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-. f "I . r "1 LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. THE EALEIGH EYENING TIMES. VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1906. PRICE 5c. SLATE MADE UP FOR FRANCE FEARS CANT GET INTO MANY GHOULS KILLED Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. . ' """ Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. INSURANCE IN THE WAKE DEMOCRATS Star Chamber Conference Has" Already Nominated Candidates IN ADVANCE Of THE PRIMARIES Anions Those Present Were- Fditor Joscphus Daniels of tile News ami Observer, C. J. Hunter, Agent I'liion Central liil'e Insurance Com pany, County Attorney HK K. Xor ris, John V, Thompson, Director Slate Hospital, 15. C. ISeekwith, Chairman State Hoard Internal Improvements. Al a caucus or conference of cer tain local politicians held a few days since a ticket was selected, for the democrats of WaUe county. The de tails of this meeting have leak 3d out and become the subject of general street gossip, The participants in the secret meeting, held not only in advance of the democratic primaries but before the county executive com mittee has even named a date for the primary election, have been reti cent to discuss the matter but several admitted that the conference, so called, was held and the qualifica tions was discussed. The democrats of Wake county wilt of course be ex pected to ratify without question the nominal ions made Tor them by the dozen men who behind closed doors lixed up a county ticket. From fads that have slowly come out it is disclosed that perfect harm ony did not at first prevail. But to begin, there were present in this ad vance primary, election Editor Josc phus Daniels of The News and Ob server; Mr. IJ. C. Beckwith, chair man of the state board of internal iniprovmients; Mr. C. J. Hunter, general agent of the Union Central Insurance Company of Cincinnati and chairman, of the. state board of charities; Mr. Gaston Moneyham, janitor of the court house; .Mr. W. N. Jones; .Mr. John AW;-Thompson, diroctor of the stale hospital ; Geo. W'. Norwood, clerk in the secretary of slate's office; Mr, E. P. Maynard ; Mr. Ht E. Norris, county attorney; .Mr, George Kennedy, employed at the supreme-court building, and half a dozen others. A serious division came in the selection of a senaloriul candidate. Mr, Percy J. Olive, 'member of the last house from this county aud author of the present road law, was placed in nomination. Mr. V. X. Jones was among those who did not favor this candidate, but Mr. Olive's friends won, and he was duly chosen for the party. For the house of representatives the caucus nominees are William E. Faison of Raleigh, Millard Mial of Shotwell and W. C. Douglass of Ra leigh. There was little contest for sheriff and C. M. Walters, F. H. Whitaker," H. D. Rand, J, H. Robbins and others were swiftly brushed aside, and J. H. Sears of White Oak was pronounced the accepted candidate. Judge W. M. Russ, clerk of the court, has not emerged from the woods, for the caucus decided to have this office open for the present. Later another meeting may be held and his successor dictated to the democrats of the county. The same was true of register of deeds; no nomination was made to succeed J. .1. Bernard. He may be chosen or lie may be marked for slaughter; his fate hangs in the balance. The conference also failed to act on solicitor, although both Solicitor Jones and City Attor ney Snow were discussed and their claims considered. There was a general discussion over a platform, and some conclu sions aro said to have been reached. These, however, were in the rough, and they will will be perfected in time for the democrats to accept what the caucus says. ' One of the participants in the meeting says that the purpose was simply to discuss candidates and ascertain their stand ing, but the conference has excited no end of political gossip. , The meeting was1 dominated, it Is understood, by the following seven well known politicians: 1. JosephliR Daniels, supreme chief of the Improved Order of State Savers. , 2. John W. Thompson, director of the State Hospital and expert of the North Carolina Railroad. I). George W. Norwood, chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state Mr. Norwood is commonly believed to carry the vote of Neuse township in his breeches pocket. 4. Herbert E. Norris, county at torney, who drafted for the present board of county commissioners the county road law now in force, the same that was introduced in the house by Representative Percy J. Olive, Mr, Norris is also a large stockholder in the Apex Journal, Mr Olive's official organ. 5. Gaston Mooneyhan. janitor of the county court house, who says he carries the vote of Barton's Creek township in his vest pocket, 6. Carey .1. Hunter, the insurance agent aud chairman of the state board of charities. 7. George Kennedy, watchman in the supreme court building. The meeting unanimously endorsed the road law passed by the last legis lature at. the instance of the present board of county commissioners and its attorney, H. E. Norris, and in troduced by Mr. Olive. It is noticeable in this connection and may bo mentioned in passing that the town of Apex conies in for considerable in the distribution scheme. She has a county commis sioner, the sheriff and the 'senator. They live in the town of Apex, which is an incorporated town and does not have to work the roads under the law. y QUIT VERY SOON Speaker Cannon Says it May Run' Until August MUCH BIG WORK AHEAD If liate Hill Is Passed Uy the Senate My May 1 It Will Take Six Weeks for the Krst ..of the Business Sees No Prospect of Early Ad journment. '-. c l .y tile Associated Pi ess. V ,ishmgUn, - April ;.1-"Coiigress will adjourn some time bet ween t lie middle., of Juno and the first of Au gust. That is in v 'guess,"' This, was the -reply of -'Speaker t.'an r.ow today to an inquiry about the piobabte.- length of. the present session. "You see," continued the speaker, there is a certain amount of work congress .must - do' before it adjourns, tattle of that Work has been done yet. 'The appropriation bills have been fairly well advanced by the house, but the senate practically', has done noth ing with them. If the senate should pass a railroad rate bill by the first of May, it would take all of six weeks for the rest of the work which must be done. And who knows whether the i ate bill' .will be- passed by . the first jf May? In addition to the appro priation bills and the house will not permit them to be rushed through with ill the senate amendments there are other measures which probably will take some time. I see no prospect of i very early adjournment. We'll b: here some time ret." NEGRO BOY LYNCHED BY MOB IN TEXAS (Uy the Associated Press.) Cakwood. Texas, April 25. A seven teen year old negro boy was lynched today by a, mob of seven men who took him from the custody of the officers. The negro had entered the home of a widow near town. He was caught and fully identified and was awaiting trans portation to the county seat. The dep uty sheriff who had the prisoner in charge fired several shots at the mem bers of the mob, but without effect. Spencer Eddy to Wed. (Bv the Associated Press.) " Sacramento, . Ckl., April 25. A lady from New York who Is a friend of the families Interested informs the Sacra mento Union that Luiiine Sprcckels and Spencer Eddy are to be married t 8 p. m. next Saturday, CONGRESS WON'T SAN FRANCISCO Local Agents Estimate tiiej Loss at $200,000,000 GREATEST ON RECORD Normal Conditions Ueins Jtcstored in the Stricken' City ami Troops Are Withdrawing Supreme Court Issues Ruling Which Will Protect tile Rights of the Citizens. (By the Associated Press.) San Francisco, Cal.. April 23. Things are quieting down in Han Francisco to day. Telephonic communication with Oak land has been re-established. For the time being the service will be confin ed to business communications, but it will be extended very soon. Telephone service will be resumed in the unde- stioyed portions of the city in a few days. The belt railroad is now operating around the water front, and all sorts of relief supplies are being distributed from there. The electric lights will be extended to the wharves right away. There will be plenty of electric lights almost immediately, perhaps today. An official list of the condition of the school buildings through the city shows that twenty-nine buildings were utter ly destroyed and that forty-four were at least partially spared. As many othe latter were so damaged that they will have to be either pulled down or thor oughly repaired, it is likely that the re-. sumption .of. the sort term win no maoc in tents erected in tho parks. Surgeon General Gerard of the United States army has taken possession of the Crocker Grammar School on Page street for the benefit of the sick peo ple in the park who will all be remov ed to that place for care and shelter. There is ample floor- space for three hundred natients. A force of two hun dred ohvsieiaus and surgeons is mak ing a house to house inspection of san itary conditions under orders ol tue health commission. There are 107 companies to share the San Francisco insurance loss. This is estimated by the local agents at be l,.n SIT.-, flOfiniill and $200,000.01)0. but New York sends word that the insur ance men. there think the loss will not eyeeeil Sisn.ooo.OOO. Chicago's loss was $125,00.000 and three companies default ed to the amount of $4;,000,000. The Joss in Baltimore was paid in full. It amounted to $35,000.000. ' The state supreme court has made a sweeping order granting a re-hearing in all cases in which a petition has been tiled, and in which the time for granting a re-hearing w ill expire before the first of May," The purpose is to pre vent lapses which would deprive par ties to a suit from completing the re cord within the time specified within the rule. A similar order was made in respect to appeals in that court fro the United States district court of ap peals. The sailing of the Oceanic Steamship Company's steamer Sonoma for Aus tralian ports having been "indefinitely postponed, it has been decided to divert all mall for Australia via Vancouver, and 11 is due to leave there on April 27. The steamer Alameda, belonging to the same line, will likely sail lor Honolulu nn A m i I "S Train service 011 the Southern Pa cific eoust division, operating between this city and Los Angeles via San Jose, will he resumed toduv. but tho north ern terminal will be Oakland pier. In stead of Third and Townseml streets, and the train will run via N'iles and San Jose. Services will also be resum ed between San Jose and Santa Cruz. Monterey, Salinas, San Luis Obispo, etc. ENGLISH COTTON SPINNERS MEET (By thft Associated press.) Boston, Mass., ''April 2o.-The for tieth annual meeting of the New Eng land Cotton Manufacturers' Associa tion assembled today at. Massachu setts Institute of Technology for a two ddys session. The presence of a commission representing prominent English spinners- who have come to this country .to investigate the grow ing of cotton and other questions connected with the material was one of the features of the convention. Among the Important matters to be passed upon was u proposition fav ored by the board of government to change the uume of I ho association to Tho National Association of Cot ton Manufacturers. MAY DAY RIOTS But Police Say the Situation is Not Tragic TROOPS ARE PREPARED Kiglity Thousand Men Have Quit Work, but Xot Jlore Than 20,000 Are Disorderly Police Are in Favor of Closing tin' Stores Strike Trouble Near Crisis. ." (Uy the. Associated Pres.-.) Palis, April i.". .According "to a semi official statement made by a high func tionary of the prefecture -of police to day the military ami police ale pre pared to meet ..".cry eventuality May 1. He said the poli-c canvass shows that eighty thousand men have stop ped work. of. which number the dis orderly element dbs not exceed 0.000. Against these can be massed forty two thousand to ' forty-rive thousand troops, namely - twenty .- thousand in fantry, ten thousand cavalry and 10.000 to I'.O'.O -republican guards ami police, ivith large acklitonlil reserves. The police will endeavor to localize the nanifestation lo the Pice lie La ltc imbliuuf, which is the glial labor cen ter, and to the vicinity ol' the labor i::change. This will prevent -the mani fcslants from gaining t lie center of Paris or getting west of the' Place De La Concorde, into tile residential sec tions of the Champs Elysce or I'assy. It Is 'expected that the si length of the military and police will 'readily enable them' to confine the disorderly element ivithin its own. eastern sections, thus reducing the demonstration to isolated affrays which .should be controlled. The police arc convineed that there Is no danger of luck -of. bod supplies owing lo the .strike in the provision trades. They decline ' li.it the dealers in provisions are reaping a harvest by spreading alarmist reports. The, police are in favor of closing the stores alto gether. In .-conclusion tile official of the prefecture slated that 'he situa tion while serious docs not warrant, it being represented as tragic. The painters have -decided to stop work May 1 ami to remain out. until they aie rranlcdmi eight hour day and a week ly holiday. . GLENN SPEAKS FOR FORESTS Urges Congress to Save Mountains from Ruin INDUSTRIES AT STAKE House Committee On Agriculture Hears Strong Addresses Today, Fourteen States in Xew England and the South I!ciii! Represented. White Mountain Proposition. i ;. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April A large and enthusiastic'.' delegation repre senting fourteen states in New ' Eug- land and the south, favoring the combined -.proposition to create two large forest reserves, one in the White Mountains and the other in tho lApalachians was heard by the house i committee on agriculture today, i The proposition involves an ap 1 propriation of three million dollars. The White Mountain reserve will j contain 1,250 square miles and the I area of the Apalachian reserve will ! be 17,000 square, miles. Governor John McUine ot New Hampshire opened the argument, speaking particularly with reference to the While Mountain proposition. The concluding argument was made by Gov. Hubert 11. Glenn of North 'Carolina, who addressed him self to the necessities of the Apa lachian reserve. He said many southern industries were dependent upon the conservation of the water powers of the south. Other speakers were Representa tive Patterson of South Carolina; Director Stewart of tho West Vir ginia agricultural experiment sla tiou, aud Major Smith, representing the Southern Cotton Manufacturers. STATE PRISON Frail Durham Here, Waiting to Begin Sentence NONE TO COMMIT HIM Sheriff Xot Able to Come From Polk County and Prisoner's IJrothcr De clines to Make Official Commit ment Most Keinai'kable Case On Record. Frail Durham, the young white man from Polk county, is still here unable lo get ill the penitentiary to serve his fourteen year sentence for killing Dep uty Sheriff .'.Minion ill Polk while the officer was arresting liliu for carrying concealed weapons lie came here last Thursday under bond accompanied by his mother and brother and Is at the Varboro with his mother while the brother lias gone back to Polk county to make sonic nmingcir.ent for cither an officer to come from there or to have the sheriff of Wake or oilier offi cer here deputized to deliver the pris oner. . It developed after "Durham arrived here that the Sheriff of Polk could not conic owing to the fact that court is in session this week and the clerk of Polk 'court -offered to send the official commitment here so that Durham's brother could deliver him to the peni tentiary authorities. Hut W. M. Dur ham declared that he did not wisli to be put in the altitude of committing his own brother to the penitentiary, so lie returned' to Polk county a few days itgo to arrange cither for an officer lo come here or lor the authorization ot Sheriff ' Page' of Wake to make the delivery. In tile meantime Frail Durham spends liis lime walking about Ihc city sightseeing.'. He has called ai a number of the slate, officers with whom lie is acquainted at the capital, includ ing Attorney.. General Gilmer, who i-.s an official duly argued for the slate before the supreme .court in opposition lo allowing Durham a new trial, Durham- could be seen last evening seated on 11 bench in the capital sijnare, wearing a 1 while vest and patent leather shoes, quietly - smoking a cigarette.' Liuie did passeisiiy sup pose that the youth was here trying to 'become an imnale of the peniten tiary ami that thus far his. efforts' had be. n in vain. 'This is tin: most . remarkable ease on record in this state. It is remarka ble, not only for the fact that the pris oner Is unable through sueii pei iiii;i' i ircuinstanees to get into the peniten tiary to begin the ; service of his sen tence,' but also for the' unusual circum stances of -the .crime.. DurhVni was arrested on the. charge of currying concealed w:capons and he and ' Deputy Minion had gone to a nearby office where a bond was being prepared. Before it was signed Dur ham dashed out of .the office and ran. His friends told the deputy just to complete- tiu- bund and let Durham go thai they would sign it all 'right. But Hinton pursued Durham and shot at him, .Durham' -.claiming that the butllet went through his coat, sleeve. M,e. turned and tired at Hinton, wounding him -fatally. -'Durham says 1 he reason he ran was that he had a revolver on his person and was afraid he would be searched and a second case lodged against him for carrying concealed weapons. TO ORGANIZE SELMA CHAPTER. The Raleigh Chapter of Royal Arch Masons held a special convocation last night for the purpose of conferring the degrees on a number of candidates from Sfclma, Johnston county, where a chap ter is to be established very soon. They were S. P. Wood, H. P.. Pearce, W. H. Call, J. A. Spiers, T. G. Seay and L. H. Allred. : PUGILISTIC STARS BOX AT FRISCO BENEFIT (By the Associated Press.) I.os Angeles, Calif., April A box ing tournament participated in by many ol the leading pugilistic starts f die country, and attended by two lluuisiiiid people.' nearly half of them womin, uas given at the Pacific Ath letic Club last.nlglil for the benclit of the San Francisco, earthquake suffer ers. It netted forty-five hundred dol lars. James J. Jeffries. i-elir'ed heavy weight champion of the world, went two rounds each with .lack Root and Dan Long. Bullling Nelson boxed four fast rounds with Bddle Robinson, and Amelia Hcrrtra. who is to meet Nel son May 11 for the light-weight cham pionship, boxed the same number of BY 'FRISCO SOLDIERS rounds with his brother, Mauro. Tommy Burns,, who defeated Marvin art for the world's heavy-weight championship recently in this city,, four lounds with -George Blake, a local heavy-weight. Kid Herman ' of Chi cago, who will meet Jimmy Hrilt here May !i, boxed four rounds with Abe At tel. the world's feather-weight cham pion. DIVIDEND BY THE N. &W. RAILWAY (By the Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Pa., April 25. The board of directors' of the Norfolk & Western Railroad ;. Company . at a meeting here today declared, the reg ular semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent on tho common stock of the company.' The dividend is payable June 1 3 to stockholders of record May 2H. XKW VORK MAX WOX THH swi.mmim; RACE. (By the Associated' Press.) l'lialeruni. Greece, ' April LTi. C. M. Daniel, X. V. A. C. holder of Ik world's championship . one hundred yard swimming record, won the final heat in the one hundred metres swim ming race today. Time one minute, thirteen seconds. Halinay. Hungary, was second: Henley, Australia, was third and Derbyshire, England, was fourth. Daniel 'won' an-' excellent- race by H yard. He set the puce throughout and finished strong. : A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS TODAY $300,000 for Mare Island Navy Yard Urged ARMY SUPPLY STATION President's Tribute (o Courage and . Self Reliance of People of San Francisco Appropriation Asked Would Put to Work Over 2,000 Men at Once. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April J.".. In a special message to congress today President Roosevelt urges the . immediate appro priation of $300,000 for work at the Mare Island navy yard al San Francisco, in order that einplnyine'ni-iiiay.bfe provid ed for many in the stricken city. He also urges the necessity for the appro priation of money for. the .-re-establishment.. of an ' army .supply station in San Francisco. : Tlic message says: I "With a courage and self reliance of -which we cannot as Americans be suf i licicntly proud, the people of San Fran cisco have already started in orderly and resolute fashion to rebuild the city. Immediate aid in this enterprise should be given by the federal government. One of the. crying needs of the situation is employment for the scores of thous ands of men who have lost everything. If the appropriation of three 'hundred thousand dollars for the Mare Island i.avy yard be at. once passed, over two thousand men will immediately be put to work, for this appropriation will be expended only in employing labor. The 'appropriation' is urgently needed as: a means of contributing toward the re establishnient of affairs in San Frun (Conliniied ou Page Seven.) ; NO EARTHQUAKE IN SAN FRANCISCO (By tin- Associated Press.) New York. April 2,"i. A dispatch was received from K. II. llarriman, president of the I'ttioti Pucillc Rail road, til his ollic-e in this city about 2 p. m. today -denying reports that there were new earthquake shocks in San Franfsco today. The message follows: . "Reports of new shocks of earth quake in San Francisco aro absolute ly without foundation. Perfect, sun shiny day here. Kvcrythiitg quiet. (Signed) "K. H. I1ARRIMAN." Shot Dead as They Rob Shat tered Homes of the Desti tute People FLYING BULLETS HIT RED CBOSS LAUNCH Thousands .Leave the Stricken City To Find Shelter I Use where and Ruddy Glow of Embers Still Marks the Scene of the Terrible Disaster. Rich and Poor March Together and Grim Tragedy Is Shown by Their Lack of Worldly Goods. City Still Cheerful After a Week of Gloom. (By the Associated Press.) San Francisco, Cal., April 25. It is a week today siuee the city was visited by an earthquake which laid low tho metropolis of the Pacific coast and started a conflagration un equalled in the history of this coun try. Although the ruddy glow of tho dying embers of the fire which de vastated San Francisco made home less three hundred thousand people, caused the loss of many lives and left a black frail of utter desolation aud ruin in its wake, still nightly illum inate tho sky. The work of restora tion is already well under way. Plans for the construction of the new buildings to replace those de stroyed by earthquake and flames are. rapidly being drawn and work 011 some of them will begin as soon as the ruins of tho old sites are cold. Many of the new buildings planned are on a larger scale than those burned, giving promise that from tho ashes will rise a new San Francisco, greater and more beautiful than tho old. In addition to the largo force ot men and teams already at work about fifty teams of government mules were put to wprk yesterday hauling away debris. Several more stree's were cleared for traffic, . numerous street car lines are ready for opera tion while the repairing of the water mains and the work of restoration of the gas and electric : syst6ms is making rapid headway. Work ou taking down and rebuilding tho ferry lower began today. The exodus from . the city contin ues. All day a constant stream of men, women and children, afoot and on every conceivable vehicle wend ed their way down Market and Mis sion streets toward the ferry. A lit tle bundle on a stick carried over the shoulder represented all the worldly possessions of some; others had grips and baskets and a great many had saved trunks and furniture. It is estimated that, sixty thousand people were furnished with free transporta tion yesterday to the different parts of the state by the Santa Fee and Southern Pacific railways. The re lief work is now thoroughly organ ized and rapidly becoming system atized. Many carloads of provisions and supplies are heing received daily. Five cars were received from south ern California among other things three thousand blankets, which were immediately distributed at the trans port docks by the marines. The blankets came at an opportune time but are insignificant in number to what are actually required, in fact, impertaively necessary to alleviate tho distress of the suffering, many of the refugees being poorly protected against exposure. The rain was followed by a clear, cold night, causing much distress in the parks and crowded camps for want of dry bedding, blankets, cots and water proof tents. Many people walked for hours to keep warm, oth ers huddled around little camp fires, shivering with cold, in some instances their clothing being still wet from the rain. Everything possible was done to alleviate their distress by puttlnt," women and children in houses, but as .110 lires aro allowed and there Is a. lack of blankets, if helped but lit tle. :': As it result of Mayor Schmitz's sharp letter yesterday ovenlng to General Koster, commanding the na tional guard, in which the mayor called the general's attentlou to tho fact that the city was not under mar tial law tind that tho drastic meas ures aud arbitrary actions of some of his men which have caused so much complaint were illegal aud request- 4 (Continued on Page Seven.)
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