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VOL. XI. NO 10.
Georgia Colags
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Woman Kill* Husband.
John S. Moore, who resides eight
above Stock top, in Clinch conn-
*y. while drinking, started to beat his
wife, and she grabbed a pistol and
shot him dead. i
Several years ago Moore killed a
man in the house in which he lost his [ j
life.
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S, A. L. to Discontinue T !
rain*
Permission has been secured by be
Seaboard Air Line Iroad fro: the
railroad commission of Georgia .o dis¬
continue several of it s trains between
Atlanta and Athens, and 'he road pro¬
poses to make these changes effective
on Sunday, January 5.
This Is the second of the elimina¬
tions allowed, the first being on the
Macon and Birmingham railroad when
a "tri-weekly" service was substituted
for a daily service for one train.
The citizens of Athens are up in
arms over the proposed change,
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Headquarters of Union Moved.
The headquarters of the Farmers'
Union have been moved from Barnes-
ville, where they have been for more
than a year to Union City near At¬
lanta.
Since the headquarters have been in
Barnesville the organization has en¬
joyed a wonderful growth so that it
now numbers nearly one hundred
thousand members in this state.
J. T. McDaniel will be in charge of
the office of secretary-treasurer, suc¬
ceeding J. L. Barron, who assumes
the management of the Union Phos¬
phate company, recently organized by
the members o? the Farmers' Union
for the purpose of furnishing fertiliz
ers for the farmers.
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New Trial Denied Johnson.
A motion for a new trial In the case
pf Andri v j -Johnson, the negro con¬
victed and S'\toneed to bo banged Iti
Atlanta for the murder of Officer A.
Mauler, was denied by Judge Roan
of thp criminal division of tbe Fulton
superior court Saturday morning.
Judge W. R. Hammond, counsel for
Johnson, stated that lie would carry
the case to the state supreme court,
’and a stay of execution wllf be se¬
cured.
Judge Hammond based his motion
for a new tgia! upon certain exceptions
which be took to Judge Roan’s charge
to the jury and upon the ground that
the verdict of the jury was not jus¬
tified by the evidence.
Judge Roan held that the verdict of
the jury was in accordance with the
evidence and overruled the objections
made by Judge Hammond to his
charge.
Johnson was sentenced to hang on
January 3, but his execution is post¬
poned until the higher court takes ac¬
tion in the case.
Fertilizer Tags Ready.
AH ararngements have been perfect¬
ed by Captain J. F. Johnson, chief
clerk in the fertilizer office in the
department of agriculture at the state
capitol, for the sale of fertilizer tags
which will begin at once. In antici¬
pation of .this rush, Commissioner Hud¬
son has bought eight million tags,which
have arrived and are stored in the
capitol.
These tags are placed ten to a'ton of
fertilizer and twenty to a ton of
ton seed meal, the price of the first
being one cent each, and of the latter
one-half cent. The reason for the dif¬
ference is that fertilizer is sacked ten
sacks to the ton, and cotton seed meal
at twenty sacks to the ton.
The department finds that the sales
of cotton seed meal are increasing an-
nuallv, as the farmers are finding this
to be a most desirable fertilizer, in ad¬
dition to its well known feeding value.
It is fro m-ttae sale of all these tags
that the district agricultural schools of
the state are supported, and the pro-
ceeds derived this year will in al! prob¬
ability be greater than ever, for the
indications are that the farmers will
plant less cotton and fertilize more
heavily. The sale of these tags Is
heaviest during the months of January,
February and March.
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Cheeks Were Held Too Long.
A question which will, doubtless,
have to be determined by the attorney
general, at an early date, will be that
of checks sent out to pay the state
school teachers, drawn on the now de¬
funct Neal bank at Atlanta, a state
depository, and which were not pre¬
sented for collection in time to be
paid.
Two checks were received at the
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTy.
HOMER Vi I,LE, GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 3, 1908.
state treasury a few days ago, which
were returned, as mad.- out to a coun¬
ty school commissioner with which he
was to pay off the school teachers"
One of these checks was dated Sep¬
tember and the other November. It
will be a question to be determined
whether these checks were held out
too long and the county school com¬
missioner shall wait until the affairs
of the bank are liquidated and then
get his money: or whether he will no*
he paid until his money is received in
hand and the state treasurer Is to
send him another cheek.
The sum totalled by these tflo
checks was a little over $600, but
Brings up a - > t which Will have to be
settled before still others may come
in.
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Drunt Printer Kills Brother.
Nat Beadles was shot and killed
by his younger brother, Joe Beadles,
at ihc horn nt the latter near Ben¬
nett’s mil! in Fayette county. Joe
Beadles was a. printer, and had been
employed a: Mitten on a newspaper.
He w> i>. home to spend the holidays
with his mother, who lives near Fay¬
etteville. He began drinking and bis
mother, in fear, it is said, left the
house. She went to Fayetteville to
the home of her other son, Nat Bea¬
dles, who was a resident of the town.
After his mother told him of his
brother’s condition, Nat Beadles decid¬
ed (o go after him, as he feared be
might end the night by killing himself,
He found his brother raising a dis¬
turbance when lie reached ids home,
and he undertook to quiet him.
According to reports, Joe Beadles re¬
sented the advances of his brother,
and finally shot him to death. The
murderer was arrested and placed In
the Fayetteville jail.
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Charge* Against Prison Wardens.
Investigations now being made by
the Georgia senate committee on peni¬
tentiaries, headed by Senator J. W.
Brock, and the state prison commis¬
sion, headed by Chairman J. S. Tur¬
ner, bid fair to bring revelations of a
sensational nature.
Information haw been filed with the
Investigators to tbe effect that State
Warden Jake C. Moore and a number
of the convict camp wardens are guil¬
ty of having received various sums of
money from the lessees of convicts.
Soon after investigations were be¬
gun Warden Moore tendered his res¬
ignation, which the prison board will
accept at its meeting in January. Be¬
fore handing in his resignation the
warden admitted, it is said, that he
assisted certain lessees to sub-let por¬
tions of their allotment of convicts
at desirable rentals. The warden ex¬
plained that he had not intentionally
violated the rules of the commission,
but that he had been asked by some
of the lessees to aid them in placing
portions of their allotments, and had
done so purely as a matter of accom¬
modation.
The alleged prac tices are said to
have prevailed for years, and it is
declared that many of the officials
have waxed rich upon their incomes.
The money paid the camp wardens is
said to have been for favors and con¬
siderations shown the lessee? in the
matter of handling the convicts.
BOGUS BONDS REPUDIATED,
Governor Glenn of North Carolina Re¬
plies to Edward Andrews.
Governor Glenn of North Carolina,
in a letter received at New York Satur¬
day, replying to a communication from
Edward L, Andrews, who represents
holders of $11,000,000 of special tax
bonds of the state of North Carolina,
which matured three years ago, and
were never declared that t 1 / leg¬
islature has twice repudiated the bonds
and that the state would not pay one
cent for them. Governor Glenn de¬
dares that North Carolina has acted
fairly with i creditors, but that it
would not pay for bonds “conceived in
sin and brought forth in iniquity.’’
j NIGHT RIDERS BADLY SCARED.
j Kentucky Authorities Promise to Make
it Hot for Them.
i A special term of the (, hristian coun¬
ty, Kentucky, circuit court has been
ordered for the purpose -f rigidly in¬
vestigating the recent raid of night
i riders on Hopkinsville when about
! $200,000 worth of property was destroy-
■ ed and the local authorities and state
administration have made it plain that
. neither effort nor cost will be spared
^ track down and put in the peniten-
tlary every one of the masked riders.
The activity of Die state and local
authorities has caused a panic among
the night riders and their friends.
The Philadelphia ledger Lhinkst
"The new $1.0 gold pieces act just a3
skittish as tfie old ones,”
A MUDDLE IN NAVY
Result of the Brownson-Rixie
Quarrel Over Authority.
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ROOSEVELT IN QUANDARY I
Brownson Defied President by Refus¬
ing to Transmit Order. Assigning
Doctor to Command of Hos-
tal Ship.
A 'Washington special says: Not
since the days preceding the passage
of the personnel law ten years ago
has the feeling between the line and
staff of the navy been so acute as it
is just now. as the result of the re¬
fusal of Admiral Brownson to trans¬
mit orders from his superior officer,
the president of the United States, as¬
signing a naval surgeon to command
a vessel in the navy.
In the case of the personnel act, it
was Mr. Roosevelt, then assistant sec¬
retary of the navy, who acted the part
of the pacificator and succeeded in
bringing the two warring factions to¬
gether in support of tile legislation
which for a decade past, though a
makeshift, has served to maintain
peace between tho two factions in tlie
navy. In the present Instance, how¬
ever, the efforts of the president to
reconcile the surgeons and the line of¬
ficers has failed, and It Is wilpNbe probable
that the whole controversy
heard on its merits in congress. This
is much deprecated by conservative offi¬
cers in both line and staff, as like¬
ly to prove prejudicial to the navy’s
interest as a whole, for they believe
that in order to succeed in securing
from congress the four great battle¬
ships, the cruisers, scouts and subma¬
rines which form a part of the year's
naval estimates, in addition to secur¬
ing legislation (hat will better the lot
of naval officers personally, the navy
must present a united front, which
cannot be done If just at the begin¬
ning of a session, line and staff are
to engage In strife.
Through the published statement of
Surgeon General Rtxey, the merits of
the doctors’ side of the case in this In¬
stance have been clearly set forth. Line
officers believe that in common fair-
ness they should have a hearing! But
they are in an embarrassing position
in that respect, Admiral Brownson
preceded his resignation by a cold,
clear and logical presentation of the
reasons why he objected to command
a naval ship, even if the vessel were
exclusively devoted to hospital uses.
That, statement was submitted to the
president, and, notwithstanding the
staff has had its say in print, applica¬
tions at the white house for this let¬
ter are met with refusal. Now it is
clearly impossible for Admiral Brown¬
son or any of his line officers to make
public a copy of the letter without
incurring the event of a courtmartial
on charges of disrespect toward their
superior officer, the president of the
United States. So they can only look
for a change in the executive mind
or for the congressional investigation
which will develop all the facts.
It may be stated in the absence of
the text of Admiral Brownsan’s let¬
ter that his objection to the execution
of the president’s order to place a
surgoon in command of the hospital
ship Relief was twofold. In the first
place, like every line officer, he lie-
lieved that the subordination of any
line officer, no matter how low in
grade, to a staff officer ori shipboard,
was bad policy and subversive of na¬
val discipline. But a stronger objec¬
tion in his mind was that the pro¬
posed action was clearly illegal inas¬
much as it is forbidden by law or na¬
val regulation to assign a staff officer
to command a ship. It is only fair
to the staff to state that this is de-
Datable ground and that it would not
be difficult to construe tbe naval laws
and regulations in either way. So it is
not to be doubted that when the sub¬
ject come* before congress for consid¬
eration the lawyers in that body will
| find material to support either conten¬
tion.
REAR ADMIRAL BROWNSON OUT.
Quits His Post Because of Conflict
With Surgeon-General Rixey.
President Roosevelt has received and
accepted the resignation of Rear Ad-
miral William H. Brownson us chief
of the bureau of navigation. Captain
Cameron _ MeR. Winslow , . has been , ap-
pointed to succeed the admiral.
A serious breach exists between the
bureau of navigation and the bureau of
medicine of the navy, of which Surgeon
Gencral Rixey is the head, involving
the question of the responsibility of the
latter bureau.
A HOBBY OF HOBSON,
Hero of the Merrimac Proposes That
Uncle Sam Run a Weekly News¬
paper of Free Circulation,
!
A Washington dispatch says: An
officirt’l journal to be published weekly
by the government, and oftener if nec¬
essary, and which shall contain brief
notices of tbe work of the various ex¬
ecutive departments and independent
bureaus of the government, of the su¬
preme court of tbe United States and
of the proceedings of congress so far
as they may be of general public in¬
terest is provided for in a bill which
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson
of the sixth Alabama district proposes
to introduce after the holidays. The
sum of $75,000 is appropriated for the
equipment and $275,000 for the ex¬
penses of issuing the publication.
Captain Hobson lias gone to some
pains to properly convey bis idea of
what the journal should be, and has
printed a number of specimen copies
containing just, such matter as would
b« expected to fill Its columns.
In tepqfaklng of his bill, Captain
Hobson said:
"The official journal is intended to
make a connecting link between the
government and the public, and will be
in effect a periodical report to the peo¬
ple of tbe work done by all branches
of the government. The project grew
out of my having ascertained that a
vast amount of visible material did not
reach the people for whom it was in¬
tended. 1 believe this journal will he
a means of familiarizing the people
with the really stupendous work that
their government is doing and will re¬
move distrust and suspicion and cre¬
ate renewed interest and confidence
among the masses in governmental af¬
fairs.
" [ t. cannot help but nki tbe press of
the country, not only in furnishing a
ready index, but in creating a taste
and demand for reading matter ana
for additional information upon impor¬
tant subjects that can only be touched
upon In the journal.”
If is provided in the bill that the
journal shall he nori-partisan, and shall
contain no editorial comment. In case
It should be deemed advisable provis¬
ion also is made for the simultaneous
publication of the journal at one point
fn the middle west and at one point
on the Pacific coast. The journal is
to bo distributed free.
TAFT UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED
By the Kansas Republican State
Central Committee.
At. a strenuous session of the Kansas
republican state central committee at
Topeka, Secretary of War William H.
Taft was unanimously endorsed as the
choice of the party in Kansas for pres¬
ident.
The state convention is called for
March 4 at Topeka. The resolution to
nominate state officers by the primary
system was tabled by a vote of 13
to 16.
DEATH GRIPS -‘SKELETON MAN.”
Was Over Six Feet Tall, But Weighed
Only Eighty Pounds.
Charles II. Perry, who traveled with
several circuses for sixteen years, fig-
tiring as “The Skeleton Man,” was
found dead Sunday in a hut in the out-
skirts of Providence, R. I., where he
had lately led a hermit’s life,
Death was due to natural causes.
Perry was known to the public as “Eu¬
gene Feralto.” Although he was six
feet one inch in height, he weighed
only eighty pounds.
SHEET LEAD OR SKELETON?
Grave of Druce Being Opened at Lon¬
don to Settle Question.
A London special says: The work
0 f opening the grave of Thomas Chas.
Druce, in High Gate cemetery, to de¬
termine primarily whether the coffin
contains the body of a man, or, as has
been asserted, a roll of sheet lead
weighing some 200 pounds, was begun
Sun rtav
THAW ACTS SANTA CLAUS.
He Made Christmas Presents to Every
One In Tombs Prison.
Harry Thaw has made Christmas
presents to every one in the Tombs,
wh)ch ha * been hlg home ginC e the
ntght of j une _ 19oe , when he B hot Stan-
ford . , White „„ on ... the roof , of , Madison ..
Sr l' )ara K ar,J,!n - To each kee P er he save
a box of cigars, and to each matron a
half-dozen handkerchiefs. To each
‘wale prisoner he gave a box of choco-
late and two cigars, and to each woman
prisoner a handkerchief,
.50 CENTS PER YEAR
FIVE DIE I WRECK !
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Fast Passenger Collides With
Double-Header Freight,
MANY NARROWLY ESCAPE
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Those Killed Were All Members of the j
Train Crews—Dense Fog Hid Sig¬
nal of Wrongly-Turned 1
Switch. I
Speeding through a dense fog at |
Grand rank i
40 miles an hour, i pas- ;
senger train No. 5, which It it Port)
Huron shortly before 7 o’clock i a;,,
night for Detroit, collided head-on with
a double-header freight train, half a
mile north of Lenox, Mich. )
Five trainmen met death, four be¬ |
killed instantly, the fifth dying i
ing
three hours later. All of the passen¬
gers escaped Berious injury. The kill¬
ed were Engineer Bennett of the pas¬
senger, Engineer Bohowski of the
first freight engine. Fireman Boughner,
Fireman Albert McCall, Switchman W.
C. Taylor.
The passenger locomotive plowed
under the engines of the double-header
and the trainmen were buried in the
wreckage. Their bodies were terribly
mangled and scalded by the escaping
steam.
Engineer Fred Hang and Fireman
Washburn of the second freight en¬
gine escaped death. Haug was caught
in his cab, but was taken out unhurt.
Washburn jumped and was only very
slightly injured.
Ail the dead trainmen lived in De¬
troit.
The freight train had switched from
the main track to a siding to allow
the passenger to pass. It is alleged j
that the switch was not properly closed j
and on account of the heavy fog which
prevailed the passenger could not see
that the target was set against them.
MARRIES FULL-BLOODED INDIAN.
Denver Girl Defies Pare»*al Opposition
and Takes Red Man as Choice.
News has been received in Denver,
Cal., that, Miss Cora Marie Arnold, of
that, city, was married Monday, Decem¬
ber 23, in Santa Fe, N. M., to Albino
Chavarria, a full-blooded Indian. The
wedding ends a romance which began
five years ago during the mountain and
plain festival, when a number of In-
dians were brought to the city.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Mr. Rendon, a Presbyterian cler¬
gyman, and was witnessed by the sis¬
ters of the bride, Misses Lillian and
Geneva Arnold of Denver.
Chavarria is chief of the Santa Clara
Indians, a tribe of the Pueblos in New
Mexico. With a large number of Ills
tribesmen he was In camp in the city
park in Denver five years ago, when
Miss Arnold saw him and immediate!)
formed an attachment for him. After
frequent visits to the camp Miss Ar
nold Invited the Indian to call at her
home. She lived at the time in a fash¬
ionable flat with her sisters and her
stepfather, George Wilder.
The Indian’s first visit to his sweet¬
heart w|s the cause of a disagreement
between her and the remaining mem-
hers of her family. Objection was made
only to the Indian race, his character
being above reproach. In April, 1905,
Mr. Wilder jumped overboard from t
steamer In the Gulf of Mexico and .at
drowned, He left a will in wb'< h he
disinherited the present Mrs. ’Chavar¬
ria because of her refusal to give up
her present Indian lover. The sisters
ol Miss Arnold finally consented to the
marriage and one month ago they went
with her to New Mexteb.
Chavarria is full civilized, religious,
fairly well-educated am"-well > -do, He
owns a large farm near t' , , N. M.,
which he cultivates lo w.
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BOOKKEEPER AN EMBEZZLER.
Made Way With $35,000 of Firm's Cash
and is Arrested.
On complaT' i of the New Jersey
Boiler compat of Boonton, N. J., Sam-
uel H. Debrel t van arrested and placed
in Morristow | jail charged with the
embezzlement of $35 1 0. Debrell was
employed as a book - . per by the com¬
pany and was arrested as a result of
an examination of his books Friday at
his home in Norfolk, Va.
FURNITURE PLANT BURNED.
Flames at Shrevepot, La., Entail Loss
of $125,000.
Fire, believed to be of incendiary
origin, early Friday morning, complete¬
ly destroyed he plant of the Union
City Furniture Manufacturing company
at Shreveport, La. The loss Is placed
at $125,000. Insurance, $50,000.
NEW FLORIDA SENATOR*
William Bryan, of Jacksonville, Named
By Governor Broward to 9ucceed !
Senator Mallory for Short Term.
Governor Broward, of Florida, Wed-*
nesday appointed William James Bry¬
an, of Jacksonville, to be United States
senator, vice Stephen R. Mallory, de-
ceased, for the balance of the term ex-
piring March 4, 1909.
Mr. Bryan is a prominent young at¬
torney, only 31 years of age, and now
holds the position of county solicitor
for Duval county.
He was born in Orange county, Flor-
ida, October 10, 1876. He fs the son erf
j„j, n jyj, Bryan, vyho served fourteen
years as state senator and afterwards
as a member of the state railroad com¬
mission.
Mr Bryan was reared in the vicinity
of his birth-place and attended the
Jacksonville schools: Later he attend-
oil Emory college, at Oxford, Ga., where
ho graduated with the degree of bache¬
lor of arts in 1896. Three years later
he graduated professional at Wash¬
ington and Lee university and at once
began the practice of law in Jackson¬
ville.
In 1902 he was nominated in the pri¬
maries for county solicitor of the crim¬
inal court of record or uuvai ceunty
ami still holds that office.
Mr. Bryan is a member of the law
firm of Bryan & Bryan, his partner be¬
ing Honorable Nathan P. Bryan, chair¬
man of the state educational board of
control. He has always been In active
politics and is at present a member of
the democratic executive committee,
of which Honorable Duncan U. Fletch¬
er is chairman.
About two months ago Mr. Bryan
announced his candidacy for the United
States senatorship to succeed Senator
Mallory.
Senator Mallory Buried.
The funeral services of Senator Mal¬
lory ware held in Pensacola Tuei
attended by a concourse or ^
from over the entire
mony with Senator M II
and the terms o:
was church. held quietligP® fj IS
ollc
Bon Was named, V ' 1
peclally adjolnii^ra|^||mj! so reqiiJ&j , gllBB
in a lot
rents and favorlit^^^ DA’tI ^J^
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DAVIS APPOINT8 .
To Fill Only Two Government P'tw
tlons at His Disposal.
Jefferson Davis, the new senator
from Arkansas, who broke ail prece¬
dents by r sensational speech before
the senate seven days after his advent
into that body, has new claim to fame.
It will be recalled that Mr. Davis
announced to the people of Arkansas
that when he got to Washington he
would reform the senate. The Arkan¬
sas senator has begun this reform by
the appointment of two of his daugh¬
ters to the only two government posi¬
tions which he has at his disposal as a;
United States senator. Each demo¬
cratic senator has the appointment of
a private secretary and a laborer, Mr.
Davis keeps both of these positions in
the family and thereby sets a new pre¬
cedent in the senate.
DECLINES TO MOOIFY ORDER.
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Georgia Railroad Commission Firm On
Anti-Free Pass Matter.
T he railroad commission has issued
a formal reply to the several petitions
and requests for a modification of gen¬
era) orders three and four, which pro¬
hibit the issuance and acceptance of
free transportation on common car¬
j Hers, both *o matter of passenger
j j and The freight traffic.
commission efuses flatly to re-
cade from its position, and the order*
become effective on January 1. They
will have the effect of cutting off all
free railroad and street car passes
within the state, and will also apply to
shipments of freight.
The anti-pass order applies alike to
members of the police force and other
city employes and will bar them from
free transportation. It was this class of
people who petitioned for relief.
CATHOLIC PARADE BROKEN UP.
Free Thinkers in Cuban Province At¬
tacked Marchers With Stones.
In San Antonio de lob Banos, Ha¬
vana province, the Catholics wera pa¬
rading a few days ago, carrying images
j I tron of the saint, virgin when saint, Free Antonio, Thinkers as stoned pa-
them, shouting, ."Death to priests!”
“Down with the Catholic religion!”
The Catholics, who numbered 4,OOOi
resisted. Three children in the p roj^m
sion were the ouiy ones hurt. JH
Fra- Thinkers were finally distal J§m3m
by the police.