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VOL. X. NO. 267.
GA. MINISTER
DISAPPEARS
SUDDENLY
im.
Rev. Samuel C. Dean, of Elber
ton, Mysteriously Missing.
Object of Wide Search.
ELBERTON. GA.. June T.—Police of
ficers. Masons and Baptists in Kansas
City, Los Angeles and other Western
cities are today searching for Rev.
Sajnuel C. Dean, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Elberton. Ga.. who
has mysteriously disappeared and for
whom grave fears are felt by members
of his church at 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. or that he is sick in some
Western hospital or hotel and unable
to notify his wife or friends as to his
whereabouts and condition.
The last information received in
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
w ritten on plain stationery and 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 Ei
bertun. 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
very sick man. Mr. Dean stated in
these letters that he did-not believe he
would be able to resume regular work
for six or eight months.
A meeting of the deacons of the El
berton church has been held since the
letter from Mr. Dean was received, at
which it was decided to endeavor to lo
■ate 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 locate
Mr. Dean. S. O. Hawes, one of the
deacons. Is in charge of the search for
I the Elberton church.
Mr. Dean left Elberton early In May
for Oklahoma City to represent the
Elberton chut ch and the Georgia Bap
tist convention at the Southern Baptist
convention recently held in that city.'
He was accompanied as far as Gulf
pot t 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
years ago. The second Mrs. Dean went
to Knoxville. Tenn., to visit relatives
dining her husband's trip West. Al
Gulfport Mr. Dean w rote to her that h r
was sick from a neivous 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. Ho wrote to Mrs.
Continued on Page Two.
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
City Officials Barred
From Junketing Trips
By Counselor’s Ruling
Mayson Holds It Is Illegal to Use
Municipal Funds to Attend
Conventions.
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 ruled that it was illegal to ap
propriate the city's money to send of.
ficials to conventions.
The board had adopted a resolution
Jo appropriate S2OO io send S. J. < ’oog
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. Ai
derman John E. McClelland said he
would prevent the comptroller from
drawing up the voucher in view- of the
city attorney’s ruling.
Nftmerous instances where this law
has been violated were cited. Alder
man Candler said it also was illegal
for the city boards to provide money
to send officials on trips.
THIRTY KILLED WHEN
EXPLOSION BLOWS UP
AMMUNITION FACTORY
VIENNA, June 7. —An ammunition
factory at Welledorf. a suburb of Wien
er Neustadt, was wrecked by an ex
plosion today which was accompanied
by heavy loss of life. it is reported
that at least 30 persons were blown to
pieces. Some of the bodies were shat
tered beyond identification.
So great was the force of the detona
tion that hundreds of windows in the
city of Wiener Neustadt were broken
The residents of the city were thrown
into a panic, thinking that an earth
quake had taken place. Soldiers and
police accompanied a fire brigade to th' -
scene.
BEAUTY POLICE SQUAD
TO ENFORCE FAMOUS
CHICAGO HATPIN LAW
CHICAGO, June 7.—-" It takes a wom
an to catch a woman," This is the ad
age that Chief of Police McWeeny lias
taken to enforce the "snieker-snee'
hatpin ordinance’hcrr.
The ordinance provides that if a hat
pin extends over an inch beyond the
brim of a hat the wearer is liable to a
tine of from $5 to S3O. Chief McWeeny
will appoint a "beauty squad" of socie
ty women who will be given full police
power to enforce this ordinance.
LIGHTS FOR FARM WAGONS
REVENGE FOR MOTORISTS
ELMER. N. J.. June 7. Automobil
ists who have bad to dodge speed
traps are now laughing at owners of
horse-driven vehicles here, as the re
sult of a crusade that is being waged
by Mayor <’. H. Hitchner to compel al!
vehicles to < arrv lights after dark.
AWAKES FROM SLEEP
WITHOUT EYESIGHT
CLARKESTON. WASH., .him 7.
Going to bed with sound eyesight and
rising In the morning blind is the plight
of Henry Jacobson, who lias been work
ing on the ranch of William Jones, a
farmer near Clarkeston.
MR. HENDERSON ATE ABED:
NO MRS. HENDERSON NOW
PASADENA. CAL. June 7.—Because
her husband insisted on eating his
breakfast in bed and then lounging
around the house. Mrs. Charles Morti
mer Henderson has been granted a di
vorce from him.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1912.
PASTOR-POET
WANTS CITY
TO REFUND
MONEY
He Asks Mayor to Put Seal of
Respectability on Secret
Marriage.
William Lee Popham, the poet evan
gelist of Louisville, Ky„ who. with his
secret bride, pretty Maude Miller Estes,
got into trouble with the Atlanta po
lice. when they registered together at
the Terminal hotel two days ago, was
in town again with his bride today and
called up the mayor's office. He 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 Romances.’ Also 1 am the hus
band of Mrs. William Lee Popham, and
I want you to have your police depart
ment restore to me the $11.41 that I
put up as collateral bond to insure our
appearance when we were arrested at
the Terminal hotel.
Now, Mr. Mayor." continued Mr.
Popham. "I’m a respected Baptist evan
gelist traveling on tour with a respect
ed lecture bureau and my wife is not
only respectable, but she’s the most
beautiful woman in the world. And
I ve gone dow n to McDonough, where
we were married May 11. and I've got
my marriage certificate and I’ve
brought it back with her to the Ter
minal hotel again, where we are now
registerd today under our names as
Popham and wife, and I want.your po
lice department to remove the onus of
irrespeetability that may still attach to
us in ignorant minds by refunding that
$11.41 w hich your police say they can’t
give us.”
THEY'LL WRITE
AN EPIC ON THE STORY.
Well, the mayor s office didn’t give
Mr. Pophain much satisfaction at the
start and he says he expects they'll
have to wait until all the red tape in
the town's unwound before he gets,
back the $11.41 —not because he needs
the money, but because he wants to
frame it as a final evidence of respect
ability as background for pictures of
his wife and himself.
Then Mr. Popham is going to write
a poem showing that all’s well that
ends well in a temperamental romance
such as hi:’ even if the Atlanta police
do get after you. He’s going to wrjte
the first verse and his wife will write
the second, and he'll come along with
tile third and she'll put the fourth verse
to paper. And so they're going to make
an alternate epic pastoral that will tell
the world just what has happened to
them in Atlanta.
REGISTERED SEPARATELY
BECAUSE OF TEMPERAMENTS.
Prior to that epic, however, lie told
the situation to a Georgian reporter
while his wife read his "Poems of
Truth. Love and Power." sitting with
an arm about his neck.
"The reason we registered as Mr. and
Miss in two separate rooms at the Ter
minal the first time." said Mr. Pop
ham. "was on account of temperamen
tal and personal reasons purely. Miss
Estes and 1 had been courting each
other in Louisville for three years
when, while the birds sang accompani
ment to one of my love poems she had
inspired, one* day we arranged to get
married without letting anybody know.
The twin romances that enthralled us
dictated this course, and so we hurried
away May 11 and got the McDonough
ordinary to make us one We both
have great work to do. We then were
collaborating on the romance I am now
completing, entitled ’The Grand Canon
of Arizona.' and we felt that If much
publicity were given our marriage it
would inteifere with our work and with
my lecture tour."
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WATSON DETENUS
SELF IT HEARING
AUGUSTA, GA.. June 7.—-Thomas E.
Watson wits arraigned here at 11:08
o'clock this morning before United
States Commissioner W. H. Godwin
on the charge of sending obscene mat
ter through the mails.
Despite the inclement weather, a large
crowd was present and standing room
was at a premium in the Federal court
room.
Mr. Watson came from Thomson by
train, accompanied by his brother, For
rest Watson, and a number of friends.
United States District Attorney Alex
ander Akerman is representing the
government, while Mr. Watson adhered
to his intention of representing him
self.
The United States commissioner, it
is believed here, will bind Mr. Watson
over, for it is his duty to bind over
when there is a probable cause of guilt,
and he almost always has the grand
jury to take the responsibility in crim
inal cases.
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• Bookmakers’Odds on •
• Convention Choices;
• •
• Following are the odds offered •
• by members of the Metropolitan •
• Turf association that these combi- •
• nations will not be named as •
• ptesidential candidates The list •
• is Interesting because it shows the •
• official bookmakers’ chances, and •
• tiie bookmakers have no politics: •
• Odds. Names. •
• To Head the Two Tickets. •
• fi to I—Roosevelt and Clark. •
• 8 to 1— Roosevelt and Wilson. •
• 10 to I—Roosevelt and Harmon •
• 20 to 1— Roosevelt and Underwood •
• 25 to I— ’Roosevelt and the field. •
• 6 to I—Taft1 —Taft and Bryan. •
• 8 to I —Taft and Clark •
• 8 to 1— Taft and Wilson •
• 15 to I—Taft and Harmon. •
• 15 to I—Taft1 —Taft and Gaynor. •
• 25 to .I—Taft and Underwood •
• 8 to 1— Hughes and Bryan •
• 12 to I—Hughesl—Hughes and Clark. •
• 12 to I—Hughes and Wilson. »■'
• 20 to I—Hughes and Harmon •
• 30 to I—Hughes and Underwood. •
• 30 to I—’Hughesl—’Hughes and the field. •
• 7 to I—’The field and any of •
• above named. •
• 10 to I—’Anyl—’Any of above named •
• and the field. •
• ’Anv one not named in above •
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CUBANOROERSTO
GEOHGU'S FORTS
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 Kilpatrick, now at Newport
ner and Kilpatrick.
At ttje same time It was announced
telegrams were sent to the commanders
of Forts Porter. Niagara Plattsburg
Barracks and Governors Island. N. Y..
and Ports Oglethorpe and McPherson,
in Georia, to have their men armed,
equipped with eavy inarching appa
ratus and ready to move immediately
upon receipt of orders. This will ena
ble the United States to pour 5,000
heavily armed infantrymen Into Cuba
within two days.
Colonel John T. Van Orsdale is absent
from Fort McPherson today, hut officers
acting for him said no official orders had
yet been received f< r any movement of
the troops Their first message was
from The Georgian The Seventeenth can
he entrained as soon as the railroads can
supply cars at the post’s private track,
and It can be on its way within a few
hours.
IXTRA
PRICE TWO CENTS
ALABAMA
lOIESIO
BE GIVEN
TAFI
Fight of Southern Delegates in
G. 0. P. Committee Is the
First on Program. ,
STEAM ROLLER IN ACTION:
TALK OF T. R. BOLT GROWS
Flinn, Roosevelt Aid, Hurries to
Chicago—Former President
Expected on Ground.
CHICAGO, June 7.—The steam roller
with Victor Rosewater at the steering
w heel and 3S Republican national com
mitteemen enthusiastically shoveling
coal was made ready this morning to
roll majestically hack and forth over
Colonel Roosevelt's hat. The predic
tions of the Taft managers that unless
the colonel removed his head gear from
the ring at once it would be so badly
damaged that it would be of no further
use to him. brought forth a rumor that
the colonel was coming to shove the
roller through the ropes. The report
was at once denied at Roosevelt head
quarters.
With a test vote showing the Repub
lican national committee lined up 39 to
13 against Roosevelt, that body toda?’
was ready to take up the hearing of
delegate contests. The meeting was
scheduled to open at in o'clock. The
first contests to be heard are those
from Alabama. By a mutual agreement
between representatives of Taft and
Roosevelt camps the Arizona contest
will be postponed and Arkansas taken
up next. After that, will come the one
contest from California.
The Taft managers were well pleased
that the contests should start with
Alabama. It will give the steam roller
a chance. The Taft men say that their
case in Alabama is very strong Th*
contest is a result of an old party fight
that has frequently bobbed up in na
tional conventions. It resulted In thr-c
state conventions to select delegates io
the present national convention.
Split Result of /
Old Party Feud.
The factional fights there wore so
bitter that, a year ago the leaders were
called to Washington, where they con
ferred with President Taft. It was
agreed to call a. general convention to
reorganize. They promised to abide
by tile decision of the convention. The
convention was held in the summer ot
1911, the Taft faction winning out and
electing delegates to the national con
vention. When the call of the national
committee’ was issued delegates elected
before the call were declared illegal
Accordingly a second stale convention
was called and tlie same delegates
namej and the same officers of the
state committee chosen.
Later, when Roosevelt became a can
didate. the faction beaten at the Taft
convention called its own gathering and
elected its own delegates. The Roose
velt men claim that the Taft committee
was irregularly organized and that the
convention last called was the only'
legal one. The history of this party