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special Saturday NIGHT EDITION. Atlanta Georgian. VOL. I. NO. 92. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1906. “MOST OF THOSE WHO PROTESTED HAD BEEN DISCIPLINED AT HOME FOR INFRACTION OF THE RULES’ —OR. AMOS FOX. Petition by Soldiers for Investigation Creates a Big Sensation. NO ACTION TAKEN YET BY THE HOUSE The Georgian Recently Made Private Investiga tion of the Home. "Moat of the men who aimed the petition asking an Investigation of the Soldlera* Home were Inmatea who at one time or another had been disci plined for drunkenness or no the other Infraction of the rules," said Dr. Amos Fox Saturday moVning. Further than that he would say nothing regarding the reading In the house of representatives Friday of the petition drawn up by Inmates of the soldiers' Home, asking for an Investl gallon of the management of the Insti tution and protesting against harsh treatment. Insufficient food and other alleged Ills which has caused consid erable of a sensation all over the state. The Soldiers' Home was built by the people of Georgia and wag largely the result of work by Henry W. Grady. It has always been a cherished Insti tution, and the charges of mismanage ment brought out by some of the In mates has aroused a great deal of In terest. The appropriation of *7,600 for a new hospital was passed by the house Fri day, despite the fact that several In mates of the home protested against It ns unnecessary. During the discussion of this meas ure In -the house, Mr. Mtllkln, of Wayne, read the petition from twenty of the Inmates of the home. No In vestigating committee has as yet been appbtnted. THE GEORGIAN HAS MADE INVESTIGATION OF HOME. Several days ago a representative of The Georgian, learning that complaints had been made of conditions at the home, paid a visit to that Institution and made a number of inquiries as to the treatment of the Inmates. Not only was the superintendent Interviewed, but direct questions were addressed to the veterans who are In the home, and who should have no object In conceal ing conditions. No definite complaints of present conditions were made, though almost every man made some reference to his dissatisfaction under the former superintendent, John A. Thompson. The present superintend ent, Captain Robert 1- Barry, himself a veteran, gave every evidence of hav ing the Interest of the men at heart, though he admitted fast he could net provide everything .desired from the funds at his command. "Superintendent Thompson was a former police captain," said one Inmate of the home. "His training did not fit him to care for Invalid and aged men, such ns were In his charge. We were treated very harshly sometimes.” . It was stated that one man was dismissed because he cursed Amos Fox, treasurer of the home, although Dr. Fox was not present at the time. This man had subsequently been per mitted to return to the Institution. Complaints About Former Food. Complaints of the quality of food formerly served were made, and It was slated that sometimes meat was pur chased which was not In good condi tion. No complaints as to tho food served at present were heard. An Inspection of the home showed that the rooms and corridors are kept scrupulously clean. The rooms now used for the hospital are bright and sunny, but are on the second floor, "here It would be dlflicutt to remove the patients should fire break out. They ere too small for the accommodation "f the eight or ten patients usually confined to their beds and the sick men cannot have the privacy desirable. It has been urged that the hospital can be removed to the library room, but this room appeared to be too small and Is not located In a desirable position. captain Barry talked freely of the home and Its conditions. He stated that he had taken charge on August 1 and had not had time thoroughly to familiarise himself with details, but he believed the Inmates were fairly satis- ‘ ‘SHOULD INVESTIGA TE,’’ SA YS BUSH IN HOUSE Mr. Bush, of Miller county, brought Up the Soldiers' Home matter In the house of representative Saturday morning. In voting on the Gor don statue measure, he called attention to the fact that no attention had been paid by the house to the petition presented by the Inmatea of the home. "The house has discriminated against those veterans," he said. "Who say they have been mistreated. I don't know Amos Fox, but I don't care what Fox It is, I think we should listen to the appeal of these old soldiers.” TAKESHELTER Loaded Cartridges Are Fired Into Regu lars. “I AUDI! ACCOUNTS SAYS WM. S. THOMSON William S. Thomson, vice president of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' Home, stated Saturday that there was no ground for the state ment made In the petition that the treasurer's accounts were not audited. “Every month Dr. Fox brings to me the bills contracted during that month and they are carefully gone over by me, as chairman of the finance committee, and then at the quarterly meeting the committee as a whole goes over them. As far as I hove been able to judge from an examination of the goods purchased he gets far better values for the money expended than I could ad an Individual.” “Do you know anything of the personnel of the men who have signed the petition, Mr. Thomson?" “No, I am not familiar with any of the names except that of Clarke. He made a number of complaints some time since, which, on Investiga tion, we found to be groundless. I shall be very glad Indeed if the leg islature will appoint an Investigating committee. We have Investigated matters out there several times and find everything as well as possibly could be for the amount of money we have to spend. Dr. Fox has his heart In the work, and being a veteran, la devoted to tho home, and Is one of the beat friends that It has. GAIN OF $4,038,400 FOR FULTON^ COUNTY In the City Is $2,936,318 and For County Districts $1,102,082—Last Year’s Gain Not Quite Three Million Dollars. A total gain In the valuation of taxable property In Fulton county for. the year 1906 of *4,038,400 Is shown by the annual report prepared by Tax Receiver Armlstead and made public Baturday afternoon. This Is a much larger gain than usual and greatly In excess of the amount expected by Mr. Armlstead. According to a law passed last year, the Atlanta Gas Light Company paid taxes on 3600,000 worth of property to the comptroller gen eral. In past years this amount has been credited t(j_ the county tax valuation. If the old law had rAnalned In force the total amount of gain Would have been 34,638,400. The total gain of last year was not quite three millions. The official figures are as follows: Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Temv, Aug. 11.—Dur ing the sham battle at the Chft-kamau- ga maneuvers several lead bullets were fired by the soldlera either In the First Georgia or Twelfth cavalry. Into oppos ing lines, and a private of the Sev enteenth Infantry was woutded by a bullet In the arm.. Officers are Investigating the mat ter, but It Is believed that loaded sheila were placed In the - ins by mistake. Bullets whlsxsd Into the air thick and fast, and the soldiers ran behind trees nd other objects to escape ‘Injury. Tho First South Carolina regiment has arrived at .the park. The Third Tennessee will go Into ramp this after noon and a Mississippi battalion will arrive soon. Snubbed Because America Flocked to Hear “Parsifal.” District*. 1905. 1906. , Gain. Loss. Adamsvllle *74,370 $69,025 *5,246 Battle Hill .. .. .. 128,735 169,460 40,715 Blackball 603,665 665,426 61,870 Bryanta 109,625 111,610 2,085 Buckhcail .. .... 239,966 241,565 2.500 College Park 399,735 373,565 78,840 654,125 127,290 Cooks 1,439,460 136,415 Eaet Point 836,370 169,885 160,265 146,040 1,225 Hapevllle 141.685 18,670 Oak Grove 344,630 351.960 7.330 Peachtree 1,802.075 352,885 South Bend .. .. 281,640 397,540 116,200 .... !lty and county colored, 1908, 31,308,366. Gain of 1906, *33,866. Total gain, country districts, white 31,084, 690. Total gain, country districts, colored, 338,866, Total gain, all districts, *1,109,666. Total loss, country* districts, *6,470. Total gain, country white, and city and country schools, 11,102,033. City whites, 1906, 366,219,740. City whites, 1906, *68,166,068. Gain, *3.936.318 Grand total gain for county, colored and white, city and country, 34,038.400. Cheatham Is Asked To Resign By the S. C. Cotton Growers Special to The Georgian. Greenville, S. C., Aug. 11.—At Spartanburg today the county cotton growers are In session, and a phone message from there says a resolu tion has been passed calling on Secretary Richard Cheatham to resign. fled under his management. He said he was trying to treat them like gen tlemen, not prisoners, was using per suasion Instead of harshness and had not had a moment’s trouble with any man. "Left to Treasurer Fox." Captain Barry waa not certain Just how much money was at his disposal for the use of the home. These mat ters were left to-Treaaurer Amos Fox. Dr. Fox does all the buying. When ever we want anything wo write an order and he buys it and sends It out," said Captain Barry. No, he has not refused us anything we asked for, that I remember. 1 think he buys a good quality of everything. I don't know anything about the accounts. He draws the money and pays It out. I think the home Is doing very well. Of course, I have heard complaints sometimes, but they are of the kind that old men naturally make. The old soldiers here are living better than moat of them aver did at home." HELD IN PANAMA f( Colombians Are To Be De ported As-Pernicious Foreigners. . _n"-— 1 lly Private leased Wire. Panama, August 11.—The pollco last night capturad seventeen * Columbian former revolutionary generals on the chsrge of conspiring sgnlnst high nat ional authorltlea. The prisoners distin guished themselves by their depreda tions In the interior of the Isthmus. A Mexican named Ruls Sandoval also was taken Into cuatody. All the men urfteated had recently arrived In Pana ma. Secretary Arias refuses to furnish any detalla of tho plot, but Is Is rumor ed that some of the members of Ihe Panama liberal party ara Implicated. Tho prisoners will be deported oa pern icious forlegners. HE USES TOWEL TO KILL WOMAN By Privet* Issised Wire. New York, August 11.—The pollca today arrested Luigi Ouaraldl, aged 33, of No. 16 King street, as a suspect In the murder of Marla Pecora, of 61 1-2 Charles street. He was arraigned In the Jefferson court and remanded to the custody of Coroner Acrltelll. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 11.—A fall, slender man of. dark complexion was being hunted everywhere In the city by the police today In connection with the mysterious murder of Mrs. Marla Pea- cora In her home at No, 63 1-1 Charlea street. Jealousy Is believed to have prompted the crime. According to other occupants of the house, this man, said to be a friend of the dead woman, entered her rooms and left secretly twenty minutes before she was discovered lying on her bed, strangled by a strip of towel twisted tightly around.her throat. Mrs. Pecora was about 10 yean old. Her life Is shrouded In mystery. What she did for a living no one seems to know, but she always had plenty of money, which she kept In the banks while living In miserly fashion. Her husband left her several years ago. She had two children In Chicago and there she sent remittances to them regularly. By Prlrste Leased Wire. Now York, Aug. 11.—Mr. and Mr a. Nicholas Longworth are due from Eu rope thta afternoon on the American liner 8t. Paul. They will go at once to Sagamore Hill and apend some time with President Roosevelt's family. The Sylph, the president's yacht, has gone down the bay to meet them and take them to Oyeter Bay. A cable dispatch from Berlin tella of the American colony there being great ly exerclaed by the manner tn which Mrs. Longworth Vos snubbed by the uncrowned rsarlne of Bayreuth, Frau Coslma Wegner, widow of the com poser. It Is asserted positively that President Roosevelt's daughter waa deliberately Insulted by Frau Wagner that she might vent her spite on the American people for patronising "Psr- slfal" oh their own soli In opposition to her wishes. The treatment of the Longworth* In Bayreuth wns most humiliating, and compared strikingly to their reception In Berlin and many of the greater Ger man cities. Frau Coslma caused the commund to go forth that the Long- worths should practically be Ignored. Tho only genuine welcome accorded to President Roossvelt's daughter came from Mme. Schumann-llelnk, who af fronted Frau Wagner by ruehtng up and effusively embracing the vleltor In full view of a terrace full' of music lovers. Argument Leads To Shooting Which May Prove Fatal. Kperlal to Tke Grnrglsn. Dahlonega, Os.. August 11.—Jim Da vis, sheriff of Lumpkin, and John Moore, a merehanto f Dahlonega, en gaged In a serious light here about pol itics. Hughe* Moore, Johnson’s broth er, took It up and after lighting with Davla and being separated by the crowd, Hughea went off and camp back In a few inlnutea. The light waa re newed, Moore shot at Davis two or three time*. Moore ran, with Davis doctors In attendance don' seriously. It Is reported that Moor* la not hurt. ITALIAN^ATTACKED BLACK HAND By Private I .eased Wire, While Plulne, N. Y„ August 11.—A desperate encounter took place at an early hour this morning near Armonk, Westchester county, when live men, believed to bo membera of the Black Hand Society, deecended upon a camp containing about flfiy Italian workmen, and, falling to compel them to aur- render their wages, opened Are on them with revolver* and mortally wounded ihreo. It Is antd that the bandits blackened their facee with charcoal an that the realdenta of the Italian colony would not recognlae them. PLA Y BY JULIAN HARRIS ACCEPTED AND WILL BE PRODUCED THIS SEASON A play by.Jullon Harris, of Atlanta, hat been accepted by Nixon tc Zlm merman, the prominent theatrical man agere, and will In all probability h* produced thle fall, Ita premier will be given In the South, possibly In Atlanta, after which It will he taken East, The play Is a three-act, farce com* edy. It la called “The Girl From Keith's." As to Julian Harris' play, It la clean-cut farce comedy, with no music and no horse play. It It built on solid principles, and there Is In It none of Ihe blsnrre, nothing of the extrava gant. It depends on no one situation or trick of stage craft. The machinery of "The Girl From Keith's" Is that of mistaken Identity— old as the "Comedy of Errors,” and as new as a laat season’s success. In 'The Girl From Keith's" the mistaken Identity Is raised to the third power and worked out by an entirely new method. Absurdly impossible as Ihe plot may deem to he In the abstract, It s developed In auch manner aa to con vince one not merely that It la real, but .that It Is the moat natural thing In the world. The lines are bright, epigrammatic and not merely superficially smart, nut take a fling at some of tha queatlona of the day, social and political. First Play From the South. Although the South has been varia bly prominent In tha literature of America for a hundred years, this sec tion has been conspicuous by Its ab sence from the department of the drama. “The Girl From KeUh’e" la prdbably the flrat play written by a Southerner to be accepted and pro duced by a large Eastern theatrical firm. Should thle play prove lo be the success Messrs. Nixon A Zimmerman believe It will be, the South will have entered a wedge which will make easier the reception of If* dramatic efforts. "The Girl From Keith's” purports to be nothing more than a clean farce comedy, but It will make the way for more serious and more substantial work. A* lo Ihe author—Julian Harris Is one of the South's moat widely known newspaper men. At the age of 30 he Is giving up journalism for more se rious and less ephemeral work. Be tween the ages of 17 and 39 he arose from the position v>f humblest "cub reporter” to that of a newspaper man JULIAN HARRI8. Brilliant young Atlantan whose play, "The Girl From Keith's," hae been accepted. BITTER REPLY Ti Comes Back With Card of Scorching Invective. DEMPSEY SUES TO RECOVER $800 Declares Hoke Smith Did Not Give Him Square Deal as Attornoy. jL The following card has been l*ni"d by Albert Howell, Jr., In reepom..' to Hoke smith's statement Issued Thurs day!^ Atlanta, Go., Aug. 10. 1996. To the Public: I notice In The Atlanta Jour Hoke Smith by, tho liberal uae line* and a characteristic prof Innuendo, undertake* to shift from his own shoulders full responsibility the miserable port he hns played in controversy between himself and former client, Mr. 8. D. Dempsey. Personally I should have prefer to have no connection with the mat but when Mr. Dempsey came to as nn attorney at latv, to protect rights In a transaction In which convinced me that he had been fm wronged by Mr. Smith, 1 agreed to so, ami I shall not be driven " sonal spleen against me. When Mr. Dempsey's coni' i were made public, I stated Uur Smith would not undrrtako to sie ally deny them under oath, and attention of tho public to the furi i < 11,11 * o' v h.t'i been folly vindl cull that n led >•* □ of rare equipment. At 24 he wee made managing editor of The Atlanta Constitution, nnd hnd the distinction of being the youngest man In America to hold such position on one of the great dallies. Ho Is the eldest son of Joel Chandler Harris and took to journalism and lit erature from Instinct. "The Girl From Keith's" Is the first play he has submitted to a manager, but In 1198 a one-act curtain raiser. The Divorce,” waa put on by the Grand Stock Company and made a hit here. And, like George Ade, Mr. Harris has a trunk full of plays. my prophecy h In this respect I also asked for publication of th*» corroMpond«»n< o between Mr. DeinpnVy nd Mr. Smith's office. In response to hlch Mr. Smith gave to the public only a portion of the cnm**<pnn<1etu *•. Mr. D<?rrrp«ey has today given , u t a full stntoinent of tho matter to which I Invite tho careful Inspection of tho publli. and u tn. h I d< sire »-» supple ment by the statement that I never sou >>r hr,til! '■r Ml />> ■.,|-'I until ho employed me to repreeent him Ih this < III I III I h i\ <■ IK \ IT, dll e« 11 \ III re- ni'iielv, ill'll'I \|t In-mpm.j tn secure • ini>l'i\ Mii'iit iii .i ri \ i" >■ n i"ii in any time and have never assisted or prom- l*«« d ' > .o -i-t him In ;in> un\, except attorney to represent him In his claim against Mr. smith. I have InvestIgntod his character and reputation, and am satlsflod that he is a gentleman, whose Integrity and standing even Mr. Hmlth will not un dertake to Impeach. Mr. Dempsey has today filed suit on s claim against Mr. Smith nnd has. I 41.1th. MVM.I II fcvei V allegation ade In support of his claim. The ••-se now In the hands of the court, where i one can doubt that full Justice will be done. As Mr. Hmlth has undertaken to 4 • v • i. I • • i. • • |. r i -11»111 * t" .Mr Dempsey by covert nnd cowardly threats against desire to say that during my twenty years’ practice at the Atlanta bar my professional conduc t has never been made the subject of question *»r criticism either by tho public, the bar ..I tin- ki*ind J• 111 «**4 -if this county, ns has been often and openly charged against Mr. Hmlth. There Is hardly a manufacturer la Atlnnta who had not been made the victim of Mr. Smith's activity, and i ’Mi Mk nuinli* t .if a pprnvlng , have received on the subject Of ths Dempeey fraud Mr Dt-mpscy Is »»■•• till* Ml,I'. \!' r Ini w bo 1* nursing a grievance against him. For almost i • • 1 v*■ rii"iii h * I ha\ • ea* HN-nt under the cowardly insinuations and i nvert attarks Mr. Hmlth hns directed by him self end through his henchmen against me, for tho sole reason that I wns CABBIE TO SUE SECRETARY LOEB By Private Leseed Wire. Kansas City, Mo., August U,-~”Tes, sir, I'm going to sue that man, too. I'd have him arrested If I could. He In sulted me and I'm going make him pay for It.” Mrs. Carrie Nation sat In a Pullman Continued on Page Thr can attached to a west bound Burl ington train at the Union depot. .She had Just rend about the damage suit for 150,000 brought by Nadage Doree. a I. I i ■.* i lie., ugiilrtst William t.oeb, Jr . the president's secretary. “Did not I go to see the president a couple of months ago and did not that man Insult me nnd call two policemen to throw mo out of the white house?" •How much will you sue for?" •Why, 150,000 or maybe $800,000. I'll leave that to my lawyers, but they’ll have to make It big.” , lAUHORY, (trust. SOME PICTURES IN THE & NEWS OF THE WORLD THE PAST WEEK. 3oo ^ ^ ° p '.8*08*®? t rrw /"A'Sl 1 A