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RETURNS INCREASE
BY $22,350,701
Bigets of All the Counties Have
Been Received by the
Comptroller.
TOTAL INCREASE IN VALUES
MAY REACH $40,000,000
/he Increase In the Returns Made
by Fulton County Property
Owners Is Greater Than
the Increases in Any of
the Other Counties.
Increase in returns from
counties $22,350,701
Increase in railroad prop-
erty 2,500,000
Estimated increase from
franchise tax law. . 15,000,000
Total Increase for the
year $39,850,701
Tn the above statement of returns of
taxable properties, as shown by the di
gests of the receivers of tax returns, offi
cial returns have been received from all
the 137 counties of the, state. The Consti
tution last week published reports from
134 counties. The Inst three have since
been received, as follows:
Telfair—sloo,9l2 Increase.
Coffee- $10,309 decrease.
Dooly-$494,561 Increase.
Os the 137 counties in Georgia but 13
show a falling off as compared with last
year. All of XJie others show gains rang
ing from $3,000 in Meriwether. t<? the mag
nificent Increase of $2,515,556 reported from
Fulton county.
Fulton thus leads all the rest. This
splejjdid showing was a jjood deal of a
surprise to Coinptrpller General Weight
and Captain Harrison, because It hadl
been rpmpred that Fulton would show a
loss: so that the return when It came
was doubly welcome on that acount.
Railroad Property and Franchises.
The increase of callroad property shown
by the returns of the different companies,
is in round numbers $2,500,000.
Add to this the probable return for
franchise taxation, the amount of which
cannot be definitely determined until the
arbitrations are completed, .and the total
increase for the year will run very close
to $40,000. It may be even more.
It is regarded a. conservative estimate
to place this total for franchises of all
kinds at There js a possibility!
that it may run even higher, but until
the arbitration boards selected to pass
upon the big railroad systems have com
pleted their work there is nothing but
guess work in it all In the smaller arbi
trations, the assessments of the comp
troller general have either been accept'd
or not materially cut—save jn one in
, stance. It will remain, however, for re
** ports from the arbitragers chosen to pass
upon the bjg systems before it will be
possible to estimate with any great de
j gree of accuracy the return, from this
source.
I RATE DEPENDS ON ACTION
OF ARBITRATION BOARDS.
Though the time Is rapidly approaching
j when the state tax rate must,, be fixed
' by the tax commission, only $3,589,348 in
| franchise tax values has been finally set
_ tied, while $25,986,000 In assessed values
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of taxable franchises still remains In
dispute.
The reason for this is that the boards of
arbitration which have been appointed
to determine at what amount the fran
chises of the large railroad systems and
other large corporations shall be returned
have held no meetings for the purpose
of determining the questions before them,
and, in one or two Instances, no umpire
even has been chosen.
Stranely enough, the law fixes no time
limit for the arbitrators in these cases
to make their returns. There is no re
quirement that they shall be made even
within the year, so that, so far as the
law is concerned, the arbitrators can act
at their own sweet wills. Tile only pen
alty that can be put on the cotnpsmics
whose tax returns are involved is 7 per
cent interest on the amount of taxes due,
whenever the matter is finally determin
ed. There are important questions in
volved. however, which majje it practi
cally necessary that prompt action should
be .taken.
It will readily be understood how tho
failure to get in these reports to the
comptroller general In due season will
delay the fixing of the state tax rate.
Governor Terrell and Comptroller Gen
eral Wright are anxious tu fix as low
a tax rale as possible, and the rate will
depend to some extent on the amount of
the franchise tax returns. Without these,
therefore, it can not be determined Just
what it shall be.
Who the Arbitrators Are.
The arbitrators in the most important
cases who have not yet met, and whose
reports are being awaited, are as fol
lows:
Southern Railway and Alabama Great
Southern—lion. J. Pope Brown, for the
state; Hon. Roland Ellis, for the roads,
and Judge Warren D. Nottingham, of
Macon, umpire.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad—Hon. G.
Gunby Jordan, for the state; Hon. C. P.
Goodyear, of Brunswick, for the road,
and cx-Governor Allen D. Candler, um
pire.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad—Judge
Spencer R. Atkinson, for the state; R. C.
Alston, for the road. No umpire se
lected.
Atlanta and West Point Railroad:
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, for the state;
Captain J. W. English, for the road. No
umpire selected.
Central of Georgia Railway Company—
Hon. J. Pope Brown, for the state; Alex
Smith, for the road. Judge E. 11. Cana
way, of Augusta, is named as umpire.
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
—Hon. G. Gunby Jordan, for the state;
Forrest Adair, for the company, and Hon
Thomas J. Chappell, of Columbus, um
pire.
Atlanta Gaslight Company -Hon. J.
Pope Brown, for the state; Hon. John D.
Little, for the company, and George SV.
Brooke, of Atlanta, umpire.
Western Union Telegraph Company—
Hon. G. Gunby lordan, for the state; R.
J Griffin, of Atlanta, for the company,
and J. Ferris Cann, of Savannah, um
pire.
Savannah Electric Rahway—Judge Spen
cer R. Atkinson, for the state; SV. L~
55 ilson, of Savannah, for the company,
and S. A. Roddenberry, of Thomasville,
umpire.
Though the foregoing arbitrators have
been appointed for some days, some of
them for several weeks, none of them
has given any intimation as to when his
report might be expected.
In the cases where no umpire is chosen
within thirty days from the time the ar
bitrators are named, the law requires
that the governor shall appoint two arlri
trators to represent the state. As a rule,
the governor reappoints the arbitrator al
ready selected for the state and names a
second man. This in effect amounts to
the governor naming the umpire.
Commissioners Have a Say.
Members of the railroad commission who
have been designated by Comptroller Gen
eral Wright to represent the state in the
arbitration of franchise tax returns by
the large corporations, have written the
comptroller general in reply to his letter
stating that they had done every
thing in their power to have the arbitra
tions settled, but had been unable so far
to get the representatives of the corpora
tions to meet with them.
Tho comptroller general has received
such letters as these both from Chairman
Spencer R. Atkinson and Hon. G. Gunby
Jordan, and it is understood Hon. J. Pope
Brown has written a letter of similar
tenor which will reach him within a day.
This puts it up to the representatives of
the corporations.
Members of the railroad commission
say while they have done aII possible to
bring these arbitrations to a close, there
is another reason why they will hardly
bo settled so quickly this year as here
tofore, and that is the large number of
them. This year practically every cor
poration that has had to pay a franchise
tax has gone to arbitration, and the re
sult Is there are four times as many arbi
trations as in years gono.by.
Tax Rate Must Be Fixed.
The upshot of It all Is that the state
will not get the. benefit of tho franchise
and property returns of these corpora
tions In fixing the tax rate for the cur
rent year. As it is impossible to predict
what will be the finding of the arbitrators
in any case, or even, with any degree ot
certainty, to come anywhere near it. the
tax commission cannot consider the.-e
returns or assessments.
There is something more than $25,000,000
in franchise tax returns which is still tn
dispute, and this amount, even with a
considerable reduction as the result of
arbitration, would make quite a differ
ence in the tax rate.
This rate, however, must be fixed with
in the next week, in order that the tax
collectors of the various counties may be
notified by September 1, as the law re
quires. It will have to be made on tho
basis of all the other returns, together
with whatever may be finished before the
latter part of the month.
M., D. & S. Franchise Award.
The award of the arbitrators on the
franchise tax returns of the Macon. Dub
lin and Savannah railroad was made to
Comptroller General 55’riglit Saturday,
the amount being fixed at $55,152.
This Is the first award made by any
of the arbitrators over the franchise re
turns since the letter of the comptroller
general urging prompt action In order
that the state might have the benefit of
these returns in fixing the tax rate for
the current year. This is one of t.ne
small corporations, however, and the re
turn in this case will not help much.
It is the returns from the big systems,
the Seaboard, the Southern, the .Atlantic
Coast Line, the Atlanta and West Point,
the Western Union Telegraph Company
and others of this class that ate wanted,
but It begins to look as if none ot them
will be in hand until after the tax rate
has been fixed.
KINGSTON IS MORE HOPEFUL.
Planters Take More Cheerful View of
Hurricane's Work.
Kingston, August 17. —A slight)} more
hopeful feeling now prevails among the
planters regarding the disastrous situa
tion brought about by the recent hurri
cane. The work of clearing the banana
plantations is proceeding and a gnat
quantity of provisions can be saved.
Efforts arc being made on till sides to
retrieve the disaster, but thousands of
the peasantry are still homeless. The
government has authorized nine n.i rn-hi.-i 1
boards to spend provisionally $1.5u0 each
on relief work.
Lieutenant Sulnon Dropped.
AVashington. August IS. The war de
partment has dropped from the tolls Sec
ond Lieutenant Max Sulnon. who has been
absent from the department of Texas
without leave for several months. 11c
stands charged with desertion.
THU WEEKLY COSJffTTTUTION« ATLANTA, GJL, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1903.
ENFORCING THE
VAGRANCY LAW
Albany, Ga., August 19.—(Special.)—The
authorities of. Dougherty county .have
wasted no time in beginning operations
under the new vagrancy law. This city
has been cursed for years by a horde
of shiftless negroes, who refuse to work,
and all efforts to get rid ot them have
failed.
This afternoon Sheriff Edwards organ
ized a posse and proceeded to make a
clean sweep of the city. The negro bar
rooms and dives in the districts known as
Smoky Row and Sandy Bottom were
raided, the police officers assisting. Many
ot the vagrants were taken by surprise,
and arregls w»re made by the whole
sale.
The first raid netted twelve vagabonds,
and all during the afternoon and night
the Jail has been filling up. One of the
first arrests was that a negro preach
er. and it is expected that, at least, a
dozen others of his ilk will soon join him
behind the bars.
When the news of the raid spread, doz
ens of negroes could be seen sprinting
for the city limits through alleys and side
streets, and the excitement amounted al
most t<> a panic. The authorities are de
termined t£> get rid of the vagrants and
they are enthusiastically commended for
their course.
Americus After the Vagrants.
Americus, Ga„ August 19.—(Special.)—
In tlie city court this afternoon, Judge
Crisp sentenced to the chaingang a large
buiyji of negroes convicted ot vagrancy,
the defendants being notorious characters.
War against vagrancy was waged in
Americus thi§ week, with the result that
twenty negroes were, convicted of va
grancy ami sentenced to the chaingang.
Fourteen Held in Macon.
Constitution Bureau, 467 Second Street,
Macon, Ga., August. 21.—(Special.)—The
Bibb county jail was given a number of
new occupants tonight and tomorrow
morning, the prison cooks will be kept
busier than they have been in months
During the afternoon Judge Hodges of
the city court called the attention ot his
chief bailiff to the new vagrant law and
declared that he wanted It enforced to
the letter as far as he was concerned.
Shortly before S o’clock a half dozen bat
liffs left the court house In a bunch
and started for Fourth street. In less
than an hour fourteen arrests had been
made and every one was given a cell in
the county jail Three of the prisoners
are white, while the balance are ne
groes.
The officers promise another scouring
tour tomorrow night declaring th< V in
tend to rid tho streets of the groups of
idlers now- so common.
Hot Crusade on Vagrants.
Macon. Ga,. August 22.—(Special.)—The
Ink tracing the governor’s signature on
the Calvin vagrancy law v,’a ß hardly dry
before the county and city officers hero
got busy and as. a result tho Bibb jail
is filled to overflowing. As soon as the
bill became a law the nolice were notified
by Chief Murphy to run in ail idle per
sons and they have obeved their instruc
tions to the letter. Not a. day has
passed since those Instructions were is
sued but that Judge Freeman has dis
pensed justice to Ibis class of grafters.
Last night the CQUnty officers not wish
ing t > let a good thing pass Uje.v get $2
per vagrant, worked as they never worked
before and joday Jailer Stephens is feed
ing at the county’s expense some eighty
or ninety prisoners. Deputy Sheriffs
Jones and Smith hustled all night long
an/J before the word was passed for the
Vagrants to skip, tho officers had pinched
all in sight and some who wore not.
As a result, of the raid many negroes
and shiftloss white mon were soon early
this morning hitting the grit along thi>
railway tragjfs for other parts where the
coppers were not so wise. Jones and
Smith will start out again tonight and
the indications are that tho Bibb jail
will not be large enough to hold the vic
tims of the deputies' drag net.
Vagrants Turn Toward Atlanta
An Influx of vagrants Into Atlanta is
said to be one of the results so far of tho
new state vagrant law. Most of the
small towns are enforcing the law and
tho vagrants In such places have to leave.
They make a bee line for Atlanta, and
other large cities.
It is estimated that in Atlanta there are
something like two thousand persons who
come under the now vagrant law. A
few arrests have been made.
Under the new law all persons who are
professional gamblers and live only on
what they win, are vagrants; all per
sons who let their children work and
live on their wages are vagrants; all
persons over 16 and under 21 who are able
to work, but do not do so, and have no
parents to support them, are vagrants;
all persons who have no propertv and
who do not work are vagrants; all per
sons living an Idle, immoral or profligate
life and who have no property to sup
port them are vagrants; men who de
sert their families are vagrants.
I rider this list there are at least two
thousand men and women, it is said .who
can be arrested by the polio© within a
few days and prosecuted.
it was thought that as soon as the
new vagrant law was signed by the gov
■ rnor then would bo something of a sen
sation in police circles, but so far tho
wholesale arrests expected have not ma
terialized.
II is probable that the police are going
slow to get tire matter worked up on a
systematic basis, and that in a few days
tire many who are clearly vagrants will
bo arrested and prosecuted.
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES.
Montgomery., Ala., August 19.—(Special.)
C. A. Cary, director of the Farmers’ In
stitutes for the Alabama Polytechnic col
lege, at Auburn, Is at present engaged
in holding farmers' institutes in the sev
eral counties In the state, and his work
is being highly commended by tho far
mers wherever he goes. A farmers' in
stitute is being held at Clio, in Barbour
county, this week, and next week, on the
26tii, an institute will be held at Geor
giana, Butler county.
Three of the professors of the college
and experiment station at Auburn ac
company Professor Cary around the state,
and deliver addresses on subpects of in
terest to farmers. The subjects dis
cussed are stock-raising, forage crops,
.meh ns vetch, burr clover, peas, sorghum,
soil, improving crops, practical methods
of r< deeming worn-out soil, soli improve
ment lii relation to stock improvement
•and stock raising, .and the cultivation of
sp, ciai crops anil soils. Also, fertilizer,
how to feed cattle, disease of animals,
curative and preventative and horticul
tural subjects, such as growing of grapes,
berries, peaches, plums, etc.
Til, meetings are free to nil, and the
farmers are urged t > ask questions of the
-peakers on any subject and to thus thor
oughly inform themselves.
Every while these farmers’ institutes are
Grcnt Discovery
DROPSY
’ <’<’ll i’’D with venetabl©
Hrremedies. • ntirelv harm-
V W& less: removuH all nymp
lift toms of dropsy in s to-<»
vu* days; Xo to flt) <lay* o f -
Y / lertsft perminent cure,
i T rial tre. tm»*nt iu r
niahed rec to evr*rv
jK; ' /iin-rer; nothing fairer
k or circulars, testimon-
«le,etc , apply to
Dr-H.H.Green’s Sons,
Box A, Atlanta, Ga
held the farmers gather in great num
bers from all over the county and from
the surrounding counties, big barbecues
are held, and the occasions are made
memorable in the history of the county.
The occasions are more enjoyable be
cause the farmers In this state never had
at the same season of the year more
promising prospects for big crops.
CHEMICAL COMPANY HAS
PASSED ITS DIVIDEND.
Officers of Virginia-Carolina Com
pany Issues Statement to Its
Stockholders.
Richmond, Va„ August 18.—The Vir
ginia-Carolina Chemical Company direc
tors decided this afternoon to pass the
dividend on the common stock. The fol
lowing statement was issued:
“To the Stockholders of the Virginia-
Carolina Cemlcal Company—Your board
of directors desire to say that for the
year ending June 15, 1903. the Virginia-
Carolina Chemical Company actually sold
and delivered 982,000 tons of fertilizer, be
ing an increase of 26 per cent over its
business of the preceding year. In addi
tion to this, they manufactured lOO.tXiO
tons more of completed fertilizer which
they were unable to deliver because tho
railroads could not furnish the transpor
tation.
’’This large increase in business neces
sarily Involved the use of more capital
during the period between the sale and
delivery of the fertilizer and the payment
thereof by customers. This additional
capital has heretofore been easily obtain
ed through the discounting of the com
pany's bills receivable, of which, on
July 15, 1903, the company had on hand
over $6,000,000, averaging about SI,OOO each,
and over $2,000,000 of accounts receivable
convertible into bills. These bills have
always been considered the choicest pa
per issued in the south, and as such have
been readily available for current funds.
In the unusual financial conditions which
existed this year, this course of business
has become impracticable, and it was
accordingly necessary that your company
should provide Itself with sufficient ad
ditional cash capital to carry its busi
ness over to the fall months, when its
bills receivable are collected.
“Your company therefore applied to
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., of New
s’ork. who have organized a syndicate,
including Messrs. Blair & Co., the First
National bank, the National City bank,
tlie Morton Trust Company, the National
Park bank, and the Bank of America,
to advance to the. company, from time
to time, during tho next twelve months,
as required. amounts which together
with its other resources your directors
deem will be amply sufficient for all
your company's needs. Such advances
will be made upon tlie unsecured notes
of your company, leaving your company's
assets in its treasury free for use in its
current business as heretofore, thus indi
cating the high credit which it enjoys
among the leading bankers.
"Although tho. company now has more
thin $8,560,006 cash working capital, tho
business offering each year has increased
to such an extent that your directors
deem it essential that some plan
be devised for tho permanent provision
of additional cash working capital, so
that the necessity for borrowing so largo
an amount of money during certain
months of tho year may be avoided. It
is expected that, through tho conpera
tlon of the bankers above mentioned,
some adequate plan will bo devised at
an early date to accomplish this purpose.
In the meantime until such permanent
arrangements shall have been complete),
your cirectors have thought it best to
suspend the payment of the dividend
upon the common stock.
“VIRGINIA CAROLINA CHEMICAT,
COMPANY’,
"By S. T. Morgan, President.
Atlanta Director Retires.
55’. B. Chisholm, of Charleston, S. C.,
retires from the directorate and is suc
ceeded by Edward 'l'. Stotesbury, mem
ber of tlie firm of Messrs. Drexel. Mor
gan A- Co., Philadelphia. Pa.
Director F. B. Dancy, of Atlanta, also
retires and is succeeded by Norman S.
Me.ldrum, president of th- _ Securities
Cunp.inj’ of New s’ork. New Vork citj.
E. T. Stotesbury. Samuel Spencer and
Henry (Valters form a new finance com
mittee.
The following directors were present
at today’s meeting:
E. B Addison. S. D Crenshaw, 1,. A.
Carr. A. R. Elierson, S. T. Morgan. S.
SV. Travers. Henry Walters, !•’. 5\ . Hit
tie. E. T. Stotesbury and Norman S.
Meldrum. the last two just elected
Absent: J. B. Duke and Samuel Spen
cer.
NEW YORK MOB KICKS PARSON
He Made Uncomplimentary Refer
ence to Two Women.
New York, August 17,-Because he made
a reference which the crowd considered
uncomplimentary to two women who were
listening to him, the Rev. Maxwell P.
Johnstone, an evangelist who holds open
air meetings at Twenty-third street and
Eiftli avenue, was interrupted by sev
eral men. who started to mob the preach
er He was jostled and pushed about
and his makeshift pulpit was
through the .streets No one attempted to
strike tlie minister, however, and tm
police finally rescued him. Meantime the
women, who appeared to be refined pel
sons, had lied.
Would Meet Mobs with Bullets.
New York, August 17.—Rev. Dr. A. S.
McArthur, pastor of the Calvary Bap
tist church, has vigorously denounced
lynching and anarchy.
In the course ot his sermon he said:
"A mob is a wild beast. A mob has
no brains to think, no breast to feel anti
no reason to Judge between right amt
wrong. sVhen democracy becomes mob
octaey, tlie days of the republic will be
numbered.
"Mob law Is one of the greatest dan
gers In a republican form of government,
jt is anarchy, pure and simple It I s
vastly more dangerous lu a republic, than
in a monarchy. It resolves society into
savagery. It brutalizes and demoralizes
all who participate in it. it puts force m
the place of law and vengeance in the
plate of justice. It is treason to the re
public and a dishonor to humanity.
"Ours 1:< the only country on the globe
that roasts at the stake men uncon
demned ami untried. There Is not a spot
today In darkest Africa or in any othet
pagan land where such atrocities are
committed.
"5Ve must insist that officers of tho
law shall be fearless in the defense of
their prisoners even though they be guil
ty of the most awful crimes, in order to
do so they may have to shoot to kill. No
man who knows my spirit will charge
me with cruelty in feeling or action."
"BLACKSMITH PREACHER”
TO AID REV. SAMP. JONES
Knoxville. Tenn.. August 20—(Special.)
Rev. J. T. Sexton, of this city, who is
widely known as the “Blacksmith Bleach
er, '■ lias accepted an invitation to Join
Rev. Sam P. Jones at the latter's homo
at Cartersville, Ga., on September 6, and
to assist in a big revival at Cartersville,
which begins on that date.
Previous to entering the evangelistic
field. Rev. Mr. Sexton Was a blacksmith,
c.-.n^u-ting an establishment at Mary
ville, Tenn.. 16 miles from this city.
lb' has been eminently successful. He
wa« at the Cartersville revival held last
fall.
Pennsylvania’s Biggest Man Dead.
Bristol, Pa.. August 20.—5Vilson Lip
pincott, the largest man in Pennsyl
vania. lias just been burled. Lippincott,
who was once a noted jig dancer,
v.eighed 560 pounds at tho time of iris
death. A derrick was used in handling
tlie casket at tho grave after thirteen
mon had carried it there.
Strikers Return to Work.
Philadelphia, August 17.—1 t is estimated
that between 6,000 and 7,000 textile strik
ers, principally in the rug branch, re
sumed work today. The manufacturers
made no concessions. The strike was be
gun eleven weeks ago and of the original
6),000 strikers, but 10,000 remain out.
NEGRO EDITOR
ON RIGHT TRACK
A. SV. Burnett, tho negro editor of The
Atlanta New Era, a newspaper published
for the negroes of the city had a woman
us his race arrested last Thursday on the
charge of acting in a disorderly manner
on tlje streets.
lie called for an officer and accom
panied the woman to the police barracks
and had himself subpenaed as a witness.
He said he was not only acting for
good of tho town, but for the good, of
his race, as it was such characters, he
believed, as tho woman he reported who
are causing the negro race more trouble
than anything else.
Burnett made a round ot the resorts
frequented by negroes of disreputable
character last night, and the first wo
man he saw whp appeared to be acting
in a disorderly manner he had arrested.
He says since the new vagrant law has
been passed he will make If his busi
ness to proteet the hotter class of ne
groes against, the lawless and profligate.
Burnett saw latlu Osborne, a woman
notorious in police circles, standing in
front of a saloon near the corner of
Decatur and Butler streets and thought
he heard her cursing some man In the
saloon. Burnett went hurriedly after an
officer and the woman was soon behind
the bars.
Burnett repeated in court Friday morn
ing under oath what he said nt the po
lice barracks Thursday night, when, he
had the woman arrested.
Lulu Osborne denied she had acted In a
disorderly manner, but the positive testi
mony of Burnett made the recorder pay
little heed to her plea of not guilty.
It was something unusual to see a ne
gro appear in court ag the prosecutor of
a woman of his own race, and the trial
was commented qn by those present, and
favorably to tlie negro editor.
The Osborne woman was arrested
Thursday night on complaint of Burnett,
who reported to the police that she had
been cursing and using indecent language
on the streets.
“I am here," said Burnett in court,
“to prosecute a woman of my own race
and color. Woof the better class of
negroes in the south feel that the worth
less negroes are mainly the cause of our
people having so much trouble and of be
ing unjustly criticised. Several of us tn
Atlanta have decided to assist the officers
of the law in prosecuting negroes who
will not work, but who hang around on
the streets, a menace to society and to
our race. 55’hen we are judged as a
race, tin* wiiite people look upon us as
a whole, and the licentious element
among tlie negroes contaminates ths
whole race. ‘A little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump.’ if we can only stop the
profligate of our race from defying so
ciety and good order, we will take a
great step toward placing the negro
race in its proper sphere before tlie
world. It is this sentiment which brings
me to tins court today to see that jus
tice is meted out to this negno worn
an for conducting herself In a manner to
bring reproach upon my people."
Bui nett then told about hearing the
woman curse and use Hie most indecent
language on the streets where people
passing might have heard her. ,
The woman was fined $10.75 for her
conduct on the streets. She could not
pay the tine, and was sent to the stock
ade for three weeks.
Actin<’ Recorder Girarde.au compliment
ed BurViett on the stand he had taken,
and said that the police would gnatlv
■KUTreciate tile efforts of any good negroes
who wished to give tlieir race a chanco
to show the people they did not counte
nance the misdeeds of those who violated
the law and defied society.
BEST WAY WAS TO KILL GOEBEL
Was Statement of James Finley, Says
Witness Noakes.
Georgetown, Ky., August 17.—Robert
Noakes, who three years ago in the first
trial of Caleb Powers was a sensational
Witness’, but who ran away from Ken
tucky after leaving the stand, appeared
as a witness for the commonwealth to
oay. ~ , ,
55'itness Noakes said that at < orbln.
55’hltli-v county, James Finley, ex-secre
tary of state, said to him that mov
ing of a large bunch of men to I-rank
fort was too expensive, that the best
v.ay to settle the contest was to pay
James Howard $2,000 to kill Goebel.
The Witness said arrangements had
been made to kill Goebel on January
19C0. but that they then miscarried. The
cross-examination of the witness by At
torney 55’illlanis was being made when
court recessed.
Powers took the witness stand in ills
own defense at ’he afternoon session.
Examined by Judge Morton, he told the
s’ory lie has repeated ou the stand on
eaell of his preceding trials. He denied
the store told by Frank Cecil, of Bell
county, that he was seeking some one
to enact the role of assassin, fn mak
ing answer to questions, the defendant
continually made explanations. A num
ber of times ho fell into error in making
these explanations and Wa s corrected by
the court.
The defendant denied that he ever had
any other-motive In brlngingi the moun
tain army to Frankfort than to show
tin- democratic majority of the general
assembly the intense feeling of the re
publican voters' of the state, and said it
hud nothing whatever to do with the
murder. sVlth bls answers to questions,
it is plainly evident that Powers' defense
this time will be that Henry Youtsey
tired the shpt. The direct examination
wa s not concluded today.
ONE MOURNER—NO PREACHER.
Funeral of Marie Gordon Was Unu
sually Sad Spectacle.
Montgomery. Ala.. August 17. —(Special.)
The saddest funeral that has ever taken
place in this city took place yesterday
when Mario Gordon, formerly Marie
Lvtle, who committed suicide In Chi
cago. was laid to rest at the Oakwood
cemetery. There was only one hack
that followed the hearDe and that hack
contained a single mourner, the mother
of the young woman. At the cemetery
this mourner was joined by her son,
W. R. Lytle, a brother of the deceased,
who is being held here nt The jail Until
the United States court passes upon the
habeas corpus proceedings brought to
have him released. He is wanted In Chi
cago for assault with intent to murder.
There were four officers of tlie law with
him. This small number of mourners
filed to Toe grave, where Marie Gordon,
or Marie Lytle, once a beautiful society
belle of Tennessee, but who had latelv
fallen from her position in life, was put
beneath the earth.
The saddest part of the burial now
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took place. Mrs. Lytle, tlie mother of
the deceased, knelt down at her son's
knee, beside the open grave, and prayed.
There was no preacher present. Such a
picture f A gray-halred mother asking
God to forgive her wayward daughter and
kneeling at the feet of her son who is
wanted for assault with intent to murder,
and surrounded by officers of the law.
55 r hen She finished praying there was not
a dry eye to be seen among those pres
ent. An officer who was present said
the prayer was the most beautiful and
the most touching that he has ever
heard.
OLD BOOKS MAY BE BARRED.
Interesting’ Development in Alabama
School Situation.
Montgomery, Ala., August 22.—(Special.)
A mild sensation Is brewing in connection
with the contract recently made with the
'publishers of school books by the state
text-book commission.
The question has been sprung as to
whether under the contract, and under
the law creating the commission, the
school children of the state can use any
book already in use in the common schools
and which has been adopted by the com
mission without exchanging such book
for a new one.
Under the contract, in order to proteet
the book concerns witli whom the state
made a contract for books and to avoid
other books sent in to Alabama second
hand to be exchanged for new
books, which they are required to do un
der their contract, allowing 50 per cent,
of the value of the new book in exchange,
the liouk concerns are not only permitted,
but are required to so stamp their books
as to distinguish them, and thus prevent
fraud and impostion upon the publishers
by teachers and pupils. But in inserting
this clause fn the contract the state fail
ed to provide that wherever a book was
already in use that had been adopted by
the commission, such book could be used
by the school children without exchange
or additional expense.
"if the publishers take advantage of
this clause in the contract to force tlie
school children to exchange old for new
books and pay the difference between
the old rind the new books, there will
go up such a howl from all over the
state as to force a decision of tlie cour ts
in favor of the state, when the matter
gets into the courts, as it is sure to do.
A moo will be nothing compared to the
indignation among the people if the pub
lishers should attempt to take a technical
advantage to make the parents and
school children of the state buy new
books when tlie books they have would
serve every purpose."
sVhen State Superintendent I. W Hill
was seen by The Constitution correspond
ent this morning, he was inclined to treat
the point raised very lightly, but he said
that the question having arisen the whole
matter had been submitted to the attor
ney general, and a decision was expected
from him in a few days, lie did not be
lieve, however, t..at the publishers who
had contracts with tlie state could afford
to take advantage of that clause in the
contract which glve s them the right to
stamp nil their hiroks to be used in the
puldie schools to force yn exchange of an
old book for a new book of tho same kind,
but he admitted the doubt on tlie point.
"My suggestion. and to avoid any
trouble along, this line, is that tlie pub
lishers simply require school teachers to
certify to their agents that such book
lias been in use in the school, and tiiis
certificate ought to be sufficient protec
tion to the publishers ami a guarantee
that no fraud is lining perpetrated upon
them."
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GOV. JELKS SVON’T INTERFERE. (
He Fights Shy of Coffee County
Court House Trouble.
Montgomery. Ala.. August 22.- (Spi i.iij .
Governor Jelks this afternoon issued a I
statement in which he declines to inter- '
sere with the removal of the court house
of Coffee county from Elba to Enter -
prise
There was a bitter tight for removal
and large delegations for both sides have
seen the governor. Enterprise presenti 4
a petition of 1.500 names asking for a .
removal Tills was attacked by tlie citi
zens of Elba. They claimed about 500
were qualified voters. Governor Jelks ;
turned tlie petition over to the examiner
of public accounts to verify. The •x
--laminer reported that there were not i
enough qualified voters to the petitions i
asking fir removal, as is require 1 * i»v
law. The governor says he will not ap- i
point, a commissioners nor call an elec- |
tion under the circumstances.
■ ——
WHITE CAPS SCARE NEGROES.
Labor in/ Barbour County. Alabama,
Is Badly Demoralized.
Montgomery, \la.. August 21. (Spe. ial.)
A well authenticated rumor reaches her ■
from Barbour th.it there is a practical
race war on In cne portion of the county
and as a result negroes are being driven
out of tlie county by Whitecaps.
A prominent citizen of Barbour was in
the city yesterday to see Judge Jones, of
tile United States district court, and as- '
certain what methods could lie adopted
to stop whitecapping, which was serious- '
ly demoralizing the labor of the county.
It is understood that Judge Jones re- i
ferred tlie Barbour county citizen to the I
governor, saying: "I do not think the '
federal authorities should be called on to
do what the state authorities ought to do, i
and have It In their power to do."
The Ba. hour citizen went to tlie capi- |
to! to see the governor, but the governor .
being absent at Blount Springs the |>ri- !
rate secretary, .i. Kirk Jackson, prom- j
ised to lay all tlie facts before tlie gov
ernor inin ediutely on tlie governor’s re- !
turn to tlie capltoi.
It is said that tile labor on three or i
more large plantations in Barbour have \
been run off by whitecaps and labor gen i
erally in that section of tlie county where I
whitecapping is said to have occurred ’
is greatly demoralized.
The cause for this outbreak against ne
groes in Barbour is not known here. But i
it is said to be due to some overt acts , '
nt’ the negroes, who have made them- ' :
selves obnoxious to certain people of the h
neighborhood
SECOND ROUND IN MISSISSIPPI.
Race for the Governorship Is Ab
sorbing- All the Attention.
Jackson, Miss., August 21.—(Special.)—
Six days from today the second battle of I
the ballots will lie fought In Mississippi,
and unlike the first, it will lie fought to
a conclusion. In tlie second, as in tlie
first, tlie whole interest is centered in the
governor’s race now between James K. i
Vardanian and Frank A. Critz.
The few minor county offices and the
two railroad commissioners that must be
voted for are overshadowed in every
way. In the first primary the senatorial
race absorbed a great deal of attention,
and as that Is out of tlie way. ail forces
are centered on the two aspirants for the '
office of chief executive of Mississippi.
The open card of United States Senator ,
H. D. Money, in which he states that he
will support s’ardaman, Injects new gin
ger Into the scrap. Senator Money's :
sympathies were well known, but no puli- !
lie statement had been made by him
Senator A. J. McLaurin, whose leader- !
ship in Mississippi is unquestioned, has
taken the opposite side and is supporting ;
Judge Frank A. Critz for governor. Tlie '
position of these two distinguished lead- '
ers makes the campaign more lively. <
Never before in the history of Missis
sippi were tlie people so aroused over a I
campaign and never before was the bat- I
tie thrown on such lines. It is a cam
paign of clubs. In every town of any size I <
in the state there is a Vardaman and a 1
Critz club, with its president, secretary f
and campaign committee. They don't watt 1
for advice from the candidates, but act
on their own initiative. Each club has I
a list of tlie Noel voters in that section
and every man makes it his business to
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the X’ardaman or the Critz side.
In several towns it is said that next
week business will be suspended, and this
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wili be lew business transact imis next
week and on Thursday, the election day,
business will be a side line with all men
Business lias been wry dull since before
tlie first primary.
To men in the soliciting business, such
as insurance agents and book agents,
the nolitieal fight has been deadly in its
effects and they have beerj unable to
thrive.
Many Legislators Reelected.
Jackson. Miss., August 21.-(Special.)-
Secretary of State J"e l’"W r lias re
ceived replies from thirty-six of the coun
ties in tlie state to the letter sent out by
him asking for the names of the members
of tlie state senate and tlie house of
representatives chosen at the first pri
mary. Tlie replii s are coming in wry
promptly, much t“ the satisfaction of Mr
Bower, who will lie able to giw a bst of
al] those elected in a few days. BraeticaJ
lv all of Hie mr-rnliers of the state senate
were I'leet-d on the first primary. Out of
the thirty-six counties heard from tW' n
I y-five members haw l.>een elect* J, vle n
it is rememiii’i'cd tliat there are
forty-five members of the senate, an I
over half of th- counties yet to wport it
shows that a majority were elected on the
first primary.
CARD OF CANDIDATE CRITZ
Denounces Reports Circulated as Ab
solutely Untrue.
Jackson. Miss.. August 19 - -iSpenl.i'
Hon Frank 5. Critz. of 55 •••st Point,
endioat • .’or gov -rnor :’ Mississippi. Ims
issued the fallowing card to the p< I e
of Mississippi, touching upon the report
I alleged to have bi i-n sent o it on the day
i of tlie first primary that Mr. Noel had
i withdrawn from the raw:
-Th,, report being < ireu’ate.l that I had
| anything to do with the t'-h iranis sent
out on the dav of the Hist plimarv stat
■a, , that Senator Noel had v. ith.b awn or
livid admitted <lnf«at is absolutely untrue.
S-n itoi N--1 ’’•■'i'■'>"s ii" blame t" me.
and in m> way holds me responsible,
,ven in the remotest degree, for tii-.-e
telegrams. These reports, like many
other falsehoods which are being cn i
lated for the purpose of Injuring nm
! haw no basis in fact, and 1 am amazed
' that tin' partisans of any candidate for
' high office should stoop to methods wh. h
are being resorTed to in a desperate es-
I fort to defeat me 1 denounce in un
! measured terms all of the vile fals.-
I hoods wliicli are being so industriously
I circulated and submit my claim and my
I character to a just, fair-minded and dis
' criminating citizen^___
' STATE SENATOR AS BOODLER.
I
Sullivan on Trial in Missouri Accused
cf Accepting Bribes.
Jeff-rson City, Mo., August 19—Ths
trial of State Senator Sullivan, under
indictment on the charge of soliciting a
bribe of $1,500 from baking powder in
terests. was begun here today.
Whitney Lay.-n. representative of the
baking powder interests, was tlie witness
upon whom Hie pros“cution depended
chiefly. After testifying to the fact that
he intended the legislature last winter,
trying to secure the repeal of the puie
food bill, he said:
"I met Senator Sullivan in the large
room back of tlie senate cloak room. He
said we needed three votes to g r, t tlie bill
that, we wanted pass'd. He said that for
the sum 0f’54.5"0 he could carry two
other votes and his own for tlie repeal
of the law."
"Who W i'.' th t -. ■? '
"tie gat\ me to understand tnat Sena
tor Smith was one of the ethers. He
said he would see Smith and go into tlie
matter further."
Layton then told of Sullivan. Smith ami
himself going to the Madison house, and
axliled:
"Just tlu'ii Senator Harris came in and
Senator Smith stepped over and joined
Senator Harris. 1 talked to Senator
Smith later after Smith had talked with
Harris."
Sullivan Found Guilty.
Jefferson City. 510., August 20.—State
Senator William I’. Sullivan, accused of
soliciting a bribe for throe votes on the
anti-alum bill ■ luring tlie session of the
legislature ln«t winter, was found guilty
til’s afternoon and his punishment fixed
at SIOO fine.
ARMY TO SUPPRESS FEUD.
Salvationists Will Send Band of
Workers To Preach Peace.
Savannah. Ga., August 20.—(Special.)—
Plans have been laid by the Salvation
Army to invade the feud section of Ken
tucky and Tennessee and half a hundred
Salvationists will march into the moun
tains of the states early next month.
Tin- recent outbreak in Breathitt county
is responsible for the culmination of <i
project that has been under considera
tion by tlie army for unite a while.
Staff Captain J. M Berriman, of Atlan
ta. who will be with the band of inva
sion. says that no trouble is anticipated,
but that a strong fight will be made Ivy
the members of the army to change con
dition in the feud sections.
Most of those who will do the work
will be sent from Cincinnati, although
some of the New York army men wili
probably be chosen. The army will sim
ply go into tlie heart of the feud districts
and endeavor to change the hearts of the
feudists.
They realize that tlieir task is a stu
pendous one but Captain Berriman says
that he believes that much good will
come of tho invasion.
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