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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE.
THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE.
VOL. XIII.
CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY, GA., JUNE 17,1910.
NO. ‘23.
BREWERS SAY PROHIBITION
WAVE IS FAST RECEDING
Southern States Legally “Dry”
Are Very “Moist.”
SAU Of BEER BAS INCREASED
Vigilance Committee ol the Brewers Report
That Illicit Distilling Has Increased
Throughout the South.
Washington, D. C.—The vigilance
committee of the United Hinton Brow-
era' Association, who hold tlioir an
nual convention hero, believes that
Uie year juBt ended, marked the
height ami the beginning of the re
cession of tiie wave of prohibition,
and so reported.
in Alabama's repudiation of u pro
hibition amendment to the state's
constitution tiie brewers see great
hope of the license principle being ap
plied in territories now totally dry
and Uie committee views with satis
faction tiie districts which have
swung out of the dry columns.
A resume of conditions through the
stales, presented to the convention by
the committee, charges in effect that
prohibition in many states prohibited
nothing at all.
for Georgia, the committee report
ed: "This stute Is legally dry but ac
tually as moist as tiie needs of tiie
people require.'' Under prohibition
Illicit distilling has trebled lu tiie
statu and the moonshiner now gets
live dollars u gallon for tiie stuff he
used to sell for a dollar.
In Oklahoma, the committee declar
ed, there were throe times as many
arrests and violations since the state
had gone dry as there were when it
was licensed territory.
•‘Kentucky,’’ tho committee report
ed, "gives unmistakable signs that it
has uo use for statewide prohibition,
while Maine, the parent of prohibi
tion, is still goiDg on In the old way,
giving fortli no fruits of repentance.'
A condition which the committee de-
Hcrlbed as ulurming was reported as
existing In Soutli Carolina. "Never
has illicit whisky distilling there been
so popular as in tiie last year," suid
the commlttoe. "Revenue officers'
records show more than 200 illicit dis
tilleries destroyed and more than 200,-
000 gailoas of whisky nnd low wines,
including ‘white llcker' confiscated. In
Greenville county ill u month, 31 stills
were confiscated, the report assorts.
While tho prohibition movement has
ridden at high tide, tho salo of beer
lias increased 00,000,000 gallons. In
these ninety million gallons of beer
were nearly 4,000,000 gallons of pure
alcohol.
SUGAR TRUST MEN GUILTY.
Heike and Gerbracht Convicted of
Defrauding the Government.
New York City.—Charles It. lleiko,
tho whlto-halred secretary of the
American Sugar Refining Company,
was convicted on one count of an
indictment charging conspiracy to de
fraud the government of customs du
ties on sugar.
Krnest W. Gerbracht, former super
intendent of the Williamsburg (Brook-
lyn) refinery, wus convicted on all
six counts.
For James F. liondernagel, former
cashier of thG refinery, the jury stood
7 to 5 for acquittal. Ho will bo tried
again.
This ends tho government’s second
attempt to imprison tho group of men
responsible tor tho vast under-weigh
ing frauds, to which the so-called trust
has virtually confessed by the restitu
tion of more than $2,000,000 in duty.
Heike is tho highest official of tho
company upon whom blamo has been
fixed and he now faces a possible
sontcnce of two years in tho federal
penitentiary nnd a lino of $10,000.
POSTAL BANK BILL PASSED.
Government Will Accept Deposits at
Poatofftce In Future.
Washington, D. C.—By tho over
whelming vote of ono hundred and
ninety-five to one hundred and one
the house passed tho postal savings
bank bill. Twenty-four democrats
joined the republicans in voting for
the final passage of the bill.
The measure has already passed
the scnntq. having been introduced
there by Senator Carter of Montana.
Agreement between the two house*
in conference will not be difficult.
This legislation is expected to
place In tho hands of the government
for safe keeping or Investment in
government bonds several billions of
dollars. As an Incident to the safe
keeping of this vast sum It Is predict
ed that a central bank will Inevitably
be organised; In fact, that one will
1m almost imperative.
PRESIDENT SNUBS HARRISON.
Tilt Reluted to See Democratic Representa
tive From Hew York.
SOUTH'S FABNERS ADVISED
TO TRY NEW ROOT CROPS
• "UNFORTUNATE * •
• FOR PRESIDENT." •
• It Is of no concern to me that •
• I am not welcome nt tho white •
• house, but it is of concern to •
• every American citizen that a *
• statement of tho truth about *
• tho president may render it ini- •
• possible for u reprosentativo to •
• discharge Ills duties. *
• It is unfortunute for the pres- •
• ident tiiat he cannot stand crlt- •
• icism; it is unfortunate for the •
• country that he cannot stand the •
• truth.—-Representative Harrison. •
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Washington, D. C.—President Taft
declined to receive Representative
Francis Burton Harrison, democrat,
of New York who called at tho white
IIAIIHIMON, OF NEW YOltK
He Wat Snubbed by the President.
house in company witli two other rep
resentatives to introduce a number
of Jewish rabbis who took up with
tho president the question of tho ex
pulsion of Jews front Russia.
Tho president received the delega
tion aful chatted with its various
members for fifteen minutes or more.
Representative Goldfogle of Now
York, acted as spokesman for the
party, •
Mr. Taft based his refusal to see
Mr. Harrison on statements attributed
by newspapers to tho representative
in connection wotii his resolution In
the house culling upon Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham for full information
os to the connection of his office with
with Bellinger-PInchot episode. Mi.
Harrison, according to the white
house version of tiie matter, charged
tho president and the attorney gener
al with having wilfully attempted to
mislead congress in the back-datllng
of tho attorney general s summary of
the Glnvis charges agallnst the secre
tary of tho Interior.
Founder ol Tit-Bits Dead.
London, England. — Sir Georgo
Newnes, the founder of tho Westmin
ster Gazette, Tit Bits and tho Strand
Magazine und the donor of tho inter
national chess trophy bearing ills
name, died at his home here. Sir
George wu shorn March 13, 1351, und
wus formerly a liberal momber of
parliament representing Swuusoa
Town. He was tho son of a Derby
shire clergyitiun.
Chinese Stop American Boycott
San Francisco, Cal.—Pending the
result of a final appeal to the federal
authorities for the removal of tho
Immigration station detention sheds
from Angel Island to thiB city, the
Chinese, It is said, have decided to
call off the proposed boycott on Amer
ican goods.
Yellow Fever in Ecndor.
Washington, D. C. — Yellow fever
has broken out among the troopB of
the Ecuadorean army at Machala, a
town on the Ecuadorean coast. • ac
cording to udvices to tho Btate de
partment from Minister Fox. Ninety-
two cases were reported. They hove
been guarding the Ecu ado roan-Peru
vian frontier and were withdrawn in
compliance with the mediation otter
of tho United States and Argentina,
to bring about a settlement of the dif
ferences betwoen Peru and Ecuador.
Newsy Paragraphs.
The democratic substitute for the
bill of tho majority was rejected, one
hundred and thirteen to one hunareu
and ninety-six. This attiou followed
an entire session devdted to a debate
upon the subject of postal savings
bank legislation. 7<*"
Three Tropical Plants Will Do
Well In Southern Soils.
WILL UTILIZE WET
Government Proves Bjj, Experiment That the
Tuatlas, Taros and flasheen Plants Will
Be Valuable Assets to South.
Washington, D., C.—Tho southern
farmer is advised ty the department
of agriculture to try some now varie
ties of root crops with which expurts
ol the bureau of plant industry nave
boon experimenting and believe will
be of practical vaiUe m tiie southern
states. |
Three new tropicA plants have been
found by experiments in North Caro
ltua to do well in this latitude. They
bear the Impressive and somewhat
mfslifyiug names of yuatias, taros
and dusheens. They’ cuu be grown on
lands too wet for any root crops or
any, cereul except rice.
These plants comprise salad plants,
tubers which are said to be excellem
for table use ns well tas for stock feed
roots valuable lor starch and also
as a source of alcohol. For the native
Hawaiians, they fortti a staple food,
and are also used us food m Japan,
China, tho Malay archipelago, Porte
Rico and other hot countries.
For many years the lack of a wet
luud root crop bus been felt through
out tiie south Atlantic and Gull
states." says the expert detailed to
investigate the luotUl. "In view oi
the fact thqt some AO.OtiO acres in the
Carolinas aJadOeorgliahuve been ful
ly -abandoned,' with 3*1 f us * much
ground that la ouly.pointed mi c< m
two to four.yeacB qnbUcQupt of_ th*
deorottswT^proflte
that section, an effort lias been mado
to find profitable crops which may he
grown in the rich soils of the coast
plain area of both of the Tcglons
mentioned, which are too wot for
profitable potato culture."
The report says that yautias, taros,
and dustmens come from the tropics,
and their crop season is sufficiently
short to ullow of their maturing iu
ordinary seasons before the advent
of killing frosts.
Tho yautiu plant is said to yield
as high as t> or more pounds of tu
bers to tho hill, and tho averago for
common varieties in ordinary soil
may Ik* reckoned at 2 to 4 pounds
por hill. Tho yield of the tnro is
ubout the sumo as tliut of tho yauua
Tho yield of the dasheen is 5U to
75 per cent of that of the yautla.
nadn ' B- 1
INCREASE IN PRICES PROBED.
Bureau
Investigation by Government
ef 257 Commodities.
Washington, D. C.—Beginning with
September, 1908, ttero has been a
monthly increase in wholesale prices,
without a tiroak, up to March, 1910,
and during the latter month tho prices
were higher than at any time hi the
preceding 20 years, acording to a re
port which hue been Issued by the
bureau of labor.
Tho report is based upon an inves
tigation of 257 commodities and says
that the wholesale prices during
March of the current year were 7.5
per cent higher than in Marcu, 1909,
10.2 per ceut higher than in August,
19908, 21.1 per cent higher than utc
average yearly price of 1900, 49.2 per
cent higher thnn the average yearly
price of 1897, and 33.8 per cent high
er than tho average price for the tea
year, 1890 to 1899.
The wholesale prices in 19.09 ad
vanced 3 per cent ovor tho prices ol
1908, but with this advance, they
were still 2.3 per cent below the the
averago of 1907, tho year of highest
prices within the period of 1890 to
1909.
Of tho 257 articles investigated, 125
showed an increase in the average
price for 1909, os compared with 1908,
31 showed no change, aud 101 show
ed a decrease.
TO SUPPRESS GRAFT.
National Anti-Graft Movement Organ
ized in Washington.
Washington, D. C.—The first con
certed stop toward suppressing graft
in all its forms througaout tho coun
try was taken here when the organ
ization whose name will be "The Na
tional Antl-Gratt Movement," opened
ofllces in tills city, from which it
will conduct its campaign. The move
ment is the direct result of the anti-
graft speech made recently by for
mer Governor Folk of Missouri at a
banquet tendered him by the Missou
ri democracy. It is sold considerable
funds already have been pledged to
put the organization on a substantial
basis.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
Tiie Massachusetts senate refused
by a roll cull voto of sixteen to six
teen to pass the bill for a general
tax on all Incomes over $2,uu0, which
had previously pusHcd the house.
The latest census of Japan shows
that the population in 1908 numbered
49,581,928. lu 1398 the total was
13,703,855. There has tints been an
increase in the docudo of close on
9,000,000.
Governor Noel aud other Mississip
pi state officials were much surprised
wheu no bids were offered ou the
$000,000 state bond issue authorized
by the legislature at its session auu
which were to have been disposed of
to the highest bidder.
Following an excess in offerings
of stock In all sorts of insurance com
panies the Alabama department ol
insurance ruled taut no company will
he allowed to sell stock iu Alabama
until ufter it is licensed as an insur
ance company; nor will any company
be permitted to do business iu Ala
bama uutil liccnsod Ly the insurance
department of its own state.
For tiie British Rudium eorporution
a London concern has const! noted a
safe that will he not only burglar
proof, but which is designated to pre
vent tiie escape of tnu immensely val
uable particles of the rare element,
redium. Emanations from radium
pass readily through the thickest, and
hardest steel, lienee the inner cotter
was made of lead three Inches title
and this is incased iu a burglar-
proof steel shell.
A dispatch received hero by the
foreign ofilco says tiiat Mohammed
Abdullah, the Mud Mullah, whose
cruelties have resulted iu terrible out
rages In Africa and tuc sending of
several expeditions against him by
Italy and England, has been captured
and shot by natives friendly to the
whites. According to the dispatch
he was captured in a fight at Hardo-
ga, and after Ills execution his fol
lowers dlsbumled aud are now in
’flight pursued by their Iocs.
nASFBALf..
Umpire O'Louglin declares that
Lajoie is his ideal of a batsman.
Frank Isbell, late of the White Sox,
is getting nlong well with his Wichita
Club.
Oscar Stallage, of tho Tigers, is a
much Improved catcher over what he
was last year.
The Brooklyn Club has sold pirrher
Hunter to tho Montreal Club, of tho
Eastern League.
“Chick” Fraser is pitching for
semi-pro. clubs In Chicago, and Is be
ing hit pretty hard.
Tho St. Louis Club has turned
pitcher Pickett, of Columbus, O.. over
to the Louisville Club.
Manager GrlfiUh, of Cincinnati, 1ms
j switched Mike Mitchell back to ills
original position-*—right field.
Looks ns if the Boston Club got n
pretty likely young player in Collins,
secured in a trade with the Giants.
if Terry Turner isn’t as good as ho
ever wus there has been no sign of
it. He covers as much ground any
way.
No matter how poorly lie welts the
hull against other clubs, Hans Wag
ner Is always on tho Job against New
York.
The Highlanders are making a rec
ord this season as strong finishers.
This always speaks well for a ha 11
team.
Pitcher Waddell, whose elbow was
declared fractured by Boston physi
cians, has no fracture at all. An
X-ray examination at St. Louis proved
that no bones wero broken. Oh,
theso doctors!
In tho American Association the
Minneapolis Club has purchased first
baseman Charles Mullln from the
Chicago American Club; nnd St. Paul
has sold outfielder "Lefty" Davis to
the Lincoln Club, of tho Western
League.
cent visit" td'lierl
writ in u suit for flO.lXJIf broi
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, tho
claimant to polar honors, on a
charge that Peary appropriated sup
plies belonging to Cook in the arctic
worth tiiat amount, it is said that
Cook intends to bring the action in
the German courts.
Initiation ns a sub-port of entry
was given Baton Rouge, La, und tho
Mississippi river above New Orleans
became another pathway for ocean
going vessels wheu the Standard Oil
steamer A. F. Lucas from New York
entered tho mouth of the Mississippi
aud steamed by Baton Rouge on Its
way up the river. An oceau-golng
steamer's passing by Now Orleans
wus an uuusual event, but it markeu
tho beginning of an era according to
a large delegation of business men
from points up the river, who came
to welcome the steamer and its crew.
Washington News.
Speaker Cannon's job is safe for the
present. The insurgent republicans
in the house practically decided rath
er than try to unseat him they will
use him us u campaign issue next
fall.
The house bill authorizing the dis
posal of Lie surface of coal lands for
agricultural purposes was passed b>
tho senate. The measure, which is
considered very important, now re
quires ouly the signature of the pres
ident to make It a law.
Tho "Culobra slide," which has
been the cause of much apprehension
on the part of the constructing engin
eers on the Isthmus of Buuauia, has
become more serious than was at
first feared.
All the railroads which are affected
by safety appliance lawH passed by
congress during the last year or so
are preparing to ask for extensions
of time in which to comply with the
now regulations.
President Taft nominated William
U. Crum of South Carolina to be nun
inter-resident ind consul general at
Monrovia, Liberia Crum 1b the ne
gro whose appointment by Mr. Roose
velt us collector of tno port at Char
leston, S. C-, raised such a storm of
protest In the south.
In a comparatively insignificant re
paration case, the interstate com
merce commission made a ruling of
the highest importance to interstate
railways and shippers. It held that
a connecting line receiving a ship
ment without instructions may de
mand instructions from tho initial
carrier, hut if, instead of pursuing
that course, it assumes responsibility
of routing, it must accent the result
ing liability for any increased ciiurges
that may follow a mistake In selecting
tho wrong route. More difficulty is
experienced by the commission and
by shippers with the ulsrouttng of
freight than with any other
plaints with which the
has to deal.
Thirty-Story Hotel.
IB.—Hans iyt the e^ec
■of
> -announced. According i
plans the hotel will contain 1
rooms and will cost $5,000,000.
Illinois Truckers Prosperous.
Cairo, III.—Tho strawberry crop,
which Is now nearly marketed has
brought $500,000 in lliis county this
season, according to statistics just
compiled. Most of the strawberries
went to Chicago. The berries brought
from $1.50 to $2.50 ou the track aud
from tiie profits sonio of the growers
are buying automobiles.
To Stop Bird Slaughter.
New York City.—Mrs. RusbcU Sage,
who can he seen frequently feeding
the squirrels in Central Park, and
who is u devout nuturu lover, gave
$15,000 to the National Association
of Audubon Societies to carry on a
campaign of education in the south
aguinst the slaughter of robins. In
the southern states the robin ranks
only a little below the quail os a
game bird. This, it is understood, is
only the first of Mrs. Sage's contri
butions to the work.
To Increase Small Bill Supply.
Washington, D. C.—The treuBury
department uus taken steps to in
crease the supply of smalt bills, for
which there always is a heavy de
mand for the fall months of the year.
Especially is this the case with tiie
one and two-dollar denominations,
their Issue legally being limited to tho
silver certificates. Country bankB
und those In the communities where
business is not large especltUly re
quire tho smaller currency, and it is
with difficulty that tho treasury Is
able to meet the deinund. There is
also u shortage of five dollar bills.
corn-
commission
The Deliineator for July.
The midsummer number of Tiie D
linentor presents life from many con
trasting points of view nnd all \ '
turn the pages of the magazine must
find not only much tiiat Is entertain
ing, but, better still, much that •
conducive to serious reflection. First,
there Is the editorial page, "Conver
sazione," in which Erman J. Rii)"-
way touches the keynote of universal
kinship.
The Man's Page is a new feature or
The Delineator. As every one know-,
men are fuitliful readers of the ntn*
zino and now a special department
has been prepared for the members of
the family who don’t care whether
skirts are wide or narrow, gored or
circular. To the man's page welt-
known humorists have contributed.
Well, Not Exactly.
A new German professor in a girls'
college, wishing to detain one of tho
students, said: “Oh. Miss . may
1 hold you a minute after class?"