The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 09, 1905, Image 3
! ROOSEVELT I
Witness Magnificen
monies at the Natio
ing and Patri
II MONSTER PARADE
A
Vice President Takes Oath in
the Senate, Where Ceremonies
Were Brief,
But Impressive.
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A Washington special says: Under
asspices in every detail perfect, and,
.with ceremony most impressive as be- j
fits the occasion, the American peo-j
pie installed Theodore Roosevelt ia i
the highest office the nation holds.
n(j JA*J?k. tutr 3U1CU1U C111U uii-iuiiajj uain
of office before a vast gathering of
? the people he had been elected to
serve. The attendant scenes were not
anasual. Inaugurations from the time i
the east front of the capitol first f.e- j
came the setting for the ceremony i
Have been much the same. Many of j
the central figures have officiated In I
like capacity on other occasions when;
presidents have acceded.to the highest!
office in the gift of the American peo- j
pie. Chief Justice Fuller, in adminis-,
: texing the oath, repeated a solemn
function he has performed times,'
this occasion his last.
The decorations throughout the city
were more elaborate and beautiful
titan on the occasion of any previous
presidential inauguration. Twice as
many flags used this year by the inaugural
commission as was ever used
before, end the splendor of the
ciieme adopted for the city's adornment
never has been surpassed.
The formal ceremonies of installation
began in the senate chamber with
. the taking of the oath by the new
tee president. For two hours before
that ceremony the galleries were
filled with a brilliant assemblage of
iarlted guests who watched with deep
interest the arrival of the various notables,
last among them the president,
who, upon this occasion, occupied the
position of president and presidentelect,
and upon the short sessions of
the senate necessary to wind up the
ends of business.
One of the interesting features was
' the adoption of a resolution commendatory
of the retiring president of
the senate, M!r. Frye. Senator Bacon,
a democrat, was called to preside, and
Senator Gorman, another democrat
presented the resolution, which was
unanimously adopted.
A few minutes later, after the mem-!
hers of the house, the members of
the supreme court, the ambassadors 1
and ministers ha'd been announced and
seated. Senator Fairbanks appeared*'
upon the arm of Senator Bacon and j
escorted by two republican senators, j
and as soon, as the president and cab-1
lnet arrived the oath was administer- j
ed the to the new vice president. After i
Ma address the scene of ceremonies j
wte transferred to the great stand on J
tte east side of the capitol, where i
President Roosevelt was administered i
t&e oath of office by Chief Justice Fub j
ler. I
After the president's address came;
the great parade, which was reviewed;
by the president from the stand in
front of the white house. In many;
respects this was the greatest of in- j
* \?ugnration parades.' What it may j
have lacked in distinctive features, j
it made up in size. There was not j
the notable array of governors of \
states that marked the Cleveland m* |
numeration parades or the first M"c- <
Xinley inauguration.
Of the military features the Anna?- (
oils middies, the West Point cadets,!
the Jackies from several warships and !
the marine corps deserve special men-1
tlon. General Chaffee, the head of;
the army, was one of the most pop-1
olar personages with the crowds. Gen-1
oral Fred want, wno is tne image 01;
Ilia great father, and General Joe
Qeneral Joe Wheeler were hoth heart-1
Wheeler were both heartily cheered. '
The Oath Administered.
At length all was ready for the
crowning ceremony. The sea of hu- j
inanity was stilled. The president ad- j
'vanced to take the oath of office. With i
fela hand upon the Bible, held by the:
chief Justice, he reverently repeated]
CANAL STATUS IN DOUBTHouse
Failed to Adopt Senate's Res- j
olution at Last Moment.,
A Washington dispatch says: Just
where the failure of the house to
adopt the senate's resolution for the
continuance in force of last year's
canal act leaves the Panama canal
commission and canal legislation is a
matter of considerable doubt.
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t Instalation Cere-!
aial Capital?Seetkiotic
Crowds.
I the oatii, kissed the book, and Theo- t
| dore Roosevelt, a soldier of the re-1
' public, became president by the votes
! of the people, following the unbroken
! line of soldier presidents which his
I party has installed since the close of
j tho civil war. He then delivered his
inaugural, which surprised his hearers
by its brevity. As the ceremony closed
he was again greeted by the roaring
cheer3 of the immense throng. Accompanied
by his escort and followed
| by the troops and civilian paraders,
he started for the white house.
Msver has there been so perfect a
regular army column in any previous j
national pageant. Cavalry, infantry,
artillery, engineers, marines, seamen
and. properly classed with all these,
the Annapolis and West Point cadets.
thrilled all beholders with this exponent
of the perfection of our military
arm.
The national guards of states, and
those of the district, showed the
marked improvement which the practical
encampments and maneuvers,
supervised by regular officers, have
accomplished by the abolition of the j
former military picnics.
"It was a great success. Great! And |
did you note that bunch of cowboys? j
Oh. they are the boys who can ride.
It was all superb. It really touched j
me to the heart." |
This was the comment made by !
President Roosevelt, as he was leav- j
ing the reviewing stand for the white j
house at the conclusion of the mag- j
niflcent parade.
| One conspicuous feature of the pai
rade, which possibly attracted more
: nitnnrinn and nrfivolcA/l mcrp eeneral
; ancutiva uuu y* w v w
J discussion, at least in official and army
| and navy circles, than anything else,
| was the participation in the demonj
stration as aids to General Chaffee, of
i a group of cadets from West Point and
| midshipmen from Annapolis, nearly all
. of whom are descendants of army and
; navy officers who have won distinj
guished honors fighting for their
j country.
I In the presence of so many of his
j fellow citizens as could be crowded
j into the senate chamber, Charles WarI
ren Fairbanks was at high noon in!
ducted into the office of vice president
| of the United States. The ceremony
i was quickly followed by the final adj
journment of the senate of the fifty1
eighth congress, the beginning of a
j special session, an address by the vice
i president and the swearing into ofi
fice of almost a third of the memberi
ship of the senate. The installation
I of the new* vice president was severeI
lv simple, and as brief as simple. It
I consisted of a premise, solemnly made,
' ' V ' 1 3 haoj
j Willi uyuuiiu IiailUS auu uuncu ucau,
I to perform the duties of the office and
I to support and defend the constitution
S of the United States. This was the
I oath of office, and it was administered
I by Senator Frye as president pro tem-1
! pore of the senate.
The address of Vice President Fairbanks
received careful attention, and
at its conclusion he instructed the secretary
of the senate to read the president's
call for an extraordinary session
of the senate. The reading ac
complished and the senate of the
twenty-ninth congress thus installed,
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, the venerable
chaplain of the senate, came forward
to deliver the opening prayer of
the first session.
The organization of the senate was
then completed by the swearing in of
senators elected to serve for the next
six years. They appeared in platoons
of four in alphabetical order at the
desk of the vice president, each being
accompanied by his colleague. The
oath was administered by Mr. Fairbanks,
and in each case was immediately
followed by signing the senate
roll of membership. This ceremony
concluded the day's session and the
senate adjourned to the outside platform
to witness with others the inauguration
of President Roosevelt.
The inaugural festivities closed at
midnight with a ball that in splendor,
attendance and artistic effect, fittingly
ushered out a brilliant spectacular
day. Thousands of handsomely gown?
i nn nrifVi aonnvto fmm PVPrT
VVUlJi^U, Tvim ^gwi wo i*vm
state in the union, and nearly every
civilized country, in the grand illuminated
court of the pension building,
paid their social devoirs to the nation's
chief executive.
SEVENTY-FIVE WIDOWS IN LINE.
Payday at Virginia Mine* Develop* a
Most Pathetic Scene.
Last Saturday was payday at the
Virginia mines, where over a hundred
men lost their lives by an awful explosion
a week ago.
There were in line to receive pay
for the past month seventy-five widows
in weeds, twenty-four children and
twenty men.
HA MM ERING RUSSIANS,
Oyama's Victorious Troops Deliver
Heavy Blows Against Retreating
Slavs in Vicinity of Mukden.
A St. Petersburg dispatch, under
date of March 3, is as follows: According
to the latest information, from
the front, the battle is now general
and of the most desperate character
The losses have been exceedingly
heavy on both sides during the proorVifine
Althnnsrh it is not
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officially admitted, it is regarded as
certain that General Kuropatkin is directing
all his efforts to the withdrawal
of his army to Tie Pass. It is now
practically a rear guard action, but
General Kuropatkin's task of extricating
himself is proving very difficult.
The Japanese have not only driven
in his left, hut a column is already
said to have crossed the Hun river
east of Fushian. At the same time,
the Japanese are pressing the Russian
center under cover of the fire of their
siege gun8, and General Kuropatkin
is gradually retiring before the Japanese
advance. The efforts of the Japanese
to turn the Russian right were
unsuccessful, but it has forced back
almost on a line with Mukden. Two
Russian divisions were dispatched to
head off the wide flanking column
advancing from the Uao river toward
Sinmintin, about 30 miles west of
Mukden, but, according to the latest
advices, they were too late, the Japanese
having entered the town Thursday.
No official figures regarding the
losses are obtainable, but according
to unofficial reports, the Russian losses
up to Thursday night were nearly 7,000
men.
General Rennenkampf particularly
distinguished himself during the fighting
in the mountain passes southeast
of Mukden.
PCranQ ARF RCHPMING.
SIX DIE IN TRAIN CRASH.
Two Specials En Route to Washington
Meet in Collision.
In a rear-end collision Friday between
two special passenger trains
from Cleveland, Ohio, on the Cleveland
and Pittsburg railroad, en route
to "Washington, six men and one woman
were killed and twenty other pas
sengers seriously injured.
REPORT IN SUGAR CASE.
President Tells Congress Results of
Experiments in Georgia.
The president sent to congress on
Thursday a report on sugar cane experiments
for 1903-04, conducted by
che bureau of chemistry of the department
of agriculture. The investigations
were made chiefly in the state
of Georgia. The report contains the
result of experiments with fertilizers,
character of the soil best adapted to
gtowth of cane and kindred topics.
WHERE BOTTLE WAS FILLED,
Stuff Alleged to Have Come from
Stanford Pharmacy at Palo Alto.
According to a special from San
Francisco the bottle of bicarbonate of
soda from which Mrs. Stanfordd took
the fatal dose in Honolulu was filled
at Stanford pharmacy at Palo Alto
two days before she left for Hawaii.
Detectives are at work on the clew
to find who took the bottle to the
drug store, where the clerk filed the
vial, and to whom it was delivered at
the Stanford mansion.
TERRIFIC "CONFLICT I
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Greatest Battle of War Rag- j
iflgin Manchuria.
SLAVS IN DIRE STRAITS
Kuropatkin's Forces are Being LiteraJ- |
Iy Cut to Pieces by Furious On- j
siaught of 260,000 Victorious j
Japanese.
A dispatch to The Tageblatt (Berlin)
from St Petersburg says:
"General Kuropatkin, in a telegram,
which arrived here at 7 o'clock Saturday
evening, said 260,GOG Japanese had
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broken through the Russian left wing, I
and that it was cut off from the remainder
of the army."
At 10 o'clock came another dispatch j
fmm General Kuropatkin. which read: j
Resorting to Ail Kinds of Subterfuges
to Secure Cotton.
According to a statement by President
Harvie Jordan, of the Southern
Cotton Association, the "bear speculators,"
who are short on their contracts,
are resorting to all sorts of schemes
to make the holders of spot cotton turn
loose r.heir holdings. Mr. Jordan
c' ntif Uiat the aro knnwinfflv
OlCilVO VUMV l **v WVMtw \ - - ? ,
misrepresenting facts and urges upon
j all the holders of spot cotton to con;
tinue to hold what cotton they now
have.
j Mr. Jordan says: "The bear specuj
lators and exporters who are short on 1
j their contracts are resorting to all
! kinds of devices and subterfuges to
shake the faith of the holders of spot
cotton and weaken their determina
tion to hold for nigner prices, une
of the practices now being daily Dressed
by the bear element is to send
out telegraphic reports to one state to
; makedt appear that farmers are freely
offering^ their cotton for sale in
' another state."
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PICTURE ILLEGALLY USED.
Man Whose "Mug" Appeared in Ad.
vertisemei^t is Entitled to Damages.
Under a decision of the supreme
court of Georgia, just rendered, the
publication of a man's picture as an
advertisement without his consent.,
tho nrihMoatinn of statements !
which he did not make, entitles him to j
recover damages from the party offending^
The case in question was that of one
Paolo Pavesich, an artist, who brought
suit for $25,000 damages against the
New England Mutual Life Insurance
Company and J. Q. Adams, photographer,
on account of the use of his picture
in an advertisement printed by
the company in The Atlanta Constitution,
without his consent, and because
certain language was attributed to him
which, he states, he did not use.
"The Japanese are marching on
Mukden. My position is extremely
dangerous."
In government circles at Berlin there
is a conviction chat Kuropatkin has
h^aten. that part of hi3
L'CtU iuu; -r
army has been dispersed and that the
railroad north of Mukden will probably
be cut. i
Reports from Japanese sources
claim that the Russian right flanit,
southwest to south of Mfukden, and
continuing to the railway, has been
completely turned by the Japanese
forces under the immediate command
of General Oku. To the eastward
General Kuroki is directing a vigorous
attack with heavy artillery against
! strongly fortified Russian positions.
General Kuropatkin is said to be con1
centrating a strong force in front of
Generals Kuroki and Nogi. It still
seems probable that General Kuropatkin
will find It difficult to retire to
Tie Pass, which appears to be a necessaxy
move. St. Petersburg has
word that affairs latterly have taken
a turn for the Russian arms and the
tactics of Field Marshal Oyama in
sacrificing many of his soldiers in
an attack on imnreanable Dositions
on the center as a mere diversion,
while the greatest blows were being
struck on the flanks, is criticised by
Russian military officers. The critics
also point to the attenuation of the
Japanese line as an element of peril
for Oyama and of hopes for Kuropatkin.
The losses on both sides have
been heavy, but estimates are lack*
ing.
The Japanese, on Friday, advanced
on the Russian position at Shakhe village,
but were^beaten off. Twice they
attacked Poutilof Hill, but both attacks
were repulsed. At Oubenepusa,
a Japanese guard of over twenty battalions
made thirteen attacks the
night of March 3 and the morning of
March 4, storming the redoubts most
furiously. All these attacks were repulsed
with heavy loss. The ground
in front of the redoubts was strewn
with Japanese corpses. The JtajJahese
and Russian artillery are engaged m
the heaviest duel of the war. Russian
mortars are fired at the Shakhe
bridge, and the Japanese ? 1-inch guns
are in full pTay, but the Russian fortifications,
on which the Russians had
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j been working all winter, offer a fairly
i secure protection of their defenders.
There is little news of General Ruro- J
patkin's operations on the extreme
east of the line. The Rusfans are
holdin~ ~ eir ground and even advanc- j
ing, but 't is reported that the Japanese
cavalry division, with twelve quickAt..
firing guas, Is sweeping iar 10 me easr
ward on a rapid turning movement.
The carnage at the center and on
both flanks has been enormous. The
Japanese at many piaces simply threw
away their lives beating against the
Russians' powerful fortifications in attacks,
which in the center apparently
wer? intended chiefly as a demonstration
to cover the driving home of General
Kogi'g blow.
TOR JAMESTON PA iff,
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A Quarter' Million ApprOprlafhJn Is
Voted by thtf House.
Government participation in the' exposition
to celebrate tie first pefrfi*nent
settlement of English speaking
people on the western hemisphere iu
the vicinity of Jamestown, Va., was '
provided by the house Thursday when, ;
by a vote of 192 to 91, the Bill for that
purpose was passed under a! suspension
of the rules. The amount' appropriated
is $250,000.
FOR CATTLE QUARANTINE.
House Passes Bill Authorizing Establishment
of Districts.
The house Thursday passed the bill
authorizing the secretary of agriculture
to establish and maintain quarantine
districts in the several states,
and to permit and regulate the movement
of cattle. (
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ULTIMATUM BY STRIKERS
Renewal of Labor Outbreaks Threaten- j
ed in St, Petersburg ? Anarchy j
Reigns in Moscow.
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A St. Petersburag dispatch of Fri-1
day says: Klack clouds are again low-J
ering over the industrial situation of
Russia. The strike at Moscow has (
been resumed on a large scale, an-1
archy reigns in the Caucasus and at j
St. Petersburg, the measures which !
the government advanced to quiet dis-!
content and restore good relations be-J
I tween masters and men appear to i
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nave Lanea, wim me yiuuaomij vi |
causing the storm to break anew.
The labor delegates representing the ;
whole of the industrial population of
St. Petersburg and who were elected
to choose fifty members of the Schid- j
lovski reconciliation commission, met
again Thursday and reaffirmed the!
resolution adopted at the previous day j
threatened, in case the demands are j
not granted, not only to refuse to elect!
labor representatives to the commlo-1
sion, but to order a resumption of
the general strike.
These demands are for the release
of imprisoned workmen and freedom
from arrest; unhampered speech, full
publicity of meetings of the commis
sion and the abolition of the censorship.
A practical ultimatum was issued,
callinsr for an immediate answer. There
is little expectation that the govern-1
ment will grant the conditions demanded.
The stride already has assumed
large proportions in St. Peters- j
burg, about 50,000 men being out. !
Among those who struck Thursday!
are the employes of the St. Petersburg
shops of the Warsaw railway.
The strike has not yet extended to
the trainmen, but the leaders may de
rid? to order them out in order to
paralyze one of the most important
railroads in Russia.
DEADLY POISON IN MEDICINE.
Stuff Taken by Mrs. Stanford Heavily
Charged With Strychnine.
The receipt Thursday by the acting
chief of police of San Francisco of a
cablegram from High Sheriff Henry ol
Honolulu, stating that there -were no
less than 662 grains of strychnine in
the bottle of bicarbonate of soda from
which MYS. Jane Stanford took a dose
shortly before her death has aroused
the whole detective force of San Francisco,
and every effort is being made
to discover who placed the poison in
the medicine.
The bottle containing tbe bicarbonate
of soda and its death potion originally
was purchased in Australia, but,
according to Miss Berner,' Mrs. Stanford's
private secretary, and the maid,
May Hunt, the bottle was refilled in
San Francisco at a local drug store.
Dr. W. G. Stevens, a medical expert,
made this positive statement:
"Six hundred and sixty-two grains
of strychnine easily would kill 662
persons. The maximum do?e administered
is only l-15th of a grain, while
the average is l-40th of a grain."
The apparent absence of a plausible
motive for such a crime baffles Mrs.
Stanford's acquaintances, as well
as the detectives. Revenge or animAoUtf
raao r/lnH o e r*rvo ciKlo
JLL1 VOitJ ai C UVt l^^UiUVVl UO
factors of the question, and nothing
has been shown to indicate that a desire
to obtain an expected inheritance
could have prompted the deed.
Mrs. Stanford did not leave so large
an estate as was supposed, for during
her life she deeded the property she
inherited from her husband to the
regents of Stanford university, to be
held in trust for that institution after
her death.
East African Cotton Crop.
The cotton crop of German East Af
rica for 1905 is about four million I
pounds, according to The German East |
African Gazette. *
LOVING CUP PRESENTED.
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Speaker Cannon and Representative !
Williams Honored in the House.
In the final session of the house
Saturday morning one legislative act
was performed by the passing of a
bill, but the session for the most part
was devoted to the congratulatory
ceremonies ususai to the close of a {
congress. Speaker Cannon was not j
oii'?y thanked by a unanimous vote of |
the' house, but was presented with
a lcSrine- cud bv thp memhers. Rpnrp. I
sent'ative Williams of Mississippi, the
leaded of^-the minority, was given a
like compliment by his associates.
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MAffDl GRAS FESTIVITIES.
Open at" New Orleans With Pageant
by Knights of Momus.
The Mardi Gras carnival parades
opened at New Orleans Thursday night
with the pageant by the Knights of
Momus. The subject was "Vathek,"
a Persian poem, describing the caliph's
wanderings through enchanted gar- .
dens to the halls of EbKa.
CAN ONLY SUGGEST
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Czar is Willing to Concede
That Much to His Subjects.
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CALL FOR ELECTIVE BODY
Dramatic Sc?ne in Palac? When the
Emperor Attached Signature to
Document ? No Surrender of
Autocratic Power.
A St. Petersburg special says: In
tile Alexandra palace at TsarskoeSelo,
surrounded by the ministers and
a few members of the court, and with
the empress at his side. Emperor
r-.v
Nicholas Friday afternoon affixed his
signature to a rescript containing his
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majesty's decree to give elected representatives
of the people an opportunity
to express their views in the
preparation of the laws of the empire.
This is the autocracy's final response
to the agitation in favor of partlcipar
tiYm hv the neopie in government.
which has brought Russia in the last
few months almost to the brink of
revolution. Its purport must not be
misunderstood. .,j|
J No Change of Regime.
For the present at least it involves
J no change in the regime of autocracy,
and it means neither a constitution
nor a national assembly. At the same
j time, it recognizes the principle of 1
j the people's right to be heard regard|
ing laws under which they must live. -:J
j The signing of the document came
j at the end of a - dramatic scene, the
J climax of which was an impassioned
; speech by Emperor Nicholas to his
ho HnrTared th*t
| lUlUldLCI .-5, ill nuiN.u
; he sought only the welfare of his subjects.
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"I am willing." the emperor said, ^ ^
"to shed my blood for the good of my \
; people." ^
Substance of Rescript
The rescript Is directed to the minister
of the interior, and says:. ^ .Jjp
"My desire is to attain the fulfill* * " -JS
ment of my intentions for the welfare *
of mv people by means cf the co-Op- |j|
eration of the government with expe- y.
rienced forces of the community, and. .','y
continuing the work of my crowned* .":&j
ancestors, to retain the prestige of the < M
Russian nation therein. I am reeolv- ' ." $
ed, henceforth, with the help of God,
to convene the worthiest -men, pos- \
sesslng the confidence of the people
and elected by them to participate in
the elaboration and consideration of
l T^orjeifltivp measures " ' : 7^1?S
( "In undertaking these reforms, I
I am convinced that local needs and
esperiefice 6f life weii weighed and
sincere speech of those elected wi'rl
insure fruitfulness to legislation for
the real benefit of the people. At tfie 1 j
same time, I foresee all the complex- ^
ity and difficulty presented in the
elaboration of these reforms while pre* 'M
serving absolutely the immutability of
i the fundamental laws of the empire.11 yj
HIGH PRICg FOR CONVICTS. ^ ||
Georgia Syndicate Sdeures Four Yea#
Lease of Florida Prisoners.
Officials of the Georgia prison de* ; ^
i nartment aro much interested !n the , .v$j
fact that Dr. W. B. Hamby of Way*
cross, who, with W. M. Toomer, also
of that city, now controls the labor /
of 383 Georgia convicts, is the leading
member of a syndicate composed
largely of Georgians, which has just
secured a four-year lease upon the en- " / %
tire number of Florida's convicts
amounting to between 1,100 and 1,200. rv-i
For Florida's convicts the syndicate I .
pays $207.70 a year each, including
men. women and boys, and will also :'|
guard and care for them. This is said V |
+r? ho thfci hifhpcst rtnw r>J?M far.
any star* convicts.
Georgia, under the contracts made -111
List April, receives an average of *3
$225.12 Tor each able-bodied convifct, ^
while the women, boys and invalids '
are kept on the state farm at the :4
state's expense. Besides Georgia has ^
to guard and furnish physicians for
her convicts, at an expense of about .-%
$60 ^ year each. It is evident, there- , jj
fore, that Florida will get about $40 a
year each more for her convicts than ; .
Georgia does. Florida followed Geor- ^
gia in making a new contract, as Ala- .*
Lama did, and both have profited well . :$
by Georgia's experience. *
JORDAN TO TOUR SOUTH.
President e>4 Southern CrtHfln A?anii<*
tion to Make Many Speeches.
President Harvie Jordan of the
Southern Cotton Association, will begin
at once a tour of the south, partic- ?
ularly of the southwestern states, In J
fhe interests of the association and
the work it has undertaken. He
plans to make many addresses.
HERMANN TO FACE COURT.
Member of Congress from Oregon Inbv
Washinoton Jurv.
Binger Hermann, member of con- %
gress from Oregon and former commissioner
of the general land office,
was indicted by the federal grand jnry
in Washington Friday on the charge .
of destroying public records. The indictment
was found on the testimony
jf certain general land office employes
s'vi of the secretary of the interior. |f