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Mile eigh Vol. LXX. Nri. 27. The Weather-SHOWERS. RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1911. ' LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS Double the Number of Paid Sibscri TAK aSTEPS BIDS ARE RECEIVED sf sr Admiral J ogOi the Guest of the Nation j TO SAVE WAl Board of Aldermen Meet and Considei Water Situation With Directors of Water Company RELIEF IS EXPECTED Hoard of Aldermen Authorizes Water . . Committee lo Art Willi Mater Company in Saving tiverv Drop f Iiiqiiid Possible IVeuuscs In r I'rivilege is Abused Will Hi- Cut Oil Isut iti'l v on short Notii'f I'rcparhig fur Anx llineigency Col. Olds on Sit nut ion. The water situation was un- doubtedlv relieved tins afk'i--noon. From the windows of the weather bureau rain could ? be seen falling directly over the .. water shed and the situation has been relieved temporarily. At a called meeting of the board of aldermen at noon today a resolution was' passed authorizing the water I'ommittee of the board to act with the Wakn Water Company for the purpose of safe-guarding the water supply of the city. Mr. (ieorge Harden introduced the resolution and .Mr. Joseph (1. Brown seconded it The meeting wan railed at the re quest of the directors or the water ."company; It was stated that there was no immediate danger, but the i water people and the city author! ties wanted to be armed against any situation that might arise. If rain does not fall on the water shed arrangements will bo made, if it becomes necessarry, to haul water from Durham, which city has 9,000,- lioo gallons (lowing by its intake. Fif teen 8,1100-gallon tanks can -be pro cured at any time and if the neces sity arises water can be hauled by rail from other places, as is done in Charlotte. All during the meeting, however, large clouds were forming and the officers ot the water company and the city were optimistic of the situa t ion being relieved by nature. But no risks were to be taken. Muv lie Cut Off. bate tins alternoon It was an nounced that the entire supply ot water would be cut off from those residences where the consumer per sists in using water for sprinkling lawns or persists in neglecting to have leaking fixtures repaired. There are many leaking fixtures in the city and thousands of gallons of water are going to waste. The water committee ' and the water companies have power to cut off premises in case of failure to ex ercise proper precautions, and a number of Raleigh people are likely to be without water in the next 24 hours unless they do something to help the people who are conserving the water. Tho water situation was worse to day. Col. Fred A. Olds, who has been watching the situation, con tributes the following for the bene (Contlnued on Page Two.) TREATIES OF PEACE WPP QICNFn TffflHV IILIIL UIUI1LU luuni '' Washlneton. Aue. 3 Arbitration between the United States and France and the United States and Great Britain were signed today. They point the way to universal peace. They will submit all ques tions to arbitration, Including those of National honor. French Am bassador Jucsermand, of Paris sighed for France at nine a. m., Paris time. Knox glgned both the British and French treaties and Ambassador Bryee the British treaty at the white house at three o'clock this afternoon. The president was a witness. Died Frpin Hookworm Disease. IHica, N. Y., Aug. 3 Mrs. Albert Hall, aged thirty-five, died of hook worm disease. This, It Is said, Is the first case of hookworm causing death In Central Now York. She contract ed the disease In Manila, where she taught school prior to aarriage. Text-Book Commission Me This Afternoon For Purpose Another Meeting Will lie field To night and il Ik l'robatdo That Ac li'ii of Committee May l!e known in Next l ew Days Nothing Today i no state text-book commission anil the sub commission mot this alternoon and received bids lor public school books for the next live years. Adjournment was then taken until tonight at 8:30.v 'I here was much interest In the meeting 'of the board .especially by the numerous book agents who were scattered about the streets, but noth ing official was given out with re gard to the meeting. It is probable that the state board will be ready tomorrow or at an earlv day to give out the result of the find nigs of the committee. . WIIITi: ('Itll.liKD TODAY. I.orimer Defense Tries to Hrcak the I'orre of Him Testimony lv ( Hiss examination. Washington, I) .C, Aug. 3 All the arts of rross-exiinunntlon were brought into plav. bv Senator l.on mrr s counsel in an attempt to brenl down the testimony, given on direct examination bv Charles A. White former member of :lie Illinois lpgis lature, to the effect that he was brib ed, to vote for l.orimer for senator. The cross-examination was conduct ed bv IClbridge Hanecv. of Chicago. IIo questioned the witness about his start in lite at a salnrv of $:!.n0 a week. His highest salary, before becoming a labor 'lobbyist," Into said, was $B" monthly. ' Did von ever receive as much in anv five months of your lite as you did when voil received $2.1 :0 for at tending the legislature' asked Man erv. .: ' No " White was asked about attending church when a vouth. "You sat. near the door, didn't von . " --. ' Well. I may have at times, I also sat. on the front seat, in the amen corner." "When was the last time you at tended church?" White blushed and hesitated. He said it was bef ro his ' exposure" in 180!). Mil. M M RKTIItKS. Leaves Service of the Southern New Appointments Announced. After a long and -efficient service Mr. D. W. Linn, chief engineer main tenance of way and structures of the Southern Railway, will voluntarily retire from the service on September first, next. The following appointments are announced, effective August first: Mr. B. Herman, acting chief engineer maintenance of way and structures, headquarters, No, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. Mr. T. H. Gatlin, assistant chief engineer maintenance of way and structures, headquarters, No. 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington U. C. - l'HNSIONKD 11Y CAKM-lOlrl. Innocent Man, Who Served 'JO carn In Prison, to Ret $10 u Month. Pittsburg, Pa., - Aug 3 Andy Toth, who was released from the penitentiary here last March, after serving four years of a life term for a crime he did not commit, has been placed on the private pension roll of Andrew Carnegie. Toth was convicted for participa tion In the killing of a watchman at Carnegie's Edwar. Thompson steel plant, at Braddock, Pa., but the con fession of one of the rioters in Hungary cleared him and he was pardoned. Carnegie ordered that the man receive $40 a month. Toth will leave here for Hungary, where he will repoln his wife, whom he has not seen since his conviction. RKAPPOHTIONMKNT HI 1,1;. Passed the Senate Today Will Go to Conference for Arreiiiont, Washington, D. C, Aug. 3 The amended house, congressional reap portionment bill, providing that after March 3, 1913, the house of repre sentatives shall consist of 433 mem bers, exclusive of Arizona and New Mexico, an increase of forty-two over the present membership, passed the senate without roll call. The bill goes to conference be tween the two bouses for agreement as to the senate amendments before going to the president for approval. fV " I f - , ygFgEKo. V STl mmsm If ,v ' ' ) J worn A i ' v" K'W II- UK Hpf BATTLESHIP it !p "V . wezr.RotHT .New York, '".-August. :J A 1 in i r;il n'ogij, chii.'f of tiu- i.i:iv:: .sl.alT iif .iiiiniii, liern -of the liat "t !i -s --of I lie. S"a of ,,.Jarti'n;' lands Irom .Mw; l.iisiiaiiiii :'-.ton'iiirrow : 'ns tlu.' i; I lie iiii -. fi'ii' fur-K'-veir een ' ilay-s-;. ilwat lionors xv ill lie shown ili in. He sent t In; foil iwiiii; wirele s last iiislil "'In'l in j I n l Ar.evii-ai. ;.i (i e. I a;iii'' .dale the rare honor of visiting. Aniei. lea. as .-the inilion's i;iic;.t iimi In.ilv I mwai'il In ni-y.''s.0')tii"V-.-5n''--tho; !ii"'nl liiialorn country as a snii alil-vctiiiiax to my.', wurlii's .tiiur. . Xolliinn' i-'M-it f h niy auiii-ipi'iijoii " niure, l han lof ty buildings ami X'aira. ' : 'I'o.a '.:oes to NViishi.niitriii joMuii rfnv lo y iU - -i-.esiiiicis. . to- fiie. ('rcKiiloiit.- .. n State Reunion Proving In Every Way An Enjoyable Occasion For the Old Soldiers MANY VETERANS PRESENT One '1 liousand derails m Atteml- nnce mid the Meeting li:ivelv At tended by Local People Address of Welcome by Mnyor .-ninth, (ni. lion lly V. I'. Starry Col. Itnru- wyn Kespomls to Address ot Wel come Singing by Concord der mis Music by the Drum Corps. (Special to The ''lines.) Wilmington, August ;;. --V. itli an attendance o! ' hundreds vt Coined- erate veterans Irom ever" section ot t!ie btate ot North Carolina, as well as of ladles and .gentlemen ot Wil mington, cotniMisiiti; an audience which taxed the iirst and second floors of the Academy of AluUe,: corn er Third and l'rinci-ss streets the annual State Ke-l niovi fit the Unilcil Confederate veterans of North Caro lina, was .formally inaugurated yes terday morning and indications point to the most successful convention in the history of the organization. The session of tiio mornir.a; xvill be followed with a business meeting in the afternoon, a dance ...ut : Lumimt and at W'rightsvlIIe Beach compli mentary to the veterans, and the annual parade this morning, The veterans seem to be having 'a most enjoyable time and they aru enthu siastic ii) their praises of toe hospit able treatment bging accorded them. The people of Wilmington have ex tended a most cordial and hearty v ol- come to the visiting soldiers and the entire city is theirs for the asking. The song "Our President," writ ten by Mrs. . W. P. Toon, of Wil mington, was then rendered.- The wordB were sung to the- tune of the national air "America," and this was the first time many of the veter ans had heard the sliiriiiK 'vords of the song,, and Uiey were greatly pleased with it. One of the attractive tcatnres of (Continued on Page Flve-2 t F wrTrnAi! ATWILMINGIOF 10 AOMiRAL TOGO W'asiiint:ioii,.. I). (' '.Aiig. '..!! Presi dent Tail's lt nil i- to Admiral Tog" at the wliiii- liou.se SaUivday nie;)i will lie one or the. 'most notable: af fairs" of i:.. kind ever given, It will be si"-stni; (U'liner. in itself, liniisinil. Vice . i'resiili'ill Sherman, Admiral Dewey, tiie: .lajianese : ainliassador, iiieinl.'crs or the. cabinet, and a -.score of others.' .are asked . I'd' ill lend I lie dinner. . ' (ii:oi;t in distkiss OIV Cane lialleias Willi l illV Mem bers ol the "Holy (iliosl iimi I s" . Soreitv Alioaril. ." AVasliiiig'tpit.,- 'August j.---'-.Tin'", .revenue- eiiuer Onoda.na an 1 Seniiupb'., were"- onlereil l.i sea, from Xorl'olk. hv wireless lo search lor the v.ieiil Coronet; in IHsin'ss off Cape llalier as. xv iilr liliy nieinlic!-:.; of I ii? Holy (Iliost anil Is i-orietv alioanl. I lie Coronet's. .mine '.'port is .Siiilor, Main'''.. . ( .'ililoiiua .Mllhoaai,.' !)e:l.. I .ok Angeles, (al., August Ma tor W . A. I'lupps. a iinilti-iiilllionaiie. of I 'ill sburg,: a - 'former: partner of Andrew t'ariiegie, died today, aged til'ty-seven. , lie live;! the last. I'c-w , ears here; because. of liis healtii. .-' TARIFF REVISION BILL ' Washington. D C, Aug. '3 The underwood cotton tariff revision bill passed by the house today . reduces tho duties on cotton goods covered in schedule I of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law from IS.l2.io 27.0(1 per cent. Its passage, overwhelmingly by the house, as the third of the straight: tariif measures in the dem ocratic program, in the wflke of the Canadian -reciprocity, was long ago assured by the party solidarity of the house .democracy.- It's estimated rev enue producing capacity, according lo 'democratic Leader Underwood, chairman of the i ommfuee that fram ed it, is $39.1(1:!, N0! the first year of its operation, which is approximate ly $:!, 000,000 below the revenue re ceived by the government in '1910 from imports of the same, articles. There Is liltle thought of securing action on the bill In, the senate at this session. - w s r OY The Reapportionment Bill Will the House a Membership ol 433 ITS POLITICAL ASPECTS Mr. (ioiluin Hue Credit l or tin lli!l Important PoMlcal .Kesnits Are lApecled l-roin the New Law --llrpiihlicaiiK Apparently 'lave (lie Advantage, Itul Hie Kesulls of l.asl ear's I. lections May t.ive It to the Democrats Senate ( onleres on the Wool Kill Mr. Webb Declines Invitation Mr. r.irrbee Coming Home. ( Special to The Times. ) Washington. Aug. " Leaders of all I act Kins agree thai the -cap port lonmenl lull lixing the member ship ol the house at 4,!,' will be passed bv. the senate today. Tho re sult, win . be , satisfactory to- Norlll Carolina democrats. North Carolina congressmen f ought steadily against anv decrease in the membership ol the house, though iliev knew that their state would not lose a member H the present standard xvas retained. Ilcpresentat ive (jodwin probably Is due more credit for (his bill than any oilier member of congress. Dur ing the sixty-first congress, Mr. God win offered a resolution in the census committee of which lie xvas a mem ber, making the membership 433. And 4.13 it will be, according to present indications. Had the bill kept the house mem bership SOI, the present figure, Mis souri would have lost two of her six teen congressmen. Virginia, 1, fieorgia 1, Iowa, 1, and a number of other Hlales would havo lost in rep resentation. . Under the proposed ' hill no stnt.a will lose In representation. Important, political results of the now law are expected. Distributed between the parties according to their record of recent general elec tions, the republicans would get the benefit of the Increased house as fol lows: Republican gain: California., 3; Idaho .1; Illinois, 2; Massachu setts, 2; Michigan, 1; Minnosota, 1; .(Cuuilsued on Page Two.. HAITI WITHOUT RULER Two Revolutionary Factions Occupy the t? oiiiniHlee ol Salelv 'Iran. ' lliiougii the Diiiloiiiauc ( oi M ii i n t;i i in ii n Order Willi llie lull ol Itnlisli and (.rrtiian Marlins I'lllage Kesulls in Lnnli'is li'Miif '''.. Shot, .-.'' l'iiil. u-l'riiiee, lliiili; Augiihl- ::.. ilaiii. is wiliiinii ire:ieiit of t.irv.j"; u." iZeil KoVel IHII'ell t. Tile l afiil a I is , oc cupied hy I Wo- rival . revil il ionivrv piirth-n.- Iieiuled re:.;ievi i cH- hy n eral l.eeoiita,; .former inini,-1 er of : iin inli i-ioi-, ". and (leuoi';'! ririuan, who deserted his post as minister to Cm-ui liriiain to join ..the revolt 'against ('resident Simon. . .. . A, "public', safety, .committee oni lO.ed eiiiially .of -'iriniiists,; l.eeont isls and iieui ras has. In en .irganizeil ihroiigh tiie dipIom:'iti': eiirp's' iniia liAe, anil is iiiajnlaiu;nn piililic order. Ci-i ninu .and,; li.ritish. niarnies'. i liave been '.'.landed 10 aid tin' iiroviKional nut iiorii ies..;.- ,: -"' :, Afleuilils at .pillage 'iveri? made ai:t niglil ami it was lieccii.-ary to-slioot t he li.oters.: . Seriou,; oiil break vi:, preveineil.. '.-. ; ;;' . Ail us in' Simon, tlie do po:-ed president- i-oinjielled to wi'lidraw from .the city, is sh.ll oiioaivl the: Aiiierii-au sehooner l;iadlord. (-. h't'eueli an chorr'il in the harbor un."r t!ie i,ro teition ol l he American cruiser Chester nuns. Simon a ft ai1 s : tie ar rival ol ;i Irnit sieaaci- lor - Kings Inn, Jamaica. I'ortv persons- were killed during the occupation of tlie Ciry ..by. the revolutionists and suljeiiuent ran Ing. l.asl ji in lit arm eil nieiial templed lo at lack I he custom house. Thi'. at lack was met by tlie police, who shot six pillagers.. Karly. Miis .'. morning the 'American-'. scli.oou.Y ..lolni , I'aul, 'lying.- along side ill- dock was I hfeateneil. by, the juoli, .who. believ ed so tile political refusee was aboard. The committee of 'sa'fct.y dtsp'osed the mob, The Chester was iiearby hut tire warship's aid wis unnecessary. lute Wile Wants Divorce. Sent tie, ash., Aug. ;!-l.una I'orler .of Ayr-no,... Minnesota, a school teacher, ageil twenty, who married a Japanese years ago. litis asked the superior court lor a di vorce because ol cruelty and incom patibility. 'I lie white wile savs she cant explain how she ' happened to marrv a . Japanese. Inev lived to gether eleven days. Medical Societies Merge. .; Itocliester.Miitn.,' August ').- Tip' Soul hern ..-Minnesota Alecl ii;al, Associa tfon anil the Mimics. 1a . 'ail-'y Medi cal '''Society-' inet in. .joint annual ses sion lii'ie loilay iiuil iirranged for the merger HI tlie. two lioilies 'into oiie n.ssociat ion; I he memhei'shi):- of whica will etuliraee tlie leading physicians and siit-Beens of the southern section ot the Slate. lo Discuss Kailroad Kales St. I.ouis .lo., August o.- A-con-lerence ot attorneys general Irom the ten stales is to be held in this city tomorrow lor .the. -discussion' of the i -ceil l tare -dispute and other pend ing railroad rate, litigation. "The stales to be represented are Oregon, Keniucky, South Dakota.- Arkansas. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, -Oklahoma,. i.Miinesola, and Missouri, , ; , ll.-illi I lib tor I'oi kei s, t'tildweH.; N. .1., A-v'i-t -l-'re.i-eriek. I lelier,; a stock, raiser, has In stalled in tiie'rear of nis hoiiK1 a ball) tub: for the use, exel.i;uyel.y., tor lae cleanliness .of two pri. winning l.ierkshire pigs. Tlie liib is tilled twice daily. The young parkers are bathed as .-'carefully as babies. ; Kegnlar Iti iiililicans Alarmed. Washington. I). C. Aug. :! Alarmed over the '. possibility of an attemiil to pass the wool tariff revis ion bill over the anticipated Tail's veto, the senate regular republican leaders are trying to bring all ab sent republican senators hero, before next xveeli. I 'ol nier Senator Mui pbey Dead. New York, Aug. I! Former United States Senator Kdward Mur phy, of Troy, died today at his home, lOlberon, N. .1., as Hie result of an operation for enlarged n'bdominal glands. Turpentine Market. Savannah, (Ja.,:. August 3. Tur pentine,' firm, 4S. Hos'.ii, firm; type l', .:55(i.42Vi; 0.,C.35(Li; 6.42 Vi,. .,- BOARD MEETS ii.i.- r i.. i i ; "dKc luumy flssessmeni iscreasea 32.321,000 or Twenty Percent at Meeting This Afternoon WAKE FOREST PROTESTS Messrs. Hrexver ami Caddell the I.at-lei- Assistant Assessor, Protest Vi gorously Against Increasing As sessment lo 1'ercenl in Five Town ships and Reducing It In Those l ite as Well as Jill Oilier Town ships. lly raising the assessment ten per cent, in live townships and then re ducing it ten per cent, in 'ill to.vu slnps, the Wake County board of equalization this alteration adopted l ne report ot t he committee appoint ed at the last meeting to hear com plaints and equalize, tax values: The tne townships where tlie assessment was -increased, ten per cent, are Bar ton s t reek. Cedar fork. -St. Mary s, W ake Forest atul .- While Oak.' The other townships were let t. -as-report-oil by tne assistant assessors and then reduced along with tne live. '1 lie effect of the new equalization will be lo increase the taxable pro perty in the county $2.3 1 'I ooo, or about iO per cent. The average value ol each acre is placed at $10; in Wake Forest the valuation was V.I.N-I. ..." ' A mighty -howl greeted the t'ars of the board ol eiiualriatlon and for over two ,iours there was such jaw ing as has scldoni been heard In the ake '.County "courthouse.-. It might liave been a rumi niass meeting, for l he noise made. Commissioner W. O. lirewer start ed the racket by prolestiny '. Hgitllist . the adoption ol the eoinmittee's re port; Mr. .1. C. Caddel! came next with a long, sorrowful narration of his trouble and work as assistant assessor and Prof. N. Y. Gulloy ended the discussion: for WaHo rore3t with a plea for fairness. Mi'. Ii. C. licckwith, county at torney, 'replied to charges made by Messrs. Itrewer and Caddell that something was rotlon in Denmark," and declared that theirs was a game ot rotten politics. Tliero were blank et denials, counter charges kihI more squabbling until neiu'lv three o'clock. Mr. neckwilh said t lei hoard was simply striving to mak'j t!a wealthy laiid-ownors and property-owners pay their share til the laxns, as they should do. W bat was being done was for the benefit. 'ie vowed, of the poor man. Chairman Johnson de. flared he tor one, would vote for a reduction in taxes. Itody ol Abbey ( reiuatsil. London, Kng.. Aug. ;I The bodv of Kdwin A. Ahbev. the relebrated American painter, was cremated I he ashes were buried near Willsden American Ambassador Heid and a number of .Americans were present. l.inlMv.ler Stabs Himself. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 3 Carey A. Manker, tornierjy of Pearl, 1 1 1 1 hoik, a banker tor three venrs i lugiuve chtirgeil with embezzlement ol Kitl.Onil died earlv todav Ha -tabbed hinvself In prison yesterday DR. REIVISEN SEEMS 10 BE TIREa OF If , AVashington, Aug. 3 The Remsen pure food referee board would wel come the finding that It Is illegal, de clared Dr C, V. Remsen, chairman of the board, before the house com mit too on agricultural department, ex penditures. This is the tribunal to which pure food decisions are refer ed and which reversed Wlley'a find ing than benzoate of soda was de leterious to health'. ::'-,..'- V ;, . :.;;..'- -j:. Conference) On Fih. i,Nt Bill. Washington, 1), C Aug. 3 The house ways and means committee will not accept the farmers' free list! tariff bill, as amended hy the senatdr' and instructed Chairman Underwood to move that, house non-concur andf ask a conference with the senate. ' "I have not the slightest doubt we can come to an agreement on the bill in conference," aald Underwood. -. '
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