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The Jones County News.
VOL. XI.’
FARMERS BURN [0
lii bisgitst bvei* Sliirtip in ft*i ces They
Proceed to Make Bonfires.
REPORT OF GIINERS
Sftftda Stfiple Tumbling Ovei’
fifty PoiiUi^ frevidiis
.fcuilriate is fai-
Lxceedecl;
Farmers and merchants of Clay
county, G-a., met Wednesday at Fort
Gaines and decided to burn their
share of two million bales of cotton.
A start was made without much ado,
when a, bonfire was made of the cot-
tBri oil the streets of Foft Gtlliids: It
Has hot ybt been dbferriiihed vfrherie
tli§ serisatiohal innovation will stop.
They have decided to set the pace arid
f ■ ■■ f- \ \
are moving determinedly. A large
crowd paraded with wild whoops and
yells and much spectacular ceremony.
The object of the move is to show that
the farmers are ready to sacrifice a
few bales 0 r the benefit of the
masses. The excitement increased
as the burning progressed.
The census buteaU At Washington
ISsued A fepdrt Wednesday giving the
Quantity of cotton ginned in 737 cdun-
ties up td Dec: 13; to have been n,-
Ds 6;614 running bales, Which is the
equivalent df 11,848,113 commercial
bales. The commercial bales report¬
ed to the same period of 1903 amount-
ed to 8,747,609.
In arriving at the number of com;
merelal bales, round bales are count¬
ed as half bales. The report to the
same date last year covered 812 coun¬
ties as agnlnst 737 this year. The re¬
port for the present year covers the
output of 29,667 ginneries, while 29,-
627 were Included in the report for
1902.
The product of the different states
for this year in running bales report¬
ed to December 13 Is as follows:
Alabama...... .. ..1,296,915
Arkansas., „ . .. .. 769,186
Florida . .. .. 75,283
Georgia...... .. ..1,795,797
Indian Territory .. .. 433,765
Kentucky ., . .. 1,252
Louisiana.... , . .. 870,518
Mississippi .. ,, .. ..1,403,458
Missouri .. . 30 444
North Carolina .
Oklahoma .. ... 294,041
South Carolina . . .1,083,756
Tennessee . .. 271,235
Texas....... . . .2,982,819
Virginia |..... .. 14,960
HEAVY BREAK IN MARKET.
At New York (he cotton market
broke 30 to 35 points on the census
bureau’s ginner# report indicating a
crop In excess of the government’s es-
tlmate. There was very heavy trading
on the decline. -
f rm f !. f .. at tIle . gIn .
T r ba for0cas,ed a
cron crop of nearly , 13 000,000 o bales.
,™'°;' had shown ng weakness l ' le report since prices, the which open-
ing, broke sharply With January sell-
ing around 6,66, March 6.S1 and May
6.96, or a net decline of 22 to .25
points and a break of practically $6
a bale In two weeks’ time.
The market was very active during
the afternoon, with big short interests
covering, while there was also heavy
liquidation and on every little bulge
the bears seemed disposed to with-
draw their buying orders and sell
more cotton.
The low figures reached In the
slump are the lowest that cotton has
reached in nearly three years.
BAIL OFFERED MBS. CHADWICK.
Syndicate Stands Ready to Release
Woman From Jail.
A syndicate'for which Attorney P.
D. Quigley of Cleveland, is spokesman,
is said to be ready and willing to
furnish ball in the sum of $40,000, to
procure the release pf Mrs. Cass^e
L. Chadwick, held in jail awaiting,
trial on the charge of forgery,
Quigley would not give the names
of the prospective bondsmen of Mrs.
Chadwick, but says that they are
well able to furnish any rasouable
sum.
GENERAL STOESSEL INJURED.
Gen. Kondravltch Killed and Gen.
Emiinoff Wounded at Pert Arthur.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Tokio slys: Trustworthy advices
from Port Arthur confirm the report
that General Kondravltch has been
killed, and that General Stosael has
been Injured by falling from hie
horse. General SraHhofl I? alto re-
ported wounded,
,
EXCITEMENT AT NEW ORLEANS.
A New Orleans special says: With
tho reading of the glnners' report on
the cotton exchange Wednesday cot¬
ton dumped If to 65 tKlIrits, Bitfaor-
dittafy exfcif enierit ritteiid&d the
break: The market was liairiniered
with griettt ettbrgy
Aftef the first excitement the mar
ket grew it$ arrested. ij|ileter,. though January the decline
was , , cotton
went to 6.40, which Is a decline of
about 4 cents during the last three
months.
L08SE8 UNNERVED HARRISON.
j Barnesvlllo, Ga„ Cotton Buyer Shoots
Himself Througih th# Head.
J, B, Harrison, a well known cotton
buyer of Barttesvllle, Ga., attempted
stticid© Wednesday flftefribbfl by
shdotlBg 32-fcqiibrh jiimself through th6 head
with a haij pistol.
Harrison been despondent fpr
several days, due to lieyy lpss.es in
cotton, having about, 1,100 bale s to
protect, and he lost about $15,000.
Besides the losses sustained, Har¬
rison had considerable property and
money left, amounting to $-12,000 or
$15,000.
FEW GINNERS AT SHREVEPORT.
They Met to Form Branch of National
Association.
Besides ,f. A. Taylor, df Dallas,
president of thfe NatiGrifli Girifiefg As
sociatibri; only fivh jiefsdiis attended
the iheetihg 1H Shreveport, La.,
Wcdtiestiay, Ldiiisiaria, 6f the glnners df Afkan-
sas, and East Texas. The
meeting was called fdr the purpose
ot organizing a branch of the main
organization, and President Taylor
that the small attendance was
due to the fact that notice of the meet-
ing was sent out late. Arkansas was
not represented. East Texas was rep¬
resented by a colored ginner from
Marshall. H. G. Strlngfellow, of
Red River parish, was appointed vice
president for Louisiana.
WIFE FINDS HUGBAND’8 BODY.
Young Farmer Foully Murdered With¬
in Sight of His Home.
The dead body of J. A. Parks, a
young farmer whose home is near
Neal, Ga., was found In the road, near
his home, by his wife Wednesday
morning.
He left home Tuesday morning
about 9 o'clock, and not returning by
w * fe becam ° uneasy and be-
Ing still absent Wednesday morning.
she started out to search for him.
About two hundred yards from the
house she came upon his body, which
was cold in death, he having been
murdered some time during the night.
BAD BLAZE IN BIRMINGHAM.
Fire In Magic City Destroys Property
to Amount of $75,000.
Fire which broke out at 3 o’clock
Wednesda .' r morning in the Reliance
restaurant at. No. 218 North Twenty
eth street, Birmingham, Ala., destroy-
ed six buildings in the heart of the
business section of the city. The to-
tal los 3 is about $75,000.
ThIrty Gree k s and Armenians,
sleeping on the second floor of the
neliance restaurant, had norrow es¬
capes.
FOR EXPERIMENTAL STATION.
Washington Couny, Mississippi, Cftl-
zene Donate Land.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
has received the formal donation from
citizens of Washington county of
a tract of 200 .acres -of land to be
used for the agricultural experiment
nation for the delta section, the
establishment of which was author-
izeil in an act passed at the last
session of the legislature.
WHITE MAN SEVERELY FLOGGED.
Citizen of Chicago Comes to Grief for
Insulting Women in Mississippi.
A. D. Lewis, a white man whose
home Is In Chicago, was lashed in
the woods near Natchez, Miss.,
Wednesday and ordered out of tho
state. Lewis was being taken to the
county convict farm to serve a sen-
tence for Insulting women on the
streets. As he was being taken to the
farm a crowd of white men took Mm
from the guard, stripped him and gave
him sixty lashes then placed him on
a train and ordered him to leave the
state.
jailed for kissing.
Yeung Man “Bussed” G : rl at Party
Against Her Will,
Janies Rubinstm, a young mm, was
sent to jail at Mobile, Ala., Wednes¬
day tor ihJriy days for an assault.
The offonso for which he was commit-
C d was kissing a young lady at Bayou
LaGaln, a villge near Mobile, during
a party, (gainst her will.
OKAY, JONES CO., GA. t THURSDAY. JANUARY 5, 1005.
SINNERS IN ATLANTA,
botton hepoj-tsi and ftifcw Movement td
Control Information Discussed.'
Taylor 3cor.» Government.
Tho Georgia cotton glnncrs anil
♦hose ef neighboring states gathered
in Atlanta Friday aft^rfldfltt; some fif¬
ty , strong^ (he meeting having teefl
called by a circular letter sen o\il fit
the ‘National Glnners’ Acsociatlon of
Dallas, Texas.
J. A. Taylor, of Wynnewood, Ind.
T. t president of the association, call¬
ed the body to order, and in a pleas-
fttit nidiitief told the story of the or-
ganizatldfl. After the goYerrimeilt fb-
@drtg ftif the ttloHth of November
came otit; he shill fie be'eaniH tolirinc-
ed that the ctitttfii planters ftCre not
getting juqt wliat they had it tight to
expect.. fie was not atond lit that
view of the situation.
“It was the information the glnncrs
had given which was working us a
wrong," he asserted. "That informa¬
tion was giving the markets the best
of the growers, because on that Infor¬
mation tho speculator was working.
We could have given out that Infor¬
mation just as well as let others do it.
When we gave away our knowledge
wg gave away Grit StGGk ill trade. We
ft§uippSd ihe the dictate maii up tii§ dast price' Whti has
money to of our
staple. Had. that information been
, that gin-
retained by the glnncrs, theft
ner could have advised his customer,
the planter, whose cotton he had been
ginning, as to the demand and tho
supply; could have equipped him
with information which would have
told him when to hold and when to
sell.”
President Taylor Informed the gath¬
ering that there were about thirty
thousand ginners in tho south, and as
Sorted that If they would stand to¬
gether, keep their information and al
low n& secrets of the trade to escape,
the planter and not the eastern mar
ket would, witiilft a shaft irno; control
thfe price of cotton.
“We know,” he said, /‘what the gov¬
ernment did for us with the last re
port. It sent cotton values awaj
down. Now for one I don’t believe
that report was in any way correct.”
President Taylor then illustrated
how tho information which had been
and was being transmitted to (he gov¬
ernment was gathered, asserting that
many of the “reporters” employed in
that line of work were biased, influ¬
enced and wholly unreliable. He ex¬
pressed a doubt as to the "reporter:;’
haying dorie their work, adding that
in many instances the Information
given the “reporters” came from
glnners who, influenced by a desire to
show a large work, had given erro¬
neous figures.
The ginners of Georgia and Ala¬
bama .have been generally faithful
about making reports to the govern¬
ment, say the men who met in the
glnners’ convention.
Their opinion was secured by ques¬
tioning them in regard to the state¬
ment made by the Memphis cotton ex¬
change that a large number of Ten¬
nessee ginners had made no reports
to the government, to which Census
Director North had replied that
where no reports had been made
there had been no attempt to make
estimates by the bureau.
When asked about the Fort. Gaines
cotton burning Incident, the delegates
to the convention, almost to ft man.
asked not to be quoted. On the part
of some, this request was made on
the ground tha-t they did not cafe to
have their names linked, even In an
interview, "with anything so absurd.”
Others objected to talking on the
ground that it would be lm^Msc to pay
serious attention to the incident.
MIGHTY SALVOS GREET TOGO.
Jap Admiral and Vice Admiral Royally
Welcomed In Tokio.
Admiral Togo and Vice Admiral
Kamlmura, with their staffs, arrived
at the Shimlmshi station In Tokio,
Friday morning.
Their journey from Kure to Tokio
was a continuous ovation. At an ear-
ly hour the streets were fillet! and tho
city wag gaily decorated with flags,
lanterns and new year’s decorations.
BANKERS GET INTO TROUBLE.
President and Cashier Jailed for False
Entry In Books.
Cashier O. C. Lillie and President.
C. M. Traver, of the First national
bank of Conneaut, Ohio, were arrested
Friday afternoon on a warrant charg
Ing them with a violation of the na-
tional banking laws.
The specific charge in Lillie’s case
is the making of a false entry in tho
books of the bank, changing the sum
of $283,605 to read $532,605. Traver
is charged in the warant with being
an accomplice in the alleged fabrl-
cation.
REPUDIATE PRESENTMENT.
Nv/ Turn Taken in Case Against Bish
cp Talbot.
tv—. Dispatches from u„-,i Huntington, _____ la.,
S‘r." r\24£2*2S5 ^
;
presentment, thdr intention and say sign that it was ncv. ol j
or to a paper
the ei-arai.-ter that has appeared iu
the press. *
OPENBALLOTBOXES
Is Sweeping t*f the
Colorado Supreme Court.
MOST CHAOTIC SITUATION
Whole Course ftf Election' Is tri bi
Fully Investigated—Quedtlftn Aft
to Who is Governor of the State
Yet to Be Settled.
A Denver, Col, dispatch says:
Stretching Its hand so a s to cast a
shadow over every man and woman
iri arty way implicated In election
frauds tit the City Slid COuhty of Den*
vef Git (if before of after November
s; the hupf&rie ri’cwtrE Friday Ordered
an Investigation St) swefipirilff frt its
scope that every phase of the elect Id'S
may be scrutinised and everything
that bears In any way upon the elec¬
tion may be made known by Judicial
Inquiry.
Alva Adams, democratic candidate
for governor, who appeared from the
returns to have been elected, but who
has declared that he does riot want
the office it tainted ttf fraiid,- fluked
the eSuft fp open evefy benvef bailiff
box, h\jt the order trf the court goes
beyond the mere examiriatifah of the
ballots, and provides for an investi¬
gation of the registration lists, and
all briefs and election matters.
Attorney Samuel W. Bedford for
Adams, and Attorney H. J. Hersey,
for tho republicans, asked the court
to make its order of such breadth that
the court need not stop at anything In
the investigation, The court said
that wai what it meant to do, and In¬
structed the lawyers to agree upon
the wording of the order and present
ft to the court for approval Tuesday
morning:
As there are 2t)4 baildt boxes; it is
evident that several months will bfe
consumed In the examination of their
contents by the two handwriting ex¬
perts to be appointed for this work.
It is expected that the supreme
court will be asked to make an order
placing special watchers at the court
house to guard the registration
books until such time as the Investiga¬
tion is made.
F. A. Williams, chairman of the re-
publican committee, has published
the following statement over his sig¬
nature:
“Our Investigation into the conduct
of the recent election in Denver has
developed the fact that approximately
20,000 fraudulent votes were cast or
counted for Alva Adams In this city.
There Is now no reasonable doubt,
that Governor Peabody and tho entire
republican state ticket was fairly
elected on November 8, by the votes
of a largo majority of the legal voters
of this state.”
What effect, If any, the court’s ac¬
tion will have upon the course of the
legislature in respect to canvassing
tho vote for governor and determining
whether Peabody or Adams is enti¬
tled to the seat, has not become ap¬
parent. Chief Justice Gabbert partic¬
ularly stated the court's investigation
will not interfere with any Investiga¬
tion that may be set on foot by the
general assembly.
Governor Peabody expressed him¬
self as follows regarding the court’s
decision:
“I am more limn pleased that the
supreme court has decided to open
every ballot box In Denver, and my
only regret Is that every box in the
state is not to he opened. A point in
favor of the opening of the boxes by
the supremo court Is that it takes the
ma:tr 3r away from politics.
"There is confidence among the
public In what the supreme court
does, and when the highest ribunal In
the state is through counting the votes
in Denver it will settle beyond ques¬
tion who Is elected. I consider the de¬
cision of the court an eminently wise
and Just one ”
OGLETHORPE HONORED.
New Military Post Is Named for Geor¬
gia’s First Governor.
A Washington dispatch says: Mr.
Taft, secretary of war, has ordered
that the new post established near
Cloud Springs, Ga., adjacent Jo Chick-
amauga Park, he named Fort Ogle
thorpe, in honor of James E. Ogle*
thorpe, founder and first governor oi
Georgia, who settled In Savannah
with 130 persons February 1, 1733,
and was recognized as governor until
1752.
more jap soldiers called.
Mikado’# Capital is Once Again Like
a Great Military Camp.
Tokio is again a great military
camp, and the scenes of last spring,
when the first armies were mobilized
“nSiSSSS
plBg preparatory to taking th* field.
The penn8n ent and temporsry bar-
racks are completely filled,
EXODUS OF GEORGIANS
To th# Far Woat la Proving a Menac.
to the State—Enticed With Im¬
possible Promises,
“The ftfUHertt *xnrtiia of hunrtre In of
Georgia families to OKlahr-ma find
Texas Is the greatest menace to the
prosperity and best Inerests of tho
aiste,”
These words are from one of the
highest Officials of the largest railroad
fcyeferri fafft: ifl the south, Continung he
“During th fi hasf two months of No¬
vember and Deceiufitt over t.-CC'd Geor¬
gians, many of them native tin; j
left the Emplro Stale of the JnfTWb 1
for the promised Eldorados of Okla
homa and Texas. The worst part of
it is that the number of Georgians
who are leaving their state in grow-
ing rapidly, Tho principal reason
for their departure lies In the promises
that a re being made by agents from
the southwest Who are enticing these
Georgian!!! with assurances that are
nothing fertt'fi than Absolute lies.
“The number (if ihrtsn land Arid im¬
migration agents Is lai'ftft at tihifl
time than ever before, and the
chief they are working is greater
The southern railroads are now mak¬
ing arrangements to take some con¬
certed action against tj:ese agents,
who are working so constantly for
the depopulation of this and other
southern states.
"The method of procedure on the
part of these' agents is pretty much
the same did Hi Off < They circulate
among the farming Arid mill districts
and iiii thb mrist marvelous utories
of the wealth Arid richness of the
southwest, Their talri* of the feftil
ity of the land are simply past all
description, This land and other fttb
ulous riches are offered at ridiculous¬
ly low prices to those who have a lit
tie money, while to others beautiful
farms are promised either absolutely
free or upon Impossibly small pay¬
ments each year. These ngents car"y
with hem also a lot of fake advertising
matter and descriptions of the land
that Is waiting for the new settlers
that helps much in the sowing of the
seed of rilsebhtetil. that results in the
journeying to the promised Canaan of
milk and hbney.
“It is ifl this way that the agents
have been able to persuade many
Georgians to sell their little farms or
spend their small earnings In invest
ments a thousand miles away, bo
great is the rush that very many of
these farmers and ndll operatives have
been induced to spend their earnings
before making their trip. In this con
nection photographs of the mad rush
of sottlers into Oklahoma when It was
first opened years ago have been used
with telling effect. Farmers and oper¬
atives have been told by these agents
that they were foolish to remain here
where they could secure only fair prof¬
its and wages, when just beyond lay
a land which would make them all rich
In a very few years.
"These agents ore very clever and
winning talkers and their (Tories and
ueir literature have been believed,
and as a consequence there has been
a long line of Georgians traveling <o
a certain disappointment. Very many
of these have returned to their old
homes and have given the lie direct,
to the stories told by the agents, but
there are others who have spent every¬
thing they had in getting to this prom
inert land and have been compelled
to remain and suffer such hardships
as they had never known in Georgia."
UNCLE SAM PLAYED SANTY.
Large Amount of International Money
Orders Forwarded to Other Lands.
The United Statist played Santa
Claus to tho world at large, accord¬
ing to reports secured from General
Superintendent Joseph Elliott, of the
money order division of the New
York postoffice. From December 1 to
December 24, the night before Christ¬
mas, no less than 334,084 Internation¬
al orders were forwarded to other
lands from New York and these or¬
ders called for $4,667,620 90.
j. Many Thousands on Strike.
According to a St. Petersburg dis¬
patch tens of thousands of men have
struck throughout the Baku oil fields
In Russia.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN ALABAMA.
Arch Pope Slays His Brother and
Then Commits Suicide.
A double tragedy oecurriffj at Mid¬
land City, Ala., Friday.
Arch Pope and his brother, Jes3e
Pope, had a falling out over a lino
fence, and the former shot anil killed
the latter with a pistol. After the
killing Arch went home and commit
ted suicide by taking strychnine.
The Popes are among the most pros¬
perous and prominent people of south¬
east Alabama. Both men leave fami¬
lies.
NOTED POLITICIAN DEAD,
Inventor of Laundry Machinery and
Round ESafe Appliance Goes Htnct.
Captain Hamilton Bra Smith, In
* ft£)pl ‘ 6neo ’ * n(1
who was a member of tho eltlhons’
committee of New York that over-
threw the Tweed ring, Is dead In Sa-
llna, Kansas, at the age of 85.
MX 8.
C. B. WILLINGHAM
Cotton Factor 9
MACON, m GEORGIA.
By a liberal policy and honorable methods I
have built up tho largest Cotton Commission
business in Macon , Ga.
Ship Me Your Cotton and Get Best
Returns.
C. B. WILLINGHAM
W F. HOLMES. F. S. HARDEMAN
.
Cotton Factors 9
Macon, ai Georgia.
AGENTS FOR
Deering Harvesting Machines,
CLARK HARROWS,
Elmwood Fencing, Red Ripper Hay
Presses.
420 Fourth St, Macon, Ga.
S. JONES & CO
3io Third Street, Macon, Ga.
GHOCESRS
Bagging and Ties,
Texas Rust Proof Oats and Seed
Potatoes.
Lowest Market Prices at all Times.
MERRITT & C0„
(Successors to T. E. MERRITT.)
DEALERS IN
Staple Grocereis and Tobacco.
Headquarters for Bagging and Ties.
451,453 and 455 THIRD STflEET, MACON, GA,_______
W. A Davis Co.
Cotton Factors
MACON, GEORGIA.
ni l I M l4- fr » f 4
Best Cotton Sellers In the City.
They Keep a Full Supply of Bagging and Ties.
Wagons and Buggies
ARE SPECIALTIES.
They Alto Handle the Highest Orads Fertilizers on the Market.
COTTON FACTORS.