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NONDELL
Wyoming Congressman in the
House Defends G. O.P. Com
mittee’s Rulings.
WASHINGTON, July 24.—Theodore
Roosevelt’s followers were termed “pi
rates" and the entire Republican pro
gressive movement referred to as “the
mo st impudent and revolutionary plan
o f. political larceny ever conceived” in
a speech delivered by Representative
Mondell, of Wyoming, today, In which
he sought to vindicate President Taft
of the colonel’s accusations of theft of
delegates at the Chicagp convention.
Representative Mondell served on the
credentials committee at Chicago.
"The claim,” he said, "that Colonel
Roosevelt was denied the nomination
at Chicago through the larceny of dele
gates is expected not only to contribute
directly to the third party movement,
but also to furnish the excuse for the
most impudent and revolutionary’ plan
of political larceny ever conceived. It
Is proposed to steal the liberty and se
cure the benefits of Republican state
organizations, while at the same time it
repudiates the party and candidates. It
Is difficult to conceive a more shame
less proposal for pure piracy than this.
In Pennsylvania, for instance, the Re
publican voters, I am told, are expected
to continue to fly the Republican flag
and secure whatever benefits can thus
te obtained, with the expectation even
tually of scuttling the ship after hav
ing gotten away with the cargo.
"Contests Deliberately Created.”
•■As admitted by the Roosevelt man
agers themselves, they started out de
liberately at the beginning of the pre
convention campaign to create contests.
A large number of these contests were
pure fiction. The contesting delegates
claimed to be elected at conventions
which. If held at all, were held a month
or two after the regular convention.
“The action of the Republican na
tional convention in the seating of del
egates was correct, just and equitable.
No one is justified in condemning the
action of the Republican convention
on mere hearsay, as has been largely
done, and to be Informed of the fact is
to be convinced there is no ground for
criticism. The convention acted hon
estly and in a spirit of fairness in har
mony with party interests and for the
best interests of the party and the
American people.”
Representative Mondell cited con
tests in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
California, Indiana, Kentucky, Michi
gan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and
Washington. He defended the action
of the credentials committee In all of
these cases.
"Why Didn’t Champ Clark Bolt.
Asserting that Camp Clark support
ers had more cause for bolting at Bal
timore than the Roosevelt supporters
had for forming a third party after the
Chicago convention, Mr. Mondell said.
“Why are not the Democrats of Mis
souri proposing to have the Democratic
electors in that state vote for Champ
Clark?
“The Democrats of that state by a
large and enthusiastic majority ex
pressed their preference, first, last and
all the time for their beloved fellow
citizen, the honored and respected
speaker of the house. By 7 all reason
able and proper rules he was the can
didate of that convention. In a mo
ment of his triumph the great prize
was ruthlessly snatched from him with
out warrant, justification or excuse.
"If there are any' electors anywhere
who have any sort of justification for
being traitors to the binding and sacred
obligation which rests upon an elector
to vote for the candidate of the party
that placed him in nomination they are
the Democratic electors in Missouri.”
GERMAN ENVOY HAS
SECRET TYPEWRITER
FOR WRITING IN CODE
LONDON, July 24. —Baron Marschall
Vonßieberstein. the new and gigantic
German ambassador, has brought with
him a private typewriter with special
type, which only the baron and one or
two members of the German foreign
office can read. The baron allows no
one else to work this machine, and al
ways carries on him the key of the
lock with which it is fitted. He
himself types out all his private code
mossa fires.
Private typewriters have been in use
among some English business men for
; 1 ■■ lime past, and the use of such
machines by' firms who are accustomed
t' J write their important correspond
,r 1 in a secret code is becoming com
mon,
Nearly all the standard typewriter
'■ ' 'ors are ready to quote for the mak
• • f typewriters fitted with any par
“'ir kind of type. Machines have
<| iidy been constructed for Oriental
■mguages, including Turkish, and also
Yiddish and Hebrew. In fact, no
I,! r the engravers.
‘t took many years to bring to per
f km the construction of a typewriter
''riting Turkish, owing to the dlf
t, r " yOf joln, ng the Turkish charac-
Morgan home from
good
July 24.—J. Pierpont Mor
in/r i , l , Urne l ' l from Europe today on the
mplc. The financier looked to be
eago la alth ' R Graham, of Chi
events in'°,. W " n Kome of 'he shooting
the same boat ymplc garaes - arrlveU on
SOLDIERS WING
HOME TOJWDRROW
Big Sham Battle at Anniston
Ends Without Decisive Re
sult —VanOrsdale Pleased.
ANNISTON, ALA., July 24.—Today 7
ends the ten days’ stay of the Fifth
Georgia infantry of Atlanta and other
Georgia infantry and cavalry com
mands, including the Governor's Horse
Guard, of Atlanta, at Camp Pettus.
Tomorrow morning the Atlanta mili
tiamen will entrain and arrive home
about noon. This afternoon the boys
are busy packing up preparatory to
their departure.
The ten days at Camp Pettus have
been strenuous ones for the Atlanta
soldiers. The climax of their maneu
vers, with the other commands en
camped here at this time, came in the
big two days’ sham battle around Blue
mountain. The battle began at day
break on Monday' and ended late Tues
day' afternoon. Colonel J. T. VanOrs
dale, of the Seventeenth infantry, U.
S. A., commanding officer at Camp Pet
tus, today’ declared the battle,a great
success from military and spectacular
viewpoint. The battle ended without a
decisive result.
The Red army, commanded by Colo
nel E. E. Pomeroy, of Atlanta, with
1.200 men, was the attacking force. This
army was made up of the Fifth Georgia
infantry, Third and Fourth Georgia in
fantry battalions, unassigned, and one
troop of the Eleventh cavalry, U. S. A.
The Brown army, commanded by Colo
nel Lewis, of the First Florida, defend
ed the thickly’ wooded Blue mountain
pass. This force Included the First
Florida. First South Carolina and the
Fourth Alabama Infantry regiments
and the Second squadron of Georgia
cavalry, about 1,600 men.
First Alabama Goes
To Anniston July 26
MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 24.—T0
transport troops of the First regiment
to the Anniston maneuver grounds the
Louisville and Nashville and the At
lantic Coast Line railroad will operate
special trains out of Montgomery on
the morning of July 26.
The Louisville and Nashville special
will carry the companies of Geneva,
Brewton, Fort Deposit and Evergreen,
and will pick up the Sylacauga com
pany' en route. The Atlantic Coast Line
will operate a special train, bringing to
Montgom the companies of Dothan,
Troy, Enterprise and Headland. This
special will be carried on through to
Anniston over the L. &N. tracks. The
three Mobile companies of the First
regiment will be transported over the
Mobile and Ohio.
Troops Returning
From Anniston Camp
COLUMBUS, GA„ July 24.—The
military companies of Phenix City,
Ala., Columbus, Americus and Albany,
Ga., will arrive on a special train to
night from Anniston. Ala., where they
have spent the past ten days in camp.
Fifty' members of the Columbus Guards
were in camp.
OPPOSITION TO HARRIS’
OIL INSPECTION BILL
ROUSES SENATOR’S IRE
Senator W. J. Barris, author of the
bill reducing the fees of state oil in
spectors, is up In arms against the state
ments which have emanated from the
department of agriculture to the effect
that his measure will cripple the inspec
tion of oil.
The agricultural department and W. C.
Bryant, chief oil inspector, are opposing
the Barris measure and favoring a bill
known as the Rush bill, which retains the
office of chief oil inspector, with a salary
of $2,500 a year. Senator Harris said:
“Opponents of my measure say that
it will be responsible for oil accidents in
the future because it will cripple the serv
ice. How do the present oil inspectors
account for the fact that six or seven
accidents have occurred in Atlanta re
cently, all traceable to imperfect oil under
the present system, w’hich allows the in
spectors enormous fees?”
JOHN D.’S LATEST STUNT
IS PROBATION OFFICER
NEW YORK, July 24—John D.
Rockefeller has suspended John Riley,
foreman on his Pocantlco Hills estate,
for being cruel to his family. Riley
will not be taken back until he proves
he can be a model husband. He re
cently kept his wife and seven children,
all under twelve years old, out of his
house all night.
Agent Charles Warkner, of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty' to
Children, investigated and Induced the
wife to have Riley taken before Police
Justice Foley of Mt. Pleasant on a
charge of cruelty.
Without waiting for the Judge to act,
Mr. Rockefeller ordered Riley laid off
until he promises to treat his family'
better. The justice thought Mr. Rocke
feller had punished him sufficiently, so
he let him go on probation.
WARE RACES WARM UP.
WA YCROSS, GA., July 24.—The con
tests for representative of Ware and
senator from the Fifth district attract
more attention with the approach of
the date of the primary. This is the
first time for Ware to vote for two rep
resentatives. The candidates for sena
tor are Judge J. L. Sweat, T, H Cal
houn, A. E. Cochran and O. E. Giddens;
for representatives, L. J. Cooper, J. L.
Crawley, Allen S. Morton and James
Cowart.
T’illti ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, IJJIz.
Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, Gives Reasons
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PROF. PARKER ADMITS
HE FAILED TO SCALE
MT. M’KINLEY’S PEAK
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. July 24.—The
latest attempt to scale Mount McKinley
has failed. Professor Herchel C. Parker,
of Columbia university, and Belmore
Brown, of Tacoma, have arrived here
with a report that their efforts to scale
the highest peak on this continent had
been thwarted.
They made two attempts, one on the
south peak and 19,000 feet on the north
peak.
It had been earlier reported that Pro
fessor Parker and Mr. Brown had suc
ceeded in scaling the peak.
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PRAYER MEETINGS AT
5:00 P. M. IN SUMMER
The Second Baptist church recently in
troduced the innovation of changing the
mid-week prayer meeting from 8 o'clock
to 5 o’clock, to accommodate business men
and others of the congregation. The at
tendance at the meetings has been quad
rupled since the change was made.
Dr. John E. White, yho leaves for bls
vacation next week, will preach Sunday
morning on "God’s Sunny Side" and at
8 o’clock he will conclude the series of
sermons on "A Month in Babylon.”
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FEARED IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, July 24.—Infantile par
alysis is epidemic in the neighborhood
of First avenue and Forty-ninth and
Forty-eighth streets. It is the first
dangerous recurrence of this disease
this year in New York, and, according
to specialists connected with the Rocke
feller institute, it may be expected to
assume serious proportions unless the
practicing physicians of the crowded
tenement districts learn to recognize
the disease in its incipient stages with
more success than thev haye so far ex
hibited.
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CONVENTION ATBRUNSWICK
WAYCROSS, GA., July 24. —The next
congressman from the Eleventh district
will be formally chosen by convention
at Brunswick August 31, after the pri
mary of August 21. This has been de
cided by the district executive com
mittee.
For the first time in years the con
vention will have before it two names,
those of J. Randall Walker, of Val
dosta, and Judge T. A. Parker, of Way
cross. The majority rule will prevail
in the selection of the next congress
man from the Eleventh.
ATLANTA CONTRACTORS
BUILDING IN LA GRANGE
LAGRANGE, GA„ July 24.—H. J. Carr
Kt Co., of Atlanta, contractors for the new
Callaway department stores, broke ground
today. The building, which is to be. three
stories and basement and located at Main
and Broome streets, will be completed be
fore January 1 and will cost $40,000.
S. H. Kress & Co.’s building, to adjoin the
Callaway building, will bo started next
Monday, according to the contractors.
The LaGrange electric laundry, now under
course of construction, will be completed
and in operation by October 1.
‘PLAINCLOTHES SLEUTHS
TO NAB PARK ROWDIES
Plain clothes officers hereafter will pro
tect women and children from rowdyism
in the parks.
Chief Beavers has determined on this
solution of the problem, and will have
sufficient corps of plain clothes officers on
hand for any emergency. The chief says
all disorderly persons will be arrested and
tried.
TO FIGHT HOOKWORM.
CORDELE. GA„ July 24.—The cam
paign against the hookworm in Geor
gia, being waged under the direction of
the state board of health, will be taken
up in Crisp county within the next few
weeks, if the board of county commis
sioners will assure co-operation with
the officials in charge of the work.
OIL FIRE LOSS $150,000.
WILMINGTON, DEL, July 24—Fire
completely destroyed the Union oil Com
pany's plant at Marcus Hook, north of
this city, early this morning with a loss
of $150,000. Fire companies from Ches
ter, Pa., responded to a call for aid.
from Bibb, in action on
the floor of the house
of representatives.
Economy Is Keynote in Plat
form of Veteran Legislator
and Treasury Watchdog.
Joe Hill Hall thinks he would serve
a useful purpose to the people of Geor
gia if he were named governor, and
that is why he wants to be elected.
The keynote of Mr. Hall’s campaign
is rational economy In the manage
ment of Georgia's financial affairs.
“Georgia should live within her in
come,” said Mr. Hall recently, and that
tells pretty well the sum total cf Joe
Hill Hall’s platform.
“The legislature makes the most ex
travagant appropriations, many of
them worthy enough in theory, per
haps,” said Mr. Hall, in a speech last
week, “without knowing, or caring,
seemingly, where the money to pay
them is to come from!”
The gentleman from Bibb is opposed
to that. He believes Georgia should
pay as she goes, and go only as she
pays.
For years Joe Hill Hall has been a
leading and powerful Influence in the
house of representatives. There, years
ago, he won deservedly the title of
"Georgia’s watchdog of the treasury."
In the light of his long and consist
ent experience, Joe Hill Hall is per
suaded that he might act a worthy and
commendable part in the governorship
—and that is why he wants to be gov
ernor.
In a short time The Georgian will
publish a statement from John M. Sla
ton, giving his’ ideas of why he would
be a good governor, and a similar state
ment from A. F. Castleberry, of Colum
bus, the Socialist candidate.
TURKISH WOMEN ARE
LIKE ALL OTHERS; TEN
OTTOMAN PROVERBS
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24.—The
Shail-Ul-Uam is distributing gratis a
little pamphlet of ten Turkish sayings.
They will be of interest to everybody:
1. Under a mother’s sole heaven itself
springs into life.
2. Whoever is good to a sorrowing
mother will be rewarded tenfold.
3. A woman's words are a witness to
her work.
4. Woman can make heaven or hell
for a man in his home.
5. The brain of a quarrelsome woman
is night without a moon.
6. A stupid wife will harm a man
more than his deadliest foe.
7. A happy love must be held with
both hands, with the eyes, the ears,
and with every thought.
8. Who wishes to marry must have
money in his safe and credit in his
pocket.
9. Whoever wants to know his own
worth let him go a-courting without
money or possessions.
10. Love makes man rich, woman
poor; it makes mam strong, woman
weak.
HERE’S WAY TO KILL RAT:
JUST GIVE HIM A SHOCK
WASHINGTON, July 24.—T0 kill a
rat or other rodent successfully, remove
the insulation from two heavily charged
electric wires for a short distance, sus
pend a bait between them and place a
tub of water on the floor beneath the
bait. This method is recommended by
the public health and marine hospital
service, and is described in an article
prepared by Dr. William Colby Rucker,
assistant surgeon general. The rat and
the ground squirrel are pointed out as
the carriers of the plague. The article
is entitled "Kill the Rat.”
BEES FILL SCARECROW’S
TROUSER LEG WITH HONEY
KINGSTON, N. Y._ July 24.—Ellis
Osterhaut, a farmer near here, has dis
covered that bees have turned one of
his scarecrows into a hive. The trous
ers legs of the figure were filled with
honey,
WESTERN UNION IS
ENJOINED IN LEGAL
WAR WITH N., C. & ST. L.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany may have trouble with its lines
between Kingston and Rome for several
weeks after August 17. The contract
with the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis railroad, by which the telegraph
company is allowed to operate lines
along the railroad between these two
points, will expire, and the railroad
company declares the telegraph com
pany will not be allowed to continue
operations.
This announcement was made sev
eral months ago and the telegraph
company immediately began condem
nation proceedings against the railroad
to obtain a right of way when the con
tract ends. However, the railroad com
pany today got an injunction against
the telegraph company, by which It is
restrained from a continuance of the
proceedings until the case Is heard in
superior court September 7.
The injunction was asked by the
railroad on the ground that it will op
erate its own telegraph line between
Kingston and Rome after August 17.
ATLANTA GIRL TYPE
DESIRED FOR CHORUS
BY BROADWAY NOW
The "Atlanta type” chorus girl more
than likely will he the rage on Broad
way the coming theatrical season If
the ideas of Charles Frohman are
adopted.
Mr. Frohman said the theatergoers
were tired of the old Broadway style
of stage beauty with her stagey figure,
stagey face and stagey voice. Girls
who have never been on Broadway are
sought, therefore.
The innovation will be tried in "The
Girl From Montmarte.” Girls from
every state in the Union will be tried
out. Three of them already have ar
rived—one from Michigan, one from
Tennessee and one from Atlanta. The
Atlanta girl made an immediate hit and
there is talk of the whole chorus being
‘Georgia peaches.”
BOSTON “L” BUSY AS
GRAND JURY PLANS
ARREST OF OFFICERS
BOSTON, July 24—The Boston ele
vated railroad company saved ten of
its superintendents and other officials
from being arrested on capias warrants
today by rushing them to the Suffolk
county court house in autos so they
could appear before the Judge before
the police could serve the warrants on
them. «
They had been summoned to testify
before the grand jury session to inves
tigate alleged intimidation and perjury
by elevated officials in the car men
strike.
FIRE ENGINE HITS CAR;
TWO FIREMEN KILLED
CHICAGO, July 24. —Two firemen,
Lieutenant Harrigan and a pipeman,
were killed today in a collision between
a fire engine and a street car at Devon
avenue and North Clark street. A
number of passengers were injured, ac
cording to report.
FIRST OPEN COTTON BOLL.
CORDELE, GA., July 24.—The first
open boll of cotton of the new season’s
crop to be exhibited In Crisp county
was brought in from the farm of J. W.
Cannon, on Flint river, in the western
part of the county.
Mr. Cannon is cashier of the Ameri
can National bank of Cordele.
MISSING BANKER RETURNS.
MONTGOMERY. ALA., July 24.—J.
M. Jeter, the Geneva. Ala., bank cash
ier who disappeared from At'anta June
17, returned to his home at Geneva
yesterday, according to information
that was brought to Montgomery today.
GIRL HELD UNDER
UYPNDTIG SPELL
Georgia Romance Terminates
in Memphis When Man Dis
cards Trusting Fiancee.
MEMPHIS, TENN., July 24.—A ro
mance beginning in Valdosta, Ga.. came
to a sudden end here today when Miss
Mabie Pryor, daughter of a wealthy
planter at Talbotton, Ga., was sent to
her home after she complained to the
police that J. T. Guidry, a traveling
man, had kept her under his hypnotic
influence for several weeks.
Guidry was arrested and was given
a few hours to leave Memphis. The
girl sobbed out her story' to Acting
Chief of Detectives Al Hurst, telling
how she first met Guidry' In Valdosta,
where she was housekeeper at the
home of a bachelor uncle. He lured
her from there to Atlanta, then to
Nashville, on promise of marriage, and
finally, she says, was getting ready' to
desert her here when she suddenly
came from under his Influence, became
scared and went to the police.
Miss Pryor left Valdosta with SI,OOO.
Guidry spent that in less than two
weeks and would have left her penni
less had not his plan been found out by
the police.
PLAN FOR TESTING
EYES IN FULL FOCUS
TOLD TO OPTICIANS
Dynamic sklametry, a new plan for
testing the eyes, was urged today at the
meeting of the Georgia State Optical
association by Dr. H. J. Cook, of Knox
ville, former president of the American
Optical association.
The ne-w plan, which was formulated
only’ three years ago by Dr. A. J. Cross,
of New York city, is radically different
from the present one in general use by
optometrists. At present the method Is
to test the ey'es after they have been
practically deadened from the atrophy
ing power of belladonna. Under the
new plan the eyes are tested while in
full focus.
Dr. Cook, in an address full of Inter
est to the Georgia opticians, said that
after investigation he had adopted the
new plan as being far more certain
than the old one. He urged its adop
tion by every optometrist In the coun
try.
“Psychology 1n Optometry,” by J. H.
Tinder, of Birmingham, and the “Op
tometrist as a Citizen,” by Charles H.
Kittrell, of Dublin, were addresses de
livered today.
The convention met again this after
noon at the Piedmont and tonight will
hold its banquet at the Elks club.
NEW YORKTaWYER
IS FATALLY SHOT BY
HIS FORMER CLIENT
NEW YORK. July 24.—Joseph Fet
tretch, senior member of the firm of
Fettretch & Seydel, attorneys at 41
Park row, was fatally shot by a for
mer client in his office on the ninth
floor this morning.
A clerk who attempted to save his
employer also was wounded.
The assassin fired three bullets into
Fettretch’s body before he was over
come and arrested.
The prisoner gave the name of Con
way. It Is believed he expected to take
his own life after his attempt to kill
Fettretch.
F’ettretch’s assailant was later iden
tified as Joseph J. Conroy, of Brooklyn.
The shooting had its inception in a do
mestic quarrel of Conroy’s which finally
found its way into court. Fettretch
was appointed referee to hear both
sides of the case, but he did not report
In time to satisfy Conroy. He began
to haunt the lawyer's office and made
himself a nuisance, according to the
clerks there.
SENATE TO TAKE UP
APPOINTMENTS FIGHT
AT SECRET SESSION
Overshadowed by the Tippins-Alex
ander bill, consideration of Governor
Brown’s appointments to the state
board of education was postponed by
the senate today. By an arrangement
sanctioned by senators said to be op
posed to the nominees, the senate will
go into executive session tomorrow
morning and dispose of the matter.
The assertion Is being made by both
the governor’s friends and foes tn the
upper house that the appointments will
bo approved or rejected strictly upon
the legal phase of the matter. Both
sides disclaim a desire to play politics.
In naming G. R. Glenn, of the Dah
lonega agricultural school, in place of
Dr. Jere M. Pound, of the Athens nor
mal, and A. T. Moon, of Baxley, in
place of J. C, Langston, of Sylvania.
Governor Brown put it squarely up to
the senate to determine the legality of
Hoke Smith’s appointments as other
than ”ad interim" appointments.
RAINMAKERS SET OFF
TONS OF DYNAMITE;
. FLOODS WASH TOWN
BATTLE CREEK. MICH,. July 24
The worst rain and wind storm Battle
Creek has known for years swept the
city last night, and today the inhab
itants are divided into two factions—
those who blame the rainmakers and
those who blame the weather man.
Yesterday the Battle Creek Industrial
association fired 4,500 pounds of dyna
mite paid for by C. W. Post. The can
nonading, started In an effort to pro
duce rain, continued all day. The rain
came, but before it the weather man
had sent out a forecast of "sbo'.vers.”
TD SUE WHIPPERS
FORS2S.DDO.OO
DAMAGES
Essie Carter to Seek Damages
From W. S. Dozier and Oth
ers for Dawson Flogging.
MACON, GA., July 24.—Attorneys
employed by the friends of Essie Car
ter are preparing to bring suit in he,r
behalf against W. S. Dozier, clerk of
the superior court of Terrell county, at
Dawson, for damages in the sum of
$25,000 on account of the horsewhip
ping inflicted upon her by him and
others Saturday night. Clyde Dozier, a
son, and brother of Voght Dozier, whose
alleged infatuation for the girl caused
all of the trouble, and Pope McClung, a
friend, will be. made parties to the ac
tion.
Suit will be filed in the western divi
sion of the United States court for the
Northern district of Georgia, it being
claimed that Essie Carter is a legal
resident of South Carolina and entitled
to the privileges of the Federal court in '
Georgia.
Weak, feverish and suffering acute
pain from the scores of cuts and
bruises ail over her body, Essie Cartel
today sat up tn bed and denied the
truth of parts of the statement issued
in explanation by W. S. Dozier.
Denies Pursuing Son.
“I have never pursued his son,-’ -she
declared, “and I did not seek to erttice
the boy away from home. For that
matter, he 1h not a boy. but fully grown,
Voght Dozier is simply a young man
who is sowing his wild oats, and he
himself, not I. nor any other woman, is
responsible for the anxiety and hu
miliation that he has brought upon his
family. My indictment at Dawson was
persecution, and it resulted from the
Influences of the same persons who so
cowardly and brutally beat me.
"When I returned to Dawson last
Wednesday It was not to encourage
Voght Dozier’s attentions, but to re
cover two of my diamond rings that he
had pawned. He secured these rings
from my sister, Mary, under false pre
tenses, and even after pawning them
he told me that she still had them. If
there is any infatuation it is on his
side, not mine. I have always felt sor
ry for him, and it was because of this
feeling that I was at first inclined to
shield him and his family from pub
licity. However, I have now decided to
pro,,ecuto the Doziers to the
Dozier Defends
Drastic Course
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DAWSON. GA„ July 24.— Declaring
that his wayward son, Voght Dozier,
was infatuated with the woman and
that he had been unable to keep them
apart, even after he hah persuaded her
to leave town, W. S. Dozier, superior
court clerk of Terrell county, has is
sued a statement in defense of his ef
forts to reclaim his son that resulted
in Essie Carter being unmercifully
whipped here Saturday night. He
says:
"I have no excuse to offer for hltn
(the son), and while my judgment may
be erroneous, I have no .excuse -to offer
for my efforts to reclaim him."
The statement goes at length into
the relations between young Dozier and
the Carter woman and recites the fa
ther's effort to break the youth’s in
fatuation, going so far as to appeal
personally to her.
Although the Dozier family has long
been one of the most highly esteemed
in this section and W. S. Dozier has
many years defeated all aspirants for
clerk of court, the affair has brought
down upon him the censure of many
people for taking seven men along in
the dead hours of the night to chastise
one lone woman with a buggy whip.
They point to the fact that Voght Do
zier has for several years been noted
for his recklessness, having been a
party to numerous cases in the courts;
that he is old enough to account for
himself, and that he should, at least,
have been given the same punishment,
at the hands of his father, at the time
the woman was flogged. The whipping
of a white woman by a party of prom
inent citizens is something new here.
MARRIAGE TOTTERY
BIG SUCCESS; 5,000
ROUBLES TO COUPLE
ST. PETERSBURG, July 24.—At
Smolensk the annual marriage lottery
recently took place, and was remark
ably financially successful. >
The young girl who was to be the
prize was chosen by the municipal
council ten days before the lots were
drawn, and the ticket holders at once
visited her house to make her ac
quaintance.
Five thousand one-rouble tickets
were sold, and the money which would
have been equally divided between the
prize and its winner if she had refused
him, as she had the right to do, was, as
Is customary, presented to the young
couple a.s a wedding gift.
CHURCH RECORDS SHOW
MEXICAN 185 YEARS OLD
MANZANILLO, MEXICO, July 24.—1 t
has been established by church records
here that Jose Calvario, who died a few
days ago, was 185 years old, having been
born in 1727.
FLIPS COIN TO SEE IF HE
SHOULD DIE;_KILLS SELF
NEW YORK, July 24—With the remark;
“Heads I die; tails I live," Franz Slrle, 24
years old, tossed a coin in a shooting gal
lery last night. It came heads and he shot
himself, dying soon afterwards.
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