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FOREST RESERVES
UPHELD BE COURT
SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT
GOVERNMENT MAY CONTROL
NATURAL RESOURCES.
UMAR DELIVERED OPINIONS
Public Lands May Be Set Aeide for
Preserves Without Consent
of States.
Washington. — The legal battle
against tbe forest reserves of the
West in particular and conservation
by the Federal government of natural
resources in general was lost in the
Supreme court of the United States.
That tribunal not only upheld the
aoaatitutionality of the establishment
of the vast reserves for any national
and public purpose, but it settled once
for all that the Federal government
and not the states may say how the
reserves shall be used.
The immediate results of the con¬
clusion of the court are Fred Light, a
prominent Colorado cattle man, will
remain enjoined from allowing his
cattle to graze on the Holy Cross for¬
est reserve in Colorado, and that
Pierre Grimaud, K. P. Carajous and
Antonio Inda, California sheepmen,
must answer to the indictment, charg¬
ing them with grazing sheep upon the
Sierra forest reserve without a per¬
mit, in violation of regulation 45 of
the secretary of agriculture and the
statute of congress of 1891.
WICKERSHAM HITS RECALL
Attorney General Knock* All Progres¬
sive Movement*.
Princeton, N, J.—Attorney General
Wickersham scored the recall and va¬
rious so-called progressive movements
of government in an address here be¬
fore the Princeton class of 1911.
"We are in truth a law-ridden peo¬
ple,” declared the attorney general,
“and this tendency is encouraged and
stimulated by those who seek popu¬
lar favor by pointing to easy remedies
for obvious ills. Not satisfied with the
ever-swelling volume of statute laws,
we are now urged to tinker with the
Constitution. There is nothing new
in this kind of demagoguery.
“There is much clamorous advocacy
of measures to limit the powers of
those charged with the administration
of our highly complicated government
and to increase the direct interven¬
As tion operations. of the public The in the conduct of
idea that a busy,
prosperous commercial people will, or
can, make or administer laws better
than representatives chosen from
among the people for that purpose, is
one that is as old as recorded history
and all recorded history proves its
fallacy. But it is said that in the
workings of representative govern¬
ment, representatives do not repre¬
sent the people.
"I believe that to be a superficial
comment. Representatives have, being
human, and always will, from time to
time, fail in their duty, but in the
long run our representative bodies
must and do give expression to pre¬
cisely what the matured thought of
the majority of the people demands.”
CONVICTED OFFICIALS WAIT
Quick Hearing Denied to Naval Stores
Men.
Washington.—The plea of officials
of the American Naval Stores com¬
pany for an early review of the trial
in the lower Federal courts, where
they were convicted of violating the
Sherman anti-trust law in connection
with the so-called “turpentine trust,’’
was denied by the Supreme court of
the United States.
The court recently agreed to re¬
view the trial, but so many cases are
ahead of the appeal that probably It
will be three years before it will be
reached.
The officials convicted were; Ed-
mund S. Nash, president of the Amer¬
ican Naval Stores company; Spencer
P. Shorter, chaira.an of the board of
directors; J. F. Cooper Myers, vice
president; George Meade Boardman,
treasurer, and Carl Moller, manager
of the Jacksonville branch of the com-
pany.
Direct Election Resolution Adopted.
Washington. — The constitutional
amendment for the election of Unit¬
ed States senators by the direct vote
of the people was favorably reported
by the judiciary committee of the sen¬
ate. The vote was 7 to 5. Previous
to this action the committee killed
the so-called Sutherland amendment
As favorably reported, the amend¬
ment is identical with the resolution
passed by the house. It gives the
several states the right to determine
the qualifications of elector* and the
exercise of all jurisdiction.
HOMER’VILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1911.
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LABOR LEADERS IN JAIL
LABOR LEADERS ARE NOW IN
JAIL IN LOS ANGELES,
CALIFORNIA.
Expected Trouble Did Not Material¬
ize, Although Crowd*
Met Train.
Los Angeles, Cal.—John J. McNam¬
ara, secretary of tbe International
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers'
Association; his brother, James N.
McNamara, and Ortie E. McManigal,
the alleged dynamite conspirators, ac¬
cused of blowing up The Times news¬
paper plant, last October, killing 21
men, are In the Los Angeles jail, in
separate cells, surrounded by extra
guards. All three are charged wltn
murder.
The alleged conspirators arrived at
the jail in automobiles, after running
the gauntlet of two crushing crowds,
which, in their eagerness to get a
glimpse of the prisoners, overbore the
efforts of more than a score of de¬
tectives and deputy sheriffs detailed
to hold them back.
Conspicuous in the crowd there was
Mrs. D. H. Ingersoll, the woman who
is expected to play a prominent part
in the prosecution. Mrs. Ingersoll is
the San Francisco boarding house
proprietor in whose place the man
known as J. B. Bryce stayed prior to
the destruction of The Times build-
ing.
Seated in a third automobile, drawn
up by the side of the one which was
to transport the prisoners, she peered
into the face of McNamara as he
climbed into tbe machine.
The man was shackled to an officer,
but he kept his unbound hand before
his face. In spite of this, Mrs. Inger¬
soll declared afterward he was Bryce.
"OLD GLORY” IS LOWERED
Holland Runs Up Her Flag on Pal¬
mas Islands.
Manila, P. I.—Delayed advices re¬
ceived here via Jolo reported that tbe
Dutch have taken possession of Pal¬
mas islands, 60 miles southeast of
Mindanao, lowered the United States
colors and substituted the flag of Hol¬
land.
it is understood here that Washing¬
ton does not intend to protest against
the action of the Dutch, the United
States government regarding the isl¬
and as valueless.
Washington.—A little head native
Filipino found proudly wearing a cap,
evidently the gift of a Dutch cap¬
tain, precipitated tha issue of sover¬
eignty over the Ualmas islands about
two years ago
Tbe Washington government has
no particular desire for the Palmas
group, although it has ben deemed a
part of the Philippine archipelago.
Down where the Palmas natives live
without an American among them,
there is nothing to interest the gov¬
ernment, and neither the United
States nor Holland has ever felt call¬
ed upon to leave anybody In author¬
ity on Palmas domain. Probably half
a hundred Filipinos constitute the en¬
tire Palmas population.
Lorlmer Bankers Arrested.
Springfield, Ill.—Edward Tllden,
Chicago packer, and William C. Cum¬
mings and George M. Benedict, pres¬
ident of the Drovers’ Trust and Sav¬
ings bank of Chicago, were arrested
on a contempt charge by tbe Illinois
senate. This action by the senate was
taken on recommendation of the sen¬
ate bribery investigation committee
after Tilden, Cummings and Benedict,
through their lawyers, had refused to
produce Tllden’s personal bauk ac¬
count for the months of May, June,
July and August, 1909.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
TAFT TALKS RECIPROCITY
Prasidant Taft Defend* Canadian Pact
in Address to Newspaper
Publishers.
New York.—Reciprocity with Can¬
ada must be adopted now or never,
and must stand or fall by its own
terms. So declared President Taft in
an address at the Waldorf-Astoria at
the fourth annual joint banquet of the
Associated Press and the American
Newspaper Publishers' Association.
His address was the first of a se¬
ries in which he plans to evoke pub¬
lic sentiment in support of his poli¬
cies, and he appealed to the company
of editors and newspaper owners gatn-
ered from all partE of the land to
impress in the public mind that reci¬
procity should stand alone and
“ought not to be affected in any re¬
gard by other amendments to the tar¬
iff law.”. His recommendations were
warmly cheered.
The president contended that the
reason why meats were not put on
the free list was because Canada felt
that the “competition of our packers
would injuriously affect the products
of their packing houses.”
The effect of the agreement, the
president said, is not going to lower
the specific prices of agricultural
products in our country. It is going
to steady them and it is going to
produce an interchange of products
at a profit, which will be beneficial to
both countries.
The president declared that anoth¬
er reason that should lead to the
adoption of the agreement was that
Canada offered a constantly increas¬
ing market and an ever-increasing
trade.
The talk of annexation is bosh, the
president said. Every one who knows
anything about it realizes that it is
bosh. Canada is a great, strong
youth, anxious to test his muscles,
rejoicing in the race he is ready to
run. The United States has all it
can attend to with the territory it is
now governing.
In concluding his speech President
Taft said; “I desire to express my
high appreciation of the manner in
which the present house of represen¬
tatives has treated the reciprocity
agreement. It has not ‘played poli¬
tics/ It has taken the statesmanlike
course to adopt it.
433 HUUSE MEMBERS.
Democrat* Put Through Reapportion-
ment Bill,
Washington.—Under the reappor-
tionmeut bill, which for the second
time passed the house, the size of that
body Is increased to 433 members,
giving Georgia one additional mem¬
ber.
The measure again goes to the sen¬
ate to try its fate there. At the last
session the senate failed to approve
the increase in the size of the lower
branch of congress. What it will do
this time is somewhat problematical,
but the strong hope is entertained
that the senate will permit the house
membership to have its way in this
regard.
The Houston bill, passed, leaves to
the legislatures of the different states
the power to rearrange the congres¬
sional districts in their respective
states on the new population basts of
one member for each 211,877 of In¬
habitants.
Annexation Agitates House.
Washington.—Another declaration
that annexation is the desired end
of the Democrats in pushing reciproc¬
ity and a speech by a new member,
revealing rumore of a tariff fight in
congress featured the debate on the
free list bill. Mr. Prince of Illinois
(Rep.) sounded the annexation note.
President Taft’s speech in New York
furnished his text He said the pour¬
ing of Americans into the Canadian
northwest and the attitude of th*
Democratic party could mean nothing
else than annexation
OVER TOE OMUL
BIG CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD
PN NEW ORLEANS IN
1913.
TO PRECEDE 'FRISCO SHOW
Southern Commercial Congress Plane
to Commemorate Completion
of Canal.
Washington.—On his return from a
visit to New Orleans, Managing Di¬
rector C. Groscenor Dawe of the
Southern Commercial Congress, said
that two years hence the congress
representing the whole South would
commemorate the completion of the
Panama canal by holding a great cel¬
ebration in the Crescent City.
Mr. Dawe adverted to the fact that
water would be turned into the big
ditch some time ‘between September
and November, 1913. He thinks that
event will mark the actual comple¬
tion of the canal, though it will not
be coincident with the opening.
Not an exposition, but a celebra¬
tion, is planned for New Orleans. The
Southern Commercial Congress will
invite the leading figures in the na¬
tion to participate. San Francisco has
been awarded the Panama exposition,
but New Orleans proposes to do a
little celebrating on its own accounl
some eighteen months earlier.
In the course of an interview tell¬
ing of his trip South, Mr. Dawe said;
"Under the guidance of the congress
there will be held a series of conven¬
tions affecting every chief interest of
the South, and running throughout the
month of November, Concurrently
with the 'convention, Louisiana will
arrange a series of land and water
pageants, historical and allegorical,
setting forth the progress of the na¬
tion from the time of the savage
FRAKS-UP SAYS GOMPERS
Labor Leader Discusses Arrest of Al¬
leged Dynamiter.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, arrived and immediately
went into secret conference with for¬
ty labor leaders of national and state
organizations. After the conference
Mr. Gompers said that the McNamara
case was discussed, and that the ex¬
ecutive council of the American Fed¬
eration of Labor would take charge
of a defense fund, which would be
raised by contributions from the vari¬
ous labor organizations of the coun-
try.
Mr. Gompers, in discussing the
case, said; “This whole thing Is a
frame-up, deep-seated and deep-root¬
ed. I am firmly convinced the men
are innocent. It is an outrage and
the American Federation of Labor
shall leave nothing undone in defend¬
ing the men now imprisoned in Los
Angeles. No means will be spared in
the matter of counsel for our men.
“We propose also to press the kid¬
naping charge to the fullest extent.
McNamara was spirited out of this
state without an opportunity of a
hearing, and I am not so sure that he
may not be brought back to Indiana
for trial.”
PEACE ENVOYS ARE CHOSEN
Mexican Rebels and Federal* Are Now
Ready for Conference.
El Paso, Texas.—In a low adobe
house on which the sun beat fiercely,
the leaders of the Mexican insurrec¬
tion, political and military, sat four
hours, formulating a program to be
presented to the Federal government
through its peace envoys. At the con¬
clusion of the conference, Francisco
l. Madero, Jr., president of the pro¬
visional government, announced the
election by ballot of Dr. Francisco
Vasquez Gomez, Wancisco Madero,
Sr., and Seno Jose Pino Suarez as
the peace commissioners of the Rev¬
olutionary party.
With the provisional governors from
the states in which the insurgents
have organized their government pres¬
ent, a definite basis of peace terms
was agreed upon. Though no official
announcement was made, it was ad¬
mitted by many that there may be
breakers ahead.
Bangor, Maine, Burns.
Bangor, Maine.—Property valued ai
upwards of $6,000,000 was destroyed,
hundreds of people made homeless
and almost tbe entire business sec¬
tion devastated during a conflagration
which swept this city. Mayor Mul¬
len called out the local company of
the National Guard and placed the
city under martial rule. Portland, Au¬
gusta, Lewiston, Oldtown, Brewer and
svery other place within reach 9ent
help. A score of buildings were also
blown up In an effort to check the
flaraea.
VOL. XV. XO. 28.
GEORGIA
NEWS
Macon. — When the legislature
meets in June, the report of the leg¬
islative committee of the Georgia Ed¬
ucational Association, containing sev¬
eral recommendation for much-need¬
ed reforms and innovations in the
state school system, will be present-
ea. It will probably receive the sup¬
port of a number of the leading rep¬
resentatives. Succinctly, the legisla¬
ture will be "urged to correct the
evils of the present financial scheme;
to make liberal appropriations for all
phases of public education; to reor¬
ganize the state board of education;
to substitute a state superintendent
of schools for the state school com¬
missioner, enlarging his duties and
powers, increasing his salary gnd pro¬
viding for assistant supervisors; to
amend and improve the laws regulat¬
ing the county superintendent of the
schools and county supervision, and
compulsory education.” These rec-
ommendations were decided upon by
the convention which met here.
Thomasville.—Though the Georgia
peach and the LeConte pear may have
“off” years or may yield to tha at¬
tacks of Jack Frost, there are two
crops of fruit which South Georgians
may always count upon to tickle pal-
ates in the hot summer weather, and
these are the fig crop and the black¬
berry crop, both of which bid fair to
be unusually fine this year.
Dublin.—The largest crowd that has
assembled in Dublin in a long while
voted unanimously for a continuance
of the road development In Laurens
county, and instructed the commis¬
sioners of roads and revenues to levy
a special tax in order to carry on
the work, While the sentiment of a
majority of those in the meeting was
against bonds, a committee was nam¬
ed to consult with the representatives
in the general assembly in the prep¬
aration of a bill naming a bond com¬
mission to order an election for bonds
and have charge of the work of road
development, it the bonds are author¬
ized.
Macon.—R. G. Snow, staff corre¬
spondent. of a national product news¬
paper, after an extended trip into
the peach-producing sections of Geor¬
gia, gives as a conservative estimate
1,200 cars for this year's peach crop,
in talking of the outlook, Mr. Snow
eaid; “The famous Fort Valley sec¬
tion will ship more than fifty per cent,
of the entire Georgia crop. Included
in the Fort Valley territory is Mar-
shal”ille, Lee, Pope, Byron and sever¬
al smaller fruit points, “Last year
there were approximately 6,200 cars
of Georgia peaches shipped and hun¬
dreds of cars were lost on account of
car shortage; hence it will be seen
that the present year is badly an ‘off’
season. Prices are ranging from $1
to f 1.15 per crate and a number of
orchards have been bought by spec¬
ulators on this basis. New York com¬
mission rulers advise that they antic¬
ipate very high prices for Georgia
peaches the coming season.
Gainesville.— -Gainesville is just now
very much interested in the exten-
sion of the Gainesville Midland rail-
way to Robertstown. W-hite county,
a distance of 35 miles, where four
timber companies have bought up
400,Q00 acres of timber lands and are
now preparing to place it on the mar¬
ket. In order to get this timber to
the various markets the timber com¬
panies are preparing to build a line
of railway to some point on the South-
era railway, in addition to Gaines-
ville they are considering two or three
other points, but the people of this
city are determined to have the
Gainesville Midland extended to the
mountains, believing that this will ul¬
timately mean extension of the road
to some point giving it a connection
with the West.
Mount Airy.—Since it is generally
conceded that the peach crop for this
season will not be the main one, much
interest is being manifested among
the apple-growers of this section. Still
there are a great many peaches loft
by the cold. Especially it is round
that the native oldtime peach in the
corner of the garden, the fence row
aud other places over the farm under
similar conditions survive the cold
far better than the peaches now
grown by the average peach grower.
The success of growing the peach
seems to depend more on soil than
climatic conditions. Intensive propa¬
gation in the future may overcome
this susceptibility to the cold, The
apple is a more hardy fruit. There is
an orchard of the oldtlme varieties of
mountain apples on a very high moun¬
tain in North Carolina that has not
had a complete failure of perfectly
ripened fruit in a great number of
years. An average yield of apples
may safely be expected within a five-
mile radius of Mount Airy.
UPRISING IN CHINA
COMPLICATIONS ARE THREATEN¬
ED FROM ATTACKS ON FOR¬
EIGNERS NEAR CANTON.
SITUATION A SERIOUS ENE
Rebels Are Sweeping Southeastern
China With Fire and Sword.
Death in Wake.
Hong Kong, China.—International
complications are threatened from the
attacks on foreigners and foreign in¬
terests and the apparent inability of
the imperial troops to curb the revo¬
lutionaries about Canton.
Reports show that the present up¬
rising is probably the most serious
that has ever been known in south¬
eastern China, which for years has
been violence-ridden from the secret
Chinese societies and political organ¬
izations. With fire and sword the
rebels are sweeping the country, leav¬
ing a trail of death and outrage in
their wake.
The rebels have burned four gov¬
ernment buildings at Fatshan.
Two Chinese gunboats are shelling
Saincbui, which is held by the rebels,
and scores are reported to have been
killed by the fire.
The French missionaries are report¬
ed to have been killed when the mis¬
sion at Shinting was sacked.
Europeans employed upon new rail¬
road construction north of Canton and
their families are in danger of death.
The fate of many of them in interior
districts is unknown.
Pressure is being exerted by the
British government to compel, the
sending of soldiers to protect these
engineers. It is possible that British
marines and sailors from other for¬
eign warships will be landed within
48 hours to engage the rebels in a
battle.
There are few American interests
in the area cf pillage, but there are
A number of American and English
men and women missionaries.
A foreign mission near Samchui is
said to have been burned and the
inmate either taken captive or killed.
Washington.—Consul Bergholz at
Canton, China, in a dispatch to the
state department, urged that Ameri¬
can warships be hurried to Canton im¬
mediately to protect American mis¬
sionaries and American property in
that city. This dispatch resulted in
the matter being taken up at the
cabinet meeting, and it is probable
that a part if not all of the Asiatic
fleet will be dispatched to Canton.
The gunboat Wilmington is in Chi¬
nese waters now.
INDUSTRIAL LINES TIGHTEN
Movement to Non-Unionize City of
Indianapolis, Ind.
Indianapolis, Ind.—The presence of
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in the
city, the practical assurance that the
American Federation will assume the
burden of fighting the McNamara
cases and the action of certain com¬
mercial bodies and the reported con¬
templated action of others to com¬
pletely non-unionize Indianapolis,
have stirred labor circles unusually
in Indianapolis, and unless something
happens to lessen the tension there
will be a tightening of lines in the
industrial world that will be far-reach¬
ing. The movement to non-unionize
the city had its inception at a large¬
ly attended meeting addressed by
Walter Drew of the National Erect¬
ors’ Association, at which he predict¬
ed that hundreds of manufacturing
plants would move to Indianapolis it
the “open shop” principle were abso¬
lutely established. /
Immunity Bath Denied Solons.
Columbus, Ohio.—Ohio legislators
who hoped by testifying before the
grand jury now investigating bribery
in the assembly to escape conviction
by means of an immunity bath, were
disappointed when Prosecuting Attor¬
ney Turner and Attorney General Ho¬
gan refused to accept their testimony.
Other immunity baths were headed
off when an investigation by a legis¬
lative committee was deferred until
after the grand jury finishes its work.
Governor Harmon was a witness,
New York’s Chamberlain Quits.
New York City.—JCharles H. Hyde
will resign as city chamberlain at
once. Under indictment and under
the fire of practically every newspa¬
per in New York, he announced that,
although he is the victim of “one of
the most wicked conspiracies of the
history of the city,” he will relinquish
his position in order not to embar¬
rass the Gaynor administration. In¬
dicted secretly on two counts, one
charging bribery, the other with tak¬
ing an unlawful fee, Hyde pleaded not
guilty.