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MURDER OF Cl
AND HIS FAMILY
FULLYDESCWBED
Correspondents Give Details
■ From* Witnesses Which
Leave No Doubt of the
Former Emperor’s Fate
LONDON, Aug. 29.—A1l possible
Ooubts that former Emperor Nichol
as of Russia and his family were
assassinated in the baseipent of
their prison house at Ekaterinburg
on the night of July 16, 1918, seem
to be dispelled by the accounts of
two independent investigators which
are published here. One is printed
by the London Times and was writ
ten by its former Petrograd cor
respondent, Robert Wilton. The
other apepars in the magazine.
Nineteenth Century and After, and
is from the pen of Captain Francis
McCullagh, of the British army, who
before the war was a widely known
newspaper correspondent. Both
have spent weeks at Ekaterinburg
and talked with natives and soldiers
who witnessed the affair through
the windows of the ill-fated house.
Both writers agree on the Important
details of the story.
The victims of the massacre, they
•ay, numbered ten, being the for
mer emperor, his wife, and four
daughters. Dr. Botkin and three ser
vants. The assassination was ar
ranged by Purovski, the jailer in
charge of the deposed royal family,
and was carried out by twelve sol
diers. The Times’ accounts says
these men were Letts, but Captain
McCullagh declares they were Mag
yars, who had been placed on duty
Instead of a Russian guard because
Bolsheviki feared a Russian could
not be trusted for the work.
Captain McCullagh’s story says
all the doomed party, except Nichol
as, were on their knees, crossing
themselves, as Yurovski shouted the
order for the execution of ’’Nicholas
Romanoff, the bloody, and all bis
family.”
The former czar then stepped
quickly in front of his wife and
children, saying something which
could not be heard and was shot by
Yurovski. Then the remainder of
the party was shot down with re
volvers and later the soldiers bay
•netted the bodies, he said. i
These, accounts confirm previous
reports, but it is known the former
emperor’s mother, who is in Copen
hagen, and Queen Alexandra of
Great Britain, have refused to give
tip hope of the royal family’s escape
until auite recently when private re
ports furnished them by Captain Mc-
Cullagh and Mr. Wilton at the re
quest of relatives, convinced them
the massacre of the former Rus
sian royal family was carried out.
Yurovski. who had been president
Os the extraordinary commission at
Ekaterinburg, is aeciared to have
boasted to Captain McCullagh last
March that he had condemned sixty
persons suspected of anti-Bolshevik
■entiments. and is quoted as say
ing: "What are sixty men?”
After the assassination of Nichol
as and his family, Yurovski, it is
asserted, hastened to Mokcow to re
port the details to Nikolai Lenin,
the Bolshevik premier. According to
Captain McCullagh, he was promot
ed to be commissioner of life in
surance in the province of Ekater
inburg. and the most hand
some house in the town, which was
confiscated from a merchant. Even
the Bolsheviki of the city, however,
•re declared to shun him.
On the- square overlooked by Em
peror Nicholas’ last prison, the Bol
shevik local government has placed
a large sign, bearing the words;
"Square of National Vengeance,” it
is said. ■
Meal in Sebastopol
/ Costs 60,000 Rubles;
Country Dead Broke
SEBASTOPOL, Crimea—(By the
Associated Press). —One' million Don
rubles were purchased for s2tk. here
today by the correspondent, but aft
erwards he paid 60,000 rubles for a
meal, 10,000 more for a short cab
ride and at the close of the day was
a bankrupt millionaire. Crimea is
An an unhappy situation. It has 24,-
900,000,000 of rubles, but no real
money, and there is little to buy
here. '
The harbor is filled with idle and
disabled warships and merchantmen,
street cars have been stopped be
cause of the lack of coal, and streets
•re deserted except for an occasional
carriage, some wpunded soldiers and
armed patrolmen.
Most women here have no hats,
but wear veils or kerchiefs about
their heads. Many are without stock
ings, but aire charming, nevertheless,
in bright, inexpensive gowns, which
they dignify with erect and Inde
pendent carriage suggestive of Amer
ican women.
Six years of war have not broken
the spirit of south Russian women.
They "carry on” with the slightest
meams at their disposal without com
plaint, and give whatever encourage
ment they can to men battling with
bolsheviki along the Dneiper river
•nd in the Don Kuban territory.
Villa, His Forces
Demobilized, Is Off
For Country Life
MEXICO CITY. Aug. 28.—Demobili
zation of Francisco Villa’s forces
has been completed at Tlahualllo.
it was officially announced today.
The former bandit will leave at once
for his ranch at Canutillo.
SELLS ALL WOOL SUIT
FOR $25.00
A handsomely illustrated fall and
winter style book showing all the
latest New York and Chicago styles
in men’s suits and containing 66
beautiful cloth samples of the very
finest, high-grade fabrics, is being
distributed free by the Bell Tailors,
Dept. 855, Chicago, 111., the largest
concern in the world selling made-to
measure tailored suits direct to
Wearer. The values offered for the
coming season are simply amazing.
For instance, they offer a very fine
all-wool high-grade suit made to In
dividual measure, at only $25. The
measurement system used is so sim
ple any member of your family can
take your measure and the Bell Tai
lors guarantee to fit you perfectly or
there is no charge. Send for their
style book and price list today and
save big money on your clothes.
New Constitution for
Alabama Considered
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Aug. 29.
Governor Kilby will ask the jegisla-.
ture during the special session, be
ginning September 14, to provide for
a convention for the rewriting, of
the state constitution. This subject
was included in the official procla
mation convening the legislature
which was issued by the executive
department Saturday afternoon.
This will bring up as an issue for
immediate consideration a subject
which has been urged by attorneys
and prominent citizens for several
years. Governor Kilby placed in nls
call a suggestion for the amending
of the act creating the Alabama pub
lie service commission and for the
increasing of the appropriation for
the state law enforcement depart
ment. , ’ ,
Other matters included i:i the call
follows: Election laws requiring
capitol officials to live in Mont
gomery. giving counties the. right to
issue interest bearing warrants, reg
elating the feeding of prisoners, in
spections of gasoline, amending the
blue sky law, and amending the dog
law.
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WASHINGTON.—Anthony A. Barry has invented a machine
which he claims will revive persons who are right next door to death
—if not dead! It’s a rotating machine that Is supposed to whirl the
gentle patient several different directions at one time and start the
fluids of the body in motion. In extreme cases, the inventor says, it
will even start circulation anew and force a silent heart to pump.
Edgar Watkins, in Speech
AtCarrollton, Shows Why
Smith Should Be Elected
Atlanta Lawyer Delivers Dis
passionate Address on
Senatorial Candidates and
Their Records
CARROLLTON, Ga., Aug. 28.
One of the ablest and most effective
political speeches ever heard in Car
roll county was delivered here this
morning by Edgar Watkins, the
well-known Atlanta lawyer," in sup
port of Senator Hoke Smith;
1 Mr. Watkins discussed the issues
of the senatorial campaign from the
standpoint of the interests of the
state, showing tnat Senator Smith’s
demonstrated ability to serve ..his
state and section is an asset of tre
mendous value, and showing that his
experience and influence with his
colleagues could not be replaced by
any successor, because of the sen
iority rujp which gives the prefer
ence of committee appointments to
the senators having the longest serv-
Mr. Watkins recited the principal
achievements of Senator Smith in
the way of constructive legislation.
He mentioned his amendment re
quiring the railroads to justify in
creased freight rates before putting
them into effect, which saved the
shippers millions of dollars in the
war period, and which was later re
pealed by Republicans. He men
tioned the legislation put through by
Senator Smith to regulate transac
tions on the cotton exchanges; the
great educational legislation which
the senator has been instrumental in'
passing; the legislation for the aid
of disabled soldiers.
With regard to the League of Na
tions. Mr. Watkins showed that
Senator Smith’s position is in accord
with Governor Cox’s position; that
he has reduced to writing his res
ervations, while Governor Dorsey
has merely stated his in general
terms: that Mr. Watson opposes any
concert of action among the nations.
Mr. Watkins showed that the Re
publicans, if they regain control of
congress, will attempt to reduce the
sbuth’s representation and renew
their attempts to pass a force bill.
He showed that Senator Smith has
prevented action on Senator Moses’
resolution aimed at the south and
will be in a position to defeat the
resolution when it edmes up again.
.In this connection Mr. Watkins
showed that Thomas E. Watson,
when he was fn congress twenty-five
years ago, at the time the
force bill was pending, accomplish
ed nothing to defeat it, except that,
he objected to the publication of ex
tra copies of the bill by southern
congressmen to inform their people
of the character of the bill.
Mr s Watkins further showed that
the Peoples party in which Mr. Wat
son was prominent in the eary nine
ties "frankly conceded the political
rights of the negro," and that it
named negro members of its com
mittees, conventions and delegations,
according to Mr. Watson’s own tes
timony before a congressional Inves
tigating committee.
MERCHANTS OF
ROCKDALE THANK
JOURNAL FOR AID
CONYERS, Ga., Aug. 26. —Editor
Atlanta Journal: We, the under
signed merchants of Rockdale coun
ty, Georgia, wish to thank you for
the publicity that you have been
giving the enforced collection of
an illegal cigarette tobacco tax in
this state by special tax investi
gators from the office of Governor
Hugh M. Dorsey. *
Under threat of impending punish
ment in event of refusal Rockdale
county merchants were forced to
pay the illegal tax in sums aggre
gating $2,190, merchants who ques
tioned the authority of the investi
gator being shown a letter from the
governor and Attorney General Clif
ford Walker.
One merchant kindly requested
the investigator to delay collection
until the return of his father, senior
member of the firm, and was threat
ened with proceedings that would
result in the issuing of papers un
less immediate compliance was made.
He contributed $75, which the in
vestigator later claimed left a bal
ance due of $25.
One rural merchant who carried
a stock of merchandise valued at
about S2OO refused to pay the $175
demanded and escaped the usual
process employed in dealing with
delinquent tax payers, which indi
cates a known weakness in the law.
The merchants whose names are
appended hereto, having executed
the required affidavit nd having
heard that refunds have been made
in Newton, Bartow and probably
other counties, propose to demand
recognition of our legal rights.
Very truly yours,
T. A. ELLIOTT SON,
WOOD BROTHERS,
G. D. MALCOM,
M. H. PLUNKET.
PATRICK & ALMAND,
CONYERS DRUG CO.,
C. W. NORTON,
N. T. STREET,
L. A. CAMP.
By C. R. Cannon,
Three Men Hold Up
Paymaster, Get $ 15,000
HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 28.—Three
men in an automobile held up the
paymaster of the General American
company at East Chicago today and
escaped with $15,000.
The bandits fled across the state
line toward Chicago in an automo
bile.
GOVERNOR OF
TENNESSEE IS
ASKED TO QUIT
MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Aug. 28.
Citizens of Rutherford county in mass
meeting here today in protest against
ratification of the woman suffrage
amendment, adopted resolutions
which, after expressing the belief
that the suffrage issue had perma
nently divided the Democratic party
in Tennessee under the present party
leaders, called uppn Governor Rob
erts to resign. Sister counties of
the state were urged to take similar
steps and to select delegates to a
state convention to be held in Nash
ville September 15 to name a Demo
cratic candidate for governor. Gov
ernor Roberts was nominated for re
election in the state primaries Au
gust 5. • .
The resolutions condemned the gov
ernor, and by implication Senator K.
D. McKellar, Representative Ewin
L. Davis of the Fifth congressional
district, and Andrew L. Todd, of
Murfreesboro, speaker of the state
senate, because of their activities In
behalf of ratification, and concludes:
"As to our United States senator
and congressman, we will take such
action as deemed advisable at the
proper time and in the proper way.”
Speakers who addressed the more
than 2,000 persons present included
Seth M. Walker, speaker of the lower
house of legislature and leader of
the anti-ratification forces; Miss
Charlotte Rowe, of New York; Judge
True, of Robertson county, and
Percy Sharpe, of Nashville, one of
the members of the lower house who
bolted and went to Decatur, Ala
last week in order to break a quorum.
Senator Todd and others attempt
ed to speak after adoption of the
resolutions, but the crowd would not
permit them to do so. They later
addressed a meeting of several hun
dred citizens in the circuit court
room of the courthouse, Mr. Todd de
voting his remarks to an explanation
vot ed for suffrage.
CALL FOR SUFFRAGE
CELEBRATION IGNORED
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug 28
The call of Mrs. George Fort Mil
ton, Tennessee chairman of the Na
tional Woman Voters’ league, for a
demonstration throughout the state,
at .noon today in celebration of pas
sage of the suffrage amendment
passed unnoticed here, there being
nothing of this nature attempted
Acting Mayor Ed Bass, who asked
to proclaim the celebration, had is
sued a proclamation saying, that the
citizens should give a moment from
their usual vocations In memory of
“absent constitution,” and declaring
that the passage of the amendment
by the Tennessee legislature was il
legal.
MASS MEETING DEMANDS
THAT M’KELLAR RESIGN
TRACY CITY, Tenn., Aug. 28.—A
mass meeting held at the courthouse
here tonight denounced Governor A.
H. Roberts for his action in embrac
ing the federal suffrage amendment
in his call-for a special session of the
legislature and pledging those in at
tendance to oppose his re-election.
The resolutions also condemned Sen
ator Kenneth D. McKellar for his ac
tivities m behalf of suffrage amend
ment and demanded that he resign
from the United* States senate.
ALL SUFFRAGE SUPPORTERS
CONDEMNED AT MEETING
CLEVELAND, Tenn., Aug. 28.—At
a nonpartisan mass meeting held
here today, resolutions were passed
deploring what was termed the vio
lation of the state constitution in the
passage of the federal suffrage
amendment and condemning all na
tional and state officials and candi
dates for public preferment who had
a hand in the ratification by the Ten
nessee legislature.
Three Florida Places
In One County Have
Doubled Populations
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Three
Florida places, air in Manatee county,
more than doubled their population
in the last ten years, according to
statistics announced by the census
bureau today. Bradentown, with a
population of 3,868, increased 105.1
per cent; Palmetto, with 2,146, in
creased 164.8 per cent, and Sarasota,
with 2,149, increased 155.8 pet cent.
Population of other southern places
included in today’s announcements
were:
Louisiana places: Winnsboro,
I, Rustin, 3,389; Rayville, 1,499.
Mississippi places: Gloster, 1,079;
Bay Springs, 861; Brookhaven. 4,706;
Norfield. 1.080; Magnolia, 2,012; Sum
mitt, 1,187.
Senator Smith Leads
In Poll orr Train
Editor The Journal: A straw
ballot was taken on the Georgia train
leaving Atlanta, Thursday at 3 p. m.,
for Augusta with the following re
sults:
For Senator - Hoke Smith, 16; Tom
Watson, 14; Hugh Dorsey, 13; J. R.
Cooper, none.
For governor: Tom Hardwick, 19;
Cliff Walker, 16; John Holder, 8; Wal
ter Brown, none. Four refused to vote.
Respectfully, yours,
IKE SMITH,
Shady Dale, Ga., Merchant.
Russian Professor Starves
LONDON, Aug. 281—Dr. A. A.
Sachmatov, professor of Russian lan
guage at the University of Petro
grad, is dead, according to a dis
patch from Stockholm quoting ad
vices received there. It is said he
died of starvation.
COTTON GROWER
IS POORLY PAID,
STATES JORDAN
■ X
In a statement issued Saturday,
Harvie Jordan, secretary of the
Americar Cotton association, asserts
that the time has come when an "in
genuous propaganda,” flooding the
country with the idea that cotton
growers were waxing fat on 30 and
40-cent cotton, should be answered
flatly and emphatically with the
statement and the proof that even
‘at 40 cents a pound, the southern
cotton grower is the "poorest paid
farmer” and the cheapest laborer in
any industry in the United States.
Mr, Jordan’s statement follows:
"An old saying that ’where igno
rance is bliss t’were folly to be wise’
does not apply to the raw cotton in
dustry. Ignorance regarding the cot
ton industry in this country is ram
pant in all parts of the nation, which
is hurtful. This statement is fully
exemplified by the storm of ad
verse criticism at present directed
towards the American CottoA asso
ciation and President J. S. Wana
maker, because of their efforts to
relieve the depressing prices for
cotton by prompt and drastic means
on the part of the growers.
“For the past two years a nation
wide propaganda has flooded the
country with ingenuously prepared
literature in an effort to create the
Impression that the growers were
reaping a golden harvest from 30
to 40 cents’ cotton. This smoke bar-,
rage has been concocted and pro
mulgated in order to screen the real
profiteers in the cottorf industry,
who piled up their millions of un
righteous gains after the staple had
left the hands of the producers. It
must be further borne in mind that
even 40 cents per pound only re
ferred to the highest grades of the
staple. Millions of bales of low
grade cotton, which cost the farmer
just as much, or more, to harvest
and put on the market, has been sac
rificed at 15 to 20 cents per pound.
Even at an average price of 40 cents
per pound for cotton, the cotton
growers of the south would still be
the poorest paid farmers and the
cheapest laborers in any industry
in the United States.
"Thousands of northern and west
ern business men, especially travel
ing men, coming into the south are
severely criticising this association
in its efforts to stem the tide of
depressing prices for cotton. These
people seem to have an idea that
25 cents a pound is a big price, and
if the farmers demand more they are
engaging in an unholy alliance to
hold up the cotton mills and prof
iteer as the expense of the general
consuming public.
"This is an unfortunate condition
of affairs, because it tends to create
a public sentiment adverse ’to the in
terests of the grower. Neither the
American Cotton association nor the
growers ever asked for more than the
actual cost of production, plus a fair
and reasonable profit. Less than this
would mean the taking on again the
shackles of agricultural slavery, and
the trail of poverty which the south
has patiently borne for fifty years.
Either there must be cost plus a fair
piofit to grow cotton, or else the pro
duction of cotton in this country will
cease. .
"We have reached the parting of
the ways. No farmer is under any
obligation whatever to grow cotton at
a price that will enslave him and his
family. There are plenty of other
staple crops which can be grown at a
profit in the south to take the place of
cotton.
"The time has come when there
must be a revision of thought in the
minds of those who have been misin
formed regarding the cost of grow
ing cotton. People outside the belt
must be made to realize that southern
cotton growers are as human and as
entitled to fair consideration and just
dealing as the people of any other
section of the nation. What we want,
and insist upon is, that the truth
shall be known in place of garbled
misrepresentation.
"The total gross value of the cot
ton produced by the average cotton
farmer would not bring much more
than half the amount which the fed
eral government contends is absolute
ly necessary to support a family in
decency. After rents, guano and sup
plies are paid for there is practi
cally nothing left but a hard year of
labor to remember the crop by
Talk of profiteering. It is absurd.
“The northern people need to learn
the truth. We welcome the most
searching and painstaking investiga
tions from any fair and impartial
source to ascertain the facts. Stop
abusing the farmers and the Amer
ican Cotton association, either froip
without or within. We need the co
operation and support of every inter
est to build up and systematize the
production and handling of cotton
upon a basis both economically and
profitably.”
Policeman Killed
By Negro in Duel
Following Liquor Raid
WAYCROSS, Ga., Aug. 28—As the
result of a pistol duel, Walter Blakes
a member of the Waycross police
force is dead and Tom Smith, a
negro, is at the point of death in the
Ware County Jail the shooting oc
curred at a' negro hotel, commonly
known as “Fords Place” on Reed St.
about 1:30 Friday morning.
Brakes with another policeman
made a raid on the place and found
a large gathering of carousing negroe
dancing and drinking policeman
Brakes entered the front door of the
dance hall and was met by Smith
who was intoxicated the negro
reached for his pistol, but was
warned by the policeman to keep
still the negro did not heed the warn
ing but whipped the pistol from its
hoster, he and the policeman firing
almost simultaneously the policeman
was shot through the Heart, but em
pted his revolver at the negro before
he fell, two of the shots taking ef
fort, one in the stomach and the
other in the chest policeman Brakes
died within a few minutes the negro
was placed under arrest by officers
who were immediately s ummoned.
He was carried to the county jail
where he was given medical atten
tion.
The Reed street Hotel has been
under supicion for some time and
several raids have been made in
search of liquor the owner of the
place, Elsie Ford, together with
several of the dancers were also ar
rested and will be held In connection
with the case about three gallons of
liquor were found and confiscated.
Mr Brakes was well known
throughout this section and has been
connection with the police depart
ment from time to time for five oh
six years his funeral will be held to
morrow afternoon.
The negro has been taken to Sa
vannah, where he will be placed in
the Chatham county jail. Officers
are. searching for several other ne
groes who were mixed up in the af
fair and an ugly feeling prevails. The
Atlantic Coast Line train s'topped at
a crossing near the jail and the negro
was placed on board.
Says France Will
Import U. S. Wheat
PARIS, Aug. 28.—Andre Liesse,
editor of the financial journal, Econo
miste, declares In an article today that
France will be obliged to Import 20.-
000,000 quintals (4,409,240,000
pounds) of breadstuffs and that the
United States has the largest dis
posable quantity for that purpose
He remarks that France will be able
to profit by the fall in the Chicago
wheat market early this week.
The French government’s total defi
cit in grain transactions, in order to
keep down the price of bread from
1915 to the present, totals 4,650,000,-
000 francs, the editor states.
Dead Rats Admit Boys
To Marion, 0., Movies
MARION, 0., Aug. 28.—The mo
vies are putting the rats out of bus
iness in this, the home town of
Warren G. Harding, Republican
presidential candidate.
Verner Hicks, proprietor of one
of the largest movie houses enlisted
in the camapign to exterminate rats
by offering to accept a rat as an ad
mission fee. 1 All the youngsters in
town and a few grown-ups have
been paying their way in with rats.
TENNESSEE HAS
2,337,459; GAIN
OF 7 PER CENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Ten
nessee, the population of which was
announced today by the census bu
reau as 2,337,459, had the smallest
nunrefcal increase in the last ten
years of any decade siijce 1870 while
its rate of growth was the smallest
In Its history. Its numerical in
crease was 152,670 and its rate of
growth 7.0 per cent in the ten years.
Tennessee ranked as seventeenth
most populous state ten years ago.
Os the six xstates of which the 1920
population has been announced Ten
nessee shows next to the smallest
rate of growth. New Hampshire has
shown the smallest, 2.9 per cent.
Oregon has shown the highest rate,
16.4 per cent; Rhode Island next,
with 11.4; Georgia third, with 10.9
and Indiana fourth, with 8.5.
Other figures announced follow:
Gypsum, Colo., 164; Highland
Park, 111., 6,167; Newbern, N. C., (re
vised figures), 12,198; West Bethle
hem township, Pa., 2,507; Lake
county. Ills., 73,991;; Shelby county,
Tenn., 223,216. .
Increases since 1910: Highland
Park, 1,958 or 46. 5 per cent; New
bern (revised), 2,237 or 22.5 per
cent; West Bethlehem township, 114
or 4.8 per cent; Lake County, 111.,
18,933 or 34.4 per cei\t; Shelby
county, 31,777 or 16.6 per cent.
Tennessee had 9. population of 2,-
184,789 in 1910, ranking it as 17th
most populous state in the union. It
showed an increase of 164,173, or 8.1
per cent for the ten year ending
with 1910. Tennessee’s largest nu
merical growth prior to the present
census was 283,839, in the decade
1870-80. Its largest relative growth
was in the decade 1790-1800 when
the increase was 195.9 per cent. Ten
nessee’s population in 1790 when the
first federal census was taken was
35,691, ranking it as 17th among the
states and territories.
In area Tennessee ranked as 34th
state in 1910 with a land area of
41,687 square miles, making its pop
ulation average 52.4 per square mile,
which ranked it 13th among the
states in that respect.
The most rapid growth of the
population of Tennessee was made
during the early decades. The pop
ulation of the state in 1800 was
nearly three times as large as it was
in 1790, in 1810 it was nearly two
and one-half times as large as in
1800, while in the next two decades,
1810-30, the population increased
more than two and one-half times.
From 1830 to 1910 the state grew
less rapidly, the rates varying con
siderably, from decade to decade.
The highest rate of increase in that
period, 22.6 per cent, was for the de
cade 1870-80 and the lowest rate, 8.1
per cent for the decade 1900-10.
Comparison of the rates of’ Inn
crease for the state with those for
the United States as a whole, shows
that from 1790 to 1830 the increase
during the decade was much more
rapid for the state than for the
country. During that 40-year period
the population of the state increas
ed a little more than 19 times, while
that for the United States increased
less than three and one-third times.
From 1830 to 1910 the growth dur
ing each decade was less rapid for
the state than for the United States,
the population of the state increas
ing only three and one-fifth times
while that of tlie country’increased a
little more than seven times.
The Tennessee region was organ
ized in 1790 as the Territory South
of the River Ohio and In 1796 Admit
ted to the unol as the state of Ten
nessee.
The record of growth of Tennes
see’s population follows:
Census Popula- In- Per
Year lation crease Cent
1920 ....2,237,459 152,670 7.0
1910 ....2,184,789 164,173 8.1
1900 ....2,020,616 253,159 14.3
1890 ....1,767,518 225,159 14.6
1880 ....1,542,359 283,839 22.6
1870 ....1,258,520 148,719 13.4
1860 ....1,109,801 107,084 10.7
1850 ....1,002,717 173,507 20.7
1840 .... 829,210 147,306 21.5
1830 .... 581,904 259,081 61.3
1820 .... 422,823 161,096 61.6
1810 .... 261,727 156,125 147.8
1800 .... 105,602 59,911 195.9
1790 , .... 35,691
Man Arrested at Rio
Denies Hels Leßoy,
> Wanted for Murder
RIO JANEIRO, Aug. 27.—Morris
Fox, arrested aboard the British
steamer Dryden, denied in an inter
view today that he is Eugene Leßoy,
wanted in connection with the De
troit-New York "trunk murder mys
tery,” in which the multilated body
of a woman believed to be Leßoy’s
wife was found in a trunk.
“People who had me arrested for
this wife murderer are crazy,” Fox
said.
“I can easily prove who I am
when I return to New York. Dr. D.
A. Sherwood, 130 Columbia street,
in that city, will Identify me. I tell
you, I am not Eugene Leßoy.”
Duroc Association Has
Sent Check to Be Used
For Fair Prizes Here
The American Duroc association,
through its secretary, Robert J.
Evans, of Chicago, has sent its check
to C. A. Cobb, superintendent of the
International., uClub Stock Judging
Contest, at the Southeastern fair.
October 16-26, to be divided into
prizes in the Duroc judging ring,
thereby adding to the general inter
est of this great feature of the
Southeastern fair.
“It is very difficult for the aver
age person to understand the sig
nificance of this contest,” said Mr.
Cobb, “for the interest is so na
tion-wide—l might say world wide—
they are writing about it over in
England and preparing a team from
Canada, so that one must keep up
with all the leading newspapers In
the United. States to read about the
newest feature of the Southeastern
fair.
“Out in Texas they have elected
twenty-five of their brlghest farm
boys, who will be given a chance to
judge the live stock of that big fair
and five of the best out of the Texas
fair team will come to Atlanta to
win the sheepskin that .will entitle
them- to a visit to the greatest live
stock show in the world, and experi
ence the novelty of meeting a real
live king and queefl, for King George,
of Great Britain, is one of the keen
est competitors at this show and
will no doubt take pleasure in show
ing attention to the winners of the
International Club Stock Judging
Contest.”
Third District Cotton
Association Meets
AMERICUS, Ga., Aug. 28.—A meet
ing of the American Cotton associa
tion of the Third Congressional dis
trict was held in the city hall here
Thursday and the minimum cost for
producing cotton was declared to be
40 cents, provided cotton seed sells
this season at $65 a ton. More than
100 farmers and business men, rep
resenting Sumter, Schley, Dooly and
Ben Hill counties, attended he meet
ing, which was presided over by A.
F. Hodges, chairman of the Sumter
county branch of the Georgia divis
ion.
Joseph Perkins, of the Americus
and Sumter county chamber of com
merce, acted as secretary of the
meeting, and read a letter from an
official of the Federal Reserve bank
in Atlanta, stating that the reserve
bank will continue to make loans on
cotton warehouse receipts. On mo
tion of John T. Methvin, one of the
largest farmers In the county,
Chairman Hodges was authorized to
name a committee to call upon ware
house proprietors in Americus and
request that they affiliate with the
federal bonded warehouse system.
DEMAND HIGHER
COTTON PRICES,
AUGUSTAN URGES
J. S. Wannamaker, president of the
American Cotton association, has giv
en out for publication the following
letter which he has received from C.
N. Bowden, of Augusta:
"The south today sits on the fence
between the promised land and dark
disaster.
"It is inconceivable that after fifty
years of commercial slavery with all
its attendant ills and sufferings that
the south after having been born
again and having seen the light of
a glorious new day will return to
the bondage of debt which she strug
gled a half century to overcome.
"The present effort of manufactur
ers and speculators, backed by for
eign capitalist and false philanthro
pist. to get the south’s cotton and
cotton seed at prices below the cost ■
of production, must be met by a
united south. The cry of the English
spinners for cheap cotton must be
answered by the cry of the children
of the south for better food, better
clothes, better. education and more
of the advantages of life.
“The fight is on. The attack has
begun. Cotton and its seed are now
selling below the cost of production.
They are being attacked from all di
rections. The south must again take
up arms. It can fight, will fight, and
is in a position to fight, and it is up
to you, Mr. Wannamaker, as the lead
er and commander-in-chief of the
vast army of producers who clothe .
the world to issue the ‘call to arms.’ j
The south looks to you for leadership
to escape the catastrophe now star
ing her in the face.
"I want to see you write a ringing
appeal, a call to arms to every farm
er, every banker, every business man,
every preacher, every teacher, every I
citizen and friend of the south to
unite in this great fight for the pro- 1
ducers of cotton. Get this call to arms i
published in every daily and weekly 1
paper in the south ask the preachers I
to preach it, the teachers io teach it
and every bank to have a thousand 1
copies printed and distributed to I
its customers.
“The south is financially in a posi
tion to win the fight. Let every I
warehouse in the south be filled with
cotton, let every farmer build sheds
in which to store it, keep every bale
possible right on the farm, and if
necessary put it in the parlor. Put a
minimum fair price on it and make
an appeal to every man that can do
so to hold all of his cotton for at
least six months.
“Right now is the time for you to
make this appeal and to start the !
movement. The south is waiting to
hear from you and united will follow
you to victory which will save the
south millions, yes hundreds of mil
ions of dollars.
"With kindest personal regards and
best wishes.
"Sincerely yours,
"(Signed) C. N. BOWDEN.
“Augusta. Ga.”
Escapes When His Car
Plunges Through Bridge
VALDOSTA,* Ga., Aug. 28.—When
a bridge on the Nashville road, four
miles from the city, collapsed last
night as John Fitzgerald’s automobile
was going over it, the car turned
turtle in the gully fifteen feet be
low. Mr. Fitzgerald managed to
get from behind the steering wheel
and escaped being pinioned to the
ground. He managed to open the
door and squeeze .through it. He
was going to relieve a car in dis
tres swhen the accident happened.
The bridge has been unsafe for some
time and material was on the ground
to repair it.
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I'UESDAY AUviUSI? Si, 1920.
J. J. BROWN URGES
FARMERS TO INSIST
ON BONDED HOUSE
J. J. Brown, commissioner of agri
culture, in a statement Issued Sat
urday, urges the farmers of the
state to insist upon the bonding of
the warehouses in which they store
their cotton.
The policy of the Federal Reserve
bank in handling cotton loans will
not be changed, Commissioner Brown
remarks with much gratification, and
the bank will give a decided prefer
ence to paper secured by the receipts
of bonded warehouses.
The statement is as follows:
“We learn that there is no ques
tion about the fact that bonded ware
house receipts will in every instance
be given the decided preference over
receipts from warehouses which have
’not fortified themselves and protect
ed their customers by entering into
the bonded system.
"I would most strongly suggest and
urge that the farmers of Georgia in
warehousing their cotton would de
mand a bonded receipt. If they do
this and if such a receipt is given,
they certainly will have great ad
vantages in financing their cotton as
against those who ’place their cotton
in non-bonded warehouses.
“Recent cotton warehouse failures
where receipts for thousands of bales
of cotton have been issued and used
as collateral when there was no cot
ton held against them, have impaired
the confidence of the banks of Geor
gia and the south, even up to the
Federal Reserve bank Itself, in the
receipt from the warehouse which
refuses to protect itself and its cus
tomer against fraud.
"In addition to the foregoing it
may be possible in the future for>
the cotton producers of this state to
save in the matter of insurance and
other charges if by their aemana
they secure properly bonded ware
houses in every section.
“I have already called the atten
tion of the farmers of Georgia to
the bear raid on the cotton market
and the fictitious reports as to the
crop reports upon which it is based.
There is mo excuse for it. It is sim
ply the recurrence of an effort made
with every new crop at the time when
cotton producers need money to beat
down the price and get it from him
as cheaply as possible.
"I believe the farmers of this
state are better able now then they
have been in times past to hold their
cotton against such an attempted
raid, and with all the earnestness
possible I plead with them to hold
until a minimum price Is secured,
which will give them a fair and rea
sonable -margin above the cost of
production.”
Douglas Tobacco Mart
Reports Large Sales
DOUGLAS, Ga., Aug. 28.—The
Douglas tobacco market will reach
high water mark in Its sales this
week. Information is that the mar
ket, including both big warehouses,
have averaged this week daily sales
of 150,000 pounds each day and the
prices have been good.
The tobacco industry in Coffee
county makes a wonderful difference
in activity and money matters dur
ing the ’ dull summer season, as
crowds gather into Douglas every
day from several adjoining counties
bringing their products to market. A
great many of the farmers are pay
ing up their debts out of the sales
from tobacco and many more are
making deposits in the local banic.
The market has been so satisfactory
this year that the acreage will be
considerably increased next year and
a great many people are now making
arrangements to come from other
sections to Coffee county to grow to
bacco another year.
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