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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 163.
ROOSEVELT SOON TO
PROBE BRITISH CAMP
TO INVESTIGATE
HEARD’S REPORT
ORDERED THAT CHARGES PRE
FERRED IN GOVERNOR’S RE
pott: must be thoroughly
INVESTIGATED.
HE CLAIMS THAT FROM SOIL
OF AMERICA THE BRITONS
FIGHT BOERS— SITUATION DIS
CUSSED. #
Washington, April s.—An investiga
tion into the charges that Great
Britain has what is virtually a mili
tary camp at Palmetto, near New
Orleans, was orueretl today after the
cabinet had discussed the questions
involved in the report sent to the
siate department by Governor Heard,
of Louisiana.
The time of the cabinet was taken
by almost entirely with the commu
nication which the president has re
ceived from the governor of Louisiana
protesting against the camp alleged
to be maintained in that state by
agents of the British government for
the purpose of supplying mules and
teams to the British army In South
Africa.
Pearson Meets Livingston.
General Pearson had lunch today
with Colonel Livingston, who Is much
interested in the charges made by
friends of the Boers in the house. In
the course of his talk Pearson claim
ed that the “British officers near New
Orleans conduct a shipping post Just
as If it were a military camp, the
only difference being the lack of uni
form. The Boer commander said
today:
‘‘There are millions of pounds ol
supplies being snipped the British
it'my In the field from New Orleans,
and 1 have been sent, to tins country
to put a stop to it. 1 nave used ev
ery effort in my power to this end,
hut without) avail, and now, as a
last, resort, 1 have appealed to Pres
ident. Roosevelt for tne same privi
lege allowed the British. If they
can wage war against the burghers
on United States soil, and this I
strongly contend they are techlnalty
and actually >.oing, by buying any
shipping supplies from a central coun
try, tfu-n I know of no reason why 1
should not, on the part of the South
African republics, be allowed to ear
ly f >n the war against the British on
tin same territory.”
Pearson stated that he has received
the most encouraging reports from
South Africa, and that his advices
plainly showed that, the burghers had
not the slightest idea of giving up
their fight for independence.
MR. RATCLIFFE TALKS.
Says He Is Not Making the Race In
Opposition to Mr. Townsend.
Mr. It. L. Katcliffe, who has an
nounced himself a candidate for coun
ty commissioner, yesterday gave out
tne following announcement:
Since my announcement as a can
didate tor the position of member of
the board of commissioners of roads
anil revenues of said county, I am in
foi med that a rumor has been circu
it* ito the cuect that I would make
the race tor said office especially in
opposition to Mr. W, R. Townsend,
i desire to make a correction of said
rumor, and to state that my candidacy
is not in opposition to any one in par
ticular.
Since the passage of the law con
stituting said board of commission
ers of roads and revenues as it pres
ently stands, the Twenty-seventh dis
trict of said county haR had no repre
sentative upon said hoard, and while'
the citizens of said district have no
special complaint to make against
the board, still they desire represen
tation upon said board in the way of
having one of its citizens a member
thereof.
Believing that our district is en
titled to furnish one of the members
of said board, and having been Im
portuned by quite a number of cltl
y.ents and friends to make the race for
said position, I therefore announced
my candidacy therefor.
Robt. L. Rateliffe.
. LITTLE LOCAL LINES.
Willie Anderson held the lucky
number in the drawing at Marks’ ci
gar store last nigtn.
The program for the cane and cas
sava convention is now being pre
pared and will be announced in A
few days.
Al! of the candidates in Glynn
county favored an early primary and
endorse the action of the executive
committee.
J. D. Wright, the contractor, is
soon to begin the erection of a hand
some residence on Union street, be
tween Howe and George for Mr. J.
G. Young. t
Mr. F. A. Wrench will shortly re
move irts job printing establishment
into the building just north of his
present place. The butiJfng has been
thoroughly overhauled and will make
a convenient office.
Tue following schooners went to
sea yesterday: Harry Prescott, Cap
tain Gray; Annie L. Henderson, Cap
tain Hall; Samuel H. Hubbard, Cap
lEaju CJovjerdale, Brooklyn, Capfcttyi
Dexter
A party of gentlemen will leave to
morrow for Cumberland to spend a
week drum fishing.
Levy Bros, has just furnished the
officers of the Brunswick Ritl-uien
with new uniforms. The entire com
pany will get new ones in the near
future.
St. Jude’s P. E. church, morning
prayer and Holy Communion at 11
a. m. Evening prayer and sermon
at 7:30 p. m.
The new residence which is being
built by Contractor J. I). Wright for
Mrs. Cora Rowe will soon be ready
for occupancy, and will be one of the
handsomest residences in the city.
Tupper Ac Co’s, new steamer Is now
being eoppeied, and as soon as the
new boiler is completed, work will
be rushed on the craft. She will run
during the summer between Bruns
wick and St. Simon.
The race for receiver of tax returns
between Messrs. T. B. Ferguson arid
J. E. Lubberly promises to be one
of the most interesting contests in
the coming primary. Both the gen
tlemen are very popular and the
final result of the race will be watch
ed with interest.
CONFIRM
HIE SALE
PLANT SYSTEM HAS BEEN
ABSORBED BY ATLANTIC
CC AST LINE.
The article published in the
lanta Constitution on Thursday and
reprinted in itie News Friday morn
ing, to the effect that the Plant Sys
tem had been absorbed by the Atlan
tic (L ast T ine, has neon confirmed
by both President Erwin of the Plant
System, and President Elliott., of the
Atlantic Coast; Une. Following is
President Erwin's statement:
New York. April 4.—Mr. W. G. El
liott, president of the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad company, and i as pres
ident of the Savannah, Florida and
Western lailway, authorize the fol
lowing statement. Negotiations have
been completed under which it, is ar
ranged that the Savannah. Florida
and Western railway company will, on
or before the Ist of July, 1902. be con
solidated with and become the prop
erty of the Atlantic Coast Line rail
road company.”
The negotiations also contemplate
that the other railway properties of
the Plant System will pass under the
control of the Atlantic Coast Une at
the same time. It has alio been
agreed that when the consolidation
takes place, the Southern railway
shall have trackage right tno-roafter tor
ail ot its trains, both passenger and
fieight, over the line between Savan
nah and Jackson vile, thus making
Jacksonville the southern terminus
of tee Southern railway company for
its Florida service to and from the
east and west. r. u. Erwin.
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Plain and trimmed corset covers
only 10 cents, Monday and Tuesday
at Mrs. M. Isaac's.
BRUNSWICK, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1902.
PELHAM PEOPLE
WEI WHISTLES
THEY RUN DISPENSARIES NOT
WITHSTANDING COUNTY IS A
PROHIBITION ONE.
Legislature Repealed Act Creating
the Commissioner* of Body
Corporate.
Camilla. Ga., —pril 5. —Possibly the
town of Pelham, in this county,
stands alone in the unique distinction
of having in operation a dispensary
system created by ordinance of her
city council.
The dispensary, however, just at
this time, is sailing with difficulty
over troublous Beas.
Mitchell county, under the provis
ions of the local option law, is dry.
It is, therefore, illegal for "persons"
to engage in the sale of liquors with
in the county. But in the case of
Butlet et al. v. Merritt, that went
upon from this county after the
adoption of the provisions of me
local option act did not bind the dis
pensary commissioners of Mitchell
county, they being a public corpora
tion and a branch of the government,
and therefore that the dispensary
could lie operated in the county by
such commissioners regardless of the
fact that tue county was "dry."
The last legislature repealed the
act creating the county commission
ers. a body corporate under the name
of the "dispensary commissioners for
the county of Mitchell."
The repealing oi the act, authoriz
ing the dispensary system would seem
to make th ■ county and towns in the
county hopelessly ‘dry,’ until another
election.
Lint tne city council of Pelham,
acting under the advice of counsel,
created an ordinance creating a dis
pensary system for the town of Pel
ham, creating the office of dispensary
commissioners for said town, provid
ing that no appropriation of the city
funds should be made to said dispen
sary, that the city should not in any
event be liable for the debts of said
dispensary, and that the profits aids
ing from the sale should be turned
over by the commissioners to the
c'naiirnan of the school board of the
town.
Certain citizens or Pelham, oppos
'ing the dispensary, last week sued
out a petition for injunction against
the mayor and council of the town
of Pelham, praying that they be en
joined from further operating the dis
pensary tinner the local ordinance.
The defendants answered by saying
■ hat they were not operating the (It
pensary, neither directly or by agents,
and setting up that the dispensary
commissioners were not the agents of
the town and could in no wise bind
the town. Plaintiffs admitted that no
appropriation of the town's funds had
been made the dispensary. Where
upon Judge Spencer, on April t, re
fused the injunction, and suggested
selling liquors In violation of the law
that if tlie dispensary managers were
they were criminally liable. And im
mediately after the injunction sought
was refused, the parties opposing the
dispensary swore out a warrant for
G. W. Bowen, manager of the dispen
sary, for illegally selling liquor In t'ne
county before the judge of the city
court here. Bowen waived commit
ment. trial and demanded indictment
by the grand jury, and bis bond was
fixed at SIOO.
The managers say they intend to
keep the dispensary open and in op
eration, while the opponents say they
will swear out anew warrant eaci
day the dispensary is operated. In
accordance with this statement, an
other warrant was sworn out for th<
dispensary manager today.
And so it will go merrily on. i
being three weeks before the supe
rior court convenes her 0 , if the op
ponent* carry out their present policy
the manager of the dispensary will
be arrested every day for the next 1
twenty or twenty-five days.
Mr. W. J. Murphy Dead.
Mr. W. J. Murphy, who has been a
resident of this city for several
months, died Friday night after an
illness of a few days. His remains
were interred in Pelmetto cemetery,
yesterday, Rev, W. M. Gilmore con
ducting the funeral
MANY SPEAKERS;
ARE COMING
DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE TO AD
DRESS THE SUGARCANE AND
CASSAVA CONVENTION.
Will Be Held Next Saturday and
Bids to Bea Big
Success.
The coming sugarcane and cassava
convention will be attended by some
of the leading people of the country,
who are interested in fatjin work,
and many eloquent and instructive
speeches will he delivered.
We are glad to be able to an
nounce that Mr. Gartskill. who de
livered a notable address at the cane
and cassava convention last spring
upon cassava as a food for and lat
tener of stock, and as a starch maker,
and Prof. H. E. Stockbridge, who de
livered an address of great power at
the convention last fall, will attend
and address the coming conventioi
April 12.
Hon. J. Pope Brown will also ad
dress tho convention on “an ex peri
ment station lor south Geoigia."
Hon. D, G. P i se, president of the
board of fra Jo. of savannah, on ’Uk
new development of the south ”
Hon. O. B. Stevens, commissioner
of agrionli'uie al Washington, will also
address the convention.
Col. I. C. Wade will deliver an ad
dress on “the stock proposition in
the south.”
Dr. Wiley, chief chemist agricultu
ral department, Washington, upon
our soils, sugarcane, cassava and
other crops.
Secretary Wilson, should his son s
illnes permit Ids attendance, upon his
choice of subjects. Other interesting
and aide speakers are expected.
This convention is going to be a
notabe step in the development of
south Georgia, and every citizen of
Glynn county should lend it his aid
in every way in his power.
MR. G. S. SCARLET T DEAD.
Passed Away at 11,3 dome Yesterday
Morning.
Mr. G. S. Scarlett, Sr., one of the
oldest and most prominent citizens
of Glynn county, passed away at his
home, Fancy Bluff, yesterday morn
ing at 7 o’clock.
Mr. Scarlett has been seriously 111
for a long time, and his death was
momentarily expected by those who
were oest aware of his condition.
Everything possible, however, was
done to save him, put to no aval,
and at last he succumbed to the call
of the Grim Reaper.
Mr. Scarlett was sity-four years of
age and has been a resident of Glynn
county nearly his entire life. He
has a large circle of friends in
Brunswick as well as all over the
country. Besides a wife Mr. Scarlett
leaves eleven children to mourn their
loss. They are Mrs. J. L. Beach, ol
this city, Mrs. Albert Hillsman, of
Macon, and Messrs. Stanton, Mason,
Frank, Robert, Julian and Misses
Emmie, Meta, Pauline, Daisy and
Helen Scarlett. All of his children
are well known in this city, and, like
their father, have many friends here.
The funeral will occur at 12 o’clock
today from the family residence.
The interment will he in Oak Grove,
the family cemetery. The steamer
Howland has been chartered by
Brunswick relatives and friends, and
will leave here this morning for
Fancy Bluff.
IN BRANTLEY’S DISTRICT.
Executive Committee Will Meet at
Waycross April 19.
Hon. John C. McDonald, chairman
of the democratic executive commit
tee of the Eleventh congressional
district, has issued a call for a meet
ing of that committee to he held in
the parlors of the Pheonix hotel in
Waycross, on Saturday morning,
April 19, at 10 o’clock.
The object of the meeting of this
committee wnl he to call a demo
crjjiUc primary to nominal)': candW
dates for congress from the Eleventh
district and transacting any othe
business which may come before the
meeting" Mr. W. T. Dickerson, of
Homerville, .s secretary of the com
mittee.
FOR RENT—Nicely furnished brick
dwelling. 119 Reynolds street.
BIG SAW MILL DEAL
BY BRUNSWICK AGENS
SHOULD AWAKEN INTEREST.
Prominent Citizen Talks of the Ger
man Emigrants.
Editor Daily News:
The coming of the German emi
grants to Glynn county to develop
the vast area ot waste and idle land,
lying immediately north of Bruns
wick, should awaken the greatest in
terest among the entire citizenship ot
noth city and county.
The intensive system or agricul
ture, in which the foreign element of
migrants have been educated, ad
in its of support and profitable occu
pancy by live persons lo eveiy ten
acres of land; ~us being true, it will
be seen that there is room within
six this city, north and sur
rounding the first stations upon three
lines ot railroads, a sufficient amount
of valable lands to meet the wants
of several families, who
would not only acquire homes with
every facility of transportation to
the markets north and west, but who
would become the very best and
truest contributors to the growth and
prosperity of Biunswick.
Brunswick's business men, and
women, too, should stndty ways of
contributing to the success and con
: tentment of these people who have
left all behind them to find homes
in a strange land, and who we know
constitute the very best element of
all emigrants from the old country,
b'iiglit personal acquaintance with
them by the writer has convinced him
already that among them are people
of gentle blood and capable of high
order of citizenship in a very short
time. The first want, of these strang
ers. will he a school of German and
English, and the establishment in
their midst of the facilities of relig
ious worship, and social entertain
ment situated to their taste and en
vironments.
To the end that the very best im
pressions may be made upon them,
from a social point of view, basket
picnics should he given monthly by
the citizens of the town, and, through
the large German element in our
midst, every facility given for free
intercourse, and, in this way, assuring
them that the cold and oppressive
hand ot Russia has been replaced by
the warm and generous hand of free
America. J. A. Butts.
THE DATE
IS NAMED
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXECU
TIVE COMMITTE CALS PRI
MARY FOR MAY 15.
The Democratic: executive commit
tee met yesterday and ordered a pri
mary election for the nomination of
candidates for senator, representa
tive and all county offices to he held
on May 15. The qualification £)'
voters are practically the same as in
1900.
All white registered voters who
will pledge themselves to support the
nominees of the primary will he qual
ified to vote. The voters must reg
ister by May Bth. The expenses of
the primary were assessed against the
'candidates, as follows:
For Ine senate $lO 00
For the house 10 00
For clerk 15 00
For sheriff 15 00
For treasurer 15 00
For tax collector 15 00
For tax received 10 00
For coroner 3 00
For surveyor 3 on
The names of all candidates must
be printed on one ticket, and the
voters will erase the names of all
candidates except those for whom
they desire to vote.
The following managers were ap
pointed :
Bniiis'wiek Precinct l —J. T. Lam
bright, W. J. Way, A. L. Franklin.
Twenty Fifth District —J. D. Gould,
W. C. Taylor, John Poatell.
Twenty-Seventh District—W. F.
Knight, Frank Scarlett, Hugh Rat
ed ffe.
1499th District—J. A. Ward, B. F.
Lewis, G. W. Arnett.
1356th District —T. W. Lamb, Charl
ton Wright, Joseph Sapp.
The primary for the nomination
of candidates for governor and other
state house offices, congressman and
jodgo o’ the Brunswick circuit was
ordered to be held on June 5, under
the rules prescribed by the state and
county demoeartie committee. The
same managers were named for this
primary who were appointed to hold
tile primary on May 15.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
1300,000 IS THE
PURCHASE PHICE
BROBSTON. FENDIG & CO., OF
THIS CITY, SELL SAVANNAH
PROPERTY TO HILTON AND
DODGE COMPANY.
DEAL WAS CLOSED YESTERD . .
AND THE LOCAL FIRM HAVE
CLEARED A NEAT SUM OUT
OF IT.
Brobston, Fendig & Cos., have ad
ded another feather to their cap and
scored a big turn on Savannah real
estate agents. This firm has made a
sale of the Vale Royal mills, at Sa
vannah. and forty thousand acres of
cypress timber on the Savannah river.
The Hilton-Dodge Lumber company,
having purchased the property of Mr.
H. P. Smart, one of the most wealthy
and best known mill men in the south.
It is understood that a price of
about $300,000 was paid for the prop
erty. Captain John A. Foster, of
the Hilton-Do.Kge Lumber company,
when asked about the last
night, but declined to say what was
paid for the property, but said it is
much more than lias been reported
By this deal they have secured prou
alily the finest body of cypress tim
ber in tjliei south, and Mr. H. P.
Smart now retires from active bus
iness. Mr. Smart spent years in secur
ing this cypress, he having long ago
foreseen the great value in southern
hardwood, bought these lands when
they were considered of little value
and a few years ago erected a large
mill in Savannah to manufacture the
lumber fiom his timber lands, but on
account ot advancing yeats and the
increased responsibilitty of looking
after this business he decided to al
low Messrs. Brobston, Fendig & Cos.
to handle the property and they
quickly found a purchaser in Mr. It.
H. Knox, of Darien, who offered to
buy the property for his company,
and yesterday the deal was closed
and in future the Vale Royal mills
will be operated by the Hilton-
Dodge people.
The peculiar interest in this mat
ter to Brunswiekians is the fact of
enterprise by which one of the largest
deals ever made in Savannah was
engineered by a Brunswick broker—
Brobston, Fendig & Cos. have suc
cessfully operated all over the south
and have established a reputation
' f or reliability and integrity that has
brought them a magnificent clientage
and Brunswick people are justly
proud of their success.
CARRIERS WORKED OVER TIMt.
Money to Be Paid the Brunswick
Carriers by Government.
Old mail carriers of Brunswick
will get $1,077.20 Tom the general
government for working over time,
hvery year this bill has come up for
action, but has never been passed. It.
was reported favorably Friday. The
Brunswick carriers who are to g,
the money are the ones who were at
work when the free delivery system
was first established in Brunswick.
They worked more than eight hours
per day and charged it up t,o Uncle
Sam as “extra.”
As it is at present the carriers
cannot work overtime, as the depart
ment requires them to complete their
work in eight hours and if they fail
to do so it is their loss.
THREE BOYS BURNED TO DEATH.
Perished in the Flames of Their
Home.
Anniston, Ala., April s.—News
reached Anniston this afternoon of
the horibie death of three colored
boys early this morning two miles of
Alexandria, about 20 miles north of
Anniston. The boys were aged 12, 14
and lo years, respectively, and were
burned in the home of their father,
Chris McDaniel. Six children were
in the house aud three barely escaped
witn tneir lives and some injuries.
All the flesh were burned from the
hones of the three children. Details
as to liow the house caught on fir#
could not be learned.