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WARRANTS SWORN
IN DIPPING VAT WAR
FEDERAL AGENTS SAID TO HAVE
BEEN SHOT WHILE TRYING
TO ENFORCE LAWS
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Rtatenvllle. —I)r. Horn, of Atlanta,
federal dipping agent for the state of
Georgia, arrived here and swore out
affidavits upon which warrants were
Issued for the arrest of Mann Carter,
and his son. Will, on charges of mur
der.
Th warrants were placed in the
hands of Sheriff W. W. Pennington,
of Kchols county, hut he reported that
ho had been unable to locate either of
the men named in the warrants.
The Carters are alleged to have shot
and killed Mack Lockridge, federal
cattle dipping inspector, and also to
have wounded It. S. llitehley, his as
sistant, both of Dawson, Gu.
For more than a year there have
been clashes between federal officers
and farmers of this section over the
anforcement of the cattle dipping law
for the eradication of ticks. Several
persons have been shot. The govern
ment established a camp near here,
with two machine guns and other
arms, in an attempt to stop the war
fare.
Valdosta So far as can be learned
here no urrests have been nu. :e in
the Echols county murder near Staten
v ill**, although warrants have been
iworn out for Mann Carter and his
jon, Will Carter, it is reported. R.
S. Rltchley, of the federal force of
lipping insi>ectors, who was shot in
the back and sere usly wounded, is re
ported to be improving.
In a sta'- meat at the hospital Ritch
. ■ I ■ : the tragedy.
Contrary to reports given out, he
ita • and that ' C a ters were not plow
ing in at; -id when they were a|v
proat ht and lagents, but were bird
minting
It is reported that several federal
officers left this city for the scene of
the trouble.
Drowned When Bicycle Drops In Canal
Augusta. The body of William
,'leo Mills, 13-year-old white boy, who
has been missing from his home for
wo weeks, was found .floating in the
anal opposite the power house here.
The boy was reported missing by his
undo, 11 purge Mills, on January 18,
and the town lias been combed by
the police' in their search for him, but
if no avail. 'Pile body was found by
two white men just above the Itutt
memorial bridge. The bicycle on
which the lad was riding at the time
he plunged Into the canal was found
also above where his body was found.
The supposition is that the boy was
riding down-the canal bank and the
handle bars of the bicycle became
loose, causing him to lose control of
his wheel and lie plunged into the
water.
ShCiff Stowe Passes Away
Toccoa. —yellowing the death of Ills
father, W. A. Stowe, sheriff of Steph
ens county recently, after a long ill
ness, Fred A. Stowe will be appointed
sheriff by Ordinary H. P. Itrown. An
election for the successor of W. A.
Stowe will be called, and it is believed
the appointee will have no opposition
for the mvexpiml term. W. A. Stowe
was the first sheriff elected after the
creation of Stephens county in 1906,
and served continuously up to his
death, except for one term. Fred A.
Stowe has been active deputy in
charge of the office of the sheriff for
some months past.
Greeks Establish Two Branch Lodges
Atlanta. - After establishing lodges
of the American Hellenic Educational
Progressive association at Charleston,
S. C., and Savannah. Ga.. George A.
Poulos, supreme deputy of the or
ganization. returned to Atlanta. Na
tional headquarters are maintained In
Atlanta. The order Is purported to
bring American Greeks in closer touch
with American ideals, it was organ
ised here six months ago with 100
members. At present there are five
lodges with a total membership of
nearly 1,000 it is said.
Loots House During Party
Savannah. —While twenty persons
were playing bridge at the home of
Julius Schwarz, a cool woman thief
entered the hall of the home and. In
plain view of some of the guests, calm
ly took five fine overcoats and a costly
chinchilla woman's coat from the hall
racks, and departed. The guests evi
dently thought she was one of the serv
ants of the home and was re-arranging
the garments to make room for other*
of late guests. The case was reported
to the police, but no clue has been
found
t Shot By Bandit, Gilmore Is Dead
Sparta.—State-wide search began
for Clinton Champion, 30, Atlanta
negro, who was shot to death in Han
cock county after he had shot and
fatally wounded Lindsey B. Gilmore,
white, member of a posse that was
pursuing them. Gilmore died shortly
after the affair. Champion and Butts
were accused of holding up and rob
bing two Hancock county farmers and
general store keepers. Sheriff J- M.
Jackson, of Hancock county, asked
B8 v eral daily papers to announce that
a reward of SSO would be paid for
the arrest of Champion. The fugitive
is coal black and has two gold teeth.
The two negroes robbed George Under
wood early in the morning, according
to Sheriff Jackson, and a posse form
ed to catch them. Track dogs were
ordered from the state farm at Mil
ledgeville and came, in charge of a
negro convict, the sheriff said.
Improves Dawson Freight Yard
Dawson.—The Central of Georgia
railway company is at present consid
erably bettering its facilities for hand
ling freight in the local yards by sub
stituting heavier rails for the ones that
have been used tor so long a while, pre
paratory to the operation of heavier
locomotives on their line through Daw
son. Much of the new rail has already
been placed and other portions of the
yard are yet to be worked upon. Due
to increas and traffic in its freight de
partment the road has authorized the
purchase of a number of new, heavy
freight locomotives, some of which will
travel this branch of the southwestern
division.
Florida Girl Killed In Auto Acc'dent
West Point. —Three trained nurses
from I .aG range hospital, Miss Rivers
and Miss Wilson, of LaGrange, and
Miss Stevens, of Florida, in coming to
West Point, lost control of their car
and it ran into a ditch and turned
over, seriously hurting Miss Stevens,
who died a few hours later. Miss Riv
ers was driving the car. She suffered
a broken rib. Miss Wilson escaped
injury. A passing car brought them
to West Point, where they received
first aid. They later were taken hack
to LaGrange hospital, where Miss
Stevens died.
S3OO Stolen From Atlanta Man
Atlanta. —The little strong box con
tabling $l2O in cash and SIBO in checks,
stolen from J. E. Riggers, has been re
covered by detectives, hut it was emp
ty when found. Officers trailed the
thieves for many blocks, finally locat
ing the empty box in the rear of the
church yard of the First Church of
Christ Science, corner of Peachtree and
Fifteenth streets. Another robbery be
ing investigated by detectives was the
wholesale theft of horse and chicken
feed from the National Bonded ware
house.
Y„ W. C. A. Elects Directors
Athens. —Six new directors have
been elected for the Athens Y. W. C.
A. They are Mrs. Frank Hardeman,
Miss Mary Mrs. Alice Adams,
Mrs. Julia Hodgson McNeal, Miss Ina
Cooper and Miss Frances Talmadge.
At a recent banquet the former pres
idents-of the organization made short
talks. They are Mrs. Frank Lipscomb,
Miss Millie Rutherford, Mrs. W. F.
Watson, Mrs. James White, Sr., Mrs.
T. J. Woofter and Mrs. James R. White.
Miss Elberta ltoelofs, a national secre
tary, made an address.
Four Negroes Held As Suspects
Atlanta. —Four negroes are being
held at police barracks suspected of
being implicated in many recent burg
laries. particularly that of a negro
pressing shop on Butler street. They
gave their names as Robert Smith,
Aaron Mayfield, Will Floyd and Earl
Tinson. Detectives T. O. Sturdivant
and l’at Campbell made the arrests.
Detectives state they have obtained
clues that probably will connect the
prisoners with recent thefts of auto
mobile parts and accessories.
Physician K'lled In Auto Accident
Sylvester.—Dr. \V. H. Crowe, 62,
father of Dr. H. D. Crowe, of Atlanta,
died here reently as a result of in
juries sustained in an automobile acci
dent near here. The falling of a radius
rod of a touring car driven by Dr.
Crowe, accompanied by his wife and
little daughter, on route from their
home at Paco, caused the car to turn
over at a curve throe and a half miles
south of Sylvester on the Moultrie
road.
Wilson Murder Case Declared Mistrial
Abbeville. —Judge D. A. R. Crum de
clared a mistrial in the case of J. C.
Wilson, charged with the murder of
R. E. Sappington, two years ago. The
jury had been out for 36 hours. This
was the second trial of the case.
Negro Killed In Sawmill Accident
Fitzgerald.—Tillie Boatright, a negro
sawyer, employed at the Lynwood Shin
gle mill, four miles north of the city,
was fatally injured when he attempted
to adjust a belt on the running ma
chinery. and died at the local hospital
THE OANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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OVER THE WORLD.
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Foreign—
The Turkish delegation has inform
ed the Associated Press at Lausanne,
Switzerland, that it will present a coun
ter treaty project to the allies.
The European statesmen have failed
to restore peace in tha near east, and
the conference called for that purpose
has practically collapsed after desper
ate efforts to save it, efforts which
were continued up to the very moment
Lord Curzon’s train left.
Although such action had been ex
pected, Bolsheviki Russia’s refusal to
sign the peace treaty at Lausanne,
Switzerland, setting forth conditions for
the opening of the straits of the Dar
danelles and the Bosphorus and the de
militarization of the straits zones, has
caused depression in the near eastern
conference circles.
Organized German labor, speaking
for more than half the population of the
German republic—about twelve million
—views the American congress as the
logical tribunal to which the address
an appeal, declaring that “American
honor asserted at this time can save us
and the world from the evitable dis
aster.”
While final action on the proposal
to revise the Book of Common Prayer
of the Church of England seems un
likely before next summer the house
of clergy of the national assembly has
approved the proposed revision by a
large majority.
Six hundred miners are entombed
in the Heinitz mine at Beuthen, Polish
Silesia, in consequence of an explosion
of fire damp.
Seizure of the Ruhr customs by the
French; the low level of coal produc
tion reached; the practical disappear
ance of empty coal cars from the reg
ion, threatening a complete stoppage
of work at the mines within a few
days; the cutting of the Cologne-Ber
lin trunk telegraph and telephone
cables at. several places around Essen,
completely isolating the city from the
outside world, and a more acute scarc
ity of food —these were the develop
ments of the twenty-first day of the
Frauco-Belgian occupation.
Niewadomski, the artist who assas
sinated President Narutowicz, of Po
land, December 16 last, was execut
ed at Warsaw. He refused to appeal
to the government for a pardon. ,
With the arival at Manila of the
steamship Paris, a belated member of
the fleet of Russian refugees, it was
learned that her sister ship had been
sunk off Formosa with the los3 of
twenty lives.
France has thrown a bombshell into
thd Near Eastern peace parley. It
V’as announced that the French for
eign office in Paris had notified Great
Britain, Italy and Turkey that France
does not consider the final draft of
the peace treaty, which will be pre
sented to Ismet Pasha, as’an ultima
tum, adding that further modifications
could be submitted concerning the dis
united points.
W ashington—
President Harding is reported to be
planning to make one final public ap
peal to the senate to save the admin
istration shipping bill from failure.
An additional appropriation of $400,-
000 for use of the coal commission in
its inquiry into conditions in the bi
tuminous and anthracite fields is rec
ommended to congress by the budget
bureau.
Ports of the. United States during the
fiscal year ended last June 30 handled
incoming and outgoing foreign com
merce totaling 80,230,952 long tons,
according to the report of the shipping
board. Of this total, cargoes landed
amounted to 43.645.948 tons and car
goes discharged to 36,585,004 tons.
Railroads were ordered by the in
terstate commerce commission to re
sume the practice of seling inter
changeable mileage books good for
2,500 miles of travel at reductions of
20 per cent from the regular passen
ger rates.
Judge Samuel A. Alschuler, who has
been serving unofficially as a member
of the federal coal commission, will
sever his connection with that body, it
was learned, and return immediately
to service on the federal circuit court
of appeals at Chicago.
The federal control bill was passed
by the house. The bill vests broad
powers in the department of com
merce of all phases of wireless tele
graph and telephone communication,
and is intended to bring order out of
the chaos in the air as the result of
thousands of stations competing on
similar wave lengths
The administration of the veterans’
bureau, for months a subject of bit
ter controversy, is undergoing an in
vestigation which is expected by some
well-informed officials here to result
in important readjustments.
Government purchase of ten million
dollars’ worth of nitrate and its re
sale to farmers at cost for use in con
nection with the 1924 crops would be
authorized by a bill ordered favorably
reported by the house agriculture com
mittee.
Extreme and conservative advocates
of farmer relief legislation clashed in
the senate during discussion of the
Lenroot-Anderson farm credits bill on
which a final vote will be taken under
agreement. Russian Soviet views were
attributed to Senator Brookhart, new
Republican senator from lowa, by Sen
ator Lenroot, Republican, WLsconsin,
co-author of the pending bill, and drew
a sharp retort from the lowan in a
fervid hour’s tilt. ,
The American debbfunding commis
sion having reached a virtual agree
ment with the British ambassador on
the program for funding Great Britain’s
war-time debt to the United States,
only the mechanics of working details
of the program remain to be disposed
of. But obstacles begin to rise over
the horizon. The soldier bonus ad
vocates have begun discussing tacking
a bonus amendment to the debt settle
ment bill or resolution and, it is said,
have gone so far as to count noses
in the house to determine whether they
could override the speaker, if he
should rule that such an amendment
was out of order.
Domestic —
Los Angeles, Calif., police officials
and several adventurers and soldiers of
fortune looking for a reward, girded
themselves the other day for a woman
hunt which, they hope, will result in
bringing Clara Phillips, the escaped
hammer murderess, across the interna
national line to serve out her life sen
tence in San Quentin penitentiary for
the murder of Alberta Meadows.
Property dama,ge estimated at ap
proximately $50,000 was done by the re
cent tornado which wrecked the town
Savagd, Miss., in Tate’ county, demol
ished several farm buildings in the vi
cinity of Evansville,, in Tunica county,
and sent Cold Water river . over its
hanks at Savage and Sara, Miss.
Federal agents going to the Hotel, de
France to take David Lamar, the “wolf
of Wall street,’’ to the Essex county
penitentiary to serve sentence for a war
time offense, have discovtred that La
mar-checked out of the hotel and dis
appeared without leaving an address.
Four children were burned to death
at Spragg, Pa., when fire destroyed the
farm Of Earl Tennnant.
Abner Lee Squiggins of Worthington,
Mass., has been paid SSOO in Confeder
ate currency for Confederate-bonds held
by him. All he has to do now is to
find a purchaser of the Confederate
money. • . . ..."
Will Kyser, negro fruit peddler of
Green Springs, Ala., froze to death on
the streets of Birmingham during the
recent snow and sleet storm.
; ■
Rachel Jacksori Lawrence, daughter
of Gen. Andrew Jackson’s adopted son,
the last surviving member of the Her
mitage household of “Old Hickory’s’’
time, died at Nashville, Tenn., recent
ly at “Birdsong,” her country home,
aged 90. , .. ....
The jury in the case of Jeff Smith,
charged with the murder of Joe Car
roll, alleged boootlegger, who was
slain by masked men at his home in
Wilson, Okla., in December. 1921, was
locked up at Ardmore, Okla., after
Prosecutor John L. Hodge had com
pleted the state’s argument without
having been given the case.
The eight-hour day, one of the work
ing rules requested by the Brother
hood of Railroad Signalmen in their
hearing for new wages and working
rules was granted them by the railroad
labor board in a decision issued.
John Wise, a soldier . from Camp
Bragg, N. C., was killed and John
Mitchell, another soldier, was critically
injured near Florence, S. C., in a col
lision between an automobile in which
they were riding and a wagon.
One person was killed and five slight
ly injured when Seaboard Air Line train
No. 1, en route from New York to
Jacksonville, crashed into the rear of
train No. 301, near Hagood, Va., ac
cording to officials of the railroad at
Raleigh, N. C.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook—the one and
only Doctor Cook who some people
even now believe discovered the North
pole—is still having his troubles. The
doctor emerged from a long period of
obscurity when he was arrested on a
charge of having three pints of gin
in his room at a Fort Worth, Texas,
hotel, and was released on SSOO bond
after he had waived a preliminary hear
ing.
Miss Anna Bolchi, adopted daugh
ter of the late Park Benjamin, patent
attorney, announced that she would
go to sea on March 17 with the ashes
of Mr. Benjamin and that when she
reached mid-ocean, on March 21, she
would scatter them to the winds, in
. com nl inn re with his dvin* wish
Current
Witl^
TOO SMART
She had a high opinion of herself
and regarded customers as really
rather nuisances.
“Do you keep dog collars?” inquired
the meek-looking man.
“No,” she snapped. “We sell
them!”
“Anyway,” he said, as he strolled
towards the. door, “you’ll keep the
one you were going to sell me! Gcod
morning I”
Not So Helpful.
“I beg your pardon. Could you teh
me how far it is to the post office?”
“Bless my soul!” exclaimed Pro
fessor Diggs. “I can’t tell you, sir.
But,” he continued, brightening consid
erably, “if you are interested in know
ing, I can tell you exactly how far 1
's to Sirius, the dog star.
Held to Earth.
“Your boy Josh seems to be tal
ented.”
“Yes,” said Farmer Corntossel,” and
I’m sorry for It. It doesn’t seem right
to expect a boy to do chores when any
body can see he was cut out to be a
bank president or a motion picture
star.”—Washington Star.
The Ultimate Object.
Mrs. Goodsofo —We should avoid ah
these modern vanities and frivolities
lest we be weighed in the balance and
found wanting.
Mrs. Woodby-Slimmer—Weighed and
found wanting? Why, that’s just what
I’m trying to accomplish by strict diet
'oe-
A Warning.
Uncle Ezra —Guess I’ll go an’ buy
a few bananasoff’u that push-cart
man.
Aunt Martha —You leave him alone.
Don’t you mind how old man Grass
neck’s boy lost everything he had
tradin’ with one of these curb mar
kets?
. . • In Venice.
They were on the Grand cnnal.
“Don’t you love it here?” asked one.
“I do,” breathed tlje other. “Here
we find the Rialto, the Bridge of Sighs.
Here is where Shakespeare wrote
‘Venice and Adonis.’ ”
BEQUEATHED ELSEWHERE
He—My ancestors were all people
with brains.
She—Too bad you were disln
herited.
So Sympathetic.
The tender-hearted Dolly Dream
Said: "Have a heart, I beg;
Oh, mother, do not whip that cream,
And please don’t beat that egg.”
Reading the Signs.
Wifey—Why are you so sure that
young Peters Is going to propose to
our Lizzie?
Hubby—Because now I’ve told him
the same joke five times —and each
time lie's about ready to die laughing.
The Doubt.
“And you don’t believe the story of
Noah and the ark?”
“Oh, I can’t say I just don’t believe
it, friend. But what I say is, it makes
me kind o’ curious. I’d like t’ know
how they got them two hogs on th’ ark
with only Noah’s family t’ help drive
!”
Compromise.
Her Father—That young fellow’s nt
good. You mustn’t let him see you any
more.
Philippa—Do you mind if he calls on
me If he takes off his glasses? He
doesn’t see very well without ’em. —
Ladies Home Journal.
Reason Enough.
Kind Gentleman—What are yot
crying for?
Small Boy—l forget.
“Then why do jq,u cry?’’
“ ’Cause I can’t remember.” —Life.
Sees Activity Ahead.
Doctor Friend—Now that you have
a car you mustn’t neglect exercise.
Patient —Oh, I shan’t be able to;
lt’ a second-hand car