LE GITIZEK Leased Wire Report Associated Fresa ,VOL.'XXV. NO. 165. ASHEVILLE, N. O, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TAFT FINDS SMG HELD AS SWINDLER PROVES RE IS NOT HAS TEN MILLION TARIFF BILL CAN RE PASSED EASILY T E THE ASHE THE.WEATHXB - -nT ROGERS OPENS LEADERS DECLARE ONBALUSTRADEQF TIDEWATER ROAD TO BACKUP COTTON MI'S I H SOU 1 11 S M SOUTHERN POLICY Idea of Giving Senators from ' South Voice In Selection ' of Officers not Liked STANDS ALONE IN HIS LARGE GENEROSITY Hitchcock Has Naming, of Postmasters and He Knows the Political Game well. ,' -i (By Sheldon 8. Cllne.) 'WASHINGTON, April I. The Taft program of giving southern senators and representatives a voice 1n the dis tribution of federal patronage In the southern states hasn't yet produced a wholesale love feast, and there are no Immediate prospects that a complete era or good reeling is at hand, rue program has struck snags this early in Its career. It will take time to work out so radical a change In polity and there are some pretty sizable obstacles which will have to be overcome. One of these Is that Mr. Taft has for his postmaster general a man who Is fair ly well acquainted with southern polit ical conditions, and there is some rea son to doubt whether Mr. Hitchcock hares his chiefs views In their en tirety when It comes to the adminis tration's policy toward southern ap pointments. The appointment of post masters comes directly within Mr. Hitchcoak's jurisdiction, and he is not always able to coincide In the recom mendations of southern senators and representatives. When ; Mr. Hitch cock goes to the white house and pre eenta weighty reasons why this man or that should or should not be ap pointed, it hardly would be human if the president were not influenced by bis views. v Against Human Nature. Human nature aleo plays a part In the matter from another angle. Borne of the southern senators and repre sentatives ' who. have been consulted regarding appointments have shown, whether consciously of unconsciously, awtMSKHnr s-r-ww-wiT" cat fortunes and the fortunes of the democratic party In the recommenda tions they have made. At least, such Is the view of high administration of ficials. It goes without saying that Mr. Tp.ft never intended that patronage should be so distributed that It would hlp the democratic and hurt the re publican party in the southern states. His hope has been that in at least a IN FAVDRDF SENATE'S TARIFFPROPDSITION Is Assured That Upper 'House Will Not Elimi , natc Best Features HOUSE PLAN IS VAGUE (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 2. President Taft was Informed today or the senate program for the administration of the new tariff bill. It provides that a minimum tariff shall apply io all countries for one year. At the end of that time the maximum rates will go Into effect against all countries, which In the opinion of the president are not giving the United States their best tariff rates. The president Is understood Jo strongly favor this idea of the appli cation of the maximum and minimum principle, and it Is believed that It will be tho plan finally agreed upon in the conference that will follow the passage of the house and senate bills. The plan of administering the mini mum and maximum ratns in the house bill as It now stands Is said to be more indefinite and less effective than the one proposed by the senate finance committee which is framing the tariff measure to be considered fcv the senate. Prior to the cabinet meeting today, President Taft had a conference with 6enator Aldrich. chairman of the senate finance committee, and Secre tary of the Treasury MocVeagh c .. a Mrlnh mwurcd thai president that the committee Is making most aatisfactory progress with the new bill, and said there would be little or no delay In taking the matter up in the senate following a vote in the bouse. There have been more of these, ap parently authentic reports current -from time to time, to the effect that the majority of sentiment In the sen ate was opposed to the minimum and Wiaxinuira principle M enunciated In JnTpiyne bill. President Taft ha. ,ot ehered this belief and today ha received definite assurance as to ne Correctness of ble position. Pi ontlnPed " pa"e Slx-' PRESIDENT TAFT NOW Sees Grand Climax of His Life's Work Carried to Final Completion HUMORIST FRIEND GOBBLES APPLAUSE Crowd Mistakes Distinguish' ed Man of Letters for Man of Finance. (.y Associated Press.) NORFOLK, Va,. April 2 The opening of the Virginia railway, ex tending from Sewell'a Point, Nor folk, to Deepwater, W. Va., on the Kanawha river, a distance of 446 miles, took place today with a most auspicious celebration here, made more notable by the presence of H. H. Rogers, who built the Virginian at a -cost of about $40,000,000; Samuel M. Clemens (Mark Twain), and sev eral prominent Now York financiers interested with Mr. Rogers in tho un dertaking. The celebration festivities began with the arrival early in the day of 62 people from along the line of the new system, on a special train of twelve coaches and two Pullman cars. . The day was filled with events of in terest, the program of entertainment for the visitors including an inspec-i tlon of the Norfolk harbor, the new Virginian coal piers at Sewell's Point, the largest in the world with a dump ing capacity Into ship bottoms of 36,- OOtons per day, and finally, a publlo reception to Mr. Rogers and his; guests. Mr. Rogers will be the guest 1 of honor at a $20 per plate banquet here tomorrow night. 11 ' The Virginian railway, begun in March 1902, was completed February 17," 1909. More than 1,000,000 acres of coal lands in West Virginia have been made accessible , by It and the road has opened up a country never before enjoying r ahrdl shrd dluuu before, enjoying railroad facilities, . "- Twain Speak. ' .--v-- At the reception at the board of trade, Mr. Rogers and Mark Twain shook hands with more than 1,000. Mark Twain was first in the line and Mr. Rogers was next. Nearly every ono mistook Mark Twain for Mr. Rogers, and as the visitors passed Mark Twain congratulating him on the completion of the Virginia railway (Continued on pag four.) SUES BEEF TRUST FfiU DAMAGE IS AMOUNTING T8 MILLION DOLLARS Alleged That Trust Nearly (lot Control of Inde pendent Concern STOCK WAS POOLER NEW YORK, April 2. A suit for (1,122,000 damages has been brought against the National Parking Com pany, a stilwlrtlary of the so-called Beef Trust, and others, by Indepen dent butchers of New York. It Is al leged In the complaint, which has been filed in the supreme court, that the trusts Interests obtained secret control of a company that was sup posed to be their competitor and have since dictated Its policy. The plalntffs are the minority stockholders of the New York Butch ers' Dressed Meat Company. This concern was organised in 1902, when beef prices reached their highest point to fight the trust. On 1907 Frederick Joseph became president. He Is named a-s one of the defen dants in the present suit. It Is al leged that Joseph was really acting for the trust when he acquired con trol and that his actions as presi dent ore dictated by the Chicago packers. The result Is, the complaint says, that there is no real competi tion between the supposedly Indepen dent company and the trust, an dthat New York city made the victim of a monopoly. The complaint deals with some of the matters which came out recently in trial of the suit of Joseph against Sulzberger. On the witness stand Joseph testified in regard to a con tract which he made In 104 to sell to Edward Tllden, president of the National Packing Company. 4,875 shares of the stock of the Bchwara rhild ft Sulzberger Company. It was in this way that the trust came near getting control of the "8. S." Later however, the majority stock of this company was put into a trusteeship to make aure that the trust should not, by any chance, obtain the con trol. , ; " v u i Even Name Date for Its Final Passage In Spite of Hostility to it PUBLIC IS TIRED OF T1RES0M DISCUSSION Little Interest Is Shown Either on Floor or In Galleries of House. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April . The re- publican leaders of the house ex pressed themselves today as absolute ly confident of being able to pass the tariff bill whenever they decide to put It upon its passage. This conclusion is the result of a careful canvass. The announcement was confidently made that they -would have sufficient strength to vote down a motion by the democrats to recommit tho bill, with instructions, which, will bo the teat. The final vote, it Is believed,' will bo reached next 'week, possibly on April 1. , That the Payne bill was filled with' riotous Imperfections, was a false pretense, was designed to cover up the extravagances of the republican administration, that it did not redeem party pledges, and that It sounded the death knell of the dominant party, were soma of the criticisms paused upon the measure by the democrats In the house today. Debate Continue. An interesting feature of the de bate was the speech of Pablo Ocampo Do Leon, the Philippine commissioner who attacked the provision for free trade with the Philippine lalanda From the far south exactly opposite views were expressed regarding pro tection, Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana, pleading for it oa behalf of the In dustrles of, hl atate,,whyftMr, JBptgtjt, of Mississippi, and Mr. Clayton, of Alabama, wanted free lumber, hides, boots, shoes, bagging and cotton ties. The speech of Mr. Clayton was of considerable length and he engaged In several heated colloquies with mem ber; on the republican side. From the republicans came sugges tions of a permanent tariff commis sion, and while all of them supported (Continued on page Six.) TEDDY AT GIBBALTEfl DENIES STORIES OF THE ATTEMPT! HIS LIFE Says . An Idiotic Italian "Sassed" Him While lie Was on Bridge MARKS SHORT STOPS (By Associated Press-) OIBKAITAlt, April 2. The Bteatn- er Ilamlmrg with Theodore -Roosevelt and the members of his party on Iw.ard came into (JibraltiT a few minutes before o'clock this morn ing. Mr. Roosevelt came ashore with Richard L. Sprague, the American consul, and an aide do camp of Gen eral Sir Frederick I'orestler-Walkcr, governor of Gibraltar. Accompanied by the governor, on aide, inil Mr. Sprague, Mr. Hoosevelt drov In the governor's carriage out along the north tfront and up to tho limit of British territory. Mr. Sprague and Mr. Roosevelt then drove back to the pier, whence Mr. Roosevelt went off to th' Ham burg shnrtly after half past eleven. The dock was rrowdefl with people. who gave Mr. Roosevelt an enthusluji tlc farewell. The Hamburg sailed for Naples at 12.20 o'clock. Mr. Koosew-H refused to be protographed and declined every request for an in terview. Last night at a dance on the Ham burg, Mr. Roosevelt danced with Mif Ruth Draper. Before withdrawing for the night Mr. Roosevelt appear.! in the smoking room and cbatted with the passengers for twenty min utes. When asked directly concern ing the rumor that an attack had 'been made upon him during th ; voyage. Mr. Roosevelt said that th only basis for It was that an "Idiotic, excitable Italian" used angry expres sions to him while he was on the bridge of the vessel talking to the captain. He said this man made no attempt upon him whatever and tha; he was promptly removed and con fined below the remainder of the voyage. STAPLES, April 2. The German steamship agents here announce that the Hamburg which Is due Sunday wilt not srrive at Naples unflKMon day, owing to bad weather. :! PANlKTj J. Ono Time King Jn Cotton Market. i . cm piuv YORK LIFE WILL GUT DOWN ITS FORCE Thousand Agents Will Have to Walk Line Because of Court's Decision i NEW YORK. April 1 As a result of the limitation placed upon new business of life insurance companies by the insurance law, th New York Life, Insurance Com pany, It waa an nounced today,' will on Hay 31 dis charge 1,00 . of its agents in various parts of the .country. The dismissal order which , will, affect , agents who devote 'only partvof their Urn to th the decision rendered yesterday Supremo Court Justice O'Gormnn, up holding the constitutionality of that section of the Insurance law which limits new business to be written by any company In any calendar year to (160,000,000. Justice O'Gornuui's decision forbade the company from Issuing a $25,00 policy on the ground that Its limit for new business for the year had been reached and could not bo exceeded. Edward It. Perkins, second vice president of the New York Life In surance Company said tonight that In the last two years more than 5,000 life Insurance agents have lost their positions. Another 1,000 would have to go by Mayy 31, thug bringing u force which once numbered 8,000 down to 2,000. ATTEMPTS TO KILL WIFE IN CHILDBED Prominent Resident of M" Dowell County Slashes Throat While She is 111 Special to Th Citizen ) MARION, N. '.. April 2 - Willie his wife, lying ill 111 bed wllh her ten days-old hnliy. liwrenee Cmlcy, a prominent refi'l' nt who lives al'out three miles from her.- all. roped lo kill her by ulir-liing her throat, with a razor. Mrs. f'onley wii Lady cut. hut may recover. The c hild was not hurt. Physlelfins and officers were sum moned at once, hut Conley escaped, and up to t'his time has not been cap tured, f'onley has always been re garded as a !' '-able citizen, anil no motive can lie ;iscrilcd for lili rath act. Mrs. Coiil. v was a Miss Carpcn Ing and comes of a prominent family. tllAIXlM Il AT WKI.DOX. RICHMOND. Va., April 2.- John Armstrong t'h.iloner Is visiting fri nd near Weldfui. N. C. recuperating from an atark of acute Indigestion following the tragic events of the night of March 15, when Mr. c'halon er killed a farm employe at his houi Merry Mills. Cobham, Va., while de fending the wife of the latter from an assault y ic r husban WASHINGTON, AprllJ. The Pore- cast for North Carolina: Fair Satur day and Sunday, moderate northwest winds becoming variable. MJIXY : Now ProituiUT of Plan to Save Grow. n mmy. - i ; , s . TO - GET VALUABLE PURSE 1 ..!-:... . Star Sprinters From All . Over World Will Compete in Great Race Today v NKW YQHK, April . Blx of the greatest lung distance runners In the world, each representative of his na tlon ,tww start in the Marathon derby at I p. m., at the polo O rounds to morrow. Johnny Hayes, Alfred Bhrubb, Thomas Longboat, Dofando Pietrl, Matthew Maloney and Henri Styves. i '. vt..' 5 ;'' ;: i-i ; f v Each of these men ha a record o be porud of, but the best at all lor thoaistaneCas to lima fs thtef Henri Htyvns. lie madthn fllstanflu In a race In London on December 18 Inst, In two horns, thirty-one minutes and twenty-three seconds. The bet ting on the race. It Is said, In sporting circles, has been rather heavy. Long boat rules the favorite at 7 to 6 with Dorando next In favor at B to S. The prize the men will compete for is 110,000 in cash, divided Into four purses of 15.000. $2,600, 11,500 and 11,000, This Is the richest purs ever hung up for a similar event In this or any other country and will spur ever yman to his best effort. The stands will seat 40,000 people and that every seat will be taken. If tho weather is kind, has been Indi cated by the public Interest la the contost. DEFENSE INDICATES LINE OF EVIDENCE Will Try'fo Prove That Rel ative of Preeland Family is (Juilty of Murder (Ity A-H.H luted Press.) A.MITK t'lTV, l.a., Aj.i II 2. "We will not only produce th. ten gauge dot gull used In klllliiK J. O. Ilreo hind, bis wife, and st. p-dnught r, but ad will show In court who killed them." Koch was tho declaration toils v of counsel for Avery Hlount charged with the asHasMlnatlori of the Dreeland fam ily and now being tried on one Indict ment alleging the murder of the man. Tills announcement coupled with evl dere e Introduced by the defeiot. , In- ll at. s that an attempt is to b- made by Blownl's lawyers to shift lie- re sponsibility of the crime to a relative of III. Hint's, who disappeared from his home near Tli lifaw on the day of th murder and who has not bi-. n kc. n or heard from since. MORNINGSTAR LANDS BILLIARD TOURNEY (Hy Associated Pre.) NKW YORK, April 2.- "ra C. MorningHtai . of this city. Is th new world's champion nt IS.i-halk line bil liard, having won the honor by de feating C-orge V. Slosson In tho final game of the international tournament at the Madison Kuare rjarden con cert hall tonight, scorn r0 to JI4. Mornlngstar Is thirty-four years old. He distinguished himself In this tour nament by scoring a victory In every one of his six games, lie gets a Cash prism of $1.2, and forty per cent of the gate receipts and entry money. George Sutton, of Chicago, gets sec ond prlie. twenty-five per cent of the money, Oeorge R Slosson. of New York, and A. O." Cutler, of Boston, tied for third place and divided twenty-serea per cent. Louis Cure of Paris, champion France, will re ceive the remainder. 4 : ' Boston Officers clear Air. Folwer of Charge and Ad mit Mistaken Identity AUGUSTA POLICE MADE BAD MISTAKE Chief May Be Liable for De tention of Man in Common Cell for Days. (By Associated Press.) AUGUSTA, oa., April t.Offlcsrs from Boston who arrived this morning declared W. W. Fowler, who has been under arrest here, waa not W. - TX Owen, former congressman from In-, illana, who la wanted In Boston on charges of fraud. Fowler waa at ono released, . . v Inspector A. C, Armstrong, of the iioston bureau of criminal investiga tlon, and A. F. Luther, a former em ploye of owen, were the Boston men who aaw Fowler, Luther said th prisoner waa not Owan, .Luthur said he worked-for Owen alx months and knew him Intimately. Inspector Arm. strong said that Mr. Fowler looked very much Ilka Owen, and that it would require personal acquaintance to say ha waa not Owen. Fowler's attorney here denounced the keeping of his client In the common ceils at police headquarters as a "damnable outrage." Tha only legal recourse Fowler has is to sua tha chief of po lice individually, Ha cannot sua the city,"'' Mr, Fowler la said to be suffering frara glaucoma. An Immediate opera tion to save hi sight waa declared necessary and ha waa taken to a hos pital soon after he waa released. ; ' ' Wildcat SlMmo. ' William D. Owen, who la Milt want ed by tha Boaton police waa tha head of tha tlbsro and other' Mexican bub bles that burst In the early spring of 10B. He was secretary of state. ol Indjana from to 1889, Ho had appeared In publlo Ufa a a' tnlnlstnr MUtba wM.HIa,.ortoflal ability had introduced him to tha political arena, and in lifts ha waa elected to congress front tha old tenth district. and ha held his seat through the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con gresses. He waa later appointed com mlssionor of immigration. When Owen was a member of eon great and later when ha waa com misalonar of Immigration ha fell In with some Mexican promoters at Washington and they pictured to him tha glowing possibilities of coffee and rubber business In Mexico. Owan bought about five thousand acres of Jungle near Tohuantepoc. This tract waa located about the middle of the Isthmus and at the time of tha pur chase waa almost Inaccessible so that that land cost Owen practically noth ing. But he found that a railroad was to be built and this would place tha land within reach and Owen told of a tcheme to make money out of It. Tho Origin of the Companies. After Owen became secretary of the Hate of Indiana he took Nat U. Hill, who was later treasurer of the stato: U. Z. Wiley. A. C. Dally and W. I. Over street, the last named of Terre Haute, down to view the land. A number of neoplo were down there who explain ed the fortune that could b made In the cultivation of coffee, rubber, pine apples and other tropica crops. When the party returned to Indiana the Mix- lean Coffee and Hubbcr company was organised with Owen as president. Vumerotis other corporations of vari ous names and entangled relationships rrew out of this original enterprise. Including the various 1 1 hero concerns. prominent among those lielng an In-1 liana company and Ubero companies; with headqtisrters at Huston. The first crash came through a Mos- lon company, when stockholders at tached the funds In the elaborate of fice of that company, at 89 Htate srxrVTJVtiUtru"ur i1 '"Ir" " - sssasasas (Continued on page BlxJ Invalid Clirl Who Wrote io Cliocr Soldiers in Field Wcdn at 65 (Sneelaf te Th Cltlxen.) CHICAOO. April it. liters writ en by a tender-hearted Invalid girl luring the civil war to cheer the Sieart of a wounded soldier she had never seen form the foundation of a romance which has found Its culmina tion after many years. The climax comes In a wedding at Oak Park, the contracting parties be ing Mrs. Alsellne Ounn, a widow, writer of the letters, and Capt, Selden M. French, of Denver, who received them. The captain la 67 years .old, his bride 5. When a youth of If Oapt. French tolned the Twelfth Iowa regiment and went away to the war. Mrs, Ounn, then a girl of 11, waa an Invalid, con fined to her home in a email Iowa t (Continued on page Six.) Solly Plans to Give Farmers ol South Chance to Borrow Money on Crop IT WOULD MEAN BIO SAVING TO GROWER Southern Investors will Have Chance to Get In on : the Enterprise.; 1 (By Aaanclated Press.) ' ATLANTA.' Oa., prll I. "WbeB tha farmers of tha South and tha business men of tha South' say ens . word, funds will be Immediately avail able insufficient volume' ts fortver' place tha great , industry of cotton production ttpon a stable foundation, free from tha chanca fluctuation of the market, relieved of tha attacks of manipulators and leaving tha gi gantic crop monopoly of this action to respond, unembarrassed and unre stricted, to the legitimate lawi of sup ply and demand, t The result thou! t mean to the Houth en annuel cash saving ranging from 1160,000,001 to la&o.eoo.ooo." ' In these plain terme Daniel I, Sully, the man who drove cotton to He highest market price since the Civil war, today outlined th purposes of hla visit to Atlanta and the South, Continuing. Mr. sully eald fata plan contemplated, "the creation of an Ini. pregnable system which shall do away with the annual necessity of the far mer aacrincln. mil I lone of batee of cotton for pressing debt, congesting the, market, hammering down prices, upsetting the reign of supply and de mand "and losing to this section the tremendous sums, that are It due In return for th one crop tndlspemtlblo to the needs of civilisation. ... -'.'v. ' ' line Ten Millions Heady. t do not ask one penny fromi the Southern people, I do not ask the pledging of .on bate of cotton until I nave given ample good faith of sufficient financial backing, from source that are unquestionably to carry every oeisn 01 tn pian inio :.. effect and t safeguard the Interest of every farmer In the South,, from the men who raises one bale to the man who raise a thousand bale , "A minimum fund of $tMe,00 subscribed by the moat conservative financier wf the United State I available io be Invested In suoh iron clad securities a shall Insure the ability and responsibility of the plane of promoter to redeem their promise and obligation to the last detail. "The people of (he South will be given the first opportunity to Invest in this project, If upon rigid Investi gation It commend ltelf to their Judgment flonnVd Wsrehonsee. 'The backbone of the plan I chain of bonded warehouse through out th South, sufficient In number and capacity to house one-third of the crop and that orve-thlrd, e ha been demonstrated, will be the balance of power which wilt render market eon dltlnns Impossible and Insure the die-' posal of the crop In strict conformity with the taws of supply and demand." In borrowing money on hi ware house certificate; Mr. Sully eald, the farmer doe not surrended this equity In hi cotton. "It I nl to sell when ever he please or to hold a long as be pleases, with the plain business exception that tha certificate ha may have used a collateral for th loan In a prior lien upon the bale which must he satisfied out of the sale of the bale when that culmination I reached. The company would be paid a nom inal fee for each bale of cotton hand led and In this way. Mr. Sully figure a fair profit will be realised on the investment. SUGAR TRUST MUST PAlfOVEfl MILLION Import Duties on Sugar Drought in Fraudulently Assessed by Loeb NKW yotlK, April t. Re-eases, ments of duties amounting to a total increase of 11,289,000 on sugar Im ported by the American Sugar Refin ing company at the refinery of Have meyer and Eider, between December, 101, and November. 1(07, have been ordered by Collector Loeb, of the Port of New York. Mr. Loeb ordered thl liquidation of the duties on the ground of fraud. The increased assessments is a re sult of the -trial of the ease of the : government against the American Su gar Refining company, which waa re cently tried here, in which the gov ernment waa awarded flJt.OOQ. Kx-Unlted State Attorney Stlmson and Assistant District Attorney Dennl son, who prosecuted the previous case, have been retained by th department . of Justice, special counsel to carry on further Miration of siu-.i.!ar na-