THE ASHEV1LL13 CTHZJSN,' WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23,1915.
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SCOTTISH RITE REUNION.
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The June reunion of the Scottish Rite
bodies in Asheville will begin at 2:30
o'clock today and continue through Thurs
day and Friday. Brethren of other juris
dictions, sojourning in Asheville, are fra
ternally welcome. adv.-lt
BATTLE FLAGS 1ST
fiJTjnNFM
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two deya ahead of. chdul time, ac
cording; to Major Normoyle, In com
'. mand. Provision iwhlfih are not
perishable will all be distributed to
these kitchens not later ' than next
Saturday and, under a scheme out
lined toy Captain McCaskey, who, with
Major Orove, Is assisting- Major Nor
moyle, the arrival of every trainload
of veterans will be followed by the
supply of immediate mess require
ments. A remarkable system for keeping
track of the veterans from every
state has been devised with the re
sult that any delay iwhen they reach
camp Is practically an impossibility.
Almost every day 'brings hews of
larger allotments of veterans from
the various states. The latest request
for more space comes from Virginia,
which reports that Instead of 1,800
U will send at least 2,500.
BLEASE QUEERS THINGS.
COLUMBIA, 8C, June 24. Adjutant-General
W. W. Moore, of South
Carolina, today received a telegram
from General A. I Mills, chief of the
division of imilitla affairs, U. 8. A.,
Washington, Informing him that no
further federal assistance, either in
'.personnel or equipment, will be af
forded the organized militia of this
state because of the attitude of Gov
ernor Cole I Blease toward the en
forcement of federal militia law, as
expressed in letters recently wrlttenj
thy the state executive to Adjutant
General Moore and the secretary of
war.
The telegram from General Mills
to the adjutant-general was as fol
lows: "In accordance wilth action with
war department this date, taken In
consequence of attitude of governor
of your state toward enforcement of
-federal militia law as expressed in his
letters of May 5 and 27, to you, and
of June 11.., to secretary of war, no
; "further- federal assistance, either In
personnel or equipment, will be af-
ha YUy s1,,siMBEfi ., mj
1 CONTINUES
1 tUMTHIL tnjILY-;:
1 We Fosfflvely list IdDve M Tie I
imfU TTTTT oh 11 a ri e a to a Wn
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forded the organised militia of your
state, ner will further expenditure of
federal funds In hands of disbursing
officer be authorised by secretary ef
war, except to. cover such obligations
as may hav, been already Incurred
and approved by secretary of war.
Requisition for property now en
hand In militia division Is disap
proved and no further requisition
will be honored. This Information l
telegraphed you In connection with
plans for encampment of South Caro
lina organized militia this summer In
order that you may be guided by such
telegrams and act accordingly. Dis
bursing officer has been Informed of
action by war department.
"MILLS, '
. "Chief Division Militia Affairs."
NO-AID FOR 8. CAROLINA.
WASHINGTON, JJune 24. War de
partment officials said today that the
defiant attitude of Governor Blease
left no alternative but to withdraw
federal support from the South Caro
lina militia. They declared that he
not only Ignored the standards o ef
ficiency in the state militia demanded
by the federal authorities under the
Dick law as a condition of federal sup
port, Jbut had announced that as com-mamfer-ln-chlef
of the state volun
teer forces ho would do what he
pleaded regardless of the federal authorities.
LUNCHEON LURC H
LATEST DANCE
WASHINGTON, June 14. The
"luncheon lurch" Is the newest dance
In Washington. Leaders of society
have learned the steps which, to be
properly danced, Bhould be indulged
In Just before luncheon.
It is a variation of the tango and
the turkey trot, and the craze has hit
Washington so hard that It Is fre
quently danced In the hotel corri
dors. The Idea Is that every step should
bring one nearer the luncheon table,
and it thus answers two jpurpSses,
the desire to dance and the locomo
tion toward food.
Among Jhe lurchers are Miss Kath
erine Elkins, Miss Dorothy Williams,
Miss Sally Williams, Miss Katherine
Britton, Miss Marguerite Barbour
and Mr. James' T. Curtis.'
a a -ar
mi Ms m lerciwise
AT WEETLdDCM
BOOK ACCOUNTS AND
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Written Opinion of Justice
Hughes Lays Down Some
New Requirements.
WASHINGTON, June I .Nothing
short of actual book accounts of rail
road receipts and expenditure In in
terstate buBinesj will be accepted by
the supreme court of the United
States M l basis of annulling state
rates as confiscatory, according to the
written opinion of Justice Hughe In
the Arkansas rat case, complete to
day. Justice Hughe announced the
mere decision ef fh court that (h
freight and two-cent ee agr rate
In that stat war act oaflaoatory n
the court's last leclalon day, Jun II,
and has twen engaged In writing th
pinion In the ease sine that day,
K pointed tut m the eplnlon that
th railroad, m attacking the ratea
failed to sustain their aae before too
general methods employed in aeparat
ing Intrastate operations from Inter
state. Th value of th railroad
property, he ald, for reasons set forth
in th Minnesota cases, was Improp
erly divided between Intrastate and
interstate business on a gross revenue
toasts. He also criticized the lower
court's conclusion that Intrastate
freight traffic cost 210 'per cent, more
on the Iron Mountain road and 250
per cent, more on the St. Louis
Southwestern, than Interstate traffic,
and the Intrastate passenger service
on the Iron Mountain cost 10 per cent,
more than the Interstate,
CANNOT BECOME CITIZEN.
CHARLESTON, R C, June 24. In
the United States district court bere
today. Judge Henry A. M. Smith de
cided that a modern Syrian of Asiatic
birth is not entitled to naturalization
as a citizen of the United State. The
decision was rendered in the case of
Furris Shahld, who was born fifty
nine years ago In Zahle, Asia-Minor,
and who desired naturalization In or
der to wing his wife and several chil
dren to this country.
"What is the race or color of the
modern inhabitants of Syria it Is Im
possible to say," said Judge Smith.
"No geographical area of the world
has been more mixed since history
began. One Syrian may be of pure
or almost pure Jewish, Turkish or
Greek blood, and another the pure
blooded descendant of an Egyptian, an
Abyssinian or a Sudanese."
CINCINNATI WINS.
LAKE FOREST, III., June 24 The
Cincinnati club took the first game
of the series for the mid-western polo
championship from Kansas City at
the Onwenssia Country elub, 10 3-4
to S 8-4, after Kansas City had come
up with a rush, tying the score with
only 2 V, minute to play. Saturday
the winner of tomorrow's game will
play the Cincinnati club for the tro
phy. I ti
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REPLY 10 GHIRGES
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them at you hav planned, and you
are so directed."
Continuing th attorney general
u.ld:
"I had no occasion to give the mat
ter any further special conelderaUon
for some thre woeke June 1 -when
Secretary Wilson telephoned
me and Urid in of th embarrass
nient In which he we placed ay th
request from the alder Camluotll,
father f on t lite lafendanu, tor
leav t abseno la rdr ve attend
th trial of ola son. Th sldur Ctunl
oettt, a rou know, I th newly ap
pointed commissioner f Immigration.
Tb secretary explained 0i exigen
cies of his department which h
thought Imperatively required th
presence her ef th oommlaalooer.
He ha written m loiter stating
bis recollection of th ciroumatanc
and I herewith enclose it."'
McNAB STILL BUSY.
BAN FRANCS BOO, Jun 14. Whll
Important dvlopment wer follow
ing one another in rapldfir order in
Washington today ta the result f
controversy begun when United States
District Attorney John U McNab, of
the northern district of California,
telegraphed hla resignation to Presi
dent Wilson on Saturday, the prose
cutor himself was driving on more
nail tn the flag of rebellion which he
'spiked to the masthead last wreX.
Mr. McN'ab resigned because he
could not agree to Attorney-Gencrul
MoReynolds'., deereo to have the
Dlggs-Camlnettl while a'ave and cer
tain Western Fuel conspiracy cases
continued for a Ions period. Today
he obtained a Continuance of three
weeks, instead of the longer on nis
hlf hail rentiested. and refused to
proceed with the iprosecu'tlon of
those fuel omciaia not mentioned oy
Mr. McReynolds," separate from the
cases of the two directors the attorney-general
had asked postponed.
When the cases of John L. How
ard, president ol the Western Fuel
company, and his fellow ofllolals un
der Indictment for alleged conspiracy
to defraud th customs, wor called
by Judge Bean In the United States
district court, Mr. McNab wild, ad
dressing the court:
"1 cannot proceed with these cases.
I wish to state the conditions which
make it Impossible. The attorney
general has directed me to withhold
from trial the cases of two defend
ants. In this I am unable to agree
with my superior, and therefore I
have went my resignation to the presi
dent." The court then made an order set-
tine the esses over until July 15.
The cases of Drew Camlnetti, son
of the new commissioner general of
Immigration, and Maury I. Dlggs, for
mer State architect, indicted for white
slavery, were on the calendar for next
Thursday, but they were continued
until July 15.
The state entomologist of Kansas
has discovered 'a fungus that kills
grasshoppeas by rnllllons, but does he
provide a way fer getting rid of the
fungus when th grasshoppers have
been exterminated?
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IfliON SOCIETY CROWDS
COURT TO Mill CASE
Brother of Late Sir John
Murray Scott Fights Dis
position of Estate.
LCsNXON, Jun 14. London soci
ety crowded th probate oourt today
at the eglnnin ef th suit ever th
will ef- tb law 8lr John Murray
Boot. Sir John left nearly 14,000.000
to Lady SackvlU f Knol Park,
Kent, wife of Baron aeokvtlle. a rela
tive ef former British mlnlrter to
.Washington.
Malcolm Scott, a brother f Sir
John, appose probate of th will a
th ground that Baron and Lady
BeokvUl used undu Influence In er-
er to secure th bulk of th aetata
H elm claims that codicil, for
; which h ha offered 150.000 reward.
Ve executed after the drawing ef the
I will for which th Sackvllle ek
probate.
By order f the oourt om Urn
ago, an envelop left by Sir John
Murray Scott, addressed to Lady
Sackvllle, was opened, but It ha not
been disclosed whether it contained
the missing codicil. At th opening
' f .M for Malcolm Scqtt today,
his counsel outlined the general na
it "u aase. 'The Saokvlllea,"
he. said, "spent more than ten year
in obtaining complete ascendency and
'domination over Sir John Scott Th
nature of that Influence was such that
althouKh '.hey wer not relative they
Induced him to finance them for
enormous sums during his lifetime
and to leave to them the greater part
of his estat of 15,000,000." '
! Sir John died on Janury IT, lilt,
after a moot remarks! career.
He was the son of a Scottish doo
'tor of' very humble position.
UNCLE SAM NEEDS
THOUSAND HORSES
WASHINGTON, Jun 24. Th
army is now short at least 1,000
horses, a greater shortage than ever
before has existed. The war depart
ment already ha expended 1100,000
allowed by congress March 4, last,
and while another appropriation of
$175,000 will b available July 1, at
present prices not nearly enough
horses ran be had to meet th need.
Fortunately, however, prices are
somewhat lower than last year.
Most of the horses purchased are
from the Missouri markets, although
efforts are being made to gather some
horses at Winchester, Vs., for th cav-
I airy camp to bo established there next
month.
The quartermaster corps Is trying
to meet this need for horseflesh by
establishing breeding stations on In
dian reservations, and Major K. G.
Faxon has Just organised the first of
these at the Cheyenne agency In
South Dakota.
The fellow who one brought home
a frozen snake and thawed It out
under, the kitchen stove with subse
quent disastrous results should have
named the reptile "I. W. W."
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''Clincher" Paint
' We know a paint which hold to the
wood tike a driven nail. Seasoned lumber
it porous. The pores are the empty asp
cells. White lead paint, which dries on the
wood in the form of a solid, elastic film,
fastens into these pores, and the whole
coat of paint is actually riveted like armor
plato to the surface U decorates and
protects.
LEWIS KniTElMD
(Dutch Itoy Trade-Mark).
and Pure Linseed Oil
make the paint that spreads Into a solid
body. It becomes part of the wood
itself an outer layer that preserves the
life of the lumber.
We acll it as well a other painting req
uisites. Come in and have a talk with ui
about painting.
DR. T. C. SMITH
UNCLE SAM IS READY TO
Secretary Bryan' So Informs
the Russian Ambassador,
Following Overtures.
WASHINGTON, Jun !4.-dtepond-Ing
to a suggestion mad some tlm
ago by th Russian government. Sec
retary Bryan has Informed Ambassa
dor Hakhmeteff that ti would b
glad to enter into negotiations for a
new treaty of trad and commerce
between America and Russia, No at
tempt baa been mad to actually open
negotiation as yet. and It is under
stood that the ambassador, who has
communicated Secretary Bryan's
meeuag to his government, is await
ing Instructions from St. Petersburg.
Secretary Dryan stated today that
th exchange had not passed beyond
th expression of a mutual deslra to
have a new treaty, and that ther
ihad been no attempt to outline the
basis of a new convention, .
It has been reported from St. Pe
temburg that President Wilson had
notified the Russian government hi
administration would be willing to
enter into a new treaty only upon the
condition that American cltlsens be
"freely admitted" to Russia,
After totalling up the casuattlea It
win fee beerved that more Mexican
patriots have ibeen slaughtered In bat'
tie then there are.
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SENATORS AGREE JO
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Th president could revoke Ma
proclamation whenever satisfied that
th discrimination ttava ceased to
exlut .
In striking out provisions again!
which foreign nations protected th
senate democrats acted upon th be
lief that the proposed requirements
wer "unnecessarily Inquisitive" and
would hamper Importation and pos
sibly provoke '"retaliation.
Articles- manufactured by child la
bor would be excluded, togother with
convict labor good, through an
amendment by Senator llorah, which
the finance committee adopted. II
would exclude all foreign good x
cejt Immediate product of agricul
ture, forests and fisheries, manufac
tured wholly or tn part by convict
labor or by children under fourtaes
years of age.
Circuit courts of appeal would ht
riven concurrent jurisdiction with th
United States court of customs ap
peals, through another provision put
In by the senat committee. In all
case Involving mor than 1100.
WIY ON IDKA8.
"Sometimes," declared Mrs, Wom
bat, "I think men are too fsbl
minded for any us."
"How now?"
"For twenty years I've asked ml
husband what h wanted for dinner,
and he's never been ahl to make
a suggestion yet"