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the wants are of service in innumerable ways - SEE IF THEY CANT SERVE YOU. s.,«m.».THE charlotte news. Latest Edition ''TT5 rn>,H vOL- 8035 CHARLOTTE N. C.. SATURDAY EVLNING, SEPTEMBER !6 191 I PIJ 1(^17 I In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy Dally—5 Cents Sunday. I Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Da ' Dally and Sunday. Hi Par j t ia>, 'c;l Havt i )ee-: CO" "3rner CO S Co. jated - ir i » s littT. l-v- InQuesl Into Muidei Of Myrtle Hawkins Postponed Until Next Monday All. ^■:cr Has It That There Is Another Woman InThe Case Who May be Called jiw.r n -j j. r> *1 addressed to her Said to DC in mother was as follo'v^■s: r.aser, „:-M, May Bave Been X ted—No Arrfsts Yet Any Suspects, e Not Connected with Liitle Court rowded at Inquest— The Testimony. ^R'JCE NABERS.) S'e ;-e aeath of Miss Myrtle ,$ today postponed until afternoon. e' Woman in Case. • :>nal light was placed - this morning when it that there was still an- in the mystery. Her "'jght to be that of Bessie ! known hair dresser who I V visited Hendersonville. :o have been able to aid c operation. Should she be lavs been In this city -ay there is little doubt ,e is connected with the '3 muraer. It if thought - n Columbia. S. C. "al talk on thes treets this that the state has only in getting one or two w!t- • the stand and unless more introduced to contrad'ct ony given by the suspects ry will not yet be solved. “Dear Mother—I promised daddy to write and tell you of my misfor tune, but I have not the face to tell you the name of the man who is responsible for it. He is not entirely to blame, however, for he has done all that he could to help me and will continue to do so. I am going away so that I will not be any more trouble to you. Tell them that I have gone at Alta’s. Good bye.” The ‘‘Alta” referred to. is a girl friend of the deceased who lives at Concord, N. C. There w'ill be no arrests made un less the evidence to be presented to day takes a more decided turn. The 16. The in- thorities were inclined to take a gloomy view of the situation last night. Mrs Guice Not Implicated. ~\3~noted yesterday the rumor im plicating Mrs. Guice was merely un founded, as officers stated. A warrant has been issued for Miss Isabelle Grant, a trained nurse of Atlanta, according to one report. It is rumored that she will be charged with first degree murder, although the roport has not been verified. The warrant had not been served early todaV, More important testimony and yes terday afternoon follows: Those who are said to be under surveillance are George Bradley and his wife, A. A. McCall and his fath er, Dan McCall, and Mrs. A. A. Mc Call. the latter being the boon com- ].anion of the deceased girl. George Bradley is the man with whom the Hawkins girl had been on very friendly terms. Saturday and left Sunday. Dan McCall thought she spent one night at his house, while the others were positive that she did not. George Bradley made a good witneas, an swering questions with apparent frankness. His newly wedded wife, to whom the Hawkins girl had written about her association with Bradley, testified that she held no jealous}' in her heart, nor did sh*e ihave any kind of grudge. Solicitor Johnson sought to show that Mrs. Bradley and My* 'e Haw kins had quarreled Wer* v Ay or Thursday, preceding the O ^ event. The solicitor directed examina tion along the line t> ^ .uring the alleged quarrel, Mr' . radley had shut her door in tl' ^ oe of Mrytle Hawkins and told not to come there again. To a this Mrs. Brad ley entered a ^ g denial. The next wi' was Dan McCall, father of A. A. .cCall, who testified that there Avas no smell of a dead body about the barn, nor had he no ticed any. He said the trained nurse, Miss Grant formerly taught school near Hendersonville. It was explained that Mrs. A. A. Hawkins had been ill and that the Hawkins girl had been visiting her friend, Mrs. McCall, daiiy on that account for the past month. rectives and county officials Efiort to Ascend Aetna Fails The chief evidence for the state yesterday afternoon was Bob Wad- delj who worked for Dan McCall, near Flat Rock. He testified that Mc Call had sent him to Hendersonville Sn-turday night on an ostensible er- active today than before, i rand, and he suggested that he go to t'at sc*7iethiny £.'■ , cnuich Sunday night. He said he ht before the resuming smelled odor about the barn, and had missed sacks and found them in an other barn. He said that he noticed the same peculiar odor at the inquest. He said that all of the MtCalls and conversa- r* tne next Monday and will ''.‘.*'5 undone in getting addl- tc'i •"'•/'y. There are several ... .-,,3. to be summoned for Vo*:* By Associated Press. Cantania, Sicily, Sept. 16.—An at tempt to ascend Mount Etna was made today but it was impossible to get nearer than 50 feet from one of the craters owing to the intense heat and thick smoke In which no one could live. The eruption of the lava continues. Near the source the river of lava flows swiftly, out-distancing men who ran along its edge. Further down the vol cano's sides the mass cools gr'Sdually and thickening, it divides into four I principal streams and loses much 01 ' its velocity. Great masses of rock wrenched from the craters’ edge float and roll down the slope, slowly Iquify- ing. The contestant cannonading of the volcano is defeaning. Mai tin Costello Commits Suicide ;i it% the ten or fifteen ; Bradleys held whispered ~-ny has not been heard. | tions Friday morning. . ' a* there is one witness He said the bottle was found at the a" ?t who will severely Hawkins home by the girl's sister, , V -rge Bradley In his ^ along with a paper containing a mys- ' -t he was not with the j terious black powder. It had ewdent- : ast Wednesday a week . \y been mixed with something in the 0«er 3 Lake. I bottle. Hawkins was asked if he gave '• -.irt room was crowd-; ^o Mrytle Hawkins and he de- with eager specta- '' ssing nothing that '^y the witnesses for i“s the big day when all nied it. Bradlev was married only a few weeks ago. He and the Haw'kins girl had for a long time been close *.’e testimony was to be 1 friends. He became engaged to an- ' It thought that the j ^^her girl and the Hawkins girl be- . d exert their every t - - '■jown the testimony of g: E'':i , the young married *: ' a-' intimate friend of *0'ow their line of at- ; 3' was the case yes- vvsre einht newspaper repre- ’•e irt room represent- every big paper in tne local people y man who comes 1" ^ - hirn either as a de- ' .vspaper writer. . ' . ?evt 1^?.—The Bes- .itorv la a fake. The vlifs Grant. .Nothing .i^riing has developed. sbowln^ nothing ex- Bradley end A. B. ^ 1: -ArT T.rt of being im- u‘Urder. Both are mar- - i - «n no arrests made !;me -'■=* ' ‘Hfs Developments. • . ■tne mystery of ^ - eath was no near- rujht than it waa • The coroner's . rp ()pened yester- ! iiirned until this '1 he v»arrants for 0’ Pusrected parties ' n up at noon yes- came engaged to Hal Cooper, of Johnson City. Before the marriage of Bradley the Hawkins girl wrote to Bradlej’’s fiancee and asked if she had any objection to Bradley and her self continuing to keep company as they had been doing in the past, say ing there could be nothing wrong as both were engaged. The girl wrote back that she had no objections to offer. It has been known in Hender sonville all day that Bradley would be one of the chief witnesses at the inquest. A woman, said to be a trained nurse, visited at the McCall home some time prior to the tragedy. This slipped out in casual conversation with one of the interested parties. The coroner and solicitor are anxious to question her, as well as all ^hp were in the neighborhood at the time. This woman took a train for the South shortly before noon last Sun day- . X. • „ The solicitor’s line of questioning the witnesses indicated the theory that the body was hidden in a barn or old building on Dan McCall’s place on Thursday and was taken to the lake Saturday. Dan McCall is the fatlier of A. A. McCall, husban^ of the most intimate friend of the Haw kins girl. Bob '^^addell, who is employed on the Dan McCall place, testified that By Associated Press. Los Angeles, Cal.', Sept. 16.—Mar tin Costello, 65, of Tombstone, Ariz., prominent for more than a quarter of a century in the development of mines in the southwest and reputed to be a multi-millionaire, committed suicide here last night in a cheap lodging house. Costello dressed himself in fault less after-dinner attire, left his fam ily at the family apartments, went to the lodging house and rented a room for which he paid 75 cents. He fold ed his coat for a pillow and lying down on the floor sent a bullet through his heart, dying almost in stantly. Despondency is believed to have been the cause. Game Postponed. By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Sept. 16.—American— Chicago-Philadelphia, first game post poned, rain. BULLET STfilGK ^4 Pjesident Jajt Speaks At New Yoik State Fair Foremen Get Strike Order By Associated Press. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 16.—Twelve hundred and fifty foremen and sec tion hands on the Delaware, I^acka- wanna and Western Railroad have been ordered by President A. B. Lx)we„ president of the maintenance of ways employes union, to strike at 6 o’clock tonight. The strike was authorized by na tional officers of the trackmen’s union and comes from the refusal of the company to arbitrate differences with the men. The section men had asked for an increase in wages which was refused. Subsequently, it is said, M. G. Foley, a section foreman and chairman of the grienance committee was rismiss- ed. The section man claimed he had been discharged because of his activ ity in the agitation for increased wages and they demanded his rein statement. This, th men say, was also refused and then the union men suggested arbitration. President Truesdale, of the company, declined to arbitrate and the strike today was the result The strike order takes in the entire Lackawanna system betw'een Hobok en, N. J., and Buffalo. Discusses Opportunities Opens to The American Farmer if 3e Follows Up-To-Date Methods-Quotes Many Facts Relating to Farming. CHARLIE TAFT AND "JOY” RHYDER • There is now rapidly growing in Boston a movement to insist tha tall of young Charlie Taft’s essays into the field of wit and humor be subjected to his father’s well-known and ever active veto before being made pub lic. The other day at the aviation field at Squantum, he was guilty of a pun that caused a shudder of horror to run through aesthetic Boston and made talk of a Committee of Public Safety escorting him to the limits of the city. The president's son has recently been very gallant to Miss Mignon Rhy- der, of Boston. They were together much at the aviation field. Miss Rhy- der is an enthusiast and took a ride with Lieutenant Milling of the army. While .she was in the air, young Taft never took his eyes from the aero plane. ‘‘Studies in Milling” asked a friend. “No” replied the president’s son. “I’m watching a joy Rhyder.” There will probably be come special legislation in the near future to cover sinriHar offenses In Massachusetts. the evidence so ’ ' iMPtifv any ar- . fr.se? ex.imined yes- by Solicitor Johnson been served, the j during the latter part of. the week the .J smelled as if there had been a dead body about. He said that theie was a print In the loft of the barn. The Bradleys and McCalls, who L'rarilpy, who before .^^^e called to the stand during the ’ iS « close friend afternoon, told stories that did not n= M-. and Mrs. A. j exception of Mrs. Mc- • ricndK of the de- failed to make a good wit- t 1 'CO house ilr, and denied that they had seen Myrtle Hawkins since ^Ved- nesday afternoon. All of them denied any unusual disturbance Thursdaj night, but the McCall woman, w’ho said her aunt told her that she was there herself asleep. Coroner Kirk, who. with tne solic itor, conducted the examination, showed a bottle to McCall and the paper in which it was wrapped. Mc Call denied knowing an/-hing 01 them. When asked where the bottle came from and what it held, he en tered a complete denial. He noticing any strange odor about tne barn. He declared that he did not know that the board which was found in the lake was a missing one from the barn loft. The examination revealed the that the trained nurse, whose name has been brought into the case, was Estelle Grant, of Atlanta. All of the McCalls and Bradleys said she came ' V; (1 Robort Waddell, ' 'h iho emrloy of the i ''V L .^.hnson. The last 1 'ieorgp Hradley as ' n saw sitting In ■liinn on Lake Osce- ’ :r.'ln\^hT Thursday, -••n'l refuted John- ap'l wore that he : . ■ Rirl 3 death or I. led to it. :a brother of the H»> Cooper, her ' =>n the stand that ■ on to euspect any :nurder of sister and ^a'urr of the inquest, somewhat new light ^ ;ri8 mvBtery, was the ' ‘ a letter found In here by Mrs. J. B. -^^heville, a married sls- “ deceased. The letter writ- By Associated Press. Kiev, Russia, Sept. 16.—Physicians attending Premier Stolypin made an other examination of the patient to day and later announced that the progress toward recovery was satis factory with thee hances of i rapid restoration increasing. It appears, they stated, that when Bogroff attempted the life of the premier at the gala performance in the municipal theatre Thursday night, the one revolver bullet that entered the body first struck the cTucifix which M. Stolypin alw'ays wears and thus lost much of its force, which accounts for the comparatively slight character of the wound. Religious services were held in all thel ocal churches today w'hen pray ers were offered for the recovery of the minister. Crowds representing all classes thronged the doors of the hos pital, anxiously scanning the bulle tins posted by the physicians. Patriotic demonstrations in the city are frequent. Madame Stolypin arrived her« to day and w'ent at once to the bed side of her husband. During the morning Prof. Zeidler, who had been summoned from; St. Petersburg, reached the hospital and after an examination and cons'^lta- tion with the other physicians decid ed that the treatment had been satis factory and that the chances ^ere ten to one in favor of the patients recovery. He also concluded that) an operation for the extraction of 1 the bullet which entered the right bi^ast co^d ^ jgerformed with safety.| KillLETODUr By Associated Press. Knoxville, Sept. 16.—Governor Jud- son Harmon, of Ohio, accompanied by Mrs. Harmon, are expected to ar rive this afternoon at 1:45 o’clock to visit the Appalachian exposition and to be its guest of honor on Har mon and Ohio day. He is due to leave tonight for Cincinnati. Governor Har mon wili be met at GreenvHle, 75 miles east of the city by a reception committee headed by Colonel L. D. Tyson, president of the exposition company and formally escorted to the city by the committee. Upon ar rival he and Mrs. Harmon will be driven to the home of Colonel and Mrs. Tyson for a brief rest after which they will visit the exposition grounds. At 4:30 o’clock Governor Harmon will deliver an address from the marble pavilion on the exposition grounds which is expected to be heard by not less than ten thousand people. This evening at 6 o’clock President Tyson and the board of directors of the exposition will enter tain the governor at a dinner after which he wall visit exhibition build ings and other features of the expo- sotion. Found His Wife Hopelessly Insane By Associated Press. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 16.—P. M. Carlisle, a prominent citize nof Calla way, Fla., passed through Montgom ery late yesterday w'ith his little daughter, Dorothy, from Memphis, Tenn., where he says he found his wife on Wednesday in a hopelessly insane condition. He says she had been robbed of about $750 worth of jewels and considerable money by an un known man who followed her from Hot Springs, Ark., to Memphis and played upon her weakened mind. Mrs. Carlisle has been placed in a sanitori- um. Authorities have only a vagu© de- scriptioTJ, of the allege?! thief. M^. Cai*- iisle until recently conducted a large pharmacy at Dothan, Ala. Expect ''Mona Liza" Over Here Mexico Celebrates Her Independence Bv Associatea ?ress. ‘^Mexico City, Sept. 1«.—Anniversary of Mexico’s ‘declaration of independ ence w’as celebrated today, the big feature of the program being a pa rade of the military reviewed by President de La Barra. Early in the day the streets were thronged with merry makers. They appeared imbued with a spirit of freedom but there was little disorder. This condition was in marked con trast to the sullen attitude of many which had become more noticeable in recent years. In the early meriting the ringing of bells, the tooting of horns and the cheering aroused the city. The official program began when the members of the supreme court and diplomats called upon President de La Barra at the palace at 9 o’clock. Later at the head of the re ception party thep resident drove to Chapultepec where the formal exer cises were to be held. Up to that time no unpleasant incident had oc curred. By Associated Press. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 16.—D. O. Dough erty, one of the most prominent busi ness men of Atlanta, was found dead early this morning on the rear porch of his Peachtree street home with a bullet through his heart and a pistol lying at his side. Members of the family state that Mr. Dougherty Lad gotten up during the night on several occasions to look for some one who had been tampering with his automobile. There was every indication that his own pistol had caused his death, neverthe less his family assert it was accident al. The coroner’s jury reached a ver dict to the effect that Mr. Dougherty came to his death through the acci dental discharge of his own weapon. The fact that Mr. Dougherty’s auto bile was found outside the garage, from which it evidently had been re moved during the night, bore out the family’s story that he was looking for trespassers. Mr. Dougherty was president of the Dougherty-Little Redwine Company, one of the largest wholesale dry goods firms in Atlanta. WILLIAM H. DINGLEY FOUND DEAD IN BED. 'leniHc Stotm Si reads Desolation By Associated Press. El Paso, Texas, Sept. 16.—A terrif ic storm and cloudburst in the Mo- gollen district of New Mexico Thurs day night swept over the Cooney Mining Camp in Grant county, flood ing the canyon and sweeping eight houses away. One person, name unknown, was drowned. The mill and plant of the Enterprise Mining Company was badly damaged. Not a house in the Cooney camp escaped injury. ASSAILANT OF MISS PRICE CAPTURED. By Associated Press. Winnipeg, Sept. 15.—A report has reached here that the assailant of Miss Evelyne Price, abducted last Monday from the school house at Snow' Flake, w'here she was a teach er, has been captured at Hannand and confessed. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 16.—William H. Dingley, for nearly forty years Grand Treasurer of the Alabama Ma sons was found dead in bed early ton. Slemp made his escape and a Killing at Pennington Gap By Associated Press. Pennington, Gap, Va., Sept. 16.—In a quarrel here last night, H. C Slemp shot and killed Cleveland Ly- this morning. He was in his 87th year, reward of $1,000 has been offered for Funeral arrangements are not yet his arrest. Slemp is a cousin of Con perfected. grewma^ C. B. Sleinp. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 16.—Fi’om in formation which they have received recently, treasury department Officials believe that the “Mona Liza,” the $5,- 000,000 master piece which was stolen from the Loiivre, Paris, will be smug gled into the United States through the swamps of northern Minnesota. Acting through orders received from Washington, it is understood, George C. Foulkes, special agent of the se cret serv'ice in charge of customs of ficers on the Canadian line from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast, left 5’€sterday for northern Minesota, where he will take charge of the drag net which the government is setting for the picture thieves. It is believed the picture will not come through any regular port of en try but will come by the caravan route. French Aviator Dead. Verdun, France, Sept. 16.—Edouard Nieuport, the French aeronaut, died today from internal injuries received when he fell with his machine yes terday. THE REGIPRDGIIY EIGHT IN GmmDII NEim IN e END By Associated Press. Ottawa, , Ont., Sept. 16.—Sir Wil frid Laurier will close his speaking tour here for reciprocity on Monday and Robert L. Borden, leader of the opposition, will have his final word in Nova Scotia. The conservatives continue to as sail the government for entering into the trade agreement on the ground that it is wholly a step in a deeply laid plot by President Taft to detach Canada from Great Britain and to absorb the country into the Ameri can republic. The conservative leaders are satis fied that this line of attack is bring ing the electors over to them but the iberas, who have been fighting the disloyalty cry, predicting an increas ed majority of their party in the twelfth parliament, continue to point out the economic benefits to be de rived, particularly by the farmers from the enactment of the reciproc ity. Forecasts in the election results are beginning to appear. The conser vatives are making claims of pros pective gains in both Ontario and Quebec w'hich they assert will give them the balance of power. The lib erals estimate their majority in the twelfth parliament at between forty and fifty-five compared with a major ity of 43 in the parliament just dis solved. In what little betting has appeared the liberals continue to rule strong favorites. Discusses Activities oj Depait- ment oj Agriculture And Ad mits That it Might do Its Present Vrcrk More Econo mically, By Associated Press. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 16.—Presodent Taft arrived at Syracuse early today to remain until 3:40 o’clock this after noon, a visit to the state fair here be ing the firsrt engagement of his 13,000- mile trip to the West. The president was a breakfast guest of the Syracuse chamber of commerce. There were 200 guests at the break fast. The president made a brief speech, acknowledging the hospitality of Syracuse citizens. His principal address was reserved for the fair grounds, whither he was escorted la ter in the forenoon. A luncheon with, the state fair commission at the club house on the grounds -was the last fixed event of the program for the day. Governor Dix was detained at the Spring Lake conference of governors. He sent the president a telegram ex- press-ing regrets at not being able to personally welcome him to New York state. The president’s swing “around the circle” started from Boston last night in a downpour. The rain followed the presidential train through the Berk- shires. Today the clouds had rolled^ away and there was a brilliant autumn.- sun. ; No Hint of Politics. There was no hint of politics con nected with the inauguration of the trip and there i& every reason to be lieve that Taft is planning to with hold speeches that have to do with, more important politics until he reach es the Western states. Today he plann ed to confine himself largely to a dis cussion of farming methods and • .e necessity of conservation of the soil. The extent to w^hich the government can actively enter this work of conseh- vation was taken up by the president and there w'as hint that the postoffice department in extending its activities to the field of postal savings banks and possibly in the near future to a parcels post system furnished a paral lel for extensions in other departments of the government. To Erie Next. From Syracuse the president goes to Erie, Pa., where tonight he will talk of the peace treaties negotiated during the summer and now held up in the senate. Mr. Taft hopes to bring out the sentiment of the people on these treaties and he believs this sotl- ment is Strong enough to sway the senate eventually to an approval of tha compacts. The President's Address. A discussion of the activities of the department of agriculture and of tha opportunities for progress open to farmers formed the subject of the ad* dress delivered by President Taft at the state fair grounds today. The president said, in part: “We are spending $15,000,0v>/ In the maintenance of a department of agriculture and we might as w-ell face the truth and realize that this expense instead of decreasdng-is bound to in crease. I have given much attention to the matter of economy and efficien- cy in government. While I do not mean to say that the present depwt- ment of agriculture, In the w’ork which it is doi^g might not be made to do the same work for less money with a closer knit organization and greater care in its expenditures. “I am confident from looking Into the future of the department to the pressing need for expansion of Its work, than an increase in the appro priations' each year for that depart ment may be and ought to be expected in the interest of the government. “The amount of information which the farmers have received and acted upon in their farming business from the bureau of plant industry in the de partment of agriculture, can hardly be overstated and the dependence ol the welfare of the country on this con- tinued spread of this information for the improvement of agriculture ought to be emphasized whenever opportuni* ty arises. Our Farming Area. “We have today in this country. In continental United States, about 1,- 900.000.000 acres of land. Of this 873.- 0^j,000 acres are included in the acre age of farms. In the las-t 10 years that acreage did not increase more than 35.000.000, or a little over 4 per cent. In that same time our population in creased 20 per cent. Of the 873 mil lion acres, 477,000,000 are improved farm land. The 873,000,000 include w'ood lands and unimproved land. The improved land in farms has increased about 63,u00,000 in 10 years or some 15 per cent., but this, it will be seen, is not equal to the increase in popula tion. Now, if our population increases as rapidly as it has heretofore, w’e shall in 50 years have upwards of 200,- 000,000 people in this country to sup port on this 873,000,000 acres, much (Continued on Page Nine.) I ■
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