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VALDOSTA, GA,
MUSI JAKE MOORE
DISGORGE
Ida! Is Ooe of Many Rumors Afloa
in Atlanta These Days.
It Is Said That the Governor and At
torney General la Thinking of
. Bringing Action Against Former
Warden Who Got Rich Quick—Com
mittee la to Emplay an Expert Ac
countant.
working the convicts. A few days
ago it was sworn that this same chief
savior of the convicts received a high
salary from the commission as "air
Inspector," and that for this salary
he visited the mines three or four
times a year. He has been in the
pay of the commission as camp phy
sician. And then, he had the audaci
ty to accept the appointment as
member if the. Investigation commit
tee! He admitted to the committee
that certain and most Important re
ports that had been Intrusted to him
as chairman of the legislative peni
tentiary committed had been lost. One
has turned up In the form of a car
bon copy, showing horrible conditions
Atlanta, Ga., July 30—Will the state
attempt to make former warden Jake
C. Moore disgorge money said to have
been made by him out of the leases
he engineered .or various parties
while in office? That Is one of the
many rumors going here now, and
results' from a long conference held
between Governor Smith and, Attorn
ey Genertl Hart, following the revela
tions already made before the Inves
tigating committee.
It Is said that the governor and the
attorney general <jre considering the
advisability of bringing action against
Moore In behalf of the people, altho
no definite decision on the matter has
been reached yet. The attorney gen
eral has the matter under considera
tion and will render the governor an
opinion In a few days. Under testi
mony brought out Monday and Tues
day afternoon. It was brought out
that warden Moore had made consid
erable money by engineering deals
for convicts. Joel Hurt testified that
Moore approached him with a propo
sition to take me hundred convicts
off his hands. .Mr. Hurt said "Jake"
wanted to do him a favor, and Inch,
dentally make a few dollars for him
self.
The belief Is growing that Governor
Smith will call an extra session of the
legislature# as he Is determined to go
to the bottom of'thlngs. The Investi
gating committee seems of the Bame
mind, and will continue Its probing
as long as evidence can be had.
the Holder bill, as It now stands,
should even nass both houses, it Is
firmly believed Governor Smith would
call an extra session, first vetoing the
measure and Insisting on adequate
legislation.
The Atlanta Georgian of yesterday
afternoon calls for Impeachment pro
ceedings . under evidence already
brought opt. Among other things It
says: y
‘It has been proven that wardens
of the state were In the bribing pay
of the men using the convicts. It has
been proven that convicts have been
whipped to death by Georgia's war
dens. The state gave the convict
one avenue of redress and protection
—the penitentiary committee from the
legislature. The highest authority
on this committee Is the chairman,
Senator Brock.
“On Monday It was sworn that this
man had been In the pay of the men
In one of the largest camps In the
state. How long will the cltisens of
Georgia give this gentleman to resign
his connection with the Investigation
committee, and his seat In the Geor
gia Senate? If he does not resign,
gentlemen of the senate, how long
will It take you to Impeach him? How
long will It take you to Impeach the
prison commission, and give the gov
ernor a chance to appoint some to
administer the law In Georgia's con
vict system?”
By a unanimous vote the house yes
terday passed a resolution authorizing
the Investigating committee to em
ploy an expert accountant to audit
the books of the prison commission,
the state farm and the state reforma
tory. The senate Immediately con
curred In It, and an accountant will
be employed Immediately.
Another filllbuster has been threat
ened by the adoption of an amend
ment to the Holder bill, which pro
vides that the fund arising from the
lease of convicts In counties which
do not employ them on the public
roads or works, and which have no
chalngangs, shall be paid direct into
the county treasury, after deducting
the actutl cost of conviction. It Is
argued by the supporters of this
amendment that It Is a beginning in
stopping the fee system. Representa
tive Butt, of Fannin, however, has
served noUce tt?t h 9 wlU flmbuztef
on the passage of^he bill unless this
amendment Is cut out This may
mean a knockout blow for the Hoi
der bill altogether.
A joker In the bill also turned up.
This Joker was In the shape of a pro
vision for not leasing "felony" con
victs. An amendment by Mr. Wright
of Floyd, providing that no drinking
guard or warden shall be employed
nor any man who Is not recommend
ed by the ordinary and three other
reputable citizens of his county, was
adopted. Another amendment adopt
ed makes It obligatory for the pris
on commission to Inspect camps ev
ery three months Instead of once a
year as now. The house also voted
down a proposition to have female
guards tor female convicts. An amend
ment to stop whipping In the camps
was defeated. ,
iff
GUST 1, 1908.
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GREAT GROWTH
TWO STATED
The Industrial Index Giles lie
A Growing Demand for Timber Land
la one of the Good 8lgna~Several
Important Land Deals Have Been
Made Lately—Some of the New
Enterprises Inaugurated Thla Week,
e
Columbus, Ga., July 26—The Geor-i
gla and Alabama Industrial Index
sa/s today in Its regular weekly Is-
"The general Improvement In all
business conditions Is well illusl
by the growing demands for timl
lands. Recently several large trad
of pine In the southeastern states
have changed hands, and the demand
for hard timber seems keener than
ever. Among the deals of special
fi*r wheel works, Atlanta, Ga.;
Hr,'Birmingham, Ala.; mining
pany, Anniston, Ala.; compress,
.thens, Ga.; warehouses, Athens,
ji Repton, Als.; Statesboro, Qa.;
Ga.; Tlfton. Ga.; and Quit-
plans for ehnrches lu Mont-
■HfAJa.; Headland, Ala.; and
faula, Ala.; cannery, Americas, Ga.
"During the week 14 pew comps-
fcs asked for charter with minimum
BmAtaj stock of $254,000. Announce
ment was made that a charter would
HP; applied for at once for a railroad
between Columbus, Ga, and Mont-
Winery. Ala, a distance of 78 mllei.
pnblln, Ga, completed Its plans for
t pavlpg and will Invite propo
fols for the work. A Georgia firm
Received a $100,000 contract for in-
Mailing a waterworks and aewer sys
tem ‘in a North Carolina city.
BR'Ari improvement that means much
b&igie great manufacturing district
WOlind Ensloy, Ala., la the Install*
tlon of a thoroughly modern ikater-
system, which will bo con-
:ed at once. By a scientific
ns the water Is made "aoft" and
bis for use In hollers and pipes,
formation of scales In boilers,
and heaters, from which there
une complaint at present, will be
heed to ‘a minimum when tile
■ter la “softened” by being roller.
MR KEiffif
OH HO.
Afonza Williams Was Lyflcbed by a
Mob Near Lyons Yesterday
magnitude during the pest week was ed of Its objectionable mineral d*
tho p'urohase by the Massee-Felton | posits."
Lumber Company, of Macon, Go, of
20*0° acres of hard wood timber |^ VlCT RETURNED TO CAMP,
lands In several middle Georgia conn-
ties at the round sum of $136,000.
Sales of farm lands at satisfactory Ivkflfo Who Escaped From Mllltown
prices also continue and the figures®?* V got as Far as Cordele.
indicate steadily advancing value#, |*Mllltown, Ga, July StWune Pool,
In Sumter county, Georgia, two farms | s 'convict confined In the state prison
were sold during the past week at Lamp here, returned to the camp at-
$30 per acre, a good Illustrations otl&r mak ih g g0O(1 Wf escape by crawl-
the prices brought by plantations?!:^^
Southwest Georgia.
"Several Incidents of the week
could not but have Impressed the
g on hands and knees out of the
of the guard's gun through a
patch of dog fennels.
June got as far as Cordele and de
range
student of business conditions with L dcd that u WM bert for hlm to re .
the variety of natve resources and 1^,^
Industries of the two great states of
and
LUMBER COMPANIES ENJOINED.
8t. Louis, July 30—Suit was filed
for states attorney general, Hadley,
in the circuit court here today to en
join the Long Bell Lumber Co. and
about a dozen other lumber comps.
nleh and firms from entering an al
leged unlawful sgreemen. A tem
porary restraining order was granted.
Georgia and Alabama, which an en-
thuslasHc Pennsylvania nt
The jindustrial IndSr, in atf
lng letter (o the paper this week,' re
fers to as the 'New York and Penn
sylvania of the South.' Froin Hayne-
vllle ,AIa, a solid carload of honey
was shipped to Ohio and it la ktated
that another large shipment wtlhsoori
follow. At Brunswick, Ga, hundreds
of carloads of cedar wood, out on Lib
tie Simon’s Island, are being shipped
to one of the factories of > big com,
pany, there to be converted Into the
pencils of commerce. During the
week another big sale of Sotftb Geor
gia wool was had, thus calling the at
tention of the busy world once more
to the fact that wool-growing Is an
Important industry in this Southern
state. Dirt was broken at Huntsville,
Ala, on the Nashville tif Huntsville
Railroad, which will conriect north
ern Alabama with the Tennessee cap
ital. Up In the mountain’s of north
Georgia Improved roadways are gob
ting to be a live topic, and a good
roads meeting has been called for
August at Toccoa.
'Among the construction and In
dustrial Items of the week may to
mentioned; Boiler works, Birming
ham, Ala.; apartment honse, Deca
tur, Ala.; manufacturing plant, Rome,
barrel head factory, Gadsden,
wrote Deputy Warden Lowe
at Cordele and was oom-
and gat as far as (Tlfton
and brought Sack to tfie jeamp.
June Is the same convlot that was
struck by lightning here two weeks
ago.
DEN7I8T 8TAE8 TINNER.
Cordele, Ga, July 28—Dr. D. J. Wil
liams, a prominent dentist and repnb
cd to be the wealthiest Individual In
Cordele, became Involved In a quarrel
with S. B. Saunders here today, and
Saunders was- stabbed several times
with a knife.
Saunders Is a tinner by trade and
the trouble arose over'some work he
had done on a new building for Dr.
Williams. Saunders was moved to the
hospital, and tonight It la said has
alight chance for recovery.
Sr. Williams appeared before the
county officers and gave bond for
$2,00u to answer the charge of assault
with Intent to murder.
-Mutilated Body of the Negro was Al
lowed to Lay Near the Town—Hie
Ear* Trimmed and hie Body Muti
lated, While hie Body was Riddled
With Bullets—Hie Victim a Young
Girl.
Lyons, Ga, July 30—Alonzo Wil
liams, colored, lies dead at the edge
of this place, the county seat of
Toombs county, with his ears cut off,
his throat cut from ear to ear, and a
number of bullet wounds lu h’s body
ns the result of his self-confessed as
sault upon Miss Clara Bowen, a
fourteen-year-old girl living nearVhls
place. , ,
Williams committed hts dastardly
act on last Friday, within a mile of
the town and but a short distance
from the home of the girl, who lives
with l-.er parent! rear he-e. She had
gone out for a walk and, passing
through a small branch when she
reached the other side which obscur-
ed her from the view of those who
might be at her home, the negro met
her and springing upon her like a
lion, he bore her to the earth, chok
ing her into Insensibility. After this
his work was comparatively easy. La
ter the girl returning Into conscious
ness, Was told by the negro that It
She told he would kill her. The negro
then left tfer. Later the girl recov
ered slightly and dragging hersslf to
her home told her story. The alarm
was given and soon the negro wss
placed under arrest
jSheriff Scarborough took unnsual
the rope was cut In twain and the
negro feB to the ground. It was then
that some of the crowd went up to
the negro and while he wss still liv
ing cut off his ears and then cut Ms
throat
coroner's Jury Impaneled on
Tuesday decided that the negro came
to his death at the hands of parties
unknown to the Jury.
Sheriff Scarborough was carefully
guarded by the men, who wore masks
and otherwise concealed tlietr identi
ty during thb progress of ths lynch
ing. No blame attaches to the sher
iff; he tried t<$ do his duty as he shw
It, bnt he had no chance against the
crowd of determined men who were
after the negro fiend.
McRAE PEOPLE SMELL BUGS.
FORMER GOVERNOR DEAD.
Stockton, Cal, July 30—Jas. H,
Sudd, former governor of California
fnd long prominent In Democratic
politics, died tt his residence here I over Ms head and be was swung
today after an Illness of a fortnight to a limb, after which the crowd
with uraemia. He was 68 years old. |drcw back and began shooting. Soon
precautions ndt to lei; the story leak
out but It finally fid and Tuesday
night about midnight a mob secured
the prisoner and the lynching follow
ed .
Mob Well Organized.
The mob was apparently well or
ganized. First of all four or five were
sent ahead and, knocking at the door
of the sheriff’s rooms, that official
came to the door, only to be covered
by the several revolvers of the crowd
and told to remain perfectly quiet. He
was also asked for the key*. These
could not be produced, the sheriff
baring taken the precaution to get
them out of the way. The Informa
tion that 'the keys could not be had
was conveyed to the crowd, who with
out much ado secured a ladder and,
mounting to the second story, cut a
hole In the wall, while others secur
ed crowbars, and after the entrance
had been made got to the cell that
held the fiend and, breaking It open,
they took him out and .letting him
down to. the ground with a whoop
and a yell, took him to ths edge of
the town, where a rope was thrown
Fumes ar e so 8trong They Can’t Sit
on Their Plezzee at Night
For several summers the citizens
of McRae have been very much an
noyed at night by an offensive odor
that resembled very closely that of a
pig stay. These odors werp-particu
larly noticeable at night, sdbe families
being forced to abandon their plazxas
during the greater part of Jane. The
chairman of the sanitary committee
about three weeks ago began a search
for the origin of the nuisance, firm
In the belief that It couM be easily
located. The premises Where the
Wdor was strongest were apparently
In good condition, and onlyiby acci
dent was it discovered thst'.the un
pleasant fumes were given olf by s
certain large grayish bug: A\ speci
men of this bug was this week, sent
up to the state entomologlsL whApro
nounced It a horned beetle, or rhlnoo-
eros hug. He stated that complaints
had come to Mm from- different parts
of the country about this pssL and
that there was no question bnt whet
they produced the nuisance claimed.
He gave a formula tor; spraying, and
advised that we not thftk of sacriflo-
lng the trees, but to get the proper ap
paratus described by hit#, and that
he would take pleasure to'show how
the work of spraying should be .dope.
It seems that-these bugs attack ash
trees principally burrowing round and
round the limbs, merely getting
through the bark. During the day
they are dormant, feeding at nlgbL
and emitting the offensive odor In the
meantime. Their stay here Is usually
about five weeks,-according to those
who have watched them. As they are
already taking their leave nothing
Will be done this summer, but we will
be prepared another year to cope
with them and hope to yld ouraelvea
this annoyance.— 1 Telfair Enter
prise. j
Predicts Hudson.
"I would not be surprised If this
year’s cotton crop should hOjless then
60 per cent of the 1907 ylelflln Geor
gia,” said T. G. Hudson, commissioner
of agriculture, Monday. "The crop le
In much worse shape than It was at
this time last year.. We i#ave had
too much rain In the southern part
of the state and too little In [the mid
dle and northern sections.' Cotton
blight and red spiders are dolng much
injury end will help In reducing the
output of the farms of thla state. I
think a 75 per cent crop would he a
liberal estimate."
This Hardware Store Solicits and Appreciates Ladies’ Patronage.
Closing Out All Summer Necessities
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
Garden Hose, Lawn Mowers, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks, Water Coolers, Water
- Filters, Screen Doors and Windows.
HAR
LEY’S
dWare
COMPANY,
niUITP DIMT CA CL
H ardware
eadquarters.
■ I Valdosta, x Georgia.
Harley stands for Hardware
See how the names link
together.
WHITE PINE SASH AND DOORS.
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