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Only Afternoon Paper in the State of North Carolina With a Leased Wire Service and Full Press Dispatches LAST EDITION, ALL THE ttAHEET3 THE RALEIGH EVEN1N TIME 'VOLUME S3. RALEIGH, N. C.y FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1908. PBICE 5 CENTS IRYINGTO STRIKE A FAIR BALANCE President Has DiscaveredTbat Strictest Ecaoomy is Nec essary For Present ' RECEIPTS FALLING OFF With Deficit Piling up at Rate of 92,000,000 to 93,000,000 a Day President is Advising Retrench ment In All Departments so as to Blake Good Showing Before be Retires From Office- Receipts Falling Away Behind Expenditure. Army and Navy Will Probably be Heaviest Hit. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, Oct. 16 In going over with the various members of his cabi net the preliminary work incident to his last annual message to congress. President Roosevelt hus discovered that the Rtrlctest kind of economy will be necessary from now on to make a reduction In the deficit which is be ing piled up at the rate of between 2,C00,OOO and $3,000,000 a day. The re ceipts of the country are falling way behind the expenditures and the presi dent 1b anxious to strike a fair bal ance before he retires from office on March;' 4. AH heads of department have been order to retrench to the utmost pos sible limits. v The appropriations for last year amounted to more than a thousand m'.lins, axl although strenous elf forts tyill be made to secure a reduc tion in this total, it Is doubtful If it can be done. This is largely due to the fact that all of the departments are growing and Instead pf asking for smaller appropriations than were made lust year, larger sums will be Im perative. This is especially true of the -post-, office ' department. A part of the enormous deficit of $35,000,000 now ex isting Is due to the fact that the post otllee department called upon the treasury for $4,000,000 in July and that this department has already called up on the treasury in the first half of October for an additional $5,000,000 in excess of the appropriation for the de-. snop was burned on the head, fact partment. A large, part -of this money tanj body nnd taken dying to hif has been paid out to railroads for , n 823 Vernon avenue. Fine, carrying malls. Postmaster-General i ., . , . . Meyer has issued orders for close sup- ' the heI',er- ,lged 2S- wa9 b"rn.ed on ervislon of all estimates being p,.e-1 tlie head and body and removed to pared In his di':iai tment and when lne hospital. they have been submitted to him they ! When the first explosion camr will cut down to the bone. jWaltse was pouring varnish out of e The army and navy probably will j barrel into a can. The fumes came feel the-retrenchment orders more than jn contact with a candle. Instanth any other branch of the government. . tnere wns a torrlflc CXpioslon. Walts( secretary Metcalf b : Riving pewonal I and p, eneveloped in amess supervision to the estimates which are1., . , , . . ' being prepared, and present indications ! burnln8 vrnteh hav,nff -8Preatl are that the only extensions which ' ove" them. The first explosion war will be permitted are those which are j followed quickly by others. These absolutely ivccssary. he same H were caused by naptha and other In true of the army. j flammab liquids catching fire. Under the law all estimates were due ; - nt the office of the secretary of the treasury yesterday, but Secretary Oortejyou said today that all of them had not yet been received. He de clared, however, that some encourage ment over the financial situation of the government was to be found in the Increase in custom receipts. These receipts on September 1 were $758,454.33, On October 1 they amounted to $954. 030.24. The internal revenue receipts on September 1 were $259,519.91, and on October 1 they were $723,696.47. On October 12 they amounted to $1,289, 006.88. CARRIER ROBBED LETTERS. Has Been Robbing the Mulls for Flf-'tn teen Years Caught by "Test' -.letter. ' (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, Oct. 16 Robert F. Pal mer, president of the city letter car riers 'association of Illinois, was ar rested yesterday on a charge of rob bing the mails. He made a written confession to Postofflce Inspectors ; Elston an-i Llewellyn that he has been pilfering letters for sixteen years and that the, amount of money stolen Is large, although he kept.no account of It. Palmer Is a tetter carrier of Jollet. In bis possession when taken Into custody the inspectors found all marked bill which they had Inclosed In a "test" letter. A 50 cent silver piece, also marked, was taken frome(li fre8hmen of Shurtlef College gave the same missive. Palmer tore the Raymond Carr, a member of the sopho letter Into bits and threw the pieces I more class, a hazing he will not soon away. His action was seen by the in- forget. 1 spectorg, who followed blm over his Carr was captured by the seven route and the destroyed letter - ffna discovered. . , seven hours later by college officers. The arrest of Palmer clears up the Carr ta Mld t0 nav4 galned tne nog. mysterlom thefts at the Jollet post- tllty w tn9 ,irig ,by some remarks office covering a period of more thanWhicn ne made at a class dinner de fifteen years. . 'rogatory to the co-educational system. Count Tolsti on His 80th Birthday. Bias r - -v mm: f lY Latest picture of Count Tolstoi, he Mas 80 years old. INJURED (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Oct 16 In a series of explosions of varnish, naptha and other combustibles in the paint shop of Bernard Waltse, at 332 Stockton street, Williamsburg, Waltze and hi: assistant, Abraham Fine, were mor tally burned. The explosions wreck ed the shop, smashed windows, shook down ceilings and toppler over walls of the building, a . three story frame structure. . Waltse, the owner of the paint USING BANK GUARANTEE. Oklahoma Using Guarantee Fund to (Pay For State Whiskey. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 16 If a state bank failure should occur in Oklaho ma, would the depositors he willing to accept state whiskey warrants in stead of cash In being reimbursed from the bank guaranty fund? This question was asked yesterday when the statement was made that !n buying the last carload of whis key for the state dispensary system bli guaranty fund was checked Jon to pay ior n. ine assertion was made positively and is causing much speculative comment. In using the bank guaranty fund with whJch to purchase state whis key It is understood warrants on the dispensary would be given as se I curity. Such warrants draw six per cent interest, HAZED BY CO-EDS. Seven Girl Freshmen Tie Male Soph. more to a Tree and Torment lUm. -, (By Leased Wire to The Times.) ' Alton, Ills., Oct. 16 That co-eduoa-tlon In at least one sense is a success iw nroved yesterday when seven co- TWO EXPLOSION If Mfafc i yam f. f from n photograph taken on the day AEROPLANE-FALLS TWENTY FEET (By Cable td The Times.) London, Oct. 1C The army, aero plane with which experiments have been carried on for some time at Al- dershot and which has so far shown more capacity as a lawn mower than a flying machine, fell' twenty .feet to lay and was wrecked. Capta!n F. S. Cody was on board and was thrown out, but was not lurt. Captain Cody had made sev !ral circles at a height of forty feet, covering a distance of 500 yards He then attempted to make a sharp 'urh, in order to avoid a' clump of '.rees, . ... and the machine slewed around, lost its balance and fell. Captain Cody is an American who "jas been a nuniber of years in the British military service in connection .vlts Its kite, balloon and aeroplane .vork.. . - ":. CHARGES OK GRAFT AIRED. Inspector General GariiiiKton Honrs Charges Against Piinuma Canal OfficiiiN. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, Oct, 16 Inspcctor-Gen-rul Garlington, at the war depart ment this morning. iUteu'ed' to the rharges of grnft made by WilMam F. Srothers, of New. York, president of he Balanced Crane Company, agajnst ilficlals and others conducting the vork on the Panama Canal. General larllngton was assisted by Colonel leorge W. CJoothals. chairman of the ?anama Canal Commission, In the ex imination of witnesses. . Attorney Samuel Bell Thomas, of Mew York, representing Mr. Brothers, xplalncd to general GurPngton that lis client refused to appear In Wash ington. "But I am here to get at the bottom if these charges," said Mr. Thomas. 'We want the truth and that is all." "The government Is even more anx ious than you are to get at the bot 6m of these charges," said General Darlington. The hearing this morning was con tinued from New York and General Darlington was anxious that Mr. Brothers should be present. But the defeated bidder on the canal work re fused to appear'. XEW PLAN TO REACH REPUBLI CANS. ''.: Let Everybody Advocating Bryan and . Kern Try to Get a Vote. (By Leased .Wire to T,he Times.) Lincoln, Neb,, Oct. 16 Mr. Bryan has a new plan to reach the republi can voter. Jn big type, at the head of the flrsfpage, in this week's Com moner, Is this appeal: "Two votes for Bryan and Kern." "That Is the slogan. The argu ment In this campaign is on outside. This argument may not have been presented to your, neighbor who In tends to vote the republican ticket. "Let everyone who advocates the election of Bryan and Kern make de termined efforts between now , and election day toeet one vote among his neighbors. From now on let the slogan be: . ' v ' K FOURTEEN DEAD IN TRAIN PECK Relief Train Carrying Women and Children Derailed in Northern Michigan WORK OF FOHtST FIRES Wreck Was Caused by Rails llecoin ins; Hot From Forest Fires Train Was Carrying Refugees From tiie Town of Metz, Which Had Been Destroyed by t!ie Flames Wires Are Down and Reports Incomplete, But Fourteen Are Known to be - Dead Several Towns Destroyed. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Alpena, "Mich., Oct. 16 The most tor rlule catastrophe In the history o northern. Michigan occurred at 1 o clock this morning when a relief train of box cars carrying women and children from the stricken town of Metz tipped over, owing to rails spreading, caused to tlio heat from Ihe forest fires. There are fourteen known dead, near ly, all women mid children. John Kin ville, engineer. Is dead. Arthur Lee, Irenian, and William Barrett are miss ing and are supposed to be dead. Wll iam Foster was badly burned and It 'S feared he cannot recover. All are from Alpena except the women and children. A relief train left here at '8 o'clock '.his morning foi the scene of the wreck lear Pulaski with surgeons and with wreckers. 'v"! AlLwtreij, porthyj efown and reports ire Incomplete. The losses caused by the forest Are ire heavy In Alpena county. : Not a building in Boulton remains standing except a church. The loss there in cludes $20,000 , w orth of cedar. In Long Rapids township,' the large rosi lence of Charles Keating was burned: ind at Long Lake two cottages, barns, ijoat houses and the season's crops of Fohn W. Fitzgerald were devastated. The entire: file department and all ivailable hose with two engines work Hi on the brush fires in the southern .'ity limits of Alpena all last night. The big Moeiich tannery and bark piles vere saved. When this fire Was at ils vorst, fli'e broke out In the brush north )f Alpena.' It was under control by light. Alncna was fighting fire all last itight, ' Only a shift in the wind saved the ' hotel Adrian, thu country, club louse, and other places at Long Lake. It Is reported .here' that the -towns of Metz, Pulaski, Millersburg and Posen lave been totally destroyed. Only; a few farm houses remain .-funding, along the railroad between Alpena county, lino and Millersburg. fhe town of Tulaskl was burned out it 4 o'clock this morning. There Is no relief In sight by rain. Seventeen Are Dead. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Millersburg. Mich., Oct. 16 Seventeen men, women and children were burn ?d to death when the train which left Metz Wednesday afternoon to take he ..people out of the fire, which de frayed the town, ran into a burned iut culvert und was unable to proceed, rliey were trapped., on , all sides by raging flumes and cremated in the lery furnace.. Only two, Conductor Xlnville and Eng'neer Foster, escaped, jrawllng out to Posen on their hands ind knees. Kinville is blind and Foster terribly burned. It Is Impossible to learn the names if those burned. The fireman, Arthur Lec, was burned to death. Fifteen burned skulls were found In a steel gondola. A woman named Cicero and three children are among the deud. TRAMP BUYS HOTEL. After Twenty. Vears on the Road He . Settles Down. (By Leased Wire to The Times. Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 16 H. P. Craig, of Detroit, Mich., for twenty years continuously on the road as a tramp, has bought the Huerfano Hotel fiere and will settle down permanently. Craig's mother. died in Detroit recently, leaving him 130,000. He Is a member of an old family, is well educated and was ad mitted to the Michigan bar at nine teen. He has tramped all over this country from mere love of It. Bridge Dynamited. (By Cable to The Times) St. Petersburg,. Oct. 16 A dispatch trom Belgrade to the Novoe Vremya Mys that the railway bridge over th Bosnia river, at Vranduk, has been destroyed by dynamite, thus cutting off communication with Schavevo, the capital. THE MORSE TRIAL NOW IN PROGRESS District Attorney Character izes Mcrse os Worse Tiian a Ccmmci. Cginb.er HE DOMINATED CURTIS Jury Locked t'n Over Night and (iuurded by Secret Service Men for tiie First Time Here in Twcu-ty-flve Years Both Morse and Curtis Will Take the Witness Stand Morse Will Try to Defend the .Transactions But Curtis Will Go Fully and Frankly Into the Matter. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Oct. 16 With Chief Flynn, of the United States secret service and twelve" of his best de tectives keeping a constant watch on the jury, defendants and . witnesse, I the trial of Charles W, Morse and Al fred H. Curtis, formerly president of the National Bank of North Ameri ca, was resumed before Judge Hough in the federal court. The jury had Dcen locked up over night in the As tor House and was guarded by secret service men. This is something that i hts not been done in a criminal or civil case in the local federal courts! in twenty-five years.. ! In opening the case for the prose-1 cution, ilnited States District A 'tor-1 ney Stimson characterized Morse as, lower than a common gambler. ' j It has been definitely ascertained that both Morse and Curtis will take ; the witness stand. But while Morse ! will trv tn flpfpnrt his cfiiivs, in nsiltr! bank funds for his ice trust pool, li i 3 steamship consolidations and the! other manipulations, Curtis it is un- j derstood, will go fully and frankly into the transactions in which he' was the lesser figure. j Throughout his opening, which I lasted for nearly two hours, Mr.: Stimson dwelt with particular em phasis on Morse's domination over : Curtis. ' .:.-' ;. As his first witness Mr. Slinisonj: culled Charles A. Hanna, United States bank examiner and receiver -pf. I j the National Bank of North America t land thirty monthly reports made by I the bank. They were not examined, this time. ' '..--''' - - i While sonic copies of the reports, which all but. $2"2,CI)4 ' had been ex made to the comptroller, of ':hecur-. pended" ' Chairman .Muck gave out a rency by the officials of the hank dnrlnir IflOli and ffl(7 in ntierllelw: to his ."call' we're being submitted nj?:c!t's: of;:12 evidence, Lawyer MacFatlanB made this astonishing declaration: "While we admit that it is Mr. Morse's signature which appears ou these reports, wv. do not admit that he ever road t'nem or ever knew their contents." Later a paper was identified by which it was shown that Miss Kate 1 A. Wilson, Morse's secretary, ; had Morse's power of attorney and kept it on file In the bank. This power of attorney was dated May 29, 1!6. When the court proceedings wore resumed today Cashier Edward B. Wire was recalled to the stand. As- Ristnnt nistrlct Atfnrnnv Wlso hnntl- ed two letters to the witness for j Identification. Thoy were addressed to Mrs. William Golshenen aid sign ed "J. A. Wilson." Miss Wilson was Morse's secretary and Is expected to figure prominently in the trial. Morse showed the effects of 3train and nervous worry when he reached court and during the testimony of Mr. Wise he moved restlessly in his seat and constantly prompted his lawyers. "Did the Bank of North America at any time own stock in any corpor tlon?" asked Mr. Wise of the cashier. "Yes .it did." "Would that stock show on the stock and bond records?" he con tinued. "It certainly should." Lawyer MacFarlane fought to ex clude this testimony. Wise was pre paring to show that American Ice stock was not on the Hat although actually paid for with the Instltu-' Hons funds. Wise said that he received each day a dally statement of loans. "Who prepared that statement?" ''The head bookkeeper." Mr. Wise attempted to prove that the statements emanated from the inner office occupied by Morse but had to withdraw his questions after Mr. MacFarlane objected. This ended the direct examination (Cnotlnued on Fifth Page.) Grand Batches Elfjnbeth. - ..:.. i, vw ..-.-3 r..-;s:,.v. . . .,:'.--'.. :. i !r .'Itfe'V:- mstiiim-tii It Ji 0" www -''VI('Wi (ii';ii!(l Duchess Elizabeth, sister of (lie Czarina and widow of (lie Grand Duke Serijj;is, lias. entered a manncry I near Moscow. SUMMARY OFJfHE POLITICAL NEWS ',,.( By' Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Oct, 10 Treasurer Hidder's figures showed that the dem ocratic national campaign fund fig ures up.' to October ' .: $2 1S.5G7, of suppieiiiental statement showing re- r from 70 Contribu tors ; bet ween .October 9 and 14. . Mr. Bryan concluded', his three days' tour o Nobi-aska. speaking to large crowds, and left for Denver. He called President- Roosevelt an Im itator; said every predatory corpora- tion ill the cour.lry is back of Speaker Cannon, and that if Cannon's most intimate friend, S.ierman, was chosen to preside over the senate the people would be unable to obtain any reme- dial legislation. I Mr. Kern yesterday spoke at a I noon-day 'meeting on Broadway, and ti n,. ....:. i. .. u it.. 1 !...-',.. a uunaiiv na u. ne u.sra uu.t mr elWHion ol nrim would rf's,0,'e and 'not destroy business confidence, I Mr, Tai't received a warm. welcome. l:i Kenucky and made speeches in several cities yesterday. For the first time in three weeks he discussed the question of guaranteeing bank de posits. Unfortunately a chair broke under him and he fell to the floor. His careful Investigation of the next chair offered caused -laughter.' Mr. Sherman -spoke yesterday on protection at Jamestown, N. Y. He seemed to enjoy disobeying his phys icians direction. to talk only In whis pers and to remain iudoors as much as possible by conversing, with all who came along nnd taking an auto mobile ride. A reception is being held at tho na tional democratic, club in New York City this afternoon for Candidate Kern. Ho speaks In Brooklyn to night, . Among the prominent repub- Hcans who will address the audiences in New York ' today are Vice-President Fairbanks, Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania, and Lieutenant-Governor Murphy, of Pennsylvania. Candidate Taft is scheduled to speak In the following Tennessee towns to day: Knoxville, Nashville, Chatta nooga, Johnson City, and BrtBtol. Candldato Bryan will arrive In! uunvor unuiy aim ueuver an auuress there tonight, hurrying eastward again. f '';;vSlft-j& r. FLEET REACHES YOKOHAMA TODAY Welcome Will be Extended Tomorrow According to Original Program THE JAPS ENTHUSIASTIC Thousands of Craft With Thousands on Board Are, New Outside the Har lior Patiently Waiting for the Ar rival of the Fleet In Constant Communication by Wireless Wltb Ships Are Being Convoyed by : Japanese FleetThousands of Out of-Town People Are Crowding Into the City. , '. (By Cable to The Times) ' Yokohama, Oct. 16 Thousands of craft, with enthusiastic thousands ou board, are now on the outside the harbor patiently waiting to catch the first glimpse of the American battle ship fleet which is expected to come into view sometime today. Many of -the merchant vessels are equipped with wireless telegraph instruments and these vessels, as well as the shore stations, are in constant com munication with the Japanese fleet which met the Americans and are now convoying them to this port. Every vessel that could possibly go outside has left the harbor, and hun dreds of launches and sailboats have ventured far beyond the usual limits for these craft. , While the fleet will arrive off the harbor this afternoon, the original program which provided for their ar rival tomorrow morning will probably be carried out. '- - "-v- A big bouy has been assigned to each American ship in a double line extending from almost directly m front of the city to a point one mile below, on the earsterly side of the harbor. ., The Japanese fleet will anchor di rectly opposite the Americans on the westside in the same order. Thousands of out-of-town people are arriving on every train and the decorations of the streets and build ings far surpass anything of the kind ever attempted in Japan. The gunboat Yankton,. the advance guard of the fleet, steamed into the', harbor this morning and received an enthusiastic greeting, but it was the desire of all the people to see the great fleet in its lighting form, and not a single gunboat. For gunboats of all the world swing into the Yoko- ' hama harbor at. all times and the sight of a single fighting machine Is nothing extraordinary. The reception committee left Toklo this morning and arrived at Yoko-. hania later in the day to take part in the festivities. ; Baron Saito extended a cordial greeting to the Americans of the fleet on behalf of the nation and said that all Jauan was eaeerlv fiiwnitfntr n Hlrrnt nf tha ervoat nnvfll power of the United States. FOREST FIRES IN MIICHIGAX. Are Raging , With Extraordinary Fierceness Two YiUugeg Destroyed. (By Leased Wire o The TlmeB) , Detroit, Mich., Oct. 16 Forest llres have broken out all over north ern Michigan and are raging with extraordinary fierceness. Two villages, Metz and LaRoque, a few miles apart, in Presque Isle coun ty, have been destroyed. The inhab itants escaped on special trains sent through the flaming forests. Half a dozen other villages, some In the up per peninsula, some In the northern part of the . lower peninsula, are threatened with destruction. The cit ies of Alpena and Cheboygan are also menaced. SEAT RATES REDUCED, Pullman People Cut Rates in a Small. Way All Over Country. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, Oct. 18 Seats rates In every puliman parlor car have been reduced, according to a new schedule sheet which has Just been filed by the Pull man Company. The new schedule, which covers tho entire country, Is In . tended sb a substitute for the com pany's four rate sheets of the north western, northeastern, southwersten and southeastern districts. - - ' "The new. book Is a re-adjustment rather than a regulation of rates," said Generat Manager Richmond Dsani ; Tnere are a feW gm9nX reductlons besides the small seat rate cut, bu none is of grat Importanoe." ' . ' '