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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
HORRIBLE DEVASTATION
IN THE STORMS w
Virginia Coast is Uttered With Wreckaee-
Indiscriminate Tangle Of Debris.

Norfolk Va. Oct. 1.-THE
northeast gale that has ragged
over this region since Thursday
has tonight practically spent it's
its power, but for miles and miles
along the Virginia Coast the
beach is Uttered with .wreckage
and throughout this entire sec
ton of the country devastation
lies in the wake of the storm.
Thousands of people crowded
trains to the coast today and saw
the wrecks of the big barges,
Ocean Belle and Georgia, near
Virginia Beach. There is moth
ing left but an indiscriminate
tangle of debris along the shore
Dam Neck to mark the end of
the three masted schooner Nell
lie w. Hewlett. The body of
Capt. George E. Evans, of the
Georgia, washed ashore late last
night, two miles south of Seatack
life-saving station, and is now at
that station. The body of
George Peers, the negro seaman
of the same VESSEL has not been
recovered. The rescue of the
three remaing negroes of the
crew by the surfman Williams
Capps, of Seatack station, was
one of the most heroic acts in the
history of the surfman on the
Virginia coast.
Caps, while two miles from
any other human being, and pa
trolling his stretch between the
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
JAPANESE TO
DECLARE WAR
WITH RUSSIA
Reported That the Declaration
VIII be Made Today
Russian Fleet Cleared
From Port Arthur

London, Oct.-12-The cor
respondent of the Morning Post
at Chefoo, telegraphing under
the date of October 10, says that
it is stated that the Japanese
have decided to declare hostilities
tomorrow on the expiration of
their ultimatum to Russia. The
Russian fleet has cleared from
Port Arthur. 1t is reported that
the Japanese are landing troops
at Masanpho, Corea. There are
strong indications that Germany
favors hostilities on the ground
that would enable her to extend
her sphere of influence in China.
A number of field guns were
embarked at Port Arthur yester-
day for an unknown destination.
All the available force Of work
men is employed on the fortifca-
tons.
The cholera and the plague
have broken out among the Rus
SLAMS at Newchaug. Another
dispatch to the Morning Post
from Chefoo, dated October II,
$50 pm. says: The situation
is unchanged. All is quiet at
Port Arthur. Hostilities are
still believed to be imment. 1t is
asserted'that the Russians have
fixed Friday next for their COM
mencement.
There is an exodus of Chin
csc merchants from the Yalu
valley. They are arriving at
Chefoo."
The Daily Mails correspond
ent at Shanghai te1egraphs:
Careful inquiries show that
the only Japanese troops at Mas
anpho are on the small territory
conceded to Japan in connection
with railway building, and their
presence is therefore in accord.
ance with treaty rights"
A Singapore dispatch to the
Daily Mail says the British ad.
mirals of the China, Australian
and East Indian squadrons have
have arrived at that port and will
confer aboard II. M. S. Glory to-
morrow to discuss the questions
of naval concentration and STRAIT
egg in the far East"
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13

stations, saw one negro over oK
hundred yards off shore ia th
roaring surf. Without a ii.
ments consideration of the per
he was facing, unstripped al
plunged into the sea that was s
ready a seething mass of wrecI
age from the barge and after
half-hours's battle, single hande
and alone, brought the unscoK
sclous man ashore. He had ns
recovered his breath before h
dlscerned through rift in I'll
spume another form, and ono
more, he went into the sur
This time, by reason of his ez
haustion,' his struggle was
harder one, but he eventually SUI
ceeded III saving the. negre
Placing both men under the ID
of cliff, he started back to Ct
station to give the alarm when i
saw the third negro in the wa
and, for the third time p1unq
in and brought an unconscic
man ashore. Caps did not q
his work until all three men
been cared for at the station
at midnight he resumed his
ular trick at patrolling the std
swept coast.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
A Big Land Deal.

One of the largest land deals
that has occurred in this vicinity
recently was closed last Saturday
when Mr.. ]. r. Monroe sold
twenty-one hundred acres of land
located at Forest Glen to Messrs.
Peter and David Troupe and Mr..
Mathew Williams, of Irwin coun-
ty. The purchasers will settle
on and improve the property.
Phe Chronicle welcomes them tc
Wilcox county.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
TILLMAN
NEARS JURY
VERDI
There Were More Peo
Attendance Than at A.
Time Previous-Sonne
Strong Arguments

Lexington, S. c. Oct. II
Arguments to the jury ia
trial of J. H. Tillman were be-
with the converting of court
day, three attorneys for
state and two for the defense
dressing the jury during
seven hours court was in sessi
-Four attorneys, two on a 81
are to be heard tomorrow.
large crowd of spectators wa
attendance today than there
been at any one time for seve
days past, and there was a grs
er number of ladies' in ate
ance. Mrs. ], HI. Ti11man
the mother of the defend
were present as they have b!
almost continuously from
beginning of the. trial and VI
attentive listeners to the addrs
es by counsel to the jury.
Smith, speaker of the hous
representatives in the state
istature was among the spe|
tors today.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
The Chinaman Has
Come to Town.

In every town, about the time it
reaches the city stage the Chin
csc laundryman makes his APP
pearance. Last week they made
their appearance in Fitzgera1 d
for the first time, and of
course have gone into the laun-
dry business. In the old XXI
building at the corner of Pine
and Sherman streets, as appears
in their advertisement in another
column of the Enterprise, Tong
Kee Co. have opened a regulation
Chinese Laundry.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13

Frankfurther Zeitung states
that news has reached there from
Che Foo to the effect that the
Japanese have occupied Ma Sam
Pho and that an official declara-
ton of war is expected. The re-
lations between Japan and Rus
STA have reached crisis accord
ing to the official view here. The
exact nature of the diplomatic ex-
changes between the two govern
ments that brought out the pres
ent tensity appear to be unknown
at the legations of the two count
ries here or at the German 1ega-
tons at St. Petersburg and
Toxic, although it is understood
that Great Britain is privy to JAP
ans movements.
ALARM IS FELT INLONDON.
London, Oct. 2.-Deprecating
the rumors of a Japanese ultima
tum to Russia, Baron Hayashi,
the Japanese minister to Great
Britain, in an interview today,
said he had no information of
such character, adding that had
Japan taken this action the
Anglo-Japanese treaty would
have necessiated nv being i'm
mediate1v notified" so that he
might inform the British govern
ment.
In spite of the reassuring
statements of the foreign office
and Baron Hayashi the frequent
reiteration that hosti1ities be-
tween Russia and Japan are i'm
minent, the MYSTERIOUS move
ment of the Russian and Japan
csc fleets, and the excited state
of public opinion in Japan are be-
ginning to cause disquiet in
Great Britain, which, by the &C.
casion of her alliance with Japan,
is so intimately concerned in any
action which the latter may take
in the Far East. Only the most
sanguine persons believe in the
event of hostilities then could be
kept within the limits which
would free Great Britain from
her obligation to support her
Japanese ally. Even Baron Hay
ASH, who heretofore has ridi-
culed all suggestion of war, is
not so optimistic today. Indi-
rectly he admits the possibility
of war by expressing the hope
that in the event of a crisis Japan
will have the active sympathy of
her ally, Great Britain.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13

The local lodge of Ret
will celebrate halloween vii
cial at Odd Fellows Hall ]
evening.
Miss Gertie Keim enters
several of her friends at a
party last evening.
The Irwin County Cos
the 9th reached us on the
Dowie and his tribe
New York tomorrow. IL
US of Croxie Marched
ington, one was a po
other is a religious cra1
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

The firm Of Church & Hite has
this day been dissolved by mu-
tual consent, all liabilities are as
sumed by M. V. Church and all
bills due the firm will be paid to
him. S. S. Hite.
10.6.4w M. v. Church,
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
The Postal telegram

The Western Union Telez
Co. no longer has a mon
of the telegraph business IL
gerald.
The Postal Telegraph o.
rented quarters in the q
Block and is opening up an
preparatory to competik
commercial telegraph bus
of the city.
The Office is in charge as
E. Il. Malone, an accom-
operator and manager,
already receiving busine
the new line.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
The CatnIpa-A Tree of Great Possi-
bfIities

The st. Louis Republic says:
Among our native Towering trees, II
we except the magnolias, there are
none which equal in the beauty and
effectiveness of their blossoms the cat
alpas-for there are two distinct spe-
cies, differing, however, mainly in their
habit of growth.
Since the early settlement of the
country the value of these trees fol-
shade and ornament has been widely
recognized not only in America. but in
all countries of the civilized world on
account of the rapidity of their growth
the tropical appearance of their large
lustrous, heart-shaped leaves and mag
nificent sprays of white. purple tinted
blossoms.
They are also hardy. even in far
Northern ATTITUDES, where they are not
indigenous and may be found in parks
and private grounds from Mississippi
to Minnesota.
Another valuable quality of these
trees recently discovered is the almost
unequaled durability OF the wood So
re sistive is the latter 10 the attacks
OF insects and Of all fungous diseases
that fence posts and the sills OF build
ings set into or upon the ground for
fifteen or more years have. upon ex-
animation, showed no signs Of decay,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26

l will give you a few items on the
feed question with a view of carrying
on the business and growing pigs prof
itably. My idea of raising hogs is to
grow them as cheap as you can, so
that you will get all the gain with as
little cost as possible. l know some
breeders that feed to their hogs that
which costs more than the hogs are
worth or will bring after feeding them
For economy and profit you cannot af-
ford to buy everything you hear Of
You must use good judgment in the
kind of feed you use. You must know
how and when to feed for the best
gain in pigs and hogs. Every hog
raiser should prepare a pasture for his
hogs and a good one, not just one or
two acres for fifty or more hogs to run
on all the season. Get a good, large
pasture and plenty of range, as it will
not pay to keep hogs in dry lots the
year round. They will not make you
much money after you count UP the
cost of your feed. Brood sows should
be on grass alone in the summer after
their pigs are weaned This is the way
l treat my sows, and it accounts In
part for the good filters in the spring.
The feed that we use we raise on our
farm, and it is mostly corn and oats.
This is what we give to our pigs and
hogs. and to our sows we give bran
and shorts while they are sucking pigs
and they do well on this kind of feed.
With this feed you can develop bone,
muscle and growth. After the pig is
weaned we give him corn and oats
ground together, one-third oats and
two-thirds corn, with mixture OF
shorts and bran in about equal parts.
with plenty of grass. This causes the
best development and growth. L do
not believe 1t necessary to buy carloads
of linseed meal, hominy hearts or so
much prepared food of different kinds
to make ones pigs grow if you are
onto your business as a feeder. AS
SUCCESSFUL raiser of hogs you must use
Judgment in raising your own feed and
preparing it so that you will get tho
best results. This gives the creates;
profit, and that is what we are look
ing Tor. Joe Cunningham
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
GEORGIAAND FLORIDA
HER HEAD WAS CUT OFF.

At Mcintyre. a station thirty miles
south of Macon, on the Central Rail-
road, Friday, passenger train No. 2,
with Engineer Catherwood in the cab,
decapitated white woman. apparent.
Iy between 40 and so years old. Near
Mcintyre there is a long trestle, and
when the engine rolled upon it the en-
gineer observed a woman on the track.
She was at that time too high from
the earth to make a leap to safety
and was too far from the end to run.
She was knocked upon the rail and her
head was completely severed from the
body. After the train had been stop
ped the body and head were removed
to the station, where an investigation
was held by the coroner. 1t appears
that the woman, before attempting to
cross the trestle, made inquiry of the
bridge keeper as to the time the train
would pass. She gave no heed to his
advice that the train was close behind
her and was run to death. All efforts
to identify the woman have proved
fruitlesS
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
DAIRYMEN IN A EIGHT.

Florida Times Union: Frank Dale,
a dairyman of West Brooklyn, went be-
fore Justice Willard yesterday morning
and swore out a warrant for the arrest
of L. Schilling, also a milk dealer, who
lives on the Middleburg road, charging
him with assault with intent to kill.
The trouble occurred Thursday even
ing while Dale was returning home
from his rounds in his wagon. Schill-
ing was in front of his house. When
they met words passed between them
and during the row Schilling drew "a
pistol and fired five times at Dale, so
the latter claims. None of the bullets
took effect on Dale, but one killed his
horse. Schilling said that Dale struck
him with piece of iron, but the lat
ter's explanation is that he used whip
on Schilling to prevent him shooting
straight. Schilling, in explaining the
affair, said that Dale got out of his
wagon and followed him back into the
yard, striking him in the face. and he
claims that he used the pistol to de-
fend himself.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
SubHOiling.

Bulletin Sc. Arkansas Experiment
Station: Subsoiling, like other farm
operations, may be rightly or wrongly
done. Certain crops derive greater
benefits from it than others, and the
same is true of certain soils. Stiff
soils, those with a close or tenacious
subsoil and soils under which has
formed a hardpan, are undoubtedly
benefited by subsoiling, while the OPP
Grafton has a drying effect upon soils
inclined to be too wet, and increases
the capacity of soils for holding mois-
ture in periods of drought. 1t enables
the roots of plants to penetrate more
freely and deeper in search of plant
food and moisture, it increases the
bulk of the soil proper, and permits
of freer circulation of air in the soil.
A loose, sandy soil that is naturally
quite deep will not in all probability
derive much benefit from subsoillng
unless the operation is accomplished
by the incorporation of a quantity of
organic matter. Very nearly all sub
soils, as they naturally exist, are un-
productive. and If brought to the sur
face in quantity the result at first
will probably be to decrease rather
than increase the Weld
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

A dispatch to the Atlanta
Constitution from Adairsville says:
A series of accidents to small
children has swooped down On
this community. A day or so ago
the 5-year-old daughter of Tax Col
leCtor Joseph Shaw, while running
with doube-bladed ak in his hand,
fell. The AK stuck in the ground and
the boys body fell on the keen edge
that was up, inflicting a wound four
and one-half inches in the abdomen,
a part of the hip bone being cut off.
The AK striking the bone, no doubt,
saved his life. DR.. Bowden removed
the fragment of bone and took ten
stitches in the little fellow. This aft
ernoon about 3 o'clock Johnnie Hill,
the 4-year-old son of Frank Hill, was
playing in a piece of woods back of
his fathers house with an older broth
er. Mr.. Hill was burning some leaves
and in some way the child's clothes
caught fire. Every bit of them, except
his garters and the neck bands. were
entirely burned off his body before help
could reach him.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26

This is of great importance and will
meet a rapidly approaching need in the
diminishing supply of red cedar. white
and post oak and other timber that
has long been considered indispensable
for railroad ties, fence posts and SINH
lar purposes.
The Eastern species, Catalpa big
nonioides, being a low and much
branched tree. often very crooked as
well, did not seem TO woodworkers to
contain much promise of utility and
was in consequence neglected even for
ny uses for which it would have
served.
Until some time in the early seven
ties this species was supposed to in
clude all the catalpas In the country,
but, in travelling through the forests
of Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee and
Arkansas the late DR.. John A. Warder
of Ohio, an enthusiastic arboricultur-
ist, was struck with the tall, straight
trunks of most of the Catalpas that
came under his notice, and closer ex-
animation revealed a sufficient num-
Der of distinct Chara cters, aside from
the pronounced difference in habit, to
warrant him in describing these more
Western trees as a separate species
Catalpa speciosa.
The bark is thicker, the leaves more
pointed the flowers larger and more
nearly white and the pod-like capsule
much thicker than in the more com
monty grown species.
The objection of shortness and irreg-
ularity of trunk does not apply to
these Western forms. many of which
attain a hight of fifty to sixty feet
and are. therefore, adapted for use as
telegraph, telephone and trolley poles,
as well as for railroad ties, house stills
and posts.
Another advantage which must count
in favor of the Catalpa is it's great
rapidity of growth, workable timber
being produced in less than third
of the time required for any other dur
able wood. Tt also enjoys remarkable
immunity from insect pests. Not sin
gle borer, so far as the writer is aware,
has ever been found working in the
wood, and the foliage is attacked by
only one insect of any prominence. viz,
the larva of a large hawk moth dis
tinguished as sphinx Catalpae, a spe-
cies similar to the tomato and tobac-
co worm. Even this is, as yet, quite
local and does not appear every year.
The catalpa is easy to grow from
seed, but those designing to set out
timber plats could no doubt, in many
cases. obtain the young trees at very
small cost from owners of rich wood
lands, where they will be found start
ing up much too close together to de-
Velop into vigorous trees, and it is
earnestly recommended that the catal-
pa be no longer overlooked when pro-
vision is being made for the timber
supply of the future. M. f. NJ.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26

hogs had been kept on a proper diet.
1t is clearly established, however, that
hogs that don't know anything about
corn and would not know an ear of
corn if they saw it, die when the germ
is introduced almost as rapidly as
where corn has been largely used as
the diet. 1t is quite conceivable that
the feeding of an unbalanced ration
such as corn. for three or four genera
tions may lead to disease, which has
all the outward symptoms of genuine
hog cholera. The lesson. therefore. is
to vary the ration as much as posi-
bic, giving oats, barley. wheat screen
ings, damaged wheat. pasture clover
and alfalfa. and then avoid inbreeding
or breeding from immature sows. This
will increase TO the greaterst possible
point the vitality of the hog and les
sen, if possible. the loss from the dis
ease when IL does nccur
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
Early Pasture for Hogs.

H. c. L., Luray. S. CT have twelve
acres of fairly good land fenced off
and 1 wish to SOW it in something to
give my hogs an early spring or sum-
mer pasture. Have about 100 hogs.
What would you advise ame to plant /?
AS / want something early, have been
thinking of sowing Essex rape broad
cast Would this plant do well in South
Carolina?
We have rather a poor opinion of
rape for such "A purpose. 1t might
give you bite" of something green
Tor your hogs a little earlier than some
other things, but not enough to COM
pensate for its cost. Unless 1t were
allowed TO attain something like full
growth, II would not go far towards
feeding 100 hogs any reasonable length
OF time. II might enter into a mix
hure that you might SOW. but we doubt
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26

The Tennessee Experiment Station
has made numerous tests of dehorning
cattle. For calves the means is sim
ply a stick of caustic potash. Moisten
1t and rub we'll over the button or
young horn. 1t is best to do this while
they are under a month old and while
the button is still loose, that is before it
becomes attached to the head. If fresh
caustic is used no trouble will be ex-
perienced. Do not let any of the pot
ash touch the flesh, however, as ii
might cause sore. Dehorning, when
thus practised, is so simple and pain
less there is no excuse for allowing
milch COWS especially to grow up with
horns. Without these they are more
docile and harmless, and if affected at
all, should make better mixers Hav-
ing no horns should add a dollar or
two at least to their value
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
FARM, GARDEN
AND HOUSEHOLD

if you would ever SOW it by itself more
than once. The rape has a number
of insect enemies.
There is hardly anything of value
that you could make a satisfactory
pasture of now before summer.
\ mixture of the small grains oats,
rye and barley (and you might add
wheat. if conveniently will give as early
a pasture and as good as most any
thing you could use. You could add
two or three pounds of rape to this
mixture and a pound or two Of cow
horn turniDs.
1t is a pity you did not start a pas
ture in the fall.
Another combination for hog pasture
but coming later is a mixture of sorg-
hum and peas 1t makes a splendid
pasture later in the summer, and one
you will get your money back on
where you could not get it from rape.
Have you no Bermuda grass that you
might make a pasture of? If you pur-
pose to raise many hogs regularly it
will be well for you to consider the
Bermuda. For summer use II is the
greatest pork producer to be had.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
PAPER FOR THE PRISON.

Editors, reporters, compositors and
pressmen, added to this the entire
force necessary to publish a newspa-
per- all convicts, will be the staff of a
periodical to make its appearance in
Atlanta in the near future. The office of
the publication will be the federal
prison. Within the walls of the insti-
tuition are several men qualified to in
augurate the enterprise and the fur
nishing of a suitable plant is being
considered. The matter will be con-
sidered and nothing of an objectiona-
bic character will be allowed to go
into print. In addition to publishing a
newspaper the printing of the institu-
ton will be done by the convicts.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-26
Hog Cholera and Corn.

1t is quite a well-established fact
that hog cholera, strictly called, and
swine plague. if it be another disease.
are germ diseases, and we cannot be-
heve that they exist except when the
germ has been in some way intro
duced on the farm. The feeding Of
corn when in the roasting ear or feed
ing 1t extensively at any stage cannot
of itself introduce this disease. 1t may
however, result in a decreased vitality
which may render the disease much
more virulent and deadly than if the