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Georgian Seeks
Kansas Estate
Marion, Kansas, Jan. 7. — Wal
ter W. Davis, of Hazelhurst, Ga.,
has filed here his claim to the es-
tate of the late ‘‘Jimpsey” Davis,
Marion county amounting to
more than $50,000.
Davis was killed accidentally
while attempting to escape from
an insane asylum at Atchison,
Kansas, fourteen months ago. His
father, with whom he had lived in
seclusion for years, haa died sev-
eral months previously, leaving
the estate to “J : ” The son
f
was believed to cr been the
member of the family, but the
a$rgia man asserts that be can
>rove h^ is a brother of James
v%vis, Sr., “JimpseyV’ father.
Two Florida Lakes
Filled to Brim
, Thoma8Villis, Jan. 7.Not only
are ail thirst rearms and ponds in
this section full *and overflowing
their banks, but .word comes that
tie two big Florida lakes, Mic-
. «sukie and Iamonia have filled up
I ithe brim. These lakes have
bn more or less dry for the past
or or two, though Mictasukie
iter goes entirely dry as there is
ways some wrter left in the bas-
i) but Lmonia has been as dry aa
:bone during the past summer
sd fall.
It is thought that Lake lamoaia
ii filled from the backwater of the
Oehlocknee river, *thich goes to
ii through an underground pas¬
sage, but it has never been satis¬
factorily settled just where the
supply of wat-r comes fiom which
tills Miscagukie. though there are
theories on the subject.
Veiy Bitter Weather
Ushering in the Week
Washington, Jan. 7.—-Sbow
and sleet and unseasonably cold
weather throughout the entire
country will usher in this week
according to the special forecast
issued tonight by the weather bu-
reau. A reneV^il .reaction to warm-
-|r antf less intolerable conditions
«wili mark the close of the week.
The foreeast continues:
“The first general storm of the
week to cross the country is now
over Utah, whence it will
eastward and cross the
valley Monday night
xuesday and the eastern states
Tuesday or Tuesday night. It will
l 3 preceded by moderating tem-
eraturc and its in and snow in
I >ijthern and ■* ow in northern
|ead ne ts and be allowed by a wide-
change !d tv colder weather.
Ss.co wave A ill appear in the
SEMI-WEEKLY
1 TTT he , Fitzgerald _ __ Leader. t
FITZGERAL D, ben MILL COUNTY GEORGIA, JANUARY 9, 1912.
northwest Monday night.
“The general disturbance to
cress the country will appear on
j ,he Pacific coast Wednesday, cross
the middle west about Friday and
die eastern states at the close of
the week; it will be attended by
widespread cloudiness and preeipi-
tatior.|and a general reaction to
ward warmer weather.
Stormy weather will prevail the
coming week over the North At¬
lantic steamship routes, the Brit¬
ish isles and Europe.”
Taft Modifies
Postal Ruling
Washington. D C. Jan. 4.—
President Taft has issued an order-
providing that employes in the
classified civil service shall have
hearings or statements of reason
before removal by heads of depart
meats.
The new rule affects 20,000 em
ployes and nullifies tne former
ruling made by Roosevelt when he
was President providing that any
employee of the classified civil
service could be dismissed by the
head of the service at anytime for
the good of the service.
It is believed that it is a pacific
measure and will have much to do
towards bringing about better re¬
lations between the clerks and the
Postoffice Department. It was the
summary removal of the clerks
last year and the enforcement of
tie “gag” rule, that brought much
trouble.
The railway mail clerks are now
trying to get through Congress a
law which wili nullifv the “gag”
rule, and if they succeed in this
and the Department increases the
number of clerks harmony will
exist between the clerks and the
department, and result in an im¬
proved service.
Possible Fortune In
Sight
Columbns, Ohio, Jan. 4. —A half
dollar of the year 1843. which
Bryce Halwood, a prisoner at the
penitentiary, has carried as a
pocket-piece for many years, may
net the man a fortune and furnish
capital to start him in a respect¬
able business when he is releas-ed
from the institution. He says the
coin is of the special mintage of
that year, of which there are but
four coins in existence.
Recently a Los Angeles collector
re f used $25,000 for one of the
mates of the com owncd by Hal-
wood ; and he has succeeded in get¬
ting into correspondence with a
New York banking house with a
view to placing the coin upon the
market.
Halwood is serving fifteen years
f"ojn Onion County for robbery.
Columbus Hogs Win
World’s Grand Prize
Columbus, Ga. Jan. 7.—Colum¬
bus, Ga., hogs captured both
grand prizes at the recent Inter¬
national Stock Exposition in Chi¬
cago. Swme bred at the Arcadia
farm a few miles from this city
were placed on exhibit in competi¬
tion with the finest hogs of Europe
and America and won out.
In the tour of the state fairs,
Stock shows and expositions this
fail and winter, the Arcadia farm
has won four sweepstake prizes,
six championships and finally, the
grand championship of the world.
Che Columbus exhibit at Chicago
included Dean, a 1,1C0 pound boar,
Tamworth breed, and “Iv Best,”
i 1,000 pound sow, Tara worth,
the former now being the accredi¬
ted grand champion boar of the
world and the latter grand cham¬
pion sow. The Columbus exhib it
won in all, 129 prizes during the
fall. A local business man is pro¬
prietor of Arcadia farm, and C.
C. Byrd is herdsman and in active
charge.
La.rge Increase
In Our Insane
Washington, D. C., Jan. 4.—
There was an increase between the
years 1904 and 1910 of 37,303 or
2^.8 per cent in the number of in¬
sane persons confined in the 372
institutions in the United States
canvassed by the census bureau.
The number of insane persons in
these institutions on Jan. 1, 1911,
were
While the population of the
United States increased about 11
per cent in the interval, the insane
increased 25 per cent. From these
figures it would appear that the
number of persons becoming in¬
sane, in a community comprising
100.000 persons, was greater by
4.4 in 1910 than it was in 1904
These figures include only the in¬
sane who are committed to hospit-
als.
Massachusetts led all States,
with 844 per 100,000 population
New York had 343 per 100,000
population.
Five Year Old Boy
Accidently Shot
The five year old son of Mr.
Biuce, night watchman at. the Cot¬
ton Mills, was killed Saturday
morning, when the lad and his
uncle, a boy of six years, found
Mr. Bruce’s automatic pistol and
were engaged in playing with it in
the room. It was rumored around
the city that the two boys got in¬
to a quarrel and that the elder
procured the gun and shot his
nephew, but this story is not
worthy of credence, as the shoot¬
ing was of an siccidential nature.
Dr. Frazer and Dr. Ware, who
were summoned immediately after
the oceurrence, state that the two
children were in the room playing
and happened to find the gun,
which had been laid in the
bureau drawer, and possibly
while scuffling with it, the gun
was discharged. The bullet enter¬
ed the Bruce boy’s chin and came
out the back of his head. Death
was instantaneous.
Notice
Beginning next Monday, Jan. 8,
1912, I will be at my office in the
County Jail for the purpose of
collecting State and County taxes.
Flection for Gover¬
nor and Commissioner
of Labor Wednesday
Jan, IOth, Let’s all turn
out and give the win*
ners cur vote. Flection
to be held at the Court
House.
Bryan Is Not
A
Ha Makes Stronger As¬
sertion That If«■ s Not
(Limning
Washington, D. C., Jaa. 8.—
“Well, • man who has actually
baen president has not the same
power as a man who has sot.
Colonel Roosevelt may ast he able
to prevent hit name going on the
ballot but I can, and will prevent
mine from going on.”
This was William Jennings
Bryan’s comment when told that
Former President Roosevelt had
been quoted as saying that he was
nowerless to keep his name of!
the ballot in the next presidential
election. Mr. Bryan, who is here
to attend the democratic national
committee meeting today said he
would not be a candidate for the
pres'dency under any circum¬
stances.
During a period of over 26
years an active worker in the
music line, Mrs. D. Harrison is
thoroughly experienced in clas¬
sifying, grading and directing
en masse the music for pupils
entrusted to her care; is pains¬
taking and up-to-date strictly as
to methods, and systematic re¬
views for 1912.
D. B, lull Writes
From Washington
Washington, D. C.,
Jan. 2, 1912.
To The Fitzgerald Leader,
Fitzgerald, Ga.,
Dear Leader and Friends:
I. certainly trust that the dawn
of this bright New Year finds you
all in the best of health and happi¬
ness. I am thankful that I pass
out the old year in tine health and
with bright prospects of gaining
through the year 1912. I hope
during the year to enjoy ill the
privileges of living and before the
end of the year to see a Democratic
President. This alone would make
me very happy.
Regarding the presidential elec-
tion, the people in Washington
have many and varied ideas and
opinions especially as to who will
be the Democratic nomiuee. Per¬
sonally 1 1 till believe Champ Clark
will be the Democratic nominee
and Taft the Republican uominee.
I was out at the President’s
public reception on the First, when
Taft was expressing hie New Year
Greetings to everybody. This was
the first time I had seen the Presi¬
dent since July, when I first met
him, and wrs greatly surprised
that he remembered me. As a man,
and very much,
believe he means well in all
his official acts. He is now having
the bodies from the Maine remov¬
ed to Washington, and will bury
them in Arlington Cemetery. The
steamers, Florida and Utah, have
been ordered to Cuba, and will re¬
turn with the bodies in several
weekB.
Since I began this letter, it has
started snowing, the first of the
season in Washington. It is in¬
deed a most beautiful sight, and
takes me back to my boyhood days,
when I lived in the snowy regions,
and used to delight to get up in
the morning and go for a rabbit
hunt.
I have just had an interview
with Congressman Tribble, who
returned recently from the Panama
Canal. He states that they arc
working 46,000 hands on the Canal.
They have already completed fiLy-
miles, the highest point of which
is 610 feet. He states that the
Canal wili be ready for use about
the first of 1913. Panama is
Charles F. Davis
Locates In Fitzgerald
Mr. Charles F. Davis, of Coal
City, Ind., has arrived in the city
with his family to make Fitzger¬
ald his home. Mr. Davis is the
brother of Mr. Raymond Davis,
and comes here to go in business
with him, having purchased the
interest of R. H. Cardwell in the
•rm of R. Davis & Co. Mr. Davis
is a successful business man and
Fitzgerald is indeed fortunate to
be able to number him and his
estimable family among her citi-
eens.
R. Davis & Co., since opening
for business here about a year ago,
have had a most successful career,
and are doing one of the largest
feed and supply businesses in the
city. With the addition of Mr.
Charles Davis to the business
management, they are enlarging
their quarters and now occupy the
entire Chambles Grocery Company
building at the corner of Grant
and Central. Besides a complete
line of feed stuffs, flour, and grain
which sell either wholesale or re-
tail, they have added buggies and
wagons to their stock, and are
prepared to give some close figures.
R. Davis & Co. are indeed an
example of what thrift and energy
will do, which with their courte¬
ous treatment and fair dealings to
all have gained for them the con¬
fidence of the
Pellagra Not Caused
By Cotton Seed OH
Washington, Jan. 7.— Cotton
seed oil manufacturers are gather¬
ing evidence and statistics to re¬
fute a theory that cotton seed oil
might be one of the many suspect¬
ed contributing causes to pellagra.
Assistant Surgeon General Long,
of the public address recently men¬
tioned the names of some investi¬
gators who were inclined to that
belief.
Passed Assistant Surgeon La-
vinder, writing in one of the re¬
cent public bulletins, says the the¬
ory is all out of harmony with the
facts and history of pellagra. Dr.
Charles C. Bass, of Tulane Uni-
^ersity, at New Orleans, also ridi¬
cules the idea. Dr. George A.
Zeller, of the Illinois State Hospit¬
al at Peoria, has studied the theo-
ry and pronounced it absurd. Ali
three scientists are recognized stu¬
dents of the Subject.
The.cotion seed oil makers point
to the fa«t that the theoiv is in no
way supported in any government
publication reporting the official
investigations which the public
health gervice is constantly con¬
ducting in the south.
a city of 45,000 inhabitants, has a
climate similar to that of south
Georgia, and is a city of ali modern
and sanitary improvements. Mr.
Tribble says the surrounding
country is not ut all healthy, and
very uninviting to the farmer.
The mercantile business is carried
on by a mixed class of people, in¬
cluding Spaniards Indians, and ne¬
groes. He says that the clerks are
invariably negro girls. He of
the opinion that when the Panama
Canal is opened up, our great
Southland will begin to come into
her own, and business in all lines
will be on a boom. I have just
beenapprised of the death of Fight¬
ing Bob Evans, who succumbed
to an attack of heart trouble.
It is rumored ih»t Teddie R. is
going to run fm President o.i the
Republican ticket, lint wo Demo-
cra ^ s ' , ’ l ‘ ihM* U< m ikes no ufler-
eacf '. w &aUoever wh«» ia the Ito-
publican ckii iidat*, w<- *n m;iv to
WlU ‘
Best wishes to the Leader.
D. Yours, B.
Mull.
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T0L. XVU. NO. 95
G. S. S F. Passenger
Train Leaves Rails
Sunday North of Vi¬
enne,—Nobody Hurt
An engine on passenger frata
No. 1, on the Georgia Southern
and Florida Railroad, was derailed
at Vienna Sunday afternoon, short*
ly after 1 o’clock, and about three
hours later a wreck on the same
road a few miles north of Vienna
was prevented by the vigilance of
Engineer Dan Layman in charge
of Georgia Southern and Florida
Passenger train No. 2, which ar¬
rived in Macon at 5 o’clock Sunday
afternoon.
W hen a few miles north of
Vienna, coming into Macon, En¬
gineer Layman noticed a crosstie
lying directly across the track and
immediately applied the emerg-
ency on his engine, the train stop¬
ping within a few yards of the
crosstie.
Ihe traffic on this train was un¬
usually heavy Sunday afternoon,
and had the engineer not discov¬
ered the cross tie in time, the train
would doubtless have been wreck¬
ed and many lives would probably
have been plunged into eternity.
Ihe passengers were terribly
shaken up, when the emergency
brakes were applied and several
women were shaken up.
a minutes were re¬
quired to remove the cross tie from
the track and the train proceeded
on its way. arriving in Macon on
schedule time.
The derailment of passenger
engine No. 1, which in charge of
Engineer Smith, took place just as
the train went into a sidetrack at
Vienna.
The engine left the track and
went for several yards along the
ground, tearing the croesties into
splinters. The defective truck,
which caused the derailment, was
repaired in a short wnile and the
time which .was lost while the
engine was being repaired, was
made up between Vienna and
Jacksonville. The train left Ma¬
con yesterday morning at 11:30
o’clock, for Jacksonville.
Basket Ball G&me
Victory for Fitzgerald
Ihe match game between the
Fitzgerald and Cordele High
Schools, which was played in this
city Saturday morning on the
school campus, resulted in a score
of nine to eleven, in favor of the
Fitzgerald team.
The game was rather hotly con¬
tested, notwithstanding the faet
that the home boys outclassed the
Cordele team by an average of »-
bout 23
The Cordele team did excellent
playing considering their weight,
the star players being Mr. Tappan,
at center, and Mr. J. H. Hamil¬
ton at guard.
The game was greatly enjoyed
by those who witnessed it, and the
bigh school hopes that their next
game will be attended by a larger
cr )wd.
District Meeting
Of Odd Fellows
The District convention of the
Eighteenth Division Independent
Order of Odd Fellows convened
here to-day, and will hold sessions
through to-morrow.
There are a number of delegates
in attendance, and the local mem¬
bers of the lodge are gj^'ing them
royal welcome,and wigmake their
visit to the Magic Cj^/ a pleasant
one. Rev. W. H. Harden, form¬
erly of this city but now of Cor¬
dele, is the orator of this
no»>n’- public iteasaift.