North Carolina Newspapers

ITT P r" ip-"l AiJ i.vvXJ : DICPATCHr3 i i.fi LAST EDITION 4:00 P. It Weatner xwecast: ' OcchhIcmuiI Showers. , ' .-'-, VOL. XVI. NO. 140. ASHEVILUS, N.O., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 21, 1911. So PER COPY stjte's chops mwm Plan of NewYorlc's Great Naval War Game, Flag CI PROOISE UELL SHE I1DS If I Y .-' ... F 7 I UEH Only1 Tobacco Has Suffered to Any ExtentAgriculture De-1 partment Report Shows a Splendid Advance.' LAST CORN CROP 57,754,000 BUSHELS; A BIG INCREASE State Produces More Cotton to the Acre Than Any Other, and May Soon : . j ;; Have Average of f. One Bale. Gasette-News Bureau, . The Hotel Raleigh, V - " Raleigh, July 21. THE biennial report of Commia i doner of Agriculture W. A. ' Graham, aa of January 1, 1911, haa been Issued and la a, compendium of the work done by the department for the paat two years. Aa a part of the report, the b'.vrletins Issued during . 1909 and 1910 are added. The re port ihowa that the work of the de partment haa gone ahead aa rapidly as possible .- and that : the ' de partment haa - done much to- wards ' bettering agrlcnlturel meth oil In this state. This his been accomplished partly by the Institute ' partly by the corn clubs, partly by the ' valuable Information disseminated by the department to the farmers. ill Iiktwuw-j... . .', '. As an example of the big Increases that have been made by the farmers ... ' through the use of better farming . methods, due largely to scientific In formation gained through the depart ment In one way or another, the corn ' " ..crop of 19J0 .was 67,754,000 buahetp while for 1909 It was 41,383,000. The report points out that on of the heav .... 1ft. Liwow to the state, bus, been, the money that haa been sent out for grain, hay, flour, meat and canned goods; a sum more than equal to the value of the cotton crop, A marked Improvement la noted In the diversity or crops and It la predicted that with in a 'short while this states will not have to send out of its borders for the common foodstuffs. Another Important matter la that statistics show that this state producer far more cotton per acre than - any other state and It Is hoped to reach a bale to t:ie acre average at no very late date. News of Fine Crops. Farmers from all sections of the , state who have visited Raleigh recent ly bring news of splendid crops. The - prolonged drought haa broken and the showers are bringing out the crops finely. The only crop that promises to be exceptionally short la the tobacco crop. In some sections the drought cut the hay crop short but hue forage crops, like peas, will probably save the situation. A meeting of the trustees of Wake Forest college has been called to as semble In Raleigh on August t for the election of a professor of Latin to succeed the late Dr. John B. Carlyle, who died a few days ago. Other ma. . tera will also be considered, especially the endowment proposition. ' Reviewing Trst Books. The six members of the atale sub text book commission are now engag ed In reviewing the varioua books that are being aubmltted to them for exam ination aa text books for the ensuing i five years In the common schools of North Carolina. The report will be made out within a week's time but their recommendations will not be come known until August 1 when the sub-commission and state text book commission meet to award the con tract ' Woman Take Poison. A woman arriving In Kalelgh yes terday on the Seaboard Air Line from the north managed to make her. wav to a seat In the fetation when she col lapsed. Rushing to her assistance, ths maid at the station obtained from t'.ie woman the statement "I've taken Poison." Physicians were summoned and relief was obtained. The woman gave her name as Mrs. L, P. Kennedy, and said she hnd been employed In a cotton mill t Henderson. She said her hunhand hail, some . two weeks ago, taken her two children to Golds- bnro and eho held a tclcxram which to'd of the death last nlsht of her baby. Hhe then drunk some stuff she called "bug H,Hi,n" and started to Gnldsboro. Mm told the physicians she had no ih ire to live anv limner. Mrs. KeniifK- a able to depart for Goldsboro t' n iificrni'oti. i if A 1 in Morton. .NfVVS , I I Morton, at b .- Monday, bi friends bete, Ineniberel 1 i iieil in r, .. wblle hr,v 1'S (,f t! ,. ) Vin, It . . , Oetitiil ,i , In a t ! the - , li. .;;,!, (lentil of Alvln home In Yancey county t nil dm- to hi , r, I !..rlon la well r- ii ti k I t: k bu n fit- f.,r some ,j nocee'1- Mr. Ilor t tin in ' I- t. f, I tti LiST Dill Effort to Make an Issue Out of Attitude of Democrats on Lum ber Is Late, Says Rep resentative Page. "PEOPLE AGREED WITH US, OR THEY HAD FORGIVEN US" Platform of 1908 Was the Party's - Promise Provided the People En trusted the Government to t the Democrats. L -, Gazette-News Bureau, . Wyatt Building, ' Washington, July SI.-- REPRESENTATIVE PAOE'8 at tention was called 'to a para graph In the Durham Herald and copied In the Charlotte Chronicle, which reads as follows: ' "Aa Mr, Overman and the eight or nine congressmen who favored a duty on lumber know nothing of the cir cular Issued from democratic head quarters, the public would like to know their reasons for voting in op position to an express -declaration of the party platform." J When asked for a statement Mr. Page gave out the following: "This clipping copied by the Chron icle from the Durham Herald impels me to make a statement with no spirit of controversy and with a firm determination not to be drawn Into the senatorial controversy now going on in the state. "The effort that Is now being made to make an issue of the vote of both senators .and six of the seven demo cratic congressmen of the house In the first session of the sixty-first con- kgresa. on lumber comes a little late aa far as the members br the house are concerned. Moat of us met that laaua- In. the last campaign for renom- Lnation and election, and the fact that we .were, renominate: na i eieotea woultLseem to Indicate ei,'er that'He people agree wnn us, or nan lorgiven However, X never cast a vote without haying a reason therefor, nor one that I ?as not ready to account for to the people whose, representative I am. Tlie Party's Projolae. ; ' "The democratic platform of 1908 was the promise of that party to the American people, provided the people entrusted that party with the man agement of the government. It de- xiarAd for a gradual reduction of tariff duties 'to revenue basis; this waa the prime and leading promise touching tariff legislation. It also de clared for free loga, wood pulp, print paper and lumber. To my mind, each of these promises waa necessarily con ditioned upon the auccess of the par ty at the poll At that election, oy a great majority, the republicana were elected. They proceeded at an extra session of congress to revise the tarin. In the house and In the senate oemo- crata were In a decided minority. The bill brought In and aupported by the molorltv nartv Increased rawer man decreased tariff ratea. Democrats did nn h.va, th votea necessary to carry out the promise made the people In .hole nlatform to gradually reuuee tariff ratea Not b?ng ame to ao so as a whole. It did not aeem either fair or right, or even a compliance oi me promise made the people, to alngle out one item in nouu ana .v.. n.t when the articles enter ing Into its manufacture were loft at the nrotectlve ratea oi ine xvmBiw Kin K'oith.r did I then regard, nor do I now regard an ad valorem duty of 7 per cent, on lumber aa being pro tective, but prooaniy peiow mo mum of revenue rates. iti.i km tlw Circular. I did aot see the much-diacussed circular sent out by the state com mittee Drlor to the election oi but before a vote was taken on any i. h. Pavne-Aldrlch tariff bill ...i.mtttorf to the extra seiwon ui to,. greas In the spring or lu. in mr dlscusalon of what our position should be upon the amendment offered plac ing lumber on the free list, the clr ...i.v hud ln brouKht to my atten tion and to the attention of other members of the delegation, and we had dlwuawd It among ourselves and renarded It as an Interpretation by the state rommlttee of the Dnver nlatform. to a certain decree entered tnin nnr rone luslnns as to the pon! tlon we ought to take, particularly since It agreed with the pcrwrol ln ternretatlon that many of us had al- -u,i niHred upon It. I did not r upon It entirely In JuhUiw atmn of my vote for during the campaign of 190K i .ol,.tnrtlv said that the democratic party If elected, should not reduce tho duty on any article without mak- i., reneral reduction upon m. ...,i. pvsrv other demK-rat that I heard make a speech In (hat cam pnlKH made tho Same statement." u 1 VdIioiip X " fiiiiti-rully In Naval 5tner. i rriui' Isco. Jul v time, in rnltcd the w o. :, 2 I I' or tb mi i b ! ne w c t - - ' - i? f 1. 'i . , , . .. - -rfr ' "ti" ' l" , ' ' " MAK rHAj VINFY4KO ji - - 'hi j " . - : ; 7 The iU55 . .J.J , ' ' ' J' - . Ic.f .mo . t c wt". 1 , , ; ,. aiUsS9 - v ..w;.... .-.,..,,,,. , r, .j BLOCK ISLAND 3lW 1 U g H V :U . y.. Rear Admiral, TJ WA -r'- ' v-- " , ' I H.-osTERHAOs ;- ;; gv-. J,- ! : . tf w v - v - r. A f ' - ' r ORT PONQ bay j' f I? ' ,Z,m '' "'" I f: ' -, 'fyCT' JJ ' . i -'v "i - ' " " s - ,!a.asaiBa UPON RECIPROCITY BILL Senators La Follette, Smith and Others Winding up Talkfest Will ., ' Vote Tomorrow. ' V" KKktltltltat(ltltKlttCimXt1 H H ' Washington, July 21 Chair- a at R i man Penrose of the senate fin- It W 'ance committee promises Prea- H H ' Ident Taft to lay the Canadian K H ( reciprocity bill with the np-j ? It ; proval of the senate and house, R at on the president s table by i R o'clock tomorrow i afternoon, R R - three hours before the presl- . R R dent leaves for his week-end R R. stay at -Beverly. ,' R R ' R RJIMRRRstRRRRRRRRRRR Washington, July 21. Speeches by LaFollette explaining his propositions for revising the woolen and cotton uchedules of the tariff law, and Wil liam Alften Smith of. ' Michigan and other senators, on various phases of the reciprocity bill, occupied the sen ate's attention today In anticipation of tomorrow's reciprocity votei Ijai'olette Aaxalla Pre. Assailing the press of the United States for its support of the reciproci ty bill. Senator LaFolette expressed the belief that the newspapers would suffer loss of influence for the support given to legislation in which, he said, they "have a direct money Interest." "The press has falluii in its duty to the public In regard to thla legisla tion," he said. He deplored the atti tude lit the newspaiiers. , Senator LaFollette's amendments propose a sweeping revision of the woolen and cotton tariffs. His addras.4 will lie the chief one against the reci procity bill in the closing hours of debate. Yesterday Senator Bailey held "the floor against the bill for liiree hours, following a speech In its favor by Sen ator Jones of Washington. Senator Bailey's speech was almost wholly an attack on the bill for Us Injustice to the farming IntereHts. He assured his fellow democrats that he believed thev would have difficulty in convincing farm voters that they had bmn treat ed fairly, when the duties on agricul tural products were removed without onrrHspondliig reductions In the dutle on common clothing. He denied the HtateniciitB frequently mado that the bill should he supported by democrat bei auNe It Is "a sweeping step in the rltbt direction."- "If pursued to a logical conclusion," ho eind, "it leads to a time and a pol icy where the American fanner will lie stripped of all anlvantiiaes and left to the mercy of (he bem-llHurlca of all tan 1 1 1 i i mIh t Ion." r..r Miitth of , Fiiiith C-i r. 1 ! t, n I'?. . I thfl bill hiM-Hllse. of Its sunt tn . . - '.i f.i (hf i-iiuntrv. and be. im.. . tc h -i- i t"Wnrd the loweiiiii,' (, Rough House Trial of Vlterbo, Italy, July 21. The most violent acene at all of the Cammoriist trial was today provoked by a person al dispute between Captain Fabroni and Lawyer Dley. , , . ' ; In the. tumult all '.the lawyers fled from the room. Enrico Alfuno and General Abbatemagglo, the Informer, were thrown out bodily by carblneres. Giovanni Barteloxzl fell In a ML President Blanchlo, helpless to main tain order, declared the session ad journed. . . . ' Throughout the hubbub Fabroni Ii 11 i THE- SHIPS Cholera Fighters Encouraged Increas Ing Force Preparing for Arrival v of More Vessels.' New York, July SL Federal and state physicians and bacteriologists In the harbor guarding the country frois a threatened cholera Invasion are en couraged because no caeea have been found among the latest arrivals from Italy, among the vessels- now in quar antine. ' ; '' Preparing for the arrival , of two more ahips from the Mediterranean, Health Officer Doty Is Increasing his force of experts, as under the latest government order every arrival from Italy must undergo bacteriological ex amination. EGES TO CIPE TO FEjTECT C! Scout Cruiser Chester Sails and Is Ex pecicd to Reach ths Scene fcj Next Kandar. . . Washington, July 21. Impressed with need of quick action to protect American Interests in Ilaytl, the scout ertiHher' Cheater coaled and salleti from Hmdtont, R. I., for t'ape Hay tb-ii this morning. The Chester maintains a speed of 20 knots nn hour and Is expected to arrive at t'apo llayticn Monthly. i I hI! -y III 4IS '! j h.,1,1 Case. 21 tvi hold EI!HS Brecxks iipr Qqmfnorrisis stood pale and impassive. As the court room was being cleared he auid, "Seunelll la the scum of criminality." It was Liey" who through Beanelll at tempted to buy the witness for the defens?. This reflection on the lawyer raised the first storm. Liey screamed like a madman. Abbaltemaggio Join ed; in the row, supporting Captain En rico Alfano, alleged head of the Cam mora, who led a chorus of Invectives against Fabroni, and Abbattemaggio and Alfano continued to curse until seised by carablners and dragged out. TO OEM PROPEflTT Mr. Bernard and Tampa Associates Buy a 250 Acre Tract Near !; ". '. Arden. ' " ' ' Oaiette-News Bureau, Th Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, July 21. The Blue Bldge Development com pany of Ashevllle la today chartered with 125,000 authorised capital and S18.7E0 paid In; to deal In real estate and Insurance. O. A. Petteway. M. W, Ulmer and ' John 8. Taylor of Tampa, and 8. O. Bernard or Ashe vllle are the Incorporators. . v When enen this afternoon Mr. Ber nard, who Is the only Ashevllle in corporator of the company, atatea that the company had secured a tract of between 25 and 275 acrea of well-lvlna- land between the Arden atatlon and Christ school and that It la the Intention of the company to develop It by the erection of several build Inga and to divide It .: into building lota for residences. The lota are to be sold not so much to local people as to people who desire to come here for the summer, for the most part to those living In the south Atlantic and gulf atatea. A, representative la to he sent at once Into the principal towns of this eectlon to make sulea. The proporty la on an excellent Macadam road and the residents can easily reach Ashevlllo. The development of thla property will mean much to the section where It In located. With the exception of Mr. Hornard the Incorporators of the company are all prominent butlneas men of Tampa. ";izz:i is in no kit.hy a::jt the wiley c;:Ar.:rs It Will Take Ncwrnl lay. lie Tor lllm to Olo TlmwiiU l"ap in TIM) t'ii s, lln Viil,l" lliOUEST 15 HELD IH BEATTIE CASE 1 ' H. C. Beattie, the Husband, Is Repre sented by Counsel, as Is Al so the State. ' Richmond, July 21. Coroner Lov ing is holding an Inquest into the mur der of Mrs. Louise Owen Beattie, who was alain Tuesday night, five miles south of Richmond on Midlothian turnpike, while automoblllng with her husband Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., who la chief witness. Two leading criminal lawyers, have been retained, one to guard Beattie'a interests and the other to assist the commonwealth. Mayor Richardson, Chief of Police Werner and other pub lic officials are attending the inquest. Beattie appeared on the scene calm carefully dressed and at ease. He amoked cigarettea incessantly before the Inquest began. An important witness waa expected to be Bealah Blnford, a woman witn whom young Bwattie, It is said, recently associated. Much testimony at. the Inquest la exiected to turn upon the relatione between Beattie and his young wife. Beattie Adhere to First Story, Beattie told the coroner's Jury his story of the murder of his wife by an unknown man while the couple were driving in the automobile. . Beattie counsel stated that Beat tie. knew h was suspected by the authorities of having a hand In the dime, but main tained that Beattie would prove hi Innocence. Beattie waa on the atand two hours, and rigidly adherred his first story. , to C0TT0:i .'METTOI issciOTTirara Private Advices from Central Belt Com plain of Too Much Rain Fluctuations. New Tork. July 21, The cotton market waa steaxly this morning at decline of 24 points on July and on August, while later months were from unchanged to four points higher. After the opening July recovered a but two points of loss, with August selling one point higher and ths nt crop positions six to eight points tin1 the closing figures of jewlerduv. erlnii Increaswl on the nilly end tl market during the middle of tb morning whs nervous and Irr. ifii! the trade tiin'lPtr hevi..r its tin- n i ri.p Worked below the 1; i . i t b -.11 ill . line f i t. i ' ' ,- l 'I ' II . t : ncident, Unique in History, En acted Today on Field Where First Real Battle Raged in 1861 " ADDRESSES BY PRESIDENT AND VIRGINIA'S GOVERNOR Review of Veterant at Noon Other Features of Elaborate Program . -CA.R. and U.C.V. , ' Arranged H. ,' VI' ANASSAS, Va., July 21. Tho blue and the gray marched across the fields of Manassas to meet each other again today.- This Incident, unique in history, the! meet ing of Federal and Confederate veter ans on the field where thev fousht a mighty battle Just 80 years ago, at- tracttd aa witnesses the president of tho . United States, the governor of Virginia, the home of the Confederate- capital, ana visitors irom many It waa the crowning feature of the jnaiiHSBa fJtmue juuuee mil reunion L . J . . l ,1 1 which began last Sunday with a aer- iiiuu u ii ilia vvu. v ii v. no; ,u. . i, iw,t Xf .1 I . .. 1 .. . . L oi represenuiuves, wno iobi nia signt. while serving in the union' ranks. The crowning events of the Jubilee was witnessed by 6000 people, tnclud- , ing many prominent persons. During the morning the old soldiers asaem- bled at the Henry House, the center of ; fighting d jring tho battle. A souvenir badge,. tho gift of Colonel Robert M. Thompson, -was presented U -each vot- ai-o n . " -President Taft and Governor Mann " long ago had fcccepted- invitations to oe me guests vt nonor oc uib uay, w review the lines of gray hatred veter ' ana and make addressee In the after noon. ' In the evening they will meet -the old soldiers and other visitors .at a public reception. ' ! -. Alio ' y B crnwanoi. The following program had been - : arranged for the day: t a. m. Veterans in Blue and- Gray assemble at Henry House, on battle-- Held. , . 10 a. m. Addressea of welcome by Col. Edmund Berkeley, Eighth Vlr- glnia, and United Slates Senator Thomaa S. Martin, of Virginia. Responses by General John E. Gil- man, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the -Republic, and General George T. Cordon, grand commander of the United Confederate veterana. Presentation of souvenir badges by ' CoL Robert M. Thompson of Wash ington. , Noon Veterans marshaled In re view, and the men in the blue and . the gray clasp hands. 1 p. m. Luncheon and "love feast S p. m. Return to Manassas. 4 p. m. Forty-eight young wom en, repreentlng the atatea or the un ion, clasp hand and, forming circle, ' sing the Manassas National Jubilee Anthem. 4:20 p. m. Addresses by the pres- Ident of the United States and the governor of Virginia. :20 p. m. Luncheon tendered to President Taft and Governor Mann by Mrs. Robert A. Porter at Anna- burg, j 7:10 p. m. Public reception of the ' president and governor at Annaburg. Fifty Tears Ago Today. It waa on July 21, 11(1, Just E0 years ago tomorrow, that Kull Run, or the first battle of Manassas, was fought. The Confederatee under Johnson were accredited with a deci sive victory over the Union forces un der McDowell, the retreat of the Fed erals leaving practically a clear road to Washington for the Confederates, It Is said, had they chosen to continue their advance on the capital. Thla waa the first real battle of the war. and Its result awakened the north for the first time to a realisation of what the secession of the southern states meant. It waa here that "Stonewall" Jackson gained the name which will be associated with hla memory for all time. , i . . In August. 1(82, Manasiws was (Contlnaeo on pace 4) IIIG TO I fu II Sarlous!y K.'omi:i Too-ltad Lt V 1 1 V r f ir.' j,t. i ,in fie St i , I' . July n l n 21. Ti nt be -