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the weather Fair . No change in temperature. T .„ oe ratures: 8 a. m„ 83 degrees; 1C a m.. 89 degrees; 12 m„ 92 de gr.es; 2 p. m., 91 degrees. VOL. XI. NO. 26. UICMEi m SEEKS TILT M WILSDti Intends to Make Sharp Reply Today to Jersey Governor’s Buffalo Speeech. DECLARES HE HAS TWO OLD PARTIES ON THE RUN Confidence of Bull Moose Chief Grows as He Swings Into Middle West. MUNCIE, TND, Sept. B.—“ The two eld parties are scared; they are doing all they can to beat me. I’ll give them, a hard fight. We'll win out, too.” This utterance of Colonel Roosevelt today as his train stopped at this city evinced the confidence the ex-preai dent is beginning to have as to his ultimate chance of winning the elec tion. While Roosevelt considers that he has the fight of his life on his hands, he expects that, as the campaign goes along, he will be able to swing the sentiment his own way. The attitude of the crowds in Con necticut yesterday, coming on the heels of the whirlwind campaign in Vermont, impelled the colonel to say that the Progressive party is gaining In force. He wants to get Woodrow ■Wilson into the open in an aggressive battle so that he can puncture his ar mor. Doesn’t Want, To Mention Taft. Ts he can avoid It, Roosevelt will have little to say about President Taft, de siring to give the Impression that he regards the president as out of the race. His allusions to the president up to this time have been brief. He has attacked the Republican party’s platform and the performances of the Taft administration, but has refrained from indulging in any severe assult on the president Individually. Roosevelt read on the train this morning of the attack made upon him by Governor Wilson in Buffalo. He observed that he will take up the cud gels against Wilson at once. In his St. Louis speech late today it is ex pected that the colonel will make sharp reply to the governor. Due To Reach St. Louis Late Today. Roosevelt’s schedule gets him to St. Louis late this afternoon. He remains until 7:40 o’clock, when he rushes on to St. Paul. The colonel was disappointed great ly this morning when he learned that a crowd of 5,000 persons had waited at the depot at Syracuse tn the rain last night in a vain effort to see him. Roosevelt was fast asleep after a fatiguing day when the train pulled into Syracuse at 10 o'clock, and his sec retary declined to awaken him. The crowd stood patiently in the rain until the train pulled out. Senator Cummins To Vote for Colonel rtES MOINES. TA, Sept. 3.—United States Senator Cummins came out flatly against President Taft in a state ment he issued here today. The sen ator declared he would vote for Colonel Roosevelt for president, but at the sarne time announced his opposition to the naming of a third party state tick et at the convention which Roosevelt ,s scheduled to address here tomorrow. Birmingham to Give Bull Moose Dinner BIR MINGHAM, ALA., Sept. 3.—Colonel eodore Roosevelt when he comes r "Jgh Birmingham on September- 28 ' b? accorded a big reception. Several ' r, nsand people will be at the train or ™ :> ’ a< e "’here he is to deliver his ad j'ss Th e Colonel will arrive in Bir n, ngham a few minutes after 12 o’clock J 1 will be here until 3:30 o’clock in the • ernoon, or about three hours, going here to Atlanta. He will be given a _ nner during his stay in Birmingham / in 'Bcations are that 200 or more will a e application for dinner tickets. SENATOR SMITH UNABLE TO SPEAK AT TEXAS FAIR penld 4 ’. o ’ p<\ke Smith has been com thr ? 4 ie, *Dne an invitation to speak '■ bor is xas sl ate/air at Dallas, on Oc i's. P as Be will be engageci in the , ‘ throughout September " rpfi ] , oher - A hearty invitation was ln * ’»y the fair management and Prominent citizens of Dallas He ' <ls anxious to accept an invlta- ' ' at the Wilkes and Lincoln Georgia. but was corn decline tor the same reason. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results. : Says, Fisticuff Ruined • ; Appetite; Asks $2,500: • Joe Weinberg, proprietor of a • • meat market at 9 West Mitchell • • street, who is suing Robert E • • Hogg for 32,500 as a result of a • • personal encounter last Septem- • • ber, told the superior court today • • that a blow from Hogg has ruined • • his appetite. He says other in- • • juries were received in the fight. • • but that they were not dangerous • • • Council to Urge It Be Made Boss of Chief of Construction Division Also Will Recommend That the Office Have Assistant to Look After Details. The city council met this afternoon to act finally on the report of the spe cial committee on the reorganization of the chief of construction depart ment. While the chief of construction still fa to be elected by the people, the committee will recommend that he be placed directly under the control of council. Council then will assume more responsibility for the work and it can direct the chief of construction at any time. The chief of construction now is independent of council. The chief is to have an assistant in charge of the details of the office and an engineer in charge of streets and an engineer in charge of sewers. Also it is recommended that the qualifica tion that he must be an engineer of ten years experience be eliminated. Councilman Claude Mason an nounced that he will urge council to provide that instead of having a high priced assistant chief of construction in charge of the office that that offi cial be designated as chief clerk and that he be a business man rather than an engineer. Councilman Harvey Hatcher said he would insist that some engineering qualification be adopted for the men in charge of the engineering work of the office. At the meeting a communication was received from the board of education urging that the four city high schools be sold and that a university high school be built on the stockade prop erty. GRADING BEGUN ON NEW TROLLEY LINE TO STONE MOUNTAIN Work of grading the new trolley line from Decatur to Stone Mountain was begun today by a big force of men. The grading was started near Clarks ton, beyond Decatur, and it is expect ed the road will be completed in about a year. The extension will run from the South Decatur line, near the railroad station, and not from the main or North Decatur tracks. It will keep to the south side of the Georgia railroad to a point near Clarkston, then dip through an underpass to the north side. The extension will be about nine miles long, making the trip from Atlanta to Stone Mountain about sixteen miles, probably will be on a basis of about The fare has not been fixed, but It 2 cents a mile. MOB IN CHATTANOOGA SEARCHES IN VAIN FOR SLAYERS OF OFFICER CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. Sept. 3. A mob of 600 men and boys, bent on lynching two negroes accused of a killing, held this city in its sway for several hours today while they searched the streets and prisons The negroes, Newton Howard and Ernest Selman, who are charged with killing a policeman on Sunday, had been spirited away, however, before the mob was formed. The men paraded from one end of the city to the other and refused to obey the order of the police to dis perse. Angry citizens sent in a num ber of riot calls to police headquar ters, but the authorities were power less to act. ELECTION BLANKS DO NOT SHOW NAME FOR BENCH IN BLUE RIDGE The state election blanks will go out to the ordinaries of the state this year with a blank line representing the can didate for the Blue Ridge judgeship The public printer is hurrying through with the preparation of the blanks in order that they may be sent out at the very earliest moment, and in the cir cumstances of the disputed Blue Ridge judgeship, it will be necessary for voters to write in the name of that candidate on election day after the state committee has ratified the nomination The fight between Judge H. L. Patter son and Judge Newt Morris for the Blue Ridge nomination comes before the state Democratic committee tomorrow, and it is expected the hearing will run at least two days, if not longer. 3 KILLED; 7 HURT IN WRECK. MEMPHIS, TENN.. Sept. 3.—David Plough, seven years old. of Memphis: Mis. Mary Seligman. Wheatley. Aik., and an unidentified negro were killed when a Missouri and North Arkansas passenger train was wrecked at Shir ley. Ark., early today Five passen gers and two of the train crew are repo -.jl, fatally injut'.d, Th, wreck was caused by spreading rails. i ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1912. LIFE CONVICT RISKS OEIIH FOH PJROLEO Negro Slayer Fights Off Mad man Who Is Endeavoring to Kill Camp Officer. BLACK HERO MODEL PRISONER 22 YEARS Colored Youth Who Saved White Woman in Runaway Also to Go Free. Because he risked his life to protect his guard against the insanely mur derous assault of a madman. Ben Jones, a negro life convict from Ran dolph county, will be paroled by the governor, and released from the state’s custody. Jones came to the penitentiary 22 years ago, convicted of murder on cir cumstances that commended him suffi ciently to the court's mercy to save him from the gallows. - He has been consistently an humble and uncomplaining prisoner. He served in the coal mines of Dade for years, under the old convict lease sys tem. He is known as a good work man, and he never gave his keepers any trouble. He is quiet and inoffen sive in his manner and seemed to have settled down unprotestingly to the hard-working but humdrum existence of a man without hope of liberty or freedom in this world again. Not long ago a negro convict named Henry Bacon ran amuck in a Chat ham county camp, wnere both he and .Tones were located, and viciously at tacked the guard. Captain George Gay. Bacon had an iron crowbar and was plainly crazed and bent upon killing the white man employed to oversee the convicts at their work. Alone, Overpowers Bloodthirsty Maniac. Single-handed. Convict Jones at tacked the madman, overpowered him and saved the life of Gary. Gary says he owes his life to the prompt action of the negro and that no man could have done a braver or more courageous thing than Jones did. All of this was placed before Govern or Brown recently,, and with it was filed a petition from the grand jury of Chatham county, setting forth the facts in the case. The governor promptly agreed that Jones had won the undisputed right to executive clemency. So Jones win be paroled and will soon be free. Jones is overjoyed, of course. But he seems to feel that he only per formed a duty. He says he would do it all over again, and without any thought of eventual reward. The governor thinks there may be wmrse men in the world, and at large, than is Ben Jones, convicted of murder 22 years ago. The governor also determined today to pardon Willie Jones, a negro of seventeen, sent up a few months ago from Baker for simple larceny. This young negro, too. has a record for gallantry, and upon it the governor based much of his determination to clemency. He bravely stopped a run away horse as it dashed through his camp in Baker county recently, and thereby prevented serious injury to, and maybe saved the life of. a white woman living in that vicinity. “CONTROVERSY”OR “MISUNDERSTANDING" PENALTY THE SAME If there is any particular difference between a controversy and a misunder standing. it is not known ’to court. When Recorder Pro Tern Preston to day was called on to determine this difference, he ruled that one Is just as bad as the other in the eyes of the law. It came about w hen two tailors, Char lie Brisler and J. H. Rauch, were ar raigned because of a little mlxup late yesterday afternoon at Pryor and Ala bama streets. Brisler characterized it as a "mere misunderstanding.” Rauch said it was nothing more than a ‘‘little controver sy." Judge Preston carefully weighed the t,wo terms, and then fined the tailors $7.75 each. $25,000 BANK AT TRION GIVEN STATE CHARTER The secretary of state today signed the charter *.f the Bank of Trion. This new bank has been capitalized al $35,000. and will commence buaine S s in Trion, Chat tooga county, immediately Thousands See Contests for the 1912 Swimming Titles GIRLS’ WATER RACE THRILLS • yr \\ iw r i k- 1 .a \ _a\ " -wr I P •\' 1 * Walthour Wins Championship in Piedmont Meet—Women’s Prize to Miss Murphy. Miss Mabel Murphy is today ac-I claimed as the champion gill swimmer !of Piedmont park, and none is quicki : to acknowledge her skill than Mis.-- | Fiances Smith, who lost the coveted honor by a tew inches So close was the race in which these two expert swimmers competed yes terday that the judges had to hold a conference to decide who had reached the mark first. There were nearly a dozen pretty swimmers in the con tests. all bunched closely behind the leaders. Miss Orrie Crenshaw coming in third Mits Murphy won a handsome piece of cut glass, making the twenty five yards in thirty seconds. Tat Walthour. brother of the famous bicycle rider, holds the silver loving cup and the man's championship of the lake. Here are the summaries; Events and Winners. 25-Yard Dash for Men —Time, 16 seconds; Trammell. Peeples. Bedell. Prize, shirt, offered by Essig Bros. 50-Yard Dash for Men—Timo, 36 seconds. First heat. Walthour, Mon salvatge. Bedell; second heat Logan. Sams, Lennick; final, Walthour, Logan Bedell. First prize, bathing suit, of fered by Yancey Hardware Companv; second prize, tie, from Eiseman Bros, i 100-Yard Dash for Men—Time, 1! minute 25 seconds. Logan. Walthour.! Cowles (Crane winning, but disquali fied as professional). Prize, bathing suit, offered by J. M. High Company Half Mile Race for Men—Time, 16 minutes 34 seconds. Walthour. lon nick. Logan (Crane was disqualified for third place). Prize, gold signet ring, offered by Charles Chosewood, in charge of the boat concessions at the lake. 25-Yard Dash for Boys—Time, 17.4 seconds. Louis Sams, Gilbert Frazier. Harvey Anderson Prize, bathing suit, offered by College Co-Op Company. 100-Yard Dash for Boys—Time. 1 minute 32 seconds. Louis Sams, (fil bert Frazier, Harvey Anderson. P. iz< . bathing suit, offered by Cloud-Stanford Company. Boat tilting contest, iwo best falls out of three. Monsalvatge and Ryan, Sams brothers. 25-Yard Dash for Girls -Tim*. 30 seconds. Miss Mabel Murphy. Miss Frances Smith, Miss Orrie Crenshaw. Prize, piece of cut glass, offered Uy- King Hardware Company. Winners of points in silver cup con test: Walthour. 40 points: Logan, 30 points; Lennick. 15 points. MISSION WORKERS PLEA SAVES YOUTH FROM PRISON TERM Mrs Mary Wolfort, a philanthropic and church worker in the Whittier mills settlement at Chattahooihee, to day appeared in police court and made an eloquent plea in behalf of a six- . teen-year-old youth. K. McKinney, a 1 mill operative, who yesterday after noon attacked Turnkey Brannan when taken to the police station intoxicated. Mrs. Wolfort’s pleadings touched the heart of Recorder Pro Tern Preston and saved the youth from punishment. Instead of fining or sending young Mc- Kinney to the stockade. Judge Preston gave him another Thance, placing him on probation under Probation Officer Coogler. The court lectured the boy and | romised him 90 days if he ap pealed tn court,again. The youth said he drank some beer and then mixed in a drink of blind ti ger whisky, and that this sent him on the war path. H< fought the turnkey for several minutes before he could be placed in a cell. Miss l‘’fatiecs Smith, -yvhu finished nd in the won race. Ihe winners time was 30 seconds. Miss Smith was behind Miss Murphy, the victor. GOVERNMENT CROP ESTIMATE 74 <3 PCT. W ASIII Sept. 3.—A report issued today by ihe crop reporting board of the department of agriculture shows the con dition of the cotton crop on August 25 as 74. S per cent of nor mal. compared with 76.5 July 25 1912. 73.2 August 25. 1911. and 73.6 the ten year average for August 25. l l' condition in various eotion-growing slaye:- toll *.• w - ' Au s ’ July 1 Aug. | Aug. : Aug. | Aug. Aug., Aug. I Aug. A (ig“ STA'I E— I 25 | 25 25- I 25 I 25 I 25 I 25 ">5 25 25 I 1'912 | 1912 j 1911 | 1910 _1909 I 1908 | 1907 1906 I 1905 ' 1904 Georgia . . .! 70 i 68 I 81 I 71 1 73 . 77 i 81 i 72 77 • S 6 N Carolina. .' 75 80 I 76 ’ 76 1 73 I 80 78 71 . “6 88 S. Carolina. ,| 73 75 | 76 73 I 74 ' 76 f 83 71 75 1 87 '‘'■P'?'' 1 ' " •. 80 8 6 «« 82 ' 73 I 87 71 71 76 ' 88 Honda . . 73 176j85i74 !75! 80 so i7O 77 I SB Alabama. 75 74 ! 80 | 72 I 66 I 77 ;;; 7fi 70 Mississippi ,| 70 ■ 68 70 I 71 I 61 I 79 72 82 69 87 Louisiana. .. 74 I 76 60 60 I 48 I 63 1,9 7C, ,;■• 87 '•’pxa>. 76 1 84 1 6S | 69 j 59 | 75 67 78 70 Arkansas. 77 74 78 I 78 60 83 65 . 84 72 88 Tennessee.. ,| 76 1 71 1 88 | 78 | 75 I 88 78 88 81 " 88 Missouri. . . 78 75 88 ’ 78 ’ 80 'to 7f, *|.| sti 87 Oklahoma... 84 80 62 | 85 56 7o Z x- s« <’alifoi nia.. . 75 99 100 95 1, • <4.8 i 6.5 73.2 72.1* 63.7 76.1 72.71 77.3! 7“ ) 84 1 len yr. a . er.! 73.6 . . . . . . | _.. _ _ i ■ REPLIES TO MOOffIRD Mayor Says Candidate’s State ment Gives Misleading In formation on Finances. Ileplying to James ,G. Woodward's an nouncement statement as a candidate for mayor. Mayor Courtland S. Winn gave an interview today in which he said Mr. Woodward's statement gave some mis leading information about the city's finan cial condition. Mr. Woodward said that the present administration had pledged $600,000 of the city's future revenue, while the charter specifically provides that one administra tion can not spend any of the revenue of any future year. Mayor Winn said that Mr Woodward included in his statement $95,000 of street, school and sewer serial bonds, which ma ture January 1, $25,000 of Auditorium bonds and the entire $375,000 which the new crematory and electric power plant is to cost. Mayor Winn said that the mayor and council had simply given the city's moral obligation for the following amounts, which is simply a recommendation to next year’s council that the appropria tions be made; A $75,000 payment on a $276,000 crema tory. $11,250 as a payment on the Eng lish-Commercial Gills' High school lot; a $4,000 payment on a new site for a stock ade. SB,IOO for the regrading of Forsyth .street, and $7,500 as a payment to Carl Witt for ilitmages to his property caused by the widening of Peachtree street. The total is $105,850. ‘fhe council contemplates giving its moral obligation for $30,000 for the Ivy street improvement and for several other improvements, but final action has not yet been taken, said the mayor. THIRD TRIAL OF DR. HYDE TO GO OVER TILL JANUARY KANSAS CITY. MO., Sept. 3. When Hie trial of B Clarke Hyde, charged with the murder of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, comes up late today It will be postponed. Attorneys for the prose cution and defense reached .an agree ment and the ruse will be continued probably until the January term of court. FATHER IGCUSEB DF TIKING GUILD Mrs. Rudolph Oeiter Thinks Husband Has Child Award ed Her by Court. Baby - >y<s are light blown, his ! right eye being sl’ghtly defective and closes same frequently; hair very light, and worn Buster Brown fashion Arrest either man or baby and notify bv wire Chief of Police .1. 1, Beavers. Atlanta, Ga. That's the striking part of a notice sent out today by the police of Atlan ta in the search for a throe-year-old boy, Theodore Oetter, son of Mrs. odes, sic Getter, who says his father. Ru dolph Oetter. has kidnaped the child. Tile youngster whs awarded to the mother after a long court fight, hut disappeared last night. Today a war rant was sworn out for the "man or the baby In Justice Johnson's court and the case also will be taken to the superior court, contempt being charged. The police issued a description of the man and child. Mrs. Oette: lives with h?r mother. Mrs. Emily Smith, 9 Nesbit street, and there has been taking care of the 1 youngster who was awarded to her after a long fight in court Oetter, tne . father, has been coming to see the . youngster off and on He visited the house last night, ac cording to Mrs. Smith, and took the boy out to a corner drug store’for some ice cream. At the same time lie had ' some summer beverages sent to the house for Mrs. Smith and his wife. The 1 two women awaited his return for an hour and then Mrs. (letter began a , hysterical si arch of the streets for the ' child. She found no clew and the police have ! not been abb to locate Ihe man. There ■ was some talk of an automobile having figured in the so-called kidnaping. — -I HOMI Edition 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE POOH SUFFER KSMERCURY (LIMBS FOB I MRU Infant Death Rate Jumps as 'Temperature Equals High Ma r k for Period. 297.500 SODA WATER DRINKS SOLD IN DAY ! Sleeping Ortizons '!?s Bcco'Z Common—Little Hope for Early Relief Entertained. Atlanta is suffering tod: ' f; >m no ■ | than a week of torrid op- rat ore <f days when work means tw.ing »n s unwilling mind and body, when : co ■ was unbearable and i shower bath th J most delicious luxury imaginable it | has been a w eek of to: ture forth" sick, of anguish for teething bebies and all little folk condemned to indoors; a week of sleepless nights with the dis. comfort broken only with the approach of dawn. It will long tn- remembered as the “great hot spell of 1912." Yet with all the suffering, the official weather records with the cold, heart lessness of statistics show" that past hot weather records have not been reached Even today , which many are ready to monounce "the hottest I ever knew." lacked a degree of equaling yesterday's temperature. The official thermometer climbed to 92 at noon, dropped back to 91 when a cloud came between earth and sun at 1:30 o'clock, and crept up to 92 again at 2 o'clock. And there is no relief in sight. The figures for the first two days of September are exactly up to the high est temperature on record for the cor responding period, the hot weather mark being set in 1907. the year hard boiled eggs were reported ready-laid. They were September !• 92 degrees; S, pteinber 93 degrees: the figures being recorded Sunday and yesterday, though rot given out, both days be ing Ivridays. I What Convinced | Hun It Was Hot. | But still the thermometer failed to its ow ii high mercury ma: k. > 1 hard is it might. l-'or on Sept mb: r j 18. in 1896. two weeks later limn :...-. I the otiieial figures w'ere 97 degrees in tile greatly overcrowded shade. It A - thought that day was billed ier a return engagemeni th»re wouldn't 1.- J enough outgoing tr.iar- to carry .he , crow d. | Mr. Von Herrmann, who looks if.er the Georgia weather for tile gov. la ment. Inn washes ids hands of any re sponsibility be.vond reporting ami i - cording the \ i;,.ires of tlu clot us. sun and winds admitted today tiiai it was luit. He didn't depend on his in struments. either. it was an houi s work idiot mg a lawn mower over s I front yard yesterday which gave hint i a w ell defined opinion on Hie subject. “There’s no rain in sight, either," re marked Mr Von Herrmann, -adly. peer ing out ot his breeze-swept windows on the to|> floor of the Empire building. “But I don't think this lieated spell will . last tiiiu.h longer. I think it will nmd- I ••trite in the next few day s." 297.500 Drinks Sold Here In One Day. Soda fountain proprietors checking their sates today discovered that At lantans spent sls,OOfi for soda last Saturday and that day broke all rec ords for soft drink sales. That meant 297,5<H1 separate drinks, according to the figures soda water men have fixed by long experience. They j estimate that 85 per cent of sales are from five-cent drinks and 15 per cent from ten and tifteen-cenl beverages. There are 350 soda stands in At lanta. and the managers of the sev eral soda concerns which operate va rious stands agree on an estimate of S4O average sales from each stand, big and little. Os course, some of the up town stands run far above this, up to sl<io. while little suburban and corner grocery founts will be far below. But they fix S4O as Saturday's average. One <oneern which operates five stands found its business had jumped nearly a third on Saturday. Suu/lay was a small day. for there were few people on th*? streets ami most stands were closed. Labor day was consid erably below Saturday in its sales. The |.r-t t> n day s has done more to ed ucate Atlanti toward outdoor sleeping than ill the magazine articles in the past five years. X - .« - • sr -' ■