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21WVILUL TIME ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE. MEMBER OF AUDIT BC rEAU OF CIRCCLATTOX THE WEATHER FAIR AVD WARMER. SUCCESSOR TO THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS. VOLUME XXI. NO. 22. ASHEVILLE, N. O, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11, 1916. ' PRICE 2 CENTS-u "c, Ortngto MEA Villa Outlaws FUNSTONIS PERFECTING PLANS FOR EXPEDITION WITH STRICT SECRECY Carranza Asks Permission to Send Troops Into U. S. In Pursuit of the Mexi- . can Outlaws. ; EEQLEST REGARDED AS FAVORABLE INDICATION Such Arrangement Would Likely Prevent Armed In terventionPresident's Action Is Endorsed. Washington, March 11. While American troops were preparing to move across the Mexican border to exterminate the Villa bandits, General Car ranza' in an official communica tion delivered through Ameri can consul Silliman, asked the United States for permission to send Mexican troops into American" territory, if neces- f sary, in pursuit of outlaws. The administration'omeials regard ed the proposal as favorable, as it seemed to indicate that Carranza would not protest against American troops going into Mexico, as had been fear ed. Practically such a recip rocal arrangement would prob ably never result' in a single Carranza soldier crossing the line, as the possibility of out laws taking refuge . in the United States was considered remote. In" reality, such an ar rangement, however, would go far to satisfy Carranza mk perimt him to comply with popular sentiment in Mexico. The senate foreign relations committee today unanimously endorsed the action of the president in sending American troops into Mexico to captu the Villa raiders. Washington," March 1. In structions conveying full au thority to Major General Fun ston Un the disposition of the defensive expedition into Mex ico in the pursuit of rancisco Villa and his band of outkws, today wewre in General Fun ston 'b hands. Secretary . of rcar Baker announced that General-Funston would have full discretion as to the num ber of troops he would use and the route he would take " into Mexico. Major General Funston, in command of the American troops on the Mexican border, has orders from President "Wil son to sen danned n forces across the border into Mexico to take Villa and his bandit hand, dead or alive, and the Washington government ex ' -)pects hi mto execute them. " actual UttlOJlo Ml IMUljiiJfc out the clans will be left to 1 General Funston, who is ex pected to have.' Americar troops moving into Mexico be- iore njghtfalL uenerai instructions were ent to General Funston last night, after a long conference between officers of. the army Captured Villa Bandits To Be Tried Columbus, N. M., March 11. Sev-' en wounded Villa soldiers were cap tured in Thursday's battle here. They will be charged with murder in kill ing eight American soldiers who were slain in the fight, according to E. B. Stone, speoial agent of the depart ment of Justice. The prisoners include a boy twelve years old and two offi cers. .Mr. Stone said . the charges would probably name Francisco Villa.. Stone stated that it was probable that charges of murder would also be filed against the prisoners in the state courts In connection with the killing of nine civilians by the bandit raid erg. ; . ..: Pablo Sanchez, arrested while Sis nailing Mexican soldiers across the border yesterday was held as a spy staff- and ",, war department, ' when plans for the movement of troops were formulated. ' hTe strictest secrecy is bein observed by officials in regard to the plan for the capture: of the bandits, in accordance with the urgent request of General Funston, the object being, to prevent Villa from learning about1 the movements of the expedition. l 1 -'-V ;. ;: - Administration officials made it plain that the expedition, is purely punitive, for the sup pression of the Mexican out laws and that as soon as the forces of the do facto govern ment were in control of the situation, any American sol diers that might be in Mexico would be withdrawn. Steps to prevent the discus sion of the Mexican question - tin i it in congress ana to iorestaii any action that might interfere with President Wilson's plans were, to be taken at a meeting today of the senate foreign re lations committee. The meeting, was called by Chairman Stone late yesterday after the president had outlin ed to him his position. President Wilson today was aboard the naval yacht May flower on a week-end cruise down the Potomac, keeping in touch by wireless with the white house and war depart ment for any developments that might take place. Unless some unusual development oc curs," he will not return . to Washington until Monday. .. Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief of . staff of , the United States army, announc ed that the expedition would consist of not less than 5,000 men, all of whom are available on the border' under Major General Frederick Funston. White House Statement. The following statement was issued at the white house: "Adequate forces will be sent at once in pursuit of Villa with tho single object of cap turing him and putting a stop to his forays. This can be done and will be done in en tirely friendly aid and the con stituted authorities in Mexico and with scrupulous respect for the sovereignty of that re public" Dead Or Alive1 . It was . explained at tho For Murder and will be charged with aiding the enemy, , The murder charge against the Vil la soldiers. Stone declared would lie because the raid was carried out not by recognized belligerents, but by bandits,' whose leader was a man who iL? government of a country with Which the United States was not at war. ' Stone declared the cases were ren dered particularly strong by the fact that evidence had been found, ln- olllriino- nnrtnpa taVon tr-exm rtlflttallto ft ieW mOUSHnns. correspondence picked up on the field of hnttio whinh hnw.d tw TOh the raiders approached " the town, ; approaches. The Russians and Ger villa a,!Hrfapri thm toiHno- nim ,lmans have been feeling out each oth spare no American, to burn and loot ' buildings arid to make a human torch of every man, woman and child. white house that the American government , wants Villa dead or alive and that no step will be neglected to carry out the object. .' It was declared, however, that the United States would not consider the expedition as an invasion of Mexico and would continue -to deal with the Carranza government. The American government is .still opposed to armed intervention but has decided that the peace of Mexico ancT the United States is imperiled by the con tinued activity of Villa. Cabinet Unanimous. , The cabinet was unanimous in deciding that Villa must be caught. Secretary Baker left the white house to confer with Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff and other army officers to decide on just how many troops would be needed to follow Villa, ' Report Villa's Whereabouts. Columbus, N. M., March 11. Francisca Villa, with the Mexican bandit army whose raid on Columbus was beaten off by the Thirteenth United States cavalry with severe losses Thursday morning, was at Bo ca Grande, 25 miles southeast, at last reports brought here by scouts. American military authorities were impatient tor orders to come across the border and assail the bandit leader before he had time to retreat farther into the Interior of Chlhua hua. . With plenty of cavalrymen avail able tonight. Colonel Sloctfm and' hit officers were convinced that an order to cross the line now would mean a quick disposition of Villa. I HEARINGS HELD ON Attorney For Christy Asks Gov to Set Same Date as For Mrs. Warren. t Raleigh, March 11. Fred M. Par rlah, attorney for Samuel Christy, has requested of Governor Craig that the hearing for 'commutation of tha death sentence of bl . clirnt be , held on March 20, at the same tiro aa tluu' of Mrs. Ida Ball Warren. Both are sentenced to be electrocuted on March 11, for the murder of the woman's husband in Winston-Salem In 114. Though Mrs. Warren and Christy re itlll In jail at Winston-Salem, they are no longer Forsyth county prison ers. The fuct that they have not been delivered at the state penitentiary has been tho source of much comment. Forsyth county officials are said to have asserted that they bare received no orders to deliver the prisoners to the state, nut officials are said to have stated that such orders were un necessary as tho sentence automati cally rendered the couple state prison era. , . BELIEVE GREA I ITLE IS CLOSE Fa- The second great effort In the Ver. dun drive apparently is near a close. The latest Qerman attacks have1 bean directed at ; comparatively a small section of the front east And west of the Meuse. Whether the present les senlng of intensity in the operations marks 'merely a lull before another onslaught, or a return to the condi tions of trench warfare is open to question, but military opinion In France is that the great battle is end ed. In 'Paris it. is believed that the intensity of the German assaults was influenced by the heavy losses the assailants sustained, but Berlin dispatches report the belief that the German losses were limited Signs of renewed activity on the eastern front are apparent as spring er's strength at various points In small isolated engagements. The most Important movement on the northern end of 'tha line seems to have been the German effort to cross the Dvina river near Dvinsk. Considerable forces were engaged in the efforts which were dispersed by the Russian fire, Petrograd claims. LEAGUE MEETING LARGELYATTENDED Monthly Meeting' of Asheville District Epworth League Union at First Methodist. Wltlh a large attendance the reg ular monthly meeting of -the Ashe ville district Epworth , league union was held last night at the First Meth odist church on French Broad ave nue. In the contest fir the banners, the Haywood street , chapter was awarded the banner for the best monthly report and the Blltmore Methodist church charter was Klven the banner for the largest percent age at the monthly meeting. The services were opened by de votional exercise led by Miss Por ter, traveling secretary for the Y. W. C. A.. The main , talk of the meeting was made by . Rev. J. . R. Walker, vice president of Weaver college. ... - The union endorsed the institute which will be held here from March 30 to April 1, at'thte Central Meth odist church. The attendance at the meeting was very satisfactory to ail the officers, as practically All the chapters were represented. The First Methodist church chapter served re freshments. THE SMITH-WHITE CASEIN COURT Damage Case Was Called Yes terday Suing for $2,500 Other Cases. When Superior court recessed at noon today In order that the memo rial sen ices for the late Captain J . M. Qudger, sr., could bo held. In the room, the case of H. M. Smith and wife against Sidney L. White and wife, was still before the court. The case was called yesterday and has consumed all of tha court's time since then. The plaintiffs seek to re cover 12,600 as damages. It Is eon' tended by them that, they paid the defendants a certain sum of money for which they were to receive bard for life and that later they were ejected. The case will be taken up gala this afternoon. In the Thrash-Ould case, tha plaintiff won In a suit In which the defendant brought In which he at tempted to collect a deed In trust given by the plaintiff to the defend ant, tha court holding that the claim was void, but on a counter claim for flSOO which the defendant brought gainst P.""H. Thrash, a verdict for th defendant w returned nd'th plaintiff appealed to Supreme court. Dr. Rugene II. Glenn and Dr. K. Raid Russell are expected horn to morrow or Sunday from the varlou clinics which they hav been attending In Richmond. Baltimore, Chicago, New York and other iwsa aitua, . . ' HEAR N. C IS MUCH GIN Oil HAND Reports Show N. C. Farmers Had Large Amount of Corn and Wheat' Uncon sumed March 1. STATE PECAN TREES BEGINNING TO BEAR Three Hundred Trees Yield About $300 Worth of Nuts Increase Ten-Fold Since the 1914 Crop. Special to The Times. -Raleigh,.' March 11. Major W. A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture, has received from the department of agriculture at Washington official es timates on North Carolina's uncon sumed crops, placing, on March first, the corn crop at 30,744,000 and the wheat at 2,692,000 bushels. This means that after fatteenlng their meat and feeding their families and their animals, besides the grain marketed. North Carolina farmers have on hand almost as much corn as they grew seven years ago. Then the entire corn crop was only 84,000,000 bushels. The present crop now being fed was estimated at 56,000,000, a gain of 30,000,000 in six years. March 1 of 1914 the government found that 26,535,000 bushels had not been disposed of. The wheat remain ing over at that time was 1,982,000, or f 10.000 bushels less than the pres ent month shows. This shows unques tionably that the state is raising Its bread. Major Graham at his Decem ber report to the board of agriculture demonstrated that North Carolinians are allowed upon a basis of 2,400,000 population, ISO pounds of our to each individual. As a well-fed gentleman who has eaten a fow car loads of bis cuits, Major Graham calculates that 100 pounds of our will feed the aver age man. That would give 80 pounds surplus and make North Carolina a world feeder. - "I am most gratlfl.cil," Major Gra ham said, "because our people are making their own bread. "It is tho thing that I have tried to bring to pass in my administration. We canno: be an independent people until we are able to supply the foodstuffs for our selves and our animals. The state has been doing this in remarkably earnest way , recently and of course we shall continue to raise even more grain." Major Grnham about 50 years ago began to watch the corn farmer and he does not recall that he ever saw one :n great distress. "All the sheriff sales that I' ever attended about a farm wore without full corn cribs," he says, and ho has asked other observant men to say whether his observations are true. Increnso More Than Tenfold. State Horticulturist W. H. Hutt after selling out the state's crop of pecans, finds that the farms on which he has been growing the nuts made u profit of $1 to each tree and tho state has 300. The Pender and Edgecombe farms have pecan trees now eight years old. The crop for 1914 yielded about 60 pounds. These trees were then seven years old. They quickly went from 60 to ftfl.O pounds, the difference of one year being 720 pounds. The large por tion of the crops was sold for 40 cents a pound and that was under tho mar ket. The circumstance Is a triumph for the department which had not under taken anything of this character un tl. eight years ago. But a few yean prior to that time the pecan was held In suspicion. It rarely bore any fruit within a generation so that the planter labored solely for posterity. The state' 300 trees are In beautiful shape and within a few year should be mak ing several hundred pound each Hr. Hutt find that some of the earliest varieties of peaches hav been touched pretty severely by the frost recently and estimate the damage at 25 per cent. lie does not think that the later bloom hav been hurt. He Is unwilling to cry calamity at this distance from the fruit season. Tha mixed weather, enough of cold to pre vent too early blossoming he hopes will atop furthor damage. I R k wrniorr warnings R t ftt i W..hlnvtnn Marli 1 1 TflH. IF ,ui Oaborne at Havre, France, R It report that when th Norwe- H t gUn bark Blllus, from New York It It to Havre waa torpedoed without H H warning In Havre Road' March K It I, seven American aboard the K K vessel were rescued. R It R RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR STftTE MlLlTi rr.o- full Adjutant General Says North Carolina Could Muster 3, 245 Men For Service : Immediately. PEACE STRENGTH 225 OFFICERS AND 3020 MEN Declares That Guard Could Be Recruited to War Strength in Ten Days Other State News. (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, ' March 11. North Caro Una could send immediately to Mex ico 225 officers and 3,020 enlisted men for immediate service il could within ten days recruit her forces to war strength, according to Adjutant General Lawrence W. Young. General Young replied to a tele gram sent Governor Craig by ' the New York Sun wishing to know in the event of intervention what could be done by the national guard. Gov ernor Craig was not in Raleigh but General Young answered for him. He declared that the entire national guard with its one ifVantry brigade, six companies of coast artillery, two troops of cavalry, one ambulance company, and a field hospital corps, would be immediately available. . The peace strength is 225 officers ind 3,020 men. The fact that the state troops can "be-mobilized within ! ten days for war will be surprising to those who thought it would take 90 days to move the war forces when the guard had gone to the front The Sun's Inquiry was the first to come to Raleigh and every little outbreak hitherto has been attended by con siderable excitement in New York. The police court will glvie the four prisoners held as pickpockets a hear. inlg today at which time It will be determined whether the state has enough eidencei to proceed against them. Tho prisoners have discussed a habeas corpus but will first take their chances in the preliminary. Pinker ton detectives are said to be in Ra leigh. Detective Fred Jones of Ashe ville has been here and he says the man MeNeells Is much wanted in Asheville and can be Identified by several people. McNeelis declares that not only has he never been to Ashe ville but he outraged the town pride of Mr. Jones by pretending never to have heard of the mountain city. The holding of the men has been attended by considerable evidence against them in other places but whether It will stand against the cross 'examination of attorneys is an other thing. The fellows have been In Jail all the week. J. Walter Haynes, campaign man ager pf Judge Frank Carter of Ashe ville left yesterday for Durham and Greensboro where he will do some work for the Judge who Is In the race for attorney general. m New Universities Dictionary coupon &Mfii4 Jbor th Asheville Times, March 11. TfarM Coupon Sscirr tha Dictionary How to Get It For f A Mf Nominml CW i 3Coffs98c ecure this NEW authentic Dictionary, bound in real flexible leather, illustrated with full page' in' coke and duotoM 1300 page. 25 DICTIONARIES IN ONE All Dictionaries published previ ous to this year arc out o f date SE T I Venerable West Virginia Statesman Dies in Wash ington After Brief Ill ness at Age of 93. VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IN 1904 Long and Active Political Ca reer Began Just After War, In Which he Fought Dem ocrat and Democratic. - , Washington, March 11. Former United States Senator Henry Gaasa way Davis of West Virginia, and vice presidential candidate on the Parker democratic ticket in 1904, died hero this morning at 1:45 o'clock, after a. brief illness. He was 93 years of age. Senator Henry Gassaway Davis wit nessed and participated in the great political epochs of American progresn for more than three-quarters of a cen tury. He was the "old fashioned gen tleman" in the senate. His utterances were those of old Jeffersonlan days. It Is significant that he was born In the same year, 1823, at Woodstock, Md., that the Monroe doctrine became a fundamental principle in American politics. During his distinguished ca reer he fought to maintain it. He later represented the United States at two Pan American conferences at which by his personality and speeches he strove to strengthen the bonds of friendship between North and South America. '. ' ' Senator Davis' active political career began tho year after the war of tha states. He was elected a member of the House of Delegates of the' new state of West Virginia, and next served as state senator. A familiar figure in presidential con ventions, Senator Davis led his dele gates from West Virginia to the nom ination hall on seven occasions, ' prob ably a record for such service. ' A year after he had retired volunta rily from the senate, he was urged to become candidate for vice-president on the ticket with Grover Cleveland. He declined. He accepted the nomi nation, however, as running mate with Alton B. Parker and thus became the, oldest candidate, aged 81, ever select ed for tho office. The venerable senator waa not only a democrat in politics, but he waa democrat in nature. He waa tho champion of liberty. xttK:xt.ittitt(ititt . .. CARRANZA MAKES REQUEST K e H . Washington,. March 11. Oen- t It eral Carranza through Consul t t SUllman has asked tha , Amerl- tt It can government for permission t It to send Meican troop across t t the border ' Into the United It It State in pursuit , of Mexican t !t bandits. t I t It RKtXltK: Preterit or mail to this paper three coupon He the above with ninety-eight Cents to com tort hnd tpaclirig.dakrirectc. ' UAIL ORDERS WILL AJJh.rW.