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TODAY CITIZEN TH THE WEATHER SHOWERS ASIIEVILLE, N. i SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 19U PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XXVIL, NO. 268 S Relief in Sight SEI F. THINKS INTERESTS WANT WILEY OUT Representative Cox. of Indiana, Introduces Resolution for More Information OLD TELL1G EACH OTHER WHAT TO DO Situation in Georgia Assumes Peculiar Phase Which Has no Precedent INTO SPOTLIGHT Probable That He Will be Call ed to TesUfy About Con troller Bay Map But Makes It Worth While by Offering Winners FTlzes Ag gregating $50,000 AO PAGES , AO TOPAY , , NOT DIE GQN6RE IN DIFFICULT TfiS NATQR AND G1FFQRD COM GIVEN MAY AG! HOS BYLONuGNPAPER 2 TERRELL ISSUES CARD PUTTING IT TO HOKE Latter Characteristically Re plies. Refusing to Accept Resignation ATLANTA. Ga., July 15. "My ro . sia-natlon Is with you and It Is Irro- K vnrxhlo You nor I can place the re- I Bopnsiblllty for your conduct. The people wilt do that." Senatdr J. M. Terrell. "I have not accepted your resigna tion and shall retain It unaccepted that you may have full time to re alize the Importance of your continu ing the pair which hills a republican vote In the United States Benate." Governor Hoke Smith. The above statement sum up the Situation tonight in the controversy between Senator Terrell and Governor Hoke Smith, who has Just been elect ed United States senator to succeed Mr. Terrell, who was the ad interim appointee following the death of Sen ator A. S. Clay, albout nine months ago. Following the governor's state ment last night in which he declined to accept the resignation of Mr. Ter rell, the latter replied late today In one of the warmest political cards ev er issued In a political contest In Georgia. In his letter Mr. Terrell declares that It would be presumptuous for him to return to Washington as sen ator after Governor Smith has been elected to, that position by the legis lature. He asserts that unter no con sideration would be continue further to discharge the duties of that office. If Jt is imperative that .Governor Smith remain in Georgia as gover nor. Mr. Terrell says tfere is a way I U Which ne can acconjwm inai oe- wire , and . siMi' nrvvim iui; io tuw -fCpresentatlpn of the ititi Intho Uhlt,- . . h McatM aanaiB. X'The geiwe.1- aeewrubly can elect, another senator at onee," he declares "if you feet that you .must stay .here notify the, general' assembly that you will not accept ' tVe senatorshlp to which you have been elected by it under the assumption that you would (Continue! on Page Threw) TO HAVE BEEN ROBBED BY HER DAILY GOMP Seeks to Recover $142,000 Alleged to Have Been Stolen by "Friend" . NO CRIMINAL SUIT KANSAS CITY, Mo July 15. To recover J142.000 alleged to have .been stolen from Mrs. Margaret K. Armour, widow of Simeon B. Ar mour, the packer, by Miss Harriet Byington, a young women who for the past three yeajs served as com panion and housekeeper to Mrs. Ar mour, suit was filed in the Circuit court here today. Miss Byington had been conducting the majority of Mrs. Armour's business for her and she bad the keys to her safety deposit box. Mrs. Armour in an interview today, aid she had no desire to bring crimi nal action against her former friend, that she was Interested merely in re covering her money. "The fact that Miss Byington is a woman should not protect her," Mrs. Armour said. "A woman should suf fer for illegal acts equally with a mans Miss Byington should be pun ished to prevent a repetition of simi lar thefts. But I do not lah to prosecute the womap. who was my friend and I will not bring a crimi nal prosecution against her though perhaps the county and state au thorities will as It is their duty to ee that those who disobey the laws re punished. All I want to do la to recover my money. . "I understand the main point to be made by the defense Is that Miss By ington had a weak mind and evidence of luxury unsettled her: that she has no money or bonds belonging to me bow In her possession that she has pent all the money she has not re stored and that her poor memory does not allow her to remember where or when she made her purchase. "These statements I know to be false. Miss Byington' memory al way waa a remarkable one and her mind Is lucid, Trn story that she could have forgotten what she did with my property is laughatile to any one m-tio knows Miss Byington." Ml Byingtpn Is 5 year old. P foro entering Mrs.' Armour" employ he was a trained nurse. Mrs. Ar mour paid her ITS a month as her companion.. NEW MAPS WILL BE PREPARED FOR TAFT Gontended That Aforesaid Map Must Have Been Prepared on Advance "Dope" WASHINGTON, July 15. To erect terminal facilities in Controller Bay, Alaska, would cost about $1,000,000, said Alfred II. Brooks, of the United States geological survey today before the house committee on expenditures in the interior department, which is Investigating the Controller Hay lands. The committee, which will meet again next Tuesday, may summon as witnesses former Chief Forester Clif ford Plneh-ot and Secretary of War Ftimnon, to Inquire Into a declaration of M1ss M. F. Abbott, a newspaper writer, that a map of Controller Bay district containing tracing of the Richard Si Ryan claims there had dis appeared from the war department. A map made for the Interior de partment, showing the claims and proposed railroad promoted by Ryan, who is alleged to represent Guggen heim Interests, has been furnished by Secretary of the Interior Fisher. The missing map, dated Dec. 14, 1910, was shown Miss Abbott about January, lUl, she says. It Is con tended that there was not time for the map to have been made from sur veys In Alaska following the presi dent's executive order restoring the UmJs to entry, and that It must have been prepared on advance Informa tion, In order that the congress shall have elaborate maps showing condi tions In and about Controller Bay President Taft today directed O. II. Pitman, of the coast and geodetic sur vey, to make copies of the' maps of the .region In the possession of the government. The president spent more than an hour Rooking over the original map this afternoon. He Is convinced that wrhen the senate sees the government surveys of Controller Bay; the extent of the water front and the length of the channel It will agree with him that for one man to obtain , a .monopoly there would be next to Impossible. THAT II LOWER TARIFF WOULD KILL BUSINESS Only Important Feature of Statement Brought Out at Investigation "TRUST" METHODS WASHINGTON, July 15 The house sugar Investigation committee today heard the evils of the sugar trust described by representatives of the Louisiana cane growers and. man ufacturers of unrefined sugar. The witnesses' discussed the tariff declaring that elimination or material reduction In existing duties on sugar womd destroy their Industry. Theodore 8. Wilkinson, Myrtle Grove, La., planter and manufacturer, and former Member of Congress John rHmmond, of New Orleans, and J. B. Burguleres, a manufacturer, testified. Burgulerea. who was op the stand when the committee adjourned, will be recalled Monday. Mr. Wilkinson said that two-thirds of Louisiana sugar was sold to refin ers. The remainder was further re fined at small cost and sold direct to consumers. The planters could not refine all their produet and sell It di rectly to consumers, he said, because they did not have the capital. All the witnesses agreed that they were compelled by the "tryst" to ac cept a lower price for their product then the price prevailing In New York and to have the cost of freight from New Orleans to New York deducted, though none of the sugar .actually reached New York;- Mr. Burguleres told at length of how he had been "boycotted" several years ago by the American Sugar Refining company because he sold a large quantity of sugar to the Federal. Representative Madison said an. at tempt had been made to make the committee believe "benevolent philan thropists" now had charge of the American Sugar Refining company, and that the practice of Sir. Have myer's day hsd been abandoned. Mr. Pursiilerea said no change In the methods of the "trust had been no ticed since Mr. Havemyer' death and the planters were being treated as arbitrarily as ever. . ,. INVESTIGATION TO BE BROAD ONE Cox Said He Was After Know ing Exactly What Interests Were After Wiley ' WASHINGTON, July 15. Express ing the belief that persistent efforts to have Dr. Harvey W. Wiley removed from office have been made by "pow erful special Interests, whose welfare in life attaches more to the dollar than to the health, happiness and prosperity of the people," Represen tative Cox, of Indiana, democrat, to day Introduced a resolution calling for further information. His meas ure contemplates a broader Investlga tlon of the Wiley case than was con templated when the house committee on expenditures in the department of agriculture decided to investigate the charge against Ir. Wiley in connec tion w,Jth the department personnel board recommendation for his remov al. Mr. Cox declared today that he wanted to find what interests were after Dr. Wiley. Ills resolution, he said, was In no way antagonistic to the work of the expenditures commit tee which will meet next week. Dr. Wiley hsd fearlessly performed his duty. In the enforcement of the pure food and drug law to the benefit of the many millions of people through out the country. Ills resolution calls on both the at torney general and the secretary of agriculture "to furnish the house of representatives with all letters, rec ords, telegrams, protests and objec tions now on file In their offices, pro testing against his retention In office, with all letters nnd data of every kind protesting against his rulings nnd de cisions in the administration of said law- . .ejAMEs Tit wneiuuv CLEVEI.ANf), n..' July C$.Ih or- -. tn orovlda jMwefealL. aats here for the next two- Bundays -on of the games to, bp played between Cleve land and New York in New York next month will be played here tomorrow nnd another game to be played be tween Cleveland and Boston at Bos ton next month will be played here next Sunday. "FLIbHT OF VITRL SPARK" CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN WITHESSEHf DOCTOR But He Does Not Claim That it is Either Light of Soil or Spirit TEST ON DYING MAN CHICAGO, July 15. The "flight Of the vital spark" has been witnessed, according to a statement made today by Dr. Patrick 8. O'Donnell, an X ray experimenter who has been fol lowing up experiments made by Ir. W. O. Kliner. of London, Eng. Borne time ago, using a chemicalized fllm sealed between two thin strips of glass. Dr. O'Donnell gave a demonstra tion to twenty physicians of the aura or "electrical radiation" of living bod ies, four young women "being used as subjects.. The aura developed as a strong ray of light surrounding the entire form of the subject. "Last night," said Dr. O'Connell, "In the presence of several physicians at Mercy hospltal'I tried the experi ment on a dying man. Fie was rap idly sinking. Suddenly the attending physician announced that the man was dend. The aura began to spread from the body and presently disap peared. Further observation of the corpse revealed no sign of the aura. "We do not claim that the light Is the soul or spirit. In fact, no one seems to know what It is. In my opinion, however. It Is some sort of radlo-artivlty made visible hy the use of the chemical screen. "My experi ments, however, seem to prove that It is the animating power, or current of life of human beings.'" CANTON CUT OF KD WATEIl CANTON." O.. July"! 5V A "breatf ttri the main pump at the city water works pumping station has necessi tated the use of creek and lake water for two week. Taking the accident as a basis for a resolution, the Canton W. C. T. U. went on record In a protest against alleged carelessness on the pajt of city officials In delaying the work on a stand pipe which will meet emer gency needs of the city. The resolu tion says In part: "Impure drinking' water has driven many to the use of beer and other alcoholic beverages who would not otherwise have used , them." n TAFT'S ADMINISTRATION INTO LORIMER AFFAIR Gov. Deneen SaidlThat He Remarked Jokingly That President Was Man Who Sent Messaget'Sat Elected Lorimer Secretary MacVeagh Sent to Deneen WteVp Find WASHINGTON, Jul riant Tn ft'a nrftnlnlirniH a new way when OovenJ 'n, of Illinois, testified before! : Yirlmr i n nDiinn.li if a w i t,ie? i i as August, !, 8ecC,.L ,Jjf the drtth Treasury MacVeagh ha rt"J ' i him to ascertain for the. is . mat ters regarding ' the eletft -' gC(t - ior ijonmer, j ; This was about three VTM Mr. Lorlmur's election. ;f retary MacVeugh . wnt tooijeeolnW v his own Initiative f, Whether file president had suggested that he In terview Govenor Pcneeti , wait P"t re ve&ludV - Hur wa It detetnped. wheth er an extend (fdWKiiiiry W being .cun- manner -4ft JSewtfor. . .Lotkmer'a leo- tlon. P ' . '' Governor Donoen mentioned tho name of Secretary MacVoagh when he was asked to whom he Bad given his version of the ; -famous telephone conversation bHeen Edward Ulnns and himself on ihh day T-orlmcr wan elected. It was ilnrlna" this conver- FEDERAL AUTHORITIES APPEALED TO FOR AID Little Hock Has Epidemic of Typhoid Fever, Now ' Having 121 Cases LITTLK ItOfK, Ark., July 15. Following un appeal to the fednrul authorities In Wanlilngton for aid In fighting an epidemic of typhoid fever In Little Rock, 'lovernor Donnghey was today advl.nd that Dr. W. H. Froet, an expert in the national hy giene laboratory, la now on his way to this city. Dr. Huffman, chairman of the board of health, reports that tho area Infected lies within "three blocks of the city park, where tho Confed erate reunion camp waa located. He says the dlBPane. which became epi demic several weks ago. Is due to a lack of sanitary precautions. Reports to the city physician show there are now 121 case of typhoid fever. RELATIVES UP ON , CHARGE OF MURDER NA8HVTLLK. Tenn., July IE. Hen ry Stelmlo, Kr.ma Stelmle and Mrs. IJkzIo Stelmle, brother, father uml stepmother respectively of Tilda lwrt Stelmle. the jwng glrt - found mur dered on her 1 t ner'a, farm on 1'nra dlse Kldge, fourteen miles went of Nashville, Thnrr -ioy were arrested this afternoon charged with the murder i.f the girl. The :irresta follow on In quest. Not a Kr' iit deal of evidence was brought "ut at the inquest, but enough to show It a most revolting case. The girl was about to become a mother. It wag stated, and the au thorities believe Hiselbly the murder wag committed t. hide another crime. SMOWER&f WASHINGTON. July It Forecast: North Carolina: local thunder Show ers Bunday and probably Monday light te moderate variable winds. ? MVPreg- . truliv 9 ft.latl.e- mm Out Particulars of Larimer's satlon; so Hinos testified, Deneen promised to support Lorimer. This Governor Deneen dented. HInea tes tified he said over the telephone that he was on his way to Bprlngflold to bring Peneen a message from plena tor Aldrlch and President Taft about I-orlmo'a election, Deneen testified Mines said the president waa sending him a message throuth Aldrloh who would have George Reynolds, presl- ?Jbnt of the Continental National bank, deliver It.-- " -v r-.,--- Gov. Deneen today testified that when he responded to Secretary Mac Veagh's request to call at the fed eral building in i Chicago,' Mr. - Mao-' Veagh eatd, "he wanted to ascer Uiln for th president tnatter re garding Senator ' Ixirtmor's ".4aetlon,' and nh4.' (Dcneear' jaltlng4r"rfe , "Ask the preident; he was the 'mntt who Is said to have sunt the message that did it." (lovernoT Deneen added that In re sponse to further Inquiry from the secretary ho related the conversa tion between himself and lines. NO PENSION LEGISLATION AT THIS SPECIAL SESSION Leader Underwood Said All Such Matters Would be Handled in December WASHINGTON, July 1R. All hope of pension legislation at this session of congress was daxhed today when democratic loader Underwood served uiiili-o that such legislation would be tuken up at the proper tlrno at the rextilar session In Decern tier. Just before the house adjourned today un til next Wednesday, Representative Kendall of Iowa, InHurxeiit republi can, objected to an adjournment over Monday, when under th rules, n pen sion Increase bill could bo .-inmliler ed. Mr. Underwood snld the bill which would be brought In ly the democra tic majority at tho regulnr session would be different from Hint fuvored by the republicans In that It would not provldo pensions for "soldiers who never had been within COO miles of a battlefield.'' WILL CONTEST AGAINST PROBE HOUSTON, Tex.. July 1 5. On the ground that they were wholly under ptnto control, the greater numjinr of oil companies In Texas Into whos.j methods of operation a federal in vcstlK'Hion has been ordered, will contest the right of the Interstate eommereo commission to lnouirn Hit their uffiilrs. This was lndlente.1 to day in statements Issued in tho offices of the different companies iiwned The lnoiilry ordered followed iilleg.i tlons tliat pipe lino rates and resolu tions were unreasonable, diserlminn tory and otherwise In violation of re-. gn!nted eommereo. Only , tw o of ljioe named. In the list of Texas companies proposed to he Investigated, tho Texas company and tbc rjulf Pipe Unc eonipmy, are lntir8lMJ.9.a.rrLers, . RTt:KTj TO PANAMA PJTTsmR3, Pa., July '15. Many tons of steel rolled by tho Jones and Leughrn Stoel company and turned over the MeOlntoek-Manrtiall fon structlon company, of this city, were shipped from here today pi the Pan ama canal. The shipment,' It is said. Is practrally the flrt lot of steol sent te the canal that. In a way, forecasts the completlm''of the waterway. The steel leaving here today comprises finished pieces tor the gat ' ' 7"' BROUGHT IN NEW WA Y Election 'The conversation only . lasted ten or Ufteen minutes, (or the secretary after"! had related my part In the election eatd that he waa astonished at the reports," added Governor De neon, - ' The afternoon session was practi cally devoted to the ITJnes-Deneen telephone conversation.' It la regard ed as baring an Important bearing on the Lorim'er claim that Deneen favored JUorlmer'i election..', , ? tto youu think Mv! llltiea ilgtit have njentloned Mr, Iievold' name for the purpose of Identification T'' in quired Kenator Fletcher, referring to itine testimony., . ' "Ne, ws the rasiionse. i "No. ir. Reynolds oould not have pldemined; Mf- Jilnua.for I' did not know Mr. Iteynoifls very Veil." ' ' Oovnor Ienen declared that It wa not 1 BertMaiy fdf , iiim - to assist -then because Jhe eontest had been won 'by Ixtrlmer the night befor, . When the committee resume Its hearings Monday, the testimony will be regarding the activities of Kdwmrd Hines In the Ixirtmer election. NAILS FALSE REPORT Declares That He Did Not Fail to Respond to Custo mary Recognition - Spr&t MKXICO CITV, Mex.,' July IS. MuveS by public account of alleged unpatriotic conduct at a recent In dependence day breakfast attended by President De In Hurra, several mem bers of his cabinet and many promi nent Mexicans and Americans, Am bassador Henry Lane Wilson today authorized the following statements: "Telegram appeared on July 6 and 6 In many Amcricun paper crpartlng that at the breukfast which followed the Fourth of July exercises, the American ambassador. Mr. Wilson, fulled to respond with tho customary recognition when the Amerffkn na tional air was played, and he rose to his feet after every one else had done so. "This story I without foundation: do such Incident occurred and this I news to the Mexican public that there was a charge, of such Indecorous con duct with the arrival of the American papers conruhrtrtg the telegram. When the national air was played the ambassador whs thi first one to rise to his feet, In company with tho pres ident. These articles which have been sent to the American press from Mex ico ore malicious Inventions, and In no way relate the sentiments of the American people In Mexlce. Tho am hHsudnr makes this statement not be cause he believes the public Is Inter (pted In his affairs, but as the only means In his power of correcting un just and untruthful attacks, calculated to affect the usefulness of the Amer ican embassy In this capital." The lel'Kram referred to by" the' American ambassador related to w.hAt ptirpfTted to be a conversation be tween himself and President De la flam. In wlilch Mr. WllsOn" was UOt ei! as suvtng that Inasmuch as they were eating he saw no need for tMehi to rise. In Consequence, It waa said, T' mo vcTffe fit "Ti B hcetr irtaHed -by t he- Amerlcan colony to bring about the ambassador's recall. , .' The Mexican Herald, commenting on the story, said that "a hundred trentlcmcn who attended the brealf fat know that no such thing hap pened." ' GATES TMPHOVE8 j PAR IS, July 15 John ,W, , Oate was said by his physicians to be some what Improved, tonight. They add d however, that he war till In a erioua condltloo, . ' . CHAS. T. WEYMANN TO REPRESENT U. S. Expats Feci Certain That it Will be Almost Impossible to Finish Race LONDON, Saturday. July I. Eng. land la to witness this month one of the most ambitious attempts at long distance aeroplunlng yet Seen a ctr cult of the Island over - a court of . 1,010 mites tor a prise of 150,000 of. tered by The Daily Mall. ' The chief point of interest to Amer lean will be the appearance of Chita, T. Weymann. who, a ; he represen tative of tho t'nlted Slate, won the" International aviation oup at : East Church on July I. . ' ' ' H I the only .American, entrant but is expected to make a notable showing against th beat flying men of Burope, who will compete. The latter Include , Beaumont winner of, the recent European circuit, eompetl tloni Vediine. who finished first in th Farla to Madrid race, and Valen tin, the Englishman who competed In the European circuit. The course lx divided Into circuit ranging from 10 to HI -mile in length.. , ' Whether any of th competitor will eomplete the race t doubtful, aa th conditions, in th eplnion of experts, ar almost' impossible of fulfillment. More depend upon the" stability of th machine than has been required " In any previous race,, Th flying men must do the circuit of over one thous and mile practically with their ma chine ' Intact. The most important part of each machine are to be merited and the part must bo kept together throughout the. course. The few in ;who finished In the recent European circuit race changed thoir eroplan at ome 'tng of the )nur ney or made substitute of the .most important part so that tey returned to f rnc with almost entirely now machine. ;..''' Th crucial etsge'of th Journey, H the opinion of .air- men, will, be 1 " tween IlarrowKiit nd Jv'ilinburf.ii. The country, ig o uneven, and the air urrent o troaMeome there thst it would he no iif-price tt the me get it quietus, along this grrtch OF. HIloETDfll'II WILL ISHEBIT WW Must Marry and -. Have . Family by Time He is . Fifty Years 'Old. : . HE IS NOW FORTY MATTOON,. 111., July 1.Charll) Montague, who, by the term of th will of hi father, Joel T. Momague, s will InhcrU ,a quarter of a million of rioilura ir h marries and has a fsm- pjy by the tlm he 1 fifty year old. ha recelyen . mqre inan a nunorea proposal of marriage from young; women wmray they offer good repu-;. tatlon and character but no money to the proposed union. "Forty year I have lived without a wife.' Mr. MonUgue ald, "but some of these proposals are touching I may reconsider my determination tu contest tho will." OFFICIAL BALLOT WILL BE PBEPABED JACKBOK. Mis., July IS. Th democratic state executive ommltteo will meet here Monday at noon to prepare the official ballot for' tho j slate primary to be held on August : 1 and to declare a nominee of m. pnrty all candidate who have no op position. The list of candidate thus ; fur "unopposed I a follows: for governor; Karle Brewer, of C'larkesdale. ' Vbr clerk of Supreme court: Geo. C. leyem of Jackson. ' 1 This will be the first time In history that an aspirant for the vpvernorfhip v ha captured the office wltlrbut oppo-; . Ition. Mr. Hrewer wu a Closs sec ond In the campaign four year ago. being defeated In the second, primary i, by E. F, Noel by a Mttle more than : f.ooo vote. ,. ' , , . , . KEW YORK, July 16. One-half the total blindness "in this country li preventable, the Association : for the Conservation of the Vision claims and It announced here today that It will appoint a day In 1S1 for the purpose of educating the publk) regarding the Importance of good vision and ' th method of preserving 1U V The day will be. called "Conservation of Vleion Day," and the comprehensive plnn of the association I to have praeti cally' every .person In the t'n'- 1 Btates instructed oil that day in ( care of the eye