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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOL. X.
GIGANTIC SALARIES
a 4 i '
Pocket Change’ is Plentiful
With Insurance Officers.
MWCURDY GETS $150,000
Son Says Old Man Vvas Not Paid Any
, More Than He Earned—Enor- .
| A iamous Commissions Rakedm“ 4
i . in by Managers, |
Closing a week, every day of which
thas produced a sensation that has
stirred the country, the special legis
lative committee investigating the
methods of insurance companies ad
journed at 'New York Friday until
Tuesday.
In the day's testimony the sensa
tional -devzlopment tame when Mr.
Hughes demanged the pay roll of the
executive cificers of the company.
“This was-.produced, and showed tye
Salarles of these officers since 1877.
For the year 1904, President McCurdy
received $150,000; two vice presi
dents were paid $50,000 each, a see
ond vice president $17,500, the third
vice president $lO,OOO and the general
maneger $25,000, who this year will
receive $30,000, and the treasurer $50,-
009,
" Robert McCurdy sald he never
knew the salary of his father until
Friday, when he heard it read in the
‘committee room. He thought, how
ever, that there should be no limit
to the salary of such positions, be
cause they should be in accordance
with the accumulations of the com
‘pany.
Wihien asked if it was any benefit
to the policy holders to increase the
president’s salary, Mr. McCurdy said
he thought the trustees had comsid
ered that when they increased the
president’s salary, No increase, how
ever, had ever been considered when
he was present at the trustees’ meet
img.
Mr. McCurdy said he did not know
‘what Mr. Thebaud received from the
business, and had never talked with
him about his personal affairs. Ho
sald it was a “large reward for largh
achievements,” ang that all business
of large magnitude were built upon
that principle.
The statement of large commissions
paid to the managers of the Mutual
Life’s agencies in the foreign depar:-
ment and its city agency do not sur
prise people who are familiar with
the immense amount of the total
business transacted by the great life
vompanies, In 1904 the sum paid for
commissions on first year’s business
was in the Mutual Life $6,558,867. In
the Equitakle $3.312,027, and in the
New York Life $7,276,853, or a total
of $17,147,748. As was explained to
the legislative committee, in life in
surance, as in every other business
in America, there are large rewards
for great and successful work. The
new business in 1904 of these com
panies amounted to $865,397,387.
SIXTEEN NEW FEVER CASES.
Was Friday’s Record in Pensacola.
Outlook is Rather Gloomy.
Friday’s report showed little change
in the fever report at Pensacola.. One
of the new cases is British Vice Con
sul Fnederick Bonar, who is in a
very dangerous condition.
While the outlook is anything but
bright, Dr. Porter and the health of
ficers are putting up a fine fight, and
‘have not for a minute expressed any
discouragement over the situation.
They are meeting with some oppo
sition on the part of a certain class
of citizens, who do not seem {o bhe
impressed with the importance of the
situation, but despite this opposition
they are going on with the work of
fumigation and screening.
The official fever simmary for Fri
day was as follows: New cases 16,
total cases to date 219, deaths Friday
2, total deaths to date 37, cases dis
charged 79, cases under treatment 103,
; s
COURT HELD ON TRAIN.
Novel Plan to Protect Negro Rapist
from Mob in Kentucky.
On board the same train on which
he was returned to the scene of his
alleged erime, James Fowlker, color
ed, charged with assault on a white
woman at Clinton, Hiickman county,
Kentucky, was tried, convicteq and
sentenced to seven years in the peni
tentiary.
Court was held in the baggage
coach on an Illinois Central train be
cause the authorities were afraid that
Jrowlker would be lynched if he were
“ nllowed to be taken off at Clinton,
'HUGHES DECLINES HONOR
! Thinks Acceptance of New York May
, oralty Nomination Would “Queer”
' Insurance Investigation.
| Charles Hughes, counsel for the in
| surance investigating committee, has
ldeclined the republican " nomination
‘ for mayor of New York city.
| In stating his grounds for refusing
| the nozination, Mr. Hughes said:
| “fn this dilemma I have simply to
| do my duty as I see it. In my juds
{ ment I have no right to accept the
! nomination, A paramount public duty
forbids it.
“It is mnot necessary to emnlarge
upon the importance of the insurance
investigation. This is undisputed. It
| is dealing with questions vital to the
| interests of millions of our fellow cX
| izens thyoughout the land. It presents
I an opportunity for public service sec
{ond to none and involves a co-rela
tive responsibility. This work com
mands all my energies, It is imper
ative that 1 continue it.
“The non-political character of the
investigation and its freedom from
bias either of fear or favor, not only
must exist, they must be recognized.
“Were I, with the best of inten
tions, to accept the nomination, it is
my conviction that the work of the
investigation would be largely dis
credited by the public at large; its mo
tives would be impugned and its in
tegrity assailed. To many it would
appear that its course <would be
shaped and its lines of inquiry would
be chosen, developed or abandoned as
political ambition might prompt or
] political exigency demand.
“Such a situation would be intoler
able. There is but one course open.
The legislative inquiry must proceed
with convincing disinterestedness. Its
great opportunities must not be im
perilled by alienating the support to
which it is entitled, or by giving the
slightest occasion for questioning the
sincerity and single-mindedness with
which it s conducted.
“For your expression of confidence
~I thank you, The honor you would
confer upon me I most heartily es
teem. Yoiar most generous approval
and the unanimity and enthusiasm
with which the nomination was made,
I warmly appreciate. But I have as
sumed obligations of the first import
ance, which make it impossible for
me to meet your wishes. I must,
therefore, respectfully decline the
‘ nomination.”
FUGITIVES BEHIND BARS,
greene and Gaynor Ensconced in Sa.
vannah Jail—Wives Greeted Them
on Arrival in the City.
’ The welcome of their wives await
ed Benjamin D. Greene and John F.
!Gaynor when, in the custody of a
| quartet of officers, they arrived in Sa
vannah at 6 o’clock Monday morning
'at the union station after their long
journey from Montreal.
An affectionate greeting was ex
changed between the alleged conspir
‘ ators and their wives. After a brief
| interchange the prisoners and Mar
| shals White and Doyle left in one
carriage for the Chatham county jail,
while the ladies took another for the
’ DeSoto hotel, where they are stopping.
The prisoners were not handcuffed.
I Arriving at the jail, the party had
| some trouble ‘“breaking in.” Greene
L and Gaynor commented upon this ap
| parent difficulty. Finally the marshals
| were able to make the custodians
| within hear and the gates were open
| ed, to close later to confine Greene
| and Gaynor.
J The prisoners were installed in a
| special room on the top fioor. They
| will furnish it comfortably, and every
' morning a negro barber is to appear
{to shave them. Arrangements have
}been made for them to receive their
| meals from the DeSoto. Many callers
| appeared at the jail. Among them
| was P. W. Meldrim of Garrard & Mel
| drim, attorneys, who have been en
| gaged by the prisoners. Colonel Mel
| drim gave them instructions not to
| talk, and efforts to secure interviews
| were bootless, It is said that an at
| tempt to obtain their liberty on bail
| will be made. .
i BIG JUMP IN FEVER CASES.
! Citizens’ Committee at Pensaccla Does
E Excellent Ferreting.
| The following is the summary of
fthe yellow fever situation at Pensa
| cola as given out Monday night by
| the state board of health: New cases
| 22, deaths 4, total cases 275, total
deaths 42, discharged 114, under treal.
| ment 123.
| The increase in the number of cases
| is due partly to the ingpection being
| made by 4he eitizens’ committee, who
| have volunteered their services an?
| are making a house to house inspec
! tion each day, and have so far dis
icovered many cases, which later
| proved to be yellow fever,
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1905.
TAFT WHOLE THING
[ Secretary of Warto Be Abso
lute Boss of Canal Work.
‘WILL NOT BE HAMPERED
! ———
\
! Says if Responsibility Rests on Him
~ He Must Have Free Hand—Will
Report Only to President
| * Roosevelt. ‘ .
| A Washington special says: Secre
‘tary Taft will sail on a naval vessal
from New Orleaus for Panama about
i November 1. It is not his intentioa
to remain very long on the isthmus,
his main object being to talk with
Governor Magoon and Engineer Ste
vens and to look over the situation
as it now exists in the way of comn
struction and preparation.
At the conference with the resi
dent engineer when it was declded
to leave the administration of the ca
'nal in the war department, Secretary
- Taft made it plain that if he was to
have the responsibility for the capal
" he would be supreme in its man
agement, and there would be no in
termediary between himself and the
president.
The, secretary will take absolute
charge of all the important business
transactions regarding the constride
tion and its management, operating
through the isthmian commission.
A dispatch from 'Colon says: The
members of the advisory board of the
consulting engineers of the Panama
canal devoted the whole of Monday
to an examination of the Empire-
Culebra cut, going over the ground
and inspecting the dumps and the
work already accomplished and now
in progress.
The party of engineers, at the same
time, went to Panama to re-examine
the district around Laßoca and other
matters at the Pacific terminus of the
canal. Later in the afternoon the par
ty went to the canal offices at Pana
ma, where they examined the canal
papers, charts and plans, more espeo
fally those bearing on the localities
recently visited,
All the, visitors are In good health
except that they have been annoyed
by the bites of grass lice. '
HOW SOUTH’'S COTTON IS USED.
Census Bureau Shows Production and
Distribution of Staple,
The census bureau at Washington
Monday issed a bulletin showing the
production and distribution of the eot
ton of the United States available
between September 1, 1904, and Sep
tember 1 1905, to be 14,455,994 bales.
Of this 61 per cent was exported, 30
per cent was used In domestic con
sumption, leaving g surplus of 9 per
cent. The domestic eonsumption in
cludes 36,776 bales destroyed by fire.
The exportation amounteq to 4,315,-
756 and the surplus 1,305,309, Of the
total 13,693,279 bales were inecluded
in the crop of 1904 and the remainder
in that of 1905. Of the quantity con
sumed in the United States 2,138 829
bales were used in northern and 2,
140,151 in southern mills,
In additlon to the totals, 14,469
bales of foreign cotton were importe¥
into the United States during the
year.
MRS. ROOSEVELT WITH PARTY.
President’s Wife Will Accompany
Him as Far as Atlanta,
A letter from Secretary Loeb to the
North Carolina state fair authorities
at Raleigh says that in the pdrty with
President Roosevelt on his visit to
Raleigh, on October 19, and on his
southern trip will be Mrs. Roosevelt
end maid, Secretary Loeb, Surgeom
@eneral Rixey, H. C. Latta, John L.
McGrew, John Mcllhenny, John L.
Greenway, L., 8. Brown, representa
tives of three press associations, one
photographer, two secret service men
and two messengers. Mrs. Roosevelt
will accompany the perty as far as
Atlanta.
NEGRO BHOOTS INTO CROWD.
Enraged at Ridicule He Uses Plstol
With Deadly Effect.
Wild with rage because of the ridi
cule of several small boys in front o®
the Bijou theater in Meémphis, Mon
day, an unknown negrc emptied his
revolver into a 2 mass of people. One
boy is dying, another is dangerously
woundedq and a negro girl received
slight injuries,
Several small boys greeted the ne
gro with cat-calls and obstructed his
passage. The negro became infuri
ated, and, drawing a revolver, fired at
his annoyers, He then made a hasty
flight,
.
FEVER BEYOND CONTROL ’I
Pensacola Authorities Can Only De
pend on Jack Frost to Eradicate 1
Scourge from the City.
Nineteen new cases of yellow fe
ver developed in Pensacola Sunday,
showing a large increase in the num
ber heretofore reported.
This is partially due to the rigid
inspection which was made during the
day by what is known as the citi
zens’ committee, which was appomted
Saturday, each citizen being assigned
to a block.
This inspection revealed many
cases which had nct been reported to
the physiclans. All of these cases were
among the lower class residents, but
the physicians reported several cases
which had been uhder surveillance for
several days.
The prevailing opinion {s that the
fever is beyond control, that it will
remain in Pensacola until frost. The
efforts of the doctors are now eenter
ed principally in preventing a spread
and keeping the number of cases as
small as possible.
No deaths oceurred during the day,
although there are w mumber of pa
tients in the hospltal and other places
who are likely to die.
The cobstacles thrown in the way
f the hezlth officials by ignorant
parties have prevented the former
{rom stamping out the disease and
conducting the campaign against the
mosquito as it shoula be conducted.
&S a consequence there are mow near
y one hundred cases under treatment.
Many persons have left the city
since the establishment of the deten
tion camp by the marine hospital ser
vice and more will follow, as the fe
ver seems to be spreading to all por
tions of Pensacola.
Sunday’s report, up to 6 p. m.,, was
as follows: New cases 19, total cases
to date 253, deaths none, total deaths
to date3B, cases discha.rged 88, cases
under t{reatment 126.
TO SELL SIRUP FACTORY.
Government to Give Up Experiment
Plant at Waycross, Ga.
A Washington dispatch says: Gov
ernment experiments into the pro
cess of cane sirup making have been
brought to a sensatfonal conclusion
and Secretary Wilson of the depart
ment of agriculture, ordered the sale
of the government factory built at
Waycross, Ga., three years ago.
This plant was built for the purpose
of giving a course of study to the
manufacturers of the gulf states.
These manufacturers had experienced
trouble in making sirup of uniform
color, preventing its reverting to su
gar or fermenting. A plant was es
tablished by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief
of the bureau of chemistry, and his
experimen’s proved entirely success
ful. The plant cost the government
less than $15,000 and resulted in the
improvement of an annual production
of nearly 2Gv,uoo gallons of sirup.
RETURN FUNDS OR GET OQUT.
This is Edict of Missouri to Insurance
Company President McCall,
State Superintendent of Insurance
W. D, Vandiver of Missouri has sent
a cemmunication to John A. MecCa'l
f the New York Life Insurance con.
pany, demanding that the $148,702
campaign fund contribution were plac- |
'd in the treczsury of the company |
under penalty of revocation of thr:“
company’ license to transact business
in Missourl for failure to comply with J
the demand. :
In the communication Superintend.
ent Vandiver also informs President
McCall that the Missouri department
nf insurance will insist on a new pres
ident, vice president and financia.
committee for the New York Life In- I
surance Company just as soon as the
directors can possibly effect the re- !
nrganizatiou, .
Castro Orders French Guns.
The Venezuelan government has or
dered from the Creusol works,
France, thirty batteries of field artil ‘
lery and twelve batteries of mountain |
guns, /
PRINTERS' STRIKE UNBROKEN.
| Secretary Alexander at Charlotte Is
| sues a Signed Statement.
Secretary T. M. Alexander of the
Charlotte Typographical TUnion has
glven out the following signed state
ment concerning the strike:
“The strike of union printers in
‘ Charlotte for an eight-hour day is not
getfled, anq the shops will not bhe
‘open’ antil so declared by the Inter
lnatiorml Typographical Union, which
action is not within the range of pos.
sihility. Of forty strikers, three only
lhave deserted Chadrlofte Typographi
cal Union,”
‘
Epitomized Items of Interest
- (@Gathered at Random.
Railroad May Be Extended,
It is rumored that the Midville and
Swainsboro railroad, which is now con
nected with the Augusta and Gulf at
Midville, making a through line from
Swainsboro to Augusta via Keysville,
on the Augusta Southern, will at once |
be extended to Vidalia or Higston, on
the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
* ® %
' Mcßae Remajns County Site, |
In an election held the past week
for the removal of the county site of
Telfair comnty from Mcßae to Cobb
ville, the voters decided against re
moval by 1,179 to 467. Two-thirds ma
jority was I.ecessary for removal. The
county commissioners will now pro
ceed with the erection of a §45,000
court house at Mcßae,.
** @ ;
The Quarterly Convict Fund. |
The state's receipts from convict
hire for the quarter ending Septembex
30, 1905, amount to a total of $82,-
372.17, which after the expenses of
the penitentiary department are de
ducted will be distributed to the vari
ous counties for public school pur
poses.
* & %
Will Decorate State Capitol.
Goyernor Terrell has signified his
intention of having the state capitol
in Atlanta decorated upon the occa
sion of President Roosevelt’s visit to
Atlanta, October 20. He announced on
Friday morning that ne would have al
of the bunting and flags that are
stored away in the basement of the
state house brought forth and dis
played in the breezes along the
Washington and Hunter streets sides
of the capitol,
* % %
In Long, Unbroken Line,
The University of Georgla has one
of its students this session a grea:i
great-grandson of one of the mem
bers of the first class that graduated
‘at this institution.
This young gentleman ig Willlam F.
Slaton, Jr., of Atlanta, a son of Pro
fessor Willlam M. Slaton, principal of
the Boys’ high school in that city, and
a grandson of Major W. F. Slaton, su
perintendent of the Atlanta public
schools,
Thus a member of the fifth gener
ation comes to gain knowledge at the
institution from which his ancestors
in an unbroken line have graduated
since the first class recelved their di
plomas in 1804.
- * *
Whitfield Votes Out Saloons.
The election held in Whitfield coun
ty for and against the proposition to
establish bar rooms fn Dalton result.
ed in an overwhelming majority
against the proposition, Out of a to
tal vote of about 1,504, the majority is
nearly 1,000, Every district in the
county voted against the proposition,
severa] districts not glving a single
vote for the establishment of bar
rooms,
The great surprise was in the Dal
ton district, which was conceded o
l be doubtful, or even for barrooms, but
gave a majority of 329 against the
’ proposition. This wifl settle the whis
key question, so far as the legal sale
is concerned in Whitfield county for
some time to come, as the majority
for prohibition has increased at each
succeeding election. :
£ ¥ %
Allams’ Neck Saved.
F. M. Allams, allas Charles W, Vin
ing, convicted in Coweta superior
court of the murder of his wife and
sentenced to be hanged, will not suf
l fer the death penalty.
The prison commission recommend
t ed a commutation of his sgentence to
life imprisonment, and this recommei
| dation hag leen approved by Governor
Terrell.
Allams was to have been hanged
last Friday, to which dgy he had bheea
respited by Governor Terrell in or
! der that a board of physicians might
! have time to make investigation and
pass upon Lis mental condition.
Thig board found that Allams had
not become insane subsequent to his
conviction and was not insane at the
present, though they pronounced him
weak-minded and of defective nervous
organization.
* * *
Board Fixes Central’s Value.
The board of arbitrators in the
rage of the tax valuation of the Cen
tral of Georgia railway completed its
work a few days ago, and reported
{ its award to the comptroller general,
' 18 follows:
rangible property, $13,224,070; fran
chise, $3,230,323; total, $16,454,393.
In this award the arbitration boasT
adopted the Central’s return of its
NO. 17.
tangible property, and the comptrok
ler general's assessment of the fran
chise.
The board reduced the comptroller
general’s assessment of the tangibla
property by $1,219,673, but sustained
his franchise assessment, thus making
an increase over the company’s re
turn of $402,5686. i
The Central's return in 1904 was a
total of $15,248,959. The company in
creased this return in 1905 to $16,051;
807, and the arbitrators have added
to this $402,5686, so that the valuation
of the property for taxation this year
g $1,205,434 greater than in 1904.
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Colony Town Barbecue. "
The Harvest Home barbecue at St.
George last Saturday was equal to
every anticipation, A large crowd of
people, composed of old and new set
ilers, wes present, coming in errly
from all directions. The Georgla
Southern and Florida train brought
Governor Terrell, Hon. Clark Howell,
Hon. John Temple Graves, Vice Pres
ident S. F. Parrott and Major W. L»
Glessner, land and immigration com
missioner of the Suwanee River route,
The party came as guests of the old
and new settlers in response to an in
vitation to be present and offer words
if greeting to the St, George colony.
Governor Terrell, Hon, Clark How
ell, Hon. John Temple Graves, Hon.
D. P. Rose ang Major Glessner spoke
to a large and enthusiastic audlence.
There was no savor of politics in the
gathering, nor in the sweeches. The
distinguished speakers discussed the
wonderful resources and development
of south Georgia in the last decade.
* % %
Local Taxation fop Schools. '
The growth in public opinion In
favor of public support of schools hagh
heen remarkable during the last two
decades. In the large majority of
towns in Georgia a decade ago the
most that they could show in educa
‘ ional work was private schools in pri
vate houses. These furnished oppor
lunities to many and much good was
' jone. But this was In patches, there
‘ were insurmountable obstacles that
excluded many. The public saw this
and demanded something hetter. It
has come to a settled belief that the
work can be done better and at less
cost for all those it was being done
for g part. Humanity raised its voice
in behalf of those who could not ed
ncate themselves, and the demand for
public schools has become nearly uni
versal., Some few wealthy influential
cltizens in a town may hold back the
vote of the people for a time, but
't will be only temporary. I have
known of a few of these prominent
citizens leaving a town because it
ad voted public schools and going
‘o another town without free schools.
Within two years the citizens of this
own voted a similar tax. The only
way for these prominent citizens to
escape doing their part in preparing
this generatlon for good citizenship
s to move off the earth.
The graded puble school is the cul
mination of modern thought in educa
tional work. It furnishes the bhest
methods of doing the best work at the
least cost and to the greatest num
per. Poverty offers no bar at its door;
riches can secure nothing better. High
snd low, rich and poor, all alike, drink
at the same fountain.
Over one hundréd towns In Georgia
nave voted a local tax for schools,
There are about three hundred and
fifty towns in the state. How long,
Mr. Mayor, will it be before you place
‘ your town in the list of progressive
towns and cities?
towns and cities?—J. 8. STEWART,
State University, -' . o o
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NOTED BREEDING FARM SOLD.
Attorney Dlokinson Buys Two. Thirds
Interest In Famous Belle Meade.
Judge J. M. Dickinson, general .
counsel of fin Ilnmois Central rail
road, has punßhased a two-thirds in
terest in Belle Meade farm near
Nashville, Tenn., for many years a
famous nursery for running horses,
nnder the management of the late
General W. H. Jacksom,
Judge Dickinson has also aecquirel
a lease on the other third interest,
and it is said contemplates retiring
from the law and making Belle Meade
his home at no very distant date
M'CLELLAN RENOMINATED.
Tammany Again Presents New York
Chief Executive for the Race.
Mayor George B. McClellan was re
nominated Thursday night for mayor
of New York city, for the four years’
tarm beginning January 1, next, by
the democratic city convention, eor
Tammany Hall organization,
Mr. McClellan is now rounding out
hig first term of two years, the state
legislature having recently amended’
the city charter so as to provide for
a four years’ tenure of office for of..
ficlaly of Greater New Yorl,