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USED BIS JETO POWER
Governor Smith Disapproves
Acts of LegistefureT
POLICCIAND FIaEMENMUST PAY
Municipalities Should Make Free Trans
portation of Employes Part of Consid
eration for Franchises.
Atlanta, Ga. —The activity of Gov
ernor Hoke Smith s veto pen is a sub
ject of considerable comment at the
stale capitol. Governor Smith has
vetoed four bills sent him by the leg
islature, and his disapproval hangs
over several more, it is stated.
The school book bill was the first
general bill to die under the govern
or’s pen stroke.
The appropriations to the agricul
tural experiment stations at Griffin
and Waycross went next.
Then came' the death knell for the
bill allowing firemen and policemen
to accept free rides from street rail-
ways.
The action of the governor in veto
ing the fireman-police pass bill creat
ed little surprise, as the impression
has been general that he would veto
the measure. He has no decided ob
jection to the policemen and firemen
riding free on the street cars, but he
insists that the companies be made
to haul them free in return for priv
ileges they receive from the several
municipalities of the state. He is op
posed to the men accepting free trans
portation from the companies, wheth
er it be a courtesy to the city or a
courtesy to the men.
The veto also fell with fatal effect
on the local bill abolishing the city
court of Barnesville.
The bill appropriating $5,000 each
to the experiment stations at Griffin
and Waycross was also vetoed by
Governor Smith. The governor stat
ed in connection with his veto that
he does not consider the institution
at Waycross a branch experiment sta
tion, and reiterates his opinion, ex
pressed in his inaugural address,
that the experiment station at Griffin
should be moved to the State College
of Agriculture at Athens.
It is doubtful if any governor of
Georgia during the past twenty-five
years has established such a record
for killing bills as has Governor
Smith this year.
The governor has approved the
measure known as the “money shark’’
bill.
Railroad Granted Charter.
Atlanta, Ga. —A charter was grant
ed by Secretary of State Phil Cook
to the Atlanta Northeastern aßilroad
company, which proposes to construct
a railroad between Atlanta and the
town of Cumming, passing through
the towns of Alpharetta and Roswell,
a distance of about forty miles. It
is set forth in the petition that the
line will be operated by “steam, gaso
line, animals or electricity,” or such
other mechanical power as may be
decided upon. The present purpose
is said, is to use electrical power.
The company is to be capitalized at
350,000.
State News in Brief.
The cotton crop in thirty south
Georgia counties is reported to State
Entomologist E. L. Worsham to be
suffering from black root, which he
estimates will reduce the crop in that
section of the state by 10 per cent.
The counties which report this black
root are Columbia, McDuffie, Washing
ton, Bibb, Talbot, Harris, Muscogee,
Chattooga, Marion, Sumter, Ma
con, Houston, Pulaski, Dooly, Stew
art, Webster, Randolph, Terrell, Cal
houn, Dougherty, Early, Worth, Col
quitt, Thomas, Brooks, Lowndes, Ber
rien, Montgomery, Tattnall, Effingham
and Pierce.
The Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety which met in Gainesville select
ed Quitman, Brooks county, as its
next meeting place and elected the
following officers: President, J. J.
Connor of Bartow; first vice presi
dent, R. F. Crittenden of Randolph.
Other officers are chosen by the exec
utive committee and as yet their
have not expired.
According to an affidavit made b\
Gene Bryant, a negro, Jule Howard,
a Harris county white man who last
year was sent up for the murder of
Dozier Huekabee, another young
white man of that county, is not guil
ty of the crime.
' Claiming that the city of Macon
w'®s negligent in allowing a pile of
cotton to be stored on the street. J.
H Shaw, who was seriously injured
By collding with the obstruction, has
sued that city for SIO,OOO damages.
Macon citizens have raised a fund
of SIO,OOO to be used for the purpose
of bolding a state fair in that city
It was deemed advisable to ad
journ the Spalding county superior
court and allow the farmers to re
turn to their work, as a very season
able rain has fallen in the last two
days, which will be of vast benefit to
the growing crops.
The plant of Dawson Variety Works
of Dawson was destroyed by fire. Loss
SIOO,OOO, w : th no insurance.
David Delk has been appointed
postmaster at Mount Hope, Bryan
county, vice D. M. Beggs resigned.
Tax Receiver Steed of Augusta has
completed a summary _ of tax returns
for that city, which show a decrease
of $24,840, due to the closing of the
saloons since the prohibition law went
into effect.
throughout the state.
„. Th jf Hor . se Swappers' Convention,
which met in Cartersville. was attend
ed by about six hundred members
Traveling mule and horse traders in
fmm fn H UreS<lUe sipsy wa Sons, came
trom all directions, and every man in
Bartow, Cobb, Cherokee, Gordon,
Paulding, Polk and Murray counties
who has an animal with four legs and
strength enough to get here, was on
hand. The noise swapping conven
tion was unique in moie than one par
ticular. There were no rules govern
ing the classification of animals eligi
ble to entry upon the trading marts
the only lequirement being that the
"critter” must be on the ground where
it can be seen, and must have four
legs upon which it might stand, if
able or inclined. For the sake of ap
pearance, it was requested that all
"critters” have hair upon them, but
this was by no means required. Each
and every member was supposed to
be his own judge of "horse flesh,” and
to those who got worsted little sym
pathy was extended. That was his
ow'n misfortune, and it is against the
unwritten law of the horse swappers
to “squeal.” Many trades and sales
were recorded.
Patents have been issued to the fol
lowing Georgians: Rat trap, Thomas
Knight, Atlanta; fender for cultiva
tors, Abba Benton and C. D. Jordan,
Monticello; angle cock for fluid pres
sure brake system, J. A. Flicks, At
lanta, assignor to Hicks’ Improved
Engine Brake company, same place;
rail joint, H. J. Thomas, Jr., Macon;
insole, Joseph von Bracht, Savannah,
assignor of one-half to Herrmann Ro
senheim, same place.
Stock subscriptions for 4 establish
ment of a large creamery at Ameri
cus have been completed and the en
terprise is thus fully assured. Four
hundred cows will be utilized.
Jane Worthey, an aged colored wo
man, living at Beach Haven, near
Macon, is paying a visit to her chil
dren living on the plantation of R.
T. Manley, near Pomona, the young
est of which, she says, is 80 years
old. The old woman claims to be 125
years old, and says this is . her first
visit this way in torty years. She got
along well without crutch or cane and
apparently is in good physical health.
At a rally of the Farmers’ Union
held in Statesboro it was decided to
build anew warehouse in that city
where the farmers of Bulloch county
can store their cotton.
In attempting to shoot his wife,
Isaiah Singleton of Americus killed
his stepdaughter. As Singleton lev
eled his shotgun his wife’s brother
knocked up the weapon, the charge
killing the stepdaughter instead. Sin
gleton was captured and jailed.
Claiming that they had been hired
for a year by the police commission
representing the city of Rome, five
discharged policemen have sued the
city for eight months’ salary at S6O
per month. The police commission
was abolished by legislative enact
ment at this session of the legisla
ture, and the control of the force re
stored to council- The discharge of
the five men followed.
New York capitalists who recently
bought from Captain C. A. Lilly of
Gainesville the Currahee mines prop
erty in Hall county, six miles from
Gainesville, have been making practi
cal tests of the ore in the mines, and
have definitely decided to put in a
$200,000 smelting plant for working
the gold ores of the property.
Industries, representing an expen
diture of nearly $300,000 and a capi
talization of several companies of ap
proximately $2,000,000, are being rap
idly rushed to completion near At
lanta, and will be finished in a short
time The industries are: The acid
plant of the Germefort Manufactur
ing Cos between Atlanta and East
point costing $150,000; the acid plant
of Schoen Brothers at Roseland, at
an approximate cost of $80,000; the
creosote plant of the Southern Wood
Preserving Cos., costing $25,0=00.
The following twenty-six young men
have been given scholarships to the
medical department of the State Uni
versity, *by Governor Hoke Smith .
State at large, G. L. Carpenter, Au
gusta- Sheddie Usher, Springfield; L.
F. Lanier, Sylvania; C. G. Cox, ElH
jay. First congressional district, T.
B Brantley, Sylvania; James T.
Longe Darken. Second congressional
disXct, J. G. Stamoifer. Blakely; W.
H Watson, Omega. Third congres
sional dstrict, C. C. Frederick Kath
leen- L D Parrott, Americus. Fourth
congressional district, Homer L. Bar
ker, Franklin; F. C. Harp, Cusseta.
Fifth congressional district, 1. 1.. Aj
cock, Monroe; Paul J. Smith Conroe.
q; Yt h congressional district, 13. W.
Greece, Si* C. B. Brookins. Mil
ledgeville. Seventh congressional
district, M. A. Acre, Calhoun; C. E.
Cliatt, Mistleto. Eighth congression
al district C. E. Griffith, Eaionton;
G W Camp. Carnesville. Ninth con
gressional district, Ralph freeman,
Dacaula- M. B. Ketron, Clarkesville.
Tenth congressional district, Garnett
nvi wards Crawford ville; Pat H.
Week3 \ppling. Eleventh congres
sional district, W. E. Williams, Soper
ton; W. W. Massey, Barwick.
J. T. Roberts, living in the Lock
hart district, near Statesboro, killed
two large rattlesnakes near the Jgee
chee river recently, one having seven
rattles and the other fourteen rat
tles and a button.
The Floyd County Fair Association
was formally organized at Rome, with
j Lindsav Johnson as president ;
Wilson M. Hardy, treasurer, and C N.
Fuller, secretary and manager. The
association will give a county fair
and horse show at Rome on Septem
ber 29 to October 3. ,
LATE SEWS NOTES.
General.
“A $50,000 widow for ss.’’ This and
many other matrimonial bargains
were temptingly offered by a matri
monial agency run by Charles A. Hud
son, in Chicago, but federal officers
did not believe that Hudson intended
to fulfill his promises and they had
him arrested in Minneapolis.
Asa result of eating toad stools
for mushrooms, Harry Jarrell and
Mrs. Lillian Jar--ell, his sister-in-law,
died at Rochester, N. Y.
Filing of the wiil of the late Robert
Pratt, former mayor of Minneapolis,
revealed a romance. A share in his
estate, valued at $20,000, is left to
Mary Bettin, Mr. Pratt’s housekeeper,
"who has agreed to become my wife,”
reads the will.
The twelfth annual convention of
the National Association of Fire In
surance agent which has been in ses
sion at St. Paul, Minn., elected the
following officers: President, Edward
W. Beardsley, Hartford, Conn.; vice
presidents, I. W. Alexander, E. B.
Case, Illinois; L. W. Childrey, Virgin
ia; E. H. Forry, Indiana; A. W. Neale,
Ohio; secretary, Henry H. Putnam,
Boston; treasurer, W. H. Mandeville,
Olean, N. Y.; chairman organization
committee, C. W. Olson, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Silas Griffin, aged 70 years, a high
ly respected citizen of Alexander City,
Ala., was killed by vicious hogs on
his farm near that city. Mr. Griffin
had entered the pen to feed the hogs
when he was attacked by them and
literally torn to pieces.
Kingdon Gould, son of George J.
Gould, the multi-milionaire, is work
ing as a miner at Guanajunto, Mexi
co. Young Gould is studying mining
engineering and has taken this meth
od of gathering the practical rudi
ments of mining.
Dr. John Miller Moore, an ex-sur
geon in the United States navy, is
detained at the Villevard asylum in
Paris, whither the police conveyed
him on acount of his peculiar beha
vious in certain Paris hotels and
which led them to believe he is suffer
ing from hallucinations. He is said
to have left the battleship Kansas at
San Francisco.
Five million barrels of oil, >vorth
$1 a barrel, have been lost in the
great oil fire in the San Geronimo dis
trict, which has been raging uninter
ruptedly since July 4.
An English youth has challenged
any one in the world to a series of
feats of memory. It is said that he
is a regular walking encyclopedia,
and among other things has memor
ized 40,000 dates of the world’s his
tory.
Juana Diaz, aged 8 years, and her
sister Natalia, aged 9, were instantly
killed’ at El Paso, Texas, by light
ning, which struck their father, San
tiago Dias, who was sitting
in the front of his home holding an
infant of a few months. Lightning
struck the corner of the house, pass
ed through the body of the man and
struck the little girls, who were stand
ing indoors. The baby was unhurt.
John J. Forester, a Coney Island
life saver, was the winner of a swim
of thirteen miles from under the
Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island, held
by members of the United States Vol
unteer Livesavinq corps. His time,
four hours and forty-six minutes, is
considered remarkable, having only
once been surpassed. Thirty-two com
petitors started and eight finished,
among them two girls, Miss Claia T.
Hurst of Staten Island, and Miss Au
gusta ’ Gallup, of New York City.
Electricity, particularly for lighting
purposes, is being extensively used in
the isthmian canal zone, the system
in vogue supplying light to practically
every settlement between Colon and
Panama excepting a few hamlets in
the territory north of Gorgana and the
villages of Miraflore3 and Gatun. A
temporary plant is being installed at
Gatun Twenty-four thousand lights
are in use, and power is furnished
for various purposes.
Joseph Travis, a newspaper man,
formerly of Portland, and San h ran
cisco, has been appointed general as
sistant to Dr. George Mark, one of
the commissioners of the Chinese re
ception committee appointed to wel
come the battleship fleet on its arri
val at Amoy next October.
Washington.
Liberty L. Bailey, dean of Cornell
college of agriculture, who was re
cently appointed by President Roose
velt to be chairman of a commission
of five to investigate the social, san
itary and economic conditions on
American farms, has declined the ap
pointment on the ground that he can
not give the subject the time he con
siders would be necessary to such an
important matter.
John W. Riddle, American ambassa
dor to Russia, who recently under
went an operation at St. Petersburg,
is reported to be recovering rapidly.
A report received in Washington
from the Hague says that definite ac
tion by the government of the Nether
lands regirding the dispute with Ven
attitude of the United States, which
probably will be favorable to the
Netherlands.
According to a report issued by the
treasury department the government
redeemed paper money to the value
of $912,000,000 in the year 1907. This
redemption was either for the pur
pose of securing clean, fresh notes or
to get change of some other denomina
tion.
Divers examined the cruiser Color
ado and declared it would take sev
eral weeks to repair her injuries du
to grounding in the straits of Szi.
Juan DeFuca.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Eugene V. Debs declared that la
bor has been forced to take a hand
in politics.
The French newspapers unite in
praising the achievement of Wilbur
Wright in his airship.
Senator William B. Allison's will
was filed at Dubuque, lowa. The
value of the estate is SIOO,OOO.
Associate Justice Harlan, of the
Supreme Court, Is a great pedestrian,
and every day walks to and from the
Capitol.
Thomas L. Hamilton, the noted
politician and officeholder, returned
from Europe afflicted with cancer of
the stomach.
Henry P. Brown, of Cleburne, Tex.,
was elected at Boston Supreme Chan
cellor of the Order of Knights of Py
thias, to succeed Charles A. Barnes,
of Jacksonville, 111.
“Things have become so complex
that I scarcely know where I am; so
I am going to the Siskiyou Mountains
to think over the situation.” So
speaks Mr. Harriman.
Rear-Admiral W. L. Capps, chief
of the Naval Bureau of Construction
and Repair, who sailed to Hawaii on
board the battleship Kansas, has re
turned to San Francisco to complete
his inspection on the Pacific Coast.
Young Pierpont Morgan, compar
ing municipal methods of London
and New York, says the former has
learned that it pays to spend all its
money on real improvements, rather
than pass it round among families.
Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran,
archbishop of Sydney, N. S. W., has
informed the Vatican that he will be
obliged to delay his visit to Europe
because he wished to be in Sydney on
the arrival of the American squadron
there.
It was said at Washington, D, C.,
that Senator Perkins would become
chairman of the Senate Committee
on Naval Affairs.
To Improve Rural Conditions.
President Roosevelt appointed a
Commission on Country Life, having
for its object the betterment of social
and sanitary conditions in rural com
munities.
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Mignonette a substitute for fly pa
per! Surely, of any remedy for any
bad condition, that announcement has
a delightful sound. A woman living
in the country asserts that in a room
where pots cf mignonette are set flies
will not linger. "Instead of placing
those annoying, sticky sheets of pa
per about the room," says an experi
enced worr.aq, "or undergoing exhaust
ing exercise 'of driving the pests out
of the place through windows, the
blessed plant just seems to blow them
out on a wave of what you and I would
call its fragrance."—New York Press.
Horses in Demand.
Western shippers are beginning to
turn to the New York market again
as an outlet for their horses.