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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, ,G&.
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1913.
NO 64,
BATTLE OF ATLANTA
MAY BEJELEBRATEO
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Directors, at Instance of
President Moore, Refers Big
Project to a Committee
Atlanta’s battle semi-centennial may
be commemorated next year.
What may prove to have been the
small beginning- of a great result was
witnessed Wednesday when the Atlanta
chambef of. commerce took the matter
of a semi-centennial in hand, to study
it.
At the meeting of the board of direc
tors present *of the chamber, Wednesday
afternoon, with twelve directors pres
ent, President Wilmer L. Moore was
requested to name a committee of five
to consider the suggestion of a semi
centennial and- report back to the di
rectors. That committee, when it has
been named by President Moore, will
confer with various patriotic organiza
tions and with other interests to de
termine whether or not the general
sentiment holds the suggestion to be
feasible. When that has been done and
the report has been mfcde, the directors
will decree whether or not the Atlanta
pliomlior ftf ^ in in —.. X ii-
chamber of commerce is to put its
energy behind the movement. If the
decision is affirmative, the semi-cen
tennial becomes a certainty from that
moment,—for what the chamber of com
merce decides to do, is as good as
done.
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
On July 22, 1864, was fought the
battle of Atlanta.
That battle, a “draw,” cost the lives
of not less than 5,000 men, most of
them younpr men. It cost the liberty
of thousands of others who lay in
squalid war prisons for months after
ward. Otherwise it seemed then to
have no effect,—but the years have re
vealed that its effect was tremendous.
It led to the fall of Atlanta, which in
turn marked the beginning of the end
for the Confederacy.
Next year, on July 22, 1914, fifty
years will have intervened since that
battle. The great majority of the men
who took part in it and survived long
since have joined those who fought
besidfe them and died. But there are
yet living very many men w'ho were
there and on other fields of battle that
day. The semi-centennial will be the
last great period of time that will find
them on earth.
Therefore, in order that those sur
vivors of war may witness the com
memoration of a great event which they
helped to shape, and in order too that
their grandchildren and great-grand
children may associate Them personally
with the occasion, the fiftieth anniver
sary has been considered the proper
one to observe.
Meeting of Ambassadors in
London Hears Suggestion
That Italy, England and
Austria Send Troops
(By Associated Presa.)
LONDON, May 1.—A proposal that the
Montenegrin seaports of Amtlvari and
Dulcigno shall be occupied by a joint in
ternational force of Austrian, Italian
and British troops as a further demon
stration to King Nicholas that the pow
ers are resolved to carry out their de
cision in regard to Scutari, was made at
today’s meeting of the ambassadors in
London.
Should Austria-Hungary accept this
middle course, its adoption would allow
time for further pressure on Montenegro
and for an arrangement to provide her
with compensation of some kind.
The reply of Montenegro to the de
mand of European evacuation of Scuta
ri was received today by the powers. It
is non-committal in character and keeps
the door open for further negotiations.
The little kingdom tells its big neigh
bors that it has the greatest deference
for them and declares the capture of Scu
tari to be in no way a defiance on their
announced decision to give the former
Turkish fortress to Albania. At the
same time Montenegro suggests that
there is room for discussion and reserves
the right of bringing up the question of
Scutari in the course of peace negotia
tions.
In the meantime arrangements are In
progress for the definite, conclusion of
peace between the Balkan allies and Tur
key. The European powers have re
quested the respective governments to
appoint plenipotentiaries who on meeting
in London will be invited to sign a draft
of the preliminaries which the powers
have already drawn up. This course has
been adopted in order to prevent pro
longed discussion.
The moderate tone of Montenegro’s re
ply to the powers has cleared much oi
the electricity out of the diplomatic at
mosphere.
The impression served from the Monte
negrin note is that King Nicholas is
waiting for the “compensation” which it
to be offered him to quit Scutari.
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NAMED TO HIED PLAGE
TO ‘COUNSEL
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II JOBS NOT
■ • UNDER CIVIL SERVICE
107 Government Positions in
Georgia Which Require No
Examination to Qualify
President Wilson Names E. K,
Campbell, of Alabama, Judge
in U. S. Court of Claims
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1.—“Posi
tions in the United States Service
Which Are Not Required to be Filled
Through Examination Under the Civil
Service Law” is the tautological title of
a pamphlet just issued by the federal
government that will bring joy to the
hearts of many “patriots” who are. will
ing to serve their country, but who
have run up against the civil service
regulations. The pamphlet was com
piled by the civil service commission,
at the request of the house of repre
sentatives.
It appears from the compilation that
there are in the state of Georgia 107
government jobs not in the classified
service! The salaries of the places
range upward from $600 to $4,000 per
year. There are a score or more $600
places and only one $4,000 plum.
In the city of Atlanta alone there are
thirty-nine positions not under civil
service. The majority of these—sixteen,
to be exact—are under the collector of
internal revenue, who Is ex-officio the
custodian of the postofflce building.
They are laborers’ places, and are worth
$50 per month each.
The private secretary to the post
master at Atlanta is not a civil service
employe. The salary of this position
is $1,800 per year. »
There are nine “laborers” in the At
lanta postofflce, who each receive $720 a
year—$60 a month.
There are five “contract station
clerks” whose salaries range from $600
to $900 a year each. •
THE BEST GEORGIA JOB.
The best job in Georgia, not under
civil service, is that of warden of the
United States penitentiary. It carries
e salary of $4,000 a year, with desirably
perquisites. The place comes under the
department of justice, and the warden
Is named by the attorney general.
Other positions at the federal prison
not under civil service are: Deputy
warden, $2,000; chaplain, $1,500; as
sistant chaplain, $1,200; physician,
$1,600; oculist, $100.
The assistant district attorney at At
lanta receives $2,500, and the district
attorney’s clerk gets $1,800. Neither
of them are under civil service.
Of course the United States marshal
and his assistants at Atlanta are not
under civil service. The marshal, how
ever, is appointed by the president
“with and by the advice and consent of
the senate.”
WASHINGTON, May 1.—E. K. Camp
bell, of Birmingham, Ala., for many
years political manager for Representa
tive Oscar Underwood, has been 'select
ed by President Wilson for a judge in
the United States court of claims. His
nomination was expected to go to the
senate today.
When Campbell’s name was first men
tioned for the Judgeship it was pointed
out by some Alabama Democrats that he
had opposed instructing the delegation
to the Baltimore convention to vote for
Mr. Wilson in the event that Mr. Under
wood could not be nominated.
The selection of Mr. Campbell for the
judgeship probably means the elevation
of Judge Charles B. Howery, of Oxford,
Miss., to be chief justice of the court
of claims. His nomination also was said
to be scheduled for today.
WILSON NAMES EIGHT
GEORGIA POSTMASTERS
$3,000,000,000 FOR
ROADS ASKED OF CONGRESS
Senator Bourne, of Oregon,
Wants Billion for Construc
tion, Two for Maintenance
WASHINGTON; May 1.—An expen
diture of $3,000,000,000 for good roads—•
$1,000,000,000 being for construction and
$2,000,000,000 for maintenance, the in
vestment extending over a period of 60
years, was proposed today in a plan
submitted to the joint congressional
committee on federal aid in the con
struction of postroads, by former Sena
tor Bourne, of Oregon.
Senator Bourne's plan provides for
federal and state co-operation. He also
suggests the establishment of national
schools of highway and bridge engi
neering from which trained specialists
in road building would be supplied to
the various states.
The billion dollar construction fund,
according to Senator Bourne’s plan
would be apportioned among the states
upon the basis of area, population, as
sessed valuation and road mileage. The
states would be required to deposit in
the United States treasury fifty-year
4 per cent bonds for the amount due
them. The government would then
lean the states the par value thereof for
road construction, the government rais
ing its fund y the sale of fifty-year
non-taxable 3 per cent bonds.
By crediting each state every year
with the excess 1 per cent interest paid
on the state bonds and allowing 3
per cent interest on the amount, com
pounded annually, a sinking fund would
be established, it is estimated, from
which the government would pay off the
bonds at the end of fifty years and
the state would be relieved of the pay
ment of principal on its bonds.
SECRETARY DANIELS
TO VISIT THE SOUTH
•WASHINGTON. May 1.—Secretary
Daniels began today a two weeks’ trip
to include official visits to South At
lantic navy yards. The' first stop will
be at Wilson, N. C. t where a baiiquet
will be given in his honor tomorrow
night. His itinerary for the remainder
of the trip is as follows:
Raleigh, N. C., May 2 and 3; New
Orleans, May 5; Pensacola, May 6; Jack
sonville, May 7; Key West, May 8;
Charleston, S. C., May 9 and 10; Port
Royal, S. C., Denton barracks, May 11;
Uu latirK. TUnv 12.
LYERLA IS NOT MAN
WANTED IN ILLINOIS
Calhoun Man Now Wants to
Prosecute Officials for
His Arrest
CALHOUN, Ga., May 1.—Thomas Ly-
crla, Who was arrested here yesterday
afternoon, on suspicion of being Roy
Screvens, wanted in Pontiac, III., for
murder, was released in Cartersvllle aft
er an officer from Illinois declared he
was not the man wanted.
He has returned home and is now see
ing if he can prosecute the sheriff of
Bartow county, and his three deputies
who made the arrest, and also his wife’s
uncle, S. L. Jones, of Cartersville, all of
whom are said to have been responsible
for the arrest.
W, F, Brown Draws Carrollton
Plum-One Hundred and Fifty
Postmasters Named
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1.—One
hundred and fifty postofflce nomina
tions were sent to the senate by Pres
ident Wilson today and among the
number were Georgia officers as fol
lows:
W. F. Brown, Carrollton, vice Claude
•E. Smith; Henry M. Miller, Colquitt,
reappointment; Charles. V. Clark,
Louisville, Vice Lewis R. Farmer; An
drew J. I. Irwin, Sanders ville, Vice
Sameul B. Robinson; Mattie E. Gunter,
Social Circle, reappointment; B. F.
Baker Woodbury, vice Mary E. Hinton;
Samuel B. Lewis, Fayetteville vice J.
W. Kitchens. J. M. Wright at Screven,
Wayne county, vice J. H. Walker, re
signed.
The Carrollton and Woodbury post
masters were nominated by Congress
man Adamson in the fourth district;
Carrollton is the home town of Judge
Adamson. The Louisville and Sanders-
ville offices were filled on the recom
mendation of Congressman Hardwick,
Sandersville being Mr. Hardwick’s
home. The reappointment at Colquitt
was recommended by Congressman
Roddenbery of the Second, and the re
appointment of Miss Gunter at Social
Circle was the recommendation of Con
gressman Tribble of the eight district.
The Fayetteville place was recom
mended by Congressman Bartlett.
The salaries of these offices are in
dicated as follows:
Carrollton $2,200; Colquitt $1,400;
Louisville $1,600; Sandersville $1,900;
Social Circle $1,400; Woodbury $1,200;
Fayettville $1,000.
Under postmaster General Burleson,
all of these postmasters will be re
quired to devote at least 8 hours a
day to the duties of their offices, which
precluded the possibility of their engag
ing in another business.
The largest number of postoffice
nominations for a single state were
for Iowa. Nineteen postofflees in this
state were filed. It is stated that sev
eral weeks ago a number of Iowans
were held up by the president, because
it came to his knowledge that most
of the men nominated were not pro
gressive democrats. These names had
been sent in at the suggestion of
National Committeeman Martin Wade,
who was a Clark man in the pre-con
vention fight.
Nominations by President Wilson to
day also included: ^
Commissioner of corporations, Joseph
E. Davies, of Wisconsin.
Assistant comptroller of the treas
ury, Walter W. Warwick,^ of Ohio.
Collector of customs for district of
Jacksonville, Fla., John W. Martin.
Surveyor of customs for port of
Louisville, Ky., Warner S. Kinkaid.
United States marshal district of
New Mexico, Andrew it. Hudspeth.
Receiver of public moneys at Lead-
ville, Colo., Mrs. Annie G. Rogers, of
Colorado.
Congressman Adamson today recom
mended to the postofflce department the
appointment of Merritt L. Moore as
postmaster at Bowdon, Carroll county,
vice J. J. Walker, Republican.
Judge Will B. King, of Portland, Dem
ocrat! cnatlonal confmitteeman for Ore
gon, has been appointed chief counsel of
the United States reclamation service, by
Secretary Lane.
Mr. King was associate jnstlce of the
OregQn supreme court up to 1911.
HOUSE REACHES SUGAR
SCHEDULE OF TARIFF
Underwood Tightens Screws
and Allows Two Hours'
Debate
(By Associated Pross.)
WASHINGTON. May 1.—With the
legislative machinery running smothly
and rapidly, the house today reached
the first of the big rough places in the
Democratic tariff bill, the sugar sched
ule.
Representative Underwood at the
throttle, drove the Democratic majority
steadily ahead, disposing of the last
paragraph of the metal schedule and
going through the lumber and wood
schedule without allowing an amend
ment.
A fight to restore to the dutiable list
shingles, which the bill placed on the
free list, provoked a wealth of ora
tory, particularly from representatives
of the north Pacific coast states. They
made much of the “Oriental labor”
troubles on the coast, citing the pres
ent anti-Japanese agitation in Califor
nia. /
When the sugar schedule was reach
ed it became apparent that more ora
tory, in large volumes, was clamoring
to be let loose and Representative
Underwood, following his declaratoin
that he intended to put on the screws,
secured an agreement to allow two
hours’ debate on the sugar schedule and
all amendments offered to it.
Representative Broussard, of Louis-
ina, representing the Democrats who
oppose the free sugar provision of the
bill, joined the Republicans in the
futile battle to alter the committee
rates.
The W'ood schedule, incolving the
fights of the anti-free lumber
advocates, was the first target
of attack when the house today resumed
debate on the tariff bill. Democratic
leaders expected to make great progress
in the reading of the bill for amend
ment by the conclusion of tonight’s
session.
The agricultural schedule, involving
contentions of the minority that the
majority has put almost everything that
the farmer holds dear on the free list,
the wool section, which will precipitate
the struggle of the opposition to free
raw wool and the income tax with its
graduated system that is expected to
bring $100,000,000 into the treasury cof
fers annually, were in sight when the
Democratic leader reviewed the situa
tion as the discussion began today.
The leaders were confident, however,
that there would be no disturbance of
the caucus-approved bill, and the
minority was wearying of the steady
fight, with scores of constantly rejected
amendments.
The sparring of the parties for po
litical advantage has been good-natured
in the mdPn, and an occasional sparkle
of wit with clashes between individual
members has leavened the monotony of
debate over dry figures.
Representative Sims, of Tennessee,
was questioning the reason for duty on
motorcycles, and asked if the commit
tee regarded them as luxuries or ne
cessities.
GOES BEFORE
OF NEW JERSEY
President Taking Stump for
Jury Reform and Constitu
tional Convention
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Hay 1.—At 3 o’clock
this afternoon President Wilson broke
from the manifold and pressing obliga
tions of his office to return home to
New Jersey for the purpose of redeem
ing a personal and political responsi
bility. It is an unusual thing for a
president to do, but the president is
moved by considerations not always
usual to presidents. A New Jersey ad
mirer stated it this way to The Jour
nal:
“President W r ilson’s return to New
Jersey to urge the fulfillment of the
Democratic party pledges as to jury
reform and a constitutional convention,
represents a final effort to fulfill a
personal obligation. As governor, he
participated in the drawing up of that
platform with the other members of
the legislature. He still holds their
vote of confidence and will hold it un
til another is elected in his place. His
promotion to president makes necessa
ry the succession of another to his of
ficial functions within the state, but in
stead of relieving him of responsibility
for the party program merely gives
him a wider leadership with which to
insist on it. Mr. Wilson is still mor-
of New Jersey, and his re
sponsibility for leadership is the same.
“President Wilson left the delicate
Japan situation, the alnfost equally
critical Mexican situation, the insistent
crowding of Great Britain for an in
terpretation of his policy on the Mon
roe doctrine in relation to the over
whelming foreign debts of Guatemala,
unremitting run of conferences on
the tariff, the same with regard to cur
rency legislation, the multitude of
questions affecting the distribution of
patronage, the amalgamation of the
Democratic national and congressional
committees, and many other problems
to which he has been devoting unceas
ing attention. All these lie laid aside
until Saturday morning. And In the
meantime he has arranged a New Jer
sey program which reads like one of
Colonel Roosevelt’s most strenuous
time cards.”
BILL CELS 1
DETECTIVES ELIMINATE EVIDENCE
IN CONFLICT WITH THEORY THAT
PHACAN GIHLNEVER LEFT FACTORY
All Efforts Will Be Concentrated at Inquest Thursday After
noon to Show That Testimony of Witnesses Who Claim
to Have Seen Girl After She Entered Factory on Fatal
Day Is Vague and Indefinite and Contradictory
When thfe coroner’s jury reconvenes Thursday afternoon at 4:30
o'clock the city detectives will endeayor to eliminate all testimony
which tends to refute the theory that Mary Phagan never left the
National Pencil company’s factory after she went there to collect her
two days’ wages last Saturday about noon. v
The testimony of Edgar L. S'entell, employe of the Kamner’s gro
cery company, has been a stumbling block in the way of the case from
the very first. The detectives have never believed that Mary Phagan
left the factory, yet they were confronted with Sentell’s positive state
ment that he saw and spoke to her between 11:30 and l':30 o’clock
Saurday night.
At Wdnesday’s inquest he said that he was positive that he saw
the girl, and said that he believed her companion was Arthur Mullinax
SALS SENTELL WAS IN DOUBT.
Thursday, however, D. W. Adams, a trolley car motorman, came
to Chief Beavers and told him that he heard Sentell say shortly after
he had testified at the inquest, that he was not certain that the woman
he saw was Mary Phagan.
“It might have been Miss Pearl Robinson,” Adams quotes Sentell
as saying just a short time after he swore positively that he saw and
spoke to Mary Phagan. Miss Robinson, who was at the inquet, was
wearing on Saturday evening a dress very much like the one Mary
Phagan wore, and earlier in the evening she and Mullinax says they
were together.
German Forest Fire
(By Associated Press.)
CELLA, Germany, May 1.—A great
forest fires has been raging in this
district since Wednesday evening. It
has devastated 10,000 acres and now
menaces the village of Rebberlah and
the royal forest.
y
District of Columbia Commis
sioners Praise Press and Say
Censorship Is Inadvisable
WASHINGTON, May 1.—“The public
ity given by the press generally tends
to lessen evil conditions and thus ren
ders a useful service to the public,” say
the commissioners of the District of Co
lumbia in a report submitted to con
gress today on the Works bill to pro
vide a censorship of the news.
“That dread of publicity has a deter-
rant influence upon those disposed or
tempted to crime, may be inferred from
the fact that most offenders seek to
avoid exposure of their misbehavior In
newspaper reports.”
Detectives Starnes and Campbell have
convinced J. L. Watkins who testified
that he saw Mary Phagan Saturday
afternoon about 6 o'clock that he was
mistaken and that the girl he really
saw was Miss Daisy Jones, who lives
at t.ie corner of Fox and Lindsay strets.
Miss Jones will be at the inquest
Thursday afternoon and Watkins will
take the stand to make the statement
that his first testimony was in error..
In demonstrating to ^fr. Watkins that
he had seen Miss Jones instead of
Mary Phagan the detectives got Miss
Jones to put on the same clothes she
had on Saturday afternoon and took
her out on the street where Mr. Wat
kins had seen her. Watkins was im
mediately convinced that Miss Jones
was the girl he had seen.
Before the hour of convening of the
inquest a number of detectives were en
gaged In talking to employes of the
factory aboutn general conditions, espe
cially with reference to the conduct
of the men, employes and employers
alike, toward the women who worked
there.
A number of former employes were
among the people who Were In confer
ence with 'the detectives.
SIXTH ARREST MADE.
A sixth arrest In the Phagan murder
case was made by detectives at 2 o’clock
Thursday. James Connally, a negro
“sweeper” employed at the National
Pencil factory, was seen washing a shirt
at. a faucet in the rear of the building.
Before he had completed the work de
tectives who had been phoned, walked
in and placed the man under arrest.
There were certain marks on the rfian’s
shirt. He claims that they are “rust”
marks. The detectives will hold him, at
least until a chemical analysis can de
termine for certain whether' or not the
stains were caused by blood.
The negro declared to the police that
the shirt was the only one which he
possessed and that he washed so he'
could appear in it at the inquest, to
which he had been summoned. His
statement is believed by the police.
NEW INFORMATION SECURED.
A report that Newt Lee, the night
watchman, has given the detectives
much additional information was cur
rent at police headquarters Thursday
morning, and was not denied by the
officials working on the case. Lee went
through another hour’s examination
Thursday morning, and when he was
locked in his' cell again orders were
given that he be allowed to communi
cate with no one.
It is now reported that he will go be
fore the coroner’s Jury, when it con
venes again at 4:30 in the afternoon.
The detectives intimate that Lee has
given them new information which will
materially help them in solving the
mystery of Mary Phagan murder. It
bears out ** the theory, they say, upon
which they have been working for the
past two days.
Shortly . after 9 o’clock Thursday
morning Lee was brought from his cell
at the office of the chief of detectives.
Ther© he was examined- tot an hour by
Chief Lanford, Chief Beavers, City De
tectives Black and Rosser, and Harry
Scott, the Pinkerton representative.
FACTORY GIRLS TO TESTIFY.
Coroner Paul Donehoo has announced
his intention of summoning practically
every woman employe of the National
Pencil Factory, and. many of the men,
before the jury, which will resume the
investigation of the death of little
Mary Phagan on Thursday afternoun
at 4:30 o’clock.
Trouble, expense and inconvenience
cannot be considered in making an in
vestigation in a case of such paramount
importance, the coroner declares, and
it is possible that Sume fact of the
greatest importance may be developed
by thoroughly examining the employes
of the factory.
Probably some of the girls there have
in their possession facts that would
lead the detectives directly to the mur
derer, yet the girls holding this infor
mation may have no idea of Its im
portance.
Coroner Donehoo told Chief of Detec
tives Lanford of his dicision early
Thursday and that official immediately
offered the coroner two of his men who
will serve the subpoenas.
According to the present plan the
detectives will secure from the manage
ment a list of the employes. Their
names will be written on the subpoenas,
which the detectives will immediately
serve. x
Repeated rumors that employes of the
factory know more than has ever been
developed by the officers, has led, it is
said, to the necessity of continuing the
probe among them.
Of especial value is the coroner’s
inquest for when the witnesses go be
fore it they are placed under oath, and
if their stories vary at the trial of any
party, who may be indicted for the
crime, then the record of the coroner’s
investigation may be produced.
It is said that there are between
sixty and eighty women and about 104
male employes of the National Pencil
factory.
MAY EXHUME BODY.
Coroner Paul Donehoo is considering
the advisability of having the body of
—
Mary Phagan, interred at Marietta!
Monday exhumed in order that physi*
cians may make an examinaton of th®
contents of her stomach.
The coroner took the matter up, fol-*
lowng a conference with D. G. Buch
anan, formerly a sergeant of police aft
Augusta. Mr. Buchanan, who Is now
in business in Atlanta, advances th®
theory that Mary Phagan was drugged
early In the afternoon, and that th®^
tying of the cord and piece of her un*
dersklrt about her neck was either a*
simple “stall” or was done for the,pur
pose oT jnoving the body around by
someone, who feared that he would!
bloody his clothes If he touched It.
FRANK REGRETS DELAY.
Leo M. Frank, when seen by a Jour
nal reporter Thursday morning, said
that he has no statement to make until
his testimony Is given before the coro
ner’s Jury, which will probably be at
the afternoon session this Thursday.
Mr. Frank said that a complete sten
ographic statement had been dictated by
him, and that he was anxious to have
this before the Jury.
He locked worn and tired, but de
clared that he regretted the delay and
was anxious to have his testimony In
troduced as he was confident the ooro-f
ner's inquest would completely estab
lish his innocence.
UNCLE TO AID HIM.
It was learned Thursday that Moses
Frank, one of the city’s most
substantial citizens, is returning
to Atlanta today to assist his
nephew, L. M. Frank, in establishing his
innocenc® of the crime with which his
name has been linked by the charge of
suspicion. Mr. Frank had started to
Europe, but was reached by wire in New.
York and immediately started back
here, giving up his ourney. L. M.
Frank is said to be a favorite nephew
and the probable heir to his fortune.
The coroner’s investigation of the mur-
red of little Mary Phagan at the Nation
al Pencil factory Saturday or Sunday,
will be resumed at police headquarters
at 4:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon, and
the principal witness is expected to be
L. M. Frank, superintendent of the fac
tory, who is being detained by the po
lice.
*When the inquest, which had been In
session from 9 o'clock in the morning
adjourned for* the day Wednesday at
o’clock, the mystery pf Mary Phagan’s
death had not been solved, and the crime
was far from fixed on any Individual.
Coroner Paul Donehoo expects to hold
a long night session Thursday. He fixed
the hour for the re-convening of tjie In
quest at 4:30 o’clock in order that the
city detectives might utilize the entire
day In their hunt for evidence which,
may tend to throw additional light on
th'e factory tragedy.
WEDNESDAY'S SESSION.
G. W. Epps, a fifteen-year-old newai
boy, who says that he lives just around
the corner from the dead girl’s residenc®
proved one of the most Interesting
of the witnesses heard by the coroner's
Jury at Wednesday afternoon’s session.
Epps, who rode to town with Mary wheit
she went to the factory to get her earn-;
ings for two days’ labor, was to meeHj
her again at 2 o'clock at Five Points,j
and they had arranged to watch the Me
morial day parade together.
Coming in on the car, he declared that!
Mary told him that Mr. Frank had wlnk->
ed at her and looked “suspicious.” Shaj
requested him, he said, to meet her atf
the factory whenever he could.
Edgar L. Sentell, of 82 Davis street^
was positive that he saw Mary with a* .
male companion on Forsyth street, neaif
the factory between 11:30 Saturday even*
lng and 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning*
They spoke to each other, be said.
Sentell was not quite positive that he*
companion was Arthur Mullinax, the»
former street car conductor.
GALIFORNIA WILL TAKE
JAP BILL DURING DAY
Secretary Bryan Goes to
Country to See Conditions
Among Jap Farmers
SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 1.—When
the state senate convened today It ex
pected to take up the Webb re-draft
of the alien land law bill in the regular
order of business without further con
ference with Secretary Bryan.
Senators Birdall and Thompson, joint
authors of the original bill, were con
fident that it would pass at once.
Mr. Bryan, who returned here from
the banquet given him last night in
San Francisco by the Panama Pacific
Exposition directors, went by automo
bile with Governor Johnson for a sight
at first hand of conditions as they;
exist in one of the Japanese farming j
colonies of Sacrarilento county.