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LANDS MAN FOR KILLING IN 1881 GEORGIA SHERIFF GETS MAN WHO COMMITTED MURDER FIVE YEARS BEFORE HIS BIRTH STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Her* And There From All Section* Of The State Quitman. —After having been a fu gitive from justice for 43 years, Fos ter Green, a negro, now nearly 73 years old, was brought back to the • cfenc of his crime by Sheriff Colin E. Clanton, who has spent four years in trailing his man. Green is wanted for murder in Brooks county and has been positive ly identified. The trail led through Georgia and Florida, and the arrest was made at Tampa. Green will be tried at the May term of the Brooks county superior court under an indict ment returned forty-three years ago by the grand jury. Two eye-witnesses to the crime, two members of the coroner’s jury and three members of the grand jury which indicted Green appear to be the only survivors to the drama except the prin cipal himself, who is now bent with igo and rheumatism. Four years ago, when Sheriff Clanton came into office, through cu riosity he began looking through old records at the courtt house. One paper attracted his attention in particular, an indictment for murder turned in by the May term grand jury in 1881, against Green Foster, for the murder at it. W. (“lied") Wilkins, on Janu ary 5 of the same year. rhn records showed there had been no arrest in the case and that the in dictment was still in suspense. Sheriff Canton began investigating and found a few of the older citizens af the county who recalled the trag edy. In the year 1880, R. W. Wilkins came to this county from Columbia, H. C„ and secured a job as box inspec tor for a turpentine still. He was twenty-three years old at that time, it was his duty to stay in the woods with the box chopers and to see that their duties were performed. On January 4, Green Foster, who was one of the box chopeprs, went to Valdosta and got drunk, returning to ais job in the woods on the following morning Wilkins came upon him during the morning round of inspection ut the old Jim Patrick place near Blue Springs and found that Foster was slighting his work. He called his attention to this fact and Foster, who wa3 half drunk, cursed Wilkins and started to ward him with a raised chopping ax with a blade eleven Inches long. Wilkins threw up a guard with a sharpened ax handle, which he used to test boxes. Foster threw down his ax and Wilkins turned to leave. As he did, Foster quickly picked up his ax and struck Wilkins in the hack a terrific blow, the keen edge cutting through the backbone and pa?sing through the body. Wilkins probably never knew what struck him. He fell, dying almost instantly from hemor rhage. Fortune and Elai Sampson. two oth pr negro turpentine choppers, were eye-wittnesses. They say that Foster deliberately ate his breakfast and watched with interest the dying con tortions of his victim, after which he walked away and completely disap peared, although a manhunt for days wits carried on in the county. The coroner’s jury returned a ver dict of murder and the grand jury in dicted Fo-ter. Tobe McNeill was sher iff at that time and L. L. Folsom and W. J. Parker were members pf the coroner’s jury. Sheriff Clanton, although the crime was committed five years before he was born, has finally trailed his man to Tampa, secured requisition papers and went to Tampa, in his car. with Fortune Sampson, one of the eye-wit nesses. Sampson’s identification was complete and Foster is now in the Brooks county jail, brdken with age and disease, his mind wandering in Its dotage, awaiting trial for a crime committed hero when the Indians still roamed through the swamps. Award Contracts For New Bridges Valdosta.—Contracts for the con struction of the concrete bridges on the national highway project north of the city were let to former County En gineer F. M. Hill. Work on the bridges will begin as soon as the material is placed, and will be rushed to comple tion. Work of laying the paving ha? already begun. This strip of paving extends from the Witlilacoochee river to the Cook county line, a distance of about seven miles. Five or six bridges of various lengths will be required. Disease Appears In Melon Fields Valdosta. —Reports from the lower part of Lowndes county are to the ef fect that the dreaded anthracnose dis ease has made its appearance in the , melon fields. The vines are all very | small, but there seems to be no doubt as to the disease being anthracnose. This disease practicaly destroyed the cantaloupe crop in this section last j year and wrought havoc with the cu cumber crop. The growers have been expecting the disease to make its ap pearance, but did not believe it would start in until the.crop was further ad vanced. Spraying and dusting will be carried on in all fields affected, and it is hoped to stamp out the disease in its early stage. Hemorrhage Of Brain Causes Death Macon. —Professor Charles R. Fors ter, for 15 years holder of the chair of ancient languages at Wesleyan col lege, and later fotr five years a mem ber of the faculty of Lanier High school, this city, died suddenly one af ternoon recently of hemorrhage of the brain. Professor Forster was 67 years of age. Besides a wife he is sur vived by a daughter, Mrs. E. E. Clem ents, who, with her husband, is a mis sionary in Havana, Cuba, and by Dr. George E. Forster, in charge of the biology department at Olivett college Michigan. Mrs. Thompson Suffers Broken Back Atlanta. —Mrs. Hortense Thompson of 874 Peachtree street is in a dying condition at an Americus hospital, and her two companions, both residents of this city, were injured as the result of an auto accident, which occurred at night recently while the party was on its way to the south Georgia city to take part in a revival campaign now in progress there. The other two victims were Miss Ethel Tanner of 874 Peachtree street, and Howard Bus sey of Peachtree road. One-Teacher School Wins At Meetft Irwinton. —Sand Hill school, a one teacher school, made a most remarka ble showing at the field day exercises here the other day. Although practi cally every school in the county is larger than it, yet the pupils of this school won four of the gold medals of fered in the contests, and, in addittion to that, this school won the school exhibits prize. Miss Eddie Stanley has had charge of the school for the past few years. Hold Graduating Exercise At Berry Rome. —The commencement exer cises at the Berry schools are well under way, and will conclude with the graduating exercises. The opening event of the commencement week was held at the foundation school when that department of the school conduct ed the annual declamation contest. This event was won by Remar Knight, of Cook county, Henry Dobson, of Floyd county, won third place. Rescued After He Fall* With Root Atlanta.-*-Saved from death by fel low firemen who rescued him from a blazing house at 87 Henry street into which he was precipitated when the roof caved in, Lieutenant Scott Smith of engine company No. 7 is in a se rious condition at a local hospital with burns about the face, severe bruises about the back and shoulders and possibly internal injuries. Avera Marshal Held In Killing Man Louisville—Ed B. Streetman, mar shal of Avera, Ga., is in jail here on the charge of the fatal shooting of A. G. Dean, a chalk mine foreman em ployed by the Ilarbson-Walker Mining company, near Avera, one afternoon recently. Dean was shot three tunes in the stomach. He was rushed to Sandersville for medical treatment but died later. Georgia Furniture Dealers Meet Macon. —The executive committee ot the Georgia Furniture Dealers associa tion met here recently and arranged to hold the annual state convention in this city May 22 and 23. W. J. Wood. Atlanta, is president, and Chas. S. Robison. Atlanta, secretary-treasu rer, were also present. 11l Health Cause Of Man’s Suicide LaGrange.—W. L. Nicholls. 50, died instantly when he shot himself in the temple in the bathroom of his home near here. Relatives state that ill health which two weeks ago forced him to give up his position at Port Royal, S. C.. led to his act. Pensions To Be Paid In Lowndes Valdosta.—Ordinary Holcombe hai announced that he has received the pension money for the Lowndes coun ty pensioners and that all claimants would be paid promptly. The amount to be distributed in this county is $11,130. Ordinary Of Candler Passes Away Metter. —Mr. Willy W. ageo 58, one of the most prominent men in Candler county, died at his home near Metter recently. THE DANIELBVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAB OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OfImPORTANCE Gathered From All Parte Of Th Globe And Told In Short Paragraph* Foreign captain Stezensko, a former officer in the Russian czarist army, has been sentenced to death on Soviet charges of responsibility for the deaths of 5,- 000 workmen and Communists while acting as head of the secret police of the Wrangel and Denikine armies. Two persons were killed and be tween thirty and forty injured in a train smash just outside the Euston (England) station. One of the many specials from northern England, car rying football fans to the association cup final at Wembley stadium be tween the Astonvilla and Newcastle teams, was standing in the mouth of the tunnel when an electric train from Watford bearing early city workers crashed into it at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Speaking in the heart of the district where Germany fought the peace-time battle of passive resistance, hCancel lor Marks of Germany tvicl the people of the occupied area that his govern ment supports the work cf the experts committee and believes that Germany must approach the report in a spirit of goodwill. Bunder Abbas, Persia, dispatches say Stuart MacLaren, British aviator, has arrived there in his plane from Bagdad. Reports from Rome, Italy, say that Mt. Etna is showing marked activity again. So also do dispatches from Catania. Paris Boulevard strollers had a mo ment or two of excitement the other afternoon when fire broke out among the gaudy cloth posters of one of Paris’ largest and most popular mo tion picture houses, next door to one of the best known boulevard cafes. The correspondent of the London Daily Express at Hyde, Isle of Wight, telegraphs that William B. Leeds is preparing to sail from Bembridge, Isle of Wight, to New York, in a 60- foot fishing smack equipped with an auxiliary engine. Reports on the American immigra tion legislation as it affects Japan were submitted to a meeting of the privy council by Premier Kiyoura and Foreign Minister Matsui. It is under stood that the council generally in dorsed the government’s conduct. Several American marines have been killed in Honduras, according to advices received at San Salvador. An attache of the American legation in Tegucipalpa is said to have proceed ed to La Libertad, Salvador, a cable station, in order to communicate with the government in Washington. Hilo, T. H.. reports that earthquakes which started in the Puna district of the Island of Hawaii, on which Hilo is located, are still continuing. Land around the village of Kapoho is sink ing. Measurements taken at the Ka poho railway stations showed it had dropped eight feet since the shaken began. The inhabitants of the vil lage fled. Washington— Armed with a warrant for the ar rest of M. S. Daugherty, brother of the former attorney general, a deputy sergeant-at-arms of the senate has gone to Washington Court House, Ohio, the home of Mr. Daugherty. Secretary Mellon recently advised Mr. Mellon that the treasury had com pleted its inquiry into charges of ir regularities in the bureau of engrav ing and printing and had found them absolutely baseless. While demand for cigarette tobacco is increasing in this country and abroad, the department of agriculture feels that a hazard exists in any such violent increase in tobacco production as that contemplated in Georgia. Josephus Daniels, as secretary of the navy, was very “obdurate” when it came to getting any lease for lands within the naval oil reserves. Com mander H. A. Stuarts, N. S. N., said in a letter read into the record of the senate oil committee. Special dispatches from New York City say that Congressman W. D. Up shaw of Georgia Las conented to be come a candidate for the nomination for vice president on the Democratic ticket. The announcement comes from the New York Upshaw club, and the congressman announces that he is willing to throw' his hat in the ring. Election of cabinet officers by the people was proposed in the house the other day by Representative Upshaw jf Georgia. The federal government collected $2,146,803, 265 in internal taxes in the first three-quarters of the present fis cal years, an increase of $226,709,192 over the nine months ending March 15, last year. Of the total collections $1,408,039,742 were in income and prof it taxes, the receipts from this source running slightly ahead of treasury cal culations and substantially larger than for the corresponding period a year ago. An Smendment designed to break up an alleged boycott in packing cen ters against co-operative market agencies was voted into the agricul tural department bill by the house. House Republican leaders informed President Colidge that the house was approaching conclusion of considera tion of constructive legislation and that so far as that body was concern ed would be able to adjourn June 1. Further testimony favorable to Sen ator Wheeler w r as heard by the Borah committee investigating the Montana senator’s Indictment un a charge of accepting a retainer to practice before a government department. Domestic — Two officers in the aviation branch were instantly killed at Great Lakes naval training station, Waukegan, 111., when their plane was dashed to the ground from a height of 500 feet — Chief ePtty Officer H. R. Cruikshank and Chief Aviation Rigger J. H. Green. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, told the league of women voters in’ an address at Buffalo, N. Y., that the proposal for a world court was a3 dead as Caesar and there was no hope of resurrecting it. Climbing out of her father’s automo bile to pick flowers growing by the wayside near oHt Springs, Ark., Edna May Ridgeway toddled in the path of a speeding automobile and was instant ly killed. Clad in*robes and hoods, with their masks rolled back, hundreds of Ku Klux Klansmen of the western Penn sylvania region participated in fune ral services for O. H. Poorbaugh, who died shortly after he was removed from the county jail to a hospital in Johnstown, Pa. One fireman was killed, several were seriously injured and seven buildings, an entire business block, were de stroyed by fire at Lowell, Mass., which for a time threatened to sweep through the heart of the business sec tion of the city. The loss is estimated In excess a of one million dollars. Mrs. Octavia Clyatt Woolridge was aceidentaly shot and killed instantly by her husband, Harry Wooldridge, at Eufaula, Ala., as he was loading his gun to go after chicken thieves at his home. Severe windstorms throughout Tex as which reached cyclonic proportions in some sections took a toll of five lives and injured a score of persons. When Warden James A. Johnston of the state prison at San Quentin, Calif., old Isaac. Wolfgang, murderer, a half hour before he was to have been hanged that the state supreme court had granted him a reprieve, the condemned man was so overcome that he had to be taken to the prison hos pital for treatment. Three steamships, including the Grand Republic, sister ship of the ill-fated General Slocum, were de stroyed by fire in their winter berth in the Hudson river at New York City. The nation’s rent bill continues to f rise, according to a survey by the national industrial conference board, a New York organization of employ ers. Rents have increased most in the East, while the South shows more decreases than increases. State Representative eoGrge W. Bin nicker and five other men, Orange burg county, after preliminary hear charges of breaking into a house by ing before Magistrate Blackmon on night and assault and battery, which grew out of the alleged wripping of a negro woman several weeks ago, were bound over for trial in the court of general sessions at Orangeburg, S. C. Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, asistant at torney general, in an address at Roch ester, N. Y„ before the chamber of commerce, declared Hugh M. Daugh erty will be cleared of all suspicion. The Oklahoma state Republican con vention at Oklahoma City indorsed the nomination of President Coolidge and instructed the 25 delegates from Okla homa to the national convention to support him. Harry M. Daugherty told an audience of friends and neighbors at Columbus, Ohio, that he had given up his cabi net post rather than “contribute to a treasonable cause.” Samuel P. Thomason of the Chicago Tribune was elected president of the National Association of Newspaper Publishers at the business session of the organization in New York City the other day. Leakage from containers led to the seizure of two carloads of grain alco hol and bottled liquors valued at SIOO,- 000 by prohibition agents at Norwalk, Conn. FIGHTING BOLL WEEVIL Big Factor in Results of Poisoning Insects Is Use of Suitable Machinery. A determining factor ! n the results of poisoning the boll weevil with cal cium arsenate Is the use of suitable dusting machinery, according to ei ports of the United States Department of Agriculture, who have conducted extensive tests of various types under various conditions at Tallulah, La Engineers and experts of the Depart ment of Agriculture have worked for several years with representatives of manufacturing concerns and the funda mentals of suitable machines for dust ing have been worked out. Nearly all dusting machines on the market are built according to the recommenda tions of the government experts. However, there are several types 0 f successful machines, each type being better suited to certain conditions than others. The machines are classi fied as follows: hand guns, saddle guns, one-mule machines, cart ma chines and power machines. “The hand gun may be used for dusting one row at a time,’’ say the experts, "is hand operated and carried by man. It usually retails from sls to $25. One gun will take care of from five to eight acres per season and, on account of labor difficulties Involved, it Is seldom practicable to use hand guns on more than 25 acres In one or ganization, “The saddle gun Is built to be car ried on mule back while operating and usually covers two rows at a time. The price Is about $55 or furnished with saddle and attachments com plete, $75. “The one-mule machine Is the new type of Intermediate machine which Is operated by one man and one mule. It runs between the rows like a walk ing cultivator and treats two or three rows at a time. It probably will re tail around $125 and will take care of from 50 ft) 75 acres of cotton through the season. “The cart machine Is the two wheeled type operated by one man and two mules. It usually treats three or four rows at a time and will take care of about 100 acres of cotton for the season. It derives Its power from the wheels. The retail prices probably will vary from S2OO to S3OO. “The power machine Is the four wheeled, two-mule machine which de rives its power from a small gasoline engine mounted on the platform. This usually dusts from five to seven rows at a trip and will take care of from 150 to 200 acres of cotton for the sea son under proper conditions. How ever, it should be used only in very large fields where facilities for turn ing are good and also should be used only by fairly skilled labor. It prob ably will retail around SSOO. “In buying dusting machinery, con sider carefully the area to be treated and buy at least enough machinery to cover this every three days. Buying a surplus of dusting machinery Is really the very best of economy because this Is more, or less of a permanent in vestment and will save on the ex pense of operation and on the poison used. “Important points to consider In the selection of the type of machinerj to be used are the area of fields, pres ence of stumps or other obstructions. Driving a wheeled machine through a field with a large number of stumps is very difficult, especially so at night, and it is almost Impossible to keep from rtmning Into stumps occasional ly.” Choice of the machines to oe used must be made with such matters taken Into consideration. “The basic principle of the prese system of cotton dusting requires that every portion of the cotton p nn thoroughly covered by the fine PjJJ cles of poison,” say the experts inw means that a dust cloud mut ,p ated which will drift throughout the cotton. It is desirable to have as muon of this adhere to the cotton pl nt possible and thus the presence of and greatly Increases the efficiency n application. In addition to t is. ever, atmospheric conditions ro ”_ Just right or the poison has a tend - to drift off and not settle throng plants. This is largely a quest! n dampness, air movement. e t°- ‘ far the best conditions for dusting f . experienced at night when t ' p , calm and the plants are damf' . when the dust cloud will dr..t and settle on every portion of t ■ ton plant. - “The type of dust cloud for _ ful cotton dusting bears < ’• machine construction. P artl^' a " y dls . the arrangement of the nozz ' > tributors. It has been found that > ■ not necessary to blow the . _ _ rectiy on the plants but that der which simply drifts on _ ?r^ will be just ns efficient > “; , ( , ra2e usually placed at approximate . ■ row widths and It does m 9 whether the nozzles are over or between them.” ... w . t i, Farmers are advised to con f their county agent or state • agriculture as to the best chine for their Individual U;tS -