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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
lJUpoG JAMES c'0oRMAM
sENATcR FROM NEW Won.

Albany. N. r.. April l.-sun,..
Court Justice James O'Gorman ny
ocrat, Of New York City. was elscsa.
United States Senator last niebt
the Legislature. after the most -. y
tracted struggle over this pos,t ~
ever held In the Empire State ~
the fnal ballot, the sixty-fourtb =
received 112 votes to 80 cast :, =
Chauncey n. Depew, whose term !.
pired March 4 last. ~
At the close Of day Of almost ~.
tinuous negotiations, the insurpsn.
capitulated. and Justice O'Gorm.s
was elected. A few minutes he,o.
the ballot was cast Justice On"'
mans resignation from the bench ~.
fled at the ONCE Of the Secretary ~ =
State. as q constitutional provis,o ~
would have prohibited his electio'
while holding the Office of Justice !.
the Supreme Court.
Wild applause marked the end =,
the long contest, and the Legislatn,.
driven from the State capitol ~
Wednesdays fire. quickly adopted !,
resolution adjourning until April =,
Judge James A. o'corman
Mr.. O'Gorman was born on H..
lower west side of New York On,
May 5, 1860. He married Anne n
Leslie January Q, 1883. They havs
nine children-seven daughters AM,
two sons. After finishing a course /,
college in the city of New York, N,
|O'G0rman attended the University N
New York law school, graduated, ana
was admitted to the bar in 1882.
From the time he cast his first yo,.
he aligned himself with Tammau,
Hall, which favored him. In 1899 b.
was elected Justice of the Supreme
Court for term of fourteen yean
from January I, 1900.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
FIX UP
PROGRAM
HOUSE CAUCUS OUTLINES MAT.
TIERS FOR CONSIDERATION
At EXTRA SESSION.
Reciprocity and Tariff Revision Are
Chief Features-WhoIe House tc
Name Committees, Some Of Which
Are AboIished-Power to FiIibuster
Reduced to Minimum.
DEMOCRATS PLAN FOR EXTRA
SESSION.

Resolved that the Democratic
members of various committees of
the house are directed not to re-
port to the house during this first
session of the Sixty-second congress
unless hereafter directed by this
caucus, any legislation except in
reference to the following matters:
1. Election of United States sena-
tors by vote of the people.
2. Legislation referring to the
publicity of campaign contributions
before and after election.
3. The Canadian reciprocity
agreement. General tariff legisla-
ton and legislation affecting the
revenues of the government.
4. The reapportionment of the
house to conform to the 18th CEN
SuS.
5. Resolutions of inquiry and res
olutions touching on investigations
of executive departments.
6. The admission of territories of
Arizona and New Mexico.
z. Any deficiency bill that the ex-
igencies of the government may re-
quire to be considered at this time
and bills to correct the enrolling of
the appropriation bills passed
March 4, 1911.
8. Legislation relating to District
of Columbia.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
Minor Happenings
of the Week

Berkeley, CAL, has elected ]. Stltt
Wilson, a prominent Socialist, mayor.
With the receipt of a mandate from
the United States Court, the bank
guaranty act has become effective In
Nebraska.
The department of justice has con-
frmed charges against Hart H. North,
immigration commissioner at san
Francisco, who was suspended.
The Governor of Arkansas has
signed a bill passed by the Legisla-
ture prohibiting the giving away OF
lunches in places where intoxicating
liquors are sold.
With Vice Admiral Schimamura in
command, the Japanese cruisers kura-
ma and Tone have sailed for England
to represent Japan at the coronation
of King George.
With the work on the caissons OF
the cofferdam around the wrecked
battleship Maine completed. prellml-
naries to the task of pumping out the
water from the vessel were started.
An order for 100000 Bibles, the
largest ever made, has been placed
by the Christian Commercial Tray
elers' Association of America, to be
used in guests rooms OF hotels
throughout the country.
DR.. D. K. Pearson of Hinsdale, ILL.,,
celebrated his ninety-first birthday
April 4 by the distribution of 100000
to schools and religious organizations.
This will make his total distributions
of recent years nearly 100000, most
of which has been given to small col
leges.
The reunion of the blue and gray
veterans of the civil war will be held
in Memphis September %, 20 and 30.
Practically all the cruisers, gun
boats and submarines of the United
States Atlantic fleet assembled in
Chesapeake bay to witness battle fir
ing April /.
An inventory of the entire system
of the Hartman lines will be taken.
A complete valuation of everything,
from bolts and steel rails to cars,
buildings and franchises of more than
10000 miles or track, WIN be taken.
1t will probably require two or three
years time.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
DAIRY COMMISSIONER
TO MOVE TO SEATTLE

Seattle. April Al. Davies. state
dairy and food commissioner. has de.
cidedI to move the office of the dairy
and 1ood department from Davenport
to Seattle.
ThA change will be made about
June /. Mr.. Davies has had Seattle
ONCE, but the bulk Of the business con-
nected with the department has been
done At Davenport.
Mr.. Davies has leased and is now
fitting up an additional ONCE In the
Mehlhprn building. He will move his
family to Seattle at the same time. I
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
LARGE GRAND TRUNK
B CONTRACTS aANARnEp.

Chicago, April 3.-Although this
side Of the Canadian border the rail-
roads are planning little in the way OF
extension and Improvement work, rail.
way construction in Canada apparent
ly is ito continue unchecked during the
year. Announcement is made by the
Grand Trunk Pacific that contracts
have just been awarded for construc.
ton work in the West that will entail
the expenditure of an additional ST.
900. 900 ON the new transcontinental
line to the Pacific terminus at Prince
Rupert, B. C.
The contracts cover the construction
of 26b miles Of main line, $40 miles OF
branch lines, the grading Of about 200
miles, of other branches and the erec-
ton pf 140 stations designed to meet
the demands OF the rapidly increasing
passenger and freight business already
offered on the section Of the new line
west 3of Fort william.
Last year the road was completed to
Edmonton in time to move the large
hay crop, and two months later. in Cc-
tobeS, 1t was completed from Winni-
peg Ito Edison, TAG miles west Of Ed
monitor, for fixed train traiiic. Now 2
regular passenger and freight service
Is operated. Down to date out Of the
1852 miles of line OF the projected
tranSscontinental from Halifax to
Prince Rupert there IL in operation
2. 21f miles OF main line and nearly 500
miles Of branch line.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
Navy to Teach Aviation.

Washington, April 3.-In order to
form corps Of competent aviators
for the navy. an aviation school prob
ably will be established at Annapolis
by the Navy Department this summer.
Lieut.. 7. G. Ellyson. an expert, who
Tor several months has been receiving
instruction in operating aeroplanes at
San Diego. win be one of the in
structors at the school. Lieut.. Ely
SON has been ordered from San Diego
to Washington.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07

Seattle. April III. v. Paterson.
president of the Moran Company, said
last night:
THE understanding is that all four
submarines will be placed on the Pa
cific Coast. Two will be built at the
Moran Company's yards and two at
San Francisco. We shall be ready to
commence work on them in about two
months, and they will take probably a
year to complete. We have at the
yards now two practically complete,
and are laying the keel of third"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
SUBMARINES TO BE
CONSTRUCTED At SEATTLE

Washington. April 1.-The Navy De-
partment has awarded to the Electric
Boat Company a contract for the con-
struction of four submarine torpedo
boats recently authorized by Congress.
to cost approximately 100000 each.
All the vessels will be built on the Pa.
cific Coast. and the present plan of
the Electric Boat Company, which,
however, is not entirely definite. is to
build two of the vessels at the Moran
Company yard at Seattle and the
others at the Union Iron Works, San
Francisco.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07
EXTRA SESSION IS
ORGANIZED WITH
CLARK AS SPEAKER

Washington, April 4.-.The extra ses-
sion of congress called by President
Taft at the close of the regular session
convened at noon. Champ Clark was
elected speaker. j. r. Mann of Illinois
received the Republican vote, thereby
becoming floor leader of the minority.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-07

Washington, April LIN party
caucus, noteworthy for its harmony
and the smoothness of it's progress,
the Democratic members of the new
house of representatives adopted with
out change the committee assign
ments. the economy program and the
new rules prepared for the coming ses.
sion by the committees that have been
working in the last month.
Important Changes.
Important changes in procedure
and a general reorganization OF the
house will result from the action 81
the Democrats. The power of naming
committees was definitely taken from
the speaker by the rules and lodged in
the house itself. Committee members
are to be elected by the house, not
only in the first instance, but also in
the filling of vacancies.
A saving of $4,000 in the annual
cost Of running congress is promised
through the cutting out of superfuous
employees and inactive committees.
and through the abolition of the time.
honored extra months pay" An
pointive places are put into the hands
of one committee. special body, tp
be known as the committee on organ.
ization. and the scramble for conrxes-
sional positions will center aboutI it's
door. The important changes in hhe
rules under which the new congSess
will operate are:
Committee Selections.
The selection OF committees by The
house.
A provision to prevent filibustertne
under the rules, giving authority Is
discharge committees from considera.
ton of bills.
A provision permitting amend.
ments to appropriation bills whenever
those amendments will result in "a.
trenchment of national expenditures
Authority for bills to come I'D twice
for passage under the unanimous con.
sent privilege.
The rule to prevent filibustering bv
a motion to discharge COMMITTEES
from custody of a bill is the result Of
the filibuster conducted in the last SEES.
sion by Representative Mann of M
nois. ~
He had the postofice reorganization
bin placed on the calendar under this
rule, and demanded that it be read
completely, an operation that con.
sumed several days.
Read BY Title.
The new rule provides that a bill
shall be read only by It's title, and that
its title shall not be more than one
hundred words long. It prohibits any
member from having before the house
at any one time more than two mo
tions to discharge committees from
the custody OF bills.
Under this rule the Democrats be.
lieve it can be made to work as orig.
inally intended to prevent the buryine
Of bills in committees.
The new rule affecting appropria-
ton bills is q renewal Of so-called
Holman rule" first used by the Dem.
ocrats in 1875.
It permits amendments to appro-
Hpriation bills Of wide character, when
these amendments viii affect reduc-
ton Of federal expenditures.
n~~u
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
WRECK in STORMS Path
and MANY ARE KILLED
Cyclone Left Destruction In
Path

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Nov. 13.-Splintered
timbers. broken furniture, crumbled
rock and plaster, scattered farm pro-
duce and dead farm animals littering
the ground for an area of quarter of
mile in width and twenty miles in
length indicate the tremendous force
with which Southern Wisconsin's S
worst cyclone swept a path through
Rock county, killing eight persons, in@
juring many more and doing damage
to the extent of near 81 100000. Three
members of family named Schmidt
were killed and a fourth will die.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
man CRAzED With DRINK
KILLS HIS AGED Wife
Horrible Crime Shocks Ma,
con Sunday

Macon. Ca, Nov. 13.-Mrs. Lizzie Nc
Call, aged 70 years, was shot and
kille by her husband, Roger Mccall,
aged II years, while she lay asleep in
her bed at her home, Fourth and Null
berry streets, this evening.
Mccall then barricaded himself in
another bed room and when the sher-
iff broke the door he was found lying
on the bed sound asleep with shot
gun by his side.
Upon the floor lay half pint bottle
which had contained whisky.
Mccall told the sheriff that after
he fred the shot he drank the con-
tents of the bottle and went TO Sleep
The old man declines to make state
ment. He is known to have been
drinking heavily for two or three days
The dead woman and her husband
had been lifelong residents OF Macon,
and the family is well known through
Middle Georgia Mrs. Mccall had
been an invalid for twelve years and
had been confined to her bed for sew
eral weeks. Two sons, c. L. and Nd.
r. Mccall, live in Macon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
TO finish UP JACKSON
STREET This MORNING
Rapid Work Of the PAYERS
Yesterday

Jackson street, to the qualification
of the general public, will be finished
by noon to-day, and as soon as the
usual coating of sand is put upon the
creosoted blocks that very important
avenue of travel and traffic will again
be opened The work of street paving
is now practically completed to Lamar
street where it connects with two
sections of paved streets, north Jack
son and Lamar, and way through
the city is again opened. The paving
forces will be transferred today to
Windsor street, and probably two days
will be required to finish paving the
one square between Lamar and For
syth.
North Jackson, from the Sheffield
corner to Jefferson street, where the
concrete work is laid already, will be
finished this week. Forsyth will next
be given attention, with Cotton ave-
nue. to follow. The wood blocks now
being put down are of excellent quail
ity and make a smooth and hand some
roadway.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
COLD WAVE WAS
IN full FORCE
HERE YESTERDAY
MERCURY DROPPED TO 26
Record Cold This EARLY in
Season

Americus had its first real case of
"shivers" yesterday.
And there was something to cause
it, too,, because the mercury lropped
as low as 26 during Sunday night,
while pushed it's way hesitatingly up
the tube yesterday not very far above
the go mark.
The drop in temperature was very
sudden and very marked, constituting
in the true sense of the word what the
weather bureau terms a cold wave.
In fact, the weather was probably a
genuine record-breaker here this ear
ly in the season.
Certainly the local weather records
which cover only a period of two
years past, have no parallel case Of
such marked cold this early in Nov
ember When one realizes it, the
cold of Sunday night was almost equal
to the coldest weather ordinarily eX-
perienced here during the winter
which was made all the more keen
penetrating in contrast with the al
most summary weather of Saturday
and Saturday nighgt.
One great virtue of the cold is the
fact that it has been crisp and clear,
having all the tonic and bracing ele-
ments that could be wished. While
the forecast indicates freezing wealth
er for this morning, with probably the
first real frost of the season, the prom
ise is that the weather will continue
fair to-day and grow gradually warm7
er.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
WHOLE COUNTRY IL GRIP
OF BLUSTERY BLIZZARD

Atlanta, Nov. 13.-Nearly a score OF
deaths, several million dollars prop
erty loss and much suffering and in
convenience resulted from the violent
change of temperature, the preceding
storms and the succeeding cold and
snow that beset the central and south
portions of the country Saturday and
Sunday.
After an unusually warm NoVem-
ber day Saturdal the storm did much
damage in Wisconsin and Illinois and
killed dozen persons, besides injur-
ing more than a score.
A cold wave almost Immediately
rolled over the wreckage of the lorna
does and extended In few hours to
the gulf coast and the Atlantic sea-
board. Rain turned to slest, snap
ping telegraph and telephone wires
and snow followed. The temperature
dropped in several places more than
sixty degrees in eighteen hours.
Several persons were frozen to
death by the sudden cold, shipping on
the great lakes was damaged and sew
eral boats were cast adrift In some
places gas almost failed. The poor
in large cities and the homeless in
storm-swept regions suffered severely.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
SUMTER SOON TO have
Big GROVE OF PECANS
Company to Plant Several
Thousand Acres

East of Americus, on Flint river,
there will soon be planted the largest
pecan orchard in the world-an orch
ard of five thousand acres-and then
to Sumter county will belong the dis
tinction of possessing the largest peach
and pecan groves to be found any
where-thus beating the world in grow
ing nuts and fruit.
The old Hugenin Plantation on the
eastern edge of Sumter county will
be the location of the pecan grove,
soon to be planted.
A Washington company, it is under
stood, has secured an option upon
FIVE thousand acres of the Huguenin
Plantation, now owned by the Stack
house Land Co., of Dillon, S. c., and
will divide it into tracts of 100 acres
All of the 5000 acres will be planted
in pecans. and the hundred acre
tracts sold to northern immigrants.
Pecan culture throughout South
Georgia is fast becoming leading in
dustry and there are very few farmers
that are not devoting time to the in.
dustry. Every year the acreage is In
creased to an unusual degree, and the
yield of the older trees has been very
gratifying.
The usual variety of paper she'll IS
being planted almost exclusively and
the nuts bring fancy prices, some
having been sold at retail for SIPS
pound. The average price is aboue
| so cents a pound.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
OCTOBER WEATHER WAS
OF THE NORMAL VARIETY
Very Much in Contrast to
Yesterday

The recent drop of the mercury may
serve to recall to mind some of those
hot days experienced here during oc-
tober, when the thermometer register
ed up in the nineties regularly during
the first week of that month, and
many sigh was sighed for cooler
weather.
The latter part of the weather for
October, as shown by the summary for
that month, was very appreciably cool
er than the first part, so that the month
as a whole passed as a pretty normal
one in a weather way. The maximum
temperature was 81 and the minimum
40. The rainfall was very good, 6.l5
inches having been registered at the
local station.
The summary of the maximum and
minimum temperatures for each day
in the month was as follows: =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IA. 1911
Mr.. HURLEY IS BETTER
and Will RECOVER
Wounded Conductor Had a
Very Close Call

Conductor H. E. Hurley, who was
very severely and seriously cut on
Saturday by a drunken negro passen-
ger William Young, is slowly improv-
ing at his home here and the pros
poets of ultimate re overy are consid-
cred very favorable now. His wounds
were of serious nature, but no compli-
cations or after results threaten his
recovery.
Capt. Hurley is one of the mSst eff
cient and popular conductors on the
Seaboard Railway, and hundreds Of
friends will learn with pleasure of his
improved condition and prospect for
recovery. His assailant, Young, is in
Sumter county Jail awaiting trial at
the next session of superior court,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
FOURTH HUSBAND HOLDS
HER BABY AS HE WEDS
She Has Had Nineteen Children BY
Three Husbands.

Wooster, Ohio, Nov. 13.-Granted a
divorce in the morning from her third
husband, James O'Connell, whom she
had welded after short acquaint-
ance, Mrs. Emma OConnell in the
afternoon took her fourth husband in
the person of George Cunningham
bachelor, of Rittman.
The ceremony was performed by
Justice Bolus in Common Pleas
courtroom.
Mrs O'Connell Cunningham is the
mother of sixteen children, nine OF
whom are living. The three smaller
children witnessed the ceremony, the
bridegroom holding the youngest, a
pretty little girl, in his arms during
the service.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
SPOTTERS WILL
GET YOU, IF YOU
DON'T LOOK OUT
SO DON'T EXCEED THE LIMIT
Warning Issued to Reckless
Car Drivers

Speed fiends beware, for the "spot-
ters' II get you If you don't watch
out!
Mayor Mathis has taken the initia-
tive to see that the city ordinance
prohibiting speeding shall be enforced
more rigidly in the future, as recently
the automobilists of the city have
seemed to overlook the fact that there
is any such ordinance at all, or any
one to enforce it. The fact that the
use of "cut outs" in the city limits
is prohibited has also been Overlooked,
Many who drive cars in the city
have overlooked the fact that the Or
dinance against speeding and the uso
of "cut outs" is still in force" said
Mayor Mathis yesterday, so special
officer will be put on the job imme-
diately to stop the careless speeding
that has cropped out in many sections
of the city lately. Such reckless driv-
ing by car owners is unnecessary and
dangerous, and you can say for the
officials that an officer will again be
put on duty to stop it,"
The efficient service done by "spot-
ters" Immediately after the passage Of
the ordinance against speeding is we'll
remembered. Reckless car drivers
might as we'll remember that if they
are brought before the recorders
court for speeding, 1t means at least
a five. spot" When the violation 1r
the speed ordinance is clearly shown
Mayor Mathis always gives the guilty
person a gentle reminder in the way
of fine, so that a word to the wise in
advance will likely be all that is neces-
sary in most cases.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-14
MERRY BANQUET FOR
DOCTORS TOMORROW
Menu Has Been Arranged for
Occasion

There will be large and represen-
tative assembly Of physicians from
Americus and surrounding cities when
the Third District Medical Association
meets at the festal board at the Hotel
Windsor tomorrow night.
An elaborate and pleasing menu has
been arranged, and a number of witty
and spicy after dinner toasts will add
zest to the occasion. All arrangements
for the banquet have practically been
completed. and the menu and other
matters of interest relative to it will
be announced fully in tomorrow's is
sue of The Times-Recorder.