The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-30

! PRESIDENT Fairfax Harrison authoriz-
ing payment of subscriptions in twelve
equal monthly installments to be de.
Quoted from their salaries.
One of the largest tobacco crops
ever set out in Stewart county is now
in the fields. While some more will
be set out later if the seasons permit,
practically all of the crop is out and
doing nicely. While the tobacco crop
is a large one, still the farmers are
growing other large crops. The corn
crop promises to be record one,
while the acreage devoted to Irish
potatoes is the largest ever devoted
to this crop in that section.
Choosing the rank of private where
he will be in the thickest of the fray
rather than commission as an officer,
which he would be qualified to accept,
Arthur P. Whitaker, student of Har-
ward and graduate of the University
of Tennessee and for two years cadet
in the university battalion, enlisted as
a private in Battery G, First Tennessee
Artillery. Mr.. Whitaker is the son of
Rev. Walter c. Whitaker, pastor of the
st. Johns Episcopal Church, Knoxville.
Eight East Tennessee county
agents convened in Carrick Hall, Uni
versity campus, Knoxville, to receive
from Prof o. M. Watson the newest
systems for farmers to follow in mar
keting of Irish potatoes. Mr.. Watson
asked the agents to urge farmers not
to rush their potatoes on the market
at one time, and told the agents sim
pie and sensible ways to store pota-
toes for few days, so that they can
be kept, and placed upon the market
as there is demand for them.
W. S. Clark, Of Newcomb, was re.
manded to an insane asylum under
bond of $4,000 in Federal Court at
Knoxville after having been tried on
charge of plotting to blow up railroad
bridges and munition plants. Federal
officers declared Clark was obsessed
with desire for notoriety. The gov
eminent introduced the telephone rec.
ords in which Clark was quoted as de-
claring that he had caused the small
explosion at Kingsport several weeks
ago, in which one man was killed.
early potato shipments from the
Southern States have been twice as
heavy this year as at this time last
year." says c. e. Brehm, specialist inl
agriculture, extension divisions, Uni
yersity of Tennessee. ''The percentagal
of shipments is increasing all the time,
and the digging of the crop is just be.
ginning Shipments from the earliest
potato sections indicate the largest pro.
duction in the United States that has
been made in years, and the price re-
mains firm"
Captain Max x. Thierchens, formerly
of the commerce raider Prinz Eitell
Friedrich, and recently indicted by al
Federal grand jury in Philadelphia onl
charges Of violating the Mann white
slave act, breaking American neutral
ity regulations and smuggling, left the
war prison at Fit Oglethorpe in the Gus.
tcdy Of a Department of Justice agent
TIE prisoners destination was not di
vuiged. He lived at ease and compare
tive luxury at the fort with several
Chinese and German attendants.
"My arrest came like bombshell tc
me-" said DR.. William j. Condor, OF
New Brunswick, N. j., when brought
from the medical officers training
camp at FIT Oglethorpe to cell in the
police station in Chattanooga, prepare
tory to his return to New Jersey tel
answer charge of having murdered
John v. Piper, student, formerly EN-
ployed as furnace man in Condon's
home Dr. Condor was arrested soon
after his arrival to begin the training
course in the camp.
Following the visit to the War De
partment of Congressman Hull, Byrnes
Sims and Houston to protest against
Tennessee being overlooked in securing
any one of the sixteen cantonments fol
the training Of the new army, Senator
Mcclellan and Congressman Austin pro
tested to the Council of National De
Tense against Southern contractors, es
pecially those from Tennessee, who are
capable OF building environments OIL
COMFY NJ ".ta ne!r part Of any con
tract that they may make being shut
out
The sale Of the Tennessee Central
Railroay on July was definitely or
dered by Judge E. T. Sanford, United
States District Court, at special hear
ing in Nashville. The terms of the
sale will be the same as those on
which the railroad was offered June 2.
Receivers for the railroad were au
thorized to borrow the sum of $4,000
in case there is no sale July 2, with
which to pay the Nashville Terminal
rent falling due July l. If there is no
sale on the date set by Judge Sanford
he will adjourn it until Sept. 8.
The purchase of the Tennessee Cen
trail by the Illinois Central opens the
way for the, Illinois Central to come
into Chattanooga. 1t already owns the
Central of Georgia from Chattanooga
to Savannah, Ga. A further evidence
that the Illinois Central Railroad has
a serious intention of taking over the
Tennessee Central on both the Hop