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Hendrick Council No. 721
•jHP ROYAL
ARCANUM
Meets Second and Fourth Mon¬
day evenings.
C. A. Sockwell, Regent I
T. J. Shields, Secretary.
Covington Lodge No. 71
Royal Arch Masons
Meets Second and Fourth Fri¬
day evenings.
M. G. TURNER, ;
High Priest. 1
R. R FOWLER,
Secretary.
Knights of |
m» Pythias,
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Meets every First and Third
,
Monday evenings. Fraternal wel¬
come extended all visiting Broth
ers. E. W. Carroll, C. C.
R. R. Fowler, K. of R. & S.
ft f. Elm Camp,
v_ NO. 202 .
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Meets every Second and Fourth
Tuesday evenings.
J. J. Corley, C- C.
W. N. Rainey, Clerk.
Jefferson Lamar Camp,
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Meets First Tuesday in each
month at 2 o’clock, p. m.
J- W. Anderson, Com.
L. L. Middlebrook, Adjt.
4 Golden Fleece
Lodge No. 6.
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Meets every First and Third
Friday evening.
A. S. Hopkins, W. M.
Jno. W. Peek, Sec.
Sewaunee Tribe
. No. 62.
Imp. 0. R. M.
Meets every Wednesday sleep,
at 7th run and 30th breath. Visit¬
ing brothers are invited to attend.
N. Z. Anderson, Sachem.
W. R. Stillwell,
Chief of Records.
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A NUMBER 164.
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I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday evening.
Visiting brothers in the qity cor¬
dially invited to meet with us.
Work in one degree each meeting.
J J. Corley, Noble Grand.
J. W. Peek, Reo. Sect’y.
LOCKER CLUBS BARRED.
Alabama Senate Reconsidered and
Passed Compromise Measure.
After voting decisively against the
consideration of the prohibition club
bill, the Alabama senate, Friday af¬
ternoon, retraced its steps and by a
practically unanimous vote passed a
compromise bill.
The bill, as amended, provides that
clubs organized and chartered prior to
November 1, 1907, da not come under
the provisions of the act.
will not give out a statement as to
whether the claims for $$,000,000 for
back taxes are forever lost to Geor
gia.
Comptroller General Wright, whr
brought the suit against the Centra!
of Georgia railway and the Georgia
Railroad and Ranking company, takes
«“ altogether hopeful view of the sit
uat ‘ on ‘ a,u ^ sa ' s '
victory . this
‘ When we won our m
ca3e in the 1 - mted States supreme
court s?veral years ago, one of the
001111361 for the railroads , stated that
the ruL. corporations had just begun to
fight, and . it would .j v be a . long time until
we got ^ the . money. Well, .... ,, we feel . , „ the
same wav today. , T It . will ... , be a long
time ,. . before , , let . this ,, . .
we ever up on tax.
and , we will get it, for the courts , , have
never held that we are not entitled it.
but that our procedure of getting to
it was wrong. The case won t get out
of court for years yet, for we are going
to keep fighting for this just claim.”
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No State Rewards for Cops.
In the future members of the police
force of any city in Goo#@ia will not
be paid rewards offered by the state
for the apprehension of criminals.
Such is the opinion of Attorney Gen
eral Hart in a case referred to him by
the governor. Patrolman T. E. Moore
of Columbus applied to the executive
department for a reward of $1'I9 of¬
fered by the state for the arrest of
William Thomas, colored, charged with
the murder of Prince Hollis, ©olored.
Patrolman Moore caphrued Thomas
in Columbus, and applied for Mie $100
reward. Then the question arose
whether, as a paid servant of tke law,
he was entitled to payment for doing
something he was already receiving
pay for doing. Attorney General Hart
decided against him.
Sturdy Lot of Immigrants.
The first lot of immigrants to be
sent to Georgia through the efforts of
the Georgia Immigration Society reach¬
ed Savannah on schedule time, and
after remaining in the city several
hours were sent to different sections
of the state, where they will he put
to work. They weer mostly Austrians
and Bulgarians. They came to Savan¬
nah from New Orleans, where they
were carried on a ship.
Mr. John A. Betejaman of Albany,
who has had the shipment of immi¬
grants to Georgia in charge, notified
those interested with him in their ar
rival that they w-ere coming and they
were met by an interpreter. The immi¬
grants were a strong, healthy look
ing set of men and women with some
sturdy children. \
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Ex-Ccurtcilmen Involved.
Through T. J. Ripley, his counsel,
A. O. Marbut, a local stockholder of
the now defunct Georgia Redemption
and Loan Company of Atlanta, and
an intervenor in the original petition
against the company for a receiver,
Saturday filed an amendment asking
that M. M. Turner, formerly an Atlan¬
ta councilman and the company’s sec¬
retary and treasurer, now under in¬
dictment for embezzlement, be enjoin¬
ed from disposing of any of his prop¬
erty, real or pearsonal, that John E.
McClelland, the receiver, assume
charge of it, anil that Turner be
brought into the suit.
Marbut alleges that Turner appro¬
priated $96,749.65 of the company’s
money which should have gone into
the reserve fund.
Marbut also says that the former
councilman took the redemption fund,
and he said that it was fraud and neg¬
ligence both on the part of the secre¬
tary and treasurer, and the president,
M. T. LaHatte, also a fqrmer council¬
man, although no “wilful wrong” is
charged to the latter officer.
Judge Pendleton signed a temporary
order restraining Mr. Turner from dis¬
posing of any of his property, real or
personal, and citing him to appear in
court on December 14th for a hearing
on the petition.
TOOK SWEETHEART FROM RIVAL
Jilted Lover Acts the Highwayman in
Novel Fashion.
When John Hall of Camden, S. C.,
was half way between South Mills
from Elizabeth City, N. C., with Miss
Maggie Sawyer, of the former place,
in a buggy Wednesday morning, 'on
their way to be married, they were
j held up by Edmund Daily of South
j j Mills, a rival for the young woman’s
hand, and when Hail refused to bait
he was shot but not seriously wound
j j ed Daily then took the struggling
woman into his own buggy and disap¬
peared.
NO REWARD FOR COPS.
| J Policemen
Not Entitled to Money Of
fered by 8tate of Georgia.
In an opinion furnished the execu¬
tive by Attorney General Hart of
Georgia, it was held that a policeman
wax not entitl'd to a reward offered
| by t O'- Lite for the apprehension of a
! crirn case decided was that
of I'atroh loo re of Columbus, Ga.,
Pplied to the executive
office r< ■ward of S10p offered by
§, »e apprehension of Wil
a negro murderer.
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Purtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random. I
Wages Cut 20 Per Cent. j
Beginning last Mondav a reduction in ,
'
_ wages of . nearly , 20 per cent . , by all ,, j
the largest employing concerns in Tif
ton was put into effect. |
While the reduction was made prin- j
cipally by the lumber manufacturing . .
plants, , yet it was shared , . , bv nearly , all
’
employers , of , labor, , , and . was caused bv
the drop m prices of nearly , all manu
factured , „ products.
Eubanks Heads Company. j
J. G. Eubanks has been elected pres- j
Ident of the $100,000 fertilizer company j
organized by the Farmers’ Union
His eminent fitness for the place and
bis qualities for organization made his
selection practically unanimous.
Other officials elected were: J. T. Me
Daniel, Rockdale, vice president; J. W.
Burns, Bartow; Z. T. Taylor, Dodge;
T - McDaniel, Rockdale: I. A. Smith, I |
Washington, and M. ,C. Wood, Ware,
were named as the board of directors. !
Paul Akin Elected j
Senator.
Paul F. Akin, the youngest brother
of the late president of the Georgia
senate, was elected senator to succeed
his brother from the forty-second dis
on *k e 2 ^rd without opposition.
Mr. Akin is only 30 years of age,
and this position of trust comes to
him unsolicited by himself, he having
consented for his name to be used
only after receiving petions from every
section of the forty-second district.
Atlanta's Taxable Property.
The total taxable property in Atlan¬
ta in 1907 is $91,998,864. The total
amount of taxes received by the city
of Atlanta in 1907 will be $1,236,598.24.
The total taxable property jn Atln *»t
in 1906 was $80,067,113. The total
amount of luxes received by Atlanta
in 1906 was $1,082,389.73. Thus increase
in taxable property this year over last
year is $11,931,551. The increases in
taxes received this year over last year
will be $154,208.51.
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Many to Attend Cotton School.
The arrangements for holding the
great coton school in Athens next Jan¬ j
uary are being perfected. From the
present outlook there will probably be j
an attendance of not less than 300 far- I |
mers at this school, and the figures
may go higher. The school will be in
session ten days, January C-17.
Every possible phase of cotton grow¬
ing will be discussed and explained.
Special attention is to be given to cot¬
ton grading. The marketing and hand¬
ling of the crop will also he given at¬
tention, as well as testing the cotton by
the most approved methods.
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Prominent Atlantan Dead.
Walker P. Inman, one of the most
prominent and wealthy citizens of At¬
lanta, was found dead in bed at his
home, 478 Peachtree street, Saturday
morning. Mr. Inman retired as usual
at 11 o’clock Friday night, apparently
feeling in the best of spirits.
Walter P. Inman was one of the
wealthiest, as well as one of the most
prominent and prominently connected
men in Atlanta and Georgia. In one
way or another he was identified with
nearly every big enterprise in Atlanta.
He was 79 years old, being born in
Huntsville, Ala., June 18, 1828.
Suburban Rates Withdrawn.
Since the Terrell rates went into ef¬
fect naming the fare on the Atlanta
and West Point road at two cents a
mile, that company has withdrawn the
commutation rates of a half cent a mile
which have been given for years be¬
tween Atlanta and Palmetto. This mat¬
ter has been called to the attention of
the railroad commission, and it may
be that the commission will bo asked
to have the commutation rates restored.
This involves the question of right in
compelling people beyond Palmetto to
pay two cents a mile while those in
that city can get a ride for a fourth
of that sum.
Western Union Taxes Declined.
Comptroller General Wright has pre¬
pared a circular letter for the tax col
lectors of the several counties of the
! statc - directing them as to the course
to pursue in the matter of the taxes of
the Western Union Telegraph company,
He requests that they decline to ac
cept any payment of these taxes until
they have been furnished by his of
fice with a statement of the amount
due, and then in no instance to accept
anything but the whole amount.
Tbe comptroHer’s letter is tlx- resul'
of the litigation the company has in
stituted against the state, attacking the
j validity of the franchise tax. Pending
the settlement of this case, the st to
! will not accept any taxes from tin
j company.
All Up in the Air.
Until the attorney general has ro
| ceived and read a copy of th< decision
handed down by the supreme co
I the United States against the (r
I the famous “back tax case,” Judg< Ha f)
THIRTEEN VICTIMS
Of Tenement House Holo¬
i in New York.
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j THE WORK OF FIRE BUGS
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Hapless Men, Women and Children
Caught in Trap of Roaring Flame
and Smoke and Quickly
Perish.
! I Thirteen persons lost their lives and
j several others were injured early Mon¬
day in a tenement house fire in New
York. All the dead were Italians.
Seven of the thirteen were children.
The bodies were found huddled togeth
er in rooms on the top floor of the four
story building, where the terror-strick¬
en people had been driven by the
flames, which rushed up from the lower
floors. They had succumbed before
they could reach windows which led
to the fire escapes. Some had been en
veloped in the flames and burned alive,
Others, overcome by smoke, were
spared the agonies of death is the
fiames.
That the fire was the work of incen¬
diaries, who sought revenge, is the
opinion of the police and firemen who
made the first hasty examination,
Three weeks ago three Italians wmv
caught in the act of attempting to rob
a safe in the saloon of Guiseppe Cuda
B0 0 n the ground floor of the building,
The safe contained over $2,000 which
the saloon keeper’s friends had with
drawn from the banks during the mon¬
ey pank\ The would-be robbers were
arrested and are now awaiting trial
The fire of Monday started in Cudano's
saloon, and the police believe that it
may have been the work of friend;-,
of the prisoners who took this means
of squaring the account with the sa¬
loon keeper.
Cudano discovered the fire when he
went down early to open his place of
business. As he opened the door he
was met by a rush of flames, and with
out waiting a moment to investigate,
dashed up the stairs to the tenements
above, crying out for the occupants o!
the building to run for their lives.
When he reached the rooms occupied
by his own family he burst in the
door, and, seizing his young son in
his arms, told Mrs. Cudano and other
members of the family to follow. Cu¬
dano and the boy managed to find their
wav down the stairs to the street, but
before the women could get through
the flames had cut off all exit.
Not a single person was seen to ap¬
pear at any of the windows of the blaz¬
ing building with the exception of those
on the second floor, from which several
persons reached the fire escapes and
were rescued. After the flames had been
partially checked, firemen fought their
way through the smoke to the upper
floors. There they came upon piles of
dead where they had fallen victims to
the rush of flames and smoke even be¬
fore they had a chance to attempt to
save themselves. In one of the heaps
the firemen found a woman who had
made-one last desperate effort to save
the life of her baby even when she
knew that she herself was doomed to
a horrible death. She had folded her
arms tightly around the little one and
then huddled down close to the floor,
her own body protecting that of the
child. The mother’s body was hadlv
burned. That of the child bore scarce
ly a mark, but it was dead from suf¬
focation. On every side of the moth¬
er and child lay the bodies of other
victims.
TAX RECEIVER INCOMPETENT.
County Grand Jury Recommends His
Removal from Office.
Comptroller General Wright is In re¬
ceipt of a copy of the grand jury pro¬
ceedings of Montgomery county, Geor¬
gia, for the November term, in which
it is recommended that Tax Receiver
W. M. Outlaw be removed for incom¬
petency.
No action will be taken in the case
until the matter has been sifted to the
bottom.
FORGER PROVES COWARD.
Rather Than Be Arrested He Took Fa¬
tal Dose of Poison.
Rather than face charges obtaining
$5,000 on a forged bill of lading, Louis
Straus, a mining broker, swallowed a
quantity of poison at his home in New
York Monday night, and died a few
minutes later. At the time two detec¬
tives were in the house to arrest
Straus.
SENATE KILLS LOCKER BILL.
Measure Was Passed by Alabama
House, But Got No Further.
Through the Carmichael bill for the
prevention of tuile and distribution or
liquors in and by clubs, was passed
in the Alabama house, it met a Water¬
loo later in the senate committee,
from which it may not be able to re
cover.
BILL CALLS ON TEDDY.
Bryan Pays His Respects to
at White House—Subjects Dis¬
cussed Not Divulged.
President Roosevelt and William
Bryan were in conference for half
hour in the president’s private
at the white house Saturday.
“I was not invited to call,” Mr.
said on leaving, “but I called upon
telephone and asked when the
dent would receive callers, and, on
ing Informed, came simply to pay
respects to the president.”
Mr. Bryan was not willing to
cuss the details of his interview,
was free to add details to the
plan which he proposed a few days
In reviewing every measure of
which had come to his notice, Mr.
Bryan said that nothing seemed to
intended as meeting the situation
effectively and at the same time as
simply as the plan he had suggested.
This plan, he said, was simply to have
the government insure depositors in
national banks against loss by reason
of the failure of the banks. It was not
intended, he said, to have the govern¬
ment collect a fund for this purpose,
to be kept on hand. Whenever a na¬
tional bank should be required to pay
its depositors it would be the duty
of the government to make an as¬
sessment on all national banks to meet
the amount of loss by reason of the
failure. Such assessment, Mr. Bryan
said, would be infinitesimal.
Opposition to this plan, Mr. Bryan
conceded, might be made by state
banks who would toe left out of the
plan. The answer to this, he said, w«s
that the states -would individually take
up the same scheme and stand as a
guarantor against loss to depositors
in state banks.
Mr. Bryan said as yet no plan had
been made to have his relief measure
presented in congress. However, he
felt very enthusiastic over the pros¬
pects of its ultimate success.
Mr. Bryan remarked that he had had
a very pleasant chat with the presi¬
dent.
FOOTBALL ROW SETTLED.
Tech Exonerated and Georgia Rein¬
stated With a Reprimand.
The executive committee of the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic As¬
sociation wound up its session in At¬
lanta Saturday afternoon by reinstat¬
ing the Georgia team, this following
the exoneration of Tech. However,
the charges against the Georgia team
were not entirely cleared, to judgo
from the statement of the committee,
which censures Professor Sanford, the
athletic director, Captain Kyle Smith,
and debars Coach Whitney from south¬
ern football together.
Not much mention is made of the
alleged ringers that participated in
the Georgia-Tech game. However, the
committee admits that from the evi¬
dence the University authorities knew
that at least four men had been im¬
ported for the team a few days prior
to the game with Tech.
Also that ten days before this game,
a number of men were matriculated
and assigned by the agricultural de¬
partment. They were at once entered
as members of the football team and
did participate in the game in ques¬
tion, two of them failing to return to
the university after the game, and two
being dismissed by the faculty upon
their returning to Athens.
The committee found that there is a
greaj; deal of rottenness floating
around in Athens, but gives expression
to that fact in the following manner:
“That a condition of affairs has pre¬
vailed which resulted in gross scan¬
dal to the institution and the associa¬
tion.”
To sum up the statement, the com¬
mittee states that there was something
wrong at Georgai somewhere, but
leaves further investigation to Chan
cellor Barrow and his faculty, Georgia
being put baen into good favor along
with Tech.
SHAW PLACES THE BLAME.
Says Panic Was Caused by Reckless
Denunciation of Business Methods.
Extravagant liVing by the American
people, a plethora of undigested se
curitites and widespread denuda¬
tion of American business methods,
were blamed for the financial stringen¬
cy by Leslie M. Shaw, president of
the Carnegie Trust company of New
and former secretary of the treas¬
ury, in a speech Saturday night at
a banqeut given by the National Busi¬
ness League in Chicago.
GOMPERS AGAIN CHOSEN.
Unanimously Elected by Labor Federa¬
tion for Another Term.
At Norfolk, Va., the American Fed¬
eration of Labor, endorsing every act
of their president, Samuel Gompers,
and condemning all those who have
sought to malign his personal charac¬
or official conduct, unanimously re¬
Mr. Gompers for another terra.
GUT YOUR Acljg
And Hold the Pr esentr
Crop for Fift otto
een Cents,
SAY OFFICERS 0f UNiOl
Important Meeting of Board
tors of Farmers’ of Dir (
Unio n H old in
New Orleans Plan .
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Ap e Outlined.
A plan to reduce tbe J
ton next acreage of
year in an effort to
its price was coat!
arranged at the
ing held in New i
Orleans Saiuroi
by the board of directors °f
niers’ Educational the P;
and Proteetiv e 11
ion of America. A mee tin
g Waj CJ
ed to be held in Memphis
°a Jan®
7 next, to lay this plan before
th e eu
1011 farmers of the south,
Tim proposed reduction in
1 •®tto* is acreage
to fix the minimum of
at about 15 eents per pound.
The bolding by cotton Planters ij
at least 8,000,000 bales of this Karl
crop in warehouses until cotton torinJ
object 16 cents of a the pound, meeting was the pri B( bcaj J
of the retkerj
of directors. Considerable
was shown as to the purposes of d
meeting. The financial situation wa
Wiftaght to require the most carefij
co-operation toy planters in order B
held np the price of cotton,
the warehouses and
warehouse receipt on cotton
as possible the equivalent of
in order better to insure the
of the storing scheme. The rccoa
inundations adopted at the meeting nil
be submitted to the cotton planter
in each of the states represented at fm
meeting. These states are: Louisi
ana, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, AlJ
bama,Tennessee, Oklahoma, South Carj
olina, and Arkansas. C. S. Barrett
Union City, Ga., national president
the Bkirmers’ Union, presided.
“The union controls 6,000,000 ba!e(
today,” said President C. S. Barred]
of Georgia, of the union, “and we an
confident that at least 65 per cent ol
this can easily be held off the rnarkel
without any suffering resulting to the
farmer through lack of sufficient funds
and supplies from other crops. I shall
be greatly surprised if we do nsl
see Cotton selling at 15 cents a pound
before January 1, 1908, but believe that
a reduced acreage next season will
make it even higher.”
It is proposed to establish agencies
at Galveston, New Orleans and Savan¬
nah to enable farmers to keep in closs
touch with the spinner and save :m
middleman’s profit.
A circular alleged to have been writ
ten by a prominent New York cottoi
speculator urging bankers to force
cotton on the market by foreclosure
was read to the directors. They de¬
cided to issue an official call for far¬
mers to withdraw deposits and otto
wise to boycott banks which attempt
to force the marketing cf cotton »!'
foreclosure, The directors announce!
that their reports estimated the pres¬
ent crop at 11,000,000 bales.
QUESTION EXTRADiTiCN LAWS.
Notorious Greene and Gaynor Case As¬
sumes New Status.
A petition for a writ of certiorari a
the famous against Benjamin &
case
Greene and John F. Gaynor, in TiljC
they have been convicted of
zling $600,000 from the g 0 '’^
some
ment of the United States, va»
in the supreme court of the Unite#
States at Washington Saturday.
question will be raised as »
The this coun¬
whether a person indicted in
try for a crime not included in 1,1
nadian treaty can be tried foi -
crime after his surrender by t*®
a demand f» r
nadian authorities upon
extradition based on other crimes
FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL
Is Held on $500 Beni
Editor Hearst
by New York Judge
Justice Watt, New in the York coul JJ- l^' ^
cial session ot
held William Randolph Hear cri®
in $500 on a charge of
grand jury William ^
inal libel preferred by
ton Chanler. Mr.
The charge against the *’•
out of publication in
grew a concerning l!lf
York Evening Journal the #
case of Raymond Hitchcock.
Chanler's name was
tor. Mr. th e
tioned in connection with
PEOPLE TIRING OF R elision
Pessimistic Utterance of Official
of Salvation Army ' »
General Booth, in an address 8 ®’
in Berlin- Gcr®
Salvation Army, ryffbere
eaid that the people c Te He* 8 *
ed to be tiring of reli; - ioa W
2,000,000 P _ , j D K
1 s
ed there were entered a
eric* -
don who never an d A»
was the same in Europe countries
and even in heathen