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4 < * ptm VOLUME XIII. ATLANTA, GA,, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1913. NO. 17. An Akward Time for a Fellow’s Suspenders to Snap—By Webster Addresses Body in Person, Reading Long Message Which Makes No Reference to United States (By Associated Press.) ‘ MEXICO CITY, N<5v. 20.—It was re garded here today as not entirely im possible that Provisional President Hu erta, after having, through the ratifica tion of the congress, relieved him self from the danger of being called to account for his acts by some, future ad ministration, might be brought to the point of self-elimination through the ef forts of the foreign powers supporting the United States government. It was not generally expected today that President Huerta on the convening of the New Mexican congress this even ing, would encounter much of the ob structionist tactics whlcn characterized the last congress, as the new deputies were known to be in sympathy with his policies. In their meeting Huerta, it was assumed, automatically would forfeit the self-imposed powers which he has exercised since disolution of the two houses early, last month. One of the first steps the new con gress was expected to take was ratifi cation of the Huerta acts as dictator; that, the two houses would be asked to do this. Was plainly indicated in his message to them. To get ratification of his acts was currently reorted* to have been one of the reasons why Huerta so obstinate ly opposed’ pressure brought to bear on him by the United States and other na tions to withdraw. The provisional president was said to have been persuaded that he must re sign and to have named Manuel .Garza Aldape, former minister of the interior as the man he' desired to succeed him, when Jtie insistence of John Lind, per sonal representative of President Wil son, upon the abolition of tne new con gress, cause.’ ; :> to change his atti tude and iej« e idea of resigning. Congress i i snort preliminary session belo ..ie arrival of Huerta. Speaker Eduardo Tamariz, formerly minister of public instruction, formally declared open “the second period of the ' Twenty-sixth Mexican congress.” Huerta’s message to his congress, which he will read in person fcfeis even ing, was made public today. It con sisted of about 1,500 words of praise of • his own administration and policies. He referred to the former congress as a •body of demagogues, and to the' rebels in terms equally as vigorous/ made no open reference to tne situation in respect to the United States or other nations. THOMAS COUNTY’S FI PROVES GREAT SUCCESS State Entomologist Announces He Will Accept Under Cer tain Conditions Which He Specifies* BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.—E. Lee "Worsham, of Atlanta, state entomolo gist, has been tendered the presidency of the National Conservation congress, and has the question of acceptance under advisement. Members of the nominating commit tee of the convention, now in session in Washington, are anxious that Mr. Wor sham accept the office, and are bringing pressure to bear on him to have him do so. He has named certain conditions, and if they are complied with, he will be elected probably this afternoon; other wise, he will decline the office, and prob ably continue to serve on the executive committee. Mr. Worsham has been prominently identified with the conservation con gress since its organization at Seattle, Wash., several years ago. He is rec ognized as authority on questions in which the conservationists are Interest ed and is thoroughly in sympathy with the work of the association. FAVOR FEDERAL CONTROL. Victory for the advocates of strict federal control of waterpower grants was practically assured today when the resolutions committee determined that the congress yesterday had taken the waterpower question out of its hands. The majority and minority reports of the waterpower committee, the latter fathered by Gifford Pinchot and former Secretary of War Stiinson, now will be returned to the convention for final dis position. The vote by states yesterday on the preliminary report caused cham pions of federal, as opposed to state, control, to express confidence that the Pinchot report would be adopted. Secretary Lane, addressing the coV.- gress, urged goverftment ownership of railways in Alaska and predicted won derful .development there. Colonel Walter Powell, of the Arkan sas delegation, declared the withdrawal of the. delegates was the culmination! of their frght for the rights of the state.-: J to make their own conservation policies, j without dictation by the federal govern ment. • “We were appointed by our governor. ’ said Colonel Powell, “and we insisted upon the abolition of the forest reserve We think also that the state water ways should be supervised by the state There was no trouble of any kind, only we figured there was nothing but waste of time in it for us to dilly-dally atpund with the other people who do not be lieve as we do.” * Fertility of Soil Shown by Nu merous Exhibits at Thomasville (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) THOMASVILLE, Ga., Nov. 20.—With perfect fall weather, the Thomas Coun-' ty Farmers’ fair being held here this; week, is proving a great success, and all trains coming into town today were loaded with visitors from the surround ing towns. v The agricultural exhibits are unusual ly fine afid are a good advertisment of the capabilities of Thomas county sil. Corn, cotton, hay, oats, sugar cane, po tatoes and, in fact, every crop imagin- abe, is on exhibition and the quality of the exhibits would be hard to sur pass. Thomas county had the finest crops in her history this year, and the specimens shown are of the best. The truck display shows that Thomas county soil is capable of producing two crops of vegetables each year with the fall crop jusit about equal to the spring one. The stock exhibit is also, fine and the big Thomas hogs show the farmers will ahve an abundance of hog to go with their hominy this year. The fine Thomas county mules and colls exhibited show stock raising is on the increase in this county and the mules are the equal of any of the Ken tucky mules brought here and sod for large prices. The exhibit from the Greenwood plan tation is one of the most attractive fea tures of the fair, and includes about a hundred varieties of every thing grown on a farm or in a garden. Greenwood is the winter home of Colonel Oliver H. ayne, of New York, and Superintendent F. C. Loveless has contribtued this ex hibit just to add to the attractiveness of the fair, the entry not being made for a premium. Included in the stock exhibit from Greenwood is a fine Guern sey bull, Thomas county raised, which will be given for a premium to the mart winning the prize for the best exhibit of Thomas county stock. A flying machine, numbers of carnival attractions and other features afford ample amusement for the crowds. Judge Says Woman Need Not Try on Her Gown in Open Court (By Associated Prees.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 20.—A pro posal to try on a gown before a throng of curious spectators in the United States district court was rejected today oy Judge J. A. Riner. Mrs. Joseph L. Wier, charged with her husband, an army offi cer, with the theft of clothing from Mrs. J. S Cecil, claimed the dresses which she asserts she bought for a trifling sum from a woman canvasser, did not fit ana therefore there would be no object in stealing them. Her attorney suggested she try on one of the gowns in open court to substan tiate her claims. The witness consented and there was a momentary flutter of excitement among the spectators. Judge Riner interrupted the proceedings, saying the demonstration was unnecessary. White-haired Man, 75 Years Old, Found Guilty of Moonshining (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ROME, Ga., Nov. 20.—Numerous moonshine cases have been heard at the term of federal court now in ses sion here, and it is probable the rest of the work will be devoted to the same class of cases. T. B. Hulsey, a White- haired man, seventy-five years old, from Paulding county, is the nestor of the moonshiners in this section, and was found guilty of this offense. A suspend ed sentence for the same offense has been hanging over Hulsey for eight years, but because of his • age the of ficials are in doubt as to what to do with him. Most of the accused have been found guilty, and have been sen tenced to fines or brief terms of impris onment. MET'IISTS OPEN ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT ELBERTON BY BEY. EDWARD G. MACKAY. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ELBERTON. Ga., Nov. 20.—Promptly at 9 o’clock this morning Bishop Collins Denny opened the forty-seventh annual session of the North Georgia confer ence in the First Methodist church here. The auditorium of this handsome and historic church waS well filled with the ministers who have come from all parts of north and middle Georgia for this important meeting when the opening hymn was announced. In his opening address Bishop Denny spoke forcibly for the need of the train ed mind in the ministry of the church. He said it was time for the dispensation of ignorance, to come to an end as “sanctified ignorance” would never save the world. He referred effectively to the fact that John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, had one of the best trained minds of his day. and it was to such men that the leadership of the church had ever been intrusted. After the roll call, the conference stood and with bowed heads heard the secretary, W. B. Dillard, call the names of three ministers who had died during the year. These were Rev. J. S. Bryan, Dr. Walker Lewis, and Dr. G. G. Smith, all leaders of note. CONLEY TRIAL PUT Off AT REQUEST Of DORSEY i&was announced Thursday morning e.v Solicitor Dorsey that the case of Jim Conley, indicted as accessory after the fact for the murder of Mary Phagan, would not be called during the present week. The case was expected to* come up Thursday. No reason was given by the solicitor for not calling the case, further than that there was a crush of cases for trial. Conley’s attorney, W. M. Smith, on Friday will file a written demand for a trial on the minutes of the court. This will Insure Conley being tried during this or the following term of court I Bulgarian Officer Vanquished in Duel With French Author (By. Associated Press.) PAKIS, Nov. 20.—Lieutenant Torcom, a Bulgarian army officer, after vainly challenging Pierre Lott, French novel ist, and several Parisian Journalists who had published anti-Bulgarian articles, finally succeeded today in finding an opponent in the well-known writer and swordsman, Georges Breittmayer. The soldier and writer met $n a sword duel this morning winch ended in the discomfiture of the Bulgarian cham pion, who, after receiving a severe wcund in the breast during the sixth bout, abandoned the contest. Falls Off Fast Train, And Escapes Unhurt FREPORT, Pa., Nov. 20.—Joseph Fahey, of OH City, an express messen ger on the Allegheney Valley division of the Pennsylvania railroad, probably owes his life to a pond of water along the track. Last night, as his train ap proached Aladdin station, Fahey started to drag a heavy basket to the open doorway of the car. The basket handle broke and Fahey fell backward from the train which was going forty miler an hour. He fell into the pond of wa ter. Except for drenching no escaped unhurt. World's Most Famous Vocal Teacher Dies in .London Aged 87 Years (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Nov. 20.—Madame Mathilde de Castrone Marches!, probably the most famous vocal teacher in the world, died today at the age of eighty-seven. Madame Marchesi was born at Frank- fort-on-the-Maine, and ner maiden name was Mathilda Graumann. She was orig inally a concert singer but joined the Vienna conservatory as a teacher in 1854. She afterward taugnt in Paris, then i n Cologne and later returned to Vienna. In 1881, she established hersell permanenfty in Paris. Madame Marchesi’s husband, Salva tore Cavalieri de Castrone Marchesi Della Raja^ta, was also a singer. He made his debut i n New York in 1848. Her daughter, Mile Blanche Marchesi. is a concert and opera singer, who has frequently appeared in the United States and Canada. House Sends Its Gift To Miss Jessie Wilson With Pretty Sentiment (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Miss Jessie Wilson, the White House bride-elect, received her $2,000 present from the house today. The sparkling diamond pendant, resting in a satin-lined jewel box with a tiny key dangling from its heart-shaped lock, was taken to the White House by a member of the Wash ington jewelry firm which has been preparing the gift. The sentiment inscribed upon parch ment paper accompanying the present read: “The representatives of the people in congress send this gift to Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, with their sincerest and best wishes as an evidence of the tender interest and hearty good will of aJJ the people on the happy occasion of her marriage to Mr. Francis Bowes Sayre, November twenty-five, nineteen hundred and thirteen.” The names of the committee of the house signed to this sheet of parchment paper identical with that on which edn- gress prints its legislative work Vere Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader Un derwood, Republican Leader Mann, Pro gressive . Leader Murdock and%4tepre- sentatives Cooper, Wisconsin; Henry, Texas; Campbell, Kansas;. Hardwick, Georgia; Page, North Carolina; Johnson, Kentucky; Palmer, Pennsylvania; Aus tin, Tennessee; Townsend, New Jersey; Fowler, Illinois, and Chandler, New York. Secretary and Mrs. Bryan’s wedding gift—an inlaid mahogany tea table and chair—was sent to the White House today. Among the other gifts were a dozen silver plates from Andrew and Mrs. Carnegie and a handsome silver bowl from the Spanish minister and Mme. Riano. Miss Margaret Wilson has taken per sonal charge of the musical program for the wedding celebration. In addl* tion to music by the Marine band a choir of boys will sing during the cere mony. Chicago Police Women Carry a Big Revolver Instead of Powder Puff (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—Revolvers take the place of powder puffs in the hand bags carried by Chicago’s ten police women. It had been generally supposed the police women were unarmed * until today when Officer Clara Olsen was dis covered oiling her firearm. “I guess we might as well tell tne truth,” she said. “The revolvers form the powder puff that might be supposed to be in the bags which we carry in our left hands. It is a handy place for the weapons and I believe we could get them out quickly if necqssary.” / i Life Saver Proposes To Swim the Canal PANAMA, Nov. 20.—Alfred Brown, a member of a New York life saving corps, has arrived here with the hope of being the first man to swim from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean through the canal. He arrived here yesterday and proposes to start the swim as soon as he obtains the necessary permission to go through the locks at either end of the canal. CURRENCY BILL GOES TO SENATE SATURDAY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The ad ministration currency bill will be re ported to the senate Saturday by the banking committee. The opposing fac tions met today and agreed to submit divided reports, one signed by Chair man Owen and the administration Demo crats and another signed by Senator Hitchcock and the five Republicans. COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 20.—Friday is to be Governor’s day at the Columbus fair, and the indications are that it will be a notable one in the big gala week here. There will be many other features to make the day memorable, and record crowds are expected from Georgia and Alabama. crovernor Slaton and party will ar rive at 6:30 o’clock Friday morning- He will be met at the depot by G. Gunby Jordan, Mayor Chappell and a number of prominent citizens, who will escort him to Green Island ranch ,the country home of Mr. Jordan, where he will be entertained at a breakfast. The governor will return to the city and will review the parade of the Boys’ Corn clubs at 10 o’clock. At'll o’clock he will address the boys’ clubs and the public from the grandstand in the race track. At 1 o’clock an informal luncheon will be tendered to the governor by some of his personal friends. A public reception will be given at the Elks’ home at 3:30 o’clock, and^ali the friends of the governor are invited to attend. Light lunches will be served by the wives of the Elks. At 4 o’clock Mr. Slaton will be the guest of the Women’s Reading club at the home of Hon. and Mrs. H. R. Goet- chius, and it is expected that he will make a short address there. At 5:30 p. m. the governor will start for Atlanta. Former Stock Brokers Say Failure of Firm Made Them Paupers NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Harry B. Hol lins, member of the now defunct bift once powerful stock exchange house of H. B. Hollins & Co., testified today he had only $150 in the bank and no other personal resources. Last September, he said, when the firm was reorganized, he put $300,000 into the business, all of which was lost. For months, he added, there was dissension among the firm members. Briton N. Busch testified he had been a partner in the firm fifteen years and that his present resources consisted of less than $200 in bank. Walter Kutzleb, a third member of the bankrupt concern, said he had no tangible resources left. He will be re called when the hearing in the matter of the firm’s bankruptcy is resumed on Monday. Hollins & Co. failed recently for about $5,000,000. F.our Hundred Renegades From New Mexico Reservation Make War Medicine, Un tasted for a Generation Congressman' Shackelford In troduces Measure in House and Passage This SessEon Seems Probable I^AR-MINGTON, N. M„ Nov. 20.—Four hundred renegade Navajo Indians en camped on Beautiful Mountain, thirty- five miles southwest of the Shiprock agency, sang wa* songs and danced around council fires all night, while sen tries stood watch at the many signal flrer which fringed the northeastern side of the Mesa. At Shiprock extra precautions had been taken against a surprise attack by followers of Chief Be She She, who have been wrought almost to a state of frenzy by their medicine men. W. T. Shelton, Indian agent, and his Indian police, who are still faithful, to day began preparations to renew over tures to the aborigines. Traders and settlers on the reserva tion have become frightened and have appealed to Agent Shelton for protec tion. The other Indians of the reservation, more than 3,000, have given no intima tion as to where their sympathies lie. It is upon the coming of troops that the agency officials and the settlers base their hopes that bloodshed may be averted. There are many at the settlement, however, who express anx iety over the reception which the In dians will give the troops. Some fear that the renegades may.offer armed re sistance to the troops. That the Indians will use force on occasion was evidenced by their armed attack on the agency when they released eleven tribesmen who had baen arrested on federal warrants, charging horse stealing, assault, assault and battery, while more than 100 sympathizers stood on the bank of the Little San Juan riv- e" ready to aid them in their attack should the agency officials show any in tention of offering forcible resistance to their fellows. Three Give Up and • Promise to Be Good SANTA FE, N. M., Nov. 20.—Federal. Judge W. H. Pope yesterday sentenced each of the three Navajo Indians of the eleven implicated In the recent assault on the Shipwreck agency to ninety days in jail, but withheld commitment. The Indians had surrendered. The court instructed the Indians to return to the reservation and persuade the eight fugitives to surrender, prom' ising that they woiild he treated fairly. The three prisoners promised the court they would be good. They left for the reservation. BT RALPH SMITH. "Washington, nov. 20.—senator Hoke Smith, who declared in a speech Tuesday before the National Conserva tion congress that the federal govern ment should lend aid and encaurage- ment to the construction of good roads as a means of helping the farmers of the nation, today introduced a bill pro viding for governmental aid towards the construction and maintenance of public highways. The first section of his bill author ized the use of $2,000,000 by the secre tary of agriculture In co-operation with officers of the several states desig nated for the purpose, in the construc tion and maintenance of good roads. This work, the bill contemplates, shall be along the line of illustration and demonstration, to maJke tests and show what can be accomplished In the most economical way towards Improving the average roads of the country. The second paragraph of the bill 13 along the line of the Shackelford bill, which passed the house of representa tives at the last congress, but was de feated in the senate. Senator Smith’s bill is planned with a view especially of aiding in the improvements or what is known as roads of class C, which la the best class country road as distin guished from the high class macadam road, and of encouraging the improve ments of road's of that character all over the United States. The appropriation is limited to $20,- 000,000 annually, and of this amojint, according to the plan of distribution, a.bout $750,000 would be assigned to ward road improvement In Georgia. The plan of distribution follows that of the former house bill and is based upon the use of the roads for rural routes and upon the condition of the road so used? A number of the objections td the Shackelford hill made in the senate are not in the modified J>ill now introduced. Congressman Shackelford, who is chairman of the committee ort roads of the house, Introduced a similar bill today in the house, so that it is appar ent that Senator Hoke Smith and the ch-irman of the house committee on roads are co-operating with a view of perfecting legislation on this subject which will pass both the house and the senate. It now seems probable that the fight for national contribution towards the improvement of the roads of the coun try will concentrate around this bill. GOVERNOR’S DAY TO 6E BIG EVENT IN GOLUMBUS Man Believed Dead Creates a Sensation By Turning Up Alive (By Associated Frees.) HAMILTON, Ontario, Nov. 20.—While relatives and friends surrounded a cor- fin in which lajy the body of a young man identified as John Thompson, a victim or the recent storm on the great lakes, the real John Thompson rapped at the door and was admitted to the house. His mother collapsed and was made serious ly ill. Young Thompson’s father did not know on what boat his son was employed and when he read of the finding of the body of John Thompson, a fireman on the lost steamship Carruthers, he went to Kettle Point and identified it as that of his son. The body was shipped to the parent's home in this city and preparations were being made for the funeral when the young man Returned. Before goin& to his home Thompson stopped at a hotel conducted by James Duffy. Duffy, who had been at the Thompson home and seen the body, fell in a faint thinking he had seen a ghost. Bath, Breakfast and Lunch, Four Cents, But It's for Babies (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20.—A bath and a good breakfast for 3 cents for improperly nourished children of the open-air elass at the Durham public school in this city will be provided by the Home and School league. The break- last menu will be changed each day, one of the meals consisting of creamed fish on toast, milk and bananas. The 3-cent meal will be served in ad dition to the already established penny luncheon furnished by the league, which plans to provide similar meals at other public schools. Young School Ma'm Holds Up Thief As He Robs a Saloon PITTSBURG, Nov. 20—Miss Elizabeth Reagan looked into the barroom of her father’s hotel late last night and saw an armed man going through the cash drawer while Reagan and several patrons stood about the room cowed by the intruder’s revolver. Quickly Miss (/ Reagan got a weapon from the hoteL office and just as the robber was a pout to leave the young woman flourished a revolver and the man surrendered with out offering fight. The prisoner gave his name as Michael Reilly, of Seattle. Miss Reagan is a school teacher. ( He Told Me a Lie," Declares Physician After Shooting Man KANSAS CITY, Nov. 20—“I killed him and I am willing to suffer the penalty.” was all the explanation Dr. Willia* i T. Elam, of St. Joseph, would give today foy having shot W. Putnam Cramer, a Chi cago solicitor, in a local hotel yesterday. At tne inquest today it developed Dr. Dlam had employed a detective to shaa- ow his wife and Cramer The officer said he had assured Elam that relations between his wife and Cramer had been only a “harmless flirtation.’’ After the* shooting yesterday Dr. Elam led his friends to the room, examined Cramer’s body in a professional manner, pronounced him dead, then exclaimed: “He lied to me and I killed him.” District Attorney Brands as False Published Charge of * Favoritism to Bank ROME, Ga., Nov. 20.—flfra card to cit izens of Rome, District Attorney Hooper Alexander brands as false the charges made by G. R. Hutchens, of Rome, and published in the Macon Telegraph, to the effect that Senator Hoke Smith had se lected* for all of his federal appointments, stockholders in a certain Atlanta bank in which the senator is himself a stock holder, and that the purpose of these ap pointments was to secure the deposit of federal funds in said bank. Mr Alexander asserts that he does not own stock in this bank end never has, and in fact he has never set foot inside the bank. He says further that hp wrote the Macon Telegraph on October 30, cor recting Hntchens’ statement In parlia mentary terms, and the Telegraph re fused to publish his letter Then upon November 8, he wrote Hutchens request ing him to publish a withdrawal of these charges in the Telegraph and calling upon him to furnish the name of his in formant, which letter Hutchens has ig nored. Mr. Alexander, therefore, publishes In • the Rome Tribune-Herald, of his native city, and Hutchens’ present place of res idence an appeal to Hutchens, saying that he cannot justly refuse these re* quests. Though the card is entirely temperate its purport Is unmistakable and its clos ing paragraph says: “Mr. Hutchens has no excuse to deny me the reparation to which every man Is entitled and which no honorable man can refuse, and I put it up to the citizens of Rome to say as much to their fellow *cit- izen.” The statement of the district attorney has cr eated a decided sensation here and expressions from sitizens of Rome indicate they agree with him in the stand he has taken. OEAAAND RIGRER WAGES Finds Two Dimes In Bird’s Stomach SELLNSGROVE. Pa., Nov. 20.—Mrs. 1. F. McFall lost two 10-cent pieces in tile chicken yard of her home a few weeks ago. She found them in a roos ter which was killed for the Sunday dinner. The dimes were less than, half their usual thickness^ when taken from the bird’s stomach. FALL RIVER, Mass., Nov. 20.—A letter from the textile council demand ing a general wage increas# of 12 1-2 per cent for the cotton mill operatives was received today by the Manufactur ers’ association. The operatives de mand that the increase be effective De cember 8 and that the manufacturers % reply not later than December 1. There are about seventy-five corpor ations and 100 mills affiliated with the Manufacturers’ association. The proposed increase would affect 30,000 operatives. Union officials say the question of taking a strike vote depends on the ac tion of the manufacturers. PITTSBURG SHIPS COAL AND GETSBACK TURKEYS PITTSBURG, Nov. 20.—More than 3,500 bushels of coal and 7,000 tons of manufac tured steel and iron are en route down the Ohio river for southern markets to day, a second shipment having been started from here last night. The cargo of in coming. boats consists of turkeys, chickens-a»d ducks. * High water in the rivers, due to rains and the recent snow storm, is gradually receding. _____