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The Georgian Carnes
The BUSINESS
• And All Of It Clean
The Atlanta Georgian.
The Georgian Carries
The BUSINESS
And All Of It Clean
VOL. 1. NO. 208.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1006.
FIVE CENTS.
ROBERT GILBERT WELSH^M
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PVV.j hen winter comes my spirit goes
|y , I From northern lands of pine
Across the wild winds and the snows
To sunny Palestine.
w s 4
t see three wise men journeying there
And gladly follow them.
Adown- the Hebron road they fare
And come to Bethlehem.
A great star leads mem from the skies
Through crooked streets forlorn,
Till, where a little baby lies,
The Greater Love is bom.
Out yonder on the hillside steep,
Not far beyond the town,
The shepherds watch beside their sheep
After the night comes down
No wolf shall harm your sheep to-night^
No lion roar at them,
No robber shall your flocks affright,
Shepherd of Bethlehem.
Eighteen Persons Are
Injured in Wreck
in California.
Por God’s great angels winged with light
Sweep earthward from above -
"Peace! Peace! In Bethlehem to-night
Is born tho King of Love."
San Jo»e, Cal.; Dec. 26.—Eighteen
persons were Injured, several of them
seriously, and a whole train load of
three score passengers severely shaken
up yesterday when the two day
coaches and the baggage car of South
ern Paclfls train No. 502, bound from
Oakland to Wright's, left the track on
u curve near Birmingham siding and
plunged 75 feet down nn embankment.
That many were not killed outright
is due to the fact that the train had
slowed down before It struck the curve,
where It is supopsed the spreading of
rails caused the accident.
The little ones His voice shall know
And touch His human hand,
Like rain in deserts Ho shall go
Across the wcajy land.
What though He die on Calvary?
Ho hath not passcdJiway,
For eyes no longer blinded seo
That He is here to-day.
In answer to men’s human need3
The Christ comes down to them
And all may find the road that leads
Straightway to Bethlehem.
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700 HORSES AND MULES
BURNED IN THEIR STABLES;
ROBBERSDVAMITEDSAFE
Loss Reaches $120,-
000 in Live Stock -
and Building.
BIGGEST ON RECORD
IN DEATH OF STOCK
T
Harper Bros, and Ragsdale
& Carlisle Company
Are Losers.
A stove upset by a safe dynamited
by robbers In the Harper Brothers and
the Ragsdale & Carlisle Horse and
Mule Companies' stock yards, Marietta
and Emmett streets, set lire to the big
barns about 4 o'clock Christmas morn
ing which resulted In the cremation of
700 head of horses and mules valued at
1125.000. The building was valued at
120.000.
The Are was discovered within
few minutes after 4 o'clock. At 6:30
o'clock only the smoldering ruins of
the building and the roasted carcasses
of the animals remained to tell of one
of the heaviest losses In live stock by
lire in the South.
R. L. Bayne, the nlghtwatchman, was
In the basement feeding stock, when he
detected the odor of smoke. He made
his way Immediately to the upper
floor and started to the front of the
building. Heawas almost overcome by
smoke and narrowly escaped being
cremated, reaching the street with
burns and blisters on his hands and
arms.
"I tried to open the big gates on the
railroad side of the buildings," said Mr.
Bayne, "but they were locked. 1
wanted to get some of the animals out.
I then started to the front of the
building, but the smoke was so thick
that 1 had to feel my way along.
"The whole front part of the build
ing was on Are when I got out. The
office was a mass of flames. Within a
very short time afterwards the whole
structure was on Are and great volumes
of flame and smoke were pouring frotn
the doors and windows. I could hear
the stock stampeding, but they were
locked In and escape waa Impossible.
The lire seemed to be In the office
when I first came out of the basement."
The Are department was notified, but
as the stock yards are at least three-
quarters of a mile beyond the city lim
its no water was available, and only
«»ne hose wagon was sent out. A line
was laid to a water plug near the Ex
position mills, three-eighths of a mile
away, but proved to be practically use
less.
The Are confined Itself to the four
walls of the barns, which cover about
two square acres of ground. Cinders
and sparks carried by the high north
wind fell on the tops of houses a mile
away from the scene of the Are.
Planing Mill Burned.
A small planing mill owned by Har
per & Weathers for dressing lumber,
used In the construction of a large
brick building Just east of the burned
barns, was destroyed. Sparks fell on
the roof of the shed and set Are to the
mill. This W'o■ a small affair and the
loss will only be about $2,000.
The entire neighborhood was aroused
by the blowing of locomtive and fac
tory whistles as soon as the Are was
discovered, and many people wer*
aroused from their beds. There wer
very few, however, who ventured out,
as the thermometer registered about 19
•bgrees and the bitter cold wind from
the north made It ulmost impossible
to stay on the north side of the Are,
while the smoke and odor from the
burning carcasses made It Impossible
to get near enough to the fire to be
comfortable.
When the smoke had cleared away
suilidently Tuesday morning to allow
an inspection of the safe, It was found
that It was lying on the charred floor
In the office. One door was partly
°pen. which prevented It from lying
flat. The big safe had fallen forward,
knocking the upper half of the sto/e
Storm in Jamaica
Does Damage to
Fruit Crop.
Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 25.—Sixteen
persons were drowned by the overturn
ing of a boat In a storm, which has
prevailed for two days.
□reat damage has been done to the
banana and other fruit crops. The
storm Is the worst for several years.
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COL PEPPER
Not Much in 8afo.
"There was not much. If any, money
In the safe,” said Henry Harper,
Junior member of the firm, Tuesday
morning. "It was closed and locked
Mien we went home last night. It was
lull of valuable papers of use to no one
but the llrm. If the thieves got Into
Hi" snfc they didn't get much money,
ns It had been deposited up town.”
Reticent on Insurance.
When asked about the Insurance Mr.
Harper would have very little to say. It
I- known, however, that the company
"iirrleil about 150,000 Insurance on the
'lock and the building. The company
wa,. Just winding up Its third year It.
Hi" live stock market and was regard
'll as one of the best concerns in the
houth.
"Atlanta being the second largest
mul" market In the world.” said a
imminent stock dealer, “this Are will
prove of Interest to a great many stock
dealers. It was one of the greatest
lit" stock losses by Are I have ever
beard of In this section of the country
foil will be quite a blow to the trade
l! ' this city."
The burned barns were only a short
distance east of the old Brady-MIller
•lock yards, the Union stock yards and
“ number of other stock barn yards on
-larlett* street and the railroad. The
f-xposltlon Cotton Mills are located
thive.eighthi of a mile In a south-
eusterly direction, while the Southern,
•►aboard and Western and Atlantic
r "Is have freight yards only a short
dl’tance north.
Th" members of the firm Interested
In Ih" loss are: Henry and Nesbit Har-
Atlanta; L N. Ragsdale, Oakland
Mystery in Death'of
Famous Distiller.
Wife Is III.
New York, Dec. 25.—Colonel James
E. Pepper, of Lexington, Ky., the well-
known distiller, died nt the Waldorf-
Astoria last night. His wife Is In s
serious condition in the same hotel,
suffering from an attack of bronchial
pneumonia.
Because of an oversight In drawing
the death certificate, Coroner Harbur-
ger was sent to the hotel by the board
of health to Investigate Colonel Pep
per's death, and tt Is likely that ui
autopsy will he performed now merely
i n matter of form.
The health board rejected the certlfl
cate because It failed to give the de
tails In regard to the fracture. Colonel
Pepper was attended by Dr. Richard A,
Gibbons, who was assisted by Drs.
Janeway. W. T. Bull, Glbney and Cald
well, and an X-ray expert.
Dr. Gibbons told the newspaper men
that Colonel Pepper had broken his leg
last Thursday afternoon. He was nn
the way to the hotel after a business
visit In Wall street and had Just left
the elevated at Thirty-third street. He
had started to cross the road when he
fell, striking partly on the curb. His
head hit the ground and he lay In the
street helpless until a policeman came
and picked him up.
He refused medical attendance, ac
cording to Dr. Gibbons, and boarding a
car went to the Waldorf.
When the newspaper men asked to
see Mrs. Pepper. Dr. Gibbons said:
"Mrs. Pepper Is so III that she can’t
make a statement. She is suffering
from bronchial pneumonia, and at 9:16
o'clock her temperature stood
1012-5."
City, and J. A. Carlisle, Atlanta. The
Harpers are also brothers of Albert
and Leonidas Harper, prominent stock
men of St. Louis, and George Harper,
of Charleston, 8. C.
Chief Turner, of the county police
deportment, was notified of the rob
bery of the safe and has detailed two
officers to make a thorough Investiga
tion. County officers Gordon and
Echols reached the fire about 5 o'clock,
but there was no one near the Are ex
cept the night watchman and a few-
stock men from neighboring yard*.
Our boys want to spend
NO LATE EDITIONS
We wish that everybody have as merry a Christmas as we are having,
a part of the day with their folks, and we want them to, so we are only printing two editions today.
We hope you won’t mind the paper being a little smaller than usual.
By the way, we feel sort of a quiet satisfaction around the heart on this day to think we have
been able to produce a paper that has satisfied so many people and yet print nothing to be ashamed of.
PLATE SHOT FROM HAND
OF RESTAURANT KEEPER
BY WOULD-BE ASSASSIN
gpecfnl to The Georgian.
Waycro**, Ga„ Dec. 25.—Fred Flcken.
who hit* charge of the Rallioad Rea*
taurant here at night, waa allot In the
arm ahortly before 5 o'clock Bunday
morning.
Three ahota were fired through tho
glaaa door from the eaat aide of the
building ut Mr.’ Flcken. One ball broke
a plate which 51 r. Flcken had In III*
hand at the time and another hit hlin
In the arm at the elbow and ranged
down toward the wrlat. The other ball
miaaed ita mark and craahed through
the glaaa door on the other aide. l',i-
llcemen N. J. McClellan nnd E. Cot-
tlngham went to work on the caae anil
"non had Tom Pughley, a negro, nr-
reated a* being the person that fired
the shots. The negro waa locked up
and the evidence ogalmt him Is very
atmng.
While painful, Mr. Flcken’* wound la
not at all aerloua and he will aoon be
all light again.
YOUNG GIRL’S FROLIC
MAY END IN DEATH;
IS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
AGED MEN MEET DEATH
IN MYSTERIOUS BLAST
Chicago, in., Dec. 25.—Herman Oberg, murdered and robbed. Other theories
aged 55. and Robert Wldgren, aged 54. [ Waning Jiie mystery which were
are dead and two other men, who at
tempted to rescue them, were serious
ly Injured by an explosion In a myste
rious Christmas tragedy In Elm street
early today.
Police of the Chicago avenue station
at once began an Investigation on the
advanced by a police sergeant who
has charge of the Investigation are
that the men committed suicide or
were the victims of an accident.
Fifteen freight cars were burned in a
wreck that occurred near the Lans-
down, N. J., station of the Lehigh Val-
theory that the two men may have been ley railroad. No one was hurt.
Just lifter she had bfcen enjoying her
self In a merry frolic with a number of
small children about a heavily laden
Chrtstmus tree, Miss Tymna Freeman,
16 years of age, a stenographer, was
accidentally shot, probably fatally, by
her uncle, E. 8. Lurrltnore, Christmas
morning at 7 o'clock. In the kitchen of
the Larrimore home, 38 Strong street.
The wounded girl Is now in the Grady
hospital in an extremely critical condi
tion. The wound is of such a serious
nature the patient has ns yet been un
able to stand an operation, the physi
cians fearing the shock would pro/e
too great.
The bullet, fired from a 38-callbre
Smith & Wesson revolver, entered the
abdomen. The direction taken by the
ball and the point where It lodged has
not been ascertained.
The accident occurred while Mrs.
Larrlmore was preparing breakfast and
Immediately after the Christmas tree,
which was planted In the front room,
hud been stripped of Its vailed assort
ment of gift*, prepared for the several
Lari itnore children and other members
of the faintly.
Lives Near Covington.
Miss Freeman, whose home Is near
Covington, has been living with her
uncle and aunt for some time and was
regarded us a member of the family.
When the merriment Incident to the
Christmas tree had reused Mr. Larri-
more took his pistol out into the buck
yard anil A red It several times. Miss
r reeman expressed a desire to shoot
the weapon and it was while her uncle
was re-loading It In the kitchen that
the accident occurred.
The girl procured some extra cart
ridges kept In the house by Mr. Larri-
more and handed them to him. Just
what cuused the accident Is not known.
While Mr. Iiurrlmore was placing the
cartridges In the cylinder, however, the
pistol, in some manner, discharged and
Miss Freeman sank to the floor with a
bullet hole in her abdomen.
Mr. Larrlmore, who Is almost pros
trated over the terrible accident, says
his niece was standing behind him
when he flrst started loading the pis
tol. and he cannot account for the man
ner In which she was shot. He says
the pistol was half cocked at the time
It discharged. x
Miss Freeman, realising she was des.
perately wounded, asked that her
clothing be loosened, after which she
was placed on a bed. Calling her un
cle to the bedside, the girl, pallid and
weak, asked him to bend over her. As
he did so, she placed her arms about
his neck and said:
“Don't Let Aunt Cry."
"Unde, I know I am badly hurt, but
d<y>'t you let Aunt Mlttle cry."
Dr. W. A. Muner, the family physl-
LITTLE GIRL
IS BURRED
TO DEATH
Dress of 8-Year-Old
Marie Ford Catches
Fire From Grate.
TRAGEDY CAME
ON HER BIRTHDAY
Parents Were Up Town
Shopping—Was Favorite
of Firemen at No. 8
Engine House.
With vl.lona of the coming of that
great dispenser of gift*, Santa Claus,
filling her heart with happiness little
Marie Ford Monday afternoon at 4
o'clock reached, ttp-toeing. to the man
tel for some object, and In a second
her dress waa ablaxe from the open
grate.
‘ Screaming with fright and pain, she
ran Into the street and made with all
speed toward engine house No. 8. Cap
tain Courtney, reading Inside heard the
frantic crle* of hie little pet, and seis
ing a horse blanket, hurried out. The
child's garments were almoat burned
from her when Captain Courtney
reached her, but wrapping the blanket
labout the pitifully burned little body,
.he extinguished the fire.
'He hurried with her to the Presby
terian hospital, near by, where tender
hands ministered to the sufferer, lint
the burns proved fatal and Marla died
Tucsdny morning at 4 o'clock. Ami
Monday Marie was 8 years of age.
The child Is the daughter of Mr. nnd
Mrs. H. J. Ford, who live at No. 49 Car
negie place, Just opposite No. 8 engine
house. Monday afternoon the parents
went up town for the Christmas shop
ping, leaving the little girl In charge
of the house.
Captain Courtney and the men at No.
■ are Inconsolable. The pretty child
had long been a favorite with the fire
men, and their sadness Is almost us
keen as the heart-broken parents.
Marie will be laid to rest in Oakland,
and the funeral service, will he held
at Sacred Heart church Wednesday
morning at 10:30 o’clock.
BLACK TROOPERS
CAPTURE A CABi
IITTO FORT
Drunken Negro Soldiers
Beat Conductor and
Motomian.
Leavenworth, Kans., Dec. 15.—S. v*
eral member, of the .quadron of the
Ninth (colored) cavalry, stationed at
[Fort Leavenworth, while Intoxicated on
|Fort Leavenworth bound car yeater-
duy, klc4<ed out all of the windows,
heat the conductor and motomian,
locked them In and raced With the car
^■the fort.
[The rimers were placed In the guard
[house. Several women were on the car
during the trouble. Several of them
(leaped off, but none was Injured.
CAPTAIN MACKLIN BETTER)
HIS ASSAILANT ESCAPES.
■El Reno, Okla., Dec. 26.—At the fort
hospital this morning It waa stated that
Captain Edgar A. Macklln, who wo.
.hot while at his home here Friday
night by a negro, had passed a go I
night. The physicians reported him
Isllghtly improved. Captain Macklln'*
assailant has not yet been apprehended,
although officers are following up a
number of clews.
Ship'e Crew Is Saved.
Halifax. N. S„ Dec. 25.—Life savers
took off the crew of the steamship
Beatrice, from Charlottetown to Syd
ney. which was pounding to piece, on
the treacherous rock, of Cranberry
head, at the entrance to Sydney har
bor.
elan, who resides near by, waa hastily
summoned and rendered temporary
medical aid. The Grady hospital was
then notified and the wounded girl hur
ried there In an ambulance.
Mr. Larrlmore. when seen at bis
home by a Georgian reporter, said:
"I would not have had this accident
to occur for anything. No one knows
how much I regret It. It was all ov»r
•o quickly and I am ao wrought up
and nervous I can hardly give a dear
account.
"After 1 had fired tha pistol In the
yard, my niece said aha would like to
shoot, and said .he would get some ex
tra cartridge*. When »he brought
them to me In the kitchen I start".] to
reload the gun. She wns standing
behind me at that time. Suddenly there
was a loud report and I saw that
Tymna was shot. What caused the
pistol to fire or bow the bullet came to
strike her I am unable to say-”. -
Bicycle Policemen Dodd ant] Jame
son Investigated the shooting and t ame
to the conclusion It was purely acci
dental, no cases being made.