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the weather Fc"*cast: F-ir tonight and Tues day. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 74; 10 a. m.. 81; 12 m., 85: 2 p. m., 87. VOL. XL XO. 37. DOffi Slill FOR rIJSs It ELOPE isiii I Banker Sneed to Piead That He Shot to Save Wife From j New Escapade. FOUND LETTER TELLING OF PROPOSED FLIGHT Reconciled. Husband Arranged to Start Anew, When He Made Discovery. I XMARILLO. TEXAS. Sept. 16. —That he killed Al G. Boyce to prevent him from taking his wife from him again b.' the defense of John Bea! Sneed. • rich Amarillo banker, in his trial f,- the murder. I Sneed will claim that he and his wife had become reconciled about tw o I moirhs a?i and had planned to re-I IU . • to ML-issippi and start life saw ween h ■ came upon evidence of a , wife and Boyce to'elope Th'.- pion, hi will claim, he j n ; letter from Boyce to his! ,• i "it left Canada! ■ , At mrilio ar. 1 outlining a I ~ iv la .■ husband and ■ ~ ... l".-i b", n offered the. , . ; "■ immense cattle I .". ; iml jury in spe j , j ; up !’■- kil ing today. 1 i• : i pgpi "ted dmiitg tic ■ ;i t ■ id Sneed nr«? pk- I i. Luslitutc ka.beij r ~l ~ i ; , dines to secure the release j if'. ■ from jail. 1 \ • ... of .Tie inquiry before the s whether Sneed had an ~|. . j., the killing. It has been | ii- d hut two men. one answer-1 .'ascription of Sneed, rented a r. xl door to 1 if' Methodist ! . in front of which the tragedy i The second man has dlsap- ■d. Mrs. Sneed has also left her] No Armed Outbreak Between Families. |> lopments today indicated that I ’ ■ lav would be allowed to take its < asp and that there would be n«» alined conflict between members and f' ? nds of the Boyce and Sneed fami lies. Although the Boyces and Sneed > went about armed today, there was no o', n outbreak. The Sneeds are wait ing for the Boyces to make the next mow, according to the “code” in feud v. fm y and the Boyces are deterred b-' ause of the critical illness of Mrs. A G B- .'ce. superinduced by the shock of the killing of her son. Mis Boyce was one of the first to rei ■’) le r son Saturday. As he lay in th* street his mother rushed to him • nd. kneeling beside him. yjok his head | in her lap and wiped the blood from his face. “How much more of this must I j stand?” she exclaimed. Later she w ent to her home, where I ‘ ollapsed. It is feared she may not -uni' the shock. V 'll Boyce, brothc r of Al. was al-j " st in thne :o avenge the killing Sat a\. it wis learned today. With a repeating shotgun in his hand, he rush • ■ the scene, reaching there only al "into after officers had taken Sneed | Slew Eloper In Front of Church. >n»'pd, slayer of Captain A. S. Boyce, i principal in the Boyce-Sneed feud, ' ’• •'•m t urd iy shot and instantly killed; Bo\i . ( who eloped with Sneed's wife j •January. The killing took place ini •it of the Methodist church here. ■ w -n< • <l, disguised as a hunter, wearing | mils and a false beard, fay in wait) l‘<iyc»» behind a corner of the [ u< h. lh> carried b»s gun in a long I * d h '\. He fired on£ charge at ' range. died a few moments later and I ■ rs . asily capture ] Sneed and com- , ' *”d hhn to jail. Sneed for a week] r< nted a small shanty near the] Its Boyce, mother of the victim, is | if atrd and may die. A a f> w wo- k ago Mr. L* ria '' and her husband had be* <»me 'L ih d and were supposed to be llv- . ' ’ •’’< »,il»l\ in < erget«»w n. T’< xt s It I ' t known that he was in the city. 11 ' kldinv of Boyer is the lat« st Incident in a long list of tiage whhii began last January when Lena Sneed lan ava’ with Box re i • 1 initarliiui In I’ort Worth, w i«ro; ' d be, n pi je, d h\ h» i husb.ind for ' ■’!> troubles, | m V f t | v . vo ung mans father in) Worth an killed him in a uuairvl. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. ' 9 ' BfIDWN 511 S RUM HESO BiiLOS JOB III! JOIE Governor Will Refuse to Issue Commission Until After the Legislature Meets. HE QUOTES STATE LAW IN SETTLING VEXED PROBLEM Means That Price Won’t Serve '■Short Term” and Displace Commissioner Connor. Governor .Joseph M Brown author ized the announcement today that he would hold that <'ommi'sioner of Agri culture Connor, holdin? office under appointment to the unexpired term of | Commissioner Thomas G. Hudson, can not be displaced before the legislature meets next June, canvasses the gen eral election returns and formally de clares the person duly chosen by the people to succeed to the office. The governor bases his opinion upon section 94 of the code, which prescribes | the manner in which the governor, .treasurer, comptroller general, attorney ! general and commissioner of agricui ■ ture shai’ be elected, and which spe jiificnlly. ; ecites that the stipulations I laid dow n shall apply to all. Th>’ legislature is required to can s’ th? returns in the governor's case ):md declare thi result before the elec jtio’t is complete, and no person may pmalify for governor whose election has j not berm so declared, j .No Cg uniission Bet&re ; Legislature Meets. i The governor, therefore, will hold | that he has n<> authority to commis sion any one whose election has not been accomplished in the manner laid [down; and it would be impossible that | any person other than Connor, under | that ruling, could qualify before next '.lune, save in tile remote contingency of . i special session of the legislature be- I ing called in the meantime. The governor authorizes the state | mept that he will commission no one j before the legislature meets, no mat iter what the state tye.'iitive committee i may do in the m.-:tt< ■ . f tilling an Im tgit t’s . u u ■■ to occur in October or November, and . r .rdless of what may happen in tl>e r alar October election, in the matter e'. lecting a commission er of agriculture to begin his term of service in advance of the assembling of the legislature next June. Unquestionably, the governor's an nounced attitude will go far toward clearing up a situation that has been very much obscured in the public mind of late. Connor To Hold On to His Office. James I>. Price was nominated bi' the Macon convention to a full and regular term in the office of commis | sioner of agriculture. That term will j begin about July 1, after the legisla iture lias formally declared Price's elec tion. A question arose in the minds of some lawyers, however, as to whether I there would not, as a matter of fact, be l an existing va'cancy in the eommlssrion | ership immediately following the Octo ber election, and if it would not be pos sible for some one, other than a Demo crat, to have his name placed on the 5 regular state ticket in October, and, in I the event of his receiving a number of v ltrs, legally demand the office under the law. Because of the difference of opinion among lawyers as to when the unex ! piled term of Hudson —the present term lof Connor —expires, Chairman William .1. Harris decided to have James D. 1 Price's name placed on the ticket tn the October election as the Democratic I nominee, merely as a precautionary I measure, and in order to have a Demo ‘ i rat ready to qualify for the office in the event a vacancy were held to ex- z i Governor Brown's declaration that 1 he will not commission Price, or any -1 l.od' else, before the legislature has met md tb' laied a result, definitely closet ' the matter. Connor will not be displaced b< for* > tht lune meeting of the legislature, aft- I er which Price will be commissiotu d. Tie- govt rnor states that the law is \. i y clear in his mind, and that he would be compelled to refuse a com mie ion to any person, as comtnlssion . of agriculture, unless that person .•aim to him certified by th' leglsla i ture. . mil in the event of resignation, re uo\:t! or death would the governor be , authorized to name a success >r to Con. ■ r b< next June, unless the legis- lature in extraordinary session in tile 'meantime should declare another elect- I~d to the oltli . All of these coritln i ml. w are o c mote, of course, that i o i med not be taken into consideta- ATLANTA. G.\.. TCESDA Y, SEPTEMBER 17. 1912. Mermaids’ Skill Astonishes Society Folk at East Lake Meet AT HOME IN' POND AS ON DANCE FLOOR 7: '“ ; W la: /—■l ‘ A#.; \ I . IB \MKSF ■’ ” ■’’’whjbsi •-% v ywiMrak jImESI. .:<■ ' 7/ \ if f Jnl Em I JgSK.' "W ' Ki w«• aal- dfe . j- Hgiis Iwiiß ‘ WKI. IMfe' 'IE ■ l 'l w ’ ' \\ I Wf J H-BLEN THOKM. MISS LIDA NASH Miss Nash Wins Swimming Event, and Miss Rambo's Driving Stunts Astonish. Three Atlanta society mermaids are being’congratulated today-on winning new laurels. In the lake at the Ath letic club’s country home they proved themselves as much at home in the wa ter as on the links or the dancing fiooi. Swimming is coming into its own this year. Miss I.ida Nasli and Miss Helt n Thorne were the two young women who entered the- long distance swim ming competition, and despite the chop py water, which made swimming diffi cult. Miss Nash made the distance from boathouse to dam in ‘3O minutes 55 sec ondsj Miss Thorn was a close second. Miss Regina Rambo, sponsor forth" recent Confederate reunion at Mariet ta was the only entrant in the fancy diving edntest. Her daring dive from the 20-fobt tower won her a round "I applause. The club plans holding a water car nival every summer in future, md ex pects to have a dozen girl entrants by next season. Atlanta boasts of some excellent swimmers for an inland city. Miss blda Na®h was considered on< of the best at Wrightsville Beach this season, and both Miss Thorn and Miss Rambo are sui»erb athletes. Walter Dubard won the feature events, taking two first prizes and one second in his three contests. He de feated Crane an the lonfc distance men's race, swimming to Jlhe dam and retuin In 1R minutes 25 seconds. He also won the diving contest. Crane finished fit st in the 50-. yard dash, with Dubard sec ond. Karl Brittain did some spectacu lar high diving TAFT ELECTORS OF KANSAS LOSE AGAIN IN INJUNCTION WAR DENVER. ,('• >!,<>., Sept. 16. By unanimous decision the judges of the I’nite.d States circuit court of appeals, sitting in Denver, todav refused to grant an injunction asked by the Taft faction of the Republicans of K ins a to prevent the secretary of state of Kansas from placing the name- of Roosev'lt electors on the official ballot under the Republican emblem. Appeal will be taken by tin Taft f " tlon to the supreme cm»rt "f the Cnltcd States. The. court held that the > as. is not one of which a court of equity may take cognizance. Applhatlon . r the Injunction was ordered disti ■; • o cost tn l>e borne by those wno brought the action. CURTIS IS INDICTED FOR SLAYING MAN WHO SLURRED WIFE W H. Curtis, brother of Dr. A. Lee Curtis, of Atlanta, who shot and killed J. H. Helton, a stationer, in Jackson, Miss., a reck ago. pleading self-de fense. is being held in jail following In dictment by the Hinds county grand jury. The jury found a true bill against Curtis on Saturday. He will be placed on trial at the regular term of court in December. Aceonilng to Dr. Curtis, his brother has not asked for bond on the theory that the offense is not bailable under Mississippi stytn" s. The younger Curtis will adhere to his plea of self-d. sense and maintain in court that Hdlton had a pistol tn his hand When he enter d the office of Dr. Applewhite, where the shooting oc curred. “ GOING FOR THE-MAIL ” CHURCH DODGERS KICK ON SUNDAY SHUT DOWN Notwithstanding the fact that a hue and erv went up when the postal de partment cut out the distribution of the Sundat mail at the Atlanta postoffiee, prominent business men are of the opinion that trade tonditions have not be n affected. Postmastei McKee says he has re ceived but few protests on the new a:- rangement, and these largely front men who used the going-to-the-postofflee ex. use to dodge church service*. A canvass of busin' ss houses develops the fact that Atlanta concerns long ago had nearly abandoned the idea of look ing over mail on Sunday. Virtually the only objections to the new ride come from traveling sales men. who find it difficult to get impor tant mail sent to them io hotels. This situation, it is believed, will lead to an !n< tease in the use of the special de rive: y system. WOULD BAR NAME OF JACK JOHNSON FROM DIXIE PAPERS X’EW ORLEANS. Sept. 16. A Nash ville, Tenn., editor lias started a move ment to bar the Paine of Jack Johnson, the pugilist, from Southern newspapers, and today every editor in tills city r<-- . • ivetl .1 lettei from Nashville bearing such request Th' Nashville editor declares that in marrying the v bite woman who re ett'lv killed hersi 1 .lehn- m offered an I all'uni to wry while woman Iti the MISS REGINA RAMBO. WOMAN LAWYER HAS NEW SCHEME TO GET PERMIT IN GEORGIA Mrs. Virginia Mclntire Weaver, who has for the last year fought in vain for the right to practice law in Georgia, has iiit upon a unique scheme to carry her point, deflate her friends. She has gone hack to West Virginia, her former Ijome, ami is preparing to stand her examinations and be admit ted to the bar there. West Virginia admits women lawyers. Once admit ted.to the ba'r In West Virginia. Mrs. Weaver believes that when she returns to Georgia she will have to be granted the same privileges here as would tny other lawyer from another state who produces the proper credentials saying he had been admitted to practice in his native state. Mrs. Weaver is a graduate of the At lanta Law school and when she found that Georgia laws barred any woman from playing the part of Portia, she tried to have the legislature change tile la v, but failed. She is now in Morgantown, W Va„ land as soon as possible intends to re | turn to Georgia anti take up the prac tice of law, if she be allowed to do so. SLAYER SPENCER TO DIE IN CHAIR TONIGHT; CHEERY AS END NEARS BOSTON Sept. 16.—Bertram G. Spencer will be electrocuted in the ('harlestown prison shortly after mid night tonight. HI- will pay the penalty for the murder of Miss Martha B Blackstone, a Sp'inglleld, Mass., school teacher. Tht' woman was shot down while encountering a burglar. Both Governor Foss and President Taft have refused the pitiful picas of Ibis mother, Mrs. Kate E. Spencer. fo> • commutation. In Christian Science, Spencer has | found strength and fortitude as the end I approaches and the guards at the pris on today said he is th' best behaved ami most cheerful of the fifteen men who have been confined in the death chamber. SEVEN PRISONERS SAW OUT OF JAIL; WIFE OF ONE HELD CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, Sept 16. i Seven prisoners of the county pail made I their * tf.'ape here early today by sawing I the bars of their cells. Mr? William Wolfe, wife of one of the < s< aped prisoners, was arrested this I morning, chargetl with complicity In tht es apt of the nu n Five white and i two colored nun, all of whom were II charged with burglary, made Uieir es- LICHT COmCT TO GO THROUGH Expected That It Will Be Finally Recommended to Atlanta Council Today. When the toiineil committee on "li'c trlc lights met this astern on it was expected that the city's pending .or tract for street lights with the G> orgitt Railway and I’oni-i <?.m; ii)v ,oiii<[ be finally ri-eommentlcii to coane? Alderman John E. McCb Lan.l ■ he f;. voted asking for nev. bi.l ('it; Electrician Tuner said tb t Atlant i should have ns low rates as M i -.m. Bui the contract lias already been ;t c., by Mr. Turne" ami the commiitr am' unless the C ntlal Georgia p, nv , Com pany or some other conmatly exp i s-. ■ | a desire to biri on the city . on: act, th< majority of the committ'e and of .-mill ell will approve tlie contract with tip Georgia Railway and F’owei C<i; a tiy Mr. Turner n turned today from Ma con whee he Investlgat. d the . . light rat's. He says lie is '.’nvinc' the reason Atlanta can not get su< a ■ ates by competition is that there is an agreement between the Georgia Rail way and Power Company and he Cen tral Georgia Pover Company not to bl., against etjch other. The Central Georgia Power Com pany, of Macon, lias constructed a line to Atlanta. Preston Arkwilght, pres: dent of the Georgia Railway and Power Cpmpany, declared that th'." is no [agreement between the two ct.tnp.inics not to bid against each other. He said, though, on account of the delays in : Tallulah Falls powir plant d?vC p tnent. Ills company had contracted wi'l; tile Central Georgia Power Company to use some of its current. MASKED MEN TRY TO KIDNAP WOMAN FROM HOME; FLEE IN FRIGHT SAVANNAH GA.. Sept. 16. Mrs. Marie L. Jones, daughter oi David c. Foreman. Is in h hysterical condition at her home as the result of an attempt tn kid nap her last night. Mrs .lores w: s nttai k"«l by 'w.. mas!,, d men. who bound unit gagged her and carried her from her bed room to the rear of the house on the lower floor. | There they deserted her when discovi ry | was Imminent, yecotdlng to Mrs, Jones I there was a third man stationed on the | outside | . t’bapai ns a lookout. It was the shrill whistle of this man that warned her captors of danger Mrs. Clarence Stewart beard her sister groaning and found her bound and gagged land wrapped in a sheet The family Is unable to aaaign any motive for the at(• nitite.l kidnaping A child who was asleep by thy side of Mrs. Jones was nut disturbed. IXTR\ EVERYWHERE SMOKEeOtRD fOM IB Kill) ACTION Backs Down in lis Attempt to Modify Regulations of the City Council. OPEN WAR TO COMPEL ABOLITION OF NUISANCE X Slili Considering Movc-to V'dps I Out Commission—Fight to Go to Council. I I Forced tn ba. k down by widesprean ■ 1,1 its attempt to modify 1 oim.ii , snioi.e , emulations. Chairman j It M. Il.irw. 11, of the smoke commh [ sion. aaa called a meeting of the riil' -t i’'nmmitt .-of the commission to rescind i its act ion. ! Th" committee at the same time will 'frame a new set <lr regulations for the | guidance of the- commission itself,' which will he submitted to the hoard Hie board's action in modifying tho 1,1 h.,.'. regulations of council rmng th. emission of smoke of 'ii.'ing d< n.-iiv was denounced as a usurpation of authority bv many coun- Cilmen and by City Attorney Mayson. i Abolition Os th., smoke board, which was declared to be Handing in the way t ri’torm, «.i< seriously urged. War to Enforce Smoke Ordinance. Couneilmtrnt Charles \V. Smith, fath er of the smoke ordinance, said today r .It whll< be iiad n , lf decided whether iho wo.mi introdtg l? an ordinance ta I'hollsh the -moke commission at tho meeting of council this afternoon, ho would begin his fight to see that thd original st.ioke ordinance Is enforced. Chairman Harwell declared that I Councilman Smith was too hasty in 'ini' sing tip. smoko commission. He . -aid that he was oppos <| to the action ! (’oin'nission in amending the citv I smoke ordinance and that he informed I the oilier members that such action was : i'l' *• a(l(L’(] that the commission j <Lti not want to iiinder the movement 1 ’ » abate the smoke nuisance. •Wy came into office in-xperienced,” ■’ ,i( “ p ar ' dealing w ith a com- I 1 ' 1, . '.i.diio'ii \y.. n ..st proceed de liberately at first." j Coumiim tn Smith held a confor>>nca with Cif. Atiorm.y Mayson toda-- to Idi ii'imim the exact legal status of the I -moke law. j The commission I; ,s changed radi- I * silly the Jaw <>f council. < '!:y Attor- I Ma.' snl ts ruled i ; t s action I uas illegal. < "oitneji Smith intends in ; 1 < " ,| ncil to ink",a definite stand on jthe!. la. ’ < I. ; J| [,I- -( I Mashn Al. o Would Abolish Commission. Cmineilm m Claude C. Mason. In an 1 nl ' r ' v « t(>< ] •\. joined Councilman iSr/.iLi in r.; • •.! m to abolish the smoke '■ ,, u |r ' i' ;t tiie commission does not t ”■ iL t<> < n 11 <• the smoko ordinance. “Tht • Iginnl smoke ordinance did | not e.inti mulati a smoki board,” he [said. "T:’e board was added as a com. 1 |.romisi>, anu ;t is given exceptionally wide authority . It i-epms to inc to have proved .■> failur. ." (is ar Sis. .1 wealthy manufacturer and om‘ 01 . 1 membi rs of the smoke 1 eimnis; inn h. voted to amend coun cils moi <• on 1 inan< e, called on several I members of eouneil today and request i <-'! them to give him a hearing before I abolishing the snudtc commission. He I was promised that council would refer t|i" matter to a committee and give one an opportunity to express their opinions before taking final ae- I tion. Mr. Elsas said that he Intended to |< mply with the smoke ordinance at ; om-e with his ow n plant, the Pulton , Bag and Cotton mills. He said he had I already employed an "Xpert to tell him | just what was needed to consume the ' smoke generated by bis furnaces. WIFE, SELF-POISONED. NEAR DEATH BEFORE TELLING KIN OF DEED SAVANXXH, GA., Sept. 16.—As * ' n suit i f taking rat poison Friday nigly, Mis C nee Hunt died last night at iPiuk View sanitarium. Mis Hunt suffered from the poison I for a number of hours before advising I her family of the trouble and getting i medical assistance. Mrs Hunt was 45 y ears nld and it "o' ve of Aroostook county, Maine. Her I mother, Mrs Samuel B Russell, of ( Bo ton, survives, un does het husband | and one son.