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LAST EDITION ALL THE UAEKET3 I sjl f i? .'I -.S THE RALEIGH EVEN TIMES VOLUME SQ. HASKELL REPLIES TO PRESIDENT Says Mr. Roosevelt Has Craw led Into a Bole With Very Small Space IN A FIGHTING MOOD President Dodges the Ohio Oil Char ges, But Brings Others That Call Forth a Spicy Statement From Treasurer Haskell Says the Pres ident Has Crawled Into a Hole Too Small to Turn Around in Could Not Have Come to a Better Place For a Fight.' (By leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Sept. 24 After an eight-hour conference with his lead ing advisers here, President Roose velt issued his public response to the public telegram sent by W. J. Bryan asking the president for proof that Governor Haskell is unfit to be the treasurer of the democratic party. The advisers called in by the pres . ident were Postmaster-General Mey er, Secretary Garfield, Secretary Wright, and Secretary Straus. Secretary Loeb was directed to send telegrams to men in several states for reports, and Colonel W. C. Haskell, sealer of weights and meas ures, was called before the confer- ence. -: ' When it was first charged by Wil liam Randolph Hearst that Governor Haskell, Bryan's Campaign treasurer, wkeriously involved with the Standard Oil Company and accused or having offered a bribe to former Governor Haskell replied that the Haskell meant might be Colonel W. C. Haskell. ' The president asked Colonel Has kell bluntly: "Were you ever In any way direct ly or Indirectly connected In any ar falr In which the Standard Oil Com pany had any Interest?" "Never," replied the colonel. "Was there any other Haskell prominent in the state of Ohio at that time?" "Only C. N. Haskell, now governor of Oklahoma." . "Do you recalli any other person of the name In Ohio?" "Only a minister, who was cer tainly not the man. There was some Haskell In the westorn side of the state, but ho never mixed In public affairs.": The president expressed himself as satisfied that Colonel Haskell had not had dealings with the Standard Oil Company, and he was excused. The president then began dictat ing his reply to Mr. Bryan. It wa sent by mail to the Nebraskan, and not by telegraph. Haskell's Reply. Guthrie, Okla.; Sept. 24 "If Pres ident Roosevelt's statements are cor rectly quoted, he has crawled Into a hole which is scarcely big enough for him to turn around in, and before he gets through with me, I will plug up the hole," said Governor Charles N. Haskell, when he had read the sub stance of the president's attack upon him. . VRoosevelt, in his attempt to butt into practices used in ward politics, has placed himself just where I want him, and I will make him sorry for It," laughed the governor. Taking up the Roosevelt arraign ment In detail, the governor said it was ridiculous. - "In condemning me. fpr my atti tude toward the Prairie Oil and Gas Company," said Governor Haskell, Roosevelt la impugning the acts of his former secretary of the interior, Mr. Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock who granted the Prairie Company its right to build a pipe line in wha is now Oklohama, and I have done noth ing more than respect the vested rights that the Prairie Company had 'when the state was admitted to the union. I could pursue no other legal course.' "I stopped the company from building a gas pipe line Into the state because it had no right to build it, but Hitchcock gave the company the right to build an oil pipe line. "As to vetoing the child-labor bill, It had some provisions in It that would work an absolute hadshlp upon working people, ai welt, as employees. A stenographer could not work In a lawyer's office or any other place If ' (Continued on Page Bsren.) COTTON PLANTER SENT NOTICES (By Leased Wire to The Times) Winona, Miss., Sept. 24 Bud Mortimer, an aged cotton planter, has been arrested near here charged with sending night rider notices through the malls. The arrest was made by United States marshals. The notices were sent to a cotton gin owner and Mortimer declares he was forced to send them by a band ot armed men who threatened him with death. Near his home a notice was found posted reading: "Ginning must cease until cotton has reached 12 cents. (Signed) "Little Texas Night Riders." Juror Goes Suddenly Insane. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Greensburg,' Pa., Sept. 24 "I'm not' guilty, Judge; no, I'm not guilty," exclaimed William Custer, of New Kensington, as he arose in the Jury box in Judge Doty's court yester day. Lawyers rushed to the man's side, realizing that he had gone sudden ly Insane and Custer was removed to his home. Physicians pronounced his trouble temporary. i iNutrtimr PARTY TO MEET (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Sept. 24 Delegates from every county - in New York state arrived her today for the Jnde pehdence party's state convention, which will be formally opened in Cooper union tonight. William Randolph Hearst will be one of the principle speakers at the convention, and the greatest Interest is centered In what he may say as it has been rumored he may produce some more truths like those which have become reigning political sensa tions of the campaign. There has been an unprecedented demand for seats and state headquar ters at 59th street has been flooded with requests. Many requests for tickets have come from both republi cans and democrats. , Powell, Lyon and Shearn are still the favorites for the gubernatorial nomination. TOMAKECOMMENT (By Leased Wire to The Times) i ; Columbus, O., Sept. 24 Bryan rose early today and at once devoted himself to reading , the letter . of President Roosevelt, responding to the telegram in reference to the charge that Governor Haskell had been identified In an Improper way with the Standard Oil Company. He said he wduld not make any comment at present. After breakfast he made a brief visit to the office of W. L. FInley, democratic state chairman. He left at 10:27 o'clock for Cincin nati and will make Bpeeches on the way, the principal ones being at Springfield and Dayton. ENGINEER SHOT v BY BOY HUNTERS (By Leased Wire to the Times.) Washington, Sept.' 24 Frederick Mumford, an engineer on the South ern Railway, lies in a hospital at Alexandria suffering from gun-shot wounds inflicted by two boys who made a target of the train while It was crossing the Potomac flats. The boys had been shooting reed birds In the marshes when the train passed by. They fired several shots at the cab, breaking the windows, wounding the engineer and narrowly missing the fireman. The latter Hopped the train and attempted to catch the boys, but failed to do so. - iinrnninriirr BRYAN REFUSED EAtEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908. LadyEssex to Open a Laundry Soon. I v . "4.' ftiHi F M i V t,W-'f i. Jv Lady Essex, formerly Miss Adeie Grant, of Nev York City, lias re cently opened a luiuidry, in the hope of reenporatlng the family fortune. PASSES GERTRAIN FliillBERS JUMPSTHETRACK Plonges Down Filly-Foot Em- ijaoteiit and E&glci IB- Goes Into River TWO HEN ARE DROWNED Train Running at High Rate of Spi-cd Leaves track On a Curve Engine Goes Into River and Engineer und Fireman Drowned Coaches Turn Over and Over, and Passengers Suf fer From Broken Arms and Legs and Bruised Heads Several Prob ably Fatally Hurt. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Carthpge, Mo.," Sept. 24 Two were killed and more than 50 persons In jured in the wreck of the eastbound Frisco passenger train on Spring River, a mile north of Carthage, to day. . . . The train was running at a high speed when, in rounding a curve, the engine left the track, all the cars fol lowing it. The engine turned, over twice in the descent of 50 feet, and plunged into the river. The engineer and fireman were drowned. The baggage car rolled down the embankment, turned over twice and stopped on the brink of the river. The day coach, which followed, also made two turns and every person in It was injured, several, it Is believed, fatally. The chair car turned over but once, then slewed around end- ways and slid down to the river, bank, where it stopped, with all the passen gers Jammed into one end of the ear, all. injured, many with broken legs and arms. The Pullman sleeper, the last car of the train, Ju Aped the track, but the wheels sank Into the ground and the coach did not" leave the embankmeit. ' ' v ' EXPELLED TODAY Charged That Their Firm Oe liberated Tried to tose a Panic Id Stock Market SHORT 431,000 SHARES Action of Board Followed An Eight Hours' Session Considering Case of Defunct Firm and Its Stock Ex change Members Sold Stock Wliirh They Did Not Have and Wanted to Cnuse Drop So They Could Buy Shorts nt Low Prices. Declare They Would be All Right if Let Alone. (13y Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Sept. 24 O. A. Brown and Lewis G. Young, the floor mem bers of the failed brokerage firm of O. A. Brown & Co., were expelled from the stock exchange today by or der of the board of governors. Their expulsion wag the result of grave charges following the firm's failure, j The action T the board followed an i eight hourf session In consideration of the case of the defunct firm and its two stock exchange members. The session was secret, but members of the firm, in advance of the decision to expel them and not explain their po sition, made the charges public. The charge was made that A. O. Brown & Co. deliberately tried to cause a panic in the stock market on the , famous Saturday when in the course of two hours' session they sold 1,500,000 shares of stock. In addi tion it was chargedthat these securi ties were not soldTjn earnest, but were sold back to themselves through other brokers or were what is known on the stock market as "wash" sales. . The stock- exchange charges in cluded accusations that the Brown 11 (Continued on Second Page.) CHINAMAN BEATS HIS FIANCEE (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, Sept. 24 Jilted by a white woman who he says had prom ised tomarry him, Yip Ling, a China man, assaulted the object of his affec tions In a street car last night, creat ing a mild panic among the passen gers and resulting In the arrest of the Mongolian and his erstwhile fiance. The woman gave the name of Miss Mabel Carson, and says she Is a stenographer. The Chinaman Is em ployed as a chef. Ling and his fiance got on a Wentworth avenue car to go to the Waldorf. At .Twelfth and Clark streets the passengers were startled to see the Chinaman strike the woman in the face. She at tempted to leave the car and he knocked her down. He was beating her when the conductor came to her rescue. The Chinaman lavished presents upon : the woman during their courtship, which started after Yip had explained to Miss Carson the secret of "making chop suey. "She promised to marry me many, many times," Yip told Detective Fltz patrick. "I wanted her to get mar ried tomorrow and she said she would not marry a Chinaman. Then I got mad and hit her. I spent much money on her $200 for presents and clothes. Now she throws me down." ROSH-HA-SHONAH FRIDAY EVENING (By Leased Wire to The Times) New Tork, Sept. 24 Rosh-Ha-Shonah, the beginning of the Jewish year, will be observed by the ortho dox members of the faith tomorrow evening. It marks the holiday sea son of the Jews that extends for three weeks and terminates with the feast of Succoth, and to the devout is clad with all that goes to make it a time of severe adherence to the pre scripts of the mosaic code. Each year the feast of Rosh-Ha- STirtnoVi ottronfa tn the Hvn n p'ncriiPH multitudes of Jews who through the ! remainder of the years are not in clined to adhere too closely to the teachings of the Talmud and in con sequence the sittings In nearly every one of them are taken up. So eager are the devotees to attend the srvices that many of them pay as high as $75 for seats for the holiday season. I (Special to The Times) Durham, Sept. 24 C. E. Mangum, a liveryman and horse trader, while (returning from Raleigh last night In a carriage, was held up by three masked men three miles from Dur ham and robbed of $3,700. Mangum tried to shoot, but was disarmed. Then the bandits dragged him from his carriage, and shot at him ten times, turning his own gun upon him." He was wounded twice In the arms. His cries aroused the neighborhood and the robbers fled. The police are on the trail of the rob bers. ' HEAVY SMOKE CAUSES WRECK (By Leased Wire to The Times) Utlca, N. Y., Sept. 24 The heavy fog from the forest fires jvas respon sible for a collision on the Mew York Central at Tower 25, Just west of Little Falls, early today. Passenger train .21 was caught by mail train 19, both westbound, and both trains so damaged that a wreck ing train bad to be sent out from this city. One matt clerk was killed And the crew on that train bruised and I hurt, but the patsongers ,on train 21 escaped with a bad shaklng-up. VERY MAN HELD UP AND ROBBED PRICE 6 CENTS. GOMPERSBEFORE REFEREE HARPOR Charges Judge Taft With Being Resposible for the Con tempt Proceedings ARE FIGHTING THE LABOR Judge Taft's Injunction Decisions Held by Gompers to be Cause of Present Proceeding Against Him. An Effort to Make Political Capital Out of the Affair Van Cleave and Manufacturers' Association Fight ing Unions and Spending Large Sums of Money Against Them. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Sept. 24 "It is due to Secretary Taft's position on the In junction that we are here in these contempt proceedings today." This'was the most striking state ment made by President Gompers to day at the contempt proceedings be fore Referee Harper In Typographical temple. : , It is one of many instances which would tend to show that as much po litical capital as possible will be made of the hearing. Jackson H. Ralston, attorney for Mr. Gompers, on cross-examination of Mr. Gompers introduced a volumi nous lot of exhibits, including copies of American Industries and circular letters and pamphlets sent; out by the Manufacturers' Association, He read many paragraphs from these docu ments, all tending to show that the Manufacturers' Association and other similar organizations have been and are now making a vigorous fight against organized labor. ' Reading from the cover of Ameri can Industries for August 1, 1908, Mr. Ralston quoted that portion of Secretary Taft's speech of acceptance pertaining to Injunctions. , ; "This is the basis of this suit; these contempt -proceedings, is it not?" asked Mr. Ralston. "It Is," replied Mr. Gompers. "Judge Gould," continued ; Mr. Gompers, "In Issuing the injunction ' rom J"dge Taft's decision tn injunction cases." "Then you take it that Secretary Taft has the support of the Manufac turers Association, do you not?" in quired Mr. Ralston. "I understand it so," answered Mr. Gompers. Mr. Gompers testified further on cross-examination by Mr. Ralston that the American Federation of La bor had been made the object of a systematic attack by such men as President Van Cleave, of the Manu facturers' Association, and that great sums of money have been expended in fighting the federation. Several circulars Introduced as evi dence by Mr. Ralston were given in by President Gompers, who said that he had Obtained them from fair minded business men, by whom they had been received and who, in turn had forwarded them to him. He testified that the employers who sent him these documents feared to have their names appear on them, because they were fearful of the boy cott by the association that sent out the circulars and consequently their names had been clipped from the cir cular before they were sent to Mr. Gompers. . DEMOCRATS AROUSED. W. E. Newland Spoke at Benson to Good Crowd. (Special to The Times.) Benson, N. C, Sept. 24 Hon. W. C. Xewland, the democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor,: spoke here last night to a crowd of 500, compos ed of democrats and republicans. His speech was a clean, strong, clear-cut presentation of democratic views and issues and no doubt made votes for both the county and state tickets. The democracy of Johnston is thor oughly aroused and every one is con vinced that the majority will be in creased over that of two years ago. FOREST FIRES DESTROY A SMALL KANSAS TOWN. Eureka, Kas., Sept. 24 Forest fires which are sweeping the moun tains have destroyed the town ol Luf fonholtz. The place hat a population ot several hundred people. Every body escaped so far as can be learned but only by the narrowest margin. Men and women had to run for their lives through the burning forest.
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