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STATE TREASURER PARK [ EAD.
Had MHandled State's Finances for
Past Nine Years.
Atlanta, Ga.—After a gallant fight
for his life, Captain Robert Emory
Park, for nine years treasurer of the
state of Georgia, breathed his last at
& private sanitatrium in this ecity.
Death followed an operation for in
ternal trouble which Captain Park
underwent,’
Governor Smith, on learning of Cap
tain Park's death, issued an order that
the state flag be displayed at half
mast for the next ten days, and the
offices of the capitol closed until after
the funeral,
Captain Park was born sixty years
ago in LaGrange, Troup county, Geor
gla, and received his academic educa
tion at Greenville Academy and at
Brownwood Institute, LaGrange. He
entered Emory College in 1860. In
1861 he was a student in the junior
class in Auburn, Ala, from which
place he joined the Macon Confeder
ates, a military company organized at
Tuskegee, Macon county, Alabama.
The company was composed of 106
men, about thirty of whom became
commissioned officers. This company
reached Manassas July 22, 1861, the
day after the bloody battle, and as
sisted in burying several hundred fed
eral soldiers,
When the company was reorganized
at Yorktown, Captain Park was unan
imously elected second lieutenant.
His captain, R. H. Keeling, was killed
at the battle of Seven Pines, and
Lieutenant Park commanded the com
pany during the remainder of the en
gagement, The regiment lost 205
killed and wounded out of 408 pres
ent for duty. This Dbattle occurred
May 31, 1862, and two days afterwards
he was promoted first lieutenant. As
first lieutenant he participated in the
seven days’ battle around Richmond,
the first Maryland campaign, the bat
tle of Fredericksburg and the series
of battles near Spottsylvania court
house, He took part in the valley
campaign under General Early, and
was present when Washington city
was threatened. He commanded his
company after Captain McNeely was
desperately wounded and retired at
Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, and was
promoted captain after Captain Me-
Neely’s retirement, remaining in com
mand until he was severely wounded,
September 19, 1864, in the battle of
Winchester, and left in the enemy’s
hands. He was confined at West's
prison hospital, and lastly at Fort Del
aware, from which place he was re
leased June 14, 1865, and left for his
home in Georgia the same day.
Captain Park was married while at
LaGrange to Miss Stella Swanson.
She lived only five months, dying at
the early age of 18 vears. Four years
later he married Miss Ella H. Holt,
daughter of General William S. Holt
of Macon. Mrs. Park died, leaving
two children, William Holt and Ella
Henrietta,
On April 27, 1892, he was married
to Mrs. Emily Hendree Stewart of
Atlanta.
Captain Park was a consistent mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. He was useful in
the councils of his denomination and
exemplary in his life. He had been a
trustee of Emory College since 1886.
He had also been a trustee of Wes
levan Female (ollege—the mother of
female colleges—located at Macon,
for many years. Emorv and Auburn
conferred upon him the degree of mas
ter of arts.
Captain Park was a lifelong dem
ocrat, and active in the service of his
party. but he. never sought nolitical
preferment, except for the place as
state treasurer, to which he was elect
ed October 1. 1900, without opposi
tion. On the corresponding dates,
1902. 1904 and 1906 and 1908, he was
re-elected. He served four terms, and
the greater part of a fifth in the
capacitv of state treasurer and had
been elected for a sixth.
Major Park, the father of Captain
Park, was a distinguished scholar
and eloquent speaker. He was de
voully religious and a strong temper
ance advocate,
Captain Park had five brothers and
two sisters. They were Rev, William
Park. D. D.. editor of the Sandersville
Herald and Georgian for twenty-five
vears: Major John W. Park of Green
ville, Ga., late president of the Geor
gia Bar Association; Hon, James E.
Park, Ph. D.. LL. D.. late mayor of
LaGrange; Howard P. Park, A. M,
who died a highly estesmed planter,
Mount Meigs, Ala.; Lemuel M. Park,
Esa., late president Park Cotton Mills,
LaGrange: Mrs. M. C. Huntlev of Lz-
Grange: Mrvs. V. V. Blalock of Green
ville, Ga.
FFollowing the death of State Treas
urer Park, Comptroller General
Wright will take charge of the state
ireasury under section 197 of the po
litical code, and it will be possibly
three weeks before the office can be
turned over to the new state treas
urer to be appointed by Governor
Smith.
In the first place, the comptroller
general has to advertise the fact of
the state treasurer’s death for a pe
riod of ten days, after which he has
to prepare a schedule of all papers,
moneys and assets of the department
before turning them over to the new
treasurer.
This latter process, it is stated, will
require about ten days more, and dur
ing that time not a dollar can be paid
out from the treasury.
The last warrant drawn on the
treasury just before Captain Park’s
death was one for SI,OOO for the ex
penses -of the prison department. 1t
did not reach the comptroller general
for his approval until after the treas
urer’s (death, and the comptroller gen
eral, of course, declined to approve
it 1t went back to the governor’s
office and was canceled, e
GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Survivors of the Fourth Georgla
regiment of the confederate army
stoutly deny that this regiment lost
its colors to the Fourteenth New Jer
sey at Spottsylvanin courthouse in
1864, A press dispatch from New
York stated that the New Jersey reg
iment was soon to return the captured
standard, and members of the fourth
are denying that they ever lost their
colors and declaring that they will
not receive any, flag from the four.
teenth New Jersey, A survivor of
the Georgla regiment states that the
fourth carried its colors throughout
the war, surrendering them at Appo
mattox; that there was no fighting
at the “Bloody Angle” on the day the
colors are said to have been taken,
and that the fourth never took part in.
any fighting at that place during the
entire war,
After a cessation of nearly two
vears, the railroads will renew their
fight on the order of the state railroad
commission, as issued in the summer
of 1907, by which sweeping reductions
were made in passenger rates on all
the important lines of Georgia. The
applieation of the Atlanta and West
Point for an injunction to restrain
the enforcement of the order will be
taken up on its merits -before Judge
Pendleton in the Fulton county supe
rier court.
The state caurt of appeals has de
cided that sub-lessees of convicts un
der the old system are liable for dam
ages that may be sought by an ex
inmate of the penitentiary, instead of
the original contractor. The decision
was made in the case of Mason Vs.
Hamby & Toomer, .
- Governor Hoke Smith granted a
pardon to E. H. Almand, a Columbus
voung man, convicted of the alleged
misappropriation of funds. Almand,
who was a member of one of the most
prominent &4 lumbus families, had
made his shortage good, two months
before his trial. He was sentenced to
four years’ imprisonment, however,
and has served four months of his
sentence. A petition for his pardon
was signed by over two thousand Co
lumbus people, members of the state
legislature and attorneys of that city.
A coloney of South Carolina farm
ers have just reached Americus and
will settle upon farms already prepar
ed for them near the city. The new
comers are progressive, industrious
farmers and delighted with this sec
tion and surroundings. G. H. Cala
tion and surroundings. G. H. Wad
dell of Greenville had previously pur
chased a fine estate here and upon
this the newcomers are located while
others are expected te follow imme
diately.
Although the usual early orders
were delayed at the beginning of the
season, the fertilizer shipments in
Georgia this year will, so it is report
ed, exceed those of last year by near
ly one hundred thousand tons. The
season has closed, but the additional
orders that the being filled will bring
the total far above the shipments of
last season. The large increase in
the tons bought comes as an indica
tion of prosperous times for the farm
ers and is a forecast of a successful
year of planting and harvest.
S. L. Sowell, formerly a farmer of
Screven county, was arrested in Au
gusta by a deputy United States mar
shal, on a charge of counterfeiting.
A search of the premises Sowell oc
‘cupied revealed a mould for 25-cent
‘pieces and, with other paraphernalia,
‘will be used as evidence against him.
~ Honorable H. M. Stanley of Dublin
president of the Georgia Weekly
Press association, has notified the peo
ple of Douglas that the date for the
press meeting, which will be held at
‘Douglas this year, is set for July 13-
'l4. Mr. Stanley is planning for a trip
for the Georgia editors, a visit to Cu
‘ba, after the session at Douglas. He
says the indications are that there
‘will be a large attendance this year.
. Qovernor Smith has disapproved
{he finding of the court martial which
cat in Savannah last fall, and sen
tenced Musician Lamar Keller and
Private J. Ward Sipple to pay fines
of $25 each for firing their guns from
the rear of a train, on the ground
that the punishment was totally in
adequate to the offense, and that to
let it stand would be a “travesty on
justice.” These two were supposed
to be the leaders among a number of
members of troop A, first squadron
of cavalry, who engaged in firing
blank cartridges from their guns
while returning to Savannah from the
encampment at Chicamauga Park.
The firing took place at several points
hetween Atlanta and Macon, on the
Southern Railway, and a negro track
hand was wounded in the arm by one
of the shots. Governor Smith, in his
order, drawn in military form, ap
proves the proceedings of the court
and the finding as to the first specifi
cation and charge, to the effect that
the men did the shooting. The balance
of the court’s finding he disapproves
in {oto, because he considers, in view
of the gravity of the offense, that the
punishment amounts to no more than
a farce.
~ Extensive preparations ar being
‘made throughout the state iby the
‘members of the Cotton Seed rushers’
‘association of Georgia to attend the
‘annual meeting of the Intersfate Cot
ton Seed Crushers’ convention to be
lhe]d in Memphis on May 18, 19 and
’2O. Last year at the Louisville meet
ing the attendance from this state
‘was larger than any other and an ef
‘fort is being made to have it be equal
1y as successful this year. Felding
Wallace of Augusta, and R. G. Riley
of Albany, members of the governing
committee of the Interstaie associa
tion, from Georgia, have secured re
‘duced rates from all pcgts:in Georgia
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Reports are to the effect that Old
Man Breitenstein of New Orleans is
suffering again with rheumatism, It
is reported that the old man's back
{s glving him a great deal of trouble
The fans all about the ecircuit regret
this, It would be a calamity to the
Southern league for Breit to drop out,
He is the best drawing card in the
league, and without doubt the headi
est pitcher that has ever performed
on southern lots, We all hope that
by June Breit will be flinging in old
“Ime form,
British riflemen in the international
fsmall bore match just ended demon
strated their superlority over the
Americans by an overwhelming wvie
tory, The match was a friendly one,
with, small bore Trifles on . gallery
ranges in the respective countries.
The results were announced by chale,
The British team made the grand
total of 14,583 points out of a possi
ble 15,000, or an average of 291 per
man. The scores of the American
team were 14,179,
Chattanooga appears to be making
a runaway race of the Sally league,
but the other teams are strengthen
ing right along. £ 0
In the Southern league there is llke-|
ly to be a very marked division be
tween the first-flight clubs and the!
second-fiight performers. Atlanta,
New Orleans and probably Nashville
and Memphis seem likely to class far
ahead of the other four clubs. Bir
mingham, Montgomery, and Mobile
seem to be weak again, with Little |
Rock an uncertainty, as usual - l
The umpires of the Southern and
Sally leagues seem to have gotten off
pretty well, At Jeast none of them
have been mobbed yet. They seem to |
be a pretty classy lot, |
Paul Cobb will not play with the
Augusta club after all. He is still the
property of the St. Louis Americans
and has left to join them. Augusta
wanted Cobb, but the big leaguers put
too high'a price on him.
President Jones of the South At
lantic is making a round of the
league to ascertain whether the sal
ary limit is being violated. v
The majority of the men playing
with the Columbus team have seen
gservice in the Southern league, one{
of the “classiest” of minor keague or
ganizations. Becker, Coveney, Riggs,
Massing, Fox, Eyler and then some, |
have all played in the Class A circult.
More than one thousand automo
biles took part in New York's annual
carnival parade held under the aus
pices of the Automobile Trade asso
ciation. Prizes aggregating $2,000
were distributed to the best decorat
ed vehicles. More than two hundred
thousand persons, it was estimated,
viewed the picturesque five-mile line.
Arrangements have been made for
an attraction that will make the year
1909 memorable in the history of
American golf. The latest item of
news is of international flavor, and
has to do with an exhibition tour of
that rising Scotch professional,
George Duncan, who has been engag
ed to visit this country
Regarding the probable future of
the South Atlantic league, President
W. A. Jones had the following to
say: “Just make that as opti
mistic as vou like, The attendance
in all of the cities has been exceed
ing encouraging; and the new addi
tions to the league are drawing es
pecially well, Nearly all of the teams
have new man?gers, and as a matter
of course, the new managers are
striving to give their respective cities
a winning team. Interest, therefore,
in the various cities of the league is
aroused to the highest pitch and the
outlook is bright for a most success
ful season for this league.” |
Rev.. Dr. William J. Hinley, minis
ter of the gospel and fan, preached a
baseball sermon to his flock in Pil
grim Congregational church at the
opening of the league season in Spo
kane, Washington, speaking of life as
a confirmed rooter would expound the
rules of the game. He talked of the
battery, fielders, basemen, coaches
umpire and the man at bat. |
Pitcher MecGinnity says the great
strain on Christy Mathgavson’s arm
last year will tell this se&n and the
great pitcher will have to be worked
very carefully. o
It is rumored in Beaumont, Texas,
that a determined effort will be made
by promoters of that town to stage
the Johnson-Jeffries match. The idea
i{s to build a big fight pavillion on an
island in Sabine lake, twenty miles
from there. The island in question
is about four miles from the shore‘
lines of Louisiana and Texas, and is
congequently without their jurisdic
tion, coming under the federal gov:
ernment.
Columbus has about the strongest
outfield in the South Atlantic league
this season in Becker, Riggs and Mas
sing. Al three of these men are
sure to hit .300 in the Sally league
this season. I
Hank Mathewson, a brother of the
mighty Christy Mathewson, is pitch
ing for the Savannah team in the
South Atlantic league and is travel
ing along at a great rate. 4
Dr. J. &. Selden of Macon defeat
eqd 0. B. JQmison in the Georgia State
golf chompionship in a contest that |
ran so close that it took thirty-fivel
of the thirty-six holes to decide it‘i
Dr. Selden had a hard fight to win‘l
out, as Jemison pushed him close all
the way. ‘
An idea of what it is going to (~ostl
President Comiskey to take his Chi
cago'fiiam on its round-the-world tripl
in the winter of 1910 may be gained
from the fact that it costs about $450 |
to Manilag and return from San Fran
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Richard Croker sailed for Europe,
got to return until after next election
| day. : .
l.earned Hand was sworn in as a
United States District Judge in New
York City.
| The Rev. Charles T. Aiken has re
signed as head of the Susquehanna
- University.
~ Colonel Roosevelt Kkilled three
lions and his son Kermit one in first:
hunt after king of beasts in Africa.
- The pastorate of the Euclid Ave
‘nue Baptist Church,of Cleveland, has
been offered to the Rev. William Wal
ter Bustard, of Roxbury, Mass.
| Corneliug N. Fellowes, for years
head of the Horse Show and secre
tary of the Coney Island Jockey Club,
died after a reconciliation with his
son.
Dr. Rowland G. Freeman, special
ist in the diseases of children, de
clared the solution of the pure milk
problem lay in dairy hygiene and not
pasteurization.
The Rev. Dr. J. L. Caughey told in
a sermon ‘Why People Don’t Go to
Church” after a canvass covering
fifty-seven Harlem (New York)
blocks and embracing 56,600 per
sons.
Lewis Nixon approved/ Secretary
Meyer's plan of cutting away need
legs superstructure on battleships,
and said he thought warships of the
future will be mastless, smokeless
and sparkless.
Arrived back in London, Harry'
Lauder says: “And you want to know
what T thouglit of President Roose
velt? Well, he's the kind of a man
who ' doesn’t care what any man
thinks of him, so there!”
John Dennin Hall, said to have
held more patents for inventions than
any other man in the country except
Thomas A. Edison, died of pneumo
nia at St. Luke's Hospital, New York
City. He was eighty vears old.
Manager Dominick J. Mullaney of
the Jacksonville team declares that
in his opinion, Newt Fisher ruined
the best diamend in the Southern
states when he set out sod on the
Augusta infield. ¢
A peculiar coincidence is that both
Memphis and Atlanta are pleying un
outfielder on the initial sack, and - bhoth
of them are from the Virginia league.
Henn and Stinson are the men in
question. /
Ty Cobb, who almost came to hlows
recently with Nig Clarke, has prom
ised the catcher a beating on sight.
As the result of a conference in
New York city between Jim Jeffries,
Jim Corjett and Sam Berger, the fol
lowing points have been decided:
First—Jim Corbett will be in Jef
fries’ corner as an adviser when he
fights Johnson. e
Second—Corbett says that ' Jeffries
today looks to be in as good condition
as when he fought and defeated him
(Corbett) at Coney llsland and again
at. San Francisco. He predicts cer
tain victory for Jeffries,
Third—The battle between the un
‘defeated heavy-weight champion and
Tqhnson will take place,in the United
States. ;
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Detroit, Mich. — Captain Carlisle
D. Graham, fifty-eight years cld, who
achieved fame by successfully mak
ing the perilous trip through the Ni
agara Rapids five times, died here in
the home of his sister from a cold.
Four times Captain Graham went
through the rapids in a barrel and
once he swam the distance. He ar
rived here on his way to his home in
Philadelphia after visiting-in Winni
peg, and traveling ‘through the Can
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futility of searching undér the bureau
instead of calling a surgeon. -