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L'., A i- -L..V.. j Li Ji v A — A *_> -1 -»-< * . o. uiv * Ai'iLiL r 1 - \ S wl rif T\ of cii m* pe id th ve all an ac in; no b> er sii In fli. Ri oo er de q*f 1-Jg mcu n V suj re ri ar b( C8 gl PJ P< tk of ei tc ai in a] w S< ti ra w st tr P T ci w tf ai a C4 w p o Wl SELECTED IN APPELBAUM CASE; TIL ON Continued from Page One. ift Hotel, on duty the morning of the Miooting, was the first witness to take the stand. He went up for the prose* < ution, but upon rigid cross-examina tion proved a capable aid to the de fense. Doctor to Teetify. Under fire from Attorney. Moore, Thomason admitted that he met Mrs. Appelbaum at the foot of the hotel stairway not ten seconds after he had hung up the telephone upon receiving the call that there had been a flteooting in room 213. He had bare ly crossed the fifteen feet of the hotel lobby, he asserted, when Mrs. Appel baum, garbed in a kimono and hys terical. fainted in his arms T. P. Thomason, clerk in the Da kota Hotel, concluded his testimony shortly before 4 o’clock. No additional light was thrown on the mystery. At torney Moore, for the defense, at tempted to prove by Thomason that there was a bullet hole in tlie ceiling of iho bathroom directly over the spot where Appelbaum was found, but ihe witness was unable to give any information as to this. Dr. J. W Hurt, county physician, was next caleld and told of his ex amination of the wounds in Apia baum’s body at the time of the cnr- oner’s inquest. Dr. S. J. Liebman and the police officers will follow Thomason to the stand at 3:30 o’clock, when the trial is resumed. G. Cohen an I Alvin Rob erts, two men who occupied rooms in the hotel, and J. T. Lindsay and J. Lawrence .Tones will appear as char acter witnesses for the woman. Mrs. Appelbaum, before the trial began, said she had prayed constant ly. "But,” she added, “1 do not rely entirely on prayers. The facts, when they are put before a jury, will clear me. 1 am innocent and I have no fear of the outcome." Xo difficulty was expected in finding 1 Jury, according to Mrs. Appelbaum's lawyers . and the Solicitor. Unless something entirely unlooked for de velops, Solicitor Dorsey expects the in the hands of a jury to- case to be morrow. Accused in Good Spirits. Mrs. Appelbaum arose early at tHe Tower this morning and long before the hour for her departure for the court room she was anxiously await ing the arrival of attendants. She was dressed as she was yesterday—black broadcloth skirt, black silk waist and black oxfords. If anything, she was in better spirits and more confident of acquittal than she has been since she was confined in the Tower, three * ftte^ths ago. Solicitor Dorsey will attempt to break down the theory advanced by Mrs. Appelbaum’s lawyers that Appel baum shot himself. Whether he had any witness, or witnesses, that would throw any additional light on the mystery he would make no statement, but lie was equally as confident of < onvlcted, he said, as Mrs. Appel- baum and her attorneys were of ac quittal. It is understood that Applebaum de fense will be based on the testimony of two witnesses, the men who testi fied at the t’oroner’s inquest that, in tlie interval between the first and second shots they heard in tHe Appel baum room, they distinctly heard footfalls, as if some one were running in the hall past their door. If the Jury believes it. was Mrs. Appelbaum that ran past Q. Cohen’s door before the last, or second, shot was fired, the suicide theory will be established, for it was only a few seconds after the last shot was fired t Hat Mrs. Appelbaum. hysterical, ran into the hotel lobby. Some one ditj run by Cohen's door toward the staircase, say her lawyers, and they will attempt to show' it was the woman on trial for her life, running from the sight of her hus band shooting himself, or possibly go ing for medical aid. With the exception of a heightened pallor caused by the long confine ment and a alightt Inge of gray in her hair, Mrs. Appelbaum looked but little different from the pictures of her printed at the time of the shoot ing She was, however, an entirely different woman from the almost hys terical witness at the coroner’s in quest. She was perfectly composed and took a lively interest in the proceedings in the court room. Black Sheep of Rich Family. Dispatches from New York say that Appelbaum was the black sheep" of a wealthy family there and ‘hat a horror of becoming identified as r«sl-- tives of the slain man led the mem- Caruso Sketches Mayor Woodward And Colonel Peel HIS HONOR THE MAYOR. COLONEL W. L. PEEL. Signor Caruso, who could make a first-rate livelihood as cartoonist if his golden voice were to rail, to-day made these sketches of two of At lanta’s leading citizens Mood’s Sarsaparilla In hundreds of hemes is the fav- pring Medicine Made from Roots. Barks. Herbs end other ingredients, including .met those prescribed by the best physicians for ailments of the blog J, stomach, kidneys and liver. CreBrrpv a bers to permit his burial in a lot in Atlanta which Mrs. Appelbaum pur chased. Heartbroken by tHe years of worry which she had endured because of his escapades which had their tragic ending in the Dakota Hotel, his moth er, Mrs. Isador Appelbaum. is said to be dying at her home, 1987 Daly Avenue, Bronx Borough. She had been acquainted with the wild life of her son, his many loves and the homes that he was reported to have ruined. Three years ago, abandoning hope of his reformation, the family ostra cised him utterly and heard nothing from him until the news went abroad that he had been shot down in his room in an Atlanta hotel, either by Ids own hand or that of his wife. A brother of the dead man lives at 309 West Ninety-ninth Street, New York, and has offices at 55 Liberty Street. Disowned After Disclosures. Appelbaum's career began in New York about fourteen year* ago when he was named as defendant in a sen sational separation suit filed by a wife whom he married several months be fore. In her suit the first Mrs. Ap pelbaum asserted among other things that her husband had threatened to kill her. The separation was granted and as a result of the disclosures Ap pelbaum’s family practically disown ed him, although they kept in touch with him until three years ago. Since that time he was compelled to flee many times from the vengeance of the fathers and husbands of the women over whom he appeared to exercise a hypnotic influence. As the proprietor of a drug store in Brook lyn, a number of women fell in love with him in his early adys. and he is well remembered there yet. Shots Followed Angry Words. Jerome A. Appelbaum was shot while in his room at the Dakota Ho tel the morning of February 2."*. G. Cohen, a traveling salesman, who had a room next to that of the Appel- baums. was startled by the sound of shots following angry words and sounds like that of a scuffle. lie called P. T. Thomason, the clerk, on the r om telephone*, telling him to hurry upstairs, as the people in the next room were shooting each other up." Barely had Thomason started up stairs. without waiting for the ele vator, before Mrs. Appelbaum, dis traught and hysterical, and clad only in a night robe and kimono, stag gered down the stairs and fell faint ing Into his arms. Attracted by the shots and excite ment. a crowd quickly gathered and followed tlie hotel clerk up to roon\ 211. Appelbaum, with a bullet wound below his heart and two wounds in his right arm. laj. on the floor dead. Wife's Story Was Incoherent. Mrs. Appelbaum was incoherent She could give no satisfactory explanation of the shooting Her only statements wore the most disjointed and illogical sentences. In one breath she declared she could not have killed her husband and in the next she exclaimed that if she did ii was God's work. Out of her hys terical ravings the listeners were able to gather that there had bem a quar rel; that she was accusing her hus band. now dead, of having threatened her at the pistol s point if she did not give he: diamonds over into his pos session. He was mean: he na- bad." she muttered. "If I shot him it was in self-dejvnse." IN U. S. PEN; Golden Voice of Greatest Tenor Touches Prisoners—Tv Cobb Also a Visitor, GRAND OPERA IN PRISON. By Enrico Caruso. World’s Greatest Tenor. "0 Paradis*,” L'Africaine- My*rb*er “ld«alle,” a ballad Toati “Ridi Pagliacci” (»ob eong), I Pag iiacci—Leoncavallo Thi* ia th* incomparable pro gram th* golden-voiced tenor sang for the prisoners at the Federal Penitentiary this afternoon. “I have never sung so well in my life. My heart went out to those poor, erring men and I had all I could do to keeo from falter ing in the midet of the ‘Sob Song.' The brilliance of a bejeweled the ater, the dazzle of the most splen did audience, has never affected me as that silant, somewhat grim audience of this afternoon. I put my heart into my tinging, and if I brought a ray of joy to but one prisoner I am more than content.” — Enrico Caruso, after singing to the Federal prisoners this after noon. The great bell of the Federal Pris on tapped sharply at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The little group of priv ileged visitors waiting in the main corridor heard the rattle of heavy bolts as they shot back from the cells, the sharp, staccato commands of tHe guards, the shuffling of two thousand feet on the concrete floors. Into the corridors, past the iron grat ings. marched the strangest audience the greatest tenor in history ever has charmed. For Caruso was to sing to ihe con victs. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the world's greatest baseball player, heard Ca ruso sing. Cobb's visit: was unher alded. Because of the fact that the afternoon was strictly a Caruso af fair, Cobb was not introduced to the prisoners, and only those who had seen him on ihe diamond knew’ he was there. The prison auditorium was full to the last seat when the march had ended. There w’ere beardless young sters paying tlie penalty of an hour's indiscretion with some other mans money; wrinkled old offenders who sat sullenly in their chairs and sneer ed under their breath—at first—at the break in the prison routine. There w’ere old men with the prison pallor in their faces clad in the rough wool en of the prison garb, who had one day driven in their own carriages to the Metropolitan and listened to Ca ruso from the diamond horseshoe, where society finds its greatest dis play. There were bent and haggard moonshiners from the mountains, shut inside four walls, perhaps to find release by tuberculosis, the great pardoner o£ all prisoners. They sat and w’aited. while behind them stood the warden and his deputies, watch ing. always watching. Behind these, in their elevated chairs, sat the guards, rifles across Knees, eyes on the men before them. Hawthorne Affected. In a corner near the little stage sat an old man. who has been much in the public prints of late. Julian Hawthorne, himself a writer of note, the grandson of the famous Na thaniel Hawthorne, master of litera ture. It had been only a day since the news had come to him that hia plea for a parole had been refused. He is scarcely 60. but he seemed years more than that to-day. In a e.uater not far from the stage w’aited the most appreciative inusi? lovers of the day, their swarthy faces lighted with anticipation, their white teeth shining as they smiled. Here were Lupo the Wolf, once king of the Black Handers, and a little band of his brother Italians captured with him. Caruso was no novelty to them, though they had, never expected to hear the golden tenor in such sur roundings as this. The Auditorium was deathly quiet when the accompanist struck the keys and Caruso stepped to the little plat form. Behind him was the garish scenery of the prison theater, rudely painted by a convict with artistic ten- dencies Before him sat the member* of the prison orchestra, musicians drawn from the ranks of the convicts. Caruso Falters. The tenor swept his dark eyes over his strange audience, past the guards and their rifles, up to the high barred windows cut In the solid wall. Then he began the opening bars of the "Oh. Paradiso,” aria from Meyerbeer’s "L’Africaine.” If Caruso faltered a moment at the beginning it must not be thought he was in "bad voice.” It would not re quire the temperament of an opera singer to be touched out of one's calm by a scene like this But the tenor found himself, and the great aria of Vasco di Gama, rich, sonorous, boom ed through the hall and echoed from ihe walls, those walls which shut in Julian Hawthorne Who is Prisoner No. 4435 in theFederal Prison, wrote the following tribute for Good Words, the prison magazine, and it is first published to-day: ENRICO CARUSO We sit in our rows of sodden-gray I'p there in the great blank hall; Through the window-bars the great blue day And the golden sunshine call. Call us. as Christ railed Lazarus, dead. To rise and eome forth from his grave. But Christ cares not to free us, we said. To give back the life God gave. Better the dead than the Jiving dead Whom the World shuts out and the bars shut in, Man-made scapegoats of all men's sin! ^ Then, in the hush of the.great blank hall. (tod wrought a wondrous miracle, For a voice, like a glorious trumpet-call. Ai-ose as a soul from the deeps of hell, And our souls rose with it on wondrous wings, Rose from their prison of iron and day, Fohgot the grime and the shame of things! We were men once again in a sunlit day, Sin and grief and punishment—all Were lost in I hat human trumpet-call. # Not bars nor banishment can abate The strong swift wings of the deathless soul Soaring aloft over grief and fate As the tones of the master of music roll Through the gloom and doom of the prison-pen, Distilling the fragrance of flowering song Into hearts that remember Youth again And innocent loves that knew no wrong. How then, if such be music’s spell, Shall we doubt that Christ still conquers hell? The ahove poem wan inspired bp gratitude for Caruso’s gracious art iu singing for the prisoners this afternoon. everything that enters, upon which there is inscribed no ‘‘Exit.’’ The singer ceased. There was a moment of silence, then a long, sibi lant sigh, the expression of relief from profound tension. Then a little patter of applause, timid at first, which swelled into a perfect peal of hand-clapping. The prisoners stirred in their seats, looked at one another in wonder, and waited for the next. The next was Tosti’s ballad. ‘Tdealla," a simple work sung with all the expression the master of all sing ers could give it. But the best was reserved for the last, the greatest song in all opera, the aria which has won Caruso his greatest fame, the ef fort which costs him more in vocal strain and fatigue than a whole act of ordinary opera—the wonderful la ment of Canlo in “Pagliacci,” known to the wc rid as “The Sob Song. Caruso wore a street suit instead of.the white (lowing blouse and trou sers of the mountebank; his black hair was free from the conical cap of the strolling player. But when he had begun the aria those who knew “Pag liacci” forgot the bare Auditorium and its rough-clad audience and saw- only the mimic stage, the assembled villagers, the body of the murdered Nedda with the crimson stain upon her breast. "Vesta la giubba,” the tenor began. The notes were a sharp command, "On with the play." And then followed the story of the outcast player, who must laugh and joke and dance though his heart be breaking. The great chest swelled with emotion, the wonderful voice soared out over the silent throng. At last, climbing to that clear, high note which is Caru so’s and Caruso’s alone, the Canio of the moment broke into that succession of j obs which give the song its name, those sobs which seem to tear the very heart from the singer, which leave the audience always in tears. Weep as Children. And there were tears in plenty this afternoon. Old men who had no,t wept since boyhood, who had faced arrest with bravado, had endured in stolid indifference endless days upon days of captivity, were drying their cheeks with their sleeves. Far up the .center aisle a man of 50 who once had been a banker was weeping as freely as a child, unconscious of the curious eyes which watched him. Al most at the rear a boy—hardly out of his teens—had buried his face in his hands and was sobbing as though his heart would break. "Clang: Clang!" The concert is over. The prison bell arouses the thousand from their reverie, surrounds them once more with cold stone walls, drives them back to the day's routine. «But it has been a day in a thousand, a day worth marking with a special cross in those tiny, tragic calendars the prisoners scratch with their nails upon the white walls of their cells. As the last of the audience files out Caruso waves a farewell. “We hope you can come again some day." the warden says, as he shakes hands. "Of a certainty," returned Caruso. "Whenever I come to Atlanta again." The great tenor was introduced by Warden Moyer, who took note of the tense eagerness of his wards, and made his remarks short. At. the conclusion of the eventful program Chaplain Beeber presented a great bouquet of flowers from the Italian prisoners, and t'ne tenor accepted them with tears in his eves. He said afterwards the sobs in his throat choked any words he might have said, but the prisoners under stood. WILE; BLAMES EURE OE OPERA H. H. Oates, member of a well known Augusta family, but a resident of Atlanta for some time, returned this noon from Marietta with his young and pretty wife, with whom he declared he had become entirely rec onciled. Mrs. Oates’ mysterious flight last Saturday afternoon from the Peach tree Inn, where she and her husband were staying, led to sensational stories of an elopement, but the hus band to-day was most positive in his assertions that no other man was in volved in the case. It was a family quarrel, pure and simple, he said. His wife had become angered over a do mestic difference and had left him to go to Chicago. As the police had it, and as an ad vertisement inserted by Oates him self read, Mrs. Oates left the city with a decorator named Quintus l)e- lolons, and was traced through Delo- lon’s Scotch collie, also mentioned in the police alarm. Oates bounded off the 12 o’clock car from Marietta before it had come to a stop at the Walton Street Station of the line. In his hand was a small suitcase. When he spied the crowd of curious persons, the questioning group of reporters and the battery of cameras confroniing him. he jumped back on the car more quickly than he had alighted. One of the reporters, by a sharp sprint, overtook the reconciled pair. "It is a lie that any other man was concerned." the reporter was told by the breathless husband. "Of that I am confident. I am satisfied that my wife was on her way to Chicago to see her brother, who is studying medicine there. She intended to take up vocal music. "When she is able we will leave Atlanta and try to forget the whole deplorable affair. We will never ?ome back. It was most unjust that such a disgraceful construction was put upon her disappearance." Blames Grand Opera. To grand opera Oates ascribes the greater part of his domestic trouble and the flight of his wife. He be lieves that his wife’s head was turn ed by the overwhelming desire to emulate the success of the beautiful Lucrezia Bori. whose coming to At lanta was heralded by the most flat tering press notices and the kindest words of the critics. "Her mother sent her a clipping a week or so ago,” he said, "telling of the scholarship in voice training won by a girl in Jackson, Miss., and one in Atlanta. "The girl in Jackson Was at one time my wife's schoolmate and q.t that time my wife’s voice was con sidered every bit as good as the oth er gin’s. Offer Turned Her Head. "Then came an offer from the book ing agent of a small opera company, and 1 could persuade Mrs. Oates to talk of nothing else. "She wanted to go on the stage, but I objected. I thought she had for gotten it. but the coming of grand opera to Atlanta aroused her longings in this respect with increased force. "She read every word of the ad vance notices. She raved over the success of Lucrezia Bori and wept that she had not had the opportunity to make a name for herself on the operatic stage. "Then came our little quarrel, and T think she decided then to start out for Chicago to study vocal music with the ultimate idea of supporting her self." Alderman Denies Alleged Official Corruption and Makes Serious Counter Charges. Alderman James W. Maddox re- plied to Alderman John E. McClel land's charges of corruption with a violent attack to-day. The reply was in the form of a letter to Alderman McClelland, asking a number of pointed questions reflecting on Al derman McClelland’s character and official conduct. The investigating committee of council met this afternoon, filed -he Maddox letter and adjourned until next Tuesday on account of McClel land’s illness. Alderman Maddox denied that he was legally or morally guilty of mis conduct in having sub-Contracts with the city. He said he would not pre sent counter charges before the Council investigating committee this afternoon on account of Alderman McClelland’s mental and physical condition, but resorts to McClelland’s own tactics and invites a suit for libel. Maddox Asks Questions. The questions, introduced by the statement that Alderman McClelland is being used by designing men for political purposes, follow: 1. Why were you so viciously op posed to anything like a contract with the Georgia Railway and Power Com pany last year, and so vehement in denouncing all members of Council who supported it, as being improperly influenced, and even charged that cor ruption existed and insisted that the city build ft competing plant, and then this year suddenly changed to equally violent opposition to the same com peting plant, and even voted at all times to repudiate the city’s previous ly made contract, for which you had voted? Is it possible that you have accepted the "thirty pieces of silver” so frequently mentioned by you last year, as well as the hundred pieces you have recently so brazenly admit ted receiving? 2. Why did you appear in court as an attorney at law in a suit against the city of Atlanta, when you knew that this appearance was in direct violation of the laws of the city? Counsel for Pickpockets? 3. Why, do you represent, Co the extent of consultation at least, nearly all of the worst pickpockets who are arrested in this city? How much fees do you get for appearing for them in violation of the law of the city and your oath of office? 4. Why .did you appear in the Su perior Oouit of Fulton County this morning, as counsel for the defend ant in the case of State vs. E. T. Darden, charged with murder, and un der indictment therefor, with the prosecutor therein set out as W. A. Chewning, a member of the police force of the city of Atlanta? Why did you state in your place as such attorney, that you were Ills leading counsel, and ask for a checking of the case because of your physical disa bility, and thus delay justice and violate the laws? Represents Brewers. 5. Why do brewers appear in your office and go into your private sanc tum, behind closed doors, while they have applications pending before the Police Committee of Council, of which you are a member? 6. Why do you give legal advice to brewing agents touching the validity and effect of a. lease on a place of business for which an application is then pending before the Police Com mittee of which you are a member? 7. How many clubs have paid fees to your firm to represent them in le gal matters, while they had applica tions pending before the Police Com mittee of which you were a member; what services were to be performed and how much was paid? 8. How many women of the under world do you represent in "civil mat ters” other than Eva Clarke? What case of a civil nature did you plead for her, anyway? Personal Conduct Questioned. 9. Why did the officers of the city, when endeavoring to round up a gang of lawbreakers in a certain hotel of this city, find you in a room there in. when the said hotel was within fifteen minutes’ walk, ten minutes by car and five minutes by automobile ride from your home? 10. Why did you act in such man ner as to cause a certain prominent minister of the gospel of this city to state from his pulpit that a member of the General Council of this city had been guilty of such conduct as to bring reproach to himself and shame upon the city? 11. Why are your friends or rep resentatives engaged now in seeing men who know things concerning your conduct, and who may be sub- penaed as witnesses, and asking these men either to forget that they know anything or to evade the ques tions when asked? Pope Again Able to Sit by His Window ROME, April 23.—Pope Pius X again was able to leave his bed to day and sat for a short time in his armchair by a w indow. The Pontiff was not so depressed as he was yesterday, his weakened condition being improved. Upon leaving the Vatican after his morning call. Dr. Marchiafava said that His Holiness was showing satis factory improvement. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try itl 4 Deluge Sweeping Over Mississippi Break in Roiling Fork Levee One Mile Wide—Thousands Home less—Fifty Towns Suffer. MEMPHIS, TENN., April 23.—A break more than a mile wide' near Rolling Fork. Miss., to-day permitted water 30 feet deep to overflow val uable lands in Mississippi. Several lives were reported lost. Government officers at river points below' Memphis to-day began dis tributing 150,000 rations to destitute families. Thousands in the flooded district are homeless. Heavy damage was done to Grace, Miss., a town of 1,500 inhabitants. More than 50 tow’ns suffered slight damage. The levee at Pala Alto, La., was reported caving to-day. A high wind w r as sending the waves against the dikes, making repair w’ork dan gerous. More than 200 refugees on board the steamer Aliee Miller reached Vicksburg to-day. Small boats con tinued patrolling the overflowed sec tions, picking up hundreds. Wife’s Plea Frees ‘Blind Tiger King’ Governor Brown Commutes Dan Shaw's Sentence to Present Service and $700 Fine. Car Company's Tax Returns Reected Comptroller General Calls Georgia Railway and Power Firm’s Figures Too Low. Comptroller General William 9 A. Wright to-day refused to accept the lax returns of $13,134,685 made by the Georgia Railway and Power Com pany of Atlanta, although this figure is in excess of last year’s returns by $879,188. It is the belief of the comp troller that they should be still high er and he will have a conference within a few days with President P S. Arkwright, of the company. Divided into the separate companies of the corporation the returns are: Georgia Railway and Power Com pany, $1,164,985; Georgia Railway and Electric Company, $9,865,000.; At lanta Gas Light Company, $1,820,- 000; Atlanta Northern Railway Com pany, $250,000; Decatur Electric and Power Company, $15,500; Carrollton Electric Company, $19,200. Escaping Soldier Caught by Accident Fort McPherson Runaway Bolts After Hearing Description of Himself. The city police, the county police and a detail of soldiers from Fort McPherson joined in a man-hunt to day W’hen the alarm was sounded that Roy O’Dell, a prisoner at the Fort, had escaped the sentry and w’as at liberty in the open country. O’Dell did not have his freedom long, being captured within an hour and a half on the Cascade road by M. L. Baker, one of the motorcycle officers of the county police. Baker saw O’Dell resting against a fence by the roadside and took him for a farmer's helper. The policeman approached him and asked if he had seen any one along the road answering the description of the escaped soldier. O’Dell thought the officer was joking him before tak ing him into custody and leaped the fence in an effort to escape. The truth dawned upon Baker that he had been giving O’Dell his own descrip tion and pursued and overtook him. James B. Duke Sails For Home in England Believed He and Wife, Former Fa mous Atlanta Beauty, Will Entertain Extensively. NEW YORK. April 23.—James B. Duke, formerly known as the Tobac co King of America, and his wife sailed on the Mauretania to-day for England, where they are to make their home. Recently Mr. Duke purchased Dor chester House, which has been the scene of many notable gatherings, and it is believed that he and Mrs. Duke, who was Mrs. William Inman, of Atlanta. Ga., famous throughout the South for her beauty, will enter tain extensively. . A heartbroken and almost penniless wife succeeded in gaining the clem ency of Governor Brown to-day for Dan Shaw, the Atlanta "blind tiger king,” where scores of his friends, many of them influential, had failed. Shaw, who was sentenced to a term of two years and a fine of $200 for persistent violation of the liquor laws, was granted a, commutation to present service on the payment of a fine of $700. Friends have had the money for weeks, but it was not until Governor Brown received a letter from Mrs. Shaw that he consented to the com mutation. Mrs. Shaw wrote that she had obtained a position for her hus band in Richmond, Va. Wilson’s Plea That Secretary „f State Paass on the Land Bill Is Heeded, • WASHINGTON, April 23 __ Word reached the White House this afternoon that the Califor- nia Senate and Assembly will pass a joint resolution inviting the Secretary of State to visit California, following out Presi. dent Wilson’s suggestion mat j, earlier'in the day. The Secretary of State will leave for Sacramen. to either to-night or early to. morrow. WASHINGTON, April 23.—Pr es |. dent Wilson, alarmed at the develop" ments in the Califomia-Japaoese situation, to-day wired Governor Johnson and the Legislature of Cali fornia to inquire whether it would be agreeable to them to have Secretary of State Bryan visit Sacramento to co-operate with the California au thorities in framing an alien land bill which would not trespass on the treaty obligations of the United States. The President's message to .John- son read: , Thank you for your patriotic telegram. We find it so difficult from this distance to understand fully the situation with regard to the sentiment or the circum stances lying back of the pend ing proposal concerning the ownership of land in the State that I venture to inquire whether it would be agreeable to you and the Legislature to have the Sec retary of State visit Sacramento for the purpose of counseling with you and the members of the Legislature and co-operating with you and them in the fram ing of a law which would meet with the views of the State and yet leave untouched the interna tional obligations of the United States. WOODROW WILSON. The same telegram, with the a ception of the opening sentence, wu sent to the President of the Senat and the Speaker of the Assembly, o California. Japanese Ambassador Scouts Rumors of War. WASHINGTON, April 23.— Japan will not declare war upon the United States even though California passes an alien lanc^ law aimed exclusively at the Japanese.” This was the confident and em phatic prediction of Viscount Chinda, Japanese Ambassador, represented by his secretary, Okabe. The Ambassa dor regrets greatly that there should be any war scare in this country. "The better element in Japan," he declares, “are working with might and ! main to quiet the revolutionary talk of the lower classes." / That these efforts will be success ful- is the confident belief of the Am bassador as expressed in the press. Viscount Chinda will visit Secre tary of State Bryan to-morrow on the usual diplomatic calling day. He declined to-day to state the nature of j his proposed conference there. ( FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS ATLANTA FLORAL CO. 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