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The Georgian C*rri« The BUSINESS And AN Of it Clean The Atlanta Georgian. The Georgian Came* > The BUSINESS * And All Of It Clean VOL. 1. NO. 119. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1907. Success Attends First Step of The Georgian s Fight for School Children; Board of Education Affirms Existing Conditions and Asks Appropriation PRICES ATLANTA'S CLAIMS FOR SUB-TREASURY ARE NOW ANTAGONIZED ON ALL SIDES; WRANGLE MAY HURT SOUTH'S CHANCES Caucus Is Called For Afternoon of Monday. house committee TO HEAR SPEECHES Atlanta and Savannah Like ly to go After Plum as Independents. By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. Washington, Jan. T.—The conference q( co-operation faced Into failure aa otb.-r conference* have done. We met. ere wranaled and we parted. What's the matter with our Georgia that w« cannot agree? Wo have been able to reach no tangible result In live days of conference. Congressional c ,,.jrt< «>• has been unwilling to go for- a ant mull nil the delegation* were pnsi nt ami the delegation* have taken th. tr time to come. Griggs and Brant ley arrived this morning, Howard comes tonight. Lewis la sick. Mean- r, hiiv we wait and mark time—or kill It. Olive Branch of Peace. The i .inference, did nothing but es- tahii.h the fact that Savannah openly declares it will not' submit Its claims to the tieorgla delegation, and pro poses. huh pendent of all delegations, to y,iffore the way* and means com mitter with the presentation of Its claim*. They refused a friendly con ference with Atlanta on Saturday -nuht .md ahnndoned one formalty nr- fanged ter yesterday at noon. Todav Mills Lane arrived and Sa vannah's whole tactics changed. He weuia to be the nabob of finance In the Tybee metropolis and when he sniilT. they annexe. Ten minutes after Ms arrival and live minutes after the formalities conference of the morning ailjuurued. Savannah came bearing an --live Won. H t- AUnnfrn end a proposal for a conference of a sub-committee. .Atlanta, wtih-h misled’ every move ment tor harmony and fatTiereiT - every pinposlilon of conference, promptly accepted. Prcpesat from Savannah. .V< 11:43 a. in. Mills Lane, Stovall. Stillwell, Hunter and Senator Norwood of Savannah, met McCord, Pope. Mad dox, Pomeroy and Graves, of Atlanta, In .1 llnnl effort to adjust matters. Sa vannah's proposal was to have the Georgia delegation Ignore Its personal (•references nnd to present the two . ill. s . n equal terms to the committee t>n nays and means. Atlanta, unwilling to surrender Its splendid advantages of n two-thjrds n ■'Jorlty of the Georgia delegation.'de. < lined Whereupon, It was stated as liicutahla that Savannah and Atlanta should liolh go before the ways und m <i,o committee. Senator Norwood and John Temple engaged In debate over the ad E Cullen Tells How He Shoots Gonzales Death. to tTniUIUY of the Georgia delegation go In* Into the caucus of state* thin after n*Hin—nn Informal raucus called over th- pmtrst of linrtlett and Livingston. • f Uf.iiKta. Mr. Graven contended that '■ ~ r went Into the caucus we weyc »•; *•>• it -that with a divided Oe«»r- • itli**r Savannah or Atlanta would »••• i| after the first ballot, as all rrttory woe combined against At- la.v In avoiding the caucus. May Resent Caueue. **n inoilon of Mr. Graves, It was re- > ivr i to urge the delegation to par- Htijatp if it won a conference nn»l to "i” ir.iw if it wan a caucun. upon.the K: -’"id that the ways and ineann nm* !i • fst-nted caucus action on thin 11 which belonged of right to that • * t»• *-. Norwood and Graven were ' 1 ' n *•• present this view. * « lunis of ntaten meets at 4 |> in. **• ••rgla caucun of congressmen ' .it J o’clock this afternoon. It Continued on Page Three. New York. Jan. 7.—On the Royal mall steamer Tagus, which reached port from Panama and Jamaica Sun day afternoon, arrived Curtis J. Cul len. of Knoxville, Tenn.. who, according to a cable from Panama, disappeared two weeks ago while out on ball charg ed with having killed u nutlvo named Gonzales In a sensational shooting af fray In the Hotel Astor In the city of Panama. Cullen I* the son of the late Curtis J. - Cullen, a wealthy merchant, whose family Is socially prominent In Ten nessee.- He Is about 28 years of age, a graduate of the University of Vir ginia and has a wife living In Knox ville. He went to the Isthmus last summer to accept n position as In spector In the dredging department. Cullen Telle of Killing. I regret for my family's sake that this thing occurred," said Cullen, "but wtnee "the story has gotten here, I might as well tell the whole thing. The man Oonzales was a notorious bully. While 1 was talking In the lobby Gon zales picked up a hand full of confetti and dust from the floor and threw It In my eyes and mouth. Then he stood with several Spantsh friends, laugh; Ing nt me, "Enraged, 1 hit him with my left fist and knockt'd him over u table. Be fore he got up some one I did not know held my hand. I put It In my hip pocket and waited for- Gonzales to make the next move. Disguises Himself. "'Now pull your revolver and shoot,' he yelled. Jumping up nnd drawing his pistol. Before he could shoot I fired nnd hit him In the Jaw. The bullet glanced, went under the skin nnd came out back of his ear. This staggered him, but he aimed again and was about to shoot when I fired, killing him. then went up stairs to a friend's apart ments." Cullen dyed his fare and hands with berry stain, engaged a covered am bulance and wuh driven to the pier. The train was late, nnd he got safely aboard us "O. Carrington." under which name a friend had engaged passage for him. lawyers, Cullen said, assured use would be dropped, but Civil Service Law May Bring New Fight. It I* learned Monday that a deter mined movement la on foot and has ua- sumed definite shape to stop with on Injunction any posalble effort the Kng- Hah faction In the police commission may make to hold »—regular—pottre election In April or to abolish civil service as It now exists In the police department. It la stated that aome of the heat lawyers In the city have been consult ed by civil service leaders anil hfve expressed the opinion that an Injunc tion will successfully thwurt any move to hold an election. It Is known that the English faction holds that the present civil service la entirely Illegal, and. It Is generally conceded, will try to hold an election at the regulur time. It thla la done present Indications promise a lively light In the courts, which may require years to llnally set. tie. Regardlrss of whether, the old board acted Illegally In Instituting civil serv ice at the time It did, under the terms of the state law civil service will be come effective on April 2, 1907. The regular police election Is scheduled to take piece the latter part of March, and tf the present civil service should he declsred void, the new commission, which will be almost unanimously English board, ran elect ss many i officers ntui nil’ll .IS it chooses before civil service becomes effective. Civil 8*rvics Law. The law stipulated that civil-service could be put Into effect prior to April, 1*0*. provtded n snhsranmT huinber of the policemen should resign and be re-elected ■ under civil service. The whole force, with the exception of about eighteen men, resigned, nnd wero re-elected, and civil service was de- Uli Mini the that If he did stny for trial he could lint get Justice on account of native hatred for Americans, CURTIS CULLEN A MEMBER OF A PROMINENT FAMILY. special to The Georgia Knoxville, .Tenn., Jan. 7.—Curtis J. Cullen, who. It Is said, killed a man In Pannma the night before Christmas, Is a member of one of Knoxville's lending families. We la n son of the late Cur tls J. Cullen, a prominent merchant and realty dealer. lie went to Panatnn several months ago. to lake a |S)slt|on ..n the eannl works. He Is a brother- in-law of Dr. .1. 1. Garrard, formerly Macon Ga., hut now of Knoxville, si gen In the First Georgia regiment Our. Ing the Spanlsh-Amerlcan I here a few weeks that Cullen shot u man at the Astor House at Panama, but not seriously Tim matter was satisfactorily settled, It Is said. ELOPED FROM CONVENT; WED IN POLICE STATION; NOW BEHIND IRON BARS Walter B. Neal, 17 years of age. :.cured only a few weeks ago In a running away from her home “'•on, lnd„ and coming to Atlanta " ' “ Is again In the limelight. time the young hrldo Is behind i is of tho police station accused • rung her husband for another ' W. F. Bradburn, a clerk for a ' More In Peters street. I* said to ' man on whom the girlish bride t» stowed her affections, amf he was arrested, A case was also made •O' i Mrs. B. F. Hutcherson, of to Linden avenue, at which place Ihurn and Mrs. Neal are said to •Y,T. I 'D 8ft,urd *y n ** hl - v . , ■ “ill he remembered that Mrs. Neal ■ rmrrly Mias Irene Trek, who ■>y from a Catholic convent In " It und fame to Atlanta to wtd Waller II. Neal, a young man who had preceded her here from Marlon by only a few days. The young couple was arrested, hut later married In the oilhe of Chief Jennings nnd obtained freedom. ... . Klnro that time Mr. and Mrs. Neal have boarded at the Union Hotel In Mitchell Street. Hradhurn boarded at the same place. According h> statements of the af fair the girl received u telegram, pur- imrtlng to come from her mother In Marlon, asking her to come home as she was III The bride announced her Intention of leaving for Marlon late (Saturday afternoon, all of which wna agreeable to her hushand. After An- lulling his work Saturday afternoon, Neal hurried to ihe depot to bid hla wife good-hi i but failed to flml her. Me then nottfl" 1 the police and a search ias Instituted. The am.U f Honed on See,.*, at- dared In force. The old board con tends thla action wa.q perfectly legal. Ho strong Is this contention that law yers have been consulted, with a view to testing tho matter In the courts. One of the stanches advocates the present civil service, when seen Monday morning, said: "The only election that will be legal this aprlng will he the election of the few men wit" refused to resign and work under civil service. These men were all retained on the force by Ihe old board anil their terma expire In March. When the places of these men nreditlrd, the duty- of the rommlsstuh will cense. Any further attempt ul an election will bo wholly Illegal. "Civil service has been operating suc cessfully since Its Inception and there Is no reason why’It should bo nbntlshed nnd then promptly reinstated. We have ft splendid force of both officers nnd men nnd the only possible reason for nn election would be to glvo some body un opportunity to get In it favor- Ito" Shake-up Contemplated. . Rumors have been going the rounds Hint the Hngllah faction contemplated n tdg sltake-up In the force ami this has aroused the opposition to n lighting humor. Henco the movement for nn Injunction. The civil service people declare that n temporary Injunction would stay tho proposed election until civil service nnturnlty went Into effect, under the terms of the atnto law. and that ac cordingly there would be no election. Another Interesting phase of the po lice situation Is the statement that a movement Is nn foot to provide it berth In Ihe police department for Captain Jnhn.W. Hall, formerly chief of police. At a recent meeting of the commission a resolution was adopted requesting the city council to create the office of assistant chief of police and the name of Captain Ball Is being alrongly men tioned In connection with thla office. Jennings to Stick. If civil service la held to bo In effect now. Chief Henry Jennlnga will con tinue at the head of the department by reason of tho civil service rules. His friends declare also that even should an ■ election be held Chief Jennings ould be re-elected. It Is known that efforts are being used In behalf of Cap tain Ball and politicians declare he will be made assistant chief. It la reliably staled that a well-known cltlsen. not now In publle office, has already been staled for Ihe office of assistant to Ho- llcltftr Lowry Arnold, of the rlty crimi nal court, tho office now held by Cap- fair. Ball. W TRAIN UN. Rolls Into 01 \ Depot on Time Monday Afternoon. For thn flrat tlmi- In tho railroad history of AtluiitH, n pitMctmor truth was opera tel Into this rltjr om tho Louisville nml 7*nMi vllle M«>mlny Afternoon, citAtillshlng through service front 1’lnclnnntl nml L*uh vllle. The train of dark r»*d conches hi me to n stop on tltuo In the union depot, Man Then Takes His Own Life With . Pistol. Now York, Jan. 7.—Mm. Minnie Set-horn, aifoil 27, a beautiful brunette, was shot nn<l mortally wounded today in Williamsburg by Leo Bloshosky, who won Infatuated with her. Bloshosky, ttmuh it w*» marked up oa the bulletin after kissing the dying woman, allot board ten uiluntes late Instead of traffic from laiulsvtlle and Cincinnati hereafter being brought South long haul over other roods, offbl.ils of"the isoulsvlllc und NnskvIlU will establish this short line |ierni.-i I It Is expected t< . .. mlor with the traveling public. minutes after srrfval, the d tho most elaborate that has mu Into Atlanta, was sldetracki-d Just Most tiietiu Was served n this •Rcasbin, In honor of tie- Innugnratlo of the through train service. Many Official*, addition to the paasetixe train, them were Train Cnmltictn W II. Engineer William ikrwoml, Fl.igin.iu . .. Littleton, Ilnggagcniastor t\ I. I.o gun. Porter Ham Lyons. PuHninu t Ing made by Detective* Connally, Htwrtiee. ri*rk and Bayne. Neal visited the police station Mon day morning and had a conference with his bride. It was later learned that he Informed the girl he Intended to semi her hack home. The cases will be tried lu ir.dlco court Moui'ay afisrooou. It. Wlnstnuley, local agent. K M. Hill, superintendent dining « ills Kelley, chief traveling ciiglm Union, traveling pnsseugcr nget vllle; J. V. Arnold, city ticket ag> vllle; Folonel William K|*p«. .1 11ride, traveling freight agent; t\ straw, superintendent Atlanta Shanks, chief clerk to p.itdniafiig • II. Hi heu- .!. V. Knot* Kno* Me. i Iliad muinn; agent; J. It. Harlan, chief spcl.il agent; I'harlcs Itcuhnrd. trnrcllng auditor; If. M. tfOiihl and W. W. Neal. ENGINE RUN8 AWAY* INJURING EMPLOYEES Hpeeial to the Ueorgfnii. Bpnrta, Ga., Jan. 7 —Saturday night at 9 o’clock the engine at the plant of tho Sparta oil mill got out from under the control of the engineer and ran away. The big belt which connectn the engine jyihJUie-jniiliLidiiift wax TrroVep and struck several «»f the em ployees, some of them sustaining very- painful Injuries The accident will probably' necessi tate closing down the mill f*>r a few day* until the engine and other ma chinery can be repaired. and killed himself. The woman's husband Is an Inmate of the King's Park Insane asylum. In his last rational moments ho hud left his wife In the care of Bloshosky. Mr*. Seehorn was forced to earn her liv ing as a seamstress to provide for her self and her 10-year-old daughter, be cause she hail refused to accept any iTelp from Itloshosky. The woman hud left her home at No. 71 North Flint street where Bloshosky boarded, to do aomo sewing at No. 324 Metropolitan avenue. Bloshosky learned where she was go ing, precediMl her to the house, hid himself In the vestibule and then shot her as she turned and ran upon seeing him.. The street was filled with boy* und girls on their way to a public school n block away. The tragedy oc curred before the very eyes of the chil dren. WITH PENNSY TO BE FIRED President M’Crea Ex pected to Have a House Cleaning. ooooooooooooooooooooocooon o O WEATHER MAN CAUTIOU8; O ONLY "PARTLY CLOUDY. 1 O o With caution the weuther man O Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 7.—Evidence of graft, which may reach Into the millions, has been uncovered In the Pennsylvania railroad. It Is Interwoven with the different department* of the $400,000,000 corpo ration, whom aggregate expenditures during 1905 were $192,100,S48, while Its gross Incnnto In tho aatuo period as $266,069,497. The new president of the road. James Met Tea, Is determined to force un end to present conditions A com mittee of five directors Is now Investi gating the Internal uffalrs of the com pany. t* Htewart Patterson Is chair man. und la* nnd Ids associates are ex pected to file their report within a short time. It Is believed that this report will be the signal for the most radical house cleaning In the history of any railroad of the world. Although the salaries paid by the Pennsylvania have never been Inrge, many of Its employees have retired with tnde|H mlent fortunes; others have died leaving estates of great value. Many complaints have been made by firms nnd companies which found It imposlshtc to sell supplies or equip ment to that section of the road east of Pittsburg. Competition, so-called, was governed Declares Existing Con ditions Most Un favorable. C .11 9 > hr rule, which ithut nut tl»* inw.it bhl n ilrr. It la bald, mid awarded the cun- ”! tract!* tu favored concern* In which l relative, uf the officer, and employee, the idtuntlon. o|" r ,h0 I’ct'i.ylv'i""i are Interretod. He leave* hlm.elf the Inop-hole O nnythliiK that tnlKht |..i..lbly O gooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOO ‘ “ 0 0 Thn Oonrcinn hits won the first round in it tijdit for better schools ( for Atlnnta children. Tho Honrd of Education has submitted to council a report em bodying every point urged by Tho Georgian. The board asks for an appropriation for two new school buildings to relieve tho congested condition which has existed dur ing the past year. There ia no reason to doubt that council will be prompt and liberal in granting the request. Tho Georgian took up the move ment for more adequate senool fa cilities several weeks ago. Detailed statements were published which showed the number of classes in eaeh school and the pupils in each clttss.-and these figures brought to light the fact that almost . every j grade was overcrowded to a point i where “discomfort and inconven ience residted. The Georgian published photo graphs of some of the makeshift. rooms- One of these was a coal ’ room, whitewashed and cloanod as best it could be for the .reception L* of school children. There were i several basement rooms, badly < lighted, badly' ventilated, unfit for use by growing children during the long hours of the school day. , President Luther K. Rosser and =g Secretary L; M. Landrum, of tho . board of education, have submit ted to tho mayor and council their { annual reports for the fiscal year, -j—-3 and these embody sovoral requests for improvements in conditions. The report shows that in the city schools there are 125 grades which have between 50 and 60 pn. nils in a room, while it is known by educators that 40 is tho maxi, mum number for the best results in teaching. It is shown that two new school buildings are needed to relieve the present overcrowded conditions without making any, provision for future growth. Last year tho city appropriated about <306,000 for thn publio schools, but this year tho board Continutd on Pag, Thre*. ■ J mu SUCCEEDS F.yEALY WITH WEST POINT W. II. Rtullb, acting imlltor of the At- Innta nn«l West Paint, has been appoint- • e*l nmlltor of that road to till the to- y mused hy the resignation of P. A. llenly, now In chsrgo of tho financial de partment of the Ohio Syndicate of Ioternr- ban Ititllways. The order making the ap pointment was Issued last week. • Mure the rentgnatlon of Mr. Ilealy, Mr* Mmltti. who wss Halm agent nt that time, has liven In charge of tho auditing depart ment of the West I»olnt Boats, with tho official title of icing auditor. Mr. Smith Is an official of merit, closely acquainted i with the many detail* of the accounting , and elalmo department* ho Jins made for • bluiNelf an envlabl* record. would aiieceed known officially until only nmong toe O happen In tho next twenty-four O O hour* by fnrern.uiig: Oi 0 HAS FRANCE GIVEN O "Partly t'loudy Monday night 0 o TAHITI TO BRITAIN? O O und Tuesday. O, o - o O Temperature! Monday: O o Melbourne. Auh. Jan. 7.—'The 0 O « a. m 6« degrees O o Melbourne Ago, on tho authority O ** •> a. ><> *" degret*. 0,0 ol inl..tunnrl<>., *ny» that Franco O 8 9 ft ..«1 tlt-glt!ua a I o ha* crelml Tahiti to Great Britain O Q 10 a. $3 degree. O i O In ron.ldvratlon of territorial onn- O O It a. m *r. degree. O j o r***l«n« In Burma. Mr. Drakln. □ O 12 noon .. ft. dogrre . O O prime minister of tho common- O O 1 p. nt ..70 degree. O.o wealth of Australia, aay* he ha* O O 2 p. m. .. .. .,72 degree. O O no Information nn the subject. r- a'a ooooooooooooooooooooooocoo oooooooooooooooooooooooooS . Smith and then that road. 4 m*d* th* tlv» January 1. Il. waa ly c.liter In tho old Richmond and Dan ville freight nine*, when hla father, T. T. Smith, w*a agent. Winbum 8t.ps Up. Ur. Smith I* aoceMded by Fred E. WJn- hum. who a as time, the-dull.', of rhlaf claim rlrrk. which I* practically the aatno *• that of claim agent, having all th* authority and emoluments afforded by that title. Mr. Wlntmrn Is oa* of the' best knows and moat popular roons railroad men In th. .Wy.' tfsTtOff entered the claim Offlrei of the Western and Atlantic at clerk In lam. hi. fnnrteen yean of experience and eloaa application tethtly has been rewarded with fiat prumoridoa whleh will at wo late data resalt In hla halos made claim agent of the Atlanta apd West 1'olnt. lie went t* ■ he Wat 1‘olut as claim InveatlgatM la