The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, December 12, 1913, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'(XJ • J < $ THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE. VOLUME XVI. CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 19151. NUMBER 49. IN LEMS FLOODS DEATH AND DEVASTATION HOLD ING HIGH CARNIVAL IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. COLONEL OBREGON CITIES SENDING SUPPLIES Pathetic Feature Is Number of Men Who Perished Working to Save Others. Houston, Texas.—The number of known dead as a result of the flood which has spread over the lowlands in a dozen counties in south-central .Texas reached 160, with several thou sand refugees marooned In half-flood ed cotton gins and dwelling houses, safe from the water for the time be ing, but suffering from hunger and j exxposure. Four-fifths of the dead and marooned were negro farm hands. Of the dead the greater number lost their lives in the vicinity of Bry an, where a 30-mile stretch of levee along the Brazos river crumbled un der the pressure of the flood. Hempstead, In Waller county, from which reports had been meager, re ported twenty drowned and others mlsBlng. Reports from half a dozen other small towns is Waller and ad joining counties, advanced the total fatalities to 150 in all. The great danger was freezing and starvation. For the second successive night ice was forecasted over the 30- mile district about Bryan, where 1,800 persons, mostly negroes, are maroon ed with little food or Are. Urgent appeals for blankets and food were received frcyn central Tex as almost to thp gulf coast. A -train load of provisions was ordered from Austin to Cause, in Milam county, on the Brazos, for 600 marooned. Close to Simonton, In Fort Bend county, near the mouth of the Brazos river, fifty persons were shut up in a ware house without food. Texas cities all began pouring mon ey and supplies into the booded dis trict, Houston raising $8,000 in cash. REFUGEES REACH BORDER Huerta's Army and Civilians at Rio Grande—Troops* Mget Fugitives. Presidio, Texas.—The complete route of Huerta’s Federal army in northern Mexico, with the frantic flight of his generals for safety to the border and the demoralization of the unpaid troops, was established with the arrival at OJinaga, Mexico, opposite Presidio, of the civilians who deserted Chihuahua City. In the remarkable liegira which struggled for eight days over an 185- mile trail through the desert and en dured great hardships for want of food and water were Qen. Salvador Mercado, Huerta's deposited military governor and commander of the Fed eral troops in the north; Gen. Pas- cual Orozco, Gen. Antonio Rojas, Gen. Percale Caraveo, Gen. Ynez Salcers. They had deserted their post in fear of Gen. Francisco Villa’s rebel army and virtually had surrendered to the rebels at Chihuahua, the state capi tal, and the largest of the far north ern cities. Along with them came, burdened with what property they could carry, men, women and children, represent ing some of the richest families in the republic. Their flight with the army was in the face of reports that they might e"pect no mercy, should they fall into the hands of the rebels. Luis Terrazas, a wealthy land owner, reputed to own half of the state of Chihuahua, was said to have brought with him a vast fortune in cash. Wilson Denies Request of Women. Washington.—President Wilson told a delegation from the National Amer ican Woman’s Suffrage Association that he favored a standing woman's suffrage conamittee in the house of representatives, but he denied their request that he send a special mes sage to congress urging the reform. Marching by twos and four with ban- Colonel Obregon Is one of the men entitled to the credit of bringing to a high degree of efficiency the machine gun regiment of the Mexican rebels. COTTON GINNING REPORT SIXTH COTTON GINNING REPORT ISSUED BY THE CENSUS BUREAU. 12,081,000 Bales Were Ginned Up to December 1—A Comparative Statement. Washington.—The sixth cotton gin ning report of the census bureau for the season announces that 12,081,000 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1913 have been ginned prior to December 1, to which date during the past seven years the ginning average 83.2 per cent, of the entire crop. Last year to December 1, there had been ginned 11,854,541 bales, or 87.9 per cent, of the entire crop; in 1911 to that date, 12,816,807 bales, or 82.4 per cent., and in 1908 to that date 11,008,611 bales, or 84.1 per cent. The number of sea island cotton bales included were 61,616, compar ed with 61,275 bales last year, 87,656 bales in 1911, 77,691 bales in 1909 and 68,396 bales in 1908. Gainings prior to December 1 by states, with comparison for last year and other years and the percentage of the entire crop ginned prior to that date in those years, follows: States. Alabama Arkansas Loulsana Mississippi . Oklahoma Tennessee Year. Glnnlngs. P.i . 1913 1,365,888 1912 1,161,482 87 .4 1911 1,430,076 84 .7 . .1913 78,038 1912 659,505 85 .5 1911 680,434 74 .9 . .1913 58,490 1912 48,630 82 .7 1911 74,056 78 .4 . .1913 2,064,792 1912 1,564,428 86 .3 1911 2,339,354 83 .7 , .1913 340,068 1912 343,323 91 .6 1911 313,624 82. .4 .1913 955,588 1912 817TT07 81. .4 1911 892,495 76, .3 i .1913 622,746 1912 764,569 ' ”83. .3 1911 828,660 73. .6 .1913 761,439 1912 869,278 86. .5 1911 783,989 77. ,1 . .1913 1,161,437 1912 1,041,689 85. 1 1911 1,310,963 77. ,5 .1913 304.602 1912 208,721 78. 0 1911 319,979 74. 4 . .1913 3,571,331 1912 4.314,821 92. 9 1931 3,747,932 91. 3 .1913 85,703 1912 70,388 78. 1 1931 89,245 64. 2 Other States The glnnlngs of sea island cotton pri or to December 1, by states, follows: ners aboat, the suffragists braved Year. Florida. Georgia. So. Car. chill winds of a raw days to storm 1913 . . 22,207 34,816 4,496 • the while house offices. They were 1912 . . 17,826 •29,756 3,693 soon ushered into the president’s pri- 1911 . . 32,350 51,496 3,810 vate office, and formed In a circle 1909 . . 25,905 41,164 8,522 about the president. 1908 . . 27,907 32,140 8,349 two weeks. REPORT SUBMITTED MISS MARJORIE BROWN UNCLE SAM’S WORK FOR THE FARMERS OF THE UNITED STATES. WILL PLAN MAIN GROUPS Secretary Houston Forecasts Reor ganization of the Agricultural Department. Washington.—Reorganization of the department of agriculture is fore 1 shadowed in Secretary Houston’s first annual report presented to President Wilson. A plan to be submitted to congress in the fiscal estimates for 1916 proposes to carry out the work of the department in fivfi or six main groups, such as research, state rela tions, rural drganization, forest serv ice, weather and regulation. Such a plan Secretary Houston believes will promote co-ordination. Plans for redistricting the country for the enforcement of the pure food law are announced, and the secretary announces his intention to ask for au thority to prepare qflfcndments to the pure food law toun prove the food supply, protect thtaaubllc health and promote uniformif^m food leg islation. Jjr Free distribution of seeds by con gressmen should be discontinued, the secretary recommends. He would con duct in its stead a constructive work in securing and distributing new seeds and plants. Conditions vary widely in the Unit ed States, says the report, because farmers do not equally need better oredit arrangements, ar*i all sections are not similarly circumstanced. It contends that when all necessary al lowance has been made for fundamen tal factors, it is probably clear that the rural communities are not as ef ficiently served as they should be by existing financial arrangements. The secretary believes there does not ap pear to be need for unique or special legislation which shall aim to give the farmer credit on easier terms than other members of society. What is needed is the creation of conditions and machinery which shall enable him on similar credit foundations to secure money at the same rates as those that prevail for other classes and for other sections. 197 PASSENGERS ARE SAVED Passengers Rescued From Burning Steamer Rio Grande. Norfolk, Va.—Wireless reports re ceived here tell of the rescue of 197 passengers from the steamer Ring- rande, or Rio Grande, by the steamer Swanmore, 205 miles northwest of Diamond Shoals. The Rio Grande had a lire in her hold, and sent otft wireless S. O. S. calls for assistance. The Swanmore picked them up and went to the assistance of the burning steamer. She reached the Rio Grande before daybreak. She took off her passengers and, after helping to sub due the flames, put them back on board the Rio Grande. The latter steamer proceeded on her voyage with the tire under control. The following message received here from the Cuban steamer Antllla tells of the rescue: “Second operator at noon received relay from steamer Sk'unmore to send nearest Marconi statiMhithat she went to help of Ringrande j jjanswer to her appeals for assistance fit 4 a. m. De cember 7. Also staSiJ took off 197 passengers until fire ;■?:& put out, then put them back again,|«|ungrande pro ceeding under own^jHm. All well.” I New York. Dodge of the British steamer jF am >re in a wire- i less dispatch ref ; f Jli here from the i Virginia Beacl^'. »n briofly describ ed the rescue m! \ passengers from the steamer Rio *; fande, which was Of afire 205 miles Shoals. Captain Dodi spouse to appc alongside the l m., and took the Swanmore Rio Grande ha the passenger Rio Grande, her own st her destlnat Diamond I tys that, in re- r aid, he arrived vessel at 4 a. sengers aboard the Are on the put out. Then returned to the proceeded under Brunswick, Ga„ Miss Marjorie Brown, who was one of the bridesmaids at the White House wedding, le a cousin of the Wilson girls and resides In Atlanta, Ga. U. 8. FINANCIAL REPORT SECRETARY McADOO MAKES HIS REPORT ON NATIONAL FINANCES. He Expects Enactment of Currency Legislation to Cure Many Existing Ills. Washington.—Secretary McAdoo’s first report to congress is largely con fined to a review of the achievements of the treasury department in matters that have been of nation-wide interest; to recommendations for increased ap propriations for bureaus under his au thority, and for legislation, which he declares necessary to the better con duct of the government and the pro tection of the people. The secretary discussed at some length the subject of currency legis lation, reviewing the activities In his department related to It. Mr. McAdoo details the treasury’s offer to loan to banks of the country money to move the fall crops. The sum of $46,500,000 out of $50,000,000 estimated to be needed, was apportion ed among the states. "It was essential,”' says the secre tary, “that the action of the depart ment should be non-partisan and non- political; the crops of Republicans, Democrats and Progressives and all other classes of people had to be mov ed, and the earnest effort of the de partment was to have the benefits of this action diffused as widely and im partially as possible.” After praising the psychological value of these incidents, the report continues: “They demonstrate clearly that any Improvement In our financial system which will permanently establish con fidence will in itself be an immense gain, and if that improved - financial system assures the opportunity to se cure at all times the necessary funds and credits to meet the expanding and legitimate nqeds of the commerce and Industry of tne country, it will be an achievement of enduring .benefit “These Incidents also show conclu sively the enormous value of an al truistic government agency in the financial affairs of the country. So long as the government has the pow er to Intervene in a beneficent and un selfish way, thed anger of panics and of unjust practices will be largely, if not wholly, destroyed. This is one of the chief objects sought in the pro posed reformation and reorganization of our banking and currency system. The people of the country are to be congratulated upon the early prospect of sound legislation on this vitally im portant subject. Should the conferesss enact thef undnmentals of the pend- enact the fundamentals of the pend- nent protection will be provided against recurring commercial crises, HIILUFY ELECTIONS HUERTA CONGRESS CALLS NEW ELECTIONS FOR NEXT JULY. WAS NOT A DISSENTING VOTE Unless the Rebels Throw Him Out, the Dictator Will Remain In Power. Mexico City. — The Mexican con gress nullified the recent presidential elections. New elections are called for next July. Congress, according to this action, expects General Huerta to remain in the presidency for at least seven the presidency for at least seven, months more; and if the time neces sary for the selection and installation of his successor Is taken Into con sideration, It will be well towards the end of September, next year, before he yields his power to another. In voting that the recent presiden tial election was null, the deputies decided to fix the first Sunday In July, 1914, as the date for the new election. They also confirmed the po sition of General Huerta as provision al president until then. The action of the deputies was ac companied by no dpbate. The commit tee’s report was approved without a dissenting vote as rapidly as the arti cles could be read. The measures taken also provide for the election of a new congress since the one elected to take the place of that dissolved by Huerta is to serve out an unexplred term which should terminate September 15. Although there were no dissenting votes In the chamber on the commit tee report. It was noted that the Catholic deputies absented themselves from the session. “DRYS” STORM THE CAPITOL Mighty Prohibition Demonstration In Washington. Washington. — Prohibition forces from all over the country gather ed In Washington for a dem onstration before the national capital. More than two thousand men and women, representing the Anti-Saloon League of America and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, march ed In separate bodies to the capltol, bearing petitions demanding that na tional prohibition be effected by con stitutional amendment. Disagreement as to the part each organization should play in the pre sentation of the petitions threatened were to cause a sprit in the temper ance forces, but all differences were smoothed out. As a result, the com mittee of one thousand men, repre senting the Anti-Saloon League forces, were received at the capitol first, af ter which they withdrew and the wom en made their plea. Brig. Geri. A. S. Daggett acted as grand marshal of the men’s proces sion, while the women were headed by Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens of Maine, president general’ of the W. C. T. U. EGGS WILL BE CHEAPER Government Says Young Hens Have Begun to Lay. Washington.—Relief from the pro hibitive egg prices is lu sight, ex perts of the department of agricul ture announce In a special report on the subject, because pullets all over the country have begun to lay. Infor mation reaching the department Is to the effect that already poultry own ers are reporting a 60 per c**nt. egg reduction. Explanation of the shortage of last fall, they say, dates back to weather conditions of last spring and sum mer. ^‘Investigation of weather condi tions,” says the report, “shows that the spring was unusually wet and cold, which set’ back the laying de velopment of the pullets; and the un usual drought of July further post-. poned the laying period, because both of these weather conditions affect the food supply of the pullets. The pul lets that noramlly b^gin to lay In the fall have not commenced their laying until about a month later than the usual fall laying season.”

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The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, December 12, 1913, Image 1