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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Prcso Dsspatchco LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. . THE -RALEIGH EVENING TIMES. i VOLVME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 19 07. FRIGE !. MM. CRATER STAMPS PAT All that I have to say further in regard to the publi cation concerning me in the News and Observer follows: I positively state that I did not say to Colonel John son or anyone else that I "knew nothing at all of any of the vouchers," as Colonel Johnson says in this morn ing's paper. I told Colonel Johnson that the Times did not get six thousand dollars. I went to the office of the Raleigh Banking and Trust Company several times yes terday morning in search of Colonel Johnson to inform him that I was about to issue an extra exonerating Mr. Drewry, and asked Colonel Johnson in the presence of Mr. Briggs if I had said that Mr.' Drewry got any of the money, also repeating to these gentlemen what I had said at the capitol to Colonel Johnson to the effect that the Times had gotten an amount, but not as Much as six thousand dollars. I did not say before Colonel Johnson or Mr. Briggs that "no vouchers had ever passed to the Times." .'.-S,'-:' I called up Colonel Johnson at his home last night, telling him that I had learned that he was coming out in the News and Observer with an affidavit to the effect that I had said that no vouchers had passed to the Times and that I had intimated that Mr, Drewry had gotten the money without my knowledge. The Colonel assured me that no such statement would be made, but that he had given the morning paper some, information, r I insisted that Colonel Johnson, Governor Glenn, and Governor Aycock meet me and talk over the matter for the pur pose of setting me straight. The Colonel said that he did not know whether Governor Glenn would talk over the matter or not, but that, upon my insisting on meet ing him, he would come to his office at the "Round Steps Bank," provided I would name or let him name some one that would be present with us. Mr. II. II. Carr, of the Raleigh Electric Company waspresent. The Colonel stated he had written out a statement for the News and Ob server, as he had "got in it." When the Colonel started reading the statement, and when he had proceeded at some length I interrupted him by saying that I did not see why he should make such a statement to the paper; that even if every word I had said to him at the Capitol had been false I did not see why he should divulge a confidence almost the moment it was told him. He agreed that he had made a mistake in saying anything to Governor Glenn and Governor Aycock about the matter. At the same time and place I insisted on Colonel John son inserting or adding the clause which follows, and which appeared at the end of the Colonel's statement in the morning paper. "In justice to Mr. ( rater it is proper for mo to say that in our coiiversntioiiM Mr. Drenry's name was not mentioned and Mr. Crater made no intimation that Mr. Hivwry pl any of tin' money in quest ion." I called up Governor Glenn, asking him if Colonel Johnson had stated that I had intimated that Mr. Drew ry got any of the money, and a further talk followed, in which the governor disapproved my article of yesterday afternoon. While I have all respect for the governor and his advice, I could hardly have done otherwise than make as emphatic as I knew how my denunciation of a paper and set of men that would defame an innocent man through another. I have nothing to "take back" in a single sentence of that article of yesterday. GEORGE B. CRATER. FISHY STORY ANOTHER (By Leased Wire to Tho Times.) New York, Sept. 20. James llamtl ton Lewis, of Chicago, who has been In Itussla 011 a secret mission for tho department of the Interior, trying to sound the czar's government concern ing concessions for a railway from Alaska across Behring Strait, got back to New York today and declared that Itussla was preparing for another war with Japan. "I haven't the least doubt about It," declared Mr. Lewis. "I had many talks with Various Russian officials, and from all they said and hinted, J nm led to foresee another conflict In the fur east. Hussla la training her ABOUT JAPRUSS WAR army so that the mistakes which hap pened In Manchuria durtng the last wnr shall not happen again. She Is rebuilding her navy and all with only one purpose In view. That Is war. "But of equul importance is the spirit of revolution ami tho work men and the farmers. They are slow ly but surely working to control the army. They are enlisting in great nuinbersi and from what I gathered, their purpose Is to get their guns and ammunition. When the proper time comes, they' will be In control of tho army and ready for areat revolt now planned. Questioned ns to the success of his (Continued on Second Page.) FRESH TROUBLE FOR OIL TRUST Standard Man. Charged with; Serious Crime OFFERED JUROR BRIBE As a Kcsull IJjtoii W. Williamson is in Jail Today- Ho Huns a (iamb ling Joint And is Said to Have Offered Juror Thompson Trying Case Against Oil ( oinpnny $1,000 o Vot For Acquittal. .By Leased Wire to The Times.) Kimlkiy, O., Kepi. 20. Byron W. Williamson is today in the. county jail charged with having offered, on behalf of llio oil trust, a bribe to Chase Thompson, a juror in the Standard 'Oil trial last Jninv State ments wpro 111:1 do today: by William son in an attempt to in Volvo ox-Sen-atnr Thomas. It. MoConien, ii prom inent republican politician and the loader of the Fornker Corn's in this section in the scandals. ' -McConica vigorously denies any knowledge of the attempt to bribe. Williamson, who is th,, proprietor, of a gambling resort, is alleged to: have tendered a , bribe of $ l.tllHi to Thompson if he .would vote Tor the acquittal of the oil-trust. Thompson would have nothing to do .with the jniatter and as soon as the trial, was over gave his Inlormation to Prose cutor David. Afler signing a statement in which lie (old (if the mooting with McCon- ica and the arrangements made to give a bribe to Thompson, William son pleaded not guilty and was con signed to jail for failure to give $3,000 bond. - SHIFT HIS JO (By Leased Wire to The Times.) 'Now. York, Sept. 2G. Theodore P. Shouts may have a new job within a short time. Two things will be re sponsible. One Is the receivership for the city 'surface- lines by which August Belmont has obtained victory over Thomas P, Ryan, Mr. Shouts' sponsor in his selection as president of tho Jnlorborough-MetroiMilitan Company. Tho other Is the sale of the Chi cago & Alton by the Uoek Island Company lo the Clover Leaf. .Mr. Shouts is now president of the last named road, which, lias been 11 com paratively small system up to this time, biit with the Chicago & Alton linked up with It, the Clover Leaf bet onies' one of the great railway system of tho country. Kor im to take the presidency of tho Alton-Clover.- Leaf will not rep resent any relegation of him to the rear so far as holding nil important office Is concerned. He would likely get. in salary quite as much as the $(0,0oo a year ho Is now receiving as president of tho Inlerborotigh Melropolitan. The directors of the Clover Leaf Company will meet tomorrow to close up tho details of the sale to their road of the Alton property. WHAT WAS EACH MAN S PRICE? (Dy Leased Wire to The Times.) 11 San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 20. At the trial of Tirey L. Ford, chief counsel for the United Railways, on a charge of bribery, James F. Gallagher, cx chnlrman of the board of supervisors. related how ho had received $S.",000 from Abrahnm Ruef after the latter had urged him to ascertain how the 1 eighteen members of the board stood with regard to the application for a j franchise for tho United Kullways und j directed him to learn the price for ' whlclr each member would vote fuv ' orably. ... ';.' ':"., R CHER THAN EVER, SAYS FISH Railroad Tioancier Amused Over Reports HARAHAN IS A PARROTiHAD A CLOSE CALL So Says Mr. I'M.s.li, and ilaiTiman is His Mentor and Instructor (Jen er.il The Money World (jrcatly . Interested in the Outcome of (ho Ouarrol Between the Big- Western Railroad Men. . (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Xew York, Kepi, 2l'i. - -" -have mure money l.iidiiy than nl any time during the past fifteen' years," said Sluyvcs anl Fish, 'who seemed amused In think lint I lie open letter of ,t. T. Ilarahan, president 1. 1' the' Illinois rvntral Rail-i toad. ' might fcive anyone the linprts-..' rdou "that .- he is hard up.. , Kinnneiers thi nuanit the country 1 are interested in t in1, "probability of amazing; developments' and the re vela -I I ion or carefully guarded secrets In the Eish-llurrinian I. j "That Ilarahan is simply the parrot for llarrimun." said Fish... today. "I will net give lus letter the dignity of a reply. "Harrinian was a bigger '.. borrower from the Illinois ''Central than. I ever thought (if being, yer h tries to bring by loan against nie as a fault." . Friends id' Mr. Feb declare that bis; loss of 'the presidency iif- the Illinois; Centra! ..'.and that the later attacks; that have been nude 'Upon- his admin- I istration are due. --1 " " the determined I stand he took In the: past mi the part of policyhiilders of the Mutual Life Insurance Company1 during its- invcsti- j gallon.' During the insurance investi-j gation Mr. Fish refuced to countenance certain acts of somi! of the insurance otliclals and his friends declared that , on the evening of the day he differed : with the Insurance ytfletals the matter tjjt ioans fret.' te rntitwd was made nown to his 'enemies and .. a prompt' (U'liiand tnade for payment. The-first request came in th. form of a demand for the list of the securi ties. He furnished these, together with a list of the' minutes 'of the di rectors . .-'meetings '-.referring to the loans. Tie was asked to make goit the loans. This, his friends say, wa,i the lirst betrayal... Mr. Fish said that he had gone over to Kuhn, Loeb .& Company and he arranged for the loan when. F. H. Harrinian urged him to accept the loan from bis upon per sonal security. Mr, Fish did so, but in a short time fouiid that he could not agree. 'with llari iniaii's methods of running elec tions and making plans for the rail loads. .'.'To' (Uiekly relieve himself, of all (ibligatlons to llariiman, Mr. Fish pledged bis bouse and income from his father's estate for a loan to repay Harrinian. The' -obligation, Mr. Fish says, have now all been cleared off. Wall street hoard today a circum stantial story that the letter of Pres ident Ilarahan of the Illinois Central, attacking Stuyvesant Fish and reply ing to the hitter's charges against, the llari'lman management of the road, wits prepared ill the olllce of the Union Pacitlc Railroad Company, No. 120 1 Itroadway. by K. H. Harriniun, A. fl,: Hackslaff and H. S. Lova.tt. personal counsel of Mr. ltarrlman, and tele graphed to Mr. Harahnn over tin' Union l.'acitie's privatu wire for. ids signature.. . , '. ,, ASSAULTED GIRL (Uy leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago. Ills., Sept. a!. Inspectors Itevcte and Lieutenant O'ltilen, trail ing Uichaid Walton, a negro wanted on the charge of niurdering Mrs. Nel lie Wltiti' Grant, a school teacher, tel ephoned to beiidiiuai ters from .Sum mit, Ills., that they have Walton cor nered there. They asked reinforce ments with Winchesters. Twenty-tlvO men will be sent at once. MR. DREWRY WILL MAKE STATEMENT At t;ie proper time Senator John ('. Drewry, president, of the Press Visitor. Publishing Company, which publishes The llalelgh Evening Times, will make to the public n full and frank statement of his entire connection with matters pertaining to the Southern ltailwny vouchers about which 'considerable has been printed lately. GOT NEGRO WHQ HE TRIED THE SUICIDE ROUTE Man Giving Name as Morgan Took Laudanum Is Kvidenlly (Jiliii.M' An Assumed Name, for Note in His Pocket Hail Initials "I'l. I'. S.," and it Said His .Mother's Xame Was Slillings At the Rev Hospital. K, .1. Morgan, a young man w'ho' ap pears to lm . between, twenty and twenty-fivr .years of age, attempted to commit Miicide at an early hour this nuirniii"' by '-drinking laudanuni; . He was f' und lying upon He- sidewalk near . lie' Park. Hotel and in bis hand was !.: -.empty two ounce laudanum hot ili -. .'' : lie .was hurried to the. .Rex Hospital and 1 ir,-. J, V. Mei Jr.. and '. ( 1. A!' mall:y w calleil in to- 'til. tend him. At '' oVIo. l; this nioniing lie bad regained consciousm ss ; and today :i In 111 1, noon was -'reported as being out I of danger, bin he bad a vfjry .close call. . In the pocket of the young man .was a note, which read as follows : . "To w.hoiii j,t may i.'oitceru.: . Please notify the parties .below;. My mother. Mrs. William Silnni'g. M'illiains l'iaee, Lynn. Mass., and Miss Gertrude Madison, '.ml S.. Allison si. W. Phila-U.-lphia, Pa. Please tejegraph both patties. They will take care of my body.- ' ', . 1". I'. S." lie also bud a letter in his pocket from a young w'oniail. the letter hav ing been written: in Plillaili'lphiii and from its tone he. had evideiilly made love to her. ' : Morgan would not talk this' morning, and nothing could be extracted from him further than that his name is Ed. J. Morgan and bis home is hi Massa chusetts. : . ' MUST AGREE ON E (Special to The livening Times. 1 1 AslioviUe, X. C, Sept. 2G'. Yes terday was the day set by consent, for tho report, to the court, of Judge Monlgoiuery's master in chancery nppoi.ited by Judge Priti-hard to take evidence In the railway rate contro versy .relative' to the 2 i -cent pas senger fare law. The masler or ref eree, however, was not, able owing to (lie failure of the state's attor neys to concludi' the taking of ev! den;e, to lilo.: his ro)ort.; Judge Pritibard Had written Judge Mont gomery in reply to Judge Montgom ery's letter asking for an extension, suggesting that counsel for both sides agree upon the length of time necessary In.: -complete'' the taking of t.osf iniony.i Judge , Pritclutrd, how ever, hi'.s stated that he would grant: a reasonable extension, but desires that-the attorneys representing both sides agree on the matter. In the event, that counsel cannot, agree Judge Pritchard will then sign a for mal order extending the t itnc to such it date, as lie deems proper. ; What Juslice Says, Greensboro, X. ('.. Sept. '.Mi.--1'. .1. .liisthi'. who has gone lo Marion to attend court, slated before leav ing that it lias not. been definitely decided that the rale hearing will be.-resumed; la lialeigh next week, but, lie presumes It will. EVELYN THAW IIS QUITE SICK (Uy Leased Wire to The Times.) Xew York, Sept.2(!. Per the first time since .'her husband's trial and during till of the time she has heen , in the cily, Mrs. Evelyn Thaw has 'ceased her visits lo the Tombs where j Harry Thaw is confined. She has , not been to see him for the last four days. A severe cold, which may do ' vclop into pneumonia, lias kept her lut home. m NEEDED WHY THE OIL TRUST LAUGHS AT THE LAW RICH AND DID IJIOWIT Brooklyn Widow Given the Tip by a Tramp FORTUNE !N A PICTURE Masterpiece' of Art Now Appraised at .; $-0,o)0 lliing I'nkMiiv.ii For Twen ty Years in (lie House of a 1'oor Woman in 1'iooklyii , Tramp Hired to do ( leaning Knew a Good Thing When He Saw It. (l !y Leased Wire to. The Times.) '' Xew .York,, Sopl; 2i;. -After living for -thirty years with a masterpiece of art in her homo,.' Mrs. Catherine O'lirien, of tirooklyn. became aware of that fact hut two weeks ago through a tramp whom she had hired to work around the house. Since she lias refused an : offer of $ Toti. and aiuehrr (;;' ?l,:;oii for the pie I mo. .'.': . - The picture is probably' by Sir Joshua Reynolds, or at least by one of his contemporaries,. ami. has'-been appraised at. 520,(1(11).. It is an excel lent example of the; epoch. , "We have always been. poor,"- said Mrs. O'Brien; "I obtained the pic ture from my father, to whom it was given in 1 .s T 7 hy his employer,: Jacob Campbell, president of the Pacific Hank. As lit gave him the present lie said: 'You will never want while you have this picture." Two w-eeks ago a tramp was put. to work cleaning the house. Mrs. O'Hrien found him standing before the picture in a sort of ecstacy. "He seemed to be entranced,"7 said Mrs. O'lirien, "Turning to me. ho said: i .atii an iirtist. ' Lock the) ; doors! LbcH' tho doors! "This is n masterpiece. . It will be stolen.' " The presence of an. artistic master piece in the poor neighborhood lias aroused much interest and Mrs. O'lirien i--. visited daily by numbers of people reipiesling to see it. SHE GOES BUT (P.y Lease, Wire to The Times ') X'ew York. Sept. 2iJ.---Paula Klip penberg. the Vienna actress who calne here to sue Horace E. Miller for ? 2 .oon, charging that he trilled wilh .her affections," packed up her trunks, which contained it wealth' of. jewels and rare gowns and an nounced at tile Astor House that she would sail today on the Deiilschland. Mss Klippeulierg was lold by the imnii-n-.aiiiin officials that, she would have to go.. 'lint 1 trrn coming 'back,!''. she said, '.'and I will make this 111:111 pay dearly."- PReSIDEiNT'S DOWN (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Lao Providence, La., Sept, 2fi. It has been learned from very good author ity that '.the .'proposed bear hunt of President, l-loosecelt , w 111 be made 111 East Carroll. Parish, opposite Alsatla Station, on the iron .Mountain Bail load. Tile camp will be located about eighteen miles from Lake Providence, oil the Tensas I liver.' It Is also under stood that the party wil consist of the president. Ids hosts. John M. l'nr kei', John -A. Mclllienney, B'li V. Lil ly, tile '-'most: famous trapper and hunter in the south; Holt Collier; the Mississippi bear hunter, and Alex En nolils. a boar hunter of tills parish. Tlie sheriffs or the parishes of Mad ison and East Carroll have been unti tled and reiiueHted to keep all news impel' correspondents, curious persons, camera liiieds and visitors away from the camp (luring the' time lite presi WILL COME BACK Startling Admissions of the Means Employed to Evade the law COMPLIES WITH LETTER 8UTEVADES IT ACTUALLY The I'ipe Line's Operation is so Jug gled That it is I'setl as an Instru ment to Throttle Independent Companies How the Trick is Worked Evidence to Show That Oil Trust Dolied Laws of Texas After Heiiijj Put Out of That State. The Oil Husiness Generally Ven tilated. (ny Leased Wire to The Times.) New Yolk, Sept. 26. How the standard:, fill Company laughs at the law- was ..brought, out in the hearing In the suit of the government to dis solve the great octopus. ..That the trust renders the Hepburn law which makes pipe lines common carriers inoperative by the establish ment oT terminals in places that are practically'-' wildernesses and : from Which no Independent oil producer is able to dispose .of his product, was the startling admisison of alvln B. Payne, vice president of the National Transit ompany, one of the Standard's subsidiary companies. In other words, while-complying' with the letter of the law.-' the -trust has so juggled the op eration of the pipe line: that, Instead of it being a common carrier, it is really but one of the many tools used to throttle the Independents. That the trust has been defying the courts of Texas after being put out of that Ftate, was shown by the ad mission of Henry Fulger, Jr., who has charge of the Standard .Oil Company' refineries who testified that the trust was no woperating in that state -through the Corsicana Refining Com pany. This is another chapter in the Texas war on the trust into which United States Senator Joseph Bailey was brought so prominently. It was brought out that Fulger was handling all the affairs of the Corsi cana Company but that he was really the managing director of the Standard Oil Company's affairs in Texas. It was brought out in Mr. Payne's testimony that one of the pipe lines ended at Center Rrldgee, on the New Jersey-Pennsylvania state line, and 1 the other at Unlonville. on the New York-New Jersey state line. At both places they connect with private pipe lines of the Standard Oil Company, which refuses to transport oil of inde pendent producers. Both Unlonville and Center Bridge, Mr. Payne testi fied, loomed geographically after the passage of the Hepburn law in the summer of .1901!.' The fact was also brought out that there had not been a single barrerl of oil transported which did not belong to the Standard. "Why,"' exclaimed- Mr. Payne during (he examination, "we have never been asked to take a consignment of oil for transportation by an independent pro- lllleer." (.if course not," replied Mr.: Kellogg: "if, they did ship It they would not dispose of It. There ore no refineries there nor ..any. facilities for storing the oil," Today's Court Proceedings. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Sept. 2(1. Mr. Kellogg took up the very Interesting field of the Standard's pipe lines when the Standard hearing was resumed this morning In the federal building. This Hue of questioning had proved an oilier nnexiiected lind for the federal llawvcr yesterday afternoon. The 1 (Continued on Page Five.) BEAR HUNT m LOUISIANA dent Is there. John A. Mclllienney and John M. Parker, who will be the hosts of President lloosovelt, are close personal friends of the president. Both have playerl polities according to Mr. Koosevell's standard of citizenship, from sense of civic duty, and though Mr. Mclllienney now holds an Import ant federal oftice. United States civil service commissioner, it Is only be cause th" president urged the appoint ment on him. His friendship with the president began In the Spanish war, for he became a member of the Hough Rider regiment, enlisting as a private and earning promotion to a sergeant's stripes. Mr. Parker's close relations with the president nre the result of his personal efforts In the direction of na tional legislation of Interest to . the whole Mississippi valley. He aim Is j an enthusiastic hunter and. ilshcrniaiw .. V4. I X t t r : " V,, ''.'; . 1 af 0f i
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