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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
FARM DEMONSTRATION
WORK is EFFECTIVE
Recent Yield of Wheat is One Example of It--David
Wicker AgentFor the Demonstration Work in Sum-
ter, is Aiding Farmers and Boy Corn Growers

Ha1ing gained valuable experience
as farm superintendent at the Third
District Agricultural and Mechanical
school during the time he was connect
ed with that institution, Mr. Wicker il
daily visiting the farmers and boy corn
growers of Sumter county and aiding
them in their work. His daily visits
to the farms of the county have ac-
complished much good.
The toy corn growers of the county
this year are receiving the closest CO.
operation from Mr.. Wicker, who ex>
poets record yield when the corn
from the prize acres is measured next
fall There are a number of entrants
in the contest for prizes in the boys
corn club, and the members OF the
club are engaged in spirited rivalry
to cop the prizes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
HIS CONSCIENCE
MADE MURDERER
CONFESS Crime
SAVES LIFE OF HIS FRIEND
Sentenced TO Hang, Although
Innocent

Sunbury, Pa, June 81 alone ar
guilty Of the crime for which Fra1
Nye is under sentence of death.
t.!td the fatal shot and planned e
rob Mil4er. Nye knew nothing about
it, declared David Everitt, in a writ
ten confession yesterday to District
Attorney Strouss.
Frederick Nye is under sentence
of death for killing Henry Miller II
this city last year.
Miller was found dead in his pool
room with a bullet hole in his neck
The corpse had been robbed of $50
Nye and Everitt were arrested and
at their trials blamed each other.
Nye was sentenced to be hanged
and Everitt received a sentence of
manslaughter for the crime. The case
was taken to the supreme court of
Pennsylvania, which declined to in.
terfere, and an appeal is now pend
ing before the pardon board
In his confession, made public on
yesterday, Everitt said that he coull
not sleep at night because it wor-
ried me so to think that another boy
is to die for crime | alone com-
mitted."
Even if Nye is pardoned, Everift
cannot be placed on trial again fo-
the offense of murder, as he has ben
tried once and found guilty of mau-
slaughter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
HARAHAN Will
DISCUSS The
NATTER HERE
SEABOARD PRES. is COMING
To AmefiCuS to Confer About
the Local Shops

Intelligence was received here last
night that President w. j. Harahan
would come to Americus on June II to
discuss with the proper authorities
here the matter of the removal of the
Seaboard shops. This came as more
definite answer to the telegram recent
ly sent to Mr.. Harahan, asking the
Specific question as to whether the
STOPS would be moved.
Local officials of the city and the
Board of Trade were pleased to re-
ccive this message from Mr.. Harahan,
as it shows that the president of the
Seaboard is sufficiently interested to
come to Americus to discuss an adjust
ment of the problem that now con-
fronts both the railroad and the city.
Arrangements will be made, here to
have a committee meet the Seaboard
president and to present the matter to
him asthe people of Americus see it.
1t is hoped here that the coming Of
Mr.. Harahan will prove the first step
toward the promoting of the most
friendly relations that have ever ex-
listed between the municipality and th2
railroad. Mr. Harahan is expected TO
arrive here next Wednesday in his
private car.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
4. r. TRIUMPHANT;
BACK IN HARNESS

New York, June 3.-Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt, happy and contented
over winning his suit in Marquett.,
Mich, after proving he is abstemtious
in his habits, has returned here and
resumed his duties as contributing ed
itor.
William Loeb, Jr, formerly private
secretary to Roosevelt, and Lawrence
Abbott, of The Outlook, accompanied
the colonel, but when the station was
reached Roosevelt broke away from
them and shook hands with the crowd
of friends who met him there to con-
gratulate him on his victory.
81 am not saying anything now, and
1 am not going to say anything" he
said
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
MORE rain
TO BREAK
THE DROUTH
SHOWERS CAME YESTERDAY
To Lessen the Deficit in the
Rainfall

More showers came yesterday af.
ternoon and last night to reduce the
deficit in rainfall in the county, and
the drouth here seems to have been
pretty we'll mitigated, if not broken
by the showers that have fallen pretty
generally throughout the county the
last few days. W.
Reports received yesterday from va
rious sections of the county tend to
show that the rains have been general
While they have not been as heavy in
some parts of the county as they have
in the city, nevertheless they have
been sufficient to greatly mitigate the
drouth. In some parts of the county
the rains have even been heavier than
here.
AS the indications are for more
weather of the kind that has prevailed
the last few days, it is hoped that
further rains will be had. Though the
recent showers have saved large sums
of money to the farmers, more rain
will do still more good and boost the
crop prospects very widely. 1t can
rain a good deal more, according to
local farmers, without getting to where
it will be wet enough to hurt crops.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
WOULD MAKE THE PARK
A PUBLIC SHOW SPOT
Suggestion Made With Regard to the City Hall Park
Would have Lawn Constantly in Trim and More
Flowers and Shrubs to Beaut;fy it Generally.

the purchase of a few shrubs and a
few implements with which to handle
the grass and plants. Probably small
greenhouse would afford good in
vestment. The entire equipment
should not cost half a hundred dol
lars. Wouldn't it be worth while foi
such thing to be done?"
The park referred to is directly in
front of the county jail and between
the city hall and the courthouse. There
is fountain in the center, and all the
water needed for the watering of the
lawn and maintaining an ideal small
park are available. Already the park
has two willow trees, with dropping
graceful branches. The suggestion
made in the foregoing interview may
prove Of more than passing interest tc
those who plan civic improvement.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
ATLANTA'S ROW
Being PROBED
BY GRAND JURY
FtLUER WILL TELL Things
Beavers and Woodward in a
WOrdy War

Atlanta, Ca, June 3.-The Full
ton county grand jury this morn
ing began an exhaustive investigation
into the allegations of Col Thos b.
Fielder and Attorney Carl Hutchinson
that disorderly houses exist in all
sections of the city with the apparent
consent of the police and certainly
without interference from the officers
of the law.
These charges were made follow
ing the publication of alleged dicto-
graph conversations which the city
detectives declared proved that Col.
Fielder, Mayor Woodward and others
were seeking to bribe clerk in the
detective department to obtain for
them certain affidavits in the Phagan
murder case.
Today the grand jury examined Col.
Fielder, Mayor Woodward and Attorne. :
Hutchinson and other witnesses suri-
moned were Police Chief James l.,
Beavers, Detective Chief N. A. Lanford
and C. C. Jones, proprietor of near
beer place, who owned several houses
in the former segregated district Jones
was also said to have been involved
in the dictograph conversations.
While before the grand jury Colonel
Fielder is said to have urged that the
detectives charges against him be
probed 1t is understood that the
grand jury assured him that at this
time it was chiefly concerned with ar
investigation of vice conditions as
Judge Ellis, in his charge, had di-
rected that such an investigation be
made.
Before going before the grand jury
and while he believed that the dicto-
graph conversations would be inquired
into. Colonel Fielder declared that ha
expected to make astounding revela-
tions. While waiting to be called,
Chief Beavers and Mayor Woodwa Il
INDUCED in some spicy talk concern
ing the dictograph conversations and
the vice situation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04

Some very needed Improvements
have been made upon the city hail
park by the city and county, but Il
would seem that there is plenty of
room for more improvement still"
said a we'll known citizen yesterday
"The walks have been carefully laid
out and cemented, but the lawn is un-
tended. Instead of having every avail
able Part of this small space in the
highest cultivation as regards lawn
and ornamental shrubs, the lawn is
seldom moved and there are no shrubs
worth mentioning"
at does SEEM" continued the speak
er "that the members of the city fire
department would be glad to keep this
little bit of ground in beautiful shape
if they only had the proper incentive
from the city authorities in the way Of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
MANY COLLEGE GIRLS
PASSED THROUGH CITY
On Their Way Home YGSteF'
day Afternoon

A large number of light-hearted
school girls were the sole occupants s
yesterday of special train operated
entirely for thier convenience. 1t was
the closing day of the Georgia Normal
and Industrial school at Milledgeville,
and the 300 happy maidens were ready
to start to their homes in middle and
south Georgia.
The special was operated to Macon.
at which central point the trainload OF
girls was divided up and sent in sew
eral directions. Two coaches came
south, via Americus, bringing nearly 4
hundred of the G. N. and l. students
this way, many of them stopping here,
while others took later trains to the
several towns in this locality.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
Mr.. HOOPER IS ATTACKED
BY Thugs IN ATLANTA
Assaulted and Has VdIuabIeS
Taken From Him

r. Mr.. Frank A. Hooper, so well known
in Americus, where he formerly resid
ed, was beaten and robbed by two
highwaymen in Atlanta at late hour
Monday night, at point within a half
block of his residence on Piedmont
avenue, the thieves securing Mr.. Hoop
er's gold watch and SO in cash.
AS he was walking along Eighth
street, near Piedmont avenue, the two
bandits seized him, one beating him
over the head with a club, while the
other ransacked his pockets for valua-
bles, getting the watch and money.
A policeman hurried to the scene,
but the footpads had made good their
escape. MIR. Hooper was assited to hts
home, where a physician attended his
injuries. Mr.. Hooper was in Americus
on Sunday afternoon, returning to At
lanta by the 215 p. m. Central train.
Friends here will hope that his inju-
ries will not prove at all serious.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
SENATE MAKES
few CHANGES IN
TARIFF MEASURE
WOOL and SUGAR TO STICK
Meet and Flour May Also
Be On Free List

Washington, d. c., June 3.-Practi-
cally without change the wool and sll-
gar schedules as they passed the
house are expected to be recommend
ed late this week to the senate fnanc :
committee by the senators who have
had them under consideration more
than a month.
The free sugar schedule, which Sen
ators Ransdell and Thornton, of Louis
lana, have fought so persistently, has
been approved by Senator Williams
subcommittee and the free wool seed
ule has been agreed to by Senator
Stones Subcommittee.
Democratic leaders say that neither
will be altered by the entire finance
committee. and predict that the party
caucus will not make change.
Some speculation is going on as tos
the fate of meats and -four, whicn
have been restored to the dutiabie list
by the senate subcommittee.
Chairman Simmons, of the senate
finance committee, after a conference
with President Wilson today, said that
he believed that when the tariff bill
is ready for consideration by the
democratic caucus next week, cattle,
wheat, meats and flour very proba-
bly, will be on the free list.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
COMMISSIONERS
REQUEST JOINT
Meeting HERE
TO CONSIDER ROAD MATTER
Conference Will Likely Be
Arranged

The board of county commissioners
has requested of the city council a
joint meeting of those two bodies on
Wednesday, June II, for the purpose of
discussing a subject of mutual inteEr-
est, that of working the main roads
leading into the city from the county,
in the hope of reaching a satisfactory
agreement upon this matter, which
has been pending some time. 1t is be-
lieved that full discussion of the sub
ject will result in the two bodies ar
irving at an agreement which will
prove satisfactory to both of them.
Several weeks ago a committee from
the city council went before the COM
missioners with the request that al
adequate working force of men and
mules from the county chaingang be
placed at the disposal of the city,
wherewith to work and keep in repair
the main roads leading into the city
from the county, the city council deem
ing this equitable and just.
At the meeting of the commission
ers Monday a resolution was adopted
whereby the commissioners will OPP
pose the passage of legislation desir-
ed by the city council in this particu-
lar. In the meantime, however, the
desire for a joint conference was ex-
pressed by the commissioners in the
hope that a satisfactory agreement re-
garding the road work may be reach
ed.
The city council feels that, inasmucA
as citizens of Americus pay such q
large proportion of the taxes of the
county, that it is but fair that the
county forces in working the main
roads should continue such work TO
the courthouse door, or else afford the
city the opportunity of doing the wor (
by supplying a part of the county gang
for the purpose.
The city council will, no doubt, grant
cEeerfully the request of the commits
sioners for joint conference, in the
hope of reaching a satisfactory agree
nent regarding this road work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
The SOUTH PAID TRIBUTE
TO MEMORY OF DAVIS
Birthday of President Was
HOnOfed

Macon, Ca, June 3.-The South paid
tribute to the memory of Jefferson Da-
Wis, president Of the Confederacy, to-
day on the 1O5th anniversary of his
birth. In eight Southern states, Ala
bama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana,
South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas,
the day was observed as legal holi-
day, and in other states memorial ex-
ercises were held In many parts OF
the South not only were the banks
business houses and state offices clos
ed, but employees of postoffices and
other federal institutions were granted.
a holiday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
ANNUAL MEETING
BOARD TRUSTEES
WAS SPIRITED
MERGERS BOARD IN MEETING
Jameson Matter is AGAIN
Dismissed

Macon, Ga, June "a lively fight
was made on DR.. S. Y. Jameson, presi-
cent of Mercer, at the meeting of the
Mercer trustees yesterday afternoon
and today and a strenuous effort was
made to force his resignation as presi.
dent of the college. A lively fight is
also being made on the prudential
committee of the board of trustees and
this sub-body is also under fire as
we'll as DR.. jameson.
No final action was taken at either
session, but the final showdown viii
come at the meeting of the trustees
later today. If DR.. Jameson's resig-
nation is forced, it is said that the res
,naions of the members of the pr =
Dental committee will also be forced
The special investigating commit
tee IN it's report to the trustees is
said to have been fair to both sides
that DR.. Jameson was criticised in
some instances and that the pruden.
tial committee was also criticised. An
effort is being made to harmonic
matters if it is possible to do so, but
failing in this, the real test Of
strength will come.
1t is reported that the six loca'
trustees are solid against DR.. Jane
son. 1t is further understood thai
DR.. Lansing Burrows, of Americus
also favors new president for the
college How the twenty other mem
bers of the board stand is not known
but it is claimed by DR.. Jameson's
friends that he has majority and
it is also claimed by the friends ol
the members of the prudential CONF
mittee that they have the majority.
1t is hoped by friends of all parti22
that matters can be amicably adjust
ed, but if not, the issue will be forced
and some definite action will be
taken The whole row, it is said, arose
as result of the management of the
finances of the institution.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
CLOSING RECITAL AT
BELL PIANO SCHOOL
viii Take Place This Evening
at $3.50 O'clock

The last recital of musical classes
in the city this term will occur this
evening at the Bell music studio, when
the advanced students of that schoo
give their final recital. The recita
will begin at $50 o'clock.
The public is cordially invited tc
attend the recital, which will be one
OF the most interesting that has beer
neld here in long time. Only the ad
yanccd students will participate, gil.
ing assurance that the numbers on the
varied program will be of unusua
rIaturity and excellence of presenta.
ticn.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
GRAPEJUICE SHOWER
FOR SECRETARY BRYAN

Washington, D. c., June 3.-For
more than an hour this morning mes
sengers were busy storing cases oi
substantial appearance in the wine
cellar" of the State Department.
Following Mr.. Bryans declaration
in favor of grapsjuice as a beverage
practically every manufacturer ci
grapejuice in the country sent a case
of his product to the Secretary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-04
GREAT ARMY OF ALIENS
bound FOR new YORK
10000 Foreigners to be
Landed This Week

New York, June 3.-The estimate
Of the number of immigrants expect.
ed on thirty different liners arriviua
in New York this week makes a totaI
of thirty thousand aliens to be landed
at Ellis Island before Saturday night
This is the greatest influx for any
one week in the history of this port
with the exception of one week in
1907.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-19

conference with Secretary Bryan. who took the situation up with the president. Officials of the Chinese embassy also discussed the subject with Secretary Bryan and the presi- dent. Mir. Bryan was not present at today's cabinet meeting, but was con suited about the statement before his departure for the west.
 It was stated tonight that the same policy would apply throughout the Wilson administration to parallel sit nations in Central America and also anywhere, in which the United States was concerned.
 The policy of protecting, through the influence of the government, loan interests of American banking firms abroad, was a part of what was often referred to as dollar diplomacy" dur ing the Taft administration. During the last administration, Secretary Knox urged the passage of two loan conventions seeking to rehabilitatc the finances of Nicaragua and Hon. duras. respectively. The United States was to have had a voice ill the selection Of inspectors of GUS toms. through which medium the ini terests of the American banking firms were to be protected. The banking firms were to submit for the approval of the president of the United States and of the Central American govern ments, list of customs inspectors. The loan conventions were not -ati- fled by the senate and the Taft ad- ministration closed without determin- ing how far the American govern ment should go in protecting its finau- cial firms abroad.
 In Santo Domingo, a somewhat siml- lar process is in actual operation, but it will continue to exist by virtue Of the treaty between this country and the Dominican republic, ratified dur ing the Roosevelt administration. Here the United States appointed a receiver general of customs to collect duties which constituted the guaran- tee for the payment by the Dominican republic of it's foreign debt.
 The withdrawal today of the aid of this government to what has been popularity known as the "six power  loan" brings to an end, so far as can be forecast at present, the diplomacy of the United States in that connec- tion.
 The loan originally was desired by China when i'll the throes of recon struction after the fall of the Man chu dynasty. A Belgian syndicate was at first appointed and later Eng land, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and the United States sought share in the fioatation of the loan.
 While today's statement means the end of governmental support to the loan projects as at present advanced, it is pointed out in official circles here that American banking firms still can share part of the loan independent- ly and without the guarantee of sup port of this government.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-19
DEADLOCK uN6RokEN,

Springfield, Ill.,, March lS.-Ihe long deadlock over the United states senatorships was unbroken tonight. Secretary of State Bryan was a guest of the legislature today anu witnessed the voting on the eleventh joint ballot for the long term.
 It was expected by some of the political leaders that Mir. Bryan's presence would have some influence in breaking the deadlock. The sec vetary however, in a speech to the legislators, preceding the ballot, de- clared that he had no secret mes sage" to deliver from President Wil- son and that he was present simply as private citizen.
 James Hamilton Lewis, democratic primary nominee lost eight of his party votes on the eleventh ballot. His total was S5, whereas on Thurs day it was 91- a, net loss of six. Two progressives voted for him today.
 With four of his party absent, the vote of Lawrence Y. sherman, re- publican primary nominee was with in one of the full party strength in the assembly, by the vote of three progressives.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-19

vision bids fair to go down into his- tory as the Underwood tariff of 1913.
 Senator Simmons of North Carolina, as chairman of the senate committee on finance, conferred today with Rep resentative Underwood. As a result a senate subcommittee headed by Senator Simmons and house sub committee headed by Representative Underwood will have a general con ference on the tariff tomorrow to bring about plan for ensuring har- monious action between the two houses, so as to facilitate tariff re- vision legislation and end the extra session much sooner than has been contemplated.
 The ways and means committee will meet again Thursday when sul' committee will report on the adminis' trative sections of the tariff.