The Wheeler herald. (Alamo, Ga.) 1912-19??, January 03, 1913, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textr WAITERS Jre evicted * Wn g. seiffert of mil- JKEE AND DANIEL BUCK LEY OF IOWA ACQUITTED. •.. Loners marched to jail Sobs of Wives of the Convicted Men Fill Court Room £t Verdict. Appeal Will Be Taken. Indianapolis, Ind.—Sentences aggregating 113 years were im posed by Judge A. B. Anderson hi Federal court upon 38 labor leaders found guilty tn the na tional dynamite Conspiracy. The heaviest sentence was seven years, pronounced upon Frank M. Ryan, presideitt of the Inter national Association of Bridge and Structural Iron’Workers. Eight oLthe convicted men got sentences of six years, two got four-year terms 1 , twelve drew three years, four got two years and six' got one year and one day. Edward Clark, who pleaded guilty and turned state’s evi dence received a suspended sen tence. W * T T T T ▼ TVTITTTTTT k Indianapolis, Ind.—Thirty-eight -of ■ i fo’ty union labor official accused Si conspiracy in the transportation of JL namite were found guilty by the If erdict of the jury returned before '‘fudge Anderson in the Federal court ere. Two of the accused men were Acquitted. They were Herman G. eiffert of Milwaukee and Daniel . , uckley of Davenport, lowa. L The sound of a pin drop could have ■ .Ajen heard when Judge Anderson ask ■ ' -n? he j ur y ; -gentlemen, have you reached a L /"diet?” & h answer came: 1 ^AaveJ” ' B tnat‘.„ I)Ort of the j ury ag read in Mba, *«’ room follows: 81/ ..'eby-xfind the defendants ■F^’-wcd 38' names, Frank Ryan Hffi^M\b. o iockiu and Chancy follow ^■-ilty as charged in the indict- Bg^. • t ■ the defendants, Buckley and not guilt” ” Bjert and Buckley were discharg ■pnee, and the rest told to keep Bleats, and were, taken in charge M^riited States deputy marshals and clothes men. - sobs of the wome nin the court V in addition to the screaming of gßß.hild in the (filter lobby, height | the awfulness of the scene. ^^^Kie defendants ^ere singled out Btbi> one, and they were put in M^^Ke of detectives. Ki returns from canal ^Hyage Foom Colon to Key West Was ■ Rough—MaH Fell Overboard. J Kes West, Fla. —President and Mrs- Col. George W. Goethals and Mis. Goethals and a number of their ^friends arrived off Key West on the iited Stahtes battleships Arkansas did Delaware, aft^r a quick trip from *:5olon and the .Paframa canal zone. . The presidential party was brought I d^hore by the government tug Peoria 1 and. started north by special train. The voyage ■ from Colon to Key West, more than 1,100 miles, was made in a little^ more than sixty hours, over waters troubled only by a heavy swell and roughened by brisk trade winds. A spectacular res cue of a coal-passer on the Delaware who fell overboard at 7 in the mom ' ing was missed by practically every member of the party. When the m^ii fell overboard the big battleship turned a complete cir cle, put Off a boat, picked up the coal passer and resumed her course in less than fifteen minutes. Great Spy ^Conspiracy Detected. , London.—A { Berlindispatch to the Exchange TeleVaph company reports the discovery of the greatest espion age conspiracy known for years. Thir ty men and women, including Germans and Russians, have been arrested, ■ SIO,OOO in Loot Taken. New York. —An epidemic of bold robberies and safe crackings in the Bronx borough, apparently the work of an organized band of criminals who are estimated to have realized something like SIOO,OOO in loot from their operatfSns, has been ended, the police believe, by the arrest of five men and two /"omen. A chance pick up by a. tJrrceman of a suspicious character < " gave his name as Har ry Gillar am; upon whom were found skeleton keys, sage drills, led to a raid on an apartment and arrests. Automobile Kills and Maims. Los Angeles, Cal. —Hal Shain, a well known automobile racer, receiv ed injuried that caused death in half an hour, three others were seriously hurt and a number slightly cut and (bruised, when Shain’s machine shot /out of the qup-shaped track on the / concession pier at Venice «"<’ plans:- / ed into the crowd. Shain had been one of the chief attractions at Ven ice, because of tte small size of the track, on which ro<^, and the great ^peed /it which he traveled. CHANCED HER MII^D By CECILIA MORDAUNT. "Really, Phil, I can’t marry you!" exclaimed Helen Ayres, impatiently. 'Tve said ‘No,’ now, for the last time. Please don't bother me any more about it. I’m never going to marry anybody. My work absorbs my whole life.” Philip Jordan accepted her refusal without comment. It was the seventh time he had asked Helen to be his wife. He was quite used to hearing her say "No, but Philip had his own ideas about, her “career." "All right, my dear; but lunch with me tomorrow, anyway, at the tea room.” "I can’t," she replied In a terse man ner. “I’m going to meet Harriet West We were at school together, and I’ve not seen her for five years. Harriet took up social service work and I newspaper work, then magazine writ ing. We promised to meet on the Sth of November, Harriet’s birthday, at the end of five years and tell each other all about our progress. "Harriet is coming to New York, and we are to lunch at Sherry's." "Do you think she will be there?” Inquired Philip. “Os course she will. Harriet was as keen about her work as I am about mine. How we will enjoy talking over schooldays and the fulfillment of our ambitions!" "Well, will you dine with me? After the Intellectual afternoon, perhaps you may need some recreation. We’ll go for a motor ride afterward.” “Thank you, Phil; I can’t promise. Perhaps; I'll call you up at the club if I decide to do so.” At 1 o’clock the next day, Helen, dressed in her prettiest afternoon frock, wearing a huge bunch of violets, waited in the reception room at Sher ry’s. She looked with inquiring in terest into the eyes of all the women who entered. Some of them she bow ed to, exchanging a few words of greeting with others, for a successful writer of clever stories has many friends. At 1:30 Helen glanced at her little jeweled watch with a frown of impa- Heace, Harriet had not arrived. Sure ly .e could not have forgotten the engagement, although Helen had re ceived no reply from a note she had sent to the Philadelphia address of her friend, reminding her of their pact One-forty-five. Helen began to grow fidgety. Two o'clock. She had waited an hour. Well, there was no need to wait longer. She called up her apart ment to see if any message had come from the absent Harriet. Nothing there, so she ordered a salad and some coffee and ate her lunch alone, won dering what could have happened to her friend. She would walk home. The cold air and bright sunshine would do her good. As she was passing a little toy shop on Eighth avenue her attention was attracted by a small child clinging to her mother’s hand and crying for a beautifully dressed doll which stood with outstretched hands in the win dow. “No, darling; mother cannot get it for you. Just look at the dollie, dear, and maybe Santa Claus will bring Helen one.” Attracted by the child’s name, Helen paused beside the little girl. The mother turned. “Helen Ayers—you!” she exclaimed. “Harriet West! Why, I —did you forget ycur engagement to lunch with me?” “Engagement?” Harriet looked puz zled. "Yes, didn’t you receive my note? I sent it to your home address. And what are you doing with that child?” “This is my little daughter, Helen, named for you, dear. Come, darling, speak nicely to the lady.” “You married! What made you change your mind and give up your work? Oh, Harriet!” There was dis appointment in Helen’s voice. “Yes, dear. I married. Ted Mitchell nearly four years ago. We have lived in New York two years.” "But why?” "Because he loved me—and I fell in love with him. Oh, Helen, do come home with me for tea. Ted will be so glad to meet you. He’s so often heard me speak of you. He is the dearest husband In the world.” So Helen permitted herself to be led home with Harriet Mitchell and baby Helen. Then she met Ted—the won derful Ted, who was really a very commonplace person, but devoted to his wife and little daughter. They were such a happy trio, so lov ing, so cheery- Harriet beamed cn Ted and he beamed back at her. Their love glorified the tiny flat, which seemed to radiate happiness. Helen caught herself wondering if. after all, a home with loved ones was not bet ter than an apartment and the serv ices of a maid. She ’wondered if she and Phil —but all of a sudden she re membered that she must call Phil; she had a dinner engagement with him. Making excuses and promising to come to see the happy little family soon again, she hurried out At the corner was a drug store. Helen caught her breath as she entered the telephone booth, but unhooked the re ceiver with a determined hand. "Hello! Ib that you, Phil? Yes, this is Helen. Tve changed my mind, Phil. No, not about that —about dinner. I will haV3 dinner with you. Yes.' All right Oh, well, yes; if you care td ; ask me again. I have changed my i mind about that, too.” Winner or Loser. Binks—An eastern man married as the result of an election bet Jinks—One of the losers, eh? GEORGIA DEiiELOPS MILE COTTON State Entomologist Ready for 801 l Weevil and Black Root —Other Important Work. Atlanta, Ga. — (Special.)—By cross ing Egyptian long staple cotton with a domestic variety called Dixie, the Georgia State Department of Ento mology has produced an entirely new variety, as j’et unnamed, which will meet boll weevil conditions, by matur ing early, and will at the same time resist the black root or wilt disease. This new variety of cotton, which has been developed under the direc tion of State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham, is an intermediate long sta ple cotton, that will bring a price far in advance of the ordinary upland or short staple cotton. It Is of a kind that will bring about twenty cents a pound on the regular market, under normal conditions. After a long and careful series of experiments, under the direction of Mr. Worsham, this cotton has been produced with a combination of qual ities never before possessed by any one variety. It has three elements which are of hundred-fold value for the very reason that they are com bined; it meets boll weevil conditions, it resists the wilt disease, and will grow practically anywhere in the cot ton belt, whereas Sea Island cotton, the only other long staple variety in j this country, is confined to a narrow belt near the sea coast. This new strain, of cotton was evolved to meet the peculiar situation which will develop in Georgia when the boll weevil crosses over from Ala bama next year. All specialists had agreed that the best way to combat boll weevil was to use early matur ing varieties, but in Georgia it was found that the varieties which ma tured early were peculiarly suscepti ble to black root and would only es cape one pest to be ruined by another. In the light of this situation, the very great importance of the State Board’s contribution to the situation becomes at once apparent. More Seed Later. For the time being the supply of seed for this new strain will be small, as the State Department has only about an acre of it, but this is to be distributed in small quantities to farmers who will take a careful inter est in the development of the new variety and will cultivate it in ac cordance with rules furnished by the department. The seed will naturally be distributed first in that section of the state where the boll weevil will first strike, that is to say, in Southwestern Georgia. In the section which includes some twenty-five coun ties next to the Alabama line, Mr. Worsham has already organized cot ton-breeding clubs, composed of plan ters who will co-operate with the de partment in bringing about the fur ther development of the new cotton. The department, under Mr. Wor sham's guidance, is engaged in a continual and aggressive warfare against crop and fruit pests and dis eases, of all kinds. These diseases, it is estimated, would cost Georgia's crops $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 a year if no efforts were made to control them. The Red Spider Scourge. Mr. Worsham has issued a num ber of bulletins, dealing with various plant diseases and pests, which have attracted attention all over the coun try. His red spider bulletin in colors is considered an authority on the sub ject. These. bulletins are sent free to all applicants, whether Georgians or not. Mr. Worsham’s experiments have made possible the practical con trol of the red spider problem. An other free bulletin is about to be is sued, dealing with the mole cricket. It is the controlling of plant dis eases and insects that has made pos sible the growing of perfect fruit in Georgia. Through their work it is now possible to control at small ex pense the San Jose scale, peach cur culio, coddling moth of the apple, brown rot, apple scab and other orch ard diseases. In addition all nurse ries and growing stocks are inspected once a year, and a strict examina tion is made of all nursery stock im ported from abroad. Mr. Worsham is now planning for his agricultural institutes for next year. He holds about one hundred annually in connection with the State College of Agriculture, and -some twenty-five of his own, dealing solely with entomological subjects. In i< eb ruary he will organize cotton clubs in 25 counties immediately east of those already organized against the boll weevil. Any citizen of Georgia is at liberty to call on the depart ment for special service or assistance at any time without charge. The appropriations made by the legisla ture have been increased from SIO,OOO to $23,000 annually, since he took charge of the department. Mr Worsham was elected presi dent of the Southern Conservation Congress in 1910; later he was made chairman of the executive committee of the National Conservation Cpn gross, a -permanent institution. { * I \w / W—A C o 1 ; ^Z V "All ‘(Rd'* 0 ^ 0 ’ (v \ ! sr \r/\ i A' /A r-~- % fr’ \ X\ \ / 4rz. /I «. m. i / lA, r X \ x / 3 mDzt-sJ * — MifiV । aIK \ GA-/yy / I \ l TEXAS \\ LA/ \ 1 / / Map showing zones under parcels post system with Atlanta as central point Courtesy of Atlanta Constitution. COTTON IMMUNE 10 BOLL HIL STATE ENTOMOLOGIST PERFECTS A NEW STRAIN—ALSO RESISTS WILT—IS LONG STAPLE. PEST ARRIVES NEXT YEAR - -E. Lee Worsham Has Succeeded in Crossing Egyptian Long Staple and Dixie Cotton. —Atlanta. The Georgia . State Department of Entomology, under the direction of Entomologist E. Lee Worsham, has succeeded in crossing Egyptian long staple cotton with a variety called Dixie, and producing an entirely new strain that will meet boll weevil con ditions, resist the black root or wilt disease, and bring approximately 20 : cents a pound on the regular market . The problem which Mr. Worsham j has solved was one which was forc ed on Georgia, along with other South ern states, by the steady march of the boll weevil toward this territory. This problem was complicated by two facts. All specialists had agreed the best way to meet boll weevil con ditions was to use early maturing va rieties, but in Georgia, in many sec tions, it was found* that early varie ties were usually" killed out by the black root. The new strain of cotton, which has not yet been named, is the first cotton which has ever combined the qualities necessary’ to escape boll weevil and resist black root. It is a distinctly new long staple, and will grow almost anywhere in the cotton belt, while sea island, the other long staple variety in this country, can be grown only in a limited and narrow territory along the coast. The new variety, to define it with prevision, is an intermediate long staple, and will i bring a price far in advance of the ! ordinary upland or short staple cot ton. The boll weevil will strike south western Georgia first and all the. forc es of the state department of ento mology will be centered on that terri tory which is to be the original bat tleground in Georgia between the. new cotton and the weevil. The depart ment has only an acre of the new strain this year, and consequently the supply of seed will be small. It will be distributed at once, in small quan tities, to farmers in Georgia who will take a particular and careful interest in the further development of the va riety, and who will cultivate it in ac cordance with rules furnished by the state department.. Cotton breeding club composed of progressive planters in southwest Georgia, have already been organized by Mr. Worsham, and these dubs, in the section including some twenty five counties next to the Alabama line, wifi co-operate with the state department to be ready for the fight when the weevil, which is now only fifty miles away in Alabama, crosses over into Georgia. It will arrive next year. The department of entomology, un der the direction of Mr. Worsham, is striving to control the insect pest of descriptions that attack the various crops and fruits of Georgia. If no ef fort were made in this direction, in sect pests and plant diseases would cost Georgia’s crops a loss of $25,- 000,000 to $30,000,000 yearly. These estimates do not take into account the boll weevil, which has not yet touch ed Georgia. The red spider, which attacks cot ton and other kinds of vegetation, more particularly in green houses, has been made the subject by Mr. Worsham of a special bulletin in col ors, which has attracted attention all over the county, and which has been jof material value throughout the ! whole south. Mr. Worsham’s experi ! ments have made it possible to con ; trol the fed spider wherever it is ■ fou^d. Another important series of I researches has resulted in the issu ance of a bulletin on the mole cricket’ It will be ready for distribution in a few weeks. Larger Powers for Commission. The powers exercised by the Geor gia railroad commission are extend ed, and from now on the commission will have jprisdiction over every kind of public carrier, including such as steamboat lines, cabs and baggage companies and automobile transporta tion lines. Judge J. K. Hines, the special at torney for the commission, was called upon to say whether the commission should act upon the bonds and stock of an auto transportation company which is preparing to construct a con crete paved highway over which to run autos from Gainesville to Dahlon ega. He held that such a company came under the jurisdiction of the commission. In 1907 the legislature passed an act enlarging the powers of the rail road commission so as to include all steamboat lines, cab and baggage com panies and "all other common carriers operating within the state.” Because the title of the law failed to state specifically what sort of common car riers were included in the bill the act could not be enforced. But since then the law has been codified and under a decision of the supreme court no title is of force, as it is dropped in the code. In 1879 when the railroad commis sion was created it only had jurisdic tion over steam railroads. In 1907 its powers were extended to cover tele phone and telegraph companies and street railroad. Now it will act upon all matters pertaining to every kind of common carrier in the state, which will greatly increase its duties. The commission’s rate expert, J. Prince Webster, will begin at once the preparation of a list of ail steam boat lines and cab and baggage com panies doing business in the state. Georgia Electors Meet January 13. Georgia’s electoral college will meet at the state capital at noon on January 13 and cast their votes. The law which controls their actions is set forth in sections 80 and 89 to 95 of the code of 1895. Following the November election, the governor is required, within 20 days, to notify the electors who have been chosen and to “require their at tendance at the capitol on the second Monday in January next following their appointment to meet at twelve o’clock and give their vote for presi dent and vice president of the United States, and all acts and proceedings of the said electors and other offi cers of this state, relating to the elec- , toral votes thereof, shall conform to the acts- of congresss approved Febru ary 3, 2887, and October 19, 1'888.” When> the electors meet at the ap- | pointed hour, if there are any vacan- - cies, a majority of the whole num- ■ ber elected can fill those vacancies. I Thus if eight electors only appeared at Atlanta they could elect sfx other electors themselves, so that the en tire fourteen votes of the state might be cast. They must notify the gov ernor of such action. Should there not be a majority af ter waiting ten days—a majority of the electors failing to appear—the governor would be required to call the legislature together to choose other electors. Staite Has Charge of Cosmopolitan. At the called meeting of the stock holders of the Soßmopolitan Life In , surance company, which for the past 90 days has been in litigation with various dissatisfied stockholders and with the state, it was decided to place the affairs of the company in the hands of Gen. William A. Wright, state insurance commissioner, for re organization, and to place with him also the resignations of all the offi cers of the company. Representatives of 8,191 shares favored this action. A committee representing all was chosen to co-operate with General Wright in reorganizing the company, Panama Canal Conference. Salient facts stand out conspicuous In the summing up of what the South ern Panama canal conference accom plished ht its maiden sesesion at At lanta. The conference crystallized and gave formal expression to the South’s strong sentiment in favor of national legislation designed to accomplish the rehabilitation of the American mer chant marine. The conference adopt ed a vigorously worded resolution to this effect, taking care, however, to steer clear of the ship subsidy ques tion, ’ — .* - J May Bar Carolina Convicts Following the announcements that Governor Cole Blease, of South Caro lina, has granted wholesale pardons in the Palmetto state on the condi tion that the pardoned convicts leave the state immediately, Governor Brown stated that he will make an in vestigation to ascertain whether the state of Georgia can prevent exiled undesirably citizens of the state of South Carolina from settling in Geor gia. “I do not know,” said the governor, “whether anything can be done, but It is my opinion that nothing can be done so long as any of the convicts who may move to this state conduct themselves in an honorable and up right manner and maintain a stand ard of good citizenship.” Governor Brown criticised Govern or Blease for action in releasing pris oners on conditions which relieve his own state of the duty of keeping vigi lance over them and not only places that necessity upon neighboring states, but at the same time places In jeopardy the lives and property of the citizens of these states. “Such action on the part of Gov ernor Blease,” continued Governor Brown, “I think is to say the least one of great impropriety.” More Power for Health Board Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary of the state board of health, announced that he will request the board to petition the next legislature to pass a law which will give the board of health broader prerogatives in the handling of epidemics, such as the recent out break of cerebro-spinal meningitis at Midville, and at the same time to grant a larger fund with which to fight disease. This is not the first time that the legislature has been importuned upon these questions, appeals having been made op numerous former occasions, both directly to the legislature and through the governor, but it is the hope of the board secretary that through the publicity the status of the- board has recently gained by' rea son of the Midville incident the need for more power and more money mey for more power and more money may be impressed upon the legislators to better advantage than has been the case in the past. Much of the criticism of the board in the present instance, thinks Dr. Harris, has come about through a general lack of understanding of just how badly the hands of the depart ment is tied. While the act. which ! established the board, says Dr. Har ■ ris, apparently gives the board all necessary power properly to conduct ; its work, it is in reality almost com- I pletely handicapped because of old J provisions for handling situations i and work which should rightfully come within the jurisdiction of the board. The board was shorn of prac tically every prerogative except the right of declaring a quarantine, even prior to the controversry between the board and the city of Atlanta during the yellow fever -trouble, at which time the city carried its ease to the supreme court, with the result that the court d ecide( l the board did noc have the right to declare a state of quarantine. Nash Accepts Place in Militia Colonel Joseph Van Holt Nash, has accepted the position tendered by Governor Brown as adjutant general. Colonel Nash has a record of mili tary service extending through 25 years, four months and seven days, including important work In the At lanta Rilles, where he entered the ranks in 1886, to be promtoed to the leadership of the company six years later. During the period just preced ing the Spanish-American war he was captain and adjutant in the Fifth ’in fantry, and later lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp. During the war he headed a volunteer company Perfect Fruit for Georgia. As the result of scientific labors of the state department of entomol ogy, it is possible to grow perfect fruit in Georgia at comparatively small coat. It was Mr. Worsham and his assistants who blazed the way for that unrivaled product, “the Georgia peach,’ which has become fa mous not only in America, but throughout the wide world. The San Jose scale, peach curcullo, brown rot and other diseases which have re tarded peach growth in the past are now controlled in Georgia at small cost as the result of experiment.