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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 AMERICAN FIELD UNO HOG FENCE T ss/vm. 55 INCH. tn 4 47 IN. 9 —M. Jit- 39 a § . L-? » * •' • 7 7 r; J2 Mu -L_ai jm— ti 26 !T __r r j, Li* 11 — r—f— 20 IN. AH :4zp::t||0 1 -» trxz: - 1 1 V Sg!—5 EL Kegular Style Special HoJ, HOrse and Cattle Styl* SUys 12 in. or O In. apart Stay* 12 in. or 0 in. apart Made of large, strong, high-grade steel wires, heavily galvanized. A.mpiy provides jsj for expansion and contraction. Is practically ever- : ast j n g eve r goes wrong, no matter how great a strain is put oil it, ***•$$ bot “ ra hor “ > ’ •# CUBE* /Wo* MERICANj^NCE m. o. Chronic Jj GUARANTEEg||)jr Unnatural D y-^roo«« |. v u- and resfltK -ee it. Can show cr-cupants. fell I ..rrestert under ot fer portly charges al**>.y will Sti tried o <