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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAIL..
VOL. I[X.
Roosevelt Braves Ferocious
Beasts in Their Lairs,
THE ACTUAL HUNT BEGINS
Clvilization is Left Behind and Plunge
Made Into Depths of Rockies.
President Will Avoid Hand
to-Hand Contests.
President Roosevelt and his hunting
party reached Newcastle, Cal, a fam
ous outfitting point for the river, at
7:50 a. m., Saturday, and waited more
than two hours for official mail that
had been sent to Redstone, where it
had been intended that the seat of
government should be established
while the president was away in the
mountains hunting bear, bob cats and
other game.
But the time in Newcastle was
pleasantly occupied. The president
shook hands with a majority of the
400 citizens of the village, after he
had been introduced by George H.
Norris, mayor of Newcastle, who an
nounces on his card that he does
blacksmithing and wagon making. The
party was photographed, the presi
dent made a brief address, shook
hands with the train crew and viewed
the specially decorated engine that
drew his train from Colorado Springs.
The run to the village was pleas
ant. Huge bonfires lighted the way
during the night, and the inhabitants
of the towns en route stayed up until
far into the morning to cheer the
president as he passed through. Get
ting up early the party had their
breakfast of fresh mountain trout on
the train, and with curtains raised
viewed the magnificent scenery along
the route of the Colorado.
When the train puiled into New
castle, the president, dressed in his
shooting clothes of heavy tan duck,
greeted the people from the rear plat
form. He was cheered wildly. Af
ter the speech 'was made and the
little conventionalities had been ob
served, the president gave‘personal
supervision to his hunting outfit. He
unsheathed his gnife and felt its keen
edge, examined his gun, and saw to
it that it was in fine working order,
and looked over the horse that had
been selected for his ride to the camp.
This animal is white, weighing about
1,100 pounds, and is about 14 1-2 hands
high., It is said to be one of the
most sure-footed mountain climbers in
that part of the country, but is not
noted for speed. In fact, all of the
horses selected for the.party are built
for hard rather than fast work.
John Goff, Jake Borah and Brick
P. Wells, the guides, in picturesque
mountain costumes, busied themselves
in giving commands for the start.
Before starting, the president an
nounced confidentially that he was
not going into any hand-to-hand en
counters with grizzles, nor strangle
any mountain lions with bare hands.
He does not expect to bag a record
breaking amount of game, and will
feel satisfied if he gets vn¢ bear dur
ing the hunt, and particularly fortun
ate if he gets two.
His rapidfiring rifle was exhibited
with great pride as a protection Jie
will constantly keep between himself
and danger.
At 11:15 o’clock the party started
at an easy danter over the hills to the
permanent camp of the party, which is
located at Hast Divide creek, on
Charles Penny’s ranch, twenty-three
miles southwest of Newcastle. There
is about a foot of snow in thatese
gion and bear tracks were seen in
plenty. When the party had gone out
of sight the president’s train was re
turned to Glenwood Springs, where
Secretary Loeb is to have his head
quarters.
Real Estate Broker Fails.
Earl Patterson, real estate broker,
has filed t‘petition in bankruptcy at
Chicago. Liabilities, $130,000; assets,
$42,000.
CARNEGIE LOOSENS UP AGAIN.
This Time He Donates to Library
Training School for Women,
/A library training efool for south
ern women will be opened at the Car
nejie. llbncr('{y' “in Atlanta, October 1.
Andrew Carnegie has donated $4,000
per,year‘ to the school for three years
as an experiment and if the school
is a success the donation will be made.
permanent and increased. ;
The new gift from Andrew Carne
gie, who has already made Atlanta’s
handsomeé ‘free library possible, was
sccured by Miss Anne Wallace, libra
riar, whe intépested Mr. Carnegie in
the wor 73[“:‘ il ?;b S e
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MITCHELL ARRAIGNED.
Oregon Senator Haled to Court on
Charge of Working Graft Game
Agalnst Uncle Sam.
Judge Bellinger’s court at Portland,
Oregon, was crowded Tuesday when
the time arrived for Senator John
H. Mitchell to plead to four indict
ments found againts him by the late
federal grand jury.
In a plea of abatement Senator
Mitchell challenged the acts of the
late federal grand jury by charging
specifically that Jurors W, Robertson
and Carl Phelps, the original fore
man and secretary, respectively, had
been legally excused for the term
pending investigation; that Jurors
Frank G. Buffum and George Feel
ler had been sworn in some time &f
-ter the grand jury had been em
panelled; that Juror George Gustin
was not a citizen of the United States;
that Jurors Frank Bolter and Joseph
Essner were not taxpayers, as requix
ed by the law, and that District At
torney Heney was disqualified in many
ways besides being prejudiced.
The plea of abatement was based on
the case wherein Senator Mitchell is
accused of accepting pay through the
law firm of Mitchell & Tanner, to ex
pedite land titles before the land de
partment at Washington, in behalf of
Frederick A. Kribs.
Judge Alfred S. Bennett,a s attorney
for Senator Mitchell, announced that
there was a question of moral turpi
tude involved in the case, where Sen
ator Mitchell is accused of accepting
$2,000 from A. D. Puter and therefore
ke would weive all legal technicali
ties and be ready to proteed to trial
without delay upon the issues at
stake.
Judge Alfred S. Bennett, as attorney
not guilty for the senator in three
of the cases against him, two for con
spiracy and one for accepting mone)
while helding the position of United
States senator to expedite title befere
the land department.
W. H, Steiwer, president; . H
Hendricks, secretary and treasurer;
C. B. Zachary, general manager, and
C. BE. Glass, bookkeeper of the Butte
Creek Land, Live Stock and Lumber
company, entered pleas in abatement
similar to that of Senator Mitchell,
the charges against them being con
spiracy to cover the public domain.
District Attorney Heney objected to
the pleas in abatement on the ground
of their being filed too late. Proceed
ings were here postponed until Fri
day.
NEWS FROM THE CHASE.
President Sees Champion Wolf Catch
er Do His Favorite Act.
One of President Roosevelt’s ex
pressed desires has been gratified. He
has seen John Abernathy, said to be
the champion wolf catcher of the
world, in: his unique way kill a coy
ote and bear it victoriously to the
nation’s chief executive.
Abernathy’s favorite dog, “Cannon
Ball,” led the first big race of the
four days’ event Monday morning, and
captured the first wolf in the chase.
Abernathy leaped from his hof'se, and,
with heavily gloved hands, seized the
prostrd"‘,&mimal’s jaws, lifted it-in
his artd & ; smiling delivered it to
the president.
SENATOR AND SHERIFF SHOT.
Former Dead and Latter Thought to
Be Fatally Wounded.
State Senator R. L. Hipp, an attor
ney, was shot and instantly killed
and Deputy Sheriff J. H. Dunlap was
so badly wounded that it is thought he
will die, by John W. Williams, twen
ty miles east of Cullman, Ala., Tul¥s
day. .
The officers had gone to the Hipp
place to oust Williams from a tract of
land which he lost in a lawsuit. When
the men approached the house Wil
liams shot Hipp jn the head, killing
him instantly, and shot Deputy Dvu
lap through the breast.
Williams remained in the house
whistling, and said he would stay
there until he died. A rosse of forty
or fifty men went from Cullman to
the scene with vehicles to bring back
the dead and wounded. Williams is
a man of large family and "is about
fifty years of age.
RECORDS ARE CALLED FOR.
Transactions of Equitable Assurance
Society Under Investigation.
Ay @mplete racord of all the finan
cial transaetions of the Equitable Life
Assurancg Society of New York, its
rehfloali' or; i‘co‘-other corporations and a
rull it of the society’s employel in
cludjg 2l of its" officers, _togeter
with, ' statement of the salaries and
emojmens received by them, is asked
of gl W"g‘*mmkmn w.
Al 00, in a letter sent to him
’? iy C. mxm of the
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LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1905.
Rojesvensky Seems Overly
Anxious for Battle Royal.
HASTENS TOWARDS FOE
Open Tactics of Russians Surprise and
Interest All Capitals — Where
abouts of Japanese Fleet is as
Yet Unknown. ;
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According to advices from BSinga
pore, the Russian fleet was in latitude
? degrees north, longitude 108 degrees
55 minutes east at noon, April 11.
The Penirsular and Oriental steamer,
Nubia, a British vessel, which has ar
rived in Singapore, reports havilig
passed no 'less than forty-two vessels
there. They were steaming north
east at a speed of eight or ten knots.
The position of the fleet was then
about 800 miles northeastward of the
Sunda islands (which lie between the
Malay peninsula and the west coast
of Borneo, and more than 200 miles
southeast of Cape St. Jacques). This
course indicates that the fleet was not
going to Saigon, French Cochin-China.
Tactlcs Surprising to London. -
British naval men comment on the
lack of secrecy regarding Adiniral Roj
estvensky’s movements since hig ar
rival in Far Eastern waters. The fact
that he is keeping to the main trade
route, aithough knowing his squadron
would be constantly sighted and re
ported by passing vessels, they con
sider, clearly shows that the Russian
admiral is keenly anxious to get at
Admiral Togo and fight it out to &
finish. :
st. Potersburg Awaite News.
A Bt. Petersburg special says: The
news of the northward movement of
Admiral Rojestvensky’s squadron and
his evident intention to .accept bat
tle whenever Admiral Togo. chooses
to offer it has for the present stilled
all activities in the direction of peace
and the foreign dispatches relating to
the voyage of the squadron are fol
lowed by the most intense interest.
i The admiralty volunteers no infor
mation regarding Rojestvensky’s
lplans, whether his immediate destina
tion is or is not Cape Padaran (on
Ithe east coast of Cochin-China), but
in naval circles the impression pre
vails that the squadron will continue
northward to the straits of Formosa,
where, if Admiral Togo does not elect
to give battle or is defeated, Admiral
Rojestvensky may seize a temporary
base in Japanese territory and if it is
considered advisable he could there
await the arrival of Admiral Neboga
toff’s division. It i 8 rumored that
there is a force of riflemen on boari
'the Russian transports which could
‘be landed for the purpose of co-operat
‘ ing with marines in the same fashion
that the United States established a
base at Guantanamo, Cuba, in 1898.
Other naval men think that Vladivo
stok is the only base the Russian ad
'miral has in view.
Cruiser Raleigh on Hand.
The navy department at Washing
ton was advised of the departure Fri
day of the cruiser Raleigh from La
buau on the north coast of British
Born€o, where she was dispatched by
Rear Admira] Train to observe the
movemnents of the hostile fleets, for
Cuyo iz the Philippines, a point about
400 or 500 miles to the northeast, be
tween Palawan and the Panay islands.
It is indicated that the Raleigh’s com
mander obtained information as to
what he Qelieved to be the contem
plated course of the opposing war ves
sels and ha® shaped his course ac
cordingly. It is about a two days
cail to Cuy:.
The navy. department is informed
that the bat{leship Wisconsin and the
torpedo boats Decatur, Dale and
Bainbridge have left Hong Kong for
Cavite.
No Catholic University in Erin.
The British holise of commons Fri
day, by a vote of' 263 to 104, defeat
ed a motion to estahlish a Catholic
university in Ireland. . ™ ;
included nationalist and . %
olics.
UNIVERSITY HAS PRESIPEN
Eightieth Anniversary of Virginii ...
stitution Sees Radical Change.
In the eightleth year of its career
and on the anniversary of the birth of
Thomas Jefferson, its illustrious found
er, the University of Virginia at Char
lottesville, Friday, inaugurated its
first president, Dr. Edwin Andersou
Alderman, The affairs of the in
stitution® bave heretofore heen con.
ducted by a board of regents, but re
cent development of the university
‘have rendered its efficient administra
tion impracticable under the old meth
ods and the change is made to mee!
the larger demands.
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i@ UPp TO THE F~ARMER.
A Reductlon of Acreage and Fertilizer
an Absolute Necessity. 5
The agricultural department of Ala
bame and other states show in recent
geports that the sale of fertilizer
tags in Alabama during the season of
1904-1905 shows an increase of 1,000
tons over the season of 1903-1904.
The commissioner of agriculture of.
Georgia has issued a similar report,
in which he shows that the sales of
fertilizer tags in Georgia this season
exceed those of last year by more
than 500 tons. .
“Phese reports,” says M. L. John
son, president of the Georgia division
of the Southern Cotton Association,
“put the cotton situation right up to
the farmer, in order for the purposes
of the association to be carried out,
it is absolutely necessary for the farm
er to reduce his cotton acreage and
the amount of fertilizer used.
“] say the situation is up to the
farmer, because it is the farmer who
will suffer if the crop is not reduced,
Without a reduction, the price of cot
ton will be lower than the cost of
production, and the farmer will find
Rimself in debt. With a low price this
year, the interests of the entire south
will suffer.
“The farmers of Georgia must re
duce their acreage. Let it not be
said of Georgia that she did not join
heart and soul in the movement which
means the salvation of the southern
cotton grower.”
“QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY.” 1
Women Discuss Observations of Pres- ‘
ident Anent “Race Suicide.” |
The observations of President Roose
velt on the question of race suicide
received the attention of some of the
prominent delegates to the National
Council of Women in session at Wash
ington. ‘Some of them take issue
with the president on this subject,
and say he should look to the women
of his own social set for race sui
cide.
“It is the pace set by our society
women particularly in official life,”
one of the delegates declared, “which
makes race suicide a subject for pro
found thought. The women of the sub
mlerged . half, as we call it, do not
practice race suicide. It is the busi
. ness burdened, the determined to get
rich faster and the society crazy moth
er who refuse the cares of parent
hood.”
A resolution was reported on the
question of parenthood, taking issue
with the president’s views on the
question of race suicide, and declared
that “quality, not quantity,” of chil
dren is preferable.
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the pres
ident of the National Woman’s Suf
frage Association, spoke her mind on
the question of parenthood, saying, in
part:
“It is said that woman should rear
more children, but I say that you
must first make your country fit to
rear children in. We need to make
this world safe for children. To do
so we must give them social heredity,
g 0 that they will be born in safe con
ditions and ‘protected wmntil grown.
This cannot be done until women have
rights in the state to protect them.”
NECESSARY VOTES RECEIVED,
Cumberland and Northern Presbyte
| rian Churches Will Be United.
Cumberland Presbyterian headquar
ters at Nashville announced Wednes
day that the proposition for union
. with the Northern Presbyterian
l church has received the requisite 58
votes, with others of the 114 Pres
; byteries of the Cumberland Presbyte
| rian church yet to hear from. The
deciding vote was cast by the Penn
| gylvania Presbyterian presbytery. It
i said that the Northern Presbyterian
- church is voting for wunion in the
' ratio of 10 to 1. Tt has already
' settled the question of separate pres
| byteries for negroes.
' The general assemblies of hoth
- churches will meet on May 17, the
| Cumberland Presbyterians in Fresno,
{ Calif., and the Presbyterians in Win
' ona Lawe, Ind. The votes will be
declared in both.
. Friends of union, however, do not
expect that union will be actually per
'ected in less than two years, consid
srable time being required to perfe
he details. .
NESPERADOES DEFY OF.
Merobers of Moh The’
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Delegates to Good Roads Meet. |
Governor Terrell has appointed for
ty-five delegates to attend the con
vention of the National Good Roads
agsociation, which will be held at
Baton, Rouge, La., April 28 to 29. The
appointments were made at the re
quest of the association and the gov
ernor of Louisiana.
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New Colony ls Booming.
A. N. Lund, a member of the St.
George Colony company, speaks in
terestingly of the growth of St.
George, and states that three brick
blocks and fifty wesidences are under
construction in the colony town, and
at least three hundred people are per
manently locaied there.
Mr. Lund thinks that within a
vear's time the population of St.
George will be two or three thousand,
and that it will soon become a little
city. -
_ Lumpkin to “Hello” to Cuthbert. |
The Southern Bell Telepbone and
Telegranh company is at w on a'
line between Lumpkin fl(thbert.
via Benevolence. The n¥w §ne will
be opened for business in a short
while. It is generally supposed
that the building of this line means
that the people have good reason to'
believe that the Georgia, Florida and
Alabama road is to be extended from
Cuthbert to Columbus, via -Benevo
lence and Lumpkin, and are hurrying
to get in on the ground floor.
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Crenshaw Loses His Suit.
Former Railroad Commissioner
Thomas C. Crenshaw lost his suit
against the Pullman Palace Car com
pany, the jury in Judge Newman’s
court at Atlanta bringing in a ver
dict for the defendant.
The plaintiff in this case asked for
$15,000 damages for injuries alleged
to have been sustained at the hands
of Pullman Conductor J. H. Kirk
land, who cut him with a knife while
on a Western and Atlantic train be
tween Atlanta and Marietta. The af
fair occurred several years®igo; while
Mr. Crenshaw was a member of the
railroad commission.
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Complain Over Escaped Convic:s.
Complaint reaches the prison ¢om
mission from Savannah and Chatham
county to the effect that a Ilarge
number of convicts sent from Chat
ham superior court to the state peni
tentiary have recently been allowed
to escape, some of them being life
convicts, and the officials there ap
pear to be very much stirred up over
the matter.
According to the records at the of
flce of the prison commission, twelve
Chatham cov ty conviets have escap
ed from t¥ penitentlary eince Jan
uary 1, 19, Secretary Goodloe Yan
cey prepared¥a list of these to be
sent to Savannah’s chief of npolice to
aid him in recapti*ing any that may
have returned to th
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Negroes Slay
A horrible traged
near Broughton, a
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operating expenses have been deduct
ed. The present stock, which is an
average, is given as $21,338.99. W*M
the profits shown $1,202.45 comes from
the sale of empty bottles and bar
rels,
Since its establishment the dispen
sary has pald the city and county
$75,818.04 . f
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Prize Won by Newton County. 5
In the Arbor day contest Newton
county made the bhest report and there
fore gets the first prize, a library of’
sixty well bound volumes valued at
$4O. These, together with the sixty
volumes, donated by Hion. Hoke Smith
for excellency in library work, will
be added to the county’s already ex
tensive circulating school library.
In the Arbor day work Randolph
cpunty won second prize, while the
third prize was won by Fulton. Bald
win county came fourth in the list. .
The total number of trees, vines,
ete., planted by the school childrem =
of Newton county was 20,511. i/
The number of peach trees planted .
was 5,859; apple, 1,677; grape, 1,207 -
strawberry, 3,883; raspberry, 1,168;.
pear, 364; plum, 374; fig, 217; pecawn,:
214. The list contains thirty-nine di
ferent varietles of trees, vines 844
plants. §
BANK DEFAULTER SURRENDI#
Cashier Chamberlain Tires of “
Wanderer Over the Earth.
Charles M. Chamberlain, cashi. - =
the Chamberlain banking house at :
cumseh, Nebr., who defaulted a few.
years ago, and after getting away
with about $75,000 became a fugl
tive, has returned to Lincoin and giv- }4
eén himself up. Chamberlain says he ’-‘
has been a wanderer ever since the
failure of the bank, and was weary of
trylng to escape the law. Most of
the time was spent in Cuba.
' IMMIGRANTS ARE WANTED. |
Huntsville, Alabama, Chamber of Coms |
merce Takus Action. )
At a meeting of the Huntsville,
Ala., chamber of couvmerce Friday¢
night, a resolution was adopted _me»:s
morializing the commissimer of agri-’
culture of Alabama to take @an active |
part in the movement to secure im J
migration from the north to Alabama%
and to appoint a special agent to req
main in New York eity and direct fl'fi%fi
attention of the best class of ’lmri'" *
grants to the stgte. v
OLD WOMEN IN WALKIN
Ancient Dames Engage in ,
test at Cleveland, Oi
In a walking contest at (
Ohio, eleven old women, 7
in years, walked a distanc
and one-quarter miles in an
three quarters actual time, ai.
ing one-half hour out for luac’
winner in the contest was
gephine Van Houston, aged '
Mrs. Miariwa Miller, 80 years,
land Mrs. Carolina Haas, 7
rhird. =
} AUNT CARRIE SEN’
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