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THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 241. CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED FOR NEW ATLANTA TERMINALS FOR A., B.S A. RAILROAD 00. •—♦ — The Improvements will Cost About Hall Million Ballars HANDSOMEST IN THE STATE The Seaboard and the A., B. & A. Will Use Same Terminals in Capital City—Work is to Commence on Contract at Once. The following very Interesting story ■of improvements anil developments being made 'by the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic railroad will, as a matter of course, be of interest to the people of this city where the same company is building immense termi nals. The article is from yesterday's Constitution: “The contract for the grading and excavations for the new tracks for thp pate Cfty 'terminal Cqmpany, tho company laying ip charge the At]tin ta tracks of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad and the Sea bord Air Line road, lias been awarded to the Lane Brothers and Company, contractors, having a national repu tation. “The depot will be built of brlclt and will be 730 feet long ,or rather. It will be a building the front of which will be devoted to the offices of the company while two freight depots will extend from this office portion for i distance of 730 feet in all. One of theise building will ibe for receiving inbound freight and the other for ship ping outbound freight. 'Just the number of stories of the o'ltice building of the freight depot and other details are IloioTe To change. This depot will be erected on prom erty secured by the Gate City Termi nal Company west, or northwest, of the present Atlanta Terminal station “The local freight yards of the Gate City Terminal Company fop the pse of the Seaboard and Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic, will, when comple ted,, lie between Hunter and Magnol la and Haynes and Elliot streets. In all there will he about fifteen tracks with a capacity of about forty cars each. “The general distributing yards will epnpist pf about thirty-four tracks (jyitb aif average length of a half milu. The approach of the track of Ilia Gate City Terminal Company will run under the tracks of the Western and Atlantic, the Southern railway anil the tracks of the Marietta electric line. “It was also learned autlioritivelv yesterday that the contractors. Lane Bros. & Cos., will this present week load one or more steam shovels and a large number of workmen will come to Atlanta immediately and begin the work of grading under the contract amounting to more than a half tail lion dollars. There is a reason why this great work should start iminedia tely. The contract calls for the com pletion of the work by June 1, next jbjj "it -Js r.njMpjf'ff that a jjjjfjVy np't|a| has'bfeeh jj|e4 for any deiaV Jjey piid‘ this jlat • yic,e president George Do|e Wadiey p f the f ; 4y Terminaj Cfjrifptfijy, has appointed R. T. MacDonald, as en gineer of terminals, and Mr. MacUon aid has arrived and is now in charge Ot the work with offices at 211 Empire building into which he moved and made his headquarters yesterday. H. M. Atkinson, president of the gate City Terminal Company is still |n the east where he is enjoying his vacation" LEGISLATORS DESERT ATLANTA Ruth to Get to Their Home* as Soon a s Legislature Adjourned. Atlanta. Aug., 17. — Today with the exception of the few mem bers who remain over for the purpose of completing their business not more than a dozen of the solons gye in the city and these will not ha tomorrow. The average legisla tions tp get home. Some *hejr families, pthers ( y **'d attention 4ml the po- CHEAP RATES FOR THE HOME COMING OT BRYAN On aeouut of the home coming of William Jennings Brayaii the South ern railway will sell round trip tiea ets to New York and return at the rate of $26,80. These tickets will go on sale on August 28 and 29 and will be good returning, leaving New York not later than September 4. For additional in formation call on or address, E H. Houseman, general agent. ON SWIMMING The News’ Idea of Teaching the Art ip the Public Schoo's Finds Strong Supporter. Editor News: Your editorial sug gesting that children he taught swim ming in the public schools, is a good one and one which could be carried out very easily, especially in Bruns wick. The advantage of this knowl edge cannot possible be over ostium ted. But, don't you think, Mr. Edilo that if parents would relax the very stringent rules which they make for their children regarding going in o. near the water that more of them would learn this accomplishment i know of parents in this city who would punish their children severlv if they, should disobey them regarding going in swimming yet the time may come wlu'ii the lark of this knowl edge might he the cause of human life being lost Ipit they will admit, however, that it is a good thing to know and would like for their chil dren to know it. They are evidently in favor of tire old diftly which reads as follows: “Mbther, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter; Hang your clothes on a hickory limb But don’t go near the water.” I have been living in Brunswick for the past sixteen years, having an office on one of the whaive? all of that time and 1 have seen several sets of boys learn to swim right un der my own personal observation din ing* that time, and I have yet to re call the first accident which has ban pened to any of them ami some at! them are remarkably good swimmers, Right now 1 know of a crowd v. ho have learned at this dock and they think nothing of swimming across the bay to the jetties and back, although they never attempt this feat without, one of them going along with a boat, so that, in case an accident did hap pen there would he no danger oi drowning. Children naturally love the water and they should be encouraged to learn to swim, by all means, and with the consent and permission of their parents. Swimmer. First Methodist Church at City Hall At the 10 a. m. service the pastor’s theme will be “The Security and Pir ity of the True Church of God.” At the union service in the Baptls! church 8 p .in., the subject for ills cussioii will be “The Marks of the Regenerate Life.’' Sunday school ai. 4,30 p, nj. Rrqyer service Wednesday at 8 p. m. AU are welcome to all of these services TWO PULLED '4 . Bole) Highwaymen Arrested by Officer £oins Last Njght and the Money Recovered. Officer Sam Coins pulled two ne groes last night, William Hedges ana Charles Lasten charged with doing the genuine highway act.. It seems that the two negroes located Wright Stewart, a visitjng negro from Abbe ville. who displayed ijis roll tp the local dusky hues and they made up their minds to tay for It. Stewart made the rounds during the' day and when he went, to re turn to hi* hoarding house in the northern part of the city the two ne groes held him up and relieved him of bis wa<l and his watch and chain. The negro reported the matter to the police department and Officer Goins started out to locate the ne groes. He succeeded in a very short time recovering most of the money ami the watch. < The two negroes were placed in the county jail and will probably “>0 service of the state some FUIL REPORT OF THE CASE —♦ — Peonage Mailer of A., B. S A. Cootractors Attracting Attention THE EVIDENCE DAMAGING The Final Determination of the Cases May Have Important Bearing on The Immigration Laws of the State of Georgia The Columbus Enquirer-Sun of yes terday has the following report of the preliminary trails of the A., B. & A. contreators, accused of peonage, which occurred in that city Thursday. The story will be of interest in Bruns wick; ‘Hearing of the evidence of the cas es of the United States vs. A. K. Chap man, A. L Bradshaw, .i. 1). Mcpiroy, Eason and W. Matthews, offbeats of the Atlanta and Birmingham Con struction Company, charged with peon age, was resumed yesterday morning at S o’clock by Commissioner Brown after having been trying the case most of the previous day: "The defense introduced many more witnesses to show that the laborers on whose complaints the case wan made had not been held in a state of peonage In the construction camn. One of the laborers, an Irishman in trodncEll by the defense created a sin of amusement in the courtroom. la true Irish brogue he stated that when ne left New York he thought he was going to Philadelphia but when he got on board he found he was going to Brunswick. However, be said that lie bad a couple of drinks and was feeling so good he didn't care where lie land ed. He said he was having a good time down here and was being treat ed alright in the construction camp. He was a typical Irishman from the ■ould countliry” and created much amusement by Ills testimony. “The evidence was all in by 1 1 o'clock and the argument of the de fense anil prosecution consumed about a half hour. • “Both District Attorney Tate and the counsel of the defendants put forth able efforts in presenting the case. Commissioner Brown stated that ho could not under the evidence dis miss the cases against Campbell, Brad shaw and Matthews, the evidence showing that in the belief of the court the men had been held in a state ot u.conage, if for only a short time, sti I none the less peonage. One of the de fendants, VV. Matthews had testifies in court U'al lie had gone on a hand car after one of the laborers. After hearing the argument and weighing the evidence th ecourt announced that '-he thrive aforenamed officials of the Atlantic anil Birmingham Construction on Company would be bound over to the United States district court in the. sum of $ 1,000 each and that the two other defendants, .1 Eason and J. l) Al'Him, were discharged, the ovl Vjik-i! against them not being sum deni to sustain the warrant. "The officials bound over promptly patio bond.” an elction not NECESSARY N< Other Need be Held on School Fund Matter. Atlanta, Aug. 17.—'The counties la the r.lqte which have availed them selves of the McMieheal law, thereby holding elections for local taxtUiiiii in order to support public schools, will nqt be. compelled to hold election again on account of recent decision of the supreme court. Tlie law lias been amended so that counties may secure certificates from the comptroller general, showing the proportion of taxes paid by the rail roads to Use state for counties through which they pass. Stale School Com missioner Merritt has - received num bers of letters frotr| the many coun ties which have adopted the iocai taxation, inquiring as to whether they will be compelled to hold another el ection, It develops that wealthy iand own ers In many parts of the state have agreed already to . innate jands to b< used by the agricultural schools in slituted in each congressional district. A bill allowing such Institutions to be erected and maintained by the state was passed at the recent session of tin* legislature. The Weather Forecast for today fn Georgia: BRUNSWICK. GA„ SATufcDAY MORNING. AUGUST 18. ISO 6. EDWARDS BAG A REAL CINCH —♦ — Slick Forger Catches Another firm for Smalt Check OSLO SIC TON'S NAME In Face of the Fact That Officers Were After Him he Gets Anoth er? 5,00 Check Cashed Yesterday. C. 11. Edwards, whoever lie is, lias more gall than a Brunswick politic ian. And ho is something like a Brunswick politic la u for lie wants "ail that's coming to him. Not satisfied with forging nam -of A. Hollis, liilds for $lO on Thursday lie yesterday worked up nerve enough lo use the name of S. I.evison on a check for $5 and got the money for it too. • "Mr. Edwards’ seems lo have a nnt uaral penchant for working off his lit tie joke on the whiskey men and yesterday lie roped in Morgan & Dav is. the Bay street wholesalers. He walked int the store, bought $2 worth of whiskey and tendered the I.evison check for $5,00 in payment. The work was pretty well done, the siguiture looked real and the check was cash ed only' to have it turned down and pronounced a largely when it reach e dthe bank. > Tlie local officers are making a strong fight to locate Edwards and '1 be is apprehended lie will be given a pretty severe lesson. • Brupnswick liquor dealers should keep an eye open for Mr. C. 11. Ed wards today. Terrible Work Wrought by the Ex plosion of a Full Car of Dynamite. SI Paso, Texas, A it; - 17. —Explosion of a carload of dynamite in the Pacific railway depot at, Chilhuahua yesterday killed between 30 and (10 persons. The cargo was being transferred from one car to another when a Mex ican workman dropped a box and the explosion set off the entire load . Every laborer and the foreman, the latter an American were -blown to atoms. Fragments of bodies were blown for miles and I lie roof?: of the vicinity were littered with pieces ol human flesh. Mary small buildings number of people were injured in t pin; pmpa.iM ojoav oiieas oqj .turn their homes. Windows were cracked i nal! parts of the city and (lying debris struck pedestrians inflict in painful injuries in many cases. Tho earth, was shaken as if by an earth quake. Expensive Strike. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 17. —A spec ial from W.vlati, in the heart of the Pratt mine district, says that provis ions were distributed today as usual to the striking miners but the miners were informed that Ibis von id >„• the last di-dijliuitoii and that the strike at the mines of the four big furnace companies, which has • men on for years, will be calletf ,>$ next Monday. The strike has cost the miners organ ization over a million dollars. GOOD TOR STATE New Corporation Law Will Briny a Good Sum In The Treasury of the State. According to estimates the new law requiring all corporations, 'both local and foreign, doing business is Gcor gia, except lianas, to make returns an nually to the secretary of "vne state will put from $26,000 to $28,000 in the state Ireasury. Under ibis law corporations of all kinds, with the e xceptlon above noted | must make returns to the secretary of the state not later than Novernbei 1, or suffer a penalty of SC,O. J Blanks are now being rr:ailei| by tlie secretary to secure the following in- I formation, as is required by tbeWt. WALL STREET IN BIG FLURRY —t — Onion Pacific and Southern Pacific Sensational Divi dends Stir things Up SIIiCKS ADVANCE SHARPLY At the Close of the Business for the Day They Had Gone Skyward to -Perccptable Degree—Oth er Stocks Show Incline. New York, Aug. 17.—Wall street ex perienced its first genuine shake-up to day since the death of ltussell Sage, win h (lie entire street was stirred by the announcement that the UnionTt’a. eitic had declared a live percent semi annual dividend on its common stock I bus making It ten percent stock. The Southern Pnrlfi.- addo 1 to tni. consternation by declaring a seml-an nual dividend of two and a Ilgif per* cent on its eommop stock thus making that stock live percent. At the. close of the day the record showed a sharp advance for the Un ion Pacific stock going up to gnu closing at one seventy-eight and a half as against one sixty-two and a half last night. The Southern Pacific also took a trip skyward cloning at eighty seven and a hail a% against eighty two last night. Other stocks were active and ail of tlu m were on the tin line. King Edward Bought Stock. U is announced that J. Plerpont Moigi.n gave :t,e i t> itt-ig .7 1 ward on the movement upward of the Southern Pacific and that the mon arch bought heavily on the strength of the Information and cleaned up a very handsome sum on the invest ment. South American Earthquake. Buenos Ayres, Aug. 17. —An earth quake shock was felt in the province of Men/,oa at o’cloi k last night. Tor egrahic communication with Chile has been interrupted as a conse quence. While if is believed that, no serious damage was done a panic pre vails among the population. SOME FACTS Voter Number Four, Has a Say in the Gubernatorial Situation in This County. Mr Editor: From reading a be labored article in an afternoon pub lication yesterday i am forced to ask wlial the trouble really is? In Congressman ly-aiuley a eaii/di dalo in the primary to be held qext Wednesday and what has a thirty foot channel lor Brunswick’s bar to do with the election of a governor ot Georgia? I am’ a friend of Congressman Bra,nt ley and I propose to vote fay him In the coining election in November /■'Ut really ( if., apt nee the relevepcy or the article referred to f did not think fiird du not think now that itßrantley ought to have made this fight for Estlll, but he has done so, ;tnd, I for one, while not appreciating his course, am not de nouncing him and I do not. think it is the proper thing for the voters to beg for votes thp shoul ders of Mr. Brantlpy. Asa matter of fact there is nothing in common between the city of Brunswick and Mr. Estlll. For twenty five years he lias waged a consistent war on the commerce of the port of Brunswick he was williug to saddle the negro Deveaux off' on Brunswick but WAS NOT HEADY NOR DID HE EN DOWS!'! HIM FOB THAT POSITION IN SAVANNAH. Up to the last gubernatorial race I challenge any mail'to show rne one line favorable to Brunswick i Mr. EhUH’h paper. , And even since Glynn county gave him Its vote four years ago there his been only a few long drawn out I>> qui ts thrown this way. It Is a plain business,matter and Congressman Brantley does not enter into it. It's M. But ill's fight. Vcttr Number Four, THEY TALK OF WORK DONE BY GEORGIA SOLONS THIS YEAR MAY OPEN A WHISKEY BUSINESS J. J. Mayes, of Fitzgerald Looking Over the Local Situation. J J. Mayes, for a number of years •engaged in the liquor bu-sinetss in Fitzgerald but pressed out of that city on account of the $20,000 license en acted to govern there by the last leg islature. is in tlre city with a view of locating here. He looked at sov mat places on Bay and Monk streets yesterday and it is very likely that he will ile. ide to remove to this city. MANY 111 RACE This Early in the Game Four Candi dates Want “Little Joe Brown’s” Job on Railroad Commission. Practically four candidates arc now in the field for railroad commissioner as successor to Joseph M. Brown, whose term expires October 17, 11(07, and whose successor is io bo elect ed in October. On the final day of the session the house concurred in the senate amend ment to the bill to elect the railroad commissioners by the people, and it now only remains to have the gover nor's aianlture to become a law. Uegore the bill had passed Hon. Tom Crenshaw had announced his candidacy. He was formerly on the commission and Is considered an able man Members of the house circulated a petition, which was signed by prac tically every member of the legislature urging Representative Fondren Mitch ell, of Thomasville, lo become a can didate. While Mr. Mitchell has not. formally announced it is believed lie will enter the race Editor Jesse E. Mercer, of the Fitzgerald Enterprise, comes forward as the south Georgia candidate for the place and he will, it. is said, have strong following. Commissioner Joseph M. Brown has not definitely announced his Intention but i! is believed that he will be a candidate (o succeed himself. Rather a delicate question arisen ov er tl(e selection of the next commis sioner. The law expressly stipulates that one of the commissioners shall he an expert railroad man. another a lawyer and the third a business man and the act to elect, by the people does not change Ibis provision. Commissioner Brown is the railroad expert. Warner Hill the lawyer ana Col. Stephens the business man. Commissioner Brown ’sterm expires first. Therefore a railroad expert must be selected as Ills successor mi der (he act. According to the strict Interpreta tion neither Mr. Mitchell nor M.r Mer cer can be so claused. Uolh Com missioner Brown and Col Crenshaw are. it remains to be seen whether this classification will meet with strict eu forcement. and what effect it will have on the field. NETT MM j’i-i a . .• * V J ■ • Is th: Data Fixed for Unveiling the Handsome John B. Gordon Monument, The Atlanta News of yesterday has the following which will be of Inter est In the Confederate veteran cir cles of the rity: “Tho unveiling <)f Rio equestrian monument c\f General John 1! Gordon on the capltol grounds will take plac > next May. “This announcement was made to day by Judge W. 1.. Calhoun, presi dent of tfie Gordon Monument Assoc iation. A meeting of that body will be held some time next week to per fect arrangments relative to the mon ument. On yesterday Hie legislature appropriated $15,000, which will he used, with other money raised by private subscription, with which to make the statue. In all about $25, 000 will be utilized. "Sculpor Solon Borglum is now com pleting a second model of General Gordon and this will be forwarded to Atlanta from New York in a few. days. “The hssociatlon committeemen wilt suggest whatever changes necessary anil then he will begin work on the final one. The association will then decide whether the third anil last will be accpeted." PRICE FIVE OENTB. MANY GOOO BITES PASSED —♦— . Senator Rose and flepre sentativa Butts Returned Yesterday RESUME OF THE WORN \ While. Many Needed Laws Were Not Made the Session Just Closed Rendered Great Servicg to Georgia. . Senator D. P. Rose and Represen. tatlve E. C. Butts, who have been attending the session of the legisla. tore, came down from Atlanta yes terdivy and were cordially received by, their friends in the city. Both os of the aiuunt f these gentlemen talk interestingly of the amount of work done by the lawmakers of Georgia this year. The legislature has done a splendid work passing many old time measures ana giving the people some good, healthy laws. Probably the passage of tint child lal bill was the most import' ant ineastk a of the the session. The pure election law, to prevent illegal voting, passed the senate with out a dissenting vote from the 1 com mil tee, with no amendments. The measure lo elect railroad com lulssioners by Hie people, which had been smothered in the senate last year, was passed overwhelmingly, before the house had considered a compare ion bfll. The pure food bill, to .prevent the adulteration of foods and medicines, was adopted by/ Dili houses, there be ing little opposition. | The bucket shops and exchanges have been obliterated from the state, and so-called transactions In margin al futures are prohibited. The establishment of a state agri cultural school at Athens, was also passed, carrying with It an appropria tion of SIOO,OOO. A court of appeals which will amel iorate the congested condition of tha state's judicial business was created and a number of important matt/.s transacted. However, legislative measures which were asked for by the people, have failed ami there will be members on ibe assembly who will be called oa to reason with their constituents. The general lobby bill was defeated In the senate"general judiciary com mil fee. Here the demand of, the .peo. pie, whom they represented, was clear ly Ignored by the men who cast their unfavorable votes against the bill. The proposed law was said to ba stringent, but it is understood tha* no efforts were made to allow qualify ing amendments to be introduced in sufficient time ‘for the hill to have been acted upon. The hill to create a slate board of tax accessors and state county boards, was defeated in the senate. The anti-cigarette bill died in the struggle to the death by Us oppo nents on flie last day of the session. The bin was never 'brought up upon Its merits, but every known fiilibu-t tering tactic was employed to proven; it being heard. , The lieutenant governor bill which sought to prevent any |K>Hidble exe eutlve complications, met its death in the house after passing the senate. A slinilmr bill will be again intro duced next year. Strange to say a Dill to prevent freo passes, which had been adopted in the senate, was killed in the house. The bill for a state auditor, which passed the house, died in the senate as well as did the patrol bill. Prominent Men Fight. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 17. —In at personal altercation today M. E. James superintendent of the gas works of the Birmingham Railway, Light, and Power Company .was shot and per haps fatally wounded by W. H. Rogers a prominent paint manufacturer. . Slue Ribbon Beer. Just icceived, a car load of Pabst Brewing Company’s Blue Ribbon beer. Same Is sold at all first class saloons in the city of Brunswick. Retail 15 cents per bottle and $1,50 per dozen. T. Newman, sole agent, 218 Bay street.