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ii i i iiiiim CITIZEN WANT ADS1 BEING RESULTS ; THE WEATHEB: FAIR VOL. XXVIL, NO. 277 ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS BEATTIE SMOKES CIGARETTES AND ANTI-PROHIBITION Melon Season LE Mi PECULIAR HOLE BY E ASHEmLE CITIZEN.' TH DEMOCRATS POTIfl HUB CABIN IIS IU THE TEXAS IN GEORGIA LIVES Has Lived in Three Centuries When Stirring Events Were v Making Nations PLAYS THE GUITAR STATE ELECTIONS WOOL TARIFF BILL e-MMMMSHaa Man Accused of Wife Murder In Richmond Jail Is the Least Concerned HE EATS HIS MEALS WITH MUCH RELISH invoking the Goddess of Music and Flirting With Madame Nicotine He Awaits Tilal RICHMOND, Va.. July 21. Today furnished the calm after the storm of interest and Indignation In the Beattlo murder case which prevailed yesterday, Henry C. Beattle. Jr., held by the coroner's Jury responsible for the killing; of his young wife, re mained quietly In Henrico county jail, to Which he was taken for safe keeping, and exhibited throughout the day the "sang frold" which he has maintained throughout the pro ceedings In which be has been the principal figure. By permission he tarried his guitar to Jail with htm and he is a constant smoker of ciga rettes, so that with muslo and Mad ame Nicotine, apparently, he pro poses to while away the time of tils Incarceration. He read the accounts of the coroner's Inquest In the papers today with Apparent interest, and ate the meals which were sent to him from a nearby restaurant with relish. Least Concerned Ha seems to be the least concern ed of all the persons connected with the dlabolleal crime for which he is held responsible. Paul Beattle, Henry's cousin, who Is also held In the Henrico Jell as a material witness for the prosecu tion, also asked for newspapers and read the accounts of Ms own testi mony at the Inquest, and in the woman's ward of the same prison, Beulah Blnford, the "woman In the case," also held as a ' witness, spent the day alone. : Neither Patft -nor Beulah seemed t.,tu .bay, -today any, .symptom, or toe hysterical condition wnicn cnaracter--Iced them yesterday. Henry's father and brother," Douglas, visited the ac cused husband this morning but oth erwise those who called to see the prisoners were denied admittance. ft 1s understood that Mr. Wond enberg, counsel for the common wealth scouts the prevalent Idea that (Oomlnurd cm Pas Sli) ONE MAN DUD ANOTHER FATALLY WOUNDED AS AN IE OF Juarez City Police and In surgent Forces Engage in Pitched Battle BITTER FEELING JUAREZ, Mei., July 28. One man dead, another fatally wounded and a third shot In two places Is the net result of a pitched battle in this oity at S o'clock this afternoon between the city police and Insurgent forces. The beginning of the affray was the. result of an argument between Darel lo Hernandez and Insurrecto soldiers and Dolores Martlnes, street , commis sioner of Juarez, in front of Marti nez's residence. When Martinez re quested Harnandet to desist from, his argument, Hernandez opened fire up on him with a pistol. Martinez ran into his residence, se cured a rifle and shot Hernandes In the head, killing him Instantly Comrades of Hernandes at once climbed to the roof of the garrison building nearby and opened a hot fire upon the Martinez residence which wss returned by a detachment or poirce, wno nad arrived upon trie scene. About fifty snots were fired V.w nAnAMt 1 1 uoiw o (johtjibi uituiw, wii.i wm sum moned, was able to quell the disor der. Martlnes was shot through the arm and sustained a scalp wound In the fray and Martello, another Insur gent soldier, was shot through the atmach and will die. The town Is quiet tonight but there Is much bit ter feeling. TRIAL OF ALLEGED EMBEZZLER PUT OFF BieHMOND. Va.. Jury 21 The trial of Louis L. Gregory, former cashier In the freight department of the Atlantic Coast Line here on a charge of embezzlement Is on the docket of the Hustings court for to morrow, but It Is understood that a brief postponement may be granted. In view of one or two considera tions which may seem to make this advisable and also in view, of ths fact that the delay will be to the detriment of neither side. No for mal motion for postponement .has been mad, and the prisoner ' has asked for a speedy Hearing.-' " Later Returns Change First Indicated "Dry" Victory to a -Wet" One MAJORITY HOWEVER WILL NOT BE LARGE Cries of "Fraud" AlreadyHeard and Whatever Result Con tests Are Likely DALLAS, Tex. July IS. With the anti-pohlb(tlon1sts leading by 4.114 votes In the returns cuonted up to II o'clock In the state wide pohlMtlon election Saturday; with the leaders of each' side issuing statements claim ing victory In that contest, and with the additional! feature of fraud charges today mad by prohibition leaders, the outlook shortly before midnight Is that full returns will be necessary to deolde the result. Both sides stand ready to contest the vote. For 24 hours the returns have about divided themselves for and against prohibition. The total vote cast Sat urday possibly will exceed 4(0.000. The following statement was given out this evening by T. H. Ball, chair man of the state wide prohVMtlon ex ecutive committee at Houston, Texas: "In spite of the wholesale fraud In various sections of the state In poll tax payments by liquor interests and a practically solid Mexican vote and 85 per cent of the negro vote against the prohibition amendment, in my best Judgment has been carried by pot leas than ten thousand majority." J. F. Wolters, of Houston, chair man of the anti-state wide amend ment committee, Issued this State ment: "Almost complete returns indicate beyond question that we have won by a good majority. It is absolutely necessary, however, to guard closely the boxes and returns so that the ac tual results will be protected every where, '' Earlier Report. ': Returns received, by OatveMton-twiM ias News late today give the prohibi tion amendment to the state con stitution 110,826 votes and against the amendment 221,635 votes, a ma jority of J, 7 J.0 votes against the amendment At 4 o'clock this afternoon it was indicated that the antl-prohlbltion-Ists had a lead of 5,000 votes, but (Continued on Page Two) LACK OF LEADERSHIP IN UNIONIST PARTI CAUSES Open Warfare Carried on Through Press and Out come ia Doubtful LEADERS IN FRAY LONDON. July 14 Not for a long time has the absence of effective and authoritative leadership of the Union ists party besn so frankly displayed. Opon warfare is carried today Into the columns of the press. Not only are the Unionists organs arrayed in two opposing ranks, for and agalnt the so-called surrender to the inev itable but the great leaders are tak ing part in the fray. Viscount Curzon and Lord Charles Beresford have long letters in the papers this morning, the former ore. sentlng many cogent reasons why the party noma support Lord Lans downe and pointing out how the Karl or Halsbury's plan of no surrender would be dangerous for the party and the country. He says that to force a wholesale creation of peers would be to expedite and render home rule In evitable; it would facilitate disestab lishment and replace the veto bill by a .machinery Infinitely more danger cm and despotic, without conferring a single benefit present or prospec tive, on the nation, without even In juring the government but rratul. tously increasing their power for mischief "It is bad enough." says Lord Curson 'that the a-nvarnmnt alreadr have a larse malnrtt in ih house of . commons. Wliere Is either trie expediency or the common sense of the public advantage of presenting them with a second msJorltv In th house of lords T" Lord Charlaa Beraarfnrd mi. ports Lord Lansdowne and advises Quarters The next few days will an ai fight In the ranka of the nartv. Rntii sides hae a strong following and it Is mpossiDie to rorecast th Iseu of the struggle. , "moral mm coinncjrTiojr BALTIMORE. Md July J I. The first convention for the moral uplift of the negro member of the Meth odist Eplsoopal church ended her today with meetings Id ail the col ored Methodist churches addressed by leading negroe trow vaMau sec tions ; ( -th country. .......w yvm ui Muinffwut ana snTiSfis 1 "l " iv , . . . . .i 11, vu i w nn con the tjplonlat party to "go Into-wlBter ! ttnusd good seasons of moisture, the n n a rtmrm 1 Ai rr ar& -aril! nn h. . I A - - - May Support LaFoIIette's BUI Which Will Lose Them Chance at Their Own MAY EMBARRASS THE PRESIDENT Things Are In Decidedly Mixed Condition. With Heavy Week Before Them WASHINQTON. July It. The re moval of Canadian reciprocity, from the congressional stage has left things at the capital In a decidedly mixed condition. The : senate will launch into the woof tariff fight at noon tomorrow; but it la anticipated that the discussion will not stick closely to wool, but will run the whole gamut of tariff revision. The house democratic caucus Tues day, and the cotton tariff bill with their - endorsement, is expected - to some into the house Wednesday. The house is going to pass its cotton tariff measure, but . the fata of the wool bill in the senate still Is a mat ter of conjecture. Democratic leaders In the house, some of them at least, are still skep tical as to whether the senate will pass anr of the tariff Mils now be fore It They have tried to obtain some definite Information from sen ators as to what would be done but ttttl ! forthcoming. The senate sit uation refuses to -unravel. Democrats want a wool revision, and so do the republican Insurgents, but they can not agree on the kind. The democrats want to pass a democratic measure, If possible, but above all, they want to pass some kind of a bill. In the hope of embarrassing the president who has characterised the Payne- Atdrtch wool tariff rates as "Inde feasible." If they cannot get their own bill through, the democrats may support .the Lafotletto insurgent republican bill. Which was defeated Saturday as an amendment to the reciprocity bill, mt wtoen tmi tditfwagaiit" tW week ss an Independent measure. With democrats and Insurgent! united, the Lefollette bill might eas ily be passed. But at this point ths parliamentary bugbear intervenes. The democratic wool bill it officially before the sen ate; and the Lafollette bill must oome in as a substitute. Under ths (Continued on ram Two) FRANCE AND GERMANY IN MIDST WORST HEAT WAVE THEY EVER EXPERIENCED Not a Drop of Rain Has Fal len in Paris for Month, Much Suffering ft NUMEROUS DEATHS PARIS, July 21 Parts I welter ing in the worst heat szve experi enced In the last quarter of a century which Is made more severer by the phenomenal drought not drop of rain having fallen for a month. Th thermometer has risen steadily for the past elgTit days from II to sT. To add to the suffering of the people, there ha been a partial breakdown L'ln the water system. Many death from the heat have ooourred, the dally verage betas- sis nntn Iday when eleven Were reported. PruwmtAno w germaxy BERLIN, July 2 German. 1. faring from the most oppress Us heat wsive since 1004. Some f th ri. ) taring Instruments recorded 104 de gree Multitudes have gone to the suburban lakes 'but have Tn.H.i. L'llttle relief. The temperature alnnr I the sea coast are equally high. Manrvi beat prostrations are rMumi t.JA ..... V,.,VUIB, uOiuBn0 ami else where. M388 HoncPTlj OF CROP. MONTOOMBRT. Ala., July II Report to ths Advertiser frnm every ominty in Alabama are a little less hopeful in the outlook fv iv,. cotton crop than they were two week ago. mey indicate that there ha h... r. mi.... ul k . , . . " " ' "... . w ' . . n. inyai) Row would cans many boll to fan off and would otherwise Injur th weed. RESIGNS PA8TORATJB ATLANTA, O July . The Rev. W. L. Lingle. who for four years has been pastor of th First Presbyterian church here, today announced his resignation as pastor to accept th appointment ta th chair ef Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretations in the Union Theological seminary at Richmond, Va. . PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT GIVES CREDIT WHERE 4 Admits That Without Assistance of Democrats That Hia Hard Campaign for Reci procity Would Have Been Unavailing Democrats, Did "Not Play Politics, But Followed Dicatea of Higher Motive" BEVERLY, Mass., July ! J. That bis long, hard campaign. In behalf of the Canadian . reWproclty bill would have proved unavailing If the iem ocrata had not helped him, was the declaration of President Ta ft today, foHowtng his arrival here at the new summer white hnaee, "Parramntta," at I o'cloek thin morning from Wash ington. "Without the aid of the democrats," said the president In the first statement be has mad since the reciprocity Mil pawed the senate yea. terday, "reorprodtyf woat nave been lW." iWk. Am a--a MJI n 'nWw null, -The democrat dM 6t 'play noli las' In the o1lnpuiaJ sense in which those word are used," said the pres ident "but they followed the dictates of a hlgiher policy." For Bears tary of State Knox and his assistants whi) conducted the ne gotiations and framed the pact the president sM more than a word of prals. Those republicans, he said, who fought for reciprocity and "some of whose, votes were necessary to the passage of the bill, mar properly en joy mutual felicitations on a work well done." In his own judgment the president declared the agreement would mark DE FRANCE BY A FATALITY Brother of Noted Racer Col lapsed While Car Was Go ing at Mle-a-Minute LE7MANS, Frnnoe, July 23 The grand prlx de France, which was run here today under the ansphs of the Auto club of Harthe, waa marred by a fatal accident. The axle of the ma chine driven by Maurice Fournler, brother of the noted automobile rac er, oollapsed whpn the oar was speed ins; more than a mile a minute In an endeavor to ovor take the French driver H emery Kournler was orushed to death henedth the car and his me chanician wan hurled hundred feet Into a field anl seriously Injured. Th race dr"T the biggest nrowd since the WrltrM aviation trials In 190S. I Fourteen stnrrTu came to the line; for the race, wt.l h was over a dl- j tance of 6.1H kilometres (1(6 miles), hut no American competed. Hetnery won the event In neven hours and six minutes, covering Hie twelve rounds of the course at an .verage speed of 11 kllmetres (5 miles) sn hour. HOSPITAL FOB TCHRRKE BOSTON. July 21. The gift of a hospital to be known as "The John A. Andrew Hospl'nl'' has made made to Tuskegee Institute by Boston friends of the Institution according to word received tonight from President Booker T. Washington, The donors do not wisn their name made public. CHOWER& f WASHINGTON. July f i -Forecast for North Carolina: Local shower Won day, Taeedey probably fair, nod erato south winds, - . , .,.,. . an epoch In the relation between th United States and Canada and thoie who opposed the bill In , congress would flm) their prophesies disproved and their fears allayed by Its actual operations. Its passage by the Can adlan parliament, the last step: be for it become bond between th two countries, he hoped and believed would be forthcoming. Th satis faction that th actual e.perlsno In Its working will give," he said, "w confidently hope will secure its per manence. In , decBdV Ha, , benefits f t-ii.j ... . .1 ' United State end rtar Canada. On the way from Washington; th president had time for a Ipng chat with Senator Penrose, who led the fight for reciprocity with . Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh aad Sect retary Hide. Mr. Penrose left him at Philadelphia, Secretary Hills t Newark, N. J., and Mr. MacVeagh deserted the party at Boston. Th president had been thinking about a statement and "after sleeping ,ovf It," as he put It today, decided that It should be written and that credit should be given where credit em due. In his statement the president re OF MEMORIAL DAT IS Descendant of John Adams, Wife of Judge Vaughan. of San Francisco WASHINGTON, July tl Th woman credited with having first ex pressed the Idea of a general mem orial day, Mr.. Sue Landon Vaughan, la dead bare at ths home of th Rentem Star, a Masonic order, on whkrh she was dependent. She was a descendant of John Adams, tho second president ef the United Stats. On April 1, 1166, she led seme Houthern women In strewing with fldwers the Confederate graves in Vlckslmrg and the date and custom were perpetuated In the South. Three years later, May 80, was adopted throughout the North as memorial day. Mrs. Vaughnn was of distinguished a rK-w ry, and was tho wife of Judge J. H. Vaughan of San FrnnclBco. The earthquake there dentroyed the family property, and his subsequent death left lira Vaughan without resoutves. Her body will be oared for In Washington by the Masor.io order. SENATOR OWEN UP FOR SPEEDING; WASHINGTON, July II. Senator j Owen, of Oklahoma.' WSe One of I "i persons arrested today rn Chevy ' Chase, Md charged with overspeed- ; lng automobiles. The defendants put up collateral to Insure subsequent ap- pearance. RTICIBE PACT MIDDLBTOWN, f. T., July it Edward D. Crans, formerly editor of the Mlddletown Daily Press, and wK a middle aged couple, were found dead In their horn thl afternoon. They had carried out a suicide pact by drinking carbollo acid after mak ing all arrangement for funeral. Mr. Crans was dressed In her bridal clothes, which she bad saved for more than a eoore ef year. .Man and wife were locked In each other's embrace, A letter was left complaining that poverty hal 0 "' "" en them to sn!f-dtruct!on." CREDIT IS DUE sorted to th us bt Mi first person, unusual In statement from th whit bouse. In order that It mlht appear ore truly hi own, -Th statement follow! - . '"That I am very much pleased with th passage of th Canadian rpro clty bill through both houses of con gress goes without saying. 1 . believe and hop. It will be followed by sim ilar action by ths Dominion parlia ment. In my Judgment, th golpg into effect of th agreement win mark new epoch in th relations between ffce"VnH Mtr ii ffm"wrft will tend to a marked Increase in th trad between the two countries, which will 1 In very way beneficial to, both. '' ''. "I hop th credit that belongs to Secretary Knot and his special assis tants at th state department In th negotiating and framing of th pact asd their luold aiplanatlon and ds fenc Of it term, will hot be with held. "In a sense the bill passed ws 4 non-iwrtlsan measure, though the republicans who voted for It probably did so on one economic theory end Oowrfnnesl w Pug Sill TD T Wants Status as Prisoner Determined, to Know as to Parole feiU may NBW ORLEANS, July II. Chas. W. Mors has appealed to the United States Circuit court from the recant derision of Judge Wm. T. Newman, of Atlanta, when he was denied heabeas corpus writ to secure his freedom from the Atlanta prison, where he Is serving fifteen-year sen tence for violation of the national banking laws. The papers In the eass were received by the clerk of the Circuit court here lets yester day and will be formally filed this week. Morse contended that the court should lit his status as a prisoner under a ten-year sentence or under a fifteen-year sentence in order that ha might be enabled k determine how much time he woum get off for good behsvior am when a parole might be applied for. He also con tended that the Atlsnta prison was for the detention of prisoners at hard labor, whereas he was not sentenced to hard labor. Nominate a Candidate - Nomination BlankGo od for 1,000 Vote3. The Ashcvillc Citizen 55,C40 Subscription Contest Candidate . . . Address . . . Telephone No. .. .... .. Only One Nomination Blank for Each C Will Count at 1,000 Votes. f JCufc out .and 1:!- cr esnd to Tt (' DAUGHTER. AGED 90 , IS LIVING WIN. HER Mrs. AL T, Proctor, 1 1 1 Years Old Was Born In Wake Co.. This State ATLANTA. Qa,. . July II Mrs. Mary T. Proctor, d 111 ?, real daughter of the American Rev olUjtlon. a woman who has lived In three centuries when tlrrlng events were making th history of nation,,' ha just been located In an humbi on room cabin In Bartow county, Georgia, Her sola companion are her daughter. Mis Mary Proctor, ged 0, and two grsat great grand chil dren, descendants of another daugh ter, who ar left of six generation of her femtiy. , . N , . Mr. Proctor wn born In Wok county, North Carolina. Sh Is the daughter of Way Trawlck, who left North Carolina about 1100 and later moved to Alabama, wher Mary ws married to Hiram Proctor when she was nineteen year of g. She was Mr. Proctor third wife. Her husband was a veteran of two war, th revo lution and th war of lilt. On a bed of straw, constituting mattress so thin that th rough plank slats can be seen thl daughter of the revoltitrmi lira, ' hr form ema ciated, akin wrinkled, almost a skele ton. Her aged daughter never tiring of her feeble efforts t glv her mother every possible normbrt admin ister to wants nd mis the toll In mall eotton and garden nMrh hear by. Th msagrs profit derived from this labor ah sdds to,th 111 a month psnslon Mr. Proctor rerelves for th sertlnet her fausbaotfj rendered In th wr of III!. . Sh ws born but fW ysrs ttM 0 surge Wshlnffton iw-t" i pm tdent 0org Washington was tii only president who served before Mrs, Proctor tiecam native Of North Crltni Sh ha lived under th ad ministration of It president, Includ ing John Adams' and William K. TafU ?.i'' Until a year ago. when tier mind became so enfeebled, Mr. Proctor would tell her great grmt trrandchll- (Ootnlnned n pure Two) innr nriititnrn , rn nut n NU.t mutu iu ruir 'ms nncrn iips hut ' blbU UbWUbUf Ml V VW I IN BRUTAL PRIZE FIGHT Two Young Hen Fight Until . Both Are Battered Be i yond Recognition ' - . " T BARE KNUCKLES DANBURK. Connrt July II On of th most brutal prit fight In Mils Mo tion for many year was held t So dom rssenMr la Boutnwt New -Tork between sit and seven thl morning when two Dan bury fighter, Uekin and Fsagan fought II round with bare knuckle. Th reere at temped to Mop the fight in th tenth found because of the punishment Dekln wa receiving, but the fighter refused to quit, and stayed until the list round Wheat Dekln was so badly battered that h had to glv up. HI bos waa pound ed to a pulp, hi eye closed ana lip cut and swollen and until tonight It waa thought that he had received ooncusston of the brain. After th . fight he waa taken to farm house and cared for until he was brought to his home her tonight. Fsagan also wa badly punished. Th men fought at 140 pound for purs of 1100. .