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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
VOL. X.
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MORGAN SAYS NAY
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'fAjabama Senator Declines to
| Goson Junket to Panama,
SO WRITES TO SHONTS
TThinks Tour of Inspectlon of Canal
Route and Conditlons of Isthmus
; by Commission Wili Result in :
e No Tangible Good.
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i Senator John T. Morgan of Alabams
wrote a letter to Chairman T. P.
Shonts of the Panama canal commis
&ion, declining the invitation to ae
ccompany the commission which left
New York Thursday for Panama. The
genator thinks nothing will be accom
plished by the trip. His letter says
in part:
“In your telegram of the 22d ins
stant you speak of a large party who
are to sail with the commission and
the advisory board to Colon and are
to have comfortable facilities for
making tours of inspection ‘and exam
ination of the canal. In the matter
of sightseeing, such faecilities will af
ford muca pleasure, which I regret
" 1 am not prepared to enjoy; but I do
mot suppose that such a surface in
spection of the appearance of condi
tions in Panama would give me any
data, from which I could form any
Judgment as to the practicability of &
lock canal, or a sea level canal, or
the preference due to either plan, or
as to the cost, or the ¢dme required for
.the completion of the canal on either
Plan, ~
“I could not wisely, intelligently or
justly give an opinion to any commis
sloner, or to any member of the ad
“visory board as to the possibility of
@ dam at Bahio, 168 feet below ‘the
Tevel of the sea, that would supply
the camnal at 90 feet above sea level;
or as to a dam at or lLélow Gatun
. thetwweuld supply a canal at 80 feet
above sea level or as to a dam at
Gamboa that would control the waters
of the Chagres river; or as to a pos
sible tunnel to either ccean to carry
off those flood waters. :
“I could not inform the able, cour
ageous and distinguished chief of the
hytgertic service in the canal zone
whethen, ¥ we should floog all the
breeding places of the stegomyia fas
ciata, with great lakes, we would not
increase threm a thousand fold along
the margins of the great bodies of
fresh water, in the tropical wunder
growth that would spring up around
them in a few hours. Indeed, this is
no question, among the many vital
interests that concern this great In
qiry, upon which suy rational mind
could give any reliable information or
form any correct judgment, from what
one could see or hear in the tours
along the camal zone that this party
of visitors will have the opportunity
to make.
'*l must say that I distrust the ex-.
pected advantages to congress or fo
the country, of such an excursion ot
the value of any opinion that may be
formetfl on great engineering prohlems
by a body of gentlemen who are non
profe¥sfonal and must form their con
clusions from wsurface appearances.
Neither of these important commit
tees can derive any .egltimate conclu
sions upon vital facts that must con
trol that vast subject, from the opin
fons of those who are mere guests.
of an excursion party, and they will
be nren of extraordinary self poise, if
they are not influenced by. what may
be a prevalling sentiment. among
them,
“Since- the ratification of the Hay-
Varilla treaty, which I opposed, I have
done all that I could and much more
fhan I thought could ever be of ad
vantage to the country to sustain the
government in its purpose to construct
a canal fn Panama. Yet I have not
bellieved fhat success could crown
their efforts, even in thelr most cost
1y and desperate form. You may fing
the key to unlock the barriers that
nature has interposed at Panama. If
you should be so fortunate, I will
applaud your genius and courage. 1
will vote to provide you with every
reasonable authority and power to ac
. ‘complish your task and to meet your
tremendous responsibility.
“In the effort to answer your friend
ly invitafion with perfect frankness,
if I have said anything that jars upon
your sensibilities, T have not so in
‘tended it and would regret ft. I beg
‘to essure you of my sincere respect
and to say that I will rejoice with
you in the successful completion of
the great work in your charge. Sin
cerely yours,
(Signed) “JOHN T. MORGAN.”
DESPERADO BITES DUST.
Outlaw Simms Lald Low by Sheriff
and Deputles with Fourteen
Bullets in His Body.
Will B. Slmms, slayer of Conductor
Julius Landsßerg of the Seaboard Air
Line some six wecks ago at Ellabell,
Bryan county, Ga., and later of James
Perry, a negro, was himself shot and
killeq Thursday aftesnoon in Liberty
county, about ten miles north of Mem~
ing.
Simms wag killed by officers of the
law, who had been on his track for
many hours, when tifey set out in pus
suit of him on receipt of the news
that he had started in the direction of
his old haunts in Liberty county.
These officers were Sheriff James Par
ish of Bryan county and his two dep
uties, M. A. Gibson and H. ¥. Dukes.
They left Ellabell and followed the
trace of Simms as they picked it up
here and there, where he had stopped
on his way.
About two hours after Simms had
departed from a negro's house, Wed
nesday evening, where he had kiled
a small pig, and had it roasted for
him, the officers arrived. They took a
rest then for the might, and eanly
Thursday morning were astir. Then
they found a bed in a haystack, just
100 yards from where they had slept.
It was there Simms had slept, but he
had got a good start, being up earlier .
than they.
To the Cancochee river they traced
Simms, and there lost his track for a
time, but presently met A. Fraburn,
who told them he had seen Simms a
short while before, sitting in the yard
of a man named Parker, Simms’ fath
er-inlaw. The officers thereupon
started for Parker’s. Arrived there,
they saw no one in the yard save two
small children. Sheriff Parish divided
his force, approaching the house from
one side, while his deputies each ap
proached from another direction. AH
three arrived at the-house at the same
time, The elder of the children spied
the officers and shouting, “Willie,Wil
lieg here they come,” and ram.to the
house,
Fhe officers, not having seen Simms, |
had concluded he was off in the fields
somewhere. They entered the house,
watchful with their weapons. At the
ery of the child, Simms ever alert,
gelzed his Winchester rifie and start
ed out the rear door. Catching sight
of Sheriff Parish he fired at the officer
at a distance of less than twenty
yards. He missed, and fired but orce
more.
Deputy Gibson fired the shot that
struck Simms first, the sheriff having
fired with his rifie and missed. Simms
fell to his knees when struck by Gib
son’s shot, but the officers knew his
determination, and saw he was still
frying to work his rifle. They poured
shot after shot into him until his body
was riddled, One bullet nearly cut off
Bimms’ hand at the wrist.
Rarker came up from the fields, at
tracted by the shooting. He knew what
it- meant. He said he was surprised
Simms had not been killed before that.
It was found that fourteen shnts had
taken effect upon Simms.
A wagon was secured and Simms’
body was taken to Ellabell. The death
of the outlaw will relieve Bryan coun
ty of deep apprehesnsion, such has
been the terror of his name and of
the deeds he has committed. Sheriff
Parish is being generally commended
for his work. ’
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ROBBERS ABOARD STEAMER.
Wireless Message Calls for Detectives |
to Be in Walting. |
A wireless ‘message was rece'lvedi
In Savannah Thursday by Captain i
Savage, local agent for the Ocean
Steamship company, from Capt. Fish
er of the steamship City of Atlanta,
on. the way from New York, request
ing him to have detectives at the
dock upon the arrival of the vessel.
This was all there was to Captain
Misher’s message, but the operator
aboard the City of Atlanta informed
the Savannah operator that there had
heen robbers aboard the vessel since
her departure from New York, several
passengers having lost valuables.
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS MEET.
Platform Principally Devo*ed to Re
strictlon of Negro Suffrage.
At the democratic state convention
of Maryland, which was held in Bal
timore, Comptroller of the ‘State Af
kins was renominated end a platform
1 adopted, which, excepting a para
graph indorsing the administration of
the present governor, is wholly de
voted to the propo=ed constitutional
amendment to restrict negro-suffrage,
which will be voted upon at the No
vember election,
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1905.
Big Bull Pool Has Millions of
Ready Cash,
A GIGANTIC COMBINATION
Monied Men to Stand With Cotton
Growers of South in Raising the
Price—Condition of the Crop
Shows Decline,
Frank B. Hayne, the noted cotton
bull operator, returning to New Or
leans Sunday, after a three months’
absence on the floor of the New
York cotton exchange, declared that
the bull pool now operating to raise
the price of cotton is the richest pcol
ever organized in America,’ and Is
amply able to do what it has set out
to accomplish.
Hayne’s statements regarding the
pool have» broken the mystery which
surrounded the new aggregation which
expects to put cotton at the top notch.”
Heretofore the greatest secrecy has
been maintained regarding every de
tail of the pool’s personnel and
movements, and even Mr. Hayne was
not ready to give the whole “matter
to the public.
He stated, however, that the pool
wag not composed of southern men,
although many New Orleans men, he
declared, are very bullish on cotton.
Mr. Hayne would not admit that he
wag in the pool himself, but stated
that his ideas were in line with the
ideas of those in the deal, which
was that cotton is cheap at the pres
ent price, and that during no month of
the coming year will the staple seil
for less than 10 cents,
~ Hayne estimates the crop at 10,500,
000 bales. The demand, he says, will
‘ be enormous. :
| Crop Conditions Show Decline,
In its montkly cotton crop report
Saturday the New York Journal of
Commerce makes the condition of cot
ton on September 24, as computed
from the replies of over 1,000 corre
spondents, 69.4, compared with 72.4
a month ago, or a decline of 3 points.
This compares with a condition of
69.9 for the ecorresponding report in
1904, 67.8 In 1903 and 64.7 in 1902.
A three points decline is an ex
ceedingly moderate one for Septem
ber, the decrease for the past four
years as reported by the Journal of
Commerce being 7.5 in 1904, 11.8 @
1908, 6.3 in 1902 and 6.7 in 1901.
Moderate deterioration occurred in
all states, except in. Florida and OKkla
homa Territory.
Florida shows an increase of 0.4
points to 73.6, and Oklahoma an in
crease of 1.1 to 82.7.
WOMAN’S AIM WAS BAD.
General Passenger Agent of “Katy
Flyer” Route the Target.
Not since the Blair defalcation has
St. Louis society been so shocked
as By the attempt of Mrs. Lillian
Sprague, a society ,woman, to kill
Gieorge Morton, the general passen
ger agent of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, ‘Mrs. Sprague fired
twice at Morton shortly after . mid
night PFriday in Monrton's automobile
shed in the rear of his residence.
Recently Mrs. Sprague’s husband
obtalned a divorce from her, nanring
Morton as correspondent. ,
Regarding her attempt to kill Mor
ton, Mrs. Sprague says:
‘I tried to force him to talee me
~home, 'and he struck me. He was
furious. { thought he intended to
'murder me. As I struggled from the
‘ground, I remembered the pistol amd
idrcw it. I fired twice at him. 1
then ran. I was crazy with pain, hu
lmiliation and fear.” ;
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1 College Honors Peace Envoys.
;‘ The honorary degree of doctor of
Llaws has been conferred by Columbia
University on Baron Komura and Ser
gius Witte, the senior peace plenipo
gtentiaries of Japan and Russla.
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! HITCHCOCK FAVORS PUBLICITY. |
!Secretary of Interior Expresses Him»l
? self as to Campalgn Contributions,
| Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock,
’ in speaking of campa-3n contributions,
| said in an interview at Washington
| Tuesday:
i “I have all along been opposed to
lsecret contributions, and 1 am in fa
| vor of .passing a law compelling full
| publicity of campaign expenses. The
| secrecy glven to the campaign contri
butions is apt to lead to undesirable
iresults and cause suspicion. If con
tributions are legitimate there is noth
l ing to be feared through publicity.”
PACKERS TURNED DCWN.
Lost Contention in Court Through
Judge’s Decision Against Their °
Plea in Abatement.
At Chicago, Friday, Federal Judge
Otis J. Humphrey sustained the de
murrer filel by United States District
Attorney Morrison to the plea in
abatement made by packers to have
indictments for alleged restraint de
elared void. Judge Humphrey said he
made his deeision on broad grounds
without taking into consideration
technicalities which the government
advanced against the plea in abate
ment., 5
It i 8 likely that the jumy for the
trial will be drawn about the middle
of October,
After the decision had been given
the defending attorneys tried to
amend the ‘fourth plea by the inser
tion of the word “for.” This met
with resistance from the district at
torney, put the court promised that
if the law was clear on the point he
would ailow it. The government 18
said to fear a trick in the insertion
of the one word. The distriot attoe
ey moved that the defendamts plead
to the indictment.
One of the points in the pleading
which attracted eonsiderable atten
tion and which the court declared had
glven him some difficulty was in re
gard to the right.of Judge R. H,
Bethea to leceive the return of the
indictment. It was argued by the de
fense thay he was sitting in the east
ern division of the northern district
of Illinois and received an indictment
voted in the morthern division of the
northern district of aulinois.
The district attorney declared that
#f the law of March 381, 1805, was
construed against his ' contentions
there was no court, no judge and mo
return of the indictment. The count
surprised almost every one when he
reaq from President Roosevelt’s mes
sage in the Congressional Record of
last November in which it is declar
ed that Judge Bethea was appoipted
as a successor to Judge C. C. Kohl
saat, promoted from she distriat court
to the circuit court.
This promotion gave Judge Bethea
the right to accept the return of an
indictment in the old district.
SEABOARD’'S VALUE FIXED.
State of Georgia Gets No Raise in
Findings of Arbitrators,
Two boards of arbitration made
their reports Friday to the comptrol
ler general of Georgia, fixing the val
uations upon which the Southern rail
way and the Seaboard Air Line will
have to pay taxes on their property
in the state for 1905.
As a result of these arbitrations tha
Sontherr railway will pay taxes on
$1,454,843 more than in 1904 while
the inerease in the Seaboard’s valua
tion over 1904, including the Geor
gia portion of its new line to Bir
' mingham, is only $470,151.
While the Southern has seoured a
‘ redietion in its assessment of $1,038,-
000 and the Seaboard was put down
- $1,792,000, the Atlantic Coast Line,
which was the first arbitrated, had the
comptroller general’s assessment sus
tained and must pay taxes on over
- $2,000,000 more than in 1904.
The board of arbitrators in the ease
of the Seaboard Alr Line fixed the
value of that company’s tangible
‘ property in Georgla at $7,956,5660 and
franchise at $1,500,000, a total of $9:
' 456,560.
From this finding Railroad Commis
‘sioner Warner Hill, representing the
} gtate, dissents most emphatically and
}is preparing a dissenting opinion in
' which he states his views. He will
bring out the fact that a representative
of the raflroad company swore in the
Uniteq States court last Novembor
that the Seaboard’s property in Goor
gla was worth $30,108,000. Mr. Hill
' says he cannot see how a property
| can he worth such an amount as this
for the purpose of paying interest and
dividends, when it is worth only a
little more than seven millions for ¢he
purpose of taxation,
SUSPECT TAKEN IN TOW,
First Arrest in Boston Dress Suft
Case Murder Mystery.
The first arrest in connection with
the finding in the harbor near Win.
throp, Mass., on September 21, .of a
dress suit ease, containing the torso
of a woman on whom the medical ex
aminer states an illegal operation had
been performed, occurred Sunday
when the police took into custody oa
suspicion of being an accomplice in
the case Willilam A. Haynes of 52
Chambers street, West End, Boston.
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GEORGIA NEWS
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Epitomized Mems of Interest
-~ (Gathered at Random.
Graves Announces for Senate,
~ Hon, John Temple Graves of At
lanta, well kmown throughout the
country as an orator, lecturer and
journalist, formally announces him
gelf as a candidate for the United
States_senate, to succeed Hom. A. O.
Bacon. In his announcement he touch
es upon the trusts, the: "mmonal
freight rate situation, .and the doo:
trine of white supremaay. L
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Mrs. Cobb Gives Heavy Bond,
When Mrs. Amanda Cobb was, ne.
tified she had been indicted om . a
charge of murder of her husband, she
went at once to Carnesville from her
home at Roystom and a motion was
made for badl. 25 i
Ten thousand dollars was ‘qme?r
on and bond was made premptly. One
member of the grand jury‘.fpignefi:der
bond. Since the coromer's jury made
an investigation Into the death; of
W. H. Cobb, husband of Mr:.,uq'q;gp,
whom she shot and kifled on the nighf'
of August Bth, stating that she mis’
took him for a burglar, she has been
out under s7,ooo**#6nd. '
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Want New Llne“ to Savannah, ' ‘
Business men of Macon are now'
greatly interested in a proposition be
ing put forward by citizens of Tat
nall, Liberty and Toombs counties for
the building of a short line from Flem-
Ing on the Atlantic Coast Line rail
road to Vidalia, which will connect
the Atlantic Coast Line with the Ma
con, Dublin and Savananh, and thus
zive Macon and Savannah a : much
shorter route. & “d .
The territory which'4is o be -cov
ered by this proposet new line isB
said' to be one of the largest and most
heavily timbered in th’e’g state now out
of reach of railway ;rrig\c and a large
number of wealthydmeén are already
interested. . ”"’; '
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Defeats Local Taxation Movement,
The proposition to igpose a special
local tax in Putnam county for
school purposes was ‘defeated by &
small majority at an election held the
past week, according to information
received by Btate School Commission
or Merritt. There is some little sen
}timent in Putnam -county against lo
cal taxation, but it is believed this
will die away in time and that the
‘movement wiil receive the support of
a majorlty of the people.
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The Boers Are Wlith Us,
A party of fifteen Boers arrived
in Savannah one day the past weei
from New York ahoard the steamsghip
City of Atlanta. They are destined
for Helona, Ga., ‘hear which place they
are to establish a colony. f
Most of those in the party were;
formerly members gf thé Boer "i@f',or'-'
ganization, which toured the 'south
last winter, showing in Atlanta and
Savannah, among other places, and
being headed by General Cronje. |
The Boers will, it is “believed, en-‘
gage prineipally in agricultural pur-|
suits, though they make also take up
naval stores and lumbering enter
prises. |
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Father Slays His Bon, i
1. G. Graham, who resides about
three miles from DA&vidsville, shot and‘
instanlty killed his son, Gip, Sunday
afternoon, e
It is stated that Gip ‘Graham had
been drinking, and that his father
had tried to avoid a difficulty. The
son advanced on the fhther with a
knife, when the latter procyred a shot
gun and emptied its contents into the
face of the young man. The Grahams
are prominent people, tho'hthor bci‘ng
an ex-confederate veteran, ;
» $ 2 at ' g
Embezzler Comes to.,Grlef.
B. H. McDowell of Broxton, who
fled to Hot .Springfl,,A’i‘k:‘: has surgén
dered to Chief of Police.@ague, stat
ing ‘that he was formerly cashier of
tic Broxton Banking c¢mpany, and
had absconded on ,S‘éfit(»filbcr 3 with
$2,000 of the bank’s funds. ‘
A few minutes before he accosted
the officer he logt the last of the mon
ey in a gambling house. At the jal
he made a full confession of his
crime and told how he had spent the
money in exactly twenty-six days.
The Broxton Banking ¢ompany ‘is
capitalized at $25,000, and McDowell
says he took all the available cash
when he decidedq to leave. He is
23 years of age and the scion of an
old southern family, His father was
on his bond to the bad¥ for $5,000.
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Five Millions Property Increase.
The real and personal property in
NO.‘IG. : ;
the city of Atlanta, on which taxes
are paid, amoiints *to $67,502,454, as
shown by the ‘Octobet apportionment
sheet, whlohfi’firéee'fiww up
on by the finamee’ eounittée. The Oc
tober dp}imjt’idfimmt sheet in 1904
showed the redl and persomal proper
ty of the eity'to be $62,826,947.
The increase in taxable property
since last October, therefore, amamz
to $4,676,507, or borde‘rlng‘f‘@ &ve mil
lions "of dollars, .
of. the total taxable property, $52,
125,006 is real estats and $15,377,445
Tis personal. Last year in' October the
real estate amounted to $47,747,840
and the persomial property to $l5,
BTRRON . e G
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High Court Again at Work,' !
. The supreme: cotirt of Georgla con
vetied Monday for the Oct*o'bebr” term,
confronted by , perhaps the ;lgi‘gefl’
'docket in its history. There :g,‘z We
more than 400 cases on the eivil
docket, not to speak of the crimhinal
business and a number of other mat
ters in equity which will be brought
up, on fast bills of ewception during
|the term. ' £ :
s Altogether, therefore, the: supreme
court will have at least 500 cases to
deal, with during the next five mounths,
or a total of 100 cases each mwonth
between the present time and the be
ginning of the March iterm. The pres
ent OQctober docket ‘is heavier by
about' fifty cases than that of last
year. o e :
$ ‘B% & . s i
Woman Released on Habeas Corpus.
ThHe commitment trial at Newton
of Mrs, Cordelia Milner under the
warrant sworn out egainst her by her
son, Quentine Milner, charging he#
with the murder of her hwsband and
his flather, Raleign Milner, did not
materialize on the date fixed for the
hedaring.
2 Mrs. Milner's attorney suceeeded in
obtaining @ ruling of the court that
Mrs. Milner had already had one com
mitment trial end bees' &ischarged.
This ‘was when the easd was firs; i»-
vestigated and' Quentine Milner bound
over, The point madé'wds that the
court eouldn’t try her again for the
same offense; that she might, if tried
again, be tried every day following if
a new warrant were issued. It was ar
gued that the question of newly dis
covered evidence Aaid met affeet the
case,
The attorneys, after. securing the
court’s’ ruling, secured habees eorpus
‘papers and obtained the woman's re-
YOUNG FORGER. IN TOILS. |
Mystéry of Robbery of $359,000 Worth
“of Securities Cleared. Up.
- By the conféssion of Henry A. Leon
ard, a young clerk in the.employ of
Hall & Stieglitz at No. 80 Broad
gtreet, New York, Monday, the mys
tery of the recent robbery of $359,000
worth of. securities from the National
Clty bank; was cleared up. . .
~.L.eonard, “who 'lives with his par
cents at, No. 568 Kast One Hundred
and Thirty-sixth street, was arrested
Sunday ,and kept in close confine
ment while the detectives continued
their gearch for the missing securi
ties, 'eyery dollar of which'.was re
covered , Mondy. . :
The prisoner, who is enly 24 years
of age, and had previously borne the
reputation of "an’ iddustrious and
thoroughly relfablg clerk, ‘made the
gs'ounding statement in “his’ confes
sionthat he had ‘planned and earried g
out his scneme 'of forgery and. rob
bery, not from any criminal motive,
but solely to show by what a simple
device “the :elaberate’’ safeguards of
New /oYrk banks’ecould’ b, set’ at
nanpght,, That this stateranezit‘ is wue,
is in.a messure corroborated by the
facts in the case, ands’the belief of
the young man’s ‘employérs by’ whom
he was highly.estimated. '’ -° ‘.
Boon after, the, theft Leonard mail
ed a package. contalinng *§800:000 in
.securities ;to the, residence of! Dyer
‘Peafl, a sepiop. member of th® firm
‘of Pearl & Co. by whom they were
9Wped, The package was rgceived by
MY, ‘PEAr] ‘Bunday. . vy spett 8
“""Mc'?pddy ‘Leopard’s - fathers ‘tyrned
ovér to the police the rempindes, $59,-
1000, 1n stocks ‘gnd, hangds.. which, he
sald, had been ’fohg& u‘;;“é: robe
‘in hls “Rouse 'where n’i"ij!‘so ,mam,
after his arrest,’ he _,bad . secreted
‘them.' " * 2R
j J i R AR R
To REDUCE FEVER FIGHTERS.
1 New Orieans Wil Dispensée With Sur
i plus of Health Force.
' A New Orleans specia] says: Vg’!th
the steady improvement in the yellow
fever situation there i 8 expected to
be a gradual reduction of the forces
fnow omployed under the auspleeg of
the government in the struggle 0
oradicate the disease, = g
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