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'JJewwf THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES azette LAST EDITION. 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast: Rain; Colder. VOL. XV. NO. 17. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, -FEBRUARY 28, 1910. 3c PER COPY SCQRES BURIED BENEATH MONSTER AVALANCHES i tholisanu rescue m WHILE FIIMIM RASES The Snow Slide Is Half a Mile Long and 30 Feet Deep Roar of Descending Mass Was Heard Miles Away Snow Fills Canyon to Depth of 50 to 70 Feet. FEARED SIXTY LIVES Two Villages in Idaho Mining District Buried, One Last Night and One Today. Spoknne, r,0 known Feb. 2X.- There arc now dead m tlir landslid liurke and Mace, Idaho. Siiukniu', Wash., Feb. 2S. Sixty lives have hcen lost, il Is feared, in two great landslides, which brought dismay to the mining towns of the i icli i 'oner 1)' Alone, district in north irn Idaho. A snow slide swept down the moun tain last night, striking the little town of Mace and burying 2'i houses end their sleeping occupants in a mass of snow and Ice, nt t lie bottom of the canyon. Today another slide rushed down on ihe to-n of liurke, crushing n score of houses under thousands of tuns of earth and snow. Fourteen bodies have already been recovered from the ruins of Mare, while 16 were unearthed ut Kurke. How many are still burled can only lie guessed. Doctors were rushedlr both places on special trains.- One thousand .rescuers lire now at work. Old timers In this district have been Bounding warnings, becnuse of the record depths of snow. Thirty-five Italians, sleeping in a car on a rall rond siding who were swept away, with their car, to the bottom of the canyon used their tools to dig them selves out of a veritable grave. The little mountain town lies be tween precipitious mountain sides, and the straggling lines of cottages In the creek bottoms are bisected by the Northern Pacitie and Oregon rail roads. As soon as the extent of the ava lanche became known hundreds- of men, awakened by tire bells, began the work of rescue. Every able bodied man available was hurried to the scene, and began the work of dig ging for bodies. Reports tell of the snow tilling the canyon to a depth of r.O to 75 feet. The avalanche's track down the mountain side is swept as clean as a floor, and the deafening, roar was heard for miles from the gulch. Never since liurke wus almost wip ed out by a landslide on Feb. 1, 1890, has a town In this section been so r.orely stricken. The disaster occur red in what is known ns lower Mace, w here are quartered 300 miners em ployed In the Standard miles. A furi ous blizzard Is blocking tho efforts of the rescuers. GETS THE"PLUKI" - - Those Engaged in Fight Against Holton at Last Prevail The Reappoint ment of Ma). Rollins. Politicians who have their being In the Republican household put their ears to the Kroud early today, with a view to catching possible rumunngs from any direction. It was connaenny believed that the appointment of Mr. Logan would be made today, and sev eral Inquiries reached this office as to what had happened at the Washington tnd of the line. The flrst news that came, however, related to Republican Btate Chairman Adams. The Infor mation was given that the President had authorised the statement that the Greensboro man would be made dls trlct attorney, which showed that the fight against Holton hud at lost bore fruit. Holton, It Is now said, will make a fight for the state chairman ship. Friends of Major Rollins were say' Ing today that his appointment as postmaster' followed as a matter of course, that no other candidate had a how at any stage of the contest, ow ing to Major Rollins' overwhelming endorsement. He was endorsed, I1 war pointed out, by 220 business peo pk whlehepraeited almost the en. tire business life of the community, while politically speaking, he had the endorsement of IS of the IT members of the county executive committee, a body whose voice carries great weight in sucb matters. THE WEATHER. Forecast until II p. m. Tuesday for Asheville and vlelnltv: Rain tonight end Tucsd iv, wll h falling temperature G IN ADAMS INTERESTED THEJVIANN BILL It Is a Matter in Which Judge H. A. Gudger, ol the Supreme Court of Panama, Is Involved. Many Asheville people and others In western North Carolina are interested in the Maun bill now pending in the Senate of the I'nlted Slates by reason of the fact that Judge lleekiah A. fiudger, chief justice of the Supreme court of I'anaina is Involved, and likewise his Iwo associates on tin1 Supreme court bench. The Mann bill as it is underst I here provides for a radical change in the judicial ad ministration in tl.e Canal zone; in short that it provides for the abolish ment or abridgement of the Supreme court with Us three Justices including the chief justice: provision for one Supreme court Judge and appeal from that justice to the Supreme court of the initial States. All cases heard and disposed of by the lower or infe rior courts in the Canal zone will be appealable direct to the Supreme court judge on the isthmus and from j that court to the Supreme court in the United Slates. Heretofore the United Stales lias maintained on the Isthmus a Supreme court with three Justices and without appeal (ram the I rulings of this court. In view of the fact that Judge Gudger, who was ap pointed a justice on the Supreme court bench in I'anaina several years ugo later appointed chief justice ot that court, a position which be now holds, his friends are naturally exerting themselves in behalf cf Judge Gudger as the Supreme court Judge of the Canal zone when the Mann bill, in the event it passes the senate, goes into effect. It is believed that Judge Gudg er's ability us a lawyer and jurist an. I his long service In the Canal zone and his familiarity with conditions there and the laws, will appeal to President Tuft and that he will be appointed. Judge Gudger is the father of Mrs. P. C. Cocke, Mrs. J. J. Nichols of Asheville. TOE POSTAL OFFICE TO JOPENEO This Will Occur Tomorrow and Those Having in Charge Company's Inter ests Feel Encouraged Over Outlook. The Asheville olllce of the Postal Telegraph-Culile company will . lie opened tomorrow nornlng at 8 o'clock for business in Asheville and thlh vicinity. The company's otltee will he located on Church street No. H and will be in charge of Lon S. Bottorf us manager with W. H. Staples as chief operator. The company will have an additional operator who has not yet been selected. It Is under stood that the Postul will observe practically the same hours for busi ness ns the local Western Union office and will also give, like the Western Union, an all-day Sunday service. Air. Bottorf and others connected with the Postal office express them self as greatly encouraged over the prospect for business hern and In this Immediate vicinity. With the opening of the Postal oltlce here tomorrow Asheville for the first time In the his tory of the town will be given com petitive telegraph service. FOREIGN' KIM PI HMKIIE1W PROTEST TO THE PRESIDENT Against Senator Overman's Which Alms to Itestrli t Immigration. 11111, Washington. Feb. JS. A large com mittee of publishers of foreign lan guage newspapers called upon Presi dent Taft this, morning to protest against the enactment of the bill of Senator Overman of North Carolina, which proposes to restrict Immigra tion severely by the Imposition of ed ucational tests, Increased head tax, the exclusion of Immigrants with lim ited means, and the requirement of a iwrllflcate of admission fiom their government Have Killed 500 Large Animals. Oondokler. Sudan, Feb. ti, Colo nel Roosevelt and party today sailed for Kartum, where they will arrive March IS. Col. Roosevelt and Ker mlt have killed fi00 specimens of large unnints. Men Holding 1 u. f "ma iCLEl ELECTIONS: lit- t 'M v r j Liu- Jf iCi - Vi Zll SJrV. ki'tk rout ax i. i:itit; sthkfts. POI.ICI SI'PKHIXTKX IH'AT TAYLOK. LOGAN, OQCKERY 5, Taft Says He'll Name Adams to Succeed Holton Favorable Report on Seawell. The (lazette-Xews liiireau, II! Post Building. Washington, Keli. L'S. Announcement was made at the White Mouse today tlmt the president will apiMrint Judge Adams district at torney to succeed Holton. The t.ite ment was given to the press liy the president's direction. Claudius Dockery of Raleigh is nominated for United Mates marshal for the eastern district. Mr. Dockery hail the endorsement of .Mr. Duncan, national committeeman. The nomination of W. K l.ogan of Asheville to lie United States mershnl for the Wettirii district of North Carolina was transmitted to the sen ate this afternoon. The senate Judic iary committee favorably reports the nomination of II. F. Seawell of Car thage to lie district attorney of tho Eastern district. BILL 10 RAISE WRECK IS Washington, Feh. 28. Proposing to rnlse the wreck of the battleship Maine In Havana harbor, the house naval sub-committee 'today took favorable action on the bill appro priating funds for the project. Cold Storage Testimony. Cold storage products are perfectly good from a digestive standpoint and keep prices at a minimum, according to witnesses before the house- Investi gating committee. Iit'' Credentials, The credentials of Leroy Percy, the newly elected senator from Mississippi, successor to. Henator James Gordon, were presented to the senate. Nomination. President Taft sent to the senate the following nominations: H. Krown Allen, to be postmaster at Staunton, Vo.; Henry L. Johnson of Atlanta, to be recorder of deeds, district of Co lumbia (Johnson Is a negro lawyer); Claudius Dockery, marshal for the eastern district of North Carolina; William E. Logan, marshal for the western district of North Carolina, F. A. Rodenberry, successor to the late Congressman James M. (Irlggs of (li'orula. was today sworn In es a nu mber of Ihe house. i: ADAM MERS in Chech Street CAPTAIN' tJSHNe. C Q-f THE -STATE COURT DID RIGHT IS Justice Wright Renders Decision Which Is Against Attitude Taken by Cer tain Members of Congress. WasliiiiKtoii. I'Vb. 28. Justice J lei T. Wright in tho Supreme today decided that the court had in t -led entirely within its authority when it issued a writ of mandamus ordering the joint eumniittee on printing, of eotifress. to show cause u hy il should not eiinsnler a hid for eovern ment printing made hy the Valley Taper Co., ,lcke, Mass. Justice Writhi, quel ,k law .Hid precedents, declared that to have re fused to issue the mandamus. he cause some h rs'iiis sued occupied the t xalted positi'ni of senators, "would have been to In tray the law." "No man In this country is so high that ho Is higher than the law." de t hired Justice W right, "All officers are creatures el the law. even the Ivivcrninont "I the United Slates is less than the law. What is there in the exalted position of senator, which prevents any citizen from saying what ho believes to he an Injury before the I ar of Justice '" Justice Wright an nounced that his decision made no attempt to dispose of the merits of the case, but merely held that the court was acting within its authority, which congress conferred upon it, and was Interpreting the law which gross created. on- EXCITEMENT ON COTTON MARKET New York, Keb. 2S. There was a revival of bulli'ih excitement in the cotton market today and May deliv eries sold up to 14.82, or 35 points above the closing price Saturday and fully $50 per bale above the low level of last weak. Rumors that the old bull crowd, Including Patten of Chicago were tak ing cotton from local stock for ship ment, to Liverpool and were accumu lating fresh lines of May, led to renew ed talk of a May siueec I inplrc, the llelgitlug power. New York, Feb. 28. The umpire will be the reigning power on the diamond t ils season, more than ever before In the h!"tor?' ot baseblll. The double umpire system Is estab llrheil In the new rules. 'The utnplre- In-ehlef, stationed behind the bat. will have full charge of the game and will alone have authority to declare the game forfeited. The field umpire has lull authority In removing and ti II ii ur players. : i SUING IT Car StrikerORGANIZED LABOR, PcOLICC . STATE JUNIORS State Council Last Week Made $10, 000 Appropriation for This Purpose. Delegates councils, Jr. council niec week have fi'oni tile two Asheville 1 1. L'. A. M., to the State ling at (ireensboro last returned to the city and report a most interesting session and the transaction of much Important work. Probably the most important matter given consideration was the proposed establishment of a State or- nhaiome carrying an appropriation of SltUIOtt. The (ir;iud council adopted a resolution for the establishment of this stale orphanage of the order and the appropriation of the necessary ? 1 ii.ntoi. While the State council made pro ision for the establishment of the orphanage this Important matter must be submitted to the subordinate councils In the state for ratification. The sentiment among the Juniors In the state, boweved, lias been favor able to an orphanage for several years and no doubt is entertained about a !':lol'ab!-' ote Ity ine Bumnuiiimc ituclls. This vote by the suuoroi- nate councils lo rainy me urami " the State council will be taken, it is expected, within the next few weeks, and tho result made known to the executive board of the Stale council. The State Council now has I3U,UUtl 111 batiks to Its credit and is easily In position to establish and maintain an isvltim In North Carolina ior u irphnns. The annual report made at Greens boro last week shows that the order In North Carolina now has a member ship of approximately 27,000, a- gain during the past year of almost 4000. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: State Councillor V. P-en Goodwin of Elisabeth City. State vice Councillor U T. Hart- sell of Concord. State Secretary Sam F, Vance of Winston-Salem. State Treasurer Oeorge tFulp of Kernersvllle. Wilmington was selected as the next place of moetlng while the time was left to the discretion of the exec utive board. In the event that the timo for meeting Is fixed for August the session will be held this year and thus two sessions of state council will be held during 1910. Should Febru ary, for Instance, be decided upon, the next session would be held some time In February, 1911. Hogs Ntlll Going Vp. Chicago, Feb. 28. Live hogs ad vanced still closer to the ten-dollar mark today, sales being made at 19.91 H per hundred weight i New York, Feb. 28. Indications have Increased that the Indicted meat packers will invoko every legsl means to resist eitradltion to New Jersey. UHPHANAbE REPORTS FROM PHILADELPHIA SAY, WILL TAKE A HAND NOT SOEXPENSIVE Move to Stop Payment of Other Folks' Taxes by Politicians in Henderson. PLANS BEING DISCUSSED BY SOME LEADING CITIZENS I'ciMins Who Pay Oilier Folks' Ta Might Hp .Made to "Slum" Hl I'arllsiin Hoard. Gnzette-News Tlurenu, Hotel Clates. Hendersonville, Keb. 28. There is some talk of a movement in the town which may shock, surprise and pain some of the patriots in both pditieal parties. This is to abolish the unlawful practice of paying a per son's poll tax in order to control his vote, which is said to be a custom here as elsewhere. It is asserted that.i several hundred such votes have been cast nt every election held In Hender son since the ratification of the suf frage amendment. This county Is not tiie only .ne, either. It is true there are some persons who care little enough for their vote to sell it for the price ot poll tax. The statement ha: been made that ut least 100 votes on each side depend upon the re spective party campaign workers pay ing their poll taxes on or before May I of each year. With this state of affairs, thoughtful men 1n both parties are seeking to I take some steps to prohibit such cor-j rupiion and outline a new policy of a clean election. No doubt before the subject goes very far theie will be many sugges- ion made In reference to the changes. for a method of wiping out this, yet there has come to Th' Gazette-News bureau tin idea which might be dis cussed with profit. The suggestion of a plan was made by a prominent poli tician who is certainly in a position to suggest: That a committee be appointed at the conventions of each party, demo crats and republicans, in equal num ber, foe the purpose of making a rcpiot from the tax collector, of any person paying tho taxes of another person. Of course taxes of another person. Of course there are various cases where a per son's tuxes are paid for no Improper purpose. A good purpose could easily be shown. H nvever, It Is snld that there are many cases where the per sons concerned could not themselves give. It -.tuestloned, a reliable excuse. If this be so then it will be the duty of the committee to indict the person or persons Involved. There Is a law prohibiting the influencing of votes in such a manner, and which provides severe penalties. It has also been sug gested that an executive committee be appointed from this first mentioned body of men from both parties to have ut their disposal a reasonable amount of money from the campaign funds of both parties, to be used In paying re wards for proof and evidence enough to convict a person for paying for an other person's poll taxes, In order to control his vote. The adoption of this or some like method it is suld will aid In decreasing the campaign expenses considerably, and at the same time encourage the rightful reign of a certain election. A reform Is on foot. Whether It will mature before the next election Is left to be seen. Some men of power and Influence are quietly at work. IS THE TIME LIMIT Treasury, It Is Thought, Will Realize Twenty-Five Million Dollars This Year from Corporation Tax. Washington, Feb. 28. Tomorrow Is the time limit set in which the cor porations are required to make re turns to the government under the law imposing a tax of one per cent on their net Income over $6000 dur ing the calendar year 1909. The treasury department estimates that 126,000.000 will be derived this year from the corporation tax. No Outbreak at Bethlehem. South 6ethlehem. Pa., Feb. IS. There was no outbreak of lawlessness today among striking employe of th Rethlehem Steel company. Two hun dred strike-breakers arrived today. Others are expected. Chances of further disorder are miolmled. TOMORROW Workmen, to Number of 125, 0C0, Involved in Action Tak en by Central Labor Un ion Yesterday. WAS REPORTED TODAY TO OPEN VARIOUS LINES Despite Rioting and Some Bloodshed Rapid Transit Company Put an In- -creased Number of Cars in Commission Today. Philadelphia, Feb. 28. There was more talk of arbitration today than at any other time since the street car men went on strike. Husiness men are alarmed at the determination of organized labor to Join a sympathetic strike. Several traction officials declare they do not ' believe the general strike threat will be carried out. following yesterday's rioutous scenes, quiet prevailed to- day. i The Carmen's union made no state ment today except that it Is satisfied with the progress of affairs. Despite numerous acts of violence by riotous crowds yesterday and lost night throughout the city, the Strike Leader Pratt declares he believed public sentiment would force a settlement of the strike before Sat urday, and a general strike probably would be unnecessary. Kapld Transit company was prepared this morning to open its various lines with an Increased number of cars. Kut more Important than the eom partes ability to operate the cars la the probable effect of the sympathetic strike decided upon by the labor lead- A monster walk-out of 80,000 ' n"'n is scheduled for next Saturday, ,,,,less th" strike issues are adjusted. organized labor having spoken, and the company having declared there Is nothing to arbitrate, the matter Is now up to the city administration. The decision for a general strike is conditional on the city making an effort to arbitrate differences. Mayor Ueyburn declares that the call for a Kirise is prompieu uy ine nope inai It may bring about a settlement. Yesterday's rioting resulted In the I death of a man and boy and the wounding of 100 others from missiles and policemen's clubs. More than a hundred arrests were made. At Forty-fifth street and Lancaster avenue this morning the stoning of a car re iiiiea in the calling out of the police reserves. . Central Labor Union Meeting. Action fraught with possible momentous consequences to Phil adelphia was taken by the Central Labor Union lost night when that body, representing 140 un ions with a membership of 125,000, it Is claimed, voted to begin a sympa thetic strike next Saturday In aid of the striking street railway employes. This action came at the end of a secret session of about seven hundred delegates in Labor Lyceum hall which lasted more thun six hours. There was apparently no question but that the delegates would vote to strike, the split being on the question of whether It would be started Immediately. The more conservative element prevailed. however, and the walk-out was put off until next Saturday. May llo Arbitrated. , Meanwhile there is hope that the street railway strike will be arbitrated despite the repeated declaration of the transit company controlling all the lines In the city "that there I nothing to arbitrate." Nobody doubt's that last night' ac- , tlon of the Central Labor Union make the situation very grave. There I a very strong feeling among business people that the strike should be set tled speedily, as all line of business hATai- Iuuioiim nf ttti tuortoMiin M. suiting from the Interference with traffic. imo m Duriirav, There was surprise at th unanim ity of the vote in favor of a general i - n t-. .. sympathetic strike. There Is no donht however, of the strength of th feeling that unionism is at stake, and the consequent feeling that a fight to pre serve the union Is necessary. Not only members of unlors affiliated with the Central Labor Union, the allied bu 'fl ing trade council, but ot every labor organisation connected with the American Federation of Labor partic ipated In the conference. A man and a boy are dead and four boy were seriously hurt a th result of a car jumping the switch at Sixth and Jackson street down town last night and crashing Into th front of a cigar store. The dead are:' Charles McKenna, aged fourteen year, died In the Meth odist hospital from a fractured skull: und John K. Frederick .aged forty- five year, crushed head, leg, and. In ternally Injured, died shortly after wards. The Injured are: William Everett, aged fourtcm years, kg and in crushed and Internally n''rA; Abram Shlnsklg, sged 1? years, gen eral contusions; Raymond Trainer, aged ten years. e,--ral rlrt. 1 I- V
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