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Mm TBI OAZBTTB-KBWB BAB TUB MOST SlTSSBIVa ASSOCIATED FBMBB BBS. TlCS W tBM CABOUNAB. , Weather Forecast; F, if OT MCCH CHANGE, " VOL. XVIII. NO. 259. ASHEVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1Q, 1913. PRICE 5 CENTS U. S. OWNERSHIP OF WIRE LINES L . ' -t 1 J A. Is Consmerea oy rresiueni Wilson and May be Rec ommended by Post master General. PRESIDENT'S' - T OPEN 0 NSUBJECT Burleson Indicates He Favors Taking Over Telegrah And Telephone But "Will Go Slow."1 Washington, Dec. 10. Government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines throughout the country Is being serlousl yconsldered by President WU- son. ' Conferences between the president and Postmaster General Burleson have led to a gathering of Informa tion about the practical working of government ownership In those na- .inna where such a system Is In oper atlon. The subject will be discussed ot 0nmB leneth in the pos'master gen eral's annual report, soon to be made mihiie. though it is by no means as lured that he will make an positive rinmmendations. - The postmaster general saw the president for a few minutes today and while they did not discuss the BUbject, Mr. Burleson said as he left the White House that on previous oc mslons when he discussed the, ques' tin with the president- he had found his mind open and receptive to la formation. - Though bills have been drafted by members of congress looking to gov ernment ownership none has -. been aereed upon as an administration measure while the result of Mr. Burle- eon's investigations, are. JBeing awaited. There Is" no doubt," said Mr Burle on. "that the Inauguration of the parcel post and the postal saving sys- tern has given a tremendous Impetus to the desire of people all over the :ountry to have the government own the means of communication every- where. It is a subject Involving two and three hundred million dollars and we must go very slowly In lnpuirlng Into It. Every great nation except us has adopted it. "When Sir Herbert Samuels, post master general of Great Britain, was here recently, I had two long talks with him. It has proved a success in England. I don't want to make any recommendations to congress until am absolutely sure of my ground." T POISON NEEDLE USERS W. C. T. U. Will Ask President Wilson to Urge Such Legislation, Washington, Dee. 10. President Wilson will be asked to use his good ffices In an effort to have legislation passed by congress that will effectu ally suppress the poisoned needle wielders who have been very active recently. A committee from the Woman's Christian Temperance union has been appointed and will call upon the president soon. The rapidity with which the pol loned needle practice has grown In Ntew York and, it is believed. In other large cities has stirred the temper' ance workers to action. National off! cers and other officials discussed the ubject at a recent board meeting and dlncussed the subject at a recent board meeting and determined upon the visit to the White House.. The members of the committee are: Miss Anna A. Gordon of Illinois, na tional vice-president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union; Mrs. Francis Beauchamp of Kentucky and Mrs. Margaret Dy Ellis. STRONG ENFORCEMENT OF CHILD LABOR LAW Pittsburgh, Pa., Deo. 10. Vigorous enforcement of the child labor law enacted by the lata legislature was continued throughout the city today, Proprietors of restaurants, "hotels, ciuds and department stores were notified by representatives of th bu reau of stats factory Inspection that all women under 31 years must cease work at 9 o'clock at night and the provisions relutlng to boys must be 'oiiowed elonely. Two merchants wi.re arrested and fined last niht All girls within the limit war snt home from the w where they were employed, factories een observing the lm" r svrsi months. EGTDBES bill E Students Will Become Active Workers and . Leaders In Movement. Washington,' Dec. . 0. Lectures on subjects pertaining to the suffrage movement are dally being delivered at the suffrage school conducted here under the auspices of the Congres-1 sional Union for Woman Suffrage. The students are young women who aspire to become active workers for the cause and the lecturers are lead ers in the movement, for the adoption of a suffrage amendment to the fed. oral constitution. Mrs. Sherman Booth of Illinois Is delivering a series of lectures on Lobbying." She, is outllhlng the methods employed In ber state which, succeeded lnttbtalning a limited fran chise for .women. ."Social purity," "field campaigning," -"how to hold an audience," "street meetings" and oth er subjects in which the students are instructed. , . .. Among the "teachers" are Dr. Anna Howard Shaw', president of the Nat ional American Woman Suffrage As sociation; Mrs. Frances M. Bjork- man of New York; Miss Alice Stone Blackwell of , Massachusetts;. Mrs. Thomas Hepburn of Connecticut; Miss Lavlnla Dock of New York; Mrs. Jes-j sie Hardy Stubbs of Washington and, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, of pure food fame.. . !if laiffl "Act Like Loving Sisters, Butte, Mont., Dec. 10. "For God's Bake, women, quit your, fighting and go back to your meetings and try to act like loving sisters," police Judge Thomas Booher told several women suffragists who were on trial before him yesterday on a charge of disturb ing the peace when the two factions clashed . In assejably,- haUuaodhe". police were called in. The women en gaged in a hand to hand contest over the possession of a gavel. -. Judge Booher dismissed the cases telling the defendants that it would be useless so far as any good to the community were concerned to fine them and that he was "thunder struck that educated and refined wo men of Butte cannot meet in social sessions without fighting.". Must Vote in Smoke. Chicago, Dec. 10. When Chicago women voters go to the polls next spring they will be compelled to mark their ballots in a haze of tobacco smoke. A request that smoking be prohibited at the polls was made to the election commissioners yesterday by the Political Equality league. The. commissioners informed the women that there is no law by which smok ing can be prohibited. Politicians announced that they will invoke court action in an attempt to prevent women from acting as Judges and clerks of elections. Their opposi tion will be based on the Illinois law which limits the working day of women to 10 hours. They say that election officials are often required to work from 18 to 20 hours while bal lots are being marked and counted. IS DE10 JJIII, FLU. Head of Great Harvesting Company uccumbs After . . Short Illness. Miami, Flo.. Dec. 10. William Dearlng, head of the great harvesting manufacturing company which bears his name, died last night at 10:51 from paralysis. The body will be taken to Evanston, Ills., his home, today in his private car. The funeral will be held there Saturday or Sunday. Mr. Deerlng was brought to Miami six weeks ago In helpless oondltlon and taken to his country home. He never rallied. At his bedside were his wife ahd two sons, James and Charles. PUPILS HURRIED OUT IN SCANTY ATTIRE Providence, II. I., -Dec. 10. Forty girl pupils at a fashionable boarding school in the east side section of this city wera hurried in scanty attire, to the rtreet when fire was discovered early today In a new and unoccupied addition to the school. Although the girls who -are from 11 to II years old were badly frightened there was no serious Punic and no one was hurt. The blase was confined to the sec tion of the building where It orlginat ed with a loss of about tooo. 10 rooms were damaged by About smnke and water. School sessions were held SUFFRAG SCHOOL today a usual. DFlGANlZATIOn II) ROAD IRK Road Builders Consider This As One of Most Import ant Factors in Good Roads. DR. JOSEPH H. PRATT TAKE ACTIVE PART Several Matters of Importance Discussed at Meeting Last Night. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 10. That proper organization for the construe tlon of public highways is a most important factor was the opinion of speakers who today addressed the an nual convention of the American Road Builders association. Delegates were much Impressed with remarks made by J. Da Pulllgny, director of the French mission of engineers to the United States, who told the conven tlon that what the American system of road building lacks is organiza tion. He called attention to the roads of France which are among the best !n the world and said that to organize, both in acquiring the money to build roads and their actual construction was due to France's splendid system of highways. Much of the discussion in the con vent'on today under the general sub ject of organization was of a technical character. F. I Cranford of Brook lyn, N. Y presented a paper on the relation of the contractor, engineer and inspector to each other and this paper was afterwards discussed by several delegates. Joseph Hyde Pratt State geologist of North Carolina, prepared a paper Bt aOTanSets4 for the use of convict labor In road building, This paper was also opened to discussion by delegates interested in the subject, TO OECIDE TODAY ON It Is Believed They Will Be Released or Omitted Altogether. New York, Dec. 10. Whether the New York, New Haven & Hartrora railroad was to continue dividends on its stock at the present rate of six per cent, reduce the rate or stop pay ments was to be decided today at a meeting In this city of the board of directors. Wall street believed the rate would be reduced. The commonest guess was that It would be cut to 4 per cent, but that was merely a guess, for there was no authoritative Infor mation on the subject The best In dications of the board's probable ac tion were the tremendous shrinkage In New Haven's earnings of late and recent Intimations of Chairman Elliott that It might be necessary to reduce disbursements on the stock. Statisticians figured that New Haven was now earning only about I per cent on . its stock. They based their estimate on the report Issued this week for October and the first four months of the fiscal year. The October report showed a decline of $883,000,000 in net corporate income, The surplus for the month was only $160,000 as against $1,043,000 in Oc tober of 1912, Chairman Elliott has expected his opposition to the pay ments of dividends which have not been earned. A member of the stockholders' pro tectlvs committee expressed the belief yesterday that the dividend should be omitted and largely on the strength of this statement the stock was d pressed violently on the stock ex change. It fell nearly five points to 71 H, the lowest price at which the stock ever sold. For many years New Haven paid I per cent annually with clock-like regularity. HEARINGS RESUMED ON FREIGHT RATES Washington, Deo. 10. Hearings on I the proposed flvu per cent Increase of freight rates by eastern railroads were resumed today before the Interstate commerce commission. Commission er Harlan, directly In charge of the esse, presided,-other members of the commlKulnn being engaged elsewhere The railroads submitted additional statistical evidence In support of their contention that an Inrrenwt of rates would be neresasry to enable them to furnish service demanded hy the pub. lie and to aerur anything like a rea- isonabla return for thslr services. 111 GEO. NTPALMEH Van irt Goes Before Grand Jury to Tell About Con tribution to State unairmau. SO FAS 015,000 IS SHOWN" UNREPORTED Whitman Proposes to Show $100,000 Democratic Cam paign Funds Were Not Reported. New York, Dec. 10. D. E. Van Wirt, a contractor-of Hudson Falls, N. Y., was subpoenaed to appear be fore the grand jury today to repeat his testimony at the John Doe in- quiry yesterday that he had given a check for $500 in May last to. George M. Palmer, chairman of the demo cratic stae committee, as a contrlbu tlon from Van Wirt's firm. It Is against the law for a corporation to give a political contribution and Dis trict Attorney Whitman seeks Pal mer's Indictment for a misdemeanor, Arthur A. McLean, treasurer of the democratic state committee, was in. dieted under similar circumstances last week the fourth man to be In dieted since the start of the inquiry, Testimony taken so far has revealed that about $25,000 was contributed by contractors to democratic -campaign funds and not reported. Mr. Whitman said today that he expected to . un cover $100,000 before he was through Before taking up the Palmer matter today it was expected that the gran Jury would resume consideration the case of Thomas . Hassett, formerly of the state engineers office, accused of accepting $1,600, froth JC contractor - tiFCTpeIT6paenrio The district ' attorney will then plunge into one of the most import ant phases of , the investigation yet brought to .light the testimony ' of John W. Murphy, a dealer in paving materials, that he split a $11,000 com mission with Jamea B. Gaffney, close associate of Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany hall, and Joseph D. Car roll, former Tammany treasurer. In return for their Influence with state officials. , Carroll is dead. Gaffney Is the man over whom William Sulzer said he and Charles F. Murphy split because Sul zer would not appoint Gaffney com missioner of highways. As president of the Boston National League Base ball club Gaffney is at present attend ing the league meeting here. When asked about Murphy's testi mony he smiled. "T will mlv in renly." he said "that the Boston Nationals will positively beat the Giants next year." NOBEL PEACE POIZE IS FERRED ON E. Awarded to Senator of New York For Work in Cuba and Philippines. Christlanla, Norway, Dec. 10. The Nonel peace prize for 1913 was con ferred today on Senator Eiinu kooi of New York, and that for 1913 on Senator JTenrl LaFountalne of Brus sels. Belgium, who was formerly pres ident of the permanent International peace bureau of Berne, Switzerland. As no Nobel peace prize was award ed last year there were two for dis posal this year, each of them worth $40,000. The report of the commit tee, which was read by the secretary today, refers to Senator Ellhu Root's work in the pacification in the Philip pines and Cuba and In the handling of the American -Japanese dispute. . It praises his high political and 'Inter national Ideals, his prominence at statesman and his constant efforts to promote the Idea of International peace. WILL DECIDE AS TO RESTITUTION SUIT Bt. Louis, Mo., Dec. 10. Judge Walter H. Sanborn, of the United States circuit court Is expected to decide within a few days possibly to day whether he will grant William Nlles of New York permission to 111 a restitution suit against present and former directors of the St Louis and San Francisco railroad. Mr. Nlles made application yester day to file such a suit, claiming that certain present and former directors were reaponstlile to the stockholders for losss Incurred by the sale to the 'Frisco of feeder lines sevtraj of which they had promoted. AFTER TO INVESTIGATE FALSE W'A " .' Wireless Dispatch That Rio Grande Was Burning Must Have Been ' Fraudulent. SHIP IN PORT AND REPORTS "NO TROUBLE", Authorities Suspect Dispatch Was Sent Out ; By Some Amateur Wire-; less Operator. Brunswick, Ga Dec. 10. The Mai- lory line steamer 'Rio Grande arrived this morning from' New York. - The captain reports no trouble on the trip down. There has been no fire on the Rio Grande nor did those on the vessel know of any unusual happening at sea. v Washington, Dec. 10. Suspicion that fraudulent wireless messages may have been sent out by some amateur reporting the disaster to the steamer Rio Grande today led the bureau of navigation to start an Investigation. The penalty is fine or Imprisonment or both. The messages were received at New York and Norfolk Sunday night telling of fire aboard the Rio Grande and saying 197 passengers had been taken off the vessel in the Atlantic and later returned. The dispatches, read by many wire less operators in the vicinity of the Virginia capes, were transmitted to the revenue cutter service which im mediately rushed two ships to sea and ter turned them back after com municating with the Rio Grande her self and being assured she was In no need of aid. A confusion of ships' names, also 'were ready for the work of rescue. The dispatches said the Rio Grande's pas sengers were taken off by the steamer Swanmore, which was at that moment at her wharf in Baltimore, while the Rio Grande was reported 200 miles north of the Diamond Shoals. The rescuers then raised the Merchants and Miners liner Suwanee, thinking she might be the rescuing ship .but her captain knew nothing of the re port . Finally came messages from the Mallory lino officials saying the Rio Grande carried no passengers. Reve nue cutter officers and wireless offi cials then concluded that the "S. O. S." calls purporting to come from the Rio Grande were false and It remained for the arrival of the ship at Bruns wick early today to confirm their sus picions. Kvery available agency of the gov ernment will be used to Investigate the affair generally. LOUIS KUEHNIE BEGINS E Once Powerful Political Lea der Has a Term of One Year. Trenton, N. J., Dec. 10. Louis Kuehnle, for years the powerful polit ical leader of Atlantlo City, entered the New Jersey state prison .at 10 o'clock to serve a one-year sentence Imposed on him in Atlantic county more than 12 months ago. He was convicted of being financially interest ed In a large contract awarded by the Atlnntin ciiv board of water commls. sloners, of whloh hef was a member when the contract was let. Kuehnle left Atlantlo City this morning in his own automobile accom panled by the sheriff and a close per sonal friend. Kuehnle was th last to leave th eautomoblle when It arrived at the prison gate and as the three men stepped through the big doorway Kuehnle turned and said good bye to his chauffeur and shook hands with him. The prisoner will bs kept In quar antine for two weeks in .acoordanoe with the regulations of the institution after which he will be assigned to soma kind of work. To Thomas Mahoney, In chart of the center wing. Kuehnla-snld: "I am here to comply with the rules and reuglatlons and I want to be left In quiet" In Distress. Wilmington, N. C, Deo. 10. Under wireless advices that an unknown steamer Is In distress on Frying Pan Shoals, the United States revenue cut ter Seminole la smln( lute tonight to the assistance of th ship. No par ticulars have yet been received by Captain Garden, commanding the icmlnol. "'x. JRGING CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE HAVE desgis E Town Will Probably Be The Scene of Next Important Battle. Jaurez, Mex.,- Dec. 10. Events to day indicated that Ojinaga, sometimes called Presidio Del Norte, the small Mexican village on the border . oppO site Presidio, Tex., would be the scene of the next Important move in the Mexican rebellion. Rebel leaders were more than ever convinced that Ojinaga, where the . federal troops have concentrated, cannot be ignored by General Francisco Villa. Within the town are fortified prac tically all the federal troops of the north with most of their important generals. Their retreat thither avow edly was to obtain money and provi sions because in the interior they had been without pay and were on the verge of famine. Reprovisioned and provided with money, the federals would be in a position to renew hos tilities. . Should he determine to attack the federals In force, General Villa now at Chihuahua City would have to check temporarily his advance toward Torreon, but It would be In line with his plan to leave only rebel territory oenind him In his southward march. The rebel forces about Ojinaga are greatly In excess of the number at first reported. It was said the 3000 troops which General Villa sent south of Jaurez about 10 days ago have de toured eastward and are now on th road to Ojinaga. The threatened mutiny of the fed erais is being relied upon by the rebels. . . , Program Taken up at Confer ence With Judiciary Com mittee Members. Washington, Dec. 10. President Wilson's trust leglslo tlon program was discussed at a conference at the White House today between the president and Chairman Clayton, of the house Judiciary' committee and several of its members. The commmltte ealready has begun hearings on a number of bills and the president will later send to congress a special message on the subject To day's conference was intended to be an Informal discussion for a develop ment of views. It was the only conference the pres ident had had with any considerable number of members of congress on the trust question and was taken to indicate that as with the tariff and currency questions, the trust problem would be handled through the close co-operation of the president and members of congressional committees. It has not been determined whether all the anti-trust bills in the house will be handled by the Judiciary com mlttee or whether some will be taken In hand by the committee on Inter state and foreign commerce. In the senate the legislation will be In charge of Senator Newlands of Neva da, chairman of the Interstate com merca committee. Conferences thus far on the trust question have been held by the presl dent with Chairman Newlands and Clayton, Attorney General McRey nolds, Secretary Kedfleld and Commls, sioner Joseph E. Davtes, of the bureau of corporations. Samuel L'ntermyer, counsel for the Pujo money trust In vestigating committee, Is drafting some bills as a result of that com mittee's Investigations and will sub mit them to the house committee. WHITE HOUSE MINT BED HAS DISAPPEARED Washington, Dec. 10. What has become of the historic White House mint bed? No one seems to know nor who gave the order that led to its disappearance. Andrew-Jarksnn Is said to have planted It and no president since that time has touched It except to pull the richly flavored twigs and leaves from the branches of ths plant During all the changes In the White House buildings and grounds It hss sur vived. Hut the plsce whers It grew Is cov ered with fresh earth and there Is not a twig or a sprig of apparently a root of It in existence. The bed was within a few feet of tho cabinet room and not far from the president's office. PRESIDIO VILLAG WILSON DISCUSSES TRUST LEGISLATION Two Thousand Men and Wo men Assemble at Capitol 7 For Prohibition De- -'t monstration, " ' EX-GOV. PATTERSON PROMINENT SPEAKER Recent Convert to Cause Is In Favor of Amend ments to Federal ' Constitution, i Washington, Dec. 10. Under the dome " of the capltol two thousand men . and , women representing the Anti-Saloon League of America and the Women's Christian Temperance union assembled today for a demon stration against the liquor traffic. In two phalanxes, . the men and women marched from the downtown ' section of the city to the east front of the capltol. Each bore petitions de manding national prohibition by con stitutional amendment. On the steps of the capltol the peti tion were received by Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson of Ala bama, author of such a proposed amendment and by Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. The legislators alBO ' received from a special committee of the anti-llquor forces a copy of another resolution which suggested forever to prohib't the manufacture or sale of intoxicat ing liquors, except for sacramsntal and medicinal purposes. ' In their march to the capltol the Anti-Salo leaguft:fds--wf' Brigadier General A. 8. Daggett' ' Mrs. Lillian m; N. Stevens of Maine, presi dent general of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, marshalled the women, who waved banners as' they paraded down Pennsylvania avenue. Following the presentation of peti- ' tions, which were filed In the senate and house, prohibition speeches were made. On the ' speaker's program were Ernest H. Cherrlngton, of West ville, O.; former Governor M. R. Pat terson or Tennessee; Mra Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N. Y., president of , the New York State W. C. T. II., and Mrs. Harris Armour of Georgia. Washington, Dec. 10 Malcolm Pat- terson, formerly governor of Tennes see, who has become an advocato of nation-wide prohibition, spoke this ' morning In the interest of amending the constitution ' of tho United States!' to prohibit the manufacture and sale or liquor In the Union. '! We know," said the ex-governor. I "that the use of liquor fills no human want that the habit of indulgence is always acquired, that abstinence alone is the guarantee of safety and that ' the destruction of liquor Itself Is the only guarantee of abstinence. "The manufacture and sale of 11- quor," he continued, "is now forbidden v forbidden i, either by f nstltuVonal law, anJ In r as soon as ' i Y to vote on I eir will re- in nine states of the. union, either by general legislation or constltu amendment of the organic law, others It will be forbidden the people have opportunity the question and have their corded in proper form. The contests in the towns, cities and states have largely diminished the evils but they have sometimes failed In full results owing to the ease with which liquor Is received into dry territory from other states under the protection of the fed eral government and the time has now come when the frienJs of tem perance, fortified, strengthened and marshalled all over the union, demand that this Intolerable condition shall cease. "Civilization and Christianity now demand another constitutional amend ment to be prese.ited to the states for their ratification or rejection, that the voice and sovereignty of the people as the first and ultimate source of power, may be exercised In a declalvn and supreme test to determine wheth er or not the manufacture and sals of Intoxicating drinks exists with or without UiC consent of government" RESIDENTS OF TOWN CUT OFF BY FLOOD Houston, Tex., Deo. 10 Centered about Richmond, Tex., todsy the llrasos river flood continued on to the gulf, leaving disaster In Its wake. The flood overflowed a protecting bluff about Richmond last night complete ly cutting off communication, and residents of ths town of Rosenburg. three miles Inlrnd, frequently heard the reports of gun shots during the night. Evidently they wars dltr signals. jrj Th tot nl loss of llf today rem-irn-ed at 1(5. Resru squads continued to take flood vlrtoms from their plsrea of rtfug whll boats from - msnr points wer headed for Rlrhmond t holp troubled resident thtr.
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