Newspaper Page Text
TRYING TO CORNER
THE POTATO CROP
ALLEGED DEALERS IN LARGE
CITIES ARE BUYING UP THE
SHORT SUPPLY.
WASHINGTON INV r "TIGATES
Country Endorses Justice Depart
ment’s Endeavor to Break High
Food Prices.
Washington.—A new phase o£ the
cost of living problem was brought
to the attention ot the department of
agriculture. T. P. Gill, secretary of
the Irish board of agriculture, told
Secretary Houston that speculators in
the large cities of the United States
■were actively buying up this year’s
short American potato crop and plan
ning to hold out for high prices, count
ing on the existing quarantine against |
potatoes from many foreign countries
to aid them in their undertaking.
Mr. Gill is here to urge the removal
of tjje embargo on potatoes from Ire
land and has been getting private ad
vices from various sources on the po
tato situation.
Secretary Houston and the Federal
horticultural board held a conference
after Mr. Gill’s statement, but no ac
tion was announced.
Representative McKellar of Tennes
see. author of a pending bill to pro
hibit the keeping of products in cold
storage for more than ninety days,
was in conference with department of
justice officials over the department’s
investigation of the storage of eggs,
poultry and dairy products. It is said
a preliminary inquiry has revealed
that 55 per cent, of the present egg
supply held in storage is in the hands
of the great meat packers ot the coun
try.
Letters and telegrams poured in
from all parts ot the country, from In
dividuals, associations of various kinds
and from business men praising the
department’s efforts to break high
food prices by proceedings against the
alleged combination of cold storage
dealers. Interest in Attorney General
Mcßeynolds' declaration that a sweep
ing investigation will be made of the
alleged combination and that if.vio
lations of flie pure food act were dis
closed prosecutions could be looked
for, apparently is greater than in any
move the department has made in a
long time.
WASHINGTON ASA SURVEYOR
George Washington Perfect Surveyor,
Say Government Experts.
Washington.—George Washington's
surveying done in 1751 when, as a lad
of 19, he ran lines with chain and
compass through the wilderness of the
Virginia hills for Lord Fairfax, has
been checked up by government sur
veyors w’ho have just made their re
ports and who found the work of the
immortal patriot perfect.
Washington, running his lines with
primitive instruments and bon fires on
hill tops, left monuments and boun
daries to which techniealy educated
surveyors, using high power transits
and all the refined and accurate meth
ods of modern instruments, allow they
have been able to find no variation.
From the top of Middle mountain in
the Massanutten range the old Fair
fax line may be distinguished without
the use of instruments and can be fol
lowed by boundary fences dating from
the earliest days and by blocks of
timber which come up for the county
lines and stand out like squares upon
a checker board. Down across the
valley of the south fork of the Shenan
doah as far as the eye can distinguish
the line shows plainly.
Washington’s survey blazes cut into
the trunks of trees and long grown
over have been rediscovered and all
are several feet higher from the
ground than those the woodsmen of
today would make. Some authorities
contend Washington made them from
the saddle with a long handled ax.
The government has been retracing
the old lines because it Is buying land
through the territory which they run
for the new Appalachian forest re
serve.
Sultan Loses Suit in New York.
New York.—The Sultan of Turkey
was a losing litigant in the appellate
■division of the supreme court of New
York. His highness sued to recover
110,000 from the estate of Hovhannes
Tavshanjian, a wealthy Armenian rug
dealer, murdered in this city In 1907.
This sum was left to Tavshanjian’s
mother, who died before receiving ft.
Because she died intestate in Constan
tinople the sultan claimed the money.
The suit was decided against him by
the supreme court and the appellate
division affirmed the decision.
SIDNEY MOULTHROP
mw «
G
Sidney Moulthrop Is the former em
ploye of Senator James Hamilton Lew
is who is believed to have given out
the letter in the Pindell case. He was
arrested on charges preferred by Sen
ator Lewis-
IRYING TO BREAK HUERTA
«
GENERAL VILLA IS NOW MAKING
READY FOR AN ATTACK ON
CHIHUAHUA CITY.
Spanish Residents Appeal to the
American Consul for Protection
for Lives and Property.
El Paso, Texas. —Rebel scouts re
ported to General Francisco Villa at
Juarez that they had sighted the Fed
eral outposts at Villa Ahumada, 84
miles south of Juarez. The presence
of the Federal forces at Villa Ahumada
has caused no little concern in Juarez,
as the rebel officers do not know defi
nitely whether they are the troops
which retreated from Tierra Blanca
after their defeat or are reinforce
ments from Chihuahua, again moving
north to engage Villa.
“I will leave to attack Chihuahua
just as soon as I can get my trains
loaded with provisions and troops,”
said General Villa at Juarez.
General Villa will hold a review and
parade of his troops in celebration of
the victory over the Federate at’Tierra
Blanca. After the parade the troops
will make immediate preparations for
leaving for the south.
Thousands of dollars’ worth of pro
visions were transferred from El Paso
to Juarez to be loaded on Villa's
trains.
Villa expects to have at least 12,-
090 men when he attacks Chihuahua.
He said he had sent word for Gen.
Thomas Urbina to bring 3,000 men
north from Torreon district, and that
Gen. Manuel Choa is now in the vi
cinity of Chihuahua with 2,000 rebel
troops. Villa will take 7,000 soldiers
from Juarez, leaving a garirson of
about one hundred men to protect the
city.
NO BAIL ALLOWED ZELAYA
Former Ruler of Nicaragua Is Held on
the Charge of Murder.
New York.—Jose Santos Zelaya, the
former president of Nicaragua, arrest
ed in bed at midnight on charges of
having committed murder in Nicara
gua. was held without ball for exam
ination. Pending the arrival of a re
quest for extradition to Nicaragua, he
was remanded to prison.
General Zelaya was arrested as a
fugitive from justice on complaint of
Roger B. Wood, an assistant United
States attorney. Mr. Wood charged
that a warrant for Zelaya’s apprehen
sion for murder had been issued in
Nicaragua, but did not name the al
leged victims. It was said, however,
that they were two countrymen slain
twelve years ago and that the death
of Leroy Cannon and Leonard Groce,
Americans slain in Nicaragua, in 1909,
in an uprising against the Zelaya re
gime, had nothing to do with General
Zelaya's arrest.
Zelaya was arrested at midnight in
the apartment of Washington S. Val
entine. He made no effort to escape
and went uncomplainingly to the po
lice station, asking them to give him
what conveniences they could.
Picked His Wife From 400 Women.
New’ York.—Ernest W. Darrow, a
contracting mason ot Patchogue, Long
Island, celebrated Thanksgiving Day
by taking his pick of over 400 wom
en who had offered to be his life
mate. Darrow had been advertising
for a wife since last May and the
several hundred applicants not only
besieged him by letter, by telegraph
and by telephone, but many visited
him in person Miss Julia Stagg, an
English girl who landed in Canada
from England, won and the couple
were married.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
GINNING ^GEORGIA
CENSUS BUREAU GIVES NUMBER
OF BALES GINNED UP TO
NOVEMBER 14.
—Atlanta.
The preliminary total for the state
of Georgia was made public by the
bureau of census. The corrected to
tal and the amounts for the different
counties for the crops of 1913 and
1912 are furnished for publication.
v - - ... Crop—
COUNTY. 1913. 1912.
Appling 6,051 3,204
Baker 6.794 5,980
Baldwin 8,985 8,669
Banks 8,216 5,846
Bartow 19,209 13,938
Ben Hill 8,222 6,568
Berrien 13,680 8,606
Bibb . 7,858 6,955
Bleckley 10,727 6.843
Brooks 12,497 8,171
Brvan 2,795 1,837
Bulloch ...... 33,067 15.344
Burke ....... 41,870 27,837
Butts 11495 9,111
Calhoun 15,236 11,750
Campbell 11,007 6,908
Carroll 30,645 20,615
Chattahoochee . . . 30,645 20,615
Chattooga 10,628 7,486
Cherokee 9,297 6,320
Clarka 9,624 8,357
Clay ........ 11,516 8,177
Clayton 8,694 ” 6,851
Cobb 14,773 10,340
Coffee 15,469 8,583
Colquitt 19,099 13,939
Columbia 12,805 7,910
Coweta 22,268 20,772
Crawford 4,858 444
Crisp 21.418 14,663
Decatur 12,292 8,854
DeKalb 8,859 5,677
Dodge ....... 28,467 18,559
Dooly 33,019 23,186
Dougherty 14,129 12,264
Douglas 8,330 5,126
Early 16,379 13,169
Echols 89 150
Effinhom ...... 3,456 2,086
Elbert 17,239 11,812
Emanuel 30,261 17,700
Fayette ...... 9,457 8,655
Floyd 17.123 12,683
Forsyth 7,212 4,731
Franklin 17,457 13,935
Fulton 1,587 860
Glascock 2,882 2.232
Gordon 12,002 9,673
Grady 5,197 4,766
Greene 14,235 10,659
Gwinnett 21,230 13.583
Hall . 11,053 7,320
Hancock 14,235 11,859
Haralson 9,686 6,321
Harris 18,032 17,237
Hart. . 17,238 10,926
Heard 10,444 8,997
Henry ....... 20,385 15,351
Houston 18,044 12,848
Irwin 15,532 10,751
Jackson 31.246 23,967
Jasper 19,749 16,525
Jeff Davis 3,544 2,433
Jefferson 22,834 16,852
Jenkins 16,798 9,770
Johhnson 16.440 11,113
Jones 10,352 9,905
Laurens 42,736 29,398
Lee 14.570 10,068
Lincoln 7,053 5,527
Lowndes 8,996 4,474 •
Lumpkin 421 314
McDuffie 7,793 5,408
Macon 14,595 11,423
Madison 20,096 14,535
Marlon 7,824 6,394
Meriwether .... 24,91.5 23,579
Miller ...... 5,174 3,836
Milton 5.872 4,354
Mitchell 28,540 20,341
Monroe 18,385 16,446
Montgomery .... 12,418 8.244
Morgan 20,540 17,600
Murray 3,123 2,385
Muscogee 5,793 5,754
Newton 18,586 14,726
Oconee 13,455 9,667
Oglethorpe 18,956 14,823
Paulding 9,600 6,203
Pickens 2,146 1,555
Pierce . . .... 3,491 1,280
Pike 17,819 15,803
Poik . - 13.933 9,175
pulaski 14,152 9,872
Putnam ...... 10,959 8.068
Quitman 4.416 3,975
Randolph 24,194 19,851
Richmond 8,605 5,141
Rockdale 8,136 4,688
Schley 5,233 5,031
Screven . , . . 25,743 15.981
Spalding 12,596 12,564
Stephens 4,765 3,233
Stewart 12,195 10,836
Sumter 31,238 26,234
Talbot 8,283 8.262
Taliaferro 7,972 5,119
Tattnall 15,936 6,244
Taylor ....... 10,153 8,096
Telfair 12,550 8,925
Terrell ...... 33,137 28,324
Thomas’ 19,602 13,545
Tift 13,853 7,769
Toombs 9,91.) 5,290
Troup 19,107 18,502
Turner ....... 19,115 13,598
Twiggs 9,572 6,882
Upson 11.235 9,996
Walker 6,486 4,260
Walton 35,677 24,476
Ware 1.207 496
Warren 9,540 5,890
Washington 22,886 17,557
Wayne ....... 3,781 l„093
Webster 4,232 3,281
Wheeler 6,400 4,304
Whitfield 5,306 3,476
Wilcox 22,447 14,065
Wilkes 19.294 15.612
Wilkinson . . . . . . 6,614 4,705
Worth 24,709 17,477
All other 5,351 2,828
totals .... 1,823,789 1,331.709
One Man Fights State Militia.
Joe Cochran, the fighting head of
Atlanta's park board, who is never
happy unless he is in a scrap, and
who was the beaten but undaunted
hero of Atlanta’s last and greatest
artillery battle, has joined the reve
nue officers and henceforth is going
to devote his warlike instincts to the
moonshining raids.
Mr. Cochran has been appointed a
deputy under Col. Bud Blalock, and
in the future will have headquarters
up around Jasper, where he will proba-’
bly get all the excitement his nature
craves.
Don’t get the wrong idea of Mr.
Cochran from the above remarks. He
is a genial gentleman and has never
stained his hands with the blood of
another human being, but he just nat
urally loves a row.
When he was head of the park
board it was a continual rucus with
somebody. His last and greatest was
with the governor and the militia of
Georgia. It was over two old cannon
in the city park. One day General
O'Bear sent word to Cochran that he
had discovered the cannon belonged to
the state and not to the city and ask
ed Cochran to return them to the Cap
itol grounds.
Cochran replied that he was not
afraid of “No Bear” and that he
wouldn’t.
Eventually the governor issued an
order for the return of the cannon,
and Cochran sent the defiant word to
tiie militia to “come and take them.”
Which they eventually did.
One man couldn’t fight the whole
state militia and a gatling gun, no
matter how keen he was for a scrap.
Youngest Legislator Ambitious.
The “baby of the Georgia legisla
ture” is going to run for United States
congress. He hasn't actually an
nounced, but his frimids are positive
of his intention. Grover C. Edmond
son, representative from Brooks coun
ty, is only 23 years of age, and if
he wins the congressional race Geor
gia will have the honor of having the
youngest congressman in the whole
United States.
For some years past South Carolina
had “the baby of the United States
congress” in Congressman lever, who
was known throughout the country as
"Babe” Lever.
Mr. Edmondson, however, is not
running on the strength of his youth.
He has other and more serious claims,
which lie will put forth against the
incumbent from the Eleventh district,
Hon. J. Randall Walker.
Colonel Edmondson was the author
two years ago of the movement for a
constitutional convention, and his ad
vocacy of a new constitution for Geor
gia lias attracted state-wide atten
tion.
For some time past he has been
prominent also as an advocate of
cheaper school books for the children
of Georgia, and recently published an
illuminating article on that subject.
He claimed that Georgia lawyers were
already the beneficiaries of state pub
lications, in connection with the law
books, and that the plan which has
worked so handsomely for the Geor
gia lawyers, should now be enlarged
so as to protect the eight hundred
thousand school children from the op
pression of the “school book trust.”
It is understood that there are sev
eral other aspirants to congressional
honors in the Eleventh.
Cause of Thanksgiving Accidents.
An Interesting theory has been put
forward here as to why so many hun
ters get shot and killed accidentally
in Georgia at the Thanksgiving period.
It is said as a matter of fact that hun
dreds of people go hunting on Thanks
giving Day, who do not touch a gun
the whole rest of the year around, and
that they have neither the knowledge
or the experience to use the weapon,
and consequently are in continual
danger of either shooting themselves
or some companion or "innocent by
stander.”
Most of the accidents this year in
Georgia, and there were many, were
traceable, it is said, to hunters who
were not experienced and who were
not familiar with the guns they were
using.
Especially with young boys, it seems
to be a regular annual pastime for
Thanksgiving to get hold of any beg
ged or borrowed gun, and acquired a
bird dog or hound for the day by
the same means, and then go hunt
ing.
Free 801 l Weevil Book.
Georgia farmers should be well pre
pared to fight the Mexican boll weevil
which is expected to invade the state
next year. They have had ample
notice of the coming of this scourge
of the cotton fields, and if they are
not ready it will be their own fault.
Both the state officials and the gov
ernment officials in Washington have
been doing their utmost to impress
on the cotton growers the tremendous
loss which they will sustain if the
weevil brings the usual devastation.
1 Those who wish to study the boll wee
vil can obtain an interesting illustrat
ed book on the subject by writing to
Senator Hoke Smith in Washington.
Lady Uses Tetterine for Ecxenla.
Edgar Springs, Mo., July 15, 1908.
The Eczema on my face usually appears
in the spring and your salve always helps
It. I use no other preparation but Tet
terine and find It superior to any on the
market. Respectfully,
Elsie M. Judvlne.
Tetterine cures Eczema, Tetter, Itching
Piles, Ring Worm and every form of
Scalp and Skin Disease. Tetterine 60c;
Tetterine Soap 25c. At druggists or by
mall direct from The Shuptrlne Co., Sa
vannah, Ga.
With every mall order for Tetterine we
give a box of Shuptrlne’s 10c Liver Pills
free. Adv.
NOTHI N^ TO DO AFTER THAT
Clever Answer Left Horse Show At
tendant “Up in the Air,” So
to Speak.
It was at the New York Horse show,
and an attendant approached the box
of a vivacious young woman whose
dog had been exercising his vocal tal
ents so vigorously that the official an
nouncements could not be heard.
“Pardon me, ma’am,” he said, “but
you’ll either have to keep your dog
quiet or take him out.”
"My dog!” she exclaimed with an
air of surprise, as she deftly kept him
out of sight behind her chair; “you
must be mistaken. My dog has been
creating no disturbance.”
"Pardon me, ma’am,” the attendant
persisted; "but I heard something
bark. If It wasn't your dog, what
was It?"
The young woman favored him with
a sweet smile.
“Oh, she said, “you must have
heard the tan-bark.”
Dr. Peery’s Vermifuge "Dead Shot” kllla
and expels Worms in a very few hours.
Adv.
Useless Waste.
Gabe —Some people spend their
money foolishly.
Steve —Yes, I once heard of a man
who gave a smoker in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces InHamma
tlon,allays pain,cures wind colic,2sc a bottled*
Impossible Education.
"I hope you do not whip your chil
dren, madam?”
“Certainlv I da. How else could I
bring thorm up by hand?”
Mother ae
Knows What
To Use
To Give I
Quick /Li
Relief I f V stt
HANFORD’S
Balsam of Myrrh
For Cuts, Bums/^^k
Bruises, Sprains,
Strains, Stiff Neck,
Chilblains, Lame Back,^^^^
Old Sores, Open Wounds,
and all External Injuries. 5
Made Since 1846.
Price 25c, sOc and SI.OO
All Dealers
W.L.DOUGLAS
SHOES
Men’s IX
Women's Ilf %
Misses,Boys.Children f gw W
SI.BOS 1.78 $2 $2.80 S3l $
fists in I /
>w the I
maker 1 j
$3.60 1 ■ ' /k
L shoes r / 1
• world. v* • 'J ^9
ll I
t and width*.
L. Douglas shoes are famous
7 where. Why not give them a
u ? The value you will receive
>r your money will astonish you.
If you would visit our factory,
the largest in the world under
one roof, and see how carefully
W. L. Douglas anew are made,
uld understand why they are
Qted to look better, fit better,
helrsbape and wear longer than
■ makes for the price.
tr dealer should supply you with
m.Dou'ttakeasubßUtute.None
nulne without W. L. Douglas
.me stam pot! on bottom. Shoes
nt everywhere, direct from fao-
Parcel Post, postage free. Now
me to begin to save money on
MJtwcar. Write today for Blue
-1 Catalog showing how to order
“IL W. UIXTOSIAB,
* Spark St., Brockton, Masa.
FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS.
If you feel 'OUT OF SORTS"RUM DQWN’or’GOT THE BLUES’
BUFFER .from KIDNEY. BLADDER, NERVOUS DISEASES,
CHRONIC WEAKNESSES,ULCERS,SKIN ERUPTIONS,PILES,
write for my FRIS book, the most instructive
MEDICAL BOOK EVER WRITTEN,IT TELLS ALL about thtM
THERAPION
It’s the remedy for YOUR OWN ailment. Don't send a cent.
AbsolutelyFßCE. No’tollowup’circulars. DR LECLERC
Med. Co. Haverstock Rd. Hampstead. London, Bng o
PARKER^ H
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit.
Helps to eradicate dandruff.
For Restoring Color and
Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair.
60c. and | i.(M) at Druggists.
KI Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
in time. Sold by Druggists.