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THE WEATHER. For Atlanta ana Vicinity—Fair tonight and Wednesday, with no material change in temperature. The Atlanta Georgian ,Full and Complete Market Reporta are Printed Every Day \ XTT'V XTT71T 7'Cl In The Georgian. A.JM D JN ill W O -•The Bracehrldga Diamonds," a thrilling mystery story. Is now being printed In The Georgian. SPOT COTTON. Liverpool, easier; 8.68. Atlanta, quiet; 11%. New York, qnlet; 11.90. New Or leans, steady; 11%. Savannah, quiet; 11%. Augusta, firm; 11%. VOL. VI. NO. 43. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1907. PRICE: FIVE MEN ARRESTE An Alleged Gang of Thieves Is Be hind Bars. WOMAN WAS IN WEDDING ATTIRE Mrs. Smith Is Charged With Operating “Fence” in Soda Fount. Charged with being an organized gang of thieves that has been ope rat Ing In Atlanta for the last few months. Are white men and one woman have been arrested by Atlanta detectives and are now behind bars at the police na tion. Claude Raynor, the alleged leader the gang, who, the detectives say, has confessed, was to have been married last night to the one woman alleged be In the gang, but was arrested a short while before the wedding bells began to ring. The woman was taken In her wedding clothes. The following compose the alleged conspirators: Claude Raysor. Allen Pates, Marshal Holley, Ed Hayes, Ter rell Butler and Mrs. Blanche Smith, the last named of 21 Walton street. All were arrested In Atlanta with the exception of Terrell Butler, who was taken Into custody In Montgomery. Mrs. Smith operated a soda water stand In the Temple Court building for Word Bros., and It Is here, It Is al leged, that the members of the gani . would bring their spoils and would meet to divide them. In the trunk of Mrs. Smith, the de tectlvea say, they found a number of stolen articles. Detectives Dorset!, Doyla and Tom I.anford made the arrests. All are charged with "suspicion” on the stats docket. Detectives Instead of Fiance. The arrests were made at separate times. Raysor was arrested Monday night before the marriage which had been scheduled with Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith, garbed In her wedding dress, over which she had labored several weeks, It is said, was waiting for her flance at her home In Walton street. Instead of the man she was to wed, three detectives came and took her to the police station, where Raysor was already Imprisoned. According to the detectives, the "swag" that waa taken by the alleged gang consisted of almost anything from money to dress suit cases, umbrellas and clothes. One member would mako a "haul” and take It to Mrs. Smith, It Is charged, at the soda fount and the goods were hidden by her behind the counter. A proper division would be made and each would call around for his share. This la the account of the methods of the gang as told by ths officers. Mrs. Claire MacFarland Un decided About Getting Warrant. New York. Sept. 24.—Mrs. Claire MacFarland, an attractive Southern woman, with a wealth of rich gowns, was undecided today In her apartments In the Hotel Flanders whether to visit the morgues and hospitals In search of her husband, Hyde MacFarland, or ask for a warrant for his arrest on a charga of stealing JS.000 of her money. MacFarland has been missing since Saturday afternoon, and at that time he had *7,800 In cash and travelers' checks In his wallet. Mrs. MacFarland said today: “Of the money my husband had when he disappeared 88,000 belonged to me, and I don't know whether to get a warrant for him or to keep on search ing for him." MacFarland la 45 years old. has clean shaven face, and rather light complexion. He wore a snuff brown suit and light alpine hat. In the hotel he left all of his clothes, with his grips and personal belongings. Mrs. Mac- larland said today that she had sent to her relatives In Atlanta, da., for funds, as her husband had taken all the money they had with them. RACE RESULTS. GRAVE8END. First Race—Bellewether, 7 to 5, won: Big Chief, 4 to (, second: Rampage, * to 6. third. Time, 1:04 3-5. Second Race—Arimo, 5 to I. won: V*rman even, second; Brnncas, X to 2, third. Time, 1:28. L I But Attorney Kellogg Says He Will Have Them. New York, Sept. 24.—Certain trans fer books which show stock transac tions of the Standard Oil Trust dur ing the liquidation period of 1592-00, and which are essential to the estab lishment of the government's cose against the monopoly. In the-suit to dissolve It, are missing. It Is declared today, from the strong box In the vault of the trust at No. 28 Broadway. Special Attpmey Kellogg has re peatedly asked for the books and smooth promises with strings to them have been made that they would be produced. But they have not been brought forth, and persistent search by Federal accountants In the Broadway headqunrters of the trust have failed to bring a trace of them. Now It la hinted by Standard officials that per haps they are gone. , In order to show the present Stand ard Oil Company has the same old membership which the supreme court of Ohio ordered dissolved In 1892, mas querading under a new face, Inquisitor Kellogg must have the books. They are vital to the government's case. It was remarked clearly enough today that jail terms *were waiting for some well-known oil men If the books were not produced. "We shall get those books," Mr. Kel logg said. "We mean to have them.' Benton Testified Again. Robert D. Benson, the Tidewater Oil Company official, who on yesterday told of the contract between that com pany and the Standard subsidiary com panies to supply export oil In return for a supply of crude oil from the main Standard Oil Company, again took the stand this morning, when tha Investi gation Into the Standard was resumed n the Federal building. It was understood at the opening of the aasalon that soma, time during the day Anthony N. Brady, the trolley magnate, would be called to testify. Brady, It Is sold, with Banker E. C. Benedict, sold the organisation known as the ManhriTtan Oil Company to the Standard, with nn understanding at the same time that the Standard would furnish crude oil for gas purposes to the Chicago Goa Light -Company. He waa expected to tell what he knew concerning the Manhattan purchase, which has thus far been shrouded In considerable mystery. CHEAPER US COTTON IS KING! Believes Whole Issue Should Go to R. R. Commission. COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN THURSDAY President Arkwright’s Plea Is to Be Let Alone By City. OIL TRUST MUST PAY BIG FINE Chicago, Sept. 24.—The Standard OH Company received a body blow yes terday In Ita fight to escape the *29,- 000,000 fine Imposed by Judge Landis for rebating. The blow came In the shape of a de cision by the United States circuit court of appeals, sluing at Dehver, to the effect that the new Hepburn act does not render Immune from prosecu tion certain other offenders who In dulged In rebating before It became a law. This waa one of the principal argu raents on which the Standard sought i establish their case. The case that waa that against the Oreat Northern railway of giving un lawful rebates apd the road was lined 115.000 at St. Paul. The road appealed from the verdict and the court at Denver sustained the lower court. In the appeal the Great Northern set up the contention that section 10 of the Hepburn law repealed section 1 of the Elkins law. ISH REPORTED T( New York, Sept. 24.—It was reported in Wall street this afternoon that Stuyveeant Fleh had eocured the prox- of a majority of .the stockholder* of the llllnoii Central railroad, from which was ousted as president by E. H, Harriman. The definite reeulta of the efforts of Mr. Fleh and Mr. Harriman oontrol the road will be seen at the annual meeting of the atookholdera on October 16. WEATHER 18 IDEAL O AND WILL CONTINUE. O O _ _ man haa any complaint O about the brand of weather pre- O vailing In this section now. Jus h mighty hard to please. Clear, O bracing, with a tinge of fall In the O evening. And how one con sleepl O Outlook: "Fair Tuesday night and Wed nesday." Tuesday temperatures: 7 o'clock a. m. 8 o'elock a. m. 9 o'clock a. m. 19 o'clock a. nu ll o'clock a. m. 12 o'clock noon. 1 o'clock p. m. I o’clock p. m. .67 degrees. ..68 degrees. ..71 degrees. ..74 degrees. ..78 degr- ..79 dcgv •» ..SI degree*., i ..S3 degrees. J ■ O ODDODD00000000000000000000 The first session Monday ‘of the com mlttee on electric lights, telegraphs and telephones, which Is considering joint ly with the committee on electric and other railways, the resolution by Coun cilman Terrell, looking to cheaper gas, street car fares and telephone rates, proved a lively one, as had been an ticipated. * The meeting was held at 8 o’clock. The corporations were represented by Preston Arkwright, president of the Georgia Railway and Electric Compa ny, and T. K. Glenn, vice president; G. W. Brine, president of the Atlanta Gaa Light Company; Edwin Johnson, man. ager of the publicity department of the Georgia Railway and Electric Compa ny: W. B. Roberts, lpcal manager of the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company, and C. J. Simmons, president of the Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Company. President Arkwright was the spokes man for the street car company and the gas company. He spoke at length and with great feeling, and apparently became angry once when Interrupted by Councilman Terrell. Arkwright 8howt Temper. "I was very careful," he remarked with feeling, when Interrupted, "not to Interrupt Councilman Terrell during the course of hie address, and I would ask the same consideration for myself. After I am through, I wilt be glad to answer any questions, whether they are asked for Information or merely to con. fuse me.” The following members of the Joint committee were present: Aldermen Qullllan, Curtis, Hlrsch and Beutell and Councllmen Huddleston, Pomeroy, Grant and Terrell. The resolution by Councilman Ter rell provides that council request the railroad commission to reduce street car fares In Atlanta to eight tor a quar. tsr; reduce gas to 75 cents per thou sand feet, and fix an ascending scale of rates for the telephone companies, with II for the first thousand and 121-2 cent* for each succeeding thousand, which would make the present rate of the Southern Bell about *2.50. Reach No Conclusion. It was decided to take up Monday afternoon only those sections of the resolution applying to the street car company and the gas company. The committee adjourned at 5:10 o'clock without having taken any definite ac tion, and will meet again Thursday aft. ernoon at 3 o'clock. The discussion of the resolution was begun by Councilman Terrell, who, armed with a stack of figure* and doc- uments, proceeded to show how much cheaper other cities were getting their car fares and their gas. New York.” he said, "has 80-cent gas—at least this rat* haa been ordered. jo* Angeles pays only 80 cents. Mll- waukeo the same. Binghamton has 85-cent gas, and Duluth and Louisville pay only 75 cents. Why can't we get gaa any cheaper? "I am Informed the gas company employs negro labor almost entirely. This Is much cheaper than the labor employed In these other cities. We get coal cheaper than some of these cities. Why, then, are we paying so much for gas? I know of no reason outside of the bare fact that the monopoly has the right to charge what it pleases, and It pleases to charge us 81 at this time. Look at Sheffield, England, with 32- cent gas. How do you account for that7 And still, r daresay, money Is made In Sheffield at that rate. Gat Sometimes Only Wind. 'I give you these figures not prima rily to show you that gas In Atlanta should be reduced to 76 cents or any other named figure, but merely to show that we ought to send the matter up to the railroad commission, which haa the power to get the real facts and to make a thorough Investigation, and which has the authority to order a reduction If the investigation shows that a reduc tion should be made. 'My complaint Is not altogether with the rate. It is also with the gas, which sometimes, I think. Is mostly wind. I also want the commission to make rules and regulations governing the gaa company, which will embody a thorough system of the meter Inspec- tlon. "The railroad commission will do what's rlgbt about It. The commission has an expert to make the Investiga tion. The commission has the power to order the books of these corpora tions to be brought before It. We can do no harm by turning this matter over this body." 'Taking up the street car situation. Councilman Terrell cited Cleveland. De. trolt. Toronto. Chicago and other cities. "In Cleveland," he said, "one com pany sells fares seven for a quarter and another for 3 cents straight. In (Editorial in Sunday’s New York World.) Atlanta will offer an impressive sight on October 7, when hundreds of the foremost representatives of the cotton-spinning industry of Europe andtheUnited States will meet in conference the cotton growers and ginners of the South. No better illustration could be furnished of the progress of' international co-opera tion in agriculture, manufacturing and trade. Here is a voluntary movement vir tually world-wide in extent which has for its purpose important improvements in the production and exchange of one of the great staple products of the soil. As is told elsewhere in The - Suniay World, the European delegates to the Atlanta conference will represent 90,000,000 cotton spindles and the American manufacturers 25,000,000. On the other hand, the Southern States which they will visit yield on the average about four-fifths of the world’s cotton supply. For the last fivo years the United States crop has ranged from 10,000,000 to 13,500,000 bales of 500 pounds each, of which eleven states, with Texas at their head, are the sole producers. In annual value this one crop can he safely put at $600,000,000. It was never truer than today that Cotton is King when so many of his lead ing subjects are preparing to pay him reverence. Will Atlanta School Children Be Treated as Well? The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company has conceded a half fare to all school children. When the effort was first made to secure reduced rate tickets the company refused on the grounds that to do so would be in violation of the new anti-pass law in Alabama. Popular feeling was aroused over this refusal, and the result has been that, under advice from the Railroad Commission that one-half fare tickets may be is sued just as excursion tickets are issued by the railroads, the street railway com pany has decided to make the concession. $80,000 A YEAR IS SAVED TO CITY AND CITIZENS President Arkwright Estimates Amount of Reduction by His Company on Rates For Light and Power. Eighty thousand dollars a year for the next five years—a total of *400,. 000—la the. saving for the city of Atlanta and for private consumers of electricity as a result of The Georgian's advocacy of municipal ownership. The estimate Is thst of Preston Arkwright, president of the Georgia Railway and Electric. Company, made Monday afternoon before the Joint committee from council, which la considering a resolution to reduce the price of gas, of street car tares and of telephones. Of the total saving, according to President Arkwright, ths city Itself will save 825,009 a year, or *123,000 for the five yenis of the contract, and prlvats consumers will save 855,000 *a year, or 8275.000Jor .tlie five years—a combined total of *400.000. As the result of a strung campaign for municipal ownership. In which Ths Georgian Insisted upon and established the fact that the Atlanta pub. lie was entitled to cheaper electric lights and poweT, the Oeorgta Railway and Electric Company offered the city a five-year contract that fixed the rates for the city’s lights within reach of those for which a municipally- owned plant could do the work. The Georgian Insisted that this bid be not accepted unless a similar re duction was made to private consumers. The company later agreed to a reduction of about ths same nature :o tbs consumers as was offered ths city—about 20 per cent. The contract waa signed for five years. President Arkwright says ths revenues of the company, as a result, will be 880,000 less * year. Figuring compound Interest for the five year* and also calculating on a natural In crease In business for the company, the total saving for five years will prob ably reach *500,000. TO DEATH BY IT Continued on Pag# Ten. LANDIS GIVES ALTON ITS IMMUNITY BATH; HE FLAYS OFFICIALS Chicago, III., Sept. 14.—A startling sensation was sprung today by Judge Landis In granting an expected Immu nity bath to the Chicago and Alton railway, when he ordered a special grand Jury to summon President James A. Moffett, of the Standard Oil Com pany, of Indiana,'before them with the apparent anticipation of prosecuting him for contempt of court ■ President Moffett Is believed by Judge Landis to bs responsible for ths publication of a pamphlet criticising Landis for the heavy fine Imposed on ths Standard Oil Company and for Im pugning the motives of ths Jurist A second sensation was sprung when the court. In dismissing the rebating charges against the Alton, nsaerted that the penitentiary Is filled with men who have done nothing more nor less than the officers of this company. In his censure of the Alton railroad officials Judge Landis gave reason for ths belief that he was reluctant to dis miss the charges. Today there aro many man In the penitentiary serving sentences for mak ing false entries such as this railroad company compelled Its agent to make,” said Judge Landis. The court then made clear the fact that It was at the request of the attor- ney general that the motion of District Attorney Sims waa granted for the dis missal of the rebating charges. Three Little Girls Vic tims of Maniac Early Tuesday. Governor Declares It Will Remain on Statute Books. STRONG SPEECH AT SYLVESTER Buffalo, N. Y„ Sept. 24.—Three chil dren of Frederick Mund, of 925 Clin- ton street, were strangled to death In their beds by their presumably In sane mother ebortly after 7 o'clock this morning. The victims are Berthn, aged 8; Christian, aged 2, and Helen, aged 8 months. Tho woman had torn tho sheets of the bed Into strips with which to ac complish her mad act Frederick Mund, the husband and fa. ther, went to his work. leaving his wife In an apparently happy frame of mind. An hour later the woman ap peared at the place where he was working and told him his children were dead. Frantic, he rushed home, dragging the woman with him, to find that the horrible atory was true. He ran Into the Street attracting the attention of a policeman, who placed tho woman un tier arrest. ACID POURED FOLK NOT CANDIDATE; WILL SUPPORT BRYAN Missouri Governor De clares For Nebraskan For Nomination. Chattanooga, Tenn.. Bept. 24.—"If the Routhero sad Norfolk sod Western bod lints In my ntste I would mtks them ins- pend operations until they secured n set of employees competent to run trains." This was the statement made hers this morning by Governor Joseph W. Folk, of lllfleourl, who psased through en routs to Nashville. The governor hid been to the James town exposition, and had hid his expe rience with Norfolk and Western and Booth- era railway service on the way down from Norfolk. had'not boon a candidate. He' was fori Uryau, first, last sad all Uio time. GOV. JOS. W. FOLK. Coroner Finds Child Was Poisoned by Parties Unknown. Bpeclal to The Georgian. Macon, Go., Sept. 24.—The coroner's Jury, Investigating the death of Roscoe Arnold, the 3-months-old child found dead In the Door of Hope, returned verdict that the child had been poisoned by parties unknown to them. Several city detectives are now at work and hope to throw some light on the case. The death waa not reported to the police till some time after It had been committed, and they hare been greatly handicapped In solving the mystery. The child's death was pro duced by pouring a quantity of carbolic acid In Its mouth while It waa asleep. MUSE’S CONDITION IS UNCHANGED W. P. Muse, who was badly Injured by falling down an elevator shaft. Is still unconscious at the Grady Hospital. At 2:20 y’clock Tuesday afternoon no change was reported In bis condition. A fi Wants BetterRuralSdiools. Advises Farmers As to , Marketing Cotton. /\ SyTresler, Ga. Sept 24.—Govemoo Hoke Smith, by Invitation of ths of ficers of the Worth County Fair As sociation, addressed a largo gathering of the people of this and adjoining counties today. Many formors were present to bear the address, which was devoted largely to the marketing of tho cotton crop, m subject to which the governor has glv. en much study and upon which he has mads a number of addresses In the past Briefly stated, tho governor's view Is that the cotton growers should hold their cotton and market It through tho year ns It Is needed by tho manufactur ers, and not throw It nil on tha mar ket as soon ns It Is ginned. In no other way. snld the governor, could the crop be kept out of tho hands of the spec ulators, ns the mills do not want to take n year’s supply of spot cotton nt one time. "Let the mills be In the market to buy. rather than the farmer in the market to sell" is tho governor’s Idea. Ho congratulated tho farmers on tho fact Hint tlo-v art-, t-. a large extent, nblo to hold their cotton and to have something to say ns to -what prim .hnll be paid for It AH the people, he snld, arc Interested In the prlco which cot ton brings nnd bankers nnd merchants should co-operate with tho farmers to help soo -that cotton brings Its full value. Tho governor also spoke briefly on tho. prohibition law. nnd the nn in- crenslng the powers of the rn!!rnn-1 commission, and omphnslzed tha ne- cssslty for providing better schools In the rural sections. Prohibition Has Com* to 8tay. BpeakLig of tho recent prohibition legislation, he said In part: "Whatever may have been the view of any Individual In the past upon this subject, now that It has become a law. It must be faithfully enforced. I go further. While we may find that ths bill as passed requires some modlflcs- tho general prlnclpla of preventing tho Mile ..r Intoxicating liquors In this state will remain upon -air statute hooks. I hops no effort will be made to secure legislators at ths next election who aro opposed to stato prohibition. If It la made I am sura It wll bo defeated.'* Railroad Legislation. The governor, In discussing ths blit passed by the legislature, Increasing the powers of the railroad commission and extending Its Jurisdiction over all publlo utility corporations, said In partn "I do not beltovs a more Important piece of legislation has over been pass ed In this state. The effort Is now be ing mado by some of tha representa tives of rallrotd companies to frighten the people on account of this legisla tion, to make them believe that rail road building nnd tho Investment of money In the state will bo brought to an end. The bill Is very similar to the legislation which New York stato haa recently passed. It Is no more stren uous than the Wisconsin law. "It Is Intended to Btop wrongs. Le gitimate Investment for legitimately conducted business has nothing to fear from It "It has always been the policy of this stats to encourage railroad develop ment and to encourage tho Investment of money In the state. The people who really have money to Invest from out side Georgia arc familiar at their own homes with legislation simitar to ours. “If our railroad companies are be ing Injured at present by this legisla tion It Is dus to ths nolso being made by some of tbelr foolish officers. Soma of tho agents In Georgia of tho New York capitalists who own our rail road companies are a little stubborn and unreasonable. ‘They object to any Interference With their conduct Georgia Will Control. "When they realise that the state of Georgia Intends to have voice In tho conduct of transportation companies and public utility companies, they will either modify their present course of conduct or tne owners of the proper ties will see that they are an Injury to the properties they control and will substitute men who can work In har mony with the railroad commissioners. "With the termination of the litiga tion recently started over the reduction of passenger rates, I expect to see a great Improvement In the relations be. tween the rallrotul commission and ths railroad officers In ctrorgla. The com. mission Is compo*<xl of conservative able men. There If no purpose to ds the railroads an lxf.ustlce. None has been done thetmK/ion* will be dono them, but they will not be permitted t« fool the people try subsidising newspa pers to publish/ stories of their woes when no occasion exists for the pub- llcatlons. It <Ji these publications of Continued on Pag* TJxiriseiv