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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA, GA.,, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1913.
NO. 25.
"KNOCK" III HOKE SMITH
IT FIT THE FACTS
Macon Telegraph’s Remark
That Senator “Steals Thun
der" Isn't Borne Oat
♦ Special Dispatch to The Journal.) j
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The dispo-|
sitlon of the Macon Telegraph to ■
“knock” Senator Hoke Smith whenever
opportunity offers leads it into some lu
dicrous errors occasionally. A few days
ago the sehate committee on agriculture
and forestry unanimously ordered a fa
vorable report on Senator Smith's bill
providing for the extension work of
agricultural colleegs and experiment
stations. The Associated Press sent out
a report on this action,twenty or twenty-
five lines, as the measure is regarded
as quite important. The Macon Tele
graph headed the telegram: “Hoke Steals
Thunder. Introduces Bill on Lines Pro
posed by Lever.
The man who wrote the head had not
kept up with the bill and knew nothing
of its history. It is known as ^he Smith-
Lever bill and has been before congress
for nearly two years. Every agricultur
al paper in the United States under
stands it and hundreds of them have
written editorials commending it. Many
hundreds of letters have been received
by Senator Smith indorsing the bill and
it has the backing of practically all
the presidents of agricultural colleges
of the country. It is intended to make
available 'for the man on the farm and
his sons who cannot attend agricultural
colleges al the scientific facts taught
at the colleges and gained at the ex
periment stations.
There is no doubt that the bill will
pass during the present session of
congress. It apropriates $10,000 to each
outright and then divides $300,000 for
the first year among the states on a
basis of agricultural population, but re
quires the states to provide an equal
amount. This appropriation Is Increased
by $300,000 each year until by the end
of ten years the amount will be $3,000,-
000' and the appropriation is to stand
permanently at that figure.
When Senator Smith reached the sen
ate two years ago he found a vocational
bill pending introduced by Senator
Page, of Vermont, which covered so
much ground that it could not be pass
ed. y It got in the way of Senator
Smith’s bill, however, as many sena
tors had promised to vote for the Page
bill who really preferred the Smith bill.
On a vote Senator Smith’s bill lacked
only one of being substituted for the
Page bill and if it had been so substi
tuted would undoubtedly have been
passed last session.
In the senate it is known as the
Smith bill and in the house it is known
as the Lever bill. It is spoken of gen
erally as the Smith-Lever bill, as the
Georgia senator and South Carolina con
gressmen are pushing it jointly. It was
first introduced in the senate by Sena
tor Smith on January 16, 1912, as shown
by the record, page. 9 fill, sixty-second
congress, second session, and the next
day was introduced in the house by
Congressman Lever as shown on page
1052 of the Record, sixty-second con
gress, second session.
Huerta Fails
To Get Loan
From Europe
Bankers Who Hold Option
Won’t Exercise It—Mexican
Finances in Bad Shape
PARIS, Dec. 18.-—The efforts of the
Mexican government to raise money in
Europe in order to meet the interest
on its obligations falling due in Jan
uary have thus far been futile. The
Paris and London banks, wh^ich took
$20,000,000 of the loan authorized by
the Mexican congress in the spring
and on option on the unissued remain
der, ..decline to exercise their option,
even for a few millions.
The Mexican minister of finance,
Adolfe de la Lima, now In Europe*
brought with him authority from Gen
eral Huerta to intimate to the banks
here holding the option that they must
either exercise it or surrender it. The
bankers refuse to do either.
A threat has been conveyed to them,
cautiously, that their option may be
revoked so that the unissued portion
of the loan may be placed elsewhere.
The bankers have replied resolutely
that the contract cannot be revoked
summarily as Mexican credit would be
In a worse position after such a revo
cation than it was before.
Rebel Leaders Tell Miners
They Can Operate Now
HERMOSILLO, Dec. 18.—Mine own
ers jji territory under control o£ the
Mexican constitutionalist government
may resume operation of their prop
erties whenever they see fit. It was
anounced today by Ignacio Bonillas,
secretary of industry in the Carranza
cabinet, that if men desiring to work
mines located in the states of Sonora,
Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango, wquld
apply to the constitutionalist depart
ment of fomento, colonization and in
dustry located here they would receive
the necessary permits.
UAder Mexican laws mining property
may not be worked until formal per
mission has been issued by the federal
government, it w£^ said many mining
men holding property had found it im
possible to obtain proper authorization
from Mexico City and that the indus
try in the north was in a state of stag
nation.
REPUBLICANS CHOP OFF
10 GEORGIA DELEGATES
Church Hirqs Dancing
Teacher to Instruct
Members in New Steps
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—To woo the
young men and women away from the
tango and turkey trot, the vestry and
aid society of Christ church, in Brook
lyn, of which Canon William S. Chase
is/ rector, has engaged a dancing teach
er to instruct classes in the newest
dances approved by the vestry.
T-he question of dancing came to the
•attention of-Canon Chase and the ves
try with the opening of the new parish
hall in connection with the church. The
problem presented to the churchmen was
to have the hall utiized for the young
men and women for whom it was built
and not permit or encourage the tango
and other dances to which exception
was taken. The engagement of a danc
ing teacher was the solution. A list
of the newest dances to be taught has
not been issued.
National Committee Ends La
bors, Effects Compromise
and Adjourns
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The repub
lican national committee concluded its
labor for reform in party procedure,
and launched its campaign for a reunion
of warring elements, by adopting a
resolution providing ror a radical cnange
in the basis of representation in nation
al conventions which would reduce the
quota of southern states from thirty-
three to sixteen per cent of the con
vention’s total.
The action of the committee, criti
cised in vigorous terms by several of
its members, but made unanimous be
fore adjournment, must be indorsed by
states entitled to cast a majority of
votes in the electoral college before
it becomes party law.
In order that such action shall be
taken as promptly as possible the com
mittee appointed a subcommittee of
three, consisting of Charles B. Kar-
ren, of Michigan; Senator Borah, of
Idaho, and Governor Hatfield, of West
Virginia, to prepare an address to the
of the proposal. This address will be
drawn up shortly after the Christmas
holidays, and leading members of the
committee expressed the hope tonight
that it would be met by early action.
Approval by the states will insure
a call' from the nations lcommittee for
the national convention of 1916 along
the lines laid down today.
The reorganization plan adopted
came as a compromise which reflect
ed the views of many committeemen
that southern Vepresentation should be
reduced, but not brought to the vanish
ing point.
According to figures submitted by the
'subcommittee, the new plan would re
duce the total number of delegates
from 1,078, as in 1812, to 993. *
Under it these states would lose del
egates:
Alabama, 9; Arkansas. 3: Florida, 4;
Georgia, 10; Illinois, 2; Kentucky, 1;.
Louisiana, 7; Mississippi, 8; New York
4; North Carolina, 3; Pennsylvania, 1;
South Carolina, 7; Tennessee, 3; Texas,
15: Virginia, 9, and Hawaii, 4.
The southern states would have 164
delegates in all.
Czar's Cousin
Defends Self
FromAttacks
Grand Duke
Magazine
Boris Declares
Charges of
Cowardice Are False
* COLORADO GOVERNOR AT
WAR WITH LABOR UNIONS
Public Street Dancing
Succeeds Dance Halls
In San Francisco, Gal.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—Sponsor-
ed b^ the city, the first of a series of
public street dances will be held to
night in one of the outlying residence
districts. The city will furnish music,
lights and police, the latter having been
instructed to see that proper decorum
is observed. The dance program in
cludes the tango and the “Boston Dip.”
The second public street dance will
be held Saturday night in another sec
tion of the city and the third of the se
ries on New Year’s evening in the' down
town district.
The series will be tried as an experi
ment, the idea being to establish street
dancing as a substitute for the public
dance halls, which were closed by- the
pplice commission three months ago.
The board of supervisors originated
the plan.
JEWELRY STORE ROBBED
BY CUTTING OUT WINDOW
PITTSBURG, Dec. 18.—One of the
most daring robberies known to the
Pittsburg police was committed this
morning between 6 and 7 o’clock when
a thief cut a section out of the show
window at the jewelry store of W. W.
Wattles & Stone. He then pulled the
fabric covering the bottom of,the win
dow through the hole, taking with it all
the valuables with which the window
was decorated. The loss is about
$1,000. /
SHOOTS 9-DAY BRIDE,
THEN WRITES MOTHER
Conrad, Mad Because Wife
Threatened to Leave Him,
Uses His Pistol
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 18.—After he
had shot his wife, Katherine, whopi he
married only nine days ago, John Con
rad went to a desk this morning and
described the tragedy in a letter to his
mother while he awaited the arrival of
the "police: Conrad’s bride, nineteer^ ’__®,
years old, was believed to have been
fatally shot. She refused to talk to
Conrad .when he sought her forgive
ness.
Conrad, who is thirty-one years old
and a salesman, said he shot his wife
because stye threatened to leave him,
and blamed a sister-in-law for the trou
ble.
DEERING’S $12,000,000
SPLIT_AM0NG FAMILY
CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—The entire es
tate of William Deering, the harvester
manufacturer, estimated at from $12,-
000,000 to $13,000,000. is left to his im
mediate family, according to the terms
of the will, which will be offered for
probate today. None of the estate was
left to charity, Mr. Deering statin? in
his will he considered he had done
enough for charity during h1s lifetime.
LONDON, Dec. 18.—The Grand Duke
Boris, a cousin of the emperor of Rus
sia, took the witness stand today to
rqbut allegations of misconduct and
cowardice brought against him in a
magazine article. In connection withthis
article he brought suit for libel against
the Frank a. Munsey company, but the
suit was settled out of court on De
cember 9. The grand duke, however,
wished to clear his character publicly.
He swore in court that there was
no foundation for the libel, denied that
he had been guilty of misconduct and
testified that he had been constantly
under fire for a fortnight during the
operations in the vicinity of Liao-Yang
in Manchuria, when Japanese and Rus
sian armies fought a desperate battle
in August, 1904. He said he had par
ticipated as an officer in the fighting in
which the army under General Count
Keller engaged the Japanese and in
which General Keller was killed. He
had ultimately been decorated by Gen
eral Kuropatkin with the Order of St.
Anne for his cofirage and had since been
repeatedly honored, the emperor hav
ing giver^ him a golden sword of honor
inscribed' “for bravery.”
Henry E. Duke, counsel for the de
fendants, then apologized to the grand
duke on behalf of his clients, saying
the article had been published without
the knowledge of Mr. Munsey. He ad
mitted that the words used were ex
tremely objectionable and indefensible.
The case was closed, the defendants
agreeing to pay all the cost.
CONVICT ATTACKS GUARD,
John M. Harris, a convict sent up
for blowing the safe of the Lumpkin
County bank at Dahlonega, was shot
and seriously wounded Thursday morn
ing when he is alleged to have threaten
ed Deputy Warden Clyde Thomason, of
the Adamsville convict camp.
It is claimed by the county authorities
that Harris had broken the rules of the
camp and had cursed ..some of the
guards on Wednesday afternoon. He was
held in camp Thursday morning and
Deputy Warden Thomason started to
apply the lash to him. Harris is alleged
to have picked up a big block of wood
and jumped at ^homason threateningly,
would kill the official "*15©-
fore he would take a whipping.
Thomason, it is said, retreated, and as
he did so drew his pistol and fired. The
breast. The wounded man was taken im
mediately to the hospital in the main
barracks at the Bellwood convict camp,
where it is said that he has a good
chance to recover.
Harris is fifty-eight years old, is six
feet inches tall and weighs 220 pounds.
He was sent up from Lumpkin county
with several other yeggs. While con
fined in the Fulton tower during the
pendency of his appeal to the supreme
court, Harris and other prisoners par
ticipated in a mutiny, when the tower
officials tried to make them submit to
being measured according to the Ber-
tillon system.
He was received at the tower on Sep
tember 22. He is serving a twenty-
year sentence.
HEAD OF GEORGE JUNIOR
REPUBLIC IS CONDEMNED
New York Board of Charities
Recommends Removal for
Immoral Conduct
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Removal of
William R. George from active partici
pation in affairs of the George Junior
itepublic at Freeville, N. Y. t founded
by him more than ten years ago, is
recommended by the state board of
charities. George's moral conduct is
severely condemned.
The board also recommends that no
more girls be received at the 'republic
and that those now there be speedily
removed to other institutions.
George had not been actively con
nected with the requblic for some time.
His retirement from the directorate of
the' national organization of the repub
lics, it is believed, is forecast 6y the
report. 1
The George Junior' republic was
founded by William R. George as a
refuge for bad boys. Its pioneer mem
bers were toughs of the old Bowery. The
youths who said they “.never had a
chance.”
These young men were taken to the
hills of Freeville, near Ithaca, and un
der George’s direction governed them*?
selves 'in the republic which he founded.
George was a benevolent despot. He was
called "Daddy” George by his proteges
and his chief aim, he often said, was
to bring back to an atmosphere of home
life the wayward boys—and girls, aft-
terwards admitted—who had strayed.
MODEL FOR OTHERS.
From the model at Freeville other
George Junior republics were fashioned
throughout the country.
Emory R. Buckner, counsel for George,
was indignant today when told of the
report. He said the committee liad
heard only witnesses hostile to George
and none for him; that witnesses could
have been called—but were not—who
could easily have disproved some of the
charges made against him.
George is forty-seven years old. He
has been in poor health for more than
a year./
It was brought out that George had
practiced hypnotism to such extent that
he could hypnotize himself by standing
before a mirror. Some times he did so,
it was testified, and had to be awaken
ed from the spell by some one else. It
was also testified Georg© frequently
hypnotized members of the republic.
The report of the committee says:
“Evidence shows that for many years
It has been the custom of Mr. George
to exhibit undue familiarity with tne
girl citizens. Whatever may have been
his motive, his. example In this regard
and the influence, of these acts, as was
shown by testimony of' many witnesses,
had the effect of leading to immoral
acts a number of the older girls and
boys.”
Schmidt Once
Offed To Sell
Certificates
Slayer of Anna Aumuller Tried
to Help German Students
Fake Exams
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Testimony of
witnesses who appeared before the Ger
man high court of Munich when Hans
Schmidt was tried for offering to sell
forged certificates and diplomas to stu
dents, was read today at Schmidt’s
trial for the murder of Anna Aumuler.
The evidence showed that t!he prisoner
sent more than 200 letters to student*
in Munich offering assistance as a
“mental specialist” in their examina
tions. No fee was asked until they had
passed their examinations. The letters
were signed “Dr. Z. Zantor.”
A search of Schmidt’s room in Munich
revealed blank diploma forms and fac
similes of the seals of the Latin school
of Mainz and of the royal secretary of
the University of Munich.
At the Munich trial Schmidt declared,
according to the testimony read today,
that he had left the priesthood because
his father was a Protestant and he
(Schmidt) could not agree with the doc
trine of the Catholic church.
Gordon County Farmer,
Fleeing With His Baby,
Loser in 10-Mile Race
GERMANY WONT EXHIBIT
AT PANAMA EXPOSITION
BERLIN, Dec. 18.—Collapse of the
German parliamentary movement In fa-
bullet struck the convict In the left' vor of official participation in the Pan-
GUILTY OF MALIGNING
CHARACTER OF GIRL
ROME, Ga., Dec. 18.—Horace Isom,
a well known young man, was found
guilty in a sealed verdict returned to-
Floyd city court this morning, of hav
ing maligned the character of a young
woman. Judge ReeSc has reserved sen
tence in the case.
BOOTLEGGER KILLED
IN CITY HALL FIGHT
BONNER SPRINGS, ICan., Dec. 18.—
Rolla Harvey, an alleged “bootlegger,”
was killed and two other men were
wounded here today in a fight that' en
sued when a posse surrounded the city
hall building, on the second floor of
which Harvey was suspected of con
ducting a “joint.” More than fifty
shots were fired.
ama-Paciflc exposition at San Francisco
was followed today by dissolution of
the committee formed to organize a
great nonofficial exhibit. The bureau of
information for those desiring to exhib
it is to continue in existence, but other
wise the scheme for a collective German
exhibit is dead.
The bill introduced early in Depembqr
in connection with an appropriation for
the arrangement of an official German
exhibit is not to be brought up again
for discussion.
FARM DEPARTMENT HEADS
WANT FRANK PRIVILEGES
Agricultural commissioners of the
southern states are to petition con
gress for a law which will allow a
franking privilege to all state depart
ments of agriculture.
Such a law would permit the depart
ments to send out their bulletins and
pamphlets to the farmers free of post
age and would result in a great saving
to the states.
J. D. Price, commissioner for Geor
gia, is a member of the special commit
tee appointed by the Agricultural Com
missioners’ association, to draft a
franking bill for introduction in con
gress.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CALHOUN, Ga., Dec. 18.—A lively
chase occurred this afternoon between
Deputy Sheriff Fossett, of this county,
and Joseph Walden, a young farmer,
who lives close to Calhoun. Walden, who
with his wife and five-months-old baby
lived with his wife’s people, is said to
have become involved in a domestic
difficulty with the latter in which
blows were freely exchanged. It was
getting too hot for Walden, and snatch
ing up his baby he made a break for
safety without waiting to get hat or
coat or wraps, for the baby.
He secured a buggy and while a war
rant was being sworn out for the fugi
tive he got a good start of the' pur
suing .officer. He ferried the Oostanau-
la river, going north towards Dalton,
but was caught close to Sugar Valley
after a ten-mile chase. He was then
lodged in the county Jail on a charge of
beating his wife and kidnaping his baby,
and the latter was sent home to its
mother. The accused man later made
bond and will be tried tomorrow.
Walden claims that it was in self-
defense and In protection of the infant
that he ran. He denies the charge of
wife-beating.
CONNECTICUT MEMBER
CHALLENGES MR. HOBSON
Wants to Debate Alabamian
as to Right of Congress
man to Rest
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The long
standing feud between Representative
Hobson, of Alabama, and Representa
tive Donovan, of Connecticut, now
threatens to break out on the hustings.
Mr. Donovan has challenged Hobson to
debate before an Alabama audience, the
affirmative ot/ a contention that “ab
sence of a representative from congress
is honest and justifiable.”
Donovan announced his challenge to
day with a statement that Mr. Hobson
was in his seat seven days of the eight
months of the extra session of con
gress.
CO-OPERATIVE MARKETS
PLANNED BY FARMERS
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 18.—Co-opera
tive markets through which produce
would sold direct from the farm to
the consumer are planned by the Farm
ers’ Equity unioh in session at Kansas
City, Kan. Delegates from eight of the
middle west states are present. The
establishment of a market in .Kansas
City was the proposal under considera
tion today. So far the union has devo
ted most of its efforts >to acquiring
elevators and selling the grain of its
nAembers direct to the millers.
E
Postmaster General Declares
Telegraph and Telephones
Should Be Nationally Owned
DENVER, Colo., Dec. 18.—Character
izing their demands as ridiculous and
their claims as overdrawn, Governor
E. M. Ammons late last night refused
to dismiss Adjutant General John 1
Chase and other military officers from j
service, order the release of military !
prisoners and abolish the military com- '
mission in the zone where coal miners
arc on strike. These demands were
made upon the governor by a commit- ;
tee Srorn the allied trade unions’ con- •
ventipn.
When the governor’s stand was made
known t o the waiting delegates and
they heard their committeemen say
that the threat of recall petitions with
in five days had no effect on the gov
ernor. “Mother” Mary Jones prose and
# exhorted her j hearers to band them
selves by the “righteousness of the
cause, march upon the state capitol and
fling defiance of the governor in his
face.”
FIRST PHOTO OF UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AS NOW CONSTITUTED
BRYAN COMING SOUTH;
TWO STOPS ON WAY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Secretary
and Mrs. Bryan, with their grandson,!
will leave Washington at 5:50 tomorrow
afternoon for Miami, Fla. •
The secretary has not been able to i
visit his new southern home since it j
was completed and he will spend a !
couple of days there looking- over his j
place. j
On the way south the secretary will
s ! op at Asheville, N. C., Saturday from
10 a. m. to 4 p. m. and will also make
a short stofr at Jacksonville. Fla. The
party expects , to arrive a,l Mi^mi Sun-
da y.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Postmaster
General Burleson’s declaration for the
principle of government ownership of
telegraphs and telephones as outlined
in his annual report Just made publio,
undoubtedly will be followed by a Dem
ocratic caucus In the house in January
which will decide how fax the project
is to be made an administration policy.
President Wilson has been giving the
project careful study and, administra
tion supporters say, has not pressed
it upon congress at this time be
cause of the enormous expense involved.
A preliminary move will be congression
al authorization to the postmaster gen
eral to make a report on the feasibility
of acquiring the lines Apr a govern
ment monopoly. “
Representative Lewis, who was fore
most among the congressional leaders
who worked out the parcel post, had
prepared a bill on the new subject but
will give way to an administration
measure backed by Chairman Moon, of
the house postoffice committee.
SHOULD ACQUIRE WIRES.
Concerning the acquisition of tele
phone and telegraph lines, Postmaster
General Burleson says that the govern
ment lias demonstrated Its capacity to
conduct public utilities, and, from his.'
present Information, he is inclined clear
ly to the taking over by the postofflco 1
department of the telegraph lines and
possibly, also, of the telephone lines.
Discussing that the postmaster general
says:
’’A study of the constitutional pur- 1
pcses of the postal establishment leads,
to the conviction that the postoffice de
partment should have control over all 1
mean^ of the communication of intel
ligence. The first telegraph line In
this country was maintained and oper- 1
ated as a part of the posta service, and
it is to bo regretted that congress saw'
fit to relinquish this facility to pri
vate enterprise. The monopolistic na
ture of the telegraph business makes it
of vital Importance to the people that It
be conducted by unselfish Interests,
and this can' be accomplished only
through government ownership.
“The act of July 24, 1866, providing
for the government .acquisition of the
telegraph lines upon payment of an ap
praised valuation and the act of 1202
directing the postmaster general ‘to re
port to congress the probable cost of
connecting a telegraph and telephone
system with the postal service by some
feasible plan’ are evldencesof the pollny
of this government ultimately to ac
quire and operate these electrical means
of communication as postal facilities,
as Is done by all the principal na
tions, the United States alone excepted.
SUCCESS IS PROVED.
“The successful operation of the parcel
post has demonstrated the capacity of|
the government to conduct the public
utilities which fall properly within the
postal provision of the constitution.
“Every argument in favor of the gov
ernment ownership of telegraph lines
may be advanced with equal logic and
force In favor of the government owner
ship of telephone lines. It has been
contently decided that a* telephone mes-
g»9» and a telegrarn Hire the same
within the meaning of the laws govern
ing the telegraph service and there
fore it Is believed that the statute en
abling the government to acquire, upoft
the payment of an appraised valuation
the telegraph lines of the country will
enable the government to acquire tile
telephonic network of the country.
While It Is true that the telegraph com
panies have not 'compiled with the r»-
qutrements of section 6267, revised
statutes, this can not be held to nulli
fy the Intent of the law, since the non
use on the part of the government, of
any of Its constitutional privileges In
no wise surrenders the right to exer
cise these privileges whenever the best
Interests of the nation demand."
RURAL DELIVERY.
It is the announced purpose of Ms.
Burleson not to enoourage the extension
of free delivery of malls in village^
because of the inferiority of the service
and the Impossibility to sjeure econom
ical administration of It. It Is his ln-
tention v therefore, wherever practicable
to utilize the services of rural carriers
for the delivery of malls In small towns.
On that phase of the servtqe, the re-. 1
port says: ’
“As rural routes emanate from prao-4
tlcally all of the places where this vll-«
lage delivery service would be desired,
the carriers should be used to make suota
deliveries as may be desireable and feas-
able for the service indicated their
compensation of rural carriers, how
ever, at this time is based on the length
of their routes and to make them avail
able for the service Indicated tehir
salaries should be based upon an eight- *
hour day. With this change these car-
Tiers could be used not only, to supple
ment the general- delivery service as in
dicated, but in many instances In the de
livery of parcel post matter as well,
thus obviating -the necessity for addi-,
tional horse hire for the delivery of the
larger packages. The compensation of.
rural carriers should therefore be!
changed from a mileage to an eight-
hour basis, and these carriers should be 1
permitted to deliver mail'regardless of
the distance from the postoffice or the 1
corporate limits of the city or town.”
Child of Three Kills
One-Year-Old Brother
With ‘Unloaded’ Rifle
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
JACKSON, Ga.. Dec. 18.—The one-
year-old son of Will Folds, living: near
Jackson, died this morning from a rifle
wound inflicted by his three-year-old
brother yesterday. The child snapped
a supposedly unloaded gun at his baby
brother.
ZELAYA GIVEN A HINT
TO BEAT IT ABROAD
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Secretary
Bfyan thinks the reasonable- time • al
lowed to former President Zelaya, of
Nicaragua, to leave the United States
--is he agreed to do when the proceedings
for his extradition on murder charges
were dropped; .has .expired, and today,
upon the instance of Solictor Folk, who
handled the case, Zelaya’s Washington
attornej-s-wired-the. former dictator in
New York asking when he planned to sal
for ’Barcelona-
Standing (Prom Left to
Sitting (From Left to
Joseph It. Lamar, Charles E. Hughes, Wlllla van Levanter, ana Mahlon Pitney.
William R. Lay, Joseph McKenna, Chief Justice Edward Douglas White, Oliver W. Holmes, and Horace -H. Lnrton.
PRESIDENT TO BE HOST
AT DINNER TO CABINET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.— President
Wilson will give his first cabinet din
ner tonight at the Wh£e House. A few
invited guests outside' the cabinet will
be present, among them John Purroy
Mitchel, mayor-elect of New xork.
It will be the first state function of
the season and will be followed with
dinners by cabinet members to the pres
ident and the usual official receptions.
There will be no New Year’s reception
i this year because the president goes
raway for the Christmas holidays. There
I is a possibility that the diplomatic re-
I oeption scheduled for January 6 may be
delayed a few days to give the presi
dent a longer rest in * southern cli-
mat*