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fijjp) THE AIBVffiLE CITIZEN lliii) VOL XX IX) 287 ASHBVTT.T.R N. C, THURSDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 7, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS EYES OF THE ARE NOW GROWERS Meeting of the Association In this GIty Controls . the Destinies of -the Great Commercial Markets and Bears on the Cotton Exchange are Having Many Anxous Moments. Liverpool Cables are Busy. YESTERDAY'S SESSIONS WHILE v NOT DECISIVE WERE INTERESTING Questional "Bagging and Ties", and Establishment of Association Journalistic Organ Came Up for Consideration Last Night. Today's Ses- 1 sions are Expected to Be Be Pro dnctlve of Great Result. The Routh-.-ii Cotton Association ' met yestctday morning in the sun partor of Kenllworth Inn with a larse aucmdunoo erf mcmfbors of the cxccu-i tlve committee as i a vll as of potsons Intocst! farmers,' manufacturers, and brokers probably 150 In all, and pioceedrd promptly to tho disposition of business ' ' And that business appeared by th? remarks of speakers, the charaotcis of the motions as well as the official utterances of President Harvlc Jor dan and Secretary Cheatham and the unanimously centered talk of the men before the meeting, xo relate to two things, The. fliat was the estimate of the 1005 prop which Is to be officially is sued by the association as .soon as atailaUcfe fxampttad from reports presenter yesterdflyy, at they related to ha least price at should bo sold, v The other matter of absorbing In terest was -what, that least price should be the minimum price which the as sociation should set for the sale of this year's crop. The two matters are so 'nHmately inlated that they constitute the one question what will be 'lie minimum figure named by the association to dayy ? The association wU name this fig ure as a committee of the whole af ter hearing the report ' " - sta'ls tlcal committed composed of Senator .T. A. Brol.vn of Chadhourn. N. C: Col. McMartln of Mississippi, nnd W. F. Peake of Georgia which has been en gaged much of the day in compiling the reports It has received from the committee? of fourtorp, onei from each cotton growing state and territory, ap pointed to reach a uniform bajls of cumputatlon and report tlje estimate from each stHte to the committee of thres who will add the totals after making further allnvnncrs based on crop conditions ft reported through he association's county mid district organizations dir:ct to the national ndyy, the executive eommltteee as a states does to the United States. The meeting yrterday mornln. except 'ai to action , relating to these statistics, was lartrtiv routine In char acter., and the afternoon session ad Journfsd on m'' ;S in order to give the committee ontortunlty to act. ' The morning mating was called to order by . PreM t Jordan wiio promptly called for the renting of the minutes of the called Memphis mee U.g. On motion of Penatnr Brown the rftdm'i o' these was oirl.ird and Mr. Ttiown -welcomed, the ass-clatlon to North Carolina. "You have met We." e?'d he, "In ihe SAitxesrhnu of America to trans act Important . bmlneas, and North Carolina welcomees you. W.nlle here yru Wave .4h"- BnHl 'rosary In the world to Rase neon; you have the purest water to drinx .-nd you have the prettiest women In th land to give yon entertainment. rti Car olina welcomes .joj." Col. McM.ir tin, of Mississippi!. ie pointed to the welcome nt Mr Bfwn. He sail It e:ave Mm pleau,-c t r-Jionl to fie generous welcome frJ'n the North Carolinian. "Wj have nl;- b-tathed the health-g4vln xon of these moun tains" said he anl we, can atel to ih. iraiid nef of VoUc enerv 1 the beauty .if von- wmu n. Beatttl fu! women ni5 in otner smnn. . n... .hr, ui 1 en enter in- I .x wnmen w Bel In other southern to. no contest with each -ther. but ill I WASHINGTON GlKL FAILS tSPRISG IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK '.Maasto Moat. Sept. -M1h ni A. Weeks, aged MIgKriy aver ! 50. of Washington. IX C, to dead In this city from, t be effect of falling mto a boil ing apriag In Ike TelIow'on national tark aevarat day ago. In company with other eastern tourists. Mi.n Weeks was making a tour of the park and while Tiewme a geyser 'tepped back- ward to an effort to dodge the bltndlnj ENTIRE COMMERCIAL WORLD CENTERED ON IN CONVENTION represent the y.orlo'u froutJi I thank you fo; the hearty welcomr." I President's Announcement Prosltlent Jordan thi-n announced jhat before p. octedlng to business tha association should decide whether the session should roe executive or open to the public. J. A. B.own said: . "1 move that the meetings bo open to the entire 'world. The pre si nee of other men htre shows their inteiist. If any thing of a private nature comes up wc can refer It to cxccuflvc session." Mr. B. D. Smith of Columbia, S. C, offered as an amendment that one closed session be held each day after the manner of the United States sen ate. "I consider this body not sec ond In Importance to the national con gress In Its Importance to the southern people,' and then he assented to the suggestion that any member might ask for an executive session at anv Mine. H." Y. Brook of Alabama, nsfcel If the committee on rules had bacn ap pointed. It was slated that such a commlt.ce had not been alppoinbed. Mr. Brook said that tfye constitution provided fo: such a committee and that the rules had not been carried out. H? mover th:U the commlitee be appointed. The mntlon prevailed and the eh:Ur appointed the follow'ingg ' committee on rulrs: Brook of Ala bama: Upseomb of South Caroling, and Wlthoispnnn of Mississippi. The receiving of reports f:om commit-..ecs was deferred until the afternoon ses sion, awaiting the arrival of the train from t'he south. Mr. Brolwn moved that a committee on statistics Ibe ap pointed and .this was done. Mr. Biown's motion provided tha the committee should co-operate with the secretary and that the report be divulged only In executive session which should fix the time for its beltif made public. It 'was moved, but no' carried, that presidents of the differ ent sta' e divisions be made member.' of the committee and those havlnr repoits meet with th commltee. Mr. Brown objected to this, saying tha It only four knew what the llgures woulf be the association would know whf to hold responsible for the leak age. (Laughter.) , In connection with this report of crop came up the discussion of th matt"r of fixing the minimum prlc Brooks of Alabama moved the ap poln ment of a committee of thre to take under consideration the mat ter of minimum price and report to the association. Mr. Meek said that there would be a discussion any way. and moved that 'the association consider It In closed session. Mr. E. D. Smith said:' "Tho matter for which this meeting Is called Is the facing of the mini mum price." He moved that each state name a committeeman and that all together discuss the quistlon of Ixlng price In closed session. "Since I have been here I have heaid as many dlfflteient' expressions as to price as there ar fields of cotton. Let eleven or twelve men get together conservative men, and 'we will arrive at the correct solu' Ion of th one question. There Is no secret disclos ed when I say the conditions which eonfiont OS now are not those at New Orleans meeting. Then the bulk of the cotton eioj mas disposed of and It was In strong hands, but now the cotton Is ungathered and Is In the hands of weak' and strong, and the (Continued on page .)' INTO BOILING spray of the spouter and tfell Into a hot spring In which the water was fairly bubbling. Her body was literally cooked from the walae down and death en rued after a period of Intense agony. Miss Weeks wu native of Gaines ville, Fla., where she has relatives. At one time Hist Weeks was stenographer to former Senator Call, of Florida, bat at tbe time of her death held a clerk- 'thip in the treasury department. tHE COTTON AT ASHEVILLE -iiiirnriruirijTjiTjTj'LrL ROADS REPLY TO COMMISSION Answer to Charges of Rela tions Betwean Refrigerator Lives and Railroads. SOUTHERN DENIES RELATION WITH ARMOUR It Disclaims Responsibility for Transportation Rates for Fruits and Vegetables. Washington, Sept. 6. The Southern, Atlantic Coast Line, Atchison, Topcka & Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania railroads have filed their answuis to the Inquiry of the Interstate com merce commission chaiglng relations between refrigerator lines and rail roads. All except the two last men tioned declre that they a:e In no way responsible for 'the charges made by the Armour car lines. The Southern admits that the charges made by the Armour car Unas for tris refrigeration of fruit and vegetables are as stated In the or der of the Interstate commerce com mission, and 'that the ref Igeratlon charges are In tictail set forth In re frigeration tariffs or circulars, cop ies of which from time to time have been furnished by the Armour lines. The :oad says the tariffs have been freely distributed for the convenience of the shippers, so as to acquaint them with the charges mado by th.9 refrlg- ei-ator lines. Responsibility for 'the charges made by the Armour lines Is denied by the Southern Railway, which "says the rates quoted by it to the shippers of fruit, vegetables and berries from points In the stni es of. Georgia, South Carolina nnd North Carolina to New York and other east ern points do not Include the cow of refrigeration, and Its tariffs specifical ly provide tha". Its rates as published do not Include cost of refrigeration. The respondent avers thsit this Is un derstood by shippers and that they make a seperate, distinct ntd Inde pendent contract with the Armour Continued on page S IV. That oftentimes khs citlaen nrho out of sight the quickest when it com JAPS ANGRY OVER TREATY S( rlous RJots Take place In Several . Portions of the CUyofvTok!o. CROWD ATTACKS A NEWSPAPER OFFICE Stones are Hurled, Several Persons Injured ard the Machinery Is Damaged. Tokio, Sept. . The flisi disturbance tttendlng on the popular aiiRer ovef the terms of peace ann R.nl with Bus iu took place today A mass meet Ing to protest agai'ist the action of the government tras calle l tn rake place at Hlblya Park,' but the metropolitan po lice closed the gates am .iitcmpted to prevent the aaemblagf ur the people The municipality protested against the tction of tilt pcllceand linally the gates were thrown open at.J a large crowd i4t Hired and voted It) favor of Kursla declaring the nation humiliated und dc nounclng the terms upon which the treaty of peace was arranged. The Towd was Eerlous In its omiuct rather than angry ,aud the r11""' handled It disci cetly. The gatl-mug eventually Jispersed In an orderly manner. Later on, however, a crowd attempt ed to hold a meeting In the Shl.itornl theater and the police dlsttcrfd it. A portion of the crowd then proceeded to the ofllce of the Kokuimn Shlnbun, the government organ, and btgaa hooting il hree employe of , (be paper armed with swords appeared at the door of the building and chc ked the attn k and the police again dispersed the crowd. It was thought that the trou ble had passed when suddenly ii-portion of the crowd made a ru."h nt the build ing, hurling atones and damaging some of the machinery. Several ttersona were injured during the attack, but' tho p dice eveatuully cleared the streets cf the rretvd and ar rested a number of the rioters. The dl -order Is not general an i d the tsltuntion Is not serious. Similar meetings '-hive been held at Osaka and Nagoy.i, which In round terma denounced the gverrtme'nt and asked them to resign. ' MISSISSIPPI'S Recorto. Jackfon, Miss., S"pt. 6. Mrssis-dpprs yellow fey-er record for the past twenty-four hours is as follows: Vlcksburg, two new.cascs, one'death: Oulfport, two new oases: Mlssl slppi City,, two new cases, discovered difrliK convalescent period; Pearllngton, one pew case. DID YOU EVER NOTICE. 9 knocks boms InsUtutlooa with the e Do paying taxes DR. D. SALMON HAS RESIGNED Chief of Animal Industry of Agricultural Department Steps Down and Out. RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED BY SECRETRY:U.C.WI SON Recent Charges Against Dr. Salmon Supposed To Be Cause of His Downfall. Washington. 1). !'.. Sept. . Ir. U vld "K. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry ol the iiki'IcuIi ui al de pot liiient. litis tendered his relK'nl t Ion, und It has been accepted to take effect on October 1. fl he re Ignatlon was annouiii ed by Secretary W ilson nt noon today, but he decllmd to state whether the sev erance is liie to the charges riled re cently against Dr. Salmon. These charges related to the connec tion which Ur. Salmon had had with tieorgc K. Howard 111 the printing business and which later resulted In tin; organisation of the Howard company, which holds the contract for supplying meat Inspec tion tags to the government. The relation of Dr. Salmon and Mr. Howard were Investigated by Solictor Mcl'abe, of the department of agrl Mtl turc, und the doctor wa- exonerated. It having been ahown that lie withdrew from the company soon after the first contract was received from the govern ment. Charges were preferred against Dr. Salmon also In connection with the ntcat Inspection service. He was ex onerated also on these charges, but the report was not uccepted at satisfactory by the packing concerns who-e appli cations .for meat Inspection had been denied. While the announcement was mude that the resignation was purely volun tary, there Is a well authenticated ru mor that President Roosevelt was not satisfied with the conditions shown b the Investigation. JAPS ARE STILL ON THE MARCH St. Petersburg, Sept. . Telegraph ing to Kmperor Nlcholus under dute of Sept. 5. Genera! I.lnevltch reported that the Japanese Sept. 4 started to advance along the Mandarin road anil commenced constructing entreneh mentri, but retired after meetlnat the Busfllan artillery. The general also reported an offensive rroveni"nt by sev?ral battalions of Japanese, accompanied by rnvalr.v and artillery. In North Korea, Sept. 3, but the result wa not announced In time to lie sent off In the dispatch to the emperor. III i 171133 jIOaCMLTIi largest hammer la tne one -maa get FIERCE CONTEST IS BEING WAGED AT KENILWORTH ON MINIMUM QUESTION FEVER ABATES IN NEW ORLEANS Now Believed That the Most Critical Stage Has Pass ed In Crescent Cty. WILL GUARD AGAINST ' ANY REINFECTION Reports from the.Outslde Dls trlcts However, are Not Quite So Encouraging. YESTERDAY'S RECORD. New Orleans, rVpt. 6 He- port to 6 p. pi.: New casts SI Total to dale 2,142 v Dm lis i Total diaths m New disease centers .... d Cases under trsatment ... 817 Cases discharged 1,527 4 New Orleans, Sept. 6. There .was no upeclal feature In the. fever situa tion today beyond the small number, of cases reported and the few dcnlns. A heavy rain fell this afternoon, fol lowing ten days of similar weather!. This, however, nas not Increased the tiumber ;f cases, nor the nior.allty, a fact which speakT well for ho efficient work of the marine hospital surgeons. There has been some demand here for quarantine, of the city against the eountt y on account 'of th edangc- of reinfection, but Dr. Wht'e does not believe It would be effeotlve. How ever, all avenues of Ingress to the city are being watched. Among the reports from the-country were the follH.ving: St. Mary parish, Patterson, n.welve eases:. Ame a six new cases; innu- lah twenty cases In all: Lake Provi dence nine cases. PENSACOLA PHYSICIAN PLACED UNDER ARREST Pensacolir, Fla.. Sept. 6,-The number of new cases to develop in Pens-icol.i today showed a decided decrease, al though physicians are still investigat ing a number which will no doubt be pronoumed yellow fever before morn ing. Only one well developed ease was re ported, the patient being Herman Fin ney, an operator of the Western Union, which office Is located In the Infvcted district. He was taken III Tuesday and 'he rase was diagnosed as fever to night. Another rase which Is believed to be fever, though It has not yet been ntlb Inlly announced, . thut of a colored woman who resides within a short dis tance of where the first ease Originated. There are quite a number of cu'plcious ases now being Investigated. Circulated Falte Rumors. Quite a sensation was created late this afternoon by the arrest of Dr. S. l. Oonxales upon the charge of oppos ing the state health authorities and the tirculation of .false rumors. While In' t crowd dnrlng the forenoon In front of the official bulletin board Dr. Gonsales stated that there was no fever In Pen acola and that the prewnt scare was for the purpose of getting graft from the public, and that there was not a word of truth In the bulletins posted. Later he was arrested. The doctor served In Cuba during the Spanish- American war, where he received much ommendatlon for his assistance In cleaning Havana. ATLANTA MAY PUT UP A QUARANTINE Atlanta, Ga; Sept, . I-The question whether or hot Atlanta shall establish quarantine against yelow fever infect ed points wst brought up again this afternoon after a rest of several days. Continued on page four . . ' -''" SOUTHERN RAILROAD MAY HAVE WAR , ON ITS HANDS WITH SOUTH AND WESTERN - Knoxville, Tenn., Ppt. ., Develop ments here today indicate that th Southern anticipates as effort by tbe South Western railroad to checkmuti H In Hs efforts fo build a road through mountain posses east of Johnson City. Tenn, lit miles above Knoxvllte. A railroad contractor's outfit and a far load of laborers left here early today Cotton Brokers and Element of the Growers are Lock ed In Combat. BEARS IN NEW YORK ARE TREMBLING Question Is Attracting Atten tion From All Parts of the Textile World. A conttst remaiknble for subtle! v " and almost poMtlcal In Intrigue, la be ing waged In and out of meetings In couiHctlon with the minimum price at the coming cotton crop, o be fixed by the Cottoa Growers' Association, and In the early hours of this morning It will be still in evidence to the ex perienced cotton man. It Is a stitange spectacle a para dox H first Impression to knew that a la: go part of the cotton growera are earnestly opposing the fixing of a large minimum price, while brokers from the New York cotton exchange, that Institution whose manipulations are regarded with aversion by tha growe:s, because it Is almost always a ld.v prlced bear market, are urging the fixing of a comparatively high price, but such a 'condition now pre vail und 1- is under such conditions th: the minimum price will tie fixed today by the association, that la the twenty-six committeemen, after the statistical commfcttee makes its re port. . . Spinners in It The splnncis ulnt take a hand, so say tho brokers' representatives, who charge tiia. emissaries of the spln n.ns arc favoring and lobbying for a -low minimum, while they, ofUmee friend of tho cotton grower, want the furmeu; to get a big price. Such a price -fhe farmer wants all of them but they are not agreed on the method of getting it. They are aware that ' the mere fixing of the price to' them ; meuhs nothing unless they have tha ' conditions which will hold that price, or resorf to some a tlflclal method . such as the proposition to buy - and hold a million .bales from he market, and so the pnramourj: matter turns on the report 10 be made by the ata tlstical committee of which Srnnl6i Utown Is chairman, which will re- port this morning at 10 o'clock th " is-roclation s official estimate of thla .' '1 year's crop. And what 'Will be tharf . ' fstimate? The answer to the latter 1 question a day or two ngo would have been doubtful, and if anything If would have minimized it volua aa do the 'brokers who say It will have no t value because It is not prepared by statisticians who can make allowances . for over or underestimates from the . fields, but now It has apparently a much recognized value If a flood of telegraphic Inquiries from all parts of this country wljlch 1ave forced Mana ger Calvtrt of the Western Union to ( . take charge of the Kenllwortti office, ' , mean anything, and surely Liverpool , does not cable direct to The Cl.lpcn. office for amusement ; " t The estimate means much arid many effort to obtain it have been made, s but vainly because no one knows what. .... . It Is. The figures showing the total ... . estimated ptoductlon from the' state wis be added this morning at :0 and ,. thnn compared. It is possible for a . few peisous, perhaps, to obtain frhel estimates as glvtn by states but the estimates by districts dlrjct to r the -association are accessible only to the commute and secretary and they havs not added them. The estimate by 1 states 1b Indicated to show a Crop of ten million bales. , Growers Want Low Minimum. Why do the broken s want a high minimum and the growera a low mln imum to open the season? The an swer of the conservative pioducera who are standing for a pTlee in many ' , Instances of 'ten to ten and a half e cents, may anslwer the first part of the query. They show the undenlylng southern conservatism and Hhat they have learned something from expe tience -with Wall street. They rea-i son In 'this way: If a low minimum is fixed It In the first place demon strates to tha cotton world that the growers, although eager fort a high price, are proceedTng on facts and are hard headed enough o recognise conditions, and by this means tha t . association wl.l at once have a stand ing as an authority on cotton cond!-' . tlons. something it lacks now, ecauso r It Is so new. This established, tho low minimum Is far mora likely" to hold Its own than a higher one, and when It reatets the onslaught tha Continued on page four ; on a apecial train for a point near John- on City, and Information trom there tales that the work of constructing ile Southern's extension from Johnson City to Embreeville, Tenn.. will begin tomorrow. It Is believed that the rail roads are rivals for the possession of certain valuable rights of way lit aUTi-t ot cult mountain passes, "' b 1