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x INDICTED ON PEONAGE CHARGES Federal Grand Jury Returned Indictments Against New- nan Manufacturer and Birmingham Con tractor. We Don't Lose Any Time when called on to do plumbing. Ji' you discover a leak jwiuuij. A sensation was created in Geor gia lust Friday by the action of the federal grand jury in Atlanta, in returning indictments on peonage charges against prominent manu facturers and contractors of Geor gia and Alabama. One of the gentlemen indicted was Mr. F. B. is what you want. Always get us * ole ot the It. lb < ole Mlg. <’o. ol for plumbing if you want it well this city, and another was Mr. H. done. We don’t charge high and are always ready to come. Prompt Plumbing Action immigrant labor the eastern agen cies have been practicing cruelties and deception of a character almost picturesque, they are so novel, and at the same time have been Mini - Hamming the manufacturers with whom they contract. The scheme through which the bureaus operate is as follows: Their representatives, it is said, will write to railway companies asking the names of southern em ployers in need of workmen. These names secured, the employers are informed that they can be sup plied with laborers worth from #1.50 to #2 a (layby paying the immigration bureau #3 a head for the immigrants. Scarcity of labor in Georgia and other states natur- fore.the I'nited States grand jury here. Commissioner of Incenses for New York City. John N. Bo gart. has also been appealed to by the JO or more immigrants now in Atlanta and the office of the Ger man consulate in Atlanta has re ceived complaints. W hether these three authorities will combine their dibits and aid the depart ment of justice through Attorney Russell in securing evidence is not certain, though it is regarded as probable. More than this, however, the I employers of immigrant labor in Georgia arc becoming aroused over the alleged graft and arc determin ed to end it should it be proved to exist. Manufacturers claim that Have You Noticed That I have 1 mi It ;) hit ge addit ioi tc my honsi , •> We II I have ; and tl at n eans l Min hi re to stay, and in u ill r to carry t 111' St’OI •k in ‘cess; ir\ to do a pr« s pero ns In si in >ss had to liavt room I . m ree >i v in g new goods ■Y( rv day and ean sn PI dv your w mts. Si e sonu <) f the i im 1 carry Parlor Furniture, Bed-Room Furniture, ing Room Furniture, Kitchen Furniture, ture Frames, Mijrors, Window Shades, tings, Wall Paper. • Din- Pic- Mat- W. L. SEXTON. The New nan Plumber. New Arnall Building. T. M. MARTIN Does nil kinds of L. Ziegler of the T. C. Thompson A Bros. Construction Co. of Bir mingham, the contracting concern which is erecting the big mills on the Central Railroad for the New- nan Cotton Mills Co. The indict ments are based on the relations of Phone 16I> these gentlemen as employers of _ immigrant laborers, and grew out of differences between the Cole Mfg. Co. and u number of German laborers recently employed to work in their shops here. Details of the sensation, gleaned from the Atlanta papers, are as follows: ally leads the employer to jump at at the time they are most in need Hi is chance, a contract is closed of German and Sweetie labor to take and then the alleged graft begins i the place of worthless black labor full blast. Agents for the bureau their source of supply is being cut 1 also do up-to-date undertaking, ai is at the disposal of my customers. I my line Funeral Car ()ur prices are right. DEPOT 8T. E. O. REESE,. NEWNAN, 6A, Tin Work, Roofing Plumbing and Repairing. Expert work and low prices wiu. Shop op posite Pinson Hotel. BtKHnnJOifOInfOImOInrOlni.lOinlCnnlUii^lqpi'jllSjflDiigGiS^ DR. T. B. DAVIS. Residence Telephone No. 5-3 Cells. DR. W. A. TURNER. Residence Telephone No. 64. Drs. Davis & Turner Physicians and Surgeons Newnan, Georgia. Offices in Sanatorium Building, corner College and Hancook streets. Tele phone No. 6-2 oalls. Z. Greene, 1). D. 8., Office on Second Floor of Black! Bros. Co.’s Building L. M. Farmer, LAWYER. From Saturday’s Atlanta Journal. Five indictments for peonage against well known manufacturers were made, by the United Htates grand jury Friday afternoon as an outcome of a special investigation which Assistant Attorney General Charles Russell, of the Department of Justice at Washington, has been holding in Atlanta by order of President Roosevelt. Those in dicted are: F. B. Cole, of Newnan, one bill; Jean Reinhold, two bills; H. L. | Zeigler, who is connected with the Thompson Company, operating at Newnan, two bills. The investigation from which they resulted began in allegations brought by a number of German immigrants who were induced south by the Southern Immigra tion Bureau, of New York, on promise of being given work in a furniture factory at Newnan, operated by the R. I). Cole Com pany, and another by the Thomp son Company, with headquarters in Alabama, but operating at New nan. The laborers charge that when they left their employers lie- cause the work and wages were not as represented, they were for cibly brought back and threatened with imprisonment should they again attempt to leave. No bills were returned against who style themselves “commission ers of immigration for Georgia,” and thereby convey the impression that they hold government or state offices, go into the congested dis tricts of New York and tell stories to the immigrants just arrived of the big wages and easy work open to them in the south. “You will he furnished transportation,” says the agent to the immigrant, “which you can pay back in little sums after you reach your employ er’s place in Georgia. Your work will be indoors and light. It will all cost you practically nothing.” oil’by the unscrupulous immigra tion bureaus whose methods result in the foreigners becoming pre judiced against the South and re fusing to come here. Speaking of the situation V. II. Ivriegslmber, president of the At lanta Terracotta Works and him self a believer in immigrant labor, said Saturday morning: “The Georgia manufacturer is eager for immigrants of the right kind and they may la; counted up on to do everything possible tp make conditions here such as will appeal to the sturdy foreigners NEWNAN MARBLE WORKS J. E. ZACHARY, Proprietor. In some instances, it is believed, i who will make homes where they the southern employer is implicat- ttre woll > families and Office on Second Floor of the Arnall; Brewster and Merchandise Co.’s Building J ’ Dr. C. A. Smith, VETERINARIAN. Treats all diseases of domestic animals Oalls answered day or night. Office at Gearreld’s Livery Stable. M. F. Cole. it is generally believed that the investigation which has just cul minated is only the beginning of a thorough probing ol’ immigrant la bor conditions in Georgia and | neighboring states. There are other cases, it is said, which make the Cole and Thompson situations look pale and which when un earthed will startle the state and , add even stronger impetus to the ed and in many he has, at least technically, violated federal and state law. This arises chictly in the following manner: The immi grant’s railroad fare from New York to Georgia, which is about #15, is advanced by the local manufacturer, or mill owner, the immigrant 1 icing expected to repay in weekly installments. When therefore the foreigner leaves at the end o<’ the lirst week or the | first few days, the employer will in some cases detain him, even have him arrested afal juiled on the ground that his debt of #15 ad vanced for transportation has not been paid. In this way it is gen erally believed a number of the re cent indictments in Georgia have come uhout, the forcing of a man to work involuntarily for the pay ment of an alleged debt being peonage. It is, nevertheless, contended that the source of trouble for im migrant and employer is the fake immigration bureau, for this agency, it is alleged, deceives both the parties who are brought to snivel ing, by a misrepresentation of the kind of work to be done on the one hand and on the other become American citizens. We can’t afford under present condi tions to alienate immigrant labor. We need them. We must see that they are well treated mid given full justice.” Not all immigration bureaus, it is believed, are practicing graft, though their mini tier is alleged to lie large. From Sunday’* Atlanta Constitution. F. B. (’ole, of the R. 1). Cole Company, of Newnan, and II. L. Ziegler, of the T. C. Thompson & Bros. Construction Company, l»oth of whom are under indictment in the United States court for peon age, voluntarily came to Atlanta yesterday morning, and gave lamtl in the sum of #2,000 each,two true hills having I men returned against each of them. Iteinhohl, the third person against whom two indict ments were returned, is agent of the Southern immigration bureau, and is said to be at its headquar ters in New York. It is not probable that these cases will be brought to trial until the March term of the court in At lanta, at which time Assistant At torney General Charles Russell Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds of marble and granite. 6E0R6IA S MARBLE A SPECIALTY All work guaranteed to be first class in every particular. t 1’arties needing anythin; in our line are recpiested to call, examine work and get prices. IRON FENCE 0FIALUKIN08 FOR 8ALE NEAR THE RAILROAD JUNCTION OFFICE AND WORKS NEWNAN, GEORGIA For CaKe Baking We furnish the particular housekeeper with every thing needed for the baking of cakes—from Hour to fruits and nuts. Everything is fresh and of the finest quality. We have just opened up a fresh shipment of all kinds of nuts, seeded and layer raisins, currants, citron, etc. Good cooks can bake good cakes from the materials we furnish. Again we call attention to our canned goods stock. We sell everything canned by American and foreign canneries. No limiter what you want in tinned products, we have it. This department is one of our largest and liest, and receives con stant and careful attention. Asa result, goods of high quality are always obtainable at this store. c. P. STEPHENS S CO. Telephone No. 31. hand, of the kind of workmen to j will return to.Atlanta to aid in the be supplied and their expectations, conduct of the prosecution. For every immigrant the bureau ; ■ sends to Georgia it collects #3. Toj lincerinc cold find 50 men HELP IS OFFERED TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE We earnestly rrqueat all younsr pereons. r.o^nattet- wa y e i n < l i tfliatio 11 HOW lisinti' ill how limited their meanB or education, who wish to ■ ^ ” It is fact, that the obtain a thorough liuninesaU-aininKand fcood po:i>- , - Georgia against peonage lion, to write by first mall lor our great half-rate v H in offer. Sudcesp, independence uni I probable fortune arc guarantee-?. Don’t delay. Write today. The Ga.-Ala. Business College, Macon, Ca. Andrew Jenkins, highly possible, in two companies already indicted have committed technical rather than actual breaches of the law. This, of course, will be established Clarence Ilollis, j:\r practical painters: Don’t pay #1.50 a gallon for canned at the future trial. oil, which ought to cost but 60 cents u gallon. Ready-mixed paint is half oil and half paint. Buy oil fresh from the barrel and add it to the L & M. Paint A sensational exposure of graft, which is semi-mixed. that Q f an alleged fake immigration From Sunday's Atlanta Journal. When you buy L. & M. Paint you get .. , ,, * „ ... „„ bureau, is expected to lollow the a full gallon of paint that won t wear ... olf for 10 or 16 vears, because L. &M. indictments ten peonage letuined Zinc hardens rhe L. & M. White Lead Friday by the United Htates grand and makes L. & M. Paint wear like iron, jury at Atlanta. 4 gallons L. & M. mixed with 8 gal- R ea ] responsibility for the out rages alleged by the 30-odd Ger- a morning in a con gested district of New York is thought to bo an easy task and so the lucrative returns of the prac tice become apparent. The bottom of the trouble and of the wrong seems to lie in the fact that the iini|iigration agents lead fairly well educated Germans to expect that they arc to find at the other end of the line work such as they have been accustomed to do in the old country, furniture mak ing, carpentering or other skilled manual labor occupation. Theodore Kroeger, one of the immigrants now in Atlanta, testifies that he was given what a New York bureau alleged to be a contract guaran teeing him work in a furniture factory at Newnan. The Withstood Other Treatment But Quickly Cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. "Lust winter 1 untight a very severe cold wliiuli lingered for weeks," says.I UrquIilU't, of Z pliyr, Ontario. "My cough wns very dry and harsh. Thu lo cal dealer recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and guaranteed it, so I gave itatjjal. One small bottle of it cured me. I believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to he the I, st I liavi ever used.” This remedy is for sale hv Peniston (V Lee, Newnan, On. Sewing Machines at Slaughtered Prices. At the Presbyterian Church. lous linseed oil will paint a moderate 81i Act^HostL. &M. about $1.20 per man immigrant laborers now here g a H on . does not lie, it is said, at the door Sold in the North, East, South and of the Georgia and Alabama manu- West. faeturers who were indicted, but C. 8. Andrews. Ex-Mayor, D«.bur£ a iiumber 0 f New Conn., writes: "Painted my lionse li) . . years ago with L. & M. Looks well to- * °rk immigration agencies who by day.” Sold by false representations unknown to ALEXANDER POPE, the Georgia employers inveigled Newnan, Ga. j f ore jg ne rs to the Booth and then shifted the blame. Dr. R. E. Foster and family, of According to statements made Next Sunday morning and even ing the Presbyterian pulpit of this city will be occupied by Rev. \V. P. McCorkle, I). 1)., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Sa vannah. Dr. McCorkle is one of bogus the foremost Presbyterian divines contract was read to him by an in of the State and is an eloquent and terpreter lor the bureau and he; impressive preacher. All mem- and his comrades accepted it in lairs of the Presbyterian church good faith. On reaching Georgia, are urged to attend both services. | however, he found, as he says, it The public will be cordially weJ- to be false. loomed. What will lHi the first steps tak- ______ en against the alleged fake agen- Dr. Converse at Turin, cies cannot be definitely learned, _____ though it appears that they will j Dr. Thomas K. Converse, editor 100 machines, guaranteed to do good work, going at $5 each. 25 machines, good as new but slightly defaced, going from $10 to $25 each. All drop head ma chines. Reduced prices for cash or on easy terms. Singer Sewing Machine Company M. L. DUKE, Man. West Side Square Newnan, Georgia A Good Liniment. When yon need a good reliable lini- come from, several different direc : j of the Southern Presbyterian of me,lt tr y Cbamberl-dn’s Pain Balm • w i but nn unriorinr fnr unroinu and uuiolli It tions. First ol all the matter has Atlanta, has an appointment to ISharpsburg, visited relatives in j Saturday morning by Atlanta men | experienced in the emolovmpnt nf been brought to the attention of Assistant Attorney General Chas. Russell, who is now in Atlanta, and who conducted the examina tion of witnesses in the recent in- VMH(/aflAn A<’ ollnrtnA t:: preach at Turin Presbyterian church next Sunday. Dr. Con verse is 1 one of the ablest men of this denomination and will be heard with great interest by the has no superior for sprains and swellings. A piece of flannel slightly dampened with Pain Balm is superior to a plaster for lame back or |mins in the side or chest. It also relieves rheumatic pains mid makes sleep and rest, possible For sale by Peniston & Lee, Newnan, Ga. REGISTRATION NOTICE. — 1 . -a* rn Money to loan on real estate at 7 tier The city registration books are now open in the clerk’s office at the city hall andjeitizens who wish to qualify for the city election, to l>e held Saturday, Dec. 1st, 1D0«, are required to register. Please register early and avoid the l ush.