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The Georgia Record. VOL. I. GENERAL JOUBERT IS DEAD Commander=ln=Chief of the Boer Army a Victim of Disease. A HEAVY BLOW TO BOERS Hero of Majuba HiH, Great Patriot and England’s Impla cable Foe. Advices from Pretoria announce the death of General Joubert Tuesday night at 11:30 o’clock. He had been suffering from an attack of perito nitis. The town is plunged into mourning for the true patriot, gallant general and upright and honorable gentleman. It is known that General Joubert had been ill several weeks. He never recovered from the wound sustained in battle in front of Ladysmith last November, when it was reported that he hud been killed. He left the front some weeks ago, leaving the Boer forces then surrounding Ladysmith in command of other Boer generals. The death of Joubert is a sad event for the Transvaal. Next to President Kruger he was recognized as the fore most Boer leader. He had been in command of the Boer army for years, and to his great generalship and force of character the efficiency of the South African Bepnblic’s army is due. General Joubert’s death and the capture of General Cronje weakens the forces of the Boers to a large ex tent and will result in great changes in the army. They are the two most famous of the Boer generals, and the ending of the public careers of both during the present war will be one of the greatest shocks to the republic’s people. Cronje is supposed to be on his way to St. Helena, where he will doubtless be confined during the re mainder of his life. Joubert’s successor in the chief command will probably be General Louis Botha, now commanding in Natal. General Pietruskobius Joubert,com mandant general of the Transvaal forces, better known as Piet Joubert, or “Slim Piet” (Slim Peter) was born about sixty-nine years ago. He was descended from an old French Hugue not family which settled in South Af rica many years ago. He was born in Cape Colony, but was taken by his parents, when several years old, to the Orange Free State, where he was taught from early childhood to shoot straight and hate the British. He is described as having been utterly fearless. Os schooling he had but little, and he never saw a newspa per until he was nineteen years old. In spite of this, his ambition prompt ed him to read the few books he could obtain and he succeeded in obtaining a fair knowledge of history and lan guage. In consequence of the acquisition of Natal by the British his family moved from Natal and settled in the Trans vaal. Soon afterwards he became a burgher of the South African republic and daring fighter. It was claimed in his behalf that he could lead a body of men more successfully against hostile natives than any other man in the Transvaal. He came to be so feared by the natives that, the knowledge that he was at the head of a punitive expe dition usually resulted in their sur render. It w’as during these wars with the natives that Jcubert became acquaint ed with Paul Kruger and the two men became bosom friends. He was elect ed vice president of the Transvaal in 1896, defeated Sir George Coffer at Majuba hill in 1881 and acted as presi dent of the republic in 1884 during President Kruger’s absence in Europe. General Joubert was always in favor of the use of force instead of diploma cy and President Kruger on several occasions had great difficulty in re pressing his hot-headed colleague, no tably in 1879, when Joubert with Kru ger and Pretorius was planning the rebellion to overth .'ow British rule in the Transvaal. The result was Majuba hill and the practical independence of the Trans vaal. It was Joubert who organized the army of the South African repub lic, later on dividing the country into seventeen military departments and each of these departments into smaller divisions with commandants, field cor nets and lieutenants of various ranks in charge. According to the general’s plans every native became a trained soldier without leaving his farm, and has his equipment always at hand. It was also due to General Joubert that the South African republic suc ceeded in amassing the munitions of war and provisions which have stood them in such good stead during the conflict now in progress. “ DALY Is" RESPONSIBLE.” Defense In the Clark Investigation Submits a Lengthy Brief. The brief of the defense in the Clark investigation has been submitted to the senate committee and is signed by Hon. Charles J. Faulkner and Mr. Roger Foster, and it covers 232 pages. The document is throughout an ar raignment of the prosecution. It be gins with the assertion that “an exam ination of this testimony will confirm the most skeptical in the belief that those who seek to brand a majority of the representatives of a sovereign state as ‘dishonest’ and as ‘bribe takers’are influenced by no lofty purpose of rem edying an evil, nor is it entered upon from a desire to maintain the integrity of the membership of the United States senate. The facts shown in this record fully justify the assertion that those who originated the prosecution were controlled only by sentiment of the bitterest personal and political hostil ity.” It is then declared that the' senti ment in the state of Montana is so universal for Mr. Clark that the “lead ing spirit of the protestants, whose prejudice has animated this prosecu tion, has found it necessary to invest large sums of money in the purchase of the press of the state, and in other cases by the establishment of newspa pers with the hope of checking and J dividing the sentiment of the people i of Montana.” Af&r some other preliminary re . marks the brief definitely audrspecifl ■ cally names Marcus Daly as the chief ; instigator of the contest and the state i ment on this point is as follows: . “Marcus Daly having defeated Sen ator Clark in 1888 for congress and for the senate in 1893 through treach ery to his party organization, was un willing to restrain his personal hos tility and to permit the voice of the people, through their legally constitu ted representatives, to determine the election of their senator, and as early l as the 10th of February, 1899, he or ganized a committee of his personal friends aud agents to work up and pre pare a case against the seating of Sen ator Clark by this body. The testi mony will bear out the assertion that every member of this prosecuting committee was either one of the con spirators in the attempt to defeat Mr. Clark’s election or an employe of Mr. Daly, or an adherent of his faction in this state.” AN EASY UNDERTAKING. Bloomington, Indiana, Paper Will Get Out a “Satanic” Edition. The Rev. Mr. Sheldon’s effort to run a newspaper for one week has in spired H. J. Feltus, editor of the Bloomington, Ind., Star, to experi ment in an opposite direction. He will turn.over the editcrial and busi ness departments of the newspaper to the printer’s devil to conduct the sheet as Satan would. In an editorial he says: “The Star for Saturday, March 31, will be a devil of a paper. Suitable contributions for such a paper, briefly written, will be considered. No church notices nor reading matter nor advertisements of a religious nature will be received. We propose to let the devil have full sway. ” ATLANTA, GA . SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1900. AU POWERS AGREE. The “Open Door” Plan as Regards China Is Successfully Initiated. Secretary of State Hay submitted to congress Tuesday the correspondence had with the governments of Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan respecting the main tenance of an “open door” in China. The correspondence extended from September 6th last to the 20th instant, the last date making the successful completion of the undertaking. On September 6th the state depart ment addressed to our ambassadors at London, Berlin aud St. Petersburg copies of a “formal declaration, setting out the desires of our government in the matter of the ‘open door. ’ ” Italy and Japan were similarly addressed about a month later. While the “formal declarations” sent to the ambassadors were similar, yet each of the officers adopted a dis- , ferent phraseology in addressing themselves to the governments to | which they are accredited, the domi- 1 nant note being best set forth perhaps in Ambassador Choate’s note to the British government. After reciting the importance to both governments of the matter and the president’s understanding that the British settled policy is freedom of trade in China for all the world alike, though conceding certain spheres of influence by formal treaties with Ger many and Russia, Ambassador Choate points out to Lord Salisbury that main tenance of this policy is alike urgently demanded by the commercial commu nities of our two nations in order to | improve existing conditions and en able extension of their future opera tions. PL A N TO PAY TEACH E RS. Attorney General Terrell of Georgia De ckles Upon an JEntip'Jiy New Method. The teachers in tIA common schools of Georgia, under a jlecision rendered by Attorney General' Terrell, will get their salaries this year on time. Pay- ! ments will be made from the state I treasury for the two spring months of the school term, though it looked for ! a time as if only the salaries for one month could be paid on time. The decision of the attorney general has pointed a new aud, so far as prece dent is concerned, a unique way for the state to meet its obligation to the teachers. He has held that the bond ed debt fund of the state may be ap plied to the payment of interest as well as principal on the debt. The public debt fund now in the treasury consists of the proceeds from the sale of state property, such as the old cap itol building aud the Okefenokee swamp, and this fund has been banked up in the treasury and kept out of I circulation. The sum of §175,000 will be due as ■ interest oil the public debt on Ist and the sum to pay this interest is | now being held in the treasury. Gov ernor Candler has suggested and At- I torney General Terrell has sustained him on the point that the §175,000 due as interest can be paid out of the §325,- 000 in accordance with law and the §175,000 which was intended to be used as payment of the interest due in July can be used in the payment of teachers in the common schools. The principle is an entirely new one as advanced by the governor and at torney general aud it means that the teachers will get their money at the same time they did last year. OLIVIER’S GIIEvFfeAT. Wily Boer Commandant Eludes Roberta After Being Virtually Trapped. Advices of Tuesday from London state that the Boers are having a little good luck and are showing some bold ness again as a raiding party estimated at 400 is believed by the British forces at Warrenton to have crossed the Kimberley-Bloemfontein wagon road Monday and have headed for Ja- j cobsdal, with the intention of cut ting the railway ten miles west. Commandant Olivier appears to have ' got his 5,000 men and twenty miles of l wagons into rugged country, where he can make an easy rear guard defense. I Charles Williams, the military expert, says: “If this column gets through sub stantially Commandant Oliver will have carried out the great feat of the war, seeing that he ran every chance of being ground between the upper millstone of Lord Roberts’ army and the nether millstone of the broke* Basuto frontier.” JUDGE THINKS POWERS GUILTY Made Startling Declaration In Open Court at Frankfort. PRISONER IS HELD FOR TRIAL Culton Is Alleged to Have Made Sensational Confession, Which Is Witheld. There were some startling develop- j ments in the Goebel assassination at i Frankfort Tuesday. W. H. Culton, j who waved examination and was held i over to the circuit court, went to I the Capitol hotel, where he was in conference with the attorneys for the i prosecution for over two hours. He was accompanied by his brother-in- , law, E. E. Hogg, who is also his attor ney. Culton was reported to have made a confession, but later it devel- j oped that the information gained was not as sweeping as thought. His friends admit that he gave the prose cution such information as he had and which had heretofore not come out. Henry E. Youtsey, Republican Audi tor Sweeny’s clerk, was arrested at ; noon aud locked up in jail charged with being an accessory to the assa«i nation. He is a half brother of Hon. L. J. Crawford, a prominent Republi can of Newport, and detectives arrest ed him as the man with the black mustache whom Golden mentioned as being given the key to Caleb Power’s office. Youtsey complained the prose- ; cution had broken faith in arresting him, and it is said he is ready to make a public statement for which the prosecution is not anxious at this time. POWERS HELD FOB TRIAL. At Tuesday’s session of the examin ing trial of the Republican secretary of state, Caleb Powers, the courtroom was cleared of all persons except at torneys, newspaper representatives and court officers. The defense an nounced they would introduce no testi- { mony and tendering Governor Taylor’s pardon of Powers, asked that the de- | fendant be dismissed upon tne evi dence. The commonwealth disputed l Taylor’s right and the court overruled ’ the motion. Bail was asked for. Judge Moore said: *! “It is not my belief that Powers fired the shdt which killed Gover nor Goebel, but from the evidence, it is my opinion that he was con nected with the conspiracy to kill him. I shall, therefore, order that he be held over without bail to the Franklin county grand jury that the case may be further in vestigated.” Culton’s counsel announced that Culton waived his examination trial and by agreement of the attorneys he will remain at home with his sick wife under private guard. Captain John Davis also waived examination and was admitted to bail in the sum of §5,000. He was locked up for the night. I The Democratic militia w’ill be re tained in Frankfort until after the cir cuit court, which begins Monday, and ■ at which Secretary Powers and others are to be tried. LYNCHING IN MARYLAND. Negro Charged With the Usual Crime Is Swung Up By a Mob. Lewis Harris, the negro who was arrested at Belair, Md., a few days ago charged with a criminal assault ujoon Miss Anne Mcllvain, was* taken from the jail Monday night and lynched, after a brief struggle between the sheriff and the mob, in which two men were slightly wounded. RESULT OF GOEBEL TROUBLE. L. & N. Railroad Shops Bring Removed From Kentucky. The work of tearing down the Lou isville and Nashville machine shops at ! Bowling Green, Ky., was commenced Tuesday, preparatory to removing them to Tans, Tenn. The monthly pay roll to the employes of the com pany is about §30,000. The removal is said to be due to the Goebel trouble in Kentucky. NO. 40. CLARK PAID FORTUNE For the Honor of Donning the Senatorial Toga. SO ALLEGE THE MEMORIALISTS | It In Asserted That Wholesale Bribery Was Practiced and 8312,890 Was Spent By Montara Man. A Washington dispatch says: Coun | sei for the memorialists in the case of ! Senator Clark, of Montana, have sub- I mitted their brief to the senate com j mittee on privileges and elections: After reviewing the testimony in detail counsel presents the following I facts in the case from the evidence ad -1 duced: | First, that at least fifteen members ! of the legislature were paid by Mr. I Clark and his agents for their votes. Second, that at least nine ethers were offered money for their votes and ! ihat the total amount of offers reached 8175,000. Third, that §IOO,OOO was offered by Dr. Tracy, a friend and agent of Mr. Clark, to bribe the attorney general to dismiss the proceedings in the Well come case. Fourth, that the agent of Clark of fered Justice Hunt of the supreme court 8100,000 to dismiss the Well come case. Fifth, that Mr. Clark and his friends engaged in wholesale bribery and at tempted bribery of members of the leg islature to secure the election of Mr. Clark. Much is made of the testimony alleg ing efforts to bribe Justice Hunt and Attorney General Nolan in the Well come disbarment case. “It is evident,” they say, “that Mr. Clark and his friends fully realized the importance of the decision of that court in its bearing upon Mr. Clark’s contest, otherwise they would not have taken a special train to bring his agents to Helena to negotiate and ar range for the purchase of that court. The fact that Mr. Clark’s agent, Mr. Jesse B. Root, law partner of Mr. John B. Wellcome, paid Mr. Z. T. Cason §1,500 to leave the state of Mon tana and not testify before the court the circumstances going to bear out the charge of unlawful expenditure and I corrupt use of money by Mr. Clark j and his agents to carry out their pur | pose. The offer of §IOO,OOO to bribe the 1 attorney general to move the dismis- I sal of the proceedings is but another I chapter of the long story of bribery ! and attempted bribery that marks the i the entire history of Mr, Clark’s cam paign for the senatorship -from the time in August, 1898, when he agreed with Governor Hauser and others to put up §35,000 for primaries and from | §IO,OOO to §60,000 more for the gen l eral election and as much afterwards j as w’as necessary up to and including the §1,500 payment to Cason. Os the 95 members of the legislature I (including Mr. Whitesides) 26 W’ere sworn before the committee. “Os these memorialists say nine i have taken oath that they were offered | money to vote for Senator Clark; two have admitted the receipt of money, i §5,000 each, after voting for Mr. Clark, but tried to excuse it,- j Hither by direct testimony or other wise they claim that the acceptance of bribes is fixed upon fifteen others. “From the proof adduced it is rea sonably determinable.” they soy, “that in addition to the §328,000 actually paid to members of the legislature by Mr. Clark and his agents offers were made to other members, aggregating about §175,000.” “HEAP TALKEE, TALKEE.’» Seminole Indians Visit Governor Tanner at I’ahn Beach, Florida. Governor Tanner, who is sojourning at Palm Beach, Fla.-, continues to improve in health, aud is anxious to return to Illinois. The other day when three Seminole Indians were iu the city and heard that the governor was a “big heap ■ medicine man,” they visited his excel lency and smoked the pipe of peace. They also presented him with a bag of herbs for curing his ills and a fine In dian pipe. The governor showed his appreciation by giving each of his visitors a present, and they left with the remark: “Him good medicine man, heap talkee, talkee.”