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THE ASHEIILLE CITIZEN m THE WEATHER BAIN. . warn Dally ... Average tf For Jenaary VOL. XXV. NO. 113 ASHEVILLE, N .0., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS MANUFACTURE OF ORPHANS IS SESSION HALF OVER AND YET The Vay He Feels About It CRIME WAVE SWEEPS OVER CHILD LABOR BILL FINDING ITS WAY ROUGH ON INCREASE SANITY RULES Legislature Not Promising QUIET SOUTH Judge Iindsey, Children's Lynchings, Murders and Loaded With Amendments DOCrtONt iT, i S WliK l-'VEQ w I Friend, Says It Ought to be Stopped. MANY VICTIMS TO to Upset Present Peace ful Conditions. Lawlessness Mark the Day's News. Until it Docs Not Re serable Former Self.. GROSS NEGLIGENCE Prevalence of Child Labor in Mills and Mines Fruit ful Source. BY TAV, (Special correspondent of The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Feb. e. "It la a 'niportant to stop the needless man ufacture of orphans as It Is to take caro of orphans.' - Hi Is, in a nutshell, is the view of Judge Ben B. LIndsey, of the Denver juvenile court, who Is probably the most famed friend of the children in the world, fie has Just coma from a conference with President Roose- volt ever the advisability of creating a children's bureau in the department of the Interior, and was running over with his plans for the new child-re claiming enterprise. "How is it possible to prevent child ren from becoming orphans?" I asked Judge) LIndsey. "By preventing the needless acci dental killings in mines and on rail roads," he replied quickly. "The state Is responsible In a meas ure for the care of dependent child ren. The state ought also to feel Its responsibility In a larger measure for the prevention of needless killings and malnlngs In our industrial activities. "For instnce take the fatalities that occur In 'coal mines in the United 8tates each. year. At a conservatlvs estimate there are 2,000 new orphans! annually as a result of the killlnc of the fathers in coal mines. It is estimated that the period of depend ency of these children Is 1 years. In a single generation there are, at a conservatlvs estimate, 40,000 children thrown upon the care of the state or private charities just as a result -of coal mining accidents. Think of It And this only In a single Industry. ' -"A third of such accidents-could be freve!nted.'"Tnis is no guess, It is' a . demonstration. Proper Inspection and regulation, as conducted in Germany, and' Belgium, has resulted in decreas ing fatal accidents a third. Perhaps the proportion is larger But suppose It is a third; that Is large enough. "If ' proper legislation requiring more' precaution could prevent the creation of a third of these orphans and otherwise dependent children then It Is an awful responsibility as sumed by the state when it permits tots slaughter to go on. "In every Industry there is a fixed rata of accidental deaths. In some Industries that rate could be reduced, j In others the consequences of the ac- cldental death or Injury could be for seen and made the subject of the roper compensation. , "Instead of a lawsuit there ought to lie an automatic process by which the Widow of the killed and the dependent children would secure the compensa tion for that death. Then the burden of thV children would not fall on the states" In fact they would not be de pendent children. "The Industry in which men are killed should bear the cost, not the state." It would work no hardship on .the Industry. The Insurance fund, . orooerlv assessed against both capital and labon becomes like any other Item of that cost diffused, and is eventually paid for by the person who consumes the product, "THIBTY" WRITTEN TO HAWLEY'S CAREER (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Walter L. Hawley, for nineteen years connected with Tha New York Evening Sun a political reporter, died at his home In this city Of typhoid fever today. He was forty-eight years old. Mr. Haw ley was born In North Carolina and was formerly connected with The Bir mingham, Ala., Age-Herald. He Joined the Evening Sun's staff In 180. Mr. Mawley was one of the founders of tha Amen Corner, an organisatiou of newspaper men and others who gathered about Senator Thomas C. Piatt In the old Fifth avenue hotel. PRESIDENTS COUNTRY LIFE MESSAGE READ YESTERDAY IN THE SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. . The pres - Ident today sent to congress a mes - aTa transmitting ths report of the country life commission. After the document had been read In the sen- ate. Mr. Heyburn moved that It be printed and Its on the table, and this order was .accordingly made. The message follows: 'To tS Senate and House of Repre- '. aentattves: ' fcr transmit herewith the report of ihS pommtnton on country life- At in outset J desire to point out that not. dollar of the public money has,; been' paid to any commissioner fori his work oti the commission. pd down In soma places,. It has risen Tha report shows the general cob- (a snore places. Its progress has been dtUoa.of farming Ufa h the PiUiKmmlt f ant uniform.-. ... country and points out Ha larger, mmm problems. It indicates wars In which J (Continued e pass thrsa-1 LAW AND GAME BILLS OF INTEREST Quail Agitation is One That Affects Both Purse and Appetite. (8peclal to The Clilsen.) ' RALEIGH, . Feb. S. The general assembly lacks but two days of having been in session half the constitutional sixty day limit .of legislative sessions, and. In the language of a prominent conservative member, "the people are to be congratulated on the gratlfyingly little legislation of a general charae ter that has been" enacted." And, too. it may be safely added, on the little prospect there is of anytnlng calculat ed to make the business Interests of the state "sit up and take notice" with any special sense of alarm. The senate passed two bills the past week that have statewide application One Is the substitute for the 6 tar buck and 'the Barham Bills regulating pre. emptory challenges In the trial of capital cases, so that the state shall nave twelve and stand none at the foot of the panel and the defendant eighteen, and the other Is 'the Emple bill to prohibit, the sale of quail and mountain pheasants In North Caro Una for a period of two years. The bill as to challenges will go through the house with, little If any change. On the other hand, the outlook is not so bright for the Emple bill. There Is such a large per cent of the gen- eral puUlio that are not hunters and at the same time are very fond of quail Oh toast that It Is doubted by many if the popular branch of tha assembly will dare to vote to cut out quail on toast from such a large part of their -'constituents for that time even to prevent tha extermination of ttfe birds, such as advocates of the bill claim Is threatened. There are those. who-ntend, too, Benator PJharr of Mecklenburg being among the num ber, that H there Is to be such limits tlon it should. apply to alt alike, and that therefore tha thing to do Is to prohibit the killing of birds by both 'pot hunters and sportsmen for qfle or two years, as may bs deemed bsrt and let the law apply to all alike. The house may make this change to the Emple bill, and then It would be up to a conference committee to gel together If any phase of the bill shall become a law. The Solicitor's Rill The house some days ago killed a bill to put all solicitors In the state on salaries, being unable to agree upon a aalary that was acceptable to all Interests. Now, however. It Is stated that this Issue will bob up again this week, this time In the deliberative branch of the assembly. Senator Blow has a bill that he says he will put in early In the week. It is not knojul what salary wilt be named. Indeed, prominent members of the senate ex press doubt of this Blow bill attaining enough velocity In the way of legis lative favor and unanimity as tq the stipend for the solicitors to assure Its even getting- out of- the senate alive, much less running the gauntlet In the house, where the Koonce bill was "lambasted" to its death by contend Ing Interests and advocates of differ ent salary scales. Railroad Question. Since ths conference of the railroad presldentsw!th Governor Kltchln and others high up In the state adminis tration on the matter of conferring the power of review of the reason ableness of the passenger rates upon the corporation commission and ths positive Announcement by the gov ernor that he could not consent to any change whatever In the present status of the passenger rate matter. there has beeh an expectation on ths part of many that the railroad Inter ests would bring about ths Introduc tion of a bill giving this power to the commission, effective somewhere about April, 110. and undertake tq put It through the assembly in spits of the opposition of the governor. tiowever, mis iaea seems to nave (Continued on pegs two.) Jthe government, national and stats, J may Show the people how to solve j some of these problems', and it aug. j jests a continuance of the work j which the commission began, Methods of Use Commission, Judging by thirty public hearings, to which farmers and farmers' wives from forty state and territories came, and, from 120,000 answers to printed questions sent out by the de partment of agriculture, the commis sion finds that the general level of country life to high compared with any preceding time or with any other fend, u tt has Id recent years allp- MYSTERY OF FA Private Advices from Louisiana State that Former Ashevllie Girl Who Three Years Ago Married Bogus English Lord Is Alive Near Tucutrtcari, New Mexico. That Miss Josephine Hood, former ly of this olty, who 'married John C. Cavendish, alias Duncan, alias "Lord Percy Sholto Douglas, at Slew Iberia, La., December It, 1906. Is slow living the-Import of a private letter just received here. A former visitor to Ashevllie, who Is st present In New Oilcans, recently visited New Iberia, om-.o the home of Miss Hood, and there learned, he states, that Mrs. Cfrvendlsh, or Duncan, aa-4he case may be, had been seen at, and waa now living' near Tucumcarl, v New Mexico. On account of the necessary trans fer of snussuss) from" one telegraph lln to another no answer was re- cuivod last night to the messages sent be The Citizen to Tucumcarl, ' and then tore no positive assertion other Umn as given on the authority quo ted am b made. The fact, however. that the small town of New Mexico. hear old Mexico, where Miss Hool went in company with the bogus Lord" shortly after the wedding. tetits to lend color to the statement. Certainly there will be no lack of Interest In anything pertaining to Miss rrtod because not only was she great ly esteemed here where she was high ly connected, oeing a aaugnier oi Mr. and Mrs. John N. Hood, who re moved to New Iberia, La., some years rig" and a nelce of Mrs. C. M. Piatt, but the circumstances of her aston ishing disappearance after her ' mar- lu (re to Douglas or Cavendish srousei Ashi'Vllle and excited the greatest con- corn for her. safety, it being feared that she had been murdered by tha ilialn of prepossessing appearance. Sprat Girlhood Here. ' Miss Hood spent most of her girl hood days here. In fact she was only It when she went to New Iberia to v'slt her parents and brothers, E. R. and A. B. Hood, and after a few wcuks it was announced that aba had marr'ed a wealthy Englishman, Lord Douglas and that the couple bad gone TREATY DRAWN BY PRIVATE INTERESTS s the Charge Made in Sen- r.te as to the Canadian Treaty. WASHINGTON. Feb. . The Ca nadian boundary waterways treaty had anything but smooth sailing when Waa taken up in executive session In the senate today. Senator William AQen Smith of Michigan locked horns with Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Who had Intimated that the Michigan senator did not understand tho pro visions of ths treaty. Senator Smith asserted that the trflry had not been prepared, by for mer Secretary Root, but that It waa the work of Chanter Anderson, a New York lawyer, who had been engaged by the state department on various occasions in connection with treaties affecting the relations of this country and Canada, Mr. Smith Intimated that Mr. Anderson wag too close to tha Interests which control power rights at Niagara rails, and declared that tha whole treaty was prepared for tha purpose of acquitting tha title of New York corporations to those rights. The references by Mr. Smith to Mr. Anderson and former Secretary Boot displeased Mr. Lodge, and ha demand- of Mr. Smith to know whera ha had obtained tha information con cerning the authorship of tha treaty.. Mr. Smith said that he had beett told by Mr. Anderson himself that be bad drafted tha- convention. ' Mr. Lodge took Mr. Smith to task Jot sooting a private eoavcrsatlosi with a gentleman la bia absence. w , ,,M.:, JOSEPHINE HOOD'S TE MA Y BE NEAR SOLUTION to Mexico where he had extensive es tates. Nothing was heard from them by Mr. and Mrs. Hood or relatives here, but this-occasioned no surprise lor a month r more because Douglas had stated that they were going to a place where there were no mails and n cna could expect to hear from tr.ura. But as time went on uneasi ness arose and nnaiiy alarm. Vainly tjltrrama wars sent to Mexican towns In l ho bona of reaching; them and the inyetrrr waa profound. It wat sue cMdod Is ajiotbor fa whan a m in different parts of ths country sat up at alamor that they had beea deceived and it waa learned through thf,tographs of this Douglas com pared with those of ths miscreant who. wadded Miss Hood that the man was ths same. Ashsvili-j was greatly siiried and a large reward was raised hers lor information as to cither Douglas or Miss Hood. Governors of North Carolina, Tennessee and Vir ginia took up tha matter and the de partments of state caused Its agen cies in Mexico to search for Miss Il'od. They discovered a trace of her in Monterey, Mexico, hut nothing further, although false reports cams In from -different parts of the south west. The hope that something would be heard of Ml Hood finally ia i i. away. . "Lioni" llougla in England. The career of Douglas was finally ended by his Incarceration in an F.ng'ish Jail for a long term on the charge of bigamy. He was a man of pleating addr.ss who is believed to huve been connected n come way with promln.nt English families be cause of his address and famllarity with noted ) ple, and he told allur ing Mories of his wealth, his castle In Great Britain und his tati In Mex lc . and ther for some reason he took several of his dupes, and many there were of them. CRUM'S NAME IS DROPPEDOFF LIST Democrats Refuse to Permit Vote on Confirmation of Charleston Negro, WASHINGTON, Feb . Senator Fry today abandoned his efforts to have the nomination of W. I). "rum, the negro r - ppofntcd as collector of customs at ''narleston, B. C, con firmed at the present session. After the doors of the senate were closed, he asked the democrats to agree to permit the ('rum nomination to come to a vote on March 1. Falling to ob tain tho aicre' rnent he said: "Very well. I will withdraw the nomination f'r the present." It is understood hy senate leaders that Ihe case will not be again considered at the present k sion. WASHINGTON, Feb. Forecast: north Carolina Rain Wednesday In east, ratat or snow aad colder- In west portion; Thursday, fair, colder: m-lsk to moderately, bight southwest , to northwest winds. -j - sun' lh ,i He Married Many. in June of 1101 Tha Cltlxen pub lished isnvsral stories of tha duping of women by tha bogus TCord." He n. aired Miss Jennie Franks at Hot ff i!ngs, Arkansas, September 1101, he married Miss Mabel Wobs, of Den ver, at that place, and deserted her at Dlnuta, California, October It, 1604, ha married a lady , at,' South iierd to whom ha gava thr ngms Mrs, A. F. F Scott and hs deserted bar tn, days. Jater at Jackson, Missouri liu.marsiad Mis Beaaitos AAndsr. s in of Fort Worth, Texas, In Hot Springs, Arkansas, or ClertMirtts, Tag at. and took her to San Luis Rotosi, Mexico, near which plact hs pretend ed that he had a great estate on which he had burled SI,(0 In gold. This marriage was January If, 1101, it is staad in the pie for divorce, Inter filed by the lady who alleged that "Douglas" had married a lady nnmed Louisiana Hood it Lamberts Fo nt. Virginia, In September 1101. he alleged that Douglas deserted her neir Monterey after poisoning her and taking 1700 from her. Various Roport. The Citizen sought diligently to lo cate the missing Miss 1'ood and re ceived information from Many quar ters. Mrs. T. J. Candler wrote from Lung Beach, California, that shs was told than an Ashevllio girl had been deserted at Hants Ana, but a message u Ihe Citizen from that place stated that two years before an Ashevllie onian had been deserted there by !n.r rusbsnd but bad later rejoined hli:i. Reports of Miss Hood cams from Tennessee and other states but sil were mistaken. Mrs. Alfred Bunn t.-ld The Citizen that shs Was positive Ural Douglas was the sums man who nt o; ed at the Oaks hotsl II years prior to 1000 with a woman and that lliey left an infant hero. FERRY BOAT BURNS CREMATING THREE Transfer From Old Point to Norfolk Destroyed at Her Wharf. NORFOLK. Vs,, Feb- Ths Nor- folk and Portsmouth Traction compa- ny s ferry steamer, runnina uciwo.. Wllioughby Hplt and Old Point Com fort, wan burned to tne waters enge at her Wllioughby pier early today. Three of her crew were' bunned to death In their bunks. The pier also was destroyed. The caure of tha firs Is unknown. Many people en route to Old Point were caught at the end of the Hpit with no way to cross Hamp ton Reads. The ros, covered by Insurance, Is f 20,00 to the "burned "Ocean View," and 12.000 to the pier. The dead, all negro employes, am: Frank Edwsrds, aged thirty-two, of Norfolk; Lonnle Mitchell, aged thirty of Phoebus, and Lester Webb, aged twenty-eight, of M Id d least county. Chief Engineer J- T. (J riff in, awak ened by ths smoke, had thrilling reaps through ths flames, being com pel led to crawl on his hands and knees to the steamer's aids. He was slightly burned- The steamer Annie t Vsnslever. at Camden, N. J . will be brought bare to take the place of the burned ves sel. '"('. KO CHOICE TBt. MADISON, Wis., rb. f.-Tne eight Joint ballot In the Wisconsin htaislature for United State senator today resulted la no choice. . Senator! Stephenson recefeed L.. . , t fa SHERIFF GIVES UP PRISONER TO MOB Feels Justified Because tha Court Would Not Call a 0 Special Terra for Case. y Aaseslatsd trsas. HOUSTON, Miss.. Feb. Ilohv uasKin,-murdorsr of tha Ren W. T. Hudson, waa lynched by a mob hare this afternoon. A crowd of over 100 determined citlsens took him from ths Mil and hanged him to a nearby tree. not a mot was fired and tha whole proceeding was conducted quietly, unarm Brown of Okoluna arrived just as tha negro breathed his las. Leaders of ths mob said the negro naa pesn given a speedy trial as promised and that they could not bo blamed for tahlnsr lustlca into rhele own hands, .., Gave Up Negro. Ths prisoner was secured without resistance and accepted his fata as a matter of course, sullen and without a word of entreaty or prayer. He waa hanged from n elm tree within 100 yards of tha county Jail. Tha representatives of tha sheriff hers declare thai they consider their action In surrendering tha negro, In view of tha refusal of tha court to call a special term, 'ustUled, In ths Interest of law and order. Should their action bs criticised, they- declare"! they will resign. ' According to Bsakln's confession, ha first robbed and, In fear that ha would bs arrested for tha robbery, shot and killed the minister, throwing his body Into a pond, whera It was found by searohars; , : - ' ' '::". .-i jri.-wr BviuKU num. , TAMPA, ria., FeU l.A tho re sult of. th finding of ths body, of & Labsllo, a "wealthy Italian of, West Tampa, i- ysstsaHay afternoon, On- fsTttr-rhasmonts, ' M1ahMo Valentl and M. Rolenta wsrs arrested today and arc Mine hald psndlngr an Inves tigation of the mysterious crime. Ths body of Labsllo was found by 0. R. Cason, a farmer, -who cams upon a. nnwly mad gravs In tha wood while out looking; for soma hogs. After making an Investigation, Cason not), fled ths officers, and tha body. In a badly decomposed stats, waa exhumed and an Inquest hald, tha arrest of ths three Italians following this afternoon ar a result of evidence gained at ths Inquest Labsllo had received a blow over ths Isft temple, crushing his skull. What lends to ths mystery surround ing his death Is the fact that his fsm. Ily had made no report to tha polio of his being missing. . ATTEMPTED RAPE. BAINBRIDOE, a., Feb. . Em olument is Intsnss hers tonight ever the attempt of Ike Jones, a negro, to criminally assault ths sixteen-year-old daughter of Jos Bpooner In tha western part of ths county this morning. Ths negro waa captured by a posse and placed lb the town jail at Iron Olty, being later rsmovisd to the county Jail at this place. Many citlsens of the section of ths county where the crime was commit ted have come to Bainbridgs. and there are rumors of ah attempt be ing made tonight to take the negro j from the Jail and lynch him. MM Spooner Identified ths negro, and he has also been Identified as bavins at- tempted to assault ths daughter of j another white man in the same com. I munity several months ago. , MOB AFTER RATIKHER. TAMI'A. Fla., Feb. i. The sixteen i year-old girl of Oeorga Newell, a farmer Ilvlns- near Lakeland, thirty a negro this morning while on her way to school at Lakeland. She fought her assailant and succeeded In nrvntln him from scomnllshlng w - - (Continued on pegs tws.) COMMERCIAL CONGRESS AIMS TO BUILD UP WE ENTIRE SOUTH (By Aaaoclsta', PVses.) WASHINGTON, Feb. . Orosvenor Dawe, managing director of the Sou thern Commercial Congress, arrived here today from ' Montgomery, Ala., and opened offices. The local com mittee of co-operation Is now prac tically complete and Includes the following: Oscar S. Straus, secretary of commerce and labor; Luke H. Wright secretary of war; W. W, Fin ley, president of the Southern rail way; Clifford Plnchot, chief forester, Charles If. Treat, treasurer of the United State. Discussing the plan of tb congress todsy, Mr. Daws said: The work that will be undertakes by the congress will be an hurtle ef fort and many line of endeavor set In motion as th fund will permit. There ar two or three things that it will sot do. I will aot duplicate a single lino of effort at present being carried out by tb greet departments BRITT'S JUSTICE ' BILL FOB BUNCOMBE Routine Work of Legisla ture Succeeds in Accom plishing Very Little, f (eeelal to The Cltlaen.) RAI.EIUH, N. C, Ftb l.As mended, with amendments, to amendments, ths committee subttt- uts ror the child labor bill waa so passed on to Its third reading by tha house that Its own mother would nev r recognise hu Then th rather tu. nuituous lower branch hesitated to let It to through en thlrj reading and : W waa moved Successfully by Rspre sentatlve Cone, of Anson, to print It as it stands and make1 it special . order for nest Tuesday. February is - untangled as best It may be. The much manipulated -measure now an . ne calendar of bill for third reading prohibits night work In mHla by wo rn n and girls altoathsr, and by boys ander sixteen! provides (for a system ef raoton- inspection1 by the depart ment nf labor and printing) reduce the hour of work of women and cLIIdrefl from II to II a week, and prohibits children under thirteen from . working as helpers to older am- t ployas. The night works section Is to 10 Into- effect January 1st, 1110. ' ins entire time of the house after the morning hours was occupied with l"e maneuvering and dsbatlng of his bni. i The discussion was warm d Acltlng. politic gett'ng in edge. 'se toward the clove, Mr. Murohv. nf Oulford, declaring that Leader liar shew. In opposing further legislation had about-faced from the minority, and- fr. Ilarshaw replying that thers ' a no aiMmt-faolng k.jlt. .t The house 1st ths stats fish bill for a special order Krlday. Th sen. te passed the Currla bouse bill tr regulate the rrit-stlutt nd sxle of cmcentratsd feeding .stuffs, wrth an ' imendment that It do not apply to stock, on hand of dealers. r t , Senator Rarrlngsr'i. WH " to make mileage good on train w'thout being exchanged for tlrksts cams from tha commlttoe on railroads with major ity report unfavorable ar.d notice of a minority report later to be signed by Senators Barham. Ormond aad Kry.. "'! i Minority Under Hsrshaw lntrodiic 4 In the house a hill for the election if Justices of peace by the voter of each township and prohibiting thslrr ammlntment by the legislature. ' Senator Brltt, the repunllcan lead.. r In tho senate, Introduced a similar , measure for Buncombe county , LONDON HEARS BAD NEWS OF THE FLEET Sy Assaelgtsdlpes.'),' ' LONDON, , Fab, l.-Accordlnf to dispatches received berg by new agency from Olbraltar, report are curent there that a collision had oe oiired between th Oeorgia and m other battleship or ths United States' Atlantic fleet, whloh sailed from that port on Saturday ' mornlnsr on ltd homeward voyage. Nothing im known' ' oiffdally at that place of such as oo : curem e, and little credence 1 given to the report,' " i -' WASHINGTON, Feb. . Ai" late hour tonfeht no word had reached the navy department to confirm the report of a collision between the bat-, tleship Georgia and another battle ship of the .Atlantic battleship Sett. Secretary Newberry stated that mesne of communication are such that the department would surely have beta advised of such a mishaip bad tt oe currod. , ' DlCAIlLOCKKU OJf JUDGE. " COLUMBIA, S. C Feb. Ths deadlock for associate Justice contin ues, with little prospect of a break. of the government It will supple, ment their work sloes no department can properly spend any effort la th endeavor to develop any ons section. "Furthermore the congress wilt not endeavor to build up th south at the expense of th north aad west; tt will merely endeavor to bring the south to th point of developmefft that shall place It on a parity with the north an J west ' For th sndowraeat of th work the Southern Commercial Congress will need at least a million dollar. This I a small amount when eon treated with th result that can be brought to the sevtht granting that the south approximate th north In development in th next few year there I not a county la th south and not a eity but will be enhanced m value many time th million dollar required to maintain perpetual work. Every property holder, every business man, ha ft cash Interest In thl pro Ject,