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GROWERS SEEK
FAIR DEALING
Demand Better Service From Rail
roads in the Future*
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Will Appeal to Interstate Commerce
Commission Requiring Refrigerator
Cars and Accessories.
The convention of the Georgia
Peach Growers’ Association held in
Atlanta the past week was generally
conceded to be one of the most im
portant in the history of the associa
tion. The action taken by the con
vention in the matter of the follow
ing resolution, unanimously passed, it
is believed will lead to very beneficial
results. These resolutions are as fol
lows:
"itesolved by the fruit growers of
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee
and South Carolina assembled in At
lanta, Ga.,
“That, whereas, in all lines of trade
except refrigeration the seller is re
quired to measure or weigh out to the
buyer the product sold, while in re
frigeration the shipper pays whatever
price is asked without knowing either
how much ice is used, bow oiten it is
placed in cars, nor, which is more im
portant than all, how much refrigera
tion is secure:
“Now, therefore, be it resolved, That
the committee on transportation be in
structed to secure an order from the
Interstate Commerce Commission, or
an act of congress, if that be found
tc> be necessary, requiring that all re
frigerator cars used by interstate com
mon carriers in transporting products
under refrigeration from one state into
another state be equipped with record
ing thermometers of such type as may
be approved by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which shall record
in duplicate the temperature of the
car at all times from the time the
product to be shipped under refrigera
tion is loaded until it reaches its des
tination, and that the consignee shall
have the privilege of examining such
tuermometer, and taking therefrom
one of the duplicate records, the oth
er duplicate record being retained by
the carrier or the refrigerator com
pany.
•And that this action be taken in
time for the equipment of cars with
thermometers that are to be used in
transporting the 1907 fruit crop from
Georgia.
•‘Resolved, further, That the order or
act so secured shall provide that the
Interstate Commerce Commission shall
as soon as practicable ascertain and
adopt a certain standard or maximum
degree of refrigeration suitable for the
proper and safe transportation of
fruits and other perishable products
shipped under ice, and shall require
all refrigerator companies to main
tain and furnish such degree of tem
perature as may be so adopted as the
standard ”
The facts, figures and suggestions
made in the report of W. H. Harris of
Foit Valley also made a great im
pression on the fruit growers pres
ent.
Not only fruit growers, hut all ship
pers of produce will be certain to
share in the benefits in the carrying
out of these same suggestions by Mr.
Harris For this and other reasons,
there are a very great many Georgians
wno are vitally interested in the pasa
ins of the legislation proposed by this
delegate from Fort Valley. With the
installation of the registering ther
mometers, according to the testimony
of the fruit growers and shippers at
the convention, there would be a sure
and certain way of holding the trans
portation complies responsible, and
in this w!ty thousands of dollars
would be saved to the Georgia fruit
and produce shipers every year bo
cause of the exact records of the reg
ister ing thermometers.
MCAKAbIUN' • imu OWN.
• .
Win a Decisive BattH -mil Capture import
ant Honduras Town.
The Nicaraguan forces, on Februa
ry 20, captured, without opposition,
• the town of Eltruinfo, in Honduras,
atid Ihursday after six hours’ hard
figi’ting, the Nicaraguan army occu
pied San Bernardo, an excellent po
sition, in connection with the Nica
raguan base of operations. Many Hon
durans were killed or wounded and
the retreating army left quantities
of ammunition and many rifles on
the field. The casualties on the Nica
raguan side were a few men wounded.
APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT.
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South Carolina Immigration Matter is
Still Bothering Massachusetts
Congressman.
The opponents of immigration into
the south are not yet satisfied. In
order to keep up the agitation the
committee on immigration has now
requested the president to direct the
attorney general to give his opinion
upon the question as to whether the
importation into South Carolina of the
Wittekind immigrants by Commission
er Watson violated the alien contract
labor laws, or whether in the impos
tatlon of those immigrants any law
has been violated. The inspirer of
this request is Representative Gard
ner of Massachusetts, who is second
in rank on the immigration commit
tee of the house.
The president has not yet been
heard from as to the disposition he
will make of this request, and as
congress is about to adjouim, the
attorney general would have little
time to prepare an opinion on this
matter. Moreover, the house would
have no time to take up the matter
at this late day, in the event the
attorney general should say that the
law was violated. It is expected, how
ever, that the attorney general will
give in any event such an opinion
as will let congress and the country
know whether or not the two immi
gration laws just passed will prevent
further importation of the immigrants
uuder conditions similar to those of
the Wittekind immigrants, that is,
whether the commissioner may use
money subscribed by private individ
uals, or a cotton mill, or other asso
ciation for the purpose.
LXONEKAIIOx tO* btNAIOK BAILEY.
His Adherents in lexus Legislature Take
Unexpected Snup Action.
The Texas state senate Monday,
by a vote of 15 to 11, adopted a reso
lution dismissing the Bailey investi
gating committee before the commit
tee could prepare a report. The res
olution adopted exonerates Senator
Bailey in every particular.
At 11 o’clock the anti-Bailey follow
ing offered a resolution instructing
the committee not to bring in a re
port at this time, but to send a sub
committee to St. Louis to secure the
testimony of H. Clay Pierce of the
Waters-I’ierce Oil company, and to
embody such evidence in its final re
port.
Adherents of Senator Bailey very
piomptly offered a substitute that the
investigating committee be discharg
ed at once without making a report,
and that Seuator Bailey may be fully
endorsed. After a rather heated de
bate the substitute resolution was
passed by a vote of 15 to 11.
Mr. Bailey’s friends contended that
every member of the legislature, as
well as the general public, was fully
acquainted with all details of the evi
dence before the committee by rea
son of its publicity in the daily press
of the country, and members of the
senate could vote now on the question
with intelligence.
DEAlit CLAIMS JUubt WOtLORD.
Was Noted lor Quaint Pholosophy- Served
in a Oeorgia Keg ment.
John W. Wofford, judge of the
criminal couit in Kansas City, not
ed for his quaint philosophy, died
Monday, aged 66 years. He held a wife
has a right to “go through her hus
band’s pockets,” saying that when a
man married he conferred this pre
rogative upon his wife. He served
with distinction in the Confederate
u rmy in a Georgia regiment.
SAVANNvH WAKS ON VAbKANTS-
In One Night’s Roundup 150 Suspects Were
Landed in Uarrncks.
The Savannah, Ga., police depart
ment started to solve the labor prob
lem Monday night. Orders were is
sued to the night force to look out
for the vagrants. The police obeyed
the instructions with a vengeance.
The result was that 150 alleged va
grants had been rounded up at mid
nignt and placed in the barracks.
WRONG MAN WAS xKKtSi.O
Hotel Keeper Thought He Had Located Ab*
scondmy Banker.
Harry Buckley, of the White House
at West Point, Ga., won’t get $5,001
or any part of it for the sleuth act
he played a few days ago, an act re
sulting in the arrest of a man in Ope
lika, Ala., Friday, who, Buckley de
clared, was William F Walker, the
defaulting New Britain, Conn., bank
cashier.
After passing twenty hours in the
Opelika jail the prisoner, who gave
his name as W. Harper, was released
by order of Mayor \\ illiams.
OCEAN CLAIMS
MANY VICTIMS
Ship Sinks off Holland Coast and
Not a Soul Saved.
STEAMER WAS CUT IN TWO
Driven Upon Sandbar by a Terrific Gale
and Aid Was Impossible-Passen
gers and Crew Numbered HO.
A special from Rotterdam, Holland,
says: A disastrous steamship wreck,
attended with great loss of life, oc
curred Thursday morning at 6 o’clock,
off the Hook of Holland, and at the
entrance of the river Maas, when the
Great Eastern railway company’s
steamer Berlin, bound from Harwich
to the Hook of Holland was lost.
All on board, one hundred and for
ty-one persons in all. of whom ninety
one wore passengers, were drowued.
A terrific southwesterly gale was
blowing right in shore, and drove
the Berlin on a sandbank close to
the northern jetty as she was trying
to enter the new waterway. Heavy
seas quickly pounded the vessel to
pieces. She broke in two, her for
ward part sinking immediately, while
the doomed passengers and crew could
be seen for a brief space of time
clustered on the after part. Then the
afterpart slipped off the ledge and
disappeared in the mountainous
waves.
Tugs and lifeboats, when the alarm
was sounded, promptly put out to
the assistance of the Berlin, but the
violence of the gale and the heaVy
seas made it to approach
the wreck, and the helpless would
be lifesavers saw the steamer break
up and the crew and passengers wash
ed away without being able to render
the slightest assistance.
The Berlin Harwich at 10
o’clock Wednesday night, upon the
arrival there of the London train
with the greater number of the pas
sengers, who subsequently lost their
lives The steamer should have reach
ed the Hook of Holland at 6 o’clock
Thursday morning, and would then
have proceeded to Rotterdam.
As the Berlin was entering the wa
terway at the entrance of the river
Maas, she apparently became un
manageable on account of the force
of the wind, and was driven ashore.
The alarm was given, and lifeboats
from the shore went to the assistance
of the stricken steamer, but the seas
were so high that the boats were un
able to approach close enough to take
off any of the passengers or crew, and
the lifeboat men had to sit helpless
while the steamer pounded until
she broke in two, and every soul on
board was carried down.
The waterway in which the disas
ter occurred is anew one, on the
north side of which is the pier and
the railroad station. The steamer must
have been within a few minutes of
tving up after her rough passage
across the North Sea, when she was
overtaken by the disaster.
Land was but a few yards a*vay
and except in the roughest weather,
those on board the Berlin could have
been rescued without difficulty, es
peciallj- as the waterway is navigable
at all times.
The Berlin was a steel steamer,
twelve years old, and popular with
travelers to the north of Europe. In
summer she usually was crowded with
passengers, but at this time of ihe
year her average was about as it
was Wednesday night, the number be
iug equally divided between first, and
second class.
Much difficulty is being experienced
in obtaining the names of the passen
gers, as the tickets were purchased
from many agents in London and
other cities, while pome of the trav
elers may have had return tickets.
The only names the company can be
sure of are those of passengers who
secured reserved berths. The compa
ny’s agents afre being asked to send
in immediately to headquarters the
names of all such persons.
NEGROES ARMING IHEMSLLVES.
' erious Troub’e is feared in the deck
Wp>t r\i Aldh^fTi".
In the Alabama senate, Thursday,
Mr. Hinson read a letter from
Lowndes county stating that negroes
of the black belt were armiug with
winchester rifles, and fears of trou
ble were felt Mr. Hinson was at a loss
to understand it. In discussing a bill
to prevent carrying pistols, Senator
R*eso said that it would be the best
thing ever known for his county if
some respectable citizen was hanged
for murder, which, however, he did
not expect to see,
SIXrY-SEVEN INJURED
But Not One Person Was Killed ia
Most Remarkable Wreck of Famous
Fast Flyer.
In one of the most remarkable and
miraculous that has ever oc
curred on the Pennsylvania railroad,
fifty-five passengers and a crew of
eleven trainmen were more or less
injured Friday night when the Penn
sylvania Special, the eighteen-hour
train uetweeu New York and Chicago,
was wrecked while rounding a sharp
curve near South Fork, six miles from
Johnstown, Pa.
Of the injured passengers, seven
sutalned serious hurts, necessitating
their removal to hospitals.
The train was running about fifty
minutes late and was traveling over
50 miles an hour when it reached
the ciuve. The accident was caused
by a brake rigging dropping to the
track on the first Pullman coach, fol
lowing the engine and combination
smoking car.
Much disorder followed the acci
dent, and in the midst of the confu
sion a number of foreigners were de
tected plundering the Pullman cars.
One was arrested and the others driv
en away by a display of firearms.
Considerable jewelry and valuable
wearing apparel was lost as a-result,
however.
Thu engine and combination smok
ing car remained on the rails, but the
three Pullmans plunged over a 00-
toot embankment into the Conemaugli
river. Fortunately the cars were not
submerged.
A scene of wild confusion resulted.
All the passengers wereUin their berths
and were thrown promiscuously
around the cars.
All the passengers of the train were
injured more or less, but with the
exception of John P. Kline of Joliet,
it is said none of tho injuries are
dangerous. The train was running 50
minutes late and was trying to make
up lost time. Nobody seems to know
what really caused the accident, but
it is said it was caused by the spring
ing of a bolt connecting one of the
rails to the steel tie. The injured
were taken to hospitals at Altoona,
Greensburg and Johnstown. A major
ity of them, however, proceeded west
on a special train.
The attire of some of the passen
gers who arrived in Johnstown on
the special train was comical, as they
were wearing somebody else’s cloth
ing, unmindful of tho rightful owner.
Following Ihe wreck great disorder
prevailed. Until late Saturday there
was no official representative of the
Pennsylvania railroad at the scene of
the accident, except a man who is
said to be P. H. Robinson, a detec
tive.
All attempts to obtain information
from tho railroad officials were met
with rebuffs at every hand and at
an early hour Saturday morning, while
it was reported that fifty-four passen
gers were on the train when it loft
Altoona, only forty were said to have
been accounted for.
From the scene it was learned by
telephone that the train was trying
to make up lost time.
The Pennsylvania Ruilroad compa
ny issued a statement Sunday in ex
planation of the accident. lire
statement is the result of an investiga
tion conducted by A. C .Shad, chief
engineer; L. R. Zollinger, engineer
maintenance of way, and H. M. Car
son, assistant to General Manager At
terbury. It is said that the only tan
gible evidence of the cause of the ac
cident found was tho broken brake
hanger, as previously stated by the
manager.
MUSIC 10 SINAIOK IILLMAN.
Seng Entitled “March of Pitchforks” Dedi
cated lo South t aroiiniaii.
A Washington dispatch says: Sen
ator Tillman has received a copy of
the music of f, March of the fitch-:
folk,” composed by Frank L. Bria-!
tow of Nashville, which is dedicated
to the South Carolina senator.
The senator says he will immedi
ately get his daughter to play it over
to him and see it it is properly pitch
ed to the pitchfork tune.
SANIO LOVtINOO IKtAIV AUOPItO.
Convention is Replied through by a Vote
ol 23 to >9.
By a vote of 23 to 19 the senate
Monday night ratified the Santo Do
mingo treaty. This was one more
vote in the affirmative than was re
quired.
Senator Bacon of Georgia condemn
ed the pending treaty as worse than
that negotiated in 1905, the supplant
ed by the pending one. The 1905
treaty authorized the United States
to examine into the debts and pay
what was justly due.
JAP EMBROGLIO \
IS UNSETTLED
Passport Amendment Fails to Alle
viate Situation.
SAID TO BE INEFFECTIVE
How Southern Senators Viewed
Amendment and Its Probable Er*
iect on Immigration Movement.
A Washington special says: The
Japanese passport amendment, Which
places within the power of the pres
ident the exclusion of Japanese coo
lies from the continental terriio.y ol
the United States, recently rushed
through congress In the in migration
bill over the protest of southern sen
ators. has not accomplished what was
claimed for it.
It has already been developed that
the Japanese are not satisfied and
feel that the injury done to national
rride by the exclusion of Japanese
from the California schools has oeen
followed by an insult in the shape of
exclusion of Japanese working men
from American shores.
The right of entry into ihe public
schools is held by the Japanese to be
a right accorded th.im under the ex
isting treaty. The people of California
insist that no such interpretation of
the treaty is possible, and, further
more. that the interests of the Amer
ican working man on the Pacific coast
require the exclusion of Japanese coo
lies.
If under the amendment authorizing
him to exclude Japanese laborers (join
ing to this country to the •‘dwU'imqnt
of labor conditions Kaerein,” ‘the pres
ident is unsuccessful in securing a
Japanese exclusion treaty, it is ru
mored that he may urge upon con
gress the passage of a straight out
Japanese exclusion acc.
As usual, momentary public Interest
was centered In the outcome of ihe
conference between President Roose
velt, Mayor Schmitz and the mem bora
of the 3an Francisco school l oaid,
held to reach a solution of tho vexed
question in which considerations ut
child protection and morality and the
rights of American labor and the sa
cred rights of a sovereign state, aa
well as the wider problems of na
tional trade and international comity,
were intricately woven.
The talk of war was injected into
the discussion, and for a time the en
tire American press as well as tho
papers in Tokio, Berlin, Paris and Lon
don were discussing such an eventu
ality. Of course nothing has come of
it, but it served to accentuata the im
portance of the issues involved aal
to show what might happen. The car
rying out of that plan of settlement
filially agreed upon was lodged in me;
hands of President Roosevelt.
Southern senators charged that the
Japanese passport amendment was in-]
sorted to secure the support of sena
tors as well as of a public sentiment
for a bill that could not ordinarily
pass on its merits because of the in
corporation in it of many unjust > ro
visions. Senators Paton and 1 illuiun;
argued that it would restrict iiDinlgMM
lion to the south by forbidding ibej
continuation of the South Caroiioajg
plan of bringing in immigrants. Tina
obejetion was discussed at a cabinet
meeting at white house and the opin’
ion was given out that the bill wa
not subject to such a conitructlon
Later the immigration commission*
er of the department of commerce ant;
labor said there was no intention oil
the part of the department to estop
Commissioner Watson in his work o
bringing over immigrants on th<s
Wittekind.
These interpretations are contra'r;
to the views held by Senato.' Lodge
Representative Gardner and member
of the conferees on the imrnigratio;|
bill. They would stop such imports?
lions and believe that even when tliif
work is carried on by an officer c|
the state, it is contrary to law. Thai
seek to show that it Is in violation
of the contract labor law.
SOLONS MENACED by smallpox.
Member of Missouri Legislature Stricke
on t Hniin\
A special from Jefferson City, Mo
savs: Representative M. J. Saltz c
Phelps county was taken down wit |
smallpox while in his seat on th
floor of the house Friday. Much con
motion among the tother member I
ensued. The chamber was fumigate* j
The house then adjourned unt fl
Monday. A resolution adopted am! I
confusion and with but half of til
members in their seats provided f<l
the thorough fumigation of the caij|
tol.