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i'HL AXiiAMA ULUii(jiA*N. MODERN EXPERT DENTISTRY AT REASONABLE PRICES. Crown and $4 Bridge Work Set of Teeth All eth*r Dental Work at Prioea that will, pleaae. Platea made and dolivdrad same day. OR. E. G. 6RIFFIN'S GATE CITY DENTAL ROOMS 24 1-2 WHITEHALL STREET. Bell Phone 1708. HOURS: I A. M. TO 9 P. M. SUNDAYS, 9 A. M. TO 4 P. M. 'IS ATTACKED DEAD A U THOR'S WIFE WINS ADMIRATION Of FRANCE BY ACT OF MA GNA NIMH Y f BISHOP A. COKE SMITH PASSES TO HIS RE WARD Died at Asheville After Lingering Illness of Many Months. THOUGH FEEBLE, DEATH UNEXPECTED Able Preacher and Instruc tor of the Methodist Fnith Surrenders His Armor to the Inevitable. Special to The Georgian. Asheville, .V. Dec. 28.—After n lingering Illness, Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Methodist Episcopal church, died last night. Although Bishop Hnilth iiad been in ill health for some time, having been relieved, by the conference, from active duty for one year, with the hope that he would permanently recover, his death was entirely unexpected, anti the news came an a great shock to his friends. Bishop A. Coke Smith was 77 years of age, having been born In Lynchburg, 8. C., In 1821*. He graduated from Wof- Worpan Knocked Off Sidewalk by Black Trooper. BI8HOP A. COKE SMITH. Who died at Asheville, N. C., Thursday night, after a linger ing illness. ford College, Spartanburg. S. f\ 1863, and Immediately Joined the Houth Carollnu conference. Ho was pu«tor at Cheraw, Columbia. Charleston and other South Carolina |M)(nts. He w at different times a member of the fac ulties of Vanderbilt and Wofford While pastor of Kpworth church. Non folk, V*t., In 1902, lie was elected bish op. Two years ago he removed to Asheville for Ills health. 150 WOMEN ARE FACING DEA TH ON THE PRAIRIES Philips, S. D„ Dec. 28.—One hundred and fifty young women are suffering for want of food and fuel on the prai ries of South Dakota, and an appeal has been sent from Sioux City and Des Moines by Influential parents to the head offices of the Northwestern Railway Company to relieve the young women. With their hands reddened and roughened by toil, with undying ambition to prove up on their land claims the girls are actually In want, and In real danger, as their claims are scattered and many of them many miles from the railroad Hnd even off the trail. To her husband In Sioux City Mrs. A. A. Prichard, one of the home- Headers, writes as follows: •‘You see 1 am saving of writing pa per.. They are out of everything at the store. The storekeeper says his hair has turned white during the past month trying to keep people from starring. J don’t know what anofher atorm will do to the railroad, but peo ple of Sioux City and Des Moines ought 1 to do something to get things shipped In here soon, us freighting on the trull Is altogether too slow. Do something, and do It quick, or all of us will starve and freer.e." * The 160 women who have been lead ing the pioneer life on the prntiies of South Dakota never dreamed of fining the dunger which Is now besetting them when they Went to their claims, happy and carefree, last fall. The set tlers have money, hut there Is nothing to buy. Through a desire for the rough and romantic life of the plains many girls from the most prominent and wealthy families of Iowa have secured land clnlms. Among them are Misses Jennie and Mary Lytle, of Sioux City, daugh ters of a wealthy contractor. Last year the girls attended the Northwestern University, l»it this year decided to prove a claim. .Miss Lottie Rogers, of Ames, In., Is another girl who has a claim far out on the other Rosebud reservation. Miss t'hllllpo Watrous. of Des Moines, whose father Is estimated to be worth nearly $1,000,000, has u farm. SAYS THAI STARVING CHILD IS 7HE HEIR 70 $50,000 New York, Dec. 28.—A boy of 5 years, who a woman, asserting.herself to be his mother, says Is Edmond Pullman, aon of George H. Pullman, and a grand- awn of the Inventor of the Pullman palace car, and heir to $50,000 In trust, waa found cold and wrapiwd In rags on the top floor of a tenement house at 4S7 West Twenty-eighth street last night. Agents of the Children’s Socle-, ty went to the house on information given them and carried the boy to the rooms of the society, where he was fed and given proper clothing. The woman, who gave her name ns Lillian Pullman, or lireslln. was In the children’s court. She told Justice Olm- ■tead that the boy Kdmond was the son of the late George H. Pullman, who w as her husband, she claimed, and that she was now’ living in the tenement with a man named Cornelius lireslln, a brick layer. According tc her statement to the magistrate, George Pullman, before his death, about four years ago, had lec- ognlxed the claim of the child upon him by leaving a trust fund of $50,000 for him, which ho Is to have possession of when 21 years of age. Mrs. Breslln. as she called herself In court, said that she was married to George fl. Pullman and that they had resided In Baltimore until they came to New York to live. She declared that, she hod secured a divorce from Pull man on statutory grounds, ami he died shortly afterward. Before the birth of Kdmond, she said, Pullman had ar ranged for the trust fund. El Reno,, okla., l)ec. 28.—Intense feeling has been created' by an assault on Mr* T. Clifford, wife of a prominent physician, by a negro soldier of the Twen|y-flf(H Infantry. The •attattff oc curred yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Clifford and her sister, Mrs. S. 11. Clarke,. were attempting tq pass the soldier, when he viciously grabbed Sirs. Clifford around the Waist and tfirefcr her Into the street, exclaiming that the sidewalk belonged to him. Mrs. Clarke screamed for assistance and the as sailant fled, escaping before help ar rived. News of the attack spread rapidly. The entire police department, reinforced by' several hundred merf and boys, searched the town and surrounding country, but the chase was given tip Inst night. The negro was in uniform and must returh to the post or become a deserter. Word was sent to Fort Reno and all absentees noted. Mrs. Clifford Mini her sister are posi tive they can Identify the man and will go to Fort Reno and attempt to pick him from the soldiers who were out of, the |s>*t when the assault occurred. ROOSEVELT IS IND0R9ED BY NEGRO MILLIONAIRE. Lurchmont, N. Y., Dec. 28.—Thomas Harris,*- of Larchmont, widely known us Gig "negro millionaire," who has received at least 200 letters from negro societies throughout the United States asking Ills opinion as to President Roosevelt's recent action In discharg ing three companies of negro Infantrv and asking Ills signature to a petition to huve the dismissed soldiers re instated, announced today that after reading the letters'of both sldfca that he Is compelled to stand by the presi dent on the subject. THINK8 ARMY CANTEEN WOULD PREVENT TROUBLE. Chicago, Dec. 28.—A. C. McComb. commanding officer at Fort Sheridan, today asserted the army canteen should he restored. Ho came to Chicago to Jake out a warrant for Sergeant John A. Orllfln, the negro soldier who/shot and killed Herbert Taylor, corporal, at the fort on Christmas day. "Just ns long ns the army posts without n canteen Just so long will the soldiers go to the villages in the vi cinity and drink the liquor served there,” said the major. “If the can teen were established we could control the men. We could give them soft diink Instead of hard; that Is. beer In stead of whisky. A man must drink an awful lot of beer to become Intoxi cated, and vve could regulate the quan tity as well as quality.” WITH THROAT CUT, FEW WITNESSES FOR THAW TRIAL [LIVE WIRE KILLS WEALTHY OIL .MAN District Attorney Expects k™iv«i xh.uk* Findlay, Ohio, Dec. 28.—While put ting coal in the furnace In Ills cellar lust night, James Kelley, a wealthy oil man, happened » to touch a hlghly- j charged electric wire and was instantly killed. Persons who came to Ids aid Hpeclsl to Tlio Georgian. Hnwklnsvllle, Ga., Dec. 28.—In Hart ford, Just ucros* the river, Luclug La mar and Stella Flanders, negroes, were celebrating on "booxe,” when I-umar cut Stella’s throat. She walked over to the drug store and had the wound stitched. * Sheriff Rogers went to arrest Lamar, who barred himself In a house and dclled arrest. The sheriff had the door knocked down, when the negn ante at him with u pistol and dirk, hut John Rogers was never known falter when In a tight place. lie shot Lamar Just above the eye, the hall lining out at the back of his heud. PISTOL SHOT FIRED THROUGH CAR WINDOW. Mpedal to The Georgian. Decatur. Ala., Dec. 28.—Tuesday night a pistol hail was tired through a window of one of the cars of the North Alabama Traction Company, In West Decatur. Fortunately no one wus hurt. There were hut few passengers on the car at the time. Kpedal to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga., Dec. 28.—The Colum bus Manufacturing Company has pur chased ten acres of gr<nmd adjoining their mills at North Highlands, on which they propose to build houses for their operatives. The company has been dependent on others f*.r houses j heretofore, but they will build cottage:* which will be rented to their help ut a nominal cost, and have them near the mill. OUR INVENTORYSALE Will start tomorrow (Saturday) and continue all next week. It will offer Exceptional Advantages inasmuch as vou can purchase vour merchandise at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES and pay for them by Our Easy Payment Plan We wish to thank our patrons for their generous patronage during our largest holiday / seasoh and hope that you will' continue with us throughout the coming year- We will do our part toward your satisfaction. TERMINAL CLOTHING 7 West Mitchell Street COMPANY’ West Mitchell Street _ Pictures of Mine. Roxert. on the light, and Mme. Zola, widow of the famous French author, of all France by asking the courts to allow her mate children to bear his name. Mme. Zola, on the left, has won the admiration late husband’s lllegltl- WH ATt ROCKEFELLER TOO POOR WHM1 ! TO PURCHASE OYSTERS? New York, Dec*28.—John D. Rocke feller, king of oil. was attacked and de fended In addresses delivered at the .fifty-seventh annual meeting of the American Association for the Advance ment of 8cIenee. Henry Laurens Call, of Washington, In a paper on "The Concentration of Wealth,” attacked the tight of Mr. Rockefeller to his fortune. He declared that the oil king’s riches had not been the result of natural causes, but hnd been created through the-activity of corporations. Mr. Call referred to these corporations ns "vi cious.’’ When II cume his turn to speak. Louis McPherson, assistant to the late Samuel Spencer, as president of the Southern railway, came to Hie defense of Mr. Rockefeller nml refilled to the attack mrule by Mr. Call. Mr. McPher son said the oil king had had his finan cial struggled und that he had (lone a great deal of goo(L which had been lost sight of In the mass of criticism which hud been hurled at him. Speaking less seriously, Mr. Mc Pherson told of a dinner party sev eral years ago at the Rockefeller Hbme when Mrs. Rockefeller explained the absence of oysters by paying: "We like them, but tire too poor to have them.” Mr. McPherson’s point was that al though a man might be worth $100,000.- 000 he might still be Without ready cash if he kept his enterprises going on full time. The meeting of the association Is be ing hefol at Columbia University, und fullv 1.500 persons, members of the as. sociatlon and its utnitaied bodies, are Irt attendance. BRIDE ASKS T RADING ST AMP; IS GIVEN A KISS INSTEAD New York. Dec. 28.—Hearing that Justice of Peace Charles Sweeney gave trading stamps with marriages, Mrs. Hattie M. Darby, nee Valentine, of 94 lAifayette place, Brooklyn, and Lawyer Robert I. Irons, of Brooklyn, who says he lives now In Jersey City, called at the Judge’s office, in the court house, Jersey City, yesterday, and were mar ried. *i When the knot was tied Mrs. Irons asked for trading stamps. The Judge said the only stamps he gave were kisses on the bride’s cheek. He was al lowed two and a good fee. TAKES OUT AN INJUNCTION TO PROTECT HIS WHISKERS DRESSEDFORDEATH WHEN MOB ARRIVED; SLAYERISLEHED Crowd Overpowers Sheriff and Hangs Man for Killing Fanner. Las Animus, Colo., Dec. 28.—A mob of masked men last ’night lynched Lawrence Iceberg for the imirder of Henry Lavenmeyer. About forty men entered the Jail here shortly before 9 o’clock, overpowered the sheriff and other officers and locked them In a room of the building. The men then went to the cell occu pied by Leberg., struck the shackles from Ills limbs and took him from the Jail. A larger body of men ami boys were waiting outside and when the prisoner and his captors uppeared they formed a procession .and proceeded a short distance from the Jail and hanged Leberg to a telegraph pole. The self- confessed murderer made no resistance and made no statement. The members of the mob offered no violence und no shots were fired during the entire affair. Before the mob reached the jail Iceberg heard them coming. He arose from his cot, dressed himself coolly and awaited them. The leader of the mob made no effort to disguise himself and It is declared that the ringleaders are known to the jail officials. Low Rates ONE WAV OR ROUND TRIP TO Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado 52? Birmingham and the Tickets will be sold from Atlanta on first and third Tuesdays of January. February nud March. Holders of round-trip tickets vln llliiu Ingham and ’Frisco wMi die allowed mi. oral stopover privileges; also diver*, routes west of Memphis to many points In Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. Patronise the road tbnt Is trying to Inin you. Write /or literature and tletallel Information to 5. L. PARROTT, District Passsngsr Agent. 5 N. Pryor 8t. Atlanta. Cleveland, Ohio. December 28.—John Glade got an injunction today to pre vent his wife, Johanna Glade, from pulling out any'of hi* hair or whiskers and to prevent her from Interfering with his business or "Jawing him on the streets of Cleveland.” Glade In his petition for divorce says that his wife, when he married In 1905, has a particularly bad temper when she has been drinking, but that even when she has not been drinking at all she has it way of jumping on him. pulling out his hair and whlskera and other wise annoying him. She lias pulled out "great quantities of Ills hair and whis kers." he says. Judge Philips granted the temporary restraining order that he prayed for. Three Valuable Horeee Stolen, Special to The Georgian. Brunswick. Ga., Dec. 28.—John Cur rie, of St. Simona Island, had three valuable horses stolen from him re- ivnNy. No clew as to the identity of tin* horse thieves has yet been ob tained. Mr. Currie had two other horses stolen from him on the island u year ago. Big Trade at Brunswick. special to The Georgian. Brunswick. Ga., Dec. 28.—All the lo cal merchants report line Christmas trade and the volume of business was probably the largest In the history of the city. The hanks have had it big tush on since Tuesday. to Carry Case Through Speedily. TO HONOR GUEST In honor nf Colonel M. K. Elkin, I.exlngton. Ky., Grady Tent No. Knlghta of the Maccabeea, will have a amoker und buffet aupper Friday night In their hall, No. sr. Central avenue. State Commander O. W. Gunder and Deputy State Commander M. D. Glen- xon. of the order, will nlao be present anil deliver addressee Colonel Elkin lx supreme sergeant of the Knights of the Maccabees, the highest office held by xny resident of the Southern stutes. He lx ulxo state commander of Kentucky, and one of the most popular officials of the organi sation. Eleven years ago Colonel Elkin organized Orudy Tent, In the welfare of which he has always shown the ueei>e*i interest. Elks Will FiTRmim. Special to The Georgian. Augusta, Ga., Dee. 28.—It waa an nounced yesterday that the Augusta lodge of Elks would m up a room In the Charles Crittenton Home. The room will be furnished handsomely and the Elks have agreed to maintain It in the most approved style. SLIGHTLY BRUISED Special to The Georgian. Craw ford vllle, Ga., Dec. 28.—Wllk*3 Smith, a negro well-digger of ibis place, wa* burled two day* ago by .1 falling wall In a well thirty-five feet deep. It took several hour* to remove the rock from the well, but the negn wa* finally rescued with only bruise*. NO AGREEMENT YET ON NEW WAGE SCALE. Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, Oa., Dec. 28.—The lum ber and tie men and stevedores «i this Ity hove held several meeting! 1 enUy for the purpose of dlseu*«in- nnil agreeing on a policy with refer ence to the disposition of the demand mado by the local Longshoremen’* l n- Ion for an Increase in the wage sea** of about 331-3 per cent. No fin* 1 ' plan* have been formulated, but it th? general opinion that the *1»<Tei- enres between employers and the m*n - beiK of the union will be amicably ad justed. Th(5 no w wage scale to be agreed -n is to lake effect January’ 1. New York. Dec. 28.—The trial of Harry K. Thaw for the killing of Stan- I ford White will be the shortest of Its , kind on record In the criminal history ! of New York. From th** moment the; trial Is opened In the latter part of j next month there will not be a second , wasted by the prosecution. An indication of how speedily Dls- , trlrt Attorney Jerome means to dls- pose of the case is the fact that not ’ more than half a doxen witnesses will! be called In the direct examination liy i the district attorney. If this number is ' exceeded It will be by not more than two witnesses, so that the total nutn- * ber called to prove the killing of White j Will be not more than eight. Court Dockot Heavy. g|ierlal tu The (Jecrglnn. Brunswick. Ga.. Dec. 2$.—Mayor Hopkins has had unusually busy *e«- j sbms of bis court this week, the list of * offender* being far In excess of onll- E 00 account of too much Christmas celebration. Snowdrift >ooc Southern Standard of Superlative Hogless Lard Guaranteed United States Government Inspection jf. S. COX & GO., Distributors. Atlanta, Ga.