BAT CITIZEN
THE WEATHER:
CLOUDY
.VOL. XXVTL, NO. 86.
ASHEVILLE, N. (VSUHDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1911.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
1S1C OFFICIAL
OF NEW YORK CITY
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OFFERED NURSE
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Get The Hook!
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IfJ ST. AUGUSTINE
SHEW
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City Chamberlain Hyde Lo
Great Battleship Auspiciously
Launched Yesterday
Would be Happiest Person In
Two Million Involved In Suits
Against Southern and
LandN.
cated After Two Months
Search
World With Husband
Dead
Afternoon
THE
8TO
TODAY
WARSHIP
FOREIGN CREDITORS
0 1
Rill NAVY
OF COTTON BROKERS
ARKANSAS
POISON
HUSBAND
SOIC
RAILROADS
DENIES STORY OF
DELMONICO DINNER
Declares Espionage of News
paper Men Became Un
bearable to Family
ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla.. Jan. 14
Charles H. Hyde, chamberlain of
New York city and) missing from
that city for nearly two months,
thla evening boarded a train here for
New York, having decided to return
there and straighten out matters con
nectlng him with the graft Invest!
gatlon in progress there and In which
his testimony was sought.
Just as he was leaving he made
the first statement since his disap
pearance. Regarding his absence
from New York, he said:
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time and was advised to take a com
plete rest. There was not the slight
est Indication of bank troubles when
I left New York and I had not heard
of recent occurrences until Mr.
Daa Smith, my secretary's brother,
overtook me on my houseboat en
route to Palm Beach. As soon as
I learned of the failure I left the
boat at the head of the Halifax river
near Daytona and am now hastening
home."
He said that he supposed that
there would be little proflt in enter
ing Into a controversy with "people
who always rise to attacK me wnen
my back Is turned."
What About Dinner?
When asked about that Deitnonico
dinner which he is said to nave
attended and at which $500,000 Is
said to have been raised to fight the
Hart-Agnew racing bill, Hyde laugh
ed and said1:
"Oh, that story was so utterly false
and unfounded that I never bother
4 4,. about it I did not eve . know
th. people with' whom I was sup
posed to have dined. I did not sub
scribe to any such fund for my cli
ent or any one else and every news
paper man at Albany knew the rest
of It was untrue. I am quite sure
that Senator Gardner never told the
things attributed to him."
Mr. Hyde declared the continual
espionage kept over him by news-
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T
BEFORE THEYWERE CAU GHT
Albemarle Development
Company Was a Great
Scheme
TO BE TRIED HERE
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 14 In de
fault of bail In the sum of $5,000
each, I. C. Sibley and M. C. Masters,
who were arrested here on charges
of using the mails with Intent to de
fraud In connection with the promo
tion of a concern known as the Al
bemarle Development company, were
remanded to Jail here today to await
orders of Federal Judge Niles for
transfer of the cases to the Jurisdic
tion of the United .States court for the
western district of North Carolina.
Postoftlce Inspector J. V. Bulla of
North Carolina had presented docu
mentary evidence In support of the
contention that the development com
pany was being promoted in a manner
fraudulent
Orders for the transfer of the case
to the United States District court,
west division of North Carolina, will
be made next week.
Inspector Bulla testfied that on an
Investment of $1,000 for one hundred
acres of land .near Albemarle the pro
moters had realized about a quarter
of a million dollars. It was state that
Sibley had been connected with the
operation of similar schemes at
Whlteboro, Texas, about five years
"ago.
RACK MOT
BENTON. Ark., Jan. 114. One ne
gro man was killed and one negro
man and two negro women were in
jured in a race riot here last night,
following a performance by a negro
minstrel organization from New Or
leans. The members of the company
en route to their boarding house were
attacked by a party of 1.5 to 20 un
identified young white men and pur
sued half a nwe. ilayor M. H. Hol
low man has Issued a circular calling
on all law-abiding citizens to assist
In funning down the perpetrators of
what he terms "a crime that has
disgraced; the community.' I
STATE OF ARKANSAS
NOT REPRESENTED
Usual Bottle of Champagne
Crashed on Bows as Ship
Takes Water
PHILADELPHIA, Jan., 14. With
tb,e traditional bottle of chanfpagne
broken on her bows, the battleship
Arkansas, the largest warship ever
constructed in this country, Was
launched this afternoon from the
yards of the New York Shipbuilding
company at Camden, N. J.
Miss Mary Macon, daughter of
Representative tubert Macon, of
Helena, Ark., was thfa sponsor for
the ship.
A heavy fog which has developed
this section for several days was still
present. Just before the great ship
left the ways the sun broke through
the mist bjt for only a moment.
There was one unusual feature to
the launching, the absence of an of
ficial delegation . representing the
state government of Arkansas. The
failure of Governor Donaghey or oth
er representatives to attend was due'
to a controversy between the gover
nor and the navy department at
Washington over the date of launch
ing. Thero was, 'However, quite a large
delegation of Arkansans present. H
Included Congressman and Mrs. Ma
con ami other members of the Ar
kansas congressional delegation: all
of whom had been Invited by the
shipbuilding company. The navy
department was represented by Sec
retary Meyer and Assistant Secretary
of the navy Winthrop.
Miss Mason Cirlstons Khlp.
Miss Macon, carrying a large
bunch of American Beauty roses,
was the center of attraction as she
stood on the raised christening plat
form waiting for the word to name
the great sihip. With) her was Miss
Edna Ellerbe, daughter of Congress
man J. E. Ellerbe, of South Carolina,
the parents of both young ladles and
others constituting the christening
party. There was doubt In the minds
of some of the spectators as to the
contents of the Be-rlbboned bottle
Miss MacoD held. Some people In
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GAVE SDN GARBDLIC ACID
WHEN HE ASKED FOR WATER
Poured Deadly Poison
Down Throat of Five
Year Old
MOB GATHERED
ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 14. A ruse
of the Albany police disappointed
several thousand persons who crowd
ed the union station and the streets
outside today to catch a glimpse of
Mrs. Edith Melber, the young Sche
nectady widow brougilt here from
Rochester to answer the charge of
murdering her five-year-old son,
George. Stories of the woman's con
fession to the Rochester police and
of how sho killed the boy by pour
ing carbolic acid down his throat
when he asked for a drink of water
and hid his body In swamp land near
the Schenectady turnpike, hud col
lected a throng of such temper that
the police feared to risk taking the
woman through it. Therefore they
had the express stopped at West Al
bany, three miles from the center
of the city, nnd Mrs. Melber and the
detective who brought her from
Rochester, got out there. Thus when
Mrs. Melber reached police headquar
ters In an automobile the crowd there
was comparatively small. There were
a few shouts and hoots as several
policemen hurried her In doors but
nothing like an orcanlned movement.
Though pale and trembling the
woman kept her composure until she
(tot Inside and then fainted. It was
several minutes before she recovered
sufficiently to be arraigned before
the cornoner who hag charge of the
esse at present. District Attorney
Sanford was present but asked the
woman no questions. Without being
asked. Mrs. Melber identinea tne arug
clerk who sold her the carbolic acid
at a local pharmacy last week. Aside
from this. Mrs. Melber had nothing
to say and made no attempt to de
ny any of the admissions ascribed
to her by the police of Rochester.
Detective Reed, who brought her
from Rochester, said that on the
tram she told him that she was
sorry she killed the boy an was
anxious to see him before he was
buried. She asked to be allowed to
get a black dress.
DETECTIVE NURSE
ON WITNESS STAND
Tells of Conversations With
Mrs. Sfhenk at Different
Times
WHEELING, W. Va., Jan. 14.
Testimony to the effect that Mra
Laura Farnsworth Schenk had offered
her $1,000 to administer a poisonous
pill to John O. Schenk while he lay
painfully ill at the North Wheeling
hospital ' last November, was given
today by Elinor Zoeckler, a detective
nurse who had heretofore, appeared
In the public print as "Mrs. Klein,
a professional nurse." The attempt
to induce tho "nurse" to give the
poison to Schenk, witness testified,
was made while the two were riding
in Mrs. Srhenk'a automobile. Mrs.
Schenk, declared Miss Zoeckler, said
to her, "John treats me like a dog.
When Miss Evans "(another nurse In
the Schenk case) calls up from the
hospital and tells me that my hus
band Is dead, I will be the happiest
person In the world. I feel at times
like I could kill that man."
" 'Why don't you ?' I asked. She
turned around ud said, 'well, you
do It for me.'
" 'What will you take to give him
a pill?' she asked.
" "I will take $5,000,' I replied. '1
need money awful bad: I have my
mother nnd a child to keep.'
Offered a TlkiiinaiHl.
" 'Good Lord,' replied Mrs. Schenk:
I haven't five thousand, but I will
give you one thousand If you will
make It that.'
"Mrs. Schenk promised to give me
the money, but objected to giving me
any written promise. She said that
would be dangerous. She also said
that she would get the 'stuff' and
would bring it up to the hospital on
the neat morning. " -r
"We agreed on the plan and she
said, 'as soon as John Is dead, call
me before you do the Sohenks. If
Albert Schonk knew about this he
would be up to the hospital before
T could cross the bridge and see that
you get John's keys for me.'
'Mrs. Schenk said that on Novem
ber 2 she had tried to get the 'stuff.'
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UNITED STATES & CANADA
HAVE R EACH ED S ETTLEM ENT
OFLQNG STANDING DISPUTE
Commissioners Go Home
With Their Work Com
pleted WILL BE RATIFIED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. In the
the fisheries dispute between Cana
da, New Koundland and the United
States a complete agreement on de
tails Involved has been reached be
tween Canada and the United Statesd
and sufficient adjustment of difficul
ties with New Foundland ha been
effected for Sir Edward Morris, pre
mier of New Founland, to return
home and confer with the members
of his cabinet.
As far as Canada and the United
States are concerned, Sir Alan Ayles-
worth, minister of Justice, and L. P.
Brodeur. minister of marine and
fisheries, the Canadian representatives
In the conference, will return to Otta
wa on Monday and submit the agree
ment that was reached today to Lord
Grey, the governor general, when it
will be made public. Upon ratifica
tion by him, the agreement will be-
ceme effective.
The details of the agreement were
not divulged here but they Include
the; modification of certain fishing
regulations a well as the continuance
of others. Il la believed that Sir Ed
ward Morris will return here soen
to complete the negotiations with re
spect to the New Foundland questions
Involved. Should diplomatic exchanges
fall to settle all the points at Issue,
the arbitration commission at the
Hague will be called upon but the be
lief is prevalent here that such a con
tingency Is unlikely.
ASS.UI.Ti:i YOfXG WIFE
DOTHAN, Ala, Jan. 14. Joel Ay
cock and Alto Berefoot, two white
farmers of Geneva county, were re
moved from Jail here tonight to pre
vent lynching. They sre charged
with having committed a criminal
assault on the 15 -year-old wife of a
Geneva county .boy, himself only 17
years old. The names of the couple
are withheld. Aycock and Berefoot,
It Is said, went to the home of th
couple, and after administering a
Severe beating to the husband, as
saulted the wife.
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LEGISLATURE
MEASURES ON LAST
Bill is Introduced to Create
bon Society With Broad Powers to Regulate Hunting 'through
out North Carolina.
'I HALEIGH, N. C, Jan. 14. Re
presentative Dlllard or Cherokee In
troduced in the house fbday a bill
for the protection of Inland fisheries
and game In the state that If enacted
will place this work In the hand of a
game commission of three members,
to be appointed by the governor,
taking the place of the state auduuon
society. It Is understood that Hhe
Audubon society officials will not op
pose It. The commissioners are o
ha paid $4 per day while actually in
Session and they are glvti enlarged
powers governing fishing and hunting,
being authorised to appoint district
and county wardens and prescribe
rules as to I he number of birds
killed on a single day and declare
hunting seasons closed so long as they
deem necessary In counties where
same happens to be scare. -They are
to be paid out of money received for
hunters' licenses, non-residents pay
ing ten dollars per year as at pres
ent. It does not apply to salt water
fishing, but will protect water fowls.
The senate and house both ground
local legislation principally today with
many law makers at home for the
week end.
T
OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Congressman Wants
to
to
Know About Failure
Prosecute
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. An In
vestigation of the department of Jus
tice, to determine why It has Insti
tuted no prosecutions of the cotton
and wheat manipulators of 109 and
1110, Is requested In a joint resolution
introduced in the house today by
Representative Craig of Alabama. It
calls for a joint committee with full
power to jiummon witness, examine
papers and records, and compel wit
nesses to testify. The resolution di
rects an investigation Into the admin
istration and -conduct of th edepart
mena of Justice, Its bureaus,, officers
and employes touching upon tire prose
cution or failure to prosecute per
sons, corporations or combinations for
violation of the anti-trust law.
The Craig resolution asks the com
mittee to particularly "make an In
vestigation of the failure of the de
partment to make an Investigation
and prosecute any person for violat
ing said law In Illegally conspiring
to control Hie price of wheat by ad
vancing or raising th same In the
spring ami summer of 19011; and a
like failure to prosecute any person
for violating said law In Illegally con
spiring to control the price of cot
ton by reducing or lowering the same
during the fallT spring and summer of
110."
WASHINGTON, Jan, 14. Fore
cast: North Carolina, cloudy Bun
day; Monday unsettled 'and colder;
moderate west wind.
GRINDS OUT
a State Game and Fishing Commission to Succeed Audu
A bill for commission government
for Greensboro passed, as did on
for farm demonstration work, one to
provide for a new court house In Al
legheny county and regulate hunting
and fishing. ,
Speaker Dowd announced addition
al committees with the following
chairmen: expenditures of the house,
Bryan, chairman; engrossed bllls,
Mitchell, chairman; federal relations,
Ross, chairman; Immigration, Moor
ing, chairman; manufacturers and
labor, Coxe of Randolph; claims,
Klrkman, chairman election law,
Gaj chairman; InatltutfoHa'Tolr" Ois
blind, Kelly, chairman. .
In thri Minus
The committee oh proposition and
grievances, reported without prejudice
the bill to conserve the cattle supply
of the state, recommending that It he
referred to the committee on Judiciary
which was done. .
The report of the committee on
rules passed third reading recom
mending that all bills reported un
favorably by the committees He on
tho table unless there is a minority
report, provided they may be taken
from the table and placed on the cal
eudur nt lh request of any member.
On Account of Famous
"Last Drop of Blood"
Speech in London
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. A gen
eral order reprimanding Commander
Wm. 8. Sims for his "last drop of
blood" speech In Ixmdon, has been
issued by Secretary of the Navy
Meyer. The llrst copy of the order
was sent to Admiral Schroeder, commander-in-chief
of the Atlantic fleet,
to b give nto Commander Sims.
The order Is now being printed and
later will be sent to every officer In
the American navy and) posted on
board of every vessel and at every
navy yard and naval station.
Commander HI ma la now at Guan
tanamo, Cuba, in command of" the
United States battleship Minnesota,
which arrived at tho Cuban port yes
terday. SEEKS FORFEITURE
OF RAILWAY CHARTER
AlTHTrV, Tex.. Jan., 14. On the
eve of his retirement Governor T. M.
Campbell today directed Attorney
General Jewell P. Lighlfoot to bring
suit against the Missouri, Kansas A
Texas and the International A Great
Northern railroad companies seeking
the forfeiture of their charters. The
suits are to be based on the insol
vent corporation art enacted by the
legislature of 1906 and, it Is declared
are forerunners to similar suits
against fifty orWer railway companies
operating In this state.
COf XTERFEITKIl TO FRISOV
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 14. Harry
L. Mlrtdleton, alia Thomas Marshall,
alleged chief conspirator In a scheme
to circulate In this country fraudulent
Mexican bank notes, wa today sen
tenced by Judgo Foster In the t'nlt
i Riaie court to serve two years
In the Atlanta federal prison. He
pleaded guilty to charges of forgery
and using the mans lor rrauauieni
purposes. The officers found S.000
five pesos notes of a Mexican bank In
his room.
LOCAL
DAY OF WEEK
The senate ordered printed 319
copies at the report of the commit
tee on rule.
A favorable report was mad on
tha bill requesting the state' rpre
sentatives and senator In congress to
vet for New Orleans as th logical
plac for holding th World' Fair,
but Senator Graham objected to th
word "logical" In th bill and of
fered a substitute, which passed its
readings and was ordered engrossed
and ent to th hou. .
After a spirited discussion of Van
ator Barham'a bill relative to th
spaed of automobile and penalty of
violation of It. was referred to th
committee oh propositions and griev
ances. His bill provide a chanr
so as to leave th speed limit to be
determined by th boards of alder
men In cities and towns and giving
Justices of the peace jurisdiction In
dealing with violator.
The committee on propositions' and
grievances reported favorably on th
house bill prohibiting th sal of near
beer, beerlne or other drink con
taining alcohol In Macon county,
tagging on an amendment providing
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IS MAHKKEET LIKE
Asheville Men are Interest
ed in Gigantic Scheme to
Reclaim Land
RALEIGH, N. C, Jan. 14. The
state board of education sold today
North Carolina's Interest In th Mat
tamuskeet lake drainage district,
Hyde county, for 1100,000 to the
Southern Land Reclamation company,
chartered today to take over the
state's Interest In this drainage
scheme. This Is declared by Chief
Elliott, of the United States bureau
of drainage, the biggest drainage un
dertaking in the world. The lake has
a bed fifteen miles by six miles, with
an average depth of only a few feet,
with a black soil underneath expected
to make Intensely fertile farming
lands. The drainage district Includes
over one hundred thousand acres,
half owned by citizens of Hyde coun
ty. The Southern Land Reclamation
company assumes IJ00.000 of a
1400.000 bond Issue for tha cost of
the undertaking which Involves a
system of canal and pumping plant
to convey water to the neighboring
sound, the pumps to have a capaci
ty for 113,000,000 gallon per day.
Tha drainage district has J. P. Kerr,
Asheville; J. H. Mann and T. H. B.
Oibb. of If yd county, as commis
sioners. They expect to have the
plant completed probably within
eighteen months. Tha principal
stockholder rn the Southern Land
He tarnation company is t). N. Graves
of Boston, with other large blocks of
stock held by C, A. Webb, J. P.
Kerr and W. T. Mason of Asheville.
They have (150,000 authorized capi
tal, this deal being made possible by
verification of the drainage cost
estimates and the withdrawal of ex
ceptions by the Roper Lumber com
pany, a subsidiary corporation of the
Norfolk and Southern Railroad com
pany that has extensive Interests In
the district.
TTXXOADED GUV AGACT
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 14.
While examining a rifle he thought
was not loaded, Wiley Walker,' aged
ten,' the son of a prominent Tork
county farmer, today Instantly killed
his brother, Lin wood, aged IS.
CAUSED BY FORGED
BILLS OF LADING
Complaint Alleges That Rail
roads Connived at Ar-
raftgement
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 14. Th
first suits against th Loulsvlll. and
Naahvlll raolroad company and th
Southern Railway company, brought
by English and German creditor of
Knight Tancey and company, wer
begun today by th filing of a com
plaint against th railroads by Alex
ander Eccle and company of Lon
don, and' by Knoop and Fabarlua add'
seven other merchant of Bremen,
Germany, In th Morgan, county Law
and Equity court' of Aalabaraa, at
Decatur, Ala- ; Th ; jother, Kngllib
creditors of Knight. Yancay ,d com-,
pany ar xpotd to fll similar suits
within th xt ten day. Tha total
sums for..'; wlrM' jvMttoM. trlU',!-' b
brought against th railroads by Knv
lllsh creditor la mdr than two mil-"
lion dollars; that of Germans la aboflt'
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Th. paper ar voluminous and r- v
sent th allegation in eleven different
legal aspects.' Th gist of th actions,
however, 1 Included In' th follow
Ing allegations in th oomplalnUt '
Th firm of Knight, Yancey and'
company had bean in the habit of ob.
talnlnf money on drafts secured by"
spurious bills of lading !miia,i.
those upon Which th present actions
are brought for th iat flv year. A
month or two after each bill of lading
was Issued Knight, Yancey and com
pany would buy cotton similar to that
eallfidjfor; by iiha4uUand4 .hip it
lorwam under th same mark at
tho described in th bill of lading.
When tha cotton arrived at tt Am.
tlnation abroad, It would b delivered
upon th surrender of th spurious
bill of lading deiDlta the fact that
tha spurious bill differed In data and
number and In other respects from
th shipper' manifest. ' , f .. . ,
It Is further allged that thla rac-
tlca of Knight,' Yanoey and company
wa wall known to the ralroad and
was connived at by Ui officer of
th railroad and that upon qestton
arising as to tha propriety of a deliv
ery of cotton upon draft secured 4y
a spurious- Dili or lading, tha matter
would b referred to t he railroad son-
earned and tha, railroad would dlract
delivery, thus preventing th discovery
of th forgeries and enabling Knight,
Yancey and company to oontlnu tha
course of dealing which led to their
sensational failure. It la alleged that
mora than 400,000 balsa hava been ,
thua delivered on forged bills and
that when tha failure came there waa
outstanding forged bill Of lading for '-,
oveV eO.000 bale ' of cotton upon
which no cotton whatavarglt-teti taol
which ffIA Antlafl turf vm' hMH dlJ
llvered. .; rVV ' .
Th creditors suing maintain that
this connivance on the part of tha
rallroeda renders them equally liable
with Knight, Yancty and company for
tha losses by the lattag'a customera t
GENERAL LUKE E. WRIGHT
IS CANDIDATE FOR 5EFJ.1TE
FH! STATE OF TEi.
Will Formally Announce
His Candidacy First of
Week
FOUR CANDIDATES
NAHIIVILLE. Tenn.. Jan. 14. Th
battle for the senatorial tocca!on
will assume a Dew phase next week
when General Luka B. Wright of
Memphis, former secretary of war.
and former governor general of th
Philippines, ahlea his caster Into tha
ring. For two weeks General Wright
ha been looking -over tha situation
nd quietly biding hi tima.
Well authenticated information t
to the effect that on Tuesday next th
name of Wright will bo presented to
th assembly. It has been common
talk In the lobbies for several day
that General Wright waa not disposed
to Interfere with ex-Governor Ben-
ton McMiiiin's chances to win, but
now It is insisted by tha former war
secretary's friends that McMllllns hav
ing failed to secure th necessary If .
vote It la not unfair for their fav
orite to get into tha running.
With the entrance of Geneiil ;
Wright, It la expected th fuslomut
will endeavor to center on 'ra.ler
or ritzhugb,