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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1915.
EXPENSE OF
IN FIFE AND
Huerta Plans Long Island Colony
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Happy Family of 24 With Him
The Huertas and their new home. Abote, General and Senora
Huerta. Below, children and grandchildren. Photographed in
front of the home. From left to right they are: Eva Huerta,
Berta Huerta, Maria de Gil, Celia Huerta, Dora Huerta, Fernando
standing at right and baby Carmen Huerta in front.
But Cost of Armed Clash With
Germany Would Far Over
shadow Previous Setbacks,
Experts in Washington Claimi
National Tax Laws of Past Being
Studied by Treasury Officials,
Country Paid a Total of
$6,237,965,701 for Civil War.
WASHINGTON, May 29,—The pos-
dbility of war between this country
and Germany and the vast trail of
national expenditure that might fol
low' has set members of Congress
w'ho are in the city to looking up sta
tistics concerning the cost of wars in
the past, particularly those of the
Civil War and the brush with Spain.
Large as was the total cost of the
war between the States, public of
ficials estimate that it would become
small by comparison if the United
States were drawn into the vortex
and compelled to put an army in the
field and undertake actual military
operations.
In the War of the Revolution the
total forces engaged amounted to
309,781 ; in the war with Great Britain
in 1812 the total force amounted to
576,622; in the war with Mexico,
112,230. The entire number engaged
in the Civil War aggregated 2.772,408.
In the Spanish-American war the
number of men put into the field was
274-714, but of these only about
60,000 troops were actually engaged.
Figures supplied by the Adjutant
General’s office show that in the Civil
War there were 349,944 deaths from
various causes. In the Confederate
army there were, according to the
best figures obtainable. 133,821 deaths.
The Confederate troops captured 212,-
608 of their opponents, and the Union
troops captured 476,169 of the Con
federates.
Jump in Public Debt.
The total interest-bearing debt of I
the United States in 1860, before the ■
outbreak of the rebellion, amounted to
$64,640,838; in 1861 It jumped to $90.-J
380.873. and the following year to
$365,304,826. The war debt approach
ed three-quarters of a billion In 1863,
and reached ihe high water mark
August 31, 1865, when the total inter-
est-bearirg debt touched the huge
sum of $2,381,530,294. At the same time
the total national debt, including that
which bore no interest, aggregated
$2,844,649,026. This interest-bearing
debt remained above tw r o billions until
1871, and by 1897 had been reduced to
$847,365,130.
The Spanish-American war again
ran it up, the highest point, $1,046,-
048,750, being reached in 1899. For
1914 the total interest-bearing debt
is $967,953,310, with an annual inter
est charge of $22,891,497. In 1865 the
annual interest on the war debt
amounted to $150,977,697. This, nat
urally, has fallen with the principal;
but in the period between 1864 and
1897, just before the war with Spain,
the American people had paid in in
terest a grand total of $2,713,316,675,
a sum that represents almost the en
tire amount of the national debt caus
ed by the Civil War.
First Big War Tax.
The act of July 1, 1862, to meet the
expenses of the Civil War w’as the
foundation for the present internal
revenue system. Tt contained the first
income tax law from which tax was
collected. It taxed practically every
thing that was capable of being taxed.
Nearly every occupation was taxed,
with the exception of ministers of the
gospel and schoolmasters. Manufac
tures of nearly all kinds were taxed.
It appears from the best obtainable
Information at the Treasury Depart
ment that during the years 1861 to
1866, or the duration of the Civil War,
approximately $680,000,000 was col
lected from internal revenue taxa
tion.
Add this sum to the high-water
mark of the national debt on August
31, 1865, amounting to $2,844,649,026,
and the interest charge for the 26-year
period, and we find that the total cost
of the Civil War to the Government
footed the enormous total of $6,237,-
965,701. This, of course, does not take
Into consideration the vast expendi
tures made by the South out of its
treasury, nor the huge destruction of
property and loss in earning capacity
of the entire country.
Cost $5,000,000 a Day.
In addition to the bond Issue of
$198,792,600 on account of the Span
ish-American War the people paid in
“war taxes” a total of $380,371,764.67,
making the extra burden of taxation
to the American people on account of
that small affair amount to $579,164.-
424 This war began April 21. 1898,
and ended December 10 the same year.
Hostilities actually ceased August 13,
1898
Hostilities continued, therefore, ex
actly 115 days, and the cost of that war
upon this basis was a trifle over J5,-
000,000 for each day of that period.
Girl Dressed as Man
Held as Gang Leader
Detectives Arrest Mamie Unger,
Nineteen, Charged With Rob
bing Railroad Employee.
“Rattling” Thunderstorms To Be
Numerous in Georgia, Warns
Griffin Prophet.
SOME FAIR DAYS, HE SAYS
Whereby He Strikes Average, and
Forestalls Collapse of Fore
cast Like That of April.
After a slight collapse, assumably
from the excessive dryness of April,
which he predicted would be a fear
fully moist month, Profssor Albert
L. Snider, of Griffin, comes to the
plate again and undertakes to hike
his batting average by insisting on a
wet June.
June will be not only wet, but hot,
saye the professor.
“June will be a hot, showery
month,” he says, with a Turkish bath
accent. “There will be many heavy
downpours of rain, with thunder
storms in various sections of the
country."
The professor desires to stress the
thunderstorms. He repeats that part
of the prediction and adds that they
will be “rattling.'’ Then he does a bit
of vamping, possibly having in mind
the April that was going to be wet
and proved the dryest on record:
“There will be some dry, fair
periods In June,” he says, ‘ but the
general outlook is for much rain.”
In which surmise the professoral
the law of average with him as well
as his inherited and acquired instincts
concerning the climate. There cer
tainly is or should be a mess of sky-
juice coming to Georgia—by reason
of that said April.
f And here is a valuable tip to ama
teur weather prophets, entitled “How
to Tell a Wet Moon;"
“As there haVe been so many and
diverse opinions about the wet and
dry moon,” say^ the professor, “I will
tell you how to read this important
sign. If the new moon lies on its
ALLENTOWN. PA., May 29— A
detainer from the local police has
been lodged against Mamie Unger, 19
years old, in jail in Warren, Ohio, on
a charge of having been the leader of
a gang of desperadoes who robbed a
railroad detective? of several hundred
dollars, taking; his revolver and leav
ing him unconscious. One of her
companions was brought here on a
charge of burglary.
Mamie Unger wore men’s clothes,
and it was by the merest accident
that the Ohio town’s detectives dis
covered that their prisoner was a
young woman. A few years ago she
married a man named Yanzer, and
started on a career of adventure.
She left here on a freight train
with Edgar Seibert and “Joe” and
Harry Long. Before their departure
they bought an outfit that disguised
her completely as a man. Mamie
Unger told the detectives she did not
care to return to Allentown, but
wished to go West and become a
cowboy.
George W. Sherman, 76, Forsyth,
Beaten to Richmond by A. P.
Murray, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Garlic Is Barred in
City's Charity Fund
HAMMOND, IND.. May 29.—The City
Council has voted to contribute $500 to
charity, provided none of it is spent for
garlic. Hammond for years has been
combating the smel lof garlic in street
cars, theaters and churches. The for
eign population likes garlic, and when
it is abundant the city smells of it.
Many foreigners are out of work now
and are applicants for charity. The
charity society is buying food; for the
needy, but declines to provide garlic.
“What do you need most?’’ the chari
ty investigator asks of the foreigner.
“Garlic,’’ pleads the foreigner.
“Phew!” says the investigator, “you
can’t have it. We’ll give you coal,
clothing and all that is necessary to
eat, but no garlic.”
SWAP YARNS ABOUT TRIP
Comrades Given Hearty Welcome
Virginia Capital—Both
Served Through War.
in
Wife Wed 36 Years
Charges Non-Support
PHILADELPHIA. May 29.—After 36
years of married life, Mrs. Ida Cooper
bad her aged husband arraigned in Do
mestic Relations Court on a charge of
nonsupport. She said her husband’s
treatment compelled her to leave their
home, and that she had been trying to
support herself by raising chickens.
Cooper, denying he had been guilty
of cruel treatment, said he had offered
to take his wife back. “Yes,’’ she re
torted, “he wants me to go back. Every
body wants a good cook.’’ Judge Brown
J tried in vain to reconcile the pair, then
jmade an order on Cooper for the sup-
' port of his wdfe.
Wedding Bing Lost
40 Years Is Found
LONG BEACH. CAL.. May 29 —Mrs.
Andrew’ F. Mitchell, wife of the pastor
of the Friends’ Church, was astounded
as well as delighted to receive news
from the East that a wedding ring she
lost more than forty years ago had been
found and was on its way to this city.
The ring had been w’orn by Mrs.
Mitchell but a few days following her
wedding in Park County, Indiana, and
toi doing some “chores” about the place
during her husband’s absence she lost
it. Mrs. Mitchell has received word
from the people who bought their place
in the East that while spading the old
garden the ring was discovered.
Dictator Hopes to Return to Mexico—Will Rear
Children in American Surroundings.
NEW YORK, May 29.—General Vic-
toriano Huerta, former dictator of
Mexico, is so gratified with his new
surroundings at Forest Hills, L. L,
that he contemplates starting a Mexi
can colony either there or at some
other spot on Long Island. This was
the report circulated among his
friends. The colony will be composed
of Mexicans who, like himself, have
been exiled.
It is said the former Mexican Pres
ident has given up all hope of ever
returning to the land of his birth,
and will bring up his big family of 24
(now living with him) in American
surroundings.
General Huerta and several of the
older male members of the family
went to New York City on a mission
said to be associated with the pur
chase of adjoining lands. Those of
the rest of the family who had rid
themselves of their “sea legs,” Includ
ing the youngsters, visited Forest
Park, which adjoins their home, and
gloried in the beauties Park Commis
sioner Weier had effected there.
“This is a delightful place,” ex
claimed General Huerta, as he waved
his hands toward the beautiful green
which extends from Commissioner
Weier’s office.
Though their quarters are some
what cramped—a sixteen-room house
for a family of 24—the Huertas are
happy. They feel more secure than
they did in Mexico.
COUNTRY GIRL BEST SPELLER.
WOOSTER. OHIO, May 29.—Madge
Barnes, daughter of Thomas Barnes,
farmer, an da freshman in the High
School at Creston. will represent Wayne
County in the State spelling contest.
She won the county contest, in which
more than 200 competed.
back, so as to hold water without
spilling it, it is a dry moon, but if the
new moon is tipped forward so that
water would run out of It, it is a wet
moon.”
And there you are. Try It yourself.
Aged Couple to Wed;
NeverSawEach Other
PORTLAND, OREG., May 29—Al
though they have never seen each other.
H. J. Rhodes, 7*5, and Mrs. Hattie C.
Piper, 66, will be married in Vancouver
if their present plans do not miscarry.
Rhodes has Just arrived In Portland
from his ranch in Polk Countv. and the
bride-to-be has Just reached Vancouver
from her home in Seattle.
‘Tve never seen her myself," says
Rhodes. “We first heard of each other
through friends. We had several mu
tual acquaintances and got to corre
sponding with each other. It was lone
some on my fruit ranch, all by myself,
and finally we decided to get married.
r& not too old to marry, and I don’t
think Mrs. Piper is, either."
RICHMOND. May 29 —George W.
Sheram, of Forsyth, Ga., Is here for
the reunion. He arrived two days
ago, having traveled all the way from
Georgia on foot.
When he pulled into reunion head
quarters he was somewhat worn, but
there was a cheerful smile beneath
the grime and dust, and it was with a
strong arm that he shook hands with
some of the local “vets.”
Sheram is 76 years old, but time
has not dimmed his eyes, nor caused
his feet to falter. He entered the
war as a member of the First Georgia
Volunteers. Later he was trans
ferred to the Fifty-third Regiment of
Virginia Volunteers.
He was preceded here by Arthur P.
Murray, of Murfreesboro. Tenn., who
arrived in Richmond early this week
by ankle express
The first question he asked when he
swung into town was: “Have I beat
that fellow in from Georgia?"
Murray, who servfd In Kemper's
Battery of Alexandria, Va., was seat
ed on his porch in Murfreesboro some
weeks ago when he read In a news
paper that George W. Sheram -was
preparing to foot it to Richmond.
“I can Jo it If he can.” mused Mur
ray to himself, and forthwith he
domed his walking boots.
He and Sheram have been engaged
for the past day or two swapping ex
periences of the road
You Can Not Keep a
Good Arm Broken
Pennsylvania Man Has One That !
Leaps Out of the Sling Every
Few Weeks.
NEWCASTLE. PA., May 29.—Paul
Harrison, of Ellwood City, returned
from New York City with his right
arm broken, the fourth time it has
been broken since March 9, 1914. Be
sides, in that time he was shot
through the same arm, had three
ribs broken and was ill for three
months with pneumonia.
Harrison 1? a motorman, and his
arm was broken first in a trolley
crash. Then he was shot in the same
arm by a negro in whose arrest he
was aiding. Later he fell on an icy
sidewalk and broke his arm again It
was broken the third time in another
trolley collision. The fourth break
happened In New York when he was
cranking an automobile.
Carrier Pigeons Bear
News of Elopement
CHICAGO, May 29.—“Just enough
of you to make one good pigeon pie,
and I’m afraid you’re doomed,” re
marked Frank Waltenberg as he re
leased three carrier pigeons here. The
three slate-colored birds rose to the
roof of a hotel, circled well together,
and then started West at express train
speed.
The. three carrier pigeons headed
for the pigeon loft of Herman Shaick,
at Kankakee, Ill. Each of them car
ries an identical message, reading:
‘Bertha and I are married. Con
gratulate us.”
“I hope pa won’t take It out on the
pigeons,” said Mrs. Waltenberg as the
birds flew away.
Leaves Her Fiance
Waiting at Church
POTTS VILLE, PA., May 29.—With
the minister and wedding guests pa
tiently waiting for the performance of
the ceremony. Paul Gibbon suddenly
discovered that his intended bride, Miss
Julia Schutsuskie, had disappeared. The
girl had fled to Allentown after Gibbon
had given her money which she claimed
she needed for her trousseau.
The wedding feast went on without
interruption, however, although Gibbon
appealed to Justice Purnell to find his
bride. After Gibbon had preferred
charges of procuring money under false
pretenses against his erstwhile Intended.
Constable Cope caught the next train
for Allentown. There he found Julia
plying her trade as a clgarmaker. Con
fronted by the alternative of becoming
Gibbon’s bride or paying $18 in settle
ment of the case, she decided that it
was worth while to be single and paid
the amount.
Oregon Woman of 74
Is Cutting New Teeth
Wins $20,000 for
7 Pounds of Flesh
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 29.—Be
cause Arthur Flawn, an electrician em
ployed by the New York Central Rail
road, had to have seven pounds of flesh,
muscle and skin cut from his left side
and arm. which had been burned
when he came in contact with a live
wire, a Jury in the Supreme Court at
White Plains awarded a verdict of
$20,000 against the corporation. Flawn,
who lives in Mott street. White Plains,
sued for $35,000.
In June, 1913, Flawn was ordered to
replace a transformer on one of the
signal poles of the Harlem division. He
came in contact with a wire, charged
with 2,200 volts, which, it was contend
ed, had not been properly Insulted.
Significant Document Presented
to Georgia Prison Commission
by U. S. District Attorpey In
Capacity of Private Citizen.
Lawyer Insists Case Hinges ocu.
Conley’s Story and Sets Oilt
Reasons for the Belief That
It Is Premeditated Fabrication.
Jury Frees Woman
Held for Killing Babe
BELLFONTAINE, OHIO, May 29.—
“Acquitted” was the verdict returned by
the jury that tried Mrs. Adelaide Bentz
on a first degree murder charge. The
Indictment charged she poisoned the 3-
year-old baby of Mrs. Ruth Madden.
The testimony came to an abrupt end
when attorneys for the defense an
nounced they would offer no evidence,
contending the State had failed to make
a case. Th? baby, who died in the
Bentz home, was claimed by Mrs. Bentz
as her own until the trial began, when
her counsel admitted the State's conten
tion that the baby belonged to Mrs.
Hadden, who gave it to Mrs. Bentz to
place with a family in Columbus. Mrs.
Bentz kept the child and said she had
given it birth.
Two Strange Bodies
Loom in the Skies
CAMBRIDGE. MASS., May 29.—
Professor Barnard, of the Yerkes Ob
servatory, at Williams Bay, Wis., has
discovered two companion bodies near
Mellish’s comet, according to an offi
cial announcement received at the
Harvard Observatory. One of the
bodies, observed on May 12, was con
spicuous and had a distance from the
comet of 28 seconds and a position an
gle of 285 degrees. The other body
was faint and occupied an intermedi
ate position in the same line.
Pays Up Hotel Bill
To Change His Luck
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. MO., May 29.
John Emmke, manager of the Elms
Hotel here, has received a letter post
marked Chicago, which contained only
a brief note and a $1 bill. The note
said:
“This Is conscience money. I had a
chance to get away without paying for
dinner several weeks ago at your hotel,
but I guess It doesn’t pay not to be
honest, for everything’s been going
wrong with me since. Perhaps luck will
His Do-as-I-Please
Ideas Cause Divorce
SAN FRANCISCO. May 29.— Mrs.
Charles G. Huse has been awarded a
divorce from Charles G. Huse. clubman
and capitalist. Mrs. Huse testified that
Huse believed it was a man’s preroga
tive to do as he pleased and charged
him with cruelty, desertion and asso
ciating with other women.
Mrs. Huse was awarded $250 month
ly alimonv and custody of their eight-
year-old son.
MEDFORD, OREG.. May 29.— Mrs. H.
Vincent, 74 years old and a pioneer of
the Rogue River Valley, is cutting a
new set of teeth, nine uppers and eight
lowers. The unusual condition has ne
cessitated the casting aside of false
teeth.
Last summer Mrs. Vincent suffered
from a paralytic stroke in the left arm
and the nervous shock is supposed to
be responsible for the sudden reversal
in Nature’s routine. Mrs. Vincent is
suffering but slight Inconvenience from
her second “teething.”
Hairpins in His Coat
Causes Divorce Suit
ST. LOUIS, May 29.—Mr*. Della
Meyer has filed suit for divorce from
Richard H. Meyer, vice president of
the Meyer Tailoring Company, charg
ing that she found in his pockets
“hairpins, sidecombs and other arti
cles of feminine wearing apparel that
did not belong to him.” On this evi
dence, the petition says, she bases a
charge that he associated with other
women.
She also charges that he locked her
outside their home, In her nightgown,
and would not let her come in again.
California Places
Ban on Third Degree
SACRAMENTO. CAL., May 29.—A
Senate bill prohibiting the use of so-
called third degree methods on prison
ers suspected of crime has been passed
by the Assembly. Any punishment or
examination which would inflict physical
pain or impairment of bodily faculties
is forbidden by the bill, which enu
merates various cruel methods used by
some police departments in obtaining
information from the prisoners.
Violation is made punishable by dis
missal from office
Sentenced to Work
At Job for Two Years
PHILADELPHIA. May 39—A sen
tence to go to work and stay at his
Job for two years, under an admonition
that he would be committed to the
House of Correction as a habitual drunk
ard if he failed to do so, was Imposed
by Magistrate Carson upon Michael
Pepper, aged 21.
Pepper's mother complained that he
got drunk and would not work. The
head of an embroidery company offered
Pepper his Job back at $4.60 a week to
start, with promise of a “raise” every
time he deserved It. Pepper took the
pledge for two years.
Aged Couple Dodge
Relatives and Wed
STOCKTON. CAL.. May 29. -Evading
members of hds family, for whom he
had adroitly arranged a picnic for a
purpose, Krastus Kelsey, 88, remained
aboard the train while they alighted
at the picnic grounds, came on to this
city and married Mrs. Henrietta Strib-
ling, 73, who had preceded him here
from her home .at Fair Oaks.
Neither Kelsey nor his bride would ad
mit that It was an elopement, but the
facts became known through a taxicab
driver whom the bridegroom had cau
tioned to secrecy.
Postmaster, 80, Puts
In Birthday at Work
GADSDEN. ALA., May 29.—Postmas
ter S. TV. Riddle celebrated his eigtleth
birthday by working ail day preparing
the report which he makes at the end
of each month.
Riddle is very actlvo, despite his age,
and works ten to eleven hours every
day. He was born in Talladega Coun
ty. He owned the first wholesale gro
cery here and was rrom 1896 to 1899
president of the First National Bank.
Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb
County, has prepared and presented
to the Prison Commission of Geor
gia probably the most significant
plea in behalf of Leo Frank’s appeal
for commutation from the sentence
of death Imposed on him for the
murder of Mary Phagan.
Although he addresses the prison
board In the capacity of a private
citizen, he is United States District
Attorney for North Georgia, former
member of various Georgia Legisla
tures, prohibition and anti-ohild la
bor leader, And eminent lawyer.
In his appeal Mr. Alexander goes
to the depth of Jim Conley’s story
and tells why he believes the whols
case hinges on It, holding it to be a
premeditated fabrication, for which
he blames the detectives.
Mr.* Alexander urges the board to
advise the Governor to commute ths
sentence to life imprisonment. The
statement follows:
To the Honorable Prison Commission
and ex-Officlo Board of Pardons
of Georgia, Atlanta.
Gentlemen—Knowing of my con
viction that Mary Phagan was mur
dered by James Conley and that Leo
Frank is absolutely innocent of the
crime, and doubtless In the hope that
an expression from some citizen cf
Georgia who is In no way connected
with the case or with any of the par
ties may be more convincing than
the argument of those who are pro
fessionally employed in It, some
members of the bar, who are them
selves wholly disconnected with the
case, have asked me to state my
reasons for that belief.
The case is now completely out of
court, and there la no ihope for
Frank except in an earnest study of
the case by those who are Invested
with the discretion to show or deny
him mercy. The matter being now
out of court and no longer a Judicial
question, I can not refuse the service.
A fellow being of whose absolute
innocence I am deeply convinced :•
In Imminent peril, and the one whom
I believe to be guilty of an atrocious
crime is likely to go entirely free.
Surely some citizen should give
utterance to an opinion that le
shared by a very respectable number
of people on the subject, who look
with distress upop the situation as
It stands.
I shall undertake the task In no
other hope than that I may simplify
and shorten your labors; except the
hope that I may discharge it in the
language of candor and moderation.
The labor of preparation has been
onerous, but it has been performed
without the slightest hope of reward.
I am not indifferent to the opinion of
my fellow men, but, as I am not
moved by any sordid interest, I hope
I shall not be deterred by any appre
hension.
The only request I have to make
on my own behalf Is that you and
such other persons as may read what
I have to say will take the pains to
give earnest and Impartial thought
to the view which I promise candid
ly to express.
Importance of Conley's Story.
It has been eaid by earnest dis
putants that Conley’s story is not
necessary to make out the case
against Frank; that there is ampla
circumstantial evidence to prove his
guilt.
I agree in the outset with the able
argument of the Solicitor that cir
cumstantial evidence may be the
best kind of evidence. But It must
measure up to the standard of the
law and be of such strength as to
exclude every other reasonable con
clusion except the guilt of the ac
cused. Any other sort of circum
stantial evidence is worse than use
less.
I do not say this merely because
the law an<J the courts say so. for ia ^
their acceptance of this standard the ^
courts have laid down no arbitrary j
rule: they have only written Into the
law the universal Judgment of the
human conscience, proved by the ex-
perience of the ages. Qircumstances
ought not to be Interpreted by the