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GKEEJsSBOBO, N. C. SUNDAY, JANUARY 12. 1908
LAST EDITION.
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Hustle and Get-There Tactics by
Canvassers for Sub
scriptions. THEY OBTAIN $8,625
IN VERY SHORT ORDER
Committee Appointed to Make System
atic Canvass Among Business Men in
Aid of a Matter Appealing to Every
One in the City.
When the canvassers for subscriptions
to tho aduitoritlm fund turned over their
lists to the chamber of 'commerce secre
trnry last evening, they reported a total
for the day's work of $4,375, or a grand
total in twenty-four hours 'of $8,023.
This amount is larger than the sum pro
bably needed for the -purchase of a
ihuilding and practically insures an au
ditorium for (ireensboro.
The list of the subscribers is printed
in connection herewith, together with
the amounts o ftho individual subscrip
tions. Xo difficulty whatever was found in
obtaining the subscriptions yesterday.
The canvassers, of whom there were five,
worked in teams, .'Mayor Brandt and
C. L. Van Xoppen going together and
the other group being made up of C.
M. Vanstory. .1. F. Cobb and C. 0, Fer
guson. Of. the different citizens asked
to join in the movement for the ben
efit of Greensboro, only three individ
uals declined to subscribe and one of
these said later that lie would think
the matter over.
An informal meeting of members of
the chamber of commerce was held last
night. The lists were gone over and a
consideration of various questions bear
ing on the subpeet of the auditorium
(Continued on page Two.)
AUDITOR
NEW SULTAN OF MOROCCO
IS NOW PROCLAIMED AND
HOLY WAR IS ORDERED
Mulai Hafid, Who Some Time
Ago Was Declared Sultan at
Morocco City, Takes On Ad
ditional Honors.
Followers of New Ruler Base
Pretensions Upon Announced
Purpose of Abd-EKAziz to
Keep Agreement With Euro
pean Governments.
Tangier, Morocco, Jan. 11. Mulai
Hafid was on January 4 proclaimed Sul
tan at Fez, one of tho capitals of Mo
rocco, and a holy war has been declared.
Mulai Hafid, who some months ago
ryas proclaimed Sultan at Morocco City,
A-as not present at Fez, and his uncle,
"Mulai Saramini, was made vice-regent
pending his arrival there. Abd-Kl-Azir.,
the Sultan of record, was formally de
posed from the sultanate. s
Proclamations were issued at the prin
C. cipal mosque, and all the Moorish for.
' malities attending such ceremonies were
scrupulously observed. The Ulemas, or
lwdy of Moslem doctors who interpret
the Koran of tho Choll'as tribes, and the
city officials were the Prmc'Pal leaders
in the movement.
The followers of Mulai ITafid made
use of the decision of Abd-Kl-Aziz to
cooperate with France and Spain in the
execution of the terms of the Algeciras
ott and the installation of an interna
tional police force in coast towns of
Morocco to arouse the fanaticism of the
y (Southern Moors. Abd-Kl-Aziz was rep
resented as having sold himself to the
Christians, as having connived at the
,' Invasion of the sacred soil of Morocco
i Ly Europeans and as being ready to
turn the country over to the foreigners.
Further advices received here from
Fez state that Mtafri Hafid was pro
- claimed Sultan mr- condition that he
abolish taxation, make an alliance with
the Sultan of Turkey , and suppress all
" relations with 'Europeans except those
"prescribed by custom and rules."
Couriers have been dispatched to Mo
rocco City to summon Mulai Hafid to
Fez. That city is reported to be in an
' uproar. The residents are armed and
ore fearful lest outbreak of pillage or
a massacre occur. '' ''
News Disturbs Paris.
Paris, .Tan. 11. :The government Is
considerably disturbed over the unex
pected 'declaration of a holy war at Fez
nd the proclamation of Mulai Hafid, as
i Sultan of Morocco. It is now anxioug-
y awaiting information as to the num
ber of tribes who will follow the rebel
sultan.
The Immediate effort of tho procla
mation of Mulai Hafid as sultan, is cer-
4 Yes, Advertising Does Pay:
BILL TO REVISE
LIS START
IN-HOUSE
Vigorous Fight Waged Over Revl
slort. Particularly with Refer
ence to Section 19.
AMENDMENTS TO EXEMPT
LABOR UNIONS DEFEATED
Sherley, of Kentucky, a Member of the
Committee on Revision, Bears the
Brunt of the Attack, Though Repub
licans Generally Come to Aid.
Washington, D, C, Jan. 11. A vigor
ous fight was waged in the House to
day .over the bill to modify and revise
the penal laws of the United States,
with particular reference to section 10,
affecting conspiracies against the civil
rights of citizens.
Messrs. Smith, of Missouri, and
Hughes, of New Jersey, offered amend
ment having for their object the ex
emption of labor unions from the oper
ation of tho section whenever such
unions declare strikes or boycotts. A
motion to strike out the whole section
was made by Mr. Bartlett, of Georgia.
The. brunt of the debate was borne by
Mr. Sherley, of Kentucky, a member of
tho committee on revision, but he was
supported by a number of Republicans.
These amendments were all lost, as Was
one by Mr. DeArmond to strike out sec
tion 20 because it-conferred on federal
courts in punishing felonies and misde
meanors committed under section 1! the
authority given to courts of tho state
in which tho acts are committed.
The only amendment to pass was one
by Mr. Ciaik, of Missouri, striking out
that portion of section 10 which pro
vides for olfenders the additional pun
ishment of ineligibility to hold any of-
( Continued on page Two.) : . -',
MULAI HAFID.
tain to be the indefinite prolongation of
tho stay of tho French and Spanish
troops in Morocco.
NEW ORLEANS EXPORTS
HEAVIEST IN HISTORY
New Orleans, l.a., Jan. 11. The ex
ports at Xew Orleans for tho month of
December, l!)07, as shown in tho. col
lector's report issued today amounted to
$2S,030,124,- "the heaviest in the history
of the port. In cotton the increase over
the same month in the preceding year
was 0t.408 bales. Corresponding in
creases aro noted the other products. ;, '
GLADYS AND HER
GOUNTGET LICENSE
HIS NAME LOOKS LIKE AN ALPHA
BETICAL PARADE AND SOUNDS
LIKE A SAW.
New York, Jan. 11. A marriage li
cense was issued today to Miss Uladys
Moore Vanderbilt and Count Lastzto
Jeno Maria Henrik Sim Szeehciyi, of
Hungary. There were few persons in
the marriage license bureau at city hall
when the couple arrived in a public car
riage... Miss Vandcrbilt's age was given as
twenty-one years in tho application.
Count Szechenyi described himself as
twenty-eighl years old, by occupation
land-owner and imperial and royal cham
berlina native of Hungary and not pre
viously married. '
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STATE Vti. GET
m TAK
T
Commissioner of Internal Reve.
nue Capers Orders Refund
Made.
LACK OF EVIDENCE ON
PART OF GOVERNMENT
Commissioner Holds, However, That
State Through Dispensers Is Liable
for Tax as Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Where They Sell in Quantities.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 11. Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue Capers today
ordered that the '$-1,525 paid by the State
of North Carolina under protest as tux
alleged to be duo from the retail dis
pensers of that state for the sale of
fermented malt liquor sold in wholesale
quantities, be refunded to that state.
While holding that in this case there
is a lack of 'evidence on the part of the
government to sustain the tax and or
dering the refund, the commissioner's'
decision holds that the state through
its dispensers is liable for tax as whole
sale' malt liquor dealers, where they
sell in wholesale quantities, and the rev
enue officers.. will continue their investi
gation along these lines.
The commissioner says the stale's
claim is based upon two grounds: First,
that the tax, if due, should hnvo been
collected from the individual' dispensers
and not from the state, relying in this
contention upon the decision of the Su
preme Court of the United States in the
ease of South Carolina vs. the United
States, 1!)!) U.-S, 137. Second, that
there is a failure, of proof on the part
of the government to sustain the tax.
The commissioner states that he is un
able to agree with the first contention,
as the main question decided by the
(Continued on page Two.)
ASKS pip
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I creditors File Petitions Liabil
ities Said to Exceed
$500X00.
HAS MANY CONNECTIONS
Houston, Texas, Jan. 11. Creditors of
the Farmers and Hankers' Warehouse
Association filed a petition in voluntary
bankrupty against that concern in tho
Federal Court today.
The answer was filed by J. O'Brien,
acting president, in the absence of Pres
ident David IT. Shapiro. Liabilities ex
ceed !?5()0,10. The assets are of an un
certain amount. Xotes for amounts ag
gregating over $100,000, transferred by
Shapiro to T. W. House, now bankrupt,
are now being investigated by the grand
jury.
Involved in the bankruptcy proceed
ings commenced today againt the Farm
ers and Hankers' Warehouse Building
Association, of which David H. Shapiro
is president, and against Shapiro per
sonally, are cotton and cotton ware
houses in Texas. Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas and both sections of Okla
homa. " '' V. ';''.':
. These warehouses now contain cotton
being held for higher prices, and
warehouses are dependent updn the sale
of this cotton to get money sufficient
to meet the maturing paper. Therefore,
it is believed, much of this cotton will
be thrown on the market. The creditors
mainly are banks and manufacturing
concerns in large cities.
MARK TWAIN GUEST
OF HONOR AT BANQUET
HIS WHITE FLANNEL SUIT LOOKED
COOL AND COMFORT-
v able.: .'-''''-
New York, Jan. 11. The Lotus Club
bade farewell to its old clubhouse in
Fifth avenue when ; Ojree hundred or
more of its members At down to dinner
tonight, at which Mark Twain was the
guest of honor, and Henry H. Rogers,
Andrew Carnegie and Col. Robert P.
Porter were noted among the principal
guests. . (
Mr. Clemens was summery and cool
in his white flannel suit. He spoke in
formally and in his characteristic vcjn
of humor.
Ask the Man
PAID
UNDER
ROTES
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CON
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KILLED 111 WILD
RUSH FOR SEATS
Forty Others Are Injured. Several
of Whom Cannot
v.;: Live.
PANIC IN PUBLIC
HALL AT BARNSLEY, ENG.
Little Ones Crowded House to' Witness
Entertainment and Request That
They Change Seats Starts Rush That
Ends in Fatal Scramble.
Barnsley, Eng., Jan. 11. Sixteen chil
dren were trampled to death, and forty
others, several of whom cannot live,
were injured in a mad rush for better
seats at an entertainment jVven in the
public hall this evening.
There was a great crush to secure ad
mittance to the entertainment, and when
the show opened every seat was taken
and the galiery was literally packed
with children, who tilled the aisles and
were dangerously massed against the
lower railing. With a view to relieving
this crowding in the gallery, the at
tendants decided to transfer some of the
'children '.to the body of the house, and
one of the ushers called out: "Some of
you children come downstairs." ;
Immediately the rush started, and,
within a few seconds, hundreds of chil
dren were being trampled under foot.
Lven those who had seats in the gallery,
doubtless being panic-stricken by the
screams and struggles of the crowds
fighting to reach the stircases, . joined
in the stampede.
The scene was a terrible one, the
cries of the injured and moans of the
dying causing the greatest excitement
among those gathered in the body of the
hall. Police and ushers rushed to the
head of the staircases, which were liter
ally strewn with dead and dying, and
by the most desperate efforts managed
to dn'g scores of the struggling cliih.tcn
to the corridors below. It was with
greatest difficulty' that a panic among
the children in the lower part of the
house was averted, all of these eventu
ally being taken to the street in safety.
When the reserve police arrived they
found the narrow stairway practically
blocked with bodies,Which were crushed
in some cmes almost beyond' '-recognition.
Scores of children were forced by
tho pressure from the crowd behind
them ta scramble over thoso that had
fallen, whether living or dead, and many
of tho injured children were found later
to be suffering- fractured bones and
severe lacerations, caused by the inde
scribable manner in which they had
been trampled upon. .
Soon after the accident the approaches
to the hall were crowded with sobbing
women searching for their missing chil
dren. SOUTH MTIC1B.
Savannah, G'a., Jan. 11. The South
Atlantic Baseball League held its annual
n'eeting in this city today, Macon, Au
gusta, Columbiai Jacksonville and Sa
vrtnnnh being represented, and Charles
ton being advised over the telephone of
the actions as proposed, and concurring
in them all.
Charles W. Boyer was reelected presi
dent and William O. West, of Jackson
ville, vice-president. X. P. Corish, of
this eily, was made chairman of the
board of trustees.
The constitution was so amended as
to discontinue the practice of suspending
a player for three days when fined by
an umpire.
A schedule of games was presented by
President Boyer and adopted. It pro
vides for the opening of the season on
April (!. The salary limit will remain
as it was last year.
II. s.
T
AT
FIRE BEYOND CONTROL WHEN
DISCOVERED LOSS ABOUT
; $175,000.' ,
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 11. The United
States dredgeboat Henry Fladd was
burned to tho water's edgo at her moor
ings in West Memphis tonight. - Tho
boat, which had been engaged in dredg
ing the channel of the Mississippi river
in this city, was comparatively new and
valued at $175,000. ,
The fire when discovered by the boat's
watchman had already gained consider
able headway, and efforts to check its
progress were futile. Other boats of
the fleet were not damaged- Tho cause
of the fire has not as yet been ascertained.
Who Advertises in the Daily
WITH TAFT AND UNITED
PAR TY CHANCES ARE
EXCELLENT, SA YS ADAMS
FOR TAFT AND UNITED PARTY
Chairman Adams, oi the Repub
lican state executive eommitte, de
clares in a formal statement made
last night that -.Republicans of this
state are looking to the future with
the utmost confidence. The few dis
cordant notes that are being sound
ed at rare intervals, he avers, are
of such a character as to excite, not
the least concern. He contrasts this
wholesome condition in his own poli
tical household with a rent and torn
Democracy; expresses the opinion that
early conventions should be held this
year, and expresses the confident be
lief that Secretary of War Ta ft will
lie the Republican nominee for the
presidency, and that the Republicans
of this state will give his candidacy,
their prompt and unanimous indorse
ment. ElOFCLEHC-ilOUSE
CERTIFICATES FJOW IN
SIEHTJNJSEW YD UK
Bank Reserve Deficit Wiped Out
and $6,000,000 Surplus Is
on Hand.
CHEERS GREET THE NEWS
Xew York, Jan. 11 For the first time
since the beginning of the financial
stringency in October, the clearing-house
statement today showed that not only
had the heavy bank reserve deficit been
entirely wiped out, but that a surplus
of .$G,084,0.)0 above tho 25 per cent, legal
requircmeilt had been established,
The figures made known today exceed
ed the most expectant hopes of bankers
and brokers, and , when the statement
appeared on the stock tickers it was
greeted with a round of cheers in prac
tically every banking-house in Wall
street -.'-.. -.
Bankcri declared that no better evi
dence than tho clearing-house state
ment could be obtained to show tho
rapid restoration of confidence and the
tremendous outpouring of hoarded mon
ey. The excellent statement foreshadows
an early retirement of clearing-house
certificates, which were first issued on
October -211 of last year.
With the end of the money stringency
there will 'now he plenty of cash for
business and the industrial world and
many contemplated projects, which wcro
temporarily abandoned during the money
pinch, can now be financed and proceeded
with. The clearing-house banks faced
a deficit in reserves on Xovembcr 23 of
$o4.10;t,(i(M,. the largest in history. Since
that time the deficit has constantly de
creased and with the rapid return of
boarded money and funds from the in
terior last week's deficit of $ll,i)00,5."iO
has not only been obliterated, but a
l)bstantial surplus of over $0,000,000 es
tablished. Montgomery to Resume.
MontgomeryAla., Jan. 11, President
Baldwin, of the Montgomery Clearing
house Association, tonight, issued an or
der for the complete retirement of the
clearing-house certificates which have
been' used in Montgomery and vicinity
for the past two months. These certifi
cates will le retired as rapidly as pre
sented at the different banks here: Monday-
morning.
Savannah to Go Back to Cash.
Savannah, (!a., Jan. 11. At a meet
ing of the Savannah Clearing-Houso As
sociation late yesterday it was decided
to call in all clearing-house certificates
on Monday, next. The financial condi
tion in (icorgia is much improved.
MYSTIC SHRINERS NOW
THRONE MEXICAN CAPITAL
SPECIAL TRAIN WITH FIFTY-FIVE
ARRIVES FROM SAN FRANCISCO
AND MORE ARE COMING.
Mexico City, Mex., Jan. 11. Headed
by Georgo Filmer, illustrious potentate
of the Islam temple of the Mystic
Shrine of San Francisco, the special
train bearing fifty-five Shrincrs from
San Francisco arrived in this city today
to participate in the installation of the
Mexico City Shrine of the Anczeh tern
pie. The special was met at Torreon
by a committtee from the local temple,
Many Shrincrs from other parts of
the United States are expected tomorrow.
Republican Chairman Says That
Present Secretary of War Will Be
the Standard-Bearer Next Fall,
and That He Will Receive Unani
mous Indorsement of This State 's
Delegation.
Judge Spencer B. Adams, tlir- Repub
lican state chairman, when asked for
an expression of liis opinion on current
political ntrairs, as those conditions bear
upon both the state and 1 lie nation,
made this statement;
"The most noteworthy circumstance
relating to our political affairs is the
feeling of unity nnd concord which pre
vails in the party ranks. My advices
received from both the party leaders, in
all sections of the state, and from those
who nre frequently alluded to as the
rank and tile, all tell the same story
that our party i united in the determi
nation to enter the - approaching polit
ical contest without any division of
opinion as to men and measures, while
all are inspired with encouragement,
feeling as they do that a splendid fu
ture awaits the party. It is true that
once in a great while, and usually
through the medium of a Democratic
newspaper, I hear that some one lias at
tempted to sound a discordant note, but
such attempts nre of such a character
as to excite not the least concern, nor
has any mischief-maker been able to set
in motion any movement that is visible
to the naked eye. As to the causes
for the faith that are within us, thpy
are obvious not only to the state, but
to the nation. These causes become ap
parent very largely through 'contempla
tion' of the plight in which the Democ
racy finds itself. A split, abyssmal-like
in depth, lias opened in the ranks of
cur Democratic friends, and these fatal
differences of opinion have been easy
to discern since the meeting of the last
legislature. From the highest Demo
cratic authority I have scicn the state
ment made that the last legislature was
WANTS MURDER OF
WINSTDN-SALEM MAN
BT
Senator Simmons Asks State De.
partment to Have Inquiry
Made.
CRIME IS THREE MONTHS OLD
''Washington, D. C Jan. 11. The case
of -W. R. Boggs, Jr.. of W'tistou-Salein,
who' was stoned to death by. a 'mob in
the State of Duraugo, Mexico, was laid
before the secretary of state today by
Senator Simmons.
Boggs, a son of (leu. W. R. Boggs, of
Winston-Salem, was superintendent of
the. Topia' mines, in Durango. 'On Xo
vembcr 17 be was .'murdered. So far as
can be learned there was no causo for
the act, except insubordination on the
part of the leader of the murderers.
Little if any effort was made by the
Mexican authorities to capture the per
petrators of this outrage upon an Amer
ican citizen.
Finally officers in the Topia Company,
composed of American and English cap
italists, took the matter in hand and
offered a reward for the capture of the
man who led the assault upon Boggs.
At the instance of relatives of the dead
man Senator Simmons was induced to
take an interest in thet matter, and he
has asked the secretary of state to have
an inquiry made, that such action may
be taken as the government may deem
necessary and proper.
IP
PEARL WIGHT DECLINES PRESI
DENT'S OFFER ON FINANCIAL
GROUNDS.
Xew Orleans, La., Jan. 11. Penrl
Wight today confirmed the report that
5io had declined the position of commis
sioner of internal revenue, which was
ottered to him several months ago by
President Roosevelt.
Wight announced at that time that he
would accept the position if he could ar
range his business affairs in this city.
Ho said today that the financial strin
gency which arose made it necessary to
give his entire time to his interests in
Louisiana,
Industrial News. 1 He Knows
properly to be regarded as a menace to
I the state, and few Democrats have been
I found to : attempt more than a half
hearted challenge of this appraisement
of the general character of that body. It
is an appraisement, I believe, that is
shared by manufacturers, bankers, and
i all those concerned in the creation of
j wealth, as well as by the tillers of the
j soil; People of intelligence -of-all walks
j of life have been made sick by the '
spectacle of the last, legislature, in'
JfranKly allowing itself to he controlled
by .tho destructive radical element, and
by reflection upon subsequent events,
which have resulted in the loss to the
state of untold material wealth. If any
Democrat in the last legislature was
even suspected of laying claims to san
ity it was quite enough to result in his
political -undoing.- He was tossed incon
tinently outside the breasworks like a
squeezed lemon. In other words, the
whole performance brings to mind the
maxim, honored more and more with tho
passage of time, that our friends, the
enemy, can always be depended upon to
act the fool at the riglit time; and while
I, as a citien of Xorth Carolina, regret
more than I can say to observe the great
injury which the Democratic party has
done the state during the past few
months, and to see how much that paTlv
has done towards arresting our material
development, still the patent fact can
not escape Republicans that these things
to which I have alluded will be resented
hy intelligent voters everywhere, and
it is a circumstance that, points to our
epnortunity. The last legislature was
completely dominated by a self-eon-
(Continued on page Two.)
WILL MEET THE TEST
ON HER SECOND TRIAL
Members of Naval Board Express
Confidence In New
"' " '. . cruiser. .
SHE 15 A HARD SHIP TO DRIVE
Washington, D. C, Jan. 31. Members
of the naval board which conducted the
trial of the Xorth Carolina on the 'run
from Rockland, Me., to Xewport Xews,
Va arrived in '-Washington today, and
generally expressed confidence in the
ability of the contractors to secure tho
necessnry twenty-two knot speed on
another trial, the fact '.-that the big
cruiser fell short of the contract re
quirement by only one-tenth of a knot
under conditions far from favorable, is
the basis for tlrs belief.
Another trial for the Xorth Carolina
will be made next Saturday. The naval
trial board will leave Washington Fri
day night, and (warding the ship Sat
urday morning, she will steam straight
eastward ...from the Chesapcnko cap.s
about two hours, until the seven fathom
line is found and in water of this dept h
the second 1 rial will be made.
Poor coal and inexperienced firemen,
and above all things, the naval require
ment for the first time that during the
trial run each lireroom should be com
pletely sealed from the others ami
from the open air. arc the reasons as
signed by the builders for the failure
of the ship 011 the first -trial. So the
navy-department has liecti 'iskcd 1o sus
pend the rule as to the closed jireroom.
which prevented proper supervision of
the stokers by the engineers in charge.
One fact dcvcloxd by the test was
that tho Xorth Carolina, though a splen.
did ship in every respect, is harder to
drive than her sister ships, Tennessee
and Washington. For instance, it is es
timated that the Xorth Carolina will
require 27,200-horse power, even in a
smooth sea, to make the twenty-two
knots required by tho contract on 118.ti"
revolutions of the propellers per min
ute. As a matter of fact the ship was
designed to make that, speed with only
2.'!,000-borse power, which it was calcu
lated would give 120 revolutions per
minute. -' - -
Hotel Clerk Missing.
Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 11. Louis Mc-
J Elvaine, aged twenty-one years, who
nas Deen empioyea ns a clerk at the Men
house for some time, is missing. The
Columbus police have been asked to,
locate him. His home is in Lynchburg,
Va.. and he is said to have relatives in
Richmond.
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