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TH GAZETTE-NEWS , HAS I A , C d 4 rt rt f , (1 "rt L I "WEATHER FORECAST: FAIR; FREEZING TONIGHT. VOLUME XX. NO. 15. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS Ljrir i : I 11 1 ' '' ' ' "" '"" ' ' i ... TURKS STIRRED BY FORTS' FALL SENATE DEFEATS CHILD LABOR BILL Jlags.of England and France Flying Over Outer Darda nelles Forts Turks Pre pared to Move. NORTH POLAND CENTER OF INTEREST IN EAST Russians Trying to Regain Ground Won by Von Hin denburg Engagements in Bukowina Region. Lost by a Vote of 29 to 8 House Passes Bynum Divorce Bill ASSEMBLY if ill TIE However, Four of the Biggest State-wide Measures Have Yet to Be Disposed of by the House. AN ALMOST EQUAL NUMBER IN SENATE London, March 1. Flags' - of JGreat Britain and France were ring today at the entrance of the Dardanelles over the Turk ish forts which were reduced jbv the sea forces of the allies. Virile it would appear that lie allied fleet has reached lifinnlr In milpsa snntli nf hp (Mediterranean entrance of the mi mi, me jjiiiioii pi coo waius the public to expect the imme- Idiate fall of Constantinople. Nevertheless the operations of the British and French war- hips against the sea defenses of the Turkish capital have cre ated a tremendous stir in the Near-East. Broussa, in Asiatic Turkey, has been selected by the Turkish government as the temporary capital in case it be comes necessary to evacuate Constantinople. It is declared that the Germans in Turkey had advised that the govern ment be removed to Adrian ople, in European Turkey. In the fighting on the eastern battle front interest for the moment has been deflected from the Carpathians to North Poland, where the Russians ap parently are making desperate efforts to regain the ground which Field Marshal Von Hin denburg won when he threw them back from East Prussia. The stubborn struggle contin ues on the line from the Bobr river to the Narew, where Grand Duke Nicholas has yet to establish his ascendency. Vienna reports violent en gagements in Bukowina with out saying anything about the outcome, while Petrograd claims to have checked the Austro-German forces in this province. In the west interest is Btill centered in the Champagne dis trict, where fierce attacks and counter attacks have marked the operations of the last week. Investing Ktanlnlau. Pari. March 1. The Bucharest Ha. vas' correspondent repeats the report , thnt the Russians have re-occupled Kolomea, Gallclo, and are Investing1 Htnnlslau. Kolomea wag taken after a desperate fight, on- Wednesday, Febru ary 26, the correspondent saya Raleigh, March 1. The Weaver child laor law -was lost in the senate Saturday afternoon by 29 to 8 and with it went every hope of legislation of this character at the present Bitting of the general assembly. Over in the house a divorce bill went through by the thrilling vote of 44 to 43. On this measure Thursday night the house voted 49 to 38. Preachers came on the floor and warn ed against the loosening of the martial tie. It must have done good in bring ing five to support the bill and driving about five to support the bill and driv ing about five to cover. No converts were apparently made. The aye and no rollcall on this vote gave the biggest excitement of the season. To those keeping tab it ap peared certain that the anti-divorce people had won. Before the vote was announced Mr. Hampton, of Currituck, asked to be recorded in favor of the Bynum bill which Is not regarded a loose divorce act. It changed the ayes from 43 to 44, and the noes from 44 to 43. The Bynum bill simply gives abso lute separation to a woman who can produce one of the statutory grounds for asking a divorce. It changes the law not a particle except in the num ber of years. The old bill thinks 10 is proper, the new five. The house passed the machinery act on second reading and prepared for the third. It is understood that sev eral amendments will be offered, ,,,onJ the third, otherwise there would have been no second reading today. The changes are not many and the authors of the bill believe that their work is substantially done. Solicitors of State Are Making Strong Fight for Increased Fees Rumor of Retali ation by Mill Men, Funeral of Chief Freelamt Special to The Gazette-News. . Durham, March 1. With the hon era of the Masonic order, and followed by an escort nf police and firemen, and the members of the Durham Light In fantry, of which he was the first cap tain, the late Chief of Police John Fletcher Freeland wbj laid to rest in Moplewood cemetery yesterday afternoon. Thousands of people watched the reat procession that followed the body of the dead chief to the ceme tery, and hundreds of others filled very available Inch of space In Trin ity Methodist church from which the ,funral services were conducted. U. S. CLAIMS OF CLAY COUNTY LAND Judge Merrimon and Marshall Bell of Murphy Appear in Case at Washington. A dispatch from Washington to day says that Judge James II. Merri mon of Asheville and Marshall Bell of Murphy are in the national capital to argue the case of the United States against the Hlawassee Lumber com pany, appearing for the defendants, while Ernest Knaebel and S. W. Wil liams represent the government This Is an action In ejectment, brought bv the United States in the western district of North Carolina, to try the title to a tract of land con tainlrig 8,000 acres In Clay county. The land was granted by the state of North Carolina to E. B. Olmstead in 1867, and the latter caused It to be deeded to the United States in 186! In satisfaction nf a claim he owned the government The deeds under which the government claims to own the land were regularly executed and ac knowledged In the District of Colum bia and in the state of Pennsylvania liefore commissioners authorized to act for the ntate of North Carolina, and were actually spread upon the re cords In Clay county soon afterwards but the defendant, who claims under the later deeds from Olmstead, con tends that the government's deeds were not properly ordered to registra tion at the time they were recorded In 189. Both the district court and the cir cuit court of appeals decided that the registration of the government deeds was Invalid and the United States car ried the ram to the Supreme court The land is worth about $40,000 or $f,0,0n0 and the principal question In volved la the construction of the North Carollan registration laws. Sheriff Found Dead. Pp!(l! to The Gazette-News. Greensboro, March 1 John W. Cook, fonffor sheriff of Guilford coun ty and one of Its best-known oltlsens, m found dead yesterday morning In the bath room of hie home at 10 Kprltur Garden afreet. Heart tronlil for which he had been taking treat ; tnent for some time, was the cause of im death. OF THE DISTRICT 'COI The United States District court convenes here this morning, although Judge James E. Boyd of Greensboro will not arrive until Wednesday, and ""urt will be adjourned from day to day until Thursday. Jurors who were summoned to be present in court thl morning were notified about a week ago by Clerk llyami of these ad journed sessions, and will receive further notice a to when they should apiiear., ANStRlGEHPHY Letter by Judge J, D. Murphy Is Considered in Very Lengthy Reply. ) This morning the campaign man agers in charge .of the contest for the adoption of the proposed amendments to the city charter gave out the fol lowing statement in answer to Judge J. D. Murphy's' letter in the Sunday Citizen In regard to the powers a, duties of the prtwosed commlsslonei "In his letterin''rtje Sunday Cltlaeji juuge rauryny umn.ro Doia to aeciare, mm wife iTEjlLSOM Wife of German Reservist, Ac cused of Fraudulently Se curing Passports, Ap peals to President, j ASKS FOR STEGLER'S RELEASE ; NO SUPPORT (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, March 1. In the that the general assembly wlU com plete its work within the constitu tional limit and adjourn Saturday, March 6, the smallest number of rep resentatives who live near or remote went to their homes Saturday, 1 This circumstance is about the sole evidence of so early an adjournment as four of the biggest state-wide mea sures must yet come through : the house and an almost equal number go through the senate. The primary, the machinery act, the increased solicit ors' fees and the child labor legisla tion must be debated on the floor of the lower house before adjournment is possible. And the senate must talk liquor yet another day, pass the machinery bill, settle the divorce measure passed Fri day by the house and take up also the solicitor s appeal. A fifth measure likely to be offered is another divorce bill putting men and women on the same moral standard, and if the land segregation act gets properly on the calendar it may make the sixth . But the four mentioned have gone through one house and must get through- both to become effective. The solicitors have been in Raleigh making their appeal known to com mittees. They have been invited here. What they are now asking Is that the scale of $4, $5, $10 and $20 fees be changed from those figures to $8, $15 and $25. The present fees are $4 for misdemeanors, $5 for the smaller fel onies, $10 for forgery and perjury, and $20 for capital felonies. But if the defendant Is convicted of less than a capital felony the solicitor receives $10. Under the proposed change the so licitors would receive $5 for misde meanors, $8 for the lesser felonies, $15 for perjury and forgery and $25 for the capital offenses. The prose cuting officers would wish also that no reduction of fees be made In which defendants are convicted of less than the capital offense. Nearly every solicitor In North Car olina has been here the past ten days and talked with the general assembly members. They bring strong argu ments with them. In the first place this Is to be no Increase In the state's appropriations. It does not pay a cent. In a large percentage of the convic tions the fees will come as a part of the bill of costs and in others the prisoners work the roads and the counties get the benefit of that labor. Some Probable Legislation. Several of the cotton mill men who are members of both houses were asked if they could tell the origin of the story that an amendment to the Weaver anti-child labor bill was ready for Introduction had the bill rtood any show at all. The amendment seems to have been designed to get bark at the newspa pers -which have been roasting the mill men. This act would have stop ped the newspaper carrier boys who rise, rubbing eyes, early In the morn ing, the delivery boys In telegraph of. flees and the farming youngsters who are In the fields when day breaks. No mill man had any knowledge of the proposed act, hut visitors here said such a bill will go In the house today If any more la said on child labor. State House In Mourning. The capltol- was draped heavily yes terday with the habiliments of grief and the speaker's desk was put In solid black In the afternoon and evening. Over the door that enters the building, the white and black drapery stretches and the flag la dropped In honor of the speaker, Emmett. R. Wooten who died yeeterdav . after noon. This Insignia will remain until the session Is over, It Is srwt. in referring to the powers and the1 duties of the commissioners under the proposed charter"! 'I venture to say that no such vasnd unlimited pow ers as these above mentioned are vested in any city officers on this earth not even Jn Russia.' This is indeed a very sweeping statement and by Its very Implications forces upon the advocates of commission eovern- beliefiment tne necessity of asking Judge Murphy to Bhow his hand. "In order that the author of this broadside assertion may cut the gar ment of his statement to suit the cloth of the evidence we respectfully submit that these same powers are now exercised by the 'city officers' of j Asheville, The boar dof aldermen at the present times does exerefce almost unlimited power to levy taxes through its properly constituted officers. The board of aldermen at the present time does exercise almost unlimited power to spend the money of the peo ple. The present board has already authorized a bond Issue of $50,000 to cover floating Indebtedness created last -year. With becoming respect to the present aldermen, we ask Judge Murphy whether the people were tak en Into confidence about the Issuing of bonds which they must meet. The board of aldermen exercises directly or indirectly 'unlimited power to as- sers the property of the people for street, and sidewalk Improvements, or other such aTOessmest,' "The powers which Judiia Murphy enumerates ,.,re mw .excyised, by, the. 'city officers' of Anhevllle, Conse nuently, the crux of ' his objection seems to lie In the reduction of these responsible 'city officers' from nine to three. He Ignores the fact that under the present system there are no pat ent checks upon any abuse of these great powers, while under commis sion government the officers can be controlled by the people thr nigh the exercise of the privileges of the lnltia tlve, the referendum and the recall The true essence of democracy lies not In the sumber of the governing officials but In the ability of the neo pie to control these officials. The people ,f Asheville, furthermore, nre more equipped to elect three enmpe tent men than they are to elect nine men: the conspicuous positions that the commissioners will occupy will enable the voters to select a. fewer number of men with more discrimina tion. "Judge Murphy Is apparently labor ing under the delusion that the dis tribution of powers under the pro posed charter Is radically different from such division to he found In other commission charters. In the fundamental, the new charter pro vldes for the same centralization of powers that Is to he found In the some 350 commission charters usder which eight million 'free American citizens' now live. In fact, the divl slon of powers provided for In the proposed bill Is the stereotyped one for cities of the same population and problems as Ashcvllle's, and the sec tion "which Judge Murphy quoted Is to be found practically verbatim In many charters, notably that of Greensboro. "That Inst clause which Judge Murphy quotes was taken from the section which gives the commissioners the power to provide rules and regu lations for 'the management and eon duct of all hocpltals and sanltorlums which msv have for treatment any patlest afflicted with any Infectious, contagious or other communicable dls- eaReV is there nnytntng strnn-e In the Says Her Husband Told Truth Alleged Letter of Boy Ed. Scoring Mrs. Steg ler Made Public. BRIETUNG WILL DEMAND RIGHTS LARGE GATHERING PAYS TO Late Speaker of N. C. House Placed to Rest at Home at Kinston. New York, March 1. Mrs, Richard P. Stealer, arrested today in a hotel i on a charge of felonious assault made I by Arthur Matoiket, a reporter on a German newspaper, was discharged later from the Police court Had cer tain evidence been more definite, the magistrate stated, he would have been inclined to send her accuser to the workhouse. N'ew York. March 1. A young wo man, who according to the police gave her mime as Sirs. Annie Stegler. and described by them as the wife of Rich ard P. Stegler, a prisoner in Uie Tombs in connection with the alleged pass ports fraud, was arrested early today on a charge of felonious assault, made by Arthur Marteket. Washington, March H. President Wilson has received a letter from Mrs. Richard P. Stegler, wife of the German reservist, who was arrested in New York for fraudulently obtaining an American passport, in which she declares that her husband was led Into the project by Captain Boy-Ed, German naval attache at Washington. Mrs, Stegler asks that her husband bo set free. Her letter was referred to tfc department- o! Justice,- .hich has charge of the investigations of the Stegler case. Mrs. Stegler wrote President Wilfon that Captain Boy-Ed had promised her $150 per month for her support while Stegler was abroad and that sh was to be given $150 per month for life, In case her husband lost his life. Mrs. Stegler declared thnt she had no money and did not know how she was to get support unless her husband was released. When secret service officials came to see her husband, the letter stated, he told them the truth because he wanted everything concerning the affair known. Her husband could have hurned the passport, Mrs. Stegler wrote and thus have saved himself from accusation but Insisted he told everything. Charles H. Griffiths, attorney for Stegler has announced that he would deliver to the federal authori ties an anonymous typewritten letter received by Mrs. Stegler, which would be compared with letters alleged to have been written to Stegler by Cap tain K. Boy-Ed, naval attache of the German embassy at Kinston, N. C, March 1. Buried under a wealth of floral tributes, the casket ocntainlng all that is mortal of the late Speaker Emmett R. Wooten was borne to the local cemetery yes terday, and placed in the family bury ing ground. A majority of the mem bers of both houses of the legislature attended the funeral, coming from Raleigh on the afternoon train. The services were brief , but impressive. and audible expressions of grief were heard during the short sermon. The body was accompanied to the grave by practically all the legislators, in addition to a guard of honor from the North Carolina National guard, under personal command of General Lawrence W. Young. The funeral was probably the largest ever held in Kinston, practically every one In town attending to show, by their pres ence, their respect and grief. Mr. Wooten was one of the most popular men in Kinston, and his death is sin cerely mourned here. Owner of Dacia, Seized by French Cruiser, Expects American Government to Protect Him. U. S. TO AWAIT FRENCH PRIZE COURT RULING Protest Will Be Entered if Va lidity of Transfer of Regis try Is Not Recognized r by the Prize Court. HEAI5 STORE ENTERED T Robber Scared Away Before He Was Able to Take Any Goods. ; Brest, France, March 1. The American steamer Dacia, which was seized last week by a French cruiser . and brought to this port, has been towed from the roadstead to the Brest naval harbor. lirietung's Statement. New York, March 1. Official noti fication of the seizure of the Amerl-1 can steamer Dacia, formerly of the Hamburg-American line, by a French cruiser had not been receive this morning by Edward N. Brietung, owner of the vessel. ; In a statement issued today. Mr. ; Urletung says: "I know that the government. If necessary, will ask for reparation due any American citizen acting within. his rights. I know of no correct state ment of international law that can be Invoked against the Dacia and I pro pose to demand my rights. "The American government would not have granted the Dacia the right to fly the stars and stripes if it had not meant that the flag as carried by the vessel- would be recognized and respected by every foreign power. The Dacia is as much an American vessel as the American laws can make her, and I expect her to sail once more for our shores flying the American flag. I am not Interested in her cargo. "The Dacia is Insured In England by private parties. I recently pur chased an English vessel, and I am now In the market for two more. I Another attempted robbery occur red Saturday night when an entrance was forced into the basement of the J. M. Ilearn and company store on Government street and an effort made to get away with a bicycle and flo not eare whether they are French It. numerous appliances for the store was visited by one of the members of the firm yesterday morn ing, drops of blood were found over the floor and upon investigation, the when!or German." J in l-Ycnen itizo court. Washington, March 1. Seizure' of the American steamer Dacia formerly a Hamburg-American liner, by a bicycle and appliances were discover-1 French cruiser, which took the vessel ed In the basement. Access had been to j-jregt, places the entire question of gained to the basement by forcing ; the validity of a transfer of flags af open a grating, in the rear, used fonter tne outbreak of hostilities before passing coal Into the basement. Thetne prize courts of France for adjudl robber had evidently made his wayicatorli to the upper floor and taken his t!me Whereas the practice of England, in selecting one of the best bicycles i American officials have contended. In stock and he had selected nearly conformg Dretty much to the doctrine Stecrler. according to Mr. Griffiths, has told the federal authorities that Cap tain Boy-Ed wanted him to go to Eng land as a spy. every attachment that It Is possible to equip a wheel with. The Intruder had then taken the bicycle and the other articles, which he had In a bas ket, down to the basement and had tried to get them through the hole by which be had gained entrance. He Washington, i evidently found that he could not of the United States, the claim ha been set up that France has a tradi tional and unalterable opposition to,' any changes of registry, whatsoever. during war. State department officials and sen ators who have argued the point in congress have pointed out, however. pass the wheel out through the smalt i ,i,at while this doctrine has been pro- hole and became frightened and fled claimed bv France since the time of SHUFDRD LEADS FIGHT T Both Sides Hold Meetings Sat urday to Consider Cam paign Strategy. WILLIAMS REPRESENTS Solicitor J, Ed. Swain left tht city yesterday afternoon for Raleigh on a business trip that will probably keep him In the capital city all of thla wnek. him in the capital city all of this week. The criminal term of Madison county court convenes this morning at Mar shall, and the solicitor has mads ar rangements with nohert R. William for the latter to represent the state at this session of Superior court. There In a good alted docket ready for trial, The executive committee that Is nnm liii-Htiir thu pn rrt nn !(rn nirnliiHt thrt power of the 'city officers' to provide j ,,ro,,oped commission form of govern peeoltles for av violation of such men for Asheville, Saturday after rules and regulations? Isn't auch pow. nootl namri w. K. Shuford as earn er exercised ai xne present time. J p,,,,, manager, with W. II. Daniel as Shouldn't the governing body have w,cr,nry t the nmager, and elected tne ngm io ihkp i.-khi steps to snre-.s ivunk Chanman to nucceed Mr guarn any regulation mat it' iMTishufnH as chairman of the executive prescribe for the preservation of pub lic health? "The Jnrtre Is too extreme In his statements: he Is 'too extreme,' from the scene of his operations. The robber had evidently Injured hlm- Louls XVI. the practice of the French ' admiralty has been different and that self In gaining his entrance to the : in many cases France actually haa ac- place for the room was smattered with blood . The police are working on the case but no urrests have been made as yet. WILLIE JOHNSON HELD quiesced in the right of a vessel to change its registry after the outbreak of hostilities. The Triited States will make no y move until the French prize courts render a decision. If the validity of ; , the transfer Ih not recognized a pro- ; test will be entered. ; When cases arose between the Unl- ted States and France In 1858 tha . ! Washington government controverting the stnti'pient that a traditional French. doctrine prevented her from recog- S nizlng transfers of flag said In its dip lomatic correspondence with the American minister at Paris: "However long may be the period during which this doctrine has form- I ed part of the municipal code of " France, It Is manifestly not In bar- many with her maritime policy, and It Is confidently bellfwefl by this gov ernment that France will not assert It Willie Johnson, efclored, who shot' not only against the practice of other Hazel Campbell, another negro boy, ! nations, but fi,-ainst the autnonjy or Hazel Campbell Shot by John son Saturday Died Yester day at Hospital. X 30 People Ili)orted killed. H Galveston, March 1. Dispatch- It es to the Mexican consulate here t state that an explosion on the t Mexican gunboat Progreso re- suited in the death of 30 pi ople, t including Ave women. The ex it plosion la said to have occurred H yesterday morning while the gun It boat was at Progreso. It was t said what was purport to be a t barrel of rice brought on board H as carro, naa In reality a bomb t which had been prepared by the . enemies of Carrnnza. The roti f. ant here haa cabled for morn in K formation. He Is im tlnM to 't. doubt the report of the explosion. committee. Although the campaign headquarters have not yet been select ed, the nuinaxers are mt wasting any time In beginning the fight by which they expect to defeat the measure ut the coming city election. Following tile hiHtmctlMiiH given him at the nmm meeting I'rlduy iiliiht. the chairman (appointed six additional men to aot on 'the executive committee. The coin- pine list of that committee follows: :W. H. Sliuforit, n. U Mull, John A. Campbell. D. H. Ellas, V, W. Thonum, !Zeb. F. Curtis, J. hVroop Btylea, S. I). IWaldrop. II. A. Miller, W. M. Jones, WjM. D, Ixing and M. II. Kelly. K As announced In these columns (Sat urday afternoon, the adocatna of the proposed municipal changes are now located lit a suite of offices the Eire trlcal building. Haturday night repre sentatives from all the precincts met at headquarters with the executive committee and the managers, T. J. ll irklns and Marcus Krwlu. Report were made on work accomplished since organisation waa begun, and Saturday at noon, at the stable of W. ! B. Brown on South Iexlngton ave-j nut. the latter having died at the Mis-1 slon hospital yesterday morning, waa arrulrtned In Police court today on charges of murder, and the caso con tinued until tomorrow morning. Dr. K. K. Morris, county coroner, held an Inquest yesterday over the body of the I'.impbell boy; and the verdict returned by the Jury was to the effect that the deceased came to his death at llio L.nils or the Johnfon boy. A commitment was Issued for Johnson. He Is still held at the city Jail, pending the outcome of the pre liminary hearing In hla caae tomorrow. BLACK MOUNTAIN LADY PASSED AWAY TODAY W plans were discussed and adopted for several caaea being of unuaual Interest. H H H H H H H H H H H H It H H H whining the light at the polla A report reached thin city this morning of the death of the wife of Uentensnt Wilson nf Black Mountain. No details were learned to the cause of her desth. The funeral arrange tnent and place of Interment will be announced later. her most enlightened wrltera on pub lic law. Ill -LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN RALEIGH The annual meeting of the North Carolina Library association will be ; held In Raleigh, April t and 2, the lrst session to be held on Thursday afternoon, April 1. Mlsa Mary 11. Palmer, of the Carnegie library, 1U-. lelgh. la secretary of the association !, and Mtxa Annie F. Petty, of the Ktatej, Normal college, is president. The del egates will be entertained In private ( homes. One of the features of the meet- lng will be an address by Mrs. Edn Lyman Scott, a noted professional ' story-teller a,nd lecturer on literature ' for children, who will speak first on , Thursday evanlng, April L,
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