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* * *. * * * *****. Official Organ Thomas County ************ SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION Why Wait? 1 Send iniiYour Subscription l NOW. ************ VOL. J. No. 84. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1013. SELECTED CONGRESSMAN DEFEATING LODE BT SOD DOTE! OFFICIAL RETURNS NOT IX FROM ALL PRECINCTS IN DECATUR AND WORTH, HUT RESULTS AR EALMOST SURE — WORTH GAVE PARK TWELVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY OVER LUKE, AGAINST THOMAS' ONE THOUSAND FOR LUKE OVER PARK— LUKE CARRIED TllT, MILLE.i. THOMAS AND GRADY, WHICH LATTER COUNTY GAVE HIM SIX HUNDRED OVER.PARK. ROSCOE LUKE THANKS PEO PLE OF HOME COUNTY. I To the 'white People ot Thom- ] as County: • j 1 have never forgotten a friend. | You gave me the largest vote | that any candidate with opposi- | iion has ever received from you. | My heart Is full of gratitude and j I love you. Your expression eft | confidence in me is worth more | than office. I shall try and see I each one of you in (person and thank you. The “latch-string" to my | heart and my borne hangs on i the outside for you. | Sincerely yours, j ROSCOE LUKE. [ Thomasville, (la., 4 November 6th, 1913. Luke llad Great Vote in Thomas. The vAte in Thomas county was a surprise to many friends of Mr. Luke. His plurality over Judge Park was nine hundred and ninety- nine, his majority in the county, eight hundred and twenty-one, esti mated -before the eioction at six hun dred. IS. JONES FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON AT THE CHERO-COLA IlOTTLING WORKS MAY Oth—CLAIMS TOO .MUCH CURRENT IN LIGHT. It seems from all Indications, at three o’clock P. M. Thursday that Roscoe Luke is beaten for Congress hy about five hundred votes. The complete returns are in from' all ex cept three small precincts In Deca- tnr and three precincts in Worth. Hie vote in Miller county Is estl- vnated. It Is not believed that the final result will vary fifty votes from ♦he returns as given below. Luke's plurality over Park Tnomas did not balance the unusual plurality of Park in Worth, esti mated now at twelvo hundred and fifty votes. Luke carried Miller and Tift and got two hundred and sixty more than Park in Colquitt. Covington -got a mighty small vote in every county except Colquitt, which he carried by only one hun dred and thirty qver Luke. The vote as given at three o'clock is os follows: , The Thomasville district gave I Luke foui hundred and fifty-six over Park. Covington’s vote in the coun- . I ty was very light as It was over me I, district, being seventy-three less than | j Park's total vote. Pavo, and Meigs, | two precincts thought to be close j i gave Luke very , handsome majori ties. The vote of Park fell on two hundred from the claims his friends made before the election. Luke polled more votes than any man ever did in a congressional race In Thomas county and his friends are very much delighted at the flat tering strength shown among his home folks. The vote in the county as officially consolidated this morning at the Court House is ns follows: County— Luke Thomas 12ft Tift 41# Mitchell. ... 624 Miller 290 Park 246 Cot. Grady. . . -Early. . . Dougherty Decatur. . Colquitt . . Calhoun. . Baker... . Worth. . 902 252 213 472 19 41 C$6 150 254 322 48$. 734 210 405 266 1312 172 174 77 75 47 133 9 115 604 45 TOTAL .4821 6398 1617 Total vote cast In district... .11,736 Lake's Plurality Over Park. Thomas 099 Tift 84 Miller.. 140 Grady 648 Colquitt.. 262 TOTAL 2133 Park’s Plurality Over Lake. Mltcholl 162 Early 70 Dougherty 275 Decatur 335 Calhoun 386 Thomasville Boston .. . Pavo. . . - Metcalfe. . . Ochjocknee . Ellabello. . Merrillville. Meigs, . . Barwick. . Murphy. . Ways. . . r.40| 9} 84 ,| 111 88 77 31 .1 52| TOTALS. 25 At council meeting Monday night, very little business was transacted. Mrs. Nancy E. Jones, asked council to give her twenty-five thousand dol lars for the death of her son, Hal comb Jones, who, it -will be remem bered, met his death at the Chero- Cola Bottling Works, on the sixth day of May, this year. He died very suddenly and Mrs. Jones, through her attorney, Mr. Titus, claims that he met his death'be.ause of the mrelessnesH and nogllgence of the light plant employees, who allowed twenty-three hundred volts of electricity to flow through the small incandescent wire, when there should have been normally but one hundred and ten volts. Council promptly refused to pay the bill. The first payment' on the fire truck, amounting to fifteen hundred dollars, was ordered paid. A gen eral discussion of the jmllce depart ment was had in which more or less interesting 'join's were brought out, nothing, however, of offlclnl acts being recorded in the matter. T ME ADVICE FIRST ELECTION OF VOTE IX THE CAMPAIGN WHEN | IIE RAN TO SUCCEED JUDGE ! GRIGGS IS INTERESTING ' i THIS OCCASION. ATTITUDE OF THE MEXICAN GOV-1 The vote In the special election.) ERXMEXT IS XOT CHANGED— 1 when Roddenbery was selected over' WASHINGTON OFFICIALS DIS-, Spence and Knight is interesting at CUSSED SITUATION—AVARSHIPs ORDERED TO REMAIN IN MEX ICAN WATERS INDEFINITELY’. LEAGUE MEETS .\lexi--o City, {iov. 6.—The real future purposes of Genera) Huerta were voiced this morning by a per son who is close to the Provisional President. Huerta is determined to reject all the demands set forth in the latest American communication, and he has resolved to seat the Congress just elected. If that Congress, however, declares that t'he recent presidential election was null, and makes ar rangements for another election, Huerta then would be disposed to abide hy the decision of that body. In that case, It is said, Oen.- Huerta will submit to the people t£e ques tion of their choice or*a man who would occupy the presidency until the autumn of 1916 There were still no indications here later in the day, whether Gen. Huerta would make a formal reply to the United States’ demands. The nature of the American communica tion, It is said, calls for no other re ply than compliance. How long Washington expects to wait, after failing to receive a reply, is a mat ter o-f great interest. The city is filled with rumors and endless spec ulations as to Huerta’s •fourse of action. STHMIOT PAL IN FML PEN Atlanta, Nov. 6.—Dr. Ernest Ilu- ret, who was convicted of counter feiting in connection with the Crimea of Hans Schmidt, In New York, has become a member of the “high brow” criminal colony at the Atlanta Federal Prison. A highly cultured and educated nmn, he will probably be put to work in the office, along with the embezzling bankers, capi talists and caught Wallingfords -gen erally. He will serve a sentence of 7 44 years, having pleaded guilty to the charges. Dr. Mtiret wns originally arrested on suspicion that he had helped Schmidt, the mad priest, dispose or the body of the murdered girl, but no evidence was found against him. SESSION OF DIRECTORS CALLED IN THOMASVILLE ON THAT HAY FOR PURPOSE OF ELECT. 1XG PRESIDENT, ETC. President Groover has called a meeting ot the Directors of the Em pire State league for Wednesday. November twelfth, at Thomasville. The meeting is called for the pur pose of electing new officers and making whatever arrangements are necessary for the conduct and con tinuance of the League next year. The meeting will probably be held at noon. This meeting selects the President to serve for the coming year, and at the same time acts on the proposi tion for the admission of Dothan and possibly another town into the League. The present franchise ar rangements are to bo continued, ac cording to reports, none of the towns being willing to surrender their rights In that respect. TUEfDUCK SEASON OPENS ON NOV. 20 So roniment on Huerta’s Latent Move Heard in Wellington. Washington, Nov. 6.—The new* that Provisional President Huerta, of Mexico, would reject the United States demands for his elimination was received in official eludes here this morning without comment. Secretary of State Bryan had Mritl*IIY AM) Ills GANG GOT WORST BEATING SINCE TIME OF HUGHES’ RACE—AUSSAC’II V SETTS DEMOCRATIC, AND SO IS NEW JERSEY—KENTUCKY IN RIGHT COLUMN, AND MARY- LAND ELECTS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BY GOOD MAJORITY— FULL TICKET ELECTED IN BAY STATE. this particular time, as a rei>etition m a way of that result can be an ticipated hy. the friends of the Thomas County candidate. Roddenbery carried nearly every county and got unusual and aston ishingly largo votes in what might be termed the enemy's country. The vote in that election, which ( was to fill the unexpired term Democratic Governors were elect- j ed yesterday in each stat6 where j PRESIDENT WILSON ELATED Congressman Griggs, lows: as fol- . 483 County Thomas. Oradj. . I»ecatu/r. Colquitt. Miller. . Baker. . Mitchell. Early 41S Tift 451 Worth 099 Doughertv . . . . ft9 Calhoun ‘ 210 pence Knight 194 34 326 230 213 .359 .106 .360 391 154 OCTOBER FULL Of that office was filled, namely in M sac I hi.set In, New Jersey and Virginia. With the exception of New York Slate, where Tammany was defeated, more Democratic than victories were reported. In Maryland, Blair Leo, a Demo crat, was elected to the United States Sennte. Of the four representatives in Con gress elected throughout the coun try, three were Democrats. The ex ception was C. D. Paige, of Massa chusetts. In the state of Massachusetts, there was a Democratic landslide. Tammany, in New York state, was condemned in a manner that left lit tle solace to the leaders. John Vurroy Mitehelf, me Fits- ionist nominee for Mayor, was elect ed hy 121.200 votes. William Hulzer, the deposed Gov ernor, was returned to the Assembly from New York City. The Assembly of that state will lie safely Hepuhli- In New Jersey, .land's F. Fielder, OVER ELECTION RETURNS^ J Washington, Nov. 5.—President Republican' Wilson today made no official com- 1 ment on tho Democratic victeirie* yesterday. He told his callers, how ever, that he was much encouraged because in New Jersey, Massachu setts and Maryland, the tariff and currency legislation were the main issues. He said he felt that the administration's policies had been upheld. .Secretary Tumulty was particularly pleased that his home county should* have given Felder such a big ma jority. Many Senators and Congresomen feJephoned and telegraphed their congratulations to the White House. President Wilson sent telegrams of congratulations to Fielder and Blair Lee. Secretary Bryan today declared • that yesterday’s elections afforded thi' first o|>oprtunity the country had had to endorse the Wilson policies. idle Deinotratie nominee, was elected j Secretary Daniels said the elec- «tier nor, and Hie Democrats will} Gone were more overwhelmingly an mtrol both house* of the State | approval of the \\ ilson admlnlstra- Leglslatiirc ' tion St ii elected Governor of Virginia. the first elections usually are. He said In every state the vote showed the people trusted tho ndministration. October was full to the brim with sunshine, according to the official report from the Weather Bureau in this city. The total hours of sun- . - ... _■ ^.rbineL-amounted to 281.7, eighty SI? per cent, of the possible percentage. Senator Bacon, Chairman of the For eign Relations Committee, was also among the early White House cal lers. The talk of an embargo on fire arms has been revived In Congres sional circles. Some of the Senators havs told President Wilson that there is an overwhelming sentiment In Congress, which would favor the Constitutionalists by the Importa tion of arms. They have pointed out that the only way to force Huerta to resign Is to lend moral support to the Constitutionalists. The Constitutionalists agents here derlaro they don’t wnnt recognition of their bellgerency, only the lifting ‘of the embargo on fire-arms, j State Department officials declined I to spy whether or not they had re ceived an answer from Huerta, to the last demand of the United States. Baker 225 [Detectives, however, found n coun- Worth 1257 j forfeiting ■■,;*#' in his possession. [and he au.-ilt’cd ho hail been making TOTALS 2710 [bad money. TIRED EYES Did you ever take off a tight hat. ill-filling pair of shoes and slip your feet Into a pair of cool, soft slippers? If you you have, you know the meaning of genuine relief and solid comfort. That Is exactly what a properly fitted pair of glasses will do for weak, tired, worn-out eyes. Modern business con ditions necessitate long hours of close eye-tlrlng work, and It Is not surprising that yon • eyes give out easily, ache, pain, burn and finally break dawn. Glasses are the remedy, and the only remedy, unless, of course, you stop using your eyes altogether. Glasses, properly fitted win strengthen and preserve your eyos and enable you to dr. your work easily and with com fort. We are equipped to make a thorough and modern ex amination and will fit the correct lenses In an up-to-date frame or eyeglass mounting at a very moderate figure. Come In and talk to us about your eyes. If you don’t need glasses, after we have made a careful examination, we may be able to give you some good pointers on how to take care of your eyes. Exduihre Optical Department. Phones; 105> 106. VIOLATIONS WILL BE CALLED TO THE ATTKNTION OF THK VEIL KRAI. GRAND JURY, IF THEY ARK DETECTED. Brunswick News. Among local sportsmen there is a great deal of uncertainty concerning the new national game laws relating to migratory ducks. During the past week or so a large number of these wild water fowls have been seen in this county, and good hags could have been made hy locul sportsmen If they had been certain that It waH not against the federal law to kill them. The county game warden stated to a News reporter yesterday that he intended to report all violations of the national law coming to his atten tion and he further stated that his instructions as to the open season for ducks were very plain. "Under the national law the sea- ron for killing water fowl, duyks, geese and brant does not o|tcn until November 20. The law is very plain on the subject, and It will he tluty to report nil violations coming to my attention on special blanks furnished me for that purpose. All such cases will he brought to the at tention of the federal grand jury. The season ends February lGth.” A letter from the state game war den states that it is the |>ol!cy of the Georgia game department to co operate with the national authori ties, and therefore he desires to give warning to all sportsmen in Glynn county not to kill any migratory ducks or other fowls named above rnfil the 20th of this month. Additional Battleshpls Dispatched to Mexican Waters. Washington, Nov. 6.—The battle ships Louisiana, Michigan and New Hampshire, which were ordered to be relieved from duty in Mexican wat Vrs, were today formally ordered to remain on duty at Vera Cruz. They were to have been directed home ward on the arrival of the four bat tleships of the Third Division. Seven battleships will now be sta tioned off Vera Cruz. The armored cruiser California has also been or dered to remain in Mexican Pacific waters, although the original or ders were that it would bo relieved Immediately by the cruiser Pitts burg. EIGHTY PER CENT OF POSSIBLE PERCENTAGE REGISTERED AT WRATHER STATION — RAIN WAS THREE INCHES. The temperature rose to 93 the tenth and went down to 31 on the twenty-first. The mean for tho month was 65. which Is three de gross below the normal. The total rainfall was 3.32 inches, most of its falling on the 23rd and 24th. This Is almost the norma’, for the past seven years and Is three Inches above that of last year, when less than an inch was noted. The wind blew from the north west, with a total movement of 3.43S miles, and an average velocity of 4.6 miles: It mounted to twen ty-five miles per hour on the twen tieth and caiue from the south west. There were 23 clear days, 3 partly cloudy and five cloudy. Light frost was noted on the 22, 31, and a heavy frost on the 2let, VOLTUINO SURVIVOR INSANE Woman Wlio Escaped Goes Mad anil Tried Drowning—Nurse Is Recom mended For Bravery in Savina Her Life. Washington. Nov. 6.—Martha Xo- vKk, an Immigrant girl, escaped the torrors of the burning Volturno, only to become temporarily Insane at the Ellis Island ihoepltai. She e'uded her nurse and threw herself into the Bay. The heroism of the nune. Hiss Anna Olson was today made the sub ject of a special Investigation by Surgeon General Blue. The nuns Is said to have plunged into the wa ter sifter the demented fcrl. and brought her safely to shorf. Mexican Rebels Await < lutcoine. Eagle, Pass Texas, Nov. 6. -The Mexican Constitutionalists apparent ly have halted their proposed attack >n Pledrns Nesras, until the further developments have shown themselves in the intense situation at the capi tal. where Huerta Is still consider ing the United States’ demands. The. Rebels have posted their troops in a semi-circle around the <ity Both of the forces are small, as tnest of the troops, both Federals and Rebels are no* stationed near Monterey. Advices received here h ahua thi* afternoon, said that Rebel force, estimated at six thou sand men, began an attack on that city at ten o’clock last night. JVOULD KILL ALL OFFICERS IT JIT TO ASSASSINATE THK OF- FRIERS OF THK NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT IS NHT'KD IN THE Ill'll. TAMMANY GETS WORST REBUKE OF MANY YEARS. New York, Nov. 5.—Each succes sive recapitulation today re-alfirmed the crushing defeat of tho Tam many forces In yesterday's elections. Tile famous organization was not only rebuked tn the city, where John Purroy Mitchell was elected hy more than ono hundred thousand plur ality. but also In tho up-stato dis tricts, where many Republican were named assemblymen, Tammany received its first jjefeat since the memorable days of Governor Hughes. William Sulzer, who was depn by Tammany’s exposure of his cam pnlgn contributions, was ro-elected to public of!lco within less than three weeks after his removal. He will re turn to Albany In January, as n mem ber of the State Assembly. Many of the legislators who voted to Ini- liench him met a stinting defeat. The next State House of Represen tatives will be anti-Tammany. It Is estimated that the next assembly 111 be composed of eighty-five Re publicans, seventeen Progressives and forty-eight Democrats. Many of the Democrats, it Is said, are men of Progressive-Independent tendencies. Murphy Has Figures Turned on Hint. The Fuslonirtg won the mnyoralty Tammany by fourteen to two. Two Democratic Congressmen war* elected In the city, when George W. Loft was chosen to succeed the late Timothy I). Sullivan, and Jacob H. Cantor was elected to succeed Fran cis Burton Harrison, the latter har ing resigned to accept the appoint ment of Governor-General of the Philippines. Possibility of Ntilzer Being Speaker of lsower House. Albany, N. Y.. .Nov. 5.—With tha Republican control of the Assembly conceeded, speculation today turned on the probable nominee for Speak er. Harold J. HInman, Is generally regarded as the choice of William J. Barnes, the leader of the Republican forces In this state. The friends of William Bulzer today professed to see a possibility of his being elected as presiding O®-. - cor. but his only hope in this direc tion lay in a division of the Assem bly into three almost equal parts. fight in New York City with a plur- j over Edward nllty almost as large as Charles F. !Rc«n nominee. Demociut Won iu New Jersey. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 5.—The lat est figures indicate that James F. Fielder, the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has a plurality of twenty-two thousand C. Stokes, the Repub. Murphy, the Tammany leader, said yesterday he would elect Edward E. McCall, the Democratic nominee. The late returns indicate that Mitchell won by 110,000 to 115,000 votes. Brooklyn gave him more than half of this remarkable plurality. The Fusionists also elected Wil liam A. Pendergrast as Comptroller nnd George McAneny as President, of the Board of Aldermen. The Presi dency of the three principal boroughs re won by Fusionlst candidat The The Democrats also won contro. of both houses of the State Legis lature. Maryland Kintal Democratic For the V, S. Senate. Baltimore, Nov. 5.—The Mary land election returns were still In complete this morning. However the Indications ape that Blair Lee, the Democratic candidate, was elect ed to the United States Senate by thirty thousand plurality. The Democrats claim a majority Board of Estimates will bo anti- of each house of the Legislature. i RAILROADS ARE KICKING Managua, Nicaragua, Nov. 6>--Tiie frustrated plot to assassinate Presi- •in Adolfo Diaz, of Nicaragua, and I of his rahinet ministers, on Octo ber 29th. was said to have been laid with remarkable care, according to detail* ol the alleged plot, pull ed here today for the first time, ho plotters v.ere members fie Liberal party. They divided th selves* into three groups. The first ! group was to kill the President and | two of l.is cabinet members. The j second was to assassinate the Vice-1 President and Minister of Foreign! Affairs, while the third group was to hurl a heavy charge of dynamite into! ('hi- j * I** Chamber of Deputies. The discover*' of tin* conspirators. I while they were holding one of J their meetings, to arrange for the final details, was entirely accidental. Nearly all of the would-be assassins have been lodged in jail, on "barges' ct' "high treason.” Geiatisc They Are Not Paid More For Parcel Post Carrying. SI. AUGUSTINE CARS STOP Atlanta, Nov. 6.—That the juinels post as now operated is "immoral” j and that the innocent receivers of parcel post packages often become "receivers of stolen goods,” is alleged by leading conservative railroad men in Georgia, who have been studying the new department in Uncle Sam’s postal service. It Is estimated, according to these gentlemen, that the government has received an income of $14,000,000 Pidic«> Wout lad Them Bun Because J Franchise Tax Unpaid — May Take Matter to Courts. j 8t. Augustine, Fla., -Nov. 6. -All j street cars of this city are at a stand-1 still today, as a result of the ordor; issued by Mayor Corbe*» not to run | until the xompany had paid the fran-J chine tax. The franchise has been during the six months the' panels ™° ked ' an ‘> ‘LT.Tu', ■ ed to sue out an injunction, and thus V’ 1 " 1 f0U t‘o'ce,m:„ were at the barns this roads* P °* ,U l0 “ upon the r 1 ' morning and refused to allow the Th; railroads. It has been raid. ; motormeD *° ,lart tb * car * lmvo first tost the revenues they tiled to derive when Dockages were | _ . , . . sent through the express coxrpan- been paid ot all. It Is these consld- Dr. Blue has recommended that tea, and. eeoond, have been required crations which bare led to the charge Miss Olsen s bravery he rewarded to do a lot ot extra work tor the gov- that the system Is not only “tueoou- by s substantial Increase ta her par eminent tor which they have not oafe,**. hat “immoral.- . Tr TPHE 1 his man who blows own horn often meets some pointed ob jections, but we are go ing to be rash for once. We are so proud of these new Soft and Stiff Stetson’s for Fall that we have just got to blow about them a little. It is not merely that they are Stetsons, but that they are such a fine assortment of Stetsons. Come in and see m them. Choose for yourself, ] or call on us for help, as you like. Louis Steyerman, The Shop of Quality On the Corner.