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- ■■■manhh The Weather: The Indication* for Atlanta and vicinity follow: Rain and cold er tonight; Wednesday clearing find colder. Atlanta Georgian (and news) f-jot Cotton LI "‘/pool. «|nfi*t: t 4. all. ttrm; 11 VOL. V. NO. 257. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 30,1907. PRICE: la Atlanta: TWO CBMTS. AFTER NIGHT IN JAIL, I ■\r rpi t it | t mother faces trial — Yes, The Journal backed for kidnaping her boy down nearly three months ago. —Oh, no, they didn’t try to buy the judge—they only fell in love with the Audit Company. Baby Clings Close to Mother in Cell. MRS. RICHARDSON TELLS HER STORY Separation, Husband’s Dis appearance and Recov- •ppqO J3jj jo Aio Fondly stroking the flaxen curls of her little five-year-old boy, Mr*. D. R. Richardson sat on a cot behind the bars ot a DeKalb county jail cell Tues day and quietly Bobbed. ( She had been sobbing nearly all night and was waiting for the time to arrive when she would he arraigned on a charge of kidnaping the little boy on whom she showered her affections. And besido her all the time were two faithful friends—fiends for whom jail bars had no terror and whose hearts were touched by the weeping mother. Theso wero Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams, or 61 Cone street. Mrs. Richardson took her little boy on Monday afternoon from the home of her father-in-law, W. H. Rlch&rd- »on, In DeKalb county between Redan and Stone Mountain, but before she had reached Atlanta, she was arrested and placed In the jail at Decatur, charged with kidnaping. The Mother’s Story. Her story Is a sad one and Is filled with love’for an only child and hard work to support herself after separa tion from her husband. On Monday afternoon she decided to take her little boy from the home of his grandfather, where ho had been staying since his father and mother separated. With her went her two friends. Mr; and Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Richardson’s attorney. Beverly W. Wall, of Williams & Wall. The party drove up to the Richard son home where the little fellow was playing on the front porch. Mrs. Rich ardson alighted from the surrey, went to the house, and she says she an nounced her Intention of taking her son away with her. "Did Not Kidnap Him." “I didn’t kidnap my own child. I didn't have to., X%qne tried to stop me. I Just took my darling out to the surrey and drovo off. r Commissioner Says Contract Was Not Fulfilled. be A demand for the repavement Whitehall street with asphalt, free charge to the city, will probably made of the Southern Paving and Ana oesiao nor uu me unto were Construction Company by the city, two faithful friends—(fiends for whom Henry Collier, commissioner of publto Jail bars had no terror and whose works, will submit such a proposition to hearts were touched by the weeping the streets committee of council at the next session, and will produce samples of asphalt pavement now on the street, to prove that the Southern did not company with the contract with the city. Commissioner Collier has had 38 samples of asphalt pavement taken up from the streets by men of his force. This pavement Is supposed to have been,three Inches deep, but according to the commissioner It averages not more than one Inch and a quarter. ”1 told my men to secure samples from all the streets laid with asphalt," said Mr. Collier. "I Instructed them not to take samples from pavement that bulged up or that was In a hols, but that on a level, and to get these samples about four feet from the street car tracks. "The samples are taken from White hall street, from Peachtree, Capitol avenue, Washington and other streets. There Is only one sample, which Is taken from Pryor street, which ap proximates three Inches In depth. Some samples are hardly more than half an Inch. n Laid Five Years Ago. “This pavement has been laid about live years. It Is guaranteed for ten years—guaranteed not only to be on the »trwL?I -U>« WP'railSUL-of that time, but to bo In good condition. The con tract so states, and 1 can nbt see why That Is Mrs. Richardson’s version of <»>• city , U“ u A n ? t demand thlt now the case. And when she told of her uixlety to have her only child with her end told again how he was the only thing In the world so dear to her, the little fellow cuddled closer to the mother who went to Jail for him and put a little fat nrn? around her neck. About three years, ago, when Mrs. Richardson was not yet 18 years of ige. she separated from her husband ind the child went to live,with hts irandparents. Mrs. Richardson re mained separated from her husband until last summer, when she says she ivent back to him, but bnly lived with him three days. . „ ,, "The next I heard of him, said Mrs. Richardson ln-4he Jail Tuesday, 'was when I heard he had married his musln, Miss Ruth Veal, of Clarkston, :wo months ago. Ho married her on Saturday but fled on Sunday nlghL then he feared arrest for bigamy. Since hen he has been away. Some time ago Mrs. Richardson i'■'light to get the child from his grgna- larents through habeas corpus proceed- ngs, but she ubandoned this course on he advice of some of her relatives. "I didn't know what to do, she ex- ilained tearfully. "I was only 18 years ild then and didn't know a thing about aw. So when my relatives told ms It could not do, I abandoned the pro- Gusrdlng Her Child. But Mrs. Richardson Is carefully warding her little son now. Since she ook him away from the Richardson iome she has had him by her sldo and le has never been out of her sight. All luring Monday night, while the little ellow peaeefully slept on the cot of the nil cell, the faithful mother continued er vigil, and ull the while she sobbed nd prayed for daybreak and the end- ig of the commitment trial. pavement be laid down. “In the city of Philadelphia samples were recently taken of the asphalt pavement, and, as a result, payments on contracts amounting to about 84,000,000 were held up. “I shall ask the street committee to take action looking to the Immediate repavement of Whitehall street, espe cially from Trinity avenue down, by the contractors, without expense to the city.” The street committee will, no doubt, call the city engineer In for advise ment, when this matter Is considered, and a lively fight Is sure to be waged on the question. If the committee reports favorably and council adopts the report, a court fight will probably ensue. If the city wins, then a demand may be made for a general repavement with asphalt of a number of other streets, which the commissioner of public works contends have not been paved according to the specifications in the contract. Thousands of dollars will be Involved In tho fight. The floor of tho office of the commis sioner of public works Is lined with the samples of this asphalt pavement, all carefully arranged, with the street and the block from which each Is taken ac curately designated. POLICYHOLDER'S NAME FORGED OY RICH AGENT New York, April 10.—Jacob Frank, a wealthy general agent for the New York Llfo Insurance Company, was of the commitment trial. arrested today In the district attorney’s >' a'ga*n«t"Mr" 1 'Richardson by the office on a charge of forging the name >r Richardson on a kidnaping „f a policy holder to a ballot voting rge, both Mr. and Mrs, Williams for ,hV administration In the recent ■ expecting to be served l-tth stmt- directorate elections. It Is the first ar- ’ ° - fit moot a A. nn tka rmnnlnltif .Of tnfl in* warrants and were prepared to meet n. Father-in-law Richardson has lulted Judge John S. Candler, and • Richardson says that the attor- « advised the old man to get pos- lon of the child. . . t present the whereabouts of Mrs. lardeon’a husband are not •'"P.'S." to Sheriff a A. Morris, of DeKalb, i he has two warrants for the mU«- man, one for bigamy and another glng him with kidnaping Miss Ruth LOSES LIFE IN TENEMENT FIRE W York. April 80.—Miss Sarah Me- in, afftd 10, waa burned to death r in a Are which damaged a flye- tenement. She lived on the top and her escape was cut off. p firemen made severil darln* ree- of other Imperilled tenants. [JISIANA HOTEL BLOCK BURNS OUT Will*, La. April *>.—fire from so nn- ; cause Prose ost this "lornlng ‘"til hotel, end spread mphHr- ■g l» bandings end 26 Inurtueee dm*. Inglba First National bsuk sad Uts- t-mniaieu wrw**rn h insurance of sbout "S(S>o.» rut *00,000. and $100,* directorate nwnuu-. •» » rest made on the complaint of the In ternational policy holders* committee. It was understood that many more arrests of officials high In the councils of the New York Life and of the Mutual Life Insurance companies are to be made within a few days. Assistant District Attorney Howe made on affidavit that Frank had ad mitted to him forging the name of Oebhard. Frank was held In $1,000 ball for examination. GOGGOOt^OOPPOPOOPPPPPOWW 0 SUMMER WEATHER HERE: P 0 WINTER IN GREAT LAKES. P a While Marquette, Abilene, Hu- 0 O ron and the Great Lake region Is 0 O Still Struggling along with a tern- P O perature running as low •*5*i * 2 O ‘Mow’’ of 80 only was recorded for P O Atlanta within the 84 hours end- 0 a Ing at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning. 0 , Fven El Paso marked a low 0 D of 40. So It Isn't worth while to o O get grouchy about condltlone here, P 0 after all. 0 O “Rain and colder Tuesday night; 0 O Wednesday clearing and colder. P 0 Tuesday temperatures: O O 7 o’clock s. m o 0 8o’clock “2:E!2:.o 0 I o'clock a m O 10 o'clock a m O tl o'clock a m. O 18 o’clock noon O 1 o'clock p. m. O 8 o’clock ix m ..85 degresa -P . .88 degrees. P ..71 degrees. O ..74 degrees. P ..78 degrees. P . .78 degrees. P PPOPPPOPOOPPOOPOPPOPOPPOPP Atlanta, Ga., February 13, 1907. Mr. F. L. Seely, Care The Georgian, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir: We beg to notify you that Mr. J.R. Gray has advised us that inasmuch as he had decided that the examination of the circulation of The Journal AS PER OUR ORIGINAL AGREEMENT SHOULD NOT BE MADE, we have made arrangement with him to make such examination for The Journal. Very truly yours, THE AMERICAN AUDIT COMPANY, Per C. B. Bidwell. SOME JOURNAL “METHODS” The JotuftraFs €4aim"fo$*‘NoY. published in Nov., 52,512 The Journal’s Claim for Nov. published April 22, 48,589 American Audit Company finds ..... 40,000 American Association Advertisers, in that certifi cate to which Journal refers as correct, gave . 34,666 FIRST SHOT’ IS FIRED INTO F0RAKER CAMP Secretary of War Taft, who i( generally regarded as Mr. Roosevelt's choice for the Republican nomination for the presidency, it now in Ohio, getting the boys lined up. Senator Faraker, who it supposed to havo presi dential aspirations, is also at work in Onio.—Newt Item. SHOOTS HER SON WOMANSLAYS SELF It Is Thought Rhode Island Woman’s Mind Is Unbalanced. Providence, R. I., April 30.—Mrs. Louisa Holden, aged 40. loot night shot and almost Instantly killed her hus band, Lee 8. Holden, then turned the revolver on her son, Louie A. Wil liams, 15 years old, shooting him In the head, inffictlng a fatal wound. 8he then shot herself In the head, dying at tho Rhode Island hospital. It Is believed she was demented. 0POO0O0O0OOO0OPOOOO0OO00G0 P O 0 POPE HOPES ROOSEVELT P P WON’T GET LIFE TENURE. P O ' 0 P Rome, Italy, April 30.—Pope p P Plus today was much Interest- p 0 ed In the apparently serious re- 0 P port In a Rome newspaper that P P a movement had been started In P P the United States to elect Theo- P P dore Roosevelt president for life. P O Tho pope expressed the hope that P P this was not true. p 0 P 0000000000000000000000000O T IT TWO KILLED Guatemalan President Is Mangled, But Will Recover. Washington, April 30.—What enmo near being a successful attempt to as sassinate President Estrada Cabrera, of Guatemala, was made this morning by a bomb thrower, while the president was out driving In Guatemala City. It Is understood that the president was seriously Injured, while the eonch- man and an attache acompanylng tho executive were kilted, the horses were slain and the carriage demolished. It Is understood that If Guatemala re fuses to honor the request of .Mexico for the extradition of General Jose Lima, who 1s wanted there In connec tion with the reoent assassination, diplomatic relations between the two countries will be broken off. ’ PUPILS OF BELL STREET PAY VISIT TO GEORGIAN THE BELL STREET SCHOOL; Miss Gatins Brings Her Upper Grades to See a Modern Newspaper Plant. Bell street school was The Georgian's vis itor Tuesday afternoon. Th« term of xrbool la drawing to a close, and It tips l>een found necessary to give other days than the usual Fridays for these visits of tho school children td The Georgian's plant. In order that every school In tho list n»«y lie given nn opportunity to pay Ita visit be* fore the summer vacation. Bell street school has no eighth grade, but Its saventh Is a large one, and a number of the older pupils of the sixth grade joined the party. The visitors were shown Into the local department, where news Is gather* ed and written, given an Interesting lecture on tb# way a modern newspaper Is printed, and showu Into the composing room, where ‘'copy' Is converted Into type and the metal forma" made up for the different pages. They were taken to the stereotyping rooms In the basement, and, last of all, were shown the big Oosa press, with Its flying rolls of white paper at.one end nod the finished Georgians tumbling out at the other. The teachers and pupils who were Invited to visit The Georgian were: Teachers. Miss Nell Gatins, Principal: Miss Hmtnii Wesley. Assistant Prlucl Miss Cedis Lnmlnuer. Seventh Grad Moliio OoUUt.ln, Frances Barfield, Mollis Kllman, Frances Kenny, Will Hlrnms, Parle Itnssell, 8am Herman, (lersbon listing. Keans Bracewell, Mike Cohen, (Havener Hogan, Florence Mann, Wolf Pheffer. Ida Bokrltuay, Esther Cohen, Kara Cohen, Ora Green, Annie Solo way, Etta Tltlehanm, Sadie Weinberg. Bessie Yatnpolakjr. Becky Klimsn. Mollle Uottlleb, Nannie Crmncr, N' irail Taylor. Oertrode Jordan, Kiln Hcbwalowltx, Bale Klnkovlts, Mike Krl.’k. I«f)uis Kaufman, Joseph Ynnij.olhky, Charles Chomsky, Paul FrMmnu, Walter Iju v. Colquitt Ptrktr, IJxxlo Cohen, Irene Fox. Ida Meyers. Nora .Solomons. Manic Whlttnkf Mad«e Wright, Growth and Progress of the New South The GeorrUn record, her, each day «om, economic fact In rafercnca to tho onward march of tha South. JOSEPH B. LIVELY. Shipment, of lead apd xlnc ore from tha Kansas-Missouri district for tha week ended April 18 amounted to 11,815,880 pounds of zinc, valued at 8886,(33. and 8,031,033 pound, of lead, valued at 385.513. Messrs. W. B. Kinston, E. L. Kington and O. M. Kington havo Incor porated the Kington Coal Company at Morton, Oap. Ky, with a capital stock of 3100,000 fog the purpose of operating coal mines. It Is stated that a railroad will be constructed from Mortons Gap to tbe mines. Tho Jackson Cool and Coke Company of Petersburg, Va, will exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition a block of Pocahontas coal weighing nine tons. This Is said to be tho largest piece of coal ever mined, and wan produced from the mines of the Milt Creek Cool and Coke Company In West Virginia. The Lone Star Lignite Mining Company has been organized at Dallas, Tex., with a capital stock of 8800,040 for the purpose of mining lignite In Hopkins county. That another Important and large plant for manufacturing Portland cement will be established at some point In the southwest Is Indicated In the announcement last week of the granting of articles of Incorporation to the Southern States Portland Cement Company, of Dallas, Tex. The com pany haa a capital stock of 13,000,000. A report o£the building Inspector of Baltimore, Md., for .the first three months of the present year shows the total of building operation, during that period. Including new structures and additions, to represent an ex penditure of 81,117.814.50. This estimate does not Include municipal Im provements. A summary of tha report shows that new improvement, were made during January to the extent of 8311800, In February 1814,04 ' and in March 1441,137. making a total of 10X0,137. There were Id addition, and alteration. In January, valued at 101.405; 18 In February, valued at 118.335, and 61 In March, valued at 850,137.50, in iking a total of tl.'v- 417.(0. Of the new structure, for which permits were ..-cured during the three months referred to there were 457 dwellings, valued at 3805.8 m; 18 warehouses ami factories, 3118,(37;' I newspaper oftlce (addltloni. 18.000; « stores. 317.700: 1 bank building, 330.000; 1 apartment house, 335.000. and 1 office building, 810.000.