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Matu liura of railroads Svv<-n
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The Atlanta Georgian.
vol. i. NO. 170.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1906.
In Atlanta TWO CBNTtL
SOMETHING WRONG, 9
SA YS CAPT. ENGLISH; J
SHAKE UP IN POLICE
Trouble Is Expected
When Board
Meets.
COMMISSION PLANS
TO CHOP OFF HEADS
Factional Differences May
Result in Many
Changes.
The several matters that have stirred
the police department during the few
weeks, and which are to be investi
gated by the board of police commis
sioners Tuesday night, have aroused
c onsiderable comment and itave re
sulted in persistent rumors to the ef
fect that a big shake-up of some kind
is pending in the police department.
According to.the rumors, the reported
shake-up will tuke place at the ap
proaching general pollcu election in
April, when several of the officers and
a number of the men are to be decapi
tated and the police force, in effect,
reorganised.
Captain James W. English, head of
the faction which is regarded as being
at present in control of the city coun-
and which Is exjiected to control
tin
Urst of the year, expresses himself us
Pel tig satisfied that something Is wrong
hi the police department.
"And If the commission ascertains
the cause of the trouble it will not hes
itate to apply the remedy. The prun
ing knife will not bo spared wherever
ionsldered necessuiy,” said Captain
English.
Chief Not Responsible.
When questioned as to what he con
sidered the cause of the present tur
bulent conditions In the department,
Captain English declined to express
himself further than to say:
"I think 1 know all right."
lie then stated thut lie didn’t think
the chief was responsible.
"The head of the department cannot
uv blamed for strife In tire department,
if his subordinates are not doing their
part property/' ho added.
When asked the direct question if a
big shake-tip was brewing, Captain
English replied that he didn’t know to
what extent the commission would
have to go to remedy matters. He said
he thought most of the trouble might
bo nettled at the meeting Tuesday
night.
"The police department seems to be
having fits Just at present, but, then,
tits can be cured, you know,” he said.
I atn unable to say, however, Just how
much medicine will be required as a
iire*for these fits.”
Mayor Woodward, who has been aid
ing with whut has been known Apr
>oars as the Brotherton faction, de
clares lie Is satisfied the English fac
tion is planning a general shake-up.
preparatory to the Institution of “their"
civil service. Tile Brotherton faction
on tends that civil service is now in
force, while the English faction usserts
that the civil service inaugurated' by
the former faction Is Illegal and that
the real civil service will go into effect
in April.
"i don’t think they are making a
light on tlio chief,” said the mayor.
Hut I am confident they are planning
t«» put In some new of liters and pos
sibly some new men before their#civil
•»ia ice goes into effect."
Interesting developments ure expect
ed at the meeting Tuesday night.
ARE “FID”
Order of Dismissal
Contains Names
of 167.
HARRIMAN CONTROLS SYSTEM
OF 23,000 MILES OF TRACK,
WITH CAPITAL OF $1,700,000,000
Defective Tubes For
Battleships Cause
of Action.
THIRTY COUNTS
MADE BY JURY
Washington, Nov. 10.—An official or
der was issued tills ufternoon by the
war department dismissing Companies
B, C and I> of the Twenty-fifth infan
try (colored). The order says:
“By direction of the president the
following enlisted men, who, on August
13, 11)06, were members of Companies
Scandal Is To Be Aired in
the Federal Court at
Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 10.—The Fed
eral grand Jury yesterduy Indicted on
thirty counts three men In connection
with the investigation of the Bhelby
H. (! anil 1). Twenty-fifth Infantry, oer- “ te *' <'«*>Tany op cha W e. von.pl-
titin member* of which organisation ,IU > ,n defraud the government by
participated In the riotous conduct shipping defective boiler tubed for use
which occurred in Brownsville, Texas, on United States war vessels,
on the night of August 13, will be dls- Those indicted arc Frank L. Emmett,
charged without honor from tho army ; formerly,foreman of the finishing de-
by their respective commanding of- 1 partment of the Shelby Steel Tube
.. „ , Ibu1 - li#t-i . fleers, and forever debarred from re- Company at Greenville. Pa., but who
»’ •S'HSE. c 22,2Si JSiL , ! enlisting in the army or navy of the later turned informer; James J. Dunn,
.“f «r*"2 ii?mH«tr t i !i United States, us well as from employ- superintendent, and Thomas L. Close.
ment In any civil capacity under the assistant superintendent of the same
government.” ! Plant.
The order then names the 167 mem
bers of the three companies.
The battleship Louisiana, on which
the president yesterday started for
Panama, Is among tho seven .battle
ships and two armored cruisers named
by the government as having been fit
ted with defective tubes sent out by
Emmett, Dunn and Close.
The other vessels named as having
been fitted out with the defective tubes
are tho battleships Nebraska, Mary
land, Vermont, Minnesota, Washington
and Tennessee. The armored cruisers
Charleston and Pennsylvunlu are also
named.
PARTVJ If. I
Wants To Be Chief
of the Democratic
Organization.
'wowmjiiii
ACAIISI RULE
OF ENGLAND
Transvaal Leader Is
Back of Insurrec
tion.
BRITISH TROOPS
SENT TO SCENE
This picture % shows how E. H. Harriman, who controls the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, and has a
controlling Interest In the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, by securing control of the Illinois Central, now* has a
gigantic trans-continental system.
TEACHER IS KILLED 2
May Connect St. Louis
and Kansas
City.
Now that he lias secured control of
the Illinois Central railroad by outslng
President Stuyvesant Fish and electing
J. T. llarahan In Fish's place, fi, II.
Harriman has realised his fondest am
bition—the establishment of a gigantic
system of railroads connecting the At
lantic and Pacific seaboards.
Harriman controls the Houthern Pa
cific and Union Pacific railroads, and
interests close to hint have acquired
control of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road by the purchuse of stock held by
the Pennsylvania system.
The combined Harrltnan lines, there
fore, will form a system connecting
New York with San Francisco by way
of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton, Pittsburg and Chicago, while he
will have a line from Chicago to New
Orleans and from New Orleans to San
Francisco.
Before the Illinois Central deal went
through tbs Pastern-terminal* of-4 he
Union Pacific tvdre at Omaha and Kan-
“iu* CUy. On'' or the Western termi
ni! E of t»»♦* Illinois Central was at St.
Louis. It may be that Harrltnan con
templates a short line between Kansas
'Tty and St. Louis.
The Harriman trans-continental sys
tem will bring under one management
23,ooo miles of track with a capital of
$1,700,000,000.
COMMITTEE REPORT
INDICA TES SHOR T
CROP FOR SEASON
Storm and FrostPlayed
Hovac in the
South, i
COTTON COMPANY
ADJOURNS SESSION
Executive Committee
S. C. A. Issues Re-
fmrbon-Crops; ~
of
IT
\ Farmers Are Being Fo
to Join Ranks of
the Rebels.
Capetown, Nov*. 10.—An lnsunecii»r
hus broken out among the Boer.' Ii
the northwest section of Cape C«»i-
ony.
Official dispatches from English - r
fleers, received here, indicate an ex
ceedingly serious state of affairs. Tu.
police camps have been surprised b\
the Boers and a number of prl •-ic i.-
taken.
Troops Rushed to Scene.
One hundred and fifty mounted ^ -
erniqent police have been rushed t*i
Prleska, the center of the dlstri* t .if-
j fecteri. Reinforcements of troop ; m
j on the way.
! According to reports here Ferrei.-u.
i a Transvaal louder, Is tho instigator i
I the trouble. He has gathered together
[a band of Boers, many of tfhom have
records, and declares thut
Stood Trembling on Rail
road and Was Struck
• by Fast i’rain.
CAUSES A LOSS
Chicago, Nov. 10.—The Lehigh Valley
'mil company’s plant at 100th street
<nd the Calumet river, valued at $1,-
'00,000, was swept today by fire sup-
i *»M*d to have been of Incendiary origin.
H Is estimated that the loss will
! t; “‘h $500,000. The main office bulld-
“ig has been destroyed.
Fifty thousand tons of coal were
stored In the yards. As the quantities
"t ‘ tml were soon blazing, the fire un-
tf-nnined the coal heaps and the flre-
"i**» had difficulty in fighting it. The
1 hU k smoke overhung all of the South
f Chicago like u dense fog.
New York, Nov. 10.—Charles F. Mur.
phy lias started in to carry out the
plans he has been making with hla
friends for weeks pust to secure him- gpeelni to The Georgian,
self the undisputed leadership of the Greenville, H. C., Nov. fo.~Fright-
Democratic party In the state. Incl- ened by a sudden yell “Stop,” ns she
dentally, he began to fight also In the was crossing the Southern railroad
open for the retention of his leadership | *2K!2? r Rt
i afternoon about 5, oclock, Miss 8. B.
or rumtnany Hall. ( Hand, sister of Professor Hand, of the
Mr. Murphy's scheme to make him-; University, of South Carolina, stood j
seif supreme in the state and city j trembling on the main line and was |
Democratic organizations was unfold- { dashed to death by fast pkssenger train j
ed at a meeting of the Democratic state j No. 17. „ . „„ _ , j
rnmmittpp „Mh P Victoria hotel The MiB * Hand W ** 22 y« ar * ot tl 9° “"d '
eojnmlttee at the \ ktorta hotel. The one of the raoit attractive young ladles
majority of the members, obeyipg Mr. Q f the community. She was teaching 1
PRESIDENT HEADED
T
ON PANAMA TRIP
A ‘Wireless Message Says
“Nothing Doing” on
Battleship.
barges of Irregularity made against returning home from school. She: v-nefnlk Va Vov in—At n
- seemed to be In a study and was cross- , h r. , At ? doek
Ing the tracks In front of the approach* ™“ morning the wireless operator on
Ing train when the man who cried out, M». Uattleshfp Louisiana, carrying
noticed her. The sudden cry frightened President Roosevelt to Panama, re-
her and she stopped and seemed afraid ported to Cape Henry: "Nothing dit
to move lest she meet a horrible death Ing." Meunlng that all was well on
‘ ' the battleship, and that the president
had no message to send.
The Louisiana was then well down
the coast below Cape Hatteras, but
the message did not give the exact lo-
latton.
Senator P. P. McOarr.lt, the leader of
the Democratic iiigunlsuilitn In Brook
lyn, who was formally accused of di
recting his followers to knife Hearst.
McCsrren Admits Charge.
McCarren admitted the truth of the
churges, and accepted the challenge to
that she might avert by standing. She
was struck by the engine pilot, knocked
to the side of the track lifeless, though
attempt to read him out of the party. the bmly wa , not mBn „| e(li
He told his opponents In effect that j The body was taken to Chester to,
they could have all the light they were : day for Interment.
looking for. ! __
Mr. McCarren served notife that he j
would light through every court in the j
state If the body attempted to remove;
him. The resolution to "Investigate" i
McCarren was carried by a vote of 32 1
to 13.
one of the Important developments j
was the refusal of Maurice Featherson. i
the state committeeman from the Six- j
teenth district, to vote for the resolu- •
tlon to Inveslgate McCarren.
Featherson Against Murphy,
FIVE NEGROES DROWN;
BODY FOUND THROWN
BACK INTO THE RIVER
After receiving reports from thg dif
ferent statee the executive committee
of the Southern Cotton Association re
viewed tho crop situation thoroughly
to the present date and gave out the
following statement Saturday after
noon:
“The executive committee of the
Southern Cotton Association gave out
Its estimate of tills year’s yield at 11,-
146,000 bnles. After carefully canvass
ing such state the committee arrived at
the estimate from the reports as to the
conditions, amount ginned and the
amount yet to be ginned.
"Hast of the Mississippi the season
has been late. In Georgia, Alabama,
North Carolina, South Carolina , and
Arkansas, the cold weather last .May
seriously checked the growth of the
plant and In some places, particularly
In north Oeorgla and the Piedmont
reglub of North Carolina, considerable
replanting wns necessary.
"Subsequent to this there continued
wet weather In Oeorgla, the Carolina*
and Alabama, making the cultivation of
the crop difficult and Anally resulting
In large areas being abandoned and a
generally grassy condition In that
which was already cultivated.
"On September 17 there was n severe
tropical storm that covered North Car
olina, South Curollna nnd- North Geor
gia. It did great damage to the open
cotton and checked growth and devel
opment of the plant and fruit. On the
27th of September there was another
storm which covered Mississippi, Ar
kansas and Louisiana, which perhaps
was moat disastrous In Its effect on the
cotton belt. It not only destroyed open
cotton, but seriously Injured the grow
ing plant In the rich bottoms of Mis
sissippi and tributaries. October 10
and 11 unprecedented early killing
frosts covered practically the entire
belt east of the Mississippi, totally
and permanently destroying what lit
tle vitality left- by the storms.' This
front not only arrested all further de
velopment of the crop, but destroyed
all partially matured fruit, thereby not
only cutting off nil that wss possible
In the way of maturity from the date
Masked Bandits Get
$30 From Immi
grants.
Peru, Ind., Nov. 10,—Hold-up nisn
wearing masks robbed Wabash express
train No. 3 early today.
They entered a car Ailed with Immi
grants and ut the muxsle ol revolvers
robbed them of )800 and escaped.
There was a panic when the other
occupants of the train discovered what
had happened. j
whole country will bo at his back i
In a few days.
Farmers Forced to Join.
The raiders are reported to be
Ing many Boer farmers to Join
ranks, and every offurt Is being
lo Inllainc the people and give tin
presslon thut It wilt be i
eusy matter to overthro
rule.
Lsite today prepurath
rompi
the sceno nf trouble,
to rounding up Fertvrla ,
Prleska Is on the Orange
Kimberly.
of the frost to the normal frost period,
but destroyed all matured fruit.
"Therefore, to sum up the situation,
the crop was admittedly two to three
weeks late, the frost from three to
four weeks early, with storms to om-
haslse the already adverse conditions,
ow, It Is a fact known to all ex
perienced cotton men that whatever
checks or tends to destroy the vitality
of the plant In the same degree tends
to cause opening of nil fruit. There
fore, the trade Is being deceived by the
amount of cotton being picked and
ginned so early, whereus this very fact
I* evidence of forced oiienlng of cottun
caused by the death of the plant.
1 "Wherever there is suAIrlent labor
there will be no cotton to vpen to pick
or gin the last of November.
"The estimates of Improved condi
tions as given out by some so-called
statisticians are ridiculously absurd,
because every sensible man who Is In
terested knows that since October there
has been no condition of tho growing [ mm. Himfit.' No one .
plant us compared with the nverage who knew anything at
or normal. Therefore, it Is absurd to; 8hot „ n d the affair Is
report improved conditions on dead: mystery
cotton. | ’ -
“We, the executive committee, l»eg •
to call attention of producer t«» the fact
that the great bear element, the great-
est enemy of higher prices, tl)e most
absolutely unanswerable argument for'
lower prices, is the senseless rush ofj
spot cotton on the market by those i
who make It.
’•Just so long as you supply the,
trade at Its prices It Is lunacy to expect
the trade to give you your i»rlce. !
“Stop abusing the buyer for offering I
low* prices, but have a word with the 1
farmer who accepts these prices.
(Signed)
“E. D. SMITH,
“M. L. JOHNSON.
“Committee.'
STARTLES LODGERS
People residing In the Maribor
apartment house, at Peiulitn*-
Pine streets, were startled ut 4 o’
Saturday momlip- by the firlpg
mysterious pistol shot at soim* po!
the building.
Bicycle Policeman Pearson, w ho
a short distance away, heard tin-
ami hurried to the scene. Tog
with attaches of the apartment H
the officer Investigated the fair,
could find no clew* that would n
the idenftty of the person who rtret
shot or the cause of its bet nr An>
Later In the day a more Him
Investigation was made, but with
E IN PRICE
OF COCAINE
| Spvtial t«» The Georgian.
Salisbury, N. C„ Nov.
MOTOR CAR OWNER
IS NOT PROSECUTED
John Alexander, the well-known auto-
m.ibtifBt, wan arraigned Saturday
'onrnlng In police court on the charge
f running into W. M. Jenkins, of 173
:,, rdun street. West End, while the
aft,.j was riding a bicycle Friday at
marietta nnd Peachtree streets. Jen-
Ahh asked that the case be dismissed
n, « this was done.
student .shoots
A COLLEGE MATE
Anilovpr.. Mats., Nov. 10.—t'htulvs H.
li «*. a Phlllim-Amkjvrr r ollffg" stu-
t«nt. urold.m ly .hot Johu Tinry. u
‘"hail mate, this morning. Tracy died
n,, taiiUjr. Trues'* homo was In Km-
"’' n ° Kan*., and Riggs' in Mount Var-
Uoa, n. V,
i They were returning In a small boat
, ., .. , ... — 10.—Jerre and the drunken negroes capslxed It.
The attitude taken by Mr. !■ eather- J gears, his son and wife, Jake Rattse I All went to the bottom,
son corroborated the announcement and another woman, making Ave, all! This morning the body of one of the
that he had decided to align himself | negroes, drowned at Point Kerry, six! women was recovered and the super-
,>n the side of the local Democrats who I miles from Salisbury, last night. The stltlous negroes tied a grape-vine
Murnhv^ from cr0,rt had been to “ corn husking and around It and threw It back Into the
were preparing to oust Murphy from were lU ., nklng fr , e y. water,
the head of Tammany Hall, apd that;
he had. In fact, been selected by these i ’ ~
new leader In case the tnnvemeut RAILROAD IS INDICTED
*Anothcr thing of Interest was ml ■ for alleged failure
representative from his district. 1 St- j ' TO GIVE PASSENGER WA TER
mont was not in favor of the nomlna-: .. -
tlon of Ilt-urst. and at Buffalo he and Special lo The Georgian,
his delegates from Suffolk were unseat- I Waycro.s, Ga.. Nov. 10.—The grand
ed by the committee on contested seats.: Jur> , hM returMd
an Indictment
Perry Belmont Gete Out. j Il g a | nH i the Atlanta, Birmingham And
Winm the objection to tlie eontlnu- j Atlantic railway for failing to provide
unco of Mr. Belmont as a member of! water on a passenger coach hear Bolen
tl»e Jrtrtto committee was brought up, j
he failed to follow the defiant lead of
Mr. McCarren, and announced that
rather than have any fuss lie would
get out. and, accordingly, he tendered
h|M resignation, which whs Immediately
accepted.
Ex-Senator Edwin A. Bailey was
elected to rill the vacancy. Mr. Bailey
was the personal selection of Mr. Mur.
ohy. Mi. Bailey professes to bo a great
admirer of Murpny. and it was hi the
solicitation of Bailey that Murphy or
dered the nomination of Julius Hauser,
vf HayvUK-, iui state treasurer.
In this county several weeks ago. It Is
alleged that u passenger insisted on
being supplied with water and he was
referred to the colored people's coach,
but he Informed the conductor ihut he
“didn’t drink that kind.”
SHAW WON'T RELIEVE
THE MONEY STRINGENCY
New Volk, Nnv. 10.—Hecfgtwy of the Treasury Mtuw annuuncol t»-
•tay that he would not rsitere (Pc money market stringency.
The oAtcfal statement issuad at about II o'clock this morning said that
unless conditions materially changed Mr. Xhaw would not refund gov
ernment bonds. Increase deposit* nor do anything else.
MORTALLY WOUNEED,
DUELIST FROM GROUND,
SHOOTS HIS OPPONENT
Though He Will Re
cover Tarbutton Is
Maimed For Life.
Hpccial to The Georgian.
Dublin, Ga.. Nov. Ju.—Yesterduy
j morning about K o’clock at Klttrell's
on the line of Johnson and Laurens
counties. S5. L. Tyre, of this county, and
Hershel Tarbiitton, of Johnson coun
ty, engaged In a light which resulted
jin both men being seriously wounded.
I Tarbiitton was shot In tin* neck and
I Tyre In the abdomen. The report Is
j that Tarbrtiton was shot more than
! one time.
The exact cause of the shooting Is
MORTALLY WOUNDED MAN
8HOOTS HIS OPPONENT
HfMwUl *o The Georgian.
Dublin. Ga., Nov. 10.—J. Letcher
Tyre, who was shot yesterday by Her-
shel Tarbutton, iu the upper part of the
county, died early this morning.
After Tnrbutton hud shot Tyre to the;
ground the former was shot In the)
face with a shot gun by the latter, in
dicting a serious but not fatal wound.
A raise in the price of cocalm-
pears to be the basis of reform an
the cocaine-using negroes of tin* «
I When Charlie Moore, a negi • i-<
j character and an adherent of the
| cuine nablt. was arraigned Hatur
morning before Recorder Broyles.
Unformed the recordepr he had I
{compelled to quit the “dope” on
count of the increase in price.
When asked by the court If he
used cocaine, Moore said:
"Judge, l have quit. I was forcet
quit because they have raised the pi
1 can't afford to buy It."
The Increase In price seems to
general and It may be it will h.t\
good, effect among the negroes, m
hers of whom have become addi--to.
the use of the drug.
TRAIN ON B. & ().
REPORTED WRECKED
t'incitinatl, Ohio, Nov. 10.--Passenger
train No. 5 on the Baltimore iuH Uhlo
Southwestern, Is reported wrecked; at
Pleasant Pin ins, Ohio, about SO. miles
from here. One person Is reported
unknown, though it Is reported thut killed and several injured.
E
DIES IN STORE
Chicago, Nov. It). —Am
as, aged 60, president
Thomas advertising lir
dropped dead this m
•enth floor of the <|.
of
believed
