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The Georgian Carries
The BUSINESS
And All Of It Clean
The Atlanta Georgian.
The Georgian Carries
The BUSINESS
And All Of It Clean
VOL. 1. NO. 207.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1906.
DPTrn?. In Atlanta TWO CENTS.
r\KlU&: oo Train* FIVE CENTS.
HURLED FROM WAGON,
G.EGRUBBS AND NEGRO
ARE KILLED BY ENGINE
Laundry Employes
Were Crossing the
Southern Tracks.
north avenue is
SCENE OF FATALITY
Grubbs Lived Several Min
utes After Engine
Struck Him.
While attempting to cross the South
ern Railway tracks at North avenue
Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock O. E.
Grubbs, 23 yeara of age. of Whlteford
avenue, Edgewood, a driver for Quth-
man's Steam Laundry, and a negro as-
slstant were struck by a Southern
■witch engine, No. 1647, and both
killed.
The negro waa killed Instantly, but
Mr. Grubbs, who was terribly mangled,
lived several minutes after the acci
dent.
Jack Landers was engineer, G. A.
Bush conductor and J. H. Everett flre-
The engine was going at high speed,
It Is stated, and the laundry wagon,
which was squarely across the track,
was hurled to one side and practically
reduced to kindling wood. The horae
was killed.
The name of the negro has not been
learned.
4 O'CLOCK MARKS
3,000 ON STRIKE
OF
FOR ALL SALOONS
Every saloon and wholesale whisky
house In Atlanta Is ordered closed at 4
o'clock Monday afternoon, to remain
closed through Christmas day and un
til Wednesday morning.
Mayor Woodward Issued orders to
Chief of Police Harry Jennings Mon-
'day morning to notify every saloon
keeper In the city and see that the or
der was enforced.
This move is taken as a precaution
against any disorder resulting from
drinking crowds on the street. Christ
mas eve always brings its big street
crowd, and It was feared that drink
ing might lead to disorder.
That the order applies to wholesale
houses, as well as saloons, means that
every man will have to buy his bottle
early or wait until after Christmas.
The law requires the closing of sa
loons on Christmas day, but not be
fore has the order been put forward
t<» the afternoon before. It cuts six
hours off the time when the saloons
may he open, probably the busiest six
hours during the year.
BUCKET SHOP LAW
IS CONSTITUTIONAL
Washington, Dec. 24.—The constitu
tionality of the North Carolina statute
forbidding the operations of a bucket
«hop was upheld today by the supreme
c°urt of the United States In an opln-
h»n announced by Justice White.
The validity of the law was raised
by Hrbest Gatewood, of Person county,
a. (\, indicted under this statute.
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHWOO
2 farmers hear sermons
2 through their phones.
•Vcponaet, Ilia., Deo. 24.—Con
i'- tsatlone by telephone I* the
novelty of a serlea of revival
meetings at Neponaet. Evenge-
11-ts Hick, and Galloway, who
•o.' holding meetings in the town
hull, have placed on the plnt-
f"rm a megaphone with a
mouthpiece 2 feet In diameter,
Its '-mailer end atached to a
I'hune transmitter. Every word
uttered by the evangelists or
■‘ung by the choir Is heard by
the fainlllea of 160 farmers who
nave phones In their homes
miles away.
CSCCOOOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOOOOO
bodooooooooooooooooooooooo
2 BLEW out the gas o
? AND BOTH MET DEATH. 0
h'ort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 24.—
11 Huston and K Kruse, of Au-
"urn Junction, Ind., were found
■‘"■“1 In a hotel here today. They
Mew out the gas.
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2 EDITOR GIVES *5,000
TO FAMINE FUND. O
- Washington, Dec. 24.—The llrst O
r ‘jontrlbution received at the state O
■apartment under the president's O
„ J».l fur funds for the relief of the 0
'.mine sufferers In China was a O
0 ■ -ek for 65,000 from Louis Klop- 0
B editor of The Christian Her- O
1 “M. of New Tork.
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RY Ft H. HARRIMAN
Peoria, Ills., Dec. 24.—Grandmaster
John J. Hanahan, of the locomotive
engineers, declared today:
"The strike on the Southern Paci
fic has gone into effect as planned.”
This statement was made after ev
ery effort was exhausted by the exec
utive offices of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen and Engineers t<
arbitrate and settle amicably the dif
ferences between the order and the of
ficials of the Southern Pacific.
Over 3,000 englnemen and firemen
are idle today and at this season of
the year it will mean that nearly all
travel on the Sunset lines will be im
peded.
ROAD 18 TIED UP
TO EL PASO, TEXA8.
Special to The Georgian.
New Orleans, Dec. 24.—The striking
members of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers claim to have the
Southern Pacific road tied up effective
ly between New Orleans and El Paso.
Their officials assert that every mem
ber of the union went out yesterday
afternoon, according to orders, but the
Southern Pacific officials, through Su
perintendent Cushing, say they do not
believe all the men Joined the strike.
This strike, together with the strike
of the union clerks, who have been out
for several months, Is causing the
Southern Pacific great inconvenience,
its line Is crippled to such an extent
as to make It appear that the road will
be unable to curry freight between
points In Louisiana and Texas for some
time.
RACK EACH OTHER
Chicago, Dec. 24.—Robert Merrlng
was hacked .to death and John Conners
lies fatally Injured as a result of a des
perate duel with knives fought early
today In front of a theater In State
street. The fight was the result of a
quarrel over a woman.
The duel waa witnessed by a crowd
that thronged the street, having been
drawn from the adjacent lodging
houses by the shrieks of the fighters as
new wounds were Inlilcted.
Merrlng fell dead at last with 25
knife wounds, his body being literally
hacked to pieces. Conners has eight
knife stabs In the neck and lungs and
III die
TWO INSURGENTS
SHOT TO DEATH
Havann, Dec. 24.—Two Insurgents
were killed and two were captured in
an encounter with rural guards, near
Guinea today. A fifth man escaped.
INHERITANCE TAX
DECLARED VALID
Washington. Dec. 24.—The Inheri
tance to* of Louisiana waa today de
clared by the supreme court to be con
stitutional. The court had before it
the case of a tax levied on the estate
of Mnthlns Levy, of New Orleans, who
died May 26, 1904. The tax amounted
to 112,000.
Mason, Install Officers.
Special to The Georgian. •
Pickens, 8. C.. Dec. 24.—Friday night
the Masons Installed the following of
ficers for next year:
A. M. Morris, W. M.; J. R. Ashmore.
8. W.; R. R. Roark. J. D.; J. E. Par
sons. treasurer; F. E. Cox, secretary;
T. Hallman. 8. D.: E. B. Webb. J.
J. T. Taylor ami B. B. Taboon,
stewards: R. A. Bohen, tyler.
Immediately after the Installation of
the officers the Musons marched to
the banquet hall.
K. P.’i ELECT OFFICER8.
Special to The Georgian.
Pickens. 8. C„ Dec. 24.—The Knights
of Pythias have elected the following
officers for the next year:
R. R. Roark, C. C.; J. T. Partridge,
V. C,: D. O. Moore, prelate; B. B. La-
boon. M. W.; J. E. Parson. K. of R. 8.;
R. Ashmore, M. of E.; J. L. Bolt, M.
F.i H. A. Nealy, M. at A.; J. D.
Simmons, I. G.; 8. T. Simmons, O. O;
'. E. Cox, trustee.
On last Monday night they had a
banquet. The lodge Is In a very pros
perous condition.
Mrs. P. H. Werner.
Mrs. P. H. Werner died at her
residence, 693 Capitol avenue. Mon
day morning. She Is survived by her
husband and six children. The fu
neral services will be conducted Tues
day morning at 11 o'cl.ick at the An
tioch Baptist church, near the hederal
prison.
J. R. Adams died Monday morning at
, o'clock at a private sanitarium. He
came to Atlanta from Preston, Oa, and
the body will be held at Barclay A
Brandon's until hla people can be heard
from.
WOODWARDISM--
HIGH LICENSE,
OR PROHIBITION—
THE GEORGIAN
IT SEEMS THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR SOMETHING DEFI
NITE TO BE SAID ABOUT THE LIQUOR LICENSE QUESTION. LET US-
SAY IT NOW.
WITH ALL RESPECT TO MAYOR WOODWARD, OUR CIVIC LIFE IS
ON THERACK. THEREIS NOT MUCH DOUBT IN THE MINDS OF MANY
THINKING PEOPLE THAT ATLANTA’S GREATEST MISFORTUNE SINCE
THE WAR, THE RIOT, WAS ONLY POSSIBLE BY REASON OF THE CONDI-
TION OF RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENTS OF OUR CITY GOVERNMENT
THAT FAILED THEN. AND HAD FAILED BEFORE TO DO THEIR DUTY.
ATLANTA HAS SUFFERED ENOUGH DISGRACE AND ONLY RAIS
ES HER VOICE AT THIS TIME BECAUSE OF THE CRUSHINGBLOWPUB-
LIC SENTIMENT BELIEVES WAS DEALT IN THE MAYOR’S VETO. THE
CALAMITY OF THE RIOT UNDOUBTEDLY GREW OUT OF CONDITIONS
THAT HAVE EXISTED AND THAT WOULD BE LARGELY REMEDIED
HAD THE MAYOR SIGNED THE LICENSE MEASURE AS PASSED BY
COUNCIL.
ATLANTA IS LIVING IN THE SPIRIT OF TODAY—THE MAYOR DE
NIED HER DEMAND IN THE SPIRIT OF 19 YEARS AGO.
DOWN WITH QUIBBLING! IF WE MUST HAVE SALOONS MAKE THE
PRICE SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE EXPENSE OF THE POLICE DEPART
MENT AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE MADE NECESSARY BY
THEM.
YES, JUST SO! SAN FRANCISCO, DURING ITS RECENT RIOT AND
REIGN OF TERROR, HAD FROM 105 TO 140 CASES IN THE POLICE
COURTS ON EACH MONDAY MORNING. THE SALOONS WERE CLOSED
FOR TWO WEEKS, AND THE CASES ON MONDAY FOR THOSE TWO
WEEKS WERE FOUR AND FIVE, RESPECTIVELY. THE SALOONS WERE
REOPENED, AND ON T@E FOLLOWING MONDAY MORNING THEY HAD
113 CASES AGAIN.
BECAUSE THE GEORGIAN STARTED OUT TO DO WITHOUT WHIS
KY AND QUESTIONABLE ADVERTISING, MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT
WE WERE GOING TO BE FANATICS FIGHTING FOR PROHIBITION AND
THE LIKE. WE HAVE NOT BEEN SO. WE HAVE NOT RUSHED INTO
ADVOCACY OF ANYTHING RADICAL. WE BELIEVED THE BETTER
ELEMENT DOUBTED THE WISDOM OF PROHIBITION- WE HAVE
TRIED TO BE AS COMMON-SENSIBLE AS WE COULD.
WE BELIEVE THE BEST INTERESTS OP ATLANTA DEMAND THE
REGULATION THE MAYOR HAS SEEN FIT TO VETO—AND WE BE
LIEVE THERE WILL BE MORE TROUBLE UNLESS THE MATTER IS
TAKEN IN HAND NOW.
WE BELIEVE, AS MOST OF OUR THINKING CITIZENS DO, THAT
THE $2,000 LICENSE WILL BE BEST—BUT WE SAY NOW, AND SAY IT
PLAINLY TO EACH MEMBER OF COUNCIL, THAT UNLES STHEY SEE
FIT TO RISE TO THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE AND OVERRIDE THE
MAYOR’S VETO, THE GEORGIAN STANDS READY TO SUPPORT THE
MOVEMENT FOR A PROHIBITION ELECTION.
WE BELIEVE IT IS THE ONLY SAFETY FROMFURTHER TROUBLE.
COUNCILMEN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
F. L. SEELY, Publisher.
BABY SAIV FATHER COMMIT DOUBLE CRIME;
WALTER HIGHTOWER KILLS BESSIE JONES
AND THEN SENDS BULLET TO OWN BRAIN
He
Dies at Hospital
Within a Few
Hours.
HE WAS SLAYER
OP BEN WILMOUTH
Girl Had Caused Trouble in
Family for Some
Time.
Discovered !n a room with a young
woman In hla own house by hla 7-year-
old son, Walter Hightower, a painter,
shot and killed the young woman, Bes
sie Jones, Monday morning at 8:30
o'clock, and then turned his pistol upon
himself. He died at Orady hospital at
12:30 o’clock.
Hightower and his family lived at 144
Oaskell street, and the young Jones
woman, who is 18 years of age, board
ed In the house, occupying the room
adjoining that of Mr. and Mrs. High
tower.
Monday morning Mrs. Hightower
sent her little son. Henry, to the room
of the Jones girl to awaken her. As
the little fellow entered the room his
father turned and sew him. in an in
stant he drew a derringer pistol and
■hot the girl through the right temple
and sent a second bullet into his own
left temple. The girl died almost In
stantly and Hightower fell dying.
Ha Killed Wilmouth.
Hightower was the same man who
lied Benjamin Wilmouth about nine
ntba ago. In Hampton street. WU-
WALTER HIGHTOWER AND FAMILY.
This picture shows Hightower in his painter's uniform st a picnic,
with his wife and children. The boy on his mother's left is Henry, the
7-year-old son, who witnessed his father's murder and suicide Monday.
mouth had been attentive to Mrs. Car-
He Bryant, a sister of Hightower, and
In a quarrel, shot her in the hip. High
tower chased Wilmouth out of the
house and shot him. Wilmouth fell and
Hightower ran to the prostrate man
MAYOR HANDS ROAST
TO DR. BROUGHTON IN
REPLY TO HIS SERMON
CAUSTIC LETTER
TO DR. BROUGHTON
NOW MADE PH
Thla Is the letter written by Mayor
Woodward to Dr. Broughton, now
published for the flrat time:
“July 6. 1906,
“Dr. L. a. Broughton. Atlanta, Qa.
“Dear Sir: You will And herewith
attached a clipping from one of Mon-
day'e papers, quoting from your speech
of the previous night. I presume you
are correctly quoted, or you would
have made the neceusury correction. I
was Informed on .Saturday afternoon
that you were to refer to Chief W. R.
Joyner and myself In your regular
Sunday night sensational tirade. It
what you say was In any way correct,
you know the name of every man In the
party, >ot you single me out for your
dirty criticism and leave all others un
der cover—the same as you have done
on several other occasions.
“I have underscored the parts of your
speech that 1 desire to call your atten
tion to. You are quoted as saying that
•the city paid my expenses.- You
should have known whereof you spoke,
and If you had the least desire to speak
the truth you would havo been thor
oughly Informed before you made such
utterances. I desire to Inform you
that the city of Atlanta did not pay
one dollar of my expenses, and that If
you made that atatement, and I be
lieve you did, you uttered an Infamoua,
malicious and willful falsehood.
-Malieiou* Falsehood."
'You are alao quoted aa saying that
I, with others, gambled, going and com
ing from Louisville. If you had taken
the trouble to Inquire, and felt any
way disposed to be Just toward me, you
would have found nut that,l returned
to Atlanta two days before tho regular
Calls [Him Sensation-
Monger and Other
Names. -=»
HANDLES PREACHER
WITHOUT GLOVES
Letter Written Over Year
Ago is Produced
by Mayor.
ferent route—the Louisville and
vllle railroad—and the party over the
Southern. 80 you will see that you
have given publicity, through your dir.
ty prelude, to another malicious false
hood.
Your criticism about my veto of the
anti-gambling ordinance Is too con
lemptlble to be worthy of notice, but It
Is entirely In keeping with your past
-atloo against me. Read
that veto message. I
stand on that. Why do you and your
kind not make the same kind of light
or futures have done more harm,
more paupers and criminals; and filled
more graves by suicide, and brought
more women and children to wont than
all other kinds of gambling combined—
I believe more than whisky and gam
bling together.
“I Invite Criticism."
"I Invite honest, decent, gentleman
ly criticism (If you know what that
means) upon my every public act. My
private affairs—while they are not near
ao bail as you would have the public
believe—do not concern the public, and
my continuance In public life would
have long ago convinced any man of
this fact were he not steeped In venom
ous, lying slander.
“I was born and raised, and spent
nearly all of my sixty years of life,
within twenty miles of Atlanta, and
tho good, hdnest people of this com
munity do ivit need, and do not heed,
the hee-hawing of a vulgar ass, whose
only stock In trade Is cowardly venom
and slander diffused In n sensational
manner from a pulpit.
"I have hod enough of your past
record furnished me, from the time
Continued on Pag, Five. |
In a statement characterising Dr.
Broughton aa a “carrion crow," a “sen
sational, falsifying blackguard," and a
“sensation monger," Mayor Woodward
has replied to the sermon by the pas
tor of the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday
night.'
Dr. Broughton, In the prelude to his
sermon, discussed the veto of the may
or of the whisky regulations ordinance
and took occasion to say that the
mayor ha, always been found doing
everything he could for the whisky
element. It Is to this statement the
mayor takes particular objection.
Mayor Woodward concludes hla sen
sational statement by producing a let
ter he wrote to Dr. Broughton In Ju|y,
1905, In which he made reply to the
charge by Dr. Broughton that he
(Woodward) had traveled to the Con
federate reunion In Louisville at the
expense of the city and had kept up
a gambling game all the way.
The mayor says he wrote this let
ter and had it delivered to Dr.
Broughton. He warned Dr. Broughton
that If he was attacked again by him.
the letter would be made public. In
this communication, the mayor makes
sensational charges, saying. In effect,
that Dr. Broughton was once a clerk
In a negro saloon In Darlington, 8. C.
Dr. Broughton waa called over the
telephone by The Georgian and asked
whether he had any objection to the
publication of the letter written by
Mayor Woodward, He replied tb't
he had no objections, did not care a
snap of hla finger what Mayor Wood
ward aald, and did not propose to bn
drawn Into a controversy with him.
Mayor Woodward’a statement and
the letter to Dr. Broughton follow:
Mayor Woodward Talk,.
“I am the keeper of my own con- #
science and will not aak Broughton
for any of hla advice In exercising It
If the city of Atlanta waa run or con
trolled by such sensation mongers its
he It would be a good place to vneate.
Atlanta has been built by good peo
ple. people who had the Intereat of the
city at heart and people who have
pulled together In the old -Atlanta
8plrlt.' Thla hoa been done without
Broughton's nld, but In the face of his
continually trying to create strife and
divide our people. Sensational noto
riety Is his whole aim. He has u
mania for seeing his name in the newa-
papers. If the newspaper# had com
bined to keep his sensatlonnl trash
out of their columns he would have
hunted new pastures long ago. I have
no respect for his kind of religion.
"As for the members of the general
council, I presume they care as little
Continued on Page Five.
“MAYOR IS SCAPEGOAT,”
SAYS DR. BROUGHTON
Wants Milk Bottles
For the City
Council.
anti nearly severed his head from his
body with a knife. He was arrested,
but afterwards released.
The .same derringer with which
Continued on Pago Thrso.
In the prelude to his sermon Sunday
night. Dr. Len Cl. Broughton severely
arraigned council and the mayor In a
discussion of the veto of the latter
the whisky regulations ordinance
Dr. Broughton said he Is not sur
prised at the mayor's veto, as he has
always been with the whisky element,
when there was the least possible ex
cuse. He charged that council Is try
ing to make a scapegoat of Mayor
Woodward.
"Oh, the puny little babies In that
council!” he exclaimed.
"I propose an ordinance to furnish
the whole council lay-out with milk
and sucking bottles. I believe I’ll fur
nish the bottles If they’ll furnish the
milk. I am sure that they would not
be more appropriate In a maternity
hospital than In that general council
of infuntlle dwarfs. If ever there was
a gang of babies that got together, and
R layed tool any more than the council
as played ft about this whisky busi
ness, their fool doings are not record
ed. Think of It! They have straddled
every rail In the whisky fence; they
have taken every side of the question;
they have voted wrong, and repented;
they have voted right, and renented;
they have voted no way, and repented;
they have voted every way. and re
pented. The fact is, they have done
everything that was undone, and un
done everything that waa done. This
has beep the council of whisky acro
bats und rollers. They have turned un
til they are as round as billiard balls;
all that Is needed is for somebody to
t
take the cue and do the tapping, and
they will roll around until they drop In
the hole—Just any old hole; however,
the whisky hole I, the one they flnally
wlnd up In. Burely, we are dtagueted
with the wlshy-washlnee, of many In
that council.
"There is one thing that they must
have credit for, at least until they meet
again and adjourn (the good Lord only
knows what they will do then). They
must have credit for paaslng the ordi
nance that brought forth that mayor's
veto. But even then It waa passed aft
er they had at the ism, session turned
II down. But they did It, If they did
wait until the whisky metnbera of the
council hod retired.
'•Do you wonder If they will run It
over the mayor's veto? Do you want
me to tell you? Then listen: No.
Certainly not, unless there is a back
down of the whisky party, and that. In
n last struggle, Is never done. The
whisky gang has already been counted.
It waa never Intended to gat any fur
ther than the mayor. Some, of course,
were honest, but see now If they etood.
Prohibition Election.
“To be sure, high license and bolter
regulation Is not all we want. Tho
morel sentiment of tho city has never
been content with thla. Wo are going
to hold a prohibition election In Full on
county, but wo resent any giving way-
to the whisky power whatever. Wo all
favored the high license and better
regulation ordinance only aa a step in
the right direction. We want the elec
tion. We want a chance to show the
gang who is who In this county. Our
petitions are now being signed, and,
since the failure of this measure, inen
have been signing them like %v11.1 tire.
Let every good man In tha county * ho
has not stened bunt up a petition at
once, and sign It. We muet r. -mi t .<
refusal to give us what at least two-
la of our people want. Let all non-
iky-subsldlaed people hear, cm;
up the Anti-Saloon League in tin
(.owndes building and get on the pro-
hlbitlon petition. Hurrah for the tight!
And we'll sing 'On to Victory' a* w.
We are simply tired meeting ovti
this great question."
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