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VOL. X. NO. 267.
GH. MINISTER
DISAPPEARS
SUDDENLY
IN L G.
Rev. Samuel C. Dean, of Elber
ton. Mysteriously Missing.
Object of Wide Search.
ELBERTON', GA., June '.—Police of
ficers. Masons and Baptists in Kansas
<Tty, Los Angeles and other Western
cities are today searching for Rev.
Samuel C. Dean, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Elberton. Ga.. who
has nivsteriouslv disappeared and foi
whom gtave fears, are felt by members
of his church al Elberton and by his
bride of fifteen months. Mrs. Dean is
prostrated and her condition is regard
ed as serious.
Officers of the Elberton church be
lieve that the missing minister has
either’lost his mind, as a result of a
nervous collapse, and is aimlessly wan
dering about in some Western com
munity. m that he is Sick in some
Western hospital or hotel and unable
tn notify his wife or friends as to his
whereabouts and condition.
The last Information received tn
Georgia as to the whereabouts of Rev.
Mr Dean was contained in two letters'
written on May 27. one to the board of
deacons of the Elberton church and the
other to his wife. These letters were
postmarked at Kansas City, but were
V ritten on plain stationery an<J inclosed
in plain envelopes that give no in
formation as to where he was in Kan
sas city at the time he wrote.
Letter Told of
Nervous Breakdown.
The letter to the deacons contained
Mr. Dean's resignation as pastor at El
berton. with the explanation that he
was on the verge of a nervous break
down and thought he would go farther
West. The letter to Mrs. Dean told of
the resignation having been sent to the
deacons and advised her that he was a
verv sick man. Mr. Dean stated m
. h e«eHetters that he did not believe he
would be able to resume regular work
for six or eight months.
\ meeting of the deacons of the El
berton church has been hold since the
letter from. Mr. Dean was received, at
which it was decided to endeavor to lo
cate him before taking any action on
his resignation. Another meeting for
that purpose will be held next Wednes
day night. In the meantime telegrams
have been sent to the pastor of the
First Baptist church, to Masonic lodges
and to the police department in Kansas
City and to the police in Los Angeles,
asking that they endeavor to loca'e
Mr. Dean. S. <». Hawes, one of the
deacons, is in charge of the search for
the Elberton church.
Left Children
With Grandmother.
Mr, Dean left Elberton early in May
for Oklahoma City to represent the
Elberton church and the Georgia Bap
tist convention at the Southern Baptist
convention recently held in that city.
He was accompanied as far as Gulf
port. Miss., by his three children by his
first marriage—Samuel, aged twelve.
Dorothy, aged nine, and William, aged
six. At Gulfport he left the children
with their grandmother—the mother of
his first wife, who died about three
y ears ago. The second Mrs. Dean went
to Knoxville. Tenn., to visit relatives
during her husband's trip _West. At
Gulfport Mr. Dean wrote to her that he
was sick from a nervous attack and
was under the care of his brother-in
law, a physician of Gulfport.
After recovering sufficiently to con
tinue his journey, Mr, Dean went on to
(Oklahoma City, where he attended the
convention sessions. He wrote to Mrs.
Dean from the SMrvin hotel in that
city, but that letter was a perfectly
normal one and in it there was no ref
erence to a return of the nervous at
tack that he had -experienced in Gulf
port.
The next heard from Mr. Dean was
the letters written at Kansas (Tty on
May 27, in which he said he would not
return for several months. In the on
to his wife he said he was in a terribly
nervous state and that he would possi
bly go to the coast. Immediately upon
receipt of this letter Mrs. Dean re
turned to Elberton and consulted mem
bers of her husband's church as to
what should be done. The deacons then
Instituted the search that is now go
ing on.
Mr. Dean Is described as being 38
years of age; weighs about 200 pounds;
feet 0 inches tall; fair complexion:
bald and clean shaven.
Mr. Dean came to Elberton in Janu
ary of this year from the Cartersville
Baptist church, where he served as pas
tor for four years. Before going to
Cartersville he served about four year“
each with churches at Philadelphia,
Pa., and Newark, N. J. His first pas
torate was at Americus, Ga., where he
remained about four years. He was
born in Atlanta and has a sister, a Mrs.
Austin, living In that city.
Mr. Dean was very studious and a
magnetic pulpit orator. It is believed
hi re that close study and hard work as
a pastor brought on an attack of net
v-'US prostration and led to his disap
pearance. H si.is s|< L wlmn be left
Elberton, but it v. i- not thougnt Hut
his condition was serious enough to
eausf alarm.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Name or Portrait of
General Lee Barred
From Whisky Labels
Alabama Will Not Allow Desecra
tion of Memory of Confed
erate Chieftain.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., June 7.—lt
would be desecration, almost approach
ing a sacrilege, to permit the name or
picture of Genera! Robert E. Lee on a
j whisky label in Alabama. This is the
I verdict of R. F. Kolb, commissioner of
agriculture, who has issued a final ulti
' matum to S. J. Lang & Son, liquor
' manufacturers of St. Louis, that they
I can not sell the Robert E. Lee brand of
j whisky in this state.
I At the instance of numerous Confed-
I erate organizations of Alabama. Cotn-
I missioner Kolb several months ago
I prohibited the sale of this liquor, or at
i least the use of the label. This week
the manufacturers wrote Commissioner
Kolb a letter, urging him to rescind his
former order.
The commissioner replied that he is
a Confederate veteran and respects the
name of General Lee too much to see it
used on whisky labels. He told the
manufacturers that if they cared to be
, heard they would be permitted to do
■ so, but if would be useless, as he has
j determined to prohibit the Robert E.
; Lee label as long as he is in office.
; COUNSELOR’S RULING
BARS CITY OFFICIALS
FROM JUNKET TRIPS
City officials are downcast today, fol
the powers that he have decreed that
there shall be no more junketing trips.
The matter came to a climax at th*
meeting of the aldermanic board yes
terday afternoon when City Attorney
Mayson ruied that it was illegal to ap
' propria te the city's money to send of
ficials to conventions.
The board had adopted a resolution
to appropriate S2OO to send S. J. Coog
ler. probation officer for inebriates: J.
M. Gloer. juvenile probation officer, and
Thomas N. Evins, city warden, to a
convention.
Aiderman John S. Candler, chairman
of the finance committee, declared that
he would not approve the voucher. XI
. derman John E. McClelland said he
would prevent the comptroller from
drawing up the voucher in view of the
• city attorney’s ruling.
Numerous instances where this law
has been violated were cited. Aider
man Candler said it also was illegal
for the city boards to provide money
to send officials on trips.
HEIRESS WILL MARRY
YANKEE; CQULDN’T BE
HAPPY WITH BRITON
DETROIT, MICH.. June 7.—A pretty
romance. In which a girl's love of coun
. try played a leading part, was revealed
here today by friends of Miss Carell
Barnes Newberry, daughter of Truman
H. Newberry, formerly secretary of the
navy. According to the story, the re
calling of invitations to the wedding of
Miss Newberry and Captain W. H. Al
leyne of the British army was due to
her belief that only an American could
make her happy.
In this connection, it was rumored
that her betrothal to a former favored
suitor, but this time an American,
would be announced within a few
weeks.
Captain Alleyne won the heiress’
heart when they met in Bermuda and
their betrothal was announced by wire
i less when the Newberrys wore return
ing from Hamilton.
The captain was recentlj' entertained
here, and it is said that during his brief
' stay Miss Newberry made up her mind
■ that she did not care to marry an Eng
lishman. Miss Newberry was formerly
; engaged to Frank Brooks, an American.
WHITNEY LED ENGLAND
HOME IN SEMI FINAL
OF BIG GOLF TOURNEY
1 CHATTANOOGA, Juhe 7. Nelson
Whitney, of New Orleans, defeated J.
G England, of Lit tie Rock. 7 and 5. to
day tn the semi-final of the champion
ship flight of the Southern Golf asso
ciation's tourney here.
In the semi-finals of the first flight.
A. F. Schwartz, of New Orleans, de
i seated D S. Weaver, of Memphis, 2 and
1; Whitney Bowden, of New Orleans,
defeated Robert Davidson, of Chatta
nooga. 3 and 2.
BEAUTY POLICE SQUAD
TO ENFORCE FAMOUS
CHICAGO HATPIN LAW
CHICAGO, June 7—“lt takes a wom
an to catch a woman." This is the ad
age that Chief of Police McWeeny has
taken to enforce the "snicker-snee'
hatpin ordinance here.
The ordinance provides that if a hat
i pin extends over an inch beyond the
brim of a hat the wearer is liable to »
fine of from $5 to SSO. Chief McWeeny
will appoint a “beauty squad" of socie
ty women who will be given full police
power to enforce this ordinance.
SOCIALISTS HOLD STATE
CONVENTION ON JULY 4
.MA''ON. GA., June 7. The annual
state convention of the Georgia Social
ists will he held in Macon on July 4,
> when delegates will be elected to the
national convention,
Name or Portrait of
General Lee Barred
From Whisky Labels
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 7, 1912.
14 ALABAMA
DELEGATES
FOR TAFT
SEATED
Steam Roller at Chicago Makes
First Trip, Crushing the
Roosevelt Contestors.
CHICAGO, June 7.—Taft’s delegates
in the First, Second and Fifth Alabama
districts were seated by the national
committee. The vote was on a roll
call and was unanimous. The vote on
the six delegates-at-large was on roll
call.
The Taft delegates from the Sixth
Alabama district were seated. The
Roosevelt contest was virtually aban
doned.
CHICAGO June 7.—The steam roller
has made its first trip. Twelve con
testing delegates, each with a half
vote, favoring the nomination of Roose
velt, were flattened out. Senator Wil
liam E. Borah, of Idaho, was bumped
out of the way. Six delegates-at-large
from Alabama favoring William How
ard Taft were seated.
Borah got bumped when he made a
motion to prevent "gag rule" tactics
The Republican national committee,
sitting in the first of the 226 delegate
contests that are scheduled to come be
fore it. used its Taft majority without
mercy. Senator Borah filed a motion
making it necessary to or.der a roll call
on the demand of eight committeemen.
The motion was laid on the table after
the senator had been interrupted and
his speech in defense of the proposed
rule cut short.
The Taft delegates were seated after
the Roosevelt faction, through Attor
ney Hundley, asserted that they were
chosen after an explicit understand
ing with President Taft regarding Fed
eral patronage in Alabama had been
reached.
A letter written by President Taft to
Alabama politicians was introduced by
the Roosevelt contestants to prove their
assertion, it was shortly after the let
ter had been read and Hundley had
charged that it evidently showed that
the patronage agreement had been
reached that the committee, by a viva
voce vote decided to seat the Taft men
Members ’ ‘ ‘ Cowardice. ’ ’
Members’ Cowardice.”
Just to try out the steam roller, it
was run over Senator William E. Bo
rah of Idaho, Roosevelt supporter, at
the very outset of the hearing. Borah
moved that the committee order a roll
call on the demand of eight members.
The present rule provides tor a roll call
on the request of twenty members. He
was voted down.
As Borah arose to address the meet
ing there was silence. He made his
motion and launched into an address
in support of it. Then the throttle of
the roller was opened. A committee
man made a motion to lay the Borah
motion on the table. The senator was
interrupted while the new motion was
made. He protested. Chairman Rose
water used the gavel. The motion to
table was seconded. Then it Was
gaveled through.
"I doh't want to be choked off." Bo
rah cried, angrily. “I don’t want to
be gagged here. I will say what 1 want
to say. and I will say it now or 1 will
stop the proceedings of this committee
in such away that the world will
know."
"The gentleman's motion Is laid on
the table," replied Rosewater.
But Borah would not be silenced.
"You will not proceed," he shouted.
"1 want to talk, and 1 will talk. I know
you have a steam roller. The world
will know you have a steam roller and
who operates it. I want the world to
know that the men who do not know
the moral courage to go on record here
are not the representatives of the Re
publican party."
A. M. Sthevenson. holding a proxy,
arose to a point of order and asked that
the committee proceed with its busi
ness. but Borah was permitted to
speak.
“Eyes of Nation
On This Contest.”
"If these rules are not changed,” he
said, "it can be charged that men have
been seated in this convention who
have no right there. Ido not make this
motion because I expect to get a change
here -1 do not expect any different re
sult -but we ought to proceed here so
the world may know how each Indi
vidual votes —we ought to do so as a
matter of personal courage.
"We are not dealing alone with dele
gates. We ate being watched by some
90.000,000 people. If your vote is known
the people will say you are at least
honest in your convict!' ns. Is there
any man here w ho is desirous of going
on record as making a record which
can not be revealed'.’
"Are you afraid to let th? people
know how you voted? When we take a
viva voce vote it Is nothing more than a
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Evangelist and Bride Plan an
Idyllic Bungalow Where the
Wild Waves Roar,
The Rev. William Lee Popham. evan
gelist-poet laureate of Kentucky, de
clared today that he> going to sue the
city of Atlanta if he can’t get hack any
other way the sll.*l he deposited as a
collateral bond for his appearance for
trial when he was arrested at the Ter
minal hotel for registering there with
his wife, rhe police thinking they were
elopers.
Mr. Popham telephoned the mayor's
secretary and assured him that the
young woman is really his wife, secret
ly married to him after an elopement
from Louisville. He showed to the
mayor’s secretary his marriage certifi
cate. dated May 11, McDonough, Ga..
and the sympathetic mayor’s secretary
assured the poet-lover that he’s all for
him and will do hls utmost to get back
the $11.41 .byway of giving the young
couple a clear bill of respectability in
Atlanta.
Judge Preston
Is Hard-Hearted.
But Acting Judge Preston doesn't
conform to that. He told Mr. Popbain
that he had deliberately deceived the
police in concealing his secret mar
riage when arrested early yesterday, in
spite of the fact that Popham showed
his marriage certificate and has ex
plained the misunderstanding, the
judge declared he’ll never order the po
lice to pay back that collateral bond.
Since he’s the final arbiter, Mr. Popham
will have to .sue. Atlanta for $11.41 and
costs, or let that stain on his escutch
eon remain unwashed away.
Mr. Popham, who, after being ar
rested in the Terminal hotel on the
charge of living there with a woman
not his wife, w-nt down to McDonough,
is back at the hotel today with his
pretty wife and the marriage certifi
cate.
At 12 o’clock today he called up the
mayor's office and said;
"I'm William Lee Popham, author of
'Poems of Love, Truth and Power,'
'Silver Gems in Seas of Gold.' 'Nut
shells of Truth,' 'A Tramp's Love,' 'She
Dared to Win.' 'The Village by the Sea,'
'Love's Rainbow Dream.' and ‘Seven
Natural Romanies Also lam the hus
band of Mis William Lee Poph.vn. and
I want ion to have your poliee depart-
Continu®d on Page Two.
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3 DF NEW SCHOOL
BUILDINGS LEAKY
Building Inspector Hayes is ready to
day to report on the four city bond
issue schools about which most com
plaint was made. He said today three
of them are in a bad condition, but that
there is little trouble with the Lee
street school.
The others are the English avenue,
Walker street and Hill street schools.
The Walker street school Is the worst.
Much of the ceiling must be torn down
and built over and the plastered walls
also are in bad shape. Some of the
concrete steps are crumbling. Open
spaces about the windows permit the
rain to beat through and there have
been leaks in the roof.
The plastering in all three of these
buildings was stuck to the naked walls
without any furring. This causes all
the walls, which are only twelve inches
thick, to leak through the plastering.
The plastering is badlv discolored.
To Hear Report First of Week.
If this construction is remedied the
plastering in all three of the schools
will have to be torn down. But the
contractors say the specifications did
not call for furring.
The school board and the bond com
mission probably will meet the first of
next week to hear Mr. Hayes' report.
"We will not try to fix responsibil
ity." said •'. J. Bowen, assistant build
ing inspector, today. "We will simply
submit a detailed report of tin defects
in the buildings."
Mr. Hayes said that none of the
buildings w as; fire uroot
Mrs. Maude Miller Estes Pop
ham and her husband. Rev. Wil
liam L. Popham. who won her by
his “tender love epies.”
MUTUAL BURIAL
SEC. WEB FIDE
charging that Wyatt A. Lewis, secre
tary, has been using the receipts of
the Atlanta Mutual Burial association,
413 Temple Court building, as personal
assets, with utter disregard for death
claims. J. T. Marlar today asked supe
rior court for a receiver for the asso
, elation and a strict accounting from
Lewis.
Marlar asserts that he was made ben
eficiary for a policy held by R. M. Mar
lar. who died on March 5. 1912. Lewis,
acting as secretary of the burial asso
ciation. regarded the claim as a joke
and refused to pay the SIOO said to he
i due. although B. M. Marlar had paid
his assessments to the dot.
The burial association Marlar pro
nounces a fraud. He says the company
got out attractive literature, repre
senting 1,100 paying members, all of
. whom had dug down for a 50-cent ini
■ tlatlon fee and paid twelve cents every
• time, a member died.
1 Marlar maintains that Lewis is col
' lecting and has collected large sums of
‘ money from members and is approprl
' atlng the money to his own use, with
, no Idea of settling claims.
1 CLEAR AND COOL WEATHER
TOMORROW AND SUNDAY
outdoor activities, which have almost
been stopped by the Intermittent show
. its and depressing humidity, may be
> resumed, according to local weather ex.
1 ports of the United States government.
The week-end w ill be clear and beau
-1 tiful, and the temperature will take a
. decided drdp that will be as welcome
- to Mlanta as the proverbial check from
home.
The prediction for i leaf and < 00l
weather applies both to tomorrow and
Sunday
HOHL
IDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
TROOPS IN
ATLANTA
AWAIT
ORDER
Men at Fort McPherson Are
Included in Notice To Be
Ready for Action. |
The general staff of the army Issue'S
preparatory orders today for the dis
patch of a military’ expedition of 5,000
troop# tn Cuba, and the Seventeenth,
stationed at BYirt McPherson. Atlanta,
was Included. The Eleventh cavalry,
at Fort Oglethorpe, near Chattanooga,
la also ordered to get In marching or
der. x
The official order has not yet reached
the post Just outside Atlanta, hut The
Georgian received a telegram from
Washington Just before noon announc
ing the Issuance of the order. It wag
telephoned to the post.
Two minutes later an orderly ran
down the steps of the headquarters
building and into the officers’ club. He
delivered a quiet message to one of ths
captains. It spread quickly to ths
others.
"Hurrah!" "Good business!" shouted
the officers. Their billiard game was
forgotten; the political talk in the cor
ner was suddenly abandoned. In a mo
ment there wasn’t an officer left In the
club. Down the Row they went, each
to tel! the news to the family.
Hurry and Bustle
In Getting Ready.
Bridge games from one end of Offi
cers Row to the other were suddenly
Interrupted as the news came in. Wives
hurried to their own homes to help
their husbands dig out the packed-up
paraphernella of the field. There may
have been a bit of sadness among the
women, for Cuba isn’t the healthiest
country in the world, and even an army
man's wife doesn't enjoy seeing her
husband march away for perhaps a
year. But there were no tears in evi
dence this afternoon; nothing but hur
ry and bustle and excitement.
But if the officers were glad. it. was
nothing to the demonstration on the
other side of the parade ground, where
the men are barracked. News floats
fast In an army post, and it wasn't a
half hour until every man from the top
sergeant down to the greenest rooky tn
the reservation knew something was
doing.
"Let's hope 'tls Santiago for us." said
Private Clancy, as he fumbled with his
kit. “There's a little girl I know down
there—but I'd clean forgot 'twas four
years ago. and sure she's likely to have
passed me up for some yellow Cuban.
But there are others.”
For most of the men of the Seven
teenth, all the veterans of the regiment,
know Cuba from a year’s stay in the
Island It was nearly four years ago
that the Seventeenth came home from
Santiago, where it had done police duty
for Uncle Sam in his effort* to make
the Cubans be good.
There are nearly 1,000 officers and
men at the post; twelve companies of
infantry, forming three battalions.
They can not all leave the reservation,
but it may be only a mere corporal’s
guard left to guard the post and the
women. A number of men are in the
post hospital today, but the surgeon
said he never saw such rapid recoveries
as those which followed the first rumor
of going into what may be real action.
If the marching orders come, the reg
iment will probably take train to Sa
vanrtah, meet transports there and sail
for Havana or some other <‘uban port
at once. The Eleventh cavalry, which
has also seen some service in Cuba,
would pass through Atlanta and Join
the Seventeenth at Savannah.
Transports Ready
To Carry Soldiers
WASHINGTON. June 7.—Following
an open threat of intervention in Cuba
unless President Gomez deals summa
rily with the revolution, the war de
partment today placed in commission
the transports Meade, McClellan. Sum
ner and Kirkpatrick.
At the same time it was announced
telegrams were sent to the commanders
of Forts Porter. Nia sra. Plattsburg
Barracks and Governois Island, N. Y..
and Forts Oglethorpe and McPherson.
In Georgia, to have their men armed,
equipped with heavy marching appa
ratus and ready to move immediately
upon receipt of orders. This will ena
-5 ble the United States to pour 5.000
I heavily armed Infantrymen into Cuba
within two days.
The transports, if ordered to Cuba,
will sail from Norfolk. Ya,, and Sa
vannah. Ga.
‘‘To Protect Americans,"
This action followed the transmission
of the following note from Secretary of
State Knox to the Cuban government:
"1 have the honor to inform you that
the president has decided to send four
warships to the ports of Orlente and io
disembark marines to protect property
of Americans, but without attacking
the rebels. The president hopes the
Cuban government will quickly end the
revolt; otherwise, the United States, in
accordance with the treaty, will be
obliged to push an active campaign to
crush the