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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 19l3.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
The Weather.
Forecast for Atlanta
and Vicinity — Local
thunder showers Sun- j
day and Monday.
CIRCULATION
Growth of The Georgian
and Hearst’s Sunday
American.
M HELD
ran EIGHT m
Rebel Forces Swarm Seven States
and Problem of Deporting
Americans Faces Government.
Powers Call for Protection.
Madero's Brother Takes Field,
While Huerta Is Unable to
Send Aid to Disease Stricken
Torreon—Communication Cut.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Official
Information has reached the State
Department that rebel activities
throughout Mexico are Increasing, and
that the Constitutionalists are gain
ing ground every 24 hours.
Rebel campaigns are strong In sev
en States—Sonora, Coahuilla, Chihua
hua, Tabasco. Aguas Calientes, Za
catecas and Yucatan.
This has brought increased peril to
the United States citizens. There are
In Mexico at the present time -8,000
Americans. Officials of the Latin-
Amerkan Bureau stated to-day that
It would require at least $100 each to
remove all the Americans from the
zone of warfare in Mexico, or a total
of $800,000.
3,200 Americans to Stay.
According to information received
at the bureau, it is believed that about
3.200 Americans have decided to stav
in Mexico, leaving 4,800 to be re
moved.
According to these officials, this
country will have to expend nearly
$500,000 to rescue i s citizens.
Official reports have been received
Showing that the rebels are slowiy
closing in on Mexico City, and it is
probable that at the time set for .he
national “elect.on” on October 26
Huerta will be in control of only the
territory surrounding his capital.
Other striking developments of the
Mexican situation to-day were:
News that an epidemic of disease
had broken out in Torreon, where
there are many Americans.
About 100 American tnd 18 other
foreigners are marching overland
from Torreon to Tampico and Mon
terey. All these Americans would be
practica’’y helpless if any attack
were made upon them toy the rebel
forces.
Spain and a few other foreign Gov
ernments, as well as the Chinese Gov
ernment, have requested the State
Department to protect their citizens
in Mexico.
Madero Leading Revolt,
Raoul Madero, brother >f Francisco
I. Madero, late President of Mexico,
has orgarfized a new revolt and has
taken the field as the hoad of 1,500
men and is marching on Aguas Cal
ientes, the chief city of the State of
the same name.
The sanitary and other vital con
ditions at plague stricken Torreon, as
reported to the State Department by
Consul Silliman, at Caltillo, reveal a
shocking state of affairs. The city
Is isolated from Mexico. General
Bravo, the Federal officer in com
mand, is unable to have serum, anti
toxin or even food brought into the
city.
Mexican Smugglers
Taken in U. S. in Battle.
0ARIU55O SPRINGS, TEXAS, Sept.
13. - After a short but terrifie fischt,
the baml of Mexican ammunition
smugglers which killed Deputy Sher
iff M. Ortiz were captured near here
to-day by a detachment of United
States troops. One Mexican was kill
ed and two badly wounded during the
engagement.
Members of the band which num
bered fourteen and which was led by
an American were brought to Wind
Mill Ranch, where they are being held
to-night pending orders from Colonel
Sibley, in command of the post here.
For 48 hours the American troops
rode through the thorny brush after
the smugglers. They were finally
located near the Wind Mill Ranch
and the soldiers closed in on them.
Lieutenant McLane ordered his troop
ers to tire. At the first volley one of
the fugitives fell dead. Two more
threw up their hands and toppled
from their horses.
Realizing escape was cut off, the
American leader hoisted a white
handkerchief upoo the end of a rifle
while his companions threw their fire
arms to the ground and held their
arms in the air.
Below in given the circulation fig
ures of Hearst’s Sunday American
and Atlanta Georgian no that read
ers may see the remarkable growth
of the tuu leading newspapers of the
South.
Circulation of
The Sunday
American
The circulation of The Sunday
American follows, from the date of
first publication, April 6, to the last
Sunday in August:
April 6 87,828
April 13 80.612
April 20 79,300
April 27 77,305
May 4
May 11
May 18
May 25
June 1
June 8
June 15
June 22-
June 29
July 6
July 13
July 20
July 27
August 3
August 10
August 17
August 24
August 31 ...
Son of Prominent Atlanta Attor
ney Is Charged With Striking
Marietta Street Merchant.
.. 77,729
.. 78.061
.. 78,379
.. 76,914
.. 74,353
.. 76,107
.. 80,683
.. 85,309
.. 82,478
.. 87,599
.. 85.851
.. 86,175
.. 86.864
.. 88,836
.. 95,827
.. 95.841
.. 101.259
.. 102,487
CIRCULATION OF TH: GEORGIAN
FOR JUNE
Law Student Takes Part of Cook,
Who Had Made Purchase
of Footwear.
W. E. Brewster, son of Colonel P.
H. Brewster, of the law firm of Dor
sey. Brewster, Howell & Heyman.wis
arrested Saturday night on a charge
of disorderly conduct growing out of
an altercation with Abraham Flesh-
ner, a merchant at No. 220 Marietta
street. Young Brewster was taken
to police headquarters in the patrol
wagon and later released on a $15.75
bond.
The difficulty arose over the pur
chase of a pair of shoes by Brew
ster's negro cook.
Brewster, according to the mer
chant's story to the police, came into
his store about 8 o’cldck Saturday
night and began to argue about the
shoes which the nevro cook had pur
chased, and which she lateiL returned
on the grounds that they mere not
satisfactory. In the trouble which
followed Brewster is said to have
struck the merchant in the face. Ho
was placed under arrest by policemen,
who were called to the scene.
Young Brewster at the present time.
| is taking a course in law at the uni-
I versity preparatory to entering the
• firm with which his father is con
nected.
‘Professor’ Beavers
To Teach Etiquette
j Chief to Preside at School Where
Patrolmen Will Learn Rules
of Propriety.
Atlanta police are going to school
following an official call Saturday
night by Chief Beavers, who de
clared that, although his men were
fine fellows, he was not fully satis
fied with their "etiquette.” The first
session will be held next Tuesday
night.
Tentative rules adopted by the
Chief indicate such instruction as the
"proper care of the nails,” the “how
and when to say ‘pardon’ ”—in fact,
everything which comes in the cate
gory of proper “etiquette.”
School will be divided Into three
divisions of three platoons each, ac
cording to the Chief.
Princess Calls ‘Trot’
Dances Beauty Foes
‘American Girls Are Losing Their
Freshness and Sweetness as
Result of Revels.'
Hill Gets New Atlanta
v • -l-.-'r
Roan Goes to Appellate Bench
*1* • *!« *J* • *{« •!♦ • *1* *!*••!-
Changes Likely Effective Oct. 6
In center is Judge Benjamin II. Ilill, named to the judge
ship of the newly created Atlauta circuit. This picture was
taken Saturday at the Georgian Terrace Hotel. Below are
Judge L. S. Roan, on right, and Charles S. Reid, snapped at the
barbecue given court officials and attaches Saturday by Depu
ty Sheriff Plennie Miner.
REIGN OF PROSPERITY
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Princess
Lowenstein, the widow of a Russian
nobleman and soldier who fell in the
Philippines at the time Aguinaldo was
captured, warns American girls
against turkey trotting as a foe to
beauty.
"These wild new dances,” the
Princess said, “which your girls are
doing day in and day out, are show
ing their effects. The dancers get to
look like old. haggard women. The
American girl is noted for her looks,
and justly, too.
"But she will certainly lose all her
freshness and sweetness if she per-
ists in keeping up this everlasting
bacchanalian dancing.”
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49,725
52.609
53,494
62,692
51,311
49,114
48,862
48,007
49,540
49l,228
49,691
49.535
55,119
50,141
49,083
48,860
48.934 j
47,490 I
50,127 j
51,065 !
50,7'
50,8'
51,487
50,349
53,806
CIRCULATION OF THE GE.RCIf.N
FCR JULY
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
J uly
51
51
51
49,
51
49
51,
50
52,
50.
50,
61,
54,077
671
401
,063
,988
,308
956
326
823
761
T7 8
948
867
"7
980
077
419
997
750
748
828
608
596
378
567
113
340
864
CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIA.
FOR AUGUST
August
August
August
August
August
August
August
August
August 11 .
August 12 .
August 13
August 14 .
August 15 .
August 16
Ajgust 18 .
August 19 .
August 20/
August 21 .
August 22 .
August 23 .
August 25 .
August 26. .
August 27 .
August 28 .
August 29 .
August 30 .
4,397
5,453
4,214
4,857
6.297
5,002
7,387
3,523
3,742
131,
98,
82
77,
76,
74,
Fine Yield of Corn, Oats and Hay,
With Top Prices for Staple’s By-
Products, Is Expected to Give the
State Its Banner Year.
FEELING OF OPTIMISM IS
EVIDENT IN ALL BUSINESS
Strict Economy Practiced by Farmers
Makes Margin of Profit Tremen
dous-Bankers Are Jubilant, While
Merchants Predict Great Season.
Dog Is Principal
Beneficiary in Will
Wealthy Wisconsin Man Leaves Pet
to Friend, but Forgets Him
Otherwise.
LACROSSE, WIS.. Sept. 13.—A dog
-just a mangy animal with no pedi
gree at all, but known as the best
liriend of his owner, the late John
I Hanson, of Hamilton—is mentioned
as the principal bequest in the will
; of Hanson, which was filed for pro
bate to-day
Hanson left much other property—
fine farms and a strongbox filled with
mortgages—but before disposing of
anything else he bequeathed the dog,
with much detail as to the way he
should be treated, to his friend. Lars
Fjedstad, of Lacrosse.
The dog is all Fjedstad receives
from the estate, which is distributed
among the relatives in Wisconsin and
Norway.
Golf Holds Wilson
In Vermont Hills
President’s Summer Home Has
Greatest Number of Guests
of This Season.
WINDSOR, VT„ Sept. 13.—Golf and
automobiling were.on President Wil
son's program to-day. The bracing
air of Cornish has had such an ex
hilarating effect on him that he may
stay here several days longer than
he planned when he left Washington.
Harl&kenden House now has the
greatest number of house guests It
has had this summer. The Miss s
Lucy and Marion Smith, of New Or
leans, and Miss Katherine Minahan,
of Orange, N. J.. are among them.
The latter, who is a member of the
east of "The Good Little Devil,” par
ticipated in the performance of “The
Sanctuary” Friday evening by whis
tling the music of “The Hermit
Trush,” which Miss Margaret Wilson
sang.
GOVERNOR DENIES NEGRO
CHILD SLAYER A PARDON
Will Varner, a negro, of Newton
County, must go to the gallows in
spite of the appeal made to Governor
Slaton. Varner shot and ki led- his
young stepchild while trying to shoot
his wife because sue refused to re
turn to him.
Marshall at Last
Finds $2,000 House
Vice President Keeps Location Se
cret Fearing a Raise in Rent
by Landlord.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—After
j long months of weary house hunting.
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
have found a house which comes well
within the $2,000 the Vice President
feels he can afford for house rent out
of his $12,000 salary.
Lest some envious person see their
house and try to raise the bid on it,
tlie Vice President and Mrs. Marshal'
are refusing to tell its exact loca
tion.
It is admitted, however, that it is
on the fashionable Avenue of the
Presidents.
Vincent Astor Buys
Hydro-Aeroplane
Turns Deaf Ear to Friends Who
Would Dissuade Him From
Flights.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y Sept. 13 —
Vincent Astor arrived at Rhinebeck
| to-day on his yacht, the Noma, and
1 brought along a hydro-aeroplane, in
1 which he plans to make some trial J
' flights In the next few days.
His friends are trying to dissuad 2
I him from the project, but he is deter
mined to make a trial of the air and
water craft by flying up and down th
Hudson. The machine is a Curtiss
Washington Society
Hears of Wylie Suit
Reported She Will at Last Seek Free
dom From Her Eloping
Husband.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Socie
ty is discussing with great interest
a rumor that Mrs. Horace Wylie Is
about to begin proceedings to obtain
a divorce from her eloping husband
which will enable him to marry the
companion of his flight, Mrs. 1*1111111
Hicbborn.
Should Mrs. Wylie take the step
which friends have been urging her
to take it will probably end one of
the most distressing chapters in the
social history of the capital.
The 400 here had hardly recovered
from the shock of the elopinent of
Wylie and Mrs. Hicbborn when it was
again startled by the suicide of Philip
Hichborn, the deserted husband. Wy
lie and Mrs. Hichborn were living in
France at the lime of the suicide and
it is said that the shock nearly pros
trated Mrs. Hoyt, mother of Mrs.
Hichborn.
Reid Is Given Stone Mountain
Place—Napier Succeeds
Him as Solicitor.
model.
CHINA COMPLIES WITH
DEMANDS OF JAPANESE
Special Cable to The American.
PEKIN, Sept. 13 — Japan's de-'
mands, presented to China two day.i
ago in connection with the killing of
Japanese subjects and the trampling
of the Japanese flag bv Chin* s . w •*
accepted in thidr entirety to-day by
the .Pekin Government, A
Benjamin H. Hill, ranking judge of
the appellate court bench, widely
known as a jurict of notable accom
plishments, and member of a family
distinguished In Georgia's history,
was appointed Saturday by Governor
J M. Slaton to the judgeship of the
new Atlanta circuit created by the
last session of the State Legislature.
Four appointments making impor
tant changes on the Georgia bench
were announced simultaneously by
the Governor. They were:
Benjamin H. Hill, from the
State Court of Appeals to the
new division of the Atlanta cir
cuit.
L. S. Roan, from the judgeship
of the Stone Mountain circuit to
Judge Hill’s place on the appel
late court bench.
Charles S. Reid, Solicitor Gen
eral of the Stone Mountain cir
cuit, to the judgeship of the same
circuit.
George M. Napier, of Decatur,
as Solicitor General of the Stone
Mountain circuit to succeed Reid.
All of the appointments probably
will go into effect October 6, the date
upon which the new docket of the
Court of Appeals will be called.
Continued on page 6, column 5.
By M. A. ROSE.
' Georgia, the whole Southeast, and Atlanta—because it is the
commercial and financial center of the Southeast—-will enter upon
one of the most prosperous eras any section of the nation ever has
enjoyed when the cotton crop is moving in earnest this fall—-by
October 1 at the latest.
In 1911, all seasons put their heads together in kindly con
spiracy, and Georgia grew 2,768,627 bales of cottton, the greatest
crop the historic State ever knew. It is the fashion to quote 1911
as the most wonderful year the State could expect. Unmistakable
signs show 1913 will overtop 1911.
Here is the proof:
In 1911 Georgia grew, or let us say gathered—for it grew
thousands of bales which never were ginned or even picked—•
2,768,627 bales of cotton. But the whole South grew 15,622,701
bales, excluding linters. Prices were correspondingly low. Georgia
got about $124,500,000 for its 1911 crop.
Almost ready for the gins to-day arc 2,250,000 bales. Indica
tions are that this crop will bring Georgia $155,500,000, for 14-
cent middling cotton is a probability, not a possibility.
Of this $155,000,000 a much greater proportion will be profit
than accrued from the banner crop. Four reasons are apparent:
This is a yield produced at less cost than any previous crop; drouth
in the West will make the total yield short of the world’s actual
needs, particularly as the left-over supply Is abnormally small;
Georgia will spend less for com, hay and oats than ever before,
having record-breaking crops of all three food-stuff’s; the shortage
of corn, hay and oats will mean good prices for that most impor
tant by-product of cottton, cotton seed.
SHORT CORN CROP INEVITABLE.
Consider the last first, because it has been overlooked gen
erally.
Drouth in Kansas and the other great agricultural States of
the West and Southwest makes a short crop of corn inevitable.
Corn is selling at an abnormally high price—around 77 cents at
Chicago and St. Louis for the actual stuff.
Seventy-seven cent corn means high beef and pork. It’s pret
ty expensive to fatten hogs or cattle for market on that sort of
diet. High pork spells high lard. High lard means gteater de
mand for cotton seed oil products, so much so that the cotton seed
oil speculator watches the lard market as closely as he does the
oil quotations. Expensive feed, too, means a shortage of cattle for
slaughter and a shortage of blood and bone fertilizer, the packers’
by-product, which is just where cotton seed meal fertilizers may
reap a Jiarvest. Expensive corn, again, insures greater demand
lor cotton seed hulls as cattle feed.
No one wants to go on record as saying that cotton seed will
sell at a record price. But it is evident it will not be a drug on
the market. Already cotton seed is selling for $20 a ton and bet
ter in South Georgia.
Crushers say Georgia will send 900,000 tons of seed to oil mills
this fall. At $20 a ton that is $180,000,000. Add that to $155,000,000
for the lint—it makes one dizzy 1
Back to the first reason for Georgia's enormous prospective
profits. Everyone recognizes that economy has been the watch
word for the year. The farmer has bought as little as possible at
the store. He has borrowed as little money as possible. He has
cut down his supply of fertilizer. The old harness, the old wagon,
the same old mule, the same overalls, have served another season.
Small expense and good selling price make excellent profits.
LITTLE COTTON IN WEST.
Texas and Oklahoma, experts say, will produce not more than
4,000,000 bales this year, as against 5,278,500 in 1911. Alabama
and Mississippi show severe deterioration through the combined
malevolence of bad weather and insects. Louisiana never has taeen
a factor in the cotton world since the boll weevil invaded the Cre
ole State. The Southeast will make, in proportion, the best crop
of all the belt,
All this would be of little avail if the Georgia farmer had to
spend all the money he.< got for corn, hay and oats to Jjed his
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