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OSHHHf CITY GAS LIGHT PLANT WOULD BE ECONOMY Facts anJ Fiat,res Ga ^RE YOU A CHEERFUL IDIOT? To Show What It Would Save. REPORT OF EXPERT BEFORE COMMITTEE What Other Cities Are Do ing—What Atlanta . Can Do. Doubt an to the practicability and benefit to the people dr a municipally owned gat plant should be removed from the minds of the most skeptical by the facts and figures secured by Al derman James L. Key, chairman of the special committee on municipal owner, ship of council, and submitted by him at the meeting of the committee on Fri day. As a rule, figures, especially columns of them, arc unattractive to most peo ple. Hut to those people who take an Interest In the welfare of their city and who are always looking for something that will put a dollar In their pockets and Into the treasury of their city at the same time, the figures are Inter esting, They show conclusively that munici pal ownership Is profitable. They show, too, that when a city owns Its own gas plant, it can use all the gas for the streets and in public buildings necessary, give gas to the people at a rate cheaper than that charged by the grasping corporations running gas plants for {heir own profit and at the lame time put money In the shape of profits Into the city-treasury. Sort of a good proposition, eh But that Is Just what n report made to Alderman Key by tho Hall-lllges Company shows. What Report Shows. Out of a list of twenty gas plants, two were owned and operated jiy the city, and these two made the best showing of the bunch. One sold gas to the people at 11 a thousand, knocked off 25 per cent when paid within a cer tain time, used over 16,000 worth for public purposes, and even then made a profit of over $28,000, which meant a profit of 15,3 per cent on the Invest ment. This same municipally owned plant produced gas cheaper than any PMvately owned plant, except one. Ami this one exception Is only another ar gument why the city should own that Plant. It cost this private monopoly 46 cents a thousand to produce the gas, and yet It collected $1.20 n thousand from the people, with a 20 per cent reduction for prompt payment. Nice, gouging profit to make at the expense of the taxpayers, wasn't It? This second municipally owned plant sold gas to Its stockholders—the people of the city—for <$1 a thousand, used over $12,000 worth for public purposes, made a clear profit of over $76.o«0 In cold cash. Ix-slde, and earned 12.4 per cent on the investment. It cost this city 65 cents to produce the gas It sold to Its stockholders. Now. If you can pay taxes by paying gas bills. Isn't It better than having to pay bigger gas bills i}nd taxes, too? Rather, With very few exceptions every ono of the plants mentioned In the report, and which were owned by private cor porations, arc down as paying abnor mal Interest on the Investments, and the figures In this report made no ac counting fin- water which Is Injected Into the stock of most privately owned gas plants. Why Not Atlanta? Sow, If other cities can own their gas plants, use all they want for streets and public buildings, sell cheap gas and then make big money, what's keeping Atlanta fro* doing the same tiling? It’s up to you—you who foot the bills. The monopoly in Atlanta that sells you electric light and gas Isn't running a charitable Institution. Big money making monopolies are not going to turn loose o good thing. They are not going to >11111 gouging you until you make them, and It's up to you to inako a noise—a real loud noise that will be heard In every nook and corner of the city hall: one that will make your servants In council sit up and take police. Alderman Key has other pertinent points about municipal ownership. He lias received letters from other dlles as to what It eosts to produce gas..of course gas cannot be produced for the same price In different cities, hut when such a multitude of cities libve found tjint they can produce it cheaper that, monopolies und when they sell It for n tritic above post and save millions to the people. It Is a ten 10 one shot At lanta can do the same thing. Appropriation Voted. The special gnunlclpal ownership committee has unanimously recom DID YOU READ THE BOOKLET “SOMEBODY” MAILED TO YOU? ‘Somebody” is Sending Out Anti-Municipal Ownership Literature To All Signers of The Georgian’s league List. Ate you one of those Cheerful Ichots with whom the pres* agent of the gns and electric light monopoly Is In cor respondence? Yes, the monopoly’s press agent Is at work, and, judging frojn the literature sent out, all Atlanta people who are espousing the cuuse of municipal own ership are cheerful idiots. Now the question is: If there is noth ing In municipal ownership for the people, why should the monopoly spend money and take time to knock the plan? And It Is an important question. It Is a verdict, a pica of guilty by the monopoly that has Its grasping ten tacles around the throats of Atlanta people. Ever since the names of Atlanta peo ple joining the Municipal Ownership league were published In The Oorgliin. these believers In the municipality—the people—owning such trifles as gns and electric light plants, have been deluged with antagonistic literature on the sub Ject. Most of the time of the monopoly*! press agent has been spent in sending out a pamphlet, alleged to have been written by John Kendrick Hangs, en titled "As to Municipal Ownershii “ This pamphlet Is declared to be a sup pressed chapter of "Coffee and Re partee,” and the Cheerful Idiot, tho municipal ownership enthusiast, Is made, to say considerable on the sub ject. Just a Knock. Of course It is a knock. But If the monopoly officials and the press agent could read some of the • multitude of letters sent to The Gorglan by Atlanta l>eople who have received them, they would be grieved to think Jhc money had been wasted. For It does cost money to operate a campaign of knocking such as is now being operated. And one again. If there Is nothing in municipal ownership for the city—for the people—why should the people who now control franchises that rightfully belong to the people spend money on a knocking campaign? Listen to this letter and Judge how well this Cheerful Idiot campaign Is working: An Atlanta Postmark* ‘To -The Georgian: ** ‘T inclose herewith a (6h-page book let called ’As to Municipal Ownership.’ This little medium of underhand abuse and 'education* reached me this morn ing through the regular mall, bearing the Atlanta post mark. I presume It as sent to me, as well as to others ho have rent In applications to you for membership In the proposed Munic ipal Ownership League, li Is not diffi cult to Imagine who had this booklet sent out, and It Is hard to see how the sender expects to convince me against municipal ownership through such cheap methods of argument In which I am made to nppear as an 'Idiot.* I would thank y6u to answer this ten- page t-irkly attempt at browbeating In such detail us you may deem fitting Us bushwhacking nature. If the formu- lators and sender wish to 'educate* me, let them print what they have to say In a plain, intelligent manner, sign their names to It and place same In my hands like horient men who have nothing to fear, and their arguments will receive careful consideration." The Idiot didn’t make much of an impression: that Is, u favorable Impres sion, did he? J>ld you who have received this class of literature think It was an accident? Don’t you know that publicity bureaus moke blc money from various kinds of trusts and monopolies that are wAXing rich beyond the dreams of avarice by squeezing the people? No? Well they do. A few years ago, before the people of this country be gan to sit up and take notice and think about these tplngs, these pocket, squeezing monopolies ignored the peo ple. But now they see what’s coming. They see that their huge protits on In flated and watered stock, profits that come out-of your pockets, arc In dan ger of being diverted where they right fully belong., Octopus Is Scared. \ Hence this campaign of "educa tion." Now, on the level, gentle reader, Isn’t this scheme easy to pee through? Isn’t It money In your pocket, money in the poekdt of every Atlanta citizen, rich or poor. If It’s money out of the pockets of the monopoly magnates? , And If It Isn’t money out of their pockets why. then, this frantic haste to ’•educate" Atlanta people by comparing them to cheerful Idiots? i But maybe the monopoly magnates are right aftor nlL It might be true that the people of Atlanta have been idiots for many years by allowing their valuable franchises to get in tho hands of scheming and money-makjng corpo ration gangs. And U might be true that they have been cheerful about It, too. But Isn't It time to quit being n Cheerful Idiot-and get what’s coming to you. Ish’t it time to join the Municipal Ownership League and help boost the game? Think It over and sign the applica tion. He Was Well Known and Popular in At lanta. The body of Edward F. Riddick, who cqmmlted suicide in Birmingham Fri day, will be brought to Atlanta, where further funeral arrangements will he made, lie went to Birmingham five months ago for the purpose of opening a tailoring business under the name of Riddick & Cerf. * He was associated with the tailor ing establishment of Edward Cerf & Company, In Whitehall street, for six or seven years and had close friends In this city. He was well and popular ly known among the young men of Atlanta. Dispatches from Birmingham say that nothing further than that he took his own life by shooting himself was developed at the coroner’s Inquest. The theory of financial troubles as being the cause of his action Is not believed among his acquaintances in Atlanta. Those who were close to him say that he was not tlnaifcluily embarrassed. Mr. and Mrs. Cerf, parents of the young man, are on their way to At lanta from North Carolina, where they have been visiting. They were not notified of the death of young Riddick until <i dispatch was forwarded to them by Edward Cerf, the former business purtner of Riddick. CITY WILL RECEIVE $83,109 FROM PUBLIC CORPORATIONS Street Railway Js At lanta’s Biggest Taxpayer. SOUTHERN RAILWAY PAYS BIG TAXES Animal Report Shows Tax able Value of Railroad Property. The c ity of Atlanta will receive $83,-' 109.43 from the public service corpo rations doing business here during 1906. Tho taxes for the year have been tnnde out by the comptroller general and turned over to the city comptroller for collection. The report contains the physical values of these corporations, the exact value of the property In the turned in. the franchise values, the whole taxable property, which com bines the two, and the aggregate, which CORPORATIONS— Control of Georgia .* Seaboard Air Line Belt Line Seaboard Air Line. G.. C. iiihV N Sombern Knllroud, <1. P. JUyImIoii Southern, and B. Division Southern, A. and t\ Division Atlnutit and West Point Belt Line Atlanta and West Point to West Point.... Atlantic Terminal Company Charleston and West Carolina Louisville and Nashville Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis Georgia hallway and Electric Company Atlanta Gns Light Company North Georgia Electrie Company Southern Express Company Aiuerb-an Telegraph and Telephone Co Atlanta Postal T s *’ Western Union Southern Bell Tel. Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Company. Physical Vnluoa. $ 239,887 170.63»J 18,491 89.721 346.189 67,73$ 7,412* . 59,880 1.450.611 625,000 4.000 65,619 4.971 1.836 2,880 Franchise Values. $ 31.933 8.987 2,855 13,599 51.290 7.876 3.975 Whole Taxable. » 271.820 179,623 21.346 103.320 397,479 . 75,614 11.38? 86.267 1.000,000 1,68? 85,000 31.014 29,000 1,660 2,646,864 900,000 4,272 208,799 M4S Aggre gate. $3,397.75 2,246.29 266.83 1.291.50 4,968.49 943.18 142.34 1,078.31 1,250.00 1.25 362.50 20.75 33,085.80 U,250.00 53.40 2,600.99 69.30 28.44 57.00 6.385.06 2,359.1$ Totals $3,768,431 $2,880,317 $6,648,751 $83,109.43 Is the taxes to be paid on this prop erty to the city. The corporation from which the city gets the greatest amount of taxes Is the Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany, which pays $33,85.80. Tho com pany’s physical values are placed at $1,450,611; the franchise values ore $1,196,263; the whole taxable being $2,646,864. The Kouthem, of course, pays more than any other railroad. The Sou them bus to pay on three divisions—the Grand Pacific, the Churlestoil and Brunswick and the Atlanta and Char lotte—$1,291.50 on the first, $4,968.49 on the second and $945.18 on the third. The Central pays Into the city treasury for the year $3,397.75. The charleston and West Carolina has a physical value of only $100 and has no franchise value. This company pays the city just $1.25. Tile Loulsvilld and Nashville and the Nashville, Chat tanooga und St. Louis also have no franchise values. The only company returned that has not physical value is the Atlanta Terminal Company, whose railroad, stock is- not yet here. The franchise value of the Atlanta Terminal Company Is the highest of all, being $1,000,000. The total physical value of all the public service corporations in $3,768,- 434. The total franchise value is $2,880.- 317. The whole taxable is $6,648,751. The aggregate representing the amount of taxes paid to the city Is $83,109.43. LOVE LA UGHS A T SPEED LA WS, POLICEMEN, IRATE PARENTS AND CONVENTIONALITIES BLOW OF AXE CAME I Continued From Pag. One. SPENCER A T THR 0 TTLE TOOK'ROAD OFFICIALS ACROSS DRA WBRIDGE Special lo The Georgian. Chattanooga. Tenn., Dec. 1.—Profes sor Roy Baylor, of this city, was n school mate of the late Samuel Spen cer, at the University of Virginia. He entered the school during the year tlutl President Spencer graduated from the course of civil engineering. He says that President Spencer was unusually bright In mathematics. President Spencer was to have deliv ered ’nn address before the graduating class of Baylor’s University School, of this city, next June. Professor James B. Buy lor, professor In the University of Virginia and a brother of Profes sor Roy Baylor, was a member of the graduating class of President Spencer. The death of President Spencer have no effect on the plans of the Southern railway to erect a half-mil lion-dollar passenger station and to complete the Stevenson extension. In cluding the tunnel through Lookout Mountain and other important work In this Immediate section. Major IV. D. Jenkins, civil engineer In charge of the plans for the passen ger stutlon. tells a story of one of the peculiar characteristics of the dc^id president. In which he says that when the long drawbridge across the Susque hanna river on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was completed, .President Spencer took hold of tho throttle of the big locomotive which drew a spe cial train of officials und guided the monster across the bridge with the courage of a veteran engineer. JOHNSON MUST HANG; NEGRO ASSAILANT IS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE Will Johnson, aged about 26 years, the negro charged with criminally as- \ saulling Mrs. Richard Hembree, near j her home, at Battle Hill. August 15, was mended that an appropriation $500j found guilty by the Jury which tried be made for the purpose of tndRng a [him In the criminal branch of the supc- tborough Investigation as to the cost of producing gas * In Atlanta and how much a municipality owned p’aiit would cost. Council may and may not adopt the report of the committee ami make the appropriation. It Is tip to the people to get busy and see that council does the right thing. The other side Is busy now—mighty busy. The case of the city of Humllton, Ohio. Is an Illustration of how much gas monopolies make out of tho people who gave them their tight fo do bus iness. The population of Hamilton is ab »ut 24,000 and the people were compelled to pay $2 a thousand to the monopoly. The people made a noise for lower rates, but the monopoly officials de clared they could not sell any cheaper and make money and they also refused to sell their plant at a reasonable figure. Beat the Monopoly. The result wtm that the suffering people built at plant of their own and went Into competition with the monop Judge Roan for their efforts to have the negro’s neck. The attorneys stated they did not know a* yet whether or not they will appeal the case. Hoars Hit Doom. At 9 o’clock Saturday morning John son was taken into the criminal court. The Jury had •been out from about 5 o’clock Friday afternoon until 12 o'clock* Friday night. They state.1 they had reached a verdict und It was read, "Guilty.” At 10 o’clock Judge Roan again called Johnson Into court to tfor court Friday afternoon and given the death sentence by Judge Roan Saturday morning. Judge Roan set January 4, 1907. be tween 7 o’clock In the morning and 2 o’clock In the afternoon, an the day for lh *i^n C m!» M iidD\^ofThe l ’tdiaiire" said place" sentence upon him. Johnson i J am Ja Kv If ■ atated be was tin Innocent man. He Johnson. u hen nsked b> Jiulge H wit If j wa * very calm and did not appear at he wished to say’ t _« am n ' lull shaken by the verdict, nocent as an angel In hen'en. Judge Roan then sentenced Johnson The verdict in the case was not [, . * January 4 1907 reached until n *2S5*fta!&r 1 As Johnsor was being taken from and was not mode known until 8ttur- | j| )0 j A || j 0 the court house Saturday day morning. Johnson, however, had a mornlnf ho l0 |cl Balllfr.Brydnt that he dream b ridgy night. In w hich he saw | haU hA(] a lerr \^\ e dream Friday night, the court sentencing him to be hung. He dronmet i the jury in his case had Attorneys \\ alter McLlreuth. M. ' . i brought in a verdict of guilty. John- Tolbert and Alex W. Stevens, who de- „ on however, he did iu»t think the tended Johnson at the request of the j ( ] ream would come true, as "dream court, were highly complimented uy hooks" said that dreams always turn . —— out opposite from what they are. Johnson was arrested after Invest!- came In a weak and plaintive voice from the prostrate woman. This was all she said. Her eyes were dim and she did not recognize even her two children, who stood by her side weeping hysterically. “Oh, papu has threatened to do this thousand times!” cried out one of the little fellows as some one Inquired as to the cause. Goes to Hospital, The wounded wife was quickly taken to the hospital, where the physicians at once began efforts to save her life. The body of the dead husband was re moved to the undertaking parlors of Hurry G. PooJe & Co., where an In quest will be held some time Satur day. The scene of the tragedy is a double house, the other side being occupied by the family of J. V f Puckett. Mrs. Puck ett was at home ut the time of the kill ing, but knew nothing of it until the discovery by the little boys. She stated Saturday morning to „ Georgian reporter that she hearth no commotion of any kind on the Cooper side of the house and did not even hear tho report of Cooper’* pistol. She said she knew nothing of the differences be tween Cooper and his wife, ns she had a fulling out with them some time ago. , Mrs. Dennui'd, who was an Intimate friend of the family,- says Mrs. Cooper had told her that Cooper hud tnnde threats to take her life and then kill himself. She says tho little boys had also told the sunie thing. Uncls Took Childrtn. Shortly after the discovery of the tragedy, Zeko Pursley, an uncle, took churge of the two boys and carried them to his home. In speaking, the affair Saturday mortyng, Mrs. Dennard said: "Mrs. Cooper was at my house yes terday afternoon und remained here until 4:3ft o’clock. Her husband went down town during the afternoon and at 4:30 returned. I was iij. my back yard und he came out In his back yard and asked me If his wife WASgUt my house. I told him she was, and ho said lie wanted her to come home. She left immediately. Mrs. Cooper and her hus band hud a disagreement In the morn ing. Mrs. Cooper told me shq^md re ceived a message that her motfler, Mrs. Pursley, who resides out on the river car line, was 111 and wanted her to come and see her. Mr. Cooper, she said, ob jected to her g^lng and advised her to wait until today. Mrs. Cooper (lnully agreed to tills.” Cooper la said to have been n drink ing man. but whether he ivas Intoxi cated Friday afternoon Is not known. Mrs. Dennard says she could not tell whether he was drinking at the time he asked for Ids wife. Mrs. Cooper Is 62 years of age and her husband was hut little older. He had been twice married. He lias two children by his first marriage. Mrs.' Pearl Luther, who resides near the waterworks, and John Cooper, whose home is In Atlanta. Cooper Is said to have worked but little during the past several months, stating he was not able to work. His wife and two boys have been working and supporting the faintly. COUPLE ARRESTED AT THE STATION St. Louts. Dec. 1.—Orville K. Sher man, a grand-nephew of General Wil liam T. Sherman, and Miss Esther Ber- son were arrested when they stepped from a Burlington train at the union station. They had eloped to St. Louis t(J*get married. . Too young to gain their parents' con sent, they sought to give the old folks the slip, with the result that the elders caught on quicker than was expected and wired to Chief of Police Creecy to catch the runaways as they came to town. Orville Is 17 and Ills fiancee one year younger. He lives at Peoria, 111., and she at Moueon, III. WEDDED ABOARD BIG OCEAN LINER New York, Dec. 1.—Partly because they wanted to do something out of the ordinary und partly because they vv< running away from an Irate father, couplo were married aboard the Cu- narder Slavonia, when that vessel was tossing about In the wind storm on the 18th of the month In the Atlantic ocean. Sigmond Adalbert Engelhach, the bridegroom, It was said, Is from Cin cinnati. Tho bride Is Miss Marla Joscfa Kormann, of Vienna, where her father Is a wealthy wine merchant. NEWSBOY KEPT GOLDPIECE UNTIL OWNER TURNED UP There is at least one honest newsboy In Atlanta. And because of finding this honest lad, H. a. White, of the White Wall paper Company, Is Just $4 richer than he thought he was. The honest boy is Oscar Davis, of 52 South McDaniel street. On Monday last Mr. White pur chased u copy of The Georgian from the boy and gave him what he thought were two copper cents. The next da> he looked for a flve-dollar gold piece he diad placed .In his pocket the day bevre and found it missing. A little thinking convinced him that he had given it to a newsboy Instead of a cent. And when he came to this conclusion he promptly bade farewell to his gold. On Friday Mr. While mentioned his loss while In the Lowry National bank, and there he learned that a newsboy did get It and had been trying to find the owner. The kid didn’t know who gave it to him and Mr. White didn't know the boy who sold him the paper. -i But he took a chance, anyway, and braced a newsle on the same corner where he had purchased Tho Georgian when he parted with his gold. “Didn’t I give you a flve-dollar gold piece on Monday Instead of a cent?” he asked the kid. Now, an Atlanta newsboy Is wise, and he isn’t giving back money to the first man who asks for It. "Where’d you buy de paper?” he flashed back. "Right there by that telegraph pole.” Another minute was spent sizing up Mr. White, and then— ”1 guess you’re the right guy. Here's your coin. Been trying to find you ter nearly a week.” But before he walked away to get rid of tho balanpe of his copies of The Georgian, he porketed a dollar which Mr. White paid him for Friday’s sport ing extra. "Dat guy ain’t so bud, after all,” re marked the kid to a pal. "There’s nn honest kid,” thought Mr. White as he looked for the latest sports. WEDDED IN AUTO CHASED BY COP Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 1.—Pursued by policemen and speeding through Euclid avenue ot tho rate of forty milts -an hour. Miss Itene Dennart and Attorney Lawrence Damshroder, society people, were wedded In his automobile last night. The wedding was the most remarka* ble affair from start to flnlah, ac cording to the blushing bride herself. Hhc admits that she does not know where she wns married, but believes that It must have been somewhere be tween East North street and East 105th street, on Euclid avenue. \ The ceremony wns performed by Jus tice of the Peace A. H. Parker. It consumed perhaps five minutes, but was spread over a considerable portion of Cleveland's aristocratic highway. BISHOP CANDLER MANGUM STREET HOUSE ■ STILL IN THE LIMELIGHT Dr. A. C. Ward, pastor of the Temple Baptist church, replies Saturday to the remarks of W. E. Wlmpey, published In Tl\e Georgian Friday. Since .Mr. Wlmpey rented the house on Mangum street to negro tenants the neighborhood 1ms been in a turmoil. Policemen have guarded the place at, night, neighbors have talked loudly over division fences by day. It has been a veritable tempest In a teapot. Dr. Ward’s reply to AH\ Wlmpey Is brief and he says he hopes It will close the discussion. It fellows: ”W. K. Wlmpey has said some very ugly things about me in your columns. to Incite a race riot ond cause trouble between the races by putting innocent negroes where they will not be toler ated. But for Dr. Ward’s determined stand against lawlessness and violence, trouble would even yet follow. Dr. Ward, again* t the advice of the neighborhood, stood between the crowd and trouble. Every itollccman on the beat will tesffy that he did all in his power to co-op erate with them In keeping the peace. It Is due to the persistent stand of Dr. Ward and the prompt action on the part of Mayor Woodward and Chief Jennings that no harm was done. Changed Hit Mind. Now we ore all anxious to know why By CONFERENCE Body Arose and Cheered As Noted Missionary En tered Building. * Hpecial to the Georgian. Valdosta, Gn.. Dee. 1.—Bishop W. A. Candler, who lias Just returned from the Orient, reached tho city last night, and was present at the penlng of the goutb Georgia conference session thin morning. He was given an expression of tbs appre ciation In which he Is held by the confer ence, tlie members rising to their feet toil clapping their hands. Bishop Ctadler re ferred briefly to his travels through Cbln* a Japan and Korea. He stated that at first sight one would be well nigh appalled at conditions in the Hast, but utter four months spent there he returned with buoyant faith In tba Christian work being done there. Many poTTSS committee on nooks and periodicals. Young Preachsrs Admitted. The following young preachers were altted to the full connection with plant und nil ex|>ense*. Gas is sold f°rjgatlvn of *ome weeks by County Po- $1 a thousand and ft costs the city to llccmen HuntyiVand V. D. A. Davis, muke it 7ft cents, which Includes dr- j Trial is Begun, predation and art allowance foi tuxes, j The Jury' wns secured shortly after Thirty cents on the dollar is u nice J 2 o’clock and the witnesses were put ! sum for a city to make. That much ' under the rule. Everyone wan excluded oly. In 1899 the city was selling gas at | paid In gas bills means that much from the court room except the law- 80 cents a thousand feet and the mo- 1 les* paid In tuve... ycr*. officer* of the court ond the news- nopoly cut the price t.> about the same I If* only a bustres* proposition after I paper men. figure and kept In business ut the,! all. It’s up to you to say whether you- Mrs. Hembree took the stand for the old stand. Quite a reduction tha$: j shell own the gis and electrh light (state. Hhe identified Johnson as her Richmond. Va.. built a plum In 1852 plants and sell 7o yourself und make I assailant. Hhc salu on me morning of nml rebuilt It after the war in 1867. In \ the profit yourself m let a monopoly do August It. between 6 and 7 o’clock, sh** t t , f ., *• pi i for tv D r-f rff** von. met In the i<mi| between her residence and Rattle Hill. The negro passed her on the left side and then turned tyul demanded her purse. She gave It to him. He took the money from It and threw It to tho ground. When Mrs. Hembree tried to get away Im seised her and choked her. Mrs. Hembree said she told of the assault ns soon as possible. Dr. Joe Harper testi fied that when he examined Mrs. Hem bree he found that she had been badly bruised about the neck. With this evi dence the state rested Its case for the moment, and 4he defense introduced testimony. Negro Testifies. Johnson look the stand In his own behalf. He said he had been working __ Wlmpey has so completely changed his It is unnecessary for me, after these j mind about this neighborhood. He 1m long years of public service In At-j simply laboring under a false Impres- bintn. to offer any defense against his t *lon. We object to the statements he charges. I will not engage In ubuse or j has made and declare them to be mud-slfnging, nor will 1 notice what he without foiyutatlon. If Dr. Ward and says other than to say thut he did try the Temple church do not wish to sell to buy my property ami the property of! their property to him, we Imdst that he Mrs. Htokes, both of which properties' has no right to abuse »a and the bound 120 Mangum. We did n«»t w ish: neighborhood in w hich we live. lo sell at his figures. The public can > Jessie Wiggins. 1. M. Jett. ft. F. J. H ;, v j ){. McGehec, draw' Its own Inference nn to why ne- ' Hood, J. I). Meadows. 108 Mnngum; J. c *L»v*tr and Jadge K B. Adams, the groes were put next door to us. 1 V. Johnston. M. F. Game, J. E. H. latter ln-lug one of the strongest addresses ”A. C. WARD.” ‘ Hlrsch, M. J. Kane, Mr. und Mrs. J. I made. Judge Adniu* was opnoaed to tbs Citizen Write* Card I Wood, Mr. and Mrs. \\\ o. Withers, j rrsnlutlnn mid.Mid th«t II, .doptkw would Gilizsn wriwi ware. .«, plow the conference In a ridiculous light The following reply to W. E. Wlm- ; a Vlmil J12r $ • I nu<L reflect onmany of the bvst.men I. K. Chntulter*. Walter Anthony, dsn and Theodore Pharr. The admittance of this class Is a dis tinct feature of the conference every year. Bishop Ward's remarks In luterrueUlou of the class were of the most earnest and eloquent nature. Rev. B. H. Kontell. treasurer of ths church extension hoard, reported ths iiiiiounts as contributed by the several dis tricts: Mnvaunnh district, gWO; North Ms- con. $575: South Macon, $5-5.50; Amerlcus, $495; t’olumhns, $494.50; Thomssvllle. $4.80; Wnyrro,*, $411.50; M.-Hnr, $967; Dublin, 1504; Vaidogtn. $613. The collections this year are s little an tler last year, though the sssesnients for this cause are larger thau In previous years. Tobacco Resolution.' The memorial presented to tho conference regarding the use of tobacco l»y the minis ters was warmly debated. As first pre-, seuted It required that applicants for ad- . T. 1. Neese. Iter; Tho following replyto « K. v Im-1,/ A . a. Mill-,. Mr,. C. "'Th^Vo,- w.. 7* forltoBO. poy, wrliton and signed by tho dllienn; Brldwell. Mr*. J. A. Hridwell. Mr,. W. | «7dTo.’ ngihi.t lr. op August 14 and wrenched his back Kjgn, w by a fall. He had consequently been j wing to say: sick at home all day August 13. He! He mlareprei ... declared his Innocence. i this Is a negro neighborhood. It la not. ’ After minor evidence, the argument i nor is it thickly populated with col or counsel began. Solicitor General Hill 1 ored people. There Is not a negro fani- prosecuted, while Attorney* Walter j ily living on Mangum street for three McElreath, M. C\ Tolbert and Alex W. blocks south and nearly two blocks Stevens, who were appointed by the* north from Ills house. Only two small j of the Mangum street neighborhood. T. George, W. R. Story, W. B. Roper. | lacks the dignity and calm reserve of Offers to Rent. Dr. Ward’s communication, hut what Dr. Ward received Baturday a let- J it lacks in dignity* Is made up In ! ter fit»m a well known man who of- warmth. Here It is: j fered to rent the property at a fair Replying to Mr. Wimpey’z outrageous I price and keep It In good condition, statements, made in yesterday's Geor- ; •——— , the undersigned, have the fot. | ^ He ml*repre*ent* fact* when he «y» w , th , )eaBU(u , CMe , combining watch. pocket book, pencil and tablet, mirror and puff box. at John L. Moore Sc «4>n«. 42 North Broad street, Prudential building. court, defended the prisoner. The state’s rase rested on the evidence of Mrs. Hembree ond Dr. Harper, and the fact that Mr. Mostly, 63 Henley street, saw u negro something like Johnson not far from Mrs. Hembree’s the day of the assault. Mosely could not Identify Johnson as the man. The defense wa* an alibi for Johnson, they claiming* it impossible for Johnson to travel from his home, two mile* to where Mrs Hembree was assaulted, and do the deed ut the time claimed. FUNERAL NOTICE. negro houses are on the lower side of the alley running to Davis street. All the others are white |>eop!e. No negro; ^_____ has ever lived on the block o( - Mangum street In which Air. Wlm- J wool).—Tbe friends of Airs. Mu*ra J«m- pey put C’assle Htephens at 12ft Alan- j Mr*. 31. 7.. Burn*. Air. and gum street. j Mr*. I». J. Oweu nml family. Air. sod Wo states he cannot get a whlu Alrw.J. W. Wood, and Mr. nwl Mrs. J. tenant. This is not true, for lie was of- ; iaUVi^Jeaiiaiti.V'^tv/Jx/at fered $39 l**r month yesterday by one t,i™^*«*»? her' grand'daughter! of Atlanta's best citizens. All his talk \|n. 4. 4’bMdm *9 ('apltot avenue, at of "burning shame about w hite minis- j 3 p. m. fOnntey. Interturnt will be at ters,” etc., is all rot. He Is simply trying* Brunswick. Ga. \ 1 SAFE IS DYNAMITED: POSTOFFICE ROBBED Bite-Ini lo The Georglnn. Jacknon, Ml**.. Dec. L—TMre wa» another poxtofilce robbery In *outh Mle*l**lppl laet night, the third this week, when the poetoffice at Gnlmtn wan robbed. The *a(e vu dynamited and never*! hundred dollar* In money and .tamp* taken. omceni are trying to get to the rob* ber*. but have not lucceeded a* yet. Bankruptcy Petition. A voluntary petition In bankruptcy wo* tiled In rierk Carter 1 * office S.n- urday morning by R. M. Oriffltb, Wool- ney. C,a„ a mechanic. Hit llablllt!-, acre nebeduled at $1,064, while aeeeM were $>$8. -