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AslremUe feette New THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAST EDITION. 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast: Showers tonight, clearing Saturday DISPATCHES VOL. XV. NO. 27. ASHEVILLE, N. O, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11, 1910. 3c PER OOPT The Avalanche at Mace, Idaho In Which 1 2 Persons Were Killed EXPERTS DISCUSS THE SITUATION IS RELENTLESS WAR ON INSURGENTS IS DlTMIHUTIOII if regulars CORN QUESTION UNCHANGED ' ' - 1 Will Risk Everything, t. the Loss of the House Majori ty, to Wipe Out Intra Party Foes. LOSS OF HOUSE CONTROL MIGHT NOT BE SO BAD Mr. Taft and Mr. Cannon Said to View the Prospect With Serenity, With Plans Looking Far Ahead. Hooted Patten From Exchange The Cotton and Grain Speculator Ap licars to Be Having Excite ments in Manchester. dazette-News Bureau, 46 Post Building, Washington, March 11. THE regular republicans of con gress are starting into the cam- 1 paign for the Sixty-second very boldly. They are going to risk every thing In a relentless war upon the In surgent faction. They feel that the Insurgents are doing all they can to injure the party, and it Is folly to dally with them any more than with the ancient democratic enemies. To this end the republican congressional committee, which is entirely In the control of the regulars, will withhold nil support from any republican who has opposed the regular organization since the beginning of this congress. First Sliow-Down in Iowa. The first show-down will be in Iowa, In the heart of the insurgent country. There both senators and eight out of ten republican members of, the house are insurgents. The members of the congressional committee are prepared to see the Iowa republican convention, under the leadership of Cummins and Dolllver, attack the tariff and the ad ministration, which, having been done, will lead to unusual doings In the republican camp. The campaign com mittee will say: "You have burned your bridge be hind you; fight your owfi battles, and win if you can.' You get no help from W Colonel William P. Hepburn, who was defeated tor election to the pres ent congress by W. D. Jamison, demo crat, by a plurality of 310 votes In a total of 40,671, will try again and is sanguine of election. Jamison, 'he democrat, has decided he will not be a candidate. It is a singular thing that the campaign committee has decided to help Col. Pete, yet when he was In I the house there was no bolder opposi tion to Cannolsm than was presented by Hepburn. In Other Territory. The regulars will carry the war Into other insurgents territory and expect to make It hot for. the malcontents In Minnesota, Wisconsin and In districts in every other state represented by in surgents. All these things are cumu lative exldence of a grim determina tion upon the part of the regulars to risk loss of the house to the aemo crate rather than have to be deviled with what they deem treachery within the party. In fact rather than see the band of Insurgents that have made them miserable in this congress they would rather see democrats elected In the place of every one of the opposi tion within the party to the regular organization. All this lends color to the Intimation that Speaker Cannon rather exnects the democrats to carry the next house, an intimation he Is said to have given In private conver sation. Naturally If Uncle Joe thought the two parties would be nearly evenly divided, he could not hope to be eieci ed speaker with the augmented oppo sitlon which has developed against him since last March. He would prefer to ! of the minority and leading It, where, because of the party's defeat he could, as he surely would, taunt the Insurgents with being the cause of the disaster, and at the same time when the democrats sought to organ lie and enforce rules f their own sail Into them and roast them for lend Imr assistance to the insurgent re publicans In this congress. Will Bo Thoroiigh-Gotng. It Is plainly given out that the re publican committee will go so far as td take an active hand In preventing, if possible, the nomination of any re publican candidate who Is known to be hostile to the present organize tlon of the house or In any essential autasonlstlr to the administration. In Continued on pagt three. London, March 11. A special dis patch from Manchester says James A. Patten, the Chicago cotton and grain -speculator, was hooted off the Manchester exchange this afternoon and subsequently followed through the streets by large crowds. He wan obliged to find refuge In a business office. Report Is Confirmed. London, March 11. The report from Manchester that James A. Pat ten was chased off the Manchester exchange is confirmed. Mr. Patten was roughly jostled before being hustled Into the street. Eventually the police came to the rescue and pre vented the hostile crowd from follow ing the speculator into an office. Later he was smuggled out of the office and driven away in a carriage. PRINCIPAL WITNESSES HAVE ENDED TESTIMONY STATEHOOD HI IX REPORTED TODAY Amendment Against Disfranchising Mexicans Adopted, Despite Dent ocrMic Opposition. Washington. March 11 The senate committee on territories today voted to report favorably the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill, after adopting an amendment against dis franchising Mexican voters. All dem ncrats oDooaed the amendment, ex cept Clark of Arkansas. If defeated it would have mads ths new state democratic. Rockefeller Foundation. The bill to Incorporate the Rocke feller foundation was ordered favor ably reported at an executive session of the senate District ot Columbia ommlttee, following statement made before It by Starr J Murphy Hoekefellsr's representative. m. Saturday for Occasional allowed fcy cles Prosecution" in Ballinger- Pinchot Case Now Introducing Corrobor ative Testimony. I, v ' 'J. 1 State Demonstrator and Agronomist Address a Gatnering of Bun combe Farmers. ON THE MAN, NOT THE LAND, . DEPENDS SUCCESS OF CROP The South Is the Home ot Maize, and Yet North Carolina Averages 13 Bushels Per Acre. VT2ECKED HdMe.OKft HPASCOE. MAC&IOAHO ..SNCW 3U DE OF " FE&frTS 4 tV Washington, March 11. With the testimony of Louis R. Glavls, Gifford Pinchot and James R. Garfield all in, the prosecution in the Ballinger-Pin- hot Inquiry today began to Introduce evidence In corroboration of the prin cipal witnesses. Chief Engineer Davis. Chief Engineer Davis of the reclam ation service testified before the com mittee today that In preparing lists of lands to be restored to the public domain by Secretary Ballinger, he felt he was acting under mandatory orders from Ballinger. These lands had been withdrawn, as witness said by former Secretary Garfield for the conservation of water power sites. Ballinger, according to Davis, repeat- dly gave verbal orders' that lands so withdrawn should be prepared for re storation, saying that their withdraw al had been in direct violation of law and could not be sustained. Davis declared Ballinger directed that lists of land to be restored should be nrepared slowly, so at not to at tract public attention. James R. Garfield, former secretary of the interior was finally excused from the witness stand late yesterday afternoon. Mr. Garfield stated that Mr. Bal linger, after having been commissioner of the land office, submitted to him on September 17, 1908, an affidavit sign ed by Clarence Cunningham, ana con taining the statement that the Gug genhelms had no Interest whatever in the Cunningham group of coal nines In Alaska, while, as' a matter of fact, the record of a recent hearing before the senate committee on terri tories shows that prior to the making of the affidavit the Guggenheim syn dicate had been given an option of a half Interest In all the Cunningham claims. Attorney Brandels, who was ques tioning Mr. Garfield, followed up these declarations by reading from Secretary Balllnger's report to President Taft on September 4, last, concerning the Glavls charges, the statement that Mr. Cunningham an amendment to an af fidavit made prior to the one which he presented to Secretary Garfield In September, 1908, and that Mr. Cun ningham made the amendment by ex plaining In detail what he meant by certain terms used In the former af fidavit Mr. Garfield said Mr. Ballinger in giving him the affidavit left the im pression that his action was entirely casual, and that he had been request ed by friends in Seattle to leave It on file for whatever It might be worth. Mr. Brandels then called attention to the fact that the name of Mr. Ballin lers law nrm was printeo. on me backing of the affidavit. The former secretary of the interior was examined and cross-examined as his administration of office which he rave up to Mr. Ballinger on March 6 1(09. Mr. Garfield In explaining what he did In the matter of withdrawal of lands without specific provision by law declared he was working In the Inter est of the people and to prevent mon opolistic control of the power sites and consequent extortionate prices to the consumer. Mr. Garfield admitted that In urg Ins general coal legislation by con gress early In 1908 he had made the statement that ne was wining o con done fraudulent entries In Alaska pro vided the entrymen were compelled to pay an Increased price for the coal land to the government. The accompanying photograph shows one of and its vicinity. The house was occupied by R. H. of the Guggenheim holdings ill the Coeur d'Alene Mr. and Mrs. Pascoe are supposed to have He was crushed beyond recognition, but the steel fr . . .1 n. t' n f.nm almllnii . I , ......... 1 1 I Following die Mace avalanche, in which 12 person-met death, three other slides, within a radius of four miles, killed 31 others within 24 hours. Two children; .were among the Mace victims. many homes wrecked in the snnwslides at Mace, Idaho, feoe, superintendent of the Standard Mammoth mine, one , and silver district. sjksleep when the avalanche overwhelmed theii home. Rework of their bed, although twisted and bent, pro- ROBBERS ARE BUSY IN EASTERN OHIO Two Paymasters for Coal Companies the Victims, and One Man Is Already Dead. mm- NOT FOR PEARSON IS SHAH'S GIFT DISTURBED BY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS The Vice President nnd Mr. Mckinley Discuss Albany Situation at White House. Diplomat Is not Allowed to Keep Snuff box That Was Given Him by the Persian Ruler. Pittsburg, March 11. Two pay masters of cool companies were hfld up yesterday In different section of Eastern Ohio and were robbed of sums approximating S5600 and as a result of the attacks one man Is dead and another may die. The country Is mirth excited and bloodhounds are In use In an attempt to ferret out the highwaymen. Edward McGann, paymaster of the Dexter Coal company, and Robert Pommerlng, an assistant, left this city for the mine of the company at Brilliant, O. They carried in a satchel 14000. the weekly payroll of the mine. While driving to the mines' from the train two men overtook and beat them Into Insensibility, escaping with the satchel. Farmers found the two men senseless beside their buggy and sent them to the'Glll hospital at Steuben- vllle, O. Hardly had the excitement quieted when another hold up was reported from Zanesville. George Evans, aged sixty, paymaster of the Muskingum Coal company, was shot from ambush at Buckeye, ten miles down the river from Zanesville, and died at eleven o'clock last night. He was robbed of $1600, the weekly payroll of that company's office to the mines, half a mile away. There is no clue to the robbers except some torn pay envel opes that strew the ground near where Evans was attacked. Are Still at Large. Despite an all night search by posses and bloodhounds, the bandits who held up and beat Into unconsciousness Mine Paymaster McGann, robbing him, are still at large. GazetteNews Bureau, Hi Post Building. Washington, March 11. The senate foreign affairs committee yesterday afternoon gave authority to 30 American officials, who had been presented with decorations and gifts by foreign governments, to receive them. One hundred and seventy ap plications were turned down. Richmond Pearson ,of Asheville, lately minister at Athens and formerly at Teheran, is among these who failed to get favorable action to receive such a gift. He was presented a diamond snuffbox by the shah of Persia as a mark of esteem when minister to that country. It is now in possession of her state department, where it will remain. HARD STORM OFF DELAWARE CAPES The Steamer Columber Arrived in New York Today With Decks Cover ed in Snow. S15.000 AND SIX YEARS TERM IN FEDERAL PEN Sentence Imposed for Violation of Oleo Law, by Judge Kennessee M. Landis. New York, March 11. Twelve inches of snow covered the decks of the steamer Columbus, arriving to day from Savannah and Columbus. The steamer ran into a violent storm off the Delaware capes, with a heavy fall of snow. DECLARES PEARY'S PLACE IN HISTORY IS FIXED Delay in Recognition Would Only "Re flect upon Our Gratitude as a Nation." FROM PALMETTO STATE Governor Ansel Certifies That South Carolina Favors Income Tax Amendment Washington, March ll.--The certifi cate of governor Ansel ot South Cajo- llna, testifying to the action of that state In accepting the income tax amendment to the constitution, was presented to the senate today. The document Is t. first of Its kind to be received by the senate In eompll ahce with the tariff law passed at the last session. It was i nferred to the secretary of the senate for preservation. Chicago, March 11. Summary ac tion was taken today by Judge Kene- saw Landis in sentencing violators of the federal laws regulating the manu facture and Kate of oieomargine. The court fixed the punishment of Samuel Drlesbach, who pleaded guil ty to this charge, at a fine of 115.000 and six years' imprisonment in Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. TO BE HONORARY PRESIDENT IN AN ITALIAN ORGANIZATION Washington, March II. Comman der Robert E. Peary was championed In the house today by Representative J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, who offered a resolution to accept the report of the National Geographic Society committee, acknowledging Commander Peary's discovery of the North pole as a "true and competent statement to which shall be accorded the same consideration and reepect it would be entitled to receive if made officially to congress." Mr. Moore said: 'In delaying action we are only postponing the inevitable. Peary's place in history is fixed for all time By quibbling and red tape we may hold up the honors due him until he Is dead, but that would only reflect upon our gratitude as a nation." P. Morgan Accepts Honor Thrust Upon Him In Connection With Roman Celebration. Washington, March 11. Disturbed by developments In the republican caucus at Albany last night, Vice President Sherman and Representative McKloley called at the White House today and had a conference with ths urevldent. DECLARK8 PEARY PJ Lieut. Davis In Trouble. Manila, March 11. Lieut. Frank B. Davie of the twelfth Infantry. United States army, has been ordered before I, charged with having the law to a similar m wime Rome, March 11. J. P. Morgan, the American financier, today accept ed an invitation to act as honorary president of the foreign committee of an Italian organisation which Is ar ranging for a celebration In 1111 of the fiftieth antuy-prsjary of the proc lamation mnktne; r...me the capital of United Italy. Actor Kills Himself. Chicago, March 11. Thomas fThorne, the actor, killed himself while In a fit of despondency. Kills Slop-Father, In Mother. Defense of Philadelphia, March 11. Going to the defense of hie mother, William Shepherd, ten years old, last night shot and killed Jeremiah M. McMa nus, his step-father, who had attack ed the mother. Ordered to Guard Paper Mill, Glenn Falls, N. Y., March 11. Company K of the Second regiment. New York national guards, was re quested by Sheriff Washburn today to guard Glenn Falls mills of the In ternational Paper company, where paper makers are on strike. Telephone Trust Wishes to Increase Its Capital Stock New York, Marsh 11. The recom mendation that the cepltal stock of graph corr.pruiy, the so-called tele phone trust, be Increased to 1600,000, 000, Is contained In the company's annual report made public torta. The "Seed corn meeting" at the county court house this morning was attended by about 40 people Interested in better agricultural methods in the county. The meeting was called to order by Rutherford P. Hayes, who explained that the object of the corn contests was to compare methods and results of farming. He stated that the time limit of entry to the corn con test would be May 1. The conditions of the Boys Corn club for the county are the same as those of the depart ment of agriculture. Mr. Parker's Address. In introducing his subject this morning, T. B. Parker, demonstrator of the department of agriculture, ex plained that the subject of corn is of more general Interest than any other, as It is the most universally valued crop, even with the crop of 1909, 2, 770,000,000 bushels, a short crop, It was valued at $100,000,000 more, than that of the previous year. The Inter est in corn growing in the south, he said, is greater than at any previous time. Clubs and associations for corn contests are being organized, and pre miums offered for both men and boys but especially boys. The object of this is to Interest the boys in agriculture and to make the farm more attractive, "The corn plant," said Mr. Parker, "Is essentially a southern plant. It requires heat, moisture, and plant food. The farmers have neglected to make available the plant food in the soil. The last census report showed that North Carolina produced an average, of 13 bushyls or corn per acre. wnne New Hampshire produced 40. This shows something is raplcally wrong. "The corn plant Is a great feeder and must have thorough preparation of the soil. The plant must send its roots down Into the soil; the soil Is the storehouse of plant food, the ome of the plant, and the reservoir for mnlsure which is necessary to dis solve the plant food. To produce a large crop, the soil must contain all three. Where the soil Is deficient in plant food, this must be supplied in a chemical form. The day has arrived that business methods must be im plied to farming. "To reduce the cost of producing corn, In order to compete with western growers, you must grow a larger crop per acre. For example, a man from Missouri stated that It cost $12 per acre to produce corn in his section. This means that if he produces 100 bushels per acre, each bushel cost 12 ents, If 50, 25 cents, If 25, 48 cents, and If 12 H, 96 cents. The relation between the cost of corn and the amount per acre, is therefore, very important. 'Large yields of corn can be grown and have been grown per acre, under pressure, but it costs greatly. This only shows the possibility of the soil when in a high state of cultivation The record made by J. F Batts last year in Wake county of 226 l'-J bushels on an aero shows the possibil ity of the southland. Such a crop as this has never been grown In a state whose average is greater than that of ours. "The farmers of the state should take advantage of the opportunities at their own door and not move off to other sections In the west, where the real advantages are far less. 'The estimate that in 40 years we shall have 200 millions people Instead of 90 million, the present population shows that we shall either have to raise more corn or else go hungry. "We are gradually improving the average that la raised per acre. Last year we averaged 16 bushels, while the year before, a better year, avcrag cd 18 bushel. If one man can raise 50 bushels per acre, there la no rea son why another should not, by using the same methoda 'There Is a great deal of difference in farm land, but there Is a still greater difference in men and the methods used. There la more In the man than In the land, for one man can make, a success of a farm where another haa failed. You should study to find out the best methods of culti vation for your soil." 1 Regarding sub-soiling and plowing, Mr. Parker sounded a note of warn ing that Just so deep aa a man plows, Just so much he ehould expect from the soil. "Leaving Batta out," said Mr. Parker, "the contestants In Wake county broke their ground 9 Inches deep, and Ave of them made an aver age of 99 bushels per acre. Batts broke his ground 20 Inches. A man who breaks his ground only three or four Inches deep cannot expect a good crop. Shallow breaking forms a hard pan at the bottom, which keepa the roots from sinking deep and lim its the home of the plants. Double the depth ot plowing and you double the home of plant. "You must have In the soil, decay ing vegetable matter humus which Increases the power of Ine soil to grow plants. It will hold times more the amount of moisture as sand or clay. The best way to ob- ta'n humus la by growing clove (Continued on page I) All Efforts Being Bent to Se curing Strike Recruits from Big Indust rial Plants. BIG PARADE DISPERSED STERNLY BY THE POLICE Their Methods High-Handed and Un warranted, Strikers Declare Quiet Marked Early Hours in Philadelphia. rff''. stststst Philadelphia, March 11. It Quiet prevailed here today. St Peace measures were again S the subject of earnest discus- St slon in connection with the St general strike situation. There St was a lack of deflnlteness In St peace suggestions. The sug- St gestlon that financial pressure St might be brought to bear St upon the traction interests by St other large business Interests St which are suffering by the St general tie-up seemed to be St the most tangible offering In St the way of adjustment talk. St Conditions otherwise contin- St ued unchanged. The strike St lenders maintained the conn- St dent attitude that the traction St officials will eventually be St forced to terms. St St st St St St St It It St St St St St S( St St St St st Philadelphia, March 11 The strike situation remained unchanged today. The committee in charge of the strike is bending all Its efforts toward secur ing recruits from the big industrial plants. Men whose occupation Is to supply the necessities of life are not being Interfered with. The Rapid Transit company continues increasing the number of cars In operation. Th situation during early morning hours was quiet. The Peace Move. Among the plans to be presented at the peace meeting proposed by busi ness men this afternoon will be an appeal to the big banks and bankers of the city to bring about a settlement of the strike. It Is suggested that the bankers alone have the power to force a speedy settlement President Mahon of the Carmen's union, this morning declared that the State Federation of Labor, within a few days, will issue an appeal to all labor organizations In the state to support the Philadelphia strike. If William Penn. from his lofty perch on the top of the city hall tower had turned slightly to the left and glanced up North Broad street yester day afternoon he could have obtained bird's eye view of disorder that would have disturbed his peace-loving soul. Featureless except for one th!ng. the sixth day of the general strike In sympathy with the striking carmen of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit make the center ot the city the scene of a big demonstration In aid of the strikers' cause. The police blocked the move by exercise of high-handed methods" and brutal," unwarranted force, the strlko leaders claim In statements issued. The Crowd Broken Up. "March on the city hall" Is a slogan which has been heard before in dis turbances here. Suspecting that the crowd of 10,000 or more persona who had been prevented from holding an open air meeting In the National league ball park would take up the In dicated line of march, the authorities took efficient measures to prevent the Invasion of the city's central districts my what it was feared might prove a turbulent mob. The committee of ten estimated the number who gathered for the meeting .it 60,000 and declare that the police rode Into these crowds and Inflicted Injury upon peaceable citizens without Just cause. The ac tion of the authorities, the committee predicted, would have the effect of "cementing the forces of the working men not only of this city, but of the whole country." The statement Insists that the re sponsibility Is not upon the police alone but upon the heads of the city government behind them, and upon officials of the Philadelphia Raps Transit company who refuse to grant arbitration. Lines of police with active clubs partially checked the marchers on their way down Broadway street more than two miles from the objective point. A mile further down they broke up the parade altogether. Half a dosen persons were Injured In the onslaught and a score of arrests were made. Discussed at Night Meetings. Last night at meetings of working men In various parts of the city and In statements given out the strike leaders used the Incidents of the afternoon as arguments to convince men who are still sticking to their Jobs that the time had come for all the working men of the municipality to stand to- Continued on Washington, March 11. of Representative James of New r- c. who died morning, will Rochester 8ur and senate -The body probably be tal
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