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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA_ TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913.
NO. 80.
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AGAIN OVER FIELDS
OF 0LDJ3ETTYSBURG
Reveille Monday Found Great
Camp of Blue and Gray
Awake Already—Rebel Yell
Is Echoed by Yankee Shout
GETTSBURG, Va., June 30.—Twenty-
five thousand veterans in blue and gray
were today on the field of Gettysburg
to the call of reveille and the rattle of
pots and pans in a score of mess tents.
Veterans who sat about camp fires
until late at night, were up long before
sun-up. singing songs of wartime, and
the wide streets of the tented city
echoed with the "rebel yell” and the
hoarser shout of his "yankee” brother.
The regular army men in charge of the
camp expected 15,000 veterans to come
into Gettysburg today, and by tonight
they will be prepared to tent and mess
more than 40,000 men.
Just jas soon as the rations of bacon,
and eggs and coffee, "fruit in season,"
fresh bread and butter, were disposed of
in the way all good soldiers dispose of
them", the real inspection of the battle
field and the retelling of the story of
Gettysburg began, with all the pointed
criticism that the private soldier knows
so well how to make.
“X ain't seen a reb yet who didn’t,
charge Round Top and take it all by
himself,” said a lanky Southerner as he
wandered into the quarters of the Penn
sylvania cintingent.
“No, and I ain’t sen a yank who didn’t
break up Pickett's charge by his own
self,” said a smiling Pennsylvanian as
they shook hands.
THOSE WHO STARTED FIGHT '
The only set event tod'ay was the
joint reception by the survivors , of
General Buford’s cavalry and the South
erners of General Wheeler’s cavalry to
the citizens of-Gettysburg. It was Bu
ford who discovered the gray army ad
vancing on Gettysburg on the morning
of July 1, fifty years ago, and the pick
et who first .saw the scouts of Lee
swinging up the Chambersburg pike
fired the first shot of the greatest battle
of the war.
, It was Buford who stubbornly fought
the advance of General Heath’s division
of the Third Confederate corps, on the
July morning until General Reynolds
arrived and took comand; and Wheeler's
men helped to make that joint affair a
warm one.
Relatives of General Meade, General
Longstreet, General Pickett and Gener
al Hill arrived today.
Brigadier General Hunter Liggett as
sumed command of the veterans’ camp
. today. General Liggett apopinted as his
adjutant Lieutenant Buckner, Jr„ son
of the Confederate general.
The news that President Wilson is
Martin Mulhall’s Story as
General Field Lobbyist for
Manufacturers’ Association
Will Be Probed
WASHINGTON, June 30.—Searching
investigation of the so-called “under
ground system” at the capitol, not only
by the senate lobby committee, but by
a select committee of the house also,
promised to be the first result of the
sensational charges by Martin M. Mul-
hall, who claims to have been the gen
eral field “lobbyist” for the National
Association of Manufacturers.
Mullhall’s startling revelations that
^ representatives and senators and high
officials of thd government had been
reached or influenced, that the “lobby”
conducted its operations from a room
in the capitol, paid money to employes
there, took an active hand in making
up committees and went out actively in
campaigns to defeat congressmen who
opposed legislation which the “lobby”
wanted, have thrown congressional cir
cles into an uproar.
“MALICIOUS LIES,” THE ANSWER.
Congressmen named in the Mulhall
charges are issuing statements, some of
them denouncing the allegations as
“malicious lies.” Speaker Clark last
night issued a statement confirming the
charge that the “lobby” had worked for
his defeat.
Many congressmen mentioned, how
ever, who feel that they have been
brought in without any specific charges
against them, declare they will hot be
satisfied with the senate lobby commit
tee’s investigation alone, but will insist
on a select committee of the house
to- sift the charges.
The senate committee, however, in
tends to lose no time. A subpoena
served upon Mulhall is to be followed
by others for the men named in the
published statements. Chairman Over
man believes that when his process
servers get through °they will have
spread a dragnet to bring in material
for an investigation covering the last
ten years’ doings at the capitol at least.
If there is any doubt of the authority
of the senate committee to investigate
that far. Chairman Overman intends to
have the senate extend its powers.
“CHIEF LOBBYISTS” DENIAL.
Judge A. Enfory, counsel for the
tlonal Association .of Manufacturers, re
ferred to by Mulhall as “chief lobbyist,”
said:
“The statement that any of the pub
lic men named in Mulhall’s charges
ever was in the employ of the associa
tion directly* while in or out of pub
lic life, is a sinister and diabolical lie."
He declared that he did not even
^"a 0 auT ke " SPe6Ch ^ 4 ^ by sight those mentl^
President Wilson will go by train to
Gettysburg on July 4, instead of by
motor, as originally planned. He has
prepared his speech, which will be
brief.
FIRST VETERANS DIE.
August D. Brown, of Livermore
Falls, Me., was the first veteran to die
on the field. He was taken suddenly ill
late Sunday. The heat probably has
tened his death.
John H. Reynolds, of Port Chester.
N. Y., a Union veteran, died suddenly
In camp Sunday nikrht. 1
All day Sunday veterans *in blue and
gray trooped into the little town which
has slept so peacefully among its hills
since Lee and Meade turned their
legions southward so long ago. More
than thirty special trains came into the
village during the day.
From the station of the two rail
roads that come into the village it is
a good long mile to the camp of 5,000
tents where the veterans are housed.
Thousands shouldered their suit cases
and walked.
The sun was scorching hot, and many
suqcumbed before they found their
tents. There was no complaining, how
ever.
Every possible arrangements for the
comfort of the united armies has been
made.
The camp itself lies on ground that
has been baked as hard as brick and
dried into dust by the winds. The tents
fall westward with, the slope of the
ground from the Emmettsburg road to
the point on Seminary Ridge, where
the immortal charge of Pickett started
on the third day of the fight. They
cover the “peach orchard” and the
“wheat field,” where thousands of men
were lost, and part of the ground over
which Pickett charged, but they do not
reach to the “bloody angle” or to the
base of Cemetery Ridge.
The formal exercises will be held In
a big tent near the Emmettsburg road,
but they will last only two hours each
day and the rest of the time the vet
erans will spend as they please.
SEVEN NURSES IN REUNION.
While thousands of veterans of both
sides are‘ here and other thousands are
on their way, there are gathering upon
a quiet little street of the town seven
gray-haired women who fifty years ago
acted as volunteer nurses for Union and
Confederate veterans alike.
Perhaps to no one of the seven are
the recollections of that time more vivid
than to Mrs. Salome M. Stewart, a na
tive of Gettysburg, who, except for an
Interval of a few years, has lived in the
same house that was used as an emerg
ency hospital during the famous battle.
At Mrs. Stewart’s home has been es
tablished the headquarters for the sur-
7iving nurses of th^ war between the
states. One arrival yesterday was Mrs.
Clarissa F. Dye, of Philadelphia, who was
arr.oitg the first to respond when the
news of Gettysburg filtered over the
7,-ires. The other aged nurses expected
are Miss' Cornelia Hancock. Philadel
phia; Miss Margaret Hamilton, Wake
field, Mass.; Miss Mary Stevens, Pea-
bc-ay. Mass.; Mrs. Annie Irwing, New-
burg. N. Y„ and Mrs. Helen Cole, She
boygan Falls, Wis.
GENERAL WEST PREFERS TENT
Among the arrivals at the veterans’
camp yesterday was General Daniel
Sickles, who declined hotel quarters in
favor of a tent.
A picturesque personage who attracted
much attention was General Felix H.
Robertson, of Texas who came to town
clad in the full uniform of a Confeder
ate general.
General Robertson, who is protid of
the fact that he was at Fort Sumter
when the first gun was fired, also de
clined to accept the hospitality of the
Pennsylvania commission which had pro
vided a comfortable room for him in the
dormitory of Pennsylvania college, say
ing he preferred to share the camp life
with his men.
This attitude was assumed by General
A. J. West, of Atlanta, Ga„ also who
bunked with his comrades on the bat
tlefield.
as having been “influenced” by officers
or agents of the manufacturers* asso
ciation.
Representative Sherley, of Kentucky,
said he did not know Mulhall and that
he would make a statement on the floor
of the house about the matter. Sena
tor Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and
Representatives Bartholdt, of Missouri,
and .Webb, of North Carolina, also in
cluded in the list, denounced the charges
as untrue as far as they were con
cerned.
Speaker Clark, one of the members
Mulhall said tjie agents of the manu
facturers’ association tried to defeat on
account of his supporting measures they
opposed, said:
“Mulhall’s statement, as far as it re
fers to me, confirms a charge 1 made on
the stump in the Ninth congressional
district in 1910, and that was that a
large amount of boodle was being used
to defeat me. In September, 1910, it
began to. be whispered about that they
were making their brags that they
would beat me and that they had plenty
of money to do it with. 1 began to
be.lieve it. So beginning with the first
Monday in October. I charged in every
speech I made that boodle was being
used to encompass my defeat.”
PRESIDENT WILSON’S COMMENT.
President Wilson today said be be
lieves the lobby on tariff legislation has
ceased to “embarrass anybody but it
self.” ,
When the prdesident made his first
declaration that “a numerous and in
sidious lobby” was operating in Wash
ington, he had no idea that such charges
as made by Mulhall would be brought
out, but, he added, he was in favor of
investigating all charges and had no
doubt the senate committee would have
a free hand. The president told his
callers the accusations in the Mulhall
statement had been brought to his at
tention just before their publication. It
was learned today that Senator Over
man’s attention had been also called to
a portion of the charges.
Chairman Overman called his commit
tee together for a short executive con
ference early today and at its conclu
sion announced that a full investigation
of the Mulhall charges had been agreed
upon.
It was decided that no meeting of the
committee will be held until July 8.
Charges by Chairman Lovett, of the
Union Pacific board, that certain men in
New 'York had been impersonating con
gressmen, and in which the names of
Edward Lauterbach and David Lamar
were brought in, first will be taken up
and the Mulhall charges will follow.
Mayor Is Judge and
Prisoner; Convicts
Self and Pavs Fine
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WAYCROSS, Ga., June 30.—“Guilty or
not guilty?” asked Mayor Harry D.
Reed to himself in police court today,
when he called the case of the city vs.
H. D. Reed, charged with violation of
the dog ordinance. The case was made
by the dog catcher, who last week
caught the mayor’s pet dog without a
muzzle. Mayor Reed, presiding over
police court, found himself guilty, im
posed the usual fine and halted court
long enough to get the cash and pay
the city marshal.
B1LLIKINRAIN CASTLE
BURNS; SUFFS BLAMED
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 30.—Balli-
kinrain castle at Balfron, Starlingshire,
one of the largest in Scotland, was
burned today.* Only the bare walls re
main. The fire seemed to have beep an
incendiary one. Usual rumors blaming
the militant suffragettes spread rapidly,
but no evidence was found to connect
them with it.
iT SHOT
House Bill Would Regulate
Medical Practice So as to Do
Away With All Fakes , in
Georgia, Its Advocates Say
The medical practice bill, defatted by
a narrow margin of six votes in the
legislature last year, after a bitter
struggle among the various medical
systems operating in Georgia, reap
peared in the house Monday, sponsored
by Representative Garlington, of Rich
mond county, one of the legislators
who steered its course in 1912.
With it came a score of other bills
providing general legislation, and for
the brief hour in which the house and
senate were in session clerks and at
taches were kept busy with new meas
ures.
Marking time until the naming of the
committeemen in either branch, neither
house attempted any action other than
receive new bills and accept an invita
tion tendered by the city of Athens to
visit there on July 12.
In the house Representative Parks, of
Upson county, Introduced a bill to re
peal the present law making the sale of
narcotics and drugs unlawful. His
measure, strangely enough, provided
no substitute ^or the present law, but
merely asked that statute providing a
penalty for the sale of drugs be re
pealed. That part of the law which
makes it illegal for dentists to prescribe
drugs in certain cases was repealed also
by the provisions of the bill.
WOULD LET BARS DOWN. k
If the bill, as it is written, should be
enacted into law, the bars on the sale
of all manner of drugs will be thrown
down utterly.
In the senate W. E. H. Searcy, Sr., of
the Twenty-sixth district, introduced an
other prohibition bill making it unlawful
for newspapers and magazines in Geor
gia to publish liquor advertisements.
The biennial session bill, an old favor
ite, bobbed up in the upper house. It
was sent in by Senators Olliff and Pope
and provides for biennial sessions of
the legislature beginning in June, 1915.
Manifestly interest in both houses
turned instinctively to the subject of
committee appointments arfd legislators
failed to stay in their seats during the
brief session, but congregated in ante
rooms discussing committee possibili
ties. „ »
COMMITTEES TUESDAY.
Heads of both houses said they would
be ready with the committees on Tues
day.
But .three committee chairmanships in
the house^can he forecasted safely*-: L.
R. Akin, of Glynn, will be chairman of
the committee on ways and means;
Crawford Wheatley, of Sumter, will be
chairman of the committee on appro
priations, and R. B. Blackburn, of Ful
ton. will be vice chairman of the rules
committee. There are fifty house com
mittees and 184 members from which
to choose the committees.
Certain senate chairmanships can be
safely forecasted. They are: Appropri-
aticns, W. W. Stark, of the Thvrty-
third district; finance, B. S. Miller,
Twenty-fourth district; general judi
ciary, W. D. McNeil, Twenty-second
district; agriculture, N. B. Chennault,
Twenty-ninth district; special judiciary,
O. H. Elkins, Fifteenth district; tem
perance, J. T. Hixon, Thirty-seventh
district; hygiene and sanitation, J. F.
Johnson. Fourteenth district: state san
itarium, Dr. J. T. Longino. Thirty-
sixth district; county and county mat
ters, M. E. Rushin; public roads, S. M.
Turner, of the Seventh district.
Pays All-Night Fare
For Cool Sleep on an
I ndianapolis Owl Car
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 30.—At
least one man slept coolly throughout
the hot night in Indianapolis, according
to an “Owl” street car conductor. Short
ly before last midnight, the conductor
said, a passenger boarded his car and
asked how many trips he would make
during the night. The conductor figured
it out and the passenger counted out
several coins.
“Now,” said the passenger, handing
the money to the conductor, “I’m an
all night fare. Don’t wake me until you
start to the barns.”
The passenger then settled back in
a seat and with the breeze blowing
through his hair, proceeded to sleep
until daylight.
GALVIN M. HITCH GETS
Made Assistant Chief of Divi
sion of Latin-American Af
fairs in State Department
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 30.—Secretary
Bryan today appointed Calvin M. Hitch,
of Atlanta, Ga., assistant chief of the
division of Latin-American affairs of the
state department, to succeed Fred M.
Dearing, who is to be appointed secre
tary of legation at Brussels. Mr. Hitch
was formerly secretary to Senator Ba
con and served in a similar capacity to
several governors of Georgia.
STOVALL TO SAIL FOR
SWITZERLAND JULY 29
(By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 30.—Pleasant
A. Stovall, minister to Switzerland, left
today for Washington, where he will
confer with Secretary of State Bryan
tomorrow prior to going abroad to take
up the duties of his post. Mr. Stovall
took the oath of office Friday and ex
pects to sail for Switzerland July 29.
In accordance with the wishes of the
state department, Mr. Stovall will reside
in Berne, the capital of Switzerland. It is
understood the minister preferred Geova
as a place of residence, but readily ac
quiesced when state department indi
cated its wish that he should make his
residence in the capital.
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THE NEW PILOT---BON VOYAGE
Board of Trade Telegraphs
The Journal of Protest op
Negro Customs Officer
The Brunswick board of trade has
telegraphed to The Journal its protest
against the appointment of a negro in
charge of the custom house at Bruns
wick. Telegrams of protest have also
been sent to Washington. Following is
the telegram to The Journal:
“The people at Brunswick have been
shocked by newspaper dispatches into
a realization of the fact that a negro is
to be in charge of their historic cus
tom office. To say that they are in
censed and aroused is putting it mildly.
More than 100 telegrams have left
Brunswick today directed to congress
men, senators an<} to Federal Treasurer
McAdoo, protesting against the appoint
ment of the negro Belcher. The Bruns
wick board of trade today forwarded the
following telegram to Senators Smith
and Bacon and to congressmen:
“We are informed that the negro
Belcher, holds position of deputy collec
tor for the port of Brunswick will be in
charge of the office at Brunswick after
July 1st. If this information is based
on facts we enter our protest against
such violation of our feelings and
wishes. The solidarity of the democ
racy of Georgia and the entire south re
sults from a determined opposition of
our people to any semblance of negro
domination, we feel that our support of
democracy entitled us to protection from
such wanton disregard for our wishes
and ask that this negro be removed
from office and a white man appointed.
We call upon every senator and con
gressman of Georgia and the south to
aid Brunswick in this matter.
“THE BRUNSWICK BOARD OF
TRADE.”
Look! Smell! Taste!
Before You Eat Says
Government Expert
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 30.—Warning to
vacationists and summer tourists
against the glowing descriptions of the
healthful and salubrious food and sur
roundings of country resorts is con
tained in a circular issued today by the
department of agriculture. The warn
ing is included in a general caution
against the careless selection of food
and water during the summer months.
“Those who go away for vacations,”
says the department's expert, should not
get the idea that everything in a sum
mer resort or strange city is necessarily
pure and wholesome. The danger of
typhoid fever in country resorts is very
great. Most of the cases of typhoid
fever recorded in the fall in cities
where the water is pure, had their ori
gin in water or contaminated substances
drunk or eaten at summer resorts.” t
The department urges that during the
heated period people should use their
senses of sight, smell, and taste before
eating anything. It advocates also the
use of boiled water.
Purchasers of manufactured foods
also are warned that the label, “Guar
anteed under the food and drugs act,”
does not meap that the government
guarantees the contents of the package.
It merely is the manufacturers’ per
sonal assertion that he has complied
with the law.
“Examine goods*, labelled ’guaranteed’
Just as carefully as any other kind, '
the circular concludes.
News Caused Such Stir That
Servian Parliament Session
Was Suspended
(By Associated Press.)
BELGRADE, June 30.—Heavy fight
ing is in progress in Macedonia, accord
ing to dispatches received here. Hosti
lities opened between the Servians and
Bulgarians near Istip, and between
Greeks and Bulgarians in the vicinity
of Drama.
The Servian premier was addressing
parliament in support of his policy of
accepting arbitration offered by Rus
sia when news of hostilities was sent
In from the foreign office.
Excitement in the house was so great
that the sitting was suspended and the
fate of the Pachitch cabinet remains un
decided. Opposition members demand
guarantees that the territory in Mace
donia now held by the Servian troops
shall be annexed.
The Bulgarian troops opened their at
tack art: 2 o’clock this morning on the
Servian advanced, posts before Istip and
a couple of hours later their artillery
was brought into action. The Bulgar
ian attack gradually spread until there
was fighting at Retna, Boukva, Zeletovo,
Neogasi and Valandove.
According to a later message, the Bul
garians also attacked the Greek troops
along their whole front. Large masses
of troops participated in the hard fight
ing.
According to a later message, the
Bulgarians also attacked the Greek
troops along their whole front. Large
masses of troops participated in the
fighting, which was of a very bloody
nature.
COSTLESS
AND OPEN-AIR SERMONS
Ministers Establish Coatless
License to Prevail Through
Heated Season
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DALTON, Ga., June 30.—A coatless
congregation at the First Baptist church
may result from the excessive heat of
the summer months, and a good start
was made Sunday morning when the Ba-
raca class, at Sunday school, “shucked"
coats and were thereby enabled thor
oughly to enjoy the service.
It was at the suggestion of Mrs. J. S.
McLemore, wife of the pastor and the
popular teacher of the class, that the
men removed their coats. The plan
worked so well that the class immedi
ately voted to go coatless at the meet
ings throughout the summer months.
WOMAN RUN OVER AND
KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CHATTANOOGA. June 30—Mrs.
Sarah Buffington was run over and in
stantly killed last night by an automo
bile. The accident happened on Walnut
street. C. W. Wallace, of the Mountain
Land company, was driving the car
that caused her death. A coroner’s jury
empaneled by Coroner Gillespie last
night heard the testimony of all wit
nesses to the accident, and reported
that it was unavoidable and cleared Mr.
Yv'allace of all blame.
TARIFF BILL TO BE
REPORTED THURSDAY
Union Pacific to Swap South
ern Pacific Stock for Big
Block of Pennsylvania's
B, & 0. Holdings
(By Associated Press.)
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 30.—The plan,
for the dissolution of the Union Pa-
clflc-Southefn Pacific merger, which At
torney General McReynolds. with the
approval of President Wilson, has
agreed upon with the officials of the
railroad, was submitted to the United
States court here today.
The plan proposes that the Union Pa
cific shall exchange $38,000,000 of its
$126,000,000 holdings in the Southern
Pacific for the Pennsylvania railroad’s
entire holdings in the Baltimore and
Ohio—virtually an equal amount—and
that the remaining $88,000,000 shall bs
sold to the general public through a
trust company. ,
No present shareholder in the Union
Pacific, continuing as such, may buy
any of the Southern Pacific so sold, 1
and each purchaser would be obliged to
make affidavit that he was not acting
in concert or agreement with any one
else buying Southern Pacific to secure
a new control of the Union Pacific.
ALLOWS UNTIL JANUARY I, 1916.
The plan allows until Januslry 1, 1916.
for the complete dissolution.
The transaction would begin on No
vember 1, 1913, and, if not completed by
January 1, 1916, the oourt would direct
the disposition of any Southern Pacific
stock remaining untaken. The court
today was asked, before approving the
plan, to allow time for any one, wheth
er interested or not, to interpose objec
tions.
The government stipulates that
should any illegal conditions arise from
the exchange of Southern Pacific and 1
Baltimore and Ohio stock, either under
existing law or future legislation or>
future interpretation by the courts of
present statutes, the government would
have the right “freely to assail" the ar
rangement.
Attorney General McReynolds’ state
ment to the court, commenting on this
exchange of securities, points out that
|at present no federal law forbids one
railroad company from owning stock in
another non-competitive line, but that,
by interpretation by the courts, a dif
ferent meaning hereafter may be given
present statutes, or new legislation cov
ering that point may be enacted.
Democratic Senate Caucus
Puts Finishing Touches on
Underwood Bill
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 30.—Finishing-
touches to schedules Qf the tariff bill
were considered today by the senate
Democratic caucus, which alms to fin
ish its work so that the revised measure
may go to the entire finance committee
and be reported to the senate by Thurs
day.
Unfinished portions of the sundries
schedule and free list, with changes
agreed upon by the finance committee
majority yesterday, were reviewed by
the caucus in the hope that the admin
istrative and income tax sections could
be reached tonight.
Chairman Simmons, of the finance
committee, expected that the caucus
would develop little opposition to post
poning operation of the sugar schedule
until March 1, 11)14. or to the change of
date for the income tax from. January
1, 1913, to March 1 of this year.
After prolonged discussion of an
amendment by Senator Pomerene to put
a countervailing duty of 8 per cent on
agricultural implements, including beet
and cane sugar machinery, the caucus
voted by an overwhelming majority to
leave these articles on the free list un
restricted.
The caucus completed all the sched
ules except the last two paragraphs of
the free list, which will be passed on
later today. An amendment was
adopted to provide thorough inspection
of meats entering American ports un
less meats are subjected to similar in
spection when exported.
An amendment by Senator Johnson,
of Maine, putting cedar logs, used
largely in cigar box making, on the
free list, was adopted. Bran and wheat
screenings, which the committee inad
vertently had left on the free list un
restricted, were transferred to the par
agraph including wheat and all prod
ucts of wheat which are free listed, but
a countervailing duty provision ap
pended.
Senator Simmons said he hoped the
caucus would complete the administra
tive and income tax sections tonight or
tomorrow, and that he expected to re
port the bill to the senate at its first
meeting after July 4.
Mother Saves Daugh er
and Child’s Companion;
But Two Others Drown
(By Associated Press.)
LOOMIS, Wis., June 30.—A party of
five bathing in a stream near here yes
terday got beyond their depths and Mrs.
Sively Baucock, a young widow, dis
covered that she was the only person
able to swim. She grasped her daughter
Dellas, aged nine, and Alice George,
another nine-year-old girl, and carried
them safely to shore.
Before she could return to the rescue
of Evelyn George, aged 17, and Anna
Selepsky, 19 years old, they had per
ished . When Mrs. Baucock saw their
bodies floating away she collapsed and
now is dangerously ill.
Booklet on Hogs
In the effort—to encourage Southern
farmers to raise more hogs, the South
ern railway, through its live stock de
partment, has issued a bookie tentitled.
“Hog Production and Conditions for
success in the South.” a copy of which
will be furnished on request by F. L.
Word, Live Stock agent. The booklet
contains information as to the care and
feeding of hogs, selection of breeds,
treatment of diseases, and cutting and
curing meat.
DISSOLUTION PLANS
IT
150 FIRE COMPANIES TO
QUIT MISSOURI STATE
(By Associated Press.)
JEFFERSON CITY, June 30.—One’
hundred and fifty fire Insurance com
panies cited by the state Insurance com
mittee to show why they refused to
write Insurance in this state, filed re
turns today stating that under existing
conditions they do not Intend to resume
the writing of fire insurance In Mis
souri.* The companies contend that un
der the old Oliver law they re-rated the
state at a cost of $250,000, and that
under the existing Orr law they cannot
use these rates.
Chinaman, 149 Years
Old, Is the World’s
Oldest Inhabitant
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, June 30.—With 149
years resting lightly on his queueless
head, Dr. Cho Ghoy, who Is here en
route to Canada, undoubtedly is the
oldest man In the world, if his claim t6
longevity Is true. He was really angry
with the skeptics among the newspaper
Reporters, who thought he might pos
sibly be a few years younger than 149,
and stoutly declared that he was born
in 1764, at Shan Hal Kwan, on the bor
ders of Manchuria, where the great wall
of China runs down to the seashore, on
the Gulf of Pe Chi LI.
The aged Manchu arrived In bond
with seven other prosperous Chinamen,
the youngest of wnom was seventy,
bound from Cuba to Canada. Dr. Choy
was the leader of the party. He is
more than six feet tall, notwithstand
ing a slight stoop, and bald, while his
features are a web of gray wrinkles.
He lived for 50 years in his native
land, and claims to have spent nearly
100 years In Cuba, practicing medicine
among the Chinese there, where he ac
quired considerable wealth. While on
Ellis Island the doctor partook of no
nourishment except a few tabloids of'
concentrated lood and a little cold
water.
NAVAL STORES MEN PLAN
TO BOOST PRODUCT PRICES
(By Associated Press.)
Fla.,
naval stores factors and operators of
Florida and south Georgia met here to
day for the purpose of bettering the
conditions of the trade by closer organ
ization and more scientific marketing,
as well as more economical production.
The prime object under discussion is
the boosting of prices to a profitable
level. Some of the operators are deter
mined that the present prices must be
increased, even if a suspension of oper-.
ation must be voted, x Another matter
under consideration is the conservation
of the trees by the use of more modern
methods of tapping and bleeding.
Some rule will be adopted to make
this obligatory. The factors are in ac
cord with the operators, but point out
that the production of turpentine and
rosin is far in excess of the demand,
hence the low prices prevailing, as the
factors have to carry the stores using
borrowed money.
Woman Dies While
Reading a Passage
From the Bible
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CHATTANOOGA, June 30.—Mrs. Sa
rah Moulton, forty-five years of age,
dropped dead here early this morning
while reading her Bible on her front
porch. The deceased, who is survived
by her husband and six children, for
merly had been* in excellent health.