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feeite Wc 17! THE ASSOCIATED - PEES 3 ' DISPATCHES LAST EDITION. 4:00 Pi If: Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy; cooler. VOL. XV. NO. 19. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2, 1910. 3c PER COPY PASSENGER TRAINS, J STRUCK BY AVALANCHE OF SNOW, SWEPT FROM TRACK Brucker Discusses His Scheme MR. BRfTT WINS For Flight Across the Ocean FROM GASTQNIA A SIGNAL VICTORY Extent of the Horror V.the Town of Welling Growl: 1 as ueiaus Are EXPECTED Received. THE RELIEF TRAINS ARE UNABLE TO REACH SCENE Cries for Help Indicate That Many of Those Imprisoned in the Wreck age Are Still ', Alive. ' x K It t . K K it H K Everett, Wash., March 2. It is feared that 50 or more Uvea were 1 ost in the ava lanche that carried two Great Mortnern trains Into the can yon "near Wellington yester day. The cars fell 150 feet, and were burled in the debris. The town of Wellington was not destroyed. Supt. O'Neal of the Great Northern, direct Ins the relief work in the mountains, telegraphs that 60 live were lost In the avalanche. KKItXKKKKKitftKttXItKRItX Everett, Wush., March 2. The ex tent of the horror grows as further details are received from the disaster that overwhelmed the two Great Northern passenger trains, when an avalanche swept the trains and a por tion of the town of Welling, on the west side of the Casade tunnel, down the mountain side. It is known that 23 lives were lost when the slide hurled the cars, con taining TO sleeping persons, over the narrow ledge to the bottom of the canyon,, 200 feet below. The last re ports say 25. more are missing. Com plete lists cannot be obtained until the rescuers dig the bodies out of the wreckage. 1 The noise from the snowsllde was heard throughout the valley..' Groans and cries for help coming from the bottom of the canyon Indicate that many Imprisoned In the wreckage are still alive. Relief trains were dis patched to the scene, but owing to previous slides, which blocked the road, and'swept away portions of the track, the rescue trains can get no further than Scenic, whence rescuers make their way over the snow. CLASH AME YESTERDAY Secretary Wilson and Mr. Pinchot Fail to Agree on Certain Points and Former Gets Mixed. f0 TO CROSS ATWmiC iN BAU00N TIE INSPECTOR IS til ARREST B.& O.Man Charged With Having Hand in Robbery of Express Co. at Parkersburg. Parkersburg, W. Va March 2. . T. Carpenter, tie Inspector of the Ilaltimore 4 Ohio railroad, was ar rested today charged with complicity in the robbery of $8,792 from the United States express company's safe. LIST IN TO BE HANGED IN STATEJSJj. L SPIVEY He Is Taken to Bladen Looks as If the Governor Will not " Commute. i The tiaxette-News Bureau, . Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Bulldii f. Raleigh, March '2. ' Following Instructions from Cover' hor Kltchtn. Sheriff Clark of Bladen county Is here today to take from the penitentiary Henry E. Bplvey ol ma den county, the last man to suffer capital punishment In North Carolina bv haniflnir. which U set for Friday. It looks now as if all efforts to In duce the governor to commute the sentence to life Imprisonment will ' fall. Solvey shot . his father-in-law after he had threatened to do this and burn the house If his wife, who had Hed to her fath'er's house, did not return to him.- f:VKucm hrkrhardt WOULD MGN THE COUNTY OPTION HILL Washington, March 2. The ex pected clash between Gift'ord Pinchot and Secretary of Agriculture WIlBon. over the disputed question as to whether or not the secretary had given the former forester permission to write to Senator Dolllver the letter which resultod in Mr. Plnchot's dis missal, came before the Ballinger Pinchot Investigating: committee yes terday. Mr. Pinchot declared ho had dis cussed the matter at length with Sec retary Wilson, and that he understood his superior had given him permission to write to Senator Dolllver. Secretary Wilson Immediately took the stand and asserted that while he had given Mr. Pinchot permission to write to Senator Dolllver concerning "departmental affairs," he never did and never would have given his per mission to write a letter criticizing the president of the United States. Under a cross-examination, almost wholly by the democratic members of the committee. Secretary Wilson wax uncertain as to just what had hap pened in tween himself and Mr. Pin chot, an '1 became somewhat mixed at times as to just what letters the com mitteemen were referring to in their rapid lire of questions. The secretary reiterated again and again that hi' never saw or heard of the letter Mr. Pinchot wrote until It was read in the senate. Secretary Wilson who holds all rec ords for cabinet service, was plainly agitated when he took the stand. Mr. Pinchot had been reluctant to testify to anything that would bring him into controversy with the chief under whom he had served twelve years, but Chairman Nelson insisted that he Should go Into the matter. Mr- Pinchot declared that he and Secretary Wilson went so far as to dis cuss the executive order issued, by Preldent Taft forbidding subordinate officers of the various departments from giving Information to congress. and he added that the secretary said, Tou and I will have no trouble about that order." Admitting that his memory failed him ns to certain points, Secretary Wilson always came back to the state ment thnt he never, under any cir cumstances, would have given Mr. Pinchot permission to write the letter which caused his separation from the service. The secretary raid he urged Mr. Pinchot not to carry out his purpose to "blanket" a message from the president exonerating Ballinger, by sending in a letter to Senator Dolllver. "But," persisted counsel for Mr. Pinchot, "If Mr. Pinchot was only to be permitted to write about depart mental matters, how could you have thought his letter would blanket the president s message? I don't know. That was Pinchot s Idea." The day was replete with Incident. The cross-examination of Mr. Pinchot was begun late In the afternoon and will be continued when the committee meets again Friday. Mr. Pinchot denied that he had been embittered by a dismissal which he considered was not justified. He denied also that there was a specific movement to discredit that ha and former Secretary , Garfield, Glavls and others are concerned In a move ment for the conservation of the nat ural resources, and that they regard Mr. Ballinger as one of the greatest enemies of that movement. Mr. Vertrees, counsel- for Secretary Billlnger, read three statements from a letter addressed by Mr. Pinchot to President Taft at the time that Glavls was seeking an Interview with the president Yon state that by omciai action oi your office, the Issuance of patent to the Cunningham claimants was held up," said Mr. Vertrees, "Is that true?1; That was a mistake, saiu Mr. Pinchot. Secondly," said Mr. Vertrees, "you stated to the president that as a result of Mr. Balllnger's action In restoring water power sites withdrawn by Sec retary Garfield, valuable lands con taining power sites had passed from the government. Is that truer "That was a mistake," answered Mr. Pinchot. Lastly," said Mr. Vertrees, -you told the president that you had known Glavls for several years. That also was a mistake, wasn't It?" I thought I had before seeing him at Spokane last August. I know of him." Asked If the whole frame work of his letter to the president was not InaiV'irate, Mr. Pinchot replied: "Tin- auction whether I made mis takes' ot not Is not essential. The president would have seen Glavls any way." HERR JOSEPH BRUCKER CHART" SHOWING PROPOSED C0U253 ACROSS IHEAJIAHTIC.. St. Paul, Minn., March 2. Twenty- Ave hundred county option delegates met here in convention today. GOV' ernor Eberhardt told the delegates that If th county option bill Is pre- Scnted he will sign and endorse It. Mauley' Is Superintendent. Norfolk. Msrch 2. H. W. Stanley has t en. appointed general snperln tendent of transportation of the Sea board Air Ilne railway system, wit headquarters at Portsmouth, Va. His Dirigible Not -Yet Con struced, but Unusual Feat ures are Planned. Correspondence of New York Herald Syndicate. Munich, Feb.. 23. Enormous in terest Iins been urouscd in American and European aoronuutknl circles by an announcement that Joseph TSruck er, an amateur in aeronautical mat ters, is making active preparations for dirigible balloon flight across the Atlantic oeean. Mr. Brucker. who was born In Austria, has been an American citizen, since 1878. For many years he made a specialty of meteorology and Is a copious wrlteif on that subject. His. studies v naturally ledvhtm to Investigate atmospheric conditions,- on which he is a.n expert In the course of a conversation 1 have Just had with Mr. Brucker, he expressed himself most optimistically In regard- to his Interesting project "I do not hesitate to affirm," said he. "that the crossing of the Atlantic by airship is not only quite feasible, but a comparatively simple matter, given one or two favorable clrcumtances. The dirigible balloon In which our at tempt Is to be made Is elliptical In form with a total length of CO meters and a maximum diameter of fifteen meters. Its capacity is 6,209 cubic meters, and we shall use hydrogen for Inflating. The lighting energy will be at least 6.600 kilos. 'The airship is not yet constructed. but various plans are about to be de cided upon and the essential details sre already fixed. The most notewor thy departure is the substitution of the usual car or gondola by a power ful sea going motor boat ot from 35 to 40 horse power. "The capacity of this 'boat' allows of ur taking an ample supply of ben ilnc, provisions, water, r... and, In addition, there are tanks for water ballast which can be filled or emptied expeditiously by an nuxilinry pump driven by a cog attached to the pro peller shaft In the airship, which Is embedded In the deck. Thus the one motor 'boat.' There Is space on deck for the storage of- extra, benzine in cans, besides that In the tanks, so thnt In case of necessity we can utilise this fuel for ballast purpose "There will be accommodations for eight people on board, but I do not Intend to take more than flve or six on the maiden trip. Tho storerooms of the motor boat will contain pro visions and drinking water for" six people for twenty days, allowing two kilograms of food and one litre of water a head dally. O minimum fccnalna storage will be 8 kilograms. but using tanks and separute cans we ran take 800 or 1000 kilograms of the spirit" . JT few .'iana.V: :, ( V-, a AUSIS " : ; TO ASHEVILLE Talk of Building an Electric Line from Gastonia to This City, Distance of 100 Miles. .. As SpeciafCounselJfor Postoffice De partment He Gets Favorable Deci sion in Two Important Cases. . THOUGHT ROAD WILL FOLLOW HICKORY NUT GAP ROUTE CONGRESSMAN GRANT WILL MAKE STATEMENT i However, Survey Hum Not us Yet Been Made Charlotte Chronicle Give Facts. In V I. 4 MS PLAN OP COJIBUiftTIOM BOAT t BALLOON CAR.. I MEAT PRICES IRE GOING 1U ADVANCE Interesting but Disconcerting News Given by Mr. Query, Wholesale Dealer in Cattle. t ' " " ' " ' H Uiuisvllle, Ky., March 2. t . Hogs told today at HO per I hundred pounds. This is the ! H llrst time since the war that W pork has brought this price t south of the Ohio river. TO PVNIKH rXHt DRl'NKENNESK. ARE EXCAVATING FOR 111 E As Result of the Favorable Weather Number of Men Were Set to. Work Today. LABOR LEADERS WISH TOAITRAT E Their Proposition to Do the Right Thing Has Removed an Abstacle to Peace in Philadelphia. There Is every indication that tin- worst Is yet to come. The one coursr open now is for one to harbor a live ly hope for a Rood berry crop. A represctilative of this paper" to day discussed the price of ment prod ucts with M. K. Query, of Klngnn & Company, wholesale, dealers in the middle west, who has Just returned from Winston-Salem, where he took cur load of beef cattle. Mr. Query is In full agreement with some of the observing meat dealers of this city. who take the view that Instead ol getting cheaper, prices for meut will have to advance. Mr. Query does not bel'cve that dealers will find it possi ble to make ends meet at present prices, and the only hope he sers in the situation is a lessening in the de mand, for people to eat less meat, as Mr. Armour himself has pointed out. He thinks they must do this or keep on eating meat at an Increased price until the new hog crop conies In, which will be something like a year. Within the past few days there has been an ap preciable Increase In the wholesale price of meat, and war prices have prevailed for hogs In Chicago some time. Philadelphia, March 2. As time draws nearer for a general sym pathetic strike of organized labor. In support of the striking trolieymen, pressure is being urought to bear upon the Philadelphia Rapid Transit compuny to submit the questions to arbitration. Is becoming stronger. The menace of u general strike and consequent prostration of all lines of industry has aroused the business hien. The fact that the leaders of the strikers have expressed themselves as willing to accept any fair proposition to arbitrate has removed an obstacle to peace. The most recent of Hie many pro jected railroad lines into western North Carolina with Asheviile a the objective, point Is an elecirlc lino from iliiistonlii to Asheviile. a distance of ! about 100 miles. This line Is the one I which the Isothermal Traction com ! puny, recently incorporated, proposes to construct from Gastonia to Ituther i'ordton and thence on to Asheviile. While the surveys have not been made ns to the definite location of the line, it is Ihnngiu that this mail will i follow practically .the same route us j the one which was surveyed several jyee.rs ago, going via Hickory Nut gap. When the Asheviile & Fast Tennes see Kailroad company completus Us extension from Weaverville to Galax, connecting with the magnilicent sys tem or the O. C. & U., It will give Asheviile an outlet northward which will be most dcBiruble. And in con nection with this If proposed line from Oastonia to Asheviile 1a put through, collecting at Gastonia with the pro jected network of rouds said to be fi nanced by the Dukes, then indeed will Asheviile be fortunate In thus having connection with electric lines which, it is planned, will extend to the Piedmont section. The Charlotte Chronicle of yester day says: "From Gastonia to Asheviile, a dis tance of nearly 100 miles. It is now proposed to build a modern electric railway to penetrate the mountain country and to give a long-needed and better connection between the eastern piedmont section and the great section about Rutherfordton and to the west on to Asheviile. . "The Isothermal Traction company, which was incorporated In Raleigh some weeks ago, is behind the move ment and Is already making an Inves tigation of the situation and within two weeks will have a full corps of surveyors In the field who will pre pare an exhaustlce report, under the dirertlon of experts, and this will be submitted to the promoter of the new road who will then carefully consider the proposition, and will be ready to the go ahead with the selling of securities. Propowil Statement He Will Dis cnis Uiltinore Postolllce nud , Other IJvc Matters. Tho Gazette-News JJureau, 4i! Post .Building, ; Washington, March t. James J. L'.ritt, special .counsel of the postoffiou department, won a sig- -nal legal victory here yesterday when Justice Robb of the District Court of Appeals handed down an opinion re versing the Supreme court of the Dis trict of Columbia in two Important cuses Street & Smith vs. Hitchcock and Frank Housey vs. Hitchcock, in volving nearly $rfV,00O In postuge al ready accrued, and chunglng from the second to .the third class eight Juvenile publications. Tho first department opinion ren dered by Mr. britt on entering tho service was on the advisability of ap pealing these cuses, which had just been lost by the department. He studied every phase of the cases with' untiring energy and fine legal skill, and his victory is bringing him the warmest cnngratuiatlona He argued the case several days ago In a two hour's argument of singular force and directness. Associated with him umi doing valuable service were District Attorney Itaker and Asnistant District Attorney Perry. Will Make Slnteineiit Congressman Grant Is pr .paring statement for the press on the Hilt- more and other - patronage matters thut have been acute In his district. HUNDRED T ARE HOMELESS This, as a Result of Floods at James ville, and Other Towns Are Suffering. FIVE PERSONS ARE DROWNED for THE WHEAT CROP H IM HE A Bit ONE, 8.W8 PATTEN With the opening of the spring weather the contracting firm of C. B. Clark A Co. of Baltimore have begun the work of excavating for the new high bridge across ths French Broad river, connecting Asheviile and West Asheviile. Vndrr Superintendent 3. Galling Introduce a Hill Providing T. Morehead a good slsed force of Hcvcw Penalty for Offenne In men are at work today on the east Dtxtiict ot Columbia, Washington, March 1. Drunken ness in the District of Columbia henceforth will be a misdemeanor, punishable by a hundred dollars line, or two yea hi Incarceration In an In ebriates' home, If the bill Introduced In the senate by.Henator ("billlnger be comes a law. side of the river, making excavations for beginning the foundation work. Already some of the forms for the concrete work have been constructed and the concrete work Is expected to begin next week. C. n. Clark, the head of the firm. Is here personally looking after the Ktnrtlng of the work, and will make frrq-eflt Vli"its of Inspection. New York, March t. James Pat ten, the Chicago wheat operator, be lore sailing for Europe, declared that the wheat crop will be a big one, and that the wheat market may look for an era of prosperity. Specials Received by Spoken Papers Tell of Devastating Floods at Inland Points. Hpokane, Wash., Msrch 2. Specials from Inland points tell of the most devastating floods in the history of this region. Five persons have been drowned. At Davenport and Garfield the rivers are rushing through the streets and Colfax la Isolated. North Idaho reports tell how the Clearwater and Pnakes am rising rapidly. t'HAMORIlA AT KAN VIXCEXTE WITH ONLY KIXTY HOUSEMEN Oiirl" Navht Dead. Sun Antonio. Tex., M,arch 2. Oor don Davis, former slave to the Jeffer son Davis family, died yesterday, 70 years old. During the civil war he was taken by United Btates soldiers and made a corporal In the Union ar my. He was afterwards known as "Corporal" Davis. Kan Juan, Del Sun, Nicaragua, Mar. t. Deserters from Oeneral Metia's force, who surrendered to the gov ernment, declare that Oeneral Cha morra arrived at Han Vlncentu yes terday with 60 horsemen, the rem nant of an army of 1500 with which he reached Tlsma. , . Capt K. 8. Finch, of Charlotte, Is at the head of this big Industrial movement to connect the lower pied mont region with the mountains, and he has Interested In the plan a number of monled men and financiers of the north, who are now waiting for the re north, who are now waiting for the report of the experts as to the cost of building, probable re turns, etc., of the projected electric railroad. "A representative of the Interested financiers who propose to underwrite the securies and paper of the new company, spent romuany. spent yes terday in the city with Capt. Finch, going over the situation and studying the details of the plans of the Isother mal Traction company. He was high ly pleased with the outlook and spoke in most flattering terms of the future possibilities of the southern states, to wards which, declared the visitor, the eyes of the whole nation are now turning. This gentleman is convinced of the excellent opening for capital not only In the projected line to Ashe viile, but also In every other Southern industry, and should all of those Inter ested take the same view that he holds, there la little doubt as to the successful financing of the road In a short time. "This road will not ha built to com pete with the big system ot electric lines which the Southern Power com pany and the Duke Interests are te lieved to have under contemplation and propose to build. It will rather be a tributary line to the system paralel- Ing the Southern railway, and will not enter the territory of the other system. It Is believed that there Is suf ficient room for both companies, and the development of these propositions will give to the Piedmont one of the greatest electric railway system In the world today. Zunesvllle, O., March 2. Klght bun- : dred people are homeless as the re sult of the flood. The Musklngguin river was at a standstill this morn ing and the worst of the Hood . la ! passed. , " ; , At Yoiiiigslown. Cleveland, March X. At Youngs town the river Is causing much trou ble. Many houses are deserted, and five Iron mills have been shut down. i'amilicM Are Homeless. Columbus, O., March 2. Fifty fam ilies have been driven from their homes at Soshocton by the raging river, fed by the overflowed Tusca rawas river. The Waters Sulmlillng. Little Falls. N. Y.. March 2. Thr waters from tho Mohawk river, which Inundated the streets of Herkimer, ' began to subside last night The wa ter has fallen about a foot today, but still is so deep that transportation is impossible except In boats. Two Hundred IIouhc Partially Submerged. Toledo, March 2. Two hundred, houses In Fremont are' partly sub merged by swollen waters. A great Ice gorge half a mile long and IS feet high swept down the Auglaize river and carried away FVancis street bridge. a two-span steel structure 20O feet long. The breaking of Ice ' gorges ' above the city Is steadily loosing a volume of water.' Seven Are Injured. Camden, N. J.l March 2. Seven persons were Injured, one seriously, in a collision between two trolley cars.. ,! . RED CUOKH TO CilVE RELIEF TO THE FLOOD Kl'FEEHEHS Washington, March 2. The Ameri can National Red Cross, with head quarters here, has taken prompt ac tion looking to the relief of the flood sufferers In Ohio and New York. FRENCH GOVERNMENT REPLIEH TO PROPOSAL OE MR. KNOX ActvpM In Irlnrlpal Proposition for Permanent International Court of Arbitral Justice. Water Again Pours Into Mouth of Paris Sewers Paris, March 2. The continued raidfall has raised the level of tht riv er Hvlne to twenty-'n feet and flve Inches today, almost i equaling the flood maximum of 1481. The water Is again pouring Into ths mouth of the wera '1 . . Paris, March 2. The French gov ernment hat replied to Secretary Knox's proposal to the powers look ing to the establishment of a perma nent International court of arbitral Justice, accepting the proposition In principle, hut making certain sug gestions Which the French govern. ment belloves will bring other powers Into accord. iai Consular Appointments. Washington. March t. President Taft today sent to the senate the fob lowing nominations of consuls: Ar thur R. Cooke, South Carolina, st Patras, Greece: Philip E. Holland Tennessee, at Puerto Plata, Domini can Republic: Ralph J. Totten, Ten nessee, at Mnraclaho. Venetnela. is otrarasiiu. President Expresses Approval of Plans of International Highway League, Washington, March 2. President Taft today expressed deep Interest In the movement for uniform highway Improvements throughout the coun try and for co-operation between the states In establishing good rod. when the legislative committee of lh Ir.tntional League for Highway Improvement railed upon him at ttn Whlte House. TnE WEATHER. Forecast until p. m., Thur i for Asheviile and vicinity p. cloudy and somewhat cm.1, r i , Thurs'iny fair, l.mht m i
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