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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
BIG CROWD COMING.

Secretary bailey Wires Mayor Ny
ers Cities in League Have Doubled,
Mayor Myers yesterday received the
following telegram from Mayor David
]. Bailey, of Griffin. secretary and
treasurer of the league:
Forty cities RENTED, double num-
Der this time last year. VIII arrive
tomorrow morning."
Mayor Myers was very much graf
flied at the receipt of the telegram
Both the Savannah officials and the
officials of the league have worked
hard to arouse new interest in the or
ganization this year. Forty cities hav-
ing already paid their dues for this
year assures a large attendance at the
convention. Many of the officials do
not pay the dues until they come to
the meeting, so the number of town
which are to be represented will be
more than ever before The advance
payment of dues, Savannah officials
say is a good indication of the at
tendance. They believe the convention
here will be at least twice at large as
the one in Macon last year.
Meeting Well Advertised.
The meeting this year was we'll ad-
vertised throughout the state The
officers of the league itself took more
interest in working up a big meeting
than ever before and Savannah Off
Gals did all in their power. To the
railroads also a great deal of credit
is due. Alderman Wright, chairman
of the Committee on Rates, not only
secured extra low rates to the meet
ing, but had it advertised from one
end of the state to the other. Almost
every railroad in Georgia had circulars
printed and scattered broadcast over
their lines announcing the low rates
and telling of what a big affair the
meeting of the league and the laying
of the City Hall corner stone would
be. The tickets sold are to be good
for several days stop-over, so that
many persons not directly interested
either in the league meeting or the
City Hall will probably take advantage
of the low rates to visit Savannah and
Tybee.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
AUDITORIUM COMMITTEE
WILL BE CALLED SOON.
Lnrge Number of Buttons Disposed
of by Quiet Work.

of by Quiet Work.
Chairman Sig. Gardner, of the au-
ditorium committee. announced yester-
day that his committee will be called
together within few days to consider
matters connected with the move
ment.
Quite a number of favora BILE replies
have been received to letters recent
ly sent out to large business houses,
enclosing buttons, and it is now pro-
posed to reach out to another class of
patriotic citizens, who will give the
plan an additional boost"
For the last few weeks the commit
tee has been working quietly, and
while the public has not been inform
ed of the work done, the results have
been quite satisfactory.
1t is desired to reach every citizen
of Savannah and lay before him the
immense advantages which will result
from the building of the auditorium
proposed, and to show how each one
can help. While the part each one
is asked to take will, of course, be
small, yet in the aggregate it is be-
lieved that many thousands of dollars
can be raised by the sale of the but
tons.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
McLavvs Camp Picnic at Tybee.

McLaws Camp No. 500, United Con-
federate Veterans. will give its picnic
at Tybee to-day. The Committee of
Arrangements. Of which Veteran II. G..
Ward is chairman. assures the vet
Grams and others who attend, an en-
joyable time. The proceeds of the pic
mic will go to the fund for the relief
Of INDECENT veterans. The usual sched-
ule of trains will be run to Tybee. and
veterans picnic tickets will be good on
all trains.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
LONGING FOR HOME
LEAD HIM TO STEAL.
Plea of Wolf Heiman Touched Heart
of Judge Cam.

Wolf lehman, German youth, yes
terday morning plead guilty in the SUI
perior Court to larceny from the house.
1t was charged that Holman had en-
tered the store house of Paul Beren-
THEN and stolen therefrom the sum of
Sl3Sl7. All of the money had been re-
funded since, the prosecutor stated yes
terday in the court. Holman plead
guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine
of $25 or serve three months in Jail.
The story told by the defendant
when he made his plea was touch
ing one. He stated that he had ccRle
to this country from Germany and ttAt
he had longed to go home. He could
not raise the money for the passage
across the water and finally the long
ing to see his boyhood home became
so great that he had stolen the money.
He expressed the deepest penitence for
his one transgression. The story touch
ed the heart of the court, and under
the circumstances the exceedingly
light fine was imposed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
DRUNKEN MAN WANTED
TO SHOOT ST0REKEEPER.

Charged with being drunk and at
tempting to break open the door of
the store of Charles c. Gattman, No.
543 West Bay street. and also with
attempting to shoot Gattman, John
Odum was fined $25 by the Recorder
yesterday morning and turned over to
the City Court. Odum was arrested by
Patrolman Scully.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
GAVE COL0RED BOY
CHANCE TO REFORM.
IL I'm Court Again Judge Cam said
lie Would Give Him a Long Term.


lie Would Give Him a Long Term.
George Small, colored boy about IA
years of age, was found guilty in
the Superior Court yesterday morning
of larceny after trust. The evidence
showed that his employer. Mr.. r. h.
Izlar had given him 81 with which to
pay taxes and the boy had appropriate
ed the money. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty with the recommended
ton that he be punished as for a
misdemeanor.
In sentencing the boy Judge Cam
called attention to the fact that il
was the third time within the last
eighteen months that the boy had been
sent to the gang on a similar charge,
having been twice found guilty in the
city Court. on account of his youth
however, the court said that he would
not disregard the recommendation OF
the jury, but that IL the boy ever
came before him again, he would inn
pose the limit Of the law. He then
sentenced Small to twelve months on
the changing.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
Crushed HIs Leg.

Ed Keith. one OF the negro laborers
at the ocean Steamship Company's
wharf, has his leg badly mashed yes
terday afternoon by some heavy arti-
Gle that was being moved. The police
ambulance WAS summoned and Keith
was carried 10 his home. No. 528 Rob-
ert lane.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
HAYES DIED FROM
EFFECTS OF POISON.
Young Man, Who Wanted to Kin
Himself, Succeeded.

Young Man, who Wanted to Kin
Himself, Succeeded.
Willie Hayes, who took morphine
Sunday night at the house of Matt
Monahan on Hull street, east, died
early yesterday morning at the Savan-
nah Hospital from the effects of the
poison At the time Hayes was car
ried to the hospital, about midnight,
it was thought he was out of danger.
He had taken the poison to end his
life, being respondent over some trou-
BILE into which he had gotten.
The body was removed from the hos
pital to the undertaking establishment
of Mr.. John Goette. The funeral took
place from the undertaker's place at
s o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
interment was in the Cathedral Gem
terry.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
NEW HAT COMPANY
ASKS FOR CHARTER.
Is Capitalized at $4,000 of which
$4,000 Is Paid in.

A petition was filed in the Superior
Court yesterday for ]. ]. Lewis of
Chatham county and J. NJ. Ashley of
Coffee county, asking that they be in
corporated as The Southern Hat
Company" The new company is capt.
tahzed at $4,000, more than 10 per
cent. of which is paid in. They ask
the privilege of increasing the capital
stock at any time to any sum not eN-
ceeding 100000.
The principal place of business will
be in Savannah. The object of the
new company is stated as dealing in
hats of all kinds buying and selling
at both wholesale and retail. They
ask Incorporation for period of TWEEN
~ years, with the privilege of renewal
al the expiration of the charter. All
the rights of corporations are asked.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
RAILROADS UNFAIR
IN RATES ON RICE.
Is Charge Brought Against Them to
Chamber of Commerce.

Mr.. w. G.. Morrell in a letter to
Secretary w. ]. Donlan, of the Cham
Der of Commerce, called attention yes
terday to the fact that the railroads
are discriminating against this city in
the rate on rice from Louisiana. He
says that while rice is hauled from
Louisiana to Charleston at the rate of
20 cents per 100 pounds, the rate to
Savannah, though the distance is 155
miles shorter, is rs cents per 100
pounds. He asks the Chamber of Com
merce to take whatever action may
be possible to have this discrimination
abated
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09

During the last two years, named
Maj. Henry l.. Davis was tax receiver:
after that time, and until 1901. Capt.
John r. Dillon was receiver of tax re-
turns. He was succeeded by Marcus
s. Baker. the present incumbent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
R2715 Savannah 60 Boston ana RE-
turn via. Ocean steamship Co,

Account National Encampment. G.
A. r.. tickets will be sold for ships
leaving Savannah Aug 10. II and u
only direct line Savannah 10 Boston
Apply Ticket ONCE. 81 Bull street. for
full particulars -ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
HAS STOOD TIE TEST % YEAns

Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic. The first
and original tasteless chill tonic. so
cents.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
To Montgomery and Columbus.

In addition to the convenient night
schedules to Columbus and Montgom-
cry. the Central OF Georgia. Railway
now offers also a day service, as fol-
lows:
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
WORK ON GRAND STAND
Was started Yesterday Morning M
city Hall Building.

Work on the stand for the laying
Of the corner stone was started NJ the
city Hail yesterday morning. Seats
are TO be provided for 500 persons.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
Mountain and seashOre Excursion

MOUNTAIN ana Sehshore bNcurston
10 Resorts in North and south
Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee,
via Central of Georgia Railway.
Tickets VIII be sold from Savannah
Aug. II. limited to continuous passage
in each direction. Limited for return
on any Irregular train until and in
Guiding Sept. 1, 1904.
Ticket offices. 81 Bull street and Gen.
trail Passenger Station.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09

Note Pineapple and Guava ad.. page
lad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
Is High Water Mark.

Here is a digest of the tax returns of
the last twenty years, which, when
taken in the light of comparison. will
proNe interesting:
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21
The annual report shows the company
made profits Of $2S3,513.
Minino Notes.


For the first time in many years the
famous old Monumental is again the
scene of great activity, only this time
the mine is being developed in sys-
tematic. manner by an experienced
mining man fully capable of bringing
the real merits of the mine to the
front, says the Sumpter american.
Knoxville, Tenn.--The miners Of dis
trict No. IA have decided to accept
the per cent reduction in wages Of
fered by the operators. There are
about 5000 union men in the district.
Sumpter.--A steam hoist and pump
are to be installed Immediately at the
Golden Chariot group, east of town.
AS the crosscut from the bottom Of
the shaft neared the. ledge heavy now
of water stopped mining operations.
New York.Frank S. Hobbs, a min
ing engineer Of Boise City, Idaho, who
was committed to Ludlow street jail
on a civil order Of arrest 10 months
ago and who has remained there since
without hearing, is to be tried this
week
Wallace, Idaho.--One of the largest
surveys for patent ever made in the
Occur d'Alenes has Just been com
pleted by George r. Trask, who has
been surveying the large holdings of
AL Page. Altogether there are over
100 full claims, comprising over 1000
acres. the claims are the extension
of the Wardner group, lying west and
southwest of the Black Hawk.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-A terrific explo-
sion occurred in mine No. s of the
Union Pacific Coal company at Rock
Springs shortly after noon. Seven min
ers were cut, bruised and burned ana
i've were taken to the Union Pacific
hospital here. The explosion was
caused by miner who was carrying a
can Of SO pounds of powder coming in
contact with a live wire. The scene
of the explosion was about one and
one half miles underground.
While timbering in the Standard
mine near Mace, Idaho. William Roth
rock and Robert Talley were caught
by cayein and were badly cut and
bruised.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21
MONTANA NEWS.

The work of excavation of the new
telephone home building at Missoula
has begun. The building is to cost
$4,000.
The death rate in the city of Butte
last year was 1914, and the year be-
fore still little less.
John Jordan, an old prospector,
dropped dead in the grand stand at
the county fair at Kalispell, of heart
failure.
For several weeks the residents of
Missoula have been the victims of some
one with mania for cutting down
or mutilating valuable trees.
John ]. Pleger, superintendent of the
bookbinding department of the Butte
Inter Mountain Publishing company,
has left Butte for Manila, P. 1.
State Land Agent John P. Schmidt
last week conducted a sale of state
lands at Kalispell. The finished bust
ness at the sale amounted to $14,471. SO.
Samuel Dinsmore, representing east
ern capitalists, about a month ago or
ganized company to build big ditch
from Bonner to Missoula. 1t is to ir-
rigate the Missoula and Bitter Root
valleys, and will be the largest ditch
in Montana. The company will use 49,
900 inches of water. All told the ditch
will be % miles long.
The stone laying on the new court.
house at Billings is practically COM
pleted and the ornamental stone cop
ing which tops the walls has already
been partly placed. and almost every
thing is now ready for putting on the
roof. This will be followed by putting
into position the metallic corpices.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21
IDAHO ITEMS.

Moscow is in the height of a build
ing boom, and many fine residence
structures are being erected. In adj
dition to the more elaborate buildings,
smaller houses are going up in all
quarters.
Bert Rhodes, accused of completely
in the holdup and shooting of Mer-
chant Keuther at Denver, Idaho, last
spring, was found guilty of highway
robbery and sentenced to six years
land three months in the penitentiary.
The county commissioners at Lew
iston have granted franchise to Mrs.
Mary e. Goddard to lay a private pipe
line along the public highways. This
is the commencement of an important
project. The pipe line for which the
franchise was granted is intended to
take water from Waha lake to irri-
gate $4,000 acres of land between the
lake and Lewiston.
The school census of Boise gives
total of 1887, gain of 81 over last
year. t6
At Occur d'Alene the Occur d'Alene
Lumber company has shut down its
sawmills for the winter. This action
was taken, says Manager Carroll, be-
cause of the scarcity of teams for work
here and in the logging camps, as well
as the fact that lumber piled at this
time of the year does not dry out as
fast as earlier in the season. This
throws about 100 men out of employ
ment.
The fight for steamboat supremacy
on the Snake river has started in dead
earnest, and only the steamboat men
themselves fully realize the rivalry ex-
listing between the o. R. & N. Co. and
the Lewiston Navigation company.
Several of the ranchers around Troy
have formed wheat pool and are
holding out for 20 cents.
The longest bridge on the route of
the Northern Pacific in its sweep from
st. Paul to Seattle will .be ready for
the accommodation of trains this week,
when the steel bridge which has been
in course of construction across the
Pend d'Ureille river all summer and
fall will be ready to be turned over to
the transportation department.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21
Uncle Sans Big Resources.

Between the two oceans we raise
one fifth of the worlds wheat, four
fifths of it's corn, one fourth of it's
oats and four fifths of its cotton.
Agriculture this year will add about
$4,000, 100000 to the country's wealth,
and foreign customers will pay us
not far from $9O0,OOO,00O for our agri-
cultural products shipped to them over
the sea.
The west, with its billion dollar
corn crops, its half million dollar
wheat crops, its quarter million dol
lar oat crops, has been the country's
bulwark in the storms of inflated fin
ance.
All the gold in America--the great
est hoard Of the yellow metal ever
gathered in any country-could not
buy one years harvest of our corn
and wheat. To buy one seasons
wheat crop would take all the gold
mined in this country in six years.
In the past three years, while our
exports have averaged more than ST.
O0,000,000, agriculture's share in this
trade has been nearly $500, 100000.
More than one third of all our ex-
port trade has been in the two great
crops-wheat and cotton.
Our home consumption of wheat for
food is about five and a quarter BUSH
els year for each. of our $1,000, 900
inhabitants. This per capita consump-
ton appears to be increasing. The
high prices of meats are probably in
creasing the demand for bread.
During the past twenty years the
milling industry has been revolution
lied.
Because this country raises more
wheat and more cotton and more corn
than any other country in the world,
1t is to the American farms and plan
tations that the eyes of the world are
The price of bread in Europe
depends in great measure upon the
of wheat we have to export.
The price of beef in England hangs on
our corn crop.
One hundred million bushels OF
grain are sent every year to the mills
Of Duluth and Minneapolis.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21

Of the car were killed, although sew
eral were more or less seriously in
jured.
The Portland police and detective
department are searching for William
Thompson, bartender for William
Winters, who decamped recently with
1920 In cash and diamonds value at
$500, which, it is alleged he abstract
ed from Winters safe while the latter
was off on a hunting trip.
At the closing session Of the recent
congress of the Oregon Press associa-
ton the following officers were elect
ed: r. J. Hendricks Of the Salem
Statesman, president; J. C. Hayter,
Dallas Observer, vice president; A..
D. Moe, Hood River Glacier, second
vice president; Albert Tozier of Port
land, secretary; Francis E. Gotschall
OF Portland, treasurer; George Hines
OF Portland, historian. Portland was
selected as the next place of meeting,
the date to be fixed later.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21
MINES and MINING NEWS
ITEMS or INTEREST GATHERED
DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Mine Owners Pushing Work on Their
Properties In Idaho. Montana and
oreson-Mins Operations Of British
Columbia Are Rather ouiet---Many
Accidents and Personal Events.

According to the estimate of the
director of the mint, the maximum gold
production of the state of Washington
occurred in 1898, when the total val
ne of all gold produced amounted to
$766,200. The decline since that time
has not been regular, though in 1902
there was great drop to practically
the same figure now reported for the
calendar year 1903 The preliminary
report Of Director Roberts does not
assign cause for the great falling off
in the gold production of Washington,
though some explanation may be made
when the final report on the gold pro-
duction of the United States is pre-
pared. While many of the leading gold
producing states show falling off in
gold yield, Alaska breaks her record
of 1903 with an aggregate output of
S8,614,700. The nearest approach to
this was in 1902, when the product
was $8,345,000. Alaska is now the
third gold producing region in the
United States, Colorado holding first
place, with product of $22,54O, 5u0;
California second, with $16,1O4 600, and
South Dakota fourth, with a product
amounting to $6,826,700 last year.
Washington is not among the leading
gold producing states, nor does it rank
high among the silver producers.
Elk City, Idaho.-The Providence
group has been bonded to New York
parties for large amount, the exact
sum not being stated. The letter says
that strike has just been made on the
Providence and that several feet of
native gold ore is now in sight. On the
Pacific group, owned by Butte people,
a fine body of ore has Deen opened
up in No. 2 tunnel, ahead of the old
workings. The ore is of high grade
and means a great deal, to the prop
erty. E. E. Espey is shipping regu-
larly from his property and the two
stamp mill is running steadily.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21
OREGON ITEMS.

Rugg Bros. of Pendleton are pre-
pairing to feed their 5000 sheep through
the winter. Five thousand will be fed
on their farm east for spring mutton
and will be sheared Just before turn
ing on the market. The remaining
1000 will be ranged on their farm east
of Pilot Rock and will be held over
the next season for wool.
l. T. Mayfield, one of the Oldest en-
gineers in point of service on the o.
r. & N. line, died at his home In Ba-
ker City recently.
Every girl operator in the Portland
Office of the Pacific States Telephone
& Telegraph company is on strike.
For a consideration of $2,500,OOO,
deal in timber was contaminated re-
Gently whereby a half interest was
sold in the holdings Of the Booth-Kelly
Lumber company of Eugene, Ore, to
Michael H. Kelly of Duluth, John W..
Blodgett of Grand Rapids, Mich, Z. u.
Danaher of Chicago and Arthur Hill
of Saginaw, Mich.
The brickwork of the combined /. 0.
f. and X. of P. hall at Athena is COM
pleted, and finishing of the WOODWORK
will be commenced soon.
The king of Siam has made known
his interest in the Lewis and Clark
centennial of 1905 by becoming a pur--
chaser of 80 souvenir gold dollars is
sued in commemoration of the explor-.
ers. AA#4
A Pullman sleeper attached to the
rear of the northbound overland train,
broke loose, left the track and plung-
ed over a 10 foot embankment into
Cow creek while the train was run
ming at full speed, one mile south OF
West Fork. None of the occupants
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-21
LONDON SVERgONOFBATHE
REPORTS AGREE IT WAS GREAT
EST OF MODERN TIMES.
Marquis oyama's Conduct Of the Bat
tie Mot as Ineligible as that Of
kuropatkin's- Correspondent says
JaP's Field Guns Are Inferior to
Russians.

London, Oct. 1S.-All reports this
morning agree upon General Kuropat-
kin's defeat in what military critics
consider one of the greatest battles
of modern times, comparable with
Koniggratz and Leipsic.
Spencer Wilkinson considers Mar
quis Oyama's conduct of the battle al
not marked by the same distinctness OF
plan and execution as that of General
kuropatkin. whose handling Of HIS
army is quite ineligible, on the as
sumption that he was ordered to make
the attack.
Dispatches arriving in London des-
criptive OF the fighting to some extent
bear out this view. For instance. the
Standards correspondent with Kuro-
ki's army, testifies that the Russian
troops were more skilfully led and
more capable and resolute than those
encountered in. the opening weeks Of
the campaign.
The same correspondent remarks
the grave disadvantage under which
the Japanese are laboring, owing to the
inferiority of their field guns. He re-
fers to the fighting OF October Ii,
when our six batteries, though well
posted and admirably handled, were
compelled to remain silent the greater
part of the day and see the chances OF
lifetime pass by under the very mug
zles of their gums. Effective pursuit
was debarred us by the sunerior range
of the Russian artillery