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TOE ASSOCIATED PRESS . DISPATCHES fff Jiff LAST EDITION , 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast. OCCASIONAL SHOWERS. VOL. XVII, NO. 67. ASHEVILLE, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 1912. 3c PER COPY s COL ROOSEVELT PRIMARIES TODAY E UTIi 3; h mm REPUB LI C A 00 GREAMERY DOOMED Lit DESTROYED BY FIR Ice Barrier Stretched Its Frig id Length in the Way of ' Those Hurrying to Rescue. UNKNOWN SCHOONER ALMOST IN HAIL Capt. Moore of Mount Temple Saw This Vessel Leaving The Scene of the Tragedy. , , Washington, April 27. With two Bteumcrti only a short distance away and a schooner slipping: through the darkness almost within hail, the great liner Titanic went to her end oft the grnnd banks without any hope of suc cor. This was the testimony today of Capt. James II. Moore of the steam ship Mount Temple before the senate committee Investigating the tragedy. Ico was the barrier that stretched Us frigid length In the way of those mining iu uiu itocue ill ruBpoiiBtt iu the Tltanlc's distress calls. The Mount Temple Intercepted the Tltanlc's calls, paid Captain Moore, and he Imme diately turned his ship's course toward the crippled liner. On his way he saw the lights of a schooner within a few miles of the scene of the tragedy and coining from that direction. When day broke to disclose the great tield ahead the Mount Temple dls- covered it tramp steamer close by. The identity cf neither was fixed. The captain read n long list of messages from the Titanic Intercepted by the Mount Temple's operator. It was vir tually a complete record of the wire less appeals sent out by the doomed " vessel. Senator Smith complimented ; the wltneKS for his thoughtfulness In bringing It. "At 12:30 a. m..' April 15", Captain More said, "I was awakened by a stew ard with a message from the oiieratnr my. shi(. AvhKh said the .Titanic '. ..T..1- ..,m a T' V. 1". Iniuien.fi . Here Is ths message; '."Titanlo s-nd-' . fng C. W. V.', requires assistance. Po- Hltlnn 11.44 north 50.24. west come at once, Iceberg.' '" "At the time you got the Tltanlc's message hew far distance did you fig ure the vessel was from you?" "About 4 9 miles," was the answer. Senator Smith asked what speed the Mount Temple made toward the Ti tanic. Captain raid about 11 knots. "About 3 a. m we ran into our first Ice," the captain continued. "At 3:25 o'clock, ship's time, we had to stop. At that time we figured we were about ' 14 miles distant from where the Ti tautlc slgnulled." ' . Another delay was occasioned to the Mount Temple by a small schooner, the green light of which halted the Mount Temple. The Cap lain got range of the white headlights Then they disappeared. "How much nearer the Titanic was the schooner than you?" he was ask ed. "The schooner couldn't have been morn than a mile or a mile and a ' half from me." he replied. . The captain proceded slowly on his course toward the Titanic. The Schoon er he saw coming from the Tltanlc's direction was moving at about two Vnnta Whan he HW her 01 3 L 111. lio was 12 miles from the Titanic. Ahmit 6:30 or 6 o'clof k , the Mount . Temple ran Into Ice so thick that she was i -red to turn back. The last of seen of the strange steamer was 9 . o'clock Mondny. when both were try ing to avoid Ice packs. The Ice pack, ,il,l Dia witness consisted of a Held . of Ice and bergs. , . "I counted between forty and fifty bergs the greatest being between 100 and 200 feet high" he suld. Cataln Moofe told of arriving at the ,' scene of the Tltanlc's burial about 4:30 oVlook In the morning, two hours after the liner went down. "I saw no-wreckage and no bodies,' he said, "there was nothing but Ice and the tramp steamer. Ice wag so 'thick I was compelled to hoist men to the mast-heads to ceek a lane out of , the field.- Knglnmiun' Sensational Story, All ablaze with lights from her salons and cabins, the Titanic dashed full speed ahead to her destruction, ac cording to Krnest Cllll, a donkey en ' glnemen on the steamship California!!, who testified yesterday before the son ate committee investigating the dis aster. He said that Captain Stanley Lord, of the Callfornlan, refused later to go to the aid of the Titanic, the rockets from hlch could be plainly Keen. This Captain I.ord denied, but both he and his wireless operutor ac knowledred. to. having seen rockets Their Bhlp, the? said, was fast !n the Ice. Clll submitted an affidavit to ithe committee and when sworn and put on the stHiid stuck to his charges against the cm. tain of the Callfornlan. H Bald ha was standing on the deck late Sunday night when he sighted a great nhlri sweeping along at top speed about ten miles off. He did not know It was the Tllanlc, but he made out readily that It was not a freighter or a smiili -ivftA because of the man ner in which' tl was llliimtri?,d. . Dlstro Rocket Ylxllile. Some time later he saw distress rockets nn Hie horizon. He says the captain "ad apprised of .these signals. tint in,! ! p.-. i Uni t to Ret up steam t u. -I on p:iKe S) Predominance of Activity in Favor of Delegates for Col. , Roosevelt. This afternoon and tonight the re publicans of Buncombe county have a chance In the precinct primaries of the county to make : known their preferences for a presidential nom inee. According to the results of these primaries the delegates to the county convention to be held here on May 4 will be Instructed as to wheth er the delegates to the state conven tion shall cast their ballots for Cob Theodore. Hoosevelt or President Taft The meetinns In the different pre cincts are held at different hours dur ing the afternoon and tonight. In the country precincts the hour varies from 2 to 5 o'clock, in West Asheville it will be held at 7:30 o'clock and in the. city S o'clock has been named as the time. On account of the early hour set for the country meetings it will probably be possible to tell early to night just how the county stands in the matter. The balloting in the city will be done at or near the places where the voting In regular elections take place. There Is a good deal of campaign ing and "politiclng" being done to day by both sides hut the predom inance of activit) seems to be for the colonel as It has been all along. The Taft people arc doing a good deal of work for their favorite but In a more or less pussyfooted fashion. The sup porters of Col. Roosevelt are follow ing no such method, however, and they are doing all in their power to turn the tide of tho vote for the ex president and from tho general Indi cations it seems that they will be suc cessful. The republicans of Beaverdam pre cinct held a meeting this nfternoon at the school house at Grace. F. II. Kevls nerving as chairman and W. J. Gentry as secretary. The meeting, which was well attended, instructed for Roose velt, 1'reFiilcnt Taft not receiving a votes. The delegates were: Rev. J. M. Wclborn. 1'". II. Revls, J. A. Masters, .1. N. Garland and Dr. M..R. Glenn. . A telephone message from Ivy No. 1 precinct says the mooting Instructed solidly for Roosevelt, 42 votes being cast. J. N.. Morgan was chairman, L G. Farmer secretary. Ivy No. 1 reports about SO , men prevent all tor .R.QOc.velt...Tti. ijne delegates were so Instructed. , VESSEL BEARING 1 Mackay-Bennett Now Has 189 of the Corpses Pick- -v ed Up. Halifax, April 27. Documents giv ing viriucis 01 acciucinai ui were prepared In readiness for the coroner s Jury which win inspect me bodies of the Titanlo dead, now on the way here aboard the Cableship Mackay-Bennett. Only friends anu relatives presenting proper cre dentials will be allowed in the dock. CofTins containing the bodies will not be opened un tel they reach the morgue. A full description of unclaimed bodies will he nuhllshed. The Mackav-Hennetl Will arrive Mondav. according to a wireless re celved from the steamship today. 1 unn flR follows: Bodies of Astor and Straus aboard. Due MondaV with 188 bodies. As 205 bodies were picked up, a is assumed 16 were so mutllatea mat burial at sea was necessary. MRS. REAGAN'S FUNERAL i. ii r the Home and at tne Grave Were Conducted ny kcv. W. K. I'oovcjr. - The remains of Mrs. J. Roy Reagan urhfl fill! d early yesterday morning at tho Meriwether hospital of exhaus tion, following an operation last Sun day were buried this afternoon at 2 vi.'..k at Weavervllle. The funeral services at tho house, 44 Charlotte trcet. Asheville, were conducted at ii -so o'clock bv Rev. W. E. Poovey, pastor of the North Asheville Motho dlst church, and the services were concluded at the grave. The funeral party of friends and relatives left the cltv for Weavervllle at 1 o'clock. The grave where the interment was made was surrounded by a large number of friends and relatives of the deceased who gathered to pay their last respects to one who hud heen so greatly loved and respected during her life. The pall bearers were Ouv Weaver. J. E. Swain. Grady Reagan. Fred Reeves, Ernest Weaver and Ernest Reagan. The casket and grave were banked with a profusion of beautiful floral trltiutcs. ANDREWS TO PEN Columbus. O., April 27. State Sen tor L. R. Andrews, convicted of ac editing a bribe lor his senatorial vote, was sentenced today to nln months In the penitentiary. , SUPERIOR WINDSWEPT fault Hte. Murle. April 27. A 60- mile gale.' accompanied by snow and cruiser Bremen. She was then In lat frrcxing temperature,, swept Iikehtude 3C north, longitude 5 west Superior lust nlghL Anxiety K Xdt ' The Augsburg left New York Febru I ! r many vessels. ' ... ury i for Durbar, New Tork Herald and The Gazette-News. MY BROfHERS, THE RICH AND LYNCH NEGRO WHO TRIED 10 REM II COLONY Bullet-Riddled Body Found in River Near Jackson, Georgia. Jackson, Ga, April 27. With the finding of the body of Henry Ether idire. a negro, in Towaliga river to day, facts regarding the lynching of the black became known, ine oouy was riddled with bullets and his arms nnd legs had been tied together. A mob went to Etherldge s home at night and, calling him out, began flr- ng. It is said Etherldge was active in securing recruits for a proposed Afrl can colony and that this was the basis for the lynching. HABEAS CORPUS HEARING BEGUN TODAY New Rochclle, N. Y., April 27. The fourth attempt to liberate Harry K Thaw from Matteawan, where he was Imprisoned six years ago for slaying Stanford White, was made today be fore Justice Keogh. Thaw was pres ent durii.t the' argument of tho habeus corpus writ. WHISKEY OUTPUT CUT Kentucky nistllliiii Have Been Making Spirits In Excess of the Demand. . 1oulsvllle, Oct. 27. Overproduction of Kentucky whiskey is feared by dis tillers and a curtallmont, It was today agreed, is Imperative. Ninety million gallons have been produced In the last two years. This Is over 20,000,000 gallons In excess of the demand. German Steamer Long MIxHlng. Norfolk, Va., April 27. The steam er Caledonia of the Hamburg-Ameri can line, which Just reached this port, has received orders to take on bunker coal and return to sea to search for the German steamer Augsburg, miss ing since February. The Augsburg was last reported by tne uerman THE POOR HAVE DIED TOGETHER; WHY CAN'T THEY LIVE TOGETHER ? 261 Delegates for T, R.;Taft Given 103 Statement on Republican Situation Issued by Dixon Roose velt Wins in Kansas and Missouri Delegates Forsak ing Taft in New York. Gazette-News Bureau. Wyatt Building. Washington, April 27. The following statement Is given out nt Roosevelt headquarters today: Six hundred and seventy-six dele- dales to the national"" republican con vention have been elected to dute. Of these 201 are for Roosevelt, 103 for Taft, ten for Cummins, 38 for LaFol- lette, 120 are unlnstructed, Including 8S from New York, and contests are pending In the cases of the remaining 154. - . . Henry J. Allen, chairman of the Kansas Roosevelt committee tele graph last night that 450 delegates be ing necessary to control the Kansas state convention. Roosevelt now has 489 and Taft has 92, Insuring four Roosevelt delegates at large. Roose velt will get all the Kansas delegates except the two from the first district, which have been elected. Governor Hadle.y of Missouri tele graphs that Roosevelt forces control! ed the Missouri state convention. In structing 8 Roosevelt delegates, thus giving Roosevelt 24 or 26 instructed ARBITRATION BOARD TO TAKE UP DISPUTE But CoimulN.Hlnncr Nelll and .Judge KiiapiM- Are Making I'rogrrxs III Kullroad Mediation, New York, April 27. Whilo the dis pute between locomotive enginoers and B0 eastern railroads over the wage question will ultimately be referred to an arbitration board. It Is said In well Informed circles ' that Commis sioner Nelll and Judge Knapp believe their conferences with the disputants will not prove unproductive. They de ellne to reveulthe present status of the negotiation. Tsft at Grant's Birthday pinner. Philadelphia; Pa.,' April 27. Pres ident Taft will be the guest of honor at a dinner tonight by the Union league In commemoration of the nine teeiith birthday anniversary of Gen oral X'lysses fi. Grant. The president leaves for Washington 8t midnight. j are Claimed to date.- Nledringhaus has been elect ed national committeeman. Roosevelt headquarters In New York City telegraphed last night that the first actual break among tne so-canea tinrnes-Taft delegates occurred yes lorHnv. when Jacob I HoUman of Brooklyn declared- that his dlstric was overwhelmingly in favor of Roos evelt and that he Intended to be guided at the national convention ny thnt sentiment. Further that It was admitted by Taft leaders in New York to be the beginning of tha end of the so-called Taft delegation. New York local politicians are placing even more importance on the statement yesterday of Charles H. Devoy, who, witn com mlssioner Jacob LJvingston, was re sponsible for the return to political life of Timothy U Woodrun. uevoy bluntly and emphatically Btates that the recent primaries In New York city amounted to nothing. It was said that William Barnes, who had been claim ing to control a majority of the New York delegates for Taft, had become so alarmed that he Is trying to hold the delegation together by suggesting that they get back of Frank 8. Black the former reactionary governor of New York. SAW "PHANTOM" VESSEL Another Titanic Survivor Tells of the bliip That Passed In the Night. New Orleans, April 27. A. Omant, member of the New oriean cotton exchange, one of the survivor of the Titanic, arrived here toda Omant said that In a lifeboat hs plain ly saw the lights of a vessel passing within five miles of the disaster. Omant said he was one of the play ers In the bridge game which con tlnued long after tho collision. DELAWARE PRIMARIES Delegates are Being Klcetod to Hie IH-mocratlf Convention In Dover Next Tuesday. Wilmington, Del., April 27. Prima rles are being held throughout the state today to elect delegates to the democratic convention at Dover Tues day whfm six delegate to the national convention will be chosen. Building and Contents Worth $2000, $1500 Insurance Origin Unknown. ' Tho Curtis ' liynum creamers' at Fletcher was totally destroyed this morning by fire which started about G30 o'clock. The machinery was In one end of an old mill house, and house and contents were worth about 12000. Insurance to the amount of $1500 was carried. , All is speculation as to the origin of the fire, but the circumstances seem to indicate that It was caused by a rat and a match. Employes of the cream cry coming in to do the milking dis covered the flame issuing from the house. Hard work was required to prevent the spread of the fire to the cattle barn and other property, but he efforts of Mr. Bynum and the em ployes, who rendered faithful and he roic assistance, saved all except the ouse and creamery. , FORGOING TO REUNION t Is Expectei Large Number From This Section Will Attend the Event. The regular monthly meeting of Zeb Vance camp of Confederate vet erans was held this morning at 11:30 'clock in Confederate hall at the court house and was well attended. The meeting was taken up principal ly in discussions of the arrangements that have been made for the veterans o go to Macon for the annual reunion this year and nearly all present ex pressed their Intention of going. District . Passenger Agent J. H. Wood was present and told of the Tangemenls that have been made by the Southern railway for the ae- ommodation of veterans from this section. Col. J. M. Hay had ordered three cars and Mr. Wood stated this morning that -he would .put on an other extra in order to furnish suffi cient accommodations for all who might wish to attend. In addition to the passenger coach es there will be one baggage car. and two of the coaches will be parked on the yard of the Asheville station Sun- ay night, May f. so that all who may wish to may g'i there and spend the night, thus saving them the trou ble of having to come In early Mon day morning or having to pay hotel bills for the night Col. Ray stated this morning that all the veterans from this .lde of the mountains will camp In tents while attending the reunion, the authorities there having offered to furnish floor ed tents, cots, pillows and other neces saries. Meals will also be furnished to those who ask for them. The special train carrying the vet erans will leave the city on the. morn ing of May 6 at 7:30 o'clock and will reach Macon at 8:30 that evening. The special rates offered for the vet erans may be taken advantage of by any who may wish to go and It is ex pected that there will be a large crowd going from this section. DISEASE IS FEARED IN FLOODED REGION Plngiin May Follow Drowning of Thousand of Head of Livestock In Mississippi Valley. New Orleans, April 26. Traveling 150 miles In a motor boat through the parishes of Richland, East Car roll and Madison yesterday, an Asso ciated Press correspondent sighted land only twice after leaving Delhi Twice the small' open boat came noar being swamped by high waves and unusually swift currents sweeping over the thousands of acres of inundated farm lands. Except at Tallulah, very few per sons are left remaining near tneir possessions In the vast countryside covered by tho floods from the Al satla and Panther Forest crevasses. Here and there in gin houses, barns and .other two storied." outhouses, a few persons would be found huddled together. The odor from thousands upon thousands of carensses of drowned live stock is almost unbearable In several sections. ITntil the water has completely receded and dry fuel Is obtainable with which to burn them. these carcasses "must remain, adding constantly to the prospect of plague. DR. PEARSONS DEAD Man Who Gave Away Millions That He Might Din Poor K.xpire. Chicago, April 27. Dr. Daniel Kim ball Pearsons, aged 92, who during recent years gsve $5,000,000 to col leges In the middle west, died In the Hinsdale sanitarium today a poor man. Shortly before the civil war Pearsons made a fortune out of Illi nois farm lands and It was, his amhl tlon In his old age to die poor. German Battleship Iunehy. Daxlg, Germany, April 27. The bU tleship Koenlg was launched today The vessel's tonnage Is 144 thousand and she is armed with 10 U-lneh and 14 K-lnrh enns. The vessel cost $1 'OOO.OOO. President Is Pictured as Liar, Hypocrite and Ingrate in Speech at Wor-chestcr. PATRONAGE ABUSE IN CAROLINA IS CITED . Useof Confidential Letters and the Steel Trust Allegations are Called "In decent." Boston, April 27. With speeches as scheduled In six large Massachusetts cities this was a day of great activity for Col. Roosevelt. His chief speech will be made at the Boston arena to-.:, night In which the colonel probably will reply to Taft's speech of Thurs day night from the same platform. Worcester, Mass., April 27. De nunciation of President Taft was Col. Roosevelt's reply last night to the president's attack upon him Thurs- t.ij. oume ui loi, ttooseveus asser tions were: ' j That President Taft had not given ' the people of the country "a square deal," but owing to a quality i of feebleness" he had "yielded to the bosses and the great private inter ests.' That one part of the president's at tack upon him was "the crookedost kind of a deal," and "deliberate mis- 1 vj'i f iiianon. That the president "has not mere y In thought, word and deed been disloyal to our past friendship, but has been disloyal to every canon of ordina'ry decency and fair debling, such as should obtain even in deal- ng with a man's bitterest oppo nents." That the president's statement re- KMi"uitt me iiiuuentre ot renerai orcice- holders in the campaign was "not only an untruth but It Is an Absurd untruth." - ' ' v ..That -Mr. Taft crmvIctedV BlmseU insincerity when he signed ' th Psytie- Aldrlch tnrlff bill. That In speaking of Col. Roosevelt's position in regard to the trust prob- lem. President Taft Is himself guilty Big Crowd Turns Out. Col. Roosevelt took up President Jang auacK on mm point ny point, flaying the president In one scathing sentence after another. When Col. Roosevelt reached here. at the beginning of his Massachu setts trip, he found the streets thronged. A hand and a torchlight procession escorted him to Mechanics' hall, where he delivered his main speech. Later he addressed an over flow meeting. Colonel Roosevelt said In part: "In this campaign I regard the Is sues at stage as altogether too im portant to permit It to he twisted nlo one nf nersonalitins between President Taft and myself. But Mr. Taft's speeches contained statements that I must answer. When he said that I have endeavored to minimize the Importance of : my Columbus speech he says what he must know to be untrue. Accuses Taft of RclroHty. "Again, when Mr. Taft In any, speech speaks of me directly or ob lirmelv ir n neurotic: nr n demAirnariiA or In similar terms, he had better preserve his own self-respect by not protesting that it gives him pain to do so. I have never alluded to him In terms even remotely resembling these. I have never quoted his pri vate letters or private communica tions. 1 have discussed exclusively his public actions. Even where I was ob liged to be severe I was always par liamentary and never hypocritical. Nor do I intend today to dvviate from this standard although the president's speech makes It necessary for me to speak more plainly on certain subjects than I have yet spoken.' Colonel Roosevelt referred to Pres ident Taft's explanation of his state ment that "ours Is a government of all of the people by a representative part of the people. 'For him to try, said Colonel Roosevelt, "to escape the correctness of his statements by saying that he alluded only to women and children is trilling with the intelligence of the people. To speak of such action on his part as a "square deal" Is Itself the crookedest kind of deal. He Is trying to dodge the correctness of his statement by deliberate misrepresen tation of that statement. Colonel Roosevelt then defined the political "boss" and continued: "If there is any such man among my supporters I do not know him." The bosses, Colonel Roosevelt de clared, were on the president's side. "Mr. Taft said that never In thought, word or deed had he been disloyal to his friendship for me. It is hard for me to answer such a statement save by calling It the gross est and most astounding hypocrisy. When Mr. Taft made that statement he had Just sent to the 1'nited States senate, on half an hour's notice, ob viously in collusion with the Lorlrner democratic senator who made the re quest, papers which were Intended to convey the Impression that I had Im properly fHVored the harvester trust, by declining to prosecute It in li)7. Accuse Taft of Crooked lienl. ."When Mr. Taft takes the 11 - M -n !. did. be hns rii't inerelv i-i ti.t )r, word find dee. I l-.-eti tL ' .1 - (Cntl'iiuie 1 i ' )