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Hnb South Georaia {Progress. THOMASVILLE^ GEORGIA, FRIDAY/ EEBRUARY 23, 1906 [SSfflWWvou « ■7'^ULU^ CLARK BOWELL BOOMING Will Address Voters Court Week-Hoke May Come Too. Missing Man Discovered After Five Weeks Search. A West Coast Railroad By A. and B. Would be Great Thing. E. K. James Is in Jail After Refunding Part of Missing Property. Michigan Governor Talks of Thomasville and Topics of the Tim**. Hon. Clark Howell, editor ot the Atlanta Constitution, and candidate tor governor, |s coming to Thomas- vllle on April sixteenth. He will address the voters ot Thomas coun ty at the court house at eleven o’clock In the morning. Ur. Howell is the first ot the candidates to make arrangements to appear here. Hon. Hoke Smith spoke at Boston last November and was greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience. Many Thomasville people wenCdown to hear him, hut the majority ot the voters In this city have not as yet heard any of the candidates in person. Like all up-to-date Georgia cities, thomasville Is much interest ed in the gubernatorial campaingn hear one of. the aspirants for the and will welcome the opportunity to Hon. Aaron T. Bliss, twice got* ernor of Michigan, accompanied by a party of near relatives and a pri vate physleian, are quartereg at the Townsend cottage they have leased for a couple of months, next to the Elks Home. The moneyed men of this town are seriously considering the matter of putting in an oil mill at this place. They have e^ay of executing their decisions at short notice. Should they decide the matter, work wilt begin at once. The venture will be no risky experiment. There are thousands of acres of fine farming lands around this place that are now being placed under cultivation. Anybody who will take the pains te test it will find that'they can get more goods for a dollar here, than any where else. The trade of the The party .con sists of Mrs. Bliss, the ex-governor’s wife, Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Bliss, and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bliss, and Dr. E. W. Davis. All of them are from' Saginaw, Mich., with the exception of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bliss, who hail from Oneida,' N. T. In discussing their visit here the ex-governor said to a reporter ot the Tlmes-Entefprlse that he and his two brothers had \jeen in poor health and had come 8outh In search of a climate cure. Having tried Florida they decided to pome to Thomasville, and so far have agreed that the ell' mate conditions are improving from 4»y to day. "Rest and recreation, freedom from business cares and quiet are the things we are after,” said the ex-governor. "Politics do not bother me now,” he said, smil ing, “and I do not care to be in terviewed on thp topics of the day.” When asked if he was not a be liever In the doctrine voiced by Col. Cody or Buffalo Bill, that a man should not retire from buslneser'but keep in harness to his dying day, ES-Governor Bliss declared that he was of the opinion that it depends entirely on the man. '“Some peo ple,” he continued, "would doubt less be benefited by keeping their minds active while others require rest when they have reached a cer tain age. I feel that I am one of the latter class,” he said laughing. It goes without saying that Mr. Howell will be greeted by^ large audience. He has many warm sup porters in Thomas county and'these will rally around him when ' he comes. Those who are opposed to him will turn out too, and give him a respectful hearing, for that is Thomas county’s way. All who do attend will be well repaid for Mr. Howelf is a speaker of ability coupled with a very pleasant, person ality. He has surprised even his best friends by the showing that he has made on the stump during this campaign, and/all his speeches are filled with that spice and aggressiveness that makes his audi tors "sit up and take notice.” Thomas superior court will be in session on that day and will be ad journed early In order to give Mr. Howell ample time Just before noon, and during the regular recess, to present his argument It Js said that the other candidates may also come during the April term of Mr. Hoke Smith’s friends thslr present line pt Thomasville. A glance at the map of Florida wU] demonstrate the fact that there Irf splCdSid opening for a railroad! At the pree- down the west coast ent time there, is no road whatever on the west coast comparing with the Flagler lines on the Bast Coast This western coast is heavily tim bered and very fertile. It Is cer tain that the right of way will be taken up sooner or later, and the A. A B. Are in better position to handle . the connection than other lines. It Is a well known fact that the A. A B. has long desired a direct line to the Gulf of Mexico, and es pecially since the Panama oanal be came a certainty. The Thomasville extremity of their line is by all odds the most convenient for this exten sion. The "knowing ones” regard the garbled news item, confusing the Opelika and St. Andrews Bay prop osition with the Tampa proposition, Fall River, Mass., Feb. >0.—After the steamer Plymouth left Newport for this city today, officers of the boat found in a stateroom part of a woman's wearing apparel and a note saying that she had thrown three children overboard and was about to follow them. The officers turned the matter over to the police, and, pending investigation, refuse to give the names In the note. Missing Woman Mrs. John Watters, of Brooklyn., Fall River, Mass., Feb. 20. Pavo, Ga., Feb. 19.—Mr. W. U Adams of this place has sold to Par ker A Co., of Tlfton, forty head of beef cattle from a lot of seventy-five or a hundred that he has been fat tening In his field of velvet beans. The beef brought two and a halt cents on the hoof f. o, b, Pavo. It is the largest lot of cattle thaj has been sold by one man of this sec tion for some time. The farmers of this section aro now hauling their fertiliser and a train of wagons can be seen comint and going out nearly all the time. It is not' believed that there will be as many watermelons planted here this year'as heretofore, due to the fact that the crop last year brought very unsatisfactory returns, and to the further fact that cotton is now a safer money crop. There 1* still much building going on here. The Georgia Northern la building a number of houses near the depot and will locate a road gang court are expecting him then. Judge Rus sell may drop in at any moment and commence one of his successful band-shaking, man-to-man canvass es. Col. J. H. Estlll has mafiy warm friends who are urging him to visit Thomas, and It is said that Col. James Smith’s private car is headed this way. If they al) v *aomc Dr. Nnnnally may come, too. At any rato the voters of the county will find food for gubernatorial thought. -Agent Bushey, of the Fall River Line, of this city, says that a woman and three children were on the steamer Plymouth when she left New Yorkl They were missing wbemthe steamer reached here. 1 The woman Is believed to have been Mrs. John Watters, of Brook lyn, 'daughter of Captain Brady, col lector of the port of Fall River. She Is said to have been suffering from mental trouble for some time past. Among the letters found in the stateroom was one addressed to John Watters, as cleaning nothing less than a fore warning that Amorous’ and his A. A B. crowd aye actually moving to ward their desired west coast line to Tampa. Even should this road materialise It will In no way Interfere with the road lately conceived among Thomas ville men from Thomasville to St Joseph's Bay. It would run south-, west from here, while the A. A B. line would run south-east Cap*. Denham to be General Man ager of South Georgia Road. Capt. If, B. Denham, for many years with the Atlantic Coast Line, will In future be general manager of the Georgia, Florida and Alabama railroad. He will probably make his headquarters In Bainbrldge. The news is of great Interest to his rel atives and friends in Thomasville. Capt. Denham is pt present first assistant to the third vice president of the Coast Line with headquarters in Wilmington. He was recently transferred there from Savannah, where he was general superintendent of the A. C. L.' and was succeeded by M. B. Riddle. 170 Broadway, In which the writer begged forgiveness, say ing she was worried so much, that she feared Insanity, and could noO live, and could not leave her chil dren. In another letter she wrote a hurried will, disposing ot various trinkets. The three children sup- poeed to have been killed were one girl eight years old and two young er boys, one a nursing infant Positive Identification. Fall River, Mass., Feb. 90.— Dwight Brady, brother of the miss ing woman, has identified the arti cles found in the stateroom as be longing to his sister, Mrs. John Wat ters, of Brooklyn. He''could give no reason for his sister’s rash act CROP STATISTICS Washington. Feb. 10.—The House Committee on Agriculture today be gan the general hearing on crop sta tistics. Among those present were President J. H. Taylor, ot the Na tional Glnners* Association, and many Southern members, of Con gress, representing the planters of that sectlpn. . Assistant / 8ecretary Hayes, of the Department of Agriculture, gave the details ot the department’s plans for gathering Odttpn statistics, and the changes recently made by the de partment TOBACCO SEED His resignation will take place on March first The O. F. A A. is one of the most Im-j portent new roads in this section. It is rapidly increasing and building and will progress wonderfully un der the experienced management of Mr. Denham. Tallahassee, Feb. 1«.—Sheriff Hopkins made a raid on the viola tors ot the local option law in this county, recently, and yesterday the offenders have been beard before the county judge. There was a large crowd ot witnaases'and spec tators in the court house attending the commitment trials. Thus far two of the "blind tiger” operators' bjvm bee^ bound over to await the t£jjo of . the grand jury. It Is be- lleved that the action ot the sheriff will put a stop to violations of the local option laws in Leon county for In this section of Georgia many people plant’ tobacco seed. Hereto fore this , as. well as other seeds, has been sent through the Congress man from each district. Congress man Griggs has requested the Tlmes-Enterprise to inform its read ers of a change In the method of distribution. Here after it will be sent out by the Agricultural De partment direct. Anyone who wants seed, can do so by applying to B.- 1 Mobile, Ala., Feb. 20.—Local - Health Officer Good today said that t the .reported quarantine against Cu- . ha and other tropical ports, effective i March 1, will be a quarantine in modified form, meaniar detention 1 and inspection. All vessels from ; Havana will be detained at quaran- : tine long enongh for inspection, tho time being determined by the health officer. Through passengers for Cairo, Ga.. Feb. 19.—W. W. Pearce, a prominent dtlxen of Gra dy county, died Wednesday at the home of Mr. Jim Dees. Mr, Pearce preachers always hat on hand, but this express a w« had been ill for 8omo time, and his reached here of an attempt to physicians thought best to perform sinate the President of Colt an operation, but his weak condition February 10. Eight shots