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PAWNEE BILL COMING
Famous Indian Fighter Will Be
At the State Fair.
ATLANTA’S FINE ATTRACTIONS
The Farmers’ Union Is Co-Operating
and Will Show Georgia's Best
Farm Products.
Atlanta, Ga. —Pawnee Bill, who is
coming to the state fair, Atlanta, in
October, with a band of Indians and
a company of cowboys, is one of the
few picturesque old Indian fighters
left.
He is chief of the Pawnee Indians,
president of a bank and the head of
a large wild west circus. He has a
bullet in his neck, fired by a horse
thief and a deep scar left on his head
by an Indian’s tomahawk.
Years ago, Pawnee Bill was the ter
ror of the bad men in his part of
the west. He had nerve, a clear eye.
f'-P-KKSS "y/T.Tvr-!"" 1 "" iM .
Major Gordon W. Lillie,
“Pawnee Bill.”
a quick finger and a good pistol. When
he got in action, there was something
doing.
Chasing horse thieves and hank rob
bers and fighting Indians were sport
tor him.
Since he settled down to business,
he has been very successful. It is
said that he cleared SIOO,OOO last year
with his circus. Atlanta has engaged
his show and will have it give a free
performance every afternoon during
the fair in front of the grand stand.
Among the features of this year’s
fair, which will be under the auspices
of the Farmers’ Union, will be cotton
with upwards of 1,000 bolls to the
stalk, hay that made five tons to the
acre, cats six feet high, $1,750 hog,
fine cattle, poultry and a great ex
hibit of farm machinery, trained dogs
and lions, a cotton seed oil mill in
operation and a model dairy.
There will be a big military day,
and General Luke Wright of Tennes
see, secretary of war, will be invited
to review the troops.
Hon. E. W. Chapin, candidate for
president, will speak at the fair on
prohibition day, Saturday, October 10.
The temperance people say they
will hold the largest rally that day
ever seen in Georgia.
That same day there will be the
greatest baby show ever held in the
state. Babies from all over Georgia
are expected.
A fox hunt is planned for another
day inside the fair grounds, and on
still another day there will ibe an imi
tation robbery, flight of the burglars
and pursuit by bloodhounds.
PROTECTED HOME FOR BIRDS.
Plans of Audubon Societies to Pre
vent Slaughter.
New York City. —Three hundred
square miles of the favorite hunting
grounds for the water touls in this
country will soon be converted by the
National Association of Audubon Soci
eties into a protected home for the
various breeds gradually undergoing
extermination for commercial purpos
es, according to information given out
at headquarters here. The two tracts
presented by the government for this
purpose are in Oregon and California,
about the Klamath, Malheur and Har
ney lakes.
..Whole races of the wild fowl, per
secuted by seekers after plumes and
food for the market, will be restored,
say the officers of the Audubon soci
iety, if the people of the country will
do their share in the great work of
preserving these natural scavangers,
whose taste for food is one of the
chief preventatives of plagues and
pestilence in the section they inhab
it. An exhaustive study of conditions
has been made by men who, for three
years, have been exploring the wild
places w r here the birds live, braving
the danger of semi-savaee bands of
poachers as well as the difficulties of
the country to secure the information
wanted.
farmlnglTaljsha.
Watermelons Grown in Open—Corn
Seven Feet High.
Seattle. Wash. —Professor C. C.
Georgeson, head of the agricultural
experimental station in Alaska, who
arrived on the Victoria from Nome,
says that he ate watermelon grown
in the open at Manley Hot Spring;
in the Tanama valley on August 18;
was served with tomatoes grown in
the open; had his picture taken in a
field where the stalks stood sev
en feet high, and traveled through
farms on the Tanana and Y'ukon
where where wheat, barley, oats and
rye were maturing.
It
Builds
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TO EXHIBIT RESOURCES
Plans Formulated for Southern
Commercial Congress.
WILL MEET IN WASHINGTON
Commercial Bodies and Boards of Trade
cf One Hundred Southern Cities
to Be Represented.
Columbus, Ga.-j—The important an
nouncement has been made by J. A.
Betjeman of Albany, Ga., secretary of
the committee recently appointed at a
meeting of trade bodies of eleven
southern states at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
that a southern industrial congress
will be held at vVasnington, D. <J„ on
December ti, 7 and 8.
It is hoped to make this congress
the most elaborate and accurate ex
position of southern resources and
southern conditions ever held, and
a program will be prepared with great
care. In this program the south s
bast thought and most representative
men will take part, the idea being to
give the outside world a clear and in
telligent idea of southern conditions
as they actually exist.
The committee, which is composed
of G. G. Dawe, Montgomery, Ala.
chairman; E. Z. Shannon, of Nash
ville, Tenn.; Walter G. Cooper, of At
lanta, and Mr. Betjeman, secretary,
will meet in Atlanta to begin
work on the porgram. Already twelev
of the leading southern cities have
formally given their indorsement of
the proposed congress, and Secretary
Betjeman is daily receiving further
letters on the subject from various
cities.
Each constituent body is expected to
appoint a committee of three to pre
pare printed matter and secure stere
opticon views of its scenes and insti
tutions and charts of its educational
work, manufacturing, civic institu
tions, etc.
The state geologist of each state,
the commissioner of agriculture, the
entomologist and the superintendent
of education are requested to act as
an advisory committee, and to asso
ciate with them the most prominent
editors and the presidents of the lead
ing commercial bodies in arranging
for suitable representation of the state
resources.
The congress will be held immedi
ately before the national congress on
rivers and harbors is held in Wash
ington, and this fact will swell the at
tendance. This will be the first plan
ned of a number of similar southern
industrial congresses which will prob
ably be held in the northern, eastern
and western states.
WOULD INCREASE THE ARMY.
President Will Recommend Force of
1 CO,OOO Men—His Reasons.
Washington, D. C. —President
Roosevelt, in his final mesage to con
gress, probably will recommend an in
crease In the numerical strength of
the army to at least 100,000 men. At
present the army is on a footing of
00,000 men.
To the general staff it has become
evident in the last two years that
60,000 men aer too few properly to
garrison the posts at which it is ne
cessary to maintain an armed force.
These posts include the garrisons in
the insular possessions of America.
It is also pointed out that a consid
erable force will be required to gar
rison the fortifications at Pearl har
bor, in the Hawaiian islands. An im
mense amount of money is to be ex
pended in the erection of these forti
fications, and it is the opinion or
army officers that a garrison of at
least 2,000 men will have to be main
tained there. Just now there are
approximately 10,000' Japanese in the
Hawaiian islands. In the remote
event of a war between America and
Japan and some .other power with
which Japan is on friendly terms, it
would be impossible for the compara
tively small force of United States
troops now in the Hawaiian islands to
prevent the landing of arms and am
munition to supply the Japanese in
the islands :
BLACK HAND SYSTEM.
Studied in Italy by New York
Officials.
New York City.—After making a
study, with the aid of the Italian gov
ernment, of the black band system
in that country. District Attorney
Clarke, of Kings county, and Francis
L. Carrao, his assistant, have arrived
home. Their itinerary through Italy
was kept secret on advice of Brook
lyn Italians, because of the possibil
ities from Italian criminals.
Carrao learned on his arrival that a
mass meeting of Italians would be
held in Brooklyn to denounce him
and demand his resignation.
He was told that his fellow country
men in Brooklyn were indignant over
his written criticism concerning cor
rupt practices in the Italian judiciary.
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OF POLITICAL INTEREST.
Before a large audience in Brown
auditorium of the Ohio Northern Uni
versity at Ada, Ohio, Professor Aaron
S. Watkins was officially notified of
his nomination as the candidate for
vice president by the national pro
hibition party. In his speech of ac
ceptance Professor Watkins declared
that the saloon is doomed in the Unit
ed States.
Collar makers employed by a man
ufacturer at Galesburg, 111., sent Wil
liam Jennings Bryan a collar for Mr.
Bryan’s mascot mule. Every man in
the shop took part in making the col
lar.
The Bryan democrats of Baltimore
are organizing a company to start a
morning paper. The bolt of the Sun
leaves Mr. Bryan out of the morning
newspapers in Baltimore and the Bal
timore papers cover Maryland.
A socialist speaker in ' New York
got so eloquent recently in telling
about the awful condition of the work
ing man that one of them who was
listening to him tried to commit sui
cide on the spot.
General Jacob S. Coxey, who led
the army of unemployed men from his
home in Ohio to Washington fourteen
years ago, has anouneed that he in
tends to work for the populist party
and for the election of Thomas E.
Watson during the presidential cam
paign.
Jay W. Forrest of New York, chair
man of the national committee of tne
people’s party, has established south
western headquarters for the populist
organization at St. Louis. According
to Chairman Forrest the populists will
poll one million votes in November.
E. W. Chafin, prohibition candidate
for the presidency, in aspeech de
livered at Spokane, Wash., said that
one of the first things he would do
after inauguration, should he be elect
ed, would be to clean up the District
of Columbia. He said Washington
was one of the vilest cities in the
world.
The political situation in New York
state has been jolted by the announce
ment that Governor Hughes was kiss
ed “by a striking blonde,” after his
speech at a county fair. Just where
the brunette influence will be thrown
is an open question.
Exhausted by ten speeches, Eugene
V. Debs, candidate for president on
the socialist ticket, arrived at Kan
sas City on his red special from Des-
Moines. Mr. Debs was greeted by a
crowd of a hundred or more social
ists. Outside of a few reporters Mr.
Debs refused to see anyone. To the
newspapermen, Mr. Debs said that
he was contemplating taking his red
special from Omaha, Neb., to Birming
ham ,Ala., to campaign for the strik
ing coal miners there.
It was decided and announced that
Judge Taft with his family would ac
cept the hospitality of his brother,
Charles P. Taft, when he goes to Cin
cinnati at least for the first few weeks
of the campaign.
Scores of republican spellbinders
received a shock when Frank H.
Hitchcock, the national chairman, an
nounced that in the present campaign
no salaries will be paid to speakers.
Expenses will be allowed, but the fat
salaries which were paid in the cam
paigns of 1900 and 1904 will be kept
in the treasury for other and more
urgent needs.
Mr. Bryan visited St. Paul, Minn.,
and delivered several speeches in
which he expressed himself as being
satisfied that Governor John A. John
son of Minnesota, his leading rival
for the nomination before the Den
ver convention, will loyally support
him in the coming campaign.
After long debate, the Central Fed
crated 1 nion, which is the central or
ganization of the labor unions of
New \ r ork City, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, adopt
ed a resolution pledging support to
the democratic ticket.
The independence league appeared
for the first time at the recent elec
tion in Vermont, and polled about 1,-
000 votes, while the prohibition and
socialist vote remained about the
same.
In an open letter to friends in Tex
as William Jennings Bryan makes an
appeal to the Catholic vote. He pre
faces his statement by references to
reports alleged to have 'been circulat
ed in the present campaign to the ef
fect that he was not and never had
been disposed in a manner toward
Catholics. This Mr. Bryan denies,
and while declaring he is a member
of the Presbyterian church he says
he includes many Catholics among
his dearest friends.
“My gracious! It used to be that
when I said a thing was to be done,
that settled it. But it does not seem
to Ue that way now. In these words,
addressed to a recent visitor to Sag
amore Hill. President Rooseveli show
ed that he chafed under the defiant
attitude of the leaders of the republi
can state organization on the ques
tion of renominating Governor
Hughes for governor of New York.
LABOR DAY OBSERVED
Throughout the Country With
Big Parades and Speeches.
W. J. BRYAN AT CHICAGO
John Mitchell Spoke at Marion, Illinois.
Birmingham, Savannah and Atlanta
Had Big Celebration.
Birmingham, Ala. —Labor day in Bir
mingnam was unusually strenuous
this year. In addition to the great
picnic at Germania Park the crowds
in the city were increased enormous
ly by the reception tendered the iirst
train over the new Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic raillroad; the open
ing of the national convention of the
postoftiee clerks, which is attended by
over 500 delegates, and the congres
sional district teachers’ institute,wnieh
opened with teachers attending from
four counties. While the crowds were
the largest seen since the confederate
reunion no disorders of moment were
reported.
Marion, 111. —John Mitchell, former
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, addressed two thou
sand people at the Labor day celebra
tion here. Mr. Mitchell spoke of the
rapid advance of laboring classes and
denounced the idea that the rich are
growing richer and the poor poorer.
He said that recently he had had
political ambition, but had abandoned
all aspirations in that direction. Ho
spoke highly of the judiciary, but crit
icised its course in some injunction
cases.
Atlanta, Ga. —This city was wholly
in the hands and in keeping of work
ing men of this section of the state
on Monday. From every county in
the congressional district working
men came to take part in the day’s
exercises, and along with the me
chanic came the farmer, the agricul
turist being as much enthused over
the prospects of the day as his fellow
producer, who has long been looking
with pleasant anticipation from one
Labor day to another.
Never before has Atlanta seen a
larger or more thoroughly organized
body move through the streets. It
would require a well-trained military
body to surpass the work of the un
ions. There is not a working force
in Atlanta that was not represented
in that line cf march.
Chicago, 111. —Organized labor Mon
day paid tribute to William .1. Bryan.
Although it was labor day, it soon be
came manifest that the workers had
surrendered their privilege and made
it Bryan day. Within an hour after
his arrival in the city the democratic
candidate for president* standing on
the balcony of the Auditorium hotel,
received the plaudits of thousands of
toilers as they marched by in the mon
ster labor parade. The air was rent
with cheers, and the enthusiasm was
unbounded.
Sava'hnah, Ga. —Thirty floats, two
scores of labor unions, detachments
of police and fire department, with
many can iages made up the most
elaborate parade as part of a La
bor day celebration Savannah has
peon in many years, filing for many
riles through the city streets.
The city enjoyed its general holi
day, the parade being followed by a
series of athletic events at Tybee,
where some creditable records were
made by local athletes. The games all
had a long list of entries.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WARNED.
in Regard to Participation in Polit
ical Campaigns.
Washington, D. C.--A note of warn
ing against federal employees resign
ing to participate in political cam
paigns with the expectation of possi
bly re-entering the service is sound
ed in a statement given out by the
civil service commission defining its
attitude.
Inasmuch as the issuance of a cer
tificate is discretionary with the com
mission,” says the letter, which is
signed by President John R. Black,
"no certificate will be Issued in any
case where the party seeking rein
statement resigned with a view to
running for office or indulging in a
degree of political activity which
would be prohibited if he had remain
ed in the service, afterwards having
failed in his candidacy, or having in
dulged in the contemplated political
activity, seeks reinstatement."
Roosevelt Win End Vacation.
Oyster Bay, N. Y.—Unless there is
a sudden change of plans, President
Roosevelt, will end his vacation at
Sagamore Hill on September 22 and
will return to Washington on that
day. This will be the shortest vaca
tion which the president has taken
in several years, and it is said that
he is returning to Washington early
in order to be in closer touch with
the campaign.
FIRE DESTROYS TOWN.
Loss From Flames at Rawhide, Nevada,
Over $1,000,000.
Rawhide, Nev. —Three thousand
people homeless, a score or more in
jured, and a property loss of over
$1,000,000, is the result of a disas
trous fire which started in Dr. Gard
ner’s office, located in the Rawhide
Drug Company’s building. Fanned by
a gale the file swept rapidly south
and east to Balloon avenue and up
Rawhide avenue to within fifty yards
of the People’s hospital.
Over a ton and a half of dynamite
was used in the demolition »;f build
ings, which in a measure stayed the
flames’ progress. The volunteer fire
department and 500 miners worked
heroically, but on account of the in
flammable construction of the build
ings they were swept away like tin
der.
In a short time the business por
tidon of Rawhide was a smoldering
ruin, the flames being finally checked
south of Balloon avenue.
Among the first buildings to go was
Collins’ hardware store, which con
tained two tons of dynamite that ex
ploded wifh >a terrific rip, hurling
burning planks and boards a great dis
tance, setting fire to numerous build
ings simultaneously.
The scenes were similar to those at
the fire at Goldfield in July, 1906,
and at. Cripple Creek in April, 1896.
Many, people were injured by flying
debris.
A famine was feared, as all the sup
ply houses and grocery stores were
wiped cut.
A subscription list, was started, and
in a few minutes over $5,000 was
raised and a relief train started from
Reno, carrying food and bedding.
All the mining towns of the state
came quickly to the assistance of Raw
hide sufferers with cash contributions.
San Francisco Minmg Exchange at
once sent a contribution of SSOO.
Plans were well under way for a
reconstruction of the town before the
ashe3 were cool.
TRADE wmm IN MANY LINES.
i
| Many Industries Showed an Increased
Activity in July.
Washington, D. C. —Notably increas
ed activities in a number of lines of
industry in the United States are
shown in the July report of the bu
reau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor, which has
just been Issued. There is a con
siderably heavier live stock movement
reported for the seven months end
ing with July than for the correspon
ding period of either of the two im
mediately preceding two years. Grain
receipts for July increased over the
preceding month and also over July
of last year. Lumber and coal move
ments, as well as the production of
iron, continue to show marked ad
vances over the preceding months of
the year, although the total is still
below the heavy figures of July, 1907.
More than 70 per cent of the report
ing car associations show gains over
the preceding months of the current
year. Live stock reports at seven inte
rior primary markets aggregated 2,-
754.193 head.
• With returns from forty-five leading
cities the building operations for July
showed improvement, a small gain
over the remarkably large business
of July of last year being reported.
Packing house products, receipts of
southern pine at New York, pig iron
and other productions showed gains
over the preceding month.
Coal and coke traffic over seven
.eastern coal carrying roads during
July, 1908, aggregating 9,961,996 tons,
was far in excess of the preceding
months’ totals, though still nearly 3,-
000,000 tons below the like shipments
for July, 1907. The increase over the
June figures is largely due to the 1,-
000,000-ton increase in shipments of
bituminous coal.
SPECTACULAR LEAP TO DEATH.
Florida Man Leaps from Third Story
Window of Hotel.
Hot Springs, Ark.—A. S. Waters, a
visitors from Tampa, Fla., made a
spectacular leap to his death from a
third story window of the new Pres
ton Hotel to the pavement below, a
distance of fifty feet.
Before jumping out of the window
he tore up a handful of currency and
threw it in the wash basin of his
room. He died half an hour after his
fall.
Tampa, Fla.—A. S. Water, who com
mitted suicide in Hot Springs, was
an employee of the Tampa Box Fac
tory, in the capacity of sawyer. He
left ’here saying he was going to Hot
Springs to regain his health. No rea
son can be assigned for the suicide
except bad health.
Waters lived here with his mother
in-law, his wife having died several
years ago. He had considerable prop
erty and a bank account. His body
will be brought to Tampa fof burial.
