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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Saturday, cooler.
Temperatures: 8 a. m.. 64 degrees;
10 a. m„ 60 degrees: 12 noon, 58 de
grees; 2 p. m., 58 degrees.
VOL. XL XO. 77.
FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF ACTUAL SCENES IN THE TURKISH-BALKAN WAR
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COMMISSION
TO STAND BY
SALARY MT
Anti-Fee Law of 1911 Will Be
Held Good Until Declared
Unconstitutional.
The Fulton county commission de
cided today to regard the salary act of
1911 as Legal in every detail and to pro
ceed with the reconstruction of the
county affairs in anticipation of the
date of its inauguration, January 1,
1913. If one or all of the seven county
officials affected by the act fail to fol
low its provisions they will be haled
into court on mandamus proceedings
and the new ’•anti-fee’’ law will get its
first court test in that way.
Pursuant to this plan, the commis
sion, in special session today, named
Alonzo L. Richardson temporary coun
ty auditor at a salary of $250 a month,
with the understanding that Richard
son, who i- to install a set of books un
der the new law, shall discontinue his
work in the event of litigation. His
appointment is merely provisional and
by the month. The law provides for
lite appointment of a count} auditor nt
a salary of $3,000 per annum.
In deciding that the commission
would legat’d the law act as perfectly
legal and attempt no court test, <'hair
man L. Anderson voiced the senti
ment of tile members of the board
when he said:
"This board is an executive body pri
marily -and it is our duty to proceed
with the operations of this law. If the
act is unconstitutional or a part of it is
eventually declared unconstitutional, all
tight; but our present duty is to go
ahead and prepare for its operation. If
county officers fail to live up to it or
refuse us the information necessary for
its operation, we can bring mandamus
pioceeding and the court will get it for
final decision then.”
Tax Collector Andrew P. Stewart,
who is already on record'as doubtful of
the act’s constitutionality, was present
at the meeting, but took no part in the
action. The tax collector has said that
he will sit tight, conducting his office
as he always has until forced to do
mltetwis'. H. takes this position be
cause Ot Hu fact that lie holds a dual
olfici and is answerable to the state, as
well as the count! .
According to Mi Sa w.i t. it will take
him some twelve o e.gateen month- to
make his collections for 1912 and gvl
ready for the salary law.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results.
JUDGECALLS
CHILDCOURT
CHIME 1
Grand Jury Told System Should
Be Promptly Discontinued
Under Present Conditions.
•’The Fulton county children's court
should be abolished as condition- now
stand. It is a mere ini mix ■ to erim .
If the county continues to ignore the
court’s lack of facilities the law that
inaugurated the juvenile tribunal
should be repealed."
This is the startling assertion .1 ud.g
John T. Pendleton Hum- al mi-mbi V
; the grand jury today when tin ju:y'-
i term report on the condition of county
institutions was made. The jury, in its
report, had deplored the condition < x
isting at the Central Avenue Detention
Home and recommended that the coun
, ty establish a reformats:y for negro
boys.
“These recommendations are remark
i ably wise,” said Judge Pendleton, "and
: I expect to call the county commission's
I attention to them. The affaiis of the
■ children’s court can not continue as
i they have been if the w-lfari of tin
county is to be conserved.
! “Conducted a- it is, the emir: is a in-
■ centive to crime. With no refo inatory
to send its wards to. it becomes a rm r
tribunal for the administration of goon
i advice. When a negro buy appears be-
fore the court he knows that we have
no place to send him under the law and
I all the judge can do is to say: 'Now,
> please don't com ■ back here again: go
i out and be good.’ ”
j In discussing the Central Avenue De-
> tention Home, the juty found that
f whites and negroes were not segregat- d
and .the children held at the home
■ pending trial were not -eparated as to
• sex. The jury was under the impres
sion that the home was a reformatory
until corrected by the judge.
. It was recommended that a new home
f much larger than the present one b-
I established so that a proper segrega
tion as to both race and sex could le
i maintained.
The matter of a negro reformatory
* will b i forced on the comrnls ion. .lodge
Pendleton said that he ■ peeled to
1 place the matter befon the board at
s once. He said the intolerable condi
tions could not go on longe
With the exception of iiindltions it-
> I justice courts, tbo jury s ie; o : show e i
tithe county institutions to be in good
shao#
\TLAXTA. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1912.
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Bdin . Col >nel All B".v.
n Turkish prisoner, h-av- Above, a great ,
iug CellinC alter an interview army of 3.000
''iih K ng X c'olas who allowed ■■ Turkish prisoners
| him to keep his sword. taken in Hight at Podgoritza.
■ ARBITRATORS BUSY
GETTING DATA FOR
JUDGE CHAMBERS
diaries A. Wiekersham. representing
’ the railroads, and F. A. Burgess, rep
-1 resenting the labor people, are busy
< j today collecting data lor submission to
' the board of arbitration in the Georgia
' I strike situation at its meeting Thurs
day. November ;, follow ing the appoint -
nient’of Hon. William L. Chambers, of
Washington. as the third arbitrator
and umpir> . Mr. Chambers was named
by Judge Martin A. Knapp, of the
1 I’nited States commerce court at Wash
ington. and Commissioner Charles P.
Neill, ip accordance with tin provisions
1 of (tie Erdman act relating to arbitra
, lion diffeiem s. Mr. Wickersham and
, Mr. Burgess were empowered to pick
the third man, lint could not agree,
and they threw the appointment back
" on the other officials.
BROWN TO GET VETS’
HOME PROBE REPORT
WITHOUT COMMENT
• ■ The findings in the case of Trustee
r Winn, of the Confederate Soldiers
- home, w ill bo referred to Governor Jo
seph M Brown, without comment, by
he committee of investigation.
v Asked today if it would be within the
i executive authority to remove Trustee
> Winn, in tlm Hint he approved the
t findings and thought that course a *>-
- lotion of the matter, the governor hes
itated a few seconds, ami said:
e "So far as I am aware or advised.
.1 ti e only official the governor of Geor-
I via has any authority to 'tire' is a rail
road commission"*’*"
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WIDOW’S QUARREL
WITH GIRL UPSETS
PLANS OF FUNERAL
. MONTGOMERY. ALA . Nov. I. On
account of tiie attitude of dignitaries of
S'. Johns Episcopal church tie funeral
of forme: Congressman Willis Brewer
who died Wednesday, was nut held to
day from that church
A dispute, arose late yesterday be
tween he deceased’s widow and adopt
ed daughter for possession of the body.
Solicitor Seibels was called in. but said
he had no voice in family affairs.
t'pon an agreement the body was
brought to Montgomery and laid in
state an hour this morning at a local
undei taking chapel, and then was es
corted back to the Brewer plantation,
where it was deposited in the SIO,OOO
mausoleum built by the dead man.
SOCIAL CIRCLE SUFFERS
$30,000 LOSS FROM FIRE
SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA.. Not I.—Eire
did $30,000 damage here w lien the ware
house of the Wallace-Cowan Lumber
Company was destroyed and other con
cerns suffered heavy losses. The losses
arc: Wallace I'owan Lumber Compa
ny. .*15,000; B. G. Smith, $2,000; O. N.
Stant<m, $5,00H; Social Circle Manufac
turing Company $3,000; P A. Stanton
damage to warehouse, and 1,. H Adams,
S6OO, and a few others, SIOO to SSOO.
Tile majority were without insurance
Two hundred bales of cotton were
burned, but were covered by insurance.
MAYOR WILL SPEND
FEW DAYS HERE AS
HE GOES TO FLORIDA
Acting Mayoi < 'andler today received
a letter from Mayoi Winn saying he
would come io Atlanta shortly, but
would remain here only a few days.
Mayoi Winn said lie was improving,
but would go to Florida for a rest,
which he hoped would not be longer
than three weeks
Mayor Winn still is at the Imine of
his brother-in-law E l> Thomas, at
Plainfield. N. J His wife! s with him.
MAJOR HARRIS LIKELY TO
BE NEW CHIEF OF MILITIA
Adjutant General William G. Obeaf
will not open the ballots cast by the
officers for a successor to General Clif-
I ford L. Anderson until tomorrow. It is
more than likely however, that Major
| Walter Harris, of Macon, has been
named to be the new commander of the
state troops.
EX-SENATOR WHITLOCK
HELD AS $2,000 THIEF
NEW YORK. Nov. 1 Ex-State Sen
ator Thomas <'. Whitlock, a well known
criminal lawyer was arrested at his of
fices today charged with tie larceny of
$2,000 from n client. According to the
charge. Whitlock told his client, who
was charged with a criminal offense.
. that he could gel him oft foi $3,000.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P MORI
Prince Danilo, crown prince of Montenegro, with a rapid
tire gun taken from the Turks.
TURK CWAL DOOMED,'
PIERS IN PEACEMOVE
LONDON, Nov. I.—The Turkish government is expected to an
nounce its acceptance of mediation by the powers in the Balkans with
in 72 hours, according to a dispatch from Paris this afternoon.
From a source close to the British foreign office, it is learned that
intervention or suspension of hostilities is expected without further
delay.
A dispatch from Vienna states
lhat representatives of Bulgaria,
Senia, Greece and Montenegro
have begun conferences in regard
to the demands to be levied upon
Turkey at the conclusion of hos
tilities.
Warning wa- issued to the Turkisli
government today by the world powers
to use every precaution to protect for
eigners within the empire.
There is danger that the Ottoman
hordes, embittered by defeat In the
field, may begin a massacre of Chris
tians
Foreign warships representing Eng
land. France, Germany and other for
eign coiAitrirs are speeding to Turkish
ports to defend the lives of Christian
residents of the empire.
Fanatical Mohammedan pi lasts are
pleaching a general uprising against
the Christians and anti-foreign feeling
is running dangerously high.
Constantinople lies today at the mer
cy of the Balkan allies.
The shattered remnants of General
Nazim Pasha's Turkish army of 150,000
men is in retreat less than 50 miles
from the capital. General Savoff's Bul
garian army is In pursuit of the Turks.
Adrianople is in the hands of the
Bulgarians and the 50,000 soldiers with
in the citadel, prisoners.
From scatte ed points come reports
that Turkey is on her knees suing for
peace.
Czar Ferdinand, eommander-ln-ehlcf
of the Bulgars, at Bulgarian headquar
ters at Stars Zagora. today received
dispatches f ont the front stating that
the Bulgarian army lost 30.000 men
killed and wounded in the 72-hour bat
tle mound l.ulebuigas and Chorlu,
which resulted in decisive defeat tor
HOME.
IDITIOfI
the Ottoman soldiery.
Although there has been no official
announcement of Turkish losses, it is
believed they have lost 60,000 In killed,
wounded and prisoners. Their forces
are completely demoralized, according
to all accounts.
But one line of forts now ties be
tween the advancing Bulgars and ths
Turkish capital. There the Ottoman
forces may make their last stand until
the forward march of the Bulgars is
halted.
Fighting around Adrianople has now
been going on for twelve days, and in
that time Czar Ferdinand has crushed
the flower of the Ottoman military
forces. The Turks have been outgen
eraled and outfought at every’ turn.
The Bulgars rolled almost wholly upon
artillery and the bayonet.
When it was seen that the Ottoman
lines were wavering, Mohammedan
priests were sent among the soldiers
exhorting them to stand firm for the
Crescent and the faith, but the priests
were unable to stir stagnant religious
fury against the Christian soldiers.
European Diplomats
Meet to Talk Peace
PARIS. Nov. L—Al. Pau! Cambon.
French ambassador to England, arrived
here from London today to take part in •
the International discussion upon the
future of southeastern Europe as
affected by the Balkan war.
Conferences of momentous import
ance wall begin hen at once. Repre
sentatives of the Balkan kingdoms were
invited to meet at the foreign office this
afternoon to discuss tin preliminaries.
The real object of the meeting was
to allow the powers to sound the Bal
kan governments upon the propositioh
of immediate suspension of hostilities.