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VOL. XXXIII—NO. 33.
WASHINGTON
AWAITS MISS
ABBOTFS STORY
house committee will hear
from young lady who
CLAIMS TO HAVE COPIED
FROM FILES OF INTERIOR DE
PARTMENT LETTER FROM
RYAN TO RICHARD A. BALLIN
GER.
Washington, July 12—Although a
great many denials have been made
that government officials intended to
permit the Guggenheim interests to
control Alaskan transportation thru,
a monopoly, on the water front of Con
troller Bay, in that territory, the ad
ministration has decided to let con
gress reach its own conclusions, and
every scrap of information relative to
the matter will be sent to the senate
as soon as possible.
While President Taft and the mem
bers of the cabinet have voiced the
opinion that an investigation will
show nothing even remotely resem
bling such at attempt to favor the
Guggenheim interests, an attempt in
which the names of Charles P. Taft,
the president’s brother, and Former
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
have been coupled, they are deter
mined that every effort should be made
to clear the situation.
At the regular session of the cabi
net today the affair was discussed at
length. It was decided that all the
department interested —war, agricul
ture, interior, commerce and labor —
should be urged to make their reports
on the case as quickly as possible. It
It was stated last night that all the
documentary evidence in the case
probably will be in the president’s
hands early next week, and that it
then will be sent immediately to the
senate in answer to a resolution call
ing for all such information.
Although in response to this senate
resolution the documents will go to
that body, the house committee on ex
penditures in the interior department,
which has started an investigation of
its own, may examine them if it de
sires.
Washington Awaits Miss Abbott’s
Story.
Washington is awaiting with much
interest the story to he told today be
fore the house committee on expendi
tures in the interior department by
Miss M. F. Abbott, who claims to have
copied from the files of the interior
department a letter from RichardS.
Ryan to the secretary, Richard A.
Ballinger. showing that Ryan sought
the aid of Charles P. Taft in securing
President Taft’s approval of the
opening of the water front on Con
troller Bay, Alaska.
Up to this time Miss Abbott ap
pears to be the only person to have
s ?en the mysterious letter. Secretary
Fisher has said that a thorough
search of the department files failed
to reveal such a letter. President Taft
has stated that he had never talked
■with his brother about Ryan or Con
troller Bay, and it is announced that
neither the files at the White House
nor those in the office of Charles P.
Taft, show any correspondence on the
subject.
Asluman Brown, former secretary
s o Mr. Ballinger, from whom Miss
Abbott claims to have secured the let
tor, has denied absolutely any know
■edge of it. According to published
accounts. Miss Abbott will testify that
she found, attached to a typewritten
letter from R. S. Ryan to R. A. Bal-
DALTON ARGUS.
ASSESSMENTS
SHOW DALTON
BUILDING UP
WHEN ADDITIONAL REALTY IS
INCLUDED IN ROLL INDICA
TIONS ARE THAT $40,000 TO
$50,000 WORTH OF NEW BUILD
INGS WILL BE RECORD FOR
PAST TWELVE MONTHS.
While the total value of taxable
realty may not show much increase
this year, the situation will be
chargeable to Dalton’s disasterous fire
and not to any lack of growth.
The tax assessors are at present busy
making a list of new property in the
city, not included in the last assess
ments and from present indications,
the value of new residences and cot
tages may run close to $50,000.
The assessors make a complete new
assessment each two years and last
year the roll was made out and in
cluded many of the latest and hand
somest dwellings in Dalton.
This year the assessors find out what
additional property is to be included
and although this work has not been
finished, the fact is disclosed that a
number of costly houses have been
erected and cottages without number
have sprung up in every quarter of
the city.
Dalton’s quarter of a million dol
lar fire swept away much valuable
property, but the town has been
steadily growing. Not the mushroom
kind of growth, but healthy, normal
advancement in every ward.
Within a short time the new city
hall and two public school buildings
will be added to the list of handsome
structures and several fine residences
are now under course of construc
tion.
REPRESENTATIVE
INTRODUCES BILLS
Last night’s report of bills intro
duced in the house contains the fol
lowing by Representative Tarver, of
this county:
Mr. Mr. Tarver of Whitfield —Relat-
ing to the setting aside of home
steads.
By Mr. Tarver of Whitfield —To
amend acts incorporating Dalton.
An Argus ad will fill the bill.
linger, dated July 13, 1910, this note
or postscript:
Dear Dick —I went to see the
president the other day about this
Controller Bay affair. The presi
dent asked me whom I represent
ed. I told him, according to our
agreement, that I represented my
self, but that did not seem to
satisfy him, so I sent for Charlie
Taft and asked him to tell his
brother whom I represented. The
president made no further objec
tion to my claim. Yours,
(Signed) DICK.
A list of witnesses made up late
yesterday by the committee conduct
ing the inquiry is said to include the
following: Charles P. Taft, brother of
the president; Daniel Guggenheim,
head of the Alaskan syndicate; Frank
H. Hitchcock, postmaster-general; W.
L. Fisher, secretary of the interior;
Richards S. Ryan, the alleged pro
moter, and a large number of land
office clerks.
The inquiry promises to be a long
and interesting one.
LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1911.
HOKE SMITH
IS ELECTED
FIRST BALLOT
Georgia Governor Receives 155 Votes on Joint Ballot
of Senate and House of Representatives, and is
now Offically Chosen United States Senator.
Terrell Follows with 51 Votes, Watson, Coving
ton and Holder Also Ran.
As predicted by his friends here
and in Atlanta yesterday afternoon
Governor Smith never seemed to stand
any chance of losing after the ballot
was taken in each branch of the legis
lature at noon yesterday.
When the vote was taken then Mr.
Smith received 107 votes in the house
and 21 in the senate, making a total
of 128 votes.
On today’s ballot he secured in the
joint meeting, 155 votes, which is an
increase over his strength yesterday
of 27 votes.
Governor Hoke Smith was elected
-z' *1 ere
MRS. M. E. DERRI3K
HAS PASSED AWAY
Mrs. Mary E. Derrick, mother of
Mrs. A. O. Burdine, passed away yes
terday morning at the residence of
Mr. Burdine, on Thornton avenue.
She was at the time on a visit to her
daughter in the hope of gaining
strength.
The remains were taken last night
to Huntsville.
Mistress (hastily sticking a finger
into either ear) —Kitty for heaven’s
sake! what does that frightful noise
and profanity in the kitchen mean ?
Kitty—Oh, that’s nothing, ma’am!
It’s only cook rejectin’ a proposal av
marrige from the ashman!—Harper's
Baraar.
to the United States Senate this af
ternoon on the joint ballot, receiv
ing 155 votes.
The names of Senator Terrell, Tom
Watson, Judge W. A. Covington and
Mr. Holder were also voted upon but
Mr. Smith’s victory was a landslide
and the question is now settled.
The vote received by each man is
as follows:
Smith 155
Terrell 51
Watson 7
Covington 6
Holder 1
NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT
IS BEING PLANNED
On one evening next week at a
date to be announced later, the Mission
Workers of the First Presbyterian
church will give an entertainment at
the auditorium of the City Park
school to raise funds with which to
give a scholarship to some deserving
girl at the Nacoochee Valley school.
Mrs. Freer, who spent a year in In
dia, will give a picture talk, illustrat
led with lantern slides. Mrs. Freer
I will discuss both the home life and
i the school life and industrial condi
tions of the great oriental country
i and will appear in one or two native
costumes.
An excellent program is being ar
• ranged and Mrs. W. M. Jones is ex-
GOVERNORSHIP
RACE IS NOW
IN LIMELIGHT
FRIENDS OF VARIOUS MEN ARE
PUTTING FORWARD NAMES
AND IT IS NOT SAFE TO BE IN
ATLANTA WITHOUT BEING
EQUIPPED WITH A POLITICAL
LIGHTNING ROD.
The gubernatorial pot is beginning
to boil merrily and a number of pro
minent Georgians have already been
mentioned as possible candidates.
Naturally the name of Joe Brown,
the recently retired chief executive,
is being- mentioned by all of his for
mer supporters and it may be said
by many who were at one time against
him.
President Slaton, of the senate, has
also been put into the lime light but
he is quoted as saying that he would
support “Little Joe.”
The names of O. A. Blalock, vice
president of the senate, Attorney
General Thomas S. Felder, and Cam
paign Manager J. R. Smith, who
looked after one of Governor Brown’s
campaigns, Richard B. Russell, Thos.
G. Hudson and Roscoe Luke, are also
on many lips.
The situation is puzzling and no one
knows exactly what the line up will
be at this hour.
The talk of “Little Joe” is wide
spread and there seems to be a strong
impression that he will be one candi
date at any rate.
There are of course others who
will probably be mentioned during the
next 24 hours and the situation is ex
pected to take on tangible shape and
the race will be on.
The Dally Argus, only 10c a week —
all the local news same day It happens
FAMOUS MANAGER
ONCE VISITED DALTON
Marc Klaw, of the firm of Klaw &
Erlanger, the greatest theatrical pro
ducing and booking agency in the
world, used to come to Dalton as ad
vance agent for J. H. Huntley and
Florence Kennedy when old Trevitt’s
Hall was the mecca for lovers of the
theatre. Miss Kennedy (Huntley’s
wife), is dead, but Huntley is lead
i"o- man of the Murat Stock company,
| which has been so popular in the big
| cities of the west. Tn years gone,
Dalton has seen and heard many
later day celebrities and favorites.
Fay Templeton. Cecil Spooner. Corse
Payton, Louis James, Marie Wain
wright, Sol Smith Russell and James
i O’Neil. It may be truthfully said
that Fay Templeton laid the founda
tion for George Cohan’s millions by
making his play “Forty Minutes
from Broadway,” a success. Ford s
Juvenile Opera company sang “Pina
fore” here in the late seventies and
the young girl essaying the role of
“Little Buttercup,” afterwards sang
in all of Gilgert and Sullivans operas
in England, taking the stage name of
Frances Gillette.
pected to sing several Indian songs.
It takes about SSO to send a girl one
year to the school and approximately
half of this amount has already been
raised.
Full announcement of the program
will be made within the next few
days.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAB
DISTINGUISHED
SPEAKERS ARE
IN ATTENDANCE
DR. C. R. HENRY GUEST TODAY
AND SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
M. L. BRITTAIN EXPECTED ON
FRIDAY—COL. W. C. MARTIN
TO DELIVER ADDRESS—AT
TENDANCE IS LARGE AND
MEETING A NOTABLE ONE.
The Whitfield County Teachers’
Institute convened again this morn
ing at 8:30 o’clock with a still in
creased attendance.
The guest of today is Dr. C. R.
Henry, of the State Board of Health,
who will deliver an address at the
regular hour this afternoon.
Clerk W. M. Sapp will also address
the teachers on the Boy Scout move
ment and the scouts are expected to
attend in full uniform.
Tomorrow Rev. F. K. Sims, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church will
deliver an address and Col. W. C. Mar
tin, chairman of the county board of
education, will also speak at some
date yet to be decided upon by him.
On Friday, Hon. M. L. Brittain,
state school commissioner, is expect
ed to be present.
Mr. Brittain has written ProK’
lirnest that it may be possible for
to stop off a portion of the day. He
is at present in LaFayette, Ga., and
is going from there to Cartersville.
His route will in all probability be via
Chattanooga and he may stop off from
the morning until the afternoon
train.
Among the teachers in attendance
today are the following:
Fannie Russell, Kate Freeman, Lucy
Warmack, Ruby Hunt, Fannie Lou
Camp, Grace Jackson, Lucile John
son, Pearl Daves, Nell Pack. Jessie
Palmer, Ethel Palmer, Alma Foster,
Ruby Wood, Lizzie West, Johnnie L.
Sanders, Ruth Vining, Minnie Davis,
Ethel Davis, Nettie Wood, Elizabeth
Kreischer, Kathrine Kreischer, Nell
Calloway, W. A. Ault, J. L. Palmer,
Willie Sams, J. A. Seymour, C. L.
Tsbill, J. D. Field, Hubert Williams,
C. D. Giddens, Earnest Moody,
Vaughn Babh, Eistell Giddens, Clem
mie Cavender. Grace Palmer, Minnie
Lowry, Nina Bates, J. J. Copeland, R.
E. Price, Ethel Nicholds, S. T. Carr, »
G. F. Huggins, U. B. Pullen, Grace
Robertson, Annie Palmer, Vinnie
Neal, Lilly Hammontree, Pearl Ken
nemer, Irene Giddens.
ARRESTED FOR PASSING
WORTHLESS CHECKS
New Orleans, La., July 11 —The
local police last night arrested Earl
Welptort White, alias R. A. Handen,
alias Moore, of Mount Pleasant, la.,
on the charge of having passed worth
less checks. Posing, it is charged, as
a millionaire’s son, White had little
difficulty in getting a local automobile
firm to eash for him checks amounting
to $l2O, following the purchase of a
machine, also to be paid for by check.
The checks were returned yesterday
by the bank on which they were drawn
marked “No funds,” and the arrest
followed.
“HOOSIER POET” GIVES
SIOO,OOO TO SCHOOLS
Indianapolis, Ind.. July 12 —James
Whitcomb Riley, the “Hoosier Poet”
has given real estate valued at SIOO,-
000 to the board of school commis
sioners as a site for a public library
and administration building for th©
public schools of this city.