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The Atlanta Georgian
AND NEWS
VOL. VI. NO. 130.
ATLANTA, CIA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 3,1908.
PRICE:
Georgian’s Capital Prize Automobile
To Determine If Ma
nipulation Is Re
sponsible.
queer deals
ARE HINTED
Williams-Ryan Fight Is His
tory, But Is Not Yet
Ended.
Washington, D. C„ Jnn. S-—It la re
ported that atepe will be taken
In a few daya looking to a Federal In
restlgatlon of the financial affairs of
, the Seaboard Air Line railway, to de
termlne whether any financial manlpu
latlon of the property la responsible
for the troubles ending in the receiv
ership.
The Seaboard Air Line has had
strenuous financial career in recent
years. The fight between John Skel
ton Williams and his backers, who
formerly controlled the road, and
Thomas F. Ryan, who finally wrenched
It from the Williams group, Is history
and familiar to people concerned with
finance.
The Williams people have never
been reconciled to the Ryan group,
and there Is much sentiment in the
South that the road has been manipu
lated In a fashion that would be high
ly Interesting if the facts were
brought out by an Investigation such
as the Interstate commerce commis
sion made into the Harriman system.
Unless some other meanB are found
of starting such an Inquiry, it Is re
ported, a resolution will be Introduced
soon after congress reconvenes direct.
Ing the commission to make It,
Richmond, Vi, Jan. 3.—R. Lancaster
Williams and R, Davies Warfield, re
celvers appointed by Judgo Pritchard,
of the United States court, yesterday
for the Seaboard Air Line, have taken
charge of the property.
The remaining detail! or the prelim
inary receivership will be completed
today and the authority of the court
will have been complete.
The receivers will first begin nego
tiations to secure caah to meet the
notes which were due New Year’s.
Attorney Edwin G. Baetjer, counsel
for a committee of Baltimore bond
holders and independent of tha inter
ests represented by the present re
ceivers, appeared before Judge Pritch
ard and submitted a motion asking tor
a third receiver, Guatavus Ober,
Baltimore banker.
Judge Pritchard observed that if an-
other receiver was to ba appointed ho
thought he ahonld be chosen by the
court. Independent of any suggestion
from the Interest making the applica
tion. .
John Skelton Williams, a member of
the voting pool, has given out an Inter
view in which he attacks the Seaboard
control. He said:
Skelton William* Talk*.
"In no spirit of boasting, but a* evi
dence for those who are Interested in
Seaboard securities, that my opinion on
the affair* of that systsm are well
founded, I ask attention to the fact
that my predictions of the course of
the property and the results of its
financial and operating management In
recent yean have been fulfilled exact
ly.' said John Skelton Williams.
“The passing of the 8eaboard Air
Line system from the control of Ryan,
Blair and Cooildga into the hand* of
omcen of the court Is not an event
which should cause stockholders alarm
or discouragement.
Confidence in 8ystem.
"My confidence in the possibilities of
[he Bystem, under proper management,
'• unshaken. For the calendar year
l»o* the Seaboard Air Line railway and
jts affiliated lines earned approximate
ly H»,000.000. On this basis of esm-
Centinued on Page Two.
THEN MADE ESCAPE
w. -
Young Man Dangerously
Wounded During
Dance.
Spe-d.l t e The Georgian.
Washington. Ga„ J* n . I.—News It
received here from Stony Ridge, a
"man village In the western part of
the county, that Edgar H. Smith, son
i.j "™ ,r H. Smith, was shot twice
eerlouely wounded by Hugh Elmo
Jmbs last night. Smith's condition
„ 'rry/w'lou* and he may die at any
moment ,. omb , made h ,/ escape.
‘ dlfTiculty between the two men
Cf to hav ® grown out of a desire
r noth men to monopolise the entire
'“*** °oe young lady at a dance.
Some heart will be glad when the beautiful Glide Touring Gar is presented to them.
Doubly glad, too, because we paid $2,500 instead of $2,000.
$500 better than we promised. We can afford to do it; the contest is getting better and “hotter” every moment. The contestants are
just now getting anxious and well they should. We would like to give six such cars away because of the labor and success of the workers.
However, it behooves each contestant to labor hard and fast.
Ft 10 AGREE ON
HOSPITAL ROLES
Alphabetical Order Plan
Warmly Condemned
by Minority.
The medical-board of Grady Hoapltal
held a etormy eeeelon at the hospital
Thursday night, when the restrictions
for the proposed bedalde teaching at
Grady Hoepltal were considered, and os
a result two reports will be submitted.
The minority report Is signed by only
three members of the board. Dr. Ken
drick, Dr. Doreey and Dr. Noble, all
of whom are oppoeed to bedside
teaching with or without restrictions.
Both reports have been turned over
to Alderman Joseph Hlrsch. chairman
of the board of trustees, and the trus
tees will meet next Tuesday afternoon
to consider the restrictions agreed
upon by the medical board.
Dr. Kendrick, who la leading the op
position to bedside teaching, made this
statement Friday morning:
"These restrictions are nothing but
a subterfuge adopted to railroad the
matter thru council. I will be at the
meeting of council when the rules are
finally taken up by that body, and I
will be heard from."
When the trustees, a few days age
voted tb open the charity ward* fo
bedside teaching for the benefit of
medical college student*, the medical
board was Instructed to work out the
details. Accordingly the medical board
Thursday night formulated certain
rules, th* gist of which Is given.
On. of these rule, provide, that
student* ahall not be admitted to the
femato wards.
It is also specified that only one class
of six Students shall be admitted to
the hospital on any ona day.
It Is further provided that no exami
nation can be made of a patient with
out hla consent, this consent to be ob
tained by the house surgeon at the
time he get* the history of the case.
Thle class of six students will be
admitted only when the member of the
visiting stair, on duty, is present.
Two daye In each week wtll be al
lowed for the teaching of medicine, two
for surgery and one for disease* of
the eye, ear, nose and throat, making
five teaching days. . ' .
The feature of the new rules that
has aroused such a storm of protest
from tha minority relate* to tha meth
od of arranging the vteltlng classes.
It was decided that the names of all
of the atudenta of the eenlor classes In
the various colleges shall be complied
!n one list and arranged alphabetical-
ly, th* first six names to form the
first cions and so on down the list.
One prominent physician. In speaking
of the matter, said:
Such a plan as thle la an outrage.
„ la not feasible and will not work.
Why. when the day arrive* for me to
take my claa* to the hospital I am
likely to draw six student*, none of
whom attend my college. I certainly
don't want to go to th* hoepltal and
teach student* from eom* other college,
don’t propoee to do It, either.
doped and robbed
BROTHER-IN-LAW,
IT IS CHARGED
PROHIBITION LAW CUTS DOWN
RECORDER’S COURT TO FOUR CASES
Record Broken On
First Really
J “Dry” Day.
Four Cuei.
This was tha grind of the first real
prohibition court, held Friday morn
ing by Recorder Broyles, and It proved
to be the most remarkable session In
every respect In the history of that cel
ebrated municipal tribunal.
Nothing to compare with It has ever
before been known In the city of At
lanta.
A total of only four coaea at a ses
sion of police court In a city ot .130,000
people sounds almost incredible, but
that is the new prohibition record e*.
tabllshed for Atlanta. Heretofore, po
lice court has been famed for smash
ing records In the great number of
case* tried, but that Is now a thing of
th* past. No more such wonderful rec
ord* for Atlanta. .The record hereafter
will consist of the astonishingly small
number, of casee tried.
And *e a result of all this, the genial
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O WHAT PROHIBITION MEAN8. 0
Number of cnees tried In po- O
0 lice court December 26, the 0
day following Christmas.. ..S3C
O Number of cases tried In po
O lice' court January 1, the
D day when prohibition went
0 Into effect 125 O
0 Number of cases tried In po- O
O lice court at the morning a
0 session January 3, the first O
0 real prohibition court 6 0
O Number of cases set for trial O
0 at the afternoon session.... 13 O
O Not a case was made by the O
O whole of the morning watch, Q
O from midnight until * o’clock in O
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recorder Is beaming with smiles. Be
fore the passage of the prohibition bill
Judge Broyles predicted an enormous
slump in crime, and the present situa
tion Is proving his assertion.
Of the quartet of cases tried Friday
morning, none was of a serious nature.
Two of these four cases were againet
Juveniles, two little negro boys who had
been arrested for some small offense.
One of the two adult cases was
against a white woman, residing In
Jones-ave., who waa accused ot allow
ing her cow to run at large and tram
ple the yards of neighbors. She was
convicted and wae fined 15.75. In the
Court Room Deserted
And Police Have
Nothing To Do.
remaining case, there were two defend
ants, young men who had been ar
rested for disorderly conduct
“Good gracious," remarked Judge
Broyles, with a smile, as he swept his
glance over the deserted court room,
"This matinee Is certainly a froat. We
won’t make enough money this morn
ing to pay the ekpensea of the house."
"This Is line,” spoke up Clerk Pres
ton. "Prohibition Is getting In Its
work.”
Before th* first Juvenile case had
been finished, n few stragglers, who
evidently hod nothing else to do, slip
ped quietly Into the court room, as
though they thought they were Impos
ing on the great volume of space, and
took a seat.
Altho these men walked carefully to
avoid a noise, their steps echoed thru
the big court room, and they were the
renter of Interest until they had be
come seated.
Only live city cases were made be
tween midnight Thursday and
o'clock Friday afternoon.
THE SHOT,
TORCH PIT
MH CALL TROOPS
HiciBSSIOPPlO
Strikebreakers Are Routed
From Two Suburban
Cars at Muncie, Ind.
Muncle, Ind., Jan. I.—It may be nec
essary for Adjutant General Orln
Perry to call for state troop* to come
to Muncte before the day Is over In
order to control the strike situation
here.
The Oret violence of the morning
came when a large crowd of strike
sympathisers went out to the edge of
the city ami waited for the coming of
two cars from Industry, a suburban
town. Brlcka, atones and clubs were
hurled at them and the windows were
broken. The strike-breakers who were
operating the car* were compelled to
flee. No one waa seriously hurt.
An attempt was made to operate
three* city care, but no headway could
be made, as strike sympathisers had
soaped the tracks.
PARIS IS CURIOSITY-MAD AS
TO MME. GOULD 7 S COMMENT
Paris. Jan. 3.—All Pari* Is fairly
mad with .curiosity concerning Mme.
Anna ■’Oould'Y promised comments on
yesterday's clash between her former
husband, Count Bonl de Castellan?,
and her suitor. Prince de Sagan.
Count Jean de Caatellane denied to
day that he or hla brother, Bonl, struck
th* prince. He atlcka to the story
that tho canes were shaken and ugly
epithets exchanged, and even tho Bonl
spat In hla enemy's face, no blows were
struck.
The de Castellanes, who are boiling
for a light, openly charge the prince
with endeavoring to twist .the story
that the matter may seem one for the
law courts rather than the Held of
honor.
The light yesterday between Count
Bonl and his cousin. Prince de Sagan,
beran In a church, where the count
said he was Insullsd by the prince.
In the vestibule of the church the
prince was overtaken by the count and
the row wae resumed, when the count
■pat In the face of the prince, telling
him It waa a Christmas present. Out
side the palace of worship the two
clinched and fell Into the gutter, where
a butcher Interfered and separated
He caught each by the collar and
held them until the gendarmes forced
their way thru the crowd.
They were carried to a commissary,
where a "process verbaie” waa signed
and will take its turn on th* docket
of the criminal court.
Bonl was willing to drop the case,
but hla cousin preferred to pubh the
matter. The prince today Is In bed
with his head swathed In bnndages,
where Count Bonl’s heavy stick came
In contact with hi* temple.
Editor Harden
Found Guilty;
Sent To Prison
Berlin, Jan. 3.—Editor Maximilian
Harden, of Die Zukunft, waa found
guilty this afternoon of libeling Count
Vnn Moltke. He was sentenced to four
months’ Imprisonment.
CY/UTHERN SPECIAL
WRECKED FRIDAY
garcial to The fleoryisn
^Tjlome. oa.. Jan. 3.—George Ander-
son, of Aragon. h “
on the charge of having given nw
brether-hn-law. A. H. While. dcp*d
\vhieky and robbed him of $80. Ander.
■on waa bound over to the auperlor
court-
The Man of 100 Masks.
That Is the title of a great story which The Georgian will begin print
ing on Monday, January 6. It la exciting from the very drat, and will
hold the reader’s undivided attention until the end. Adventure, mystery
and romance are the chief Ingredients of the story. Read the drat In
stallment. Remember the story begins Monday.
A TLANTAN A T OLIPHANTS
OFFICE JUST BEFORE CRIME
‘Td like to see Mr. (Illphant.** said
Rev. Hugh H. Proctor, of Atlanta, pas
tor of th* First Congregational church,
colored, on December 10, In New York.
"He's engaged Just now'. Can't you
watt, or call later*" was the response.
When he returned that afteriioon l)»
.'earned thnt Mr. Oliphant had been
shot and killed by Charles A. Geiger,
formerly of Atlanta, within a minute
or two after hi* earlier call.
Dr. Proctor had gone to Mr. Dll'
The second section of Southern rail
way train No. 31 from Birmingham to
Atlanta wae wrecked Friday morning
between Temple and Morgan, about
dfty miles from Atlanta, by th* over
turning of th* engine and two bag
gage cars. None of the passengers was
injured, altho Engineer Gridin was
slightly hurt and the d re man I* miss-
e train carried the members of the
"Coming Thru the Rye” company,
booked to show at the Grand Friday
and Saturday nights, but all members
of the company escaped Injury, ac
cording to the odlclal report of the
trouble received 1 in Atlanta.
Arrangements were Immediately
made to get the company to Atlanta In
time for the performance Friday night,
and It was announced by the railway
Feeling Bitter
Against Japs
In Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia. Jnn. 3.
While at no stage did the dght between
the three city Itremen and the Japan
ese New Year's morning reach any
thing like the dimensions of the Sep
tember riots, the Incident has revived
the bitterest feeling.
Young Frost, a line looking athlete,
had his nose sliced off by one of the
swordlike knives of the Japanese. The
other men, tho fearfully injured, are
recovering. McDonald was removed to
his home, while Anderson Is still at
the hospital with Frost.
There Is no particular danger of an
other big riot In Vancouver unless
there Is a murder. That is what the
authorities arc afraid of today.
No Americans were implicated in the
rioting. Several Jape are under arrest.
Washington, Jan. 3.—President
Roosevelt will veto any Japanese ex
clusion legislation that congress may
pass. Is the statement made today on
the heat of authority. Whether this
assurance has been extended to Toklo
government Is not known.
Night Riders Take
Possession of Town
of Russellville.
CHIEF BQUND,
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officials that this would be done and O V/EATHERLIKES PR ING ; 0
that the show would take place as O RAIN DUE SATURDAY. O
scheduled. IO Weather continues like early O
So for the cause of the wreck has IO spring—many people sat on ve- O
not been ascertained. No. IS arrivesI O randae during the day In comfort. O
dally from Birmingham at 11:50 a. m„ 0 Big frost early In morning Frl- O
end the wrecked second section was
scheduled to come in a short time la
ter.
to enlist the broker’s aid In work for
the colored church In the South, Mr.
Oliphant being a prominent Congrega-
tlonallst. It was a coincidence that
an Atlantan should be waiting In the
outer office while a former Atlantan
was engaged In a conference which re
sulted In the murder ot th* broker and
r. Proctor turned and left the office, phant's office in the Wnll-st. district the slayer’s suicides
0 day, but day mild and pleasant. O
0 Forecast: 0
O "Fair Friday night; Saturday, O
O Increasing cloudiness, probably 0
0 rain late in afternoon: warmer.” O
0 7 a. m. 43 degree* 0
O 3 a. m 44 degrees O
O 9 a. m 4* degrees O
0 10 a. m. i 49 degrees 0
0 II a. m. 63 degrees 0
O 13 noon 57 degrees 0,
O 1 p. m ,...6S degree* Oj ___ ,
2 p. m. 59 degree* 0 In (b< home ot bl- .hr
Outlaws Seized Fire Hall
and Telephone Exchange
Upon Arrival.
Speelal to Tho Georgian.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 3.—One hun
dred night riders, masked and wearing
false beards, marched Into Russell
ville, Ky., a town of 4,000 Inhabitants
In southern Kentucky, at 1 o’clock this
morning, seised tho police, the tele
phone office* and lire department and
set fire to the Luckett A Ware tobacco
warehouse and tho American Snuff
Company'* factory, which were burned,
together with a planing mill, a grocery
store, coal yard and cottages adjoin
ing. Tho loss Is 360,000.
J. R. McLean and J. Henry Mosley,
merchants, and Dr. Charles M. Rob-
'erts, of Evansville. Ind., who ventured
Into the streets, were fired on with
shot guns and painfully Injured.
Chief of Police Bound.
The buildings destroyed were:
Frankllq G. Works’ tobacco warehouse,
loss 319,000; American Snuff Factory.
315,000; Brown & Roberts’ planing
mill, 314.009; Underwood's grocery,
33,600; King A Proctor’s stable, 33,000,
ahd a private dwelling, owned by John
Knowles
When be detected the raiders. Chief
of Police Bruce.attempted to roach the
fire hall and sound nn alarm, -but was
checked and captured by the mounted
men, tied and thrown Into an alley,
whero he ley until daylight.
Dr. Charles M. Roberta, a guest of
the Forest House, heard the shooting
and kept within tho hotel until he felt
sure the men had left tho town. As
he stepped outside he came face to
fere with three masked men and start
ed to run. One of tho raiders raised
his gun and shot Roberts in the head
and fnco. He will probably die.
J. H. McLean and J. H. Moeely, mer
chants. were ordered to get Inside their
houses, but stopped lo argue with th*
raiders, and both were shot. Both men
will probably recover.
The men left town by the Hopkins
ville and Clarksville turnpike.
This Is the third raid which has been
mode by night riders In western Ken
tucky, nnd comes in tho face of th* an
nouncement by the governor that dls-
order must cease. At this time a court
Is In progress at Hopkinsville Investi
gating a similar raid which was mad*
on that city several weeks ago.
Powers Jury
Cannot Agree;
Is Sent Back
Georgetown, Ky., Jan. 3.—The Jury
that heard the trial ot Caleb Powers,
accused of complicity In the Goebel
murder, after twenty-five hours of de
liberation. reported to the court this
morning that it could not agree.
It was at 10:25 o'clock that the Jurors
flled Into the court room nnd through
the foreman, J. L. Price, declared they
could not reach a verdict.
"We are further from a verdict today
than we were last night," said Fore
man Price, "and I know that one will
be Impossible."
Judge Morris told the Jury that the
law required that they be kept to
gether as long as there might be a
chance for reaching an agreement and
sent the Juror* back to their room.
The Judge has not yet Indicated how
long he will keep the Jury If It does not
agree.
Powers appears satisfied, altho he
had hoped for acquittal.
"We ultimately expect to have this
charge lifted by Jury trial.” said Pow
ers today, "and I have long ago con
signed myself to my fate while await
ing the subsiding of the political pas
sions that have bound me."
WRONG COFFIN
WAS EXHUMED
SAYS CALDWELE
New York. Jan. X—Robert Caldwell, chief
mlttu‘n.4 In the now fataoug J>race. eng.*,
t«Mlay In the fimt atatement he ha« made
•luce hla arreat declare* that the coffla
recently dl*eu tom tied from the Drue* vault
wa* not the right one, hut that thera was
another. Hubatautlatlu^ the Pruce claim.
Ualdwell wn» reportea
Mli
''OOO9<*0990OOO0Q9QQ0OOOOO0Q 4*“* Caldwell. at Suicu lalauiL
the weather.
For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair
tonight: Saturday Increasing cloud
iness. probably rain: warmer.
SPOT COTTON.
Liverpool, easier. 6.13; Atbinta, atendy,
11*4; York, quiet, 11.40; New Or
leans, Hteady. ll%i Savannah* Arm, 10*4;
Augusta. Hteady, U 3-16; Mobile, quiet,
11; Wilmington, nominal, 10 13-16.
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