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VOL XVI
GOVERNORS WARY
Tripartite Conference in At
lanta Devoid of Results.
NO AGREEMENT ON RATES
All Were Pleased, However, With Prog.
ress Made During the Conference.
Further Investigations
Scheduled,
With the issuance of a formal state
ment declaring that the conference had
been most satisfactory and that ar
rangments had been made for co-opera
tion in the investigation of facts and
law connected with the duty of the
states to the public and the transpor
tation companies, but with no an
nouncement as to any definite agree
ment as to the passenger or freight
rates to be charged, the conference
between Governor R. B. Comer of
Alabama, Governor Robert B, Glenn
of North Carolina and Governor Hoke
Smith of Georgia, held in Atlanta, ad
journed early Friday night.
However, all concerned were well
satisfied with the progress made dur
ing the session. The chief executives
of the different states are not yet
done with the question and at an
early date will take it up among them
selves by communication with the iu
tention of arriving at some decision.
Special reference was given at the
conference to passenger rates as af
fecting the three states and practically
tiu entire time of the session was
devoted to discussion along this line.
Governors Comer and Glenn left for
their homes immediately after the ad
journment of the conference.
Just before the conference began
at 9:30 o'clock Friday morning, a let
ter signed by a score or more mer
chants in Atlanta was handed to Gov
ernor Smith asking that a flat rate
of 2 3-4 cents be put on in Georgia
and other southern states, materially
increasing the present rate in ef
fect.
The party was engrossed In discuss
ing the legal phases of the various
situations in the three states until 2
o’clock, when an adjournment for
luncheon took place. At that time a
statement was issued to the press in
which it was declared no decision had
been reached and nothing more was
to b:> given out until later.
The visiting governors dined with
the (! orgia governor, after which the
confer* nee was resumed and continued
until 6 o’clock.
It is a peculiar situation faced by the
conference. North Carolina has a fiat
rate of 2 1-4 cents a mile, fixed by the
gen rai assembly of that state, and
which can neither be altered nor
changed until the general assembly
convenes again. Governor Comer of
Alabama has recently signed an agree
ni nt with the Southern and other al
ii* and lines accepting a fiat basis of 2 3-4
cents a mile, effective December 1,
which is binding on both parties, while
G- orgia, under the railroad commis
sion order issued during the Terreli
administration, and which is being
operated now, provides a sliding sca*e
of from 3 to 2 cents.
Fiom this it seems there is a wide
cha m dividing the three states on this
subject.
T. • official statement issued by the
thrp governors, sayj, in part:
“onr conference has been most sat
isfactory. We discussed conditions in
our respective states and we arranged
to co-operate in the investigation or
facts and law connected with the duty
of our states to the public and to
transportation companies. We 'will also
co-operate with other states which
have the same problem. We regard
the complete recognition of the right
of states to regulate the intrastate
business of transportation companies
as absolutely necessary.
“We deplore the fact that railroad
corporations have in some instances
hot n damaged by the effort of their
offi' ts to disregard the action of our
States. This has happened in every
case where they have made allegations
la the courts of sensational claims
of injury contrary to the facts.
"When the railroad companies cease
their false cry of confiscation and sub
mit to the duly constituted authorities,
upon which alone rests the right to
det rmine questions of public policy,
tlie railroad companies may expect a
rapid return of public confidence and
a restoration of normal credits. The
authorities of our states are at all
tiuies ready to hear from the railroad
companies fully and to accord to them
treatment not alone just, but liberal.
“The details of our conference we
Jo not consider it desirable to make
Public at this time,”
Knoxville saloons clos*.
Booze Eliminated Under Provisions of
Pendleton Law.
Asa result of the application of the
Pendleton law, by which cities of Ten
nessee can reincorporate without sa
loons, over 100 saloons closed their
Joors in Knoxville Thursday night.
The city was quiet and whiskies
were sold at any old price. The voters
voted on the law by special legisla
tive enactment last March.
DADE COUNTY SENTINEL
GOVERNOR SMITH RILED,
Declares Atlanta Merchants Were Used
as Tools by Railroads in Peti
tioning for Higher Rates.
Governor Smith of Georgia has Is
sued a statement in which he an
nounces that he is advised that the
petition published in all the Atlanta
newspapers, as having been presented
to him on Friday and signed by many
of the leading merchants of the city,
was prepared by the railroads.
It will be recalled that this petition
urged an increase in the passenger
rates over the low rates named under
the Terrell administration.
The petition bore the names of well
known firms —it being noticeable that
many of the signatures were those of
prominent merchants who were ardent
political supporters of the governor
during the last campaign.
The governor in his reply in sub
stance takes the position that the mer
chants who signed the petition are
being used by the railroads, and that
they evidently signed the paper under
a misapprehension.
The governor's interview formally
prepared and furnished the newspapers
by the executive office for publication
is as follows:
“I received on yesterday a number
of petitions, each couched in the same
language, and to each of which the
names of several firms of Atlanta busi
ness men were signed.
“As the names have been consoli
dated under one petition and publish
ed in the press without waiting for my
reply, I think it best to answer
through the press.
“I am advised that these petitions
were prepared by men connected with
one or more railroad companies and a
number .of business men declined to
sign them. I feel sure a number of
thoss who did sign acted upon a mis
apprehension of the facts.
“I agree most fully with the sug
gestion contained in the petition that
the ‘question of reduction in passenger
fares is a fruitful source of agitation/
subjecting the corporations ‘to unfa
vorable criticism.’
“I am most anxious that the agita
tion should cease and the corporations
should be free from unfavorable crit
icism.
“A mistake, however, has been made
in sending the petition to me. It
should have been sent back to the cor
porations engaged in producing the
agitation and bringing upon themselves
unfavorable criticism by airing the
statement that their properties will be
confiscated by fair and reasonable rates
fixed by the railroad commission. They
only damage the credit of their com
panies by making such* unfounded
charges. The statistics so far as I
have received them show that by ac
tual trial the rates have not even les
sened the incomes of the railroads af
fected.
“The petitions contain the request
that the passenger rates in Georgia
should be fixed at the rates agreed
upon in Alabama between the South
ern railroad and Governor Comer. Gov
ernor Comer was confronted when he
made this adjustment with conditions
entirely different from those existing
in Geergia. The legislation passed in
Alabama was not sufficient to cover
the situation. Another session of tha
legislature is necessary to remove the
difficulties there. Fortunately in
Georgia the bill passed last summer by
the legislature is comprehensive and
needs no amendment.
“North Carolina is now upon a 2 1-4-
cent flat basis for passenger service.
Virginia is upon a 2-cent basis for all
trunk lines and 3-cent basis for branch
lines. Missouri, lowa, Nebraska, Mon
tana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio are upon a flat 2-cent basis. I
will be ready at any time to confer
with representatives of the railroads
looking to an adjustment of passenger
rates.
“It is but fair, however, to add that
1 would not under any circumstances
agree to an Increase of passenger
rates to the figures furnished me yes
terday by the railroad companies
through the business men who signed
the petitions to which I am replying.’
TO INCLUDE GOVERNOR.
Central Railrcad Seeks to Amend Pe
tition Against Georgia Commission.
Tli'. Centr j! of Georgia rv’road o;i
Monday filed with the clerk ol tne
United States court at Atlanta an
amendment to its petition against the
Georgia railroad commission in 1906.
In the amendment it is asked that
the name of Joseph E. Brown, then a
member of the commission, be dis
missed and that McLendon, Hillyer
and Callaway, who have since been
added to the commission, and J. K.
Hines and Governor Hoke Smith to
be added.
MACLEAN CHAINED DOWN.
Englishmen Escapes from Raisuli, But
is Recaptured.
Dispatches received in Madrid,
Spain, from Tetuan, Morocco, convey
a native report to the effect that sev
eral days ago Caid Mac Lean escaped
tn the night, but was recaptured and
put in chains by order of Bandit Ral-i
suli.
IHETRUTH IGNORED
Head of L. & N. Radwa/ Has
a Fling at Governors
ANENTTHEIR CONFERENCE
President Miltcn Smith Says Denial by
Chief Executives That Roads Have
Not Been Injured is Most
Absurd.
President Milton H. Smith of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad is
sued a spirited statement in answer
to that sent out by Governor Comer,
Governor Smith and Governor Glenn
after their conference a few days ago
in Atlanta. Replying to the sentence,
“no injury has been done to any cor
poration in any of our states by the
exercise of the power of regu'aApi,”
President. Smith says:
“The foregoing affirmation is not sus
tained by the facts' known to every
one. The powers of regulation, as ex
ercised in Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina, and some other states, has in
flicted incalculable injury upon the
railway corporations and allied inter
ests, and in that way unfavorably afr
fected the interests of the citizens.
Regulation, when confined to the inhi
bition of rebates, unjust discrimina
tions and other manifest evils, and
to the requirement of publicity of rates
and other usages, essential to the main
tenance of order and justice is com
mendable, but when exercised, as is
being done in Alabama, Georgia and
some other states, to supervise and
control physical conditions, operations,
finance and movement of traffic and ar
bitrarily fix Lhe remuneration for
service rendered, is disastrous, and
the attempted exercise of these pow
ers by states and the national gov
ernment is largely, if not altogether,
responsible for the destruction of the
credit of railway companies and con
sequent injury to the credit of indus
trial corporations. A denial by par
ties responsible for such conditions
will not deceive. *
“The attempt of the governors to
place the responsibility for destruction
of confidence ..uponithe representatives
of the railway companies is pitiful and
the error of statement is'apparent. •'
“The assertions contained in - the
signed statement, taken in connection
with the laws enacted by the last leg
islature, makes clear the animus and
demonstrates the insincerity of the
allegations. It is known that some of
the statutes enacted are so onerous and
unreasonable that the patrons of rail
road companies are refusing or re
fraining from requiring their enforce
ment.”
FRIGHTFUL HEAD-ON COLLISION.
Passenger Crashes Into Freight; Three
Killed and Score Injured.
Fast passenger train No. 3 on the
Queen and Crescent, going seventy
miles an hour, collided head-on with
a freight train one mile south of Mor
ganville, Ga., Sunday morning.
Three men were killed, nine serious
ly injured and about twenty passen
gers sustained more or less painful
injuries. The dead are: Cal B. Spen
cer, engineer; Bud Appersou, Trenton,
Ga.; Joe Young, colored fireman.
Engineer Spencer was of Birming
hams best known citizens. His wife
was for years president of the Ala
bama W. C. T. U.
Three coaches, mail, express and sec
ond class passenger were burned, all
the mail and express matter being en
tirely consumed. The passenger train
was over an hour behind schedule and
was trying to make up lost time. The
responsibility for the wreck has not
yet been placed.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
Being Urged by Financial Leaders a*
Means of Relieving Situation.
It was learned in Washington Satur
day from undoubted sources that Pres
ident lioosevelt is being urged to call
an extra session of congress to deal
with the financial situation. The re
quest comes from and represents the
judgment of the conservative leaders
of the financial world.
That the president has given the re
quest careful consideration is indicated
by those who have been asked to lend
their advice in the matter. The pres
ident has been told by these advisers
that the call for an extra session of
congress might have the reverse effect
lroin that desired by those who are
urging such action; that it would tend
to emphasize in the public mind an
apprehension of unfavorable renditions,
which do not exist.
kx-bandit keeps his word.
Noted Highwayman Returns to Pen on
Expiration of Parole.
Emmett Dalton, the ex-bandit, who
has for four months been out on pa
role, having his injured arm" treated,
at a Topeka hospital, returned to Lan
sing Thursday afternoon, unaccompa*
Died. His parole expired November
1, and Governor Hoch, it is thought,
will pardou Dalton.
TRENTON, GA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1907.
DISCUSS CANAL PROJECT
President Roosevelt Announces in Let
ter That He Favors an Atlantic-
Mississippi Waterway.
Postmaster Harry Edwards of Ma
con, Ga., has received a letter from
President Roosevelt in which he en
dorses the proposed canal to connect
the Atlantic ocean with the Mi sis
sippi river through the south Atlantic
cotton belt and promised his active
assistance in its development.
United States Senator Bacon of Geor
gia conferred with members of the
Atlanta chamber of commerce forming
the canal committee of that organiza
tion Thursday afternoon in the assem
bly hall of the chamber.
Mr. Caverly, chairman of the spe
cial committee, stated t{ie object of
the gathering and suggested that Sen
ator Bacon talk to the assembly. The
senator did not think a speech was
needed and announced that he wa3
ready to answer any questions that
might be asked of him. Quickly the
assembly was exchanging remarks,
Senator Bacon being the target for
many questions. It wa3 brought out
that it was Senator Bacon who pre
sented to the United States senate, a
dozen years ago, the first bill propos
ing a canal connection between the
waters of the Mississippi valley and
those of the Atlantic coast or water
ehed. That bill had for its object a
preliminary survey by the federal gov
ernment.
Senator Bacon manifested a remark
able familiarity with the suggested ca
nal work. He talked interestingly of
what bad been done and of what is
now being considered by the indus
tries of the south wanting a water
highway to the Mississippi and to the
Missouri.
Without moving from his chair, Sen
ator Bacon talked of the waterway
connection between the central west
and the Atlantic. He was given the
closest attention throughout the hour’s
sitting.
Reference was made by Secretary
Cooper to the deep water convention
to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee,
Senator Bacon suggested that Atlanta
could lose nothing by being represent
ed at that gathering. If a personal
representation wasn't convenient, then
there should be in the hands of the
.secretary of the convention, Senator
Bacon thought, a communication from
Atlanta—-from the chamber of com
merce or from the general council,
A national gathering of inland, water
way promoters was suggested.
Senator Clay gave the suggestion
his hearty commendation, but was or
the opinion that it would require time
to bring such a gathering about.
GOVERNOR GLENN WARNED.
Wilmington Business Men Ask That
He Act Wisely and Well.
Thursday night, fifty leading busi
ness men of Wilmington, N. C., tele
graphed Governor Glenn, who was in
Atlanta for the purpose of conferring
with Governor Smith of Georgia and
Governor Comen of Alabama, on rail
road litigation in the south, as fol
lows:
"Southern crops are plentiful and
southern commercial and industrial
conditions never intrinsically sounder.
Agitation has ruthlessly depressed val
ues, causing congestion and inability
to move crops with expedition. Resto
ration of confidence is essential for the
south to realize full values for its
great products. We believe it is in the
power of the conference to restore
confidence in a great measure by an
equitable adjustment of the rate con
troversy. The south can save the sit
uation by wise action at this junc
ture.”
BOY EXHIBTS GREAT NERVE.
Rode to Doctor With Severed Foot in
His Hand.
Riding a horse near Elida, New
Mexico, Ban Johnson, 16 years old,
ran the animal into a barbed wire
fence and completely severed his own
root, but, carying the severed member,
he rode into the town, a mile, for treat
ment, and did not faint.
FIVE HELD FOR MURDER.
Sons Confess, But Say Their Father*
Were Not Implicated.
At the conclusion of preliminary
hearings at Linden, Ala., the five well
known farmers accused of the murder
of Luke Bradford were held in jail
without bail.-
The accused are Bert Huckabee, hi*
son, Wiley, and Sam Ford and his sons,
Spencer and William. The boys con
fessed that they killed Bradford for
his money three weeks ago, but sword
their fathers were not implicated. Brad
ford was a hermit farmer who baJ
sonsiderablo money.
OPERATORS RETURN TO WORK.
Telegrapher's Strike in New Orlean*
Comes to an End.
Following a meeting of the Com
mercial Telegraphers’ Union in Nevf
Orleans, at which it was voted to per
mit all operators to go back to work
who so desired, officials of the union
Saturday announced that so far as
New Orleans is coucerned, the tele
graph strike is a thing of U*e past
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY
ADVICE IS WANTED
By President Roosevelt Anent
Financ al Legislation,
CONFERENCE BEING HELD
Chief Executive Will Recommend and
Eack Up Any Measures Decided
Upon to Coming Session of
the Next Congress.
A Washington special says: From
an authoritative source it is learned
that the president is consulting with
the Individual members of his cabinet,
who have had special experience in
large financial questions, respecting
the legislation to be recommended to
congress. Of course, the secretary of
the treasury has taken the leading
part in the conferences, but it is also
true that the president is not declining
advice from any other promising quar
ter, and he has spent many hours re
cently in discussing this important sub
ject, these conferences taking place
at night as well as in the daytime, and,
in fact, at any opportune moment.
The discussion, so far, has served to
bring about the conviction that it wiII
be difficult to get any beneficial legis
lation of this character through con
gress quickly. That was one of the
reasons why the president did not
agree with the great interests, which
recently appealed to him to call an ex
tra session of congress immediately to
deal with the finances of the coun
try.
Notwithstanding the present great
stress to which the existing bank sys’
tern, as well as the correlative sys
tems, are being subjected by ihe cur
rency stringency, it is feared that some
time must elapse before the divers
views entertained by many people,
bankers, merchants, law givers and
college professors can be fused into
one practicable and effective measure
for relief. It was felt that so great
was the task that little substantia?
gain would be afforded by gathering
congress in 'special session a fortnight
before the beginning of the regular
session.
It may be stated that such study as
the president and his constitutional ad
visers have been able to give to the
multitude of projected currency bills
has left them under the conviction that
after all, none of them is more prom
ising or stands a better opportunity
of securing the approval of congress
than the particular measure referred
to by the president in his last mes
sage to congress on this subject.
That was the plan commonly ascrib
ed to Secretary Shaw, which, the pres
ident stated, had, in its essential fea
tures, been approved by many promi
nent bankers and business men. The
president’s description of the measure
was brief, but comprehensive, for he
said:
“According to this plan, national
banks should be permitted to issue a
specified proportion of their capital in
notes of a given kind, the issue to be
taxed at as high a rate as to drive
the notes back when not wanted in
Legitimate trade. This plan would not
permit the issue of currency to give
banks additional profits, but to meet
the emergency presented by times of
stringency."
It is possible that In the four w r eeks
intervening before the assembling of
the sixtieth congress the president may
conclude to adopt some other plan, or
to amplify and work out the details
of this means of obtaining an elastic
currency, but if he remains of his pres
ent turn of mind, it is believed that
he will feel obliged to recur to the
original and simple Shaw plan.
Financiers of New York hold oppos
ing views regarding the suggestion of
an extra session of congress at once
to provide for currency reform. Half
a dozen members of congress, men
prominent in the house, also oppose
it. The financiers who oppose a spe
cial session of congress generally fa
vor currency reform, but they hold
that the regular session of congress
is i;o near that the subject cau be
considered then.
TILLMAN’S VIEW OF FLURRY.
Only Thing Needful is Enforcement of
Laws Against Wiid-Cat Banking.
In an interview at Kansas City, Uni
ted States Senator Tillman, said:
“The effort to call an extraordinary
session of congress for currency re
form is being made to give the country
a currency reform as the hanking in
terests wish. What we need is not
currency reform as the banks want
It, but enforcement of tlie laws wo
now have against wild cat banking and
the punishment of those who have
broken them."
TO LAUNCH BRYAN BOOM.
Veritable "Love Feast" is Slated for
November 26th at Washington
The formal launching of the William
J. Bryan boom for the presiden
cy takes place in Washington Novem
ber 26th at a “love feast’’ to be arrang
ed by the Nebraskan’s friends in the
south and east. It is expected 500
prominent and loyal democrats will
participate.
Georgia Cuiiings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Hudson Buys Big Plantation.
Hon. Thomas G. Hudson, commis
sioner of agriculture, added to his
landed interests near Americas a few
days ago by purchasing a desirable
plantation of 500 o.oies.
Commissioner Hudson considers
plantation property an excellent invest
ment and already owns extensive in
terests in the vicinity.
# * *
Special Election Ordered.
An election has been ordered by the
governor for December 4 to fill the va
cancies in the general assembly caused
by the death of President John W.
Akin, of the upper house; the death
of Representative N. L. Galloway of
Walton county, and the resignation of
W. H. Rogers, the negro member of
the house from Mclntosh county, who
resigned following the passage of the
disfranchisement bill.
♦ * *
Daughters Elect New Officers.
The Georgia division of the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, at their ses
sion in Augusta, elected Miss Alice Bax
ter of Atlanta, president; Mrs. R. L.
Nesbitt of Marietta, first vice presi
dent; Mrs. Walter Lamar, Macon,
ond vice president; Mrs. T. D. cVp
■well, Augusta, third vice president;
Mrs. It. G. Stevens, Atlanta, record
ing secretary; Miss Mattie B. Sheib
ley, Rome, corresponding secretary ;
Mrs. C. C. Saunders, Gainesville, treas
urer; Mrs. I-.ee Trammell, Madison,
registrar. The honorary presidents
and historian’s place are for life and
are held by the same officers.
Savannah was selected as the next
meeting place.
4 * *
Church Deacons in Clover.
The use of wine in sacraments will
not be a violation of the law when
prohibition becomes effective in Geor
gia, according to an official opinion
rendered Governor Smith by Attorney
General Hart.
Recently a church in Harris county
asked the question, if the use of wines
was not prohibited under the new law,
and so interrogated Governor Smith,
who turned the matter over to Judge
Hart for an official opinion.
Judge Hart holds in substance that
while wine cannot bo manufactured
or purchased legally in Georgia after
January 1, 1908, that there is no law
against its purchase outside of the
state and use in the sacrament. •
* * *
Atlanta Wants Fair Again.
At a meeting of the Atlanta Fair
Association held a few days ago, a
vote was taken and it was declared
the sense of the meeting that the state
fair can be secured for Atlanta in 1908,
provided the city does not tear down
the fair buildings now in Piedmont
park.
When the city bought Piedmont park
it was with a view of converting it
into a pleasure park, and the conse
quential removal of all fair holdings.
A committee will shortly appear be
fore the city council and urge them
to let the buildings stand.
The success of the fair has aroused
the merchants to a great desire to du
plicate the feat next year.
* * *
Farmers Called to Meet.
President R. F. Duckworth of the
Georgia Stata Farmers’ Union has is
sued a eallB) all county unions In
the state, instructing them to meet at
10 o’clock Saturday morning, Novem
ber 9, to consider matters recently re
ferred to in a call of National Pres
ident Charles S. Barrett. The call of
President Duckworth follows:
“To the Members of the Farmers’
Union of the State of Georgia: Follow
ing call of National President C. S.
Barrett for all counties throughout the
cotton belt to meet on November 9th,
I hereby call a meeting of all county
union in the state of Georgia to meet
at 10 o’clock a. m., Saturday, Novem-
her 9th, for the reasons mentioned in
President Barrett’s call. Where it is
deemed best you may invite non-union
farmers and others interested in ob
taining the Farmers’ Union minimum
to meet with you in the afternoon."
* * *
Pension Commissioner’s Report.
Commissioner of Pensions John W.
Lindsey has submitted to the governor
his annual statement in regard to the
pension fund paid out for the year
1907, and the amount to be paid out
for 1908.
The report show's that 15,706 pen
sioners were paid this year and that
in 190S there will be only four more,
3 5,710 to be paid. The amount paid out,
for 1907 was $932,638.85, and the sum
appropriated for 1908 is $935,177,which
Colonel Lindsey states will be amply
sufficient for the purpose.
Beginning next year, under the new
pension law passed at the recent ses
sion of the general assembly, these
payments, instead of being made all
in a lump sum, once a year, are to
me paid quarterly on the first of March,
June, September and December.
* * *
Johnson Appeals to Growers.
M. L. Johnson, president of the
Georgia division of the Southern Cot
ton Association, has addressed a com
munication to the cotton growers o t
Georgia, requesting that each i
who will agree to hold his cotto
a part thereof write to him stating Gw
number of bales he agrees to hold opi
the length of time he will
get her \vif h the price he
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free intrastate '•
issued by any railroad comiuUl^i|%g
other common carrier umler
diction of the railroad eomniissßßß
Georgia, nor is any railroad con^Bß
express company or any other cn^H
of freight allowed to transport
same free of charge, after
31, according to the sweeping and B||
eral orders 3 and 4, issued by die nB
read commission of Georgia, a
days ago.
The “anti-pass” order came as no
surprise, for there had been warnings
that such would come,
failure to enact a law at
session of the general assent
The commission also amended iB
general order No. 2, previously issued!
covering the matter of train schedules,
the charges and publication
so that the words, “not to
regular sheriff's Kites." and jB-.
in lieu thereof "the voluntary
now agreed upon between
and newspapers, but not on üBB
portation basis.”
A number of railroad men
ed at the office of the commission and
stated that the newspapers in the cit
ies would not publish their train sched
ules at the same late as charged for
sheriff's advertisements and in conse
quence there would be a number of
roads not properly advertised. It was
pointed out to-the commission that all
sheriff’s advertisements throughout the
state are uniform in price, regardless
of circulation. The commission then
amended the order and inserted the
clause that this was not to be upon a
transportation basis. In other words
an effort is made to keep the papers
from getting transportation at a lesi
rate than is paid by any one else.
TOBACCO COMPANY RETALIATES.
All Cigarette Piants in Baltimore Or
dered to Close Down.
The American Tobacco company has
ordered the closing down of practically
all its cigarette making plants in P.al
timore, throwing between 500 and 600
employes out of work. No reason was
given for the action of the company,
beyond the statement that the order
to close down came from headquar
ters at New York.
There is, however, a belief that the
company’s act was in the nature of
a retaliatory measure on account ot
the recent seizure by the government
of a large quantity of the company’s
cigarettes at Norfolk intended for ex-
Dort.
’ VALUED JOB ABOVE HONOR.
Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Refuses
to Fight Duel.
Donelson Cafferey, son of former
Senator Donelson Cafferey, announced
that “satisfaction v-as refused" him by
Lieutenant Governor Sanders of Lou
isiana for statements that the latter
is alleged to have made in a campaign
speech.
The lieutenant governor refused the
senator’s demand because to grant it
would have made him ineligible to con
tinue bolding office in the state.
CHEAPER COTTON SEED.
Mills Miss., Will Pay N*
High Prices.
It is announced that the c
mills in Jackson, Miss., will
more high prices for seed* that is,
the present, and that sl3 per ton is ail
that farmers may expect for a while. |
The mills have been paying sl6 he
tofore, while the farmers have h
demanding S2O and in some
have been getting that price.
PURCHASED BY STEEL TRUS
New Control for Tennessee Coal,
and Railroad Company.-^.
The United States Steel
has secured a controlling interest in j
the Tennessee, Coal, Iron and Railroad
company. The deal was concluded iu*
New York Monday, engineered by jU
Pierpont Morgan. It is finderstoodjlifl
price paid is a little above
share. '^llllll
BANK OF FRANCE HELpJB
Ships Gold to Bank of Englancß
lievc Tension Thero^B
The Hank of France at
its first shipment of cold
of Fnglaml Tue.-day i<>
tension theta-, cr.u-ed b>
demands, hi pursunne** c
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at the r -qie st of ri:.- Pa.
purchased ' t om.
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senatorial priinarie-BB
timates indicate
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In Kentucky
republican
the entire republican B
been elected by mVB
from 5,000 to 10,000,
cans have carried the*
ville for both state hH
James F. Grinstead, ’
elected mayor of Lotjl
majority. B
The next Kentucky a
have a democratic majj
ballot, and presumably!
Beckham for United SUB
though there is alijJfl
bolt of sonm of '■Shß
feat him. ,
In Nebraska.
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