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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1907. SEWS USD t FROU II CMIl 7AFHINGTOX, Jnn In these fove I in] fl.-nr t ish dn sklrn-.: ri ! V' m: ): Mr.al dinne: t!on pop.t- f'ir Pr4xl- have un- ■gy of po- ntxl i6w ful agriculture. The balance of trade for the year in favor of the islands was {6.ore. oor. xho commission recom mend s again that ati agricultural bank be fou: .. .] or. the plan of the Egyptian Agricultural Bank, for the quicker de- vciop.v.e; ; of the agricultural resourc-s of the islands. The commission also declares that "he Philippines offer an excellent opj>oriur,ity for the invest ment of American capital, and adds that the archipelago affords a splendid r>' i for active and intelligent Ameri cans to become residents. with American money. She visited | Boston. New York. Chicago. Pittsburg j and Philadelphia in the interests of | book'to the scheme, spurring her fellow-coun trymen to contribute by appeals to their National pride. "When the Johnstown flood happened, and when the great earthquake worked such havoc in Charleston. Englishmen There wjl . the tree proba it Hous. >n unc y dlflf in I ion jly be a pretty row the Senate and i the immigration passed a; the last ame title, bu; with xts The bone of educational test. i-hic Senator Lodge Senate had but mb House pram is anxious to get to trouble In the immigratl the appointment of ir r.hyslcians with police ] inserted it which th< The Hous< jue i gn ur Apart on by ors and s at for- eatly the ie educa- undoubt- •e will be Pre Is r before they are ;ls planned by I ift a: d. proha- • ill ha' tary Si not It den benea • led!, at Ion Vl-Ptla! <■ 1*1 some I > V. • *> ■• r'A.e kr.o tilling to and impoi •on. Wash 'vKh the t iight re ; bushel, next Re ENORMOUS RANCH if Ur Joe may be . In the nui o feasts this day; (Cal ) Tribune. , owners has fallen i of acres that was husband to Mrs. ■fetv woman, phil- ir of 1,500,000 acres if Texas, a ranch, raid, one thirl the R public! ver the ling the Whil skirmishing honor of h the Democrat^ are sot In the Sooth there 1 defined and extremel fcr Representative .T vinnc tick* aders 3s fo the ‘what at a loss. - been a well- populnr boom in Sharp Wll- T.hf most Irst chus if London’s set." Mrs. Wl er m ame Hams, 'he leader of the minority in the House ,\fr. Williams this week put a quietus on the movement by de- . clearing that he had not taken any ■»»|s:ep*i whatever toward securing the I ’nomination at the hands of his party, nnd added that It. might be stated that ! he had decided not to take the plnr° ■were’ it offered him. In his droll way Mr. Williams said that, his principal objection was the fact that the White House Is too damn nnd that Mr«. Wil liams declares she Is Irrevocably op posed to risking the health of their daughters. Kit nnd Snllie, In the Chief Executive’s home. her idern drh dro the pr< and have taller ranchers ranching un- rertaln nride to Secretary Ro paring a state) his New York of centrallzatto the Secretary disgruntled at is said to be pre- it supplementnrv to ’ech on the subject It is reported that Ft.ate is decided!'" : manner in which the country received his recent New York address. ITc had r.ot intended It to he revolutionary in any way, and he believes that it has been thoroughly misinterpreted by the press. It is ex plained that the Secretary meant only to raise the country to a realize'lee of Its shortcomings in the individual State Government", a condition which is arising through the great growth of commerce and the consenuent reorgan ization In the lines of general hnsine'S. He especially desired to call attention nf the time to the dnegp.- nf enacting laws that would conflict with the Fed eral laws or with legislation enacted by neighboring States Because of the wonderful and ranid growth in all lines of business organizations of men. known as corporations have com? Into existence in order to reduce expense" nnd cheaper the cost of production, to the |>u,d that the nation mav capture its 'share of !he world’s trade. These big corporations, properly conducted, have made th? United States one of the greatest commercial nations in the world. Practically aV their business is inter-state, and because a few of the so-called "trusta" violated the laws of the land, the States"have endeavored to remedy what should have heen left to the National Government. Goose- j quertly there has heen a confliet in authority that endangers the commer cial structure, not of the individual . State, but of the nation at large. The Secretary believes that the dancer of j evident, and be was seeking to point out this legislative error in his New Y( rk a.hire Tie undoubtedly will seize upon 'be earliest opportunity to discuss further the subject, and make clear what he believes has been niisin- i ferpreted. The Panama cocktail, according to the reports of President Roosevelt, who says that it is drunk with coffee at dinner every evening by the prent majority of families in the canal zone, I will hardly became norular here. It is really a health coekt.ai!. to which not even Carrie Nation could object since It con'ists entirely of liquid quinine and is taken not Tor pleasure, nut to ward off those ills to which Panama flesh Is heir. It is not much of a" compliment to Iho Panama c’.i- njate. but that is liable to continue In- I ^definitely ns a matter of discussion. Fome of the vistors who return to ( Washington from the canal make re marks about this climate whb h are lurid. to put it mildly Minister' Squirts, on "he other hand, who h:i c now occupied tbe no-; for two months, has had nothing to say against it. Hi" Washington friends have been grieved to learn th.a" since going t Panama estate, the ch in these and machine f capital whi of smaller t rail, making > to thousand? points with a i the fact that two of the bigg:- = t ranches within her borders are owned nnd controlled by women. That each is managed with Infinite core .and with success, their survival of years of keenest competition indicates. Mrs. H. M. King is the other Large ; land owner, but her estate in South- I west Texas ean not he compared to , the Ad.air tract. ’There are 1."70.000 j .acres, it fs true, but that does not ap- I preach Mrs. Adair’s 1.300,000 acres, all in one body. There are points of difference quite ns er^.at between the two women. One a woman of home instincts, of a bus- | mess application and entirely devoted to the management of her estate, the ; other quite as able, quite as proficient in management, hut of a wider range i of thought and viewpoint, fond of so- ! cietv and travel. One of the most re markable things in Mrs. Adair’s re markable success is that she can com- hine her London social duties and her | annual travels with her business to I such an extent that neither suffers. J There Is a romance even in the pur chase of the great ranch. Twenty-nine years ago the husband of Mrs. Adair bought 1,300,01)0 acres near Clarendon in Texas at about 20 cents per acre. That was when much land in the Pan handle was regarded p.t practically worthless, even for grazing. With the High- of years these ideas changed; deserted tracts of land became the grazing ground of vast herds of cat tle, and the Adair estate, if now put up for sale, would easily bring $10 an acre—that is, $13,000 000 for land alone and the land is by no means the only wealth there. Mrs. Adair has in .he Panhandle a little kingdom of her own. of which she is the fnirv queen. Across the wide tracts within its borders 59 900 cnttle roam at pasture; annually lo.ooo calves are branded at the great round up. whose fame has spread over the entire Stale. Each year from 6,000 to 8,000 steers are marketed. In the cattle alone, the annual net profit ef the Adair ranch during the last ton years has been more htan $100,000 This. too. in the fare ef opposition of the strongest and of leagues of ranch ers that promised for a time to kili all indiivdual ranchers in Texas. ■Where formerly ranchers left their cattle graze at will over the enuntrv. stepped forward with promptness and iS03 showed their sympathy in a practical ! F u:t "•ay.” she said. "Now it is America’s chance to repay this and show her ap preciation." Ar.d n;.onev flowed in upon her for the project. One concert alone in New York brought $12,000 to help maintain the Maine. Who is she. and where does her great wealth come from? Of course she is an American. Her father was General Wadsworth, of Wadsworth Manor. Genesee Valley. New York, one of the first members at the Union Club to volunteer his ser vices at the outbreak of the Civil War. The General was military governor of Washington. The Misses Wadsworth had the elig ible young men of the day at their feet. One of them married a Phila delphia Rogers, another became Mrs. Arthur P s;. of New York, and upon his death married Arthur Hugh Smith Barry, now Lord Barrymore. Miss Cornelia Wadsworth became the wife of Col. Ritchie, a distinguished officer of the English army, but soon after the birth of Wadsworth Ritchie, their son. the father died. It was in 1S6T that Mrs. Ritchie be- enme Mrs. Adair. Her husband was John George Adair, of Rothdaire, Queens County, Ireland, one nf the wealthiest commoners in England, and was a close friend of the Prince of Wales, now King Edward. Mrs. Adair : soon became one of the most popular hostesses in London. That much-en vied reputation she has retained to | this day. Her husband died in 1S92, j leaving his widow a princely fortune. In spite of the fact that advancing i years make former feats of horseman ship impossible, .Mrs. Adair Is still dently fond of outdoor sports and her visits to her Panhandle ranch are al ways eagerly looked forward to by the scores of employees. Ranch own er and dashing horsewoman, society leader and philanthropist, multi-mill ionaire—those are a few of the various gifts fortune has showered upon this accomplished daughter of General Wadsworth. Even her beauty she re tains to a large extent, and in former days in Washington Cornelia Wads worth was a toast to bring society full to its feet. war jind why restoration were a better licy than reconstruction. It is a n every library." Judge Reagan was r.ot a general in the army. But he was a hero—a civic hero. His life is an epic worthy the poet's pen. He lived to the ripe old age of $7 years. He attended the Coil- ederate reunion in New Orleans May, dressed in a new Confederate made for the occasion, wearing it : for the memories that clustered around it; and when attacked with his fatal stroke he was wearing this suit, and his wife and physician divested him of his Confederate gray forever. It was fit that he died in the Con federate gray, for “the best of him was given to the Confederacy—and there lies the heart of bis memoirs." mm Afil BALKED IN MAYORALTY CASE STORY OF SAN WRITTEN FRANCISCO BY A REFUGEE Situation Shifts in Church and State JOtlM H. REAGAN By JAMES CALLAWAY. fully sung its re? itiroes and their wi own possibilities, prosperous farmers now. surround the Adair ranch. No effort is made, however, to farm any part of the large tract composing Mrs. Adair’s e.sr°te. Like an ameient bn-onial castle is the ranch bouse., an impos ing pile of stone. There is nothing about it to suggest the rourh-and- ready ways of tbe old Texas rancher. Rather, it is a p.aiace transplanted into the Texas grazing country, a thing of awe nnd wonder to the hard-work ing. hard-Iiivng riders from the re mote sections of the Panhandle coun try. Equipped with every convenience, electric light, waterworks, modern sew erage. and every modern comfort, the ranch house is a fit abode for a King. Mrs. Adair does not suffer from Jor.e- linecs or the want of companionship of her kind when she takes up her residence each year at the Texas home. Thither she brines with her large par ties of British and American friends. No addition to Confederate literature Is more -instructive and interesting than the ’’Memoirs" of John H. Rea gan. the Postmaster-General of the | Confederacy. Professor Walter F. McCaleb in the close of his preface to this book says: “Texas, the South, the Union, ought to be proud of the grand old Roman, as he has been called." Speaking of the causes of the war, : Judge Reagan says; ■’During the Congress which imme diately preceded the war. thirty-odd compromise measures were presented in the two houses of Congress, all of them offered by Southern men or Northern Democrats, for the purpose of trying to get some plan adopted by which war* and secession could be avoided, and the rights of the States preserved. Every one introduced in the House of Representatives was re ceived with hooting and derision by the Republicans. When the Southern members appealed to those from the North to aid them in some measures of peace which would preserve the Con stitutor and also preserve the rights of the States and of the people of the South, such appeals were answered by the statenjent: "We are in the ma jority and you will have to submit. The Southern members and the South ern people did not want secession— ; they only sought the protection due them under the provisions of the Con stitution. The Southern people had al- wavs shown their devotion to the Union, even while New Englanders were threatening secession and dis union." Judge Reagan fines not go as far into Northern rebellion against the Consti tution as fines E. W. R. Ewing in his book. “Northern Rebellion and South ern Secession.” but he shows very clearly that Northern nullification of the laws applying to the States pro duced a disregard of the Constitution, and the appeal to what the North termed "a higher law.” Disunion had its origin in the North. “In attempting to withdraw from the Union the Southern people hoped to do so peaceably and had no purpose to in terfere in any way with any of the rights’ of the Northern States. They simply desired to withdraw from as sociation with a Government which j had already demonstrated its deadly i hostility to the rights and interests of their citizens, and to establish for themselves a Government friendly to their own interest. . . . The causes which led up to the war our adversa ries will not discuss, for the public record is against them." Judge Reagan, when captured in Georgia with President Davis, was brought to Macon and sent with Vice- President Stephens to Fort "Warner, j Boston Harb in i serab PARIS. Jan. 6.—Developments in the Church and State situation indicate that the Vatican authorities feel con strained to vindicate their course by which Church property in France to the value of $120,000,000, was forfeited by tl^ rejection of everything offered by the Government and will even go to the> extent of ordering the clergy to leave the churches in the hope of driv ing the FYench Catholics to demand redress at the ballot box. Bishop LaCroix. of Tarentaise, which is situated in a poor mountainous re gion of France, has received orders from the Vatican necessitating the dis solution of an association which he had formed with the object of retain ing the Church property in order to support the stricken clergy of his dio cese. Many bishops are issuing ap peals to the faithful for funtts, paint ing the spoliation of the Church in the blackest colors. Cardinal Richards’ appeal, which will be read in the j!_ j churches of Paris tomorrow. 1 will say In part: “The spoliation of the Church in France will soon be complete. The Government has repudiated its sawed obligation by suppressing the public worship budget. The small recom pense which is accorded will not pay for what is owing to the clergy for the property seized during the revolu tion. The bishops and priests have been driven from their homes, nnd as B I if this was not enough, the Church has been stripped of all the property | received through the liberality of the | faithful during the past century. ‘The ! property of the wardens, pius, endow- j ments, seminaries, recotories and even i the fund of the aged and infirm clergy j’s to be sequestered, and tomorrow will j be confiscated.’ I “We protest against this action in | the name of the Church and of the | elementary principles of justice.” ALBANY. N. Y., Jan. 6.—Supreme Court Justice Fitts today, on motion of counsel, representing Mayor McClel lan. of New York City, issued an order forbidding Attorney-General Jackson to hear the re-argument on William Ran dolph Hearst’s application for leave to begin quo warranto proceedings against Mayor McClellan, pending a hearing before Justice Fitts on Janu ary 12. This will prevent the argument be fore the Attorney-General which had been set for next Monday. The writ was asked for on the ground that a similar application for leave to test Mayor McClellan’s title to the office of Mayor of New York had been acted upon by former Attorney-General May er and that the present Attorney-Gen eral had no right to open the pro ceedings. Population of United States Increased by 1,166,353 Immigrants. WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 1 year ended June 30. 1906. produced a record eclipsing all former figures on ; the subject of immigration, according ! to the annual report of Frank P. Sar- geant. the Commissioner General of Immigration. During that period, the reporc says, the? population of the ; United States was increased by the admission of 1.100.733 imlgrant aliens, and 65.61S non-immigrant aliens en tered at its ports, making the total ad missions 1.166.353. The increase over Inst year’s record of 1,059,755 (1,026,- 199 aliens plus 33,256 transits), was 106.59S. During the fiscal year, 1905, I1.4S0 aliens were rejected, and dur ing the past year 12.432. Of the im migrant aliens, that is, those who in tended settling in the United States, there were 764.463 males, and 336.272 females. Th etendency of imigration during the past few years to gather its steady increase principally from the countries of Southern Europe Is referred to. •Without exception," the report says, “the countries from which we former ly obtained the greater part of out- foreign population, and which are in- habited_ by races nearly akin to our : own. have supplied us with smaller numbers during the past year than J during 1905—Ireland,, 17,950; England. 15,21 S; Sweden. 3,281: Germany, 3,010: : Denmark, 1,229, and Scotland, 1.111 less j On the other hand the four most con- i siderable gains are: Italy, 5.-1C5: Rus- j sia, 30.76S; Greece, S.974. and Turkey (in Europe and Asia). 5,165. The immigration from Austria-Hun- I I After my first excitement was over | nry thoughts ran thus: I will return again to the Sunny South, j April IS. 1906. it was hard to believe that the Queen City of the Golden j West was laid low in the dust. Her magnificent public buildings. her palores. her beautiful extensive parks, with their evergreen foliage and ever- blooming flowers. Like Tyre of old. she was a merchant city, and like Tyre, she dwelt in the entry of the sea. Her bank clearings excelled that I of all the great combined cities of the West to Sait Lake City and Helena. She had forty-two national banks, twenty-one private banks, sixteen com mercial banks and seventy-three sav- ! ings banks, and not a single one failed, although they were all burned. Cali fornia fire insurance companies were the first in' the field to adjust claims, paying dollar for dollar, with no dis count. When the awful blow fell upon her. California north of Tehachipi. was paralyzed. But the city, the pride of the Pacific, was laid low. Mortal tongues nor pen can never tell the story of the day and night which ii- | lowed that awful shock cf Wednesday I morning. No one can tell the loss of life. . | The famous clock in the sower of The fiscal • Ferry building told at what hoim ! the quake began. It stopped at the j minute. The broad avenue of Van Ness 1 marked the boundary line between the city that stood and the portion sumed. The tragedy proved how tificial a modern city is. how helpless it is when the Almighty sees fit to brealt water mains, sewers, telephone connections, street car lines and sources of supply in forty seconds. The quake shook down in ’’Frisco” hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of walls and chimneys, but the conflagration that followed burned hundreds of millions worth of proper ty. There is no estimating the actual damage wrought. Within an hour after the shock the smoke was a lurid tower visible more than a hundred miles away. And for three days and nights smoke swayed in the sky, red dening the sun. darkening the day. and filling the land with smoke. Inside of twelve hours after the first shock the heart of the city was gone. Dynamite was lavishly used and many of the city’s proudest structures were crum bled to earth. An enumeration of the buildings destroyed would be a di- | rectory to San Francisco. An enu- j rne.ration of the dead will never be made. j I passed Wednesday night in tbe I path of the advancing flames, and in ; all those terrible hours I saw not one ! woman who wept. Before the flames j throughout the night fled tens of thousands of homeless ones. Some and trapezes and all visible at once from the tiers of seats that make the place the most commodious in the world. In the scant hours of ease the builders of San Francisco will have frequent occasion to bless the memory of Adolph Sutro. mrs. c. L. davis. Lynn avenue. Vineviiie. H. R. Brown Writes Letter on Negro Labor in Georgia. Nearly $90,000 r 7 , 3 T , ne tmmigration irom Austna-xiun- j wrapped in blankets, others car- For State treasury F ar> ' a T Ume n l? 2G 1 S .- 13S: , ) l t ., a F mc ' ud - I tied bundles of dear household treas- I VI C ing Sicily and Sardin.a 273 120: Rus- i ures . Baby buggies, tov wagons and sian Empire and Finland, 215,660: Chi- A ATLANTA, Jan. 6.—The o.uarterly i rental of the labor of the long term 1 felony convicts of the State has reached the handsome figure of $83,362.52. as is shown by the report of Secretary Yan cey. of the Prison'Commission, which will be found below. The report shows the contractors and the amount due the State by each: ' Office of the Prison* Commission of Georgia. Atlanta. Ga., Jan. 7, 1907. Statement this day rendered to the ' Comptroller General of Georgia of the amounts due the State for the hire of convict labor for the quarter ending December 31. 1906; Hamby, W. B. Atlanta. Ga..$ 32,108.66 Durham Coal & Coke Co., Chattanooga, Tenn..11,854.6S Chattahoochee Brick Co., At lanta. Ga 9.S52.S9 Cruger & Pace. Albany. Ga.. 5.813.70 Hon. E. J. McRae, Kinder Lou, Ga 5,519.00 Lookout Mountain Coal & Coke Co., Atlanta. Ga.... 5,420.24 Flowc-rs Lumber Co., Jakin. Ga 2.996.09 Flowers Bros. Lumber Co., ■Blakely, Ga 2,975.46 • No. Ga. Iron & Coal Co. (Palmer Brick Co.), Atlanta, Ga 2.862.02 E. E. Foy Mfg. Co.. Egypt, Ga ’. 2.771.51 The G. V. Gress Lumber Co.. First National Bank of Tif- ton. Ga. . 2.755.98 J. Lee Ensign. Tifton. Ga.. 2,715.34 Dr. J. B. S. Holmes, Val dosta, Ga na, 1,544: Japan, 13.S35; the West In dies. 13.656. General Unrest Among Laborers. The immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, the -Commissioner says, is a result of general unrest ex- i go-carts were used as trunks. Never j in all San Francisco’s history were her ! people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror. All night those home- : less ones fled before the flames. | They had left their home, burdened with possessions. Now and then they isting among the laboring classes of j would lighten up their burden, flinging 1.711.95 $89,362.52 We certify that the foregoing state ment of the amounts due the State for hire of convict labor for quarter ending December 31, 1906. is true and correct. THE PRISON COMMISSION OF GEORGIA. By JOS. S. TURNER. Chairman. PERIS’ SPECIFIC DENIAL OE CHARGES NEW YORK. Jan. 6.—“I am not The cell assigned was ; guilty of the offenses charged against and Judge Reagan became , me by the indictments. I did not anxious for Lie health of Mr. Stephens, i make the entries in the "books of' the and inquired ef his officer if Mr. Ste- New York Life Insurance Mrs nnd Miss Squlers illnesse". bu: the minis flrses to attribute the <v mate saving 'hat it li ft!--tor. Mr. Sqt! : r.’s " i T h him. with the exc younger children, who here, s'rr? h? has eer:r perhaps rather ’. l-tash effect that to whatever be sent bv his country, rations slmuid he seeo: This belief" may pwhq from Mr. Squlers’ train!: where he served for ■’-'■:; fore entering the r suffered o the ' mav Iircll- ! the English spoiitd Lone •, v.l’d life ■n son h peer and h's wife, to the eals so in ? non. the ranch amp. ng power. Mrs Adai icted house parties which society people an ;nv! 's protr something to E.'-.e'and aspi The spirit of the chase prevails at thes? visits, for where would an Eng lishman he satisfied unless he could ride to dogs? Mrs. Adair herself is a passionate devotee of the chase. On ;he ranch is a stable of blooded horses and a Ir.ry kennel of dogs, whose ped- igrees run back to a period that an tedates the founding of many families en vears be- ; of world-' out latic service. has heen ad nelly, 'he .an lie Gloucesto him famous in the 1 nit- 1 Alabama, a ccr-rded The Navy Depart men; vised that James K Cot thor "‘hose stories of fishing fleet have made bus enlisted as a yeoman States Navy. Mr. Connelly assigned to the battleship and it is said that he "111 lie certain sneeinl privileges so that his work of preparing a move' in laudation j of the nav -1 service will not be irr- | peded. It is Mr. Connelly’s ambtrimj to do for the American N.aw what ; Kipling ha_s done for the British army, j According to the annual report of 'he j Philippine Commission for "he fiscal , year ended Jure 3-i. 100c. the "little j brown brothers" in the Philippines I have been benevoioctlv assimilated and j peace has spread !'s wings over 'he 1 islands. Thm Pulajanes and the !a- ! drones, by reason ef a policy of "be- I nevo’ent assimilation.” either have been wiped out. are under sentence of death for attveious murders, or have j been driven into the fastnesses of the hills, where their power for evil hr" •'mrtle.aiiy disappeared. With regard to the industrial conditirm ! u * 'e Islands, the situation I« excellent. Tile typhoon of the early pant of the '"ear damaged th? crop, r ■> the c::te*u of some feu r million dollars, but 'ti the whole the farmers ere more prosperous and there Is a general spread of peace- level she of I hnse. r ; hut t Ill's ' Not a wire fence can bo I the borders of the Adair But Adair’s life world ofter [Vndon. Close wilt by the dllk and tli sees—a =e to : xvorite sport, courses far has led the 1 obstruction >r the snort, found within estate. fide of Mrs. : is the side the society leader in inderland house, of Marlborough after phens. delicate as he was. was con fined in such a cell. Of his confine ment Judge Reagan says: Vice-President Stephens and I were allowed -to walk out on the walls of the Fort accompanied by an officer, for half an hour each day. when the weather was good, but never together: and we were not permitted to com municate with others. In taking my walk I passed by the window of Mr. Stephen-"’ room, and from hearing me talk with the officer he learned about the time of the day I went out. and placing himself at the window of his room, he hailed me as I went by. I made inquiry as to his health, and after a few words passed on. A first lieutenant. Woodman, was my escort. He seemed to be looking somewhere Company, ; specified in the indictments, or any of them, nor was I in anyway connected ; in the making of such entries, nor did I aid and abet the making of such en tries, nor did I, directly or indirectly, counsel, command, induce or procure any other person to make such en tries.” George W. Perkins, formerly vice- president of the New York Life In surance Company, made this sworn answer to the charges that he had caused false entries to be made in the company’s books to conceal the real nature of some of its stock transac tions. These charges form the basis I of the six indictments for forgery in the third degree handed down against j Mr. Perkins and Chas. S. Fairchild, those sections which is encouraged, or even fomented, by the agents of the transportation companies scouring the country for passengers, and the Com missioner says, more drastic measures are required to effect a discontinuance of these steamship practices. The North Atlantic and North Central States together received 90 per ceait of the entire immigration of 1906, and the. South 4 per cent. The report re fers to what Commissioner Sargent be lieves to have heen extensive schemes to secure foreign labor brought to light in the past year and now being in vestigated. The evidence is already at hand, the report says, to show that some individual or corporation is en gaged in importing numerous of Jap anese laborers to work on the railroads of the Northwest. These Japanese come to Hawaii destined to “hotels” kept by labor agents and claim that they are J merely seeking labor that may be se cured in the islands. ’After remain ing a few days or weeks there they ship for Northwestern mainland ports. Having been admitted at Hawaiian ports their voyage thence is coastwise and they cannot be examined on arrival , at the mainland port under the alien : labor contract or any other provision | of the immigration laws. Japanese have been arriving at San Francisco, coastwise, from Honolulu .and Cana dian ports, at the rate of 1.009 to 3.000 I per month, and the report says sev- ; era! thousand laborers have been im ported under this evasion of the law. ! Discussing difficulties in enforcing the ' Chinese exclusion law the report rec- 1 ommends stationing officers in China j to investigate and approve certificates j issued bj" the Chinese Government to ; members of the exempt classes, such plan to supersede that of having the ! investigation made by United States j Consular officers. Complete and de tailed registration of all of Chinese in the United States is again recom mended. Any Chinese laborer found in the United States after the regis- i J tration act, who has not a residence | certificate, and if found to be here ; unlawfully should, the report says, be j deported. The Commissioner reports j that on the Mexican border Chinese coolies are constantly being smuggled into this country from Mexico. The President’s suggestion for closing the : Mexican border to all aliens except cit- | izens of Mexico Is also urged. Dur ing the early part of the year, the report says, the “white slave” traffic ! was exceedingly revived. Many of the girls and women, imported for immoral ' purposes, were brought through Mexico and secured a right to citizenship by marrying Chinese born in this country. : out upon the street clothing and troas The Georgia Immgirqtion Society, which will meet here in a short time, is planning a definite campaign to se cure laborers. A convention is to be held in Macon in the summer, which shall have representatives from all the cities of Georgia. Air. Herbert R. Brown, in a recent trip through the wire grass region, re ports the following condition in that section and institutes comparisons which are well worth consideration. He looks to white labor to remedy the evils that retard the prosperity and growth of the Southern States. Fol lowing is Mr. Brown's report: To the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Macon, Ga.: With the idea of getting the people of Macon more Interested in immigra tion, it seems necessary to discuss and plan ways and miens. Several years ; ago the writer went over a large sec- i iion of Georgia in company with | what is known as an expert commer- I cial engineer, sent out by New A’ork capitalist, largely interested in various trust companies. His report was a great surprise to them. I cannot say to what extent these facts were dis seminated. or what influence It may have had upon the growth and devol- ! opment of what is known as the wire- grass section of Georgia. But I do know that not one of -the forty-five ; Elates is as healthy as Georgia. Its climate is superb. No spot on this i earth can excel it. No State Is better t 1 watered. The variety and quality of | its timber are remarkable. In the variety and quality of its grasses, i grains, fruit, all food products, even j cotton and wool, it is ahead of any 1 other State. In thrift and labor it is j far behind, especially in the energetic , and thrifty kind, that has built up and : cultivated the Western States. Coffee | County. Georgia, has more square j miles in it than the State of Rhode | Island. In the last census it had less than 17.900 people, while that Stale had nearly 400.000. All the people in that State could not produce enough to feed and clothe them one month out of twelve, while if all the people in Rhode Island were moved to Coffee County, and fenced in, they could pro duce enough to feed and clothe them twelve months in the year, and yet Georgia has 145 counties. I would not discount or discourage any kind of labor that we have. By comparison and example I would en courage them to better ways and ef forts. The negro labor, and a large part of the white labor, waste and de stroy as much as it earns. The plow ures they had dragged for miles. Thev 1 anfl the , ho ^ are ,e . ft ,n . the ‘! 1P held on longest to their trunks, and j ."’agon in the yard and weather, the harness on the floor, the feed in the dirt. Few are fit to own any stock of The garden is a patch, the dirty, the fence corners over those trunks many a strong man broke his heart that night. The hills , are very steep and up those Hills, mile , an >" aind. after mile, were the trunks dragged, premises ar Everywhere were trunks and some- I and ditches are covered with weed times across them were lying their ex- j and worthless growth, patches cult hausted owners, men and women. Before the march of the flames were flung a picket line of soldiers and vated here and there, and the .barn and house look neglected nnd care worn. The bone nnd sinew have nr> a block.at a time, as the flames ad- ! tact for anything except fat meat, corn vanced. these pickets retreated. One j bread, pot liquor, corn whisky and of their tasks was to keep the trunk- 1 tobacco. How can we get the premises cleaned up. the little white house and red barn, that dots the Western coun try. The same labor and thrift be stowed upon Georgia soil would double the product, and make millions of acres worth one hundred dollars per acre. r do not believe it is possible to di vert any perceptible amount of itnmi- I gration from New York to the South. ‘ It must come direct from Europe and not by way of Castle Garden. The Legisla ture could not do better than provide ways and means for an emmigrant sta tion near Savannah, an inspector and agents, and encourage hv official acts, and the promulgation of facts abroad that will start the tide farther South. Ortce started. It will take care of itself. Will the Chamber of Commerce take up this matter, discuss and promote it? Yours very truly. H. R. BROAVN. Macon, Ga.. Jan. 4. 1907. a week ago Friday. In adidtion to de- else and took no notice of our greet- j daring that he had nothing to do with ing. Every day after that Mr. Ste-‘ 1 the entries in the books of the New his marriage to Miss Consuelo Vander bilt. Mrs. Adair’s Lend n residence is the largest private mansion in Mayfair. Her er.tert:iirm°n's rank as the most er.gfrlv sought and the most lavish in n world where entertaining has reached a refinement of extravagance. The fanev dt'e's ball with which she open ed the London season May 13. 1993, and at which the countess nf Warwick, now famous as a socialist leader, as well a society leader, led the pom- radour orndrille. is still referred to as the most striking function of many seasons. It was at this bail that Mrs. Adair wore some of her famous jewels. As a practical relief worker Mrs. Ad Br has shown the same executive abilitv she displavs in the management of her estate. When Lady Randolph Churchill was in Bouth Africa, in 1909. Mr. Cornelia Adair was put at the head of the executive eorrp r ”'tlee of the Ar r ' , r : o:r hospital shir Maine, a pro ject to outfit „ n ri maintain a hospital ship for wounded and sick British sol- j diers during the South African war, phens would draw himself up to the window to let me know he was stiM alive. He was so frail he was re moved to a dry and better ventilated room, else he could not have lived much longer. “The famous letter, written in this prison, addressed to President John son, asking leniency for President Da vis and the Southern people, is pub lished in this book as an appendix. That letter Is worth the price of the book—$3: Noble Publishing Company. That letter is a strong presentation of the causes which led to the war, show ing how Northern rebellion against the Constitution, in activiv like a vol cano from 1850 to 1860. filled the South with apprehension and alarm, resulting in secession as a hope, not for war, but peace for peace. He showed the Southern view of their rights, and act ing not treasonably but righteously under their views of the compact, and as such were not traitors like those re belling against a king, as no moral turpitude attached to them from their view, and therefore it were statesman ship to treat the Southern people as an honorable people. He asked for restoration and not reconstruction. It is a remarkable letter, penned in his York Life, Mr. Perkins says there was no evidence before the grand jury to show that the particular entries were fraudulent, or that the stocks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railraod and the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul were not sold by the company as entries indicate. He also declares the grand jury has a mistaken idea that the crime of forgery could exist under the laws where there was no proof of intent to defraud or conceal a larceny or misappropriation. He lays stress on the presentment with which the grand jury accom panied their indictments and in which they said while they were constrained ; to indict on the advice of District At- j tornev Jerome, they believed nqjther Mr. Perkins nor Mr. Fairchild was actuated by any motive other than a desire to reap profit for the New York . Life’s poiicyholders. j GEN. BAGDADI WOUNDED; RAfSULI FLED TO MOUNTAINS TANGIER, Morocco, Jan. 5.—News from Zinat is conflicting, that originat ing from native sources, stating that the place has been shelled by artillery and Is half in ruins and that Raisuli has fled to the mountains. The same source states that General Bagdad), chief of the Sultan’s army, was wound ed while leading an attack. Many others are also reported wounded. It is impossible at this ttme to determine the actual results of the engagements. The Anjera-Fahs tribesmen have joined the Sultan's army in small numbers, thus showing their loyalty. TANGIER, Jan. 6.—Zinat Raisuli’s stronghold was virtually destroyed by fire and fell into the hands of the troops of the Su!t%n at noon today after a short and almost bloodless fight. Raisuli and his 700 followers succeeded in eluding capture, and reaching the mountains, despite the elaborate plans of War Minister Gab- bas to prevent their escape. LETTER ON MURDERED MAN LED TO ARREST OF WOMAN j NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on prison cell, -with no books of reference, j the label. Send in dues and yet it is not equalled for strong, sue- r._ iv„ 1 nnn cinct statement of the causes of the ' 3^30 renew for the year 1907. CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—The murder last night of Adalph Johnson, a cheese and fish peddler, who was stabbed to death in his barn, was followed today by the arrest of Mrs. Rose Sorensen, who had been employed as janitress at the New Theater. She admitted having written the^ letter found in the cloth ing of the' murdered man, but said puller moving. The exhausted crea tures. stirred on by the menace of bay onets. would arise and struggle on the steep pavements, pausing from weakness every five or ten feet, and often after climbing a heart-breaking hill they would find another wall of flame advancing upon them, and they ; would be compelled to change their line of retreat. ; In the end, after toiling for dozens i or bring it from the W j of hours like giants, they would be compelled to abandon their trunks. Many of them dug holes in vacant ; lots and back yards and buried them. Nine o’clock Wednesday night I : walked through the heart of the city. . Here was no fire. AH was in perfect order. The police patrolled the street. . Every building had its watchman at ; the door, and yet it was doomed. There was no water and dynamite was giv ing out. The sewers had been pumped ; dry. At 1 o'clock everything was still in tact. hut there was a change. A rain j of ashes was falling and at right an gles two different conflagrations were sleeping on it- The police had been ; withdrawn. Everything was absolutely abandoned. Two United States caval- i rjrracn sat and watched. I urged one ! old man to seek safety in flight. Said he: “Today is my birthday. I bought five bottles of wine and some other things for my birthday, as yesterday was worth thirty thousand dollars (and pointing to his crutches); today those crutches are all I have left.” I went inside with the owner on whose steps I sat. He was cool, cheer ful, and hospitable. “Yesterday morn ing.” said he, "I was worth six hun dred thousand dollars. Today this house , is all I have left. It will be gone in twenty minutes. Try this piano, listen to it's tone. There are few Iike.it. ; There are no horses, the flames are i coming. Everything is doomed." I On Thursday night the fire-fighters made their stand on Van Ness and had they fe.ild here every one of the few 1 remaining houses of the city would ; have been swept away. All day i Wednesday. Wednesday night Thurs day, Thursday night, Friday and Eri- j 99-day : day night, the flames raged until twen- j ty square miles, including Russian Hill | and Telegraph and three-quarters of a : mile of wharves and docks, had been j licked up. Only one line was left open | on the Postal Telegraph and no private ' message was sent. Before the office ; of the company an exhausted crowd , of men and women surged hack and I forth, imploring the manager to send a 1 message through for them. ; On Thursday night the first wire was open to the public, and the mes sages on file had grown to thousands and up to Saturday night there was on file 25,000 messages to be sent from Oakland. During this hour of terror a military band appeared and of a sudden there burst upon the air a grand, glorious and heavenly tune. “America.” Then the eye brightened, the heart leaped, the blood raced through the chilled veins of men and there sprang from the innermost soul, as well as the lips that sweet refrain, “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” The splendid baths unique in Amer ica. and the greatest indoor swimming baths in the world remain. There is a system of mains laid to carry pure ocean water from the open Pacific into the heart of the city for the peo ple to swim in all the year round. New York would have to go to Fire Island to get a supply as good. But the Sutro baths do not have to de pend on the mains for a supply, for they are right in the edge of the ocean, cut in the solid rocks of the Cost of the War of 1861-65. From th? New Orleans Picayune. Questions are constantly being asked, and statements are numerously made, as to the comparative forces engaged in the Civil War of 1861-65. and as to losses of pronerty in the South, the cost of the war and other matters of interest. It is not difficult to get Information as to matters on the Northern side, since all records and reports of the war are pre served. but on the Southern side the de sired particulars are not so easily ob tained. Some of our records were de stroyed and many captured and carried, to Washington, and in the course of time, interesting information is brought to ~Mr Cazpnove G. Lee. of Richmond, but now residing in Washington, has been searching in the archives of both sides, and he has got hold of a- variety of im portant particulars from the official rec ords From some figures of his recently printed statement in the Richmond Dis patch the following are extracted: Enlistments in Northern Army. Whites from Northern States... .2,3o3.981 Whites from Southern States.... 316.424 Negroes c Grand total 2.859.132 It is claimed that some of these we-e emergency men, and that if the entire force be reduced to a three years’ basis the aggregate will be 2.320.272. The total Confederate enlistments were 695.000. From this it Is seen that the Southern Army had to fight nearly, if not quite, four to on?. . , The following figures are Interesting: Federal prisoners in Confederate hands 270,000 Confederate prisoners in Federal hands 220.000 Confederates died in Federal pris ons 26,436 Federal? died in Confederate pris ons 22,670 Percentage of Confederate deaths in Federal prisons 12 Percentage Federal deaths in Con federate prisons 9 When we come to figures of costs and losses we have the following: Cost of the war to the United States $2,086,438,635 Pensions paid by United States since 1865 3,127,804.280 Interest paid by United States since 1865 on United States debt 2,794,318,623 that it had nothing to do with hi- death. She admitted an acquaintance | cliffs and supplied with unlimited clean of several years with Johnson, but de- : water by wave power. The water is dared that she could not understand ; pumped in under the glass roof and how or why he was murdered. John Sorensen, husband of Mrs. Sorensen, was also arrested a short time after his wife ‘ had been taken into custody. sprinkled down In fountains warmed to just the temperature. The main tank is 275 fed, but there are smaller tanks of various degrees of wasmth. AU equipped with spring boards, slides Total to United States.. .$9,008,561,538 Confederate bonds lost by the war $2,000,000,000 Confederate notes lost by the war 500.000.000 Census valuation in the. South. 1869. in excess of valuation. 1879 2.372,830,179 Bank capital and circulation lost 112,986,429 Specie spent in Europe dur ing the war by the South.. 18,075,090 Increase of State debts of South during reconstruction 293.020.641 Total Confederate los."...$ 5.296.912.249 Grand total of losses.... 14.305.473.787 When it fs considered that the South fought four years against such odds of men and against enormous superiority in material supplies, all the Southern ports being closed by blockade against the world, and after suffering vast losses in men and property, has recovered to the remarkable degree now en toyed, one of the most astonishing facts in human his tory i» presented to the world.