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MORE PEACE TALK
Pacification Party in Russia.
Claim Victory,
OVERTURES ARE COMING
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Advices from Zone of Hostilities in !
Manchuria Reveal That Ruseians
Ace in Worse Plight and in
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More Danger Than Ever.
A St. Petersburg special says: “The
ministers and supporters of the court
who advocate the submission of pa
eifle proposals to Japan, as previously
set forth in these dispatches, so as ’
to ascertain whether an honorable i
basis of peace Is possible, believe ,
they have tgpeied the day, and the j
Associated press hears on high au- I
thonty Fhat ... .
an actual step is immi- , |
neiu V L not already taken.”
Washington Not Surprised. I
The sudden growth of the sentiment
In Russian official circles iu favor of
jpeace is not at all surprising to the j
officials in Washington, because it is
Jn line with the predictions of the
American embassy in St. Petersburg
When iast heard from on this SUb-
3ect. In fact, it was gathered that
the real obstacles in the way of bring
ing negotiations to this end was to
ibe found rather in the jealousies of
European powers outside of Russia
Yhan in the czar’s own court.
There have for some time been sub
stantial evidence that by the execu
tion of quiet pressure from the out
side upon the St. Petersburg govern
ment it might be induced to break
the deadlock in the situation, which
results from the reluctance of each
belligerent as a matter of pride to
making the first overtures for peace.
But just at this point the efforts of
the real friends of peace are said to
have been negatived by the fear of
some of the European powers that
their interests might suffer in a set
tlement which they did not them
selves arrange. There is reason to
believe now, however, that the great
financial case of Ixmdon, Berlin and
Paris, hooking to their own salvation,
and the security of their enormous
Russian loans, have risen above na
tional lines, and that, to the exertion
of their powerful influence is due the
present promise of peace in the near
future.
Russians Keep Moving.
Advices from the seat of war in
Mfinchuria state that the Japanese are
following the Russian rear guard,
which is moviug north from Santou
pou at the rate of 8 1-2 miles a day.
On both flanks the Japanese are op
erating a wide turning movement, but
the strength of the flanking forces has
not been definitely ascertained.
At a number of places along the
railroad between Santoupou anil Gun
shue Pass there are broken hills with
steep sides and gorges at the bot
tom where stubborn resistance might
he made, but it is doubtful whether
General Linevitch will make a stand
before he reaches the Sungari river
and Chantchiatu.
Unless he is able to hold the line
of the river, the Russian position will
be so weak that Linevitch may be
compelled to retire back of Harbiu 1
into Siberia, owing to the fact that as I
they approach Harbin tlie Russian |
front parallels the railroad, fearing
the danger of the severance of the
sole line of communication.
While the army is still far from
Siberia and with the Chinese eastern I
railroad behind it in perpendicular
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front, the danger to the Siberian rail- |
road is only from raiding parties and
Chinese bandits and the comparative- j
ly few railroad guards are only suffi- J
cient to protect bridges. But once the
river army communication falls back behind with the the Sungari far j
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nway baso will be terribly jeopardized, j
not by the small number of the guard, 1
but by the army which will be requir
ed to protect fhp railroad.
The prospect of the isolation of
Vladivostoek must also be met, and
it is urgently necessary to supply the
garrison with guns and ammunition.
TEXAS STRICTLY IN LINE.
President Jordan’s Visit Arouses Cot
ton Growers to Determined Action.
Since the trip of President Harvie
Jordan of the Southern Cotton Asso
elation through the state of Texas
the state is enthusiastic over the work
of the association and everything is
being done to carry out its plans. It
is positively assured that the state
will reduce its acreage 25 per cent,
So far the farmers have used but very
little commercial fertilizers, and even
th e small amount that has been used
there is being reduced this year, ’
PRESIDENT NAMES CANDIDATES
For Admission to U. S, Military Acaa
emy—Georgia Boys on the List.
The President has designated a num
ber of candidates for examination for
admission to the United States Mili
tary Academy in the class entering
the academy in 1906, among them be
ing Thomas Jonathan Jackson Chris
tian, grandson of Stonewall Jack son,
and John L. Clem, Jr., son of Colonel
John L. Clerp,
c,s " ™ TI,E ,APS -
Great War Loan of $150,000,000 Ar
C«ng«d for in England and Amer- I
ica—Signs of Peace Increase#
The final details of the Japanese i
loan were concluded, in London Fri- j
day, with the exception of the « act 1
date of issue. This has not yet been .
decided, but it will not be delayed, ;
The amount is $150,000,000, with in
terest at 4 1-2 per cent.
The price of issue is 90, and the
security will be the next receipts of
the tobacco monopoly of Japan,
amounting to $16,000,000, according to
the budget far the next fiscal year. .
The loan will be issued simultaneous
ly in New York and London, each of
these cities taking $75,000,000.
The American issuing banks are
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and others partic
jp at j n g j a th e previous loan, while
the _ British half of the loan is handled .
by the group of banks which was re
sponsible for the earlier flotations.
1 be l° an * s redeemable after five
years. Some subscription is expected
j n Holland and Switzerland,
It ie said in London that although
German banks exhausted every effort
to secure participation in the loan,
they have been rigorously excluded,
as the Japanese found no difficulty in
finding the amount required in New
York and London.
Korretyo Katashi, special Japanese
financial commissioner, informed the
Associated Press that the $150,000,000
would suffice for Japanese require
ments for a year or a year and a
half, at the expiration of which time
the war will be over.
A Paris dispatch says: The pros
pects of peace between Russia and Ja
pan assumed a more definite and al
most tangible aspect Friday, as the
result of the announcement of the
resumption of negotiations for a Rus
sian loan.
The postponement of the loan oc
curred through the stand taken by
the financial element against proceed
ing while the uncertainties of war
continued, while a willingness to re
sume negotiations was construed as
meaning that their strong influence
finally has prevailed with the authori
ties at St. Petersburg.
It seems to be the accepted view of
financiers that the proceeds of the
loan will not be applied to the fur
ther continuance of the war.
It is understood that one of the in
ducements to a resumption of the ne
gotiations was that a considerable por
tion of the proceeds shall remain in
France for the purpose of meeting
the interest coupons of other loans,
and that the placing of contracts for
government supplies will be required
even after the conclusion of hostil
ities.
Coupled with the announcement of
resumption of the loan negotiations,
came a strong intimation from official
and diplomatic quarters that steps
looking toward peace bad been defi
nitely taken by Russia. The foreign
office declined to confirm a report
tha-t France was likely to he the in
termediary; but diplomats who are ac
tively interested for the first time
gave credit to the statement that
Russia had decided to seek peace.
CHARGES FAILED TO STICK.
Popular Manager of Atlanta Water
works Fully Exonerated.
After a sensational investigation,
Colonel Park Woodward, geifiaral man
ager of the Atlanta waterworks de
partment, was fully exonerated of the
charge preferred against him by the
waterwor ks committee of the general
counc j]. Four distinct charges were
yoted upon; FlrsJt the alleged improp
er sa]e o{ scrap Iron and empty alum
barrels wit h the knowledge of the
peneral manager; second, alleged im
p roper con( juct of the general mana
^ jn retaining Joseph W. Rapp as
an employee; third, the charge that
work had been done with the knowl
edge of the general manager for him
self and others; and fourth, >the alleg
ed improper discharge of five em
ployees of the department.
VALID ONLY IN STATE.
Decision of Appellate Court Affecting
Maryland “Jim Crow” Law.
! In an opinion delivered Wednesday
I the court of appeals at Annapolis,
I Md., held that the act passed at the
| I last session of the legislature, com
i 1 rnonly known as the “jim crow” law
: an( j requiring steam railways in the
| state of Maryland to furnish separate
« compartments for white and colored
j passengers, is valid so far as it af
fects commerce within the state, but
invalid as to interstate passengers and
must be construed as not applying to
| them.
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ON TO SIBERIAN WILDS.
Retreating Russian Army Dare Not
Tarry Within Confines of Harbin.
News from the front received in St
Petersburg continues to indicate prep
arations for a withdrawal of the main
j portion of the Russian army beyond
Harbin, so as to place it out. of danger
of having its communications with
| Russia severed if it is found imprac
i ticable to attempt to hold the line
a t the Sungari river.
YERKES IS SOLICITOUS, I
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Deplore* “Political Peonage” in the
the South, in Speech at Banquet
in Honor of Vice President.
Three hundred guests, including re
publicans of prominence from all parts 1
of North Carolina and other states, |
attended the banquet of the Tar Heel I !
Club at Greensboro, N. C., Wednesday
night, at which Vice President Fair
banks and Revenue Commissioner
Yerkes were the principal guests c*
honor.
There was a tremendous ovation as
the vice president arose, and, after
a few preliminary statements, said he
would not make a partisan speech. He
told of the elimination of sectional
lines and raised much applause by re- ;
ferring to General Joseph Wheeler a !
part in the Spanish-American war.
Republican government was ordain
ed to promote justice; to secure each
and all in the fullest possible enjoy
ment of equal right and privileges un- !
der the law. Every American must j
stand before the law upon a plane of j
perfect equality with his fellow-Amer
icans. Our laws must be inspired by
a sense of justice.
Let us safeguard the rights of
property; protect that which honest
and patient industry has acquired.
But first of all, and better than all.
preserve inviolate the rights of men
of low and high degree.
Political parties are essential in
popular government. They have ex
isted from the earliest days of the
republic, and they will continue to the
end. It is of vital importance, there
fore, that they should be high-minded
and patriotic; that They should stand
for those measures which* are whole
some and which tend to advance to
the utmost degree the public weal.
They should support sound and con
servative policies which are the only
foundation of industrial and social
progress, and of enduring national
greatness.
The vice president was followed by
Revenue Commissioner John W.
Terkes, who delivered the longest ad
dress of the night, concluding at 11:45
amid the wildest applause.
Commissioner Yerkes spoke on “Po
litical Peonage in the South.” He
said in part:
“Your ancestors, men and women,
broke away from servitude, religious
and political, and sought freedom of
action of heart and conscience here.
They flung away family ties, tradi
tions, inherited belief, ancestral ten
dencies, when existing conditions,
dominant and rational, demanded the
surrender. They obeyed the call of
their present, and met the demands
of that present. Yet many of their
children, men of high standing and
admirable traits, today are democrats,
1 not because the present demands It.
I j i but because a phantom, a specter, a
shade, a political bugaboo, made and
used for personal, selfish political in
terests and called negro domination,
frightens them from the path of
known civic duty and honest politi
cal action. The result is political pe
onage—political serfdom, thralldom to
a man of straw. That specter, and be
cause some say it is not respectable
to be a republican in the south, make
some of you dishonest politically.
“You demand that the north and
east shall keep hands off and allow
you to work out certain problems,
which, though national, affect you pri
marily. You say, have confidence in
us. We know best. But, gentlemen,
do you always do best? Don’t we
know better than you do? Do you at
tract confidence when you openly and
boldly vote against every principle and
policy which experience declares
ful to the high interests of this na
tion, yourselves included? - ’
Toasts were responded to by
ous guests, among them one by
Superior Court Judge Timberlake,
BLUFF BY CASTRO !
Dictator Gives Most Defiant
Answer to Uncle Sam. i
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ARBITRATION IS REFUSED
While Answer is Considered Insulting,
No Immediate Action Will Be
Taken, as Venezuela Has Be6t
of the Argument Just Now.
A Washington special says: Pres
ident Castro seems to have called the
adminisiration’s bluff, and from pres
ent indications, the United States can
do nothing further. Minister Bowen
cabled that the Venezuelan president
had finally declined to submit to ar
bitration the claims of the asphalt
trust, holding that the case must take
its course in the Venezuelan courts
Castro seems to be in a position to sit
back and say: “What are you going
to do about if?”
It is known that Minister Bowes
commented pretty severely upon the
action of the Venezuelan president,
and it is understood the minister goes
to the extent of pronouncing the reply
insulting. The case in *all its bear
ings was discussed at the cabinet
meeting. The tendency was to min
imize the importance of the Venezue
lan reply, members of the cabinet
saying that it has no more effect
than to leave the situation where it
was a year ago, and there is a dispo
sition to believe that Mr. Bowen may
be needlessly excited.
In endeavoring to force Castro to
arbitration there is distinct reversal
of the policy of the government, which
has always been that claims of the
character of this one of the asphalt
trust must be settled in the courts
of the country granting concession
and Castro occupies, in consequence,
a strong position.
Castro has executed a shrew flank
movement by entering upon an agree
ment with the English and German
holders of Venezuelan bonds under
the terms of which sixty per cent of
the port receipts of all ports, save
La Guayra, and Puerto Cabello, are to
go to the liquidation of Venezuelan ex
terior debt. The receipts of the twe
exceptions are now being applied to
the settlement of other claims, accord
ing to the protocols entered into
in Washington about a year ago. This
last agreement eliminates the possi
bility of European interference and
apparently leaves the United States
high and dry. There is nothing a
naval demonstration off Venezuelan
ports could accomplish, and the only
effect of such a move would be *o
make this country ridiculous, So
far as can be ascertained, there is
absolutely no warrant for any such
demonstration.
It is the indicated intention of the
president and Secretary Taft, who, in
the absence of Secretary Hay, is be
ing relied on for advice in matters
pertaining to foreign affairs, simply
to await further developments in Ven
ezuela. It is not believed that the
i situation now is of such a character as
to warrant alarm, Indeed, the pres
ident is proceeding with the arrange
ments for his southwestern rtip witih
out reference to the Venezuelan im
broglio. .
It, is regarded as possible that fur
ther developments in the Venezuelan
situation may be forthcoming in a few
days, but it is not believed in Wash
ington they will add to its serious
ness.
How Castro Views Matter.
The World prints the following
patch from President Castro: “I have
received your telegrams. There is
reality between Venezuela and
ington no ques-ion of sufficient
ance to occupy public attention
worthy of attention by serious
sons. Your minister holds
aloof from the good
that exists, but Venezuela will
fend with ardor the common
ests and honor of both countries.
CIPRIANO CASTRO.
SMALL FARMERS UNPLEDGED.
Critical Time of State Association of
Cotton Growers in North Carolina.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says:
It is regarded by the cotton growers
that this is a very critical time in
their affairs.
The agents of the state association
are going in every direction urging
the farmers to stand together, and
getting every pledge possible for unity
of action as to holding crop and re
ducing acreage.
Some of the smaller farmers, who
raise only a. few bales, have not given
any pledges.
NEW JOB FOR CLEVELAND.
Ex-President to Head Advisory Board
of Jamestown Exposition.
The board of directors of the James
town Exposition company will name
arn advisory board of one hundred at
its coming meeting ,and ex-President
Grover Cleveland will head the list,
] I] e having indorsed the exposition and
offered his services in any capacity
GEORGIA NEWS:
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Educators to Meet in Athens,
Athens has been chosen as the
of meeting of the next session
the Georgia Educational Associa
tion. The date will be June 26, im
mediately preceding the opening o
the university summer school.
Many Counties Back Fair.
Up to date twelve counties have
signified their intention of sending ag
ricultural exhibits to the state fair in
Atlanta next October.
These counties are Bartow, Cobb,
Gwinnett, Coweta, Campbell, Camden,
Bullock, Twiggs, Laurens, Dodge,
Worth and Houston. ’ In addition to
these Broeks, Troup, Polk, Green,
Newton, Rockdale, Meriwether and
Upson are strong possibilities,
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Miss Evans State Sponsor.
General Peter A. McGlashan, com
manding the Georgia division of Unit
ed Confederate Veterans, announces
that he has appointed Miss Lucy
Evans, daughter of General Clement A.
Evans, sponsor for the state at the
Louisville reunion of veterans.
Miss Leila Scarborough of Ameri
cus was given the appointment of
maid of honor to Miss Evans. Both
have accepted.
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Printers’ Club Knocked Out.
The supreme court of Georgia ren
dered a decision Saturday declaring
that a combination formed to control,
or in restraint of, trade, is illegal, and
void and that it may be properly and
lawfully estopped from its illegal acts
by injunction.
The case in question is that of the
Employing Printers’ ,£lub of Atlanta
vs. the Dr. Blosser Company. The
Blosser company was formerly a mem
ber of the Employing Printers’ Club.
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Nearly All Counties Organized.
The state organizations of the
Southern Cotton Association are rap
idly rounding into shape. Out of one
hundred and thirty-seven counties in
Georgia one hundred and twenty are
thoroughly organized, with tke county
officers hard at work. President M. L.
Johnson and Secretary H. C. Hill and
Treasurer John D. Wtilker have done
a great deal of work getting this or
ganization perfected. Thousands of
pledges for the reduction of the acre
age have been signed.
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Music Festival Will Be Great.
Every arrangement for the assured
success of the great music festival to
be held ia Atlanta May 3 to 6, in
clusive, has been perfected, and re
ports received from every section of
the state and adjoining states prove
that Atlanta will become the great
Mecca of all music loving pilgrims
of the entire southeast. The railroads
have gone back of the movement with
an enthusiasm which means much for
this great educational movement now
under way.
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Cobb County Row Renewed.
The controversy over the treasurer
ship of Cobb county has reaojied the
supreme court again and April 17th
has been set as the date for hearing
argument in the case. Former Treas
urer J. B. Glover has brought the
case up, his attorney having excepted
to the ruling of Judge J. H. Lump
kin, ordering the election superintend
ents of Cobb county to assemble and
consolidate the vote for treasurer. The
last time the case was in the higher
court J. Gid Mlorris was the plaintiff,
having appealed from a decision of
lower court.
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said in closing:
“The signs now point to the nomi
nation for president four years hence
of a distinguished citizen who has hon
ored us by his presence tonight. His
election is just as certain if these
signs be verified, by the next national
convention, as was that of President
Roosevelt, and I can pay him no high
er compliment than to say that Chas.
W. Fairbanks will be a worthy suc
of Theodore Roosevelt n
cessror
RENFROE FOUND GUILTY.
Aged Man Convicted by Jury for the
Murder of His Daughter-in-Law.
At Fayetteville, Ga., Thursday, Ste
phen D. Renfroe. was found guilty of
murder and recommended to the mer
cy of the court, which means life im
prisonment. An appeal for a new
trial was entered by his attorneys.
Colonel Renfroe was charged with
killing his daughter-in-law, as a re
sult of a dispute over a cabbage patch.
The convicted man. who is about 76
years of age, and very feeble, recUnea
on an improvised bed in tlie court
room most of the time.
JUMPED INTO BRINY DEEP.
Sensational Suicide of Philadelphian
on Board Ocean Steamer.
Andrew M. Griscom, of Philadelphia,
who disappeared from that city
several w-eeks ago, and was supposed
to be in Europe, committed suicide
March 19, jumping overboard at. sea
from the steamer Minnetonka, Gris
ccm sailed on the Minnetonka from
London for New York. l:
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it has been built several little towns
have sprung up and as the Dublin
Southwestern through *
goes the fl nes t
sections of Laurens and Dodge conn
ties, a development that will be of no
small moment will be the result of tho
road’s completion.
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New Railroad Chartered.
The Ocilla, Pinebloom and Valdes^
Railroad company has been granted
by Secretary i
charter of State F '
Cook.
The company will have its princi •
office <ait Pinebloom, in Coffee county
and will build a line 41 miles ion?
extending from a junction with the
Wad ley and Mount Vernon F.xtensicm
railway, at the Satilla river, through
W'illacoochee and Pinebloom, in Cor.
fee county, and Nashville, in Berrieu
county, to the town of Adel, also in
Berrien.
The company will have a capital
stock of $200,000.
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Must Pay Debt by Taxation.
Under a decision of the state su
preme court, in the case of the mayor
and council of Macon vs. Jones, it is
held that no municipality in the state
lias the right to issue bonds, even up
on the approval of the requisite two
thirds of the qualified voters, with
which to pay off a floating debt. The
voters, it is held, must first sanction
the debt itself, because a vote to is
sue bonds carries with it the approval
of the debt which is to be created
by such bond issue.
The intimation from the court’s de
cision is that the only way in which
Macon can pay off its floating debt is
by taxation for that purpose, and not
by a bond issue.
Quarter Million Blaze in Rome.
The plant of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical company at Rome was de
stroyed by fire Saturday night, caus
ing a total loss of $250,000.
Several persons, who rushed to the
scene of the conflagration were injur
ed by coming in contact with sulphu
ric acid, which had escaped from the
company’s reservoir.
Twenty freight cars, valued at $7,
OOP, were caught on nearby sidings
by the blaze and were consumed. The
cars belonged to several railroads.
Some were already loaded and some
were waiting for their intended con
tents. So rapid was the work of the
flames that engines Could not be
brought up in time to remove them to
places of safety.
A large amount of fertilizer, which
was stored in the warehouses of the
campany, was destroyed.
DEATH CLAIMS JULES VERNE.
Author Whose Stories Are Known the
World Over, Yields to Grim Reaper.
Jules Verne, whose stories are
known to children as well as adults
the world over, died at Amiens,
France, Friday afternoon, after an
illness of several weeks, M. Verne
is perhaps best known to the pres
ent generation of readers and play
goers by his novel, “Around the World
in Eighty Days.”
ATTORNEY WANTS HALF.
War Claim Awarded by Congress
Held Up by Washington Lawyer.
A treasury warrant representing the
amount appropriated by congress to
meet the claim of some Atlanta Peo
ple is tied up by court proceedings in
Washington brought by an attorney
who contends that half the amount
must go to him.
The claim in question is that of the
estate of the late Michael Kreis, f° r
tobacco taken by the United States
troops during the civil war, ant
amounts to $7,404.
ANDREW NOT HER PAPA.
Georgians to Compete in Shoot.
Governor Terrell has decided to
send a picked team from the Georgia
state militia to Sea Girt, N. J., this
year to compete in the national tro
phy contest, under the auspices of the
United States war department.
The Sea Girt contest will occur in
August, beginning on the 24th and
continuing through the 31st, and rifle
teams from all parts of the country
will compete. Eighteen or twenty
Georgians will go .to the target shoot.
The national trophy shoot occurred
last year at Fort Riley, Kansas, and
the Georgia team finished thirteenth.
To Survey Northeast Ge-orgia,
Dr. Arthur Keith of the geological
department at Washington, will soon
begin making a new geological sur
vey of northeast Georgia.
The summer months will be con
sumed in the work, after which Dr.
Keith will turn out one of the most
complete maps ever given to the pub
lic of the section.
The appropriation, through the ef
forts of Senator Clay, is now availa
ble, so that nothing will hinder the
work. The map will be upon a much
more elaborate scale than any previ
ous attempt.
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To Rush Road Extension.
Work on the extension of the Dublin
and Southwestern railroad to Eastman
is progressing rapidly. The obstacles
mea with in Eastman in securing a
right of way into the city have been
practically overcome and trains will
doubtless be running from Dublin to
Eastnuan by July 1.
On the.line of the road as far as
Mrs. Chadwick Denies Absolutely That
She Made Such Assertion,
said repeatedly that I
11 It. has been
bail asserted that Andrew Carnes* ■
was my father. I deny that an.l 1
deny it absolutely.” made
The foregoing statement was
in an emphatic manner by Mrs. Ca
sie L. Chadwick at Cleveland, Ohio
to a representative of the Associate
Press in the first authorized *** tei "
view since her trial.
TO TAX REFRIGERATOR CARS.
Attorney General of Arkansas Brings
Suit Against Packing Companies.
Attorney General Rogers at Little
Rock, Ark., has instituted proceedings
against the Armour Packing Com P»W
and the St. Louis Refrigerator ComiF
ny to recover back taxes on private
cars used in the state on an approx*’
mate valuation of a million dollars.
estimated that suits win iii be if
It is companies that
stituted against other
•have used private cars in Lie s
during the past ten years which have
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not been taxed.
NAN AGAIN TO FACE COURT
Charge, to
Show Girl, Under Murder
Be Tried Early in April
A New York dispatch says:
i l 0D C *
Patterson will be put on _ +r ‘ a
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of nll ‘ der icg
; more to answer a charge ^ef.
Caesar Young, the wealthy boo ^
• This decision was reached A .rfet
and it was announced at tb 0 ja i
attorney’s office that the second *
the would begin AP ril 10.
of °aso