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The Atlanta Georgian. ropntntlon GCORGIA ropi - MJJp* of atejiiu railroads.,,.... Milos of oloctrlc railways «»f Cotton factories 130. aplndles.. 1.500.00# Halos cotton consumed In 1905. 500.00# Volos of 1906 cotton crop fl00.000.00l VOL. 1. NO. 157. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906. PRICE: MARIETTA’S PLUCKY FIGHT FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP SEEMS ASSURED OF SUCCESS Vigorous Campaign Comes to Close Saturday. much is involved for growing city Renew of Agitation and Expressions From Promt nent Citizens.—Mass ' Meeting. Merietta’s pluoky fight for muniei p ,l ownership eome» to a eloee Satur ity, when an election will be held to determine whether the Cobb county capital shall Issue bonds authoriied by the list legislature to purohase or build a waterworks plant and establish thorough system of sewerage.. There are Involved In the outcome the vital questions of sanitation and domestlo economy. The health of every man, woman and child In Marietta la Inseparably connected with the proposition to in stsll a general sewehage system. With out s free and Inexpensive water sup ply, effective sewerage Is Impossible. To hsve this, the city must own Its watar plant. In addition, the pocket' book of every head of a family is af' feeted 'by the outcome. The spirit of the pioneers has been rife during the remarkable campaign just closed with a mass meeting on Thursday nig'.L The fight has bsen watched with In tsrest by. Atlantans because the issue Involved is one which concerns this city In a broader scope. Many of Atlanta’s business men have homes in Marietta and this fact has added te the local Interest in the out' come of the campaign. There is every indication that the citizens of Marietta under the leader ship of Mayor Dobbs and J. W. Legg will be entirely successful at the polls. Bpertal In Tlir Georgian. Marietta. Ga., Oct. 2d.—Tomorrow an election will be held in Marietta to determine whether or not the city shall float bonds amounting to 2X10,000 for the purpose of building waterworks and putting In a system of sewerage, the proposition carries the bonds are to be of 21,000 denomination, bearing 6 per cent Interest, and to mature In 1937. The mayor and members of the council, together with the majority of the wealthiest and moat prominent peo pie of the city, are leading tha light, and It Is believed that tha bond propo' eltlon will carry. At present Marietta Is supplied by water from the waterworks of a pri vste corporation, the Georgia ManU' lecturing and Public Service Company, but the city has never had any sewer age, except a faw private disconnected lines, put In ■ by Individuals for their otvn convenience The people of Marietta have long felt that a system of sewerage for the city was an absolute necessity, and the question haa been discussed and egltated at various times for several years. The last ceneue showed Mariet ta to have a population of about S,00G people, and as the town haa been growing and Increasing In population very rapidly since then and has also extended Ita corporate limits, taking In a much larger area than heretofore, It Is believed that there are now between >.non and 10,000 people within the limits Of the city, SERIOUS SITUATION. In addition to having this great num ber of people huddled together with no facilities for sewerage, Is the further fact that the private sewers In use empty Indiscriminately In and about the city m »uch a way aa to be a standing menace to the health of the \vith this situation staring the peo ple in the face, about three months ago (Continued on Page Fifteen.) MA YOR DOBBS IS A CIIVE IN MA RIE HA'S BIG FIG HI Pledged Himself to, Municipal Own ership. Special to The Georgian. Marietta, Ga. Oct. 20.—Mayor E. P. Dobbs, with several prominent citizens, Is leading the light for municipal own ership In Marietta. He Is deeply In terested In the outcome of the election to be held tomorrow to decide whether the city shall Issue the necessary bonds to enable It to own and operate its waterworks and build an adequate sys tem of sewers. Speaking to a repre sentative of The Georgian. Mayor Dobbs said: “The city of Marietta Is sorely In need of waterworks and sewerage, and I pledged myself during my race for mayor to give the city these much- needed Improvements If It was possi ble to do so. Since my election I have agitated the matter and used every means at my command as chief execu tive of the city to bring about this election. I also pledged myself during the campaign to the municipal owner ship of these public utilities, and I still think that this Is the proper course for HON. E. P. DOBBS, Mayor of Marietta. the city to pursue In the matter. How ever. the people will now hnve an op portunity to settle these matters at the ballot box In the way that they think best, and whatever they do will be sat isfactory to me.” ‘WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT,’’ SAID MRS, CRUTCHFIELD ALL II SERVE IERMJN MIL Toledo Dealers Lose in Fight in the Courts. . J. W. LEGG HAS BEEN POWER IN CAMPAIGN NOW CLOSING Health of All Marietta Is at Stake, He Declares. Special to The Georglsn. Marietta, Ga., Oct. 20.—J, W. Legg, well-known druggist and on* of the most active and wide-awake of Ma rietta's citizens, Is chairman of the working committee In the fight for mu nicipal ownership and the establish ment of a sewerage system.- As such he has headed the people's cause In the campaign, which comes to an end to morrow. in declaring his position on the mat ters at Issue In the election, Mr. Legg said: “I am for a Greater Marietta and ex pect to put inyaelf on record that way by voting for bonds to build a system of waterworks and sewers for the city. The health of every man, woman and child In Marietta Is at stake. The town can not grow as It should unless we have municipal ownership of pub lic utilities. We can not afford to own the sewers while a private corporation controls our water supply. Men of capital In search of healthy locations are, continually coming to our town, ‘ ' they pass on when they learn the facts. Our city must have water- Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 20.—The Ice men must serve their sentences In tho work house. The circuit court has decided that there was no error before Judge R. R. Klnkade, In common pleas, and that the pleas of guilty were not obtained from the Ice men by promises leniency. The following defendants In the cele brated "Ice truef’elltlgatlon must don the gray of the workhouse prisoner: Roland A. Beard, vice-president end general manager of the Hygenla Ice Company; Joseph A. Miller, general manager of the Toledo Ice and Coal Company; Reuben C. Lemmon, secre tary of the Hygenla Ice Company. Each of the ice men will hnve to serve six months In the workhouse and pay a line of 22,600. They were origi nally sentenced to serve one year and pay a line of 26.000, but this was mod ified by Judge Klnkade on application of the Ice trust lawyer. Sheriff Chambers will take Miller, Beard and Lemmon into custody as soon as possible and turn them over to the workhouse authorities. RECKLESS AS II R, D. J. W. LEGG. Popular druggist and chairman of working committee, who. Is lead ing the fight for municipal owner ship of waterworks and In Marietta. sewerage works and sewerage, and we can not. afford to let this opportunity pass.” MASS MEETING DECLARES FOR CITY WATERWORKS At a mass meeting In Marietta Thursday night, nearly two hundred citizens declared strongly In favor of establishing a municipal waterworks plant. Mayor Richard Dobbs was one of the leaders In the fight for relief from the corporation plant. Not half a dozen men at the meet ing were opposed to the plan,” said one Marietta citizen who Is In Atlanta today. The only people who opposed It were the officers of the Marietta Public Service Company, owners of the waterworks and electric light plant. That company owns not only the waterworks and electric plant but a paper mill which has a number of employees. The company has about 100 employees and the total registered vote In Marietta Is only 682. With the relatives of the employees opposed to a change and with this solid vote against It. It will be hard for the ad vocates of municipal ownership to car ry the two-thirds vote necessary to pass the bond election. But I believe we shell do It. M. M. Session, president of the com pany, and D. W. Blair, tha attorney j IF YOU ARE with the people of At lanta in their struggle for Cheaper Light and Power—§ I G N ! for the same corporation, appeared and opposed the municipal ownership t ‘ In a strenuous way. But Mr. Blal the same man who drafted the bill In 1005 and Introduced It In the legisla ture, providing that Marietta purchase the old waterworks plant. Mr. Ses sions headed a delegation to aid the measure. At that time the company was anxious to durtrp the old plant on the city but when things took a new turn not so profitable to them they turned and opposed municipal owner ship. “The water company Is now building a new plant which, It Is promised, will give a better and purer water supply. The present plant draws Its supply from Rottenwood creek and Is con taminated from the city. It has been untlltered for years and Is not fit to drink. If the city builds Its new plant It will choose nn available pure water source. It will certainly not buy the old plant now in use.” 210,000 8ehool Building. Adrian, On., Oct. 26.—The’eltlsen* of Adrian are delighted over the prospects of having a beautiful, up-to-date, brick school building ready for use In the near future, tl. L. Adams, contractor, from Mt. Vernon, Go., has the work In hand. The building will cost, when completed, about 210,000. Fifteen years ago Crutchfield was an engineer on the old Richmond and Dan. vllle railroad, now a part of the South ern system. His uncle, Captain Green, was general manager of the Air Line at that, time, and after the, consollda. lion was made general superintendent of that division. Another uncle, Joseph Green, was master mechanic at Colum bia,'S. C. Crutchfield acquired a reputation for carelessness and risky running on the road. An Incident Is related by an old engineer who pulled a wrecking crew to clear up one of Crutchfield's wrecks near Central, 8. C., about twelve years | ago. “From what we heard,” said the old engineer, "Crutchfield let his engine, pulling a work train, get away from him a few miles sbulh of. Central. He ran down on a bridge where a gang was doing some repairing. The rails had been lifted and the engine barely hung to the edge of the trestle. "I do not remember that anyone was killed, but some of the men were In jured. Crutchfield Jumped down a fill about 100.feet deep and It was a won der It didn't kill him. He has had a number of miraculous escapes, and usually In- wrecks caused by his care lessness. He was let off for the Cen tral wreck, but was put back by hla uncle's Influence.” Spanish Bark Not Arrived, Special to Tbc Georgian. Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 26.—The Span ish bark, K. G. Oliver, which left Ha vana on October 2 bound for Bruns wick, has not been heard of since she left that port. It Is feared she was caught In the hurricane and wrecked. 00000000000000000000003000 O O O MERCURY DOE8 TURN AS O O LIGHTNING CHANGE ARTIST.'O O . O O Did you think twice before O O crawling from under the cover O O this morning? O O Rather sudden, wasn't It? O O Such weather os this is the kind O O the poet sings about and the over- O O coat dealer welcomes. Fine for O O golf and football. O O Forecast: O O Fair and warmer tonight: Satur- O O day Increasing cloudiness. O O The temperatures Friday: O O O O 7 o'clock a. m 46 degrees. O 8 o'clock a. m 55 degrees. O 8 o'clock a. m.. .. ..60 degrees. O 10 o'clock a. in.. .. — .64 degrees. O 11 o'clock a. >67 degrees. O 12 o'clock noon.. .. ..68 degrees. O 1 o'clock p. m 68 degrees. 2 o'clock p. m 71 degrees. OOOO0OOOOOOOOOOO0OCOO0O0OO MRS. SALLIE CRUTCHFIELD. Who Was Shot by Her Husband Thursday Evening. Tammany Men Put Up Money,Taking Hearst End. Shot By Her Husband, She Lays in Critical Condition—J. H. Crutchfield Held at Police Station—In Court Before. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE. APPLICATION BLANK. ER8Hlp r *LiEA<3UE"* , * , *' C **' 0n ^° r ' n **'* MUNICIPAL OWN- I favor tho ownerehip of a gat and eleetrie lighting plant by the city ® f Atlanta. Remarks: Dale Occupation Address ■Vote.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. EX-GEORGIA MAN MAY SUCCEED EL1HU ROOT It Is Rumored Thar Oscar Strauss Is Likely to Be Secretary of State If Change Is Made. Washington, Oct. 26.—There Is gos sip here today Indicating that Oecar S. Straus, who Is shortly to become secretary of commerce and labor, may eventually succeed Eilhu Root as sec retary of state. It would not be entire ly unexpected should Mr. Root find It convenient to leave the state depart ment within a comparatively short time. The training of Mr. Straus would, It thought, admirably fit him for tha It Is recalled that President McKinley at one time had him under considera tion for the post. Mr. Straus Is a Georgia man. He was born and reared In Talbotton. His father was L. Straus. Mr. Straus re sided In Columbus, Ga., for some years before he went to New York. -His two brothers are Isador and Nathan, both well known In financial circles. Dr. James N. Ellis announced Friday afternoon that the condition of Mrs. Crutchfield is eritieal. He said she had gotten over the shook and appeared dome better than on Thursday night. Mre. Crutchfield wee shot in both legs, between ths ankle and knee, and ths right lag may have tp be amputated. Thors is one wound on tho head. On returning from the matinee and while In.the act of entering her home at 300 South Pryor street, corner of Atlco street, Thursday evening about 6 o'clock, Mrs. J. H. Crutchfield, a strik ingly pretty young woman, was shot with a double-barreled shotgun and then severely Injured In the head with the butt end of the weapon In the hands of her husband, a well-known machinery broker with offices In the People’s building, at Marietta and For: syth streets, from whom she Is now seeking a divorce. The shot penetrated Mrs. Crutch field's legs about the knees, badly lac erating the llesh. The blows on the head produced ugly wounds. Mrs. Crutchfield was later removed to the Grady Hospital, where she Is being treated by Dr. James N. Ellis. It Is announced Friday that her condi tion Is serious, but It Is not believed the wounds will result fatally. Crutchfield was arrested by Police man Iitinan several blocks from the scene of the shooting, while he was holding back a crowd of men and boys, who sought to effect his capture. Crutchfield advised that no one bother him, threatening to shoot the first man who laid hands on him. At Police Station. He was taken to the police station by Officer Pitman, where a charge of assault with Intint to murder was docketed against him. The time for the preliminary hearing has not yet been determined. The stories of Crutchfield and his wife In regard to the shooting vary widely. Mr*. Crutchfield declares her husband, from whom she has been sep arated for the past three months, at tacked her In the dark without provo cation. shooting her with his shotgun and then brutally beating her In the head with the butt end of the gun. The husband, on the other hand, pro tests that the w hole affair was an acci dent. He asserts he had. no Idea of harming hla wife, but had gone to her house armed and with the Intention of "getting” another man, who. he de clares, has been trying to ruin his home and caused his wife to leave him. He says that when hla wife saw the gun she tried to take It away from him, and caused It to, be accidentally die* charged. He states that after she was shot she continued to scuffle with him and In this way received the wounds on ■lie head. Mr. and Mra. Crutchfield have two children, both boys, Paul and Ludette, aged 12 and 8, respectively, and Paul was the first person to reach his wounded mother. He corroborates the story of his mother, asserting that his father beat her In the head with the gun. In nn effort to aave the prostrate woman little Paul attacked his father, seising him about the neck and trying to prevent him from again lining the gun. Mrs. Crutchfield says she In satis fied the Interference of her son saved her life. Since the separation of Mrs. Crutch field from her husband she has been conducting a boarding house at 200 South Pryor street and It wan on the front porch Af this house that the shooting occurred. Mrs. Crutchfield alighted from a trolley car directly In front of her home a ml had Just ste onto the porch when hailed by husband, who ia said to have been waiting In the dark armed with the shotgun. Mr. and Mrs. Crutchfield hsve been married for fourteen years, and, ac. cording to statements of both husband and wife, their married life lias been •tormy. The suit for divorce, now pending In the superior court, Is the third one filed by Mi*. Crutchfield. The other two suits, she explains, were withdrawn by her on promises of Crutchfield to ctase his alleged mis treatment. Mra. Crutchfield, asserts her husband has abused her almost ever since their marriage and gives this as the reason she left him. Crutchfield makes the counter charge that another man, whose name he declines to divulge, but who; be says, resides below Atlanta on- the Atlanta and West Point railroad, persuaded his wife to leave him and hss caused the trouble between them. MRS. CRUTCHFIELD'S OWN STORY OF 8HOOTING. When seen by a Georgian reporter Continued .r ,'sqs Three. New York, Oct. 20.—Betting on the election has begun In real earnest on the curb and the odds on Hughes forced down from 8 1-2 and 3 to 1, to 2 to 1. The latter is the prevailing flguro to day. More than 2100,000 Hearst money was bet to 2200,000 of Hughes money. The Hearst money came to light in big rolls at noon In the hands of bro kers who,are known to handle accounts for Tammany men. They asked tor 3 to 1, but were unable to get It. Re publican offers of 2 to 1. were refused for about half on hour, and then Hearst bettors began to nab everything In sight. Two freakish offers to bet on the re sult of the election were announced to day by G. B. Buchanan, a member of the stock exchange, who says he has a very large sum of money on commis sion to be on the election. One of the propositions Is 22,500 to 27,600 that Mr. Hughes will win by 100,000 plurality. No one has taken this bet. The other la 21,000 to 116,000 that Mr. Hearst will win by 100,000 plu rality. This has not been taken. fugm¥mfices LIFE TO RESCUE AGED COUPLE FROM DEATH Special to Tho Georgian. Spartanburg, S. C. f Oct. 28.—XtWtoo Til- I lotaon. In the employ of the Southern rail* way for twenty-two yeara as flagman, wn« I htruck by a Southern paasengor trnlu TMNnr nt noon at the Mngnoltn street | rroMlng, and received Injuries which re* suited In bis death this morning. lie met with the accident while Having nn aged inn n and woman from being erntbed by the Incoming train. The couple were In n baggy and did not heed tin* warning of Mr. TllloUon, but nttempte«! to drive across the track In front of the train. Mr. Tlllotaon caught hold of the reins and dragged the mule, buggy and occu pants across ths track. Jn saving the life of the old man and woman. Flagman Tlllotaon was struck by tho engine. FEARING THAT DECREE T London, Oct. 26.—It Is learned today that ths Duchess of Marlborough, who was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Is to forsake her plan for a divorce from her hus band. This change In position with refer ence to the duke Is said to have been brought about by the personal plead ings of her friends and those of her husband, whom she greatly respects, who told the duchees that It would mean the ruin of his political career If she applied for a divorce. No place In the cabinet would then be open to him. The duke and duchess have agreed OOERUN Losmooo IN II MIDNIGHT FIRE Special to The Georgian. Doerun, Ga. Oct. 26.—Wednesday night about 12 o'clock fire was dis covered In the two-story wood build ing on East Broad street, occupied by J. B. Powers & Company, general mer chandise, and the Masons and other secret orders. The building, with Its contents, was consumed, also the etore of W. T. Fu»- sell & Sons; the barber shop of W. P. McGraw and the feed and livery stable of J. D. Harrell. The loss will be about 210,000, part ly covered by Insurance. The build ings will be replaced with substantial brick. STRANGELY MISSING Cleveland, Ohio. Oct. 26.—The police are searching diligently for Alexander Berkman, the well-known anarchist, who served a term In a Pennsylvania prison for hi* attempt to kill Henry C. Frick. Berkman delivered a speech here Tuesday night and was to appear last night, but failed to show up. The Cleveland anarchists claim that he ha* been spirited away by detecllvoa in tbc employ of U. C. Frick.