The news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1901, March 27, 1901, Image 6
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Bftev#ni Before Commission.
A Washington dispatch says: Com
missioner of Agriculture Stevens of
Georgia was the star witness before
the industrial commission Friday, and
in the course of his testimony he gave
an interesting insight into agricultural
and iabor conditions in Georgia. The
commission had submitted to him a
series of questions designated to bring
out important facts about agricultural
conditions in the southern states, and
Commissioner Stevens had prepared
quite au elaborate reply to these in
terrogatories. After he had made his
statement the members of the commis- ,
siou, who were much interested in
what he had to say, cross-questioned :
Lun at great length, keeping him on
the stand nearly four hours.
Mr. Stevens does not take the pessi
mistic view of negro labor which is I
held by some other southerners, but
believes that for the present purposes
*t least negro labor fills the require
ments of the agricultural south better
than any other labor could.
Some of the northern members of
the industrial commission seemed to
have the idea that southern men sys
tematically defrauded the negroes of a
jnst return for their labor. Commis
sioner Stevens thoroughly disabused
their minds as to this. lie presented
statistics showing that for the work
they do the negro farm laborers receive
adequate returns; that they are con
tented and that their condition is im
proving with market] rapidity.
Whern he had concluded Mr. Clark,
acting chairman of the commission,
complimented Commissioner Stevens
upon the valuable information given
in liis testimony, saying it was evi
dent that he was thoroughly familiar
with all of the matters discussed and
that what he had said had thrown
light upon the southeru situation.
Three Sentenced to Ilanir.
For the third time the past week
Judge Felton at Macon pronouuced |
the death sentence on a convicted )
murderer. The latest unfortunate
victim was Arthur Taylor, a negro boy,
who shot and killed his nephew, Frank
Taylor, while they were returning
from a Christmas frolic in the Howard i
district. He was sentenced to hang
on May 2d.
If the sentences of the court are car- j
ried out, L Minder will hang on April
30tb, Levi Carroll on May Ist and Ar- |
thur Taylor on May 2d. New trials
will certainly be asked, however, in
the cases of Minder and Carroll.
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Military Must Insure Property.
Acting on instructions from Govern
or Candler, Adjutant General Robert
son issued an order directing the
military companies of the state to in
sure their arms, uniforms and other
property, it having come to light that
very few companies have been in tbe
habit of keeping such property iu
aured.
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of Value* Fixed.
In giving iu taxes for the year of
1901 all taxpayers in Georgia will be
required to give in their personal prop
erty of all descriptions at their values
according to its value and condition
on the lfith day of March.
Comptroller General Wright has
given out the order decided upon by
himself. Governor Gaudier and the
state treasurer regarding the date for
the valuation of all taxable properties.
This order was made at a meeting held
some days ago according to the statu
tes of the state.
This order fixes tbe date for the val
uation of all property to be returned.
Iu making out tax returns this year all
property is to be valued according to
worth on the day named. All persona!
property of any kiud as well as real
estate owned on the 15th of the mouth
will have to be given to the tax receiv
er according to its value at that time.
Persons buying property after the
time mentioned will not be required
to return its value, but the former
owner will have to make the return
aud pay the tax on it.
Federal Prison Nearing Completion.
The Atlanta Federal Prison will be
turned over to the United States gov
ernment by Contractor Griffith on
May Ist ami it may be that the build
ing will bo occupied by prisoners by
the last of June. The buildiug is
rapidly nearing completion. The ex
terior work has been finished, the
roofing has been completed and all
that now remains to be done is tbe
plastering on the interior and tbe
placing of the cells.
The prison is, perhaps, the most
complete in the country, aud, although
small when compared to some others
owned by tbe government, it is made
according to the latest methods.
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Contest Abandoned.
The Hogau-Claxtou contestants who
lieve given notice of their intention to
contest the result of the election held
on February 20th tor the removal of
the couuty site of Tattnall county
from Reidsville to Midway, between
Hogan and Claxton, have advised tbe
citizens of Reidsville that the con
test will be abandoned.
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Albany** Hay Day CarnivAl.
The premium list for Albany’s hay
duy carnival of 1931 has been issued.
The dates selected by tbe executive
committee of the carnival association
are the 19th, 20th and 21st of Novem
ber next, aud a more extensive series
ef agriculturrl exhibits than has ever
been provided for will be shown. The
premium list announced is really only
a partial one, aud will be increased
from time to time. About SSOO in agri
cultural premiums will be offered.
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Klrctlon Wmi Kxcitinic.
I In the election for tax collector of
Chatham county the past week, T. F.
Thomson defeated David Weils by
2,(5 )8 to 1,820. Thomas Scriven, for
i judge of the court cf ordinary, de
feated Henry McAlpin by 2,39 bto
2,012.
The election was one of the most
bitterly contested in the history of
Chatham county, not even the cele
brated May primary of last year ex
celling it in tumult and strife and nmn
her of sanguinary, though very seri
ous, conflicts.
Many fights occurred at brief inter
vals during the entire day and until
the polls were closed in the evening.
Money was used freely and openly
on both sides.
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Will Soon Pay Dividend.
The receivers of the Atlanta Nation
al Building aud Loan Association are
rapidly prepaing for the payment of
their dividends directed by Judge
Pardee. The money is in hand and
all that is necessary is to work out the
figures of the amounts coming to each j
stockholder. There are a great many j
of these stockholders and some days
will be required for this to be done.
II ii iit f >isr Season Cloned.
The hunting season in Georgia clos
ed March loth, and it is now unlawful
to kill doves in this state before Au
gust 15, aud unlawful to kill quail be
fore November 1 next.
Under the act of 1896 heavy penal
ties are imposed for violations of tha
game law aud the various county war
dens have been instructed to enforce
the law with great zeal.
* * *
Mr. Bartlttttlmproved.
A Washington special says: Con
gressman Barlett is still confined to
his bed in the liiggs House, but is
much improved. He has been sick for
eight weeks.
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Three New State Bank*.
Secretary of State Cook has issued
charters for the following new state
banks: Citizens’ bnuk, of Vanualia;
Greymont bank,of Greymont, and Ran
dolph bank, of Cuthbert, each with a
capital of $25,000.
AFTER CONTRABAND GUANO.
Georgia’s Agricultural Commissioner
Making An Investigation.
An AHanta special says: Commis
sioner O. B. Stevens, of the depart
mentof agriculture, has gone to south
west Georgia on a mission that is per
haps, considerably more important
thau at first thought.
Reports have been received recently
to the effect that a good deal of con
traband guano was ueing brought into
the state from Alabama by way of the
Chattahoochee river. These reports
soon reached the agricultural depart
ment, and with its usual vigilance it
began an investigation of them.
castoria.
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BONDS KNOCKED OUT.
North Carolina Court Decision Upheld
By Supreme Tribunal.
The United States supreme court
Monday rendered its opinion in the
case of the commissioners of Wilkes
county, North Carolina, vs. Coler, in
volving the validity of bonds issued
by Wilkes county iu aid of the North
western North Carolina railroad.
The principal question involved was
whether the United States courts
should accept the construction of the
state supreme court in the matter.
Justice Harlan handed down the court’s
opinion holding the state's construc
tion to be bindiug.
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PLUNGED FROM TRESTLE.
Engine Falls Thirty Feet and Crushes
Life Out of Engineer and Fireman.
Local freight train No. 35, on the
Columbus and a narrow gauge
line of the Central of Georgia railway,
which left Columbus early Tuesday
morning for Greenville, was wrecked
at 11:30 o’clock two miles above Chip
ley, and Engineer William A. Wright
and Fireman Joseph S. Key were
killed.
The engine plunged from a high
trestle, turned over aud crashed the
two men who had jumped from the
same side.
MILL PRESIDENT SUICIDES.
In Fit of Mental Aberation Me Jumps
Into Deep Well.
Colonel John R. Ashe, president of
the Yorkville, S. C. cotton mills, who
has recently overworked himself, went
out of his house before daylight Tues
day morning His body was found
later in a deep well into which he had
thrown himself.
Ohio Postoffice Robbed.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
postoftice at Oberlin, 0., early Tues
day night and escaped with every
thing of value. A young man, who
slept in the building, was found Wed
nesday morning lying on the floor of
the office bound and gagged.
MAYOR SHOT DOWN.
Man Who Had Been Fined Sought
Deadly Vengeance.
A special to the Knoxville Journal
and Tribune from Winchester, Tenn.,
states that Horace Branuau, mayor of
Winchester, was seriously shot by a
man named Shadow, whom he had
fined. The latest reports indicate that
Brennan may recover. He was shot
immediately below the heart.
Harrison’s Will Read.
At Indianapolis Monday the will of
the late General Harrison was opened
and read in the presence of the family.
Nothing cau be learned of the con
tents of the document.
BRITONS KILL BUI HA.
Brother of Commanding General Slain
In Fight at Lydenburg.
A special from Capetown March
20, says that Commandant Philip
Botha was killed in the recent fighting
at Lydenburg.
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener
dated at Pretoria, March 20, says:
“Philip Botha, a brother of the Boer
I'ommanding general, was killed on the
Dornberg. His two sons were woitnd
ed. The Boers of the Orange river
colony have disbanded aud scattered.
Dewet is stationed off Hellbrou.”
PLUM FOR WOLCOTT.
Color ldo Man Slated For Placj In Mc-
Kinley’s Cabinet.
It is definitely known that ex-Senn
tor Wolcott, of Colorado, will be ap
pointed by the president to be secre
tary of Ihe interior to succeed Mr.
Ritchcocl:. The news has been re
ceived by the friends of Mr. Wolcott
in Pueblo, the statement being made
unequivocally, aud it is indicated that
the appointment will bo made at once.
CABTORIA.
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WOULD WELCOME STRIKE.
Coal Operators Are Willing to Lock
Horns With Miners.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: It is
no longer a secret that a strike of the
anthracite coal miners on April Ist, as
threatened by President Mitchell, of
the United Mine Workers, would not
be looked upon as a calamity by cer
tain operators. If the views aud de
sires of these officials are respected the
question of a fight to a finish is up to
President Mitchell.
KIICHEM’S TERMS
TO BOER LEADER
Correspondence Between
Generals Given Out.
ENGLAND DEMANDS TOO MUCH
Interesting Story of British Gen
eral’s Proposals and Rejection
of Same By the Boers.
A London special says: The pre
liminary papers giving details of the
negotiations between the commander
in chief, General Botha, and Lord
Kitchener, commanding the British
forces in South Africa, issued Friday
| mornirtg, began with a telegram from
Sir Alfred Milner to Colonial Secre
tary Chamberlain. The dispatch is
dated Pretoria, February 22d, and
states that Mrs. General Botha had
returned from a meeting, with her bus
band bringing a letter in reply to Sir
Alfred Milner’s verbal message offer
ing to meet General Botha as a means
of ending the war on tho express un
derstanding that he would not discuss
the question of independence of the
Iransvaal and the Orange river col
ony.
Mrs. Botha assured Sir Alfred that
tho letter was written with that poiut
clearly understood. General Botha
referred the matter to his generals
aud it was stated that the meeting
would probably take place at Middle
burg.
Mr. Chamberlain replied that be
was glad to hear of General Botha’s
desire to treat and hoped it was
genuine.
“He will find us,” said the colonial
secretary, “anxious to meet him cn all
points affecting his individual posi
tion.”
On February 27tb, Sir Alfred Mil
ner cabled Lord Kitchener informing
him that General Botha had written
that he would be in Pretoria at 10
o’clock a. m., February 28th.
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener to
the war office, dated Pretoria, Febru
ary 28th, reports a long interview with
General Botha, who showed very good
ieeling and seemed anxious for peace.
He asked for information which, he
said, he would submit to his govern
ment, the generals aud tho people. If
they agreed he would visit the Orange
river colony aud get them to agree.
Lord Kitchener arranged to commu
nicate Botha’s views to the govern
ment. All that he said w r as qualified
by being subject to confirmation by
the Lome government. On March 5
Sir Alfred Milner cabled Lord Kitch
ener suggesting the following replies
to General Botha:
“I beg to inform you that on the
cessation of hostilities and the com
plete surrender of arms, ammunition,
cannon and munitions in the hands of
burghers in the field at government
depots or elsewhere his majesty’s gov
ernment is prepared at once to grant
amnesty in the Transvaal and Orange
river colony for all bona fide acts of
war during the hostilities, as well
as move the governments of Cape
Coloney aud Natal to similar
action qualified by the disfranchise
ment of any British subjects impli
cated in the war. The military pris
oners at St. Helena, Ceylon and else
where, on complete surrender, shall
be brought back to their country.
Military law shall at once be replaced
by a civil administration, but it is the
desire of his majesty’s government as
soon as circumstances will per
mit to establish a representative
government. On the cessation of
hostilities a high court, independ
ent of tbe executive, shall be estab
lished to administer the law. Church
property, trusts and orphan funds
shall be respected. English and Dutch
languages shall be taught in the pub
lic schools and used in the law courts.
“Legal debts of tlio estate to the
amount of £1,000,C00 shall ba paid,
even if contracted during hostilities,
to the extent a creditor proves he has
given values. The government does
not intend to extend tbe franchise to
Kaffirs in the Transvaal and Orange
River colony before a represented gov
ernment is granted.”
The conditions regarding assistance
to the farmers, firearms, etc., are the
same as those in Lord Kitchener’s re
plies to General Botha. Sir Alfred
Milner says that he agrees to the above
except as to the desires for modification
regarding British subjects in Cape
Colony and Natal in the Boer army,
who, if they returned to those colonies,
will be liable to be dealt with under
the laws of those colonies passed to
meet circumstances arising iu war.
He asked:
“While I am willing to concede
much in order to strengthen General
Botha in inducing the people to sub
mit, amnesty for the rebels is not, iu
my opinion, a point which his ma
jesty’s government can afford to con
cede. I think it would have a de
plorable effect upon Cape Colony and
Natal to obtain peace by such a con
cession.”
MICHIGAN BANK FAILS.
Institution Was Looted of Big Sum
By a Wayward Cashier.
The comptroller of the currency at
Washington has received from the
temporary receiver of the failed First
National bank of Niles, Mich., a pre
liminary statement showiug that the
amount of the defalcation will be ap
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