The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14

OF Col. l.. u. Tyson ana the latter OF
D. M. Rose, a we'll known lumberman.
The young men went about Their mis-
sion in very matter of fact way. Let
tiers of endorsement, with a paragraph
therein asking for admission, were Sc
cured from the Tennessee senator's
and congressman.
The resignation of H. B. Chamber
lain as operating receiver for the
Tennessee Central Railroad company
has been received by Judge e. T. San
fard, United States district court for
the eastern and middle division Of
Tennessee, of Knoxville. Mr.. Cham
berlain says that he desires to re-
sign on account of ill health and the
strain and responsibility of the posi-
ton. H. w. Stanley, of New York,
has been mentioned as a successor
to Mr.. Chamberlain.
One Knoxville textile mill has in
creased by 100 percent the amounts Of
tonnage of its output placed in freight
cars which they use to send less than
car load shipments of products from
their mill to the Southern Railway
freight station, where carload ship
ments are made up. The company
for this purpose, and under the new
system of loading 1t is using only half
that many says a Southern Railway
official
Captain M. G. Bristal of the Six
teenth United States cavalry arrived
In Nashville for the purpose of buying
horses for use in the army. Captain
Bristol is an experienced horseman
and has been buying horses for the
government for some time. He is &C.
companied by Drs. Humphrey and
King, veterinarians, who will examine
all of the horses before they are &C.
cepted. They will buy all horses that
are fit for service. They will go to
Columbia from Nashville
Men under 81 years of age will not
be excluded from the second officers
training camp at sOglethorpe, &C.
cOrding to a telegram from the adju-
tant-general of the army. While pref
erence will be given to those of more
mature years, especially from rs to So,
and to those with previous military ex.
perience, the latter is not strictly
necessary. The government is looking
for forceful and successful men pri.
marily without strict regard to actual
age limits.
Capt. G. H. Holiday, a we'll known
federal veteran of Knoxville, will not
be permitted to raise a command to
guard railroad bridges and other in.
dustrial interests. Congressman Aus,
tin laid the captains request before
the war department 1t is held that
under the law no such command could
be formed and that the idea suggested
by Capt. Holiday, while possessing
merit, would come under the provis.
ions for the home guard, and that he
would have to take it up with the
municipal authorities of Knoxville.
Less than 10 per cent of 800 miles
of the Dixie Highway remains to be
graded, and less than 20 per cent to be
surfaced at the close of the first two
years Of existence as an organized bus.
mess movement. This record OF
achievement is in keeping with mani.
festations Of interest and enthusiasm
attending the selection of the routing.
Both the eastern and western divis.
ions, it is confidently expected, will be
travelable by November of this year
according to V. D. L. Robinson, Sec.
rotary of the Association.
With plans to spend fifty thousand
dollars in Improvements for the East
Tennessee Division fair, the 1917 ex
hibition is expected to eycel anything
ever given in Knoxville. The dates
are October S-13. Chilhowee park
where the 1916 fair was held, was the
site of the Appalachian and National
Conservation eXpositions, and is now
used for a park, included within the
boundary limits of Greater Knoxville
The Johnson race track lies southeast
of the park and is convenient to the
buildings in which the exhibits were
held last year
In the little village of Baltimore
in Cooke county "Aut" Jackson. aged
thirty-five, shot and killed his brother
Cleve Jackson, aged thirty-three
"Aut" Jackson escaped but a third
brother, whose given name could not
be learned, was arrested and Jailed al
Newport in connection with the
tragedy. The crime is said to have
been the result of quarrel over a
dispute in the settlement of an &C
count between the brothers One o,
them claimed that the account
amounted to $4,2O and the Other
claimed that it was $40.
Sergeant Frank Peeler and Marine
Herman l.. Schultz, both of Knox
vile, are among the men of the U. s
marines especially selected to go tc
France. They are now in France
ready for service at the front as Gen
Pershing may direct Sergeant Peelel
is son of Joseph Peeler and enlisted
in the service in Chicago on August ;
OF last year He is in the 9th com
pany of marines Private Schultz IL
a nephew of Mrs, Alice McCarty, ant