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ASHEVILLE, N. .0, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 16, 1912.
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SAYS GLADDEN
Secret Conference (of Brandt Trial
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Judge With Gans and Schiff Revealed
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In What He Believed His Death
Hour Ross Reiterates State
' mcnt Involving
Another.
GOVERNOR SUDDENLY
GRANTS HIM REPRIEVE
Man Doomed Negro As
serts Slew Mrs. Dixon Has
Been Tried and Acquitted
of Crime.
Gazette-News Bureau,
' . " The Hotel Raleigh.
Raleigh, Feb. .18.
John Ross has been granted a re
prieve. A few minutes before the time
Bet fur his electrocution this morning
for 11 1 o ''.-murder of John Dixon
in Cleveland county, he declar
ed to Sheriff Wilktns of 'Cleveland
county that his confession at the trial
was true. He killed Mr. Dixon he de
clared, and Frank Gladden, white,
killed Mrs. Dixon. Gladden was tried
along wlt.i Ross and acquitted.
. No reason was given by Governor
Kltchln for the reprieve which Is until
April 12, but the supposition is that it
wus done to get a confession from
Ttoss. Since Gladden already has been
placed in jeopardy of his life he ca i
not be tried again even if the author
ities are Inclined to do 80.
Gladden has been tried for the
murder of Dixon, but not for that of
Mrs. Dixon;
4D.0OQ LETTERS TO SHOW
MITE CON
. itr'-tl -Yt r
Government Wlil -USe" Many
Mcsages in the Effort to
.Convict.
Indiana polls, Feb. 16. New dis
closures made in the dynamiting con
spiracy cases through 40.000 letters
and telegrams quoted In the Indict
ments us Implicating practically all nf
officers of tho International Associ
ation of Uiltlge and Structural Iron
Worker;) will be the basis It wus de
clared today, upon which the govern
ment will try to convict 54 men churg
eil with committing or abetting in ut
most 100 explosions aimed to destroy
non-union property. Frank M. Ryan,
president of . the association and his
licutettants are held to have furthered
the campaign against the non-unionists.
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( William K. Benson Arrested.
Saratoga, Feb. 18. Inflicted in thi
dynamite, conspiracy at Indianapolis,
William K. Benson, former president
of the Detroit Federation of Labor,
was urrested here today. ,
TOR II IMIIT COURT
TERM TO BE HELD HERE
Mr. Gudger Introduces Bill Es
tablishing Court in Ashe
- ville in Summer.
Guzette-News Bureau,
Wyatt Building.
Washington, Feb. 1.
As wus forecasted in this corres
pondence. Representative J. M. Gud
ger, Jr., hus introduced a bill In the
lower house under the provisions of
which tho summer term of the United
Stuteg Circuit Court of Appeals for
the fourth circuit will be held in
Asheville. . 4
In. recommending its passage Mr.
Gudger calls attention to the fact that
In the lifth circuit the court Is held
in three towns, while in the fourth it
is held only in Richmond under the
existing statutes.
YOUNG AMERICAN GIRL
WEDS RICH CHINAMAN
License Is Hrufed Couple in nuV-e
Virginia Cities. , but Finally
Tliey Are Murrlcd.
Washington, Feb. ,18. Wong Ping.
a wealthy Chinese ' merchant, with
Mores In New York, San Francisco
and Norfolk was married today to
Miss Myrtle Arthur, aged 21, of Nor
folk, after having been refused a li
cense in three Virginia- cities.
MRS, H G. EWART DEAD.
Special to The Gazette-News.
Hciuleisonvllle, Feb. 15. Mrs.
KWiirt, wife of Judge Hamilton O.
Kwurt. died of heart failure ut bel
li-. me this morning, urter a Short ill
HUM.
ROTHSCHILD LOOT
COMESJp LIGHT
Widow of Bank Wrecker Will
Return $500,000 to
Depositors.
Chicago, Feb. 111. A Woman regis
tered as Mrs. T. IC. Uulteii, of New
York today said she hud $".00,000
which had been stolen by David
Rothschild, who wrecked two, banks
and which she Is returning to the de
ft positors. She said she is the former
wife of Rothschild, who died In pris
on in 1907. There has been long
search for the money thought to have
been "salted" by him.
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PUTS JUAREZ IN PANIC
Nineteen United States Troops
. Cross the Rio Grande
by Mistake.
Washington, Feb. 1(1. The war de
partment has decided to deal drasti
cally with Lieut. Fields of the 18th in
fantry, who, in command of a squad
of American soldiers, made the mis
take of crossing into Juarez, Mexico,
yesterday and nearly caused an inter
national clash. Fields has been placed
under arrest pending further investl
gallon. ' - j ' .
Ei'Faso, Tex., Feb. 16. Excitement
bordering on panic prevailed In Jaurez
' yesieraay wncn . in armed unuou
mates soldiers of the Eighteenth in
fantry, commanded by Lieutenant
Ken W. Fields, crossed .the Interna
tional bridge on a street car to the
Mexican side. The panic continued-
all day and resulted in suspension of
buslndss and of communication be
tween Jaurez and El Paso and the
postponement of the Juurez races.
When the car reached the Mexican
side it was dtopped and -boarded by
half a dozen Mexican customs guards.
Hundreds of excited Mexicans, many
armed, gathered quickly on learning
of tho "American Invasion."
Lieutenant Fields explained that his
force was enrouto to one of the bridges
for patrol duly and crossed to the
Mexican side by mistake. After con
siderable parleying, in which Mayor
Sunllugo Macstas of Juurez participat
ed, the American soldiers were per
mitted to recross the Rio Grande to
El Taso,
RIGID FREAR INQUIRY
Charges of Incompetency and Favor
' Ili.Hin to lie Investigated by the
Administration. -
Honolulu, Feb. 16 J. Kubio Kalan
lanaolc, the Hawaiian delegate to con
gross, suys ho has assurances from
the administration that charges of in
competency and favoritism preferred
against Gov; W. F. Frcar will be in
vestigated fully before any appoint
inent to the governorship Is made.
Frear declares the dispute ariBes
over factional differences among the
republicans of the territory.
TO WITHDRAW MILITIA
City of Lawrence Will Attempt to
. Mulntulii Order by Policing
Strike Situation Improves.
Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 16. Efforts
will be made by the city officials to
police the city with local officers be
ginning tonight, thus relieving the
militia of that work; which they havo
been doing for a month as the result
of the strike of -textile workers.
More operatives have returned to
work during the past 24 hours than In
all the time since' the strike started
up. '
WOMAN MURDERED
SIxIccikIi Negivss Found Dead Toduy
on Atluntu htrects Say "Jack the
Kipper" Works.
Atlanta, Feb. 18. The sixteenth n
gro woman to be murdered on tho
streets here' In a. year was found earl
this morning with her throat cut. No
groes attribute the murders tu a "Jack
the Ripper."
To I"Wt Fight Forfeits.
Chicago, Feb. 16. Forfeits for th
heavyweight championship bout be
tween Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn
will be posted tomorrow, It is said.
Twenty thousand dollars will be plac
ed in thf hands of stakeholder.
Manli Gran Formally Opened.
New Orleans, Feb. 16. The Mardi
Cr;is '-carnival season was formally
opened lnt night with a parado lef
tlie KniKlits of Momus. It wiil con
tinue until Tuesday. s
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QYiriG, SAYS'TWAS
HEKILLEG OEBEL
James Gilbert, Kentucky Feuid-
ist, Shot at Helena, Ark.,
Admits Crime. .
Helena, Ark., Feb. 10. That he
nurdered Gov. WIIUhiii Goebel o!
Kentucky In cold blood at Frankfort
In January, 1U00, was the dylnc
declaration of i James Gilbert, self-
onfeased gunman and ex-fcudist of
Hrealhltt county, Kentucky, who whh
fatally wounded in a pistol light with
i bartender here yesterday. No proof
ithcr Ihun the man s last words were
iffored nor did he relate any detuils
of the killing.
Whether he would have given de
ails of his alleged killing of Goebel
un never lie known, for Gilbert died
within u few minutes after making
the staleinuet, which he repealed, over
and over again, with the assertion thai
he could "never get over It."
IS PROVIDED IN BILL
Gudger Believes Congres3 Willi
Establish One in Moun
tain County.
Gazette-News Bureau,
Wyatt Building.
Washington, Feb. 1G.
Representative Gudger yesterday
Introduced a house bill providing for
the establishment of a. United States
llsh hatchory- In Swain caunty, to be
located at some point on the Souther!
railway. . Mr. Gudger .believes that his
bill wilt pass congress. Swain county,
he suys. Is the home of the mountain
trnut. and one nf the esupntlnli fur
this fish is that it have pure water.
There are at least' a hundred places
in Swain county, Mr. Gudger states,
where the hatcheries could be estab
lished. -
Four Hanged
Strives to Ohtaih a Stay
Drop Falls Under Two as Court Attendant Rushes to Scene
- Sheriff Refuses to Stop Proceeding Without Formal
Order and Two More Die.
' Chicago, Feb. 16. F-iur murderers
were hanged In tho county Jail today
while Counsel Stanley was trying to
secure a Jitay of execution on ' thk
ground of Insanliy. The men were
Frank still Ewald Shlblawskl, broth
ers; Philip Sot.''nerllng and Thomao
Sonimerling and Thomas Schultz,
slayers of Fred Guclzow, Jr., a truck
farmer who was held up. robbed and
murdered on the outskirts of thin
clly hint October. Tho Shlblawskls
mounted the scaffold flr.st and tbe
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Meeting Took; Place Just Be
fore Sentencing of Man
for Burglary.
New York, Feb. 16. Information
laid before Attorney-General Carmody
shows that on March 31, .1907, while
Mortimer L. SehJit'.j former, servant,
Folke E. Brandt, wwak In the' To'tnbs
awuitlng sentence after pleading gull-.
ty three days before, to first degree
burglary. Otto Rosalsky,' the trial
judge, took part In a long secret con
ference at the Criterion club with Mr.
SchilT, Howard Gans, Police Inspector
McLaughlin and a man named Roths
child. Brandt was sentenced April 4. Guns,
counsel for; Schiff,: and- also the wit
ness ugainst Iirundt, had been in cor
respondence with McLaughlin, then
head of the detective bureau, retired.
He (Gans) wanted to be able to pre
sent to Judge Rosalsky a "record"
ugulnst Brandt so that a long term
.n jail might be obtained. This evi
dence was prod need In the form of a
report made by Detective Wooldridgo,
Which hus been riddled by the efforts
of District Attorney Whitman,
Why the conference was held, what
was suid, wbut was done are not
known, but these questions will be
a;ked of the participants.- Mr. Whit
man, who, disregarding the other de
vclopmelils in the case, is going right
along with bis grand jury investiga
tion, hug the uport and co-operation
of the attorney general, who says
Whitman's work, after the governor
ordered the cuse closed, has brought
about the certainty of Brandt's re
lease.
Detective Wooldridge appeared be
fore the grand Jury and Is said to have
confessed that much of the report on
Brandt's past that be signed had not
been learned by him. Ho sought to
explain it by saying he had received
hln, Information from employment
agencies, ..but the managors of the
places named by Wooldridge deny
they told him anything he incorpor
ated in his letter to McLaughlin,
This report was used to obtain the
Imposition of a 30 years' sentence on
Grandt for burglary.
No Clue to Automobile Bamlll.M.
New York, Feb. 16. Practically no
clues are In the hands of the police by
which to locate the three automobile
bandits who yesterday robbed two
bank messengers of 125,000 In the
heart of the downtown district. It is
believed the men are the same as
those who a week ago held up a clerk
on the Bowery, took J 1000 and es
caped In an automobile.
as Attorney
drop had scarcely fallen when a bailiff
from the Judge of the Superior court
f ushed Into the jail office and sum
moned Jailer Davles to court. The
command was not obeyed and Instead
the chief deputy sheriff telephoned the
judge that two had been- hanged and
the executions Would proceed unless
a formal stay was presented. No writ
was Issued and Sommerllng end
SchulU next hanged.
Counsel for the defense hotly de
nied that tho Insanity petition hud
merely been preterit, if to i'(eno delay.
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3 KILLED, 67 HURT
SteeXCqaches Prevent Appall
ing Death Toll at War
rior's Ridge.
Huntington, Pa., Feb. 16. Three
persons wore killed and 87 Were In
jured yesterday when the Pennsylva
nia Limited No. 2, eastbound. Jumped
the track at Warrior's Ridgo, a short
distance, west of this place, and nine
of the 11 cars rolled down an embank
inent to the edge of the Juniata river.
The killed: .
Harry A. Muss, New York city.
Mrs. J. F. Traveiiner. Cordova, Ills,
M. B. Hill (colored), matron on
train. New York.
Of the D2 persons who were given
attention at the local hospital, 20 were
able to leuve the institution last night
Of the 31 remaining, three are said to
be fatally injured. They ate Frank
Gardner, a cook; J. II. Jones, a porter,
and S. J. Wood, a dining car conduc
tor. These three men were! badly
scalded and bruised, the latter having
his head crushed.
Among those who escaped Injury
were Congressmen Mondell of Wyom
Ing and Sloane of Nebraska and Pen
sion Commissioner McBride, of Wash
ington.
SETS NEWS OF NOTABLE
War Department Informed of
How the Moros Were Dis
armed and Subdued.
Washington. Feb. 16. Philippine
malls received by the war department
today contain the first detailed ac
counts of what is regarded as a re
markable campaign conducted by
General Pershing against the Sulu
tribesmen, ending the day before
Christmas with the capture of the sa
cred mountain Bud Dago believed
by the Natives to be safe against at
tack. The campaign followed an order
that natives disarm. Many fled to the
hills, giving our troops much trouble.
After many sharp tights, the last bani
took refuge on the mountain. Gen
eral Pershing surrounded the place
und compelled the warriors to give
up their arms. The Americans had
only two wounded and less than a
dosen Moros were killed. ,
TIRED OF DEPENDENCE
ItUHian Cabinet Wants to Grow Cotton
u Ute Empire, Eliminating
American Product,
St. Petersburg. Feb. 16. The Rus
sian cabinet has prepared for sub
mission to the duma a bill calling for
an appropriation for the extension of
cotton growing In Russia and to re
place American agricultural machin
ery with that made In Russia. It
wishes to be Independent of American
cotton, which is now bought ip great
amount to this country.
1(1 PE1SY
WRECK
USE ISTflKEII UP
Argument Concluded in Hoi
land Case and Case Goes to
the Jury.
.lust before SuDer'or court took re-
fcess at noon today the case of John
Hill, colored, who is charged with
burglary, was tul'en up and the Jury
was impanelled lit readiness for trial
when court should convene in the aft
ernoon. A special venire of 25 men
had been summoned for the case and
tho jury was drawn .by Lawrence
Mitchell.
Hill is charged with feloniously en
tering the house of. W. A. Wild In the
night time on Febtruary 1, at which
time it is contended by the state that
the house was used as sleeping quar
ters and was actually occupied by
Henry Wild. '
The case was tried in Police court
shortly after the alleged occurrence
took place and Hill was bound to
Superior court.
The arguments in the case of W. J.
Holland, charged with killing James
Edwnrds of West Asiheville several
months ago at "mud cut," were con
cluded this morning and the case was
given to the Jury about 1 o'clock.
The Jury had not returned a verdict
when court took recess. This case
was taken up yesterday afternoon. It
has been reviewed from time to time
in The Gazette-News. ,
Instanter sci. fa's, were ordered fqr
the bondsmen in the cases ' against
Vernon Sherrill and Frank Calloway.
SPECIAL CLASSIFIED PAGE
TO BE STARTED IIDM,
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And Tuesday Morning the
Manager Will Begin Dis- "
tributing Those Dollars. ,
The. "Special ' Classiiled Page" . will
be started Monday and the ladies of
Asheville will be first to recolve the
new; one dollar bills that -art to be
given away. The manager of xhat
page will make his rounds ' Tuesday
morning, calling on each person whose
name appears in the advertisements
und those who have ; their name
marked showing they have read the
advertisement will be given a new,
crisp, one-dollar bill..
The ladies are first to have a show
for the money but the men will clso be
given a chance. You will have sev
eral hours to read tho page and only
one call will be made on the person
whose name appears. ; If you want the
dollar have your name marked when
the "special classified ad" man calls.
He will leave the office of the Gazette-
News between 8 and 10 o'clock every
week-day morning for 30 days.
TO CHOOSE HISTORIES
State Textbook. Cununisslon and Sub-
(JoiiiiiiIhsIoii Meets In Raleigh
On April 18.
Gazette-News Bureau,
The Hotel Raleigh.
Raleigh, . Feb. 16.
The text book commission and sub
commission will meet here on April
18 for final ofilelal action on all text
books In United States history. All
briefs, criticisms, etc., must be in the
hands of the commission by April 1
other textbooks' were adopted last
summer.
Floods In Portugal piHastrouH.
Lisbon, Feb. 16. Floods through
out Portugal have wrecked entire vil
lages. Houses and other buildings
have collapsed. Among the ruins dead
cattle lie in thousands. . The financial
los is estimated at ten million dollars.
The government Is sending supplies
to distressed people. .
Kays Texas Could Wlilp Mexico.
Washington. Feb. 16. "Texas alone
could whip Mexico In case of an at
tack." declared Berger, socialist con
gressman when the house resumed
consideration of the army bill today.
He said the United States needed no
standing army for purpose of defense.
Small Denies Report.
Washington, Feb. 16. Represents
tlve Small of North Carolina today
made denial of the report that he ever
used expert lecturers of the agricul
ture department In his district for po
litical purposes.
Chinese Republicans Celebrate.
Peking, Feb. 16. Tho proclamation
of the republic! Is being celebrated In
many cities today. .
MY CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT
If t could Select the Man I Would Name
Name ....
Address.... ...... ..
Cut tills ticket out and mail It to The UazcttcXewM. or band It In nt
tills office. If you do not rare to write your name on the ballot, i m
, can write It In m registry book provided at the on Ice. t
Resulta wlil lie mhllhed from time to time and til no i nc .1 t '
name of tlie voter be given out unless mi r jin-,te,.
Army's Adjutant General Sum
marily Removed from Otfice
on Charges of Insubordination.
RESULT OF FRICTION
IN LINE AND STAFF
Official Not Under Arrest But
Is Forbidden to Leave
Washington Trial
, Comes Soon.
Washington, Feb. 16. War depart
ment officials are busy today select
ing a court martial to try General ' -Ainsworth
on tvie charge of being dis
respectful to General Wood, chief of .
staff, and Secretary of War Stimson.
It will be Beveral days before the Is-
uaiito ui loimtu uruer creating mo
court, the trial .itself is expected to
consume much time. The evidence
will be principally documentary. In
cluding orders and reports issued
from the adjutant general's , ofHce. :
during the past four years. -: Alnsv
worth maintains an attitude of ab
solute reticence. The outcome may .
be a congressional Investigation of
the war department Officials profess
no concern, taking the ground that
the president as commander -in-chief
Is the only constitutional authority
authorized to deal with the issue.
Major General Frederick C. Ains
worth, adjutant general of the
rmy, was summarily removed
from his " position yesterday by
order of President Taft and will ap
pear before a court martial on charges
said to embrace conduct prejudicial
to good order and discipline, and in
subordination. His relief from duty-
was brought about in a letter to him-
from the secretary of war, which bris
tled with,, sharp criticisms. -.-
General AlnsworlVs removal is
considered to be the outcome of many
years of struggle-for control between
the line and the staff of the arniy.-
Majbr -General Leonard. Wood, chief
of staff, leads a contingent which be
lieves control should be delegated to
those- 'oflices actually in touch with
the fighting strength. Others, among'
whom General Ainsworth was a lead
ing figure, have contended . that su
pervision should be vested with riu
heart'i of powerful bureaus.
The suspension of General Ains
worth, the first that ever has occurred
in .he office of the adjutant general,
caused a profound sensation In army
and congressional circles. It was
made the subject of heated exchange
on the floor of tho house, where the
army appropriation bill was being de
bated. Neither General Ainsworth
nor other army or department officers
or officials would discuss It.
Friction Long Existed.
The action of the president wa
taken after several conferences with
Secretary Stimson. For some time
Hinro aA haan frlfflnti twlwopn flin
adjutant goneral's office and thut of
the chief of Btaff. Clashes were not
uncommon and there was almost a
total lack of co-operation. The bad
feeling culminated when General
Ainsworth, in reply to Secretary Stim
son s request for some statistical in-
formation, made an answer that tho '
secretary accepted as a reflection
upon his own integrity and upon that
of other high officers of . the depart
ment. Secretary Stimson's letter of suspen
sion took up incidents as far back a
October, 1903, In which the secretary
held the adjutant general had been
unduly caustic In dealing with his
superiors and In criticising them. Be
ginning with last December, the sec
retary refers to his order to the adju
tant general to submit to the chief of
staff of the army his opinion on a pro
posal to abolish the present muster
roll and to modify certain other rolls.
"In reply to this order," says the
secretary, "you submitted to the chief
of staff on February 9, a memorandum
dated February 3. In this paper you
Impugn the fairness and Intelligence
of the secretary of war, under whose
authority the proposition In question
was submitted to you. You also crit
icise and Impugn the military capac
ity and experience,' the Intelligence
and fair-mindedness, and, finally,
question the honor and good faith of
the officers of the goneral staff and
tho war college, whose plan you were
directed to discuss." ,
Mr. Stimson then quotes from Gen.
Atnsworth's memorandum to show
that the latter hud him In mind In
writing:
"In compliance with the second part
of the accompanying call the follow
ing statement Is submitted, although
It la recognized that It will be difficult
if not Impossible to formulate any
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