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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. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooc 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 oooootpoooooooooooaoooaoooc 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.