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BULLS BOOST
COTTON
Big is Pcol Formed by Men V/itb
Many Milions of Cash*
TO STAND BY GROWERS.
Object of Combine is to Keep Up Price
of Staple--September Crop Coudi
tion Shows Beeline.
Frank B. Hayne, the noted cotton
bull operator, returning to New Or¬
leans Sunday, after a three months'
absence on the floor of the New
York cotton exchange, declared that
the bull ihx>; now operating to raise
tho price of cotton is the richest ikx) 1
ever organize, 1 in America, end is
amply able to do what it has set out
to accomplish.
Hayne’s statements regarding the
j/>ol leave broken the mystery which
surrounded the new aggregation which
experts to j ut cotton at the top notch.
Heretofore the greatest secrecy has
been maintained regarding every de¬
tail of the pool's personnel and
movements, and even Mr. Hayne was
not ready to give the whole matter
to the public.
He Htatr i, however, that tlie pool
was not composed of southern men,
although many New Orleans men, lie
declared, are very bullish on cotton.
Mr. Hayne would not admit that ho
was in the pool himself, but slated
that his ideas were In line with the
lde-is of those in the deal, which
was that cotton is cheap at the pres¬
ent. price, and that during no month of
the coming year will the staple sell
for less than 10 cents.
Hayne estimates the crop at 10,500,
000 bales. The demand, lie says, will
be enormous.
Crop Conditions Show Decline.
In its monthly cotton crop report
Saturday the New York Journal of
Commerce makes the condition of cot¬
ton on September 24, as computed
from the replies of over 1,000 corre¬
spond- ats, 69.4, compared with 72.4
a month ago, or a decline of 3 points.
T lkgSfe’lijlflXeS-. With pi ...mldliiug At
69.9 for the corresponding report iu
1904. 67.8 In 1903 and 64.7 in 1902.
A throe points decline Is an ex¬
ceedingly moderate one for Septem¬
ber, the decrease for the past four
years ns reported by tho Journal of
Commerce being 7.5 in v 1904, 11.8 '.n
1903. G.3 in 1902 and 6.7 In 1901.
Moderate deterioration occurred in
all states, except in Florida and Okla¬
homa Territory.
Florida shows an Increase of 0.4
points to 73.6, and Oklahoma an In¬
crease of 1.1 to 82.7.
WOMAN’S AIM WAS 100 HAD.
General Passenger Agent of the M„ K. and
T, Railway was Her Target.
Not since the Blair defalcation lias
St. Louis society been so shocked
ns by the attempt of Mrs. Lillian
Sprague, a society woman, to kill
George Morton, the general passen¬
ger agent of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad. Mrs. Sprague fired
twice at Morton shortly after mid¬
night Friday in Morton's automobile
shod in the rear of his residence.
Recently Mrs. Sprague's husband
obtained a divorce from her, naming
Morton as correspondent.
Regarding her attempt to kill Mor¬
ton, Mrs. Sprague says:
"1 tried to force him to take me
home, and he struck me. He was
furious. 1 thought he Intended to
murder mo. As I struggled from the
ground. 1 remembered the pistol and
drew it. 1 fired twice at him. I
tiien ran. 1 was crazy with pain, hu¬
miliation and fear."
Degree* Conferred on Peace Fnvovs,
Ti e honorary degree of doctor of
laws lias been conferred by Columbia
University on Baron IComura and Ser
g us Witte, the senior peace plenipo¬
tentiaries of Japan and Russia.
DEMOCRATS Of MARYLAND Mill.
Platform Almost Wholly tooted to the
Question of Seqro Suffrage.
At the democratic state convention
of Maryland, which was held in Bal¬
timore. Comptroller of the State At
kins was renominated aud a platform
adopted, which, excepting a para¬
graph indorsing tire administration of
the present governor, is wholly de¬
voted to the propeved const Ihitienal
amendment to restrict negro suffrage,
which will bo voted upon at the No¬
vember election.
VACATION IS TERMINATED.
President Roosevelt and Family Depart
From Oyster Bay and Arrive Safely
in Washington.
With the cheers and good wishes of
his neighbors and friends following
him. President Roosevelt, his vaca¬
tion ended, left Oyster Bay at 19
o’clock Saturday morning for Wash¬
ington.
The farewell given the president
by the residents of his home town
was notable. Throughout the village,
residema a and business buildings
were decorated and Audrey avenue,
over which the president passed to
tin- railroad station, was hung with
large American flags at intervals of
twenty feet. At the railroad, over the
entrance to the waiting room, a white
dove with outstretched wings perched
on an American shield, had been
placed. Beneath this emblem was the
one word "Peace.” The whole was
entwined with the national colors of
Lu-xia and Japan.
At the station hundreds of the
neighbors and acquaintances of the
president and his family had assera
!’!•■ d. Scores of school children were
mm sed about tho platform, each wav¬
ing a little American flag. Within a
part of the platform which had been
roped off to enable the president and
his party to reach the train were
twenty young women attired in white,
i rimmed with ribbons of red and blue.
As the president boarded the train
they sang "God be with you till wo
meet again.”
The president was accompanied to
Washington by Mrs. Roosevelt and
their children Ethel, Archie and Quen¬
tin.
Secretary and Mrs. Loeb, who have
been iiving at Seawanhaka Yacht
club, on Center island, this summer,
were obliged, on account of the se¬
rious Illness of Mrs. Loeb, to go to
Jersey City by water, making the
trip on the naval yacht Sylph. On
the trip to Washington Mrs. Loeb was
under the care of a trained nurse.
Thousands of his fellow-citizens
turned out to welcome the president
to the national capital Saturday even¬
ing and made his homecoming the
occasion for an ovation from the time
he was sighted on the platform of
his car uutil he passed within the
- tiou cs-of—Uia- wh ite— h ou se . -------
The president was touched by the
welcome, and especially by Its spon¬
taneity.
“It was awfully kind of them to
come out to greet me,” he remarked
to some friends at the white house,
“and l was deeply touched by their
welcome.”
A mighty cheer went np as the
crowd inside the depot caught sight
of the president, which was taken up
by the crowds outside of the station
and had passed along the line as the
president was recognized. He shook
hands first with the cabinet members
and other officials, then giving Mrs.
Roosevt It his arm, he walked slowly
to his carriage. As he reached the
engine the president thanked the en¬
gineers for his safe trip, and stopped
to shake his hand.
The president frequently arose and
bowed to the cheering crowds on
both sides of the avenue and during
the laLer part of tne drive the "hur¬
rahs” became so enthusiastic that the
president stood most of the time. Mrs.
Roosevelt also was greatly pleased
with the greeting, and her face was
radiant as she bowed right and left.
BAITLESHIP MISSISSIPPI L4UNCHED.
Another Vessel tor lincle Sam’s Navy
Glides Saieiy Into Her Element.
In . the presence of a distinguished
party of guests, the battle ship Mis¬
sissippi was launches Saturday at the
yards of the William Cramp Ship and
Engine Building company at Philadel¬
phia.
The vessel’s sponsor was Miss Ma¬
bel Clare Money, daughter of United
States Senator Money. Owing to the
prevalence of yellow fever in the
south, Governor J. K. Vardaman of
Mississippi and his staff were unable
to attend the launching. _
PEACE WAS SvLVAHON 01 JAPAN.
Six Months More of War Would Have
Brought financial Disaster.
A Tokio special says: Notwithstan¬
ding the silence of the government
the real fact is disclosed that Japan
I made peace at Portsmouth in fear of
a financial breakdown.
The war proved more costly than
bad been calculated and the rice ar.d
cereal crops seemed doomed to fail¬
ure.
Six months more of war would
have meant very hard times, for the
masses of the people are very poor
and rice is their bread and meat.
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GEORGIA NEWS i
♦ IHi i t ♦»■»♦« «
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random. !
Graves Announces for Senate. j
Hon. John Temple Graves of A‘
litnta, well kawown throughout tho
country as no orator, lecturer anN
journalist, formally announces him
self as a candidate for the United
States senate, to succeed Hon. A. O.
Bacon. In bis announcement he touch¬
es upon the trusts, the national
freight rale situation and the doc- !
trine of white supremacy. j
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Mrs. Cobb Gives Heavy Bond. :
When Mrs. Amanda Cobb was no
tilled she had been indicted on a
charge of-murder of her husband, she
went at once to Carnesviiie from her
home at Royston and a motion was
made for bail. |
T on thousand dollars was agreed :
on and , , bond was maae , promptly. n One ., 0 ,
member , of . ,, the grand , jury , signed . , x,-. her :
;
bond. , , Since the coroners jury . made .
investigation death ... .
an into t.ie ox
W. H. Cobb, -husband of Mrs. Coho, !
■
whom she shogand killed on the night
of August 8th. stating that she mis
took him for a burglar, she has been
out under $7,000 bond.
m + 0 ;
Defeats Local Taxation Movement.
The proposition to impose a special
local tax in Putnam county fori I
school defeated by i
purposes was a o
small majority at an election held the
past week, according to information
received by State School Commission¬
er Merritt. There is some little sen¬
timent in Putnam county against lo¬
cal taxation, but it is believed this
will die away in time and that the
movement will receive the support o'*
a majority of the people.
* * *
Father Slays His Son.
I. G. Graham, who resides about
three miles from Davidsville, shot and
instanlty killed his son, Glp, Sunday
afternoon.
It is stated that Gip Graham had
been drinking, and that his father
had tried to avoid a difficulty. The
son advanced on the father with a
knife, when thniatter procured a shot¬
gun and ^intflp^fr^tents t, nSn. into the
face of t,,<; y*6ung The* UMaliW
are prominent people, the father being
an ex-confederate veteran.
* * #
Want New Line to Savannah.
Business men of Macon are now
greatly interested in a proposition be.
ing put forward by citizens of Tat- j
nail, Liberty and Toombs counties for
tho building of a short line from FI cm
ing on the Atlantic Coast Line rail- |
road to Vidaiia, which will connect
the Atlantic Coast Lino with the Ma¬
con, Dublin and Savananh, and thus"
give Macon and Savannah a much
shorter route.
The territory which is to be cov¬
ered by this proposed new line is
said to be one of the largest and most
heavily timbered In the state now out
of reach of railway traffic and a large
number of wealthy men are already
interested.
* * *
The Boers Are With SJo.
A party of fifteen Boers arrived
in Savannah one day the past week
from New York aboard the steamsmp
City of Atlanta. They are destined
for Helena, Ga., near which place they
are to establish a colony.
Most of those in the party were
formerly members of the Boer war or
ganization, which toured the south
last winter, showing in Atlanta and
Savannah, among other places, and
being headed by General Cronje.
The Boers will, it is believed, on
gage principally In agricultural pur
suits, though they make also take up
naval stores and lumbering enter
prises.
* * *
High Court Apain at Work.
The supreme court of Ge rgia cop.
vened Monday for the October term,
confronted bj’ perhaps the largest
docket in its history. There are some
more than 400 oases on the ci\xl
docket, not to speak of the criminal
business and a number of other mat
ter6 iii equity which will be brought
up on fast bills of exception during
the term.
Altogether, therefore, the supremo
court will have si lenst 500 cases to
deal with during the next five months,
or a total of LOO oases each month
between the present tune and the be¬
ginning of the March term. The pres¬
ent October docteet *s heavier by
ai>o\Tt fifty case* than thst of last
; year.
j • • •
: Embezrfer Oom-s to Grief.
B. H» McDovreM of Broxton. who
fled to Hot Springs, Ark., has mrrsr.-
dered to Chief of Police Teague, stat¬
ing that he was formerly cashier of
the Broxton Banking company, and
had absconded on September 3 with
$2,000 of the bank’s funds.
A few minutes before he accosted
the officer he lest the last of the mon¬
ey in a gambling house. At the jail
he made a full confession of his
crime and told how he had spent the
money in exactly twenty-six days.
The Broxton Banking company is
capitalized at $25,000. and McDowetl
says be took all the available cash
when he decided to leave. He is
23 years of age ana the scion of an
old southern family. H:s father was
on his bond to the bank for $5,000.
* * *
Pive Millions Property Increase,
The real and personal property m
the city of Atlanta, cn which taxes
are paid, amounts to $67,502,454, as
shown by the October apportionment
sheet, which was recently agreed up
on by th< finance committee. The Oc
tober apportionment sr.ee t in 1904
showed the real anc- personal proper
ty of the city to be $62,826,947.
The increase in taxable property
since last L October, therefore, amounts
to $4,6 .'od0i, or ... boraermg & cn five mil
lions of dollars ,
■
Of the total taxable property, J Sc2,
i2o,0lKj is . real estai-- ana $lo,3< ' 7,448 ’
. :s personal. . _ Last . year in . Oc , oner . the
real estate amounted to $47,747,8-40
tfce Bal t to ?13> .
. „
Woman ‘, released , on habeas ... Corpus. _
The commitment trial at Newton
of Mrs. Cordelia Milner under the
warrant ........ sworn out against her by her
son Qucntine Milner, charging her
with the murder of her husband and
his father, Raleign Milner, did net
materialize on the date fixed for the
hearing.
Mrs. Milner’s attorney succeeded in
obtaining a ruling of the court that
Mrs. Milner had already had one com¬
mitment trial and been discharged.
This was when the case was lira: in¬
vestigated and Quentlne Milner bound
over. The point made was that the
court couldn’t try her again for the
same offense; that she might, if tried
again, be tried every day following if
a new warrant were issued. It was ar¬
gued that the question of newly dis¬
covered evidence did net affect the
case.
The attorneys, after securing the
court’s ruling, secured habeas corpus
papers and obtained the woman’s ro
lease........
GIGANTIC ROBBERY IN WALL STREET.
Ctever For( > er Gets Possession of Securi '
ties Worth $360,000.
A New York special says - The e "
taite f wber by ,
° a sdaeme f a pr0min '
_ institution
ent local fmancial was re
victimized lly a clever for S er
came out Thursday ' Tbe forger ^
B<?nted a bosus cbeck bearing tbe
name of a well known stock exchange
firm, and received in return securi¬
ties valued at about $360,000.
The name of the institution is not
disclosed, but it is believed to be a
prominent national bank, operating in
the financial district.
Pearl & Co., stock brokers, at 27
i William street., recently negotiated a
one-day loan for $360,000 with this in¬
stitution. On Wednesday a check for
the amount of the loan, plus $37.50
for the one day’s interest, was present
| ed at this bank by a stranger, who
: received the security deposited by
Pearl & Co. for their loan.
The bank on which the broker’s
check was drawn is one with which
Pearl & Co. never had an account;-'so
the forgery was not discovered until
the check had passed through the
clearing house exchange, when it was
j promptl branded as fictitious. A pri
vate detective agent)V was called ill
and transfer of ;h e securities was at
once stoppod . The detectives inti
j mate that they have a clew to the
idcntity ' c f the forger,
'
, The securities offered by Pearl &
Co. for their loan and surrendered by
the bank for a piece of worthless
paper include 1,000 shares of United
States Steel common, 1,000 shares of
Rock Island common, 1,000 shares of
Metropolitan Street. Railway, 700
shares of Missouri Pacific, 200 shares
of North American Company, 47
,
American Tobacco company 6 per
cent bonds and 100
fu re B bends.
MttS. COBB PLACID UNDER ARREST.
indicted by Grand Jury She Will Feco Court
lor Murder ot Husband.
Sheriff Ramplry of Franklin county,
Georgia, placed Mrs. Amanda Cobb
trader avast at Roystcn, Friday, she
having been indicted by the grand jury
for ihe murder of her husband, and
held in $1,000 bail.
It is not known as yet Whether Msa
Cobb’s trial will he held at once ot
whether she will bo allowed to gin
bail.
WATERING PLACE.
"What and where is Cowe-s?”
“Cowe 3 is a well known waterinr
place.”
"There. I knew it!”
“What?”
"Why, I asked our milkman where
in the world he got that milk, and he
said from Cowes.”—Cleveland Leader.
A FINISHED DIPLOMAT.
McFlufc— Going home in that condi¬
tion? How In the world do you ex¬
pect to mak» peace with your wife?
D'YLush—Eaey, my boysh, easy. I’m
prepared to pay a shubstantial Indem*
nity.
SUFFERINGS UNTOLD.
A Hnn*»R City Wom«n*n Terrible Kxpcr
ience Wltli Kidney Sickness.
Mrs. Mary Cogin, 20th St. and Cleve¬
land Are., Kansas City. Mo., says:
"For years I
was run down,
weak, lameaud
sore. The kid¬
ney secretions
were too fre¬
quent. Then
dropsy puffed
up m.v ankles
until they were
a sight to be¬
hold. Doctors
gave ine up,
but I began
'Hk
S'- '
Igf jyyi 'J
.....
Kidney rills, and tlie remedy cured
me so that I have been well ever since,
and have had a fine baby, the first in.
five that was not prematurely born.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, X. Y.
France has 3,045 miles of eanalx
and 4,665 of rivers improved for pur
poses of navigation.
RESTORED HIS HAIR
Scalp IXiinior Cured bv Cuticnra Soap and
Ointment After A11 lilse Failed.
"1 was troubled with a severe scalp hu¬
mor and loss of hair that gave me a great
deal of annoyance. After unsuccessful ef¬
forts with many remedies and so-called
hair tonics, a friend induced me to try
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The humor
was cured in a short time, my hair was re¬
stored as healthy as ever, and 1 can gladly
say 1 have since been entirely free from
any further annoyance. 1 shall always use
Cuticura Soap, and 1 keep the Ointment
on hand to use as a dressing for the hair
and scalp. (Signed) Fred’k Busche, 213
Last 57th St., N. Y. City.”
Isn’t Very Hot.
_Jtt has, been ..m^ fortun e__to _yi sit
some of the hotte^^aces in America
at the hottest period of the year; and
the reader may be incredulous when I
say that I have been vastly more un¬
comfortable In Boston, New Y"ork,
Philadelphia, Baltimore or ’Washing¬
ton In summer than I have at Yuma
or in the heart of the Mohave, Cali¬
fornia or Apache deserts, or any of
the great pseudo summer deserts that
reach away in a general line from
Yuma to San Antonio, Texas.
“I recall entering a restaurant at
Indio, on the edge of the Mohave,
when the heat called to mind proxim¬
ity to a furnace. I suggested to a citi¬
zen that it was hot. ‘No,’ he replied,
‘yesterday was hot; it was 120 degrees
in the shade; today it is only 115 de¬
grees.’ Yet I have been more uncom¬
fortable in Boston with the thermo¬
meter at 90 degrees. In Boston the
heat was humid; one perspired. At
i Indio, or on the desert, the heat was
absolutely dry and at night the
chances were that a blanket might
be required, nature giving one an op¬
portunity to recuperate, which is not
always the ease in the great cities.—»
Country Calendar.
HOME ARt.
"Now isn’t that steak a perfeo
poem?” asked Mi's. Noowed.
‘‘I should say rather a study in
burnt leather.” n/plied her unfeeling
husband, gingerly snifing the air.
NOTICED IT
A Vor::ir; I idy From New .Jersey Fut II
Wits to Work.
‘‘Coffee gave me terrible spells of in¬
j digestion or so, made which, my coming life wretched on every week until
some one told, me that the coffee I
.
drank was to blame. That seemed
nonsense, but I noticed these attacks
used to come on shortly after eating
i and were accompanied by such excru¬
ciating pains in the pit of the stomach
that I could find
ing my clothing and iying down.
“If circumstances made it impossible
for me to lie down I spent hours in
great misery.
“I refused to really believe it was
the coffee until finally I thought a trial
would at least do no harm, so I quit
coffee in 1001 aud began on Postum.
My troubles left entirely aud convinced
me of tbe cause.
"Postum brought no discomfort, nor
did indigestion follow Its use. I have
had no return of the trouble since I
begun to drink Postum. It has built
me up, restored my health and given
me a new interest in life. It certainly
is a joy to be well again.” Name given
by Postinn Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
WeilviUe,” in each pkg.