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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1907. THE TWICE-A- WEEK TELEGRAPH DR. J. HERMAN FEIST GUILTY OF MURDER CHICAGO. Y>- would have a •'*- A pr- that natoly to 'ho ruTjlio schools of San j Francises." No Party to Agreement. When Mi Culvers on asked the ques- tf-r. if In’at was the understanding. Sen it or Flint replied -“So tar as I am i ii cemed I know of no agreement be- tw on California and the President v itt> refer nee to the adjustment of the school matters of Pan Francisco. I have NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Feb. 16.—Dr. J. n r been a party to any such agreement I Herman Feist, charged with the mur- l. >r attended any conference between der of Mrs Rosa Mangrom. was today the California delegation and the Sec- | found guilty of murder in the first de- retary of State or the President.” j gree. The verdict carries with it the t | death penalty. Mrs. Mangrum. who ) had been under the care of Dr. Feist, i disappeared on December 19. 1905. and ! her body was found in the Ohio river DEATH VALIEY t SEAUTIFBL GARDEN .'1th tl trade Our lanta freight Influence on South. The much interested in es from the lakes to le own-- a railroad f Chattanooga and th Mi-ontr f-c r,! i:i:( n: in it to Savannah, if Cincinnati reclaim control of the line built citizens from Cincinnati toChattn and Cincinnati and Chlc.iv. woul a movement for the con.MtrUCtloi line from Chicago to Cincinnati, nngnt be tnade a through t:un from Chicago to Savannah ope solely for the purpose of paying ponses i: •! inf. r- -r r. • he .so!ml of construction without the hui of watered stock and bonds. juid rail- BILL IN THE SENATE xtend: np the: I WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 16.—The I river and harbor appropriation bill j was re-v>rte*i to the Senate today by ! I Chairman Frye, of the Committee on ! I Commerce. It carries $92,720,472, an ' j increase of $8,519,334 over the amount j appropriated by the House. Of this I amount the appropriation Immediately • available Is $40,081,809. and the agere- ; gate for projects authorized is $52,638.- j 564. Among important new amend- I ments are appropriations for con structing an inland waterway from Pimlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, N. ! C.. $704,825: Cape Frar River, N. C., I $200,000; Club and Plantation Creks at Cairo. Ills., on January few days before the disappearance r.of Mrs. Mangrum she drew $1,400 from bank and announced that she was go ing to Chicago. The evidence against Dr. Feist was circumstantial, a feature being that he deposited in a bank $500 a lew days after the disappearance of Mrs. Mangrum. .such a line would prove beneficial not onlv to the great cities 'hrnHtrh which It passed, but to a broad terH- | «*“*!«. $40,700; St. John's tory adjacent to the line. It would .’luce freight rates more than 25 per j cent- It would have a roost marked Influence on our trade relations.” River, opposite Jacksonville, $371,500; West Branch. Norfolk, $70,000; harbor at Mobile, Ala., $1,000. BIG EIRE ATTENDED HUH LOSS OF LIFE Conference Report on Immi gration Bill Adopted by Party Vote. WASHINGTON*. Feb. 16.—Tile ad- mJnlstration plan to settle the Cali fornia-Japanese situation was ap proved by the Senate today in the adoption of the conference report on the immigration bill. This report con tains a provision which authorizes the President to exclude Japanese laborers from the United States at his discre- , tion. The report will now go to the House for its approval, which It has been stated is assured. COMMITTEE REBUKED BAILEY’S ATTORNEYS AUSTIN. Texas. Feb. 16.—The leg islative committee investigating charges against United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey, at the opening of to day's session, reproved the attorneys representing Senator Bailey for what was deemed discourteous treatment of Representative Cocke, who is prosecut ing the charges, and insisted that both the committee and the prosecutor be treated more respectfully. A. J. Hutchinson, auditor of the - Waters Pierce ©il Company, the only witness examined today, testified rel ative to certain vouchers and notes noted by the committee in their in- ALEXANDRIA, Va.. Feb. 16.—One death from excitement and exposure, six firemen overcome by smoke, one badly burned about the face and an- Fla-, | other injured by a falling beam, and Va.. damage amounting to $10,000, were the results of a fire which early today de stroyed Wedderburn row, a block of houses on Albert street. The fire was caused by the overturning of a lighted lamp. Mrs. Sarah E. Skillman, an aged I woman, was 111 in bed with pneumonia, j When the flames extended to her home she was carried to the sidewalk, but died on the way to a hospital. George Walker was burned about the face, and | John Travis, a volunteer fireman, was : struck by a falling beam. An explosion In the saloon owned by P. T. Everett in one of the burned buildings, while the fire was in pro gress, knocked down several fireman and spectators. • Secretary of otate Submits Some Interesting Facts and,Figures to Gov ernor. ATLANTA. Feb. 16.—Some interest ing facts are set forth in the annua] report of Secretary of State Phil , T !l° ° n i U l e day was ,0 the realisation of the books of the com-• thToaSSn' Just Sd r In* the* repon* ■ ? n ' I W- . Mr.; Cocke replying to certain | gj* ^ jU ‘ The opposition presented an alternative plan con tained In a resolution of instructions to the conferees requiring them to bring In a provision positively pro hibiting the entrance of Japanese la borers into the United States. Sen ator Culberson pres nted this resolu tion. It was declared not in ord r, on motion of Mr. Loiige. and an appeal from this ruling of the Vice-President was defeated by a vote of 45 to 24. be ing practically a party vote. The con ference report was then adopted with- objectlons by opposing counsel today, spoke of their “tender solicitude for the Waters Pierce Oil Company.” and lateT he protested to the chairman because of what he termed the appar ent unwillingness of the witness to answer questions without first look ing toward Senator Bailey's counsel and waiting to see If they would ob-' ject to the questions. This brought forth a protest from Senator Bailey, who said that if “the committee wants to have an orderly proceeding there must be no further , suggestion of tender solicitude for the roll call. _JHMI _ The dismiss.on was opened by Sen- I Waters Pierce Oil Company by me or jlor Simmons, of North Carolina. | my attorneys, or suggestions that the •1 vote for the report.' he j witness was guided by any intelil- •!<id. 'because I believe the South will : g ence received from looking at these provisions." | attorneys.” Acting Chairman McGregor in- San Francisco Chronicle. Think, if you will, of a long, low val ley. lying between two lof.y ranges of barren mountains—a white, glistening sink for a miserable desert river—the whole overlaid with a thick, black pall of wind and sand and ashes from the i dead creaters that fringe its borders; i and all the heat and horrid fumes of 1j0o. A i Gehenna, and you have some idea of : Dea h Valley in summer. Wash these mountains clean with three months of almost continual cloudbursts and rain, rim in their feet and the whole edge of the valley with foot-deep grasses, lush and green as any that ever floored Slerran clenega, sprinkle ihe white waste with green bunches of mesqulte all aglow with myriad blossoms, arch over all an Adri atic sky. cooled with the balmiest of breezes, and you have pictured Death Valley at the beginning of spring. On the face of the green earth lies no more terrible bit of world in summer, no more beautiful one in spring. And over ;he graves of many—Piute and 'desert tramp, teamster and lonely prospector—who have lain down to rise no more beneath its heartless skies, glows the most beautiful carpet of wild flowers to be found in this bloom- famed land of California. Not half :h6 plants of Death Valley are known to scientists: most of those that are known are little more than names, and will never be more until the prying arm of the railroad shall have laid bare some of the secrets of this Vale of Hlnnom. Most beautiful and most plenty, of course, of all these plants that bloom on the desert are the cacti, and the rapid ity with which their dry and appar ently wi'hered stalks put out blossoms under the touch of the rains is won derful. The life of any one of the cacti Is the personification of death and res urrection—and as they come into full est bloom on or about Easter the whole desert, far as the eve can reach, seems like one vast cathedral, arched with tur quoise. floored with emerald and gayly garbed in giant Easter lilies. The largest and showiest blossom of them all grows on a short, stocky stem, which during the summer does not seem to have life enough :o produce the magnificent, waxy flowers, which are often as much as five inches across. A cactus much larger than this—the barrel cactus—has a very small and in significant bloom, while the tiniest of all, a low, creeping, round-stemmed, jointed growth, has an Immense nink flower, beautiful as any orchid and ri valing the fairest rose of Persia in its odor. Unfortunately, the names of these rare species are. not-well known, and the commoner varieties, which'are also found on the coast slope, bear no such gorgeous array of blossoms. Old News in Paragraphs appointment is well received by members of the regiment. NEW YORK. Eeb. 15—A series of meet- I ingrs in congregational churches of New I York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and COLUMBIA. S. C.. Feb. 17.—House of extending over a period of several weeks. Representatives Saturday, by a vote of will bo open in this city tomorrow under 78 to 28. adopted the report of the con- the auspices of the American Missionary ference committee, which for 36 hours ' association. The speakers at the various had been working on defects in the local meetings will discuss negro education -and option bill. The report also was adopted the work the association has done, and by the Senate bv a vote of 25 to 10. and \ expects to do among the people in the the act will be signed by Governor Ansel * mountainous sections Of Kentuckv, Ten- WESTERN & GULF RY. WILL TRAVERSE DOOLY I AMERICAS. Ga jectors of the Wet .way, from Atneri at once, the State dispensary thus pass ing out of existence with today. ne.«s»e ana North Carolina- TALLAPOOSA. Ga., Feb. 15.—Four boys led by Carl Davis, the oldest, thirteen years of age it is said, have confessed to attempting to wreck a Southern railway train just east of here Tuesday night. An accommodation train from Atlanta ran into an open switch, the engine was demolished and the engineer and fireman badly bruised, but the passengers escaped. The had been broken and the switch left open. The boys said their object was to rob the express car. LEBANON. Pa.. Feb. 16.—Mrs. Zeller, the wife of John Zeller, of Annville. near here, was instantly killed by an explo sion of dynamite at her home today, and their two children. Lydia, aged 13 years, and Mary, aged 5 years, were so badly injured that there is little hope of their recovery. The house was wrecked. Zell er placed three sticks of dynamite in the stove to thaw and went to work, nes ted | lecting to tell his wife that the dynamite lock ' vas the oven. ST. PAUL, Minn.. Feb. 16.—The Min nesota Editorial Association today passed several resolutions, among them ELBERTON. Ga.. Feb. 15—Robt Helme. 1 being one in which the association a 'armer. living near Elberton. committed 1 pledged Itself to work for the “dis- sulcide Wednesday night by taking a i barment" of Third Assistant Postmas- four-ounce vial of laudanum. ; ter General Madden, “who had proved About 3 o clock Thursday morning, his himsetf inefficient to hold office.” The resolution with reference to Mr. Madden also provides all evidence as to wife was awakened by he aw breathing. ; and on investigation found her husband ; was unconscious. Every effort was nude to revive him but he died at 10 o'clock : Thursday morning. HI health Is supposed to have driven him to commit the rash act. Madden's inability be collected and submitted to President Roosevelt. CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 16.—On ap- UNADILLA. Ga.. Feb. 16-W. L. Hooks. Government a recess who was accidentally **hot while dov*» t " as taken in the contempt case toaa> hunting at Elko on Wednesday morning. , until some date late in March. Two died this morning as a result of Ills in- more alleged lynchers. Bar Justice and juries. Mr. Hooks was 65 years old. and Luther Williams, were named today. th<» seriousness of the wound, together j with his age. were against him. piydt iv om<, i K A small neco boy who was carrying FINDLAY, Ohio, Feb. 16. Argument his gun for him is held responsible for to quash the 93o indictments recently his death._ though it was entirely acei- j found against the Standard Oil Corn- dental. Mr. Hooks asked the boy for the gun. and In handing it to him it was dis charged, the load entering the hip of Mr. Hooks. / oot suffer under He believed the demand for labor In I he South had been overstated by oCTi- ators Bacon and Tillman, although li snid his State could use sixty thousand more agricultural 'and twenty thousand I more cotton factory laborers. A de nial was made by Mr. Bacon of printed reports that the opposition of himself and Senator Tillman to the conference report had been withdrawn under , pressure from Senator Aldrich to save ; or secure appropriations in the river | md harbor hill. Referring briefly to the labor situ A- ■ tlon In the South. Mr. Bacon said: j •The fact cannot be concealed that j there Is a serious and galling jealousy on the part of Industries in M tsaachu- i setts against the growing and increas ing manufacturing interests of South. “There is a disposition to interfere with the further development of th’ose industries of the South, and no more jure method could be adopted than that proposed in this bill." Mr. Tillman interrupted Mr. Bacon ‘to get some 1'ght." "I see in the morning papers," he began, "reference to the 'big' stick’ making threats of an extra s ssion un less this r'-ort Is adopted, and the big stick’ In New York (Senator Aid- rich) telephoning to Senator Crane or ient about the river and harbor bill, o leave out the South Carolina and .“eorga Items. Well. South Carolina has not much in that bill—Georgia Yiay have a whole ham of the beef.” •'I notice also that the cabinet met tometime yesterday and reached the ioncluston that the changes made in the immigration law did not affect the decision of Secret try Straus on the South Carolina ease. "Perhaps 'ho Senator from M :ssa- roads and 2 inter-urban electric lines. Work has already commenced on a considerable number of them. These 37 lines represent a total mileage of 2.775 and b capital stock of $9,710,000. The longest line is 350 miles and the shortest two. The largest capital stock is $1,009,000 and lhe smallest $10,000, During the year 1906 Secretary Cook issued charters to 70 new banks, with . _ - : a total capitalization of $2,647,500. In I strutted Mr. Cocke that such remarks : 5905 85 new banks were chartered with were entirely unnecessary. ; a capital of $2,475,000. while in 1904 come from the State printer. An unusual increase is shown in the amount of fees collected through the Secretary of State’s office within the last seven years. The total amount for 1900 being $1,841.86 as against $15,641 collected In J906. All railroad and bank charters are issued from Seeretarv Cook’s office. During 1906. 37 separate railroad lines ! friends greet the traveler on the rim were chartered, of which 35 were steam r ' T r ‘“ n 11 VALDOSTA. Feb. 15.—Wednesday night the store of John L. Roberts, of Wingfield, six miles from Lake City, was burglarized and the safe blown open. The cracksmen got nothing from the safe as they were frightened off. Walter Hemmingway. of Savan nah, was arrested near the scene and was placed in jail at Lake City as a suspicious character. He took a dose of strychnine or some other poison and died. He denied implication in the robbery. ATLANTA, Feb. 15.—A mortgage for S18.000.000 was filed here today by the Seaboard Air Line railway. It is to run for thirty years, and is made irj favor of the Morton Trust Company and James I. B'urke trustees. The mortgage is to secure thirty-year 5 per cent, gold bonds, and t.he proceeds are to be used for betterments of the road and its equipment. NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 15 —Wien a posse overtook Joseph Corban todav he.; shot and killed himself. Corban wns suspected of being the man who shot up a Shrewbury saloon two nights ago. kill- 1 ing one man anu wounding three others. , He was caught near Lutcher, I,a. pany and its subsidiary companies be gan here today before Judge Duncan, WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Startling testimony concerning alleged plans to massacre colored soldiers at Browns ville, Texas, by men from the town firing over the barracks to stampede the soldiers and challenges to' them to come out of the barracks was given by negro ex-soldiers today at the in vestigation before the Senate commit tee on military affairs. Feb. 16.—The pro- :rn and Gulf Rail- to Hawkinsvllle. have fully determined the routc- through Doolv County accepting the propositions of citizens of Unadilia and Bvromville. This action was taken at a largely attended and enthusiastic meeting just held at Unadilia. State Senator Crawford Wheatley. Hon. Pleasant Lovejoy, of Hawkinsvllle. and Seymour Byron will go North next week in the Interest of the proposed railway, the ultimate success of which seems fully assured. Sixty thousand dollars is pledged already. It is said, by capitalists for the development of the immense kaolin deposits near Amorims, the purpose suggested being the organization of a stock company, whiclt will erect a fac tory and manufacture here various ar ticles made of kaolin. The beds are only three miles from the Central rail road and are said to be among the finest in the world, the supply being practically inexhaustible. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Represen tative Mudd, of Maryland, introduced a resolution in the House today provid ing for an investigation of the dis crimination against American tobacco in foreign markets through what is called the "Regie system," and empow ering the President to authorize dis criminatory tariffs to be imposed on the goods of countries which discrimi nate against American tobacco. KILLED JOHN BALE I there were only thirtv-nine with a to- j tal capitalization of $975,000. Secretary Cook issued thirty-four ; charters to insurance companies dur- ! ing 1906. most of them being organized Ion the mutual or co-operative: plan ; without capital stock. Sixteen land grants were issued of Dealt Valley, too. however. There is the cholin. (pronounced Choyah), which, while large and many-branched. produces few or no flowers, reproduc ing itself by "slipping." as our grand mothers were wont to say of their choice geraniums. Wherever an unu sually long branch falls to the ground it seems almost to work its way into the earth, so soon do the shlfing sands cover it. Then a process of rooting takes place, so that soon an entirely j WASHINGTON Feb in The Sen- separate plant comes up a few feet j at0 committee on military affairs today from the parent. So it is that the great ; postponetl thc Brownsville hearing un- beds of cacti are formed throughout t „ Monday in order to give considera- tno desert. ..... , , ,, I tlon to the military academy appro- One noticeable thing about all the i nrHHnn hill plants in and around Death Valley is ’ { that they grow low to the ground-for | VALDOSTA. Ga.. Feb. 16.—L. F. no living thing can stand against the H unter. a well-known citizen of the simoons that sweep this level floor for countVl was shot three times by his ! COLUMBUS. Ga.. Feb. 16.—the ; Muscogee County Grand Jury has in- j dieted Claude Byrd on the charge of j assault and battery as the result of ! his recent attack on Attorney George : C. Porter, of Girard, Ala., when he ■ knocked the lawyer down in a court . room. LONDON, Feb. 16.—The Rothschilds have refused the request of the Brazil ian Government to issue a. loan of $25,000,000 to finance the coffee valori- ; zation scheme. Bankers here are con vinced that the Brazilian plan for keeping coffee up to a fictitious price 1 is doomed to failure. It is understood j that- the Brazilian Government takes a I similar view and is rather gratified at j the refusal of the Rothschilds to float the loan. ! ATLLANTA. Feb. 16.—An ordinance will be introduced in Council Monday, : asking that paupers' field at Oakland ' cemetery, in which some 6.000 bodies are ! buried, b" divided into lots and sold to | purchasers for grave purposes, the white i pauper bodies to be removed to West i View, the negroes to another cemetery. Oakland cemetery is owned hv the city. I and it is estimated that Atlanta will i make $216,000, if this step is taken by ! Council. WASHINGTON. Feb; 16.—Thc bu reau of manufactures of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor, proba bly will appoint J. L. Benton, of Geor gia. a special agent to investigate the Sixteen land grants were issued 200 mdes on over into the Nevada des- , f ather -i n -Inw, L. M. Covington, at the market for cotton seed products both under the old head right laws, inelud- ert. These low gorges protect them- | ] atter 's.home, near ClyatteviUe and is j in this country and abroad, mg a total of 1,-69 acres, in the fol- selves from the drifting sand,m a won- ! probab i' v fatally- wounded. The trou- 1 I lowing counties: derfully ingenious manner. When :he , £ ]e 0CC i lrred aboui 5:30 o'clock last COLQUITT, Ga„ Feb. 16.—This aft- j Montgomery County 3 grants j plant first breaks from the ground It ernoon about 5 o’clock Sheriff J. A. Phillips shot and killed John Ball, a young white man of this country. The tbc j trouble seems to have arisen this j morning when John Ball and a negro named Dal Washington had some trouble and later this evening the negro ' McIntosh County shot at Ball and in turn was shot at | Charlton County by young Ball. A warrant was taken out for Ball and his father for riot and when approached by Sheriff Phillips, John Ball, who was drinking, drew his pistol and told the Sheriff that he would shoot him if he should try to Emmanuel County- 8 grants Bryan County 2 grants Camden County 1 grant Tattnall County 1 grant Liberty County 3 grants Effingham County 1 grant arrest him. The Sheriff, it is said, fearing he was about to be shot, shot Ball in the left side, the bullet rang ing upward. Ball died soon after ward. John Ball at the last October term of Miller Superior Court was tried j for the murder of one Jim Mears, .1 grant ..2 grants Seoretary Cook reports 3,240 Geor gia and' forelen corporations as being registered-with him under the new law- passed by the Legislature last summer requiring the registration of all corpo rations doing business within the bor- evening. Reports received here state that Hunter was drinking and went to the Covington home, when an ill- feeling which had existed between them was renewed. Hunter was shot in the chest, three balls from a revolver entering his body. He is reported as being dangerously hurt. WBLLSEORO, Pa., Feb. 16.—Hirma Pickering Tioga was killed and Dr. S. P. Hakes was severely hurt today in an automobile accident on a bridge over the Elk Horn Creek. ders of the State. In this connection Secretary Cook says: “I am of the opinion that there are more than 10.000 corporations doing business in Georgia, and I attribute the fact that only about one-third of that number have complied with the comes up not in one stem, as do the taller cacti, but in many tiny branching stalks, so that what solid earth and rocks there are among the sand clouds fall between these stalks and form a sort of openwork barricade. Against this the sand drifts, but does not choke out the life of the plant. The winds of the desert always blow- from the same direction, whether - it be a rain, wind or sand storm that is blowing. ,<. And ^ 1 T iany ? prospector, driven 1 Alarm was given by his daughter and j board will, immediately after the pas- through the gates of insanity to_ the j John S. Peterson, living near, re- i sage of the immigration bill as report ed by the conferees in Congress, abol WADLEY. Ga.. Feb. 16.—Last night about midnight a negro was fouififf un der the dwelling of Prof. A. F. Ware. is , very verge of death itself has been | spondedToThe'calT'^^The 'resuitTs the WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The San Francisco school controversy, growing out of the segregation of Japanese chil dren in that city, has been settled. The basis of agreement reached at the White. House conference is that Mayor Schmitz and the members of the school brought back, saved by a miracle, as it white man. and acquitted. At the time i law to the delay in the printing and his, death he was under a $10,000 bond for his appearance at the next term of the Superior Court for killing two negroes. (Lode who ccurs - i-isim so well in- the While telephones, cabinet did chu formed of what .louse ond on k may tell us whethei lecide that question." 1 Senator Lodge made no sign of re plying Senators Ha 1 - and Tillman tngaged in a somewh it heated colloquy. Mr. Tillman taxed the Maine Senator with changing his attitude on the subject of new matter in the confer ence report nnd in da'.ng so referred to a private conversation he had had with Mr. Hale. Mr. Hale resented the quotation of the conversation. and spoke of Mr. Tillman's CJurse as ‘of fensive.” Mr. Tillman replied that he had no intention of being discourteous, but said that in view of Mr. Hate’s present position as contrasted with his former position, he had felt free to comment upon the fact and that he did net propose to be "bottled up" or ■ snuffed out" by the Senator when he knew from his private conservatism what Mr. Hale’s real attitude was. Mr. Hale said: - The Senate- has no business to stand up r.ere and refer to little Interlocutory talks. I never do th.a:. If I did I should ge; the Sen ator Into hot water ev. ty day." Mr Tillman replied that he had no, susi icion that the Senator from Maine would talk om way privately and an- .R. J. FALK SHOT distribution of the. Acts of 1906: it be ing the middle of December before the Georgia laws were issued from the press for general sale. Many firms and their attorneys were ignorant of this law. and thus did not comply with it. I am convinced that my next annual were, by noting in the distance a forest j two bq'I. of barrel cacti rising like huge. leafless j axe . v j111 tree trunks mile* awav across the vale of shifting sands. To them he has crept, often over weary miles, on bleed ing hands and knees from which the pro'ecting corduroy had long been worn. Reaching them, just strength enough left to plunge his knife into their pulpy trunks, he has lain be neath the cut. the syrup juice.trickling into his mouth its life-saving stream. A piute Indian can live for many days on this pulD and juice of these plant negro is iying in the town jail with in him. He had a club him and pretends that he was drunk, but that story is not be lieved. ish the Oriental schools and again ad mit Japanese children into the white schools. * j NEW YORK, Fob. 16.—The funeral of Mrs. Minerva Mann, said by the police to be the principal owner of the Barrios 1 Diamond Company's business, was inter rupted tonight upon tsc order of the Cor oner and a representative, of the District Attorney's office. Airs. Mann, who was FORT VALLEY, Ga.. Feb. 16.—J. F. Roark, living in this county, had a difficulty with Jack Jones, in which the latter was shot and seriously' wounded. Roark has been here only 56 years of age. and lived in West Sixty- a --hort while, coming from Chntta- j ninth street, died monday. Relatives la- noega to this place. He expresses report will show a_ registration largely 1 alone, and frequently does do so when ! DUBLIN. Ga., Feb. 16.—This morn ing Coroner R. J. Faulk was shot and seriously wounded by his wife. The shooting was done near the residence of Mr. C. Peeples, where Airs. Faulk has been making her home. She shot three times at her husband, one shot taking effect in his hack. The shot passed entirely through the body of Faulk, breaking a rib on his left side. The bullet passed dangerously near some vita! organs and may have punctured his liver, lungs or kidneys. The physician in charge has not yet determined the full extent of his in juries. pu ■The pnn s more Hr h and more heat. “He e that I hav said •icht hing • him = In dicating h--w 1 should In onn-'sing the pas-p atar Culberson referre form"-Japanese situatb tion has 1 the eaus dent lause, Pen- i • the C.lli- Thir- situa- ■ said “he- i:e United ( opgre n fit : 1 t:on the . the Pr ee- of « 5 -he: ! ■1U- hev :hildr ..---.aH v:ded the c will admit .--'! refuir from :**on. Mr Cul- .. ~r-e exclude Jkra- VALDOSTA REVERSES ACTION ON LICENSES VALDOSTA. Ga.. Feb. 16.—The May or and Council held a meeting here to day for the purpose of taking action on the recent resolution revoking the license of the saloons. That resolution was adopted after a tremendous mass meeting of prohibitionists who went before the Council and swept them off their feet. Since that time, three months ago, little has been done until a week or so ago when the other side began to cir- eul.ite a petition among the business men and citizens securing about 440 names, without the name of a man connected with the whisky business. It is claimed that many who were on •h- pr mis: :• -UMon p-rs-->na’!y stated to couneihnen that they were urged into signing it. but did riot wish to be counted on that side. The action taken today means that Valdosta will remain as it has been all along, though the Mayor and Council wfii throw the strictest possible regu- lattons around tie whisky traffic. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells bow you stand on the books. Due from date ‘on Send in dues and thetz 1 cMidrui 0 f ladlaarimi-1 *1*° renew for the year 1907. > s.nd the ex^rri'e and over the hea^s luthoririet and will - - - =re end coolies pro- the label. 01 Ca in excess of the above number. Upon investigation T find that this law is upon the statute book of nearly every State in the Union. Many prominent attorneys tell me that It is an impor tant and a splendid law. and our worthy Comptroller-General. Hon. Wm. A. Wright, informs me that It is of inestimable value to him and the tax collectors of the State in locating and collecting from these corporations the occupation tax as provided in the gen eral tax act.’ 1 Upon the subject of State and coun ty maps. Secretary Cook says: “I have no official maps of the nine new counties recently laid out by acts of the Genera] Assembly, viz: Ben Hill, Crisp, Grady. Jeff Davis, Jenkins, Stephens. Toombs and Turner. The making of these new counties practi cally destroys the official maps of the counties they were made from. "The county lines of the following counties affected by this change are: Appling, Berrien. Bulloch, Burke. Cof fee. Decatur, Dooly, Emanuel. Franklin, Habersham. Irwin. Montgomery, Screv en, Thoma highly important the nine new counties cut obtained. In case of suits, which hap pen. more or less each year, when the location and corners of valuable lots of land is involved. I am called upon, and in that event required to furnish certified copies of the* maps of the county where the land is situated. It is impossible for me now tor do so. as ; the Genera! Assembly has failed so far | to appropriate funds, and authorized 1 the maps made. I earnestly urge the ; appropriation of sufficient funds, at least, for official maps of the above mentioned counties." Secretary Cook again calls the at tention of the Legislature to a large j | number of fraudulent land grants ' which are still being trafficted in and issued for thc purpose of swindling in nocent parties, principally, however, in distant Western Sta:-s. He urges the ! passage of a law by th* General As- . seinbly. that would “quiet thc title and possession of the citizens of this State who had under the law honestly acquir- j ed title and settled upon this land. I ! deem it of the utmost importance to • the peace and good order of that sec- I tion (Montgomery and Camden Coun- ' ties) to protect the bona fide settlers and owner* of these lands against ail 1 these fraudulent grants ana interlopers i under them. It is equally the duty of the State to look to its own interest; sud -ascertain what amount of these ' lands is yet ungranted, and put them | upon the market for sale. or. a: 'east. ; assert its right and title to them as against these 'fraudulent gran's for . which the State never received one do! lax.” his own laziness or the heat shuts him off from his usual food supply - of rats and lizards. Another beautiful bloomer of this far distant deser: raises a foot long shaft, four-pointed and like no other ter alleged that money and valuables much regret at the outcome of the M^n.'were in^ c'S- dFficulty. He gave bond and was - , ody of others than the rightful heirs, promptly released. The particulars of the affair arc not knowr. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16.— President Roosevelt today told Repre sentative Taylor, of Ohio, that he would not be able to accept the in- flower stalks in the world. On it are ! vltation to visit the negro industrial clustered great waxen blossoms, two i and agricultural fair at Columbus or three inches across, perfumed with early in June at which time he will all the sweet scents - of Cyprus and 'he be in the Middle West. It is under- Ind and ranging from palest golden stood that the President will not be white to deepest purple. From right able to arrange his itinerary so as to to left the narrow valley more than 400 conveniently go to Columbus. feet below the level of the sea. 250 , miles away, these beds of cac‘i stretch. RICHMOND. Feb. 16.—Jesse Ruffin, In winter and spring, when they are all alias Wm. Ruffin, and Massie Hill, alias a-bloom with flame, they seem like Massie Quickson. both negroes, were some great cloth of gold to the traveler hanged in Prince Edward County jail pausing on the rim of the Funeral at Farmville Friday. Ruffin was hanged range or dipping down with his burro first, and nine minutes after the trap through Windy Gap. These beds are I was sprung by Sheriff Dickenson he sometimes large, covering acres in was pronounced dead by the jail phv- dense patches. In o'her places they : sician. His neck was broken. are small and stunted, so that the 1 traveler meets with scattered clumps j BDDYVILLE Ky.. Feb. 16.—Ben of the thorny shrubs miles before he ! Huffaker, a negro, was hanged here comes upon traces of the dead alkaline • Friday. Huffaker. while a life convic WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Representa tive Davis, of Minnesota, introduced a bill todav to add 20 per cent to the salaries of all civil employes of the Government not receiving more than $2,500 per year, whose salaries have not been otherwise increased at this resslfln of Congress. While it is not believed any action will be taken in regard to civil employes at this session of Congress an important step looking to the proposed Increase probably will be taken after the adjourn ment of tho present session. the company and the City Council of that city, and Atlanta 1ms gone to work through its Chamber of Com merce trying to get it. Thc plant has about 6.000 employes and is one of the models of the country; Several east ern cities are strong in the bidding for It. ATLANTA. Feb. 17.—The Bruns wick Steamship Company and the At lanta. Birmingham and Atlantic Rail road Company, both of which are con trolled by Harry M. Atk'aaon. ot this cltv, are preparing to build at Bttins- wi'u - lumber slip to cost SS'uOOO. This will he one of the most extensive ant] best equipped lumber docks In th" South and will be capable of banditr ; millions of feet of lumber every month, ATLANTA. Feb. 17.—Jerome Jones, a well-known labor leader < ;' Atlanta, has been ordered to Brunswick by Samuel Gompers for th - purpose of settling the 'longshoremen's str'k.'. which is just now agitating shqiin;: circles in that "fty. Air. Jo-.es thinks he will straighten things out with lit tle difficulty. ATLANTA. Feb. 17.—Governor Ter rell today offeVed a ttward of 5!00 for the arrest of '"'ill - v ix. alias Willson, who is charged with the murder of It B. Jackson and Kim Daniels In Washington County on Jan. 26 last. SOUTH BEND. Ind., Feb. 17. 1 —After- threatening to kill his eight children, and probably fatally injuring his wife hy beating her' on the head with a re volver, William J. Rush today com mitted suicide, mutilating his body with five long gashes across the throat after failing to end his life with a re volver shot. PENSACOLA, - Fla. - . Feb. 17—News of the-drowning of four Greens of *his city In thc Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast near St. Andrews. Fla., reached here todav. A fleet of sponge fishing boats were caught in - a - hurricane Thurs day. Qnc capsized containing the four men, who olug to the upturned boat until washed off by the waves. SHANGHAI, Feb. 16.—An American newspaper man named Ellis has just returned here from the famine district. He reports that a heavy fall of snow has stopped the digging of weeds for food by the people and that the deaths from cold and starvation are increas ing. The missionaries are feeding vast numbers of people. BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Feb. 17.—In a genera! shooting affray at Tocoa. about IS m .es south of this city, tonight. Gabriel Swann shot and killed Jack Lemdly and fatally injured Ant Siegel. An unknow to the other, blossoming profusely and i —John Armstrong Chanler. brother of i ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 17.—The State adding their quota of odor to the air. i Lieutenant Governor Chanler. of New ■ Railroad Commission has written a When they seed the beans are. gathered J York, has admitted to record in the j letter to Bowdre Phinizy, of Augusta, by the Piutes and ground up for flour. All in all. there are doubtless hundreds of acres of cacti in this one part of the California desert, and its beauty when In bloom is something indescribable, esnecially when seen in the midst of mile upon mile of barren sand flats. MAN AND WIFE MED TO DIE TOGETHER TAMPA. Fla- Feb. 16.—Geo. M. Morton and wife, registering from New York City, were found dead in :hew reom at the Tampa Bay Hotel today. ; killing the woman instantly. An empty bottle labeled "chloral - ' was : found in the room. A note was also 1 TOPEKA Kan., Feb. 16.—The Kan- found saying that they had killed ' sas Senate today by a vote of 24 to 13 adopted a resolution barrln, Albermarle County clerk's office a deed i urging him to send in as soon as pos- conveying his “Merry Mills" estate. s jbi e his specifications as to the dete- near Cobham, containing four hundred • r i 0 ratIon of the Georgia Railroad. In acres, to the University of Virginia, : view of the urgent demands of the to secure a home for such retired pro- ■ road's management and the general fessors of the university as the hoard ; interest in the matter, the railroad of visitors may designate. ; commission is anxious to take the : matter up and dispose of it as soon MONTGOMERY. Ala. Feb. 16.—Gov- as possible. For this reason Mr. Phin- ernor Comer today approved the bill jzy has been asked for a prompt re reducing passenger railroad rates in 1 sponse. Alabama from three cents to two and a half cents and the law goes into ef- ; ATLANTA. Ga„ Feb. 17.—A petition feet in sixty days. ' to- presented to Governor-eieot Hoke — Smith by Howell Anderson, of CLIO, Ala.. Feb. 16.—John McEnnis Augusta, asking that Col. A. J. Scott shot and killed his wife today, and a)- br named adjutant general of the though he claims it was an accident. State troops. he was remanded to jail without bail. He says when he laid a parlor rifle on trunk it was accidentally discharged. ATLANTA. Ga.. Feb. 17.—The case against the alleged violators of the Boykin anti-bucket, shop bii! will come up for trial' next week. A special session of court having been arranged fo*r this and two more trials themselves by mutual consent and that neither was responsible for the death ’ of the other if sutler should survive, j The note asked that A. J. Barkiie, 27 Saybrooke place. Newark, N_ j., be Informed. The pair had been here sev eral days. Morgan deposited a draft for $1,009 w>:h the hotel office several days ago and obtained a small ad- vauco. The draft was returned yester day and MorfV-i was arrested. H-? -a - -: afterwards jlaied in the custody i of lue wife for the night* represen tatives of the Kansas City Star from NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. Laborers Scarce in Texas. Sail Antonio Dispatch. Never before in the history of Tex as has the demand for all kinds of labor been so great And the. supply is less than has been before noted. As a result wages have increased at least 50 per cent and the quality of labor has deteriorated. The only relief that has come has been by the heavy influx of Japanese from Mexico. These are arriving on an average of fifty a day. and the movement seems to be permanent. Many of the Japa nese have been in Mexico several months, and others are just arrived from Japan. Thev are attracted to this country by the high wages offered, and the better conditions surrounding labor. Thev went to Mexico in the first In stance at the behest of active immi grant agents, and with contracts for employment. . The scarcity of labor in Texas is due. to the immense crops and the great, volume of industrial improvement in all sections of the State. There is more building under way in this State and a greater acerage of new land being prepared for planting than ever before in the entire history of the State. The railways have been unable to keen up with the freight movement, and all lines are congested and all the equipment in service all the time. Land values are going higher day by dav, and the boom that is on prom ises to rival that of Western Kansas in 1829. Large ranches that were on the market two years ago at 32 an acre are now selling rerdiiy at $S, and the demand for tracts for colonization purposes is very brisk at that price. In the southwestern part of tho State these ranches are being planted to citrus fruits and converted info truck farms. It is on these farms that the greater number of Japanese im migrants find suitable and profitable employment. AN UNPUBLISHED BYRON POEM. From the New York IVorld. Charles G. Gill, of Middletown, who ha« one of the largest private libraries in fhe State and who fakes soeeial pride in the works of Lord Byron, has an old volume, of the poems in which is inscribed In the poet’s own hand, on one of the front leaves, an unpublished poem. The au- thenticitv of the poem is attested to by an English clergyman. a distant relative of Lord Byron's family. It reads: Buds, blossoms, breezes, butterflies and bees (Alliteration now is all the go). And sunny lakes and vales, and moonlit seas. And streams that to their own sweet music flow. “Here's goodiv stuff toward"—and if to he You add ;i maiden with a breast o' snow And eve of blue you are a clumsy fellow If you can’t rhyme as well as Miss Cos tello. Or It E L—for every fool can rhyme, Of love and broken hearts—that ne’er were broken. Sinee surgeons cannot find a rent—’tis time To doubt a fact of which there, is no token. But this would play the devil with the Of modern spoken. ATLANTA, Ga . Feb. 17.—The new the floor or galleries of the Senate. The . exchange to be operated by the At- action was taken because the Star printed article? commenting upon the alleged pro-railroad tendencies of the Senate. ATLANTA. Feb. 16.—O. H. Hali has been appointed quartermaster of the •anta Chamber of Commerce under provisions of the Boykin bill will be ready for business on lYednesdAy and will be open to the general public un til March 1. ATLANTA. Feb. '.—The National Fifth Georgia Infantry to succeed Cap- i .C«h Register Company, of Dayton, O , tain Nur.nemacher. The appointment j is getting ready to move its plant on Christ mitb. iMfe* rank of ca*tain. Tab account of certain difference* botweea But. would be d jingle).— . , . The ringh- ladies v.'is'un: The married ones to trouble. The date at which the ten is nc’ known, bu; ba'vf been years before in 1824. verse, and I have treason mst break—of ladies who are :b!o 'how my. couplets peern was wr. - t is believed to the poet’s death NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label cn vour pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send /in dues and also renew for the year 1907,