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FOR THE CAMPAIGN If you want the news, you’ll need The Herald. SU6SCRIBE NoW. VOLUME XIII., No. 212. *arly All State Wardens /' Got Graft From Lessees Sensation Follows Sensa tion in Horror Revela tions Before Felder Con vict Lessees Investigat ing Committee. ATI.ANTA, Ga.—The Felder inves tigating committee which ig investi gating the convict lease system of the state adjourned at 10.05 last night until 3 o’clock this afternoon. Dur ing the session testimony was intro duced which showed that practically every warden in the state has been receiving pay front lessees. The prison commission has known of this since last November, testified J. M. Dugan, who said he attended a con ference of lessees at which all three members of the commission were present. He staled the matter was under discussion but the commission ers had expressed no opinion. Dr. W. B Hamby, it was testified, was so influential with the prison commission that he has not been able to guarantee in advance to furnish a competent state warden in making contracts to deliver convicts. It was sworn that Dr. Hamby, through his brokerage business, had leased con victs for which he paid the state $225 each per year, to one party for $52.50 a month, more than three times what they cost him, thus making a profit of $lO5 per year on each man. It was testified that when lessees had trouble with convicts Dr. J. R. Brock, who is a member of the in vestigating committee, and who has iiekl the position of camp physician at a lessees' plant in his senatorial district, advised the lessees to “sec" .lake Moore. It' has been said that former Chief Wardeh Moore could give advice as to means for getting the most work out of men. George F. Hurt, a iessee, testified that from his experience the stat<> convict system has been operated for th ( advantage of a few lessees and to the disadvantage of the many lessees. A. .1. Howard, of Jokln, Miller coun ty, employed at the camp of the Flow , ers Dumber company for six years as a warden, testified that the com- i pany paid him $25 a month extra for !Hilling dry lumber out of a kiln v'jpli had often whipped men but ne\ V’es.vhipped one to death. He had /•ahrd that two years ago a man had een wrapped in blankets and smoth r pred to death. He said he knew noth ing about the incident. CHILDREN BORN IN CONVICT CAMPS. Will Williams, employed at the state farm, testified as to the sepa ration of the sexes at the farm. He swore that the women and men were kept separate, but testified that two negro women had given birth to chi! dren he had been at the farm. His investigation, he said, convinced him that convicts were responsible for the women's condition. Hackett, a white man, and Josh, a negro, were accused of being the fathers of the children. Witness had never heard that the guards were criminally inti mate with the female convicts. J. C. Edwards, chairman of the leg islative committee which visited the camp of the Chattahoochee Brick company, told of conditions found by the committee. He said men were forced to go on a trot; that many worked In kill.a where the heat was so Intense It did not seem possible for men to exist long In it. One man had been on a trot for fifteen years and witness did not see how ne had stood It. Beds were dirty, mess hall filtny. M. O. Maxwell, warden at a coal mine camp, said there were ten men now in hospital at his place, five or six of whom had injured themselves by sticking picks in their feet and limbs. Two or three men had recent ly been killed by falling slate. Said convicts were frequently Injured la this way; admitted sending in com plete diet reports to the commission. So far as the commission knew from reports. Maxwell testified, the men had not received anything to eat in 18 months. He said he has whipped “right smart; ' usually for idleness. His records show 30 to 40 whippings a month. There are 140 men at the camp Maxwell admitted whipping forty new men at one time to “break fhem in ” Asked if men could spare the time from digging to properly prop the works in order to protect their lives and still complete their rtquired tasks, witness answered simply: "The men have to work.” CONFESSED TO MUCH WHIPPING. A. J. Ivey, deputy warden at the Lookout Mountain camp, Maxwell's post, which is owned by Col. J. W. English. Jr., was questioned as to whipping. He swore he did not have to whip men at Palmer Brick com pany, the men being good workers, but when he and his convicts were transferred to the Lookout Mountain 4' peg he wna forced to do a good nl whipping in order to get the t- i rt'fied taska completed. He admit ted that he could not hare aa direct supervision of the men as at other camps, and that he was forced to rely on the word of the mine boss as to the failure of the men to complete specified larks. A former convict, now a practicing physician, testified at the night ses •ion aa le cruelty at the state f-rm. THE AUGUSTA HERALD FILL TIB DHESS GIVEN RICH urn WASHINGTON.—As a sequel to the thrashing and coat of tar admin istered to F. E. Bliss, Jr., Wednesday i evning when he called at 1317 Ken yon street to see a woman, came j the arrest yesterday afternoon of i ; Charles Marthinson, G 2 years old; I ! James D. White, GO years oid, and i Henry Cole, 30 years old. The men were afterwards released on SSOO bond each and later in the evening held a consultation with their i attorney, and the latter issued a j statement, in which it is alleged that ! Bliss tried to break up the Marthin | son home and paid undue attention Ito Mrs. Cole. Tine statement alleges that Bliss is possessed of hypnotic power and that by the use of this ad vantage, he sought to alienate the af fections of the two women. Th e statement further charges that TJ 1J r- r. nnn .v : w it. Bliss was seen embracing Mrs. Marth ir.son by her husband and his com panions. They then took Bliss to the basement, battered up his face and body until he needed the services of a physician and treated hint to a com plete coat of tar. All the men charged with adminis tering the tar are prominent and wealthy. Charles Marthison is a iutn ber man and controls extensive inter ests in several southern states. James White is a weli known stock broker and speculator. He is also wealthy, it being the gossip of the "street" that he made $100,»100 in the market only a short time ago. Cole is con nected with a large local corporation In an executive capacity. AMENDMENT IS OFFERED TO PRMLL ATLANTA, Ga.—The first amend ment that has been offered to the pro hibition bill since it was passed came yesterday in the shape of a resolution by Representative Wise, of Fayette, to make one and one-half per cent of alcohol as the limit of near-beers. The only way the present iaw fixes the amount is by stating that it shall not contain enough alcohol to produce intoxication. This, it is claimed, is not very clear, as some people can be intoxicated on less alcohol than oth ers. The fixing a certain per cent of alcohol has been urged by many prohibitionists and a bill to this ef fect has been introduced and will probably be acted upon at the pres ent session of the legislature. The same amendment also asks that a tax of S2OO be fixed on the sale of all drinks which contain less than one and one-half per cent of alcohoL This has also worried the councils of several cities. Several times the questions to what per cent of alcohol is allowable in near-beeis has come up before the different courts and has been decided in several ways. The outcome of the bill of Mr. Wise will be awa*ted with Interest by the people generally. He saw a man whipped 120 licks one i Sunday morning. The convict died a i month later from dropsy. Witness said he was a physician and knew when men were sick One man's temperature was 104 1-3, but ! Captain Slater whipped him just the same. The camp physician had ot dered the man to stay indoors, but the warden whipped him any way. This witness spoke of being worked in rain, sleet or snow and made to sleep in wet clothes. He swore Captain Slater, the war den, was a drinking man; said he had been overpowered and whipped, 'he whipping Inflicted a permanent in ' JurV; had to have a delicate opera t’on performed. He spoke of an instance when he /eslated whipping and Captain Slater I rhot him In the ankle breaking the bone; he aald while at Chattahoo chee Brick company camp a negro ’ died following a whipping, j Col. James W. English, president |of the Chattahoochee Brick company, r the Lookout Mountain Coal and Coke i company, and other concerns whlcn < trploy a large number of eonvlcta in their work, and Dr. W. B. Hamby, bead of the big convict brokerage firm of Hamby and Tooroer, went present, awaiting the call to testify, be i were excused until l o'clock this afternoon. Forecast for Aupfusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Saturday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1908. PRESIDENT CASTRO AND QUEEN WILHELMINA QQQQQQEJQ PORT AND HARBOR OF WILLEMSTAD CITY g I r All President Castro, of Venezuela, whose contumacy toward Holland has led that nation to a naval demon stration against the South American Republic. He is shown on the top at the left. On the right Is a plo ture of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, who is determined to have It out with Venezuela. At the bot tom is shown the port and harbor of Willemstad. In the Island of Curacao, showing the Dutch cruiser Gel derland, at anchor. Willemstad has been the scene of an outbreak against the Venezuelan consul who has left hurriedly for home. COLORED MINER DYNAMITE VICTIM ENSLEY, Ala. —The first mine out rage to occur here was the blowing up of the house of George Banks, a colored non-union miner. His wife and children were thrown from their beds and the house practically ruined Banks is a prosperous and respected negro. A number of prominent citi zens held an impromptu Indignation meeting this morning and threatened to make ail union miners vaeate houses in Ensley and establish a vlgl lance committee to protect all classes. Martial law seems imminent. in jealFisoaoe KILLS FOOD AND HIMSELF SEATTLE, Wash.—ln a fit of Jeal ous rage Jesse Elfer, a grlpman, kill j ed his eight-year-old daughter Hazel aud Mra. Dennis Nihoul, a confine ment patient; seriously wounded his wife and also wounded Mra. Ethel Warren, his sister-in-law, In a private maternity hospital last night. Fife, then shot himself, killing himself In stantly. The Elf era have been separated for some time, the wife living at the hos pital where she was employed Tht first bullet fired by the grlpman put out the lights but he cooly lighted matches so that he might see to con tinue th« slaughter Enrag4-d because he could not se* to carry out the carnage, Flfer drove Ills daughter and Mra. .Vlbcrai into the street where he fired on them. THREE KILLED IN AUTO-ENGINE CRASH PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Driving east on Hunting Purk avenue at a rapid rate shortly before midnight, occu pants of a big touring car disregard ed the warning crlea of a Reading railway watchman and crashed through the closed gates right in front of an in-bound train. The car was smashed Into splinters and the occupants killed. Charles Humphrey of 4617 Oakland street, chief clerk in the police bu reau, and Bamuel W. Hoop, clerk to the superintendent of police, and .(no. B. Taylor, were so horribly mangled that they were not recognized at first. The men, it in said, had been < n a night ride to Montgomery county, and wi re returning home when tht accident occurred The ear came down the street ,o the track so fast, that it was thought control had been lost by the driver, especially as the warn ing of Watchman Jerc Allah Sullivan and his wild gestures did not bring a lessening of speed. Through the closed gates the on* smashed Its way, scattering the brok en timbers to each side and reached the middle of the southbound track Just in time to be hit squarely by the locomotive. * The engineer had no opportunity to shut down brakes, so rapidly and unexpectedly was the automobile shot, j Into his path. The watchman heard nothing but a sickening crunch as the automobile #as ground to pieces and the riders mangled. The bodies were ; dragged go far by the wheels and so cut and disfigured that the police did not roeognlzo them Humphrey was finally recognized by his badge, and word was sent to | .Superintendent of Police Taylor. H ATTIESBU RG*Tne"wß IN NEW HANDS HATTIESBURG, Miss A corpora i Hon with a capital of SBO,OOO was or gantzed today to take over the prop cry of the Hattiesburg News, esiab i llshed in May of last year by the. Hat ) tiesburg Printing and Publishing com | pany. The new corporation will be known simply as ihe Hattiesburg | News, but Is authorized to do u gen eral publishing and printing business. BRAZIL WON'T SELL HER BIG WARSHIPS lUO JANEIRO, Brazil. Instructions have been forwarded to the Brazilian Icgallon at London lo declare again ihat not one of the three hatlleshlpH of the Dreadnought type now being constructed for Brazil in England Is for sale. FROM BUFFALO CAME MURDER VJCTIM NEW YORK. Developments today In Ihe remarkable Green Point Ave nue bonfire muider mystery tend to show that the young woman who was slain and her body partially Incin erated, wa; ,ln all probability lured to New York from Buffalo. It was ascertained today that the scapular found around the dead girl's neck wcch es Our Lady of Mount Car mel, but mainly In use- In the church in Buffalo, where Father Baker has a great devotion to Our Lady of Vic tory. A representation of the lattei appears to have been stlched on to ih<- ordinary scapular The picture in question is declared by experts in such mailers lo have been made under the orders of Father Baker, of Buffalo The pattern n used extensively In *b»t city. It is not of the Polish design because ori the eheek of the Virgitn Mary on these designs there ar*- two line*. The Icollcc have establishe d that the body was taken to the spot where It wuc found in a grocer's wagon The men took It to the spot, poured oil on the mattress, In which It w. wrapped, set U afire, and drove rapid ly away. DAILY AND SUNDAY. $9.00 PER YEAR. TROUBLE LOOMS AHEAD FOR IMMI6RATIOH OFFICIALS SOLICITATION OF WHISKY ORDERS IS AJRIIIIE ATLANTA. The most far reaching appellate court decision ever render ed in Georgia or probably in any other southern Htate on ttie subject of so liciting orders for whiskey or other intoxicating beverages was that hand ed down tilts morning by the Georgia court of appeals In which Judge Rich ard B. Russell, with the concurrence of the entire court, rendered ail opin ion to the effect tlmt the soilettaton of orders by mall in another slate as well us in Georgia by any Individual or corporation or by any agent, of Hitch individual or corporation Is a viola tlon of the laws of the state of Geor gia and lhal any person making such a solicitation Is guilty of a crime against the state. The cases about which the decision was rendered are thosii of Rohm against the state ana the R. M. ltoso Co, against the state. SECOND STORM THREATENS CHINESE HONG KONG Another typhoon Is reported moving towards Hong Kong and the Inhabitants are preparing for the worst. One of the most violent storms In thirty years has devastated a large amount of territory. The typhoop Just passed raged all day. Forty junks are ashore at this port. Canton Is the heaviest sufferer, hundreds of Junks there being de stroyed. The mortality on Pearl river Is said to be fully ten thousund Float ing bodies menace the public health and there are grav 0 fears of an cj>'- demlc. The wires are all do and details are coming In slowly, .mould the re ports of the second storm be true. It will he one of th,. worst disasters that has befallen this coast In a century. FEDERATION OF LIBOR LEADERS ARRESTED PARIS.- Rioting at Vlgneux yestnr day precipitated a serious situation, owing to the decision of the govern ment to arreHt the leaders of the gen eral federation of labor mid possibly suprnsK the entire organization on the ground that It threatens public order. ARREBTED FOR WIFE MURDER. GOAL GITY, Ala Walter Htreety, Jalb d today on a charge of the brutal murder of his wife whom he married less than a year ago and who was soon to become a mother, has created much excitement. Valdosta Man Knocked Another in Head Leaving Him on the Roadside Two Days VALDOSTA, Da —Tom Powell, of I the sawmill firm of Powell Brothers,: was placed In Jail last nigh' charged with the murder of Owen Folsom, who I was struck on the bend by a shingle j and lav by the roadside on way home for iwo days He was discovered: Do You Know What the Octroi Is? At th e o*tes of Paris every market-man stops and pays a little tag upon the food he eerrlee in for eale. Thie le the famous Octroi, Every night the endlest proceealon of the gardenere of Prance filet Into the getee, paying It. The little tax admits them to the great market place of the country. Your Ad. In Sunday’s Herald will go Into 8,000 prosperous homes In this city end In the trade territory tributary to Augusta. This Is a pretty good market piece—ls you want to do buelneee. The charge for the service Is trifling, Just as the famous Octroi of France le email. But the results will be greet and splendid and satisfying, be cause your Ad. In The Herald admits you to the greet market place of thie city and section. Interested, intelligent end wide awake buyers end purchasers read The Herald every day end on Sunday for its news end buelneee an nouncements. They won't read yours If It Isn't In the Sunday Herald Read The Herald THE FIRST NEWS. THE BEST NEWS. ALL THE NEWS. For < ampaiqn News Professor Sandford, of Stanford University, Ap pointee of President Roosevelt, Makes Report To Washington. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—Startling revelations which It Is intimated may Involve the immigration officials at the Pacific coast portH and along the Mexican border are expected as the outcome of the Investigation carried on by the Federal government of the Illegal entry of Chinese and Japanese coolies into this country. Professor Fernando San Ford of Stanford, Uni versity, was appointed by the presi dent to Invest Igtito Immigration con ditions arrived here after a month’s work along the Mexican border and a report, signed by Sanford and other Investigators and forwarded to Washington makes interesting dls closures as lo the reported ring of coolie smugglers was discovered, which Includes big merchants of Chinatown and the carrying on of a regular business of raising funds bo aid the smuggling operations. HARRIMAN TO AGAIN TEEL 810 STICK _________ 11 i NEW YORK. The Heralds Chi cago Special says; Special agents of the government In Chicago are trying lo collect evidence to substantiate proceedings for the disruption of the Harrlman system or railroads. For more than a week Ralph M. MrKeagle, who did a great deal of the preliminary work In the Investiga tion which the commission made Into the affairs of the Harlman railroads, has been working among the big ship pers with a view to ascertaining how the Harrlman combination haa been used, If used at all, lo stlfie competi tion and In restrain of trade. On Hpe dal Agent McKenzie's calling Hat are ali of the traffic men of the big In dustries In the city. Ills Investigation Is taken here as meaning the "big stick" has again be gun to wave over the Harrlman linos. It Is underatood the evidence la de slred to use In connection with a suit to bo begun with the government, which will be similar to the Northern Securities case, which resulted In the disruption of the Hill road's so far as a holding company Is concerned. The special agent's work is directed to ward getting Information from thn shippers with respect to conditions before the combination of tho Union Pacific, the. Southern Pacific, tho Ore gon Short Line and the Oregon Rail road and Navigation company, and a comparison between those conditions and the conditions which exist to day. With some of the traffic inen tho special agent made little headway ami all whom he haa approached aro said lo have evidenced a uohnitanen to get mixed up In tho affair, JURY FINDSMRS. MAE BROOKS GUILTY GAINESVILLE, Ga.—Mrs. Hue Brooks, charged with assault with In tent. to murder, waa found guilty by I lie Jury of shooting at another, with the recommendation that she be pun ished aa for a misdemeanor, Hho la not yet sentenced. yesterday In throes of death, and died soon afterwards. Powell claims that Folsom started on him with a knife, he knocked him down, but does not think that the blow was sufficient to cause his death.