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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1905)
VOL. Vj 11. ACREAGE! Is the Unanimous Demand of Southern Cotton Grow¬ ers in Great Convention at New Orleans. A HARMONIOUS DECISION Reduction in Us e of Fertilizers Is Also Decided Upon as of Equal Im¬ portance In Great Fight for Supremacy Now Being Inaugurated. A New Orleans dispatch says: Firmly believing it to be the most Amportant »teg in the solution of the cotton problem the Southern Inter¬ state Cotton Convention, without a dissenting vote, Wednesday declared in favor of a W per cent reduction in acreage, and an equal reduction in commercial fertilizers, and baoked that aotlon up with the adoption of a com prehenalve plan to secure the Support of every fanner, big and little, in the cotton belt. The report of the committee recom¬ mending a cut in acreage and reduc¬ tion in the use of fertilizers which was adopted by the convention, fol¬ lows: “First—That the vice president of this association for each state shall call a meeting of all persons interest ©d in cotton on the 11th day of Feb ruary, 1905, in the county seat of each county, not already organized on the plan hereinafter eet out, at which meeting there shall be elected a county chairman and a precinct chair man for each school district or other small poiitial sub-division of the county. “Second—That there shall be held in each school district or other small est political sub-division of the county on the 18th day of February, 1905, at 1 o’clock p. m„ a meeting of all cit Hens of said district or other small political sub-division, who are inter ested in the growing of cotton, which meeting shall elect a committee of fibre© on acreage and membership. Third At said precinct meet , ng tbe farmers and landowners present shall be asked to sign the following agreement: “We, the undersigned farmers, or landowners living In school district, beat, precinct No County of...... Stare of hereby pledge ourselves to reduce the acreage planted by us ln cotton and to reduce our cons.,mp tlon of fertilizer in growing cotton as •hown by the statements set opposite our names. “Fourth—That said committee on acreage and membership shall imme dlately canvass said district and ask all farmers and landowners in said district who do not attend said meet Ing, to sign and pledge, and said com mittee shall return said pledge to the chairman of said precinct, '"Fifth—Said precinct chairman shall preserve said pledges and they shall immediately report to the county chair 4ian showing the total number of acres planted in cotton in said pre- 1 clnct In 1904, and the total number to be planted in cotton ln said pre cinct In 1905: the total amount of fer tliizers used in growing cotton in said precinct In 1904. and the total amount, to be used in said precinct in 1905. “Sixth—The county chairman shall j immediately forward to the state vice president of their respective states a written statement showing the total number of acres planted in cotton in their respective count.es in 1904. and the total amount to be planted In 1905 and shall make a like report as to the , PLAN FOR UNIVERSITY. Presbyterian Conference Proposes to Raise Sum of One Million Dollars. The conference called to meet in Atlanta Wednesday to formulate plans for a great Presbyterian university adopted an agreement and adjourned. The final decision of the conference Js for the whole southern Pres byte rian- church to raise the sum of one million dollars in cash as* an endow meet of the institution, the city < 0 Atlanta to give $250,000, and Columbia Theological Seminary $250,000, making an endowme r the institution of $150,000. ft / iiw ' 5*5 ♦ JESUP. WAYNE COUNTY GA..|WE1)NES1)AY. FEBRUARY L 1905. BRITONS SCENT TROUBLE. Believe Break-Up in Russian Empire and a Change of Government is Sure to Come in Near Future. The foreign office in London views ; the situation in Russia with Alarm, It | | believes will t>e that while the present risings put down, the affair of Sunday at St. Petersburg is certain to bring - about a change in the form of gov eminent. The Associated Press learns that the foreign office would welcome a Rus sian government with which it could enter into a treaty similar to the Anglo-French agreement, feeling that a contract with the present regime would be repudiated at Will, But fears are entertained of a revolution which might result in international coanpHehtoons. The British press, as a whole, takes a no less gloomy view. The papers have been given up exclusively since Sunday to alarmist reports from Rus¬ sia. hostile articles and scathing edi¬ torials on the “massacre,” one of the mildest terms used for the affair of Sunday, and the Russian einpefor and his government are generally compar¬ ed to “beauts at bay.” The whole discussion of the situa¬ tion in Russia serves again to reveal tiie partly disguised hostility of the British press to everything Russian. The dispatches to the London papers all report the conditions prevailing In Russia to be worse than the Asso ciated Press accounts. The Russian official figures of the killed qnd wounded are stigmatised as "ludicrous ly official.” The number of slain reported in Lon¬ don in Monday’s papers ranged from 2,000 to 8,000. One prominent paper announces that the dead alone num¬ bered 2,000 and another said 8,000. The Associated Press figures, 500, given on Monday are now considered at vari¬ ous embassies as the maximum. Ex¬ aggerated reports are noticed in af most all of tho accounts. Another in¬ stance is a long account of an alleged mutiny of sailors of the Black sea j According to St. Petersburg dis I patches of Wednesday, quiet evidently j continues cumulate! in that the the city. rikers Bvidence ao st are sup piled with money to meet their pros - ent needs. AH sorts or stories are j afloat as to the size and origin of 1 the funds. Money is undoubtedly being supplied j by the liberals. It Is said that they have a fund of $2,000,000 some of which was supplied by German social lists, but there Is no way of verifying j the stories. It » seriously believed in some quarters that money is being furnished from .Tapanese-British some es to bring on a revolution or such In terna! complications as will compel the government to make peace. __ ___________________ _ __________ -- — , | fertilizer years. used and to be used in said . » von i e vice presi en o each state shall immediately, upon re celvlng the reports of the county chairman, forward to the president of this association a report showing the : number of acres planted in cotton in his state in the year 1904 and the amount of fertilizer used in sa>d year in growing cotton and the amount of cotton to be planted and fertilizers to be used In 1905. “Eighth—The president of this as sociation, upon receiving these ports, shall immediately tabulate the same and send a copy to the county chairman In the different cotton states and territories. “Ninth—If any county not already organized, should fail to organize, the vice president of the state in which said county Is. situated, shall cause said county to be organized as herein provided, and if any precinct should fail to organize, the county chairman of the county in which such precinct i s situated, shall cause such precinct to be organized as herein provided, "Tenth—It shall be the further duty of the officers of this association to report the name and addresses of such persons who refuse to sign the agreement to reduce acreage for 1905. together with the number of acres of cotton planted by such persons in 1904 and the number of acres that they will probably plant in 1905. and to make a like report as to fertilizers.” CANE GROWERS IN SESSION. | nterstate Association Holds Annual Meeting in Montgomery. The third annual convention of the Interstate Cane Growers’ Association was called to order in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday morning, by the pres idem. Captain D. G. Purse of Savan nah, Ga. The president introduced Acting Governor R. M. Cunningham to de liver the address of welcome for the Words of greeting were also spoken by Acting Mayor McIntyre and President Forbes of the Commercial Industrial asst iation. A BID FOR TROUBLE Action of President Anent San Dorrtingft Critl&isfed. BACON SEEKS THE FACTS Georgia Senator Introduces Resolution of Inquiry — President Alleged to Have Overstepped His Au¬ thority in Premises. Ai Washington special says: Senator Bacon, Monday, introduced a resolu¬ tion of inquiry bearing upon the an¬ nounced attitude of this government toward Sau Domingo. The resolution recites the newspaper reports from San Domingo and the statement given out by Mr. Loomis, after consultation with Mr. Hay, and simply calls for the facts ih officii! forih. The object of this is to have the senate put in possession of the inside facts concerning the situation down there, and particularly with reference to the attitude taken by President Roosevelt with the idea of disclosing whether the president has negotiated a treaty with the Dominican government which is to he submitted in due form to the senate for Its ratification, as is Required under the constitution of all treaties, or whether, as has been re¬ ported, the president is endeavoring to assume to himself the right to make a treaty without consultation of sen¬ ate. It is the general belief in Washinig ton ihat the arrangement as outlined is sure to involve this government in war, if not with the present Domin¬ ican government, certainly with the so-called insurgents, who control a majority of the ports of the country, and who are likely to resent any ar rengements President Morales has made. j With this prospect in view, ;*ell a good j many republican members, as as democratic members of the senate are of the opinion that any assumption by the president of the right to make a deal of this kind without submitting it to the senate for its approval would b« far beyond his constitutional power. The state department is working out ! the details of the agreement touching the administration of the finances of I San Domingo and some of these will fee made operative within a month. Mr. ; AbboU eol]ectlng the customs al puerto platft anfi othw experts ln cug . | ^ affairs be gtatIoned b y the United States at Monti Christi, Azua, Marcoris and other principal ports to eX p rc j Se a general supervision over I)o i mln)can customs ejections,keep close watch on the accounts and gradually i : surround themselves by corps of re „ M and efficient subordinates to In , an honest account| j Th@ ^ debt of San nomlngo . ^ foro , and domestlc , ls placed ^ about WSi000 000 . Rough estimates made b r<B perm)t of the ; „„ ftt the 0llt8M of at \ nt yPry i least $1,000,000 per annum of the cus¬ toms receipts for the reduction of the foreign debt, including claims,while It is believed to be certain that the cus 1 toms receipts will be largely increase.) j In connection with the general lm provement that is expected to follow the tranquilization of San Domingo and the administration of its finances by the United States. ( Some of the ports of the republic at present are practically in possession of revolutionary elements hostile to Pres¬ ident Morales. It will be necessary for the United States to place customs of¬ ficers at these ports and to overcome any resistance that may be offered lo cally so, to that extent, the administra¬ tion of President Morales is likely to receive moral support. $400,000 Cotton Mill. The most Important Industrial enter prise launched In Mississippi during the past week was the organization ol a company at Meridian, capitalized at $400,000 for the purpose of building a new cotton mill GIRL HORRIBLY MURDERED. At New Deatur, Ala., Miss Bloodworth is Waylaid. Miss Btiie Bloodworth was found | dead in an alley in New Decatur, Ala., Saturday night. Two pistol balls were in her head and her skuil was crushed with a stick. The body had been dragged some distance. She was on her way from her fathers store, leaving the store at 7 o clock p. m. There is no clew. She was one of the most popular girls in town and all the city is wrought up over the mattpr. NINE CENTS LIMIT Growers Will Not Sell Cotton for Less Figure, GREAT CONVENTION ENDS Delegates at New Orleans Gathering Form Permanent Body for Protec¬ tion of Great Staple Crop of the South. With the unanimous adoption of the plan reported by its committee for a permanent organization, headed by H&rvie Jordan of Georgia as presi¬ dent and E. S. Peters of Texas as vice president, the Southern Interstate Cotton convention finally closed its successful three days session at New Orleans Thursday night. Ttid ffeature of the forenoon session was the defeat of the modified WaetJ warehouse plan, which had been re ported b.v a majority of the commit¬ tee. Commissioner of Agriculture R. R, Poole of Alabama as chairman pre¬ sented the report of the committee on statistics. It suggested that every Commissioner be placed in position to secure a complete return of all gins Operated in his stale and the entire number of bales ginned of the crop of 1904 and 1905 and be In a position to furnish this information twice a month during September, October, No¬ vember and December, 1905, and monthly to March, inclusive. The committee approved the pres¬ ent methods of the national Ginners’ Association as the quickest and most feasible way of getting out reports. The state legislatures are asked to make ample provision to enable their commissioners to carry out these ideas. A number of addresses were deliv¬ ered at the forenoon session. Tiie report of the committee on per¬ manent. organization was presented at the afternoon session. It provides for the creation of the Southern Cot¬ ton Association, embracing all the cot ton producing states amt territories, to regulate cotton production, cotton supply and financing, and especially cotton marketing, using every effort to secure broader markets and to lim It the production to the demand at remunerative prices, and to reduce to a minimum all expense of handling cotton and its products from the time It. leaves the field until it reaches tho consumer, There are to be state and territorial, county and parish and sub dlvlslonal associations, all related to the parent stem Officers are to be elected once a year. Tho executive committee of the main association is to consist of 27 members, apportioned as follows: ■ Alabama 8, Arkansas 2, Florida 1. Georgia 8, Louisiana 2, Mississippi 3. North Carolina 2, South Carolina 2, Tennessee I, Texas 5, Oklahoma 1, Missouri 1, Indian Territory 1. Bach state and territorial assoeia tlon is to be composed of one mem ber from each cotton growing county and is to elect representatives to the main body. The convention went on record for 9 cent cotton, a supplementary report, of the commission on holding and fl nanclng the present, crop providing that all farmers be pledged to hold their cotton for a minimum price of 9 cents at all southern ports was unanimously adopted and all who took part In the convention will regard themselvgg as bound by the action. GENERAL MILES EXEMPT. Senate Knocks Out Section of Army Bill Barring Double Pay. The senate, Thursday, passed the army appropriation bill after modify ing the provision concerning the as slgnment. of retired army officers to ac tlve service with militia organizations. The effect of the change is to re lieve General Miles from its appiica tlon. STAND BY ROOSEVELT. Demorats in Congress Are Solidly for Revision of Railroad Rates. The agricultural appropriation bill was considered in the house Thursday, but the debate turned principally on tbe topic of restricting the railroads in the matter of freight rates. A feature of the debate was the utatement by Mr. Williams of Mis sissippl, who said that on the subject of revision of rates the democratic party was committed without addi tion or subtraction to the recommen dations of President Roosevelt- in his recent message BOUGHT INDORSEMENTS Will Henceforth Be Under th e Barf at Postoffice Department—Wynne to Issue the Order. A Washington special says: An or¬ der destined to play an important part i'ri the fat* Of many jtoutliern aspi¬ rants for federal Office fs to be given out at the postoffice department. Through investigation of certain Georgia and South Carolina cases, the postofflce authorities have discovered that not infrequently white republi¬ can politicians have secured the in¬ dorsement of the negro politicians by paying their way to the national and state conventions. The process is pretty familiat to the people of the south, tiiif not until recently was it brought to the Attention of Postmaster General Wynne. The incum bency of certain post mas ters, particularly of the smaller cities and towns, has been attacked on the ground that they secured those offices by resorting to the method in ques¬ tion. Postmaster General Wynne has in several Such cases held that if the record iflddd by the incumbent is good, he will not be disturbed, but the or¬ der to be promulgated will declare that in all cases in the future an ar¬ rangement of this nature will bo con¬ strued as equivalent to tile purchase of indorsement and will serve to knock out any aspirant for office implicated. The general effect of this will be to discredit the influence of indorse¬ ment of negroes un.der the mask of be¬ ing the regular republican organiza¬ tion. “SELL NO COTTON" 13 SLOGAN. Association Directors Plan to Hold Out Two and a Half Million Gales. The lilan for carrying info effect the holding over of about two mil¬ lion hales of cotton of the unsold por¬ tion of the crop of 1904 until January, February and March, 1906, not more than one-third of which should be sold in each of these months, will be acted upon by ihc board of thirteen general directors who will meet in New Or¬ leans February 4 to consider the pre¬ liminary work of organizing a perma¬ nent, cotton warehouse system through¬ out the entire cotton states and ter¬ ritories. This will leave about two and a half million bales of cotton to be mar¬ keted between this and October 1. 19(15. It seemed to he the concensus of opinion of the delegates that not a bale of these two and one-half million bales should be sold under any pre¬ text whatsoever until the price of cot¬ ton has reached a 10-cent basis, mid¬ dling. New Orleans. The recent convention fixed the limit, at nine cents, but reconsidered its -action and placed the figure at ten cents. TWO WOMEN WITNESSES. Will Appear Upon Floor of Senate During Trial of Swayne A Washington dispatch says: Sum mons have been issued by the ser geant at-arms of the senate for Mrs. Gordon Russell of Tyler, Texas, and Susan I.yle Downs of Waco, Texas, to appear as witnesses In the Swayne im peac hment trial, which begins Feb niary ]g. When they answer the summons abd appear before the senate it will 1)R th(J first time a woman hag entered f j, e august presence since the im peachment trial of Andrew Johnson in jgfig, -— STILL ABLE TO DRAW PENSION. - New Hampshire Veteran of Civil War Nears 105th Milestone. In a session of less than two hours Saturday the house passed 373 pen sion hills. Among the pensions paid was one increasing from $12 to $24 a month tbe pe iiRion of William Welch of Ac j wor th. N H. Welch will be 105 years . a ] d on March 26 next, having been born dur j ng the administration of j obn Adams, the second president. He was over 60 years old when he en listed in company I, fourteenth New Hampshire volunteers. “I WILL GET JUSTICE ABOVE.” ytas Ceclaration of McCue When Told Appeal Was Denied. The Virginia supreme court of ap pea j g has denied the supplementary appea i i n t’ ne appeal of ex-Mayor Mc f . |K , o( Charlottesville, convicted of wife mur der. He was sentenced to be banged January 20 and was respit <>f] by ( ^, vernor Montague until Feb ruary jq ^y hen informed that the court had re f used a hearing in bis case, Mr-pue too({ tbe newg ca i m i y for a few m!n ut( _ s and then sa j d; -j will get justice above.” He broke down and cried. NO. 18 SLAVS BEATEN OFF Japs Repulse Attacks ofGen, Kuropatkin’s Forces. OYAMA IN HOT PURSUIT FW* Hundred Officers and Men Taken Prisoners—Russians Didn’t Drive the Japs from Town of San depas as Reported. Telegraphic advices received in To kio Sunday from tile Japanese Man¬ churian headquarters say: “Our detachment occupied Llutiako yesterday (Saturday), and was twice counter-attacked by a superior force of the enemy last night. We entirely repulsed the enemy. “Our ■detachment at dawn today (Sunday) attacked the enemy in tlm neighborhood of Eitsaahotszu, about two miles north of Heikoutai, and oc¬ cupied the position. The enemy fierce¬ ly counterattacked our force, which assailed Heikoutai last night, but was repulsed entirely. Today our force occupied the neighborhood of -Hells ou tal. "The enemy in the direction o) l.iu tiako and Heikoutai has entirely re¬ treated to the right bank of the Hun river, Our force is now pursuing them. “In the direction of Chenchiehpao and Likajentan, the enemy made sev¬ eral attacks last night, but were re¬ pulsed. The enemy attacking these points belonged to the eighth ami the tenth i corps. "In the direction of Heikoutai the enemy is composed of the first and 1 mixed corps of infantry, together with a cavalry division under General Mdstchenko. “We captured 500 officers and men. "The casualties on both sides . are under investigation.” Russians Admit Defeat. A St. Petersburg special, under Monday’s date, says: Instead of con¬ firmation of Saturday night's report that General Kuropatkin had broken through the Japanese left, there came Lieutenant General Sakharoff’s official admission that the Russians had been compelled to retire from Sandepts on account of their inability to carry a redoubt. It is also significant that dispatches from Russian correspond¬ ents at the front have again suddenly ceased, which is regarded as an indi¬ cation of the failure of the operation and strengthens the first impression that it was a demonstration under¬ taken to distract the people at home from the political situation. The Russians lost about 1,000 men in the fighting at Sandepas. STRIKERS RESORT TO PILLAGE. Disorders Increase at Warsaw, Russia, But Quiet Reigns in Moscow. The strike disorders in Warsaw, Russia, are becoming more serious. The ordinary life of the city is quite suspended. On Saturday the -strikers stopped the street railway service, but remained otherwise orderly. Sunday, however, they began a wholesale pii lage. The majority of the shops in Mar¬ shal KovBkl street and the state vodka shops were looted, All the factories. shops, schools and theaters are closed, and the street lamps are extinguished. There have been several collisions between the police and strikers and many arrests have been made, Peace abiding inhabitants are terror stricken. At Moscow the strike Is considered to be practically over. A blizzard has rendered excellent service to the au¬ thorities in Keeping the people in¬ doors. and there was not the slightest, •disorder Sunday on the part of the strikers. The authorities, however, had taken exceptional precautions to avoid the assemblage of crowds. F.ven the Sunday markets were closed. Strong pickets were posted all over $he city, Inside the factories and out side. There are about 300,000 troops in the city. SWAYNE TRIAL WILL BE COSTLY. joint Resolution of Congress Sets Aside 940,000 for Expenses. A Washington dispatch says: The (pause has adopted a joint resolution appropriating $40,000 to defray the ex¬ penses of the senate in conducting the trial of Judge Charles S. Swayne. Eulogiuma to Late Senator Hoar. The greater part of Saturday's ses¬ sion in the senate was occupied by eulogies of the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts by his former col leagues.
