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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-11-14
Sale of Unreturned Lands.
w. q. FOUNTAIN.
Sheriff Ben Hill County.

GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that on the first
Tuesday in MBrch, 1868, at the front door of
the Court House in Fitzgerald, Georgia,
within the lawful hours Of sale, the under
signed will offer for sale and sell to the
highest bid&er for cash, the following unre-
turned lands for the taxes due Irwin county
and State Of Georgia, for the year 1906, the
said sale to be made for the use and benefit
of Fitzgerald Trust Company. transferee,
with whom settlement my lawfully be
made at any me prior to said sale, and said
lands lie in Ben Hill county, Georgia, and are
designated by the nomber given each tract
ON the map of the survey made and filed by
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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-11-14
A few copies Of the city charter
for sale at the Enterprise Office.
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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-11-14

Insure with Southern company The State Mutual SSof
Georgia is the leader On June first this Company had
$751; 900 of business in force. Georgia laws throw
Bank depostors you don't insure in the State Mutual
insure in some other good Southern company. If you
want to lead the procession, insure with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30

Arrested while travelling beat as
guardian of the law and thrown into
cell in the South Chicago police station
while in fun uniform, his star torn off
his breast. and other evidences of his au-
thority taken from him, Policeman John
Mckay of the Englewood station is held
a prisoner on the charge of highway rob-
berry. The charge was preferred by Tony
Jonkowski. He declares that the police
man and James O'Brien, now a prisoner
at the bridewell, beat and robbed him of
$135 following a drunken spree. Mckay
has confessed and O'Brien will be brought
back from the bridewell, where he was
taken on a minor charge, and booked
with him as a highwayman. Mckay
broke down in Capt DOrman's Office. He
wept and told his superior that he could
not give any explanation of his action in
attacking Jonkowski. He said he met
O'Brien in South Chicago the night of
the robbery and that he later met Jon
kowski in saloon a Eighty-seventh
street and Superior avenue. All had
several drinks and were on the way to
Jonkowski's home, when O'Brien suggest
ed the robbery. After the robbery Jon
kowski reported it to the South Chicago
police and the search for the policeman
began. Mckay was arrested al a. m.
by Capt. Dorman and Lieut.. Smith of
the South Chicago station. He was then
patrolling his beat in the vicinity of Six
ty-third street and Wentworth avenue.
He was taken to Capt Dorman's private
Office and confessed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
NEW YORK.

Unseasonably cold or rainy weather is
a subject of complaint throughout a wide
area, checking retail trade and killing
recorder business with jobbers, retarding
collections and in connection with claims
of damage to crops forcing values of all
agricultural produce to high levels. The
Southwest, central West, South and lead
ing eastern centers all send reports of
backward retail trade, which find ref1ec-
ton i'll advices of quieter than expected
recorders for light summer wear goods,
cloaks, suits and millinery from jobbers
and wholesalers, and of smaller than ex-
pected business for fall in mems wear
clothing from manufacturers. Taken as
a whole, crop reports are a trihe more
encouraging.
Business failures for the week ending
May Is number 1874, against 154 last
week and 161 in the like week of 1906.
Canada failures for the week number %,
against IS last week and Is year ago.
Wheat, including -four exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending May 16 aggregated $780,
III bushels, against 1904 last week
and 2,716,7S3 this week last year; for
the last forty-six weeks, 1889, 0S3
bushels, against us, 464 1914 in 1905-06.
Corn exports for the week are 1,906,90S
bushels. against 1,744,S last week and
1859, 1O6 year ago; for the fiscal year
to date, 65,079,6 45 bushels against 106,-
500,7S9 in Observation-Disclosures Com
mercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
GAIN THEIR LIBERTY.
PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM WORK
HOUSE IN TOLEDO.
Rrfckyard Workers Attack Guard
and Break Away-Some Are Re-
captured Government to Act
Against Fake Remedy Houses.

Overpowering Guard Trempt. whom
they brutality assaulted with their fists,
thirteen prisoners at the Toledo. Ohio.
workhouse made their escape The es-
cape had been carefully planned and the
attack was so sudden that the other
guards were taken unawareS. Only
prompt action on the part of the other
guards prevented a wholesale delivery of
all the prisoners employed in the brick
yard The escaped men were employed
on the brick machine and guarded by
Trempt Without warning all hands
sprang upon the guard and he was over
powered. choked and beaten. The pris-
oners made a wild dash toward the fence
and after knocking off the boards made
their escape toward railroad bridge.
After crossing on the ties they went in
different directions Immediately after
the escape had been made known armed
guards from the workhouse were sent in
pursuit of the men. The Toledo police
as well as the police and constables of
the surrounding country were immediate
~ notified. Police mounted on motor
cycles overlook two of the prisoners at
Air Line Junction and placed them I'M
der arrest. One of the captured men is
said to have been the leader in the de-
livery. All the prisoners who escaped
were attired in the regulation prison uni
form. Later FIVE more of the prisoners
We're captured. Three We're caught by
the marshal and a posse at Sylvania and
two were apprehended by Toledo officers
at Wauseon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
GNf[aMEGisGgk!osg'Z.
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The Sultan of Turkey is fond of ami
mails and has a wonderful collection at
Yildiz.
The King of Norway served as an or
binary apprentice in the Danish navy for
nine months.
The Gar of Russia has a strong dis
like to being photographed alone He is,
however quite at ease when posing as one
of a group.
Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit, is an
educated man, tracing his ancestry
through Mulai Idris, the founder of the
Moroccan empire.
King Leopold of Brussels is reckoned
as the richest man in Europe so far as
real estate is concerned.
The German Emperor rarely prepares
a speech and never uses notes when de-
livering an address in public.
Lord Cromer is such an Industrious
man for England in Egypt that he rarely
accepts an invitation to dinner.
NJ Rouvier. the French ex-premier,
has secured 100000 of the S1,400.OO0
necessary to start new daily newspaper
banque de Paris ct des Pays-Bas.
The crown of the King of Roumania il
of solid iron, plain, and unadorned. It
was fashioned from a cannon which ne
and his troops captured from the Turks
at Plevne.
Lord Walsingham is so accurate a pis-
toll shot that he can hit wasps on the
wing He is also a learned entomologist
and has the finest collection of moths
and butterflies in the world.
The German Kaiser has two secretaries
employed in little else than supplying the
royal table with magazines, newspapers
and books. Those passages to which his
special attention is to be called are mark
ed with green pencil.
Hans Zuzel. an Austrian chemist, is
said to have perfected an incandescent
lamp which is made of flaments of cheap
material, but of great durability, and ca
pabIe of burning $500 hours.
Emperor William has given permission
TO the crown prince to use a horn with
a double note when motoring. This, ike
the Kaisers own motor fanfare. will en-
able the public to easily recognize the
approach of a royal automobile.
The last few years Emperor Menelik
has been an unusually strenuous ruler.
Recently he was so interested in having
the railway between Jibutil and Adds
Abeda finished that he commanded 5000
of his soldiers to aid in the construction
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Alcohol the Future Fuel.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in
recent address before the Americas Club
at Pittsburg referred at considerable
length to the work the department is do
ing toward the development of the pro-
duction of alcohol for industrial uses. He
said No more coal is being made. Our
wood fuel is getting scarce, and the sup
Div of mineral oils will some day cease.
1t is high time we were looking about for
sources of light, heat and power. Other
countries are doing this. Alcohol meets
the requirements. and starchy plants yield
alcohol. One of our explorers last year
found the Siberians at TomSk growing
large variety of potato for the alcohol 1t
yields. He brought back half ton OF
them. which will be distributed this
spring among the experiment stations"
He made the further statement that corn
cobs made II gallons of alcohol to the
ton. and sweet corn stalks Z, and that
alcohol could be made from unmarked
able fruit and vegetable matter and many
refuse plants. and thought the time was
surely coming when the people remote
from wood. coal CT oil would arrange TO
grow plants rich in starch for their sup
ply of light. heat and power.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
MOB STAYS WOMAN AND CHILD.
Lives Lost in Race Conflict i'm Geor-
Gia-Shots on Both sides.

Gia-Shots on Both Sides.
At Reidsville, Ga, a mob included
colored woman and children among
its victims at "lynching." One white
man and four colored persons were
killed and seven are on the injured list
as a result of an effort to capture
colored man who attempted to attack
Mrs. Laura Moore, a widow living near
Manassas.
Fifteen persons surrounded the
house of Sam Padgett, whom they sus-
pected of harboring the cOlored man,
and demanded to be allowed to search
the home. Permission was given, but
when within thirty feet of the house
those inside the building opened fire on
the posse. instantly killing Hare and
wOunding Pierson, Daniel and Ken
nedy. The posse then returned the
old daughter and wounding two other
girls, aged 6 and Is, and two of Pad
gets sons, aged 20 and %.
The colored man who shot Hare was
started for Reidsville Jail, together
with PadgettS wife and son, who also
were caught. On the way the officers
were Oyertaken by about seventy-five
men, who took the prisoners from
them. The woman was told to run,
and as she did so she was riddled
with bullets, her son being shot to
pieces where he stood. The other pris-
Oner was Jailed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
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CHICAGO

Measured by continued heavy PAYMENTS
through the banks the volume of COM
meree maintains expansion. Money con-
ditions have tended toward further ease.
but while borrowing has moderated slight
ly, trading defaults exhibit an increase,
although there is none of special signi6-
canoe. The important developments this
week are found mainly in the course of
prices most raw materials having adj
vanced to higher level, especially in the
metal division. which is led at this time
by basic iron and steel.
DiStributive operations were stimulat-
ed by the improved weather. Leading re-
tail trade made a satisfactory advance in
seaSonable lines. and the nail orders in
wholesale branches compare favorably
Wlth those of a year ago for dry goods,
clothing, boots and shoes and hardware.
country merchants report a satisfactory
disposal of spring goods. and with the
hlgher temperature now prevailing n
strong demand has set in for lightweight
apparel. The markets for breadstuffs re-
fleet extending purchases for Europe, and
a sensational rise in wheat values and
the principal coarse grains adds substan-
tally to the wealth of growers. crop mar
ketings being remarkably heavy.
Bank clearings, S26T.T54.S45. exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by 264 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 26. against 10 last week
and % year ago.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
JUDGE HARGIS FREED.
For the Second Time Jury Finds
Him Not Guilty.

At Lexington. KY. the jury in the
case of Judge James Hargis. charged with
the murder of Thomas Cockrill, return
ed a verdict of not guilty.
Almost three years after the shooting
of Town Marshal Cockrill at Jackson
the verdict was rendered in the case OF
the first of those who were charged joint
" with the murder, and another chapter
in the famous Breathitt county feud an
nails is concluded. June u. 1904, Cock
ril was shot in the court house at Jack
son. He died at Lexington, where he
was taken for medical treatment.
During the trial several witnesses
swore that Judge Hargis. his brothers
and Sheriff Ed Callahan had entered
murder conspiracy. promising immunity
to any one who would shoot Cockrill.
DR.. B. D.. Cox and J. B. Marcum. all
three of whom since then have been killed.
The defense, however. presented testI-
mony tending to disprove the conspiracy
charge, and Hargis, testfying on his own
behalf. denied all connection with the
shooting. Curt Jet, who confessed kill
ing Marcum. for which he was given
life sentence. was a witness against Har-
gis.
The Hargis case had been on trial long
or than two weeks. More than fifty wit
nesses were examined. This is the sec
ond acquittal of Hargis, he having been
declared not guilty of the murder OF
James &, Marcum at his trial at Beatty
vile last July.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
FIENDISH WRECK PLOT.
Coast Line Limited Hurled from
Trestle Near Los Angeles.

Coast Line Limited Hurled from
Trestle Near Los Angeles.
A fiendish train-wrecking plot was
perpetrated near Los Angeles, Cal,
that resulted in the death of one man
and the injury of twenty-five persons.
four of whom are dying.
Train No 90 one of the Southern
Pacifc's coast line flyers, Tuesday
night was hurled from the tracks on a
trestle at West Glendale by the DELHI
crate work of murderOus train wreck
ers. Seven cars plunged off the tres
tie, while the train was making forty
miles an hour, falling sixteen feet to
the bottom of a gulch.
In accomplishing the wreck of the
train, which was the Coast Line
Limited" a devilish ingenuity was ex-
ercised. At a point on 4 treStle ovec
the Arroyo Seco the fishplates and
bolts of two connecting rails on the
south-bound track had been removed,
and in the apertures whence the bolts
were taken strands of heavy wire were
fastened at the end of each rail. From
the appearance of the track after the
wreck it was evident that some person
hidden on hillside close to the tres
tie had pulled the wire as the train
approached and spread the rails out
ward toward the edge of the trestle.
The train, three hours late, was
travelling at a rate of between thirty
five and forty miles an hour. The en-
CINE wheels were first to leave the rails
and the engine took to the ties, tray
cling nearly 100 yards before it was
brought to a standstill.
The tender, the diner, two Pullmans,
the buffet, mail and baggage cars
plunged over the edge of the trestle,
falling a distance of sixteen feet. The
buffet car, the express car, and one
of the Pullmans were turned upside
down and the others landed on their
sides. All were badly crushed and
Splintered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
WAGES ON THE CANAL.
Secretary Taft Affirms Rates of Pay
and Hours of Labor.

and Hours of Labor.
The decision of Secretary Taft affirm
ing rates of pay, hours of labor, etc, for
men employed on the Panama canal work
applies especially to steam shovel men,
construction train engineers and cOnduc-
tors The shovel men wanted higher
wages, as follows: Engineers, from 500
to $500 month; cranesmen, from $1S5 to
$3.50: firemen, from $S3.33 to $110. The
Secretary rules that the present rates are
high enough latter comparing the advan-
tages which the isthmian shovel men have
over their brothers in the States, with
the disadvantages which they have to bear
in living on the isthmus." He explains
that the present basis is from % to 80
per cent higher than the average in this
country, while the canal men get steady
work twelve months in the year, six
weeks leave with pay, twenty days sick
leave, lodging free. and the married men
water, fuel and light at the public ex-
pense, free medical attendance and an
eight-hour day. He says further that
yellow fever has been stamped out and
the sick rate greatly reduced. Although
denying that the contracts with the men
contain any promise of gradual increase
of pay, he has recommended yearly in
crease of 3 per cent to skilled men.
The wages of the construction train en-
gineers are advanced to S210, as re-
quested.
As to dismissals, the Secretary has ap-
proved a plan whereby final and summary
action will rest with a committee consist
ing of one representative of the craft con-
cerned, one of the foremen and one of the
commission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Grand Haven 70

regular night trip from Grand Haven TO
Milwaukee.
-Four of the victims were coal passers
penned down in the forccastle by the
flames where many of the rescued passen-
gers from the decks of the freighter Kerr
and the steamer Kansas saw them at the
port holes vainly imploring for help. j.
VI. Rhoades of Detroit. a passenger. was
the fifth victim. He was terribly burned
in his berth and died soon after reaching
a hospital at Grand Rapids. By the time
the three steamers had reached the scene
the Naomi's boats were in the water
filed with people and number of pas
sengers were still huddled on the stern
OF the burning snip. The captain of the
Kerr ran his big steel ship up under the
Naomis stern so close that the imperiled
people leaped 10 her deck. The rescued
passengers tell graphic and thrilling tales
of their dangers and are unanimous in
prafsing the coolness and bravery of the
Naomis crew.
The steamer was burned to the waters
edge and was towed into the harbor
smodering hulk The burned bodies of
the four missing coal paSsers were found
in the forecastle of the Naomi when the
hulk was boarded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Short News Notes.

Three transatlantic liners which
docked at New York within twenty-fous
hours added BOO immigrants to the
great influx of aliens.
King Carlos of Portugal will visit Ar
gentina after his trip to Brazil early
next wear. according to a cable dispatch
from Lisbon.
The coIored organization, Elks Of the
World. of Louisville Ky, has filed a
suit to require Secretary Of State Nc
Cbesney 10 file their charter in the State
Department.
Dean Henry p. Wright of the academic.
department of Yale college has announced
his resignation lie is 20 years old and
will accept Carnegie fund pension.
Richard Mcbride, premier of British
Columbia is the youngest prime minister
in the British Empire, being only SO,
and he achieved the premiership four
years ago.
Some Cleveland Democrats have start
ed an Olney boom in various parts of
the country. They admired Richard
Olney as President Cleveland's Secretary
of State, and they now recall that Mr..
Olney did not bolt Bryan either in 1896
or 1900
With the report at Washington that the
appointment OF an internal revenue col
Iector at Toledo was to be placed at the
disposal of Taft and Burton, this was
regarded as due notice that Senators For
aker and Dick might expect no further
recognition from the administration.
Secretary Taft, upon his return from the
West Indies. refused to have anything to
say about this or any other political sub
ject.
Books that mock at religion are class
sified as menace to Christianity by Mgr.
Bruchesi archbishop of Montreal, who
has formally protested to the city author
tiles against their admission to the public
library
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
Nephew Smiths Chief Heir.

The fortune held by the late James n.
Smith, known in Wall street as silent
Smith," which was believed to be near
S50000,000, has now been divided among
the heirs by the will probated at New
Fork on the day of the funeral The real
value of the estate is found to be not
over S2J.00O,O0O. OF this the largest
piece goes to George G. Mason, a nephew,
who has worked his way up from the
shops in the service of the st. Paul rail-
road. He gets $12,OOO,O0O. A third goes
to another nephew, William Smith Mason,
a young real estate man of Evanston, ILL.,,
while S3.O00.000 is left to the widow, ST.
100000 to a titled sister. Lady Cooper of
England and smaller amounts to other
relatives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-30
INVADING MEXICO.
American Farmers Are Benefting
Themselves and the Greasers.


More than hundred families from
the United States have gone into the
republic of Mexico during the last thirty
days to develop farming lands along the
northern border.
They took their household effects and
went to live just like they have been liv-
ing in the United States. This is some
thing of a departure from the plan here
tofore followed with but Indifferent sue
cess by people from the States who have
gone to live on farms in Mexico.
The old plan was to form colonies.
The colony proposition was not a great
success. 1t was due more to the failure
of the colonists to agree and adapt them
selves to their environment than to any
other cause that the colonies were not
successful.
1t has been discovered by the pioneer
Americans on farms of Mexico that con-
ditions in the republic are stable and
there is no need for colonies. So indi-
vidual American families are now locat-
ing themselves on haciendas in Mexico
Just as they used to do in the West.
They are becoming neighbors to the Mex
thing to advantage from the other.
SO far as the experiment of individual
effort at farming in Mexico by Americans
has gone, it has proven successful. The
cotton-growing possibilities of the repub-
lie have never been appreciated by the
people beyond the Rio Grande, and in
this one line there promises to be great
profit for the American farmers who I'M
derstand growing the staple. The high
price of cotton is an inducement to these
farmers to plant cotton.
The Mexicans are learning the Ameri-
can style of agriculture from their neigh
bors from the States. and the general
result of immigration of families of farm
ers from the United States to occupy the
cheap lands of Mexico promises to be
very good.