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the weather. For Atlanta and Vicinity—Gen erally fair and continued high tem perature tonight and Thursday. The Atlanta Georgian and NEWS The Georgian is publishing very Complete Reports g of the Legislature’s Sessions. ‘The Bracebridge Diamonds” will be next thrilling Serial printed in TJie Georgian. • - • ' v SPOT COTTON. Liverpool, steady; 7.00. Atlanta, steady; 13c. New York, steady; 12. W». New Orleans, steady; 13c. Au gusta, steady; 13H- Hnvannah, steady; 12%. — VOL. V. NO. 323. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17,1907. On Train,: FIVE CENTS. A VOICE OF AUTHORITY— said: Departments Dodged Responsibility Every Time. FAILED TO SUPPORT GENERAL MANAGER Now Delay Purchase of Pump in Spite of Report of Expert. 00000000000000000000000005 0 MAYOR NAMES COMMITTEE 0 FOR INVESTIGATION. O O Mayor Joyner has appointed the O O following committee to look Into O 0 tit. water situation and report to O 0 council If a further Investigation O O should bo made and what steps O 0 should be taken: Alderman O 0 Hirseh, chairman; Alderman Beu 0 tell. Councilmen Pearce, Styron 0 0 and Longlno. The appointment O O of the committee Is pursuant to a O 0 resolution adopted by council. O 0 The committee will begin work O 0 Immediately. 00000000000000000000000000 For the possible saving of about 15,000 In thirty years, the Joint commit tee of the water board and the council has delayed the buying of a pump for the waterworks about two months and a half: has voted for delaying the pur chase still longer; has gone to an ex pense of several hundred dollars, and has voted for going to an expense of several hundred dollars more. And all this with the Idea of possibly buying a pump that has twice been pronounced a hazardous experiment by save the city, It la estimated, about 15.000 In thirty years. This Is cited as an Illustration of tho methods which have been pursued by the city government relative to the waterworks, and'la given as the cause of the muddy water situation of the past week and the water famine which was so narrowly, averted and Is still threatened, < \ • Some New Information. The waterworks situation brought out some additional facts which had not been put clearly before the public before. The records show that Park Wood ward, general manager of the water works, has, since 1902. been recom mending improvements for tbe water works which he deemed necessary; that he has strongly urged them, and that the city officials have paid no heed to his turnings and no respect to his counsels. The records'show that If his recom mendations had been heeded the water works would now be In good si that If his recommendations It dlately preceding this late crisis had been followed, there would have been no muddy water. The water crisis and the Inves tlons have brought out the fact Colonsl Woodward, the general man ager, Is held responsible for everything that goes wrong with the waterworks department, and yet that he Is not sup ported by the city officials In his rec ommendations for the Improvements of the waterworks. It Is pointed out that his recommendations show this. Dodging Responsibility. Tho records show that after the whole situation has been analyzed and oil the facts known tha real cause of th» recent muddy water was the fact that those to whom are Intrusted the conducting of the city government, rather than take the risk of being Warned, refused to assume the responsi bility In an emergency where risks ■houid have been taken. Out of It all comes an oft-repeated demand of the general manager, backed U P by figures and statistics, that the proceeds of the Waterworks be deVoted to the waterworks. This, the general manager contends. Is the solution, and •be only permanent solution of the waterworks problem, unless the city "111 ultimately let her waterworks go to a private company, to be run as private, gain-seeking corporation men see lit. That Pump Question. ■5s for the pump, the situation Is this: On May s, or about two months and a naif ago, the special committee from ciiuncU and the water board, opened 'be bids for the new pump, and there was only one bid for a vertical pump, the kind the water department wanted, and this was for 2158,000. the bid for the vertical pump was ■Tom the Holly Company. George F. Mllr L of the Southern Hydraulic Engl- b'ertng Company, mnde a bid for a centrifugal pump for 299,200. While this was about 157,000 cheaper. It was •tried that the centrifugal pump, such ", Proposed, had never been tried for this purpose before, and was therefore “n experiment, and that the cost of '■aeration of this pump would more than counterbalance the decrease In Initial Cost. It was about decided. In view of these tacts, to buy the vertical pump, as the situation at the Hemphill station was Jfrinus, but upon the Insistence of Mr- H »rt, an expert hydraulic engineer was '"Caged. Dabney H. Maury, of Peoria, fiU was the man. He recommended the purchase of the . 1 pump, and gave figures to show that. In the long run. It would b* cheap- Mayor Pro Tpm. F. A. Quillian, in a speech on the floor of council Monday, ‘The prosperity of the city of Atlanta does not depend upon the city get ting that $140,000 of whisky license money next year. If we don’t get it we will merely spend that much less. “We won’t have to pay $75,000 a year for an auditorium-armory next year as we did this. “We will have a large increase in taxes from the Georgia Railway and Electric Company. And don’t lose sight of the fact that your committee, Mr. Chairman (Alderman Key was in the chair), and this council, with the splendid assistance, enterprise and forethought of The Georgian, saved the city $25,000 in lights for next year and the four years thereafter. “The taking away of any one thing will not lose us our success. We will continue to live and thrive and to march on to prosperity, progress, growth and future greatness.” L E False Whiskers Cause Prisoner Trouble in Testimony. Baden Baden, Germany, July 17.—A most sensational story, resembling the plot of a society novel, Is connected with the tr|al of Karl Hau, the young professor of George Washington Unt- verslt}’, Washington, D. C., for tho murder of his mothor-ln-law, Frau Molltor, which began today. it Is said Hau will maintain that he disguised himself because he had an Intrigue with his wife’s sister. If this be true, the young woman will bo In a tragic position. To deny that Hau disguised himself to see her will fasten guilt upon him, while to admit the tfuth of the statement will mean her ■•"ci.-i! ruin. A little more than a year ago Hau and his wife went abroad to visit their folks. His father was wealthy and a former member of the relchstag. His a other was a baroness. The father of s wife was court physician to the grand duke of Baden. When Hau and his family—for he had one child—arrived at 1 the home of hi* mother-in-law, the best of rela tions seemed to exist. Toward the last of October Frau’Molltor received a falsified telegram; asking her to visit a married daughter at Parle. When she discovered that, the .telegram was a forgery, she returned to her home and was uneasy. Frau Molltor later received a telephone message, dialing that there was a parcel at the post- office which she could call for. Ac- comnanled by her daughter, Frau Mol ltor was on her way to the postoffice. When passing an alleyway, some one stepped up behind her and fired a bul let through her heart. The police claim the falsified telegram was traced to Hau, which gave the first clew to the perpetrator of the murder. On June 7, Hau was arrested at the Hotel Cecil, London, and placed In Jail. Hau’s wife, unable to bear the separation from her husband, drowned herself In a lake In Switzerland.. She left n tetter, profezzlng her belief In her husband. Before the trial began Hau chatted cheerfully with his counsel. The newspaper men present crowded around the green table fronting the Judge’s bench to inspect the gruesome exhibit of Frau Mollter’a heart In a glass ves sel tilled with alcohol. There Is a gaping wound In the center. Girl's Body Found in Well Special to Tho Georgian. Camilla, Ga., July 17.—Miss Sadie Kirbe, 20 years old, was found dead in a well last night. Miss Kirbe was alone at her father’s farm, east of this place, and It Is supposed that she went to the well for water. A heavy wooden windlass had fallen on her, badly crushing her head and body. Miss Brown Wins Match Augusta, Ga., July 17.—In this mom- Ing’s tennis tournament In the la dles’ singles Miss Kathleen Brown, of Atlanta, defeated Miss Pauline Ver- dery, 6-0, 6-3. The playing of Miss Brown In both today's and yesterday's games has been flrst-clnss. Her Btrokes are strong and shb shows wonderful accuracy In driving the ball. Wire Strife Now Certain IE TOW Must Set Aside Rules to *Put It Vote. to Oakland, July 17.—President Small announced today that peace negotia tions between the telegraphers and tho telegraph companies are off. New York, July IT.—The strike of dnlon telegraphers Is expeoted here at any time, The offirlnls of the Western Union aro storing their offices,with supplies for the strlke-hreakers nnd cots are being provided for their use. Tills Is regarded ns nn Indl- cation that tho company would refuse to treat with their meu nnd tho strike was n certainty: ' An Atlanta official . of the Postal made the following statement regard Ing the salaries paid the employees of that company: ' ’’The visit of Labor Commissioner Neill to San Francisco In connection with the telcgrnphere’ strike at that point, atrords the Postal Telegraph Cable Company the opportunity to sent Its side of tho case to Mr. 1 the public and to the company’s em ployees generally throughout the Unit ed Statee. "The average wage earned and paid telegraphers who work at the key for the month, was 2112.12, or at the av erage rate of 44 2-4 cents perhour. The highest class men are paid at the rate of 299 per month each. These men drew an average pay of 2121 each for the month, the highest drawing 2122.12, the lowest 2119.11, the average pay be ing at the rate of 24 cents per hour worked. 'Day men work nine hours, night men work seven and one-half hours, and late night men seven hours, time worked beyond these hours ■extra' and Is paid for at the rate of seven hours for a day." PIONEER OF MARTHASVILLE DEAD AT ADVANCED AGE; HAD LIVED HERE 67 YEARS Vlrs.CatherineSchikan Rounds Out Long Life. Contiued on Page Seven. Mrs. Catherine Schikan, one of the pioneer residents of Atlanta, and pos sibly the oldest settler and resident, passed away about 10 o’clock Wednes day morning, death resulting .from old age. Mrs. Schikan died at the family home, 115 Oglethorpe avenue. 8he was aged 91 yearn and 6 months, having been bom In Germany In 1826. Bhe moved to Atlanta In 1940 and had lived here continuously ever since. Mrs. Schikan had lived here, there fore, exactly 67 years. She was here when Atlanta was Marthasvllle, and when Marthasvllle was hardly anything but a Wilderness of woods, with here ond there a path leading! to almost H ’r/ lhe comer of Mitchell and Elliott streets, when Atlanta was yet an In- font In her swaddling clothe*. Mrs. Schikan donated to the city several hundred feet of land which she owned, and which Is now a part of MltcheU street. She wss a woman of great public spirit, and almost up to the time of her death she was always In good spirits and delighted to relate the ln- c dents of Atlanta’s earliest days and to tell of tbe wonderful growth of the MRS. CATHERINE 8CHIKAN. She was one of the earliest set tlers In the village of Marthasvllle, now Atlanta. cnee forlorn wlldernets of woods. She is survived by three daughters, Miss Minnie Schikan and Mrs. John Jentzcn, of this city, and Mrs. C. S. Pope, of Waycross. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, at St. An- thonys chapel. West End, Father Jack- son officiating, and the Interment will be In Oakland. That powerful interests are now seeking to defer the enforcement of total prohibition in Georgia until January 1, 1909, Is appar. ent. Realizing this, a meeting of strong prohibitionists both looal and state, was held in Atlanta Wed nesday morning at which it was decided that if this movement is persisted in, the full foroe of the prohibition advocates would be di rected toward pressing the pas sage of a bill and immediate en forcement of the law, instead of deferring it until January 1, 1909, The leaders in the prohibition movement feel that the effort to put off enforcement of the prohi bition act for a year and a half will serve only finally to defeat the entire prohibition movement. It is known that both the senate and the house temperance com mittees are strongly opposed to any clause deferring enforcement longer than next January. The prohibition bill will be up for passage early next week, If It la not displaced by action of the house. Chairman Seaborn Wright, of the houee temperance committee, made the following statement Wednesday morn ing: "Our friends on the outside do not understand the rules of the house as to the passage of bills. All bills must be read three times, or three separate days before they are up for passage. "The prohibition blU has boon read one time. Under the rules of the house It cannot be read a second time until Friday. It will be up In Its order for passage early next week—If not die- placed by order of the house. "I make this statement because of the thousands of Inquiries that come to me as to when the bill will bo up for passage.’' The house adjourned Wednesday to meet again Friday morning. The pres ent Indication are that the prohibition bill will not he put on passage before next Tuesday or Wednesday. DIRT IS BROKEN FOR MONUMENT KpertsI to The Georgian. Perry. (In., July 17.—nirt has been broken here for the fouiKhition of the Confederate monument. The foundation will lw laid nlHiut the middle of August, when there will be i ’ ' It! ►le wee railed when Georgia SKSded ia Ml. 00000000000000000000000000 a a 0 FAIR AND VERY HOT 0 0 18 ATLANTA FORECAST. O 0 0 0 Forecast: O O '’Generally fair Wednesday night O 0 and continued high temperature 0 O Wednesday night nnd Thursday.” 0 O Wednesday temperatures: 0 O 7 o'clock a. m 76 degrees O O 6 o'clock a. m 61 degrees O 0 9 o'clock a. m 12 degrees O 0 o’clock a. m ....8.1 degrees O 1 o’clock a. m 87 degrees O O 12 o'clock noon 88 degrees O O 1 o'clock p. m 88 degrees O 2 o’clock p. m 88 degrees O 0 OOOOOOO0OOO0O0OOQO00O00OOO RACE RESULTS. BRIGHTON BEACH. First Race—Rose Ben. 11 to 6. won: Smoker. 8 to 1, second; Dreamer. 4 to 5, third. Time, 1:18. Second Race—Essex. 15 to 1. won: Caller, 2 to I, second; Dr. Keltli, 8 to 5, third. Time 4:47. KENILWORTH. First Race—Dr. J. F. Altken, 15 to 1, won: Rectortown. 5 to 1, second,' Geo. Swain, evert, third. Tim.- 1298 1-2. Second Race—Dunbeath, 6 to 5, won; Judge Nolan, even, second: Knob Hampton, out, third. Time 4:13. FOUR HOUSE CHAIRMEN L. R. MASSENGALE. He is from Warren ‘county, is chairman of Game and Flab com mittee and Is one of the youngest members, being but 23 years old. BENJAMIN F. THURMAN. Heprcwntuflve of Walker coun ty and chairman of Hall and Rooms committee of the house of repre sentatives. JOSEPH D. BOYD. Representative of Spalding coun ty and chairman of Roads and Bridges committee. CLAUD PAYTON. Representative of Sylvester county and chairman of Public Property committee. SEE THAT LAW IS EKED Fulton County Anti- Saloon League Is Organized. EVERY WARD HAS ITS COMMITTEE To Secure State Law First, and Then See That It Is Enforced in City, MRS. NAN ALINEHOLT INMAN DENIES THAT SHE IS BRIDE New York, July 17.—Mrs. Nanallne Holt Inman, the Atlnnla henuty, beamed like a bride today, but at the same time positively denied being one. Mrs. Inman chatted for a mlnuto with a reporter todny hj she was about to leaVe the Hotel Webster In an automobile. She! had eeen -a alary In a morning paper saying that she and J. B. Duke, the millionaire head of the tobacco trust, were wedded last night. "Romantic little etory, len’t It?" said Mrs. Inman; "but not a word of truth In It. Mr. Duke and I art not married." "When will you be?" wee asked. "Oh, you’ll have to‘ask some one other then I about that," was her - response. GOVERNOR WOULDBRING CORPORATIONS TO TASK Urges- Laws to Com- J ». . . , pel Valuation on Tax Returns. In a special message to the general nesembly Wednesday, Governor Smith calls attention to . the lack, of adequate machinery for forcing big railroads and public utility companies to pay taxes equal to the value of their property. He uses as an illustration the sworn tax returns of the Central and South em railways, as compared with their sworn statements of values In suits In the United States courts to prevent the railroad commission from making cer tain freight reduction*. Governor Smith advocates laws to require the arbitrators to take an oath to fix the true values of property and to swear witnesses. He expresses dis appointment at the failure to widen the power of the comptroller so he could appoint any cltlsen as the state's ar bitrator. The mesoge In full Is as follows: State of Georgia, Executive Deportment. Atlanta, uly 17, 1907. To the General Assembly of Georgia: I have the honor to bring to your at tention the failure of the state to col lect from transportation and public utility companies taxes equal to the talus of their property, and to suggest certain difficulties that surround the present efforts of your executive officers to compel them to pay taxes upon the true values of their properties. Tho feet that transportation companies do not pay the taxes which they Justly iwe the stale can well be Illustrated by ailing attention to the Southern Rail way Company and tho Central of Geor. gin Railway Company. Last year the Central of Georgia Railway Company paid taxes on tangi ble property and franchise amounting to 216,121.688. The Southern Railway Company paid taxee on tangible prop erty and franchise for the same year amounting to 214,277,200. This year the Central of Georgia Railway Company returned Its tangible property and franchise at 219,828,650. The Southern Railway Company re turned Its tangible property and fran chise at 214.884.922. Each of these railroad companies ha* filed a bill In the United States circuit c.ort for the northern district of Geor. glu, to enjoin certain freight reductions 2,415Bales Destroyed in Fire Little Rock, Ark., July 17.—In a Are In the Gulf Compress Company here It la stated Inman Ac Co., of Augusta, loat $150,000. The Are destroyed 2,415 bales, rutting the atock on hand to 5,471 bales. Gives Organ to Church^ ApecUI to The Georgian. Cuthbert, ‘Ga!, July * 17.—Mm." J. J. McDonald ha* given to the Methodist church here a 93,500 pipe organ. The Methodists are Jubilant over their good fortune and highly appreciate the gift. Atlanta nnd Fulton county are to have prohibition. If the legislature falls to pass,the bill now before that body, a local election will be ’held and carried for local option. If the assem bly does pass the >111, Atlantans will see that the law Is enforced In At- l.-intu. Th** Fulton County Antl-Baloptl League has completed Its organidation,v with committee* j’q every wand, tha members pledged to support the pro hibition movement and see that tha l-tw 1m unforced. With James L. Mayson, city attor ney, nnd a man of force and Influence in Atlanta, as president of the league, there is left no doubt of the strength of the organisation which he heads. On the executive committee with Presi dent Mayson are H. Y. McCord, W. E. No will and E. C. Calloway, vice presi dents, and W. H. Terrell, secretary. In seven wards the committees havs bean completely organised and art ready for work. In the Eighth ward the organisation will soon be com pleted. Atlanta's next council will bs composed of men who will support th* law, say the members of the league, and if satisfactory pledges car not bs obtained from those' candidates now before the public, there will be new candidates In the field, with tha strength of the league behind them. The membership of the committees of the various wards making up tha league is given: Executive Committee. J. I*. Mayson, president. II. Y. McCord, ;Vlce president. -.i*/ W. E. Nowili; vice president. E. C. ! Calloway, vice president. ; Dr. E. C. Cartledge, treasurer. W. II. Terrell, secretary. Members—L. A. Redwine, F, L. Seely, M. T. Lallatte, W. T. Nelson. W. O. Foote, noting H. Jones. A. W. Farllnger, \ P. II. Todd, C. H. Mason. E. L. Douglas, W. M. Pharr, H. A. Etheridge, Dr. T. D. Longlno, M. M. Davie*. J. H. McEachern, Malvern Hill, George Gor don, • G. O. Hardwick, Walter McEl- reath, J. JD. Dameron, James Kempton, C. I. Branan, G. T. Eubanks, W. A. Wells. J. L. Loftls. B. T. Johnson. Wil liam Davis Harwell, C. H. Girardeau, Charles Holt. H. D. White, W. H. Hughes, Goorge H. Sims, J. B. Rich ard*, J. E. Wilhelm, JL F. Garrett, M, H. Abbott, W. P, Anderson. E. Y, Clarke, J. H. Harwell. First Ward. II. D. White, chairman; L. A. Flury, secretary. C. H. Mason, J. R. Smith, Paul J. Ba. ker. O. T. Eubnnks, John D. Simmons, Mike Riley. W. A. Fincher, W. W. An derson, John I* Conley, J. W. Starr, W. M. Perryman, Thomas F. Stock., Dr. Freeman Salter, G. W. Abridge, V. M. Alverson, D. J. Ltgan; W. M. Nich ole, Charles McCoy, J. H. Harwell. Charles I. Branan, F. M. Akin, J. H. Merritt, W. W. Ander son, John M. Conley. J. H. Coin, W. C. Continued on Pago Threo. Continued on Pago Three. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian records here etch day some ecouornlc fact In reference to the onward march of the South. BY B. LIVELY lake pine* nt Mobil*. Ala., where a company, which hna capital stock of 9160.000, will expend 950.<m In Improving a to placing building Iota on the market. At Junction City, f systems Intersect, a company has purchased a large tract sn j»ua, Ga., regular weekly lastu. ••With the establishment of manufacturing plants and coincident upbuilding of towns and cities In Geor gin nnd Alabama has come a steady Increase in the rain* of lands. This fact, as It relates to suburban lands, is Illustrated by the sale, reported to The Index this week, of a 30 acre tract at Valdosta, Ga., for 14.000, an advance of 13.100 over the price at which the tract was sold a few years ago. The land will divided^Into building lota and sold. Another suburban land development is to been Incorporated with tract cf 186 acres prior , Ga„ where two railway .. and will found * city. • Six-story, four-story and three-story buildings are items of this week’s con struction news. Industrial development Is steady and substantial. “Among the manufacturing planta lo be established, as reported by Tho In dex, are: “Fertiliser factory. Sheffield, Ala.; foundry, Anniston. Ain.: beading factory, oneonta, Ala • light plant, Calhoun, Ga.; machine shop, Nomsoo. Ala.; projects operation of rbampion, Ala., brown ore mines that have been dosed for several yegra; oil mill, Hwalnsboro. Ga., and enlargement of-oil mill, Wrightsrtlle. Ga.; power plant enlargement, New Decatur. Ala.; atove factory, Augusta. Go.; charter ha a been asked for company which proposes to build an Interurbnn railway between Griffin. Ga.. and Social Circle, Gn„ xrlfh two branches; construction of electric railway lietween Mobile, Ala., and Pascagoula, Miss,. Is proposed, and company baa ’-——ration to manufacture —-* —' -*—*— •* *n. will be constructed: rne following “Hlx-story offliv building. Birmingham. Ala.; four-story Masonic temple, ..v»- dele, Ga.; collseiyn, 190 liy 400 feet, mrmlnghntn. Ala.: Masonic auditorium. St. Si mons Island; $S,0w school building. East Lake. Ala.; possibly $80,000 college building, Talladega, Ala.: 918.000 college building. LaGrange. Ga.; three bridges, two churches, hotel, business buildings and residences, sewer rystem, water works system and paving In three cities. “Three banks, two municipal bond Isaties. elections ordered upon two hood Is- snes nnd sixteen new corporations with total minimum capital stork of $1,266,000 are rejHWted. “Among the contract award* noted are: Synagogue. Went Point. Ga.: three- story business Imlldlng. Mobile, Ala.; pawing. $21,600. Easley, Ala., and sanitarium —t - - —- • - * illdcr has contract to const met