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THE WEATHER 'S':!f4:;',:-i,.. 'FAIR'. THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. Associated Press , Leased Wire Reports. .VOL. XXV. NO. 167. ASHEVILLE, N. C., MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TRIBUNAL E WILL ARBITRATE ram, GASES United States Will Submit Newfoundland Fisheries & , Veneuelan Disputes WILL ADD TO PRESTIGE OF THIS GREAT COURT Has Never Before Had Mat ters of Such Moment Sub mitted by Great Nations. - (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 4. Again the ood office of the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague ;,r to be invoked to settle important International disputes! - this time in natters in which the American gov ernment is vitally interested. It will . not be the first .occasion in which re course has been made to that august tribunal in issues in which this gov. eminent has figured, the cases of the Pious fund of the California and of ths '"preferred creditors" of Venea uelai which were awarded preferen tial treatment following a blockade of tier ports, both having been passed on by the court and each of Importance to the United States. Neither of them, however, are regarded as of as great consequence as that, primarily, of the interpretation to be placed on article one of the treaty of 1818 touching the rights of Americans to fish In the waters of Newfoundland end, secondarily, the issues to be ar bitrated as a result of the agreement recently reached between Mr. Buch anan, the American special commis sioner aoA President Gomei, of Ven ezuela, Don Qf which are to go to , JThe- Hague. Ffcjheries Dispute. The compromise negotiated by Sec retary Root with Ambassador Bryce which incorporates the fisheries dis pute to be arbitrated, has been rati fied by the senate and the two nations Interested have agreed on the arbi tration. In submitting to The Hague ILLICIT STILLS ON INCREASE UNDER PROHIBITION LAW Revenue Department Declares Asheville District One of Those Most Prolific of Moonshine. (Continued or. pagla Ave.) (By Assoc la ted press.) WASHINGTON, April 4 Officials of the Internal revenue bureau of the treasury department are of the opin ion that the temperance movement which has taken such a stronghold In certain sections of the country, particlarly in the South, has resulted In Increasing the number of violations of the Internal revenue laws In the distillation of illicit whiskey. jttecent reports indicate that In many Southern states esneclallv In Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina mere has been greater activity on the part of the lawless mountain ele ment, who always have been trouble- some to the revenue agents, than In many years. These three states now have laws prohibiting distilleries from operating within their borders. In Alabama the law went Into effect on July 1. 1908, in Georgia on Jan uary 1, 1908; and In North Caro lina January 1, 1909. Many legiti mate distilleries have moved to Flor ida and other states where the inhi bition does not exist. Whiskey being more difficult to obtain in a legiti mate way has greatly increased thn profits of illicit distilling with the re sult that the activities of the Internal revenue bureau at this time Is largely directed towards the mountain sea- tlons of these three states. Thousand Destroyed. In 1908 there were 1,130 illicit stills destroyed; In 1907 there were 1,139 and in 1906 there were 1.370, but the returns for tht nine months of the present fiscal year show a decided Increase In the number de stroyed, the number so far reported this year being 1,017 with the proba bility thai by July 1st, that number will have been Increased to approx imately 1,300. - The section of the South where The records of the last eight years hows that casualties to officer and men employed In raiding was only eleven, four of the raiders having been killed. During this same time about (,700 persons were arrest el, and a large proportion of them sen tenced to prison. Since July 1st, there has been only one casualty. mac or Deputy Marshal J. C. Mi Ulna of Kentucky, who was killed during a raining expedition on Christmas day, 1908. there Is the most activity among the so-called "moonshiners embraces the Atlanta district, where it is re ported 120 stills were seized and de stroyed In December last. The Asha vllle, N. C., district Is another section .SiWtttoCW..:3!Jf IfrSLfet1 ha to P&.oHtfnUx looked aCtaeL 1 Solved In the nsnenes controversy both the American and the British governments are giving that tribunal a prestige in the initial stages of Its existence which Is regarded diplomat ically as an International occurrence of the first magnitude and one cat- ' culated to have great influence in in- jjwuirYn'i'ri' .... as do those of Columbia, Si C, and Louisville, Ky. At Atlanta the collector has seven teen deputies; at Asheville fifteen, and at Columbia twenty-eight; most of them constantly employed in ral3 lng work. In addition nearly eight hun dred possemen have been employed from time to time in the last few months, with a number of guides. E PATIENT PilC STRICKEN All Rescued by Attendants. Building Caught From Prairie Fire. tit '"' ' n i"5 - r " ' ' '''' ' ' REPUBLICANS OF SO T HARESCQRED BY R E FDRMLEAGU E Office Holding Fraternity form Cliques for Perpetual Succession TAFT RECOGNIZES THESE CONDITIONS Is Quotod as Saying it Would Be Better for Party to Appoint Democrats. cardinal. r;mno-H Who WM.Coum) to Vxlteville In July to Dedicate St. Ch.i n-h, Lawrence Catholle (By Associated Press.) WOODWARD, Okla., April 4. Six hundred insane persons were in dan ger of death today when flames start. STANDARD OIL IS NOW - IN STRUGGLE TO EXIST ing from a prairie fire destroyed sev- Great Suit For its Dissolution Begins" Today. Evidence w ir.i. n 11 w ! & n i it t iviuKC'8 oman xiDrary 01 oeverai volumes wmcn Court Will Not Attempt To Read lum at Fort Supply, The nre broke out In the laundry building shortly after the Inmates .had returned to their quarters froraf the noon meal. The asylum Are depart ment was ordered out and every ef fort was made to conceal from the pa. tlents the fact that the building was burning. A woman, seeing the fire, however, excitedly gave the alarm. At tendants then rushed among their charges and narrowly averted a panic. The fire spread from the laundry to the pharmacy" supply building and thmrtctmdrasyiTmfitsrrThi-rni mates yielded to the entreaties of the attendants and kept good order when the danger was greatest. By hard work the linemen saved the various ward buildings. There was no loss of life. The sta bles, laundry, pharmacy and employes quarters were destroyed. The loss Is $7B,-00. (By Associated Proas.) ST. LOUIS, April 4.-,;ommenelng tomorrow; the fujl bench of four Judges comprising the United States circuit oourt of this district, will hear argument In th Important case In which the Unite! Stats government seeks the dissolution of the Standard lOtf company of New'" Jersey rnvtrrvmg an Interpretation of many of the phases of the Sherman act, Seldom if eveV has such a mass of I evidence been compiled In a single , case. The record, including tho ex- hlblts, already exceed 7,000,000 words, i Standard Oil company of New Jersey, (By Associated Press.) NKW YORK. April 4. Ths report of a special committed of the nation al civil service reform, league on ths political activity of federal office holders which has Just been mads putillo says In part: Charges of coerclsm of office old ers by the president to secure th nomination of a particular candidate havo been Inquired Into, but evidence to sustain those charges is wholly lacklnig, president Roosevelt ap point men t lists for a considerable period were, with his permission, . ex mined. From those lists It woulj appear that presidential appointments prior to tho convention were made In the usual manner on the recom mtmdatlon of senators, congressmen and others claiming the patronage of the offices Involved. President Roosevelt took a decided step In advance toward checking the evils resulting from the activity of office holders In politics by his order of June I, 1(07. amending the civil service rules try forbidding "employees In the competitive sondes from tak ing part In political management ur In political campaigns, This order was enforced In ths last campaign. It was found that of the delegates to ths Chicago , convention federal office holders constituted an In ten OF FT. WORTH TO STOP LOOTING BY THIEVIES Fire Started by Cigarette, Caused Loss of Two Mil lion Dollars. LOSERS WELL TO DO ' '( (By Associated Press) FORT WORTH, Tex., April 4. To a party of small boys and a care lessly thrown cigarette is generally credited the fVre of yesterday which destroyed property in South Fort Worth valued at two millions of dol lars, caused the death of one person. J. J. Newton a bank employe, the se rious Injury of six others, rendered 800 families homeless and will cause the temporary Idleness of several hundred workmen employed In the manufacturing plants and business houses hurned. All of today and tonight the burned aistrlct is under the guard of state troops to prevent looting and although worn out by their continuous labors, the n.th-e nre-flghiir - force of die city Is still engaged In extinguishing, finally, the burning embers wnlcn with the wind still high, spasmodical ly spring Into a blaxe. This n"r"ln a moss meeting of citizens was held and relief committees named. How ever, because of the fact that the burned residences was populated largely by those In comfortable cir cumstances, the monetary relief need ed wlllbe small. Plre Spread Rapidly. The fire started at May and Tucker streets. Driven by a gale blowing from the' southwest, the flames quick ly Spread to adjoining buildings. After ealtlng its way through th? residence district, after reducing to Shes 100 pretentious dwellings, three church buildings, the Broadway Pres byterian and Baptist churches and the Swedish chapel and the Walker sanitarium, the flames, spreading to the south, attacked the manufactur ing plant of the Sawyer Electrical company. This building was quickly destroyed end five large warehouses and eeveral smaller business houses Buffered a like fate. The yard of the Texas and Pacific railroad were next In the pathway tit the fire. The round house, repair fhops, coal chutes and several hund- MAY SEND BATTLESHIP UP THE MISSISSIPPI TO RECEIVE HER PRESENT ail taken by one stenographer, Rob erf 8. Taylor, of 8t Paul. Printed, the evidence is more voluminous by several volumes than a Set of the En cyclopedia fcrlttanlca. Tho major portion of the testimony was taken In New York city, John D. Rockefeller and John I. Archbold having been among the witnesses. 'are e recoro mat even a n,nr,pollxe trade In the purchase of perusu. or us uikiot oy mu e-.un ,,.r,...m. In the shli.ment and trans lmOhXVSH UK BAT INTERESTS. WASHINGTON, April Tho hear Ing In the case of the United States land of the delegates from ths South against the Standard oil company, of te nearly ono In three, and of Vou. Tnr.ov whl.h k.ri.. I. D. T ..1. "'""' more , nn '! r " . ' half. These office holdore were po tomorrow, n one 01 mo most impor- Htlcal, that In, outside o( the Juru lant ana far-reaching civil- actions diction of (he civil service act, ami that tuu eveawlMa .triad ln..thl com. H' moft MW-. lr JrWlnUpn.t was try. The bill of complaint on behalf ""m,rm6Uon P ,ne U?,WM? i i(M--ea vt?nnit Indiana Machine, Intlon of the Sherman anti-trust law In Indiana the republican organl was filed In November 180: Ths h"" been for yeare controlled oy wnat is Known as tnw Fairbanks machine. The head of thn machine the parent organisation, together with all the time has been Joseph B. Keel- ing, United States district attorney. In the seven years during which he has held office, he has devotod much time and effort to building up and strengthening that machine. It cov ers both slato and federal politics. It forced the nomination of tho ra its various subsidiary corporations and seven individuals (John D. Rockefel lor, William Rsckefellor, Henry N. Flagler, Henry If. Rogers, John D. Achbold, Oliver H. Payne and Charles M. Pratt) arc charged with having eu- t . . r. 1 1 1 f ri t . i fin ci vrnniunl I M Mili-aln commerce amon III,, never! .lute, to u"i"i'-u vBrniiunw lor ew - the lAfit national conwnUon and had PITH OF CORN STALKS! impossible and much will depend on vt,rMU,n 'f petroleum by pipe llnc. """" t,h" P'"-h"'s candidacy (rontlnuwl on page three.) Also to Demonstrate That i By-product Almost Pays for Ships of Heavy Draught I Expense of Manufacture, Can Pass Bar in Summer j Paper is Fine in Quality no summaries prcseniru uy mo ui- The 1JM tt-tl Klati'S seeks to en- torneys or tne respecuve mues. 11 is i0n the defendant from doing any expected tho court will grunt each a t looking to the carrying out of tho side about five days for llnul urgu-1 alleged combinations or conspiracy ment, which far exceeds the usual and to dissolve tho Standard Oil com- tlme allowed. 1 hlnntlon. BEND PLIANT KNEE THOUGH 110 Fi IRS FOLLOW FAWNING Members Still Run to White House and Beg Somebody to Boss Them ;Ts- V X v NCIDEN TALLY KEEP TAFT IN HOT WATER Have Been . Accustomed to RoosevelUan Domination ' and SUIl Expect it ' (By Sheldon' S, aintt.) WASHINGTON. A mil s.rvi.lt. his pacific Intentions, president Taft la not escaping trouble with congress. Mr, Taft Is exceedingly anxlooe that ' a proper tariff bill shell tie passed at uie earnest poasiDle day;' but he doesn't went to mix In ths factional squabbles in senate and house, Uke a man in quloksands, though, he p. IHtare to be getting deeper for all hie efforts to keep but. There appear to he a great many members of congress who are unwil ling that the body shall discharge Its constitutional duty of enacting leg's- -latlon. They want the president to tell congress what to do. Therefore they flock to the white house either for instructions or for support tn their contentions. A member of congress ' will go to the white house ana explain his pet tariff project to the president u tne president rails to violently de nounce the project end .kick the pro- , lector out of the executive office, the member goes back to the capltol and spreads the word about that he has . secured the administration's support. Utnsr members "fall for the etory and in their eagerness to court white house favor line up In support of pro jects to which Mr. Taft never intend ed to commit himself.1 s-yt . 1 Naturally, this stirs tip member opposed to the project In question, and they flock to the white house. If ths president' denies he hae any spe cial Interest in th project, the op position convert that Into a declare- tluaohat- the administration la utter- , ty opposed to it and lose no time In , putting out reports to tha effect, - ; Oct Him Both Way. . - .4 Thus they get the president both going and coming. The chance arc three In five that the matter In con troversy I one to which Mr. Teft I supremely Indifferent, but he I repre- ' sented as being first on one side and then on the other, Th thing started evn before the extra session. In he fight over the rule th president' tipport was claimed by both th Can-! non organisation and by the-tnaur-i gents. As a matter of fact. Mr, Taft didn't care a continental what uls the house adopted for Ha own govern- ment and didn't regard; the matter a ' any of his business. What he did ' (Centlnusd en page twe.) MEYER IS DOUBTFUL. BURNED TO DEATH IN SUPPLANT WOOD PULP (Continued on page three.) (Fy Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 4. Concert ed action Is to be taken practically, by tho entire congressional delega tion from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee to have the battleship Mississippi sent to Natchez, Miss., to be preseniea with a sllv'r service, the gift of the people of the state. The proposition Is to have a hearing, prooaoiy mis hefnre the secretary of the navy and other officials of this department. Opposition has arisen to ine in tention of the navy department to ,.nH fWe thattleahlD MKsiHslnpi to Horn Island on the extreme south of he MinlsRlnni ooast on May lltn to run, ii In there until about the fifteenth, upon the ground that ornc iiu nt the navv department were ad verse to having the vessel undergo the danger of crossing tne Dar ai me mouth of the Mississippi river. Those 1n favor of havting her sent to Natch ex argue that the vessel can go up the river, at least as far as that city with absolute safety. Those who object to sending the Mississippi to Horn Island to receive her sliver service, eay bhe Iwould have to anchor ten or twelve miles from shore and only a few hundred people could see her while If she were sent up the Mississippi thous ands would have the first opportunity of thlr llwes of seeing a modern battleship. Strong pressure Is being brought to bear upon Secretary Meyer to In duce him to change the original pre sentation place. The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deepwater association, believing that to send the battleship up ths Mississippi would be an argument In favor of their cause, are lending their support. Aside from the sentimental reas ons It Is pointed out that If the bat tleship Is sent up the Mississippi t would be a material demonstration of the capacity of the mighty river to accommodate the Commerce alone of tate. but of continent. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 4. In view of the diminishing supply of pulp- j making woods and the consequent ln j crease in the cost of paper, the seri ous problem which awaits solution Is whence will come our future paper supply? Interest In the matter lic in the fact that everybody uses paper and It is presented In Its serious as pect when one considers that the de struction of our pulp-making wood" goes on at a tremendous rate. Experts declare that there are not enough spruce forests standing In the United Ktates to furnish a future con stant supply of wood pulp for making paper under the present methods for est conservation and waste. It It probable, however, they state that there exist sufficient spruce forests in this country and Canada which. If protected by reasonable conservation, will furnish a sufficient supply of spruce wood for paper making for all time. It would seem that the pro duction of news-print paper and other cheap grades of paper are dependent upon the continuation of cheap ground wood produced from spruce trees, and that condition is likely to continue. 8o serious did the select committer on pulp an paper investigation of con gress consider the situation that they recommended that both the general and state governments should en deavor to encourage the production of spruce forests. May rase Com Walks. Experts of the bureau of plant In dustry, deparment of agriculture, have been making a careful Invesigatlon to see what can be found to take the place of wood for the manufacture of paper and- whether the necessary plant Is at hand or whether we will have to hunt the world over for it The experiments, now being conducted by this department, grew out of th agitation resulting from the decreas ing supply of pulp-making woodr. Congress from time to time ha made 'Yelfow House" the hcene of Many Notable Events in Virginia is in Ruins (By Associated Press.) WINCH KSTKIt, Va.. April 4. Mis Virginia Carter, the young ci ;i i J i I t f Hees B. Carter, was burned to leath In a fire which destroyed her home "Yellow House," at Itext, tln county, and one of the mot historic structures In the state. Holh y.r and Mrs. Carter were bally burned In a futile attempt to savs their laughter. They are expected to re cover. "Yellow House" was more thno two hundred years old and whs the cene of many notable events during Revolutionary and Civil war times, neral George Washington stopped here while on Tils way to Ilraddock' "ellef at Fort Iluquesne, ami during the conflict between the wtates It was '.he home of Miss Rachel Wright, whose. Information to General Hheri lan Was of sueh value to the Federal irmy during his valley campaign that congress voted her a gold medal In appreciation of her services. The irlgin of the flra which destroyed this historic Is unknown. THREE FOUND 6UILTT OE 1RDEKDR. SMITH; JAIL AND MAKE ESCAPE SENTENCEO TO PRISON Notorious Crooks Supposed Leader Octs Full Penalty for to be Headed for Ashe Second Decree. Other ville Reward Offered. Oct Lighter Sentences (lly AxNorlulcd Preen.) (IHKKNVIMiK, S O April 4 llnr!r Moore, allns "Tennessee I Milch" anil George Marlon, slleg.-'l "yeggman" who whs arrested In Hlr mlngham, Ala., and who was brought here by portofflcc Inspectors on Man h 2ft on a ehnsgf of having committed numerous postofflce roblerles in this state, escaped from, the county Jail by dynamiting the floor of the cell early today. Thy drilled holes In the Hv.ck floor of the Jail with a drill madf of an unnibr'ila handle. It Is be lieved that they had outside help The night guard declares the men did not pass him and that ho was awake all night. Indications are that tho ilrllllng was done from a cellar under the cell occupied by the prisoners. ONE PHYSICIAN'S SON. (ConUnued on page Chree.) WASHINGTON, April 4 Forecast: North Carolina: Fair warmer Mon lay; Tuesday fair; moderate to brisk south wind. ' The local police officers anil the special agent of tho Bouthern f ta:l way company were notified by wire to bo on the lookout for the two yeggmen who escaped from th Greenville Jail early yesterday morn ing. A description of the tw'o men vnw given. One of them Is short and rather stout with a Jewish east of countenance and thn other has but one arm. A reward of one hundred dollars has been offered for their ap prehension. They are supposed to have pome In the direction of Ashe vllle. TKI ItOHBKKfl KII.U BIRMINGHAM. Ala, April 4. , George Housley, a negro hrakoman was Instantly killed early this morn ing In Bessemer by robbwrs. The robbers had entered a freight car which had Just stopped at the depot and the conductor, hearing a noise, sent Housley hack to Investigate. The men escaped. (By Associated Press) RALlvlGH, M. C, April 3. After being out alt night the Jury In the trial of the three young men for the murder of Or K. W. Hmlth, of Rich mond, Va., this morning brought In a verdict of murder In the second de gree againat Kurl Cotton. Tim Holder- Held and K A. Hopkins, otherwise known as "lied" Hopkins. With re gard to Hopkins, the Jury recom mended mercy. Judge I.yon of the superior court sentenced Cotton to thirty years In the penitentiary, thn full lltnll, hold ing him as the leading spirit In the murder, llolderfield, because he was In the employ of Cotton at his cafe. and because of testimony that he was of good character, was sentenced to only ten years In the penitentiary, "lied" Hopkins was sentenced to two years. On the morning of November IS, 1608, the body of Or. Hmlth was found at the edge of a rock quarry in the eastern suburbs of Kalelgh. An In vestigation developed the fact that on the night of November 14 he had been seen apparently drunk In Cotton's cafe. Evidence produced by the stats showed that Dr. Hmlth had been drugged to death with chloroform for the purpose of obtaining his watch, ring and diamond pin which was lat er traced to Cotton; that Hopkins fur nlehed the chloroform; that Cotton administered an - over-dose which caused the victim's death, and that Holderfteld took th body In a hack LADIES WILL STREW FEET OF Neapolitans Will Welcome Our Teddy With Great Masses of Flowers. STAY WILL BE SHORT. (By Aseoc'iifed Press.) NAI'LF.R April 4, The steamship Admiral, which Is to carry ex-PresI- dent Roosevelt to Mombasa, la lying the harbor decorated with Baa. In (Continued on pag Ave.) and the special quarters set aside for Mr. Roosevelt and his party are al ready showing evidences of the we come which await him. Kumere girts of flower for the distinguish American have already been sent the ship, and tomorrow the remenr brarice of the German emperor, In thn shape of great masses of carna tions, typical of the German colors, will bo placed In Mr. Roosevelt's cab in. The Hamburg Is expected here near ndon, and the former president will be greeted on board the steamer by the representatives of the city coun cil, and a party of ladle who will literally strew his path with rosea. The German consul-general will ex tend the personal greetings of the emperor, and Ambassador GrUcora will represent the hundred of Amer icans who have gathered at Naples. The American yacht In th harbor have their flags and bunting ready to dress ship on the first appearance of tho Hamburg. Mr. Roosevelt will not likely remain on board the Ham burg long after Its arrival, as he wilt doubtless wish to make the most of th few hour of hi stay at Naplea No fixed program ha been arranged -as In all probability the ex-president will have decided views a to what he wishes to do. Mr. Hoosevelt will (Continued oa page Chree.) f T. V r.