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f lfJ til ttf v- VOL. VH NO. 237 ASHEVILLE, -N. C, THURSDAY JIOKNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1902. FTVB CENTS PER COPT. rcUR DOLLARS A TSAR. PROMINENT CITIZENS INJURED Fell Down Flight of Stairs Injuries May Prove Fatal. While preparing to go down a long istanwiay recently several prominent people have fallen from the top flights to the bot tom and sustained injuries which may cause death. This is not the first accident of this kind notedin this paper, and a 'great many of these lalccidents could be avoided by a little precaution. A small narrow strip of rulbfoer on the top of each step would keep any one from slippiinig and getting hurt. Don t Fall Get CORRUGATED RUBBER MATTTING for stairways. One yard does ome stairway. $1.39 per yard iat umner s CONFERENCE CUBAN RECIPROCITY Washington, Nov, 12. An important was decided that General Bliss should conference bearing on the subject of J 'he sent ft- nce to Cuba to make a the C IN NO OTHER Line is such strict attention de manded as in the compounding of prescriptions. In order to avoid the disastrous result en tailed by carelessness we em ploy none but the most reliable clerks. IX we confpound your medicines for your, you can rely upon this accuracy.- Pfafflin's Drug Store Cnrner Patton avenue and Patton Church avenue street. A Turkey and a Carving Set You'll need both on Thanksgiv ing. We dan furnish a hand some Carving Set all right for $1 .50 to $7.00. Asheville Hardware Company On the Sq., Phone 87, Asheville. N. C. How Clothes ftl IJ P!JL OIIOUID I'll a - at tnt war uepanmeuc lOruay, Ilia tair- ticipants being Secretary ' Hay, Secre tary Root and Gen. Tasker Bliss. The latter was called into the conference at Secretary Hay's suggestion because of his expert knowledge of the existinig Cuban tariff. Before the conference at the war department, Secretary Hay had talked on this subject with Sena tor Cullom, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations and also with Senor Quesada, he Cuban minister here. Senor Quesada was not able t6 submit to 'Secretary Hay the draft of the reciprocity treaty which has been under consideration so long by the authorities at Havana, as the document has not left that place. So officially the United States government continues in ignorance of the extent and character of the charges, if any, which President Fakna anay desire to make in the treaty. In other than official sources, how ever, has developed pretty clearly the disposition of the Cuban president in this matter. The cardinal oibjection of President Palmia to the treaty as it stands is the Insufficient rebate of twenty per cent proposed to be allowed on Cuban imports into the United States and Secretary Hay's purpose is to ascertain, if possible, how far he can yield in that matter and still be able to rely upon the support of congress next session when the treaty is submit ted. So far, his advices do not faivor any increase of the reoates, ana, in deed, he has -been' (assured by some persons with whom he has talked that under no conditions would congress consent to any substantial increase of this rebate. It is understood thai the Cubans, too, are entirely unwillin r to accept much smaller increase. In the face of a great shortage in the European crop and a rapidly rising muarket, they have ac quired confidence in their ability to get along for an indefinite period of time without reciprocity with the United States and it is understood they are showing an indifference in the prosecu tion of the treaty negotiations which is serving in turn to stimulate the ef forts of our own negotiators. President Palma makes the ipoint that conditions have changed In Cuba so that whereas the twenty (per cent, re bate might halve served when it was first proposed, it would at present af ford so little relief 'as not to warrant the sacrifice of Cuban revenues that would be involved in its acceptance. Secretary Hay has determined to clear up that point 'and to that end, after talking with Secretary Root today, it 10c Each. .r Roman Hyacinths in full bloom complete with pot. O J. H. Law, 35 Patton Ave. Irsonaa investigation of the industrial nation and the fiscal possibilities of the island. So it is improbable that, pending bis return from his Cuban vtisit, the state deipartment can ad vance the treaty negotiations in any way. , ELOQUENT WORDS IN BANKERS' CONVENTION New Orleans,. Nov. 12. Three able men discussed the assets and currency branch of banking before the Ameri can Bankers' convention today. Con gressman Fowler of New Jersey an swered some statements Ridgely made in his speech yesterday and then took up our currency measurements. He had a large audience. There were 1,500 bankers present. Fowler's elo quence anJ. Dowe's reply brought vo ciferous applause. This compelled the New Jersey congressman to say: "You are not with me, but. five millions of people are." President Herrick called the second day's session to order at 10 o'clock. Several reports were submitted. Fowl er's address followed. Dowes followed Fowler. Horace White was the last speaker. At the conclusion of his re marks the; convention recessed. At the afternoon session Congress man Pugh'sley and Willis Pane of 'New York spoke on emergency circu lation. The convention adjourned till tomorrow. Tonight the delegates at tended the theatres. RECOGNITION OF MINERS' UNION AS AN ARBITRATION ISSUE WILL BE VIGOROUSLY FOUGHT AGAINST, Six Answers Given Out to Mit chell's Charges Dwell With Marked Enphasis on This Point TAKING TESTIMONX WILL CONSUME A FORTNIGHT WILL REQUIRE FULLY A WEEK TO PRSENT THE MINERS' SIDE. PRESIDENT MITCHELL WTLL LEAVE FOR 6CRANTON TODAY. Scranton, Pa., Nov. 12. It is an nounced that the strike commission will probably devote a fortnight to taking testimony here. It will take fully -a week to present the miners' side. Messrs. Wilson and Mosley of the com mission arrived tonight. The oper ators are expected to arrive before morning. Wilkesbarre, Nov. 12. Mitchell will leave for Scranton tomorrow. He be lieves all the sittings of the commis sion in the coal field will be at Scran ton. (Mitchell today received copies of the replies of other operators to his statement, but refused to discuss them. MANY LIVES LOST BY , VOLCANIC ERUPTION San Francisco, Nov. 12. News receiv ed today by the Pacific mail steamer Newport confirms the report that much damage was done at Guiatamala Octo ber '25 a the result of a ivioilent erup tion of the volcano of Santa Maria in Quezaltenango district. It is said many lives were lost and whole villages were wiped ooiti Scranton, Nov. 12 Carroll D. Wright upon his arrival tonight said the testi mony taken by the commissio would be preserved by the stenographers read ing, their notes into graoniophone re cords, which would be filed away. You Can't Fit Your Eyes with a Tape Measure MOLINEUX'S DEFENSE HAS COST $100,000 New York, Nov. 12. It is estimated thiat the trial of Roland B. Molineux cost more than any other capital of fence in any country with the English system of jurisprudence. The cost to the county of New York of the first trial was $250,000. 1 The defence expended $75,000 ait the first trial and the estimated total of both sides in the two hearings is $500,-000. It is stated that it has cost Gen eral Molineux a hundred thousand to defend his son. A friend of his stated today that when all bills were ipaid the general would have something, less than $200,000. left Come to us, we will give them, a scientific examination, and grind the lenses to fit each eye correctly. Satis faction guaranteed. The Optician Opposite Postoffice. 54 Patton ave. McKee, Biltmore Firewood. Phone 700. tf. Is one thine that we think we know. We have clothes to fit the Short, the Stout, the Lone, the Slim, the Young Man, the Elderly! Alan, and the bxtra bize Man. We show as large a iriety of Suits and Overcoats for Men and : .s for Business and Wear as you can - l m larger cities. See them at WHSTLOCK'S, 41 Patton Avenue. Can buy one with Reser voir for $28.00; or one with out Reservoir for $27.00. We have sold 45 since advertising PORTUGAL WILL NOT SELL ANY COLONIES New York Nov. 12. With reference to the report that Germany and Great Britain intend acquiring Portuguese East Africa, M. De Sousa Rosa, the Portuguese minister to France, in an interview said, acording to a Herald dispatch from Paris: "There is not a word of truth in the report, and believe me, I consent to make such a categarial declaration, it is not because similar reports with re gard to the Portuguese colonies deserve a contradiction. On the oontray, they refute themselves. Their very extrava gance is sufficient proof of their inac curacy, but I Contradict them emphati cally and unreservedly, solely for the purpose of putting the public upon their guard, 'as I am convinced such reports are put into circulation for speculative purposes. Portugal has not the slightest intention of parting with her colonial possessions nor of any por tion of them, either to Britain or to any other power. Furthermore, to pre vent any 'possibility of error or mis understanding, I may assure you that the British government neiver has made any proposition, directly or indirectly concerning Portuguese teritory in Africa." Mark Twain's Wife III New York Noy. 12. Samuel L. Clem our car load. The people say there is I ens (Mark Twain) has been obliged to I 1 -1-1 -J J a. T J. I nothing that will compare with them We are talking about. cancel 'all his engagements for the time being, it is reported, on account of the alarming illness of his wife at River- side-on-the-Hudson Washington, Nov. 12. That the an thracite coal mine owners will resist to the utmost every effort to make the recognition of the United Mine Work ers of America an issue in the arbitra tion which is now in progress is made evklnt by. the replies to th statement of President John Mitchell of the min ers organization, which have been filed with the strike commission. There are five of these answers, in addition to that of President Baer, which was giv en out yesterday, and all dwelt with the especial emphasis and marked unanimity on this point. They also agree in resisting the demands of the miners for an increase of pay for piece work, a reduction of hours for time work and for the weighing rather than the measurement of coal. Recorder Wright left for the anthra cite regions today, taking these replies with him. In addition to the statement made for the Reading company by President Baer, the list comprises the replies of the Delaware & Hudson company, the Delaware & Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania and the Scranton Coal company. The reply of the Delaware & Lack a.wanna company to President Mitch ell's statement is signed by W. H. Trousdale, president of the company, who says that the company owns 25 collieries and employes 12,000 workmen in this btanch of its business. Mr. Trousdale, like Mr. Baer, objects to making the recognition of the union one of the issues to be considered by the commission, saying that in the proposition made by the company for arbitration one of the express condi tions was that "the findings of the commission should govern the condi' tions of employment between it and its employes.". He adds: "This company unequivo cally asserts that it will Under no con dition recognize or enter into any agreement with the association known as the United Mine Workers of Amer ica or any branch thereof. Nor will it permit said association or its officers to dictate the terms and conditions under which it shall conducts its busi ness." Referring to the recent strike, Mr. Trousdale says that he is reliably in formed that 80 per cent, or ns em ployes were opposed to the strike, but were forced to enter upon it by a ma jority vote of the mine workers in other fields. Mr. Trousdale follows, closely the lines of Mr. Baer's argument as to the dissimilarity between the work in the anthracite mines and that, in bituminous mines. He declares that it is impossible to adopt a uniform rate to be paid to the miner, for a unit of Joyce's Perfect Steel lUnges." For the next ten davs 25 rer cent, off on all cheap and fine Pipes at Blom berg's cigar store. Patton avenue. Biltmore Firewood. Phone 700. tf Just Received todw'r load of owe Pot and owing aei&y ln shipment from factory will teJ;;reatly reduced prices.' If in-" ratted call -M IK w A B oyce 11 South Court Square. PRACHT'S ORIGINAL For Sale Or Exchange. A 'hea.titlfnl imrvdem country home near Bingham echool. House 9 rooms lOlfcjcres of land in hbxh state of culti vation. Will sell or - exchange for city ; oroDerty. We are offering' splendid value In -two business " properties on Pattoui avenue and MaIn street . These are all choice values., " -r -r .,, Natt Atkinson a Sona Co., Real Estate Dc&tera. Horehound Kisses The popular throat confection, for sale At HESTON'S. "26 S Main St.' - .-. coal mined at all mines. The declara tion also is made that anthracite min ers, as a rule, do not work - as many hours a day as do the bituminous min ers, and the opinion is advanced thai if the wages of the anthracite miners had been less than that of other work men they would have found employ ment elsewhere, which they did not do until they reached the point of gen eral prosperity. He eays: "Prior to the introduction of agita tors and mischief-makers, the anthra cite workers were on anaverage as prosperous, comfortable and contented as any body of workers in similar em ployment in this country." The wages, it is added, are such that frugal employes have saved a substan tial amount every year. Mr. Trousdale resists the demand for j arbitration of 20 per cent, in hours of j labor, saying that no such branch of j business employing thousands of men can hope to compete sucessfully in the ' markets of the world if their hours of labor are restricted. He declares that there is no unjust discrimination in the weight of coal, as it is measured rather than weighed, and he asserts that the demand is out of all reason, and its effect, so far as this company is con cerned, is a demand for additional in crease in the wages now paid miners of from five to 40 per cent." The present method of measurement is declared to be the result of long usage and fair to all concerned. President Oliphant of the Delaware & Hudson company in his reply de clares that the wages paid by his com pany are just and adequate. He also says that "those of its employes who perform contract or piece work as a matter of their own volition. work only about six hours a day and take numerous holidays, without the- con sent or approval of this respondent, and their earnings, by hours of actual work, are, therefore", much higher than those in any similar employment.", Denials are made of all the declara tions in connection with the demand for shorter hours, and it is contended that such a reduction necesarily would increase the price of coal. While ad mitting that the mine owners sell their coal by the ton. he says that the rna 1 thus sold is a very different article from that taken out of the mines. Hence he contends against the change from the present system of payment to that of paying by the ton. President Oliphant also takes excep tion to the proposition to arbitrate the question of recognition of the miners union. This position is placed on the ground that tne organization seeks to control the entire fuel supply of the country; that as the union is un'incor porated, it Is incapable of making ; binding contract and that the associa tion has shown its inability to control its own members. He says his com p.any has no desire to discriminat against members of the union. President Fowler speaks for th Scranton Coal' 'company and the Elk Hill Coal company. He says they own 15 collieries and work 5,000 men. He asserts that if the average wages earn ed by the anthracite piece workers is less than that paid to workers in other employment, it is because "they fix their own hours of labor and the amount of their earnings without any regard to the interests or wishes of their employers and in total disregard of the earnings and welfare of every class of employes." He declares that the men in the mines do not work to exceed four or five hours a day. All other charges made by Mr. Mitchell are combatted, and on the question of the miners' union Mr. Fowler says: "We deny that agreements between employers and employes through workingmen's organizations are bene ficial and successful in the bituminous coal fields or elsewhere, and assert that any such agreement is a method (Continued on page four) PRESIDENT IS LOADED FOR BEAR GOES TO HUNT OUT BRUIN IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI SWAMPS. Has His Favorite Killing Uten sils Along; Hunting Region Is Kept a Secret. WILL REACH MEMPHIS EARLY THIS MORNING. BRIEF STOPS AND BRIEF SPEECH ES MADE AT A NUMBER OF PLACES RECEPTION IN LOUIS VILLE. Louisville, Nov. 12. The special train in which President Roosevelt is speeding toward Memphis arrived here tonight. He expects to reach Mem phis early tomorrow, from whence he will proceed to the Mississippi swampa for a bear hunt. The president is in a rather dubious frame of mind tonight over the actual amount of sport he is to find. He has asked former Roueh Rider Mcllhoney to accompany him. He has all his pet hunting parapher nalia with him, including the Winches ter which has a big piece bitten out of it by a mountain lion, and the 15- inch hunting knife, with which he stabbed two Cqlorado cougars to death. A tremendous crowd was at the en trance to the Louisville station -when the president's train arrived. The mayor, cadet corps and a number of citizens were admitted. The president made a brief speech. On the way here his train made brief stops at Pittsburg, Dennison, O., Columbus, Cincinnati, Xenia and Worthville, Ky. At several of the stops he made a few remarks, in which he expressed thanks for the reception accorded him. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 12. President Roosevelt passed through Pittsburg this morning en route to a point in Mississippi, where he has arranged to spend several days hunting bear, as a guest of President Fish of the Illinois Central railroad. He is traveling on a special train of three cars, accompanied by Secretary Cortelyou and his physician, Dr. Lung. (Continued on 4th page.) WE ARE PUSHING BARGAINS And if you are wanting to purchase, it will pay you to see us before buying from any one else. If you have prop erty to sell and are willing to take a reasonable price tell us about it and if the price is right we can sell it for you. We can't sell property for 3 or 4 times its worth and if we think your price too high we will tell you sa H, F. Grant & Son, REAL ESTATE AGENTS 48 PATTON AVE r I I Houses Pop Kent. A choice list of furnished and un furnished houses 'in various sections of the city. Modern conveniences. We will be glad to give interested par- ties full information and show houses, upon application at our office. WHkie& JLaBarbe Real Estate' and Rentiiix Agents, iBKttl Estate Areata, Now 3 Fiattom at Everyone Who Appreciates Punctuality Should take advantage of our CUT RATE SALE OF WATCHES Waltham, 18 Size Cash Price Vanguard, 21 jewels $25.00 Crescent St, 21 jewels.. .. 20.00 A. T. & Co., Premier, 18 jewels. . . 18.50 16 size Riverside, 17 jewels. 20.50 Elgin, 18 Size Veritas, 21 jewels 25.00 B. W. Raymond, 19 jewels.. 20.00 In Finer Adjusted Watches Bunn Special, 21 jewels 28.50 940 Hamilton, 21 jewels 28.00 Arthur M, Field Company Leading Jewelers Cor. Church St. and Patton Ave. Asheville, N. C, The Tailor Phone 347; Come and inspect my line of Imported andDomestic Suitings before buying elsewhere. Gen tlemen's Riding Breeches and Livery a Specialty. For Sale or Rent Large boarding house unfur nished, "The Brexton," No. 11 Stames avenue. $50.00 per month, recently painted, good condition . For sale: Beautiful suburban house, with 60 acres of land. Water and sewerage. Aston, Rawls &Go 184 South Main street. I? 0 Chinese Lily Bulbs We can supply Chinese or Sacred Lily; Bulbs of splendid quality at 10c Hyacinth glasses in colors, 15c each Choice bulbs for same, 10c each. Grant's Pharmacy jCttant' No. 24 cures cold. 2304 .tiiJA V - i f l' '.".I . s . i I 1, .. i ' r ) -.1! :t :. - i m V 1 v V , . 4V I . . ' , , .v , t , -3 ' .i 1 -1 t .1 v , T 4 i I"
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