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.TV; " > ^-T " . : . %A -i. *&-" ' *J V \ ten cents cotton Is Edict Sent Forth by the Southern lAssocintion. s UNION IS FOR ELEVEN Committee in Session at Hnt Qnrirmc ? - - - - t* x Fixes Minimum Figure?Farmers' Union "Stands Pat" for One Cent More. \ The executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association, at Friday's session at Hot Springs, recommended to its members and the cotton growers of the south that no cotton be sold during the present season at less than 10 cents per pound. In a resolution adopted by the committee, it is stated that the crop is in a state of deterioration and for t that reason no estimate of the crop was made. The resolution statos, however, that the committee is satisfied that the crop will not be as large as the current estimate. The placing of the minimum price at IV ceuus was iu tut; nature ui a victory for the conservative element of the association. In the executive session of the committee, which was continued throughout the day, the highest price named as a minimum was 12 cents. Itie resolution adopted by the com- ' mittee, .which is in the shape of an address to the public, follows: /'Inasmuch as we, the cotton growers of the south, know that there has been great deterioration in the cotton crop since August 15, and, "Whereas,, the consensus of opinion of the members of this committee is that the deterioration is still going on, we deem it unwise to make an estimate of the crop at this time. We are satisfied that the crop will not be as large as the current estimate. "W/e, therefore, suggest and urge upon all our members and producers throughout the scuth not to sell their cotton at a figure less than the cost cf production. . ] "Owing to the high price of the J cost 6t firing and scarcity of labor, (( we feel, in order for the fanner who ? raises cotton to live, feed and clothe ' himself and family set aside a small pittance for the improvement of his ' * farm, it is necessary that cotton should not be sold below the bread ] and meat line, which is 10 cents. "In fixing 10 cents per pound as ( the limit below which it should not ' be scld, we. have no. reference to the 1 crop ort any immediate condition. "We call upon all southern inters ests to aid. in maintaining for all time ' this price as a minimum. We urge > the necessity of marketing the crop slowly and ^nly on an advancing mar\ ket, and withdraw all cotton from the market at every decline. ~ "We appreciate and thank the press > for the vaf&ed service of the past-and ' urge those intorests of the south to 1 assist in every manner possible to ' -N maintain this minimum price. . \ j > "We appreciate and thank the mer- ! chants and bankers for the noble man- j ' ner in which they have stood by the ! ' farmers in the past and urge a.continuation of their co-operation and sup- ; port , r . ; FARMERS UNION WILL "STAND "PAT" FOR ELEVEN CENTS. Friday,, the third day of the convention of the National Farmers' Educational find Cooperative Union, in session at Texarkana, Texas, was per- . haps the busiest of the meeting. The j ; morning session was taken up for j the most part in hearing the report ; of the national executive committee. [* This report shows the affairs of the ! organization, financial and otherwise, | to be excellent condition, also that j . ~ the books and accounts of all officers i were correct. | , The afternoon was largely devoted ! to addresses and debates, including ; ^ the cotton warehouse proposition. The report sent out Thursday night j as to the fixing of the minimum price : a ^ J 2- /.i A A ior coriun seeu ijuauuurawe. mu i price was fixed at $15 per ton through- i out the entire cotton belt, regardless of ifeetton.- * ^Several leading members of the organization were' asked for an expres- j sion of what they thought of the action of the Southern Cotton Association at Hot Springs in placing the j minimum price of cotton at 10 cents. ; and the verdict was unanimous that i the National Farmers' TTnion will i , stand pat for 11 cents. President Duck- I i worth said: t i < "We will stick for 11 cents. The ! ] deterioration of the-general condition ' of cotton during the last two weeks ! ] is sufficient evidence to prove that i i the union has not placed the price (11 '< % cents) too high." J ] J | J FORGERIES CROPPING OUT. j Oyer Quarter Million of Hippie's Bo- ' gus Notes Are Found. Forgeries for more than a quar- i ter of a million dollars by Frank E. ! Hippie, the suicide president of the ; j defunct R#al Estate company at Phil- j < adelphia have been discovered by Re- j ' ceiver Earle, who stated that he had ! i no idea where Hippie's irregularities 11 would end. j I \ t CHEATHAM IS' CLEARED. Secretary of Cotton Association Found "Not Guilty" of Speculating by Executive Committee. At Fri.lay night's session of the executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association at Hot Springs, Ark., Richard Cheatham, secretary ot the association, was exonerated of the charge of dealing in futures while an official of the association. Idcorporated in the resolution clearing Cheatham was an expression providing that it shall constitute an offense in the future for any official or member of the executive committee or member ot any state committee to deal in futures. The resolution exonerating Cheatham declares: "That while all form of speculation is disapproved of, yet the committee finds that ilfr. Cheatham was acting only for other parties and in view of the fact that there is noth ing in the constitu\ion which makes a person incompetent to hold office because he deals in futures, and because of Mr. Cheatham's efficiency and of the fact that we believe the assaults on Cheatham came from the enemies cf this association we dismiss the charges as unworthy of further consideration, and denounce all charges made against Mr. Cheatham except what is hereinbefore 'stated, as false. "That in the future it shall constitute an offense against this association for any officer or member of the executive committee or state officer to in ; any way deal in futures, and any one violating this shall be expelled' from office." The report, which is signed by a committee composed of L. B. Irvin, E. W. Smith and L. E. Love, wa9 adopted by a vote of 11 to. 5. . SULLIVAN HURLS THE LIE. Illinois Committeeman Comeo Back at Bryan with Hot Bhot. Roger C. Sullivan, member from Illinois of the democratic national committee, has issued a lengthy statement in which he replies to the recent atacks made upon him by Bryan, rhe following is an extract of Mr.v Sullivan's remarks: "In his " Jefferson Club banquet speech e.t Chicago Tuesday evening William J. Bryan again saw fit to make' the excuse for exploiting his uew - ambition to convert the democratic party of the United States into in autocracy with himself on the dictator's throne. I regret that he has ione so, as I would regret any incident or circumstance tending toward Jiscord in the democratic party. "If portions of Mr. Bryai's speech mean anything, they mean that he would rather have his own way than have the democrats elected to congress or any other office. He has invited all Illinois democrats who agree with him in his opposition to me to bolt their ticket. If there are any democrats in Illinois who are dts-' posed to act on this typically Bryantstlc advice, many of them Unfortunslelv will he found in congressional districts which are close, but in which, with united effort, we have a good chance to elect democratic congressmen. If these districts send republicans to the next national house of representatives, the democratic party of the nation.will have Mr. Bryan to thank. "Mr. Bryan has said by Inuendo that I, as an official of the Ogden Gag company of Chicago, have secured government favor and profit by alleged illegal or corrupt means. "He harps on my connection with the Ogden Gas company as if that connection were disreputable. The public press will show that the only offense this corporation ever committed" was to reduce the price of gas. "The very first paragraph in Mr. Bryan's speech on me and on the Illinois situation contains a deliberate untruth. Practically every succeeding paragraph contains either a deliberate untruth or an equivocation of the kind that we expect only from the shifty, word-Juggling pettifogger." . i t , * , ? PROSPECTIVE NEW RAILROAD. " ? ? " ' i v ? Sayannah and Statesboro Line to Be f?J. J.J t. A *1 CAicnucu iw Mviniuai Within the next few days an ap% i r r * . t plication for charter for the Savan nah, Statosboro and Western Railway company will be filed with the secretary of stale of Georgia. It will be an extension of the Savannah and Statesboro and the extension will reach Atlanta. ? The road will be about 210 miles long. The counties through which it ft'ill run are Bulloch, Emanuel, Johnson, Washington, Baldwin, Jones, Fut2am, Newton, Rockdale, DeKalb and Pulton. DIDN'T LIKE THE CITY. Young Woman Suidide^ Because De barred from Return to Country. Because she was going to be left in the city and could not go to the country with her mother, Mrs. May Bell Hawes, aged 22 years, of Atlanta, Ga., took an overdose of laudanum and died from the effects some hours later. r 4 ! PLAN CORPORATION Cotton Association to Aid "Distressed" Staple. MANY MILLIONS CAPITAL Cotton Will Ee Stored ar.d Held Until Price Advances?Commodity Will Thus Be Kept Out of the Hands of the Exporters. The executive committee of the Southern Cotton. Association concluded its session at Hot Springs Saturday afternoon, and adjourned sub? ?a. j- ~ 4.1? ? ii ~ c ~ c jeci lw uiy can ui lhv; inesiueiii. ul the association. The principal business transacted at the last day's resolution looking to the formation of a corporation with a capitalization of $100,000,000 for the purpose of takfng care of the "distressed" cotton in the south. The resolution follows: "Whereas, after two years, experience in attempting to maintain a fair price for cotton and realinzing that we are in our present status an advisory board; in order to put ourselves in position to enforce our minimum; be it "Resolved, That we organize the Southern Cotton Association into a chartered corporation ror the purpose of buying, selling and warehousing cotton, and that we open book3 of subscription for a capital stock of $100,000,000, the shares to be $5 each. "That a president and board of directors be appointed, and that each state, county and precinct president be furnished blank certificates ana books of subscription, and that we immediately begin a campaign to raise this capital stock." This resolution was passed over as unfinished business, and a committee of five, consisting of John P. Allison of North Carolina, E. O. Smith of South Carolina and J. C. Hickey of Texas, was appointed to prepare definite and detailed plans for the purpose of incorporating the association as outlined in the ^resolution, and report at the next meeting of the executive committed > President Harvie Jordan gave the following explanation of the resolution: "It fs for the purpose of taking care of distressed cotton, and by distressed cotton I mean that which is forced on the market by people who are unable to finance cotton and are unable to liquidate maturing obligations. The corporation proposes to go into the markets and buy up this class of cotton when it is being offered at prices below the minimum fixed by the association, to be held by the corporation until the market advances to the minimum price. The cotton will VQPIIMIC wnrphnnsps ue muicu in (hwvuu .. _ throughout the cotton belt. "Later in the season, the association will gather full and complete data with reference to the probable yield of the crop and issue it for the benefit of ihe members of the association, the only thing that the committee is thoroughly agreed on at the present is that no cotton, basis middling, should be placed on the market and sold for less than 10 cents per pound." In order that the people may be reached and the resolution fixing the minimum price at 10 cent* may be thoroughly canvassed and that an appeal may be made directly to the cotton growers, the committee decided to hold meetings in the different cotton raising state at which President Harvie Jordan, Field Agent Smith and Executive Committeeman Witherspoon of Mississippi will speak. The itinerary arranged for the speakers follows: Jackson, Tenn., September 20; Mont? - ril-a?a gcmery, Ala., Septemuer ?nrewport, La., September 27; Palestine, Texas, September 28; Taylor, Texas, September 29; Waco, Texas, October 1; Dallas, Jexas, October 2; Sherman, Texas, Oct-her 3; Oklahoma City, October 4; Fort Smith, Ark., October 5; Pine Bluff, Ark., October 6; Orangeburg, S. C., October 3; Raleigh, N. October 9. TO CHOKE OFF HEARST. Bryan Followers Form Alliance With Forces of Jerome. An event of importance took place in Albany, N. Y., Wednesday, and -the city is buzzing with political interest. ' i ni? wcs mc v;uuicicii^;c ui ucjxiitcrat.s from many counties of the state called to discuss the situation in the party, the central figure of which was District Attorney Jerome. It is conceded that this meeting was aimed to prevent the nomination or indorsement by the state convention at Buffalo of William Randolph Hearst. TIED UP BY RATE LAW. Cotton Belt Road is Out to Extent of Several Thousand Dollars. A special from Sherman, Texas, says that the Cotton Belt railroad is one of the sufferers -s a result of the new rate law to the extent of several thousand dollars. Fifty cars of coal are tied uj^in the Denison yards of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, as the Cotton Belt refuses to receive the.n at the advanced rate. ' T- ' ' f ' NEW CONSTITUTION j Adopted by Farmers' Union and Important Resolutions Passed at the Closing Session in Texarkana. The National Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union, in session at Texarkana, Texas, completed its la- ! bors and adjourned Saturday. | Among the resolutions passed were I the following: To memorialize congress to give to the rural school districts of the south i the coltcn tax of $60,000,000 collected in 1861-65. Urging members to purchase only union made goods bearing the union la eel and declaring m tavor or a par' ceis post. A practically new constitution was adopted and will be submitted for approval of all the members of the union at a referendum vote to be taken between the hours of 1 o'clock and 12 p. .m, November 4. By this new constitution the name of the organization is changed to the Fanners' National Union, and the qualifications for membership are fixeu. White persons and Indians of both sexes over 16 years of age are eligible to membership, but negroes will not be admitted. Merchants, lawyers, bankers and members of trusts and combines are barred. The officers elected for the ensuing yvai aic as lunuwo, President?C. S. Barrett, Atwater, Ga. Vice President-^J. E. Montgomery, Gleeson, Tenn. 'Secretary-Treasurer?iR. H, McCullough, Beebee, Ark. Board of Directors?W, A. Morris, W. iS. Miller, J. N. McCallester, Campbell Russell, James Butler. MACHINE GUNS ARE USED. In Attack by Government Troops, Lea by American, on Cuban Rebels. Government, military and railroad officials and the newspaper correspondents at Havana were thrown into a state of excitement Sunday evening by men who arrived from Paso Real with stories that the armored train which left Havana Friday had met with various obstacles beyond Herradura, had been thrown from the tracks and its 300 men, machine guns, horses and equipment captured. The real facts are that Col. Avalos, who was believed to be surrounded in Pinar del Rio City, and the armored train made a junction east of Consolacion Del Sur, and the government forces to tnat extent are improved. This news caused mu<?h relief in official circles. The train proceeded Saturday evening from Paso Real to two and onet: ird miles east of Consolacion Del Sur, where the rails had been removed, and replaced a* locomotive and three cars which had been thrown from the track. The insurgents attacked, but were driven off by the Imc machine guns handled by the American Captain Webster. li. is believed that many insurgents were killed, but number is not'known. Sunday night 215 men and four machine guns, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Clews started from Havana for Paso Real, with horses, supplies of provisions and quantities of rapid fire gun ammunition. Captain Ravenna, one lieutenant and four privates wounded are the only casualties reported in the Consolacion Del Sur operations. LEGISLATOR FATALLY STABBED. Justice of the Peace Makes Good Use of Knife on Home Wrecker. At Pittsburg, Pa., Lawrence B. Cook, a member of the Pennsylavnia legislature from the fourth district, who was renominated by the republican party Saturday, was perhaps fatally stabbed Sunday by Andrew MacMillan, a justice of the peace, and one of the wealthy residents of Carnegie. Cook met Mrs. McMillan, and the two went to a house in Lawn Street. While th^y were in a 100m, MacMillan burst open the door and engaged in a struggle with Cook, with the result above stated. SECRET WATCH ON CUBA. Policy of Silence Maintained by State Department. If the state department has advices from Havana regarding the movement of troops in Cuba frorp Mr. Sleeper it has determined on a policy of silence. It is stated that intervention has not'been asked nor has its possibility been considered, yet orders have been issued through the war and state departments for a close observation and | report of all conflicts between tne opposing forces in the island. WOMAN DECAPITATES CHILDREN. Chopped Off Heads of Little Ores and Cooly Reported the Deed. . Mrs. Henry Knippin, the young wife of a farmer living in Putnam county, !ohio, decapitated her two children, a boy aged three and a girl aged one and a half years, and then went to I the home of a neighbor and told what she had done. The woman was discharged recently from the Toledo start, hospital for the insane. ' COMER WINS EASY In Initial Strength Test Before Alabama Convention. HIS FOLLOWERS CONTROL All Nominations Unanimous?Jelk's Administration and Hon. W. J. Bryan indorsed?Concise Platform Adopted. The followers of B. B. Comer wiped out all opposition in the Alabama state democratic convention in session at Montgomery Monday, and are now in complete control of the democracy 01 the state. The contest came on the proposition to increase the state executive committee from 36 to 45 and elect them by the vote of the state instead of by districts as now. The Comer men voted for the election by the whole state and won out on a vote of 2 to 1. The administration of Governor Jelks was Indorsed, as was Mt. Bryan. A contest occurred early in the evening on a proposition to adopt a plan to reduce the representation of the black belt in the state convention by allowing representation only on white population. It was lost. John R. Tyson and S. D. Weakly were nominated for chief justice and Tyson declared nominated on the primary vote of 322.56 to 291.44. On motion of E. K. Campbell, of Jefferson, the nominations were made unanimous. All other candidates withdrawing, J. R. Dowdell and T. C. McClellan were nominated for associate judges of the supreme court H. S. D. Mallcry, of Selma, present chairman, was elected chairman of the executive committee. An executive committee, submitted by the Comer followers, was then selected. The'platform adopted makes the following reference do W. J. Bryan: "We indorse all essential principles and policies advocated by democracy's great leader, W. J. Bryan, especially his arraignment of trusts, private monopolies and abuses of public service corporations. We proclaim him the greatest democrat of our time, and believe in nis overwhelming election as president of the United States. We indorse him as the standard bearer of our party in 1908. "In line with the policies of our leader., we favor the complete control and regulation of all corporations, and the annihilation of trusts by the, national and state governments acting within their respective spheres, and demand the absolute divorcement oi rauroaa aiia trusi muuences iram national and state affairs." "Regarding the plan of nominating alternates to succeed United States Senators Morgan and Pettus in case of their death, the platform says: "Wo disapprove the action of the lato democratic executive committee fp this state in requiring candidates for-governor to pledge themselves in advance of election to make appointments to fill anticipated vacancies in the-office of United States senators, otherwise than under the obligation of their oath's of office as required by law. "We recommend that the governor, who shall he elected in November, 1906, fill any vacancies xoccurring in the office of United States senator from this state, after his induction into office by appointing to fill the firs: vacancy thus occurring the person who received in the late democratic primary the highest number of votes for alternate senator, and by appointment to All the next vacancy thus occurring the person who received in said primary the next highest number of votes for alternate senator?said appointment or appointments to continue and be effective only until the meeting of the next regular or extraordinary session of the legislature. "We favor an amendment to the constitution of the United States requiring United States senators to be elected by a direct vote of the people." entire township obliterated Over Two Hundred People Lose Life in Gigantic Landslide. Practically without warning, the side of a mountain rising above the township of Kwareli, in the Caucasus, broke away, and in a' sea of semiliquid mud, sand and stones swept down oh the township and overwhelmed and obliterated it. Some 255 persons were buried alive. In addition to the lives lust, countless head of cat+ r.orlennH on/1 iVio orf\r%<2 worn Ho. 4 ICilV/Uj I'UU' V* VA V MV stroyed. Similar disasters are of common occurrence in Caucasian valleys. HANGING DRAWS THOUSANDS. Confessed Negro Assailant of White Girl Executed Before Big Crowd. Dave Moore, colored, who assaulted the 3-year-old daughter of Jim Hood, of White county, Ga., some weeks ago, and who was convicted at a si)ecial term of White superior court ten days ago, was h'anged at Cleveland Monday in the presence of two thousand people. ^The scaffold was erected about one mile from town. * . r ^ ,g * MARTfAL LAW IN CUBA. : Palma Gives Up Hope of Peace and . Issues Decree Calling For Arrest of Prominent Liberals. A special from Havana says: President Palma Monday night issued a decree suspending all constitutional / guarantees, with special reference to articles 15, 16, 17, IS, 19, 22, 23, 24 and 21 in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana and Santa Clara. The law enforcing public order, which is equivalent to martial law, also is put in immediate effect in the three provinces named. A supplement decree has been issued suspending the decree of August 23, pardoning the repentant rebels, and ordering that all rebels be arrested Both decrees have been communicated to all officers in the 3 fiolrl 'Coincident with the issuance of de- . crees which followed a decision not to yield to the peace demands the H government ordered the arrest of prac? tically every prominent liberal. When the news of issuing of these decrees reached the veterans' peace * commission there was immediate and almost unanimous denunciation of President Palma and other members of the government The goveAment doe? not intend that membership in congress shall shield anybody from arrest. Senator Morua Delgado was one of the first arrested. and several representatives were quickly - added to the list of prisoners. Former congressmen and ' ? veterans are being searched for by 3 the police. Senor Zayas and most t of the leading liberals have* myste- ;'M riously. disappeared. rawlings boys sentenced. m Notorious Case Brouaht Before Court For Fourth Time. At Valdosta, Ga., Monday, Milton, | Jesse and Leonard Rawlings appeared -J before Judge Mitchell, of the superior -/J court for the fourth time, and had 'M sentence passed upon them for their ? alleged complicity in the murder of . * the Carter children. Milton and Jesse were sentenced to be hanged on the second day of Octo- J3 her, and Leonard was again sentenced * J to. life imprisonment When asked by the judge whether ; they had anything to say, why sen- | tence should not be pronounced upon <J them, Milton and Jesse declined to say 'M anything. Leonard only said that he was not guilty of the crime with which % he was charged. Alf. Moore, the ?negro, convicted of i complicity in the murders, is already -M under sentence of death, to be executed on October 5. T A ' ~D o vrrH t <yc< fo fTi ai* ' J. 1IC l/COC VJ1 o. VI. ivanivi5k), f t of the hoys, is now before the United J States suiireme court on an extraordl- v M nary motion for a new trial, and it is . ^ likely that the boys' and the negro Moore will be again respited in the "9 event that the old man's case is not i decided befora the dates set for their execution. It is stated that Leonard j Rawlings will be taken to the penitentiary again as soon as an order is rfj received foi^his transfer. RESULT OF MAINE BALLOTS. ? vj M Republican Plurality Small?Gomperi 3 Failed to Down Littlefield. Governor William T. Cobb, republican, standing on a platform devoted almost exclusively to a continuance of ^ the prohibition law of the state, was re-elected in the state of Maine Mon- | day by a plurality of less thin 8,OOOr % with but few exceptions, the smallest >1 margin of >otes ever given a reDubli can governor in the state. Cyrus W. Dsvis, the democratic can. : didate for governor, polled one of the largest votes in the history of the party in the state. His issue in the campaign was the resubmission of the liquor question, which was incorporai- 1 ed in the state legislature four years ago. / . <J1 More interesting from a certain standpoint was the re-election of Congressman Littlefield, republican, by a greatly reduced plurality. Littlefleld's candidacy was the subject of bitter opposition on the part of Samuel Gcmpers, president of the ~' American Federation of Labor, who ^ asked for his defeat on the grounds that he had voted against certain labor measures at the last session of congress. 1 :sjj EMBALMED BEEF POISONOUS. Ten Persons Made Dangerously III -i From Eating the Stuff. . Ten persons in three different farn- A ilies of Kalamazoo, Mich., have been lying at the point of death, suffering from the effects of eating dried beef. A partial investigation has revealed , that ih/i ramp nrleinallv from one of the large packing houses. .The physicians are of the opinion that some sort of embalming fluid was the cause "of the poisoning. POSTOFFICE INSPECTOR DROWNS Went Fishing for Crabs and Got Into Water Over His Depth. Inspector Frank Voges of the postoflice department was drowned at Bayou Grande, Fla., Sunday, while wading in the bayou with others catching crabs. He couid not swim and stepped into one of the unnumerable deep holes in the bayou and drowned before assistance could reach him. i *; \.;d| i?jf