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The Irwin County News.
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A. G.‘ DtLOACH, Eiitor and Pronrielor.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
BITS OP NEWS GATHERED PROM
OVER THE STATE, ,
■
P Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings Prom Day to Day. ,)
The pear crop in Georgia this year
is tho largest on record. It is esti¬
mated that it will exceed 300,000 bar¬
rels.
Alex Johnson, a thrifty negro of
Washington county, had liis barn
burned this week, together with five
bales of cotton and 400 bushels of corn.
It is reported that his brothepi applied
the torch while Alex was at church.
The city of Marietta has granted
the Marietta paper manufacturing
company, which has recently been
made a stock company with a paid up
capital of $150,000, the franchise for
putting in a complete systom of water¬
works, which will bo owned and oper¬
ated under the .game management. >. 'i
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Michigan is in line and will show up
at the Atlanta exposition op December
9tk with 1,000 citizens. A recent let¬
ter to Chief Walter Cooper tne'chath- told of,a
mass meeting in Detroit at
ber of commerce. Committees were,
appointed from that body and from the
Commercial Club. Special trains have
been arranged for and all state officials
will come to the show, in fact Michi¬
gan will bo out in force.
The legislature will adjourn bn
Wednesday, December 11th. There,
^ire only a few more working days,and
there is a vast amount of business on
hand to be disposed of: A large
amount of business has been transact¬
ed, but tho most of it was local in its
nature. The legislature has its work
well in hand, however, and.a.groat
deal of business can be transacted in
the short time now remaining.
The following directors were elected
at vhe recent stockholders’ meeting of
the Savannah and Western road : H.
B. Plant, R. G. Erwin, M. Ip Jessup,
H. M. Flagler, B. F. Newcpnjer and
J. II. Estill. Tho report ’ showed
earnings of $3,560,457 atfd expenses of
$2,490,892, leaving net earni-ng'i of
$1,069,565. This is a decrease of
$200,000 from last year,)-. i'W-hen the
directors meet officers will be elected
and a dividend of two per cent will be
declared.
i
Thanksgiving, as everybody knew,it
would be, proved doubly the greatest
day of the Atlanta exposition. it'^fo.' Tt Every
thing conspired to make was
a day of unalloyed glory. A perfect
day, a tremendous multitude,. ppcLa
great show were the three eleineuts'-in
the make-up of the great gala day of
the fair. The turnstiles registered ex
octlp 60,454 admissions.*' This is the
largest assemblage of humanity which
ever gathered in the south in times of
peace in one place in one day. There
is no other town in the south , tuat
could have done it.
Bev. Dr. W. U. Murklaud, the lead¬
ing Presbyterian divine of Baltimore,
has accepted the be invitation the of jGover- Mary¬
nor Brown to orator, of
Dr. land Murkland day at the is Atlanta; of the eipqjjiticih.
one moRt'prom¬
inent ministers in Maryland and is an
eloquent speaker. His-vcOBimg: iuier^st'i'iif will
add a great deal to the the
Maryland day exercises. The people
of Baltimore are goffig to swoop down
on Atlanta and capture, the exppgi'tion
on set December asido by the 6th. exposition Thpt day .-directors .hq^been
as Baltimore Day and Mafyhln'd Day.
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$350,()PH'Wjis,fUed.at i-It' -;v
A mortgage for
Atlanta a few.days ago fop record by
Messrs. King & Spalding, as attorneys
for The the mortgages Atlanta Railyvay given to Company. the Balti
were
more Guarantee and Trust Company
and covers property Company. belonging to the
Atlanta Railway There are
in all seven hundred mortgages,
each for the sum of five hundrbd dol¬
lars. They bear 5 per cent, interest
and are due on the 1st and of the .Septejmber, principal
1895. The interest
is to be paid in gold qf ; the^ present
standard weight and finenes.
A Washington dispatchLkpy? : Sena¬
tor Bacon, ex-Speaker .Crisp, and
Representatives Russell* Bartlett and
Livingston are the only members of
.,he Georgia delegation' yuY-to piit in.
m appearance at the capital. The
t-X-speaker arrived Friday mornin'g
und has taken his old apartments at
'he Metropolitan and’ Representative
Bartlett, who came with him, is there
until he can decide on a definite place
of residence for himself and family.
Russell and Livin^slon have taken •
their old quarters. Senator Bacon has
rented a suite of apartipents on Six¬
teenth street for the present.
’The convention began its work Mon¬
day morning with five articles, four
ordinances and a few resolutions still
SYCAMORE. IRWIN COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6,1896.
open to be acted upon on second and
third reading. There was not very
much accomplished during the morn¬
ing session, however, in the way of
clearing the calendar of the matter
upon it. Thore was a final scramble
to get Seabrook .and Rock Hill coun¬
ties provided for, but after an inter¬
esting debate the whole thing was
killed, amendments, ordinances and
all. 'The ordinance to provide for
putting tho counties on cash basis also
died, after quite a fight.
New Jersey Day at the exposition
will bo Thursday, December 5th. Gov¬
ernor Werts, of New Jersey, named
that day as New Jersey’s at the expo¬
sition. The matter will be worked up
by the commission appointed by the
governor to represent the state, Ar
rangements are being made to run a
special train, to leave New York early
in the morning, The railroad fare
frogi New York on the excursion has
been made $20 for the round trip. No
special program for the day has been
prepared yet. It is expected that Gov¬
ernor Werts and his staff, with an es¬
cort of the national guard, will acoom
pauy the party.
The Nobles case will be heard in the
supreme court within the next twenty
five days. 1 A clay or two ago Attorney
Marion Harris for Mrs. Nobles, and
Attorney 1 John R. Cooper for Gus
Fambles, sent to the clerk of the supe¬
rior court of Twiggs county the bills
of exceptions in those cases. The
clerk has to forward these to the su¬
preme court within fifteen days and
the supreme court has then ten days
within which to hear argument. Mrs.
Nobles is not in good health and it is
declared that her confinement is under¬
mining her strength. The attorneys
expect to secure new trials for both of
their clients.
The Beresford ease will again be
submitted to Governor Atkinson in a
few days. When the legislative com¬
mittee on penitentiary affairs visited
Kramer recently the members were
waited tfipon by two delegations, one
consisting of ladies of Kramer, the
othfer composed of Mr. G.Y. Gress,Dr.
Powell, camp physician,Captain Price,
of the camp, and the heads of the de¬
partments of the Gross Lumber Com¬
pany. Mr. Gress spoke in compli¬
mentary terms of Beresfiord’a conduet,
and stated his belief in the man’s in¬
tention to amend his ways. The peti¬
tion, which was signed by many citi¬
zens of Kramer, was read to the com¬
mittee by Dr. John F. Powell, camp
physician.
By the judioious expenditure of the
money appropriated to the agricul
s tural department, Colonel Nesbit, the
commissioner, has saved $4,000 to the
state and has that much on hand. It
is a rare thing that an office does not
expend all that is given to it. Colonel
Nesbit has saved it, though, and he
now suggests that as it was saved in
the farmers’ department of the state
that they should receive the benefit of
it, and he therefore suggests that the
legislature give it to complete the sur¬
vey of the swamp lands in Georgia.
Senator Mercer will therefore have a
resolution introduced to that effect,
that he tpay have the means of carry¬
ing out his scheme to drain the swamp
lands with the convicts at the expira¬
tion of their lease.
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The exposition (directors have been
asked by some of the foreign commis¬
sioners to make a special jury of
awards for the foreign exhibits at the
exposition and the request js now in
the hands of President Collier and
other officials of the fair to be, acted
upon. Their request indicates that
they are dissatisfied with the action of
the jury of awards and they are anx
ipus to have another trial in a contest
Tor gold medals an,d diplomas. The
request sent to the board of directors
Was signed by Dr. Niederlin, commis¬
sioner from the Argentine Republic,
Commissioner General Macchi and
other exhibitors in the foreign sec¬
tion. They intimate in the paper that
the board did hot award as many med¬
als in their department as they should
have given and they are anxious to
have the directors appoint another
board who will make another inspec¬
tion of what the foreigners have on
exhibition.
Charged with Fraud.
Irvin Milam, a well known citizen
of Meriwether county, was tried be¬
fore Commissioner Broyles at Atlanta,
for using the United States mail to
defraud. Ho was bound over to tho
circuit court at Columbus, and gave a
five hundred dollar bond.
The evidence showed that Milam
bought a quantity of goods from John
B. Daniels, a druggist of Atlanta, and
to obtain the goods represented him¬
self to be worth a certain amount of
money, He also signed his father’s
name to the orders, it is charged.
Upon investigation by the postoffico
inspector, it was found that Milam was
not worth anything, it is claimed, and
that all the property belonged to liis
father. The inspector thinks by the
time of the trial ho will have much
more evidence going to show that Ir
vin Milam has been engaged in simi¬
lar swindling enterprises before.
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abonnd.”
TRADE TOPICS.
Business for the I'ast Week Was Rather
Discouraging.
Bradstreot’s review of trade condi¬
tions for the past week says: *
“The volume of general trade shows
a falling off compared with tho preced¬
ing week, largely owing to the inter¬
vention of the Thanksgiving holiday,
but in part to the continued effect of
mild weather east and south, storms in
the central west and the usual disin¬
clination of buyers to add to stocks
during the closing month of the year.
“Western jobbers report activity,
noticeably in clothing, woolen goods,
rubbers, shoes and holiday specialties,
with some, increased demand for coal
and light hardware.
“General trade remains unchanged
at the south, with mercantile collec¬
tions in some instances improving, the
tendency of cotton to move slowly and
the movement of merchandise smaller
than in October. Texas merchants
report a fair movement of notions and
fancy goods, but a check to distribu¬
tion of groceries and dry goods.
“There are 288 business failures re¬
ported through the United States this
week, a noticeable falling off from tho
total one week before—323—and even
when compared with the total one year
ago—307.
“The most striking industrial fea¬
ture is the continued reaction in prices
in iron and steel, Bessemer pig being
off 25 cents and steel billets fractional¬
ly lower, with reactions in prices for
wire, sheets and other forms. There
is little likelihood of an increased de¬
mand or a reversal of the price move¬
ment prior to the middle of January.
There is an improved demand for
boots and shoes at Baltimore, Chica¬
go and St. Louis, ns well as at some
New England* manufacturing centers,
while at Philadelphia the demand is
not so conspicuous as previously.
“Dry goods are quieter with the
continued unseasonably mild weather
and the revival of the holiday trade.
The strength of cotton maintains the
price of cotton goods.
“Stock speculation at New York is
waiting for the meeting of congress
and for the beginning of tha agitation
over the currency which is considered
probable at this session.
Bank Clearings Decreased.
“Bank clearings throughout the Uni¬
ted States amounted to $880,000,000
this week and reflect rather more than
the customary falling off incidental to
Thanksgiving week, the decrease as
compared wifh the preceding week
amounting to 23 per cent.
“The general tendency of the prices
of staples continues in line with that
shown in two or three preceding
weeks—a clear majority of those
usually quoted showing decreases as
compared with the week before
notably various forms of steel and
iron, including wire, hides, live stock,
wheat, flour, Indian corn, oats, pork,
lard, coffee, petroleum and print
cloths. Practically unchanged quota¬
tions are announced for lumber, coal,
leather, naval stores, leaf tobacco, su¬
gar and wood. The more conspicuous
advances appear to be confined to
wheat, Jc a bushel; cotton, Jo a pound
and some of the cheaper grades of pa¬
per stock fractionally.”
TOBACCO IS THE TALK.
E’armersof the State are Much Inter¬
ested in tho Weed.
The recent meeting at Ocala to dis¬
cuss the question of tobaefio growing
was well attended by the farmers from
Marion county and several from bor¬
dering counties. General Bullock
called the meeting to order and stated
its object. Captain J. B. Johnston
made an interesting address, showing
what had been done in Florida in the
way of growing tobacco.
Professor Moodie followed, and
showed how he succeeded and explained
why ho failed at first. He explained
about fertilizers and the attention
needed. He said tobacco properly
grown and curpd brought a good price,
but poo-t tobacco was not worth any¬
thing except for fertilizer. Many ques¬
tions were asked Professor Moodie,
which he answered to the satisfaction
of questioners.
Then a permanent organi sation was
effeoted by making County Commis¬
sioner F. A. Teague chairman and D.
S. Williams secretary. A committee
of one member from each commis¬
sioner’s district was named to secure
signers to an agreement to plant a cer¬
tain amount of tobacco. Fully one
hundred signed. The F. C. & P. rail
B LAC It CHEROKKES.
Big Law Suit Compromised and Ex
Slaves Are Made Cherokees.
A big law suit brought against the
Cherokees by the colored people of
the Cherokee country, who were
brought into the country as slaves and
afterwards became free men, to estab¬
lish their rights as Cherokee citizens,
has been compromised.
The settlement, as agreed upon, of
makes the colored people members
the Cherokee nation and entitles them
to about $1,300,000 of the money re¬
ceived for their strip and their proper
interest in the unsold lands, compris¬
ing many millions of acres.
When the Btrip was sold the Chero¬
kees refused to give the colored people J
anything, claiming that they were not
Cherokees.
CAPITAL NOTES.
GOSSIP OP AVASHINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS.
Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of the
Various Departments.
As a result of the investigation into
the recent destruction and mutilation
of treasury records in the theft of ob¬
solete internal revenue stamps attach¬
ed to the records, Secretary Carlisle
has just dismissed four employes, one
a clerk and three colored laborers.
Their names are C. D. Vining, Orville
Bacon, A. B. Hopkins, Charles Ed¬
wards.
Mr. Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish
minister at Washington, has received
a cablegram which confirms the news
printed in Sunday’s papers of the re¬
pulse of Maximo Gomez, the leader of
the insurgent forces in the island of
Cuba. The message is dated at Mad¬
rid, ’Spain, and reads: “Maximo
Gomez tried again to invade the
province of Santa Clara, Las Vegas,
and has been checked by General
Luiz Oliver, who routed him on the
20th of November and following days
with heavy loss. His ranks were
totally broken and he was obliged to
escape in disorder. His followers have
taken refuge in the mountains of
Camaguey.”
The report of Secretary of the
Interior Hoke Smith elaborately re¬
views tho varied work of the interior
department. It begins with the
Indian service and calls attention to
the strict enforcement which has been
given to civil service reform, both as
to those places covered by the classi¬
fied service and those to which the
rules of this service do not apply.
It dwells upon the necessity of elimi¬
nating politics from the management
of Indian affairs and of conducting
each reservation upon strictly busi¬
ness principles, the object being to
make every Indian who remains upon
the reservation self-supporting and
ready, as soon as possible, to assume
the duties of citizenship and be freed
from the paternal eare of the govern¬
ment.
Uncle Sam’s Mall9.
In Postmaster-General Wilson’s an¬
nual report it is estimated'tbat two
thirds in weight of all the matter^ car¬
ried in the mails is under existing
laws and classifications carried as sec¬
ond-class matter, at the rate of 1 cent
a pound, where it is not actually car¬
ried postage free. The aggregate
weight of second-class matter in the
year 1894 was 299,000,000 pounds.
During the last year it increased to
over 312,000,000, a growth of over
13,000,000 pounds. Deducting the
weight of that which is known as
“county free,” being the matter which
is circulated among subscribers free
of postage in the respective counties
of publication, estimated to be 46,820,-
185 pounds, there remained 265,314,-
382 pounds which returned, at the rate
of 1 cent per pound, a revenue of $2
653,143.82. The average cost to the
department of transporting and hand¬
ling this matter is estimated at 3 cents
per pound.
Thefts of Autographs.
The wholesale investigation through¬
out the executive departments as to
the stamp thefts has resulted in find¬
ing even worse ravages than were first
discovered in the treasury. Another
element has crept into the situation as
it is learned that the autograph fiends,
too, have been at work among the
files. This vandalism, so far as is
known, seems to have been practiced
principally in the interior depart¬
ment.
In the investigation by the secret
service men it has been discovered
that the signatures of many great men,
long since dead, especially presidents
of the United States, were affixed to
papers in the land office. Some of
these were accordingly examined, with
the result that scores of autographs
have been found to be missing from
them. Abraham Lincoln’s autograph
has been especially sought after.
These papers are stowed away in the
files, and it is hardly once a year that
any of them are needed, so that dis¬
covery of mutilation, in the ordinary
course of office routine, was improba¬
ble. The papers have been, in many
instances, rendered practically value¬
less by tkiB mutilation, which is a very
serious matter.
Hauling Over-Public Roads.
The office of road inquiry of the
department of agriculture has com¬
pleted an interesting investigation re¬
lating to the common roads of the
United States. Returns have been re¬
ceived from about 1,200 counties
showing the average length of haul
from farms to markets or shipping
points to be twelve miles, the average
weight of load for two-horse wagons
2,002 pounds, the average cost per ton
per mile, 25 cents and $3 for the en¬
tire haul.
Estimating the farm products at
219,824,227 tons in weight and making
estimates on other articles carried over
the public roadB, it is calculated that
the aggregate expense of this trans¬
portation in the United States is
$946,414,665 per annum.
Reports have been asked from tho
United States oonsuls abroad of the
expense of hauling where the roads
are good so as to render possible a oal
culution which will show how much of
this vast outlay is due to bad
roads. Tho estimate is ventured,
however, upon information in the of¬
fice of the bureau, as to the enforced
idleness and the wear and tear to live
stock and hauling machinery caused
by poor roads, that two-thirds of the
cost might be saved by an improved
condition of tho roads.
No Canal as Yet.
A serious blow has been dealt the
Nicaraguan canal company’s project
for the construction of a waterway
across the isthmus by the report of the
Nicaraguan canal commission. In¬
evitable delay and a further and more
thorough investigation of the entire
subject are declared to be necessary
before even the engineering feasibility
of the canal across Nicaragua can be
decided upon.
The contents and the text of the
conclusions of the report of the Nica¬
raguan canal commission is now lying
considered on the president’s by desk, and is being
iiirn in connection witn
his annual message to congress.
The report is at such variance with
the numerous rumors and predictions
which have from time to time been
published concerning it, that it will
cause great surprise and disappoint¬ hoped
ment among those who have
for a generally favorable report, and
who have therefore placed credence in
these rumors, which usually stated
“on the highest authority” that the
commission favored the route pro¬
posed by the company, and placed the
cost of the canalatabont$110,000,000.
The report points out that it is nei¬
ther practicable nor advisable to at¬
tempt the construction of the Nicara¬
guan canal upon the data at present
available, and that the undertaking
would be fraught with hazards too ob¬
vious to disregard.
ATLANTA'S BIG DAY.
One Hundred Thousand People Visit
the Exposition.
Nearly 100,000 people saw the fair
at Atlanta Thanksgiving day, and when
the day was done that number of peo¬
ple returned to the city to tell their
friends that the Piedmont exposition
had been eclipsed.
South Carolina carried the day.
Her conquering army paraded the
streets, captured the city and stormed
the exposition. The crowd that came
into Atlanta from the Palmetto state
was the largest that has ever been sent
from one state to the exposition.
Twenty trains, consisting of from eight
to ten cars each, came in loaded to the
ptatforms.
Inman day will be handed down as
the most memorable day in the annals
of Atlanta.
This return to the city was made in
a mighty rush. The most imaginative
mind could not picture the scene
Thursday night after the grand display
of fireworks, when the great throng
strived to make its way to the trains.
It was a bigger rush than any one had
expected—than any one had prepared
for—and the mighty host surged and
pushed in vain effort for release.
It was early Friday morning before
the exposition grounds were deserted
and all the visitors had been transport¬
ed to the
The Thanksgiving appetites of the
people were not satisfied during the
day and at about 7 o’clock in the
evening everything on the grounds
suitable to satisfy gnawing hunger had
been exhausted. Not a restaurant on
the grounds could accommodate those
who called and thousands were turned
away wearied and hungry.
A JUDGE INDICTED.
The Grand Jury Didn’t Like His
Dispensation ol Justice.
The New Orleans grand jury has
returned indictments against Judge
Jas. C. Moise, one of the two judges of
the Criminal district court for slander
and oppression in office.
The indictment grew out of an
attempt several days ago by District
Attorney Butler to enter a nol pros in
the case of Henry Bier, a capitalist,
who had been tried and convicted of
perjury, committed in trying to hide
matters concoruiDg the purchase of
the New Orleans Traction franchise.
Since his conviction Bier has con¬
fessed, and it is believed his testimony
is vitally essential in the trial of M. J.
Hart. Judge Moise refused to permit
the nol pros to be entered, and a heat¬
ed colloquy between the court and the
district attorney followed, in which
the court was forced into saying that
he viewed the conduct of the district
attorney’s office with suspicion and
committed the district attorney to jail
for twenty-four hours for contempt of
court.
The latter official and the attorneys
of Henry Bier’ brought this to the at¬
tention of the grand jury, which was
much prejticed against M. J. Hart,
with the above result.
Decided Against the Bell Telephone.
The United States supreme court
has denied the motion of the Bell Tel¬
ephone the Company United to dismiss the appeal
of States in the case
involving the Berliner speaking mioro
soophone.
1.00 A Ye*r.
VOL. VI. NO. 41.
GROW I H OK THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Past Week.
The reports of the industrial condi¬
tions in all partsof the southern states
for the past week show that thero is
not so much activity as was noted the
week before. A falling off in prioes
for steel and iron products is noted,
and the continued depression in the
cotton market prevents large sales by^
growers, who are still holding a large
part of the crop. Manufacturers of
textiles stock up whenever they can
buy the quality of cotton desired, and
show by their willingness to purchase
that they are believers in a good year’s
business and at higher prices, both for
labor and materials. There are fre¬
quent reports of the organization of
cotton mill companies, with outside
capital, but most of the uew organiza¬
tions now preparing for aotive opera¬
tions are of local origin. Southern lum¬
ber operatives are reporting improve¬
ments in business. The cypress han¬
dlers are doing well, with firm prioes,
and the yellow pine handlers are well
satisfied with the results of their re¬
duced outputs, which are more nearly
in accordance with the wants of buy¬
ers than were the large shipments be¬
fore sent out. Iron furnaces are in
full opratiou. The southern iron out¬
put is now as large as was ever knowfl,
and the accumulations are small and
temporary only. The past six months
have done much for tho iron men, and
they are encouraged to believer that a
good season is before them. General
business is more quiet. Merchants
continue to buy carefully, and do not
carry large stocks. The southern
farmers and planters are in more pros¬
perous condition than has been known
for years, as a result of economy and
hard work.
Reports note the intended rebuild¬
ing a Meridian, Miss., of the Merid¬
ian Bash and blind factory, to cost
$100,000; the organization of the Al¬
ania Brick Co., at San Antonio, Texas,
capital $50,000; the Southern Cold
Storage Co., at Fort Worth, Texas,
also with $50,000 capital, and the
Swansea Coal Mining Co. of Birming¬
ham, Ala., capital $50,000. The
Queen Mining Oo. has been chartered
at Galveston, Tex., with $100,000 cap¬
ital. The coke Improvement Co.,
capital $25,000, has been organized at
Little Rock, Ark. ; the Ivy Coal &
Coke Co.,jit Birmingham, Ala., with
$20,000 capital, and the Boscobel
Crushing Co., capital $15,000, at
Richmond, Ya.
There is also reported a cotton mill
and rope factory at Greensboro, Ala
canning factories at Brookhaven, Miss.,
and Alta Loma, Texas; electrical
plants at Georgetown, Ky., and Sisters
ville, Ky., and a flouring mill at
Princeton, Ky. Ice factories are re¬
ported at Geneva, Ala., Georgetown,
Ivy., LaFayette, La., Brookhaven,
Miss., and Gainesville, Texas. A
$100,000 box factory is to be built at
Richmond, Va., a large soap factory
at Tampa, Fla., and woodworking
plants at Flomaton, Ala., High
Springs, Fla., Athens, Ga.,' Wasiota,
Ky., San Antonio, Texas, and Suffolk,
Virginia.
The enlargements for the week in¬
clude an electric plant at Terrell,
Texas, telephone works at Richmond,
Va., the Warwick cotton mill at Au
gpsta, Ga., and a lumber plant at Dal¬
ton, Ga.— Tradesman, (Chattanooga
Tenn.)
AFTER BANK WRECKERS.
Indictments Found Against Men of
Wealth in Oklahoma.
A great sensation has been created
in Oklahoma Territory over the grand
jury at Perry returning indictments
against prominent men, who are
charged with wrecking the bank in
that city.
Four indictments each have been
found against J. Y. N. Gregory, who
is a many-times millionaire of the
state of Michigan, and whose name
has been used as the bank’s president
since the opening of the Cherokee
strip; Fred W. Farrar, cashier of the
late First State bank; Fred Gum, a
clerk in the bank, and L. Merry Rich¬
ardson, Jr., who was formerly cashier
of the First State bank, which was sold
out to Farrar, Gregory and others last
June.
Richardson is rich and well known in
the west, and is the son of L. M. Rich¬
ardson, Sr., who is the wealthiest man
in Oklahoma, and was the prohibition
candidate for governor of the territory
and is now democratic national com¬
mitteeman. The indictments are for
receiving money on deposit in the
bank when it was in a failing condi¬
tion.
EARTHQUAKES IN MEXICO.
Sufficiently Severe To Throw Down a
Few Adobe Houses.
Quite a severe earthquake shook vis¬
ited the city of Mexico Sunday. Nu¬
merous water pipes were bursted and
four adobe houses in a suburb fell.
The first shock was from east to west,
as indicated by the seismograph at
the national meteorological bureau.
Afterwards the direotjdn of the needle
changed, making a flattened ellip \ *
tracing in the sand, its direction bei! J
northeast and southwest,
twelve seconds.
Thb characteristic of Shakespeare
everything; of Milton, elevation.