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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal VOL. XI SEVEN TO FACE TRIAL j 1 STRANGE DEATH OFIWIUIfHAWKINS ; Story From Atlanta That Girl Was Recently Seen in Jack sonville, Fla., Is Now Given Little Credence (By Asaaciatad Praaa.) HENDERSONVILLE, N. C-. May IS. —The trial of A. B. McCall. Beatrice McCall, his wife. George Bradley, “Bon- , ey” Bradley and Dan McCall, all charged with being connected with the death of Myrtle Hawkina whose body is said to have been found in Lake Osceola last September, will be called in the Hender- 1 son county superior court here tomor row or Wednesday All cases of minor importance on the docket will be disposed of before en tering upon the Hawkins case, which It is expected will consume the greater part of the three weeks’ term. Judge Howard A. Foushee. of Durham, is pre siding. W, O. Shellnutt, of Atlanta. Ga., who (rays that Myrtle Hawkins is living, is here as a witness. He says he met her in Hendersonville in 1910 and 1911, and talked with her in Jacksonville, Fla., since her supposed death. The prosecution places little credence the theory that ahe is still living. She is reported to be in Seattle, Wash., at present. The trial of A. B. McCall. Beatrice Mc- Acall. his wife. George Bradley. “Boney” Bradley and Dan McCall on charges con nected with the da th of Myrtle Hawkins, whose body is said to have been found tn Lake Oceola last September, opens here today The statement of an Atlanta .raveling map. W. O. Shellnut. that he had seen Myrtle Hawkins at Jackson ville. has added a new Hemtn to the case, and his presence in Hendersonville to testify irv the trials has given rise to speculation if the body found in the .lake were really that of Myrtle Hawkins. A. B. McCall, Beatrice McCall and George Bradley are charged with mur der; “Boney” Bradley is charged with being an accessory before the fact, and Dan McCall with being an accessory after the fact. The story sent out from Atlanta to the effect that an Atlantiaii was alleged to have reported seeing Myrtle Hawkins in Jacksonville has caused considerable comment throughout North Carolina. ATLANTA STORY QUESTIONED. The opinion seems to prevail that the girj. whose body was recovered from lake Osceola, near Hendersonville, sev eral months ago was that of the Haw kins girl, the Atlanta story to the con tray. There are too many things to be explained away before the pubUc would credit the report that the girl still lives. The body fpwdjn the lake was identi fied by friends and the family as that of Myrtle Hawkins: the clothes worn were those which she had worn on leav ing her home when last seen. It is charged that .parties who aided in the crime first had a criminal opera tion performed. Whether the victim died as a result of the operation, or from an overdose of chloroform, is problem atical. * One of the greatest legal battles in the history of the state will begin today. Seven persons are held charged with be ing either directly or indirectly connect ed with the ‘ase. is said to point strongest to young McCall and young Bradley. Hon. J. F. Spa in hour, of Morganton. N. C-. for 14 years solictor of the Hen dersonville district, has been called in to assist Solicitor Johnson in the prosecu tion. Mr. Spainhour is one of the ablest criminal lawyers in North Carolina. He recently said that he expected to con vict at least four or five ’of the parties now held. The first preliminary hearing resulted in a fiasco, and so strong was criticism over the failure to t ring any indictments, that the newspapers and the public took up the fight for a reopening of the case; the governor increased rewards; addi tional counsel and detectives were called in. and as a sequence seven persons now await trial. It is generally believed that there la nothing to the story about the appear ance of Myrtle Hawkins in Jacksonville Who killed Myrtle K. Hawkins* Who concealed the body for several days and then carried it to the lake to cover sus picion? Important witnesses for the state have been found who will make sensational statements. and it is believed that the death of this beautiful girl will soon be punished. ANTI-SALOON PREACHER HAS BECOME INSANE LOUISVILLE. ‘Ky., May IS. —Search for the Rev S. Fuller the Methodist league worker, who disappeared from Bidwell. Ohio, February 2. is being prosecuted in Kentucky by his son. lx»uis HoUnqs Fuller, of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Fuller reached Louisville He l*el eves an itinerant oreacher who has appeared at several small towns in thia community recent ly is his father, though the man calls himself by another name. Mr. Fuller says the description given him of the itinerant tallies to the last detail with that of his father, whose mind, he believes, has become unbal anced. THOMASVILLE SCHOOLS WILL HEAR SLATON t Special Dispatch to The Journal.) THOMASVILLE. Ga.. May 13.—Hon. John M. Slaton, of Atlanta, president •>( the Georgia senate and candidate for governor of the state, has accepted the invitation of the Thomasville board of education to deliver the annual literary address at the public schools com mencement here on May 31. The fact that Mr. Slaton will speak during the commencement will no doubt 3 raw a large crowd.” TRINITY CHURCH, N. Y. WORTH OVER $14,000,000 (Bt Associated Pre»». I NEW YORK. May 13.—Besides its »en houses of’ worship and Its schools and other tax exempt realty. Trinity Chureh eon»oration now has produc tive property in this city val led by the assessors at 314.710,060. accord ing to book of the parish is sued today. This is an increase of • AAli i«a tHa VF*. iI.OOO-MILE DISH IS BEGUN BF MB TAFT: HE IS FIGHTING MAD Between Now and Primary on May 21 He Will Try to Reach Every Corner of Home State I MARIETTA. Ohio. May 13.—His fight ing blood up, President Taft today be gan in Marietta his 1,000-mlle speech . making <iash around Ohio, which will I take him into practically eveky corher of the state, and which will come to an end only a few hours before the pri mary polls open for the voters to regts ' ter their preferences for president, x>n May 21. AT DEXTER CITY. When President Taft, in his Ohio tour today, remarked that “he understood Dexter City was a Roosevelt town, 't a man in the crowd yelled back that “it is.” .• \ “They say you are against me because I favored reciprocity,” said Mr. Taft; then he declared, “you are utterly illog ical in opposing me on that ground, be cause. before 1 entered into it, Theodore Roosevelt commended me most highly for going into the business and approved it in every way. Now that Roosevelt finds reciprocity is not popular with the farm ers he recants and says that—well, he has changed his mind.” Republican Committee * Meets in Nashville (By Associated Press.) NASHVILLE. Tenn.. May 13—The Republican state committee met here today to make up the temporary roll call for tomorrow s convention, which names delegates and electors from the state at large, and names a new state committee. Secretary George Renfro puts the number of delegates in contest at 147. and claims 316 delegates out of 591 instructed for Taft. The Roose velt forces do not concede the latter proposition. They''give the number of delegates in contest, too, as 157. Some compromise talk is heard. Utah State Conventions To Be Held This Week (By Associated Press.) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. May 13. State conventions will be held by both Democrats and Republicans of Utah this week to select delegates to the national conventions. The Democratic '■ convention will be held in this city to morrow. The Republicans will meet in Provo Wednesday. Utah has 8 dele-, gates to the national conventions. Priamries in California Will Be on Tuesday '' *■ (By Associated Press.) SAN FtIANCISCO. May 13.—Califor nia will decide at primary elections to morrow whether the presidential pref erence is Roosevelt, Taft or LaFollette. as Republican candidate and Clark or Wilson as Democratic candidate. Neither Underwood nor Harmon has directed any organized campaign for votes. California will send 26 dele gates to each national convention. Claims 13 t 000 Votes Were Thrown Out in Mass, . (By Associated Press ) BOSTON. May 13.—Quoting figures from the recent recount of the vote foi Taft delegates at large in the state primaries. General Edgar R. Champlin, of the Taft league of Massachusetts, has issued a statement in which he claims that 13,000 ballots were thrown out In the primaries, or enough to have elected the entire ticket for Taft del egates at large to the Republican na-. ’tional convention. OFFICERS ARE DECOYED, THEN SHOT TO DEATH (By Associated Press.) GAINESVILLE. Fla. May 13.—Mar shal C- H. Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles ’White, of Archer, Fla., were decoyed to a lonely spot near there at 3 o’clock Sunday morning and assas sinated. J. A. Manning, another deputy, feign ed death, and escaped after being wounded. He shot one of the murder ers. Capturing him and his three sons, who are now in. tail. Shortly after midnight Marshal Slaughter received a message that there was a "skin” game in progress on the outskirts of the town. He depu tised White and Manning and started for the scene. AMERICAN WRITERS TO FORM BUSINESS LEAGUE (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK. May 13.—A committee ! of sixty prominent American writers is ■ perfecting the preliminary organization I of a society to be known as the league I of authors and dramatists. The league > js to be strictly a business organiza-j ! tion. aiming to insure the writer full and prompt returns for his work. Ac- i j curding to present expectation it will | be doing business by .September 1. It is planned to handle the affairs of ‘the society through bureaus—one of contracts and collections, another c>t legal ser\ ice r.nd a third of general i j information. j AEGEAN SEA CLOSED BY ITALIAN BLOCKADE 'By Associated Press.) ROME. May 13.—1 tis announced in j the newspapers today that the occu-; pancy by Italy of the islands of Kar- , pathos, Kaso, Piscopi. (Tilos) and ( Nisyro in the Grecian archipelago, and , !>elonging to Turkey, together with the • capture of the islands of Stampalia and Rhodes, completely closes the . , Aegean sea. Turkey is thus blockaded and iso , Gated from the Mediterranean and she is consequently unable to dispatch war ' I ships or troops to Tripoli. Ihome-madFautomobile i NEARLY KILLS FIVE PITTSBURG. May 13.—While on their first trip in a home manufactured auto ' mobile, five foreigners were seriously injured yesterday when the machine failed to round a curve and plunged down an embankment. The men haa worked for months constructing the au tomobile and it was discovered too late that the steering gear was good only Xur straightaway • riding. CONGRESS FACING SUMMER SESSION TO Ml WORK Many Vital Matters Cannot Possibly Be Acted on by June—Real Work Still to Be Done (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) WASHINGTON, May 11.—Unless con gress decides to take a recess for the political conventions and sit during the summer, the following importaht sub jects will be neglected: Tariff bills, par cels post, safety in ocean-travel, gov ernment ownership and regu'atlop of wire’ess telegraph, the Lorimer case, canal zone, and other legislation of al most equal importance. Senators Smoot and Crane have been trying to arrange for an adjournment early in June. They would prefer to have no action on any of these subjects. Now there is so much interest in the results of / the government’s trust prosecutions against the Standard ’ Oil company and the tobacco trust, the de bating societies ought to get the' brief prepared by Louis D.’ Brandeis, the Bos ton attorney, and presented through At torney Levi to Attorney General Wick ersham at the time the latter was con sidering the p'an for reorganizing the tobacco trust. This brief is not a dull, heavy legal document with references to antique cases. It is a short, simple statement of the facts of the tobacco business in cluding the capitajizatioH, ownership and control of the companies which make up the tobacco trust. Mr. Brandeis con tends that the dissolution of a combi nation is a matter not of law but of figures and facts. He therefore pre sented the facts and figures to the at torney general and showed how the pro posed plan left the Independents entirely at the mercy of the trust and was not a dissolution. He also proposed a plan which would have been a real dissolution of the tobacco trust. CAN’T PLEAD IGNORANCE. If Mr. Wickersham had not had this brief before him he might now plead ignorance as to what would be the re sults of the supposed "dissolution" of ths tobacco trust. With this statement in his hands, if he were as uninformed as a schoolboy nine years old he could not go wrong. When he refused to appeal from the circuit court and take the case back to the supreme court he knowingly played into the hands of the trust and contributed to the great rise in stock values which followed. Incidentaly, it is already noted that the "prosecution” of the harvester trust sent the harvester stock up two points. TAX DODGERS’ HAVEN. \ That the nation’s capital is a haven for tax dodgers has long been vaguely known, but owing tp the work of Henry George, Jr., this charge is now based on statistical evidence. George has been probing into Washington; D. C., assess ments. He finds, ’vfor instance, that many blocks of property where poor whites and colored people are living, and where there have been no improvements in the last two years, have had their assess ment boosted 29 per cent within a year and are rated on land values which are substantially «he same as those at which the land is assessed on w’hich the Leit ers, the Wadsworths and the Townsends have their palatial residences. The Lteither home is assessed at $69,000. It is generally reputed to be worth $350,000. Thomas «el son Page’s place is assessed at $33,200; it would sell for probably SIOO,OOO. Scott Townsend’s place is assessed for $178,000, and is worth a half million. The Wadsworth place is assessed at $60,000; the R. W. Patter aon marble palace at $75,000, and Mrs. Henderson's brown stone castle at $50,000. All these places are worth from three to four times these amounts. It is the old story of exempting the rich and laying the burdens of taxation on the poor. NORTH CAROLINA G. 0. P. TO NAME DELEGATES (By Auociated Frew.) GREENSBORO, N. C., May 13. —Great interest attaches to the Republican state convention to be held in Raleigh, N. C., Wednesday, May 15, when four delegates at large and four alternates to the Chicago convention will be se lected. The supporters of Colonel Roosevelt claim they will control the convention overwhelmingly; their op ponents tacitly admit as much. Dele gates front seven congressional dis tricts, including the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh. Eighth, Ninth' and Tenth, will be selected tomorrow and Tuesday. The Third district will hold immedi ately after the state convention. The First and Sixth have been held. Sup- I porters of Roosevelt claim they will 1 control all of these district conventions apd send two delegates from each to I the Chicago convention instructed for 1 the formen president. Friends of Presi- I dent Taft do not concede this. Although the c invention Wednesday ' is called primarily for the purpose of selecting d negates to the national con vention, it is rumored that an attempt ! mav be made at this time to indorse for a new national committeeman to succeed E. C. Duncan. The Democratic primaries so • county officers will be’ held May IS. There is no opposition to the nomination of Locke Craig, of Asheville, as the party’s I candidate for governor. The fight in North Carolina for delegates to the < Democratic national convention is be , tween Underwood and Wilson. INHERifEb _ DIED WITHIN FEW WEEKS (By Associated Frees.) , CHATHAM, N. Y., May 13.—Charles W. Hawley, who inherited $2,000,000 a few weeks ago from the estate of his brothel, the late Edwin Hawley, of '! New York city, is dead here in his 65th ; year. He had been a hardware mer- I chant in this village for many years, i His money will be divided between his j two children, a son and a daughter. SLAYTON WILL SPEAK TO GRIFFIN SCHOOLS (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) GRIFFIN, Ga., May 13.—Hon. John M. Staton, of Atlanta^will be one of the principal speakers at the closing i exercises of the Griffin High school, which begin on Friday night. May 24. Governor Slaton will address the grad uating class on Tuesday night, May 28, and the most interesting program of the commencement season will be ar ranged for that occasion. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1912. WILL SHE JILT WILLIE? NEW JERSEV LIQUOR MEN PLAN TO FIGHT WILSON Retail Dealers in Secret Con ference Decide to Work Quietly Afeainst Him (BT BAX.TK SMITH.) WASHINGTON, May 11.—There is reason to believe that the liquor inter ests of New Jersey are preparing to mak an unostentatious campaign against Governor Woodrow Wilson at the presidential primaries that are to be held In the state toward the close f the moth, accofding to the New York Sun. A widely credited rumor has it that at the meeting of the executive committee of the New Jersey retail liquor dealers’ protective league held in Newark on Thursday Governor Wilson's attitude on the liquor question was the topic of an animated discussion. The meeting was held behind guard ed doors and the details were not made known, but it is said that while the committee did not deem it advisable to commit the organization against the governor .the dealers in the state are to be advised that a vote in the pri maries for Wilson is a vote for an ac tive prohibition president. The committee's action follows closely the announcement in a Chicago liquor organ edited by the secretary of the National Retail Liquor Dealers’ league that "we do not want a prohibition president.” The Chicago organ prints a letter Governor Wilson sent to the Maine pro hibition party when the campaign against the constitutional prohibition clause was going on In the state last fall and another letter of his to the Texas prohibitionists declaring his be lief that state-wide prohibition was the thing for the Lone Star commonwealth. The letter to the Mafrie prohibittion ists was in denunciation of the use by the anti-prohibition workers In that state of a letter the governor had pre viously sent to the Rev. Dr. Shannon, of the New Jersey anti-saloon league favoring the local option plan. For years the anti-saloon league of New Jersey has striven to force the legisla ture of that state to enact a local option law. Never more than a handful of votes could be secured for it in either branch. When Dr. Wilson became gov ernor the Rev. Dr. Shannon sought as an ally. To a letter the parson sent him the governor made answer that while he did not desire to see it made an Issue between the parties, but rather treated as a moral issue that should be dealt with on non-partisan lines, he yet believqfl in the principle of local option. And in the recent veto of a liquor bill passed by two legislatures at the instance of the Wholesale Liquor Deal ers’ Association, he made the plea for "home rule,” in liquor regulation, which is the rallying cry of the New Jersey prohibitionists in their local option campaigns. R. L. GRAY ENDS LIFE . IN CELL IN TAMPA (By Associated Frees.) TAMPA, Fla.. May 13. —R. L. Gray of either Atlanta or St. Louis, committed suicide in a cell in the city prison Sun day morning at 7 o’clock by swallowing carbolic acid. Gray arrived in Tampa Friday ana gave his name at the hotel where he stopped as Carl Gannon. He rented a typewriter Saturday afternoon and a few hours later sold it for S2O to an automobile dealer, who became suspi cious when the price was mentioned. Gannon was subsequently arrested and carried to the police station. At six o’clock Sunday morning he was served with breakfast and at seven was found on tne floor of his cell dead. A cell-mate was still asleep when the dead body was found. Letters, laundry marks on the .gar ments worn by the man and baggage identifiedy him as R. L. Gray. The carbolic acid was bought in Atlant* and clothing marks indicate that he haa also purchased clothing there. ‘EVELYN NESBIT THAW WANTS , CASH INSTEAD OF ALLOWANCE (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 13.—Bewitched by the charms‘of a red-cheeked, black-haired tot, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, it is reported here today, is straining resource to collect 315.000 on checks signed by her husband. Aftsr this. It t» declared, she hopes to quit Thaw entirely. With the beautiful baby boy. whose constant companion she has been ever since his birth in Europe 21 months ago, and with $15,000 capital, she hopes to cut loose forever from Thaw, abandoning the $5,000 a year she long has received from him. Her ambition is. to seek upon the stage the independent life and freedom for personal effort denied tier by terms of the contract under which she has re ceived money from the Thaws. She will not be a witness in the habeas corpus proceedings before Justice Keogh, in White Plains, next month, if she car ries out the purpose she has announced YOUNG WARD, OF DE LA BARRA STABS COMPANION IN NEW YORK (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 13.—Jose Balboa, 20 years old, son of a Mexican million aire merchant, was locked up in tl»e One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street police station early today, charged with felonious assault on Frederick Sausront, a young Porto Rican student, who is in a serious condition in the Harlem hospital, suffering from a stab wound in the left lung. According to the police, Balboa and GREAT WAR FLEET WILL ATTACK CITY OF NEW YORK IN JUNE (By Associated Press.) ( NEW YORK, May 13.—Officers of the United States army at Fort Totten and Fort Schuyler, on Long Island Sound, today are making the final plans for the defense of New York city from an invad- AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE TO HAVE COMMENCEMENT (Special Dispatch to Tne Journal.) AMERICUS, Ga., May 13.—The com mencement exercises of the Third Dis trict Agricultural college, at Americus, will begin next Sunday, marking the close of a very successful session of this institution. Rev. W. F. Harden, of Cordele, will preach the commencement sermon before the graduating class of 11 members and student body of 150. The annual address to the students , will be delivered the day following, 20th inst., by Hon. T. G. Hudson, late commissioner of agriculture and candi date for governor.' Twenty-two counties and a half dozen states represented in the student body at this fine school this year, and already the demand for ad mission for the fall term will fill the class rooms and dormitory to the ca pacity point. A new dormitory for girls is being erected and w'4ll be ready for occupan cy by the opening of the fall session. Supt. John M. Collum Is at the head of this fine school and has made of it the peer of any educational institu tion of its class in the state. The school is upon a military basis with three companies of uniformed, well armed and well-drilled college cadets. W. G. DEAN DIES SUDDENLY AT COLUMBUS HOME (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBUS, Ga., May 13.—Walter G. Dean, aged 35, died suddenly this morn ing. He was to have been married on May 24. to friends. If she were called, it would involve exploitation ot the infant tq. whom she is tenderly attached, ana whose young life already has had more than its share of mystery. The child was born in Hamburg, Ger many, a little less than a year after the test of Thaw’s sanity in White Plains in July and August. 1909. Thaw enjoyed a large degree of per sonal freedom at that time. All who Have seen the little fellow from the time of his birth are enthu siastic about his baby beauty. They say he has bright, snappy black, eyes and curly raven hair, a flawless rosy com plexion and every charm that babyhood can claim. When Evelyn Thaw and her baby first returned to New York, about a year ago, they lived in Harlem, but recently have been in an upper Broadway apart ment. The baby Is in charge of a negro mammy. Sausront became involved In a heated argument regarding the present insur rection in Mexico. Sausront made a slighting remark about President Ma dero, and was attacked by Balboa. Sausront says that Balboa drew a knife and after several lunges stabbe<r him under the shoulder. Balboa is a student in a private pre paratory school Ijere. His legal guar dian until a short time ago was Fran cisco de la Barra, former Mexican am bassador to the United States. , ing fleet which is to attack the city early in June. The hostile fleets will be commanded by membera of the naval re serves. For four nights they will play at the war game. According to the ar rangements, the battle commaoders’ sta tion will be at Fort Totten. TALLADEGA SWEPT BY TWO CYCLONES (By Associated Press.) TALLADEGA, Ala., May 13. —A cy clone struck Talladega Saturday night at 8 o’clock, doing a property damage of approximately $165,000. There was no Joss of life. The storm struck the town from the southwest, going east, and when immediately over the busi ness district the twin disturbances unit ed, doing heavy damage in the way of broken windows and unroofing stores. The Talladega county court house was badly damaged, the force of the wind snapping fodr massive granite columns like reeds. The plants suffer ing heaviest were the Alabama Power Development company, 565,000; court house, $10,000; Highland City Cotton mill, 512,500; Talladega Machine and Foundry. company, 510,090, and to the telephone and telegraph system, $15,000, Until 11 o'clock today Talladega was completely cut' off from the outside world and details were unobtainable. The early reports of the cyclone were exaggerated. The five state institu tions located at Talladega were unin jured, being out of the path of the storm. The two depots were also un damaged. The path of the tornado was a half-mile wide and a mile long. While the wire service is still inter rupted, details are being given out via the railroad. Moore Dies Suddenly NASHVILLE. Ga., May 13.—Mr. Jack Moore, who has resided in this county for a number of years, dropped dead near his home. Heart failure was the cause. The interment was at Long Bridge. COBURN BE KffiS HIKES ISSUEm SECRMY WILSDfI Declares 1912 Wheat Crop Will Not Be Small and That Reports Sent Out Are Very ■ Misleading (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) " KANSAS CITY, Mo.. May 11.—Wheat is the most important and most widely B diffused of the cereals and the premier breadstuff; hence there Is universal interest in it from seedtime to harvest. A small wheat crop means dear bread, . < and a large yield, lower prices, accord- .ii ing to F. D. Coburn, Kansas state sec- J retary of agriculture, - J One disturbing and ‘altogether too in fluential factor constantly tending to uneasiness and disturbance in the mar kets in certain seasons of the year is the continuous stream of reports by so- | called crop “experts,” apparently em ployed by certain interests to yavel about in the agricultural states anu j use the wires, the mails and the news. papers to help spread a cloud of pes simism, a wet blanket, so to speak, over the entire growing crop situation. 3 TOO MANY PESSIMISTS. Mr. Coburn says: “It is notable that J these parties have never before been r» industrious, so acute, so ingenious in their methods and so liberal with their testimony as they are this ’ Seemingly they report with the same facility for territory they traverse on limited trains in the night as they -j could if they leisurely tramped the fields at high noon, microscope in hand- ? "No person can ride over the 52,- 000,000 acres of Kansas to scan and es- i timate the prospect of the seven and a half million acres that were sown to wheat last fall. It would be a physical « impossibility in the first place, and in the second place if he could cover.th* ground it would be at such a" rapid pace that his findings would be of no value. i "Furthermore, when the ‘expert* makes his visitation he steers for the ’bad spots' to lesrn of the damage, rather than the counties of most prom ise. Hence, the apostles of woe see only the poorest kind, that too often it seems, is what they are seeking. “There are inspectors who have real desire to know the actual grais conditions, who take the time to make bona fide inspections and whose reports are based on what was actually seen, bunt their showings being more con but their showings being more con servative and less sensations!, are less potential in speculative circles than those that breathe devastation and de- x" struction. KANSAS CROPS. x “When timely showers and sunshine have put the fields aglow w’ith a com ing prosperity not to be repressed oth erwise, the public may expect to read in the near future of fierce eruptions of ’green bugs,’ ehinch bugs, Hesilar. flies, army worms and whatever other media may be deemed most effectively § alarming for the purposes sought. “So far as Kansas and Nebraska, the principal points of the great win body disputes that there are counties body disputes that there are evounties where an unfavorable fall or winter. or both, have caused severe damage; others that are damaged, but less se verely, and many others where condi tions are well-night perfect. There W no reason whatever to suppose that out of all this there may not be a vast aggregate of wheat. "May first the t Kansas department reported, after a* thorough canvass, that we had more than 6,000,000 of growing winter wheat that would be left standing (one-fifth of all in the United States), with an average condi tion of 81.2 per cent. “A report at this time of the year on winter wheat can only comprehend j stand, growth and condition. To some it may indicate probable yields; it | would to all if we could know that present conditions were to continue until after harvest. ’Some history Illustrates the futll ity of guesses based on ante-harvest days. In April, 1911. the acreage of Kansas winter wheat left standing was 5.330,000, with a condition of 78.54, the yield was 50,704,673 bushels, “In April. 1910, on 4,532.000 acres the condition was 76. and in November the yield was found to exceed 60,006,- 000 bushels. "Now note the contrast? "In 1910, with a smaller acreage and a lower condition in April, there was a crop 10.000,000 bushels greater than in 1911, when the April acreage and con dition was considerably higher.” TEACHERS ARE NAMED BY VALDOSTA SCHOOLS (Special Cable to The Journal.) VALDOSTA. Ga.. May 13.—At a meet- « ing of the city school board yesterday, *•’ the following teachers were elected for the next year: Superintendent, W. O. .'i Roberts, Yatesville. Ga.; Valdosta high school principal. T. D. Seals, Atlanta. Ga.: mathematics, T. D. Seals; English. 9 E. Grigg Elcan. Virginia; history. Miss Mary Kelly. Valdosta; Miss Maua Bolton, Tignall, Ga. Grammar School —Sixth grade, Miss Leila Ellis. Valdosta. Ga.. fifth grade. i Miss Camilla Stevens, Valdosta. Ga.; fourth grade, bliss Mattie Sallas, Mill- 1 edgeville, Ga ; third grade. Miss Alma Albritton. Quitman, Ga.; second grade, 8 Miss Minnie Lane. Valdosta, Ga.; first grade. Miss Mabie Murchison, Nortn Carolina. Central Grammar School—Principal. Miss Cora Mahone, Macon. Ga.; seventn grade A.. Miss Cora Mahone; seventh grade 8.. Miss Willie Wood, Cedar town. Ga-; sixth grade. Miss Lillian jJ Harkness, Jackson. Ga.; fifth grade Miss Sarah McDowell, Talbotton. Ga.; fonrth grade. Miss Josephine Denmark, and Miss Noyce Ellis, Valdosta. Ga.; third grade. Miss Taylor. Val dosta, Ga.; second grade. Miss Mamie Gray, Harieni. Ga.. and Miss Susie How ard. Valdosta, Ga.; first grade. Mls» Ruth Candlish, Atlanta. Ga. GRIFFIN BOY SCOUTS WILL HOLD CAMP (Special Dispatch to The Journal. GRIFFIN, Ga., May 13.—At an en thusiastic meeting of the' Boy Scout« of Griffin, held Saturday afternoon, it was unaiimously decided to go into camp at Warm Springs on June 3. el for their annual outing of ten days It Is expected that fully fifty scouts will go into camp this year and the boys are anticipating a very delightful trip. NO. 68.
