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The Americus Times-Recorder
(THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
ALBANY WILL
PLAY LOCALS
TWICE HERE
TWO PRACTICE GAMES GIVEN
Sally Leaguers Will Play Here
April 14-15
Final arrangements have been made
by the management of the local club
for 'wo games with the Albany Sally
league Jeam, and these games will be
played here April 14 and 15.
On account of the fact that the vis
itors at the time will be on their way
to Columbia. South Carolina, to open
the season there, exceptionally favora
ble terms were made for the games.
The Sally league season opens oa
April IT.
imager Weber was in Coiambus
yesterday scouting for recruits. He
will return to the city today and make
preparations for active practice work
to begin Monday. It is thought that
practically all the men signed for the
local team will report here either to
day or tomorrow.
LOCAL BANKERS WILL
ASSEMBLE IN ALBANY
At Convention of Banks of
Group Four
The five banks of Americus will be
well represented in Albany on Tues
day next when the bankers of Group
Four, of the Georgia State Bankers’ as
sociation, assembles there in annual
convention. Group Four includes the
banks of all of West and Southwest
•Georgia cities between LaGrange and
Moultrie and the attendance upon the
srnual conventions usually exceeds
two hundred.
The annual meeting of Group Four
was held in Americus one year ago,
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and the royal entertainment extended
the bankers is still remembered with
such pleasure that they may vote to
assemble in Americus again next year,
as guests of the local clearing house as
sociation, when such invitation is ex
tended by the Americus' bankers at
tending the Albany meeting on Tues
day next.
STREETS OF CITY FREE
FROM ROVING CANINES
New Dog Ordinance Seems to be Effective. Bat Few
Dogs Seen on the Streets. Dog Owners Yield
Gracefully to Municipal Legislation That Should
do Good.
Since the passage of the ordinance i
against allowing dogs to run free on 1
the streets, there have been but few '
dogs noticed down in the business
section of Americus. It would seem
that now the law is being pretty es- ]
fectively enforced.
Though some of the owners of val
uable dogs were a little piqued when i
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the ordinance was first passed, these (
have gracefully come across in this i
particular, and it is thought that
these very dog owners will later bo
most enthusiastic in favor of the ne v i
ordinance. Its enforcement should
serve to win all citizens over to the
support of it,
Under the provisions of the new or
dinance all members of the police force
EREE WOOL BILL
AND FREE SUGAR
BOTH CAN’T PASS
PRES. FAVORS CONCESSION
Louisiana Members Hold Pow
er Balance
Washington, April 4. President
Wilson would like to see free sugar,
but recognizes that a concession may
be necessary to Southern planters,
and would consent to a duty of prac
lically one cent net per pound, pro
vided all duty would be removed
within years. This would mean
for the present a duty of 1.20 to all
countries, except Cuba.
If the president can arrive at an
agreement with the Louisiana sena
tors on the sugar schedule, there will
be enough votes, it is generally as
sumed, to pass a tariff bill with free
wool. On all other schedules there is
substantial agreement between the
president and congress.
The president has been told that
either free wool or free sugar might
pass, but that both could not.
This was the status today of the
informal tariff conferences between
the president and members of con
gress.
The president canvassed the situa
tion first today with Representative
Broussard, senator-elect from Louis
iana. Mr. Broussard told the presi
dent that while his constituents couid
stand a tariff cut, they believed the
sugar industry of Louisiana would be
destroyed by the complete removal of
the duty.
The president declared that he had
no desire to destroy any business, but
hoped that within three years such a
readjustment of the sugar business in
Louisiana could be effected that the
rest of the Unitd States could have
free sugar and the Louisiana planters
continue to take part in the industry.
This, Mr. Broussard told the presi
dent, was a practical question, which
he would have to discuss further with
tlie business men of his state.
The president has been canvassing
the senate and has a general idea c f
the extent to which a free sugar or
free wool bill would be opposed.
He expected to hear more definite
ly on the attitude of the senate after
the senate finance committee met to
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are made responsible for its enforce
ment, and each policeman is an ex
officio impounding officer. For this
reason it is believed that the enforce
ment of the law will be made far
more effective than would otherwise
have been the case If only one officer
were intrusted with this duty.
There have been but very few dogs
taken up under the new ordinance. Ac
cording to the oral report made yes
terday by Chief Barrow, of the local
police force only three dogs have been
impounded since the ordinance be
came effective. It was the purpose of
the members of the ordinance commit
tee and of the city council that every
possible chance be given dog owners
to comply with the law, and this ha,?
been done.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 5. 1913.
DANGLED AT
ROPE’S END
JALF HOUR
NOOSE SLIPPED ON JONES
Four Met Death on Gallows
Friday
Montgomery, Ala., April 4.—Four
persons, convicted of murders >n
Montgomery county, were executed in
the county jail early this morning.
The first person to mount the scaffold
was C. Walter Jones, a white man,
convicted of the murder of £?loan
Rowan, in a railroad train at the ter
minal station. The trap was sprung
under Jones at 6:18 o’clock. In rapid
succession Arnold Gilni'er, also white,
John Adams and Coleman German,
negroes, gave up their lives in ex
piation of their crimes.
A grewsome spectacle was present
ed to those who by law were allowed
to witness the execution. The rope
slipped when Jones fell and gradually
Jones strangled to death, the fall fail
ing to break his neck. When Jones
dropped, his toes touched the cement
floor and deputies had to hold his
body off the floor. Half groans cou
pled with the gasps of the dying man
were heard by the spectators and for
34 minutes Jones’ body quivered and
jerked. The trap was sprung at 6:18
o'clock, and Jones was not pronounc
ed dead until 6:54 o’clock.
The next man to mount the scaffold
was Arnold Gilmer, a white man, con
victed of the murder of Mrs. Lucille
Tippetts in a rooming house on Madi
son avenue, December 23, 1911. Dep
uty Naftel turned the trap door loose
at 7:18 o’clock and physicians pro
nounced Gilmer dead at 7:25.
John Adams, a negro, who killed
Policeman T. W. Berry, almost three
years ago, bade every person “good
by” before he went to his death, and
told his pastor. Rev. A. J. SJokes, to
meet him in the other world. He
reiterated his declaration that he was
going above, and made a speech : n
which he requested ail to see him in
the other world. The trap was
sprung at 7:50 o’clock and Adams
ded at 8:04 o’clock.
Coleman German, a negro, was sent
to his end at 8:18 o’clock, and his
heart stopped beating at 8:34.
FARMER WINS OVER KAISER
AND GETS DECORATION
German Emperor Gets liid of Tenani,
But Retracts Statement As To
His Inefficiency.
Berlin, April 4.—The German em
peror's trouble with his tenant, Hel
muth Sohst, on his estate at Kadinea.
has been settled amicably after being
before the courts for several months.
The tenant has consented to vacate
his farm voluntarily before the e>-
piration of his lease, which has an
other five years to run.
The consideration paid to him is
$30,000, and he is to receive the Ol
der of the Royal Crown as a token of
the emperor’s retraction of the state
ment he had made that he had
thrown his tenant out, because he
was utterly inefficient.”
The settlement was formally ar
ranged by the Agricultural Council ot
the Province of West Prussia, but
the credit for it is understood to be
due to the crown prince, who under
took to inform his father of the ex
tent to which he had been misin
formed by his representative on the
Kadinen estate and of the necessity
of making amends to Helmuth Sohst.
THE WEATHE-B: Probably Showers; slightly cooler.
MEXICO: “PUT ’ER THERE, NEIGHBOR.”
—Darling in Boston Globe.
WILL USE MILITIA
FOR WILBURN TRIAL?
Such is The Rumor In Ma
con
Macon, Ga., Aprl 4.—When the su
perior court of Jones county convenes
on Monday, April 21, and a grand jury
Is organized, there may be serious
trouble there. The chief matter for the
attention of the grand jury and the
court is investigation of the death of
Jim King, the farmer, who was shot
and killed by Nick Wilburn.
Wilburn its now in the Bibb county
jail. Mrs. King, who is charged
jointly with the crime, is in the Jones
county prison.
The grand jury will indict both dur
ing the first week, and then Solicitor
Pottle will assign the eases for trial.
The trials, for they will be arraigned
separately, will hardly begin before
April 30.
The Governor Advised.
In its edition yesterday, the At
lanta Georgian published the follow
ing:
Rumors that residents of Jones
county fear an outbreak of mob vio
lence and desire the presence of state
militia when Nick Wilburn and Mrs.
James King are brought to trial April
21, reached Governor Brown today
The governor was told that a tragedy
was probable if troops were not sent
to the scene.
Wilburn is the self-confessed slayer
of James King, a wealthy Jones coun
ty planter, and Mrs. King, in her cell,
confessed to plotting with Wilburn to
kill her husband so she might marry
Wilburn.
• Wilburn w'as saved from a mob at
the time of his arrest only by a ruse.
Mrs. King was teld in the Bibb county
jail.
Held In Jail at Macon.
The fear that an attempt would be
made to storm the jail at Grays and
lynch Wilburn resulted in the author
ities spiriting him to Macon, where
he has been ke pt since the tragedy
which stirred all the state last De
cember.
King, who owned a large plantation
near Round Oak, disappeared Decem
ber 12. His body was found the next
day in the woods. Several bullet
wounds showed the cause of his death.
A gun clasped in his hand led to the
first impression that he 'had commit
ted suicide, buts detectives arreste.l
Wilburn December 26, and the young
farm hand weakened at once and sai l
Mrs. King begged him to shoot her
husband.
Blamed Woman For Crime.
He said that, under the woman's in-
HOW ABOUT RECOGNITION?
WESTERN SENATOR IS
INVOLVED IN SCANDAL
Senator Charges Attempt to
Blackmail
Washington, D. C„ April 4.
Charges involving the moral conduct
of a domecratic senator from a west
ern state have been presented to
States Attorney Wilson here,
who is investigating them. A man
seeking federal office charges that
when his wife went to the senator ,'r.
his behalf, the senator acted in an
improper manner, and later repeated
this action when he called upon the
woman at a hotel where the husband
claims to have posted witnesses.
The senator declares that thy
charges of blackmail and part of
a plot to ruin him politically. He
declares that the witnesses against
him are persons who have been, or
represent his political enemies in his
own state.
The affair charged against the sen
ator is said to have happened a week
ago. No attempt to keep it quiet
was made by the woman concerned,
her husband or the witness, but no
official steps were taken at that time.
Later the parties stated that they in
tended to drop the affair, but finally
decided to get the advice of a law
yer. The charges were then brought
to the attention of the United States
attorney.
United States Attorney Wilson will
not confirm a report that he has pre
sented the witnesses to the grand
jury. A grand jury would have no
jurisdiction over a senator after con
gress goes into session next Mon
day. The name of the senator 'a
withheld by the authorities as the
case is under investigation and no
official action yet taken.
fluence, he followed King into the
woods, crept up behind him, and then
shot him down with King's own gun.
He admitted he and Mrs. King haJ
been intimate for months.
His confession was followed by that
of Mrs. King. Feeling ran high In
the county and the authorities took
prompt measures to guard the two
from the wrath of the Jones county
people.
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The approach of the trial before
Judge James B. Park, at Gray's, has
revived the talk of mob violence, it
is known that Wilburn’s attorney
fears for his client's life, but official
application for troops must come
from Judge Park.
DEATH CLAIMED
HIS. M’IiARKAH
THURSDAY NIGHT
hue she was vi visit
Had Many Relatives in The
I ounty
The announcement yesterday morn
ing of the sudden death of Mrs. Mittle
McGarrah was heard with deep regret
among her friends in Americus and
throughout the county, inasmuch ns
she had not been ill previously and
v as in her usual health, apparently,
only a few hours preceding the end-
Mrs. McGarrah, who resided on Ha"-
rold avenue 'here, had gone upon ,\
visit to thg home of her son, Mr. Sam
uel McGarrah, near Friendship, and
it was there that she passed away
about the midnight hour on Thursday
night.
The deceased was well advanced in
years. She was the widow of Moses
McGarrah, for a long period of years a
well known resident of Sumter county,
and the greater portion of her years
were spent 'here. Mrs. MeGawah was
esteemed among a large circle of
friends and relatives- and her death
is generally deplored.
She is survived by her son, Mr.
Samuel McGarrah, and one daughter.
Mrs. T. M. Everett, of Americus, be
sides other relatives, among them Mrs.
Sion Ross and Mrs. Bram Godwin, both
of this city. The funeral services were
held Friday afternoon at the family
cemetery west of Americus.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS CAME
BACK IN BALL GAME
The small boy was busy upon tha
backlot diamond yesterday, and in a
contest between the East Americus
and Brooklyn Heights agregations the
latter won out by a score of ten a
eight. B. H. Marvin and Buford Jones
constituted the winning battery, with
Cluff Pantone and Shy for East
Americus.
LIST OF INDUSTRIES
SHOWS CITY’S GROWTH
'f '* ••■•‘•a _ v -
Varied Industries in Americus, With Large Amount of
Capital Involved. Partial List is Given Here
with.
That Americus is making steady
strides along industrial lines is evi
denced hi a list made yesterday of
the various manufacturing plants here,
representing a vast amount of capital
invested, and which afford employ
ment for al arge number of skilled and
unskilled laborers, whose earnings are
invested or otherwise spent here. The
list was prepared for a foreign publi
cation, and discloses the fact that
Americus is up and doing. Among the
industries Included in the statement
are the following: '
Seaboard railway shops, employing
250 to 300 men, with a payroll amount
ing annually to something like $200,-
000.
Four large fertilizer plants and one
acid plant, representing a total invest
ment of perhaps $150,000.
Two cotton seed oil plants, with cap
ital of SIOO,OOO, combined.
One gas and two electric plants,
worth approximately $200,000.
"two ice manufacturing plants, with
combined capital of $150,000.
Two large wood manufacturing
plants, with invested capital of SIOO,-
000.
One complete scales and boiler
manufacturing plant, employing a
large force and with invested capital
ORANGE & BLACK,
ORANGE ANO BLUE
WILL CLASH HERE
MERCER-AUBURN GAMES SOON
!
They Will be Played on April
25th and 26th
Definite arrangements have been
completed with the local baseball man
agement for the series of games to be
played here on Memorial Day and the
day before by the Mercer University
and the Alabama Polytechnic Institu’.e
teams.
Though Memorial Day comes this
year on Saturday, the visiting college
teams prefer to play on Friday and
Saturday, rather than on Thursday
and Friday, as was suggested to them
by the management of the local club
As Memorial Day comes on Saturday,
the store here will not be closed. T’ie
real Memorial Day exercises, therefore,
will be celebrated the following Mon
day.
There will be a series of three
games played between the Mercer and
Auburn teams. Last year, it will be
recalled, Mercer took two out of the
three. This year there will be, from
all indications, a much lievlier contest
than last, as Auburn comes with an es
pecially strong team.
MAYOR LOWREY SKILLED
WITH HOOK AND LINE
Mayor M. M. Lowrey is an ardent
disciple of Izaac Walton and one of
the most enthusiastic pole-wielders in
Americus when he can snatch an
hour’s respite from hts duties. Yes
terday, with Mr. G. D. Wheatley, Jr,
he spent an hour at Wells’ mill, the
noted fishing resort, and these two
fishermen led the host there with a
catoh of 106 fine fish to their credit.
As the “catch” did not violate any
provisions of the state game and flan
laws, the exact number of fish was
reported unhesitatingly.
of probably $50,000.
Two marble and stone factories, eu
: ploying considerable forces of skilled
, artisans.
I Three cigar factories, manufactur
ing more than two million cigars an
nually, and employing large forces of
i operatives.
; Three complete job printing estab
. lishments, working full forces.
A plant just being completed for the
■. manufacture of metal roofing and mec-
Jal building supplies, representing an
i investment of $50,000 and which wi'l
. employ thirty to forty operatives.
Two complete fruit canning plant.-.',
, which, employ large forces during three
I months of summer.
Two door, window and screen facto
ries.
Five automobile garages, employing
several skilled men. each.
Cotton compress, representing an in
vestment of $50,000.
’ In addition to the above enumerat
de plants there are many smaller en
-1 terprises, including wagon factories,
collar and hafress factories, hand.e
; factories, shingle factorry and nuni
- erous other small but needed Indus
tries, which go to make up a busv,
• hustling city. The list also included
i the five banks here, with combined
i deposits of nearly $1,180,000.
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