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VOL. V. NO. 270.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 15,1907.
PPTrnr. In Atlanta: TWO CENTS.
A IVJ.V.CJ. on Trains: FIVE CENTS.
Union Goes on Record
at Meeting on
Wednesday.
WAREHOUSE PLANS
• ARE TAKEN UP
Business Agents Meet at
Capitol and Hold Exec
utive Session.
The Farmers’ Union of Georgia has
gone officially, on record as opposing
the present Immigration movement In
this state.
That such action would take place
was predicted in The Georgian more,
than a week ago. On Wednesday about
300 warehousemen, county officers and
business agents of the union met In the
hall of representatives at the cspltol.
A resolution condemning the immi
gration movement and calling on the
coming general assembly not to make
any appropriation to further the move
ment of the Georgia immigration So
ciety wab Introduced by Colonel W. L.
Peek, of Rockdale county.
Speeches favorable to the text of the
resolution were made by several mem
bers present, but there was no dissent
ing voice. The resolution as originally
drafted was finally passed by a unani
mous vote of those present.
Undesirable Citizens.
The union opposes Immigration on
the ground that undesirable citizens
will be brought Into the state; that
they will crowd the native Georgians
out of the factories by working for
lower wages, and that the admission it
so many will Increase the production of
cotton and lower the price.
During the meeting Wednesday
morning a number of committees were
appointed.
The question of Farmers’ Union
warehouses will be discussed at length
Wednesday afternoon, find the plan put
forward by President Harvle Jordan,-of
the Bouthern Cotton Association, at
the Birmingham meeting will be taken
up. It Is stated that the Farmers’ Union
will go on record os opposing the plan
recommended by Mr. Jordan and his
associates and will recommend the
system put forward by the union.
NON-UNION ’LONGSHOREMEN
RUNNING AWAY FROM WORK
ON WHARVES IN NEW YORK
DEFENSELOST
HE IS FREE
Tells Story of Early Affair
and Disappointment in
Love.
'The starting of this story about me
and Doolittle was a damn contemptible
trick and I'd like to smash the face of
the man who started It. It's a lie from
beginning to end."
That Is how Fred Bush, In the Tower,
charged with having sent an Infernal
machine to Miss Kathryn McCarthy,
begin an answer to a question put to
blm Wednesday by a Georgian re
porter.
This question was In reference to a
ease told of by Dr. Willis B. Parks In
The Georgian on Tuesday. After ex
pressing himself about the man who
•tarted the theory now held by the po
nce, Hush denied positively that such a
case could apply to him.
"I am not one of those freaks of hu
man nature," he Said. "I am a plain,
normal man, who was working hard
and doing the best I could to get along
m the world, when arrested fbr a crime
about which I know absolutely noth
ing.
I don't like to parade my affaire be
fore the public, but I might eay that
•cvernt years ago I was very much In
love with a young girl about 15 years
oi age. it was my Intention to make
ner nty wife when she became oldor.
one. ruined this plan by falling In love
»ith another man and marrying him.
It doesn't matter who she Is. I have
1,1 forget that.
Then for a time I paid no attention
*, nra, ‘n and stuck to business. Late
ly. however, I have been renewing
woman acquaintances and I had full*
.mu"' ,0 « et married, next year. 1
VTII have no trouble establishing my m-
^’“"ce and I will then carry my mat
rimonial plans to a conclusion."
Roads Enjoin
Commission
"''hmobd. Vs„ May 16.—The Norfolk
Jr ' v '"tem, Atlantic Coast Line, and
vtinapeaks and Ohio railroads se-‘
red an order today restraining the
»?V :ulon commission from enforc-
,,iwo-cent rate. The order, which
Prt.,vl t ”"! ary ' w “ Issued by Judge J. C.
■oiw, c 1 ln ,h « United Statei* circuit
a.-, "*f« and the precedence Is slm-
• mj W a y lh ** Instituted by the Bouthern
New York, May 15.—The crisis ln
the longshoremen's strike was reached
today and the indications were that
with the arrival tomorrow from Eu
rope of J. Bruce Ismay, president of
the International Mercantile Marine,
the International steamship lines, com
prising the trust, would capitulate.
The giteamshlp companies are mak
ing little progress with their efforts
to break the strike. They are unable
to hold the men Imported as strike
breakers, although they are compelled
to work on the piers under guard. As
fast as they cah they are running
away,, escaping In boats by the water
front or braving the ■ mob In .West
street, rather than work under such
circumstances.
Tho striking longshoremen are confi
dent of eventual victory owing to .thf.
accession today of the Italian line to
Juror Said He Would
Not Believe Orchard
on Oath.
HAYWOOD’S HEARING
CONTINUES THURSDAY
Sen. Borah Challenged Tal
esman and Judge Wood
Allowed It.
the strikers' demands nnd the signing
of an agreement with Patrick, Twomey,
tho largest employer of stevedores, “
hlro only union men, 1
Here are two typical scenes In
the great longshoremen's strike
in New York city. At the top is
shown a striker under arrest for
demonstrating against strike
breakers, and below Is a view of
the tremendous blockade along
West street. „
SPINNERS’ CONVENTION
OPENS IN PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, May 15.—More than
1,00# delegates, and possibly double
that number of visitors to the conven
tion of the American Cotton Manufac
turers’ Association, arrived In this city
yesterday afternoon and last night.
The delegates and visitors sro from
all sections of tho country.
Vice President Fairbanks, when he
arrives tomorrow, will be greeted at
Broad street station with an ovation,
on one of the stale’s tugs the vice
president will be taken to League Isl
and. where he will be given the offi
cial salute.
South Wants Labor.
Plans for requesting the convention
to take action on the scarcity of labor
In the South were made yesterday
afternoon by a score of owners and
managers of* cotton mills In that sec
tion at an Informal tneetlng. Immigra
tion. the cotton men sny, would great
ly alleviate the altuatlon.
So hampered are eoine of the mills,
the manufacturers explained, that they
are being run on half time.
Mayor Welcomes Delegates.
With the delegates gathored In the
ball room of the Bellvue-Stratford-
where the sessions.wltl'bc held, Mayor
Resyburn formally opened the conven
tion this morning-at 10-o clock. He
welcomed the visitors and a _speech
was made by D. A. Tompkins, of Char
lotte, N. C. Following this the an-
nual address of President Arthur V.
Lowe, of Fitchburg, Mass., was imad*.
A score or more of'papers will be dev
llvered by recognised experts In the
cotton business and by government
officials.
The speakers ‘will be Commissioner
of Immigration E. J. Watson, of South
Carolina: K. W. Robertson. Columbia,
8. C.; Theodore H. Price. New' York;
George Otis proper, llopedale, Mass.;
Charles 8. Barrett, Atwater, Go.; Wil
liam Whlttam, Washington; R. C. Hitt,
Atlanta, Ga.. and Tariff Appraiser Ed
win H.< Hartshorn. New York
In hie vigorous speech which aroused
members of the association to tre
mendous enthusiasm today, E. J. Wat
son, commissioner of agriculture, com
merce and Immigration of South Caro
lina. called on the textile men to exert
every effort to eliminate the political
demagogues who are eeeklng to'ereate
strife In all sections of the country.
Mr. Watson declared the time had
arrived’w-nen all should Join hands In
the elimination of the demagogue whose
mission In' Hfe'se'erHs to Array capital
against labor, section against section,
without regard of their Interests other
than for his own. petty, political ad-
vancement. The remarks created a stir
among the Southern' representatives
particularly,, It being construed by
some .oi an assault on conspicuous
Democrats; while others thought It a
veiled attack on Mr. Roosevelt.
Legal Rate on Losnt.
Edwin W. Roberta, president of the
National Loan and Exchange Dank, of
Columbia, S.' C., In ■ an - address on
"American finance." strongly-urged that
the state governments be asked'to fix
a legal rate for all loans, as well as
for time loans, In order that tho busi
ness man be able to borrow the money
which la now controlled by the specu'
lator.
THROUGH NIGHTS RAIN,
7HE\SAI IN BROKEN AUIO;
MOTHER'S NIGHIOFTERROR
An appeal by a worried and fright
ened mother to the imllce. on Wednes-
day morning at 2 o'flock, to make a
search for her supposed
daughter. later brought to HkhtTbJ
story of a broken-down automobile and
a night spent In the rain In* dark
country road by the * lrl ;. p ™i*
year-old Flora Norton, of 257 Fulton
street, and her escort, Erie Parks.
When the couple put In an appear
ance Wednesday morning, tired, damp
and sleepy, and explained matters to
Mrs. Norton, mother of tbe mtulng
girl the police station was notlftedby
Slephone that the mystery had.been
solved and that the search could be
^According «o the Information re
ceived -by the police, PartTSSWIst
the Norton home In his auto Tuesday
night about 7 o clock “d isked Miss
Flora to take a ride with him. The
girl consented and the couple sped
away from the house In the flying
auto, promising to return In a short
not return. Throughout the lonely
night' the anxious mother remained
awake, waiting and watching for her
daughter.
Finally, the strain became too great
and Mrs. Norton could stand It no
longer. At 2 o’clock - In the morning
she called the police" station by tele
phone and reported the disappearance
of her daughter. Call oncers Gsllsher
and Anderson went to the Norton home,
obtained all Information possible from
Mrs. Norton and began a search.
About 0 o'clock another telephone
message was received at 1 the station,
announcing that the missing couple
had shown up all right. It was then
that the story of the automobile was
developed.
The couple, It la said, rode out Peach
tree road to Buckhesd. On the return
trip, when only a short distance this
aide of Buckhead, the machine col
li used nnd all efforts on the part of
Parks to repair It were futile. Finding
there was nothing else to do. the couple
staled that they Ml In the broken-down
machine In the rain alt night. When
daylight arrived they walked t*> Brook.
K if began to rain” The twiod and boarded a trolley car for the
Boise, Idaho, May 15.—Attorney E.
F. Richardson today took up the cross,
examination of the Jurors who have
been passed by the state. Samuel
Wingate testified he lived at South
Boise, and Is a farmer.
Wingate declared Detective McPart-
land'j published statements that
Moyer and Haywood were guilty had
no effect upon his mind. He connects
Haywood with Orchard when he thinks
about the ,cose. Pressed to answer
a question Wingate asserted he Is un
alterably prejudiced against Harry Or.
chard as a witness.
•I would not take Orchard’s oath for
anything," Juror Wingate declared,
and Richardson, who had apparently
sought to disqualify this Juror, changed
his tactics and brought Wingate back
within the accepted class.
Witnesses for the state are arriving.
The first batch of the 164 subpenaed
by the prosecution are to report to the
district court tomorrow morning. Court
reconvened at 11 a. m.
Juror Wingate was ln no wise In
fluenced by the wishes of President
RoosevelL Governor Gooding or Sen
ator Hepburn. Richardson passed
Wingate and Senator Borah questioned
him on his attitude toward Harry Or
chard. •
Borah challenged the Juror and
Richardson resisted the challenge.
Judgo Wood allowed tho challenge nnd
Itlchanlson accepted. The defense lest
a valuable Juror. Judge W 1 thought
the examination had been top brief.
ST. CAfl PASSENGERS
IN SAN FI
Railroad Men Suspended
For Organizing a Labor
Union.
San Francisco, May 15.—Yesterday
was the/worst day of violence In the
street car strike since the Turk street
battle. Throughout the afternoon stones
flew on Mission street from Fifth street
to Twentieth, a distance of about three
miles.
Though nearly 100 policemen, a few
of them mounted, were stationed along
Mission street, a volley was not pre
vented and comparatively few arrests
were made. •
Several passengers were assaulted by
the crowds, numerous strike-breakers
were struck, panes of glass were
smashed and persons slighting from
cars were chaeed and on some In-
stances knocked down and beaten.
SOUTHERN'S VALUES
Road Files Returns at Cap
itol Showing* Half-
Million Gain.
Will Leave for Jamestown
Over Seaboard on
June 7th.
Governor and Mrs. Terrell and mem
bers of the governor’s stair, with their
families, numbering 76 to 100 persons,
will leave Atlanta via a special train
over the Seaboard Friday afternoon,
Juhe 7, at 0 o'clock, for Jamestown.
This special train will have four
Pullman cars, a dining car and a bag
gage car. The party will go for the
Georgia Day exerclsce on June 10, and
the special will reach Norfolk Satur
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, giving every
body an opportunity to rest thoroughly
before the exercises on Monday.
Some weeks ago Invitations were sent
out by the governor to members of his
stair and their families. A large num
ber have accepted, and the special train
will leave with a very happy and con
genial party aboard.
On the return trip the special will
leave Norfolk Tuesday evening, June 11
at 0:10 o'clock. However, those who do
not desire to return by this special may
remain over, as the tickets will be good
by any other regular train of the Sea
board.
This will, perhaps, be the lost official
trip Governor Terrell will make before
retiring from the governor’s chslr.
There will be eighteen American war.
ships in Hampton Roads on Georgia
Day.
HIRED TO KILL,
SAYS KY. WITNESS
Lexington. Ky„ May 15.—Mose Felt-
ner, the star witness for the prosecu
tion In the Hargis murder case, went
on the aland at noon and told In detail
of alleged plots participated In by
Judge James, Alex and Elbert Hargis,
Ed Callahan. B. F. French and others
to assassinate Dr. B. D. Cox, James
Cockrtll and James Marcum. Feltner
swears he was employed by the men
named to help assassinate, all three of
the latter men.
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Returns for tho sixteen trunk, branch
and belt lines of the Southern railway
In Georgia' were filed with the comp
troller general Wednesday morning,
showing an Increase of 500,491 over
last year.
The total returns on the sixteen
lines aggregated 215,007,001,
which amount $2,832,907 stood for
franchise. The return wns made by
Colonel A. B. Andrews, first vice pres'
Ident. The most valuable property Is
the Atlanta and Brunswick division,
returned at 27.582,002. Comptroller
Wright has not yet passed on the re
turn.
Colonel Andrews also testified to the
returns of the Augusta Bouthern, Ala
bama Great Southern nnd the Hartwell
railway. Tho Augusta Southern Is re
turned at 8307,353, and tho franchise
at 115,000; the Alnhama Great South
ern at 3584,608 nnd the franchise at
8168,204; the llnrtwcll rallwny at 828,
177 nnd the franchlso at 3500.
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
MEET III RICHMOND
Two Thousand Delegates
Gather to Take Part in
Big Convention.
Richmond, Va.. May 15.—Two thou
sand delegates are already here for the
Southern Baptist convention, which be.
gins In the auditorium tomorrow night,
when Mayor McCarthy will make the
address of welcome and Dr. Dickinson,
of Birmingham, Ala., will deliver the
annual address.
The conference of Sunday school
workers was held this morning.
The Baptist Young People’s Union
will also hold Its convention tonight In
the First Baptist church. The main
convention will be held In a new audl
torltfm Just completed by the city, con
house at Carey
verting a large market
and Linden streets Into
public meetings.
. large hall for
GOMPERS LEAVES
ON TOUR SOUTH
Washington. May 15.—President
Gompers, of the American Federation
of Labor, will leave Washington tO'
night for a missionary tour of the
South. He will address mass meetings
at Atlanta, Birmingham and Jackson
vllle.
JURY IS SECURED
TO TRY LYLE CASE
Special to The Georgian.
Waycroas, Ga., May 15.—At 10 o’clock
this morning the laat Juror for the trial
of Harry E Lyle, charged with murder
ing his wife and baby, was secured. All
except one of the new seventy-five
talesmen were exhausted before the
Jury was completed. Nearly two hun
dred talesmen were examined yester
day and today.
Juet before noon the first witness was
examined for. the state.
The hearing of the case will doubt
less consume three days. Solicitor Gen
eral W. W. Osbdhte, of Savannah. Is
conducting the esse for the stale In
place of John W. Bennett, who. Is III.
A. Wilson. W. W. Lambdln and John
C. McDonald are assisting him. J. L.
Sweat and John T. Myers represent the
defense.
TWO CHILDREN
PLACED IN HOME
With their mother held In the county
Jal! on a serious charge, and with no
father or other relatives to cars for
them, little Annie Mae and Ethel 8teed,
and ( years old, respectively, were
turned over to the care of the Home for
hours fiew past and slUl the couple dld^ city.
Ol the Friendless by Chief Turner, of the
00000000000000000000000OO0 county police, Wednesday afternoon.
Missouri Federal Judge
Decides Against H.
Clay Pierce.
H. CLAY PIERCE.
By Missouri Judge's decision ha
must go to Texas to answer to the
charge of perjury.
t.- Louis, May 15.—Federal Judge
Adams has decided that H. Clay Pierce,
the hedd of the Watcrs-Plerce'oiiCom.
pany, under Indictment In Texas for
perjury In connection with the Stand
ard Investigation, fnust return to the
Lone Star State to answer the charge.
While SherlfT Mathews, from Texas,
Is In attendance at. the court and 1s
awaiting the deliverance of the
magnate Into his hands, nn appeal will
be taken, tho method of which will be
decided this afternoon. The attorneys
In the esse are fighting hard nnd the
outcome Is being watched with tho
keenest,ln(efos_L " „ ,x_ .,!!
Judge Adams this afternoon grunted
an appeal In the case of H. Clay Pierce
to the United States supremo court
from the order turning Pierce over
to the Texas authorities. The bond
Is 3100,000, which was furnlshod.
The attorneys clashed In the argu
ments at the hearing of tho habeas cor
pus May 11. Judge Priest, represent
ing Pierce, twlce'addresied the court,
and In closing his argument he de
clared that both he and his client knew
that the prosecution of Pierce In Texas
was not In good faith, but that Pierce
had been Indicted for an ulterior pur
pose, and If he woe taken to Texas this
fact would develop. He attacked the
sufficiency of the IndlctmenL
Report of Probe Made
by Commerce
Commission.
ANTI-INFLATION
LAWS SUGGESTED
Expected Suits Will Follow
Dissolving Contracts
and Agreements.
Washington, May 15.—The Inter
state commerce commission report on
Its long nnd sensational Investigation
of the Harrlman raljroad combination
has been completed. *
’The document of twenty-five printed
pages. Is by far the moat sensational
Over put out by the commission. It
finds:
That railroad competition has been
absolutely ended ln a area equal to
one-third of the United States, where
Harrlman Is absolute master.
That Harriman’s contracts with the
Rock {stand, the Southern Pacific, the
Santa Fe, the Illinois Central nnd tho
San Pedro roads .are in violation of
the anti-trust act add recommends
that the attorney general proceed
against them.
That the purchase of the shares of
one railroad by another Is a bad prac
tice that ought to he stopped by law.
Alton Dtal Condemned.
That thorn should be new and effec
tive laws to prevent Inflation of se
curities like that In the Alton reor
ganisation. which Is described In most
effective language.
The profits of Jb® great railroads of
the far West nre being used to buy
stocks and contrql systems In, the East,
Instead of In building more roads for
the development of the West, as they
ought-to be.
Attorneys Frafik B. Kelltgg and
Charles A. Severance, who wrote the
report for the commission, find thst
the Harrlman reorganization of the 41-
ton whs "one of the most r<-mnrkablo
cases of manipulation and slock water
ing ever known,” and they demand that
laws bo passed which shall stop such
practices In future.
- Stops Completion of .Road,
It Is declared that tho combination
of the Union and Southern Pacific sys
tems hns been so powerful as to pre
vent tho building of the Snn Pedro road
from Balt Lake to Los Angeles ns nn
Independent line. The report goes to
Attorney General Bonaparte.
WIRE JUMPING ROPES ARRIVE;
AWAIT HOLDERS OF COUPONS
The Queen Wire Jumping Ropes offered by The Georgian in ex
change for coupons clipped from this newspaper have arrived, and hold*
ert of coupons are requested to call for them st their earliest conven
ience, bringing the required number of coupons.
The Georgian announced Tuesday that the shipment of jumping repss
ordered hid not arrived, but they canto in Wednesday morning, and there
will doubtless be enough for all.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian records hero eeeh day some
economic feet la reference to the sowar*
nsrch of tbs S'oulh.
JOSEPH B. LIVELY.
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index says In Its Issue of this
week;
“Municipal Improvements, large projected lumber manufacturing
plants an dextenslve Investments to be made In other. Industrial lines,
plants and extensive Investment In over fifty cities and towns of Georgia
and Alabama, Including more than ono tn a number of them, five banks
and twenty-five new corporations with total minimum, capital stock of
8875,000, are features of reports to The Index for the past seven days that
tell In figures and few words the wonderful growth and prosperity of the
two states, and Indicate the advantages that they offer to home-seekers,
manufacturers and promoters of general commercial enterprises.
"In the following cities elections have' been ordered upon the Issu
ance of municipal Improvement bonds: Mllledgevllle, Ga. city hall and
auditorium; Forsyth, Ga.. sewers; Sparks, Ga., waterworks; Mansfield, Oa„
school building, and Adel, Ga„ lighting plant. Athens, Ga, will ask au
thorisation by the legislature for the Issuance of bonds for erecting
school buildings. An election will be ordered In Olynn county. Georgia,
upon the Issuance of 276.000 of court house and Jell building bonds. New-
nan. Os., has voted bonds for constructing electric lighting plant, and
Rome, Ga., has voted an Issue of 2160.000 Tor waterworks Improvement,
sewers and street Improvements. In addition to numerous resiliences
and business buildings to be erected, the following are noted: $26,000 au
ditorium, Forsyth. Ga.; church#*, Sheffield, Ala., Sparta, Ga. and Good-
water, Ala.; 2760,000 tourist hotel, 8avannah. Ga.; five school buildings;
sewer plans In three cities and paving plaits In five; 810.000 cold storage
warehouse at Albany, Ga.. and cotton warehouses at Tuscumbla, Ala..
and Florence, Ala., and two bridges. Among the contract awards noted
are: 8200.000 school buildings, Monterallo, Ala.; 820,000 sanitarium. Sa
vannah, Os.; 814,000 bridge near Dsdevllle. Ala.
“The following will be established: Concrete plant, Elberton, Ga.;
fertiliser factory. Gordelei Os.; hors* colter factory and tannery. Florence,
Ala.: 8126,000 oil mllL Summerville, Ga.; 850.000 sewer pipe and brick
plant, and a ihow case nnd office fixtures factory, Mllledgevllle, Ga.;
spring bed and mattress factory. Athens. Oa„ and turpentine plant. Fitz
gerald, Oa. Franchise has been granted for building electric street rail
way at Waycross, Ga.: building of slectric street railway at Griffin. Oa..
Is contemplated: railroad between Haxelhuret. Oa., and Waycross.,Go . Is
projected: 8100,000 will be expended In Improving and enlarging gas
K ant at Augusta, Ga.; 8100.000 lumber mill will be established at Doug-
s, Ga.: Waycross. Os., Is to have lumber plant of 60,000 capacity; prep
arations are being made for the establishment of lumber plant near Savan
nah. Os., to cost about 8600,000; gold mining company with capital stock
of 1500 000 Ms been organized’ In Atlanta. Ga.
"Numerous land deals are reported."
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