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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1908.
PRICE
AVIATOR NEARLY KILLED
The Atlanta
and NEWS
THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Increasing cloudiness,
with showers late tonight or Sat
urday- Temperatures (taken at A.
K Hawker Company’s store): 8 a.
m.. M degrees; 10 a. m., 74 de
grees; 12 m., 78 degrees; 2 p. m.,
81 degrees.
SPOT COTTON
Atlnntn. atendy: 914. Liverpool, quiet;
5.54. New Orleans, quiet; 9 3-16. New
York, quiet; M4» Savannah, steady; 9*4.
Augusta, steady; Sty- Galveston, firm;
M4. Mobile, drill; 9c. Wilmington,
steady; 9c. Charleston, steady; 9c.
NEW BILL,
IS PASSED
BYJOUSE
Gives Convicts to
Counties and Ends
Lease System.
SENATE TO ACT
IN AFTERNOON
Will Slightly Amend It and
Two Houses Will Finish
S
Saturday.
Another long step toward ending the
convict lease system In Georgia was
taken Friday morning when the houee
of representative!, by a vote of 115 to
13 passed the bill which takes the con
victs from the lessees and gives them
to the countlee and municipalities to
work upon their roade.
The senate ha* been waiting forth!*
action of the houee for several day*,
and at Its Friday afternoon session the
bill passed by the house will be taken
up In all probability It will be adopted
by the higher branch of the general as
sembly with few amendments. It Is
extremely likely that the senate will
complete Its work upon the measure
Friday afternoon, and that the confer
ence committee from each branch will
yet together upon any new amend
ments before adjournment Friday, In
which event the legislature will have
finished Its task and the members will
go home.
That the plan outlined In the bin will
bu satisfactory to the people of the
state there can be little doubt. Each
county Is not only given the privilege
nf w orking all the convicts It needs for
road work, but the state holds out ad
ditional encouragement for this great
public Improvement. In the shape of
state aid and state funds.
Counties May Buy Farms.
There h*s been oppoeltlon to the
-^-section of the bill which allows the
governor and- the- prison eommleslon to
dispose as they see fit of these convicts
remaining after the state, the counties
and the municipalities have taken all
they desire, but a solution of aven this
problem was reached. It Is believed, on
Friday by the Insertion of a section
which permit* the count!* to buy or
lease farm* upon which convict* may
be worked lp producing aupplle* for the
gangs upon the road*. This section, It
Is declared, will absolutely dispose of
the question of misdemeanor convicts,
a question which has been one of the
most serious with which the legislature
ha, had to contend. Under this section
each county ha* the right to farm half
the year with convict*, and maintain
the convict* on the road* the other half
of the year with the products of the
farm. Leader* of both faction* agree
that with this provision In the bill the
probability of "over*” remalplng for
the governor and the prison commis
sion to dispose of Is reduced to the
minimum.
An atmosphere of strict business pre
vailed over the house of representa
tive* Friday morning when Speaker
81eton's gavel called the assembly to
order.
Members had familiarised themselves
with the terms of the new convlot btl 1
thru its publication In The Georgian,
attention to the exclusive publication
having been called by Representative
Wright, of Richmond, on the floor of
the houee Thursday.
In consequence of this opportunity to
study the bill before the official print
ed form was received from the printer
Friday, members had their amendments
Prepared, and no time was lost In get
ting down to the actual passage of
Georgia’s new convict law.
Several membera declared the pub
lication of the bill Thursday saved the
state at least half a day that otherwlaa
would have been spent In argument
before the house got a clear under
standing of the several aectlona In the
bill.
After the opening of the senate Fri
day morning a recess was taken to
await some action by the houee.
Memorial from Unions.
When the houee met. Representative
Jtyals, of Bibb, presented a memorial
fmm the Macon labor unions urging the
p-neral assembly to end the convict
leas, system.
•"halrman Holder, of the penitentiary
committee, then moved that the houae
teke up by sections the convict bill re
ported to the bouse by the committee
Thursday afternoon. The motion pre-
'allrd, and the flret section, amending
the code to fit the terms of the bill,
"as unanimously adopted.
The second section, provtdlng tha’
counties may work their convicts on
'heir roads and public works, or ex
change convict work with other coun
ter. drew out half a doxen attempta
to amend It. Representative Brown,
of Carroll, proposed to amend the pro-
'lelon by fixing the price of 150 per
convict per year.
This proposition waa practically the
earn, over which the penitentiary com
Wttee split, but Anally rejected. In Its
etormy session Thursday. It wa* re
garded as the vital point on which the
whole scheme of county road work
n| nged. Ae on previous occasions, Rep-1
C'sentatlve Dean, of Floyd, fought the !
attempt to put a price on convicts,
•again he wa* backed up by Represent-
ative Fowler, of Bibb, and they were
Joined by Representative McMHIln, of
Mart, who 1* regarded a* - the leader of
I, "farmer element In the house. Mr.
■tcMlllin’* opposition to the price on
convict* seemed to throw the balance
agalnet it. The proposition w»* re-
; "tad by the house, the vote being M
he 51.
This struggle was renewed when
Continued on Pag« Sever.
s
HE STANDS
And He Won’t Tell,
So You’ll Have to
Wait.
"No one Is authorised to say for me
what national ticket I will support
whether I am for Bryan and Kern or
Hlegen and Graves."
Thle wa* the statement of Yancey
Carter, Independent candidate for gov
ernor, to a representative of The Geor
gian Friday morning.
Colonel Carter stated most positively
that he had not said he‘would support
Hlegen and Graves, the Independence
party nominees, or that he would not
and that ho one had any authority to
give out a statement either way.
Similarly, It I* not known whether
Colonel Carter will run for governor as
an Independence party candidate or a*
an Independent Democrat.
"1 will give out a statement Saturday,
making It all clear," he said.
Clapp It Reticent.
E. E. Clapp, natloual committeeman,
who, Bernard Suttler says, ha* been
ousted from his position as secretary
of the state committee and succeeded
by E. H. Goodheart, would give out no
statement when seen In the Independ
ence party headquarter* with Colonel
Carter.
Earlier In the day he stated to a
representative of The Georgian that
the statement given out by Mr. Suttler
the day before had not been authorised
by Colonel Carter.
The situation Is complicated and es
pecially perplexing In view of the un
meet of any of the parties con
cerned to give out statements.
The true situation seems to be that,
one faction of the party, headed by Mr.
Suttler, chairman of the state execu
tive committee, wants Colonel Carter
to run a* an Independent Democrat,
supporting Bryan and Kern, while an
other faction, headed by Mr. Clapp, na
tional committeeman, wanta him to rua
as an Independence party candidate,
pledged to the national ticket and plat
form.
Prefara To Stand Alone,
Colonel Carter. It Is understood,- as a
matter of expediency, desires that hie
race for the governorship be separate
from the race of Hlsgen and Graves,
but whether or not he will be a sup
porter of Hlsgen and Graves or of Bry
an and Kern le a matter of doubt,
which will be settled by his statement
Saturday.
Mr. Clapp furnished a list of Inde
pendence party electors to the secre
tary of state Friday morning with the
request that It not be given out until
Saturday. The statement given out by
Bernard Suttler as chairman of the ex
ecutive committee, saya: "We do not
deem It expedient to place an electoral
ticket In the Held, and we hereby an
nounce our Independence of the na
tional organization."
It’s a sort of ''There-they-are-take-
your-choiee" proposition.
WHS FOR FEES,
Hearst Charges Fora-
ker With Getting
Big Money.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 18.—Sena
tor Foraker today replied to the chargee
of William R. Hearat that Foraker wae
In the clutches of the Standard Oil
trust by saying the money he received
from the trust was for services as legal
agent.
Editor He&rst In his Columbus speech
last night backed up his charges with
letters signed by John D. Archbold
telling of two checks placed at Fora-
ker’s credit for $15,000 and $14,600 each.
Senator Foraker says:
“I dr. not know whether the letters given
out by Mr. Hearst sre true copies or not. but
I assume they are, for I waa then engaged
in the practice of the law and was employed
by tha Standard Oil Company aa one of its
counsel in connection with Its affairs in Ohio,
where it was attacked in the courts and in
the legislature. . .
“While I do not now recall the details, I
remember that I rendered tha company such
service aa I could, charged for It, and waa
paid.
“The employment had no reference what
ever to anything pending in congress or to
anything in which tha Federal government
bad the slightest interest.
Compensation For Services.
That I waa so employed and presumably
compensated for my tervllces. waa common
knowledge at the time: at least, I never made
any effort to conceal the fact. On the con
trary, I waa pleated to have people know
that I had such cllenta. t ‘ •
“It had not than become discreditable, hut
-_is considered just the reverse, to be em
ployed by auah corporations. A
“That employment ended before my first
term in the senate expired. I have not rep
resented the company in airy wav since long
before it waa attacked b’- the Federal gov-
ernment, nor since before, with full general
knowledge, I was elected to the senate.”
Taft’a Friend* Bitterly Angry.
Tnft’a Ohio friends are bitterly nngry to
day because Senator .1. B. Foraker has ad
mitted that In 1900, uTille a United Htntea
senator, he accepted large fees from the
Standard Oil Company ror his ability as n
power In politics to prevent the Ohio legis
lature taking action unfavorable to the
VTff'-lfrft men view It. the thing it an
Sw'Sf.&
want a second thought.
After week* of dickering Foraker has Just
succeeded In getting on the Taft band
wagon nnd persuading the Taft leaders that
he la a good man to have In their mind,
both of Tils willingness to work for the
ticket nnd also bemuse of hla desire to
support the policies as set forth In the Be-
publican platform.
Power •• Politician Diminished.
Naturally, therefore, when he admits In
reply to the charges of William It. Hearat,
that he received money from the "mother of
truata” In exchange for hla power aa head
of a great political machine In Ohio to
scotch and kill all the legislation In Ohio
leglalatnre not desired by the eorporntlons.
Taft and the friends of Taft are put In ft
disadvantageous light merely because Fora
ker stands before the state as their flrend.
Threats are heard on every hand. There
la the threat that, altho the engagement has
been made. Foraker shall not be allowed to
tform with Taft at the
Itepubllcan League of
I VI
May Put Monument
Where Lt. Selfridge
Met Death.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Latest re
port* from the military hospital at
Fort Myer Indicate that Orville Wright,
the aeroplantst, who was Injured In the
fall of hie machine yesterday at the
time Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfrlilge
met hie death, has a good chance of re
covery. *
HI* Injuries consist of two broken
ribs on the right side and a fracture of
the left hip. together with some brulsea
and contusions.
So f*r as can be learned no vital or
gana were afTected. and altho Mr.
Wright has lost considerable blood, the
hpsylclan* eay that unless some un
looked-for complication arise* he will
make a speedy recovery.
A movement Is on foot to mark the
tpot where the aeroplane fell with the
view of a monument to Lieutenant
Sclfrldge, the brave young artillery of
ficer. who wa* Wright’* companion on
the trip which ended ao disastrously.
While the breaking up of the present
machine and the Injury of Mr. Wright
have brought to a close for the present
a.i efforts to qualify for the government
teste. It Is .generally understood that
yesterday’s accident will not deter the
\J right brothers from continuing In
their Ilf* work.
A telegram from Dayton, Ohio, quotes
Lorln Wright, a brother of Orville and
Wilbur,, at saying that his brothers will
pursue the tests until their machine I*
as near perfect as It Is possible to make
It, unless they lose their lives In the at
tempt.
Charles R. Flint, the New York bank
er who has been Interested with the
Wrights In their work and who wit
nesaed last night's mishap, also assert
ed that the teste would be continued as
soon as Mr. Wright has recovered and
the machine can be repaired.
Asks Dismissal on
a Technicality.
Bridwell’s
Attorney
ORVILLE WRIGHT.
He it ehown superintending the removal of his aero|
loon building at Fort Myer, Va„ where in a test flight
machine plunged to tho ground, killing Lieutenant Self
aeroplane from tha bal-
light l»to Thur*d*y hi*
Selfridge and seriouely
wounding hlmaelf.
Continued on Page Seven.
“Atlantans in Cartoon”
A Series of Representative Business and Professional Men .
WILBUR WRIGHT LOCK8
SELF IN AEROPLANE 8HED
LEMA'NS,"France; SSjrt. 18.—Wilbur
Wright today locked himself In his
aeroplane ehed and denied hlmeelf to
aU callers. He declined to make any
statement of tho accident to Ms brother
and postponed all hie scheduled flight*,
Men at Rome
In Hot Fight
With Actors
ROME, Ga., Sopt. 18.—Late last night
at a boarding house, where the chorua
girls of the Majestic Comedy Company,
playing here, are stopping, a pitched
battle took place between the men of
the company and five men of Rome. In
the melee Orlo Knight, a tenor etnger
and leading man of the company, wae
•hot In the arm and struck In th*
mouth with a brickbat.
The names of the young men Impli
cated are unknown, but It Is claimed
by members of the company that they
followed the girls of the company home
after a performance at the Rome Upera
House and were In the room with
Knight's wife and other female mem
bers of the troupe, which has been
playing a week's engagement at the
opera house.
Altho the affray took place at an
early hour In the morning, It created
great excitement.
The police are In search for the
young men and believe they will arreet
them before night.
CLOTHES ON FIRE
SHE Mill STREET
Woman Pours Oil on Her
Dress and Applies
Match.
B. MIFFLIN HOOD.
Last year several brand new modern brick plants employing only free
labor were constructed In thle territory, and are now manufacturing ihe
famous "Non-Convict Brick." B. Mifflin Hood, who Is vitally Interested In
the success of these plants and who has always been bitterly opposed to
convict labor In competition with free labor, will In the near future give
Atlanta a repress Shale, which will bo Ihe beet low-price brick ever sold
here. The United States government contractor In charge of the construc
tion of the new Atlanta poetoffice will use two million non-convict brick.
Experience teaches that skilled labor 1* essential In the production of
high-grade brick and that the use of free labor. I* destined to open up a
very profitable Industry In Georgia for both capital and free labor.
MOBILE, Ale., Sept. 18.—Lying on . rot
in th. rlty hospital her. Mr.. Mnry Br.d
ford, the wife of Captain John Bradford, a
retired ahipma.ter, i. dying from burn. «l,ont
her head and body, reused by her own hands.
H.rly this morning Mr,. Bradford poured
kerosene oil over her clothing and applied a
match. The wnman ran lato the street for
fully a block before aha tree caught by oth
ers and her flaming dreas extinguished- . Tha
physicians hold out but small hops, for bar
recovery.
* OPERATES TYPEWRITER
+ BY WIRELESS WAVESs
* SAYS LINOTYPE IS NEXT +
$ LONDON, Sent. 18.—A nractl- t,
•F cal exhibition of the use of a 4*
+ typewriter by wireless was given d-
+ today by Hans Knudson. a Danish +
+ electrical engineer, who copduR-
+ ed the experiment In the Hotel +
Cecil. The Inventor occupied one +
+ room and the typewriter »** 4-
•I* placed In another apartment. In a +
•r similar manner Knudson declares +
+ that It Is possible to manipulate a +
+ linotype machine by wireless. +
,j, *•*
GANG OF N. Y. CRACKSMEN
LOOT MARK, TWAIN’S HOME;
$700 SILVERWARE RECAPTURED
80UTH NORWALK, Conn- 8ep». 18.
A gang of New York cracksmen looted
the beautiful Italian villa of Mark
Twain at Redding early tqday and aft
erward engaged In a desperate 1 platol
bariUvmdth. Sheriff Banks, of Danbury,
and hie posse. During tha battle Sher
iff Banks was shot In the leg and one
of the robbers wa* wounded and cap
tured.
"j The battle took place on a train of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad, an It drew out of Bethel,
Sheriff Banks having traced tho rob
bers to that place.
Rifled 8idebo*rd.
It was about midnight when Miss
Lyons, Mark* Twain's secretary, was
aroused by hearing the crash of glass
on the lawn In front of the house. 8he
awakened the humorist nnd his daugh
ter, Miss Clara Clemens, and the but
ler, Claude Douchotto, who was armed.
The party sallied out on the lnwn nnd
found two men rifling the drawers of
an oaken *ldeboard which they had
carried from the dining room and which
was filled with souvenirs nnd coetly
plate.
The appearance of the family fright
ened the men, who fled, followed by
bullets from the butler's pistol. H. A.
Lalnsbury, .a neighbor, telephoned to
Sheriff Banks and In a short time the
sheriff and deputies were on the scene.
It 'wae found thRt the robbers had got
away with several hundred dollars’
worth of valuables.
Traced to 8tatlon.
The sheriff and his men traced the
burglars to Bethel and overhauled
them there a* they boarded a train
which was pulling out bound for New
York. John Dlax, the conductor, told
the sheriff the robbers were on board
and In the last car, where they had
deposited a'bqg containing their loot.
■Six or seven' shot* -Were fired by the
burglare, one of whom I* known a*
"Red” Rooney, and the side* and root
of the car were perforated.
Constable George Bonks displayed
wonderful grit by holding to hi* man
In spite nf the fact that he had been
shot In the thigh and wa* seriously In
jured. When Rooney wae finally
pounded Into subjection, several of the
seats In the car were demolished and
the car looked llko a slaughter pen,
being saturated with blood from the
officer* and the burglars.
$700 Silverware Recaptured,
A bag of loot containing 1600 or $700
worth of silverware was found In the
seat of the ear. ■■■
The two thieve* wero traced to
Bethel. Word was telephoned to Red
ding and there Constable George Banks
nnd Conetable Harry Thomas boarded
the train.
Conductor John Dl»x pointed out the
two men and their bundle of plunder,
nr which one of the men ran out one
end of the car and up the track. The
baggage master had been standing out
side and he shot the robber In the leg,
wounding him so that he was cai ‘
before he had gone far. Rooney JH.
out of the other end of the car and
waa headed by Diaz. In the final row
Constable Thomas' thumb waa nearly
bitten off by the thief, who had to be
pounded Into Insensibility before he
gave up.
The robbers probably will be taken
to Bridgeport and tried there for bur
glory and assault with Intent to kill.
TAFT WILL ATTEND
Will Be There Regardless
of Whether Bryan Is
There or Not.
CHICAGO, 8ept. 18.—William H.
Taft positively will appear at the ban
quet of the Chicago Comincickil Asso
ciation October 7, whether William J.
Bryan I* there or not. This answer
was made today by Senator Josephus
Dixon, of Montana, In charge of the
speakers’ bureau of the Republican
campaign committee.
WILL VISIT CITIES
IN SOOTH GEOHCIA
Hon. Joseph M. Brown An
nounces Itinerary of His
Campaign Tour.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 18.—In
sponse to Invitations. Hon. Joseph M.
Brown announce* the following Itiner
ary for a campaign tour from Savan
nah: Waycroxe, Saturday; Sunday and
Monday, Valdosta: Tlfton, probably
Monday night; Tuesday, Cordele; ad
vise later at Albany.
Mr. Brown will leave Saturday morn
ing for Waycrose.
ASA G. CANDLER, JR.
Steam and Domestic
COAL
Atlanta, Ga., September 16, 1308.
The Atlanta Georgian,
Atlanta. '
Gentlemen:
I have been advertising in The Georgian for some time, and
it gives me pleasure to state that the rewuita have been most sat
isfactory. Sales are daily increasing, which I attribute largely to
your paper.
Recently we put a small ad in the “Want Column,”offering
for sale an accumulation of cinders which we had at the Can
dler building, and from two insertions we received sufficient or
ders to take care of all the cinders we will have for several
weeks to come. Yours verv tnilv,
ASA G. CANDLER, Jr.
Like * cloudburst from a sunny sky
was the sensation which Attorney T.
B. Felder sprung before Judge Calhoun
In the city criminal court Friday morn
ing when he moved that hie client W.
L. B rid well, convicted Thursday after--
noon on the charge of violating tho
prohibition law. be dismissed from
court and allowed to go hi* way unmo
lested.
Mr. Felder's motion was baaed upon
the following state of fact* a* he al
leged them to exist: That the verdict
of th* Jury wae not announced in open
court; that It wa* handed to tho clerk
unsealed, and that the Jury then dis
persed without giving the defendant or
hie attorney an opportunity to exereleo
his constitutional right by polling the
Jury. Alt of which, Mr. Felder urged.
Is contrary to the rules of court.
The Information as to what the ver
dict of the Jury had been In the Brtd-
well case wa* given out by member* of
the Jury. Shortly after the verdict wa*
turned over to the clerk of the court
by John F. Pound*, the foreman, rep
resentative* of the newspapers were
Informed by a deputy sheriff that he
had been told by one of the Juror* that
the verdict was "guilty."
How It Happened.
The' feet* In tho case are that Mr
Felder, who had the closing argument,
concluded his speech about IMS o'clock
Thursday afternoon. Judge Calhoun
then proceeded to charge the Jury and
concluded shortly after 2 o'clock. H< •
then instructed the bailiff, Dose Buran
to take charge of the Jury and to give
them their dinner In about ten minutes
If they had not reached a verdict. The
Judge then left tho court house and
went home.
About twenty minutes later the Jurj
announced to th* bailiff that a verdict
had' been reached. The Jury was
brought out and the verdict was hand
ed to the deputy clerk. Clark Howell
who locked It In hit (leak, after Inform
ing the Jury that It could not be an
nounced because the court wan not Ir
session. The Jury waa then allowed tc
disperse.
In order to meet the objection raised
by Attorney Felder It would have beer
necessary for Judge Calhoun to eecurt
an agreement from tho attorneys foi
both sides that the Jury should turn
the verdict over to the clerk a* soon at
It wa* made; that they should then lx
allowed to disperse without maklni
known the verdict, and that It should
have been announced later when th<
court wae In session and the defendant
and hie attorney present
Should Hold Jury.
Otherwise, It wa* the duty of the
bailiff, without Instruction* from ths
court to the contrary, to bold th* Jurj
together until he informed the Judge
that a verdict had been reached.
Officer Buran stated Friday that he
allowed the Jury to dliperse after the
verdict wae turned over to the al*rlt
because. In previous instance*, he had
been allowed. to do so and be had nc
instruction* from the court to the con
trary on this occasion.
Tha officer wa* borne out in thb
statement by Solicitor Arnold, whe
stated In reply to a question that suet
action had been tho cuetom In the oouri
betore and that the Judge, If he wished
Continued on Page Seven.
NEGROES TESTIEY
ABOUT PULLMANS
The hearing before J. Edgar 8mlth, rep
reaentlng the Interatate commerce commit
•ton In reference tc the complaint made bf
Bishop Gaines, Bishop Turner and othai
colored preachers to tha affect that they
were denied Pullman and dining car aere*
white ;
day In the ’ w# ,
to Friday only colored preachers had gtreo
testimony In the case. H. E. Perry, col
ored. who stated that he waa an tnaqnnce
- ia the first wltneas Friday. Htf
wan much the ume aa that nf
_ to^MIrtssnrs and consisted rather In
generalltlea than In specific cases. Consid
erable time waa taken, aa. according to hla
testimony, he spent much of his ume on
the different railroads of the South.
Ice and that they did not ha-re equal righto
with white passenger*, waa continued rn-
United 8tates court room. Up
ACCUSATIONS MAKE
BRITISHER KILL SELF
OJfDON, Sept. 18.—Unable to bear the
relied accusations that he murdered his
wife, whose body waa shot thru the bead
and was found in a lane at Seren Oak*
August 24, Major General Charles Ed
ward I.unrd Is believed to have thrown
himself In front of a train on the South
eastern railroad this morning and was
ground to death. Only yesterday the coro
ner adjourned the Investigation Into the
death of the woman, with the Intimation
that an expected arrest was near. The ac
tion waa construed aa the eoroner’a accept
ance that the general murdered his wife.
GIANTS WIN FIRST
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The
Giants defeated the Pirates in the
first game.
Score by innings: R. H. E
Pittsburg. 000 000 000—0 8 1
New York .011 040 lOx—7 10 C
Batteries—Brandon and Gibson
Matthewson and Bre&nahan. Um
pires O'Day and Klein.
Georgian
