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The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. NO. 115.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1013.
Copyright. 1006,
By The Georgian Co.
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POWER CO. WINS TALLULAH SUIT
CONVENTS SEARCHED
FOR JESSIE M’CANN
IN STRANGE MYSTERY
MISS JESSIE M’CANN, MISSING SOCIETY GIRL.
Decision Believed to Mean Virtual
End to Sensational Lawsuit.
Mrs. Longstreet Beaten.
The State Supreme Court Satur
day brushed aside, almost with seem
ing impatience, the State’s preten
tions to title in and to the Tallulah
Palls property now held by the Geor
gia Railway and Power Company.
The verdict rendered In Judge
Jones’ court, In Rabun County, in fa
vor or the power company, is sweep-
Ingly affirmed In the Supreme Court,
and at every point the State is turned
down in language picturesque In its
terseness.
The Supreme Court held that the
State long ago vacated in toto all of
its right and title In the Tallulah
Palls property Involved in this suit;
and it disposed of the State’s fur
ther cdSfention that, even if it did va
cate its rights originally, such va
cated title extended to the banks of
the Tallulah River only.
Case “Fairly Tried.”
The court held that the title now in
the company extends to the middle of
the stream, as is customary in non-
navigable rivers.
The court of review further says
that the case was “fairly‘tried” in the
court below and that “no right error
detrimental to the State’s rights was
committed” In the hearing.
This suit was brought by direction
of the Legislature, after much pres
sure had been brought to bear upon
it, and against the advice of Gov-
ernor Brown.
Mrs. Helen Longstreet. widow of
the famous Civil War general, took
a leading part in the fight to regain
the falls land for the State, and was
in the center of the fight in the lower
courts.
Denounces “Tactics.”
H. H. Dean, of Gainesville, in the
course of his argument for the power
company, denounced Mrs. Longstreet
and the Tallulah Falls Conservation
Association, charging hold-up tactics.
The Jury was dut only two hours.
Attorney General T. S. Felder Im
mediately gave notice of a motion for
a new trial, and lengthy briefs w % ere
submitted to the Supreme Court.
The Tallulah Falls power project
has but recently been completed and
Involves an outlay of many mlLions
of dollars. _ ™
Luther Z. Rosser and Charles i.
Hopkins were the leading counsel for
the power company. The high courts
decision is believed to end the dispute.
ThreatenedLynching
Prevented by Sheriff
S. C., Dec. IS.—Sher-
prevented a threatened
here when he refused to
• Will White, a negTO, to a
letween 50 and 75 men who
ed the jail and demanded the
The mob later dispersed.
Is accused of fatally stab-
s Klnard, a cotton mill em-
Democratic Paring
Knife Gets IntoU.S.
Expense Estimates
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Deter
mined to pare down the estimates for
the various appropriation bills and
meet any possible deficit which may
arise during the first year of opera
tion of the rew tariff law, sixteen
Democratic leaders of the House met
with Speaker Clark' to-day to work
out a budget.
These leaders comprise the chair
men and ranking majority members
of the committees which will prepare
appropriation measures.
Despite Speaker Clark's statement
to the effect that no danger of a
deficit exists, the committee heads
appeared anxious to reach a common
agreement for a reduction in the es
timates. They have warned the
spokesmen for the Government de
partments that the appropriations
will Jiave to be cut down. They
stipulated, however, that care be tak
en to maintain every department at
a high standard of efficiency.
Mercer ‘Nons’ War on
Greek Letter Trats’
MACON, Dec. 13.—This may be the
last year of Greek letter fraternity
chapters at Mercer University. The
recent Georgia Baptist Convention
authorized the trustees to abolish the
"frats” if it was deemed expedient,
and the issue will be raised for final
determination in June.
The “non-frats” comprise three-
fourths of the students at Mercer,
and they are clamoring for the abo
lition of the fraternities. They have
signed a petition, addressed to the
trustees, asking that the “frats" be
suppressed.
Negro, Found Under
Girls’ Bed, Lynched
GAINESVILLE, FLA., Dec. 13.—
Henry White, a negro about 21 years
old, was lynched at Campville for
invading the room of two young wom
en boarding with Mrs. VanLanding-
ham, a widow, at Campville.
The boarders, one a school-teacher
and the other the depot agent, heard
the .noise, and. calling men to in
vestigate, found White under their
bed. He was placed under guards,
who were overpowered before day
light and White was hanged to a tree.
Hotel Fire Brings
Order for Escapes
MACON, Dec. 18.—The owners of
all buildings three or more stories In
height have been given notice by the
city that fire escapes must be placed
on the structures within 90 days.
The agitation for fire escapes was
revived by the burning of the Hotel
Williams, when many lives w r ere jeop
ardized by the lack of escapes on the
building. It is said that more than
150 buildings are without the fire es
capes required by law.
t Held Up by
f Dickens' Hair
TV YORK, Dec. 13.—A lock of hair
•om the head of Charles Dickens
ding up a case of first editions of
:eray, Dickens, and other authors,
med to Brentano’s
hair was sold In London for $200
Irentano said he did not know it |
een put In the case. He wanted I
id the hair back, but the customs .
Is say no.
MORE SEALS ORDERED.
OMASVILLE, Dec. 13.—So large
een the sale of Red Cross seaiS
lomasville already that a new .
v has been ordered by the ladies |
e Thomasville Study Class un-
rhose auspices they are sold. I
HOW
THEY
PULL!
A letter from ANOTHER one
of the HUNDREDS of "Want
Ad” users who ALWAYS re
ceive QUICK and SATISFAC
TORY results.
Spring Place, Ga., Dec. 10, 1913.
The Georgian and News Pub Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Through one fifty-cent ad in
your "Want Ad” columns I
made a sale of O. I. C. swine to
Mr. C. H. Whittington, of Ok
lahoma City, Okla., of twenty-
one head of young breeding stock
for the sum of five hundred dol
lars. The Georgian is the paper
for results.
Truly,
WALTER T. KENNER.
OHIO improved Chester swine;
pigs all ages; farmers’ prices;
all breeding stock registered;
two well-broke Mexican burros,
4 years old; male and female;
perfect pets. Walter T. Ken
ner, Spring Place, Ga.
THE PULLING POWER of
Hearst’s Sunday American and
Daily Georgian “want ads” is un
surpassed.
You get what you want when
you want it.
PARDONS
Governor Slaton Says Any Clem
ency Will Be Purely on
Merits of Case.
Governor Slaton let It be known in
emphatic language Saturday that no
body is to have a pardon during this
Christmas season, merely because It
Is the holiday time of the year.
The Governor returned from his trip
East Friday, to find that a veritable
avalanche of applications for clemen
cy had descended upon the Executive
offices during his absence, and a very
large percentage of them based their
arguments upon the ground that “it
is nearly Christmas" and that, there
fore, for some reason or other, the
Governor is supposed to view these
clemency matters a little more len
iently than ordinarily.
"I do noL understand why someone
should expect,a pardon at Christmas
time any more than at some other
time. These matters must stand or
fall upon their merits entirely,” said
the Governor.
Will Not Overstep Prerogative.
“Here Is a man convicted of mur
der. He thinks I should send him
home Christmas ‘to be with his wife
and children.’ I should like to do that
—if it can be shown that he is enti
tled to It. When, however, I am
asked to do thus and so for the per
petrator of some frightful crime 1
never hear anybody suggesting how 1
am to make up things to the family of
the victim.
"The prerogative of clemency is not
at all personal to tne Governor—it is
an Executive function that should be
exercised with great care and dis
crimination. and absolutely as exact
justice shall seem to suggest.
“I am not going to pardon or parole
anybody simply and solely because it
is Christmas, and parties who are
coming before me limping heavily on
that crutch may well save themselves
time by not coming.
Will Decide on Merits.
“This business of swamping the
Governor’s office every Christmas with
clemency petitions, based upon the
more or less maudlin plea that ‘It is
Christmas' and that the Governor may
lay aside his conscience for the time
being, is something of a nuisance—
and it is not going to produce results
while I am Governor.
“I am glad to hear petitions for
clemency when there is real merit in
them, but not otherwise. If there Is
merit in them they are welcomed on
Christmas or the Fourth of July, or
at any other time. The time of peti
tioning makes no difference whatever,
so far as my action is concerned.”
Municipal Christmas
Tree for Asheville
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec. 13.—Ashe
ville is to have a municipal Christinas
tree this year by decision of the
Boqrd of Aldermen. The tree is to be
a giant cedar erected on Pack Square
and will be ablaze with myriad col
ored electric bulbs. All of the city
churches will participate in the mid
winter carnival that is planned.
All of the presents placed on th*
tree will be turned over to the As
sociated Charlteis and the Salvation
Army for distribution.
Diogenes’OwnTown,
Cordele, Halves Its
Cotton Crop Claims
Editor Hearst’s Sunday American,
Atlanta:
We wish to thank you very much
for the excellent write-up of our city
in yesterday’s Sunday American.
We wish, however, to call attention
to one error, which I am sure was
accidental.
In your article you stated that Cor
dele had 200.000 bales of cotton this
year, where you should have stated
that Cordele had 100,000 bales.
Desiring that our city have no mis
leading figures placed before the pos
sible home-seeker, we desire to make
this correction.
The bare facts regarding Cordele
and Crisp County are marvelous
enough and almost beyond belief.
We are receiving a great many new
citizens through correct publicity,
and wish to keep “on the square" as
well as “on the firing line.”
Thanking you, I am, very sincerely
yours,
LOUIS SPENCER DANIEL. /
Secretary Cordele Chamber of Com
merce, Cordele, Ga.
Many in Rags—Report of Rebel
Chief at Chihuahua—Rich j<s
Spaniards Slain.
Foreign Nations Now
Want Paintings Back
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Herman
VanSlochem, a Fifth avenue art deal
er, hits just arrived from’Paris, bring
ing with him six priceless paintings'
of Flemish, Dutch and Italian mas
ters. He said that European govern
ments and owners of private galleries
were sorry now that they had sold so
many masterpieces to collectors n
this country, and were extremely anx
ious to get them back.
“This desire on their part," he said,
“will cause a natural boom in the
exchange of these pictures, but as
American collectors are much rich r
than those of Europe, there will he
great difficulty in taking them back
to Europe."
Volunteers to Die on
Scaffold for Woman
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 13.—
A letter was received here to-day
from W. T. S. McC. Leary, of Tole
do. in which he offers to take the
place of Mrs. Bessie Wakefield on
the scaffold if the woman is denied a
new trial, so she might return to her
children. In his letter he said;
“If they must hang someone, if
they will let Bessie go to her babies
and tell me what day they want me
to come there, I will close my busi
ness and come and take her place on
the scaffold with a smile on my face,
for she has something to live for and
I have not.”
Eli PASO, Dec. 13.—Since his
troops took Chihuahua, General Villa
has had more than 50 persons exe
cuted, many of them wealthy Spanish
and Mexican residents of that city,
according to a statement made to-day
by a Catholic priest who has just
arrived here.
I He said the rebel general had the
priests thrown into jail and threat
ened to execute them If they did not
pay $5,000 ransom. They did not
have this sum, but compromised by
giving him all they had.
Sisters of Charity are also said to
have been mistreated by the rebel
soldiers. Many of them were in
Breechette Inventor
Has New Tango Gown
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Mias
Margaret Britton, "the titian-haired
debutante,” who originated the
breechette, a comfortable walking and
riding costume for belles, has solved
the problem of a graceful and at the
same time convenient tango costum ;.
Miss Britton's costume is made of
chiffon, the ruffles of which are caught
together in such fashion as to give
absolute freedom for the tango steps.
Daughter Signer of
New Carnegie Trust
Special Cable to The American.
EDINBURGH, Dec. 13.—The deed
creating the Carnegie United King
dom Trust, aggregating $10,000,000,
has been deposited with the Regis
trar of Edinburgh.
It is signed by Mr. and Mrs. Car
negie, Miss Carnegie and Miss Es
telle Whitfield.
Deeds creating other Carnegie
trusts here are signed by Mr. and
Mrs. Carnegie.
London Court Rules
Woman IsNotTerson’
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 13.—The appeal of
Miss Gwxjjeth Marjorie Bebb from
the decision of the Incorporated Law
Society barring her from admission to
the bar because of her sex was re
jected by the high court.
The court adhered to the view that
a woman is not a “person within the
meaning of the solicitors’ act of 1843.”
Would-be Doctors
In U. S, Decreasing
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Decrease
in medical schools and in their stu
dent attendance in the United States
was reported to-day by the Federal
1 Bureau of Education for 1913.
Figures show that there were four
teen less schools, a decrease of 1,200
j students and 500 less graduates this
year than dlst.
rags when they crossed the interna
tional bridg*e.
In Charge of Train.
Among the refugees who arrived
at Juarez is Frederico Moye, the
neutral Governor of Chihuahua. He
was in charge of the refugee train.
Among those executed at Chihua
hua was Jesus Molinar. a relative of
General Luis Terrazas, the multi
millionaire land baron of Chihuahua.
Juan Arellano and his 15-year-old
son were also fthot to death, the refu
gees say.
They declare Arello and his little
son stood shoulder to shoulder, the
boy with his eyes turned heavenward
and his father’s resting on him when
they were shot down.
“Viva Mexico!”
Both cried:
“Viva Mexico!” as 'the soldiers
drew their guns to shoot.
Pancho Francisco Molinar, broth
er-in-law of General Terranzas, has
been thrown into jail by General Vil
la and is being held for ransom and
will be put to death if the money is
not paid.
G-uns of U. S. Fleet
Now Trained on Tampico.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Practi
cally the entire American fleet now
In Mexican waters hap been massed
outside Tampico, according to dis
patches from Rear Admiral Fletcher
to the Navy Department this after
noon. The battleship Virginia, the
Rhode Island and New Jersey are at
anchor well off the city, while the
gunboats Wheeling and Tacoma are
further inshore. Navy Department
officials are considering the advis
ability of transferring the remainder
Girl Melancholy Before Disap
pearance and Hinted Plans
to Become Nun.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Members of
the family of Robert G. McCann, the
wealthy Brooklyn merchant whose
daughter, Jessie, is mysteriously
missing, to-day began a new Inves
tigation on the theory that the girl
had entered a convent.
She had been melancholy before j
her disappearance nine days ago and
dropped hints to her friends that she
was seriously considering the adop
tion of a religious life In a nunnery.
Mr. McCann was unable to leave
his home on account of worry and
physical exhaustion, but other mem-
J)ers of the family continued to search.
A $1,000 reward has spurred scores
of amateur detectives In the search,
and South Brooklyn, where the girl
was reported to have been seen
swarmed with Investigators.
Continued on Page 2, Column 1-
$200,000 Bond Issue
. For Roads Proposed
WAYCROSS, Dec. 13.—Because of
the change of sentiment since the
completion of the Way cross-Millwood
highway, it is understood that next
year another effort will be made to
secure a bond Issue of from $200,000
to $300,000 for permanent road im
provements In Ware County.
When the last bond Issue was ad
vocated, th« county wanted $40,000 for
a new jail and new schools. Since
then the jail has been built and many
districts have improved, their schools
by local taxation.
He Gets Injunction
To Hold Hogs and
Pigs on Ham Island
SAVANNAH, Dec. IS.—A unique re
straining order that temporarily, at
least, will keep 100 hogs and pigs on
Ham Island, near Savannah, was
signed by Judge Walter G. Charlton
In the Superior Court.
It seems hat Mrs. Ella T. Groover
entered into an agreement with Rob
ert L.. Gaylord, lessee of the island,
tv furnish him with a fine stock of
hogs, the proceeds from the stock
enterprise to be regarded as a part
nership. According to Gaylord, Mrs.
Groover had a negro, under cover of
night, row to the island and lead ten
of the choice pigs away to market. He
then appeared In Court and asked that
she be restrained from sending again
to the island without first getting his
consent to market the stock. The
hearing will take place after Christ
mas.
3 Burglar Suspects
Sentenced for Year
MACON, Dec. 13.—Three negroes,
suspected by the Macon police of par
ticipation in a burglary epidemic, but
against whom there was no positive
evidence, have been sentenced to the
county chaingang for a year each on
vagrancy charges.
Judge Hodges figures that this
method of punishment will be effect
ive toward reducing the number of
burglaries, believing that the thefts
are committed largely by the loafing
Prosecutor Calls Grounds Sub
mitted by Defense “Hodge
podge” and “Catch All.”
That Leo Prank's lawyer* are
engaged in a “post-mortem” at
tempt to obtain a new trial for
their client is the charge repeat
edly made in the brief and ar
gument completed Saturday by
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dor
sey and served upon the attor
neys for the defense.
Some of the grounds for a new trial
advanced by the defense D ,rsey
characterizes as "hodgepodge and
catch all,” and ridicules the asser
tion® that Prank was tried by t mob
rather than by a Judge and Jur
The opposing attorneys will ij' t.a
their verbal argument before th Su
preme Court on Monday at 9 o .oi k.
The first request to be made ..< the
court will be for an extension o me.
Two hours customarily Is gl\ to
each side, but owing to the import
ance of the case, it Is likely th., :ao
days or more will be asked lot the
argument®.
"Catohlng at Technicality."
The Solicitor, In referring to the
defense's claims that demonstr i: ions
on the part of the crowd wer ruin
dent to Influence and lntlmld e the
Jury, Implied that Prank's lawyers
throughout the trial were lap. >g the
groundwork for a plea on wi h t,.
ask for a new trial, catching at every
technicality that presented Itself. The
Solicitor said:
"The request of counsel t. clear
the courtroom of spectators before
anything was done In the trial hew
ed, In the connections now beli n en-
sldered, that they were anticipating
laying hold of all such little Inconse
quential occurrences and technicali
ties that could be discovered.
"They can not complain, because
they failed to ash any affirms*:ve re
lief, so far as this record show They
say In this ground that they called
attention of the court for the pur
pose of ‘obtaining some action In
the next paragraph they show that
they got from the oourt some ac
tion, and the court never had any in
timation that the action he gave was
not commensurate with the roquila
ments of the situation.
Too Late With Complaint.
"This Is simply another •pos mor
tem attempt to get another trial,' te
use an expression of Judge Russell."
Continuing, Solicitor Dorse ar
gued:
"We submit that there wae nothing
of sufficient importance or conse
quence requiring the court to take
any radical steps, and that the fail
ure of the defendant's attorneys at
the time to request, or euggi t or
Intimate to the court that something
or other should be done estop* m
now from complaining."
The Solicitor charged that Frank's
lawyers had magnified these o ur-
rences far beyond their real Impor
tance and argned that the fac ihat
Judge Roan overruled the motion for
a new trial showed conclusively from
a legal standpoint that he did net at
tach any Importance to the demon
strations. Stress was laid on the af
fidavits of the Jurors that the' did
not hear the demonstrations rel rr»d
to by the defense.
Upholds Conley Evidence.
Several pages of the brief are oven
over to a contention on the admissi
bility of Jim Conley's teetlmor on
the alleged perversion of Frank The
Solicitor remained firm in his -tand
that no error was committed in al
lowing this testimony in the record.
He insisted that the courts of Amer
ica are permitting much greater lat
itude In evidence of this sort than
ever before, widening and extruding
the rule in this respect, appreciating
that It is necessary In order to get
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