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, ATLANTA: 1JMOO puputaduu. JLOW home#. 15,000 telephone*, prren main Hups of rallroadi. ISO mflM ot afreet nllirajr- 122.000,000 of banking capital. The Atlanta Georgian. ACONGIA: IX" VOL. I. NO. 77. Morning Edition. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 26 1906 Morning Edition. PRICE: SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION MAYBE PROBED TO THE BOTTOM BECAUSE OF ANDERSON’S CHARGES Jordan and Cheatham Say They Court Investigation. • DR. J. M. CRAWFORD SAYS HE WAS TOLD CHEATHAM WAS IN He Himself Owned One- Eighth Interest in the Piedmont Broker age Company. The Southern Cotton Association will probably be probed to the bottom by an Investigating committee, and If there Is any Are under the smoke which has been growing denser and darker from day to day during the last two weeks, It will be brought- to view. This Is In evitable, for both the public, arbused by the sensational charges sprung by Rep resentative Anderson, of Chatham, In the house Tuesday, and the officers of the association themselves say they are anxious for such an Investigation. Wednesday morning the sensation ot Tuesday was repeated In the house when Mr. McMullen, of Hart, took the floor and demanded that Mr. Anderson give proof of the allegations he had voiced the day before. Mr. Anderson . was not at the time on the floor, but his colleague asked that the matter be taken over until the gentleman from Chatham returned. “Will Inform a Committss‘.“ When seen before going on the floor by a Georgian reporter, Mr. Anderson said: "I will not give out any of the proof 1 have against certain officers of the Southern Cotton Association to the public, for this would enable them to cover their tracks, but If an Investigat ing commltee Is appointed I will give to it all 1 have and will do everything In my power to help the committee get at the bottom of the matter." While Mr. Anderson was talking to the representative of The Georgian, the Hon. Joe Hill Hall passed by, nnd, tak ing Mr. Anderson's hand, asked: "Have you got the papers to show them up?" Mr. Anderson replied: “I have the proof all right.” It was understood that B. C. Coth ran, manager for Ware & Leland, held a portion of the Information on which Mr. Anderson based his sensational statement. Mr. Cothran was called upon and gave out the above signed statement and also Imparted other In formation of less Importance. Dr. J. M. Crawford, when asked about the bucket shop matter, and what con nection Secretary Richard Cheatham bad with the one under the Piedmont hotel, reiterated what Mr. Cothran said. Dr. Crawford was one of the eight original stockholders In the Piedmont bucket shop. “8aid Cheatham Held 8tock.“ He said In part: "I was approached and asked to take an eighth share In the Piedmont bucket shop and was told that all the shares but one had been taken, and that It would cost me *250. "I was told at the time that Secretary Cheatham, of the Southern Cotton As sociation, was one of the stockholders, and I took the remaining stock. The stock was Issued In blank. There were no names on It, and It was understood that the names of the directors would be kept uulet, but I knew at the time and Stated that the names would come out. i considered the matter as an Investment, Just as If I should purchase a house and lot, and I see no harm In dealing In futures. This, every one knows. “Cheatham Gave Me Tips.''. "Cheatham never said to me that he was one of the directors, neither did he ever deny It, and Rook loftr granted that he was, as t often ate with him at the Piedmont and we discussed cot ton. On a number of occasions he gave me tips, which I used. It was for this reason, of course, that I took the stock, nnd it never entered my mind that Cheatham was not one of the directors --on the quiet, as all the others were." Dr. Crawford then made a most em phatic and sensational statement. “PROMOTER SAID CHEATHAM OWNED STOCK IN BUCKETSHOP” Investigation among the exchanges of Atlanta of the charges made against high officials of the Southern Cotton Association, developed the following statement by Barry C. Cothran, manager of the local office of Ware tk Leland: "When the Piedmont Brokerage Company was organised one of the promoters came to me and asked that I take stock, saying that there would be only eight stockholders, and that they wanted to get In parties who could bring In business, and that If I were a member I could throw them the small orders which I could not execute. “I declined, stating that I worked for a legitimate commission house, and that should I become connected with a bucket shop In any way I would undoubtedly lose my position. "He then told me that Richard Cheatham, of the Southern' Cotfon Association, was an eighth owner, and that If he could afford to take stock he thought I could. "I myself have often-seen Mr. Cheatham In company with the man ager of the Piedmont Brokerage Company and In their office at the Pied mont hotel." ANDERSON, CALLED.ON, ASKS INVESTIGATION > — : Member Who M^de Charges Against Cotton Association Officials Doesn’t Retract. •aid the doctor, "are the officers association. Last year Jordan and the otiicrs gave out Information that cot- tot: would reach IS cents, and Implored tbe farmers to bold their cotton until they could get this figure. This many ef the termers did and bought futures. H they had made money, nothing would have been said, but they lost. The bucket shop is not the root of the trou ble, but Harvle Jordan and the other officers, In order to cover up their mis take. are making the shops the scape goats." Cheatham Firmly Danlss. Those on the other side are as em phatic In their denials of the allega tions as those making the allegations are in holding them up. , Secretary Cheatham said Wednes day: if the public Is Interested enough L and I believe President Jordan thinks the same way, am perfectly willing •••at an Investigation be made. We court an Investigation, and I want to ■ay right here that I do not own, and never have owned any stock In a buck et shop." Secretary Cheatham said that he bad lived at the Piedmont and might have been seen with R. E. Holt, form erly manager of the Piedmont Broker- ■«e Company, and that probably the tumor started that way. “Give the Davfl His Dues." Manager Lowe, who has been In c , h#r *e of the Piedmont bucket shop Jtnce R. E. Holt, who Is now with the sing * Company, of Richmond, Va., »«W Wednesday: The people at the head of the Saul hern Cotton Association hare hit "Show your hand,” was the call given Mr. Anderson, ot Chatham, Wednesday morning by Mr. McMullen, of Hart, who protested on the floor of the house against the charge made Tues day by Mr. Anderson, who declared that a rigid Investigation was needed In the Southern Cotton Association, charging a "back door” leading from the association office to the Piedmont Brokerage Company's shop. Mr. Mc Mullen said: "The gentleman from Chatham re flected greatly on the Southern Cotton Association by making Insinuations on the floor of the house Tuesday of Im proper conduct on the part of certain officials of the association. I don’t be lieve he had the right to make such charges here. / . Call for Specifications. [ am a member of tha Southern Cotton Association and 1 feel It fs my duty to ca)l on the gentleman from Chatham to be specific In his diorsei and npt Insinuate. “Alt the money paid out by the asso ciation Is done so by official checks like this. As I understood the.gentle man, he claims that money was paid to k bucket shop on one of these official checks, and thereby Is Involved the honor of the officials of the Southern Cotton Association. "I demand that the gentleman from Chatham name his men and make clear his Insinuations. He must either show up, go out—or Shut up." Mr. Anderson was not In the hall while Mr. McMullen was npeaklng. Ills colleague, Mr. Stovall, said: "I, of course, know nothing of the charges made by Mr. Anderson, but I do know enough of my colleague to know.that he would not make charges he couldn’t substantiate. I therefore ask that the matter be dropped until he arrives.” Mr. Anderson arrived, but did not get a chance during the morning to make his speech. ~ When the house convened at 9 o’clock Wednesday afternoon Mr. An derson arose and said: "I desire to rise this afternoon to a question of personal privilege. On yes terday, In my remarks upon the anti- futures bill, the expiration ot the time limit, under which 1 was speaking, cut short my remarks before they were quite concluded. "Mr. Speaker, so far as I am sure, I have never In my life, knowingly, done any man an injustice or Inten tionally treated any man otherwise than with fairness and courtesy. I have never made a charge affecting which seemed to me sufficient to Jus tify It. 8hould Investigate. "Now, sir, on yesterday I said that the directors of the Southern Cotton Association should hold an Investlga tlon to And out who It Is In their head' quarters had been speculating In cot ton under the name of Mike O’Grady and P. A. Lee; who It Is that assisted In forming the Piedmont Brokerage Company bucket shop, and what per son or persons In their headquarters had had stock In that bucket shop, shop, and what per the' d stock In standing In their names! or were direct- directly Interested therein." ly or lm No One Man Meant "Now, sir, I did not say, and 1 did not intend that these remarks referred all to one person. Neither did I say or Intend to say that any of these remarks referred to Mr. Harvle Jordan. If my time had not expired I would have stated that 1 meant no reference to him. 'The'Southern Cotton Association Is an organization which takes from time to time certain decided steps, with a view of affecting arid enhancing the value of the cotton Crop, ' These posi tions taken by It are Intended to Influ ence the action of the cotton producers of the South. It would be Intolerable that any one In the headquarterk of the association, from the highest official to the lowest clerk, should be permitted to attempt to make use of his position and Inside knowledge for the purpose of speculating In cotton. Sufficient Evidence for Probing. I take It for granted that the direct ors of the Southern Cotton Association would not tolerate and would not per mit any Individual In their headquar ters either to speculate In cotton or to be In any way, shape or form Inter ested In or connected with a bucket shop. I have stated here that I had evidence and Information sufficient, In these matters. If they holu —, tlgatlon, any and all Information nr assistance I have or can give I will gladly give them If they desire It. I co-operate with them to my ability nnd ofTer to them such suggestions as are In my power. If the result of that Investlga- :lon shows that the Information I bad was not sufficient to have Justified my statement that an Investigation ought to be made, It will give me the greatest pleasure to make ample apologies and a retraction of that statement.” SWELL CROOKS DYNAMITE EIGHTEEN SAFES AND GET $25,000 CASH AND PAPERS By Private Leased Wire. Rockfprd, Ills., July 25.—Four dar ing cracksmen blew up eighteen safes and stole *25,000 In rash and valuable papers In the heart of this city early today. Two were caugbt, but two es caped In a big automobile, carrying most of their booty with them. The men, who are believed to have been expert crooks from Chicago, were dressed In the height of fashion, with patent leather shoes and diamonds. The Scene of the robberies was the seven- story Brown building, and the men worked all night long, blowing open safe after safe with nitroglycerine In the moet daring fashion. Csme In Red Auto. -he four men entered the city yes terday afternoon In a monster red tour- Ing car, and rode around the city, stop ping at a saloon or two. They were apparently men of wealth and position and behaved quietly. They atracted no attention, except the else and beauty of their automobile. They evidently had planned their rob beries with the greatest care. They stationed their big'car In an alley bark of the Brown block and dis appeared. They Were Experts. It Is supposed that thev entered the building and secreted themselves, beginning operations as soon as the building was locked up for the night. Their method In each case was the same. The safe door* were drilled In the most workmanlike fashion, the "soup,” as robbers term It, poured like Ink. and then exploded with a time fuse. The amount of money secured. If not positively known, but will exceed |25- 000. Sixty Filipino Fanatics Wounded During Fight. FT. M’PHERSON BOYS READY FOR BATTLE SPECIAL COMMITTEE LAUNCHES A MEAT INVESTIGATION HERE Special Committee Heard Astounding Statements. CENTRAL ABATTOIR IN GENERAL FAVOR Leading Butchers and Meat Sellers Approve of the Plan of Municipal • Inspection. Atlanta's packlngtown la to be In vestigated and the sensational charges against some of Atlanta's slaughter houses will be thoroughly probed, If tllb sentiment expressed Tuesday at meeting of a special committee of city council can be taken as a good starter on the work The Georgian has Initiated. At the meeting Tuesday afternoon. In addition to the committee, which consisted of Walter Taylor, chairman: Aldermen McEachern and Sims and Councllmnn Oldknow and Olass, many butchers, sanitary Inspectors and oth ers Interested In the matter under con slderatlon were present It was shown at tha meeting that there le much tainted meat aold In At lanta. It waa clearly evident that a rigid Inspection of all meats sold In this city should be Inaugurated and per fected. That many of those having In charge the killing of cattle for sale have little regard For tha health of their patrons was brought out by the talks mads at Tuesday’! session of the spe cial committee. It was evident aFter tha moating was over that those pres ent were firmly convinced that no time should be Inst In taking up the work to badly needed. ' One of the most sensible talks made Tuesday afternoon waa that of Carl Wolfshelmer, owner of a large alaugh- ter house, and a man who knows the Continued on Pago Throo. me at every turn, and I might take this chance to get even If I ao desired, but I will give the devil hla dues. Neither President Jordan nor Secre tary Cheatham owns any of the stock of this company and neither of them has traded with me. I know nothing of either P. E. Lee or Mike O'Orady. Neither of these naip** *PP«»f» on roy books If you desire you may look and Rumors art thick around the city about tbo matter. It Is stated that Secretary Cheatham and R. E. Holt, the ex-manager of the Piedmont bucket shop, ware fast friends and were often seen together. It la believed the charges will be thoroughly Investigated and that tho whole matter will be cleared up In a manner aatlsfactory to the farmers of the South, who an really the ones most Interested. FOUR ARE INJURED, TEN CARS BURNED 25.—Two Charlotte, N. C„ July freight trains collided near Abbeville, 8. C. last night Ten care were burned. Engineer Orna, fireman Sam Bowie and two colored breakmen were In jured. YOU COULD TAKE A VACATION On Ihe froBt derived from RENTING that apare room. You can rent that tptre room If you use The Georgias FOR RENT ROOMS COL. TRY THESE LITTLE WANT ADS “THEY DO THE WORK” SOME REVELATIONS BY INSPECTOR WASSER The Georgian's fight for a rigid local Inspection of all cattle killed and sold In Atlanta la getting results, and the necessity for such an In spection Is no longer In doubt In the minds of the special committee of city council appointed to look Into the matter. Tbe revelations made Tueeday at a meeting of the special committee by Inspector Wfeatar were sufficient to convice the councilman and aldermen that The Oeor- glan'e fight for souad meat waa an urgent one. In talking of the conditions existing In Atlanta's slaughter houses at present. Inspector Wasser said: "Out of fourteen slaughter are In good sanitary condition. "I found one slaughter pen where only filthy sewer water from a sewer branch waa used to wash the meat. * "There are slaughter pens around Atlanta where the water cornea from shallow wellg Into which runs tha dirty water that has alieady been used. "People kill calves too young to market In the woods nnd bring the meat Into the dty at night In bundles and sell It to restaurants. “I have found aa much as a carload of meat that had been killed only thirty hours and which bore the government stamp, which 1 had to condemn and have thrown away." SHORTAGE OF $50,000 - IN FUNDS OF ROME, GA.; SUICIDE IS EXPLAINED ffpprlal to Tbo Georgian. Home, Ga., July 25.—A tremcn- tJouH sensation hag been created in Rome over the discovery of an alleged shortage in the city clerk’* ofllco of the amount of $35,000, whicli occurred during the administration of tbe late Ilai- sted Smith. About two months ago, when the present administration took charge of the city’s affairs and the new officers were elected to nearly every department of the city government, two expert ac countants, *C. P. Cole and A. J. llaltiwanger, of Atlanta, were em ployed to audit the books of all the outgoing officers, and as a re sult of their investigation the al leged shortage of Smith was dis covered. When Mayor John W. Maddox and his new board of aldermen were Inaug urated last April many changes were made In the various ofllces of tbe city department. J. R. Cantrell was elected to succeed Smith as city clerk, and the latter was appointed city attorney. Shortly after Smith's retirement ;,s city clerk Cantrell went to Smith to ascertain the whereabout! of a certain check for *12,000 received for railroad taxes. Smith replied that he was buty at present and would look Into the matter and let him know the following Monday morning. Following this In terview within twelve hours afterwards came the announcement of Smlth’a tragic death. Which was a shock to tha entlra city and atata, Whether the check In question had anything to do with tha tragedy or not remains a mattar to be surmised. Smith cams to Rome In 1175, and be ing a lawyer of marked ability and a man of courtly baartng and affable dis position, gained * large circle of ad miring friends, who stood by him In life and who still mourn hit tragic de mise, He filled many ofllcea of publlo trust with credit and ao straight had been his dealings that no man dared to doubt his honesty, nor question his Integrity. In 1125 Smith was elected city dark of Rome, which position he held for eleven years, until his retirement last April. All during hla tann of office he never waa for once susplcloned of any wrong doing and he waa navar known to wrong a human being. With his long well standing In this community and with the peat good record which he seemed to bear, his friends and tha people of Rome generally cannot un derstand his, shortage. Hut the report of the auditors Is before, tha city coun cil, and there stands out In glaring figures lha ghastly aum of 125,000 which cannot be accounted for. Tha city will be a total loser, aa It Is un derstood that Smith's last bond was utterly worthless. The Investigation of tha auditors does not end with Smith's shortage. Their report, which Is being considered behind closed doors by tha city council. Is far-reaching and will show, when made public. It la stated, that there are other shortages In connection with this department of the rlty government, which may Increase Rome’s totel loee to *60,000. Other sensational develop ments are expected aa a result of the auditor*' report now before the city council, and it Is rumored that several arreete may follow. CZAR’S OFFICER SLAIN; RIOTING ON FRONTIER By Private leased Wire. ■St. Petersburg, July 21.—Additional reports of the activity of the revolu tionists came In as the day went cn. At Warsaw an assassin plunged a knife through the heart of a colonel of gendarmes, Balmatoff, end succeeded In making his escape before the police were able to catch him. At Alexandrovo, on the Prussian frontier, mutineers have destroyed a number of government buildings, and It Is stated that hard fighting It going on between the mutineers and the loyal troop*. German troops have been forwarded to tbe frontier to prevent any further invasion of tbe German territory. Only One American Soldier Hurt—Another Bloody Engagement Is Expected, By Privets heased Wire. Washington, July 25.—In a sec ond ongsRemmit with the Pula- jnnes, in tho island of Leyte, Phil ippine Islands, between the con stabulary and a detachment of the Twenty-fourth infantry (colored) yesterday, tho natives suffered a loss of 50 killed and more than 60 wounded, and the American loss waa bnt one man wounded, ac cording to tho official report re- coived at tho war department this afternoon from General Wood, in command of tho Philippines divis ion of the army. By THOMAS COSTE8. (Of Tho Manila American.) Hv I’llviit.. I.HHf.i Wirt*. Manila, July I ft.—A detachment of the Twenty-fourth (colored) Infantry and a company of native constabulary were nttacked by a horde of hundreds of I’ulnjnnes, while on the trail be tween tho towns of Tolees and liatna- inl, IiIhim] of Li-vie, ond ii ilraperata battle took place, resulting In tho routing of tho fanatics with a loss »r 50 killed and more than 60 wounded. Only one sergeant ot tho constabulary waa woundtd. Captain McMailsr, of tho Twenty- fourth, nnd Major Neville, of the con stabulary, encounterd the Pulajanes after leaving tho town of Lubotnbon. Thoy ware In pursuit of the natives, who cut up tho constabulary two days ago, killing Lieutenant Worswlck, Hcout McBride nnd twelve men. Expected an Ambush, Tho punitive expedition learned from friends ths night before that a large body of I’ulajsnrs were moving north and would attack during ths night, but not for several hours after resuming ths march wers there any Indlcat of hostilities. Tho advance guard of the col troope met with what was though > smnll band of the enrmy ed tire, retiring In tho dlrsctta main body. Hearing tho .1 Captain McMaster rushed forward his fifty-five men and Neville with fifty native soldiers formed his men Ini ) double flit-, exporting an ambush. 8wsrm From Jungle, Confident after the victory of the before, the Pulajanes swarmed f tho Jungles and the engagement bee a mortal one. A large number of enemy tried to rush In upon the trt and overwhelm them by force of ni The fight wss at close qunr with bo I os, but Captain McMast realising the value of shock upon fanatics, ordered Ms regulars to Art volley. Before the Pulajanes c< cromt the Intervening apace they u struck by shot from tho magnxlnes, fol lowed by a steady firs from the con stabulary. Tha negro troops separated and the constabulary In columns of twos went forward and deployed for the charge. Their slaughter of ths leaders had the deelred effect and ths Pulajanes turned and fled In wild disorder. The actb.o was quick and sharp, ami so deadly waa ths flro of troops that the stain and wounded were piled together. Ready for Attack. After ths action ths troops moved forward continuously until high ground was reached, and then mode prepara tions to repulse an attack, fearing that the Pulajanes would return In better order with reinforcements during the night. The last news from Major Nev stated that he was holding bis po«lt and would remain there during the night unless the scouts found the I mediate territory had been deserted the fanatics. It Is probable he t wait for relnforcementa, as *ev< companies from the Eighth Infantry, which had Just arrived In Leyte, ti the Held upon disembarking. Gene Allen, commandar-ln-chlef of the con stabulary, accompanied the deta< ment and will personally direct ths operations. McPhsraon Troops Rsady, Brigadier General Jesse I-ee, com manding the department of the Vi sages, has assured Major General Leonard Wood that there are sufflclent troops In the field, but the transport Kilpatrick Is In the bay with steam ready to sail for Leyte and the Thir teenth end Sixteenth Infantry regi ments In Fort McKinley have been i dered to prepare for the field. Army circles here are intensely terested In ths condition of affairs and tbs aaws of the * 0111.- created con* erable excitement In the various head quarter- News of another engags- ii, ent Is expected momentarily.