North Carolina Newspapers

THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: BAIN. Head Uh "Poultry - and Eggs" Classified AOs. VOL. XXVII- NO-134. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATU RDAV MORNING, MARCH 4, 1911. c : ; , :.j;v:x.,.;,. ' ; PRICE FIVE CENTS MAGAZINES WILL S T HOT HAVE TO PAY E FRIAR LANDS SALE E T LONG TERM EVEN TRAINING SCHOOL F00 TEACHERS IS KILLEOIN HOUSE Committee Reports Unfavor ably and no Appropriation Is Provided For it luioiiri " . -. . -..- ROBB RS 10 HELD ANY MOREPOSTAB UPSOUTHERN IN COMMITTEE Provision Recommended by President and Postmaster Genera Defeated MANY APPROPRIATIONS . ARE PASSED BY SENATE Liberal Provision Made For Rural Delivery Service and Star Routes WASHINGTON, March S. The senate this evening pawed the post office appropriation bill, carrying about $268,000,000, after striking from It the provision Increasing to four centa a pound the postal rate on the advertising sections of the large magazines. Postmaster General Hitchcock sat In the chamber while the bill was under consideration and witnessed the defeat of the plan that he had recommended. Senator Penrose, chairman of the postoffice committee recognized the rutility of attempting to secure the passage ,of the bill with the maga zine rate feature embodied. It was clear enough that senators who op posed it would so Impede the progress of the measure as to dereat it not obstruct other legislation. WIU Make Investigation. Through withdrawing the provis ion, Mr. Penrose yet hoped for its ultimate success. He secured the unanimous adoption of a ' substitute authorizing the president to appoint a committee of three members to make thorough investigation of the -whJe cost of handling second class matter- Among the amendments adopted In the postoffice appropriation bill was one by Senator Swanson granting 30 days leave of absence annually to rur al free delivery letter carriers. Senators Owen and Bristow round ly denounced the proposed Increased in the postoffice measure on the magazines! The latter turning to wh&re Postmaster General Hitchcock "was seated -in the- chamber, said the senate had a right to know whether the deficit In the post office depart ment Is due to second class matter or "Inefficiency and mismanagement In the department". A moment, later Senator Brtsto ad- A moment later Senator Bristow added: ,-I don't want to be misunderstood. I am not directing any criticism against the present management of 'Continued, on Page Four) Iff HI BY FLIGHT OF SIX HUNDRED MILES With Two Men Distance Is : Made in Two Hours and Seven Minutes ARMY AEROPLANE LAREDO, Tex., March 3 A world's record was broken between this city tnd Eagle Pass today when Lieut. Benjamin Boulois, U. S. A., and Aviator Phillip C. Prtvnalee drove an army aeroplane 108 miles in 1 two hours and seven minutes. j The flight is a world's record in ; point 'of time and is also a record for i the United States for a two-men Jour- i)ey through the air. Carrying the United S;ars Hag j nailed to the lower plane, the machine j left the ground at Port Mcintosh a, two -o'clock this afternoon. Reach-' lng an altitude of 2,00 feet the hvI- j ators pointed the nose of thor-Trft ' to the north and were Wion out of sight. Shortly after 4 o'clock a mes sage came saying; that they had ar rived at Eagle Pass nt 4.07 o'clock. Army officers are -greatly pleased with thd performance of the aeroplane and say that it is a factor to be reckoned with In future aggressive military maneuvers. The aeroplane was equipped with a mijp-mAlnit outfit and within reach of the men in the machine was a gun. NO REAPPORTIONMENT, WASHINGTON. March 3 There ! Will be no congressional reapportion- j ment by the 61st congress ttys Was, decided at 2.08 o'clock this morning, j The reapportionment ' bill fixing the ; number of representatives at 433 i Which passed the house early in the session has for various reasons been j allowed to remain In the senate com- mittee on census until yesterday j when in the absence the chairman j Mr. Lafollette Senator Hale souNiht to have It re-ported for final actlon.The j opposition was so decided howeverY asj to reader It Impossible for the MJ1 to go through. . ' CAROLINA GIUL CHOSEN. POUGHKEEPSIE. N. T., March 3. Miss Beatrice Bulla, of AsheborOi N. C, was among the young ladies rhosen as commencement speakers In June at Vassar college. It was an- Leader Gets Twenty Years and Two Others of Gang Get Fifteen Each LEADER OF GANG IS WANTED IN CANADA Two Members of Bandit Gang on Witness Stand Turn State's Evidence GAINESVILLE. Ga.. March 3 George Anderson, alias "Old Bill' Miner, Geo. Hanford and J. E. Hunt: er, accused of being members of the gang which held up the United States fast mail, a Southern railway train near White Sulphur Springs, Ga-, on the morning of February 18, were convicted at a special term of the Hall county Superior court held here today and sentenced to prltgin, An4 erson for twenty years and Hanford and Hunter 15 years etich. After being sentenced the prison ers arose .and thanked the Judge for not imposing heavier sentences, Anderson Raying: ( "Thank you judge. Robber)' is rob. bery, and here's another case." The selection of a Jury, introduc tion of testimony argument by at torneys ind rendering a verdict re quired only a little more than eight hours. Upon being arraigned Ander son, entored a plea of not guilty buj; Hanford and Hunter pleaded guilty and turned state's evidence. On the witness stand they stated that Ander son was the leader of the gang which waonga.nlzed In Pennsylvania with the avawed purpose of committing a train nobbery in this state. Andi rson is wanted In Victoria, B. C, to- lerve the remainder of a term for tri In robbery but his conviction today bjcans that he will not be sur render oto the Canadian authorities until ( fter the completion of his sen tence In Georgia. As he Is r years of nge he probably. wUJ ne-ner be rez quired to complete his term in-Can- ada. The Irobbcry In which the prison ers were Implicated took place soon after Midnight February 18. Five ir two of whom the officers are still searching, boarded the train and blew open a safe in the express car. securing about $2,000. Only two shots were fired during the hold up and they were for the purpose of frightening passengers who left the cars to ascertain the reason for the stopping of the train. 511 ARE PASSED 1 ALABAMA for coroiorsus Prohibition in State is Thing of Past Giving Way to Local Option HIGH LICENSES MONTGOMERY. Ala... March 3. At 8.45 o'clock tonight the house of representatives passed the Smith bill, which regulates the sule of lienor In Alabama, by a vote of OS to 21. The bill has been considered In: commit tee of the whole prictlcally all d.ii, the prohibitionists lending the nlfbuit ter agaln.i the measure. An Amend ment tlxitiK the saloon license In Jef ferson county at $3.c0ii and the num ber of saloon die for every three thousand inhabi'mts, was ad opted. The Smith bill fives the Keens.- in Mo bile and Montgomery nt I,5rtO and in Molflle one Kalonn to every 7:) people and In Montgomery one to every 1,000. Ext ixe board? are ere ated to control the sale of liquor an.1 the Wiley pure food re-r,l; tions are adopted to govern the realities of lliiuors to be sold. This niewsure Is BHldu--lilie most stringent ever enfcTed In anyVate in the Union. POSTMASTERS NAMED. WASHINGTON. March 3. Presi dent T.-ift today named the following postmasters : Virginia John O. Grayson, War rantor J. A. Riddle, Bridgcwater; J. L. Cleaves, WytheUlle. North Carolina t O. Rosemond, Hlllsboro: Hugo 'Paul. Washington; Wm. P. King, Windsor; Luc sflus C. Cooper. Nashville; John O. -Wal-r, Lexington; or.d Jacob M Stn ill, Kenley; and George M. Wldderspoon, Cooperstown. CONVICTION AFFIRMED. WILLI AMSPOHT, Pn.. March 3. The state Superior eourt In session here today affirmed the conviction In the Daupfcine county court of Jos. M. Huston, of Philadelphia, archi tect of the Pennsylvania state capital at Harris-burg, tbe last of the four teen men indicted In the scandal to face a trial court. Hustr.n was conyicte-I of conspira cy to defraud the state in connection with the furnishings of the &pit'jl and was sentenced to a term of not less thantsix month nor mors than two years in prison to pay a fine of TURLINGTON TRUST BILL UP TO SENATE State Institutions Are Gener ously Supplied In Appro priations Made RALEIGH, N. C, March I The house passed the Turlington ontl trust bill this afternoon with an amendment by Representative Doug ton that cut out the provision that the solicitor and other prosecutors of trusts shall have forty per cent of the tinea imposed when convictions are secured. Turlington explained his bill t.n conforming to the recommendations of the governor as to providing a fund for. the expense of prosectlon through the attorney general and solicitors and adding sub-sections prohibiting the use of coupons, re bates and prizes In th sale of mer chandise, and another making It a misdemeanor to solicit trade by mean of false representations as to connec tion with other business enterprises and as to ownership of the business. The bill to have the sale of the At lantic & Yadkin railroad to the At lantic Coast Line and Southern In Investigated by the corporation com mission passed under suspended rules and was sent to the house. The house passed the bill carrying appointment of members of county boards of education. fin Western Training ScIhkiI. The house received from the com mittee on appropriations an .unfavor able report for the bill to sMabllsh the Western Carolina teachers' training school. The vota of the committee trodtied by Senator Martin, had passed the senate. The bill to create a state fish com mission to control the commerclul flBhlng Interest that was proposed by the legislative commission after two years' extensive study of the situation under the direction of the. 1909 leg islature, and which had passed the house, was adopted by ihe senate to rt a v. 44 to 1, after It had been (Continued on Pago Three) ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE FOR President Said to Have About Decided on March 15 As Date THE LAST NIGHT WASHINGTON. March 3. With the virtual certainty of an early ex tra session of congress beclouding the nir both bouses of congrens wore In session at a late hour tonight grind ing through the mass of routine legis lation which must be completed be fore final adjournment at noon to morrow. From the white house, practically from the lips of President Taft himself, i ame late in the day the cdmfssion ;hat the president had al-afuloned aii hope of the passage of tin- Canadian reciprocity agreement and a'AUitcd now oniy the formal con firmation of its failure to issue his call for an otra session. The date of the extra session has not been definitely fixed. The demo crats want it to be deferred until April: tl-e republicans want It to start. If start it must, as soon as possible. At the white house today It was In timated rather definitely that the date the president hss in mind Is March 15. Two Interesting and unexpected features mnrked the evening. Doth houses psssed the bill to give the rsink and retired pay of a rear admir al and the thanks of congress to Rob ert I" Peary In reeKnltlon of his at tainment of the North Pole. The bill had been rnsrded as hopelessly lost in'the tangle of legislation In the house but was revived and passed to the senate wbl'h concurred without deliv. The other unexpected episode was Senator Irlmer's motion to strike from the gneral deficiency bill an appropriation of 125.009 to reimburse him for his expenses in defending bis title to a sent In the senate. THERE WERE NO KEBELS. . EL PASO. March . The federal soldiers were unable to find "jr In surrectos and returned to Juarez. United Btates troops today arrested 23 Insurrectos on American soil. They are In tb El Paso Jail. Colon el Rabego. with, to men arrived in MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES WERE PASSED BY SIXTY FIRST CONGRESS Conflict Between Regulars and Insurgents of Republican Party Was Distinguishing Feature of Expiring Congress.- Tariff Law Most Important Act Passed.' Genera) Summary of Vark Accomplished. WASHINGTON. March, S. Having abandoned hope pt seeing reciprocity Dassed by the present congress Presi dent Tatt lat"today; after returning from hla usual long afternoon warn declared that he had noticed the set ting sun but that he had also seen a new moon in the heaven. The president ho not yet decided when he will issue his proclamation calling the new congress together nor has the date been fixed. , ' Despite the fact (lint the measure which above all others he desired to see passed at this -eal0B did .not become law the president wa ' r- jciaantimlgH vefiiaiy Jarae nuwtat.--- ber of bills he fsyoM which hove been passed, The Judiciary 'codification bill he considers one of the most important additions to the legal proceedure of the country passed In the last half century. The provision for the forti fication of the Panama canal was particularly pleasing to him. Much has been accomplished by the present session he feels which will be of lasting benefit to the coun try. He has no unkind words for the dying congress been us it could not see Its way clear to pass his reci procity measure. He Is waiting for the "new moon" of the coming con gress to fulfil his desires In that direction. In the retrospect the sixty first congress, which will expire tiy con stitutional limitation at noon tomor row, appears to have distinguished Itself by three things: The revision of the tariff In the so- called Pn.vne-Aldrleh bill, which was passed at an extra session In the sum mer of 1909: the large amount of Im portant legislation, much of It upon the recommendation of President Taft enacted at the regular session of 1909-10. and the exceedingly small product of the "short session", so-called now coming to a close. The Interval between the last two sessions was marked by. the political upheaval registered at the general election of last November, which changed a large repubflcan majority Into a still larger democratic ma jority In the house of representatives; cut the republican majority in -the FOR NEGROUEIiERlf Killed Farm Manager Who Had in Some Difficulty Seriously Cut Wife NEWHEl'.r, H. C, Mareh 3. -An angry mob of Newbery, citizens is to night searching for Bam Hoozer, a negro, who this afternoon shot ond killed James Gilliam, a white man, of the Old Town neighborhood, follow ing a difficulty between Ollllam and two Women of Boozer's household in which the negresses were badly cut. A lynching Is feared If the negro is caught. Details are 'difficult to obtain but Ollllam was managing a ff.rm obout ten miles from Newbery. It Is staled he had been drinking and made an attack upon IJooxer'e houee, sorlousry cutting the negro's wife. Later Boozer secured a shotgun and, killed Gilliam. WASHINGTON. March 3. Fore cast: North Carolina, generally fair faturday and Sunday; light to mod- senate almost to the vanishing point. and Incidentally In striking changes in the senate personnel. ; The failure of this session to enact much Important legislation ha re sulted In the political certainty that the new, sixty -second, congress will be called almost immediately In traordlnary session and practically by reason of th strong desire of President Taft to secure action upon the - pending , reciprocity ' agreement with Canada to the consummation of which th contracting parties pledged the utmost efforts of the two govern- Majority In Discord. ,Jn strong contrast with the sup port which the Taft administration received from the republican ma jority In the matter of legislation In the regular session of tSOV-lQ Is the fact that at the present session trie majority has been anything but unit ed; tbe reciprocity agreement : was passed In the house by the aid of large proportion 0 democratic votes while in the acnate the rift In the majority between the Regulars" and the "Insurgents" has been an Impor tant factor in Its side tracking and In the consequent summoning of the extra session. To this division In the majority was largely due the dramatic feature of the previous long session the protracted and sensational conflict Inst spring which ended In material changes In the rule of the bouse generally Interpreted aa "the over throw of ' the speaker" and which after a bitter fight hinting msny hours and Including one all night struggle, stopped enly Just short of the unseating of Hpenke-r Cannpn. While the acrimony between regulars and Insurgents neither . began nor ended with the battle over ihe ruins, that was Its most conspicuous episode and there has beep lltllo peace be tween the factions In either house. In the senate the most sensatlon-al fntiture of this session was the un availing effort, In which the insur gents were most active, to unseat Wm. Lorlmer ns Junior senator from Illinois, on the ground of alleged bribery In connection with his elw- EI DECLARES SHE IS BLAO SHE HAD SHOT MUN Man Dying in Hospital At tempts to Protect Her From the Crime NEW YORK, March a. Less than an hour after she had shot and prob ably fatally wounded her alleged be trayer, Maria Adagnllo, 22 years old, was found by the police calmly cut lng a hearty supper at her home to night. She made no attempt, the po lice say, to deny that she shot Gul seppe Orsinl, who, she alleged, had betrayed her and married another.. "Yes, I shot him." the is said to have asserted over and over again. "I am glad of If, too, and I hope he dies." Th man was shot four times on a street ce-rner In th East Bide, where the girl had made nn appointment to meet him tonight. When brought to Ortsini's cot in tbe hospital the man denied the shot him, "No," Orsinl said, "she did not shoot me?" "If I didn't." replied the girl, "who did?" "Don't get yourself In wrong." Or sinl cautioned her, and fell back In semi-consciousness from th pain of his wounds. He has no chance of r tlon by th legislature of that stats lit the aprlng of lo. The ohW of (hat battle are still reverberating and ll bitterness adds friction to the clos ing hour of the senate session ' Another .Important recent action of the senate was he defeat of the resolution embodying - a propoaed amendment to the constitution of the United states to provide for th di rect election of. senators by the people, , , ,Thui resolution received mora than a majority of the senate but It need ed a two third vota -and fell abort by-nnjy fU ej-fad lite senate puJuind Itr the house almost certainly would haive done no, The friends of this proposition entertain little doubt that It will pass the next congress, and go to the states for ratification or da feat. Few Oncral Measure, ' The output of this session in the way of general measures consists chiefly of the appropriation bill and several of those have seemed in dan ger more than once in the tense situ ation of the past few days, when long hours passed away In filibustering on one aid or the other. 1 ' These are soma of th more Im portant measures, outside appropri ation bills that the final .session of this congress enacted into lawr: Providing for forest reserves In the southern Appalachian and Whits mountains. Providing for th : Inspection of boilers on locomotive., Providing for the purchase of er ruction of embassies, legations and consular buildings abroad. An ocean mull bill, passed th sen ate, but the house did not manifest enough liking for It to send It on to tho white house. Darren us the- final session may have been of fruitful legislation th republican leaders point to the pre reeding sessions as more fruitful. Tor the first or extra session they point to: The Payne-Aldrleh tariff act, with Its maximum and minimum features and corporation tax provisions, and (Continued on I'wgn Three-) AEPfiESENTftTIVE PERCY EXGQRIATED GOVERNOR Alabama's Governor Charg ed With Playing Small, Cheap Politics MONTGOMERY- Ala., Mareh 2. Representative Walker Percy, ,of Birmingham, excoriated Governor O'Neal In an Impassioned address of two hours In the house this after noon for his appointments lit LCbarg-' ej the governor with selfishness, lack of patriotism and fairness and "an abstruse Ignorance of the first princi ples of the appointing power." He accused the executive of trading the Appellate court appointment to get votes for his liquor bills, and fur violating bis word to the people of Alabama In appointing political friend without considering their ef ficiency. The governor's course was characterized as "pretty cheap' pret- j ty small, and ' pretty discreditable politic ' "BUCK lIAiI" IKrTKKS. EJUE, - Pa.. March v, 2. "Black hand" letter received by th family of Charles Htrong son-in-law of th late W. L. Hcott, whose mausoleum was desecrated by . vandals- a few week a sum of money said to be In th private detective to- work to ferret out tho perpetrators. Four nights this week a sumof money said to be in the thousunds laid In an old house on the Buffalo road guarded by deteet'y.-s in th hop th writers of the Majority and Minority Reports Filed and Then One by Democrats n Matter REPUBLICANS SPLIT , . IN MAKINO REPORT Was Alleged That Philippine Officers Let Sugar Trust Have Lands . WASHINGTON, March l. Threa report from the house committee on Insular affairs exonerate the officers ot the Philippine" Island ot all lr regulurltlvs or Improprieties .In th administration, sale or lease-, of th so-eallsd '"friar lands" - which th . Philippines Kovernment bought from th religious orders, These report follow an .exhaustive investigation into the charge of KopreHMitattv Martin of Colorado, to the rfct that th officers hitd wrongfully sold large, tracts of tho Friar land to th sugar trust In violation ot th law and had) been guilty of other Irregularities In regard to th ' friar land, f A ma jority and minority report on th part of th republican member of th commute were - submitted in th house todayi Chairman Olmatd ob tained permission for th democrat term their report ti morrow , Th majority Is signed by Chairman Olm ated and Representatives Crumpsck r(; Hamilton.- Fuller, - Graham, Par sons, McKnlay, Douglas and Forns. Th minority, report filed today j signed by, Madison, Hubbard and Da. vis. Th third report nt th commit tee submitted is expected to bear th signature of Messrs Jones . ot Vs., Page of N, C, Garrett, of Tsnn., Dsn vr of Ohio, Malm of Ky., and Cuck- mr of fotnniflo. - ,ki ' Advance intimations of th demo cratic report "a to th effect that Ilk the others, It will ahsolv th Philippine officials of.' intentional wrong jdoing end .concede that tltev acted within ,th. inuirpi-eiHtion of law laid down by th law officers by whose opinion they went bound to l guldodj but will hold that their ( I, on was in persuanc of a mistaken policy. It is said ts be th position of these members of th committee that th friar , lands , should, 1 hav been administered a . public ' lands under' th provisions of th organ la law of th Island and that en If .this view ot their legal statu be not sustained by the law, it Is neverthe less a mistaken policy to Mil tha land In- tract larger than those per. mltted d'" "nltation ffeclnj th publlo domain. ,, tl,B;.j.g; OF TOBEnSMnKI . of chiefj mm TCaUavAiI That. TTa TTa A tnn.- WWSSsrW V WW HMV W IsYsW PSIHW B ed for Crime by Long Up right Life ... HE IS TAKEN BACK ATLANTA. Ga.,' March 2 .Pres sure will b brouirht to bens nn flav ernor Drown to pardon Edgar atrip- ling, chief of pollc of Dan-vtlle, Va., who was a rested at Danvlll yetr' day and brought aa far a Atlanta, today on hi way to Harris county, Ga., to begin serving allf . servlc (or .killing , W. J. . Cornett 14 year go. Prominent citizen of Atlanta ar. lending tneir inttuano to. th move- -ment which was begun by friends of , Htrlpllng soon afler h arrived her In custody of officers at noon. Under the name of H E. Morris. 8 tripling ' has been chief of police at Danvlll ' for rive year and wss expecting to be re-elected for another term at meeting of the city council of Dan vlll tonight. Thos who" have Joined ' ihe movement tor a pardon for Mm - say his manner of life sine he e- -caped from Jail in Harris county soon ' after being convicted of th killing T tho crime and they express eonOdenc that the governor will grant the par don. -' ' ' : He Is being held In Jail her pend ing application for a pardon and action by. the : governor,',. ' f T.':- TKLLg or fmcht,';' EAGLE PA88. March 2 Lieut, K. T. KouIq! and Phillip C Farmalee. s viator representing th Wright Bros., landed at Kort Duncan at t.10 o'clock this afternoon after a continuous voy. ; ag In an army biplan from Fort Me- -In tosh at Laredo. , The time raqulmt to travel th intervening 100 miles, 1 hour and 10 minute, better all pre vious record for a eontlnuous cross country flight .lei a biplane with a pns enger. - ' - . Of th flight Lieut mulct..,. KM. "We left Laredo 'at e- ...iv 2 o'clock and came in ; ;, Hn pTOwlbln f- : Grande river ail t- sge hik-ht of 1 1 - . wrtlv l'if. v in'Trfed ti- fowf-r-t. . - e n e -'I... - - ..