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For l( Cents
Union Intends to
“Stand Pat”
Delegates at Texarkana Comment
on Action of Soufhern Cot¬
ton Association.
COTTON DETERIORATING,
DECLARES DUCKWORTH
President of the Union Says His Organi*
zatioo Has not Placed the Price loo
High—Officers of the Union
Elected Saturday.
Texarkana, Ark., Sept.7.—The
third day of the convention of
the National Farmers’ Educa¬
tional and' Go-operative Union
has been perhaps the busiest.
This inoruing’s session was taken
up for the most part in hearing
the report of the national execu¬
tive committee. This report
shows the affairs of the organiza¬
tion financial, and otherwise to
be in excellent condition, also
that the books and accounts ot
all officers were correct. There
pm't was adopted.
The afternoon was largely de¬
voted to addresses and debates,
jncludmg the cotton warehouse
proposition. H. N. Gaines, ed¬
itor of The Advocate, Topeka,
Runs., addressed the convention
f r about an hour on matters
affecting the interest of the or¬
der in general.
A bale of cotton was’presented
to the union yesterday by Eugene
Williams, of Dallas, for the New¬
ton Gresham monument fund,
and sold at auction this after¬
noon, bringing 21 cents. C. C.
Taylor, of this ci^j’, was the
purchaser.
During the ajternoon the draft
of a practically new constitution
was taken vp, and discussed, in
detail, and the same subject is
being debated at greater length
at ton gilt’s session. It is be¬
lieved a vote on this new consti
tution will be taken at-tomorrow
morning’s meeting. document -Ah provis¬
ion’s of the are being
carefully guarded from the press
and puplic.
The report sent out last night
as to the fixing of the. minimum
price for cotton seed was inaccu
r ite. The price was fixed at #15
par ton throughout the entice
cotton belt, regardless of section.
The election of officers will
takq place tomorrow, and the
convention will adjourn tomor¬
row night sine die.
Several leaditig members of the
organization were asked for an
expression of what they thought
of the action of the Southern
Cotton As oc atom at Hot Spring*
THE KW TOWS M THE N m m 1 Sx B
CHATTSWORTH, MURRAY COUNTY, GA.
c HATTSWORTH is the new town in Murray county. It is located 21-2 miles east of Spring Place, the county site and is
the nearest railroad point to the county site. Many of the Spring Place people have invested in Chattsworth and will help
to make it the town of this county. Six hundred business and residence lots have already been sold in Chattsworth, a large
hotel has been built, a large lumber plant and planing mill, talc factory, flour mill and brick plant all now in operation except
flour mill which is not completed. There are also four stores now in operation and quite a number of others to be built at an
early date. The location is a splendid one, having a nearby creek*large enough to furnish power for electric lights as well as to
furnish waterworks system for the town. Looking to the east is historic Port Mountain and a range of mountains which are
spurs of the Blue Ridge to the west, north and south the fertile valley lands. Both labor and capital are in demand for the de¬
velopment of this town and surrounding country. There is not a hardware, dry goods nor general farm supply store in the county,
nor a drug store. The principal part of the mercantile business for this county has heretofore been done at Dalton, Ga., in an
adjoining county and from ten to thirty miles distant. This was the nearest railroad point until the L. & X'. recently built
through the county. There are about fifteen thousand people in Murray County, and Chattsworth is centrally located for
their trade. There is unquestionably a splendid opening in any line of business at Chattsworth.
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E. P. GREEN REAL ESTATE CO., Chattsworth, Ga.
it CATTLE TICK” TO BE FOUGHT
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Four Counties Will Co-Operate to i
Get Rid of the Pest, Agricul¬
tural Officials at Work.
Determined efforts will be
made by four counties of North
Georgia to seen re immunity from
the “cattle tick,” or Texas fever,
so disastrous to live stock, in
order to have the counties placed
above the federal law.
As the result of the efforts of
Assistant State Commissioner of
Agriculture R. F. Wright, Dr.A.
L. Klein, representing the nation
ai department of Agiiculture at
Washington, and Prof. <’. L.
Willoughby, of the state experi¬
ment. station, the counties of
Pickens, Dawson, White and
Habersham have offered their
eo-operation and the state will
take steps to rid the counties of
the pest.
The present federal quarantine
laws extend only as far south in
Georgia as to include the coun¬
ties of Towns, Rabun and Fan¬
nin. The state department of
agriculture, under the direction
Commissioner K. F,
WHghr, will begin I he eradica¬
tion of the cattle tick at once,
and when counties have been
freed, the federal quarantine
will be lowered to include the
four counties.
Assistant Commissioner H. F.
Wright, Dr. Klein ami Professor
Willoughby visited the four
above named counties during the
last week and were given the
heartiest co-operation. Efforts
will be made to place Lumpkin
county and other counties above
the federal lines as soon as
ticable.
Starvine to Death.
Because her stomach was so
weakened by useless drugging
that she could not eat, Mrs.Mary
II. Walters, of 8t. Chur St., Go
lurnbus, ()., was literally starving
to death. She writes; “My stom¬
ach was so weak from useless
drugs that I could not eat, and
my nerves so wrecked that I could
not sleep; and not before 1
given up to die was 1 induced
try Electric Bitters; with the
wonderful result that improve¬
ment began at once, and a com¬
plete qure followed.” Best health
Tonic on earth. 50c. Guaranteed
by C. 0. Cole, grocer.
today in placing the minimum
price of cotton at 10 cents, and
the verdict was unanimous
the National Farmers’ Union
vviil stand pat for 11 cents.
President Duckworth said :
“We will stick for 11 cents.
Tne deterioration of the general
condition of cotton during
last two weeks is sufficient
evidence to prove that the union
has not placed the price
cents) too high.”
THE MURRAY HEWS, FRIDAY SKPTKMBER-l-L Wffi
CHEATHAM CLEARED AND
HIS ACCUSERS RAPPED
i
Was II to 5 for Acquitting
Secretary—Finding Says He
Was Accused By Ene¬
mies of Association.
Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 7.—
At the night session of the exec¬
utive committee of the Southern
Cotton Association, Richard
Cheatham, secretary of the asso¬
ciation, was exonerated of the
charge of dealing in futures while
an official of the association. In¬
corporated in the resolution
clearing Cheatham was an ex¬
pression providing that it shall
constitute an offense in the fut¬
ure for any official or member of
the executive committee or mem¬
ber of any state committee to
deal in futures.
T h e resolution exonerating
Cheatham declares:
“That while ail form of specu¬
lation are disapproven of, yet the
committee finds that. Mr. Cheat¬
ham was acting only for other
parties arid in view of the fact
that there is nothing in the con¬
stitution which makes e person
incompetent to hold office be¬
cause he deals m futures, and
because of Mr. Cheatham’s elli
ci *ncy and of the fact that we
believe the assaults on Cheatham
came from the enemies of this
association we dismiss the charg¬
es us unworthy of nu t her con¬
sideration, and denounce all
charges made against Mr. Cheat
h im, except what is hereinbefore
stated, as false.
“That in the future it shall
constitute an offense against this
association for any officer or
member of the executive com¬
mittee or state officer to in any
way deal m futures, and anyone
violating this shall tie expelled
from office,”
The report, which is signed by
a committee composed of L. B.
| Erwin, E. W. Smith and L. K.
T L ivc. was adopted , , by , a vote of
j 11 to 5.
A resolution presented by Wal¬
ter Clark, of Mississippi, instruct¬
ing the president of the associa¬
tion to confer with counsel
looking into an investigation of
tbe cotton exchaiq es of the coun¬
try and especially the New York
exchange “in order to de
termine whether or not the sys
of business employed in said
exchanges, and with especial
reference to the New York ex
change, are not violat ive of the
federal laws and the laws of the
state where located,” was adopt
t*d.
The committee will probably
conclude its session tom morrow,
SOUTHERN VETS ARE INVITED'
.
To Attend the Spanish War Re¬
union To Be hci'J in
Washington.
Washington, D. 0., Sept. ft.—
An invitation has been issued by
Captain J. Walter Mitchell, com¬
mander of the department of the
District of Columbia, United
Spanish War Veterans, to all
Southern soldiers who served in
the war with Spain, to attend
toe annual national em
of that organization to he held
Washington, D. <’., tin* week he
ginning Octobers, next.
sentatives from nearly 500
of Spanish War Veterans, near
tered over the United State* will
be present . Southern soldiers
who ar-e not members of any
camps will be welcomed.
Features of the week w ill he a
big camp tire on the evening of
Monday, October 8; a grand mil¬
itary and civic parade,embracing
many camps.of Spanish War Vet¬
erans in their uniforms of blue
and gray ; pilgrimage to the tomb
of General Washington at Mount
Vernon, and to the Spanish wii*
section of the Arlington Nati <»:il
cemetery; a reception by Presi¬
dent Roosevelt, who is an active
member of the organization, and
automobile trips about Wash¬
ington.
All visitors from thefSouth
desire to attend the encampment
of the soldiers of jSi)S will he
given reduced rates by the rail¬
roads, and reduced hotel rates at.
Washington.
Among the prominent figures
of the Spanisli-American war
, . , , .....
a-,. ,K," IB !»«.» ,
{jenrtais Grant, HualUsi HA
others
Generals Wheeler and Fd*
hug, , , , Lee were members , <rf ,
[ nited .Mwoiah War Vetera ,*
A camp with more thin
members, named in taur
General Fitzhnyh Lee, has
been formed at Richmond,
md will attend the eiicampmcn*
in a body.
A Valuable Wiir.ass.
A Southern lawyer tells of
case that came to him at. the out
set of his career, wherein
principal witness was a dark*
named Jackson, supposed to Ime
knowledge of certain transaction?
not at all to the credit of his
plover, the defendant, says liar
j. ^ e-’s ""“Now! Weeklyr
Jackson,” said the law
yer. “l want you to understand
the importance of telling
truth when you are put on the
stand. 1 on kin*w what will hap
pen, don’t you, if you don't
the truth r ,
“Yaseir,” was Jackson’s replv
“in dat case I expects our side
win de case. j?
NEGROES !
DIE ON GALLOWS
One Murdered White Man and
Other Ravished and Killed
Negro Girl.
Americas, Ga., Sept. 12 Jo¬
nas flicks, the negro who mur¬
dered Jurrett K. ID vis, a promi¬
nent farmer near Amerieu* in
April when Davis sought to pre¬
vent a difficulty between Hicks
another negro upon his plan
ta{ , IS|J< was banged here Friday
| ap ^ Hicks expressed regret at
j mViUg committed the crime.
Th ,. condemned negro’s brother
an ,j .,; 8 t e r witnessed the
^un. Hicks is the third negro
hanged j„ Amerieus within three
mont hs.
Negro Ravisker Is Hanged.
R.-rrv Ga., Sept. iff. - Jeff
Hillhouse wr.* hanged here at
1 :m o’clock last Friday.
Fie made a full confession on
the scaffold.
In June in the upper part of
this county, near Wiilston, flor
ida King, a. 15-year-old mulatto
girl, and her brother, Johhny, 9
years cl t, were met in a path
running through the woods by
the negro, Jeff Hillhouse. He
forced them to go in the woods
with him. He had a pistol.
raped the girl and then with a
hoe smashed her skull, breaking
it in several places. He broke
the boy's skull, and then ran off,
met Crawford Wheeler. He
told Wheeler there was somebody
dead in the woods.
He was arrested on suspicion
and convicted at a special term
of the court on August L>.
T1 buy wan taken to t, Hospital
«»«”'«»'< ' tre.tal. lie *„
a*ic to .Cht.it y against ] lx j 1 house
at the tm! but is partially para
• The boy was brought into
r0 nm„naeot»ndtak«»
J He h u verv
11,teI "^ nt by '
BOV MILLED WHILE HUNTING
; \
Gun is Accidentally Discharged
Killing Cedarlown Lad,
! Cedartown, Ga. Sept., 6.—
thur Owens, the son of G. W.
° wen *' of <hi? c, ‘*’ was acci '
dentally killed wnile bird hunt
'»* <uty this morning.
and a " a, »f d
pasture **'*>" w of « re Mr. J , U,n T> R. tl,, H. « 'f Jobes, 1,1 and the
1,1 some man f r the 6»» of Fel '
ton was accidentally discharged, ,
the load enteii ig the face of
young Owens and horribly rear
0 jy orie s j(j e of the boy’s face,
Q about 13 years of
age and . Felton, . whose , gun was
discharged, was near the same
age.
riRi D ON IN
ROAD BY AN ASSASSIN
W. H- Dacie, Residing Near Du¬
pont. Ga., 'lay Lose Life as
Result of Attack.
Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 8.—News
was received here by ’phone from
Dupont late tins afternoon, of a
dastardly attempt to assassinate
W. If. Dame, it prominent farm
e r, residing four miles from that
place. He get On his horse about
10 o’clock this morning and start¬
ed to Dupont, and while on his
way lie was fired upon by some
one hid on the side of the road,
Xw<» of the buckshot struck
him tH,out the body and head and
; lt , f e li from his horse, desperate¬
ly wounded. The shooting oc¬
cur! eh about a quarter of a mile
^om hff home and he was cmried
there when found. Physicians
were summoned to attend him.
The extent of his injuries cou d
not be learned, though it is said
that he was seriously, if not ruor
tally hurt.
A message was sent here ask¬
ing for Chief Dampier to come
and bring his dogs, but the mes¬
sage came too late to catch the
afternoon train. So far as it is
known there is no clue to the
identity of the assassin, and
nothing of tbe object can be sur
mised, though it was evidently
n t robbery.
The wounded man is a brother
of Editor George M. Dame, and
John T. Dame, of Homerville,
and he is one of the leading eiti
zeris of Clinch county.
Well Worth Trying.
W. H. Brawn, tbe popnlarprai
-o» rttra,,.,. of V|„
says: Next to a pension, the
thing to get is Dr. King’s
New Life Fills.” He writes;
j • thev keep my family in splen
dbl b-alth” Quick cure for
Headache, Constipation, Bilions
, ness. 25c. Guaranteed at 0. G.
store.
Discriminating Paniationi.
When Charles Dudley Warner
was a newspaper editor in the
early ’iiOs he was accustomed to
write his editorials upon the war
with fervid haste, regardless of
all consideration of handwriting,
the Pittsburg Press,
One day a typesetter left the
composing room and appeared at
the editors desk:
Mr ' V he sai<1 ’
decided to enlist m the army.”
^ Vitii pra «tions of
pride am! responsibility, Mr.
Warnei replied 111 t it pleased
him that the man felt the call to
‘Uli. it isn’t that," said the
m.tnfid ,, , coin j;m>m tor, “but I’d
r it her be shot, than set your
copy.”