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LE CITIZEN. THE WEATHEB: FAIR. Citizen Want Ads Bring -Results, i ASIIEVILLE, 0. M05fIAY AfOIlKING, FEBRUARY 13, 1911. VOL. XXVII., NO. 115. PRICE FIVE CENTS THE ASH! 0 0 IS HOME WITHOUT HEWS OF Upon Arrival Mrs. Arnold Says She Has Not Consented ' to Crlscom Marriage DISAPPEARANCE IS STILL A MYSTERY Family: Has Exhausted Every Effort in Search For Miss ing Dorothy Arnold NEW 'YORK, Feb. 12. The end of the mysterious story of Dorothy Ar nold by no means has been reached. Ths romanlte turn given it yester day by George 8. Griscom, Jr., In the expression of hia confidence that the young woman Is alive and in his quoted Intention of marrying her if poaalble, waa given a contrary twist today by the. arrival home of the missing girl's mother, Mm, Francis R.Arnold. In reply to the only two direct question which her son, John W. Arnold would permit reporters to ask her, Mrs. Arnold denied even circumstantial knowledge whether her daughter is dead or alive and em phatically declared she had not given consent to a marriage between the girt and Griscom. - MotJier Comes Hon Mrs. Arnold came, home on the steamer Pannonla after having spent three, weeks In Florence, Italy, where he went to confer with the Gris cem's regarding her daughter's dis apeerance.. Her eldest son. John, went down the bay on the revenue cutter this morning, to meet her and It was agreed among the reporters that none shoulj seek to interview Mrs. Arnold before the son had talk ed to her. Arnold was In conference with his mother more than 20 minutes and when he emerged from he stateroom B'There is nothing to say., i My mother has nothing to, tell you; she Is upset, by ths circumstances and It ' The son, however, hesitatingly con sented to the submission of two di rect questions to his mother. '"Havs you," was asked most form ally, "at any time since your daught er's disappearance -received any defi nite information that would lead you (Continued on Pago Two) LETTER FROM PRESIDENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL PUPILS y ISTJSHG LIQUORS Beginning of Wide Move ment for Total Abstin ence in Country CAUSES POVERTY COLUMBUS, O., Feb., 12. Presi dent Taft, in a letter dated December 28, 1910. and read in 3,000 Sunday schools In the United States today, sounded the keynote of a total ab stainer's movement The letter Is addressed to Sunday school pupils as "My dear young friends ", and reads: "The excessive use of intoxicating liquor is the cause of a great deal of poverty, degredatlon and crime of the world and one who abstains from the use of such liquor avoids a dangerous temptation. Abraham 'Lincoln show ed that he believed this in writing out for his boy friends the pledge of total abstlnance, so often quoted. Each person must determine f i himself the course he will take in reference to his tastes and appetites but those who exercise the self re straint to avoid altogether the temp tation of alchohnl liquor are on the safe and ntfse side". Dr. Howard H. Russell, of Wester vllje, Ohio, founder of the anti-saloon league, also Is founder of the Lincoln Legion, which Instigated today's ser vices throughout the United Ktatea The movement will be directed as the total abstinence department of the anti-saloon league wit hnational headquarter at, Westervllle. VICE PRESIDENT NOT DEAD MEXICO CITJT. Feb. 12 Rumors which have been current for several days alleging true death of Vice Pres ident Ramon Corral in Tehuacan, where he has been for some weeks, owing to III health and of General Loque and Colonel Garcia Cuellar, the latter the president's chief of staff at the front, were specifically denied tonight by the highest official authority. rOTHEH IS1G0AU CONGRESSNERVOUS OVER PROSPECT OF AN EXTRA SESSION President Taft Views With Com placency Solicitude of Senators Over Extra SessioninCase Treaty Should be Defeated. WASHINGTON Feb. 12. Members of congress would give much to know whether they are, to be permitted to break ranks on March 4 and retire to their homes for the sum mer, or whether thsV must linger in Washington for an iiidellnlte pe riod to act upon the Canadian reci procity agreement in extra session. Something-- positive on the subject from the white house would be es pecially acceptable. President Oomplnrciit. There is some foundation for the report that President Taft Is view ing with entire complacency the so licitude of members of the senate on the subject of an extra session. Sev eral senators who feel that there is no chance for the approval of the agreement at the present session have found that this View Is not shared at the white house. The president has met all pessimistic predictions with the suggestion that he is willing to trust the agreement to a vote. Hs bus never said, for publication, that he would call an extra session If such a vote is denied, but senators certainly have failed to obtain as surance that he would not do so. The McOall bill to carry out the provisions of the Canadian agree ment, having been reported to the house from the ways and means committee, probably, will bo brought up tomorrow. Immediate consid eration will be asked. If an agree ment to that end is opposed tho sup porters of the -bill will seek a rule for limitation of debate and in pro hibition of amendment, There has been manifested thus far no organiz ed movement to the prevention of a vote in the house. The consideration or the bill nevertheless probably will result in one of the livllest debates of the session. Democrat Pleaded. The democrats of the house, are pledged to the reciprocity agreement under the recent caucus action, al-i though a handful of the minority will impose the measure, being exempted Under the. caucus. jule which relieves Sniail risxef ' by'hs I will of the psrty majority when such action brings them into conflict with the expressed will of their constitu ents. A conference of democratic senators has been called for Tuesday, but It Is expected that an adjourn ment will be taken until the house has acted upon tho agreement. The indications are that Senator Brown, T DP I Young Negro of Eighteen Attempted Criminal Assault BODY RIDDLED EUFAULA, Ala., Feb., 12. Ivei Preston, a negVp about 18 years old, waa lynched early this morning by twenty of the moat prominent citizens of Eufaula. Ills body was strung up to a limb and riddled with bullets. Last night about o'clock as Mrs. E. A. Hudson, a prominent woman of Eufaula was going from a neigh bor's house to her home a negro who was identified as Preston grabbed her and attempted to assault her. Her screams brought several of her neighbors to the scene In a few mo ments and the negro fled. Preston was captured this mnrnlnR at 8 o'clock at his father's house jusl in the rear of of tho home of Con gressman Henrj' I). Clayton. Depul Itt verly, accompanied by a Mr. Spen cer, In the hitter's automobile start ed with the negro for Clayton, the county seat, fearing that a lynching might result If the prisoner wan left in Eufanla. At the light milo post from Eufaula on the Clayton road the automobile was halted by a mob of citizens and the negro quickly ruahed Into the woods nturliy r! he was lynched. YALE.STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE NEW HAVEN, Feb., 12 A body of Vale undergraduates 'mostly fresh men clashed with the police as th outcome of a snow battle between student occupants of dormitories on opposite sides of a street. A policeman who attempted to stop the engagement was hit by a snowball and when he attempted to make an arrest the students made common cause against him. Rein forcements of policemen arrt'ed, however, and four students were ar rested, two charged with breach of the peace, one with Interfering with an officer and one with breach of the peace and restating an officer. of Nebruaka, will not have to invoke his threatened opposition to appro, priation bills in order to bring about votes on the resolution providing tor popular election of senators. Other Measures. . . The Lorlmer case, a service pen sion bill and the bill - to create a permanent tariff board, are also pending. ' .v " ' " The situation in regard! to these measures has changed Viring the last week. It Is extremely probable now that the senate will vote upon all of them before the session Is ad Jurned. A canvass as careful as It is pos sible to make at this time, but nev ertheless not Intended to be regard ed as othes than speculative, seems to Justify the statement that the'sen tlment as to these measures, may be described as follows: Popular ielecion of senators prob ably will be defeated by reason of the Injection of the race issue Into the discussions of the resolution. Even without the speech by Sena tor Root of Friday, which Incited the Indignation of Senator Bacon and others from Southern states, this ls ue i-ouid not have been avoided. An amendment to the. resolution had already been offered by' Senator Sutherland, which Southern members say is as obnoxious to them as was the force bill. It seems practically certain that this" amendment will be adopted, and its effect eertaJnlK will be to alienate' Southern support, thus making, impossible the necessary two thirds' vote of the senate for "the ,..ain resolution, , Lorlmer's Fate Doubtful. , ' The fate of Senator Lorlmer Is more doubtful. All of the polls that have been made have been based upon the 'Beveridge resolution which declares the election of Benator lor lmer to havo bean accomplished' by corruption of the Illinois legislature. If '.the ease should coma before' the senate -in that form the indications, based UDon a poll of the senate by members friendly to tha- exoneration of Mr.. Lwime;-are-that - the 'Sec tion would be declared Invalid and his seat therefore vacant It Is .pos sible that friends of Senator Lorl mer will succeed in substituting a resolution declaring merely that the charges of corruption against Mr. Lorlmer has not been proved. There ( Continued on Page Five) SEVEN KIEIUIBERS OF FilLY FOUND DEAD IN ROOM PROM EFFECTSDFLEAK1NG CIS Father, Mother, and Five Children All Succumb In Night CAUSE UNKNOWN PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Feb. 12. Seven members of one family, the father, mother and live children were killed by Illuminating gas In their home In the Ghetto of this city today. The dead are: Hyman Berkowttz, aged 42 years. Rose, his wife, aged 40 years. Minnie, Mlchaii,- Israel, Rebecca and Pauline, whoso ages range from 18 to 5 years. When their Docies were discovered in the gas tilled loom by neighbors the father lay fully dressed on one bed with the two small boys, while the mother and the three girls were In another bed In the same room in the third floor.' The gas waa escaping from a tube which conected a gas stove on the first floor where the kit chen anil living room were located. The .father was seen by neighbors coming home about one o'clock this mornlne anil it ih supposed that he- ac iilentally HtumMed against the tube pulling It away from the fixture on uie wall. The eldest girl, Minnie, was to have been married in a few days. Her trousseau wis found hanging In the room on the second floor, LAST OF NEGROES NOW IN PRISON CHARLOTTE, N. C, Feb., 12 Pave Young, the last of the outlawed negroes wanted in connection with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Mum- ford and shooting of Chief of Police Glover, at Wilson, was this morning arrested at Roeky Mount. He admit ted that he was the man wanted and gave a graphic description of the crime to the police, but stoutly de nied that he was present St the time of thte, shooting. How.rver, he was Implicated in the crime by the con fession of Lewis West, the leader of the desperadoes and It le not believed he can prove an allbL r y S CfKTC'1 HIM VOU teSSS. FOR A GREATER NATION THROUGH A GREATERSOUTH MOTTOOF CONGRESS 'Many Distinguished Speakers Atlanta of Southern Commercial Congress as i WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.Typtfy Ing m new union of states of the Bouth which Just fifty-year ago were uniting for a struggle of arms, the third annual meeting of the Sou thern Commercial congress In Atlan ta, Ga., March I, I nd 1. arrange, vnent tor which have nlmoet been completed by the executive commit tee at It headquarters here, will itand fortb prominently In nolntlng out" the South' physhUi ,! recovery end demonstrating Jts lmpoKance to the nation y.WhUe lnduMrlaJ, eom ptitifcMrf hiJir'::'nnMeta and possibilities of tne Houtn wt ta-J pre-srUMatfy -thrttwgnoetr he sessions, solidification of the North and SontD in the development of the nation will be set forjh as never before. Mm of 'National Reputation. ' The program will bring together men from all walks of lire, many of them with national and international reputation, in order that every phase of the South and Its reaurces may get full treatment. Such national political figures as President Taft, Colonel Roosevelt. Governor" Wood row Wilson, Secretary Ptcklnson and Secretary James Wilson, will speak and among the natloal busieM-flgures who will spenk are George W. stlng house, of I'lltsliurg; George W. Perk ins, of New York; Kdward Hlnes, of Chicago, and Win, G. McAdon. of Now Tork. ftpeakers from the edu catlonal world will bo Commissioner Klmer K. Hrown, of Washington, and FOR DEPARTED STATESMENl House and Senate Pay Re spects to Those Who Have Passed Away WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Memorial services were held In the house today for the late Pcnator Charles J. Hughes, Jr., of Colorado and the late Hcnresentatlve Q. TJrrell of Maseeh it setts. He presentaUve, Green of Masachusetts presided. Speeches on the life, chnracter and work of Senator Hughes were delivered by Representatives Taylor, Rucker and Martin "f Colorado; Mondell of Wy oming, Clayton of Alabama, Clark of Missouri. Alexander of Missouri, and Smith of lowu. Those who spoke In regard to the character ami accom plishments of Representative Tlrrell were l!' iirrsentatlves Mitchell, Olllett, Washburn. Weeks, CConnell, I,aw rence and McCsIl of Massachusetts. Parker nf New Jersey, Morgan of Ok lahoma. Hovvlan l of Ohio, llawley of Oregon. Tilaon of Connsctleutt, and Mondell of Wyoming. W A H i N G TO N, Feb. 12. Forecast: North Carolinar fair : Monday and Tuesday; light north winds becoming south. They're After Him, and Subjects to he Discussed WiU Mark Meeting' at , Meeting Ever' Held in Southern States. Chancellor TTouaton, of Washington university, St. Louis. "Holul Bouth of BurinM," ' A unique division of the program will be that entitled - The Solid South of Buslnoea," Itt this division one man will speak for each of the sixteen states covered by the work of the Southern commercial congress, thus bringing to light the latest bus tneea statue of eacU tats, , - On the third day there, will be fourteen section meetings held sim ultaneously. The chairman of thess seetlcn meetings are themselves dis tinguished along various lines. The section, tneettngs -sad ,MU hlrmei wlU bet '' Different Sections, Agricultural Victor H, OlmStead, chief of the bureau of statistics, de partment of agriculture, ' ' Commerce Uernard N, ' Bakei;, Baltimore, ;Md.V president shippJng league of Baltimore. : Commercial organisation A dolph Boldt, secretary chamber of conv merce, Houston. ' Education - Commissioner B. Brown, United Htafes bureau of edu cation. ' ' Forest Henry K. Hardtner, presi dent Louisiana Conservation commis sion, Urania, La. Good roads Director Logan Wal ler, office of public roads, Washing ton, I). C. Health Surgeon General Wattej Weyman, bureau of public health and mnrlno hospital service. HISTORICAL BLOCKHOUSE PRESENTED TO DITHML Used for Defense in Early Indian Wars Will Now Adorn City Park ' PORTLAND, Or., Feb., 13. Uncle Bam has Just presented the city of Dayton, Oregon, an old blockhouse used for defense In the early Indian wars, nnd it will be moved to the city park and maintained there per manently as a memorial to General Joel Pulmcr. General Palmer wis made superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory of Oregon by Presi dent I'lerce In 15$. A reservation In the Grande Konde Valley In Yamhill county was estab lished for the Indiana and Unrpquaa, Calapooya and other tribes to the number of about 3000 were moved there from Hie southern' part of the suite. Tlilo settlers of the country nea,r tc reservation, remembcifmg lh f'avuse war of 1MI, feared trouble from tho presence of such a large number of Indians and built this blockhouse, together with a log stockade, early In 15. General Pal mer obtained a force of United States troops for the defense of th settlers and the men were stationed at the blockhouse, which! was named Fort Mherlilan. after - Lieutenant Phil Hherldan, who was ordered there with Captain Dar.ld A. Russell. in 1S11, after the Civil war broke out Lieutenant Kherldan and Captain Russell were directed to leave (rand Konde and report for ser vice In the east. Lieutenant Sheri dan rose to the rank of general and Captain Russell, placed In command of a division under General Sheridan, was killed in the battle of Winches ter. Among other noted military men who visited Fort Sheridan were Gen eral Orant, Major Reynolds, General E: O. C. Ord and Captain Auger. The old blockhouse has stood practically nnchangeft all these years and will be preserved carefully In future. Greatest Business , v; ImmlgrattonT. V. Fowdsrly, bu reau of Immlgatlon and naturalisa tion. Washington, D. C. Insurance iMaJor A. C. Sexton, Land reclamation Edward. Wlste. New Orleans, X. f-'i. Manufacturers-rliarry Wise, Chat tanooga, Tenn. '', '' " -v. ..v . Mines, and mining Director J. : A Holmes, bureau of mines, Real estate advertisings Hobsrt Jemlson, Jr Birmingham, Ala,, Water resources John H. pin ny, Washington, D. O. . . . Many Mpeeclm " In each section there will be 'three or. fou.sohes by mm eauslly die tlnguished. In the section devoted to sducstlon President Oarleton H. Gibson, of the .Mechanics Institute of Kochestsr, N. T., will speak -on "Technical and Industrial Education for the South;" President S. C. Witch ell, of the University of South Car olina, on "Edurfatloa for Constructlvs Leadership, state and National," and T. H. Harris, state supertntendetH &t publics Instruction In Louisiana, - on Taxation as Belated to Education." In the section devoted to agricul ture, Commkwloner B, . Watson, of Bouth Carolina, will speak on "The Cereals of the South;", Professor Ben nett, of Parts, ' Texas, nationally known for his command of the sub ject, on "The National Importance of Cotton Fibre;" Dr. A. W, Withers, of West lialotgh, N. C, on "The fOontlnnmt n Pace Fonr.i MANY THOUSANDS WERE By Agricultural Exhibits Made by Southern Rail way at Northern Fairs WASHINGTON, Feb. As the resnlt of exhibits made by the Sou thern railway and affiliated lines at various fairs and expositions In the North and West lt fall, the land and Industrial department of the Southern has the names of several thousand people who are Interested In the Bouth with the view of look ing for homes. Kxhlblts were main tained by the Southern and affiliated lines at the Pittsburg Land show, the Illinois State fair at Bprlngfleld, the Wisconsin State fair at Milwaukee, and the New York Htuto fair at Syr acuse. These exhibits were viewed In tho aggregate by over a half mil lion people according to reports Just compiled by the land and Industrial department of the Southern. Jn ad dition as large a number visited the exhibit of the Bouth and Its resourc es mado Jointly at the Ohio Valley exposition In Cincinnati by the rail roads of the Southeast, . Tho agricultural possibilities of the Southeast were displayed to magni ficent advantage at these fairs, the Southern railway exhibits receiving most favorable notice at all of them. From 10.000 to 18,000 persons visited the exhibit dally at the Pittsburg Land show coming from all the mid dle states and from Canada. A large number of thrifty German farmers were among those most Interested at Wisconsin State fair. The exhibit of the varied products of the South east at the Illinois State fair and ths New York State fair Interested thou sands who had previously considered cotton practically ths only product of the South. Thousands of pieces of literature were distributed show. Ing the opportunities for profit In other lines of agriculture In the South, BY A SUICIDE PACT WIFE FOLLOWS HER iiusBioei Shoots Herself and Fourteen Year Old Son Day After , ' Husband Dies COMPACT MADE DURING ILLNESS Bodies of Three Will All be In tered In Same Casket end . Same Crave - , OXFORD, Maine,' Feb., U.-Jn fulfillment nf a, compact mads with her husband during his lingering ill nees which death ended yesterday. iMrs. Undwood.fl. Keens, , took, her own Ufa today aftor having fatally shot her 14 year "old son Gerald. Ths compact dated about a month back was found by ths coroner in, a sealed envelope In the woman's room, Xeans was onos a prosperous far mer, but, according to ths compact ths family had become Impoverished and discouraged during his long Micknssa ' He was it years, of age and his wife a year or two younger. The document recited briefly ta4 family troubles, the result of Mr, Keene's Illness. ' In It his death was predicted and It waa stated by both parents that I twould be wrong to havs their son remain In the world to suffer the troubles they had ex perienced, s ...Mrs,.- Keen bound her. sslf to dd away, In the words of the compact, with herself and their son Gerald as soon as possible after ths death of ths husband and father. Friends of ths family who wars it ths house todsv awMttnr In prepar ing ths body of Mr. Keane for burial, heard shots ' fired - upstairs. Tin y ,'ound ths hoy, Gerald, In bad In hi ihambsr with a bmtst wound In h't Igli; tsmpls. H Utsd iw tlwn tin I.04.V-:" -":.,, , ', ,'',-. Tut flo-'i. of fr. JTenns'i rumrj nut M ken In a.al iuv hoi f'Mir rl stretched ci (lis be'- Hh h-i-l p'aced ths revolver to hs tOf f her mouth and fired, death probably W Ing Instantaneous. ; In letters M reiatrvss the husband- emTwue at d to bs burled In a double casket snd that their son's coffin and theirs be placed in the same bog for final In terment . Ths triple funeral will b held hers next Wednesday. . III AGAirJ FAILED TO HEHIVE FOBPUMECEPTO Insurgent Forces are Scat tered Over Many Uiles of Country LEADER CAUGHT ; EL PASO, Tex., Feb. It.Jsfs po litico iftartinsi's public reception to Oeneral Navarro, sst for today, has been indefinitely postponed. Oeneral Navarro did not arrive. An Insur recto courier located ths federal lead er t a laka few miles southwest of Ahumada, a station oa the Mexican Central railroad about 10 mites south. The Insurrscto forces are scattered between Ahumada and Juares where ever they can And pasture and water. The oountry for a hundred miles south of hers Is praollrsliy deserted. Manuel Casllls. probably ths best educated of the Insurgent leaders, who has been in El Paso at a council of war for three dais, wms csptursd by Americsn soldiers at Tsleta today. Csslllas was trying to get across tbs river to Join his command. Ha ear rled a rifle In violation of ths neu trality laws apd waa taken Into eus- tooy. Navarro, fearing mines tinder ths tracks and bridges, is said to bs pro ceeding at a snail's psce. Ths track is Inspected ahead of the train, which together with the repairs ha Is eon-spelled to make, makes his advance a tedious one. 1 A letter received by the local Junta today from a sympathiser at Shatter. Texas, purported to show that ths federals have not forsaken ths prac tice of executing ths defenseless. The letter states that Tom Psrrlsn, a river guard saw ths recent fight at Mulato and that four old men were taken out and shot, although unarmed and defenseless. . . . , t GENERAL WEBB DEAD NEW YORK. Fsb. 11 General Alexander Stewart -. Webb, who,, as chief of staff to Oeneral Meade, re- ; pulsed ths Confederate charge under Pickett - at Cemetery Hill and held "Bloody Angle" at Spottsylvanla. died -, at his home in the ; upper part -of the county tonight. He . was born In New York in lstS. .At One time he was instructor at West Point and was president of the college of the city of New Tork from 18 It until 1(01. t if