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THE WEATHER. ____ ■ < Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Rain today, probably fair tomorrow, 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. THE SCORE CARD FOR TODAY’S BASEBALL GAME AT PONCEY PARK I N 1 IIP 11 ? I I ? V-IWYI’WIA it ll mt * - - 1141 14-14-11 !1 Vl--WWW4' ATLANTA. GEORGIAN'S l «...Az:|gig|if||||g:::": ” Alperman, 3b. \Y -Xy~ ~y> y y v YIY Y T [ Stanley, cf. _. <y y> -y> y> y> IT 1 Yl O’Dell, rs. ... 1 SCORECARD I Spencer, rs. . I East, 2b <>-<>-<> Dawson, if. . yyyyyyVy y a s l_ -5 EyEEyEEyE EyE SSSS 5j ~y MEW ORLEANS Knau PP , SB . . ?"X" x I a Donahue, c. .. yY 4 > "1" < 4 > ~ VS Haigh, c "y^ - £*" ~J[ ~JL ~I "‘l" Brady, p.T. ATLANTA E||| : —— — x — 6AME AT4:OOp - M ’ —_—rrf- 5 EBtwi'wcertinf toAet ct rt>ntrenkaUe ywien 4aE. ottcet>t theUbruXif knere»« n J->n. CC. JUNE 7, 1912 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." I UNCLE TRUSTY! I T Copyright, 1913, by International News S ervtce. ’ •£ T ■ T rl ? JL i II I I ' ■ niiiiliirtTr I ? Rib ? i ? , z , ? :: /Tae J T (States it/* i y W Oct/ S IX he*; I i I ' f JlI iiiii iilnWhy * * r • • y :: “William, von and Theodore are giving some fine ont-door theatricals! You are simply T ;; great as the Honest Man, and Theodore as the whole American People is perhaps the most t • • marvellous impersonation of the a«re! If the Signers of the Declaration of Independence I X could see him I hate to think what thev'd do to him!’’ T | X 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. •••••••••••••••••••••••••a • • • 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 • • list • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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