THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN: THE WEATHER: FAIR. Read tlic "Poultry and E Cln-Mlfktl Ada. VOL.' XXVII, NO, 129. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1911, PRICE FIVE CENTS , . rSHLFOIlTlllElfJ JEWELS WAS LOST II One Hundred and Thirty Thou : sand Dollars Worth Taken From State Room MRSJVIALDW1N DRUMMOND IS VICTIM OF THEFT .9 I The Passengers Carefully Searched But Not a Single Clue Developed - 8MALU FORTUNE , NEW YORK, Feb., 26. Mr. Meldwfn Drummond, formerly Mr. Marshall Field, jr., of Chicago, tu robbed of fortune In Jewels last OiiBOABQAMERIKA ,' Bight aboard a trans-Atlantic liner. Diamonds, pearls and other Kerns to tit value of approximately 1120,000 dlappeared mysteriously ' from her stateroom on the steamer Amerlka et the Hamburg-American' line some time between f.JO o'clock last eve nine; and E.JO o'clock, this morning. Tlje loss was reported Immediately the liner docked at Hoboken this - afternoon and the police of Hoboken and New Tork are working1 on, the ease. The Hamburg-American line ' disclaims all responsibility on the ground that the . passengers leave ' Jewels in their staterooms at the owner's risk. To the police ' Mrs. ; -Jrummond described the missing ( Vela 'as follows. . . . . , . . . Miming Jewels. Two strings 'of 2)4 pearls' each. One string of 288 pearls. One large black pearl ring set with diamonds. On large white pearl ring set with diamonds. ' One black pearl -brooch set with diamonds with a black pearl pea shaped pendant ' A wireless message sent from the ' Amerlka as she neared port summon ed detectives down the bay in a tug. They learned from Mrs. Drummond details of the theft -, ' and tfegan a combing of the ship and a search of the orew, but not a trace of the Jew els was found. Mrs. Drummond ex plained except at night she had worn ,v tN Jewel almost cpnstantly on her . r8orr but had kept 'them undor her v waist and had not displayed them at ' .ny time, even while dining. Last Bight on retiring she placed them in a cabinet drawer of the stateroom as she had done every night during the voyage. No one had access to the stateroom, she " added besides her husband, herself and her maid. The - - - - i-i-,-ii"i",-,',-irw).ruxjLRJ (Continued em Page Four) SPRING PRACTICE GAMES Starting in Nfis brleans Will Play Exhibition Games Through South WHITE SOX TOO CHICAGO, Feb. 28. Eighteen members of the Chicago National league baseball club under the direc tion of Manager Frank Chance, left today for West Baden, Ind., to begin training for the 1811 season. Half a doxen players will Join the team at West Baden and the recruits ulll meet the club at 'New Orleans next Saturday,., making' In all 34 men camp. Neither Pitcher Overall nor tcher John Kling have advised Manager Chance when they will re port but It is expected that they will join the team early In March. Start ing March S, exhibition games will be played In New1 Orleans and then the team will begin a tour northward, plying games In the principal cities end reaching Chicago April 7 for four exhibition games. Members of the Chicago American League club will leave for Iieral Wells, Texas, tomorrow night on the annual training Jaunt After a few day of practice the squad will be di vided into teams and each club will play twenty-two exhibition games be fore returning to Chicago April 12. Twenty-five players will make the CHICAGO CUBS JOURNEY jm FOR THEIR 111 V i trip south but more will Join the mm eu rouiv una w-i mineral, nena DR. RAMSEY TO GREENVILLE GREENVILLE, 8: C. Feb. 26 Da vid M. Ramsey, pastor of the Grace Street Baptist church In Rlcmond, Va., Ja announced that he will accept the Cjsldency of tfie Greenville Female clege, to which he was recently elected. He will enter upon his new duties In June. TORPEDO BOAT FLOTILLA PENSACOLA, Fla,, Feb. 26. Tho seventh torpedo' boat flotilla, compos ed of the destroyers Paulding. Dray ton, Terry and Roe arrived In the har bor this afternoon to participate In the Mardl Ora festlvittls . The cruiser Dixie Is elected , to arrive before fAkralflg, - ','."-' v j EDWARD SHEPARD WITHDRAWS FROM SEN ATORSHIP RACE Says That Elimination of Siheehan is Imminent and Urges Legislaturato Make , Selection so as to Have Representative in Extra Session. NEW TORK, Feb. 26. Edward" M. Bhepard in a letter to Montgomery Hare tonight announced his retire ment from tho light for the United States senatorshlp to succeed Chaun cey M. Depew. He adds that in his opinion Wm. F. Sheehan' retirement Is imminent-., and warns democratic members of the legislature that un less tho members "promptly, unite tho extra session of congress will flnd the state of New York half represented. . Earlier In the day Martin W. Lit tleton, congressman elect and self an nounced candidate for the senator ship had issued a statement pointing, as does Mr. Bhepard, to the "grave responsibility" resting upon the dem ocratic legislature and calling upon Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam many Hall, to cause the retirement of Mr. Sheehan and break the Ave weeks deadlock at- Albany. : - Senator la Needed. '. Mr. Littleton In his letter predicts that if the deadlock continues the Canadian reciprocity treaty, tariff re form and "the proposition to elect senator by direct vote vote may fall for want of a democratic senator from New York. The present deadlock he declares, will be easily broken If Mr. Murphy would withdrawals in- fluence which -he-characterises as an endurance test" to determine wheth- ed Tammany Hall can extend Its con trol to other sections of the state. Mr. Shepard's letter says In part: "The futile balloting has continued at Albany for more than five weeks after the date prescribed by law for the choice.' One week from today the seat of the new democratic senator will be ready for him at Washing ton. Unless the democratic members promptly unite the extra session which- now seems probable and In which the legitimate opportunity and (he respon sibility of our party are to be of the very first order, will find the state of New York but half represented, and what I should regret even more, H would exhibit the democratic J?orty of the state as seemingly incompetent to the most elementary demand of statesmanlike" 'politics. No doubt such incompetence real or seeming, Is pre ferable to a surrender of the very Integrity of the party' or of its loy alty to the public cause which belong of right to It and for whose sake, and for whose sake alone, so many have given to It an almost lifelong devotion. But It can be that we must COMMENT OF MEXICO ENDEAVORING TO REACH PHCEMMSUfflTS So Declares Head of Confi dential Agency in State ment Last Night WOULD END FIGHTING WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Dr. Vas fluer. Gomez, head of the confidential agency here of the , Mexican revolu tionists, tonight announced that he In directly had received overtures for peace from the federal government. Dr. Gomel said that the confiden tial agency here had been advised by Its Junta, In' El Paso, today of he desire of Governor Ahumada of Chi huahua to confer In -Chihuahua with Francisco I. Madero. leader of the revolution and also had been Inform ed through Its Junta In San Antonio, Texas, that three delegates of the DIai government wished to meet Dr. Gomes on the border and arrange for the termination of hostilities. Dr. Gomes who was for a long time the family physician of President Diaz, and who In the last election was a candidate for the vice presidency of Mexico on the same ticket as Francisco of Ma dero, the candidate for president, de clared that the provisional govern ment would "undertake not any ne gotiations of peace except under the condition that the delegates shall be legally and fully authorised with writ ten power". STORY IS DENIED MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26. Enrique C. Creel, the Mexican minister of foreign relations denied tonight that any peace overtures had been made by President Diaz to me revolution ists In Mexico as alleged by Gomez In his announcement at - Washington tonight "As far as I am aware, no such overtures have been made,," said Mr. Creel, "and as for the appointment of peace envoys I can state positively that the assertion la untrue." Mr. Creel is a member of the president's official family, upon whose counsel the chief executive has placed great reliance during the present political difficulties of th nation. . , - remain longer lifcan utterly unneces sary dilemma between such Incompe tency and such surrender. . Has the dilemma already been sufficiently dis astrous? May it not soon prove fatal to the party future, at least for our day and generation Must there be If we are - to learn In every county a democartlo defeat like that the other day in always democratic Schoharie? Blieehan Impossible. "It was plain, a month or more ago, that Mr. Sheehan will not be chosen had aroused a democratic opposition so Important and persistent as to ren der Impossible his election by demo crats. I 'assume therefore not ' only that Mr. Ssheehan will not be chosen but that, at this late day, that fact Is clear to himself and his supporters Like everybody else in the state he must know that, so long as the ma jority of -the democratic legislators continue to vote in deference purely to the Imaginary obligation of their caucus, no solution of this democratic difficulty will be possible. Assuming, however, as we must, that there is to be a solution assumlng.aa w surely may that Mr. Sheehan'a withdrawal Is Imminent, there rests upon the mem bers of the democratic minority a grave , further responsibility." , . Mr. Bhepard here reviews the cir cumstances which brought his nam before the legislature and continues: , Definitely Out of Race, ' "The Impending end of the candid acy of Mr. Sheehan seems to me to require some ' changes of program to which iu a slight degree t can per haps contribute. I should be glad If you as ' my friend would make It clear to the minority who already have voted or who might 1 hereafter vote for me, that I an definitely and absolutely -outside of the list from which candidates can be chosen, I do not and shall not, however, with draw from political activity or from warn support of the democratic par ty. ; Far from. It I hopeat least with. entire loyalty, and ? with some energywOoner to -support th-)4rty-ing cause v. hloh has for the time made the minority the most distin guished body of men In the state," With himself finally eliminated as a candidate, Mr. 8hepard addresses some friendly words to the minority with the hope that they "will make their choice with a view to the se rious and far reaching relations (Continued on Psge Four) NFURIATED MOB CHEATED Neighbors go After Son and Father Who Had Killed Man in Quarrel SEVERAL ARRESTED BELLE FONTAIN. O., Feb., 26. John Beres, a farmer, 40 years old and his son, Gibson Beres, 21 years old, were rescued from a mob of would-be lynchers .this afternoon by a sheriff's posse after the younger man had shot dead Burr Kerns, a neighbor. Kerns, accompanied by his brother Daniel and two friends, had gone to the Beres home where they accused Beres of stealing corn. According to the elder Beres during the altercation one of the men struck him with a shovel, knocking him down. He claims that another man attacked his wife and that Burr Kerns was rush ing at him when young Beres fired. After the shooting Kerns' friends assembled with the atvnwed Intention of lynching the Beres. The latter barricaded themselves Inside their home and held the mob off with their rifles until the sheriff arrived with a posse to whom they surrendered. Daniel Kerns was also arrested. HOUSE EULOGIZES DEPARTED MEMBERS WASHINGTON, Feb, .26. The house devoted five hours today to hearing eulogies on the lives of the late Senators McEnery of Louisiana and Dolllvar of Iowa. . The entire Louisiana delegation In the h jse, Mr. Lamb of Virginia, Mr. Padgett of Tenn., and others paid tribute to the Louisiana senator and practically all of the Iowa delegation with Mr. Clark of Missouri spoke on the life and ser vices of Mr. Dolllvar. CIRCLES OVER LAKE WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,, Feb! 26. Despite a strong easterly wind this afternoon, aviator J. A. D. Mo Curdy thrilled several thousand spec tators by two spectacular nights. On the first he flew over Lake Worth and back to the starting point at Bethes eda park. On the second he turned tils - machine ' towards the town and circled the big hotels on the beach at a heutht of about 1.S00 feet. , "The Bad Dream That Made Bill ' APPROPRIATIONS ARE SO CONGESTED THAT CONGRESS MUST RUSH WORK Lorimer Casel Direct Election . ' adian Reciprocity Have AJI Yet to be Considered to Appropriation Bills. '. WASHINGTON, Feb. i.-Day and night sessions probably will be held In both branches of congress begin nlng tomorrow, fur only five and a half days remain to conclude a for midable legislative program which la in an unpreceaeniea ana almost nope less condition. Without taking Into consideration the situation in the senate where there Is a ' filibuster against taking votes, on the ' Csnadlan reciprocity agreement ' the 'permanent - tariff board "bill and the Lorimer ease; to say nothing of the . proposition to raise tha rates' for 'carrying . the ad vertising, sections,,', of magaslii inrougn me mans, mm s i connec tion pf appropriation bills that to some seem irremediable. : i Appropriations Congestrd. -The urgent deficiency bill Is the only one of the fourteen general sup ply measures that has become a law. The situation respecting appropria tion bills Is as follows: The Indian, legislative, army, the District of Columbia bills have pass ed' the. house and are In conference. These bills contain Items In dispute which present difficulties. The pensions, pnstnffl.ee, agrlcultur , navy, military academy, fortifica tions, diplomatic and consular and sundry civil bills have passed the house but not the senate. The gen eral' deficiency bill has not even come out of : the house committee on ap K1LMTEUHWILDWESTENDS Real Riffe. Introduced for Realism proves Fatal to Small Boy PHILADELPHIA. Feb. , 26. John Kelly, aged 15 years, was shot and Instantly killed today by James En gle, aged 10 years, while playing cow boy and Indian with a number of other boys on a lot near their homes in West Philadelphia. The boys have been accustomed to meet on a lot every Sunday and re produce wild west shows. On previ ous occasions they have been content ed with rope lassos and cap pistols but last night, two of the older boys purchased a small rifle and brought It to the lot today. Young Engle arm ed with this weapon was being pur sued by John Kelly with a lasso when according to witnesses Engle without looking turned and shot Kelly foil with a bullet through his heart. 8NO,W IX FRISCO SAN - FBANCMCO, Feb. 26. The first considerable flurry of snow here In 16 years gave the youngsters of the city charice this afternoon to play or a few minutes at snowball ing. The heights around Ban En cisco remained white for half an l..r Street cars were targets for the heavy bombardment and several passengers were cut by flying glass. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Forecast: North Carolina, fair Monday; colder In north and west portions; Tuesday, fair, colder; . In ' southeast : portion moderate west to northwest winds. of Senator , Panama Fortification Measure, and Can- propriations.. There remain to be passed by the senate, therefore, the pensions, postofflee, agricultural, na val, mllltar? academy,, fortifications, diplomatic, and consular, sundry civil and general deftclenr y bills. Not in the memory of any senator has there been such eongestlon of supply meas ures, nor ae ' many complications by reason, of other important business. If the senate could devote the five and a half days left of the' present congress to the calendar and If speech es could be curtailed, senators would not worry about the legislative situ ation. Notices already have been glv n. however,; of several, speeches on, the -subjects er direct ejection oi sen ate ra, Canadian , reoh-oclty and the Lorimer ease. Thefe will be speeches also on the subjects of magaalne rates, fortifications of the Panama canal and numerous other, controversial ques tions which appear in appropriation bills, Intense feeling was displayed during the lest week between the op posing factions In the Lorimer case and that Is certain to create a deal of bitterness before a vote Is taken upon It, The faction which supports Senator Lorimer -ia determined that disposition shall be made of the case during the present session, but It la evident that the antl-Lorlmer forces wlU resist to the utmost any attempt to take a Vote before they have con cluded their arguments. The MeCall bill to carry out the PARCELS POST KDVDCATEG WILL CONVENE TUESDAY Southern Merchants Will Meet at Nashville to Dis cuss Pending Bill NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb.2. Defe cates to ths parcels post convention of southern merchants will begin to gather tomorrow afternoon. The con vention proper begins Tuesday after noon, the morning being devoted to a meeting of the executive committee. Both sides of the question will be fully presented. " Indications are that the merchants will go on record as oppos ed to the bills pending In congress but It appears strongly probable that they will endorse a plan of parcels with charges for transportation graduated according to distance. Senator-elect John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, who wilt be one of the principal speakers fsvors this plan and will present It fully to the con vention. HITTING OF PITCHERS FEATURE OF GAME . HOT SPRINGS, Afk.. Feb., 26. The hitting of pitchers in the game between the all amertqan and fc-U nationals today was the feature of a verdict for the former S to I.. Mc Quillan, of Cincinnati, Summers of Detroit and Clark of Chicago each had a home run to his credit. Dovan of Detroit played the first bag and presented himself In a new role of monologlst to the lsrge Sunday au dience which he entertained with a cross fire of comedle. Bush, the De troit short stop showed class in (to days game, having a number of chances all of 'which were handled In mldseason form. .Score: All Americans.. 90J 010 010 5 t ( All Nationals . .000 020 0011 I I Willis, Summers, Otey, and Lang and Elliott, Walker, Clark, Strang and Hocutt. B.VROX BAJfFV DEAD BUDA PEST, Feb. 16. Baron De sldertus Banffy, former premier of Hungary, - and a leader of - tho new party, died today '" a Better Boy. in Senate in Addition provisions of the Canadian reciprocity agreement Is on the calendar, and Senator Hale and other opposed to the administration have made It clear that they do 'not Intend that any prior rights shall be given to It be cause of the Interest , of President Tan in the subject or for any other reason. It la perfectly clear that a vote cannot be prevented on tho Mo. Call bill without resort to e filibuster, The only way a vote could bo obtain ed on the measure would be tho giv lng -of assurance by a. poll' which could not be doubted, that there were yntoa enough to- defeat It The In rnrmai poua mat nave "Dew -tor m have disclosed that a majority of the senate would vote to enact the McCall bill , There are several democrat who oppose the measure and an effort was made yesterday to obtain promises from seven others of the minority to stand with the republican majority against the measure. This cyons ed but It may be renewed At any time. ' ' Has Wo Champion, 1 Twe Canadian bill has no champion III the aente and this fact seems to preclude any possibility of bringing It to a vote. Senate and house lead era have become reconciled to the Idea of an extra session and there is little doubt that one will be sailed by President Taft and that It will be convened A pril 4. OUPOHT WILL GIVE GREAT e HIEHiVJIY THROUGH STATE Head of Powder Trust Will Build Boulevard to Cost Two Millions WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. , !. Coleman Dupont, president of tho Du pont Powder company, after av con ference today with former Attorney General Richards, announced,, that he would bear the expense of construct ing a boulevard the entire length of the state of Delaware. The boulevard will be 10 miles In length and will extend from Claymont on the north to Selbyvllle on the south. The cost will be approximately two million dol lars. Mr. Dupont's Idea Is to' mske the boulevard about 160 feet In width with room for the Installation of pub Ho utilities. He will present the high way to the state with the reservation that Governor Pennewlll will appoint highway commission to keep the road In reepalr. GOKM HIGH IN AIR MKICO CITT. Feb. 26. Before a big crowd at the aviation field to day Roland O. Garros, one of the quartette of Frenchmen with Mols ants corps of aviators, made an alti tude flight estimated , at J,0 feet which considering the starting alti tude of -7.600 feet, was regarded as a remarkable performance. SENATOR'S MOTIIKR DEAD , CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Feb. 26. News has reached this city. to the ef fect that Mrs. Margaret Frailer, mother of U. 8. Senator J. B. Ftasler, died tonight at her hoem in Donnel son, Tenn.. near Nashville. She was It years eld. Senator Frailer la in Washington. JOHN H. TAYLOR .DEAD. NEW TORK. Feb., 26. John H. Taylor famous as hortleulturallst and collector of rare plants, a member of many scientific and well known clubs died of heart disease today in the hotel Martinique. He was SI years old.' f PROMPTACTIO JOI! JAPANESE TREATY. Whole Nation of Japan Stirred to Kindly Feeling Towards v. America PREPARING TO TAKE PART IN EXPOSITION . mmmmmemm x Prompt Action of America J" Strengthens Present Jap anese Ministry PROVES PLEASING TOKIO, - Feb. . ti.Ambaidor O'Brien and Count Xomura. the Jat v' paneae foreign secretary, have ess . , changed congratulations on tho ratl -flcatlon of the treaty between th United State and Japan. There art not lacking evidence that the high est officials and the entire press of this country, as well as the several public, are deeply stirred by the ear' V ly acceptance by the American govn, eminent of Japan's assurances - that -she desires a continuation 1 of the friendly relations which have alwaya - existed and by the confidence shown by the administration at Washington -In the ctneerlty of Japan's undertak. ;. Ings regarding emigration. -On all hands and among overy clesa confidence ;,, ano . even , gratituae isj warmly - expressed. The effect of the ratification of the treaty on the situ ation with regard to trade and eom mission is wall marked already. The c government and commercial bodies) .' are preparing to take a thoroughly '. representative part In the exposition to bo Jisld in celebration of the open ing of the Panama canal. This un doubtedly will be the largest oral on which Japan has ever been fepre- - sen ted abroad. All newspapere printed editorial : expressing the optnlong of statesmen, -bankers and leadare of the govern ment, who are unanimous regarding1 the ratification aa on of the great-, est event In the history of the coun try and that It? ha undoubtedly K".,4ha r-oml-.-, f'"" '''' , and. th (government gioetr GREEfiVILLE f.!L""EF.EB . 10 EE 111 ti nit .III Was Mulatto Negro , Who : Was Taken From Jail at Augusta by Hob BODY IN COLLEGE V ORBENVTLLB, 8. C Feb, Il-n That the man who engaged 1ft a pla tol dual with policeman Johnson In the passenger station of th Colom bla and Greenville division of the) Southern railway on Friday, Feb, IT, shooting two pistol ball Into th body of policeman O, S. Gunnels, wounds front which he died several hour later, and plerotng th right leg of fnca Johnson, with a third ball, era a mulatto negro by the name ot Ar tnur loune ano w one of the two negroes lynched or v mob In Warren county, Oeorgla, last Friday night, la the verdlot of detect , Ives and officer of th local pollee), department, ' ,' rh last evidence which ha Been winding about th murderer of the po- 4 llcemen was forge at nuamgni wosn ; nninr Rector telephoned Chief ( : Police Kennedy from Atlanta, that ho ; found the body of tne man upon , whom the crime eommltteed hero tee K.n fii.d In the ooeseeslon Of tned . leal college In that city, th body hav ing been brought to Atlanta rrom th ,v ..n. nf the lvnehlna and purchased for tt for the'medical sehool. Ths body will be brougni nor ana ,. . -.in k ,-ft.M-A from aavrl v . .round (a Identify the body. ' connecting him with , many ;.. th Crimea SPECTTACCIiAR FIRB ' r-iNcrvNATi. O.. Feb. Jl.Explod- Ing chemical tonight started a speo- tacular fire which ooetroye o seven -.HiMin, and einek of Jttla Fov- - Faint company at Fifth and Syeamor streets. ' ' A Quests of th Dennlson hotel aero) the street, many of them acanuiy clad, fled to the street ooM returned ' to th hotel, which was not damaged- , Th lose to th paint company la a i ao ooo. while ether eoneern In the same building and . nearby iwtaind losses of an equal amount. a 4 CCRTI8 GET FANCS",' SAN DIEQO, Calif., Feb, II. A further demonstration Was given to day of th adaptability of the aero plane for land and water service. In a flight ot six mile over the bay a ( oceaa and across Coronado li-" Glenn H. Curtis rose from the -alighted on land and then from the land and alfgh Jeter. The flights wer vlnd of 29 milei an '