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"LiST EDITION ' 2:30 P.M. Weather Forecast: i Unsettled. FKKS! DISPATCHIS VOL. VX. NO. 179. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1910. 3c PER COPY. STATE HibMHTiN PBOSPEGT yn ill' va WAS i hi OlECBHyll CONGRESS Reports of Packed Delegations Gifford Pinchot Forms Na tional Commission for Conservation. RAIN SPOILS DECORATIONS AND DAMPENS THE ARDOR Chief Address of the Opening Session at St. Paul Made by President Taft to a Lrge Audience. ST. PAUL., Sept. 5. With every prospect of a warm fight for costrol between the "states' rights" l'l gates unil those favoring iiiitioiiii I control, the second national i 1 1 . -1- ntlon congress opened here to cla. The crowd began arriving early at the auditorium to get n glimpse of I'residi nt Taft, who was on the pro grain for an address. Hefnre the convention opened the delegates gathered In little, knots dis cussing the reports of packed delega tions made by one side or the other, :i iil commenting on Olfford Plnchnt's move last night In forming n national commission for the purpose of system atizing the work of state commissions. I.enilen Skies, Soaked limiting. 'resident Tart arrived at I Q : r. 0 this morning, leaden skies and rain snaked bunting, with an iinmeiise crowd of enthusiastic people, greeted liim as lie slepped from the train. Coventor Kherhard met the president :ind ccorted him to a waiting automo bile which took them to the reviewing Maud where a ijabor.day parade was witnessed. The President. Mr. Taft said In part: "The danger to the state and to the people at law from the waste and dissipation of our national wealth .... has always been present; but it needed gome out to firing home the crying need for a Tenuity of this evil so hr to Im press Itself, on lite public mind and lesil In the formation of public opin ion and action by the representatives (if the people. Theodore Itoosevelt t'k up this task in the last two years of his second administration, and well did lie perform It. "As President of the I'nlted Stales I have, as It were, Inhi rited tills pnl lev. ii ml I rejoice In my heritage. I prim- i hlgt opportunity to do all thai i .. executive enn do to help a great people realize n (treat nation il uniliiih.ii (.'or conservation Is na tioial. It afficta very man of ua, even woman, every child I urge that no good can come from meetings ot this sort unles.- we as cribe to those who take part In tliern, and who are apparently striving worthily in the cause, all proper mo tive?, and unless we judicially consider every measure or me' hod proposed with a view to Its effectiveness In achieving our common purpose, and wholly without regard to who proposes II or who will claim the credit for Its adoption. The problems are of very great difficulty and call for the calm- eM consideration and clearest fore- Wit. Many of the questions present ed have phases that are new In this country, and It is possible that In their solution we may have to attempt lirst one way and then another. What I wish to emphasize, howevr, is that a satisfactory conclusion can only be reached promptly If we avoid nerl niony. Imputations of bad faith, and political controversy. "Congress ought to trust the exec utive to use the power of reservation only win, respect to land covered by limber or which will ho useful in the plan of reforestation "It would be, of course, Improper for me to Intimate what the result of the issue at to the Cunningham and "Hut Alaska claims la likely to he. It ought to be distinctly under stood tint no private claims for Alas ka coal lauds have as yet been allowed or perfected, and also that whatever the result ni to pending claims, the existing coal-land laws of Alaska are most unsatisfactory and should be radically amended, "I think it of the utmost Importance nat ufter the public attention has leen roused to the necessity of a change n llllr general policy to pre vent waste and a selfish appropriation lo private, and corporate purpose of what should be controlled for the public benefit, those who urge conser vation can be practically curried out. end ahall propose apeclftc method and "Km provision! and regulation to renedy actual adverse rondltons. I m bound to say that the time has come for a halt in general rhapsodes over conservation, making the word mean every known good In the world 'or, after the public attention has been roused, inch appeals are of doubtful utility and do not direct the public to tl speclrto course that the people ahouli take. ..r havt. their leg lslators take. In ordur to promote the cause of conservation. The rousing r emotion on a sublect like this, "hlch has only dim outlines In the minus of the pople affected, after a nue censes to ha useful, and the whole movement will. If promoted on he lines, dlo for want of practical uirecuon and of demonstration to the P'opie. that practical reforms are in tended. "Real conservation Involves wise, non-wjsteful ie In ths present gen- BANDITS KILL TWO MEN, STEAL S5000 Paymaster and His Driver Slain Near Hudson, N. Y., and Money Chest Stolen. Hudson, N. Y., Sept. 5. Masked men uprnng out of the hushes along side a lonely lane Saturday afternoon, held up Dent Fowler, paymaster of the Atla3 Brick company and his ne gro driver, shot the driver dead, wounded Fowler mortally, and made off with a chest of pay envelopes con taining $0000. George Uagsdale, the driver, died Instantly; his head was torn away by two 44 caliber bullets. He was (IU years old and a trusted employe. Fowler was wounded over the heart and died without ever regaining full consciousness. He was 21 years old, a son of Hvcrett Fowler of llavcr straw, N. Y. The robbers escaped. Saturday was payday at the yards of the Atlas Brick company and ac cording to custom young Fowler call ed at the Newburgh hank for his pay money, sorted It out into the proper amounts, ticketed the enve lopes and took a train to this town where lie was met ut the station anil started to drive back to the yards, half a mile out of this town on the hanks of the Hudson river. He went armed as paymasters do. and for further pro tection took with him Uagsdale, who was stable boss at the yards. It was raining, and they rode with the buggy top up and their heads far hack in the hood. That made it easy for the robbers. Just what happened w'icii the hold up came will never be known until the murderers are caught and confess. Fowler died before he could litter more than u few unintelligible words. Although the shooting was done with In 300 yards of the State Firemen's home and within sight of the yards themselves, it was neither seen nor heard. The police having no facts at all save to piece together a theory of the crime from bullet holes and foot prints. Five shots were fired. Two of them tore away the side of Rags- dale's head. A third struck the pay master above the heart. The fourth and fifth passed through the hack of the raised buggy top. From the size of the holes it would appear that the robbers used regular army 44 caliber revolvers. From the foot prints then seem to have been live in the hand. The hold-up and the shooting must have followed each other almost with the rapidity of the shots themselves. It can be seen that someone grabbed the horse's bridle. If a demand for the navmaster's box was made he never had time lo refuse or comply There Is no evidence that he attempt ed to defend himself. Ills revolver is still clean. From this unreasoning haste the police deduce that the robbers were desperately terrified. he police in cllne to believe the hold-up to have been a professional Job. The robbers carried with them the small pay chest. It has not been recovered and may have been weighted down and thrown Into the river. Five sets of tracks led northward from the scene of the murder. At a short distance from the roadside New York Central railway's detectives and the Hudson i.ollce found where the trails sepa rated but have no other clue and no riescriiition. It was variously report ed here that the murderers got $1500 .,.i i7nn inii advices from New burgh say the amount was $5000. (ration, with every possible means of preservation for succeeiilng gem-ra tions: and though the proruem 10 ..urn this end mnv be dllllcult, the bur ten Is on the. present generation i.r.,niiiilv lo solve It and not to run away from It as cowards, lost In the attempt to meet It we may muse some mi.tnke As I have raid eisewnere the problem Is how to save and how in utilize, how to conserve arid still develop; for no sane person can con tend that It Is for the common good that nature's blessings should be stor ed only for unhorn generations." Orectcd by Tremendous Throng. I'hlcHiro. Sent. 5. President Taft passed through last night on his way to St. Paul. The president traveled throuuh Ohio and Indiana and at cv- nm lutlnn where the regular train carrying his car stopped he wua greet ed by tremendous throngs. At Erie. Pa., at Ashtabula. Cleve hind, Toledo and at Klkhart and South fiend. Ind.. the president appeared on the rear platform or me car maynuw er and either made a few Informal re marks or shook hands .with all he nmild reach. Mr. Taft did not get through Ohio without having to talk politics with some of the party leaders. At Cleve in ml the nresldcnt's car was boarded by Congressman John A. Cassldy and I'nlted States Marshall My. Uavis. At Toledo l-ewls C. I-avlln. the new cnair man of the republican state executive committee, got aboard and rode 60 tnllM with the president. The subject of a speech In the cam- niiiin hv the president waa broacneq. but he Is as firm a ever In his deter mination to let his letter to Represen tstlvs McKlnley of Illinois, chairman i ihn rennhllcan congressional com mlttee, stand aa hi contribution to the republican cause this fall. New York Herald and The tjazette- UNDER NEW MANAGEMENTGREATER AND WILDER THAN EVER POSTAL SHIES BANK REPORT B SEPTEMBER 15 National City Bank Says Only One Post- office in Each State Will Be Savings Bank. New York. Sept. r. In its monthly circular, released for publication Sat- irday, the National City bank an nul 9 that the experts appoiuu-u o Ihe postmaster general to work out a r.yKtem of administration for the new postal Havings bank law will submit lis report to the president by tin- mid dle of September, and that the system will he put Into operation about No vember I. The circular declares that the number of postal savings banks must be necessarily limited ns con gress has only appropriated J 100.000 to hiatal the system. Probably no more than one postotflce In each state will be designated. The circular says further: The nhms as worked out by the hoard of experts, are altogether tenta tive, as only the trustees can give them official effect, but it Is likely that they will be willing to accept the ideas of the committee, inasmuch as the whole matter has been given the mont painstaking consideration. Study has convinced the bourn mat the passbook system Is not reasible, owing to the ease with which amounts may be manipulated, and It has de cided to recommend certllicates of leposit Instead "As contemplated by the law, a card will be Issued to depositors ill a pos tal savings, upon which stamps 01 Ihe denomination of 10 cent:; may be itneil When nine stamps have been attached to the card, the card Itsell j .minting one, the depositor win lie lven therefor a certificate with tin amount of one dollar punched out. Those certllicates are to be punched In duplicate ill the presence of the de positor, so thHt a postottlce clerk would have little or no opportunity to com mlt a fraud either Hgainst the le - posltor or the government. When ten dollars have been ptincnea in a certi ficate it may be turned In to the post office and another for $10 Issued In Ita place. These final cert i Ilea tes are to be iMsued In denominations of $10." Killed In Auto Accident. Savannah, Oa., Hept. 6 Mike Jones, v local retail merchant, waa almost natantly killed and four other occu pants of Jones' touring car were bad ly bruised when a burst tire caused the machine to turn a somersault Sun lay afternoon on the grand prise race nourae. Jones' head was caught by Ihe steering wheel as the car turned over and his neck broken." The ma chine was wrecked. Catcher Killed by Foul Tip. Saginaw, Mich., Sept. G Kdward Ballard, aged 20, was killed In a baseball game yesterday at Wesner. a foul tip hitting him over the heart while he was catching. Mciicllk's Condition Is Critical. Addhi AlKba, Abyssinia. Sept. S. The condition of Kins; Mencllk, vho la reported to have had a stroke of ap oplexy, was is Id today to be critical. News. CHARGE THAT HARMON DID NOT SEEK PEACE Columbus Car Striki ! Alempt to Put Governor in Bad -Rewards Olfcrcd. Columbus, ".. Sept. 5. The Cham ber or Commerce has offered standing rewards of 12 for the arrest -ind conviction of stone throwing car strik ers A rewanl of $500 is to be paid for the apprehension of pci'mn: who shot Into cars and a reward of $11011 is offered lor the capture of ilyna -mlti r.-t. I'rank S. M.mett, attorney for the strikers said last night that a strict. Interpretation of Judge Dillon'a In junction order granted yesterday for bidding any one In warn visitors of ihe strike on tluir arrival at railway sta tions, would bar the sale of newspa pers nliont the stations. II" ib-cl ired that he would have the papers cited for conti nipt so as to convince the court that its ruling was Impracli1 n hle. The union leaders have Issued a statement challenging Governor Har mon to show that he had sought to bring about peace, or that be had iim I nil means lo surpass rioting, particu larly on Ihe part of imported :tte. car men. The union officials are pre paring to call a state meeting to take action on the governor' attitude. As a result of Ihe governor's letter calling on the state attorney general's depart ment to assume direction of strike violence, both Attorney tiemral li'ii maii and I'ron cutlng Attorney Wds ber will return to Columbus Tuesday In. in their outings. Local unionists have arranged a conference with officials of tin- rait and light company Tuesday In another endea' -or to end the strike. "in Armed City. The Ohio stale university campus yesterday assumed a military aspect when six companies of the llflh regi ment it. N. ! , nr-i ed from Cleveland and vicinity and raised their tents. The remainder of t'.i lifth has been encamped for a week on the grounds 'f tlf, atc Institution for Ihe deaf Adjutant General Wybrecht refused to say what disposition would bi made of the troops for the protection of street cars Involved In the strike dur ing the state fair, which opens today, in accordance with the eourt'a order, the strikers yesterday withdrew pick ets from approaches to railway sta tions, but continued the circulation of bills, urging the people, lint to use the cars. The hills contained no warn ings, nor threats, and on this account, the strikers maintained that they ware not violating the Injunction iirder granted Saturday. Attorneys for the Columbus Hallway and Light com pany, however, declared the circulars conflicted with the spirit of the eourt'i orders. Attorneys for the union yes terday did not make any ffort, ns promised, to prevent the sale of news papers near the stations. Great I'aradc In, New York. New York, Sept. S. Fully 50,000 paraders, reprerentlng practically ev ery labor organisation In greater New York, participated In Labor day par ade. Members of the cloak makers' union, the sett'ement of whose strike last week Is looked upon by organised labor as great moral victory, were given a noisy ovation all along the line of march, CANTON NOW HAS 13711 Twenty-Eight Are Negroes, and Canton Will Have Negro School, the First Time in Its History. Special to The Gazette-News. Canton, Sept. 5 That Canton a city of some pretensions Is properly attested by the school c nsu;; jinn -0111-pleteil. A careful house to house can vas waa made In order to ascertain the number of children In tin town of school age. An exact count .-"v al it 1:!j0 white children of school me and 2H colored children. It Is only .ery recently that negroes hav com" lo Canton, and for the first time in Its history. Canton will have a school for colored children. The schools open Thursday and Supt. McDowell, ivm inaugurated the graded school yst-.n here two sear., ago. has details ar ranged for the opening A full corps of teachers has been engaged, --'iviral of thoi.e of last yuir returning. Sli' iniaii Williams, a well I nown peddler of this section who for inure than ten years has taken his products to Asheville, was caught ill 'he Hood at Candh r last week and lost his 1 n tlre load of chickens, eggs and h'ltt'r. Ills mules were saved. The wagon was carried off by the current and only parls of il have been recovered. The loss will aggregate $::r.. Mr. Williams waa camping for the nlgnt at the old camp ground and ;ih sud denly surrounded by water. Ibilllngcr-I'lncliot Committee Meets. .Minneapolis. Sept I. The Ballln gerPlncliot committie held Us first -ession today since the hearings In Washington today and seven of tin twelve members were present. An adjournment was taken until tomor row morning. The committee, left for St. In 11 1 to attend the conservation congress and a luncheon for President Taft. They will also attend a recep tion tomorrow to Col. Itoosevelt. Carolina Vclcrmm at Norfolk. Norfolk, Sept. ti. General Julian S. Curr. commander-in-chief of the Cnited Confederate veterans of North Carolina state union here tomorrow and Wednesday. This Is the first tine the Carolinians have held a reunion outside the state. Georgia tiovornor's Itrotlier Dead. Atlanta. Sept. P. In the death yes terdny of Julius 1 Brown, son ol Georgia's war governor, and brothel of the present governor, a uniqu character, passed. Mr. Itrown wai known the world over as a colleetoi of coins and China, and hud what wat considered tho second most valoahh collection In the world. Ilulsam Will llemaln Open. The Hotel Balsam, at Balsam, will remain open during September, the most beautiful month of the year In the mountains. Manager HaydocVt announces that reduced rates will be made for this month. FAREWELL APPEARANCE E STUCK NEAR HEll CATE She Goes upon the Rocks and Crowd Aboard Spend a Very Uncom fortable Night. New York. Sept. i. More than 300 paaserigers, including many women ami children on the excursion steamer Sea Gull, whi li hit Glen Island last night, spent a night of discomfort while th" steamer was aground on the rocks near llel! Gate. Although th! excitement was intense after the steamer struck, the craft did not spring a leak and her position was not dangerous and the exhausted and hungry party anxiously awaited relief. The Sea Gull was floated, practically undamadged. during the forenoon. LITIGATION IS ENOED The Place to Be Developed as Park Complement to the Battery Park Hotel. As the re.snll of a compromise of a suit between the Carson and the Coxe states, whiih has been pending In Ihe Transylvania courts, the timber land known as Hack Forest has be come the property of the Coxe es- late. Buck Forest, which comprises several thousand acres of fine timber land. Is situated in Transylvania coun ty and is about 2- miles from Ashe vllle. The case was compromised after the plaintiffs had introduced evidence and by the terms of the compromise the ('arsons are to receive $12,500 and the Coxe estate will receive a perfect title to the land. It is understood that by the settle nient of this suit Asheville Is to be benefited to the extent of having an ither large playground added to the many which It has already. The property Is well wooded and well wa red by the Little river which winds through the forest and forms num bers of beautiful falls. My damming this stream a lake of some G00 acres Is to be formed which Is to he slock ed with fish. Water power will be de veloped and a handsome club house will be erected on the banka of the lake. In fact tha whole Is to be turned Into one great park to be used, so It Is said, as a club complement of the Mattery I'ark hotel. The work of Im nrovement. Interrupted bv the litlga tlon, will be resumed nt one and'the development will go on aa fast as Is practicable. Franc to Buy More Military Aero planes. Paris, Sept. The French war ministry today ordered the purchase of ten military monoplanes and twen ty bl plains within the next three months. Thl will give th French army an aerial flotilla of SO by the nd of th year. OF ROOSEVELT ' n I ! II He Thinks Benefits of Organiz' ation and Any Shortcomings of Unions Are Better Un derstood Than Ever. THE STRIKE LEGITIMATE BUT AS A LAST RESORT Steady, Far-Seeing Leadership and Dis cipline and Control in Its Ranks Are More and More Important. FARGO, Sept. 5. Theodore Roose velt was the feature of the Labor day celebration here today. Great preparations had been made for the event and crowds poured Into the city to see the former president. Roose velt's first appearance was at Fargo college, where he placed the corner stone of the library building. The parade of labor organizations was ro viewed by the colonel, who followed later in an automobile to Island park, where lie made his address. In course of his speech he said: "1 think thai the next quarter of a century will be Important politically in many ways; and In now more :io than in the labor movement. Not only are the benefits of labor organi zations mr-rc clearlv understood than ever before, but any shortcoming or vice displayed in connection therewith is also more clearly understood and more nuhkly resepted. The public Is trowing more and more to under stand that. In a contest between em ployer and employe a corporation nd a traiies union not only the l"1- tiresls of the third party the public -must he considered. Anything like vity in provoking a strike, on the lie hand or on the. other, Is certain more and more to be resented by the public. Strikis are sometimes neces- ary and proper; sometimes they rep resent the only way In which, after all other methods ha"e been exhaust ed, it is possible for the laboring man to stand for his rights; but It must be clearly understood' that a itrike Is a matter of last resort. Our social organization is toe complex for us to fail quickly to condemn those who. with levity or in a bpirit of wanton brutality, bring about far-reaching and disastrous Interference with Its lormal processes. The public sympathizes cordially with any movement for good standard of living and for moderate hours of employment. (I personally, for instance, cordially be lieve in an eight-hour day, and in one day in seven fur complete rest ) Where ni"n and women are worked under harsh rtr intolerable condi tions, and can secure no relief with out a strike, or, indeed, where the strike is clearly undertaken for things which are vitally necessary and then only as a last resort the public sym pathy will favor the wage-workers; but it will not favr them unless such conditions as these are fulnllea. Therefore it is becoming more than ever important that the labor move ment should combine steady, far-see ing leadership w ith discipline and con trol in its .ranks. Dishonest leader ship is a curse anywhere in American life, and nowhere is it a greater curse than in the labor movement. If there is one lesson which I would rather teach to my fellow-Americans than any other. It is to nouna aown mo dishonest man no matter what his condition and to brush aside with Impatient contempt the creature who only denounces dishonesty when It Is found in some special social stratum There are dishonest capitalists, dis honest men of great wealth and dls years. and dishonest business men; dis honest men of great fealth and dis honest poor men; and the man who Is a genuine reformer will decline lo single out any one type for exclusive lenunclatlon. but will fearlessly attack: the dishonest man as such, whenever and wherever he Is to be found. 'For mHiiy years I have been more or less closely associated with repre sentative leaders of labor unions. Some of these men are among my close friends, whom 1 respect and ad mire as heartily as I do any man In America. There are some of them to whom 1 go as freely for assistance and guidance, for aid and help, in making up my mind how to deal with our social problems, as I go to tha leaders of any business or profes sion." Old and Tough. But There Aro Limits." Fargo, N. D.. Sept. S. After an all (fay ride through parts of South Da kota. Minnesota and North 'Dakota, ex-President Roosevelt reached Fargo last evening. The people of Fargi were waiting at the station for him and gave him a large welcome. . It was after midnight when Colonel Roosevelt got to he'd Saturday night at the conclusion of an arduous day at Sioux Falls. "Like Welter's thanks giving turkey, I am old and tough." said he just before he went to bed, "but there are limits," Friends of Colonel Roosevelt who have been travelling with him have been astonished at his endurance. He has attended breakfast before T o'clock and dlivnnrs which lasted until lata at night and has made so many speeches that he cannot even estimate the number. But Saturday night he admitted he was tired. He Instructed his secretary to send teUgrams to the towns through which he was to pass today saying that aa It waa Sundry (Continued on pare B) l
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