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The Georgian Canias
The BUSINESS
And All Of It Clean
Georgian.
The
TbeBU^N^
And All Of It Clean
VOL. 1. NO. 225.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1907.
CRAFT HE FIVE KILEED
U.S.IIIISTER
Herbert Peirce. Ac
cused by Prof.
Elliott.
AX INVESTIGATION
SURE TO FOLLOW
Allegations are Made Before
llouseComraittecon
Wavs and Means.
Washington, Jun. 14.—Herbert H. D.
r. live, now United Ktaten mlnlHter t«
Norway, and formerly asalstant were
tary of ntnte, Is again In the public eye
because of charges made against him.
Hi- was accused today by Professor
H. W. Klllott, of Cleveland, Ohio, be
fore the house committee on ways and
inruns of having bean guilty of mlscon-
du< t while representing the United
States government at The Huguo In the
M*ttlcmont of claims resulting from the
l Jby-ilw- llut*- it,,.
Professor Klllott's charge Is that Mr.
pclret* not only represented this gov
ernment. but did business on his own
l.o..k and represented the owners of
the \essel, which was called the J.
Hamilton Lewis.
Mr Peirce, asserted the witness, aft-
erwards gave proof of havlntf repre-
m ntvd the owners by bringing a suit
In the supreme court of the District of
Columbia to Insure the payment of his
t< i- ..ut of the money that was award
ed to the owners of the vessel.
This charge of graft against Mr.
Mro evidently astounded the com-
mtttif. and Representative Champ
n*t« and Representative John Shartr
Will unis declared that It rollecied so
seriously on the administration that It
• should l>e Investigated In as great de
tail as possible.
Hi-n-no Payne agreed that every ef
fort hh-.uld in* made to alft the matter
to^hs bottom. It Was suggested after
the meeting ns being probable that Mr.
Peirce himself might be called on to
tel! what he knows about the matter.
Profry^nr^HtHott.' vh" Wild he Hp-
)--r,rr-4 r^r--vr^ The cornmttt»»e to have
i'n- United States abolish the lease of
the North American Commercial Com
l*an> f"i the sealing privileges on the
—I'nUb.f.-lsUad*, -declared .that-»4f4W«Hr
of this company hud perjured them-
s*-l\es when they obtained the lease
as they were not engaged In pelagic
'•.ding. In spite of this, he
they rtiutpped the J. Hamilton i.ewls,
the seizure of which led to the
charges against the present United
States minister to Norway.
Six Persons Injured
in Indian Mipe by
Gas Blast
ONE MAN’S HEAD
BLOWN OFF BODY
Others are Thought to Have
Perished In the
— Shaft
Clinton, Ind., Jan. 14.—At least five
men are dead and u score burned und
maimed as a result of a gaa nd pow
der explosion In mlno No. 7, near this
city, early today. Joe Joseph, Ed
Wolfe, John Herman and Peter Letl-
vlsh are the known dead, and It Is be
lieved sevral other* must have per
ished. Six Injured men have been ta
ken out, and only a small section of the
wrecked passage has yet been search
ed.
No one has been Jihlc -to-d<4ermlne strength-of -
exact cause of the dlsaater. It ls<
the lead Wolfe wis working and tet
Are to the accumulated gas.
The Interior of the mine was stream
with debris In which the bodies of the
dead and Injured were found. All
were terribly mangled. Wolfe’s head
was blown off and was picked up 20
feet from the scarred and blistered
remnnnt of his body. Efforts to res
cue the victims are delayed by tho In
tense heat generated by the explosion.
Some of the Injured assert at least
half a dozen of their comrades were
cut off. and It Is believed none of them
an 1m* alive. All of the Injured so
far recovered are badly, burned and
two of them are expected to die.
1ST RECRUIT
STATE TROOPS
MUTELY
Companies Mus
Number Not Less
Than 58.*
STATES ON NOTICE
FROM UNCLE SAM
More Men Must be Added
Strength
If Georgia do«, not recruit the com
pony strength of tta national guard,
Infantry, cavalry and artillery, from the
minimum of 40 men to Cl men. t<
right to the annual allotment of $33
000 from the government will be for
felted.
Under the provlelone of the Dick bill
the war department haa authority to
fix euch regulation,, and an order hoe
Juet been paeeed fixing the minimum
The
regulation Is arbitrary, and the states
exploded hr that do not comply—will—forfeit their
government allotment of the fund op
proprtated for this purpose.
By order of tho governor the rulo
obtaining now na to company strength
In the minimum la 40. Tho new orde
upturn, conditions and puts the pr«b
lem squarely up to the stato.
Aa yet the olllctal order front-the
war department haa not reached the
nfftre of the adjutant general, and As
sistant Adjutant General Scott declines
to say anything regarding the matter.
That the new regulation will cause
an upheaval In military circles In r.r.ir
gla la certnln. The governor la «com.
inander-ln-chlef of the national guard
of the state, and the matter will, be
up to him Inrgely. When the order
reaches Atlanta officially there will be
lively dolnfs about the capltol.
SWAM RIVER UNDERFIRE;
REVENUE MEN BREAKUP
- He Sends Evidence to
LICENSE IS TAKEN
i! room-to-be Robbed and
Money and Credentials
are Gone.
■ hi to The Georgian. •
oilartown, a a., Jan. 14.—Hen Thom-
wan knocked down and robbed here
’ lay night by unknown parties, lim
it marriage license and (102 In
y. Ho does nut have any Id
were tho footpads and his we
s now will probably be poxtiMged
account of tho Iota of Ills license
money.
* Afler deserting n email boat that
wen! t.i pieces—un the—treacherous
shoals of the Upper Savannah river
anti while facing a fusillade of bullets
from three Winchesters In tho hands
of as many .determined moonshiners.
Deputy Collector E. J. Minton and
Deputy Marshals T. P. Trammell and
G. W. Grlsaell plunged Inlo the rapids
and swam to tin Island In the middle
of tho Stream, last Friday and captured
one of the largest Illicit distilleries evrr
taken bv life local revenue department.
The three moonshiners, ufter realli-
Ing that the officers were game, took
Islnnd and esrnpert Into South Caroline.
Warrants have been Issued for their
arrest, however, and It Is thought that
all three will he apprehended and
brought to Atlanta this week.
The revenue officers destroyed the
still, which was of TC-gallon capacity,
and several hundred gallons of beer,
and returned to Atlanta Saturday aft
ernnon. No one was Injured In the bat
lie, but theMfflrers say the bullets came
uncomfortably close to them at times.
The scene of the raid was about
fourteen miles from Elberton.
WITH GLIDDEN ON JOUR,
GEORGIA WOMAN RELATES
SI ORYOFA UTO ACCIDENT
$50,000 WAS LOST
BY
lal to The Georgian.
Orleans, La.. Jan. 14.—Jockey
Nlcol, regarded aa a crack on
• ri. an Turf Association tracks last
' -n. and one of the best riders here
has parted company with Fred
i he plunging bookmaker ami
■ W nor. who haa had Nlcol under ;
"■“'t. It Is said.
.inferences that brought about ;
’■l ilt are alleged to have resulted [
a rj.le put up by Niro! last Krl- |
. n t’ook’a great rarer. Minnie
"ns. which finished bad last In a
-horse race.
he race. It le said, cost tweniy-»l*
'« that did business in the rime t
tty Park that day l.iO.oan. .Minnie
-■"» wnn the City Park derby laet ;
She haa done nothing her.- ihi- i
1 and It la claimed Is III need of a
i feat.
Mrs."W. F. Hills, of El Paso, Texas,
Ito was one of the party with Charles
(Ill.l.len In the automobile wrecked
December 31, within HO miles nf Mexico
City, after un all-rail journey from
Boston, Is at the Piedmont hotel.
Mrs. Hills la a Georgia woman, a na.
live of Bartow county, and the widow
William 8. Hills, of Rome.
She owns large^ Interests In El Paso,
und Blends her time there and In Grand
Rapids, where her daughter. Sire. Dud.
lev E. Waters, resides.
The Gllddens have long been friends
of Mrs. Hills, and when Mr. otldden
Invited her to Join them In the famous
automobile trip at San Antonio, ahe
was very glsd to accept. She told a
Georgian representative of tho cxi>c-
rlencc of gliding In a big automobile
along the rails of a railroad, and the
thrilling sensations of going through a
wreck w hile traveling about 30 miles un
hour.
This Journey of Mr. Gltdden was
novel, and In the way of a large ex
periment—an experiment which. It la
said, will result In the Rock Island
system Inaugurating a regular lino of
railroad automobiles. His big * I l.OOt)
Napier machine waa lilted tn Boston
with especially constructed Hanged
wheels for tho Journey of over 4,000
la \t n !he inception of the trip the party
consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.
(Hidden, MISS Martha \\ ahlron-Barron
and the engineer of the car. Mr. Gild,
den had mapped out his route, secured
the consent of the several railroad
managements to use the roads, and
orkrtl nut to a nicety Ms schedule.
Greetings to Preeident Diet.
Ills plan comprehended the delivery
President Dla*. In Mexico City, a
pu Year greeting from Preeident
Roosevelt. It almost broke Mr. aid-
,1,,n's heart that failure overtook them
»Ithln 30 miles .If the destination.
The rail Journey was 4,071 miles, and
the distances covered on the entire trip
4.111 miles In this particular ear Mr.
i Hidden has covered 30.710 mliea Mrs,
Hills' description nf the accident anti
tho miraculous escape from death of
the party Is very Interesting: J
"We were traveling comfortably
about 10 miles an hour on the famous
Mexican National railroad. In the ear
were Mr. Charles J. (Hidden. Miss
Wnldron-Rarron. *• Boston; Captain
Thomas, the automobile engineer: an
official of the Mexican National and a
reporter for Ths Mexican Herald.
Narrow Eacape From Death.
-Mr. Gltdden had Just remarked that
we were on schedule time to the min
ute, and would reach Mexico City
artly on the hour originally designed,
when tho front nf the car rose In the
air. The huge car skidded along the
ballasted track III feet, then turned
over on Ita aide, spilling every one to
the ground. A few feet further and
we would have all been crushed under
the ear, ns It would havo turned corn*
pletely over. The wheel struck a rock
wedged between the rail Joints, causing
the accldejtt.
"Aside from bruises and the shock,
no one waa Injured. Then the wonder
ful resourcefulness nf Mr. Gldden came
to the surfeee. Tears ago he wns a
telegraph operator, and always carried
the necessary nppnrtus with him. He
Is a largo man phyHcnllv. and a* he
rose from the dirt hfs " comment
was. ‘What’s done Is done,' and within
thirty minutes had his Instrument rig
ged to ths wires end wns sitting astride
an old box wiring Mexico city,
-The omrlele of the Mexican Na
tional were unusually kind to us. The
regular express was AMereJ to stop
and pick ue up, and a wrecking train
sent out to bring the wrecked aulo Into
the Mexican capital. The car will he
shipped to London for repairs, and next
summer Mr. and Mrs. Glldden begin
another tour around the world. They
have been good enough to Invite mo to
Join them, and If possible to leave mv
busmen I win go. on tn* day after
the accident President Dtaa received us
at tits palace."
Mrs. Hills says that Charles J. Glld
den la a very remarkable man In many
ways. While a millionaire, he ahhnra
having newspapers constantly stress
ing that fact. He Is absorbed In the
development and possibilities of nuto-
moblling. but flnds time ror other In
terests.
He le the Inventor nf the switchboard
for telephones, le a chemist nf greet
ability, end among eclentlata Is known
as an astronomer of wide Information.
Mrs. Hills le en route East, and will
leave for Baltimore Monday evening.
SEEN IN THE SMOKE OF THE SENATE BATTLE.
NOBODY BUT THE NEGRO SOLDIERS
TO BLAME FOR BROWNSVILLE RIOT,
DECLARES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Half Million Is Not
Needed by Water
Plant
FLECTION SHOULD
INCLUDE BOTH
No Crying Need for Big
Expenditures on Water- ,—~
works at This Time. /
Will an election for the Issuance o4
4500,000 of bonds for the city water* -
works be beld In Atlanta on March St
General Manager Park Woodward
has recommended It In his annual re
port to the water board.
President Frank P. Rice, of the wa
ter board, haa recommended It to coun
cil.
The finance committee' of the board
Saturday afternoon passed a reeolu-
lion asking the finance committee ol
council to recommend a bond elaetlne -
for March 4.
Under an amendment to the city
charter this Issue of bonds was au*
thorled by the general assembly In
1(04. It Is more than poealble that the
finance committee will recommend that
the election be held. In which case It li
Serrateinthe
Case.
SPRINGFIELD RIFLES
WERE GUNS USED
Black Troops Guilty of At
tempting to Murder Men,
Women and Children.
Washington. Jan. 14.—President
Itonwvelt sent the following message
uj the cenmte:
’in my message to the senate treat
ing at the dismissal, without honor, of
certain named members of the three
oinpanlen of the Twenty-flffh Infantry.
gave the report of the />fn<iala_upua
which dismissal was based, thene re
ports were made In accordance with
the custom In' such caries.* It would,
of course, be Impossible to preserve
discipline in the army save by pur
suing the course that In this case was
pursued. Inasmuch, however, us In
the senate uuestton was raised an to
the sufficiency of the evidence, I deem
ed It wise to send Major Illrfcksnm and
an assistant to the secretary of war to
Brownsville to make a thorough Inves-
tlgatbui on the ground in reference to
the matter.
•*I herewith transmit Secretary Taft’s
report and the testimony taken under
oath of he vurlous witnesses exarnlneil
In the course of the Investigation I
submit various exhibits. Including
maps of llrownsvllle and Fort Itroun.
photographs of various hnlMIng*. a let
ter from Judge Parks to his wife, to
gether with a bandolier, thlrty-thn*
empty shells, seven ball cartridges und
four f lips picked up In the streets of
unsvllle within n few hours after
stmottng; three steel jacketed bul
lets nnd some scraps of the casings of
*ther bullets picked out of the house
Into which they had been fired.
Several Crime* Committed,
telegram from United States
ommlssloner R. II. Crager, at Itrowns.
Ille, announces that six additional bul
lets—like the others, from Kpilngfleld
rifles—taken from buildings In Itrowns*
vllle, with supporting affidavits, have
since been sent to the secretary of war.
U appeal n from the tcalhnru iJbti
i»n the ntght of August 13, Mm»i. several
crimes were committed by some |H*rson
persons In the city of Itrow nsvllle.
Among these were the following:
’’A—The murder of Prank Nntus.
B—The assault with Intent t4» kill
of Lieutenant of Police Ikimlnguex,
whose horse was killed under .him and
whose inn was shot so severely that It
had to be amputated.
, Motiv* for ths Shooting.
—The assault with Intent to kill
Mr. and Mrs. Ilnl Odin, nnd their little
boy, who were In the window i»f the
Miller hotel.
**I>—The shooting Into several prl-
HERE ARE FEATURES
OF SPECIA L MESSAGE
In hie special message In the senate on the Brownsville, Tex, riot.
on tho night of August It. 1(04, were done by negro eoldlere of the
Twenty-fifth Infantry.
The bullets fired, nnd which were afterwards found tn hotels and
private residences, were from Springfield rifles used by the army.
Eye witnesses swore that the assassins were negroes wearing the uni
form of the army.
Tho preeident ridicules the rhurge that white cltltene of Brownsville
blackened their faces and "shot up" Iho town to discredit the negro sol
diers.
He le satisfied that portion of hie order dlamlaetng the three compa
nies which prevents the dlnchargcd men from securing other fivll employ-
luent Is Invalid.
The order preventing them ro-enllatlng In the army or Joining the
navy Is In full effect.
NEGRO TROOPS PLOTTED
TO KILL BY WHOLESALE
Washington, Jan. 14.—A dispatch
Train a staff officer sent to Brownsville,
Texas, ,ays:
"Afler a careful Investigation of the
Brownsville riot of last August, which
line resulted In the tllemleeal by the
president of companies It, t* and D, of
the colored Twenty-fifth Infantry. 1 am
convinced that u plot actually did exist
among the soldiers to commit whole
sale murder.
"Recent reports made hy tsitchrlst
Stewart, of the Constitutional league,
I have found to be based on false In
formation furnished by the soldiers.
Negress 8tert*d Troublt.
"Stewart represented to ttie Wash
ington officials that thee was a con
spiracy among the dtlxens of Browns-
llle to shoot Hie negro soldiers, whose
presence In the city was objectionable
the whites. This I have found to
be 'absolutely false. I can positively
iay. from what I have learned, that tho
negro soldiers started the trouble, und
vale residences In the city of Browns
ville. three of them containing women
and children.
"E—The shooting at and slightly
wounding of 1-reclndo.-
"These rrlmes were certainly com
mitted by somebody.
"As to the motive for the commission
of the crimes, It appears that trouble
of n more or lees serious kind had oc
curred between Individual members of
the companies anil Individual dtlxens
i f nri.w fluvRter cunitfiisitng tn com
plaints whlrh resulted In the soldiers
being confined within the limits of
tie garrison on tlte evening of the
day In question.
"The evidence, as will la* seen, shows
beyond any possibility of lamest ques
tion that some Individuals among the
eolon-d troops, whom I have dismissed,
committed Iho outrages mentioned, and
that some or alt of the Individuals
whom I dismissed had knowledge of
the deed and Shielded from the Ian
ttmse who committed. It
Very Idee Rtdieuleus.
"The only motive suggested poelebly
did most. If not nil, the shooting.
"In Ills report, Htawart declares that
It was Impossible for the soldiers to
have left the barracks at Fort Brown,
to hove gone through the town shoot-
lug und to retreat to their barracks
before Major Penrose could account for
their absence. A study of the fort and
the portion of the city In which the
shooting occurred proved thnt It would
hove been an easy matter for the sol
diers to have done the very thing which
Stewart says was Impossible.
Could Cover Tracks.
"The trouble wus confined lo a sec
tion Il-It more than 300 yards from the
barracks. It Is precisely the some dls.
ranee from the soldiers' barracks to
Major Penrose's quarters. If tlte sol
diers were In a conspiracy to commit
murder, they could have so arranged It
that they eotilt^ have got safely back
within the walla of the fort before the
major could have been summoned.
"Tills point, one nf the most Impnr
tnnt In the Iitvostlga^lnn of. the affair,
highly probable council will approve.
The objection being raised to tht
proposition Is that a resolution la now
before the finance committee. Intro
duced by Councilman Longlno, and
providing for a bond Issue of (1,000,000,
with which not only to perfect the wa
terworks system, but to moke other
needed Improvements.
Among these-4e a municipal dlghtlnl
plant," .It la felt by iome that calllna.
for the bond election for wetarwork*
alone will be the doat^ blewjto Oban- .
oilman Longlno'scrdlrtahci and to tke
proposed municipal lighting plant—44
least for a long while.
Need City Light Plant
While U Is true -that theca is
works, Giefe artTmogy who argna HUB"
there ts no crying necessity for Si
great a sum aa (400,000 being spent
now f..c that puepoe., while (bp ]
of Atlanta are clamoring, for a mu
nicipal lighting plant.
The Issuance of (400,000 of bonds foi
the sole use of the waterworks—end tht
set passed by the general assembl]
states that this amount shall ba ex
pended for nothing else—will mean
probably that the municipal lighting
plant can not be built for years.
Experts have been employed by tht
city council' and they are now at work
estimating the probable cost lo the ettj
of a lighting plant, and soon their re*
port will .be In. If this report cornel
In after a bond Issue of half a million
dollars Is authorised for the water-
works, the city may not be In shape tc
authorise another bond Issue for Un
municipal lighting plant.
The people want the waterworks
system perfected. They demand that
the municipal lighting plant be built
For this reason many of the tblnklrti'
citlxens and tax payers of Atlanta art
asking why a bond Issue providing foi
en election for the Issuance of bondl
providing for both can not be called.
This will necessitate only one elec
tion. nnd.'lf cerlred, will mean not onl)
thnt the waterworks system will be Im
proved, but that the extortion of a pri
vate monoisily controlling a public ns-
cesslty Hill cease, once and for all, IB
Atlanta.
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0 NOT 80 WARM TONIGHT, C
8AYS WEATHER PROPHET. C
serins to have he-n entirely overlooked
by tht* t'onstltqtlonal league In Its tie.
fenae of the soldiers."
Influencing any one else was n desire
get rltl of the colored tn
strong that It Impelled the citlxens nf
Brownsville to shoot up thetr own
houses, to kill one of their own num
ber, to assault their own police, wound
ing the lieutenant who hail been an of
ficer for 30 years—all with the purpose
>f discrediting tlte negro troupe. The
sugegstlnn Is on Its fnce so ludicrously
Imisiaslblo that It Is difficult to treat
It .is honestly made.
"This theory (fippoeFa ITmt the ns-
anllanta succeeded In otnulnlng the uni
form of the negro solillets. that tie-
fort* starting on their raid they got
over the fenre of 1 he fort unchulleng'
etl. nnd without discovery by the ne-
gnt troops, opened fire on the town
from within the fori; that they black
ened their faces en that at least four
teen eye wltnraeea mistook them for
negroes; that they disguised their
voices so that at leant six witnesses
heard them apeak mistook their
voices as being those nf negroes.
Were Net Mexican*.
'They were not Mexicans, for they
Summer continues to stay where <
O sin* Is welcomed—by everyone but C
O the coal dealers. Poor, down* C
O trodden coal dealera—but It's i C
O warm day when they gel left. C
0 The weather man Is cautious. C
O He draws distinctions between C
O *eni|iemtures. Look at this: C
O "Fair tonight nnd Tuesday. Not C
O so wurm tonight, colder Tu*e> C
O 7 o'clock o. m.
O X o'clock a. in..
0 it o'clock a. m..
O in o’clock a. tn..
O II o'clock a. in..
O 12 o'clock noon..
O 1 o'clock p. m..
0 3 o'clock p.* m..
O
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were heard by wltneaaea to apeak Eng
lish. The weapon* they used were
Springfield rules, for tho ammunlttoi
which they used woe' that of tht
Springfield rifle end no other, ant
could not have been used la any gut
In Texas or any part of the union, oi
In Mexico, or In any other part of tht
wnrltl. save only In the Springfield now
used hy the United States troops. In
cluding the negro troops Iff the garri
son at Brownsville and by no other
persons save these troops—e weapoi
which had only been In use by tht
Continued on Pag* Seven.