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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 Iwi 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. BflWBHBMBgsaS] 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. [ 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.