The Daily argus. (Dalton, Ga.) 1909-????, January 10, 1910, Image 1

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Subscribe Today * FOR THE DAILY ARGUS. * 10c A Week. * roi. n- 29 ■CATOOSA LOSES ■another SLICE ■Government Wants 4,000 Acres I Adjoining Rifle Range and l| Institutes Proceedings. | CATOOSA SPRINGS PROPERTY ON LAND TO BE CONDEMNED Property Worth Thousands of Dol lars —Owners Hold Property at Too High a Price and Uncle Sam In stitutes Condemnation Proceedings. Condemnation proceedings were in stituted by the government Monday against several Catoosa county citi zens and landowners, involving near ly four thousand acres of land lying near and adjoining the rille range. Among the land condemned was the Catoosa Springs property, owned by General T. A. Baldwin. The proceedngs were instituted by »isi iim Attorney I - ’. Cartel' Tate, ting under instructions of the At torney General and the secretary of ** war. The amount of property con demned is something like four thoii neres and is Located rear fW'.| government rifle range and it detsirad j for this purpose. For some time the government have, been trying to se cure this property, but in the opinion of the government the owners held it at too high a price, hence the land was condemned. Deputy Marshal John F. Camp went up to Ringgold Monday to serve papers on the parties interested, the owners of the land. They are A. T. Massengill, J. W. Magill. J. H. War ner, 11. C. Massengill, J. S. Brown, Mrs. M. C. Bayne, J. N. Duke and the Catoosa Springs Hotel Co., Gen. T A. Baldwin, Manager. The owners of the property are cited to appear before Judge W. T. in Atlanta on January 22 ■fwhen the assessors will arbitrate the matter in federal court, hear evidence and fix the value of the property con demned. Ever since the establishment of the government park at Chickamauga the government has been gradually en croaching upon Catoosa county, taking thousand of acres of land, and since the rifle range was established in Ca toosa county, another large slice of land has been taken, and the area has been decreased to such an extent that there has been talk of doing away with the county and attaching it to other nearby counties. The property condemned is worth many thousands of dollars. STATE TREASURER f FOUAD DEAD IN BED Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 10 —State ■ Treasurer-elect J. L. Stober was found ■ dead in bed at his home at Shoeneck K. early this morning. He had been in good health up to within fc la few hours before he died. f MARKET REPORT. F Corrected Daily by Dennis Barrett, the Live Warehouseman. Bpott<m (white) 15 to 151-2 Rotton, (stain) 14 1-2 to 15 ■ Cotton Seed, per bushel 45 HHKheat.t $1.25 ah Peas.... $1.50 to $1.75 ■ Hay... 60 +o 75 J Corn. 75 ®ljr Satly Anuta. I Will NOT BUN FOR IM RECEIVER Tax Receiver Makes the Matter Clear That He Will Not Be a Candidate For Office This Year. R. A. Williams, who has seved Whitfield county for the past two terms as tax receiver, will not make the race this time and so stated to The Argus Monday, and makes the announcement public as follows: “As Christmas is over and every body is settling down to business and politicians are. arranging to cast their lots and as there is some quibbling as to whether or not 1 will be in the race for receiver, I deem it but justice to say once and for all that I am not in it. 1 mean to say that I will not offer for the office this year. The people were kind enough to elect me for two terms and 1 have served tl%m to the very best of my ability and any mistakes I have made were errors of the head. I simply did my best, and hope to live to repay all that stood to me so faithfully in some way. “I didn’t feel that the people owed me anything and felt as though it was charity bestowed on me, and now we have lots of good men that would like to have the honors and proceeds, so I retire, wishing all a happy new year. Respectfully, “R. A. WILLIAMS." BIG BALLOONS MAKE FLIGHT America’s Greatest Aviation Be- gan This Morning—Many- Witness Flights. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 10 —Ameri- ca’s greatest aviation week began this morning when two balloons met in aero field in Huntington park in pre liminary flights. The “New York." piloted by Clifford B. Harmon, of New York, and “Peoria,’’ owned and piloted by Frank J. Cannes, of Peoria. lIL, made ascensions. Several thousand people took cars for Dominguez fields to witness the tryouts of the heavier-than-air ma chines, beginning at one o'clock in the afternoon. This will be the daily program; huge gas bags ascending each morning from Huntington park and completing tests before crowds arrive at aviation field. X-RAY EXAMINATION MADE ON HAL HOLLAND Dr. Woolford, of Chattanooga, came down Saturday and made an X-ray examination on Hal Holland, who was shot-several weeks ago, the ball lodg ing in his body. The ball was located about two and a half inches to the right of his backbone. A photograph was taken and will be developed and sent down for the local physicians to study to see if it is necessary to remove the ball. The young man's condition is very much improved, be ing able to sit up awhile Sunday for the first time since the accident. The success of the man who suc ceeds is usually due to the failure of others. When you see a man advertising his virtures it’s to keep your atten tion off his real character. DALTON, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1010 WOULD CONVICT LALOR PAY IN WHITFIELD COUNTY? Judge Bogle Gives Out Statenent by Which The Rockdale Report Takes Amther Color—Convict Costs Goes On In Bad Weather. An Argus reporter asked Judge Bogle how he was impressed with the Rockdale county report on con vict vs free labor in that county. “I noticed,’’ he said, “the com parisons made in that report and at a superficial glance it would appear to be very favorable to the use of convicts, but a closer examination and analysis reveals a somewhat cur ious oversight; for instance the total number of days put in by the con victs, 9,293. evidently being the 365 days of the year multiplied by the 25 and a fraction, being the average number of hands for the whole year. ‘ ‘ The cost per ’convict for each of these 365 days is given in one place at 671-2 cents and in another at 88 cents each per day, and the plain ef fort of the report is to show that 9,293 represents the number of days work done by the convicts, but did they do that many days’ work? When the comparison is made with free la bor it is stated: “If we had worked free labor gangs this year with enough hands to make 9,293 days as convict average,* etc. Na. u e prlce’Tj.ai'/- V ‘ | ed up to free labor is $1.25 each per day, and they are counted as having worked 365 days in a year, but here in Whitfield (if I may change the comparison from Rockdale to Whit field) the laws of Georgia do not favor the working of any kind of labor on the Sabbath day, and the laws of humanity, and I think of the state ' as well, would keep us from working convicts out in the rain, and when ' i the weather from any cause was too bad for working out doors, and free labor would certainly not work at such times; so that with us, all of the bad weather and the Sabbath days would have to be deducted from the cost of free labor and the same days must be deducted from the WORK days of the convicts. “Then the balance of the days, I when they do work, the price would only be SI.OO per day for both hands and overseers, for we simply take our best road talent for overseers andn LEE INTRODUCES IMPORTANT BILLS Seventh District Congressman Hopes to Get $50,000 Each for Public Buildings at Cartersville and Cedar town. Washington, D. C., Jan. 10—Con gressman Lee has introduced bills for the appropriation of $50,000 for public buildings at Cartersville and Cedartown each. The government has already purchased building sites in these cities, and Mr. Lee hopes to get appropriations for the structures at this session of the congress if there is a public building bill, which is likely. Congressman Lee is well pleased with the result of the recent hearing before the rivers and harbors com mittee of the claims of the Coosa river at which J. N. King and J. L. Bass, of Rome, appeared. He is hopeful of getting a substantial appropriation at this session lor the improvement of the river. One of the blessings of being needy is that there are always some who are more so. | pay tlpm the same as the hands. Now j take <tff one third of the days for Sabbaths, weather too bad to work out and for sickness, etc., (and this b-'a fair, conservative estimate), and tin comparison would look a lit ! tie dil erent wouldn't it? Try it a little vitli a pencil, using the 88 cents per da’ average cost and see if there isn’t, ft handsome margin in favor of free liborf And this colnparison is neartheactual facts than the other, for convicts eost as much each, on Sabbaths and rainy’ days when they don’t Avork as on the days when they’ work, while the wages of free labor stop the* days that work stops. If we can gd more work done with a give i amount of money with convict lab<?< than we could with the same amo nit of money using free labor, then; we ought to use convict labor; otherwise not. “Getting the most and best service out of our money is the first and the highest consideration. Another con sideration of importance, but only sec ondary to the above, is the bringing of convict labor in competition with i i t: laoor wants a cht;;ivi I >earn I the money. Everything else being , equal, I would favor free labor. 1 , undertake to give no one’s views but i my own, but I think the county’ board will carefully study the question and i try to do the best thing for our own people, regardless of what is best somewhere else. I “I shall favor the use of convicts if convinced it is for the best, other , wise not; and if three or more mem bers of the board should see the mat ter differently from what I may fin ally see it ,1 would cheerfully’ bow to their judgement, and loyally strive to help the best I can, to carry out the policy adopted. To determine the question, however, actual facts are better guides than specious, special pleading to gain applause. “What a bonanza a large gang of convicts would be to us in some of the weather we have had recently and are likely to have a good deal more of before spring!’’ ILOOKS LIKE BURGE WILL PAY PENALTY I abeas Corpus Proceedings Have Fall en Flat and Very Little Hope is Entertained for Life of Condenmn ed Murderer. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 10 —Habeas Cor pus proceedings, brought with the intention of proving that George l Burge was convicted and sentenced to death at an illegal term of court have fallen flat and but one hope re mains for the condemned mm'derer who sits in his cell day after day, reading his Bible, praying and wait ing for the fatal 21st of January. His attorneys declare that before the last day of erace has (lapsed they will procure their client’s release by finding and arresting the real crimin al. It was in order to give them a last opportunity to do this that Governor Broun respited Burge until the twenty-first. There will be no further respite. On that day the law will claim its vengence. If no fur- Burge will have to die. He soon loses all faith in the poor who tries to feed them with tine words SANDERS FACTORY ! MOVING IO ROME Modern Plant Will Be Operated by Electricity and Steam Heated—Mr. Sanders Will Still Continue to Be a Citizen of Dalton. The Sanders Overall factory, ma chinery and equipment, together with goods on hand, has been shipped to Rome and will be installed in the new Sanders-Glover Pants and Tent Fac tory building which has just been completed in North Rome. The plant will be up-to-date, build ing will be steam heated, lighted bv electricity and operated by electrici ty. The new company will have as managers J. M. Sanders and J. M. Glover. Mr. John Selvidge will be superintendent and the stackholders are J. M. Sanders. M. 11. Williams and J. M. Glover. A line of pants, overalls, tents, awnings, back bands, bags and other specialties will be manufactured. Mr. Sanders- will leave for his new place of business during the week i and will spend the greater portion of his time there, but will still be a cit izen of Dalton, his family remaining > here for the present » ■! ■—l I. ■ ■ - . Genius without industry is like an - advertisement without circulation. rl . , SUGAR MEN GET THEIRS 1 Four Former Employes of Sugar Trust are Sentenced to One Year in Pen. New York, Jan. 10 —Four former employees of the American Sugar Re fining Company, convicted of under weighing frauds, were sentenced to one year’s imprisonment {each by Judge Martin in the United States circuit court here today. The men sentenced were Charles Kehoe, Ed ward A. Goyle, Patrick J. Hennessey and Johv M. Coyle. Masonic Meeting Tonight. Dalton lodge No. 105. F & A. M., will meet at the hall this evening at 7 o’clock. All members and visiting brothers are urged to attend. A get-rick-quick scheme is the best bait to use in fishing for suckers. EDWARHISSOLVES THE PARLIAMENT And Issues Writ for General Election at the Same Time. London, Jan. 10—In meeting with 1 Privy Counsel, Kink Edward today jsigned a proclamation dissolving par liament and at the same lime issuance of writs for general election was be- ! gum MJ'.S. RIDLEY’S CONDITION STILL REMAINS CRITICAL I Mrs. T. I>. Ridley's condition is still very critical. She is at the Hogshead sanitarium in Chattanooga i and everything possible is being done to relieve her. the operation being very dangerous, and her recovery be- | ing doubtful. Mr. Ridley and her ' father, Mr. J. W. Hicks, are at her bedside. * Learn Where to Trade * * BY READING THE ARGUS ♦ * Advertisements. * * •••••••••» • Price Five Cents ICE COMPANIES FORM MERGER Capitalists of Seven Southern Cities Form Company Worth Seven Millions. ATLANTIC COAL & ICE CO. TO BE STYLE OF FIRM Atlanta, Chattanooga, Macon, Augus ta, Columbus, Rome and Athens are the Cities Interested, Atlanta. Ga., Jan. 10 —A big mer ger of ice companies in seven South ern cities was announced here today. Capitalists of Atlanta and vicinity, under the leadership of Earnest ■ Woodruff, form a seven million dol lar corporation. Atlanta, Chattanoo , ga, Macon, Augusta, Columbus, Rome and Athens are interested. It will be ! known as the Atlantic Coal and Ice Company. , 1 STOCKADE INVESTIGATION WILL BE AIRED IN COURT I Criminal Division cf the’Fulton Coun ty Supcricr Court Will Sse Charges Preferred Against Officials A— Atlanta, Ga., Jail. IQ; —Today be- Mgan the real investigation as to | ■ whether Superintendent D. M. Vining and Whipping Boss Cornett are le gally and criminally guilty of the r atrocities alleged to have been com mitted upon prisoners by them at the city stockade. Today the regular January term of the criminal branch of the Fulton county superior court will open, with Judge Roan, of the i Stone Mountain district, presiding, and before he adjourns, both Vining and Cornett will be tried by juries of their peers —not by a commission appointed to take charge of a civil in vestigation such as that which has just been concluded at the city hall, but a sworn jury sitting in judgement upon men indicted by the grand jury. The outcome will be awaited with intensest interest for it is stated that details will come out at this trial which have not been made public dur ing the civil municipal investigation just concluded. MR. WILLIAMS IN CHARGE OF SANDERS MFG. CO- Marion 11. Williams, one of the stockholders of the Sanders Manu facturing Co., will take the manage ment of this concern, and will make his home in Dalton with his sister, Mrs. J. M. Sanders. Dalton is glad to have Mr. Williams as a citizen of our city and we predict that he will prove most efficient in the management of the business of this enterprise. FOUR PERSONS KILLED | AND MANY INJURED Result of Collision Occurring in Tex as Pacific Yards at Shrevesport, La., Sunday night. Shrevesport, La., Jan. 10—Four persons were killed, one fatally in jured and 21 hurt as the result of a collision which occurred at midnight |in the Texas and Pacific freight 'yards between a Kansas City Southern swith engine and train No. 53, west hound on the Texas and Pacific.