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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. GA.. SI NDAY. AUUUST It), lnm
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Heiress on Lone Hunt for Gold
Seeks Mine Grandfather Found TO GIVE KNIGHTS
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Plans to Do Own Prospecting
Recorder Wood, “People's Candi
date,” Denounces Opponent as
Champion of Interests.
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 9.—Clement
R. Wood and George B. Ward are
engaged In the moat spectacular cam
paign for President of the Commis
sion of Birmingham ever waged In
this city.
Wood, a* the "candidate of the peo
ple,” Is making many and varied
charges against the political element
supporting his opponent, Mr. Ward.
He chargee that he (Wood) was re
moved Recorder by the Commis
sion for sending one of their friends
to the atockade and insisting on his
serving his time, ns he did In simi
lar caaes.
He also charges that Ward repre
sents the Birmingham Railway, Idght
and Power Company and the Bir
mingham Loan and Discount Com
pany. He charges that the manag
ing editor of one of Birmingham's
afternoon papers was forced out of
the race under penalty of losing his
position on the paper.
He claims that many other pros
pective candidates have been elimi
nated from the race by the powerful
hand of the interests, and calls on
the "common people" to assert them
selves in the defeat of Ward.
Ward claims that Wood was dis
couraged bv the Commission because
of incompetency, and makes many
other charges and insinuations in his
speeches and newspaper cards.
Meetings are being held almost
every night, and music from brass
hands and the orations of the spell-
Miss Franks Leighton, an heiress of California, who is pros
pecting through a section of the Sierra Madre Mountains in
search of a gold mine which she believes her grandfather, a
“Forty-niner,” discovered, but never made known. Recently she
heard of the reported “tind” and, securing a miner’s outfit ,sta-
ed alone on the perilous trip through the mountainous wilds in
search of it.
binders are to be heard on every
corner.
It is impossible to get a complete
Jine-up, but It can be said with cer
tainty that the race, will be close,
and that the result will be known
only after every vote has been count
ed.
Thousands of Templars Pour Into
City, Which Is Lavishly Dec
orated for Conclave.
Secretary of the Interior Has
Begun Long Battle on
Land Grabbers.
WOMEN BUY LAND ONE-
THIRD CHEAPER THAN MEN
KANSAS CITY, Aug, 9. After
hearing from women of the Council
of Clubs the Finance Committee of
the upper house of the Council has
killed the ordinance to advance $1,000
of the $12,000 set apart for the pur
pose of making a start on the con
templated women's reformatory at
B a eds.
U developed that the $1,000 had
been asked by the Board of Public
Welfare as a first payment on thir
teen acres of ground it proposed to
buy at Leeds at $500 an acre.
The women made fun of the busi
ness abilities of the Welfare Board,
jind said that they had already .‘•e-
eured an option on 96 acres close by
the thirteen at $171 an acre
DENVER, Aug. 9.—Thousands of
Knights Templar are already here for
the thirty-second triennial convention,
and it Is estimated that when the
convention formally opens Tuesday
next more than 100,000 Knights and
their friends will have arrived.
All buildings are decorated In honor
of the Knights, as are private dwell
ings. The municipal and other public
buildings have been elaborately orna
mented and great arches have been
built over many of the streets. Thou
sands have been spent upon decora
tions and illumination. Denver has
spent more than fifteen times as much
on Its plans for the Knights Templar
than It ever before expended upon any
one convention.
8un to Shine All Nlqht.
At Eighteenth and Champa streets
the huge figure of a Knight more than
60 feet In height ha« been erected. A
searchlight will play upon It all night.
At Fourteenth and Champa streets a
"Colorado Sunset," a marvelous elec
trical display, has been built. It shows
the sun sinking below the rim of the
mountains. Twenty monster search
lights are placed behind the "sun,”
throwing their rays into the sky to re
semble the rays of the sinking sun.
Over the Isle of Safety at Broad
way and Sixteenth street, a reproduc
tion of the Church of the Holy Se
pulcher In Jerusalem will astonish
the visitors. It measures 50 by 60
feet, and Is lighted by searchlights
on the tops of nearby buildings.
Every arrangement possible has
been made by the railroads to bring
the Knights and their friends into
Denver. More special trains will en
ter Denver than entered Washington
in the same space of time for the
inauguration. The Pullman Company
has reserved large space of ground on
the outskirts of the city for a "Car
City,” where the special cars and spe
cial trains will be parked, and where
those Knights who so wish may live
in the cars. Sanitary arrangements
will be perfect. Stores of various
kinds for the convenience of the car
dwellers have been established.
Two trainloads of automobiles from
New York, sent here by New York
Knights, have already arrived, and
carloads of automobiles from other
cities are arriving daily. These have
also been parked on the outskirts of
the city. More than 500 special trains
and cars have already arrived. Ac
cording to the railroad schedules,
when the visitors really commence to
flock in a special train will arrive ev
ery eight minutes for forty-eight
hours.
Every State Represented.
From August 1 to to-day more than
2.000 automobiles reached this city.
More *than 1,000 other cars are on
their way here. The delegates to the
convention are from every State in
the Union, and from Alaska, Hono
lulu, Philippines, Canada, England,
Scotland and Ireland.
As the special trains began to ar
rive, some 2.000 Colorado Knights
ranged themselves at the station to
escort the new arrivals safely to their
hotels Every hotel room In Denver
has been rented.
On Tuesday next the vrand parade
will be held. More than 50.000 Knights
will be in line. Their white plumes,
costing $15 each, will altogether be
worth $600,000. The regalia of the
Knights on parade will be worth more
than $1,000,000. Sixty-five bands will
march, with the Knights, the fees to
the bands alone amounting to $22,-
000. Some 600 Knights’ commanders
will be mounted on picked horses
from the ranches of Colorado and
Wyoming.
Miss Frances Leighton Shows Same Intrepid
Spirit of the Argonauts of '49.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9—With
the name dauntless spirit exhibited
by her grnndfather during the Cali
fornia gold rush of ’49, Miss Frances
Leighton, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent socially of
the younger generation of Oakland,
across the bay from San Francisco, is
on a prospecting tour through the
Sierra Madre Mountains to-day in
search of a gold mine she had
learned her grandfather discovered
but never developed.
For many months Miss Leighton
planned the prospecting tour before
leaving to carry it out. Topograph
ical bureaus supplied her with maps
of the mountainous territory through
which she planned to make her tour
und several veterans of the gold
stampede not only advised her against
the foolhardiness of the prospective
journey, but told her that there waa
one chance In a thousand of ever
greeting civilization again if she lost
herself in several untraveled sec
tions of the mountain region that as
yet have never been thoroughly ex
plored.
Nevertheless. Miss Leighton had
great confidence in the belief that her
grandfather did find the mine some
where in the mountain fastness and
she determined to find it, if it did
exist, at any cost and without taking
into consideration the hardships that
confront her.
Miss I^eighton, according to reports
which have reaohed her hpme town,
is to-day prospecting at or near the
West Fork Canyon, twelve miles be
yond Mount Wilson.
Grandfather Killed.
Her grandfather, John Easton, was
one of the first of the thousands of
New Englanders to reach California,
after a perilous journey across the
prairies following the report of the
discovery of gold in that State.
Soon after reaching San Francisco,
ho loft with his wife and daughter
and a partner and established a camp
at Sierra Madre. Easton left the
camp one day on a prospecting tour
and never returned. Three days later
his partner went out to search for
him. He was found crushed to death
by falling rock.
Before his death, however, ho man
aged >v draw roughly on a piece of
paper what is now believed to be the
location of the mine his intrepid
young granddaughter Is searching
for.
Miss Leighton some years ago re
ceived a letter from her grandfather's
former partner containing the piece
of paper on which he had drawn the
outline of the supposed mine. It was
on receipt of this letter and diagram
that Miss Leighton planned to go in
search of the hidden gold.
After months of careful study of
the many maps, topographical bu
reau reports and advice from old-time
miners, Miss Leighton treated her
self to a complete miner’s outfit and
started on her tedious journey up the
mountain.
To Work Alone.
She will do the entire work alone,
staking her ow n camp, preparing her
meals, making surveys and using the
pick and shovel whenever she be
lieves she has struck the right trail.
Her outfit includes several changes
| of clothes, a heavy pick and shovel,
I a mountain mule, or pack animal as
! they are called in that section of the
country, a complete dining and cook
ing outfit, a pack of playing cards
which will afford her her only amuse
ment v htle practically a prisoner In
the wilds, nt^dles, thread and many
other useful and necessary articles.
She wears most all the time a pair
of regulation top trousers, similar to
riding breeches, with canvas leggings
and a plain but heavy mountain
shirt.
KANSAS SHERIFF RETALIATES
FOR HIS ARREST ON SUNDAY
HUTCHINSON, KANS., Aug. 9.—
Following his arrest on a charge of
violating the Sunday labor ordinance,
Koon C. Beck, sheriff of Reno Coun
tv. announced thAt he would stop all
Sunday labor In this city.
He swore out complaints against
350 persons who work on Sunday, in
cluding all street car employees. Reck
and a brother are proprietors of in
amusement park ind shows have been
given there on Sunday. Local minis
ters and church members made the
complaint against the park.
the Interior Franklin K. Lane has
started a little war on the land grab
bers west of the Mississippi River.
He has taken up the cudgels jt
the farmer and the homesteader in
the great West. His efforts in this
direction materially effect the pocket-
book of every man, women and chili.
Incidentally, he is "bucking” the
land speculator. These land "grab
bers” have quietly been acquiring
vast tracts of land in the West on
which the people of the United States
have spent over $75,000,000 in irriga
tion projects. The homesteader has
either been ousted through excessive
water rate charges or becomes a ten
ant of the land companies.
Speculators Hold Land.
Secretary Lane finds that the
projects were planned for the pur
pose of aiding the small farmer in
tilling his ground, but that In reality
95 per cent of the land Is held by
speculators, who are charging exces
sive rates for water which hfts been
shiiced to the land by the Govern
ment.
The other 5 per cent of the acre
age is owned by the small farmer,
but even Government water rates art
held by Mr. Lane to be excessively
high. Building notes for dam canil
and sluice wavs add to the cost of
upkeep of the farm and conditions,
Westerners say, are becoming intoler
able.
By going Into the question from
the very first, day that he entered his
office, Mr. Lane has become inti
mately acquainted with conditions
obtaining in the West. Daily con
ferences have been had with delega
tions from the West. Even the land
speculator had his day in court, and
his contentions and views were plac'd
before the Secretary .
Farmer Needs Help.
In this connection Mr. Lane an
nounced: "I am for the farmer, first,
last and at all times. Naturally han
dicapped by lack of sufficient funds
to carry on expensive farming under
the conditions that obtain in the
West, the farmer must receive sup
port and co-operation from the Gov
ernment, if the great West is to be
settled and made to be as produc
tive as the East.
"Expensive water will ruin the
small farmers and ranchmen. Th'\y
must have cheap rates and long-tim°
notes, the Government must back
them up an extend them credit,
helping them over the rough places
if necessary, if the various projects
designed to benefit the whole people
are to accomplish the purposes for
which they were constructed.
"Why should this Government
spend $75,000.00' for the benefit of
private capital? Why should the Gov
ernment adopt a hard and fast policy,
such ns has existed in the past, whi h
has kept the small farmer from going
into the new regions and taking up
Government land? Isn’t it time for
the United States to extend to th**
Westerners a little paternal patience,
a little more consideration, a helping
hand?”
NEW SECURITIES LISTED.
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—The Stock
Exchange has admitted to the list
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railway $1,134,200 additional capital
stock, and has stricken from the list
Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis
fully paid subscription receipts for
capital stock tis well as Mobile ani
Ohio Railroad and St. Louis and Cairo
collateral 4 per cent bonds, due 1930.
TRIES BANANAS IN FLORIDA.
ARCH CREEK, FLA.. Aug. 9.—
George W. Oden will experiment on
banana culture in this county. The
numerous demonstrations and experi
ments in Dade County have been very
successful and Mr. Oden is pretty well
satisfied that banahas will do well
here.
POPULAR EXCUR
SION TO WRIGHTS-
VILLE BEACH.
$6 round trip; six days; Satur
day. August 23. Special train,
sleepers and coaches. Leave 6
p. m. Make reservations early.
SEABOARD.
If the gold mine really exists, every
one of the young woman’s friends
believe that she will not return until
it has been found.
U. S. EDUCATION EXPERT
SAYS ILLITERACY GROWS
BOULDER. COLO., Aug. 9—That
in only two States of the Union has
the Ideal democracy in education been
even approximated; that every year
in the United States almost 70,000
illiterates are sent out into the world
to make their way; that there are in
the country to-day 5,615.000 person?
over the age of ten who can ne'ther
read not write and that almost 50
per cent of the rural teachers of the
country have not had a high school
education, were anumg the startling
statements made by United States
Commissioner of Education Claxtou
in an address on "Democracy and
Education.”
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MEN AND RELIGION No. 73
CHILDREN OF GEORGIA
“AND THEY ALL WITH
ONE CONSENT
BEGAN TO MAKE EXCUSE.”
Luke 14:18.
p They were at dinner. \ . S,
Jesus said:
"When thou makest a feast, call the.poor, the maimed, s the lame, the
blind, 7
"And thou shalt be blessed.” T
One at the table pretended to be-in sympathy. He began;smugly: f \
"Happy is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!” s ’ r
The hypocrisy of the man and all.others.like him was** unmasked in
the answer made by Jesus. He said: i i > f • * (( h
"A certain man made a great supper’and bade many—
"And they all with one consent began to, make excuse.”
One said one thing, another another. 4 , . i
With one it was a field; with another it?was new oxen. }
In the end, the Lord said: - ' f >'
"None of those men which were biddemshall taste of my supper.”
And from the highways and the hedges called He His guests.
Are you a maker of hypocritcal phrases as was the man at the Phari
see’s dinner table—pretending a love for that which is just and right?
Or, to-day, are you trying to do.the will, not of man or men, but
of Him who died for you? £ •
Let us have done with excuses! T *
While spending thousands on fields, hogs and cattle, say not:
"We are unable— * r •.
"We can not give proper care to these girls— F r
"These children must go down in,shame because of our lack of
money— I
"But our beasts we must protect=whatever the cost.”
If animals are more valuable than /girls, let us say frankly: but you
know that this is untrue.
You know what Georgia would do.
Consider, then I
The Bill in the House providing a Reformatory for Girls is No. 4
ahead of any other measure appropriating money.
The Penitentiary Committee has approved it. 7 : >
Unanimously the Appropriations Committee has recommended that it
pass.
Why, then, should beasts and fields be provided for by later bills and
nothing done for Georgia’s wayward and delinquent girls?
BURWELL of Hancock, the Speaker of the House, the Chairman
and the vice-chairman, BLACKBURN of Fulton, HARDEMAN of Jef
ferson, MILLER of Bibb, NUNNALLY of Floyd, PAULK of Berrien,
RAGLAND of Talbot, REDWINE of Fayette, RHODES of Clarke,
SHUPTRINE of Chatham and SL ADE of Muscogee constitute the Rules
Committee of the House.
The Bill is in their hands.
Monday is the final day in which the measure can be heard and en
acted into law at this session of the Legislature.
These eleven men, THE RULES COMMITTEE, will not prevent a
hearing, say their friends. We believe that they will do more, that they
will help to pass the Bill.
For they know the worth of a girl-child of ten to fourteen.
And they can appraise a cow or hog.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MEN AND
RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT