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VOL. XVI.
CRUSHERS AROUSED
Over Export Losses Caused
by Foreign Tariff,
HOLD SPECIAL MEETING
Convention in New Orlean* Will At
tempt to Have Duties on Cotton
Seed Products Lowered—Ex
pert Benton Reports.
Facts from both sides in the con
troversy as to why southern cotton
seed products exporters lose thou
sands of dollars monthly from negli
gent handling of their goods in steam
ships were presented at Monday’s ex
traordinary session of the Interstate
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association in
New Orleans.
Action was taken to combat for
eign tariffs, which are claimed to
have cut down southern business In
these products by $2,000,000 annual
ly. The convention nominated Albert
G. Perkins of Memphis, Tenn., for
United States expert abroad on the
subject of cotton seed products. This
nomination is to be an appointment
which will be made by Secretary
Strauss of the department of com
merce and labor. Professor J H.
Connell of Dallas, Texas, was the
oily other candidate for nomination.
Mr. Perkins succeeds J. L. Benton of
Montieello, Ga., resigned.
Mr. Benton reported to the convene
tion his observations upon the causes
of the losses of southern shippers.
Mr. Benton told of the enormous
waste in cotton seed products, due
to careless handling by steamship
lines, and of the loss to American
shipers thereby, estimated as high
as $1,000,000 in a single year. As an
example of how this waste occurred
he said:
“We find in New Orleans today
waiting for export 5,000 tons of meal
from five different firms. This meal
includes five different brands. Of
the total amount 4,000 tons of it is
choice meal. The remaining 1,000
tons is dark, badly ground and w r ith
an excess of lint and hulls. All
this meal is loaded into a vessel at
New Orleans without regard to the
classification shown on the marks in
dicating the brands. Asa result it
is pretty well scattered over the shjp.
Since this cargo does not fill the
. boat’s capacity, a few thousand bar
rels of cotton seed oil are rolled in <Jn
top of the meal. A few of the barrels
break, a few r of the sacks are torn,
and both cargoes, oil and meal, are
more or * less damaged.
‘Upon unloading, the meals sacks
are hoisted by a single rope from the
hold of the vessel and are dragged
along the floor until they reach the
warehouse, by which time several
more bags are broken. Having been
loaded without regard to brands, the
meal is unloaded in the same man
ner. So many bags, moreover, have
been ruined that it is useless to at
tempt to collect the cargo according
to its classification. Instead, the
meal is piled indiscriminately in
heaps of a ton each of mixed meal
for weighing and sampling. The loose
meal from the broken‘bags is appor
tioned to those piles which may be
short in weight. At this stage, a car
go which left the United States con
sisting of 4,000 tons of choice meal
and 1,000 tons of off meal, is now
reduced to all one grade, and that the
worst. There is just enough lint and
hulls in it to cause reclamation.
“The importer therefore does not
get the grade he has bought. If we
could guarantee him the grade we
could get more for southern cotton
seed cake than is paid for any other
cake in the world.”
Mr. Benton said it will be a diffi
cult task to extend southern cotton
seed products trade abroad until the
delivery is improved.
HEARST NOT A CANDIDATE.
Editor Sets at Rest Rumor That He
Aspires to Presidency.
In an interview published at New
York Tuesday, William Randolph
Hearst takes occasion to deny that he
is a candidate for the presidency. He
says:
“I am not a candidate for the pres
idency on the Independent League
ticket or any other ticket, and 1 can
not conceive of any’ conditions under
which 1 would be willing to become
a candidate.”
PLUNGED INTO THE POTOMAC.
Suiciding Gambler Left Note Saying,
“Goodbye, It’s All Over.”
Melancholy over bis arrest and
pending prosecution for running a
hand book on the races, David Pfei
fer, 49. years old, committed suicide
at Washington Tuesday by jumping
into the Potomac river. He left a
note for his Lister saying, Goodbye,
it is all over.” „
FOLK SOUNDS TOCSIN.
Missouri Governor Urges People to
Make War on Special Privilege
in Banquet Speech at Nashville.
Governor Joseph W. Folk of Mis
souri, a native of Tennessee, was the
guest of honor Tuesday in Nashville,
where home-comers were assembled,
from every part of the United States
for a week of reunion and celebration.
Tuesday night at the Duncan hotel,
at a banquet tendered him by the
Commercial Club of Nashville, Gover
nor Folk discussed the issues of the
day. During the afternoon he ad
dressed resident Tennesseeans at
Cumberland park, where the state fair
is in progress.
The subject of Governor Folk’s ban
quet speech was “Democratic Ideals.”
He said, in part:
“The prospect for the success of
democratic ideas was never brighter
than now. By democratic ideas I
means those principles embraced in
tbe expression “equal rights to all,
special privileges to none.” With this
axiom as our chart the infamies of
privilege in every form can be de
stroyed. A political revival is going on
all over the land today on this sub
ject. The people are beginning to
awaken to a realization of the fact
that the government of city, state
and nation belongs to them, and that
they can take the government into
their own hands whenever they wish.
This is the ideal the democratic party
stands for —the rule of the people,
for the people, as opposed to govern
ment by a class for a class.
“The elimination of special privi
lege is the paramount issue before
the people fof this country—the spe
cial privilege of lawlessness; the spe
cial privilege conferred by law, and
the special privilege of monopoly.
“The elimination of unjust privi
leges conferred by iaw, is a moral
question. Any privilege is a graft,
whether it be a privilege exercised
contrary to law or one that the law
Itself may give. A. tariff so arranged
as ?o create monopoly and to give a
few people the privilege of preying
on the rest of the people is legalized
graft. Considered from this stand
point, the tariff is a moral* question.
Indeed, e*iery governmental question
in a sense is a moral question, in
that it is a question of right and
wiclig. But as an economic question
merely, a monopoly tariff is unde
fensible under the conditions that ex
ist today.
“The injustice of the present tariff
schedules is so apparent that a gen
eral demand has been brought about
for tariff revision.
“Entrenched behind the indiffer
ence of the people, this protective
tariff system has distorted the func
tions of a free government into tools
of greed and vehicles of oppression.
Masked in the guise of protection to
American labor, the protective tariff
operates as a cloak for cunning, as a
shield for monopoly, a tax upon in
dustry, a fine upon labor, and, finally,
in its last analysis, it is a graft and
a false pretense, conceived in greed
and brought forth in avarice.
“Fortified behind this wall of tariff
protection, gigantic trusts have sprung
up, controlling the necessities of life,
whereby the cost of living has been
increased enormously during the past
few years. Until those tariff privi
leges are' eradicated the trust ques
tion can never he settled. It was
well enough to prosecute the trusts,
and it is still better to put some
of the heads of trusts in stripes for
violating the law, but it is hardly
practical to suppress the trusts with
one hand while the other is feeding
them with the milk of protection on
which they grow fat and arrogant.
“Another quqestion the democratic
party should make an issue is the
right of the states in all matters not
delegated to the federal government.
When the states came together in
convention to form a ‘ more perfect
union,” each was asindependen t and
sovereign as Italy or Germany is to
day. r Vv **
JAMAICA KICKS ON CHINESE.
The British Government is Asked to
Keep Them Out.
The influx of Chinese at Kingston,
Jamaica, 4s a ‘serious matter. One
section of the press is urging the
government to take steps to prevent
their landing as being detrimental to
local traders.
Kingston’s city council lias adopted
a resolution calling on the govern
ment to amend the pauper alien im
migration law so as to prohibit the
entrance of undesirable foreigners.
parliament for china.
Firnt Move is Made for Giving Chinks
a Legislative Body.
An imperial edict was issued at
Peking, China, Friday, authorizing
Prince Pllin and Sun Ani, in co-opera
tion with grand council, to frame reg
ulations for the establishment of a
council of deliberation to aid the gov
ernment, “so that the foundation may
bo laid fpr a parliament.’
TAFT IS ENOORSED
By Nebraska Republicans for
the Presidency.
MANY FOR ROOSEVELT
At Same Time Nebraska Democrats
Commend Bryan and Declare for
Tariff Reform Conventions
Held in Lincoln.
Secretary Taft was endorsed for
the presidency by the Nebraska re
publican state convention in session
at Lincoln, Tuesday.
In the report of the committee on
resolutions, Secretary Taft was en
dorsed as follows:
“We recognize in the Hon. William
H. Taft of Ohio a man whose per
sonal character and whose
lic service mark him as preeminently
the man under whose leadership these
policies may be perpetuated and the
republican party may again merit and
receive the approval of the national
electorate.”
There was some reluctance to the
Taft endorsement, as many Nebraska
republicans strongly favored Roose
velt for another term.
All the political parties represented
on the primary ballot held their state
conventions at the same time. Of
the five parties, the republicans, dem
ocrats and populists gathered in con
siderable numbers. The prohibition
ists held no convention, and the so
cialists had one delegate, who certi
fied to a platform and organization
with the-secretary of state.
The feature of the democratic con
vention was the speech of William
J. Bryan.
The democratic platform opens
with commendation of William J.
Bryan. It opposes the centralization
idea, and declares for the election
of United States senators by direct
vote. Immediate revision of the tar
iff is urged and an income tax fa
vored, a‘s “is also the vigorous en
forcement of the criminal law against
“trusts” and “trust magnates.”
Drank “knockout” drops.
Strangers Relieve Floyd of Cash —His
Wife and Children Were Lost.
As the result of taking a drink of
whiskey offered him by two strangers
whom he met on the train, Luther
Floyd of Powellton, Ga., was render
ed unconscious for hours, lost his
wife and two children and only leaili
ed many hours later that his wife
was in* Chattanooga, Tenn., stark
mad.
Floyd and liis wife, Alice Floyd,
and two children were on their way
from their home in Powellton to visit
relatives in Gadsden, Ala. They had
tickets to Gadsden. , ,
When about fifteen miles from Rome
on the Southern railway, Mr. Floyd
decided to go into the smoking car.
While in there he met two men who
offered him a drink of whiskey. After
demurring some he took a drink out
of a bottle they offered him, and the
next things, he knew he work up in
Cedar Bluff,- Ala.
He was befriended by a man there
who headed him back to Rome. He
found that lie had been relieved of
$l3O, which he had on his person,
and that his wife and children were
missing. He at once began trying
to find out where his wife and chil
dren were.
Telegrams w r ere sent out, and late
Tuesday afternoon a message from
Chattanooga stated that Mrs. Floyd
and children had been found there,
but that Mrs. Floyd was stark mad.
Floyd immediately left for Chattanoo
ga to look after bis wife. It is be
lieved that the whiskey given Floyd
by the strangers had been dosed with
knock-out drop.
SHOEMAKERS DESERT LASTS.
Twenty-Five Thousand Go Out on
Strike in St. Louis.
A conservative estimate places the
number of strikers who are out as a
result of the general stiike instituted
in St. Louis by the shoe factory work
ers at 25,000.
The demands are for a nine-hour
working day, the rate of pay to re
main on the basis of the ten-hour
day.
The officers of the companies oper*
ting the eighteen factories, have and
cided not to accept any demands mads
' * the strikers.
FOUR MEN WERE DROWNED
In Explosion of Tank of. Gasoline on
Board a Yacht.
While out on the Ohio river at Gal
lipolis late Tuesday night with a party
of twenty-two men the gasoline tank
on the yacht Blanche M. exploded.
All those on board were thrown into
the water and four were drowned.
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27. 1907.
SAW GOEBEL MURDERED.
Woman Makes Affidavit That' Turner
Igo of Rowan County Fired Fatal
Shot from Courthouse Window.
Turner Igo, of Farmers, Rowan
county, Kentucky, is charged with
the killing of Senator William Got
bel, of Kentucky, in an affidavit by
Mrs. Lulu Clark, which was pub
lished exclusively by the Richmond,
Ind., Evening Item Saturday. In Mrs.
Clark’s affidavit, which was taken at
Indianapolis on April 11, 1907, in the
law r offices of ex-Governor Taylor,
of Kentucky, she says that her maiden
name was Lulu Williams and she was
born at Rothwell, Menifee county,
Kentucky, but lived most of her lire
and at the time of Goebel’s murder
her home was at Mount Sterling, Ky.
She is a niece of Judge Frank Day,
of Frenchburg, Ky., and also of Jas.
Williams, of the same place. She has
a cousin named Gertrude King, who
lived at Maysville at the time of Goe
bel’s murder. Miss King was at that
time keeping company with John San
ford of Covington, Ky.
Upon the day of Goebel’s murder
the two girls went tc Frankfort, Ky.
They started to enter the state house
by the rear entrance and when on
the steps a shot was fired. At tnU
same time they noticed a man stand
ing just inside the door whom they
recognized as Sanford. In a minute
a second man came running out of
the building, dressed like a mountain
eer, and carrying a rifle. He ran to
Sanford and said:
“I got the
That man was recognized by th*
affiant as her friend, Turner Igo, of
Farmers, Rowan county, Kentucky.
Both men ran out of the building to
a fence, where Sanford gave a pair
of shoes which he was carrying to
Igo, who exchanged his boots for
them. The men then disappeared.
The affiant states' that Igo told her
at Mount Sterling on January 25,
1900, that he was going to kill Goe
bel and that she saw him* afterwards
at Jeffersonville, Ind., and he remind
ed her that he had fulfilled his prom
ise. ’
She also says that Sanford had told
Gertrude King, a few days prior to
Goebel’s murder, that he intended to j
kill Goebel, saying: "Here Is my j
chance to get revenge. The legislature i
has met.”
The Evening Item also publishes .
correspondence between Caleb Pow- j
ers and the persons whb Secured the
affidavit and Afterwards investigated
its allegations for verification, show
ing that the expenses for the informa
tion gained were paid from the
Powers defense fund through John
Marshall of the law firm of Gibson,
Marshall & Gibson of Louisville, Ky.
The original correspondence of
Powers and the copy of the affidavit
are in the possession of The Item.
99 YEARS FOR THE JONES BOYS.
Jury Returns Verdict of Guilty With
Recommendation to Mercy.
At 8:30 o’clock Saturday morning a
verdict was reached in the cases
against Albert and Porter Jones at
Entonton, Ga. The jury was out all
night and brought in a verdict of
guilty with a recommendation for
mercy. Judge Lewis passed sentence
and gave the boys 99 years’ impris
onment.
Attorney Cooper made a motion for
anew trial, and the judge fixed the
date for hearing the motion on the
third Monday in-October, at Grays,
Jones county.
In passing sentence Judge Lewis
said that the evidence against Albert
was not satisfactory entirely. A
new trial will necessitate a change
of venue, as the jury box of the coun
ty was almost exhausted in making
up the jury.
Robert T. Adams, for the murder of
whom the Jones boys weer convited,
'was a well knowm planter, and a
member of a prominent family.
TABLES TURNED ON CALHOUN.
Another ’Frisco Promoter to Be Tried
on Bribery Charge.
The California supreme court has
sustained the validity of the grand
jury which indicted Schmitz, Ruef
and Patrick Calhoun, head of the Uni
ted Railways, and others, in ’Frisco,
for corruption.
The decision means that Calhoun,
who is now out on heavy bond, must
stand trial on a charge of bribing city
officials to secure franchises for bis
street railway
9 ALLEGED TO BE INSANE,
Man Who Instigated Vancouver Riots
Placed Under Arrest.
A. E. Fowler, secretary of the Se
attle Anti-Asiatic Association, has
been arested at Bellingham, Wash.,
charged with in rani ty. Fowler took
part in the anti-Japanese riots atVan-
I convex, a wreck or to ago, and many
claim that he incited them.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
BEARS IN DANGER
President to Go After Bruin
With I rusty Winchester.
WILL HUNT IN LOUISIANA
Plans Recreative Pastime, on the Side,
During His Trip Down the Mis
sissippi to the Waterways
Convention.
A special ffom Oyster Bay, N. Y.,
says: Far from the scene of official
routine, and free from the details at
tendant upon the responsibilities as
sociated with the office of chief exec
utive, President Roosevelt will enjoy
seventeen days in camp. This is to
be the nearest approach to a genuine
vacation that the president has allow
ed himself. Though nominally on his
vacation at Oyster Bay this summer,
there have been but few hours in
which official business of some sort
has not intruded. A physical and
mental recreation as complete as his
cares will permit is now arranged.
President Roosevelt will pitch his
camp in the northeastern corner of
Louisiana, on or about October 5. The
exact spot is yet to be determined.
The plana provide for a “camping
trip,” but everybody knows that the
canebrakes shelter game worthy of a
huntsman worthy of presidential cal
iber, Those who will have the good
fortune to make pleasant the presi
dent’s camp, expect that the monotony
of camplife will be occasionally bro
ken by a hunt.
While the details of the trip have
not been thoroughly worked out, the
main features were announced Thurs
day by Secretary Loeb. The president
will leave Oyster Bay for Washington
next Wednesday, and on the following
Sunday will start on his western and
southern speech-making tour.
At Memphis, Tenn., on October 4,
the speechmaking program will be in
terrupted and the president will start
for the camping grounds. He will
break camp on October 21, going di
rectly to Vicksburg. Miss., to make
his promised speech there.
The president will be the guest
while in camp of Civil Service Com
missioner John A. Mcllhenny of Ibe
ria, La., and of Jc.’in M. Parker of
New Orleans.
Following the speech at Vicksburg,
October 21, the president has con
sented to make an address at Hermit
age, Tenn., on the following day.
The return to Washington will im
mediately after be begun, and the
white house will be reached on the
afternoon of October 23.
According to a New' Orleans dis
patch, the region where the president
will probably hunt is the Bayou Ma
con and Tensas swamps, semi tropical
jungles in Madison parish, imar the
Mississippi river in northeast ijouis
iana. In these swamps bear are nu
merous, deer abundant and smaller
game from wildcats down to squirrels
innumerable. A year ago a hunting
party, head 'd by Governor Riam'har.l
of Louisiana, killed forty deer in this
section.
The Tensas and Macon swamps are
the center of a hunting ground about
75 miles long and 10 to 30 miles
Vide. During most of the year it is
pecessary for hunters in these swamps
to wear nets suspended from their
hats in order to protect their laces
from mosqquito bites. Hunters must
raise these nets from their faces be
fore firing. The mosquito nuisance be
fetas to abate in October.
“BACK TO THE WOODS’'
Is Real Meaning of Pope's Encyclical,
Says Jewish Rabbi.
Criticism of the pope's recent ency
clical against modernism and a decla
ration that governments should under
take all education so that no retro
grade step might be taken marked
the Atonement Day address of Rabbi
Joseph Silverman of Temple EmanuEl
in New York city. He said of the
pope’s interdict:
“It is time, high time, that the great
religious organizations should protest
against such a decree—a dictum that
would tend to shunt the human race
one thousand years backward, and
makes for the upholding of a blind
faith that can never bring happiness
to humanity-” He then added.
“It is high time for the governments
to establish more laboratories, more
schools, to add to the sum total of
human knowledge, and to spread the
knowledge of truth among the people.
THi RTY-TWO PASSENGERS HURT
Bad Wreck on Southern That Was
Devoid of Fatalities.
Thirty-two passengers weer injured,
none of them seriously, by the derail
ment of the Chattanooga and Wash
ington Limited train cn the Southern
railway just north of Ryans Siding,
Va., early Sunday. A broken rail was
the cause of the accident.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
. Bends Voted by Canton.
By a decisive vote last Saturday,
the citizens of Canton voted for the
issue of bonds for the establishment
of electric lights, waterworks and a
sewerage system in the town, thus
putting herself alongside the more
progressive and enterprising cities of
the state. Out of 174 votes polled,
172 were for electric lights, 171 for
waterworks and 163 for sewerage,
being a clear two-third of the regis
tered votes of the town.
* * *
Fertilizer Tags Received.
The department of agriculture has
received 4,500,000 fertilizer tags from
the Philadelphia factory where they
were made. The tags will be supplied
to the fertilizer manufacturers of Geor
gia, and every ton of their product
sold in the state must bear ten of
them.
The state pays 30 cents per thou
sand for the tags and sells them to
the fertilizer companies for $lO per
thousand, or one cent each. The
proceeds from the sales will go to sup
port the district agricultural colleges
of the state. Ml
& * *
Report on Schools Wanted.
Governor Smith has called upon
State Treasurer Park and State School
Commissioner Merritt for a statement
showing just what the condition of
the treasury and the school commis
sioner’s office is in regard to the
conimon school teachers of Georgia.
That the state is far behind in its
payments of these splendid educators
is well known, and he is making an
effort to see just where the state
stands 1 in regard to this debt.
Some of the counties have been
paid more than their proportionate
share of the funds available and in
consequence some will be paid in the
near future before others.
Broughton’s Salary Garnisheed.
The salary cf Dr. Broughton,
pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist
church, Atlanta, has been garnisheed
and legal notice served on the treas
urer of the church.
The proceedings, which are return
ble to the November term of the su
perior court, were sworn out before
Justice Kingsberry by B. A. Pugin, an
architect, and followed the suit filed
against Dr. Broughton some two
weeks ago by Mr. Pugin, who, in his
former petition, alleged that the well
known minister is due him SSOO as
part payment for the drawing of the
plans of the proposed $50,000 taber
nacle institution.
* * *
Atianta-Albany Electric Line.
Work is soon to start on the new
electric lines from Atlanta to Aloanj.
E. D. Harrington and W. J. Massee
have returned to Macon from New
York, where they went several weeks
ago on a mission touching the finan
cial status' of the new enterprises, and
it is stated that the laying of the first
tie and rail is not far distant. A
great amount of work has been done
towards putting the contractors in
charge of the grading during the past
few weeks and the indications are
that there will now be little delay in
beginning Hie work. AH officials will
be hard at work now until the grading
is started for both lines.
* * *
Carnegie’s Name Omitted.
The name “Carnegie” is conspicu
ously absent from the portal of the
new' library in Columbus, and the of
ficial designation of the new ins 1 u
tion will be simply the ‘ public li
brary.” It is believed that designating
the institution in this way, in prefer
ence to naming it for any individual,
even the philanthropist -hose gener
osity made it possible, ■ this
popularize the institution. Before thk
step was taken Mr. Carnegie was com
municated with on the subject an
plied very frankly that H " as
terial with him what name was us ,
Is his only object in giving Übrari
was to benefit communities, lhe n
building, which cost $30,000, is the
second largest library in Georgia.
* * *
cr n titied to Rebate-
Consumers Entitled •
tt H Tift and other lumber man
ufacturers. comprising the membev
of the Georgia Saw Mill Associa
tion allege that they are confronted
with a scheme of the Southern rail
way and the lines forming the South
eastern Tariff Association, together
. U h the great oar foundries and lum
ber consumers of the west, to defeat
the decree of the United States courts
rivlns hack to the producers the two
cents per hundred pounds tanff plac
et by the roads five years ago.
mm "out of the freights paid under
the Illegal tariff, and since a stand
in- master has hecn put to the task
Staking evidence by Judge Emory
Rne er the lines have lamed several
Z 'foundries and consumers m a
claim that the latter parties are tne
real concerns entitled to the mone...
* * *
Feature Days of State Fair.
The full program of the state tail
at Atlanta has not get been agreed
on, but the following special events
have been arranged:
Children’s day, Saturday, October
Union day, Wednesday,
October 16.
Fraternal day, Thursday, October 1 (.
All-day singing, Friday, October 13.
Cattle judging, Friday, October 18.
Cement Mixers’ convention, Friday,
October 18.
William Jennings Bryan, Saturday,
October 19.
Cobb and Cherokee, Tuesday, Octo
ber 22.
Hall, Habersham and Rabun, Mon
day, October 23.
DeKalb, Carroll and Morgan, Tues
day, October 24.
Bibb, Twiggs and Bulloch, Friday,
October 25.
Camden and Worth, Saturday, Octo
ber 26.
Italian Colony for Stone Mountain.
While Ithe state of /Georgia and
other southern states are debating
the advisability of bringing to this
section a desirable class of immi
grants, 'Vincenzo Palumbo, a private
citizen and wealthy manufacturer of
New York, and his brother-in-law, Jo
seph Parantha, of Atlanta, are active
ly engaged in instituting one of the
most comprehensive and practical col
onization schemes yet brought to pub
lic notice.
On the Georgia railroad, one mile
beyond Stone Mountain, these gentle
men have purchased five hundred
acres of fertile land and are prepar
ing it for division into truck farms.
Within the next few/ months 2,000
industrious immigrants from the ag
ricultural classes of Italy will be
brought over and settled upon this
land. Already twenty comfortable
frame dwellings are in course of erec
tion on the new estate, and several
hundred more will be constructed
within the next twelve months. Saw
mills have been erected, and will man
ufacture all the timber to te used
in building.
* * *
Preparing for Big Convention.
Every possible preparation is be
ing made for the care and entertain
ment of the 600 and more delegates
expected to attend the International
Conference of Cotton Growers and
Manufacturers, which will be held in
Atlanta, October 7-9, inclusive.
The city council has apropriated sl,-
000 for the entertainment and has ap
pointed a committee to confer and act
with a similar committee frtfm the
chamber of commerce, which latter
organization has been stirring'itself
for several weeks in a great endeavor
to outdo anything in the entertain
ment line that has ever been done in
Atlanta before.
The convention will represent hun
dreds of millions of dollars. • All the
great cotton manufacturers of New
England and of England, Germany,
Italy, Spain, Russia, France, Austria
and Belgium will be in attendance.
In Addition there will be several hun
dred of the most prominent cotton
growers of this section.
The European International Cotton
Spinners’ Association will be repre
sented by 115 spinners.
When the convention has closed
the foreign delegates have arranged
for a trip through the country, and
especially the south, over the South
ern railway. Seventeen states will be
visited.
ARBITRATION CONJECTURAL.
Nothing Known as to Appeal to
Roosevelt by Strikers.
or not the striking i '■
appealed to President
Roosevelt to arbitrate the questions
involved in their strike cou’d no* ho
Ascertained at the president’s office at
Oyster Bay Friday. Secretary Loeb
declined either to affirm or deny a
*feport published regarding the mat
ter.
CRACKSMEN MAKE RAIDS.
Blow Open Safes, of Merchants in Ver
non, Ala., and Secure Booty.
Cracksmen made a raid on \ ernon,
Ala., the county seat of Lamar county,
Wednesday night and blew open the
safe in Tom Guyton’s store and se
cured over SI,OOO in gold. They also
cracked the safe of J. A. Cobb, an
other merchant, and secured soo in
cash and SO,OOO worth of \aluable pa
pers.
WHITE MINERS BAR JAPS.
Seventy-Seven Put Aboard Steamer
and Sent Back to Vancouver.
Seventy-seven Japanese miners ar
riving at Atlin, Washington, to work
in the mines were escorted to the ri*-
er steamer Gleamer by 300 men and
started back toward Vancouver. The
white miners served notice upon the
Japanese that if they did not stay
away violence would he shown in
protecting the diggings against Asiatic
labor, .
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