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THE ASHBVI CITIZEN. ! THE WE jfHER: RAIft Complete Associated Press Reports PS VOL. XXVIL NO. 189 ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 2 8, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS K CHAKGEMOrJEYWAS U5EDT0 SWINB BIG CONTRACT FQRARMY Representative Gardner Calls on Secretary of War for ' Certain Information CLAIM COMPETITORS WERE LEFT IN COLD Asserted That One Shoe Firm Has Cinch in Letting of Big Contracts WASHINGTON, April 27. A sen sation wu sprung m the house today when Representative Gardner, of Massachusetts, introduced resolutions of Inquiry In response to a charge by Kepuresentutlve Dlfenderfer. of Penn ylvanla, that money and influence Were being used to give an eastern manufacturing concern a monopoly in thq contracts for shoes for the army and navy. Mr. Dlfenderfer said he could prove his assertion, and as a result Mr. Gardner called upon the secretary of war and secretary of the navy for all possible Information concerning the shoe contracts. Mr. Dlfenderfer interrupted Mr. Gardner In his speeech on the free list bill yesterday while discussing government contract prices for army shoes. Frozen Out, "Is not a fact," he asked, "that Herman Company, of Boston, ab solutely control after freezing out every other competitor In the United States the manufacture of shoes for the army and navy of the United States?" Mr. Gardner replied that he had never heard of such a firm. "I shall be at liberty then in the near future," said Mr. Dlfenderfer In response, "to show to the gentleman that they have absolute control of the shoe manu factured in the country for the army and navy, and that they have frozen ut competitors that 1 know of who ve lost out and today are bankrupt Vwfwing to the fact 'that this firm of Herman 4 Company have used their influence with the government rep - teeentattve of the' Unite tate or those in control of the government of ;.the United States have used their in fitlence to freese out competitors and have placed them on the black list, so to speak and have even gone bo far as to give money bo that other Arms may not be competitors after freezing them out" PERCE AGREEMENT MUST BE ACCEPTED BIT fill TD INSUREJlTlATi Chiefs From Other States Than Chihuahua Must be Consulted in Matter ON AMERICAN SIDE NEW ORLEANS, La., April 27. Mexican peace In Mexico cannot be assured for any length of time 'until a definite agreement is drafted sat isfactory not only to those revolu tionists directly controlled by Fran cisco I. Madero In the state of Chi huahua but to the rebel factions In the western, central and southern parts of the republic. This was the substance of a statement issued today by Dr. Vasques Gomes, diplomatic agent of the revolutionists In the United States as he stopped here en route to the camp of Madero, near Juarex, Mexico. Senor Pino 8uares, provisional gov ernor of the state of Yucatan, who joined Dr. Gomez on his Journey to Juares, seconded the letter's views. Tomorrow they will meet Senor Car ranza, provisional governor of Coa hulla, now at San Antonla, Tex., and will obtain his ideas on peace condi tions for presentation to Madero. Dr. Gomez was a bit disturbed by re- orts that some peace conditions al- eady had been agreed upon for he eared from other states of the rebel lion might possibly be regretted by the latter and result in a continual condition of Insurrection. Dr. Gomes reiterated his prefer ence for Laredo, Tex., as the meeting place for the peace envoys, though he declared any neutral point not far from the camps ot either side would r suitable. He added, however, that if peace conditions were hastily ar ranged at Juares, Mexico, revolution Ms In the central and southern parts of the country might refuse to accept them. BCsnrEss mew dibocss plot INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 27. The alleged dynamite conspiracy found In this city was discussed at a closed meeting of bankers, manufac turers and business men at the board of trade lata today. FLAGS pr TRUCE WAVING CHIHUAHUA, April 27. News of the message to the military authorities s as pen ding hostilities spread rapidly DECLARES THAT JAP TREATY WITH MEX. WAS ACTUAL FACT A merican Traveler From Chihuahua Says Survey of Magdalena Bay Was Made by Japanese Some Time Ago. SAN ANTONIO, April 27. "The Japanese have made most complete surveys and soundings of Magdalena bay. Further, they have mapped the entire region between Chihuahua City and the Pacific coast, and know the best routes through the mountains. These statements made by yin American business man of Chihua hua City bear out recent' telegraphic advices to the same effect The American ,who was In the city yes terday, would not authorise the use of his name In connection with an interview, because he Intended to re turn to Chihuahua, but he was ab soiutly certain whereof he spoke. "Ninety Japs were employed by a lumber firm at Madera, Chi., said the American business man. "One day thoy - picked op bag and baa gage and disappeared toward the west, carrying with them exact maps of the entire region." The next heard of them - was when they joined the Japanese training ship in Magdalena bay. At the same time, the infor mation went from mouth to mouth that the training ship had surveyors of Magdalena by even more exact than those In possession of the Mex ican government. No one in Wes tern Mexico doubts this statement Tentative Treaty Existed. "It is no secret among the Ameri cans of Mexico that there apparently existed an entente cordlale between Mexico and Japan whereby Mada lena bay would be turned over to the Japs under the guise of a com mercial steamship company. Since the light of publicity has been shed on the situation, however, It Is quite on the cards for both Mexico and Japan to disown any such intention as has been done. I, for one, am sure that Mexico would give Magda lena bay to the United States if the present insurrection Is quelled by the aid of the United States, or through Its friendly offices. "But whatever arises in the future, the recent past history appears to be well known. Any American from western Mexico, especially In the in land region-, from Magdalena bay, wilj felt "Sou. of" Hordes of Japs who have swarmed the country in the guise of laborers, mapping, spying, gathering data of all kinds bearing on the topo graphy of the country. The most of these have disappeared gone, we be--lleve, back to Japan. The Japanese menace Is an actuality which must bo confronted." TO LEAVE TRAIN AND HIS Mere Boy With Thirty Men Stood Off Band of Four Hundred Rebels ONLY TWO NOT KILLED MEXICO CITY, April 27. Re fusing to surrender or to leave the train on which he and his command of thirty soldiers were being brought to the capital, a second lieutenant little more than a boy, -e(erday engaged in a battle with a force of 400 rebels at Cajones, Guerrero. At the conclusion ot the brief encoun ter the lieutenant and 2 of the sollders were dead and the remain der of his men were prisoners. One of the arms of the lieutenant was shot away. The rebels were under command of Prudenclo Glguero. Learning that troops were being carried on the Cuernavaca division of the National railway, the rebel leader marched to Cajones, some distance from Cuer navaca. When the train stopped he sent forward a messenger to demand the surrender of the troops and a request that If they would not sur render to abandon the train In order that the lives of the passengers be !, f? . mh from1,1.the! i,ivrvi V. f fcll BIllCBi m minus. r tralnlng school, the boyish officer sent back word that he had his or ders to continue on that train. Lit tle time was lost In beginning the fight. The rebels poured down the embankment on either side of the train and the shooting was begun by both sides. Passengers who had been implor ing the young officer to yield, were in a panic. The cries of women and children were heard in the rattle of the rifles and the shots from the rebels raked the side of the train. Many bullets entered the coaches occupied by passengers. Only one, however, did any passenger damage. That one killed Luis Bustaments. a civil engineer, on his way to the capital to be married. FEZ CANNOT HOLD OUT LONDON. April 27. No confirma tion of Captain Bremond's death has reached London. A special wireless mesage from Rabat to Tangier yes terday said that Fes could not hold but more, than, eight daya and an- nonced the starting of the first de tachment of a French flying column, 2J f " """Vfq lr'Vjuij j.u.jm Terra xa Family Gone. This American says that the entire Terrasaa family has left Chihuahua probably never to return. He also states that Ramon Corral is so thor oughly hated in the section of Mexi co that ha would be roughly treated If he ever ventured there. "The huge herd of cattle belong ing to the Terrasas family, and which grased between Chihuahua and Ju ares, has been entirely killed off," said he. 'Taxes have been sharply reduced since the old federal gover nor and his adherents lost out and the people are becoming slightly more satisfied. Merchants of Chihuahua are selling goods to either side In the present scrap and both sides ap pear to have money." Americans In general, says, this Informant, believe that the peaceful occupation of a part of Mexico by the American troofft appears to be the only settlement of the present trouble. If the revolution Is settled without intervention ,he says that Is the fear of intervention which will do it. In the northern states of Nuevo' Leon, Coahulla, Chihuahua. Senora and possibly Tamaullpas, he believes that stability would be Im mensely assured by the presence of American troops. MOTHER AND SEVEN CHILDREN BURNED ROANOKE, Va., April 27. Mrs. J. II. Nunn and seven children, ranging In age from grown up to an infant, were burned to death In a Are which destroyed their home in Southwest Roanoke at 1:15 this morning. Three of the total of ten children escaped by leaping from windows. Mrs. Nunn was a widow, her husband having died a year ago. The dead: Mrs. J. H. Nunn, George, 22; Staf ford, 12; Dtllard, 11; Lucille, ; Helen, . s ' Another child under .8, name un known. One body of a child not yet re moved from the building. From the scant details obtainable it appears that very little property damage resulted from the blaze. which was soon extinguished after the arrival of the tire department DEFENSE IS PREPARING TO TURN EIRE UPON OTTO L'l Attorney for Labor Leaders Gets Statement from Man Saying There is None BUT THERE IS LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 27. The defense of the alleged dynamite conspirators will be conducted hence forth on the theory that there Is a Harry Orchard problem to be dealt 1th. This was the statement made tonight by counsel for John J. McNa man. secretary of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers association and his brother, James, who are charged with complicity In the Times explosion. The two McNamaraa are now the only clients of the attorneys retained by labor organizations and their legal fire will be turned on Ortle McMan- Igle, the man arrested as a fellow conspirator. McManlgle. about whose alleged confession much has been said, was examined for three hours today by District Attorney Fredericks, Attorney O. N. Hilton, chief counsel of the Western Federation of Miners, who said that he was convinced that McManlgle made sworn statements today, purporting to fix the guilt of the Times explosion and other dyna mite outrages. "I knew that there was to be a confession, said Hilton, as aeon as I talked with McManlgle. He said he would not engage an attorney until he had seen Burns, the man who ar rested him, then in the presence of competent witnesses, I asked Mc Manlgle the direct question, whether he had ever made a purport confes sion or expected to make one. He answered that he had not and would not Twenty minutes later he was in the district attorney's office. I made it a point to see McManlgle first Now. Is an alleged confession Is presented In court, we will be In a position to present the jury a denial." AGED MINISTER PASSES WILMINGTON. N. C. April 27. Rev. Archibald McFayden, for ' more than SO years in the Presbyterian ministry, with the exception of four years spent In the Confederate army aa a lieutenant la the fifth North Ca rolina cavalry, died today at Clarkton, N. C. aged 75 years. He was a Ba ttu., nt FsveHwtlU V.if,. mm mmtmm m i . S;' PRESIDENT TAFT TELLS PUBLISHERS RECIPROCITY WILL HELP . : ... ...... He Deplores the Persistent to Deceive Farmers With Statements That Reciprocity Will t he Injurious to Their Interests. ' ! NEW YORK, April i7.-RclprocUy with Canada must be, adpeted now or never and must stand or fall by Its own terms. So ' declared President Taft in an addreea at the Waldorf As toria tonight at the fourth annual joint banquet of the Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publish ers' association. .-;'f His address was tha Ant of a series In which he plana to evoke public sentiment In support of his pollutes, and he appealed to the oompany of editors and newspaper owners gath ered from all part of ha land,-''to Impress In the public mind that rer ctprodty should eiawt alone .anJ bugbf ' hot to- Tie" iiSteetedTlft' anJT re gard by any other amnedments to the tariff law. DIhciumts Reciprocity President Tart devoted most of his address to the Canadian reciprocity agreement. The president contended that the reason why meats were not put upon the frne list was because Canada felt that the "competition of our packers would Injuriously effect the products of their packing houses." "If that be true." he asked, "how should It help our consumer or lower the price of meat In our market. If we let their meat In free, while they retain a duty on our meat?" "The same Ik true of flour and yet. gentlemen !m)st that the farmer has been unjustl treated, because we haven't put Canadlun flour and meat I on the free list And It Is proposed to satisfy the auppiiaed grievance nf the farmers b- now doing so without any compensating concessions from Canada. This proposal would be before the senate. There Is one way passed for political platform linen j and that a conclusive way of demon wlthout accomplishing any real good." I strotlng the fallacy In unfounded There are two objections to Insert- Ing In the bill confirming this Pann- Bride of Four Months Was Just ' Taking Train to Meet Him RALEIGH, N. C, April 1 7 -A Pullman of the Atlantic Coast Line train No.. 81, known as the Pallmet to limited, was destroyed by. Ore at Rocky Mount early this morning. One passenger, J. Probsteln, a traveling salesman of New York city, was suf focated to death and the flagman, J. C. Ruse, waa Injured. , Mall Clerk W. F. Ireland Was also Injured. The fire Is supposed to have started from a leaking gas tank. When the accident occurred there were ten passenger asleep in the car. All escaped except Probsteln. He was going from Charleston to Rich mond and entered the car at Florence, 8. C. HI body Is In charge of a local undertaker. WIFE WAS A BRIDE, NEW YORK, April 2 7 .Mr. Jacob Probsteln, a bride of four month, was Just about to start south today to meet her husband In Richmond, Vs., tomorrow when she waa notified by telephone that he had been killed. She left tonight with her father and brother-in-law to bring tho body home.'. ' ' v FAMILY WIPED OUT. WILMINGTON, N. C, April 17 Almost entirely wiped out by . dif ferent disease .developing and cul minating fatally within a. week, has been the portion of the famllv nf C. JV Johnson, 44 year a grocery Vote for the Children. -sf MM ir Efforts Which Have Been Made by Opponents of Treaty dlan contract addition to our free list from Canada. The first ! that they are a conctaslon that is of no value to those whom It la proposed to propitiate by adopting It and the second la that It may Involve us In directly in a doubtful obligation In respect to trade with other countries. McM and Flour - , - "If we desire to put meat an '1 flour and other commodities on the free list for the entire world, we can do It with our eyes open and with the knowledge of what It entails; after an Investigation brought to put auctt provision 1b a Canadian' treaty.' and tivso hayiLTtrftffrJ f,M Jrv the entire world Is unnecessarily ill considered. These proposed gratui tous concessions are In the nature of an admission that in some way or oth er we have done an Injury to a par tlcular class by this Canadian reci procity agreement. I deny it. It Is said that It Injures the farmers; I deny It." . The effect of the agreement the president said. Is not going to lower the specific prices of agricultural pro ducts in our country. It Is going to steady them and it Is going to pro duce an Interchange of products at a profit which will be beneficial to both countries. "I am quite aware that from one motive or another a great deal of effort and money has been spent In sending circulars to farmers to con vince them that this Canadian treaty, If adopted will do them Injury," said the president. "I do not know that la Is possible to allay such fears by ar gument, pending the Canadian treaty character of their fears to the farmers of any other class that believe Itself FRANCE WILL SAFEGUARD Notifies Powers of Necessity of Rushing Troops to Aid of Sieged Fez PARIS, April 27. France today notified the signatory powers to the Algeciras treaty that prompt Inter- vention In Morocco by France had I become necessary to protect foreign ers at Fez, re-establish order throughout the country snd safe-, guard the safety of the sultan. The French cabinet has considered care fully, during the fortnight past, the possibility of Intervention in Moroc co within these districts previously outside the Internatonal pollcV sphere. - The military plans of the war de partment were approved by the gov ernment last week and fresh troop's have embarked fally for Morocco since last Sunday, the official an- nouncement being made that soms- thing more than ten thousand troops would be dispatched to replace the men in the coast garrison which were weakened, to form two expe ditionary columns. When affairs became disturbed In Morocco the government began an active Interchange of views with Oreat Britlan and Hpaln which has Just resulted In Identical notes be ing sent by the two police powers, France and Hpaln, to the other sig natories to the Algectra agreement. Including the United State. ROWAN MAN SUICIDES. BPENCER, N. C, April tl.O. H. Weddlrfgton, aged fifty year, a well known citizen of China Orove, Rowan county, ended hi' life yesterday aft ernoon by shooting himself in th ld with a rifle. Ill health la assigned as t.h i- usv oft . MiHjt ALL CLASSES ,v-i :-- :,: to be unjustly affected by this treaty and that I to try it on. There i no obligation on either nation to on tlnu ths reciprocity arrangement any longer than It deelres, and If It be found by actual practice that there is an lnjury and a permanent Injury to tha farmer of this country vrybody know that thsy can sufficiently con trol legislation to bring about a change and a return to tha old con ditions. Those of u who r re sponsible for ths Canadian treaty are willing and anxious to subject It to that kind of a test "A Vsry'coneluslv reason for do. iitgj. thsptrl ia vUiiuhm3Ui-J&1i sk4i:.an.Ur aBtacy . l which it give u to inoraai the sup ply of our national resource which with the wastefulness of children we have wantonly exhausted." Tha presi dent declared that another reason that should lead to the adoption of the agreement wa that Canada offer ed a constantly 'increasing market and an aver Increasing trad. "It is amusing and I am not sure that It ha not some element of con solation In It, to find that all of the buncombe and exaggerated and mis representation in politic and all of the political ghost are not confined to our own country and that there has entered Into the discussion In Canada a a reason for defeating the adoption of this contract by the Cana dian parliament, a fear that we de sired to annex the Dominion; and the dream of American with Irrespon sible (imagination who, Ilk to talk of the starry flag floating from Pana ma to the Pole, are exhibited by the opponents of the Canadian treaty In Canada a the declaration of a real policy by thl country and a an an nouncement of our purpose to push political control over our neighbor or the north MS ISSUED STATEMENT Appeals to Labor Organiza tions Declaring That He is Innocent of Crime LOB ANOELES, Call., April 27. John J. McNamara, secretary and treasurer of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workes' Asso- elation, gave hi first authorised statement as to his arrest to th As sociated Press today. Tha statement follows: "To the Brotherhood of Organized Labor In California and the United States: "In thl second attempt to crush and discredit the cause we represent, I realize fully the desperation of the enemies of labor arrayed against us, but I am of good heart", for It will fall. "That I am innocent of any In- frkMInn nf . th law In ninrA n am , no ,mphM from 'for th. truth Is mighty, and will prevail right speedily; and for it I shall con tentedly wait . - "I send to all brother and friend of union labor th world over my earnest and affectionate greetings; with the, assurance that there Is no villainy or conspiracy possible of which we are afraid. "I am also confident that it I not asking too much of th public to suspend Judgent In these matter until opportunity for a full and fair defense ha been afforded. "(glgned) 3. J. McNAMARA." ' PROBABLY SHOWERS .WA8HINOTON, April 7. Fore castr North Carolina: unsettled: pro bably shower In west portion Friday; Saturday fair; moderate east to ei'"'i UNCLE JDE THREW MANY BOUQUETS AT OLD NORTH STATE " '"V' .'" Left Here When Four . Years Old But Tells, What Ances tral Farm Was Like IN DAYS OF HIS AGE RECALLS HIS YOUTH Brought Sentimental Feelings Into Argument Against Reciprocity Treaty ITUsrn BurcM, - ' " Contra llaOt (Ity H. K. C nrrant). v , WASHINGTON, f April . IT.-VJI Joa Cannon, a' native ' ot North Carolina, and vigorous: youD of seventy odd summers, did not fall to say ome pretty thing ahout tha Old North State tn his speech on Canadian reciprocity several day ago. Hi remark a they appear In tha Record readlr ; :-&.s-.k,y "I was born In North Carolina, and when 4 year old, In the arms of my mother, wa moved over : tha mountain. Th family wsnt to tha Wabash and my - good old mother never ceased mourning for the msg- nlflceitt climate of North Carolina, My father, when a youag man, help ed to fours! a eolleg down near ' Greensboro, N. C. A few year ago , I accepted an Invitation to attend it commencement ; 1 arrived th day before the commencement, ; and I went around - with . Prof. Hobb through the section of country In tha; vicinity of Greensboro. . "I visited th old farm whr I wa born, and found thr every vl-. dene of prosperity and thrift. At I remembered the . place, It waa crossed by deep gullies and wss not good . (or vary much. I akd tha farmer how ,he .got th land - Into such a prosperous state, so that th dirt washed In and levelled up th land. Then h had found th us of clover and eowpea and Improv d th land, and that whll he had -paid only ten dollar an acre for It few year before, he had within a -rw-? flay -refuse isp per cr. work. In bringing about thl InoreaM than his own labor and Intelligence. ' Oh, ye,' ld h. w hav railroad ; and factories now, Ovr bar at Greensboro they hava large factories, and 1 fined 4hr a market tor my chicken and eggs and all th small fruit 1 have to n," "I waa amaed at th evidence of progress on every side, and if t had bean taken Into Oreensboro blind-, folded I would have remarked, 'How marvalously has the city of Peoria, or the city of Qulncy, Improved.' "So that renaissance la agrlrultur . I not only going on In New York and In New Kngland, but I going ; to th Bouth. Th quickening Ufa s of other Industrie furnish a mar ket - , "I went out to th old Quaker graveyard and even thera ; t could trace the progress of that ountry. The first little monument were two or three feet 1 high, but gradually higher one were added, until tha monument of the last eight or ten years compare favorably -with thos erected In any prosperou commu- rCoittiniied on Psire Four) OE INFANTS 1H ATLANTA ' MbbsmNbM t Startling Developments Are Expected to - Follow J Raid Made by Police , " CRIMINAL PRACTICE ATLANTA, Oa., April lT.-uplV don. that criminal operation and In tant murder had taken place thera' led to a police raid today upon th ' home of Mrs. "Dr." Rachael Linn, midwife in a fashionable section af ' Atlanta, and th arrest, of Mra J and two of her negro servants: "lt orderly conduct'" will b fffe peci Char atftlna Mr tj-k - ... wtivn pit I arraigned before Judge Broyle to moPTAV Kilt K - - . , .u,,v v . mat sne will be held upon a more serious charge if they are able to produce In court the testimony upon which th arrest wer made. Mrs. Linn stoutly uemes an ayegation against and under advice ot her lawyer refuses to dlscu her Ve. 8he la a., woman 17 year of age and ha lived her for many year.; Her ."grand on, Cha. Linn, aged Jit, and two whit women, are being held a witnesses. ? In a statement to Judge Broyle followed th raid Chief of Detective Hanford aald tha charge against Mr. Unn wer baaed upon infnr. matloa furnished him by th two wo. men. whose name are withheld. One of them told him, ho aald. of a con. versa t Ion she had had wHhi in the house, wtth a negro mai l, m t ; the-latter said that "ev..,V , , the house had coct th, j , of a dead hHVv." , , their f?hrr to t. ..(!-... ' ' WOMEN MAY BE CHARGED WITH WHOLESALE MURDER