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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WAYCROSS AND WARE COUNTY AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
VOLUME XXIII
WAYCROSS GA SATURDAY JANUARY 2 1909
NUMBE.t 46
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: . BILL MAY GOME UP!
KM OF PLANS
Washington Dec. 31.—The question
whether there will bo a river and har
bor bill during the present session of
Congress la becoming a matter of
much concern to many members o$
both houses.
In accordance with the usual cus
tom of passing such a bill only once
every two years no effort was made
to get one through last session, but
now the committees find themselves
-confronted by a constantly growing
deficit in_ the treasury, with the ac
companying complaint that it Is going
to be Impossible to find money enough
to go around without trenching too
deeply upon the reserves.
But the Importunate ones are urg»
In q the prospect of Improved bust-
'floss conditions and the probability
that the proposed new tariff will af
ford ah Increased income, even thougn
there -bo n^ Improvement In general
conditions,, and the clerks of the
House Committee are proceeding
with tho preparation of a bill In or
der to hare it ready should this ar
gument prevail.
New and old projects would call
for the Immediate appropriation of
about $25,000,000, ..In addition to
which plans would he laid for the ex-
pendlturo In the future of probably
twice as much money.
YOUNa LADY HURLED IN THE
AIR BY TRAIN AND KILLED.
! Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 30.—Miss
Addol Haggard, a popular young lady
of King's Mountain, Ky., was knock-
fe\*d from a high trestle on the CIn-
y cinnatl Southern Railway at that
F today and instantly killed.
f -"%3hi was walking across the trostly
. Vicu she was overtaken by a fast
express train. Her body was hurled
' high' into the air and fell Into Fishing
P-'.CrSek, fifty feet below. A number of
**•' peoplq saw tho accident.
ANNA GOULD WIN8
*• # HER THREE CHILDREN.
Paris, Dec. 31.—The petition of
CountjBonl de Castellano that the cus
tody of*bis three sons be given to his
mother, the Marquise do Castellano,
was denied today.
The court ruled that the children re
main in the custody of their mother,
the Princess de Sagan, formerly Miss
Anna Gould, of New York. The court
ruled further that the children should
not leave the confluent without its
permission.
Beginning October 19, 1909, they*
are to be placed at a college situated
within one hundred miles of PaTls.
PANAMA FIGHTS LOCU8TS.
HIM TO ME WORST DISASTER IN
ANOTHER BIO BRIDGL! HISTORY OF Ml
Washington, D. C., Dec. .31—There
13 nothing definite known In Washing
ton concerning the reported plana of
President-elect Tuft to divide the
work of supervising corporations be
tween the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, the Bureau of Corporations
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, and a bureau to be created of
the Department of Justice. Since the
organization of 'the Department oi
Commerce and Labor and its Bureau
of Corporations there has been dis
cussion of such a plan as that attrib
uted to Mr. Taft. The Idea is not a
new ouo to have the Interstate Com
merce Commission relieved of the
work of investigating railroads and
other corporations engaged in Inter
state commerce and have that work
performed by the Bureau of Corpora
tions.
It has been felt for some time that
there should not be placed upon the
same body tho duties of Investigation
as well as decision and also that there
should be a special bureau of the De
partment of Justice to prosecute cases
referred to It from the Interstate
Commerco Commission.
Tho Taft plan, according to report
hbre, follows the outline suggested
in hig campaign speeches and will
have for Its chief object tho quick
enforcement of the laws already on
the statute books-
The general outline of the plan is
described as follows: Tae Interstate
Commerce Commission -is to be re
lieved of Its duties as an investigat
ing body. It Is to bo a commission ex
ercising only quasi-judicial functions.
The jurisdiction of the Bureau cf
Corporations, on tho other hand, is
to be extonded over all corporations
doing an Interstate bus'.icoa. It will
be charged with the detailed work of
investigating and preparing cases.
This bureau acting upon individual
complaints or upon its own Initiative,
will lay the result of Us Invest h.a-
tlons before the Interstate Commer
ce Commission for decision. It win
originate all cases. Tho new bureau
In the Department of Justice will work
in cooperation with tho Bureau of
Corparltons and the Interstate Com
merce Commission when legal aid br
necessary.
The proposed plan does not contem
plate tho licensing of corporations but
that under it corporations will prob
ably bo obliged to submit to closer
scrutiny by the Bureau of Corpora
tions.
THE RAPID SPREAD
OF
Washington, Dec. 31.— reports re-
Accordlng to the statements made
by passengers on tho Panama Rail-
- road Company's liner Advance, w'alch
arrived from Colon Saturday, the gov.
‘ eminent of Panama hna been spend,
Ing largo sums this year In fighting
the locusts, which have become a sor
lout menace to the. agricultural In-
- tereata of the country.
The committee appointed to devise
means of the extermination of the
peat lost June appropriated the sum
of $475 per month, of which $200 was
paid lo Boron F. von Teubor, an Au
strian expert la such work.) After
fighting the locust all the summer
Baron von Teuber resigned and came
to New York. No successor has yet
' beem found to tackle t'ae prolific and
devastating insect.
• -fte greatest Jttnago by the locust
' a Times reporter wae Informed, is In
the district^,! Chepo, due cast of the
/•'City of Panama, where great areas
H^Jave beift denuded of foliage end the
•crops almost totally destroyed.
The method of oxter.-.'lasting the
locusts most genera", adopted has
been to dig a trench about fifty feet
In length, two feet wide and one foot
- deep, with perpendicular sides, Into
which the locusts ore driven by men
_ be»tin*'tb* grass and trees with
switches. In this way million* are
collected and are destroyed with a so
lution of strong lye aoapsuds.—Naw|
York Times.
The average Waycmsslte seems to
t- - in condition to swear off tomororw.
-, no Jug is probably M T.
GRAND MA8TER'
BLALOCK COMING.
A letter from Hon. J. T. Blalock,
Grand Master of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows of Georpln, states
that ho will attend tho anniversary
exercises and turkey supper of Way-
cross Lodga No. 57 tomorrow night,
This will bo’Mr. Blalock’s first visit
here since he was elected Grand
Master lest May.
■ According to Dr. Henry Smith Wil
liams, who has an article In tho Christ
mas McClure’s on "Alcohol and the
Individual,” 46.95 per cant, of
crimes In this country are traceable
lo alcokol.
Now Ys>rk, Dec. 31.—A new Brldg „„ „ ,
, . , , . , , f ■ Rome, Dec, 30.—The details of one. .— — ■ --
s conunpai on o * of the most aiipallu^$lsasters record- j fleeting accurately the present mage
Quebec county Long Island. TiU 1*^ , n (n( , blBtor? worlJ al . Q be . of the prohibition movement In tho
°n„“ strictures' crerTroposcd" 3 Willi! In * untoldoa ln th< ' «*patehe. com-! South "' J0W thut moro ,hon hal( tlie
ROAD CONTENTION
IS III SETTLED
A contention existing for some tlmo
between J. R. and T. Bunn and other*
on one side and J. J. Murray and oth-
on the other, was settled on you
th© approaches It will be three miles
long and "ill span Hurl Gate (Hell
Gate)) ship channel with an cnor-
mous arch 1,000 feet in the clear. Tho
entire bridge except the piers for the
arch will be steel, having an estimated
weight of 8,000 tons. A noved fea
ture is that tho train floor of tjj©
bridge instead cf resting on the crown
of the arch it Is hung from it. Tho
crown of the bridge Is three hundred
feet above the water, and tho floor
140 feet, enabling tho largest vessels
to pass under It with case. It will
have four tracks, two for tho passen
ger trains and two for freight trains
The lower portion of the towers will
be granite and tho upper part con
crete.
ing In today from Calabria and Sicily. South’s territory is “dry” absolutely,) torday. A temporary Injunction
It Is a story of indescribable horror J annd that In the remaining area listed been granted by Ju.lje Parker against
•' nA >ni._u.. Tj;0 earthquake ofj ftS ‘wot” the sale of intoxicants f4
A BIG DECREASE IN
Washington, Dec. 31.—That tho de
crease of approximately 1300,000,000
In Imports and perhaps $160,000,000
in export in the commerce of the Unit
ed States during the calendar year
190S is merely part of a general con
dition, which has prevailed the world
over, is ‘ibewn by tho monthly state
ment of the Bureau of Statutes.
Of the 25 principal countries of the
world whose foreign commerce tho
bureau records month by month, all
but lour show a falling off in exports
and nearly two-thirds show n falling
off In imports.
THE ROANOKE
MINE HCROR GROW8.
Roanoke, Va., Dec. 31.—The latest
news received at tho Norfolk and
Western Railway Company headquar
ters here from the Lick Branch coal
mine disaster is to the effect that
twenty-two dead bodies have been re
moved.
Eighteen miners have crawled out
unaided and five others havu boon
brought out alive by rescue parlies.
It Is now believed that from 35 to 60
miners remain in tho mine and there
is no hope entertained that any of
them are alive.
PAULK KILLS NEGRO
AT FITZGERALD.
and calamity
Monday morning wrought havoc and
destruction that ounnot bo estimated.
Italy is stunned by a visitation des
cribed as the greatest disaster in the
memory of living man. Yet cho fuii
measure of tho cKljkstropho has not
been taken.
The calamity craws with tho receipt
of every fresh djspatch from tho
south. Calabria la dotted with small
towns and villages, and now locali
ties are reporting almost hourly, casu-
ality lists that runjfrom tho hundreds
into tho thousands. It Ib still impos
sible to reach any accurate estimate
of the dead, but the total number is
placed anywhere between 100,000 and
160,000. In some quarters it Is de
clared that the final numbers will be
sb high ns 200,000.persons. One half
of the population of Calabria and eas
tern Sicily apparently has perished.
Countless, thousands of wounded
men, women and children aro dying
today ln the ruins. It Is utterly im
possible to succor them all. Number
less wounded of the survivors who
have made their way to other cities
arp 8till without medical attention.
Thefacllitltes for proper care oven ln
the pities that did not suffer aro in
adequate.
The devnsted district Is still filled
with half-demented survivors, starving
and wandering ainil ssly In the rain.
Tho ruins are still burning. King
Victor Emanuel and Queen Helena
arrived Jn Messina today, and both
personally went to work to aid tho In
jured. Their example has been a
wonderful Inspiration to the wholo
country.
Every jnsiblc thing is being done
to forward tho work of relief, but tho
rall-oads into the afflicted lines have
been put out of operation. Bagnam,
a town of 10,000 people, north of Hog-
gio, ia reported ns annihilated. Tho
entire population is said to have per
ished. Reggio, a city of 50,000 peo
ple has been practically demolished.
Tho detail stories from refur/eos
only add horror upon horre: to tho
calamities of the fateful day.
Fresh earth shocks wero felt
last night at Plzzo. (n Calabria, nnd
Palermo, 8iclly. They were not so-
vere.
Half tho population of Calabria aud
the eastern pnrt of Sicily are dead
the other half Is weeping.
And so the terrible story goes and
grows worse.
Rome, December 30.—South Italy
and the Island of Sicily have been
visited by an appalling calamity, the
extent of which cannot yet be grasp
ed. An earthquake has wrecked city
after city and obliterated smaller
towns and villages without number.
Then a tidal wave swept along the
Strait of Messina and added to the
horror, drowning the people in their
holplossncss and panic. Fire came to
The art of money raising In the
churches In England appears to be pro
gressed even beyond the stage it has
reached In this country. An adver
tisement In the London Morning Post
recently ran as follows: *‘To Bridge-
Players: Ou the 1st of December next,
the birthday of our Gracious Queen,
will you give one-twcntietli of your
bridge winnings that day, to assist
In building an extra aisle In St. Paul's
church, Winchester?" One would think
that when gamblers are asked to
build churches His 8atanlc Majesty
might put in s claim to be a brick
member.—Telegraph.
Fitzgerald, Ga., Dec. SO.r-At 9:30
last night as Hon. John B. Paulk
stepped on the porch of tho residen
ce of Ellas Paulk, of this city, he was
grabbed by a negro, who threw him
to tbo ground.
During the struggle Paulk man
aged to draw his pistol, but it was
caught by tho negro and went off
without effect.
Paulk then Jerked away and „ TJ . tr .T. T „ u „ . ..»
his assailant through tbo head, kill- 1 complete the work of destruction.
Ing him Instantly. ] Flames broke out In tho devastated
A coroner’s jury gave a verdict of cities and countless numbers of wound-
Justifiable homicide. | e d men, women and children were
Mr. Paulk was formerly clerk of burned to death,
court of Irwin county and is a prom-j Any adequate estimate of tho total
lnent citizen. [casualitios is as yet quite Impossible.
but reports places the number at be-
upon a restricted sale. The cities are
tho only remaining strongholds for
saloons ,and It is unlikely that this
condition will be modified, except
through a radical change in political
thought, through failure to enforce
tho laws against tho liquor traffic,
failure to solvo tho problem growing
out of deficits in county, municipal
and state treasuries from a loss of
tho whiskey tax, or inability to cop©
with tho illicit salos of whiskey, and,
perhaps, othor obstacles which follow
In tho wake of prohibition.
Goorgia now holds tho center of the
stngo anti for a year has boon experi
menting in wht is strictly a “near
prohibition law” In that it forbids tho
sulo of liquors containing moro than
four por cent, of alcohol. Stato-wldo
prohlblton laws bocome effective on
January 1 in North Carolina, Alabama
and Mississippi, in each of which a
majority of counties had heretofore
prohibited tho salo of liquor. Prohibi
tion advocates in Ixmtst&na have sus
pended their fight to tost tho now
Gny-Shattuck law for tho regulation
of tho liquor traffic, which also bo-
comes operative January 1. Tho anti-
saloon people say they will bo content
If thl. law Is enforcod rigidly.
Tennessoo is the chief centor of In
terest among tho othor States where
Stato-wldo bill will pass tho Legisla
ture which they expect to organize
and control. With tho backing of the
8tato machinery, tho local option for
ces aro equally confidant that such a
bill will meet dofeat.
Kentucky, tho second largest dis
tilling State in tho Union, with 119
counties, has but four In which tho
sale of liquor is not prohibited. ,
Virginia presents a string of vie
torles for tho anti-saloon element, ns
prohibition now exists In eighty of the
8tate's hundred counties.
In Texas, where more than half tho
countfos hav^' accopted prohibition
tho voters soon will bo callod upon to
vote upon* a constitutional amend
mont foe-prohibition.
In Arkansas two-thirds of Its area,
or 76 counties aro " dry” and tho ques
tion of Statc-wldo prohibition will bo
presented to tho voters for decision.
Florida is partially “dry” through
local option, and, like some of the
other States, tho sale of liquor prin
cipally is confined to tho cities.
Tho results of prohibition generally
are gleaned from reports Indicating n
great decrease in tho record of ar
rests for drunkenness, an Increase In
tho bank deposits of laborers, fewer
cases of wifo abandondonmont, and a
decrease la crlminnlity gonorally. Tho
difficulty of enforcing tho prohibition
laws, howover Is conceded to bo one
of tho chief obstacles to Its absolute
success In many states and this phaso
of the question, together with a fall
ing c-fT in revenues is to some extent
baffling to the authorities.
the County Commissioners at the in-
blance of Mr. Murray, to prevent tho
o.ytcnslpn of tho road loading from
Coleman's bridge over the Satilla
river across £ultwood’s creek, to in
tersect with tho Worcsboro nnd Mill-
wood road at tho Crawley farm In
tho direction of Fairfax. Pending
same t'n Messrs Bunn and others pe
titioned tho Commissioners to es
tablish said road ns a public road and
Mr. Murray and others petitioned tho
Commissioners for a public road lead
ing from Hasty to Intersect with tho
Coleman's bridge and Fullwood crook
road. Another petition signed by a
large number of citizens was also
filed for tho establishment of a pub
lic road running fcom Hasty to Man
or. All the parties and their witnes-
appeenrod on yestorday before tho
Commissioners. Hon. L. A. Wilson, ro-
presenting Messrs. Bunn and others
and Judgo J. L. Sweat representing
Mr. Murray anl others, when an
agreement was reached to establish
all tho roads asked for by tho differ
ent prtlen nnd orders to that effect
were accordingly passed.
MAY'S MILL AND FEED 8TOR&
too POUND*
SritgsIgnpM'
M
:2T
It has come to pass in Valdosta
when yu can’t sell peanuts on Sunday
Valdosta will soon be perfection per
sonified.
The girl *ho expected to get a seal
skin sack Christmas and instead re
ceived a pair of bed room slippers,
U making np the difference in unhap
py thoughts. Leap year to not yet
over. She might try a new venture.
We have our new mill ln operation
and are prepared to make as fine a
quality of meal, as any water mill
could possibly make. We have large
mill rocks that run very alow which
prevents tho meal from heating. Our
meal la much sweeter than the ship
ped meal, as we do not bleach our
com, which destroya ita natural
sweetness. We will in a few days
publish the names of theGrocery
who sell our meal. If you have not yet
tried our Horse and Cow Feed, try
a sack. It to put up strictly to com
ply with the Pure Food Law. Phone
• g. Mur*’ Mill ft Feed Store
tween 00,000 and 70,000.
Tho horror and destructiveness of
this visitation probably will exceed
that of any earthquako since 1873,
when 40,000 persons perished nt Me»-
xlnn alone.
Reports of heavy loss of life are
coming in every hour from city and
town, and nearly every village in
too stricken zono, and tho story in Ita
detail has only begun to bo tolJ. The
horror grows as further reports come
In.
Messina has been tireswept. The
dead there alone will ran into tho
tens of thousands. Reggio to a se
pulchre of the dead. Catania suffered
severely.
Mount Aetna, tho volcano on the
Island of Sicily, Is active. The deton
ations are reverberating over Catania
and add to the terror. Volumes of
smoke are pouring from the crater.
The work of rescue to being pusbeJ
forwarl with every possible energy.
Tho Atlanta Constitution remarks
that Editor Pendleton to kooplng his
friends busy these days congratulating
him. He is turning tricks rapidly
these days and Is incidentally doing
some lino editorial work. Pendleton
is too peer of any writer in tho state
or tho South oither for that matter.
Troopa are being poured Into tlho
zone, but tho efforts at succor are as
yet utterly K Inadequate. France,
Great Britain and Russia are hurry
ing warship* to tho scone.
King Victor Emanuel nnd Quen He
lena have left Romo for the south.
His majesty will superintend in per
son tho work of relief. The queen, re
fusing to let her husband go alone, in
sisted upon sharing bis dangers.
The pope baa male an $>ppeal to Ro
man Catholics the world over for help.
He baa headed toe relief fubscrlptlons
list with a donation of $290,000.
There Is consternation In Rome.
The telegraph anj newspaper offices
are besieged by weeping crowds, de
manding news. Every fresh telegram
tells the same story of death, destruc
tion and desolation.
ANOTHER WICKED FLEA.
Tho world at large 1* greatly in
terested In tho announcement that a
noted scientist, who has been study
ing tho causes of bubonic plaguo, has
discovered a new species of tho wick
ed flea.
i only with Infinite patienco
ar.d perseverance that scientists
have been able to capture and class!-
the various species which wero al
ready knqwn. That marvelous muscular
development which enables them to
make a flying leap of sovcrul hun-
cs their own length had modo
thorn distinctly elusive. And yet fC
hud been thought that there wore
specimens of every existing specie*
in captivity.
This nows from tho Prclflc coast
is therefore disturbing, for if tho na
tural history of tho now specimen to
not overdrawn In point of description,
ho Is the most ferocious yet captured.
He Is described as being blind. The
•Id method of taming them by looking
cm firmly and steadily In tho oyo
will not work with this now species.
Hypnotists passos over him and men-
have no terrors for him.
zn tho man-eating shark has only
two rows of teeth, But this new mon
ster from tho Orient Is said to bo
armed with not less ihn i ilx rows,
t would not bo accurate lo say that
ho bites.
Ho devours.
With a spacious affection he Insin
uates himself luto the very bosom of
hig victim nnd when ho gotstowhero
he can stick dosor than a brother ho
provokes himself to a blind lrago
which is very disconcerting, when tho
azuallant has six rows of tooth.
The common or garden flea, as we
havo said, has a marvelous capacity
for giving elaps, but the now specie*
Is said to be a prizo wlnnor. Pre
sumably he has leaped all tho way
from the Caromadel coast to the Gol
den Gate, or mayhap from tho mud
banks of tho Hoangho.
That is something of a leap, tor
those degenerate dnyi.
A close scrutiny clears up the mys-
ry as to what, bos been causing t o
bubonic i laguo. The Ilea Is the of
fender. The ratg are vindicated.
But, after nil, It can matter but
iittlo whether this now- species of flea
transmits the plague or not. He I*
a plague within himself. A large sod
growing colony of him, dispersed
over a community would make any
ordinary plague seems like a relief.
The fact he Is yellow In color Is a
trivial detail which might havo been
spared us. The yellow peril ha* al-
rady assumed forms enough. We
havo just succeeded in effecting a
treaty which will protect ds from one
yellow Invasion and now comes an
other. It Is like Insulting our dto-
tress.—Constitution.
Alegrette’a Candles just received.
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