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Inaugurated at Meeting of
Appalachian Association,
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Convention Held in Atlatna Was Enthu
siastic Gathering—Feature of the
Meeting Was Addresses by
Experts on Forestry.
Resolutions calling upon the govern
ors, of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky to
appoint delegations from their states
to appear In person before the commit
tee on agriculture in congress, to urge
a favorabble report upon the bill to
create a nailonal Appalachian forest
preserve of five million acres, were
adopted at the meeting of the Appa
lachian National Forest Association,
in Atlanta, Thursday night.
Prior to the close of the meeting it
was announced that the women'’s clubs
of the United States would take this
matter up and at once begin an end
less bombardment of personal letters
upon the congressmen importuning
them to secure the enactment of this
bill. 2 i :
Governor Hoke Smith, who presided
at the meeting, announced that he
would at once call upon every ecivic
organization in the state to appoint,
delegates to go to Washington on Jan
uary 30 to appear in person at the
meeting of the house committee on ag
riculture, before whem this measure is
pending, and urge a favorable report.
He also stated that he would write
to ‘each of the southern governors af
fected by this resolution, calling upon
them to name a delegation of twenty,
from the state at large, to attend this
hearing. ‘
The resolutions adopted were as fol
lows: A
The Appalacuian National Forest As
sociation in convention assembled, rep
resenting a membership throughout the
sotuhern states, with accredited dele
gates from the Atlanta section of Amer
ican Imstitute of Electrical Engineers,
the Georgia Federation of Women’s
Clubs, the Atlanta Woman’s Club, and
chambers of commerce or boards of
trade in Atlanta, Macon, Athens, Bruns
wick, Columbus, Cornelia, Dublin,
Rome, Ga., Newberry, S. C., Charleston,
Belton and‘Spartanburg, S. €, Hunts:
vile, Mobile, Birmingham and Opelika,
Ala.,,‘ihzhfi}g;flpenn;; -Louisvilles Ky.,
Ashevilte,"R\"C., ‘the, Greatdr @ sarfotre;
N. C., do resolve a% follows: s ",
Wheg;é&,jom{iafqgtaustid%?fi’gq“g that
the people” of ‘the United ‘States’ face
within’, a"Gécade ‘a’ lumber Idmine, due
to the''wasteful and extravagant use
and wanton methods of lumber and for
elt-firesy and, ' T T Wi
Whereas, Our Appalachian forests
are mow peing rapidly depleted and
are about our only remaining seurces
of hardwood supply; and, .
. - Whereas, We recognize that forest
coverings are essential not‘ornly to eur
timber, suppfy;: but are of supreme im
portance to climate and agriculture, to
water supply and navigation; and,
Whereas, the cutting already done
has shown its baneful effects threugh:
out the south, and' demonstrates forci
bly from many standpoints, the meces
sity of the conservatism of this source
of our natural wealth; and
Whereas, The perpetuation of our
forests can only be done by the natu
ral wealth; and, ;
Be it resolved, That the Appalachi
an National Association and affiliated
bodles, earnestly urge upon the con
gress of the United States the estab
lishment of national forests, in the Ap
palachian regien by the prompt pass
age of the Appalachian-White moun
tain bill. :
Resolved that the’ governors of all
the southern states be requested to ap
point at -once delegaticns of not less
than 20 members from their respect
ive states to attend the hearing of the
Appalachian-White mountain bill on
January 30 before the house committee
on agriculture and that the governors
themselves head their respective dele
gations. Vi
Resolved, That Governor Hoke Smith
of Georgia be requested to use his good
offices with the governors of -. er
states, in order to insure their prompt
action 'in this vitally important mat.
ter. i y. ;
Resolved, That copies of these reso
lutions be sent by the. secretary of the
convention to all congressmen and sen
ators from the southern states, re
questing their hearty and active sup
port ‘and their votes for the meas
ure. % )
VICTIMS OF WOOD ALCOHOL.
One Dead, Two Made Blind and Five
i Physically Knocked Out.
John Harf, of the cruiser St. Louis,
is dead at Vallejo, Cal.,, from the ef
feets of wood alcohol, surreptiously ta
ken. He 18 the third victim in a week
to suocumb to the poisonous drink ;
two other sailors are totally blind from
the same cause and five ‘others may
never again be fit for active service.
“SHOWING BY RECEIVER
Of Aiabllities and Assets of Broken
Neal Bank of Atlanta in Hearing
of State’s Claim of Priority.
According to the report of the re
ceivers filed in the superior court in
Atlanta Friday, in answer to the peti
tion of several creditors, the liabilities
of the Neal bank exceed the assets,
minus all worthless claims and those
on which something may be realized,
by $260,513.31.
The report, which can hardly be
considered a complete one, in view
of the haste with which it was pre
pared, has the assets, not including
bad debts, at $2,449,361.17 and the lia
bilities at $2,709,887.448
including all accounts the total as
sets are $3,159,725.82, well above the
liabilities.
This report was gotten up for the
hearing of the intervention of the state
of Geoggia. in Judge Ellis' court, but
carried over until Monday on the mo
tion of Attorney R. M. Blackburn, who
represents several depositors, who ob
ject to the state being made a pre
ferred creditor, as it desires to, in order
to recover some $200,000 in taxes on
deposit when the Neal bank failed.
These objectors allege that from De
cember 9 to 26 the state made deposits
amounting to $126,000 when tha bank
“examiner had charge, and they hold
‘that he should have then had knowl
edge of the condition of the bank, and
should not have taken the risk. ‘
.Attorney General Hart agreed upon}
the continuance cf the case, but stated
that the points in question were pure
ly ones of law. :
“ The Central Bank and Trust Corpora
tion, in answer to the intervention of
the state, alleges that $192,602.90 was
credited to the state at the time of the
closing of the bank; $22,382.43 was re
ceived from T. R. Floyd, tax receiver
of DeKalb county, running the total
to over $200,000. The answer further
showed that the state was indebted to
the bank to the amount of $50,000 in
two promissory notes, due January 15
of this year. One of the notes was
placed with the Citizens’ National bank
of Baltimore to secur2 a loan of $25,
000 made to the Neal bank.
The Neal bank is debtor to the At
lanta Clearing House "Association for
$170,988, balance due on a $200,000 is
pue of certificates. As security for
‘these $295,353.20 was deposited with
the Trust company of Georgia, $29,002
of “thts having been oo}le;?ed:- 1t will
be ‘nécessary’ to settlesthis indebted:
.ness ‘before” March 1 ‘to redeem this
‘collateral. This, of course,’is set out
‘i the answer. U VAT
Furthermore, the Central Bank and
Trust Corporation has evidences of in:
debtedness against the Alabama Sul
phur Ore and Copper company, total:
ing $277,000 and in order to secure
these it will be necessary to spend
in the ‘neighborhood- of $25,000. The
matter of the state’s prior claim is set
out as a matter of law.
Judge "Ellis stated at the start of
the hearing that he was legally dis.
qualified‘on the case, as he was a de
positor in the Neal bank, but the‘at
_torneys involved waived the disquali
“fication. o !
" GIRLS JUMP TO DEATH. |
Fatal Panic Results From Fire in Knit:
5 ting Mills.
Three girls werei killed, ten seriously
injured and ‘a score or more slightly
hurt at a fire in the Imperial Knitting
company’s mill at Scranton, Pa., Fri
day. .
Eighty-five girls were at work on the
third floor when the fire broke out on
the ground floor. It quickly ascended
the elevator shaft and drove the girls,
panic stricken, to the window opening
on the fire escape. The giris on the
upper part of the fire escape crowded
those in front. With the flames envel
oping them half ¢f them jumped from
the third floor. :
DEPOSITORS FILE INTERVENTION
Demur to State of Georgla Being Made
a Preferred Creditor,
Another intervention in the litiga
tlon between the State of Georgia and
the Central Bank and Trust Corpora
g.lon. growing out of the claim of the
state for a lien on $204,373.98, state
funds on deposit in the Neal Bans, has
been filed in the superior court at At
lanta by several of the depositors
who ask to be allowed to participate
in the distribution of the bank’s es
tate, and demur to the claim of the
state. The demurrer was allowed.
NEVADA ASKS FOR TROOPS.
Legislature Implores Roosevelt to Keep
Soldiers in Goldfield,
The Nevada state senate in session
at Carson City passed a resolution on
Thursday petitioning the president to
maintain troops in Goldfield until the
legislature can, by the passage of a
law, provide either for a police forece
or some other method of maintaining
the peace.
Plants Throughout the Coun
try Take on New Life,
MILLIONS BURDEN BANKS
New York Financial Statement Shows
Increase of $126,185,000 Cash“
on Hand Over Preceding
Week—Outlook Good. ;
A telegraphic request to various
towns, especially in the south, for in
formation on industrial conditions has
brought remarkably favorable re
sponses. Prosperity and healthy nor
mal industrial and commercial *condi
tions are returned throughout the south
and middle west.
The railroads, iron and steel mills
and coal mines, which are America’s
barometer of trade and industry, report
a general resumption in all parts of
the country. Banks have plenty of
money to lend, and are fostering the.
industries. Payrolls are increasing in
mills and factories, and business houses
are taking back men who were sus
pended. Prospects are declared bright
er than at any time since the financial
flurry in New York drove money into
hiding. This money is again in circu
lation.
From all parts of the country come
reports of the resumption of those in
dustries which were temporarily as
fected by the flurry in Wall street. Men
are returning to the mills, the mines
and the factories. Railroad work is
proceeding healthily and construction
work is being projected.
The trade in groceries, dry goods,
grain, iron and other branches all re
}port good improvements.
’ A tremendous flow of cash from the
banks throughout the countrxfi to the
New York city banks was indicated
Saturday by the bank statement which
shewed an increase of $26,185,800 in
the amount of cash held by the New
York clearing house institutions. This
increase in cash is not thought to be
-a record one, but it is believed to ap
proach within a few millions of the lar
gest increase ever recorded in a single
week in the city. Financier declare
that it showed clearly that the interior
banks were entirely reassured by the
showing of the banks last week, when
for the first time since October a
surplus of reserve was established in
the face of the deficit which had long
existed. In consequence the I,erior
banks weré sending their surplus and;
cash to New York where it found em
ployment not only in the stock market,
but in financing at least one large bond
issue by the New York Central and
Hudson river railroad. !
The return of this amount of cash
from the interior was regarded by the
bankers in New York as the end of the
pevious disposition to withhold cash
in the interior and as showing that
there will hercafter b 2 no shortage
of funds for all legitimate purposes.
An increase in the surplus reserve this
week of $16,551,425 bringing the sur
plus up to $22,635,475, shows that the
position of the Dbanks is greatly
strengthened over last week notwith
standing the renewed activity in the
stock market and the increased loans
incident thereto.
CIVIL WAR WAS AVERTED.
Declaration cf Federal Judge Jones at
Hearing of Railrcad Cases.
Judge Jones of the United States
court at Montgomery, Ala., hearing the
railroad litigation, stated from the
bench during the argument of Judge
Weakley for the state, that the state
judges by obeying the injunction of
the federal court, when they were urg
ed to disobey it by other interested
parties, prevented a civil war. b
He made this statement when Judge
Weakly had just completed his argu
ment about the federal court not hay
ing jurisdiction in the matter, and that
it was a matter of the state judges.
NEGROES LYNCH NEGRO.,
Colored Citizens of North Carolina
Town Refuse to Be Buncoed.
A long distance telephone message
from Selma, N. C,, reports the lynching
at Pine Level, Johnston county, of a
strange negro at the hands of a negro
mob.
The strange negro, purporting to be
advance agent of a “big show,” faked
the negro residents into attendance on
what turned out to be a one-man per
formance by the strange darkey him
gelf. His body was found at daylight
on the Southern railroad tracks.
ESTES SUCCUMBS TO WOUND.
General Freight Agent of Central Rail
way Dies in Savannah.
Wiison Emory Estes, general freight
agent of the Central of Georgia rall
way, died in Savannah Wednesday
from the accidental pistol wound in‘
flicted by his wife early Sunday morn:
ing, at his home. The ball, which en.
tered his temple was extracted, and
his condition at first gave promise of
recsvery. |
- CORTELYOU TO QuIT?
‘Persistent Rumor Current That Secre
~ tary of Treasury Will Soon Leave
. . Roosevelt’s Cabinet. ,
- A Washington special says: That
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
will reSign from The cabinet at an
early day seems assured beyond a rea
sonable doubt. Postmaster General
Meyer will probably succeed him.,
Vague rumors of a break between the
secretary and the president have been
‘floating around eVer since the publica:
‘tion of the announcement that plans
‘were on foot to secure if pessible the
republican nomination for Cortelyou,
The first lieutenant of Secretary Cor
‘telyou in this campaign was understood
‘to be Frank Y. Hitchcock, first assftst:
-ant postmaster general. i
It was labeled a “conspiracy,” and
was followed by the report that the
president Jad squelched the incipient
‘boom. In some quarters it had been
made to appear that the president was
neutral as between the secretary of
war and the secretary of the treasury.
This was vigorously denied by the
‘friends of Secretary Taft and from the
white house came unmistakable evi
dence that President Rooseyelt strong
ly favored Taft for the nomination—
first, last and all the time. ,
Following this development Secretary
Cortelyou was reported as having said
he had been given a “d—n rough deal”
iat the white house. His resentment
against the president since has been
even greater than the president's ill
will toward him. A number of sharp
clashes between the two are said to
have culminated on January 3 in an
interview following a cabinet meeting,
in which Secretary Cortelyou told the
president he thought it best that he
should retire from the president’s offi
cial family. The president agreed
with him.
The delay in the transmittal of the
formal resignation in writing is said
to be due to the conscientious belief of
Secretary Cortelyou that Le should re
main at his post until &l! vestige of the
raeent panic had disappeared and until
'certain information relative to the
treasury department, requested by res
olutions offered by Senators Culberson
and Tillman, had been furnished to the
senate. '
‘Another explanation of the present
situation which is being credited is
that the president is attempting to
make Secretary Cortelyou the scape
goat for all criticism leveled at the ad
ministration on account of the relief
measures taken during the recent
panic. -Both the issue of bonds and
other securities, as well as the deposit
of some fifty or gixty millions of gov
ernment money in Wall street, has been
condemned in the senate.
It is believed that Mr. Meyer would
lgave his present post as head of the
postoffice department and accept the
treasury portfolio with reluctance. He
Is much interested in carrying forward
certain plans for the improvement of
the service, but he is considered by the
president as pre-eminently the business
man of the administration and will ac
rordingly be advanced to the treas
ury post.
It is reported that Secretary Cor
telyou will accept the presidency ol
the reorganized Knickerbocker Trust
company of New York,
ROME LAWYER IN TROUBLE.
Charged With Attempt to Defraud
' Through Use of Malls.
Charles 1. Davis, an attorney of
Rome, Ga., was Wednesday arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Printup, in Rome, charged with attemp
ting to defraud by using the mails.
The government will make an effort
to show that during the circulation of
clearing house certificates Davis went
to Philadelphia, where he negotiated
with a printing house for the produec:
tion of $50,000 of these certificates, he
‘alleging, it is stated, to be a member
of the Atlanta clearing house. The
printers became suspicious and notified
the secret service, who turned the mat:
ter over to the postal authorities.
FATHER TOOK THE DARE,
Crossed Dead Line Drawn by Son and
Y . Was Instantly Killed.
" A brutal murder was committed at
Davidson, N. C. Thursday morning,
‘when Ezekiel Gregory, a farmer, over
sixty years of age, was killed with an
ax by his son, Dave, .
Follewing an altercation in regard
to arising, the son went from the house
Into the yard and defled his father to
eross a line drawn with the blade of an
ax in the earth. The father crossed
the ilmve, and was felled instantly. Greg
ory is in jail in Charlotte,
~ HUGHES WAS NOT INDORSED.
After Rancorous Fight New York Re
publicans Fail to Act. .
After one of the bitterest fights in
its existence, the New York county re
publican committee adjourned at mid
night, Thursday night, without having
indorsed any candidate for the pres!
dential nomination. An attempt to in
dorse @Governor Hughes falled and the
matter was adjourned for one month,.
Inaugurated by Southern in
Official and Clerical Force.
Applies Over Entire System to Higher
Departments—Wage-Earners of SSO
Per Month and Less, Are
Not Affected.
The Southern railway, according to
well ‘authenticated information, has
made a cut of 10 per cent in the sal
aries of its entire clerical force, ex
tending over the whole system, effect
ive February 1.
The reductlo:} applies to every office
employee of thl,’e system, including offi
clals of the rogd, who is now receiving
a salary above SSO a month.
The cut, it is stated, affects all clerks,
stenographers, passenger and freight
agents, clear up through the official
heads of these various departments.
So far no reduction has been ordered
in the pay of any of the employees of
the operating department, such as en
gineers, firemen, switchmen and ' the
like, and whether a similar reduction
is contemplated in this department
cannot be learned.
So far as the office forces are con
cerned, however, the reduction ordered
is sweeping, and affects every one alike
except the men making SSO and under.
The Southern first iet out a large
number of its mechanics, followed that
with cutting out a large ll_'umber of pas
sengerstrains and now as a further
step toward retrenchment is using the
knife on salaries.
IN INTEREST OF MORALS
Court is Asked to Clear Court Room
When Thaw's Wife Testifies.
A series of surprises brought the
Thaw trial at New York near a crisis
Friday. Both Evelyn Thaw, the wife,
and Mrs. Willlam Thaw, the mother
of the defendant, were on the witness
stand, and just as the former was about
to relate anew the story ,of her life,
as she told it to Thaw in Paris in 1903,
District Attorney Jerome arose and sug
gested that, in the interest of public
morals, all persons save those immedi
ately interested in the case should be
excluded from the court room during
the recital Qt what he termed a “horri
ble tale.” The motion included the
representatives of \newspapers as well
as the public generally. Attorney Mar
tin W. Littleton of the deefnse joined
in it to shield the young woman from
hundreds of curious eyes, and said that
so far as the constitutional right to
an open hearing was concerned, he was
ready to waive that point in any iron
‘clad manner the court might suggest.
Proceadings were suspended and de
cision withheld until Monday.
AFTER ALLEGED GRAFTERS,
Warrants Out for Directors of Old
South Carolina Dispensary.
Alleging conspiracy to defraud the
state of South Carolina, the state dis
pensary commission as Columbia had
a warrant issued Friday for about fif
teen persons, inciuding M. A. Good
man, the representative of a Baltimore
‘liquor house, who was arrested Thurs.
day.
Major Black, a former member of the
board of control, was arrested Friday
afternoon and later released on a bond
of SIO,OOO. Warrants for former Direc
tor John Bell Lowell and L. W. Boykin
were also sent out for service. The
names of other parties wanted are
withheld because, it is stated, it is
feared their publicitly might Interfcre
with their arrest.
M. A. Goodman, the whiskey house
representative, has given bond in the
sum of $25,000. These arrests are the
results of investigations by the com
mission and with the ald of Attorney
Geperal Lyon, )
TEXAS BANK ASSIGNS.
Largest Savings Institution in State in
Financial Trouble.
The Western Bank and Trust com:
pany of Dallag, Texas, the largest sav
ings deposit bank in the state, has
been ylaced in the hands of an as
signee,
The bank had a capital of $500,000
and over 4,400 saving depositors. Its
total labilities are $1,054,104.53. A
complete schedule of the assets has not
been filed.
WAR SUPPLIES HURRIED.
Powder Plant Given Orders to Work at
Full Capacity.
The war department has ordered
that the government powder plant-near
Dover, Del,, shall begin within ten days
to manufacture powder at full capacity
of the works., The capacity of this
plant is one thousand pounds a'duf.
The department expects an annual up
ply from that sourca of three hundred
thousand pounds, L
WALSH FOUND GUILTY.
Chicago Bank Wrecker Convicted ors
g Fifty-Four Counts for Misap- - /
propriating $7,000,000. L;i
John R. Walsh, president of the dee
funct Chicago National bank, was
found guilty Saturday of misappropris
ating funds of that institution,
The penalty under the law for the
crime for which Walsh is convicted, is
imprisonment for a period of not less
than five years. It does not permit
of the substitution of a fine for the
prison term. He was found guilty on
54 counts,
The original indictment Jeontained
182 counts. Demurrers were sustained
as to 32 counts which left 150 upon
which the jurors were required to
pass. )
Walsh was present in the courtroom
and received the verdict with little
show of emotion. On the contrary, one
of the jurors, Elbert Palmer, of Har
vard, 111., burst into tears as he took
his seat in the jury box and was so
overcome during the proceedings that
he was scarcely able to answér the
clerk when asked if the finding repre.
sented his view as to the guilt of the
defendant. > A
The emotion shown by Juror Palmer
upon the polling of the jury caused a
flutter of excitement among the specta
tors. As the juror sank into his chair,
burying his face in his hands, Attorney
Miller rose to his feet and demanded
that the juror be further questioned.
“Mr. Palmer, is this your verdict?”
asked Judge Anderson. ‘“Answer me.”
Palmer nodded his head weakly in
the afirmative, and made a reply ins
audibie to any but the court!
“l 1 suggest,” said Attorney Miller,
“that Mr. Palmer be required to repeat
his answer.”
“This is mot mnecegsary,” replied
Judge Anderson. ‘“He has answered
yes.” e
“One of my associates” gsald Mr,
Miller, “understood him to say some
thing else. It is suggested to me that
the juror said he would ‘have to say
yes."” '
“That is the same thing,’* replied
the court, “Any juror understands th:
- when he signs 4a verdict land
agreed to it, he has to say that he di
§O,”
The remainder of the jurors were(
‘polled and each answered boldly in the
affirmative. The jury was then dis
charged. &
Formal motion for a mew trial was
made, and Judge Anderson set the
hearing of the arguments for January
28, Walsh was allowed to remain at
liberty on the same bond, sso,ooo,which
had been given after his indictment by
the federal grand jury. ’
The charge aaginst Walsh grew out.
of the closing in 1905 of the Chicago
National bank, of which Walsh was
president, and its allied institutions,
the Home Savings bank and the Equit
able Trust company, Walsh was ac
cused of having loaned funds of these
institutions aggregating some sixteen
millions of dollars, on fictitious and
ingufficiently secured notes to nearly a
geore of struggiing enterprises which
he himself had founded and practically
owned, Many of the mnotes, it de
veloped at the trial, were signed with
out authority, in the names es various
employees of Walsh. The directors of
the bank testified that they were not
consulted by Walsh as to the making
of these loans and that they Kknew
nothing of them. R
WAR TALK IS RENEWED *{
As Result of Roosevelt’'s Admonition
That Honolulu Be Fortified, :
“Fortify Hawail and fortify it qulck,”
was the highly significant remark made
by President Roosevelt a few days
ago to Senator Dolliver of lowa that
has renewed in Washington the talk
of war with Japan,
The president’s utterance is regard
ed as an indication of the administra.
tion’s apprehension and its anxiety to
be prepared for any emergency that
may arise. 4
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MORE MEN LOSE JOBS, |
\ P Wiy
Nearly One Hundred Are Turned Off
at Pensacola Navy Yard.
Fifty more skilled workmen lost
their positions Thursday when there
wasg another reduction in the forces
at the Pensacola navy yard at Pens
sacola, Fla.,, making the second to oe
cur within the past ten days,, and
letting out nearly one hundred men,
who drew large salaries,
The redic...n Thursday wag in the
department of construction and repalr,
and the men let out are iron and ship~
workers, ' 4
DEADLOCK IN KENTUCKY.
Legislators Are Daily Balloting for Sen
ator Without Resuit.
The senatorial deadlock in the Ken.
tucky legislature: remained wunbroken
Thursday, the only change in the bal
lot .being the recordipg of one, more
absentee. The republicans casy their
64 yotés solidly for former Governor
Bradley, and formet’ Governpr Beck
ham ‘again rédelved 66 Votés. ~
