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VoL LXX. No. 138. The Weather CLOUDY. PSIGE FIVE CZZili' RALEIGH, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1911. LAST EDITION Double the Number of Subscribers in Raleigh of any jr Newspaper MEETING OF kiies The Presidential Campaign Wil . Soon 'Bel In Full J WILL BE BIG FIGHT Meeting of the Two National Com mittees Will Mark Formal Open. . Ing of Campaign, Though a Good Deal of Campaign Work Hag AI ready Been Done-Democrats Rec ognize the Wonderful Recupera tive Power of the Republican Par. ty and Are Not Too Confident, But ' Planning Wisely. , I I (By Winfield Jones.) Washington, D. C., Dec. 11 Na tlonal political campaigns are In augurated at the meetings of the two national committees of the parties immediately before the convention dates are fixed. '.'-.'.' This has been the practice for half a century and the coming campaigns will follow the usual course. The republican national committee will soon meet In Washington to map out the preliminary work, and the demo cratlc committee will meet immedi ately after the holidays. ' By the first of the year therefore the race will be on, and the fight will .continue until the ballots are counted in the November election. ' It is true that the two parties do more or less campaigning during the four years between elections. This Is particularly true at the present. The election of Taft in 1908 marked the real beginning of the movement to re-elect him in 1811. The defeat of Bryan 4a the same election was the. signal for the democrats to get together and. find a candidate who could do better four year later. Tne tremendous importance of the congressional election a year ago is an evidence of the desperation with which, the parties will clash ten months from now.. That the demo cratic party was swept Into control of the bouse of representatives and came with in few votes of controlling the senate has been taken as a har binger of Buocess In the presidential contest by the democrats. Yet the far-sighted leaders of that party are none too confident of the result next November. They are not banking too strongly upon the"tide" but are pulling themselves together to resist the enormous recuperative power of the republican party., No political organization in the history of the country has been able to sustain such terrific assaults as has the republican party. Almost every contest since the civil war has demonstrated this. Twice, it is true the republicans have lost control of the government, but they were able to regain it In four years In each of these Instances. This is the reason why the demo- cratlc leaders are calculating upon all possible contlngences. This Is why they are councelling "harmony" at every opportunity, and are work ing hard to prevent any disruption either before or after their con vention meets. These leaders know that the re publican party is never whipped un til the last state is heard from, and while conditions now are in their favor they are guarding against over confidence. The democratic ' committee will PORTER CHARLTON CASE STILL DELAYED Jersey City, Dec. 11 Porter Carl ton, after waiting in jail a year and a half, charged with murdering his wife lit Lake Como, Italy in June 1910, .is facing another, eighteen months inaction in his case. Indi cations are that his appeal to the Bprerae court against extradition will not be reached before 1913, and niether the prisoner's family nor Major Scott, brother, of the slain wo man, seems inclined to. attempt to baiten action. Charlton Is well sup plied with funds and spends his time reading. ; composing verses and ; smoking cigarettes. 'After a woman living in a small town has visited the city for a couple of weeks she calls ber hired girl a 'i., meet In this city in a few weeks, elect a chairman, pick a city to hold the convention in, and set a date for its assembling. There will be jockeying for the initial advantages. More available democratic candidates are in the field this year than ever before in the history of the party. These candidates, all of them, have friends on the national committee. They are looking to these friends to lose no tricks and are depending up on them to see that their opponents gain nothing while, either In regard to the place for holding, the conven tion, or in any other detail of the committee's action. There no longer seems much doubt that President Taft will be renomin ated. The LaFollette supporters are in a hopeless minority In the repub llcan committee and will be able to choke off the presidential primary movements. They are also able to head off any other Insurgent tenden cies which may crop out. Of course there is always the pos sibility that Colonel Roosevelt will come forward at the last minute and "save his party" by allowing himself to be nominated, but if his own de clarations are to be taken seriously and the assurances of his friends are to be believed, he will not under any circumstances allow his name to be presented. This leaves the republican conven- tlon with nothing to do but to nom inate President Taft, and then do what It can to frame a platform which will win back into the party the rank and file of the insurgent forces. : If this platform falls to heal the break In the republican ranks, then the president's re-election is re mote.,,- It was for this reason that the republican committee will devote so much of its time in talking over the platform, and the necessity of mak- ing it as "progressive" as such a platform could stand. When the democrats meet, the sit uation will be different. There will be no less than five candidates and their individual strength might br (Continued on Page Seven.) FOUND DEADJN ROOM Mysterious Case of Asphyxia tion In Philadelphia Girl Found Dead and Her Maid Senseless on the Floor Strange Feature is that Supposed Maid Was Her Mother. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 11. The police are Investigating the mysteri ous death of "Mary F. Harmon, age eighteen, found in the bedroom of her apartment, supposedly dead from gas asphyxiation. Near her on the floor was the unconscious form of the girl's negro maid, aged forty. The strange feature of the case is that while the girl was supposedly white, and the maid a mulatto, the girl really had negro blood and was the daughter of the woman who liv. ed with her as her servant. The police say the girl was the daughter of an Englishman, who once was choir member in a Baltimore church. The girl was educated in a leading seminary and passed as white. The dead girl was a good musician. The mother is unconscious in a hospital. If she recovers she may throw light on the mysterious case. Among the girl's effects were fifteen pawn tickets showing $228 had been borrowed on jewelry. Five," bank books were examined. These show ed that In one Baltimore bank in 1907, the girl had eighteen hundred dollars on deposit. She had had large deposits in other banks. All deposits had been withdrawn except five dollars. LOST A RICH GOLD MINK Paltry Federal Job Kept Claimant From Getting Title. Washington!! Dec. 11 Whether J. Potter Whittren lost his claim to a rich gold mine in Alaska because he held a paltry- federal job now is be fore the supreme court of the United States, Whltren first discovered gold in Alaska in 1902. He marked off his claim, but Included half an acre too much within , its bounds. It is claimed that he lost title to the mine because in reducing the boundaries of the required Amount he excluded the hole from which the gold had been mined. By the next year, when he discovered gold within the proper bounds, Whlttres had become a deputy mineral surveyor of the Unti ed States. Otto Halla and others now claim title to the mine in question, on the ground thai Wittren lost his claim in ; 1902 and was. disqualified front gaining another after he became a I deputy mineral surveyor, , I FIREWORKS IN PUCE BURST Fire Destroys Piedmont News Stand and Sets Off Many Crackers Fire shortly before seven o'clock today In the Piedmont News Stand in the building on the corner of Martin and Dawson streets, sot off a lot of tire-craciters, roman candles and other fireworks, caused a slight explosion of gas, practically ruined that part of the wooden building and knocked from a chair the owner of the place, Mr. M. Fromme. Ho rapidly and loud did the fireworks go off that many people in the neighborhood Imagined that a can nonade was in progress. The damage was said1 to be about $ 1,300 and the insurance was given as $800. Mr. Fromme Raid he entered his place at 6:50 to open shop. Ho went to the gas jet about midway in the building, climbed upon a chair and struck a match. When ho did so there was an explosion, he was knocked .several feet, and barely reached the fron door before the entire room was in a blaze. News papers, magazines, fire-crackers and almost everything to be found in a curiosity shop were set off, and for a few minutes it seemed that the en tire building would be burned. The noise made by the bursting crackers vie with the brilliant red of the roman candles, and for a few min utes - there was a really fine pr yo- technic display, An alarm was sounded and the fire department responded promptly. The other part of the building was not damaged, but Mr. Frorame's place was practically demolished by fire, water and smoke. The build. Ing is the property of Mr. J. A. Bpence. .. "j ; ' BUYING FOREST LANDS National Forest Reserve Commission Buys 18,500 Acres in McDowell. (Special to The Times.) Washington, Dec. 11 Following a meeting of the National Forest He- serve Commission In this city today, the announcement, was made that the commission had ratified the .purchase Of 10 tracts of land in McDowell county N. C, aggregating 18,500 acres. Practically $100,000 was the purchase price for the entire prop erty. , - . - - . '- This land lies at the headwaters of the Catawba River a stream which flows Into the Santee River. The Santee is navigable for 200 miles and is one of great commercial im portance. JUROR IN SWOPE CASE DISAPPEARS Kansas City, Dec. 11 Harry Wal- dron, a Juror in the trial of Dr. B, Clark Hyde, for murdering Col. Thomas H. Swope, has disappeared. The trial has been held up. The deputy marshal!, guarding the jury In the hotel found a transom torn, from Waldron's door this morning. Waldron was gone. A mistrial may result.. Domestic troubles, it is said, caus ed Waldron to grow restless under the confinement as a juror. Deputies are searching for him. THE INVESTIGATION AT LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Dec. 11 With the McNamara brothers In the state peni tentiary the case divided itself into two parts today, one being the pre liminary examination of Burt II. Franklin, charged With bribing a prospective juror, and the other the conference between Oscar Lawler, special - prosecutor, and several wit nesses summoned to appear tomor row before federal grand jury to tell what they know about alleged dyna miting conspiracies. The statement that Ortie E. McManagal, confessed dynamiter, soon would go to Indian apolis to lay the foundation tor the Inquiry there was taken to mean that the grand jury would conclude the consideration of the conspiracy sub ject by the end of the week, i .From top to IxiMom nre some of the l erf pockets who arc mv - on tri.il in (Jiiciigu liriorr. thiv ti'deiitl court 'to answer a criminal charge1 'of a violation of the Nhci'innii imti-lmst law: : .1. Ogden Armour, president of Armour & Co.; Cluirlcs 11. Swift, (I rector ..'Swift. & Vo,l ami Louis' 1 Swift, president of 'Swif t & Co. DEATHS OF INFANTS Raleigh Shows Up a Little Better In These Statistics ISnte of Infant Mortality in Raleigh Compares Favorably With That of Other rides hi Hie State Rate 18 I' inlet- One Vein- anil 2;l t mlcr '' Five Years.: (Special to The Times.) Washington, Dee. 11. Rates ot infant mortality in Raleigh and North Carolina, compared wltlv oth er cities and slates are shown iu a preliminary si a'emen t from the cen sus bureau today. The figures show that the rate of deaths of ..-infants under one year to the iota! number of deaths in muni cipalities of North Carolina, having a population of more than one hun dred, twenty; deal lis of Infants un der five- years in ratio total thirty two in ono humiml. For the "ileum registration area," that is, Hie. states having effective birth and death registrations laws, the ratio is nineteen in one hundred, and twenty-seven in one hundred, respectively for children under one, and children under live years. The statistics, 'are regarded as especially valuable because they show the im portance of sanitary measures for the protection of Infants. In North Carolina, Asheville re ported 14 ier cent, of its deaths as being among children under 1 year, and 21 po-v- cent, among children under 5 years; Charlotte, 16 and 29 percent, respectively;-. Durham, 20 and :i0; -Greensboro, 21 and 30; Ral eigh 18 and 23; Wilmington, 24 and 34; and. Winston, 21 and '34. IGNORE HILL FOR PERJURY Testimony About Fire Companies Was in Error, Norrlstown, Pa., Dec. 11. The grand jury has ignored the bill charging H.pE. Elston, of Philadel phia, formerly of Norristown, with pejury. Tne charge was preferred by Cleorge F. Koppel, representing the Camden Heating Company, who alleges that at the last term of civil court, when Mr. Elston was defend-; ant in a suit brought to recover a bill, be testified that at a tire which damaged his apartment house . on Swede street, no plug streams had been : employed by the , Norristown ' firemen in extinguishing the blaze, but. that the work had all been, done by chemicals. . Mr. Elston admitted that he did so testify, but that hq had afterward found that he was in error. 1 no hope roe MEN IN HE Sixteen Bodies Have Been Recovered and 1 here Are One Hundred More lhicelllp, I'enn , dee 11 With sixietn bodies rpcoveied and Identi fied rescue pjrlles tenewed digging in the i.ttempr to leice the Big Cross mountain mine to sin tender its dead Viilli t In oe miles into mountain explored and most ot the mines crops entries, bratoticod. rescue crews hourlv expect, to stumble into the corpse strewn chambers. One hundred or more are believed dead 111 the mine. All hope of res cuing any wiio went Into the mine Saturday has bean abandoned. Weep ing wives who v.ei't made widows by Saturday's - dust blast, crowded the slialt. entrances this morning, to meet. Ilieir dead. In a warehouse near the mine en trance, are great numbers of col fins awaiting their occupants. 01 the corpses tound last, night three sat bold upright in a mine car. Five lav on die ground. : The first body discovered this morning was Andrew Johnson, was tound in a sitting position in one ot the interior chambers. Red Cross camp has begun work tor the relief of the suffering. It is estimated the explosion rendered hrty-six women widows'' and: made 184 children' -orphans.'." . I X f ) ICAT IONS OK STOl I Relieved That West Indian Hurri cane is on Its Way. Washington, D. C, Dec. 11 Indi cations of a severe storm which may strike the south Atlantic states, was reported to the weather bureau from Turks .Island,- seven' hundred miles from Miami, Florida. The bureau is sued cautionary advices to points along the south Atlantic; it is be lieved one of ti-.e storms of. the West Indies linrricail season is on its way. .M Hit U W X CU'HOUt s i.kavi-; , Tiome, Dec. 1 1 .Suites of the American cardinals have begun ti disperse. Seven of these attached to Cardinal Farley left for Cher bourge. Tliey sail for America on the Pricessin-CeeilU', January fifteenth. Mgr. Dennis O'Coiine.ll, auxilliiry. bishop of : San Francisco leave.! Europe at the same -time, embarking at Bremen. SON BEATS HEAD OF FATHER INTO PULP (Special to The Times. i Wilmington, N. C, Dec. 11 Chas. F. Dowdy, a white carpenter, was arrested here today and is now in jail charged with the murder of his father, Mr. W. O. Dowdy. The latter was waylaid and killed last night near die corner of 14th and Ann Streets. He was accom panied by his grand-son, who is son of the man arrested. The old man was killed with an axe anil his head was. beaten into a pulp. The grandson stated that a negro WILL NOT INTERFERE IN THE TOBACCO CASE Washington, Dec. 1 1. The Unit ed States supreme court declined to interfere at this time with the decree of the United States circuit court for southern New York approving the reorganization plan of the "to bacco trust." 1 Attorneys for the leaf tobacco board of trade of New York Monday asked the supreme court to review the decree, to require the lower court to vacate its order, approving the decree and compel it to recognize the leaf tobacco board trade of New York as a party to the litigation. Do your share of work each day, pay your debts, save a little money, talk only when you have something to say, and you will assist the world in growing . better, I committed the crime. Circumsta- as developed tonav caused Magistrate (leorge Hnrrtss to issue a warrant against, the son or the deceased. Two axes were found near the scene of the hilling and one od which was covered with blood. The crime has caused great indignation here. The coroner's jury will meet this after noon 10 investigate the crime. The committing magistrate stated today that, he has evidence that the son beat the- father several .nights ago. isle imrvctt iv ltASKirvLi. National Commission and Irf'naue Mooting. Eastern 1 New Voile, Dee 1 1 Three dajs I big domes 111 b iseball curies opened 1 1 0(1 ii V with tile meetlne"! of the K't tlonll (.olmnss,on all(, EllhtPrn Lpa gu(. Ww ranking of American As bonadon and Kastern and Pacific Coast leagues in the "A" class before the commission for ratification. This reclassification necessitates several amendments- in existing agreements Hie t wo big leagues begin their de liberations tomorrow. JOYKHOHS IV XEW YORK Western Governors Welcomed to the City By Mayor Giiynnr. New York, Dec. 11 The western governors party was formally - ivel coined by. Mayor Gaynor in the city college hall. -The program of enter tain inenl provided lor the state exe cutives included a visit to Oram's Tomb, a water trip on the fire de partment, steamers and exhibition work by the fire boats. iii:i vr a firi; New, York, Dec. 11 After pre venting panic by going among and re assuring the frightened tenements of a burning apartment house, Samuel Cost, 78 years old, an ex-battalion chief of New York Fire Department, died from heart failure last night while watching the fireman battle with a stubborn blaze. MISS DEWITT ON TRIAL Accused of Writing Defama tory Letters Case of Fast 011 (Jirl Who is Charged Wit li Mailing Defamatory fitters Was ('oiidniied for About Ten - Years, .V, Philadelphia, Dec. 11 Miss Har riet Dewitt, of Easton Pehn., accused of weilding the "poisoned pen" that eaused the trouble in Easton Church circles was placed on trial in the United States district court today Judge Mct'Uerson is presiding. Miss Dewitt is rharged with deposit ing in the mails obscene letters. The letters which she is accused of sending to various persons were de famatory and penned during a period of about, ten years. Their particular mark was Rev. El iner E. Snyder, pastor of Christ Evangelical ... Lutheriaii Church Easton.; All the letters were printed some covering eight to ten pages. During the ten years defamatory let ters wero received by married men their wives, young brides, and inno cent girls. They created a great scandal. -Miss Dewitt arrived in court accompanied by her father and mother. She was quietfiilly and tastefully dressed, She is a little more than 30 years old. Uev. Mr. Snyder was the first wit ness. He was 29 and single when he took charge of the church in lflill. Miss Dewitt lived opposite the par sonage. He first met her at a church social affair. In the ten year's period he said he received 200 or 300 an onymous letters, all of an improper nature. Snyder married last Jnuo. "What were Miss Dewitt's actions towards you the last year or so?" he was asked. "If 1 passed her on the street she would throw her head up and some times make faces." Several times, Snyder testified, Miss Dewitt hissed at him as he passed down the street. He said she acted Insultingly toward his wife. RIILS FOR PUBIC BUILDINGS (Special to The Times.) Washington, Dec. 11 Bills pro viding appropriations for three pub lic buildings have been introduced by Representative Steadman.- Tbey are for Charel Hill, $100,000; Mt. Airy $125,000, and Burlington $125,000. There is a general feeling among members of the house of representa tives that there will be no public building bill passed at this session. Numerous bills are being Introduced, however. nurifiriiT rnn . v Well Directed Effort to (Bake Him ithe Republican Nominee SUPPORTERS ARE ACTIVE Ail Attempts to Disguise the Fact That a Concerted Movement Is on Foot looking to the Nomination : - of Colonel Roosevelt Have Been Abandoned Effort to Have Dele gations Go to the Convention Vmm instructed ami There Stampede Them For Roosevelt. Washington, Dec. 11 All attempts to disguise the fact that a concerts movement is on foot looking to the nomination of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as the republican candi date for president in 1912 were, ap parently - dropped when it became known that national committee mem bers were being sounded as to their view of the feasibility of "forcing" the nomination of the former presi dent.: On the eve of the assembling of the national republican committee in quadrennial session here tomorrow little was talked of today but the prospective attitude of Roosevelt It became known that several promi nent republicans on their way - to Washington to attend conferences, stopped over in New York and had Jong talks with Roosevelt and that still others had made engagements to see him either at '; New .York or Oyster Bay, following the meeting of the national committee. Roose velt supporters now here are basing all their arguments In his behalf on the claim that while Roosevelt has announced he is. jaet candidate he has not stated he would not fceeent ' flhcT nomination If it wewr tendered him. They claim that "as a good American citizen Roosevelt could not do otherwise than accept, once the convention acted." No attempt, it was said, would be made to bring Roosevelt sentiment to a focus now. The hope of his supporters is to achieve victory in the convention They are pressing the argument that delegates should go to the conven tion uninstructed. Friends of Taft are meeting Roose velt sentiment everywhere and as sert that the movement is a well di rected one. They are urging Taft'a nomination on the ground that to re fuse to indorse his administration would be to discredit the party. ESCAPING GAS KILLS TWO Bartender and Paperhanger Found Dead at Atlantic City. Atlantic City, Dec. 11, Gas today caused the deaths of Frank B. Smith, 53 years old, a bartender, who bad savings of $500, and El wood A. Williams, a paperhanger, son of David Williams, engineer of a Reading flyer. : Smith was found dead in his room at a Kentucky avenue hotel. He went to bed last night in good health; and spirits. Williams had been dead for hours when found in his room at another hotel. - -. In each case death was apparent ly the result of the accidental turn ing on of a gas Jet. Smith's nearest relative I sa sis ter, Alice Smith, living at f 7 Arling ton street, Lawrence, Mass. THE DEPMll'S -COIIOli ESll Washington, Dec. .' It The de partment of agriculture estimates the cotton crop of 1911:18 to be 7,121, 714,000 pounds, of 14,885000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. Pro duction by states: Virginia, 83,000; North Carolina, 935,000; South Car olina, 1,480,000; Georgia, 2,560,000; Florida, 73,000; Alabama,. 1,600 000; Mississippi, 1,195,000; Louisi ana, 395,000; Texas, 4,280,000; Arkansas, 915,000; Tennessee 420, 000; Missouri, 83,000; Oklahoma. 915,000; California, 11,000. And many a man who bellsres in doing the greatest good to the great. est number regards number one M the greatest number. A I III Il "I LI I lllll' muvciiiLHi run ROOSEVELT
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