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ASHEVILEE CITIZEN THE WEATHER: RAIN. Leased Wire Reports. Associated Press ASHKVILLK. N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY, 14, 1910. VOL. XXVI., NO. 85. 1'IUCE FIVE CENTS. GOVERNESS SLAIN A Strong Drawing Card. F THEBATTLECRYOF Tl THE GANN0N1SMTQ BE UPHEAVAL IN ROCK ISLAND FOLLOWS FLURRY IN STOCK FULMINATIONS 0 IN MILIUM OF STRENUOUS INSURGENT HOSTS BARNES COMPTON Is Stated That Withdrawal of Patronage Is Welcomed , by Them HAS THOS. SETTLE LANDED A PLUM? Temporary Lull !i. 1 he Bllt more Row May Presage a Storm Citizen Hurcaii, Union Trust Bufhlliur. WASHINGTON, D. C, January IS. " Shrewd political observers declare that they already see sign of a back down on the part of the president In connection with hia alleged patronage ultimatum. Cannon and his cohorts see In the threatened withdrawal of the pork barrels and federal pie a strong weapon for the Insurgents who are facing a prospect of greater free dom. And speaking of Cannon, it may be said that "Cannonism" will bo the war ery in coming congressional fights. The speaker himself is not blind to the fact that the clouds are gathering- thick and fast. The revolt against him is growing in the house and all over the country; the Amer ican people have grown weary of the bewh lettered despot. A remark able event of recent days is the dec laration of eight of the thirteen Ohio republican congressmen against Can non. They will oppose his re-election as speaker and they are gaining con verts from other states. Mt. Settle's Progress. It was stated today that the Hon. Thos. Settle is certainly slated for a comfortable berth In the judiciary de partment. While Mr. Settle has been doing Trojan work himself. Influen tial friends are helping, and It is said that the tree wihich has been so per sistently shaken is ready to give forth some good fruit. There Is a lull in the liiltmore post office fight at this end of the line. Congressman Grant's counter piny In producing Borne strong democratic endorsements of Chief Greenwood created quit a Utile stir In the North Carolina colony here. The congress man is credited with the .statement that he has still some heavy shot in reserve. AVIATORS CONTINUE TO ON LOS ANGELES FIELD Protest Filed Against J'aul han's Attempt to Inter fere With Curtiss OTHER HAPPENINGS AVIATION FIELD, Los Aug. Irs, Cal., Jan. 11. While Louis I'aiillian of France, did not do anything so wonderful today as flying nearly a mile high, he took up Mlscarol anil Maisson, his assistants and circled the field several times with them in his aeroplane, and cut "cross lots" In What was said by some to lie an at tempt to slow down Cibnn H Curtlss, who was flying the- regular course at the same time for a ten lap speed record. The passengers were landed safely. Curtlss manager protested against Paulhan getting in tin- way of the Curtiss machine and a contest may develop. Curtiss' t tal time was -1 niinut'f 54 --" seconds, nut a rec ord. latcT Paulhan tried to beat this but failed by live seconds. Karlicr in the day with his wife as a passenger Paulhan made three laps of the course In x : 1 fi 1-.".. He flew over the Judges stand after cir cling the field and alighted easily in the starting square. On a-nother flight of sev, n minutes he had Mrs. "Dick" Ferriss as a pas senger. He cut corners, How low ov er the stand and she seemed to en Joy his pranks Hamilton. Paulhan. Curtiss and Wlllard qualified in three lap nights for all events. Williard duplicated his feat of starting, flying around the course once and landing in a measured space, of twenty feet, winning a prize of I2S0. Charles K. Hamilton today made a flight with his rudder wheel tied to show that the Curtiss maVhlne could be operated without the Wright pat ents. Clifford B. Harmon of New York announced that he would attempt in the second week of February' from San Antonia; Texas, in the balloon New fork" to break true world's distance record or 1.200 miles. Har mon also will try to lift the Uhm cup now held by A.' Holland Forbes, who made 193 miles In a straight line. Coachman Charged With Mur der Tries to Commit Suicide After Denying Guilt LITTLE GIRL SLEEPING BESIDE DEAD WOMAN Room? In Disorder to MaKe li Appear That Robbery Had Been Motive I'ol'tillKKKPSllC, N. V., Jan. 13 Surah O. lireymer, aged twenty-six years, a pretty and cultured govern ess at the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Karnes Compton, at Millbrook, Dutchess county, was round In her bel early this morning strangled to death. Frank Si hermerhoi n, aged twenty-six, employed ms coachman on the Compton place, was brought here charged with the murder, Kate this afternoon ho made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide, cutting his throat with a razor. Maid Saw Man. About three o'clock this morning Mary Kennell, a maid In the Compton house was awakened by a noise and says she saw a man's form disappear out of the corridor. She ran to awak en the governess and. not receiving any reply, entered Miss Hreymcr's room. The governess was found lying ill bed, her face black and linger prints on her throat. Life was extinct, on a cot in t lie room was little I'olly Compton, aged three years, unharmed. he muid quickly summoned the coachman and when he arrived the sheriff tuid police of this city wen notified. Looked 1. 1 Ue Ittirglury. The ollloors questioned the maids id servants and the coachman, Frank Kchormerhorn. They found that M las llroymer'M hands had been tied, I hat a big chest containing silverware had been forced and several of the rooms wen- in dis order, making it appear as though the tragedy had been part of a burglary. Chief of Police Charles J. MeCabe went to the eoniiehman's bouse late this afternoon to further question him and not receiving any answer to his summons, went into the coachman s bed rnom. The room was dark and on throwing open the blinds t li chief's attention wuh attracted by a (Continued on a?c four. TAKES SHARE OF BLAME FOR ATLANTA STOCKADE! Charges of Cruel Treatment i and Filth Siihstant iated j and (irai't Prosed KWKEPING CH A Hi JES ATLANTA (ia Jan , I :i. The enuneis committee v.hich has been j investigating the charges of cruelty and abuse at the city stockade or pris-; on, reported to the council this cve-j ning that many of the assertions were i substantiate.!. Sweeping changes j were recommended. The report begins with the assertion ! that "without attempting to fix the , blame, conditions at the stm kude are1 very bad," The attempt to operate j the prison as a revenue producer I.j asserted to be responsible, each ad- i ministrathm trying to make noire, money thnn its ii''l''"wnr. This re-, suited in the pernicious custom of re- ; Sentencing prisoners for infractions of prison rules. The food Is pronounced wholesome but Its preparation lilthy. ' The sanitary conditions are declared J vile. I The charge that prisoners were sliat kled so that their ilothing could : not I"- tak. n off for their sentence, j sometimes forty davs, was sustained. Whipping was declared necessary ' only in extreme cases. The iron rings 1 to which women were hanged by the ; wrists for hours were declared less brutal than whipping, "unless the one ' suspended wero of small statue." j Money from the sale of vegetables I was misappropriated, the committer found, but Commissioner of Public Works Collier had no knowledge of I this. He held responsible for con, I ditions. however, although It was urg j ed in extenuation that he had too ! much to do. "He was only part of the vicious stem for w hich all of us are j responsib'e" the report adds. I The report of the committee follows , close upon the conviction of Superin I tendent Vining and Guard Cornet of I the rito( kade. who were eharg'tl w ith ; cruelly beating a negro prisoner .The men were sentenced today to pav' a fine of I1S9 and $100 respectively or to serve tlx months Imprisonment They appealed. Rold Interests to be Ousted by Syndicate of London Bankers WILL CONNECT WITH MEXICAN RAILROADS President Jackson Resigns and Other Changes In Directorate Announced NEW YolSK. Jan. 13. 8. U. Cha pin Co., have been punished, 1 ton lei O. Held resigned today ui chair man of tho executive committee of the Chicago, Hock Island and Pacific railway company and now, out of the iikvsh of rumors which have cropped up since the recent sensational rise and fall In Itock Island common, comes the apparently authentic report that the control of the Rock Island company Is t change and that the Held influence will be eliminated. Powerful foreign Interests, headed by lr. K. S. Pearson, a London bank er, owner of Mexican properties and w ith strong Canadian connections ha recently acquired In the open market large blocks of Hoik Island common and preferred stocks, probably about one-fifth of the whole. The new com missioners, It la understood, are work ing in harmony with Judge William II. Moore and First National bank in terests who, with Mr. Held, have In recent years dominated the Hock Isl and properties. Hlx Mexican Deal. Some time ago I r. Pearson attract ed the attention of Wall street by or ganizing a. $40,0011,000 syndicate which took over extensive Mexican properties owned by Colonel William C. dreono, and also the uncompleted Chihuahua, and I'aclllc railroad com pany. This railroad. It is said, the Pearson Interests, will extend not only to the Pacific, but northward to F.I Paso, Tex., where it. would lit in with the Hoik Islam). ('hungeri In Hoard. odic-ial announcement was made to day of the resignation of Richard A. Jackson, as president and director of the Hock Island company, and of the el'ition of Itoliert S. Walker, former ly general counsel, as his successor. Mr. Walker wan also elected a mem ber of the boeiril of directors, chair man of the executive committee and (Continued on page four.) CHAMBERLAIN MAKES APPEAL TO BRITONS FOR I Must Abandon I'ree Trade and Build up Sonic of ( Colonies SPLENDID KKFOKT I,M,M'', Jan. in From his IIIi mingham retreat, on tho very eve of the elections, Joseph Chamberlain has made a. final effort to rally his coun trymen in favor of his cherished policy, colonial preference. He has issued a manifesto addressed to the ebstors of the whole country. In It lie reiterates the warnings of the grawty of the commercial situation. "I address you," says Mr. Chamber lain, "as Hiitons. as patriots, and 1 tell you that It Is not well with lirit i.sh industry." Pointing out that Great Britain Is losing In the International race by her persistence in free trade, he warns the nation that if the ties of sympathy binding the country to the children who are soon to become great nations iu ross the seas should be weakened or destroyed Kngland would sink to a fifth rate nation, existing on miffei -a nee. Fxplaining that the remedy is colo nial preference, Mr. Chamberlain con ( holes. "By a commercial union we can phVM the way for federation. 1 see constantly before me as a practical object of aspiration that federation of free nations which will enable us to prolong in the ages yet to come all the glorious traditions of the Brit ish race. 4 Never yet In our history has the great democracy , been unpatriotic, and I know that tho fiuillon of our hopes is certain." This manifesto is hailed by the unionist papers as a trumpet (nil to the country one of the linest and most impressive things that Joseph Chamberlain has ever done, arul. com parable to Chatham's last speech In the house of lords for dignity and the pathetic circumstances of Its utter ance from a sick bed. PINCHOT WARNS SPECIAL THAT HE Declares National Resources in Danger of Being Gobbled up for Mere Song. Oppo sition Against Conservation Policy Began When Congress Refused Appropriation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. "The conservation of national resources and the conservation of popular gov ernment arc both at stale". Tho one needs conservation no less than the other." This statement epitomises the for mal announcement made public to night, by lllfford 'Plnchot, who won recently removed as chief of the for est service. Tho former official do. elarcs the great moral Issue that now races the country Is not the loss of natural resources, f much as wheth er special Interests orThe "heoplo shall rule. The statement, in part, is lis fol lows: "At this time I have no comment to make upon recent cventa. Whether In or out of (he government service, I propose to stay in the light for con servation ami equal opportunity. Fi ery movement md measure, froir whatever source, that tends to ad vance conservation and promote gov erniin nt by men for human welfare I shall try to help ftvory movement and measure, from whatever source, that hinders conservation and prn- nudes govornm by money for pro r lo oppose, The movements and e-rare of the plain ady to support the n It moves toward fit 1 shall endea' supreme test of me;tisures is the people. I am as i administration wl HOTEL FULL OF GUESTS Two Voiitik Mi n Who Had Ci'ir Stands in it Charg ed Willi Hip Crime ATLANTA, O.i . Jan 13. Charged with arson. In attempting t,, Imro the Benwot Kllhiii hotel last night at Austell, eighteen miles from this city, P. W anil Jos. ph Kdgn, cousins, were today placid In Jail m Mariet ta, (Ja. The hotel waa filled with Kin-sis at tho time of the fire, but all i-m aped In their night clothes. The Kdge ho. ono aged twenty one and the otter nineteen, are wild to have taken -eit additional heavy Insurance on their stock of cigars and sundrb-s In the bote and for this reason suspicion pointed to them In several daces the building whs sat urated with oil and fired, but the structure was sa ei" by heroic work on tho part of tin- townspeople. STATKHOOll lill.li HKADY. WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 The New Mexico and Arizona statehood hill was completed belay by the house committer on territories uid was or dered reported. WABHIN'TON Jan. 13. Forecast. for North Carolina: Rain Frlda"; Saturday partly cloudy and colder probably rain on the coast; Ihfht to moderate south Wind shifting; to the west by Friday night ! L Y ULL1 HAS ONLY BEGUN TO FIGHT this paramount end us I am to op pose1 It when moves away." lather of Conservation. Mr. Plnchot expresses his profound regret at leaving the forest service and pays tribute to the faithfulness and high fiuu.lt ly or service rendered by the men with whom he worked.' Out on the work of the froset service he proceeds, gruw the conservation movement. "Today that movement expresses omi of our deepest national convlc tlons" he says "and the prlnleplos for wihleh It standr are "received an axi omatic. It It only tho execution of them which remains In doubt." Mr. Plnchot then traced the re commendations of the conference on conservation at the white house In May. 1H0H, the sulwtcqucni creation of the national conservation commission which he says together with Presi dent Roosevelt's mrssago to congress on the subject set forth a comprehen sive, definite scheme for the conser vation of our natural resource which he applauds ami endorses. Then ho proceeded: MopiH'd Ills Work "At this critical period, when the goal wiih In sight, enemies of coiise" v Hi tori lii congress not only succeeded in preventing su appropriation with which to pursue the work but at- ' ELK mi IN MITCHELL COlTfJWT UK FIRE Twenty Buildings in Busi ness Section Destroyed With Hut Little Inurnnce HltlSTOl.. Term.. Jan. 13. Klk Park, a town of 1,200, In Mitchell county, North Carolina, was swept by a destructive fire this afternoon. Twenty buildings In the center of the town are In ashes with an estimated loss of 17',, 000. The burned buildings, all frame, Include a bank, th railway station, a number of stores and several dwe ll ings Klk Park is without any fire piotectlon and for a lime the entire town was threatened with destruc tion With apparatus sent from Johnson city, Tenn , an a special train the flames were finally brought under control. There was comparatively little I'. surance on the destroyed property. BOSTON Y. M. C. A. BUILDING BURNED MORTON. Jan., 13. The Boton Young Men's Christian Association building at the coiner of Hoylston and Herkeley ireets In the back hay dis trict was dcirced by tire of unknown origin today, ( mailing a loss of more than 1200,000. A fireman was Injur". 1, not seriously, by falling from a ladder. Fireman Joseph Wood, In tryln.f to control a runaway nozzle, fell an 1 re ceived a dislocated e'how and con-ux-slons about the bony. Notre IMm'i Academy on Herkeley and Providence streets, c lose to the burning building, was threatened several times. The Young Men's Christian Aso clatlon building at the time It wm erected In 18K2. was the finest of It kind In America. The building was a Ave story brick structure. - WJ INTERESTS tempted to forbid lis progress by tho Tawney amendment lo the last civil bill. TheruuiMin tho work of the na tional conservation commission was stopped. "These recommendations of tho commission still wait, for action. All wise men will agree that the situation Is serious. The Tawney, amendment was more than a mistake H was deliberate 'betrayal of tins future. The danger which confront conservation today must bo met by -positive action in J-fihgicew, jNu action win fee qut. alent to bad action and will have the same results. "Utile congress acta, tho water powers will pass Into hand of epm-la Interests without charge and without limit of time. Ho with the phosphate deposits on public lands when the wlthdrawaln which now protect them are removed. Ho with tho enormously vuluable coal deposits In Alaska which the present law would sell for ten dollars ier acre. "The danger of bad legislation It no less serious, The special Interest must no longer be allowed to lake What they choose out of the great property of all the oeonle Thuu vhii steal public landn steal ho own from men am) women who need them Con gress can slop the pillage, or enngrees can let It g n. IT KNOWME'S FITE Worry Over Sipel (lirl I'rob a!ly Hastened Death of Her Aged (Irand I'arent MOW VOHK, Jan 13 Mrs. Klsle Slgel, widow of Oeneral Fran Hlgel and grandmother of Klsle Hlgel, the young intosioniry who was murdered s'lpiMismlly by I,eon I.lng, alias Wll Mam 1, 'on, ii, a room over a chop suey restaurant on Klghth avenue last sum mer, is dvim, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. I.elle Hcherl, No. 1020 Simpson sinJt. tho llronx. Since the death of berf husbaro six years ago, she hai miftrrcd tl ree strokes of us alysl and her end Is momentarily expected. Because of her falling nealth the death of her granddaughter h is been kept a secret from her and ho has never known Klsle's fate. KlHn hud visited her grandmother with regularity am when her visits ceased and I er parents were unable to offer a plausible txcuso for her ansenoe aged womun became alarmed She flne'dy was pacified when 'he rf'rl's pa-nts announced that Elsie hud gone away to board ing school, ilowever she was piqued to thin"; thjit the girl had gone with out hlddinv btr sdlcu. Mrs. Slg'd wanted to know why Klsle had not written to her and ex cuses n ere offered, but she was never old Uit gid was ('fad. Dr. E. C Plxley of No. 4K2 Mott avenue feared the story would haiten her death A few diiy ago she iuffered the third stroke of tutialysls. IT. COM. MOORE DEAD. NAPLES, Jan. II A. M. Moore, surgeon In the I'nlted States navy, retired, died here today of pneumo nia. He waa born In Tennessee In 1H4." and attained the relative rank of lieutenant commander In 1882. At the time of hi retirement In the sum mer of ltd he waa surgeon of the navy yard at Mare Island, CaL to ko mm Past Politics and Other Days of Discord Recalled by House Debate COULD NOT FORCE MESSAGE ON PEOPLE Fitzgerald Convulses Members by Witty Speech on "Late Lamented One" WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. The. house today passed the fortification ttpproprtntlon bill carrying 15,(17,100, The senate, while It spent no money, put In more than two hour In dUn cusslon a to whether It should allow about M, 000,000 worth of claim for additional atunrie to certain posttnaav ter who served during the decade from 1164 to 1174. Sonator Penrose) attacked the proposition a the work of claim agents. ' ( ', Considerable partisan feeling wai Injected Into a discussion In ilia house over the destruction of about ten thousand tuna of old and worthies document. Among them were me aires to congrea from both republi can and democratic president. . Thl fact brought forth comment, both hu morous and serious, a to the value of theao document . which, , however, wore ordered consigned to the waste pile. 1 ..... - , , ; Message of Strenuous One. Politics, Including democratic ret erences to former President Koose velt sa "tho lata lamented" and "the nlieent ono" waa Injected Into a debate In the house today on a resolution, which wa passed, providing for the destruction of thousand Of ton of "worthies" public document.. Mr. Fltsgorald, of Now York, eonvulawt the houao by ; declaring hai lit ..the million or nwo pamphlet were, an proximately It, 000 oople ol moesaite of former Preeldent Kooeavelt to the flfty-evnth tuty-eighth, firty-nlnth and aixlleth congresses, . . . "Documeitfa,'i Mr, FUigerald added, "that are both itlumlnstlng and prec ious and highly prised but short time ago. They are tmeasaa-e of one who, though now absent, ,ran never be forgotten In thl uuguat aanemb lage." , People Refused Them. Mr. Olmsted, of Pennsylvania, sug gested that these were copies' left undistributed by the democratic mem ber, and Mr. FlUgenald replied that It seems to require, special effort to):.' force Mr. Roosevelt' message Into the hands of the people, ' Replying to a suggestion that there were many eople of president Ccve land's mnnsHgea tlll undistributed, Mr. F'txgerald said he supposed that at some time the democrat must have entertained the "same sincere affortion" for Mr. Cleveland .as the republicans entertained for the" "ab' sent, late lamented president whose appearance In Africa I so pleasing and hl return so much feared." "You are equally afrttld to end out the Cleveland and the Roosevelt message," declared Mr. Mann, of Il linois. Tt TO PAY FQH HIS FUNERAL After Having Been Decently Tittered Wife Could Not Kven Collect Insurance , NKW Yol'rf, JHn IS. Tho return of . ibn "miih of No 'tt Bast Seven leenlh tr. l on Monday night after I is w ife i nd children thought they hud dcently Interred him In Calvary cemetery leavee) him and hi family happy over hia reappearance but un happy over the prospect of paying I I oo . to an undertaker for burying a stranger. Most of the mourners who had gone to tho cemetery on Hunday believing they were sccompanvlng the body ot their old friend Bmtth, which had been sent home by tho hospital, 1earn-t ed ynrterday morning when they read newspapers ttuU they had followed) the body of a man lr whom they wera not the least bit Interested, and Mr. Hmlth. Is angry because she Host a week's wages upeiintending the fu n oral and bought a new set of mourn Ing garments. ' ; Smith I out of orts, too. The aggerated ie ports of hi death, Mark Twain, once ald, have not been conducive to hi pesee of mind, and all yesterday he kept remarking that he wasn't sure he waa ail there. Doctor Carriers, lie Says. ""'-. Thl Is a shame," tevld Bmlth." If It hadn't been for thr carelessness of the doctor In the City hospital on Black well's Island my .appearance at home lat night would have aroused more af.'ecllcn than txcltement. I was . tsken b'.c on the Morning of Decem ber while: lookim; for work and applied at Beilevue hospital. They told me to catch th boat for Klack vell" Maud, which I uid. On arvlv. . (Continued on pnfie four.)
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