The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-01


steamer Alameda. Tied up at the
dock at Honolulu, two thousand one
hundred miles from San Francisco,
the Alamadea was in communication
with the wireless bureau of the
Chronicle Phelps announced the ar
rival of the Alamanda at Honolulu
before cable advices had time to
reach San Francisco
Dr.Frederick A. Cook will send to
the artic regions for the proof Of his
polar exploit He made this declara-
ton during an interview with news
paper men in New York city. At the
same time, he paid his respects in
no uncertain terms to Commander
Peary. Dr. Cook was being asked
about the two Esquimos whom he
says he took with him to the north
pole, when he declared: i shall bring
these EsQuimos to the United States
as soon as | am able to get up there.
/ intend to equip ship at my own
expense (he' placed pronounced
accent on these woTds) and shall
send it after the instruments left by
me in the artic regions, which Cap
tain Peary refused to transport be-
cause they belonged to me- The in
struments will be perfectly safe until
am able to send after them. The
Eskimos up there will not modest
them.''
Papers have been filed for record
in Concord, N. H., announcing a
change in the trustees of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, the Christian Science
leader. Henry M. Baker has retired
as trustee and it is said that in
the future he will serve as counsel
for the trustee. Adam H. Dickey has
been appointed by Mrs. Eddy to fill
the vacancy The other two members
of the trust are Josiah E. Fernald of
Boston and Archibald McLelland Of
Boston.
John w. Gates, ON his return to
New York city from the west told of
big crops and record tonnage at
high prices in the steel industry He
said he saw an enormous wheat crop
and corn crop That would be. also
large; and he thought that the dinin-
ished tonnage to the railroads, result
ing from a small cotton crop, would
be made UP by All increased output
from other crops.
The International Association of
Machinists, in session at Denver, vot-
ed down two resolutions committing
the body to the socialist party, but
adopted platform demanding many
radical policies, among which are in
itiative, referendum and recall, in
heritance tax, liability law, election
of judges by the people, age pensions,
woman suffrage, city self-government
and abolition of the contract system
in public works
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor, has
announced at Rome, Italy, his plan
for having italian and American fed
eraticns of labor cooperate to the
end that all emigrants to America
shall first become members Of some
labor union.
A womans auxiliary to the depart
ment Of commerce and labor in the
United States was advocated in the
second biennial convention of the Ma
tionaI Woman's Trade Union League.
Washington.
The postofice department will soon
issue a twelve-cent stamp bearing the
head of Martha Washington. Ladies
prominent in the Daughters of the
American Revolution some time ago
the department to restore
the head to the present series. The
bureau of engraving and printing is
now preparing the dies. Postofice
toll bok
ington stamp is in any way a recog-
milton of the woman suffrage move
ment.
Uncle Sam is now turning out bank
notes as rapidly as his machinery will
do it, and the circulation is expand
ing by bounds and leaps under the
new prosperity which has come with
the settlement of the tariff contro-
versy Director Ralph of the bureau
of engraving and printing stated that
the output of national bank currency
row is at least one hundred per cent
more than normal and it indicates to
him return Of prosperity.
The annual report of General Fred
erick D. Grant contains bitter COM
ment on what he calls the failure of
general courtmartial to impose the
proper punishment upon offenders.
The discipline of the troops generally
is good and it is evident in the gem
erals opinion that drinking is the
cause of most offenses.
The treasury department reports
show that the total amount of ma
tional bank notes now outstanding is
$701 ,O77, 724. This is an increase OF
$2,232,25O over the total on the first
day of September and an increase of !
s14,751,616 over the total national
bank notes outstanding on september
l year ago.
THE average 'laborer is today liv-