Georgia Historic Newspapers

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•WEE PEOPLE DEAD
. FROM ALITO ACCIDENT
ON MARIETTA ROAD
.3; "
Dead Are Orin Bullard and C.
J, Estes, Powder Springs,
and Mrs. Camp Spinks,
-• Rockmart
Two men and a woman lost their lives
when a big touring car turned turtle on
a curve of the Marieeta-Atlata road
abort iy after 6 o’clock Saturday even
ing. The car, according to one of the
occupants, was going very fast around
a curve in an effort to pass another car
going in the same direction. It skidded
on the chert road and the outside rear
. wheel gave way.
.• Orin Bullard, twenty-three years old.
of Powder Springs, was pinned beneath
the car as it turned over the last time
and was crushed to instant death.
C. J. Estes, of Powder Springs, and
Mrs Camp Spinks, of Rockmart, died
about four hours later as a result of
skull fractures sustained in the acci
dent.
The injured were rushed to the Nolan
sanitarium at Marietta by the car which
they had tried to pass and every effort
was made by Dr. C. T. Nolan, assisted
by Drs. Malone and Benso to save their
lives.
Mr. Spinks, the husband of the dead
woman, is now at the Nolan sanitarium
. in a very critical condition. The
attending physicians think. however,
that he will recover. He has a frontal
fracture of the skull and a broken lower
jaw bone.
The other four passengers of the car
were not seriously injured and it was
not necessary to confine them to the
care of- physicians. T. J. and J. L.
Hardy, of Powder Springs. received
slight scalp bruises and were generally
badly shaken up.
The young three-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Spinks sustained a badly
lacerated knee.
J. C. Camp, of Powder Springs, was
the only one among the eight passen
gers to escape the accident without the
slightest trace of any injury.
Mr. Estes, who owned and drove the
car, sustained two skull fractures, front
al and., basal. He was conscious for only
a fewvninwtes after he was taken to the
sanitarium.
Mrs? Camp Spinks had a frontal frac
ture of the skull and a severe scalp
. .cut running from over the eyes to the
.jbase of the brain. She never gained
•-..consciousness after the accident.
According to the story furnished by
? J. C. Camp, the party were on their way
to visit the father of Mrs. Spinks. W.
-W. Camp, at Powder Springs. Others of
.the family were also to be present at
.sthe reunion. They were on their way to
see a friend just out of Marietta, on
the road to Atlanta, before starting for
-—Powder Springs. Just outside the city
limits Estes let the car out and attempt
i ed to pass another car going in the same
; -direction. Estes’ car was a big Hudson
touring car and its heavy load is
thought to be responsible to some extent
• for the accident. Estes took the outside
i of the curve. The car skidded on the
“"’chert road and the car turned over sev
-■eral times, according to young Camp.
•-Estes was driving at a very fast rate
‘Jof speed at the time, it was stated.
Young Orin Bullard, who was ir
-.stantly killed, was a bridegroom of
"Only three months. His body was sent
'-to Powder Springs Saturday night.
i Mr. Bullard’s funeral will be held at
the family home in Powder Springs
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The tn
• terment will be in the Bullard grave
yard.
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NUMEROUS TRAGIC
, EVENTS OCCURRED
| DURING PAST WEEK
I Record for Tragedies and
Near Tragedies Probably Not
Equalled by Any One Week
in History of the City
This last week will rank as one in
which there have been more tragedies
I and near-tragedies. possibly, than
; any week in Atlanta's history. There
, have been almost a continuous series
j I of sudden and tragic deaths. Contrasted
>, with the peacefulness of other periods
1 for the last several months, the past
’J week's wave of tragedies might lurnlsh
I an interesting study of psychologists.
. The discovery in the Chattahoochee
1 river last Sunday of the body of John
• Wurm, boy timekeeper, who disapepar
ed a week before, was the first of the
tragic events to be brought to light.
i Then, two suicides, almost at exact
, ly the same hour, one by drinking hy
drocyanic acid and the other by self
l inflicted knife wounds on the throat,
I followed on Wednesday.
’ Thursday night, Thomas B. Felder
‘ was stabbed by a doorkeeper of the
house of representatives in the Kimball
i house.
i The next of the series was the shoot
ing Friday night of L. Cohen, a mer-
I chant, by a negro, the shooting taking
• place as Cohen stepped to his back
porch. Cohen is expected to recover.
1 Equalling in its gruesomeness any of
i the events of the week was the deliberate
, plunge to his death taken Saturday
morning by Thomas A. Brown, from the
i thirteenth story of the Fourth National
bank to the pavement.
And the final links in the’ week’s
death chain came late Saturday after
i noon when three victims were claimed in
, an auto accident just out of Marietta.
Three others were also injured. •
Liquor and Beer Seized
In Raid by Sheriff and
Militiamen at Girard
GIRARD, Ala., Aug. 6.—ln a raid on
• three establishments here today, which
resulted in the arrest of one man on
i a charge of violating prohibition laws.
Sheriff Linsey, aided by deputies jjid
■ a force of national guardsmen, seized
1 162 pint bottles of whisky, 162 bottles
> of beer and two cases of beer, according
I to statements made tonight by the sher
iff, who also announced seizing a quan
tity of gambling paraphernalia.
The raid was on the residence of
Charles Windom, and an establishment
known as the Metropolitan club. It was
said the liquor, beer and gambling de
vices. including poker tables, chips and
rocks, were seized at both places.
Charles Phelps was arrested during the
raid, but later was released on >1,500
bend. It was said Windom and J. T.
Kittrell, whom the officers said they also
sought, were not in town today.
The raid which preceded a special
term of court due to open here Mon
day for further investigation of alleged
violation of prohibition laws, was sud
den and caused some excitement, but
tonight the town was quiet, and no more
arrests had been made.
During the raid on the building in
which the Metropolitan club was located,
92 half pint bottles of beer were thrown
into the Chattahoochee river. A guards
man recovered them.
Progressives of
California 0. K.
President Wilson
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 5. —President
Wilson was unanimously indorsed here
today at a conference of California Pro
j gressives, who also completed the or
‘ ganlzation of the Woodrow Wilson Pro
gressive league and laid plans for par
ticipating in the campaign of the na
tion's executive for re-election. Francis
’ J Heney, of Los Angeles, former Pro
gressive candidate for United States
I senator, was elected president. Reso-
I lutions were adopted approving Presi
' dent Wilson’s Mexican and European
policies. Woman suffrage also was ap
,proved.
Committee Named
To Run Campaign
WASHINGTON, Aug. s—Senator
Welsh of Montana, who will be western
manager of the Democratic national
campaign; Senator Saulsbury of Dela
ware and Senator Stone of Missouri
I have been designated as a special com
mittee t,o direct the JJemocratic senato
rial campaign. Senators Walsh and
Saulsbury will leave tomorrow for Chi-
Icago, where headquarters will be estab
lished in conjunction with western
headquarters of the national com
mittee.
Issue Commission to
Deceased Major Butler
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—Major Mat*
I thew C. Butler, shot to death by H. J.
I Spannell at Alpine. Tex., July 20. was
' held today by the senate to have died a
i lieutenant colonel. Butler's nomination
for promotion had been confirmed before
his death, but his commission had not
been forwarded. By a bill passed today
in the senate the president was author
ized to issue the commission dated July
1. This operates to increase his widow's
pension.
MANN BLOCKS PASSAGE
OF FLOOD RELIEF MEASURE
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.—Objection
by Republican Leader Mann prevented
! passage by the house today of the reso
lution appropriating >540.000 for relief
of flood sufferers in North Carolina,
t South Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi. The reslution
, was passed yesterday by the senate.
I The resolution takes its regular place
’ on the house calendar, but southern rep
resentatives expect to make another es-
I fert to have it passed in the near fu
ture. When it adjourns today the house
will not meet again until Friday.
Representative Mann objected to im
• mediate consideration of the resolution
t when representatives from the southern
! states demurred to an amendment which
I would subtract from the southern states'
’ allotment of the federal good roads
fund the amount of money proposed to
• be spent out of the flood relief fund for
repairing damaged highways.
i Representatives Burnett, Alabama;
Ragsdale. South Carolina; Dent, Ala
bama; Candler. Mississippi, and others
1 described the need for the relief ap
i proprlations and declared that any
money spent on roads for employment
of destitute flood sufferers would be
temporary and not permanent.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1916.
STATE ROAD MB
SPLENDID NET RETURN.
N..C. & SU. REPORTS
Five Per Cent on Valuation of
$20,000,000 Is Shown in
the Figures Submitted by
Lessee
That the Western and Atlantic rail
road, which is owned by the state of
Georgia and leased to the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, is
now earning nearly 5 per cent net on
a valuation of $20,000,000, is shown by
returns which the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis has made to the
comptroller-general of the state.
These returns show that for the year
ending May 1, 1916. the- net earnings
of the Western and Atlantic, over and
above the rental paid to the state, were
$533,436.80.
The annual rental paid to the state is
$420,012.
This rental added to the net earnings
over and above rental make the total
net earnings of the road, for the year
ending May 1, 1916, $953,448.80.
Comptroller-General William A.
Wright has estimated the Western and
Atlantic railroad to be worth $20,000.-
000, and has stated that he deems this
to be a conservative estimate.
Some people who are advocating the
sale of the Western and Atlantic rail
road have declared General Wright’s
estimate to be too liberal, and have
claimed that the road is only worth be
tween $12,000,000 and $15,000,000.
PROOF IN
That the estimate of the comptroller
general is not a liberal estimate, but
in reality is a conservative estimate, is
now conclusively demonstrated by the
actual net earnings of the road, xs dis
closed by the lessee.
General Wright’s estimate is rendered
all the more conservative by the fact
that 5 per cent net, which is approxi
mately the actual earnings of the West
ern and Atlantic on a valuation of $20,-
000,000, is an exceedingly good return
upon any investment.
In addition to the annual rental of
>420,012 which is paid for the West
ern and Atlantic railroad by the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail
road, the latter pays the state of Geor
gia one-half of 1 per cent per annum
on the net earnings of the road, over
and above the rental.
Once a year the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railroad files with the
comptroller-general a sworn return of
what the Western and Atlantic has earn
ed during the preceding twelve months,
over and above rental. On this return
it pays the tax of one-half of 1 per
cent.
This tax for the year ending May I,
1916, amounts to >2,667.18.
LEASE 26 YEARS OLD.
At the close of the year 1916 the
present lease of the Western and At
lantic railroad will have run for 26
years, and in that time the road will
have earned for the state of Georgia,
in annual rental, the total sum of >lO,-
920,312.
In that time the road will have earned,
in the tax above mentioned, the total
sum of >35,519.43.
Added together, these sums makt a
grand total of which the
Western and Atlantic railroad will have
earned for the state of Georgia in 26
years.
The prewent lease of the Western and
Atlantic railroad will expire in Decem
ber, 1919. The making of a new lease
has been placed by the Georgia legisla
ture in the hands of a commission con
sisting of the governor, the chairman
of the railroad commission and Judson
L. Hand, of Pelham; G. Gunby Jordan,
of Columbus, and E. A. Copelan, of
Greensboro.
The present lease of the road was ne
gotiated by a commission of which
Comptroller-General Wright is the only
surviving member. On that commission
were General Wright, Governor John B.
Gordon, Attorney-General Clifford L.
1 Anderson, Secretary of State N. C. Bar
i nett and State Treasurer R. U. Harde-
I man.
Michigan Forest Fire
Overcome by Efforts of
Volunteer Fire Fighters
DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 4.—The efforts
of hundreds of volunteer fire fighters,
< oupled with rain and a lull in the wind
nave brougmht about considerable im
provement in the forest fire situation n
. northern lower Michigan, according to
latest advices rece ved here. • Although
, a few small placet, report the flames
' still menacing, is believed the fire
; fighters have gained sufficient control tc
I assure the safety of all the towns and
villages in the affected districts. The
! fires have been raging in Kalkaska, Ot
sego. Charlevo, Crawford, Wexford tn<l
Antiim counties for several dayy.
Estimates of the amount of damage
done aie at great variance, some plac
ing it ut as much as $1,000,000. Ju the
vieii.it> of Manceicna, Antrim eountv,
26-OOv acres already have been swept
over, it is declared
Numerous narrow escapes are report
ed. but thus far r.o loss of life has
been dir covered.
Danish Papers Oppose
Sale of West Indies
i By Assoc’ated Press.)
LONDON, Aug. s.—Some of the Dan
ish conservative papers havs opened a
violent attack upon the government over
the treaty with the United States for the
sale of the Danish West Indies, accord
ing to a Copenhagen disaptch to the Ex
change Telegraph company.
The National Tidende saj's: “In a
question of such great importance for
the whole nation the government acted
in a manner such as its worst antagon
ists would not have believed it capable.
Nobody but the Danish government
would have risked such a course.”
On the other hand Politiken points out
that Denmark several times attempted
to utilize,the islands but here efforts
were in vain. This paper says that an
der the present war conditions the
islands become a danger tQ Dan
ish neutrality, and that it might be
difficult for Denmark to defend them
from encroachment.
ALABAMA WOMEN GIVE
GAME PRESERVE TO U. S.
(By Associated Press.)
DECATUR, Ala., Aug. 4—Miss Unity
Dancy and Miss Mary Lou Dancy, maid
en sisters of this place, tendered the
United States government 5,000 acres of
land ten miles from Deeatur for a game
preserve. Much of the land is heavily
timbered and a large creek runs entire
ly through the tract.
HUNT AUTO HINDUS WHO
MADE OFF WITH 533.K0
Hundreds of Persons Smiled at
Hold-Up, Thinking It Film
ing of Movie
(By Associated Piess.)
DETROIT, Aug. s.—Search was being
vigorously prosecuted early today in
every county surrounding Detroit for
the five automobile bandits who, armed
with rifles and automatic pistols, yes
terday afternoon held up the motor pay
car of the Burroughs Adding Machine
company and made off with between
$33,000 and $34,000, after shooting and
slightly wounding one man.
The robbery, which occurred within
half a block of the Burroughs plant, is
declared to have been the most daring
in the history of Detroit. It was ace
complished so quickly that almost be
fore anyone but the occupants of the
car, a number of guards in a car fol
lowing and the bandits themselves,
realized what was happening, the rob
bers had transferred five cash bags to
their own machine and were out of
sight. Hundreds of persons who saw
the holdup smiled in the belief that they
were witnessing the scenario of a pho
toplay.
One of the robbers is said to have
lost his hat and revolver, both of which
are in the possession of the police.
Nine automobiles filled with Detroit
policemen and two loaded with deputy
sheriffs in command of Sheriff Oakman,
of this county, took up the chase a short
time after the holdup. At latest re
ports all were scouring the surrounding
country except three or four officers,
who returned about midnight and re
ported they could go no farther in the
search.
Vague reports from several towns and
villages lying outside of Detroit to the
effect that the robbers were believed
to have been seen passing through there
were received, but despite the fact that
every clue was promptly picked up and
followed, the robbers early today were
still at large.
Town of 200 People
Has 32 of Its Men in
Service on the Border
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—Gangway
please, and make a place on your Rand-
McNally for the little town of Saco,
Montana, with a population of two hun
dred, as per 1910 census report.
Saco has thirty-two of its male citi
zens serving with Co. G., Second Mon
tana infantry, now on the border, and
another stalwart son serving at Pekin,
China, as a member of the United States
Marine corps.
“If New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Atlanta, Baltimore and other cities could
be Induced to give their sons in the
same proportion,” writes W. D. Miller,
editor of the Saco Independent to the
Marine corps afficials in this city, “we'd
have some real preparedness.
But in the meantime Saco wants to
cast considerable shadow from its new
place In the sun.
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Germans Announce Food
Situation Is Satisfactory,
With Abundance of Meat
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, via London, Aug. 4.—The
food situation in Germany is satisfac
tory, according to an official statemen’,
dealing with the economic status jf
the nation.
The statement compares the harvests
of 1914 and 1915 and says: “The splen
did organization of the distribution of
bread and corn as well as the system
of economical consumption and the stor
ing of supplies enabled us to overcome
the unfavorably economic year of 1915-
16 without serious derangement of the
life of our people.. The present eco
nomic year promises to be even more
satisfactory.”
After denying reports of threatened
famine or of restrictions which would
endanger health the statement con
cludes: “Our meat supply is ample. An
arrangement made with breeders guar
antees a plentiful supply of pork. The
fat ration of ninety grammes a week
per head which is now allotted is re
garded as sufficient”
POSTMASTERS NAMED
FOR GEORGIA TOWNS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Postmasters
appointed for Georgia:
Cutting. Clinch county. Charles H.
Tullis, vice J. L. Pafford, resigned; El
labell, Bryan county, Nina E. Story, vice
W. G. Butler, removed: Hobby, Turner
county, William B. Greene, vice G. W.
Trelkel. resigned; St. Simons Island,
Glynn county, Alberta G. Hasell, vice
J. W. Gould, removed.
Farmers’ Institute
LYERLY, Ga., Aug. 6.—The annual
Chattooga county farmers’ institute was
held in Summerville today. Several ex
perts from the State ollege of Agricul
ture were present and delivered ad
dresses. A feature of the day was the
old-fashioned basket picnic dinner. A
large number of farmers were in at
tendance.
UGH! CALOMEL IS HORRIBLE! IT
SHOCKS YOUR LIVER. IE BILIOUS
Calomel sickens! Don’t lose a day’s work! Clean your
Liver and Bowels With “Dodson’s Liver Tone”
Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It’s
horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous
drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose
a day’s work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when It comes Into contact
with sour bile crashes into it, breaking
it up. This is when you feel that awful
nausea and cramping. If you are slug
gish and "all knocked out,” if your liver
Is torpid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated tongue,
if breath is bad or stomach sour, just
*rv a spoonful of harmless Dodson's
Liver Tone tonight.
Here’s my guarantee—Go to any drug
store and get a 50-cent bottle of Dod
son’s Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and
AGED MAN COMMITS
SUICIDE BY LEAPING
FRDM DIZZY HEIGHT
T. A. Brown, Aged 62, Dives
Headlong From Thirteenth
Floor of Fourth National
Bank Building
In full view of scores of people at
Five Points, Thomas A. Brown, book
keeper, of 232 West Peachtree street,
crouched on the ledge of a window of
the Fourth National Bank building,
thirteen stories above Mariettta street,
and a moment later dived head-first to
his death.
The suicide happened shortly before 7
o'clock Saturday morning. Several peo
ple saw Brown jump. Within a few
minutes after his body crashed to the
sidewalk, the spot was surrounded by
hundreds. As each incoming car reach
ed the center of the city, the crowd in
creased. Long after the body was re
moved and the blood had been mopped
from the pavement, a dense mass of peo
ple congregated on the corner in the
shadow of the tall building and across
the street, discussing the tragedy and
pointing out to each other the window,
high above, from which the dead man
leaped.
Mr. Brown was 62 years old. For
two years he had been out of work and
for six years he had been suffering from
a malignant disease. Despite his condi
tion, members of his family state that
he was cheerful and brave. His suicide
was a terrific shock to them.
At 6 o’clock Saturday morning Mr.
Brown left his West Peachtree street
home, telling his little son, Sam, aged
five, that he was going for the morning
walk which it was his custom to take.
FROM DENTIST’S OFFICE.
About 6:30 o clock J. F. Johnson, ele
vator man at the Fourth National Bank
building, says he took Mr. Brown up to
the thirteenth floor. The offices of Dr.
J. D, Cromer are on the thirteenth floor.
At one time he had treated Mr. Brown.
His visits were discontinued not long
ago, says Dr. Cromer, but as one of Dr.
Cromer’s prescription blanks was found
in Mr. Brown’s pocket, it is thought the
man was seeking his office.
At the end of the corridor on the
thirteenth floor Mr. Brown must have
noticed an open door. It was in the of
fice of Dr. M. E. Turner, a dentist, and
had been left open by the janitor that
morning while he was cleaning up. There
was no one in the office when Mr.
Brown entered, it is said.
A moment later J. H. Blakely, a ne
gro, standing in the center of Five
Points, looked up and saw a figure hud
dled on the window ledge outside of Dr.
Turner’s office. The man poised there
a moment in the bright morning sun
shine, peering down at the sickening drop
to Marietta street. Then he flung out
both arms and dived as a swimmer dives
from a great height. Blakely was so
horrified, he says, that he turned his
head away and did not see the body hit
the sidewalk.
NEARLY STRIKES PASSER-BY.
S. C. Daniels, of 352 West Third street,
was standing across the street in front
of Elkin’s Drug store, and saw Mr.
Erown leap from the ledge. J. Van
burge, of 126 South Forsyth street, was
walking along Marietta street pushing
a bicycle. He says he looked up to see
the body whirling downward and stepped
aside barely In time to save being struck.
Death was Instantaneous. Mr. Brown
hit headfirst about two feet from the
base of the building in almost the ex
act center of the sidewalk. His skull
was crushed, the bones of his legs were
broken, his whole body fearfully
mangled. Blood was spattered across
the sidewalk and for several feet upward
on the side of the building.
Despite the gruesome sight presented
by the figure of the dead man with his
head half torn from his body, passers
by crushed around It and craned their
necks over each other's shoulders for
a better view.
While Mr. Brown left no note, there
is little doubt that despondency over
his illness caused him to take his own
life. Dr. M. B. Hutchins, Brown’s
physician, says the latter visited him
at his offices in the Grand building Fri
day afternoon and was very despondent
at the time. He had not been able to
work for the last two years. The last
job he held was bookkeeper for Tom
Pitts.
Mr. Brown is survived by his wife;
six daughters, Mrs. W. P. Mathews and
Misses Annie, Ruby, Mabeth, Nell and
Dorothy Brown, and two sons, Ned and
Sam Brown.
The body was quickly removed to
Harry G. Poole's undertaking establish
ment. An inquest was held there Sat
urday afternoon. The body was sent
to Mitchell, Ga., Sunday morning at 8
o’clock.
SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS
ORDERED TO THE BORDED
COLUMBIA, S. C.. Aug. 4. —Adjutant
General Moore this afternoon was noti
fied by the Department of the East that
the uits of the South Carolina national
guard mobilized at Styx, S. C., have
been ordered to El Paso for border duty
They will move as soon as tourist cars
can be provided for them. The move
ment will consist of the First and Sec
ond Infantry regiments, troop of caval
ry, engineer company and field hospi
tal company.
fourteen-year-old"
, BOY DROWNS IN RIVER
COLUMBUS. Ga.. Aug. 4.—Willie Al
bert fourteen-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Holley, was drowned in
the Chattahoochee while bathing with a
party near here this afternoon. Search
for the body has been in vain.
if it doesn’t straighten you right up
and make you feel fine and vigorous I
want you to go back to the store and
get your money. Dodson’s Liver Tone is
destroying the sale of calomel because
it is real liver medicine; entirely vege
table, therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod
son’s Liver Tone will put your sluggish
liver to work and clean your bowels of
that sour bile and constipated waste
which is clogging your system and mak
ing you feel miserable. I guarantee
that a bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone
will keep your entire family feeling fine
for months. Give It to your children.
It is harmless; doesn’t gripe and they
I like its pleasant taste.—(Advt.)
SPIES BELIEVED
SEEKING LINE ON
CANALDEFENSES
Several Powers Said to Be
Trying to Get Information.
U. S. Officials Plan Drastic
Action to Circumvent It
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. of
persons suspected of being spies employ
ed by foreign governments to acquire
information regarding the nature aud
extent of the defenses of the Panama
canal have decided the administration to
request congress to supplement the ex
isting laws against the improper acqui
sition of knowledge of military and nasal
plans and fortifications.
Representatives of the department of
justice and the war and navy depart
ments have been in conference on the
subject and It is expected they will agree
upon some very drastic legislation to
be submitted to congress. It is possi
ble the scope of the conference may be
extended beyond the original idea of a
mere protection of the secrets of Ameri
can boast defences to cover generally
such attempts as have been common
since the beginning of the present war
to destroy powder and munition plants,
upon which the United States govern
ment must rely in time of trouble.
Several of the military powers of
the world are believed to have under
taken to obtain information as to the
character of the defenses cf the Panama
canal. The latest incident to excite sus
picion, Is the operations of a little Japa
nese power vessel, which sought to ob
tain a permit for pearl fishing in the
waters of Panama and vloinity. The
canal authorities have been warned that
this craft appeared to have been making
surveys, and that these were not con
fineß to the water, but extended to the
isthmus proper.
While these operations may have been
perfectly innocent in intent, and only
such soundings were made and bearings
taken as might be incident to the pursuit
of pearl fisheries, the canal zone author
ities have regarded the matter as of
sufficient importance to warrant inves
tigation and report to Washington. Mean
while licenses have been withheld until
some general line of policy can be for
mulated to govern all such cases.
Net Revenue of 93 Big
Roads Shows Increase of
$ 190,000,000 for Year
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Net reve
nues of ninety-three large raidroads of
the United States for the year ending
with June, showed an Increase over the
same period of 1915 of almost >190,000,-
000. The figures, made public today by
the interstate commerce commission,
showed operating revenues for 1916 of
$1,855,904,227, an increase of about
>290,000,000 over the previous year.
In net revenue the eastern roads
showed an Increase of about $117,000,-
000; southern roads an increase of
about >30,000.000, and western roads
about $40,000,000.
For Governor of Georgia
JOSEPH E. POTTLE
The Man J
and
His Platform
Ist—Emphatic opposition to the sale of the Western and At*
Atlantic railroad.
2d —Rigid enforcement of all the law, all the time, against
everybody.
3d —Liberal and generous pensions to the ex-Confederate sol*
diers.
4th—Support and development of the educational system of
the State, especially the Common schools.
sth—Rigid enforcement of the State Prohibition Law of 1915.
6th—Absolute justice to every citizen.
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NAME
P. O. ...
E. F. D. STATE.,..,
HAWKINS SAYS HE j
GAINED 31 POUNDS I
DN TKBOTTLES
His Joints Would Cramp So
With the Rheumatism He
Couldn’t Raise His Hand to
Comb His Hair
“I have actually gained thirty-ond
pounds on three bottles of Tanlac and|
I now feel like a new man In every way,**
said J. T. Hawkins, 335 Johnson Place,
Memphis.
“The rheumatism had me so tight ini
its grip for twelve months,” continued
Mr. Hawkins, “that I was just up and
down, and down more than up, and I
couldn’t strike a lick of work. I wad
racked with pain from head to foot all
the time and no kind of medicine I
Inside, and nothing I rubbed on the out 4
side, ever did me a particle of good un4
til I got this Tanlac. My joints would
cramp me so I could hardly raise myi
hands to comb my head or stoop enough
to tie my shoes. I hurt so bad and was
so nervous I couldn’t sleep; it woulc, *
pain me to turn over in bed, and noi
matter what position I would take I suft
sered torture. I got in such a bad shapel
I couldn’t eat anything scarcely and E
suffered with indigestion all the times
I dwindled away to 108 pounds and wai
nothing but skin and bones and wad
forced to spend most of my time in bedJ
“I read so much about the good word
Tanlac was doing I decided to give it aJ
trial, and it’s a positive fact, I’ve gonq
up in weight from 108 to 139 pounds—<
an actual gain of thirty-one pounds—l
and all the rheumatic pains have left
me. My joints don’t cramp me at al|
now and I can use my arms and bend
about and work with as much ease as t
ever could before I had rheumatism at!
all. I can now eat anything I wanq
and as much as I wish, and nothlngl
hurts me in the least. I can work all
day every day and when night comes E
can sleep like a child. Yes, sir, I feel
like a new person and I must look itj
too, for my friends who haven’t seen ma
since I took Tanlac actually don’t know’
me when they meet up with me now<
Tanlac has certainly been a great bless-<
ing to me and I’m a living monument!
of what it will do.” f
Tanlac is sold by regular established
agencies in all prominent towns of thq
south.—(Advt.)
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