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Only Afrcrnboh Paper in the State of North Carolina With a Leased Wire Service and Full Press Dispatches LAST EDITION ALL THE MARKETS THE' RALEIGH EVE voltjueso. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. ME.8L 11 XHJl -: SOUTHERN VOTE TODEORGANIZED Movement to Corral Southern ers In New York TnTo a Bryan Club , . THE NOMINEE PI EASED Mr. Bryan Much Gratified tor Hear of Effort to . Bring the New York Southern Vote Into Line Are in ' Position to Contribute Largely to , Party Success. (By Leased Wire to The Times) , Lincoln, Neb., Aug. li When the movement recently started in New York to organize the southern vote of the state for film by a Bryan and Kern club was called to the.attention of Mr. Bryan he displayed keen in terest in it. He fas shown a letter from prominent New York democrats (reciting briefly the details of the movement, which is headed by Gen. Henry T. Douglas, formerly of Mary land, but now a resident - of New York City, and the nominee recalled a pleasant acquaintance with Gen. Douglas as a comrade In Gen. Fitz hughLee's army corps in the' Spanish-American war, to which Bryan's third Nebraska ; regiment was at tached. - In approval of the move ment Mr. Bryan dictated this state ment for publication: "I am very much gratified to hear of it. We have a large numbex" of southern democrats in the city of New y.ork alone, and they have, won prominence in all departments of the city's activities. TJhey have retained their lovefor fundamental democratic principles and . are in a position to contribute largely to the party'B suc cess in that state. I am more than pleased to hear of the organization of this movement." Representative Clayton, of Ala bama, spoke even more enthusiastic ally than did Mr. Bryan of the south ern movement in New York, . which he hopes will extend to all northern, states, particularly to New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio,, Indiana, and Illinois. "The southern vote in all the close states of the north and central west," said Mr.- Clayton, "is an Important and determining factor in our na tional elections. The bulk of that vote hag not heretofore been for Mr. Bryan, for reasons that it is not neces sary here to descant upon. It is naturally ' a democratic vote, or at least fully nine-tenths of it is, and had it been cast for Mr. Bryan in either of his other campaigns . he would have been elected. I most heartily indorse ' the movement in ' New York of which Mr. Bryan was apprised today. The democracy of the south expects its sons at the north I to rally as one man this year to thej support of the party. With their, united aid we can win this fight and send Judge Taf t to the rear a worse , defeated man than Judge Parker was four years ago.' To win this election Is of vital importance in the light the democratic party is making to correct the abuses of the federal government and preserve local state government." Mr. Clayton estimates the southern vote In New York as 150,000, that in Ohio as 60,000; in Indiana, nearly as large as Ohio, and in Illinois 75,000. THE .LINVILLB TOURNAMENT. Will Bo Held This Week Under Aus- ' pices of Eseeola. Golf Club. i t (Special to The Times) : - J Llnvnie. -.'N. - C, Aug. ' 11. The Eseeola lqterstater i southern eham-. plonshlp tournament will be held her this week under the auspices of i the Eseeola -' Golf f Club. . The en ' trants , Included : ' players from all i parts of the' south! 'the Chattanooga golf and country club, the Birming ham golf club, the Knoxville country club, and. the Roanoke golf club ending, teanis'.to .compete, K,. 7 I Foremost among the week's events will be the competition for, the Tan- ( glewood cup, which will occur; on Friday and Saturday.' -A handsome Tiffany cup, valued at 150 will be the prise. It must be won three seasons in succession to be retained., Today's events Include an open championship team match for teams ( of three, an opon Interstate cham pionship for men, and a mixed foursome- v ''.-'"." " :,:: ', All these events are open to ama teurs only. ' CONSPIRACY TO LOOT BIG STORES During the Past Year Cig Mur cantile Houses Have Been Robbed Extensively TWO HAVE CONFESSED Discovery of Looting Conspiracy by Which Stores Have Been . Robbed of Thousands of Dollars Thieves Were Employees- Two Men Have Confessed. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, fPa., Aug. 11 Discovery of a gigantic conspiracy by which some of Pittsburg's largest wholesale mercantile houses have been looted of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise has resulted in the ar rest of four men. - During the past year thieves, all of whom were employed in the whole sale, houses, have stolen at least $50,000 worth of goods, and their operations ara believed to have been confined to the block bounded by Ninth street, Pennsylvania : avenue, Tenth street and Fayette street, ""At the head of the conspiracy is a master in cunning. Great secrecy is now being maintained by private de tectives, who are at work on the case in an effort to capture tha . leader, whom they expect to land this morn ing. Two of the arrested men have confessed. . Stewart Brothers & Co. have suffered to the extent of $10, 000 within a year, and It was through the efforts of W, L. Stawart that the conspiracy .was" unearthed. "f -"a-- The employes were discovered tak ing front the store by 'cunningly de vised schemes goods , which they de livered to the confederate who drove up every afternoon and carted the loot away. : ,.' DREDGING IN PAMLICO Work on Canal Will Begin in J September Beginning of Great Waterway Be tween Beaufort and Norfolk Will Result in Great Increase in Coast wise Trade, Mr. Furst Thinks. (By Leased Wire to The Tlmes) Baltimore, Aug. 11 Mr. Frank A. Furst, president of the Maryland Dredging Company, says he expects to begin the work of dredging Pam lico Sound about the middle of Sep tember.., ."' : ,' This project, Mr. Furst says, is but the beginning of a gigantic scheme on the part of the government for opening up an inland waterway from the North Carolina coast to Norfolk, from which point vessels can continue on the inland coarse up the Chesapeake Bay to this clty.l , This, he believes, will result in an Increased trade with the south in the products of that section, consisting of lumber, cotton, tar, turpentine, and several other commodities for which Baltimore furnishes an active mar ket. In return the local merchants will be given cheap transportation) for general merchandise for distribution to the" . sou'h, by way of this inland course. . '",'; ::" BETTER DAYS FOR - SPENCER. Shops . increase , Force. ' Southern Railway Employees Happy. -(Special to The Times) , Spencer,' August, 10. -There can be no doubt as to the panic '.-. being : over here, and better tlftvcst coming j In the immediate future. The Southern rail way shops are opening . up again .and men who have been idle for Six months are again' at work. The machine and erecting shops havd been Increased ovef fifty per cent, while ths blacksmith shop, the boiler ehorvth, paint shop and other departments, are . teeming With ' activity. The round house is working full, time. In the shops men tloned above, ths men will work six eight-hour, days per week. In the car department the men will work .'; firs days a Week Instead of four. ' The lncrssss to ths fores is very floalg to the people here anil means much for Spencer, and the shop men are Jubilant w Father Ferdinand Great Astronomer and His Home : m 5 !r SJl, S, ii' IS..!' Measures Praposed Whicli Will Almost Bevolu'.ionize Way of Exporting Staple PLAN SHIPPING DlRtCr National Convention of the. Farmers' Union Advocate Direct Marketing . of the Cotton Croji Growers Asked to Pledge Their Crop to the Committee. (By Leased Wire toThe Times) Memphis, Tenn., Aug. Meas- ures which bid fair to almost revo - lutionize the present methods of ex- porting the cotton crop to 8 eign mills and spinners were recom - merided and heartily indorsed by the farmers' union national convention committee, composed of one man from each cotton state, which met here yesterday. To every member of the union will be sent an agreement for him to sign and forward to the local secretary of the union, pledg ing his individual support in a direct marketing of the present cotton crop.' ..''. -y,.-'- The committee strongly advocated shipping direct to the foreign mills and spinners, which they claimed could easily be accomplished by fur nishing the same business advantages as the heavy exporter now gives to the: mills. ' The - union warehouses which have been established through out the' south were the first step in this direction, and the output through these warehouses will be disposed of by the cotton committee. The growers have been asked to pledge their cotton to them, and the , sales Will be apportioned among the; states according to the amount I pledged. ., This co-operation, which has practically been pledged by every member of the union, means that the market -will not be overfed and the market prices will no longer be con trolled, by the speculator, and compe tition among sellers will be done away with. . . .'. .; It was decided that, an adjourned meeting be held in Memphis, on Sat urday, AUgust 29, and, that thole at tending this meeting should . go from It to the meeting of the national union - In Fort . Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, September 1. v ' Commsrclal Bar Silver. (By Leaned Wire to The Tims.) New York, Aug. 11.-Commercial bar silver, 61 ;v Mexican dollars, 45. - jOv 1 I fe'Ci'i?" ' ' - -.m iWa-w - - igu , 'hivK -Giiicheteau, The w i i j IaI m Si mm 'J V ather Fordiiiinul Oiucheteau and his homo made Hstrononiical obser vatoiy on the roof of the Parish Iloiise of the Fn-iich Catholic church' in York. City. West :21th Street, New The most notable result of Father ; Gulclu'tcau observations und study, Is the discovery of the ap proximate age of the great Egyptian pyramid, j .... ... . . ariJJ 11(1 1 OP TU'Uf PIOT or-jNtW T llAOL UlfiW lAOL j .. Receiver May Be Deposed and Superceeded By Trustee Clash - Between State and Federal Authorities Seems Imminent Will Come if New York Authorities Protest Taking Thaw to Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 11. That Roger O'Mara may be deposed as re ceiver in the bankruptcy proceedings of Harry K. Thaw and superceded by a trustee who will be named byNew York creditors Is the latest legal phase of a controversy that prom ises to Involve the federal authorities of Pittsburg in a dispute with the state authorities of New York. ; But the clash will come, It Is said, if District Attorney Jerome or any other person of the empire state at tempts to prevent Thaw from com ing to Pittsburg to attend the meet ing of the creditors. Formal notice of contest against the claims of Harry Kendall Thaw's creditors was filed yesterday by for mer Governor William A. Stone with W. R. Blair, referee In bankruptcy for Alleghany county. All claims ex cepting those of Mrs. William Thaw and Roger O'Mara are contested and notice is 'also served on the referee that Thaw will contest any ' claim which Lawyer Dan O'Reilly, . of New York, may make. . ' Receiver O'Mara intimated that as receiver for.Thaw.ha can bring Act ive criminal proceedings against leny person whom he finds has tmsapDro prlated funds belonging to Thaw Reports that D. T. Watson Is tak lng active part in the ' bankruptcy proceedings on behalf of Thaw are without foundation. ,. i'S PATHETIC DEATH Friend of Bismarck Dies in Washington Where He Lived Many Years. PRINTING HOUSE CLERK Body Laid Away With Simple Exer cises and in the Presence of Only a Few Devoted Friends Came of , Proud German Family. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Aug: 11 With sim ple funeral exercises, and accom panied only by a few faithful friends of his declining years, and a single representative of the German ' em bassy, the body of Baron Alexander de Purey-Herve, an aide-de-camp to Bismarck, and member of one of the oldest houses of Germany; was laid to rest in a little cemetery on Bladensburg road yesterday after-' noon. Two lilies and a single red rose reposad on the plain coffin. It was his dying request, for the three flowers represented i his ancestral coat-of-arms. A friend and - comrade , of Bis marck he was numbered among the pride of the German army that par ticipated in the Franco-Prussian war. He married a princess of royal blood, but he erred only, It is said and rather than have the finger of scorn pointed at him by his comrades, he quit the army and came to Anier ca. That was 28 years ago. His princess wile divorced him and the ltttJexsoW-tsfcVhptn 'hfj "was sd'TtvOu'dV grew up to forget his father. Today he Is an officer in the kaissr's body guard. In New Tork, the Daron married an actress with whom he fell in love. The family pride of the De Purys Is great and he was disinherited and his allowance of $300 a week cut oil. (Continued on Second Page.) SAILORS ENJOY VISIT Continued Ovation in Behalf ot the American Jackies Citizens of New Zealand Doing Everything Possible to Make Visit Pleasant , to Officers and Men. Shops Doing Great Business in Mementos. (By Cable to The Times) Auckland, N. Z., Aug. 11. Ova tions for the officers and crews of the American battleship fleet are mak ing the stay of the jackies here one of the pleasantest in their long cruise. Citizens of New Zealand In both high and low stations of life have striven to make the visit of the American sailors enjoyable in every respect. There have been a number of social diversions planned and the addresses which have been made at the public functions express admira tion for the splendid fighting strength of the United States and the peaceful progressiveness of the! nation. Rear Admiral Sperry in respond- Ing to a neat address of Premier, Joseph Ward, said that he did not' think a hostile fleet could ever reach the shores of New Zealand while the premier expressed the pride of the people over the fact that the fleet had Btopped at Auckland. ' The weather remained delightful; and every day many sailors come ashore to walk through the town. They are always objects of interest to the native born folk. The quaint little shops are doing a great busi ness in the sale of postcards, and mementos of various kinds. The pub lic press commented quite favorably upon the visit of the. fleet but stated it fore-heralded a time when - the English-speaking race would band together for the supremacy of the Orient. -V Gates Won't Run. (By Leased Wire to Tfc'e Times) Galveston, Tex., Aug. ll--John W. gates has cabled from Europe his declination of , the nomination as congressman from the southwest Texas district. He 'said he would; 'contribute to the national and Texas republican campaign funds. GERMAN BARUP BOMBSHELL POUTICALCAMP Candidates f orCountyCommis sioner Ask for Chairman Gotlins Resignation CAUSES A DISCUSSION Charge That As Attorney For the . Present Board and Chairman of ; Executive Committee He Cannot Act Fair to Both Sides Mr. Gat ling's Reply. : Mr. Geo. E. Hunter hurled a bomb shell into the democratic camp today when he published in the morning paper a letter signed by the new can didates for county commissioners, charging, that Mr. Bart M. Gatling is ; acting as campaign manager for the ! present board, collecting money for '. expenses, employing workers for them and " in every way possible j utilizing his influence as county chairman to defeat other candidates. The article further states that Mr. Hunter wa3 authorized by the new candidates to address a personal let- jter to Mr. Gatling, calling his atten tion to the alleged injustice, and that the letter was not answered. i Mr. Hunter, in his personal letter, states to Mr. Gatling ,that he Wishes to call his v(Mr. Gatling's) attention to certain acts of his which he thinks are unfair and without excuse. He states tp Mr. Gatling that he (Mr. Gatling) is attorney for the present board and personally interested In their success; . and that he is using ;j,ovfry; advantage ol his. official' posi- uon to inrtner mesr cause ana De feat the' .'Interests of the other candi dates. Mr. Hunter goes on to protest such use of an official position and asj.?, that Mr. Gatling either resign his position as chairman or attorney for the board at once and allow some one to take the chairmanship who can mete out even justice to all aspir ants.'' ..-'.-.'. Mr. Hunter, during an interview by a Times' reporter, stated that he believed it Impossible to fill both po sitions with absolute fairness to all candidates, and that he tried to bring the matter to Mr. Gatling's personal attention, trusting that it could be adjusted without any pub licity whatever. Mr. Gatling, he says, ignored his letter entirely and paid no-attention to the protests. Mr. Gatling's Reply to Mr. Hunter. The democratic executive commit tee of Wake county is composed of thirty-six members, each of whom is chairman of his precinct committee. They elect a chairman to conduct the fight of the party in the county and confer certain powers upon him. Each of the thirty-six members of the committee have long exercised the unquestioned right to champion such men and puch measures within the party as they see fit and proper. So long as I do not use any of the powers conferred upon me by the committee for or against any candi date I claim the same right as any cj'h'er member to vote for and advo cate whom I please. In a card pub lished as an advertisement and paid for as such, in today's News and Ob server, signed by Mr. Hunter and others, the charge is made that I am using the position of chairman of the I a w wuibiu vuau uiftu j l party against them. This is not true and they are mistaken. That I am advocating the present board of com- mlssloners Is true. I claim that right. Mr. Hunter's friends are ad vocating him, among them a gentle man anxlpus to hold my position as county attorney. But no power con- ferred upon me by the committee Is leveled for rt against any one. At my request the committee adopted tne rule tnat the chairman should In all cases appoint the pollholders re comemnded by the precinct commit tee, and the ywere given until a cer tain date to hand in their recommen dations. In thirty-five out of the thirty-six precincts the pollholders recommended have been appointed; in the other no appointment having been made on Saturday, August 9th, I was compelled to appoint. This appointment of the pollhold ers Is the only power conferred upon ( me that 1 know of which I could use ' against any one, and I emphatically deny that I have so used It, or any other power given me. ; For. giving such aid and counsel asv I can give as an individual to those i whom I am, under some obligation,. (Continued on Page Seven.)
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