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V OL. XXXIII—NO. 38. ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR MAKES DEBUT gentleman from coffee county, FORMERLY OF WAY CROSS, ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY AND OUTLINES HIS PLATFORM. Waycross, Ga., Aug 15—J. R. Dedge, formerly of this city, now liv ing in Coffee county, is squarely in the race, for governor of Georgia, ac cording to a signed statement from [him today. I He outlines in detail his platform, which is a combination of questions [agitated for some time in Georgia. ;Mr. Dedge states in his introductory that what the people of the state need is a man of the people and not a cor- I poration lawyer or man who has been brought up by the corporations. To get the attendance at his meetings he ■ltormer dalton pastor I PREACHES FUNERAL IN PARIS ■ ■Rct. James M. Lee Delivers Oration ■ i at the Funeral of the Late John W. B i Gates, the Great Chicago Capitalist. H Rev. J. M. Lee. a former pastor of B»he Dalton First Methodist church, BMnreaf-hed the funeral sermon of the BBla'e John W. Gates in Paris. The fol- MKlowing cablesrram gives an account of obsequies: g&jv Paris, Aug. 12 —The funeral of MMjohn W, Gates was held today at the BBlnter-Denominational church in the raHßtie de Berri. I .<c 1 ■ •he BHRev. James M. Lee, pastor of St. ®HJohn's Methodist Episcopal church, KBSonth, at St. Louis, assisted by Dr. pastor of the American church. Klin his discourse the latter said that B : ,| IL. Gates and he had played together ■ ■as hoys, but had never met in later B I life. Some 200 American friends and KB acquaint ences from all parts of the ■ ■United States were present. Nearly KH all entered their names on the regis- Klter in the vestibule of the church. I; I Former Dalton Pastor to Be Made I Bishop. B Reverend Father John E. Gunn, of Bl Atlanta, and who ministered to the members of the Roman Catho faith for so long, will be conse- | Bishop of Natchez some time B| next month, as will be seen by the fol ■l lowing dispatch: B Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 13—The Rev. Bl John E. Gunn', pastor of the Church of K| the Sacred Heart, who recently was Bn appointed bishop of the Roman Cath- Bm olic diocese of Natchez, Miss., proba- Bl hly will Re consecrated in Atlanta during the latter part of August, ac- Bl cor ding to an announcement made at Bl the Church of the Sacred Heart to ll day. It will be the first Catholic Bl Episcopal consecration ever held in H Atlanta, and the services, it is expect- B| e( i' ""ill be attended by representatives B| °f the Catholic church from many Parts of the country. B There will be some class to the new ■ opera house WHEN it is built. is set FREE; JB MISSING WIFE ALIVE Bl Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 16 —Receiving H that has caused him to Bl Bandon the murder theory, and be- B ?ott e convinced that Mrs. Lyda May II Bishop, the Itkyear-old bride who B has been strangely missing since July || 22? is alive and that she vanished of K| ber own free will, Chief of Detectives ■ Lanford yesterday afternoon freed || *be young husband, who has been held | ln the police station for nearly a II * ee k in connection with the disap- B Pearance. B • -■ it. - THE DALTON ARGUS. says he has a deal on with an aviator and will give free exhibitions of the new method of transportation and probably make a few short trips him self. Dr. Dedge is a familiar figure through South Georgia, and his de termination to mix with the guberna torial candidates will at least add interest to the campaign in this sec. tion. He states that people may at i tempt to laugh him into oblivion, but that he is in earnest, and will back his convictions > with money he has earned by hard work. A Deserved Appointment. Mr. W. M. Sapp has just received the appointment of Deputy State Councilor for the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Mr. Sapp’s territory comprises all of Northwest Georgia and the appoint ment is a thoroughly deserved one and Mr. Sapp’s friends are congratulat ing the order on hie selection. GORDON LEE ENDORSES WRONGROULE? RESOLUTION IN GEORGIA LEG ISLATURE CAUSES A MILD SENSATION ABOUT THE HIGHWAY. ERRONEOUS PROPOSITION OFFERED The Johnston-Sherman Highway Comes in For Speech by Tarver. A mild sensation was created down in the legislature one day last week over the resolution of Representative Summerlin which proposed that the Georgia solons memorialize congress to appropriate money with which to build the Sherman-Johnston highway by the way of LaFayette, Rome and Waco, into Atlanta. The apparently innocent resolution had gotten as far along as roll call and about 165 members voted “aye,” but Representative Tarver, always alive to the interests of his section and fully realizing that the real route of the highway was along the path of the battles fought by Sherman and Johnston, got the floor and gave the resolution its death blow. Mr. Tar ver argued, and with reason, that the resolution put the legislature in the attitude of taking sides and giving an endorsement to a highway that was not entitled to the consideration as claimed in the resolution. The result of Mr. Tarver’s speech caused the resolution to be justly and wisely tabled. Representative Summerlin, in his explanation stated, so The Ar gus was informed by Mr. Tarver, that he, Summerlin, had introduced the resolution at the request or suggestion of Hon. Gordon Lee, congressman from the Seventh district. If this is true, Mr. Lee will certainly have a reasonable excuse for so doing, but a number of Daltonians in discussing the matter, think that Mr. Summerlin must be mistaken as to what Congress man Lee meant or desired. At any LEADING PAPER OF NORTH GEORGIA. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION. DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 1911. WOMANS BUILDING AL THE FAIR THE CONTRACT WILL BE LET IN NEXT FEW DAYS—WILL BE ADEQUATE IN ALL PARTICULARS. WHAT IS BEING GONE ABOUT IT The Tenth Annual Whitfield County Fair Now Only 54 Days Away. As soon as Mr. B. A, Tyler returns from Atlanta, President Dennis Bar rett will call the directors of the Whitfield County Fair association to gether and let the contract for the woman’s building. Tentative plans contemplate a building that will be admirably ad apted for the special exhibits of the good women and there will be every arrangement and convenience put in the building that is required by these exhibitors. For many years this building has been greatly in demand and its completion this year will mean a very great deal for the fair association. Every lady in the coun ty is urged to get exhibits ready for the fair. It must not be forgot ten that the fair will begin on Mon-, davMhis wot on has been the custom the past nine years. From all over the county comes word that there will be more and larger and finer exhibits than ever before and the visitors this year will be agreeably surprised at the varie ty and - quality of the show. The fair opens in fifty-four days. ASTOR-FORCE ALLIANCE KNOCKED BY HOWARD Atlanta Congressman Wants Uniform Marriage and Divorce Laws. Washington, Aug. 15—Prompted by the nation-wide agitation over the marriage of John Jacob Astor, a di vorcee, and Miss Madeline Force, Representative Howard, of Georgia, announced today his intention to in troduce a joint resolution in congress to bring about a uniform system of divorce laws that will prevent the marriage in any state of a man or woman divorced in another. He will ask the president to call a conference of governors and state officials. The national legislature is without authority to pass a law that will ap ply to the several states unless the states agree to a constitutional amendment. FIRST BALE OF COTTON RECEIVED IN ATLANTA Atlanta, Aug. 16—Atlanta’s first bale of cotton for 1911 was received by Inman Akers & Inman yesterday morning. It was shipped from Cullo den, Ga., by the Jones Warehouse company. It will be auctionea off before the chamber of commerce to day. This is about ten days earlier than the first bale last season. rate a mild sensation among the mem bers of the house and senate of Geor was the result, especially among those who represent the counties of Cobb, Fartow, Gordon, Whitfield and Catoosa through which the real Sherman- Johnston campaign of the civil war took place. • HOW THE JURIES ARE DRAWN HERE THE METHOD OF SECURING GOOD AND TRUE MEN TO SIT IN JUDGMENT AT COURT WHY SOME NAMES ARE THROWN OUT Getting Into Jail or Leaving the County Will Keep You From Jury Duty. It is not the sinecure most people think, this revising the jury list of the county in order that qualified men may from time to time be drawn for ■ jury service. In the first place the commission ers who are appointed to revise the list are men of judgement and capaci ty and are aljvays worthy and well qualified. They take the tax digest and go carefully over every name thereon and make a written fitet and these are passed upon. Those who are dead or gone away from the coun ty are of course not taken down. If there has been anything to happen to any one of the men, such as a little thing like getting in jail or committed to prison for crime, they are -of course thrown out. So it will l>e seep that the jury revisers must i Then wbeb A i.he biameS iite' ready for the boxes they are cut into small strips with only one name on a strip, so that at each term of court the names are drawn out one by one until the required amount is secur ed for that particular term of court upon which they are to serve. The jury advisers get out all the really good men in the county who are eli gible and qualified. Another feature of this jury business is that fre quently complaints are offered about certain men getting on the juries so often. This is due to mere accident. Once several years ago the men draw ing juries got out the names of five brothers and one of them suggested that two or three names of these brothers be thrown back in the box but his conferes said no, because the drawing was perfectly legal and it should stand and it did. Again, for three successive terms of court a cer tain well known and honorable citi zen was drawn but it was purely an accident. Os course some times when there is an unusually heavy docket and also quite a number have been excused by the court, it is nec essary to pick up jurymen from those about the court and it so happens that some are again chosen. There has never been a case thrown out of the Whitfield superior court on account of an illegal jury. The officials here are too careful for that. Indeed, no case has ever been contested on that account. Willing to Help. ‘‘Ma, what are the folks in our church getting up a subscription for ? ’ ’ “To send our minister on a vacation to Europe.” “Won’t there be no church services while he’s gone?” “No, dear.” “M?, I got $1.23 in my bank. Can I give that?” Surveying Dalton Line. The surveyors for the Eastern Ten nessee Power Company, have run the line between Dalton and Cleveland as far as Marble Swith, in the direction of Cleveland. The survey to this city will be completed this week. —Cleve- land Journal. TWO AVIATORS HURLED TO DEATH AT CHICAGO MEET AVIATORS JOHNSTONE AND BADGER MET DEATH YESTER DAY, THE FORMER IN LAKE MICHIGAN, AND LATTER IS CRUSHED TO PULP WHILE TRYING TO MAKE “DIP.” Chicago, August 15 —Two aviators, William R. Badger, of Pittsburg, and St. Croix Johnstone, of Chicago, both young men, lost their lives at the in ternational aviation meet here today. In dying both revealed the fraility of the craft in which two score more aviators were curving and gliding about the air, with scarce a pause for the deaths of their contempor aries. Death in both cases was due to un explained accidents, probably the re sults of unsuspected defects in the mechanism of the machines and was in no way caused by carelessness nor lack of responsibility of the drivers. Badger, a wealthy young man, careened to his death in a pit in the aviation field. There had been a flaw in one of the wings of the propeller of the Baldwin machine which he drove. Centrifugal force broke the propeller, upset the delicate equili brium of the machine and Badger dashed 100 feet to the bottom of the pit, his neck being broken. John stone fell 500 feet under his engine A NEGRO BDRNEDJT EHE STAKE A PENNSYLVANIA MOB PROVES NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE FROM ANY OTHER SECTION. WOMEN MARCH WITH THE CROWD A Seer® More Horrible Than Ever Seen Down South in Dixie Land. Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 13—Zachariah Walker, a negro desperado, was carri ed on a cot from the hospital here to night and burned to a crisp by a fren zied mob of men and boys. The ne gro, who last night shot and killed Edgar Rice, a special policeman of the Worth Iron Mills, was dragged to the scene of the shooting, begging piteously for mercy. He had been arrested by a posse late this afternoon after a search which had stirred the countryside. The posse finally found him hiding in a cherry tree. The negro, with the last bullet in his revolver, shot himself in the mouth, falling from the tree. He was removed from the hospital and placed under guard. A few minutes after 9 o’clock a crowd numbering about 1,000 persons appeared at the hospital. The lead ers were refused admission, but they quickly smashed the windows and crowled into the corridor* When Wal ker was fi,rst taken to the hospital he was strapped down in order to prevent his escape. The mob, seeing this, gathered up the bed and placing it on the shoulders of four men, start ed for the country. "When half a mile from the hospital they entered a field and quickly gathering a pile of dry grass and weeds, placed the bed containing their victim upon it. A mate hwas applied and the flames shot up quickly, completely enshroud |ing their screaming victim. That not ONE DOLLAR A YEAB and was drowned as the result of an equally unsuspected defect. Caught under the heavy engine in the Mois ant monoplane, he was carried deep into Lake Michigan, and his body was not brought to the surface until an hour later. Badger lived for three-quarters of ;an hour after he had been extricated from the remains of his engine. He did not recover consciousness and died almost at once after he had reached a hospital. His death was I the first serious accident of the meet.. I Badger flew as he formerly drove racing automobiles, purely as an aire teur. He was the stepson of John Geftman, of Pittsburg, and was 25 years of age. He possessed an inde ; pendent fortune and gratified a well developed speed mania. In the early days of the automobile he was among 1 those to make amateur recorts at Daytonia and Palm Beach. He was an intimate friend of Lewis Strang, the automobile race driver, who died beneath the engine of an automobile* in Wisconsin a month ago. COTTON PLANT 7 FEET HIGH BROUGHT IN TODAY » Easly this morning Luther P. Mc- Cutchen, of Dogwood Valley, brought in a cotton plant standing 7 feet high and having on it 207 bolls of cotton. We know there were that many, for - Dave Stewart counted them and Dave is known to be absolutely accurate • and truthful. The plant attracted the attention? of many, and every one stated that it was the largest plant of its kintJ that they had ever seen. This is cer tainly an evidence of prosperity, and when cotton grows to a height of 7 feet, it is an evidence of the best crops we have ever had in the his tory of Whitfield county. RAIDING “SHINERS” IS DANGEROUS BUSINESS Nashville, Tenn., Aug 15—The lo cal internal revenue office regards the situation as to preventing illicit distilling the worst it has been in years. The moonshiners are show ing a desperate spirit and the reve nue officer on a raiding expedition now is taking his life in his own hands. Reports of the destruction of three stills were received here today, one in Wayne, one in Campbell and one in Sevier county. No arrests were made. Revenue Agent Knox Booth has offered aid to Agent Sams, at Ash ville, N. C., since the shooting of De puty Collector Henry. Sams thought his force could handle the situation now, though he might need aid later. The Critical Part of It. Thrown from her luxurious motor car the fair girl had lain insensible for many hours. Now, however, the operation was over, consciousness had returned, and she spoke faintly in the darkened room. “Yvonne.” “Yes, mademoiselle.” the maid re plied. “Yvonne, tell me; did I or did I not have on my new silk stockings?” a vestige of the murderer be left, the mob tore down th efenee along the road and piled the rails upon the burn ing negro. After waiting for half an hour the mob dispersed. A curious feature of the burning was the fact that there were almost as many women in the crowd as men.