THE ASHEYIiLljE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: FAIR. Complete Associated Press Reports VOL. XXVTL, NO. 197 ASHEVILLE;N.C., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS , QufiLlliraFFE This Question 13 Now Present ed to the Supreme Court by Government" MILLIONS WERE MADE IN BULL CAMPAIGN Attorney-.General Wants to 7 Send the Leaders In the ir Case to Prison WASHINGTON, May S. Another puizllnf question about the Sherman anti-trust law today made It appear ance : In the Supreme court of the United States to plague that tribunal. It was this: Doe a conspiracy to fix the price of a commodity by procuring; a "comer" constitute a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law ? 1 The government ranks the Importance of the question along- side that of the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases now awaiting; de cision by the Supreme court. The latest member -of the "trust" problem family came Into court In a writ of error obtained by the government from the recent' decisions of Judge Noyes of the New York Federal court in regard to the anti-trust Jaw In dictment against James A. Patten. Eugene C. Scales. Frank B. Hayne, and Wm. P. Brown. The court dis missed 'the counts In the indictment which charged conspiracy to "cor ner" the cotton martlet. The in dictment arose out of the "bull" cam paign In cotton ln 110, on the New Tork cotton exchange. It was . es timated that the alleged leaders of the campaign. Patten, Scales, Hayne, and Brown made between $10,000,000 and 112.000,000. v Matty Yeans Beach The case was docketed today as number 1,423,. which, means prdlnar? illy that it will not be reached for argument and' ' Coh'sfderatloln' by ' the urt for nearly three years, inas- uch as the appeal of the government was made under the criminal ' ap peal! ct. the department of justice mutt "diligently proaecote" the ap peal. Consequently preparations are being made to have the ease advanced for healing early In October. The government's position in the case was stated by Judge Noyes to be "that any combination which Inter feres with the right of the manufac turers to purchase a commodity mov- (Continued on Page Fonr) MILLIONS III TRITE IS PI BUGGING TRUST BY THE SOUTHERN FARMER One Republican Who is New in House Will Vote for Farmers' Free List , DEBATE CONTINUES WASHINGTON, May 6. Repre sentative Warburton, of Washington, a newly elected republican member of Hie house of representatives, an nounie his intention of supporting the democratic iree list In a speech in the house this1 afternoon. Mr. VVar burton sulci many of the republican criticisms of the bill were undoubted ly well founded but others were over drawn. He believed the bill was a step in the right direction. Speeches In 4m or of the free list Will were deliv ered by Representatives McHenry, of 1-ennsylsanla; Amsbury, of Ohio; Hensley, of Missouri;- McCoy, of New Jersey; Ltttlepage. of West Virginia; Dixon, of Indiana; Bartlett, of Geor gia, and Clark, of Florida. Speeches uKainsl the bill were made by Repre sentatives Wilder of Massachusetts; Warner of Pennsylvania; Sloan of Nebraska, and Smith of Michigan. Mr. Bartlett attacked the so-called cotton bagging trust." He said tnere as evidence that manufacturers 'of Jute bagging for baling cotton were operating through an understanding univalent to a combination. Mr. Gil lette, of Massachusetts, challenged the statement and Mr. Bartett cited testimony before the ways and mean! committee in 1909. He declared the r rhrm farmers were discriminated against In that cotton bagging was , i.i.e binulug twine was free of uuty and that southern planters had paid five million dollars to the aUiged "bagging trust" In five years. WHAT IS A TURTLE? BOSTuX, May 5. Although a tur tle was declared by Professor Robert X. Yerkes of Harvard university to be more nearly retaiea 10 a oira man to a fish and to possess a highly de veloped nervous system, capable of memory. Intelligence and lovable ten dencies. In the superior court today Instructed a Jury to bring in a ve rdict of not guilty In the case of John H. Welner, a restaurant propnetor, who was charged with cruelty to animals in keeping a I (0-pound green , sea turtle on lta back In a window last , summer. .' . , LEAGUE FOR PEACE PLANNED ASMEANS TO PREVENT WARS Third Peace Congress Adjourns After Making a Number of Im portant Suggestions for Preser- r vation of the Peace of the World. BALTIMORE, Md., May I. Reso lutions crystallslng the sentiments which have Inspired the sessions of the third Peace congress .and mark ing the development of the peace movement throughout the country, were adopted by the (delegates to the congress today. They contain a hearty endorse ment of the federal, administration for its efforts in behalf of world wide peace through the treaty of arbitration with Great Britlan and for the establishment of the inter national prize court and the Inter national court of arbitral justice. The suggestion made yesterday by James Speyer, the New York bank er, that nations should prevent, as far as possible, loans, being raised by their subjects or cltlsens In or der t enable foreign nations to carrry on wars Is favored and the United States government is request ed to include this matter In the pro posed program of the third Hague conference This resolution was submitted by Isaac ' N. Seligman, another leading banker of New York city. For League of Peace. . The resolutions urge this govern ment to enter upon negotiations with other powers looking towards the formation of a league of peace plan ned simply to settle by amicable means all questions of whatever na ture which may arise between the contracting powers. A general arbitration treaty on the lines of the proposed treaty with Great Britlan is favored as also is a study of armaments by official commissions of the various govern ments Interested. The proposed cel ebration of one hundred years of peace between the English speaking nations Is approved and the congress pledges its support to the movement. "Another resolution asks that' con gress pass such acts as will make the government hold each state re sponsible for any outrage 'committed upon the person or property of foreign subjects within the state. The?. erratitnA y, ,th .ewiyes:-ni-a. pressed to Andrew . uarnegt ana Edward Glnn, of Boston .for their munificent contribution to the cause of peace. Permanent Congress. , Under the name of the American Peace congress the present body be comes a permanent Institution meet ing once in two years. This action TRAVELING MEN MEET IN SESSION AT RALEIGH Travelers' Protective As sociation Has Grown Rapidly in N. C. BARBECUE OIVEN RALEIGH. N. C. May S. The North Carolina division. Travelers Protective association, met here today in annual convention with J. J. Nor man, Winston-Salem, as president and one hundred and fifty or more "Knights of the Grip" here. The trav elers were welcomed to fitting term by Mayor James I. Johnson who is himself a member and high official in the association of traveling men. The response, which was happy In vein and to the point, was by Chas. F. Tomllnson of High Point, who Is national director. Soon after noon the travelers went In special cars to the state fair grounds for the bar beque provided by the local post. The reports of President Norman and Secretary and Treasurer McLean showed the North Carolina division has grown the past year from 6! to 802 members and that the order Is In a most flourishing condition. One new pest, that at Hickory, was organ ized as post K. President Norman recommended that the offering of prizes for appli cations for membership be continued Awards were made for the past year, the following records being made: J. J. Norman II; E. W. McNairy 10; B. H. Marsh 30; C. F. Tomllnson SO; G. J. Howard 10; P. R. Masten 12; C. G. Lee 18; H. O. Miller 14; J. T. Lassiter 5. Carving sets, umbrel las, alarm clocks and a variety of other especially aproprlate articles were among the prlzeaawarded. There were reports by chairmen of committees: railroads. P. R. Hasten; hotels, John E. Call; legislature, James I. Johnson; press, B. H. Marsh; employment, J. T. Lassiter: sick and relief, J. S. Funchess; good roads, R. J. Dunahoe. , Also a report from Chas, O. Lee, attorney, Ashevllle. There Was spec- la) Interest and discussion as to the : legislative report and the report on good roads. The traveling men in sist that they have not gotten their i entitlements at the hands of the legls- 1 lature as to the mileage book Issue; and the pulling of mileage on trains j (Continued on Pace Poor) was taken to meet the. need for central representative body which shall serve to eordtnat the efforts of all the .society s in America de voted to tie settlement of Inter national disputes by methods other than war Speaker Champ Clark, of vtha national house of representatives. In presiding a stoast master at the ban quet of the peace conference tonight, lent his counsel for the world wide peace. Mr. Clark said: "It may be appropriate for me to state that my voice is not for war Kut i . . ... yw cuiimsieni wun national honor and with national safety. Good men and good women hall the peace movement as a harbinger, not of the mlllenlum but for a far better state of affairs than haa ex isted oa earth at any time since Cain slew Abel. we snould lead resolutely and constantly In this movement; there Is every reason why we should do so. With friendship for all nations ana entangling alliances with none, with no desire to, encroach, upon any one ieaa in tnis glorious undertak Ing." RAILROAD MAW KILLED BLUBnELD, w, Va.. May 6. wnen a motor work car was run into by an extra freight at Wetmore on the Norfolk Western railroad today J. M.Walker , roadmaster, was killed, and W. R. Dawson, assistant upermienaent, ,ana J. R. Anderson, master carpenter of the ; railroad. were fatally Injured. Dawson Is one or me nest Known railroad men In the South, JIM FhYSX KNOCKED OCT KANSAS CITY. Ms,, May S.WIh a herd right' swing to the Jaw. Jim nynn oi memo, col., knocked out "Big AT, Kaufman of Ban Francisco in vim tenia rouna or tni REBELS. HATE TORRKOX SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. M.v ih., Torreron, Coahuila state, Mexico, has fallen Into the hands of the revolu tionists Is the news In a nrlvat. .i pher telegram recelvari in , tonlo today. OF AMERICAN CONTINENT GIVE MEDOO CARNEGIE Most Signal Honor Paid to Millionaire Advocate of Universal Peace ANOTHER DONATION WASHINGTON, May 5. After re ceiving a goia medal presented by the 21 American republic bearing the words "The American Republics to Andrew Carnegie" and "Benefactor 01 Humanity." Andrew Carnegre to day announced he would give $100 uuu in addition to nearly a million dollars already donated toward the erection of the Pan-American Union building to be used for the artistic completion of its extensive grounds. President Taft. Secretary of State Knox and hundreds of persons prom inent In diplomatic and official life paid honor to Mr. Carnegie here to day when the medal was presented In the hall of the Pan-American build Ing with John Barrett, director gen eral of the union, declared that never before In history had an Individual been so honored by a group- of na tions. Senor Zamnrona, the Mexican ambassador. Secretary Knox and Mr. Carnegi made addresses. "We meet here today." said the president, "to take part In the cere mony of the presentation, by the union of these republics of the Pan American gold medal to the indi vidual, foremost In the world In his energetic action for the promotion of peace. We are all glad to take part In It. The Immediate cause was the presentation to that union of this beautiful temple of peace." Mr. Carnegie In a speech accept'ng the medal, declared that the gift he stowed upon him was an "honor the Ilk of which has never before been bestowed upon a human being." ICE CASE IS CLOSED NEW TORK, May I. The $40,- 000,000 American Ice company, a New Jersey organisation, which Charles W, Morse, the convict bank er, organised In 18. has withdrawn from the state of New Tork and all pending prosecutions against the con- earn a a monopoly have been dis missed. ' This wa announced almost simultaneously la New Tork and Al bany late today by the company and the ate atithor1t yennertlvelf It's Hard . ! 1 VMS OUT THCAE WW, ', V Pi He Hasn't RESIGNATION IS EXPECTED IN qAPITAL OF MEXICO Statement Officially Made ed! -Government Silent as to Capture of Several ' ; Crowds Parade Streets and Yell "Viva MEXICO CITY. May s.-r-The reelg nation of President Porflrio Pias as president of Mexico wltnm a ry short time la regarded here today as certainty. Should the announco- ment of hie. Intention to resign be made known tomorrow or even to lght It would cause nf purprlse to member of his cabinet.' .- . , No authoritative' cenflnhatlon - ot this could ie obtained nut there ap pears little doubt that President puts, recognising the aerlousMsg of the sit uation and responding to the popular demand, will retire, whin. 'order, to re. ' At the president's office today no statement auld be had and the mem bers of the cabinet, realising that he was the only man who could give a direct answer to the demands of Francisco I. Maero Jr., the revolu tionary leader, that Was should make known publicly his Intention to re tire, were silent At I o'clock today Minister of For" elgn Affairs De La Barra and Min ister of Finance Llmantour were per emptorily summoned to the office of the president. Following a three hours conference statements were issued by the foreign office, saying that the re ception to the. Chilean minister set for tomorrow and the banquet to the same official scheduled for tomorrow night had been postponed until May 12. The reason for this change of plans was given as "the slight Illness of the president." Dies Is Slightly Til. The president's Indisposition Is known to be slight but on orders from his physician he must "remain in doors." Since the statement was Is sued. General Dla- Is known to have been out automohlllng. This morning LEWIS WEST PftYS PENALTY FOB HURDERJIF OFFICER Negro Desperado Utterly Collapses as He Is Lead to the Electric Chair RALEIGH, N. C, May I. Trembl ing In every limb from a. complete nervous collapse and walling out that he had no HI will to any one and hoped to meet everybody In Heaven, Lewis West, the notorious negro out law of Wlleon. paid th death penalty In the electric chair. In the state's prison here this morning at 10.30 o'clock. There was not a hitch about the electrocution as carried out by Warden T. P. Sales and within half hour the body of the negro, duly cof fined and boxed for shipment was at the union depot awaiting shipment to relatives at Fayettevllle. , West hot to death Deputy Sheriff , Oeorge Munford at Wilson, February I, while officer were attempting to arrest West and a number of "pals" surrounded in a house. For over a week they evaded arrest while hun dred of cKiaens scoured the country for' him.s F) eally he wa taken In a gro eating hoose at Lumberton. where he had just pawned one of sev en revolvers he wa carrying. In a statement to hi spiritual advisers West declared that Stetson, th negro sentenced to thirty year aa an ac complice, innocent ? . V' , '',!; - WEATHER FAIR, WASHINOTON. May Forecast: Fair in Interior, cloudy on the coast: Saturday - and Sunday; moderate for the Poor Office Man. Got His Mind Entirely on OF DIAZ MOMENTARILY That He ts Slightly Indisposed. he was apparently In his usual health. This, in connection with the fact that the conference was held, gives rise to the belief that the announcement of his. Intention to resign wttt not be made before .tomorrow at tn erll est - . , i t 4 - ' i In the event ot hie resignation there will be no opposition from the pres ent government official to Benor pf Le.B.arre'S Incumbency of the presi dential post pending now . elections. The question of . Vice President Cor al's resignation is not so simple. It Is known that, before leaving for , Eu rope heref usetj V' f eslgtt, nAsine "arrn1fttfsttfhg"he TiaS teltfcrafed 'thia statement' But this lit regarded ea merely Incidental. The officials con' side the resignation of Piaa the only solution to the trouble, ' In the capital today, the capture of Puebla by Inaslo Plaga was charac terized as merely Incidental. Military Parade Omitted. For the first time In many years the usual military parade was omitted because the nation's soldiers are oth erwise occupied. President Dies took almost no part In the civil functions. Most of the business offices and mer cantile houses were closed and Sun day like calm prevailed. Crowds of peons who avandered Idly about the streets furnished the only excitement They gathered In front of the nation al palace ahd, although laughing and chatting. Indulged In a few cries of "viva Madero." The police took no measure to dis perse the crowd, which filed Into the garden of Zocaln, the big square In front of the palace, or poured aim lessly In and out of the principal streets of the neighborhood. In Isa bella la Catolloa street crowds banked ! themselves before a street car, stop- 1 POLITICAL ERA LllNI Woodrow Wilson Declares That Both Political Par ties Are Reforming . KANSAS CITY", Mo., May t. Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, in a speech before the Kaife and Fork club tonight, declared that a political era, promising much for the welfare of the naMon, is now upon the American people. The movement Is one of a revolution, marked by the process of restoration rather than of a revolution, he said. Both poli tical parties, he said, were represent ed In forming present eonditlons. The democratic party was not so closely allied with the reactionary forces "the Interests." as wa the republican party, however, said th governor and therefore the democratic party wa better able to serve the people In the "process of restoration The presence of Governor Herbert S. Hadiey of Missouri added Interest to the occasion. Both state execu tives were referred to during the eve ning as presidential possibilities In 1912. Governor Wilsons speech to night was the Art to be delivered during his western tour. He spent a busy day as the guest of local civic organisations. T. P. A.'B IX S. C. GREENWOOD, S. C, May 6. The annual convention of the South Car olina division. Travelers- Protective association of America, closed here tonight Election of officers, a de cision to continue the fight to have railroad "pulled" mileage on train and th adoption of a resolution authorizing . the proposed parcels poet law were features of the clos- His Business. Military Parade is Omitt Cities by Rebels,, Madero" ;m," ped It. and tor from It on of the little Mexican flag which adorneo. all the cars today. SUIl the pollc failed to interfere, and it was only when th mob seised soldier, lifted him to' it shoulder, and marched tit with him crying "viva Madero" 'that the mounted poire rod into it midst. . , ' , -, ! Crowd Ptepvrrwd. , The crowd .wa not looking for trouble,: however, end dropped '; th soldier end fled. Nobody was Injured. Another crowd pushed down Ca- dna street and In passing th presl dent's house 1st out a few shot 6 regale oheirernnn( and land atory of Madsro and to revolution. The pollc also .dispersed this crowd gain, however without any on be ing hurt, ' Railroad traffic continue demoral ised . A train arrived today from th north brought a atory of a hold up by rebel at Lulu, a atatloa ninety mile south of Satlllo. - Th rebel searched the train but did not molest In any way the passenger. From the express car they took aom thousands of pesos, however. The rebel then held th passenger train until th ar rival of a freight train, the box oar of which wr loaded with rubber. This wa unloaded and the rebels with their horses got into the bog cars. The crew of the freight train wa then told to get aboard th pas senger train which wa permitted to proceed. It developed then that the rebel had their own train crew and even telegraph operator. They , told the people on the passenger train that they were going north on a bridge .burning expedition. Th war depart ment Is silent on the subject of ToA reron. Saltlilo and Purango, whbh are reported to have been captured by the rebel. " IS Interurban Electric Through Charlotte Road Will be Modernly Equpped CHARLOTTE, N. C, May 8. The Piedmont Traction company, which Is building the Interurban line through the Carolines, today award ed the contract for practically the entire electrical equipment of the line between Charlotte and Green wood, 8. C, to the Westlnghouse Electrical c Manufacturing compa ny of Pittsburg, for the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. The contract embraces eight elec tric locomotives of the motor type, transformers, wire, etc., but doee not Include freight or psssenger car There were three bidders and J. B. A B. N. Dtike, together with the local representatives of the South ern Power company, have been In conference with the bidder all the week. Contract approximating two million hav thus far been let, and after the remaining equipment la purchased th Southern and at th line will have coat twenty-five thou sand dollar a mile, which Is the amount estimated by the engineer. DOES ANARCHT EXIST? EL PASO, May . General Fran cisco I. Madero, th. rebel chief, to night received a message from a New Tork newspaper Informing hlra that m the United States It was believed that anarchy prevailed In Mexico and tht the situation wa very grave. In reply Madero denied that anarchy existed, asserting, however, that the disturbed ' condition Of th country was due to the t TMCUSEDMEff ARRAIGNED UPON MURDER Clffi Two McMamara Brottvcrs For mally Brought Before Court in Los Angeles ? MANACLED THEY HEAR . THE INDICTMENTS READ Accused Men Are Given Until the First of June to Enter Their Pleas V". . 1 f LOS ANGkLeJ, May I. John . 'T- tlonal Bridge : and r Structural Iron, Worker. ; today v ; 'wa . formerly , arraigned before Judge Walter Bord well of the Superior court on: charge ' of murder and dynamiting and hi brother, J as, B, McNamara, wa ar raigned on a chart of murder, all . in connection with . the explosion which wrecked the Los Angeles Time ' building on October U 1110, and kill, d I men. f" '!'. . Ortls E, MoManlgle, alleged to have mad a confession implicating th McNamara. wa not arraigned. U t not expected that h will, make any . appearance in court until the trial . begin, ; Th day for' the McNamara , brothers t. plead I fined for June 1, Fully an hour before th time for th arraignment, th court room wa crowded, despite efforts of the offi cer . to keep the proceeding secret. Th McNamara brother, with hand mnold,were brought Into court by Sheriff Mammal end thrrn deputies. Assistant District Attorney : Ford read all of the 19 Indictment charg ing the men with the murder . of em ploye of th Time plant Accused witn wo brotner in the Indictments were Wm. Capian, altered to have heen'an abettor of Jes. B. McNamara, In the explosion and four other, one a woman, who were masked by the name of "John Doe," Richard Doe," " JhdhKSUIEdTht dMat 'Sw hrdl hrl "John Stiles and "Jan Do." The accusation wa followed by list of th scores of witnesses exam ined by lh grand Jury In th week following; the Times isstr and with lis tatv4UI .( Ort-MMnli;;e who appeared; I Vor V inquisitor . rial body only yesterday - r 'Considering the Importance of the case and the llsUnce whlrh it mny be necessary tot bring witnesses," At torney Rappsport : for the defense ' said: "I would Ilk to hav thirty day before the pleas ar enterfl." "If you are allowed an unusual time to enter pleas," said Prosecutor Fre derick, "win you waive th provi- f" lon of statut which declare thet, th men must be tried within lr days aftr thy are arraigned T" f' r" ,Rappaport signified hi willlngr'7 -, and th district attorney ald t would consent that th pie be raa on June l. Ford then read the other' 11 indictment. Jsmes B. McNamara was permitted to lt down, and then an indlotment ' was read charging John J. McNamara - Ortle E. McMenlgle- "John Doe," , "John Styles," "Richard Doe," and "Jane Doe" . with s dynamiting tl) Llewellyn Iron work Isst Christmas day. Th time for McNamara to plead to that charge also wa fixed for f June 1. COHL f MPOHTATIONS FROf.' CANADA MAY CAUSE OF ET Protection is Asked for. Steamer Inward Bound ; With Cargo of Coal WHAEFS OTJAEDED COLORADO. Alaska, May ' l Thers was no further -disorder, to day over the Importation of Cana dian coal and none Is expected un til the arrival of the steamer Edith,' which sailed recently from Nanalmo with 1,000 ton of Catalan coal for the Alaska Steamship company. Threat were mad today that the Edith would not be permitted . . to discharge her cargo. As all Cana dian coal In port I under control of the United State custom officer until it I landed and the duty pal th deputy collector of customs for Cordova today mad a demand on Untied ftate Commissions O. A Tucker for protection for the Edith. He wa assured that an ample fore of deputy marshal would ; be : on. hand to protect the property, ; ; Mayor Lathrop sent the following message to acting Governor Dlstln at Junean: . -:-.'- v.'-' ::v "Serious disturbance account of Canadian coal on v dock yesterday. Believe can handle situation L at resent. Threats treely made " (to destroy cargo of Edith now en route. , povemment must stand Iready to protect." . . ; United ' State Deputy 1 Marshal Brtghtwelt arrived from Orrata !nt night end swore In deputies who are now standing guard on the n-hnrr of the Alaska steamship compa--. Many tm'spaices have bf 'i t '