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'7TVT THE WEATHER: RAIN Complete Associated , Press Reports ; ,VOL- XXVn. NO. 174. ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY 'MQRNIKG. APRIL 13, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS; J s SPECULATIONS AS 10 THE DECISIONS Waiting. RECALLED FORTHE MAYOBflLTY RAGE Qj. Frazler Glenn Gracefully Ac cepts tne Verdict Rendered at the Polls Tuesday DEATH FOLLOWED E Successor to Late Senator Dol Hver Elected onlxty Seventh Ballot Thirteen Killed. Many Injured and Practically Two Towns Are Destroyed Generally Believed That Court Will Hold Great Corpora tions Unlawful tmr--..vwv- V "IT" 1 THE ASHE V1LLE PRIMARY WILL 1 DESTRUCTION YE5TERDAYGHQSEN NEWluWASENATOR STORM OFSUPREMEGOURT 0 JUDGE COCKE MAKES CALL FOR 2ND PRIMARY Race Between Present Judge and Junius G. Adams to be Fought Over Again There will be no Becond primary for the mayorallty race. J. Frazler Glenn last night informed The Clt lsen that he would not call a second primary. Mr. Glenn declared that among the reasons which prompted lilm to take this course waa a sin- care and earnest desire to promote harmony in the democratic ranks. He did not believe that, in view of Mr. Rankin's substantial lead, he would be Justified In calling another primary, There will be a second primary for police justice, however. Judge Cocke deciding that the close race between himself and Junius Q. Adams war ranted him In making the demand for a second trial. Last night J. Frazler Glenn's course was warmly commended and the excellent race he made, it Is thought, will stand htm In good stead in the years to come. The superlative interest shown in Tuesday's election when citizens of the democratic persuasion turned out In the rain to cast the biggest pn mary vote In the city's history, was naturally followed yesterday by a festival of talk; on the street. Some mourned, but a greater num ber rejoiced at .the result and credit and blame were freely bestowed The day : was further- enlivened by the formal call of Judge P. C. Cocke on the democratic 'executive com mittee for the calling of a second primary to decide the race between him and Junius G. Adams, who led by seven votes. When the second primary will be held will be decided today. ' Mr. Rankin Gains One. It was ascertained yesterday that "JO". " ftnkln was 'entitled to a cor rection of the "third precinct returns ' Which gave him one more vote and makes his total vote in the city Til, or exactly the same as the combined votes of his opponents. This gives him half the total vote cast. . The failure to credit Mr. Rankin with this vote was due to an over sight by the third precinct judges. In counting out these gentlemen came across a ballot Iwhlch was marked only for mayor, Mr. Rankin being the choice. Some one sug gested that the ballot waa defective and should not be counted, .while (Con tinned on page Ave.) THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE TO 'Johson Park" as Chil dren's Playground, - Memorial to Him TLAGS AT HALF MAST CLEVELAND, O., April 12. Brav ing the chilly winds and drizzling rain an Immense throng of people, estimated at from IB. 000 to 20,000 paid silent tribute to the memory of Tom L. Johnson, as his body was conveyed from the family apart ments In the Knickerbocker on Euclid avenue to the Union depot late today. The train bearing the funeral party departed at 6.10 p. m.. and will arrive in New York at 9.11 o'clock ThuVsday morning. The Rev. Harris R. Cooley, a life long friend of Mr. Johnson, officiat ed at the brief funeral services In the family apartment this afternoon. Flags at half mast floated from buildings, and in store windows pic I tures of the former mayor were dis played draped In black and the stars and stripes. For five minutes, dur ing which the cortage passed the city hall, w here Mr. Johnson had so long presided, most of the stores in the down town district suspended busi ness. The courts were also adjourn ed and municipal work generally was suspended Hundreds of floral tributes were j received at the Johnson apartments ; from far and near. ! The movement for a memorial was i given further Impetus when at a . a new city piaygrouna to De Known as "Johnson Park," were discussed. FELL INTO BOILING SOAP W1XSTOV-SALEM, N. C, April 12. : While playing with other children In the yard of her parents' home near Friendship Baptist church, Stokes county, yesterday Gertie Har grove, aged 3 2, stumbled and fell into a kettle, containing boiling lye soap, sustaining burns from which she died early today. TUMULTUOUS SCENES AT END OF DEADLOCK Result Yesterday Followed Hardest Senatorial Contest Ever Waged In Iowa DES MOINES. Iowa, April 12. The deadlock In the Iowa legislature end ed this afternoon shortly before 1 o'clock when Judge Wm. R Kenyon of Fort Dodge was elected United States senator to succeed the late Sen ator Jonathan P. Dolllver after per haps the hardest senatorial, contest ever fought' in Iowa. The election came with the 6 7th ballot and was at tended by tumultous scenes in which Kenyon adherents displayed their en thusiasm by throwing books and pa pers about the legislative hall. Change Came Suddenly On the second ballot of the day victory was brought to Judge Ken yon, when Senator Chapman of Cedar Rapids and Representative Van Camp of Adair who had been consis tent supporters of Justice Horace E. Deemer, changed their votes. Then came other changes In quick succes sion and when the ballot was count ed It stood 85 for Kenyon to 1 for Deemer, and El for Claude R. Por ter, democrat. As the hour for the first joint bal lot of the day approached, it was evi dent that a determined effort to end the deadlock was to be made by friends of Judge Kenyon. The first roll call resulted In a vote of 7 for Kenyon, 28 for Deemer and El for Porter. Senator Saunders Immediate ly asked for and obtained a second ballot. During the count It was seen that no change had been effected and It was then that Senator Chapman said that In view of the possibility of the legislature adjourning In a deadlock he would go over to the Kenyon sdeu Representative Van Camp immediately followed. - Hit' vote waa enough to -e loaa -i. Kenyon had T8 votes, the required ' n urn ben.' No sooner had Van Camp uttered the word Kenyon than the members broke Into pandemonium. Carper of New Senator Judge Kenyon was born In Elyrla, Ohio, on June 10. 189, and finished his education at Grinnell, Iowa. He was admitted to the bar and shortly after was elected public prosecutor of Webster county, Iowa. He was judge of the Eleventh Iowa judicial district until 1903. In 1907 he was made general counsel of the Illinois Central railroad. He was appointed to represent the attorney general of the T. 8., March 1910 at Fort Dodge. Iowa. His home It' POLL TIKES MUST BE By Decision Schools Will Gain About $4,00,000 as Legislature Intended PRECEDENT CHANGED RALEIGH, N. C. April 12. The North Carolina Supreme court in a lengthy opinion reverses the lower court, and the Supeme eourt prece dent established in Russell vs. Ayer In 1887. and decrees that State Au ditor Wood shall advance the state poll tax from 1.29 to 1.3 5 to main tain the three to one parity between property and poll tax required by the constitution, instead of setting aside the tax levies of the 1911 revenue act and levying the old 1909 proper ty and poll tax, thereby cutting the public schools out of the sum of $460,000 for the next two years, the ruling Just made saving the schools fully this amount The court holds that the constitution is mandatory and self-executing as to equaaatlon of property and poll, leaving nothing to the discretion of a law making power, and the property tax being standard of equasatlon. There Is no good reason, the court declares, why the tax offlflcers shall not observe the plain letter of the constitution and ad just this rate. The court directs the i8.uance of a ueremptory mandamus M prave(1 by Governor Kltchln, against the state auditor. TnJ gupr(,me court delivered opin. ,on(, , flftMI appeauj th afternoon Wilcox vs. Durham and Charlotte Railroad Co,, Moore, no error, Sand ling vs. Kearney, Franklin, costs di vided. Wildes vs, Nelson, Wake no error, Thompson vs Jernlgan, Har nett, affirmed. Wolf vs, Seaboard Air Line railway, Anson, no error, Wiggins vs. Seaboard Air Line rail way. Durham, affirmed. Morality vs. Durham Traction company, Dur ham, no error, Lane vs. North C'aro- (Continued n Paga Jt'OfA KANSAS SUFFERED HEAVIEST DAMAGE Scores or Buildings Fell Before Fury of Tornado Sweeping Over Country A heavy wind storm, attaining the velocity of a tornado In some sections, and accompanied by rain, hall and lightning.' swept over Western Misso ri, Kansas and Oklahoma yesterday killing thirteen persons, practically destroying two towns. Injuring almost a hundred persons, wrecking scores of buildings and putting almost every telephone and telegraph wire In the territory out of commission. The tornado levied its greatest toll of death at Big Heart, Okla.. where eight persons were killed, ten injured and almost every building In the town wrecked. Whiting, Kansas, was prac tically wiped off the map. Sixty buildings being blown down, thirty people, hurt and one, Mrs. David Stone, killed. At Powhatan, Kansas, a woman and child were killed. A high school building was wrecked at Eskrldge, Kansas, a number of houses damaged and one to ten persons Injured. At Hlwatha. Kansas, a school was blown down and a boy named Fel ton killed. Several buildings were struck by lightning. Several per sons are known to have- been hurt at Netawaka, Kansas. A boy was killed at Manvllle, Kan sas. The Kansas end of the tornado started near Whiting and swept in a southeasterly direction for a distance of more than E0 miles. It Is thought that many more people were killed and injured than have been report ed at this time. DEATH AND DKSTRCCTIOK TOPBKA, Kan.. April ' it-A tor ao travelling In, a. south essUrK ftuiflnn' destroyed the town ef Whit- frtnon destroyed the town of Whit Inf. 25 miles north of Topeka, !a,te this afternoon. Sixty houses were blown down and thirty persons In jured. Meagre reports received here tonight Indicate that the town of Powhatan, Netawaka and Eskrldge were struck by the same storm. Wires are down and particulars are hard to get.. Eskrldge Is about 25 miles south of Topeka. The storm struck there shortly before o'clock. The high school building was blown down and twenty students were Injured. A woman and child were killed at (Contlntird on Vtutn Thrc DEMOCRATS ARE GIVEN A BETTER REPRESENTATION ON SENATE COMMITTEES si, r - On All Importantolutniit tees Winority Party is Given More Members NUMBERS i CHANGED WASHINGTON, April 12 Both the republican and democratic com mittees appointed to arrange the sen ate committee assignments for the present congress' began business In earnest today by holding separate meetings and taking up the prelimi nary details of the work. In the readjustment of commit tees, arranged by Senators Oallln ger and Martin In behalf of the two parties, the committee on agriculture has been Increased from. 19 to If members, the democratic membership being enlarged from five to seven and republloans from I to 9, The appro priations committee Is Increased from II to 17, the republican representa tion being made 10 Instead of JSS and the democratic 7 instead of (, The commerce committee member ship continues 17i but one members Is taken from the republican column and transferred to the -'democratic, giving the democrats 7 Instead of 6, Finance and foreign affairs are each Increased from H to It members with the deraocratio representation being enlarged from i to In each case. Interstate commerce jumps from. II to 14 members, the democrats in creasing, from 5' to 7 and the repub licans from S to T, The Judiciary committee (a Increased from 16 tq II, the democrats getting the additional members, making their representa tion 7, The naval pommlttee which is now composed of only 11 mem bersseven republicans and. four democrats will have 14 . the demo crats en the postoffice rentmittee, the will be seven Instead of Ave demo crats on the postolTre committee, the republican deputation of t being un changed, WITHIN A WEEK RECIPROCITY TREATY WILL PASS HOUSE AND GO TO SENATE Underwood Will Call Up Bill Tomorrow and Debate Passby Large Majority. Following Passage of Proposed WASHINGTON. April 12. When the Canadian reciprocity bill Is call ed up Friday by Chairman under wood of the ways and means com mittee, there Will be ho great effort made to limit debate unless the mi nority should demand an unreason able time. Probably not more than four days debate at the most will be given and It ! WIU be, passed by a large majority In the house and sent to the senate within a iwsek. There will be no amendments offered from the democratic fide. fitM'tr Mt fau'te'east It ajtuthe--psng - ..... , w,n . t. - . of the reciprocity hill R also a cau cus measure and cannot be amended by the party In charge of ft. Under the new rule adopted by the 62nd congress nogeneral tariff amendments can be offered by the minority, he cause each amendment must be ger mane to some particular In the bill. Considerable debate is expected on this bill but the democratic leaders expect that both caucus measures will be ready for the senate within the week. . Would "ot Affect Berenure The articles designated by this bill for the free list would make a dif ference compared with the present duties and revenue of less than a mil lion and a half dollars. Both the Cans'llBn reciprocity bill, TO STOP USTJHEO MEN j Secretary of Navy Suggests That States Pass Laws Upon This Subject WASHINGTON, April 12. As an other step in the National govern ment's efforts to eliminate discrimin ation against the wearers of the ser vice uniforms of the United States, Acting Secretary of the Navy Wln throp today called to the attention of the governors of the Atlantlo and Pa cific states recent legislation of con gress and the Ithode Island legisla ture. Congress has made It a mlsde- meanor for the proprietor or mana- ger of a place of amusement In the District of Columbia or the terrltu- ! rles to discriminate against any man i because he wears the uniform of the army, navy or marine corps. 'i ne Rhode Island law Is of similar Im port, Mr, Wlntlirop suggested that the navy department would be grat ified If laws along these lines tould he secured in the coast states so of ten visited by the navy and marine corps, WARRANTO ARE HKRVKD NORFOLK, Va doxen Indictments April against 1!. One persons ' connected with the. Jamestown Jocky club race track were served today by Norfolk county officials. WASHINGTON, April. 'l2 Pore- cast: . North Carolina, rain Thursday, slightly warmer In Interior,' f rjdaf fair, srT"Tj bf lak fast wUgg, . ill SHOWERS Free List Win be in Order following the Identical lines of the McCall bill passed last session ex cept for a cuase authorising the president to continue negotiation! for reciprocity with Canada on articles not covered by the pending agree ment, and a bill to put on the tree list about 100 articles now dutiable under the general tariff were Intro duced by Mr. Underwood today. Both were referred to the ways and meant commute and will received early consideration, . : ; , rit iw-wtti The free list bill Is designed to' placate the farmers for agricultural losses which they feel they will sus tain under the Canadian agreement, but It contains also some foodstuffs and hoots and shoes. The list In cludes many agricultural Implements, cotton gins, bagging for cotton gunny cloth and all similar fabrics, bur laps and bags or sacks for sacking agricultural products, hoop or band Iron, or hoop and hand steel, of all descriptions, for bsllng cotton or any other commodity; leather goods, wire, beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork, and meats of all kinds, fresh, salt, pickled, dried, smoked, dressed or undressed, preserved or prepsred In any man ner, bacon, hams, laid, shoulders. compound and Isrd substitutes; snd FORMER SLAVE WORKED GAME OraPATHETIC Told Pitiful Story of Death of Son and Obtained Mon ey From Creditors. SPARTANBURG, 8. C, April 12. John Coleman, a former slave, with several aliases, was brought to Spar tanburg from Winchester, Ky., by Sheriff W. J. White tonight to stand trial on charge of obtaining money under false pretense. He victimised Mr. C. P. Banders, local counsel for the Southern railway to the extent of e)fi6 by playing on' his sympathy with a false story about the death of his son In a street car accident In Halelgh, N. C. Ito is known to have worked the same swindle on the city attorney end Judg Hoatwrlght of Cordele, fla., C. H. Moffet of Winchester, and an attorney at Howling flreen. Ky, KIDVAl'I'KltH IX JAIIi LAS VKOAH, April 12. Will Rog ers, confessed kidnapper of his lit tle nephew, Waldo Rogers, and Joe Wiggins, the es-convlct through whoae arrest and confession Rogers wart apprehended, are lodged In the territorial penitentiary at Santa Fe tonight. Rogers and Wiggins were arrested today, waived preliminary examlnatiun and are held to await action c the grand Jury. Wiggins pleaded guilty but lingers entered a tilea of not guilty In spite of nisi written confession made last night. The prisoners were removed to Santa Fe to prevent possible violence by the citizens of Las Yea": THHKK FIGHTS MOJiOAY SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 12. Three fyghts between insurrectos and federals pecurrtd Monday south pf Cludad Pornrlo Olaz In the first of which four federals and two Insur rectos were killed Reports say that the ptber two flghts were attended with heavier casualties than the Artist. This 1s (he r-porj brought tq San Antonio by Jose Ordonez, a courier with messages to Ion Francisco Jus- . : . ... - Will Not be Limited. Reciprocity Measure -Will in House sausage and saussge, meats; buck wheat flour, and rye flour,- brand, middlings and other offals of grain, oatmeal snd rolled oats, and all pre pared cereal foods, biscuits, bread, etc., virions kinds of timber, exoept boards, planks, deal and other lum ber of lignum viteev lancewood, bony, box, gransdllla, mahogany, rosewood.' satlnwood and air other cabinet woods, sewing machine! and alt, "-v - . , rim'ATiasr iMrnovED . 'OTTAWA Ont., pr 1l, The position of reciprocity In the Cana dlan parliament probably greatly Im proved by the decision of congress to deal with It before taking up oth er questions on the extenslvs pro gram of the democratic lesders, said a member of the government. "I expect ta see parliament rati fy the agreement soon after the Eas ter recess which ends on the lth." Parliament adjourned today for a week's recess, covering the Easter holidays. FROM IXNIOV TO PARI 8 I88T LEU MOULINEAUX. France. April 12. Pierre Prler, the aviator today made a successful flight In a monoplane from Hendon, a town six miles from London to this place. T SHOT SELFJiOIICH HEAD A. C. Hutchison for Un known Cause Committed Suicide in Lynchburg LYNCHBURG, Va.. April 12. A C. Hutchison, of Charlotte, president and treasurer of the Alta Vista, Va, cotton mills at Alta Vista, a short distance Mouth of Lynchburg, shot himself through his head todsy, death being Instsntaneous. A coro ner's Inquest returned a verdict of suicide but the evidence threw no light on the causes leading to the set. The company which was form ed last year with 1200,000 capitali sation ran out of funds, but Mr. Hutchison announced last week that sufficient money had been secured to finish the plant and put It Into operation. The body was taken tonight to Charlotte for burial. PKOMIWKNT I CHARLOTTH CHARLOTTB, N. C, April 12.-A. C. Hutchison came to Charlotte In IKU and has elftce made this city his home. Kor years ha was sec retary and treasurer of the Victor Cotton mills, but after Its reorgani zation ha went Into the cotton yarn commission business, being local rep resentative, of James K. Mitchell A Co., of Philadelphia. Recently he became the moving spirit In the pro motion of the Alta Vista mill, which he carried to completion. Ho is sur vived by a widow and four chil dren, a mother and sister at. Green ville, H. C, a brother in this state "and another brother, John W, Hutch ison In Norfolk, Va. He was promi nent here socially and In the busi ness world, HEW MIxfflTKKS NAMED WASHINGTON, April 11. Presi dent Taft will send to the senate to morrow, the nomination of former governor Curtis Guild, Jr., of Mass achusetts a ambassador to Russia and W, W, RockhlH as embassador to Turkey. 1 Mr. BackhlU 1 at prea ent aubafadar Va Ruwta, DECISIONS TO AFFECT NUMBER OF COMPANIES North Carolina Is Particularly, Interested as to Fata of ' Tobacco Company ;' V f , Clilscn Itutrau,' - lUiurres Hall. (By II, K. C, Hryaul). WASHINGTON, April 1J. Tha ' Supreme court Is taking its time on the famous trust jcaao. It Is .be- ; lleved here, in congressional and official circles generally that the court will hold that the present bus Inesa combinations, under which the Btnadard Oil and the American To baoro companies operate; are- un lawful under the Sherman anti-trust act, and that, while the two mon strous organisations must fall, the capital Invested - must he carefully . protected and safeguarded. In other words, the dissolution of the com bines must not ' mean destruction, and the Interpretation of - the anti trust law check to legitimate bus Iness, ,,t , ',.,'' i f t 1 , ' This, however, Is speculation, for no one outside of the court khowe what the decision will be. The busi ness world, especially that e portion of it that lies in the eastern tlon of the United States , is Intense ly interested In - thceo cases, which ' ar test asesv 'More than two hun- . dred companies are founded upon the same basts and system of the Stan dard Oil and American Tobacco companies. The uomblned capital totals about ItOO.OOD.OOO.v, The lire of all of the kindred organizations is at stake. The companies moilelud after the two under trial represent a tapHui stock of about ,ooo,oon. 000. Business conditions, it Is said, can not settle until : . the Supreme court has passed upon' these cases. . These suits are markers. ' None Of lists)-character haa been pro-.uted. n any court. The two. grea.ust bus iness s) stems 1 knowu.Aar - trial. Greef lawyers have argued the case. covering every point and contesting every Inch of ground. The evidence taken fills, 85 large "volumes. The Standard OH and the Ameri can Tobacco companies have under their protection, allied In One way or , another, more titan 200 corporations ind joint partnership, These, with crbout 100 others, will be affected by the ruling of the eourt. If the de cision affirms the drastlo interpreta tion of the anti-trust law pressed by the prosecuting attorney every on of those companies will be rased, but ! very few expect any such result, ' The government contend that the-companies "are combinations In restraint of Interstate trade and commerce. , It is argued that under "hreeent eon- dltions, brought about by the corn blnation of capital and methods used : by the defendant , companies, Inde pendent competition is Impossible, This domination of business, It I contended, was made possible , by criminal conspiracy, - The purpose of the prosecution is to dissolve the combinations Into jthelr cofenponent parts, and force competition. - Hockofellcr Personality. Two masterful personalities tower high In these monster corporations. John D. MoekefoHer head the - all company and J. B. Duke, the to bacco company. With a capital stock of 14,000 the Rockefeller leystem system stsrted In Cleveland .Ohio, In '' 1SI2. The Duke organisation origi nated at Durham, North Carolina, . assuming big proportion in , Hit, (Continued on Page FVwr.) COTTON BILLS OF LADING CONTROVERSY IUIAY HAVE LSOLUTI Proposed to Have Central Office or Clearing House in New York City ENDS LONG FRICTION NEW YORK, April li--The stb , llahment of a "central office" or , clearing house In this olty I tha la-1 test plan evolved a a mean of - j . tllng the Ion existing ' difference ' over bills ef lading between American -" shippers and European buyer of raw cotton. Representative ;. of the ubeom- ; mlttee of the bills of lading commit tee of the America Banker assect-,. w ation held a protracted meeting here with trafno agents of the Southeast- em and southwestern railroad and; with Europeen Interest ss represent ed by a member of . the Liverpool bills of lading cotton conference. The -plan adopted was proposed, accord ing ot report, br Liverpool cotton buyers. Local bankers are of the Opinion that Its acceptance will point te a denntt wsy out of existing dlf- ' (Continued a Taja 1 our)
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