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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 mt io 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. ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* • • 2 Chief Beavers Thanks : • Georgian for Its Aid 2 • • • "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.” • i • • 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 JU i (3 . Br V>- • K ZXJBSHFr 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 MH 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