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THE BALEIGH EVENING TIME
VOLUME 30.
RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1907.
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LIGHTNING SL1NGERS
fromoceMto OCEAN
15,000 Men are flyl Backed
by a Strike Fund of
J 6, 000, 000
E EFFECTS IF TIE
PARALYZING OF WIRES
Strike Order Has Been Extended to
Canada and Mexico ' and Today
Many Operators in Those Countries
Are Walking Out Six Thousand
Lightning.
"Ql'lT WORK AT ONCE,"
THE ORDER ISSCKD TODAY.
By Leased Wire to The Times.
New York, Aug. 13. Acting
President Percy Thomas of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union
of America has sent out the fol
lowing message to all opera
tors: "Quit work at once." V
(Signed) "PERCY THOMAS,
Deputy President."
This order is only addressed
to operators not already work?
ing under contract.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Chicago, Ills., Aug. 13. Wesley Rus
sell, deputy president of the Commer
cial Telegraphers' Union, sent out this
morning a general order, rnlllnir out
all telegraphers in the United States ;
and Canada who had not signed u con
tract under the new terms demanded.
Mr. Russell told every telegrapher in
the two countries to approach his em
ployer and demand that he sign the
new union contract.
This does not affect the Hearst News
Service newspapers.
While the peace envoys are endeav
oring to effect a true the labor lead
rrs threaten to cripple the telephone
service so that all means of communi
cation will be cut off.
This was decided at a meeting of the
Commercial Telegraphers national ex
ecutive board, which today awaits the
arirval of President S. J. Small to pro
mulgate the order. It was determined
to call the union operators from the
service of the relay exchange of the
Bell Telephone Company because they
are sending commercial messages over
the telephone wires. The telephone
lines are used as composite wires and
It requires skilled operators to man
the keys of the telephone service where
relay work Is done. S. J. Konenkamp,
of the national executive board, and
Deputy President Wesley Russell took
the matter under advisement at an
early hour today and began to formu
late plans to silence the telephone
wires n the long distance service.
If any attempt Is made to supply
the positions vacated by the union op
erators from the local exchanges
throughout the city, a general shut
down of the city lines will follow.
Nothing can save the telephone ser
vice from becoming involved but the
signing of a closed shop scale and the
withdrawal of all commercial business
until the strike Is settled.
The Associated Press, COO strong
quit the company's service after the
Postal and the Western Union forces
of New York Joined the general strike
movement. Newspapers depending
solely on the Associated Press are
crippled today.
The Hearst scale of wages had been
placed before Melville E, Stone, gen
eral manager of the Associated Press.
He refused to sign one like It. Twenty-four
hours' notice had been given
him. That time up, the strike went
on. Atlanta, On., was the first city to
feel It. But ten minutes afterward all
America was Involved.
Pittsburg, Washington, San Francis
co, Newark, Buffalo and Baltimore
operators are, now out.
. The general strike order being pre
pared today will affect all offices ex
cept those maintained by the rail
roads. These will be exempt, but at
the same time it should be understood
that none of the members of the Or
der of Railway Telegraphers will han
dle commercial messages for the West
ern Union or Postal companies.
(Continued on Page Five.)
TAKING DEPOSITIONS
AT ASHEVILLE TODAY
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Ashevllle, N. C Aug. 13. Judge
James E. Shepherd, chief counsel for
the Corporation Commission of North
Carolina, and Colonel W. B. Rodman,
STRIKE EXTENDS TO THE
LONG DISTANCE PHONE MEN
.
By Leased Wire to The Times.
'"' Chicago, Aug. 13. 9 a. m.
The long-distance telephone op
fl ' eratora, most of whom are tel-
'egraphers, have presented to the
company an ultimatum declar
er ing that they will not handle
commercial messages between
surrounding points during the
existence of the present telegra-
phers' strike. This manner of
handling business has, it is un-
derstood, been used by the
Western Union and Postal com-
panles for the past two days.
The long-distance employes
.have given their company until
'10 o'clock tomorrow morning
O to decide on the question.
$ Should they after that hour bo
V asked to handle messages for
C1 the Western Union or Postal
' companies, there will be a gen
t era! strike of the long-distance
t1' telephone emploveii.
ALL OPERATORS ARE
OUT AT BOSTON
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Boston, Mass., Aug. 13. The Postal
operators of Boston went out at 11
o'clock today. The operators of the
Western Union office of this city quit
their keys at the stroke of high noon.
This order was sent out today by
James J. MeGarty, president of the
local, union. It" followed a dispatch
from, .Percy- Thomas,, 'deputy -'president
of the union, who is In New York und
in charge of the eastern end of the
strike.
President McOarty gave out the fol
lowing statement at 9 a. m. from the
headsuarters at No. 1 State street:
"The Postal Telegraph operators will
go out at 11 a. m. today and the Western-Union
men at noon. This Is nil
prearranged by means of a whistle,
which will be blown at each of the
offices by an operator. This will af
fect about 600 operators, including
those pi. brokerage offices and hotels.
Railroad operators'-will not go on
strike but have received orders from
their locals not to receive or deliver
any Western Union or Postal mes
sages. "This Is one of the most sweeping
telegraph strikes that the country has
seen since 1X83, when 6,000 operators
were affected.
"We exect an early termination of
this strike. The companies can't stand
tlie strain and unlike any other busi
ness, will not be able to get men to
fill the places of the strikers."
RAILROAD QUITS
WIRE SYSTEM
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 13. W. S. Brand,
superintendent of the Georgia Rail
road, has Issued the following bulle
tin:- ;,-''".'.'
"To all concerned: On account of
constant and serious Interruptions In
our telegraph service, covering a per
iod of several days past, which do not
appear to be caused by atmospheric
conditions but by human Interference,
which have proved beyond our ability
to correct, we will, effective at once
and until further advised, discontinue
the handling of trains by telegraphic
orders. No extra trains will be gov
erned by the rules and schedules."
Ambassador Wright Leaves.
(Special Cable to The Times.)
Tokio, Aug. 13. The departure of
Luke K. Wright, the retiring ambas
sador of the United States to Japan,
from here this morning, caused gen
eral regret. The newspapers regret the
short tenure in office of so capable a
man.
chief counsel for the Southern Rail
way, are in thin city arranging for tak
ing depositions In the railway rate
suit to be heard In New York on
Thursday.
FINANCIAL DISASTER
WILLSM
John D. Rockefeller Makes Statement Prophecying Monetary Chaos As
the Inevitable Result of the Roosevelt
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, Aug. 13. A Cleveland
dispatch says: .
"John D. Rockefeller's answer to
President Roosevelt's anti-trust liti
gation campaign Is a prophecy of
financial disaster that will sweep the
country from end to end.
"The policy of the present admin
istration," Mr. Rockefeller said, "to
ward great; business combinations of
all kinds have only one result. It.
means, disaster to the country, finan
cial depression and financial -.'chaos.
"The world alrealy has a fair
dose of this since the extreme pen
alty imposed on one corporation,
with a limited number of sharehold
ers, has caused a loss of confidence,
reflected in a falling: stock market,
a tightening of money, and a fear of
the future. Tho newspapers are full
of this slump, and reflect the feeling
of unrest.: They ascribe it to pres
ent order of things,
"What will he the effect when
similar action is taken against, cor
porations with stockholders scat
tered throughput the country with
the Investors,, the widows, the or
phans? There can he hut one an
swer. The present situation will' lie
STATEMENT BY
STANDARD OIL
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, Aug. 13. In reply to
the report of Commissioner Herbert
Knox Smith on the oil trust, the
Standard Oil Company has given out
the following statement:
"The only reply which the Standard
Oil Company would make to the latest
report Of Herbert Knox Smith was
the following, which they ask the
public to consider as illustrative of
the method and spirit which domi
nated the commissioner's utterances:
" 'An actual colloquy between a
United States representative of the
bureau of corporations and an Eng
lish dealer in Russian oils.
" 'United States Agent You have
had contract relations in times past
(Continued on Second Page.)
WILD TRIBES ASSAULT
THE GATES OF MAZAGAN;
IMPENDING SLAUGHTER
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
..: Tangier, Aug. 13-Wild tribes
from the Hinterland aro clamoring
about the gates of Mazagan and or
ganizing for an attack on the city
which, notwithstanding the presence
in the harbor of the French warship,
Admiral An be, may result in the
looting of Mazagan nnd a terrible
slaughter. The captain of the Ad
miral Aube at last reports was pre
paring to shell the tribes which
were organllzng into au army. Great
terror reigns and hundreds have left
by steamships. The bandit Baisuli
has released Kald Sir Harry Mac
Lean, military advisor to the sultan
of Morocco, who was held prisoner
for a number of weeks. The Brit
ish gbvernment addressed u note
demanding Sir Harry's release sev
eral weeks ago but tho bandit did
not answer until two days ago, when
he turned the prisoner over to the
hikmes tribesmen.
A grave menuce to Morocco and
to the French-Spanish troops now in
the country Is seen in this actlou of
the bandit. The tribes, knowing of
his hatred of the Bultan, and im
pressed with the fact that he is the
one man In Morocco with abilities of
leadership, have been called upon
him to lead them In that most brutal
of all conflicts, the holy war. In
Ralsuli's attitude, displayed by re
leasing his captive, tho sultan's
intensified many fold. It does not
require an expert to reason this out.
The most superficial can do It. I
will go further and say that because
of the administration, with still to
be solved and hardly touched by
the forces of the confederacy and the
union, depleting us by ocean of
blood and treasure. -
"We pride ourselves upon living
under a government of public opin
ion. Would it not be truer to say
that we live under a government of
party, organization? Is it not also
true that '.thU party .'.organism takes
small account of; public opinion
whore "it feels itself strong enough
to -defy 'it? The corruption of par
ties the revelations of 'this. corrup
tion' which have reached the com
mon knowledge the last few years -has
confounded the democrats and
brought the republicans to their
knees. The politicians of both par
ties' are appealing as "never before
to the people. Mr. Rousevt-il';:-'''vt8
of .organization going on i.i the hack
specifics more or loss novel and
drastic, but each claiming to be
curative. .' -V '..'.' .';''
"Statesmanship, yielding to the
sentimental and humane pressure of
DEADLY
RIOT
WITH
POLICE
(l!y Cable to The' R veiling' Times.)
Itelfasl, Ireland, Aug. l:'.. One wo
man and a man were shot, dead and
scores wounded ill a clubbing in fur
ther .clashes ..between the troops nnd
rioters. The hospitals are overcrowd
ed Willi the injured.
The rouble started when the limb
attacked a police inspector near the
constabulary .barracks; .'...'Soldiers were
at once -hurried. 'to. the scene, but they
were met by a hail of paving stones,
which resulted in emptying some of
the. saddles. The riot act was read but
the maddened inob refused to disperse
and kept up a terrific fusillade of
stones, broken bottles and brickbats
against the po'.li e ami the militia.
Bayonet and baton charges failed to
route the frenzied rioters and ultimate
ly the order to fire was given, This
scattered the mob.
military advisor, is seen the begin
ning of a clever campaign. He took
steps to avoid complications with
Great Britain who demanded Sir
Harry's release,- before he joined in
the holy war.
It Is feared that Morocco now
faces the most troubleous limes in
tho country's history. That France
now recognizes the gravity of the
situation is evident in her refusal
to join in a second note to the pow
ers reaffirming the solidarity of the
views and actons of the two govern
ments. Raisuli will probably place him
self at the head of the wild tribes
men and his lirst order, It is pre
dicted, will be to draw the French
troops into the Interior and make
an attempt to overwhelm them with
numbers. The holy war must be
fought In the Interior if the tribes
men hope to escape annihilation by
shells of the 'combined fleet of the
French and Spanish. There Is rich
loot in the interior, cities. Strange
as it may seem, fie tribesmen are
confident In their ability to win the
struggle with the European forces.
This Is due to their fanaticism.
Their religious belief teaches them
they cannot lose In a struggle with
foreigners, notwithstanding what
were the results of former conflicts
of like nature.
A steamer from Mazagan, bring
ing LMO refugees, arrived hero with
Anti - Trust Policy
the times, has turned doctor. The
chief aim of the leaders seems to
be to take a short cut to the mil
lenium; and just now it is a race
between two ambitious popular fa
vorites, which of them shall get
there first. Ail this while, however,
there is no suspension in the work
with Mr. Bryan in the proposal of
office; Mr. Roosevelt's back office
and in Mr, Bryan's back office; the
people at large separated into op
posing camps, in each of which in
dependent thinking is held to be
treason. -; '
"1 warn our people against the
intrusion of certain 'isms' which de
scribe themselves as 'progress,' and
muster under the standards of what
they call 'God and morality,' hut
which take their, spirit from cotton
mather, not from Jesus Christ
'isms' which where they cannot
rule, would burn at, the stake;
'isms' which embrace the sum of all
fanaticism and intolerance, propos
ing that, instead of the rich, red
blood of Virginia, ice water shall
flow through the veins of the peo
ple; 'isms which, in one word, would
blot Kentucky out of the galaxy of
stars and recreate her in tiie dread
image of Maine and Kansas."
DETECTIVES
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Logalisport, Ind., Aug.-. IX Friends
of Judge K.M. Landis, who recently
imposed such a heavy fine on the
Standard . oil Company, asserts that
the .judge:. Is being shadowed by de
tectives in tile employ of tiie trust and
bis every word and movement Is be
ing, reported, promptly to Standard Oil
People. .' .
' The report is founded possibly on the
fact thai, when Judge Landis came
bore to spend liis vacation two stran
gers came here also and when he went
to Indiana they appeared and remain
ed in that; city while lie was -.-through
when he returned to Logalisport the
two nu n came here also and have been
Joined since by a third.
Judge Landis is reported as being
advised: of their presence and as "sa
ing:
"I guess I can stand inspection."
the news that the wild tribesmen
were galloping about the. front gate
to the city, demanding money and
saying they would capture nnd loot
the city if It was refused. The offi
cers of the Admiral Aube were pre
paring to laud men and to shell tho
outskirts of the city.
In a message dated Sunday, Ad
miral 1'hllbert said the '-'.tribesmen
were redoubling their efforts to
carry the outposts of Casa Blanca,
now held hy the French troops. The
French lost one man killed and ten
wounded. The French troops, ac
cording to later advices, are pursu
ing the Kabyls far inland. There is
some fear they may be ambushed
und surrounded by the tribesmen
after they hnve placed some distance
between them and Casa lllauca.
Madrid, Aug. 13. The dispatch
of troops and ships to Morocco is
being hurried by the Spanish gov
ernment. In ofllclal circles it Is said
that Spain will leave to France the
pacification of the West coast of
Morocco while tho Spanish troops
will be assigned to the HI ft region
to take care of Raisuli and his troops
as "well as the Moorish pretender at
the gates of.Melilla and Tetttan.
Advices received here state that
the news of the bombardment of
Casa Blanca has reached Fez nnd
thnt the greatest excitement pre
vails. There are feai'B of an outbreak,
WATCH
LANDIS
VIRGINIA RACE RIOTS
NOT YET
GEORGIA AFTER
THE SOUTHERN
Committee of Investigation is
LEGISLATURE CURIOUS
To Know Who Owns the. Central of
. (ioorgin- Southern Relieved to
Control it Still, Th(ni"li it Claims
to Have Sold Out I uteres! ins l'1'
velopnients Kxpectod to Follow
Investigation.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
. Atlanta,- Ga., Aug. 13. At a
meeting of the committee on rules
of the lower house of the Georgia
assembly Monday night the resolu
tion eailins for an investigation of
the alleged ownership of the Central
of Georgia by the Southern Railway
was set as a; special order to imme
diately follow the; pending negro
disfransliisement bill.
Recently a resolution was adopted
by the house 'requesting the rules
committee' to set the former resoliir
Hon as a special order at once';: but
there had been apparent Inaction in
the matter. Following the reported
Central-Southern deal, by which tho
Southern ..claims to have disposed of
ils Central ..holdings to a private.
Central, have, issued two. circulars in
which the governor of Georgia and
II 1 111, . I HI' I III I I 111. tll'OUllWIU' in 1,1 I IH .
the. legislature are urged to protect
them from the "freeze out" which
they allege is contemplated. ;
Last night's action of the com
mittee on rules of tho house has the
effect of producing a strong belief
that interest ing developments may
be expected in the matter at this
session of the state legislature.
L. N. Will I'iiilit to Last Hitch.
(Hy Leased Wire to The Times. I
Lirmingham. Ala., Aug. 13. The
semi-official statement given circu
lation that the Louisville & Nash
ville will not follow the example of
the Southern, 'Frisco and Ohio rail
ways in putting into effect the lower
passenger and freight tariffs, Sep
tember: 1 , but on the cont rary will
light the state to the last ditch, has
been accorded zest by the visit to
Louisville of Gregory L. Smith of
Mobile, chief counsel for the litiga
tion with the slate.
Sir Harry MacLcan Freed.
.; (By Leased Wiro to Tho Times.)
Tangier, Aug, 13. Caid Sir Harry
MacLeaa has been handed over by
his captor, the bandit Raisuli, to the
Klkmes tribe who, In their turn, set
him at liberty.
THE FIGHT BETWEEN
FORAKER AND TAFT
(l!y Leased Wire to The Times.)
Cincinnati, ., Aug. IS. In a formal
statement given out last evening, Sen
ator Foralier dcllned his position In
regard to the contest pending between
his followers and those of Secretary
Tall. -
In regard to the statements- that he
Is about til lake au active part in var
ious municipal primaries and elections,
especially at Columbus and Toledo.
Senator Forager says there is no truth
whatever in any such statement.
"1 suppose." says lie, "my friends at
both of those places will lake some
DEPM'T OF JUSTICE
WILL CURE HARRIM AN
(lty Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, D. C, Aug. 13. The de
partment of justice has tuken legal
steps to cure 10. It. llariimuii of hU
habit of refusing to answer questions
put to him while on the witness stand,
and will, if possible, compel him to tell
more about the now famous Chlcugo
& Alton deal. However, the railway
magnate will secure criminal proceed
ings iinucr ine rmeriiiun iuw, me ue-
SUPPRESSED
The Situation at Onancock
Today is Reported to
be Very Grave
, ATTY. GEN.
AND MILITARY THERE
The Negroes Provoked the Trouble.
The Negro Kditor I'zzle Has Com
pletely Disappeared He Was the
Main Instigator of the Trouble
and His Office Has lteen Destroyed.
Arrival of a Military Company
Last Night Has Alarmed Many
-.Negroes and Scores Are Leaving
That Section.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Richmond, Va.; Aug. 13. The situa
tion at Onancock, where the recent
race rioting occurred, is still very
grave. The town is now In the hands
of a vigilance committee, notwith
standing wnich there is grave possi
bility that the rioting will break out
afresh.
-'Samuel' I.. Burton, one of the negro
leaders, and Moon, another colored
leader, have lett town as a result of
the- mass meeting of citizens, which
passed resolutions to the effect that
any and all negroes who had caused
trouble, either directlv or Indirectly,
within the past eight hours, ijhist leave
the eastern shore. -.-.
No trace has been found of Uzzle,
the editor, whose place was burned,
and who ts known to have been tha
main instigator of the riot.
Governor Swanson and the attorney
general arrived at Onancock yesterday
i ii i i. 'i ii miii. , in: guiriiiui niauc mi au-
! (llvSB fl.om ,,, ll(ltel Rtep8 last nl8nt
! advising the people to keep cool, but
... ,pi. . rt n.4
assuring them that they must be pos
itive with the trouble with which they
are now confronted. Notwithstanding
this advice, which was well received,
it is said that a very bitter feeling ex
ists between the whites and the blacks
and that a further outbreak is liable
to occur at any moment.
Governor Swanson will remain on
the eastern shore until the present
trouble has quieted down.
Many of the negroes on the ecbtern
shore are leaving that community. It
is said that the present trouble has
been brewing for some time, the ne
groes only waiting for an excuse to
provoke a difficulty.
i Military Ordered to Scene.
Newport News, Va., Aug. 13. -A pro
visional company of fifty-two men,
commanded by Captain Gayle, left
Norfolk last evening on a steamer for
Cape Charles, en route to Onancock,
where Governor Swanson is on the
ground in connection with the race dis
turbance. Colonel Nottingham and other offi
cers of the Seventy-first Virginia In
fantry, accompanied by the first de
tachment of troops, leaving orders for
the Norfolk to be In readiness to move
on receipt of orders,
The reason for dispatching the pro
visional company cannot be learned.
Adjutant General Anderson is In Nor
folk, In charge of the military situa
tion. ' :
part, as they did at Dayton. My
sympnthies will naturally be with my
friends, but so far as 1 am personally
concerned, I have troubles of my own
without looking after what belongs to
others.
"Another story that seems to be
widely circulated Is that I am to
answer Secretary Taft's speech which
he Is to make at Columbus August 19,
when I speak at Georgetown two days
later, August 21.
"There Is no foundation whatever for
such a statement, except only the
Imagination of somebody."
partment announced this Intention In
the following statement:
"There will be a proceeding to com
pel Mr. llarriman to answer some
questions which he refused to answer
to the Interstate Commeroe Commis
sion In New York last winter. No
other proceeding against him and no
particular proceeding against the
Union Pacific is now under considera
tion of the department of Justice,"