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VOL. XVI. NO. 138.
ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19, 1911.
So PEE COPY
COTTON PRICES
icornssi
The Aviator, Bud Mars, Describes
Plunge That Nearly Cost His Life
BIll'S LIST-
STJ TUMBLING
OF
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August Contracts Off 34 Points,
' July 42 Old Crop Positions
. Lose $4 to $4.80 a Bale
"'"if t ilJ '
Since Saturday.
THE NEW CROP POSITIONS
SUFFERED LESS SEVERELY
Rumors That Formerly Successful Bulls
Have Lost Heavllj-Markets
Tone Somewhat
Better.
New York, July 19. There wu a
continuation ,.ot, .yesterday's activity,
and excitement in the cotton market
this morning, and a further ' sensa
tional break In prices, particularly tn
the old crop months, which were-entirely
depressed by the renewal of
bull liquidation.
Inside the first half hour August
contracts sold off to IS, or 84 points
under the closing figures of last Qlght,
while July toroke from 11.70 at open
ing to 11.28, a net decline of 41 points,
and old crop positions at this level
- showed the tremendous loss of $4 to
14.84 per bale from closing prices of
Saturday and of from Sli.75 to (14.26
per bale from the season's ' high
records. '
Mew Crop Position Declines.
New crop positions suffered less
severely today but October and De
cember .contracts sold off to 12.11, a
net decline of from to 12 points
and nearly $3.50 per bale below the
closing , figures of last week. It
seemed the opinion around the ring
that the Scales Interest liquidated a
very large line ot new crop contracts
yesterday and that the leading old
crop bull interests, including the cop
per people, are heavy sellers of near
months today, both in Liverpool and
New Tork. The decline In the old
crop months was checked during tbe
morning by demand from the leading
, spot and trade interest v-
. Ton Bmnw StradJtev-
, Whlle"the"markel continued 'very
nervous and unsettled with trading
extremely active and ' the south a
heavy seller, presumably agatrst a
record-breaking crop, the tone ap
peared somewhat steadier late In the
forenoon and It looked as if specu
lative liquidation was a little less ur
gent. Judging from the great vol
ume of selling during the past 48
hours both concentrated and scatter
ing, the long Interest la the market
has been a very heavy one. Esti
mates are current that the successful
, bulla of the : past two seasons have
experienced severe losses through at
tempting to bull the market on the
strength of old crop statistics and the
drought In Texas during June.
RElllEI 13 HSTTI
FGEESI5 5IB3IL!
Port an Prince. Haytl, July 19.
The revolution progresses. The gov
ernment trooiie were routed at Trou
and have returned In disorder to Cape
liaytlon. The situation is calm here,
but If the government falls II Is feared
there will be disorders on this part of
the r opulace as all the disciplined
troops are In the north.
' The foreign residents are appre
hensive but the expeoted arrival of
American warships will have a re
assuring effect The situation for the
government Is considered critical. All
the districts horth of Artibonlto are
In arms and the Insurgents are close
UDon Caue llavtlan. which they are
expected to attack at any time.
The government has chartered the
German steamers Syria and Allema
nla for the purpose of bringing the
president and his troops back to Port
au Prince. This city Is practically
without defenders but the president
intends to organise as effective re
slstanre as possible gainst the revo
lutlonlsts.
General Leronte with his followers.
It Is reported, has landed between
Monte Crista and Fort IJberate, en
route to Join the Insurgents.
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Attacking "I 'do" Tire Steams
ilet by 1 no Destroyers and
Hil'inil rifles.
in;
rnock 1, H. I., July 19. The
mimic war bnke out a few hours af
ter dawn, when nine battleships of
tlie attacking "I In" fleet steamed In
ami were met t y (tv torpedo destroy
ers ami
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rf't
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R i K e 1 - M' Td.
ir i e I inn-whips were then
em 'i i.r the defending em ft
1 ; I ti.-t 1 known until the
ri ; "it to the inivy depart-
CHOLERA CARRIERS
INCREASE
It May Be Necessary for Helalth Officers
of the Entire Country to Help
Repell Invasion.
New York, July 19. The health
officers of the whole country , may be
asked to help repel the threatened In
vasion of Asiatic cholera.". ."''.'.
The discovery of five "cholera car
riers" among the 600 Immigrants un
dergoing bacteriological examination
at quarantine emphasizes what Health
Officer Deity said about the difficulty
of confining the disease to the quar
antine hospitals of ports ot entry. A
system of general observation is con
templated. . -. ;
The case of the cholera "carriers,"
who harbor the germs while them
selves free from their 111 effects, cre
ates a puzzling situation.
: . Since the Isolation of the cholera
bacteria many cases of these "car
riers" have been recorded.
The Ave cases revealed by the bac
teriological examinations were atones
isolated from other : immigrants, and
lodged in the Swinburne Island hos
pital. :; ' ' , ' y'? .1 , ''. .,
VERY NEAR A LYHCHIN6
IH CI3IOI STREET
Mob Had Beaten Negro Accused of At
tempted Assault, Nearly to Death -When
Police Came. ' .
' " Cincinnati, July 19 The . police'
quick "action, avoided aMyoching. in
the -elty's center early this morning
when they captured a negro from an
enraged crowd. - It is alleged the ne
gro accosted s Miss Belle Daugherty,
aged 19, dragged her into an alley
and attempted assault.
The girl's erica attracted a passerby
and soon several hundred people con
gregated. The negro was captured
and almost beaten to death before he
was rescued by the police.
KILLED MAN IN A DUEL;
IS SENTENCED TO PRISON
Court Imposes Punishment on Count
Von Illchthofen, the flayer or
WUlichn Von Gaffron.
Berlin, July 19. Baron Oswald Von
Rlchthofen, who killed Wllhelm Von
Gaffron In a duel May 10, was today
sentenced to two years Imprisonment
A quarrel over money matters led to
the duel.
Voa Rlchthofen's sentence Is not
for murder but merely for violating
the law against Queuing.
IS STUNG ON JAW BY BEE
AND DIES IN 30 MINUTES
Philip Rnt-ch, Prominent D Hois, Pa,,
Man, Was Attempting to cap
tare the Hive.
Du Pols. Pa., July 19. Phillip
Dusch, a prominent resident or wu
Bols. died 30 minutes after being
stuns- bv a honey bee today.
Dusch attempted to capture me
hive when he was ftung on the point
of the Jaw by one of Its Inmates.
F.'EYER DENOUNCED
New Orleans Interest CaU Policy of
Closing Kiatloiis ami Yards "Hub
vi line tiongrras Will."
New Orleans. July 19. Resolutions
denouncing Secretary of the Navy
Maver's alleged pollcy.what they term
"subverting congress' will" by closing
ud southern naval stations and yards
were adonted at a conference today
of committeemen representing vari
ous commercial brganlatlons In New
Orleans.
The resolutions will be sent to
southern congressmen.
HEAT WAVE Srr.IZE3
rLAi:;3 of Alaska
Valdese. Alaska. July 19. The heat
wave today strui k Alaska.
The temnerature hi re Is 80 degrees
Ths heat Is meltii g the glaciers and
streams are high.
CAPT. w. w. oi.i ri;.D.
Wss TMtlusiill,'"l
man and t "
the Old I
Iwyer, Cliun-Ii-
,te. Soldier of
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i r-.ik. July
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Ihwvit,
Advanced Stand Taken by Wick-
ersham Little Short of Sen
sationalSpeaking for -the
Administration ?
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POWER TO FIX PRICES
- OF GOODS IS SUGGESTED
Low of Supply and Demand no Long' r
Holds-Hnterstate Commerce.-';
Commission Cited as .'
Precedent
D
ULUTH, MINN., Jury 19. At
torney General Wtokersham be
fore the Minnesota state Bar as
sociation today took an advanced
stand on the turther' federal regula
tion of corporations, declaring that a
government commission to regulate
the great industrial organizations. In
the same way that the interstate com
merce commission regulates railways
was certainly most desirable,' and that
It' might be an absolute necessity.
Wlckersham's speech was a little
short of sensational in many features.
He declared it was a serious consider
ation whether it would be practicable
to give to the proposed interstate cor
poration commission power to' tlx
prices.; This In theory would simply
require the extension of the principle
by which the Interstate commerce
commission controls the rates on
railroads. ' ?.
A sclent Law No longer Holds.
The law of supply and demand.
Wtokersham said, no longer control
price in the United States. For
years, he declared, prices in all the
great staple Industries bave been fix
ed by agreement between principal
producers and not by the normal play
of free competition. An interstate
commission, he added, would, prevent
violation Of the anti-trust et and aid
"busUiesa Men to, maiatato a conthroed
status of harmony with the require
ments of law.
Many of Wlckersham's declarations
were the most radical ne gas maae
since his entrance Into official life.
With tbe weight of an administration
officer behind them his remarks made
deep impression. There was noth
ing in the speech, however,, to lndl
cate how far the attorney general e
fleeted the views of the president On
several occasions in the past he has
been regarded as the administration's
spokesman. Wickersham discussed
the eternal question that further reg
ulatlon of Interstate commerce la nee
essary or desirable from a broad point
of view, saying he had not attempted
to express a conclusion but merely to
state the elements of a great problem
which goes to the root of the Ameri
can people's prosperity.
HUNDREDS ARE DEPENDENT
ON THE PUBLIC FOR RELIEF
Camping Around the Ruins of .Cities
in tire-Devastated Territory or
North Michigan,
Bay City. Mich., July 19. Beven
hundred persons are In j camps, de
pendent on relief, around the ruins of
the cities of Osoeda, AV Sable ana
others In the fire-devasUtted territory,
Thousands of dollars is pourtag In
from charitable organisations for the
sufferers' bnflt '
HOXE SMITH ON DISPLAY
IN NATIONAL CAPITAL
Not the New Georgia Senator, But
Mammoth Georgia Melon Bear
ing Ilia Name,
Washington, July 19. Hoke Smith
arrived In Washington yesterday and
Is In ths House Oltlca building, on dls
Dlav.
This "Hoke" is not tne new ueorgia
senator, but a monster watermelon
named for him. The name Is carved
In the rind. The m'jlon was sent from
Orady county, ue , to nepruwnui
tlve Rodenbury. "
CLASSMATE CF FHESSDENT
13 RELEASED FCCM i'SL
Convicted of Drawing fraudulent
Check, Wlckce Is Acquitted
by Higher Court.
Oakland, Tal.. July 19. Thnmns P
Wlckes of Tale, a classmate of Preiil
dent Taft. was released . from the
county jail yesterday.
Wlckes had been convicted of ob
talnlng IIS on a check on a bank
where he had no money. Ills re
lease followed the reversal of th
l..wer court's action by the Huperhr
I ui t.
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"buD" Mars.; Crashing S3; ' I. , v , CaSC
TMnks He Must Have Got in a
Pocket or Hole in the Air
Still Improving.
RIE,. Pa,,, July 19. With his
head swathed In bandages, Jr.
' C; t"Bufl") Mars, who'Was hurt
n the fall of his aeroplane last Friday,
sat up for several hours in the Hamot
hospital today.' He Is about at the
roller-chair stage. He complains lit
tle of soreness and presents a cheerful
demeanor. He Is confident he will be
able to leave the hospital by Saturday,
His wife, who witnessed his plunge
nto the canvas screen which flanked
the flying field, has been with the in
jured aviator continuously since the
accident.
The aviator ha ne very clear Idea
of just what caused the plunge which
so nearly cost him his life. I was
planmnr to make a six lap flight, e
said. "I remember having made the
circuit of the field once and that then,
for some reason, I. began to fall,
suppose I must have gotten into a
pocket or a hole In the air. The nw
chine did not respond to my efforts
ad refused to asotuirt.. I recall seeing
ths line of .Street 'rare in: -front Of me
and I also saw the long stretch of soft
white canvas which screened the side
lines of the field. I had only'an in.
stant to make a choloa and I naturally
chose what seemed to be the softer
object to hit. That Is all I know about
It"
Herewith Is printed a photograph
taken at the Instant when "Bud" Mars
was making that fateful decision. It
shows the perilous slant of the aero
plane as the aviator brought it around
toward, the canvas obstruction.
TEACHER QF MARK TWAIN
REACHES jnS92ND YEAR
Abner Martin Sap Ha Told Twain He
Was Too Witt) to Make a Hit
on the River. ;
East Liverpool, O., July 19. Abnar
Martin, the oldest Ohio Mississippi
man tn this section. Is celebrating his
ninety-first birthday anniversary,
Mark Twain was taught steamboating
by Martin, .'
Martin says he told Twain he would
never make a hit as a steamboat man
because he was too witty, even on the
pilot house deck. Martin says Twain
broke into the lecture business after
entering the Confederate army; d
sorting, going to the Fiji Islands and
returning penniless.
BOTH CQSSRESS HS
ARE II SESSIiri TODAY
Washington, July 19. Both branch
es of congress are in session. Cana
dian reciprocity speeches by Senators
Brown and Works Were the regular
order. Senator Stone expects to speag
In advocaoy of the agreement and may
have the floor tomorrow.
State department emergency fund
Irregularities and the Wickersham
amilnst Wickersham charges of gov
eminent failure to prosecute Alaskan
cases attracted the house's attention.
llAXCmaiS Tl.S'.EATlLVED.
Moilrnn GovernmiMit Hog nested to Af
ford I'roteetlon I Americana In
Lower t'i. ntl.
Washington, Jui
runchers In Lower (
Ing threatened by
IKiiTBlS.
The state depsrt
the Mexlt an govei
them eliminate Ir-
,1. American
llfornltt are be--called
Mexican
t has requested
. nt to afford
inn.
r Comity I
nl, S. I'.,
Mill (Hrolina
19 Jan
tmip
ler
WtoCM - or Bud
Cold Blooded
Mrs. Beattie of Richmond; in
to Death, Evidently by an Automobile Hater Blood
hounds, Sheriffs and! Pol ice Officers Searching.
R
ICHMOND, July 19. Blood
hounds, cried on by their train
ers, and county constabulary
are searching Midlothian woods, aid
ing the police and sheriff's posses
hunting for a man who late last night
shot and killed Mrs. Harry C. Beattie,
Jr., while she was riding with her hus
band in an automobile.
Thirty-Five Massacred
By African Tribesmen
Livingstone, Ithodesa, July
19. Intelligence reached here
today that German District
Commissioner von. Franken
borg, two white sergeants,
WILSON SEES SUCCESS
People Are Turnlng'Jto Democracy Na
ation ii Yielding to Teaching!
of Jefferson.
Asbury T . N. J., July 19. Blx
hundred democrats at a bancjuet lust
night heard Oovernor Woodrow Wil
son predict democratio success in
1913.
Governor Wilson said the people
are asking which of the old parties
has seen ths modern light, and are
turning to the democratic party. The
United Ptates, for the first time, it
was declared, is yielding to Thomas
Jefferson's teachings. .
DENIAL BY SCHWAB
ays Tlicre Was No 1'JTort at BruswJ
8tcW Confcrwice to Form Inter
A national IVI Agreement, ,
N'ew Vork, July 19. Charles M.
Srhmab, pnsldent of the Bethlehem
f"A corporation, denies the general
report that there was sn effort made
at the Brussels steel oonferenre to
mske an International agreeinnt to
ctiiitrnl prices.
A r.K,Oi0 lV.llcr Coiilis. t.
Wu hlniMiiB. July 19. The l
. ;),!':.., i t IMS .ce,1 atlh th" '
it ; , , ll.i I s i,.i-.mi.,i i
.l ,
M&bIs Ci?Ecaue:
Murder
Car With Her Husband, 'Shot
. Meame stopped tne car when an
unidentified man, evidently an anti
automobile fanatic, stood stubbornly
in the road.' When he asked the man
to make way ho replied wlrti a single
barreled shot gun, firing at close
range and killing Mrs. Beattie In
stantly. The gun was found this
morning near the scene of the crime.
14 black police and 20 carriers
have been massacred by the
Okarango tribe. ; 1 '
mi
me massacre occurred on
the soil of British territory.
CQFJPLA1NT AS TO RATES
ON l IS HEARD
A Hundred New Tork Deal era
Appear Before Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Washington. July 19, Complaints
sgalnst existing freight rates on wa
termelons and canteloupes shipped
from southern points to northern and
eaetern destinations were made to the
Interstate commerce commission today
by 100 New Vork commission mer
chants. '
Recently the railroads made slight
reduction In rates on melons, but re
fused to deliver them in. New Tork
city, deliveries being mads In Jersey
City. The merchants . declare they
were then required to pay lighterage
charges equal to three times th
amount of reduction to get the fruit
from Jersey City to NW Tork and
Brooklyn.
THOUGHT WIFE A ElTCUn
AND SHOT AD KILLED YA
Aroused from Heavy Sleep
man l'tillim? Itimn a W ln!
Hull Irnnnl by t.il. (
Kiitiiiilmf, 1'
I w i! ' a hn
Julv in.
One Element of State Democracy'
Wishes Early Convention and
; Initiative Taken in Presi
dential Endorsement
KITCHIN HAS NOT ISSUED
HIS REPLY TO CHARGES
Many Complicated Problem, Including !
That of Senatorial Primary, Con- .
' fg-Antlnrl ftlAfslk rnstAlIna
Democrats.
', '' .'; Gazette-News Bureau,
y . The Hotel Raleigh,
itaieign. JUiy is.
GOVERNOR KITCHIK left yes
terday afternoon for'. Person
county to deliver a speech at a
Masonic . gathering, without making
public his reply to the articles of M.
Mlsenhelmer and James A. Lock-
hart, which appeared in Sunday's '
News and Observer. It is not now
likely that the governor's reply will
be forthcoming until the ' week-end
perhaps it will be published Sunday.
That it will be a document of wide
import In this senatorial fight la cer
tain. It will be recalled that these
letters contained charges that Gover
nor Kitchln, having based his cam
paign for governor on the assertion
Uiat he -would have passed "toothed",
anti-trust laws, changed bis attitude
so far after getting into office that
u. . iu.y UOWU UD I1IS irUBl-UUBUUg
constituents.
With the convening of the state
democratic convention less than 12
months on, wnen tne democrat win .
go through the solemn .process of
nominating their state officers ' tor
the ensuing .. four, years, there are
many questions of interest being dis
cussed now,
, . . gome Titanic Struggles. "
The next" state" convention, while
probably It will have no protracted
deadlock like the Charlotte convene
Udn of 1909, will be productive of
some Titanic struggles. Chief among
the questions will be that of which
faction, shall control the state organ
isation, i It is too early" to predict
what forces will occupy the strategic
position at the convention but unless
certain things are agreed upon by the
contestants for the United States sen
ate a light right Is coming, in every
congressional convention, every coun
ty convention, there will be a strug
gle in the naming of executive com
mittees and delegates. In view of re
cent events In re the lumber circular
and State Chairman A. H. Eller's de
nial of It, there may be a contest over
the state chairman's position. -
Date of the Primaries.
The date ot the senatorial pri
maries will bs anotneri perpiexims
question. With a portion of the party
desiring to hold the primaries before
the general . election in November,
there are others who want the pri
mary held on. the general .election
day. These would ask for the second
primary to follow the general election
in oase there is no choice in the
first.
Another contingency arises: sup-
nn. thst the vote of the four candi
dates la nearly equal on the first pri
mary, would it not be a ratner severe
thing for the two who are highest by
virtue of only, a, tew hundred votes
to be put in the second primary and
leave the other two outt There might
be no Question of the correctness oi
so doing but it would create an im
mense amount of displeasure m ma
ranks. There will have to be some
kind of an agreement reached along
these lines. ' ' '
Want State to Take inuiau.
Some very prominent democrats
have stated themselves recently . -being
highly In favor of having an
early state convention since this state
will have to .choose its delegates to
ih. national convention, iney oa
this view upon their opinion that, for
one time. North Carolina ougni iu
come out Into the open and express
Its real choice for president; not wait
until the matter has been all but set
tled and then follow along like sheep.
It Is argued that an early instruction
of Its delegates would be the means
of glnlvg this stats soms prestige, or
at least greater prestige, in national
affairs.
There is a sentiment among tne.
huslness men and otner mougn,,.
rlttaena of this state that the
time
has come for the democrats
tats to quit following along
of th
1.1. I
someone else all the time
that t
state should come out snd express it
self upon the men and lwues mm are
before the nation. They point to I'm
state's repeated trailing alt'-r l.rv i
when many of the leaders even d. ) i
ed the wisdom of duinK It. I nt i -
cepted it si the enc,..- t out.
llnrinon
lilt.
Among the tni.ri.-m
strong sentiment In t!
of Governor 1 lariium
lilent, and the mere
hiu nmitii i hi in f "
llwt" 1HS I'll f'-r t
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