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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
IMPORTANT LIQUOR DECISION MADE BY GEORGIA COURT
Lopez, ‘Human Tiger/ Kills 6, Still Is at Large l
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Hunted by Famous Gunmen, but Without Result
Bandit Who Vowed to Outdo
Tracy Holds Impregnable His
Refuge in Old Mine.
Rafael Lopez, the most bloodthirsty bandit of the West since
the days of Tracy, and a scene showing a posse trying to smoke
him out qX a mine in Bingham. Utah.
BINGHAM, UTAH, Dec. 20— Alive
or dead Rafael Lopez, the Mexican
“human tiger,” is still in the Utah-
Apex Mine and the strangest man
hunt since the days of Tracy, the ban
dit, continues.
Stimulus was given to the hunt by
a story told td the Sheriffs by Sam
Rogers, a mine shift boss.
Rogers said he had seen and talked
with the desperado yesterday and the
day before and would meet him again
to-day. The work of searching sec
tions, bulkheading them off from the
remainder of the mine and filling the
workings with poisonous fumes is in
progress.
“I know they have me cornered in
this mine,” Lopez is quoted by Rog
ers as telling him Thursday. “This
is my grave. I’ve made up my mind
to that. I am not going to commit
suicide.
Plans Fight to End.
“I am going to wait here for the
end, and I shall fight whenever I have
to. I could have killed more men than
I have.
‘‘Time and again I have followed
posses in here and heard their plans
for killing .me. I easily could have
killed every one of them.
‘‘Nobody would have known I was
in here if it had not been for Julio
Corrello and Mike Stefano, whom I
thought were my friends. If I could
kill them both I would die happy.”
MAY COST HIS JOB.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A letter
calling President Wilson’s “History of
the American People” a “joke, and
declaring it “full of toryism of the
w r orst kind.” may cost George F red
Williams, of Massachusetts, the post
of Minister to Greece.
This letter, which Williams wrote
several years ago to former Senator
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has
reached the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, and W illiams
nomination is being held up.
ID ENJOIN‘TIGER'
Ruling Brings the Order of In
junction Within Rule Already
Established.
The Supreme Court F'riday in the
case of Watkins against Wilkersoa,
from the Superior Court of Floyd, af
firmed tj’e ruling of Judge Moses
Wright, with directions and modifi
cations, fixing the limits within
which Superior Courts may enjoin
“blind tigers” as nuisances.
The ruling brings the order of in
junction within the rule established
by the Court in the Cassidy Case from
Macon, which is that these “blind vi
gors” may be permanently enjoined
as nuisances onl. after a .jury bear
ing. Temporary injunctions may bo
granted for the purposes of interloc u
tory hearings, but questions of fact
must not be adjudicated by judges
finally in such proceedings.
The court also held that for dg
purposes of injunction nuisances
must be located with a reasonable de
gree of certainty, and that part of
Judge Wright's injunction whh ii
sought to restrain Watkins from op
erating in the place complained of
“and elsewhere” is modified by strik
ing the word “elsewhere.” As the o**-
der stands of permanent record, it re
strains Watkins merely from “selling
liquor” in any circumstances, but
leaves the matter of determining
whether he is or has been selling is
a question of fact for jury settle
ment.
JUDGE LINDSEY WEDS.
CHICAGO, Dec 20—Judge Benja
min Barr Lindsey, of Denver, father
of the juvenile court, author of “The
Beast and the Jungle,” and world-
famous as a social w'orker in behalf
of children, was married to-night to
Miss Henrietta Brevoort, stepdaugh
ter of Dr. F. J. Clippert, of Detroit.
The wedding was private.
The judge is 43 years old, and his
bride but 23. They met last spring-
in a sanitarium, whither the judge
went for a rest after the Denver
elections at which the corporations
were routed Miss Brevoort had gone
there as a nurse, but fell ill, and she
and the judge were both patients.
“One of my earliest memories of
her is when she put a wet towel on
my aching head,” said the judge.
REBELS ATTACK TAMPICO.
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 19.—Another
rebel assault upon Tampico * immi
nent or has begun. ’A wureless order
was received here to-day from Rear
Admiral Fletcher for the scout cruiser
Chester to rush to Tampico under
full head of steam. At the same time
the British cruiser Suffolk, flagship of
the British cruiser squadron in West
Indian waters, received an order from
Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Crad
dock to proceed to Tampico at full
speed.
The Suffolk left shortly after noon,
followed a little later by the Chester.
The Chester had just arrived a few
hours earlier for the purpose of tak
ing off and receiving mails.
EXPERTS AMAZED.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The vis
it to Washington of a small army of
boy and girl agricultural club winners
has opened the eyes of experts of the
Department of Agriculture to what
can be done in the way of increasing
the yield of corn per acre.
The four prize winners and their
records are: Walker Lee Dunson, of
Alabama, 232.7 bushels on. an acre,
at a cost of 19.9 cents per bushel;
J. Ray Cameron, of North Carolina,
190.4 bushels, at 33.29 cents; Edward
J. Wellborn, of Georgia, 181.72 bush
els, at 30 cents, and J. Jones Folk, of
Mississippi, 214.9 bushels, at 21.4
cents.
regrets their methods.
PRINCETON. N. J, Dec. 19.—Mrs.
Inez Milholland Boissevain received
an enthusiastic ^welcome here when
& he addressed the Princeton Socialist
SO The ty suffrage leader declared the
English militant movement was not
emotional, but highly strategical. She
regretted the necessity of those vui
gax methods.
learning to wrestle
T \NSING, MICH., Dec. 19. Co
eds at Olivet College who have been
J -iJl Iho nrivilesre of dancing the
tango the hesitation glide and other
new steps are learning to wrestle in
the solitude of the girls’ gym. under
the direction of Miss Marion A. Keese,
director of women s athletics.
ivS Keese says wrestling Provides
excellent exercises for women, and
Sm taught >" a " slrt8 cUs
‘Egg King’ Admits
A Profit of $80,000
CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—James E.
Wetz, the “egg king.” to-day admit
ted that he had taken a clear profit
of $80,000 out of the market since
the present campaign against the
high price of eggs began.
“And before I stop 1 shall take an
other $80,000,” he said. “This is a
winning year.”
Wetz, together with Herbert A.
Morin, controlled 178 carloads of eggs
at the beginning of the season. These
eggs were all of the cold storage
variety. They were purchased in
April. May and June at an average
price of 17 1-2 cents a dozen. Those
already sold have brought an aver
age of 27 cents a dozen wholesale.
IGNORANT OF HIS FATE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Ignorant
that her son is in the death chamber
a’ Sing Sing awaiting the opinion •’!
the Court of Appeals, which will de
cide whether he will end his life in
the electric chair, Mrs. Becker, moth
er of former Police Lieutenant Charleg
Becker, died to-day.
News of her death was sent to
Becker in Sing Sing. Mrs. Becker
never knew of her son’s trouble.
COURT-MARTIALED.
BERLIN, Dec. 19.—Lieutenant Bar
on Von Foerstner, Germany army of
ficer. whose despotic actions started
trouble between the military authori
ties and the citizenry of Alsace, was
court-martialed to-day and sentenced
to 43 days’ imprisonment.
The specific charge against him was
slashing a crippled shoemaker with
his sw r ord.
DARROW CASE ENDED.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 20— Clar
ence Darrow’, the Chicago labor law
yer, was to-day freed of bribery
charges in connection with the Mc
Namara case by Judge Grant Jack-
son. On motion of District Attorney
Fredericks, who stated that Darrow s
conviction on the charge of brib ; nl
Juror Robert Bain was very doubtful,
the court dismissed the charge.
40 Darrow twice was tried for bribery.
He was acquitted on the charge of
bribing Juror Lockwood. In his trial
for the alleged bribing of Juror Bain
the jury disagreed.
WOMAN IS BURNED.
KNOXVILLE, TENN., Dec. 19 —
Miss Sophia Preston while assisting
her sister, a school-teacher, in play
ing Santa Claus for the latter’s pu
pils was seriously burned about the
face this morning. Her costume
caught fire.
CHILDREN ON STAGE.
CHICAGO. Dee. 19.—Children
should be permitted to work on the
stage under proper safeguards, Judge
Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver, told the
Drama Club, adding: “I have seen
factory children who dislike the life,
but I never saw a stage child who did
not want to remain in the profession.”
NO JURISDICTION.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Secre
tary Daniels has ruled that he has >»o
jurisdiction over the kind of fluid
that may be used to christen battle
ships. Pure water was suggested for
the Oklahoma or releasing a white
dove from the deck.