Newspaper Page Text
%GEORGIA LEWS:
e ol T oo Ao b o o
Epitomized Items of Interest
' Gathercd at Random.
Chairman Fined for Spitting.
. Chalrman Jolin J. Cohen, of the Au
gusteg Loard of police commissiongrs,
was fined §lO, cr 20 ddys, in the re
corder’s court for viclating the spitting
law. .
% kW
Cotton Oil Mill Burned.
The Jersey cotton oil mill at Jersey,
Walton county, ten mileg nordh of Cov
ington, together with 100 tons of cot
ton ‘seed and 1,500 cdords of -wood, has
been destroyed by fire. By hard work
the ginery and oil tanks were saved.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
# m &
Savannah Kicks on Rates,
A delegation of prominent Savannah
citizens, headed by Mayor Herman
Myers, appeared before the Georgia
railroad commission the past weck and
protested against he enforcementy of
circulars 301 and 302 unless the same
rates were made to apply to all points
in the state in both directions. 'The
commission has the matter under ad
visement,
® © #
Fair a Brllliant Success.
The Northeast Georgia fair, at Ath
ens, which closed last Saturday, was
a success in every way. The crowids
attonding were larger than last year,
the exhibits were excellent and all the
attractions full of interest. The Bul
loch county agricultural exhibit was
very fine. Preparations will be be
gun soon for another fair to be held
next year.
s % *
Supposed Incendiary Work.
The ginnery, saw, planing and grist
mill, together with 27 bales of cotton,
the property of James C. Brannen,
near Stateshoro, has been destroyed
by fire.
There was no insurance, The loss is
estimated at $6,000. The fire is believ
ed tO be the act of an incendiary.
Reed and Cato, recently lynched,
liver. near the gin, one on the farm of
Mr. Brannen‘s father, the other on a
farm of his brother. ‘ g
’ ok o .
Atlanta Wins Her Suit.
Atlanta has won her suit against
the water pipe trust. By a decision
handed down in the courts in Chatta
tanooga, the city is allowed §1.500
damages and s2'ooo attorney’s fees.
The suit was brought against the Chat
tanooga Fbundry and Pipe Company
and the South Pittsburg Pipe Company,
and charged these companies with
forming a trust to make overcharges
on pipe material. The suit was brought
several years ago and was bitterly
contested. :
* ¥ A 0
To Complete Harbor Work.
The board of trade of Brunswick
has secured through Congressman
Brantley the promise of the govern.-
ment to soon compleie the work re
cently discontinued, of deepening the
Brunswick .bar.
It is the purpose of the war depart:
ment, under which supervision the
work is carried on, to send back to
Brunswick the large dredge Cumber
land, owned by the government, and
said to be the second largest vessei
of its kind afloat.
* * *
From Atlanta to the Sea.
Columbus is intehsely interested
over the proposition to build a railroad
from Atlanta to the sea, via Columbus,
and the articles in The Atlanta Con
stitution on this subject have been
widely read in the city and section
and generally commented upon.
For several years it has been the
dream of Columbus to have a direct
railroad line to the gulf coast, and the
city has also realized what a great
benefit it . would be to have a more di
rect road between Columbus and At
lanta than now exists, and has longed
for the building of such a road.
B oW W
Farming Class in Fine Shape.
According to Ira P. Clark, aistrict
manager for R, G. Dun & Co,, scuth
wast Georgia was never more prospe:-
ous than at present. ¥le has just re.
turned from a visjt to Dawson and oth
er points in the vicinity and says that
the farming classes are ingplendid
condition,
The farmers of sonthwest Georgia
have raised large crops and have -not
only paid their oblizations, but will
have a considerable surplus. This
prosperity is not confined 1o the lar®
er planters, but hundreds of the negro
farmers will have nice balances to
show “for their year's work.
# & ¥
New Road Seems Assured.
That the railroad, which was begun
over a year ago from Ashburn to §yl
- is to be completed is an asured
fact. Civil engineers are now going
over the route and in a very short time
the work of grading and laying iron
will begin. ;
This wiil connect with a road that is
now being built to some place in Flor
ida. It is also very likely that this
rcad will connect with the H. and T.
§S., at Worth, only three miles above
Ashburn. :
The road from Ashburn to Sylves
ter is graded for about.ten miles and
threc miles of track has been laid
for some time. That Ashburn, the
county site of the proposed new coun
ty of Henderson, and Sylvester, the
new site of Worth county, are to he
connected by rail is a matter in which
the citizens of the whole section are
greatly interested,
W * %
“Weevil Bulletin” Issued. _
State Entomologist Wilmon Newell
has just issued a most important and
interesting bulletin upon the Mexican
boll weevil, which has proven so de
gtructive in the cotton fields of Texas
and Louisiana and which is known to
be moving toward the east.
This bulletin, which will be sent by
Mr, Newell to any cne in the state In
terested in the subject, is well illus
trated and deals with the Mexican
boll weevil in general and in detail,
giving just such facts and information
as the farmer would want to enable
him to recognize this’ dreaded pest
should it, by any chance, reach Geor
gia. All of the characteristics of the
bolt weevil are clearly set forth, and
brief accounts are given of insects
which have frequently been mistaken
for the boll weevil, such as the cowpea
pod weevil, the acorn and chestnut
‘weevil, the blood weed weevil, the cot
ton sharpshooter and the cotton boll
worm. Many of these bugs which
have been found in Georgia cotton
have been sent to the department un
der the supposition that they were the
real thing. .
$ kW
Attorney General in Washington.
Attorney General John C. Hart left
Atlanta Sunday for Washington, to ap
pear Monday in the Upited States su
preme court in the case of the state of
Georgia vs. the Louisville and Nash
ville and Atlantic Coast Line railways,
as lessees of the Georgia railroad.
The state contends that the Georgia
railrond owns $1,500,000 worth of the
stock of the Western of Alabama Rail
road Company, on which no taxes are
paid. " The district court and the cir
cuit court of appeals beoth decided
against the state, and on t¥is account
Attorney General Hart carried the mat
ter to the supreme court of the United
States, where he hopes to win the
case. -
He will return to Georgia in time to
take part in the railroad commission
injunction which comes up before
Judge Newman on October 27,
* . 8
Boozy Veterans Barred.
The board of trustees of the Con
federate Scldiers’ home at its regular
quarterly meeting held at the home
the past week, adopted stringent reso
lutiong on the subject of drunkenness,
The trustees are determined that iti
ghall stop and stop at once. |
As a result of disturbances which
he has created at the home because of
intoxication, one of the inmaites was™
expelled by the trustees, and the oth
ers who have been disposed to give
trouble in this direction, some eight or
ten in number, were put on notice that
it will no longer be tolerated. The
matter was, by resolution, put in the
hands of the superintendent and the
president of the home, with power to
act, and they may go to the extent
of expelling an inmate from the home
if they consider it necessary for the
preservation of good order and disci
pline. : '
» * 5
° How Ballots Were Cast.
. In the state election of Wednesday,
October bsth, there were cast more
than 70,000 votes, as sthown by the
congolidation of the returns which has
fust been completed.
Secretary of State Philip Cook, who
led the entire ticket, received 70,225
votes and as he was scratched in some
counties, as, for instance, in Gilmer,
where many voted only _for judge and
solicitor, the indications are that the
total vote cast was even larger than
that. ;
The vote for governor and other
state house officials fell short of the
foregoing all the way from about 160
to 3,000 votes, while thsjudzes and s -
licitors generals ran nearly 10,000
votes behind the ticket. _
The lowest ‘vote was on the consti
tutional amendments, as many did not
vote on them at all. The highest vote
on any constitutional amendment, for
and against, was about 50,000. :
The Constitution presents the total
vote by counties for and against the
ratification of the local taxation
amendment showing that it was car
ried by a majority of 10,144 votes.
The majorities by which the other
constitutional amendments were care
ried were as follows:
Majority for amendment tg article 3,
article 7, section 1, of the constitutioln,
limiting the ad valorem tax rate fo
five mills, 17 594,
Majority for amendment to articie
11, section 1, paragraph 2, previding
for an inctease in the number of coua
ties from 137 to 145, 18,843,
"Majority for amendment o article @,
section 3, pargraph 1, increasing ihe
limit in the number of representatives
from 175 to 183, 19,200.
JAP CREW SENT DOWN..
Gun Boat Heiyen Strikes Floating
Mine and Quickly Sinks.
A Tokio special! of Tuesday says:
The Japanese gunboat Heiyen, or
guard duty, struck a mine in Pigeor
Bay, west of Port Arthur, Septembe
18 and sank. Only four of her crew
of three hundred were rescued.
The Heiyen is of 2,067 tons displace
ment, twenty-four hundred indicatec
‘horse power. She was captured by
the Japanese from the Chinese at We!
Hai Wei during the war between Chi
na and Japan. :
INVENTOR AND WIFE KILLED.
Patal Accident Fefalls Them While
Testing New Fire Escape,
. P. M. Scannon &nd wife, of Minne
apolis, fell from the third story win
dow of the Germania ILife building to
the stone sidewalk at St. Paul Friday
afternoon. The woman was killed and
Scannon fatally hurt. They both
struck on their heads. Scannon is the
inventor of a fire escape, and it was
during a test of the apparatus that
the accident occurred.
MINNESOTA'S WEALTH OF IRON.
Unnaralleled Source ofW!yEmh
~ lishing America’s Leadership. - =
The Mesabi range of wodlled hills,
sixty miles from the norther shore
¢f Lake Superior, contains the de
posits of iron ore Wwhich _h‘gv.g' given
-America supremacy in inmjand steel.
Twelve years ago, says an_ interesting
account in World’s Work, the first
shipment ¢f this ore or “sand’ was
made. Today the shipments are 13,
000,000 tons in the season of seven
months. A sixth of the werid’s iron
ore product and a third of ours comss
from this place, This is the only
place in the werld where there are
fields of iron ore to be entered on and
plowed as a field is for agrieultural
products. Instead of mines there are
hers simply open -fields; instead of
blocks of black rock there is a soil
of red and yellow dust, with here and
there a patch of pebbles.’ It locks
like a rusty bed of sand and graveal;
it is high-grade iron cre. A few feet
of soil, with g‘}owing trees, cover it.
Thege are ‘“cleared” just as ths far
mer ciears a ficld, and then tae soil
is plowed up and carried off, and the
“mine” is ready. !
A steam engine on the . susface,
guided by ‘cne man, works a Shovel
that sccops up five tons at a time and
dumps it into a railroad train along
side. _This takes place ten times in
thres ' minutes, and a carload is
“mined.” Tracks, of course, are laid
anywhere-temporarily, as in a gravel
pit. There is room on the diiferent
terraces of an eighty-acre field iwor
“mine” for a hundred steam shovels
tn work at once. The deposit range:
from seventy-five to two hundred feet
in depth, in some cases as deep as 524
feet. Five ¢f the mines here . 0
duce tiogether 7,000,000 tons a y-ar,
which is nearly Spain’s annual pro
duct and a half more than France’s,
The cost of getting this ore-has i ~en
as low as 12 to 10 cents a ton,.and
seldom exceeds 30 cents. It is laid
down at Lake Erie docks at 75 cents
to $1 a ton more than the aciual cost
of transportation, plus royalty of the
fee owner.
The business has created at Duliit
Superior and Two Harbors the larg
ore docks in the world, one at
perior being 2,100 feet long, fr
which as much as 80,000 tons huve
been loaded in twenty-four hours.
Last year a steamer got her load: of
5,400 tons in thirty minutes and gg'en
ty seconds. The ircn ore ftraffic
alone through the Sco canal equals
the total annu:! tonnage of the Suez
canal. But the ficld is remarkable
not only for what it yields, but
for what it has to . .yield.
There is in sight. a billion tons of
ore, 60 per cent. of which is ©f Bes
semer grade, and it has the greatest
volume of reserved ore in the world.
The TUnited States Steel Company
produces 60 per cent. of the output
and the Great Northern Railroad
controls several hundred millions of
tons. And yet our iron and steel in
dustry must be “protected” against
the pauper product of Europe by a
fierce tariff. :
Persuasion That Brought Confi sion.
“Did I understand you to sa that
thjs boy voluntarily confesse! his
share in" the mischief done t: the
schoolhouse?” asked the magi:trate,
addressing the determined look ag fe
male parent of a small and dirt boy.
“Yes sir, he did,” the womiu res
sponded. “I just had to parsuad: him
a little, and then he told me the whole
thing voluntarily.” :
“How did you persuade him?” que
ried his worship. ' -
“Well, I first gave him- a ~good
threshing,” said the firm parent, “and
then I put him to bed without any
supper and tock his clothes away and
told him he’d stay in bed till he'd con
fessed what he'd done, if ’twas the
rest of his days, and I should thresh
him again in the morning. And:in
less than an hour he told me the
whole story voluntarily.”—From Cas
gsell’s Saturday Journal.