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VOL. XXVII., NO. 282
'A8HEVILLE, N. .C, 6DNDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1911
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RECIPROCITY PACT
REFERRED TO THE
CANADIAN PEOPLE
Dominion Parliament Dis
solves. General Election
Will be Held Sept 21
BITTER CAMPAIGN
IS NOW PREDICTED
Laurler and His Supporters
Will Take the stump for
Reciprocity
OTTAWA. Ont.. July 2. The elev
enth parliament f Canada passed
out of existence today and upon the
political complexion to a new one to
be elected Bept. 21 wilt depend the
fate of the reciprocity agreement be
tween the Dnltd Stats ,and Canada.
Premier Laurler decided to ask at
once an lmmediat dissolution at a
meeting of his cabinet this afternoon,
and at once notified Earl Gray, the
governor general.
Practically every member will have
left the capital by tomorrow, and the
campaign on the reciprocity Issue will
begin all over tbV Dominion early
Bex. wee.
A Surprise.
The announcement of dissolution to
day came somewhat as a surprise, as
few persons expected It before next
Wuak mi t earnest. TITe absoyite re
fusal of the conservative minority" in
the house to close Ove. debate, .on. the.
government's reciprocity resolution
and permit 'a' vote' which' would mean
Its adoption, and the improbability of
a change In their attircde, resulted
in th, government's decision that If
was useless to keep parliament sit
ting. The new parliament wljl be sum
tiioney to men Uw. 11, and supply
bills will bs voted at once.
It is generally agreed that the two
months campaign before he country
will be vigorous and even bitter. Rec
iprocity probably will be the' sole 1
ieue, althougn tht conservatives In
; Quebec may seek to inject ths, naval
'tuna mvv the contest ..The aiitt-an-i
nexatlon ery' already lias been raised
'iyv ths onjaejeims ,ln m parts h t
' tha 'country, .' ; ' 1 , ; '..-,'"1
'"M Laurlpr to Talie the fitnmpv
SlrWjifrid Laurler and Mis minis
ter will take the fttimp and conduct
pTatform campaigns In all provinces.
The parliament Just dissolved had a
; mem iersti I p of 1SS liberals, 85 con
. servaflves and ' three Independents,
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OUTRAGEOUS FALSEHOODS
SAYS LOUfS LEDYARP AS
TO DISCREDITING STOCK
Declared Absorption of
Tennessee Company by
"Trust" Proridential
"NOT ILLEGAL"
NEW YORK, July 2. Lewis Cass
Xiedyard, who was the attorney-, for
Oliver Payne and the Tennessee Coal
Iron syndicate In 1907. when the
merger of that corporation with the
United States Steel corporation was
, effected, told today to the committee
i of the house of representatives which
i Is inquiring Into the affairs of the steel
I trust that he was the man who first
suggested the transaction to J. Pler
. pont Morgan.
Mr. Ledyard said Mr. Payne was
the first to suggest that the United
States Steel corporation take over the
Tennessee company in order to avert
the failure of the brokerage firm of
Moore Schley, and ttlat Mr. Payne
asked him to see Mr. Morgan, ac
quaint hlra with the grievous situa
tion resulting from Moore Schley's
j loans on Tennessee stock as collateral
(and urge him to seek relief from the
steel corporation. Mr. Ledyard inci
dentally surprised ths members of the
house committee when. In enumerat
ing the loans of Moore Schley at
that time he stated tbat Mr. Morgan's
firm had loaned the brokerage firm
money on Tennessee collateral, a loan,
however, that the firm did not call.
Intimations of a conspiracy on the
part of the Morgan firm or the steel
corporation to discredit Tennessee
Coal Iron stock so that the steel
corporation could take It over easily
jwera denounced by Mr. Ledyard as
("outrageous falsehoods." and 'ha ve
hemently declared that the absorption
of the) Tennessee was a providential
i and beneficial act on the part of tha
I United States Steel corporation.
, ' ' Mr. Ledyard said that the transac
tion, In his opinion, was not Illegal,
aiid ha lauded the act of Judge Elbert
H. Gary and Henry C. Frick la going
J before ths then President Roosevelt
,end acquainting him with ths facts
(regarding the merger before It was
! effected. ;
I The steel Inquiry will be continued
itnr was J . ... . .
HAS
TAFT MADE UP
HIS MIND TO VETO
General Impression of Those
Talking With Him Is That
Such Will be Case
CLARK CONFIDENT OF
SATISFACTORY BILL
Coalition Maintains Strength
With no Real Change In
the Situation
' WASHINGTON. July 29. Demo
cratic leaders of the house adopted
anything but a conciliatory tone on
the wool Urlff situation today. Chair
man Lnrterwood "and Representative
Harrison of the ways and means com
mittee and other prominent ' demo
crats, expressed themselves tonight
In uufriendly terms toward a wool
tariff coir prom lee with the senate that
would mean the raising of the ori
ginal Underwood bill. Meantime
President Taft Is generally accredit
ed ty those who talked with him to
day as being fully determined to veto
the bill when it reaches him.
Key to Tangle
The present situation In the house
Is the key to the entire tariff tangle
in congress. Upon the action of the
house. early next week rests the possi
bility of further 'tariff legislation at
this session. Speaker Champ Clark ex
pressed 'confidence today that a' wool
bill would be agreed upon 4n . con
ference and that It would be signed by
the president. Other hAuse Isaders,
howevei .adopted ' a mora pessimistic,
view of the president's attitude and
contemplate the president's veto of
any wool bill framed' by the present
democratic-insurgent republican coa
lition In the senate. It is apparently
the desire of Chairman Underwood
and certain house leaders now to take
no chances of being placed an record
as endorsing a partly protective tar
iff bill.: They believe tho president
will Veto any bill, and they do not
want to be on record In f ay or of any
rniunM nDl i atralrht revenue
bill,, such, as ths. .Underwood bill U
merit is' the demand also of another
faction, .of -which Representative Har
rison of New York is leader that the
raw wool duty shall not be Increased
sbove SO per cent. The general ex
pectation. Is that the L toilette com
promise bill as it passed the ssn-
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LEON' MARTINEZ. YOUNG
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GIRL SENTENCED TO DIE
BBBsasMSBeasssBaw
But Six Days Elapse Be
tween Crime and Convic
tion, Record for Texas
FEELING WAS HIGH
PEC08, Tex., July 19. Leon Mar
tines, the Mexican youth, was con
victed at o'clock this afternoon by
a Jury on the charge of murdering
Miss Emma Brown at Saratoga last
Saturday. The death penalty waa as
sessed. A crowd attended the trial
and hundreds shook hand with Judge
Isaacs for his prompt work.
When Marlines attacked the girl
she fought desperately. He stabbed
her several times and fled. A posse
was scoured and captured him within
a fsw hours. Feeling reached that
pitch that the authorities asked for
stats troops to prevent a lynohlng, and
those officers have constantly guarded
the prisoner.
Mexicans at El Paso, aroused by
the threats of wreaking vengeance
upon Martlnes and fearing he might
not secure Justice, engaged an attor
ney to defend him. Counsel endeav
ored to show his. client was but six
teen years of age. and hence not a
subject for capital punishment under
the laws of Texas. ' Evidence wss in
troduced to show him to be eighteen.
years old and within a few hours aft
er that fact was established the jury
brought In a verdict of guilty.
But six days elapsed between the
commission of the crime and the con
viction, a new record for the swift
administration of Justice In Texas.
RESIGNS AS RESULT
OF INVESTIGATION
LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. July t.
Prank H. Lemon, deputy warden of
the Federal prison here, todsy tender
ed his resignation to Attorney Oes
eral Wlckersham to take effect July
11. .--j
Ths resignation of Deputy Warden
Lemon follows an investigation made
by agents of ths department of jus
tice, which has been under way for
five months.
Ths investigation. It Is said. re
sulted from charges that a, deputy
warden at ths federal prison had
mistreated a boy prisoner from Alas
ka.' This . dot. Clareno ., Ms It land,
died In the jwnlteuUarr. , jiJiSii-.
WOOL TARIFF BILL?
GftflTOflYOOriCMAri
IS FATALLY STABBED
BY AH M FRIEND
TolleyStamle Comes to Dea h
at Hands of Seth Wood. So
Coroner Declares
WOOD SAID TO HAVE
BEEN INTOXICATED
When Stamle Was Picked up.
He Was Found to Have
Eleven Stab Wounds
CANTON, N. C. July 19. Tolley
Stamey, a young white man who for
some time past has been employed by
the Champion Fibre company, was
killed yesterday afternoon shortly af
ter six o'olock by being stabbed with
a pen knife, .which the coroner's
Jury- declares; was in . the hands of
Seth Wood, a son of John Wood of
the North Hominy section. The fatal
stabbing occurred Just In front of the
Burnett store whloh Is situated with
in a short distance of the canton
city limits. In the section known as
Fergueontown.
Eyo Witnesses' Version
Eye witnesses state that Wood was
standing Just outside the Burnett
store hitching his horse, when Stamey
walked up and made soms remark
to , him . unheard by others.' , 'They
claim that both had knives, but that
Stamey put his Into his pocket and
that the . two men began to scuflle.
They say that Stamey struck Wood
and that ths latter In turn struck
Stamey, either with his fist of the
knife which he held. They then came
to a clinch and rolled over several
times and after the souffle had con
tinued for several minutes they were
parted and stamey was round to nave
been stabbed In eleven places. Upon
this discovery It Is said that Wood
started t6 run In the direction of
Hominy, but was caught before he
had gons very far. It was seven
minutes after tha stabbing, before
Stemay died. Upon examination It wee
found . that the femoral artery had
been-severed.' .i. .-. . ..V-v
' Coroner's inauest was' held as soon
as s, Jury could be secured and its
verdict was' that Trolley Stamey came
to- his deata by means of knife
wounds Inflicted by Seth Wood.
In the nrelimlnarr hearing- in mas
strata's court Wood was held with
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TO BE E
or
Cryihg Need of Mexico,
He Says, Larger Meas
ure of Education
MADERO'S PLANS
WASHINGTON, July The verb
al reporta that the ambassador to
Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, has made
to the president and Secretary Knox
regarding conditions In Mexico are
on the whole said to be very encour
aging. The ambassador found that
a number of peona entertained exag
gerated Ideas as to the personal ben
fits they would realise from the revo
lution. It has been somewhat difficult
for the provisional government to re
concile them to the fact that there
cannot be a wholesale sequestration of
private lands and a division on agra
rian principles among the populace.
LWIth an assurance that non-taxable
private estates of vast slse hereofter
are to bear their share of the burden
of the maintenance of the gwsrnment
It is believed that much of the clamor
will be satisfied. The crying need of
ths Mexlrsne Is a larger measure of
public education. Mr. Wilson believes.
It Is understood to be the policy of
Francisco I. Madero, Jr., should hs ba
sleeted president to urge upon the
Mexican congress an immediate en
largement of the present limited sys
tem of state schools.
GREGORY'S TRIAL
SET FOR TOMORROW
RICHMOND, Va.. July . The
trial or Louis U Ore gory, the former
cashier of the freight department of
tha 'Atlantic Coast Line, who IS
charged with embeszllng something
like IIS, 000 from his company, is
fixed for Monday next, but It appears
probable that ths ease will not be
opened at this term of the court as
one of ths most Important wltnssses
for ths railroad, James Fanner, Is
111 with appendicitis. Moreover, it
looks as If it might not be tried at
all. as It is understood that attor
neys representing the opposing inter
ests are sparring for an agreement
regarding a verdict, the company
which bonded Gregory holding ont. It
Is said, for a ton-rear sentence, while
Gregory's personal counsel are said
to be willing to svecspt a sshtooca of
ftv yearn,
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,.78 CANADIAN J k 4f JSX
ONLY EQUITABLE PENSION
THAT'S BASED ON SERVICE, SACRIFICE
Ungual! fyck Defense Mad
Pension Bill Scathingly Arraigns Gen, Keifer
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Made
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WASHINGTON. July I Aii un
qualinsd defense of his dollar-a-day
pension bill was made in ths house
today by Hepresantatlvs Sherwood of
Ohio,' as the' closing speech of a day
set aside to general debate sn ths cot
ton schedule tariff bill.
. Instead of . a pension bill based on
age, such as wss enaoted by ths re
publicans In JI07. or ss proposed by
ths Sullowsy Anderson bill, ths Ohio'
representative; declared that the only
equitable, bill from ths point of -view
of ths mn who really save ths union,
was "s Hieasurs bated Spon service
and sacrifice. . Hs sostalngty ar
raigned Qj"-,, Ksifer of? Ohio, Oenf
erar ' HatI'i6-'' ef .ht, state, and
John MeBnjey. edltef of the National
Tribune, -for1 opposing hit bill '"den.
eral Hall,'' He told ths house, 'did
not win h is stars as a brigadier gen
eral n tha war, .but by gallant con
duct In the a. O. P. forty years af
tsrwatds." General Sherwood filed a 'protest
against the-pensioning of "spring pul-
ITS WILL
PLAGE TICKET IN FIELD
Not Satisfied With Result of
Texas Election to Ask for
Investigation
FORT WORTH, Tex., July It. Out
of the conference of 600 prohibition
ists from all parts of Texas here to
day, following the stats-wlde prohibi
tion defeat Saturday, July 22, came
the determination to place a prohibi
tion ticket In the field next year and
the adoption of a resolution celling
upon the statu legislature which con
venes In sperlnl session next Monday
to Investigate the expenditure of
money to defeat prohibition, the In
vestigation to bfgin wMh the effdrt
to defeat submission of the question
to the people In 10, The resolution
provides for probing the money ex
penditure In every precinct. A com
mittee of ten. representing various
sections of Texas, was appointed to
consider alleged Irregularities In Sat
urday's election. The committee will
meet in Austin Monday morning and
confer on the situation.
No attempt was made today to can
vass the situation with reference to a
candidate for governor on the pro
posed ticket net year, but there wss
a marked demonstration when Cullen
F. Thomes, one of the prohibition
leaders, announced that above all oth
er candidates he preferred Thomas H.
Rail, of Houston. Mr. Ball stumped
the state for the prohibitionists In the
late campaign.
FARMF3R STABBF!)
RALEIOH. N. C, July 29. A
special from N'ashlvlle tonight gives
ths particulars of a fatal fight near
Westrays In Nash county In which
Tom Proctor cut to death Oray Hill,
In an affray. Both are prominent
farmers, of their section and the trou
ble Is ssld to have been caused by
liquor.
WASHINGTON. July II. Forscastt
North ' CarqJdnar Generally fair Sun
flay ana Monoagj light southerly
Open Sesame!
by Representative Sherwood,
as to Pensioning "Spring Pullets
leu" whloh hs xplalnsd' were girl
who marry old soldiers on thslr "last
legs.'' At tha ' ie . Urns hs ex
pressed ths belief that ths present
house could pass a petiaiod biU whloh
would pension ths widows of soldiers
without working a fraud on ths gov
srntnent by pensioning those who
married just to get a pension, ..';
Representees Hull, of Tennessee,
discussed ttrUl, rsvts.lon itnd scored
ths wool Uria bill s a political hy
pocrisy designed to delay '' tariff re
vision. Mr. Hull jaid, formsr Presi
dent iRooseveit stayed the- tariff 're-,
vision storm by throwing. (Irsbrands
Into ths sir so the- people- oould not
notice those falilnr on ih Mr heads."
"Hs MTtf Tharwlth reputotean prom
ises for ' restoration s sf rf protection
rats, "tbsra will ths greatest fat
frying nsxt, yssr In ths wlstory sf
tbs country. Republican promises to
rev) ths tariff if restored to power
may be made a pawn for millions to'
buy' the elaborate If possible.' De
nounclng ths Payno-Aldrlcn tariff
Mir SEEK GDNTIRUANGE
OF HENRYJIEATTIE TRIAL
Richmond Paper States
That Insanity Plea; May
be Used by the Defense
RICHMOND. Vs., July !. Counsel
for Henry Besttle, Jr., accused bjr the
coroner's Jury of the murder of his
wife, probably will seek a continuance
of the case when it Is called in the
Chesterfield county court Aug. II. The
defense Is said to have been consider
ing a change of venue on account of
the prospective difficulty of obtaining
a Jury in Chesterfield and on account
of local feeling. It wss stated In a
local paper today, too, that the Insane
Ity plea In behalf of the accused Is
being earnestly considered, and may
he the matn reliance of the defense.
In which event some of ths most
noted alienists In the United States
may figure in ths trial. Beattle's law
yers themselves have given no intima
tion .of what their line of dsfenss will
ba.
FRESH MOVEMENT
TROOPS TO TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 29. A
fresh movement of troops to .Texss Is
SonNrmplated late In September, sc
cordlng to army officers of high rank
at Fort Sam Houston, who sny word
has filtered ,down through military
channels that condition In' Mexico
are not pleasing to the authorities .(it
Washington.
It was admitted at the manuve-n
camp today that orders have been re
ceived from the war department to
have located and surveyed sites for
army division camp. In pursusnci
thereof army engineers have made
surveys at New Braunfels. thirty miles
north of this city.
Officers are now in Houston look
ing over the available ground and
other officers have been sent to El
Paso to select available places for
the mobilization of a large body of
APPEAL TV SUPREME COUHT
WASHINGTON. July 19 Ths gov
srtlmsnt will appeal to the Supremo
court the Herriman merger suit which
was decided In favor of ths rail
roads by ths United States Circuit
court st St Loots. Attorney General
Wlckersham today directed C. A
Severance, ths government's special
counsel In the ease, to prepare ths
appeal and fllo It as quickly as pos
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BILL ONE
of Ohio for Dollar-a-Day
and Others" -Protest
law as an "abomlbal Iniquity" and
"ghastly abortion," Mr. Hull said that
when It was passed each lobbyist In
ecstatic delight departed saying- '
"l oars not for ths stars that shins,
'I only know that IVs got mlns."
KILLED WIFE AND '':
COniHTTED SUICIDE
. OAINBSVIU.. Oa., July II.
After firing thrss shots at his . wlf
causing fatal Injuries,; Addis Oresn,
on sf I. W. D. Ureen, a wall known
farmer, committed sulclds hers this
afternoon. The Greens had been sen
araud son tiros jud met today to
reach sn agreement as to who should
havs possession , of their only ' child.
Oresn is said to have fired ens 'shot
Into his own body before Shooting his
wlfs, then reloading his pistol ' hs
walked to ths back porch of ths
houss snd poursd I mors bullets Into
his own body, dying Instantly.-
MINISTER
PITHED
Man Formerly in W. N. 0.
Methodist Conference in
Trouble in Virginia
DANVILLE, Va., July St. A mes
sage from Knoxvllle, Tenn., states
that Rev. D. P. Tate,' a former real es
tate and rental agent of this city, was
arrested there today and Is being herd
for the Danville authorities. Tata Is
wanted here on five specific, charges of
obtaining money under falss pre
tenses. He came hers In 1909 snd
ths fact that hs had bssn formerly
Identified with the Methodist confer
ence of Western North Carolina gave
him a social standing and orsdlt in
the business. v - -
Tate was sctlvs in church wor and
secured money from many of bis co
workers that has never been returned.
It is alleged that many of his real es
tate operations were fraudulent It Is
estlmatsd that Tats cleaned up be
tween fifteen snd twenty thousand
dollars hers.
ON ALASKAN TOCIL "!'!
sjsasanynssssssi s a-
WASHINGTON, July l9.-vSeare-tary
of the Interior Flsner left today
fir Chk-ago, where, after remaining
untlt Aug. 1, he will start on a tour
of Alaska to gain first hand Informa
tion on the situation there, particu
larly with reference to Controller Ssy
n!l other claims.
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BRITISHERS
THINK
MDROGGAfi
CRISIS
nmnTiniiiv mirn
rnflbiibHLU uitn
Negotiations However Are Not
Simple and May Drag on
for Months Yet
GREAT RELIEF AS TO
PRESENT SITUATION
Would bo Better Say the Peo
ple for England to Have War
Now Than Later
LONDON. July 19. Ths Moroccan
crisis Is practically snded. At least
this is tha opinion v of 4 ths English
public, although tha forolin fftcs la
careful to point out that the negotia
tions are not simple and may drat
on for months. -
Whlls greatly rellsved at ths Im
provement In ths situation even seri
ous minded Britishers, in discussing
ths crisis, art Invariably of ths opin
ion that as war with Germany seems
probabls. It would be far better for
England if It aheuld eoms how than
later wbsn ths Germsa navy will havs
bssn strengthened and also that Eng
land would better eoms to blows with
Germany over Morocco or soms que
tlon In which Francs II dlrsotly Inter
sated, than on a question In which,
Fngland and Germany only grs con
cerned. -In
the formsr ess England would
be assured of ths assistance of Franc
whlls In the latter Franca . might,
without dishonor, offer sympathy, but
stand aalds when It earns to a fight. --
Germany, according to the English
view, has mads a bluff which' Is be--Ing
promptly called, and she Is now
preparing to withdraw,
00NrF.nF.NrTC with rMPrrnon.
. iWlNEMtTEKDB, Prussia. July SB.
Kmperdr William today had a von
fersno lasting several hours with th
Imperial chancellor, Dr. Von Peih.
mann-Hollweg, and Huron Von KMr-ten-Wsechter,
ths f stnry for fr4
sign affairs, with t' irenc to Mo
rocco. . , - r ' - "
TKHEITEmLw Until lu
SPHKEfl CKE!P -CUFK
'MM 17BITER
. . . ' Vs f
Said That Congress Would
Feel . Shock ' of Big
Charge of Dynamite
PRECAUTION TAKEN
WASHINGTON, July II. Ths po.
lies fores of Washington snd ths sps
elal guardians of governmsnt build
Ings here have had an uneasy week
as ths result of a threatening letter
received several days sgo addressed to
Speaker Champ Clark. Ths writer of
ths anonymous epistle, who described
.himself as a discharged employe of
ths Washington navy yard, declared
In ths latter that If congress did not
start a navy yard Investigation by
Thursday hs would sxplods twelvs
pounds of dynamlts that hs hsd con
cealed In a prominent public building
In Washington, and that coogress
would "fsel the shock."
Ths Isttcr wss signs "Ons Who
Has Been Abused."
' It did not reach SpsaWer Clark but
was turned over by Private Secretary
Baasford to Joseph Blnnott, doorkeep
sr of the houss Of representatives. The
latter laid It before MaS. Sylvester,
chief of ths Washington police fores,
and unusual precautions wars taken
to detect suspicious characters about;
the principal government buildings.;
Thursday passed without Incident aeO
the capltot authorities breathid ssrla.v
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ORIGINAL ORDER MODIFHCD 'i
ht. LOUW. July I9.A dscres
modifying ths origins!: order for ths
dissolution of ths Standard Oil com.
pany was filed in the United mates
Circuit court hers today. '
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