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VALDOSTA, OA,
t-TOBER
Chicago, Sept. 30.—James Patten,
the famous wheat bull, said today:
"I am bullleh on cotton, on a supply
and demand basis, the same as I was
last year on wheat. I expect tto
October report on cotton to show tho
situation quite bullish.
Sly long lino of cotton Is Intact,
and we hare many correspondents
throughout the cofej, districts who
keep ns' posted."
who disappeared some months ago
from johnson-Clty, Tenn., where 1 he
was clerk of the county court, and
who had been charged with embezzle
ment of 130,000 arrived this morning
from Kingston. Jamaica, a prisoner
In'custody of detective O. N. .Martin.
He had also been on the canal sons.
Dulaney maintains that the iho^t
age can easily be straightened out
Dulaney Is prominent socially at John
son-City.
Wheels.']
fill tour'
niche a
first of ti
I kino
ul Sp
make
Valuable farm sold.
Chur will beoHSI
in. or early inTetr
avel, continually, un
it of March or the
of the stato havo ul-
d with the board of
Ls pedals and provld-
H which will mnko
and all.iw hrl< f
chltocts for doln/fe. their,-work ana
.thls^yed the Idling the con-
big scale on which tho
IpMWab boon organized has nttrac-
Pilflifah attention of club men aU
Tho president rtf
a,. Craves, tr|^s
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('j A' V *,;^»eorgia V 1
stiuem^HiWBFsoTd'TBjThe Depart
ment orAgrlrultnro for cotton sood
meal, thcro was a splendid Increase
In the amount of cotton seed meal
sold and used as a cattle feed during
tho year ISOS. . :«tm
The recent statement for tags sold
during tbs ysar ISOS shows that Bis
Savannah Authormea^^^^^^H^o
at Fact, of th* KII^^F
Savannah, Sept 30.—Ttfrouthorl-
ties of Savannah havo s'hard task
before .them In straightening out a
murder at a negro “dime' party."
Th* killing occurred on Monday
night dam Boyd -was the victim.
Ed. and Tony Ford have bean ar
rested as (he murderers and with
them at the barracks are about four
teen other negroes. They ali pro
test tbelr innoeenoe. Boyd was out
to death during the males. It Is ex
pected the straight story will be
forthcoming In a short tlm* ana
that those who are guilty of murder
ing Boyd win be .found out and pun
ished.
Handsome Trophy Won by Governor
Brown's Chief of Staff f ‘
Atlanta, Oa., Sept 30.—The baa A
some silver cup for expert rifle shoot
ing In tho National Guard of Georgia
presented by Col. F. J, Paxon, chief
of staff for Governor Brown, Is now
In tbe^panda of Adjutant General
Scott rSisdy for delivery to tho win
ners.' The cop goes to the second
squadron of cavalry of Atlanta, whose
skirmish score woo 1.T6S. Tho cup ts.
a large silver one, gold Hood, with
three buekhorn handles. H rests on
a beautiful ebony Stand. This cup -•
was offered by Cot. Paxon during the-
recant state rifle Shoot r.Vt*
a continued lncreass.
In a few weeks now a definite state
ment In rogard to this train, Its Itin
erary and the lectures to he delivered
ton board will-flftanouneed for publi
cation. - * «»ififm
Chicago, 6opt 10.—Wheat la a
shads knrer, advancing later to
Wrote Note Confessing Many Important Transactions In
Murder of W. N. Faulting
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Savannah, Ga., Sept. 30.—Up to
noon today no advices had been re
ceived from HInesville, Liberty
county as to tbe verdict In the mur
der trial o.f Charles A. Gordon who
'la on trial there for tbe killing of
William N. Faulting, but It Is ex
pected a verdict will be rendered
before tonight. Tbe lawyers will
probably take up much of the morn-
. Ing and afternoon with their ar
guments. The case of the prosecu
tion has been materially strength
ened by the confession on the
yesterday of Mrs. Fanning
is under Indictment In
‘ _ with the kllllm
connection with the killing 1$t?'\er
Wn.vmja^ has been stole until
yesterday 'afternoon - when ehe
broke down and told that her hus
band had been slain by Gordon,
who had confessed the crime
her. Mrs. Gordon admitted her
Infatuation for Gordon and the
fact that their relations had been
very close.
During the time he£ testimony
was being given, Gordon sat un
moved. The effect of the woman**
testimony, however, was magical
upon tho crowd assembled In the
court room. Friends of the prison
er who had been string In tholr
protestations of bis Innocence saw
that the ease of their friend had
received a serious blow and that
unless ho can give powerful testi
mony to refute it, there Is strong
probability of his being convicted
find possibly hang-.tf. Gordon
know his fate by tonleit ’ftir' 6fl
Write- Confession.
Oa., , Sept 30.—Pol-
ig the\ sensational ^confession
made by Mrs. W. N. Panlllng, In
tbe courtroom hero^, yesterday, In
^ which aha stated that Charles God
\ don, who is being tried- for the
-3 murder of her husband last March
had acknowledged to her the kin-
log Jif Panlllng, It developed that
Soffon hod also practically contes
ts the' mnrder. In notes written
negro prisoner, who occupied
» cell adjoining that of Gordon in
: the conntyTall. •
The Jailor bad seen various notes
passing between the two prisoners
and some of these were finally
turned over to .the officer by the
negro. In one of them Gordon
stated that while the sheriff seem
af anxious to connect somebody
alae with the killing of Paulllng.
would never bo able to do It,
as ha (Gordon) had committed the
murder himself, and no one saw
him do It. The notes were read to
the Jury, and they apparently cre-
. ated a pronounced and decided Im-
> preaelon on that body.
In her confession yesterday, Mrs.
Paulllng stated that Gordon cams
— to her home about 8 o’clock In tho
evening, on March 25th, a short
io after her husband bad started
the postoffice to mall a letter to
father and calling her aside
"I’ve killed the and
’ve got to go and help me bury
body.”
Mrs. Paulllng says be told her
t he had shot her husband and
tMd her to put -on an old dress
an old pair of shoes and come
’Ith him to bury tbe bodv. She
refused and he caught her by the
shoulders and attempted to force
her, but she resisted and refused.
8h« says she was terribly frighten
ed.
She says Gordon went off and
-cams back la an hour and told her
cfc^fcad-taried the body near where
■too killing had taken plica. Next
morning Oofdon began to move his
things to the depot to go to Dale.
Ha completed moving on' Saturday,
after telling her that If sha noticed
any billiards Dying over the place
when the body had been surfed,
or any hogs trying to root It np to
notify him" at Dole. Sha says aha
dM not know the exact place where
Columbus, Os., Sept 30.—Tbe
Georgia and Alabama Industrial In
dex says In Its regular weekly issue
“The general activity In farm an
timber lands was a noticeable fea
ture of the past week, while
usual there were many large trans
actions In city realty over the two
states. A tract of timber land nea
Amerlcus, Ga., sold for f 7 6,000
and down In Brooks county Geor
gla, tbe turpentine and timber prtvl
leges of a large body of land alone
brought about 830 per acre. Ia
Birmingham, Ala., a well located
business lot sold for 83.000 pe
front foot. A 850,000 real estat
company was organised at Griffin
Ga., and numerous subdivisions si-
ti-p ortoc! for various cities an
towns. Indicating tbe activity ol
suburban real estate. People Iron
the middle west continue to tavo.
It pecan groves In southwest Geur
gla. Pennsylvania and New Tor
people organised a timber compau
' New York, Sept. 80.—With the
booming of the guns of the many wap
ships lying In- tho North River at
sunrise today the HJth day In tbe
elaborate programme of the Hudson-
Fulton celebration was ushered In.
Thle wee military day and It furnish-
ad one of tbe most imposing pageants
ever seen In _U^s city. Probably tbr
greatest throng that ever gathered
along Fifth avqnue witnessed the pa
rade this afternoon of fifty tbot*Band
soldiers end sailors, representing the
United States Army, tbe New York
city regiments of the National Guard,
the marines and sallois from- the
American and foreign war vessels
and tbe naval reserve. Gen. Charles
F. Roe was the grand marshal of the
parade.
The naval contingent, forming flje
second and third divisions of the pa
rade, was the chief attraction. For
over tlx miles »*s« the streets lined
and canopied wltn colors and before L
an enormous Crowd, the fighting men trusteejfl
of the Americii'ud foreign warships
made their way to the martial tuna*
of their shlpmatdftbande and to the
cheers that began’with the first com
mand to march and continued until
the sallormcn bad again e
In their boats and retu
battleships and cruisers 1
of Great Bri
at Dahlonega In the north Georg!
mountains, with capital stock o
325,000.
"One of x the biggest things tha
has yet happened for the Blrmlng
ham, Ala., district, la now In- th
act of being brought to pass. Th
Tennessee Coal, Iron tc Railroad
Company, which has such heavy ,In
vestments I n tbit section.And ' op
erate op a very extensive scale In
the vicinity. of Birmingham, has
solved the, problem of
water for .
and Several
bole! tlons were represented
situation, announces that 5 It will The sailors from the Oeri
build aslant dam at a rcAsln point French waWBlps attracted especial
where an immense reservoir can)attention by their,neat appearance,
be created, thus providing an’'ample! A regiment of marines from the
snpply of water at all times! Coin-American battleships and cruisers
tafetdent with the building of ' thlv also came In for an ovation. In uni-
dam, which will be'80 feat high'forms of blue canvass legglns, and
and 410 feat long and create a'taka'white cape, with their striking red-
holding ’'2,500,000,000 gallons of coated hands In advance, the marines
wafer, thft,.company will install almade an attractive showing. Tha
new battery of coke ovens and make picturesque bluejackets. In their
other costly Improvements. blouses of the vea, their Jaunty little
"Among the advance construet!on| white eapa, their trousers carefully
Items from Atlanta It la Interesting, stowed away In legglna, and sei
to note that over 8100,000 will ha rides from tbe shlpConnoriet at
A number Penny with us.
The owners of tho ground that tho
buildings wero burned off last week
aro contemplating erecting nice brick
or stone structures to replace the
wooden ones that were burned.
Mr. IV. J. Dugger, la constructing
a new building just opposite from tbe
one burned last week, where he will
Install hid telephone exchange. HO
la constructing It out
expended at once In the Georgia
capital In the erection of garages
A company Is asking for a charts
to build a railroad from Wrights
villa, Ga., to Lyons, Ga. Tbe capac
ity of a yarn mill at Anniston, Ala.
la to be dowbled, a chair factory la
to be established fit Bridgeport Ala.
large lea and cold storage plan
la announced for Birmingham, Ala.,
and Carrollton, Ga., Haralson, Oa.
and Blalrsrllle, Ga., report new
banks. Macon, Ga., will vote oi
the Issuance of 1200,000 of bond
for public Improvements. Jt $260,
000 sanitarium company was Incor
porated at Atlanta, Ga., and there
were 20 other new corporations, th
aggregate minimum capital stock
for the entire number being
3701.000."
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the body was burled. She looked
for It several times, but could not
make ent where It . was.
Gordon showed up the following
Paturday for the purpose of seeing
If the body was all right, and ask
ed If she had heard anybody apeak
of Faulllng’s disappearance, u He
also told her to go around a$ong
the neighbors and ask their opin
ion as to whether Faulting would
come back. He told her ir she
breathed a word about It she would
not lire twenty-four horn*.',
He went away that day and
came -back about noon on April 22.
Ha showef up again haring walked
all the wav from Mclntoeh. Ho
remained with her all day and all
night, intending to get np early
next morning and go to tha grave
and see If everything was all right.
Ha was seen by no one at this
time, as ha was kept In a back
roomupztalrs which was not need,
so the children -would net know ha
was In tha house.
across tbelr shoulders, wero al
tbustaatlesny applauded all along tha
line.
Besides the regular soldiers and
sailors there were also larva repre
sentations. from the National Guard
and from veteran and semi-military
organisations. Included among
latter wan the Albany Burgees Corps,
the Old Guard of New York, tho
United States life saving corps.
United Spanish War reterans, Sons
and Veterans and Irish Volnntesrs.
Tbe last division was allotted to tbe
Grand Army of the Republic.
The French had bast turn out In
line, according to popular opinion.
The route of the parade was down
Central Park West to Fifty-ninth
street, across Fifty-ninth street to
Fifth avenue and down Fifth' avenne
to Washington Square. From tha of
ficial stand In Fifth avenne, between
Fortieth and Forty-second street, the
parade was reviewed by Governor
Hughes, Major-General Leonard F.
Wood, Mayor McClellan and tbe of
ficial representatives of foreign 'no
tions.
The biggest and longest . banquet
ever held In New York, commencing
last night, ended this morning at day
light Not since the coronation of
Ring Edward has there been inch •
cosmopolitan gathering. About .the
only countries not represented wars
Greenland and Afghanistan.
It Is estimated to have cost sixty
thousand dollar*. Prince Kkral. of
Japan, spoke In behalf of the foreign
Cotton 8tesdy Today.
New York, Sept 30.—Cotton was
easy this morning with a decline ot
from three' to seven potato. Later It
held steady. 'Qiere was considerable
, buying. ' * *• ' '■ .
FRESH SEEDS,
( Seeds That Grow.
Brooks*County Seed Oats and Rye,
■j* Texas Seed Oats,
Ruta Baga and Turnips, Onion Sets, red
and white. Barley. Seed Wheat
Ingram & Ramsey
School Books, Drugs and Seed.
VALDOSTA, - - GEORGIA.