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TBI OiZETTBNBWS BAB TBB MOBT ZXPBN8IVB ASSOCIATED PEABI IBM VICE IE TBB CABOUBAM. Weather rurecast: ' WARMER; PROBABLT RAIX. TOL. XVUI. NO. 296. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 23, 1914. CENTS O.ttMtrtn lit Mmmt'Kfm r rj (-y VC YJAV U . . J ' " ; , - : ....... ...... , : ... .. . . --: - . . js ; .-f . . PRICE 5 HQ PICKED : GATNOR CASE JURY, HE IS former U. S. Marshal Testifies Federal Judge Took Hand . In Choosing Grand Jur ors in Noted Case. - TWO FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, IS CHARGE j Declares that Speer Wanted to Know. What Was "In It" For Him in Matter Of Fee. v , Macon, (la., Jan, 23. J, 51. Barneg, former United States marshal,, testi- t fled yesterday before the congressional commlttee. that Judge Emery' Speer 'picked the grand jury In the Greene- Gaynor case, and that the Jury as completed contained the names of two former fugitives from justice. f Mr. Barnes testified that on one oc casion he had gone to Judge Speer to : thank him for a lleberal fee received ; as custodian in a bankruptcy case. The jurist, he said, - as the wit-. ness retired from the room, remarked lwly that "you thank me Very beau- tlfully but what is there In it for me." lie passed the matter off as a joke,. f lie said, but for sometime afterwards Judgo Speer treated him coldly. While I acting as marshal, Mr. Barnes stated, lie was Instructed by Judge Speer to S ummon only white men as Jurors. f ' Mr. Barnes testified that prior to )he hearing of - the Greene-Gaynor , W jie.wai Instructed Id. bring the keys' of the' grand jury box to - the sourt room. Judge Speer and R. N. talley, his secretary, were .present in the room. . , J "I don't recall whether I ' put my hand In the box or whether Judge ' Bpeer did, but a package of fifty ? names of jurors was taken out," he '' testified. After the names were re ' moved, ho stated, Judge Speer asked f him to look over them and see If he ' was acquainted with any of them. 6ne s name which he recognized was that s of a prominent populist. He had told ( Judge Speer, he said, that this was a I man of intelligence. J "We won't tako him," Judge Speer I laid, he stated. Another name was that of a rcsl dent of Valdosta, the home of Mr. jf Talley. When the name was reached, he said. Judge Speer and Mr. Talley had held a long conversation In low tones. The man. was afterwards made 1 roreman of the Jury. He charged that the Jury as completed contained the 5 names of two fugitives from Justice. ) Refused to Sign Mandate. Macon, Ga., Jan. 23. United States t District Attorney Alexander Akcrman today appeared as the 24th witness before the sub-committee of the house icommlttee on judiciary in the congres sional Investigation of charges of om vial misconduct against Judge Emory Speer of the United States aistrlct court, southern district of Georgia, i Mr. Akerman testified that the legal I firm of which he was a member, rep 4 resented Henry Jemiaon. said to lime ibeen In the employ of Judge Spier, -t the time Jemison was convlclnd f violation of a city ordinance and sen tenced to the chalngang. Jemleoii later was released by order of Julgo I Bpeer In habeas corpus proceeding. i On appeal of City, of Macon to the I Supreme Court of the United mates, and the reversal of the decision tif the ; lower court, Mr. Agerman said, lie carried the , mandate of the higher tribuneal to Judge Bpear'a residence, along with an or-der prepared by tne ; city attorney of Macon. The ordr, If signed, he said, would make the 1 inundate of the higher court effective. Judge flpeer declined to sign the or- cler, and the following day It was . again declined to sign It. .- Waa Irritable. "Do you know anything concerning the charge that Judge Speer Is ad dicted to the drug habit?" asked Chairman Webb. "Not of my own knowledge," re plied the .witness. "1 can only give you the opinion of a lawyer. I have frequently observed the Judge grow Irritable, restless and Impatient; that on such occasion he would recess Ms court and go to Chambers for five or ten minutes, when he would remount the benrh with his old time vigor." That Judge Speer would leavo his Judicial district every year from J'lly 1 to November , was also asserted ;.y tlm witness. roxrrssiox onvvTKn to KXTHACT MTKOUKN I'HOM Allt Ht. Johns, jvf. r., Jan. IS, JCxtrao. !lon of nllrnKnfi from the atmosphere for use as fertlllirr Is thn purpose of ! passed the hoiine rmoliitlon In amend a ronromlon granted today by the led farm, which provides that mem-i-nlcf.lul smwrn'nrnt for the employ-1 bars of a delratlon from this slate mnt of Grand Fails In labrador. TliSiRnd conirrns ht notified that the lg li inn talis tor the drvri:imn( of one luliire of Smith Carolina 1 opposed to minimi hr-piw-r fruni the fulls t thn I'.th amendment and willies It lanvraie elsdrlulty, Ircpsalad. Bandit Makes Help in Train Robbery Giyes Scared Negro a Bag and Orders Him to Visit All ' Sleeping Passengers; Then Porter Signals For - - r Emergency Brake, and Robber Escapes! Chicago, Jan. 23. With the assist ance of two ': reluctant but badly scared porters a lone bandit held up four passengers on the rear sleeper of the Michigan Central passenger train due here from Detroit at 7:30 o'clock this morning. It was a serio-comic af fair which netted . the bandit some thing under $300. , The .robber , entered .the train at Jackson, Mich., and left It about fif teen minutes later when one of the porters signalled for the emergency brakes. . . ', ' .. Merltts, .porter o'f the .car. attacked, was the first to' view the robber who pointed a pistol at him and handed him a bag. ' "Here," said the' Intrduer, "you go ahead and wake the passengers and tell 'era there's a ri bber wants their n.oney. No monkey business: -I've got three or. four pals with pje.", i Merrltts took the bag or hat, he is not quite sure which' but thinks It was a bag and shook the occupants of the first berth' he came to. TO IMMI Mr. Caminetti Advises Rais ing the Standard of Phy 5 sical Tests. Washington. Jan. 23 After a con ference with Commissioner . General Caminetti. Secretary Wilson of the riannrtment of labor today advised Speaker Clark that the problem of iGifsrtitf lnrmtrratleirould -solved by raising the standard so as to"Ifi elude In the, list of excluded persons not able to , pass the physical tests required of recruits for' the United States army. ', Views of the department of labor, interesting because of the , present dlplomatlo situation, are colved In a letter In which the secretary says that the method suggested would not only provide for the Asiatic Immigra tion Issue, but immigration generally of a laboring clement, without vio lating the most favored nation or other similar clauses in existing treaties. Secretary Wilson says that a con-, certed movement exists In India and elsewhere to gain admission to the United States, that Canada has legis lated even in , more drastic manner than Is proponed In bills now pending In congress and that if the Hindu movement Is not checked by legisla tion California and the west not alone will be - affected "as climatic and Industrial conditions in the south ern states and other sections of the union offer an extensive field for a people i"ho can come In practically unlimited i umbers if by failure to do as Canada and other British colonics have done they are tacitly Invited. SIEGEL DOES NOT Wtl WHERE THE MONEY WENT Head of Bankrupt Chain of Stores Says He Is Almost Penniless. Ky York.' Jan. 23. Hennr Slegel. head of a chain of dry goods enter prises, most of which failed recently. testifying In receivership proceedings said he waa practically penniless. Hlegel told of the organization of the Slegel stores corporation which he and Frank E. Vogel formed as a holding company to take over the Slegel stores In Chicago, New York and Boston. He said the common stock of the company, owned In most part by himself and Vogel, was given them for their share In the stores. The preferred stock $2,000,004 in all, and paying seven per cent was sold for cash In England and Scotland, very little being retained In America. He waa akd where this $2,000,000 cash went. He could positively ac count for only $600,000 of It. REPEAL OF FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT ASKED Columbia, K. C, Jan. S3. Tho South Carolina general aanu'inbly has gone on record as favoring the repeul of the ICth ammidment to the United Hlti constitution which In effort gives negroes the rlnlit to vote. Surh aotlon was taken when the innate a Porter -."Excuse me sir," said the porter, "but there's a man here says give him your money." ! , ''Aw, quit your kidding and let mc sleep," came the angry reply from the j berth. : . . v "Tell him I'm a real robber with a gun," interposed the bandit who poked the weapon between the cur tains, whereat there was a tinkle of coins falling into the receptacle In the porter's hands. From A. M . Todd of Chicago the robber got $135 ; from Herman Marks of Detroit $100 and from F. B. Palmer of New York an unknown sum. " There were about twenty passeng ers In the car and most of them did not know that anything had happened until-they arose this morning. The robbery took place at 1:45 o'clock. There were no women in the car. . The train conductor was authority for the. statement that there waa only one robber. One porter thought there were four of them and the other thought there were five. PRESIDENT'S LAND SUIT IS Hearing Regarding Title To Date Land in California Is Resumed. I os Angeles, Jan. 23. When the hearing regarding tho rights of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to title to sixty acres of land in tho Coachella valley was resumed today before officials of the loeal-overnment land office indi cations were that the case would be taken under advisement before night. The hearing was begun yesterday at the instigation of John T. King of Thermal, Cal., acting for Mrs. Wilson. The most Important piece of evidence to be introduced today, according to King was a certified copy of the deed held by President Wilson to the land which it was claimed was given to him by Mrs. Wilson. The latter ob tained title from her sister, Mrs. Mar garet A. Elliott, wife of a "member of the faculty of Stanford university, who purchased it, It was said, to use in date culture. President Wilson's title to the prop erty which is valued at about $8,000, is contested by Mrs. C. Hensle' and Homer I., Goddard, both of Los An geles. .-: - Mrs Hensle claims to have home- steaded the property after a forfeit ure by King. CONGRESS EXPECTED TO ORDER STRIKE INQUIRY Believed House Will Act Fav orably on Report of the Rules Committee. Washington, Jan. 23. Plans for congressional investigation of the Col orado and Michigan mine strikes were being framed today by representatives who expected the house to act favor ably on the decision of last night's caucus which instructed the rules committee, to bring In a special rule permitting an Inquiry. Those who opposed the Investiga tion In the caucus will continue to oppose It on the floor of the house on the contention that no federal ques tion is involved in either strike. Union leaders Pleased. Houghton, Mich., Jan. $3. Union leaders in the copper district seemed pleased today at the prospect of a federal Investigation of the strike of the miners which has been In progress since last summer. The strikers de clared they had nothing to fear from an Investigation. MANY SUFFER WITH ' WHOOPING BRONCHITIS New York, Jan. $3. Whooping bronchitis is the name physicians are giving the combination of bronchitis and whooping cough which appeared here after the recent variable winter weather. One of the peculiarities of thn nut break la that It has attacked persons of mature years as well as the young. The sufferer from bronchitis or bron- mini vsiarrn. jusi as ne ininss ne is recovering, finds himself wheeling and : whooping. Then h nnde that he has) two Vtn1 of trouble at um p. Thrr j are numerous canes bf plain whooplm.- rr, yesterday rrrclveil hii fln! ciitigh and niso of lini-yhliln tit the.mrnt of tho season v( I'lurldtt tiuiublnatluu has brvn puMlliig. j berries. 1 PROSPECTS . ME- BRIGHTENING Capt. Van Horn Waxes More Enthusiastic Over Scenery And Climate Here. ONE SITE HERE IS INSPECTED TWICE Army Offlwcr Traciturn About the Final Location, But Local Hopes Are Rising. Those who have been in touch with Capt. Robert Van Horn of the United States army,' who has been in the sec tion for the past two days looking over possible sites for the establish ment of a Federal training camp for young military students, feel most sanguine over the prospects for se curing, the camp for western North Carolina. : Capt. Van Horn has not stated that he will recommend that any of. the sites shown him here be seleoted, but his enthusiasm over the section speaks volumes for those who have been with him and others who have talked to him on the subject. The army officer was shown two sites in the vicinity of Asheville on Wednesday and yesterday he was tan- en to Waynesville, ; where he was shown two other possible sites for the camp. The return - to Asheville was made yesterday by motor, a stop be ing made at Cantofi. Upon the arrival of the party here, Capt. Van Horn asked that he be taken for a second inspection of the site overlooking the golf links of the Asheville Country club and the rifle range on Beaver dam. . . . Today the party went to Henderson county. It had been arranged to make the trip by trairt, but Capt. Van Horn requested that the trip be made through the country so that he might be able to get a, fetter idea of the topograpny. pi the Untry,.;theeqndl- non ol me roads ana otner points that , might be of advantage for a camp. The return this afternoon will also be made by motor. It Is the first trip that CaDt. -Van Horn has ever made to this mountain section and he Is simply carried away wun the climate and scenic beauties of the country. He does not mince words In expressing his appreciation ror tnese assets of the section, and It Is believed that if he were free to ex press his sentiments con "ernlna? the advantages here for ' ;he training camp, those sentiments would be equally enthusiastic. Tho visitor was accompanied to Waynesville yesterday by Assistant General Agent C. W. Westbury and Division Passenger Agent J. H. Wood of the Southern railway. Capt. Russell C. Iangdon, U. S. A., of Raleigh and Manager S. il. Cohen of the Greater Western . North Carolina. The party was met there by a coin-l miuee, composed of Mayor Ray, .T. F. Bass of the Waynesville board of trade, P. W. Miller, Col. Thomas Strlngneld and B. J. Sloan. A trip was made to the Haywood County Pair grounds, the White Sulphur Springs property and other points for Inspection, Capt. Van Horn and others of the party having been furnished with mounts at one point so that they could go up the mountain sido tor a hotter view. Tho party drove to Haxclwood be fore returning to Waynesville nd then a drive over the town of Waynes ville was enjoyed before luncheon wis served at the Suyeta Park hotel. In the course of the luncheon. Col Strng fleld spoke of the adventages offereJ by Haywood county, and following th.2 spread the party waa taken for a drive over the grounds at Lake Junalutka. The Inspection party arrived In Asheville yesterday afternoon about t o'clock, and following the second in spection of the site near Grovo Parli Inn, Capt. Van Horn was entortalnud by H. W. Plummer with a dinner at the Inn. Besides the host and guest of honor, those present for the dinner were: J. H. Wood, C. W. Westbury, Capt. Langdon and Col. Cohan. Col. Cohen, Mr. Wood and Mr. Westbury accompanied the army officer to Hun dersonville today. They will be ex tensively entertained there, it '.s in derstoocj, and one or more site 'ill be Inspected. NOT IN THE PLATFORM Washington. Jan. 23. -Pres. Wilson told callers yesterday he would not recommend In hi mensuges to con gress anything not In the democratic, platform and said that he had not found the subject of regulation of Ink exchanges In the platform. He Indicated that he nuld. have nothing to say about such leglnlullon until he waa consulted by members of con- gress. -V K. C Jarrett, lb Pack square ( - if- i truw U. S. Ownf jhip Of Pipe Lines Is Recommended Naval Officials Conferring Over Pipe Lines, Possibly in Oklahoma, to Furnish Fuel For Government Vessels. " ' Washington, Jan. 23. Secretaries Daniels and Lane, Chairman Padget, of the house naval affairs committee and others have been conferring over a project for government ownership of oil lands and pipe lines possibly In Oklahoma for furnishing the navy with Its own fuel. Rear Admiral Grif fin, chief of the bureau of steam en gineering today filed with the house naval committee a statement outlining the project. Admiral Griffin's statement says that If the government should pro duce Its own oil It could save the large pipe line transportation profit by building Its own pipe lines. The saving, compared with present condi tions, would be from $1,000,000 up wards annually. A $500,000 appropriation to lease "a quarter section -of-Wghly probable 1 Various Bills Introduced in " House Following Presi dent's Suggestions. Washington, Jan. 23. Administra tion leaders In congress settled down today to deliberations on the tentative anti-trust measures designed to sup plement the Sherman act. Measures prohibiting interlocking directorates, delining restrains of trade Included within the meaning of termB of the Sherman act and prohibiting "cut throat" competition were intro duced i. the house by .Representative Clayton. . Senator Newlands planned to intro duce them with the interstate trade commission bill In the senate as soon us the Alaska railroad bill was out of the way. In the trade relations measure no provision was made for the prohibi tion of holding companies, as suggest ari in President Wilson's message, but it was announced that the committees would further consider that phase an-i probably would add a section to tho bill. It was explained that the reason for omitting reference to that subject was because neither the president ntir administration leaders had determined Just how far the government shoull go. SIZE ERIN IN U.S. Census Reports Show 13,589, 171 Bales Ginned Prior To January 16. Washington, Jan. 23. Announce ment by the census bureau today that 13,589,171 bales of cotton, exclusive of llntere, had been ginned prior to January 16 officially establishes the fact that the 1913-14 cotton crop Is the second In size the country has grown. Llntera obtained to January 1 amounted to 393,934 bales, bringing the total cotton ginned, a far as of ficial figures show, to 13,986,10S run ning bales. This amount will be in creased by glnnings during the re mainder of the season so that the fin al figures will show a crop of more than 14,000,000 bales. The preliminary figures will not be, announced until March 20, when the census bureau will make its report allowing the glnnings to February 28. In the past five years the quantity of cotton Innod between January 13 and February 2f has averaged 3.1 per cent of the entire crop. During the period between January 1 and it the glnnings were 233,803 bales, which is greater than at any similar period In the past five years. URGES RETURN OF . WAR COTTON TAX Washington, Jan. 2.1. Representa tive Ilnflin of Alabama has urged legislation that would return the cot ton tax which lie said us Illegally! levied and collected from tho south ern states during the civil war. Ad dressing the ho mc committee on war i claims, ha said .. Jill he had Introduc ed would give those who paid the rot Ion tax an opportunity to prove their cUlmt and regain their money, ('it It. g the requirement that direct taxes shall be uniform throughout thn j I'nIK'd tttates, he declared some of the stales paid none of the cotton tux. Plan to Buy Oil Lands and land'' Is recommended "as a begin ning" the . remainder to be used for drilling and acquiring additional land. The government, it . recommenfls, should have the same selling rights as any company beginning opera tions. The navy during the last fiscal year used 400,000 barrels of oil and all new . destroyers, submarines and battleships are to use oil only. For the next fiscal year the navy wants 700. 000 barrels with subsequent steady Increases. "Under war conditions," the state ment says, "there might be periods when we would be using at the rate of five or six times the quantity. We are paying $1.39 a barrel for oil at Port Arthur, and th3 best Information obtainable points to a further increase in price." - . HELD FOR WITNESS IN WIRE TAPPING SCHEME Two Men Arrested For Trying To Bunco Doctor Out Of $2,000. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 23.- Dr. James T. Laughead, of Terre Haute, Ind., is detained here by the police as a witness against Eddie Kennedy and Louie Levlnson, who are accused by the police of attempting to oper ate an alleged wire tapping scheme. A friend of Dr. Laughead at Terre Haute learned, it is said, that the doc tor had drawn $2,000 from the bank for the purpose of making a bet here and had the Terre Haute police wire the otflclals here. .-,.,:. , Laughead went to Terre Huute from Jacksonville,, where he has been spending the winter, for the express purpose of getting the $2,000 to cash a winning bet of $8,000, which he had been led, it is alleged, to believe he had won. When the doctor met the two men in front of a local bank this morning the local police placed the two under arrest. The police say the prisoners are well known In other cities. Kennedy claims Toledo as his home. Levlnson la from San Francisco he says. Edward S. Andrews of Orange, N. J., arrived yesterday to attend the Prudential Life Insurance company'e meeting at Grove Park Inn and is a guest at that hotel. . Where can you get the best book on the Panama Canal? 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It has undertaken the distribution of this book solely because of Its educational merit and whatever benefit there t to be derived from the good 111 of those who profit from our r.ltcr. The Osiett. News will cheerfully refund the price of the booi to any purchases who Is not satisfied with It Present Six Coupons of Consecutive Dates 1HTEKN CKNTH EXTRA V fc-ENT BY MAIL Sensatonal Developments Pro. mised in John Doe Inquiry Into The New York . Roads Graft. COMMISSIONER ASKS TO BE GIVEN HEARING Reported Sulzer Can Substan tiate His Charges With Records of a Tele phonic Device. New York, Jan. 23. Sensational developments in the John Doe inquiry Into state highway graft were prom ised today when John H. Delany, commisisqner of effipiency and econo my, asked the district attorney's per mission to give' his version of stkte' ments by William Sulzer, the former governor. These statements, Delany declared, are false. Suirer was averse today discussing the things he touched upon before the grand Jury, but It was learned he had not finished his testi mony. ' 1 - It, was reported that Sulzer had a telephonic device installed In the ex ecutive mansion at Albany and that by means of records thus obtained be planned to substantiate many of his charges. '. The grand jury remained in session until a late hour last night investigat ing another story of graft. This, It was stated, related to a contract for seme work on the Catskill aquaduct which called for the payment by the city of more than $800,000. Five pet- cent of this or more than $40,000, It was charged, was paid to a Tammany politician by the concern which 'was awarded the contract. '. STRATCHCONA TO BE BURIED IN LONDON London, Jan. 23. Westminster Ab bey Is not to be the last resting place of Lord Stratchona and Mount Royal, late high commission for Canada, who died Wednesday. The relatives ol the dead statesman definitely decid ed yesterday to carry out his wish and bury him in Highgate cemetery, N. London, beside his wife, who died in November. a Copy of "Accurate and Dependable 5 1 I I
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