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politically independent; alway* for the b est interest of the whole people 0 f *h e county. Purity of politics; purity of the bal lot box, and clean administration of all places of public trust. Only paper In county. _____ R. F. TATUM, Editor. VOLUME XVI. DRIVING BLIZZARD Rages with Frightful Fury in States of Middle West, CHICAGO IS HARD HIT Snowstorms, Sleet and High Waters Give Luckless Denizens cf That Section of the Country a Strenuous Time. The most violent storm that has visitt and Chicago in many years com mer/ed Tuesday at 7 o’clock in the morning, and by 4 o’clock in the after noon seven inches of snow had fallen and if was still coming down heavily. The wind at frequent intervals blew with a velocity of 50 miles an hour, and it lurried the snow through the stre< in such blinding clouds that it w..s impossible to see for a greater distance than a half square, and often the i of vision would be limited to a few feet. A great number of accidt nts of a minor character were caused by collisions between wagons jmd street cars. , At 5 o'clock, when the hemegoing crowd was at Its thickest, the wind was blowing so heavily and the snow was falling in such blinding siheets that it was positively dangerous to attempt to cross Michigan avenue at its intersection with either Jackson boulevard or Van Buren street. These crossings are, .used by thousands of people' every night. Tt was found necessary to station , large number of policemen at these corners to assist women and often It was more than an officer could do to pilot a woman across without assist ance. . ... The street car companies and the el evated roads fared well throughout the day, but the heavy increase of snow that came in the late afternoon limit- desperate work for them. Every available man and all the snow plows wrr at work in keeping ,-the tracks‘clear. In the distant sub ur the trolley lines were operated with great difficulty because of the i nstantly increasing drifts and loco in ion became constantly more diffi cult. . _. . ' The Illinois Central railway exjjQgb-y rue i groat difficulty during tite dVen ing moving its great suburban trains. In ( me instances the trains remained Mail'd for hours, while the tracks v-> -hoveled clear. In consequence, < r • !g of homeward bound patrons greiuly delayed. The Illinois Central, Chicago and Northwestern an ) Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads reported incoming trains 3 to 7 hours late. The • torm center during the even ts.■ was over Springfield. 111., and was moving northward. The snowfall was gen ral in eastern lowa and Nebraska, no ern Missouri, central and north c Illinois and Indiana, and in Wls "i in and Michigan, Omaha, Neb., re portirg the heaviest fall in twenty years, about fourteen inches, entail in: much- delay and suffering to live i en. route • if) eastern markets. veral trains are sai'd to be more ! i fifteen hqurs,overdue. A special fr’ofci Hundreds cf flood-stricKen families eel on the high placed in the Wa rm, White and Pakota- river bot toms, spent a day of hardship and during. During the day a biting v'ind, accompanied by hail and rain, mad,' it impossible for them to use boats. Late in the afternoon the tem ittire moderated and the melting v added to the torrents. The rlv ms rose four feet, covering hundreds acres seldom known to go under vm mr. The whole population of East I mt Carmel were forced to leave their homes. PEONAGE IN THE SOUTH. Subject .of Inquiry by the House Com mittee on Rules. Peonage prosecutions in the south v re the subject of an inquiry Tues -1 y by the house committee on rules, < ‘ which Speaker Cannon is the chair i- an. The committee met to deter mine what course should be pursued v-ith reference to a resolution by Rep > ntative Humphreys pi Mississippi ( anding on the attorney general for a full report on peonage cases, and the parts played in them by Mrs. Quack ' bos and Special United States Pros -1 vutor Russell. REFERRED back to the states Immigration Question'is Thus Disposed of at Tampa Conference. Aftr'r adopting resolutions referring the immigration question back to the < veral states and expressing prefer ence for securing settlers from other states rather than from foreign coun tries, the immigration convention ad journed at Tampa, Fla., Friday, sine die. IF THEY’LL BE GOOD Locker Clubs Can Keep Out of Clutch es of Uncle Sam, Says Reve nue Commissioner Capers. A Washington dispatch says: The United States government, through John G. Capers, commissioner of in ternal revenue, in a letter to an anx ious Inquirer in Savannah, Ga., writes that there is hope for the “locker clubs.” If members will be real care ful, he assures the gentleman, whose name he is kind enough to withhold, there will be no interference on the part of Uncle Sam. But members must be very careful or else they may be pounced upon and viewed through the eyes of the law as retail liquor merchants. As long, however, as the members keep their own “private stock” in their lockers and refuse to sell to a member who, through lack of providence, unusual thirs-t or othei reason has suffered his stock to be depleted, there will be no trouble. But beware the wrath of the internal re enu inspector should it become known that a member transferred a drink or drinks to a fellow member for a con sideration. In his opinion, Mr. Capers says: “If an incorporated club has lockers in which the member places the liquor he desires to drink, the liquors not having been purchased from the club and no sale is made by the club, but each member uses his own then no special tax liability is In curred. ■ ' ‘ “I may say that these -unincorporated clubsiin which the members have their lockers for the storage of their liquors will of necessity have to be extreme ly careful that they do not render themselves liable in some manner to the special tax of a retail liquor dealer, but there will be no unusual or special construction of she law to (fit the state of Georgia. What is unlawful elsewhere will be held unlawful there, and what is lawful elsewhere will-be permitted there, so far as the adminis tration of the internal revenue laws is concerne'd.” TWO NEGROES PAY PENALTY. Father and Son Hanged for Murder of Farmer Jethro Jones. Charles and Wes Summerlin, jtwo negroes, father and son, were hung Friday in the county jail at Carrollton, Ga., for the murder of Hon. Jethro Jones, a wealthy planter of Carroll county, on November 29, of last year. A large crowd was in the city, but the execution was private, those who were permitted to witness the execu tion being only two attending physi cians, two ministers, newspaper report ers, the court officials and the five eons of the murdered man. Wes Summerlin was placed on the ga’lows first. He made no statement, except to proclaim his innocence. 7h e drop fell at 10:27 o’clock, and he was pronounced dead in twenty minutes. Charles Summerlin was then placed upon the gallows. He also denied his guilt and declared that Lonzo Chad ler, another negro, fired the shot. The drop fell for him at 11:20 o’clock, add death resulted in fourteen minutes. The crime was coldblooded and un provoked. A bale of cotton had been stolen from Mr. .Jones' ginhouse and carried into the woods. The cotton was discovered by a. young white boy while hunting and lie informed Mr. Jones. Late in the afternoon Mr. Jones went into‘the woods to where the bale was lying. When he reached the cotton he was killed by the Sum merlin according to the evi dence. He was one of the most ‘prom inent men of Carroll county, aqd his murder created great indignation. BIG LUMBER PLANT BURNS. Blaze Near Morganton, Ga., Entails a Lorn. Aggregating SIOO,OOO. The lumber plant of Beebe & Son, of Boston, Mass., three miles south off Morganton, Ga., was destroyed by fire Thursday night, entailing a loss of between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO, with no insurance. It is thought that the fire is of incendiary origin.^ SEVEN KILLED; DOZEN HURT In Crash Between Passenger Engine and Electric Car. Seven persons were killed and a doz en injured when a Big Four passenger train struck a Toledo and Western electric car at the Michigan Central crossing in West Toledo, Ohio, at 8 o’clock Saturday night. According to an eye-witness of the wreck ,the conductor stopped at the crossing to flag the car across. Seeing the train coming, he motioned to the motorman to stop, but thg signal was either misunderstood, net seen “Eat what you like,’’ says the Phil adelphia Inquirer. . But suppose you like tenderloin steak, inquires Louisville Courier-Journal, and you make $2 a day and haven’t accesß to the funds laid up by the innocent depositor? New York and Pennsylvania have raised the pay of school teachers al most up to that of the day laborers, notes the Atlanta Journal. TEN MEN GOWHIDED By Bold Band of Night Riders in Kentucky lown, FOUR WHITES; SIX BLACKS Mob, Three Hundred Strong, Raids the Town of Eddyvilie and Creates Reign of Terror Judge Warned Not to Prosecute. Night riders, three hundred strong, visited Eddyvilie, Ky., at 1 o’clock Sun day morning and whipped ten men, four of them white and six negroes- The white men, who are suffering from sore backs as the result of a severe chastisement with the switches, are: Police Judge C. W. Rucker, Leslie Woods, former city marshal; Fralick, who occasionally acted * as deputy city marshal, and f e Rob ertson, a saloon porter. ' The connection betwee? £ whip ping of the white men anr *„* negroes and the tobacoc war in’’Western Ken tucky is hot apparent and no one has been able to offer any explanation. None of the victims was known either active or influential in opposition to the farmers’ pooling movement. No attempt was made at destroying stored tobacco. The riders were will drilled and well armed. About 50 entered the town from the direction of Trigg county, and the remainder from the opposite direction. Over a thousand shots were fired during the course of their stay, but the only casualty reported is that of a young woman, whose face is said, to have been grazed by a stray bullet. The home of Judge Rucker was badly damaged before the riders were able to get hold of him, the walls being riddled with bullets, doors and shut ters fern off, etc. After taking each of the men to the edg§ of town- and whipping them, they were allowed to return home. After the whippings had been ad ministered, the mob awakened County Judge- W! E. Crumbaugh and warned him that "his immunity from similar punishment hereafter depended entire ly on the friendship he was expected to show the tobacco growers’ organiza tion. He was told that, his gray hairs, alone were responsible for his being spared this time. The only tobacco man visited was J. Mr. Bradshaw was ordered to close up for one of the growers’ associations. Mr Bradsha was ordered to close up a billiard hall, which he owns. Before leaving the town the riders announced that they -had not finished •their work and that they would return before many days. DETECTIVES NAB MORSE. Indicted Promoter Held Prisoher Be fore Landing in New York. Charles W. Morse, financier and pro moter of many large combinations, in cluding the so-call ice trust, and a merger of nearly all of the coastwise steamship lines, returned to New York Saturday from his trip to Europe. He was arrested in his state room when the steamer, • Etruria, reached quar antine in the lower bay, held in custo dy until the ship was docked and then was whirled away in an automobile to the home of Justice Victor Dowl ing of the supreme court, where he gave bond hi the sum of $20,000 to answer to two indictments charging grand larceny and involving the sum of SIOO,OOO. Mr. Morse was released and went immediately to his Fifth Avenue home, where he later gave,, out. a statement assenting his innocence, and asking the public t;o suspend judgment Until he has the opportunity of facing hia accusers in court. - ,V " :W FORF.STRY BILL SHELVED So Far as Action at Present Session of Congress is Concerned. All hope for the passage of the bill creating forests reservos in the Appa lachian and White mountains, is dead. A delegation of .southerners and New Englanders, visited Speaker Cannon on Saturday, and were informed that the bill cannot be passed. The speaker has been opposed to the measure ever since it was intro duced. He is particularly opposed to' it now because the republican admin istration faces a deiJcii in the treasury and the program of the house leaders is not to spend a cent that is not ab solutely necessary. TO PAY TWENTY PER CENT. Neal Bank Depositors Soon to Get Part .of Their Money. The Central bank, as receiver for the Neal bank, at Atlanta, is taking steps to Ray the depositors of the Neal bank atyijfr 20 per cent of the amounts they hJiFin the bank at the time It went intqltbk hands of a receiver. It Is expected! that this payment will come between thirty and fifty days. TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1908. TO SECURE COTTON TAXES Representatives from Southern State* Ar# Banded —Will Ask Congress for $68,000,000 Outright. A Washington special says: The southern members of congress are go ing to make a determined effort to fight through the present session a bill providing for the refunding of the $68,000,000 of cotton taxes paid dur in the years from 1863 to 1868. Wednesday .flight a meeting was held, attended by one representative in con gress from each of the eleven south ern states affected by this bill, and a permanent organization was formed. Later eleven southern senators will be urged to Join the special committee, and work in a systematic and deter mined way for the passage of the bill. It is the purpose of the movers to have congress appropriate the money outright to pay to all holders of cot ton tax receipts. There will be no need for the employment of lawyers or lob byists to push individual claims or any necessity for a reference of claims to the court of claims. In this instance the southern mem bers of congress are lobbying for the -passage of the measure through con gress. They may not be successful at this session, but they be’ieve with sys tematic work they will be successful next session. This was the tone of all the talks made. A resolution has been introduced calling upon the sec retary of the treasury for a state ment of the amounts paid under the acts of congress levying the tax. In cluding the names of those who paid the tax and the amount paid. The state legislatures throughout the south will be asked to adopt reso lutions memorializing congress to pass the bill. Georgia has already taken this step. The chairman of the congressional committee is Representative Frank Clark of Florida, who introduced a bill on the first day of this session calling for a refund of the cotton tax and who supported his measure in a masterly argument on the law and the evidence a few days ago. Represen tative Bell of Georgia is Secretary. These two, with Representative Hef lin of Alabama, constitute a subcom mittee to look after the details of the work. CLAIMED TO BE AGED 133. Remarkable Old Negro Passes Away in Troy, Alabama. Squire Mitchun, an old negro, who claimed to be 133 years old, died at the county hospital in Troy Tuesday night. He was born in South Caro lina on February 15, 1775, and was set free by bis master in 1862, when he was 87 years old. ’ Mitchun claimed to remember when Washington died. He also claimed to have helped cut the three notch trail through Alabama when Jackson made his campaign against the Indians. ALABAMA’S COAL OUTPUT. Increase of Production in 1907 Over 1906 Was 1,541,973 Tons. State Mine Inspector Gray Wednes day gave out the official figures on the coal production in Alabama for the year 1907.. The report shows that the total for the staie for that year was 14,393,748 tons. The total for 1906 was 12,851,775, showing an increase for the year 1907 of 1,541,973 tons. Of the total for 1907 Jefferson county alone produced 7,572, 7 40 ton* or more than half the total. BAILEY MAY LOSE SPOUSE. Another Chapter to Cowhiding Epi sode in Canon, Ga, Canon, Ga., looms up with another chapter'to the whipping of Dr. Bailey. Hife wife has 'filed a petition for di vorce in Franklin superior court, the ground being cruel treatment, it be ing alleged that he would..chastise her and that his treatment was very cruel. It is said that Dr. Bailey has made matritffdhiar ventures prior to the pres ent which did not result happily. ■ *—-— — - GRANDFIELD ON THE JOB. •* Y-k': r £. */<£'' • 4 :7%er- • *' — SucCeetfe Hitthclfcck as First Assistant r Postmaster General. Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant postmaster general, who concluded his service- with the government Saturday, will be succeeded by Dr. Charles M. Grandfield, chief clerk in that office. Dr. Grandfield’s nomination was sent to the senate on Monday and until the nomination is confirmed lie will be acting first assistant. VETERANS IN JOINT REUNION. Brigade of U. C. V. and G. A. R. Men Fraternize in Tampa. The Florida department, encamp ment of the Grand Army of the Re public and Woman’s Relief Corps and reunion of the third brigade of the United Confederate Veterans opened at Tampa Tuesday. Governor Brow ard addressed joint meetings of the veterans. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY. Georgia Briefs Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. 3 To Meet in Brunswick. The annual convention of the Coun ty School Commissioners’ Association of Georgia will be held in Brunswick March 31 and April 1 and 2. This was decided on at a meeting a few days ago of the executive com mittee held in the office of State School Commissioner Jere M. Pound at the capitol. * * * $104,963 for School Teachers. State School Commissioner Jere M. Pound received a few days ago a warrant signed by Governor Smith for $104,963, which he will send out to county school commissioners and su perintendents of local schools, who have seat in their requisitions. The remittances will go to all parts of the state. • * * Slayer of Policeman Resentenced. Andrew Johnson, the negro slayer of Policeman James Manier, at At lanta, was on Saturday morning sen tenced to hang on Friday, March 13, in the Fulton county tower, Judge Roan pronounced sentence upon the negro, following the decision in the supreme court, refusing anew trial. Johnson was sentenced to hang on January 3, but his attorneys carried the case to the supreme court, which handed down a decision refusing a sec ond trial. • * * Reward of S7OO Offered. Illinois officials Have given the Ma con police authorities a special de scription of a smooth land shark and robber who is said to be working farmers in the rural districts out of large sums of money on loan schemes. A reward of S7OO is offered for his capture. He has numbers of names, but that of John L. Butler appears most frequently. Efforts &re being made to locate him in tlie south. The man Js said to have made hundreds of bbgus purchases, forged land and then large loatt§ upon tha plea of needing the" funds to, make certaiTT improvements. V * * * Awards for Fruits and Flowers. State Geologist W. S. Yeates, who had charge' of the state exhibit of fruits, vegetables and flowers at the Jamestown exposition, just’receiv ed a letter from James L. Farmer, sec retary of the jury of award's, notifying him of the awards of certain medals not previously announced. These med als wpre as follows: - Gold medal, state of Georgia, for the best collective exhibit of fruits; gold medal, state of Georgia, for the best continuous display of garden veg etables, and a silver medal for the best chrysanthemums. Uncle Sam Testing Soft Drinks. Manufacturers of alleged non-alco holic drinks who are allowing more than one-half of one per cent of alco fiol to get into their products will soon hear about it if they are not paying the government a special tax. Revenue Agent Surber is now having tests made of various drinks on the market to ascertain whether or not the manufacturers are keeping within the United States regulation. Tests of this character are made at all times of the year, but now that prohibition has brought forth several new varieties of non-alcoholic drinks, the government officials especially are active. * * * Sausage Dealers Warned. The state department of agriculture has issued an Order as the result of an examination by the state chemist of 65 samples of sail rages collected in vari ous parts o? the state. Eleven of the samples sold as pure pork sausage w r ere found to be mixed sausage, w r hich is a distinct violation of the pure food law, and offending parties are notified that they will hi future be prosecuted. A number of other samples were found to contain various chemical pres ervatives which are prohibited by the pure food law. * * * Bank Stockholders Enjoined. Judge Ellis of the superior court, Atlanta, signed an injunction restrain ing all the stockholders of the Neal bank from disposing of or encumber ing in any way any real estate held by them. He also ordered the Cen tral Bank and Trust Corporation as receiver on applying to the court for leave to sell any of the property own ed by C. T. Ladsou & Cos. in Cuba, or that of the Alabama Sulphur Ore and Copper company—both of which owed the Neal bank large sums—to notify counsel of the intervenors and of the defendant. * * * The District School Dedicated. The seventh district agricultural col lege was dedicated last Friday. The ceremonies were held at the college grounds, two miles from Powder Springs, beginning at noon. A large crowd was in attendance. Dinner was spread at the grounds, where the exercises were held. Several speech es were delivered, the principal one being by State School Commissioner Pound. Only the main building at the col lege is completed. The school opened February 3, and a large number of pu ,Ms are attending. ♦ * * Rtese Elected Episcopal Bishop. Rev. Frederick F. Reese, pastor of Christ Church, Nashville, Tenn., was elected b.ahop of the diocese cf Geor gia at the Episcopal convention in Augusta. Th. ee ballots were taken. The strongest contest was made by the delegates supporting Dr. C. H Strong of Savannah. On the last bal lot, however, the election was made unanimous for Dr. Reese. The va cancy in the bishopric of the diocese was caused by the state of Georgia being divided at the general conven tion of the church, held in Richmond, and the election of Bishop C. K. Nel son to serve the new diocese. * * * Banker Suicides by Drowning. J. R. Carmichael, president of the First National Bank, of Jackson, com mitted suicide by drowning in Mc- Cord's mill pond, about two miles from town. The jury of inquest rendered, a ver dict that he came to his death by drowning while under a spell of tem porary insanity. He left letters of instructions about his business affairs and a letter to the directors of the First National Bank, of which he was president. In the letter to the directors he saidi that the bank was in good condßiom with perhaps some SSOO worth of ndH which might not be collected, but erwise everything was in fine coadi® tion. He left a letter" to his family, the contents of which will not be given to the public. * * * Roads Cannot Take Off Trains. The railroad commission has decided refuse its consent to the discontin uance of any of the local passenger trains on the Georgia railroad, which ihe road requested permission to take off. The commission some time ago an nounced its refusal to permit the dis continuance of the Conyers accommo dation, and the local passenger on the Bapnett and Washington branch. It has" noyr decided ne^'to permit the disfc continunnce of the accommodation out of Augusta, or of the local train be tween Camak and Macon. The commission was at first inclin ed to allow the road to take off these two trains, but so strenuous were the protests against such action, that a different course has been determined on. * * * First Week cf Educational Train. After a week of strenuous activity, the Educational Special of the Georgia State College of Agriculture stopped in Brunswick Saturday evening for a brief , day s rest. On Monday ..morn ing it once more rolled forth on it-? tour of the state. During the week the Educational Special visited thirty Georgia towns, and conservative estimate says that not .less than . ten thousand farmers, and probably many more heard the addresses of Dr. Soule and ills assist ants and viewed the exhibits prepared by the state college. One of the lecturers on board is a practical oil mill man, who tells the planters how best to market their seed to get the best price and how to help themselves by feeding coton seed meal and hulls to their stock and how to use the fertilize# thus generated. “REMEMBER THE MAINE.” Anniversary of Destruction of Battle ship Observed in Havana. and The tenta anniversary of the dl struocion of the Maine was observed in Havana with customary A fleet of tugs and launches ed about the wreck of the battleshif on which were deposited many floral offerings, including wreaths sent by the Daughters of the American Rev olnticn, Governor Magoqn, Mr. Morgan the American minister, Major General Barry, commander of the American forces in Cuba, the American Club and the Rural Guard. OHIO DEMOCRATS FOR BRYAN. Nebraskan Unanimously Endorsed by State Central Committee. *. William J. Bryan's visit to Cohnn-' •bus, Ohio, Tuesday was signalized by the democratic state central commit tee unanimously endorsing his candi dacy for the presidency. Mr. Bryan ar rived at the Southern hotel while the committee was in session. While endorsing Mr. Bryan the state committee made provision in the call for the state convention. SWEDE AND RUSS GROWL. Strained Relations at High Tension Be tween the Two Countries. The relations betw an Sweden and Russia are decidedly strained at pres ent. The tension h.s arisen because Russia insists upon being released from the agreement made when Swe den surrendered Finland that no na val stations or fortifications should be established on the Finnish shores ad jacent to Sweden. WHELMED BY m Twenty-Eight IVytfj Up in Pit Great flood of Water ed in Without Warning less Workers, But Rescuers ' Ar# Hopeful of Saving Them. Twenty-eight miners were impi#fl and in the Mid-Valley Mount Carn; t-i, Pa.. Monda^^B .j|| Am ■t If Jjl wl W * JR . M ■s!§ . ill . - Gr A • led* 1 men ■< : were gathered about rushed there from their homes at the first alarm of the disaster. They 4MM not be prevailed upon* t<s go homejM insisted upon remaining ttiouth of the slope. < heard from the -ai ■.'■■Wfr&ii - | A r i-lire'l. 'ed .. i <u JBHbHUHH to their homes, while bonfires with the intention of cainHH out during the night. TlienM about the (ollierv were forn^B po'ic fmc-. but afternoon a squad of statu appeared on t’ae scene and ffl excellent service keeping back. LEAVES Multi-Millionaire Wouldn’t Dry Town. .1 hi* time aan <V in:.: mean. • ! 1;- 1 a went ii; i; i ‘ IS Vv; ■ v-/-v trJfl aM '^JB m HI '•* l . \ r;. a- I Mf* MUTUAL Receivers Appointed to TakeJ|l|||rj of Life Insuranc^g^gß mm ifl a a a ■ yi/t tBI. _ y W ill' ! * 1 ■ M ' v . *IBB V Meant of receivers. PURSUING GER ‘ U lii'eci S'.itr- H.-v.-J fl the^B's^ elo v- -:. - Tc v, i - : • m ■* 1. . ' 'll - B