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A A THE GAZETTE-NEWS Has the Associated Press Service, v. It la In Every Respect Complete. Member Audit Bureau Circulations. t VOLUME XX, NO. 127. ASHEVILLE N. CT., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 9, 1915. .epiy to second jfmertcan jsote un Submarine W rarf are Is Delivered to Gerard fr rt (1 TVj c ' THE HOME PAPER if S. P-tVl Jv" V" r rK X ' ftA. Vft-wBl 01 AsheTlUo and Western N. c II S nyllll ly V mT -A paper in the home la worth a VI A fi Jm- r II II ""AX K I VlVTi thousand In the highway." ;' : : ;-: : . - ' V ' PRICE 2 CENTS More. (German K OUTLINE OF REPLY HAS CAUSED PESSIMISM IN U. S. OFFICIAL CIRCLES Terms Disappointing; Rela tions Between America and Germany Again Con- , sidered Critical CTUAL CONCESSIONS FOUND TO BE SLIGHT President Had Declined to En gage in Informal Discus sion Over Terms of Germany's Reply 3 Berlin, July 9. The German reply to the second American X note on submarine warfare was 'delivered to Ambassador Ger- ' ard late last night, ? Washington,. July 9. Ger many's reply to the American note on submarine warfare, which was delivered to Ambas sador Gerard last night, should preach Washington probably to morrow and certainly; by Sun iday. President Wilson is ex pected to return from the sum ;mer white house at Cornish, N. !H., and- lay the reply-before the meeting .of the cabinet Tuesday. All officials here realize that there have probably been no 'essential changes from the draft of the reply which was outlined to Ambassador Ger ard by the Berlin foreign office ; On the basis of this outline the American government had de clined to engage in a suplemen ' tary discussion with Germany - over the terms of the note, be cause it was felt that the Ger f man . tentative proposals -could not be accepted by the United ' States, without sacrifice of neu . tral rights. Meanwhile there is renewa ; of the tension over the possi I bility as to what the next step ' of the Washington government will be if the text of the Ger man reply bears out in its terms the unsatisfactory out line. , , Officials would not make any comments, saying the. phrase ology of the German document must be studied, but it is gener ally understood, however, tha there is disappointment in of ficial quarters and that here is clearly another critical stage in the relatona with Germany at hand. One course which some of ficials suggested might . prob ably be considered was the re jection of the German propo sals and the notification of the Berlin government, in effec that the United States intend cd to insist on the pnncipl of visit and search of all un armod vessels of whatever na tonality carrying Americans and that a specific violation of this right would determine the next step in the American pol icy. As for tho Lusitania case, Germany's failnro to admit lift Wiiiy lor tiio loss oi more inon Austria Apologizes to American Vienna, July 9. A formal apology by the Austro-Hungarlan government to the United States has been made to Ambassador Frederick C. Penfleld be cause of an abusive article printed in the Neues Wiener Tageblatt attacking the president of the United States and the American people in connection with the second note to Germany on Planning to Protect U. S. Coal Tar Manufacturers Washington, July 9. The protection of American manufacturers against ruinous price cutting and other trade evils practiced by foreign competitors may result from the efforts of the department of commerce to build up coal tar Industry in the United Cotton Crop Largest Ever Produced Washington, July 8. The American cotton crop for 1914 the largest ever produced, reached 16,134,930 equiva lent 600 pound bales,, which if placed end to end would reach 1 more than half around the world. These figures were announced today by the census bureau in its final report The form er record crop of 1911 was 442,229 equivalent 600 pound bales less. The statistics are 32,787 bales over 100 American lives constitute a poser on which few suggestions have bee nmade. The German minister of foreign af fairs, Gottlieb von Jagow. had In formed the Associated Press yesterday that the dispatch of the German note was Immediately pending. Herr Von Jagow asked to be ex cused from commenting in advance on the note, but discussed the difficulties under which the negotiations had been conducted, owing to the slowness and Incompleteness of communica tions and the "obstruction to the free exohange of news between the German and American press and public- Situation Critical. Washington, July 9. There are' many evidences In official circles to day that the German controversy was agaln regarded as critical and that the reply as outlined wsa very dls-1 appointing. The concession alleged! to have been made were referred to as slight departure from the Illegal position held by Germany, and it was pointed out that the United . States, holding a strictly legal position, was unable to make any changes or sur render any point Irrespective, however, of the sug gestions made as to the future con duct of German submarines as sug gested In .the preliminary draft of the German reply, one of the chief causes of the pessimism Is the treatment to be accorded the .Lusltanla tragedy. In some official quarters there Is still hops that the refusal of the Amerlcon ambassador to Berlin to discuss concessions may convince the German officials of the earnestness of the United States and bring about modifications. There are Intimations from Berlin, however, that officials there do not believe ' the American government will Insist oi. the position It took In Its last note and that pub ilo opinion In the United States fav ored compromising the Issue. The United States will not engage Informall' in any discussion or nego tiation with Germany regarding the character of the forthcoming reply to the last American note on submarine warfare. Ambassador Gerard at Berlin haa been Informed that such Is the presl flent's decision and thst the ambeasa dbr Is to make no comment on the tentative draft riven him by the Ger man foreign office. The outline of the. German note as cabled by Ambassador Gerard Is known to be far from siV "-. tory to officials. With respect to the sinking of the Lusltanla on which more than 100 Americans perished, no admission of llf mjy Is made.. Whether in ex- tnnuatlim or not the view Is expressed nft v tareUasi Ambassador submarine warfare. As a rigid censorship is exercised over all Austrian papers the ambas sador informally-asked the Austrian foreign office if the article represented the opinion of the Austro-Hungarlan government. This resulted in an apol ogy and a sharp reprimand for the official censor. . States. The official bureau of for-, elgn and domestic commerce and the federal trade commission are working on plans for the protection of the new dye stuffs trade after the war is over and German competitors again enter the American leld, and a general policy Is probable. . for i 914 the census bureau's preliminary esti mate of last March and 168,930 over the estimate by the agricultural de partment's crop reporting board last December. ; . Llnter cotton, now being used ex tensively in the manufacture of big; shells amounted to 791,464 bales. making the total production 16,926,' 394 equivalent 600 pound bales, In. eluding llnters. was not believed the Lusltanla would sink as rapidly as she did. Ae for the future, citizens of the United States would be permitted to travel with safety on the high seas if passengers on American ships, or on belligerent ships not carrying munitions of war. The United States would be required to inform the German government of the date of departure and character of vessels carrying Americans and guarantee that such ships had no munitions of war aboard. ' In this connection high officials here stated today that it would be an unneutral act for the United States to notify any belligerent' government of the date of departure from an Ameri can port or the character of the cargo of a merchantmen of another bellig erent Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, was in communication by wireless with his government dur- Ing the day and Is understood to nave advised the Berlin foreign office that the form In which the proposals had been made did not appear to be ac ceptable to the United States. NEGRO ELECTROCUTED STATE PENITENIff Haloigh, July . Willie Bell, a ne gro, the first person to die In the electric chair in North Carolina en any day other than Friday, paid the death penalty yesterday. He wsa sent to chair from Durham, where he was sentenced to die for the murder of B. M. Mann, a merchant Bell con fessed to the murder before being sentenced. i . e.. BURGLARS ROB SAFE ' MO ML EEH- High Point July I. Burglars en tered the floee of the High Point Milling Comoany last night blew open the safe and escaped with $11.1 In cash and some valuable papers which thsy took therefrom. Fifty sellers lr cash in a section of the safe rtnove4 some distance from the other money was not discovered by the robust?. Police officials say they .'. boilers' nltro-glyoerlne was used to blow off the door of the safe. There are no ttloluC l -h toitix Minus OIK PORT Racing to Halifax With Fire in Hold Practically Extin . . guished, Says Captain in Message NO REPORT REGARDING CAUSE OF EXPLOSION Captain Thinks It May Be , Necessary to Discharge Part of Cargo When I He Reaches Port Halifax; July 9 The Atlanta Trans port Line steamer Minnehaha, racing to this port with a flre in her hold was reported 20 miles oft Cambro this morning at 7 a. m. The lire was said to have been practically extinguished. Heavy weather and a downpour of rain prevailed, making uncertain the time of her ; arrival here. Cambro Head is at the outer entrance of the harbor. Since the news of the fire on the ves sel was received here yesterday the department of marine has had ready a government steamer to be sent to her assistance if necessary. Arrangements have also been made to berth the Min nehaha wnoce the fire will not. be a menace to other shipping. A message from Captain Claret of the Minnehaha said that while the flre apparently had been put out It would probably be 'necessary to discharge part of her cargo here. , . There was nothing In the report to indicate whether the explosion which started the fire was that of a bomb, Clorot'a Message' - New Tork, July 9. The following message has been received from Cap tain Claret of the Minnehaha, dated 8:45 a. m.: "Thanks for wire. Fire apparently steamed out Think necessary to dis charge some of cargo at Halifax. In vestigating upper Orlop." New York, July 9. As if in answer to Frank Holt's last warning that a ship would sink "God willing on July there came Wednesday a wireless measge made public yesterday irom Capt Claret of the Atlantic Transport line's steamer Minnehaha, telling that the ship was afire 670 miles southwest of Halifax. The ship has on beard sufficient ammunition,- by the line's admission to sink her, should the flre reach it but whether the blaze started as the result of an explosion or a bomb which Holt placed there was a matter of pure conjecture. This was poslble, officials of the company said. The message said the flre was io No. A hold and wo not serious. The ammunition Is stored aft an appre ciable distance from this hold. The flre on the Minnehaha was caused by an explosion, according to a message received shortly after noon from Captain Claret. At that time the flre was said to have been mastered. The captain's message said: "Fire caused by an explosion. Now under control by suffoeatlon and steam. Much smoke In hold. - Deem expedient to make for Halifax. Die off Chebucco Head t a. m. Friday, Ad vise agent." The message was sent by way of Cape Race. The Minnehaha's manifest showed she had on board about 100 cases of cordite, 2800 cases of loaded shrapnel shells, 1400 cases of .Trlnlte Tuluol, 1810 cases of cartridges, 17S cases of safety cartridges. ' Among the inflammable materials aboard are 65 packages of petroleum, 290 barrels of oil, 1941 barrels of wax. The chemicals In the esrgo Include It barrels of formaldehyd . and 98 barrels of boracic acid. The ship also carried 116 cases of automobiles, and a large quantity of lino and coppor plates and products. ttttsittttttiBtst:tttttttt fiTOTKHOTJ)mS. or NEW HAVEN lOS13 Bt'IT. Boston, July I. The suit In stituted by the minority stock holders to recover 1102,000,000 from former and present direc tors of the New York, New Ha- , yen and Hartford railroad, whom they charged with being resonsll.'le for the alleged lm roper 'expenditure 1 of money,' ' haa Imo dismissed by the Ba preme court. HHtnHllttta.tl.ailttH(tH CHARGE FRAUDS BY DEMOCRATS Republicans of New Market Township, Wake County, Testify to Illegal Election Practic of Opponents REGISTRAR CHARGED WITH STUFFING BOX Republican Poll-Holder Swears Democratic Official Was . Caught With Ten Dem ocratic Tickets (By W. T. Boat). Raleigh, July 9. Ten Quakers stood up In the jury box at 1 o'clock yester day, made affirmation Instead of oath and asserted charges of overt and fla grant frauds by democrats in New Market township. It was the first time that a large number of men had urged their scru pies against the traditional oath of the court house. $t caused some comment by the democratic sympathizers, but the incident was small by the circum stances detailed by the republicans. Among these was A. B.-Coltrane, by no means fanatically In love with Dls trlct Attorney W. C. Hammer. Mr. Coltrane figured in a recent episode which brought the Randolph county contest more prominently before the public. Mr. Coltrane was a member of the grand jury and brought one of these cases before the federal court whereupon Mr. Hammer opposed his county man's move and declared the state courts the proper tribunal for these Investigations. Chle' in the element of the sensa tional was the testimony of C. t M. Spencer, republican pollholder who declared that Bob White, the demo cratic registrar of New Market, had been caught with ten democratic tick ets in an effort to stuff the ballotbox. Mr. Spencer gave a dramatic recital of the hold-up of this attempt. Mr. Coltrane, he declared, said: "Look at that old deacon In the church trying to stuff this ballotbox." They opened the hand of the democratic official, he said, and countdd ten of. the unterrl fled tickets. He also said that Mr. White voted the ticket that belonged to another democrat who had been challenged for some disability and did not return to answer the charges made against him. The plaintiffs played New Market as the outstanding feature, albeit this has been the republicans' climax and car ried with it substantially the excite ment of the whole week. The hearing moves on with seven straight and steady dally hours. The referee, Mr. Guthrie, finds a splendid ally 1n Miss Amy Emanuel of Greens boro and Asheville, who takes the tes timony. Her role demands the taking of 60 or more witnesses dally. These five dozens testify with varying fluency and volubility from the excited rural 1st whose natural talking gait Is a runaway td the school teacher who speaks In Woodrow Wilson terms. She gets them all and when attorneys de bate a point of testimony, she has the gift of going back to It and readln her own writing. Miss Emanuel Is doing about three men's Jobs. One Illegal Voter. In yesterday's testimony the repub' llcans presented directly what has been hinted at many times, evidence of Illegal voting. They put on A. Les ter Cox, democrat, who admitted hav ing voted without the right to do so. He had not paid his polltax until near ly two weeks after the expiration of hla daya of grace. This may, or may pot hurt aceord Ing to partisan feeling. The story ca not be verified, but it la said that re publicans hesitated to put Cox on. He had made affidavit that he did not pay hla poll until May 11 and for that tea tlmony was to be given Immunity from testimony or - prosecution, it Is con tended by democrat . There is no question as to hla right to vote. Ho had none, but the liability of attack by the defense Is said to be equally strong. It la held by attorneys in th rase that Intimidation has been prac tlced and the faith broken. The suggested use of money came Tuesday for the first time. Andrew Spencer had "been hearing" and ho said he asked Noah King aomethlng about the price of votea He waa of fered 910 for his. the wltnees declared "but I waa Just trying him, he contln ued. The witness also said that he tried the republicans but they were not in the market that day for Votes. This testifier said something had been said about crediting the tie for this vote on a mule account owed to Hurt Cole. There waa no allegation tha any money actually passed. GERMAN SOUTH , AFRICAN FORCE HAS GIVEN UP T FEAR PROHIBITION Closed Saloon Will Not De crease Jobs, Declares So ciologist to ' ' Antis" Atlantic City, N. J., July 9. "Will the Worklngman Lose His Job and His Personal Liberty if the Saloons are Closed ?" was the subject dis cussed by Charles Stelzle, sociologist and author, of New York, before the convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America today. "The worklngman fears being out of work more than he does going to hell," he said. "He knows what It means to walk the streets looking for a Job. The liquor interests have cap italized upon this fear, and by pre senting a staggering array of figures which seem to prove that a calamity will follow the abolition of the liquor traffic they have persuaded large numbers of workingmcn who never enter a saloon to vote for its reten tion. " "But the argument that the work lngman will lose his Job if the liquor traffic Is abolished is based upon the absurd proposition that if the liquor dealer fails to get the money now spent for beer and whiskey somebody else will get it "It is assumbed that the farmer who now sells his grain and grapes, his apples and cherries to the liquor interests will be compelled to destroy them; when the fact Is that figures furnished by the United States gov. eminent clearly Indicate that the abll ity of the American farmer to raise enough grain to adequately supply this country Is gradually decreasing. 'Neither will the railroad man suf fer. Only about 2 per cent of his freight business Is furnished y the liquor industry. He will get as much business, and as much money for tne transfer of a given amount of grain, whether that grain Is shipped to a brewer or a baker. As for the trans portation of the furnished product as well as the raw materials which the liquor industry now furnishes, there no doubt that other Industries will benefit from the transfer of trade from liquor to some other commodi ty. "More worklngmen lose their Jobs because saloons are open than would be the case were the saloons to be closed. As some one has said, 'when liquor puts a man out of a Job it makes him a wealth producing work lngman Instead of a vcalth destroy ing working man.' Its better that the saloon-keeper should lose hts Job and get a better one than that dozens of his patrons should lose their Jobs and be unfitted for any job." T Chrlstlanla, July 9. The Norwegian government haa decided to establish salaried consuls In Chicago and San Francisco, and to Increase tha salaries of the Norwegian minister and the consul general In Washington and New York. The Norwegian represen tatives, in Chicago and San Francisco are now. American citizens holding only honorary posts. The .decision to put these posts on a salary basis also Includes the plan of sending represen tattvea direct from Norway to take charge. It la reported that F. Herman Gade, at present the Norwegian gov ernment's commissioner at the San Francisco exposition, will be appointed to one or the other of the posts. It Is desired to Improve the consular service particularly because, since the outbreak of the European war, the attention of Norwegian exporters and Importer haa been directed to the enormous American market more than ever before. Norway haa lately con sldered herself handicapped by the fact that the other Scandinavian coun tries were more fully represented by consular officials In the United Btatvs. . f ititPititltlttttt(tttlttttlttkt t 1 THE WEATHER H GENKItAIXY l'AIIl. LABOR ED Entire Military Forces in Ger man Southwest Africa ; Have Surrendered to, f General Botha BOTHA CONDUCTED MASTERLY CAMPAIGN Had Previously Put Down Re volt in Union of South Africa and Then In vaded Colony London, July 9 Hi6tory Is repeat-, , Ing itself near Lublin in " southern Russian Poland where last September the Austro-Hungarlan forces experi enced a severe check in their attempt on Warsaw. Special dispatches from; Petrograd report that the Russian , position Is very hopeful and that the possibility of the Austro-Qermnn carrying Warsaw by sudden onslaught is obviated. . It Is explained by Russian common-' tators that the Austro-Qerman forces are now operating in a country which rrequent campaigns have turned Into a desert and the problems of transport . and 'commissariat are Infinitely more complex than they were In the Gall dan operation. Pretoria, South Africa, July 9. General Botha, commander of forces of the Union of South Africa, haa ac cepted the, surrender of all the Ger man military forces in German South west Africa. , After the suppression of the rebel lion against the British athorltles In the Union of South Africa, General Bo tha took command of the operations against German Southwest Africa and headed an invasion into that territory late in February. He captured Olym bigue May 4, the important railway Junotlon at Cariblb May 6 and Wind hoek, capital of the German territory. May IS. Martial law was proclaimed throughout the conquered territory. Reports from London recently stat ed that the surrender of all the Ger man forces was expected soon. British military experts contended that Botha's campaign waa conducted In a masterly manner. German Southwest Africa Is on the west coast of the continent and ex tends from the Orange river to tha Cunenen river, about 900 miles. II lies between Portunguese West Africa and Cape Colony, extending eastward to the British sphere. It has an area of 322,450 square miles, and a popu lation of 79,(5, chiefly Hottentots and bushmen. The European population In 1013 was 14,818, of which 12,29? were Germans. The military forces, including the police, were given in lat est, reports at 29,992. Turks Driven Hark. London, July 8 The Turkish forces completely failed in the big attack which they began on July 4 against the Anglo-French forces on the Dar danelles, according to a statement by the British official press bureaii which added that the Turks lost heav ily. The text of the statement follows: "General Sir Ian Hamilton reports that the night of July 8-4 was quiet In the northern section, but at 4 a. m. the enemy stated a heavy bombard ment of the trenches. All the guns used previously against us and soma new ones were In action, but the bombardment died away about 4 a. nu without doing much damage. "In the aouthrn section the Turks kept up a heavy musketry flre ulon. the whole line during the night an1 did not leave their trenches. At 4 a, m. their batteries started the most violent bombardment that haa yet been experienced. At least 6,000 round of artillery ammunition were expended by them . "Meanwhile this shelling of our linen on the peninsular proved th preliminary to a general attack on out front with apeclal efforta at erRi:i polnta. The principal effort w m'' at the Junction of the royal naval !! vision aectlon with that of the From h. "Here, at 7:10 a. m., the Turi drove back our advanced troi' n ' assaulted a portion of the line l. by the ro;'dl naval division. K" fifty Turks gained a footing In trench where, tieverthclo-j, smn.. r of the royal naval dlvlnion hfl our supports and the men wli.i I tired counter - attacked linn-, and hurled the Turks out ticin h afcultv.
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