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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 3,1913.
2 CENTS EVERYWHER
AITI-JAPIILL
PISSES SENATE
Man of Mystery
Now Made Clear;
Big Story Coming
Vote 35 to 2 on Birdsall-Thomp-
son Measure After Heated
All-Night Debate.
BRYAN PARTLY VICTORIOUS
Modifies Act Barring Aliens Not
Eligible for Citizenship From
Owning Farm Lands,
SACRAMENTO, May 3.—The Cali-
foinia Seriate, by a vote of 35 to 2,
early to-day passed the Birdsall-
Thompson bill prohibiting the owner
ship of land for agricultural purposes
in California by aliens not eligible for
citizenship in the United States. The
measure permits a three-year lease
hold by aliens. It was adopted after
- an all-night session.
Secretary of State Bryan had re
tired when the result was announced.
His secretary, Robert P. Rose, said
Mr. Bryan would decide to-day when
he will leave for the East v The ac
tion of the Senate was considered
a partial victory for Secretary Bryan,
whose work here resulted in the bill
being less effective against the Jap
anese than the Webb bill as advocat
ed by Governor Johnson. Tho bill
permits the spread of Japanese farm
ing colonies.
State Senator Cartwright, Demo
crat, announced prior to the roll call
that he would vote against the pas
sage of the bill, although he favored
it. Ho gave as his reason:
“Vote to Tie U. S. Hands.”
“You are turning a deaf ear to the
best President this ^ountry has ever
had. You will vote to tie the hands
of the I.'nited State**, info dipig mat ie
relations with Japan; the majority
has surrendered to the ‘boss’ of the
State.”
Consideration of the bill was be
gun at 11 o’clock yesterday morning
and continued without recess even for
luncheon and dinner. All afternoon,
until the clock in the Senate cham
ber was ordered stopped by the pre
siding officer at 11:43 o’clock at
night, the Democrats fought to delay
action by submitting numerous
amendments.
The hardest fight waged around a
resolution introduced by Senator Cur
tin calling upon the Legislature to
delay action for two years and refer
the whole subject to the Federal
Government. Debate on this amend
ment opened early in the day and
continued until 6 o’clock, when a roil
call showed it defeated.
Threat of Referendum.
In the closing hours of the debate
on the bill itself. Senators Sanford,
Caminetti and Shanahan threatened
to invoke the referendum. They be
lieved the people of the State were
pleading for relief from Japanese ag
riculturists and that the measure does
not correct the evil.
The Senate gallery and lobby was
packed during the long session.
Many Japanese lined the brass railing
of the gallery, listening intently to the
debate.
At no time during the sesison did
Secretary Bryan appear in the Sen
ate chamber, although he was in the
office of Lieutenant Governor Wal
lace. hardly a hundred feet away,
until nearly midnight.
Plot to Assassinate
King of Spain Bared
Letter Found on Anarchist Shows
Attempt Would Have Been Made
on Alfonso’s Visit to Paris.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MONTPELIER, FRANCE, May 3.—
A plot to assassinate King Alfonso of
Spain when he comes to France to
visit President Poincare was discov
ered here to-day. , A Spanish an
archist was arrested and letters in
volving two other men and a woman
were found.
According to the documentary evi
dence, Alfonso was to b£ shot before
he reached Paris. . •
The anarchists evidently deemed
escape too hazardous in thickly pop
ulated Paris and chose a point out
side.
LANE THROWS YOSEMITE
OPEN TO AUTOMOBiLISTS
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Secretary
9.C the Interior Lane has issued an or
der admitting automobiles to the
Yosemite National Park in California.
“I have decided to allow autos to
enter the Yosemite,” said the Secre
tary. ‘There are 100,0<)0 motorists
in California, and to these the valley
has been closed.”
ROW FIRED 11
Report Monday Will Clear Men
Accused of Grafting by Al
derman McClelland.
COMMITTEE MEETING TO-DAY
Mysterious Reynolds Again Fails
to Appear to Testify in the
Fire Investigation.
This picture is odd. Running for
three day? in The Georgian without
any comment, it has caused endless
discussion as to who it is and what it
is. The Georgian has been besieged
with telephone calls and letters from
its readers asking for an explanation.
We do not wonder that you had some
doube as to why it is here. This ie
the answer:
The Georgian has purchased a'
serial stdry. more' Tntbresftng
than any Atlanta has had in
years. This picture typifies the
story-
Based on the picture, what in
your judgment is the title or
ought to be of this story? Five
dollars in gold will be paid to each
of the five best literary Judgments
received.
The title of the story has al
ready been selected, and it is now
in a sealed envelope in the hands
of T. .1. Peeples, cashier of the
American National Bank.
The answers will be judged
upon their originality, their liter
ary value and upon their analyt
ical clearness.
Address all answers to 'Litera
ry Editor, The Georgian.” Atlanta.
Exoneration of all city officials in
volved in the graft charges, assured
to-day by members of the investiga
ting committees, has developed an
acute stage in the relations of Mayor
Woodward and the Council.
Referring to reports that the fire
psobe committee would clear Fire
Chief W. B. Cummings of the accu
sations of corruption, Mayor Wood
ward said he would not be surprised
at anything that committee would do.
Already members of the Councilmanic
Graft Probe Committee have been
much nettled by the declaration of
the Mayor that the committee “had
to exonerate the three Aldermen to
protect Council.”
The committee probing the coun
cilmanic graft charges will meet this
afternoon to frame its report to Coun
cil. As it was given general author
ity to investigate all graft and cor
ruption it is expected it will frame
a general reply to numerous charges
made by Mayor Woodward and his
right-hand man in Council. Alderman
John E. McClelland.
Probers Silent as to Report.
Because of this delicate situation
Body of Earl of Cottenham’s
Wife, Figure in Sensational
Divorce, Found in Thicket.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
HENLEY, ENGLAND. May 3.—
Deep mystery surrounds the violent
death of the Countess of Cottenham,
wife of Charles E. P. Kenelme, Earl
of Cottenham. whose body was found
in a thicket near Goring. She had
been shot to death. The case was
supposed to be one of murder, al
though the authorities said that the
countess might have shot herself.
The maiden name of the Countess
of Cottenham was Lady Rose Neviil,
daughter of the Marquis of Aberga
venny. She was married to the Earl
of Cottenham In 1899. They had three
children.
Absence Leads to Search.
The protracted absence of the
countess from her home led to a
search, and the body, pierced with a
bullet, was found in a clump of un
derbrush in the thicket.
There was some delay in calling
the authorheis into the case when the
polide began their inquiry. A theory
was advanced that the countess had
either been lured to the lonely spot or
else in a fit of despondency had re
paired to the copse to end her life.
There was no evidence of a struggle
at the scene of death, but the ground
was hard, and it was argued that it
would require extreme exertions to
(dig up the turf.
Family Denies Quarrel.
Members of the family denied there
had been any ill-feeling of late be
tween the earl and his wife.
The Earl of Cottenham was the
countess' second husband. Her first
husband was John Blundell Leigh, a
rich land owner. Mr. Blundell se-
Strike Leaders Held
For Forming Parade
Three Arrested at Hopcdale. Mass-
in Labor Trouble—Joseph Ettor
to Take Charge.
HOI'KDALK, MASS., May 3. Artu-
rio Giovannitti, Jos. M. Cold well and
Caleb P. Howard, Industrial Workers
of the World leaders, were arrested
here early to-dav by the chief of po
lice. They were taken Immediately
to the town lockup, charged with vio
lating the recently passed town laws
which forbid parades without a spe
cial permit Issued by the selectmen.
Giovannitti had Just arrived to take
charge of the local strike, pending the
arrival later In the day of Joseph Et
tor. He was Ettor'a lieutenant in the
great mill strike at Lawrence.
the members of the Are .probe rom
mfttee, who. completed their ‘ cared a divorce m 18i>9. Withip a few
tigatlon yesterday, decline to make tbonths Mrs. Blundell became " the
Ordinance Starts
Exodus of Palmists
Soothsayers Fold Tents and Leave
Atlanta. Following Fight Made
by Councilman.
Had Atlanta palmists, seers, clair
voyants and readers of the future
read their own palms and told their
own fortunes during the past three
weeks they might have been happier
than they are to-day. They are on
their way to-day to other parts in
droves.
“A tall- dark man,” who has proven
that fortune tells do not control the
future at their own sweet will, is
Councilman Claude Ashley. His ordi
nance prohibiting the practice of
palmistry and kindred occult arts in
Atlanta has been unanimously recom
mended for adoption and the colony
of seers that has made Atlanta its
home for years must fold its tents
and silently steal away to more ftr-
tile fields.
It is practically certain that Coun
cil "ill approve the pleasure Mon
day.
DULUTH NEGRO, SUSPECTED
OF SLAYING, IS IN JAIL HERE
Will Gathright, a negTo suspected of
slaying George Seay, a Duluth farmer,
by hacking him in the head with an ax.
is to-day in the Tower at Atlanta, to
remain until he can be safely carried
back to Lawrenceville for trial. Seay
was arrested yesterday at noon and a
mob formed, bent on lynching him.
Deputy Sheriff J. W. Boss, of Gwin
nett County, brought the negro to At
lanta.
50,000 PENNY LUNCHES
SOLD AT INMAN SCHOOL
Mrs. V, H. Kriegshaber. head of the
penny lunch movement at the Inman
Park School, in a report to-day, said
nearly 50,000 penny lunches had been
Id at the school in the 100 days end
ing Friday.
The school has an enrollment of about
550. The daily average of lunches sold
was nearly 500.
any formal statement as to their
formal report until the meeting of
Council Monday. But it is learned
on good authority that Chief Cum
mings will be given a clean bill as
far as graft is converned. The com
mittee will recommend a better sys
tem of purchasing supplies for the
department and crticise its heads for
not following the requisition system.
The committee heard new evidence
yesterday afternoon, but when it went
into executive session a formal re
port written some days ago by a sub
committee was agreed upon.
Committee Meets Monday.
A meeting of the committee will be
held Monday for the signing of this
report.
Mayor Woodward took the stand
first and told the committee that
Thomas Reynolds, the mysterious
man who promised important new
evidence, had failed to show up as he
had promised.
H. Cobb Caldwell Out
Of Hospital Monday
Peachtree Road Resident Not Seri
ously Injured When Run Down
by William McKenzie.
H. Cobb Caldwell, of the Peachtree
Road, who sustained a broken collar
bone and a sprained ankle when he
was run down by William McKen
zie’s automobile Thursday night,
probably will be able to leave Wes
ley Memorial Hospital Monday or
Tuesday. Mr. Caldwell’s family said
this morning he was rapidly recover
ing, and that no serious results were
anticipated.
The accident was at Eleventh
Street and the Peachtree Road. As
Mr. Caldwell (mossed the road to en
ter his home he failed to see the auto
mobile coming. Mr. McKenzie did no*
see Mr. Caldwell until U was too late
to stop the car.
‘Brazilian Trot' Is
Latest From Paris
Joan Sawyer, Who Brings it, Says
That it Is the Only Thing in
the World.
NEW YOR.K. May 3.—Joan Sawyer,
the swiftest turkey trotter that ever
saw Broadway, has returned from
Paris with the Brazilian trot, a dance
that is faster and more bewildering
than a combination of all the dances
so far invented.
“It's the only thing in the world,”
said Miss Sawyer “You can dance
the Brazilian trot Instead of eating
or drinking. In fact, if you are starv
ing it’s a perfectly good substitute
fer food and drink.”
Countess of Cottenham
The divorce suit of Colonel Leigh,
who was an officer of the guards,
was one of the biggest scandals which
has stirred English society in the
past twenty years. The Earl of Cot
tenham was named as co-respondent.
Highly sensational testimony was in
troduced at the trial.
Older Than Husband.
The countess was much older than
her husband, and at the time of her
marriage, in 1899, satirical society
journals said “she was almost old
enough to be her husband’s mother.”
After she was divorced and married
to the earl, both she and her new hus
band were ostracised from society for
a few months, but later were rein
stated in their old places in exclusive
circles.
Half a dozen years ago the countess
caused comment by making a pet of
a baboon and taking it to society
functions with her.
Dainty Silk Stockings Rile Judge T
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Calls Them In Contempt of Court
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Fair Defendant Hastily Hides ’Em
WITNESSES
New York Justice Does Not Take
Kindly to Artifices of Modern
Feminine Dress.
Bryan Can Win in
1916, Says Martine
Jersey Senator Thinks Nothing Can
Beat Him, Assuming Wilson
Dosen’t Run.
ST. LOUIS, May 3.—If William J.
Bryan is a candidate for the Presi
dency In 1918 nothing can prevent
his election, according to Senator
James E. Martine of New Jersey, who
was here to attend the dedication of
the Jefferson memorial. Mr. Martine
said the one-term plank in the Dem
ocratic platform would prevent Pres
ident Wilson's renomination.
“Bryan will be the logical candi
date,” he said. “People have come
to know* and to understand him bet
ter. People think that he has become
more stable in bis views, struck an
equilibrium, as it were. The fact ia.
that Mr. Bryan is just as radical to
day as he was tVerity years ago. hut
the people have grown up to him.”
Ye women of Atlanta, have a
care!
The judicial temperament, Tike
the Cole Blease temperament,
does not take kindly to the ar
tifices and blandishments of -mod
ern drees.
Isten to this story from New
York:
Supreme Court Justice Gavegan
looked over Ms spectacles in Part
XEV of tire Supreme Court and scowl
ed at a dainty pair of pearl gray silk
stockings.
The hosiery was displayed upon the
feet of Mrs. Rachael N. Ducas, a
pretty wife of Benjamin P. Ducas. a
wealthy manufacturer. Mrs. Ducas
was sitting at the table of her coun
sel, her feet crossed.
“I want to say.” the Court began
gravely, “that the young lady in black
there is disrespectful to this Court.
If she wishes me to be more explicit,
I will say for her benefit that her
lower limbs are insufficiently clad.
She is making far too free an exhibi
tion of them in a public place/'
Mrs. Ducas promptly pulled her
55,000 Out Now in
Welsh Miners' Strike
Owners’ Promise to Hire No More
Non-Union Men Presages Vic
tory for Unions.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CARDIFF, WALES, May # 3 -The
strike of Welsh coal miners in pro
test against the open shop policy of
the mine owners is spreading to a
serious extent. Fifty-five thousand
men were out to-day.
Leaders of the miners’ union expect
a s*peedy victory, because many of
the mine owners have already prom
ised to hire no more non-union men.
This is compelling non-unionists to
join the organization.
Carnegie Interested
In Feats of Fakirs
Steel
Prestidigitator Wants to Know
How Foreign Wizards
Wiz.
Wayman First Asked
Doctor to Kill Him
Physician at Inquest Says Chicago
Attorney Wanted Vital Organ
Cut in Operation.
CHICAGO. May 3.—That John E.
W. Wayman. former State’s Attorney,
who shot and killed himself April 17.
had asked Dr. W. K. Murray some
time previously to kill him was the
testimony developed to-day at the
Coroner's inquest. Dr. Murray him
self made the admission.
‘ Did he ask you to operate so that
a vital organ would be cut causing
death?” Dr. Murray was asked.
“Yes,” he replied.
Trio of Former Girl Employees at
Pencil Factory Are Expected to
Testify When Coroner Resumes
Probe of Mystery on Monday.
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Frank and Lee Also Expected To
Be Questioned Further, and
Score of Operatives Have Been
Subpenaed — No New Facts.
Wild Rumors That Watchman Has
Confessed Denied—Visitors Are
Barred, but Counsel Permitted
to See Both Men Detained.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. May 3.—To inquire into
the mysteries of levitation is the aim
of a young savant named Schwidtal
of Posen.
Andrew Carnegie has financed a
small party of investigators who will
go to Egypt immediately under Sch
widtal to study the secrets of the
fakirs and dervishes, and esi>ecially
from a scientific viewpoint the ec
static state in which the fakirs are
observed to accomplish wonderful
feats. The ecstasy is produced by a
constant repetition of mystic words
At first they pronounce only the
name “Allah” combined with rhyth
mic movements called “sikrs.” This
has never before been thoroughly in
vestigated.
POPE PIUS X, RECOVERED,
RESUMES CHURCH DUTIES
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Map 3.—For the first time
since he was taken ill, early last
month, Pope Pius X was to-day able
to resume his church duties.
The Pontiff received in audience
Cardinal De Lai. Secretary of the
Consistorla congregation, and Cardi
nal Penhili, Vica General of Rome.
MAY DAY FESTIVAL IS
OBSERVED BY SOCIALISTS
Atlanta Socialists are celebrating the
May festival to-day in a pretty stretch
of woodland near the Federal Prison. A
temporary platform has been erected for
dancing and speech-making.
A Pryor Street car to the Federal Pris
on pa sees the grounds.
which
Court Justice Gavegan to d
Angell Fears Not
To Tread Our Soil
Author of “The Great Illusion” Com
ing to Further His Peace
Propaganda.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 3.—Among the pas
sengers on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie
are Norman Angell, the author of
“The Great Illusion.” who is on his
way to the United States to continue
his peace propaganda, and D. A.
Ansel!, the Mexican Consul General
at Montreal, who has been at Nice
for eight weeks. The latter thinks
that everything will turn out all right
in Mexico, but emphasizes the fact
that there is need of a strong, stable
Government.
Mrs. Raehml N. Ducas after she had changed the pose
revealed the dainty silk hosiery that prompted Supreme
lare she was insufficiently clad.
hobble skirt down over the silver
buckles on her shippers and kept
her feet under her chair during the
remainder of the court session.
Her lawyer replied: “Your Honor,
this young woman in black is the de
fendant.”
I don’t care who she i«, replied
Justice Gavegan. “She is making an
exposure of herself in this court.
That’s all I have to say.”
A Cavalier to Wife
Even in His Grave
In His Will Lord Crawford Pays
Graceful Compliment to
His Lady.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 2.—One of the most
graceful compliments ever paid to a
woman is contained in the will of
Lord Crawford, who died in January,
leaving an estate valued at $2,181,395.
In his will the Earl said that since
his father’s death he had bought a
considerable number of diamonds and
other jewels "winch have beea used
and adorned b^ my wife,”
Other Professionals Are Entered
Opening Affair of Brook-
haven Gun Club To-day.
in
A dazzling array of talent makes
notable the list of entries for the
official opening shoot of the Brook-
haven Gun Club this afternoon. The
list, compiled to-day, includes, among
other kindred spirits of the field, the
name of John Philip Sovisu, the fa
mous bandmaster. A crack amateur
trapahooter. Mr. Sousa is in Atlanta
to participate in the opening meet.
Mr. Sousa’s trip South is devoted
to trapshooting. He came to Atlanta
Friday from Montgomery, where he
attended the shoot of the Montgom
ery Gun Club, and he will go to other
cities on the samq mission.
Others entered are Walter Huff, of
Macon: D. H. Gibbs, C. E. Goodrich,
George W. Maxwell and J. M. Bar
rett. all wel-known professionals.
They, with Mr. Sousa, are guests 1n
Atlanta of John Lester.
Friday afternoon. Just to get their
hands and eyes in trim, a number of
the party went to the College Park
Gun Club grounds and broke 483 clays
out of 500 sprung, with the following
Individual recorder J. M. Barrett, 99
out of 100; Freeman and Huff, 98
each; Sousa, 94, 93. _
Mrs, Bryan Takes
Vegetarian Cure
Goes to 9 Sanitarium Where Meat
Is Regarded as a
Poison.
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Not con
tent with introducing grape juice to
a champagne society coterie Mrs. Wil
liam Jennings* Bryan has undertaken
the vegetarian cure for society fa
tigue.
The strenuous social life led by the
premier of the cabinet and Mrs. Bry
an since inauguration have tired her
so that she has been obliged to retire
temporarily from the social whirl and
recuperate at a nearby sanitarium
where meat is regarded as poison and
only vegetables are served.
‘TRANSIENTS OF U. S.’ ASK
SUNDAY MAIL DELIVERY
WASHINGTON, May 3.—The most
voluminous petition ever received at
the Poetoffice Department was pree-
sented to Postmaster General Burle
son to-day. Tha petition, which Is
from ‘ the Transient Population of the
United States,” protests against the
closing of postoffU-es on Sunday. The
petition Is so massive It could not he
sent through the malls, but Instead
It was bound -In book fom* and sent
by etmaM,
It was reported to-day that three
young women, former employees of
the National Pencil Factory, will he
important witnesses for the Coroner's
Jury In the Phagan case on Monday.
The inguest will be resumed at
o'clock. Leo M. Frank has not yet
given any testimony before the Coro
tier’s Jury, and it Is planned for him
to be heard on Monday. It is also
likely that Lee, the night watchman,
will be. examined still further
The police and detectives are
busily at work on the . as. but r
as ts known they have secured noth
ing of importance.
Await Coroner's Verdict.
When the Coroner's Jury verdict Is
rendered the case automatically goes
to the Grand Jury. Solicitor Dorsey
and the Grand Jury will not take up
the case officially until the Coroner's
jury has concluded its investigation.
Many wild reports, absolutely with
out basis in fact, are in circulation.
It 1» emphatically declared by the po
lice that no confessions have been
mode by anybody in the case. This
should put an end to the report that
Lee has confessed and implicated
Frank.
it Is not likely that the body of the
unfortunate girl will be exhumed.
County Physician Hurt says that no
further examination Is nevessary, as
the evidence on this point is very
clear and exact.
Visitors Are Barred.
Visitors are not allowed to see
either Frank or Lee. although counsel
has foil access to the Tower to con
fer freely with the men.
A score of employees or the factory
are under subpena to testify before
the Coroner's Jury, but their testi
mony Is not considered likely to be of
great Importance.
The release of Arthur MuJlinax and
J. M. Gantt indicates that the detec
tives have abondoned the theory that
the girl left the pencil factory after
receiving her pay on Saturday. The
detectives now are of the opinion that
she was not seen on the streets again
after she entered the factory.
May Be Held for Jury.
Without seeming to forecast what
the Coroner's Jury will do, it is more
than likely that both Frank and Lee
will toe held for the Grand Jury, where
the testimony or evidence will tie
weighed carefully under the supervi
sion of Solicitor Genera! Hugh Dor
sey.
The only statement that the law
yers for Frank make is that ho is »r;
vehement In the declaration that he
knows nothing whatever about the
crime.
Mr. Rosser says that not a word
of evidence had been produced,
against his client.
SLAYER DEFIES HANGMAN
TO TAKE HIM TO GALLOWS
LOUISVILLE, GA., May 3.—Armed
with two knives, metal parte of his pris
on cot, which he had demolished, and
several large lumps of coal, Will Thomp-.
son, a condemned negro, yesterday after
noon defied Sheriff Smith and his depu
ties when they went to his cell to re
move him to the scaffold to bo hanged.
He threatened to kiH the firm mar who
entered his cell He was- later forced
into submission at the point of a shot
gun and carried to the gallows.
Thompson was convicted of the mur
der of Claude Humphrev, at Avery, two
i-xeara ago.