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VOL. XXIV.
NIGHT RIDERS ACTIVE
In the Cotton Belt States—U. S.
Secret Service Investigating.
FARMERS’ UNION DENOUNCE
Methods Adopted By Night Riders and
in Many Sections Organize Law and
Order Leagues to Assist Officers.
Monticello, Ga. —The following no
tice was posted on Gilmore Brothers’
gin house: “Night Riders’ order. Do
not gin till cotton sells for 10 cents
on penalty of fire, fire, fire! Do you
believe it? You had better.”
Mr. Gilmose says that he will con
tinue to gin as long as he can. A sim
ilar notice was found on Jesse Kin
ard’s gin house door. Mr. Kinard
lives seven miles west of Monticello.
Charlotte, N. C. —News just receiv
ed from Shelby, N. C., to the effect
that J. F. Jenkins, manager of the
Southern Cotton Oil Company of that
place, had received a letter notifying
him that if he continued to gin cotton
in the face of the declining market,
night riders would burn his gin, caus
ed the greatest excitement here. The
case has been turned over to the
United States secret service depart
ment, and every effort will be made to
check what is considered the first
outbreak of night riders in this state.
The Farmers’ union has nothing to
do with this apparent effort to defy
the law. The letter to Mr. Jenkins
warned him not to operate his gin
nery until 12-cent cotton wa sreal
ized, otherwise his establishment
“would go up in smoke,” it asserted,
“we are your friends, etc.”
Sandersville, Ga. —So far from par
ticipating in the night riding lawless
ness reported in some sections of the
state, and cotton belt, the Farmers’
Union of Washington county have or
ganized themselves into a law and
order league for the purpose of aiding
the officers of the law in prosecuting
all forms of criminals and crime.
Columbia, S. C. —Governor Ansel
has taken prompt and vigorous action
on the reported operation of night rid
ers near Greenville. In a letter to
Sheriff Gilreath of that county, he re
quests an investigation and wishes
(prosecution of the guilty parties, Gov
ernor Ansel is determined that there
shall be no lawless acts, and if nec
essary he will take personal charge
of investigations and see that law
less is promptly suppressed.
Winona, Miss. —Bud Mortimer, an
aged planter, has been arrested near
here, charged with sending night rid
er notices through the mails. The ar
rest was made by United States mar
shals.
The notices were sent to a cotton
gin owner and Mortimer declares that
he was forced to send them by a band
of armed men who threatened him
with death. Near his home a notice
was found posted reading:
“Ginning must cease until cotton
has reached 12 1-2 cents.
“Little Texas Night Riders.”
New Orleans, La. —'Governor E. F.
Noel of Mississippi speaking of the
possible growth of night riding in the
cotton belt, has stated that if neces
sary‘he would call on the federal gov
ernment for troops to stop such raids.
He would first use state troops. Mr.
Noel said, and finally seek federal
aid to restrain lawlessness at any
cost.
GUN ON WARSHIP EXPLODES.
Thirteen Men on French Cruiser Kill
ed While at Target Practice.
Toulon, France. —During gunnery
drill one of the big turret guns on the
French armored cruiser Latouch® Re
ville exploded with terriffic violence,
completely wrecking the after turret
and killing outright the entire gun
crew of thirteen. A number of men
were seriously injured, some of them
probably fatally.
The accident was similar to that
aboard the gunnery schoolship Cour
onne, off Les Salinas d’Hyeres. /
The drill had been proceeding for
a considerable time, when, without
warning, the whole turret seemed to
blow out. Dismembered bodies were
thrown in all directions, and several
of them were hurled into the sea
through the great breach caused by
the explosion.
The spectacle was horrible, the dead
and wounded, together with shattered
arms and legs, littering the decks. A
call to quarters was sounded, and as
speedily as possible the wounded were
cared for. The gun that exploded was
• 7.6 inches bore, of which the cruiser
carried two.
■Happening so soon after the acci
dent on the Couronne, this explosion
has caused a sensation in naval cir
cles, and doubtless will lead to a most
rigid investigation. The Latouche
Treville carries a complement of three
hundred and seventy men.
4,575,438 BALES OF COTTON.
Census Report Gives Total Number
of Bales for Year.
Washington, D. C—The census re
ports show a total of 4,575,438 run
ning bales consumed in the United
States during the year ending Aug
ust 51 last, compared with 4,984,936
for 1907.
The total stocks on August 31, 1908,
were 1,233,623, of which 596,432 bales
represent manufacturers’ stocks, and
627,196 in the hands of other holders.
The total number of spindles was
27,845,531, compared with 26,939,415
last year. There were 27,399,896 spin
dles in 1908, which consumed some
cotton and 445,635 were idle through
out the year.
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LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
John F. Spencer of Leister, Eng
land, a Sunday school teacher, serv
ing a sentence in the pen, has con
fessed to the burglary of Brooksby
Hall. Gems valued at $200,000 were
taken.
Charles Boyle, son of a San Francis
co millionairre and ex-Stanford uni
versity student, is alleged to have con
fessed to several crimes committed in
the west last spring.
Seventy-two men were injured, sev
en fatally, as the result of a trolley
accident caused by a damaged signal
box on the Southwestern Traction
company s line near Tinicum, Penn.
Two trolley cars heavily loaded with
workmen, running at high speed, col
lided head-on in a dense fog and in
stantly the dying and maimed were
scattered about trie road or buried un
der the wreckage.
After being separated nearly a quar
ter of a century, Mrs. Christian Oli
ver of New Orleans, and Sylvester
Oliver, now residing in France, will
be re-united within a few weeks. In
In 1886 the husband took a boat from
New Orleans, stating that he was go
ing to France. From the time the ves
sel left the docks until a few days
ago nothing had been heard of the
husband, and Mrs. Oliver mourned
him as dead.
Daniel J. Sully, who twice won and
lost the crown of “Cotton King” ini
Wall street, has resigned the presi
dency of the Cerro-Colorado Mining
company and gone to work as a clerk
for a cotton brokerage house to give
his clients the benefit of his experi
ence.
Power generated at Niagara Falls is
to be distributed all over Canada. Bids
have been asked on 10,000 tons of
structural steel for the Canadian gov
ernment. The steel is to be used for
towers which will support the cables
used in transporting the current. Al
ready power generated at Niagara is
being sent a distance of more than
one hundred and twenty-five miles,
and it is the intention of the Canadian
government to increase this distance.
Towns in every direction about Niag
ara will be supplied.
Efforts to obtain information in
Georgia as to graves of men who
served in the Revolutionary war, or
were old enough to have served in it,
are being made by Daughters of the
American Revolution, in order that a
list of them may be published and a
personnel record kept of them, and
that unmarked graves of Revolution
ary soldiers may be provided with
marble headstones (which are furn
ished by the United States govern
ment), and proper attention given to
the graves when needed. All persons
knowing of such graves are requested
to communicate with Mrs. John M.
Graham, state editor Daughters of
the American Revolution, Marietta,
Georgia.
Gustave Eberhardt, who has been
on trial in Hackensack, N. J., for th®
murder of his aunt, Mrs. Ottilie Tb
erhardt, whom he lured from Austria,
together with her daughter, Miss Ot
tilie, for the purpose of robbery, has
been sentenced to thirty years in the
state’s prison at hard labor.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-
Hungary, has sent a sum of money
for the benefit of St. Stephen’s Rom
an Catholic church of South River,
N. J. Rev. Victor Von Kubinyl, a no
bleman, is the rector. He Is the au
thor of a book entitled “King of
Rome,” a copy of which was sent to
his majesty some time ago. The rec
tor was formerly a subject of the Aus
trian emperor.
The automobile driven by Otto
Brodie of Chicago, while making a
turn in Sterling, 111., toppled over,
turning once and a half and landing
upside down. Two of the party of
eight were probably fatally injured
and the other six injured. The ma
chine was badly wrecked.
Manuel Messaguer, an importer of
Santo Domingo lottery tickets was ar
rested at San Juan, P. R., by United
States Deputy Collector Peter Math
eson and held. One thousand tickets,
' representing several thousand dollars,
and also letters and a book contain
ing the names of lottery ticket dealers
were seized.
Washington.
The navy department is negotiat
ing with Charles A. Logue of Charles
town, Mass., for the right to use a
i new torpedo that he has invented.
Logue is a third-year student at Bos
ton university. Ever since the inven
tion of the wireless telegraph he has
been at work on the torpedo, his idea
being to devise one that would be con
trolled by wireless waves from a wire
less station on shore or from a ship.
Definite decision of the United
States forestry service to establish
forest service district quarters in the
national forest states has been an
nounced. The forest states will be
divided into six districts.
The navy department has announc
ed that an invitation has been ex
tended to the Atlantic battleship fleet
by the government of the Netherlands
to call at Landjong-Priok, Java. Reply
has been made declining the invitation
owing to the desire to maintain the
prearranged itinerary.
The cruiser Milwaukee, after a
cruise of two months in southern wa
ters and a stay of fifteen days at
Amapala, Honduras, has arrived in
San Francisco. Captain Rogers stat
,ed that everything was quiet at Ama
pala when he departed.
Governor Magoon of Cuba has is
sued a decree fixing November 14 as
the date for holding the general elec
tions for president, vice president,
representatives and senatorial elec
tors.
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THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1908.
110 MEN AREJROWNED
When the Star of Bengal Goes
Beneath the Waves.
TWENTY-SEVEN WERE SAVED
The Vessel Struck Rocks Off Coronation
Island and Was Dashed to Pieces.
Carried Cargo of Salmon.
Seattle, Wash.—Advices received
from Alaska, by the United States sig
nal corps, say that one hundred and
ten men, including nine whites, were
drowned in the wreck of the Ameri
can bark Star of Bengal, on Corona
tion Island, west of the Prince of
Wales archipelago.
Twenty-seven of the vessel’s crew
and passengers were saved.
The Star of Bengal belonged to the
Alaska Packers’ association, and was
on her way from Fort Wrangel to San
Francisco with a cargo of 45,000 cas
es of salmon.
In addition to her crew, she carried
one hundred Chinese and Japanese
who were employed in the canneries
of the company, taken aboard at Fort
,Wrangel.
The Star of Bengal w’as being tow
ed to sea by two tugs and was blown
ashore on the west shore of Corona
tion island. The tugs were obliged to
abandon her in order to save them
selves.
4,000 PERSONS HOMELESS.
Two Wisconsin Towns Destroyed by
New Forest Fires.
Rhinelander, Wis. —The towns of
Gagen and Woodboro are totally de
stroyed, their populations, consisting
of 4,000 men, women and children,
are homeless and the refugees are
joining with able-bodied residents of
Rhinelander in fighting a new forest
fire which threatens every minute to
bear down upon the town and con
sume it.
Men and women fought the blaze
for hours, but despite the aid of a fa
vorable change of the wind, little
progress was made.
Citizens of the town, terrified by
the fierce menace, have decided to
ask Davidson to call out the Wiscon
sin state troops to aid in saving the
town.
The fire is a fresh one and is not a
continuation of the forest fires which
last week did so much damage. The
forests are like tinder, owing to the
continued droughts, and the flames
threaten to consume them entirely.
Fearing the fate that befell Gagen
and Woodboro, the mayor of Rhine
lander requested Milwaukee to send a
fire engine to protect the city, and an
engine, half a mile of hose and a
truck soon were on the way on a spec
ial train.
The fire started in the woods in the
early morning and quickly reached
Gagen and Woodboro. Men, women
and children fought valiantly to save
their homes, but without avail.
WANT BLACK DOLLS.
Negro Baptists Want Factory Which
Will Turn Out Negro Dolls.
Lexington, Ky.—At the meeting of
the colored National Baptist associa
tion, composed of negro leaders from
all parts of the world, in session here,
the following resoltuion was passed:
Whereas, our people for nearly half
a century, because of the uncomely
and deformed features of negro dolls,
have spent thousands of dollars on
white dolls for Christmas, etc.; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That we do here and now
give our indorsement and hearty ap
proval of the negro doll factry, and
not only urge the patronage of the
people of our churches as Baptists,
but of the race at large throughout
the United States.”
EXAMINE THFCHILDREN,
Incorrigibles May Be Afflicted With
Throat Troubles.
New York City.—When a child is
incorrigible don’t send him to the dis
ciplinary school offhand. Have his
throat examined by a health depart
ment physician. You will find that in
many instances his incorrrigibillty
and truancy can be traced to Adenoid
growths in the throat. That is what
the superintendents of schools, Dr. W.
H. Maxwell, told a hundred principals
who went to the Dewitt Clinton high
school for a heart to heart talk about
intimate school matters.
Dr. Maxwell said: “No pupil should
til hie has been tried out in two
be sent to the school for discipline un
schools and then I want such a one
examined by the health department
physicians before he is sent.
MADMAN KILLS TWO.
Growing Suddenly Violent .Maniac
Murders Man and Woman.
Washington, D. C.—ln demoniacal
fury, Andrew Lightfoot, a mulatto in
mate at the St. Elizabeth asylum for
the insane, killed Patrick Maloney
and Millie Follin, an inmate of the
asylum, and severely injured )Miss
Robinson, another inmate.
The murderer escaped from the
grounds and fled to the swamps near
by. He was finally caught, after the
police found it necessary to shoot
him, inflicting wounds in the leg.
Lightfoot was forty years old, and
has been a patient at the hospital for
eight years, and was regarded as of
a harmless nature.
CONVICT LEASING ENDS.
Georgia Legislature Passe* Bill Pratical
ly Forbidding Leasing.
Atlanta, Ga. —The general assembly
of Georgia passed the new convict
bill which takes the state’s criminals
from the hands of private lessees next
March and puts them upon the public
roads of the counties, where they will
work under the supervision of the
state.
Governor Hoke Smith has approved
the new bill whereupon it became the
organic law, and, unless future legis
latures change it, the selling of con
victs will be forever wiped from the
statute books of Georgia.
One section of the new law provides
that after all the counties have been
supplied, without cost,with all the con
victs they desire for working roads
and other public improvements, and
all the cities supplied with what num
ber they want at $lOO each per year,
and all the state institutions, state
farm or farms are filled with them,
then it any felony convicts remain
undisposed of the governor and the
prison commission may dispose of
them as they think the best interest
of the state demands, for a period
not to exceed twelve months from
March 31, 1909. As this section ap
plies solely to felony convicts, the
counties being compelled to take all
of their misdemeanor convicts, it is
the opinion of Governor Smith and the
leaders in the anti-lease movement
that no convicts will remain on hand
to be disposed of under this section.
The state averages only 2,100 felony
convicts, and this number will be ab
sorbed, it is believed, by the several
plans provided in the bill. In pass
ing this bill the legislature accom
plished the work for which it had
been called in extra session and af
ter having struggled four weeks in
one of the bitterest fights the state
has ever known, the assembly ad
journed sine die.
FIRE IWseHiREATIOSS.
Paris, France, Postoffice and Central
Telephone Station Destroyed.
Paris, France. —Fire broke out in
the Central telephone building and
spread with such rapidity that the tel
ephone employees were forced, after
brief and ineffectual efforts, to ex
tinguish the flames, to fly hastily to
the streets. The entire building was
soon in flames and this, together with
the postoffice, which is located close
to the Place des Victoires, was total
ly destroyed. The loss is estimated
at $5,000,000, but a much greater loss
is likely to be involved through the
complete interruption of telephonic
communication. It will take more
than a month to re-establish the serv
ice, and even a temporary installa
tion will require a considerable length
of time.
The origin of the fire is believed to
have been due to a short circuit. It
is asserted also that it may have been
of incendiary origin, but nothing as
yet has been found to prove this.
Telephone employees, when they
first discovered the flames, tried to
extinguish them, but were forced to
desist on account of the volumes of
black smoke and the pungent fumes
from the burning gutta percha. In
a short time the flames enwrapped
the entire five stories and were
bursting through the room, leaping
skyward like a blast furnace.
shoTfourteen Times.
Woman Stood By Husband and With
Him Was Killed.
West Plains, Mo. —John Roberts
and his wife resisted a sheriff and
several deputies in a desperate fight
near Prestonia, when the officers at
tempted to arrest Roberts for killing
Obe Kessinger. As a result the wom
an and Sheriff Mooney are mortally
wounded, and Roberts and two depu
ties are seriously hurt. Sheriff Moo
ney was shot by the woman, it is said.
Roberts and his wife defended the
building for hours under fire. When
the door was broken down, Mrs. Rob
erts, suffering from fourteen wounds,
was found dying.
Machinists’ Strike Off.
Birmingham, Ala.—A telegram re
ceived here calls off the machinists’
strike on the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad, which has been on
since May 29 ,1907. The men are
allowed to return to work if they
can get the w r ork. The telegram came
from the headquarters in Washington
and is said to affect the entire system.
Lights for Baby Carriages.
Chicago, 11l. —Judge Cleland of the
municipal court has decided that baby
carriages must have headlights if
used on the streets at night. He said:
“When a mother wheels her infant
out at night without a light on the
baby carriage, she may go to the
Bridewell for twenty days .
Noted Cartoonist Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa. —F. M. Howarth,
one of the best known comic artists
in the country, died at his home in
Germantown, aged 43 years. Death
was caused by pneumonia. He is cred
ited with having originated the com
ic series. Two of his best known se
ries were “E. Z. Mark” and “Lulu and
Leander.”
Mrs. Gould Asks Alimony.
New York City.—Mrs. Katherine
Gould, who is suing Howard Gould for
divorce, has applied to Justice Giege
rich for an order compelling Mr.
Gould to pay her $lO,OOO a year ali
mony and $15,000 for her counsel fees.
SOUTH’S COTTON MILLS
Show Great Increase in Amount
of Raw Material Handled.
iron industry! growing
Immense Improvement* in Alabama.
Ultimate Domination of Cotton Crop
Utilization Predicted.
Baltimore, Md. —The trend of the
iron and steel industry of the south
is emphasized in a dispatch to the
Manufacturers’ Record announcing ex
tensive improvements at the Ensley
plant of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company, upon which work
will begin at an early date. This an
nouncement of large improvements to
be made by the Tennessee company,
carrying out the broad plan of devel
opment work which has been under
way since that company was purchas
ed by the United States Steel Corpo
ration .indicates the spirit in which
the latter is carrying on its expansion
of the iron and steel industry in the
Alabama district. It has already ex
pended several million dollars there
and doubtless will continue to spend
a good many more millions.
Another interesting development in
the Alabama field is the blowing in of
one of the Anniston furnaces of the
Woodstock company.
Indications of the southward trend
of the American textile industry is
had in the fact that during the year
just closed southern cotton mills have
for the third time in the past ten
years taken more bales of American
cotton than the mills in the rest of
the country. The advantage of the
southern mills was gained first in 1903
which year, by the way, marked the
passing of the 2,000,000-bale mark by
southern mills, their million-bale rec
ord having been established in 1897.
In 1903 the southern mills were again
ahead of the mills in the rest of the
country, and in the year just closed
they took 2,193,277 bales, against 1,-
896,661 bales taken by mills in the
rest of the country, or more than 53
per cent of the total number of bales
of American cotton taken by American
mills. The past year was one of un
favorable conditions for the mills, but
it is interesting to note that, in spite
of that fact, they maintained the gen
eral tendency which should ultimately
make the sotuh as dominating in cot
ton manufacturing as it is in cotton
growing.
GRAVE DIGGERS NEEDED.
Victims of Cholera Are Lying Un
buried at St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, Russia. —Owing to
the appalling proportions assumed by
the cholera epidemic, St. Petersburg
is fast being turned into a city of the
dead.
The cholera dead are being interred
at Preobrazhemskoe, which is about
an hour’s distance on the railroad
from St. Petersburg. A train of sev
eral coaches, carrying the mourners,
and a dozen freight cars with the
dead in rude coffins, goes daily to this
place. The scenes are heartrending
in and about the chapel where ser
vice is conducted uninterruptedly
night and day.
The coffins are of rude workman
ship; they are made of spruce, and
thickly coated with tar. The identi
fication numbers of the patients are
marked with white paint.
The scarcity of grave diggers has
caused a painful delay in the past few
days, one hundred and fifty coffins
containing bodies now being stored in
the adjoining woodshed. Some of the
mourners have been waiting their
turn for several days.
Up to date the municipal hospitals
reported for the preceding twenty-four
hours two hundred and forty-seven
cholera cases and one hundred and
seventy-six deaths. There is a total
of 1,587 patients in the various hos
pitals.
RECORD AGAIN BROKEN.
Wilbur Wright Stayed in the Air Over
Ninety Minutes.
Lemans, France. —In the presence of
the officials of the French Aero Club
of Sarthe and a wildly cheering crowd
numbering 10,900, Wilbur Wright, the
American aeronaut, captured the
world’s record from his brother, Or
ville Wright, with a flight In his pow
erful machine of one hour, thirty-one
minutes and fifty-one seconds, cover
ing in that time an actual distance of
98 kilometres, or nearly sixty-one
miles.
Owing to the recent accident at
Fort Myer, the trial for the Michelin
cup, for the greatest distance covered
by an aeroplane in 1908, and the aero
club prize of $l,OOO for the longest
flight over an enclosed ground, at
tracted intense interest.
PLANNED TO LOOTdANK.
Alleged Conspirator is Arrested While
Detailing Scheme to Effect Steal.
Charlotte, N. C.—A daring scheme
to rob the Waychovia Loan and Trust
company, of Spencer of $60,090 on the
night of October 9th has been frus
trated and George Murphy arrested
and lodged in jail. Murphy had con
fided his plans for looting the bank
to Mr. W’oodward, who informed the
police. W’oodward then made appoint
ment with Murphy to meet and dis
cuss plans of the robbery.
Officials of the bank concealed
themselves in the warehouse and
heard Murphy elaborate on plans for
securing explosives. His arrest fol
lowed.
THROUGHOUT the state
Andrew Thomason, a farmer, 50
years of age, of Newton district, sev
en miles south of Alpharetta, hanged
himself to the rafters in a cotton gin.
Mr. Thomason is survived by a wife
and seven children. Mr. Thomason
had always been regarded as an in
dustrious farmer of good habits, but
lately he had been ill and except for
this no reason is known for the act.
The registration books, which have
closed for the fall eletcion, show that
there are 3,565 voters registered in
Oglethorpe county. Of that number
all are white but two hundred and fif
ty. The indications are that there
will be a big vote polled in that coun
ty at the state election on November
6. The registration is about the same
as last year.
Rewards have been offered by Gov
ernor Smith for the capture and con
viction of Corn and John Miller, who
are charged with having murdered W.
E. Keaton on August 25. It is claim
ed the Miller brothers entered the
field where Keaton was at work and
deliberately shot him down. There is
$125 offered in each case. Other re
wards have been offered for the cap
ture and conviction of Ben Whitehead
and Arlington Lewis, who are wanted
for murder in Lee county.
It is announced that Chatham coun
ty will be ready to take its full quota
of felony convicts next spring, when
the time comes to apportion them to
the different counties throughout the
state. When Governor Smith inquir
ed some weeks ago how many con
victs of this kind Chatham could work
he was told that fifty would be taken.
If the county is to get one hundred,
however, that many will be employ
ed.
The 4-year-old son of Mr. William
Wilkins, while playing in a pile of
cotton on the farm of Mr. A. J. Nully,
near Pine Log, was smothered to
death. It appears that he had dug a
deep hole in the cotton and had fallen
into it head first. He had been dead
some time when found.
A meeting of the Farmers’ union of
Spalding county was held at the court
house in Griffin at which strong res
olutions were passed condemning the
action of the night riders in Law
renceville, Ga., and other places. J.
T. Biles is president of the Spalding
union, T. P. Nichols is vice president
and R. H. E. Ellis secretary and treas
urer, and they all signed the resolu
tions adopted.
At a meeting of the citizens of Bue
na Vista $59,009 was raised to build
a railroad from that city to Mauks,
the additional capital, $100,900, to be
furnished by out of town capitalists.
Mauks is a thriving little town on the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railroad about fifteen miles from Tal
botton and about thirty-five miles
from Montezuma. The road will be
about seventeen or eighteen miles
long. A surveying corps has been
ordered to begin work at once.
A list of the presidential electors
representing the national prohibition
party in the state of Georgia has been
filed with the state department by W.
S. Witham, state chairman. They are:
At large, W. S. Witham, Atlanta, and
L. N. Stanfill, Hahira; first district,
Joseph N. Gary, Swainsboro; second
district, Dr. L. B. Bouchelle, Thomas
ville; third district, Judson Cheves,
Montezuma; fourth district, Leon
Smith, LaGrange; fifth district,Dr. J.
L. D. Hillyer, Decatur; sixth district,
W. W. Milam, Stockbridge; seventh,
district, G. W. Fleetwood, Rome;
eighth district, O. L. Teasley, Bow
man; tenth district, W. J. Wren,
Wrens; eleventh district. Herbert
Murphrey, Waynesboro.
It is reported that Governor Smith
is looking for farm lands in various
parts of the state for the purpose of
securing sites for new stockades and
prison farms authorized under the con
vict bill which has just passed. The
governor has begun his investigation
at this time in order that the convicts
may be put to work making crops
immediately after they are released
by private lessees at the termination
of the present leases on March 31,
1909. They will then be able to make
a crop next year. Of course the build
ings and quarters for the men must
be erected in the meantime.
Andrew Guyton, who for the past
twenty-two years has been in the pen
itentiary of Georgia serving a life
sentence for murder committed in De
catur county, has been pardoned by
Governor, Smith.
The prison commission has receiv
ed notice that M. C. Clelehan, a con
vict employe at the Ashley-Price Lum
ber company in Coffee county, deliber
ately put his hand upon a circular
saw and cut off four fingers. He had
been employed at the rather light
work of firing a boiler, and had left
his post and gone to the saw to delib
erately cripple himself in order to get
out of work.
Ginners in Gwinnett county met at
Lawrenceville. Only two gins in the
county reported that they had receiv
ed notices not to gin the new crop of
cotton. All the other gins are run
ning. Sugar Hill Farmers’ union pass
ed resolutions denouncing the threats
to burn and calling all the unions to
join them.
Following announcements some time
ago that Dougherty county’s tax re
turns had increased $335,909 over
those of the preceding year comes the
announcement now that the returns of
property by city taxpayers show an
increase over 1907 of $448,166.
There are seven hundred and seven
names on the revised jury list in Og
lethorpe. This is the largest list ever
in an Oglethorpe county jury box.
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