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Ex-Governor of Kentucky Held
Blameless of Goebel Murder.
Pardons Cover All Now Under Indict
ment Except Those Who Turned
State’s Evidence.
Frankfort, Ky.—Governor Wilson
has cleared the Kentucky court rec
ords of all charges growing out of the
murder, in January, 1900, of Senator
Wwilliam Goebel, who was declared to
have been elected governor, except
those hanging over state’s evidence
witnesses in the alleged conspiracy,
by granting pardons, betore trial, 10
former Governor W. 8. Taylor and
former Secretary of State Charles
Finley, who have been fugitives in
the state of Indiana for nine years;
to John Powers, brother of Caleb
Powers, who is believed to be in Hon
duras; to Holland Whittaker of But
ler county; John Davis of Louisville
and Zach Steele of Bell county, un
der indictment, and who dil not flee
the state, .
Those over whom indictments are
left hanging are Wharton Golden of
Knox county, now in Colorado; Frank
Cecil of Bell county, now a rallroad
detective in St. Louis, and Willnm
H. Culton of Owsley county, said to
have ‘died in the west a few months
ago.
The. cases, with the possible excep
tion Of Cecil, will be dismissed, leav
ing Henry E. Youtsey, now serving a
life sentence in the state penitentiary,
the only person to suffer for the tak
ing off of Goebel.
Reiterating ythe belief he expressed
some months' ago, when he granted
pardons to Caleb Powers and James
B. Howard, that no one but Youtsey
had part in the murder, and that it
was not a conspiracy, as the com
monwealth charged, Governor Wilson
says that he believes it a “sacred
duty, which I must no longer delay,
to carry this belief into effect,” and
grant pardons to the men charged
and who fled the state, as they “had
the greatest reasons to believe” that
they “could not have a fair trial,”
and if they stayed here would be
forced to trial before a partisan jury
under conditions which would give
them no chance at all for a just de
cision.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Willlam S. Tay
lor and Charles Finley, one a former
governor and .the other a former sec
retary of state of Kentucky, exiled
for nine years, under the charge of
complicity in the assassination of for
mer Governor Goebel of Kentucky,
closeted themselves in Mr. Taylor’s
office as soon as they received word
of their pardon by Governor Wilson
and denied admittance to inquirers
until a late hour, They prepared a
statement to the public in which they
expressed their gratitude for relief
from a great burden and to their old
friends in Kentucky and their new
friends in Indiana.
Mr. Taylor stated that he would
never return to Kentucky to make his
home. He has established a law
practice in Indianapolis and has made
business connections here that are
permanent,
Mr. Finley, however, will soon re
turn to Kentucky to visit his aged
parents at Williamsburs,
BIG HATS ARE BARRED.
Lcfty Pompadours Also Censored by
University of Chicago.
Chicago, Ill.—Big hats and lofty
pompadours have been censored at
the University of Chicago for scien
tific reasons. These personal ap-|
purtenances have been placed on the
official blacklist by the department of
physical culture and athletics, and co
eds who insist upon retaining them
will feel the wrath of the authorities.
Miss Gertrude Dudley, director of
women’s athletics, declares that the
hats and pompadours not only are en
tirely unnecessary as aids to the new
education, but also are unquestionably
unwise and intolerable from a hy
gienic standpoint.
“The immense hats,” said she, “re
sult in arresting the circulation of air
to an extent which is decidedly harm
ul”
PETER F. COLLIER DEAD. }
Head of Collier's Weekly Dies of
Apoplexy.
New York City.—Peter F. Collier,
founder and publisher of Collier’'s
Weekly, died suddenly of apoplexy at
the Riding Club. .
Peter F .Collier was known princi
pally as the founder, chief owner and
editor of Collier's Weekly. In this
he was asissted by his only son, Rob
ert J. Colller, who, with the widow,
survive him,
TO RETURN CONFEDERATE FLAGS.
Captured Banners Will Be Delivered
At” Huntsville, Alabama.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Details for the
return; of the confederate battle flags
captured by the Fourth Ohio calvary
at Selma, Ala., near the close of the
clvil war, are now in the hands of
Governor Comer of Alabama. It will
take place at Huntsville May 12.
Captain John A. Pitts of this city
received a letter from Governor Har
mon stating that the captured flags
will be sent to this city, s 0 that any
of the old veterzns who may carg to
yiew them may do sO.
. The fiags were those carried by the
tiflo. sootts, popularly known as the
f : :i‘ A ‘—"ln,!' ‘li‘?|~"' }li -T TR
It Would Cost Ten Million Dollars, How
ever, to Flash Messages.
Boston, Mass,~lf mankind cares
enough about it to put about SIO,OOO,
000 into it, there is no good reason
why the human race should not be
able to talk with Mars—and that so
gsoon as next July—according to Pro
fessor Willlam Henry Pickering, Har
vard University’'s celebrated astron
omer, Communication with the Mar
tians will be made possible, Profes
sor Pickering declares, by adopting
his method of flashing messages when
Mars approaches the earth to within
36,000,000 miles, or about 5,000,000
miles nearer than ever before,
Professor Pickering's plan contem
plates the use of a series of mirrors
presenting a single reflecting sur
tace turned toward Mars and occu
pying more than a quarter of a mile
surface,
“Supposing,” he says, “ with such a
gignal in operation we began a series
o. nashes, cutting off the sun’s rays
for an instant and thep throwing on
the reflection again, repeating this at
irregular intervals, forwarding, say
the telegraph code of dots and dashes,
1 have no doubt that, providing there
were intelligent people on Mars, the
light would at once attract attention
and would lead eventually to an an
swering signal. If we received such
an answer it would be a comparative
ly easy matter to establish a code and
wansmit messages.”
“GRAFI” IN CIVIL SERVICE.
Senators Charge All Manner of Wrong
Doing in Census Bueau.
Washington, D. C.—The census bill
was sent back to conference by the
senate in order that its amendments
relating to the civil service law and
requiring the construction of a build
ing for the work of the census in
this city might be further considered
and insisted upon, The conferees‘
had agreed to strike out the senate‘
amendment requiring domicile in a
state for one year as a prerequisite for
the establishment of residence as a '
basis for apportionments among the
several states, but they were instruct
ed to further insist upon this pro
vision.
Senator McCumber of North Da
kota, in criticising the conference re
port on the census bill, made the
charge that the census office has in
its employ in one bureau the wife of
a representative in congress, the
wives of two officials of the war de
partment and the wife of a promi
nent official of the treasury depart
ment.
SILVER CHAMPION RESTS FOREVER.
Ex-Senator William Stewart of Ne
vada is Dead,
Washington, D. C.—Ex-Senator Wil
liam M. Stewart of Nevada, once a
notable figure in national politics,
died here.
Mr. Stewart was 82 years old, and
had been a familiar figure in this
city during the better part of the last
half century. For twenty-eight years,
altogether, he represented Nevada in
the senate, a lapse between 1857 and
1887 intervening to prevent a contin
uous service record from 1865 to
1905.
Senator Stewart made many nota
ble speeches on the floor of the sen
ate in advocacy of silver, and his
characterization of the demonetiza
tion of silver as “the crime of ’73,”
is a marker in political history.
After his retirement from congress
he divided his time between Wash
ington, where he had many interests
during his life of fluctuating fortune,
his farm in nearby Virginia, and the
west, where, at his old home at Rhy
olite, Nevada, he had varied mining
interests and experiences.
LIBERIAN COMMISSION,
Has Sailed for Negro Republic on
United States Cruisers.
Washington, D, C.—The three mem
bers of the Liberian commission sail
ed from New York for Aftrica. The
commission is made up of Roland P.
Falkner, Dr, George Sale and Emmett
J. Scott, with ‘George A. Finch as sec
retary. Besides reporting to the pers
ident upon the social, political and in
dustrial conditions in the republic,
the commission also will spend some
time looking into the foreign rela
tions of Liberia., The memgers of
the commission are making the voy
‘age on board the scout cruisers Bir
‘mingham and Chester.
SECRETARY WILSON'S OPINION.
Says There is Sufficient Wheat to
Last Till Next Crop Comes,
Washington, D. C.—Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson said of the Chi
cago wheat corner:
“There is sufficient wheat in the
country at normal prices to make
bread for the American people up to
the time when the new crop comes
in, and those who attempt to keep
prices up at present rates expect to
get their money out of the common
people—the consumers.”
$5 a Week for 120 Years.
New York.—John J. Williams has
ben ordered by the supreme court to
pay a judgment of $14,000, with inter
est from May 3, 1904, at the rate of
$5 a week. As Williams is 60 years
old, he would have to live to be more
than a hundred and twenty years
old, for him to pay, while Mrs. Fisk, to
whom he must pay the moaney, would
have passed the century mark.
_Cleveland, 6hio, Swept By Tornado.
Clevel#nd, Ohio.—Six persoms were
killed, nine fatally hurt, at least fifty
sustained injutrgu a.nga pwerty val
u e m';» 10. 6‘ v uu‘;'.u,@, \d.‘
Alleged That Patten Has Dis.
posed of All His Holdings.
MANY FORTUNES WERE LOST
I e 1
When Erstwhile “Wheat King” Left for
New Mexico the Market Declined
Nine Cents,
Chicago, Ill.—That James A. Pat
ten, hailed throughout the country as
the “wheat king,” has withdrawn
from the market after disposing of
his heavy holdings of May and July
wheat is asserted In many quarters
here,
To this assertion was added the
fact that prices have tumbled over 9
cents during the last week and that
Mr, Patten himself has sought rest in
the fastnesses of a New Mexico
ranch,
Whether he has eliminated himself
from the so-called ‘deal,” and, if so,
whether he came out with profit or
logs, are questions which can be an
swered only by Mr, Patten himself,
From nearly every point came re
ports of normal, and even Dbetter,
Crop prospects, Liverpool prices
were down ana the shipments from
Argentina, Australia and other for
eign countiries were said to be great
er than usual at this time of the year,
While Mr. Patten, quoted as saying
he was fMeeing Irvm reporiers, was
making for the ranch of his friend
and partner, W. H. Bartlett, just over
the Colorado line in New Mexico, de
jection was plciured on the face of
many a small speculator haunting the
ticker in various brokerage houses.
Many a foriune has been wiped out
by the decline and many a man whLo
had a handsome profit on paper, but
still hung on for more, now con
fronts a aeficit, ‘l'nere aie muly Sucau,
The wide publicity given the max
ket brought into it many a man wwuo
ordinarily walked in quieter paths.
Even the “regulars,” ior the most
part, followed the bull leader with un
usual enthusiasm, and saw nothing
further in the previous declines but
flurry. Mr. Patten so characterizea
it and his word was accepted. They
" held to the limit of their resources,
and were wiped off the speculative
slate when their margins became ex
' hausted and there was no longer a re
serve to draw on,
. They would have liked very mucn
to know whether Mr. Patten had let
orders secretly to make further pui
chases at the concession in prices. In
the absence of such information, how
ever, Mr. Patten’s absence in a sec
tion of the country where he will not
be much troubled by either reporters,
or quotations, and the utter weak
ness indicated by the decline, gave
rise to many hints that “Patten was
well out of it.”
The regular bulletin issued by Bart
lett, Patten & Co. had this to say:
“The real situation is unchanged.
There i 3 no more wheat in the coun
try than there was before the decline,
and the demand is just as good. Our
confidence in higher prices is as
great as ever.”
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
whose information concerning crops,
Mr. Patten recently declared to be
“the joke of the country,” appears to
have been vindicated.
Trinidad, Col. — James Ayer Pat
ten, Chicago’s *‘wheat king,” wuo was
reported to have deserted the battle
in the wheat pit to inspect for him
self the wheat situation in the cen
tral west, "arrived at Trinidad and
left shortly afterwards for Tecio, Col.,
a little post station near the New
Mexico line.
“None of your business,” was his
reply to a question as to his mission
in Trinidad. “I've been hounded to
death by reporters for weeks.”
D. A. B. ELECTION.
Mrs. Scott Made President and Mrs.
Tulloch Vice President General.
Washington, D. C.—After twenty.
hours devoted to counting and re
counting the ballots cast, the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution
found the honors of the biennial elec
tion of their society divided between
the administration and the anti-ad
ministration forces. The big fight of
the congress was won by the admin
istration in the election of Mrs. Mat
thew T. Scott of IHinois, to be pres
ident general. The second office in
point of honor, that of vice president
geueral in charge of organizations,
however, went to the anti-adminsitra
tion followers by the election of Mrs.
Miranda B. Tulloch of this city.
With a majority over Mrs. William
Cummings Story of New York of only
oight ' votes out of 873 ballots oast,
Mrs. Scott’s victery goes down. on
the records of the society as one of
the mos} closely contested in the his
tory of the organization. .
EDITORS FEAST WITH PUBLISHERS.
Six Hundred ' Persens -at the Joint
" Banquet. ;
New York .City.—Editors and pub
lishers of 'this country, to the number
of six hundred, attended the joint
banquet of the Associated Press.and
the American Newspaper Publishers’
association here. Count Johana Hein
rich Von Bernstorff, the German am
bassador, and Joseph H. Choate, form
er ambassador of the United. States
to Great Britain, were guests of honor
and dellvered speeches. Other speak
ers were Major .J. C. Hemphill of the
Charleston, S. C., News and Courier;
Rev. Robert E. Burdette of Los An
; mfi-flmwr T. M. Patterson
TAFT IS PLANNING TRIP,
Congress Asked to Appropriate $25,000
For Expenses of Trip.
Washington, D. C.—President Taft,
who believes that the chief magis
trate of the nation should keep in as
close contact with the people as the
duties and requirements of the office
admit, is planning a notable trip dur
ing the late summer and early autumn,
provided congress decides to contlg;-
ue the annual appropriation of $25,
000 for traveling expenses allowed
during the closing years of the Roose
velt administration,
The president's plans for the sum
mer as far into the heated term as
August 15 have been completed. Mr,
Tatt will leave Washington as soon
as he can arrange matters after ad
journment of congress, and has been
told that the extra session will end
June 1. He will go direct from the
white house to his summer home at
Woodbury Point, Beverly, Mass.,, and
will spend two months or more there
as quietly and as free from official
worry as possible, Mr, Taft will de
vote most of his vacation to golfing
and motoring, and will take short
cruises along the northern coast. The
reassembled Atlantic fleet of sixteen
battleships will maneuver off the
New England coast during the sum
mer, and the president undoubtedly
will want to see this,
This trip the president desires to
make to the west during the late sum
mer will be entirely too expensive
to be paid for out of his own pocket.
An outline of the proposed itinerary
has been given to high railorad offi
cials and an estimate requested. It
is said the cost would be in the
neighborhood of $15,000 to $17,000. If
he goes west at all, the president will
include Alaska in the journey, sailing
from Seattle probably on a vessel
of the naval revenue service. No
president has ever visited the far
northern territory which for so long
has been a part of the United States.
The president has been invited to
and is particularly anxious to attend
the following gatherings:
The annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Salt
Lzke, Utah.
The Trans-Mississippi Conference
at Denver.
The National Irrigation Congress
at Spokane and the Alaska-Yukon-Pa.
cific Exposition in Seattle.
- In addition to his proposed visit to
the Rocky Mountain States and to
the Pacific coast, the president’s ten
‘tative plans include a long swing
through the southwest and the heart
of the south,
~ Mrs. Taft, who is as fond of travel
‘as her husband, would accompany the
president on the tour.
~ Western and southern senatorsand
representatives are particularly anx
ious to have the president visit their
sections, and will do all in their pow
er to provide the necessary funds.
‘They believe with the president that
such a tour as he proposes to make
‘should be regarded as an essential
factor in the universal desire to keep
the people in close touch and sympa
thy with the central government.
They believe that the president’s
trips through the country and his ad
dresses are as much of a benefit to
'the people as to himself.
| President Taft makes no secret of
his fondness for travel. He believes
it to be the only way of securing a
'proper idea and a proper perspective
of such a big country.
NEWSY ¥A: %RAPHS.
Chief of Deicci.... smith of Bi.
Lows, Mo., admitted that James 8.
Cabanne, Jr., tather of the boy James
S. Cabanne, 111, who disappeared
from the home of his grandfather
lhere has received a letter demanding
a SIO,OOO ransom,
The state law of Alabama annull
ing the licenses of foreign corpora
tions taking cases from state to fed
eral courts, was declared unconstitu
tional in a decision by Judge Thomas
G. Jones of the United States court
of the middle district of Alabama.
|He said that the law violated both
!the state and the federal conatitu
tions. The decision was made in an
order enjoining the secretary of state
'from cancelling the license of the
Western Union Telegraph company in
Alabama,
A well authenticated report is be
ing circulated in Winston-Salem, N.
C, that the Dukes, who are in con
trol of the American Tobacco com
pany, are planning to organize a great
cotton mill trust in the south, one
smilar to the Mammoth Tobacco com
bination. The Dukes, who have made
millions out of the tobacco business,
own a large controlling interest in
the Southern Power - company,
through which they expect to manfp
ulate the scheme now contemplated
to get control of a majority of the
leading southern mills, many ‘of which
are now being operated with power
furpished by the Southern Power
company, .
Editor Stanley of the Fernie, Brit
ish Columbia, Ledger, which publish
ed a front page story to the effect
that all a man need do in British Co
lumb#a to dodge justice was to. be
long to the lodge and stand on the
right side of the political fence, ‘was
officially disciplined by the court of
appeals sitting in Vancouver, B. C.
He made a humble apology, and the
ocourt sentenced him to ‘pay SIOO or
spend an indefinite period in jail.
Stanley paid the fine and will make
personal and public apologies, %
Rendered temporarily insane by al
titude, R. C. Ramage, a veterinary
‘surgeon, danced on the brink of a
'?reoixl):iceh more tthanmflye’ thousand
eet high, creating terror among a
large. crowd. of tourlsts on Mount
Lowe, near Los Angoles, Cal. - -
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R. H. GREEN
Doctor of Dental Surgery.
HAZLEHURST, GA.
Chapman-Patrick Bullding.
PRICE & GRANT,
Attorneys at Law
Hazlehurst, Georgia.
Practices in state and federal
courts, Collections a speclalty, Of
fices over Citizens’ Bank,
- King & Sellers,
LAWYERS
Will practice in all the courts.
Office at the Court House,
HAZLEHURST, GA.
QUINCEY & CHASTAIN,
Attorneys and Counselors At Law,
HAZLEHURST, GEORGIA.
JULIAN H. PARKER.
Lawyer
HAZLEHURST, GEORGIA.
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What's in McClure’s.
President Taft, in an article in Mec-
Clure’s Magazine for May, answers
the critics of the Panama canal. He.
declares that the lock type was the
best type of canal to build, and he
dares hope that it will be finished
before 1915, and that the cost will
fall below Colonel Goethal’s latest es
timate of $297,000,000. Arthur
Woods, a deputy police commissioner
of New York city contributes a time
ly article on the Black Hand society
which was responsible for the mur
der of Detectiv Petrosino; Judson C.
Welliver describes the latest monop
oly, “The National Water Power
Trust;” George F, Parker quotes
Cleveland’s opinions of McKinley,
Bryan, Cortelyou and others; Benja
min Brooks describes the work ot
“The Webfoot Engineer,” and makes
clear to teh ldyman the mysteries of
tunnel-building; ‘Guglielmo Ferrero,
the Italian historian, writes about
the part played by ‘“The Vine in Ro
man History,” and a Tuscan lady,
who was in Messina at the time of
the earthquake, contributes a human
document on that great disaster.
There are four good short stories, and
another instalment of Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward’s novel, “Marriage a la
Mode.”
Solicitude.
Invalid Husband—Did the Doctor
say I was to take all that medicine?
Wife—Yes, dear. "
Invalid Husband—Why there lis
enough there to Lill a donkey,
~ Wife (anxiopsly).—Then you'd bet
ter not takf all of it, John—Tit-
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