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ASHEWLLE . CITIZES. i THE WEATHEB FAIR Citisen Want Ads Bring Results . . jol. Xxviii., NO. 6? ASIIEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS THE SCIENTISTS FROM ALL OVEfl COUNTRY ! AT GREATJV1EETING Subjects Ranging From Origin v of Indian to Prevention of Mine Disasters AEROPLANE BUILDING UP FOR DISCUSSION Efforts Being Made to Improve vSanitary ....Conditions, In; t Mines of Country WASHINGTON, Dec 27 Subjects ranging from the origin of the Amer ican 4nuun to the prevention of dis aster In mines were . discussed by the leading scientists and economists ot the lulled btates today In the opening session of a lie American So ciety tor foe Advancement of Science and the thirty altllialed associations holding conventions in Washington tiuu wceit. Kvtiy phase ot aeroplane , building and operation Is to be dls- custeJ at "an airship session'1 ot the association and animal breedings, home economies and scientific re search wl.l be debated. The search for uiamondg in Arkansas was the Subject of a . discuss on before the ' Geological Society of America today. Btate geologist Perdue of Arkansas, said no proof had been found as - yet to show that the small area in whlcn the original Arkansas . dla ' morula were found In 1906 would b extended, "Below Standard" . H. P. Talbot of Boston, in an ad dress beforti the American Chemical . Society, declared 1 much of the ana lytical work now being done by : chemists was below the standard that should be maintained, because the chemists had permitted them selves 'to be placed in a secondary position. He said much of the analy tical work was done at a price that ; made it, .necessary for the chemist eltheiyto slight his work, or to do It ura Iocs to himself. An effort tcprevent duBt explosions in mines November and December, when they are most prevalent, has brought bout a condition that is puzzling reati" of mines' ' arid which Is still un , solved. Dr. "J." A. Molmes, chief of t the .bureau of mines told the science association that two experts of ths marine hospital service had . been called In to Investigate conditions. In the effort to drive out poisonous gases from mines by means of thy introduction of air through a toJ filled with steam, miners working in the warm moist atmosphere have de veloped the hook worm disease and tuberculosis at an alarming rate. Ef- . forts are being made to improve sanitary conditions. LATEST WITNESS BEFORE Tl Tells of How He First Came in Contact With Jas. B. McNamara LATEST STEP TAKEN LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 27. Co Incident with the appearance of H. W. Pohlman, business agent of the Seat tle Iron Workers' union, as a witness before the federal grand Jury which 'resumed Its investigation today in the nation-wide dynamite conspiracy, it became known that another resident of Seattle, Dr. G. D. Wagner, had ap peared before the Inquisitors and giv en important testimony. Dr. Wagner, who manages an electrical supply company, was said to have told of a meeting he had with James B. McNa tnara in Seattle In August last year. Dr. Wagner's business was situated opposite the Lyons building which wag damaged by dynamite on August SO, 1910. The Lyons building explo sion was credited to James B. McNa mara, who, at that time, was said to ,have made his first dynamiting expe dition to the Pacific coast. Accord ing to the testimony Dr. Wagner Is said to have given a man whom he afterward Identified by newspaper pic tures as James B. McNamara, took a part of one of his destructive ma ' chines to the Wagner company for re pairs. ; Another . witness was William Brown, an employs of the Los Angeles Times. He testified that the morning before the "Times building was de stroyed, October 1, 118, he met , James B. McNamara in the. basement .near the spot where the actual ex- plosion occurred. According to Brown, McNamara said he was look ing for work as a newspaper mailer. , After .. questioning Paul Bcharren fcurg, of the State Federation ot La bor, the grand jury adjourned. The federal court adjourned until Satur day and as any indictments would have to be presented in that tribunal jthe' adjournment precluded the pos- . slbiiltr of the return of true bills be- i tors thai data- -. IE FEDERAL GRAND JURY GIVES NEf TESTIMONY PEHDIHC TREATIES IN'TBEBROUGHT REFDREJIfiPET This Issuo Was Said , to be Reason For Roosevelt De clining to Attend ' FLATLY REFUSES TO BE THERE NEVERTHELESS Mayor Gaynor Declines to ti Sefve, on Reception Com mute) at The Dinner NEW YORK, Deo. tT Although President Tatt is to be the guest ot honor and Andrew Carnegie Is down on the program as honorary presl ieati th, pen(llng arbttrttlon treaties with Great Britain and Franca for which Mr. Tatt has la-bored ana which Mr. Carnegie "has endorsed, are not to be brought officially before Hie citizens' peace -banquet to be held at the Waldorf Astoria Saturday night At least this Is the plan of a majority of the executive committee as voted today by Millard. J. Bloom sr. the executive secretary. The com mlttee had reached this decision, said Bloomer, sitter he ihad informed its members of the receipt several weeks ago of a letter from Theodore Boose velt, declining as an opponent of cer tain phases of the pending treaties, to attend the banquet. Mr. Bloomer then laid the matter before the "com mittee, and it was decided, he said that the sense of the body was that the specific purpose of the dinner was not to endorse the agreements. Wouldn't Go Anyhow i With this revised understanding Mr. Bloomer called on Colonel Roosevelt again today and again the colonel de clined flatly to attend, but as Mr. Bloomer said, this would not change the attitude o.f the promoters toward the scope of the gathering. In other words, It was for the purpose of pro moting "world peace In general- with out reference- to any treaty in ' par ticular." Whether President' Tatt and Mr. Carnegie understood this when they accepted Invitations to the ban- Quetv.Mr. Bloomer -could not say. This raised at the time the Invitations were sent out. ' At Mr. Carnet !' residence It was said that he had accepted an invita tion to the affair with the idea that Che arbitration treaties were to be the paramount topics and that he had heard nothing of the change of plans until today. Notwithstanding this It was said that Mr. Carnegie had, no comment to make. Mayor Gaynor declined today to serve on the reception committee at the dinner. TELEGRAM READS THAT E Russians no Respectors of Persons in Conduct To ward Persians UNHEARD-OF CRUELTY LONDON, Dec. 27 The Persia committee, composed of prominent Englishmen interested In Persian af fairs has received the (following tele gram from the provincial assembly at Tabriz, sent through the "Persian so clety of Constantinople.'" On December 21 Russian troops attacked and seized the adminlstra tlon buildings. They trampled stand ards under foot and killed and de spoiled Innocent men and women. They also looted the shops. The lnhabi tants after extraordinary forbearing began to defend themselves and forced the Rusians to evacuate the government offices. On December 22 the Russians bombarded the city until sunset, consternation increasing hour ly. On December 23 In consequence of orders from the central govern ment to cease fighting the Inhabitants took no steps to defend themselves, but the Russians renewed the bom bardment, firing from the environs of their consulate at women and other Innocent persons. They wounded or made captive the wives and children of many respectable citizens and set fire to numerous buildings anil mosques. The inhabitants still remain ed quiet on December 25, but the ferocity of the Russians greatly in creased. They killed many women and 'children and a large number of buildings were burned by them." THAW'S AFFAIRS WOUND I7P PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 87. Ths final affairs of Harry Kendall Thaw. an inmate of Mattawan asylum and the slayer of Stanford Whits, were wound up today when Referee In Bankruptcy Wml R. Blair, directed tlfat checks for 22 per cent of the amount of the claims against Thaw's estate fee mailed to his creditors. Thaw's liabilities were about IJ00, 000. The principal claim was that of his mother, Mrs. Mary Choplay Thaw, for I20M74. , STERN MEASURES WILL BE TAKEN BY PERSIA Dislocation of Telegraph Jlncs Makes It Hard to Get News of Outbreaks SITUATION OF GRAVE COMPLEXITY ARISES Doubts Increase as to Whether Persian Independence Will be Restored LONDON. Dec 27. The Russian government has decided upon stern measures to suppress disorders at Ta briz and other disturbed points in Persia. The dislocation of the tele graph lines makes It impossible to get a reliable narrative of the out breaks. Tet it cannot be - doubted that a situation of the gravest com plexity has arisen. As reports of Russian progress in Persia and stories of the lndlsctiml- ate killing of natives In Tabriz and Resht, and of the destruction of Per sia's constitutional government under Russian menaces continue to reach England, the people are becoming in creasingly disquieted at the British government's eomplicity which the foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, thinks Is a matter of policy and com pelled by the Anglo-Russian agree ment Doubts also have been in creased as to whether Persian Inde pendence ever will be' restored to even the feeble status It had before this last-assault -by Russia. Jf par liament were sitting there would un doubtedly bo severe questioning of the government on this subject and an arraignment of the foreign office, SEVERE PUNISHMENT ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27 A i semi-official statement issued this eve : Ring says that the Russian govern ment, in view of "acts of -foolhardy aggression committed against the Russian forces and institutions in Ta- briz, Rrsbt and Ens II, sometimes fol dead,- Has decided that -the severest punishment of the guilty is merited and Russian commanders in conjunc tion with Russian consuls are instruct ed to adopt the most strlngest meas ures. These measures, as set forth In the statement, include the arrest and trial by court martial of all participants In the attacks,' the disarmament of the Fldals and other troublesome ele ments, destruction of places where re sistant? might be offered and what ever else is deemed necessary to re- (Continued on lMliW) VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY RETURNED IN CASE OF State Fails to Fix Blame for Fire Horror, When 147 Were Killed DEFENDANTS WEEP NEW YORK, Dec. 27. The state failed today in Its effort to fix the blame of the fire horror of March 25, 1211, In which 147 employes of the Triangle Waixt company lost their lives. A verdict of "not guilty" was returned late today, by Che Jury In the, case of Isaac Harris. and Max Blank, proprietors of the factory who were Indicted In connection with the holocaust. The jury came In at 4.20 p. m., after deliberating for an hour and forty-five minutes. The' pro nouncement of acquittal was first ta ken quietly by the defendants but after an adjournment to an ante room, they gave way to their emotion in tears when embraced by relatives and friends. As tiey passed out through a lane of policemen to the street a large crowd of men, women and children awaited them. One hys terical man tried to press through the throng, crying: Not guilty 7 Not guilty? Murder, murder, murder." Hfc fell to the steps of the court house In convulsions, gasping taat he had lost a sister In the fire. By ths time the excitement was over the defendants had darted Into a subway entrance escaping the hostile crowd. Harris and Blank were not charged in a wholesale manner with - tat deaths that -occurred at the fire, but specifically with manslaughter in the case of Margaret Schwart, a young girl who was found dead near a door on tbe ninth floor of the building. The main argument of both prosecu tion and defense was directed against this door, the stats introducing .over a hundred witnesses in an attempt to prove that It was locked -and ths ds fanse refuting this contention-by a mass of testimony. - - ."I ' MONGOLIA WILL BE PROCLAIMED Action Com: Simultaneously With Cutting off From China of Vast Dependency of Turke stm Both Will Pass Under Ruttian Influence and May be An i- hexed at Any TimeForcefu1 Element in Arrival of Dr. Sen , , PEKING. Dec! J.2;2 a. m. Mongolia, which falmost equals China prober In sis, will be proclaimed In dependent tomorrow simultaneously with the cutting? off from China of the Vast depnadetcy of Turkestan,. Both , will aaf undor Russian in fluence and will! practically , become Russian protectorates. Russia at any Urns will be moH to annex them. A grand Khran wiiS be named as mon arch of Mongolia!, , Ths conduction of the trans-Mongolian, railway for which Russia hits long sought per mission from Ch'iia, will now be a matter of- time, T ir4a thereby com ing' nearer to Paif ter thres or four days. '- Russian influence wilt flank ths Ja panese sphere In Manchuria perilous ly, and a Japanese alliance for the sake ot preserving Japanese interests may sooner or later be expeoted. Rus sian officers and officials If not ths Russian government proper have In- ANXIETY RELIEVED IN U.S. Troublesome M o r o s Dis armed Without Bloodshed Reads Cablegram WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 Anxiety In the war department today was re lieved by a cablegram from Gov ernor General Forbes of the Philip pines confirming the press report of the success of General Pershing s attempt 'to disarm without blood shed the troublesome Moros who had sought refuge on Mount 'Dajo. The governor general s cablegram read : "John J. Pershing reports 100 Mo ros surrendered. Opposition to dis armament practically ended. Consid er his management of affairs has been masterly." Officials of the Insular bureau be lieve General Pershing thus has made It possible for a large number of peacefully Inclined natives to take up agriculture and thereby greatly stimulate the development of the Islands. The disarmament of the Mo res Is the culmination of a year's work by the military authorities. NEW PENSION BILL MAT BE MODIFIED WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Senator Works, or California, will attempt 'to attach to the Sherwood pension hill a provision absolutely prohibiting any special pension bills and making In eligible for pension any person who attempts to get special legislation. Senator Works hopes to stop the flood of special pensions which are passed by congress at each session. In spits of ths fsx t that the senate com mittee on pensions Is framing a sub stitute for the Bherwood bill which would scale down the pensions pro posed the measure as It came from ths house has found many supporters In ths senate who favor the "dollar-a-day" allowance. WASHINGTON, Dec. J7 Forecast: For North Carolina, fair., colder Thursday with brisk west to north rss winds, Friday lair. Fond Recollections, INDEPENDENT PROVINCE TODAY fluencad this actton In Mongolia. r ; DIL 8KN As PRESIDENT , SHANGHAI, Dec, IT. It is Mort ed that the delegates of ths eighteen provinces of China proper Intend to meet at Nanking- on December II to elect Dr. Sun Tat Sen as president of tbs provisional government of? ths united provinces. The arrival of Dr. Bun Yat Sen hag injected an entirely new and forceful element ihto ths ranks and councils erf the revolution ists, Thers Is every evidence that Dr. Bon Is receiving more cogsldorstlon thaaother Jeaders of the -revolutionaries bere.'-'Hln .rnslilenes1 It wowdra from morning till evening wtth'rp resentatlves of all ths provinces, -generals and governors, with whom Jie has continual consultations. , . -:, Selection of Cabinet The delegates from the province! of China proper, who have bean at tending ths Nanking convention, ADEQUATE SYSTEM OF : - DEFENSE FOR STREAM t Proposed Abolition of Hew Orleans Naval Station Strongly Opposed NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 17 Since ths formal opening of Southwest pass with its It foot channel to the gulf, the commercial organisations of this city today decided to take their fight for sn adequate system of defense for the Mississippi river to the Joint army and navy board In Washington together with ths protest against the proposed aboli tion of the New Orleans naval sta tlun. A letter of appeal signed by the heads of all the commercial or ganlzatlons was forwarded to ths "board tonight. Caltsng attention to ths fact that improvements in the passes valued at I16.00v.0vo and ths naval sta. tlon valued at 13,000,000 would be Jeopardised in the event of hostili ties which might block ths Missis sippi river and a consequent Indefi nite paralysis of the river's ocean commerce, the letter appeals for a defense for the mouth off the riw r "which. In our opinion can no longer be delayed and that said de feme can only be effected by war vessels actually present la this har bor as fixtures; that the up-keep of government vessels, dredges, barges, light house tenders, together with work on commercial vessels would put ths naval station on a paying basis." WATTEROON CAXCEIS DATES. CHARLESTON, 8. C. Dec. J7. Anticipating strong opposition by German and Irish-American cltlsens of. this city to a resolution to be in troduced at ths conclusion of tnt ad dress of Colonel Henry Wattersott endorsing the proposed arbitration trattes between ths United States, England and Franc . friends of the Kentucky editor decided to cancel the speaking engagements scheduled for tomorrow evening. Although a committee- composed ot Germans and Irish-Americans had not decided up on a report recommending what ac tion to take if such a resolution was Joffered, the undercurrent of opposi tion to ens treacles was sucn inai friends of Colonel Watterson tho'ugnt It best to eliminate Charleston from the list of cities in which he Is to speak. It was explained that there was no antagonism to Colonel Wat terson personally. " i Colonel Watterson ' left Savannah today for Charlotte, N.- C , cams In a body to Shanghai whers they met Dr, Ben, later returning to Nanking. There la treason , to believe that-they wilt mast on December. II and . elect Dr, Ben president of the provisional government of ths united provinces of China proper by a unani mous vote ot ths delegates ot ths eighteen provinces, r After that has been dons tht revolutionaries plan the selection of a cabinet by ths president who wilt than Issue a proclamation setting forth Wis terms offered by the revolutionaries , to ths . Msnohus and ths imperial court in evsnt of their peaceful surrender. ' Phould this not ocour the campaign gfalbft-fhs- MancHwMin the- imper ialist Will bt continued aiid Peking will - taken. Dr. Hun Tat Ben evi dently does not retard the peace con ference hare seriously and will pro ceed . with hi plans .without regard to Peking. - No decision has yet been reached as to whether ths armistice la to be continued. DIRECT ACCESS TO ML -FIE10SMATJE RESULT Tennessee and West Vir ginia Coal Mines May be Brought Close CHARLOTTE, N. C. Dec, If,- E. C. Duncan, a director of Norfolk and Southern railway, who ha been en gaged recently In negotiating for ths purchase of several small Independ ent lines which form connecting links between Norfolk and Charlotte left this morning for New York to attend a meeting of the directors of ths North Carolina Trans-continental Construction company, which recent ly began building a line of railroads from Knoxvllle, Tnn to Rutber fordton, R. C. It I reported that Mr. Duncan will endeavor to secure at ths directors' masting an Interest In the construction company for ths Norfolk and Southern which will give ths latter a connection with ths tins under construction and thus direct access' to ths coal fields of Tennessee and West Virginia. RUSSIAN A BAffDOJf BANK ST. PETBRBBITRO, Dec. 17 Ad vices received hers today from Ta brls in Persia, say that 'ths Russian troops huve been forced to abandon ths Russo-Perstan bank, which Is situated In :h prlrcipr baSar and which they have hitherto been pro tecting. There Is about 1160,800 In specis tying In the bark, wlilch Is now entirely without 4 guard. A bloody revenge Js demanded to day by the oyoq Vrpmja. In return for the reslslanoe against Russian oc cupation at Tabrta," Resht and Ebxll. Ths government Is severely condemn ed for being "taken by surprise Just as she was at ths Urns of ths war with Japan." ' HAPPY Vt RSVjSWQE , ' ROME, Oa., Dec. 17. Douglas H. Harris, afeil twenty-fire, formerly of LaGrange, Ga., waa shot and instantly killed here tonight by Uriah L, Starnes, a traveling talesman, f urnes Immediately surrendered to ths police. Hs mads a statement cahrglng that Harris had wrecked his home and de claring that he was happy in getting his revenge. fttarnas tonight went to ths hotel whsre Harris was employed and after talking with him few minute at the cigar counter, turned and shot him in ths back. After Harris had fallen, tarns stood over him and emptied ths contents of tils pistol into ths . , i ' - m PLANS FAILED FOR MERGING MEAT PACKING CONCERNS Attorney For Swift & Co. Tes tifies in Trial of The Ten 4 Chicago Packers GIVES DETAILS OF proposed Mergers , Late Gustavus Swift Was to be Its President Other . Proposed Officers , CHICAGO, Dec. IT. Albert It Vesder, attorney for Swift 4k Co., and ths first witness called by ths govern ment In ths trial of ths ten Chlcato packers, testified today that the de fendants mads two efforts to organ ise a merger in ths summer ot 1103 and that their efforts to flnanee t he enterprise wore successful In both In-' stances. Ths first plan was to In clude ths Armour. Bwltt, Morris and Cudahy interests with m eapltal of ttm,000,00 divided as follows: Bonds, 1141,710,000; ' preferred, stock, IHI,7lO,oooi common stock, I 111,000,000. After ths promoter had failed to finance ths . proposition' through Kuhn, Loeb 4k Co., of New York, ths Changs was planned to pro rids tor a capitalisation of I62J.OOO,. 00, but ths condition of tho mony market mads It Impossible to finance the modified merger, Mr. Vesder ten-! tided that B. H. Harrlman, Jamesl SHllman and other New York flnsn-' cllers wen to have furnished ths capital and ths amount they were to receive as compensated was $19, 000,000. , , The story of the two proposed mer gers was told chiefly by -the reading1 of contracts and agreement entered Into by Interested parties to ths Jury by counsel fur the government who then offered' ths documents In evi dence, ' Proposed Officers Ths lata Oustavu F. Swift wns to have been president of ths mamer, Edward Morris and Michael .Cudahy were to have been vlct-praslUnnts, ami' J,,- Ogden Armour, aUalMMv f tUi xsnutlvs and flnanulal commltts.-. ) The wttntss told of ths organisa-i tlon of ths National Packing .: Co., March 1M, II9S, but denied it had any connection with the proposed msrter.' Mr, Vssdsr was on ths witness stand' when court adjourned. Hs will again testly tomorrow, - Hsnry Veeder, tan' Of A, H. Vssdsr, who Is fatd to have acted as secretary of ths old peck-l era pool, known to. ths government! under ths nsma of "post office : bor Mo, 147," will both next witness. OVERPROOUCTIOIIOFCOIL SATS COAL STATISTIC!!! , OFTHEU. 5. COMMENT! "'' '.'v';:-1"'1 'V : . ... . 'B ': 'i-. ;:'J". Few More Unsatisfactory'- Years in History of Coal Mining Industry' . GIVES HIS REASONS WASHINGTON. Dso. lf.-Thr! ha been an overproduction of coai this year and a consequsnt strugglsi for trsde which depressed prices, in! ths opinion expressed today by Ed-j ward W. Parker, oal statistician fori ths United State geodetic survey.! Mr, Parker added that - there had' been few mors unsatisfactory years' In ths history of tbe coat mining In-j dustry and that prices were depress-! sd to such an extent that when thai total return for ths ysar were foot-l sd up the balance probably would bo on ths wrong side of tfhs ledger, al-j though ths production of coat lr ths Vnlted States for ths year was prob-j ably second only to the record year' of 1(10. "T.ie anthracite industry in 1111," hs said, "probably was as Arm a any other In the country, A part of ths In-' erease In production was due to the, stocking of fuel In anticipation of, April l, lilt when ths wags agres-l ments terminate. Ths bituminous! vrade on ths whole has been demor alised and discouraging; and much of the business was oonductsd at A losr, T.is principal cause fir this. particularly In the eastern states, has! been the depression In the iron trsde." Ths total production of coal for (hs year I estimated at 40,000,00 tons only 11,000,000 less .than ts 1110. Of this year's , production 400,000,009 tons was bituminous eoal ' MISAPPROPBIATIOSf CHARGE V NEW YORK, Dsev 17. Harry -Graves Carter,, president of an aero plan company, was arrested today, charged with misappropriation of funds ot ths company., Ths com plainants are- Arthur A. Hart, vlie, president; Rolay E. Blbblns, tren-j nrsr, and Wm. A. Carter, a dlmctor' ot ths company. The latter Is nn un cle of Harry Carter. Ppecin. i. "v tsr is charged with mlnr urns of io, fm, '.
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