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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
jack Johnson DEFEATS
JAMES ]. EFFRIES
Negro Wins From White Man
In Championship Prize Fight.
RACIAL CLASHES FOLLOW VICTORY
In Score Of Cities RiOting 0ccurs---Most Sc
riOus Outbreaks Took Place In New
York and Other Northern Cities

Reno, Nev.-John Arthur Johnson,
a Texas negro, the son of an Amer
lean slave, is the undisputed heavy
weight champion of the world.
James ]. Jeffries of California, the
winner of twenty-five championship
fights, the man who never before
was brought to his knees by blow,
has passed into history as a broken
idol He met utter defeat at the
hands of the negro champion.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out, but was saved only from
this GROWING humiliation by his
friends pleading with Johnson
not to hit the fallen man
again, and the fowl was brought into
the ring from his corner. At the end
of the fifteenth round Referee Tex
Richard raised Johnson's arm and the
great crowd filed out, glum and 81
lent.
Jeffries was dragged to his corner,
bleeding from nose and mouth and a
dozen cuts on the face. He had a
black closed eye and swollen fea-
lures, and he held his head in his
hands, dazed and incoherent.
Johnson walked out of the ring
without mark on his body, except a
slight cut on his lip,
The fight was on the square. OF
that, there was no doubt after the
first round.
There was no evidence or hint OF
the famous yellow streak" on the
part of Johnson
Jeffries fought by instinct, it seem
ed, showing his gameness and his
great fighting heart in every round !;
but he was only the shell of his old
self The old power to take terri
BILE beating and bore in until he land
ed the knockout blow was gone.
Atlanta, Ga.-Rioting broke out all
over the country between whites dis
appointed and angry that Jeffries had
lost the fight at Reno and negroes jul
bilant that Johnson had won.
A white man was snot in Arkan-
sas and a. negro was fatally wounded
at Roanoke, Va, but the tension that
existed everywhere vented itself chief
ly in street scuffles Here and there
knife flashed, and few scattering
shots were fired, but there were more
broken heads and black eyes than Sc
rious wounds.
In all there were disturbances in
eleven cities, from New York, Pitts
burg and Philadelphia in the north
east to New Orleans, St. Louis, Little
Rock and Houston in the south and
southwest. In no case did the brawls
amount to a serious race riot. There
was more rioting in the city of New
York, almost than in the whole coun-
try combined
In New York disgruntled whites
fred negro tenement; at Mounds,
ILL.,, a negro constable was killed and
another man wounded; street rioting
broke out in Kansas City and Nor
folk, and two negroes were shot at
New Orleans.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
L. & N. Buys Railroad.

St. Louis, Mo.--A deal by which
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
is to obtain control and practical own
ership of the st. Louis Southeastern,
known as the Cotton Belt, which has
been pending for ninety days, and is
expected to be consummated within
the next thirty days, became knowa
here. The control Of the Cotton Belt,
it is reported, will pass to the Louis
vile and Nashville for a cash outlay
of a little more than $1,50O,000. BY
the acquisition the Louisville and
Nashville will gain short route to
the west and southwest. 9
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
DENOUNcEs AUTOMOBILES.
Philadelphia Judge Calls Reckless
Auto Driving Public Scandal.

Philadelphia Judge Calls Reckless
Auto Driving Public Scandal.
PE1lladelphlay Pa.-tFThe fact that
the running of automobiles regard
less Of anybody's rights has become
public scandal, is due to the SUI
pineness Of the people in not rising
UP and demanding that one class Of
people shall not have practically the
exclusive use Of the streets and roads
of our city" declared Judge Breezy, in
discharging the June grand Jury u
the criminal court
There are, Of COURSE" continued
the court, plenty Of people who run
their motor cars In reasonable way
but Their care also two other classes.
I'VE have, first, class OF drivers
who are utterly laWless and drunken,
and who regard no ones right.
"The other class, equally dangerous,
Is the young immature drivers of
both sexes, who have not the iudg-
ment to appreciate the responsibility
that goes with. the running of an. en-
CINE on the public streets for, after
all, that Is all that an automobile Isl
1t is an engine, locomotive running
on the city streets and country road.
ITO my mind, the reports which
we see in the newspapers Of hum
dreds of millions Of dollars being
spent for automobiles Is an indica-
ton Of wild extravaganza which
goes far beyond what people can af-
ford, and before long will bear its
fruits of failure, foreclosed mortgages
and crime"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
10 KILLED WRECK.
Twentieth Century Limited on Bio
Four Crashes Into Freight Train.

Twentieth Century Limited on Bio
Four Crashes Into Freight Train.
MiddIetown, Nineteen per-
sons were killed outright, three prob
ably fatally hurt and half a dozen
were seriously injured in a head-on
collision between a freight and pas
senger train on. the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton Railroad here. OF
the killed, is were passengers, the
other victim being. member of the
passenger train crew.
The trains were the Cincinnati Sec
ton of the Tewntieth Century Limit
ed on the Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chi.
cago and ST. Louis Railroad, Big -Four
and the second section of freight
train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railway
The latter was attempting to make
siding to give the passenger train a
clear track, when the flyer, travelling
at rate of 50 miles an hour, flashed
around a curve and crashed into it.
The big Four train had been de-
torued to avoid a blocked track on
that road at Genoa, few miles south
of here, caused by freight wreck
earlier in the day. In addition to it's
regular crew it carried pilot engin-
eer of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton road, who was practically in
charge of the train.
A misunderstanding of orders caus.
ed the disaster, which was one of the
worst that this section of the country
has ever experienced.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE SCHOOLS

Atlanta, Ga.-Jere M. Pound, state
school commissioner, expresses graf
ification in his annual report to the
governor on the amazing progress of
the schools of the state during the
past year. He shows tnat school at
tendance has increased to 547,912;
that 800 new school houses have been
built; and the value of school proper
ty in the state enhanced to $685. 1853.
The new buildings erected cost on the
average $1,000.
The total funds given by the state
for common school purposes, includ-
ing the appropriations made by the
legislature, are placed at S4,229,254.
This is an increase of a million and
a quarter dollars in two years. The
state tax alone amounted to $1,261,47
for the year ending December 81,
1909.
The total number of schools report
ing to the state school commissioner
was 1913, and the number of teach
ers employed in them were 1921.
The average salary Of white male
teachers in the state is S1O4.32, and
that of white female teachers is SAT-
rs. The average salary of negro. male
teachers is $45.43 of female teachers
$25.83.
In regard to reforms in the school
laws, Professor Pound would have
practical educators on the state board
of education and increase the powers
and salaries of the board.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
Washington News.

Exports of manufacturers in May
were larger than in any earlier
month in the history Of the expert
trade Of the United States, the total
value of exports for the month aggre-
eating $71,000,000. Exports of manu-
features for eleven months ending
with May, aggregated $99,OO0,000, in
dicating that June, will bring the rec
ord for the fiscal year 1910 above that
Of any other preceding year.
Imports to Japan from America and
Europe in the first three months Of
the year 1910 showed a marked de-
cline over the corresponding periods
in 1908 and 1909, according to figures
in possession Of the department of
commerce and labor In the same pc
riod Japan's imports from Asia and
Oceania increased. Japan's American
imports fell from S14,750,000 in the
first three months of 1908 to $1,000
600 in the same period Of this year;
those from Europe fell from $25,500,.
900 in the first quarter Of 1908 to S16,-
100000 in 1910. Japan's imports
from Asia and oceanic, on the other
hand, increased from $2S,000,00O in
the 1908 period to $33,000,000 in the
1910 period. The falling off in Amer
lean imports is reported to be largely
due to the cotton situation" Japan
buying freely of American cotton
when prices are low, but when prices
are high, as has been the case in the
last year or two, Japan turns to 9th.
er ports Of the world for cotton.
Specials from the wheat-growing
country to the west show that the
crop scare, SO far as 1t relates to a
possible grain shortage, is wholly I'M
founded Glenndive, Mont, reports
that two well-known business men in.
vestlgated the fields within radius
of twenty-five miles OF that place and
found them in the best condition.
WATERFOWL, s. D.; Wappeton, N D.,
and Fergus Falls, Mimi, report re-
cent rainfalls.
Hot air in the nalls Of congress,
always jocular theme.sHs to be cam!
paigned against as the, result of an
Official report of public health service
experts. A report laid before the
house in it's closing hours recommend.
ed that the ventilation systemybe i'm
proved.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
In the House.
FRIDAY. JULY

Friday the house passed the bill
regulating the running of automobiles
on public highways.
Tabled the bill exempting farm pro-
ducts from taxation.
Adopted report of the rules COM
mittee setting the income tax reso-
luton a special order for July 6, the
compulsory education bill special
order for July Z and the bill to in
crease the number of senatorial dis
tricts special order for July 10.
Received an invitation from the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton to attend Fourth of July exer-
cises at st. Philips Cathedral
L Adopted resolution Of the senate
to adjourn until Tuesday morning in
celebration of the Fourth of July.
THURSDAY, JUNE 80.
Thursday the house disagreed to
the report of the committee which
was unfavorable to the passage of the
bill exempting farm products from
taxation.
Conferred all the authority Of
court of law upon the committee in
vestigating charges of graft against
Lee Barron, keeper of public buildings
and grounds. Heard the report of
the special committee investigated the
charges that the sanitatrium for the
insane is being improperly conducted.
Heard the message from the COVER
nor regarding the finances of the
state.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE %,
The house Wednesday adopted a
resolution asking the Tennessee leg
islature to appoint a new Judge in
Polk county, Tennessee, to hear suits
growing out Of the Ducktown mines.
The house gave most of its atIen.
ton to debate on the Alexander bill
exempting farm products. Memorial
services were held for Representative
A. S. Reid The members attended
the Tech Luncheon.
TUESDAY, JUNE %.
Tuesday, the house passed the bill
placing the Western and Atlantic rail-
road, the property of the state, un-
der direct supervision of the railroad
commission.
Passed pistol bill. The act requires
concealed shall take out license
from the county ordinary. This II
cense shall not be granted except the
applicant be eighteen years old or
over, and is shown to be of good
character. Licenses shall cost fifty
cents and shall endure three years
from the time of issue.
Adopted resolution appropriating
$1,000 to defray the expenses of leg
islative committees.
Voted down afternoon sessions.
Temporarily tabled the automobile
registration bill.
Passed bill regulating pleadings in
damage suit cases.
Heard communication from Lee Bar
ron, requesting that charges against
him be thoroughly investigated.
Anti-white slave bill introduced.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
PROCEEDINGSOF THE LEGISLATURE
In the Senate.
FRIDAY. JULY /.

Friday the senate passed joint res
olution providing for adjournment
from July to July 5.
Passed bill to require tax collectors
to keep cash book.
Passed bill to refund to w G. Al
len of Wrightsville $3.50 overpay-
ment to state in settling his accounts
as oil inspector.
Bill to increase salaries Of judges
of the supreme court from $4,000 to
$4,000 year was tabled
THURSDAY, JUNE 30.
Thursday the senate passed the
bill increasing salaries of judges
courts of appeals to $4,000.
Reconsidered vote by which Math-
ews' anti-prize fight bill was adopted
on Wednesday and re-adopted it with
an amendment by the author,
Passed bill to provide for board Of
commissioners of roads and revenue
for Clayton county.
Reconsidered vote by which bill to
repeal the dog tax was killed.
Passed Slaton bill relative to pre-
cedure in ordinary applications for
new trials.
Received report of legislative COM
mittee appointed to investigate state
sanitarium.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20.
In the senate, Wednesday, an effort
by Senator Womble to have the bill
shortening the hours Of mill opera
tives reconsidered was lost. The gov
ernor's reappointment of Robert Hold
ges as judge of the city court of Ma
con was ratified. The governor pre-
sented the report of Alonzo Richard
son on the state treasury. A bill to
change the state interest rate from 8
to Z per cent was referred. House
bills were read The Slaton bill,
placing rigid restrictions on automo-
bile running, was passed with but
slight amendment.
The anti-prize fight bill, with an
amendment permitting amateur con-
tests, was passed. The bill to repeal
the dog tax law was lost. Bills for
an increase of supreme and court of
appeals judges were made special or
ders. Senators attend Tech luncheon.
TUESDAY. JUNE %.
Tuesday the senate passed the Bur-
AOAA pAAAJ PAON1OAh6 OcbCn III AcSlA1Ood
commissioner.
Passed the bill putting into effect
the constitutional amendment provid-
ing for pension payments to confed-
crate soldiers and widows Of soldiers
who are worth less than $500. The
sum of 100000 is made available for
1911 for this purpose.
Defeated the Womble bill, to limit
hours of labor in wooden and cotton
mills to 10 hours.
Reconsidered the bill exempting
two-thirds of laborers wages from
garnishment
Passed Wonpble bill limiting life
mortgage fl. fas, to seven years.
A bill putting solicitors general on
a salary was introduced
The Fulton county executive com
mittee's recommendation of an in
come tax was read
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
NEW RAILROAD PLANNED.
Railroad May Be Built From Gainesville, Ga. to
Murphy, N. C.

gainesville, Ga.-Every Indication
IS that within a short time party
OF northern and western capitalists
VIII make large investments in tim
Der in northeast Georgia. and per.
maps Dulld railroad north from
GAINESVILLE to either Blue Ridge, Ga,
or Murphy, N. C.
For quite a year CONGRESSMAN
Thomas M. Bell has been quietly at
work TO interest some northern and
western friends in this section of the
state, and he has at last perfected ar
rangements for the coming of these
men to go over the ground ana see
for themselves the attractions offer
ed IN timber and railroad interests
Some time between July Is and
August 1, a party consisting Of Col
onel J. A. Finch, pardon attorney in
the department of justice in Washing
ton; Congressman William E. Cox,
OF Dubois county, Indiana, and his
brother-in-law, Honorable Albert
Fem, the latter named gentleman be-
ing a northumberland, will arrive
here, accompanied by w. A. Winburn,
vice president of the Central of Geor.
gia railway, and make a trip of per-
sonal inspection through the counties
north OF Hall including Lumpkin,
White, Habersham, Dawson, Rabun,
Towns and Union.
1t is likely that other capitalists
will accompany the above named gen.
tlemen on the trip.
No section is so needful of rail
road to place this timber within
reach of the market. The soil IN this
section is as fertile as can be found
in the state, and great progress is
already being made along agricultur-
al lines. To further the development
and to make of the mountain coun-
ties a veritable garden Of Eden" a
railroad only is needed.
To interest these capitalists in tais
section means that northeast Georgia
will rapidly forge to the very fore
most OF Georgia counties.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
Pullman Rates Attacked.

Washington, D. Can attack was
made upon Pullman company charges
for upper berths by the state Of ok
lahona. In agpetition filed with the
Interstate commerce commission BY
the attorney general of Oklahoma, d.
fected against the Pullman company
and railroads operating on the west
ern and southwestern territofies.yft Is
alleged that making the same charge
for an upper berth as for u lower
is unjust and discriminatory. The re-
auctions sought in the charge for .up-
per berths vary from Is per cent to
33 per cent in the rate from points in
Oklahoma to points in Illinois. Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and to
Memphis, Tenn
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
Cotton Mills Close.

spartanburg, s. c.-Tne great cur
tailment movement among the. mills
of the Piedmont section has begun.
Mills in North Carolina, South Care
lima and Georgia have closed down
until the morning Of the 18th. out
Of 100000 spindles 2,750,O00 have
signified that they would join in the
curtailment which will include at
least month in all during the sum-
mer The movement means a cutting
off of from 100000 to 100000 pieces
OF cloth or 1.l2th Of the outputj IN
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
Opposed to Tag Days.

New York City.-Mayor Gaynor IS
opposed to tag days and there will
be no more of them in New York city
unless he changes his views. In veto
ing a resolution passed by council
giving permission for a tag day in
a suburban borough, the mayor said:
such a resolution, authorizing the
accosting of people in the streets for
the purpose of extracting money is OF
doubtful legality and more than doubt
full propriety. The collection of mon
ey on tag days usually made success
full by the aid of children, is a prac-
tice which should not be permitted"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
COTTONANDOKRACROSSED
make LONG STAPLE PLANT
NIississippian Working Wonders
With the Cotton Plant.
WONDERFUL CORN EXPERIMENTS IEERIll TENTS
Eastin G. Jones Of Kinds County, Mississippi
Is Performing Marvellous Feats with
Cotton and Corn.

jackson, Miss.--C california has her
Burbank, the man who started the
world by cross.breeding and develop
ing fruits and flowers, but Kinds coun-
ty has her Jones, the man who is de-
veloping cotton and performing mar
velous feats with corn.
Taking common variety OF corn
fourteen years ago, when corn culture
was practically unknown in this sec
ton, Mr.. Jones has. crossed and de-
yeloped it till he now produces more
corn to the acre in Kinds county.
three miles from Jackson, than any
farmer in the world He makes his
corn produce six to fourteen ears to
the stalk, and the yield is at the rate
Of from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred bushels an acre.
This has been done on ordinary
Mississippi land, without using more
than the usual quantity Of fertilizer,
Not only is the yield large, but
the weight Of the grain, after it is
shelled, is far above the average,
showing the corn is not only well
fruited, but fully developed.
In addition to performing wonder
full feats In the way of corn culture,
Mr. Jones, by ross-breeding okra
with short staple cotton, has produc-
ed long staple Of finest texture and
endurance. His achievement with
both corn and cotton are attracting
great deal OF attention He has
been taking off all prizes at the Mis-.
sissippi state fair since it was organ
lied with his corn. This year Mr..
Jones expects to add one more ear
to the stalk in his corn field. He has
added an ear every year for fourteen
years, and believes he will increase
the yield this year again. -
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
Georgia News in Paragraphs.

At last the Great White Way" has
been secured by the business men
along Cherry street, Macon. The ma
terial for constructing a beautiful
lighting system along the street in
the best business center has been o.
dered and the section for three blocks
will be beautifully lighted. This i'm
provement comes in the territory
where the opening of park walks and
bandstands has already been accom-
plished and much will be added to
make Macon the business center beau
tiful
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
Fifteen-Cent Cotton Assured.

Montgomery, AIa.-Holding to the
view that there will be no more cot
ton made this year than will be need.
ed and that ii to Is cents is none
too high price, as it costs almost
that much to make the staple, the
commissioner of agriculture of Ala
bama, is out in an appeal to the farm
ers that the time is upon them not
to hold cotton for future delivery, say
ing it will be suicidal
The injury to the crop by the very
heavy rains, following upon the fact
that it is already 10 days late, is basis
for the beliefe, coupled with the fact
chat there is no increase in acreage,
that every bale made is going to be
needed this fall at good price
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-07
NOT TO HINDER RAILROADS.
New Railroad Rate Law is Not to
BE Used Arbitrarily.

Be Used Arbitrarily.
Beverly, Maes.-President Taft had
a long talk with Chairman Knapp of
the interstate commerce commission,
regarding the administration of the
new railroad rate law At the conclus-
ion of the interview it was made
plain that the added authority. given
to the commission by the new statute
is not to be used arbitrarily or for
the purpose of hindering the rail
roads in the conduct of their legiti-
mate business. The power to suspend
new rates, probably the most direct
weapon placed in the hands of the
commission, is to be used only in ex-
ceptional cases.
The oasis., 1910-09-10
For Declaration With Regard to
 Taxation.

Tombstone Ariz ma, Aug, 3l, 1910.
 ED PRosPECr0R-I have careful ly read and fully digested both the Democratic and Republican Plat. forms as adopted by the conven tions of those parties, held at D)ugl4s ani B4nson respectively.
 It is, think quite unnecessary to state with which party l have always affiliated, the people of this territory having on m any past oc- casions heard me express myself publicly, and they will therefore bs p4rdonei in the behilf thst l speak from a partisan standpoint: But. do l? Are there not many of th- Republican faith, or if m psrti cular pirtisan bslief, wh) agree with me when expressing the re- gret tt those conventions dIl n It consider it worth while to express in uneqlivoc4l llngl.ge their b. liet on the VITAL principle of EQUAL TAXATION.
 When Initiative Referendum Re- call were first mentioned, there were those who yelled "Anarchy":. That yell, has however, gradually subsided. until now. we in1 that a large portion of, even, the Republi- can Party endorse that scheme for the purifioation of politics.
 My vail is sim ply th's:-l have lived and made my hom- here fOI thirty years last past; have built my home and reared my children here and am therefore vitally in tsrested. not only in the presen period, but in the future, tru1tin! that the Cons tuition to be formulat ed will prove to be a blessing t' progeny. and not d burden to b borne by the generations to come We know tn 1t the in liyidu4l tax payer is assessed. for tax purpose upon the "Cash Value" of his tax able possessions. This is the sta tule and the law. We also kno' thstquasi public ccOrp 'rations, com mon and public carriers as Rail