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f jjW 1 • Gloom Roosevelt. THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight and tomor row. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 72; 10 a. m.. 73: 12 noon. 77: 2 p. m., 79. 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. f .* , ) For the Suburban Readers | of The Georgian This is the time of the year \ ? when city folk turn their minds > £ to the green fields beyond the > ( city and begin to look about for ( ) comfortable, easy-to-reaeh, sub. > r urban board. < Ilf you have a room o: two > you would like to rent for tlie < summer, or if you conduct a ; boarding house and want to ob- J tain a desirable class of guests, S the "Suburban Board" column < of The Georgian is at your serv- 5 < ’ cfl - ? For particulars telephone 8000 ? I nr write Want Ad Dept., At- > lanta Georgian. ) Armv Fiver Killed in Fall DEATH ENDS TROTH ’ - - N V'TB'■HKW \ \\\y/ YVHMk'W O / /fl— % W V i //. • -J— --i ' Hi's. ”\ 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.