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y-. — ■ ‘ ■ >;OTES FOR PONY OUTFIT ON~NEW OR R^EWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE"^ NEWS~HELPS~0'AVORITE. I- Pages SECTION. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS' 20 Pages (kONE SECTION. OL 2. NO. 24 CHARLOT rt, N. 0.. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1911 It. Gifford Pinchot Sustains Charges Made by Miss Abbott PRICE 5 CENTS :ument He Says That j Records Relating to Guggenheim Activities .iska Have Disat>peared 71 War Department Files. : IS Again Aroused in xms **Dick to Dick** Let bij The Part Confirm . p. of Miss AbboVs State- us by Pmchot. u July 16.—Gifford Pin- .?fued a statement sus- . . iirges made by Miss M. i v^riter. that vital records ' . Guggenheim activities ,:i'. e disappeared fropi the flies. . nas been at the bed- r -iok mother. His Interest v.iaiis, is 80 intense, how- .ame hurriedly to this T rive part in the investi- iUfe started. Mr. Pinchot -..iiu. coal land grab game l unningham coal land v.^a, which resulted in the f Richard A. Ballinger ■? the Interior, and, Inci- ^ue removel of Mr. Pin- . ‘ ' tores'er. The Cunning- a- e been declared invalid Fisher who succeed?d FOI HER IIFE Washln^on. July 15.—Somewhere between Chicago and Denver is a hos- pital pullman in which Mrs. Luke Lea, of the junior senator from Teun- essee, whose fight with death is watch ed w'ith breathless interest by h^r friends in the capital city. Mrs. Lea was taken critically all with pneumonia at Deer Park, Md. After recovering somewhat from uer recent illness when Senator Lea gave his blood In tranfusion to aid h®r, and her physicians said her only chance ot life was “rare air.” Undismayed bv the chances against them. Senator and Mrs. Lea agreed to try to race across the continent to Denver in time to save Mrs. Lea’s life. So Wednesdav a Pullman pulled out of Deer Par.K transformed into a hospital, in whi'h Mrs. Lea was nursed unceasingly bv her devoted husband. Miss Cora Shackleford, her trained nurse and Dr. Henry Fry, of this city. Every p ;s- sible precaution had been taken to make Mrs. Lea comfortable. The train arrived at Chicago Thursday af ternoon at 5 o’clock, and an hour later . T D u # u started westward over the Chicago & .j I B Cavanaugh of .h--; Northwestern. The news of its ;irri/al - ■ -ps of the uar depar.- in Denver is eagerly awaited here at the senator’s office. Until today th>? nev.-s of the race of Mrs. Lea with death was kept carefully guarded, but when it spread about the capital in the early morning her distinguished hus band s colleagues expresed the most lively interest in her welfare. 1 before the house iu- » mmittee, he brought, *i3 . rn^ps, and plates on file *r 'mmittee especially want- v>:fain plat showing >he .r.or. Of the ‘ Dear Dick” ad «in Controller Bay har- ;i.-. Mis Abbott had told tho ■'as shown to her about It was dated Decemb?r pretended to represant ide on Controller Eay sub^e- ■ vcmber l. I9iu. As it could . have come from Controller ashington in these fourteen plat must have been made ;nber 1. Bur before Decein- lere v« as no sovernment sur- ■le re.i;. n and no authority for • ir\eys to make their private irgued, therefore that Ryan . p had advance information ‘ oiiid be given these lands; ive hurried to Alaska, mad« ; before the official order .ni fhe right to do so had : f end rushed it back to . n to be filed just as soon - 'wrnmeit survey had been Ptnrhot today; : as Crimson became secre- ir. 1 took up this Controller : im, because I had hoped ■ n.;ght yet be time to save - interest, and the war de- have power to block had come to me, told - .V’uarinns. and stated that - • : this apparently pre-dated -:-i;.iicanoe was apparent to ' i.- to her . once, at her request, o i ; 'ir’^ment to see it for my- ■ . went with me to n.id he 'vill remember it. 'M, iimended location of the . : .'F The tide flats at Con- 'ith a plat of ground '!• *=.> ater edge, which was i.arves, docks, slips, tracks, .:p "as labeled as approved - •3:.t secretary—Mr. Oliver, ■ ' t j' ■ ^ 'ii P^arance of this map to- ' . 'i;e disappearance of an ; : K fo Dick” letter, written ; ? Ryan to Richard A. r'ringring President Taft and Taff, his brother, into the i a\ sc andal, threw doubt ■ 01 their existence ’^old Mr. Pinchot’s testi- • xiftence of the map is lu part of Miss Abbott’s ::.'l arouses renewed inte"- .■ - famous ‘Dick to Dick” -.net Denies Report. ' July 15.—Gifford Pin- .r the following signed ’i. !i has been called to to bean interview with • iiir.e ijaper in connection ' roller Bay investigation : > I have given no inter- - uf'd no statements Mv r.-ion on the subject ' . i^a.\ ;s a brief reference n a short statement given time the Cunningham IP rancelled ■^flFFORD PLNXHOT.” Going After Scalp Of J^ickersham Washington, July 15.—Attorney General Wickersham today made an informal reply to the charge of chief delegate, Wickersham of Alaska, that he had allowed the statute of limita- Uon to expire in certain Alaska crim inal cases, without taking action. •‘I have not given a definite opinion that the statute of limitation has ex pired in all of the cases. It is not improbable that criminal action may be taken. The matter is still under investigation in so far as i*^^ relates to the alleged combination of bidders in the coal proposition. “The Hazey case, however, I think, is barred by the statute.” Delegate Wickersham today declar- ! m-M li\iS%WSm Is There A Deep Laid Conspiiacy To Oust Wiley? IN FULL MOROCCO. GET TSFT II HOLE L UBIff Washington, July 15.—If Senators Smoot and Crane, republicans, and illiams, democrat, prove to be proph ets, President Taft ' 'ill have to solve one of the hardest problems of his administration before the adjournment of the special session o^ congress. Ac cording to the three senators, all of whom talked with the president today, the senate, through a c9mbination of democrats and insurgents, will pass the LaFollette bill, revising the wool schedule of the present tariff. The house already has passed a wool bill w'hich differs materially w'ith that drawn by Senator LaFollette, but according to the same unofficial prophe^., it would accept the latter measur^i rather than get no bill at all. President Taft, it is pointed out. then w^ould be face to face with one of the most difficult questions that has come before him. He has called the SFIHII IIS IT LEFT THE Chicago, July 15.—“I have actually observed the spirit leaving the body of a dying man who was a charity pa tient at Mercy hospital.” This startling announcement was I made by Dr. Patrick S. O’Donnell, ^ that former Secretary of War present wool schedule “indefensible.” Dickinson had been furnished with the same evidence concerning Alaskan frauds as w-as furnished Attorney Gen eral Wickersham, in May lyiO, and that he never acknowledged receipt of the documents. -He had this state ment placed in the records of the hear ings of the judiciary committee. Coupled with it was the further statement that delegate Wickersham submitted to the atorney general more than a year ago evidence of an alleged bribing fo a United States district at torney by the Katalla Company, one of the organizations in the Alaskan syndicate. “I have evidence,” declared Delegate Wickersham, “that $3,000 was used to bribe a deputy district attorney. That is the kind of matter I have been vainly trying to get this government to investigate and prosecute.” orse Dr. Wiley’s ast Record \ia., July 15—At a meeting ■ if'.i.ua ovfcter commlEsion lir Harvey W. Wiley’s 0 the pure 'food problem I' usly endorsed. President ■ r.f ihe commission, was to wire President Taft to I lie mewage expressed ..It Dr. Wiley, because of ■•f'.c. Would be exonerated in olTlre. Ml. Guggenheim Stiikes Back The tariff board has promised to furnish data for a scientific revision of that schedule by December and in many of his later speeches the Presi dent has declared that he opposed any revision not based upon investi gations of the board. The president, it is believed, would veto the LaFollette bill and in his veto message w'ould make a defense to the country for such action. It w’as said late today that the reg ular republicans might make an effort to counteract the etiect of the move ment by introducing a bill of their own but they have little hope of suc cess. Little Joe Brown Must be Urged Atlanta, July 15.—The Journal to day says: “Former Governor Joseph M. Brown will not be a candidate to suc ceed to the vacancy that will be oc casioned b3' the retirement of Gover- Xew York, July 15.—S. R. Guggen- nor Smith unless he is convinced be- heim, one of the chief officers in the yond question that it is the desire of great corporation that is accused by j an overwhelming majority of the peo- Delegate Wickersham of attempting: to I pie of Georgia that he make the race, get control of the development of j This was learned from an authorita- Alaska, struck back at tjie accusers tive source Saturday morning and tonight in an interview with an I. X. by many is regarded as accounting S. correspondent at his villa at Elber-1 for the heroic efforts of certain intiu- on, X. J., where he Is spending rheiences to create the impression that summer with his family. j Governor Brown is the choice of THE DEAD FIIOM NDMBERIHIi Puebla, Mei' dead in this where fightii 135. Sixty-on o have been ki. The total y places laced at .sorted to .ovadonga and X ray' expert of Chicago, He adds to the statement thit h^^^ believes he has discovered what in many men who heretofore have op posed him politically. CHOLERA IN NEW YORK. "I dare say.” he declared, after ex pressing reluctance to discuss any phase of the subject for publication, "that nobody was more surprised at| FIRST CASE OF ASIATIC the charges contained in the W’^icker- sham affidavit against our company than I was. The subject is entirely! js^ew York, July 15.—The first na- new to me. I know nothing about, it. case of Asiatic cholera to develop What is true of myself I believe season ended today with the be true of m.y brothers and of J. P-1 death of Patrick Bushing, night Morgan, who is associated with us in [ watchman at the Swinburne island our Alaskan enterprises. I have read quarantine station. There have been everything pertaining to the matter N number of deaths among immi- that we got hold of in today’s papers.] grants detained and two suspects The whole thing would strike me as! for the required observation pe- ridiculously absurd if it were not that developed the disease afterward for so long a time w-e have been un der the fire of malignant-*nd ignorant persons. For this reason, this alone, I feel that it is time to say some thing.” Death of Capt Dayis Special to The News. Asheville, July 15.—Capt. J. N. Davis, one of the bes’t known resi dents of the Reems creek section of the county, died last night about 2 o’clock at his home two miles from Weaverville at the ^ge of 87 years. Theb urial services and the interment will be at Long’s chapel tomorrow afLcr:icoa at 3 o’cloclt. and died but Bushing is the first infection of a resident American. New Cars Arrive. Special to The News. Asheville, July 15.—The new in terpole interurban electric car which the Asheville and East Tennessee Railroad ordered some w’eeks ago for use on the Weaverville line arrived today; The oflScers of the company hope to have it in operation tomorrow afternoon. The car came on a fiat and will be taken to the shads of the company from Craggy over the Crag gy branch of the Southern Rail way. fact constitutes the soul or spirit. According to Dr. O’Donnell’s story, an invited number of Chicago phy sicians attended his latest demonstra tion at Mercy hospital last Thursday night. Previously he had held de monstrations in his office in the Hey- w’orth building, using four young wo men as models for the detention of the “human aura.” Using a film of dicpanin and other chemicals held ^between two spiall plates of glass all of the physicians invited agreed that they had seen the "human aura” or “halo” of light waves that surrounded tha bodies of the women. This “aura” developed as a strong radiation of light sur rounding the outline of the body and the head. Following up this experiment. Dr. O'Donnell, believing he had found the secret of death and the way the soul passes from the dead clay when dis solution comes, went further. Here is his own story of his vision of what happened when death comes and life aepai'ts; "The patient was reported as hav ing only a few minutes to live. I looked at the man through this chem ical screen for almost half an hour. The “aura” was plainly distinguish able. The attending doctor said the patient was sinking rapidly. I did not take my eyes from the subject. "Suddenly the physician announc ed that death had occurred. At the same instant the ‘aura’ which as a bright light had been radiated from the body at all points, began to spread from the body and disappear ed. Further observation of the body revealed no sign of the ‘aura.’ ” Dr. O’Donnell says that he does not claim that this “aura” is the soul or spirit. He says he does not know what it is, but declares that he has witnessed the fact that it is a radio activit.v That is present during life and passes away after death. Dr. O’Donnell promises to go furth er. He wants to solve the question, “has ah animal a soul or spirit kin dred to that of man.” Tomorrow he expects to test a horse or a dog to see if they too have an “aura.” in minor skirmishes in the outskirts. The Covadonga fight started be tween the rurales and Maderists near the factory. The striking factory hands seized the opportunity to enter private houses which they pillaged. In the course of their outlawry, they killed four Germans, three men and one woman. Later thejt joined the Maderists. Scourge of Typhoid In Little Rock Washington, July, 15.—The senate was not in session today: In the house: The house met after a three days^ recess. Representative Macon objected to immediate consideration of the con ference report on the urgency defic- ciency bill, and it went over. Kinkead, of New Jersey, introduced a resolution providing for a special committee to investigate the meat packing trust. . Cox introduced a resolution direct ing Attorney General Wickers-ham and Secretary Wilson to send all records in the Dr. Wiley case to the house. Adjournment taken over Monday until next Wednesday to avoid voting on the $45,000,000 pension bill- Little Rock, Ark., July 15.—Reports to the city physician show there were a total of 121 cases of typhoid fever here up to noon today. A majority of these cases are said to be conva lescing. An expert chemist Friday reported the presence of typhoid baccili in the water in the public cisterns in the city pary and the mayor ordered them closed. It is declared that 60 per cent of the faver cases are with in a radius of a few blocks of the city park. Physicians say there are no fever germs in the city water sup ply. Experts Will Examine. Memphis, Tenn., July 15.—A news dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says: Governor Donaghue has been advis ed by the authorities at W’ashington that Dr. W. H. Frost, an assistant surgeon of the United States army, and an expert in the hygenic laborato ry, left the national capital last night for Little Rock. He is coming at the solicitation of the governor and Mayor Taylor, for the purpose of making a thorough investigation of the sani tary and health conditions of Little Rock, to determine if possible, the cause for the epidemic of typhoid fe ver that has been raging here for the last month. There has been a great deal of conceiyi over the situation, and the city council has charged it direct ly to the city water which is alleged to be impure and unwholesome. Dr. Hoffman, chairman of the board of health, reports there are no baccilli in the water that would produce typh oid fever but that the area of infec tion lies within three blocks of the city park where the Confederate reun ion camp was located and he declares the disease is due to a lack of sani tary precautions. THE WEATHER FORECAST. Washington, July 15.—Fore- cast for Sunday and Monday: North Carolina, South Caro- ♦ lina — Local thundershowers ♦ Sunday and probably Monday. ^ NINE LIVES LDST BESDLT DF GDLLISIDN N^ew Orleans, July 15.—Nine lives were lost in the collision betw’een the river boats Diamainte and Irma in the San Juan river Friday night, June 23, according to a story printed in the Bluefields (Nicaragua) American in its issue of July 2, just received here. The collision took place about mid night, throwing the crews and passen gers of both boats into a panic, many leaping into the water. “An investigation of the catastro phe,” says the American, “points to the fact that the captain of the Diam ante, was intoxicated while on duty and to this is laid the responsibility for the loss of life and the loss of the Irma which sank soon after being hit.” The San Juan river marks the boun dary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Reports last night w'ere that fifty lives had been lost. Resolution Will be Offered Asking That Publicity Be Given All Complaints Filed Against Wiley—Idea is to Learn Hts Enemies. Gov. Hoke Smith Wont Resign Now Atlanta, July 15.—There is no indi cation that Gov. Hoke Smith will take the slightest notice of Editor Stovall’s editorial and Editor Thomas E. Watson’s editorial, demanding that he resign the governor’s chair at once to take up his duties as United States senator. Gov. Smith stands on the fact that the United States senate itself still regards Terrell- as the junior senator from Georgia and that every day Terrell’s name is being called, and Terrell is being marked “absent,” and that Hoke Smith’s name will not be callcd until Hoke Smith’s credentials arep resented. Gov. Smith further i^arids, it is said, on the precedents which have been heretofore freely quoted in the j press, making it possible for him I to continue as governor under the [ circumstances. I That Hoke Smith will resign as ^ governor before the end of the pres-1 ent session of the general assembly, [ seems altogether out of the question,! judging by his attitude, and he! hasn’t said anything yet that would j give rise to the idea that he has abandoned his originally stated inten-1 tion of not resigning until the late fall. Doomed Woman May Go Free Wilson and ickersham Will be Examined and The Probe Wiil be Thorough-Something Interesting is Looked For Before the End. Washington, July 15.—To demon* strate that “The Interests are mak ing war on Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure food expert, to have him removed from oflSce, Representative Cox, of Indiana, has prepared a resolution call ing from the departments of agricul ture and justice all the complaints against Dr. Wiley since he was ap pointed chief of the bureau of chemis try. Chairman Moss, of the committee on expenditures in the department of agriculture, who is making the inquiry into the Wiley case does not think a special resolution necessary to gather these facts. He says his committee has full authority and will have the complaints produced. Mr. Cox with held his resolution toda"' , but may present it later if he finds that Chairman Moss cannot get the infor mation. Mr. Cox believes that the response to this resolution will show just w’hat interests are lined up against Dr. Wiley, and w^hy. He is convinced that the expert’s pure food activities have resulted in the accumulation of con siderable correspondence both at the department of agriculture and the de partment of justice and he thinks that it would make interesting reading for the public. It is apparent that the Moss committee is extremely friendly to Dr. Wiley, and that every effort will be made to . ascertain if it is true as charged that he is the victim of a conspiracy on the present interests inimical to pur^_^od. legislation, and which have been fighting the govern ment chemist and his activities for a good many years. The inquiry into the ‘Wiley case will be begun by the committee early next v/eek. Although no announcement has been made it is understood Dr. Wiley wiil be the first witness called and that he will be followed by Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson, Attorney General Wickersham and the three members of the committee on person nel of the agricultural department who recommended, as a result of their inquqlry into an alleged technical vio lation of the law by Dr. Wiley, th.'it he separated from the public service. According to official statement at the department of agricultural today, the letters of defense from Drs. Wil ey, Bigelow and Krebler. who are in volved with Dr. H . H. Rushy, in the Wiley case, have not been received by Secretary of Agriculture. It was stat ed that there was no time limit for the submission of these letters and that when they are received by the secretary they will be indorsed with his recommendation and forwarded to the president. ONLY ONE SMALL CHANGE IN 1911 FOOTBALL RULES. Chicago, July 15.—There will be one minor change in the football rules fo the season of 1911, according to Walter Camp, Yale’s athletic ad- vjser and chairman of the intercol legiate football rules committee wno Sault Ste Marie., Ont., July 15.— Xew^s that her sentence of death bad been commuted to life imprisonment j is Chicago on business. Camp said came as a thunderbolt from a clear sky i the penalty for the incompleted for- to Mis. Angelina Xeapolitano, in jail i ward pass would be lightened, the in Sault Ste Marie, Ont.. for the mur- ball being brought back to the point der of her husband, Peter Xapolitano, i wnere it was put in play instead of last Easter Sunday. Seated on the edge of the cot in her cell the woman resigned to her fate, was sewing clothing for her ex pected child when the word reaches! her. where it left the hand of the passer, as was the case in 1910. Senator Watson Entertained. Fairmont, W. Va., July 15.—As the week end guests of Senator Clar ence W. "Watson, sox of his colleagues in the United States Senate, arrived here this afternoon to remain until Monday. One feature of Senator Wat son’s entertainment was an exhibition of the widely known Watson show horses, this part of the event taking place during the afternoon in the presence of the general public, which had been especially invited. Tonight a banquet was served on the lawn of the Watson home, at Fairmont Farms, which was attended, in addi tion to the United States senators, by the democratic members of the West Virginia legislature. The United States senators present w’ere Messrs. Chamberlain, Overman, Johnson, Bai ley. Kem and Taylor. Mr. Madden Reproved, Washington, July 15.—“If yo'a haa been loyal to the department xrhen Hearing a tapping on the floor be- j you were third assistant postmaster general, we would not be bothering with this Lewis publishing case,” said neath her feet, she placed her ear t-'* a rivet hole and heard from the lips of a condemned burglar on the floor ■ Representative Austin, of Tennessee, beneath the joyful tidings that had i to Edwin C. Madden, now appearing been celled to him through the win dow of his cell by a passerby. The message completely unnerved the prisoner and she fainted. The ma tron quickly revived her. “I not be hanged. I not be hanged,” she fairly screamed in broken English, as she realized the true worth of rhe information she had received. Then, falling to her knee, she grasped the hem of the matron's skirt and kissed it passionately, w'hile tears streaiwed from her eyes. PROMINENT COUPLE WED IN DURHAM. Special to The News. Durham. July 15.—Miss Annie Ham ilton, of Raleigh, and young Thomas Bruner, son of the late secretary of the department of agriculture, were married this evening at the First Presbyterian parsonage, Rev^ E. R. Leyburn officiating. The couple came here accompanied by Miss Kathleen Bernard and Arthur Holding, who per formed the important waitfng func tionary. Difficulty in securing a ring came near causing the attendants to los.e their train, upon which they re turned to tell the story. The married couple went to Greeasboro and from there to Biscoe, w^here young Bru ner has a cosition in a cotton mill. before the house committee on ex penditures in the postoffice depart ment as attorney for the Lewis Pub lishing Company, of St. Louis. The Lewis company is complaining be- case the second class mail privilege w'as denied it several years ago. Mr. Madden had objected because Mr. Austin had interrupted him with too many qustions. Detective Burns Remains in Eutope Indianapolis, Ind., July 15.—Counsel for Detective William J. Burns, who is under $10,000 bond on charges of having kidnapped John J. McNamara from this city last April, requested this morning that the hearing sched uled for today be postponed until September, as Burns is on his way back from England where develop ments in the case demand his pres ence. W’’hilo unwilling to delay the case until September Judge Markey said he would not forfeit the bond at this time, but ordered the attorneys to re port to him in a few days when Burns could appear in court.