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population J3n,ooo H •aiM 3M00 TpIspboBas 15.001 Matu liura of railroads Svv<-n Miles of street railways IV Ranking eanltal ja.nn.1108 The Atlanta Georgian. vol. i. NO. 170. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1906. In Atlanta TWO CBNTtL SOMETHING WRONG, 9 SA YS CAPT. ENGLISH; J SHAKE UP IN POLICE Trouble Is Expected When Board Meets. COMMISSION PLANS TO CHOP OFF HEADS Factional Differences May Result in Many Changes. The several matters that have stirred the police department during the few weeks, and which are to be investi gated by the board of police commis sioners Tuesday night, have aroused c onsiderable comment and itave re sulted in persistent rumors to the ef fect that a big shake-up of some kind is pending in the police department. According to.the rumors, the reported shake-up will tuke place at the ap proaching general pollcu election in April, when several of the officers and a number of the men are to be decapi tated and the police force, in effect, reorganised. Captain James W. English, head of the faction which is regarded as being at present in control of the city coun- and which Is exjiected to control tin Urst of the year, expresses himself us Pel tig satisfied that something Is wrong hi the police department. "And If the commission ascertains the cause of the trouble it will not hes itate to apply the remedy. The prun ing knife will not bo spared wherever ionsldered necessuiy,” said Captain English. Chief Not Responsible. When questioned as to what he con sidered the cause of the present tur bulent conditions In the department, Captain English declined to express himself further than to say: "I think 1 know all right." lie then stated thut lie didn’t think the chief was responsible. "The head of the department cannot uv blamed for strife In tire department, if his subordinates are not doing their part property/' ho added. When asked the direct question if a big shake-tip was brewing, Captain English replied that he didn’t know to what extent the commission would have to go to remedy matters. He said he thought most of the trouble might bo nettled at the meeting Tuesday night. "The police department seems to be having fits Just at present, but, then, tits can be cured, you know,” he said. I atn unable to say, however, Just how much medicine will be required as a iire*for these fits.” Mayor Woodward, who has been aid ing with whut has been known Apr >oars as the Brotherton faction, de clares lie Is satisfied the English fac tion is planning a general shake-up. preparatory to the Institution of “their" civil service. Tile Brotherton faction on tends that civil service is now in force, while the English faction usserts that the civil service inaugurated' by the former faction Is Illegal and that the real civil service will go into effect in April. "i don’t think they are making a light on tlio chief,” said the mayor. Hut I am confident they are planning t«» put In some new of liters and pos sibly some new men before their#civil •»ia ice goes into effect." Interesting developments ure expect ed at the meeting Tuesday night. ARE “FID” Order of Dismissal Contains Names of 167. HARRIMAN CONTROLS SYSTEM OF 23,000 MILES OF TRACK, WITH CAPITAL OF $1,700,000,000 Defective Tubes For Battleships Cause of Action. THIRTY COUNTS MADE BY JURY Washington, Nov. 10.—An official or der was issued tills ufternoon by the war department dismissing Companies B, C and I> of the Twenty-fifth infan try (colored). The order says: “By direction of the president the following enlisted men, who, on August 13, 11)06, were members of Companies Scandal Is To Be Aired in the Federal Court at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 10.—The Fed eral grand Jury yesterduy Indicted on thirty counts three men In connection with the investigation of the Bhelby H. (! anil 1). Twenty-fifth Infantry, oer- “ te *' <'«*>Tany op cha W e. von.pl- titin member* of which organisation ,IU > ,n defraud the government by participated In the riotous conduct shipping defective boiler tubed for use which occurred in Brownsville, Texas, on United States war vessels, on the night of August 13, will be dls- Those indicted arc Frank L. Emmett, charged without honor from tho army ; formerly,foreman of the finishing de- by their respective commanding of- 1 partment of the Shelby Steel Tube .. „ , Ibu1 - li#t-i . fleers, and forever debarred from re- Company at Greenville. Pa., but who »’ •S'HSE. c 22,2Si JSiL , ! enlisting in the army or navy of the later turned informer; James J. Dunn, .“f «r*"2 ii?mH«tr t i !i United States, us well as from employ- superintendent, and Thomas L. Close. ment In any civil capacity under the assistant superintendent of the same government.” ! Plant. The order then names the 167 mem bers of the three companies. The battleship Louisiana, on which the president yesterday started for Panama, Is among tho seven .battle ships and two armored cruisers named by the government as having been fit ted with defective tubes sent out by Emmett, Dunn and Close. The other vessels named as having been fitted out with the defective tubes are tho battleships Nebraska, Mary land, Vermont, Minnesota, Washington and Tennessee. The armored cruisers Charleston and Pennsylvunlu are also named. PARTVJ If. I Wants To Be Chief of the Democratic Organization. 'wowmjiiii ACAIISI RULE OF ENGLAND Transvaal Leader Is Back of Insurrec tion. BRITISH TROOPS SENT TO SCENE This picture % shows how E. H. Harriman, who controls the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, and has a controlling Interest In the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, by securing control of the Illinois Central, now* has a gigantic trans-continental system. TEACHER IS KILLED 2 May Connect St. Louis and Kansas City. Now that he lias secured control of the Illinois Central railroad by outslng President Stuyvesant Fish and electing J. T. llarahan In Fish's place, fi, II. Harriman has realised his fondest am bition—the establishment of a gigantic system of railroads connecting the At lantic and Pacific seaboards. Harriman controls the Houthern Pa cific and Union Pacific railroads, and interests close to hint have acquired control of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road by the purchuse of stock held by the Pennsylvania system. The combined Harrltnan lines, there fore, will form a system connecting New York with San Francisco by way of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing ton, Pittsburg and Chicago, while he will have a line from Chicago to New Orleans and from New Orleans to San Francisco. Before the Illinois Central deal went through tbs Pastern-terminal* of-4 he Union Pacific tvdre at Omaha and Kan- “iu* CUy. On'' or the Western termi ni! E of t»»♦* Illinois Central was at St. Louis. It may be that Harrltnan con templates a short line between Kansas 'Tty and St. Louis. The Harriman trans-continental sys tem will bring under one management 23,ooo miles of track with a capital of $1,700,000,000. COMMITTEE REPORT INDICA TES SHOR T CROP FOR SEASON Storm and FrostPlayed Hovac in the South, i COTTON COMPANY ADJOURNS SESSION Executive Committee S. C. A. Issues Re- fmrbon-Crops; ~ of IT \ Farmers Are Being Fo to Join Ranks of the Rebels. Capetown, Nov*. 10.—An lnsunecii»r hus broken out among the Boer.' Ii the northwest section of Cape C«»i- ony. Official dispatches from English - r fleers, received here, indicate an ex ceedingly serious state of affairs. Tu. police camps have been surprised b\ the Boers and a number of prl •-ic i.- taken. Troops Rushed to Scene. One hundred and fifty mounted ^ - erniqent police have been rushed t*i Prleska, the center of the dlstri* t .if- j fecteri. Reinforcements of troop ; m j on the way. ! According to reports here Ferrei.-u. i a Transvaal louder, Is tho instigator i I the trouble. He has gathered together [a band of Boers, many of tfhom have records, and declares thut Stood Trembling on Rail road and Was Struck • by Fast i’rain. CAUSES A LOSS Chicago, Nov. 10.—The Lehigh Valley 'mil company’s plant at 100th street <nd the Calumet river, valued at $1,- '00,000, was swept today by fire sup- i *»M*d to have been of Incendiary origin. H Is estimated that the loss will ! t; “‘h $500,000. The main office bulld- “ig has been destroyed. Fifty thousand tons of coal were stored In the yards. As the quantities "t ‘ tml were soon blazing, the fire un- tf-nnined the coal heaps and the flre- "i**» had difficulty in fighting it. The 1 hU k smoke overhung all of the South f Chicago like u dense fog. New York, Nov. 10.—Charles F. Mur. phy lias started in to carry out the plans he has been making with hla friends for weeks pust to secure him- gpeelni to The Georgian, self the undisputed leadership of the Greenville, H. C., Nov. fo.~Fright- Democratic party In the state. Incl- ened by a sudden yell “Stop,” ns she dentally, he began to fight also In the was crossing the Southern railroad open for the retention of his leadership | *2K!2? r Rt i afternoon about 5, oclock, Miss 8. B. or rumtnany Hall. ( Hand, sister of Professor Hand, of the Mr. Murphy's scheme to make him-; University, of South Carolina, stood j seif supreme in the state and city j trembling on the main line and was | Democratic organizations was unfold- { dashed to death by fast pkssenger train j ed at a meeting of the Democratic state j No. 17. „ . „„ _ , j rnmmittpp „Mh P Victoria hotel The MiB * Hand W ** 22 y« ar * ot tl 9° “"d ' eojnmlttee at the \ ktorta hotel. The one of the raoit attractive young ladles majority of the members, obeyipg Mr. Q f the community. She was teaching 1 PRESIDENT HEADED T ON PANAMA TRIP A ‘Wireless Message Says “Nothing Doing” on Battleship. barges of Irregularity made against returning home from school. She: v-nefnlk Va Vov in—At n - seemed to be In a study and was cross- , h r. , At ? doek Ing the tracks In front of the approach* ™“ morning the wireless operator on Ing train when the man who cried out, M». Uattleshfp Louisiana, carrying noticed her. The sudden cry frightened President Roosevelt to Panama, re- her and she stopped and seemed afraid ported to Cape Henry: "Nothing dit to move lest she meet a horrible death Ing." Meunlng that all was well on ‘ ' the battleship, and that the president had no message to send. The Louisiana was then well down the coast below Cape Hatteras, but the message did not give the exact lo- latton. Senator P. P. McOarr.lt, the leader of the Democratic iiigunlsuilitn In Brook lyn, who was formally accused of di recting his followers to knife Hearst. McCsrren Admits Charge. McCarren admitted the truth of the churges, and accepted the challenge to that she might avert by standing. She was struck by the engine pilot, knocked to the side of the track lifeless, though attempt to read him out of the party. the bmly wa , not mBn „| e(li He told his opponents In effect that j The body was taken to Chester to, they could have all the light they were : day for Interment. looking for. ! __ Mr. McCarren served notife that he j would light through every court in the j state If the body attempted to remove; him. The resolution to "Investigate" i McCarren was carried by a vote of 32 1 to 13. one of the Important developments j was the refusal of Maurice Featherson. i the state committeeman from the Six- j teenth district, to vote for the resolu- • tlon to Inveslgate McCarren. Featherson Against Murphy, FIVE NEGROES DROWN; BODY FOUND THROWN BACK INTO THE RIVER After receiving reports from thg dif ferent statee the executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association re viewed tho crop situation thoroughly to the present date and gave out the following statement Saturday after noon: “The executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association gave out Its estimate of tills year’s yield at 11,- 146,000 bnles. After carefully canvass ing such state the committee arrived at the estimate from the reports as to the conditions, amount ginned and the amount yet to be ginned. "Hast of the Mississippi the season has been late. In Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina , and Arkansas, the cold weather last .May seriously checked the growth of the plant and In some places, particularly In north Oeorgla and the Piedmont reglub of North Carolina, considerable replanting wns necessary. "Subsequent to this there continued wet weather In Oeorgla, the Carolina* and Alabama, making the cultivation of the crop difficult and Anally resulting In large areas being abandoned and a generally grassy condition In that which was already cultivated. "On September 17 there was n severe tropical storm that covered North Car olina, South Curollna nnd- North Geor gia. It did great damage to the open cotton and checked growth and devel opment of the plant and fruit. On the 27th of September there was another storm which covered Mississippi, Ar kansas and Louisiana, which perhaps was moat disastrous In Its effect on the cotton belt. It not only destroyed open cotton, but seriously Injured the grow ing plant In the rich bottoms of Mis sissippi and tributaries. October 10 and 11 unprecedented early killing frosts covered practically the entire belt east of the Mississippi, totally and permanently destroying what lit tle vitality left- by the storms.' This front not only arrested all further de velopment of the crop, but destroyed all partially matured fruit, thereby not only cutting off nil that wss possible In the way of maturity from the date Masked Bandits Get $30 From Immi grants. Peru, Ind., Nov. 10,—Hold-up nisn wearing masks robbed Wabash express train No. 3 early today. They entered a car Ailed with Immi grants and ut the muxsle ol revolvers robbed them of )800 and escaped. There was a panic when the other occupants of the train discovered what had happened. j whole country will bo at his back i In a few days. Farmers Forced to Join. The raiders are reported to be Ing many Boer farmers to Join ranks, and every offurt Is being lo Inllainc the people and give tin presslon thut It wilt be i eusy matter to overthro rule. Lsite today prepurath rompi the sceno nf trouble, to rounding up Fertvrla , Prleska Is on the Orange Kimberly. of the frost to the normal frost period, but destroyed all matured fruit. "Therefore, to sum up the situation, the crop was admittedly two to three weeks late, the frost from three to four weeks early, with storms to om- haslse the already adverse conditions, ow, It Is a fact known to all ex perienced cotton men that whatever checks or tends to destroy the vitality of the plant In the same degree tends to cause opening of nil fruit. There fore, the trade Is being deceived by the amount of cotton being picked and ginned so early, whereus this very fact I* evidence of forced oiienlng of cottun caused by the death of the plant. 1 "Wherever there is suAIrlent labor there will be no cotton to vpen to pick or gin the last of November. "The estimates of Improved condi tions as given out by some so-called statisticians are ridiculously absurd, because every sensible man who Is In terested knows that since October there has been no condition of tho growing [ mm. Himfit.' No one . plant us compared with the nverage who knew anything at or normal. Therefore, it Is absurd to; 8hot „ n d the affair Is report improved conditions on dead: mystery cotton. | ’ - “We, the executive committee, l»eg • to call attention of producer t«» the fact that the great bear element, the great- est enemy of higher prices, tl)e most absolutely unanswerable argument for' lower prices, is the senseless rush ofj spot cotton on the market by those i who make It. ’•Just so long as you supply the, trade at Its prices It Is lunacy to expect the trade to give you your i»rlce. ! “Stop abusing the buyer for offering I low* prices, but have a word with the 1 farmer who accepts these prices. (Signed) “E. D. SMITH, “M. L. JOHNSON. “Committee.' STARTLES LODGERS People residing In the Maribor apartment house, at Peiulitn*- Pine streets, were startled ut 4 o’ Saturday momlip- by the firlpg mysterious pistol shot at soim* po! the building. Bicycle Policeman Pearson, w ho a short distance away, heard tin- ami hurried to the scene. Tog with attaches of the apartment H the officer Investigated the fair, could find no clew* that would n the idenftty of the person who rtret shot or the cause of its bet nr An> Later In the day a more Him Investigation was made, but with E IN PRICE OF COCAINE | Spvtial t«» The Georgian. Salisbury, N. C„ Nov. MOTOR CAR OWNER IS NOT PROSECUTED John Alexander, the well-known auto- m.ibtifBt, wan arraigned Saturday 'onrnlng In police court on the charge f running into W. M. Jenkins, of 173 :,, rdun street. West End, while the aft,.j was riding a bicycle Friday at marietta nnd Peachtree streets. Jen- Ahh asked that the case be dismissed n, « this was done. student .shoots A COLLEGE MATE Anilovpr.. Mats., Nov. 10.—t'htulvs H. li «*. a Phlllim-Amkjvrr r ollffg" stu- t«nt. urold.m ly .hot Johu Tinry. u ‘"hail mate, this morning. Tracy died n,, taiiUjr. Trues'* homo was In Km- "’' n ° Kan*., and Riggs' in Mount Var- Uoa, n. V, i They were returning In a small boat , ., .. , ... — 10.—Jerre and the drunken negroes capslxed It. The attitude taken by Mr. !■ eather- J gears, his son and wife, Jake Rattse I All went to the bottom, son corroborated the announcement and another woman, making Ave, all! This morning the body of one of the that he had decided to align himself | negroes, drowned at Point Kerry, six! women was recovered and the super- ,>n the side of the local Democrats who I miles from Salisbury, last night. The stltlous negroes tied a grape-vine Murnhv^ from cr0,rt had been to “ corn husking and around It and threw It back Into the were preparing to oust Murphy from were lU ., nklng fr , e y. water, the head of Tammany Hall, apd that; he had. In fact, been selected by these i ’ ~ new leader In case the tnnvemeut RAILROAD IS INDICTED *Anothcr thing of Interest was ml ■ for alleged failure representative from his district. 1 St- j ' TO GIVE PASSENGER WA TER mont was not in favor of the nomlna-: .. - tlon of Ilt-urst. and at Buffalo he and Special lo The Georgian, his delegates from Suffolk were unseat- I Waycro.s, Ga.. Nov. 10.—The grand ed by the committee on contested seats.: Jur> , hM returMd an Indictment Perry Belmont Gete Out. j Il g a | nH i the Atlanta, Birmingham And Winm the objection to tlie eontlnu- j Atlantic railway for failing to provide unco of Mr. Belmont as a member of! water on a passenger coach hear Bolen tl»e Jrtrtto committee was brought up, j he failed to follow the defiant lead of Mr. McCarren, and announced that rather than have any fuss lie would get out. and, accordingly, he tendered h|M resignation, which whs Immediately accepted. Ex-Senator Edwin A. Bailey was elected to rill the vacancy. Mr. Bailey was the personal selection of Mr. Mur. ohy. Mi. Bailey professes to bo a great admirer of Murpny. and it was hi the solicitation of Bailey that Murphy or dered the nomination of Julius Hauser, vf HayvUK-, iui state treasurer. In this county several weeks ago. It Is alleged that u passenger insisted on being supplied with water and he was referred to the colored people's coach, but he Informed the conductor ihut he “didn’t drink that kind.” SHAW WON'T RELIEVE THE MONEY STRINGENCY New Volk, Nnv. 10.—Hecfgtwy of the Treasury Mtuw annuuncol t»- •tay that he would not rsitere (Pc money market stringency. The oAtcfal statement issuad at about II o'clock this morning said that unless conditions materially changed Mr. Xhaw would not refund gov ernment bonds. Increase deposit* nor do anything else. MORTALLY WOUNEED, DUELIST FROM GROUND, SHOOTS HIS OPPONENT Though He Will Re cover Tarbutton Is Maimed For Life. Hpccial to The Georgian. Dublin, Ga.. Nov. Ju.—Yesterduy j morning about K o’clock at Klttrell's on the line of Johnson and Laurens counties. S5. L. Tyre, of this county, and Hershel Tarbiitton, of Johnson coun ty, engaged In a light which resulted jin both men being seriously wounded. I Tarbiitton was shot In tin* neck and I Tyre In the abdomen. The report Is j that Tarbrtiton was shot more than ! one time. The exact cause of the shooting Is MORTALLY WOUNDED MAN 8HOOTS HIS OPPONENT HfMwUl *o The Georgian. Dublin. Ga., Nov. 10.—J. Letcher Tyre, who was shot yesterday by Her- shel Tarbutton, iu the upper part of the county, died early this morning. After Tnrbutton hud shot Tyre to the; ground the former was shot In the) face with a shot gun by the latter, in dicting a serious but not fatal wound. A raise in the price of cocalm- pears to be the basis of reform an the cocaine-using negroes of tin* « I When Charlie Moore, a negi • i-< j character and an adherent of the | cuine nablt. was arraigned Hatur morning before Recorder Broyles. Unformed the recordepr he had I {compelled to quit the “dope” on count of the increase in price. When asked by the court If he used cocaine, Moore said: "Judge, l have quit. I was forcet quit because they have raised the pi 1 can't afford to buy It." The Increase In price seems to general and It may be it will h.t\ good, effect among the negroes, m hers of whom have become addi--to. the use of the drug. TRAIN ON B. & (). REPORTED WRECKED t'incitinatl, Ohio, Nov. 10.--Passenger train No. 5 on the Baltimore iuH Uhlo Southwestern, Is reported wrecked; at Pleasant Pin ins, Ohio, about SO. miles from here. One person Is reported unknown, though it Is reported thut killed and several injured. E DIES IN STORE Chicago, Nov. It). —Am as, aged 60, president Thomas advertising lir dropped dead this m •enth floor of the <|. of believed