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3 p - " & folk mm. Three Cento the Copy. VOL XII. COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, AP&IL 11, 1907. NO. W. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year In Advance. " smHY ARfiHT $s nnn iron VI vi.. ..vwwi fv,vvV)uuu ANTI ROOSEVELT FUND New York Tribune's Correspond ent Gives White House Views. DENIAL OF ANY CONSPIRACY Diners m Shorcham Carried Strange Talc Said Rockefeller-Harri-man Interests Would Attempt to Cain Control of Convention. Now York City. In one of the most remarkable declarations ever made in the White House President Roosevelt has given more details and added to the scope of the "gigantic conspiracy" -which he says is on foot to discredit him and defeat his poli cies. The New York Tribune, Republi can organ and a Roosevelt supporter, prints the following dispatch from its Washington correspondent: "The President's declaration that there is a conspiracy, of which E. H. Harriman and the Standard Oil in terests are the princinals and finan cial backers, and which has for its purpose the defeat of his policies in the next Congress and the control of the next Republican National Con-, vention. which information he im parted to a number of his friends among the Washington correspond ents yesterday, has led to the un earthing of highly sensational and interesting: details, and it is now pos sible to givo a story "which purports to reveal not. only the alleged plans of the conspirators, but the identity of the trusted agent who. through an error of judgment, betrayed the plana c his principals, as well as the sum it is asserted they have already subscribed and placed at the dispos al of this agent. "Mr. Harriman and his associates in the Standard Oil Company have, according to the story, as their agent Boies Penrose, senior Senator from Penuslyvania. They have subscribed $0,900,000 to the silent campaign wi(h which the purpose to defeat the Roosevelt policies and control the next. Republican convention, and it is this combination which the President has determined to expose. "At a dinner given a few nights ago at the Shoreham Hotel, in Wash ins'on, Senator Penrose related all the details of the 'plan to down Rooseveltisni' in which he is en gaged. Mr. Penrose assured his fel low diners that, backed by Mr. Harri man and the 'forces of the Standard Oil,' he had undertaken a quiet cam paign which had for its object the 'crushing cf Rooseveltism.' He said that in the light of the rehabilitation of the organization in Pennsylvania he was prepared to deliver the solid delegation of his State, numbering sixty-eight delegates, to the candi date who was yet to be selected as the representative of the 'conserva tive' forces in the Republican party "Senator Foraker, said Mr. Pen rose, was prepared to deliver the sol id delegation of Ohio, Mr. Harri man could probably deliver the solid delegation of New York, but other States would probably have to be handled with greater subtlety. Am pie funds were at his disposal, said Mr. Penrose, a fund of $5,000,000 having been already subscribed by the Harriman. and Standard Oil forces. The policy to be pursued in the States where the Roosevelt senti ment was strong was to select dele gates who could be 'trusted' and se fare their election by having them declare their determination to sup port either the 'favorite son' of their State or President Roosevelt. The State conventions were to be induced to instruct their delegations to cast the vote of the State for such favorite son or for President Roose velt. President Roosevelt, said Mr Penrose, could be depended upon to refuse the nomination; of that he and his principals were absolutely confident. Of course, the votes for favorite sons would be merely com plimentary, while trustworty dele gates could be depended on to vote on the second ballot, for the nominee selected by the 'conservatives.' " STANDARD OIL DENIAL. Senator Penrose Never Told of Fund, Says Director. New York City. E. H. Harriman declined absolutely to talk about the report from Washington that the S.andard Oil and associated inter ests had raised a fund pf $5,000,000 to prevent the nomination for Presi dent of a man of President Roose volt's choosing in 1908. . One of the directors of the Stan ' ; i Oil Company, when told about toe specific charges coming from the White House, said: "That statement y absolutely false, absolutely false on't know when or where the din ' Mas held, but Senator Penrose er said that. I am positive Pen 10e novcr said it" Arrest ()t. Selling Harriman Letter. New vork city. Frank W. Hill, named by Edward H. Har u us tny former emDlove whom ')!;c; i of. having sold the Web ' tetter to the World, was arrest- cfcar ti with a violation of Sec- of the Penal Code, which , u u a misdemeanor for anv ner io iJU. tUy and without authority a lish tiie whole or any part of belnnLer' te,esram or private" paper Deiongmg to another person. DECLARE HARRY THAW SANE Commission Say White's Slayer is Competent to Stand Trial Prisoner Made No Attempt to Dis guise That He Was Pleased With Decision New York City. The Insanity Commission, consisting of David Mc Clure, Peter B. Olney and Dr. Leo pold Putzel. appointed by Justice Fitzgerald to inquire into the pres ent mental condition of Harry K. Thaw, who stands charged with the murder of Stanford White, reported to the court, finding the defendant sane for purposes of trial and capa ble of conferring with his counsel. When court opened in the morning the juros were' there ready to go on with the ease. All the members of the Thaw familv who have been at tending the trial were in their accus tomed seats. Mrs. William Thaw, young Mrs. Thaw and the Countess of Yarmouth aat together. The men of the family, Edward and Josiah Thaw, sat together. When Justice Fitzgerald took his seat on the bench he called Jerome and Hartridge. tho lawver of record for Thaw, inside the roil. The mem bers of the Thaw family leaned for ward in their seats trying to hear what the justice was saying. It meant mucli to them almost as nr:ch as the other verdict which can not now be greatly delayed. Accord ingly, when from the lips of Justice Fitzgerald fell the announcement that a unanimous decision had been reached by the commission, and he handed copies of the decision to Jer ome and Hartridge, Mrs. William Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw gripped the chairs in which they wero seated, their faces were dravn and painful to look upon, and their eyes httngrily gazed on the two sheets of paper which fluttered in the nervous fingers of Hartridge. Every eye in the court room was centered upon the lawyer by this time, and it seemed to take him hours to find tho little word that snelled the fate of the defendant. Then, with a deep sigh, his stern face relaxed, he released the paper into the hands of O'Reilly and turned quickly, with a smile and a nod of his head, to the party of ladles. Little Mrs. Thaw fell back into her chair limp with joy, compressing her lips at the same time in an effort to keep back an exclamation of satis faction. Mrs. William Thaw sighed and whispered into the ear ef the Countess of Yarmouth.- A clerk from Hartridge's office confirmed what they had read in the lawyer's smile and then sped back to the prisoner's pen, where Thaw was awaiting the tidings. On the strength of Hartridge's smile alone the silent court room was instantly buzing with a strange sound wave that always follows a tense moment. Newspaper messen gers hastened from the room, and be fore the clerk had reached Thaw's cell in the pen this cry was ringing through the outer corridors: "Sane! Sane! Sane!" The messengers carried it to wait ing reporters, who carried it along as they hurried to the telephones, communicating it to spectators who had been crowded out of the trial chamber, and soon all through the Criminal Courts Building the word was being echoed by hundreds. Tel egraph wires flashed it out over the country, the cable carried it to Lon don. Within five minutes -the whole world had been informed that Harry Thaw's judges had declared him sane that the young millionaire had es caped the madhouse and would now face only one of his twin perils death in the electric chair. Thaw made no attempt to dis guise that he was pleased with the commission s decision. FEDERAL AID AVERTS STRIKE. Western Railroads and Employes Drought to End Dispute. Chicago. In the settlement of the railroad strike dispute President Roosevelt's peace envoys achieved a signal victory for the principle of conciliation in labor controversies of that magnitude. All danger of a tie up of the railroads of the West is now averted through an agreement effected between the railroad mana gers and their train service employes. The settlement was arranged by Chairman Knapp, of the Inter-State commerce commission ana uomxnis sioner Neill, of tho Government's Department of Labor. By its terms the trainmen will get an adT nce of about ten per cent., or two r cent less than was demanded. The em oloyes waived their nine - hour re quest. In round figures, the railroad employes will profit during the com in vear to the amount of $5,500,000 Tho number of men who will gain by the advanced wage scale is close to 50,000. TWO-CENT FARE BILL LAW. It Applies to AH Steam Railroads Op- crating in Pennsylvania. Ilarrisburg. Pa. Governor Stuart signed the bill making the maximum rate of fare on railroads within this State two cents a mile. The new law jroos into effect on September 30 akd iapolies to all steam railways. ' The railroads claim that the "iaw is , unconstitutional and will appeal to the courts. CHICAGO ELECTS F. A. BUSSE City Wins Control of the Trac tion Franchises. Republican Defeats Donne, Advocate of Immediate Ownership Street Car Ordinances Passed. Chicago. Frederick A. Busse, the Republican candidate for Mayor, was elected, defeating Mayor Edward F. Dunne, the Democratic candidate, by a plurality of 13,121. The new Mayor will have the City Council with him. The make-up of this body shows thirty-five Republi cans, thirty-four Democrats and one Independent Democrat. The ordi nances settling the street car ques tion were carried by a good majority. The vote on this question was 166, 846 for and 132,720 against. The election followed the most in ense campaign in municipal politics hat Chicago has experienced in many years. William R. Hearst and his papers were strong supporters of Mayor Dunne. The issues in the campaign have been largely based upon the improve ment of the local traction systems. Both parties agreed that present con ditions were intolerable, but differed as to the best method of revising: them. The Democratic party, head ed by Mayor Dunne, stood for imme diate municipal ownership through condemnation of the street car obtained in any other way. The Re publican party favored the ordinances can party favored the ordinances which were recently passed by a Democratic City Counfcil over the veto of Mayor Dunne. These ordinances provide for twen ty-year franchises for the street car companies, the city retaining the right to purchase the systems for $50, tOO, 000, plus the amount to be spent for immediate rehabilitation f the lines, six months' notice being necessary of the city's Intention to acquire the property. The ordinances ilso provide for universal transfers throughout the city, a five-cent fare and fifty-five per cent, of the net profit of the companies to be paid to the city. The vote generally showed a de cided reversal of public opinion on municipal ownership since the Mayor alty campaign two years ago. At that time Dunne received 163,189 votes, against 138,671 for John M. Harlan, the Republican leader. The Prohibitionist ticket received 3294 (rotes and the Socialist 23,034. This year the Republican vote was 164, 839 and that of the Democrats 151,- 718. The Prohibition vote rah slight ly above that of two years ago, while the Socialist vote fell off heavily, be ing 13,459. The campaign has been one of the most vicious the city has ever known. hafiVAe ond tAiifitan nhorirAa Vio va been hurled, the personal lives of the candidates have been discussed and speakers on both sides have indulged In tirades filled with invective and abuse. Chicago will now speedily settle its street car problem which has been bandied back and forth for eleven fears as a political asset, the service growing more wretched and anti quated every year. Within ninety lays the traction companies must ac cept the ordinances or lose their fran chises. It is expected the Chicago City Railway Company will at once com mence the work of reconstruction of Its lines and put into service as quick ly as possible 150 cars of the up-to-late type specified in the ordinances. Within a year the Union Traction interests must put into service 225 of such cars. Rebuilding of the tracks Is to go on as rapidly as practicable. BRIDAL PAIR END LIVES. Finding Husband Dead in Woods, Wife Shoots Herself. Washington, Va. A pitiful story Df a lovers quarrel, resulting in two suicides, was pieced together by the Coroner's jury from the peculiar cir cumstances under which the bodies of Henry Foster and his young bride were found in the deep woods near their home. Foster had threatened to take his own life. He left the house with his bride, taking his rifle. At noon she returned alone, depressed, and re fused to eat, saying she would wait for her husband. In the afternoon she went in search of him, found him shot dead and, using a forked stick to pull the trigger, fired a charge into her own head and fell dead across her husband's body. In that position relatives found the bod ies. NO DRINKS FOR OLD TOPERJfc The Names of Fifty Men on Strouds burg's Black List. Stroudsburg, Pa. Everything was dry for nearly fifty men, victims of the habit of excessive drinking. Every hotel man and bartender was given a list of names by County De tective John M. Decker, with instruc tions not to sell them any liquors. At the recent session of the license eourt the ouestion of violations of the liquor laws by hotelkeepers and ooi nnn tenners throuen selling to men of known" intemperate habits was discussed by the court and tha black list was decided upon. New Budget For Russia. The Russian Minister of Finance, M. Kokovtsoff, presented the budget scheme to the Duma. OMm FJJBGPf -Famous cartoon drawn by Davenport for the New York Evening Mail. WEALTH OF THIS IATI0N. Astonishing Increase Shown by a Late Census Report. Washington, D. The total es timate of the valuation of the na tional wealth in 1904 was $107,104, 192,410, according to a special re port issued by the Census Bureau on wealth, debt and taxation which rep resents an increase in the four-year period from 1900 to 1904 of $18, 686,885,635. This advance in na tional wealth has no parallel in the history of the United States except the decade from 1850 to 1860. In 1850, when the first estimates of the national weaith were made the fig ures were only $7,135,780,228. The most potent cause for the in crease in the nation's wealth from HMO to 1904, it is stated, was the reaction from the low prices of the period of depression from 1893 to 1896. The annual increase of wealth per family from 1890 to 1904 was $182. The various forms into which the nation's wealth is divided, with their valuations are as follows: Real property and improve ments taxed $55,510,228,057 Real property and improve ments exempt .. 6,831,244,570 Live stock 4,073,791,736 Farm implements and ma chinery . . -. . 4 844,989,863 Manufacturing machinery, tools and implements 3,297,754,180 Gold and silver coin and bullion 1,998,603,303 Railroads and their equip ment.... 11,244,752,000 Street railways 2,219,966,000 Telegraph systems 227,400,000 Telephone systems 585,840,000 Pullman and private cars.... 123,000,000 Shipping and canals.,. 846,489,804 Privately owned water works 275,000,000 Privately owned central elec tric light and Dower sta tions v........ 562,851,105 Agricultural products. 1,899.379.652 Manufactured products. 7,409,291,668 Imported merchandise 495,543,685 Mining products ....... 408,066,787 Clothing and personal adorn ments M 2,500,000,000 Furniture, carriages and kin dred property.. ., 5,750,000,000 The total public indebtedness of the continental United States in 1902 was $2,789,990,120, and the total per capita indebtedness was $35.50. The total indebtedness of the Na tional Government for the same year was $925,011,637, and the per cap-i ita indebtedness was $11.27. The indebtedness of the United States Government is its gross indebtedness less cash in the treasury. The total indebtedness of continental United States in 1890 was $1,989,112,842: that of the National Government was S851.912.7K2 anrl tie mr fanitaa were $31.76 and $13.60 respective ly. In 1902 the annual interest charge on the public debt of conti nental United States is shown to be approximately $115,206,558, or an annual payment of $1.46 for each in dividual. In Great Britain the per capita in debtedness of all classes, national and local, was 3.93 times that of the United States; in France, 4.86, and in Italy, 2.25. The assessed valuation of prop erty subject to ad valorum taxation has increased from: 1850 to the pres ent time, but it has not kept pace with the increase ;in the actual na tional wealth. The total assessed valuation of property in 1902 was $35,338,316,833. while in 1890 it was only $25,473,173,418. The es timated true value of all propertv in 1902 was $97,810,749,590, against $65,037,091,197 in 1890. The total levies of ad valorem taxes was in 1902 $724,736,539; and the tax rate per $100 ef estimated true value $0.74. The net indebtedness of the coun try was slightly less at the close than at the beginning of the year. In the case of the National Government. States and Territories, and counties, j the receipts exceeded the payments! and at the close of the year these governments had smaller net indebt edness than at the beginning. In the case of minor cvil divisions, and especially the large cities, the situa tion was reversed and the payments for expenditures exceeded the rev enue receipts, causing an increase in net indebtedness. POPULATION OP THIS NATION. The United States Increased Nearly 8,000,000 in Six Tears. Washington, D. C- There are now nearly 8,000,000 more people In the Continental United States than there were six years ago, according to an estimate based upon the figures com piled by the Census Bureau in a spe cial report issued recently. Accord ing to its estimates the population of the Continental United States in 1906 was 83,941,510, ah increase over 1900 of 7,946,985. The population of the United States, inclusive of Alaska and the in sular possessions, in 1906 was 93, 182,240. The growth in population in the Continental United States from 1905 to 1906 was 1,367,315. Computed on the basis of the esti mate the density of population of the Continental United States in 1906 was twenty-eight per sons per square mile, as compared with twenty-six in 1900. The five leading cities and their estimated population in 1906 are as follows: New York 4,113,043 Chicago 2,049,185 Philadelphia 1,441,735 St. Louis 649,320 Boston 602.278 The report presents the population returns for 1905 of the fourteen States making an interdecennial enu meration, together with the esti mated population cf these States for 1904 and 1906 and of the remaining States and Territories for 1904, 1905 and 1906. The States which took a census in 1905 are Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jer sey, New York, North Dakota, Ore gon, Knode Island, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. In Michi gan the census is taken in the years ending with a "4." The population returned for these States was 26, 263,877, an increase since 1900 of 1,901,572 or 7.8 per cent. For the remaining States and Territories the population for 1905, as determined by the method of estimating adopted by the bureau, was 56,283,059, an in crease over 1900 of 4,374,040, or 8.4 per cent. The population of the four teen States making an enumeration, if estimated in the same manner, would be 26,204,762, a difference of only 0.2 per cent, from the actual re turns. The rapid growth of urban popula tion is noteworthy. The total esti mated population of incorporated places having 8000 or more inhabit ants, exclusive of San Francisco and Los Angeles, is 28,466,624 for 1906, an increase over 1900 of 3,912,188, or 15.9 per cent., while the estimated population of the United States ex clusive of these cities showed an in crease of 4,480,008, or only 8.8 per cent. The eighty-eight cities with an es timated population of 50,000 or more in 1906 had a total estimated popu lation of 19,771,167, an increase of 2,766,863, or 16.3 per cent, over that reported at the Twelfth, Census. NEW TRUSTS IN GERMANY. Glue, Braid, X-Ray, Canned Goods and Other Combinations Formed. Washington, D. C. The American Consuls in Germany announce the formation of the following trusts: Glue trust, with a central bureau in Berlin for the sale of all glue made in Germany. Braid, trimmings and woolen goods trust, to regulate prices. X-ray manufacturers, organized for a ten per cent, increase. Canned goods combine, in order to compensate for the steadily rising cost of the raw materials which they use. . s Artificial silk manufacturers keep up with the procession. "Scarcely a day passes but the German newspapers report a new trust, syndicate or fusion of some line of manufacturing in Germany," reports Consul-Genera! Richard Guenther, of Frankfort, Germany. REPLIES TOJJ. HARRIMAN President Says He Never Asked Him to Raise Fund. Gives Out Letters in Which He Char, acterized Statement as a "Delib erate and Wilful Untruth." New York City. Precipitated by the publication of a stolen letter written by E. H. Harriman to Sidney Webster, in which Mr. Harriman said President Roosevelt had invited him to Washington and had asked him to raise a large sum of money in the campaign of 1904, a controversy was begun between the President and the railroad owner which bids fair to be come historic and has astounded the nation. The financial centres of the coun try were shaken by the publication. Men of the highest position and greatest affairs dared not express an opinion of the probable result of the Harriman confessions. In this letter Mr. Harriman said that in the campaign of 1904, at the request of Mr. Roosevelt, he raised a fund of $200,000, which was used to turn SO.OOO' votes to the Republi can party in New York State. Of this he gave $50,000. He raised the fund, he decjgred, on the assurance that Mr. Roosevelt would appoint Chauncey M. Depew as Ambassador to Paris, but afterward Mr. Roose velt refused to carry out the agree ment, and so Mr. Depew was again sent to the Senate. Mr. Roosevelt, in reply, Immediate ly gave out a letter which he wrote last fall to Representative James S. Sherman, Chairman of the Republi can Congressional Committee. Mr. Sherman had sought a contribution from Mr. Harriman, and Mr. Harri man had said he would not give it, citing' as his reasons the statements given in the letter to Mr. Webster. Mr. Roosevelt, in his letter, said : "Any such statement is a deliberate and willful untruth by rights it should be characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word." Correspondence that passed be tween Mr. Harriman and Mr. Roose velt in 1904 was included in the let ter to Mr. Sherman. In one letter Mr. Roosevelt admitted a conference with Mr. Harriman before the 1904 election and said: "If yon remember, when you were down here you and I were so much Interested in certain of the New York political develop ments that I hardly, if at all, touched on governmental matters." In one of Mr. Harriman's letters he said that it would show "the attitude of the organization." It was shown that Mr. Sherman reported to Mr. Roosevelt that Mr. Harriman had said he was willing to let the Hearst men win the New York election of 1906, as they were "crooks" and he could buy them. Mr. Harriman was also quoted as saying that he could buy State Legislatures, could buy Congress, and could buy the courts if necessary. Mr. Harriman in a statement said that Mr. Roosevelt had suppressed a part of , one of his lettersf which would have shown that he went to Washington at the request of the President to talk over the situation in New York. It was declared upon good author ity that the $200,000 fund which Mr. Harriman raised for the 1904 cam paign was contributed by three indi viduals besides himself. The names as given are J. P. Morgan, H. McK. Twombly, William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., and E. H. Harriman, $50,000 each. Senator Depew said he had heard about the fund. Alton B. Parker, who, as the Democratic candidate for President in 1904, had charged that big contri butions had been made by financial interests to elect Mr. Roosevelt, de manded an investigation of the whole subject. He said it would show the reason for the campaign against States' rights. "I feel particularly fortunate that I have been attacked within the past few days by both ex-Senator Burton, of Kansas, ad Mr. E. H. Harriman," said Mr. Roosevelt when he directed that copies of his letters to Mr. Sher man be given to the press, and he smiled a teeth showing smile as he said it. Mr. Burton has just been re leased from a term in prison. MAHONINGTOWN BANK FADLS. Inconvertible Securities Explain IU Inability to Withstand a Run. Newcastle, Pa. The Mahoning town Baffk, Limited, failed to open its doors after trying in vain to se cure funds to relieve the demands of depositors which have extended over the past two months.' The immediate cause of the failure was Inconvertible paper and securities. About $5000 wa3 withdrawn by de positors, and the directors of the bank applied to the other Newcastle banks for aidl Inasmuch as some of the directors refuse to pledge, their private for unes as security for money advanced, rhe Ne v castle banks felt unable to assist them. The deposits amount to $73,000, the assets . less than 5100,000. There is no charge of de falcation or crookedness. Montana Prohibits Aft Gambling. The Griffin gambling law, -which prohibits all games of chance, went into effect in Montana, and for the flr3t time- since 1863 faro, roulette. j:oker, dice, card games of all kinds, ahd even slot machines, are forbid den in Montana.