Georgia Historic Newspapers

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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.
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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.
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COTTON IMMUNE
10 BOLL HIL
STATE ENTOMOLOGIST PERFECTS
A NEW STRAIN—ALSO RESISTS
WILT—IS LONG STAPLE.
PEST ARRIVES NEXT YEAR
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-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, ’ —
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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.