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U.S.MILLIDNAIBE HELOCAPTIVE 8L REBELS Walter Douglas, Manager of Mine. Seized—Women Reach Safety Under Guard. DOUGLAS, ARIZ., Sept. 11.—Walter Douglas, millionaire, general manager of the Phelps-Dodge mining interests, Is a prisoner of Mexican rebels south of here today, according to advices re ceiver] this morning. Douglas, accord ing to the reports, was seized by rebels while he was 'traveling between Agua Prieta and Nacozati. Douglas Is held by Escabosa rebels for ransom of a quarter of a million dollars. The demand has been sent to the Phelps-Dodge interests. Escabosa has also demanded a million pesos from the Nacozari Copper Company to cease destroying property. The news of the capture has caused treat excitement here. It has increased the feeling of indignation of the people here against the rebels and it is feared that reprisals may be attempted. A party of twenty American women refugees from the Tigre mine have ar rived-at Isabel station under escort of 135 armed Kickapoo Indians. Three hundred rifles and a large amount of ammunition have passed Into Sonora from the United States to the use of Americans in Nacozari in defendin gthemselves if needed. Wall Street Blamed By Rebel Agent WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. —The Ameri can state department was denounced as a "creature of Wall Street conspirators and financial pirates in Mexico” today by .luan Pedro Didapp, Washington repre sentative of Mexican revolutionists. He formally protested against the United States rendering any aid to the Mexican government in its campaign against the rebels and issued a statement scoring the state department for its policy. "1 am compelled." declared Senor Dl enpp, "to protest to the American peo ple against the state department allow ing Madero troops to cross American territory, and thus practically make American territory a basis of Madero's military operations. Actions such as this, an open support of Madero by the state ilepartrnent, are the cause of hostility of the Mexican people to Americans in Mex ico. Creature of Financial Pirates. Speyer, Morgan and the Harriman in terests control the Mexican railways; Henry Clay Pierce and the Standard Oil Company possess a monopoly of Mexi can oil lands; big business interests in Mexico of .John Hays Hammond and Charles P. Taft, the president's brother — these are the big powers which arte forcing the state department openly to assist Madero. "The state department is merely the creature of Wall Street conspirators and financial pirates in Mexico. If the state department is as anxious for peace as it professes let the United States give the revolutionists belliger ent rights and they will throw Madera out of Mexico and establish peace in the republic in two weeks. "If the state department will grant bel ligerent rights to the revolutionists, they will guarantee to protect all American lives and property in the republic and all friction along the border with Ameri cans win immediately cease.” MENINGITIS EPIDEMIC IN STOCK IS SPREADING " ASHINGTON, sept. 11.—The epidern ■' of spinal meningitis which has attacked i orses and cattle in Kansas and Nebraska spreading rapidly, according to reports o cited today by Acting Secretary of Rticulture Hayes from experts sent to combat the malady. i,.?'m, l!OVernnieDl experts report their a ty to cheek the disease and say thousahds of animals have died. u. S. MAIL SERVICE FOR BRINSON ROAD consld/ GA ” Sept - —After a soin u " eftort to have a mail service ■ n ished over the Brinson railroad be and Waynesboro, Congress , „ ,larles G. Edwards has received a Ja - i him* that such a service th. nrdered effective September 23. th. Informat,on comes from the office of rr<ond assistant postmaster general. FIRE CAUSES PANIC IN WHITFIELD JAIL in GA ” Sept - H.—Dire broke out noon h. C .° Unty jail here Tuesday after foiin.'i „ Was extinguished before it was , u ,‘ e^ essary to remove the prisoners, one Ct .K cloud of smoke belched from into a le cells, throwing the prisoners ha<i l’ ar, lc. A mattress in some way nM caught fire. P army orders F~ L- dp.,, 11 ■'•GTON, Sept. 11.—Army or. son < ~ L1P u tenant Frederick E. Wil fr< sn . Chtn infantry, detailed as pro at c, /. military science and tactics "rgia Military college, Milledge n. 11 Chauncey E. Humphrey, iaii'.- enty-first to Twenty-ninth in- T«“. Arthur L. Conger, from -ninth to Twenty-first infan- T>. <.v ln i?mes H. Reeves, from i ‘to Third cavalry. to ."c '<in Robert E. Wood, from Third R i rth cavalry. ’ n < B EL. a V, on ot First Lieutenant Pres a< J. medical reserve corps. ninf',' >nf '' George R. Cecil, Twenty , ‘ G antry, from that regiment to F ‘me to await retirement from ” service. T , ’'“l John H. Mallory, assigned to y-ninth infantry. GIRLS HEM HUNT FOR PIRATE GOLD With Crew They Sail for Cocos Island, Seeking $100,000.- 000 of Hidden Treasure. PLYMOUTH. ENGLAND. Sept. 11—A modern crew of argonauts has set sail from Plymouth, bound for Cocos island, seeking a horde of pirate treasure amounting to more than $100,000,000. which is said to be hidden on the island. The treasure-seeking expedition is headed by Miss Barry Till and Miss Genevieve Davis. These young women visited the Cocos Islands last year, and claim at that time to have ascertained the exact spot where the treasure is hid den. Cocos Island Is In the Pacific ocean and lies about 550 miles southwest of Panama. , The great treasure that it is supposed to harbor, and which has caused two young women to journey thousands of miles over the water, is thought to have been hidden in a cave in the island more than a hundred years ago by pirates, and represents the tributes that scores of treasure ships were made to pay to the buccaneers of the sea. as well as gold and jewels taken from the Jesuits when they were expelled from Peru. □hi *■— /./wMOR 4'' ■ x \ R, W bLIHBI - \ v I iMk- wWfe n i 'I 'V - A i \v Juml Qyl l mm WW .. ■a W / ■ WwT**■<*£.' •*• r\. -a ■ 11 x||l| : Burton W. (libson. lawyer, executor of the countess’ estate, who is held in connection with her death, now being investigated. Ban on Depot Osculation Wouldn't Go Here SCOFF NO-KISSING RULE The art of kissing as practiced in railroad stations, long considered cus tom and good form, may be tabooed if Switzerland’s moral reforms acquire a vogue in this country equal to the one accorded its pet political theory, the initiative and referendum. Gatemen at the Terminal station are aghast today over the lengths the mountain republic has gone to abolish public kissing, and the further an nouncement that America may follow Switzerland’s example. The Swiss government the other day passed a law prohibiting kissing in railroad stations and providing a heavy fine for each offense. Thus runs the Swiss law as posted in all stations: Considering abuses which have resulted, honorable strangers are requested not to kiss each other on platforms or trains. Signed: The Society for the Protection of Girls Traveling Alone. “If they put this law over in Georgia they will have to detail a platoon of police to enforce it at the Terminal station,” said Gateman No. 1 “Why we can't keep them from get ting through the gates and continuing the pastime all the way down the stairs to the train sheds, let alone stop the kissing. "Such a law would never work here. CHICAGOANS PLAN PASSENGER SUBWAY TO COST $131,000,000 CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—A municipal passenger subway unitfng the three sections of Chicago, the north, south and west sides, and estimated to cost $131,000,000. is recommended in a re port by the harbor and subways com mission of the local transportation com mittee of the city council. The system as planned touches the most thickly populated centers of the city and is designed to permit the operation oi trains through from one section to the other. “One city, one fare" Is the motto of the commission, and according to the plan submitted one fare is to be charged from any point on the subway lines to any other point. The plan considers the most modern methods In trackage and equipment. Tracks for both local and < xpr< ss lin< s are to be included in every branch. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS A COUNTESS STRANGLED, PHYSICIANS REPORT 5 \\ VL" WW W ■■ / / / L Il ' A 'iw/WsA—v x. - / 'W’ > Ba t ' Atlanta is a progressive and prosperous city and in a city of such accomplish ments kissing has just got to be. At any late, I would hate to be the man who tried to stop it." Gatemen who have worked elsewhere are authority for the statement tha* kissing in railroad stations is neither more general nor promiscuous in At lanta than in other cities. A second gateman eafled into the discussion looked at the matter phil osophically. "This anti-kissing is the idea of cranks and, like all their ideas, im practicable. Kissing didn't start with this generation, and this generation is not going to abolish it. Let these anti kissers take a walk down here on one of our big days and get an eye full of this kissing stuff. He will see that he could stop it just like he could stop eat ing or other amusements.” According to the station's attaches, watching kissing matches is the only excitement they have. Its abolition would not only work a hardship on the traveling public, but would rob rail road employees of their one joy in life. It can be safely asserted that if any society for the protection of girls trav eling alone starts an anti-kissing-in railroad-stations agitation in Atlanta they will find eight gatemen at the Ter minal station strenuous opponents. • MR. AND MRS. KNOX DINE WITH EMPEROR; VISIT MIKADO’S BIER TOKIO, Sept. 11.—Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, special envoy of the United States to the funeral of the late Emperor Mutsuhlto. and Mrs. Knox were received in audience today by Emperor Yoshlhito, the present mikado. The emperor chatted amiably with the American statesman, and spoke of the cordial relations existing between the two countries. He showed a deep knowledge of American affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Knox were later guests of Emperor Yoshihito and Empress Sadu ko at luncheon in the imperial palace. Following the luncheon, Mr. and Mrs Knox paid a visit to the chamber where the remains of the late mikado are lying in state. This was the most impressive part of the day’s ceremonies. Around the ! bier, when the party entered the death room, were a number of the members of ! the imperial household, who Ipve kept unerasing vigil since th mikado’s death, | on July 30. | Countess Rosa Menschik Azabo. Warrant To Be Asked for Ar rest of Lawyer, Charging Him With Deed. MIDDLETOWN. N. Y., Sept. 11.— Deputy Sheriff W. Degraw arrived here from New York a.t 3 o’clock this morning with his report on the autopsy performed yesterday on the body of Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo. He routed out District Attorney Thomas <’. Rogers, of Orange county, and in formed him the autopsy disblosed evi dence that the woman, who lost her life | while boating with her attorney, Bur ton W. Gibson, on Greenwood lake, had been strangled. As a result of Degraw’s report the district attorney announced he would at once go before Special County Judge Herbert < . Royce and ask for the issu ance of a warrant charging Gibson with the murder of the countess. The district attorney was provided with the reports of the physicians who held an autopsy upon the body of th? countess and a number of affidavits from witnesses who had been found by- Dr. I- ritz Fischerauer, vice counsel for the consulate of Austria-Hungary. The district attorney said that It might be deemed necessary by the county judge (o call front New York some of the witnesses who have been located by the Austro-Hungarian. con sulate and hear them under oath before signing the warrant. The district at torney planned his work for the day upon the idea that this action was en tirely possible and arrangements were made to bring to Middletown the wit< nesses who might be required. GOVERNMENT SEEKS MEN FOR CIVIL SERVICE Radio inspectors for posts on the Great Lakes will be sought by the gov. ernment in the examination which Is to be held September 25 in the local cfvll service office. The inspectors will be paid $1,400 per year and will be re quired to examine the radio apparatus on steamships and at shore stations. Printers who possess enough knowl edge and ability to teach their trade to Filipinos are needed by the government and applicants will be examined for this service on October 9 and 10. The sal aries range from $2,000 to $2,500 per yea r. KNOCKED HIS EYE OUT; IT WAS A GLASS ONE NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—“ Without provocation, he knocked my eye out and it fell on the sidewalk and broke,” declared Michael Barbetta when Joseph Florio was arraigned before Magistrate Herbert, in the Morrisania court, on a ! charge of assault. It was explained to j the magistrate that the eye was of glass. Florio admitted striking Barbetta, but said that his accuser had followed his sister and tha> he had attempted to remonstrate wi.h him. Barbetta. he asserted, then a‘tempted to strike him, Florio was in S3OO bail. GERBNS BACK . U.S.DNGANAL I Berlin Post Says It Is to Na tion’s Interest to Help De feat England. BERLIN, Sept. 11.—The Berlin Post, the leading Nationalist paper, in an edltoiial article on England and Ger many in American public opinion, says: “Americans are always very friendly to Germany, and they also know how England stands with Germany. The United States and Germany are the coming nations, and they are well awars that England is now In full decadence socially. “Social decadence must lead to polit ical decadence, as is always the case in history. On the other hand. Americans know that if the world's peace is pre served it will not be by England, bui only by the German kaiser, therefore, there is no reason why any ill feeling should be created between Germany and the United States.” The Post urges the German press not to join “English howling about Pan ama.” It continues: “England always has been defeated by American diplomacy. ' Conditions will be all the better for Germany, in relationship with America, if they get worse for England. Germany is tired of stooping before England and taking her chestnuts from the fire. IVe must resist England in every instance, even if England wants to resort to force, if Germany sticks at America's side in the present conflict, war will be avoid ed and England will only sustain one more diplomatic blow." LONDON, Sept. 11.—The Ixmdon Daily Express prints on its editorial page, under the head. “The Other Side of the Panama Case,” a letter signed "An American," which reads: "Elippant and insincere prattling of the English papers is disgusting to the United States. It serves simply to con firm the attitude of contemptuous in difference which that powerful country has been obliged to take toward your views on anything that involves the fundamentals of good faith or unselfish purpose in International dealings." NEW LIGHT CONTRACT IN MACON WILL SAVE CITY SIB,OOO PER YEAR MACON, G., Sept. 11. — As the result of competition in the electric lighting field, the city of Macon will save $90,000 in the next five years on a new lighting contract. The contract was last night awarded by council to the Macon Railway and Light Company, subject to a ratifica tion of the voters in a special election. The city is now paying S6O per year for each of 400 lights. The new con tract will be for $21.50 per light, a re duction of nearly 200 per cent. W. J. Massee’s new company, which forced the city to ask for bids, bld $32.50 per light. Until this year the city was paying $75 per light, and a five-year contract was given the Macon Railway and Light Company when Mr. Massee was president of that corporation, for S6O per light. Later, when Mr. Massee or ganized a new electric company he sue. cessfully attacked the existing contract on the ground that it had not been ap proved by the people at the polls. The city's lights will shortly be in creased to 500 in number. It is stated that the cost of maintain ing a light for a year is about S2O. PROBE OF SAVANNAH POSTOFFICE TO BEGIN VERY SOON, IS BELIEF SAVANNAH, GA., Sept. 11.—Attorneys and others interested in the proposed probe of the Savannah postoffice believe that the investigation will begin in a day or two, and that speedily the charges against Postmaster Marcus S. Baker and others will be entered Into and grounds laid for the disposition of the complaints which have been bobbing up for several months. For several days, it is understood, mail has been arriving for the postoffice in spectors who will conduct the investiga tion. There is considerable uncertainty as to what course the investigation will take. Those who filed the charges have em ployed Attorney Simon Casar to look after their elgal rights in the matter, whether the investigation takes the trend of a regular hearing of charges or is pursued along other lines. FRENCH HEELS COST $7,000; PHONE COMPANY TO PAY DENVER, COLO., Sept. 11.—Because telephone operators insist upon wear ing shoes with French heels the Moun tain State Telephone Company must spend $7,000 in the construction of the new fire escape at the headquarters building. The building is equipped with first class fire escapes, but in a recent practice drill it was found that many of the girls wore shoes with small heels and that the heels caught in the holes in the iron platforms and steps. In case of fire this would probably prove disastrous. JUDGE RULES THAT DUNS MAY GO ON POST CARDS PITTSBURG, PA, Sept. 11.—The right to send duns through the malls on postal cards was upheld here bv Judge Charles P. Orr in the United States district court. He ordered Postmaster W. H. Davis to deliver postal card bills sent out by the Allegheny County Light Company. The cards, designated as unmaila ble matter, had been returned by Post master Davis, who says they have on them terms reflecting on the char acter of the persons to whom they are addressed. He will appeal the case. Children’s “Story Hour” at Library Resumed TOTS TO HEAR OF INDIANS "Story Hour,” so popular last year among Atlanta's children, will be re sumed Friday afternoon at the main library, and on the following Wednes day at the Anne Wallace branch libra ry. Miss Henriette Masseling will tell stories of American Indians to the smaller children at 3:30 o’clock and at 4 o'clock she will take up stories of Spenser and the Fairy Queen for the older children. Pictures illustrating the stories the little ones are told will be exhibited in the library and books about the life and times of the characters in the stories will be placed at their disposal. Tne circulation of books 1n Atlanta homes has rehcfied 26,619 volumes, ac cording to the report of Miss Katherine Wootten. librarian, to the board of trustees at the regular meeting. Further report' showed that 291 vol umes had been adefed to the library in the last month and that an average of seventeen persons joined the library in that time. ■JERSEYLILTTO SET STYLE PUCE Actress to Show Newest Ac cordion Plaited Skirts in Tour of United States. LONDON, Sept. 11.—Lily Langtry (Lady Deßathe) has been busy fitting herself out with some wonderful new frocks for her approaching twenty weeks vaudeville tour in America. The Jersey Lily has kept her figure to a marvelous extent and much of her good looks, too, and is still able to launch a mode with the youngest of her sisters. The chief lesson to be learned from the frocks and frills which litter her flat at. Regents Court is that the hobble skirt may be regarded as a back number and that the accordion pleated skirt has returned to stay. The pleating, however, is not nearly so close as was the case when it was last in fashion and the result is far more graceful, the garment outlining the natural lfnes of the figure. Other points to be noted are that evening dresses all have separate foundations, and that though there are no panniers, many of the skirts are gauged round the hips, producing a slightly pannier effect. One particular gown is a pleated shot gray and silver charmeuse over pale pink satin, veiled with gray ninon. This frock has a tunic of gray net embroid ered in silver and pearls. Mrs. Langtry is relying on her suf fragette sketch, "Helping Along,” for her tour, but may also produce another sketch. She says she finds American audiences more stimulating than the English, and naively adds that, whereas in England critics only talk about her frocks, in America they give her credit for her acting also. So she is looking forward to her trip, her only sorrow being to leave her garden, to which she Is devoted. She attributes her health and young appearance entirely to the hours she spends daily in gardening at her coun try home near Newmarket. CAUGHT READING OFCRIME, SLAYER IS BELIEVED INSANE PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sept. IL— Harry Tyson, a printer, was shot and instantly killed by James M. Winter stein, a jeweler, his most intimate friend, after a quarrel over a woman. Three hours afterward Wintersteln was found in the roll room at city hall calmly reading the story of his crime In an afternoon paper. When the police asked him why he was interested he said: “I'm the man who did it.” He was arrested and held for exam ination regarding his sanity. SLEEPS WEEK; AVOIDS TRIAL ON CHARGE OF BURGLARY NEWBURYPORT. MASS, Sept. 11. The case of a man named Smith, who is asleep, Is puzzling physicians of Haverhill. All efforts to awaken him have proved futile. Some weeks ago Smith was arrested in Haverhill. When the time came for him to go to court he was asleep and could not be aroused. He slept a week. Then he was released. He was again arrested, charged with burglary. He fell asleep again, and it has been impossible, to awaken him. MANY BURN TO DEATH IN PORTUGAL_FO_REST FIRES LISBON, Sept. 11. —Many persons have been burned to death and thou saffds of acres of land surrounding Reguendo, in southwestern Portugal, have been devastated by forest fires. Hundreds are homeless. Half a dozen bodies have been re covered in the wake of the fire, and six fire fighters were burned so badly that they probably will die. The fires are still burning. RED WALL PAPER, LESSON IN “HOME” ART COURSE PITTSBURG, Sept. 11—“ Art begins at home,” said Valentine Kirby, art director in the public schools. "Red wall paper absorbs heat and boosts the gas bills. It’s this sort of thing the children must learn.” PRISONERS FELL KEEPER BUT ESCAPE_PLOT FAILS NEW HAVEN. CONN, Sept. 11 Six prisoners in the New Haven county jail this morning felled a keeper and attempted to escape from the institu tion. All were captured. A bulletin board which Is to be placed in the main entrance hall vvill become a regular feature of the library. Notice of any public meeting or of any club meeting may be posted here after being submitted to the librarian. Those who wish to make extracts from the books in the reference ■ room will find themselves no longer put to the inconvenience of bringing their own typewriters or of writing in longhand, as typewriters made after the familiar slot machine type have been installed in this room. Writing paper will be furnished with them at a 'nominal b&S’L Miss Amelia Whittaker, a graduate of the library training school and at present in the library at Savannah, has been appointed to succeed Miss Ethel FJverhart, who hjs been granted ‘a year's leave of absence. Miss Wootten has extended a special invitation to all study clubs to meet' in the library, the only proviso being that the club file with her a.list of-Its dat'ea, so that no confusion will result. TRUST COMPANY GROWTH LARGEST I > Institutions Have Increased 1,000 Per Cent in 15 Years, Banker Reports. / / ' ■* ’ » • f ■ •$ DETROIT. MICH, Sept. IL— ‘•While the population of the United States has increased 33 per cent and business has increased 100 per cent, trust companies have grown 1,000 per cent in the past fifteen years,” said F. H. Fries, of Win ston-Salem. N. C, president of the trust section of the American Bankers asso ciation, this morning in his address in reply to the address of welcome of Controller David E. Heineman, of De troit. In reviewing the growth of trust companies in America he said the trust companies have shown an increase of 21 per cent in national banks and 33 per cent in savings banks. The second day of the American Bankers association was devoted to meetings of the various sections ip the Pontchartrain hotel. The trust com pany section was called to order at 10 o’clock, but the savings bank, clearing house and state secretaries sections started proceedings half an hour earlier. To Prevent Misuse of Name. Mr. Fries reported for the committee on legislation, telling of the work that is being done to prevent promotion companies from using the name "trust company” and described the efforts that are being made for currency reform and other changes affecting trust compa nies. Theodore L. Weed, director of the postal savings bank system of the United States, read a paper on “Tha Postal Savings Bank and the Banks'.” He said the government banks encour age saving on the part of the masses and indirectly helps the business of the savings banks; that most of the money that goes into the Federal depositaries could not be reached by regular’lnsti tutions. Numerous other department reports were received during the day. GEN. W. W. GORDON, , FAMOUS SOLDIER IN TWO WARS, IS DEAD SAVANNAH, GA, Sept. 11.— General W. W. Gordon, brigadier general com manding the Second brigade, First di vision of the Fourth army* corps, United States volunteers, during the Spanish-American war, and a Confed erate veteran, died today at White Sul phur Springs. Va, according to a mes sage here today. * . - The flags of the Savannah Cotton ex change, of which General Gordon was a former president, are at half mast in his honor. For half a cehtury he was the head of the cotton flrm of W, W. Gordon & Co. General Gordon was one of the best known and oldest citizens of Savannah and was also one of the most-distin guished residents of Georgia. His military career was varied aiyl active. He served throughout the war of the Confederacy, leaving Savannah very early after the call for volunteers as second lieutenant of the Georgia Hussars, General J. E. B. Stuartfs cav alry. At the fight at Fredericksburg, Md, he distinguished himself and was put on the roll of honor. He was cap tain and Inspector of Mercer’s brigade of Infantry and was wounded at Love joy station, Georgia. He served as cap tain and adjutant of Anderson’s bri gade, Wheeler’s cavalry. He entered the war against Spain as brigadier general of the United States volunteer forces. He served from May 27, 1898, until March 23, 1899. For sev eral months during 1899 he was a mem ber of the Porto Rican evacuation com mission. serving with Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, U. S. N, and General John R. Brooke, U. S, A. TO ADVERTISE FOR “COPS;” COUNTRYMEN ARE WANTED PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.—Director Porter, who is working with the mayor and civil service commission to in crease the efficiency of the police de partment. has decided to advertise in the newspapers for policemen. The idea of the director is that there are many available men in country towns who would make good patrolmen. The civil service board has prepared advertise ments expressing the needs of the city. Other municipal departments are go ing to try the same plan. 3