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BEAUTIFUL KENTUCKY GIRL
FAINTS ON RAILROAD TRACK
AND IS GROUND TO DEATH
(B» Associated Press.', j
FRANKFORT. Ky.. April 22.-In the full .
view of dozens of horrified passengers I
who were looking out the car windows. |
Miss Mattie Conway, a young and pret- i
ty telephone girl of this place, was .
ground to pieces by a Louisville and
Nashville train from Louisville yester
day.
The accident happened on a curve and <
all the passengers on one side of the
train saw the girl killed. The engineer
UNCLE SAM TO AID
Fmi tick
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT WILL
PVT AN INSPECTOR IN EVERI
COUNTY WHERE STATE HAS A
MAN.
In view of the appointment of four
Inspectors by the state department of ag
culture in its campaign against the cat
tle tick in north Georgia mountain coun
ties. the national government has stepped
in and will lend a hand in the fight.
Dr. E. M NeiKhbert. of the bureau of
animal industry, who recently followed
Dr. E. J. Payne, at Spartanburg. S. C-.
In charge of the division of South Caroli
na and Georgia, has been instructed by
his department to put at least one na
tional Inspector in each of the counties
where the state depatrment of a<riculture
has named a man. to co-operate with the
Georgia man in the work of eradication of
the peat.
One inspector now represents the state
in three counties—Stephens, Habersham,
and White; and another does duty for
two counties—Fannin and Gilmer.
Special orders declaring each of these
counties In quarantine against outside
cattle were sent out by the commlsslonei
of agriculture Tuesday afternoon, to
gether with instructions that were mailed
to each of the four Inspectors. The work,
therefore, recommences at once with more
vigor than ever before.
This campaign against the Texas fevet
tick has worried the department for some
months past. Many difficulties were en
countered. the mountaineers broke quar
antine with their cattle, and the national
government finally withdrew from the
fight In disgust. Commissioner T. G. Hud
son has made more than one trip to
Washington to get the national govern
ment back In the fight, at the same time
suggesting the correction of what he
looked on as the cause of all the trouble
in the national bureau's own direction of
the work.
SHERIFF TO CLOSE
TIGERS AT GIRARD
COLTMBUS. Ga.. April 2#.—Late Monday
afternoon Sheriff Daniel, of Russell county.
Alabama, arrived tn Girard and had a con
ference with Mayor Foster, of that city. He
had been in conference with Governor Coiner
during the morning and the chief executive
had ordered him to the scene of turmoil in
the twin cities, telling him to close up tbs
blind tigers there, and. if he needed any as
sistance. -hat the state of Alabama was back
of him and would declare martial law if
necesran The sheriff was In conference with
Mayor Foster during the latter part of Mon
day afternoon, but the result of their confer
ence was not made public.
Never in years has the situation in Phenix
City and Girard. Ala. two cities across the
river from Columbus, been so intensely bitter.
Columbus, being prohibition territory, acts
as a feeder to the Alabama cities, and there
has been a great deal ot complaint that the
Alabama law restricting the rale of liquors
sad beers has been flagrantly and openly vio
lated since the enactment of the statute.
In last week's issue of the Phenix-Girard
Journal, a weekly paper published in Girard.
Bdttor W B. Berry, wrote a two-column edl
tortal. entitled 'Twenty-three Blind Tigers tn
Girard and Another to Be Bom Soon." The
paper bad scarcely gone to ptess before he
received a black hand" letter threatening
him with Instant death. He appealed to the
governor for protection, and it was promised
him He has barn staying in Georgia slpce
Monday morning a big mass meeting Was
held in Girard and a committee appointed to
ask the gcvemor to call a special session of
the circuit court for the purpose of convicting
the alleged violators of the law. Many prom
ised to testify. In the meantime the gover
nor is taking steps to prevent any further
illegal sale and threatens to declare martial
law should the sheriff and the municipal au
thorities be unable to cope with the situation,
which is said to be unmanagable Open and
unrestricted sale of liquors Is said to be car
ried on by twenty-four or twenty-five soft
drink establishments, and they are said to
have opealy defied the law to step them
All Alabama and western Georgia Is inter
ee’rd tn the result of the -rusade led by
Editor Berry and many prominent cltlxene.
Johnson Murder Case is a Mistrial.
FITZGERALD. Ga.. April 30.—A mis
trial has ben declared in the murder trial
of Officer Johnson. Chief Bruckner is
under joint indictment was taken with
Johnson to the Irwin county jail at Ocilla
at noon for safe keeping, under order of
the court.
Eight of the jury stood for conviction
of murder in the first degree, and four
for acquittal.
A special term of court is expected to
be called next month to try the men
again.
There is much excitement over the • en *
national developments of today, as an ac
quittal was expected.
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»-41 Inman Burtdlng. Atlanta. Ga. A
isaw her and began whistling, and also
applied his air brakes. This attracted the
attention of the passengers and they look
ed out of the windows in time to see the
girl go under the wheels.
According to those who saw the acci
dent, Mis Conway either fainted or stum
bled and fell as she was trying to get
off the track, where she and her half-sis
ter. Ruth Conway, were walking. Ruth
escaped without difficulty.
The body of the dead girt was brought
to Frankfort in a mail sack.
HOKE SMITH BIFFS
HARRIMAN IN SPEECH
Continued from Page One
the people of the state would be losing
a million of dollars a year for the sake
of the investment 0f510,000.000.00. besides
paying an interest on his $10,000,000.00
equal to ita entire value.
Would He Cut Railroad Taxes?
"Does he wish the railroad property in
the state put back at the old rates for
taxation? It is true that within the
past two years the taxes collected from
the public service companies have been
increased $580,000.00 annually. But his
property is assessed now at a low rate
if its value is fixed by the income it is
earning.
"Does he wish us to abandon our effort
to force a return to the interstate rates
which we had for two years and until
in the fall of last year when they were
put up by the railroads?
"Your railroad commission is now en
gaged in a fight before the interstate
commerce commission for the restoration
of these interstate rates. It is believed
that the recent advance will cost the
people of the state a million dolars a
year. The rates were reduced during 1905.
and were put back to the former high
rates In the fall of 1908.
"Any interference with the powers of
your railroad commission would be a
price too dear for Georgia to pay to in
duce an investment.
"We would be pleased to see Mr. Harri
man improve his property. He will make
a good investment by doing so, but we
cannot change the policies of the state
at his bidding.
"The suggestion of a $10,000,000.00 invest
ment is calculated to create the impres
sion that wonderful prosperity would be
caused by it. Did you ever think that
a change of one cent a pound in the price
of our cotton crop amounted to about
$10,000,000.00 each year in Georgia alone?
Do you realise that the people of Geor
gia pay the railroads $40,000,000.00 a year
for transportation?
"I desire to Impress upon the people
of Georgia the fact that while invest
ments are desirable. Investments may be
offered at so gear a price that the state
would be impoverished, not enriched by
them.
"I would have all justice done to capi
tal of every kind, to transportation and
public service companies.
“I would guarantee them in Georgia
every right which they receive in New
York state, but I would preserve for the
people of Georgia the same benefits from
transportation companies that they are
required to give in the great states of the
east.
"They have been accustomed in our
state to control in politics and business.
I would have the people control.
"I would have the people do- them jus
tice, but accept only justice from them
In • return.
"Railroad investments are amply safe
guarded in Georgia, and we should re
member the Biblical story of Jacob and
Esau. We must not swap our birthright
for a mess of pottage.”
NORTH CAROLINA MAN
SHOOTS SEL* TO DEATH
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. April 21.-Henry
Bost, a prominent citizen of Mount Pleas
ant, N. C., near here, committed suicide
early this morning by shooting himself
through the head with a pistol. Worry
over losses, recently received by fire, are
said to be the motive for the rash deed.
Bost was 48 years of age. He leaves a
wife and family.
He arose early and fed his horses. He
returned to his room, arranged two chairs
to fall into and fired the fatal shot.
Clairvoyant West Is Coming Bark
A telegram was received from Detective
Dorset by Chief of Police Henry Jen
nings Tuesday morning, announcing that
he left Kittanning. Pa., for Atlanta with
Prof. Frank West. Tuesday morning at
8 o'clock. Prof. West is wanted here for
larceny, It being claimed that he swin
dled many Atlantians out of money by
pretending to be a palmist and clairvoy
ant. •
•When arrested in Kittanning last week.
Prof. West refused to return to Atlanta
for trial, claiming that he was not the
person wanted. Later in the week one of
his Atlanta victims went to Kittanning
and identified him as the guilty party,
and It was then thought he would be re
turned at once. However, on Friday he
took out habeas corpus proceedings and
sought to get his release from jail. The
court refused to order his release, but
to delay matters further, he appealed
the case and It was not until Monday
afternoon that the appeal was denied, and
he was ordered returned to Atlanta.
THE ATLANTA SEMFhESXLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1909.
GOOD ROADS WILL
' BE THEIR THEME
JOHN H. BROOD VISITS ATLANTA
TO AROcSE INTEREST IN SES
SION OF NATIONAL ROAD AS
SOCIATION, AT ST. AUGUSTINE.
Pronounced Interest through this sec
tion ot the south has been awakened in
the first annual convention ot the Nation
al Road association in St. Augustine
next January, by John H. Broad, editor
and owner of the Morrisville (N. Y.),
Leader, who leaves Atlanta Thursday af
ter a stay of two days here in the inter-
I ests of the convention, and who has been
touring the country for three weeks just
! past to lay the importance of the Janu-
J ary convention before as many good roads
j advocates as he was able to reach.
I Last February the National Good Road
I association was organized and incorpora-
I ted in St. Augustine and John A. Stew
; art, a prominent New York business man,
was elected president. Its whole corps
of, officers was chosen from among the
most successful men of business in the
entire country—men who see the import
ance of good highways to the country’s
; future and who are interested in the
I mammoth movement.
In January the association holds its
i first convention. At that convention will
| be centralized and focalized all the es-
I fort. for good roads. Delegates to the
j convention will represent practically
! every commercial body, good roads organ
ization and automobile club In the Uni-
I ted States. Editor Broad's purpose in
the south is to call the convention to
I mind. The result of his work here will be
' shown by the large number of delegates
that the south will send. In Atlanta he
has consulted with the officials of the
chamber of commerce anu of the Fulton
County Automobile club and the board
of county commissioners. He has tried
to cover the same field In a number of
other important cities of the south.
Association’s Object
While the object of the association is to
; awaken the country generally to the pos
’ sibilties of good highways by the dis
tribution of literature a>d other methods
of publicity. President Stewart has struck
! a definite note by going to Washington
• and gathering together all those interests
j that during the past several years have
. struggled to enlist national aid for main
i trunk highways in different parts of the
I United States. It is not generally known
I that some six or seven bills for such
I highways have been Introduced In con-
I gress during the past few years, but their
j work was all at cross purposes and noth
' ing has come of any of them so far.
! The proposed Atlanta-to-Washington
•highway, which has stirred the Atlantic
| seaboard with its possibilities, is to be
classed among such efforts, says Editor
I Broad. Some day they will all come to
fruition; but the work will have to be
’ done through the focus of the national
I' association.
A system of trunk highways covering
the whole country, says Editor Broad, is
' a thing of the future toward which the
association is aiming. Those trunk high
ways will call for the construction by lo
cal interests of smaller roads connecting
with them. The beginning of their con
struction will mark an epoch in the na
tion's history.
A Business Appeal
The national association has other
points, says Editor Broad, which the
whole force of organization will be needed
to drive home. One of these is the pure
ly business appeal to the national treas
ury that rural mail carriers, the govern
ment's oyvn servants, traverse today prac
tically every mile of road in the entire
country, the average distance for each
carrier being 19 miles per day on dirt
roads and 27 miles on macadam roads. It
is to* the interest of the federal postal
service, the association will urge, that
good roads be recognized and encouraged
by the national government.
Another point is that If It ever becomes
necessary to move large bodies of troops
through the territories untraversed by
railways, the war department’s operations
would be considerably embarrassed by
I poor roads.
In short, says Editor Broad, the aims
| of the National Road association are suf
ficiently big to warrant the presence at
St. Augustine next January of delegates
from every public-spirited organization in
the whole country. The future work of the
association and the methods for doing
it will be fully discussed at that conven
tion.
Is Prison Board Seeking a Farm?
Are two members of the prison commis
sion quietly looking over farms offered
for .the state's purchase as convict
farms?
That’s an open question. It is heard
every now and then around the capitol,
but nobody answers.
All that is known is that Commissioner
Williams, who spent last week in Colum
bus.had an engagement to meet Chairman
Turner in Macon during the latter part
of the week. What the nature of their
business together was no one has said.
And in the offices of the prison com
mission it was stated Monday morning
that Chairman Turner and Commission
er Williams were somewhere together in
south Georgia. That's the section where
the prison farm would be purchased, and
now is the time during which the com
mission, through Commissioner Williams
a couple of weeks ago, promised that it
would be giving its attention to other
offers in a search for one which would
please the governor better than the Wim
berly farm did.
There is, of course, the possibility that
Chairman Turner and Commissioner Wil
liams are looking over some of the coun
ty camps to which the state transferred
its convicts on April 1. But th® general
Impression around the capitol is that
they are looking at farms and avoiding
the annoyance of publicity meanwhile.
W. R. Bush Takes Gas to End Life
Walter R. Bush, recently of Baltimore,
for the past two weeks in Atlanta, was
found unconscious on a lounge in the
locked office of Brown, Fain & Co., 814
Austell building, about 7:15 o'clock Tues
day morning, with a rubber tube from a'
gas jet overhead tied with a string at I
the lower end close to his nostrils, and.
the gas turned on. Rushed to the Grady j
hospital, he began to recover under the
restoratives applied, and at 8:30 o’clock
the physicians announced that there was
little remaining danger of his death.
A letter in a woman's handwriting ad
dressed to him and postmarked Balti
more was found in an inner pocket of his
coat. It had been opened and read by
him. but was not investigated by those
who found him. Another letter, sealed
and stamped and addressed to Mrs. W. j
R. Bush. Baltimore, in Bush's handwrit
ing, was found on the stenographer's
desk In the office.
No other reason is assigned for this
apparently deliberate attempt at self
destruction than ill health, which in it
self was not looked on as serious and is
said to have lasted but a short time.
manyTeople killed
IN RELIGIOUS RIOTS
ALEPPO, April 22.--Religious riots have
been reported to the district authorities
here as having occurred at Antioch. Ma
rash, Ayas, Klllls, Blrejlk and Hadjln. A
number of persons have been killed or in
jured, Including both Turks and Armen-
Mns. It is not believed that any of the
xroerican missionaries have suffered.
EVIDENCE JUSTIFIED
COOPER’S VERDICT
Continued from Page One
make a demand on Carmack, even if he
believed that such a demand would pro
voke Senator Carmack to an assault.
In this country, qo man can be made to
surrender one right because he fears the
exercise of that right may force him to
exercise another—the right of self-de
dense. And it makes no difference who
Carmack aimed at or who he shot at.
they were received in Robin’s person and
he had a right then to fire in self-de
fense.
"The state contends that Robin had a
I knowledge of his father's intention. We
i contend that he did not and we believe
' the evidence proves ou? contention.”
I Attorney General McCarn declined to
’ argue the case, saying he was satisfied
with Captain Fitzhugh's presentation of
' the state's side. Judge Hart then an
i nounced that ne would take the case un-
I der advisement and decide It next week.
■ COURT TO PROBE AFFAIRS
OF COOPER’S RELATIVE
NEW YOIjK, April 22.—The affairs of
William Cooper, a former supreme court
justice of Tennessee, and a close rela
tive of Col. Duncan B. Cooper, and son,
| who were recently convicted of killing ex
i Senator Carmack, at Nashville, will be
! reviewed in the supreme court today by
•justice Davis.
• Before Judge Cooper, who is ninety
i years old, was adjudged mentally incom
; petent several years ago, he arranged to
! pay a number of relatives in the south
•certain incomes. These have been paid reg
iularly b>- the Trust Company of America,
: as trustee of the judge's estate, but now
I the trustee fears there is not sufficient left
to continue payments, and at the same
time provide for Judge Cooper, who has
long been in the care of nurses in an up
town hotel. These gratuities may be cut
i off ’
I BANKERS GROUP FIVE
GATHER IN DUBLIN
I DUBLIN, Ga., April 22.—The Bankers'
j Convention of Group Five Is in session
in Dublin today.
The program is as follows:
After a ride over the city in automobiles
the delegates repaired to the new boat,
“City of Dublin,” and en route to Wells
Springs, twenty miles below Dublin, the
convention was called to order by Chair
man Chas. B. Lewis, of Macon.
Reading minutes of previous meeting by
Secretary»L. C. Hall, cashier Merchants’
and Farmers’ bank, Milledgeville.
Roll call. •
"Attltiid® of the Georgia Legislature to
the Bankers of Georgia”—Hon. J. F.
Heard, president J. F. Heard & Sons,
bankers, Vienna.
Adress, "Dublin”—Judge J. S. Adams.
"Directors Who Direct"—A. B. Simms,
assistant cashier Citizens* National bank,
Macon.
Address. ‘Legal Points of Interest to
Bankers” —Hon. J. H. Hall, of Hall &
Hall, Macon.
Address, "Exchange”—J. A. . McCrory,
cashier First National bank, Barnesville.
Reports of officers, new business, dis
cussion of miscellaneous subjects of In
terest to the members of Group Five.
The convention then adjourned and re
freshments were served.
On arriving at Wells Springs they were
met by the ladles who had preceded them
on other boats, the “Katy C” and the
"John M. Stubbs,” and enjoyed a barbe
cue, fish-fry and basket dinner.
ODD FELLOWS TO HOLD
MEET AT CARROLLTOV
CARROLLTON, Oa„ April 22.—The
ninth division of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of Georgia will assemble
In Carrollton on the 28th and 29th In
stants, and delegates and working teams
from all the lodges in this division are
expected.
The meeting will be called to order on
the morning of the 28th by Hon. Frank
Harwell, division deputy grand master of
LaGrange, Ga. There will be public ex
ercises at the courthouse at 7 o’clock on
the evening of the 28th. The welcome ad
dress will be delivered by Hon. W. J. Mil
lican; address by Hon. J. T. Blalock,
grand master, of Valdosta, and an ad
dress by Hon. W. S. Coleman, grand con
ductor, of Cedartown.
Among those prominent in the order
who are expected to be present are J.
T. Blalock, grand master; ,T. A. Cheat
ham, grand treasurer, Macon, Ga.: W. S.
Coleman, John P. Davis and Congress
man W. C. Adamson, who will addresss
the assembly on the good of the order.
ACCOUNTANT”MiBSING;
FRIENDS ARE ALARMED
BRUNSWICK, Ga., April 22,-His many
friends in Brunswick are somewhat
alarmed as to the whereabouts of Hugo
Thode, who left here to attend the
Mardi Gras at New Orleans in February
last, and has not since been heard from.
Thode is an expert accountant and until
receritly was for a long while connected
with the National Bank of Brunswick.
He had severed his connection with that
institution, however, and intended locat
ing elsewhere.
Upon leaving Brunswick Thode took
with him upward of $3,000 in cash and left
behind a large quantity of luggage and
valuable personal effects, which he was
to have sent for soon afterwards.
A large quantity of personal and busi
ness correspondence has accumulated
since the young man's departure, and In
view of the circumstances his friends do
not think they are unduly apprehensive
concerning him.
MOTHER AND HER SON
ON TRIAL FOR LIFE
MOUNT CARMEL, 111., April 21.
'Libb” Lucas, keeper of a dive on the
Wabash river front and her son, Jesse,
today were put on trial in the circuit
court for the murder of Clyde Showalter,
three years ago.
Showalter, a prosperous young farm
er, came to Mount Carmel one Saturday
and drew S6OO from the bank. He disap
peared. A year later his body was found
by boys swimming in the river. Weights
had been attached to Showalter’s boots.
A few ago, a prisoner in the
Pontiac, 111., reformatory made a state
ment that on the night Showalter disap
peared, he, with a girl, passed the Lucas .
' home, that he saw Lucas strike down
I Showalter with a club, that Lucas and his
. mother then went through Showalter's
| pockets, weighted the body and threw
It into the river.
NO SCAB LABOR
WANTED BY COURT;
PORTSMOUTH. Ark.. April 22.—Judge
J. V. Bourland issued an order of court i
here yesterday that is probably without
precedent. In appointing R. A. Young l
receiver for the Hiawatha Smokeless Coal
company, of Coaldale. Ark., he ordered
that the receiver employ none but union
men in the mine, or sell It.
Judge Bourland is a judge of the chan
cery court and at a banquet of the Ar
kansas State Federation of Labor here .
some months ago stated that he would |
never grant an Injunction against a labor!
union in the interest of a corporation. |
SHOOTS SELF TO DEATH
IN HIS ROLLING CHAIR
MOBILE. Ala.. April 22.--Robert Perci
val, a well-known citizen, and residing in
Oakdale, a suburb, committed S'tii ide by
shooting himself through the head with
a bullet from a .3S-calibre revolver.
Percival had been ill for nearly two
years. He was found dead in his rolling
chair.
HAVE ENOUGH VOTES
TO TAX PETROLEUM
REPUBLICAN LEADERS OF THE
SENATE CLAIM THEY WILL
SUCCEED IN PUTTING 25 PER
CENT AD VALOREM ON IT.
By Ralph Smith
WASHINGTON, April 21.—According to
word sent out by the Republican leaders
of the senate they have votes enough to
put a 25 per cent ad valorem duty on pe
troleum. The independent producers w’ho
are to be here tomorrow will ask for 40
per cent.
The imposition of even a 25 per cent
duty will delay the final passage of the
tariff bill. The house leaders have made
a canvass of the house membership since
the passage of the Payne bill and find
the sentiment In favor of free oil and free
oil products even stronger than they sus
pected. The average house member can
not be made to believe that the men call
ing themselves independents are other
than advocates of exactly what the Stand
ard desires, hence the strength of their
opposition.
LEA DINGi LA D Y STARTS
“ROUGHHOUSE” IN HOTEL
CINCINNATI, 0., April 21.—Bonita,
leading lady with the "Wine, Women and
! Song” company, which went to pieces
here yesterday at the W'alnut street the
atre, was arrested in her room at the
j Sinton hotel early today, after a fight
i with the hotel clerk, and was locked up in
a police cell. Bonita was charged with
disorderly conduct.
After languishing two hours in the cell
Bonita was released. This morning when
her case was called in police court she
failed to appear, having skipped to New
York, it is said, on an early train. A fine
of five dollars and costs was assessed
against her and it was paid by her at
torney.
Previous to the arrest a desperate fight
took place in an elevator of the hostelry
between the woman, who was armed with
a hatpin and Night Clerk William Het
llch, Jr., and Watchman Adam Matz. Both
Hctlich and Mats were severely stabbed
during the scuffle, and a physician had
to be summoned to dress their wounds.
The trouble started when the woman
tried to order drinks from the bar after
midnight.
Bonita started a commotion in the hafi
way and guests, panic stricken, rushed
from their rooms.
Several patrolmen were summoned to
the hotel and Bonita was taken to the
police headquarters in a patrol wagon.
HATS AND POMPADOURS
VERY BAD FOR WOMEN
CHICAGO, April 22.—Big hats and lofty
pompadours have been censored at the
University of Chicago for scientific rea
sons. These personal appurtenances have
been placed on the official black list by
the department of physical culture ana
athletics and co-eds who insist upon re
taining them will feel the wrath of the
authorities.
Miss Gertrude Dudley, director of wo
men’s athletics, declares that the hats
and pompadours not only are entirely un
necessary as aids to the new education,
but also are unquestionably unwise and
Intolerable from a hygienic standpoint.
“The immense hats.” said she, "result
in arresting the circulation of air to an
extent which is decidedly harmful.’'
GAINESVILLE HEARS
HON. JOSEPH M. BROWN
GAINESVILLE, Ga., April 21.—Hon. Jo
seph M. Brown spoke at the courthouse
here to a crowded room. There was a
reception last night at the Arlington ho
tel. He visited Pacolet and Gainesville
Cotton mills and shook hands with about
1.600 operatives, men, women and chil
dren.
He addressed the students at Brenau
this morning. Later he was the guest at
dinner with a number of friends at Col.
S. C. Dunlap’s.
The Riverside Military academy stu
dents and the pupils of the public school
were out in full force to hear Mr. Brown's
courthouse speech.
MILK MAID TRIES
TO END HER LIFE
SPARTANBURG, S.C., April 22.—After
milking her cow, Miss Hattie Plumber,
the daughter of a well known planter
near Landrum, entered the closet In her
room and placing a pistol against her left
breast pulled the trigger, the ball pass
ing through her heart.
When asked about the trouble she said
she wanted to kill herself. She will die
from the effects of the wound.
NEGRO FOUND GUILTY BY
JURY OF OWN RACE
TALLULAH, La.. April 22.—Jim Collins,
a negro whose sentence of death for the
murder of another negro, was respited
untft April 23 by the governor, will be
hanged here Friday, as the pardon board
has failed to make a recommendation for
commutation.
He was found guilty by a jury composed
entirely of members of his own race.
JURY SECURED TO TRY
FIVE NIGHT RIDERS
RIPLEY, Tenn.. April 22.—A jury has
been secured to try the five alleged night
riders, charged with assault in disguise.
Seventy-five witnesses have been sum
moned and the trial will probably con
sume a week.
The town is crowded with people,
though no trouble is expected.
Salt King Buys Property in Rome.
ROME, Ga.. April 21.—R. G. Peters, a
millionaire salt and lumber manufac- ‘
turer of Manistee, Mich., has purchased ;
ten thousand acreq of iron ore and tim- j
ber lands near Rome from H. M. Smith
and H. D. Hill, of Rome, and C. C.
Cleghorn, of Summerville. Ga.
The consideration was ninety thousand
dollars, more than half of which was
paid over today. Smith, Hill and Cleghorn
were equal partners. The property lies
on east slope of Taylors Ridge, extend
ing along that ridge for 25 miles following
a vein of rich fossil iron ore.
Peters was represented by his southern |
manager, H. H. Shackleton, who will ,
make his home here. He will begin at (
once the construction of railroad to open |
the property and will build a large char- j
coal smelter. A million dollars will be '
spent in the development of the property.
Wants Rate On Cotton Reduced •
A reduction of 5 cents per 100 in the j
rates on cotton from interior points of ,
Georgia to the ports of the state is urgcu •
by Governor Smith in a letter that he I
addressed to the railroad commission.
Tuesday afternoon.
Governor Smith in his letter says that
he considers the present rates unreason
ably high, and suggested a general re
duction of 5 cents per hundred.
In connection with the impending port
rate hearing, the governor's letter hits
a t’metv topic. Just what action the com
mission will take 1 as ben left for latet
ofterm'netion. but the probability is sail
to bn that the importance gi the cot
ton rate demands a separate hearing.
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Contincud from Page One
' in the central west, arrived in Tftnidad
1 this morning and left shortly after
wards for Tercio, Colorado, a little post
station near the New Mexico line.
From there Mr. Patten will drive
overland twenty-five miles to the
ranch of W. H. Bartlett, near Vermejo
Park, New Mexico. The trip will not
be a pleasant one, for a blinding snow
storm is prevailing today and the
twer.ty-five-mile ride must be made over
the mountains through neavy snow
drifts. Mr. Patten appeared very tired
and extremely nervous, and he was not
in the best of temper when approached
by a reporter.
"None of your business,” was his re
ply to a question as to his mission in
Trinidad. “I’ve „een hounded to death
by reporters for weeks.”
Asked- concerning the report that he
had experts gathering data on July
wheat throughout the west, Mr. Patten
refused to make answer. It is under
stood Mr. Patten will spend some time
at the Barnett ranch, and as it is re
mote from telegraphic and railroad com
munication, his desire for rest and re
laxation probably will be gratified.
WHEAT KING PATTEN
EN ROUTE TO COLORADO
HUTCHINSON, Kan., April 22.-James
A. Patten, the Chicago wheat bull.
I passed through this city late last night
en route to Trinidad, Col., to visit at the
ranch of a friend near Trinidad. Mr.
Patten said he has been making no per
sonal investigation of the wheat field, but
was fleeing from newspaper publicity.
WHEAT IN NEW YORK
SHOOTING THE CHUTES
NEW YORK, April 22.—The New York
J wheat market dropped rapidly today,
i prices at noon being three to three and a
| half cents low r er than yesterday's clos-
I ing. The decline came on heavy selling.
' seme of it atributed to Chicago inter-
I ests. A number of stop-loss orders were
I uncovered at the lower quotations.
1,000 mile’books~
TO BE WITHDRAWN
One thousand mileage books, now issued
by the' majority of railway lines in the
southeastern territory at two cents a mile,
will be withdrawn June 1, according to lo
cal reports. The two thousand mile ticket
books at two cents a mile will remain
In force with several amendments to the
present form, which will virtually limit
their sale to the present conditions of the
one thousand mile book form.
The reported withdrawal of the one
thousad mile books is due, it is said, to
the inroads that the sale of this book is
making on the regular one way fare of
2 1-2 cents a mile. Patrons, who in the
past, have made trips of one thousand
miles or more, have bought the one thou
sand mile books at two cents a mile,
instead of paying the straight fare of
2 1-2 cents a mile.
Railroads say that this advantage for
patrons has resutled in the lines losing
one-cent a mile on all trips of one thou
sand miles or over. It is understood that
the present two thousand miles book
forms, which have been issued to five per
sons—one person being allowed to use
the book at a time, will be amended so
tl’.at they can only be issued to one in
dividual, the same as is the one thousand
mile book for.
The question of mileage books, so it is
said, has been brought up by the linca
at different meetings held recently.
TATE QUITEILIKELY"
TO BE REAPPOINTED
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Information
from the white house so direct that rf'wl
almost first hand justified the unequivo
cal statement that F. Carter Tate, form
er congressman from the Ninth district,
will be reappointed by President Taft
to be United States district attorney for
the Northern district of Georgia. Presi
dent Taft esteems Mr. Tate most highly
and has expressed himself more than once
as in favor of his retention as district
attorney
The inside facts relating to the assur
ance that Mr. Tate is to be reappointed '
cannot be detailed at this time because
Mr. Tate’s friends and other familiar
with the matter decline to talk. Con
gressman William H. Howard, one of Mr.
Tate’s stanch supporters. was at the
white house yesterday afternoon. When
asked today whether he talked with the
president concerning the United States
district attorneyship at Atlanta he de
clined to discuss the nature of his visit.
Mr. Howard has much influence with Mr.
Taft, is is conceded. He w’as on the
Philippine trip with Mr. Taft while he
was secretary of war. and since that
time the relations of the two have been
close and cordial.
The emphatic statement that Tate is
to succeed himself is made advisedly.
STATHAM —Much interest is being manifested
in the series of meetings being held at the
Christian church here, which has been going
on for the past ten days and will continue nr
several davs. E L. Shellnut, the well known
and able evangelist of the Christian church, is
doing the preaching and the singing is being
led by Fred Dakin, of Winder.
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M’LENDONOPPOSES
CUT IN PORT RATES
CHAIRMAN OF RAILROAD COM-
MISSION DOES NOT AGREE
WITH GOVERNOR THAT RE
DUCTION SHOULD BE MADE, f |
Chairman S. G. McLendon, of the rail- f
road commission, will oppose any re- 1
duction in the present Georgia port rates
on cotton. Governor Smith has officially -S
urged that they be reduced at least five
per cent.
The foregoing means that in the matter m
of port rates the governor and the chair- >
man of the railroad commission have
reached an open difference of opinion. ■’«£
The chairman's vote will tc against the • j
reduction that the governor recJtnmends, |
when after all the hearings are over
and all the evidence is in the commission
comes to a vote on the matter.
Chairman McLendon does not say he
will vote against the reduction. In fact.
he refuses to say one way or the other.
He declines to express a personal opln- H
ion. But he has drawn up for the com- ,
mission’s members a statement of the .
situation as he sees it after several
months of investigation. Thursday morn- I
ing he sent a copy of that statement to
Governor Smith with his letter acknowl-' 15
edging the governor's communication re- |
commending the reduction in cotton
rates. And the statement makes a show
ing decidedly against any change in the
present rates.
Chairman Makes Comparison
In that statement, a copy of which the £
chairman declines to give out for publi
cation, he compares the port rates on g
cotton in Georgia with those in Alabama «
and Texas; and the figures which he pre
sents in that comparison show that Geor- I
gia already has lower rates than either
of the two states named, and even that
in some instances the rates in actual
effect are tower than tho«;e lixed by the
commission.
Chairman McLendon does not take
North Carolina into consideration in the
comparison, he says, because that state
manufactures more than 90 per cent of its
cotton and very little goes to the ports.
South Carolina also, says Chairman £
McLendon, manufactures some 75 per cent
of its annual crop. A comparison with |
Louisiana would not be fair, be says,
because Ixiuislana has the Mississippi riv
er affecting its rates.
Mississippi has onlj' one port, Gulfport, J
says the chairman, fed by a small rail
road belonging to “Millionaire Jones,' the
magnate who is endeavoring to make a
great port of Gulfport and who could “af
ford to haul cotton for nothing” because
the railroad is not his main enterprise. 3
So the elimination leaves only Texas, the
greatest cotton producing state in the
soutn, and Alabama, for comparison with |
Georgia. Florida not being counted.
Comparison Favors Georgia
Figures that are presented side by side
show, according to Chairman McLendon’s
statement, that Georgia Is better off al
ready than either Alabama or Texas. .
"I present these general facts for your
own conclusions, without offering any
opinion of my own,” says Chairman Me-
Lendon, winding up his statement to the
commissioners.
In his introduction of the statement.
Chairman McLendon declares that he
began the investigation of not only port
rates on cotton but of all other rates in
this state and territory as well, tong be
fore'the governor's first letter reached the Z
commission in February- of this year.
Railroads Already Depressed
On the general situation in railway clr
cles Chairman McLendon's communlca- 3
tion contains a statement that if all the «
surplus freight cars in the country on
March 31, 1909, were tracked end to end
they would reach in a solid line from Sa
vannah to Chicago and back to New
York, estimating 150 cars to the mile.
Tb.is represents, he says, an enormous in
crease during the preceding months in ;
the number of idle cars; and he gives the
figures for each month. He connects this
part of the statement with the cotton
port rate question as a showing of a fully . J
grown depression already existing In rail- . w
roads circles—a depression to which any
reduction of rates would add.
Further, he mentions the two important
cases affecting southern freight rates now
pending before the interstate commerce g
commission, as constituting reductions
which are already hanging over the rail
roads.
FLETCHER IS ELECTED
UNITED STATES SENATOR
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 20.—Hon.
Duncan U. Fletcher, of Jacksonville,
was today elected United States sena
tor by the legislature. Senator Beard
making the nomination in the senate,
and Representative Chase in the houM
of representatives.
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