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M. C. QREENH, Editor
SAN DOMINGO ROW
t
Will Not Be Meddled With
by Uncle Sam Just Now.
IS LEFT TO ITS FATE
Decision to “Hands Off’’ Reached at
Conference at White House.
Serious Situation Prevails in
Little Island.
A Washington special says: For
the present there will not be any in¬
terference by the United States in
the diff* A ulty which has arisen in
Santo mingo. The trouble is re
garded bj the state department offi¬
cials as entirely an internal one, and
so leng as outside interests are not
menaced, this atlltu-le of non-inter¬
ference wjill be maintained. If, how¬
ever, t nflitions should change mate-
rinlly, and lawless acts should e com-
mitted aguir.st Americans and lAmeri-
can intercuts, and involving tne col
lection of Dominican customs f >y this
government, or other acts of violence
occur which, in the opinion of the of¬
ficials in .Washington, would make it
proper for (his government to, inter-
- fere, this step will be. taken and
measures adopted to quell the trou-
bie.
This decision was reached by the
state department officials and con¬
firmed at a conference at the white
house late Tuesday afternoon, in
which the president, Secretary Root,
Secretary Taft and Secretary Bona¬
parte participated. The cabinet of¬
ficers remained at the white JJiouse
until nearly 6 o'jlock p. m. The
gathering, however, was not called
specifically for the purpose of < dis¬
cussing matters developing in Santo
Domingo, but to consider several ques
tions which the ^resident was anx-
ious to dispose of preliminary to his
departure for an outing of several
days in Virginia.
Advices received by cable atf the
state and navy departments ! •om
Santo Domingo indicate that a ierl-
ous condition of affairs exist there.
The captain of the port of Puerto
Plata has been shot and killed during
governor an insmrectiojnary of movement and th«
the general tfjjiat province has defied
,i?oveintjieiMi--aifa‘ 'bari-
caded the JpiQik. *The Dominican gio*-
eminent has issued a decree removing
(ho governor. The state department
has determined that this is an inter¬
nal difficulty, and will not intervene
at this stage.
The secretary of war received the
(.roller following^ and Cablegram from the comp-
1 / receiver of the Dominican
customs, Edwards, dated at Santo Do-
mingo:
cabinet “Carlos f\ Morales, dissatisfied with
night witt si jpport, i left capital Tuesday
few followers. His lnteti-
tion seem to be to join Jiministas
in between oppositfj tl on to Horacistas. Conflict
le two forces is imminent
probably ii ji vicinity of San Juan or
vicinity of I Puerto Plata. Carlos F
Morales ni lay make attempt to es¬
tablish neiy Political capital and create a new
cabinet. excitement, but
without df %turbance present Receiv¬
ership is shojuld nfet affected yet, George R.
Colton be at Monte Christ!
Tuesday." “
A cable dispatch from Santo D»
mingo, fellows: undjer Monday’s date, was as
IFollowing the announce¬
ment that t he president of the repub¬
lic, Morales ,-has left the capital for
1 uaknowi destination,
an j "oops were
sent in pu Vsuit of the chief magis¬
trate. Whajt took ■ place after that
cannot be (definitely determined.
RAILROAD DEAL REPORTED.
Rumor Say^ Centrai of Georgia Has
Secured Stillmore Air Line.
A report > has reached Swainsboro,
Ga., that Hon. George M. Brinson,
owner and president of the Stillmore
Air Line, has sold that road to the
Central of Georgia railroad, the con-
sidevation being in the vicinity ot
$400,000. This deal is said to hava 1
, been consummated , , several , days . |
ago.
FINANCIER YERKES DEAD.
Estranged Wife Called Too Lajte 1 to
Effect a Reconc.iliation.
Charles Tyson Yerkes, capitalist ot
Chicago and London, and the , m an
)vho built the London subway. 1 dierl
Friday afternoon at the Hotel Waldorf-
Astoria.
Mr. Yerkes had been unconsci ous
for two hours before the end aotuquj
came, and this was particularly uns or .
tunate, for it robbed him of reci. jn .
dilation with his wife, from wb( im
he had been estranged for some Ur ne
past, and came to his bedside
response to an urgent sunjmons
COOL NERVE OF NORDIC.A.
Actress Starrtps Out Incipient Blaze
on Stage of Theater.
Nordica, tljie actress, won the ',auai en¬
thusiastic plakdits of a matinee
qpce at the Metropolitan opera Mouse
in NCw' York! Friday when she quite
ccxdly stamped out a blaze causei'l onj the by
stage near footlights ■
dropping jtjfcom a torch carrieei bv .
fira
chorus wertofn
erg
”
ws
h missioners ;jiTHE ■ RACK.
It is sa
“I Proceedings
Sourtmartial Against Mid-
Shipman Coffitl Begun at the
Naval /(cademy.
Coiirtmartial proceedings against
Midshipman Trenmoro Coffin, Jr., a
member of the third class, on the
jharge of hazing Midshipman Jerdone
P. Kimbrough of the fourth class be-
jan at the naval academy, Annapolis,
Md., ’1 hursday.
Midshipman George Hewlett of the
third class was the flrst witness. The
in ivituesij the door testified that he in had looked
of room 5' Bancroft
ball on the evening l >f December 12,
and ding that his he had hehd seen\ JJofli.ii Umbrough and stan¬
on anil Kim-
brough’s roommate in the room with
him. Witness said that he left the vi¬
cinity of room 53 and remained away
about five minutes. When he return¬
ed Kimbrough was still on his head
and Coffin was the only other person
in the loom. ,
The witness was as tod to illustrate
what “sending 'his on thJ head” meant.
He put head on Ifhe floor and
raised his feet a few Inches from the
ground in a series of jump*. The ex¬
ercise apparently put muchlstrain on
the legs and arms, and wal hard on
the head. Kimbrough also Exhibited
this performance to the court later.
Midshipman Kimb ougtv was the
next witness, and it developed that
he was unable to identify Coffin as
the man who had hazed him. The
rule, it appears, is that no lower class
man must look at an upper class man
under such circumstances., and this
was so rigidly tlat observed in the pres
ent case Kimbrough could not
say that Coffin had haze' 1 - him. Jle
told, however, how he h\ad been hazed
by being compelled til stand on his
he He gave had out!entirely, bsen hazed,|he ■'hen said, the until mid¬
shipman wlo was doing the hazing
brew watemover ge^ hire Ind compelled
him to uljjithe again, if* brought the
relation point ■where he lost
consciousnH. ■
He had gained consciousness, he
said, in th* naval acad«T.iy hospital.
Lieutenait Commandel Charles B.
McVey, Jr.,was the last[Foiltness mir¬
ing the m>rning session M i He ls f 1 *-'
at tached the to acaiemy t e department, and is a’ Jldiscipline ember of
ho board C investigatioi SPV vw going
into tho - anV,r/-.*..oA Si, 1 .vvqXguie acau-
ray. The witness during his test!
liony said that he had learned a
g-eat. deal about hazing during the
kst few weeks.
He discovered that Midshipman
Hewlett had looked into the room and
seen the hazing of Kimbrough. H«
nformed Hewlett that unless he told
thi name of the midshipman he would
-.- her be reported for disobeying or¬
ders or be called before the board
of investigation in the morning and
compelled to testify.
Hewlett was allowed time to make
ip his mind, and in the meantime
Coffin sought an interview with th«
witness. At this point the counsel
or the accused objected tt> the tes¬
timony after an alleged iionfession
1 asked the court to be allowed, to,
interrogate the witness. This \ the
this court point. permitted, but took a recess at
Upon reassembling the court admit¬
ted the testimony of Lieutenant confes¬ <Vom
ijiander McVey as to Coffin’s
sion. 1 I
I Coffin, the witness said, admitted
that he had stood Kimbrough oi this
h\ead for about ten minutes. \ |
HALF OF THE WORLD’S OIL
'
Is Produced in the United States, Ac¬
cording to Official Figures.
The United States supplied moire
than one half of the petroleum proT'lic-
ed in the world in 1904. A statement
of the world’s production of petroleum
p|F:pared by the British board of tradje,
wnich has just reached the bure.-aa of
statistics of the department of com¬
merce and labor, puts t'ne petroleum
production of tho wol-ld in 1904 at
9 , 303 , 000,000 gallons, I of which 4,-
r,. ' g ’ qqo 000 gallons were produced in
V t nited States, , \
TYPOTHETAE IS F’OR FIGHT.
Employers at New York Prepared to
Resist the Printers.
At a meeting ot the typothetae or
New York city Wednesday night, a
final vote was taken on the question
of resisting the demands of the prin¬
ters for an eight-hour day, beginning;
January 1, and it was stated after the!
meeting that the vote in favor of re¬
sistance was practically unanimous.
It is announced by international President James typo
M. Lynch of the
graphical union that nine of the big¬
gest offices in New York have already
conceded th§ eight-hour day. f
IN DIAZ’S SPECIAL CAR.
Remains of Consul General ParsoMs 1 j
Were Brought Across Border. UonJil
The remains of the late J
General Parsons arrived in Lareio,
Texas, Thursday from Mexico en rofte c&n-
to Albany, N. Y. They were ac
p an j e d by Mrs. Parsons jand oiler
members of the family,
rema |ns were brought to $he
United States on the special car of
President Diaz. , j „ _
GRAY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 4 . 1906.
CAPITAL FOR SOUTH
Moneyed Men Hurrv to Invest
Coin in Dixie,
AGENTS ARE KEPT BUSY
-
General Prosperity, Cotton Prices and
Wide-Spread Advertising Prove to
Be Drawing Factors as
Never Before.
With the wonderful increase in the
business of both freight and passon-
.
south are concerned. These officials
say that the advertising which the
south enjoyed the past year in news-
papers all over the country on ae-
count of the high prices paid for cot-
ton has been attracting the attention
of capitalists and investors as never
before.
Never in history have the agents
received so many queries as to con¬
ditions and favorable opportunities,
etc. And the number of persons who
are coming south at this time for the
purpose of looking over the ground
personally is quite in keeping with
the heavy volume of correspondence.
Winter is always the time when the
land and industrial agents are busiest,
for it is at this season that men of
the north, east and west come down
to Dixie both for the purpose of get
ting away from the bitter cold and
at the same time to get in touch with
chances for investing their money to
the best advantage.
For the last few years this num¬
ber has been growing very rapidly
because of the wonderful resources
of the south and the marvelous de¬
velopment made possible by the grow¬
ing prosperity of the farmers, plan¬
ters and people generally of this sec¬
tion These investors have not omy
made money in the south, but they
have gone to their old homes ani
told- their friends and neighbors of
the exceptional opportunities offered
to small or large capital in Dixie.
To a man railroad officials are
agreed that the wholesale advertising
resulting from the great profits de¬
rived from cotton this year is re¬
sponsible and also the fact that the
many banks which are springing up
in the south in agricultural districts
everywhere are responsible for this
influx of millionaire immigrants and
others who have plenty of money for
investment, even if they have not
reached the seven figures stage ot
wealth. The stories of southern banks
having been forced to send their
money east and west to secure inter¬
est on loans because of the citizens
10 f the south having ready money o’,
their own and more on deposit with
no occasion for borrowing; have'crept
into the newspapers of the entire
country, and spread abroad the con
ditions existing below the l’otomac
\ atid Ohio rivers.
industrial agents of southern rail¬
ways say that it is not so long ago
that they had the hardest kind of a
time getting anything of the true sto¬
ries of southern conditions in the
northern newspapers, because @f the
prejudice. This prejaidice was not be¬
cause of the civil war, but of the
reputation which the south and south¬
erners had had this long time, be
cause of the debts and the hard times
which had existed for years.
DRY DOC# BEGINS JOURNEY.
The Dewey Started for Philippines
at Rate of Two Miles an Hour.
The floating dry dock Dewey start
ed from Solomon's Island Friday or.
her long voyage to the Philippine
Islands.
Tho Dewey only travels some 25
miles in eleven hours. She has over
14,10) miles to travel, and at the
rats of two miles an hour, it will
take her upward of nine months to
make the voyage, with smooth
wentltor.
NEARLY SIX HUNDRED MILLIONS
Is Value of Property of All Kinds in
the State of Georgia.
Accort^ingAo the returns made to
tax receivers all over the state of
Georgia by individual property owners
and those made to Comptroller Gen¬
eral Wright by corporations, the value
of all the property in the state for
1905 is $577,967,938, or $47,U73,1S3
more than in 1904.
The total returns as shown on all
the county digests were compiled some
time ago, but the compilation of the
corporation returns made to the comp
troller general, has just been com¬
pleted.
BINGHAM GETS THE JOB. !
Succeeds McAdoo as Police Commis ;
sioner in New York.
A New York dispatch says: Mayor ]
McClellan Friday night announced the j
appointment odore^ Af^ingham, of Brigadier U. S. General .A., retired, The j
as p, jmmissioner, succeeding I |
Willial .MAiJoo, who has held the | j
McClellan’s I i
office »di Mr. flrst
term. >
C0AST line progressive
Great Railroad System Maturing Plans
for Through R. -te to Sea Via
Georgia Capital.
In Saturday tnornirig’s issue the
Atlanta Constitution published the fol¬
lowing: By securing a connection In
Atlanta with the Louisville and Nash
villa, which it owns, the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad proposes to establish a
through route from the west to the
Atlantic seaboard, accordiug to the
latest gossip current in railroad cir¬
cles.
The Coast Line is now the owner ot
everything necessary to create .this
t0 secur0
In other word8> the Atlantlc Coas(
Line , B said t0 havo Bllbmttted a defl
n [t e j statement to the Southern rail
way and the Central of Georgia that
it must have a traffic arrangement
with one or the other of them for
its through business between Atlanta
and Macon, and in the event of a re¬
fusal of both of these systems to
enter into such an agreement, the
Coast Line will, it is stated, build an
Atlanta-Macon line of its own.
It would appear that the Atlantic
Coast Line has hail this plan in view
for some time past. The Coa3t Lino
appeared upon the scene as the pur¬
chaser of the Macon, Dublin and Sa¬
vannah railroad hbout the time the
Louisville and Nashville began active
work upon its plans for getting into
Atlanta.
A question "was raised in the United
States courts which for a time looked
like a serious one, as to the Coast
Line’s right to buy the Macon, Dub
lin and Savannah. This question was
recently decided in the United States
court of appeals at New- Orleans in
the Coast Line’s favor, and the Coast
Lino now becomes the owner of the
Macon, Eublin and Savannah without
legal encumbrances.
The Macon, Dublin and Savannah
runs in practically a straight line from
Macon to Vidalia, in Montgomery
county, a point on the Seaboard Air
Line.
By building from Vidalia to a point
oil the main line of the Atlantic Coast
Line between Jesup and Savannah, a
distance of about GO miles, the Coast
Line will secure a through line from
Macon to Savannah, shorter than that
of the Central of Georgia—in fact,
practically an air line.
The Atlantic Coast Line is the ad¬
mitted owner of the Louisville and
Nashville, and within the next three
months will be running its own trains
into Atlanta from Cincinnati and other
western points. This will come with
the completion of the Cartersville cut¬
off and the work being done on the
.Western and Atlantic in order to pro
pare that portion of the latter road
between Atlanta and Carters vile for
the increased business. :
handling
Thus it will be seen that all the At¬
lantic Coast Line needs for the pur
pose of establishing its through west¬
ern trunk line is, as stated, the short
connecting link between Atlanta and
Macon.
It is understood the Coast Line de¬
sires t|jis traffic arrangement solely
for the purpose of handling its
through business from the west to
the Atlantic seaboard, and would not,
of course, interfere with any local
traffic,
If, however, the Southern and Cen¬
tral both decline to enter into any
such arrangement, the indications are
that the Coast Line is ready to build
an Atlanta Macon branch of its own.
FAKE HOLDUP A TRAGEDY.
Joke Played by College Students
Causes Death of One of Thsm.
Louis Roquela of Colombia, a stu¬
dent at Notre Dame Seminary at
Notre Dame, Ind, Friday night, shot
and almost instantly killed Claude
Bagby of Durango, Cal., when Bagbv
and several other students as a prac¬
tical joke held up Itoqtiela, mistaking
him for another student.
“LID LIFTERS” IN TROUBLE.
Would-Be Reformers in St. Louis Are
Subjected to Heavy Fines.
Officials of several of the organiza¬
tions popularly termed as “lid lifting
clubs,” which were raided recently un¬
der instructions of Governor Folk,
were arraigned in police court at Ht.
Louis, Wednesday, on charges of vio¬
lation of the liquor law. tines were
imposed in sums ranging from $50 to
$ 100 . Judge Tracey denounced tho
organization, declaring that in nearly
every instance they arc merely sub¬
terfuges for the evasion of the Sun¬
day closing law
SARAH’S FEELINGS LACERATED.
Aged Actress Appeals to French Am¬
bassador for Protection.
Through her managers, Sarah Bern-
hardt, who is on a farewell tour of
thj; . country> ha8 aW)< , al0 d to M. Ju«-
Rerand, the French ambassador at
Washington, to protect her against.
Fiat she terms a discrimination of
the so-called theatrical syndicate
against her a# a citizen of France,
GASH WAS SCAROf
Call Money Reached High
Rate in New York.
UNCLE RUSS TO RESCUE
Veteran Wall Street Financier, Sage,
Made Ten Strike by Loaning Six
Million Dollars at the Rate of
One Hundred Per Cent.
After having reached 110 per cent
on the ’New York stock exchange and
agaiu and closed Id bid, offered at
20 .
As the money rate fell, the stock
market advanced, approximately the
highest prices of the day were reach¬
ed at the close. The stock markfft,
except for an early decline in indus¬
trials, was fairly steady throughout
the money tension.
The advance in the interest rate
was sensationally rapid. From 60
there was a quick advance to 75, 90
and then 10U per cent. When 100 per
cent was touched all records since De¬
cember, 1899, were broken. In that
year 186 per cent was paid for call
loans. After lending at 10O Thurs¬
day, there were loans at 90 per cent
The 90 per cent quotation did not last
long, and at 11 o'clock 110 pen cent
was paid for funds, and shortly after¬
wards a loan of $400,000 at 125 per
cent was reported.
Bussell Sage, through his represeu
tative, was reported to have loaned
$6,000,000 at 90 to 100 per cent. More
than the usual discrimination was
shown by the banks in the collateral
accepted by them for loans. The
late for 60 and 90-day loans Thurs¬
day was 6 per cent and a “commis¬
sion,” making such loans really equiv¬
alent to 9 per cent. By 1 o'clock the
demand for money seemed to have
eon largely supplied and money was
lent at GO per cent, fuliing later to 20
per cent. From 20 per cent there was
a further drop to 0 per cent and at
2:45 o'clock the quoted rate was 6 to
10 per cent. President Hepburn of
the Chase National bank said, in an
interview:
“The enormous volume of business
which obtains throughout the country
is making a strong demand upon the
banking power and naturally has ma¬
terially advanced the rates of interest.
“The foreign exchange credit which
the country would normally have is
much curtailed by the shortage of
cars, which prevents the rapid mar¬
keting abroad of cotton and grain,
and also by the concerted withhold¬
ing of cotton for higher prices.
"Normally, we would anticipate such
exchange by our credit abroad, but
Europe has troubles of its own. Hence,
we are called upon to finance our
great volume of business practically
with our own resources, it is tinfor
tunate that at. such a time and under
such circumstances that prices of list¬
ed securities should lie persistently
advanced day by day. It has add¬
ed to the money strain and is pri¬
marily responsible for the high rates
of interest.
“Stocks (if worthy) would have
found a higher level in a normal man¬
ner without creating an unusual strain
and without causing conditions fraught
with possible danger.”
y
COYOTE? ^ • THE RAMPAGE.
Children and Domestic Animais Be¬
ing Destroyed by Them in Mexico.
A San Antonio, Texas, dispatch
says: Great loss of domestic animals
is beln", sustained in northern Mexico
from coyotes and wolves with rallies.
Cattlemen from tho Rio Grande coun¬
try say practically all the coyotes be¬
yond the river arc mad, and the cat¬
tlemen are scouring the country and
exterminating them.
Several Mexican children in Coahui
la have been bitten and died, The
spread of rabies to Texas is feared.
GAMBLING JOINTS WIDE OPEN.
District Attorney Jerome Biffs Poffti
cal Leaders in New York.
That gambling houses and poo!
rooms in New York are as wide open
as ever and that many of the om
iiioyes in these places are given po¬
sitions by political leaders as a part
of the patronage of their district was
charged by District Attorney Jerome
in the court of general sessions Fri¬
day. There were a large" number ot
pool room and gambling house cases
on the calendar and Mr. Jerome ap
peared in person as the prosecutor.
WORK OF FIRE AT LITTLE ROCK
Nearly Whole Block Burned with
Loss of About $100,000.
Ono Of tile most disastroifl 'res ir>
day mor^ng. With the-« 1 Hr
two the small block buildings, bounded by ev . j|| t ti |
on f) V
Louisiana and Center stf . th( ,
strove-,1. The entire kfPt n 1 f i * upon
u.t about $100,000. to ”■ J
VOL. XII. Nft. 8
Shoes for Winter 4 > * --
for all the Family
Shoes for men, dress shoes—
$3.00 to $5.0(1
Shoes for men, farm shoes—
..............$1.26 to $2.50 is
.
.
Shoes for ladies’, dress shoes— m •. «
$2.00 to $4.00
Shoes for ladies, every day shoes-*- »
"|H........n.oo |^ ; oo
m Shoes for boys—that etand ro
$ 1.25 to $zt »0
Shoes for girls for s»nool—
........ .. .. ..$1.00 to $2.00
SHOES—SHOES—ALL kFndS OF K
SHOES.
COME TO SEE US.
We guarantee everything We sell to be first-class leather .
itESTER-WHITNEY SHOE CO •9
516 Cherry St., Macon, Ga.
_L.
PERMENTER SHOE CO • 9
421 Third Street, Macon, #
Have what the Peddle Want at
Money Saving* Prices.
* SHOES FOR DRESS.
CHILDREN'S SCHOOL AND
5 to 8 from 65c to...................... .......... $1.24
8 to 11 from 90c to.................. $1.25 *
,. ..........
11 to 2 from $1.00 to ...................... : .. .. ...... $1.50
WE HAVE THE BEST STOCK OF BOYS’ SHOES EVER
SHOWN.
“AMERICAN GIRL,” Ladies’ Fine Shoes............ ..... $2.50
(Best of Its Class.)
“SOUTHLAND BELLE” at $1.50
(In fine Kid; also in Box Calf.)
GENTLEMEN WHO DESIRE THE VERY BEST A*TD DRESSIEST
SHOE CALL FOR A OROSSETT OR “FIT-ZEE,” $3.5(1. TIU3 GBN-
UINE STEWART BROGAN AT $ 2.25.
PERMENTER SHOE CO.
C. B. WILLINGgAM,
Cotton Factor,
MACON, GEORQIA.
By a liberal policy and honorable methods I have
built up the largest Colton Commission business
in Macon, Georgia,
Ship me your colon and get best returns
J. B. WILLINGHAM.
W. A. DAVIS & CO
#
Cotton Factors,
MACON, m a GA.
. Best Cotton Sellers in the City.
THEY KEEP A FULL SUPPLY OF BAGGING ANI) TIES.
n wapis aid lilies
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
H. L. BARFIELD,
MACON. o
HEADQUARTERS FOR
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SUys 12 in. or O In. apart Stay* 12 in. or 0 in. apart
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