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TEE ASSOCIATED " - PRZZ3 DISPATCHES LAST EDITION, ... .4:00 P.1L Weather forecast: Occasional showers; taw VOL XIV. NO. 189. ASHEVILLE, N. 0., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1909. 3c PER COPY Ww fohe smmm MK. C. BORCWGREVlNK YU I9,-.T8I MILH SENSATION SPRUNG BY JUDGE MOORE, FOR DEFENSE, IN THE BANK CASES Affidavits Read Set Forth That Deputy Ramsey Made Im proper Statements to the Jurors. JUDGE ORDERS ALL JURORS BROUGHT BACK TO COURT ' ,lKtiougtii!t Jayryoo! of Alje gatlops ' Will not Affect Vardlct-Rni. tiy Makes a Rat Denial. EMBLEM OF PEACE RAISED AT POLE Paary Tells ol the Flaget He Swung, 1 Then Photographed, and , Then Buried. I : 1 : . ;,irit?S fcagaK II U ' J I VM TI.I .t.t.J il ' .. -"fAT X .s" ' J"L!WM,ll"M"lll!l!l II'" 111 l!!l"!!,l!IIU.IIlllllllill!!"fliMWIimi , ; J'rvri T HRFRR AT1ARRF 2 1 -VX. 1 ' y III .'.'f Jill 11 " IBBWBBHWW ,l ; V , III H H HI CAPT. B. P. SCOTT OR EltlC VON DKYtSALSK) war ivos-.tfez.Mrtea ic iames rom Vtl843 . 82 MILS VEAIH0-50 MILBS Judfrc Charlea A. Moore of counsel for the defense in the trial of Maj. Hreese and Joseph E. Dk-korson, con victed, fined and . sentenced on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the First 'National, Bank of AshevilM, sprung a sensation in United States District court this morning when court convened, with Judge Newman presid ing, to hear argument and motion in arrest of Judgment and for a new trlul In the casss of the convicted y bankers, and as ft result of affidavits read and allegations mode the 12 jur ors who tried and convicted the de fendants have been summoned to ap pear back here tomorrow for an Inves tigation Into the matter.' The charge and affidavits had to do with alleged conversations of Deputy Marshal Robert Ramsey, an officer Of tha court, with certain of the Jurors during the progress of the trial and Just previous , to .the return of the verdict by the Jury. The affidavits read and the charges contained there in came as a surprise to those in- the eourt room end without doubt created something of a sensation. A Surprise for HolUtn. District Attorney Holton, after Judge Mitore had read his affidavits. said, "this is the first time we have heard anything of this; we should at . ifait have time to file and answer; the affidavits r' a reflection on and a Jthaote against an officer of this court; charges should be Investigated. Judge Nbwman said that since there no intimation that the verdict of Urciury had been affected the matter ould not weigh with the question of trial. Judge Newman did say, howevtr, that the charges were serl-0",- that an officer of the court wan Involved and tliat tho matter should . I thoroughly investigated. Marshal Mllllkan and Deputy Marshal Ramsey both desired the matter moat thor oughly Investigated and Judge New nan Issued an order summoning every member of the Jury to return to Ahe viile tomorrow for an Investigation of he charges to determine the guilt or Innocence of the deputy marshal. Mr. itsmsey after tha adjournment of fourt stated to a newspaper man that " whole charge 'contained In the muavlta was false. - - Motion for New Trial. When court convened this morning 'uuge Moore moved for a neur trlnl Ho said that new matter hml ,wm n the attention of the defense; that he had affidavits which he desired to a. An afildavlt . was read whleh Mated that after the case had gone to the jury Deputy Marshal Ramsey en tered Into communication with Juror J. K. Norton; that In, the course of me conversation the officer said in nect: "Rawls Is as guilty as Hreeae and Dlckerson and they are as guilty as hell." The affidavit stated that this tatement was made In the presence of juror oarren. The afildavlt fur- iner recited the allegation that Depu Marshal Ti nmuv nuwinv tr. i..,.. Oarren and In the presence of Juror continued on page five: ; BalUe Harbor, Labrador, Via wire less to' Cape Rayi'N. F. 8ept:15. Commander , Robert rJ3. Peary .con versed further today with represent atives of the Associated Press regard ing his journey to the northpo!e. lie spoke particularly of flags he raised at the pole and records he left there, and he touched aguln on some of the assertions credited to Dr. Krederluk A. Cook. Commander Peary said that when lie reached the pole the first flag to be thrown to the breeie was a silken American emblem presented to him by his wife 15 years ago. He had carried this flag on every one of his expeditions to the north, leaving a piece of It at the highest point he attained. The lust remnants were raised and. left at the pole. The explorer then raised the navy ensign, flag of the Navy lengue, then the flag of the Delta-Kappafipsllon fraternity, and finally the Hag of peace. Tent poles and snow lances were used as flagstafTs and when oil had been raised the commander took several photographs of the group. He then burled the records in a water tight box In the Ice. He suld he knew nothing of the statement from a Danish source thut he had posted a notice on the Green land coaBt to the effect that Cook was dead. ' ( TO SEC IT THE SWAMP LANDS Assistant Secretary Hayt Has Gone to Hyde, N. C, on Such a Minion. Washington, Sept. 15. For the pur pose of personally Inspecting tho expo riment of converting the swamps In North Carolina Into tilable land As slstant Secretary Hays of the dvpart ment of agriculture left Washington today for Hyde county, N. C. The project of draining these swamps W proceeding tinder advices or experts in the department, and it Is with the object of familiarizing himself with whnt If being accomplished that Dr. Hayes will make his Inspection,. .4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.H-M"H"I'-fr4'4'-l'4'4-44'4'4'H . A fc All aboard for the South Pole! Fresh from the conquest of the North Pole, Frederick A. Cook, that , intrepiu explorer, turns longingly lowara ine ivuiim ana, u noi peaien oui ny one or more oi n oinor men at present lent on rencning me point wnera norui is me. only direction, it is neneveu ne win car ry off that plum, too. Lieutenant Krnest H. Shiickelton of KiikUiihI, who has already been within 111 miles of the polo, Is planning un other expedition. Dr. Jean It. Charcot, a Frenchman, Is now In . the South seas. Henry Savage. Innd or Is building an airship In wlili h he hopes to reach the pole. Two other Kngllshmen, Captain R. V. Webster and V. S. Bruce, are working out plana for attacks on the great unreached. Pictures of the many men who have ulempted to reach the South Pole, with their records, are shown in the accompanying illustration. t. J t H t If I ! I 'I 'I ! "I I "I ,t"J,4M,I,,I' I-' I 'I I I I MDRGANTON D.&D'. SCH00LSDPENED There Were 212 Present Farmers Holding Cotton and Small Crop Will Sell Well. W)I,rlKRH OF RM'K AND CRAY WILL I'MTK IV CKHKMONIKS rnvclllng of Monument or Mamaa-liu. scIIh to TImkw Who Fell at Union Ilougc. Raton Rouge, Sept 15. Old sol diers of both the Oray and the Blue will unite In ceremonies attending the unveiling of a monument erected by the state of Massachusetts to the mem ory of its soldiers who lost their lives in the battle of Haton Rouge and now lie burled In the national cemetery here. , A number of Confederate veteran or ganisations will participate in 'he vent. Among the prominent speaker will be Governor Draper of Massa chusetts and Governor Banders of foulslana. The unveiling will be on November It. 9Awm-wwa evKEio - OTemtw of OoiHmro koomt, oiasMM Mlta.. SolMoh. N. c. Sept. 15. Among today's visitors was Superin tendent Goodwin Of the state; school for deaf-mutes, at . Morgnnton. He says it opened its term with 212 pupils present, this' being 14 more than ever before at the opening, and that it will be full to the limit, 250. Work is In progress on the new building for the primary department, which will be a dormitory and also contain school rooms, etc., and which will provide for 100. The Cotton Market. The comment is mnife by cotton dealers here that they never saw lighter receipts at this season. As a mnttfr of fact the farmers are holding the cotton. They fully believe It will go yet blgher. A large grower said that his crop was about SO per cent, short, but ho expected to get as much for It as ho did for lust year's crop. This time lust ear It was eight and a hulf cents while now It Is twelve and , a holf cent;!, the avance being $20 caie. Extremely Hne work Is being done at tho Agricnlturnl and Mechanical collogu. The battalion will .be larger this year than heretofore, though there will be only four companies. Measures for uniforms have been taken and at the State fair the bat talion will parade. The band will again be ft good one. Tho student body Is doing tine work In every way. The students are devoted to President D. H. Hill, who hus their full con- nrfence and esteem, In the athletic line the foot-ball team Is being tried out rapidly and Frank Thompson, now tho trainer, Is very much pluased with ,the work It Is doing. There is very general regret that Dr. Mlchlo Whlte h a rot of Baltimore can not again be the trainer. He had hoped to be but his office work prevents. Many gnmes v lll be played with strong teams dur (ng the coming season. TIIK WHAT I IKK. Forecast until I p. m., Thursday, for -Ashevllle and vicinity: Partly cloudy, with occasional showers, to night or Thursday; somewhat cooler Thursday. CeAtral Bank Plan Endorsed by Taft On Eve of Setting Out on Hi3 Long Journey, the President .Praises Aldrich, and Says He Expects to Learn Things in the South and West, and May be, Also, Do Some Teaching. II EUTENAKT.SMACKLtTON DRESSED eoic A DASH " TO TH8 WARNING SOUNDED IN ADDRESS TO BANKERS, BY J AMES J. HILL IN GIT! STREETS Marseilles Consequently Excited- The Animal Probably Hiding in Sewer. Boston, Sept. 15. Well tunned by more than five weeks on the gull' links and Invigorated by the salt wit hreeses of Massachusetts bay, President Tuft closed his vacation today, ami. in ex cellent yolce started on hi. 1.1. 000- mlle swing unwind tha country. President Tuft began his speech making tour last night at the lanliet of the chamber of commerce nf Bos ton. He will resume In Chicago. Tho presidential party was driven from the Hotel Touraine at !:0 a. in. and boarded a special train of three cars at South station. - It was arrang ed to send this train ahead of the regular 10 a. in. truln to Albany and the west. The President's Boston Snwch. President Taft's first public utter ance since congress adjourned was made in Boston lust night before 2000 men representing the combined business Interests of Boston. The oc casion was a banquet given In Me chanics hull, the largest auditorium in Boston, by the Boston chamber of commerce, recently formed by a mer ger of the Boston Merchunls' associa tion, and the associated board of trade with the chamber, and It mark- (Continued en page 4.) QRV1LLE T CONGRATULATED Hf, With Auflutt William, Makes Flight , from Frankfort to Mannheim, Germany. Frankfort, Kept. 15. The airship Zeppelin III. left here today to fly to Mannheim, on board as passengers are" Orvllle Wright, Prince August William of Prussia, and Duke of Suxe-Coburg-Gotha. " Tlicy Land Barely. Mannheim, Oermany, Sept 15. Zeppelin HI. landed her passengers hers safely, after a successful flight from Frankfort. Prince August Wil liam congratulated Orvllle Wright warmly on his recent aeroplane nights at Berlin. STRIKE AGAIN ON 'AT M'K ROCKS Discharging of Bosses Demanded All Men Out o Pressed Steel Car Company. .Marseilles, Sent. 15. The royal Bengali tigress that csiapcd from a steamer In the harbor yesterday is still at large, reports current last nik'ht that hud been captured being error. The tigress Is reported to be on the water front, probably hilling In the mouth nf a sewer. The people of this locality are high ly excited. Twice during the night the tigress was seen slinking along the docks, and II red upon, but both shots missed. The section where the animal is hid ing Is guarded by cordons of soldiers and police, and no une Is allowed to go out on the wharves. FOR MURDER AND RIOT POLICE ARE BLAMED We Are Likely to Become a Wheat Importing Nation Within Ten Years, He Declares. INCREASE OF PRODUCTION NOT NEARLY GREAT ENOUGH The Farms Being Poorly Tilled The People Go to the Factories and to Slums to Live. Business Men's Appeals for Closing ol Gambling Houses in Vain, Says C. A. White. Ralph Q., the II months old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Moore, died this morning about 9:.10 o'clock, after about a week's Illness. The funeral will take place tomorrow. The par ents have the sympathy of their friends In their bereavement, this be ing the thlrfd child they have lost rittshurg, Sept 15. A new strike was Inaugurated nt the Pressed Steel enr works at McKeo'a Rocks this morning by 8000 foreigners, who re fused to go to work unless bosses and substitute bosses of the plant . were discharged. - Later several hundred Americans quit work. The absence of foreign ers, they said, necessitated their com ing out The main grievance, it Is said, la the employment of a large number of men, Imported during the lute strike, In the capacity of bosses. The men claim one of the agreements by which the last trouble was settled was that all of the Imported men should be discharged. The American workmen who have quiet say' no work is being accomplished In the mill. By 1 o'clock the strike became gen eral, All workmen, numbering over 5,000, had left the plant and all de. partmenta were closed down. Atlantic City. Sept. 15. "The po lice of this city are directly respon sible for the riot and shooting of a woman which occurred here last night," said C. A. White, one of the proprietors of the Murllioruugh-Blen-helm hotel. "Tho business element of the city, not these so-called reformers, have been for some tlmo trying to close gambling houses In the negro section In the buck part of town," he con tinued; "when the gambling expose came some time ago, these resorts were closed, but we found that they were re-opentng lately one by one, and that all our appeals to the police were In vain." . 8 TRAINMEN KILLED; A One Seriously Irjured, Others Hurt- Several of the Victims Wen Cremated. Chicago. Sept. 15. Two important divisions of the American Banker association, the trust company section and the clearing house section, met today In place of n session of the main convention. The work taken up by the two sections Is considered by the hnnkcrs to be as Important as the main business meetings of the con vention. The officers of sections made their reports and open dlapus slon of details of financial problems to be met In ' trust companies and clearing houses occupied much of the time. Mr. Hills Speech. "The Idea that we feed the world la being corrected; and unless we can . increase the agricultural population and their product, th question of a source of food supply at home will soon supersede the question of a mar ket for our own products abroad." This was the warning given by James . J. Hill at the convention of the Amer Isiir. Bankers Association yesterday, during a ulsciimlon of the decline of agriculture and Its consequences. Mr. Hill's subject was "National Wealth nnd the Farm." "We have," said the speaker, "al most reached a point where, owing to Increased population without Increas ed production ier siere, our home feed supply win be Insufficient for our own needs; within ten years, possibly less, we are likely to become a wheat-Importing nutlon; the percentage of the population engaged In agriculture and the whi'ut product per acre are both fulling: at the same time the cost of living is raised everywhere by this relative scarcity of bread, by artificial Increase In the price of all manufac tured articles, and by a habit of ex travagance which has enlarged the view of both rich and poor of whnt are to be considered the necessari of life. These plain facts should dls- ' turb and arouse not only the economic student bu the men who are most In- , tlmately related to the wealth of the nation and most concerned that It shall not suffer lose or decrease," Mr. Hill declared that never yet has enhanced cost of living, when due t agricultural decline and inability to supply national needs, failed to and In national disaster. ; All Depend on the Farm. Mr. Hill said the farm Is our main reliance and that every other activity depends on that He asserted, how Continued on page three. Nashville. Sept. IS. As the result of a head-on collision between a pas senger train ami fast freight on the Nashville, Chattanooga and 8t. Iuls rsllway. west of Pegrnm station, Tenn., I men were killed, one serious, ly Injured, and a number of others are reported more or less hurt. No passenger waa killed. The cars caught fire and several of the victims were cremated. PLKNTY WII-MNO TO PAY SS TO ATTKND COOK IlANgt'ET New York. Sept. 15. The aale of tickets for the welcome home ban quet to Pr. Cook satisfies the com mittee In charge that there are plen ty of persons who have faith fiwuth In the Brooklyn explorer's claim to pay nve dollars apiece for the privi lege of attending that function. V
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