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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHES; FAIR. Citizen Want Ads Brlsj Results. , . Y01VXXVI., NO. 333. ASHEVILLE, N. C. MONDAY MORXIXd, SEPTEMBER 19, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS ii fl PRESIDENT WILL Circus Day. BUFFETED LITTLE T BULLET! BRAIN T( FORM BOIL FLIGHT OVER ALPS I ' 1 ' All Have Withdrawn From tho Race Except American . and Peruvian ' . Granted Her Plea After She Capt. Larsen .filots Small Craft Successfully Through Does Not Believe in Leaving Had Been Hurt in Falling Over Precipice Leaving Panama Canal Open In Case of War Whirlpools ENDED HIS WIFE'S AVIATORS SUFFERINGS WITH CMMENDTA THEIR COURAGE IF R BOAT IN VAIN HUSBAND COMES HOME MERE HUMAN WRECK Although Death Was Sure to Come to Her. (he is Still Haunted by Experience NEW YORK, Sept. 18. Haunted y the memory of his wife, whose sufferings h mercifully ended by sending a bullet through her head In th wild of the Canadian northwest, miles and miles .from help, James McDowell, a prospector and miner, la at the home of friends, at 2774 Bain bridge avenue, the Bronx, a ner vous ana pnysicai wreca. The has been under treatment but he la growing worse. He says of himself: "How- Ions; I can stand It I don't know." McDowell granted the plea of his mortally Injured wife to end her ag ony. He was exonerated by a Jury of his fellowrnen. The remembrance of that awful experience has Shattered his nerves until he Is now hardly more than the wreck of a man. McDowell Is fifty-eight years old, six feet tall, and a gaunt remainder of what was once a physically per fect man. The thought that he killed his wife, despite the fact that was the only course open to him, IB with him constantly and his sunken eyes tell of wearisome days and sleepless nights. McDowell Tell Story. Ha is averse to talking of his ex perience, but consented to tell his story. "My wife was Fanny Crawford, a native of Alberta province." he said "'Her father was John Crawford, .who had been a miner, a prospector, In California., ami Canada for yea. He and I had been close friends, and are yet. Fannie was only twenty-two When we -were married. I had a rich claim near Castle mountains, which is In the - British Columbia extension of the Cascade range, and soon after we were married 1 decided to visit It. I had been there some time be- (Continued on page four.) DEMOCRATS ELATED BY TUHN EYES ON BAY STATE Have Good Chance of Car rying It, too, if Strong Nomination is Made LODGE SEES IT COMING BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 18. When Henry Cabot Lodge, the senior repub lican senator from this state, opened campaign headquarters in Boston seven "weeks sgo, his friends thought he had been frightened by the an nouncement of Representative Butler Ames' candidacy to beat him for the nomination. Consequently, they trooped into headquarters the first opened by any senatorial candidate in this state within the memory of the present generation and said: "Why don't you shut this place up'.' Arms couldn't touch you with a forty foot pole. There's no fight on you. It's a Joke." Mr. Lodge smiled wisely and said he guessed he would' keep the shop open. Now the state politicians recognise that Lodge, in establishing his head quarters, 1 gave another sign of his political shrewdness, for, he saw the trouble that today besets him. There is a chance that the prepos terous may como true. Lodge may lose his seat In the senate. He or his successor will be chosen by the legislature elected next November. There is a strong chance that the democrats will carry the state In the guberhatorlnl fight- It's a practical certainty if they unite strongly on their man who will be chosen for the nomination In the state convention. October , next, in Boston. They stand a show to win out In the legislature, because It costs a lot of money to eat and wear clothes and pay rent in Massachusetts these days. It costs more than It did a year ago a lot more. Up her there are thousands of voters as there are In any other stats who know nothing about the details of the schedules In the tariff law as it stands today. But they have- a very definite idea that the tar iff la the thing which has boosted up th price or meats ana nmwn.. i (UMnflnttefl 6B paB fnttr.) THROWN. TWENTY FEET IN AIR: LANDED RIGHT Was Finally Driven Ashore After Engine Stopped and Worst Was Passed NIAGARA FALLS, Sept. 18. Cap tain Klaus Larsen in his little motor boat, the Ferro, late this afternoon made a successful trip from the foot of the cataract through the whirl pool rapids to within a mile of Lew iston, a distance of four and one half miles. He started from the Maid of the Mist dock at 4.05 o'clock and ran on a rock near the American shore at 6.30. Despite the battering of the rapids. Larsen went through safely, but his boat was leaking bad ly at the finish. The Ferro swung under the Cantil ever bridge, the engine running at top speed, and was caught in the swift rapids. Larsen held to the mid dle of the channel and In less than three minutes had made the great pool. In the trip through the rapids the little boat was lost to sight most of the time, .but at Oreat Wave, It was shot twenty feet out of the wa ter. The boat landed right, and con tinued to the pool. Larsen kept to the outer edge of the pool and pass ed out and down without accident. Engine Stopped Working. Just as he left the pool, the en gine stopped working and Larsen was at the mercy of the waters hardly less violent than those above The little boat swung around stern first and then turned completely over, Larsen coming up badly battered. It was here that he injured his leg. From now on Larsen was the play thing of the mighty river, unable to hold the course, the boat swinging from one side to the other. After getting through the Devil's Hole, the Ferro swung toward the rocks on the American side of the river, roll ed over one boulder and went fast between two others. There Larsen stayed for five minutes, forty feet from shore, working desperately to (Continued on page three.) T IRREGULAR MANNER, BUT IS Crop This Year Will Exceed That of Last Year Except in Three States FARMERS SELLING MEMPHIS. Tenn., Sept. Is'. The following summary of cotton crop conditions will be published .. The Commercial Appeal tomorrow: "The cotton crop Is coming tq ma turity In an Irregular manner. In all parts of tho South, save the most southern cotton growing sections, there are fields which are thrifty and growing, and need a lato frost to permit of the maturity of a full yield. In all sections also, there are fields which have apparently come to full 4Krowth and will make no more cot ton. In such as these, the bolls are opening rapidly. It appears that on the whole, the past two weeks have brought the crop toward maturity more rapidly than the farmers had anticipated. As result there are some complaints of shedding In the valley and the Atlantic states. In the latter, however, the shedding does not appear to have been so great as Is usual for the season. It Is estimated that 50 per cent of the fruit on the stalk In the northern districts is mature and cannot be hurt by frost. In southern Texas, southern Georgia, and Louisiana, es timate on the matured cotton fun 80 to 100 per cent In Oklahoma and Arkansas the crop' appears later than expected. Somo of the Oklahoma re ports say tha early complaints of damage by boll worm were overstat ed, although It Is evident that the promise is not quite as brilliant as at one time indicated. In general a larger yield than last year is nldicated In all states save Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. In the two latter a late frost woald add considerably to the yield. It la shown that considerable benefit to , the crop has accrued in central and middle western, Txaa as a result of rains during the first week of September... Tho making Of a top crop will depend,, however, up on a lata frost.' Farmers are gener ally marketing cotton freely. WILL ALSO ASK FOR MORE DREADNAUGHTS Thinks Congress Should Pro vide For Building of Two Each Year BEVERLY, Mass., 8ept. 18. Be fore leaving Beverly for Boston to night by automobile to take the mid night train for New Haven and Cin cinnati, the president announced that In his message to congress In .De cember he will recommend the ap propriation of 12,000,000 to begin the work of fortifying the Panama canal. Mr. Taft always has favored the pro tection of the canal with great guns, and he thinks the time has arrived to begin the work. The president also will recommend to congress that provision be made fotwo new battleships of the dread naught type. Mr. Taft does not be lieve that the economy plans should preclude the construction of at least two battleships a year until such time as the Panama canal Is completed. He believes that the canal will have the effect of doubling the efficiency of tho navy and that after It Is In oper ation the building of new battleships can be cut down to one a year. The president's last day were has passed quietly. Secretary Norton will Join the president at 'New Haven to morrow and go with him to Clncin natl. The president will reach there Thursday afternoon and will remain there until next Saturday. He will return to Beverly on October 2 for a fortnight, after which the summer white house will he closed and, the family will return to Washington. Mrs. Taft will reach Beverly during the president's a be one on the present trip. President Taft' itinerary in brief follows: September lith, leave Boston mid night; September 1 arrive New Ha ven 8 a. fn., leave 3 p. m . same day for Cincinnati direct by way of Rprlngfleld, Albany, Buffalo, Cleve land, arriving Cincinnati 1 .B0 p. m. September 20; leave Cincinnati for Washington September 24, arriving (Continued on page four.) WAS HONORED IN LIFE BY THOSE 10 LOVED Body of John M. Julian Borne to Last Resting Place at Chestnut Hill BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTES SALISBURY, X. C. Sept. 18 With all the honors accorded the usetol life that has run Its course, and In the presence of the largest crowd of friends and citizens that ever at tended a funeral In this section, the body of John M. Julian, editor of The Salisbury Post was laid to rest in the Chestnut Hill cemetery this af ternoon. Floral tributes from all sec tions of the state completely hid the casket front view as It was borne from the house by six of the leading citizens of the state. Tho streets of Salisbury were lined with bareheaded citizens as .the fun eral cortege, over a mile in length, passed on Its way. Owing to the Illness of the editor's wife, the services were conducted, at the house Instead of at the Church as originally planned. The Rev. M. M. I KInard officiating. He paid glowing ! tributes to the deceased, stating that his death had occurred at a time When, Salisbury could 111 afford to pare him. Lending the funeral procession to tho cemetery were the Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of America and the Knights of Pythias, of which orders the deceased had iwen a prominent member, representatives from the leading; papers of North Carolina fol lowed, and then came relatives, friends and citizens In a long line) of carriages. A special conveyance was required to convey the floral offerings all of them appropriate. A magnifi cent wreath, being the Journalists' last call of "thirty." was a tribute from tha newspaper men of the state. VANDERBIlT WINS igi, PAIUS, Sept, 1.- W.-K. Vander bllt's Relnhart at Longchamp today won. th Prix , Itoyale Oak, a three year Old event, -worth tlG.aoo; i on mil and seven furlongs. THREE STATES SEEING BALLOONS EVERYWHERE, BUT FEW COME DOWN Most of Those Sent up at Indianapolis Saturday Were Night. Populace PITTSBURG. P., Sept !. At least three of the 1 J balloons which ascended from Indianapolis between five and sis o'clock yesterday after noon passed over, the environs of Pittsburg late this' afternoon and at dusk tonight wrf report, as still pursuing a course fast by north I at a rate of from 10 tol 12 mlleg an hour. In the 24 hours aJnoe ths ascension the aeronauts ham covered about 400 miles. ft ii In addition to th three definitely sighted, dosens 6fonfllctinf reports cams in, one rrom wneeiiag, w, vs., reading: - "One near Martin' Ferry, Ohio; four over Wellsburrr, W. Va.; two at Follansbee and one near Moundsvllle at noon." Two Come VHtwnt The Topeka had coma down at S.- 10 o'clock, seven miles south of that place. The Topeka ascended at f.4 m., yesterday. Pilot R. B. Cola and his aid, F. M. Jacob of Tope ka, Kana., reported that most of tha time they had travelled so closely to the other of the big aeronautical party that they could talk from the LAND INVESTMENTS ABE PROFITABLE TO NEW YORK Enormous Increase in Val ues of Land Purchased Several Years Ago NEW YORK, Sept. 1 "Munici pal land ownership has proved the most profitable undertaking New York city has ever engaged III, when lar.l Is Judicially acquired." Hu h Is the conclusion reached by Alderman Campbell, chairman of the commit tee on parks, playgrounds and schools of the New York city commission on congested population. In a report made public tonbtht he supports his conclusion with some astonishing fig ures. Nearly all land bought by the city before 1S50 has Increased unbelievably In assessed valuation admittedly be low the market price 'over the orig inal cost. ne case of a 9,000 per cent Increusn within the past sixty years was found, several cases of from two lo Ave thousand per cent Increase In the last seventy-five years; ninety-five cases of over 500 per cent increase anil nearly 800 of over 100 per cent Increase. The city owns In all 43 sites. Alderman Campbell notes that Ber lin owns nne-lenth of the lend within Its own limits; Vienna about one seventh; Munich one-fourth, and Frankfort-on-Maln about one-half. Ona clly, he says. Is so well off that there are no taxes; the rent from the city's lands pays 'all expenses He does not nam" It. WASHINGTON Kept. J Forecast for North Carolina!. Fair Mondayand probably Tuesday light variable wind mostly east of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio Craning Necks, basket Th- Topeka wa entered In ths free for all event The "Drifter" entered in ths free for all event and. th first to leave the Indianapolis ; motor speedway landed lata today In Unlontown, W. Va., according to a despatch received her lata tonight Th balloon wa pi loted by Albert Hols of Cincinnati. Populara on Wafa-h. Eastern Ohio, ' Wsst Virginia, and western Pennsylvania were all bal loon hunting today. All afternoon lo cal newspaper offices were advised from outlying . district that thre baTToohsTsatlldi "high and separated by about ten minute interval had been sighted. The first report her ram from Washington, Pa. Th bal loons had been sighted there at on o'clock and the third had passed at 1 CO p. m. They were all over 1.000 feet high. Over the Junction of th Mononga hela and Youghloghenty river, the aeronauts evidently encountered trouble wlthv the lower air currents and avoided them by mounting to th height of nearly a mil. At th I extreme height It was Impossible to 1 Identify the balloons, and as dusk BY INOULCEKT HUSBANDS English Suffragettes Will Get Ballot First, Says Mrs. Belmont NEW YOftK. Sept. 1. "Americsn women sre spoiled by their Indulgent husbands." This Is the verdic t of Mrs. O. II. 1. Belmont after a two months' trip of Investigation and study of the wo men's advanced movement abroad. Mrs. Ilelmont visited her offices at the national suffrage headquarters, No. 505 Fifth avenue yesterday, for the first time In several weeks. She wore a black chiffon gown and long black chiffon coat with silver braid otnaments and a large black hat with silver plumes. "Compared to the English women, the women of this country have no Idea of suflrage." declared Mrs. Bel mont. "They will get suffrage over there much quicker than we will here. Tho trouble with us women here Is that we are too modest, too retiring." Mrs. Belmont announced pluns for a big state fair to be held here some time in December. She said she had met Miss Annie Morgan and Miss Elizabeth Marbury in Pari. Miss Marbury, she said, had told her she would contribute to the fair by help ing to put on a play. "No, Miss Morgan did not commit herself to suffrage," said Mrs. Bel mont. "She is deeply Interested In her trades union work among girl. I shall help hr with her work, and she told me she would help me with the fair." Mrs. Belmont sale) the Duchess of Marlborough would not com to this country this winter. "She is so occupied with her work among the wives of prisoners, obtain ing work for them and looking after the three big homes she has built for those unfortunate women." ' Still in The Air Late Last West Virginia and closed In they wr reported as bar-. ly Visible they nrocMdiid north easterly along (h course of the Alle ghony river. j Ii ' f- , During the Afternoon showers threatened severs I time and at o'clock some rain fell but at that hour no report had been received of any of these thrse balloons landing, ins wind held steady at about U mile an hour a it had an day, The local: weather bureau reported' that during last night th aeronaut could not, havahd.winq;.' much better man lour mile an hour but at day Dreait it wa mora brisk. ' FOUR AHK MGHTEd; WHKKLi.Vfl. W, Va Kept II. Four of th balloon which started from Indianapolis Saturday crossed th Ohio river over or near this city toaay and a fifth landed at Union town, W. Va. Thra of th balloons wer aesn north of th city, on fly ing so low that Its number, , was Plainly aiscerntbl. Th balloon which landed at Unlontown wa th Drifter, with Albert Hols pilot and George R Howard, passenger, TH Motor Tour Promoter Of fer8 Trophy Similar U That Offered Motorists BOSTON, Sept. 11 An aeroplane trip from the Harvard avlatlot grounds st Mquanlum on the Atlan tic coast to the Los Angeles drlvlnp park on the Pacific is formally pro posed in a letter Just sent to the na tional council of the aero club ol America by Cbas- K. (Hidden ."Tc encourage touring by aeroplane 1 hereby offer your council a trnph) (form and value to be agreed upon: to be competed for annually begin nlng with the years Ill upon suet l-rms and conditions as you ma prescribe." The tentative plans for the con test, as outlined by Mr. Olidden m brace a dally fight of aeroplanes o' 200 miles with stop at Saratoga, N Y ; Syracuse, N. T.; Buffalo, N. Y. Akron, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Cht cago. Ills.; Springfield, III.; St. Lou Is, Mo-; Kansas City, Mo.; Hutchln son, Kan.; Syracuse. Kan.: Santa Fe V. M.; Fort Apache, Art,! Phoenix Ariz.; Yuma, Ariz.; Los Angeles, Cal GIRL CONFESSES DOUBLE MURDEB ARKANSAS CITY, lent" II. Ml Ebby Shepard, sixteen years old whose father, J. W. Shepard, and hi brother,- Taylor Shepard, wr stall at their home In Newklrk, Okla., la Friday, today confessed to County At torney Burns and Sheriff Ruder tha she killed the two men. It wa fir reported that th brother had bee) killed by a young man who after ward attacked the girl. In her con tension th girt declares the Cause o the c rime wa that the men whippet her. She went to a woodshed brought the axe with which th crime was committee, and gave It t the officers. The girl ha always beet regarded feebl minded. ... , MEANS ONLY DOUBTFUL ; SUCCESS OR DEATH Afraid That Their Petrol Will Freeze In The High ' .Altitude lUtft), Bwltserland. SefK. II. Th croaa-Alp aeroplan flight from thl ptar over tha Slmplon Pas to Italy which wa scheduled to begin to day, was postponed until tomorrow. Th local authorities declined to al low th aeroplanes to depart befor noon on account of a religious fet held In honor of a local Hwls hro, whereupon th race commute an nouncsd postponement. Two thou sand Spectator had assembled om the aerodrams, which Is on a pla teau about too feet above sea lvL and thy 'strongly manifested their discontent over th disappointment, om ot them demanding- th return of their money, Many of th visitors vn wnl so fur a to assert that It was a trick to keep tha crowd hrt Contenianu Withdraw. The number - ot contestants 1 dwindling, Palelt and Canteneo ar now considered doubtful starters, and Wlenezler has withdrawn, Chaves, th Peruvian, and W'syman, tha American, remum confident that wittt good -Weather and burring accident to '.thrlf machines they will , ba able to accomplish ths dangerous trip over- tha mountains, ,f , miles to .Milan. KXperts here contlnu to believe that ths ' flight mean either . victory or death 's there Is no slngl available landing plac In th first seven an-1 on half mile to- tha top of Hlmpl.in, and thenc for tliu next ' eighteen miles down to Domodossola, . . ' OiiIjf Two, I-cft.'. This section Is a perfect wilderness of rocky. gorges and tumbled moun tains, Th remslnlng dlstanc to Mi lan is over plains and lake and la fre from difficulties. . (.'have ha elecUd to try to mount . from th tart over a mountain rang mora than 1,509 feet high, wkll Weymsnn h choaen a rout up th valley of th river, Th former' main fear is that the oil and petroleum' in -tha ubr will frees in th high altitude. Consequently,, he,, has v packed tha tubes with car and has decided to carry as little weight as possible, ' Ha will start with only enough . petrel lo reach Domodossola, Flag and straw fires will mark the route. Tel egraph and telephone station hara been established - and automobile with doctor and Alpine guide hav . been sent to various , point ready, to (lv aid in rs of accident. . Tha weather probabilities Indicate a con tinuance of favorable condition for h flight. , , , . BLAMES BABIES DEATHS ' n rPTnmii niinnnrr m pi ri.inn.ni i.iinnpii i II kLkUMIIUnk UUIIIIL.il I Incubator Demonstrator and Wife Eeleased on Small Recognizance l.ol'lHVIl.l.K. Ky Sept. U. Dr. Ioulas Snyder and wife of Pitta ' burg, I'a.. who were arrested last Ight following the death of three Incubator babies at th stat fair ere, were relnHHed on $400 bond to - lay, Mr. Snyder patting up her jew , elry. valued t 12,000 ss security. I'll case will com up In a tnagls . trie's court Monday morning. The three tiny victim war barled. . today tn Cave Hill cemetery -at- tha.... xpense of the rim-tor, Tho physician ind his wife wer arrested on twelv an anis sworn out by C'onnty Attor- ' ney.cott . Bullitt, charging "unnur- , iful exposure of a child" and "ex- nbltlng for gain or reward, ' an In- : rant under 14 year of age." . . ' Dr. Snyder was arrested In Jeffer. onvill, Ind., wtills- be wa -waiting an Awer ' to a telephone call - for his wife at the fair, ground In! Lou isville. Ha Is the owner of .the pai nt right on the incubators and rep- sent an Incubator company. - My arnerst 'has ";, com through. : misguided sentiment" said Dr. Sn- ler today, "I am not exhibiting thest oabie for th pittance that t ask a , in aamission, tor j would b a fool A do so. I hav bought this machine tnd am trying to Introduce It to th public, Th charge that tha babir av been mistreated or neglected 1 II foolishness., - The only possible causo for t'.. ieath Of the babieg is thnt !') rlcal current St th male f r not ufflcinetly upplirj to r .