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ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
VOLUME*XVI
A HOME PAPER FOR HOMfe :^EOPIiE—AUL HOME PRJ^T
BERVARD, NORTH CAROLlfA, FRIDAY. MARCH 17.1911.
NUMBER»11
MONROE DOCTRINE
IS TO BE GUARDED
Reason For Rushing Troops
To Mexican Rorder.
FOREiGN ACTION TIffiFATENS.
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Ta$T57v7S>i r 10 ATLANTA.
Head of Nation Giv^ Great Ovation
By the Gate City.
It is Said Tiiat Diaz Administration
Is Glad United States Has Acted,'
and Believes, It Will End Revolu-'
tion.
That the administration has decid
ed to dissemble no longer its reasons
for the sudden and unprecedented'
movement of troops to the Mexican
border is indicated by the following
dispatch received from the staff cor
respondent of the Associated Press
who accompanied President Taft on
his journey to Atlanta. The dispatch
was dated Charlottesville, • Va.,
through which place the president’s |
train passed, and is as follows:
All doubt as to the purpose of the
government in sending 20,000 troops j
to the Mexican border has at last.
been swept away. i
The Revolution Must Be Ended. |
^The United States has determined
that the revolution in the republic to
the south must end. The American
troops have been sent to form'a solid'-
military wall along the Rio Grande
to stop filibustering and to see that
there is no further smuggling of arms
and men across the international
boundary.
It is believed that, with this source
of contraband supplies cut off, the .in
surrectionary movement which has'
disturbed conditions generally for;
nearly a year without accomplishing
anything like the formation of a re
sponsible independent government, i
will speedily come to a close.
Troops Will Accomplish Purpose.
There is a general belief that the
rapid movement of troops into Texas.
and southern California will so speed-'
ily accomplish its purpose, that the'
net results in the end will constitute
a valuable lesson in quick mobiliza-;
^tion of an effective fighting force that ,
•’will prove a revelation to the coun- i
itry-at-large, to the critics of the army
|m particular, and a justification of i
the diploniatically worded e^^lana- [
tlons that have been given out from i
ofiici^l sources in Washington. I
There no longer is reason to doubt
(that the sudden move on the part of
the American government was the re-
'sult of either unofficial representa-
,tions of foreign governments regard
ing the situation in Mexico, tfr the in
timation that several of the Euro
pean powers were sounding each oth
er as to the desirability of making
representations to the United States
at an early date.
Must Act Quickly.
It was represented at the state de
partment that the United States must
act, and act quickly, if the Monroe
doctrine was to be maintained. For
eign interests in Mexico naturalfy
look to the United States for protec
tion under, the doctrine. Tne foreign
Interests in the republic, however, are
not to be compared with the Ameri
can capital invested there, so, after
all, the move to bring about more
tranquil conditions in Mexico has to;
do principally with Americans and
American interests.
> Amid the booming of guns, clanging '
of bells, blowing of whistles and the *
yelling and shouting of hundreds of
spectators. President William H. Taft
and'his party iarrived in ^lanta Fri
day morning at 11:10 o’clock, 40 min- .
utes after schedule. Long before the j
original time for arrival* the
walks and plaza' about the Terminal
station had. been seized by enthuias-
tic persons waiting to have a look at
the nation’s chief executive. These
were /Ulie multitude, ^the vast throng
whicli fa«d not been able to negotiate
a passage to the inner circle of the
station.
Received by a committee of leading
citizens, the president was ushered to
the station driveway, where automo
biles were waiting. In the machine
with President Taft were Governor
Joseph M. Brown, President John M.
I^arker, of the Southern Commercial
congress; Charles D. Norton, secre
tary .to the president; and Captain A.
W. Butt, military aid to thte president.
The procession was headed by a
military e^( ort, which had previously
formed along Madison avenue.
The head of the nation was escorted
to the gres auditorium, where thou
sands greeted, him, and wliere he ad
dressed the multitude. A round of
entertainments was given in -^is hon
or during his stay. '
President Taft will remain ixi Geor
gia several days, visiting otner cities.
EFFORT TO STEAL
$50,000,000
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Alieged in IndlctjRents liy U. S;
FIGHT AT CASAS GRANDES.
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Forty-Nine Americans, Fghting With
MiKiero, Dead on Field.
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GOVERNMENT ttVESTimil.
Seven Men Indicted |it Otstrolt For
Alleged Plot to Secure 48,000 Acres
of Coal Landes in Alaska—Defend
ants Deny There Has Been Fraud.
TRAGEDY AT TENNILLE.
Sensational Affair Occurs In Georgia
Town.
Dr. T. M. Kelley,, one of the most
prominent physicians of Tennille, Ga.,
was shot and instantly killed by Pro
fessor N. H. Johnson, principal of the
Tennille Institute, in front of Dr.
Kelley’s office.
There were no eye-witnesses, and
the entire *ffair seems surrounded by
more or less mystery.
It is known that Dr. Kelly and Pro
fessor Johnson had had a quarrel at
the institute building about the dis
ciplining of Kelly’s son, and it is sup
posed this led to the tragedy.
Both men are particularly promi
nent, and the affair created ' a great
deal of excitement. '
WILSON VISITS ATLANTA.
New Jensey Governor Attended Com
mercial Congress.
Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New
Jersey, who looms strong as the next
presidential possibility for the-demo
cratic party, met with a cordial recep
tion upon his arrival in Atlanta,
Thursday.
He addressed the Southern Com
mercial congress on “The Citizen and
the State.”
A committee from the Young Men’s
Democratic league of Fulton county
boarded Governor Wilson’s train at
Gainesville, and came with him to
Atlanta.
Y. M. C. A. SUM RAISED.
Atlanta’s Campaign Terminates Suc
cessfully.
WOMEN UNDER LASil.'
Masked Kentucky Mob Administers
Severe Chastisement.
Garbed as “white caps,” a score or
more of. women joined with a mob of
100 men in whipping two women in
Morgan cdtSnty, according to dis
patches that arrived at Lexington, Ky.
The victims of the mob were sisters,
Nannie and Mary Combs.
The beating was most severe, as at
tested by the fact that two new buggy
whips were worn out on the bare
backs of the 'women. After that they
were forced into a vehicle, sent to the
nearest railroad station and put on a
train for their former home in Breath
itt county, under orders never to re
turn.
The Combs were accused of operat
ing an illicit resort in an isolated sec
tion of Morgan county. They had
been warned frequently to leave, but
paid no attention to the orders, and
feeling against them became so in
tense that when the whipping was de
cided upon many women insisted upon
being allowed to join the “white
caps.”
Atlanta’s Y. C. A. campaign ter
minated successfully, the entire sum
of $600,000 being subscribed.
This giv(js to Atlanta, in addition to
the $75,000 for the Young Women’s
Christian Association, the best Y. M.
C. A. equipment of any city south of
Washington.
The last $10,000 of the sum was
subscribed during the last moments of
the meeting by representatives of the
five interests combined in the move
ment giving $2,000 each.
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Associate Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, of the supreme court of the
United States, celebrated, on the 9th,
his seventieth birthday anniversary.
This age makes him eligible for re
tirement, but his service, now less
than nine years, will not permit his
retirement on full pay. The law re
quires a service of ten years.
Haralson Planter Seriously Injured—
Search Begun for Assailant.
Dennis Fincher, a farmer, living a
few miles northwest of Budhanan, Ga.,
was shot from ambush Saturday night,
the charge taking effect in his face.
While the wound is serious, it will
not prove fatal. There is no clue to
the guilty party, though every effwrt
possible will be made to apprehend
the would-be murderer.
MRS. EDDY’S WILL.
Valuation of $2,512,146 is Placed on
the Estate.
A valuation of $2,512,146 is placed
on the estate, in New Hampshire, of
the late Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Ed
dy, founder of the Christian Science
church. The property left by Mrs.
Eddy in Massachusetts is estimated at
$250,000. The amount duq New Hamp
shire as a legacy tax is $123,607.
Pleasant View, which was Mrs. Ed
dy’s home when here, has been sold
to Boston friends of Mrs. Eddy, who
will preserve the property in a way
thrt would have been most pleaiiag
to her.
A Detroit, Mich., dispatch -says:
Government investigation into alleged
Alaskan coal land frauds inxolviag ap
proximately 48,000 a^jres of land v|il-
ued at more than $50,000,000, resulted
in the issuance of an indictment by
theMocal federal grand jiiry, charging
seven individuals with conspiracy
against the United States.
The defendants are: Wilbur W. Mc-
Alpine, Albert H. Roehm, George W.
Ross, Frank D. Andrus, Arthur L.
Holmes and McCurdy C. Lebeau, all
of Detroit, and John M. Bushhell, of
Chicago. The foregoing are officialis^
of a company known as the Michigan-
Alaska Developmeytt Company.
Contentlonvo* iStovernment.
The 6ontention of. the government is
that the defendants conspired to in
duce between 200 and 300 individuals
to become stockholders, in the Michl-
gan-xx^aska Company by. making
“fraudulent and fictitious locations^ of
certain Alaska coal lands,” thereby
violating the land entry laws of 1910,
which made U illegal for more than
four persons to form a company for
locating Alaska coal lands and taking
out patents on more than 640 acres.
It is alleged that several stockhold
ers of the coal lands were led to be
lieve that they were locating the lands
for their exclusive usp; “but in truth
and in fact for the use and benefit of
the seven defendants and the develop
ment company.”
The Michigan-Alajskm, Development
Company was or^fdfSw ^Stirder the
laws of Arizona. W. W. McAlpine is
the president. The coal lands in
volved are situated at Juneau, Alaska,
and several contiguous trhcts in the
vicinity of Homer, upon the westerly
end of Kenai peninsula bordering on
the Cook inlet.
Hundreds of Claimants.
The claims are said to have been
located by about 200 Detroit and Mich
igan residents and a hundred other
claimants from New York, Chicap o,
San Francisco, Seattle and other west
ern points.
It is declared by the defendants
that strictly individual entry of -the
lands has been made, and that the
Michigan-Alaska company was organ
ized as a benefit associatipn for the
purpose of aiding the stockholders or
claimants to better protect their title
and develop their lands. They deny
the stock was to be sold, and Insist
that the corporation was not formed
for the exploitation of the coal .lands
in the general market.
District Attorney Watson announced
that he will prepare for an early tri'^.l
of the defendants. The penalty for
conviction on a charge of conspiracy
against the government of tkis nature
is two years’ imprisonment or a fine
of not more than $10,000.
Frona the only American who
escaped unwo^nded from the fight at
Casas Grandes is learned the details
of the fight which resulted in
termination of the American legion of
Madero’s army. Of the fifty Ameri
cans leading in the attack' forty-htoe
were killed or wounded.^
The only survivor, Roy Kelly, of
Smithport, Pa., former United States
army scout in th^ Philippine?^ with
his clothing in rags, and Itetdy e
mass of cuts, arrived in El Paso Sat
urday.
According to Kelly, the killed ' in
clude Paul Madero, brother of Francis
co I. Madero; R. Harrington, cap
tain of the American legion, former
resident of New York city; Guiseppi
Garibaldi, a grandson of Garibaldi, the
Italian patriot and liberator;, John
Greer, former deputy sheriff at Lin
coln; Lieutenant A. Valencia, of El
Paso; L. Guteirrez de Lara, a Mexican
socialist, former judge at Guerrero and
late of Los Adgeles; Captain F. J.
Cassaventa, engineer from Guerrero.
Young Garibaldi was a well-known
,|!oldier of fortune. He served as at
tache under the British in South Afri
ca amd held commission as captain in
the Italian army, and has been colonel
of cavalry in Venezuela, Nicaragua
and other South and Central American
republics.
AUDITORIUM PACKED.
10,000 People Assembled to Hear
President Roosevelt Speak.
No ^.udience, save the one which
greeted Hon. Hoke Smith on the night
he made his opening speech' in the
gubernatorial campaign, and t hat
which heard d^ruso sing last spring,
ever assembled in Georgia as large
as that which greeted the speakers
at the- Southern Commercial con
gress Thursday night, in Atlanta.
More than *7,000 were seated, and ful
ly 3,000 stood in th6 aisles and the
lobby of the auditorium. Even the
hand stand over the rear door wajs
packeS {o'lts utmost with spectators.
The great mass continued to pack in
until the firemen ordered the doors
closed and no more were admitted.
One of the attractions that brought
out the vast crowd was to hear Col.
Roosevelt, who was Atlanta’s guest
and addressed the audience.
BILL RECORD BROKEN.
33,015 Bills and 1,500 Resolutions
Were Introduced.
Breaking all records by some thou
sands, the total number of public and
private bills introduced in the house
during three sessions of the congress
Just closed was 33,015, besides 1,500
resolutions of various kinds.
The highest number of bills intro*
duced in any democratic congress so
far was 9,800—in the fifty-third^ con
gress—the increase in number since
then reflecting the expansion of busi
ness of the government, particularly
along insular lines. «
TOWN LAID-'IN RUINS.
JURY FREES MRS. HAYES.
Termination of Sensatiohal Trial at
f Whiteville, N. C.
As the finale to a sensational trial
In the superior court at Whiteville,
N. C., the jury, after only brief delib
erations, returned a verdict of not
guilty both as to Mrs. Rosa Hayes,
charged with being principal in the
killing of Robert M. Floyd, a medical
student, of Charleston, S. C., on the
night of February 4, ancf as to her
husband, Neill M. Hayes, charged with
being an accessory before the fact. '
Lloyd JHayes, a younger brother of
Neill Hayes, also charged with being
an accessory, was discharged earlier
in the week on a nolle prosse.
Mrs. Hayes admitted the killing of
Floyd, but pleaded that she shot in
defense of her honor. She swore on
the stand that she shot Floyd because
he attempted to assault her.
The case went io the jury at 5
o’clock, and an early decision was
reached.
Mrs. Hayes is a beautiful 17-year-
old woman. She collapsed with sheer
joy when tlie verdict wtas announced.
The crowd in the court room went
wild when the Verdict was announced.
Manager Jennings has picked the
Tigers to iSnii^ first and the White
Sox second in the pennant race. He
says the Giants will win the National
rag, with Cincinnati second.
Charles Pickett, who was farmed by
the Cardinals to the Terre Haute club,
of the Central League, has signed for
another trial with the Cardinals.
Dynamite Does Fearful Damage in
WisconsiVi.
With a roar that was heard for fifty
miles,, a glare that was seen fully as
far, and with a concussion that broke
windows more than a hundred miles
away, three carloads of dynamite at
the plant of the DuPont-Nemours
Company exploded at the village of
Pleasant Prairie, six miles west of
Kenosha, Wis.
Nearly every house in the village,
which contains 700 residents, has been
badly damaged, and some of them ut
terly demonished.
It is believed that many persons
were killed, but no accurate report
has yet been received.
The cause of the explosion is not
known, and it will b^ some time be
fore it has been definitely determined.
The plant, which covered 190 acres of
ground, has been completely wrecked,
only one building remaining.
Coimty Govemment*.
Representative^—^Thos. S. Wood.
Clerk Superior Court- Cos. Paxton.
Sheriff and Tax Collector—Fred A*
Shuford. *
Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols.
Re^ster of Deeds-B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. A. E. Xyday.
Surveyor—J. C. Wike.
Commissioners—W. L. Brooks, G. T. Ly-
day, Arthur Miller.
Superintendeut of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
'Physician—Dr» Goode Cheatham.
" Attorney—Robert L. Gash.
Town Government*.
Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.
Board of Aldermen—T. H. Shipman. J
M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De-
Vane, E. W. Carter.
Marshal—J. A. GallowayV"
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo
way.
Treasurer—T.^. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt
Regular meetings—First'Monday night
in each month.
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BREVARD AND HENDERSONNILLE. N. C.
Three sailors from the United
States armored cruiser Tennessee
'ifrere found dead from escaping gas
in a room in a Hoboken, N. Y., hotel.
The men registered as J. C. Wallin,
J, W. Wadsworth and E. B. Bradley.
William Aynd, first ofiicer of the
American liner St. Paul, who was con
victed recently of smuggling diamond
rings into this' country, wa^ senten
ced at New .York to the penitentiary
on Blackwell’s island for one year.
The civil tribunal at Paris ^ granted
to Mme. Gaillaux a decree of divorce
against her husband, the minuter of
finance.
Heine Heitmuller, formerly of the
Philadelphia Americans, haa signed
with Rochester^
NOTICE—Change
in Hour of
Meeting.
By a vote of Dnnns Rock Lodge
at last regular comnmnication the
hour of meeting was changed and
the following will be the^qurs Tin-
tii further notice: Jan. 13, 1911,
meeting at 2 p. m. Hereafter the
meetings will alternate ^February,
meeting at 8 p. m.,^March, at 2 p-
m., etc.
All members are urged to attend
theFe meetings. Visiting Masons
cordially invited- Jan. 9,1911.
Welch Galloway, Sec’y.
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