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5 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. KNEW GIRL Discharged Pencil Factory Em ployee Says Accused Men tioned Her to Him. Continued from Page 4. “You seem to know Marv Phagan pretty welt.” Q. Who had you been talking to?— A. Mary Phagan. Q. What time was this?—A. Some time after Christmas, I don’t remem ber exactly. Q' bat was the relation of your ramlly to the Phagan family?—A. Personal acquaintances. Q. How many times did you go back to the factory after you were discharged?—A. Twice. , Q/ Dld y° u s «e Prank?—A. Yes, both times. Q. Did he make any obtion to your coming?—A. No. Q. How about one girl getting the Pay of another girl?—A. It could be done with the consent of Prank Knows About Punch Clock. Q. Do you know about that punch clock?—A. Yes. Q. Do you know how- long It would take a man who understands the clock to make punches for twelve hours. A. About live minutes. Q. Who took your place?—A. I don t know. Q. Just previous to your being dis charged had Frank said anything about your services?—A. Yes. he said he had the best office force' he had ever had. Q. Could Prank sit at his desk and see the employees register at the time clock?—A. Me could If the safe door was closed. Q. Could he stand up and see with the safe door open?—A. Yes. Gant Relates Shoe Incident. "Did you see Frank Saturday, April 26?—A. Yes. about 6 o’clock. Q. Tell what happened.—A. I was talking: to Newt Lee about getting some shoes I had left In the factory. Lee said I couldn't get In I told him I would come back Monday. About that time Mr. Frank came clown the s*teps and when he got within about 15 feet of me he hesitated and start ed to go back. Then Tie saw I was looking and came on. When he got right at me he kind of jumped back. I told him I wanted to get a pair of shoes I had left there. He said he thought he saw a negro sweeping them out—a pair of tan shoes, at least. I told him I had some black ones there, too. - He told Newt Lee to go on up with me. and we found both pair. Q. What was Frank*? attitude?— A. He seemed nervous. Q. Did he look at you as he passed out?—A. No. hung his head. Court Adjourns. Here Rosser took the witness on cros^-examination. Q. Your recollection was fresher then than it is now?—A. Yes. Q. Was not this question asked be fore the coroner? ‘Did you ever see Frank with the girl?’ and you an swered 'No’ ?—A. Yes. Q. You never heard the little girl say anything about being mistreated? —A. No. When Gantt was called down from the stand, the course of the trial was interrupted for a moment with the consent of both sides to permit a Juror to sign a life insurance policy. He was Monroe S. Woodward. Court then adjoured until 9 o’clock Thursday morning. Attracted by the report that the State intended to introduce its most important witnesses during the day, a larger crowd than that which clam ored for admission on the first two days of the trial besieged the court house Wednesday morning as the time for the resumption of the Frank trial approached. Caminetti and Diggs Trials Start Monday SAN FRANCISCO, July SO.—Drew Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs, ac cused erf violating the white slave law by taking Lola Norris and Marie Warrington from this State to Ne vada, were called in Federal Court here to-day to plead to the charges. The trial will be started Monday, ac cording to expectations of attorneys on both sides. Charles Harris, a Sacramento at torney, accused with Diggs of sub ornation of Jury, was expected to en ter a plea of not guilty. Snake Rattles Sent To U. S. Postal Chief WASHINGTON, July 30.—Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Blakes- lee, in charge of rural free delivery, to-day found among his mail a small pill box containing ten rattles and two buttons from the tail of a rat tlesnake, and the following letter from Sarah Deles, of Pleasant Views, Oolo.: “I killed the rattler on the morning of the I9th Inst, on the way to my letter box. I am 78, year* and two months old.” RETURNS FROM EUROPE. JACKSON.—After an absence of three months In Europe, Dr. Robert VanDeventer, pastor of the Jackson Baptist Church, returns to the city to- Dream Tango and Horse Trot Make Others Look Slow NEW YORK, July 30.—Two new dances, the dream tango and the horse trot, soon will make their appearance. Uriel Davis, dancing master to the “four hundred,” who drived from Europe to-day. says the new dances will make the tango, the turkey trot bunny hug. banana peel glide and the others look like an old straw bonnet. He is going to teach the summer colony at Newport the new ways to glide. The horse trot, he said, is a modified turkey trot, the dancers flit ting over the waxed surface like prancing steeds, instead of wobbling all over the floor. He declined to tell what his new tango is like. U.C1 BUILDING Deed Conveying Property to Rpal Estate Firm Signed When Last $65,673.71 Is Paid. Tile formal transfer of the Young Men’s Christian Association building at the corner of Pryor street and Au burn avenue to the Chamber of Com merce Realty Company took place on Wednesday at 10:30 o’clock, when a deed was signed by Captain J. W. English, chairman, and J. K. Ottley, secretary of the board of trustees of the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion. At the same time a transaction was consummated by which a loan of $100,000 was placed upon the prop erty by the New- York Life Insurance Company. Of this amount $60,000 was paid to-day and the remainder will be paid by the insurance company when improvements on the building are completed about the middle of De cember The building was purchased from the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion more than a year ago by the Chamber of Commerce Realty Com pany for $160,000 and Anal payment was made to-day with two checks aggregating $65,673.71. payable to Robert J. Lowry, treasurer of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and delivered this morning to Marion Jackson, president. Those present at the formal trans fer were Marion Jackson, president; Captain J. W. English, chairman of the board of trustees; J. K. Ottley, secretary of’the board of trustees, and J. P. Jackson, general secretary, rep resenting the Y. M. C. A.; W. G Cooper, secretary of the Chamber or Commerce, and Shepard Bryan, rep resenting the New York Life Insur ance Company. This brings to consummation the first and most important feature of Wilmer L. Moore’s* program an nounced when he began his term as president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Improvement of the building al ready has begun and a committed on manufacturers’ exhibits is engaged upon a plan to organize an associa tion of manufacturers to place the manufacturers’ exhibits in four floors of the building above the second. TAX EQUALIZERS HOUSE FIGHT 6ection of Lipscomb Bill Giving State Power Fought at First Afternoon Session. CAMP MEETING PLANNED. ROME.—Plans are just about com pleted for the annual camp meeting at Morrison’s camp grounds. The ses sions last for two weeks and during that time the camp grounds resemble a tented city. ATLANTAN’S BROTHER DEAD. ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 30—Eb- en R. Clark, aged 71, brother of Mrs. Laura Merrill, of Atlanta, Is dead his home here of h*art failure. The burial will be Thursday in Albion, N. For the first time since the present Legislature convened, the House held an afternoon session Wednesday, for the further consideration of-the Lips comb tax reform bill, which creates State and county boards of tax equal izers. The vote on the motion to hold an afternoon session, offered by Hardeman, of Jefferson, was 73 to 56 in favor of it. The fight over the tax reform bill was more strenuous at to-day’s ses sion than at any time since the bill was introduced. While fifteen sec tions of the bill were adopted Tues day, the whole of Wednesday morn ing was taken-up with the discussion of section 16. This section is con sidered one of th*e most important of the bill, and those who oppose the Lipscomb measure have trained their guns on it. Section 16 defines th6 duties of and confers certain powers upon the pro posed State board of equalization It provides that the State board shall have supervision over the county boards, and that it shall be the duty of the State board to compare the tax digests of the various counties to as certain whether there is a uniform valuation of property. The section gives the board authority to deduct or add to the tax valuations of the prop erty as returned by the county board. Shepherd’s Measure Scored. Shepherd, of Sumter, was severely criticised by Smith, of Muscogee, for introducing a substitute to the Lips comb bill which abolished the Statf board and left only the county boards. \ “It is up. to this House,” said Mr. Smith, “to determine whether Mr. Shepherd is sincere in offering his sub stitute, or whether he is offering a sham and a fraud ’to mislead the members of the House and the people of Georgia. He tries to make people think he is working for tax revision, and he is doing nothing of the kind. He says he is the friend of the far mer, yet he wants to establish coun ty boards with no supervision and saddle the necks of the farmers with the same yoke that increased their burdens twenty years ago. “He admits that the county boards alone, as tried in 1891. were a failure, yet he wants to establish them again. The establishment of a State hoard will not increase the taxes of the honest man in Georgia one penny, but it will get thosq who do not make honest returns on their prop erty/’ Mr. Shepherd declared that the State board idea is a farce, and said so much power should not be vested in three men. “The only difference between my bill and the original bill,” he said, “is the establishment of the State board.” Several Amendments Offered. Others who discussed the bill were Fyllbright, of Burke; Myrick, of Chatham; McMichael, of Marion; Blackburn, of Fulton, and Wimberly, of Bibb. ,.^our amendments were offered to the section by Representatives Full- blight, Greene, Moss and Straddle. Representative Straddle, of Elbert, wanted to amend the hill by striking out section 16. Mr. Green, of Hous ton, wahted gto amend the bill by striking out the section and inserting the following: “The Comptroller General shall have supervision over the county boards, and shall inspect and Investi gate the tax returns. If he dissents with them he shall send the ‘State Property Inspector’ into the county to investigate and report to the Comptroller General, who shall change the returns as he sees fit.” Moss, of Cobb, presented an amend ment to Fullbright's amendment, which provides that if the county and State boards disagree, the Comp troller General shall determine a fair return on the property. lemons 2 'Doz. DOZ. 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Bell, Main 3520 Atlanta Phone 3520 Bail Allowed Trooper Who Killed Comrade INDIANAPOLIS, IND., July 30.— At the request of Major Gordon W. Balin, Judge advocate of the Indiana National Guard, Judge Collier to-day fixed the bond of Sergeant Edwin Ball, indicted by a special Grand Jury for first degree murder, at $5,000. The amount probably will be furnished by officers of the National Guard. Bal^ fatally shot Guardsman Walter Dowell, of Madison, Ind., when the latter attempted to escape while un der military arrest for having a quart bottle of liquor in his possession while en route to the State encampment. Continued From Page 1. WWW Charge Purchases for Rest of July Go on August Statement. WW e mi RICH & BROS % 1 Uncensored Report of Tribe's Ex termination by U. S. Troops Calls It Slaughter. me, however, but being caught in bad company, I am having to suffer the consequences, while the other girls paid their fine* and are free to-day. “I was without friends or money and in bad health, too, so I couldn’t pay my fine, but had to come to jail, and being ignorant of the law, I knew not how to prove my innocence and had no money to pay a lawyer to de fend me. • “I beg you from the depths of my heart to grant me the release. I am not bad at heart,* your honor, and my only desire is to return home to my dear mother, who is an invalid, and be a good girl. God will surely blesr you if you will permit me to go. I will never get in any trouble any more,\ for I will go home and be a good girl. I trust ^nd pray that you will grant me the release.” Plea Touches Governor. Governor Slaton’s heart was touch ed by the appeal. He investigated the case carefully and Wednesday morn ing wrote out this brief statement, which will carry Jack Davis back to her home and her mother: “Petitioner nas been in Jail for two months, during which time she has been subjected to a capital surgical operation. Her offense Is not vicious and I approve the application.” The Governor also granted a pardon Wednesday to Joe Playmate, a negro convict in Brooks County, who is on the verge of death. Strike Intensified by Delaying Arbitration CALUMET, MICH., July 30.—Five representatives of the mine operators in the Calumet copper region had not been selected to-day to confer with Governor Ferris and five union dele gates at Lansing in an effort to 'end the stike of 18,000 mines. The oper ators would not say whether they would join the conference. The strike situation appeared to be more critical to-day. ARTILLERY FOR ROME. ROME.—If plans now on foot suc ceed a company of field artillery will be formed in Rome. Barry Wright, who has had considerable military experience, is back of the movement. There are now batteries at Atlanta and Savannah. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—The story* of the killing of 2,000 Moros in the Philippine Islands by General Pershing’s soldiers was related here to-day by John McLean, a civilian employee of the United States army, quartermaster's department, who ar rived from Manila on the steamer Persia. He said 196 women and 340 chil dren were killed/in one d&y’s fight ing. When the Moros saw the battle was lost to the American troops, they held their women and children in front of them as shields, and the fire from the rifles and machine guns of the troops mowed them down by scores. “The news of the fighting was strictly censored at Manila,” said Mc Lean. “The American and Philippine officers only allowed the most mea ger reports to leak out of Jolo while the treacherous Moro bandits were being exterminated. “At the battle of Bagsak the scenes after the fighting were horrible. As the American troops rushed up the side of the mountain to the edge of the crater, the MoroB seized women and children, many mere infants, and held them up to smeltf themselves. Hundreds of them were literally shot to pieces. " “It was believed that every Moro that took part in that battle was kill ed. By General Pershing’s order, all of the bodies were burned.” Chattanooga Widow Rome Banker’s Bride ROME, July 30.—The marriage on July 4 of Mrs. George C. Mahar, a wealthy woman of Chattanooga, to C. L. Payne, assistant cashier of the Exchange National Bank, here, has just been made known. Payfle s wife continued to reside in Chattanooga until this week, when she paid her first visit to the home of her husband. This makes her third matrimonial venture. She was a widow when she married Mahar. He lived with her only a few weeks and she obtained a divorce. She owns considerable property in Chattanooga. BALTIMORE, MD. $20.85 Round Trip $20.85 Tickets on sale August 1, 2 and 3. Return limit Au gust 15. Through electric lighted steel sleeping cars. Dining cars on most con venient schedules. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Last Day for Silks at these Pre-Inventory Prices--- Final Clearance of 85c to $1.50 Silks at Because we won’t invoice broken-lines and short lots of silks we have grouped these rich and fashionable fabrics at 39c. But you must buy them to-iporrow ! If a single yard remains'at the tap of the closing bell, it will be put away or go back to its original pri ce. The silks are the choice stylish weaves eve a now selling elsewhere ntffull priee. They are fresh and fashionable. The lengths extend from 5 to 30 yards. Scarcely a piece shorter than a dress length. Included are 85c showerproof foulards—handsome all silk fabrics; the summer silk par ex cellence. Staple colorings in neat designs. 39c. 85c chiffon taffetas—a soft, free flowing silk in solid colors and changeables. 27 inches wide. ChlfTon taffetas are “good” for fall. Buy now; save over half. 39c. $1 to $1.50 silks—a glorious miscellany of Jacquard silks, warp prints, flowered taf fetas, shantung crepe, novelties. Widths from 24 to 36 inches. 39c. (Silk Annex—Main Floor) % "S' 25c Non-Odor : Powder, 16c •2 “Eversweet,” “^piro” and *2 “Perspiro”—all perspiration de- Sg stroyers that do away with any tg odor from summer heat or perspi- Ig ration. :» 50c Face Powder =2 Mme. Isabelle’s face pow- n n .J der, soft and pure. Dalntl- A / p ly scented; a delightful w powder for summer. 5c Soap5,2c *2 ■2 Standard 5c soap, includ- j2 ing tar soap, glycerine and Cpl- > gate’s hotel soaps. (Main Floor, Center) : 100 Safety Pins *2 Usually 5c a dozen ; here are /\ $ dozen, 40c worth, for I MC 3; 19c. All nickel plated ^ v ' '2 Graduated sizes from the very Remember Thi WcIISiS Clearance Sale Is a Not Many of These Waists Clearing broken lines and short lots of waists. They’re piled heaping high on half a dozen tables. Not many of a kind, but a goodly number at each price. ’Twill pay you to look them over. ; \CQ_,for $1 waists—white voiles and l J */C» lingeries. High or low neck, long ] or short sleeves. ( <J* 1 for $1.50 to $2 waists—white voiles ' ip $• and lingeries." Summer’s smartest - .49 for $2 and $2.50 waists—man- styles. nfsh shirt' styles In white lin ens; soft cool suumler waists In white J vollesrand lingeries. - -. J for $3.50 to $6350 waists—the j ones and 'twbs of a kind of our best sellers. Lingerie and voile;’ beautifully made. High and low neck, d* $ QC for $3.50 to $4 shirts—all silk shirts, mannish style. *P A .170 Black or colored stripes on white ground. Soft de tachable turn-over collars. .85 £ 3:. small to the very large. 18 Collar Supporters 10c Waists at Half Price Our finest numbers of all white lingerie waists, and black and colored silk or chiffon waists. Former prices. «e. I Spiral collar supporters, 6 on card, usually 10c a card, 3 cards here to morrow for only 10c. (Main Floor, Center) Were $5.00 to $16.50. Now $2.50 to $8.25. (Ready-to-Wear 2; I -Second Floor) JJf Ball Bearings Give Minimum Operating Effort 19c,25c,39c&50c1 A r Jewelry to Go at Odds and ends that we don’t care to in- I voice. But if the one piece you want is here— ; and it doubtless is—the saving will be worth ' while. Choose from Bar pins—Sash Pins—Belt Pins— Brooches—Beauty Pins. I Variously gold and silver plated and set with stones. 69c Lavalliers 39c Chains of German silverwlth Sterling or German silver pendants). Some With stone settings. $1 Opera Chains at49c Popular 54-ineh opera chains. Some German silver with platinum, gun metal finish; others of real gun metal. Enriched with pearls and stones. (Main Floor, Center) 98c Petticoats 49c Made of fine cambric, fit smooth and snug without a wrinkle. Cut in the new narrow styles. Made of fine white cambric, finished at bottom with, embroidery scalloping. (Muslinweai—Second Floor) I 75c Long Silk Gloves Forget the price—these are not *' flimsy, make-believe silk gloves. No, g' they arp pure thread silk in the ^ g=» Tricot weaves—firm and flexible. 16-butfon length, "S too, full fashioned and finely finished. Double £; tipped fingers. Broken sizes in b’aei; and white; about all sizes In tan, pongee, navy and lavender. (Gloves—Main Floor, Left) 5b 50c to 75c Stocking s 29c I Broken lines and sizes of boot silks and all-silk stockings in col ors only, and embroidered and lace lisle stockings in black and colors. Most extraordinary values, because we wish to avoid invoicing broken, lines. 35c & 50c Stockings 25c Their maker say they’re “seconds”—let. him have his way. We’ve examiuydThe,.stock ings; the “hurts” are hard to find. Madq of fine lisle, full fashioned and finely finished. All sizes. Black only. ( Main Floor > S’ s- i Ball Bearing; Long Wearing Think of everything that is mod ern and useful in typewriter con struction-then add twenty to thirty per cent for increased efficiency due to ball bearings—that’s The L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter It’s compact, complete, easy to operate, durable and proof against inexperience and carelessness. Ball bearings permit closer ad justments without binding than any other form of bearing. Expressed in human effort, this means that the operator can do more work—-better work, with the least physical and mental strain. Write for booklet giving information about typewriter efficiency L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. Office and Factory af Syracuse, N. Y. 121 N. Pryor St., Atlanta. Ga. August / Furniture Sale Starts Friday, August 1st. Save up to Half ■ — S: Sr Clearing 50c to $1 z Belts at 25c Some are the last of broken lines; ! others are odds and ends; still others that are the ultra-smart styles too dis- j tinctjve to meet the popular taste. j Choice 25c. There are —$1 calfskin belts In solid brown. —$1 black and white kid belts. . —$1 black and white sllk-etriped elastic holts with pearl buckle. —50c white kid belt trimmed with black patent leather. . —50o black patent leather ami white kid belts, ribbon run with Bulgarian silk. —Choice of the lot 25c. (Bolts—Main Floor, Cent«r> $1.50 Ratine 95c | The fashionable ratine in I the tousled Turkish toweling I weave. It bears your favor; | you have bought it freely all I season long at $1.50. | Just two pieces left—a Copenha- i gen and an Alice blue. Scarce- | ly worth invoicing two pieces, therefore 95c, Instead of $1.50. I 45 Inches wide. I (Embroideries— Main Floor, Right) Toys, Games, Etc., at Halved Prices Dolls, scores of them; games of many kinds; vehi cles; doll carriages; baseball bats and gloves; toys; sand tools, et cetera, are at about half price and even less. Great opportunities for the kiddies. (Main Floor, Right) Ribbon Remnants at Half Price \ A tropical flower garden; rain- | bow colorings riotously awhirl; fashionable Roman stripes; captivating plaids—just a lit tle bit of everything that has been popular this season. Widths from 1 to 8 Inches. Lengths from 1-2 yard to 3 yards. Prices Were 5c to $1.50 Now 3c to 75c. F 'inal One Day Sale of Laces at Formerly Selling at 35c, 50c, 75c to $1.50 What a glorious day’s lace selling there’ll be! Atlanta, we believe, has jg ! seen nothing like it before. Ss I For there are fashionable shadow laces in bands and flouncings fromf 5 to 18 inches 5; ' wide. Formerly 35c to 69c, now 25c. .... „ ^ , -j , | There are Venise Bands, Filet and Val Laces in bands from 3 to 5 inches wide and *. ! edges up to 9 inches. Formerly 39c to 75e, now 25c. | s ee these pretty insertions in cotton torchons, Vais, Oriental and Venise laces. 1 to JG 1 o i o inehes wide Formerly selling at 6Qe to $1.50 the dozen yards, now 12 yards for 25c. ‘ | (Roady at 8:30. Laces—Main Floor, Right) \fffm M. RICH & BROS. CO. MMMMM M. RICH & BROS. CO.