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VALDOSTA, GAy* TUE SDA ^» FEBRUARY 4, 1908,
wmi io imbue educiml
mu. a
Mocti FeelinO Aroused by too Free
McIntosh Count/* Murderer Get*
. Another Respite Under Very Flim-
»y Pretext—Leslency of the Par
don Board I* too Much for Law-
Abiding Citizens—Judge Norwood
"on Win Inscription.
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 6—It le »aid
to be quite probable that one of the
representatives of one of the South
Georgia counties may Introduce a
hill in the coming session of the leg
islature seeking to abolish the pris
on commission. The feeling against
the commission has been aroused by
the recommendation of that board
(hat the death sentence of Le*
Holmes, a McIntosh county negro, be
commuted to lit* imprisonment Gov-
arbor Smith, at the suggestion of In
fluential citizens of McIntosh county,
Is undecided whether to permit the
finding of the commission In this case
to stand. He has already granted
the negro two respites. He was to
have been hacked several weekB ago
uid was respited until tomorrow and
yesterday a further respite was gran
ted until next week. The people of
(McIntosh think Holmes should hang
as they take little stock In hie state
ment that I he gun with which he kill
ed Dr. E. A. Sands was fired accident
ally. There has not been a case before
In this section which has aroused the
people of die Immediate vicinity In
which the affair "happened as this one
l has. Holmes had’ ttr-|be spirited away
f to Brunswick and then to Savannah
to escape lynching. He ts now In Jail
Changed Story and Led
pPito Discovery of Murder.
"Berlin, Feb. 5.—More than usually
gttfesome ls~a murder »tory which
comc* 4 .fropi Lelpslc. Paul Getgler
waadheproprlstor of * book store -In
.fllltalng man, a searh at hi* home
W*Bi«ra*ided on. Accordingly the po
lice went to Gelgler 1 * rooms, where,
upon the Doeli girl Jumped, from tho
window and fled. Investigations show-
the Gorehen*ir*s»e. and with him Hv- edjthatiha bed, which was made, and
ed, pHteasedly as housekeeper and aplftrontt/unoccupled, contained Gelg
njjwOman named Min ler's body. The remains were black,
tile middle of Nov. and in' an advanced stage of dscom-
J from view, but position. There were traces that
ilained this by say- dea*h had been caused by suffocation,
he had gone to Italy, on bus- It was, evident that the girl had cook-
s he did hot return Inquires ed and slept In the samp room with
’ re pressing, and the young the dead man for week* She had
woman fhen made the fatal mistake made off with the sum of |2,500, but
Of altering her ,story, asserting that j was arrested at Halle. It was as-
Gelgler,wa* In'a Vienna hosplty.' ■ certs Iped that she had a sweetheart,
” ;hange of tale aroused sue- and he^has also been taken In o cut
and when Investigations In'tody on' the suspicion that he had
Vienna failed'to reveal any traces of something to do with the crime. ;
(aoffcDctve negro.
The feeling that there ^tohld be
sterner enforcement of the verdicts
of juries In murder cases Is also
aroused by the report that E. A.
Moore, convicted of murder for kill
ing Mrs, F. F. Wheeler while on a
drunken spree and running as a con
ductor of a street car. Moore Cias
not been In the penitentiary three
years yet, having Men sent up for
life, but he' Is now trying to get out
on a pardon. He has an attorney
working hero In his Interest and has
tried to get Mr. Wheeler to petition
the pardoning hoard for his release.
He Is going to make (he effort to got
a pardon despite Mr. Wheeler’s ob
jection.
It Is held that the leniency of tho
pardon board very often puts the
Governor In an embarrassing posi
tion. This Is particularly true In the
Holmes case.
Sons ef Revolution Meet.
The Sons of the Revolution held
their annual meeting last night at
(he DeSoto Hotel. Officers for th*
Incoming year were elected. Those
ehosen were: President Walter O.
Charlton, Vice President Emory
Speer, Second Vice President R. I.
Travis, Secretary Wm. Harden.
Treasurer Waring Russell^ Regls'rar
Robert T. Waller, Chaplain Rev.
Charles C. Strong, Historian T. P.
Ravenel, Surgeon Dr. M. X. Corbin,
(Marshall J. C .Postell.
dresses were nude last night at a congregation have purchased the Val-'
It Offer* a Splendid Opportunity for Giegler di:
Farmers to Get ’tiome New Ideas, ^ “
as Lectures Will ba Mad* by
pens From the Georgia Slate. Col
lege. .
The Educational Train of the State
College of Agriculture will reach ’this
elty at eight o'clock
of Tuesday, the 18th_ day' yol- this
month. ”, *.;V
The train wilt, consist of a baggage
car full of exhibits’" of-SfirlouyBlBla
ducts, and two passenger coaches,
which are to be used - as
ns. The train will remain
one hour and a ihalt and during
time the experts, accompanying
train, will tire lectures c
phases of farm iife, especii
Card (o planting, etc.-r-.
The subjects that will .be
by the experts are as flmft
Seed selection of corn, dfi# .
Mixing and applying fertilisers.
Feeding fara-^nlmida'.&jjM ' f
Management'' of. orchards, gardens
and truck patches. - ,1 .
Insects and fungi attacking cotta I family went off the bridge Into the iv
and other farm crops.’ river below, which' le about eight g
Practical value oHqgncultural edu-
cation'.
The handling of cotton by-products.
Soil management and Improvement.
The train will stop here for one
hour and a halt on Feb. IS, at 8 a
iq. This le the greatest educational
opportunity ever brought within th.-
reach of Georgia farmers.
PERSONAL MENTION.
y (From Thursday’s Dally.)
2 Children Drowif in Rivlr
Awhile Paren^erelMoving
eeboro, Ga, Jan.. 8—News feet deep. Two of the Children, one
tf Statesboro today of. an un-
-sceident that befell Mr. and
Cc^dley near Adabelle, a email
n near here, Saturday night,
enoley le a farmer and wee mov-
ra family—a wife and four dill- from’,
-frowtj'near Stlllmore,; In Eman- pow-
, uel county, to Bulloch county, near The:
' Adabella.-^ £ .. • &' ; «i*or
Whll* erecting the Canoochee river ' then
at Kennedy’a bridge at night tiit-ve-i
I hide In which he was' moving hit
ef *$Ieb was a. little girl about 5
yeartbpord, and the’other, an Infant ef
only * few months, were drowned.
' TJjf wagon being covered It was Im-
for th* bodies to Host away
and th* frantic parents were
soon pulled ashore
were iff the water only a
but all efforta to revive
river below,
General Cusse
Charged Ag
Mr. L. V. Shore, of Tltton. was
among the vleltore to the city today.
Mr. B. J. Jackson, of Fender, was
among the visitors to the city yes
terday.
Mr. J. D. Hancock, of Uv* Oak,
Is a visitor In the city today ,
• • • . *
Mr. T. C. Eberhardt, of Fbrt VaJ-
ley, spent Met night-In the city.
Hr. C. J. Ham, of Dixie, wit a
visitor la the city yesterday.
see
Mr. R. 1. Hinely, of Lake Park,
waa among the visitors here .Hast
night. • . ’ .
her end mother
ither children
;lng death In
a watery
of Agent
big R. R.
siting room, not supply
£§hr, and failure to
post, delayed trains. A whole bunch
of folke came down to 'May out"
Agent Henderson, but he seemed able
to take care of himself. He declared
the part of the agent at Hi- ^Jhat whole tKc \ caused by
a "cfrinklTI’lJf _ (
^jiSid that elnce whls-
Ing to. Hiram by ex-
aoaks were til mad with
he would not l*t them
“Hi* cats waa taken
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. #—Perhaps for
the P.-st time In the history .of the
ataie a great railroad waa before the
railroad commission yesterday, be
cause of charges of general cussed-
n. According to the char
hderson of pj
ly everything jexcept attending KrhCS
Job properly. He It charged
aasslng passengers, men and women
alike, ef allowing the waiting room
to remain to dirty that It was-unfit
for human, use, of falling to keep
A Conscience-Smitten Alan
Dumped Liquor in the River
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 8—A •'murdertetream:' The hack then quickly re-
(nystery," of last night waa Inveetlgat- turned to COlumbua.
ed by the police of Colutgbus today. I The police scented murder and be-
with rather curious results. Three-gen a-searching Investigation. The
reputable men saw a hack atop last backman waa located today, and eays
night In ths middle of Chattahoochee j‘’if, box w «* a box of
river bridge betW.en Columbus waa «7' d by « W-i
.eetence stricken Columbus man,~wM’
Girard, Ala, and a man sprang out, decided that he would get rid of the,
carrying a box which he threw over liquor by throwing It Into tho river
ths ralljng of the bridge Into the He refusea to give th* names.
The Telegraph to Be Displaced
by It After March. 1.
WOMEN WILL BE EMPLOYED.
Many Men Operators to Bs Lit Out
Automatic BlotkSlgn.l. Will Bt In
stalled anfi wm&mi Ttlsgraph
Stations CJttett® '**^**’ ‘
A u* w Held of employment for'wo-,
uioii Is to be opened by the railways.
su.VR a WunbltiKton special dispatch to
the Cblcaxo ltcconl-UcrulU. This does
not mean that .the" roods will employ
women tcIcKrnptjors; but. ou the con
trary. their >iu|>loymeu^ $rM( be for
tye purpose of takjm? the places of te-
irgrupherii aJti*«Uy In thc^ervlce. The
if^urp Wohisu ‘ railway opjtyfaJJng eui-
i will b%* engaged ut the'smaller
[ntlif orders over tel-
HAD MEETING.
President Johnson will Keep Presi
dency Awhile Longer.
Ths Gathering In Atlanta waa Rather
Small, but Efforts Will b* Mad* to
Rais* President’s Salary—Blind
Man Enters Race for Corontr—Stp
tember Encampment Is Too Lots,
Say 8oldl*r*. '
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. C^Sotao 28 or
>ns .taking train ufilers over (cl- 30 members of the Cotton Aesoolatloa
ephOuea where funuerly such orders gathered in the eenate chamber of
»'» 1 iwclved by tele- i[he caplt0 , y 0 ,terday for th* casual
gluph.' Till* new Held will lx- open to
women wbeu Ihe new nine hour day ^ n 5° , I U, ®, G * 0r * la
law govetulng the working tlm* of | ,afent M ’ L ’ Jobjuoa ,u to
railway : telegraphers gees Into effoct
ou March I.
It waa donflduhtly expeeted that this
law Woqhl work s revolution In rail
way opera thin, and It was with thl*
end In view that the Order of Railway
Telegraphers, procured lu Jioauag* d*-
splte the dOternilued opposition of the
railway luitpuger* .and Oven against
a(Jvli.-e dlredf'froiji the Whit* Bout*.
Tho revolutlolVla cdmlliR, all right, Ml
It will be a revolutlou which wlH rslO-
accept the ofllce again, and did se
tentatively, pending th* payment of
hie back salary, President Johngon
•aid that a considerable amount at
back salary waa doe him, gpd la waa
willing to toko th* presidency tem
porarily In order to . give flu orga
nization time to make ap (lib tram,
and aoa Jf his anlory would be paid
l4 atb tntttf*. • J ‘ •
Those present said' they would do
gsto thsJOKxrapb to a book saatawho 1 eywytUnf nosalbla'’« geV’lm th*
adjunct to railway oneratioo andAslIl j u j ge o l W. 1 Oloalon, of
confessed
adjunct :td railway operation and^wlll
throw thousaod. of operators out of
employment and, annually will de- Koekd"® county, frankly
crease their number until. Jhey will at- tl,at Farmers’ Union noa about
most disappear from American ' rail-1 rwallowed tho cotton association In
ways. ' 1 ^'V ci'Jhjs county. Thi following delegates te
It wss’ expected thdt the roduramifiwfio Dallas convention were appolnt-
the working hours of railway ’WSaHgB- j. T. WllUama, M L. Everett
phers to nloe hortfs wopld *«toPPr' nd c , , w . p .. k „
railroads to ompby ut least 8.000 addK „ Colonel L. Peek. The emo
tional men ut once If was also known I ut,vo co®®«teo S> as follows: Jeei
that it would be Impossible to secure! Conyers, of Bartow; H. Talley, or
this uumbei’ of raeu when needed, and Cobb, and Dan Hughes, of Dasrrftlt
Sheriff has Idea About Escape.
Allant% Ga, Feb. #—Sheriff Nelma i two trtntlea have been locked ut
At the Majestic Theater today and
tonight the pictures arp: “Too Mag
netized Man” and "hs-Falthful Dog-
Song, ‘‘Farewell Mjt Anna Bcir 1 —a jbellevee be holds.tl)e solution of ths-await ths -action of the
catchy March sonc' -Yotz ha^ Jjetter jsseaps from the T*wtr of John H«r-.| a ° ve ^ ,r 8m**h ye.terda
come out ud outfit. . ‘ ^ ' p*r. ths Murmynlifity murdsrar, W " "
' •: VAX .. J Hsrpej-. ths slsysr of £
3*rton, tnjFsIleged yeggman. 0 , Murray countv. Th.,
. -- 8herlff „
Murray county. This Is th*
Mr. Frank Sagerholme, of Coldm-j®! 0 ' 8 * , „ „
bus, has reached th* city to accept a 1» of *ha opinion that two trusties and time Horpsr has osoaped l3
position wllfiz J. E. Springer £ Co.,|' n f® e Jsll aldod the two men to as-!alnc* ths orlms. His other moods
m jeweler. «P» by securing ths Jsllsr*s keys and wss from th* Murray Jail, th* ,h. r .
'• • • unlocking th* coll doors so ths msn Iff of Fulton das also offered a re
It Is generally understood on tbo le0 “ l<l Q“ ‘ h « window through ward'of $100 tor ths arrest of either
Several ad streets that tile Baptist Tabernacle which they sawed to liberty. The man. ’
It was therefore poped by Ihe men
that nil Increase |n' wages would In- it
part of tlie revolutlou planned.
'rile mllwny manmtira at Brat took a
similar view of..the Bltunllnn, hilt It
soou was illseovoti-l that It would lie
Impossible to suppljos*--/ demand t’ nil
'Ig-telegiqpli
uniiii - - sitimtlon the
-nine hour day 'f^fctelegraphcrs will
bring nbdbt the following changes;
First.—The abandonment of ill sta
tions at telegraph stations except divi
sion beadquartersand junctional point.
Second.—The substitution of tele
phones for the receipt and the trans
mission of orders and messages.
Third.—The employment of women
tt agents lu many stations thus trans
formed Into telephone stations.
FAurtb.-Thr transaction of a tre
mendous amount of office bnslness by
letter wblcb formerly was transacted
by telegraph.-- r
Fifth—The jyopld'i extension of the
automatic, eloetrlc block signal system,
which will make telegraph stations un
necessary.
In determining to Inaugurate these
changes the railway- managers found
that they bad In reality twon preparing
for them for years. It was discovered
also that hy adopting the moet expen
sive system of. block signaling, train
erdahi and telegraph stations could for
tbs greater part be done away with.
The railroads therefore decided that
they would, rather spend millions Id
William Eberhardt wo* named vlqe
president.
Blind Mon for Coronof.
O. Paul Donehoo, who- has been
totally blind slnte he was five years
old. la n candidate for coroner of Ftil-
ou county. Ale Is (rail 2a,yo
smoker following the annual meeting, j doata theater and will convert It Into Insoection of GfiOTpia Snlfiiawc'
Judge Norwood on Wlrz Inscription. j a commodious house of worshli. It I “ 0*4* L/VlUlClOa
At the meeting of the executive | s not known exactly what price was i Os, Feb. 6—Announcement
board of the Daughters of the Coafed- paid for the building, though It Is of the dates for the annuel Inspection
eracy hi Atlanta today a letter of said that the trade has been pending of the national guard of Georgia has
much interest will be read from for some time. ~ I, . , t .
Judge T. M. Norwood who recently j . . . j been made ’ begin. Febru-
retired from the city court bench. | There are some Indications’ that * ry 24 and wl11 c0 ^U^e‘ln Columbus
In this letter Judge Norwood suggests Valdosta will have a ’’flying Jewry," *P rl1 24 - It Is uncsitsln yet who will
that the discussion of the subject of a snake show and a negro minstrel be assigned to the work for Georgia,
the Inscription for tho Wire monn- every day for a whole week before »» General w. G. Obear, former la
ment be held over for the present, the present moon reaches the full spector general, may not havs time
He does not think this time propitious . That Is enough to enliven things a j —
for the discussion of a subject of little bit—and every little bit helps. Congressman A. B. Darragh, of the
auch a serious nature. He thinks , • • • ! Eleventh district of htiObjgan, an
the Daughters should wait at least Mr. H. J. Dame end wlfs, of Ho-'nounces that he will not to~a candi-
until nevt winter. He has also pre- mervllle, were visitors te tho city .. „ ,
pared a pamphlet calling upon tee today. . datc ,or ano,hcr te ™' H ® '» »°"
htor|_of tiie Confederacy to build • • • v-Apfe;/ - E worvlng Ids fourth term am&ffi the
" Pantheon In honor of • Col. .Mark Johnston, of Atlanta, Is br,t man In the history of hli^lJllLrlct
^ Heroes. He thinks this spending e day or so'iz^wsato^abijfeioccupy the position more t^B two
tonld be done as soon ns possible section, ’ / • t<mn5.
*0 do tho work- now. Since ho has
boon mid# Quartermaster general It
it no longer a part of hla official du-
lee, although General Scott may as
sign him for tho work. Tha.war de
partment In Washington will ‘aOtfgn
a man latar. Albany’s company will
be Inspected April 22, Valdosta Aprl,
20, Brunswick April 18, Fitzgerald
April 17, Thomaevllla April 23.
providing and mtlnjWnlng automatic
h otter to, to sleep
^^JjaltDftla. wblcb
and itrblch never rail unleaa they, spell
‘dehgeti,” tlmp toopend tba
ey in raalnuiplug telegraph stofjons
and telegraph operators. Tho
'JA stations aa telegraph stal
mndg goaslWby the fact that with'nu
' shmalalltbatlsncc-
Waatry tt tottWt tralas u fast as thr
terminal, block la empty and keep them
going untjt a semaphore say* "stop.”
Accordingly many of tba big oyateme.
notably'the Harriman roads, bava been
baeteulng the Installing of aucb sig
nals, and the new year finds them
ready to lock the telegraph keys In
hundreds of. stations. The second con
viction, but one which many have hith
erto lacked courage to put Into effect.
Is that the telephone Is really the most
scientific means of communication be-
tween-stations and headquarter!. The
Burlington road, for example, has been
i:i l ilc.-il conservatory.
cd up the quostlon of hls-ellglhlll
and says ho feels assured (hat he can
discharge the duties of ths position
satisfactorily. The foot that ho I*
blind will give him strong otondttg
In the race.
Encampment In September.
Gonelderable worry has been esno-
ed In the office of the adjutant gener
al by the aeM*flfo!U announcement
that ' the ' national encampment at
Chlckamauga will be held In Septem
ber. Inasmuch as It ts planned to
send all of tbe Georgia troops there
then, thl* would serkraaly Interfere
with the scheme. At that Urns of
the year officers and men of tba *r-
ganisatlon, ate so buay with business
affairs and the cotton movement that
It would be difficult for many of (hone
to get away. It Is hoped that the
announcement ** to the date 1* an
LOWER COURT SUSTAINED.
By the Supreme Court In Decision In
Johnson Css*.
The aupreme court hss affirmed
the decision of the lower ooort In
the Jim Johnson murder oaso. John
son was tried for the second time at
the last term of the superior court
and found guilty of the murder of hla
father and rocommended to mercy.
He won sentenced to life Imprison
ment by Judge iMltcbell. Judg* John
Wilkes, attorney for the defend
ant, carried the case to the supreme
court for tbe second tlnve and this
time the higher court declined to re
verse the doclelon of the lower eourt
and grant another trial.
Johnson will probably go to th*
penitentiary as soon as the remitter
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia,
while frankly admitting*' that ho
would like to be a United States
Senator, soy* be will not bo a candl-
late to succeed Senator Clay. Ho
desires another terpMi* governor, he jo. La/.tlnger M’lod s'yenty flve doves
vaya. In order to jpaompllsb the re- in an unbelted field Id til nth eounty.
■arms tie planned ^Sen first elected They aWi klilbt^Upit^tWoetjr paro
le the office, 1 rldgea ph’ *
successfully operating trains by pbonu j I* sent down from the supreme court,
over It* heuvleKt division, between Cbl* Tbe case bat been bard fovght
cago and Oalcebprg. for reveral ye*ra. from the beginning. The crime John-
The Illinois Central, tbe New York ,,
Central line, and other big systems 1 “ “ arBed . “ “““l*!’?
in the summer of 1908. He was tried
at the next term of court and ooavtet
ed and sentenced to Ilfs Imprison
ment The case was appealed to til*'
higher courts and a new trial was,
granted. The second trial wm at (ha
last term of the Superior court
he was again found guilty
sentence waa aa before,
eys will not undertake
effort to get Joh
Moultrie Observer.
have for several years bad telephonic
communication throughout the entire
length of their systems.
Mr. J. G. Stevens, Jr, spent a day
or so this week In Jacksonville. ‘
Rev R. W. Wallace and Mr. B