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■n ajidth* on at th, year vt, of twenty 'n test, r. Andrew aoy of the culture In movement ut 'on and headquar- Crom that tic powet to, Pres!, rapid de- tlubs. He ■ bulletin, timed up Georgia imminence ilzatlon. Knapp, bly linked of com and will the gTeat promotion lub work, is organi- and front obtained » in other ime from ring the 1 through d Knapp, corn cluh complete e College tly for the ’ canning " mens fra- rrn cluba all closely ally help- tj efficiency Bible coat 1 demon- e district sist In or- the boyB' pig clubs clubs. All one su- >r J. Phil College of n reports the State b Federal efficiency due Pres- ! K. S ) Man of in killed, 65 pieces :andards; d to give the etrat- go much ttle were eive. It 1 the end rope. The ites from Leipzig slow that never re* s^rv Two Great Bargains for the Price of One await the readers of Next Sunday’s American And Its Free Fiction Magazine The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 108. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1913. By c X rl ""' ,906 ' Ueorgian Co. o f!ENTR pay no - V-C-LX A tO. MORE. FINAL! PRISON PROBE DEMANDED BY HOWARD F USED Missive Sent to Aged Capitalist Denounced as Work of Illit erate, Jealous Person. An unexpected sensation wa« sprung In the bitter fight over the ,L'>0,000 will of “Uncle Josh" E. Craw- ■ rd Friday morning when an anony mous letter, containing wild and st: r ling charges against Mrs. Belle Crawford, battling to uphold the wifi in her favor, was admitted in evi dence after a long legal wrangle. The letter produced by the wom an’s counsel on demand of Attorney J. S. James, who represents the 48 heirs contesting the document before Auditor James L. Anderson, was de nounced by Attorney Reuben Arnold, for Mrs. Crawford, as the venomous work of an illiterate, jealous,, igno rant woman full of vile lies and wild charges. There was no dispute about the il literacy. Most of the words were mis spelled, the writing was extremely poor and looked as if it might h#Ye been the work cf a wholly unschooled person. Letter Poorly Written. Here It is, with many of the words corrected: St. Augustine, Fla., . February 20, 1909. Mr. Croffard: Dear Friend—I will write to you to inform you of the plot that is laid for you in regard to Mrs. Savage, the fictitious name that she is going unde • in this town. Her right name is Mrs. Me. Kin ney, from Pittsburg, Pa. She is a married woman and has a man living, and she is bad woman and a thief, and there is a warrant in Pittsburg for her arrest for false pretenses, and as she has told you her name is Savage, that was her name by her first husband. She has been married two times and she don’t live with her second man. go if there is any wedlock between you and her you better cut it out, for she will give you lots of trouble. You are a too good a man to be swindled out of your money in that away. Well, as I thought that I would take this on myself as I thought it my duty, you ask * Eashby. Ho will tell you, for I told him all about it to-day. So he is some surprised to hear about it. This FROM A FRIEND. Second Letter Mentioned. A further sensation was suggested in Attorney Jame9’ demand for a sec ond letter, said to have been written to Mrs. Crawford, then Mrs. Savage, b y ’Uncle Josh.” Attorney Arnold oenied any knowledge of the exist- en ce of this letter, but Attorney James Insisted he had proved it ex ited. The auditor asked for proof of James' contentions. J" 11 ® contestants also introduced Friday the interrogatories erf Dr. laud*. Griffin, a young physician of arr .ton, Ga., who saw the autopsy Performed by Dr. Harris. Dr. Grif- fin Bald that in his opinion Crawford d <i not die of pneumonia, but was not Wr - V xplicit in his testimony as to "he’her there was evidence of poi soning. Doctors Testify for Widow. E. C. Thrash and Dr. Bates k were placed on the stand by ‘ ' 1 rawford’s attorneys following ,‘ e iinn °unoement by Attorney James ‘ a be had nothing further to offer Present time, after submit- * r ■ e anonymous letter received by raw ford. ' Physicians expressed the opin- jr bat a color or qualitative test for )n four years after a body had Continued on Page 5, Column 4. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 5.—A detach- ment of Federal soldiers sent to at tack the rebels at Las Pifes, State of Puebla, was completely destroyed. Of the 90 men in the detachment, 69 were killed in battle with the rebels and 20 who had been wounded were put to death on the battlefield by the victors. Only one man escaped and he was so badly wounded that he will die. An other Federal force with two field gun shas been sent to attack Las Pilas, where the Zapatistas have entrenched themselves. BURLINGTON, VT., Dec. 5.—The Tenth Cavalry, composed exclusively of negroes, which has been stationed at Fort Ethan Allen for the past four years, left to-day in special cars for New York City, where it will embark to-morrow for Galveston, Texas, to do border duty along the frontier. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A plea for “a sufficient number of torpedoes to meet the probable requirements of war” was made by Rear Admiral N. C. Twining, chief of ordnance of the navy, in his annual report to Secre tary of the Navy Daniels to-day.' WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—There will be no army maneuvers and joint mi litia instruction camps next summer unless the Mexican situation be cleared sufficient! to permit the withdrawal of regular troops now on the Mexican border. This statement was made to-day before the House Military Affairs Committee by Sec retary of War Garrison, who told the committee it would be impossible to hold these customary events with the greater portion of the regular army doing patrol duty along the Rio Grande. Brigadier General Mills asked the committee to include in the army appropriation bilk an item *o:“ $1,350,000 to enable the State militia to participate in the maneuvers. GALVESTON, TEXAS, Dec. 5.—The 30-mil© levee at Bryan broke to-day and the waters dashed through, car rying half a mile of the dam. Three additional counties in the richest agri cultural belt of the State are flooded as a result. Residents are fleeing to the hills. Loss of life has not yet been reported. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 5.—Two ne gro teamsters, Jesse Simms, aged 16, and Walter Hiohbaugh, a~ed 21, were shot and severely wounded while driving an ice wacon near Senate avenue and Sixteenth street shortly before noon. BERLIN, Dee, 5.—E:nperor Wil- | ■ •am to-day ordered the garrison at ; j Zabern, Alsace, to go to maneuvers I because of the trouble betwoen the troops and the townspeople. He fur- j ther ordered court-martial proceed- j ings agamst soldiers who affronted civilians to be hastened. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—W. W. Finley, president of the Southern Railway, left an estate of $185,000. ac cording to hie will, filed for probate to-day. A life interest is devised to his widow and at her death it goes in trust to the five children. Should Mrs. Finley remarry, the trust created be comes immediately effective. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Miss Rose Pressman, the pretty stenographer who killed Nathan Chase, an em ployee of her uncle, yesterday, and then shot herself, will recover and will have to face trial for murder. Friends of the girl declared to-day that she shot Chase because of un requited love, but at the New York hospital where she is a patient the girl refused to discuss the matter. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A bill ap propriating $925,000 for four new rev enue cutters to be stationed on the coasts of Maine and California and in the Gulf of Mexico was reported to the House to-day by the Interstate Commerce Commission. CITY CLEAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Mrs. Thos. R. Marshal! wife of the Vice Presi dent of the United States, to-day en listed in the fight which Washington women are waging against high- priced eggs. She Declared herself to be in perfect sympathy with the movement to reduce the price by boy cott, and suggested that Federal leg islation similar to that recentlv adopted by the State of Indiana rela tive to cold storage products be en acted. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The In terstate Commerce Cornmission to day appealed from the decision of the Commerce Court in the tap line cases. The cases now will go to tne Supreme Court of the United States. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—The indict ment of Arthur A. McLean, treasurer of the Democratic State committee in highway graft investigation, was to day declared by attaches of the Dis trict Attorney to he only the begin ning of the final round of the big politicians. McLean is the most in fluential man yet na.ied in true bills, but it is expected that others of even greater prominence will be indicted. INDIANAPOL.S. Dec. 5.—The strik ing teamsters this afternoon voted that all men should return to work to-morrow for all “fair” employers. These include all that have agreed to sign the union scale and means that 1.000 men will resume work at once. The vote followed an address by In ternational President Tobin, in which he advised such action and discour aged the general strike proposition. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Sharp at tacks on the Progressive party and on Theodore Roosevelt punctuated the speech made here to-day by State Chairman Barnes to the conference called by Republican leaders to map out the future of the party in this State and in national affairs. In his prepared address Mr. Barnes com pletely ignored the attacks that have been made upon him seasonally, but 1 replied to charoes that the party has . outlived its usefulness. QUINCY, MASS., Dec. 5.—'Three j hundred men cmploved in the Fore ' Riven Shipbuilding Company, a part I of the Schwab Steel interests, struck I to-day. A general strike of 3,200 j other employees is predicted. Trou ble results from the failure of the company to live up to its agree ments. “The Law and Noble Policemen My Weapons in Fight,” He Writes in Magazine. “All the good people of any city have to do Is to stand together and the gates of hell will not prevail againsrt them—the good people of At lanta would never tolerate a return to old conditions under any circum stances.” This declaration as to the moral status of Atlanta is made by Police Chief Jafties L. Beavers in a special signed article in The Detective, of Chicago, which ha9 devoted an entire section of its December number to a history of the Atlanta police depart ment. As to the importance of activity on the part of the good people in crush ing vice, the chief says: “Our cities of to-day are going through a cleaning and renovating that has long been needed, and the officers whose duty it is to do this work are going at this in some way in most every city in the country. But some of them are more back- v/ard about it than others, and I think the cause of this is largely duo to the attitude of the citizens in the community toward these reforms. “There are very few officers but 8 Die in Blizzard in ATHLETIC CLUB OPE NS West; Business in Denver at Standstill A report from Central City, in the mountains, says eight miners who depth of from two to five feet. Auto mobile and wagon traffic is impossi ble and street car service has been abandoned for sixteen hours. Passenger and freight service on all railroads entering Denver has been annulled until the storm abates. All schools in Denver are closed. BASKET BALL SEASON Walter ing his utmost to block the heave for the net. BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, Dec. 5. Juan Aguilar, a Mexican, was shot on the street here to-day when W. A§ Rutledge, a wealthy jeweler, openeef fire on J. J. Ha'nsworth, whom Rut ledge accused of wrecking his home. An investigation has been ordered bv the Federal authorities because of the delicate relations between this country and Mexico. Aguilar will re cover, but Hain&worth will die. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The Sen ate to-day passed a bill extending for j 60 days the time in which the segre- j gated coal asphalt land of the Choc taw and Chickasaw Indians may be j classified and appraised for sale. LAREDO. TEXAS, Dec. 5.—For the first time since the revolt and over throw of the Madero administration in Mexico last February, trains are operating over the National Railways from Laredo to Mexico City. The influx of refugees from Mexico continues, 300 arriving here to-day. PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 5.—Harry Roy Ballin, of New York, was this afternoon elected captain of the 1914 Princeton football team. Only mem bers of the squad who played % in the Harvard and Yale games voted. Bal lin is only 19 years old and is a can didate for "All-American” honors at right tackle. RACING RESULTS AT CHARLESTON. * FIRST—5 1-2 furlongs: Bastante, 112 (Waldron), 21-2, 6-5, 3-6, won; Pulsation, 115 (Ward), 4. 8-5, 4-5, sec ond; Stellata, 112 (Miller), 10, 4. 2. third. Time 1:10 1-5. Dick’s Pet, Helen M., Lancewood, High Class. Cliff Maid. Water Lad, Tomboy also ran. SECOND—>Six furlongs: Veneta Strome, 114 (Doyle), 11-5, 7-10, 1-5, won; Big Dipper, 104 (Bender), 11-5, 7- 10, 1-5, second; Chilton Queen. 114 (Byrne), 2, 7-10, 1-5, third. Time, 1:16 1-5. Cliff Top, Elja Curry, Metra E., Gagnant. Snowflake also ran. THIRD—Six furlongs: Ann Tilly, 104 (J. McTaggart), 1, 1-3, out, won; The Busy Body, 114 (Baur), 30, 8, 3, second; Chemulpo, 114 (J. Callahan), 20, 8, 3, third. Time, 1:15 1-6. Syl- vestris, Terra Blanca, Loretta Dwyer, Jacquelia, Miss Primity also ran. FOURTH—Seven furlongs: Prince Ahmed, 114 (Deronde). 9-20, 1-6, out, won; Jabot, 111 (J. Callahan), 20, 4, 8- 5, second: Star Bottle, 111 (Right- myer), 8. 2, 1, third. Time. 1:30. Dy namite, Stentor. Sepulvedo also ran. FIFTH—Mile: Ralph Lloyd, 102 (J. McTaggart), 2, 4-5, 1-3, won; Matser Jim, 108 (Deronde), 20, 7, 3, second; Charlier, 116 (Buxton), 2, 7-10, 7-20, third. Time, 1:43 1-6. Joe Stein, Outlan, Sir Denrah, Ford Mai and Spar Pole also ran. SIXTH—Mile, and three-sixteenths: Dr. Waldo Briggs, 109 (Buxton), 7-5, 3-5, 1*4, won; Marshon, 105 (Martin), 5, 2, 4-6, second; Napier, 110 (Scharf), 15, 8. 3, third. Time, 2:03 1-5. Charles F. Grainger, Mr. Fellow, Night of Un- cas, Tas Pay, Irish Kid also ran. AT JUARE*.. FIRST—-Five furlongs: PaPnhach- api, 109 (Klrrchbaum), 6. 2, 1, won; Droll, 109 (Vandusen), 6, 2, 1, second; Dr. Bailey. 112 (Gross). 30, 15, 6 third. Time, 1:00. Cash Girl, ta Hy Yip, Renwar, Lillian K., Hattie Me. Augus tus, Heinze, Lucky Ike, Sheffield, Christmas Eve, Society Bird, Redondo, Fool O’Fortune also ran. SECOND—Six furlongs: Dynamo, 105 (Neylon), 1, 1-4, out, won; Weya- eoke, 112 (Loftus), 6-5, 1-4, out, sec ond; Hasson 109 (Benton). 10. 3, 1, third. Time 1:12 4-6. Kali Inla, Jewel of Asia also ran. THIRD—5 1-2 furlongs: Birdman, 104 (Neylon). 1, 2-5, out. won; Round Up, 101 (Claver), 4, 3-2, 3-6, second; My Buena, 109 (Ormea), o, 8-5, 7-10, third, ^ime 1:07. Tranaac Malay, G. K. Davis, Ceos also ran. R9.ce Entries on Page 2. Coach Bean will start Saturday night’s game with the same line-up as he presented last fall, namely: Forbes apd Smith, for wards ; DuBard, center; Carter and Weaver, guards. This team is a mighty fast one. who will do their duty if they know that the people and the officers over them will back them up in these re forms. But where there is doubt in the officer’s mind about this, he nat urally will hesitate, especially when he thinks that his Job is at stake. It | is hard for him to do a thing that ! would deprive him of his position— [ but when we fail to do what we know to be our duty on this account, 1 we are nothing less than cowards. "There are two kinds of cowards: the moral and the physical coward. Everybody would say that a coward was not fit for a police officer. The physical coward runs when he sees ' that he is in danger of being shot. The moral coward Joins In with and consents to things that his con science tells him are wrong when he sees an opportunity to get money and position thereby. "The only trouble with our cities is that the criminal class and their | sympathizers are always awake to their interests. They try to make politicians believe that they can not be elected without they get their support, and with decent people In different and taking no interest in their community’s welfare, it is about Continued on Page 5, Column 1. ‘Tiger’s’ Christmas Stock Confiscated A large Christmas stock of blind tiger goods was raided Friday by De- | tectlves Chewning and Barker, and I its owner, Mary Walton, a negro, who resides in the rear of No. 37 Moore street, was sentenced by Judge Broyles to 30 days in the stockade The stock consisted of 400 half pints of corn, 100 pints of rye and 75 quarts of both rye and corn. And Now C. Starr Is Signed to Help Manage Pelicans MOBILE, ALA., Dec. 5.—Charley Starr, for two years second baseman and captain of the Mobile club under the management of Mike Finn, who secured him from Buffalo, has been traded by Mobile to New Orleans and will have charge as manager of the playing end of the team, while John ny Dobb:* will look after the business end of the affair. Starr announced several .weeks ago that he did not want to come back to Mobile, and the owners thought it best to grant his request, as the change would be beneficial in view of the fact that a new man was to take charge of the Gulls. The information was obtained here from local headquarters. Ex-Convict Is Held As Navy Deserter Oscar Arthur, a well-appearing man of 23 years ago, was turned over to the naval authorities Friday.afternoon and is being held at the police station for transfer to Norfolk, Va., where he is to be courtmartialed for desertion from the United States Navy. Arthur was released from the Fed eral penitentiary Friday morning after serving a 15-months sentence for postoffice embezzlement. He was charged with having appr^rl" * d money to his own use while postmas ter at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In floelng from this charge Arthur is also declared to have deserted from the navy. Mayor to Approve Salary Increases Mayor Woodward gave assurance Friday that he woUId approve the ac tion of Council and the Aldermanlc Board providing for increases next year In the salaries of school teach ers, firemen and policemen Also he will approve the payment of *7,000 to the Ivy etreet property own ers, the amount left over from the $30,000 fun(l subscribed by private citizens for that improvement. Smith Again Wins Handball Title Carlton Smith retained the title of handball champion of the Atlanta Athletic Club in the challenge match, played Friday afternoon with M. E. Keeler, who won the recent tourna ment which decided the challenger for the title match. The match was hard and fast in the extreme, going the full five games Keeler started with a rush, and won the first two games. Then Smith settled and hie experience and condi tion gave him the next three games, and the match, after a grand uphill battle. A big gallery watched the play. IS HELD IT Congressman, on Request of De* partment of Justice, Starts Compilation of Data. Coach Joe Bean’s Quintet to Start Schedule Against Fast Bessemer Team. Basket ball and dancing will be re sumed at the Atlanta Athletic Club down-town building Saturday night. Joe Bean’s quintet opens the season in a game against the fast Bessemer Athletic Club aggregation. The winter basket ball-dancing par ties are very popular with the young social set of the city, and Saturday night’s opening feast is sure to at tract a large crowd. Coach Bean promises to turn out the fastest team the Athletic Club has ever had. All of last season’s quintet have returned, including Smith and Forbes, forwards; Dubard, captain and center, and Carter and Weaver, guard 8. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Demand ing a prompt investigation of the af fairs at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Congressman William Schley Howard held a long conference this afternoon with Assistant Attorney General Graham, under whose depart ment comes the Federal penal insti tutions. The Assistant Attorney General re quested Congressman Howard to pre sent the Department immediately with all the evidence in his possession re garding conditions at the penlten- i tiary. Mr. Howard began a compilation of this data to-day. He is willing to give the Department of Justice an op portunity to take the initiative in an investigation, but unless it acts he will seek a Congressional probe. United 8tates Wants Facts. Although it Is known that the de partment has done little toward in vestigating the prison, and seema dis inclined to do so. Mr. Graham told Congressman Howard to-day that the department wanted the facts, and would institute an inquiry if It Is warranted. He suggested that It is unneceesary for the House to act in the premiees, as the Department of Justice stands ready to consider any evidence laid before It, and to give it genuine and impartial considera tion. Under this promise Mr. Howard will withhold for the present his res olution to have Congress look into prison affairs as administered under Warden Moyer. Mr. Howard said to-day: To Let Department Proceed. “I have had a long talk with As sistant a. -.*y General Graham, and am to supply him with all the data In my possession. He assures me that if there is anything wrong at the At lanta prison the Department of Jus tice wants to know it and is capable of handling the situation. In view of such a statement, I regard it as fair to give tne department a chance and shall soon present the charges for mally to Mr. Graham. “In the event the department should decide not to go into the matter, I should deem it my duty finally to ask action from Congress, as there un doubtedly should be & probe.” 4 Corn Show Boys Win Scholarships Announcement of the awards of four scholarships offered at the Corn Show by Congressman J. R. Walker for com raised In the Eleventh District were made Friday afternoon. The scholarships, which provide a free course in the Boys’ Corn Club short session at the State College of Agriculture, were won by J. O. Lucas, Brooks County; Ward Cornelius. Clinch County; Elzle Aldrich. Appling County, and Dan Clough, Jeff Davis County. ■ MACON, Deo. 6.—Dan O'Connell. r oprietor of four saloon*, pleaded guilty in the City Court this after noon to violating the prohibition l«w at each of the place*. and was fined $1,625 by Judge Hodge*. The fine we« paid. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Dee. 5.—Premier W. A, Watt of Vlotorla and his Cabinet resigned to-day. Member* of the Labor party wIM dom inate tho next mlnlotry,