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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05
FIOradOra LOng
Staple Cotton Seed.
Windsor Hotel

l have sold this staple for three sea-
sons at Is cents and better, now selling
for 23scents, / raised four bales on five
acres ordinary land year 1906:
l am trying to up car shipment of
pure seed direct from originator which
is necessary in order to grow cotton of
good staple; this staple is no FAKE.
| have grown it for several
years in small quantities, Other
farmers in this section have grown
it and have given orders for
more pure seed. The price of the staple
is not affected by spectators and is
not fluctuating like short staple, it is
easy picked, can be ginned on our ordi-
nary gins.
Owing TO scarcity OF Sea Island, Flor
adora is growing in popularity. Wake
up, experiment with it if you like give
a fair test and you will be pleased with
results. Write or see me at once in or
der that we can be supplied before SUR
plus stock has been disposed of.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05
TREED AND Melted.
The Way Hunters Capture the OranR
OutanG Alive.

-
The Way Hunters Capture the Orang
OutanG Alive.
Trapping the smaller members of the
monkey family is a comparatively easy
matter, but the hunter who wishes to
secure live specimens of the orang
outang cannot have recourse to the
usual methods and has to employ a
laborious process. The process is based
upon the fact that the orangs have a
liking for certain trees and frequent
these to the exclusion of other nearby
growths. They seem to regard them
as q sanctuary and flee to them in time
of danger. Ascertaining tree partic-
ularly favored, the hunter first drives
his quarry to it's branches; then while
his beaters keep up a din for the pur-
pose of preventing an attempt at es
cape the natives are set to work to
chop at the trees within a radius of
fifty feet all about the simian fortress
No trunk is cut completely through,
but is left with just enough fiber to
hold the tree in position. This work is
quickly accomplished with the large
corps of servants, and at signal one
of the trees is toppled over. The chop
ping has been SO done that the falling
tree carries with it its neighbor, and in
the twinkling of an eye the trees with
in radius of fifty feet from the mark
ed tree lie upon the ground, leaving
the orang outangs with no opportunity
for getting away through their leafy
avenues of escape. The remainder of
the process simply consists of chopping
down the tree of refuge and throwing
nets over the escaping Orangs, in which
they soon become entangled in their
efforts to throw off the incumbrance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Tile temperance re@o"mef waS justly
prom Of having converted the biggest
drunat.d ii the lit le Sc5.ea town and
induces; him-he was thu l3eal grave
dig@er-to get Up Oh The platform and
testify. Tbs is how H. did it: My
friends, he said. Il never thocht 10
stand upon this platform with the pro
yost Oh one side of me and the toon
clerk OH the ither side of me. never
thocht to tell ye that for whole month
havena' touched drap of anything
I've saved enough to buy me Il Draw
OF: coffin wi brass handles and brass
nails-aHd if I'm IL teptotaler for an
i.lr~ c.olth ! shall he wantin' it,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Charles Daniel claims to have
dropped 1000, all he had, in
the Atlanta News venture. While
there is sympathy for Mr.. Daniel
he learns from costly experience
that a newspaper started through
spleen, and for which there was no
need, could not succeed. 1t takes
brains, experience and a lot of
money to run a daily paper sue
cesstully in these strenuous times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Aunt Carrie baked at the At
lanta hotels that had bars Attached.
Hven the Piedm 9nt's gal in the
fountain didn't catch the Nationa
tic eye.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Good for John Temple Graves.
He is again at the head of the
Atlanta News, from which position
he was once unjustly deposed, and
this time by the purchase of that
property.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

l-AilY. Except Sunday,
Sleeping cars between Americas and At.
and arriving Americas 5:32 a. M. CSnnects
az Fort Valley with sleepers to and from
F0r further Inform alton, apply to
j E HIGHTOWER, Agent Americus a.
JOHN W. BLOUNT, Travelling Passenger
Agent, Macon. Ga
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Pictures of Jamaica's rum Gov
ernor, old Sweatingsome, and the
degenerate, Thaw, still figure upon
the front page next to pure read
Ing matter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

1t Is said 10, zoo, 900, women in
the United States do their own
homework, while the others at
tend afternoon teas and talk about
the troubles they are having with
their cooks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

With Uncle "Dock" Broughton
and Aunt Nation as "dependa-
bles" in a something doing stunt,
Atlanta can overlook the Thaw
circus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

The Washington Post pays Car
mack a glorious and deserved
tribute. But the people of Tenn
essee gave him a stone when he
ASKED for bread, more's the pity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

The tongue of the giraffe is two
feet In length, but it can wag no
more in day than can some of the
little two inch articles in Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

This year we are judging the
weather as it passes. For the next
thirty days it will be cold or warm
or aedium, wet, dry or variable.
In March IL will be windy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

From Americas to Hawkinsville
that new railroad, the Western &
Gulf, will traverse one of the finest
timbered and agricultural sections.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05
The Attraction.

Nell-Isn't she a peculiar girl? She
wouldn't look at him when he was
itch, but now, after he's lost all his
money, she accepts him. Belle-Well.
you know how crazy every woman is
to get anything that's reduced!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

AS a-rule, a successful paper is
like giant oak "a matter of slow
growth and able to withstand most
eserY storm that blows.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Columbus spent 500, 900 on
street paving last year; and wants
to spend $4,000 this year.
There's an object lesson for pro
gressive Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Uncle Reuben might write his
particular statesman in Washing
ton and ask for a small package of
these new tangled graft seeds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Since the Georgian has swallow
ed its erstwhile rival, the Atlanta
News, that town will now boast a
paper of hyphenated cognomen.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Senators Foraker and Dick are
tWitted with the statement that
BROKER Washington is the
administration 81 Stor from Ohio.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Elk President Cleveland has a
new job, which pays $4,000 a
year. He is not much interested
la the question! "What shall we
do with our ex pres;dents7''
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

There is some good in Pittsburg.
Lit took the whole police force to
prevent a negro lynching.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

People will be healthier if they
eat less, says a physician. There
IS where you ask, What's the use?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05
AMgRIcUs. GA, res S 1907.

Congress wants to censor the
newspapers of this country. Re-
tatiatory for censure.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05
aparturaw
Arrivals.

From Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta,
Macon. ..:........ ...%10 40 m
from LocKhs RI, Dotnan q AIbany. 80 10 p N
Lock4art, Dotnan and Albany Il So p N
:, AtianLa ana Macon...:.:.... y On p m
and Macon .-.;;...;...;......... +5 80 "a NJ
intermediate points. .......:.:. 10 IS N
termted1ate points. .*12 10 p N
From birmingham, Columbus via
Fort Valley. ...-...s......:..... SO 80 am
From Birmingham. Columbus, via
Fort valley ;......, $50 40 p N
y points :......;: ..:..As............ q 40 N
:, Eufaula: 81 IS p m
Eufaula......... ............. .....~I0 40 % ID
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

Is takes two to make a marriage, but
only one to mar one..-Smart Set.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05

The Times-RecOrder is the
Oacfal Organ of tie City of Americas,
Oncial Organ of Sumter County.
oncial Organ of Webster County.
oncfal Organ of Railroad Commission OF
Georgia for the Sd Congressional District
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05
OF GEORGIA
r ALL w AY.
Schedules Effective, Jan. 6 iO7

Arrival and departure OF trains at Ameri
Gus, Ga.-Central of Georgia Railway pas.
senger Station. Goth Meridian Time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
ANARCHY AT URUMlAH.
The Town Is Surrounded by Bands of
Kurdish Raiders.

ST. Petersburg. Dec. pa dispatch
from Urumiah, in Persian Armenia,
which was brought out by a detach-
ment OF Russian troops, states that for
the last eight days that town had been
entirely surrounded and isolated by
bands of Kurdish raiders. who have
attacked caravans and driven hundreds
of loaded camels to the mountains. A
caravan escorted by the guards of the
Russian consulate at Urumiah, which
was the first to get through was at
tackled by so bandits. The robbers
were repulsed, many of them being
killed or wounded. Complete anarchy
prevails at Urumiah. Russia is plan
ming to strengthen the consulate guard
there, but it is declared in St Peters
burg that the time for actual inter-
yention has not yet come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
DEWEY IS SEVENTY.
Many Admirers and Friends Call on
the Admiral.

! Washington, Dec 26.-Admiral
George Dewey is 10 years old today.
He is in splendid health and robust
in physique. Among his callers were
a number of those who attended the
admiraFs birthday dinner last week.
which was advanced in date because
President Roosevelt expected to be in
Pine Knot, Va, tonight. These cal
lers recalled a happy toast which the
president proposed when they drank
to the health, of the admiral. 1t was
as follows:i ~ ,.s :.
To the man who has done more for
and reflected greater glory on Ameri-
ca than any other man now living.
The toast met with hearty response
from those surrounding the admiraI's
table.
At the meeting of the Naval Relief
association the admiral was presented
with two silver ink wells. The health
of the admiral was drunk from a de-
canter Of Madeira wine of the vintage
of 1847 The decanter was formerly
the property of George Washington
and Surgeon General Reypen, who
made the presentation, said 1t was
eminently fitting that the health "of
the other George whom we all love-"
should be drunk from the same de-
canter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
PAYS IN STOCK.
The Missouri Pacific Declares a Divi-
dend on Per Cent Basis.

New York. Dec. 26.-The directors of
the Missouri Pacific railway today de-
clared a semi-annual dividend of 21a
per cent payable in the company's
stocks. George J. Gould, president of
the company, gave out the following
formal statement:
Although the surplus, actual and es-
timated, for the last six months of
this year amply warranted the pay
ments Of dividends at the regular rate,
the management felt that under the
present financial and business condi-
tions it would be injudicious to weaken
the company by disbursing cash."
The Wells Fargo Express company
directors declared the regular semi
annual dividend of per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
LOYAL MENTION.

When you need drugs. remember
Price, the druggist.
The members of the street commits
sioner's force presented the head of
the department, Frank Snyder, with a
costly lap robe as a Christmas present.
Miss Martha R. McCabe of Empor-
ia college is spending the holidays
with the family of her brother, Arth-
ur J. McCabe. =,
The Priscilla club will meet with
Mrs. Jesse Smelser. Division and Reno
avenues, Friday afternoon.
Three cases of chickenpox and one
case of diphtheria were quarantined
today by the city sanitary department.
The cases of chickenpox were at 1922
Lane street in a family by the name of
T. Gray; 933 Lawrence street in a fam
lily by the name of Charles Woody; at
21O1 Kansas avenue in a family by the
name of Bertrand. The case of diph-
iberia was at 1244 Lane street in the
family of DIR. j. A. Crabb.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
TRAMP TALKS.

There are at least twenty states IN
the Union that have what they call
tramp laws said the Dilapidated
Gentleman as he got ready for a talk.
Those laws are as severe as man
could make them, and yet they are
dead letters. The farmers are the
people who make them SO, and yet
they were the ones that demanded
the laws.
did you ever hear of a tramp fall
ing in business? The query makes
you smile, and yet I put it in all seri-
BUSINESS. 1 have known half dozen
men to give up the road in my time
because they were failures as tramps-
If you have got the idea that ali
you've got to do to be success as a
tramp is to cover so many miles q
day and stop at so many houses ana
ask for food you are way off. The
farmer will tell you what bad man
the tramp is, and he'll welcome him.
His wife will declare that every tramp
ought to be jailed, and yet she'll feed
them as they come along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
when Royal Dignity Disappears.

An English social chronicler notes
that King Edwards grandchildren do
not stand in awe of him. To them he
is grandfather with all that the term
implies Twas ever thus. The divinity
that hedges a king hardly ever com
prehends a grandfather, or even a royal
father in the domestic circle. Mr.. Sam
uel Pepys having occasion to take an
important dispatch to the Duke of
York, afterward James II, then head
of the admiralty, was ushered into the
dukes private apartments, and there
found him playing with his two daugh-
ters, the Princess Mary and the Prin-
cess Anne, like common father" to
the astonishment of that delightful
diarist. The Pepysian spirit still ami
mates those Britons who see the daily
domestic life of royalty.-Boston Tran
script.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
THEY ARE SENTENCED.
Men Convicted by Harry Bone Hear
Their Fate

Denver, Col, Dee. 26-Promoters,
mining engineers and other persons
convicted of using the nails with in
tent to defraud in connection with the
sale of stock in the Lost Spanish bull
hon mines company were sentenced
by Judge r. E. Lewis in the United
States district court here today as fol-
lows:
George S. Dubois, Lee Dubois and
c. L. Blackman, 80 days in Jail and
$1,000 fine each; William H. Wilson,
w. B. Cameron, A. E. KeabIes and
Arthur Lawrence, 10 days imprison-
ment and $500 fine, each; Arthur Lev
an and E. w. Sebben, 500 fine and
costs amounting to 5000; r. c. Hunt
and Danton Pinkus $50 fine and $3.50
costs.
These are the persons convicted by
H. ]. Bone, United States attorney of
Kansas. on August 9th. There were
originally two charges, one for con-
spiracy to defraud and the other for
using the mails to defraud. Before
the trial the cases were consolidated.
When Mr.. Bone was told of the
sentences today he said: 81 am in
clined to think that the sentences are
defendants mentioned might have
been sent to the penitentiary if the
judge had SO desired. Still the men
are broken and a great, deal of pres
sure has been brought on the judge
to make the sentences light The
light sentences may have a tendency
to prevent an appeal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
MUST GO TO JURY.
Motion for Verdict of Acquittal in
Pettibone Case Denied.

Boise, Idaho, Dec. 26.-Judge Wood
this morning denied the motions filed
by the defense in the Pettibone trial
that a verdict of acquittal be advised
by the court.
In considering the motion to advise ac-
ouittal for want of sufficient corrobora-
tive evidence Judge Wood reviewed the
independent testimony on each OF the
crimes confessed by Orchard and stated
that in his opinion there We're sufficient
corroboration of each of them to require
the submission thereof to the jury. Con-
GLIDING Judge Wood said:
II think the facts already in evidence
tend to show a conspiracy contended
for by the prosecution and 1 think that
the Independent testimony sufficiently
tends to connect the defendant Pettibone
herewith to require the submission there
of to the jury
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

ITO bring the tramp business right
down to solid business basis. o
tramp has got to be smooth, slick
liar. With that should go a willing
for his meals and lodgings. You want
no other capital out in the country
In the cities, where there may bs
nothing around a house a tramp can
listen to long winded stories, he SIM
ply claims to have just left the hos
pital and bids for quick sympathy.
81 own up that am a liar. but the
farmers have made me thus. / come
to where a horny-handed is working
in his field. Perhaps he is husking
corn. 1 tell him I want to earn sup
per, lodgings and breakfast and sit
I'd work if he'd let me. but it isn't five,
minutes before he gets rest for his
back and begins:
"'Wa1l, stranger, I 'spose you've
been pretty much all over the world
and seen everything worth seeing?'
That's a bid for me to. reply that
such is the case, and when l have
answered he continues:
"'You must have had a heap of adj
ventures? Ever been taken for a
murderer and sent to jail?'
eff I didn't tell him that had been,
he'd be disappointed, and SO l begin
lying. Il relate a cock and bull story
of how a sheriff and his three deputies
night and bound me hand and foot
and drove me off to jail, and though
1 was an innocent man they set about
securing evidence to hang me for
committed in a distant state
in order to secure the reward. Being
only a tramp, I had no show 1t be-
came certain that I would be found
guilty, and so, with nothing but an
old case knife I dug my way out of
the Jail and stole a horse and got
intorruDtS
me with many by goshes' and leads
me on to lie further. We waste half
the afternoon but he doesn't COM
plain. He has sat face to face with
man suspected of murder and jail
breaker, and his standing among his
neighbors will increase hundred per
cent If he carries it off as he ought
to he may be elected supervisor the
next year.
cor, We'll suppose the farmer is
down in the field and his wife sits
sewing on the veranda. Do you mag
Inc I walk right up to her and begin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
DANDY WORDS IN COURT
Give and Take Argument by Attor-
neys I'm Walsh Case.

Chicago, Dec. 26.-The attorneys for
John r. Walsh today made a motion
that the pending case against Walsh IN
the federal district court be taken from
the jury because of the alleged failure
of the government to prove that any
financial losses had occurred as a result
of transactions of Mr.. Walsh as presi-
also because of alleged failure of the
government to show that any of the
acts charged had been committed with
intent to defraud. Extended argu-
ments followed
Attorney John s. Miller. acting for
Mr. Walsh, asserted that the banks
bylaws provided that the president
should be manager and controller of all
it's affairs.
'HThe evidence so far tends to show
interrupted Judge Anderson, that the
defendant attempted TO serve two mas
ters, and that is always a difficult thing
to do"
But not criminal broke in Miller.
And the bylaws of the bank, and
what they provide, make no differ
ence,'' concluded the court.
Mr.. Miller argued that the govern
ment had failed to prove that the va
rious memorandum notes used by
Walsh were fictitious.
"Of course they were fictitious"
said Judge Anderson. ''They were
clearly deceptive and everytime one
Of them was entered upon the books
of the bank 1t was false entry
Mr.. Miller contended that the prac-
tice of using memorandum notes had
the sanction of the bank examiners.
ct don't care about that" said
Judge Anderson. ANY comptroller or
bank examiner who does that con-
hives against the law, and neglects his
duty. Had the comptroller and bank
examiners done their duty. the condi-
ton, the evidence tends to show exist
ed, would not have gone as far as it
did. and this bank would have been
closed long before it was
Regarding the investments in the
various Walsh enterprises, Mr.. Miller
argued that the defendant was acting
for the benefit of the bank.
eff all this was done for the benefit
of the bank and not for himself, said
Judge Anderson, 'how did it come
that the officer got $1,40O,000 of the
stock, while the bank got the bonds?
For the purpose of Illustration only
L say this: If 1 sent a man out for
me to obtain securities and for the
purpose of protecting some debt that
was owing to me and 1 got nothing
but the bonds while he got $1,400.000
of the stock, he and 1 would have It
out right there and right away"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
STATE CHESS men.
They Are Here to Decide the Kansas
Championship.

The state chess tournament COM
menced this afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the Y. M. c. A. building. 1t will
continue the rest of the week. Con-
testants are here from Junction City,
Humboldt, Wichita, Salina and Os-
borne, and a number of local players
are taking part.
The principal contestants for
championship honorS are A. L. Wag-
onseller, J. V. Humphrey and H. D.
Thompson of Junction City, A. C.
Brett of Humboldt, J. Baldwin of Os-
borne and A. M. Harvey of Topeka
Friday evening there will be an ex-
hibition by j. o. Dreruland, the chess
and checker expert from Kansas City.
He will play simultaneous chess
and checker games with all corners,
and each player who succeeds in
beating Mr.. Dreruland will receive a
small prize. Mr.. Dreruland is the
champion checker player of Kansas
City, and If there are any would be
champions in Topeka. they should try
whirl with Mr.. Dreruland Friday
evening. The public is invited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

William B. Wagner, formerly of To-
peka, died at the Union Printers
home at Colorado Springs. on Deem
her "a, of tuberculosis. aged AZ years.
His wife Mrs. Inez Wagner. accom-
panied the remains to this city, arriv-
ing on the Santa Fc train at D. m.
today
The funeral will be held Friday at 2
p. m. at the homo of B. A. Wagner.
1912 Buchanan street and will be I'M
der the direction of Sunf1ower Camp,
NJ. w. A. and typographical union No.
121, with a funeral address by Dr.
James White.
Three brothers of the deceased live
in Topeka, B. A. Wagner, Geo. Wag-
ner OF 512 Lincoln street and E. E
Wagner of 101S Topeka avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
It Cooled Him OFF.

Albert Warren, colored, was placed in
cold storage at the police station this
morning for o few minutes. The negro
was arrested last night and this morning
when brought out for trial began cursing
and threatening the officers. He was
chased down stairs and locked in the
dark CELL for few minutes, and when
winter months the basement cell has a
wonderful cooling influence ON ferocious
y0risCre-S-