THE AS CITIZEN THE WEATHER: ! FAIR. 11 end the Fonllrjr end Eft" Classified Ad. VOL. XXVIL NO. 140 ASHEVILLE, N. 0., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT GIVES REASON : FOR "MEXICAN INVASION" ry AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SAYS THATFIGHTING IN MEXICO MUST COME TO END WITHOUT DELAY President taftat Last With Movement of United States Troops to The Texas State Line. All Doubt as to Activity Swept Away, SOLID MILITARY WALL TO FORM ADROSS THE FRONTIER Hope to Stop Smuggling of Arms and Contra band into Mexico and Thus Bring Revolution WASHINGTON,. March 9. That the administra tion has decided to dissemble no longer its reason for the sudden and unprecedented movement of troop to the Mexican border is indicated by the following dis- paten received UUIlllt iroui lilt: sslo.il uum-spmunn jot The Associated Press who is accompanying Presi dent Tart on his journey, to Atlanta. rne aispaxcn, dated Charlottesville, Va., through which place the president's train passed to-night at 7.10 o'clock, is as follows: "All doubt as to the purpose of the government in sending 20.000 troops to the Mexican border has at last been swept away. The United States has deter mined that the revolution in the republic to the south must end. The American troops have been sent to form a solid military wall along the JRio Grande to stop filibustering and to Bmuffelins of arms and UUUUUarV, Jli lO UCIIC , . " "I l- 1 COntraDana supplies 'Ut on, me lnsuirecuoiiary muve , merit which has disturbed conditions generally for i nearly a year, without accomplishing anything like j the formation of a responsible independent govern- j: ment, will speedily como to Tuft SatiNflcd. President Taft on his way to At lanta and Augusta for a ten day' vacation, passed through here at 7.10 o'clock tonight. He appeared well satisfied with the situation. Ihere Is a general belief that the rapid movement of troops Into Texas nd Southern California will so speed ily accomplish It purpose that the net results in the end will consti tute a valuable lesson In quick mob ilization of an effective fighting force that will provve a revelation to the country at large, to the critics ofitunlty to answer criticism both in the army in particular" and a justl- j and out of congress, and that In flcatlon of 'the diplomatically worded j terpretatlon was put upon the move explam'lons that have been givlrn ment. out from official sources in Wash- - Public Aroused. lngton. There Is no longer reason There was little doubt in the minds of the American government was THREE U. 5. SAILORS MEET DEATH BY GAS ROUTE IN A NEW YORK CITY HOTEL Bodies Found Fully Dress ed in Boom Filled With Fumfls of Gas SAW FOREIGN SERVICE NEW YORK. March 9. Three sail ors from the United States armored cruiser Tennessee were found dead from gas in a room In the hotel Wash ington In Hoboken today. The gas jet in the room was turned on anl the gas" pouring from It but a gas heater In the room was lighted. One of the men was found on the floor fully dressed but the other two were undressed and in bed when the porter broke Into the room. The men registered as J. C. Wallin, J. Wadsworth and E. B. Bradley. Wallin was about 30 years of gae nd on the arm of his Jacket was a service stripe showing that he had done ten years duty In the navy. From papers In his pocket it would appear that he had seen service in Manila and China. Wadsworth was bout 26 ycara of age and Bradley 24 years. Two other sailors from the Tennes see were In another room of the hotel, but left before the death of their ship mates was discovered. These two reg istered ss L. Brady and T. W. Winn. COFFYN BREAKS HECORP AUGUSTA. Ga.. March . Frank Coffyti, in his, Wright biplane, made tho trip to Aiken, S. C. a distance of twenty-eight miles In thirty-one .minutes today. Removes All Cause For to a Close. see that there is no further men across the international ilia. rtiui iiuio Diui v v n. V 1 1 i? a close. ' the result either of unofficial rep resentations of. foreign governments regarding the situation In Mexico or the Intimation that several of the European powers were sounding each other as to the desirability of mak ing representations to the United States at an early date. At any rate the matter was put up to the ad ministration In such a' way as to call for the quickest sort of action. The necessity for this speed of mob ilization was seized upon by the war department as a Heaven-sent oppor 'Continued on Page Four) MEXICANS SEE NO CAUSE T OF UNITED STATES TROOPS President Taft's Message Said to Have Had Re assuring Effect MAKE STATEMENTS j NEW YORK, March 9. Senor Jose Limantour. the Mexican minister of I finance, continued his conferences on ! the Mexican situation at his hotei here today and maintained his attitude of optimism that he saw no unotward optimism that he saw no outward J events forshadowed In the rush of j United States troops to the border, j Others who called upon Senor IJ- mantour toaay were J J-. .Morgan, jr.. D. P.. Bennet, vice president of the National railways of Mexico; Cecil Greenfel. a member of the British parliament; Jacob H. Schiff, tlic banker, and Cloe. Nordenho a mining engineer and friend of vice president 1 Roman Carrall of" Mexico. Referring to President Taft's mes sage to President Dias last nifht Mr. I.lmantour said: "This communication will, I an sure, be reaasurlng to my government and should be to my people, who natural ly, have been .greatTy discouraged by the sensational statements which have been made by the press. It is Impossible for me to under stand why sensational developments should be expectei with the two .peo ple whose relations are so well de fined as those of Mexico and the United States are and who are living and for a Ions; time have lived as such good neighbors." Doubt in Connection E STATES RECEIVE THE INVITATIONS' Limited Number of Officers From AH States Asked to Join "Maneuvers" FINE TRIP MAPPED AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE Adjutants General Are Asked to Furnish Lists of The Available Officers WASHINGTON, March 9. The scene of activity in connection with the movement of troops to the Mexi can border has shifted to the long tins which they will occupy and of flclal Washington has become merely a place for the receipt of reports wards their places of rendesvous. Before leaving for Atlanta this aft ernoon President Taft had a pro trscted conference with Benor De la Barra, the Mexican ambassador, and assured him, as In a telegram he yesterday assured President 'Dl&s at Mexico City, that the Mexican gov ernment and people need have no concern as to the Intentions of the United States In this military demon stration, no matter what gossip there might be to the contrary. The am bassador declared himself more than satisfied with the president's assur ances. It was learned from official sources that there has been more or less dis cussion between the state department and representative of several Euro pean nations as to Internal conditions in Mexico, but it was said that this discussion had at no time taken pro portions of what the diplomatists ca)t "representations." , As to National Guard. The war department tonight made public the text of the telegram (Continued "n Prge I'onr) BODY OF N.C. PLANTER IS PASQUOTANK RIVER Wounds on Captain Gibbs' Body Indicate That He was Brutally Murdered POLICE HAVE A CLUE ELIZABETH CITY. N. C March The body of Captain Edward Gibbs. a prominent and wealthy planter of this county, who disappeared myste riously from his home early on the morning of February 17 was found floating In Pasquotank river this af ternoon. Gashes on the head, face and hands showed, that Gibbs had been murdered and that he had fought he roically for his life. There was no water In the hints and all the evi dence pointed to the fact that he had not drowned. Glbba had a small amount of money on his person and this was missing. The police claim to have a clue and It Is expected that the coroner's Inquest will develop a sen sation. Searching parties have scour ed the country unremittingly since since his disappearance, the military aiding, but -no trace was found of his movement until the body was dis covered today by a fisherman. CRISP GETS JOB AMERICUB, Oa., March Chas. Crisp, son of Former Speaker Crisp, of the national house of representa tives, today received a telegram from Champ, Clark, speaker-to-be of the house offering - him the place of house parliamentarian and clerk to the speaker. Judge Crisp Immediate ly accepted the appointment and was Instructed to report In Washington March 21 for-duty. GUARDSMEN OFTH SECOND DAY OF COMMERCIAL CONGRESS EMPHASIZES SOUTH'S OPPORTUNITIES Excellent Speeches Set Forth Facts and Figures Which go to Show That Fortune Knocks at Our Doors, Asking For Admittance. -A Notable Gathering of i " '.' Notable Men at Georgian-Capital. ATLANTA, Ga, March . Strict governmental regulation of all in dustrial combinations but, to attain that end, the making of laws which reforms and are 't not completed In the minds of demagogues plating to the clamor of Ignorant agitators and a mislead: minority of the peoie. was OT'tMUUfrr'fn'fr In his speech "before, Che Southern Commercial congress, now meetilng in Atlanta. '' ... The subject of the former presi dent's address was "The South s uu ligation In Statesmanship and Busi ness Endeavor." This was the first stop In the Col onel's great swing around the coun try .the 'Very last, according to his own declaration, he will . make. A crowd estimated at 8,000 rilled the armory and adjacent halls. Jtoowvcll Hncaks. Hpeaklng, as he said, as a "half Southerner," Colonel Roosevelt at tempted to show the way for that great prosperity and business awake ning the commercial congress has for Its object The gist of his remarks along this line .that purity Is in liv ing must reach 'to all parts of hu man endeavor political and business if th South shall reap the bene fits nature has bestowd and If the republic which he called the great est experiment of government Bhe world had seen was to stand and reach the Ideals of its founders. Combination of great capital, he I declared, was the natural outcome of j this day and age of great business, and also was the proper thing, pro- vldlng however, that the men. who N. IRE ANXIOUS TO MOVE Many Telegraph Their Wil lingness to Oo to the Mexican Frontier RALEIGH. N. , March 9. There are coming into Adjutant General Lelnr.ter, of North Carolina national guard, a number if telegrams from guard officers In various quarters of the state volunteering service In the event therels a call by the United States government for militia to par ticipate In the demonstration on the Mexican frontier. j Cain, .,EL P. Copeler, .High Point,, ICapt A. U Bulwilkje, Gastonla, IJeg- tenant York, Coleman, Rutherfordton, I Lieutenant, T. Ward Eshelman and ! Captain E. A. Siskins of Oolds- boro, have teletrnphed their tender I of service. All volunteers are being 'advised that the p-wlhlllty of a call ' on the North Carolina guard is very j remote, depending especially on nee. eseity to actually invade Mexico to es ! tabllsh order. WABHINOTp.V, March . North Carolina, generally fair Friday and probably Saturday somewhat warmer Friday moderate south winds, t Still on The Job. 0$). directed the affairs of those mam er to Influence politics and work harm to the man lit moderate cir cumstances. "I do not approve," he declared with vigorous ' gestures, "of certain forma of legislation directed against Industrial 1 combinations. But some leistoBBSSMsslrab' Person who trade with a merchant go to other merchants if he does wrong. Tradesmen refuse to deal with those who will not pay. When the merchants or these tradesmen control that which is necessary to comfort and combine In such a way that they can dictate what the peo ple shall pay, there Is only one thing which can call a halt ont that state of affairs that is the government. As to IUillroad. "The railroads occupy a peculiar position In- this regard. They are situated so that If you ship you must in many cases ship through them alone; If you travel you must travel on them. These have been fit ob jects of federal regulation. Ulti mately other groat aggregations of money will be regulated in the some way. Beware of those persons who unduly criticise wealth. liewsre of those who constantly launch tirades against the wickedness of one class of people. Beware of demagogues." The Colonel mentioned the ques tions asked him In Europe concern ing stories of political and business corruption In the United States snd declared fhey often were the sub ject of sneering mirth of those who predicted the fall df our scheme pf rule. ROOSEVELT SAYS NEGROES SHOULD SOLVE PROBLEM Tells Colored Audience at Atlanta That Black Man Can Solve Race Question ATLANTA, Ga., March 9. Theo dore Roosevelt delivered the first speech of what he has announced as his lajit speech-making tour, when he talked today to the colored popula tion of the city at the Central avenue Methodist church. The address was made at the solicitation of the offl ferj of Hie, church and tho building was peeked to the doors when Colo nel Roosevelt arrived. He was greet ed with a burst of cheering and his remarks were frequently Interrupted by renewed cpplsuse as he mad points which appealed to his hearers. The great need of technical educa tion among the negroes as move toward the solution of the race prob lem in the flouth was the keynote of the colonel's talk, He cited figures to show thst the vast majority of the population of Georgia wae engaged In agricultural pursuits but declared that between &0,000 and 800.009 of those were Illiterate and unklllful la borers, and aa such could not hope to better their condition or make themselves necessary to the white race, it was for this reason Colonel Roosevelt declared that he had taken such (rest Interest In the agricultural colleges n the Bouth, "It Is the common school not the high university," he sa4 "which Is the foundation pf Amsrlcan ttUwn Ulp. ... "Let this be a warning," he de clared, "if this colossal experiment In government la w stand, we must stand together, and develop evenly, and we must not fall short of hon esty and right" e, .. . .. ' He predicted Hhat the t'ss-teet de velopment" IW" flare yw would ' be In the South and called all to for get past dispute! and sectional strife. An ovation was tendered . John Temple Graves, editor of The New York American andev former At lantan, when he rose to speak on "The Promotive Power of the Sou thern Press," andi It was several minutes before he could proceed. He paid glowing tribute . to the Bou thern newspapers for their part in the upbuilding of the Bouth since the lays of the Clvvll war, Henry Gra dy, Patrick Walsh and other great editors of the past generation, he declared, set the example which has been followed by the more modern papers and which has resulted In placing Houthern newspapers In the forefront of Journalism of .today. Other speakers of the evening were Atherton Brownell, of New York. American director for the Brazilian commission of economic expansion, and Colonel U V. Tyson, of Knox vllle, Tenn. Tomorrow President Taft will re view the business forces of the Bouth at the morning session of the con gress. Delegations from each Sou thern state win present their state standards. LOCAL PHYSICIANS ARE E Drs. Minor and Dunn May Oo to International Con gress in Italy NEW YORK, March . Announce ment was made today at the head quarters of the National Association for the Ntudy and Prevention of Tu berculosis of the appointment of s special committee of one hundred members to represent America at the seventh triennial International con gress on tuberculosis, which Is to be held at. Rome, Italy, from Bept. ti to JO,-. ... ., Drs. W. L. Dunn and C. H. Minor, of Ashevllte, N. C.. have been ap pointed es members of the commit tee - In addition to the American com mittee of one hundred It Is expected that the federal government will send represents lives. The exhibition of social hygiene Is expected to be the greatest of Jle kind. Thirty countries are participating In the plans for the exhibition and congress. WIIX XFin.f TREATT, OTTAWA, Ont,. March . That the reciprocity agreement with the United States will be confirmed by parliament as soon ne t Is possible to reach a final vote was the decision reached by the liberal supporters of I he rovernment In a fauoua behind closed doors today, Btr Wilfrid tjiur. lev and the other members of the government were present, end t Is understood were heartily commended for the agreement made With the American authorities, , . GRUESOME TALES TELL OF Natives in Famine Districts Cut Down Llk Chaff Say Reports Received hunger and disease Claiming hundreds Cincinnati Chinese Relief Com mittee Sends One Thousand ' WASHINGTON, March I Mora gruesome stories of the horror ot the Chtneso famine reached the state department today from the consul general at Shanghai who sums, up conditions at the beginning of Feb ruary. One traveler reported pass Ing thirteen dead bodies in thirteen miles on the road. The missionaries tell of the native eating cakes mad of leaves and stem mixed with mil let chaff, which they buy with the al lowance rrom tna government or v three cents a piece. The tree had been stripped of bark which had been ' eaten lr, 4 Cochrane, an American Presbyterian missionary, declared that " In the Whole afflicted realnn there . were two minion starving people, jri one village of one hundred families one-third war dead of hunger and pestilence, flnow was 'fulling and' many were without proper shoiier of clothing. The missionaries have at- ' tacked the werk of relief with the greatest system and directness, The famllte In th province of Punchow,1 for Instance,, were divided into four '' classes and enumerated with thla r- ttltt''-:-r4VV.i':'' if '':--': V Thn ' who had pmty number: II, S: i those who eould enlst till harvest on wht - grin "'. v SQMIT; (hose Who r. 1 I but Would be In nm.a bvfore tu r4 of February, 15,I01, and those really destitute In need of immediate relief. I7,L - .,,'-(. On thousand dollars raised by the' Chinese relief oommlttee of the chain- ber of commerce of Cincinnati wag cabled to Shanghai today , by ' the American National nod Cross. : '- THIS STORY OFKIlllIifi Says She Shot Floyd in an Effort to Save Herself From Assault ' - WHITEVILLE, K. C March Mrs. Ilosa Hayes, on trial for th murder of -ilobert fiord, young medical student, took , the stand in her own behalf today and swore, that when she killed rtoyd h was making, a desperate effort to assault her In her own home. The 17-year-old wife was cool and collected and told here story without , hesitation, ,. Bhe swore simply that ah fired not once but r or. The state In closing It case to day Introduced letter from the de fendant to rioyd In which th wom an be rtsyed hsr love for the victim. It was shown also that Floyd wa engaged to a young lady of Charles ton, and following this line the pros, ecution endeavored to prove that it was the old story of a woman sqomed; that Mrs. Haye Setermlned that Ployd should die rather than mm anoiner woman snouia nave him. The explanation of Mr. Haye, was not concluded when court ad journed for the day. SNOW HILL FIRE ,4 DOES MUCH DAMAGE BVOW TTTLL. N.'C, March t.The entire district of this town wa swept out of existence by a fir which started early this morning In the store o J. 8. Hugss-r, a merchant. The town ha no fire fighting ap-. Prtu and the fire burned Itself out. :' Immediately after the fire Sugar wa arrested charged with Incendiarism. Circumstance point strongly to hi guilt. Wednesday ha took out ad ditional Insurance on a stock; already' over Insured, and after the fire hla room at the hotel wa found stock ed with good removed from hla store. Sugar earn here she months ago from Baltimore. Feeling against him la high. STOttV OV Bl'FFKIUNa, :- k XORPOUC. Va., March After a , night of terror, to be greeted br a, day : of sunshine and warmth, the II mem ber of the crew of the British steam, er Manchuria, stranded three mile below Uttte Island on the Virginia ' eeast refused to leave the vessel lodav '. and from the deck of the ship waved their hata to their- eight shipments, who last, night risked their Uvea tu the breeehe buoy la roaoh. h-e nn were pearly drowned by ! i high wave that beat s HORRORS OFGiESEFilflE

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