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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. •I' t . < jgubi . loo tin. 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.