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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased VJiro and Full Prcee QSspatcfcso LAST EDITION. f , : ;1 :- ' 5 J W$kMi!bt THE RALEIGH EVENING TIME VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C jlOND AY, AUGUST 19, 1907. PRICE t TO ANNUL CHARTERS OF BOTH TELEGRAPH COS. Cblef of Telegraphers' Board and Counsel Apply lo N. Y. Ally. Sen. NEW DAILY NEWSPAPER STARTED AT NEW YORK Strikers Claiming: They Cannot Get a Square Deal from Any New York Paper Except the American audi Evening Journal, Arrange to Pub lish One of Their Own The "Fair Play" Starts U Pickets Still on Duly nt Main Entrances to Itoth Telegraph Companies, and Strike Breakers Are Made to Quit Work. The Day's Developments. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, July 19. Daniel L. Russell, chief of the strategy board of the striking telegraphers, is pre pared with counssl and witnesses to day to appear before Attorney Gen eral Jad'soji' and nsk that action be instituted in the courts to an mil the charters of both tho Western Union and Postal companies. He will present a mass of evidence that the companies have been . I warding messages by mall and ex - press after collecting full telegraph1 tolls; He will further charge that messages have been shipped into New : York f,i,l..,1 nn tho ..rnnor l,ln,a f the main offices and delivered as if they had actually come over the Wires. ;: Attorney General Jackson has been anxious to get at the telegraph trust ever since they entered Into a work ing agreement for the division of profits and raising of rates. The su preme . court recently refused him permission to bring suit against the companies on the ground that they had conspired to form a monopoly.. Declaring that the strikers are not receiving a "square deal" from local newspapers, with the exception of the American and the Evening Journal, the strikers have decided to print a dally paper of their own during the strike. It will be called "The Fair Play," and Dnnlel L. Russell is to edit It. The first Issue is scheduled to appear tomorrow. An information bureau for the purpose Is to be estab lished today at a prominent place on Park Row by Miss Helen Marot, who has been active In encouraging the women strikers. The principal fea ture will be a bulletin board which will keep the public posted on the quickest means of communicating with outside points. Pickets will be kept on duty about the main offices of both companies, and the strikers hope to draw steadily on the ranks of the strike-breakers. The strike leaders declare they are fully posted on the actual working conditions In both companies through spies who have remained at work particularly to secure this informa tion. (Continued on Page Five.) HEINOUS ASSAULT BY NEGRO AT ASHEV1LLE (Special to The Evening Times.) Ashevllle, N. C, Aug. 19. Charlie Sullivan, a well known young man of Ashevllle, who was murderously as saulted by an unknown man near here last night, Is resting well at the hospital today, and may recover. Sullivan, In company with a lady companion, Miss Elkins, were sitting GOVMT HEADQUARTERS ON BOARD SHIP TODAY (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Oyster Bay, Aug. ' 19. The summer capital was today transferred to the government yacht Mayflower, as Pres ident Roosevelt started for Province Town to take part In the celebration In the landing; of the pilgrims. The president sailed at 10 o'clock this morning. The wind and weather permitting, he will reach Province .Town at 10:45 Tuesday morning and WAS IT DONE IN GOOD FAITH? Alfy Gen. Bonaparte is In- vesicating Mailer CHICAGO & ALTON CASE Head of Department of Justice Dis posed to Believe There Was a Pur pose to Frustrate the f . S. Gov ernment -If That is Proved He Will Disregard All Promises of Immunity From Prosecution. (By Leas..;d Wire to The Times.) Washington,. D. C, Aug!.. 19. The facts with reference to the alleged immunity of the Chicago and Alton I from proseou I ion for granting to the Standard Oil Company those rebates or which Judge Landls fined the oil i monopoly $2!), 2 10,000 are b.dng laid before Attorney General Bonaparte I today. While there is no doubt that 1 immunity was promised the Alton I by former District Attorney Morrl- son, wnn uie sanction or ine uepari- """" " ' Mooily' now associate justice of the fm.reme court was t:,e head there is sfrlmis dou,bt whether the Alton s ' malice 111 lilt! u 1.11 01 me 1 c- bale indictments against the Stand ard assisted the government in good faith.'. It is this .question that Attor ney General Bonaparte must decide. District Attorney Sims, of Chi cago, who is here with his assistant, Mr. .Wilkerson, is presenting to Mr. Bonaparte a number of facts, with reference to the trial to show that the Alton officials did not live up to the agreement and In several in stances tried to mislead the govern ment.. ' There is strong reason to believe that If Attorney General Bonaparte is convinced there was a deliberate purposj to frustrate tho government on tae part of the Alton he will dis regard the promise of immunity. The conference did not begin until nearly noon today. Messrs. Sims and Wilkerson were first re ceived by the Attorney General. They had with them a transcript of the record. Later a delegation of Alton officials arrived at the depart ment. Thoy were not given an op portunity to see Mr. Bonaparte Im mediately but will see him later in the day. Former District Attorney Morri son arrived after the attorney gen eral had conferred with Messrs. Sims and Wilkerson for a short time. After brief waiting be was admitted to Mr. Bonaparte's offices. While the conference is private it is believed District Attorney Sims takes the ground as Judge Landis did in directing the grand jury to make inquiry, that the agreement (Continued on Page Five.) on the roadside, after a mountain stroll, when Sullivan was suddenly assaulted, presumably by a negro, and his skull fractured with a rock. Miss Elkins was also struck with a stick and choked. She screamed, and people residing In the neighborhood were attracted to the scene. The as sailant then fled and has not been ap prehended. the president will review a fleet of eight warships before landing. The reiuin iri win uvkui uuririiy Bitm the shore celebration Is finished and mo fJICGIUdii mill, inniii vjnwcft wa; sometime Wednesday morning. Secretary Loeb did not accompany the president on the trip. The secre tary stays at home to keep house and have the oil can ready for troubled wa GOV. MEOMMif!1 INTERVIEW Says Railroads Are Against a Square Depl and Must be Made to Submit He Thinks the Prpspects Now Are for a sitoent Satisfactory to North Corolina. - Yes, He Certainly Would HavCalled Out State Troops Had Prilch x ard Attempted to Liberate Ticket Agent T. E. Green (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Aug. 19. Governor Glenn, who arrived here Saturday, is still in the city and will remain In New York several days yet, in connection with the railroad rate hearing. ; Governor Glenn, who is here at tending the hearing of the Southern I Railway injunction suit- hearing, i said at the Hoffman house today that he believed the railroad rate war was in a fair way of being set tled in a manner that. waJT satisfac tory to tiio people of his state. The governor let it be known in 'unmis takable terms that he was for legis lation that, would cut down railroad rates to even a lowor.' figure than the 2 -cent rate which led to the clash in authority between the fed eral and state courts. "I havo no patience," he said, "with tills cry that the legislation In our state and elsewhere in the south along the lines we are urging is going. to retard the development of the south by frightening capital, hurting the railroads and in effect, killing the goose that lays the golden egg. I am an industrial gov ernor. Only recently a prominent man wrote to me asking what, my position was on questions in which capital was interested. I told htm, as I have told others, that 1 was an industrial governor. I have always made it a point to protect capital and protect the railroads from any thing thai was unfair. BuV' wIkjtj the railroad.-; try to run us, then it is time to call a halt. Itullronds Against a Square Deal. "We are not afraid of our indus trial development being interfered wlta and we will protect capital just. as much as we ever have. The rail road In this instance did not stand for a square deal. Thoy refused to recognize our courts where we gave them every opportunity in the world to have settled all the points in volved and then to go from our courts to the United States supreme court. . 'I believe that the proper rem edy for such a situation and one that would prevent the possibility of a clash between the federal and state courts, would be to have congress pass a law providing that disputes within a state shall be passed upon first by the highest courts in the DEVELOPMENTS POINT TO SETTLEMENT OF THE STRIKE POSTAL WILL ARBITRATE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Aug. 19. An optimis tic feeling pervaded the headquarters of striking telegraphers today when It was announced that the Postal company would In all likelihood set tle the strike by arbitration. The operators are favorably Inclined to ward (lie corporation, because its offi cials, unlike those of the Western Union, did not hamper them In the organization of their union. It was declared suggestions of overtures had been made by the Postals officials, and that in all probability a meeting with arbitration in view will be held within the next twenty-four hours. When asked if such was the case, Vice-President Nally said: "We are seriously handicapped and are willing to employ the old men back. Ia fact, we would like to have them return." Further than that, however, he would not discuss the matter. The striking telegraphers In New York, Boston, Chicago and other principal cities In the country began today the collection of a fund of $10,000,000. President Small of the telegfaphers' union 'originated the plan to amasB this giant fund from business men throughout the coun try. The country will not be ob tained from the headquarters of the GIVES OUT state befoe faking to '-the'-federal courts. 1 - taking to the; federal courts. When the Situation Was Critical. "Only once -did t he North Caro lina situation fcocome serious. Had. Judge Pritchard gotten our -prisoner away from us and adjudged Judge Long in contempt. I certainly would have backed Judge Long up with every soldier : and every deputy sheriff in North Carolina. Of course, had President Roosevelt sent troops Into our. state then '."wj would have had to throw up our lunula, ns. run; state could not light the .-union, but we should have appealed to the voters of the country and I think ! they would have licm Willi us. , "There is only one way with deal- j ing with these railroads. The point should be: la a .-'railroad 'making: money, and how much is it making? If it Is making over a reasonable profit then it should submit to a -e-auction In rates. The North Caro lina law permits the roads to make! ten per cent. That we know from j our investigation and their own le- ports. I think that. Is a pretty good profit, The. law exempts roads un der sixty miles in length and roads in course of construction." Not Excited Over Presidency. ' : Governor Glenn said that people down in North Carolina had not be gun to get .very excited over the next presidential election. "Wo will give 70,000 plurality to the democrat?.'! ranidate over Presi dent -RevOii? 'Meed be," hu.sad. "We are for the man the demo cratic party nominates. I have re peatedly said that the time is not ripe for the nomination of a south ern democrat for president. There are as fine men In the south as there are on God's footstool, but the old hue and cry would be raised if unc i of them gat the nomination. Of that I am sure. It is useless to talk about such a tiling yet awhile. Presi dent Roosevelt is not as strong as he was, because of his centraii''..'r policy which is not popular in I the south. .. ( Incidents of the Heni-ins in X. Y. The investigation before Special Master Montgomery was resumed at 10::t0 this morning and will con tinue -several days yet. The New York 'papers. are '-giving much attention and prominence to reports of the hearing. great " corporations, but from the smaller corporations. According to reports which thoy said had been received from all parls of the country, the operators asserted today that 99 per cent of the com panies' old employes are now out a gain of one per rent since Wednes day. They said they were satlslled with the situation and expected the companies to yield within the next ten days or two weeks. Speaking for the Postal Telegraph Company today, Vice-President Nally Is quoted as follows: "It would be foolish for us to say that conditions are as good as they were before the strike. We certainly regret that our men left us; and while It cannot be anywhere near us dear to us as it must eventually be to them, we have of course felt keenly the disruption of organized, discip lined conditions by which our service had become a smoothly running ma chine. "We did tho host we would cut out a lot of branches and took opera tors from the relay work by opening circuits from New York to San Fran cisco, and got the business out of the wuy. 'biit Its Is slow and unsatis factory. ' ' ' "This company regrets tho loss of good and competent men, and hopes Saturday afternoon John M. Daly, of Chicago, superintendent of trans portation of the Illinois Central, was called as a witness for the railroad. Mr. Daly corroborated the evidence of Viee-Presirlent tfv;ins of the T.nniM-l ville & Nashville, to the effect that if the new rate law of 2 Vi cents in North Carolina is enforced it will re sult in a loss to the Southern on all Interstate business. Former Justice Shepherd, counsel , for : tho corporation commission of North Carolina, attempted to dis qualify Mr. Daly as an expert witness ; on the ground that his knowledge of the cost of operation was merely based on generalities and not facts. When -'Captain -Thorn, counsel for the Southern, led Mr. Daly up to a special case, in which the wltnes had taken-, detailed Information regarding the cost of operation; there was some what of .a.-bomb -hurled at the stal wart, sons of ..the Tar Heel state. Mr. Daly had previously testified that it cost from 2D to 30 cents more for a railroad company to earn a dol lar on intrastate business than It did on interstate, business. Cost of Service. What 13 the minimum cost of run ning a passenger train a mile? asked Captain Thorn. "About, a dollar," said Mr. Daly, and he added that there would bo no profit to the railroad at. a lower rate. Mr. Daly cited an instance where he had occasion to investigate the cost of handling Intrastate and inter state business In Iowa, referring to the shipment of live stock and packing-house products. He declared that notwithstanding the rate on a haul of 4 50 miles was three times as great as the rate on a shipment, that was one-seventh the distance, the railroad really lost money on the local or in trastate business. "After deducting the fixed cost of operating," said Mr. Daly, "we found that, we had S:i.S4 left to cover the transportation of the intrastate busi ness, while there was $:!3.:!4 left to cover the transportation of the inter state business." Mr. Daly produced a wallet with typewritten figures to bear out his testimony. Justice Gels the nest of Thorn." : The ' following 'Interesting Incident Is taken from the New York World's report Saturday: Yesterday George It. Evans, fourth (Continued on Second Page.) mey win see the error of their way and return to their keys." Harry Devoe of the Actors' Union had pledged the support of that or ganization to the strikers, saying that It would do better than It did for the striking coal miners, for whom $25 000 was raised by entertainments. A largo consignment of typewrit ing machines has been received at the main office of the Postal company The furnishing of typewriters is one of the demands made by the union and It Is hoped by the Postal officials that this will induce many of their employes to return to work. The men say, however, that the company must sign nn agreement to furnish machines to all operutors who are required to use them, as well as granting a fifteen per cent Increase In salary. GOVERNOR HUGHES HAS ANEW BABY Albany, N. Y Aug. 19. For the first time In many years a child has been born In the executive mansion. A daughter was born to Governor and Mrs. Hughes today. Congratulations liave poured In on the governor, Mrs. Hughes and the buby are doing well. TAFT LAUNCHES HIS PRESIDENTIAL CRAFT GREAT MASS OF DEAD HUMANITY Left by the Moors on ;he Field of Battle FURIOUS FIGHT TODAY French Troops Defeat the Tribesmen in a Terrific Buttle, Which Ensued After the Moors: Attacked Casa lllaiica Today: Couldn't Stand the Modem Guns of (he French Sol- :' diers. '-. (By Leaned Wire to The Times.) Tangier, Morocco, Aug. 19. In a terrific battle today the French re pulsed the attack of the Moors on Casa Blauca." There was a tremen dous loss of life among the natives. Again and again they threw them selves against the French forces, but the -hundreds of machine guns with the powerful shells from the massed warships in the harbor mowed them down. But. the --fanatical tribes did not fear death In this holy, war, 'and -only retired long enough to reform their Hues. They were finally driven back for lack of ammunition, leaving a fearful number of dead on the field of battle. . : A Had Railway Accident. ( By Leased Wire to The Times.) New London, Conn., Aug. 19. It is reported that a disastrous, wreck occurred at a point near here on the Shore Line division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between - a freight and passenger train. Many . persons are reported hurt. - BRUTE WHO PREACHER'S DAUGHTER (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Greenville,' Pa., Aug. 19. Sheriff Marshall telephones from Dorsett, O., to Win. Johnson at Turnersvllle. that he and .County Detective Lally had captured the man who had bound and assaulted AUca Whitehead, the four teen-year-old daughter of Rev. R. B. Whitehead, pastor of the Methodist Church at Turneaville, and kept her captive all night. The man was cornered In the woods for some time, which were surround ed by a posse..-. He made a break for liberty ami got through the watchers. Marshall and Lally.: then turned the bloodhounds on his trail and followed In an automobile. They saw him go ing down the tracks and finally be coming exhausted he gave himself up. He Is being taken to either Meadvllle or Mercer. Miss Whitehead, n pretty girl, deli cately reared, left her home on the outskirts at Turnesville 'to. get some milk at a neighbors house. Kentlrely disrobed, scarcely able lo speak, Miss Alicia literally crawled into a housa the next morning. NEW REIGN OF TERp; RUSSIAN GOV. BLOp (By Leased Wire to The Times.) St. Petersburg,,. July. 19. Another reign of terror has been Inaugurated throughout the empire by revolu tionists. Colonel Schmoetter, governor of Bielostosck, and personal friend an(i protege of the cwir, was assassinated today. A bomb was exploded within a few feet of him and he was blown to pieces. -The chief of., police of Batoum and his wife were severely hurt, nnd two pedestrians killed by another bomb explosion. The bomb was hurled at the chief of police as he and hlB wife were driving through the streets of Batoum. Other terrorist attempts on promi Leaves Washington Oo a Locj Leave of Absence Jo ing Around World IN COLUMBUS TODAY; SPEAKS THERE TONIGHT The Big Secretary of War Will Ettto ; size the Roosevelt Administration! and Especially Its Heod rDefencS iug Policy of the President Wlil Speak at Cincinnati Also and Spend Several Weeks in the West Before Starting on Continental Trip In cidents of Jlis , Travels and Hi Speeches. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, D.C, July 19. Sec retary of War Taft, accompanied by his confidential secretary, W. W. Meischester, Robert L. Dunn and set eral messengers, left Washington ove the Pennsylvania Railroad at 7 o'clock Sunday evening for the westi where he will spend several weeks before embarking on his trip around the world. Mrs. Taft and son, Mis ter Charles, did not reach Washing ton in time to accompany the secre tary. They will join him at Yellow stone Park at the same time Gen, Clarence R. Edwards and others join the party. Mr. Taft will speak tonight at Co lumbus, Ohio. Aside from the gen eral interest aroused by his speech before the Buckeye Republican Club, his presence in Ohio wll probably signalize another epoch in his cam paign for the presidential nomina tion.. . The plan of the secretary is to spend tomorrow at the state capital, and the significance to be attached ttt this Is that he will' hold Important conferences with his managers and presidential lieutenants. Inasmuch as lie will be out of the country for (Continued on Page Two.) ASSAULTED After taking his captive through swamps and brambles for halt a mils, the fiend forced the girl to disrobe Ai . night advanced he dragged her fur ther and further away from her home. He finally made a rope of her under clothing and bound her to a tree. Three times during the night, Miss Whitehead says she heard the voices and saw the lights of the searching party, but each time her assailant drew a knife and threatened her with instant death if she made an outcry. Just at dawn the girl was given her clothes and released. The prisoner submitted to arrest quietly, and Is reported to have con fessed while being taken to the Craw ford county jail at Meadvllle. He gave his name as H. W. Wag ner, 27 years old, and says he wai born near Lisbon, Ohio, and for a few months past had worked In a pips mill in Lorain, Ohio. Dr. Bailey, who Is attending the little girl, says her condition Is fa vorable and that she will probably recover. .' UP nent officials have occurred In scat tered parts of the empire. There ttr every indication of a concerted move ment on the part of the revolution ists, which, it Is thought, Includes an attempt on the life of the ccar him self. - ' ? .' 'V'.' MR. SMITH'S FUNERAL , VKSTKRDAV AFTERNOON. The funeral services of the late W. D. Smith were held from the resi dence on South Fayettevllle street yesterday afternoon. The service were conducted by Rev. J., C Massee pastor ot the Baptist Tabernacle Church. . 6 "i: PU TNT
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