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N THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY, AUGUST IS. IDO* 7 9HT BMIFILL OF JUKE AHD JULY pearly Twice as Much Pre^ cipitation This Year as in 1905. According to figures Just compiled by the Atlanta weather bureau at the request of Director ft. J. Redding of the state experiment station, nearly twice as much rain fell In Georgia during the months of June and July as last year, making the crop season of this year re markable In the annals of the state. Fifty-two towns are selected, repre senting the entire state, and the total rainfall at each place for the months of June and July of the two years furnish the comparison. The grand total of rainfall regis tered at the 52 stations during the two months of 1905 was 402.15 inches; the erand total for this year was 723.69. The increase In total rainfall was 321.54 Inches, 80 per cent, or an average in crease of 4 Inches throughout the state. The effect of the superabundance of rain marked on the growing cotton. It put a great deal of stalk and foliage to the plant at the expense of the fl However, the past two weeks of com paratively dry weather have to some extent offset the bad effect of the rain. The table made up by Forecaster Mat bury Is as follows t Adiilrsvule,. Abbeville. . . • Alapnha. .• •• Albany. . » . . Anicrlcjw. . . • Athens Atlantn Aiipistn Hnltihrldge.. . . Blakely t'nmrtk <Mayton. . . * Columbus.. •• Corilele. . . . Imhlonegn. . . Dudley Kibcrton. . . . Kxppriment. . . Forsyth Fort Gaines. . Gainesville. . . GkMittvlIle. . . ■ Crcciishoro. . . Harrison. . . . Ifawklnsvllle. . Louisville.. . Lumpkin. . . . Macon. ...... Honticello. ... Montezuma. . . Morgan I'olnt Peter. .. I'oulan. « I'utnnm >ultinnn itumsey. . . • ti-SUCA.. • • « —1905 1906— June Jnly June-Jnly loninsvllle. . >ecoa ildosta ilona nshlngton. nycrosa. . ■yneshoro. 'otals. . . • Grand Total*. Increase.. 4.49 8.18 3.20 7.02 4.01 3.04 7.85 3.11 3.62 2.46 1.80 4.67 4.29 5.13 3.00 3.46 0.66 4.33 2.9* 3.85 4.62 10.40 2.70 8.20 4.34 4.17 7.06 1.66 3.01 7.60 5.84 8.07 , 4.04 , 1.25 1.74 : 1:1? , 1.64 1.63 321.54 5.96 8.93 7.% 14.00 3.63 8.92 3.71 7.42 *7.79 10.66 8.06 9.12 7.94 7.36 8.35 6.42 6.86 5.89 3.30 8.69 NEGRO ADMITS STEALING JEWELRY Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 18.—The big steals which have been going on at l ookout Inn for weeks are gradually being brought In the limelight as the cases are tried in the courts. Harry Clayton, the negro who was arrested in Louisville and brought to this city, has admitted that he and J. L. Hightower, another negro employee ofthehotel, looted the rooms of guests, taking Jew elry toilet articles, money, and that Hightower watched while Clayton en tered the guests' rooms. In consequence ,f his admissions Clayton wiw bound liver to the criminal court in two vases on bonds of 81,000 each, In default of which he was returned to Jail. The eases against Hightower were post- ' The U cases° < again,t Eugene Jordan the chief clerk, who has been■ vhargjrf with grand larceny of Jewelry from Mrs J. C. Simmons, of California, amounting to 23,000, have been called fur today. Jordan ia reticent about the charge. _______ Not of Atlanta Baptist College. . It Is stated that the negro, J. J. Lumpkin, who was arrested In Augusta this week on the charge of t*tnp*rittS with the mall, was never a or otherwlne connected with, the av- lanta Baptist College. Blakely Brought to Atlantis Sjfclnl to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 18.—Bailiff Jor dan, of Justice Puckett’s court, of At lanta, come here Friday and took back with him James Blakely, a man who uas arrested here at the Instance of Justice Puckett on two charges, lar ceny and misdemeanor. First Bale Received. fy" ini to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 18.—The Davis Warehouse Company received the nrst balf of new cotton from any of its customers today. It was shipped by W. H. King, of Weston, Webster coun ty, and classed strict middling. Mrs. Paul B. Matthews. spi- hil to The Georgian. Jefferson, Ga., Aug. 18.—Mrs. Paul H Matthews, who before her marriage *a* Miss Alice Holder, died last Sun day afternoon after an Illness of sev eral months. £OOOOO0000000000O00$00O00O 0 WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O 3 O 2 Montgomery In Atlanta, Pled- O 2 m«mt park. Game called at 3 O 0 o’clock. 2 2 Nashville In Birmingham. O 2 Shreveport in Little Rock. 2 2 .Memphis in New Orleans. 0 O ^QQ<H>0O00000000O000D00OOfl Ir •"•gins to look n* though the tight lw»- ’""'•n .lack Dougherty and Mike (Twin) * :, IUvan will have to ls» called off. The Ji* n w.?re to have met at Butte, Mont., on LiU» r ! hut the Butte civic league will j ** M**l«i to have the tight stopped. The I* the same organisation that atop ic wjwu Vtatbllng lu ButU last win- J Tl We Solicit the Printing Accounts of Reliable Business Houses in Atlanta. Our Plant is Equipped With All the Latest and Finest Machinery—We Guarantee Our Work To Be Satisfactory and Our Prices Reason able-—We Are Not Members of Any Printing Combine or Trust. The Latest Type Setting Machines. Cylinder Presses. Job Presses. Embossing Presses. Folding Machines. &c., &c. The above is a picture of the latest addition to our press room, just installed. It is the Huber-Hodgeman Block Bearing Press. The only one in the Southern states. We invite our customers and friends who are in terested to visit our plant. It will be a pleasure to show how we are equipped to handle even the largest contracts with our modern machinery. The Most Complete Assortment of All Job Type. Only Skilled Workmen Employed in All Departments. CLARENCE BLOSSER, Pres. & Treas. W. M. BENNETT, Vice Pres. W. A. MAC GREGOR, Sec. THE BLOSSER PRESS W. C. NUNEMACHER, Manager 3840 WALTON ST., ATLANTA GA. WHO IS JUDGE RUSSELL Mote, Way, an original *ettl#r of Liberty county, was the great grand father of the subject of this sketch. His father, William J. Russell, was a native of that county and one of the pioneer cotton manufacturers In this state. He operated the Sweetwater factory In Douglass county prior to the war between the states, and subsequently became general manager of the mill at Princeton, Clarke county, °*¥hiSi Dick" Russell first saw the light In Cobb county, tills state. In 1861, where he lived until hi* father removed to Clarke county In 1867. He wan graduated from the University of Georgia In 1879, and began the practice of law In 1880. In 1882 he was ejected, without opposition, to the Georgia leg islature from Clarke county, and re- elected In 1884 and 1886. In 1888 he was elected solicitor general of the western Judicial circuit and became udgfof that Circuit In 1898. which last named position he held continuously until February, 1906, when ho resigned to make the race for Bnvernor. Tho writer does not know who , his first wife was, but his second wife, horn he married In 1891, wbb Miss Ina Dil lard, of Oglethorpe county, Ga. She has borne him ten children, nine JJ* whom are now living. The pleasant home of this well known Jurist bona farm near Winder, Jackson county, Ga. In his race for the chief Justiceship of the supreme court of .jlhil^n^no' 1904, his erudite and formidable oppo nent was the late Hon. Thomas J. Sim mons against whose private life and public record there was not even a sus- nfclon In that race,, with the shrewd and alert politicians throughout the state arrayed against him, he carried forty-eight counties and received more than 70,000 votes—Judge Simmons de feat lmr him by 613 majority. Those counties "represent «very part of the state, as the reader will notice, rney wi»re Clarke. Oconee, Franklin, Wal* Henry. Hut7s! n ’Pauk!rng.“ C M^yne, Lib erty, y Tattnall, Wilcox, Appling, Irwin, pierce Early, Charlton, Randolph, Jackson, Clay, Gwinnett, White, Union, Towns, Fannin, EcholB, Dodge and M ?\ n s'tuTxen y ' lawmaker, prosecuting at torney, lawyer and Judge he has hon- eX and fearlessly met every requlre- "A^y ^W^Tr,.\n C tfmp..cbtns \hU r“A™"bas B 'b> P trfo?« e of nU se n e,mng,y Inexhaustible energy and pei-Beveranc^,, h d worked at hl°" n X “ f j factory boy of Clarke county to' dan- Krna"{fve n s?a r ,e lhe HTd,m» >r not ^e as S'^me'r and statesaver, ^r does he He"'ts*slmpi* ‘ I-f f" l nB een n Ho^ m crark Howel? and* HmU smith to the utter disgust of many re- native and conservative men. He I,'•aSTu.’S&VShS'llK he Is’mode the rest of u*. He I* neither a "ring can didate" nor Is he being "boosted” by the corporations, yet he believes In "rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and .unto God the things that are God's.” He believes In build ing up rather than Ur tearing -down. Hts plan Is to remove all obstacles that may stand In the way of the wheels of progress rather than to block the track with Isms. , . Conservative and well-poised, pos sessing q vast store of general and le gal Information, in the prime of vig orous, healthy manhood, this plain man of the people, who knows how to sym pathize with the masscH in the'strug gle for a living and a few of the com forts of this life, has stendlly grown In strength anil the affections of the people to such an extent that the muck-rakers, mud-sllngers and char- acter assassins have crept from tnelr slimy dens and turned their pusillan imous batteries against him. Voters, take a dispassionate view of the situation and look at the line-up. Do you not see that all the alert, keen and prominent politicians in the state are supporting tho two Smiths, Lstill and Howell? Name one that is sup porting Judge Russell, if you Pjeaje. It behooves every voter to March his own heart and conscience in this mad race for office and see If they can sin cerely believe that either Katlll, How - ell. Hoke Hmlth or Jim Smlth-fjach of whom Is reputed to be a million- nire—has any sympathy for the worn fng people of Georgia. Do you sup- pose they think that he who earns hi* bread In the sweat of hi* brow I* wor thy to unloose their shoe latchets. The fake reformers and pseudo-state savers are frantically Btrtvlng to ride Into the governor's office by appealing to our passions and prejudices. If one- half of what Howell number ohe Is true. or ' u co"®®° mivs in regard to Clark is correct, neither Is fit to be a c " n "'“ b ’ c ' Iorr chief executive of a state, iney ought to know each other, for they are neighbors and have slept ln the same political trundle bed for the past 25 ?ears. Roth think that Atlanta Is the Itub of the universe and the Btate of Georgia Is Its backynrd. Onc might as well try to fry a snowflake or extract neetir from a seasoned dogwood mall STSSt reform from cither. The rich never retrench and reform, ^rom ,. #rttindlmr of the government of An- SrH£e«®rVttrrH g&.^sMuSn?o^ he would have restored order out of Ch Sdlto?s h of sub«rdCd r newspapen. are »^ n h K ee\ h .Mffle 0 4u^.ns.nu. weil’as 'those of the plainest and^neas- |y variety, are ari«t>ii»R iuw- Sk ,n a’re^e^lveriSg^elr^l&P. yers ar. • nirlntr their opinions , h romT e hun an ^d Mum^alnTt him ?fc^'a B n n d d C srjiwssrJKKsasM -H,Xh h aVAe%«^^^ culattd In *very vale Additional Sporting News FOR FULL PAGE OF SPORTS SEE PAGE SIXTEEN. Poolroom Men and Reformers Wage Hot Fight at Saratoga By J. 8. A. MACDONALD. Saratoga, N, Y„ Aug. 18.—One of the Interesting sidelights .to the whirl of pleasure here Just now Is the fight the pool rooms of New York are making to obtain Information of the racing. The Jockey Club In Its compact with the antl-raelng reformers agreed to kill the pool-room evil in New York by cutting off the information, such ns the results of the races, the odds, the Jockeys, etc., which must bo trans mitted by telephone or telegraph. The reformers in lieu of tljis promised not to wage a fight for legislative enact ment against betting on the race tracks In the state of New York. The first thing tho Jockey Club did was to refuso the sending of race re sults over the wires running from the trackslde telegraph office. Tho pool room agents were debarred from en trance. _ „ . . . Then the rooms In New York estab lished an organization and collected a campaign fund. Up to tho Saratoga meeting they have been getting the stifff wanted by a system of runners from Inside the course to a near-by telephone. But the Pinkertons dls- NELSON MAY WIN ON HIS GAMENESS By TAD. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 1*.—Gameness and stability are going to cut n vast amount of Ice in the coming champion ship fist fight between Gan* and Nel- ■on. . , The very mention of gameness brings the name of Nelson to the front. It was this quality that put the Battler where he is, and, according to many it will keep him there. Nelson is certainly a gamer man than Gans. There is a record showing that Joe stopped In his battle with Frank Erne, claiming that fils eye W'as knocked out of its socket from a butt. Erne won because the dark gent re fused to battle further. , . There Is nothing in the Dane s record to show where, and how he ever stopped. Joe Hedmark put him to the mat seventeen tildes tp "** Nelson was there at the flnisb. f'Kht- Ing as hard as he had been In the first r °Young Corbett pht him down twice the state; strengthened by the decla ration of Dr. O. A. Nunnatly, whose word is his bond, that he Is the best and cleanest man in the race. Judge Richard B. Russell, the only peoples candidate among the five, continues to pursue the even tenor of his way re gardless of tho aspersions cast at him by the pismires t 5« at tJ J 0,, ( ?S' A RKs h ** wake. C. W. oPARKS, yidalia, Ga. covered this and soon stopped it. Then tho room agent erected a high pole Just outside the track. Near the top a platform was built and on this platform was placed a powerful tele scope. By aid of this Instrument tho running of the horses and the result of the finish could be learned. Also on the platform was a battery of telephones which mode possible tho rapid transmission of the news to the rooms. The Pinkertons looked on In a mystified way when they first dis covered this ruse. They were for cut ting it down, hut encountered a wrath ful owner of the property upon which the pole was hoisted, who defiantly In formed all visitors that an attempt to cut or saw the pole would bring his shotgun Into piny. Ho had leased the land to the pool rooms. Then tho Jockey Club gave him three times tho value of the little lot and down camo the pole. Not to be outdone, the pool room people are now' employing a small cap tive balloon which soars Just above where the pole stood some days ago. Some one fired a bullet Into the big gas bag on last Tuesday and down came the huge nlTalr In a Jumble of wire and silk. At this date the battle of wits Is about a draw. In their fights. The Dane got up and knocked tho Denverite out cold on both occasions. Terry McGovern, w-hose terrific slam has downed more comers than any other In the world, did not even rattle the gent from Hegeswlch when they fought. Terry landed at least five or six times flush on the Jaw with his right, but he might Just as well have throwm it up In the air. It had the same effect and the question now 1h, will Gans have necessary soak to put the Dane out for keeps. Gans Is the cleverest, coolest and most accurate man In the world, but will his slam stop that rushing gent from Hegeswlch? Gans will not be the aggressor In this battle. He will not do the forcing over a minute, and If Ills punch Is lacking, his heart will soon depart. 000<H><H><f0<H>(>0P<KH>0CH>0<KKK»0 O O O KENNEDY WILL COME O O WHEN HE IS ORDERED. O 0 O O Special to The Georgian. O O Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 18.— O O President Kavanaugh today re- O 0 celved a telegram from Umpire 0 O Kennedy, who Jumped the South- 0 0 ern league during the Atlanta- 0 0 New' Orleans series In June, say- 0 O Ing that he would come South 0 0 whenever needed In the "rubber 0 0 ball” investigation. 0 0 For Jumping, Kennedy w’as bus- O 0 pended by Kavanaugh and at the 0 0 request of President O’Rourke of 0 0 the Connecticut League, he was 0 0 reinstated on condition that he 0 0 would return South for the in- 0 0 qulry. OOODOO<KKH30<HX10<HJOOOIWCKKKI The many admirers of the Cleveland club are hoping thnt the Napa will take a brace soon nud climb toward the top. Why they should take such a slump each season Is one of tho Inexplicable things In baseball. Injuries and umpires keep "Kid" Klbor* febl out of the gnme pretty much all the tlmo. Funny thing thnt the Philadelphia Ameri cans can’t win In Chicago. They have won but one gnme from the White Sox lu the WInday City this season. Brooklyn fans have been turning out In good numbers of late to see the-Superlms perforin. Clrirence (Pop) Foster has quit tho New ark club and joined tho I^iucsster team, lu the Trl Htate League. Foster has been the leading batter In tho Eastern League nearly all season. The Vincennes, Ind., club looks like a sure winner In the K. I. T. League. The Htenbenrllle, Ohio, club has been do ing great work in the P. O. M. I-eogue of Into, working up from Inst to fourth posi tion In n short time. Who says the old-timers are nil In nnd the youngsters are the only ones playing the game? The Pes Moines club, with Jnck IHiyle, llogrelver, Oi*eary, Dexter nnd Mngoon. haa a elneb for Jhe Western Longue penuniit, being 200 points ahead of tho second team. Clyde Goodwin recently pitched nnd won for Milwaukee both ends of a double- header with Indianapolis. Another case of a cast-off getting back at bis former team mates. Joe Walcott tnd Billy Rhodes have been matched to meet st Leavenworth on Sep tember 16. According to the terms, Walcott Is to get $750 for bis end, whether bo wins or loses. From all reporta, the women of the town of Goldfield, Nov., are about ai anxious to see the Gnns-Nelson fight as the men. It la sold the promoters have received 600 appli cations for tickets^ from women. Dan Crcedon, the Australian middleweight who spent a number of years In America and then returned to the Antipodes, was knocked bnt In three rounds by BUI Hmjth In Hydney recently. It Is the first this country has heard of Crsedon In a long while. Right From Ringside. Bj Prlrst. L«i««i Wire. N.w York, An*. 18 —Al Kaafmtn and hi* mnnsgor have arrived In Los An*»lr«, whom Kaufman Is to moot Tommy Barns on 1 September 11. Hsllor Ilurke, the Brooklyn boxer, his boon mstoheil to meet Hugh Kelly, ol Chi- once, nt Cholera August 28. The men will *u fifteen ronnile st 150 pounds. Mont Attell, the younger brother of Abe,, who le to moot Freddie Weeks st SpukHue 1 next week, I. nlen after s match with hts old pnt, Frankie Nell, for tho bantam chum- plomhlp of America. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT For the Hlx Months Kudin* Juno 30, 1906, of the Condition of THE SOUTHERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE GO. Organised under tho law* of the state of Alabama; - made to the governor of tha ’state of Georgia In pursuance of the inws of said atate. I. CAPITAL 8T0CK. 1. Amount of capital stock.................. 2. Amount of cnpttnl stock paid up In cash UW.OOQ.W II. A8SET8. Total assets .,..—..$163,540.70 III. LIABILITIES. JO. Totnl policy claims, including legal reserve .$11,KM 90 12. Surplus over all liabilities ,352.80 $163,546.70 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1906, FROM COMMENCEMENT OF BU8INESS, 10TH MAY, 1906. Total income f 14.'.*'** k .42 V. DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE FIR8T SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1906, FROM COMMENCEMENT OF BU8INESS, 10TH MAY, 1906. Total disbursements A copy of the net of Incorporation, duly certified, is on file In the office of the Insurance commissioner. STATE OF GEOUGIA—County of Fulton. |Vrs4fually appeared before the undersigned Frank Orme, who, being duly sworn, deposes am! says that he is the secretary and treasurer of The Southern States Life Insurance Company, nnd that the foregoing statement Is correct anil true. * FRANK ORME. gworu to anil subocrllKHl before me this 15th day of August. 1906.- B. L. DUI’REE, Notary Public. For particulars as to agency contract, apply to P. C. WADSWORTH, Vice President and Director of Agencies, 1214 Candler Building, Atlanta, Georgia.