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m Assam D \ -< m $1.00 A YEAR. 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. TEMPTATIONS IN SPRING ! .l & ;> IPilraMj < \ ■ • mm -r WsL ;; ESS ggw (Copyright. 1911.) 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.