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,r 5(f ,: . ........ LAST : SEDITION . -' v..,'. ;.'t;i.H :tj;.39 (ffil$tt, ; "i- v For Raleigh and Vicinity i Partly cloudy, with local show er tonight or Tuesday. " . ft i For orth Carolina: Partly cloudy," frith local showers to night or Tnesday ESTABLISHED 1871' RALEIjGH, CMOPAX, AUGUST 8, 1910. PBICE 5 C32IT3. f i-J---.--:;..i.,ij Double the Number of Paiij Subscribers in the City i of ' Ra?h of Any Other N ewspapen ii ri 1 1 ii i 1 1 - 1 1 -v i f x EFUR 13 SESSIEil Two Hundred Thousand Gather ii ran A 7 III PLACE Began Hearing In the Gore Charges of Bribery at McAllister RED MEN TO TESTIFY Hearings Being Held in the Heart of the Indian Country and Conunlt- ; tee Will Try to Get to the Bottom of the Situation Through the Tes timony o( Red Men Themselves Burke Getting First Hand Inform tion Indian Brave . on the Stand This. Morning Confirms . Gore's Charges -Also Brings Other Charges. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) McAlister, Okla., Aug. 8 Persu ing the trail of alleged bribery revell ed by the investigation at Muskogee . by Senator Gore, the congressional committee began Its hearing here to day. ,. ' The committee expects during its session here to get to the bottom of the indlan land problem through the testimony of the red men themselves, The bribery charges now directed against Jake L. Haroon and Attorney J. F. McM array are assuming ' such scope that It Us believed several weeks will be required to complete the in qulry. It was expected today that Congressman C. E. Creager would he recalled to the stand. In the heart of the Chickasaw and Choctaw - country, , ; the committee while .here has the opportunity to study the question at first hand. ' Representative Burke, of South Dakota, head of the committee, since hta arrival here has Informally been asking many questions of those fa miliar', with the Indian . situation. His desire, it Is understood, is to get all the facts possible, for use in, con gress when the expected changes in the laws relating to the Indians come up. . , ' .v.. Indian Confirms Gore. (By Leased Wire to The Times) McAlister, Okla., Aug. 8 D. C. McCurtaln, son of Governor Green McCurtaln, of the Choctaw nation, today reiterated before the congres - slonal committee investigating Sena tor Gore's , charges In connection with the Indian lands, the accusation that Attorney J. S. McMurray had at tempted to bribe him with 'an offer of $25,000. -:; . r -. ' fl ' An incident of his testimony was his claim that he had been shabbily denied his one-fourth Interest In We $750,000 fee allowed the 'firm of Mansfield,;. McMurray A Cornish by the Choctaw-Chickasaw citizenship court in 1903. Mr. V.pCurUfn said that while he had"not theh' been admitted to prac tice in 'the federal court he had drawn one-fourth of the $70,600 .annual fee paid by the Choctaw nation to the firm for citizenship services be ginning in 1899. This was under a written contract.',. He stated that he had a verbal contract to have an equal share, in the citisenship .fee, but ' that he, was refused his share. .. This occurred,- he said two' years before the aUeged offet of $25,000 by Mc Murray in' the RaJelgh Hotel In ., Wash ingtdn:, in - February or March, 1906, as a condition of his not op posing the approval of the tribal con tracts for the sale of the coal lands passed by the council in the fall of 1905. . v 4 - -' -: -' -' Questioned further as to "the al leged offer by McMurray, McCurtaln said that he told his father about It in May, 1908, that he told Edgar &. Moore, a member of the Choctaw council, in July, 1908, and his part ner, E. ' P. Hlll ' about six or eight months' ago. ' 'r . ' Ho said that he presumed that hts testimony on Saturday was the. first that Senator Gore knew of the niat- , ter. - r s. " , r W,. G. HOltman, an Indian clttsen, signed the $10 tax case'contracts and the ten per cent final distribution .contract with McMurray. and secured (he signature of a hundred other per sons to both contracts,; according o 7 Continued Oh Tage Two.); ,r Thirty-first Triennial Conclave of , the . Knights Templar in Session -dOO, .000 Expected for the Meeting. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) , Chicago, Aug. 8 -Two hundred thousand strangers are In Chicago today for the thirty-first triennial conclave of the Knights Templar of the United States which officially was opened by Sir Knight "William B, Meltsh, acting grand master at divine services at Orchestra Hall last night The real business of the meeting will not begin until tomorrow morning With the exception of the annual din ner of the Mutuales, Grand Recorders and Correspondents at 4 o'clock this afternoon and a few evolutions, tUere is no formal program for today,. More than 50,000 persons arrived at railway, stations today and it is es timated that by tomorrow .300,000 will be here for the event. Competitive drills and a banquet to the grand 'Officers will be" on the program for Wednesday and Thurs day, several receptions and banquets are planned. Informal gatherings will be held Friday and Saturday.. . ' Los. Angeles loomB up as the big gest possibility for the next conclave Boosters have been here for several days and are entertaining lavishly. - An unscheduled shifting of officers became probable today with the an nouncement that Sir Knight Freder ick Thayer, of Water vllle, Me., Very Eminent Grand Warden, probably will not be a candidate for promo tion under the system of rotation. Officers probably will be selected tomorrow as follows: ';' ' - Most Eminent Grand Master, Wil Uam B. Melish, Cincinnati.- , Right Eminent .Grand Masters Ar thur. MacArthur, TroyJ N. T. " Very Eminent Grand Generalissi mo, W, Frank Pierce, Sail Francisco. Very Eminent Grand Senior War den, Joseph Kyle Orr, Atlanta. Very Eminent Grand Captain, Lee H. Smith, Pittsburg. Very Eminent Grand Junior War den, George C. Ratter, Cheyenne, Wyo. Very Eminent Grand Prolate, Hen ry W. Lines, Meridian, Conn. Very Eminent Grand Treasurer, John A .Gerrow, Detroit Very Eminent Grand Recorder, William H. Norris, Manchester, la. Very Eminent Grand - Standard- bearer, Jehiel W. Chamberlain. Very Eminent Grand Sword Bear er, Frederick C. Thayer. MINSTRELS IN ROW. Scott Leslie and His, Bunch Have , Trouble At Rockingham. Rockingham, : Aug. fr Scott ' Leslie and his "Merry Minstrel Maids'" left here yesterday morning for Durham af ter winding up the 'week at the opera hour Saturday night. - The wind-up ended - lit a' row. Manager' R. K. Grerorv secured- the company for a week's engagement, their - manager, Leslie, representing the-' show to be a clean',' - moral 'performance. ' There were six girls find VfnreeTnen In the com pany and the girls were all good-looking and popular with the boys. Man ager Gregory had already paid'. Leslie $135, but he caught onto the game and refused to - turn over Saturday nlarht's receipts before the show was put on.' Leslie told the audience his side Of the affair rind immediately vamoosed the ranch by skipping out the. back door, so : the-performance was not riven and Manager Gregory returned all admission ; fees besides administering- a well-deserved lesson to Les lie, who says a bee stung htm' in the face. ...v On the ' streets after the show two of the girls became so boisterous they had to be escorted to their boarding place- . " ','..." . 1 -i ' CHIEF OF POLICE OF ROuE KILLED ; (By Cable to The Times) . Rome, . Aug. 8- Caesar Ballantl, Chief of police of Rome, committed suicide " today on the eve of being called to testify against 40 Camor-rlsU,-. who are accused- of. killing a codple named Coucolo. at one time spies pf the Camorra. Coucolo-and his wife were murd ered four year ago. For months the government has been preparing for the trial and, the testimony of Ballan tl was regarded as one of the strong est points in! the case against the ac cused. ' I v V - In this trial the authorities hope v. continued on Page Two. , ' "? ' V-;t'T . - . United States Senator T. I. tjore, the blind statesman from Oklahoma, who 'said on the eve of the investiga. tion of his charges that he hHd been approached in . 'Washington with bribe of fi23,000 to foster a scheme whereby the Indians of Oklahoma were "tor be deprived of over $3,000,. 000 profits due them, through the sale of coal . lands in Oklahoma, that he would repeal everything, including the names, dates ami other circum stances, relative to the bribe, when he testifies before the investigating committee of the house of represen tatives, where he caused a big sensa. tion . by making the charges on the Jloor of that body. FIGHT OVER POKER GAME George Hunter, Colored Sen 0usly Shot Sunday Morning Shooting Took Place Near the Exper iment Station Fight Started Over a Game of Poker Oscar '. McRne Claims That He Shot in . Self-de. key as a side dish. Early in the Early Sunday morning Oscar Mc- Rae shot and seriously wounded George Hunter. A crowd of negroes were near the state experiment sta. tion enjoying . a rond of gambling, poker, and craps being the principal diversions, with a quantity of whis- fense. - .' " ".- . morning a fight was started, in which Oscar McRae shot George Hunter twlqe, one of the balls entering the left side and' lodged in the back, while the other hulet ony produced a scalp wound. The Injured man was brought here 'yesterday and placed In the hospital, where an operation was per formed and .the bullet extracted. Hunter is resting as well as could be expected and the conditions are fa' vorahle for his recovery. McRae .went to Berry O'Kely's store at Method this morning and asked that the sheriff be 'phoned for, as he-- .desired to surrender. He claims that the shooting was done In self-defense. , " DUNCAN GKTS ANSON. . Anson County. Republicans Kndorse y Duncan For Chairman,: ". w (Special to The, Times.) . "v'Wftdesboro, N. C. Augi , 8 rThe Anson county republican convention was 'held Saturday afternoon in 'the court. bouse.-. J.' L. 'MfttheMW .was choBen chairman. Delegates "were chosen to the state,, senatorial- and congressional conventions and resolu tions endorsing President Taft: and the state chairman. The only; divis ion ' in the convention was-.' on the quealton of the wisdom of Instructing the delegates to the state convention in the: matter of the election of state chairman. Finally,- after consider able debate, the convention adopted a resolution that the delegation vote solid for E. C. Duncan, for state chairman and In the event that it was Impossible to elect him to. cast) the vote ef the county for J. E. Alexan der, - of v Winston-Salem. ' Morehead stood no chance with the Anson con vention,- The: delegates are J. L. Mathesoo, Edward Martin and C. A. Bland". ' l Govercnent Whs First Victory of the Contest ,;. ;';'.' '.'. ' '' i ' ''4: Clericals Again' Defying the Govern. mcnt, However, uid Preparing For Di-monstrations ' AgaliiNt the Pre - . nuYr. IL . (By Cable to'iThe Times) Madrid, Aug". :' 8 Again defying the government the clerical forces in the Basque provinces, aided hy t?ie Carllst8, ere preparing for demon strations against; Premier Canalejas in connection With the. crisis setween Madrid and the . Vatican. Senor Don Jose Maria De'OrqtliJo, leader of tne San Sebastian jjinta.i.who called oft the demonstration planned there for yesterday, is directing the new move ment, with, the avowed intention, however, of ' permitting no violence by his followers. It Is generally con. ceded, however.ithat the government has won an Important victory in pro- venting the San' Sebastian outurea The clerical forces have been given a body blow by the ridiculous situation brought . about at San Sebastian Abandoned by ; thelx religious lead ers, the devout peasants who had hurried to the city were left in the care of soldiers, who fed hundreds loft stranded. ' ' , Premier Canalejas Intimated today that there would be no cessations of the preparations to keep order, even to the extent of bringing troops from Morocco. The reinforcements sent to the north have been ordered distributed at Pomona, In Navarre, and Victoria, in Alavara, the towns named by Or- quljo as the scenes of the coming de monstrations. f ' Advices received today from San Sebastian say that the arraignment of the 150 fervid clericals arrested yesterday j both in' the streets and 'in the raid on the LJSteparatlst Club was brought about' with little show of feeling by the populace. It is feared, however? that the prosecution of members of the junta and clericals who sent insulting mes sages to the premier and others of the government, will stir up the members. Specific Instructions were today sent by Minister of Justice Ruiz Valarina to the supreme court prosecutor at San Sebastian con ducting the case. ' For the moment, however, the sit uation at Bilbao has again become paramount. The refusal of the strik ing miners to accept the govern ment's intervention has to a certain extent offset the triumph of the gov ernment against the clericals. The employers are preparing to bring in strike-breakers, It Is reported.- Such a development would Inevitably lead to disorder that would inflame the entire j:orth. It now appears, according to po litical leaders, that the crisis will be reached In the Cortes. The clericals and their conservative allies are pre paring now for a conflict in the legis lative chamber in the event of Can alejas following out his announced plan of exposing the alleged conspir acy against the government. It is understood that In this the premier will charge the clericals with a close alliance with the Carlists for the overthrow of King Alfonso, Boom Italley For President. Galveston, Tex., Aug.' 8 To coun teract an attack., whlch'the opponents of Senator Joseph W: Bailey are ex pected to make up on him at the democratic state convention tomor row, the senator's friends today start ed a boom for his nomination for the presidency in 1912. : The meeting of the state executive committee was the only official ses sion scheduled for today. The con vention will meet tomorrow and make nominations. AMERICAN YACHT IIS THE TROPHY . (By Cable to The Times.) . Cowes, Eng., 'Aug. 8 The -West ward, the American yacht which last week captured the , kaiser's cup and other trophies, today won the Royal Victoria Yacht Club International trophy over a forty-eight mile course. When the race was half over, , the event was called off, Sir TUomas Lip ton's Shamrock, on whlqh was King AlfonBo of Spain, being' declared win ner. .The American kept oil, -however, finishing one round miles ahead of the others,, and the decision, of the judges was changed, m . . SnA, r - ii' i y,t-,.t, . . Wi NorniHii K. Slack, chaii'iuaii of the National Democraitc Committee, who is one of the "accidental" visitors at Mackinavs . Hand, where W. J. Con ners, of Buffalo, Justice W. R. Day, Charles V. Fairbanks' and 'Speaker Cannon are ulso staying. All are stopping nt the same hotel and are frequently seen in each other's com pany. All denied that an important conference had taken place. . Speaker Cannon said that he did not go to the island for any. political conference and stated that his staying at the same hotel where the other promi nent visitors are stopping was merely incidental. -V WANTED TgECfPEN Crowds Throng; the Street About Court Room In Spite of Assertion That O'rippen Would Xot be Taken to Court Crowd Was on Hand Special Po. . lice Preserve Order. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Quebec, Aug. 8 Men, women and children today thronged the heights of Abraham in the hope of seeing Dr. H. H. Crlppcn, accused of the murder of his wife, Bele Elmore, In London, and Ethol Clare LeXeve, his compan ion. In spite of the assertion that Crip pen would not be taken to court, the public jammed the streets about the parliament house prison and lined St. Louis street, through which he would have to be taken, long before the time set for the hearing of tiie case. ..' , - . -' Around the court building a crowd gathered, also, and special police were detailed to preserve order. The appearance of Judge Punet Angers and Judge Charles Langlier, the spe cial sessions magistrate, who set the case for a hearing today when Crip pen was arraigned a week ago, caus ed a crush, which was controlled with difficulty. Deputy Attorney General Lanclot, wheu asked this morning If Crlppen were to be taken to court, replied that announcement of the plans had already been made. He referred to the statement Issued from the office of Sir Lomer Gouln, attorney general and premier of Quebec last week, In which It was said Crippen would not be taken from his cell today. A rumor was spread today that Crippeniiad. under the advice of his counsel in London, Arthur Newton, determined to ask for a writ of. hab eas corpus. . This was declared a for mality taken only when extradition Is fought, however. ' . It was 'even reported that there were in the hands of a prominent lo cal, attorney,- acting under New'ton's orders, papers necessary'to the secur ing o fa write of habeas corpus. Georgia-Collector. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) : Washington, Aug. ' 8-The appoint ment of. Henry Jackson., of Atlanta, Oa., ' to. succeed H." A.v Rucker as In ternal revenue colector for the north ern district of Georgia, was announced this afternoon, f Will Contract $100,000,000 Railroad In Turkey Great Britain Alarmed at the Success of American Financiers in Turkey Believed That Steel Trust is Back of ihe Deal. (By Cable to The Times.) .London, August. 8 By securing the right to build a $100,000,000 railroad in Turkey and getting inval uable mining privileges, an American syndicate of financiers has outwitted the most astute commercial interests of Germany and England, tae chief contenders for right in Turkey, ac cording to information secured here today. Coming soon after America had forced Europe to grant her bank ers participation in the Chinese rail road loan, the Turkish government is the source of alarm here and in Berlin. Private cables received here indi cate that the moving power behind the syndicate is the United States Steel Corporation. With the right of exclusively working for twenty years one of the richest mineral dis tricts of Turkey, untold millions are already In the grasp of the Ameri cans, London's financial district holds. British contractoi-s, however, may secure a share of the construction, which is soon to begin. The big English construction firm of MacAr thur, Perks & Company is indirectly represented In the deal through the participation of the connected Amer ican firm of MacArthur Bro'thers, which has taken a large part In the construction of American western railroads, including Harriman lines. Rumors of the railroad deals and mining concessions have been current here eince last fall, .when the Ottoman-American, development Company was organized in New Jersey with a nominal capitalization of $500,000. The full extent of the undertaking was not understood here, however. . With concessions for 1,200 miles of railroads through the mineral and oil territories of Kurdistan and the Tig ris, and Euphrates valleys and with the mining rights for 12 1-2 miles on each side of the road for its entire length, given to the Americans, the Turkish government will be forced to abandon working the government mines, which are in the territory af fected. The Turkish cabinet has passed favorably on the project. Eu rope, however, will bring to bear all possible pressure to prevent the mat ter being laid before the Turkish par liament when it meets on November 18. "- .,'" The report current here Indicate that probably the most important fig ure in the syndicate is E. C. Con verse, who is a steel trust director. MacArthur Brothers are represented by Arthur F. MacArthur and other prominent men involved are Frank lin Remington, president of the Foun dation Company of New York; James L. Laidlaw, C. A. Moore and C M. Chester, Jr. Britain Interested. Constantinople, Aug. S T. B. Hopler, first secretary of the British embassy, today conferred with Rifaat Pasha, minister of foreign affairs. Though the subject was not announc ed, It was reported scml-offlpially that the conference was caused by the announcement that American inter ests had secured railroad rights and immense mining concessions. ; Passenger Was Too Heavy. Lanark, Scotland, Aug. 8 A mishap marked the start of today's (lights in the $60,000 meet here. Captain Dickson ascended with a passenger weighing 210 pounds. The machine was over taxed and fell. Neither occupant was seriously hurt. AIRSHIP ON FIRE WHILE IN FLIGHT Blackpool, Eng., Aug. 8 A. V. Roes, a novice aviator, Is today suf fering from burns sustained . last night when, while he was making a trial trip of a tri-plane of his own design, ' the machine .caught fire in midair. While the flames spread with .' terrible rapidity under the breeze caused by the machine's flight, Roes, constantly menaced by the dan ger of a petrol explosion, coolly guid ed the plane toward the earth. When he was but a few feet ' above the ground the. planes were so eaten away that they gave no support and the machine fell.' Roes, however, es caped with slight Injuries.-, . COKil nm iT in nun am I IN 111 - Two Meetings Finally Held and Two Sets of Delegates Were Appointed ' Hf- i' WAS A GENUINE R017 ::: .' vr Contest Over Delegates Leads to Split in the Convention Majority Re . - ' : - -t- ,-, . port Was Adopted and the Minor. ity, Headed by Willis G. Brigga, '..Withdrew From the Convention and Held Another Meeting Both Factions Appoint Delegates to the State Convention. Late Saturday afternoon the re publican county convention split up the Duncan faction withdrawing and- holding an independent meeting.( When the report from the ' credent tials committee came before the con vention Mr. Willis G. Brlggs spoke in favor of the minority r report. which, by the way, was signed only by himself. It recommended that Dudley Peed be seated as a delegate from Barton's Creek, that Moses Standi and Frank Massey be seated as delegates from Neuse township; that the delegation' from; the second division, third ward, Raleigh, con sisting of J. J. Harris, George Sav age, Thad' Jones trad Rofe Williams, be seated. , .. rPiin malnrttv i.anni4 wbb dm nnnWaH by L. F. Butler and C. M. Bernard. ":':. Upon motion, the convention acted upon the minority report first, and,, upon roll call, the vote stood a,i tot- . lOWS: ';..',' '.';.. -. ..?r'':;''.;" For minority; , : Barton's Creek,-2; ' Cary, 4; Holly Springs, 2; Little River (Wakefield), 2; Mark's Creek, 1; St Mary's, (Auburn), 3j- St.. Mary's (Garner), 3; Wake Forest, Rolesville, 2; Wake Forest, (Wake Forest), 1; White Oak, 4; First Ward, First Division, 2; First Ward, Second Division, 3; Third Ward, First Division, 3; Fourth Ward, First Division, 2; Fourth Ward, Second Di vision, 3; Outside East North, 1; Outside East South, 1; Outside West North,. 2; Outside West South, 3. Total,-'4 4; Against minority: Barton's Creek, .4; Buckhorn, 4; Cedar Fork, (Mor risville), 3; Cedar Fork, (Pollards), 2; Holly Springs, 3; House Creek (Edward's Store), 5; House Creek, (Method), 2; Little River, (Mitch ell's Mill), 1; Mark's Creek, 5; Mid dle Creek, 6; New Light, (Stony Hill), 6; Oak Grove, 3; (Panther Branch, 4; St Matthew's, 3; Wake Forest (Wake Forest), 2; White Oak, 4; Swift Creek, 6; First Ward, Second Division, 1; Second Ward, First Division, 2; Second Ward, Sep ond Division, 1; Outside East Nortii, 4; Outside West North, 1. Total 72. That vote, while It decided whether the minority report should stand or not, was a real test vote of .the ' strength of Butler and Brlggs, sod Butler triumphed. Upon motion, the majority report was then adopted. The name of Mr. A. D. Upcaurch was placod before the convention by L. F. Butler for permanent chairman and he was elected. -. '; . Mr. C M. Bernard placed the name of Edwin G. Nichols before the con vention for secretary and he was elected. - - The following delegates were then convention: E. T. Banks, J. H. Ar nold, J. J. Reynolds, P. A. Sorrell, W. H. Hester, J. S. Mangunv S. M. Rowland, Amos Young, J. W. Honey cutt, A. D. Ross, A. Honeycutt, O. G. Ellen, H. T. Jones, A. D. Upchurch, J. M. Hare, S. R .Seymour, C. F. Fer rall, J. J. Pleasants, W. T. Barrow, J. W. Hardin, Lester F. Butler, C. M. Bernard, Walter H. Grimes, H. ' B. Greason, H. E. King, J. I, Moore, G. B. Alford. Alternates were al?o 1 elected. ....... f. Mr. W, G. Brlggs then moved that each precinct that cast over one hun dres votes name a delegate, the re malnlng ones to be named ; by ijthe convention. It was clearly seen that -Mr. Brlggs was opposed by the coq-. vention and he demanded a. yea and :l (Continued oa Page Elgbt.1 vy :
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