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LAST EDITION. kJjL THE MARKETS. all North Carolina Afternoon Panel's in Circulation. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES. VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1906. PRICE 5c. tfuU Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. IT WAS HEM WHO RUINED I He Tempted Me, I Fell, Says Stensland. OTHERS ARE GUILTLESS The Itank President's Confession of Betrayal of Trust and Flight nn Exemplification of the Truth That the Way of the Transgressor Is Hard. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Sept. 4. A cable dispatch to the Trubune from Tangier says: Paul Stensland's confession made to Assistant State's Attorney Olsen yestcr day clears up much of the mystery sur rounding- the events leading up to the crash which involved the ruin of the Milwaukee Avenue Bank. He took mue:i of the blame upon himself, but declared Cashier Hering was the forger and that Heiing got most of the money. He exonerated his son. Theodore, and the bank directors. He pronounced it a lie that he had spent any money on Leone Langdon Key or any other woman. He declared that he never spent more than J5.000 a year himself and that all the money ho stole he put into real estate or Investments in the hope of "making good." In his heart of hearts he was glad he was no longer a wanderer on the face of the earth. "Why," said he, "think of signing a name not your own! It is worse than stealing. I did not know it would be so hard to be a fugitive." Stensland did not delude himself, either, with the idea of escaping pun ishment. "You have not been found guilty yet; you have a chance to make a fight in court," was suggested. Stensland laugh ed ard said: "I know what a Chicago jury will do for me. I know Chicago juries." Suicide or Flight? He said he had made up his mind to flee on the Thursday preceding the Sun day on which he left Chicao. All Wed nesday night he wrestled with the prob lem whether to blow his brains out or run. In the hours of darkness he de cided to kill himself but postponed the act until dawn and with the sunlight came the primal instinct to hold on to life. His prepaartions were hurried. He had surrendered his life insurance pol icy for $5,000 and had received $8,000 as commission on the sale of the property of the Cooperative Store to the North western Life Insurance Company which had held a mortgage lien on the prem ises. He drew $1,500, as salary from the Mount Olive Cemetery Association. This was all the money he had taken with him. "Why, with a million of dollars cash in the bank, did you not take more.' "I could have taken a quarter of a million dollars without trouble," h snld. "but I did not want to. I neve took one cent of cash from the bank nni nut. In mv own pocket. I never took a dollar belonging to other people' Stensland's health at first was not the best. When he boarded the train at the beginning of his night he fainted nnd was unconscious for awhile. On board ship he was again stricken, .and for four days was on his back, in nis first few days in Tangier he was far from well and he went to Spain, know ing the risk he took in moving from what he regarded as protected soil, No Attempt to Deny Guilt. Stensland made no attempt to deny his guilt and only tried to minimize It. His confession began with a statement that he was surprised to learn that the total loss involved in the bank's fail ure would reach $2,000,000. He said: "I cannot understand how the short age can be $2,000,000. To my certain knowledge my liability to the bank does not exceed $500,000. Anything over that must have been stolen by Heiing. 'My Indebtedness began a long whflo ago, in 1899. It was a small affair, a small amount, and God knows I never intended to steal. I was in a tight hole and needed money. I put my own note, genuine, not a forgery, in the box. Then it was suggested to me that the bank examiner would stand for it, and Hi did." "Who suggested it?" "Hering. It was the beinnlng. He pointed out, in a round-about way at first, that it was easy to obtain money that way. Then when my notes became too numerous, he suggested the forger ies." 1 "Yes. First he tempted, then he urged, and I fell. Ever after I was absolutely in his power. He owned me, body and soul." "How many of the forgeries did you do yourself?" "Not one. Hering, I think, did all." Arrests Expected Tomorrow. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 4. Dis trict Attorney Bell today continued his Investigation into the affairs of the Real Estate Trust Company which failed last week. He spent Considerable time at the offices of the company, questioning several directors and a number of officers and employes. The district attorney considers his present investigation of such import ance that he has decided on a post ponement of the trial of the fourteen wholesale ice dealers who were to have faced a jury tomorrow charged with conspiracy in raising the price of iC3. Sufficient evidence of xriminalty, it has developed, has been discov ered by the district attorney to war rant the statement that one or tw and perhaps thrae arrests will be made tomorrow. Affidavits upon which the warrants will lie issued, it is said, will be made today. WAKSHIP TO BRING STENSLAXI). Chicago, Sept. 4. Assistant State's Attorney Barbour today made a de mand on the United States government for a warship in which to bring Paul O. Stensland, the fugitive banker now under arrest in Tangier, back to this country. The request was today sent by Mr. Barbour to Governor Deneen following a series of communications between the governor the governor and Acting Secretary of State Adee at Washing ton. Mr. Barbour urged the seeming peril of bringing Stensland across foreign countries where the prisoner might suddenly balk at the prospect of returning to the United States. Moreover, Mr. Barbour fears that Stensland may kill himself, and points out the advisability of having Stens land brought back to this country as a federal prisoner of board of a war ship. Attorney General Stead and Assist ant State's Attorney Barnett were busy today preparing a petition to President Roosevelt asking him to see that the government of Morocco is asked to turn the prisoner over to the United States authorities without trouble. (Continued on Page Seven.; BRYAN DAY IN CHICAGO "This is Like Getting Home" He Says to Mayor Dunne An Informal Reception at the Audi torium Hotel, Luncheon and Speeches at the Iroquois Club, Banquet by the Jefferson Club. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Sept. 4. William J. Bryan and party arrived in Chicago at 8:15 a. m. today over the Grand Trunk Railroad. The party disem marked at the Forty-seventh street station, five miles from the down town district, and made the remaind er of the journey to the Auditorium Hotel in automobiles. Mr. Bryan was met at the station by a large party of local democrats made up of members of the Iroquois and Jefferson Clubs. The first man to greet Mr. Bryan as he stepped from the train was Mayor Dunne, with whom he shook hands warmly, re marking: "This is like getting home." The entire party then posed for photographs in front of the train, which was plaacrded from end to end. A flying train on the Wabash road came tearing by while the photograph was bein gtaken, and several mem bers of the group were compelled to dodge it with unceremonious haste. Mr. Bryan's program for the day comprised an informal reception at the Auditorium Hotel, which lasted through several hours of the morn ing. Shortly before noon he was driven to the headquarters of the Iroquois Club, where he was enter tained at luncheon. Addresses were made by President John W. Eckhart, and by Mr. Bryan. This evening Mr. Bryan will be banqueted at the Auditorium Hotel by the Jefferson Club. FOUR CITIZENS SHOT DEAD BY SOLDIERS (By the Associated Press.) Warsaw, Sept. 4. Soldiers last night killed four citizens and made whole sale arrests In different parts of the town. A boy who was being pursued by sol diers, jumped Into the Vistula and was killed while trying to escape by swim ming. THK RACKS AT SHHEPSHEAD. (By the Associated Press.) Sheepshead Hay, Sept. 4. First race Maiden 2 year old Allies, 5 furlongs, futurity course: Anna May, 8 to 5 and 7 to 10, first; Princess Nettie, 40 to 1, second; Crimson Clover, third. Time 1:07 1-5. shot officer in m The Negro Now a Fugitive Pursued by a Posse CoDStablD Went to Take furniture Under Claim and Delivery When the Negro, Ten Steps Distant, Drew a Head on Him. (Special to The Evening Times.) Durham, N. C, Sept. 4.- Consla ble J. F. Pleasants was shot, in ire back and seriously wounded this ; morning about 8 o'clock by a negro i namod Jim Brown, who was recently released from the workhouse hero fieasants is in watts Hospit.cl m a serious condition, and the doctors are working hard over him. A posse of officers and citizens is after the negro, who escaped immediately nlv tsr the shooting. The constable had claim and de livery papers to take some furniture from Brown's house. Wtiiie i t tilt house he turned his back and Brown shot him in the hack from a distance of ten stsps with a ;!2-enlibro te volver, and ran. HOLE THROUGH HEAD, REVOLVER EY SIDE. (By the Associated Press.) Halifax, N. S., Sept. i. A man who had registered as "J. Jones, United States," and who is thought to have come from Richmond, V.i., was found deat' in his room at the Halifax Hotel today with a bullet hole in his head and a revolver clutched in his right hand. The medical exam iner reported the case as one of sui cide. J. W. AIKEN IS PARDONED Must Report to Gov. Glenn Every Month After Six Months Must Show Thai He Is Living Sober, Industrious Life Eyesight Failing Pardon Urged By Wake Commissioners and Others Dr. Lewis' Statement Governor Glenn this afternoon granted a conditional pardon to J. W. Aiken a white man who was sen tenced in Wake superior court March term, 190G, to the roads for 18 months for assault with deadly weapon. The pardon is on account of a statement from Dr. It. H. Lewis that if Aiken is not released he will loose his eye sight, the pardon being urged: by county commissioners, county physi cian and others. The conditions of of the pardon are that he must report to the governor every month, showing good behavior, and at the end of six months he must show that he is living a. sober industrious life. Then the pardon may be made permanent. THE QUESTION OF CHURCH AND STATE. (By the Associated Press.) Paris, Sept. 4. A meeting of all the French bishops and arch-bishops took place here today and excited intense interest, owing to the fact that the prelates will decide whether the break between the church and state is irremediable or whether it is possible to find a way of obeying the law as well as preserving the church's interests. The discussion is expect ed to last four days. The outcome probably will finally decide whether the church shall arrange some system of religious assertions conforming at the same time with the church and state separation law and not affecting the constitution of the church. LOOKED FOR TIME LIKE A SMALL WAR. (Special to The evening Times.) Salisbury, N. C, Sept. 4. There was a slight white and colored clash here yestreday when John Sowers and another white man named Smith be came offended at two negroes who were rolling wheelbarrows in a brew ery. The white men took the wheel barrows out and a negro called Sow ers a bad name. He went after his man when a negro threw a rock and cut a big gash in the chin of Smith. One of the colored men was severely cut and was used up considerably. The white man came near being badly slashed. About the time the four handed ffght took place, the white men looking on took it up and it look ed as If there would be general trouble in which the brother in black wouiQ nave Deen lert uaniy. i ne oi- fleers broke it up and put two of the belligerents in the calaboose. I HANDBOOK TO BE Oil! THIS WEEK Largest and Most Complete Ever Issued SIMMONS AT THE WHEEL Senator Simmons Will lie Here the Remainder of the Week List of Speaking Appointments Looked For Tomorrow Callers at Head quarters Settling Down to Cam paign Komi. At democratic headquarters things are beginning to settle down to cam- j puigh form. It looks like old times once more to see Senator Simmons at j his desk and with his hand on the 1 guiding machinery. The senator will i be here the rest of this week anyway, j It. is announced that Hie hand?. book oi tire party lor the tail cam paign will !x. out. the latter pari tit the week:. The printers are now put ting the last touches on it, and it will be ready for distribution before the end of Uio week. This banobodk will be the largest ever gotten out. It will have about 1S5 paila. Senator Simmons has put more labor than usual on it. and it will undoifDiodly be the most cor.ipre-l hensive onaevef issued, both in state and national matters. It is expected that, by tomorrow a i faiiiv complete 'list of the speaking appointments Will be issued by Mr Watts, who has this part of the work in hand. The only appointments been for Con- made thus far have gressman W. Kitchin today at Lillington and Secretary of Stale J. Bryan Grimes apHolt's Mill, John ston county, on September 27. An nouncement was made some time ago that. Senator S'mlnWs would speak today at. White air, Bladen county, but it turned out that, the occasion was not a political tut an educational one, and the senator not, being able to gel back from Washington and New York hi tint'! t fill the app61iif niont it is being filial by State Audi tor Dixon. One of the caller.1- ill headquarters today was ('. II. Matfin of Johnston, priVate secretary to Congressman 10. W. Pou of litis tlistdct. Other visi tors this week have been the two Kitehins, members of -congress; C O. Peoples, of Northampton; S. G. Dan iel, member of the tiou.se from War ren; ex-Senator E II. Travis, of Hal ifax; John II. Kerr, of Warren, nom inee for solicitor til' the second ju dicial district. INTO VOLfANIC FIRES Fourteen Geologists Dare the Perils if Colima They Reach the Crater; (lie First to .Make That HnmitlouH Journey, Hut Return With todies Badly Dinned By Its Flames (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Sept 4. A dispatch to the Inter-Ocean from Mexico City1 says: "With their ladies severely burn ed by the fires if Mount Colima vol-i cano, fourteen nfvonturous delegates! to the internatioial congress of geol- j ogists, which nuets in this city this week, returned lere yesterday. "The trip to tie crater of the vpl cano was a potions one. It had never been accomplished before by any one, althoujh several attempts to scale the preciiitous mountain had been made. SACKING OF JAGUA BY MM OF REBELS (By the Asociated Press.) Havana. Sept. -K-Advices from Oien fuegos received .ere today says that a band of thirty cbels yesterday sack ed the small towi of ("astella de Jagua, also known as Jafua, situated on den- fuegos Hay. Tin rural guards In gar ,.,,, ... ,..lsleii. JilKun nnd tlu, risen at Castel officials of that face meanwhile shut themselves up in he fort of the castle nm mm MEP 1 Peace Talk Drawls and Little is Done Veterans Co With Oner Have With a Conference Hie Hope of Doing Some! bins The Govern ment Sends Out More Troops. (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Sept. 4.- Despite the government's absolute refusal to I make or accept any terms, peace talk j continues here, but in a hulf-hoartod 'way. .Nothing definite has been pro ! posed. The only actual effort w;is i the starting; of it committee of vet erans for Pinar Del Rio today to talk over the matter with Pino Gu erra. General Mehdcai, who by common consent of the public is regarded as : th 3 right man to conduct, any nego ' tiations, arrived here today from I Puerto Padre, province of Santiago, where Ameri a lout Pa I ma he is manager of a lar; in sugar plantation and hi conference With President! He refused to nui ke any statement at the president r his interview with General Monocnl haft I definite peace plans bill has ahead;, slated thai it was no willing to go into any negotiations Without the express authorization of the govern-1 meat. This positively has not been forthcoming. The situation in the field is un changed, except thai the government . is gradually sending out men. The military authorities here are de pending considerably on the arrival if horses, from the United Slates, in their efforts to clear up the situa tion. NO ACTION TAKEN TODAY N. C. Commission for James-! Primaries Being Held in Wis town Exposition consin Today Decided Today lo Meet at tin- expo sition Grounds or Norfolk, Sep tember II, Willi Managers of the Imposition Organization Will Follow Conference. A quorum of the membership or tin' North Carolina commission for tii.' Jarnestown Exposition met in the governor's otlice this morning tit H o'clock and discussed the situation with the result that organization was deferred until September 1!, when tile commission will meet, with (Gov ernor Glenn ai the Montlcello Hotel, Norfolk, There a conference will be held with the managers of the groat ex position and organization of the com mission effected, and also such steps as may til that lime seem advisable will be taken as to the North Caro lina representation in the exposition. .Members of lite commission here today were 10. L. Daught ridge, Rocky Mount; G. V. Hinshaw, Winston Salem: II. C, Dockery, Rockingham; I). C. Carpenter, Newton; G. S. Pow ell, Asheville; Col. .1. W. Atkinson, Wilmington, arid .1. 10. Pogiie, Ral algh. SECOND DISTRICT ARGUMENTS TODAY. Second district cases argued in the supreme court today Were as follows: Pfttingcr ex parte from Halifax, by Shepherd ami Mason for appellant and Travis ami Kitchin for appelee. I.iles vs. Lumber Co. from Halifax, by Kitcluu, Kerr. Daniel and Travis lor plaintiff, Day & Hell and Murray Allen for defendant. Smith vs. Railroad from Halifax, by Kitchin and Travis for plaintiff, Day .VL- Hell and Murray Allen I'm de fendant. Foote vs. Railroad Co. from Halifax, by Kitchin nnd Travis lor plaintiff ami Day & Dell and Murray Allen for defendant. HIUPPINK TARIF MIX. Taft Dedan s if Won't Interfere With Tobacco Trade Here. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept, 4. Secretary of War Taft lias sent a letter to the manage ment of the tobacco exposition now in progress in Madison Square Garden, this city, in which he wrote them It should be shown "to tbe members of the trade present at the exposition what 1 think can certainly be shown that the passage of the proper Philip pine tariff bill will not in any sub stantial way interfere n'ith the tobacco trade of the United Stales." Mr. Tail added: "Tbe demand for tobacco is so enor mous, and the Capacity of the Philip pine Islands to produce it under the conditions of labor, tbe irregularities of tropical agriculture, and the difficul ties of securing capital, are such as to ke any Injury to the tobacco trade the United States, from allowing i Philippine tobacco to come in at pe r!lt. it tin- Dlngloy rate for i hi u s and tree after 1909, utterly Impossible. On the other hand, the I tobacco interests are comparatively so i small in the PhiltppiniEj Islands that to give another market like that of the United Stales in the islands would add something to the property or in j.duHtry in the islands, but what is more important, ii would give to the people of the Philippines n visible, tangible evidence ill interest In this eouritry in of the people of those is 4 is tin. most important I he welfare lands. This feature of th bill.' DUNN DISMISSED IN DEEP DISGRACE. j j (Special (o the Evening Times.) Washington. Sept. I. - By. direction ftt ' the president, (Lieutenant lOdwanl H, i Dunn. United States navy was today dismissed from the service of the ! United States. Lieutenant Dunn was attached t-i the receiving ship Inde pendence at the Mare Island. Califor nia, navy yard and was recently con victed by court martial of seandalous enjiduet in the prejudice of good order and military discipline and sentenced to dismissal. DR. IT.AVIS ItKATTlE OF MM ISVILLK DEAD. (P.y the Associated Press.) UrmfovHln I M'tii. 4.---1J!'. H'ran- cis 1J eat tie, one of Hie inost widely known ministers in I lie Presbyterian Hi it rell and president of the Presby terian Theological Seminary, died suddenly today nl his residence of hietfrl failure. Canada. He was a native of Practically a Total Loss. Washington, Sept. 4. A dispatch received today at the oltice of the quartermaster general of the army fontirms the report from Honolulu thai the transport Sheridan practi cally will lie a total loss. FOUR STATE TICKETS Senator Lufoilcttc Is Hacking ten root, One of the Two Republican Candidates, for Governor Two Democratic Candidates. (P.y the Associated Press.) Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 4. Pri mary el M t ions are being held throughout Wisconsin today for the first lime since the law was enacted. The voters will nominate candidates for four state tickets republican, democratic, prohibition and social democratic and will selscl candi dates for congress, state legislature and county tickets. The chief in l crest centers in the contest for t lie n'aads of the republi can and democratic state tickets. Governor .lames O. Davidson and Irvine 1.. l.enroot are the chief con tenders lor the nomination for gov ernor on tiro republican ticket while Senator Ernest Merlon and John A. Aylward ate candidates for the head of the democratic ticket. There are contests for congress among tha re publicans in all bin three of t lie eleven districts, The democrats will have bin one contest for congres sional nomination, there being two candidat ?s in the first district, United States Senator Robert M. I.afolletle has waged a vigorous cam paign in I he interest of l.enroot. Governor Davidson aided by sev eral of his followers also made speeches in all parts of (he slate. BRAZIL GIVES TO QUAKE SUFFERERS. (By the Associated Press.) Santiago, Chile, Sept. -I. The government of Brazil lias appropriat ed $300,000 towards the fund for the relief of tin' Chilean earthquake suf ferers. GAGGED THE CASHIER, ! LOOTED THE BANK (By the Associated Press.) Ranier. Ore.. Sept. 4. While Cashier I'. W. Van Anchor lay bound hanil and foot, gagged and bound to a table in n back room, two bandits leisurely looled the stale bank of Rainier in broad daylight yesterday. It was two hours before their victim was able to free himself sufficiently to give the alarm and in the mean time the robbers had made their es cape, taking with them between $2.-! 000 and $2,500 in gold coin. Silver j and bank notes lying on the counter ( were untouched. NATIONAL TEAM MATCH OPENED Forty-One Teams are in tbe Competition WILL CLOSE TOMORROW Nearly Every State in the Union Rep resented in This Contest of Rifle men Held Under Auspices of the .National Hoard for Promotion of Rifle Practice. (By the Associated Press.) Sea Girt, N. .1., Sept. 4. Firing be gan on the range here today in the most important competition in the history of military rifle shooting in this country national team match. The weather conditions were ideal. Representatives of the war depart ment are in charge ; the match, which will not be concluded until tomorrow evening. The national matches are held under the auspices of the national board for the promo tion of rifle practice, acting by di rection of congress. Forty-one teams, representing nearly every state in the union, the District of Columbia and the cavalry and Infantry branches of the army, navy and marine corps are competing in this one. The match was open to teams of twelve men. The kinds of fire are slow, rapid and skirmish, the distance being: Slow fire, 200, 600, 800 and 1,000 yards; rapid fire, 200 yards; skirmish fire, one run. Each team member fires two sighting shots and ten shots for reach at each range. The order of firing is as follows: 200 yards ,slow fire; 60 yards, slow fire; 800 yards, slow fire; 200 yards rapid fire; skirmish run and 1,000 yards slow fire. The team meeting the highest aggregate will receive the national trophy, provided by con gress, medals for the team members and $300. There are Ave other prizes. The firing line was crowded with spectators when the shooting began. Among the visitors is Lieutenant Gen eral Bates, until recently chief of staff of the United States army. At the conclusion of the firing of the first stage, 200 yards, in the na tional team match, the Massachu setts and New Jersey were tied with a score each of 509. WAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. At the meeting of the Wake coun ty commissioners today, on request of E. J. Ragsdale, representing citi zens of Middle Creek township, it was ordered that Superintendent of Roads Holding be instructed to work the road leading from Varina by Fuquay Springs one mile to the Methodist church, and that lie be empowered to straighten the same. Stipt. Holding called attention to the unsafe condition of the Powell bridge and the immediate necessity of repairing it. It was ordered that in view of the fact that there was some little contention as to the change in (he location of said road. Prof. Riddlck having surveyed same and suggested a change, the matter be postponed until next meeting in order to give both sides a hearing. Oclriclis Died of Itrights Disease. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 4. The death of Herman Oelrichs which occurred on I he North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse far out at sea was due to Blight's disease ac cording to a wireless dispatch received by the Associated Press today. Mr. i lelrlchs died last Saturday evening at s o'clock. He was very 111 when he boarded the steamer, but his condi tion was not considered critical. Soon after the steamer sailed, however, his condition became rapidly more serious, and on Thursday he was obliged to re main in his bed. From that time until his death he sai.k rapidly and steadily. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with Mr. Oelrieh's body is due to reach her dock this afternoon. MF.CTENANT COLONEL PKTTIT PASSES AWAY. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 4. Lieutenant Colonel Jame3 S. Pettlt, eighth In fantry, died at his residence in this city today. He made a good record as an officer during the Spanish war, being colonsl of the fourth immune regiment, and afterwards colonel of one of the volunteer regiments raised for service in the Philippines. 1
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