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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS. VOLUME 1. No. 237. WILLIS DART APPOINTED JUDGE OF THIS CIRCUIT CANDLER NAMED HIM YESTERDAY —t — THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. DART WAS GENERALLY EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE CIRCUIT.— LAST TO ENTER RACE. AN ABLE LAWYER AND A FORMER BRUNSWICK CITIZEN. HIS SE LECTION GIVES GENERAL SAT ISFACTION. * Atlanta, July I.—Governor Candler, late this afternoon, appointed F. Willis Dart, of Douglas, judge of the superior court nf the Brunswick circuit, vice Judge J. W. Bennett, resigned. The appointment is effective at once and at this moment Judge Dart is toe judge of tile circuit. in connection with this appointment it may lie of interest to say that he appointee was the last to enter the race, and that, too, against strong men. His appointment is a great vic tory. In connection with the above tele gram. Tm? News predicted this result several days ago, for at ttiat. time it seemed that Judge Dart was the log leal appointee for the place. He is an old Brunswick hoy and has a host of friends in the city who will be more than pleased that the governor has seen, lit to reward a young man who Is in every way qualified for the high position to which lie has been calfod. It may be of interest to say that tne first court under the administration of the new judge will be held in this city, as' the last court recessed until July 7. All in ail the appointment is hound to be well received in Brunswick, INTERESTING MEETING. Rathbone Lodge Installed Officers Last Night. Rathbone Lodge Knights of Pythias, which, by the way. is ih a flourishing condition, held an enthusiastic and interesting meeting last night, and among other things installed the fol lowing officers: C. C.---W. A. Hacfcett. V. C.—W. F. Symons. Prelate—lt. J. Olewlne. M. of W. -W. H. Wood. M. at A. —Andrew Jensen. I. G. —D. Rogowin. O. G. -S. Augustine. Deputy Grand Chancellor L. Ludwig installed the new officers. NEWS OF THE SHIPS Some Small Marine Items of the Do ings of a Day. The following is the movement of tli** vessels at the port of Brunswoek yesterday: Arrived —Schooner Marjorie Brown, Osborn, Santiago: sailed, schooner Zaebius Sherman, Tulldch, New Yoork; schooner Goodner B. Reynolds, Marr, Philadelphia. In connection with the boat races, which are to occur in this city, and around March island on July Fuorth, the News has been requested to say that all the entries for this race must be handed in to Pat Horan, by 10 o’clock of Thursday, July 3. The new steamer Tuppper is now at the Briesniek machine shop, and is being put in shape as rapidly as pos sible. Reports from the New York register are to the effect that a large fleet of coastwise vessels are up and cleared for this port. AFTER THE FRISCO TRIP The New Uniform Company K. of P. Will Be Organized. The new* company of uniform rank Knights of Pythias will not he organ ized until after the San Francisco trip. > A prominent member of the order told tire News representative last night that the prime movers in this matter had decided that it is better to wait until the boys return from the great 4r;ll, , WILL HAVE OPPOSITION. Joseph Mansfield Will Be Opposed by a Negro. A special to the Savannah News from Darien says: The chief interest in politics in this county now < enters in tlie race for rep resentative Hon 'Joseph Mansfield, the.di-m v■■•aid nominee, it is thought, will he oppe.-e : by a nominee of the negroes. Tin death of Rev. Lectured Crawford, who was successful in de feating the white candidate for the legislature several times, leaves the negroes withoout. any recognized lead er in county politics. Besides this dis advantage tne colored candidate will fare the fact that Lie democratic can didate is himself quite popular among the negroes. It is hoped that this, to getlier with tlie solid white vote, will give Mr. .Mansfield the victory at the polls in October. Three Sold Property. United Slnles Marshal Barnes. Sher iff Borne and Marshal Burney sold property in front of the court house yesterday morning. Tne bidding was lively from stiud to finish. BAPTIST CONVENTION WILL BE WI LL AI TENDED A delegation of forty or fifty from Georgia will attend the international convention of the Baptist Young Peo ple’s 1 nion at Prov idonce, !!. 1.. July lb-13. The party will leave Atlanta next Monday, July 7. at t p. m., over the Southern railway. Tuesday wdll be spent at Norfolk and Old Point Comfeit and Fortr* ss Monroe. That evening the party, will sail for Boston via Me: units and Miners' Transporta tion Co...'unify ilarriving i.t P cion Thursday morning. After spending a while i.i Unit classic city the party will Like a train for Providence, an hour's ride. The delegates from South Georgia will go by Ihe way of Colum bia, and join the Atlanta party at eiianolto. The entire party, which will he a most pleasant one, will he in charge of W. \V. Gaines, of Atlanta, stale transportation leader, who is making all arrangements for the party, both reroute and while at Providence. Side trips will he taken to Newport, Plymouth Rock, NewYork and other places before returning. An extremely low rate has been named by the rail roads and steamship lines for the oc casion. The annual meeting of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America is one of the great religious events of the year. It is the largest religious body in the world, its attendance ranging from 10,000 to 20,000. it is difficult to accommodate the convention. In Prov idence the main sessions will be held in Infantry hall, while branch meet ings will he neld in the churches of the town. ’ , WAS A BUSY DAY. Treasurer Smith Collected Over Seven Thousand Dlllars Monday. George H. Smith, treasurer of the city, had a busy day Monday, and when the amount of collections was added, over S7.MOP had been collected. Many property owners waited until the last day to pajj, and save the four per cent., arm this accounted for the rush at the treasurer’s office. Steamship Ashore. San Francisco, July 1. —A dispatch just received says the steamship Elmer is ashore in Dutch Harbor with eight feet of water in her hold. Canadian Ottawa, Ont. July I.—Figures given out by the Canadian department of immigation show that the arrivals of immigrants for the year ending today; were 03,000, an increase of more than 15,000 over last year. Tne increase is principally from Great Britain and the United States. Invited to Speak. Governor Candler has received an invitation to speak at the annual ban quet to lie given at Tammany Hail in New York on the evening of Independ ence day. He hag also received an invitation to visit Camp G. H. Thomas at Chiclcamauga park, to witness the field day exercises to be held there July 4. The invitation came from Col. X. R. Baldwin, of the Seventh cavalry. BRUNSWICK, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1902. THIS THERE IS OIL IN CHARLTON ——♦ — MAJOR LUCAS WILL BEGIN BOR ING AT AN EARLY DATE. Has Leased Thousands of Acres if Land and Will Give It a Good Trial. The possobility of the discovery of oil at Folkston, in Charlton county, continues to he the topic of conversa tion in this section. A Herald report er ma e a trip through the Charlton county “oil fields” a day or two since, in company with a prominent cotizen of Folkston, and was informed of the plans, so far as can he made public, of Mr. Lucas, who will shortly begin boring a test well. About four months or more since, Mr, A. F. Lucas, the man who discovered tire first big gush er at Beaumont, Texas, came to Folk, ton and made a caretful examination of the lands in the southern part o! Chariton county. He informed some of the Folkston people that there was unmistakable evidences of oil in tin county. A few days later he returned to Folkston, and this time made a long er stay, spending much of the time ex amining tne flow of water from si lings in tile neighborhood of'St. Mary's river, immediately alter his second trip Mr. Lucas, though an agent, began to lease ail the land ob tainable in tne southern part of the county). Tne price to be paid was 5 cents per acre per year, on a ten year's lease. The lease was tor oil or natural gas privileges only. Payment was made for the first year in advance, and under this propositoon 25,000 acres of land '1 situated below Foiled. ■>, were leased, and payment made for one year. A short time later a car load of machinery, required in boring wells, arrived, and was stored away at the home of a man who had acted as Mr. Lucas’ agent. Mr. Lucas has made several trips to Folkston since the land has been leased, and has giv en out the information that boring would commence as soon as a suitable man to do the work could he secured. He also stated that his first trip to Folkston was occasioned by the sci entifle reports of a elvel engineer wtio first surveyed the railroad through that county. In nearly all of the springs around Folkston, an oily scum forms on the water as it flows from the ground. In a spring on the banks of the St. Mary’s river, near Camp Pinckney, an occasional bubble will cause an explosion. Tne spring is considered one of the strongest evi dences of natural gas beneath the surface of the earth. Some of the Folkston people are doubtful in regard to Mr. Lucas’ chances of finding oil in their county, but the majority of them are very hopeful. All believe that work on the test well will begin in a short, time, and every one will lend all the assistance p. ssible. —Mayoress Hetaid. Will Be Cut Off. Ail News subscribers who owe three months or more will be cut off tne list unless their subscription hills are paid on or before Saturday. THE PLANT SYSTEM NO MORE -COAST LINE NOW The absorption of the Plant system by the Atlantic Coast line railroad, which was announced some montns ago, and which since that time has been quite a live topic in railroad cir. cles, became effective yesterday. circulars issued by the Coast line have provided a temporary organiza tion which it is believed will largely remain as the permanent organization of the road. For tne present the sys tem will be operated from Wilmington, but in two divisions. The passenger department will have headquarters at Wilmington, while the freight depart ment will have headquarters iu both Wilmington and Savannah. Tne Southern began yesterday the use of the trackage rights of the Plant system between Savannah and Jack sonville, which it acquired at the time of the afrrangement for the consoli POLITICIANS IN ATLANTA TODAY •—-♦ GOVERNOR AND STATE HOUSE QF FICERS TO BE NAMED TO-DAY. Is Thought That Harmony Will Flow Like Water in the Con vention. Atlanta, Ga., July 1. —The Kim ball House ha tn its o’d time political appearance this evening and the lobby is throngged with del egates and others from all over fhe state who are here to attend the demo cratic state convention, which meets tomorrow. The convention will meet at noon, and unless there is a fight over the local option plank of the platform, there will be but little to do except nominate the sucbcesstul candidates. The platform is being discussed by the delegates who are here today. No body seems to know just what will be .lone, hut it is understood that the platform upon hieh Mr. Terrell was elected governor will in all probabil ity he adopted by the convention. Of course the convention will elaborate on the things touched on by Mr. Ter rell in his platform, but it is stated by various friends of the governor elect that his platform will regulate in nearlyl every detail of the state pu. form. A conference is being held tonight among the party leaders and the plat form will he outlined, it is said that the platform will only affirm that local option is! the best for the state, but will not declare it to he one of the principles oi the party ill (Viis state. Chairman Brown will call the con vention to order promptply at 12 o’clock Wednesday. The session of the convention will Ih* held in the hall of the house of representatives. Hon. Warren Hill, of Meriwether, will prob ably nominate Mr. Terrell for, govern or., NO CHANGES NOW. Employes Will Hold Their Jobs Until Further i.otice. A circular lias been received at local Plant system headquarters informing the employes of the various offices the city that on and after July Ist, the date on which the Atlantic Coast line will assume (barge of the Plant system, tne Atlantic Coast line sys tem will consist of two divisions, the first division to include all that part of tlie system which extends north of Charleston, S. C., and the second di vision to to include all of the part forming the Plant system. All of the former divisions ot the Atlantic Coast line have been changed to districts and will be embraced in the first divis ion, and the former divisions of the Plant system will bo included as dis tricts of the second division. The circular also stated that all ol fleers and employes of the second di vision will retain their present pjsi :ions until further notice is received from proper authority, and that all rules, regulations and time tables es tablished by the management of the f lant system will continue in force a iu effect on the second division until mod. idea by proper authority. dation. For the present it is under stood that the Southern will continue its train service on these lines as it is run at present. The only difference will he that the trains will be pulled by Southern locomotives and manned by Southern crews. So far as the local situation is concerned, the casual observed would never have known of the change and would not for a moment have guessed that the great Plant system had been relegated to tlie things that used to be, and that tlie Atlantic Coast line had taken its place. In the local office of the company things ran along as usual, and not a sign of the big merging was to lie seen, In the course of a few days it is believed that the new management will issue a general circular outlining the policy of the system. KING EDWARD IS ol\ THE ROAD TO RECOVERY MORE WAR TAXES OFF. Business Men Have Another Burden Taken Off. Yesterday was greeted joyfully by thousands of business, professional men and manufacturers throughout the Union, and especially in Brunswick for on that day the great war tax lexred on ’so many commodities was repealed, and the long-suffering peo were relieved of considerable expense. The act imposing this tax was passed in 189f>, and levied on July 1 of that year. Since that time an enormous revenue lias been drawn for the pur pose of carrying on war. Such taxes will remain in force on a very few of these commodities after yesterday morning, however. Brunswick has contributed a vast amount to the government exchequer since the passage of the bill, probably more than any) other city of its size. This has been done without complaint in so far as the Spanish-American war In behalf of Cuba is concerned, but many seriously objected to paying them for the purpose of carrying on the affair in the Philippine*. QUIET REIGNS NOW WHERE FIGHTING OCCOURRED Capo Haytien, July I. —Considerable street fighting was engaged in here yesterday by the partoeipants of the two candidates for the presidency. Mr. Firman, formerly minister from t’nis country to Paris, who is a candi date for president, was opposed by General Alexis Nord, tlie minister of war of the provisional government and his friends. The fighting for a time was fierce, and apparently of a character tiiat would do a great deal of damage. The fighting ceased late yesterday afternoon and it was discovered that little damage was done, even by, the bombardment. Today peace seems to be well restor ed and conservative residents believe that there will lie little or none of it in future. The, campaign lias been a bitter one and finally resulted in tlie opening of hostilities by street fighting yesterday. THE BAD SIDEWALKS. Complaints of Their Condition Are Heard On All Sides. Little has been done by the pr oper ty owners toward tlie repairing of the side walks in front of their premises, and the average Brunswickian is suf fering. The walk in front of McClure’s has had some little repairing, hut In a few days it will he as had ag ever as the work was not half done, and the very cheapest material was used. Ii is a pity that the city fathers refuse to enforce the sidewalk ordinance. Horse Dropped Dead. A horse became overheated Monday ailil fell near the corner of Gloucester and Grant streets, and in a few min utes was dead. Horse owners cannot he too easy on their animals this hot weather. Girl Disappear^. Charlotte, N. C., July I.—Tlie strange disappearance of Miss Jessie Wall, who is described as ine of the most beautiful young women in Ran. dolph county, is causing apprehension in the section where she lives. Sun day evening a week ago she went out to where the cows Were on her tar ther’s farm and has not been seen since. She left a note there telling her parents Cot to be uneasy', she had not disgraced herself and would do herself no harm and intended to write them later. A diligent search fails to reveal a trace of her. She is welled uoated. . To Nominate Lon. Atlanta. July I.—The congressional convention of the Fifth district will meet in Atlanta on toworrow at 10 a. ni., for the purpose of ratifying the action of trie people in the election of a congressman, from this district. Col onel Leonidas F. Livingston, who was nominated in the June primary, will, of course, he named by the congres sional convention. The City Pay Day. Yesterday was pay day with the city, and quite a large amount was handed out to tne city employes. All those woo work for the city get their money promptly. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GROWING BETTER EVERY MINUTE 1 HAS LEFT THE BED AND IS NOW COMFORTABLE ON AN EASY COUCH—BONFIRES STILL BE ING LIGHTED. THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE OPENED AGAIN YESTERDAY ALL ENGLAND STILL REJOiC ING. !> London, July 2, 6 p. m.—No further bulletins in regard to the lung's con dition will be issued until 7 p. m. There has been no change since tno Id o’clock bulletin this morning when it was announced that tlie, king had slept well and no unfavorable symp. toms 'nad appeared. The king has maintained progress and is again oc cupying the invalid couch. The noticable excitement during the past week outside Buckingham pal ace at the hours when the bulletins were posted is entirely absent this morning. A sanguine impression cre ated by the doctors reports Saturday and Sunday were maintained by the salient phrase of this morning's bul letin, “No bail symptoms of any kind.” At noon the following official state ment was given out at the palace: "'There is no cause for alarm in the distress caused by the dressing of the wound. The dressing causes his maj otty considerable pain, will eh has been borne with groat, fortitude. “The king is much benefltted by a change to the couch yesterday, on which he stayed for a few hours. The queen is in constant attendance in the sick room but the utmost quiet Is en forced. The king occasTonally sees his children but the interviews are of short duration. Neither Doctors Lak ing. Barlpy or Treves have left, the palace since the operation, except for an occasional hour.” Tlds statement was issued with a view to correcting numerous unfound, eil stories published with circumstan tial detail regarding what is alleged to transpipre in the sick room. The cheerfulness of the public is ap parently shared by the members of the ropal family. The Prince of Wales went out riding this morning and both he and tne princess witnessed from the palace windows with evident interest, a march past of the guards. Tlie stock exchange reopened today with" a strong tone on the satisfactory? news regarding the king’s condition. Consols rose seven-sixteenths. Other departments reflected the improved feeling. London, midnight, July 1. —Although no official bulletin has been issued since 7 o’clock a. m., which said “King continues to improve,” reports from the palace at this hour say the king showed so much improvement tonight that he again left his bed and con versed in the royal parlor with ail his relatives here. Bonfires are still being held throughout the empire tonight in celebration of the king’s Improvement. MAY MEET IN ATLANTA. Effort Being Made to Get the Lawyer* There. It is more than probable that the 1903 convention of the American Bar association, composed of the foremost jurists and lawyers of the United States will meet in Atlanta. For several years there lias been a growing sentiment among the lawyers to meet in the south, but the entire matter has never been urged strongly. When the American Bar association meets this year at Saratoga, N. Y., lawyers from Atlanta, and from tlie state Bar association of Georgia, will be present, in large numbers to urge the claims of tlie southern city, and it is more than probable that the lawyers will accept the invitation of Atlanta, and hold their meeting there in 1903. Chas. Wilson, the young white man recently trjed for carrying concealed weapons is still in jail and will remain there until August term of the city; I COUrt - ..1 XuA