The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, February 04, 1909, Image 3
^JpTED
J Governor
ESTABLISH Wd
nU3c8?D TERMS
N. &. S. ( ?m.f?
.. . M(1 LietitenMA
T 3 : J O. McLeod As
, r Anothw Two
\ of} ion of Rosoocea
^cjfs of Good Roada
Mr W S;M 11,1rnth* AdliSI
f? locked the'a?
of N us the
i- Wedncsd^
M, l)nfH wl / . ?...
"a-'w* jiai.?wim impresenfjlkrI
"rJwiLQjh joint aasembly of
MCa8??7Mv3 Wednesday with
gjfegmna^ God. a, and side aisles lookR
house PT , F. Ansel and Leiu6:30
^ God m Thomas 0- McLeod
pf the upon their second
l i" ?tDr. Bumor and Lieutenant
>f /as troulectively, after which
p. .icer- ^-re hade officials were duly
nt. frop GF^adltt?^OW8: Secr?tary of
1 here eaacCown, Attorney GeuUtf*Jjthe
four*" Lyon, Comptroller
:ic w?eaae churcl Jones, Adjutant Genin
of tctithy. hlsyd, State Treasurer it.
othe/ continue n(j Railroad Commistlc
ujwiV? f,gpaughman.
tone toe* the Ansel's inaugural adhat
lv S\| Sef and devoted almost
"I ' reminds jhe development of the
stran# /d learned resources. Ho advocatcabooifaTho?d
In?)re attention to the con*
* V;r tlj6ojg ] our land8 and forests
-? '""feed is thTe,0Pm'nl ana Protection
walk <JrJ look bai?'s water powers, pointThe:
/? The it was being done in this
rear ssdl declinedv other States and adver^St
lfaere lS nOW
D?ing utilized in this State 175,000
horse-power with that mueh more
yet undeveloped. He specially stressed
the importance of drainage, recommending
the creating of a Stato
j drainage commission to investigate
and report on the best plan to reclaim
over three million actes now
lying useless for wnnt of drainage.
He also dwelt on the importance of
immediate aotion toward securing
better roads throughout the State,
and recommenced that the Agricultural
Department be charged with
the 'duty of securing information
along this line.
Governor Ansel said:
"For the second time I am here to
assume the duties and responsibilities
of the highest State office in the
gift of the people. For a second time
by the votes of the people. T am
exalted to the position of Governor
f of this great Commonwealth. I am
truly grateful for this manifestation
of confidence and esteem, and I am
fully sesible of my inability to discharge
fully the duties incumbent
upon me without your valuable and
necessary assistance.
"South Carolina has made much
progress in moral, educational and
material lines in the past few years,
and ha?< a bright future in store, tKe
people are fully alive to the great
possibilities of even greater progTes*
in the years to come and we see the
signs of prosperity on every hand.
"There is now being utilized iu
this State one hundred and seventyfive
thousand horse-power of waterpewer
to generate electricity and for
other purposes. There is still about
, Jj_3,UU() horse-power of water power
r'~ ^Undeveloped. My belief is that before
many years this power, now go**T
ing to waste, will be harnessed and
W used to help supply the needs of our
W growing industries.
"Our farms are producing a rea/
sonable income and profit, and as the
J farmer is the only producer of those
things which go to sustain life, every
inducement should be given to the
boy to 'stay on the farm.'
I "In the manufacture of cotton we
[ are second, in number of spindles,
to but one State in the Union. Had
I time I could give the output of
the mills, the value of the product
and the number of employes.
"The educational institutions of
> the State are sending out each year
young men and women well equipped
for the battle of life, and tnere is
work for all of them to ao. The
country is calling for educated younu
men and women.
"I desire, at this time, to refer tc
two matters, which I regard as very
- tant to the future progress of
. . tate, and which are not menin
my annual message:
time has come, in my judghen
we should eive some at
i. o the question of drainage of
v, ? tps and lands. There are in
thi over three million acres of
t>i -..Ig that can be reclaimed at
a t le cost. The question nat?s,
what can we dot I sugou
appoint a drainage cora:
ju wiiose duty it shall be to get
up all the data as to where these
lands are located; the piptgable cost
' of reclaiming and the best plan for
paying for the drainage. Let this
commission report to the General As-<
aembly and then intelligent action
can be taken.
"Another important matter that
should engage our attention is the
one of 'good roads.' Every good citizen
of the State ia interested in this
vital question. Conventions and eon}
ferences are being held in many of
the States to discusg it. The Qovamors
of most of the States are eall
a. ing the attewtiee of the Legislatures
a to it. Some of the oountiee in this
State have gone to work and are1
del making good roads. That they are
toe needed in all the counties every one
v ])
Ini?y i art hi->t . . > r' '
' tpn1 "wwwqmppwiwpr*
should be of a permanent nature, and
it seems to me that, in order that the
necessary information may be obtained
as to the best methods of making
highways, and the cost of each
method, the Department of Agriculture
should be charged with the duty
of g*'.ting this data and reporting the
same to you.
'In North Carolina, the duties of
road commissioner are placed upon
the State geologist; in other States,
road commissioners are appointed for
this work.
"I come to congratulate you, my
fellow citizens, upon what has been
done along all these lines, and to ask
that each of you will do bis full duty
in helping forward ail that makes for
the betterment of our people.
"And now, as I take upon myself
for a second time the responsibilities
and duties of this ofilce, I ask that
yon will uphold my hands in every
good work, and, by your generous
help and oo-operation, give me that
encouragement that I have a rigbc
to expect at your hands. By thus
working together, we shall make
South Carolina second to none in this
Union of indestrnctible States."
VETOES STATE-WIDE BILL
Tennessee Senate Hears the OMef
Execcntive'3 Official Disannrnv*!
of the State-Wide Prohibition Bill
?Opponents of the Bill Sec a Ray
of Hope?Governor Patterson
States His Reason*.
Nashville, Tenn., Special.?Governor
Patterson Tuesday afternoon
filed with the clerk of the Senate a
message vetoing the State-wide prohibition
bill which last week passed
by both houses of the Legislature.
The Governor's action followed adjournment
of the Senate, after it had
passed, on third reading by a vote of
20 to 13, the bill prohibiting the
manufacture in Tennessee of intoxicating
liquors. On original passage
the vote was 20 to 13.
In his veto message Governor Patterson
charges that such legislation
is against the Democratic platform
and the doctrine of self-government;
t4at it sets aside the recorded will
of the people; that experience has
taught that no arbitrary prohibition
law was ever obeyed and its enactment
brings no settlement of the
question; that it destroys property,
reduces State revenues, increases
taxation, takes money from the people
to send it elsewhere, formcnts
discord, impairs the dignity of the
Commonwealth, forstcrs hypocrisy
and invite? evasion and deceit in the
people. . 1
Dr. Woodrow Wilson's Address at
Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill, N. C., Special.?Lauding
Robert E. Lee as the impersonation
of power, puissant but unperverted
to a seltish end, held under
absolute control by the genius in
whom it slumbered, loosed only at
the call of exigency and then but for
the service of the whole of society,
Dr. Woodrow Wilson Tuesday night
defined the crucial need of the twentieth
century in America as a general
living forth of sound principles of
sociology and governmental science
interpreted according to the lights
and the life of to-day.
"The whole face of our national
life has changed," declared the
speaker. In the economic ficlH ihn
old order of work and enterprise has
passed utterly away- We must make
use of combinations and of organization
upon a great scale such as a past
generation had not dreamed of. and
because new organization is vast and
complicated we can neither express it
nor control it by means of the
isolated individual endeavor which
u6ed to be sufficient for carrying our
material enterprises forward. In a
return to the principle of individual
responsibility in person and fortune
for acts gf violence to the rights of
the people, in the enactment and enforcement
of laws regulating giant
combinations of capital whose penal-,
ties shall be visited on the individuals
who are responsible for the !
T1_ iir:i * ? ?
ui. uiison iounn wnat lie considered
the keynote to remedial measures.
Centennial of Pce's Birth Celebrated
at Home and Elsewhere.
Charlottesville, Va., Special.?The
Edgar Allan Poe eontcnary celebration
reached its climax Tuesday night
when able addresses were delivered
by Prof. Bartlett Wendell, of Harvard,
on "The Nationalism of Poe,"
and by Cbarlcs Alphonse Smith, o(
the University of North Carolina, 01
"Poe's Influence on Southern Literature."
A cablegram was read from the
Author's Club of London, and poems
by Arthur Christopher Benson, of
England, Prof. Edward Dowden, of
Ireland, and John Boyd, of Canada,
were ^ead. Therv* was also many
tributes from distinguished foreign
era. Dr. (Jharles W. Kent presided
t the exercises.
The 19th being the centennial annivereay
of Poe's birth New York
and many other places celebated the
event.
Three Killed in Explosion.
Johnstown, Pa., Special. ? Three
children between three and four years
old were killed, another, aged five,
was severely burned, and two women,
mothers of the little ones, were painfully
injured at Stoughton, Somerset
county, when the children touched
a match to a keg of powder to see it
blase. All the dead a no injured arc'
foreigner* Ther home was almost
demolished by the explosspn.
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THE S. C.JEGISLATURE
Doings of Palmetto Lawmakers Told
in Brief.
The senate transacted very little
business on Tuesday. The adjournment
was taken at 1:30 o'clock a!
the conclusion of the memorial exercises
in honor of Oen. I\. E. Loo.
The following new bills were introduced
in the senate:
Mr. Weston?A bill to amend an
not entitled "An act to establish the
insurance department of South Carolina,
and to provide for the conduet
of the same."
Mr. Weston?A bill to declare and
to define the powers of the insurance
commissioner as to the prevention of
fires and conflagrations and to authorize
the investigation of the same.
Mr. Weston?A bill to provide for
the organization and regulation of
mutual protection associations.
Mr. Weston?A bill for the regulation
and control of fraternal benefit
orders.
Mr. Weston?A bill to require all
insurance companies doing business
in South Carolina to secure their
policy holders.
Mr. Weston?A bill to regulate
bond, investment, dividend, debenture,
registry, guaranty, loan and
fidelity building and loan and other
such like companies.
Mr. Weston?A bill to regulate insurance
companies and their agents
in this State; to prescribe the duties
of the insurance department in relation
thereto, and to punish violations
of the insurance laws.
Mr. Johnson?A bill to amend sec
tion 4 of an act entitled "An act to
provide the manner in which owners
or prospectors of any railroad companies
incorporated under the laws
of other States or counties may become
incorporated in this State."
Mr. Kelley?A bill to regulate the
sale and carrying of pistols.
Mr. Sullivan?A bill to require
public pinners and public warehouse
companies to mark bales of cotton
ginned or stored.
Mr. Otts?A bill to provide for
the appointment of a State auditor
and two deputy auditors, define the
duties of his office and to provide a
penalty for the violation for certain
provisions of this act.
The House was not in session on
Tuesday.
A resolution was introduced in
the Senate Wednesday to amend the
constitution as to the provisions in
regard to associate justices of the
supremo court.
The resolution provides: "That
the supreme court shall consist of a
chief justice and four associate justices.
any three of whom shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction
of husiness. The chief justice shall
preside, and in his absence the senior
assocate justice."
It provides for a term of ten years,
the term of one expiring every two
years. The number of associates is
now three and the official term is
8 years.
A bill introduced upon the subject
of trials for assault is of eeneral interest.
The bill amends the section
relative to the taking of testimony in
cases of this kind, so that it shall
read "that the victim may be permitted
to testify in private, with only
me juage ann tuo attornevs present."
Senator Wharton's hill to provide
for severe punishment for attempts
to rape placing the same upon the
same basis as rape, has been reported
favorably.
To reimburse the owner of stolen
goods to the amount of their unrecovered
value is the purport of a bill
introduced in the senate by Mr.
Earl".
Rills were introduced in the House
as follows:
Mr. Fultz?To provide for the compulsory
education of ilie chiiuicn of
this State.
Mr. Wright?To amend section 701
of the code, volume 2. relating to summoning
of jurors on inquests bv pro
I viding for payment of sueli jurors.
| Mr. McMnhnn?To further regulate
primary elections in thist S?ate.
Mr. Lewis O. Fultz?'lo regulate
the compensation of county officers.
Mr. Cosgrove?To declare the wilful
or wantom burning of any building
which is insured, a felony and
to provide punishment therefor.
Mr. Garris?To amend an act entitled
"An act to amend section 77,
criminal code, volume 2, providing
for ten year convicts to serve sentences
on public works of the county,'as
to provide for 20-vear
c to serve sentences on public
^ f the county.
* Jarris?To increase the average
length of the school term and
to improve the efficiency of the public
schools in this State.
Mr. McEaehern?To make it a misdemeanor
to draw and alter checks
on be?ks wherein the drawer has no,
or not sufficient fmuls.
Mr. Dixon?To declare the removal
or attempted removal of a cause
pending in the courts of this State
to the federal conrts by a foreign
corporation a misdemeanor and to
provide punishment therefor.
Mr. Dixon?To require railroad
companies to furnish cars for freight
and loading of such cars bv shippers,
ana proviae a rorreiture or penalty
in ease of failure.
Mr. Cothran?A .ioint resolution
proposing an amendment to article
10 of the constitution by addiiif
thereto section 14. to empower towm
and cities of over 10,000 inhabitant*
to assess contiguous property for permanent
improvements.
Mr. T. P. Cothran?Providing foi
' t
additional compensation to constables
of magistrates.
Mr. Cothran?To amend section
I 1497, volume 1, code of laws. A. D.
1902. relating to the areneral stock
low so as to include within its provisions
turkeys, geese, guineas, ducks
and chickens.
Mr. Cothran?To amend section
relating: to magistrates acting as
rorrner.
Mr. T. P. Cothran?To amend secCon
27.10, volume 1. rode ?f laws.
A. D. 1902. relot'nc to powers of circuit
judres at chambers.
Mr. Cothran?To amend sections
240, 241 and 244 of chapter 11, article
relating to election of elector*
?? ?j
vta prcoiucni ami vice president.
Mr. Dixon?To amend section 403,
code of laws, South Carolina,- volume
1, relating to reports of county
treasurer.
Mr. M. L. Smith offered a bill restricting
the sale of all intoxicating
liquors, providing, however, for
sacramental wine.
Mr. McColl?To provide for beneficial
scholarships in the University
of South Carolina.
The following bills were introduced
in the Senate Thursday:
Mr. Carlisle?To prohibit women
and ohildren under the age of 16
years from working in cotton and
woolen mills between the hour of 7
p. m. and the hour of 6 a. m. and
prescribing punishment for violating
the same.
Mr. Carlisle?A bill to provide for
fire escapes in certain classes c.f
hotels in this State.
Mr. Lide?To repeal section 1295,
volume 1, code of laws, 1902, relating
to the Colored Normal and Industrial
Agricultural and Mechanical college
of South Carolina and to enlarge the
powers of the board of trustees of
said college.
Mr. Laney?A bill to regulate the
manufacture, sale and delivery of
commercial fertilizers and to provide
penalties and punishment for violations
of this act.
Mr. Wharton?To amend section
3.") of an act entitled "An act to
declare the law in reference to and
to regulate the manufacture, sale, use
consumption, transportation and disposition
of alcoholic liquors and beverages
within this State and to police
the same," approved the ltith day of
February, A. D. 1907, relating to
powers of county dispensary boards.
Mr. Graydon?To provide for beneficiary
scholarships in the University
of South Carolina.
Mr. A. Johnson?To amend section
2 of an act entitled "An act relating
to the selection, drawing, summoning
of jurors in the circuit courts
of this State," approved 7th day of
February, A. D. 1902, by changing
the time of preparing the jury list
from December to July.
Mr. Laney?To further regulate
the running of motor vehicles in
this State.
Mr. Bass?For the protection of
game fish in the State of South Carolina
and for repeal of certain laws
relating thereto.
Mr. Graydon?A bill to fix the liability
of common carriers by railroads
to their employes in certain
cases.
Mr. Gravdon?To fix the place of
trial in all actions to recover the
penalty fixed by statute for delay,
loss or damage to freight by common
carriers.
Mr. Harvey?To amend section 079,
volume , code of laws, 1002.
In the House a goodly number of
bills were introduced, in part as follows
:
Mr. Lengnick?To amend an act
entitled "An act to regulate the
catching, gathering, sale, exporting
or canning of oysters, terrapins,
clams, shad and sturgeon, to provide
for the licensing thereof, and to provide
for the leasing of public lands
suitable for the cultivation thereof.
Mr. Clarke?To abolish tuition fees
at Winthrop Normal and Industrial
fonesre aim ai i lemson Agricultural
College of South aCrolina.
Mr. Ayer?To require county treasurers
of the State to deposit in chartered
banks surplus or unsued funds
at interest.
Mr. Ayer?To further provide for
the examination of and the issuing
of certificates to teachers and to
further define the duties of the State
board of education and the county
boards of education relative thereto.
Mr. Rueker?To create two school
funds to be known as school fund
No. 1 for white children, and school
fund No. 2 for negro children and 1o
allow each taxpayer to designate the
application of his taxes for school
purposes.
Mr. Gasque?To amend section 064
of volume 1, code, providing for
registration of notaries public.
Mr. Harmon?To prohibit the manufacture
and sale of mntches, other
than safety mntches.
Mr. Berg?To require the registration
of all births of children in
the State.
Mr. Berg?To require license for
marriages. Mr.
P. P. Sullivan?Joint resolution
to submit to the voters the
question of the repeal of the homestead
law.
Mr. Carey?To provide for taking,
, the depositions of female witnesses
in pfldpc nf rono nnd ncQnnlt with in
tent to rape,
i Mr. Nicholson?To lengthen the
> school term.
r Mr. Hydriek?To amend section
? 3005, volume 1, code of laws of South
< Carolina, 1902, requiring that crops
- be up and growing make mortgage
valid. -g - ^
r Mr. E. /V |yy>rohibit
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any city or town from making i
unlawful to sell lunches on Sundav.
Mr. Williams?To amend sectioi
289 of the criminal code of Soul J:
Carolina, 1902. relating to the rrirm
of bigamy ami changing the punishment
thereof.
Mr. \V. S. I'tsey?To define th?
crimes of cheating and swindling and
to provide the punishment thereof.
air. itucKer?10 anonsn capnai
punishment in this Stat? except in
certain eases.
Mill Inspector May be Created.
A bill introduced hv Senator F. II.
Weston of Richland provides for the
appointment of a commissioner of labor.
There lias been much talk that
this step will be takin. either that
an independent oflice will be created,
or that inspector will woik under
C'ol. Watson, the commissioner of
commerce and agriculture.
The provisions of the bill are. in
part as follows:
1. The commissioner shall collect,
assort systematically and present in
a report to the governor on or before
the 10th day of January of each year,
who shall transmit to the general assembly
statistical details relating to
all departments of labor in this State
such as the hours of lubor. cost of
living, amount of labor required, estimated
number of persons depending
on daily labor for their support.
The bill provides for an annual
submitting of a schedule to the manager
or owner of every manufactu
tig catamiBnuieui in me r>iaie, embodying
inquiries as follows:
1. Name of person, partnership or
corporation.
2. Kinds of poods manufactured or
business done.
3. Number of partners or stockholders.
4. Capital invested.
5. Average number of persons employed.
distinguishing as to sex,
adults and children.
6. Total wapes not including salaries
of mannpers paid during the
year, distinguishing as to sex, adults
and children.
The commissioner is given power
to enter all buildings which are subject
to the provisions of the act.
The methods of protection from
accidents, the means of ventilation,
and investigations into the employment
of children are made a part
of the commissioner's duties.
There are some requirements in
the bill as to the need for fresh and
pure drinking water lor the employes
of factories, and for punishment for
violation of any section of the bill.
oection id or tne bill provides
against a child under 14 years of
ape cleaning any part of the machinery
in a factory.
The most important feature of the
bill is the requiring of keeping of
vital statistics by the tirms employing
children.
The commissioner of labor would
be required to make periodical visits
to the mills and factories.
The bill also provides:
Every owner or manager shall be
required to give the required information.
The bill also provides that the commissioner
shall have the power to
send for persons or paj>ers whenevr,
in his opinion, it is necessary and he
may examine witnesses under oath,
the testimony so taken to be filed and
preserved in the office of the commissioner.
He and his agents and
inspectors shall have free access to
all places where five or more people
are employed as laborers.
For Fire Escapes in Hotels.
a kill fhoi ?i ??
#?? mill AO UI iitliruu IUlflCSl
to tlio traveling public has been introduced
in the senate which provides
for tire escapes in the hotels
of more than three stories in height.
The provisions are:
"Section 1. Every building or
structure kept, used or maintained
as, or advertised as, or held out to
the public to be an inn, hotel, or
public lodging house or place where
sleeping accommodations are furnished
for hire to transeient guests in
which ten or more sleeping rooms are
used for the accommodation of such
guests shall, for the purpose of this
act, be considered to be a hotel.
"Sec. 2. Every hotel having three
or more stories shall be provided
with nil iron firp psphiip nn tlin Pill
side of the building, connecting on
eneh floor above the first with at
least two openings, which shall be
well fastened and secured with landings
not less than six feet in length
and three in width, or shall be provided
with suitable iron ladders
equipped with iron rounds not more
than 15 inches apart. There shall
be at least one fire escape for each
four rooms on each story. The way
of egress to such fire escapes shall
always be kept free and clear of all
obstruction of any and every nature.
There shall be posted and maintained
in a conspioious place in each hall
and in ehch guest's room except the
halls and rooms on the ground floor
of such hotel, a printed notice, calling
attention to and directing the
way to such fire escapes.
"Sec. 3. This act shall go into
effect on October 1, 1909.
"Sec. 4. Every owner, manager.
agent or person in charge of a hotel
who shall fail to comply with the
provisions of this act shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall be fined
not less than $10 nor more than $50,
and every day that such hotel is
carried on in violation of this act
shall constitute a senarate offense-"
The following passed their third
reading in the Senate on Friday and
became a part of the law.
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t The bill to do awa*" " ' y
day limit after delivenRSSTJSL
l of deeds or instrument^flS^^
i be recorded in order
notices to subsequent ereditc
purchasers for valuable consW
tioa without notice was passeT
third reading.
The following bills passed tl
rending and were ordered sent o?
to the house:
Mr. Sinkler's hill to regulate
collection and distribution of
bodies for scientific purposes.
Mr. Otts' bill to i se<
300 of the code of law-ToT 1902,
utile 2, so as to make a verdict
jury and an order of the cour
till* omitlfrv U'Koro ~
upon tlie real estate of the p
against whom it is rendered,
the rendition thereof, till the es
tion of 10 days from the risir
the court at which same was
ered.
In the three and a half hou:
which the Senate held forth on
unlay there was accomplished
as follows;
The calendar was t^one tlin
from cover to cover.
Five hills were passed and ord
sent to the house.
Fifteen bills passed second 1
injr.
The county attorney bill was
jeeted.
The bill to increase the tern
prisoners who may be made nt '
on the public works to 20-vcar
instead of 10 years, as the lawprovides,
was rejected.
There was some further diseu.
upon Senator Carlisle's hill t(
awav with the 40-dav limit in w
to record papers. An amendment
adopted relative to making it
low for 1") days to he given in ret
ing mortgages and j?ersonnl proj
deeds ih the elerk of court's of
The amendment was proposed by
ator Lide, it being pointed out
this amendment would protect
farmers and merchants who t
not rush to the court house at
to record the papers.
State Wide Prohibition Petiti
There were some pentitions rr
ed from several communities t
the requesting of the passage
State wide prohibition hill in
general assembly this year.
Saturday the following new
were introduced in the Senate.
Mr. Kelly?To repeal the lien
Mr. Rainsford?To provide f?
. special course in bookkeeping,
ogrnphy and typewriting in Cl?
college.
Mr. Sullivan?To amend s
.3131 of volume 1, code of la
the State of South Carolina of
increasing compensation of wit
in /innrf nf '?
**I v uu i i v/i ^CIIUIU1
Mr. Croft?To amend seetio
of the civil code of procedure ?
State of South Carolina, volun
A bill has been introduced ii
senate providing that every elai
loss of or damage to property
bagrgrago while in the possessioi
a common carrier shall be adj
and paid within 30 days in ea
shipments wholly within the
in 40 days in ease of shipments
without the State. Where the
no station the claim shall be til
the nearest station where the
an a pent.
Senator Weston has a bill to
vide for making: it a felony focue
to wantonly set lire, to bu
attempt to burn any building: or :
tore which is insured or any y
who shall assist in this burnii
attempt to burn, whether said
son he present or absent or n
give advice.
The House on Saturday disj
some activity and disposed of a
her of local measures and kille?
or three hills of pencral in teres
addition it spent an hour lit
new hills and committee report
incidentally unfavorable rcpor
bills in several instances were j
ed and the death of the measur
snl'ed.
Mr. J. P. Gibson's bill pro'
for a tax of $1 on all male do?r
$10 <n all female dojrs, in orf
<lecrease the number of wor
,..?o i :n?.i ><
????4?r? rviuru, iin %% us* if11 . i\U?
hill to require all secret soeiet
secure licenses from the eler
court on payment of a license t
$1. A similar hill was hefor
House last year and nassed to
reading, hut was finally killed.
Gfoorgia Lumber Company Get?
Veridict Against Southern.
Maeon, Ga., Special.?The F
Lumber Company was Tn
I lwarded a vrriliet nf jkO .
against the Southern Railway
This suit was institute'! in r( iion
with the famous Tift Li
' Company suit vers nr. tin* Soi
Railway et el.. ellcirip'T ove?c'
Spccisl Mastei in Chancery
ubmitUvl 111- report.
Boy Shoots His Father.
Jacksonville, Fla., Special.- . i i
liain 0. Bethea, a young white
* _k * . 1 _A A. ? 1*11- 1 Li- M
' s*oi ana insianuy nuea nis t
George Bethea, late Friday afti ><iaa
the eld man was en Wring the rr?e
of bis daughter in the wester
tion of the eity. There had
bad blood betwsia father and ? *<>>
seme tima wbioh terminated
quarrel, which canned the old
death. Bcthsn in wader anna
THE TOURI8T-S WAT. \
Guide?Want a guide Shox t o \J
everything you ought to see In *
Tourist?No. thanka; I'd rath* *
J T ouftbln* to dagr. * "
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