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Ofiicial Weather Forecast 10 PAGES TO-DAY RAIN SATURDAY, PROBABLY FOL LOWED BY FAIR SUNDAY; HIGH SHIFTING GALE. Pensacola Interstate Fair Nov. 7 to 12, Inclusive VOL, XIII. NO. 248. PENSACOLA. FLORIDA. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1910. PRICE, 5 CENTS. i 1 2 i OPPOSE GUARANTEE COTTON BILLS LADING Plan Declared to Be a Step Toward Placing Heavy ... Burden on South. Cotton Exchanges at Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Memphis Denounce the Plan and Declare That Cotton Has Been Singled Out From All Other Pro ducts and Make it Object of Discrimination. - r.f - By AMOcUUd Prase. New Orleans. Oct. 14 Declaring that the organization of a concern to guarantee cotton bill of lading was a atop toward placing a heavy burden m the south, the cotton exchanges at Dallas, Houston, New Orleana and ether cities Joined with the Memphis exchange this afternoon in denounc ing the plan. In a telegram sent to William A. Nash to be presented at the confer ence of representatives of American and British banks in New York, the local exchange, concurring with the ether exchanges, says: '"The proposed guarantee proposi tion will single out cotton from all ether producta and make It, the pecu liar object of discrimination and bur densome conditions; will place re sponsible and Irresponsible merchants on equal terms; will-nullify Individual credit and reputation, and by encour aging Indiscriminate selling by Irre sponsible parties, will lower the price of the American product." OME TIME TO ELAP9E BEFORE PLAN COMPLETED By Associated Press. New York, Oct H. Several months re expected to elapse before the fin al form of bills of lading now In dlv fate between England aod American oaklng interests-. Is perfected,- ar eordiog 1ft the belief .expressed today fa nigh bunking . circles. V. The com 'promise -torrar tm of guafcante company, to uarantetvjhe valMii 'of (Continued 6 Sewihd Past) CLAUDE GRAHAM WHITE LANDS Hit MACHINE AT SIDE DOOR OF WHITC HOUSE AND THEN CIR CLIS CAPITOL DOME. . By Associated Prc-aa. Washington, Oct 14. In a narrow street, upon precisely the chosen spot, after a flight of more than six miles across the city. Claude Graham White, an Englishman, this afternoon dropped his aeroplane by the side "door of the White House en route to a height of five hundred feet, when he circled the dome of the capltol and assed Washington monument on a erel with the apex. He landed between the granite tralldinga at the executive offices In a space where the slightest deviation would hare Impaled him between the spikes on the Iron fence about the White House at the right, or smashed against the granite walls on the left. In alighting the aeroplane ran two hundred feet up the street on a straight line. President Taft was not "at home, but Admiral Dewey wel comed the aviator. FINDS BIG MOUNTAIN, feattle. Wn , Oct. 14. Thos. Rlggs, Jr . a government engineer, who has been at work on the Alaska boundary survey, Teported yesterday the dis covery far north of the arctic circle what he believes to be the highest mountain on the continent, exceeding Mount McKlnley by nearly 2.000 feet. OIL IS REDUCED. New York, Oct. 14. The Standard Oil Company today reduced the price of refined petroleum In cases from 1 4ft to 8.90 per gallon. iiir Republicans of Colorado Issue Statement as to Policies By Assoelstesl Presa, Denver, Colo., Oct. 14. After a meeting of the Republican state cen tral committee today, the following statement was given out: "Some misapprehension exists as to the attitude of the Republican candi dates for congress In Colorado this year on national matters. Many let ters ana telegrams have been received by each of the candidates asking them to define their position in relation to the candidacy of Speaker Cannon for re-election as speaker of the federal house of representatives should he be a candidate. "3a Colorado Republican congres E HOUSES FAIL TWO NEW YORK CONCERNS GO , UNDER WITH LIABILITIES ESTI MATED AT OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS. i V By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 14. Two brokerage houses failed today with liabilities ag gregating nearly two million dollars, Charles Minzesheimer & Co. and Thomas Gaylord, the later engaged In business under the name of La tham, Alexander & Co. Both assign ments were for the benefit of credit ors. The petition alleges liabilities of the Minzesheimer concern at a million dol lars, consisting chiefly of loans from banks and trust companies. The col lateral Is estimated to be worth twen ty per cent. Gaylord's failure Is re garded as of no particular signifl- coAsTsii STORM ALONG THE ENGLISH COAST DOES GREAT DAMAGE CASUALTY LIST IS ALREADY A LONG ONE. By Associated Press. i London, Oct. 14. The 'English ocast ?s strewn with wreckage as a result cf. the storm that has continued for two days. Tfce -casualty listjs already. J reported as a Seng one. - '" -j- This.morni3j the bodjes of five sea-j mit rrcrc ixe coasunj steamer trsn tord were picked up -oCf Hartlepool. If Is believed tfce vessel, which car ried a crew of twenty, foundered and that tte men were attempting to reach chore In a small boat when they were lost. . Some of the' wreckac-e coining G'ore Indicates that a. ' sailing ship met-a like fate. Lifeboats from many points ere out all last night and in some Instances effected rescues. In other cases tbev were unable to reach distressed craft. AVIATOR FLIES FROM TRACK INTO WASHINGTON By Associated Press. Washington, Oct. 14. Claude Gra hame White, the English aviator, flew from Bennings race track to Washington, a distance of over three miles, and made a successful landing In Executive aevnue between the White House and the state, war and navy buildings. The flight was made for. the purpose of paying respects to General Allen, chief signal officer of the army. Official business in the big government building was suspended in order to welcome the aviator. INTENSE EXCITEMENT IS CAUSED BY AN ARREST By Associated Press. London, Oct. 14. A news dispatch from Calcutta says Intense excite ment exists In Tibet. The Chinese au thorities at L'Hassa arrested the Da lai Lama's representative an aged ab bott, and sentenced him to be behead ed. The people were so angry that they spirited away the abbott. He had been accused of sending supplies to the Dalai Lama at Darjeeling, Brit ish India. PREMIER SAYS NO CHANCE FOR REPUBLIC IN SPAIN By Associated Press. Paris. Oct. 14, The Mid rid corre spondent of the Matin sends his pa per ap interview with Premier Canale jas in which the minister says there is no chance for a republic in Spain as the Republicans have no great leaders and their ranks are hopelessly divided. Moreover, the radical nature of his program. Involving a struggle with the vatican, tne premier says, disarming the Republicans as anti clericalism is one of their strongest principles. sional candidates hare answered such questions as their conscience and con victions dictated, but each and all of them have asserted in positive terms that they stood squarely upon the Re. publican state and national platforms and that they would, If elected, at all times support the national Republican administration in Its policies and that it would support for speaker only a Republican fully in accord with Presi dent Taft and his policies. "Thi3 position is all that can be asked for oy any RepuBlican voter and is entirely satisfactory to the state or. ganlzattoa." BIG BRO RAG llIH WRECKAGE DAMAGE DONE BY THE ST0R1 AT KEY WEST Street Railway System Dis abled and Telephones Put Out of Commission. Weather Bureau Station at Sandy Key Awash, and the Men There Sought Refuge at the Light House Full Force of Storm Struck Ha vana Early and Was Ac companied by Heavy Rain. HURRICANE RECURVES AND MAY STRIKE JACKSONVILLE By Associated Press. Tampa, Fla., Oct. 14. Recurving along a parabolic path, the West Indian hurricane late tonight is headed north to northwest along the Florida coast with the proba bilities it will leave the Atlantic coast somewhere in the vicinity of Jacksonville or Savannah. The disturbance has made a most re markable curvature and, following twelve hours of Intensity along the western coast of Cuba, swung still further westward before sweeping back to the northeast, and over tfce southern portion cf the Florida Keys. Indications late tonight are that the storm bas been increasing in intensity. Wireless reports from vessels in its path report a velocity of 70 miles an hour. Late reoorts by" wireless from Key West 'are that there bas been no abatement in th wind velocity and that all shipping is traJe ?nujr. The P. O. tej.mer Olivette v.-as dieted at 9:30 tonight after standing outside the. b?r for several hours in a ter Vrlfio ren storm. Crtiv sJlgfct dis turbance ia 'tcCerdcd hsre.' - - ! ' By Associated P-"ess, Key West. Oct 14. At six o'clock the government wireless station re ported the hurricane ren:.ered west of Havana, moving yitb great intensity. The width of the storm will exttii'.I from the Florida coast to tfce Mexi can coast." All wireless; stations in tha path cf the storm, except the govern cent leca1 station, are disabled. Al though a .fifty rni'e wind blew here all day, there was no material damage in Key West, but tonight ther is consid erable apprehension. The electric car system was disabled and one hundred telephone are out cf commission. The weather bureau station at Sand Key is awash, and the rren there sought refuge at the light house. HURRICANE STRUCK HAVANA EARLY IN THE MORNING Havana, Oct. 14. The full force of the storm, the approach of which was heralded yesterday, struck this city at 1 o'clock this morning. The gale brought with it a deluge of rain. Most of the street lights were extinguished and the city was dark during the early hours. At 8 o'clock this morning the wind was blowing strongly from the south- (Conttnued on Page Two.) Porter Charlton to Federal Officers SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER OF HIS WIFE IS TURNED OVER FROM STATE COURTS AND MAY BE EXTRADITED. By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 14 Porter Charl ton, the confessed murderer of his wife, Mrs. Mary Scott Castle Charlton, was today ordered turned over to the federal authorities in proceedings which have been instituted for his ex tradition to Italy. Judge Blair, of the New Jersey supreme court, declined to release Charlton and issued the or der for him to be placed in charge oi the federal officials. Charlton was arrested on a German liner in Hoboken, on his arrival from Italy last summer, shortly after the body of his wife had been found in a trunk in Lake Como, Italy. A hear ing in his case was held on September 21, when Judge Blair declined to hear testimony concerning Charlton's sani ty. His counsel also argued that Italy, by enacting a law that no Italian citi zen should be extradited had abrogat ed all obligations of this country to extradite its citizens in Italy's de mand By his decision today Judge Blair overruled this , last contention so far as the state court had to deal with it, and the whole matter, it now appears, will be put In the hands of the federal authorities for decision. CROWN PRINCE GEORE ILL. Belgrade, Servia, Oct 14. Crown Priace George is ill with, typhoid. A si MANSFIELD MAY NOT RUN FOR GOVERNOR Boston, Oct. 14. Frederick W. Mansfield, nominated by the Demo crats of Massachusetts for governor with the general understanding that lie would resign in favor of another candidate to be selected by the com mittee, was named after a tumultuous session cf the democratic state con vention and after several candidates had withdrawn from the race. SIX KILLED in FREIGHT AND WORK TRAINS RUN TOGETHER ON GRAND -RAPIDS AND INDIANA TRUNK LINES WITH TERRIBLE RESULTS. By Associated Press. Fcrt Wa-re, Ind. lision between a freight train and a work train on the Grand . Rapidr. and Ind'.p.na Railroad at Sujairit, a small station about 'fenr mi!es from Port land, !nd., early today, six men were killed and a large number injured. The victims of the wreck were foreign ers and members cf a construction rang. The construction. train was en route to its work when it crashed into the freight train in the fog. The dead and injured were taken to Portland, Ind. MONUMENT UNVEILED. Waycross, Ga., Oct. 14. An address by Gov.elect Hoke Smith on "The South in the Sixties" marked the un veiling here of a handsome monument erected , by the Daughters of the Con federacy to Confederate soldiers. The shaft was unveiled by thirteen mem bers of the Children of the Confeder acy, each child representing a South ern state. D ( WANTED TO DIE TIM SHEEDY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY STRANGLING HIMSELF WITH A SHOE STRING. AND WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. By Associated P Troy, NT. Y., Oct. 14. Tim Sheedy, a notorious burglar and crook, who spent more than half of hi3 life in prison, attempted suicide here today by strangling hims&f with a shoe string. He was found unconscious on the floor shortly before daybreak and was resuscitated with difficulty. Sheedy was captured in the act of en tering a miner's residence. He is wanted in Hartford. Conn., where he escaped from jail a few weeks ago with a 35-year sentence hanging over his head, He was at once arrested by the local police after a hard fight and admitted his identity. WILL NOT PERMIT FIGHT. San Francisco, Oct. 14. Chief of Police Seymour, after a conference with District Attorney Ficker last night, announced that he would not permit Anton Lagraw and Jack ("One Round") Hogan to meet in a schedule" i iQux-roufid event tonight. J1WIECK NO R00 ALL CLASSES INTERESTED! THE BIG. FAIR Scarcely a Citizen of Pensa cola or District Who is Not a Fair Booster. L. Hilton Green Offers Silver Cup and Cash Prizes For Best Farms on Lands in Certain District One of the Most Important Prizes is Silver Cup pfFered to the Best Judge of Corn, This From Southern States A- Lumber Company. The fact standing out-so prominent ly that causes the management of the great Interstate Fair to believe that it will be the best agricultural fair ever held In the extreme south and that the attendance will be the largst that ever gathered at a fair in this section is the general Interest taken in the exposition by the citizens of all classes and all occupations. It must be confessed that in a measure last year Pensacola "layed down" on the fair. Besides the Interest shown by the stockholders of the association ana a few others there was only a gener al apathy felt in Pensacola. What ever success the fair attained was due to the zeal and the industry of the country people. This year it is dif ferent. Nearly every citizen in Pen sacola is taking a deep and abiding interest in the fair and with all classes and conditions it is "our fair." Nor does this widespread general interest stop In Penaeola and Escam bia county. All over the district in the western Florida counties as well as those in southern Alabama, the same central interest if felt. Not only Are -'?rTtrp.,flerpc' wrspyftys tb -thouaaacls, but they are making exhibis. - Mr. J. A Anderson, of Quintette, was in the city yesterday making en tries cf live stock and general farm products. He says thet all Quintette is'worsed up over the fair and that mony peonie from that section will be in PenFacoIa fair week. Continued on Pape Seven. i STEAM CHS TO BE OF H RATED BY COMBINATION OF INTERESTS By Associated Press. San Francisco. Oct. 14. The steam ers Harvard and Yale, which it was announced some time ago are to be taken off the Bostcn-Nev; York nm and sent to the Pacific coast, will be operated, according to the Chronicle, between San Francisco and Los An geles by a combination of interests in which the Western Pacific Railroad Company is dominant. This will . furnish the Western Pa cific with a connecting link to south ern California, from which it has hitherto been excluded by the South ern Pacific and the Santa Fe's refusal to interchange traffic. GUNBOATS AT GENOA. Genoa, Oct. 14. The United States gunboats Wheeling and Petrel, which arrived at this port on October 5, left today for Ville Franche. Teddy After Wall St. and Tahimany REFERS TO JNO. A. DIX AND DE CLARES THAT IF ELECTED GOV ERNOR OF NEW YORK HE WILL BE A FIGURE HEAD. By Associated Press. Dunkirk, N. Y., Oct, 14. Wall street and Tammany Hall have struck hands," said Theodore Roosevelt when he opened his campaign for the P.e publican 6tate ticket here today. Speaking to a great crowd in Wash ington park on arriving here from his campaign speech across Indiana yes terday. Colonel Roosevelt denounced the New York state Democracy with all the emphasis which he could com mand. 'We are fighting for the rule of the people against the most shameless combination of crooked politics and crooked finance that our atate has ever 6een since Tweed was driven from power," he declared. John A. Dix, Democratic candidate for governor, he dismissed with a few words as the "respectable and unim portant figurehead of Tammany Hall,"' to elect whom, he said, Wall "Street was doing all in its power because it knew him and the people did not. ' If elected he would be utterly pow erless in the grip of hl3 masters," said the speaker. 'The delegates to the convention represented nobody, not even themselves," he shouted. "Mr. Murphy was everything." Alter speaking in Dunkirk, Col. Roosevelt started for Jamestown, where he is to deliver his second speech. Later he was to speak at Salamanca, Wellsville, Horneil, Coring and in tie evening at Elmira. COUNTY BOARD INSTRUCTS CLERK TO PAY A BILL AFTER HOL OF COAL LA LARGE NUMBER OF CLAIMANTS OF LANDS IN ALASKA ARE IN DICTED ENTRIES INVOLVED 25,000 ACRES. By Associated Press. Washington, Oct. 14. After months of secret effort and patient waiting of ficials of the land office announced today the indictment of a number of claimants of valuable coal lands in Alaska. The entries involved twenty five thousand acres in the same dis trict with the Cunningham claims. De posits covered by the claim are be lieved to be as rich as the Cunning ham mines, which were conspicuous in the Ballinger controversy. The indictments were handed down at Tacoma and a message declared the defendants were C. G. Munday, A H. Stracey, Archie W. Shields, E. E. Siegley, Cornelus Christopher, George Simmonds, Mortimer Sweeney. The charges are that the entries were made in the names of "dummies" and most of the entrymen are residents of Washington state. GOES A MILE FIFTY SECOND! OLDFIELD RACES AGAINST TIME AND LOWERS RECORDS DIS QUALIFIED BY A. A. A. FOR PRO POSED RACE, WITH JOHNSON. ..By Associated Press. Readville, Mass., Oct. 14. Dsspite tbe recent disqualification by the American .Automobile Association, 3arney Oldfield today went against tlrre. breaking the mile record for a "".,!1e track and covered tbe distance in fifty seconds Cat. The former record v, as fifty-four seconds. OMfield was disqualified because of his proposed race with Jack Johnson, the necro pugilist. OFFICERS ARE SEARCHING FOR REV. MRj PLASS By Associated Press. Boston, Oct. 14. Officers are now searching for Rev. Norman Plass in connection with the raid of the Re deemable Investment Co., a ten million dollar concern, the officers cf which are charged with using the mails to defraud. Plass is now journeying in British Columbia, inspecting the com pany properties. PARTY WHO GAVE INFORMATION LEADING TO RAIDING OF ESTAB LISHMENT OF DUVEEN BROS. WILL GET BETWEEN $100,000 AND $500,000. By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 14. William Loeb, collector of the port, declares than an anonymous letter precipitated the raid yesterday on the establishment of Du veen Bros., art dealers, and the arrest of Benjamin and Henry .Duveen, mem bers of the firm, charged with con spiracy to defraud the government of a million dollars by undervaluation of imports. Loeb refuses to divulge the name of his informant until the trial. He said that the informant in time will get the rewards offered by the United States, and if the alleged frauds prove as ex tensive as officials say, the informant will probably get between one hundred thousand and five hundred thousand dollars. S OS A BIG REWARD FOR INFORMANT Declares Building War Ships is Throwing Away Money By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 14. Prof. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford University, who has been abroad lecturing on universal peace, is in New York on his way homeward. While abroad he found little Indica tion of approaching war anywhere in Europe. "There is no war coming," he said, "and the countries building warships are ruining themselves. Business is goodwill many countries, including Ckr A. M. McMillan Appeared and Stated Clerk Had Re fused to Draw Warrant. The Ammount is $702.61 for Clothing For the Convict Camps Which Had Been Purchased by the Road Supervisor Action of the Clerk Due to Law Requir ing Bids For Purchase of Over $300. Considerable Interest was injected into the special meeting of the board of county commissioners which waa held last night to revise the registra tion lists, when the question of a bill due to A. M. McMillan waa brought up for discussion. Mr. McMillan appeared before the board, and stated that the clerk had refused to issue him a warrant for a bill which he had filed with the com missioners before the last meeting, and asked the board to tell him whether or not this bill had been or dered paid. It developed that the bill was not mentioned in the minutes of the meeting and nothing was said in the minutes to show whether or not it was ordered paid. The board as sured Mr. McMillan, however, that It was the intention of the board to pay the bill, the amount of which is $702.61. It seems that some member had raised some objection to the man ner in which this bill was made out at the last meeting, but that, inasmuch as the goods had been used by the county, the board was willing to pay the bill. Mx. McMillan asked the' board to pass a resolution instructing" the clerk to issue a warrant for the amount of the bill. He gave his rea son for wanting the resolution pasned, stating, that the clerk had refused to issue the warrant and he wanted to have a showing from the board so that if the clerk should again refuse to issue the warrant he could take legal steps to compel him to do $f. The county attorney was aaked - fen advice in the matter of passing the . resolution, and stated- that the board , i j , . . cuuju hoc compel tne cierK to issue a warrant in this case, but that the "pass ing of the resolution would have n errect upon the case except to give Mr, McMillan something to show that the Continued on Page Seven. WOULDBRIBE ITATE SENATOR A FORMER SENATOR IS ARREST. ED ON CHARGE OF ENDEAVOR. ING TO BUY THE VOTE OF SEN ATOR FOELKNER. By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 14. Frank J. Card, ner of Brooklyn, a former state sena tor, who was arrested in Scranton last night charged with attempted bribery of Congresman Otto G. Foelk er, also a former state senator, to vote against the anti-race track bills in Al bany in 19C8, was today indicted by tbe New York county grand Jury on the charge of attempt to bribe a public official. DICKINSON COMMENDS THE WORK OF JESUIT FATHERS By Associated Press. Washington, Oct. 14. According to information received here, Secretary of War Dickinson, who recently visit ed the Philippine Islands on his round the world trip, highly commended the work being done by the Jesuit fathera at the Manila observatory. He ex pressed his own appreciation and that of his government of the services of these men who gave up their Spanish citizenship to serve the United State as its official weather forecasters in the Philippines. At tbe time of Amer ican assumption of the reins of gov ernment there, the government favors the only men In the Island capable of carrying on scientine weather investi gations. The seismographical observatory at Georgetown -University, conducted by Jesuits in this city, frequently makes public reports of earthquakes in va rious parts of the world long before the government weather bureau. many, but the prospects in Europe ar not good when removed from th . standpoint of prosperity. It is the peasants and not business men wfca are paying bills and they are beein- ning to grumble. That is not a good' sign. It is always that class that' bears the burden for increasing arm ment. "As to the prospect of war between Germany and England, there is about as much chance as a conflict betweaa the United States and liaxs.' ; v. i