving descriptions of the men and saying that they were supposed to be in England. Burns on Hand. Detective William J. Bums,, who was instrumental in arresting the McNamaras and developing details of the alleged plot, came to England several weeks ago and was supposed to be here in connection with the presence of large numbers of ques tionable characters taking advantage of the presence of coronation crowds. He did not communicate with the American embassy and ac cording to Scotland Yard did not ask their assistance in connection with the dynamite case. The issuance of the warranta to-, day followed negotiations carried ooj by cable within the last day or two- As the British government officials cannot deal directly with the individ ual states of the United States and as the action desired by California appeared to be most important, the British authorities made Inquiry of the American state department as to whether the men were wanted by the federal government, through wliom ■ The reply was received this moniiiist, stat ing that the men^^wjye wanted and the warrants were thereupon applied for. Two Men Wanted. The two men, David H. Kaplan and Milton A. Schmidt, for whom war rants ware today issued in London* w’ere the two whose names figure prominently in connection with the dynamite affair at the time of the arrest of the McNamara brothers and Ortie McManigal. They are two of the three originally indicted by the grand* jury at Los Angeles and whom a reward of $25,000 waa of fered by District Attorney Fredericks, of Los Angeles. According to the charges in the indictments, Kaplan and Schmidt figured in the purchase of dynamite at Giapt, Cal., which was said to have been used later in the explosion. The third man Indicted was J. B. Bryce, who is claimed by the Los Angeles authorities to be James B McNamara, one of the brothers under arrest. \Vashington, July 1.—Fore cast: North Cfffolina—Fair in east ern, local showers in western portion Sunday. Monday prob ably fair. South Carolina—Generally fair, except probably local thundershowers Sunday and ' Monday. Something Doing At Seveisvilk Any one visiting Seversville this week could readily see that something out of the ordinary was going on. Squire H. C. Severs has had a force of men cleaning up in rear of his house and his sons’ store, Severs Bros. Very few people are aware of the fact That one of the nicest little nooks in Char lotte is just behind Severs Bros, store. There is a rock and cement wall built about two hundred feet long, in the shape of a carpenter’s square, enclos ing a spring which is enclosed in mar ble and stone taken from the old court house and other buildings of note In Charlotte that have been razed to the ground to make room for modern im provements. Squire Severs is nothing if not kind. LAND AFTER LONG TRIP. Providence, R. I-, July 1.—A cable gram to the Sunday Tribune from Horta, in the Azore Islands, anounces the arirval today of the yawl Sea Bird with T R. Goodwin and Fred Thurber, Methodist church, just on the cth- o fthis city, and Thomas F. Day, editor j er side of this springF want to raise of the Rudder. ' They left here 20 days ago in an at tempt to cross the Atlantic in a 25- fot yawl. a few dollars for charity’s sake so a balloon ascension is planned for the 4th of July night. The public is in vited. Novel Criminal Libel Suit In Which a Of Whiskey Jug Figures Tupelo, Miss., July 1.—The trial of N. P. Bonney, editor of the Daily Corinthian, at Corinth, Miss., on the charge of publishing a criminal libel on former Congressman “Private •John Allen, in the form of an affida vit alleging that Mr. Allen had taken part in the theft of a jug of whiskey from Streetmans mills in Alcorn county more than 30 years ago, was commenced before Justice Ball to day. All of the evidence had been sut)- mitted for the state and defense and arguments were commenced at halt past one o’clock this afternoon. The case will go to the jury late today. The corutroom was filled to over flowing and the proceedings were fol lowed v/ith intense interest. The cas-e against the three other editors. B. S. Barnard, of the Merid ian Dispatch; A. C. Anderson, of the Ripley Sentinel, and T. T. Davenport, of the Aberdeen Weekly, will not be tried until Monday. Their disposal will hinge on the verdict In the Bonney case as they reprinted the alleged libelous article from the col umns of the Corinthian.