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THEAS30C1ATE1T -; PRESS DISPATCHES ' LAST EDITION. 4:00 P.M. Weat&er rcrecasv : Cloudy and Colder. VOL. XIV. NO. 291. ASHEVILLE, N. C, ' FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 14, 1910. So PER COPY mt:Js ii wli; prate mm$ LEGISLATION IT IS URGraY MR. TAFT IN MESSAGE ON ccmmATioN Congress Is Asked to Validate, by Statute, Withdrawals of Public Lands, Which Have Been Made by Secretary of Interior and President, and to Authorize Other Temporary Withdrawals. POWER SITE PROBLEM SUGGESTIONS OFFERED Conservation of Lands Biggest Problem Inland Water ways Arid and Semi arid Lands, Etc. Washington, Jan. 14. President Tuft's special conservation message was delivered to the houBe by Mr. Lat ta, assistant secertary of the presi dent, soon after the body convened today. Roar of Applause. Pension legislation was Interrupted for the reading of the document and the speaker advised members to pay close attention' thereto, because no printed copies had arrived for distri bution. When the reading was con cluded, a roar of applause arose from the republican side of the chamber, and several democratic members Join ed in the demonstration. The speaker, on motion of Majority Lender Payne, referred the document tn the committee of the whole house, after which the house returned to consideration of the pension hill. To the Senate and House of Repre sentatives: In my annual message I reserved the subject of the conservation of our national resources for discussion in a special message, as follows: In several departments there Is pre sented tin- necessity Jor legislation looking to the further conservation of our national resources, and the subject is one of such Imiiortanee as to require a more detailed and extended discus sion than ran be entered upon In this communication. For that reason' 1 hall taka on early opportunity to send a sperial message to congress on th subject of the Improvement of our waterways: tipon the reclamation and Irrigation of arid, semlarld, and swamp lands; upon tho preservation of our forest and the reforesting of suitable areas; upon the reclassification of the piblir domain with a view of separat ing from agricultural settlement min eral, coal, and phosphate lands and sites belonging to the government bor dering on streams suitable for the util ization of water power. In HGo we had a public domain of l.OiS.si 1.28 acres. We have now 73l.3iV4.OHt acres, confined largely to the mountain ranges and the arid and senilarld plains. We have, in addi tion. n68,o:i5,9TS acres of land In Alaska. The public lands were, during the earliest administrations, trented as a national asset for the liquidation of the public debt and as a source of re ward for our soldiers and sailors. Later on they were donated In large amounts In aid of the construction of wagon roads and railways,-In order to open up regions In the West then almost inaccessible. All the princi pal land statutes were enacted more than a quarter of century ago.-- The homestead act, the preemption " and timber-culture act, the coal land and th mining acta were among these. The rapid disposition of the public lands under the early statutes, and the lax methods of distribution prevailing, due, I think, to the belief that these lands should rapidly pass Into private ownership, gave rise to the Impression that the public domain was legitimate prey for the unscrupulous, and that It was not contrary to good morals to curcumvent the land laws. This prod igal manner of disposition resulted In the passing of large areas of valuable land and many of our national re sources Into the hands of persons who felt little or no responsibility for pro moting the national welfare through their deveiODment. The truth Is that title to millions of acres of public lands was fraudulently obtained, and that the right to recover large part of such lands for the government long since ceased by reason of statutes of ' limitation. There has developed In recent years a deep concern In the public mind re spectlng the preservation and proper use of our natural resources. This has been particularly directed toward the conservation of the resources of the public domain. A vast amount of dls eusslon has appeared in the public lrlnt In generalised form on this sud Ject, but there has been little practical suggestion. It has been essy to say that the natural resources In fuel sup ply, in forests. In water power, and In other public utilities, must be' saved from waste. monoDoly and other abuses, and the general publio are In accord with this proposition, as they are with most truisms. The problem, however, Is how to save and how to utilise, how to conserve and still develop; for no ane person can contend that It Is for the common arnod that Nature's bless Ings are only for unborn generations. Among the most noteworthy forms Initiated by my distinguished predecessor were the vigorous prosecu tlon of land frauds and the bringing to public Attention of the necessity for preserving the remaining public do main froin furt.er spoliation, for the maintenance find extension of our for est reeou'.ces. and for the enactment or laws amending the obsolete statu o as to retain governmental control over that part of the public doma:A In wnich there are valuable deposits of -voul, f mi Bn, , ,h,,BihHt.. and, In IN NEED Mr. Pinchot Thinks Natural Resources and Popular Government Are Both at Stake Just Now. FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY DEPOSED FORESTER He Is Duly Willing to Support Admin titration When It Move Toward tho Right End. Washington, Jun. 14. "Tho con servation of notional ret."urc'S and the conservation o: popular govern ment are both at slake. The one needs conservation no less thun the other." This statement epitomizes the for mal announcement made public by Glfford Pinchot, who was recent ly removed as chief of the forest ser vice. The former official declares the great moral Issue that now fuces the country Is not the loss of natural re sources, so much as whether special interests or the peoplo shall rule. The statement. In part. Is as follows: "At this time I have no comment to. make' upon recent events. Whether In or out of the government service, 1 propose to stay In the fight for con servation and equal opportunity. Ev ery movemrtit1"" und measure, from whatever source, that tends to ad vance conservation and promote gov ernment by men for human welfare 1 shall try to help. Every movement and measure, from whatever source, that hinders conservation and pro motes government by money for profit I shall endeavor to oppose. Tho su preme test of movements and meas ures is the welfare of the plain wo ple, I am ns ready to support the ad ministration when It moves toward this paramount end as I am to op pose It when It moves away." Mr. Pinchot expresses his profound regret at leaving the forest service and pays tribute to the faithfulness and high quality of service rendered by the men with whom he worked. Out of the work of the forest service he proceeds, grew the conservation movement. ' "Today that movement expresses one of our deepest national convic tions," he says, "and the principles for which It stands are received as axio matic It Is only the execution of them which remains In doubt." " Mr. Pinchot then traced the re- commendatlona of the conference on conservation at the white house In May, 1108, the subsequent creation of the national conservation commission which he says together with Presi dent Roosevelt's message to congress on the subject set forth a comprehen sive, definite scheme for the conser vation of our natural resources which he applauds and endorses. Then he proceeded: At this critical period, when the goal was In sight, enemies of conser vation in congress not only succeeded In preventing an appropriation with which to pursue the work but at tempted to forbid Its progress by tho Tawney amendment to the last civil bill. Thereupon the work of the na tional conservation commission was stopped. These recommendations of the commission still wait for action. All wise men will agree that the situation la serious. The Tawney amendment was more thun a mistake it was deliberate! betrayal of the future, The dangers which confront conservation today must be met by positive action In congress. No action will be equiv alent to bad action and will have the same results. Unless congress acts, the water Aawers will pass Into hands of special interets without charge and without limit of time. So with the phosphate deposits on public lands when the withdrawals whlcn now protect tnom are removed. So with the enormously valuable coal deposits in Alaska which the present law would sell for tn dollars per acre. "The danger or Dad legislation is no less serious. Ths special Interests .... im longer be allowed to take what they choose out of the great property of all the people. Those who steal public lands steal homes from men and women who need them. Con gress can stop the pillage, or congress can let It go on-" , TVE WEATHER! Forecast until S p. m. Saturday for Ashevllle and vicinity: - Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; colder tonight. Policeman Assassinated. Nashville, Tenn.. Jan. 14 James Scott, special policeman at Bonah-, Tenn., was assassinated last night. There Is n elue to the murderer. BOTH OF CONSERVATION My Ncw York Herald and The Gazette THEY TELL THIS ON ARTIST GHISTY Knocked Down and Sat .on His.. Wife; , Hugged and Kissed Models as a Pastime. Zunesvitle, O., Jan. 14. There was Ffllvnralmi In tho Ufa r,f 1 Ion,, nl Chandler Christy, tho artist, accord ing to tho testimony of Charles K. Hull today In habeas corpus proceed ings for the possession of Christy's 13 years 'old daughter, Natalie. Mrs. Hall also testified. She-told of the home life of Mr. nnd Mrs. Christy In New York and of Christy knocking his wife down, uml "sitting uimn her." Mrs. Hall is re lated to Mrs. Christy and was the model for the artist in drawing "Hearts Are Trumps." Hall mention ed the names of women models with whom Christy was upon familiar terms, witness said, hugging and kiss ing was a common pastime. Hall said Christy would hold and caress a model and call her "baby doll." A trip of Christy's to an al leged sanitarium for inebriates was described. COTTON 513.30 ft BALE BELOW HIGH FIGURES Panicky Condition Developed Late To day, With Net Loss of 94 Points Over Yesterday. - New York, Jan. 14. The cotton market developed ' a panicky rondl tlon in late trading toduy. Within less thanan hour May - contracts broke frdm 14. 86 to 13. 80, this price showing a net loss of (4 points or $4.70 a bale from the closing llgure last night, and a (Incline of fin. 30 a bulc front the recent high record. The Drop at New Orleans.' New Orleans, Jan. 14. Tho slump In cotton market futures at New York and New Orleans again curried prices down $2.(0 a bale below the high levels of the day at New. Or leans. The March option dropped S3 point, going to 14.31,- and May option went from IS. 10 to' 14.60. v Another break in the future mar kM of New York and New Orleans curried price down levela ranging from SI to 18 a bale below high prices of the day. Demoralisation existed around the ring at the local exchange snd March cotton appeared Hearing the 13 cents mark.' i . Becrofary Dickinson Returns. Washington, Jan. 14. Secretary of War Iitckinson returned this morning from Porto Rico, Santo Domingo and Cuba. , The seeretury left the May flower it Charleston, and returned to Washington by train. Judge Trux Dead. tfew York, Jan. 14. Charles Ml. Trf,g, retired from the New York Supreme' court beich, died today of pneumonia, following an attack of grip. - New. POOR UNCLE JONAH SLEET TIES LOaa ft JhUsWi&few Jsawi Block ades in the History of Chicago Noted Today. Chicugo, Jan. 14. Following sever al Hays of snow and sleet, one of the moat serious train blockades in tho history of ChiiaKo was reported to day. Telegraph nip'S.wcre crippled, es pecially north nnd south of Chicago. Wires cast were working poorly. A EOriMVCII KNOW COVERS NEW YORK TOI.W New York, Jan. 14. New York awoke today to lind itself in the grip of another severe snowstorm, which blunketed the city benoath u four inch covering. IS The Negro Was Convicted of the Mur der of a Popular Young White Man Who Lived in Bedford Co. Richmond. Vs., Jan. 14. lliur mnn Spinner, a negro, watt electro cuted In the slate penitentiary this morning for the murder of Charles Noel, the popular young white man who lived near Clfax, Bedford county. Saturday night. September .10, the party of young men were out o'possiim hunting. In Hie party were young Noel and a negro who carried the axe to rut down the trees. Noel and the negro luid an ultercatlon. On the re turn home the negro hid In the shad ow of a tree and struck Noel from be- hind with au axe, . . A mob wont to the Bedford jail to lynch Spinner, but tho sheriff out witted tho moli by taking the negro to L rich burg. AD sow TRAFFIC T IN SPIER ELECTROCUTED Samoan Island Natives Afflicted Pago Pago, Jau. 14. That from forty to fifty per cent, of the natives of the Samoan Islands are Infected with the hook worm, Is announced by Large Petition Circulated In Interest of C.W.Morse Raleigh, Jan.. 14. A monster petl - tlon la now being circulated, and later r,wlll be presented to President Taft. COLORADO FOLK ARE WITH PINCHOT Both Forestry Departmont and the Live Stock Assbclation Gave Him This Endorsement. Denver. Jan. 14. Clifford Pinchot, I he deposed government forester, has received tho formal endorsement of Hie Colorado Forestry association, and of the Colorado Live .Stock associa tion. There Will lie No Answers. Washington, Jan. 14. Gilford Pln chol's public statement, sharply criti cizing the course of the Tuft adminis tration has pursued, will not like!' be answered by the administration. T THE PRESIDENC1 Governor Harmon of Ohio Makes State' ment in Letter to a Personal Friend. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 14. Governor Harmon of Ohio, writing a personal friend here, states that ho will not give the presidency consideration un til lifter the fall elections. He will be a candidate for re-election to the gov ernorship. TWO RHINOCEROSES SHOT BY COL. THEODORE HOOSEVELT The Party Now in t'amp at Rhino, on the Congo Side of Itard-EId-Ji-hrl River. Btitlnbn, Uganda. Jan. 14. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt shot n white rhi noceros sow and a young rhinoceros the llrst night the party was at camp at camp at Rhino, the present stop ping' place on the Congo side of the Bard-Kid-Jebei river. by Hookworm Surgeon Rossiter, medical officer the naval station, Tutulla. Rossiter found one white man and several half breeds In advanced stages of the dls ease. ... 1 asking pardon t Charles W. Morse, the New York banker, now In the Atlanta penitentiary. CONSIDERING PUNISHMENT FOR THE WAITER His Lawyer Says Cohen Has Committed no Crime De Janon Girl Is a Nervous Wreck. sft ft ft ft. Philadelphia, Jan. 14. After a hearing this afternoon, Ferdinand Cohen, who ran away with Miss Dc Janon, was committed to the county prison without bail for a further hearing two weeks hence on a charge of kidnapping. , ft , ft, ft ft ft ft. ft ft ft ft ft ft st kt U ft Philadelphia, Jan. 14. There is possibility that Ferdinund Cohen, the hotel waiter, will go unpunished for the part he took in tho escapade with Miss Roberta Do Janon, tho young heiress. Tho police today made the emphatic statement that Cohen did not harm the girl, and the young runaway still adheres to the story, corroborated by Cohen, that she was alone responsible for the affair; that sho induced Cohen to leave the city with her. After an Interview with the waiter in his cell, his lawyer told the reporters that Cohen under the ia'.v nan commmea no crime, uonen spent the night In a cell In the fifth Moor of City hull. Tho girl is still in ;i private apartment of a hospital, under care of a nerve specialist, nerv ous system budly upset by the events of the last few days. It la likely she I will bo kept in the hospital some duys. Mrs. Julia Cohen, tho deserted wife, who was taken to a hospital last night in a state of nervous collapse. was better today and left the insti tution. Both Roberta. Dc Janon and Mrs. Cohen spent last night In a hospital In this city. The man over whom the woman and girl have become nervous wrecks was locked in the city hall. Just what charge to lodge against ohen Is a problem that is perplex ing police officials and counsel for Robert Bulst, the girls millionaire grandfather. The girl. In spite of a cross-exami nation which lasted practically from the tlmn she was turned over to the Philadelphia detectives, until she was taken to St, Agnes Hospital lost night, refused to sdmit that any one except herself was to blame for the escapade. It has been established that she suffered no wrong. MITCHELL COUNTY TOWN SWEPT BY DESTRUCTIVE FTRE Bristol. Tenn,, Jan. 14. Elk Park, a town of 1300, in Mitchell county, N. C, was swept by a destructive fire yesterday afternoon. Twenty build ings In .the Center of the town are In ashes with an estimated loss of $75 000. The burned buildings, all frame. In clude a bank, the railway station, a number of stores and several dwell ings. Elk Park Is without any lire protection and for a time the entire town was threatened with destruction. With apparatus sent from Johnson City, Tenn., by a special train the flames were finally brought under con trol. There was comparatively little In surance on the destroyed property. PllrlS FUST And so Signatures Cannot Be Scratched Off, no Matter How Badly It May Be Desired. MOREHEAD AND C0YYLES NEARLY COME TO BLOWS Quarreled in Caucus Grant Stands by Morehead Story of Bond Suit from Rhode Island Sounds - ' Improbable. The Gazette-News Bureau, 46 Post Building. Washington, Jan. 14. FRANK CARTER, In the interest of Mrs. Fannie J. Reed, the de posed postmaster at Blltmore, jaw 'Postmaster General Hitchcock again today but declined to discuss his visit. He has received several tele grams from Ashevllle democrats who wish their names scratched off C. C. Greenwood's certificate of. character. This is impossible for Congressman Grant, who has the Greenwood certi ficates In his possession, is holding on to them with a deathlike grip. Clerk of the Court Mark Brwln wired: "1 did not sign Greenwood's certificate of character for the purpose of bolstering up charges against Mrs. Reed. If used for this purpose I strike my name from It." Sheriff T. F. Hunter wired: "I signed Greenwood's certificate upon his representation that It was a recom mendation for census taker. Take my name off." Mil. MOREHEAD tiKTS POSITION OX THE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Both Congressman Morehead and Congressman Cowles wished election ns the North Carolina member of the ' republican congressional campaign committee. Mr. Grant sided with Mr. Morehead, which resulted In his elec tion. Mr, Cuwlea tried -to get -S rant to take the place, and declared he ' would vote for him In caucus, but Grant stuck to Morehead. Hot words endued between Morehead and Cowlea at the caucus, which witnesses feared would result In a fight Morehcad's position gives him con trol of the distribution of congressional campaign funds of the state this fall. RHODE ISLAND'S SENATORS DISCI SS STORY AS TO BONDS Senators Aldrich and Wetmore of Rhode Island told the North Carolina senators today that they did not be lieve the newspaper reports that Gov ernor Pointer of Rhode Island had decided to sue the state of North Caro lina for recovery of $185,000 In fraud ulent bonds. They discredited the story and sold, moreover, that the sen timent of the people of Rhode Island . would not countenance such a suit. State Treasurer Lacy wired the North Carolina senators about the matter. F MAY LOSE PLACE Joint Resolution Looking to Its Fame Being Given to the Last Thurs day in April. Washington, Jan. 14. The passing of March 4 as "inauguration day" la foreshadowed by the expected adop tion by the1 h'Vise at today's session of a Joint resolution proposing to the states an amendment to the consti tution. Ratification by 3I states will be necessary after the resolution has been adopted by both houses of congress and approved by the president. It makes the last Thursday In April every four years the day on which the terms of the president and vice presi dent shall begin. The amendment would have the effect of extending President Taft's present term of office nearly two months, but he would re ceive no compensation therefor. It also would lengthen the short session of congress for the same period. WARR1XER GOES TO PRISON. Man Wlto Confessed Kmnecxlement of $33,000 Begins Six Years Term. ' Cincinnati, Jan, 14. Charles 1 Warrlner, who confessed embexzlo- ment of $633,000 while treasurer of tho Big Four railroad, was taken to the Columbus penitentiary today, to begin his sentence of six years. Play ATELLl ARRESTE1K . , AHeged to Be Involved In Plot Embroil Spanish Army With tiovernmer L Madrid. Jan. 14. Prince Plgna telll, all fed to be Involved In the re cently dhvoverct tyot through whirh the ronsrVhliha aimed to embroil the armv with government, v. sis a- resteil to'lny. 0 OF MARCH to . .(C ' 1 tl " I 4 ) ... . n i ! ' " ,. 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