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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE.
THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE.
VOLUME XVI r.
CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY <5, 101 -1.
NUMBER 5.
IN THE COTTON BELT
' HENRY M. PINDELL
BOLL WEEVIL CAUSE OF FIVE
HUriDRED MILLION DOLLAR
L0S3.
PLANTERS FEAR TO PLANT
Fl3U r es Show Damage Wrought by
Cotton Pest Totals Staggering
Washington.—Owing to the. ravages
of the boll weevil a loss In the pro
duction of cotton in this country of
more than 10,000,000 bales, which, at a
value of only $50 a hale, represents a
financial loss of $500,000,000.
Interesting facts regarding the de
structive work of the boil weevil
throughout tho South are given In a
little pockets pamphlet just Issued by
Director of tho Census W. J. Harris.
Tlie damage to crops, by the boll
weevil in the states of the South, Is
estimatedtas follows:
In seven selected counties of Missis
sippi the production of cotton in 1007
amounted to 101,700 bales, valued at
nearly $11,000,000. The boll weevil re
duced this proportion to 80,577 bales In
1000;- to 61,432 bales in 1910; to 37,816
bales in 101!,’and to 50,800 bales in
1012. The aggregate productton'for the
four years amounted to 210,634 bale's,
valued at approximately $14,600,009.
Had the crop of 1007 been produced
for each of these years the aggregate
would have exceeded 767.000 bales
valued at about $48,600,000. Mauy
farmers in these counties abandoned
entirely the attempt to produce cot
ton..
The boll weevil now covers the
southern portion of Alabama. Selecting
six counties In the eastern part of the
state, which are in the direct path of
tlie weevil, the production during live
years has amounted to 772,325 hales,
•which sold for about $45,000,000. if
tlje ravages of the weevil in these
cocat'■ ; insult in ,r ciuoir..g
production in the selected counties in
Mississippi, the cotton produced dur
ing the four seasons following the
spread of the weevil throughout these
counties would amount to 440,000
bales, and the financial loss, computed
at. $50 per hale would he more than
$22,000,000.
Selecting five important cotton-pro-
ducing counties in western Georgia,
which arc also in the path of the
weevil, the loss in the production dur
ing four seasons following the Inva
sion of the insects would range from
200,00b bales, based on the experience
of tho counties in Texas, to 350,000
and 390,000,000 bales, based on the
production in the selected counties in
Mississippi and the parishes in Louis
iana, respectively. The resulting finan
cial loss in these counties would be,
therefore, from $10,000,000 to $19,-
500,000.
The production of cotton during the
last five years in the five most import
ant cotton-growing Counties in South
Carolina was 1,478,728 bales, a'value
of approximately $S7,500,000. Should
the boll weevil infest these counties,
with a resulting loss in cotton produc
tion such as occurred In the selected
counties in Mississippi, the reduction
in the crops during the four seasons
following the dispersion of the in
sects would he 840,000 bales, valued
at $42,000,000.
Ill MEAT SUPPLY
DECREASE OF 19,000,000 IN THE
MEAT ANIMALS IN THE
UNITED STATES.
C0MPARASI0NS ARE MADE
Amazing Drop Since 1910 Reported
by the Department of
Agriculture.
Henry M. Pindell, publisher of the Pe
oria (III.) Journal, has declined the
appointment of Ambassador to Rus
sia.
43 PERSONS PERM SEA
NINETY-ONE ARE BROUGHT BACK
TO LAND BY THE M. & M.
STEAMSHIP NANTUCKET.
Many Unable to Leave the Staterooms.
No Time Was Civcn to Adjust
Life Preservers.
POST REFUSED BY PINDELL
Russian Ambassadorship Declined by
enry M. Pindell.
Washington.—Ylenry M. Pindell of
Peoria, Ill., who was nominated re
cently and coulirmed as ambassador to
Russia, has declined the appointment
■according to a letter to President Wil
son, mudo public at the white house
Mr. Pindell wrote President Wilson
that, although the senate had Investi
gated accusations in connection wttli
iiis appointment, he felt, nevertheless,
that no controversy of any kind should
surround the appointment of any am
bassador. as it was liable to be misun
derstood abroad.
President Wilson, in a letter in
which he expressed regret and his un
qualified confidence in Mr. Pindell's
ability, character, discretion aud suit
ability for the post, acccepted the
•decliuatlon.
Norfolk, Va.—The story of how 43
souls went down to death In the chill
waters of the Atlantic when the liner
MmtRrtcet rammed aid souk
steamer Monroe, was brought to port
by 91 survivors of the sunken ship's
passengers, rescued and brought to
shore by the Nantucket.
It was a story of awful and sud
den death, sweeping out of the dark
ind fog. and taking unawares the
doomed half hundred with the heavi
ness of sleep still upon them. It told
how tlie stricken Monroe, with her side
gored deep by the knife-like steel prow
of the Nantucket, filled rapidly, rolled
over on her side, and in a few min-
; turned completely over and then
plunged to tlie bottom, carrying with
her the ill-fated passengers and mem
bers of the crew who had failed to get
clear of tho wreck.
Thrilling are tlie stories told by
those rescued from tlie jaws of death
when the Old Dominion Steamship
company’s steamer Monroe, bound
from Norfolk to New York, turned
turtle at sea within ten minutes after
she had been in collision with the
Merchants and Miners’ transportation
company's steamer Nantucket in a
dense fog off tlie Virginia coast. Re
vised lists put the loss of life at forty-
three, of which number nieteen were
passengers and twenty-four members
of tlie Monroe’s crew. It was as if
they had come from tlie dead when,
eight of the Monroe’s passengers
whom wireless reports had put in the
list of the lost, walked or were borne
from tlie steamer Nantucket when the
latter landed the rescued at Norfolk.
There were notable deeds of heroism
by Assisting Engineer Oscar Perkins
and First Wireless Operator Ferdinand
J. Kuehn. Perkins when the inrush
of water put on the main dynamo and
left tlie Monroe In complete darkness,
rushed below and put to work
emergency dynumo. He is among the
rescued.
Wireless Operator Kuehn gave the
first 3. O. S. call and after adjusting
a life preserver which would doubt
less have saved ills own life, removed
this from Ills body and put it on a
girl. Kueliu was lost. His assistant,
R. L. Etheridge, was saved, and walk
ed Into the arms of his wife, who stood
to greet him as tlie Nantucket docked
with tlie rescued.
J. Gaitley, second officer of the
Monroe, gave ills life preserver up to
a lady who had none, nnd after being
washed into the water saved himself
by grabbing a floating ladder.
Washington.—Shortage of meat ani
mals in the United States was strik-j
ingly demonstrated by compurativ >
figures made public by tlie department
of agriculture. The report showed
that there are nine less beef cattle,
seven less sheep and three less hog;?
now for eacli 100 persons in tlie coun
try than there were in 1910. This
means that it would Like 18,259,000.
more cattle, sheep and swine to give
the present population tlie same sup
ply that the census of 1910 showed to
exist.
While the population of tlie country
is estimated to have increased from
91,972,000 to 98,646,000 in the past
three years, the number of beet cattle
has decreased 12.0 per cent., and of
sheep 5.2 per cent. The number of
swine increased slightly, 1.3 per cent,
but it did not keep lip with the propor
tional growth of population.
’’This incrouse in value, however,”
the department pointed out, ‘‘does not I
necessarily moan that farmers or stock
raisers are making more, if any, profit
On the contrary, tlie cost of proclue
lion has probably increased more rap
idly than the Increase in the selling
price of livestock. Producers of farm
products are tho last to receive any
benefit from higher prices paid by con
sumers, yet they are among the first
to increase production if there Is a
prospect of realizing better returns.
“The very fact that there is a prr .
ent shortage of nearly 10,000,000 me.
animals in the United States since '
census of 1010, indicates clearly tti
tho business Is not profitable to pro
ducers.
The scarcity of meat animals is at
tributed by department experts to the
encroachment of farms upon range ter
ritory, lack of a proper range loaslng
laws, shortage in tlie corn and forage
crop in Kansas, Nebraska and Okla
homa, increase in the value of land
and higher cost of labor and stock
feed; decline in stock raising on farms
ill. the East, and South because of poor
marketing facilities, the temptation to
sell livestock tit prevailing high prices
and enormous losses from hog chol
era.”
MEXICAN FACTIONS PUT ON AN
EQUAL BASIS BY PRESIDENT
WILSON’S ORDER
MEETS GENERAL APPROVAL
President Believes That His Action 16
the Best Course to End
the Trouble.
LITTLE ITEMS OF GEORGIA CITIES
Mrs. Egbert, a former society girl
of Chicago, Is suing Percival W. Clem
ent, former president of the Rutland
railway and twice candidate for gov
ernor of Vermont, claiming $12,916 for
breach of contract to employ her to
trace his family tree and $2,000 for a
diamond ring which she 6ays he ap
propriated to his own use.
: i TICK QUARANTINE RAISED
MORE TERRITORY IS FREED FROM
CATTLE TICKS THROUGOUT
THE SOUTH.
Over 17,000 Additional Square Miles
in Eight Southern States to Be
Released From Quarantine.
Child's Death Charged to Negroes.
Jonesvllle, Va.—Charged with burn
ing tho four-year-old child of a de
ceased relative, Will Calolway and
Ills wife are under arrest in the local
jail. According to sheriffs officers,
the negroes confessed to the crime
\ipOn being taken to the scene. Callo
way, the officers state, in his confes
sion, is alloged to have admitted strip
ping the child of its clothing aud burn
ing it, while ultVe, on a camp fire. The
reason given for tlie act, according
to the alleged confession, was that
the man and his wife tired of the child.
$10,000 in Bills Left on Car Seat.
Macon. Ga.—Conductor Walter Lit
tle picked up a package in a seat of
a Central of Georgia railway car at
Columbia, Ala., which later was found
to contain $10,000 in bills. The name
of J. C. Kountz appeared on tlie pack
age and it was found that the money
belonged to a Dothan bank with which
Mr. Kountz is connected. The money
was in possession of a messenger, who
left tlie train at Columbia. It was re
turned to the bank. The money, along
with several other packages, had been
placed In a hand gnp.
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FREE SILVER EDICT ISSUED
Rebel Leader Decrees Free Coinage
of Silver.
Chihuahua, Mexico, — Currency is
sued by the Bank of Sonora, the Bank
of Minero ami other banks establish
ed under llio Diaz regime will he
treated as counterfeit money after
February 10, under a decree issued by
the rebel government. The free and
unlimited coinuge of silver will be
offered as a moans of providing ample
money.
Tlie embargo against the old bank
currency, which is frowned on as a
survival of tlie cientillco days, when
the Creels and Terrazascs wore in
power, will render worthless in the
rebel territory millions of dollars in
paper money.
The offer of free coinage will tie ex
tended to all bullion owners, but it lias
not been indicated to what extent the
offer will he accepted. Tlie rebel gov
ernment already is in possession of
much bullion which will be coined to
enrich the treasury. It also was an
nounced that a large American smelt
ing interest which controls Industries
in Colorado and other parts of the
United States, lias entered into an ar
rangement for the immediate opening
of a smelter in Chihuahua, which has
been closed for many weeks.
shlngton.—Tlie territory in tho
h -t-;1 /-ojn f-n'Mn ♦iej,'i aud re
leased from quarantine lias been in
creased by 17,106 square miles by an
order issued by' the acting secretary
of agriculture, effective February 16,
1914, releasing additional portions of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Okla
homa and Texas. This action lias been
taken as a result of further progress
made In the extermination of tlie ticks
which spread splenetic or Texas fe
ver of cattle. The total area released
since the beginning of the work in
1906 now aggregates 215,908 square
miles, and amounts to about 30 per
cent, of the territory infected ut the
time the work was undertaken.
Tennessee is tlie first of tlie states
extensively infested by the ticks to
be entirely freed from this pest und
released from quarantine.
Tho portions of tlie several states
to be released from quarantine on
February 16 under tlie order mentioned
are as follows:
In Virginia: Tho county of Sussex
and the balance of the county of
Greenesvllle.
In North Carolina: Tlie counties of
Moore, Hoke, Scotland, Robeson and
New Hanover.
In Georgia: Tlie counties of Mor
gan and Franklin.
In Tennessee: Tlie remainder of
Marion county.
In Alabama: Portions of tlie coun
ties of Jackson and Sumter.
In Mississippi: Tlie counties of
Clay, Jasper, Smith, Scott and Le
flore, the remainder of the counties
of Lowndes, Holmes, Madison, Attala,
Rankin, Noxubee, Chickasaw, and por
tions of the counties of Claiborne, War
ren, Yazoo, Sharkey, Bolivar, Newton,
Grenada, Leake, Monroe, Jones and
LaFayette.
In Oklahoma: Tho county of Cot
ton and the remainder of the counties
of Tillman, Grady, Craig and Ottawa,
and portions of the counties of Mc
Clain, Osage and Delaware.
Washington.—President Wilson, by
an executive order, made public at the
white house, removed all restrictions
against the exportation of munitions of
i war into Mexico from the United
States, placing tho contending Mexi
can elements on a basis of equality
with respect to tlie purchase of arms
and supplies in this country. The ex
ecutive order emphasized that it was
the desire of the United States to he
in the same position of neutrality to
ward the contending factions in Mexico
as were tlie other powers.
The text of the proclamation fol
lows:
"Whereas, by a proclamation of the
president, issued on March 14, 1012,
under a point resolution of congress,
approved by the president on tlie same
day, it was declared that there exist
ed in Mexico conditions of domestic
violence which were promoted by tlie
use of arms or munitions of war pro
cured from the United States; ana,
“Whereas, by joint resolution above
mentioned, it whereupon became un
lawful to export arms or munitions
of war to Mexico except under such
limitations and. exceptions as the pres
ident should prescribe;
“Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son, president of tlie United States of
America, do hereby declare and pro
claim that, as the conditions on which
the proclamation of March 14, 1912,
was based, have essentially changed,
and as it is desirable to place tlie
United States, with reference to the
ccnorL i -*tr . j•• nut*- 'tlo m of
war to Mexico, in tlie same position
as other powers, tlie said proclama
tion is hereby revoked.”
Expressions of warm approval came
from both ends of the eapitol when
the news spread of the president's de
cision to lift the embargo. To mem
bers of tlie senate foreign relations
committee it was no surprise, for they
had an intimation of it in their re
cent conference with the president.
Mexico City.—Many of the Ameri
cans resident here, on learning of
President Wilson’s decision to ralso
the embargo on tlie exportation of
arms from tlie United States to Mexi
co, made preparations to leave the
capital for tlie coast.
Juarez, Mexico.—"Tlie Mexican war
will not last much longer.” Gen. Fran
cisco Vital and other rebel leaders
made this comment on the announce
ment from 'Washington that President
Wilson had lifted the embargo against
the shipment of arms and ammunition
into Mexico. General Vilal was conn-
dent that his ability to procure unlim
ited arms soon would multiply rebel
victories, and equally confident that
(lie news from Washington would dis
courage nnd demoralize tlie fcderals so
that a speedy termination of tlie war
would result.
. H. H. Rogers Left $40,000,000.
New York.—A detailed apprlsal of
the estate of the late Henry H. Rog
ers, Standard Oil magnate, who died
nearly four years ago, shows that the
estate is worth about $40,000,000 net,
or some $6,000,000 more than tho value
originally estimated, it was learned.
19 Sailors Are Lost.
Falmouth, England.—Captain Lor
enz, the first* officer, and seventeen of
the crew of the German hark Hera,
Rlsagua, Chile, to Falmouth, lost their
lives when the vessel struck a rock
as she had almost concluded her voy
age. The remaining five men were
saved. The Hera encountered a gale
at the entrance to the English chan
nel. She lost her course and struck
on the rocks near Port Halla Bight.
The vessel immediately filled and the
men took to the boats, which Capsized.
Eight succeeded in getting back.
Condemned Foodstuffs Fill Warehouses
Washington.—Foodstuffs seized by
the federal authorities and held as evi
dence of adulteration or misbranding
in violation of the pure food and drugs
acts are rapidly accumulating pending
court action, the department of agri
culture announces. Several warehous
es scattered throughout the country at
various shipping ports are practically
filled with condemned products.
Taft Warns Against Plutocracy.
Toronto, Canada.—“I sincerely hope
our experience may give you warning
and cause you to take prompter meas
ures to prevent plutocracy reaching
tlie danger point,” said former Presi
dent William H. Taft here in an ad
dress before the Literary and Scien
tific Society of the University of To
ronto. The former president had
dwelt on the industrial expansion of
Canada and the probability that Its
people would come faco to face with
conditions of corporate control exist
ing in the United States.
Farm Extension Bill Wins.
Washington.—The fight which lias
been waged in tho senate over the
plan of distributing the agricultural ex
tension work fund of the Smith-Lever
hill ended in victory for Senator Hoke
Smith. Tlie amendment of Senator
Cummins of Iowa was defeated by a
vote of 40 to 16. The bill as had been
reported provided for a distribution on
a basis of rural population, and the
Cummins amendment provided for a
distribution on a basis of acreage un
der cultivation, which would have giv
en the state of Iowa two and a liulf
times as much as Georgia, although
Georgia lias a larger population than
Iowa.
Compulsory Euucation for S. C.
Columbia, S. C.—The Ylarper-McCra-
vey-Lawson compulsory school attend
ance bill passed the house on the tlura
reading, and was sent to the senate
for concurrence. The bill permits each
school district, by vote of Its resi
dents, to enact compulsory education
for the children of that district.
Women State Ages to Register.
Chicago.—Women citizer.B of Chi
cago turned out In full strength to
take advantage of their first opportun
ity to register as voters. Perfect
weather conditions favored a large reg
istration and estimates vary at from
150,000 to 200,000. Polling places
were made clean and attractive, flow
ers were not wanting. The requirement
that women registering must state
their ages, expected to be a cause of
some awkwardness, proved to have
beeu overrated as a stumbling block.
Women gave their ages nonchalantly.
Columbus.—A Georgia rooster
which will soon start on his journoy
to his new home in tlie north will
leave as a solace to hia late owners
$150 of good Pennsylvania money.
This one of the best priceH ever ob
tained for a chicken native to Musco
gee county, and shows that fancy
fowls of the best quality cun be bred
in Georgia.
Greensboro.—The grand jury of
Greene county, in returning its gen
eral presentment in open court stron-
ly recommended that tho grave of
Governor Peter Early remain In
Greene county, where Ills body has
rested for nearly a century. The jury
also indorsed the cattle quarantine
law, and pledged the co-operation of
the citizens of the county to the state
and federal government In its en
forcement. From tho presentments,
the county is entirely out of debt,
and lias $11,000 to its credit.
Athens.—Two bank presidents and
a cashier, several directors and no
telling how many stockholders have
been the objects of charges by tho
police of Athens in tho past week—
haled into recorder's court to pay
fines for violating the new traffic or
dinance passed by council, requiring
teams and machines to drive to tho
right and to have lights on all autos
after dark. Sixty-one cases in all
have been made in tlie past twonly
days by the specially detailed polico
officers.
Summerville.—Following the finding
of a package of papers belonging tf»
the Bank of Lylcrly sewn in n mat
tress in the home of Mnrk McN'ew,
four minors were lodged in Jail here
charged with the speetaculur dyna
miting the bank and the theft of
$4,000. The four under arrest are Mc-
Now, Jerry WllBon, tho latter's broth
er, Son WilBon, and Henry Hilburn,
the last two being little more than
boys. Detectives who arrested tho
men claim that their prisoners are
also responsible for the robbery of
the Bank of Summerville a year ago.
Macon.—That middle. Georgia has
experienced the best fruit weather in
her history during the present winter
nnd that the indications are that the
crop or peaches tills year will lie
normal in this section of the state,
was the statement made by K. J. Wil
lingham of Macon, one of the largest
growers In the state, who lias just
returned from a ten-day visit to his
orchards at Byron. "This little warm
spell we have been having has had
no effect whatever,” said Mr. Willing
ham. “The critical period for tho
peach growers will come within the
next sixty days!, but it will take a
spell of ten days of real summer
weather, followed by a freeze, to do
any material damage.’’
Griffin.—The people of this city
arc elated over the splendid pros
pects of securing the next session of
the Georgia Confederate reunion,
which will bo held some time during^
the summer months. The combined
efforts of the Spalding county Con
federate veterans and the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, back
ed by the board of trade and the city
council, have secured from State
Commander J’reston of Macon, tho
nssurance that Griffin Is held in high
esteem by those who have the au
thority to determine where the re
union shall be held. Tho letter from
Commander Preston indicates that
Griffin will, In all probability, be the
city selected for the great gathering
this year.
Rome.—It became known here that
erquest for the appointment of a re
ceiver for the State Mutual Life In
surance conipuny of Georgia, with
headquarters here, has been filed
with Judge Ben, Hill, of tho superior
court in Atlanta. The’ petition was
filed by J. E. Lockridge and E. E.
Tanner, holders of approximately
$20,000 worth of the company's inter
est-bearing certificates. There are
said to be approximately $1,300,000
worth of these certificates in all.
The company is said to have assets
amounting to about $3,000,000. Cop
ies of the rule nisi were served oa
officers of tho company here, culling
on them to appear before Judge Hill
in Atlanta on February 24tli, aud
Bhow cause why a receiver should
not bo appointed.
Tallapossa.—Joe Sanford, wanted
in Haralson superior court for moon-
shining and other charges, made a
spectacular escape from officers here.
The man had been taken from a mid
night train und carried to a room,
because his clothing was wet and
officers thought best not to put him
in jail In the wet clothing. The of
ficers guarded him until early in the
morning, and seeing him asleep the
officers left for a few minutes. When
they roturnod the man was gone, and
a rope made of the bed sheets bang
ing from a second story window told
the tale. Sanford had left his cloth
ing, but wrapped himBelf in two good,
blankets for protection against the
air of the morning, which was almost
freezing. He is wandering in the
woods near Tallapoosa, and people
who saw him believed him a crazy
man and did not molest him.
