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THIS GAZETTE-NEWS BAB TUB MOST EXPENSIVE ASSOCIAT ED PRESS SERVICE IN TH B iWEATHEB FO RECAST i PARTLY CliOUDY. it i, si ; CAROLINAS It It VOLUME XIX. NO. 128 ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY' AFTERNOON, JULY' 9,' 1914 FRIGE FIVE CENTS SBTE MAY BUY MITGHELL PEAK mber1ag Operations on Mt. . Mitchell- Are -Stopped at ' The Instance of Goyer-,. nor Craig. 1 WILL RECOMMEND PURCHASE BY STATE Governor Hopes to Preserve The Boundary For Its Beauty And For Con servation Purposes. GAVE R'Y-PASSES TO 34,000 PERSONS Report of . Interstate Commerce Commission Shows L. and N. -.. And N. C. and St. L. Distributed Passes to Many Federal and State. Officials. Timbering operation on the top ot Mount Mitchell, and on all the peaks fmm Potato Tod to Mitchell' peak. Including Clingman's ' dome, have been stomted. The operation have been discontinued upon an agreement reached between Governor Craig and t.ov n nri Crockett the owners ' of th. timhnr boundary Involved. Gov. ernor Craig wlir recommend that the Btate of North Carolina purchase the boundary including the tops of these peaks lh order that the beauty of the highest mountains east 01 me iwi-n les may, be conserved. It was upon his guarantee that such a recommen dation would be made that the op ! erattdna have ceased. ' , .The master was reported to Gov ernor Craig a short time ago by W. L. Jpunn. who has leased the summit of Mount Mitchell, it - being pointed out that the operations would even tually remove every vestige of imber from the peaks, even to the pulp wood,, and that they would be left absolutely barren. The governor im mediately took the matter up with the owners 'and the agreement was reached whereby the operations are stopped temporarily. Governor Craig believes that the state will follow his recommendation in making the pur chose, as it would be an irreparable loss for the -summits of these moun tains to be stripped of all .timber that adds so much to their beauty and at the same time conserves the water t supply for the- country- for tntlpn . around. . The operations In the removal of the timber from the mack Mountain in nki beran several years ago, when Inrge boundaries were purchased by Dickey and Campbell. , A narrow guage logging road was built from Black Mountain to a point near the . summit of Mount Mitchell and since . then a great amount of merchantable timber has been removeed. The prop erty was sold lost year to Perley and Crockett and the operations contin ued 'on. an even larger scale. ' The slopes of Mount Mitchell and the surrounding" peaks, which consti tute a range of the highest mount ains east of the Rockies, were cover ed with virgin timber when the oper ations began and the supply appear ed to be almost Inexhaustible. As the operations continued, however, it was seen that eventually the peaks would bo entirely stripped and an injury done that could really never be re paired. It was for this reason that the matter was taken up with Gov ernor Craig and the owners have evl denced a spirit of co-operation Washington, July 9. Free ' passes represents 11,000,000 miles of travel and valued at more than $340,000 were distributed to 84,000 persons by the Louisville & Nashville, and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis railroads during 1913, according to a report submitted to the senate today by the Interstate commerce commis sion. The commission, whose investi gating was in response to a senate resolution In its report, characterized the destributlon of free transportation as " menace to the institutions of a free people." '. 1 ' The report shows that the Louisville & Nashville gave passes to one United States senator; two. representatives in congress; 139 other federal officers; 1336 state cenators; 1326 state repre sentatives; 1679 other state officials, 89 Judges and many other local office holders. The Nashville, Chattanooga & SI Louis, is credited with passes to 161 United States officials, other than members of congress; 5814 state sen ators; 8439 representatives; 1086 other WIN state officials; 170 Judges, and num erous other local officials. "Lists of passes to the various class es were prepared. Such lists reveal the manner In which these carriers dipped into practically every domain of public and private life, through the Instrumentality of free passes. There is scaracely a walk of life which is not represented In this procession of recipients of passes, from the federal bench to the local politician and the sheriff who summons the Jury. ' The threads represented by these passes tie thousands of citizens, to tlTe carrier through improper relations. The lack of morality reflected by the facts here compiled Is a menace to the In stitutions 'of a, free people. These citizens who sell their influence quite as much as though . they accepted money bribes, seem to be as willing to be tied as the carriers are ready to tie them. Men pledge their influ ence quietly in ; the home, or school or club, in the professions, In busines In city councils and administrative boards In courts of Justice, in exe cutive halls and at the polls," said the report '. WILL BE HELD District; Att'y. Weeks Thinks It Unlikely Mrs. Carmen , Will .Be indicted For The Murder. BELIEVES EVIDENCE IS NOT SUFFICIENT Mrs. Carmen, in Jail For Kill ing Mrs. Louise Bailey, Breaks-Down as Hus band Leaves Her. NOMINEE ARBURG HAS REkJNSIDERED Will Not Have Pre? jf t Withdraw His Name as Member of Reserve Boarc Provided He Does Not Have to Go Before Senate For Examination. UNOR CRAIG feOES TO RALEIGH Wia Attend State Encamp- bent and Fill Eeveral . Engagements. - Governor Locke Craig, " who has been for at the Battery Park hotel here several weeKs wun nis iamny, I, 1 KNOWN leave i this afternoon for Raleigh and will to from there to Morehead. City, for Ke .annual encampment of the Nort i, Carolina national guard. The gove nor will have several ' appolnt men i to fill in the eastern section of the late, besides considerable official bust ma to consider while in Raleigh, and le is uncertain as to when he will ben ile to return to Ashevllle. He ex pect to come back, however,' as soon as It is possible and enjoy the re mainder of his -vacation. ' E IN QUEST OF SEASON'S STYLES MEXICAN POLICY Washington, July 9. That the American government will give with in a few days an indication of the policy it Intends to pursue in any case, in the Mexican situation, was the belief expressed this morning In many quarters. President Wilson and his advisers still await information from the southern republic aa to what the con stltutionalists inted to do, Border re ports were partly confirmed in Washington that the -rebels,, would not agree ' to parley., . Definite- expression of Its plans will not bemade by the American government until tha prop osition , or me conierence is seiuea and the information on the scope of the "Villa-Carranza agreement is re ceived. The status of mediation pro ceedings and of the American troops at Vera Cruz are two 'pressing tea- tures hanging on the ultimate action of the rebels toward the proposed peace meeting. Anxiety over the situation at Vera Cruz, where mutineers in Huerta'i army threatened ,to attack the Amer ican outposts, today was relieved by the report that the malcontents num bered less than 60 and that some of them had been executed. The Designers Fail to Decide On the Length of Mi lady's Coat. Washington, July 9. Paul Warburg, the New York banker, has reconsid ered his request that President Wilson withdraw his nomination as a mem ber of the federal reserve board on the condition that he will not consent to appear before the senate banking committee to be cross-examined. After receipt of a telegram from Mr. Warburg today it was said by those close to the president that an active fight would be made for the confirm ation. It was said that should the banking committee fall to report fav orably, the president expects the sen ate, as a whole, to act. Mr. War burg's telegram was not given out, but after its receipt, officials at the White House said the name would not be withdrawn. That declaration followed a visit by Senators Thomas and Sha froth to the White House. They are understood to have told the president that only a few democrats would op pose Mr. Warburg's confirmation. The situation as to the naming of Washington, July 9. How 42 Amer icans and Porto Rlcans in the besieged city of Fuerto Plata weer taken out and safely landed in the revenue cut ter Algonquin on June 26 under a heavy fire from the Dominican federal troops and the legalistas was related in detail Is reports received today at revenue headquarters. When the Al gonquin reached Puerto Plata on June 26, the battleship South Carolina, the German cruiser Dresden and the United States gunboat Machla . were anchored outside of the reef. , A Dom inican gunboat was blockading, Puerto Plata, held by the legalistas and troops New York. July 9. The experi ment tried this year of not holding a convention of designers and manu- In fncturers of popular priced women s suspending operations temporarily In cloaks is held responsible for a tangle order that arrangements may be , on the question of styles for tne corn made to conserve the beauty and I lng season. The designers have fall value of these peaks as a watershed. ed to get together on the question of One of the gravest dangers to the ! length of milady's cloak and the forested peaks brought about by the manufacturers were asked to decide timbering operations Is that of fire, for them. Only last week there was a fire on j At a meeting held Tuesday the the slopes of Mount Mitchell that did manufacturers shifted the responsl- damnse to the amount of snnroxl-! blllty to an executive committee. It trnately $10,000. This fire raged was expected today that this commit through the boundary that had been lee woulil decide that garments cut over and stopped Just short of'houM be from II to 42 inches In the top. The beauty of the peak was length, and let It go at that or refer not Impaired by this costly fire, al- the matter to someone else, though It brought to the attention of those .familiar with Conditions the ' danger In uttire of having the entire forowt'd area of the peaks wiped out ' - "C CASE HEIST GUARD Charges That Hardy Pressley Was Drunk Found to be Insufficient. ' E OF 7 Reported on Way to Butte From Helena to Investi gate Trouble There.. " Butt. Mont, July . Uncertainty surrounds the whereabouts of at least seven officers of the International Craft union who forth pant few days have been reported on their way to Butt to investigate the trouble her. Reports from Helena last 'night said the men had left there at noon for Butta. Today they were not registered at sny rt the hotels her and local , unlorui with which they are amllateO knew nothing of their whereabout-. Cllnard Pennell, who has been with th Barb Clrar company for th past four year, la with that Ann bo Uuurar. LAND TRANSFERS AND VALUES CONSIDERED Pittsburgh; July I. Delegates to th seventh annual convention of th National Real Estate exchanges to day beard discussions dealing with land values and transfers. Continu ous business sessions until noon, a meeting after lncheon of the sacra tarles' association and riders on th livers and excursions to points of In terest p th day's program. PRESIDENT THANKED FOR SELLING WARSHIPS Washington, July I. President Wilson has received a telegram from th Pan-Htllenlo union in , America thanking him for th sal of th bat- tlenhtn Idaho and Mississippi to Oreec. "W consider th aet an aet of hu manity In preventing th outbreak of a new wsr In th nesr -mat," wrote th president of the union. . Wheat Condition. Mineola, L., I., July 9. There is much doubt,- in the opinion of. Assist ant District Attorney Weeks, whether there will be enough evidence for a grand Jury indictment against' Mrs. Thomas 1). Jones, of Chicago, remains Florence Carman, charged with the 1 .-. murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, and I yesterday committed. to the county Jail awaiting an. examination on the charge. Mrs. Carman's ease was expected to come up before the grand Jury late today, but ' according to Mr. Weeks there was little likelihood of an in dictment. The number of witnesses to be examined would preclude this today.-- '' ' It is not unlikely," said the assist ant district attorney, "that when Mrs. Carman appea i on Monday before Coroner Norton, who will then be act ing i? the capacity of Justice of the peace, she will be discharged. At that time Mrs. ' Carman'B attorney will have the right to . cross examine the witnesses who testify against the prisoner. Dr. Carman, who has come to Mineola for the day, found his wife in better spirits when he .visited her in Jail. She seemed to have recovered her composure and to be less nervous, ..-. -BresJyi Bowk,jj "After her husband left Mrs. Carman broke down In' her cell and her condl tlon became so acute that the prison authorities called in the staff physi cian. George Levy, attorney for Mrs, Carman, today said he has discovered two new witnesses whose testimony he considered extremely valuable. He said he had Information that two wit nesses whose testimony had been In strumental In having : Mrs. Carman held, were far from the scene at the time of the murder. ; Fteeport, N. Y., July 9. With Mrs. Florence Conklin, .Carman In Jail at Mineola, charged with the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey the district attor ney said he was ready to convince the grand Jury of the woman's guilt. El wood Bardes, the witness who caused the district attorney to Issue a warrant for Mrs. Carman Is also held as a ma terial witness. His description of the woman he saw at the Carman home corresponds with the clothing Mrs. Carman was said to have worn. , Mrs. Carman said she would go before the grand Jury and walse Immunity, a thing unusual In a person charged with murder. She will be brought back to Kreeport on Monday for ar ralgnment Dr. Carman declared today that nothing would be left undone to provo the Innocence of his wife. He was positive that Mrs. Carman did not fire th shot that killed Mrs. Bailey. the same and it was said at the White House that the president would con tinue to press for his nomination. A letter from the Chicago delega tion of businessmen received yesterday by the president endorsing his state ment regarding Mr. Warburg and Mr. Jones, was made public at the White House. '. . , "No more hopeful, helpful, finer words have come from the Whit House and we believe they will meet with the nation's hearty approval, said the letter. No official word went from the White House to the banking commit tee but some senators were indicating that the committee would, stand by its request that Mr. Warburg appear bo fore it. It was said the two demo crats on the committee planned to compile .all the correspondence In the case and send It to the WTiite House. The Warburg nomination was dis cussed only informally today by the committee. It took up In detail only the nomination of Mr. Jones. KILLED SISTER, 11N 1IKS Mrs. Eloise Dennis Informs Mother of Crime and Ex presses Intention of !' Killing Brother. SAN FRANCISCO POLICE WORKING ON MYSTERY Information of Confessed Crime Is Furnished Police by Wo- man's Mother Murder : Not Discovered. Dominican Troops Fire On American Refugees Charges against Hardy Pressly, K guard at convict camp No. 2, of being diutik were heard yesterday afternoon by the board of county commisslanert. The case occupied several hours, at the conclusion' of which the board held that the charges were Insufficient to warrant a lUamtssal. He was sus pended several days ago by the board pending an Investigation of the case and this suspension was lifted yester day. A large number of the convicts nt the camp were brought In as witnesses and much Interest was taken In the cast) by the county officials. The matter of the Elk Mountain road was taken up by the board and a survey providing that the road be constructed with a six per cent grada was accepted by tne ooara, arter tnree surveys had been submitted. It Is stated that the work of constructing) th road will b started at an .- ly date. The board offered ' a proposition whereby they will furnish th chlppod limestone for grading and surfa.'iig of Edgemont avenu if the city i.f Ashevllle will furnish the labor for th work. It Is expected that th mnil.T will be brought before th aldermanlo body tomorrow night The board appropriated $200 lor the construction of a culvert oppo'! Woolsey hall, provided th city pro vides for th remainder of th work to be done. , Beveral minor matter of a rontln natur were transacted by th board. BIG WHEAT CROP DOES NOT MEANJMILL PRICE World Crop Not Above Aver age and Corn Supply Rela tively Short. Famous Catrher Die. Philadelphia. Pn July I. Osal Schrerkengost, who wort fam as th battery partner of Rub , Waddell, when th latter was th star plt'-ber of tv..i,Uri,ii Jul. i rvinitltlon nf th Philadelphia Athletic, died in a winter wheat 94.1: spring wheat 91,1. hospital her today rrom a compile. Condition earn. IS. I: corn -craf I tlon of disease. H wa about 49 1I,T,000. lyean old. ' of President Bordas were bosieging the city on land. The revenue cutter officers conferred with the commanding officer of the South Carolina, who agreed to take the refugees from the pier and land them on the Algonquin. However, 'sniping and fighting were so sharp that it was not deemed advisable to make the attempt until early on the morning of June 26. Lieutenant Whltbeck, commanding small boats went after the refugees. Bullets struck the water all about the rescue vessels but no one on the boats was struck - There were nine Americans in the party. REPOR TE NDDRSES I'll S E Education Association's Res olution Committee Favors Votes For Women represents an achievement " muoh greater than was thought possible within so Bhort a time." "Making a flying boat capable of carrying fuel and provisions for a flight of 24 hours and so constructed as to protect the pilot is a big under taking as It is also to develop reliable motors. "If by any chance It should be nec essary to give up the America and construct a new aeroplane that would be no reflection upon the America it would still stand as a remarkable achievement, marking In reality the advent of the aeroplane-yacht. Washington, .July 9. Despite a wheat crop estimate this year of 930, 000.000 bushels, th record crop, there Is no prospect, according to th de partment of agriculture, of greatly re duced price. Such a larg crop would augur very low prices, tald the depart ment In a statement today, wtr it not that th world crops' of competing grains do not promts more than the average of recent year. Heeldes mora than th usual diversion of wheat from It us food, to us for food for live stork may be expected became of the present relatively short supply of corn and th abundant supply of wheat. Corn selling In Kansas for about even cents per bushel mor than wheat, would Indicate that th latter 111 be used as feed for animals. It la estimated that, about 41,000,000 bushel of wheat of last year' crop wa consumed as livestock feed. St. Paul, Minn., July 9. To hear committee reports and adopt resolu tions the National Education associa tion held Its annual business meeting today. The unanimous election of Dr. David Starr Jordan of Leland Stan ford university, California, is expected. The resolution committee embodies In Its report a woman suffrage en dorsement. It does not specifically name man or woman, but s tat is that educators of the country believe "po litical equality" for sexes necessary for the best Itnerests of the nation. While the business meeting was In session, various measures pertaining to the welfare of the child were dlkc-ussed In different departments, and plans outlined for corrections vital to the educational world. Speaking before the, department of child hygiene Dr. IajuIs Rapier, chief of the training school for teachers, advocated aa a means for doing away with enormous tlnanclul loaa better ed ucation for children. "The average family has a loss of from five toflfteen per cent because of 111 health," he said. "Given the right condition! country boys become as proficient aa others." ADD TO TESTIMONY IN NEW HAVEN CASE Washington, July 9. Attorneys fo Charles S. Brooker and William H. Skinner, directors for the New Haven railroad, filed briefs today with the Interstate commerce commission sup plementing testimony given at the in stigation of the roads financial af fairs. The two directors reiterated that President Mellcn's policy of ex pansion was well known to all the stockholders; denied that the late J.' Morgan controlled the board and held that the dividends were always paid from the net earnings. New York, July 9. Arrived Steamer Russia, Llheau. Don Trainer Dtaa. Mt. Clemens. Va., July I. -Wtorlo Lorento, of Philadelphia, an animal trainer, dld her today as th result of a vicious attack by two young lion owned by a street carnival eompany, EXISTJUEBOPUI Nothing Encountered Which Would Make Atlantic Flight 1 Impossible. New York, July I. Officer f ,th aero elub today emphatically denied rumor that mechanical Imperfections had been encountered In th construc tion of the America, which would mak the trans-Atlantlo flight an Im possibility until a mor reliabl hydro aeroplan had been built Henry Woodhause, a prominent member of th rro club and recognised as an authuinf on flying craft. Issued this statement: Th necelty for further develop rnents In th Amerloa la not causing ny anxiety among aeronautical au Ihorltles. As It stands th America San Francisco, July 9. The polle of San Francisco were today asked to aid In the investigation of a mystery brought out in an exchange of tele- grams between this city and Atlanta, Ga. Chief of Police White received- from the head of the southern city police department: See Marshall Nelms and inform - him that his mother has received a letter from his sister Elois, marked San Francisco, June 30, stating that' ; she killed her sister Beatrice In. New- Orleans and that she Intends to kill, her brother Marshall." - Nelms told the police that he hurt. two sisters, Beatrice Nelms and Mr,s. Elols Eddems. They had gone from New Orleans to Texas In June, he raid, and the last word from them Wfts. to their mother, dated June 23, from Texas and Jointly signed by the Initials E and B. ' He showed the folowing telegram signed "Mamma," -ecelved yesterday. "Cook out for Elfclse; she has killed B." Nelms declined to furnish the police with further Information unless It was shown a murder had been cohnmitted. A search of San Francisco and Okland hoc f r, il ,1 tn ..dmU In a tui-.A tV, A , woman. i Atlanta, July 9. J. L. , Beavers, chief of police here, today admitted that he telegraphed the police de partment in San Francisco that an attempt might be made- upon the life of Marshall Nelms olf that city, by his sister Mrs. Eloise Dennis. Chief Beavers admitted that he had seen Mrs. Nelms, and said sho had shown him a letter bearing a Han Franclco postmark in which Mrs, Dennis said she had killed her sister, Beatrice Nelms, and intended to kill her brother Marshall. Chief Beavers said that Mrs. Nelms now is In .Atlanta, but refused to say where she could be found. He declined to discuss the mat ter further. Efforts to locate Mrs. Nelms so far have failed. Vessel Arrive. ANOTHER SLUMP IN STOCK OF NEW HAVEN New York, July 9. New Haven railroad shares fell to a new low rec ord today selling at 62 , soon after the opening of the stock market. Tbs previous low price was 63, made a few days ago. The company's differ ences with the federal government in connection with the Boston and Maine railroad are believed to have caused the slump. Enjoyed Stay. Havana, July 9. The crew' of th American battleship Connecticut, which sailed today for Haltlen porta enjoyed very much their stay her after so many days on board ship In Mexican waters. e FREE COUPON Tr7 J r IDEAL AKTv PATTERN OUTFIT xAM iTU'IMTi MAUA.INC FlfHKTATlOB IT Gazette-News Thursday July 5 SIX OF THE ABOVE COUPONS EWTTTLE EVERY READER TO THESE TWO GREAT GIFTS CUT N. I IDEAL ART PATTERN OUTFIT CatbJn( MS N iwt ttimlmmtAmrt rMb M at hMttuMTr tb Mart - -Met, mi I caaU mrk. l-rs t ratall nlM w iM e i mmm tiaae, m Or-ipteX le f hwilifT SUtotun by ttmm. IM t Mm the sotoa rrvnrfc npti. piral tnhnmy H wHl mmmrt tf erae. 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