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The Weather: Following «re ;h<' ln mirations t° r Atlanta ,„d vicinity: Cl«rine Jid cooler tonight; tnlr Atlanta Georgian (and news) Spot Cotton: New York, Hteafly; 12.08. 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. OOO0OO000OO0OO0OO00OOOO00O o 0 0 BATCH OF 8UNSHINE O IS DUE ON THURSDAY. O O Another streak of clear weather O o Is about to come In algHt, accord- O a lag to the forecast. Along with O O It the temperature #iU show low- O O er. Forecaet: O O "Clearing and cooler Wednesday O 0 night; Thursday fair.” O Wednesday temperatures; O 7 a. m. .. 04 degrees O t n. m. .... .. .. <4 degrees O .. .. .. ..(4 degrees 0 O In i in. O 11 a. m. 0 12 noon. .07 degrees 0 ,72 degrees O ..74 degrees O ..74 degrees 0 ..74 degrees O 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." se*— *