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VOL. X. NO. 271.
1 UPROAR
CALIFORNIA
IS STEAM
ROLLED
Taft Awarded Only Contest in
State T. R. Carried by
77.000.
CHICAGO. Tune 12.—Running re-
, morselessly over the Roosevelt con-
testants. the Republican national com
mittee today sent its steam roller into
' .ilifornta and Arizona.
The Taft men from the Fourth dis
trict of California were seated after a
light so bitter that the loud-voiced at
.umenta of the attorneys could be
Heard outside the committee room.
!' ancis J. Heney. “fighting prosecu
tor’' of the graft cases, argued the
contest before the committee after
Governor Hiram Johnson, who came to
Chicago today, refused to appear be
fore the committee, saying he would
not consent to "a trial of the title <o
stolen property by the thief.
Governor Johnson's statement, which
„as sent to Heney as the reason for
ihe. California executive's refusal to
appear. was read before the committee
while Victor Rosewater, chairman,
hammered vigorously with his gavel to
iry to quiet Heney and the other mem
’ .... s shouted protests at him.
The Fourth California district con
involving a technicality. was
. haracterized by Governor Johnson as
theft. He declared it was.an opening
wedge and that the Taft men would
• steal the entire state delegation “pro-
tided they needed the votes."
The Roosevelt ticket swept Cali
fornia at the primaries by a vote of
7(1.090. Tn the Fourth district, a part
of' the city of San Francisco, which
Heney charged was boss ruled, the
Taft supporters claimed to have elect
d their ticket, although the delegates
o-ere elected by an overwhelming ma
jority in the state at large. The Taft
men asserted that the delegates must
he elected by the district alone and
that the vote in the state did not count.
The Roosevelt faction asserted that the
. ommittee was endeavoring to over
turn the will of the people and that
th' s charge brought was a quibble.
Johnson's Statement
Brings Disorder.
The vote was brought after Ihe
rormiest. argument that has yet been
raged before the committee. The mo
-,o seat the Taft men was made
Esterbrook, of New Hampshire.
Torah was on his feet in an instant
;>h a substitute motion to seat the
fp.osevelt men. There was a viva voce
%111 , and the motion was declared lost.
Then the roll call on the original mo
no v. as order' d. Ry a vote 37 io
's :he T.-ft mott were seated. The
. ,ni roller had done its work
b.iinson's statement which was read
. the committee ami which threw
■ body '.n an uproar follows:
l ~ . in, to appear befm e the com
i >-il: no'- submit to a trial of
t i e of stolen property before the
■ wlm stole " It --.'■mid *>• nt) in
• the optg of California for mo
ear bft'or< a committee that on-:
/ ,/iously received Calhoun's Hogu ■
r -ven listen to a contest by Pat
■ •un. designed to override the will
majority of 77,000 California Re-
I ili.-ans and that has prejudiced that
Signed) HIRAM W. JOHNSON."
i- ■ Calhoun referred to by Johnson
' street car magnate of San Fran-
.. against whom graft charges
brought and who was prosecuted
by Heney and Johnson. Hogue is
, Hogue, editor of The San Fran
r, .i.-.-'-rted by the Johnson
i aiifornia to be Calhoun's
• ntatlvc' in political affairs.
I hr Taft men in the Fourth district
'. .. looted by 31 votes, according I >
i filed b' thsT.ifi men. The
Continued on Pape Two.
COL. ROOSEVELT MAKES BOLT THREAT
“I do not intend tamely to submit to an effort by
the bosses acting as the representatives of special
privilege to throw aside the verdict of the people and
substitute a fake verdict of their own. We are face
to face with the question whether the people rule the
Republican party or whet her .the party is to be ruled
Missing Minister of
Elberton Church Sick
In Hospital at Denver
Rev. Samuel C. Dean Telegraphs
His Wife He Is in Need of
Money to Return Home.
ELBERTON. GA.. June 12.—Rev.
Samuel C. Dean, missing pastor of the
First Baptist church of Elberton is
sick and without funds in a hospital in
Denver, Colo He hrs telegraphed his
wife here, stating that he needed
money on which to return home,
soon as he is able to travel.
How Mi. Dean reach' d Denver with
out funds is :< mystery to his wife and
friends. When he left Elberton lasi
month for Oklahoma City to attend the
Southern Baptist convention he had
about SSOD. Nothing'had been hearl
from him inc? he left Oklahoma City
except letters to the board of deacons
of th- church. tendering his resignation
and to his wife notifying her of that
action. These letters were received
last week and bore Kansas City post
marks.
Mr. Dean wired from Denver that he
i
would ictu n byway of Gulfport. Miss.,
and bring his children home with him.
He left the children at Gulfport with
their -grandmother, when he went to
Oklahoma City.
Tonight a conference of inc church
will be held to act on a recommenda
tion of the board of deacons that Mr.
Dean’s resignation be accepted. The
deacons took this action last nigiit.
SEVEN DEFENDANTS
IN HAWKINS CASE
ACQUITTED BY JURY
HENDERSONVILLE. N <'.. June 12
—Tgje seven defendants charged with
being principals and accessories in the
death of Myrtle Hawkins were ax-quit
ted today by rhe jury that had been
trying the cases. A verdict of not
guilty for all the defendants on all
counts of the indictments was re
turned. The audience in the court room
made a demonstration of approval
when the jury reported.
The jury had been out since 8 o'clock
last night and agreed on the acquittals
early this morning, but Judge Fouchee
was out riding at the time, and it was
some time later before court convened
and the verdict was made known.
The defendants were Ab McCall. Mrs.
Ab McCall, Dan McCall, George Brad
ley. Boney Bradley. Mrs. Liztfie Swift
and Mrs. Nora B it.
SIO,OOO SUIT NETS $25;
JURY ACQUITS POLICE
OF SLEUTH’S CHARGE
A trial jury in Judge Bell's couri has
gone on record as regarding the "third
degree.” as administered by the At
i lama police, as a trivial thing at the
| worst
I This jury, in rendering a verdict to-
I day in a SIO,OOO damage suit brought
by 8. M. Pearson a sleuth, against M.
8. Baughn. the private operative who
worked up the Aiken case against
Frederick O Beach, of New York,
awarded the plaint iff $25. Pearson had
sued for false arrest and an alleged
"third degree" grilling.
Baughn. who has been in l he Atlanta
limelight, since he caused the indict
ment of "Beauty" Beach in Aiken, 8.
C„ charging tin New York society men
with cutting his wife’s throat, told the
jury that Pearson had followed him
and he had caused his arrest to be rid
of shadowing
ANNA HELD LOOKING
FOR A NEW HUSBAND;
TO QUIT OUR STAGE
LONDON, June 12.—Mis Anna Held
makes the important announcement
that she is looking for a husband.
"Yes yes I am seeking a husband."
said Miss Held, who divorced Florenz
Ziegfeld recently "As soon as the
right man asks me I shall say, 'lt is
not good for a woman to live alone.’ ”
"And must he he a Frenchman this
time'.’" she was asked
"He must be the light man.' an
swered the actress w ith decision Be.
y ond that it does no» matter who or
what he is.”
-Miss Held followed this announce
ment by stating that site will not ap
pear on tlie American stage again.
Rut it must be admitted that of this
sii'- Is not so certain.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result's
ATLANTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12. 1912
IM 8, KENT
DISBARRED
BY HIGH
COURT
I
Ruling Against Montgomery
County Attorney and Legis
lator Is Permanent.
William B. Kent, member of the state
legislature from Montgomery county
and former football star at the Univer
sity of Gemgla, today was permanent
ly disbarred by the supreme court from
the practice of law in Georgia.
The high court, in dismissing Kent's
appeal in point of fact, affirmed the de
cision of the superior court of Mont
gomery county which had adjudged
Ken) guilty of unprofessional tactics
in hiding papers from ihe Montgomery
county courts and arranging court rec
ords to aid his clients.
Action for disbarment tn Montgom
ery county was brought against Kent
by five of tile most prominent attorneys
in that section of the state—J. B.
ger. A. c. Sal Told Eugene Talmadge,
W. W. Lewis and u C. Underwood.
They had been associated in a suit in
which Kent hid papers to delay trial.
HID PAPERS FROM
COURT TO AID CLIENT.
An array of Montgomery county at
torneys appealed against Kent in tiie
supreme court. The legislator defended
himself, aided only by W. W. Bennett.
The lawyers who acted against Kent in
the supreme court were Esehol Gra
ham, F. H. Saffold, E. J. Giles and W.
C. Davis.
The record of the case shows that
Kent, while defending a client in suit
involving money, deliberately hid the
original papers from the court for three
months to obtain a delay of the trial.
Later in the same case it was discov
ered be had been guilty of changing the
court records to obtain a more favora
ble judgment for this same client.
Kent. who. with Representative
Threat Moore, of Butts county, and
Sandy Beaver, of Stone Mountain,
formed for two years a star trio on the
University of Georgia football team,
attracted considerable attention in the
state legiselature last summer in an at
tempt to establish a new county cre
ated from a portion of Montgomery
county, to be known as Kent county.
The county was to be named in honor
of Kent's father, he said, but he usually
grinned when he w as accused of trying
to name n county after himself.
LILLIAN RUSSELL
TAKES PITTSBURGER
AS HUSBAND NO. 4
PITTSBURG, June 12. -Lillian Rus
sel! embarked on the sea of matrimony
foi the fourtli time today. She was
married at the Sehenloy hotel to Alex
ander P. Moore. publisher of The
Pittsburg Leader. The contracting
parlies tried to keep the marriage se
erct, but the manage: of the hotel an
nounced the famous actre- had wed.
KNIFE WIELDER HELD.
Wofford Johnson, colored, a dis
charged railroad employee, is being held
at the Tower today as the rbsult of an :
unprovoked assault made on .1. W.
Level!, a switchman al Inman Yards.
Johnson attacked Levell with a knife
and cut him seriously about the back
and shoulders.
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? when city folk turn their minds >
£ to the green fields beyond the >
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Armv Fiver Killed in Fall
DEATH ENDS TROTH
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Liftutenaiit Luo-hlon Hazl dim-si of ihe I’. S. army aviation
corps, who was killed in a fall al Washington last evening.
When dSath beckoned to Lieutenant
Leighton Hazlehurst yesterday after
noon while he was testing an army
aeroplane near Washington, it ended
not only a promising career, but broke
in twain a prettv romance which be
gan when Hazlehurst first came to
Georgia from West Point,
According Io information given out
by bls friends in Atlanta, Hazlehurst
was to have married a Georgia girl in
the fall. The engagement, however,
had not yet been announced
The flag which flies over Fort Mc-
Pherson. where Lieutenant Hazlehurst
saw his first army experience, is at
half-mast today.
Even out in the barracks where he
was known only as an officer there is
a note of sorrow. The privates and
non-commissioned officers of Hazle
hurst's old company have by popular
subscription purchased an enormous
wreath of flowers which will ho sent ;
to Washington to be taken with the I
body to Evansville, Ind., where but ial |
will be made.
Member of Foremost
Georgia Family.
A wreath also will be sent by his
brother officers and by the entire fort,
Lieutenant Hazlehurst wasamembii
of one of the foremost families in Geor
gia, having been born in Brunswick. He
later moved to Memphis and then to
Mississippi. It was from Greenville,
Miss., he received his appointment to
West Point.
Upon being graduated he was de
tailed a lieutenant in the Seventeenth
infantry, which was then doing service
in Cuba. For several months he was
there. He returned with the Seven
teenth to Atlanta.
While at Fort McPherson he was
chosen as one of two out of 500 to go
into the aviation corps. He went from
Atlanta to Augusta and left there in
March, when the corps left the city.
Hazlehurst had many relatives all
over Georgia. He was a kinsman of the j
well known Nightingale family of Glynn
county. Hr was a first cousin of Mis.
Fleming dußignon, of Atlanta; a sec
ond cousin of Mrs. Robert Alston and
of James Hazlehurst
He war voristdex-ij the most popular
junior 'tflj'.er it th* post. Lieutenant
by the discredited bosses whom the people themselves
repudiated. National Committeemen like Messrs.
Penrose, Mulvane and Murphy have no claim to
speak for the Republican party. These men have
been repudiated in their own states.”— Statement of
Theodore Roosevelt.
John H. Hester and Lieutenant Bur
nett. bis closest friends at the fort,
spoke feelingly of him.
Courtmartial Caused
Big Stir in Atlanta.
The courtmartial of Lieutenant Ha
zlehurst for ordering an escaping pris
oner to be shot, which took place at
Foi i McPherson about two and a half
years ago, caused quite a stir hi At
lanta, on account of the officer’s popu
larity. The trial resulted in his entire
exoneration.
Lieutenant Hazlehurst was "ffi<-er of
the guard when two drunken soldiers
started a fight on the reservation. To
gether will) the sentry, Hazlehurst
started after tlie men. One of them
turned and fled. Hazlehurst ordered
him to halt three times, and when he
continued running, lie commanded the
sentry to fire, meaning for him to alm
high.
The soldier was struck by the bullet
land killed
Cause of Accident
Baffles Experts
WASHINGTON. June 12.—Army ex
perts today made an exhaustive inves
tigation to determine the cause of the
accident that resulted in the deaths of
Lieutenant Leighton W. Hazlehurst.
Jr., Seventeenth infantry, U. S. A., and
Alfred L. Welch, a professional avia
tor in the employ of the Wright Broth
ers. None of the seven army flyers
who saw the two men crushed to death
when the big flyer crashed to earth
could explain the accident.
The accident occurred about 1.000
feet from the hangars. When the first
witnesses reached the wreck, both of
the men were dead.
GENERAL WOOD CAN GO;
SENATE REFUSES AID
WASHINGTON, June 12.- By the nar
row margin of one vote, th? senate again
turned down a proposition for the relief
of General Leonard XX'ood. chief of staff
of the arm' who, under a provision of the
arrnx appropriation bill, la scheduled to
reiurn ’o the Hne after March 4, 1913.
3 KILUD, 30 ■! JS
GEORGIA PICNIC M
PLUNGES DOWN BANK
I ‘
Women and Children Crushed in Wreck
Near Dalton When Coaches Leave
Rails—Fireman, Awaited by Family
in New Atlanta Home, Killed—Church
Turned Into Hospital and Autos Used
as Ambulances.
DALTON. GA.. June 12.—Three men were killed and thirty
passengers, one of whom will die, were injured in a wreck just
north of Dalton today, when an excursion train on the Western
and Atlantic railroad turned over and plunged down a high
embankment. The spreading of rails where a section crew had
left the track lightly spiked is given as the cause of the wreck.
The failing train killed ope of the workers beside the track.
The dead are.-
CLAUD A. HOLCOMB, Atlanta, fireman.
GEORGE HAMILTON, negro porter.
ARTHUR PILCHER, section hand.
The excursion party numbered 400. and was made up of
Knights of Pythias. Sunday school picnickers and their friends
on the way from Calhoun to Chattanooga for a day’s pleasure.
Many children were in the party, and more than thirty of these
I are among the list of injured.
Nearly All of Injured
From Georgia Town.
The train was composed of six
1 coaches, all well filled, and when
the rails spread under the loco
motive it. went down the embank
ment and dragged two coaches
with it. Three others turned
over, but remained on the em
bankment.
The list of injured, nearly all resi
dents of Calhoun, includes:
Mis. John A. Ray. back broken: dy
ing.
Mrs. Fred McDaniel, internally in
jured.
Miss Ada Bell Tinsley, seriously cut
and bruised.
Dr. G. A. Anderson
Mrs. Maud Neal.
Mrs. Kate Littlefield.
Will Littlefield.
Miss Blanche Gardner, internally in
jured.
Engineer Kitchens, badly injured
Starling Morse, arm broken.
B. G. Legg arm broken.
Miss Beulah Owens.
Miss Annie Champion
H. J. Ross.
A. H. Isbell.
Mrs. Cater and child.
Miss Jeannette Reeves
Miss Addie Belle Tinslei .
Dwight Mclntyre
Willie Owens.
H. W. Smith.
I Mrs. H. W. Smith.
Miss Lucille Gaines
I, Morse
Mrs. L Morse
Mrs. J. T. Thompson.
Lillian Thompson
Ethel Thompson
A. L. Gardner.
Mrs A. L. Gardner
Ralph Haney.
Henry Ross
Mrs. Will Durham.
J M. Ballew.
S. A. Borders.
Mrs. 8 A Borders
Fayette Mclntyre, a railroad detec
tive.
Brakeman Calhoun.
’ William Richards, section hand
John Shuman, section hand.
Brakeman Shaw
Two children of Mrs. Ray,
TOWNS IN PANIC
AT FIRST NEWS.
The first reports w:hlch reached Dal
ton and Calhoun gave the list of dead
, at 50 or more, and the two towns were
, thrown into a panic. Fathers and
mothers of some of the children on
, board the picnic train rushed to the
station far news of the wreck, and
HOME
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE EEa, a o y r E no
pleaded with officials of the road for
details of the casualties. Many women
whose husband were on board fainted
when the first reports came In, and It
was several hours before authentic
news relieved their fears.
It is not believed that more than one
of the injured will die, and it Is now
hoped that none of the children is fa
tally hurt. Most of the more seriously
injured are at Calhoun, where a hastily
improved hospital was made ready for
their reception.
As the train went down it crashed
into a telegraph pole and tore away
the wires, cutting off communication
with the dispatchers. Messengers ran
to Dalton, a mile and a half away, and
the operator flashed a report to Chatta
nooga headquarters of the division.
There a relief train was made up and
started at once for the acene, 3» miles
away.
RESCUERS IN AUTOS
RUSH TO GIVE AID.
Tn the meantime crowds of Dalton
folk had driven in automobiles to the
wreck and rendered such first aid as
possible. The injured were placed in
the cars remaining on the track and
brought to Dalton. The First Baptist
church was thrown open for use as a
hospital and many physicians and
nurses hurried to bandage wounds and
give such help as wag possible. Prom
nent women hastened to volunteer as
nurses, and they were badly needed
In a short time those whose condi
ion made their removal possible were
placed on the relief train and taken to
Calhoun, the home of most of the pas
sengers.
CONDUCTOR’S REPORT
MAKES CAUSE MYSTERY.
Conductor Hill, who was in charge of
the train, made the following official
report soon after the accident:
“Engine and three coaches turned
over and went down an embankment.
Fireman C. A. Holcomb killed, un
known section man killed, 40 or 50
wounded, some seriously. Engineer
Kitchens was badly Injured Brake
men Calhoun and Shaw are slightly
hurt. Can not assign any cause for
engine jumping track. Cars left on
track, with wounded, sent to Dalton.'’
The. section gang at work on the
track had stepped to one side to per
mit the excursion train to pass. Sev
eral men were standing on the em
bankment when the. train came down
upon them, and it is considered a mil -
acle that any of them escaped. Arthur
Pilcher, caught under the train, was
crushed to death. William Richards
and John Shuman were buried unde
the coaches, but escaped with thej
lives, though badly bruised and searr <>.
Dalton Sunday schools had planned
Continued en bage Tw«
N.
W. Joy Taft.
