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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 S —— 'y 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. ~