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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCIIES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast. RAIN AXD COLDER. VOL. XVII. NO. 44. ASHE7ILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 1, 1912. So PER COPY (i i PA V7 lA WW ire giiu; Federal Grand Jury Acts Fol lowing the Everglades In 'vestigation i'nthe Agri cultural Department. FINDS FALSE VOUCHERS MADE OR APPROVED Dismissed Officials Say Report Unfavorable to Land Pro- " v moters Resulted in the Charges. .Washington, April 1. Indictments growing out of the Florida everglades investigation In te department of ag- . rk'tilture were rturned today by a fed enl grand jury against C. G.Klliott, ,",Ailanson D. Morehouse. Kny II. Tcelo and Frank E. Singleton. The defend- anta are charged Individually with having approved or presented false Vouchors against the government. 1.-111.. unit U....kniD. halt, oaaa.toil -that charges of technical violation of the law against them and their dis missal from the department were brought about hy their opposition to the everglades land promoters. ' . HOSTS OF MEN LEAVING MINES Garfield Talks of Third Party l -f I ,1 MtTOVRClBU? James It. Garfield thinks a third party a possible solution of the Indus trial and ' political struggle now In progress. LllSTBIIl IS THE RESULT OF SUGAR TRUST SUIT New York Jury Fails to Con vict Parsons, Thomas and ' Other Directors. OUSTEH DECISIONS UPHELD State's Trust Regulating Laws . Found Constitutional by the Highest Court, v .ew I III IV , nt'lfl ;ihc j"'. " - limton B. Thomas, George H. Frazler and Arthur Donner, charged with vio lating the rrimimil clause of the Sher man antitrust law while directors of the American Sugar Refining com pany, reported n disagreement In the United States district court shortly be fore 1:50 o'clock' Sunday morning. The defendants were chare.ed with conspiracy In restraint of trade In closing the Pennsylvania Sugar Refin ing company's plant. After listening to a charge by Judge Hand which was regarded as favor able to the defense the Jurors retire;! ! shortly after noun and as their hours of deliberation went on It became evi dent they were having difficulty in reaching a verdict That the application of the statute of limitations was one of the points , i i i i. ... n..l.l..n urtii.n ; Oeillg I llllillUflTIl IJn.tllliC envem ..... .. shortly before 5 o'clock they returned to the court room and asked for en lightenment on the operation of the Ftntute. Judge Hand replied that It would be possible for the Jury to ac oult If they found the defendants had done nothing criminal since July 1, 1906. - Washington, April 1. The trust laws of Missouri were upheld "by the I'nlted States Supremo court today, whun the-coiint , i'un l lh -stive' action in ousting the Standard Oil company of Indiana and the Republic Oil company of New York from the tate and fining each $50,000. General Suspension in the An thracite and Central Compet itive Bituminous Coal " Fields." MOVE MAY DEVELOP ; :- INTO Gi'iEAT STRIKE Today 400,000 Men Are Affec tedShould Deadlock Re V suit 300,000 More Will V X Be Involved, Z STATE CHAIRMAN ELLER IS SHARPLY GRIT FIVE MEN ARE INJURED N WRECK ON THE Nil) Interview Favoring Wilson as Against Other Candidates Is Deprecated. Scores of thousands of coal miners quit work today la the 'anthracite fields of Pennsylvania and in the cen tral "competitive field" of the bitum inous part, of the Industry. Officially the movement Is a "suspension" of work. 'Whether It will develop Into a wide-spread strike depends on the outcome f Voting in Minion ranks and conferences between men aqd employers within the next 10 da,ys. The. anthracite men are more nppfc beiislve than the bituminous miners us to the ultimate' outcome. This 1s due to the fact that there Is no defi nite agreement Immediately In sight for the hard coal men, whereas the bituminous conference ut Cleveland adjourned after the men's represen tatives had nbundoned practically all (heir demands except for Increased wages and on this point modified their terms considerably. i:pnn the outcome of voting In the "central competitive field" composing Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi nois, will depend the basis for a new wage scale In other sections where the present wuge agreements do not expire until May 1 or later. Southern and southwestern mines are affected by this status of affairs. Today 400, 0(10 men ure directly aferted. Some 300,0011 more scattered throughout t!i,v coal districts of the country, are w.it'.-h't'4tat Mifum. ... -i' ' ' "Xo Work In Anthracite KleliK Philadelphia, April 1. There was a complete shutdown throughout the hnrd coal regions today. A hundred and seventy-five thousand men are idle.' Union leaders nre confident of a complete suspension until a new agreement Is made by men and opera tors, Wage Ixkm Sixty Millions. Undon. April 1. Hlnce the begin ning of the coal strike of a million miners on March 1 in Great Britain, It Is estimated the loss In wages alone aggregates sixty million dollars. The majority of the miners are anxiously awaiting complete returns of the bal lot being taken In the coal districts on the question whether they shall re- Fume work. Thus far, of 43.000 votes counted. 25,000 hove declared for resumption of work. SEHATOR TAYLOR G LAI f.l ED BY D EAT H Double Header Freight Strikes a Boulder Both Engineers ; May Die. ' Norfolk, April 1. When a ilouhle hnarfr freight on the Norfolk & Western struck a boulder near AVvthevllle today five men wera seri ously Injured. The engines were overturned and nine cars were oiicn Oazette-News Uureau, Wyatt Building. Washington, April 1. ( A- F. Sums, attorney, of Winston Salem, who Is here on business, suld yesterday that he and the people of his section of the state were surprised to read tho Interview which State Chairman Eller gave out a few davs ago. In which Mr. Eller Is quoted as saying that neither Clark, Underwood nor Harmon would get a delegate In the state, but that the entire 24 dele gates would cast their vote for Wilson. "Th rank and file of North Caro lina democrats are Irvheurty sympathy and support of Oscar Underwood for the presidency, In spite of the fait that the sMte chairman and the demo cratic national committee seem to have determined to deliver the state to Prof. Wilson," suld Mr. Sains. ''Mr. Eller's Interview comes ns a distinct shock' to the people of Wln- ston-Sulem In view of the fact thnt he has heretofore regarded It as unwise ond Improper .for him as state chair man to use the prestige and Influence I of his official position to'further the candidacy of any candidate much less Hopeful of Early- RHtlenient. New York, April 1. The anthracite coal operators believe that the suspen sion of work In the hard coat fields which went Into effect today, will not continue long and that -the coming meeting of the operators' committee and representatives of the miners on April 10 In Philadelphia will bring a basis of settlement. Shock) J.om Long Delayed Op- jon ratal to JNOtea Temiesseean. V slijnglon, April 1. Thousands of ' eiuiesseaiHc 'fire expected to pay homage to th lute Senator Robert Lave Taylor at the state capltnl at Nashville Wcilocsday. Taylor's fam-f ily and committees of both houses of congress wljf . 'company the body in a special cur on n train leaving here tonight, " Th ;nrty arrives at Nash ville at o'clock Wednesday morn ing and Hie body will he taken H the state house un lie In state until 8 oi-; 9 o'clock'-piri. Then the ports leaves for Kiioiville where exercises and burial fnkes place Thursday morning. ' ' " ' ''i Because' of Senator Taylor's death yesterday, thu Senate agreed to ad journ immediately after convening at 2 o'clock I hi afternoon. This hud Ihe effect of postponing the installa tion of four si Jin tors from the new states of New Afexlco and Arhiona. ". Robert Love Baylor, senior United States senator from Tennessee "Fid dling Bob'; to all the south d.led here yesterday,, limit. e to , withstand the shock of an operation for gallstones, performed lust Thursday. , , Kurly In the -inorning the senator began to fall to respond to stimulants. Mrs. Taylor, worn out by a day and night vigil, hail ' gone to. her apart ments. At 3 o'clock In the morning the senator began to sink so rapidly that she' was sent for. She was at his side when Ihe end fame at :40 o'clock.' - ; "Fiddling Bob Taylor, so known because he played his way Into the hearts of his audiences, carrying his violin wherever be campaigned, was 1 years t,M. He; Was born at Happy Valley, In eastern Tennessee, but spent most of his life l Nashville, practic ing law. He belonged to an ofTice holdlng family.' His father Was a rep resentative in congress and commis sioner of Indian affairs, and an uncle was In the Confederate senate. Once pension agent at , Knoxvllle, thrice govern it l, '.Tennessee, from a tor Taylor forgad his way to the na tional house of representatives from the same congressional district that had previously sent his father to con gress and later his brother, Alfred A. Taylor, whom he substantially defeat ed for governor. ' Senator Taylor was a Cleveland democrat. He had served In the sen ate since January, 1907, his principal activity being In behalf of a com parative system 'Of good roads and the bikes-tn-the-gulf deep water way project. . Senator Taylor Is survived by his widow, a son, David Taylor, and three married daughters In Tennessee. He was stricken March IS at the union -tat Ion as he was about to board train for North Carolina. An operation for their removal was urged . but he flatly refused to sub mit to the knife. Meantime the poison was diffused in his system and he finally acquiesced, but to the deluy his death Is attributed. . Bloodhounds Put on Trail oj the Carroll Fugitives Dogs Which Fastened Guilt on Beattie Used to Run Down Allen and Edwards Men Forced to Abandon Food and , Blankets When Surprised. I'll I ed.- Knglneers Robert Mason or nris-. ,k otnpr demcratB ,,( the highest tol and Sam Pelllt ot Koanour ""-',,,,, badly scalded and may die. OXFORD WINS RACE - KIiiImIios Eour Ieiigilis Ahead ramlHldge hi Elgiil-OwMl nam a Putney. It is mv opinion that North Caro Una will cast her 24 votes for Mr. ITnderwood at Baltimore, that he will the nomination and will be ' elected In November, because he Is the best fitted man for the presidency, yei FORT WORTH IS PLACED ON TRIAL Rev. Frank Norris in Court Faces Charges of Arson and Perjury. mentioned. He has the confidence The court room was crowded: Fort Worth, Tex., April 1a Rev. 3. Frank Norris, pastor of the First Baptist church, went on trial today, Two brothers are living, A. accused of arson and perjury. The charges followed sensational "purity' campaign In which the minister fig ureil for several years. A grand Jury charged the minister with writing with setting fire to his own church, thrnctenlng letters, to himself and Tutney. Kngland. April 1. Oxford won the eight-oared race with Cam bridge, from Putney to Mort uise io- of the entire country, anu can carry New York, New Jersey. Ohio, Indiana and other doubtful states, that must be carrb-d In order to elect a oemo- How soutnern oem- ... . i...iu-u..n ti.a twik crews 1 1, nroMinpm. ..':' , .. ' i o a.A winv .w..iu u-iin twllv in progres and riuuroay rraun ,."-. - - to the swamping of both shells. pure democracy can oppose Mr. Un- Thls was the sixty-ninth contest be- .lerwood la an attack upon the uemo tween Oxford and Cambridge crews, cnitlc record In the house of repre Tbe Oxford crew finished six lengths sentatlves. whUh Is the only hope ot nhfd of their rivals. Oxford's time (he democracy In 112." for the entire four miles and a quar ter was 22 minutes and five secunds. Last night the First Baptist church members refused to accept Mr. Nor ris' resignation from the pastorate, fla Relatives Hiiro. With the exception of his own home, there Is probably no place In the whole country where more regret is felt at the death of Senator Robert Love Taylor then at Ashevllle and In Buncombe county. There was a feel Ing here that "Governor" Taylor was one of the home folks; and In fact, he was in a manner. His first wife was a native of this county, muny relatives of the Taylor reside here and his brother, Nat Taylor, a photographer, lived here until his death a few years ago. Senator Taylor Wa married to Miss Sallle Kalrd. a daughter of A. K Balrd of this county, in the year 1877 Miss Balrd was a sister of Mrs. W. E. Weaver of Weavervllle. and Mrs. Mol He Ward ot Greensboro, also Mrs. IK B. Carter and Mrs. M. 8. Howell of this city, both of whom are now dead He was the son of N4it. W. Taylor, noted Methodist preacher and orator, and his mother wa sister of win don C, Haynea, The senator wa born near Ellzabethton. Tenn., on the large farm of hi father, "Happy- Valley. H. Taylor and James Taylor. Of hi first marriage five children were born, two sons and three daugh ters. He wa married three times, The surviving widow waa Mis Mayme St. John of Bristol Senator Taylor was related to the Loves of Haywood and to the Ifllliards and Cocke of Ashevllle.' He visited Ashevllle many times. ' MICHIGAN ELECTION .irl Oniloii in Ixsue In 25 Counties Many Cities are t'loHli)g Officers. Detroit, April 1. Twenty-five Mich igan counties today are voting on lo ca ptlon Iroie and manyclt hojiilng reKiibir-. lection. Itapids nn. I Kiilamazno luavnr. of t tic cminti I ,r . It j I , i i. -ii . is ore ihy i t. s are ('.r.tinl ting fur IS AWARDED $26,000 '. . People's Tobacco Company U fJlvcfi Judgment Against the Trust nt "Sew Orb-mis. Nrw Orleans, April . Total dam ages of 121. Ofo wero awarded awnlnHt tin. American Tub i eonipniiy by a jury in the I'liltcd Suites Iii.itrlct i-diiit lo.l.iy In an nntl-lrust suit 1-1 oulit l v the 1'i'iililc's Tobacco cum- I ,v ,.r y. w oi-liiiiis for alb-eed fon- y l i .it .il".V CiiO.-lill"'ll. i POWER AND LIGHT CO. 6FFICERS ARE CHOSEN 13 v I v in) H - i - ! f ii. i.liv , . .... 1 ' p:vsrs3--.'v. L-fc ' - fc MRS. FLOfD AULE.N. il . . 1' : ?! H. - H. LUCAS. Hlllsville, Va April 1. With blood-, ounds on the trail of Sidna Allen and Wesley Kdwards, two. clunsmen being u n ted to answer for tho Carroll county assassinations, searchers today believed a report of capture would be made soon. Hounds belonging to the state and used In the Beattlo case ere taken by rail to Mount Airy, N. nnd were brought northward on he Hlllsville road to the Sugar Loaf ountain and Buzzard's Roost section. Detectives have the section well pa trolled, especially at Blizzard's Roost, near where Sidna. Allen yesterday held p XjiFayetW) Ayres and threatened to Empty handed but close on t lie trail the posses relumed to town ' for a hort time yesterday and then went off n the mountains again. Of the eight iiitluws who shot up Carroll court- ouse and murdered five people, they re the only ones not now in Jul! waiting trial, Saturday Allen and dwards found the posse so close that they fled their refuge without their blar.kets or food. Down on the south side of the nountaln near Buzzard's Roost there Is a cave from which the outlaws fled leaving their tracks that told of long caps of hurried flight. The ground as moist and the posse twtttfuseil heir trull wllh that of two other out- BRIEF 81 IS FILED Say Question in Minnesota Case Is Whether Railroad , Rights Shall Supersede ' State Rights. RESIST ENCROACHMENT Z. OF FEDERAL POWER Decare Comonweaths Must. Under the Constitution, Be Permitted to Regujate In terstate Commerce. CLAUDE AUM. laws presumably a moonshiner and an escaped murderer from North Car olina, who are known to be in the mountains. , . i.'iaude una Krlel Allen Who gave up without a tight last week were driven over to the nearest railroad station yesterday and taken to Roa noke for safe-keeping. Neither had been In u parlor cur before and en joyed the triy. Authorities reported their safe arrival at Roanoke and said their meeting with kinsmen there al ready charged , with the- courthouse shooting was unemotional. T.4.,. .MoimlalmH-r, Moc AVo -Mount Airy, April 1. Sidna Alien was seen near here yesterday morning. He was encountered by Lafayette Ayres, a mountaineer resident, who Was coming down a trail when he met Allen going up, Allen covered Ayers with a shot gun and declared that he would shoot him. When Ayre begged for his lif and denied any participa tion in tho hunt, Allen lowered his gun and pursued his way up into the mountains. The hold-up oocurred near the Buz zard s unost section, where under a sheltered rock Allen Is supposed to have slept. Ayers has been furnishing information to the detectives who are searching for the outlaws. ATENT MONOPOLY CASE REHEARING IS REPUBLICAN SENATOR Government Joins in Appeal With Request for Permis sion to Intervene! ' . Washington. -April 1.-The defeat ed 'partie to the "patent monopoly case, recently decided, 4 to S, by the I'nlted States Supreme court, 4oday asked the court to rehcor the issue before a," full bench. The' United State government Joined in me ap peal with request for a permission to intervene because the case, is regard ed a or the greatest pulrtlfi Import ance and Involves the enforcement of the Sherman anti-trust law.', f. MAY SUCCEED TAYLOR Newell Sanders of Chattanooga Possible Appointee of Gov. Hooper. ' WOMAN, SET FREE Nashville. April 1. For the first time since the reconstruction period. Tennessee may. have a republican rep resentative in the United State senate. Pending the legislature' meeting next January, the seat made -vacant 'by Senator Taylor's death will ,be tilled by an appointee of Governor Hooper. republican. Should he .name a republican, it is said Newell Sanders of Chattanooga chairman of the republican state exec utive committee, would be the fore most candidate. Many . other are mentioned. Waa Convicted of Murder lit r0 as Result of Iiirantlcldc Another Slayer Pardoned. The formal transfer of the proper ties and Interests of the Ashevllle Klectrlc company to the Ashevllle Power and Light company look place loilay, and n't a meeting of the dlrec tors in New York at noon the fol lowing officer, Col. Charles E. John nfin of Raleigh was elected president of the new company. H. W. Plum mcr was chosen as vice president and general manager and Julius C. Mar tin os assistant treasurer. It Is learned lrr. ' 'The directors are Raleigh men and fcur reside In New York, If Is stuteil. The AKhevllle Mli-ctrlc company will lie disul eil by due process of l,w, I'M nMiuntichA b:i inn il.-vtilvcil OER lILTffiEO: TO KILLED; 3 WED Explosion at Laflin-Rand Plant - at Wayne, N. J., Wrecks Property. Gazette-New Bureau. The Hotel Raleigh, " Raleigh, April 1. In a list of .pardons given out today were the names of two women, one of whom. Carrie McAnnally. was sent up from Surry county In 190 for1 10 year for murder In Wie second degrea, the crime being Infanticide. She wa a girl of 14 year. William Headen, convicted In Gull ford county In 1803 of murder In the necond degree and sentenced to 20 veara was pardoned. The sentence was too severe, counsel for the prose cutlon stated. The usuol reasons are assigned by the governor for the par dons. ' Little Falls, N. J., . April 1. The LaHln-Hniid Powder mills at Wasne, five miles west of here, blew up at 8 o ciilck this morning. Two men were killed and three Injured. 'I'll ili-liiiinllun shock the district fur mile nriiut.il. TIh-mm lujilitiiit-' In tlitl pi. nil TAKEN TO RALEIGH Rockingham Cimiity Otllcer Wounded by Lineman Is Placed In Iliwplt . al There. CHICAGO CARPENTERS STRIKE FOR MORE PAY Building Operation Involving an Kx H'liillture of SO Millions Halted hy Wage War. Chicago, April 1. Building opera tion Involving an expendltur-j of over i.'IO, 000,000 was affected by a strike today of 14,000 carpenters, who are demanding 23 cents an hour, an In crease of G cents. The board of county commissioner of Buncombe county met In regular monthly suasion this morning. The board ha bzeen occupied the entire lay with matter of a routine natura. Washington, April 1. -Their bulk arid Importance rank the group of slate rate cases taken up for consid- , eration. today by the Supreme court as the biggest case to eome before that tribunal this term. State rate laws and orders In Mis souri, Kentucky, WeBt Virginia, Ore gon, Minnesota, Arkansas, and Ohio stand or fall by the decision of the court. State rate orders In practi cally every state of the union will be swept out of existence If the court finds that the orders and laws now In question burden interstate com merce. . ; The right of a sovereign state to regulate business, including railroads, within its borders was the burden ot a' brief which Governors Harmon of Ohio, Hadley of Missouri and Aldrich of Nebraska were permitted to file In the Supreme court today as friends of the court. The plea of the governors, all of whom have been active In railroad legislation and litigation, was In the appeal from ' United. States Circuit , Judge Walter Sanborn' decision in the Minnesota railroad rate case involving the right of a state to regulate com- s merce within its borders. The three governors were empower. ed to act as a committee on slate rights at the conference of governors t ijti u,Jake:-.?. Li Utt September.-' and were then authorized to seek to Intervene In the Minnesota rate race. The controversy In the courts ac cording to the brief which was draft ed by Governor Harn n and which was immediately filed with the clerk of the court, Involved no conflict be tween the states and the federal au thority but the more extraordinary ciuestion of whether railroad rights supercede and dominate state rights. The decision of Judge Sanborn, the brief contends, vtook the power of states to regulate railroads from the ' states and left the railroad free to charge whatever rates they please In. their traffic within the states. He took the stand that If a state cannot regulate the railroad roads within Its borders then these wus no power to regulate them at all. In conclusion the governor discuss ed the broad question of state, and interstate commerce und said: Broad Questions Discussed. - "In this, as In all other cases where Inconvenience arise from the division ' ot powers between state and nation, the only safe and sure reliance Is In the intelligence, resourcefulness, pa tience and common Interest of the American people. They will adjust their business to conditions which re- ' suit from the form of government they have themelve adopted and re quire their agents In each branch of W to co-operate ; harmoniously pnd heartily. "Only the short sighted, and they are- relatively few, will believe that commerce. among the state can gain any real or lasting advantage at the expense of local commerce, or that' local commerce can thrive long, if at all, from , Interference with general -commerce, even though, by the Indi rectness of Its effect, such interfer ence may escape the condemnation of the law. "The fourteenth amendment pro- tect the right of carriers from Inva sion under the guise of regulation by either state or nation. It Is not alway easy to find the line which separates the domain of public authority from that of private right. But this I not so hard a it would be to trace the . Indirect effect of regulation by tha states and by congress back and forth across the boundary of their respective Jurisdiction. The boundary Itself Is plainly marked. We who have to do with administering the Judicial power. have in especial charge the covenant of the Union and our plain duty 1 to see that thl boundary Is respected,. leaving further responsibility to the people of the country and the agen cies they have created for the regula tion of commerce, slats and Inter state." . Judge Sanborn's Division. The appenled case grew out of that -of Bhepard versu Simpson In which the Minnesota railroad rate regula tions, particularly the two cents a mile (Continued on pag six.) Oaxette-New Rureau,- The Hotel Raleigh, . Raleigh, April 1, Deputy She", iff Curl '. Hlnes, who was brought here with a bullet in the neck as n result of a general attack of linemen on olllccr of Rock ingham count)', was rrpiiitcd as rest inir well today ufler all operation and UY C20IC3 f OR PRESIDENT It I could Select til MM I Toald Nana . . . - - ar- Kama. Addreaa.... Cut thl ticket out aad mall It to Tt GaxetteNew. or hand II In at thl office. It yon do not rare to write your name on the ballot, you ran write It In a reentry book provided at the offh-a. Ilctiulta will be publiHlied front, time to time arid In no rase will the name of the voter be r'en ami anli-M so refueled. will recover.
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