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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Rain Coats and Umbrellas are in most demand just now. You can defy the rain and keep dry and comfortable in one of our Aqua Proof Cravenetfe Coats $12.50 to $27.50. In black and dark grey, full length, and guarantee on every garment. We would like to have you see one of these garments—try it on; you will find them the best rain coats ever brought to Atlanta for the money. Umbrellas $1.00 and Up. ESSIG BROTHERS, "CORRECT CLOTHES FOR MEN." 26 WHITEHALL STREET. MODERN GALLEON WITH 3,000 PASSENGERS BUFFETED BY GALE ATLANTANS TO PAY $22,50 ON $1,000 FOfi 1096 TAXES Jones County’s Rate $16.20, While Terrell Has None at All. New York, Sept. 19.—Bearing $10,- week and arrived here today. It was 000,000 in specie and nearly 3,ooo pas senger*. the blR turbine steamship (’a- mania, of the t’unard line, fought her way through the great hurricane of last AGAIN BEHIND BABS Miss Annie McColgan, the young woman who engaged in a fight last Sat urday with her sister, Miss Dona Mc Colgan. at 76 Walton street, and 1 was later arrested on the statement that she was Insane, Is again being held In the police station. Miss McColgan was Incarcerated the second time at the Instigation of her Sister, who Insists that her mind Is unbalanced. Miss Annie McColgan was released from the police station Monday after being examined as to her sanity by Dr. John G. Wilkins, Sixth ward city phy sician, Dr. Wlllkns declaring her sane. Aftsr securing her freedom, the young woman returned to the boarding house of her sister, in Walton street, and Is said to have raised a row. Finally, the sister again called In the police and had Miss Annie returned to the po lice station. She Is being held In charge of Miss Sanderson, the matron. His Wish is Gratified. Special to The tieorghui. Columbus. Oa., Sept. 19.—Dr. A. P. Gordy, of this city. Is In Atlanta attending the meeting of the. National Dental Association. He was a warm advocate for holding the convention In Atlanta when the matter was brought up at the last meeting of the asnocla- ' tlon. the same hurricane that buffeted so many trans-Atlantic liners, and the Ca- tnanla, with her precious burden, was caught in the thick of It. AMVSEMENTS WOMAN SAID TO HAVE ACTED JESOROERLY Mary Charlotte Alston, who says she Is the daughter of the late Colonel Bob Alston, who was shot and killed In the old capitol in 1870, by Cox, Is being held prisoner In the matron's ward In the police station. Miss Alston, who has been residing in Rome for some time, and who returned to Atlanta a week ago to secure em ployment, was taken into custody Tues day night at the Belmont hotel, In Marietta street, on the charge of being disorderly. She was unable to make cash bond and was placed In charge of Miss Sanderson. The young woman denies she was acting In any way disorderly. The late Colonel Alston was a promt nent citizen of Oeorgla and figured considerably in public matters. In a dispute over a certain interest In state convicts he was shot and killed In the old capitol In 1870. POLICEMAKfSEAfiCH EOB MISSING MAN Property owner* In Atlanta will pay taxea of 122.60 on the thousand dollars thla year. The city tax rate la $12.50, the county rate $5 and the atate rate 14.80. Reports from countie* and munlci- palltle* on the tax ratea fixed for 1906 are coming Into the comptroller gen eral'* office rapidly now, and the rates vary widely. For Instance Jones county la paying r a new court house and has fixed a county rate of $16.20 on the thousand. In Terrell county, where four dl*pen*a- rle* flourish, no county tax I* levied at alt and none ha* been for year*. Bron- wood, a email town In that county, with a dlapeniary, has no taxes to pay. It la noticeable that the counties hav ing dispensaries have a low rate of taxation. Floyd, which split* the prof it* on the tank between the county and city of Rome, has a rate of only $4.20 for the county. While the city rate ha* not been reported, It will probably be correspondingly low. In the municipalities reported to date Brunswick lead* In the slxe of Its levy with $14, while Hoschton levies only $2.50 on the thousand to keep things running. College Park asiesse* prop erty owners only $3, and Bast Point $7.60. Columbus has a rate of $13, Ath ens, where a dispensary flourishes, $10, Albany $11 and Cedartown $12.50. Fifty-four counties have reported the tax rate for 1906. These ratea run the scale from $2.70 In counties like Clinch and Chattahoochee, to $16.20 In Jones, $12.20 In Twiggs, $9.70 In Pickens and so on down the list. Quitman ho* the lowest rate reported yet, $2.20, while Stewart comes a close second with $2.50. The average runs about $5. A studv of the various returns are very Interesting. Crisp Is the only one of the new counties to report Its tax rate up to the present, the tax payers being assessed $7 on the thousand. Sale of Gowns ■GRAND TONIGHT AND THUR80AY, 8EP SEPT. 10 and 20. Matinee Thursday, 25c and 50c. THE FAMOUS ORIGINALS MURRAY and MACK, In THefr Successful Farce "AROUND THE TOWN.” New Dances! New Features. Big Beauty Chorus. Night prices 25c to $1.00. Matinee 25c and 50c. FRIOAV and SAT.—MAT. SAT. THE AL G. FIELD GREATER MINSTRELS. 65——— PEOPLE 65 The Great Army of Funmakera headed by PRESS ELDRIDGE. Night, 25c to $1.00. Matinee 25c to 75c. Sale now open. ™ E BIJOU TONIGHT—MATINEE THURSDAY. SPENCER A ABORN’S GREAT EMOTIONAL DRAMA, "A WIFE’S SECRET.” Next Week: “HOW BAXTER BUTTED IN.” The police have been asked to find Welborn Hataway, 18 years of age, of 31 (Ulmer street, who Is mysteriously missing from his home. The young man’s mother Is distressed over, the disappearance and reported the matter to the police. Hataway left his home early Monday morning with the apparent Intention of going to his work In the Seuboard Air Line railway shops, but failed to arrive there. Since he left home hla people have not seen nor heard anything from him. THROWN FROM HORSE, YOUNG FARMER OIE8. Hpediit to The Georgian. Chester, S. c\, Sept. 19.—A distress ing and fatal accident occurred six miles south of Chester Saturday after noon. John Jeffares, a young farmer of Ilalsellvllle, was returning to hi* home when the animal be was driving took fright, dashed off and threw Mr. Jef- fares violently to the ground. He Im ereti until yesterday morning, when he lied. He was about 28 years old, DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE, Special to The Georgian. Anniston, Ala., Sept, 19.—Because Grace Watson attempted to commit suicide last night In the heart of the tenderloin -when the sheritf and police officers called to arrest a friend of hers, the officera were obliged to ar rest her* for her own protection. When threatened with arrest the woman be came erased with fear and rushed to her room for a revolver. This was wrested from her. The woman was ta ken to a front room, where she sud denly seised art Ink bottle lying upon a table and endeavored to beat her bralna out. FULLS F AND DEATH^ RESULTS Speclnl to Th® Oeorglan. Shreveport, L*a., Sept. 19.—A. A. Wells, New Orleans, representing Brad^ street’s, fell from a second-story win dow at the Caddo hotel at 4 o’clock this morning, suffering Injuries from which he died two hours later In a hos pital. No one witnessed the accident, DOCIOBS WILL MAKE THEIR OWN MIXTURES At a' meeting held In the Century building Tuesday night there was or ganlsed the Physicians' Co-operative Company, which has for Its purpose the manufacture and sale to ethical physicians and the general public of many of the pharmaceutical prepara tions now manufactured by Northern concerns. The following officers were elected Dr. 1. H. Ooss, Athens, president: Dr, George Brown, vice president; Dr. H. B, Shulls, treasurer: Dr. J. A. McLeay. secretary: Mr. J. 8. Jarvis, general manager. Board of Directors—Dr. J. B. Holmes. Dr. Bak, Dr. J. W. Johnson, Dr. O. Y. 1*1 ere*, Dr. C. J. Vaughan. The leading physicians In the city are stockholders and It Is expected that the profession will take hold of this movement and make It a great success. It Is organized for the benefit of all physicians In the South. 2 FEE ACTS By an act of December 6, 1894, the fee for chartering a navigation com pany In Oeorgla wbs fixed at $50. Oi December 17, eleven days later, that act aa repealed and the fee fixed at $100. The act of December 6 appears In volume 2, civil code, page 72; the act of December 17 (the fee bill) appears In volume 1, political code, page 38. Aa a consequence considerable confusion and delay often occurs In securing the charter for such concerns from the secretary of state's office. Usually Interested parties send a check for $50, and It becomes necessary' for the secretary to write explaining the act of eleven days later fixing the fee at $100. A cate In point reached the capitol Wednesday In application for a charter from Bainbrldg*. This simply stresses the necessity for a re-codlfication of the laas of Georgia. And you know what Chamberlin-Jonhson-DiiBose un derwear is. You know how carefully it is made. Made ac cording to our own directions with trimmings of our own se lecting. Made in the most sanitary factories just outside of New York. And these gowns in this Thursday Sale are no departure from our strict underwear rules. Proven values. We’ve examined the Nainsook and the Embroidery. 80c is the lowest we could possibly set upon the mate rial alone. And you know what trouble you’d be put to in making hemstitched tucks and yokes of alternating rows of embroidery and tucking. ' * v 79 8:30 A. M. Thursday, Sscsnd Floor Front*. Four styles—“V” necks, surplice square yokes, bands of embroidery, hemstitched tucks, and yokes entirely of tucks, or the two combined. They are of an excellent quality of En glish Nainsook. And most important of all—they’re made with plenty of material -no skimp ing to save material. Thrse Underskirt Specials One of the finest values at regular price that ever passed over a counter. Cambric top with an 18-inch flounce of dainty- embroidery headed with group of tucks. An extra full cut skirt with a fluffy sweeping ruffle. 2.00 Uhder skirts 1.23 Three styles in these two lots. Cambric tops With deep flounces of embroidery headed by group of plain or hemstitched tucks. 1.50 Skir{*s 95c 1.00 Skirts 79c Black and Colored Petticoats Silk Petticoats in black and a few in colors. Made with deep knife plaited flounce, finished at bottom with small ruffles. Regular $5.00 Silk Skirts at Black Petticoats in Heatherbloom, made with knife plaited flounce, with strapped and stitched ruffles. Regular $3.50 Black Petticoat*. 3.50 2.39 Chamberlin-Johnsen-DuBose Co.