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THE WEATHER
Forecast: Fair and cooler tonight
and tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a.
m.. 64; 10 a. m., 68; 12 noon, 70; 2
p. m., 73.
VOL. XL NO. 49.
GEORGMOID
trainmen
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STRIKE
Overwhelming Majority for
Walkout if Demands Are Not
Granted Today.
300 EMPLOYEES OF ROAD
READY TO QUIT TOMORROW
Effort to Settle Differences at
Conference This Afternoon
May Not Succeed.
AUGUSTA, GA.. Sept. 30.—A strike
of 300 conductors and trainmen on the
Georgia railroad is imminent. It will
be called tonight, to take effect tomor
row, unless officials of the road accede
to demands of the Georgian railroad
divisions of the Order of Railway Con
ductors and Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen.
A strike ballot, which began last
Thursday and ended yesterday, was
counted today, the men voting over
whelmingly for a walkout. The result
of the ballot has been communicated to
General Manager Scott, of the railroad.
There is some hope that the officials of
the road will yet reach an agreement
with the men and avert a strike.
Statements were made by Vice Presi
dent Gregg, of the Order of Railway
Conductors, and Vice President Mur
dock. of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, this afternoon that the bal
loting, which had been going on for
several days, was finished last night,
and the ballots were counted today,
showing an overwhelming majority in
favor of a strike.
Faint Hope
For Settlement.
Asked when a strike would be de
clared, Messrs. Gregg and Murdock
stated that they still had some faint
hope of an amicable adjustment of the
differences, but a conference had not
been had with the railroad officials
since the ballots were counted. It was
possible that a conference would be held
later this afternoon, they said, and a
settlement reached. It Is understood
that if the railroad does not agree to
go into a conference with the men this
afternoon or tonight, a strike will be
ordered.
Superintendent Brand, of the Geor
gia railroad, was agked for a state
ment today, and he merely handed the
reporter the file of correspondence be
tween the officials of the road and Vice
President Gregg, concerning the de
mand of Mr. Gregg that J. F. Paschal
be reinstated in his position as a con
ductor. Mr. Brand said he had no fur.
ther statement to make. Asked what
he intended to do about running trains
in the event a strike is declared, Mr.
Brand said that he would continue to
run trains if he had the men with which
to run them. If a strike is declared,
as now seems almost certain, there will
be 300 men out of work, and the Geor
gia railroad may not be able to open
ate trains.
OFFICERS OF TRUST
COMPANY TO TRIAL
ON LOTTERY CHARGE
W. N. Smith, R. Purvis, E. O. Hein
and Guy King, officers and employees
of the Southern Loan and Trust Com
pany, will be placed on trial during the
next session of the United States court
f( • sending matter relating to a lot
s y through the mails. They were in
dicated recently by the Federal grand
jury.
More than 100 moonshiners and men
charged with selling liquor without a
license will be placed on trial during
the aame term of court and the dock
et will be more than usually heavy.
One white slave case will be tried,
while several minor postoffice embez
zlements will be investigated.
FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
TO CONVENE TOMORROW
TALLAHASSEE, FLA., Sept. 30.
A special session of the Florida legis
lature will meet here tomorrow to con
sider the enabling act to give Jackson
ville power to own and operate munic
ipal docks and to issue $1,500,000 bonds
for that purpose, solely for which the
special session was called by the gov
ernor. It is not likely that the session
will be prolonged beyond the three
days stated, which the Jacksonville
Board of Trade stated would be suf
ficient to consider the business for
which the session is called.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
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2 Chief Beavers Thanks :
• Georgian for Its Aid 2
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• "I feel grateful to The Georgian •
• for the fearless stand it has taken •
• in the fight and for its efforts to •
• aid in ridding Atlanta of vice— •
• the most vicious and lawless form •
• of vice,” said Chief of Police James •
• L. Beavers today in commenting • j
• on the results and success of his •
• action in closing all illegal houses. •
• “While I dislike publicity in a •
• matter that involves simply the •
• doing of my official duty, still, as •
• this is a move that affects the gen- •
• eral public interest and as it had •
• to be made public. I appreciate •
• what The Georgian has done in •
• making plain my intentions and •
• determination. As a result, there •
• will be no misunderstanding of •
• this movement, and its successful •
' • termination has been materially •
, • aided.” •
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Tries to Slay Insane
Brother* Believing It
His Duty to Society
Reading of Proposed Execution
of Incurables, Chicagoan At
tempts Killing—Ends Life.
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Edward Neil
son, a demented man, is dying as the
result of wounds inflicted by his broth
er, Charles, who afterward killed him
self.
Neilson’s act is attributed by his
sister, Mrs. Joseph Pfeiffer, to an amaz
ing brotherly love. She declared
Charles had grieved over his brother's
mental condition until he believed it to
be his duty to society and a humane
act to end his brother’s life.
Charles Neilson was to have been
married, but upon reading recently of
proposed legal slaying, of incurables
postponed the ceremony and killed his
brother.
COOL WAVE STILL
LOITERING AROUND;
WARM DAYS AHEAD
Despite the sun and blue skies dispell
ing recollections of a dreary yesterday
this morning was the coldest of any morn
ing since last May. In addition to that
cheerful news the weather man an
nounces that tomorrow morning is to be
cooler still.
The mercury early during the day
climbed down to 57.8 and then proceeded
to ascend again, but it left the warning
that winter is coming and coal Is going
up. One year ago today the mercury was
at 71, but last fall and winter was one
of the Coldest ever felt in Atlanta, so, in
versely, it is possible that this will be a
pleasant winter. After the present cool
spell is over—it will probably last but a
few days—comfortably warm weather will
return for a time, predicts the weather
man.
W. H. CURTIS, WHO
SLEW JACKSON, MISS.,
MAN, FREED ON BAIL
W. H. Curtis, the former Atlantan
indicted for killing J. H. Helton in
Jackson. Miss., has been released on
$5,000 bail. News that bail had been
granted and made was received in At
lanta by Dr A L. Curtis, a brother of
the accused man, who went to Jackson
just after the tragedy to assist his
brother.
Curtis, who killed Helton after an
affair in which the name of Mrs. Cur
tis was involved, stated at the hearing
that he had not planned an attack on
the Jackson man and the meeting in
the physician's office was entirely acci.
dental. Curtis testified that he had
seen Helton draw and aim a pistol and
had immediately drawn his own weap
on and fired.
AUTO TRUCK KILLS
NEGRO BOY CYCLIST;
DRIVER ARRESTED
A negro boy about fifteen years old
was killed this afternoon by a truck of
the Atlanta Paper Company, driven by
Arthur Letmon, a negro, at Decatur street
and Central avenue. A great crowd
gathered at the scene of the accident.
Letmon says the boy was “snaking”
on his~T>icycle and ran into the rear
wheel of the truck. He was crushed un
der the Wheel and when picked up was
dead. Letmon was arrested on the charge
of reckless driving.
GIBSON LOSES FIRST
CLASH: TRIAL ORDERED
GOSHEN. N Y„ Sept. 30.—Attorney
Burton W. Gibson, accused of the mur
der of Countess Szabo, lost his first
clash in his fight for freedom this aft
ernoon when Judge Royce overruled a
motion to dismiss the defendant with
out a hearing and the examination of
the accused tpan upon the murder
charge was ordered to proceed.
CLASS FOR DEAF OPENS
AT ASHBY SCHOOL OCT. 2
Mrs. Sarah Small Temple, of the state
school for the deaf at Sulphur. Okla.,
will arrive tomorrow to take charge of
the grade of deaf children in the At
lanta public schools. The classes for
deaf will be in the Ashby Street school,
in West End, and admission will be by
ticket from Superintendent Slaton s of
fice. It will open October 2.
Mrs. Temple lias served in several of
the principal schools for the deaf in the
United States.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY'. SEPTEMBER 30, 1912.
MILITIAMEN
GO TO TRIAL
FOO STRIKE
KILLINGS
Governor Orders Courtmartial
to Probe Deaths at Augusta
to Sit Tomorrow.
COMMAND GIVES WIDE
SCOPE TO INVESTIGATORS
Obear Says Military Rule of the
City Has Not Been Lifted.
Early Peace Seen.
Governor Joseph M. Brown, through
Adjutant General Obear, has called a
general courtmartial to assemble in
Augusta tomorrow morning, for the
trial of “such persons as may be prop
erly brought before it.”
This will bring before the courtmar
tial those soldiers involved, either di
rectly or indirectly in the recent shoot
ing and killing of certain persons, while
the city of Augusta was under martial
law, and all others against whom com
plaint may be lodged.
Adjutant. General Obear specifically
points out that this order carries with
it no presumption of guilt upon the
part of anybody, but provides a method
whereby exhaustive and legal inquiry
may be made immediately into the
shootings, killings and others acts of
the military on detail during the con
tinuance of the riotous situation in
Augusta.
No particular persons are cited to
the court's attention in the order from
headquarters, thereby making the au
thority of the court sweeping and gen
eral in its.nature.
General Obear
To Oversee Trial.
General Obear expects to return to
Augusta tonight, to be on hand at the
assembling of the courtmartial tomor
row, and to see that it gets to work as
the governor desires it to proceed.
The executive order and the detail
for the court is as follows:
Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 30, 1912.
Special Orders: No. 175.
1. A general courtmartial is ap
pointed to meet at Augusta. Geor
gia, at 10 a. m., October 1, 1912, or
as soon thereafter as practicable,
for the trial of such persons as may
be properly brought before it:
Detail for the court:
Brigadier General Clifford L. An
derson, Colonel George M. Napier,
retired; Lieutenant Colonel John
G. Butler. First infantry; Lieuten
ant Colonel O. H. Hall, Fifth infan
try; Major F. L. Palmer, inspector
general; Major W. H. Beck, Sec
ond infantry; Major George H.
Richter, First infantry; Major J. O.
Seamans. Second cavalry; Major
W. C. Hendrix, Fifth infantry; Ma
jor W. C. Thomas, brigade staff;
Captain W. P. Wheeler, Second in
fantry; Captain H. P. Meikleham,
Third infantry; Captain Robert J.
Travis, coast artillery corps; Major
Claude C. Smith, judge advocate.
The travel and expenses required
in compliance with this order is
necessary for the public service.
By order of the governor.
WILLIAM G. OBEAR.
The Adjutant General.
Denies Martial Law
Ban Is Lifted.
The adjutant general said today that
the report wired out from Augusta and
carried by a number of morning news
papers, to the effect that the ban of
martial law had been lifted from Au
gusta. is a mistake.
Arbitration to
End Car Strike
AUGUSTA, GA., Sept. 30. —Arbitra-
tion will probably settle the Augusta
street railway strike tomorrow and end
the week of trouble that has been
marked by three deaths, injuries to
several others and considerable prop
erty damage. The Augusta-Aiken rail
way and electric corporation today
agree to arbitrate under certain condi
tions, one of which is that some of the
men who have been giving trouble to
the officials be not reinstated. The
railway company makes concessions,
the officials say, only because of the
acute situation now in Augusta.
A committee appointed from the city
council to urge the railway company to
arbitiate. met today and heard the
answer of the street railway officials.
Council held a meeting shortly after
ward and voted to continue the com
mittee so that the company’s answet
could be submitted to the strikers.
Council will meet again tonight or to
morrow morning to hear the result of
the committee’s conference with the
carmens’ officers.
Roosevelt Declares He Has “Blazed the Trail” in Dixie
HE’D "LOVE' TO WIN GEORGIA
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Colonel Roosevelt, on right, and General A. .1, West, snapped b.v The Georgian’s photographer.
mi 6,15 ON
TRIAL FOR LIFE
Mrs. Frances Vedder and Two
Negro Women Among Nine
Accused Slayers.
Walter Ratteree, a youth of 11>, who
three months ago stabbed John Odum,
a playmate, in a fight at the Atlanta
■Woolen Mills, faced Judge W. E. Thom
as in criminal division of superior
court this afternoon on trial for his life
—the first of nipe persons charged with
murder to be arraigned before the south
Georgia jurist this week.
Os the nine indicted for killings,
three are women, one white —Mrs.
Frances Victoria Tedder, who killed her
husband —and two negresses held for
the murder of a negro man. The re
maining five are negro men—one, Oscar
Dewberry, charged with the knifing of a
white man in Dvatur street, and an
other, Lawton Brown, partly confessed
“Jack the Ripper,” indicted for a dozen
murders. Three are held for implica
tion in various negro battles.
Mrs. Tedder’s trial is set for Thurs
day, but may be postponed, as the
woman was released on bond last week.
Solicitor Dorsey said today Judge
Thomas’ instructions had been to clear
the jail, and jail cases would be given
the preference.
Boy Pleads Self-Defense.
Young Ratteree’s attorneys entered a
plea of self-defense as soon as the lad
was arraigned. They will attempt to
show the court that Odum advanced on
the boy with a drawn knife, and that
Ratteree only stabbed to save his life.
Several witnesses were examined before
court adjourned.
Police interest will c enter in the trial
of Lawton Brown, held for the “Jack
the Ripper" crimes which spread a panic
among negro women for months. Ac
cording to the police. Brown has made
a partial confession which implicates
him in five or six of the “ripper” mur
ders.
J. T. Vance. Federal prison guard,
who several months ago shot and killed
M. L. Connors, a fellow guard, will not
face trial until next month. Attorneys
for the prisoner obtained a postpone
ment today. The case had been set for
hearing this afternoon.
The others to be tried are Joe Jones,
Oscar Dewberry, Addie Williams, Cora
Smith Peter Burnett and Jim Berry,
all negroes.
HONEYMOONERS INVADE
UNEXPLORED COUNTRY
SHAJiON. PA., Sept 30,—Theodore
Morgan, a retired steel millionaire, is
back at his home here, after a Three
months' honeymoon trip into a practi
cally unexplored section of the Upper
Amazon.
Mrs. Morgan, who was Miss Margaret
White, of this city, was the fit st Amer
ican woman to visit the great Kaieteut
Falls, of British Guinea, which have a
clear drop of 850 feet, and are the high
est water falls in the world.
Colonel Leaves Atlanta in Ex
cellent Spirits—Thinks He
Made Some Impression.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt left At
lanta yesterday afternoon for Chatta
nooga and Knoxville, after having vis
ited his mother's old home in Roswell
during* the day.
The former president expressed him
self as entirely satisfied with his inva
sion of Georgia, and he expects'to get
a great many votes in November, even
if he does not carry the state.
Speaking of his tour of Dixie, he
said:
“I feel that 1 have the right to ask
for votes, on behalf of the Progressive
Republican party, in any and all sec
tions of the nation.
“Our party is non-sectional. We, to
express it the other way. are all-sec
tional. We think Georgia is as much
a part of this nation as is Wyoming,
or lowa, or New York, and entitled to
the same fair, honest and generous
consideration that should be accorded
other states.
Says He Has Blazed Trail.
“1 may be doing pioneer work in
Dixie, after a fashion. Anyway, I have
blazed the trail. Others who come
after me may see some evidence of my
having passed this way, and I think I
shall be awarded some measure of
thanks by the South eventually for
that!
‘Georgia? Ah. I should dearly love
to carry Georgia! It is my mother's
state—l never forget that. I never
shall forget it, no matter what comes
to pass m the future.
"I should count my battle grandly
won, if lost so far as achieving the
presidency is concerned, if only it
might be said of me, ‘He carried Geor
gia!’
“The people have been most kind to
me all the way along the line. I have
been given a hearing—l have been per
mitted to plead my party's cause in
my own way. I think we have made
some impression!”
Colonel Roosevelt left Atlanta in
most excellent spirits. Whatever of
fatigue some people may have thought
they noticed in him Saturday was not
at all in evidence as his special pulled
out over the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis Sunday afternoon at
4:55 o’clock.
He was beaming with good nature
and enthusiasm. His long tour, with
Its three or four speeches every day,
apparently has worked nothing to his
mental or physical disadvantage.
Taft Men to Trail
T. R. in Tennessee
< HATTANOOGA, TENN., Sept. 28.
Extensive preparations have been male
by members of the regular Republican
party here for the entertainment of
Adam Bede and John M. Harlan, the
two well known Taft orators, who will
appear here tonight at the city
auditorium, following the appearance of
Theodore Roosevelt this morning.
Commissioner H. Clay Evans, former
consul general to London, will preside
I over the meeting, while United States
• Senator Newell Sanders will assist.
3 INVESTORS IN
FICKLE MINE SUE
Atlantans Say Gwinnett Coun
to Gold Prospect Was “Salt
ed” by Montanan.
Georgia's gold fields, heretofore sup
posed to have been in Lumpkin coun
ty, have been transferred to Gwinnett
county, almost within hailing distance
of Atlanta, according to a suit filed in
superior court today. The change of
location was effected by a man from
Silver Bow, Mont.
William E. Arnaud, Mrs. Annie E.
Hunt and Peter Virghiotes, all of At
lanta, are the persons who seven years
rgo contributed $l,lOO to develop min
eral properties in the vicinity of Law
renceville. Thomas .1. Shanley, the
man from Silver Bow; Jonathan B.
Frost and J. M. Bishop, made de
fendants by the suit, are the parties
who discovered raw gold in the Gwin
nett county gulch.
The suit alleges that Shanley got an
option of 312 acres of land known as
the Level Creek mines, at a purchase
price of $40,000. He turned this over
to the Suwanee Gold Mining Compa
ny, capitalized on paper at $1,000,000.
Charge Mine Was “Salted.”
Shanley held shares alleged to be
worth $225,000; Frost, SIOO,OOO. and
Bishop, $50,000. A charter was granted
and stock sales were made to the
amount of $8,182.50 real money. Ar
naud purchased 10,000 shares for $900;
Mrs, Hunt, $1,500 shares for $l5O, and
Virghiotes, 500 shares for SSO.
These sales were accomplished, so it
is asserted, through Shanley’s “salting"
ability. Several tons of auriferous dirt
were dumped into a gulch to give the
place the aspect of a real mine.
Later Frost acquired the land and
the mining company vanished. No at
tempt was made to develop the prop
erty and, according to the suit, the
property never was owned by the Su
wanee Mining Company.
The three plaintiffs have asked the
court for a judgment of $l,lOO, with
Interest for seven years.
NEGRO PLAYS WITH R. R.
SYSTEM AND-EARNS FINE]
Albert Neal, a negro, today learned in I
police court thal It Is a serious and |
dangerous thing to play with a railroad I
system.
Albert was caught in the Georgia rail
road yards, where he was amusing him
self by throwing switches and signaling
trains. His play was stopped, however,
before he caused an accident. He was
fined $10.75.
CONFIDENCE RETURNS
SIGHTJOBLIND GIRL
BOSTON. Sept. 30. —After constantly
repeating to herself, “1 shall see again,"
Miss Stella Adams, of this city, has re
covered her sight after being blind for
three years
HOHL
IDITION
2CENTS EVERYWHERE
111 Mill OUT
FOR Mill
INURE
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Beavers Orders Equal Punish-
ment for All Violators of the
Anti-Vice Measure.
CHIEF INSTRUCTS FORCE
TO CARRY OUT THE LAW
Suspected Disorderly Houses
in Residence Sections Being
Closely Watched.
“The man in the case will be prose
cuted as vigorously as the woman.
There shall be no law for the one and
evasion for the other.
“In all cases in the future where ar
rests are made In disorderly places, in
hotel rooms or elsewhere, equal pun
ishment will be meted out to both of
fenders.”
That was the order of Chief James L.
Beavers, given to the Atlanta police
force today. It followed the closing of
the recognized houses of ill repute in
the Manhattan avenue district and in
the purlieus of Decatur and Peters
streets.
The chief addressed his men early to
day, giving them official notice of the
closing of the resorts, and instructing
them that the law must be enforced.
Law Must Be
Enforced, He Says.
“This law must be enforced Just a»
rigidly as any other law -in the city
code,” said the chief. “There must be
no dodging, no winking at it. Vice
must go.
“If I learn that a disorderly house
exists on the beat of any of you men
with your knowledge, and you fail tc
report it, the man who knew and did
not report will be suspended and
Charges preferred against him. Remem
ber that.”
To The Georgian Chief Beavers ex
pressed himself as well pleased witt
the result of his order.
“The outcome will benefit the whole
city,” he said. “We shall rid Atlanta
of vice."
“This is a fight purely against vice.’
he continued. “I am making no war on
any business that is operating undet
the law. My duty is to enforce the law.
and that is what I am trying my best
to do. Vice, in its most pernicious
form, has been operating in Atlanta in
open defiance of law. and it is this that
wa. are ridding the city of. It is vice
that has absolutely no authority and
no^_ claim for life here. And we mean
to put it out and make Atlanta a clean
city.”
A number of citizens have reported
suspicious places in their neighbor
hoods, and the’ chief is keeping a list
of ail such suspected places. Plain
clothes officers have been detailed tc
watch these addresses and make ar
rests If circumstances justify such ac
tion.
Lid On Tight in
Manhattan Avenue.
The lid is on in Manhattan avenut
today. Not since yesterday afternoon
at 4 o’clock has there been a caller
across the threshold of a resort. The
pianos are stilled, the street empty of
cabs and motor cars.
“There wasn’t but one man in th*
street last night outside the police, and
he was a bicycle messenger with a tele
gram.” said one of the officers who had
been on duty there. “Things are like a
funeral down there.
“There are only about fifteen ot
twenty women left, and they are get
ting ready to go. In a day or two Man
hattan avenue will be deserted."
The chief made no effort to drive the
women from the houses. He had stated
plainly that they might remain in theii
homes until next Monday. But most of
the inmates are scattering to other
cities.
Crowds of Curious
Dispersed by Police.
The order closing the places at 4
J o’clock yesterday drew such a crowd
of curiosity-seeking men to the se
cluded street across the railway tracks
that extra police were sent down to
disperse the crowd.
A little band of religious workers,
headed by Rev. Richard Orme Flinn, of
the North Avenue Presbyterian church,
paid a visit to the district in the after
noon and went from house to house in
the effort to rescue such women as
might desire to reform. Dr. Flinn said
afterward that he had been given a
courteous hearing and believed some of
the women would be benefited by hit
visit.
Several slumming parties in auto
mobiles attempted to visit the stree
• last night, but were turned back by th<
police, one automobile contained