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Distinguished Men Disagree as to Originator Conservation. , i UNCLE JOE ADMITS.MISTAKES. Speaker Cannon and Gifford Pinciot Wide Acart cn thc Question of the . Chief Promoter of the Conservation Movement-Pinchot's Party. . Kansas City, Special.-Gifford Pin chot and Speaker Jos. G. Cannon en gaged in an extemporaneous debate upon'the subject of conservation be fore'the Knife and Fork Club in this city Friday night, and while each man gave' expression to the highest personal' regard for the other and both agreed that conservation cf the nation's natural resources should be encouraged, they differed on the. whole, as to who was the father of conservation. . v ., Mr.^ Cannon.. said that J. W. xBowe?C. at .one time directly of the ^government geological survey, deserv ed the honor, but Mr. Pinchot assert ed that Theodore Roosevelt was the , father of conservation. Turning to Mr.' Pinchot, Mr. Can non said: "I havo the greatest personal re gard for you, but I understand that 3'ou are now engaged in conservation work for the organization of a new party. "I tell you, sir, that a party cannot stand on a single issue, although our party did stand on a? single issue_once\ m that great conflict between servile ' and free labor. " \ Speaking of his record as a public official, Mr. Cannon said: . I "I admit I have iiade" .mistakes. Great" Goth I have been mistaken a score of times in the last. 35 years. There are other fellows in Congress who have been wrong just as "often, but thev are not honest enough to admit it." "Theodore Roosevelt was the fath er of conservation in this country," Mr'. Pinchot said, "the national con-' servation association is continuing the ' work be started: The last session bf Congress did great -work and oar as sociation was largely responsible fer it. The withdrawal bill as it passed was due largely to the efforts of the association. "We now intend that the people . must be compensated for- what the i private interests get.. The old prac tice of giving perpetual grants to pri-. vate interests now is impossible and the future is now safe against the oppression of monopoly. "I believe a hew school of politics is coming in the Unitecf States. This new school wiH decide whether the country shall be governed by money for profit or by men for human wel fare." Warm Times in Tennessee. Momphis, Tenn., Special.-In even town and village and county in .Ten nessee, the State's serious political situation has aroused the most intense feeling. Regular Democrats and in surgent Democrats and. Republicans are lining up their forces for the struggle whi?h comes in August., when the State judiciary and county elections are h'eld. No candidate to oppose Governor M. R. Patterson has .been announced. Adjust Ratss cn Hardwood Lumber. Washington, Special.-That Louis ville, Ky., be made a reconsignment point for hard wood lumber shipped from thc Southern States to points in the North^ and West, and that rates be adjusted accordingly is a request contained in a petition received by the Interstate Commerce Commission. . Monorail Accident First Trip. New York, Special.-Twenty per sons were, injured and one seriously irart, in the first commercial trip Sat urday of the new monorail .service between City Island and Bartow, in the suburbs of the Biohx. Hc\ward Tunis, the. inventor, who was motor man, broke a rib, and one passenger broke a leg. Trainmen and Colored Man Fight. Albany, Ga., Special.-Coot Tay lor, a negro man, was shot to death and Baggagemoster Edgar puncen .pas- slightly injured in a battle be } tween the crew of a special train on the* Atlantic Coast Lino railroad and the negro late Friday night. The ne gro was trying to kill Piirmen and had shot at him three times. Con ductor W. D. Bullard tjhen took a ha?sd in the fight, shooting the negro three times, killing him ?instantly. The shooting occured between Thom ?ville and this place. Spectacular Tire in Hew York. New York, Special.-Four hundred thousand spectators witnessed Satur day afternoon the most spectacular pier fire since the Hobrien disaster ten years ago in which 150 lives were lost. As far as can' be ascertained," , two men perished during the confla gration. The monetary loss will run between $750,000 and $1,000,000. Cocaine Drives Colored Man Crazy. | Tampa,: Fla., Special.-Will Elli son, a negro, crazed with cocaine, shot and killed his mother-in-law, Ceba Bryant, Rev. Jesse W. Avery, of the- First -African Methodist church, Henry Clark, negro organist at the church, .and seriously wounded his wife, Eva Ellison, anti his sister in-law. Jjjirj Bryant,. Friday nizhi Whi-o trying ?o escape he encountered Mounted Policeman Hayman, sheet ing him in the brea<:l, fatallv in-. jui?ag Lim. Ellison was found'deaf, om the results cf the ?rug. DAT?S AND PLACES FAIRS Announce m eilt Made For the Holding of Fairs in the Great Virgiida Carolina>Georgia Circuit -.Hand some Frizes Offered For Racc3. -?- * Richmond, Special.-The following are the places and dates of fairs in the great Virginia-Carolina-Georgia associations: Galas, Va., August 30, 31, September 1, 2; Madford, Va., .September. 6, 7, 8, 9; Tazewell, Va., September 13, 14, 15; Roanoke, Va., September 20, 21, 22, 23; Lynchburg, Va., September 27, 28, 29, 30; Win ston-Salem, N. C., October 4, 5,' 6. 7; Greensboro, N. C., October ll, 12, 13, 14; Raleigh, N. C., October 17, 18, 39, 20, 21, 22; Charlotte, N. C., October 25, 26, 27, 28; Columbia, Sr C., Oc tpber 21, November 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Au gusta, Ga., November 7, 8, 9, 10, ll, 12;, Eatonton, Ga., November 15, 16, 17, 18. The total purses offered by these combined Fair, Associations on horse races, amounts to $20,000 or over. The entry books were closed on June- 1st. i_. AMERICAN VICTORY IN GSR .MANY. Prosecutor Finds Oil Company Ha3 Committed No Wrong. Berlin, By Cable.-The long and venomous campaign waged by Ger man newspapers and rival industrial interests against .one of the German branches of the Standard Oil Com pany-the" Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company-has just been brought to a victorious end for the Americans involved. *. s A well ksown Hamburg'newsp?per for months printed such a series of attacks on the ''American graft meth ods" alleged torhave been' practiced by the vacuum company in the con duct of its German business that ,the public prosecutor of Hamburg felt constrained to make an official inves tigation with a view to eventual in dictments. The proseoutor has now. concluded his investigation, especially of the work of E. L. Quarles, Ameri can manager : 'of the German com pany's sales department, and an nounces that no necessity exists; foi pursuing the inquiry further. "No evidence of anything ?warrant ing prosecution was found against Mri Quarles, and the costs bf the en tire inquiry will be borne by the -State. The result of the investigation con stitutes a notable triumph for Amer ican interests in Germany. ' It is not the- first time that Ger mans finding themselves unable to compete with Americans on ordinary terms have resorted to slander. Unela Sam, \'Leave It Alone." Pensacola, Fla., Special.'-Judge W. B. Sheppard of the Federal court Friday denied the application of the Southern Express Company'for a permanent injunction restraining the State Railroad Commission from en forcing an order reducing interstate rates about 17 per cent. In rendering his decision Judge Sheppard stated tfcat only in extreme cases should a Federal court interefere with State officers who are endeavoring to en force laws passed hy the Legislature. Capt. Lyon Not Guilty. New York, Special.-Captain Sam uel K Lyon, of the 25th infantry, U. S. A., recently tried at Fort Myer, Va., for irregularities growing *out of the Brownsville;'. Texas, matter, was fou?d not guilty and honorably acquitted by the court. General Wal ter Howe, commander of the depart ment of the east, however, acting as reviewing authority, passed upon the case and disapproved the finding of the court. Big Tobacco Loss in Kentucky. Henderson, Ky., Special.-Reports reaching here Saturday from Hender son, Union and Webster counties in dicate that damage approximating $2,000,000 was done by a cloudburst Friday night. It is estimated that 50,000 acres of pooled tobacco in Henderson county alone have been destroyed and one tobacco plantation of 200. acres, is a total loss. Gasolene liing at Elks' Reunion. \ Detroit, Mich, Special.-Five mil lion dollars' worth of autos rolled through the city in an unbroken Jine of twenty-five miles Friday afternoon. There were 2,500 cars in this monster procession,* which took two and a half hours to pass. Truly gasolene, was'king at the Elks' reunion. While this trenmendous automobile pageant Vas wending its way through the streets the Wright brothers' air ship was soaring and wheelin? above the earth at the State Fair Grounds in successful speed flights, and on the river ^ speed launches were cutting the river at express train speed. Married hi Masonic Hall. New Orleans, Special.-With the grand lodge room of the Masons here furnishing the unique setting of the ceremony, A. P. Dennison and Mrs. Roma K. Stiles, partners in business, Friday night entered into the closer .partnership of marriage. Their home is in English, Tex. lt was the first time in the history of Masonry in thc city that a wedding ceremony took place in a lodge room of the order. Suppose All Farmers Ehould Hold.' New Orleans, Special.;-In an ef fort to fret New Orleans spot cotton to New York in time td fill July con tracts, special trains have been char tered by local cotton men in this citv. The first train, with 3,000 bales left Sunday morning closely followed by others. This is said to be the first time in tho history of the cotton business that express train service had to bc .resorted to to carry cotton to any market. The trains will be run to New Yorkies a ninety-six hour schedule. THE N?WS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Cami From the Whole Country. Direct exchange of postal money orders between this country and Uruguay will be possible after Oc tober 1 next, the amounts in both directions to be expressed in United States money. The tide of emigration of home seekers tq Canada has turned, in the opinion of officials of the Reclama tion Service. Thousands have re turned and a great many more are expected back soon. The elaborate funeral given King Edward cost the English nation $202. 5C0 as is shown in the supplementary financial estimate issued. Nearly 75 vears old, but hale and hearty, Ross Magnus rode horseback all the way from West Virginia to buy a farm in Colorado. It was his Crst trip from home and he says it was great and worth all the trouble. While playfully tossing her 6 rronths-olb* sou, at Mrirganton, W. Va.', Mrs. Plummer Pride al?owed the child to slip over her shoulder and fall to tuc floor. The boy's neck was broken, and death was instantaneous. The mothar is overcome with grief. William S. Kenyon, assistant to the attorney general, is in Chicago, assisting the officials of the district attorney's, office there in the pre sentation 10 the' grand jury of evi dence in thr so-called beef trust and oleomargarine fraud cases. Onranized labor has not been fair ly dealt with, by the present admin istration, and its enemies are in thc. majority in Congress, according to Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor. The naval yacht Hornet, a steel - vessel of 425 tons, built for H?hry M. Flakier ayd purchased by ' the Government for $117,500 at the out set of th?! Spanish war, will be sold to Nathan S. Stern, of New Orleans, c for $5,100. v Contracts have been signed by the navy depar ment for the construction of a .'feel fuel oil storage tank and a gasoline storage tsnk at each of the following nava: stations- Brad ford, fi. I.; Norfolk. Va , Charleston, S. C.; Key West, Fla.; Guantanamo. Cuba, and San Juan, P. R. The United Kingdom sobered up . $54.000,000 worth*in the year 1909, acrording to figures furnished this government by Consul-General John L.. Griffiths, of London, who reported a marked falling off in the consump tion of intoxicating liquors in the British realm during 1909. In that ' vear the amount expended for in toxicating liquors was $730,000.000, a decrease of $54,000,000 from 1908. Sixty thousand crates of peaches, constituting a large portion of the Elberta crop,, are roUing in Fort Valley, Ga., on account of the failure of .the refrigerator car companies to supply iced cars for Wednesday' and ?Thursday's harvest. President Taft withdrew more millions of acres of coal lands in different States of the West, bringing the total of coal lands withdrawn made b.y him up to the enormous toial of 71,518.588 acres. Something like half of this amount is new with drawals. Applications are pouring in from banks throughout the country whose officials are anxious that their insti tutions be made depositories under the postal savings .bank law. Mr. and' Mrs. T. Barberi, of Pensa cola, Fla., received from Governor Gilchrist%a handsome spoon bearing the seal of the Slate of Florida. Married 19 years ago the wife is now only thirty-seven years old, but Mr. and ,Mrs. Barberi are the par ents of 13 children. Six of the chil dren are twins. Governor Gilchrist suggested that the Legislature pass tn_aci .allowing the parents a pension. "Discovery of th? existence of a new counterfeit $10 gold certificate has been announced by Chief Wilkie!*The certificate is represented to be of the act of July 12, 1882, series of 1901; and bears the check letter "D," plate No. 150, the signature of W. T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury; Lee McClung, Treasurer of the United States, and the portrait of Hilligas The note is from a photographic plate ;arir4e_d on bond_p_aner. Because her mother doubted her word, and sent her to lier room as punishment, 10-year-old Alice Dunn, at Meadville, Pa., drank carbolic acid and died an hour later. Owing to the fact, that some let ters mailed to Mrs. Fiances F. Cleve land, widow of President Cleveland, have been charged with .postage 'due' addressed, the Postmaster General has at the postoffice to which they were issued tn order colling attention of postmasters to the bill passed at the last session of Congress whereby! Mrs. Cleveland's letters, like those ofi Mr3. Mary Lord Harrison, widow ofj President Harrison, are entitled to' free_transraission. ^ . Officials of the Census Bureau say tliey are paying as fast as possible tie enumerators who collected the sta tistics for the Thirteenth Census. The pay roll for the enumerators is aver aging more than $100,000 a day and has once gone as high as $170,000 a day. Director Durand is appointing agents to collect statistics of the in^ mates of jails, prisons, reformatories, almshouses and hospitals for the* in sane and feeble-minded. Sixty-four hundred of these agents will be ap ?i?inietj.' ? * ! Judge Rogers, of the Federal Dis trict Court, in Fort Smith, Ark., granted ja writ of mandamus compell ing an express company to accept shipments of liquor to towns in Okla homa, old Indian Territory. The companies had refused shipments be cause Oklahoma is prohibition terri tory. Many wholesale liquor dealers havev been awaiting the outcome of this test case as a basis fer future operations. Former President R?psovelt has ac cepted an invitation to be thc guest of the Berry Schcol for Mountain Boys at Rome, Ga., on October 7. UVE MANGLED IO j DEATH Balloon Bursts High in. Air and Aviators Crash to Barth in Shud dering Death-Sunshine Expanded the Gas. Leichlingen, Rhenish Prussia, By Cable.-Oscar Erbsiocb; tho German aeronaut, who won the international balloon race at St. Louis in 1907, and four companions were killed Wednes day when the dirigible, balloon Erbs loeh burst at a height of several hun dred; feet and dropped to the earth a\ crumpled, mass. The1 craft was of the non-rigid type, 176 feet in length and 33 feet in diameter. The motors were of 125 horsepower and drove the airship at I a speed of -28 miles an hour. The War Departmentrecently pur chased one of Erbsloeh's. balloons. Th? cau.se of the accident is a mat ter of conjecture but it is believed that the bursting of^the bag'was due to the expansion di g?s by the wann sunshine. , The wreckage. fell so heavily that ; the gondola was broken into bits and" the motor buried in the ground. The victims were frightfully torn. Everything Covered in This Policy. New York, Special.-In addition to life,., accident, health/fire, burglary, tornado, automobile and/yacht insur ance policies, Russell F. Hopkins, a young millionaire ^of Irvington-on the-Hudson" who formerly lived in Atlanta, Ga., has taken out a $5,000 policy against assassination, of . which $2,000 is to go to first informant and $1,000 each to the three others who may supply information regarding .the deed. Hopkins first came to New York as consul for the republic of Panama and in 1906 married Miss Vera Siegrist, a niece of D^. J. J. Law rence, a patent medicine proprietor of St. Louis. He built a magnificent country" place overlooking the Hud son, adjoining the place.of Miss Helen Gould,1 and installed upon it a mena gerie open to the public. "Roosevelt; Friand to All Farties. Oyster Bay, N. Y.,. Special.-Theo dore Roosevelt said with emphasis Wednesday that he has taken no stand as yet in favor of either the in surgents or the regulars in the Repub lican pa rey and he desires to correct any impression that he is showi'.ig favoritism. f Of the situation within tho party in New York State he said he saw only harmony ahead. "I want you to make it clear," he said to'interviewers, "that I am see ing both sides. I wish you would make that emphatic. My main in terest is in the State, but no national issues.. I want to see both regulars and insurgents, party men and in dependents. I want to saaJJainocrats as well as Republicans." "But you don't want to see1 Dem ocrats win ?" he was asked. . ?<Not if the Republicans ,do the right thing," he replied. Aeroplanes Could Wreck Warships. Atlantic City, N. J., Special. Glenn H. Curtis tossed oranges and mimic bombs within three feet of the decks of the yacht John E. Mehere II, used in. place of a battleship during the sham Cattle arranged to demon strate ' the utility of aeroplanes in coast defense. The mock bombs were dropped from a height of about 300 feet and Curtiss purposely failed to strike the deck of the yacht for fear of injury to the officials and passen gers gathered on her decks. Experts agreed that a fleet of aero planes armed with bombs of high ex plosives could wreck any warship be fore guns could be trained on them. Millionaire Killed by Fall. London, By Cable.-Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, one of the foremost English aviators, a millionaire and a member of the gentry, who recently flew from Dover to Franc? and re turn in a Wright biplane, was killed Tuesday by a fall from his aeroplane at the Bournemouth aviation meet ing. Dying Boy Calls for Dead Mother. New Orleans,. Special.-With the ?'?aiizaticn that death was approach ing, Clarence Desforges, a 15-year old boy, began to call for his mother to comfort biri as he lay on a cot in the charity hospital Monday. He gradually lapsed into uncon sciousness, and died late in the after noon. Death was due to a bullet fired by his father five days ago. In a jealous rage, the elder Desforges fatally wounded his son, killed his wife, and then' himself. The boy died without the know ledge that both parents were in tho frrave. Mayor Gets Big Conscience Fund. Savannah. Ga., Special.-Savan nah's conscience fund is richer by $1,500 as the result of an unknown man's requests. The money was handed to Mayor Tiedeman on the city's*main street by a prominent minister, who declared it had been taken from the city by one who wish ed to keep his name a secret. The minister was made intermediary a?t?r firing his word of secrecy. Death of Noted Astronomer. Potsdam, By Cable.-Dr. Johann Gottfried Gaile, the German astron omer, who was the first man to see the planet Neptune, died here Mon day in his eighty-eighth year. Income Tax fer Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.. Special.-After de bating the question for nearly a week thc lower house of the general as sembly passed the income tax resolu tion by a' vote of 125 to 45. A sim ilar resolution was adopted by the Senate Monday. OFFICERS ARE REBUKED.1 -.-' " . ; j Navy Department Censures -Superior Officers in the Marine Corps-Jeal onsiss and Personal Strife. "Washington, Special.-The person al strife among the officers of zhe United States marine corps Friday reached a climax when the Navy De partment, as a result pf a court of? inquiry, sent letters "of censure to nearly all the officers concerned. No .further judicial proceedings are con templated. ? . The censured officers are Major g?n?ral George F. Elliott, command 'ant of the corps; Col. Charles H. iLaunchhefmer, adjutant and inspec 'tor; Col. Frank Ii. Denny, the quar termaster at Washington; Colonel Charles A. Doyen, commanding the mariue barracks at the naval academy? at Annapolis; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Prince, assistant quarter master .at Washington; Lieutenant Colonel Henry C. Haines, assist?uf adjutant- cud' inspector at Washing ton, and Majors Louis J. Magill and David D. Porter, assistant adjutants '.and inspectors at Philadelphia and Washington, respectively. The court held that General Elliott .had been profane, irritable and ir* ?ascrble at times, indulging moderately ?in intoxicating liquors, but never in {toxicated on duty and sometimes jfailed te treat^sabordinates with cour tesy, but was usually polite), generous, truthful, and a "plain blunt soldier, open and frank." At the bottom of the dissension in the corps is said to have been the question of the successorship to Gen eral Elliott -when he retires in Octo ber, the "fight being between officers of the line and of the staff. Stamps by the Billion. Washington^, Special.-Ten billion postage stamps, worth almost $200, 000,000, .' will ba used by the people of the United States in the fiscal year ! which began July 1, 1910, and will be, ended June 30, 1911. Thtse be wildering figures are set down in the requisition which the Postoffice De partment has forwarded to the Sec retary of the Treasury, by whose or der the stamps will' be engraved and delivered by the Bureau o? Engraving and Printing. The total of stamps' asked, for ?3 9,804,220,000, but that number Will r.ot suffice, it' is known, ?he requisition being made for "the sake of Economy," smaller than the .probable needs. Last year's first supply of $170,746,800 worth failed and more bad to be ordered. The ?face value of the first requisition thia year is $7,036,200 greater than last -year's. Must Call for Registry Receipt. Washington, Special.-An interest ing change in regulations affecting registration of postal matter is noted in an order just issued hy the Post master-General. Whenever request is made, by the sender of registered .mail matter, receipt showing person ?'to whom and time when the matter was delivered will be taken by post master at point of delivery and re turned to sender. "Receipt desired" .must be inscribed, however, on the registered matter from which the .sender wishes such a receipt. For the present the Postmaster-General inn. "^tracts postmasters to ask if return .receipts is desired and, where indicat ed, to indorse mail for patrons of th? office. Famous Veteran Passes. Lynchburg, Va., Special-Colonel Auguste Forsberg, who commanded the Forty-Second Virginia Regiment in the civil "war, died here Friday af 1 ter a long sickness. He was 79 years o?d^and a native of Sweden. He was .city engineer for a long time here. At the breaking'out of the civil war, he was engaged at Columbia, S. C., af 4& architect. Distrecrmg to Gscriia Fruit Growers. Fort Valley, Ga., Special.-It was stated" here Friday that thirty car loads *cf peaches (Elhertas) will be dumped into the Flint river, eight biiles from herc, Saturday, as a re sult of the failure to move the crop .quickly. Eighty thousand crates were awaiting cars here Friday, and it is feared will be a dead Viss. Al ready growers here have lost $100, 000 because cf lack cf ic?d cars. The situation is said to be the worst in the historv o? the industry in this section. fell From Beat and Drowned. Barrington, R. I., Special.-In at .tempting to climb a bridge abutment (from a leaky boat which was in dan ger of ainking, Mrs. Elizabeth Link of Abbeville, S. C., fell into the Bar rington river and was drowned Fri day. She had been visiting hers at the home of her sister. Mrs. Fred erick Buck. Sh? was 30 years old and the wife of Frederick C. Link, a traveling salesman. Baptist Preacher Attempts Suicide. Bristol, Tenn., Special.-The Rev. Joseph Leonard, a missionary Baptist, CO years old, attempted suicide at his home at Wolfrun, Va., 9 miles from Bristol, by jumping 72 feet from the too of an oi! derrick at 6 o 'clock Fri day evening. Both legs were broken and his injuries are probably fatal Ho climbed the derrick in the pres ence of his wife and children who pleaded for him to abandon his pur pose. His mind is said to have be tome suddenly unbalanced. GHOST JOKE KILLS NEGRO Barber Shop Porter While Dr?jafc" and Asleep in Chair Barbers Powder Trim White and He Drops Dead When Awakened. Omaha, Special.-While a coroner's jury has determined that Tom Green, a negro porter in a\ barber shop, was scared to death, it remains a fact that his death was kdirectly attri butable- to the victory of Johnson over Jeffries. .Green had bet all his money on Johnson and' had mort gaged his salary for weeks to come. Having won* he collected his bets and celebrated. In the evening, be ing considerably intoxicated Green, sat ki a barer chair and was soen sound asleep. When the hour for closing arrived two',of the barbers concludea to play a joke upon 'Groen. They powdered his face and wool until they were as white as snow and then threw a white sheet over him. When Green awoke and looked in a glass he shrieked in terror: ''Good Lord, I was always black. Now I am white. It is not me. I am dead, and this is my ghost." He fell back in the chair and expired. * - Trade With U. S. $190,000,000.. Washington, Special.-Trade of the United States with its non-contiguous territories .for the fiscal year just end ed aggregated about $190,000,000 ac cording to stiitistics of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor.? The department contrasts this with the re- ' pord of 1897, when the trade with non contiguous territories aggregated only $35,000,000. . Statistics show fhat for , eleven months of the last fiiscalg year the shipments from the United States to Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Midway, Tutuila and Alaska amounted to $75,000,000?and,tiie ship ments therefrom to the United States $96,750,000. This trade, both ex-, ports and imports, was larger than that of the preceding year. The largest percentage of gain was in the i Philippines, to which tho recent tariff : act ,extended the privilege of inter change of merchandise free of duty. Imports from the Philippines in the eleven months ending with May, 1910, were valued at $15,887,418, against $8,860,429 ia the same months of 1909. Exports for the corresponding periods amounted to $15.140,445 in 1910 and ! $9,825,083 in 1909. ' The Union Sea Island Cotton Co. Waycross, Ga,, Special.-Repr?sen- , tative sea-Lrland cotton growers of three States met here Monday. and J perfected an /Organization under the,, name of the Union Sea Island Cot- . ton company, which will have head quarters at Savannah and which pur poses to build a large warehouse there j with branches at various point?. The j purpose of the union is to secure for j the producer the best possible price . for both long and short staple cot- J ton. Reports on crop conditions by ( membera o? the company are to the effect that the Georgia crop will be . 75 per cent of normal and that of Florida 60 per cent. . . Arrests Grandfather ' Clause. ! 'Guthrie, Okla., Special.-On appli- i cation of Daniel Sims, an ex-slave ? and property owner of this city, Fed- ( eral Judge John H. Cotterall has is- ' sued a temporary injunction restrain- ! ing th J State Election Board, the State "-loard of Affairs and the Secre- ' tary OJ! State from having printed ' the proposed "grandfather clause" amendment to the Constitution on the . ballot for tho State primary election on August 2. 1 In his petition Sims alleges that ? the proposed amendment'would dis- j franchise him, as he is unable to read 5 or write, and that it discriminates ^ him because of previous condition ol 1 servitude. 1 . Georgia Bank Cashier Short. Swainsboro, Ga.. Special.-A short- j age of at least $23,000 has been dis- i covered in the accounts of the Citi- ' zens' bank of this place as a result of which Hush D. Strickland, cash- 1 ier, and L. W. Ponder, former book- ( keeper, are under bond of $10,000 3 each, and bank examiners from At lanta are still working on the books ' of the institution. ! Lynched a White Man. 1 Rayville, La., Special.-Aroused bj the fact that an appeal to the Su- { preme Court had been taken, follow- . ing his condemnation to death her? Friday on the charge of having mur- 1 dered Town Marshal C.'C. Chenault, t a mob battered down the doors ol 1 the parish jail at Rayville, and drag- 1 Sing J. D. Freeman, a white man. J \ from his cell, hanged him on the same i spot where he had slain the marshal. I The fact that a deep gash Avas found 1 in Freeman 's throat led to the theorj t that he had attempted suicide,, prob- a ably with a piece of glass, when h? o beard the mob's approach. ? Lynched Boy's Father Gets $5,000. ( Cleveland, O., Special.-Cleveland associates of Carl Etherington, the f Annti-Saloon League detective, whe i was lynched at Newark Friday night, b say that Hartwell Etherington, hil c father, would head a band of moun- b taineers from Kentucky that would v invade the Ohio city to seek revenge i for his,son's death. The elder Ether- i: ingtork will receive $5,000 from th? c AntirSaloon League, and this, it,-h f said, will be offered as a, reward i? Nice Job For College President. 1 Beverly, Mass., Special.-The presi lent has 'offered to President Hadley P sf Yale the chairmanship of the cern- ti nissioft authorized by congress to in- '2' rest?rate the subject of railroad C rtocks and bonds and to recommend ?< i plan for bringing the Issue of these securities under the supervision oi w :he interstate commerce commission " [f President Hadley accepts, tin 1 president will consult with him re- ci yarding the other members of the ti jomni?-eioa. c CAPITAL FACTS? interesting News GatSrered ?a the District of Columbia. IEE AMERICAN CONGRESS. r Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of National Import Published for the Pleasure nd Ia* formation of Newspaper Beartihr* Only 13 Confederates Left, i The death of Senator Dand, ?i Virginia, and Senator McEnery, ci Louisiana, leaves but 13 former Cms federate soldiers in Congress. They are Senators Bankhead and Johnston, of Alabama; Senator Bacon, of Geor gia; Senate r Money, of Mississippi and Representatives Talbott, of Mary land; Richardson- and Taylor, ot Alabama ; Kucker, of Colorado; liv ingston, of Georgia; Spight, of Miss?s sippi; Gordon, of Tennessee, tai Lamb, of Virginia. Senator Taba ferro, of Florida, who has been de feated for re-election, was also -na. the Confederate service. "Senator T3I? mau quit school in July, 1864, to joby the Confederate Army, but was strick en with illness wjiich caused the loee of his eye and kept him an invalid for two years. . Higher in Cost, But '"The congressional committee on they cost of living recently detailed fifteen reasons for the high east of living, and yet ' ' the most los* portant rr .^ns for high prices waa - left out jf their report," says Solic itor McCabe, of the Department, ed Agriculture. "The execution of ' the pure food law has undoubtedly Bad a/i important effect upon pnces. For-, merly resort was had to adulteration and misbranding to reduce the pries of alleged articles. Now people boy raspberry jam, for instance, and pa* more for it, but they get what they pay for. So. it is with many other articles in eommon use. This in crease in price, "of course, is only apparent, but it impresses jjhe people who make purchases as real." Lightning Rods on White .House: Lightning rods are being- raised Dver the White House. It is by Gov ernment decree that the executive mansion is being equipped with ap paratus to protect it from eleetrii onslaught, and during the absence oi President Taft from Washington, the equipment is being installed. -The rods are placed on each, of the 12 chimneysi above the mansard roof' and points to arrest the lightning w?i be placed at intervals x of five feet il on g a cable, which, runs around the parapet. No lightning rods, however, are to be raised over the executive sffices adjoining the mansion. ! I Bids For War Vessels by Oct. 1. Plans and specifications . for Om two new battleships authorized by congress must be ready according tia i decision by Secretary of the Navy Mayer, in time to receive bids bj October 1 for the one to be built by jontract. The other will be con jtructed in the New York navy yard It was decided also that bids ow :he six new destroyers authorized mould be in by September 6. No Postal Bank Till January 1. Postmaster-General Hitchcock em presses the opinion that no postal savings bank can be established be :ore January 1, 1911. He made this statement in A conversation with Postmaster Campbell, of Chicago^ vho requested -hat one of the flirt' janka be placed in operation there. Acreage and Condition of Crops. The July crop- report of the De? 3artment of Agriculture shows the 'ollowing estimates of acreage and condition on July 1st: Corn, area planted is 114,083,000 icres. an increase of 5,312,000 acres >r 4.9 per cent as compared with last rear's final estimate. The average condition corn was 55.4 as compared with 85.1,1 the tea rear average. Hew Engraving BuUding. 1 . *' , Plans have been completed by the ?upervising architect of the Treasury 'or the new building for the Bureau if Engraving and Printing which xs o cost $1,750,000. The plans have teen examined by the Commission of <Hne Arts, created by Congress, of vhich D. H. Burnham, of Chicago, s the chairman. Its fonctions are argely advisory. The building is te >e 850 feet long, four stories in leight, classic in style of architecture nd is to be constructed on thc site f the present building, which will ie absorbed as the work progresses.. Jatterpillars Destroying Shade Tkee& Shade trees of Washington, famed or their number and beauty, are be ug stripped of their foliage by lordes of catterpillars. So numer us are the pests that they have laffied the caretakers' efforts to cope rith them: Property owners have oined in the attempt to repel the nvaders, but it seems there is little) hance to prevail against them. Some ear for the very lives of the trees s expressed. ^ 'esting an Improved Compass. j An improved compass, which wiTI? robably superceded the present : ari-j crs' compass, used by navigators for entunes, is being tested by the Navy Apartment on board the scout ero? ser Birmingham. It is combined: ith a rapidly revolving, gyroscope,? .hich eliminates alb variation andi eviatipn. This, according to navigrt-' >rs, will make the art of navigu-j on much easier and remove the nn4 ertainty of a ship's location.