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THE CHEROKEE INDIANS
u ARE ON A RAMPAGE
Bloody Work on Reservation in
South Carolina.
WHISKEY CAUSED THE TROUBLE
One Indian Was Killed, Another Mortally
Wounded; and Some Were Forced
to Flee.
Spartanburg, S. C. —Bearing the
news that the Indians of the Chero
kee reservation in Jackson county,
N. C., are on a rampage, in which at
least one man has been killed and
another mortally wounded, and de
claring that he was forced to flee to
save his life, Charles Long, a full
blooded Cherokee, arrived in Spartan
burg with his wife and six little pap
pooses. They had practically noth
ing with them save the clothes on
their backs and are being taken care
of at the Salvation army barracks.
Long said that a large quantity of
whiskey was received at the reserva
tion and the Indians began a carous
al. Inflamed by the whiskey the In
dians dropped their thin veneer of
civilization, he said, and relapsed into
savagery, indulging in wild orgies.
Quarrels arose and one of the In
dians, Tom Woodpecker, was shot
and. afterward disemboweled, while
another, George Slowly, was shot.
There are fourteen hundred In
dians on the reservation.
* NO CHEAPER COTTON.
Cotton Manufacturers Hold Semi-An
nual Meeting at Portsmouth, N. H.
Portsmouth, N. H. —Concerted ac
tion to remedy, if possible, the exist
ing inactivity in the cotton industry
was taken by the National Associa
tion of Cotton Manufacturers which
held, its semi-annual meeting here.
President Hobbs addressed the del
agates on the general conditions of ,
the cotton industry. He said, in '
part;
“The cotton manufacturing Indus- (
try has been in troublous times since ,
we met in April last. High prices ‘
for raw material and high rates of
wages have been the situation on the !
one hand, and low prices for our man
ufactured products on the other. Cur
tailment and shut-down hare result- '
ed and the condition of the whole
trade has been very unsatisfactory
and disturbing. It is very evident
that the prices for our products must
advance, and the buyers will have
to pay more for them. While the cot
ton crop is still uncertain, and any- .
one would be rash to predict, yet ma
terially cheaper cotton seems unlike- ’
Iy”
Mr. Hobbs favored the proposition
to establish bonded warehouses in
cotton-raising districts and, perhaps,
also, at cotton manufacturing centers,
for the storage of the cotton crop.
outlooiTencouraging.
—
Southeastern States Will Have Larg
est Corn Crop on Record.
Washington.—President Finley of
the Southern Railway company who
has been looking into business con
ditions in the southeastern states,
said;
“On the whole the conditions are
encouraging. In agriculture the pres
ent outlook is particularly good. The
cotton crop is later than usual and
is, therefore, more subject to future
■weather conditions than is usual at
this time of the year. However, the
condition report of the United States
agricultural department, issued on the
2d instant, showed a better average
condition of the growing cotton crop
in the states south of the Potomac
and Ohio rivers and east of the Mis
sissippi than on the corresponding
date last year, and the area planted
was reported in June as 140,000 acres
greater than last year.
“With ordinarily favorable weather
conditions until the crop is harvested
the southeastern states will have the
largest corn crop on record for that
section.
“Coal is moving in larger volume
than last year and lumber is in more
active demand.
339,075 People in New Orleans.
Washington.—The population of
New Orleans is 339,075, an increase of
51,971, or 18.1 per cent., as compared
with 287,104 in 1900. The Crescent
City loses its position of twelfth in
the list of the country’s biggest cities
and now occupies fifteenth position. ;
Detroit, with a 63 per ceilt. increase;
Milwaukee with 31 per cent., and
Newark, N. J., with 41.2 per cent., all
have jumped ahead of New Orleans in
number of inhabitants, and now oc
cupy twelfth, thirteenth and four
teenth positions, respectively.
National Bank Warned.
Washington.—During the next few
weeks the few national banks in the
United States which are rated as'
“weak” will have their last chance
to strengthen themselves or get out
of business. Acting on the principle -
that it is better to liquidate a weak :
bank, pay off the depositors and save ।
some of the investment for the share
holders, Comptroller Murray will use i
all his authority to compel sound ]
banking in the strong institutions and :
force the weak ones to strengthen or ।
retire.
TENNESSEEJ’OLITICS.
Tennessee Insurgents Nominate Hooper.
Patterson Resip*.
Nashville, Tenn. —The Independent
Democrats of Tennessee endorsed the
candidacy of Capt. Ben W. Hooper,
Republican nominee for governor, and
further cut loose from the regular
wing by referring the latter’s harmo
ny resolution to the new Independent
state executive committe without dis
cussion.
B. A. Enlo was nominated unani
mously for railroad commissioner by
a rising vote.
The platform of the convention hall
was filled with Confederate veterans,
who, 300 strong, marched through the
downtown streets to the hall, cheer
ing for the Republican candidate for
governor, Captain Hooper. The veter
ans’ demonstration for a Republican
gubernatorial candidate was said to
be unprecedented in Tennessee poli
tics.
Thus was organized a formidable
looking triumvirate to campaign for
a Republican governor, the triumvi
rate consisting of Republicans, Inde
pendent Democrats and State-wide
Prohibitionists. The Independents
and Prohibitionists are so closely al
lied as to largely overlap in their
membership.
The possible break in the solid
South, outlined in the convention, ex
tends only to one office, the governor
ship. There is a “gentlemen’s agree
ment" between the Independents and
the flepublicans that neither party
will invade the others’ “safe" legis
lative territory, and this the Independ
ents say assures a Democratic legisla
ture.
The last Republican governor in
Tennessee was Alvin Rawkins, In
1881-82.
CALEB POWERS ELECTED.
Man Who Spent Eight Years in Jail
Elected to Congress.
London, Ky.—By a decisive major
ity of over 7,000 votes, Caleb Pow
ers defeated Congressman Don C.
Edwards for the Republican nomina
tion for representative from the Elev
enth Congressional district of Ken
tucky in a primary election.
Congressman Edwalds is serving
his third term. Powers, who defeat
ed him for nomination, made his race
upon an appeal to the voters of the
district to give him the nomination
as a “vindication” of his alleged
complicity in the assassination of
Democratic Governor William Goebel
in 1900.
Powers, who was secretary of state
at the time of the assassination, was
confined in jail during eight years,
his first three trials resulting in con
victions and the fourth in a disagree
ment.
Last year Governor Wilson swept
the court records clear of all of the
cases remaining untried in connection
with the Goebel murder by granting
pardons to Powers and several oth
ers.
The district has a normal Republi
can majority of upward of 20,000.
Aged Woman Enters University.
Columbus, Ohio.—Mrs. A. D. Win
ship, aged eighty years, and a former
resident of Racine, Wis., but now of
Columbus, registered as a student in
Ohio State university. Mrs. Winship
will take an optional course and says
that she is going to college simply
because she likes to acquire all the
knowledge that she can. She has re
cently returned from Michigan, where
she has been attending a summer
school.
Alabama Cotton Crop.
Montgomery,.. Ala. —Commissioner
of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson is not
cheerful about the Alabama cotton
crop. In fact, he states it is hardly
70 per cent of normal. On the uplands
it has stopped making, having turned
yellow and lost vitality. Lowlands,
where the fertilization was kept up,
growth is still going on, bht even
here it is backward and un-enthusias
tic in development. Many fields are
open entirely.
Ballinger Independent.
Spokane, Wash.—“l don’t care what
anybody says about me so long as I
am conscious of doing my duty, not
only as a private citizen, but as a
public officer. The man who pursues
the course that seems to him to meet
the obligation of his place in life has,
it seems to me, no need to fear about
the future."
Dr. Lundy Harris a Suicide.
Cartersville, Ga. —Dr. Lundy H
Harris of Nashville, Tenn., formei
assistant secretary of the board of ed
ucation of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and one of the most
brilliant preachers in the South, died
at the residence of Clarence Anthony
at Pinelog, 16 miles from this city.
His death was the result of morphine
poisoning, and in a letter directed to
Mr. Clarence Anthony he declared that
he had taken the poison with the in
tention of ending his life. He had
been in ill health.
Taft and Roosevelt Conference.
New Haven, Conn.—The President
and the former president of the Unit
ed States had a hurried conference
in New Haven on the situation in
New York state. The conference
came at Mr. Roosevelt’s request and
is interpreted as the outcome of a
desire for the moral advantages that
further evidence of' the President’s
support would bring the Roosevelt
leaders in New York state. Neither
Mr. Taft nor Mr. Roosevelt would
discuss in detail what they had to
say to each other.
$25,000 IS NEEDED
TO BOON GEORGIA
I
i Greater Georgia Association to
Raise That Amount.
STATE-WIDE CANVAS FOR FUNDS
loka Greer is Chosen to Take Active Charge of
Campaign to Raise Funds for Adver
tising Georgia’s Resources.
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Atlanta.—Twenty-five thousand dol
lars in the next thirty days—this is
Ue task the Greater Georgia associa
tion set for itself, and a state-wide
•anvass to raise this tßnount will be
Begun immediately.
The actual work of raising this
this money has been put in charge of
the ways and means committee of
the association, and this committee
has chosen John Greer, a wideawake
newspaper man of south Georgia, to
take active charge of the campaign.
A fund of SI,OOO to guarantee the ex
penses of Mr. Greer while doing the
work was raised at the association
meeting held in Atlanta
Acting under the instructions of
the ways and means committee, Mr.
Greer is to arrange for meetings in
towns of about 3,009 people and up
ward. All preliminary arrangements
for these meetings will be made by
Mr. Greer, who will call to his assis
tance when the meeting is held other
representatives of the Greater Geor
gia association
It is thought that a tour of the
towns in the state of 3,000 and over
can be made in about thirty days’
time, and it is believed that little
trouble will be encountered in the ef
fort to raise the $25,000 in these
towns and counties alone.
It was decided at the meeting of
the Greater Georgia association that
it would be worse than useless to at
tempt any advertising campaign of
such proportions as the association
anticipates without at least $25,000
guaranteed, and it was on this deci
sion that the state-wide campaign for
funds was decided upon. Another
meatins of the association, at which
a decision as to exactly how this
money is to be spent, will be held
in the near future. It is thought
likely, however, that a special car,
bearing exhibits of Georgia’s natural
resources of every kind, accompanied
by a lecturer supplied with stereop
tican views, will be sent through the
middle west, and at the same time a
newspaper and magazine advertising
campaign will be waged in that sec
tion.
candidateTexpenses.
Gov.-Elect Hoke Smith Topped List
and B. M. Zettler Spent Least.
Atlanta.—lt cost the 23 candidates
for statehouse offices the grand total
of $35,557.26 to make their races, suc
cessful and unsuccessful, in the cam
paign which closed on August 23.
Os this amount dearly half was ex
pended by Governor-Elect Hoke
Smith, who spent out of his own
funds and from contributions made
by his friends, the sum of $17,596.10.
The list of expenditures as shown
by the statements filed with Comp
troller Genehal Wright is as follows:
Hoke Smith, for g0vern0r.517,596.10
Joseph M. Brown, governor 3,950.75
Edward H. Walker, gover-
nor ••■•..•• ■* •• •• 300.70
W. J. Speer, treasurer .... 2,296.40
P. M. Hawes, treasurer .. 3,025.58
J. A. Perry, railroad com- '
..missioner 2,105.65
O. B. Stevens, railroad com-
missioner 1,662.25
Joseph F. Gray, railroad
commissioner 1,241.54
E. B. Hornady, railroad
commissioner 265.29
C. M. Candler, railroad
commissioner 83.00
T. S. Felder, attorney gen-
eral.. • • 643.27
H. A. Hall, attorney general 291.68
J. W. Lindsey, pension com-
missioner 158.00
R. E. Davison, prison com*
missioner 625.00
M. L. Brittain, school com-
missioner 230.00
B. M. Zettler, school com-
missioner 201.00
W. H. Fish, supreme court 50.00
W. M. Beck, supreme court 50.00
A ,G. Powell, court of ap-
peals 50.00
Philip Cook, secretary of
state 50.00
T. G. Hudson, commission-
er of agriculture 50.00
W. A. Wright, comptroller
general 50.00
G. H. Hutchens, prison com-
missioner 431.00
Total $35,557.26
At a meeting of the Winder board
of education it w-as decided not to
make any change in the school hours.
On the recommendation of Superin
tendent Huffaker the board created a
supplementary course in English for
the benefit of such pupils as do not
enter college from high school, thus
making the Latin course in the Win
der schools elective. This is in line
with the “Small Latin and Less
Greek” policy of other schools
throughout the state.
RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS.
LegHatuie Removes Unjust biscriminitien
Against Country People.
Athens. —It will be good news to
the ruraJ schools to know that the
general assembly passed the amend
•ment to the constitution giving a
county or a school district the right
to extend the school course beyond
the seven common school grades
through the high school where a local
tax is levied. Since the constitution
of 1877, cities and towns have enjoy
ed this right and there is scarcely a
town today without a good high
school. This amendment gives the
rural districts and counties the same
right previously enjoyed by the
towns. It means a richer and a hap
pier era for the rural communities of
Georgia.
The law does not require any
community to run a high school that
does not want to but makes it possi
ble for any community that does so
desire to have as good school as the
towns.
Over four hundred districts have
already voted a tax and this will now
enable them to have as high a school
as they desire, whereas previous to
this amendment they were restricted
to “the elements of an English educa
tion only." It shows marked states
manship on the part of the general
assembly to so unanimously vote to
remove the unjust discrimination
against the country people.
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.
The program of the Southern Con
servation congress to be held in At
lanta October 7 and 8 indicates that
this gathering will be one of the most
important held in the country, both
in point of attendance and the pres
ence of personages prominent in the
conservation movement now receiv
ing so much attention. Among those
most prominent on the program are
former President Theodore Roosevelt,
former Chief Forester Gifford Pin
chot, Governor Stubbs of Kansas, who
recently delivered a virtriolic attack
upon Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger at the opening of the conserva
tion congress at St. Paul. Dr. C. W.
Hayes, chief of the government geo
logical department, will also be pres
ent. Invitations to attend have been
extended to President Taft, Vice Pres
ident Sherman and representatives of
foreign governments.
Although the vice president of a
bank, the, late Thomas Haskins of
Laurens county, left $30,000 in an
old flimsy desk when he died, after
keeping much of it there In prefer
ence to banking it. Os the sum sll,-
400 was in money, the rest in notes
and mortgages. The desk was opened
at the order of his widow and the for
tune was found.
Columbus is making great prepara
tions for the coming of the Confed
erate veterans of Georgia, who will
light their camp fires on the banks of
the Chattahoochee river on Octo
ber nineteen for the tdo days’ session.
Camp Benning, the Columbus Confed
erate organization, has the details of
the occasion well in hand, numbers of
committees having been appointed to
look after the various features. An
entertainment fund is being raised
and the city council has contributed
S3OO to this fund. Columbus enter
tained the Georgia division a few
years ago and the people here have a
most plesant recollection of that oc
casion.
Comptroller General Wright said
that the returns from railroads and
other corporations this year would
probably show an increase of $3,000,-
000 over those of last year. Up to
date all the railroads have made tax
returns which have been accepted by
the comptroller general with • the ex
ception of the Georgia, Florida and
Southern. Arbitration will probably
be required in that case.
The immense new plant of the Con
solidated Ice and Power company of
Valdosta is completed, and all of the
electrical connections have been
made; the light and power currents
were shut off at the old plant and
turned on from the new. With the
installing of She new plant Valdosta
is furnished an electrical service the
equal of any in the south of four
times its size, and one which will
amply meet the public needs for
many years.
Standing Master J. N. Talley, in the
Tift lumber rate case, filed reports
adverse to 28 lumber producers in
which claims aggregating $100,600
were refused and disallowed. These
were, most of them, members of the
Georgia-Florida Saw Mill association.
The claims were filed under the f. o.
b. rulings, and nearly all of them
were similar to that of the Garbutt
Lumber company, whose case was
made a test case. The ruling that
threw out this large number of claim
ants under the decisions of the court
in the Tift case, was that the lumber
and material was sold at the mill by
the producer, and after it was loaded
on the cars at the price named, the
freight fight could no longer rest
upon the shoulders of the producer.
Tift county is to have a $54,000
courthouse, which will be built this
fall, and the money to pay for it will
be raised by direct taxation. Twice
under an ordinary and once under the
board of county commissioners the
people have been giveen an opportu
nity to vote a bond issue for this
purpose, but each time the constitu
tional requirement of two-thirds the
total registered vote was not polled.
The commissioners have despaired of
securing a bond issue, and they decid
ed to levj a direct tax for that pur-;
pose.
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BETTER THAN TABLE CANDLES
Prettily Arranged Device for Holding
Electric Lights—Also Serves as
Flower Vase.
Every woman has realized for some
time past that the use of the candle as
a table decoration was attended by
danger and other shortcomings, and a
substitute has been eagerly sought.
The solution of the problem has not
been found in electricity for the rea
son that lamps of this character lack
ed the feature of portability and their
use also required the presence of wires
piercing the cloths and tables. A New
York man has recently designed a
piece of table decoration which takes
the place of candles on the dining
A'-
Displaces Table Candelabra.
room table in the home as well as the
hotel and case.
The device is a pretty design em
bracing a silver receptacle capable of
holding a single storage cell. The
battery stores sufficient energy to
keep the lamp aglow for 14 hours and
the Illumination emanates from three
tungsten lamps supplied with switch
for controlling them. Fitting neatly
over the stand is a shallow glass dish
containing cut flowers and water.
The former are supported by a cut
glass disk, with numerous holes into
which the flower stems, etc., project.
The lamp thus serves as a flower vase
as well, and the effect of the light
passing through the glass and water
and playing around the flowers and
leaves is very pretty indeed.
SUPPORT FOR HEATED IRONS
Electrical Device so Arranged That
Current Is Turned on When
Object Is in Holder.
A novel support has recently been
Invented for electrically heated flat
irons, says Scientific American. It is
so arranged that the current is turn
ed on only when the iron is on the
support. The support consists of a
metallic base provided with legs of
insulating material and upon which
is mounted, in inclined position, a
plate of slate. On this the flatiron is
adapted to be supported, so that the
head of 'the flatiron will slide down
and bear against a block of insulating
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Support for Heated Flatirons.
material at the rear of the base. In
this block are two sockets, provided
with metallic clips forming the ter
minals of an electric current. The
flatiron, which Is provided with the
usual heating colls, has two terminal
pins near the heel. These are adapted
to engage the clips when the iron
Is in position on the slate. This com
pletes the circuit through the colls
and serves to heat the iron. As soon
as the Iron is removed from the stove
the circuit Is broken, and there is no
waste of current or dangerous over
heating liable to cause a fire.
To Make ♦windows Opaque.
If you want to shut off the view
from any window you can do it very
cheaply by dissolving in a little hot
water as much Epsom salts as the
water will absorb. Paint over the
window while hot, and when dry you
will have a very good imitation of
ground glass.
Grass for Matches.
A match manufacturer In India has
discovered that he can use a coarse,
stiff grass that grows In that country
itartead of wood for matches.
LIGHTS HIDDEN FROM SIGHT
Globes so Arranged That One May Get’
Rid of Direct Glare—Two
Methods Shown. |
The old adage about not hiding one’si
light under a bushel seems to be set
at naught by the developments of re-’
cent years, for a large variety of in
teriors are nowadays lit by lamps
which themselves are hidden from
view, says Popular Mechanics. By
projecting the light to the ceiling and
letting that diffuse the light, we get
rid of the direct glare of the lamps,
so we are practically getting our illu-
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Hiding the Lamps,
mination from lamps hid under a
bushel.
Where such a method of lighting Is
applicable, the present problem nar
rows Itself down practically to a
choice of the reflecting and conceal
ing fixture, which may be highly ar
tistic or decidedly homespun. For In
stance, two such indirect lighting fix
tures were recently advertised in the
same month’s issue of a European and:
an American technical journal. Both
designs are here reproduced, leaving’
each reader to make his own com
ments.
SEARCHLIGHTS ON THE SUEZ
Every Warship of Any Description
Compelled to Carry Light of
Special Pattern.
Every war vessel carries from one
to twenty searchlights, and every ves
sel of any description whatever pass
ing through the Suez Canal has to
carry one of special pattern. A search
light consists essentially of an arc
lamp of special form, a parabolic mir
ror and a case to hold the lot; the
case being mounted so as to be cap
able of movement in two directions,
viz., vertically and horizontally. The
hood, as this case is called. Is made
of sheet steel about three-thlrty-sec
onds of an Inch thick, says Cassler’s-
Magazine. The turntable, trunnions,
etc., are cast in gun metal, the arms
which support the hood are of cast
steel. The lamp box is formed as part
of the hood. The mirror is carried on
springs in the back cover and at the
front of the hood is a “front glass”
mounted in a gun metal ring, and the
dispersion lens, when carried, is hing
ed on In front of this. Training Is
carried out by means of a worm and
wormwheel or by a rack and pinion.
Slewing is effected by means of a pin
ion which gears into a crown wheel
on the underside of the turntable, or
else it is done directly by hand. The
Suez Canal regulations require that
the projector shall be capable of giv
ing the light required under two dif
ferent conditions —in the first case a
broad, flat beam of light illuminating
both banks and the canal uninterrupt
edly, this being used when no other
ship is approaching; In the other case
they require a beam having the same
angle of divergence and consequently;
the same width as the first, but di
vided into two. portions, with a dark;
interval between, thus giving light at
both sides but not directly in front;
and so not interfering with the navlga-J
tion of the approaching vessel.
ELECTRICAL NOTES.
At Cleveland there is a complete
plant for curing meats by electric,
processes
The National Electric Light associa-’
tion has attained a membership of 1
nearly 4,000.
Nearly all of the finest automobile!
machines are driven by direct connec-i
ed electric motors.
There are more than 400 wireless
stations on the coasts of the maritime
nations.
A cast iron electro magnet, if of>
good quality, can be wound so as to
carry 50 pounds for every square Inch!
of its cross section. ,
Weighing less than 50 pounds, am
electrically driven machine has been
Invented for scrubbing floors.
Plans are under way for placing all
trunk telephone lines between Bos
ton, New York, Philadelphia and Wash
ington under ground.
The city of Hamilton, 0., proposes,
to cover part of its main street with!
a glass canopy and illuminate the in
terior with powerful electric lights.
Metal holders for tumblers by which
water may be heated to a desired de
gree by electricity, have been invent
ed for the use of dentists and bar
bers.
One large electric company of this
country spent during the last year
nearly $1,060,000 in patents and patent
liquidation.
A tiny electric light generating
plant has been devised suitable for
mounting an automobile to supply cur
rent for the lights. By the use of Im
proved lamps a very superior illumina
tion is secured.
For exploring automobiles an elec
tric torch has been patented with an
electro magnetic base, which will cling
to any metal surface against which
it is placed, leaving its user’s hand*
free. i
