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j B. PARHAM, Editor.
VOL. XVI.
Georgia Cullings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Ex-Coroner Acquitted of Murder.
W. S. Green, former coroner of
Richland county, charged with the
murder of Mose Tucker, a negro hack
man, of Columbus, about six months
ago, was acquitted of the charge by
a jury. Green, who is well connect
ed, has been in jail since the killing
of Tucker, having been twice refused
bail.
* * •
New Laws Confuse Druggists.
Druggists over the state have con
fused the provisions of the anti-nar
cotic law with the prohibition act, in.
that many of them think it is neces
sary to file all narcotic prescriptions
with the county ordinaries. No such
provision is Incorporated in the anti
narcotic act. The druggfst is only
required to keep all such prescriptions
on file.
* * *
Agricultural Text Books.
A list of the text books to be stud
ied in the eleven district agricultural
schools of Georgia has just been is
sued. The course of study includes In
addition to agriculture and its allied
branches, English, mathematics, his
tory, geography, spelling, manual
training, cookery, needle work, gov
ernment ia the state and the nation
and industrial drawing.
* * *
Fertilizer Bulletin Interesting.
There has been delivered to the de
partment of agriculture at the state
capitol 25,000 copies of the fertilizer
bulletin, which is the most exhaust
ive and instructive yet issued by this
important branch of the state -gov
ernment.
Containing 19G pages, it is replete
with interest from cover to cover, and
will prove instructive to all classes
and conditions of citizens.
The bulletin begins with a reproduc*
tion of the fertilizer law as it now
stands on the statute books, dnd this
is followed by a number of rulings
made by the commission of agricul
ture in interpreting this law.
* * *
Recruits for Atlanta Pen.
Word has been received at the fed
eral prison, near Atlanta, to the effect
that 125 United States prisoners from
the federal penitentiaries at Mounds
ville, W. Va., and Columbus, Ohio,
would probably be transferred to the
Atlanta institution. There are already
52$ prisoners there, and accommoda
tions are ready for 700. The additional
force will come for the purpose of
helping to do the great building work
which is going on. It is seen that it
will take quite a long time, and the
official# have decided to push it as
rapidly as possible, and for this rea
son more help will be sent from the
north and east.
* * *
Tech Opens on Twenty-Fifth.
President Matheson of the Georgia
School of Technology has returned
from a visit to his -old heme in Ii
Siana, and is getting everything in
readiness for the opening of the school
on Wednesday, September 25th. It
Is announced that the matriculation
will be the largest in the history of
the institution, and that the school
will be taxed to its fullest capacity.
Applications have been received in
considerable numbers from Cuba and
Mexico, as well as from all parts
of the United States. Several have
come from even more distant lands,
and two have been received from In
dia. Since the close of the last ses
sion, a number of improvements have
been made on the campus, and practi
cally all of the buildings have been
Placed ,n prime condition.
* * *
Bryan Coming to Georgia.
William Jennings Bryan, twice a
candidate for president of the United
States, and a possible leader of the
democratic party at the next national
election, will visit Atlanta Saturday,
October 19, when ho will be a guest
°f the Atlanta fair association and
wi 'l speak at noon.
"The Atlanta fair this year will be
better than ever before,” Is the state
ment made by President J. T. Con
nor of the State Agricultural Society
an< l the Georgia Fair Association.
I expect it to be the greatest agri
cultural demonstration that the state
has ever seen and many of the most
Prosperous counties will take part.
T he exhibits this year will be bigger
and better than ever. The crops are
all fine and the display will be more
elaborate than ever.”
The fair has offered generous prizes
0f H. 200, SI,OOO and SBOO for the first
three premium-winning exhibits. Purs
es of S2OO will be offered for the next
six.
* * *
Will Donate Exhibit to State.
President J. J. Conner of the State
Agricultural Society of Georgia and
head of the State Fair Association, lias
Effected a plan for novel exhibits to
ho located in the state museum at
tho capitol. They are to be composed
of articles of all descriptions and
products of all kinds, manufactured
in the state of Georgia. He ha?, been
at work getting up this exhibit for
some time and now states that it is
a sure, success. They are to be
shown first at the state fair and after
the fair is over the manufacturers are
going to donate their exhibits to the
state.
‘‘We want Georgia for Georgians,
and we want the people to see that
this is not only an agricultural state,
but a manufacturing center as well.
It Is my purpose to have located here
all sorts of articles made in the state,
especial attention being given to tex
tiles and feedstuffs. Georgia is noted
throughout the United States for her
fine grade of cloths and we propose
to have a sample of each.
“There is another branch of the
great southern staple which will have
our attention. This is the cotton seed.
We farmers know that cotton seed
meal amd cotton seed hulks make the
best possible cattle feed. We pic
pose to have an exhibit of feedstuffs
with these two playing prominent
parts. Then that other cotton seed
product, cotton seed oil, is to come
in for an exhibit. Cotton seed oil, as
you know, is a good cooking oil, a fine
condiment and now it is to be used as
a medicine in cotton seed emulsion.
“Every article made in Georgia that
we can secure will have a place in
this exhibit if we can get it.”
PROGRESS IN TWO STATES.
Nw Industries Reported in Georgia
and Alabama the Past Week.
The Georgia and Alabama Indus
trial Index, published at Columbus,
Ga., says:
“Any impression that legislative en
actment or executive action has caus
ed a general cessation of the construc
tion of railroads and railroad better
ments in Georgia and Alabama is er
roneously at variance with the actual
facts. A company has just been chai'-
tered to build a railroad from Bain
bridge, Ga., to a point on the Gulf of
Mexico, and in a northeasterly direc
tion from that city through three Geor
gia counties. Application has been
made for a charter for a steam or
electric railroad to be constructed
through the counties of Coweta, Heard
and Troup in Georgia, a distance of
50 miles. A number of business men of
the three counties are interested. An
nouncement is made of the consum
mation in New York of the necessary
financial arrangements for construct
ing an electric railway between Gads
den, Ala., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., via
Birmingham, Ala., to connect at Tus
casloosa with steamboat and barge
lines on Warrior river. This invest
ment will amount to about $11,000,-
000. The construction of a 32-mile
extension of the Chattahoochee Val
ley railroad is progressing steadily.
Bids are being asked for the construc
tion of a section of railway between
Troy, Ala., and Chipley, Fla. A rail
road’s terminal facilities at Mobile,
Ala., will be increased at a cost of
$200,000 and another railroad contem
plates building a $150,000 depot.”
SHERIFF EVADED TWO MOBS.
Landed Negro in Jail at Birmingham
After Exciting Experience.
Dorse Williams, the negro accused
of criminally assaulting Miss Johnson,
the deaf mute and paralytic daughter
of a farmer near Greensboro, Ala., sev
eral days ago, has been captured near
Demopolis and is in jail at Birming
ham.
Sheriff Gowin took his prisoner to
Meridian, Miss., and started from there
to Birmingham. Ho eluded two mobs,
which surrounded the train, and final
ly left the train at Moundsville, and
went by country conveyance to Bir
mingham.
Excitement runs high in the sec
tion where the crime was committed.
The negro admits he is the man want
ed, but says ho did not commit the
crime.
MAN AND DAUGHTER MANGLED.
Train Struck Buggy at Crossing and
Occupants Were Instantly Killed.
F. M. Johnson, aged 57, a successful
farmer, living near West Point, Ga.,
and his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Bullen,
33 years of age, Rock Mill, Ala., were
struck by the eastbotmd vestibule
train on the Atlanta* and West Point
railroad at a crossing, just west of
the city Saturday morning and both
S-.stantly killed.
PEACE PROTOCOL IS SIGNED.
Representatives of Central American
Republics Confer in Washington.
A protocol was signed at the state
department in Washington Tuesday by
the diplomatic representatives of the
five Central American republics accept
ing the invitation of the United States
and Mexico to meet in Washington at
an early date to negotiate an agree
ment providing for permanent peace
between the countries represented.
NEAR HALF BILLION
V
Profits of Standard Oil Trust
in Period of 7 Years,
WEALTH MOST AMAZING
The Company’s Comptroller is Forced
to Let Cat Out of the Bag at Gruel
ing Hearing Held in
New York.
A New York special Delving
into the financial workings of the
Standard Oil company of New Jer
sey, the holding company of all the
subsidiary organizations of the so
called oil trust, Frank B. Keliogg, con
ducting the federal suit for the dis
solution of the company, brought forth
Tuesday to public view for the first
time the enormous profits made by
the Standard Oil company. In a
of eight years, from 1899 to 1906, in
clusive, the Standard Oil company, on
a statement spread upon the record
of Tuesday’s hearings, was shown to
have earned the total profits of $490,-
315,934, or at the rate of more than
$61,000,000 a year, and distributed to
its shareholders in the spine period
$308,359,403.
While the company was earning
these vast sums in the refining of oil
the statements adduced at the hearing
show that between 1899 and 1906 the
asset* of the company grew by leaps
and bounds from $200,791,523 to $371,-
664,531. The capital stock is $98,338,-
382. Financiers and those seeking
knowledge of the exact profits of the
Standard Oil company have striven
vainly to obtain the figures Mr. Kel
logg succeeded in placing upon the
records of the court. The Standard
Oil company makes no statement of
its business, and other „than the dec
laration of a dividend it makes no
public announcement by which its
business may be gauged.
Mr. Kellogg obtained a statement
showing that the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey controlled by
stock ownership over seventy com
panies engaged in the refining and the
transportation by pipe line, of oil on
September 14, 1907. The Standard Oil
has always carefully guarded the list
of its subsidiary companies, and the
amount of its shareholdings. The list
showed that the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey owned $999,000
of total capital stock of $1,000,000 of
Standard Oil company of Indiana,
which was recently fined $29,240,000
by Judge Landis, in the United States
circuit court in Chicago, for rebat
ing.
Mr. Kellogg’s efforts at the hear
ing to obtain information of the rec
ords of the liquidating trust, which
had charge of the liquidation of the
Standard Oil tru3t and the exchange
of the liquidating trust certificates
for the shares of the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey, were not
rewarded. Charles M. Pratt, secretary
of the Standard Oil company, who
testified that he had been a liquidat
ing trustee, said he did not know
the whereabouts of the records, and
could recall but little regarding the
liquidation of the Standard Oil trust.
Clarence Fay, assistant comptroller
for the Standard Oil company, the
final witness, was also unable to give
the government’s inquisitor the in
formation he desired, which caused
Mr. Kellogg to remark just before the
hearing closed that he thought it
strange that no one in the Standaid
Oil company seemed to know where
the records of the liquidating trust
could be found.
Cotton Crop in Egypt Increases.
The cotton crop of Egypt, which ex
ceeds 7,000,000 cantar (a cantar is a
little over 99 pounds), shows a large
increase over all records of the past
decade. It is estimated to be worth
$150,000,000.
RED men bar booze.
Saloon Keepers and Bartenders Pro
hibited from Joining the Order.
The great council of the United
States Improved Order of Red Men
in annual session at Norfolk, Va..
Tuesday adopted an amendment to the
by-laws of the order prohibiting mem
bership in the future to all saloon
keepers and bartenders. The great
council rescinded all legislation enact
ed at Niagara Falls last year in eo
lation to the substitution of the “jew
fcl- for “cash” and went back to the
old form of regalia in Initiatory work.
WILL BE NO COMPROMISE.
Telegraph Companies Deny Negotia
tions for Strike Settlement.
Reporta that a compromise would
soon be reached between the telegraph
companies and their striking operators
were denied in New York Thursday
by officials of the companies, who de
clare that no negotiations looking to a
strike settlement are pending and
that there will be no compromise.
TRENTON. GA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1907.
BARR QUITS EXPOSITION.
Director-General at Jamestown Has
Split-Up with President of the
Show Over High Society.
In a letter addressed to the commit
tee of directors, which arranged a
settlement of differences existing
some weeks ago between himself and
President St. George Tucker of the
Jamestown exposition, James M. Barr
requests to be relieved of his duties
as director general. Continued con
flict between Mr. Tucker and Mr. Barr
over the social features of the expo
sition caused Mr. Barr's action. H
claims he cannot continue in his pres
ent position and maintain his self
respect.
Director General Barr’s resignation
came as a bombshell in the camp of
the exposition officials Tuesday, al
though it was known to the commit
tee named by the directors recently
to settle the misunderstanding be
tween Mr. Barr and President Tucker,
in reference to the social functions
at the exposition, that Mr. Barr wa3
not satisfied with the adjustment an
nounced.
In making public his letter of res
ignation, directed to the committee
having the matter in charge, Mr. Barr
declared the matter settled and re
fused to make any further statement.
In part the letter is as follows:
“I beg to ask that you. will kindly
take action at once to relieve me of
the director generalship of the James
town exposition.
“When I consented to accept this of
fice, as a public duty, without com
pensation to save the exposition from
impending failure, it was with the dis
tinct condition that I be placed in an
undivided control of the management
thereof. The condition was accepted
by the directors of the company who
amended the by-laws so as to place
such control in me.
“The president of the company has
recently set up the claim, in conflict
with the by-laws, that he is the so
cial head of the exposition and denies
my right to direct the manner of en
tertaining distinguished visitors to the
exposition and in so seeing has failed
to comply with your decision in this
connection, made August 30 last, and
has refused to transfer, upon my re
quest, certain persons now employed
in his office to assist Colonel Barton
H. Grundy, appointed by me to repre
sent me in this work, in pursuance of
the understanding then reached with
you.
“As the failure to treat distinguish
ed visitors to the exposition on the
day of opening and since, with the
courtesy due them, has brought dis
credit and great loss therto, as is
commonly known, it is clear their
treatment is a matter of business in
terest to the exposition and vital tc
its success.
“As 1 am practically powerless under
the conditions existing, to act in this
matter as the interests of the exposi
tion demand, and as 1 cannot continue
to work for the exposition under con
ditions existing without sacrifice of
self-respect, I have decided to take
this action.”
BOND OF SIX MILLIONS
Demanded of Standard Oil Company to
Stave Off Execution.
The Standard Oil company of India
na, in order to obtain a supersedeas
staying execution on its property to
satisfy the judgment of $29,240,000 re
cently imposed by Judge Landis, in
the United States district court, must
fu-nish bonds to the amount of $6,-
000,000. This was determined in Chi
cago Tuesday by Judge Grosscup, in
the United States circuit court, much
to the chagrin of the attorneys on
both sides.
Counsel for the oil company had
contended for a bond of not more
than $1,000,000, while the attorneys
for the government had demanded that
the bond be as high as the judgment
imposed by Judge Landis.
PENSION OFFICE SCANDAL.
Evidences of Graft Found by Commit
tee of Experts.
Because the experts appointed by
Secretary of the Interior Garfield to
investigate pension methods drifted
into tho .pension office and found 300
vacant desks that were kept there pre
sumably to give the impression of
there being a great rush of business,
the department now faces the certain
ty of one of the greatest upheavals
ever known in Washington’s govern
mental history.
CHARTER PROPOSITION KILLED.
Chicago Voters Overwhelming Knock
Out New Organic Law.
The new charter, authorized by the
state’s legislature at its last session
for the city of Chicago, was rejected
by the voters at Tuesday’s special
election by a majority of over 62,000
Little more than half of the register
cd vote was cast.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
TWENTY-FOUR DEAD
And Score Injured in Fright
ful Crash of Trains,
VICTIMS EXCURSIONISTS
Horror Occurred on Boston and Maine
Railroad, and Was Caused by
Misunderstanding of Orders.
Many of Injured May Die.
A fearful head-on collision between
the southbound Quebec express and
a northbound freight train on the Con
cord division of the Boston and Maine
railroad occurred four miles north of
Canaan station, Vermont, early Sun
day, due to a mistake in train dis
patchers’ orders, and from a demolish
ed passenger coach there were taken
twenty-four dead and dying and twen
ty-seven other passengers, most of
them seriously wounded. Nearly all
of those who were in the death car
were returning from a fair at Sher
brook, Quebec, 160 miles north.
The conductor of the freight was
given to understand that he had plen
ty of time to reach a siding by the
night operator at Canaan station, re
ceiving, according to the superintend
ent of the division ,a copy of the tel
egram order from the train dispatcher
at Concord, which confused the train
number •30 and 34. The wreck oc
curred just after the express had
rounded into a straight stretch of
track, but, owing to the early mom
ing mist neither engineer saw the
other’s headlight until it was too late.
The southbound train was mads up
at Sherbrooi:, where it picked up two
sleepers from Quebec and two more
on the way down. It consisted of the
baggage car, passenger coach and
smoking car in that order, with the
sleepers in the rear.
The train left White River Junc
tion, Vt., at 3:50 Sunday morning, for
ty minutes late, and followed twenty
minutes later by the Montreal Ex
press over the Central Vermont. The
Quebec express train is known as No.
30 and the Montreal train as No.
34.
Meantime a northbound freight train
known as No. 267 had arrived at
Canaan, 18 miles down the road, at
4:10 a. m., on time. According to W.
R. Ray, Jr., division superintendent,
J. R. Crowley, the night train dis
patcher at Concord, sent a dispatch
to John Greeley, the night operator
at Canaan, that No. 34 was one hour
and ten minutes late. The order which
Conductor Lawrence of the freight
train showed after the accident dis
tinctly states that No. 30 instead of
No. 34 was an hour and ten min
utes late. Conductor Lawrence, be
lieving that he had sufficient time in
the hour and ten minutes to reach
the sidetrack at West Canaan, four
miles beyond, before No. 30 reached
it, ordered his train ahead. The su
perintendent declared that the acci
dent was due to the mistake in plac
ing a cipher after the three in the
number of the train instead of la
rtfcur.
One of those who escaped said that
as the train was rounding a curve
some one in front of the car began
to sing so that nearly every one was
awake when the crash came. Those
who were in the other cars recovered
their dazed senses, jumped out to the
side of the track and hurried to the
demolished passenger Coach, where
groans, cries and shrieks were rend
ing the air.
Fortunately, with the engines off
to one side, the wreckage did not
take fire and add horror to the al
ready dreadful scene. The train hands,
ably seconded by the passengers from
the sleeping cars, groped their way
among the ruins and began the work
of rescue.
AUTO CRASH DEALS DEATH.
Four Occupants Killed Outright and
Three Are More or Less Hurt.
A powerful racing automobile, occu
pied by seven prominent Elks and a
chauffeur, and built to hold but three
passengers, while running at a ter
rific rate, crashed into a telephone
pole at Colorado Springs, r l uesday, and
was wrecked. Four of the occupants
were killed outright and the others
were more or less seriously hurt.
The party had been to the Elk •
club house to attend a social session
and were returning home.
MORE TELEGRAPHERS QUIT KEYS
Twenty Small Towns in Ohio Tied Up
by Strike.
It was announced at the headquar
ters of telegraphers in New York
Saturday that operators in twenty
towns in Ohio who did not go out
when the strike was called six weeks
ago, had left their keys. The names
of the towns were not given.
OKLAHOMA DEMOCRATIC,
People Likewise Vote for State-Wide
Prohibition, Which is a Provision
of the New Constitution.
The territories of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, to whom congress
gave joint statehood during its last
session, voted together for the first
time Tuesday on the proposed state
constitution, state-wide prohibition
and the election of a full state ticket,
five members of the state supreme
court, all district judges, five members
of congress, a state legislature, which
will elect two United States sena
tors and all county and township of
ficers.
As regards the constitution itself,
the voters had two eminent, although
dissenting opinions, to guide them.
Mr. Bryan of Nebraska says “it is
the best constitution ever written.” Mr.
Taft of Ohio says “if I were a resi
deit of the new state I would vote
against it.”
Unofficial reports from the election
indicate that prohibition has carried
the constitution accepted and Haskell,
democrat, has been elected governor.
It is not love for the constitution
that brought about its ratification,
but the desire for statehood, espec
ially among the people of Indian Ter
ritory, who thus far have enjoyed no
kind of government whatever. Many
republicans, who share Mr. Taft’s
views, voted to the contrary in order
to get statehood, while there is an
army of republicans who “hit it wit
all their might,” believing they would
give Mr. Roosevelt all the moral and
substantial support possible in case
he should decide to withhold his ap
proval. With these republicans, too,
was a strong body of democrats, liv
ing mostly in Oklahoma Territory,who
voted against the constitution jr- some
because of fear of high taxation and
still others for political reasons, fear
ing the Indian Territory wing of the
democracy will dominate in state af
fairs.
Every prohibitionist voted for the
constitution. C. N. Haskell of Musko
gee, the democratic nominee for gov
ernor, stated often in his speeches
he would vote for prohibition. This
lined up for him the temperance work
ers,. almost to a n\an, including the
ministry. Governor Frantz, the repub
lican nominee, stated publicly that ’
prohibition carried he would see to
it, if elected, that the law was en
forced.
Although there were three state tick
ets nominated— republican, democratic
and socialist—yet practically every
body on the ticket was lost sight of
in the main fight between Haskell and
Frantz. It has been a bitter campaign.
Frantz, the present territorial govern
or of Oklahoma, was a Rough Rider
with Roosevelt in Cuba and represents
the Roosevelt policies in his race for
the state governorship.
It has been a campaign of charges
and counter-charges, and to substanti
ate these men of national reputation
have come from other states to partic
ipate in the campaign. Judge Sheets,
former attorney general of Ohio, spent
a week in the state making speeches
against Haskell, and the democrats
induced Judge Monnett, who was
Sheets’ predecessor in office, to answer
Sheets and support Haskell. Mr. Bry
an of Nebraska indorsed Haskell, as
did also Champ Clark of Missouri, Jeff
Davis of and Congressman
Hamilton of lowa.
TO PAY LETTEN’S SHORTAGE.
Louisiana Tax Collector Mortgages
Property to Raise $116,000.
By mortgaging his own and his
family’s property State Tax Collector
John Fitzpatrick at New Orleans, on
Tuesday, raised funds to repay $116,-
000 stolen from the state by Charles
Letten, clerk in Fitzpatrick’s office.
Payment is to be made at once. The
shortage was discovered less than
week ago and Letten is now in jail.
TWO ELEMENTS DEAL DEATH.
Forty People Drowned and 100 Houses
Burned in Japanese Village.
Forty persons were drowned and
100 houses burned early Tuesday
mornning at the Korakabi mine near
Kotaro, Japan. A fire started in the
mining works and while attempts were
being made to save the mine the wa
ter reservoir was broken, flooding a
portion of the village. Many women
and children were among the victims.
HORROR ON JAP BATTLESHIP.
Twelve-Inch Shell Explodes, Killing
Forty of the Crew.
Forty of the crew were killed and
injured on board the Japanese battle-
Ship Kashima by the explosion of
12-inch shell within the shield, at Ur
target practice, near Kure. on Septeo
hrr 9 The Kashima reacner
Tuesday, where the wounded were
placed in the hospital.
NEW MOVE BY ROAD
The Central Wants Governor
Made a Party to Suit,
PRESENTSANAMENDMENT
Rate Case Is Called in Federal Court
at Atlanta and is Postponed by
Judge Newman to October
7th for Hearing.
The suit of the Central of Georgia
railway in the district court of the
United States, at Atlanta, for a man
datory injunction against the state
railroad commission, the attorney
general and the special attorney to
the commission, was called before
Judge William T. Newman Monday
morning. The plaintiffs filed an
amendment to their original petition,
seeking to make Governor Hoke Smith
a party to the suit.
The commission, Attorney General
Hart and Special Attorney Hines filed
demurrers to the original petition,
setting up that they cannot legally
be made defendants to the proceeding.
The railroad contends that its amend
ment will meet the objection.
After hearing arguments on all of
legal points involved. Judge New
|ran withheld his decisions, and post
poned the further hearing of the case
until Monday, October 7, when he will
render a decision on the demurrers
filed by the state and decide upon the
admission of the railroad’s amend
ment. Judge Newman's order is as
follows:
“In the circuit court of the United
States for the northern district of
Georgia—Central of Georgia Railway
Company vs. S. G. McLendon, H. War
ner Hill, et al., railroad commission
ers; the Railroad Commission of
Georgia, John C. Hart, Attorney Gen
eral of Georgia, and J. k. Hines, Spe
cial Attorney to Railroad Commission
of Georgia—ln Equity:
“This cause came on this day, on a
rule to show cause why injunction
pendente lite should not issue against
the defendants to the original bill as
therein prayed for. The complainants
presented two amendments to their
bill, and the defendants presented a
demurrer. It is: „
“Ordered, That the bearing be post
poned until Monday, October 7, 190’(,
at 10 o'clock a. m., at which time the
court will determine whether or not
Hon. Hoke Smith, governor of Geor
gia, can and should be made a party
defendant to this cause, and whether
or not injunction pendente lite shall
issue aaginst him -and the other de
fendants as prayed in the bill.
“In open court, this 16tli day of
September, 1907.
“W. T. NEWMAN, U. S. Judge.”
*he action of the Central in at
tempting to make the governor a par
ty to the suit caused surprise, as it
has heretofore been believed that the
governor of a state could not be sued.
The eleventh amendment to tse fed
ral constitution provides that no state
can be sued, and the United States
supreme court has frequently held
that a governor in his official capac
ity cannot be made a party to a
suit.
GOADED BY MONEY SHARKS.
Chicago. Clerk Attempts to Murder
and Rob Diamond Broker.
John W. Miller, a railroad clerk,
held In Chicago, on the charge of at
tempting to kill and rob Edgar C.
Crums, a diamond broker, has con
fessed the crime.
Desperation, caused by the hound
ing of a horde of ioan sharks, was
given by Miller as the reason for
the crimp, he may hang.
In his he tells of the man
ner in which he lured Crumb in the
flat for the deliberate purpose of at
tacking and robbing him, Crumb was
badly beaten up and may die.
HEAVY BAIL FOR NEGRESS.
Letten’s Siren Held for Trial in the
Sum of Fifty Thousand.
Bail was fixed at $50,000 in New
Orleans, Saturday, for Virginia Reed,
the negro woman to whom the default
ing tax clerk, Charles E. Letten, says
he gave nearly all the SIIB,OOO he
stole. The woman is charged with
receiving stolen property. A charge
of perjury has also been made against
her.
Letten, who has confessed, will be
used as the principal witness against
her.
APPEAL FOR AID ISSUED.
Gompers and Small Call on Organized
Labor to Help Telegraphers
The promised appeal of President
Small of the Telegraphers* Union, and
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor to or
ganized labor throughout the country
fur financial assistance to the striking
telegraphers was issued Tuesday from
federation headquarters.
The county, state aWTnalion*
Four pages, 32 long columns,
every Friday.
Circulation in North
Tennessee and Northern
Scattering circulation in over haffH
States and Territories.
SI.OO A ye*bß
PENNANT TO
A? -ta Baseball Te jBB
ance of Bill Smith,
of the SouUi^®
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This the fot^B
Bill Smith i^Hl
wa v. ith tii" i.mi'Oiiit!
two with Macon in
now with Atlanta in
been managing teams Mucy®
during time be has wou®
nants finished lo^^B
fourth place^beamw^J^ei^B
a prestmt of
inn it) a tee 9 '
they richly deserve.
MRS. BECKHAM WAS TARGET^
Enraged Farmer Rres at Auto Cor
taining Wife of Kentucky Governor.
Dan Ruxter, a farmer, has been li
dieted at Owensboro, Ky„ on th<
charge of having discharged a pi*J
at an automobile containing Mnjfl
C. Beckham, wife of the gover JB
the state, and a party of frieiJß
Mrs. Beckham, who was
boro girl, was visiting friend*®.;'
mers in the vicinity have
plaining of the speed of the -B9
on the highways, and when th6®fe;': -
containing Mrs. Beckham
bridge on a much coveted
fare, a man on horseback
that the chauffeur stop, jfl
The horseman tlourish 9
over the horse, "for the
automobil" to wait T|
while he T nounoed auto®
bitter terms.
When tin- machine :"Jfl
several slims ami Mrs
the vl^B
torn of the car in a
fright. ®HB
WOMAN DEFENDS HER ■'
Shot Down Man SI®
Attempted an A*®
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Mis iluinpln%s*BjH
l, mlami was reljß
It is understood she w^B
unwritren ate. c.aiming
ger attempted to asault
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS*;
Given N oto t icus R°^B|
Assailant of^B
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Anna A. ' - '
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sanlt and fen
another 3TRI^
Of LnU.SViilß*
Walking Scut®
Pnless some sort
brought forth at once
tion of one of the hit®
strikes in the histoiy B||B
will materialize.
The ill feeling hetwc< qHgjßßrajr
railway company and
which was aggravated rather
tied by tire strike of three Bf
ago, will find vent in a contest®,
promises to be fiercer than
one last April. jfl
FOR CRIME OF ANOTW-
Innocent Man Has Served ®
Years In California
After having served 'jm
in the California penitent®
d*‘Veiopt and ! nut Willing®.
of the convicts, is anjpf-Cm
Proof positive that he
the crime for which he
is now in the hands ° t ‘
authorities. The charge was jj
no. ini