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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. — * 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.