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".v ;W; ;;.f.; . : ,s vWeather. SECOND Washington, June 30 Fore cast for- North Carolina for to Light and Thursday: Local Showers tonight or Thursday." EDITION ESTABLISHED 1871. RALEIGH, N.-.O., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1909. PRICE 5 CENTS 1 ... CASE AGAINST 'S Will Be Tried in Police 'Court Saturday Morning AN INTERESTING CASE Attorney Bailey Asks That Case be Postponed Until After MeetinK of Board of Aldermen Special Com mlttjre Appointed to Investigate the Winchesters and Their Orgnnlzu tlon Will be Heard Friday NighU Mayor Wynne Criticized for Doing His Duty Was Practically Forced to Refuse Permission for Meetings Vnder Circumstances. The Salvation Army case which was to have been heard this morning in the city police court was again postponed. It will probably be tried Saturday morning. This postpone ment was had at the request of J. V. Bailey, attorney for Captain Winches ter and wife. ' The case grew out of the mayor's refusal to allow one Frank Winches ter and wife to hold services on the streets. At the last meeting of the board of aldermen a petition was read from a number of citizens who live near the rescue home established by Winchester and his wife on Dawson street, protesting against their con tinued presence In the community and declaring them a nuisance. This petition was signed by a number of good cit Izens and deserved the atten tion it received. The mayor spoke of lhaving received letters from persons of, prominence in Brooklyn, Norfolk and. other places, warning people against, the . "American Salvation Army" and Its workers. A request from Winchester to be allowed to in stall a drinking fountain at the mar ket was refuse by ih-hoK aniU the mayor stated tnat ne naa reiuseu Winchester and his wife permission 1 to preach on the streets. A commit tee was appointed to look into the matter and investigate the charges against the offenders and report back ' to the board. This committee is com posed of Aldermen Upchurch, Harden and Peebles, and it is understood that they liave made a thorough Investiga tion or the various charges against the Winchesters and against the American Salvation Army, which Is an organization entirely separate and apart from the regular Salvation Army headed by the Booths. It is also understood that the committee will sustain the mayor in his refusal to allow the street meetings. In some quarters Mayor Wynne Is be.!flg criticised for his action In re fusing to allow the Winchesters to hold street meetings; but in every In stance The Times man has found on Investigation that the man doing the criticising is doing It inadvisedly and without due consideration. On pagi 24 of the city ordinances, section 30, Is found the following: "Nor shall . any person attract a crowd to himself on any street or thoroughfare of the city so as to Im pede travel thereon by advertising goods or merchandise'' . ... ... or by any manner of speech-making whatsoever." The ordinance goes on to impose a fine of 1 10 on each offender and ends with the following proviso: "Provided, that the mayor and chief of pollca may grant permission to such persons as they may deem proper, to hold religious services on the streets of the city." There is the whole thing in a nut shell. The matter is one entirely In the discretion of the mayor and when be was convinced ' that Winchester and his wife were not "proper" per sons within the meaning of the ordi nance, he promptly refused to allow them to hold street meetings. Tnere Is no violation of any constitutional right Involved in the matter. It has been settled beyond peradventura or doubt that under the police power of a municipality, meetings of even a re ligious nature may be suppressed. The' police power of a state or c'.ty is broad. It is defined by the lawbooks to be the authority inherent In the state to preserve public health, order and tranquility. In the exercise of bis sound discretion the mayor evok ed this power and refused to allow the meetings. In tha paBt, meetings of this kind have been allowed with out question and no attempt has been made to go behind the scenes and learn something of the character o the people holding themselves out to be exponents of the faith of the lowly Nasarene. It would have been much easier for Mayor Wynne to have "let things slide" in the . good old easy way, allowing Tom, Dick and Harry to clothe themselves la uniforms and WINCHESTER IS POSTPONED harangue loafers on the street corn ers, but this he refused to do. He acted on the ground that the 'ordi nance has put it upon him to see that the street corner evangelists are "proper" persons, men of good re pute. He has backbone enough to see to It that the people of Raleigh are given a square deal and not put upon by fakirs and frauds. The representatives of the Ameri can Salvation Army may be "proper" persdns but the mayor has informa tion to the contrary. When that in formation was placed In his hands it was his Imperative duty to stop their work in this city, and he did It. That the board of aldermen will sus tain him is almost an absolute cer tainty. The board meets Friday night and the report of the special committee, which Is awaited with in terest, will then be made public. As to the case against Winchester and wife, there can be no uncertain ty. Their only plea can be in the way of confession and avoidance. Under the ordinance, being refused permis sion to hold meetings and holding a meeting In defiance of the ordinance, they are clearly guilty. . SCORES HURT BY . (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Orand Forks, N. D.. June 30. Scores of persons were injured and : farm buildings within n radius of sixteen miles were destroyed by a series of tornadoes which swept over the dis trict in the vicinity of Nlles, Benson county. Reports from Leeds say that eight persons were killed outright. A report from Mlnnewauben says one wo. man was killed and h number Injured there and that the town was destroyed. These reports cannot be verified as the wires in the northern part of the state are down. The twisters followed at Intervals of a few minutes. Between twenty und thirty farm houses are total wrecks. All six of the family of Urlck Ur ness, near Niles, were Injured. Mrs. Urness may not survive. . The young est child was found wrapped up in a bundle of barbed wire some distance from the destroyed buildings. NEW POSTOFFICE HOURS. Earlier Delivery by City Letter Car- . rlers Other Changes. Tomorrow, July 1st, begins a new fiscal year with the post oirice depart ment. Postmaster W. G. Briggs an nounces that beginning In the morning a new schedule of hours will be inaug urated here. The hours In the general postoffice will be as follows: General delivery window, open from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m.; stamp window, from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.; money order and registry departments, from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sunday hours: Carriers window, general delivery and stamp window open from 2 to 3 p. m. Mails, as heretofore, will close In the postoffice 30 minutes before trains are scheduled to arrive. Mall in large quantities should not be deposited in the office at the closing hour. An entirely new schedule will be put Into effect for the city carriers tomor row, This Will be known as the tem porary summer schedule, while some of the regular carriers are taking their vacations. The two-trip carriers will leave the post office on their first trip at T a. m. and on the second at 1:50 p. m. The carriers in the strictly business district during the summer will make, three instead of four trips: First trip at 7:15 a. m.; second at 1:50 p. m., and third at 6:05 p. m. The carriers will make collections from the street letter boxes and In ad dition there will be another collection In the business district by six carriers from 8:06 p. m. to 8:55 p. m. Raleigh Men In Jft-w York. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, June 30 Among the southerners registered In New York today are: Raleigh J. Baker, J. H. Baldwin, C. M. Bretsch. S LODGED IN JAI! William Jones, the notorious negro hack-driver recently convicted of un lawful intimacy With one Maude Kel ly, a denizen of the red light district, and bound over to court In a bond of $350, was today placed In the county Jail. Whalen C. Matthews, a respectable colored man of Apex was his bonds man. For some reason Matthews de cided to not further risk his property and today he had Jones arrested and turned over to the authorities. Police Officer Pool made the arrest. Jones sklppad a bond of 1200 before his trial and was with difficulty cap tured again. He Is now under the same root with his co-partner in crime, and will doubtless stay there until the July term of criminal court. BIG TWISTERS WILLIAM ON WHITE WOMEN AID LEON L (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, June 30. Two white women, missionaries In ("hlnatown, aided Leon Ling in his efforts to covet1 up the traces of the murder of Elsie Sigel, according to Information ob tained by the police today. They went to the agent who leased the store at 30 West 12fith street to Yung Wah as a laundry, where Leon tried to bury the trunk containing the body of his victim and got him to transfer the lease to Yung Kee. Yung Wall is a brother of Yung Dat, a former partner of Leon, and Yung Wah helped Leon to try to dispose of the trunk In which Elsie's body was packed. When the floor of the laundry had been torn up in an Ineffectual effort to get rid of the trunk, Yung Wah hurriedly sold out to his cousin, Yung Kee, and disappeared and the two white women, friends of Yung Wah and Yung Dat, persuaded the agent to transfer the lease. A dispatch today from El Paso, Tex., says that three Chinamen have been arrested on the Mexican border and that one is believed to be Leon Ling. The suspect answers in every dtall the printed description of Leon. The arrests were made in Ciudad Juarez, Mex., opposite El Paso. The Juarez police, according to the dis patch, refused to talk of the arrests or to allow the suspects to be seen. In fact, attempts-were made to conceal the arrests. Developments today have convinced the police that seven China men were present when Klsie Sigel was strangled to death. Four of them may have aided Leon In the actual killing and the other two were accessories in that they had guilty knowledge of the crime. Tried to Bury Girl Alive. A remarkable sequence of new facts discovered today show that Leon Ling, the supposed murderer of Elsie Sigel, tried, with the assistance of his closest friend, to bury the girl alive in the cellar of his friend's laundry at 370 West 126th street. The autopsy on the girl's body snow ed that she was still alive when she was placed in the trunk where she was eventually found. It now appears that she must have been alive all the time that the trunk was being carted to Harlem from Ling's room at 782 Eighth avenue and that she was still alive when she was parried dc.wg.Jnto" the -eeHar' of rmrTuundry" by the two Chinamen. It was found that the former propri etor of the laundry was Arthur Yung, also known as Yung Wah and Yung Dat. He Is -the man who was a fre quent visitor at the Sigel home. where he was familiarly called "Art," while Leon Ling was known as "Grandpa." He disposed of the laundry a week ago last Friday to Oong Yee and then disappeared as completely as Leon Ling himself. . GERMAN SOLDIER KILLED IN DUEL (lly Cablo to The Times) Berlin, June 30 The details have only now become known of a duel fought between infantry Lieutenants Uranier and Switzers near Blanken burg a fortnight ago, in which Swit swrs was killed. One of the most strik ing features of the affair was that though duelling is nominally il legal this one was practically a state aided one.; A military court of honor sanction ed it and arranged the fight. Two companies of soldiers kept the ground. A locomotive and an ambu lance car were provided by the state railway to carry the expected victim to the nearest town having a hos pital. - The conditions were to alternate shots at ten paces. Thirty seconds were allowed in which hto aim. Gran ier won the first shot, but missed. Switzers' first shot proved a miss-tire. Uranter's second shot pierced his op ponent's lung. The wounded man was hurried to a hospital, where he died shortly af ter. He leaves a widow and one child. The cause of the duel was Swit zers' escorting Granier's fiancee home one evening, on which occasion he tried to kiss the lady, but was re pulsed. He apologized to her and was forgiven, and she promised not to tell of the occurrence, but she sub sequently told Grantor. The latter probably will now un dergo a few months comfortable de tention in a fortress. LAKE MATTAM I'SKEET. Mr. 3. O. Wright Conducting Nego tiations For Sale. Mr. J. O. Wright, an employee of the United States department of agri culture, drainage division, Is in the city. It is understood that he Is act ing as the agent of the state board of education and is attempting to effect a sale of Lake Mattatuuskeet, an area of about 50,000 acres, a part of the Wllliamsport drainage district of 260,000 acres. Lake Mattamuskeet is the property of the state board of education. NO PRESIDENT AND PARTY AT YALE , (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New Haven. Conn., June 30. Presi dent Taft and his party, arrived here early today. The private ear Olympia was shifted to a sidetrack. President Taft will go to the home of President Hadley, of Yale, later. A squad of local police surrounded the car after it was sidetracked and will remain on guard until the presi dent leaves it for President Hadley's house. The trip was without incident. Mr. Taft will attend the commence ment exercises today. President Taft was accompanied by Assistant Secretary Misehler and Cap tain Archibald W. Iiutt, his military aide. The president will spend all of today and this evening in New Haven, leaving there late and reaching Wash ington on Thursday morning. Among others who received de grees today were William Howard Taft, of class 1909, a nephew and namesake of the president, and son of Henry W. Taft, of New York city. The president's brother, Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, is also here to at tend the reunion of his class of '74. C.U'SES COMPLICATIONS. Extra Session of the Legislature May W Necessary to Straighten Out Difficulties. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Topeka, Kas., June 30 A special session of the legislature may be ne cessary to settle banking complica tions that have followed the adoption of the Bryan plan for the guaranty of bank deposits. The guaranty law includes a pro vision that banks shall not pay more than three per cent interest on time deposits or these deposits cannot be allowed to participate in the guaran ty fund. The federal attorney gen eral ruled that national banks can not participate in the guaranty and these have organized a deposit insurance company. This company, which is ready for business, does not limit the interest rate and national banks are advertis ing a higher rate than the state bank under the guaranty law can pay, Nu merous state banks have declined to participate in the guaranty plan and are advertising that their deposits will be insured by the surety com pany and pay higher interest. The stafe guaranty banks see in this the ruin of their business and demand that th legislature amend the law so as to allow the same rates of In terest as trre other banks are adver tising. THE WRIGHTS EXPECT TO FLY THIS TIME (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington,.'' June. 30. The Wright Brothers arrived at Fort Myer. Va., at 10 o'clock this morning, where, with their mechanical expert, they immedi ately set to work In the balloon shed tuning up their aeroplane for the (tight which they expect to make to day. According to their established rule no outsiders were permitted In the shed, but it Is known that the three men gave particular attention to the motor of the machine, correcting and regulating It in such a Way that the failure of yesterday will not be re peated. The repairs required but a comparatively short time and there will not be a repetition of the difficulty of yesterday. After the work was completed Wil bui Wright consented to talk. He said that they were In no wise disturbed because of yestifday's unsutlsfutory flight, and that If the wind was fair there would surely be a flight between 5 and 6 o'clock this afternoon. He also announced that he and his brother have decided on the course over which the ten mile official flight will be made. This will be practicafty ilue south from the Fort Myer parade grounds for five miles and return. The date of this flight has not been settled. .:,.'',.' fight Over Old giudge. C. C. Walker Meets Man Against Whom Ho Hud a Grudge and Opens v Eire. ''.'.,.'-.'.. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, June 30-After a patient search for thr.e years, C. C. Walker, of Fayette, Mo., who had a grudge against James Dorsey, met the lat ter here and In a desperate gun fight in an automobile, shot him through the abdomen. Walker was shot In the head and leg. He will recover, but Dorsey's wound is believed to be mortal. The men 'quarrelled four years ago in Mexico, where they were partners In cattle deals and Dorsey charged Walker with mutilating two car loads of cattle. Walker was ar rested and remained in prison 17 months. Recently he located his man at Gilberts, III., and, under the uame of Durham, Induced Dorsey to come to Chicago for a prospective cattle deal. A small man, who resembled a Mex ican, met Dorsey, and posed as Dur ham. They took an automobile ride. Concealed in the rear of this machine was Walker with his gun. Dorsey did not know who it 'was until the car stopped at Washington boulevard and Curtis street. Here walker jumped out and, turning, shot Dor sey. The latter reached for Walker and caught his arm. A struggle ibe gan. Dorsey succeeded in wrenching the revolver from Walker's grasp and shot him twice. Walker's companion escaped and it was found that a $400 diamond stud and $4 00 of Dorsey's money had disappeared. Holding Airship Down. (By Cable to The Times.) Birbarach, Germany, June 30 A battalion of troops are holding down the balloon Zeppelin II, which land ed near here yesterday on its aerial cruise from Friedrichshafen to Metz. A strong gale is blowing and it is feared the balloon may break away. VOTE DIRECT ON INCOME TAX (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, June 30. The impression that there will not be a vote direct on the Bailey-Cummins income tax amendment is not correct. Senator Bailey said today. The parliamentary status of the -.-corporation- tax amend ment is such that. ii. vote will be had direct on that amendment, but when the tariff bill is reported to the senate from the committee of the whole the bill Will then be open to amendment, Senator Bailey added that the oppor tunity will be presented to the senate to vote direct on the income tax amendment and it will be then known just how many senators have yielded to the white house influence. It was Intimated today that Senator Aldrich's .'-frank statement of yester day that the corporation tax was mere ly a subterfuge to kill off the income tax may make a change In the number of votes cast for the Taft amendment, but hardly enough to defeat it. TAFT AND DIAZ TO MEET. Meeting Will Take Place on the In ternational Bridge ut Laredo. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Mexico City , June 30 It is report ed in government circles that the proposed meeting between President Diaz and President Taft this fall will probably take place on the. Interna tional bridge connecting Laredo, Tex., and Nuevo Laredo, Mex. : President Diaz wants to visit Monterey and other points in that part of northern Mexico and prefers that th meet ing place be at this crossing instead of at the El Paso gateway, as had been suggested. Charles P. Taft owns a 200,000 acre ranch about fifty miles from La redo, and as President Taft intends to Visit it on his trip it Would be con venient for him to visit Laredo, COAL STKIKE EXPECTED. Strike of 200,000 "Welsh Coal Work era Expected Tomorrow. '(By Cable to The Times) Cardiff, Wales. June 30 The strike of 200,000 workers in the Welsh coal fields probably will be de clared tomorrow. Today representa tives of the workers and employers are in conference but 'little hope is entertained nf an amicable adjust ment of their differences. Trade Minister Churchill has volunteered to arbitrate hut neither side has yet evinced willingness to accept his ser vices. In the meantime a strong force of troops is being held ready to cope with violence, that will inevitably fol low upon the declaration of a strike. SUFFRAGETTES PLEAD GUILTY (By Cable to The Times.) London, June 0 The 112 mili tant suffragettes who were arrested by the police last night In their raid on the house of parliament, were ar raigned today in the Bow street police station. Many of them came prepar ed to make it a gala occasion, bring ing lunches and bottles of iced tea and lemonade. In fact, the big court room looked like, a picnic scene. The majority of the women came deter mined to plead guilty and. accept a jail sentence instead of a fine. Miss Pankhurst and Mrs. Lawrence, two of the ringleaders were early In attend ance. Sir Albert DeRutzen, the mag istrate, heard the charges which were three fold In character, obstructing the police, assaulting' tfc police and wllfnl damage, j : . t ... . v.... .... . ... , A TROUBLESOME MATTER IS THIS The New Tax Measure Nuw - Before the Senate and is Troublesome DO NOT LIKE THE PLAN Opening Debate on the Corporation Tax Shows Trouble Ahead Both Republicans and Democrats Are Dissatisfied With the Situation With Kcgiird to Inheritance, In come and Cor)ratlon Taxes With Chairman Aldrich and His Associates it is Said to be Alto get her a Question of Choice Be- tween Evils and Does Not Think Proposed Law Will Stay on the Statute Books More Than Two - Years. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, June 20 The open ing of the debate on the corporation tax in the senate yesterday promptly developed the fact that President Taft's, administration and the finance committee republicans have set. up for themselves a troublesome propo sition in trying to supplement the revenue features of the tariff revis on bill with what they are inclined to believe is the least objectionable of the different forms of excise taxa tion.. From the moment the corporation tax question came up and was placed before the senate by a clever piece of parliamentary strategy on the part of Chairman Aldrich and Senator Lodge, to the end of the day, .there was enough discussion of the 'complex questions involved in - corporation taxes, inheritance taxes and Income taxes to demonstrate conclusively that both the republicans and the democrats are dissatisfied with the situation in the senate with respect to any of these tax propositions. With Chairman Aldrich and his as sociates, it is said, to be altogether a question of the choice between evils. This is understood to be the real basis of Mr. Aldrich's admission on the floor of the senate yesterday that the corporation tax probably would not remain on the statute books more than two years. CORPORATIONTAX The senate republicans do not like the plan. Many of them, no doubt, would prefer an Income tax law to a corporation tax. if assurances could he given that the income tax would be held valid, and that It could be en forced with anything like the effect iveness that probably would attend the enforcement of the corporation tax. ' ."' . The senate met at 10 o'clock this morning. Senator Kean, of New Jersey, read a communication from the Building & Loan Association League protest ing against the corporation tax as affecting building and loan associa tions. - Senator Oore, of Oklahoma, offered a resolution directing the senate finance committee to report each schedule of the tariff bill as a sep arate measure. He explained that this would give senators an opportun ity to vote against any individual schedule Which they : might oppose, without prejudicing their action on other schedules. It would also give the president, said Senator Gore, .ah opportunity to vote an objectionable schedule without disapproving the others. ' The resolution was laid on the table and Senator Gore announced that he would make an inquiry Into the right of the senate to act as his resolution directs. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, then resumed his speech on the Income tax, arguing for the necessity of suoh a tax as a means of providing revenue. He said the general deficit of the treasury amounted now to $119,000, 000, while the sinking fund for the payment of the national debt showed a deficit of $580,000,000, if the in tent of the law were carried out. : Senator Cummins charged that the purpose of the effort now being made to cut down expenses in the executive departments was to demonstrate that an additional revenue from an income or a corporation tax Is not necessary. He said it was becoming apparent that in order to maintain a proper protective system, the customs rere nue must be supplemented by some additional income, as a duty on Im ports, correctly adjus ed, so as to protect American industries, would not produce enough revenue to meet (Continued on Page Two,) , . - v . e t s r
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