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WESTERNERS START REVOLT AGAINSTG.O.P. GAG; NATIONAL SPLIT IS AT HAND ( "HICAGO. June 15.—The California delegation, largest in the west, chosen by 77,000 majority for Roosevelt, invaded Chicago today with “FIGHT” emblazoned large upon its banners. Its comipg marked the beginning of a west wide revolt against Taft and the G. O. P. organization that threatens to become nation-wide and split the Grand Old Party for the first time since its birth. Part of this delegation has been unseated by the National Committee. “All or none,” was the slogan of the angry invading hosts today. THE WEATHER Forecast: Showers tonight or tomorrow. Temperatures: Ba. m., 75 degrees; 10 a. m., 79 degrees; 12 noon. 81 degrees; 2 p. m., 81 de grees. VOL. NO. 274. JOYS AND GLOOMS IN TUG OF WAR AT CHICAGO-T. R. TO G. 0. P. RESCUE I A Holo frur Boys.’) z Q Y— [Ml WAITER Ju, jYN. TOR-US 1 AQ IOR IU. BLACK. MU. (fl A A ~jj. A < —I ' £ P HEE 1 haw. 1 / JS\ Sr UA w I K ® fem® u® &Vs Vx*r- S* a 1 • j / . a _» 1 jl iaa JVy ß !**? Wpbib / a L-. \ ® iyA) ■ DELEGtA7ES _ - C <Z_-’*' — PE-LECiATES •> . 2Z ' c *~ "" ~2_ MRS. KEEFER WINS HUBBY FROM LURE OF BW Alimony Suits. Now With drawn, Cost SI,OOO. But She Is Perfectly Satisfied. ft cost Mrs. Grace Macy Keefer, who ow ns a home at 80 East Fourteenth street, SSOO in the Fulton courts and a like amount In the courts of New York tn nin her husband. David H. Keefer, former Atlanta lawyer, away from the dazzle of Broadway’s white lights—or a: any rate, to induce him to share some of its glitter with her. Superior Judge Pendleton today dis missed Mrs. Keefer’s alimony suit and assessed the costs, with attorneys’ and ~ . -jvers' fees aggregating SSOO against Ms Keefer Samuel Evins. Mrs. Keefer's lawyer, said that the divorce proceedings, instituted in New York at ihe same time, had been dismissed and ihe Keefers had been reunited and were living together happily in New York In dismissing the action. Judge Pen dleton awarded Jerome Moore, named as receiver for Keefer’s Atlanta hold ings. at his wife's request. $250 for his services. This cost, too, was borne by Mrs. Keefer. The New York suit ex penses also Mis Keefer gladly paid. Keefer Closed Office To Go to Broadway. Mr- Keefer filed her local suit a-k --ing for alimony and a receiver for lv e,ei'. Atlanta holdings, including stock in the Georgia Railway and Elec nir Company, worth $80,000; bank ac , mmts of $40,000, and Marietta street veal estate Valued at SBO,OOO. She ar s. riol Keefer had abandoned his law practice here, given up his offices in the Atlanta National Rank building, and left all because of the lure of the big tnv. n and its night attractions. With a temporary order from thje uperior court granted by Judge Ellis mi January 20. restraining Keefer from disposing of his Atlanta property. Mrs. K. ofer sued for $250 a month alimony nd $2,000 for New York depositions, sm told the court her sole income was r;:; - a year received from stock in the , m n Products Refining Company. Judge Pendleton dismissed the suit ~c Mrs. Keefer's request, when it was dmitted in court that she owned At lanta real estate valued at $20,000, and .mild gladly pay the costs. earthquake wrecks COSTA RICAN VILLAGE g\N JUAN. COSTA RICA, June 15. T'm village of Naranjo, Costa Rica, has destroyed by an earthquake, ac hing to reports received here today. I ; feared that many persons were rd. although the reports stated that had been hull. The river e.ming by the village was thiown Into cm ouise by the quake, carrying away ten houses. The Atlanta Georgian k Rpad For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results SHUBERTS QUIT DIXIE; WELLS LEASES GRAND Klaw & Erlanger Win Theatrical Su premacy in South—Keith’s May Use Opera House. Jake Wells announced this- afternoon in Atlanta that he had leased the Grand opera house in Atlanta and its twin, the Macon Grand, for eight years, the remainder of the ten-year lease taken by the Shuberts from the De- Gives two years ago. He will not an nounce at this time what class of the atricals will be presented in the Grand, but virtually it is practically assured that the Keith vaudeville now given in the Forsyth will be transferred to the larger house. The change marks the passing of the Shuberts from the Southern field of high-class productions. Their battle with Klaw A- Erlanger, which prom ised such success at first, has been lost, and after two disastrous seasons they have given up their Sou-thein holdings. Deal Closed in New York Three Weeks ago. The deal was closed in New York three weeks ago. but not announced until Mr. Wells reached Atlanta today. It. gives Mr. Wells control of every theater In the city except the Atlanta, which is leased by Klaw & Erlanger. Mr. Wells, through the Atlanta Thea ter Company, controls the Forsyth, Lyric, Rijou and Orpheum. The Or pheum is no longer a factor tn Atlanta theatricals. It is on the market as real estate, but will not be sold or leased for any theatrical purpose. .The possession of the Grand at Ma con by the Wells interests will give ihe Central City better theatricals, it is presumed, as Mr. Wells has stood by EUGENE GRACE TO BE OUT WITHIN MONTH; IS SURE OF RECOVERY NEWNAN, GA.. June 15.—Dr. T. S. Bailey, attending Eugene H. Grace, to day predicted that Grace would be able to leave his bed and go out of doors in a roller chair within the next month, possibly by July 1. For the first time since he was operated on Wednesday afternoon Grace today showed no signs of fever, his temperature being normal. Grace is more confident that ever, since his operation, that he will even tually recover and have the full use of his lower limbs. And his physician is hopeful of that result. Grace now sits up in bed. reads the newspapers and discusses his operation in a most cheer ful frame of mind. The operation of Wednesday revealed that the spinal cord was hardened at the point where the Incision was made, but it is expected that now this hard nfess will disappear. MILLIONAIRE SLAYER TO SPEND REMAINDER OF LIFE A PRISONER MEMPHIS. TENN.. June 15.—J. J. Hughes, 55 years old. millionaire Ar kansas planter, the slayer of four men, will spend the balance of his life in prison for kilting Tommy Dolan, an ex-jockey, in a local hotel, July 9. 1911 A decision of the Tennessee supreme court today affirmed the lower court's itnlence of life Imprisonment. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1912. ihe 'open door” policy in every batch and tl?c,Klaw & Erlanger attraotidtis probably will be presented in the Ma con house, until now controlled by their rivals, the Shuberts. The Shuberts still have a lease on the Dauphine in New Orleans, but they have given qp their Birmingham house and will hardly operate In the South again. Their success has been only in the metropolitan cities, where a few good companies could keep their thea ters busy for extended runs. May Run Pictures At the Forsyth. The shift in theatricals for next sea son has not yet been decided upon. It is probable that the Lyric and Bijou still will offer popular priced plays and ten-eent vaudeville, respectively, while the high-claks vaudeville wil be trans ferred to the Grand. It is possible, that good vaudeville may also be offered at the Forsyth, as Atlanta has proved a profitable patron of this form o f amusement. Motion pictures, which have already ousted the ''legitimate” from some of the most expensive thea ters in the East, may possibly be shown at the Forsyth next season. The lease of the Grand marks. Jake JVells' tenth anniversary in Atlanta. His first venture here was the lease in June, 1902. of t'he old Columbia, which he converted into the Bijou. The building of the Lyric, the purchase of the Orpheum, the lease of the Forsyth and the lease of the Grand have fol lowed. FRANK P. DAY, AUTO BRANCH HEAD, DIES OF TYPHOID FEVER Frank P. Day, Southern manager of the Locomobile company, died at his home, 800 Peachtree street, today, after three weeks’ illness of typhoid fever. Mr. Day came to Atlanta from Bridgeport. Conn., last October, where he was connected with the headquar ters of the automobile company. He was a popular club man and had an extensive, acquaintance in the com mercial world of Atlanta. Mrs. Day, who Is in Bridgeport, has been notified of his death and will re turn to Atlanta at once. She probably will be accompanied by Mr. Day's mother, who is a resident of Bridge port. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Besides his mother and his wife, Mr. Day is survived by the following rela tives: Mrs. T. M. Bennett, a sister, and three brothers, George H. Day* Jr., and Godfrey M. Day, of Hartford, and \V. Beach Day. of Pelham Manor, N. Y. Richard Beach, of New Orleans, is an uncle. HAIR-PULLING WIF£TOO MUCH FOR FANNIN FARMER MACON. GA., June 15.—Thomas E. Ross, a prominent Fannin county farm er. has filed suit for divorce in the Bibb superior court against Mrs. Laura Ross. He says that she has ceased to be a loving and affectionate wife. and that last Sunday night she pulled his hair and kicked him. and ordered him out of tbs house. They have eight children. „ ELOPING PIU FLE! ffll; FORFEIT BONDS Mrs. Ruth Webb Winn and Soul Mate Fail to Appear in Atlanta Court. Pretty Mrs. Ruth Webb Winn, the Texas girl-wife who eloped to this city only to be arrested, fled the city with her companion. Rene Coward, today, jumping their bond in recorder’s court. Coward forfeited $250 cash bond through his failure to appear to an swer the charge of disorderly conduct, and Mrs. Winn lost the SI.OO which Coward put up to insure her appear ance to answer the same accusation. The landlady at 66 Houston street, where the couple had been living since they ran away from El Paso. Texas, said Coward called at her house last night alone, paid the board bill that had accrued and. saying that he must change his residence without delay, re moved the two trunks and suit cases which made up their baggage and went away without a word as to his plans. Girl Did Not Appear At Boarding House. The landlady says that the girl did not appear at the house after the bonds had been fixed last night. Detectives are searching for the pair in the faint hope that they are some where in hiding in the city, but fur ther prosecution is improbable, In view of their forfeiture of the bonds. After the failure of the couple,to ap pear before Recorder Broyles this morning. Beavers sent a tele gram to Coward’s former home at Vic. toria. Texas, asking if the man was wanted there for any misdemeanor. The reply said that while Coward was born there and is well known in the vicinity, there is no charge outstanding against him that the town. marshal knows of. Apparently Mrs. Winn's father, editor of a Teague, Texas, newspaper, has cast her off entirely since the elope ment. Yesterday the young woman wired her father to come to Atlanta and appear today in her behalf when the ease against Coward and herself came to trial. This highly unsympa thetic message came from Teague; "Telegram and payment refused. No answer." Along with the couple on their sec ond elopement goes the toy poodle, "Snookums," which was given back to Mrs. Winn when she gave bond. Said She Preferred Jail to Husband. Detectives of the local police de partment who made the arrests be lieved the young woman was prepared to tell a wholly different story upon the witness stand today than in het first version, when she said that the love affair with Coward, which culmi nated in the elopement, began in a moving pictuie show at San Antonio. She said yesterday that she would lather go back to the stockade titan to her real husband, and the police be lieve that Cow ai d induced her to a sec ond runaway last night after she had called vainly upon her father for help “We will not give any of our seats to those two porch-climbers selected by the committee,” was the ultimatum of Gov. Hiram Johnson, head of the revolting i Californians, who had previously refused to appear before the committee. “California refuses to try title to property before the thief who stole it.” and “California for Roosevelt by 77,000” were among the legends flashed from banners as the arriving delegation paraded the streets of the convention city behind a brass band. The coming of the warring westerners was a spectacular incident. Teacher in Bessie Tift And Mercer Educator Led to Altar by Cupid Dr. J. E. Forrester Meets Wife- Tn-Ee While Making Address at Girls’ College. JIAC’X. GA.. June 15. —Because Cu pio decided to take a course in higher e-d'.tiaiion of the Baptist brand in the o’lioel year Just closed. Bessie Tift col lege fol Baptist girls at Forsyth will have to look for a new music teacher, lost to Mercer university for Baptist boys, in Macon. Today Miss Mary Duggan, teacher of voice at Bessie Tift, was married to Di. J. E. Forrester, head of the Bible department of Mercer, bringing to a climax an interesting college romance. When Mercer and Bessie Tift opened last tall neither Dr. Forrester nor Miss Duggan had any thought of matrimony. Their chief thought was of the college work before them. Dr. Forrester, in fact, was married and had a grown daughter. But early In the fall Mrs. Forrester died. A few months after his wife's death Dr. Forrester was invited to deliver an address to the Bessie Tift girls. He went and there met Miss Duggan, it was one of those ‘ 'fl rst -si gli t love" af fairs. Today’s wedding was the out come. This isn't the only wedding in the Forrester family. Today Dr. Forrester announced the engagement of his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Dargan For rester. to William Lucien MacLeod, of Red Springs, N. ('., the wedding to take place In the near future. SHERIFF WITH CRAZY WOMAN IN CUSTODY GOES ON RAMPAGE With an insane woman in custody. Alonzo Furr, she, iff of Paulding coun ty, went on a rampage in Terminal sta. tion today and was taken into custody by Policeman Kerlin. He was sent to the police station Mrs. Ada Brown, his prisoner, also was locked in the police station and will be held [lending orders from Pauld ing county. Sheriff Furr was taking the woman from Dallas to rhe insane asylum in Milledgeville. Although officer Kerlin was In formed that the sheriff had threat ened to shoot up the station, no pistol was found on him when he was searched at the police station. If the sheriff is ready for trial, he will probably be arraigned in police coil't this afternoon. JENKINS LAUGHS AT TRIAL FORTHEFT OF ALEX SMITH’S TRUNK SAVANNAH. GA June 15. Smiling: his amusement al the unusual develop ments in the cane against him. at times breaking out into a hearty laugh when the complex situations assumed an unus ually humorous aspect, W. .Jenkins, of Atlanta, charged with the larceny of a trunk from Alex W Smith, former presi dent of the Georgia Rar association, dur ing the annual convention at Tyhee, re ceived almost hilariously the judgment of the recorder remanding him for trial in the higher courts. In default of bond he was lodged in jail. The evidence showed that the trunk is the property of Mr. Smith and that it was checked on a Central of Georgia train at the Tyhee station to be brought to Sa vannah after the convention of the asso ciation adjourned. The trunk never reached the city, hut was returned to the hotel and taken to .Jenkins’ room T'he articles in the trunk were of sufficient value to warrant a charge of grand lar ceny. TEXAS STEAM ROLLED, TOO, AS TEDDY HURRIES TO FRENZIED CHICAGO City in Turmoil of Excitement—-Great Reception To Be Given Colonel Oh Arrival This Afternoon—Hatred of Foes Grows More Bitter. CHICAGO. June 15.—With the Taft steam roller, spurred on by the renewed fighting of the Roosevelt forces, continuing to flatten the opponents of the president, and Roosevelt him self approaching Chicago as rapidly as a speeding express train can carry him. excitement was intense in Chicago today, the friends of the colonel in a state of frenzy at his coming, and his foes giving expression to hatred for the colonel growing deeper and more determined as the enthusiasm of the Roose velt boosters grew higher. The Taft forces today in the national committee seated the Taft delegates at large from Texas, over the most determined protests of the Roosevelt men. Texas for Taft was the last straw to. the Roosevelt forces, and it brought emphasis to the asser tions that they have made all along, that they will make the contest a fight to the finish. Taft delegates were seated in the First Texas district, but in the Third district the roller met a setback and two Roosevelt men were seated. In the Fourth district two Taft delegates were seated. The Taft delegates were seated in the Fifth Texas district. Today's score: Taft 16. Roosevelt 2. Total score: Taft 181, Roosevelt 11. All Ready To Greet Rough Rider. Colonel Roosevelt today takes per sonal command of his fight. At 4 o'clock he will arrive in Chicago. A noisy reception by the hosts already gathered to take part in the demonstra tion and another smashed precedent will greet him as he steps from the train. For the first time in the history of the Republican party an avowed candidate for the office of president, himself an ex-president, will appear personally on the scene of a conven tion before which he seeks the office. The noise that is to greet the colonel has already been started. Cheering del egates and cheering persons who are not delegates have been marching through hotels lobbies shouting, sing ing, arguing and making speeches. Their demonstration has accentuated the bitterness and excitement that per. vade the presidential fight. Personal encounters, quickly suppressed by men who separated the warring partisans, broke nut half a dozen times in the hotel lobbies, where the demonstration stW'ted. Roosevelt songs were Inter- homT IDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P M A O Y RE NO rupted by thumping cheers for Taft. Incipient Roosevelt speeches have been interrupted by Taft spielers and have ’ been changed into a riot of meaning- ; less cries and shouts as Taft and Roosevelt partisans rushed up to take part in the fray. Personal arguments between men of either side have grown 1 into altercations between quickly gath. | ered hosts. Every one about the hotels where the politicians have gathered is in a stage bordering on hysteria. And the demonstration started hours before the colonel was booked to arrive. Everybody Going f To Meet the Train. For once Chicago is put. in the same category with her country cousins. From indications this morning, every person in the city interested in politics will try to "go down to see the train come In.” The coming of the train is to them the one Important event of the day. Whether the arrival of the Rough Rider means a "stampede” Is the one question that is agitating the leaders of both camps. Taft men confidently as serted today It meant nothing of the sort. But the men who make this state ment, most of them, were present four years ago when the galleries at the Republican national convention broke into the long Roosevelt demonstration that could not be quieted. One Taft man asserted that the actual coining of the colonel would be an antl-climax. The threat of his coming, he said, had more effect than the actual arrival. He asserted It would help the Taft cause to have the colonel on the ground. The Roosevelt men are willing to al low them to look at it in that way. They are jubilant at the colonel's com ing. From the moment he arrives until the convention is over they believe the colonel will be the center of the tight, and they rely on his ow n statement that he Is a bettei tighter than prophet. Senator Dixon. A. H. Revell, chairman of the national Roosevelt eommittei, and Edward W. Pints, secretary of the same organization and the man Roo»e --velt is said to favor for the aeeretaiy ship of the national coiumiiUa U tie