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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE.
THERE IS
NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME
PAPER TO HOME
PEOPLE.
VOLUME XVII.
CLAYTON,
BA.BUN COUNTY, GEORGIA* 1
LTU'DAY, JANUARY
1(5, 1<>14.
NUMBER a.
(MEKESS SIMTS
CATO SELLS
ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION LOOMS
AS BIG BUSINESS AT THIS
SESSION OF CONGRESS.
SUPPLY MEASURE PASSED
i
The Anti-Trust Experts Are at Work
in Both Houses—A Period of
Great Activity Begun.
Washington.—Congress settled down
to its long regular session after a
recess dating from the passage of the
currency bill just before Christmas.
The coming administrate anti-trust
legislation loomed up as the big busi
ness of the winter; but with the pro.
pent of waiting until the president
message both houses turned actively
to other matters.
in the house return to work was
celebrated by prompt passage of the
llrst of the annual supply measures,
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill, and the introduction of the usual
opening day batch of miscellaneous
measures. The senate began debate
on the Alaskan government railroad
bill.
Anti-trust experts' in both houses
began a period of extraordinary activ
ity, to end when the anti-trust pro
gram is written into law before the
close of the session.
Chairman Clayton and Representa
tives Carlin and Floyd of the house
committee, are reviewing the long Hut
of anti trust measures already before
the committee, it is not probable that
any of these hills will be accepted an
a part of tile administration plan, but
all the ideas embodied in the.m will
be considered. Senator Newiands of
the senate commerce committee ex
pects to take up the anti-trust pro
gram soon.
Representative Webb of North Car
olina Introduced his Ml Uo s-reagthert
the Sherman law by declaring illegal
every contract, combination or con
spiracy in restrain of “any part” of
trade and designed to reach so-called
gentlemen’s agreements or understand
ings His bill would put the burden
of proof of reasonableness upon the
defendants.
SEISMIC SHOCKS IN JAPAN
Volcanic Eruption Follows Shocks and
People Are in Panic.
Tokio. Japan.—A series of 350 slight
earthquakes shook the town og Kago
shima at the southern end of the island
ol’ Kiuahvu. They were followed by the
eruption of a volcano on Sakura, a
small island in the Cult of Kagoshi
ma, where two villages were hurled
in ashes.
The earthquakes continue incessantly
and the work of rescuing the inhabi
tants of Sakura by boats across the in
tervening three miles of water from
Kagoshima is extremely difilculc.
Warships have been dispatched to
Kagoshima with doctors.and supplies.
Railroad and telegraph lines are now
broken.
The town of Kagoshima is in great
danger, according to the latest reports.
Earth shocks and violent volcanic
eruptions continue. Inhabitants are
fleeing for their lives. The popula
tion of the Island of Sakura is about
15,000. and it is impossible to estimate
the casualties. It is feared many have
perished.
The volcanic eruption on Sakura be
gan with thunderous explosions and
the volcano became a roaring furnace.
Burning rock and ashes set fire to
several villages.
Two Negroes Lynched.
Tampa, Fla.—News was received
here of a double lynching between
here and Mulberry, when a mob is
alleged to have captured two negroes
charged with assault on a white man
named Collins, and strung them up to
a tree. According to meager details
■of the crime brought here. Lewis Peck
.and an unknown negro assaulted Col
lins, supposedly in the belief that he
was the man who had testified*-against
them in a court prosecution. The
lynching lias stirred the large number
of negroes engaged in the phosphate
Helds at Mulberry to a high state of
•excitement.
MRS. MEDILL M'CORMICK
Trust in God, Says Marshall.
„ Washington.—Infidelity and discus
sion front the pulpit of the latest bits
■of scandal were scored by Vice Pres
ident Marshall, in an addross to the
Woman’s Missionary Society here. He
■declared lie would rather have the
American people bow down before an
image thau acknowledge no God at all,
adding that If the republic Is to en
dure “We must go back and place our
faitli in God.” “Wliat this country
needs," said the vice president, “}s
not laws, police nor large armies. It
needs men with backbone."
Cato Sells, the commissioner of In
dian affairs at Washington, has just
outlined his program for bettering the
conditions of the Indians and recover
ing the millions of dollars the red men
have lost to the land sharps. He
plans criminal prosecution of those
who have robbed the red man and
will compile facts for presentation to
congress leading to drastic legislation
to safeguard the health and wealth
of the Indians. ThiB picture shows
Mr. Sells at his desk in Washington.
0. S. ARMY !S UNPREPARED
UNITED STATES SHY OF FIELD
GUNS'AND ALSO OF
AMMUNITION.
General Waod Paints Doleful Picture
of Army to Congressional
Committees.
Washington. —Explaining that Ills
judgment was not influenced by the
Mexican situation, Major General
Wood, chief of staff of the army, has
advised committees of congress that
they should appropriate $3,000,000 for
field guns and ammunition
“If you sent our troops into war as
they are now-, without guns or ammu
nition, it would be absolute slaugh
ter,’’ the general told the house mili
tary committee. “If called into the
field suddenly, we should have to go
with a small allowance of ammunition,
and v/e should have neither guns nor
ammunition enough for our field artil
lery forces."
General Wood, in a written state
ment, said:
"We neither have guns nor ammuni
tion sufficient to give any general com
manding an army in the field any as
surance of success if attacked by an
army of equal size which is supplied
witli its proper quota of field artil
lery.
“It is my belief that no modern war-
between first class powers will last
for one year, and unless private manu
facturers are encouraged to manufac
ture ammunition for our guns, after
war is declared, they will not be in a
condition to do so until after the war
is finished.
“The war department believes after
extended study that, in cases of war
with a first class power, an artny of
500,000 men will be needed to give
this country any chance of success
against invasion, and that this force
will needed at once.”
The general suggested that the
United States regular mobile army
should be organized into three infan
try and two cavalry divisions with
an aggregate war strength of about
75,000, requiring 54 batteries, or 216
guns.
MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, DOGS,
CHICKENS AND CATTLE
PACKED TOGETHER.
REFUGEES ARE IN DISTRESS
There Are Six Generals, 2,800 Private
Soldiers and 1,500 Civilian
Refugees.
I’residio, Texas.—Twenty-eight hun
dred Mexican federal soldiers, six gen
erals, 200,000 rounds of ammunition,
two cannon, four large field pieces and
1,500 civilian refugees are in the cus-
toduy of the United States army bor-’
dor patrol as the result of the federal
evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico, and the
occupation of the Mexican village by
General Francisco Villa’s rebel forces.
The distress of the refugees is in
tense. They have scant food and no
shelter. Men, women, children, dogs,
chickens and cattle are packed togeth
er in a space covering several acres.
About them are scattered all the goods
and baggage brought in flight from
Ojinaga.
Urgent requests for the immediate
removal of soldiers and refugees to
some other place were sent by Major
McNamee to the war department
Other results of the rebel successes
that placed General Villa’s army in
undisputed control of a vast section
of northern Mexico are:
Federal Generals Mercado, Castro.
Orpinal, Romero, Aduno and Landa are
in custody of the United States troops
awaiting disposition by the war de
partment.
General Pascual Orozco and General
Ynez Salazar, federal volunteer com
manders, escaped along the border to
some point remote from Presidio. Sal
azar was wounded. They were accom
panied by General Caravoo and Gen
eral Rojas and 300 cavalrymen. Sala
zar and Orozco are "jug watched for
in tile United States tor indictments i
charging them with violating the neu
trality laws.
firs. Medlll McCormick, daughter of
tM2 late Senator Mark Hanna, is the
new chairman of the congressional
committee of the National American
Wcman Suffrage association and has
opened headquarters In Washington.
Sh' has been a leader in the suffrage
movement In Illinois for several years.
13,333,074 BALES GINNED
CENSUS BUREAU REPORT OF GIN
NING PRIOR TO JANUARY
FIRST, 1914.
Compares with 12,907,405 Bales, Which
Were Ginnedv in the Year
of 1912.
Biography of Great Evangelist.
Winoua Lake, Ind.—While Rev.
Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist,
was resting here recently, after a
strenuous campaign in Johnstown,
Pa., he received word that the new
biography, “The Spectacular Career
of Rev. Billy Sunday,” was off the
press. It is the work of T. T. Frank-
uulierg and the evangelist auys it Is
a truthful account of his life.
Assert Thaw Is Not Dangerous.
Concord. N. H.—The release on bail
of Harry K. Thaw would not menace
public safety, two of his custodians de
clared at a public hearing before the
commission appointed by the federal
court to pass upon Thaw’s mental con
dition and its relation to his libera
tion under bonds. Holman A, Drew
sheriff of Coos county, and Clark D.
Stevens of the local police force, who
have had Thaw In charge since Sep
tember, favored his admission to bail.
Thaw and his mother were present
with counsel.
EUGENE H. GRACE IS DEAD
Final Chapter Written in One of Great
est Georgia Tragedies.
Newnan, Ga.—Eugene Grace is dead
and the final chapter has been written
to the famous tragedy. The end came
at his Newnan home where he has
been living for months.
Around him were gathered Ills moth
er, brother, sister and stepfather and
a number of relatives.
While the angel of death was hover
ing over Eugene Grace there came
from the North the report that the
woman he accuses was cherishing the
hope that her husband would recover
and ask her back into his sunny South
ern home.
Grace was wounded Murcli 5, 1912.
Awaking about noon with a bullet in
his spine, lie crawled from bed to tele
phone police headquarters. Policemen
found him unconscious in a locked
bedroom of his East Eleventh street
home, Atlanta, Ga. He accused his
wife and she was urrested at the Ter
minal station on her return from her
husband’s home in Newnan.
Mrs. Grace declared the shooting
was accidental. She faced Grace in the
hospital, where lie accused her before
detectives, saying she shot him while
he was asleep. She was jailed, but
shortly after gave bond and made a
trip to Philadelphia. Her trial occur
red several weeks later and she was
acquitted. The wounded man attend
ed the trial on a stretcher, constantly
reiterating Ills accusal. Upon acquit
tal Mrs. Grace returned to Philadel
phia, where she now lives.
Wilson Departs From Southland.
Pass Christian, Miss.—After nearly
three weeks of rest and recreation at a
little cottage near the gulf coast here,
President Wilson bade farewell to the
Southland. He told Mayor Sassier and
a crowd of citizens who gathered at
the station to bid him Godspeed, that
ho had enjoyed Ills vacation very much
and had benefited greatly by the
change of climate, and had obtained
exactly the rest lie had desired. The
president and his family got aboard
his car early in the evening and had
retired long before, the train was due
to depart.
lingteii.—The: eighth cotton gin-
r,> ’
the season announces that 13,333,074
bales of cotton, counting round as
half hales, of the growtli of 1913 had
been ginned prior to January 1, to
which date during the past seven years
the ginning averaged 93.4 per cent, of
entire crop. Last year to January 1,
there had tieen ginned 12,907,405 bales
or 95.7 per cent, of the entire crop,
14,317,002 bales, or 92.1 per cent., in
1911, and 12,465,298 bales, or 95.3 per
cent., in 1908.
Ginnings prior to January 1 by
states with comparisons for last year
BAYONETS 10 RULE
GOVERNMENT MEETS GENERAL
STRIKE ORDER BY DECLAR
ING MARTIAL LAW.
SITUATION IS VERY GRAVE
Feeling Is Very Bitter Throughout the
Country—Natives Are
Feared.
Cape Town, Union of South Africa.—
A general strike throughout South Af
rica was proclaimed by the Trades
Federation, and the Rand miners, by
a two-thirds majority, voted to join
in the movement. Governmental retal
iation was swift in the form of the
proclamation of martial law.
Tills was the only step the authori
ties believed adequate to meet the sit
uation, for the strike of the miners
means not only the turning loose of
the most turbulent spirits in the Rand,
but raises the whole question of the
position of the native workers, if the
miners actually obey the strike order,
the government will immediately take
steps to send the natives, under es
cort, hack to their kraals.
Tliis means that about two hundred
thousand natives must be marched
back by road to their homes at enor
mous cost, it will bo most difficult,
after the end of the strike, to recruit
them again. In brief, such a step
would mean disaster for the Rand for
many years.
Although official reports from the
city of Johannesburg show improve
ment in the train service, reports from
other districts are less encouraging.
In Natal the situation is one of great
tension, and it is feared that the loy
alty of the trainmen will not stand the
strain much longer. An instance of
the men’s temper is shown hy the ac
tion of an engine driver who quit ills
train on the Veldt and left the passen
gers stranded.
Practically no information is at hand
as to conditions in the Orange Free
| States, but improvement there is not
t ••Ml •(..» HI -.Htjll..
and other big crop ypjirs
follow *
States. Year.
Ginnings.
Alabama ....
.1913
1,467,943
1912
1,288,227
1911
1,618,510
1908
1,302,338
Arkansas. . . .
.1913
933,389
191s
732,118
1911
786,329
1908
910,423
Florida ....
.1913
65,269
1912
56,042
1911
86,421
1908
66,855
Georgia ....
.1913
2,276,477
1912
1,756,834
1911
2,623,917
1908
1,930,783
Louisiana . . .
.1913
1,143,067
1912
366,402
1911
352,503
Mississippi . .
.1913
759,664
1912
857,189
1911
1,047,299
North Carolina.
.1913
759,664
1912
857,189
1911
975,223
Oklahoma . . .
.1913
804,457
1912
947,452
1911
900,409
South Carolina
.1913
1,342,988
1912
1,173,216
1911
1,508,753
Tennessee . . .
.1913
354,549
1912
248,503
1911
381,281
Texas ....
.1913
3,668,080
1912
4,461,746
1911
3,926,059
Other states .
.1913
107,105
1912
82,257
1911
110,298
1908
67,777
The ginnings
of sea
island cotton.
HUERTA DEFAULS ON DEBT
Dictator Announces No Interest Will
Be Paid on Debts.
Mexico City.—After a meeteing of
the cabinet, which lasted all night, the
Mexican foreign minister, Querido Me-
heno, announced that the Mexican gov
ernment will default in the payment
of all interest on the bonds of the
internal and external debts, which now
remains unpaid or which falls due with
in the next six months. A heavy pay
ment of Interest on the foreign debt
becomes due in April.
It has been the practice of the gov
ernment to make weekly remittances
to New York, London and Paris to ap
ply on its interest obligations, in or
der that when the interest payment
periods arrived the money would he
in hand. TJiese weekly remittances
now have been suspended, the explana
tion being that the government re
quires all available funds for pacifi
cation purposes.
The foreign minister said also that
ho had been instructed to notify all
foreign governments of the default.
12 Worst Boys in United States.
Chicago.—The twelve worst boys in
the United States were brought togeth
er in Chicago. They will leave to
establish the Last Chance Boys’ Club,
on a nine-acre ranch 27 miles from
Reno, Nevada, whero an effort will be
made to make valuable citizens of
them. The club is supported by Jack
London, Upton Sinclair, Robert Hun
ter and Jack Robbins. The boys range
in age from 13 to 15 years. They were
selected from among nine thousand
bid boys In twelve states and each is
rated at more than 87 per cent. bad.
prior to January 1, by states, follow:
Years. Florida. Georgia. So. Car.
1913 , . . .25,166 41,768 7,386
1912 . . • .21,085 39,543 6,629
1911 ... .38,091 63,099 4,798
4 United States Seamen Drown.
Norfolk, Va. — The capsizing in
Hampton Roads of a motor cutter from
the battleship Wyoming, flagship of
the Atlantic fleet, resulted in the loss
of the lives of four seamen of the
Wyoming’s crew. The accident occur
red’ near the very spot where a launch
from the battleship Minnesota went
down in 1907 with the loss of eleven
lives, mostly young midshipmen re
turning to the Minnesota in a storm
after midnight following a social af
fair at the Jamestown Exposition
grounds.
Not Moral Turpitude to Libel King.
New York.—If it would not involve
a moral turpitude to publish in Eng
land a defamatory libel "against a
field laborer In Devon or a street
sweeper in London,” it would noi in
volve moral turpitude to publish the
same libel “regarding the lord chan
cellor, or even tho king,” the United
States court of appeals held. The
court expressed this view in deciding
that Edward F. Mylius, whom the de
partment of commerce ordered deport
ed, cannot be barred from the United
States on the charge of moral turpi
tude.
Thousands Killed by Quake and Wave.
Tokio. Japan.—A tidal wave added
its terrors to the earthquakes and vol
canic eruption which struck Kagoshi
ma, in southern Japan, according to
official advices. It is believed the
Kagoshima disaster will prove to be
one of the most serious in the history
of Japan. The loss of life and prop
erty increases with fuller news from
the scene. The full extent of the dis
aster could not be ascertained, as all
communication u as cut off.
John Skelton Williams Comptroller.
Washington. —President Wilson has
nominated John Skelton Williams of
Virginia, assistant secretary of the
treasury, for comptroller of the cur
rency and ex-officio member of the
federal reserve board which will ad
minister the affairs of the now' cur
rency system. Mr. Williams is now
assistant secretary of the treasury in
charge of the fiscal bureaus and Sec
retary McAdoo’s first assistant in mat
ters of government finance. The of
fice of comptroller of the currency has
been vacant several months.
LITTLE ITEMS OFGEORG1A CITIES
Senoia.—B. Q. W. Kempson, a high
ly respected and successful farmer,
residing near Senoia, was thrown
from his buggy and broke Ills neck,
lie had been to the mill and was re
turning home when his mule became
frightened at a hole in a bridge
across a branch, backed flic buggy
off the bridge and threw Mr. ICemp-
son out. The deceased was 69 years
of age on January 10,-and is survived
by a wife and nine children.
Macon.—-From the death of Me-
Ewen Johnston, whose will was of
fered for probate, and who left an
estate valued at approximately $750,-
000, the state of Georgia will receive
in inheritance taxes about $7,500. As
this is tile largest estate which has
become subject to 'tihe inheritance
tax since the law was approved by
Governor Slaton on August 19 last,
some account of tho operation of the
act will lie of general interest.
Cedartown.—The record of fires for
the year 1913, as shown by tlio re
port of the chief of the fire depart
ment, S. W. Good, to the mayor and
city council, reveals some Interesting
facts. The department answered
twenty-four alarms during the year,
four of which wore false. The prop
erty loss \as the small amount of
$43.75. Probably no city of equal
size in the United States can show
such a record.
Williamson.-—John Shipp, newly-
elected marshal, shot and killed Wil
liam Bibli, a negro, in a desperate
pistol duel just as three passenger
trains met here. Bibb, running to
cathch a train, dropped a pistol from
his pocket. When Shipp ordered him
to give up the pistol, the negro op
ened fire on the marshal, firing two
shots before Shipp got bis gun. lie
then shot and killed the negro almost
instantly. A large number of people
around the depot were within range,
but, escaped tile bullets.
Rome.—The prospect of extending
the Rome and Northern from its
present terminals at Gore to Snblig-
na, a distance of eight miles, has met
with approval throughout Uio terri
tory affected. A mast: meeting of the
of S-ubligtt-'. ;-■ dire turn tho
^ njuitei ha*'; peon f af eo »n<i ' u <!••-
gation of Romans will attend the
meeting. it is hoped to raise the
sum of $15,000 as a bonus to obtain
the extension, in addition to a free
right-of-way.
Oordele.—The annual report made
before the commissioners of Crisp
county shows that during the past
year seventy-one miles of public road
have been constructed, not including
the improvements made on tho high
ways of the county from time to
time during the year. Though the
commissioners have purchased twelve
new steel bridges during the past
year, ranging in length from twolvo
to forty feet, and costing several
thousands of dollars, they have re
mained within their financial means
and have a considerable sum in the
treasury to take up their work during
the ensuing year.
Atlanta.—According to a compara
tive statement which lias just been
completed by State Treasurer W. .1.
Speer for his 1914 report, the state
banks found themselves in a much
•more prosperous condition ut tho end
of 1913 than they did at the corres
ponding period in 1912. The total
resources of the 693 banks, which
are now operating as state banks,
show an increase of $5,693,000 over
tho preceding year; cash on hand
lias increased $7,098,043, and over
drafts have decreased $1,814,057.23.
Deposits have increased $15,872,849,
while bills payable show a decrease
of more than $13,000,000. Capital
Btock has increased $1,100,000, while
surplus and profits show an increase
of $1,042,000.
Savannah.—Alexander Akerman.
United States district attorney for
the southern district of Georgia, has
been directed by the department of
justice in Washington to have reas
signed for trial the cases against
the members of tho alleged naval
stores trust. The defendants are tho
former officers of the American Nav
al Stores company that recently went
into liquidation. This determination
on the part of the department of Jus
tice has caused much surprise In
Savannah, as it was believed that tho
decision of the United States su
preme court in reversing the decision
of the United States district court,
where the defendants were convict
ed, would bring the case to a conclu
sion.
Thomasville.—The beginning of
the year 1914 finds the people of both
Thomasville and Thomas county in
a decidedly -more optimistic frame of
mind in regard to conditions gener
ally than was the case at this tii
last year, and everythin/* seenjB
point to continued improvement for
the year along all lines. Although
the past year began under very fa
vorable conditions it proved, after
ail, to be one of the best known herq
in some time and it has left both
county and the town in better shap
than has been the case In severa