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LAST EDITION, 4.LL THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES. VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. 0., THUSD AY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1906. PRICE 5c. A CALL TO THE REBEL CHIEFS To Confer in Havana During the Truce TAFT HAS GOT TO WORK He and Bacon Listen Carefully While the Hearing Goes Forward, But They Voice No Opinion Which In Any Way Might Explain Their Presence or Policy. (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Sept. 20. Leaders of the revolutionary movement have called all the generals in the field for a con ference in Havana. They are safe from molestation during the truce. The taking of testimony was contin ued today at the . home of American Minister Morgan at Marianao. Gen eral Menocal. the head of the veterans said to the Associated Press that he believed Secretary Tfl.fi was bound to find a solution of the difficulty, fie Is delighted with the forceful tact in se curing all basic facts bearing on the matter. General Menocal considers his own work at an end and has turned over his reports to Secretary Taft. Government officials maintained the same attitude today as yesterday, say ing there is 110 reason to recede from that position. They hold that the present situation is not due so much to the strength of the rebels as to the unpreparedness of the government which is now In a fairly good position. Taft Receives Callers. Secretary Taft spent the morning in receiving callers who arc seeking to influence the actions of the mediators. Governor Nunez, of Havana province, has been telling Secretary Taft that the elections of last year were per fectly constitutional and that there does not exist sufficient reason for cancelling them. He urged strongly that the present government be up held. Congressman Florenclo Villuen das, a brother of the member of con gress who was killed at Cienfugos a year ago, set forth that the killing of his brother was one of the causes of the present trouble and endeavored to show that the government was respon sible for this murder. Vice President Mendez Capote, continued his testi mony before the mediators and after him Alfredo Zayas, the liberal leader, was heard. As tne testimony was given. Messrs. Taft and Paeon listened carefully, stenographers taking notes. The mediators however, do not Voice the slightest opinion or suggestion or in any way explain their presence or their policy, It Is evident that the hearing will be a long one. VESSELS CAUGHT IN COAST STORM. (By tho Associated Press.) Norfolk, Va., Sept. 20. The four masted schooner Benjamin F. Pool, Captain Itodgers of Providence, 1!. I., caught in the late coast storm, was towed here today b'y the tug M. 12, Luckcnbach with eighteen feet of water in her hold. The Pool sailed from Brunswick, Ga., September 10. with cargo and deck load of lumber for New York, and besides losing a portion of her canvass and a part of her deck load, was badly strained and would, her captain declares, have been beaten to pieces had not the gale abat ed as soon as It did. Captain Rodgers reports having passed at night fall yesterday, off Bodies Island, a schooner coming up the coast with most of her sails gone and which he took to be the four masted schooner Frances C. Tunnell of Philadelphia. BATES NATIONAL BANK IS CLOSED (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 20. The Bates National Bank of Butler, Mo., was closed today by the, action of the board of directors' for the purpose of going Into liquidation. J. W. Butler has been appointed receiver. So far as the comptroller of the currency .Is advised 116 charges of wrong-doing have been made. MEN OF THE LAURA REPORTED IMPROVED. (Bv the Associated Press.) Norfolk. Va., Sept. 20. The officers and senmen from the British steam ship Laura, carried to St. Vincent's Hospital following the arrival of the ship here yesterday after a great bat tle with the wind and waves during which she lost her captain and two men, were all reported from St. Vin cent's Hospital today as being some what improved. 'FRISCO I P AGAINST FAMINE IN HOTELS. (By the Associated Press.) San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 20. A serious situation faces the city in the lack of hotel accommodations. Last night In eight of Ihe largest hotels not a room was vacant and people were sleeping on cots in the halls. Westbound travel has been excep tionally heavy of late, and people are flocking to the city from all over the country. The hotels have been be sieged with telegrams seeking to re serve accommodations. At present no solution of the prob lem of housing the travelers appears. Several hotels have been planned, but their completion is so far in the future that they cannot be counted .on to help relieve the press of travel. RUSH OF WORK AT ARSENAL, CUBA? (Bv the Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 20. More than the usual activity is be ing displayed at the government ar senal at Frankford in this city, where a large party of the army's supply of ammunition is manufactured. While officers at, the arsenal decline to ex plain the rush of work, It is general ly believed that the Cuban situation has much to do with the increased energy that is being shown there. Large orders for various kinds of am munition have been received, among them being one for more than 41,000 three inch shells, another for 12 1-2 pound shells and one for saddle hack boxes for mules in transporting sheihi for mountain guns. ENGINEERS WILL LEAD Brotherhood to Move for Higher Wages This Great organization May Take a Stand in Which Every Western Kailroad Employe May Be Repre sented in the Demand. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Sept. 20. The Tribune to day says': A movement in the direction of higher wages, greater in scope than any demand previously made by the operating employes of the railroads, will be initiated in Chicago next week by the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers. The engineers' aim is to embrace every western road in the projected movement and to present demaods Jointly, and simultaneously. Hereto fore, the engineers on each system have been content to act separately. V plan also is in contemplation, and is said to have received the quasi endorsement of at least two of the great railway brotherhoods, to take i stand in which every operating em ploye, in the railroad business In the west shall be represented in a request for higher wrfges. The movement of the engineers, it was announced, will be pushed re gardless of the attitude of the other brotherhoods, although their co-opera-lion is desired. Rev, It. W. Spillman Spoke. (Special to Tho Evening Times.) Wake Forest College, Sept. 20. Rev. B. W. Spillman, field secretary of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, spoke here this evening before tho student body, faculty and citizens of the hill. THE STEAMER, CITY OF SEATTLE, ON THE ROCKS (By tho Associated Press.) Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 20. The steamship City of Seattle enroute to Alaska went on the rocks at Trial Island, ten miles from Victoria at 5 o'clock this morning in a huaYy fog. The steamer Salvador and two tugs have gone I o her assistance from Vic toria and Port Townsend. All pas sengers are reported safe. CAPTAIN, WIFE, CREW SAVED OFF HATTERAS (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 20. News of the loss at sea of the British bark Aus tria was brought into port today by the Atlas Line steamsr Altai from West Indian ports. The Atlai brought to New York Captain Robinson, Mrs. Robinson and the crew of sixteen men of the Austria, having taken them off their watarlogged bark while passing Cape Hatteras. The Austria sailed from Gulfport, Miss., ror Rio De Janeiro with a cargo of lumber. On Sunday, September 16, she ran Into a gale and after labor ing in tremendous seas sprang a leak. Her pumps were choked and her condition hopeless when the Al tal hove in sight and went to assistance. her SECOND STORM AT HONG KONG The Damage Apparently Not Great NEWS OF THE TYPHOON Report of Disaster Wrought By This Tempest Continue to Pour In It Is Conservatively Estimated Thai Five Thousand Chinese Lost Their Lives. (By the Associated Press.) Hong Kong, Sept. 20. Another storm, less violent, however, than the 1 typhoon, broke here at midnight and blew for six hours. The damage ap parently was not great. The full extent of the death and ruin wrought by the typhoon estimates place the number of Chinese who lost their lives at five thousand and the total of the material damage to the colony of $2,000,0(10. Reports of disasters at sea are con stantly being received here. The steamer Albatross, with 150 passengers on board foundered near Futaumeh Pass. Only six passengers and two of the crew were saved. They swam ashore. The steamer Hong Kong also was lost and her entire crew is miss ing. The steamer Yingfat, from Sam ehun, foundered and 130 passengers and ten of her crew are missing. Only two of the crew are known to have been rescued. .Mrs. Hoare and her search party have returned. They found no trace of her husband, Joseph Charles Hoare, Anglican bishop of Victoria, whose yacht was lost during the typhoon. Incidents of Typhoon. Captain i homas, commander of the river steamer Fatshan, whose Chinese crew clambered on board the French mail steamer Polynesian when the Fatshan collided with her, saved his vessel and 150 Chinese passengers by splendid seamanship. Fortunately the engine room stall stock heroically to their posts. Cap tain Thomas was left almost single handed on deck. He took the wheel and navigated the Fatshan for one hour and forty minutes through tempestuous seas, and finally beached I tne vessel safely. It is believed that she can be re-tloated without trouble. The staff of the .lardine Matheson Sugar Refinery rescued two hundred Chinamen from sinking sampans. The losses of the Kowloon Godown (warehouse) Company are estimated at. $750,000. Forty thousand bales of yarn which were in storage at Kowloon probably are irretrievably damaged. Tha beach is littered with valuable silks, and many looters have been arrested here and at Kowloon. There are ample supplies of rice to relieve distress. There were seven hundred Chinese passengers on board tho steamer Heung Shan, from Macao, which stranded oft Lantao Island. All tha European passengers including three women, were saved. Many of the Chinese including women wero drowned, but the total number of deaths is not known. The position of the Heung-Shan is hopeless. The British reserve sloop Phoenix, which was reported ashore yesterday is a total wreck. ATLANTA GATES WIDE TO BRYAN (By the Associated Press.) Atlanta, Oa., Sept. 20. William J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan arrived from Augusta early today. The pro gram for the day Include a reception from 11 to 12 o'clock, luncheon to Mr. Bryan and a public address at Ponce De Leon Park during the af ternoon and a dollar dinner tonight at which 400 plates will be laid. Mr. Bryan is expected to make his sec ond speech of the day at this din ner. GOLDEN WEDDING OF TEUTON PEERS. (Bv the Associated Press.) Karlsruhe, Germany, Sept. 20. The Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden celebrated their golden wedding today. They were awakened at an early hour by the ringing of all the city bells and the firing of a salute of one hundred and one guns. The grand duke ni the grand duchess have given $2ii,000 to tho poor. HELD AT DAY BY EIGH IN MASKS is,These Burglars Blew Up the Newaygo Bank SECOND BANK SAVED The People of White Cloud Aroused I5y the Thunder of Kx plosions, Gathered in Such Numbers That the Robbers' Took to Their Horses and Fled. (By the Associated P.ess.) Grand Kapids, Mich,, Sept; 20. lOarly today eight masked and heav ily armed burglars had the people of Whits Cloud, a village forty-five miles north of here, al Imy while they rilled the Newaygo County Hank and attempted also to rob the ba,nk of K. Cannon & Son. The eight men rode Into fife town of White Cloud between 12 and Ij o'clock, surrounding the buildings containing the two hanks and posted j guards outside while other members of the gang worked inside. The interior of the Newaygo Conn ty Bank was completely wrecked by two explosions. The burglars got between $2,000 and $4,000 in cash, j Dynamite was then used to wreck j the interior of the Gannon Bank; but while the cracksmen were at I work here the townspeople awak ened by the explosions, gathered J until 1 1 mm wprn km mu-nv f it' i h mn present that the Guards evidently rte- cided it was pot prudant to wait longer. They called out the men working in the bank before they could get the safe open, and cover ing the citizens with guns, rode out of town on horseback. A BANK ON A NEW PLAN President Must Submit Daily Reports of Business They Will He Tinned Over to the Chairman of the Directorate Who May Call a Malt if He Discovers Imprudence. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Sept. 20. From the ruins of the Milwaukee Avenue' Stale ll.-ink will arise in tin' near future a new bank, which James B. Forgan, who is to be chairman of the board of direct ors, declared yesterday would be ah-! soiuteiy unique in this country. It will be modelled W1 the Canadian or so-called Scot ell-knglish plan, which ,. . .. , , , , ' ' , , ! (.'I I II II NULLS llil' llt'Mlinil III III!' nil::. from the role Of the "nil powerful 0111 that American tradition and practice make him. In other words, the president of the new bank will he subject at all times 10 ine auiiMH i:y 01 ine lurecmraic s chairman. T !,,!,, .... n ...... lei.. I I. ,.i ..-111 Iw, nla, , . ,. ' ., i upon his authority to initiate measures for obtaining anil transacting bust- nes- But after .lie has done the bust- ness his reports will have to be sub- mltted in detail every day to Mr. For gan, who, if he discovers that impru dent measures ate being followed Willi quickly call a h?lt. FUNSTON TO FOLLOW TAFT OVER TO CUBA (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Sept. 20. General Fred erick Funston who is expected to ar rive in Washington today will remain but a short tiie as the instructions of Secretary Tail when he left here for Cuba was that General Funston should Immediately follow him. Sec ret ary Taft desired to make use of the knowledge which General Funston has of Cuba and Cubans which he ob tained' while serving with the insur gents previous to the Spanish war. General Frederick Funston has ar rived here from American Lake, Wash., and has been In consultation with General Bell, chief of staff and other officers prepatory to departing tonight for Havana to join Secretary Tuft's party. Condition of General Ath.ni E. King. 1 moving to Illinois three years later. (By the Associated Press.) His career was a varied one, embrac- Baltimore, Md., Sept. 20. The lng newspaper work, diplomacy and condition Of General Adam E. King, , legation. As a young man he was in formerly consul general at Paris, tlmately associated with Abraham who is 111 of kidney trouble was somewhat improved today. He ts still dangerously sick, however. IDLINGS MADE BY COMMISSION Rtjects Southern Freight Rate Classification CARLOADS UNCHANGED That Discrimination Hearing Against Southern Hell Yesterday Com mission Accepts Hell Company's Assurance That All Discrimination Is Eliminated Manager Wynne of the lialeigli Company Was On the Stand. .Nearly three months ago the prin cipal railroads in this stale tiled with the corporation commission and requested the adoption of what is known as the southern classification of freight rales. The reason the railroads gave for the adoption of this classification was that it would make the North Carolina rates uni form with those of other states in their interstate business. They also claimed that wliile there were many changes in rates the whole schedule had the effect of reducing rather than increasing the rates. The com mission now announces its refusal to adopt the southern classification, Minimum Car Load Fertilizer. The commission was also asked about the same time by the railroads to change the minimum car-load In Shipments of fertilizers from 20,000 to 30,0(10 pounds. This request Is ! also refused by the commission, ! Tllit Bell Telephone Hearing. The commission will not make any ruling in the W. B, Mann case against the Southern Bell Telephone I Comapny charging that, there is die- j crimination in the exchange charges for the reason as stated yesterday, that the Sou "n Bell, through A. B. Andraws, , counsel, and B. A. Woodruff, manager, made answer that an examination of the hooks of the company showed some few in slances of discrimination but that an order had been made and executed for discontinuance in each instance, all such contracts being canceled. A report that there are to be rebates is erroneous. In the hearing yesterday Messrs. George Terrell and W. B. Mann went on the stand and testified as to the discrimination in their cases on which the complaint was based, and Manager Woodruff of the Bell Com pany was examined as to the matter. Thei Mr. Will Wynne, manager of th3 Raleigh Telephone Company, who appeared with Mr. Mann to prosecute t he charge against the Bell company, went on the stand and was oxamlnea a, some length. During . .. . . , . Iiis examination by Mr. Andrews he was bUoBtiotead us to discriminations .'on the part of his company and ad I milted that there were live or six leases of discrimination on the books ! of his company. He refused to an- 1 . 1,.,,.. swer it there were as mauy I twelve. The copimission ruled that the examination was rather out of , Drtler aH lnc Kaleigh Company was not at that time under investigation, HITT IS DEAD (By Ihe Associated Press.) Narragansott I'ier, R. ., Sept. 20. Congressman Robert R. Hill of Illi nois died at his summer home here today. Heart failure following a long period of increasing physical weak ness, finally caused the death of Con gressman Hitt. Mrs. Hitt and her two sons, W. S. Hitt and R. H. Hitt, were at the bedside of the congress man when he died. Mr. Hitt came here last June and since that time he has been very ill, requiring most of the time, the con slant attention of nurses and physi cians. His condition was due to ad vancing years. His age was 7 2 years. Sketch of His life, Mr. Hitt was 72 years old, having been born in Ohio in 1834, but re- Lincoln and as an expert stenogra-j pher reported many of the statomen'a' ; lutteranees In fhe great joint cam- CONGRESSMAN paign with Stephen A. Douglass as representative of a Chicago newspa per. His diplomatic career began in 1874 as secretary of legation to Paris and in 1XS1 he came to Washington as assistant secretary of state. The year following he was elected to the forty-seventh congress from the thir teenth Illinois district and he was serving his thirteenth continuous term at the time of his death Mr. Hitt was one of the most pop ular men in congress, his friendship including men of all parties and be cause of his wide experience and ability he was always listened to with the greatest of attention when he dealt with matters pertaining to the foreign service. STATE OFFICERS IN CAMPAIGN. Governor Glenn is expected to re turn to the city Sunday morning. He made a campaign speech at Nor wood, Stanly county, today. He will speak at Gastonia tomorrow. State Auditor B. F. Dixon left this morning for New Bern, where he will make a political speech tonight. He Will speak at Jacksonville, Onslow county, tomorrow an dat South port county, tomorrow and at Southport being in connection with the cam paign. IN CASTILLO'S CAMP Insurgent Leader Desires In tervention He T He lis a Press Keprcsentat ive That Would Like to See the United States Negotiate Peace in the Is land. (By-the Associated Press.) New Orleans, Sept. 20. A dispatch to the Picayune from Cuba gives an interview with the insurgont leader in Havana province General Enrique Del Castillo, in which he sv he would like, to see a commission of Americans appointed to negotiate peace. M believe there is no reason to ex pect American intervention im mediately." general Castillo said, "but it Will come. I would like to see the United .States negotiate peace. We have great confidence in President Roosevelt. We believe that if he in tervenes lie will cause his representa tives to remain in Cuba just long enough to make peace and then with draw them." The coi respondent, who arrived at General Castillo's camp at night and found five hundred men there, gives the following description: "In a strict sense there is no camp here. One searches the landscape in vain for signs of tents or camp fires. Instead the soldiers slept on the ground wherever they Wished, without protection from the dew. The caval rymen did not even use their saddles for pillows. We were impressed with the mature nature of the troops with Castillo. They averaged considerably older than the government troops in (iuines and most of thetn were veter ans of the Spanish war." THREE ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF MURDER (By the Associated Press.) Lancaster, Ky., Sept. 20. Sattiurd ! and Jones Simpson, brothers, and Burt Knst are under arrest here to- day charged with the murder of .lames Casey and Nathan Taylor. The charred bodis of Casey and Taylor were found in the ruins of Casey';; 1 home, which was burned last Sunday I night. East and tho Simpsons will be held to await the result of the coroner's inquest, which will do held Saturday. SCHOONER FLIES DISTRESS SIGNAL (By the Associated Press.) Norfolk, Va., Sept. 20. A four masted schooner, apparently in a waterlogged condition, is today off the Wash Woods life saving station on this coast. The vessel's crew Is apparently aboard, and she Is flying a signal of sinking, but this cannot yet ho understood from shore. UNCLE SAM TAKKS ALL JOHN BULL'S h'AGLFS. (By the Associated Press.l London, Sept. 20. The United States brought, another $1,005,000 in bar gold at tho Bank of Kngland to day. The price was seventy-eight shillings, one pence. ARGUMENT ON COTTON QUESTION President Green Emphasizes Need of Money GULLEY AND TEMPLETON Small Meeting of Cotton Growers, But an Interesting Discussion Dr. Templeton Says Would Not Need to Raise Home Supplies if Govern ment On m il the Railroads. The Wake county division of the Southern Cotton Association met today at 11 o'clock in the court house, with President A. G. Green in the chair. Secretary Walter Grimes read the report of the committee appointed at the last meeting to arrange for the storing of cotton and procuring ad vances or it. Tills report was signed by T. B. Parker for the committee, and was published a bout a week ago. It was published a bout a week ago. It age owners of Raleigh had been seen, and they had all expressed a willing ness to store cotton and issue receipts at 2fic. per bale per month to cover cost of storage and insurance, and that they would as far as they could make loans on the cotton up to three-fourths of the value of the cotton, charging 0 per cent interest, that the bankers of the city had said they would gladly make loans on warehouse receipts, Mr. Parker read a letter from Presi dent C. C. Moore of the state associa tion, in which he wrote that he was glad to see the reports of good meet ings in Wake county, and added that a great deal depended upon the way in which Wake county conducted her self. Mr. Parker went on to say that when, after the meeting endorsing the Hot Springs resolutions and the reso lutions that no cotton should be sold for less than 10c. a pound, he still read In the papers that on yesterday 300 bales were sold in Raleigh, a great deal of it for less than 10c, he felt that it was not a very good example for the metropolitan county of the state to set. It was discouraging, to say the least of it. Mr. Parker read a report giving in detail the scheme of the Southern Cot ton Association for raising the capital to buy this "weak" cotton off the mar ket. The idea was to raise $100,000,030 as a total, and begin operations with $10,000,000 paid in. President Green. President Green said that at the bot tom of the reports on yesterday's local market It was said that the cotton sold was mostly old cotton, so things w ere not so bad as they might be. But some cotton would keep on being sold this way because of the need of ready money and this would continue as long as our tenant system of farming lasted. When a man had used up his supplies he must have money to buy food for the children. There was great need for some such plan as the one sug gested. He did not feel discouraged on account of the cotton being put on the market, but the thing that was bothering him was the lack of sup port given the organization. Here was a meeting called for today and notices sent out to all the township chairmen and committeemen and here was noth ing but a corporal's guard that had responded. President Green said he would be one of the men to raise $100 extra to help things. He favored the Idea of raising a fund to buy cotton that had to be sold. Mr. Green said he did not know what to do. He felt sometimes that the as sociation must die If more interest was not taken. Perhaps they would do bet ter to elect some other man president. Captain Allen. ("apt. C. N. Allen arose to say that Mr. Green was the man they needed and wanted, but he hated to hear him talking of dying. He knew he did not mean it. He knew him too well, knew he was just saying it for a purpose. If there should be less than a corporal's guard his idea was to stand together and say: "We will not die, and the asso ciation shall not die." But ('apt. Allen declared there was no need for any farmer to sell a pound of cotton for 9c. when the asso ciation had put the minimum at 10c, for the committee had made the ar rangement with the storage house men. The situation was in the hands of the farmers, no matter what any one might say to the contrary. Let that fund be raised to take care of the weak cotton for the time being. When the buyers need the cotton, there is no trouble about getting the price. Mr. Green thanked Captain Allen for his kind words, but said the situation reminded him of April 9, 1865, at Ap pomattox Court House, when General Lee whispered something to General Grant, and the latter distributed rations to Lee's army. If this, assoela tlon could not get some money, it would go under, no matter how brave and patriotic its leaders. Dr. Templeton. Dr. J. M. Tetnpleton of Crtry, chair- . (Continued on third page.) tfji'irTtfenii
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