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§ 1.00 A YEAK.
READY TO PURCHASE
APPALACHIAN LANDS
COMMISSION IS PREPARED TO
BEGIN CREATN1N OF TWO
NATIONAL FORESTS.
SOUTHERN PRESERVES FIRST
First Land to Be Examined by Ex¬
perts Will be in White and
Appalachian Mountains.
Washington.—The National Forest
Jteservation commission, created un¬
der the Weeks law, is ready to com¬
mence purchasing lands for the cre¬
ation of national forests in the Appa¬
lachian and White mountains, accord¬
ing to an announcement by the de
partment of agriculture. Under the
Weeks bill the secretary of agricul¬
ture was authorized to examine, lo¬
cate and recommend to the commis¬
sion for purchase of such lands as, in
his judgment, may he necessary for
regulating the flow of navigable
streams. The forestry service has
printed a circular giving information
as to where and what kinds of land
are wanted.
The land purchase will be restrict¬
ed to the states whose legislatures
have consented to the acquisition of
land by the government for preserv¬
ing the navigability of streams.
Maine, New Hampshire, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Tennessee and Geor¬
gia have already consented.
The first lands to be examined for
purchase will be in the Appalachian
and White mountains, because of
their altitude, steepness and lack of
rpotection, and which are considered
to be in a class to themselves.
The lands will not become game
preserves, the public still being able
to hunt and fish in accordance with
state laws.
CYCLONES WRECK TOWNS
Philadelphia, Pa., and Monroeville,
Ala., Visited by Fierce Winds.
Philadelphia. — A severe electrical
storm, accompanied by a high wind,
which, at times, blew with cyclonic
force, swept over the northern sec¬
tion of this city, leaving destruction
and death in its wake.
Buildings were demolished, houses
unroofed and the New York division
of the Pennsylvania railroad was
placed out of commission temporarily
by the demolition of its tower at
Holmesburg and station at Tacony,
Telegraph and telephone communi¬
cation, was also destroyed, but no
lives were reported lost
Monroeville, Ala.—A cyclone of in¬
tense force struck several small towns
in this section, and left death and de¬
struction in its wake. Thus far one
is dead and another is reported to be
dying.
Passing over the country in an east-
wardly direction from Bayly, Jones’
Mill, to Manistee Junction, the cy¬
clone killed Stephen Byrd and dan¬
gerously injured several others.
At Excel several person were in¬
jured, and a number of buildings were
destroyed.
NO PARDON FOR MORSE
President Taft Will Also Deny Banker
Walsh's Application for Freedom.
Washington.—Executive clemency
will not be extended at present to
Charles W. ilorse, the New York
banker, and John R. Walsh, the Chi¬
cago banker, who are serving fifteen
and five years’ sentences, respective¬
ly, in Federal pentitentiaries, the for¬
mer at Atlanta and the latter at Leav¬
enworth. The president has had be¬
fore him for several weeks applica¬
tions in both cases, and it was learn¬
ed that he will follow the recommen
dations of Attorney General Wicker
sham.
It is understood that Mr. Wicker-
sham recommended that inasmuch as
Walsh will be paroled under the new
Federal law next September, justice
would be better served if executive
clemency were not extended to him
In the case of Morse it is under¬
stood the attorney general was averse
to any immediate relief, but recom¬
mended that if there was to be a
commutation it should be such as to
make the sentence expire in five
years.
Affinity Charge Against Pastor.
Tampa, Fla.—Trouble growing out
of sensational charges and counter¬
charges between members of First
Congregational church of Tampa,
came to a head when Pastor Robert
Lee Kirkland was served with two in¬
junctions, staying him from trying
three members for stirring up strife
iu the church. The summoning of
members for trial before the church
committee followed the publication of
affidavits that Reverend Kirkland had
found an “affinity” In a young woman
In his flock. He has a wife.
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ADVERTISING THE SOUTH
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CON¬
GRESS WILL SPEND HALF
MILLION FOR PUBLICITY,
Campaign Formulated as a Result of
the Recent Convention in
Atlanta.
Washington.—Five hundred thou¬
sand dollars, $100,000 a year, to ad-
\ertise the South, with the Southern
Commercial Congress as a clearing
house, was the figure decided upon
by leading advertising agencies of the
Southern states who met in this city
at the call of Managing Director Dawe
of the congress to formulate plans
for the further publicity work of that
organization. This action is an out¬
growth of the convention of the con
gress recently held in Atlanta.
An elaborate campaign is being for¬
mulated. A resolution was adopted
that tire plan of the congress is the
most important and far-reaching and
will have the co-operation of the en¬
tire business community of the South.
ATLANTA'S OPERA SEASON
Sale of Season Subscription Tickets
Breaks World’s Record First Day.
Atlanta.—The Metropolitan Opera
company, with Caruso, Amato,
Siezak, Join, Geraldine Farrar,
Emmy Destinn, Marie Mattfeld,
Florence Wickham, and the
full ensemble of chorus, orchestra,
corps de ballet and scenario, toggitier
with three of the world-famous con¬
ductors — Arturo Toscanini, Vittorio
Podesti and Dr. Alfred Hertz, direct
from their own home, the famous
Metropolitan opera house, New York
—i* the combination that the Atlanta
Music Festival association is offering
the cultured music lovers of the
South 'n four full and complete pro¬
ductions of "The Girl of the Golden
West,” by Puccini; ‘ Konigskinder,"
by Humperdinck; “11 Trovatore,” by
Verdi, and "La Gioconda,” by Ponchi-
elli; on April 27, 28 and 29.
The sale of season subscription
tickets opened on the 20th of March
and the first day’s receipts exceeded
$25,000 and the first week ran well
’over $35,000. The sale of single per-
iormance tickets, for which there will
be an unprecedented demand, will
open on April 12, and the indications
are that the four performances, par¬
ticularly the Saturday matinee and
Saturday evening offerings, will mark
the most brilliant musical and social
occasions in the history of the South
up to this time.
Atlanta's offering must not be con¬
founded with the usual musical festi¬
val where a symphony orchestra of
fifty and half, dozen soloists are fea¬
tured. This is a- real grand opera
offering with the Metropolitan orches¬
tra of one hundred, chorus of 200,
full ballet and ensemble, with all the
stage settings, lighting effects and the
full New York cast of principals,, all
produced under the direction of Gatti-
Casazza himself and the full corps of
technical directors direct from the
Metropolitan opera house.
Mail Robbery in Florida.
Tampa. Fla.—Ten thousand dollars
in currency was stolen from a mail
pouch in transit between Tampa and
Clearwater. The theft was discov¬
ered when the mail pouch reached St.
Petersburg. The pouch had a slit in
one side eight inches long. The reg¬
istered package had been torn open,
the money extracted and the casing
pushed back in the mail bag. The
money was shipped from -Tampa by
the Exchange National bank and was
consigned to the Bank of Clearwater
at Clearwater, Fla.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
MEXICAN CABINET RESIGNS
It Is Hoped That Action Will Resull
in the Establishment of
Peace.
Mexico City.—The Diaz cabinet re
signed in a body at a special meet
ing of that board.
The reason given for the action it
an official announcement is the he
lief that it will contribute to the re
establishment of peace and facilitati
the reforms which are in contempia
tion.
Enrique C. Creel, minister of for
eign relations, presented the resigna
tions in behalf of all of the ministers
General Diaz thanked the retirinj
members for their efficient and patri
otic co-operation in the past and an
nouncod that lie would postpone hi:
acceptance or rejection until later.
Not. one of the men who until form
ed President Diaz’ cabinet is less thar
65 years of age
With the exception of Enrique C
Creel, minister of foreign affairs, al
have been members of the president';
official family for a great many years
nnd this fact aione has been one o:
the grievances of the Revolutionists
v ho have insisted that the chief ex
eeutive should surround himself witf
representatives of the younger gener
ation,
SOUTH'S VETERANS PRAISEL
Secretary of War Thanks Confeder
ate Veterans for Offer to Enlist.
Washington.—Declaration of the pa.
cific intentions of the adrninistratior
toward all the world and a trihul'
to the bravery and self-sacrifice of tm
South are the features of a letter ad
dressed by Secretary of War J. M
Dickinson, himself a Southerner, tc
an organization of Confederate veter
ans in Fort Worth, Texas, which of
fered its service as infantry to “oui
common country.”
Tile offer came from the “For
Worth Confederate Grays,” the lettei
stating that by unanimous vote tilt
organization had directed its officers
to tender service “for duty as Unitec
States soldiers on the Mexican bol¬
der, or in any other capacity as vol
unteers in the present crisis involving
the welfare of our common country.'
"You know what we were in the
sixties,” the letter concludes, “and w«
are still imbued with the same spir
it ” In a letter to the veterans, thank
ing them for their offer, Secretary
Dickinson says;
“It is gratifying to have this mani
festatioa of patriotism from Coni'ed
erate veterans. This, however, was
not needed to convince me that the
United States would have no more
loyal supporters than the people ol
the South in any ‘crisis involving the
v/elfare of our common country!’ You
gave an illustration to the world ol
the long and constant sacrifice of life
and property was made without stinl
and reserve and the end came only
with complete exhaustion of re
sources.
“This will stand as an illustriou;
example to the people of our country
if a period of storm and stress should
ever come, and will be pointed to, tc
stimulate them to meet every adver
sity and not be constrained by pe
cuniary losses or disturbances of busi
ness or destruction of commerce, t{
make a peace without honor.”
Steamship Line Fined $20,000.
Savananh, Ga.—The Merchants am)
Miners’ Transportation company waa
fined $20,000 by Judge Emory Speei
in the United States circuit court pur¬
suant to its conviction for violating
the act of the interstate commerce
act. The company was convicted oi
having discriminated on rates oij
grain shipped from Philadelphia to
Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla. Mil¬
ler & Miller were found not guilty
The Seaboard Air Line and the At
lantic Coast Line railroads were fined
$2,000 each.
MANY MILITIA OEFICERS
ARE READY TOR WAR
FIVE GEORGIA OFFICERS ORDER.
ED TO REPORT AT SAN AN-
TCNIO FOR INSTRUCTIONS.
120 OFFICERS WILL ACCEPT
Work of Inspecting State Troops Is
Progressing in a Satisfactory
Manner.
—Atlanta.
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4- W a s h in gton. — Apportioned 4
4- among the states and terirtories, 4
4 cording to their militia strength, 4
4- 200 National Guard officers will 4"
4- be sent by the war department +
4- to San Antonio, Texas, and 35 4
•4 to San Diego, Cal., on April 5, 4
4- for two week’s instructional ser- 4
4- vice with the mobilized regulars. 4
4- The department expects to send 4
4 a total of 1,000 militia officers to 4
4 the maneuvers at Federal ex- 4
4 pense. The first apportionment 4
4 includes; At San Antonio: Ala- 4
4 baina 6, Florida 2, Georgia 5, 4
4 North Carolina 44, South Caro- 4
4 lina 4, Tennessee 3, Virginia 5, 4
4 West Virginia 3. +
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Adjutant General Scott is more
hopeful now than his National Guard
officers will get to go down to Texas
for 1 wo weeks' to thirty days’ experi¬
ence at playing at war.
lit: has acceptances now from about
120 lo 226 officers in the guard. The
following list from the coast artil¬
lery corps have just been filed: Capt.
It. G. Tunno, George C. lleywood, Jr.,
11. J. Travis and S, N. Harris; First
Lieutenants Garrard, Haines, H. S.
Dieese and R. O. Sullivan.
General Scott has sent out notices
to the thirty colonels on the govern¬
or s staff to report to his office where
they will be subjected to the annual
inspection, as required under the law.
The inspection will be made by Major
F. L. Palmer and Major Williams of
the United States army corps.
The colonels must appear in full
regalia, and they will make a very
resplendent picture as they line up
for inspection.
It is announced that Lieut. .Henry
Cibbins of the Ninth cavalry, now on
duty at the University of Tennessee,
has been assigned to inspect the cav¬
alry branch of the State National
Guard, in place of Captain Haines,
now in Texas.
it is also announced that First
Lieut. Rufus Maddux of the United
States coast artillery corps at Fort
Screven, has been detailed to inspect
the two light batteries and the coast
artillery corps of the state service.
The work of inspecting the state
organization began January 19 and
will not end until Aprii 24. Major
Palmer is going constantly in this
service and his work is hard. It is
believed the oigariization will show a
marked improvement this year over
last.
New Blind Tiger Law.
A new ordinance regulating tho
traffic in whiskey in the state of
Georgia, is about to be passed in the
city council here, and if it works suc¬
cessfully, will be framed into a bill
for presentation to the next session
3 f the general assembly with the hope
that it will become a state-wide law.
l ire ordinance requires all railroads,
express companies and other common
carriers to make a report in writing
to the chief of police or other police
authority in tho community, of every
shipment of whiskey of more than a
gallon, which is received in the com¬
munity, giving the name of the ship
per, tho name of the place from where
It was shipped and tile correct, name
of the man to whom it was delivered.
If the samo person receives more
than two shipments of as much as a
gallon each in the same week, this
must be reported, too. The passage of
such an ordinance, it is pointed out,
would be absolutely effective in pre¬
venting the operators of blind tigers
from getting large shipments of whis¬
key.
Woman’s Plan to Kill Weevil.
In this day when woman is taking
her stand side by side with man in
the business, professional and scien¬
tific world, is the climax to be capped
in the South by the general extermi¬
nation of the boll weevil through the
invention of a woman? Such is the
belief of officers of the state depart¬
ment of agriculture who are carefully
looking into a letter received from a
woman who claims to have discover¬
ed a preparation which when scatter¬
ed in the fields, and that not abun¬
dantly, absolutely prevents the wee¬
vil from entering them, and kills the
weevils that aro already there. If
■ he invention proves what It appears
on tho surface, tho spending of a few
VOL. XV. NO. 23.
thousand dollars in Georgia will pre
vent the weevil from coming into this
state at all. The name of this wom¬
an will not be made public until the
Georgia department of agriculture
tests out the preparation. It is said
it has already been tested privately
in the west, and that it is effective
against potato bugs and other pest,,
as well as boll weevils.
Urges Enforcement of Law.
Secretary of State Phil Cook urges
the city court and police court judges
of every city in Georgia to follow the
example of the Atlanta judges in en¬
forcing the state automobile lawj
Within the past week nearly a dozen
convictions, some of them negro
chauffeurs, but three of them well
known white Atlantans, for violation
of the general law, making it a mis¬
demeanor to operate a machine on
any public highway, even outside the
city limits, at a rate of speed not cou-
sisteut with public safety.
Secretary Cook would like to see a
similar crusade started all over the
state. He doesn't believe that it is
possible to fix an arbitrary limit of
just how fast a man may go on a
country road, but he feels that usual¬
ly tile officers have sufficient discre¬
tion to know when the speed, what¬
ever it may be, is dangerous and inn
proper, considering the character of
the road, and the number of other ve¬
hicles upon it.
Warning to Life Policy Holders.
Insurance Commissioner Wright has
issued a warning to all policy holders
of level premium life insurance in.
this state. He discovered that repre-
sentatives of the so-called audit and
abstract companies are operating in-
Georgia, after having been driven out
of other states. How long they have
been operating nere Commissioned
Wright does not state, but the meth,
ods of these men are so pernicious
that the commissioner deemed it im¬
portant. to deliver a warning to all
the people of the state over his own
signature. It is a very well known
fact among insurance men that no
policy can be dropped which the pol¬
icy holder has been carrying some
time and take another without loss
to himself. So-called abstract and
audit men were recently driven out
of Memphis, where they tried to
I "twist” policies of the business men.
State Sanitarium Ready.
Georgia State Tuberculosis Sanito-
riurn at Alto is open and ready for
the reception of patients.
This announcement is made by
Capt. W. G. Raoul, chairman of the
executive committee, which has had
active charge of the work of the in¬
stitutions construction.
More than that, seven patients from
various sections of the state, are al¬
ready there, and there is no question
that others will be coming in rapidly
as soon as it is known the sanatorium
is ready for them.
In fact, it is expected that the san¬
atorium will be filled to its present
capacity, seventy patients, within a
comparatively short time.
While the present capacity is limit-
ed to seventy, it will be an easy mat¬
ter to increase it just as soon as the
state makes provision to that end; foi
the institution is built somewhat on
the plan of a sectional bookcase, to
which, when more capacity is requir¬
ed, it is only necessary to add more
units.
The capacity of the State Tubercu.
losis Sanatorium at Alto may he ex
tended in this way, as the state makes
provision for it, up to the number ot
300 patients.
Sundays Schools to Meet.
The formal program has just been
made public for the thirty-sixth an¬
nual meeting of the Georgia State
Sunday School association at Rome.
April 19 and 20. The big feature of
the gathering will be the presence oi
Marion Lawrence, general secretary
of the International Sunday School
convention, and one of the foremost
Bible lecturers in the country. All
railroads will give reduced fare for
this gathering and the Rome citizens,
headed by C. B. Goetchins, as chair¬
man of the entertainment committee,
will see that the visitors are well
cared for. All delegates are request
ed to send their names to him. as
soon a3 possible. Next Sunday all
the Sunday schools of the state which
have not yet done so and which in¬
tend to send delegates to this con¬
vention, will probably name them.
The officers of the association are:
Dr. Joseph Broughton, Atlanta, presi¬
dent; F. S. Ethridge, vice president,
Jackson; J. J. Cobb, vice president,
Macon; E. B. Hook, secretary, Au¬
gusta; C. B. ■ Woodruff, treasurer,
Rome; .1. D. Walker, member interna¬
tional committee, Sparta; John J. Ea¬
gan, international vice president, At¬
lanta.
The executive committee is com¬
posed as follows: A. B. Caldwell,
chairman, Atlanta; F. L. Mabry. Ma¬
con; A. S. Parker, Athens, J. H. With-
erington, Dublin; R. J. Guinn, Atlan¬
ta; A. W. Van House, Rome; J. P.
Fletcher, Columbus; J. P. Lyde, Fair :
fax; Rev. S. P. Wiggins, Atlanta.
Among the speakers will be Dr. H;
M. Hamill, Marion Lawrence, T. Ar¬
thur Henry, Dr. A. L. Phillips and
others.
182 PERSONS KILLED
IN THREE DISASTERS
FACTORY FIRE, RAILWAY WRECK
AND SINKING OF STEAMSHIP
COST MANY LIVES.
148 GIRLS VICTIMS OF FIRE
■ Dixie Flyer” Went Through Trestle,
Killing Eight — Twenty-six Lives
Lost When Steamer Sunk.
New York.—One hundred and forty-
Dight persons—nine-tenths of them -
from the east side—were crushed to
death on the pavements, smothered in
smoke or shriveled crisp in a factory
Ore in the worst disaster New York
has known since the steamship Gen¬
eral Slocum was burned to the water's
edge, of North Brother's Island, ip
1904.
Nearly all—if not all—of the vic¬
tims were employed by the Trlangty
Waist company, on the eighth, ninth
and tenth floors of a ten-story loft
building at No. 23 Washington place,
on the western fringe of the down¬
town wholesale clothing, fur and mil,
linery district.
The partners of the firm—Isaac Has
ris and Max Blanck—escaped unscath,
ed from the office on the tenth floor,
carrying with them over an adjoining
roof Blanck’s two young daughter*
and a governess. There was not an
outside fire escape on the building.
How the Are started will, perhaps,
never be known, A corner on th«
eighth floor was its point of origin,
and the three upper floors only were
swept.
On the ninth floor fifty bodies were
found; sixty-three or more pei'sons
were crushed to death by jumping,
and more than 30 clogged the elevatoi
shafts.
The loss to property will not ex
ceed ten thousand dollars.
Tifton, Ga.—In one of the worst
railroad disasters ever known in the
South Atlantic states eight persons
were killed and more than a dozen
injured when train No. 95, known as
the "Dixie Flyer,” on the Atlantic
Coast Line, and running between Chi
cago and Jacksonville, Fla., weal
through a trestle over the Alapaha
river, 18 miles east of here. The re¬
vised list of the dead and injured is
given as follows:
O. F. Bonwmart, Henderson, Ky.;
W. W. Culpepper, Tii'tpn, Ga.; Mrs
W. D. Fletcher, Rowland, Ill.; John
T. Watson, Landa, Wyo.; J. P. Wood¬
ward, express messenger, Waycross
Ga.; C. J. Parnell, Conductor, Savan¬
nah, Ga.; Lucius Ellis, fireman, and
Albert Simmons, porter, both colored
of Waycross, Ga.
The injured: J. E. Powell, baggage
master, Jacksonville; J. P. Klein, wife
and child, St. Louis.
The trestle is about a half mile
long, but the river was low and ai
the point of the accident was nol
more than fifty yards across. The
express and baggage cars, two day
coaches and one Pullman were piled
in an indescribable mass in the cen
ter of the stream, but fortunately few
of the passengers were carried bo
neatli the water.
Victoria, British Columbia.—The
British Columbia Shipping company's
little wooden steam Sechelt, built foi
passenger service on an inland lake,
turned turtle in a furious gale ofl
Beecher Head, Vaucouver island, aiu|
went down with all on board, 22 pas
sengers and the crew of four men.
Thirteen passengers had landed at
William Head just before the steam
er went out to destruction, Mo si
of the passengers were railroad la
borers, bound for Canadian Northern
construction camp, but a few were
residents of Sooke.
Ulrich Justified, Says Washington.
Philadelphia.—Booker T. Washing
ton, the negro educator, who was at
tacked and beaten up in New York
after it had been charged he was
prowling around the hallway of 16 1-2
West Sixty-third street, and for which
alleged attack Albert Ulrich has waiv
ed a preliminary hearing, emphatical
ly declared that he believed Ulrich
was justified in attacking him undei
the circumstances. Washington inti
mated that all future proceeding?
against Ulrich would be dropped.
Fast Freight tor Magazines.
Washington.—Magazines and othei
bulky periodicals, after July 1, next,
will be transported by the postoffica
department in carload as fast freight
Postmaster General Hitchcock is de
veloping as rapidly as possible plan;
which he decided upon last Decembei
to utilize fast freight in the transpor¬
tation of magazines when practicable
and in instances where a saving to
the government in transportation
charges may be effected. The weights
of monthly magazines are now being
taken..