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M.iln IIii'*k nf i:illn>ails ScvtMi Miles Of strailways 150 Drinking cnpltnl 122,000,000 The Atlanta Georgian. GEORGIA Population Miles of atpnm railroads Miles of electric railways.... < '..1 ton fart• »rles in stdndles Dales cotton consumea I11 1001 Val'K* 1-f 1 " r.itton crop VOL. f. NO. 108. Morning Edition. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1906. Morning Edition. j Trains FIVE CENTAL (ME ‘If You Don’t Do Something, City Will,” He Says. r JOMPANY BEGINS TO TAKE NOTICE PERTURBED PACKERS SEEK SB.WILSON; “ WHERE AivE WE AT? WILLIAM J. BRYAN, SCENE OF HIS RECEPTION, TWO SPEAKERS AND ROUTE OF GREAT PARADE Washington, D. C., Aug. 80.—Secre tary of Agriculture Wilson today held another seance with the perturbed rep resentatives of packers and food dis tributing agents, to And where they will stand when the meat inspection law takes effect. Packers’ representatives from all over the meat country came to discuss the* matter with the secretary. <*hlef Chemist Wiley and Dr. Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal Industry. The gathering was larger than the previous one which considered the same set of problems. The packers have been rather unduly deliberate about getting ready to com ply with the new label requirements Imposed Jointly by the pure food and meat Inspection laws. Now they are fearful that they cannot posibly get their labels ready for use by October 1, when the inspection law will be in effect. They want the department to show them a way out of their troubles; if not that then at least to look sympa thetic and say a few kind words. Instead the departments countenance Is as stone, and the only language It knows Is the letter of the law. Committee Did Nothing On Tuesday Because of Lack of Quorum. "It the gag company does not do something the city will own Ita gas plant as sure as the sun rises In the east and sets In the west,” said Aider- man James L. Key, chairman of the special gas Investigating committee, T. A. Hammond, attorney for the At lanta Gas Lighting Company, Wednes day afternoon. ' The mien of the gas company has undergone a remarkable change since the election In which there was such a clamor for municipal control. When Alderman Key first declared the gas company should be Investi gated the officials of the monopoly hooted'at the Idea. Now they wish to patch matters up and. If possible^ to stop the Investlga tlon. The special committee was to hold session Wednesday, but It was found Impossible to get a quorum. Alderman Key and Coundlmen Draper and Cur tis were the - only members In attend ance. After waiting some time, during which there was a spirited conversation between Alderman Key and Attorney Hammond, the meeting was adjourned until next week. * To Formulate Report Later, Because of Labor day; council will adjourn at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon ■ vnd hold session at the regular hour . on Tuesday. This will give the Inves tigating committee sufficient time to hold another meeting, during which the-report, to be considered by council, will be formulated. The' report will be similar to the one presented by the committee to council at a recent session. This was returned so It could be put In more concise form. The principal features of the new report will be a provision for inspectors to look after-gas meters, a bureau of complaint, where any one t may report his grievances against the company and have them Investigated te city, and the amendment to the £ charter allowing the people, to and operate a gas plant If It Is so desired. “We’ll See What May Be Done.” Although there was no meeting Wednesday, Mr. Key and Mr. Ham mond had a long talk, during which the gas light attorney asked the alder man to put what he wanted In writing and the gas company would see what could be done. "Just tell us what you want done, Mr, Key," said Mr. Ham mond, “and maybe all this alleged In vestigation can be cut short.” In reply, Mr. Key said: "The city wants your company to make only a fair Income from your In vestment; wants your meters Inspected . by a city Inspector who can represent the people In all controversies, and the city wants you to pay a fair and equit able sum for the franchlso under which you do business.” Mr. Hammond asked that this be put In writing, so that the company could thoroughly understand It. DEAL JACKSON TELLS BLACKS TO WORK HARD “Talk About ‘Ploomers’ from Colleges—You Wants to See Good Niggers That Got ‘Ploomers’on My Farm.” Negro Thompson Spirited Away and Carried To Birmingham. Kpecfal to The Georgian. Mobile, Ala., Aug. JO.—A mob, num he ring over 3,000 persons and led by determined men, attacked the Mobile county Jail shortly after 10 o’clock last night for the purpose of burning at the stake the negro. Will Thompson, the self-confessed assailant of chil dren. I The county authorities learned of the stuck In time to spirit Thompson away. Urged on by Its leaders, the Dob rammed the gate from Its fasten ings, and with a rush crossed the court yard of the Jail, demanding the negro. When told that he had been removed. Tie mob battered the Iron door down, gaining admission. During the attack several volleys were fired by deputies within the Jail, but without effect. At the threshold the mob was met by the deputies and a hand-to-hand struggle resulted. Sher iff Powers was disarmed and held, but his release was forced by deputies. learning that the negro had been removed, the mob dispersed. Thompson was taken to Birmingham for safe-keeping. "Negro” means "black,” and surely Thursday was "Negro” day at the meeting of the National Negro Busi ness League. In the absence of the president, Booker T. Washington, who was at tending a meeting of the executive committee, the session was called to order by the third vice president of the league, Charles Banks, a coal black negro, who Is cashier of the bank at Mound Bayou, the negro settlement In Mississippi. The reports from several of the na tional officers, which were scheduled to come Immediately after the Invoca tion by Rev. H. H. Proctor, were omit ted, and the first subject on the list was taken up for discussion, "The Negro In Agriculture." Isaiah T. Montgomery, founder of the negro city of Mound Bayou, Miss., was the first speaker. Montgomery was said to have been at one time the largest cotton producer In the United States, and In a well-set and stirring address he called upon his people to realize the need of working out their own salvation. One of the most sig nificant statements he made waa when he declared that two-fifths of the cot- grown by negroes, who either own or lease the farms on which they plant. Deal Jackson 8peaks. The next speaker was Deal .Jack- son, of Albany, Go., and his talk was easily the feature of the morning ses sion. Jackson, like Banka and Mont gomery, Is of the coat black type, with little pointed bit of whiskers bob- lots of gold teeth In his mouth, which he seems to take great pride in show ing. Jackson Is an uneducated negro with a fondness for long words, which he frequently gets mixed up, to the delight of Ills audience. He was lis tened to with close attention, however, and when his time wns up frequent cries from all over the hall of "go on," "keep It up." etc., caused him to keep on talking for several minutes. He told of his early struggles; how he had started out with one mule and plowed day after day and hauled his produce to Albany with his "britches" rolled up to his knees, but how he was able to buy another mule the second year, and another the third year, and so on, until now he owns two thousand acres of good land In Dougherty coun ty and has all of his own farming Im plements. "They say a nigger can't work nig gers," he said, "but I know better. Come down yonder and I will show you where I hove over a hundred on my plantation, and I don't have no trouble In getting help. I’se got lots of young niggers working for me that'll soon be plowing for demselves," he continued. "You may tell me about the ’ploomers’ (he evidently meant dlptomns) what you gits at Morris Brown and Tuskee- ge« and all these other colleges, but If ton produced In this country today Js V nu wants to see n good nigger you blng off from the end of hts chin, and 1 at Topeka, Kans. come down and sec some what got ’ploomers’ from my farm." Incidentally It might be mentioned that for the last ten years Jackson has regularly pro duced the first bale of cotton to be marketed In Dougherty county, and It usually brings him about twice the market value. The executive committee decided Thursday to hold the next convention II NOT YET Nebraska’s Favorite Son Is Yet Un decided. THOUSANDS READY TO WELCOME HIM Big Parade and Reception Take Place Afternoon and Evening. ,j NO DOPE FOR MRS.• PE TRE TA; HIT BY AN AUTO, SHE SA YS Mrs. J. Herbert Johnson, sometimes known as Mrs. Fetreta Johnson, de clares firmly that she never took any morphine at the Gas and Electric building Wednesday afternoon. She wouldn't do such a thing, for she had an uncle once who was a dope fiend and she didn't like his habits. She ex plained all this at the police station Thursday morning, where she was held on a charge of disorderly conduct. Mrs. Johnson has furnished more than her share of police department news recently, Wednesday afternoon she began again by walking Into a toi let room In the Gas and Electric build ing and going Into a trance on a sofa. She was rushed to the Grady hospital, where she tried to start trouble with several physicians and nurses before retiring for the night. She was trans ferred to the police station a little later. “I was struck by an automobile," de clared Mrs. Johnson Thursday morn ing. “I was crossing the street when the motor car struck me and ran over me, and I went Into the building to rest. That was all.” Mrs. Johnson made her first appear ance In the limelight three weeks ago, when she arrived at the depot and said her husband had gone out to buy lunch and then deserted her. She be came obstreperous at the. police sta tlon and was fined. The man whom she said was her husband, but who did not acknowledge It, paid the fine. Saturday night Mrs. Johnson ngaln visited the station. This time she had wandered down to a Are engine house and asked one of the firemen to pro tect her on her way home, as It was growing dark. Subsequent disorder led to her being locked up on that occa sion. RUSSIA TO RAISE $2?,000,000 TO AID THE FAMINE SUFFERERS By Private Leased Wire. , St. Petersburg, Aug. 30.—The government has published an ukase authorizing the Issuing of. 4 per cent rentes to the nominal value of 395,000,000. The purpose of the Issue Is to raise money for the relief of famine sufferers In many districts. LITTLE MISS BONNIE MA Y FINDS A KNIGHT ERRANT; THEN THE YGO EXPLORING Miss Bonnie May Turner went out for a walk Wednesday afternoon, de termined to cast oft home ties and see something of the world. She met a knight errant a few blocks away and together they began their quest of world beautiful. Miss Bonnie May Is only three years and a few months old. and as pretty as her name. She is the daughter of W. H. Turner, of 141 Walton street, and a granddaughter of Turnkey Jeff Whitney, of the police department. Bonnie May gathered her dearest doll, Matilda Jane, under her arm at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and aft er providing herself with two lady- fingers and a doughnut for sustenance on the way, began a tour of discovery. When her parents missed her there was a great hue and cry on Walton street, and the police department was notified. At 8 o'clock that night three gentle men who had learned of Bonnie May's disappearance met a little girl and a little boy marching out a street a mile or more away from home. Bonnie May clung closely to her knight and refused to leave him. The knight himself was uncommunicative. He had met Bonnie May, admired her and wax satUAed to wander through life In her company. Bonnie May wept bitterly when sepa rated from her youthful protector and remonstrated at being sent home. The protector preserved his Incognito. It was not Bonnie May's Arst de parture from home and mother.. She wandered away last Monday night and was found on the street. At the police station she said she didn't wont to go home a bit, but the ofAcers thought she would sleep better In her own trundle bed than at the station, and returned her to Walton street. Bonnie May will muke a great traveler In time. BT HIS WIFE Charging Infidelity She Asks $50,000 Alimony. A suit for total divorce and $50,000 alimony, charging indflellty to mar riage vows, has been filed by Mrs. May Nelson Oress against G. V. Gress, the prominent lumber dealer of Houth Georgia and formerly a citizen of At lanta. She will later name co-respond ents. Mrs. Gress uxked for.an Injunction to prevent the withdrawal of $36,000 on deposit at* the Fourth National Bank to the credit of Mr. Gres. This was granted by Judge Pendleton, who set the healing for November 10. It Is set forth In the petition that Mr. Gress had on August 7 recognized her claims for divorce and had deposited $30,000 in the Fourth National Bank l settlement, this to be paid out when a check drawn by Samuel D. Hewlett, then Mrs. Gress’ attorney, should be presented. Since then Mrs. Gress has changed her attorney, T. F. Corrigan now rep resenting her. Mr. Gress is declared In the petition now to be a resident of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Gress were married In 1882 at Indianapolis, Ind. They have no children Uvlnfr. G. V. Gress has ben for many years one of the best known men in Georgia. He Is worth about $500,000. He started the Gress Zoo at Grant Park by pre senting a number of animals to the city In 1892. MILNER ON TRIAL FOR THE KILLING OF B, H. Special to The Georgian. Jonesboro, On., Aug. 30.—When Clay ton’s superior court convened this morning at 8:30 o’clock the case of Leon T. Milner was called, charged with the murder of B. H. Dorsey, broth er of Judge R. T. Dorsey, of Atlanta. At It o'clock the work of securing the jury was still In process, seven men having been secured for the case. On Dec 25, 1905, Milner shot Dorsey on the streets of Jonesboro and on the following day Dorsey died from the effects of the wounds. Since that time Milner has been In the county Jail awaiting trial. Colonel Charlie D. Hll, of Atlanta, nnd Colonel O. J. Cooper, of Jonesboro, are assisting Solicitor Howard In the prosecution. Brown A Brown, of Mc Donough; Colonel John D. Humphries, of Atlanta, and Colonel W. L Waiter- son, of Jonesboro, represent the de fendant. Ay Private leased Wire. Washington, Aug. 30.—Reciprocal tariff concessions have been entered Into between Spain and the United States,, according to a proclamation made through the atate department. American goods are to pay according to Spain's second tariff schedule, and In return there are to be reductions on the Importation of wines and other Spanish Imports Into the United States. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 80.—Cheered by a tremendous crowd, Including nsmall but enthusiastic number of his old neigh bors, his “home folks,” from Nebraska, William J. Bryan landed In Manhattan today at 4:05 p.m. Tho big throng of admirers acted as though they would have liked to havo taken the Nebraskan to themselves and literally "toted" him up Broadway to his hotel, but the big squad of police men directed by Inspector Schmlttber- ger kept the crowd well In check. Mr. Bryan left the Yacht Ullnl of his friend, E. F. Goltra, at about 4 p. m. In the yacht's tender. Ho was accompanied by Mr. Goltra. Lewis Nix on and one or two other members of the committee of reception. On reaching the hotel Vlitorla Mr. Bryan was shown at once to his suites whither Mrs. Bryan and his daughter had preceded him. He waa not long to rest, however, but In a few minutes descended to the roome where the delegations from the various states were awaiting him. WIRELESS MESSAGE SENT FROM A TLANIA TO THE SEA "Who Is that I hear so far off?” The Savannah line steamship "City of Co lumbus,” plowing through the deep At lantlc flashed out the sentence Into the thick darkness of the night. "Couldn’t tell you,' ’replied Charles ton, without the least difficulty, al though 100 miles of water separated her from the steamship. Then Atlanta broke In and convers ed fluently over land and sea to the City of Columbus, to Charleston and even farther, to New Orleans. In other words the DeForrcst Wire less station, situated In nnd on top of the Candler building, made Its first test last night. The test was remark ably successful and within u month, E MADE IN PRICE OF IRON STOVES Five Per Cent. Increase Made and Another Is Coming. Owing to sharp advances In the price of pig iron and the neceeslty of In creased wages for all classes of la bor, stoves advanced 5 per cent in price Thursday. A stove trust? , They aay not. It le stated by Satn D. Jonet, presl dent of the Atlanta stove works, that a second advance of 6 per cent will probably be necessary within a very short time. But the advance will not affect stoves alone, but every class of manufactured gopds In which Iron Is used. A meeting of the Southern Associa tion of Stove Manufacturers waa held In Chattanooga Wednesday, at which time It was unanimously determined to at vance prices on stoves 5 per cent at once. Mr. Jones cbuld not attend the meeting, owing to an Important engagement here, but he stated Thurs day that the advance waa In accord with hts own views and Intentions. He said: •Within thirty days pig. Iron has ad vanced nearly 34 per ton, and -Is now quoted at 318, with a treat ecarcltjr existing. I look for a further advance In the raw material within ijvery short time, and manufacturers have ts meet It In order to live. "The labor problem has struck the Iron producers hard. Many big fur naces have had to close down because of inability to secure competent labor. It has made pig Iron scarce and l.ard to obtain, this condition affecting every part of the Union. "We manufacturers have the same so Captain K. S. Finch, district man ager In charge of the local station, states, the station will be ready to send commercial aerograms. The preliminary test made shortly after 9 o'clock last night proved be yond a doubt that Atlanta Is splendidly situated for a station. At nearly every station put up In the South and many erected In other portions of the globe there has been difficulty In adjusting tho apparatus. In some Instances It has taken from three to six weeks to get a message after the station had been erected. The Atlanta atation, however, went off without any diffi culty. Captain Finch declares this Is due to the soli and altitude. STATE'S DELEGATES, HOLD_A_MEETING After Conference, Members Pay Visit to Mr. Hearst. Ur Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 30.—John' Temple Graves, editor of The Georgian, of At lanta, Ga., and chairman of the Geor gia delegation to the Bryan reception, arrived with his party laat night. The Georgia delegation held a meeting at noon today In the reading room of the Waldorf-Astoria, to which all Oeor- glebe of New York were Invited. Aft er the meeting a call was made upon Mr. Hearst. wages are higher and the quality of the FAILURE TO INDICT IS UP TO JEROME By Private Leased Wire. ^ New York, Aug. 30.—Through the evidence or rather the lack of evidence presented to the grand jury In connec tion with the Investigation Into the charges of alleged criminal conspiracy against the lee trust, that body re turned Indictments which put the re sponsibility tor the failure to return In dictments squarely up to the office of the district attorney. The character of the evidence, the preeentment sets forth, was such that It was Impossible to nnd Indictments againstthe officials of the trust against whom the allegations of conspiracy liare been made. labor Is deteriorating somewhat It la Imperative that we advance our prices in order to live, and, as I stated, a further advance of 5 per cent In etoVes problem. Labor Is growing scarcer; will probably result within a very abort wam art* hlffher and the nimlitv of the lime •• New York, Aug. 30.—This was Bryan day In New York. The Nebraskan must have thought of the old campaign days long before the time set for the real big demonstra tion of the day arrived. He spent the night aboard Edward Goltra’s yacht', the Illlnl, In New York bay, having gone aboard the yacht at a little after midnight from the homo of Lewis Nixon on Staten Island. He Goes Over Speech. Mrs. Bryan and her daughter had gone quietly to the Hotel Victoria, where a suite had been provided for them. Mr. Bryan rose .early today and prepared for the strenuous reception which his friends have provided for him. He made numerous appointments for each hour of the day up to the time set for his departure from the yacht from pier A at Battery A. and all day long the yacht's tender was busy carrying visitors to nnd fro. He spent the first hour or so after breakfast In going over his speech, to be delivered tonight In Madison Square Garden. He declared that he never felt better In his life, and looked It. Lewlx Nixon was one of the first callers end he was followed by other members of the official reception com mittee. Cheered From Boats. Every up-river boat seemed to know the Illlnl. and whenever Mr. Bryan's well known face waa sighted he was cheered In no uncertain' fashion. At Mr. Nixon's Invitation, Mr. Bryan, at about 10:30 o'clock went aboard Mr. Nixon's house boat, the Lougoun, and there met members of the official reception committee and prominent : New York Democrats, with whom he had made appointments yesterday. Those Included were O. H. P. Belmont. Norman E. Mack, Daniel J. Campau, of Michigan, and others. Mayor Brown, of Bryan's home town, Lincoln, Nebr., also saw him. Bryan Wat Set Slok, During the voyage Mr. Bryan had to pay the tribute exacted by oil Nep tune. He was sea sick, not very bad, but undeniably sea sick. He took an active part In the life of the ship. At the conceit he made a graceful and pleasant speech, which he began with a humorous story, at the expense of Roger Foster, a lawyer, who had been Introduced to him. Mr. Foster had spoken In very flat tering terms of Mr. Bryan and in his speech Mr. Bryan remarked that It re minded him of an engagement he hail once to make a speech, nnd when he was asked how he would like to be In troduced. “I asked him,” said the Nebraskan, to refer to me os 'Mr. Bryan, a law yer of Jacksonville.' I had Just been admitted to the bar, and wanted the fact known. The chairman came to me half a dozen times to be sure he had It right, and Anally Introduced me, saying: ‘Mr. O'Brien will now spake.'" He Enjoyed Voyage. Asked If he had a pleasant voyage ni) 51 r. Bryan said: I have enjoyed the trip Immenselday notwithstanding the fact that I ha’*ut been working most of the time, been very busy preparing my artl" for publication, and during tho laat days 1 have had to devote a lot of 1 ... to the speech which I am to deltv the reception In New York to be h * , ’ to me on my arrival." vom-elf "Will you discuss politics ip, speech?" . {{£ "I will touch bn politics s‘ n . „ said he, jokingly. "I cannot Id< ' this time the subject. This I L j, k( . llK opportune time for such a «ll.' nny Attitude Not Chsngr v:lnts [ M| ,pd "You have announced yo-nf pain. He- randldate for the Democraktr sister, and tlon for the presidency, hay* 0 * he ,tprnAl "No, I have not annouj ,|,„ e u ... is as a candidate. I wrote s, he spoke tiit hen