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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-08-26
JOHN GREEN, SUSPECT IN
ARLEDGE CASE, FREE NAN
(From Mondays Daily

4On4 hOuudy OdlIyJ
Sheriff Blackwell had no need
to caution the people to keep
quiet this morning, at the pre-
hearing of John Green,
charged with shooting Zeb Arl-
edge on the night of August 13.
The dense crowd, from the
country, from the town and
with good sprinkllng of sum-
mer visitors which completely
filled the great court room, hung
on every word of evidence given
by the states witnesses, and
heard with reluctance the agree
ment of council to adjourn at
2::30 this evening.
People are interested, not so
much in John Green, accused of
attempted murder, but in the
identity of the man, or men,
who may have hired him to COM
nit the crime, and several times
this morning witnesses were
cautioned when they seemed on
the verge of revealing some
facts which might lead to the
discovery of the principals in
the most interesting case which
has been heard in the Hender-
son county court house for many
years past.
The trial was set for 10 o'clock
this morning, but long before
that time the court room was
completely filled. At 1920,
Green, the accused man, was
brought into court by Sheriff
Blackwell and Chief McCarson.
Magistrates Hood, Wofford and
Hill sat on the bench.
Solicitor Spainhour and Hon.
w. A. Smith represented the
State; w, C. Rector had charge
of Green's interests. A long
list of witnesses were sworn,
who were then kept from the
court room until summoned to
give their evidence upon the
stand.
Zeb Arledge, prosecuting wit
ness, was first heard for the
State. Stated that he had been
town marshall for two years; had
helped to arrest accused at one
time; On night of shooting was
returning from stable to house
when he heard first shot. Reach
ed for his gun and fired once at
flame which came from under
meath one corner of the house.
Heard second shot, staggered
towards house and was helped
onto porch by his wife. Gave
description of man who rushed
past him after second shot. By
aid of flame from second shot
noticed he wore pair of
light trousers. Identified those
worn by Green as being similar.
Said accused was same size,
build and corresponded exactly
with appearance of man who
shot at him.
Being cross-examined by Mr..
Rector said it was a dark night
but light enough to distinguish
color of clothes and size and
build of man.
Being asked if he expected
anyone else. said yes. Rector
objected to question. Smith
said if Green was only tool,
Mr.. Rector had no right to OBJ
ject as Rector represented Green
only. Mr.. Smith, continuing, said
if another man had hired Green
to commit the act it was desir-
ableto know who that man was.
Mr.. Rector withdrew his objec-
ton, but Arledge was cautioned
to mention no names, and no
light was thrown on the identity
of the mysterious person alleged
to have hired Green to commit
murder. Arledge stated he told
officers to arrest man wearing
light pair of trousers and identi-
fed those worn by Green.
John Arledge, the next wit
ness, told of trying to get blood
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-08-26

uAuS1nSdGu AFl0ug0 mouse.
Told of measuring tracks and
testified the measurements ex-
actly fitted the brogans worn by
Green. Said he afterwards
went to scene of shooting. called
Mr.. Moore, a neighbor and stand
ing some distance from him
found there was sufficient light
from nearby arc light to dis
tinguish color of clothes worn by
Mr.. Moore, his build, etc.
Chief Ashburn, of the. High
Point Detective Agency. testified
to driving over to Lake View
Hotel with John Orr and placing
Green under arrest. Said he
had sent a man, Burns here, on
re quest of Town Attorney
Schenck. Green told him he
had the wrong man and seemed
much excited. Went with, him
to home of brother-in-law near
by. Searched for pistol. Was
told there had been no gun in
house for ten years. Little girl
came in, saying, Mamma,
here S one up there" Found 81
calibre revolver which was
placed in evidence and identified
by Ashburn. After taking
Green before Arledge placed him
in Jail. Said prisoner told him
to see Doc Hyder. who would
go his bond for as much as
$500" Said prisoners shoes
fitted measurements of tracks
under Arledge's house.
His cross examination resulted
in nothing new.
James Leslie, who lives near
the Arledge home, proved an i'm
portant witness. Testified he
heard some one around his house
about 10 o'clock. Opened his
kitchen door and saw man, wear
ing peculiar hat such as Green
wears, run past door. Said light
from room enabled him to see
mans face plainly.
Footprint in garden patch
similar to one found underneath
Arledge's house. Said he was a
white man, believed Green was
he but not positive. -
L. H. Howard testified to
measuring tracks.
Rose Shelton, colored, said she
heard three shots and heard
someone running in direction of
Green's home.
Ella Johnson, colored, testified
to same effect. Ola Hutchison,
testified about the same.
Wilson Garren, a witness for
defense, summoned by State.
Said he saw Green about dark,
picking banjo at Pierce Garren's.
Did not know where Green was
at 1920, time of attempted kill
ling.
Court then adjourned to con-
vene at 2::30 this evening.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
John Green testified that he
lived on Clear Creek all his life
except his time served in army.
Denied all knowledge Of crime.
Said he had been working for
Dan Mccall. Slept at Garren's
at night and was there all the
night of the shooting. Wilson
Garren came there that night,
asked him to pick banjo. Played
instrument until about 9 o'clock.
Was not in town that night.
Slept in same room with Pierce
Garren's family.
On cross-examination by Soil
citor Spainhour, said he was
born in 1875. Had been arrest
ed three weeks ago charged with
gambling with Bill Head. Re-
fused to answer whether he had
been gambling. Developed a
defective memory. Denied stab
bing Jennie Hardin, about two
years ago.
On night of shooting claimed to
have gone to bed at 10 O'Clock,
Did not know where Zeb Ar
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-08-26

WANTED-A good nurse ap-
ply at the Fairmont.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
Belgium's Opportunity.

Prince Albert, who will succeed his
uncle, the aged Leopold, on the throne
of Belgium, is a young man reputed to
be Of clean mind, high motives and
cultivation in all the ways of modern
progress. That was the impression he
left on the United States and other
countries during his visits of observa-
ton to see how the rest of the world
lived. His accession should mean
much to his country.
Belgium is one of the least ad-
vanced of European nations in the
matter of civilization, based on the
American standard of living. While it
is true that Brussels and some other
centers of population have made
marked improvement, due largely to
association with tourists and the alb
sorption from them of progressive
ideas, still in the country at large the
grade is low. The country is the most
densely populated in Europe, and there
has been little encouragement for rails
ing 1t from dense ignorance as we'll.
Woman is classed with beasts OF bur-
den, works with mules in the mines,
with oxen in the fields and joins with
dogs in pulling loads over the roads.
In a country where such things OBJ
tain, a young and progressive mon
arch like Albert has boundless oppor-
tunities, and the civilized nations will
have great cause for disappointment If
he does not steadily raise the economic
and social conditions mons his peo-
pie. In Belgium, as in the Congo. the
new regime must be OF in~calculable
benefit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
The City's (tarbap'e.

Mayor Dahlman holds that nothing
can be gained by a suit against the gar
bage contractor. The health commits
sioner says he has done all he can do
and everybody seems to have reached
the limit of his power except the o n
tractor. If he would only get busy
and do the best he can for a little
while it would help greatly. 1t seems
peculiar that there is no way under
which the garbage contractor can be
compelled to carry out his side of the
bargain. But while the city officials
and the contractor are holding aloof,
each waiting for the other to make
some move, the householders of the
city are enduring much inconvenience,
and what will amount to, when a thaw
comes, positive discomfort. What
makes the situation the more ridicu-
lous is that the courts have held that
anyone has the right to haul garbage,
and right here when most needed the
city can get no one to do it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
The Passing of Zelaya.

The good Offices Of the United
States have been quick to rid the Mic
araguans of a dictator whom they
hated and with whom we have yet to
reckon personally for his outrages
against American interests and his
staying of American citizens. The end
of Zelaya the tyrant, has come, but the
end of Zelaya the malefactor is not yet
Thus far the Nicaraguans have
gained the release for which they had
begun to battle, from the domination
of a president who knew no right but
that of the sword, no justice but that
Of blood. The entire zone of unrest in
Central America has gained assurance
that the United States stands firm as
a dominant factor in continental af-
fairs to the extent of stability and
peace, and the taXpaying people of
those republics should welcome this,
for they are sick of strife.
For ourselves we have gained a re-
newal of the respect of civilized ma
tions and of our. owr self-respect,
which may be regarded as constituting
a Christmas possession worth treasur-
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

ference after Jerome had declared that
1t was impossible to secure a convic-
ton. In this appear. one Of the most
discrediting features of Jerome's dis
appointing career, for the East siders
had repeatedly begged for action
against the ice combine at the hands
of the district attorney, who went to
live among the East Siders with a
great flourish Of trumpets.
The conviction of the ice interests
is the first secured against any com
bine under the Donnelly antitrust
act, modelled by the state Of New York
after the Sherman law. Now that 1t
has been proved to be not a dead let
ter New York state people hope to be
able to control in some measure all
of the offending corporations operating
in that commonwealth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
Conviction of the Ice Combine.

While the success of the state of
New York in its prosecution Of the
American Ice company has been con-
sidered largely a local affair, there
are some general phases of the case
that have an interest to the whole
country. The American company had
come into control of the entire output
of natural ice along the Atlantic sea-
board, and by gradually closing up
harvesting houses In Maine and along
the Hudson had squeezed excessive
profits out Of the and
wrought much hardship among the
poor, particularly in the thronged East
Side OF Manhattan.
While the fines imposed cannot re-
pay the sufferers In the tenements for
their inability TO buy ice under the
combines exactions. still the whole
some lesson learned is likely to bear
its good fruit during the coming sum-
mer. Further than that. district at
torneys In New York have been taught
the need OF testing the state laws in
stead Of supinely refusing to prose
cute, for the recent verdict was the
result of The attorney generals inter
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

The report of the immigration com
mission OF the discovery Of a distinct
physical and racial type in this country
is not so astonishing a thing to those
who have been studying the develop
ment of the generations of Europeans
after their settlement on American
soil. only a short time ago Prof.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler in one of his
lectures startled his hearers in a Eu-
ropean capital with the statement that
the people of the United States we're
a distinct departure from all known
standards, and that there was in truth
an American race different in every
way from the English. to whom other
nations have been apt to compare the
population OF the States.
Immigrants from other shores bring
to this country and retain here to a
large extent their home characteristics
Of living, and only the narrow-minded
would attempt to urge them to aban-
don their favorite customs. But with
the cradle of the first generation born
on American soil the change begins,
and with the intermarriage that
quickly succeeds, the characteristics of
all nations are merged into the Ameri-
can type that cannot be identified with
any OF the older races. Americans
themselves are proud of the fact that
from some of the immigrants most de-
voted to old-world customs have devel-
oped most splendid citizens, and nearly
every family here can tell of strains
and cross-stralns in it's own case that
have tended to develop the likeness\to
the national type.
The mixture of the many races is in
a great measure responsible for this
cultivation of an American race, but
the commission finds that climatic o n
ditions also have a share, as had been
claimed by students of ethnology for
some time. A few radicals have even
gone so far as to point out a likeness
in the typical white man of the United
States to the native redskin in the mat
ter of stature, skull shape and high
| cheek bones. The commission does not
go so far as this, but does admit
ground for the persistent theory that
the shape of the head changes to a
uniform type with every race after it
is transplanted to this continent,
Thackeray noticed the tendency of
the individual to alter his moods end
ways during his visit to this country
and has recorded his impressions on
that point in strong confederation OF
the theory that the American climate
altered the European in spite of him.
self. The current official report OF
careful investigation along this line
settles beyond dispute that climate, So
cial conditions and the admixture OF
the races have combined to produce a
people who may be known as the
American race in bold contrast to any
other of the white mans divisions.
To be an American is to be not sim,
ply a resident of the United States
but an individual unit of a uniform
nation whose characteristics marx
them apart from n and all of the
races from which they have developed
and the citizen of no other country
has so great 4 reason to be proud Of
his type.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
PERSONAL NOTES.

]. P. Morgan has lost a suit, showing not
only the unexpected, but the impossible,
happens.
When George Osborn, a jeweltr, of New
Haven, Conn, took apart an Cd clock,
brought to him to be repaired, he found a
green wad of $50 tucked in the back of it.
Charles S-addlewauscr, a farmer Of Msn-
don, Mich, tripped on a stone in his back
yard recently and fell across a pumpkin
in such a manner that his neck was in
stantly broken.
King Edward was recently awarded four
first prizes for his exhibits at the Smith
field cattle show. His majesty is a tenant
farmer, not a landlord, and pays a large
sum every year in rent and taxes for his
holdings.
Butler Ames. the Massachusetts, con-
gresham, who announced himself as a
candidate for the United States senate to
succeed Senat Lodge, IS a West Point
graduate, an officer in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war and also a graduate mechanical
and electrical engineer.
Mount Joy, Lancaster county, Pennsyl-
vania,- boasts Of having the tallesr school
boy in the state. His name is John Sher-
man Fasig, Is IS years old, weighs Pr
pounds and stands six feet seven inches in
height. 1t would take a pretty muscular
schoolmarm to whale this y~oungster.
Judge Lindsey of Denver has been sued
for defamation of character opposed to
have been inflicted through some state
ments in a magazine article. The plaintiff
is w. G. Smith, better known in his hab-
ltat as "Bil,' and SO long in politics that
he was supposed to have lost all sensitive
ness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
A A 7 IN H WOODS.

Madison Cawein in the atlantic.
Its friendship and it's oarelessness
Did lead me many a mile:
Through goats rue, with its dim caress
And pink and pearl-white smile;
Through orowfoot, with its golden lure
And promise of far things,
And Dorrel with its glance demure.
And wide-eyed ~wonderings.
It led me with its innocence,
AS childhood leads the wise,
With elbows here of ~tattered fence,
And blue of wildflower eyes;
With whispers low of leafy speech,
And brook-sweet u~tterance;
With birdlike words of oak and beech.
And whistlings clear as Pans.
It led me with it's childlike charm,
AS candor leads desire.
Now with a clasp of blossomy arm,
A butterfly kiss of fire.
Now with a toss of tousled gold,
A barefoot sound of green;
A breath of musk, of messy mold, \
With vague allurements keen. "
1t led me with remembered things,
Into an oldtime vale,
Peopled with fairy glimmerings
And flower-llke fancies pale;
Where fungus forms stood, gold and e
Each in q mushroom grown,
And, rooted with red, glimpsed far av
A little toadstool town.
1t led me on and on and on,
Beyond the Far Away.
Into a world long dead and gone,
The world of Yesterday;
A fairy world of memory
Faint with its hills and streams,
Wherein the child l used to be
Stlll wanders with its dreams.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
Cost Of irrigation Projects.
Philadelphia Record.

IIllduelplld INeCOIu.
When, the irrigation project was pressed
upon congress it was said that it would
only cost So an acre. Private capital and
some state enterprises are said to nave
attained results w~arTanting this. When the
work was well under way it was gently
broken to the country that it would cost
so an acre. Now senator Carter of
Montana, who had as much as any man to
do with the entrance Of the government
upon a field of activity where private enter
prise had already invested 10000 900, says
the cost of water on government projects
averages between $40 and $50 an acre and
the government will undoubtedly continue to
take up projects until the cost of reclama-
tioE reaches $1CO an acre Private enter
prise took up the easy reclamation projects
and left the expensive ones to the govern
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

Cadets at West Point and all their
friends ought to understand by this
time that the temper of the public is
against hazing. That institution is
maintained by the taxpayers for the
education Of officers who can be faith
full to discipline so that they may in
still it in others, and the military COM
mittee in congress that is being pes
tered by political influences to restore
hayward youth who have been ex-
PEELED may rely on popular support
for their measure to make the action
Of the War department in such cases
final.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
Lee In StHtunry Hall,
Springfleld Republlcan.

opTTHBIItIU IttpUDIICdH.
The Grand Army and Loyal Legion pro-
tests against the placing of General Lees
statue in the statuary hall of the national
capitol are most effectively bottled up.
The statue is already in place. The Vir-
ginia delegation in congress now have de-
termined not to bring the question of the
formal acceptance of the Lee or the Wash
ington statue before either house for sew
erai years to come, in order that the agi-
tation may die down; and it may happen
that congress will never consider the mat
ter. at least while any civil war veteran
remains alive. Meanwhile, the General Lee
statue has captured the federal capital.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

The agitation for a new state house
is already taking on the form Of a real
estate speculation. This is a pretty
sure sign that there will be something
doing. Nebraska needs a new state
house, and it will be a matter to mar
vel at If the thrifty Lincoln real estate
owners do not come to the front with
numerous sites for the location of the
new %huildinR.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
Hands OFF for n while.

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A congressional inquiry into the sugar
frauds might prove spectacular enough ana
pander to the sensational appetites Of the
public, but the question is. DO we want
convictions or do we want fireworks? Ana
II is evidently the fear of the president
that the Sugar trust might in some manner
so steer the methods Of investigation by a
senatorial or house committee that men
higher up by giving testimony, might
claim immunity from prosecution
We think that the president Is right.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

How will the implement dealers pos
sibly secure the attendance of Omaha
jobbers at their conventions il they
take the conventions away? The reso-
luton adopted Thursday afternoon
seems to have been framed in a mo-
ment of pique and passed without ma
ture consideration.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

Having planted a votes for women"
banner al the top of Pixies Peak, the
su~ifragettes may be said to have deli
sately limited to the plains the senti-
Ment. The ballot or bust"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

End-of-the-year statistics show that
the students of Iowa university are
emulating Robert Reed, who would not
smoke the weed; but it will be inter-
esting to compare returns after the
New Years resolutions begin to fade.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

South Dakota is now going after the
express rates. That melon recently
cut on Wall street is calling attention
more effectively than tons Of other
argument would TO the excessive
charge people have long borne from
the express companies.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

has been spiked by the city health com
missioner and the city chemist. The
fact that one says there is no epidemic,
and the other says the water is free
from danger, will not disturb the EN-
ergetic vender of misinformation. 1t
will go right on shouting its sensa-
tional scares.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

The So hog has been coming to a
ket quite numerously since the roads
have got to be in passable condition.
The observation-disclosures advance in
price Of hogs during the last year ought
to make a nice little Christmas purse
for the western farmer. He is surely
having his innings.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

People of Peru complain ~unreasona-
bly, of the Burlington passenger station
at that place, They say it is out Of
date and cite as a reason for a new one
that IL was built in 1851. This is not
showing proper reverence for age.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

The spectacle of Lincoln folks
crowding a moving picture show is en-
couraging. The first thing we know
there will be a tiddlewinks champion
ship pulled off down there, and good
ness knows what will happen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

The Department Of Agriculture has
achieved some wonderful things, but
it is undertaking On impossibility in
trying to educate the public to call 1t
pomelo instead of grapefruit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

The cheerful way in which Tolstoy's
publisher accepts a years prison SEN
tence rouse the suspicion that there
must be a large margin of profit in
printing the sage's books.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

An eastern oil magnate has been
pronounced mentally unsound at the
age Of AZ, as a result of Standard con-
t%entions He VIII now be Of service
to the preachers upon the theme
whether II pays
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

What Is Paris without it's murder
scandal? No soone is Nine. Steinheil
out of the limelight than the mystery
of the slain Nine. Gouin occupies the
stage.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18

The great assessment roll for Ne
braska in 1909, in addition to the in
crease of 100000 over 1908, which
means $35, 900, 600 in actual value,
contains a number of items hat would
be interesting. For example. the
value of shares of stock held by Ne
braska people decreased over 5000, 900
during the year. The mechanical
tools owned in this state fell off sew
eral thousand dollars, but the value of
dogs went up. Franchises decreased
in value, but eating houses show a
gain. Cream separators are worth
more and sewing machines are worth
less, while carriages, wagons, watches
and clocks, bicycles and stands of bees
also show a falling off in value that is
discouraging.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-18
Cut Ont the Trimming.
Washington Herald

WISHING IOH IItIdIUs
What the Cook prosecution needs sadly is
at least one direct witness who can get
into court without tramping all over his
own reputation for veracity and decency
in making the journey.