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Twice-A-Week.
VALDOSTA, GA„
: Harold W. Telford, of Qalnecvllle,
I Ga.,' who waa Making a Name for
HWeelf, Suddenly Dlaappeare Caus
ing his Parents Muoh Alarm—The
'Mysterious Disappearance of a
Child In Atlanta. r ^
Atlanta, Ga., Sept, 18—Where la
Harold W. Telford, the 2G.-year-old
son of James T. Telford, assistant
cashier of the First National bank
of Galneerllle, Ga.T When-last heard
from the yonng man waa attending
the University at Zurich, Switzer
land. He has been missing since
August 3rd. //
It is known that young Telford
finished his course and had started
for home. Now there is not a trace
of him, and his father and other rel
atives are doing all in their power
to locate the missing student. Ca
blegrams have been sent to the* au
thorities at Zurich and Berne, but
not a trace of young Telford remalnt.
Telford is a cousin of Hubert Tel
ford, circulation manager for the
Journal in West End.
While at the University, at Zurich,
the young man kept up his' covre-
jpondense. wit], his father. 1-1/e'y
kvedh he rpt a letter'home. The
last epls'’e received from him sta
ted that he would start ImmedlVely
for homo by way of Paris.
Telford wns graduated from the
jjtaterslty iof Georgia iu^thej^ass
,.oifa scholarship at ,ilar-
^Htnd took a. coun»-**-' Ae Tb« r j
in eleUiKai \ngineerlng at that in- |
stltution. In the fall of 1906 he went ,
to Europe and entered the Universl- ,
ty at Zurich ttr continue bis studies -
in his chosen profession.
When called np over the long dla- ,
tance telephone at his home in j
Gainesville, Mr. Telford, the young ,
It la Said That h« Promised the Del
egation That Went Over to Him
That he Would not Try to Succeed
Himself—-Safe Blowers at Work In
Tattnall—Other News®im Sayan-
The Republicans Will Run Congress
man Burton Against Him—Bryan
and Other Democrats" May Drop
Over and Help Johnson Is hie Race
—Something of his Career as a Po
litical Leader and Municipal Re-
fprmer. , ,
She was to Marry a YoOCj: Grooery-
men'After the Services St ChururT;^]
but Brothers'Objecteu to the • Tink
ling of Wedding Bells” ind Set*
About to^^etrate the Pla-is.
Ail,mta,^i., Sept. 19—It Is said
that two brothers of Miss Ella Pharr,
Ijldlter of Mr. and Mrs, James
tot 68 Rldgo avenue, prevent
Savannah, Oa., Sept. 18.—Hon.
Charles O. Edwards, the' present
Congressman from tee First district,
may not be a candidate for rcclcctlon
when the primary is held in the til--,
trict next spring/'
Cojlumbua, Ga., Sept. 18.—T|he
Georgia and, Alabama Industrial In-
- dex says In Its Issuo for this week:
"Atrractcdfhy demonstrated pro
duction of profit, and by vast reaour-
, cos that InvHo development, the flow
of money into Georgia and Alabama
for Investment is steady and increas
ing. in uni$on with local capital It
is helpng to’fivance the two states
rapdly toward that point of great
material weal& and commercial pre
stige coniine isurat/- «ith their pos
sessions and 'possibillities. Deflntoly
projected Avestments anuouncod
during the get seven days are ex
pressed In dHlIons. A mining com
pany with cAltal stock of <5.000,000
has been or^jplsed in New York city
to operate A' the Birmingham dis
trict. New tfprk and Georgia capital
will build a <60(1,000 cotton mill at
Manchester, qa. During the week
twenty-one new corporntons, with
total minimum capital stock ofA!,-
745,200. have jfcn med in Georgia and
Alabama. TTmaiaro larger Items
of a nutettflBurl, lifdusirles re-
Cleveland, O., Sept 19—Tom L.
ihnson receives his fourth nomtoa-
ij<p for mayor of Cleveland at the
democratic city convention today,
and from now until 'the November
election there will be waged the
most exciting campaign In the polit
ical history of this city, not except
ing the contests of several years
'ago, In which the late Senator Han-
ipa was the central figure. The Re-
'publicans have picked
It wljl he recall
ed that when Mr. Edwards via-' nous,
lnated as * a compromise; candidate
for Congress by a deadlock tonven-
tlon here, It Is aliased hw promise.)
the ^fe^atlon that wntjSver ■ tb
him that ho would not offer for 1 re-
election. Mr. Edwards <Iqclrno3 to
deny or confirm the report tbptMio
made that promise but bo says; It
was his intention when he was hbm-
inated not to mnko tho race for re-
election. Ills friends, however, have
been so pr'osistent in' their demands
have -bsh saying the words that
would make her /Turner's partner
maftled Sunday evening right after
til. evening service at the Ellen
Doi'd Memorial church. Turner had
bought' tho license and hod confided
in tho r*v. i>r. Underwood, wi*>
a greed, to tio the inatrimoni;.l knot
hard and fast. Everything teemed
to ho moving along as smoothly as
anyone could' wish.' Then file ser
vice ended and those In the secret
looked about - for the brlde-to-bo.
She was not' ( to he found.
A messenger was dispatched lo the
Pharr homo, Ou his return this
messenger laidtoW^i Calvin and
lonal. Business Show at Madison
Spuare, Now York, October 12 to 19,
and at tho Chicago Coliseum Febru-
aryl to 8, that will perform these
wonderful feats. Any ordinary sten^
grapher will be able to prepare the
copy for the machines and an electrla
motor will do the rest
This' device consists of several
upon Cong-
isman-Theodore E. Burton to make
! racw against Mayor Johnson and
■ir selection is admittedly the
ongest on,e that could have been
re Indorsement of Mr. Burton’s
lidacy by President Roosevelt
j Secretary Taft, It Is said may be
»ed by speeches here by both
Aon In tho campaign. If this
proves correct .It Is probable
F-T'illlrm J. Bryan and other
Saent Democratic leaders will
however, that .ho had considered do
ing so. No*he Is uncertain and will
not do anything'until ho has. a con-
saltation with .several qf his friends.
After that consultjtlpn he will make
a definite announcement. It is ex-
peeled here that if Mi. Edwards does
not run ho will throw hla Influence
what sppen’s -Jo' be a typewriter in
the' usual manner. . The operator
writes down wliat It 4/t£ deetred to
.Sgndiu Tly-Tuerjlne;ft IV{:>
ASAal.way, mTJ at thd'dALnr time. It
perforates another sheet of paper. If
the machine to In the circuit while
the writing Is going on It will trans
mit the characters and set them np
( a the lnotype machine hq matter
ow far distant If It Is out of the
circuit the perforations are made and
the copy written. As soon aa this
Is completed the perforated sheet Is
put In another machine, an electric
motor started and at the rate of
1,000 words a minute the message
files along the wires. At the other
end an' accumulator receives It and
calmly proceeds to set It Up by elec
tricity on the linotype. This machine
hss been tested and proved to be a
success,. and at the National. Busi
ness ShorJ will be connected np sod
operated.'
reputation and would probably
f^Hrove a| stepping atono to the United
^Rtates Senate.
I Cloveland Is regarded ns a norm
ally Republican city by from 7,000 to
10,000 mnjority in national elections,
E d up A Mayor Johnson slit years
o the Republicans had ruled the
city and county for years with the
exception of Isolated cases. In se
lecting Mr. Burton to oppose Mayor
Johnson ths Democratic leaders ad
mit that the Republicans have put
forward tholr strongest man, and
while'they claim Johnson will win,
they concede that tho race will bo
cioso. It r.as Barton who defeated
Johnson after the latter had served
two terms in Consress, having been
previously elected as a Democrat In
ia district which was largely-Rcpubll-
pan. Slnco that campaign Mr. Bur-
(ton has continued to represent the
district In Congress, and has been
(returned biennially wlthput opposi
tion in his own party and either un-
k 'opposed or with only perfunctory op-
opposition.
i I But Tom L. Johnson, as has often
been. Said. Is as lncky in polities as
.In money making, and has risen
from poverty to tho millionaire class.
, He possesses in a snpeilativo degreo
that picturesquo quality which brings
him out a winner in a political fight
when apparently a large section of the
p gqopIe is opposed to him and the
- public press is dead against blm. It
H is the same undeflnable quality that
■ won repeated eucccss for the late
■ Carter Harrison, many times mayor
W of Chicago, and Haaen 7. Plngree,
r mayor of Detroit.
I' ’ Mr. Johnson waa first elected may-
n or of Cleveland to 1901. His platform
i . in that contest waa brief. Equitable
' taxation, Scent tares on tin street
I J railways and personal attention to the
[ ' office he made features. While de
claring that If ; • Ingle tax and man-
■ ■ ictpel ownership would remedy al
leged existing evils, Mr. Johnson did
'-not make them as prominent Issues
In his campaign os was expected. At
the outset he asserted he would
spend no money, and make no pledges
to procure his election. As even his
. political enemies admit, these pledges
J. were religiously kept.
Daring his campaign he was ebarg-
I ed with failure to pay his taxes, even
j on hit home; with repud-atlng con
i' dltions upon which he obtained fran
chise rights for hla Cleveland street
railways; with all aorta of trickery
In promoting similar enterprises to
other cittes; with lavish use of oon-
gettlng -In their woflTijSortl'iie
They are jio longer' 4-ontent wlttl
blowing only- one' safe n night hut
where thy towns' are thick along tho
raliroadsr they blow two. On Mon
day night they blew the safe of the
Seaboard Airline railway at Claxton,
and* going four miles further to the
town of Daisy they blew the safe of
They got.
that sho still loves him anJ ho Is
now awaiting a favorable opportuni
ty to make her his very own for all
time.,
Young-Min’s Long Fall.
Cannon Powell, a yonng electrician
in the employ of the Georgia Rail
way and Power Company, fell from
the second floor of the Butler street
power hoose and sustained Injuries
which may prove fatal. It Is believ
ed the young man sat down in' a win
dow to cool off, fell asleep and then
fell oat of the opening. At the hos
pital It waa found that he had brok
en a rib, had a deep gosh over one
eye' and appeared to be Internally in
jured, He has not regained con-
■clqusncis.
Legislative Race Warms up.
The race for the legislature from
Fulton county, although tome time
off, la warming up. R. R. 'Shrop
shire, a prominent young lawyer of
Atlanta, has announced himself p
candlate as a member of the delega
tion representing tht* county to the
lower house of the general assembly.
It le now rumored that "Jack.” Sto
lon will have opposition for state
senator from this district. It Is said
Otto Cowart, a merchant,
some money from Cowartto sate bat
none from the railroad. Than was
a hundred dollars In the railroad said
but they mined that as their charge
did not blow open all the drawer*.
There Is no due as to who the guil
ty parties are.
\ Joss Carbo In Jail. ' i
Jose/Carbo, the foreigner, who baa
had such a bard time alnce there
waa an explosion In hla fireworks fac
tory where three lives were lost. Is
again In Jail. Carbo gave bond after
being In Jail almost a year bnt hit
bondsman has surrendered blm and-
be Is again behind the ban. Carbo
haa-a short sentence hanging over
him bnt ha preterite fight the ease
and endeavor to secure an acquittal.
Suit Agalnpt Brinson Road.
The first salt against the Brinson
Railway ha* boon filed here to tho
John Bradbam, a la-
"We last heard rom Harold at
Engleberg, Switzerland. He bad fin
ished his term at the college and was
coming home after he visited sever
al cities on the continent and spend
a short time sight-seeing. He has
been away from home at school for
the most part of the past five years.
We are at a loss to understand why
he haa not written, and have cabled
the officials at the school at Zurich.
He Is 26 years of age, and fully able
to take care of ^lmself.”
ey In bis congressional campaigns,
and an attempt was even made to
Show that he proposed adopting sim
ilar -tactics at the eleventh hour In
his mayorallty fight.
Despite all the accusaUMM of tola
character, however, Johnson
was elected by a plurality of more
than 6,006. the largest, with one ex
ception, that any mayor had receiv
ed to Cleveland for 25 years. In the
last two campaigns Mayor Johnson
succeeded to increasing the plurali
ty which he gained to his fiiwt elec
tion, and to his last race, which waa
two yean ego, lie piled op a plurali
ty of nearly 12,000. In six yean
time the oounty ae wen as the city
admtalstratlOQ haa, as a result of tho
Jtabnaon leadership, become nearly
solidly Democratic.
Bnt It Is generally admitted that
Mayor Johnson now has (he fight of
his life on his hands. Mr. Burton
Is. a native Buckeye and htojreoord
both personally and politically is
clean. He Is an expert on finance,
and to the last Congress was st the
head oMfc» house committee on riv
ers and harbor*. He Is a strong
supporter of Secretary Taft for the
presidential nomination, and before
It became known that he would run
for the mayoralty it waa announced
that b,e waa favored by the adminis
tration people for the speakership of
the next Congress, in preferenoe to
Mr. Cannon of Illinois.
Mysterious Disappearance of Child.
Considerable mystery shrouds the
strange case of Nettie Smith, the 13-
year-old foster daughter of Mr. and
Mra. Watt Smith, Tfho Uvea at tbs
corner of Baas and Crew streets.
At about 8 o'clock Monday morn
ing the gift while on the way to
school, suddenly vanished. Her
foster parents supposed she waa at
school-but when t o’clock arrived
and Nettle did not oomo boms, Mrs,
Smith became worried and started
a tearCh for the little girl. No trace
of her was to be found.
On yesterday, however, after' she
had been missing more than a day
and a night. Nettle returned home,
deathly pole and so weak from lack
of food that Oho could scarcely stand.
dirt of all
■nporlor court,
borer, sues the road for Injuries re
ceived while riding on a work engine.
. Judge seabreok Improving.
Judes Paul E. Seabreok, of the
South Atlantia Superior Court Cir
cuit, who had to adjourn Liberty Su
perior court from last Monday to
late to October because of bis lUnees,
I* said to he Improving at hla home
to Plneora, Effilnghsm county. It
Is expected that he will have recov
ered hla health entirely by the mid
dle of October.
that Attorney Alex Stephens,- who
was thought to have an eye on a
She waa covered with
Mods and gave evidence of having
itept to the open air upon the ground.
"Oh, mama. I don't know where
Fve been,” |be walled. "I woke np
under a tree to the woods this morn
ing and got on a car near thp water
works and told the conductor I was
■lek and wanted to go home.”
She explained that (he last thing
■he remembered was when she end
a girl companion, on their way to
school, turned back about a block to
get an umbrella. Shp says that the
next thing she knew Ae was on the
ground under a tree In the woods
pear the wmteHrorks.
Dr. J. T. Crawford waa called and
gave the girl medical attention. He
gave 1> as hla Idea that She had
wandered off to a moment of mental
sbbsratlon. She gave no evidence
Witness Testifies Today so to the
Standard Stock ho Owns.
New York, Sept 19-Jobn D. Rock
efeller owned more than a fourth In
terest In the old Standard Oil trust
according to the testlqjony of W. H.
Telford to the Federal proceedings
against the 8Undard Oil Co., of New
Jersey here today.
Telford testified It to'be correct
tbit Mr. Rockefeller owned 258,864
shares of the Standard Oil Trait cer
tificates to 1892 and later an assign,
meat was made transferring to Mr.
Rockefeller his proportionate Inter
est of stock to subsidiary companies.
For sale; three nice bug 'es and
one carriage -eap. Uln-'- Bjggy
and Wagon Works 9-T-dstf.
0. B. Peeples sella Alshastlnel the
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