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1 lioniMiviUe Times, Vol XXX.'
r'-nwriifc Enterprise, Vol. XLVn.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY; APRIL 27,' 1906.
NkwSekies Voi.. XVI, No. 7.
San Francisco Fire About
Under Control Leaving
Grand Jury Wants Its
Use Restricted to Me
dicinal Purposes.
Sham Rattle at Albany Is
Great Success-No
Casualties.
Hat Pin Verdict R
Alter Twenty-Si
Straggle.
Says Recent Difficulties
In Atlanta News Pre
vented Canvass.
Big Audience Listens to
Two Hour SpeechFrom
Candidate.
1-3 of the City.
Enthusiastic Greeting.
Before' an audience that packed
the court house, and that was wildly
enthusiastic, Hon. Hoke 8m!th pre
sented his claims to the governor
ship of Georgia, to the voters of
Thomas yesterday. For more than
two hours h^ held their closest at
tention, his oratory swaying his
hearers at his will. It was a mag
nificent campaign speech, and the
candidate and his friends have ev
ery reason to feel proud, of the re
ception he received, and the Im
pression that he made.
Met By Supporters.
Mr. Smith arrived from Atlanta
at ten twenty yesterday morning, and
was accompanied by Mr- Ralph
Smith, are porter for the Atlanta
Journal. He was met at the dopot
by a number of enthusiastic suppor
ters. In a carriage In which he was
driven to the Mitchell House, were
Messrs. McIntosh,, 8trlngcr, Pitt
man. and S. W. Davis. He spent
ft short time at the Mitchell and
came to the. court house shortly be
fore the ndon hour. He‘found.a
splendid audience awaiting him, and
T WO CENT TRIES.
Tko Hundreth Anniversary of
First American Prdsbytery.
Philadelphia, Pa., April 24.—In
the First Presbyterian church in this
city today a notable celebration
Was held of the 100th anniversary
of the organisation of the first
American presbytery. The commem
oration .exercises lasted.all day and
were attended by prominent Presby
terians from many sections of tbo
country. Among the speakers were
the Rev. Drs. James D. Moffatt and
William H. Roberts, moderator and
stilted clerk, respectively, of the gen
eral assembly, and Robert E. Speer,
secretary of the Board of Foreign
Missions.
high with rows. The floral display
wq» mqgnlficcpp.. a On the ro^rum
•were seated' Dr. McIntosh, C, W. 'j
Cooper, Mayor Pittman, and J. S.
Ward, Jr. \.t , .. t,i*|4$
The Doctor Speaks. • ’
Dr. McIntosh, president of the
Hoke Smith Club, introduced the ,
candidate In a few well ebo'jcn
words. Ho said It was a great plaae- •
urq to him to preeent Hoke Smith.
“Thore Is uo Issue before the AmerV
can public that equals In magnitude
and Importance the regulation of
corporate greed, corporate graft, es
pecially that of the railroads. Their
rato making power is ss absolute an.
the ukase of a monarch. In the
sonate'thp fight against them is bo-
log conducted by Benj. R, Tillman.
(Cbedn) In times of crisis It takes
master men to lend. W& ‘do not
wantmen who will grace a parlor,
.and lead a German, but men of In
tellectual strength. It It the Bry
ans, the Daileys, the Tillmans, the
Smiths, that we went. I take pleas
ure In presenting Hon. Hoke 8niith,"«
Graceful lirgliiblng.
Mr. Smith began his speech by a
graceful reference to the presence
of the ladles. “No word should be
spoken whether ladles era present
or absent that ladles should not hear.
I am not here to present n personal
1 cause but to deal 'with the awaken
ing In behalf of popular government.
More attention Is being ' paid
doctrines of Thomas Jefferson than
at any time for 75 yean. If we ure
to have 's government by the people
we must ^appeal to the higher pa
triotism of the people end get them
to express their will at the polls.
I pm conducting a straggle for the
highest standard of populnr govern
ment. To attain this wo must puri
fy elections and the ballot box.
Money Is demoralizing. I want to
appeal to the Individual voter. I
want to see the use of money-to buy
votes, discontinued. I want the
practice of hiring workers to labor
at tho polls, stopped. I want the -g
use of liquor at the pollr. atopped.
DIHMl'KE REAPPOINTED.
Will Serve Thoniasvlllo As Postmas
ter Four .Mora Venn.
horse, and together with a feed
room, to -be built ‘ at once, and the
same be kept. In repair, as any other
public property.
We find the court house In good
condition ’and well kept. We es
pecially commend the beautiful court
house grounds, end consider the"
an ornament fo the county.
Road Work Commended.
There were no bridges reported to
us In bad condition. WS find the
new road aystenf giving general sat
isfaction. Tho work done so far
meets with fur approval, and we do
heartily endorse and cotnmend the
plan for road working as recently
established by onr county commis
sioners, as, in our^Judgment we
have at last solved the vexed road
problem.
We find that the names of those
on tbo pension roll are worthy, and
San Francisco, Cal., April 23.— grt uons In tho United States since
The following telegram wee sent ont J7O 0 wWch destroyed property of
today from so authoritative source: th# estimated value of not lees than
“Please ask the prase generally $i t ooo,000.
to advise nil people not to try to
reach this city. Outsiders are not * r . t nd Mrs. C. F. Coleman and
allowed to land here, and they would ( family - left yesterday morning- for
only add to the congestion of the | their old home In Mlsaonri. They
cities around, knd It In Impossible ( t pend the summer Rtere and win
for them to locate anyone. All peo- return to ThomasrUle In the fall.
Birmingham, Ala., April 24.-—
Latest returns from tho Sixth district
Democratic congressional primary
Mr. William White will not. matt
the race for tax receiver of Thomas
county. Several days ago he an
nounced' for this office, bat bp de
cided yesterday-to withdraw. Ho
has many friends who would have
been glad to vote for, him.
(Continued on Fifth Page. ),
(Contlnu.
Col. T. JJ. Hop’ll as, who turn at
tended .the military ■anciffMffea at
Albany every year but aae «tnae<they
vere Instituted, says Start to -many
respects Wednesday's -performance
was the best ever bdd there. He
says It Is the only time 4m -ever saw
the companies peas to wnttew prop
erly.
San Francisco, April 20.—(Special
to the Times-Enterprise.)—The res
idence district from Post to Union
but
be-
Tbe -Chief of police of Al
iy* -the ThJUtnry -behaved per
-and -that this ff-*« especially
tree «T tho ThomasVlIle boys. It
was frequently, remarked that there
' was fern drunkenness tn Albany yes
terday than at any military nssem-
hlv ever had there. In fact, a close
seanih Toned to -reveal trace of but
two miner* -Who -were -drunk. Nei
ther of them was from ThomasvIlle,
and one wns apt -even from the
Fourth -regiment.
Thousands Wore Hauled.
The dear public waa on hand by
the thousands. The Const Line
brought heck eleven coaches with
happy tares hanging out of every
posludow. The road handled the
eiowd splendidly, furnishing pfenty
of ears,'nod -moving more nearly on
the announced schedule than rail
roads generally do, even -on ordinary
Battle Was Realistic.
The sham -battle was a tremen
dous drawing card, and It was worth
while. Sham battles are generally
very mnch tamer projects than they
are cracked op Is he, hot thousands
of people who went to Albany for
nothing else, cape away satisfied.
The battle was held an the -exten
sive pasture between the depot and
the river, and the railroad -embank
ment famished n natural grand
stand that enabled people Vo
without blocking the game. The ar
tillery added spice and mad* the play
seem like the real article.
A Return Fight.
The only unpleasant Incident *f
the day was a fight that occurred
on the way home bctw.een two men
who were not connected with the
military. The participants were
Elmo Bagga, who works tn the
Coast Line yard In Thomaavltle. and
a man whose asms seems, to be
. McKennlngton. a night watehman
at Pelham. Mr. Baggs says that he
was sitting quietly In bis seat when
McKennlagton, to whom he had
done npthlng, and whom he did not
even know, came, op from behind
and struck him with a pair of
‘knucks. The passengers and trafn-
men Interfered and the only painful
results were n badly bruised face
for Mr. Baggs and a prospective
prosecution for the ether man.
streets and Octaria street to the
ocean shore Is intact, .end It Is be-
ieved that It will be saved. It Is
hoped that the fire can Ife confined
to the territory It is now bnratog
and thnt the remainder of the city,
about one-third of It. win he saved.
The water system ha* been -re
stored and fears of a water famine-
arc now allayed.
The arrival of relief trains pur-
tlally reassures the Tears of a bread
famine, but the needs of thousands
of homeless people are Whrg -only
partially met. The tents being erect
ed In Golden Gate ‘Path are by no
means sufficient to borne all the
homeless.
Mall service was resumed this -af
ternoon In the main office, although
tbo postmaster Tears he Will have
to lin'd other quarters, owing to the
dangerous condition of (he post
office building. It basing been badly
damaged by tbo earth quake.
Building nude;witters -at this time
estimate the Iota at 31100,000,000.
WHITE WITHDRAWS.
I Not Make Ran Foe Tax Re
ceiver of
The principal food of those re
maining here Is canned goods and
crackers. Refugees from.here are
met in other towns by bakers, who
ere selling them bread at ordinary
prices. Food dealers here are charg
ing exorbitant prices, but -this cannot
last long. /
Santa On* Suffered Severely.
Oakland, Cub, April 20.—An A»-
- pel-fed P—eorr—pondent arriv
ing last night from Santa Crus says
103 were taken from the wreck of
\raeVs stale Insane asylum at noon
vesterday. Official estimates place
the number of Injured there at 207,
of whom thirty *re not expected to
live.
Washington. D. C, April 20.—The
War Department received, soon after
11 o'clock this morning, the follow
ing from General Funston:
Three hundred thousand -people
are homeless. The troops are co
operating with the police. Famine
seems Inevitable. All large supply
stores are burned. The most ener
getic efforts from the outside only
can prevent frightful suffering,
request that everything possible be
done In the way of food and supplies,
tentage and blankets. No more
troops are needed now."
A Cabinet Officer to Go.
President Roosevelt and Cabinet
devoted the cabinet meeting today
to a discussion of the San Francisco
situation and detailed Secretary
Metcalf, a resident of Oakland, to
go Immediately to the stricken-city
as the representative of the national
government, advising with Governor
Pardee and the 8an Francisco au
thorities
Roosevelt Gives $1,000.
The President today sent Me check
for one thonsnnd dollars to the Red
Cron 8ociety for the California
sufferers. /
Senator Knox sent five hundred
dollars.
After a .26 hour struggle for
a verdict the Jury In the Cate 'of
Daught Jordan, accused of the mur
der of Polly Hadley, reported not
guilty yesterday afternoon at four
o'clock. This was the famous hat
pin case. The negro woman did not
deny that she had killed her compan
ion, but alleged self defense.
The case was one in which a decided
difference of opinion might easily be
held, and there was little surprise
when the Jury did cot report at once.
Still no one expecled such a prolon
ged struggle.
pie are being well taken care of,
and there will be no trouble If aup-
plies keep coming.”
San Francisco, -Cal., April 23.-
San Francisco's homeless thousands
slept In a drenching rain, If they
slept at all, last night, which added
misery to their suffering. The rain
began soon after midnight and con
tinued, with alight Intennlsshnni till
daybreak, and rain la- falling Inter
mittently today. Little or no pro
tection Is possible, as the teate and
more substantial coverings are te-
suSi lent for the thousands of hn-
protected.
San Francisco. April 23.—The
eoramlitee having In chaTge the re
lief of the hungry reports tbst every
homeless man, woman and child. In
San Francisco Is being cared for sad
thae'there Is no sufferihg on the
score of either food or drink within
the city.
The administration of the dty’e
affairs Is progressing most harmo
niously. Mayor Schmltx and Gener
al Funston a-e working In perfect ac
cord. The sytte^i pnt Into force by
tho mayor and General Fnnston Is
working order out of confusion, and
tho city Is as orderly as before the
fire.
San Francisco. April 23.—The
fire which appeared to have died out
yesterday, broke 'out with renewed
vigor in the coal bankers north of
the ferry building soon after mid
night. The fire reached the bunkers
Saturday, but was apparently
quenched thereafter a hard fight.
Unless the flamii can be' stopped,
there li grave danger that they will
-reach the ferry building. At an ear
ly hour this morning the fire was
burning briskly, .
The San Francisco fire will prob
ably go Into bistory as the greatest
conflagration that ever occurred ou
the North American continent
The greatest .fire experienced In
the history of this country, with the
probable exceptlDh Of 'San 'Francis
co's lest frightful disaster, was when
Chicago wu swept In, 1*71 by a
conflagration Which consumed prop
erty having an estimated value of
31«3,000,00.
The Jacksonville, Fla., fire ol
1301, is well remembered. It coat
311.000,00, and the Baltimore con
flagration of 1004, the greatest that
ever occurred In the South, swept
awey $30,000,000 worth of bulld-
lnca and tbelr contents.
There have been 200 other confla
grations In the United States since
1700 which deetroyed property of
the estimated' value of not lees than
$1,000,000.
We. the grand ’Jury, chosen for
this term of court, respectfully sub
mit the following general present
ments:
We have examined the books of
the Justices of the peace and -N. P.
Ex Officio Justices of the peace that
were submitted to us and flhd them
all fairly well kept. We desire to
express especially our approval of
the care and accuracy displayed In
the books of B. C. Reese, Pavo dis
trict, and H. C. Jordan, of Boston
district. Some of these official! have
failed to submit their hooks, seem
tag not to realise the Importance of
this matter, and we would suggest
that the proper authority call the
attention of all justices of tho ponce
In the county -to the necessity of
complying to the taw In this matter.
We have been tarnished with
written abstract of tbo treasurer's
books which show* that they have
been properly kept, and that t
finances of tho county are Iff a
healthy condition.
Convicts In Good Shape.
Upon an examination of the con
vict camps; «t tho turpentine still
of Mill* (3 William* at Patten, O:
•aid convicts being la charge of
Mills $ Will buna, wo find them to
he In good condition and the con
victs well cared for in every respect.
Wo recommend that when the_pres-
ent- lease expires, that the convicts
thereafter be leased for n period of
two -year* instead of one year as
Is the custom now. Wo believe hp
making'this change a better price
-ould bp obtained for the convlctat
Poor House, Well Kept.
We find the county poor house
well-kept, and tn fair condition, hut
needing tome repairs. We find a
stove flue in bad condition, and leak*
-whenever It rains. We find on# fire
place In the white ward and one In'
:'.ij colored ward and the fence sur-
aoandjfag the colored ward needing
repairs, and we recommend that
proper repairs he made at once. We
find no Inmates la,the white ward,
and only two In the colored ward,
which we think speaks well for the
county afod thejndnstvy of the peo
ple.
1 • Jail Is Clean.
[we find the Jail and premises
clean, well-kept ond In apparent
good sanitary condition. We deem
It necessary and- recommend that a
suitable and substantial ti&rn; with
stall* sufficient In number for the
accommodation nnih protection of the
jailer’s stock; onelcow and one
Atlanta, Ga., April 35.—Hon.
John Temple Graves this afternoon
announced that he would not make
the race for the United States sen
ate, against Hon. Augustus O. Ba
con, the present Incumbent.
Mr. Graves makes the announce
ment In a lengthy card giving his
reasons for this step. He says that
the recent difficulties In the Atlanta
News have prevented him from mak
ing a satlefaetory canvass of the
state. He Is editor-ln-chlef of At
lanta's new evening paper, the Gear-
giaff, which appeared In n 32 page
edition this afternoon. Mr. Graves
elates that he feels that his duty to
the new paper will demand all of
his time, and his loyalty to his as
sociate, publisher F. L. Seely, makes
him surrender his ambition U> repre
sent the state In the senate.