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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL:
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Is Urgent Appeal of Presi
dent Roosevelt,
Sea Level Waterway is Favored, But
President Wants It Open at the
. . Earliest Practicable '
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President Roosevelt is urglng in
the strongest terms the necessity for
a plan for the construction of the
Panama canal which may be accom
plished in the shortest possible time.
In his recent remarks to the con
sulting boarq of engineers of the
Panama canal commission he sald
things regarded of the utmost import
ance in that connection. His remarks
have just been transcribed and trans
mitted to the bhoard in Wwashington
and General Davis, its chairman, has
been authorized to make them public.
The president said, among other
thir.gs:
“What I am about to say must be
considered in the light of suggestion,
not as direction. I have named you
because, in my judgment, you are es
pecially fitted to serve as advisors
in planning the greatest engineering
“work the world has yet seen, and I
expect you to advise me, not what
you think I want to heart, but what
you think I ought to hear.
“There are two or three considera
tions which I trust you will steadily
keep befors your minds in coming to
a conclusion as to the proper type
of canal. I hope that ultimately it
will prove possible to build a sea
level camal—-such a 2 canal would wun
doubtedly be best in the end if feasi
ble, and I feel that one of the chief
advantages of the Panama route is
that ultimately g sea level canal will
be a possibility. But while paying due
heed to the ideal perfectibility o
the scheme from an engineering stand
point, remember the need of having a
plan which shall provide for the im
mediate building of a canal on the saf
est terms and fn the shortest possi
ble time. If to build a sea level
canal will but slightly increase the
risk, then, of course, it s prefer
able.
“But if to adopt the plan of a sea
level means to incur hazard and
brings on delay, then it is not pref
erable, If the advantages and disad
vantages are closely balanced I ex
pect you to say so. I desire also to
know whether If you recommend a
high level multi-lock canal it will be
possible after it is completed to turn
it into or substitute for it in time a
seg level canal without interrupting
the traffic upon it. Two of the prime
considerations to be kept steadily in
mind are:
1, The utmost practicable speed
of construction.
* “2. Practica] certainty that the
plan proposed will be feasible and
that it can be carried out with the
minimum risk,
“The quantity of work and the
amount of work should be minimized
so far as possible.
“The delay in tramsit of the ves
sels owing to additlonal locks wile
be of small consequence when com
pared with shortening the time for
the construction of the canal or di
minishing the risks In its construc
tion. In short I desine your best
judgment on all the various ques
tions to be considered in choosing
among the various plans for a com
paratively high multilock canal for
a lower level with fewer locks and |
for a sea level canal .
“Finally I urge upon you the neces
sity of as great expedition in com
ing to a decision as is compatible
with thoroughness in cousidering the
constructlon.” :
GRADY TALKED IN HIS SLEEP.
Consequently Wife No, 1 Discovered
That He Was a Bigamist.
John Grady, a longshoreman, who
earns $l2 a week, was arrested in
New York Monday, charged with big
amy. It was found, according to the
complaint of his first wife, that he was
maintaining a second establishment
near his old home,
A few nights ago the longshoreman
talked in his sleep. Early next
morning Mrs. Grady went o) a
sleuthiog tour, which resulted in her
finding the second household,
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| TO TALK QUARANTINE,
'Formal Call Issued for a Meeting In
l Chattancoga of Governors and
" Commercial Representatives,
The formal call for a conference
of southern representatives to bi
held in Chattanooga in November was
ssued Saturday, signed by twelve gov
ernors and the officials of the cham
ber of commerce of ten cities. The
call, after reciting the prosperity and
business growth of this section, its
wonderful business and magnificent
progperity, says:
“In the attempt that has been made
by various -cities, towns and com
munities in the south to protect them
selves from the dread ravages of the
yellow fever, the most strenuous and
at times the most unreasonable, un
necessary and burdensome measures
have been adopted, measures that not
only tended to cripple and destroy
business and commerce, but which re
flected on the very instincts of our
common humanity and became a re
proach to civilization itself.
“It ig evident, therefore, that some
uniform system of quarantine should
be adopted that will allay the ap
prehensions of the people and mini
mize the dangers resulting from an
outbreak of this disease. This is nec
essary if we should save our land
from the demoralizing and brutaliz
ing tendencies of a panic inspired
quarantine,
“Again there are coming into the
United States at the present time a
larger number of foreign immigrants
than ever before in our country's
history. Among these are great mass
es who are wholly undesirable and
whom it will be impossible to as
gimilate with our institutiens. There
is apparently a desire or tendency to
bring many of these undesirable im
migrants into the south.
“The south will welcome desirable
immigrants from any and all lands,
‘but it has already racial problems of
such gravity that no others should be
invited until proper safeguards are
provided in advance of their coming.
“For the foregoing reasons, there
fore, the undersigned, having only
the interests and welfare of the south
at heart, hereby iseue this, our call
for a southern conference on immi
gratien and quarantine to be held in
Chattanooga, Tenn., November 9 and
10, 1905, and we designate the per
sons as those expected to compose
and participate in this conference:
“Governors of the southern states;
members of congress; commissioners
of agriculture; mayors of cities, one
representative from national, state or
city boards of health; one represen.
tative from each railroad system, pre.
ferably the general immigration agent;
the editor, publisher or proprietor of
newspapers and not more than five
representatives from each commercial
organization in the south.
“All parties thus designated may
consider themselves fully authorized
under this call to aid in furthering
its object and are requested to co
operate with us in making the same
what it should be in the south,
“John I. Cox, Governor of Tennes
see; N. C. Blanchard, Governor ol
Louisiana; Bdwin Warfield, Governor
of Maryland; Willlam D. Dawson,
Governor of West Virginia; A. "J.
Montague, Governor of Virginia; N.
B. Broward, Governor of Florida; Jas.
K. Vardaman, Governor of Missis
sippl; William W. Folk, Governor of
Missouri; J. C. W. Beckham, Gover:
nor of Kentueky; D. C. Heyward, Gov
ernor of South Carolina; S. W. T,
Lanham, Governor of Texas; Joseph
M. Terrell, Governor of Georgia.”
| “LOST” NEGRO IS FOUND.
Chicken Thief Chased and Killed by
a Posse of Boys.
A negro was found where he had
been killed near Daleville, Ala., a
few days ago,
The dead man was identified as
one who had entered a chicken roost,
and was pursued by a posse of hoys.
When they returned home they re
ported having lost him near the place
where the body was found.
It is alleged that two of thesge boys
have fled the country.
REVELRY IN: NEW ORLEANS,
City Has Great Festival to Help Out
Yellow Fever Fund.
The yellow fever situation at New
Orleans Saturday showed little
change. The people of the city took
a holiday and joined hands in mak
ing a brilliant success of the Diamond
festival, arranged to help swell the
fund for fighting yellow fever.
A multitude gathered at Athletic
park, where the festival was held.
The program was formally opened
with a telegram to Mayor Behrman
from President Roosevelt, which was
receiveq with universa] enthusiasm,
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1905.
Atlanta Health Officlals Make
Counter Move in Court,
Orders Quaranting State of Georgia
Brings on Complication and the
Strong Arm of the Law |
is Invoked. o
Denying that it has in any manner
interfered with the state quarantine
~or the offtcers in charge of it, the city
- board of health of Atlanta, Monday,
made answer ‘before Judge Pendle
ton in the superior court to the pe
titlon for injunction filed by the state
board of health, and asked for a coun
ter injunction restraining the state
board of health from interfering with
the city in its efforts to preserve'
health, and the officers of the state
board from violating any of the city’s
rules and regulations on this subject.
It was conceded after the reading
of the state board’s petition for in
junction and the answer and demur
rer filed by the city that the ques
tion before Judge Pendleton in the
quarantine injunction hearing was
purely one of law.
Judge Pendleton stated that he con
sidered the question involved sub
stantlally 5 legal one, as to whether,
for instance, the state board of health
having instituted a state qurantine,
had the right to guard the passage
through the city of Atlanta, of
through passengers from territory in
fected by yellow fever and against
which the quarantine had been in
stituted.
The argument of the case then
took practically this course, involv
ing the construction of the law cre
ating the state board of health and
as to whether the powers of the state
board is supreme in matters of quar
antine, or whether it is subordinate
when it comes into confiict with the
power of local boards of health.
During the preliminaries many in
teresting points conmected with the
quarantine situation wére brought out
by counsel on both slides.
Before the argument was conclud
ed Judge Pendleton, shortly before
6 o'clock, adjourned the further hear
ing of the case until Tuesday after
noon. |
The petition of the state board was
first read to the court by Attorney‘
Genera] Hart the answer of the cityl
board of health to each paragraph be
ing read by City Attorney Mayson,
In its answer the city board of
health denied the right of the mem
bers of the state board to institute
the suit for injunction, it being held
that the su't should be brought in the
name of the state, as the state board
of health has mo corporate existence,
The city board of health admitted
the supreme authority of the state
board in matters of quarantine, but
held that the act creating the state
board of health provides that it shall
hve no power to supersede local
boards of health where the same are
properly organized, but shall act in
harmony with such local boards. It
was asserted that there is a locdl
board of health in Atlanta properly
organized and maintined, and that
the state board had no right to su
pergede it within the corporte limits
of Atlanta,
The Atlanta board denied the prob
ability or the possibility of yellow
fever spreading in the northern part
of the state.
CUSTER’'S SLAYER GOES HENCE.
Chlef Rain-in-the-Face Takes Journey
to ‘“Happy Hunting Grounds.”
Rain-in-the-Face, one of the leading
Indian chiefs in the Custer massacre,
and who is said personally to have
killed General Custer, died at the
Standing Rock reservation, South Da
kota, September 12. He was sixty
two years old.
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; RACE TRAGEDY AT RACE TRACK.
| Whites and Negroes in Clash anc Gore
o Flowed Freely.
! A clash between white men and
' negroes occurred near Germantown,
!Tenn., Saturday afternoon, in which
Eugene Scott, a constable, was shot
! and stabbed; a negro, named Smith,
from Cordova, was killed; . Robert
Howard of Georgetown, was out about
the head and three or more negroes
- wounded. The fight occurred at
-the Wolf river race track, midway be-l
tween Germantown and Cordova. Fif
ty or more shots. were e changed. l
NICHOLAS HAS ENOUGH.
Russlan Ruler is Now Willing to Make
Any Old Concession for a
Lasting Peace.
A St. Petershurg special says:
Emperor Nicholas again appears be
fore the world as a promoter of uni
versal peace. No sooner is the Rus
sian-Japanese war over and even be
fore the peace treaty has been rati.
fied, than his majesty issues invita
tions to a second peace conference
‘at The Hague.
It is officially announced that the
“Russian government proposes to aa
dress the foreign powers with a view
‘ to the holding of a second peace con
ference at The Hague,” but it Is
known that negotiations preceding
this announcement that the govera
ment ‘“proposed io address the pow
ers” were entered into esplecially
with the United States and were con
ducted with the greatest secreey,
there belng not the slightest inkling
that Russla contemplated anything of
the kind.
The fact that President Roosevelt
is reported as being entirely in sym
pathy with tke proposed conference
and that he is saig to believe that
to the initiater of the first Hague
conference should belong the honor
of convoking the second, and readily
and even gladly acceded to the Rus
slan proposal, is clear proof that the
conference has already been -called
and that Roosevelt relinquished his
part in it to the emperor.
RAPS STATE HEALTH BOARD.
Atlant; Council Approves Action of
Mayor and City Board.
Indorsement of all {k2t has been
done by the city board of healthand
Mayor Woodward, and condemnation
of :the state board of health’s atti
tude toward Atlanta were the theme
of resolutions offered by Councilman
Bagley and adopted by the Atlania
city council Monday afternoon.
The resolutions term the action of
the state board of health as unwar
ranted and uncalled for, and as the
source of irremediable injury to the
city of Atlanta.
They assert that the city, by its
altitude and climate {s immune from
yellow fever anq has been so recog
nized by the highest authority in the
world, the United States fever ex
perts. It is further asserted that
these advantages are of immense ma
terial value to the city amd that she
nas a right to the enjoyment of them,
without interference from the state
board of health.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted without debate.
WILL SIN NO MORE.
Morton to Cut Out Gifts by Equitable
to Campaign Funds,
At New York Monday, Paul Mor
ton, president of the Ejuitable Life
Assurance Society, saiq that hereaf
ters the Equitable Society will refuse
\to contribute to political campaign
- funds.
Mr. Morton was ssked if the con
‘ tributions of the New York Life In.
- surance cempany to the MicKinley and
‘ Roosevelt campaign funds had been
equaled by that of ihe Equitable.
“As to that,” he amswered, ‘I can.
.not say. I am only concerned with
the future of the Equitable, not with
1 its past.”
~ “Will it be the policy of the Equit
able in the future,” he was asked,
- “to defray part of the campaign ex:
penses of presidential candidates or
other geekers for public office?”
“Not any more,” replied Mr. Mor
ton.
Snow Falls in Colorado.
Several inches of snow fell at Crip
ple Creek, C 01.,, Monday. The fall was
preceded by a high wind that blew
down several buildings.
Land Withdrawn from Entry,
The secretary of the interior has
ordereq the withdrawal from en
try of 300,000 acres of land in the
Roswell, N. M., land district on ac
count of the Carlshaq irrigation proj
aet,
FEVER REPORT ENCOURAGING,
Fears Are Dlissipated In New Orleans.
Cases Few Outside,
A New Orleans spectal of Friday
was as follows: The number of new
cases continues larger than was to
hoped for, but this had not had any
dispiriting effect on the people. The
same air of happiness and confidence
tnat the disease will eventually be
stamped out exists,
Country leports were a little more
encouraging, there being fewer cases
and fewer deaths reported than for
gome time, i
e e trerespe o
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random,
Premiums for School Exhibits,
State Superintendent of Schools
Merritt has sent out a letter to
County Schoo! Commissioner naming
the premium lists which are offered
by the state fair at Atlanta and the
Macon fair for the best exhlbits of
school work. / 4
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Simmons Will Fited.
The will of the late Chief Justice
T. J. Simmons has been filed for pro
bate in Atlanta. It is understood that
the estate left by the distinguished
jurist amounts to about $lB,OOO, which
under the terms of the will, is td be
equally divided among his widow and
three children,
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Orders llssued tio Rallroads.
Railroad and steamboat companies
operating in Georgia have been no
tified by the state board of health
that tickets cannot be sold to points
in the state trom territory infected by
yellow fever except to passengers
holding properly issued health certifi
cates,
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Johnson Appeals to Growers.
M. L. Johnson, president of the
Georgia division of the Southern Cot
ton Association has issued a strong
statement, urging the cotton grow
erg of (leorgia to hold their cotton
for the minimum price fixed by the
association. He also appeals to un
organized counties to join the move
ment and not let it be said of them
that they have reaped the benefits
without doing their part of the work.
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Colone! SBSmlith Enters Race,
About 1,200 people crowded into
the court house at Elberton to hear
Colonel James M. Smith of Ogle
thorpe, open his campaign for gov
ernor.
Mr. Smith spoke for abcut one and
a half hours, roundly scoi‘ng the pro
fessional politician, demagogue and
chronic office secker, whom, he said,
never did any good. In his life he
had tried to follow the golden rule,
and now that he was a candidate
he expected his neighbor to do the
game.
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Rawlings Trial Raises Rate.
The county commissioners of
Loowndes have fixed the tax raté of
the county at $5.10 on the $l,OOO,
. against $9.70 last yvear. It was expect:
' ed that the rate would be reduced
to $4.10, which is the lowest in 25
years, but the cost of the Rawlings
trial made it necessary to raise an
extra $5,000,
The cost of that case up to the
present is just about those figures.
The stenographer's fees alone amoun
ted to $990. the record being one of
the longest ever taken in a criminal
‘case in the state. It consisted of
over one thousand pages or about
400,000 words,
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Rucker Remains Until January.,
Lieutenant L. 8. D. Rucker, six
teenth Infantry, U. 8. A., who has
been detailed to the office of the ad.
jutant general, Georgia state troops,
will be connected with that office
until January 1, 1906, his period of
assignment having been extended for
three months from October 1.
The assignment of Lieutenant Ruck:
er was to have expired in October,
but, owing to the many important mat.
ters in which he is interested, and
the splendid work he has done on be
half of the state troops, the state ad
jutant general has requested that Lieu.
tenant Rucker remain until January.
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Contract Let to Bulld Line.
he Central of Georgia rafiway ha¢
announced the letting of the com
tract for building the extension from
Greenville to Newnan, Ga., to Oliver
& Co., of Knoxville, Tenm,
Work on the extension wiM begin
as goon as 4 Is possible o get the
equipment on the ground. This wiil
not require more than a week and
the limit for the completion of the
contract is nine months. The exten
gion will be about twenty miles long,
A narrow gauge rcad from Green
ville to Columbus will he widened,
but the work will not be done by
contract.
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Preached Funeral Anyhow.
The executlon of J. G. Rawlings
and his sons Milton and Jesse and
the negro Alf Moore, all of whom
were implicated in the murder of the
Carter children, was set for last Tri
day at Valdosta but a stay of sen
tence was ordered so that the case
could be carried to the supreme court. ]‘
A preachgr came over from Col- |
quitt county and announced at t‘.he;
NO. 14.
jail that he came to preach the fun
eral of the executed men, but found
after reaching the city that the exe
cution would not occur. After a sec
ond thought he decided to preacf: it
anyhow, and took a position one on@
of the corners and spoe for about an
hour about sin and its results.
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Planning to Entertain President. i
Plans for the enterfa,inment’ of
President Roosevelt, who will ‘be a
guest of the city of Atlanta October
20, while the state fair is om, are
belng made by the state board of dl
rectors of the state fair assoctation.
While the complete detalls of the IS
ception of the president have not been
perfected committees have been ap
pointed to arrange for Mr. Roosevelt's
visit and an elaborate program will
be arranged for the entertainmernt of
the chief executive of the land. ‘;
President Roosevelt will reach At
lanta at 11 o'clock Friday mo;'ping.
October 20, and will be the guest of
the city for elght hours: He will speak
at the falr from a stand plgt{form
erected near the gramd stand and
benches will be placed across the
race track to which the guests will
be admitted by card. The presenf pro
gram calls for a grand review of
troops by the president and a recé¢p
tion at the Piedmont Driving Club.
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Death Claims Captain Wilcoxan,
Captain Cleveland Wilcoxon died
Saturday afternoon at his home in
Atlanta. He had been ill for many
months, suffering from injuries sus
talned while serving in the Philip
pines, complicated by malarial fever.
Captain Wilcoxon w#ls hurt 'as tne
result of his horse falling into a pit.
He never recovered his strength, but
slowly grew weaker, and a few
months ago was retired as g first
lieutenant in the regular army,.
Few men in the military service
from this state were more warmly
liked or nrore highly respected than
he. He was made major of the fifths
Georgia regiment, which office he held
until 1898, at the outhreak of the
Spanish-Amerjcan war. Captaln
Wilcoxon enlisted and was a capiain
of company A, Second eGorgia Regi
ment. At the close of the war he en
tered the twenty-uinth United States
infantry as a first lieutenant and was
adjutant general of the regiment. He
went to the Philippines and served un
til disabled by injuries sustained in
the service. Hy
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City and State Clash, 5
Attempts on the part of Atlanta
city officails to cut in twain the pa
latial through train from New Or
leans to New York just before it
steamed out of the terminal station
at noon Saturday were the exciting
outgrowth of the controversy betweem
the city and state boards of health.
The incident was further enlivenefl
by the smiling defiance of state health
officials, who stood cooly behind the
'locked doors of a Pullman sleepel’,
the humorous sallies of the impris
oned passengers; the hurrying to and
fro of railroad officialg; the arrest
of two Pullman conductors and the
evident frame of mind of the city
officials who were headed by Mayor
Woodward.
The culmination of the affair was
a letter from the executive thead
of the city to President Wickersham
of the Atlanta and West Point rail
road, in which it was emphatically
stated that hereafter no locked pas
senger cars, whether Pullman or day
coaches, would be permitted within
the corporate iimits of the city of’
Atlanta, :
By an order issued later signed by
John T. Pendleton, Mayor Woodward
and each member® of the Atlanta
board of -health are enjoined from
further interference with the state
quarantine officers, In any manner
whatever, until the further order of
| the court. ;
) FAVOR SEA LEVEL CANAL.
,Mo.t of Foreign Members of Con
j sulting Board Against Locks.
A majority of the foreign members
| of the consulting board of engffieers
| of the isthmian canal appear to fa
| vor a sea level canal, says a Wash
| ington dispateh. This fact may be
| came of the greatest importance, if
| their votes shall become nebessary
‘ to decide that which Is affer a.l) the .
'prlnclpal question requiring a decis
| lon at the hands of the boazrd.
!
} RUSSIA’'S NAVAL LOSSES.
' According to Official Statistics Sum ‘s
‘ Placed at $113,000,000.
A Bt. Petersburg special says: The
' Russian losses in ships at Port Ar
! thur, Vladivostok and the Sea of Ta
' pan, according to official stafi;s:;:fa
~ published Sunday v-x&ornlng, amount
to one hundred and thirteen million
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