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S3; THE ASSOOIATID PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. M. WeatDwr rurecaat: FAIR AND WARMER, woe soeimie voazeuc icro VOL. XV. NO. 265. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14, 1910. 3c PER COPY CARGIE DONATES IN 5 PER & lq Ti-IRST MORTGAGE BONDS, $1 0,000,000 FOR PEACE BE REINSTATED MM MI Revenue Amounting to $500,000 to Be Used to "Hasten the Abolition of Interna tional War." EXPENDITURE OF MONEY IS WITH A BOARD OF TRUSTEES Elihu Root Is Chosen President of Board of Trustees and President Taft Honorary President- Per sonnel of Board. WASHINGTON, I) Andrew Carnegie 14. today transferred to a board of trus tees $10,01)0,000 in 5 per cent, first mortgage bonds, the rev enue of which will be used to "hasten the abolition of inter national war" and to establish a lasting world peace. The for mal transfer was made at a meeting in the rooms of the An drew Carnegie Research foun dation. The trustees organized by choosing a president, United States Senator Elihu Root per manent representative of the United States at The Hague peace tribunal. President Taft consented to be the honorary president of the foundation. Money Loft In Hands of Trustees. The method by which the annual in come, of $50'). 000 shall be expended la left by Mr. Carnegie entirely In the hand of the trustees. The founda tion s to be perpetual and when the establishment of universal peace Is at tained, the donor provides that the revenue shall lie devoted to a banish ment of the "next moat degrading evil or evils." the suppression of which would "most advance the progress, ele vation and huppluess of man." Personnel of the Hoard. Tho trustees of the fund are: United State Senator Kllhu Root, ex-secretary of state and ex-secretary of war; Dr. Nicholas Murray llutler of New York, president of Columbia university; Dr. Henry A. Pmtehett, president of the Carnegie foundation for advancement of teachings Joseph H. t'hoate. lawyer and ex-ambassador to Great Britain; Albert K. Smiley of Ijke Mohonk. ed ucator and humanitarian; Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har vard university; James Drown Scott, solicitor of the state department; John W. Foster, lawyer and ex-secretary of state; Andrew J. Montague, lawyer and ex-governor of Virginia; Wm. M. Howard, congressman, of Lex- Ington, Gil; Judge Thomas liurke of i Seatt'.e. Wash: James 1,. Sliden, con gressman of Sun Antonio, Tex.; An drew D. White, ex-ambassador to Oermany; Pobert 8. Hrooklngs, a law yer, of St. Louis: Samuel Mather, banker and steel manufacturer of Cleveland; J. O. Schmldtapp, railroad rrtan of Cincinnati; Arthur William Foster, regent of the university of Cal ifornia of San Francisco; It. A. Franks, a banker of Hohoken, N. J.; Charle mauge Tower ex-ambassador to Ger many and Kusla; OBcar Straus, am bassador to Turkey; Austin G. Fox, a lawyer of New York; John L, Cad walader, a lawyer of New York; John Sharp Williams, senator-elect from Mississippi: C. U Taylor of Pittsburg, chairman of the Carnegie hero fund commission, and George W. PcrUns, of New YorK financier and philan thropist. Total Benefaction siHo.omnoo. Andrew Carnegie's 110,000,000 gift for the furtherance of International peace brings the total of his benefac tion! to approximately 1180,000,000. The endowment announced Is the sec ond In slxe to only three others of his 110,000,000 foundation for advance ment of teaching, made In 1905 and In creased to $15,000,000 In 1908; $1, 000,000 endowment of Carnegie Insti tute in Pittsburg; and $12,000,000 fund for establishment of Carnegie In stitute In Washington. Carnegie's gifts to libraries during tho past 20 years are estimated at $36,000,000 for United States and $17,000,000 abroad. Men Vcrpt mployent' Terms mm. Strike London, Deo. 14. The boiler makers lock out. affeettng 50,000 men In the Shipbuilding employers Federation yards, ended today, with the accept ance by the men of the employers' terms. The yards re-open tomorrow. Women Jurors Sit in Box For Hours With Hats on Olympla, Wash.. Dee. 14 For the first time In the state's history. It not In the United States, a female Jury, drawn from a venire of women, tried a case, awarding $10 damages to A. Kook, a milkman, In a suit against Youls ft Canfleld, contractors. A SURVEY OF SUITE FROM MCnPITAL Good Roads Movement Growing Leaf Tobacco Sales in 28 Towns - Court Cases. Gazette-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, llollcmou Building, Raleigh, Dec. 14. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geolo gist and secretary of the North Caro lina Goon Roads association, says the ! movement for the organization of' county good roads associations to co- operate with the state association is progressing finely, there being now or ganized and actively at work 27 of these county conventions with ar rangements made for the organization of many others in the near future. There were ."8 towns in North Car olina that did leaf tobacco warehouse business durb p the month id' Novem ber, the total sales running up to 12. 886, o:ir pounds with Winston-Salem leading. There are five cases up for argu ment this week, the calendar being for the Sixteenth district. These cases conclude the arguments for the term and the court will take recess for the Christmas holidays. The appeals now being argued are Stale vs. Jesse Mul lonee, Jackson county; W. A. Rogers vs. Onrrett Lumber comapny, Macon count : Iiso'ee Kelly vs. Tremont IxHlge Odd Fellows; W. L. Moore vs. Meroney, Cierokee county: M. I'-. Morphew vs. J. Q. Baker, trustee, Gra ham county LeBlanc Girl Is Found Innocent Jury Acquits Her on Charge of Murdering Glover Court Demonstration. Cambridge. Mass.. Dec. 14. Hatllo LeBlanc, the 17 years old French-Canadian girl, was this morning acquit ted of the charge of murdering Clar ence F Gloer, the Waltham laundry man. November 20. The verdict was cheered by the spectators thronging the court rocm. When thj court re-convened this morning at 9 o'clock Judge Bond charged tho lury. Admonishing the jury to weigh thr, evidence carefully, the judge said: "You will be safer to err in acquitting than to err In convicting." Tho l.ein in.- girl, who, throughout the morning, wore a pale, frightened expression, was overjoyed when the Jury foreman pronounced the word which sent her free In to the world again. The girl's father and relatives embraced her affectionately and led her away from the scene of one of the most "cusut.nnal trials in the state s history. After Judge Ilond finished charging Jury Miss Leltlanc was informed that she might speak If she desired, and, facing the jury with arms folded, she said In a weak voice, with strong French accent: "I did not do it I want to go homo with my father." Hiiir.:- Iicreir Because Young Man. of Love for Lake City. 8. C, Dee. 14. Susie Gore, aged II, of Vlncland. N. C. Mon day went Into a barn, mounted a bar rel, tied a rope around her neck and Jumped off. When found she whs dead. She left a note directing the disposition of her body and mentioned the name ot a young man, for love of whom she is supposed to have killed herso'f. She was visiting here. 1 I mrrriKwi i i i 1 1 i niiirivfim blast, set off by the contractors, cauatd Kock's team to run away, re sulting In damage. The women sat Id the Jury box without renvvng their huta until late Into the night, listening to tho arguments of coun-sel. ? ' .SSSSSS- - - :t r- 9 BBS ' BBBBSJ BsT flr BBBHBBBS UP IBBBBSSBBSr' JMli Jfc SBW ; Am EtfnON&JU YIEVE 'OE dRAND NEW YORK. Dec. 14. When the new Grand Central Terminal is completed passengers will be enabled to get off trains at the lowest level and rah the sidewalk without mounting a single step. This will he due to "ramps," for the novel feature of the station will be that it will not GET LINE Town Would Become Branch Line from Kino's Mountain Morganton Is Also Bidder. Special to The Gazette-News. Hickory, Dec. 14. M. L Mauney, representing the Isothermal Traction company, which has been chartered to build an electric line from Gasto nla to Ashevilfe, was here Tuesday to meet a number of business men and see whether they would welcome a branch line from King's Mountain to Hickory. The visit was In nowise official, merely Incidental and tenta tive, but the executive committee of tho chamber of commerce met with Mr. Maundy In the evening and as sured him of their de-dre to secure the branch line. Morpmton, It is un derstood, is a bidder for It. A lino to that city would probably branch off from Shelby, it would require somn financial aid to the preliminary work to get the lino here. A French syn dicate has signed up to finance this Ashevllle-Gastonia Isothermal electric line and Its success is said to be as lured. Mr. XTauney is an old Lenoir college man, of tho class of 1903, and a chum of Dr. K. A. Price. PRESIDENT TAFT WILL BE IN ATLANTA MARCH 10 Occasion Will Be Meeting of Southern Commercial Congress Other Speakers. Washington, Dtc. 14. President Taft has accepted an invitation to ad dress the Southern Commercial con gress March 10 at Atlanta. Ga. Mr. Horwevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the governors of moat of tht southern states will address the congress President Taft speaks on "A Greater Nation Through a Greater South." VOTES BEING PLEDGED TO CLARK FOR SPEAKERSHIP Florida Leads Off North Carolina, Indiana and mit .States Plan Similar Action. Washington, Doc. 14. Florida's del egatlon In the house of represonta lives, Representatives Sparkman, Mays and (Mark, formally pledges support to Champ Clark for speakership of the next house. Democratic congressmen from North Carolina, Indiana and other delega Hons plan similar action. Many states are already pledged to (Mark. American League Season Will Open April IS. New Tork. Dec. 14. President Johnron says, so far as he knows, the American league season will open April 12 and close October (. He be lieves the National league season will do the same. Contractu l.ct for Two llattlrtdilps 'ondon, De '. 14. Contracts are let for the construction of two battleships provided for in the currant year's Ri val program, spec mentions rail for vessels ) .'i otio tons having 27,000 hots power HICKORY MAY SIM CENl&jZxt. TEKjrmtAIi contain a single stairway. It will he a stairless station in the language of the circus advance agent, "the only one of its kind In the world." II place of stairways there will be "ramps." broad, gently sloping, in clined ways, lending from one level to another, along with the tides of hu Hill si deConvent Sisters Purchase Victoria Inn It was leaifted this afternoon that the Sisters of Hillside con vent are negotiating for the purchase of Victoria inn, in cluding the several acres sur rounding the spleudidproperty It wh stntcd, however' "that while nego!;ations had progres sed satisfactorily the deal was not yet complete. The price it Twenty-Six Entombed; Twenty-Two Are Dead Norton, va., Dec. 1 I Twenty-six men were entombed by an explosion In the Green mine of the llond coal com panv mar Tacoma. at 9 o'clock this REVOLUTIONISTS ARE ROUTER BY FEDERALS Chihuahua and Other Parts of the Mexico Cleared of Organized Resistance. Washington, Dec. 14. The Mexi can federal troops completely routed the revolutionists In Chihuahua, cap turing the city of Guerrerere, accord ing to the state department advices. Ambassador Wilson, at Mexico City, states that this cleared Chihuahua and other parts of the country of all or ganized resistance to the government. Insurgent Lost Heavily. Kanchto, Santiago, Dec. 14. Gen eral Navarro's official report places tho number of insurgent dead in Sun day's battle at SO. An Associated Press correniMndent saw .11 dead. Navarro admits he lost, killed, two officers and 12 men Hnd 27 seriously wounded. Insurreptoa place their dead at 19, wounded 1. There was no lighting yesterday or today. Today's developments ar somewhat confus ing because of conflicting versions. SAY MY HI WON That Fight Over Plan to Take Committee Selections from Speaker Is Vir tually Ended. Washington. Deo. 14. Conservative demoora' leaders of the house state that the ..ght over the plan to take committee selection away from the speaker Is virtually won and oonswrv at.ivea have about concluded that there is no longier any need of trying to stem the tide. Champ Clark of Missouri, the prob able speaker of the next house, has made no announcement on the sub ject. 'HOWIMti EAMI'5 JS&TD SUBNXSf COTRCTICMVi. man travel will move swiftly and safely. According to L. F. Voshurgh. gen eral passenger agent of the New York Central lines, about 25,000,000 per sons frequent the Grand Central Sta tion every year. "The new station," said Mr. Vosburgh, "will be able to accommodate four times that num is understood is approximately $40,000. !t is further under stood that the Hillside convent will not he removed from fts present location on North Main street lor :-ome time and that in' a?! proTiahility the-present location may he retained in definitely for elementary pupils of the convent. morning. Litest reports Indicate that 22 of the entombed miners are dead. The explosion was caused by a quantity of gai becoming Ignited In the work ings of the mine TRANSYLVANIA FARMERS TO EXPERIMENTWITH HURLEY State and Government Experts Go to That County to Establish Ex periment Patches. In the city today, en route to Tran sylvania, were two government ox ports who are going to that county to establish an experimental patch of hurley tobacco. The people of Hen derson and Transylvania counties have expended much energy wlthLn recent years In raising cabbage for the southern market and it is said that some of them have not been as successful as they would desire. At the suggestion of Albert Cannon tho North Carolina department of agri culture look-up the idea of seeing if the land of this section was adapt able to the production of tho hurley tobacco. Tho North Carolina depart ment has secured the oo-oporatlon of tho United States department of agri culture and these two departments Will conduct the experiments Jointly. W. G. Moss is the United States ex pert and J. L. Burgess tho state ex pert. In Madison county it Is aaid that the farmers have been rather suc cessful In growing this tobacco. The people of this section will await with much Interest the experiments which will be conductwl during tho coming ar in Transylvania county. Judicial Appropriation Rill Reported Washington, Dec. 14 The, legisla tive executive Judicial appropriation bill aggregating $J5,326.:i9 was re ported to the house by the appropria tions committee today. Pittsburg. Dec. 14. Leaping from a window in a homeopathic hospital Dr. W. M. Proctor, a prominent practition er, was killed. It was suicide. st it St Kin on Days to Christina. St St St in:c I MHKIt 14. St St St Have You Bought Mother's S St Present Yet? $t a? stststststststst$tstststststsisti ber comfortably. In the construction of a passenger station it Is not so much a question of building a place for trains to run in and out of easily as it is of getting tho passengers to and from these trains with the least possible friction,. It is the human element of the crowd that is tho big problem." CATAWBA BOY WON IN COiCONTEST Ernest Starnes Raised 146 Bushels of Corn on One Acre and Will Meet President Taft. .Special to The Qaactte-News. Hickory, Dec. 14. "What Is that big brass tack stuck In that boy's name for?" asked W. J. Shuford In Raleigh the other day, when he was attending the board of agriculture meeting. The name of the boy referred to was Ernest Starnes, of Catawba county. On a board there were lots of boys' names who had been win ners In tho boys' corn contests. "That brass tack," said someone, "shows that young Starnes made more corn to the acre than any other boy in the state 146 bushels." Starnes will get a free trip to Wash ington under Dr. Knapp's arrange ment along with other boys who made records, and will be Introduced to President Taft. Catawba excels in everything, in cluding corn and boys who can make the most of It. STANDARD OIL GO. CASE IS CALLED IN RALEIGH Trust Is Charged With Violating Anti- Trust Law Trial Will Consume Several Days. Garcttft-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Building, Raleigh, Dec. 14. The trial of the Standard Oil com pany, in the Raleigh police justice court for a violation of the North Carolina anti-trust law In cutting prices with a view of preventing a competltvo company to get t footing so that the trust might thereafter put up prices again, began this morning and will probably consume several days. The evidence today was prin cipally the testimony of Raleigh dealers as to prices paid for kerosene the past year, showing cuts by the Standard. Questions as to prices prior to 1910 were opposed by trust counsel but allowed as to 190$ to show prior steady prices. Two Newspaper In Hands of Receiver Pittsburg, Dec. 14. Joseph T. Kevin, a well known newspaper man, has tiled bond as receiver of the Pitts burg Post Publishing company and the Sun Publishing company, hoth of which are controlled by th sami company. Application for receiver ship was made by the Farmers De posit National bank of Pittsburg al leging the companies could not meet approaching liabilities. The publica tion or tne two papers win ne continued. Twenty -Eighth Baby Born To Mr. and Mrs. Benner Richmond. Ind . Dec. 14. The twenty-eighth child arrived at Jason Ban ner's home In New Castle today. Twen Senator Simmons Visits Presi dent in Interest of Man Fired out as Result of Ballinger Pinchot Row PRESIDENT NOT CONCERNED ABOUT WHITE APPOINTMENT Any Criticism of Appointment of Deme crat and Ex-Confederate Soldier Had Been Discounted Washington Gossip. Gnsette-News Bureau, The Hotel Hamilton, Washington, Dee. 14, SEN. VV w. KNATOR Simmons went to the White House today. His mission as to take up with the presi dent the matter of restoring to Clif ford Shaw the right to practice again before tho interior department. Mr, Shaw, whose people live in North Carolina, was accused of Insubordina tion and discharged when Mr. Plnchot was separated from the service, and BallingH'r held he should not be al lowed to practice before the depart ment. The president had promised Senator Simmons to reopen the case after tho congressional committee had filed its report in the Ballinger-Pin- chot controversy. North Carolinians now believe the embargo against Mr. Shaw will be lifted since a majority of the committee has acquitted Bal llnger and given the administration the much desired vindication. Chambtrliiin of Oregon and Con gressman Pago are with Senator Sim mons In the Shaw matter. The presi dent has promised to give the matter his attention at once. President Not Concerned. While reports from the' provinces indicate that some republicans are inclined to be critical of the act or President Taft in placing Mr. Justice White, a southern democrat, at the head of the Supreme court, it can be said advisedly that the president la not the least perturbed bv such re- ports. What criticism there Is had already been discounted, days before It was heard. While Mr. Taft had before him the list of eligible, which at first held a score or more of names, a southern democratic senator, who had been invited to the White House to talk over the prospective Judicial appointments, ventured to remind the president that the act of placing Jus tice White at the head of the court could not possibly invite criticism from but one source that republican partisans would take the view that a republican should have been choeen. President Taft was both frank and emphatic In saying he cared nothing for criticism on that score, and there fore it came to pass that, when politi cal Washington caught Its breath upon a perusal of the newspapers, which told how Mr. Justice White, and not Mr. Justice Hughes, was to be chief Justice, there were perhaps a half dozen southern senators who were not surprised at all. The truth Is there has been very little criticism of the president here In high places, and when a protest emanates from the lower circles, from those who do not see why Associate Justice Harlan could not have been appointed, it Is explained that Mr. Harlan Is getting along In years. There is a whisper about a lack of mental vigor once possessed by that great jurist, and it is told again how the president is not i very much concern! anout pouuos anyway. And then, as to those in high places here, they are not really republicans from the point or view, say, of the average lsortn Carolina re publican, who has never been able te rid himself of the notion that the vic tor should be favored with the spoils. Secretary Knox Didn't btea v. One frequently hears It asserted here that Frank H. Hitchcock, the postmaster general, is the only repub lican In the cabinet Once, when the writer heard this assertion mad y a Pennsylvania newspaper man, h was asked how about the Hon. Phil ander C. Knox. The- answer came back quick that Secretary Knox was not a republican to hurt; that he did pot make a speech in his home state during the campaign, and that he did not vote because he forgot to register The fact that a certain militant Tsr Heel republican editor thought Iks had a poll tax receipt when he hadn't, caused something of a stir in the westorn end of the state during the last campaign, but here was a mem ber of the president's official family, 'rom a state where they are supposed produce the finished product In the way of a republican, ho did very much the same thing. It has been observed that In elevat ing Mr. Justice White to the head of the Supreme bench President Taft found' It possible to avoid the cross fire of the Insurgents and standpat ( Continued on pasts S) ty-one of the children ar living. Man ner Is 49 years old and lira. Baaasr
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