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WEEKLY E^DrriOIST OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WARE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. VOL. 2.—NO. 261. WAYOROSS, OA., FRIDAY, FEB. 19,1909. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. MIME WELL ATTENDED NO DECHEA8E li EXPECTS! 2R«v. J. J. Bennett Expected for Sunday—Rev. A. M. Bennett Will be Here Next Week. The protracted meetings at the 'First Baptist church are being well attended, the congregations being good and the interest of those who attend incrfeasing from day to day. Rev. J. W. Ballew is conducting the services every night this week hut he expects to be assisted after Saturday. Rev. J. J. Bennett ,the corresponding secretary of the •state Board of Missions is expect- •ed to arrive in the city Saturday j and. will preach it both the morn ing and evening services on Sun day. Next wedk, Rcv£ A. M. Ben nett of Norman Park, is expected to assist with "the work. • Thero will bq a special meeting for the children on Friday after noon at three-thirty. The music will be in charge of the young peoplo and every effort will be directed toward making the ser vice interesting and profitable to the boys and girls. All the chil dren of the city and as many of the older people as feel specially interested in the work, are eer. dially invited to attend. Services will bo held every night tW week at seven thirty. ATTENTION GUARDS. Headquarters Co. “F” To the members of the Wayeross Guards: You are hereby commanded to be and appear at the Armory to night at seven thirty in uniform, for the purposo of drill and in struction. It is imperatiyc that every member be present as mat ters of importance In reference to the inspection will come up. No excuses will be accepted, "i, -if! MONEY IN SANK 6IVEN AS ASSET Brunswick. Ga„ Feb. 18.—Ref- ereo Max Isaac has a novel peti tion in bankruptcy filed with him as the petitioners named in their assets, a sum of money on depos it in a bank. This is so unusual as to cause comment. . The petitioners are E. S.-Cotton and F. F, Preston of Broxton, do ing a general merchandise busi ness under the firm name of Cot ton &'Broxton. The liabilities of the firm are placed at (4,476.05; the assets are scheduled at 61.800 in stoek of mc-chnndisn. (2.168.41 in notes „r,l *041.67 in open accounts. The Ki-.k deposit given as an asset is (20460. ' • it pidiviiloally the liabilities and -re given: E. S. Cotton on a mortgage (1.360 and co accounts (011.09 His assets are quoted as consisting of (260.55 , n »—mol property and (1.500 in i estate. <■' Preston docsnlt owe any eV it'd placet bis assets nt 47 .'o : t> persona’ effects. ffefeeoo fane will bea* the case Before Two Weeks Have Passed Annual Shipments Aggregating More than Quarter-Million Tons Will be Made. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 18.—Within a few days the yearly avalanche of more than three-quarters of a million tons of fertilizer valued at some seventeen million dollars, will begin to ship j and before two weeks are passed, say authorities in the state agricultural d*part- ment. the vital land nutriment that means so much to the cotton market of the world will have be gun to spread over the fields of Georgia in preparation* for the coming season, Already, it is reported, there has been a slight movement in fer tilizer in some quarters of south west Georgia. But the general movement is slow, according to J. F. Johnson, fertilizer clerk in the department of agriculture. Mr. Johnson says that the whole sea son that he catmot explain. It is proibable, however, that he farm ers themselves have been holding off their purchases until the last mony>nt But the manufictqrers, as is well known, guarantee tho price o ftheir product, so there can be nb logical reason for delay in that quarter. January, February and March arc usually the big mon hs in the yearly movement of fertilizer, hut rhe records in the agricultural de partment show that there has been very little of that product ship ped so far this season. It is a pe culiarity of the annual distribu tion of fertilizer they say, that the wholo season’s orders are filed in a bunch and that the business is congested into s few weeks’ tush oaeh year because of the farmers j.ropensitv to wait till Ihe last minute, till they almost have '.heir WOMEN TESTIFY FOR TOE STATE WARREN LOTT, Capt. C. C. BUCHANANT«TR., lst Ser.T plows in the field, before they send in their orders. In the opinion of Mr. Johnson fertilizer clerk, however, this pres ent week will mark definite com menccmcnt of the season. He be lieves that from now on till the latest seasoned part of the state is reody for planting, the shipments of fertilizer will bo heavy. In 1908 there were 842.775 tons of fertilizer shipped to farmers and dealers from manufactories in Georgia and outaide of the state. Approximately three-qnarters of that weight it is estimated, had been manufactured in Georgia, Computing at an averagr valua tion of (20 per ton, the value of the whole year’s enrichment plac ed upon the lands of Georgia was about' (16,555,500. The year’s ihipments gave the state a total revenue of (84,277.60. According to the best indica tions noted in the state department of agricnltnre, there is no reason to believe that the amount of fer tilizer used in 1909 will be greater than that used in 1908.'*thoUgh It is anthoritatively predicted that it will not be any less., Coast Line passenger train nnm her 58 from Montgomery arrived here this Morning five hours be hind time. The delay was caused hv a slight accident at Valdosta, s split switch throwing two drlv- Each of the petitioners asks for | in* wheela of the engine off the the usual homestead exemption#. J track. State Endeavors to Establish Con spiracy to Kill Carmack—Star Witnesses Are Women. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 18.—The evidence of Miss Mary Skcffing- ton, witness for the state in the Cooper trial was most significant. She corroborated Senator Car mack’s charge, made on the day of his death, that Governor Patter son and former Governor John I. Cox had mado friends. She said that a few moments before the shooting she passed Governor Pat terson and former Governor Cox, talking on the capitol steps, near the scene of the shooting and as the shots were being fired, she en countered John Sharp, hurrying up the street toward the gover nor’s mansion. She asked what was the noise, she said. Sharp replied: “It’s shooting.” She asked, sho. said, “Who’i shooting!” And he replied: “Col- onel Duncan Cooper shooting Sen ator Carmack.” E. N. Morgan, a postoffice em ployee, testified to seeing John D. Sharp join the Coopers in the Ar cade on the afternoon of the kill ing. C. B. Horn a real estate agent, told of having heard John Sharp curio-Carmack and say he ought to be in hell. Miss Theresa McKeon, a city school teacher, and Spurgeon Van- deren, secretary to tho hoard of education, each gave new and startling evidence. They entered Fort’s infirmary shortly after the shooting and had started up stairs when Miss McKeon stopped at the library door to Call Dr. Fort out and tell him that Carmack was dead. Colonel Cooper was in the room, pacing the floor. He nailed out: "Dr. Fort, don’t let anybody clso in hero unless it is an officer. I don’t want to shoot anybody else.” Colonel Cooper according to Vanderen, came to the door and said he was closing it. Miss Lizzie Fort, a sister of Dr. Fort, living in Polk flats, was in her appartments during tfie shoot ing. She heard five shots and all seemed like they came from tho same revolver. Three were close togthcr and two others were at long intervals. She said she saw a young man step up on the pave ment south of a telephone post. Tho older man came toward the post from the north and put his arm on the shoulder of the young- er man. Charles II. Warwick, of the Nashville Credit Men’s Agency, told of hearing Robin Cooper bntt into a conversation on a car when Warwick and a friends were dis cussing Carmack. He said Rob in Cooper said: “He ought to be in hell.” As the witness detailed this remark, Mrs. Carmack sob bed convulsively and exclaimed aloud: “Oh, my God I" By the second witness, Miss Daisy Lee, the state laid the foun dation upon which it will base its contention that the slaying of Car mack was the result of a conspira cy. Miss Lee is a stenographer in the office of James Bradford, one of the attorneys for the defense. Robin Cooper had his office with Bradford’s law firm. Him Lee, trembling with fright sad almost sick with worry, told l KILLED 6 IN COOPEN M1DEN TRIAL FOR DISTRICT ABOUT HEREIN WRECK ON COAST LINE Olub for Owning and Building Ru ral Lines—Boll Co., to Furnish Connections With City Phones. Mr. H. S. Banner, the local manager for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Cumpa ny was in Savannah yesterday, where a District Conference of all their managers was held fir the purpose of deciding upon plans for a definite canvass for tele phones in tho rural sections around each city or town. - The company’s proposition is a very flattering ono that is being widely advertised and gives the rural dweller one of the city’s mnny conveniences and benefits at prices within every ones means, ho matter how small a user. The proposition is one that eon templates the organization of mutual local club for the purposo of owning and building the lines from the Exchange limits to the sulweribers places, and the com- piny connects with such lines nnd furnishes service to nnd from their town patrons at a very low cost, depending upon the number of stations to he connected. There arc already a number of farmers in the District that have this great time saving facility and a. number of others who are ar ranging to secure same, and ns we know of no other instrument that would save the time and put neigh hors on inch easy social relations as this, wo hopo to soon see a line on every public highway and wire to cveTy honso m onreonnty. hog ■sct the morning of Nov. 9, the day of the tragedy, when sho arrived at the office, she found Col. Cooper already there in con fnrenoo with his son. She heard tho Colonel denounce Carmack for using his (Cooper’s) nnm.: and declare he had a right to protect himself. Later she heard Col Cooper apply to him (Canr.r.ek) npithctic so vile that she cried when ordered to repent them. The court permitted her to write them and when they were read she eov cred her face wit hlier hands. Miss Lee then told him at • p. m. there begi.-i a c-.iio'i-mee ii Bradford’s office between the two Coopers. Bradford and Adjt. Gen. Tullcy Brown. This conference lasted until 4 j>. in., when it broke up, antf the Coopers left together She said that there was a look of worry nnd tronhle o nthc Imy’i face that she had never seen there before. Miss laic’s duty among other things was to answer the tele- phone. There ate desk extensions into the private offices of the mem bers of the firm. It was her cus tom to answer tho telephono and call by an elecjric button such members of the firm as were want ed. A half an hour after the Coop ers left the office, the telephone rang and as usual Min Lee an swered it. She heard a voice say: “Is that you Jirn-f” and heard Attorney Bradford say, ”yos.” She hung up her receiver, but not before she recognized the voice os that of Col. Cooper A moment later sho heard Bradford say over tho telephone: ' “And did Robin kill himf” “Well I’ll be right up thera." (Continued on Eighth Baga (From Wednesday’s Daily.) O. D. Francis and Colored Fire man lose Lives in Head-on Col lision Near Ty Ty at 8:20 last Night—Injured Brought Here. Because of a mix-up in train or ders two freight Iraimi on the At lantic Coast Line met head-on lust night nt 8:20 between Ty Ty and Tifton. killing two persons and in juring six. The dead: O. D. Francis, white flagman on 212. Marshall Gates, colored, fire man on 212. Tho injured: » S. B. Henderson, engineer of 212 of Wayeross. J. A. McLarty engineer of 109 of Albany slight. W. Walters, conductor of 309, slight.. Tom I’lummcr, fireman on 309, slightly injured. Buss Jeffers, colored brakeman ou 309, slight. John Urquhnrt. colored brake man on 309, not thought to be se riously injured Tho trains in the collision \yere westbound freight number 212, of which Mr. Henry Cannon Wns cort dticter, with Mr. 8. B. Henderson engineer on engine number 309, ami ensthound freight number 309, in charge of Mr. W. Walters, eon ductor, with Mr. J. A. McLarty, ongincor on engine number 92G. The body of the white flagman wns brought here this morni the hospital ear and turned over to the Lott-Fain Co. Engineer nenderson wns carried to his home, 45 Elizabeth street, and is resting easy. Two negroes, Tom Plummer and John llrqiihart, were brought here also and car ried to the hospital for treatment. Tho others injured in the wreck were able to proceed to their homes. The dead fireman, whose body was not found until this morning, lived here. Local Coast Line Officials went to tho scene of the accident last night on the special which took tho wrecker and crew. A relief train was sent to the wreck in a short time * from Tifton, ' giving medical aid to the injured. Among tlioso going from here last night were 8upt. R, A. MrCranio and Mr. W. A. McCullough. A sad incident in connection with lost night’s wreck wss the fact that the parents of Mr. Fran cis, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Francis, were here when notified of their sons death, being st tho time en route to Albany to visit their son and his family. They had been to Jacksonville, and were notified only a few minutes after having registered si the Phoenix Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Francis left immedi ately for Albany. Today, accom panied by the grief-stricken wife OF LAP ORDER EACUNADTIFION-iy TV IHE and three children of their son, they went to Luverne, Ala., where the funeral occurs tomorrow. All trains from Albany have been transferring passengers and mail today. The Illinois Central trains were detoured last bight via'Thomnsville, running extra from Thomasville to Albany, and no trains 57 and 58 Tl.pmasville (• Wayerom. j , |. [): First Head-on Collision on tho HI & W.—Mistake in Orders Dis covered Before Trains Collided’. —Injured ora Improving. No Ruthoritive statement baa-’ been given in regards to tbo cause- of the firat head-on collision that the B. & W. division of the Coast Line has had, that near Ty Ty Tuesday night, but it is generally talked, that a lap order was rea sonable. It is said that the drdcr giving the trains directions as' to tho meeting point were taken at the same time by Tifton and Syl vester operators nnd that he mis take was mado nt Sylvester. Tho order given Engineer Henderson at Tifton was that he would meet the eostbound local, train number 309, at Ty Ty. Tho order given the eaatbound engineer is Raid, to have been io meet 212 at Tifton. Shortly after tho departure of 309 from Sylvester it is said that - the mistake was discovered, im8 tho Wayeross office notified of the impending disaster. Evory effort: possible was mode to get Ty Ty, but the office is only a day on* and the operator was not on duty at the time. The wreck wns on a curve, and at the fdot of two grades. The force with which the two engines collided, esn host («a Judged by tho fact that hat.A wr~ gines were reduced to * tuuKr of" twisted junk. Fire further! re- • duced the engine of the local- ’ freight. It is state dthat fifteen - ears were demolished. Engineer S. B. Henderson is re- - ported as being better today, and ’ it is thought that he will’ ha-oat*, a few days. The other iajjiBud! members of the train crews brought to the hospital. are im proving. > i , ... BUSINESS 6000 AT COAST LINE’S FREIGHT DEPOT Mr. 8. T. Wright, freight Tor tho Atlantic Coast Linn at Wayeross. reports business better nnd continually improving in Ur department. “Not only hns busi ness be4n better lately than Tor some time past” says he, “lint the prospects are for even a bigger business for the Coast Line. Ship ments for Iqeal people are pick ing up remarkably of late. House hold goods form a big item of In- j coming freight,” concluded Mr- Wright. It is estimated that about shipments of household hnvo conic here in the past woeks and now not a day pawn but what from ouo to five ship, meats of household goods arc de livered hern. ATLANTA MERCHANT ROB- ■ ’8 wd.' -3m Atlanta, Feb. 18.—While A. C. Burke was alone in his store at 299 McDaniel street’at term o’clock two highwaymen. waH dressed white men, entered tba store, held up the emrehant at point ofa pistol and robbed of. ’