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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 20,1907.
PftlfiTC. In Atlanta: TWO CENTS,
x On Trains: FIVE CENTS.
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Filibustering Was De
feated by Prohi
bitionists.
HOW THEY LINE UP
ON BIG QUESTION
Bill Comes Up For Passage
Wednesday—Another
Fight Is Expected.
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0 The Rev. J. C. Solomon and 0
0 others prominent In the temper- v
0 ance movement suggest that each O
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0 Sunday afternoon at Grady mon- Q
0 ument for the purpose of march- «
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0 hear Judge Roddenbory. wear- a O
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0 suggestion that all persons Inter- O
0 ested In tho prohibition move- 0
0 ment wear a white ribbon during O
0 the next few day* for tha moral O
0 effect It Will have. •
The Hardman senate prohibition bill
will be read tho third time and put on
Its passage In the lower house of the
general ■assembly next Wednesday
morning, according to the program
which the friends of the measure have
mapped out. for It in Its Journey
through the house'.
Although it is wall’understood' that
the house could, by a three-fourths
vote, change the rule with reference to
the days on which senate bills can be
read In the house a third time, It has
been specifically stated by Mr. Wright,
of Floyd, who Is the moving spirit in
the fight ror the bill, that he will
make no effort whatever to bring up
the bill for consideration out of Its
regular order. Being senate bill No.
1, It Is due to be read a third time
Wednesday and put upon Its passage.
Should the friends of the measure
deelre to exercise the right of the ma
jority and bring up the bill Tuesday,
it is most probable that this would not
be done, in deference to Speaker 81a'
ton, who has invited the general as'
semhly to attend the annual barbecue
Tuesday afternoon.
Only First Round Won.
Sines the undisguised effort of the
opponents of the bill to prevent the
second reading Friday, and their fail
ure to block It except for a few hours,
thtr« has been much speculation as to
what course they will take next Wed
nesday. That they are In a hopeless
minority and that the best that can
be done Is to stave off Its passage for
s short time Is evident. Yet It Is con
fidently believed that the fight made
Friday was only the preliminary skir
mish, and that the real, opposition to
the measure will develop when the final
issue comes for a settlement.
In regard to this effort to block the
passage of the bill, Mr. Wright, of
Floyd, voiced the sentiment, as he de
clared. of three-fourths of the house
when he cried:
"One-fourth of the members of this
bouse can't make the others bow down
to them. They may consume this en
tire session In filibustering against this
bill; they may even secure an extended
session, but we'll hold them In their
seats, so help us Sod, until this bUI Is
Passed."
History of the Bill.
Following the passage of the Hard
man prohibition bill In the aenate, the
committee on temperance from the
lo»er house during the latter part of
Inst week announced Its Intention to
substitute this measure for the Covlng-
[on-N'eel prohibition bill then pending
In the house, and which was an exact
copy of t |,e senate bill. This action
''"as taken In order to save time and
bssten the passage of tho measure.
After several meetings, during which
ample opportunity was given for the
friends and oppcSienta of the bill to
thoroughly discuss It, the committee
met Tuesday at noon and voted to rec
ommend It for passage after making a
few amendments.
The most Important amendment
made by the house committee was to
make stringent the section with refer
ence to the sale of alcohol by drug-
Itst* and the giving of prescriptions
■or Intoxicants by physicians.
'in last Wednesday morning the bill
* as favorably reported to the house
“f fhe committee.
■‘■nee Monday and Friday are the
only legal day, upon which aenate bills
can be read a second time, no effort
made to have the measure read
until Friday, and this necessary step
"as accomplished only after a hard
nghi and after the house had been In
•c»»lon from 10 o'clock Friday mom
ma until J: 30 o’clock In the afternoon.
How They Voted.
Although Mr. Hall, of Bibb, la op-
P'.'*d to the bill he voted Friday to
"nve It read a second time. In ex-
Plaining his vote. Mr. Hal) declared
mat he had no sympathy with the ef-
mrt to delay bringing the measure to
■n (Mu*.
•Mr Ryals, of Bibb. also voted to
"* Ve the bill read a second time, but
’Tis the Will of the People
And Shall Become the Law.
In an interview Saturday morning Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Floyd, the
great champion of the Hardman-Covington prohibition measure in the house,
said:
“For the ilrst time in the history of Georgia an effort was made on Fri
day to prevent the reading of a bill in the legislature the second time. The
friends of the measure, taking no chances, were in their seats and the effort
was crushed in its incipiency.
“The vote on the second reading demonstrated conclusively that three-
fourths of the members of the house are for the bill as amended by the house
committee.
“It is more than probable that filibustering tactics will be resorted to
Wednesday on the passage of the bill. If so, they will be met with a spirit
never before witnessed in the house. The majority will enter the house Wed
nesday determined to keep their seats until the bill is passed if it takes the re
mainder of the session, night and day. We will retire one by one for lunch and
sleep in our seats. . v
“THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS GREAT QUESTION WILL
BE CRYSTALLIZED INTO LAW.
“NO EARTHLY POWER CAN PREVENT IT.”
EVERY ROUND WAS WON
BY SUPPORTERS OF BILL
Hardman prohibition bill Introduced In senate on opening day. Wed
nesday, June 26; was calendared as aenate bill No. 1. Referred to tem
perance committee.
Bill withdrawn from committee and read second time. June IS.
Senate temperance committee appointed Monday, July 8.
Committee recommended bill for passage, with certain amendments,
July 11.
Filibuster Friday. July 12. led by Senator T. 8. Felder, prevented
vote.
Bill, as amended, passed senate Saturday, July 13, by vote of 14 to 7.
On Monday, July 16, the senate prohibition bill was taken up by the
house committee on temperance as a substitute for the Covlngton-Neel
bill. Introduced In the houee early In the session.
Tuesday at noon the committee voted to recommend bill for passage.
Wednesday, July 17, bill was recommended to the house for passage.
On Friday, July It, filibustering started In house to prevent reading
of bill the second time. Fight was Anally won by the prohibitionists by a
vote of 116 to 20.
Bill will bo put on Its passage In the house Wednesday, July 24.
IN BEN HILL COUNT*
PROHIBITION IS SUCCESS
Special to The Georgian. -
Fitxgerald, Skfc July. 20.—The Lender today say* “The police court rec
ords show nlncty-Ave per cent less drunkenness than In bar-room days.
Not a drunk man has been before the mayor In thirty days. In bar-room
days seventy-Avo cases a week were not uncommon. Ben Hill county Is
offered In evidence In the great trial now on In the Georgia houee of rep
resentatives."
FIVE COMPANIES
OF STATE
T
Unsuccessful Attempt Made
to Storm Jail and Se
cure Prisoners.
IIP SOLDIERS
ARECUARDINI
PALACECATES
Machine Guns Placed
to Mow Down
Koreans.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
MAY BE DRAWN INTO CASE
COURTDEALS BLOW
10 HAYWOOD BY
Testimony Regarding Con
spiracy Against Miners
Eliminated.
(Continued on Page Nino.)
Boise, Idaho, July 20.—Under the de
cision made by Judge Wood, relative
to the withdrawal of certain testimony
from the Jury In the Haywood case,
nothing whatever la left of the ao-
called counter conspiracy upon which
the defense has so largely relied In the
trial.
The Judge announced that he would
withdraw all testimony offered on be
half of the defense relative to expor
tations In th* Cripple Creek and Te|.
lurlde districts, and with respect to
conflicts between union miners and
others In these districts. •
It was this evidence upon which the
defenee relied to establish the conspir
acy which It claimed to exist on the
part of the mine owners, state offi
cials and detectives to destroy th.
Western Federation of Miner*.
James H. Hawley, who Is In charge
of the case. Is surprising visitors with
his argument, which began yesterday,
and Is being continued today. Those
who have known him long knew he
was capable of such a great effort
as he Is making, and they expected
him to rise to this occasion, but from
what he hud done during the trial
there was nothing to Indicate he could
marshal facts In such a telling man.
"“Attorney Hawley continued hls ar
gument today. Senator Borah will clo»«
for th. state next week at the con-
rlu.lon of Lawyer Darrow'e summing
up for the defense, which will begin
on Monday.
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O Jibing people are^ wont to use O
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O cal thunder .bowers Sunday.
O Saturday temperature*;
O 7 o'clock a. m.
Injunction of Judge
Pritchard May Be
Enforced.
Washington, July 20.—While th* of.
flclals of the department of Justice
claim they have received no official In
formation from North Carolina In re
gard to the clash between the elate and
Federal court* over th* new railroad
rate law enacted In that state, they ad.
mlt the poatlblUty of the department
being drawn Into the case.
Precedent* or* pointed out by su
preme court authorities which would
sustain United Statee Circuit Judge
Pritchard, In citing the state Judge* In
conflict with him to show why they
should not be in contempt of court for
Interfering with the execution of hla
order. On the other bond, thee* au
thorities are unable to recall any case
In which state courts openly rebelled
against the Federal Judiciary.
It Is feared that unless the temper
of Governor Glenn and hls friend*
moderate, the atate Judge* may be en
couraged to Ignore a possible order of
Federal Judge Pritchard, forbidding
them to take any further proceedings
In the caae, under the threat of being
cited for contempt.
In that event the Federal government
would have no recourse but to swear
In a posse of deputle* after Invoking
the power of the supreme court, with a
military force as the last resort In
maintaining order and carrying Into ex
ecution the Federal authority, If still
resisted.
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TICKET AGENT GREEN
RELEASED FROM POSITION
Special to Th • Georgian.
Raleigh, N. C, July 20.—As the re
sult of the promise olven Judge Long
In the etate court by Ticket Agent
Green Friday evening after the jury
had brought In a verdict of guilty, not
to eell any more tickets at the excess
rats. Agent Green la out of hla position
today.
It la stated that a number of South
ern Railway ticket agents are resigning,
fearing Jail sentence. It Is understood
that the railroads’ counsel would have
had Green decline to make the promise,
and If he had taken that position. Judge
Long would certainly have remanded
him to jail. Green, foreseeing this, and
having an aged m>|ther III In this city,
declined to further play stool pigeon In
the case.
So far as the federal court Is con
cerned, the scene has been transferred
to Aehevtle, jylore Judge Pritchard Is
today hearing the cases of Woods and
Wilson on writ of habeas corpus, con
tinued over from Friday. The defend
ant* were given liberty last night and
till court met today on a small bond
Axed by Pritchard.
Judge Long has adjourned the state
court here at Raleigh until the Septem-
New Orleans, La., July 20.—After the
unsuccessful attempt and the turning
back of the crowd that sought the life
of the prisoners at Hahnvllle lost night,
the situation In St. Charles parish,
where the four convicted Italians ore"
confined In jail, was quiet and un
changed, according to telephone ad
vices received from there this morn
ing. Extra troops arc being held here
In readiness to be rushed to the scene
on a special train, should tho gravity
of the situation demand It.
Two companies of militia from her*
nrrived In HshnvlIIO' by special train
before 2 o'clock this morning ns reln-
forcvmenta. This makes Ave companies
on guard, numbering nearly 300 mdn,
and Including one compahy each of
cavalry and artillery serving os In
fantry.
Judge Edrlngton announced yester
day afternoon that he would sentence
the prisoner* Monday. Prominent St.
Charles citizens later started a petition
to the court to Impose a life penalty
today, and thus rid the parish of the
prisoners and troops. The release of
two suspects from New Orleans Jail
started trouble In Little Italy. Angelo
Montelone and wife kept house where
the kidnapers hatched the plot. They
were freed on habeas corpus and went
homo. A crowd quickly collected num
bering several thousand around the
house, the murdered boy’s father In
citing the crowd. Twenty-Ave police
backed a patrol wagon across the side
walk and against the door and brought
the couple to a place of eafety under
an armed guard.
Peter Lamana, father of Walter La-
mana, the lad who was kidnaped and
murderedmurdered today, received an
other "Block Hand” letter, which con
tains threats against Lamana. The
letter demands that the public feeling
agnlrist the Italians In Jail must be
quieted.
STREET RAILWAYS
Amendment to Candler Bill
Would Make Sweeping
Change.
From reliable sources the report
comes that an amendment will be of
fered to the Candler bill Increasing
both the number and powers of the
railroad commission, tn the house next
week, which wilt put street railways
under the Jurisdiction of the commis
sion.
Under the bill, as drafted, only Inter-
urban lines operating outside of Incor
porated cities and towns would be sub
ject to the rules and regulations of the
commission. But It Is said' that tha
street railway owner* themselves have
asked the amendment so as to place the
lines within and without municipalities
strictly under the Jurisdiction of tha
commission.
This la-done, It Is aald. In order to
take the street railways entirely out
of politics, and render them eubject to
such regulations as the state may deem
proper to place upon them. '
Rescued 2 Girls,
Third Drowned
Special to The Georgian.
Charleston, 8. C., July 20.—Miss Ju
lia Wanamaker, 18 ysare old, of
Orangeburg, was drowned at Sullivans
Island yesterday alternoon. Professor
F. I* Purker, Jr., of the College of
Charleston; Mtss Pauline Cart, of
Orangeburg, and Mrs. Joseph Bell, of
Charleston, came near drowning. Par
ker saved the two lad lea
AMERICAN GIRL
EMPEROR’S WIPE
Daughter of Presbyterian
Minister Married Six
Years Ago.
Toklo, July 20.—The situation
Seoul continues critical. The Japanese
have planted four machine guna at the
Talohau gate and should the Korean
soldiers continue flrlng on the Japanese
police they will bo mowed down.
Late telegrams from Seoul state that
collisions between the Japanese police
and rioters are frequent. The Koreans
are Bring on the Japanese and many
have been wounded off both sldea An
extra edition of a Korean paper stating
that the emperor would be carried away
to Japan has aroused the people to a
state of frenzy,
Korean troops mutinied and escaped
from their barracks yesterday. Their
officers had no control over them.
With the downfall of the Korean em
peror, now aged 66, goes hls queen, who
was beautiful Emily Brown, an Ameri
can girl. Her father took her to Korea
when he became a missionary. Y1 Kl-
ung fell In love with her and eho mar
ried the emperor elx years ngo.
Mob Attaoksd Palaces.
A mob attacked the palace yesterday
while tho great seal was being formal
ly placed In the . hands of tho crown
prince, who has now succeeded the re
tiring emperor. The Japanese pollco
opened Are and no ono knows how
many fell before their volley. Twenty-
Ave Jnpaneso are reported killed In the
fight.
The navy press prints a sensational
account of the reported suicide of
Prince Yl at The Hague—a story as
yat unconfirmed—and rumors that the
Japanese Intend to take the emperor
to Toklo at once, have etlll further In-
Aamed popular resentment against the
mikado.
The people regard the emperor as a
martyr and any attempt to spirit him
away will almost certainly result In
bloodshed.
EMPEROR ARCH INTRIGUER
OPINION OF JAPANESE.
Toklo, July 20.—While much sympa.
thy Is expressed here with the Korean
emperor who has retired, the public Is
breathing easier for the sake of both
countries now that the arch Intriguer
has been completely disposed of.
HULBURT NOW IN U, S.
TO ENLI8T GOVERNMENT AID.
New York, July 20.—Homer B. Hul-
turt, tor many years engaged In educa
tional work In Korea, arrived today
from Seoul on a mission from Korea
to bring to the attention of the United
States government and the people of
this country the conditions which now
exist In Korea under the Jnpancse pro
tectorate. Mr. Hulburt declares that
the Japanese are despoiling the Ko
reans of their lands and Industries,
with the seeming design of trying tn
drive them from the territory, .that the
Japanese may occupy It for them
selves.
KOREAN EMPEROR
QUITS HIS THROOTl
EMPEROR OF KOREA.
He quit hla throne yesterday un
der pressure In favor of the crown
prince. He married Mias Emily
Brown, daughter of a Presbyterian
minister of Ohio, six years ago.
CHOATE WINS FIGHT
Opposed Belgian Proposal
to Return Sequestrated
Ships.
By HAYNE DAVIS.
The Hague, July 20.—A plenary sit
ting Is being held by the peace confer
ence today, the subject being the regu
lations of hospital ships. The session
was called by Mr. Netidoff, who appar
ently Is bent upon Imbuing the dele
gatee with a desire to make progress.
The sessions now move with a ponder
ous manner that aeema Inconsistent with
the proposals under discussion.
One would think the conference was
one for war rather than peace. How
ever, the ludicrous attitude of some of
the delegates regarding publicity, par
ticularly Great Britain, the United
States and Russia, la apparent when It
le known that supposed “secret docu
ments'* can be obtained at nil times.
The other nations are not disposed to
exclude the members of tho press from
any of the sittings.
Joseph H, Choate won n victory to
day when he opposed the Belgian pro
posal entailing tho return of seques
trated ships at the close of a wnr. Va
rious delegates appeared to take great
delight In tearing the proposition to
pieces. Mr. Choate, claiming that the
Belgian people were less Important
than hi* own, won a platonic triumph
by a majority of 21 votes.
Sexton Wounded Four PrlesU.
Palermo, July 20.—Enraged at being
discharged from hls position, tho sex
ton of the church at Bsgheria shot and
seriously wounded four priests,
was placed under arrest.
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O Atlanta, Ga„ July 20. 1907,
0 Mr. James L. Mayson, President O
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0 gitlmate channels of trade Is go- O
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0 Yours very truly,
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O President of Catholic Knlghta of O
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Trains Collide on the
Fere Marquette
Road. •
EXCURSION TRAIN
WELL CROWDED
Doctors Rushed to Scene on
Special Wrecking and .
Relief Trains. j
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian records hers escb dey some
ecouomlc fset Id reference to th* oowsnl
march of th* South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
The Chattanooga Tradesman'* list of new Industrie* In the Bouth In
clude th* following In Alabama^ ^Tkensas, Missouri and Oklahoma:
Birmingham—18,000 land company: 140,000 mining company.
Attalla—126,000 Ice factory.
Oneonta—87,000 heading mill.
Huntsville—826.000 bottling works.
Anniston—110,000 Iron working plant
Wedowee—820,000 oil mill.
McElderry—18,000 gin and warehouse company. ,
Mobile—(160,000 trust company.
ARKAN8AS.
Tellvllle—81.000.000 mining and milling company.
Buck Range—86,000 gin and mill company.
Harrison—860,000 mining company.
Greenwood—16.000 warehouse company.
Hoxle—Warehouse company,
Nashville—Stone works.
Heber—Telephone company.
MI880URI.
New BloomAeld—Canning factory.
Cape Girardeau—826,000 land and lumber company; $60,000 milling
company.
St. Joseph—$20,000 lumber company.
Kansas City—2100,000 tool and supply company.
Quincy—116.000 foundry company.
Clinton—$26,000 Iron works.
Carrollton—$16,000 mill and elevator company.
Galena—$10,000 oil company.
Fredertcktown—$20,000 milling company; $60,000 mining company.
St. Louis—680.000 manufacturing company; $11:000 manufacturing
company; 116,000 automobile work*; 660,000 mining company.
OKLAHOMA.
Eakly—34,000 cotton gin.
Mangum—1100,000 cotton gin company.
Enid—$100,000 mining company.
Lookeba—$10,000 telephone company.
Guthrie—$60,000 mining company.
Lawton—$1,000,009 mining company.
Altu*—26,000 warehouse company.
Mountain View—$20,000 waterworks.
Elk —$6,000 grain and coal company,
pawnee—$30,000 hardware company.
Tflaekwell—$36,000 Incubator company.
Frederick—6100.000 oil, gaa and mineral company.
Detroit, Mich.. July 20, 2:15 p. m.-*
Information has Jnst been received
here that 29 are dead, and 30 Injured,
some fatally, In the Fere Marquetto
wreck at Salem.
Officials of the company Issued a re
port saying twenty-two had been killed
and 66 Injured.
Doctore and nurses were rushed to
the scene of tho wreck.
Plymouth. Mich., July 20.—A refugee
from the wreck at Salem has Just
reached here with a terrlblo story of
the catastrophe. Hls hands and clothes
were stained with the blood of man
gled victims he helped to drag from
the wreckage until the awful scene and
the agonizing groans overcame hls
nerve and drove him away.
Took Out Fourteen Dead.
"I took out fourteen dead bodies
crushod beyond description, and I
bellied pick up arms and legs until I
thought I was going mad with tho
spectacle of death of suffering in that
train length of space," said he.
• “I. saw persons dragged from the
debris only to die In the hot sun and
their calls for water and their cries for
relatives and loved ones to come were
terrible.
"I saw a mother who had taken her
child on the pleasure trip, running
madly up and down the line of the
wreck, shrieking like a domon. Shu
climbed Into and under tho cars seek
ing her child.
Woman Goes Crazy.
"Her skirts trolled blood. The hand
she had used to wlpo her face was
blood-stained and left awful red
blotches on her brow. Her child could
not be found. Trainmen and passen
gers tried to curb her, but In tho ab
sence of doctors at the time, found it
Impossible to give her opiates.
•'The woman p-*s clearly mad. Some
children would now and then be dis
covered, but the woman looked at them
as If not seeing, still shrieking the
name of her child."
Dead Thrown Into Heaps.
Tho excursion train was running at
a high rate of speed and struck the
rear end of tho freight, which was
standing still. The Impact was torrlflo
and the engine and first seven coaches
of the excursion train were demolished.
Tho dead and Injured In tho first conch
were thrown Into heaps. All the doc
tors In Salem were rushed to tho sceno
of the wreck, which la two miles from
the railroad station.
Twenty-two bodies have been • re
moved from the debris, and It Is
thought nsarly as many more will bo
taken out.
The Known Dead.
C|IARLEB M’CORMICK, foreman
Pen Marqustts shops,, Ionia.
NED GALLAGHER, assistant fore
man, Ionia.
JAMES VIZARD. Ionia.
Tho Injured.
Jerry Visard, Pat Dehany, William
Beals, foreman machine shops; Mrs.
Elms Fuller, Isaac Cicero, James Poole,
all of Ionia.
800 PEOPLE FROM IONIA
ON EXCURSION TRAIN.
Ionia, July 20.—Between 700 and 800
people left here en the Ill-fated excur
sion train to Detroit this morning, and
there la great anxiety among tha rela
tives of those who went, to know who
was Injured.
FINLEY AT HEARING
IN PROGRESS AT ASHEVILLE
Special to The Georgian.
Asheville, N. C., July 20.—In the
habeas corpus proceeding*, before Uni
ted State* Judge J. C. Prltchnr.l. for
the release of Southern Railway Ticket
Agents Wood and Wilson, who were
sentenced to 30 days on the cholngnng
by Police Justice Reynolds, the entire
morning session was taken up with
argument by Colonel Rodman of coun
sel for the Southern, and Judge J. H.
Merrimon for the atate. A large num
ber of prominent Southern railway of
ficials are In the city. Including Presi
dent Finley, Vice President Ackert and
General Counsel Humphreys, of Louis
ville.
RACE RESULTS.
BRIGHTON BEACH.
First Race—Long: Ball. 6 to B,
won; Obsrt, 2 to 1, second; Louis Cav-
anagh, 4 to 1, third. Time, 1:08.
KENILWORTH.
Ffr*C Race—-Heine, 7 to 1, won;
Trackless, 20 to 1, second; Omar J. f 5
tc 2, third. Time, 1:08.
County Returns.
Returns from two counties were re
ceived In the office of the comptroller
general Saturday. Wilcox county
showed returns of 81,644,645 In 1907.
and Jl.820.463 in 1906. a decrease of
$175,81*. Jefferson county returned
f ’ 2 tn 19 and $3,4*5.652 In 1901*
an Increase of |S0,460.