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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. 00 ^ O -OQqOOCiOOOOOODOOOOOOOO BOQooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 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. e<}o «OOOOOO00O09OO0O0OO00Q 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." ■aH