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LAST EDITION tig mt Dollar to Doughnuts the wife itv H advertised in The Evening Times. ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in the City of Raleigh of Ai ir jffi&er Newspaper ROOSEVELT SITOSDAY OF PLEASURE The Fcrcer President Has Had Busy Time Since His Arrival At Khartoum A DINNER TONIGHT Formal Festivities of the Stay in Khartoum Will le Opened With a . Dinner Tonight to Which All the Notables in the Soudan Have Been Asked Sight-seeing Trip Today P. G. Bonflls of Denver in Khar- toum to Present Invitation to the ex-President to Return Juy War of the Pacific. (By Cable to The Times.) Khartoum, March 15 Theodore Roosevelt, surrounded by members of his family and plunging into the fes tivities arranged for his entertain ment here, is menaced by a disease unlike any which threatened him in his long jungle Journey. It is the kala'aza, known but a few months, but already the cause of several Eu ropeans' death. - Like the sleeping Bickness, which is caused by the bite of the tze-tze fly, the new disease is due to the bite of an insect. Every precaution to safeguard all of the Roosevelt par ty during their stay here has been taken. The bug, whose bite is so deadly, is found VtMcIpally in the houses of the native quarter, but the European section has been invaded. Though Colonel Roosevelt laughs at the danger, recent deaths from kala'aza have caused much alarm. Mr. Roosevelt breakfasted with his wife and Miss Ethel this morning after sleeping later than has been his custom for nearly a. year. Then be gan the round of sight-seeing which had been mapped out for the former president and his family. He was the first of the Roosevelts to leave the sleeping quarters on the upper floor of the Sirdar's palace. Retiring to the drawing room, which had been put at his disposal a magnificent chamber .finished in white, the furniture in the DuBarry style, Mr. Roosevelt began the care ful consideration of his letters, an swering many of the more urgent. He had done a good day's work at this by the time breakfast was served in the adjoining dining room, whose walls hold the paintings of English royalty and historic battle pictures that tell the tragic story of the Sou dan. - Sir Francis Wingate, the sirdar, personally took charge of the Roose velt party today in the tour of Khartoum and the surrounding coun try. -. Colonel Roosevelt's first' questions were regarding the scene of the fa mous last stand of General "Chinese" Gordon in 1885. He displayed a close knowledge - of the details of Gordon's death fight against the NEGRO CHAUFFEUR cor,ir,nrrED to jail (.Speeia to The Times.) Charlotte, March 16 Following an Investigation by the coroner's jury Sunday Into the death of Mr. M. W. Christenbury who was killed Saturday at Derlta by being run over by an automobile . driven by George Evans, colored, the cplored chauffeur was com mitted to jail without bail to await trial, the verdict of the coroner's jury being that the deceased met death as a result ot criminal, negligence an the part of the colored chauffeur. The trial of the defendant will prob ably come up at the next term of criminal court which convenes the last Monday. in April. Mr. T. C. Guthrie has: been retained as attorney for the defendant and it is very probable that a habeas corpus proceeding will be had before Judge James L. Webb who Is holding civil court here this week with a view of getting the defendant out on bond. . It is also expected that a civil action for damages against Mr. Jeremiah Goff, the owner. of the ma chine, will be instituted, at an early date. Mr. Christenbury was a farmer of it.. i rwltn HppMon and left a wife and seven children. He was Insured In the fraternal organisation or woodmen or the World In th,sum of $1,000, and this has been turned over to the wife- i , reiN f I,,, , v-.". -v tribesmen. General Wingate, who commanded the expedition that in 1898 killed the Khalifa, successor to the Mahdl, who wiped out Gordon's force, and re-established European rule in Khartoum, gave many import ant and little known details to Mr. Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt expressed much surprise1 at the perfection ot the street railroad in. this frontier post He was taken through Gordon .Col lege and then inspected the govern ment buildings and the quays and warehouses along the river front. The event of the day, however, was the tour planned to the Kerrori bat tlefleld. ' The formal festivities will be open. ed with the dinner tonight in the sir dar's palace. Every celebrity perma nently or temporarily in the Soudan has been invited, and the extension of the social season a week for the entertainment or the Roosevelts as sured, even before the ex-president's arrival, one of the greatest events of its kind this town of the desert has ever seen. F. G. Bonflls, proprietor of a Den ver newspaper, and George Creels, who are -in Khartoum to present to Mr. Roosevelt a request from Ameri can commerecial bodis in the west that be return by way of San Fran cisco,' today declared that they were confident that the former president would accede to the request. 'We' are backed by millions of peo ple who think they have a better ciaim to priority in Mr. Roosevelt's attentions than the east and we have laid out plans to put the matter up to him in such a way that we think he could not refuse," said Mr. Bonflls, Miss Ethel Roosevelt has become the belle of Khartoum. On her first appearance, after her father and Ker mit met Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel at the railroad station. Miss Ethel made a sensation, both by her personality and the charming girlish gown of white stuff, with a green fillet in her hair, in which she ap peared at the palace. Today on the sight-seeing expedi tion a dozen handsome young English officers danced attendance on her. Colonel Roosevelt himself is through with the labors of his Afri can expedition, having ended his su pervision of the packing of specimens and their labelling, and also having written the last word of his account of his famous hunt. : When he reaches America, how ever, he will have a heavy task on his hands in arranging and catalogu ing the thousands of specimens which have been secured. TWO AMENDMENTS. To the Towiisend Rallrond Bill Adopt ed by the House Committee (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, March 15 The house committee on Interstate and., foreign commerce today adopted two import ant amendments to the Townaend railroad bill One of these provides that in the reorganization of any in solvent railroad corporation, or In the merger of any! non-competitive railroad 'lines, there Bhall not be is sued any stock in the re-organized ormerged companies in excess of the fair value of property of the new cor porations, the value to be ascertained Jby the interstate commerce commis sion. The other amendment irbids a railroad corporation from acquiring the capital stock of any water-carrier corporation, or any ailroad company which is competitive, and also for bids a water carrier corporation from acquiring stock in a railroad or in w.ater carter lines where any action is -pending under the Sherman anti trust law is also forbidden. ' Appeal to Enforce Civil Service Laws. (By LeaBed Wire to The Times.) Washington, March 15 The Cen tral Labor Union will appeal to Pres ident Taft to enforce the civil service laws of the country "and adopt such measures as may be necessary to put an end to the alleged practice of those in charge of the employment of labor ot using unskilled labor in the performance of duties for which skill ed labor Is ordinarily employed. ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO CIVILIZATION. The Palace of the Sirdar of Khartoum, where the Roosevelt party was entertained - upon .arrival,, and to the right the. Krahtoum Hotel, where Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel met the Colonel. The group of four from left to right are: Colonel Roosevelt, Frederick C. Selous, Major Edgar A. Mearns and Kermit Roosevelt. The meting of the Roosevelt family will take place within a day or two. BIG STRIKE AHEAD Railway Firemen of the West to Strike Believed That 25,000 Firemen On 48 Western Lines Will Be Out in 48 Hours as Rouds and Men Can not Agree on Basis of Settlement. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, March 15 A strike of 25,000 firemen on 48 western rail roads, tying up 150,000 miles of lines, will be declared .within 48 hours at the outside, it was declared today by labor leaders. President W. F. Carter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen said that the union heads were making prepara tions as rapidly as possible for the strike, which has already been de cided upon. There is only one move that can avert the trouble and that is agreemnt to the men's demands, which the general managers of the roads, who have appealed to the fed COMMITTEE SELECTED AS JUDGES TO CLOSE TIMES GREAT POPULARITY VOTING CONTEST Three Well Known Raleigh Bank Cashiers to Seal the Ballot Box and Make the Count On Last DayAll in Readiness For Close of The Times Great Popularity Voting Contest Which Ends Monday March 21st 6 p. m. LAST STANDING OF The Lust Standing of Contestants Will be Published Thursday, March l'tli All , Votes and Sub scriptions Must be in This Office by 6:00 P. M., Monday, March 21st., in Order to Count. ' i Tho following committee has been selected by The Times to act as judges in its great popularity voting contest, which ends Monday, March 21st., 6 : 00 P. M. : . Messrs. W. B. Drake, cashier Merchants National Bank; Henry E. Litchford,, cashier Citizens National Bank; Charles Root, cashier Raleigh Savings Bank. The above named gentlemen are so well known to the citizens of Raleigh and the state of North Carolina that it is useless to Bay with these ' as Judges each and every contestant can rest assured of receiving a square eral government for intervention, re fuse to grant. V The- railroad -Jnitfi&j. t. toouy- dor clared that they had not changed their stand and that they still stood ready to arbitrate the wage demands of the firemen but that they could not meet the men half way in their demands for two new rules affecting the engineers, the Brotherhood of the latter having forbidden the roads the privilege of altering the engi neers' status." The general managers of the roads involved gave another answer to the locomotive firemen. It was the same as the last offeredthat the railroads would arbitrate the wage scale, but could not go further. According to the railroad officials, as announced by their official spokesmen, O. h. Dickerson, of the Burlington, there was no change in the opinion of the roads.-. : "There is good and sufficient rea son why the railroads cannot sub mit the other two rules to arbitra tion," said he. "The reason is that they affect the engineers and it would involve a violation of existing agreements with that body, which was not represented at the conference (Continued on Page Five.) CONTESTANTS PUBLISHED MARCH 17TH deal. These gentlemen will he on hand the last day and make the count. The ballot box will be seal ed by them a day or so before the close pf the contest and will be open ed by them on 1 he last day when the count is made. Lust Standing Will bo Published Thursday, March 17th. The last standing of the contest ants until tho close will be published next Thursday, March 17th. No other standing will be published after this time until after the close of the con test. There are now but five working days until the close of The Times' great popularity voting contest. Each and every contestant should - make every day count,' for much depends upon the work done these last few days. Look out 'for the contestant SLIGHT TO UNIFORM President and Secretary Meyer Take Up Matter Sailors Denied Admittance to Chase's Theatre Make Complaint to the Au thorities Two Bills Have Been Introduced in Congress to Remedy the Tremble. ( Ity JOll.V TKMl'I.F. UKAVKS) ---.Washington,. March 15 The ques tion of civil rights has not been so sharply presented in Washington since the Civil Was as in the refusal of the Chase theatre to admit United States marines in uniform to its even ing performance. The navy department has taken hold of the -case. with .vigor as nota ble as it is 'admirable: The president, is fully as determined as Secretary Meyer to enforce the rights of the men in uniform, and no other ques tion excites so much interest Ht the behind, otherwise she may pass you in the home stretch and secure the two trips to Europe. A number of the contestants are so close together it will take only, a few subscriptions to cause one to win and the other to lose. The list of prizes are certainly well worth putting forth every effort to win. There is waiting for some lucky contestant a trip to Europe for herself and companion with all legit imate expenses paid, a M0U piano, a $400 set of furniture, a $350 piauo while four others will receive each a diamond ring and four others wil re ceive a King's, Business College Scholarship. Now is the time to put forth every effort, make every min ute count. Dont forget that all sub. scriptions and voting coupons must be in this office before 6:0 P. M:. Monday, March 21st, id order to count. national capital, for this day at least. Corporal Edward Powell and Private Samuel B. Algase, of the United States ship Mayflower, appeared at Chase's theatre iu uniform and pre sented tickets for admission, i The ticket-taker told them to "hold on". Then he thrust his hand into his pocket and handed them the price of the tickets. They asked for an ex planation, and he said they would explain at the box office. So they went to the box office, but could ob tain no explanation us to why they were not allowed to enter. Later on Mr. P. B. Chase, the man ager, declared it was on account of their appearance in a uniform which was "conspicuous", and that even President Taft would be excluded if he applied for admission dressed in a sweater and riding clothes, This was the discrimination direct against the uniform of our country. Captain Hobson. the Alerrimac hero, rose in his place in the house the other day and gallantly presented a bill to make sura discrimination impossible in the future. On Monday Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, presented in the senate a bill even stronger than Hobson's in protest and remedy. But Secretary 'Meyer-' and Presi dent Taft are so fully aroused over the palpable reflection that neither the Hobson bill nor the Chamberlain bill go far enough or speak strongly enough the government's position and so the secretary of the navy has instructed the judge-advocate-gen eral to prepare a special bill to meet the case of the marines and sailors. It is likely that the bills of Repre sentative Hobson and of Senator Chamberlain and the secretary of the navy may be combined before legis lation is secured. The navy depart ment is pushing its case on behalf of tile uniform', with'' admirable vigor, and the whole spirit of the army and navy has been invigorated by the prompt, and emphatic loyalty with which the government and public opinion has resented the slight to the men behind the guns. NEW ORLEANS WINS. I'anuiiia Opening Celjbriition Will be Held in That City. t By Leased Wire to The Times.) New Orleans, La., March 15 Mayor Behrman, who with Governor Sanders, headed a delegation at Washington to appeal to the presi dent and congress asking that the Panama opening celebration be held in New Orleans in 1915, wired here as follows this morning: "That New Orleans will win and that the Panama exposition will be held there is absolutely a foregone conclusion. "I am sure the members of the delegation were astonished no less than delighted at the open and un equivocal declaration made by the president that his preference was for New Orleans. The significant state ment made by Speaker Cannon, who said that 'if the exposition is given there is no doubt that Louisiana will be the post." can certainly be taken as an indication of his sympathy." TAItll WAR WITH CANADA. I'nless That Country is Given Mini mum Kates Trouble Will Ensue. ( By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, March 15 It is gen erally conceded here that unless the United States gives Canada the bene fit of the minimum rates, a tariff war will ensue between the two countries that, will be far-reaching in its eco nomic effects, and which will react politically ou republicans in border states, whose trade relations with the Dominion are most intimate. . One prominent member of the house of representatives goes so far as to say that unless this tariff war is averted and Canada is given the minimum rates, most of the border states will return full democratic delegations to the sixty-third congress. It is the general belief in official circles today that the effort to reach an agreement, with Canada will fail. The subject is to be considered at the cabinet meeting today. SENATOR TILLMAN BETTER. Will Leave' Washington For South Carolina Complete Recovery Expected. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, March 15 Senator B. F. Tillman has almost completely recovered from the stroke of paraly sis he suffered several weeks ago. Tomorrow, acompanied by his wife, two daughters and his son, B. F. Till man, Jr.. he Intends leaving for his home in Columbia, S. C. Dr. E. F. Pickford, his physician,' said today that the senator ought to recover his usual health within the next month, and that it is probable he will suffer no fdfthfer 111 effects from the paralytic stroke. For a week after Senator Tillman waB stricken, his life was despaired of. THE COMPANY WILL CONFER WITH THE MEN Stock Exchange Threatens To Destroy Stock of Transit Co. Unless'They Arbitrate HOPE FORPEACE NOW Prospects Much Brighter Now That It Has Been Announced That the Company Will Hear the Labor Leaders -Philadelphia Stock Ex change Takes a Hand and Threat ens to Hammer the Stock of the Coiupuiiy I'nless President Kruger Will Grunt a Conference- Chauf feurs Strike Again Many Families Find Themselves Without Food For Breakfast. ( By Leased Wire to The Times) Philadelphia, March 15 Heart ened by the outcome of the confer ence brought about between Presi dent Kruger of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and the labor leaders, the commercial and other interests of Philadelphia which have been struggling to bring about peace today renewed their efforts with fresh vigor. The conference Is. generally regarded as the entering wedge. It is the first recognition by the company that there is actually a Btrib.-iu progresf';s--:-.:..-.. r-.:....s..-i . The peace conference was today declared to have been brought about directly by the threats of the Phila delphia stock exchange to no longer support the stock of the Pennsyl vania Rapid Transit if a more con ciliatory attitude were not adopted by the corporation. This threat is said to have been made through Ed ward Lowber Stokes, broker and son of the founder of one of the compa nies which the Pennsylvania Rapid Transit absorbed on its organization in 1902. Had the demand not been heeded, it is believed that the trac-i tion stock would have been slaugh tered. Results in 48 Hours Prior to conferring with George H. Earle and other representatives of the Rapid Transit Company at the office of the real estate trust build ing this morning, Broker Stokes said he : was confidently hopeful that a basis for a settlement for the strike would be reached within the next 4 8 hours. He was asked what he based his hopes upon and replied: "1 don't-care 'lo state theni now." "Do you think tho meeting hint evening will result.". favorably'?'' hn was asked. . '. "I certainly expert it to," was hli) reply. Mass .Meeting Tonight. In spite of the company's ostensi bly '.maintaining its former attitude (Continued on Page Six.) GOVERNMENT BRIEF INCORPORATION TAX (By Leased Wire to The Times.) . Washington, ' March 13 Tho " govem ninit brief in the corporation tax cases was filed in tile United States supreme court today. .The original ease is that of .Stella P. Flint, as general guardian of the property of Samuel N. Stone, Jr., a minor, and is an appeal from the United States cir cuit court for the district of Vermont. There are fourteen other cases ad vanced for hearing with the original ease. . ' . The suits are brought to test 'the con stitutionality. - of the federal corpora tion tax which was Included In the tariff act of' the last session of con gress. In the federal court In Vermont the original proceeding was an appli cation to restrain the Stone-Tracy Company from making the returns on Its business, as required by the cor poration tax hiw. The other cases ai'9 similar. The government's briefs covers all fifteen cases, and Is an exhaustive document contending for the constitu tionality of the law, '
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