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(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 9)
A frightful headon freight wreck
this morning at seven-thirty on the
Western and Atlantic railway caused
the instant death of one man and in
juring three others.
The disaster occurred just below
the city limits and just a little bit
north-east of the Elk cotton mill in
the south part of the city.
Engineer R.V. Rhodes, driving loco
motive 179, met instant death from
the wreckage of a car, next to his en
gine, which was .completely demolish
ed by the fearful compact, the heavy
timbers of the car pinning him to the
small embankment on the west side of
te track.
From the position in which this en
gineer was found it is undoubt
edly evident that he stuck to bis post
of duty until the very last moment
and then jumped for safety, little
recking that the heavy car material,
immediately next the engine, would
catch him and cause death. He had
almost scrambled to the top of the
wet and slippery sides of the bank
when the crash came and pinioned
him to the earth. The other three
men who were slightly injured by
jumping, were hastily driven to the
office of Dr. J. Glenn McAfee, the
road’s surgeon, and cared for.
Captain G. W. Orr, the local agent,
was early on the scene and did all
that could be done. Thousands vis
ited the scene of the wreck and for
two hours afterwards there was a con
stant stream of humanity pouring
back and forth.
Engineer Rhodes the dead man was
not married and lived in Atlanta,
where his remains were taken. The
undertaking firm of Baker & Buch
anan assisted the railway men in re
moving the remains of the dead en
gineer from under the debris, which
took a great deal of work and time.
The car, whose flying timbers caused
Mr. Rhodes' death was filled with sack
cement and sacks of white cooking
beans.
To whom the fault, if any, is attri
butable is not yet certain.
The north bound train was run
ning extra and in charge of Conduc
tor Sanford Vandiver, who got or
ders early this morning at Kingston
to run to Dalton to meet the south
bound train which is known as No.
19. Engineer T. L. Hamby was pull
ing Mr. Vandiver. Engineer Hamby,
in charge of locomotive No. 174,
jumped at the last moment and was
knocked almost senseless but as soon
as he could pick himself up and get
his wits together he began hunting
for W. A. Ward, his fireman, who
had jumped off on the other side and
was covered up by the engine tender,
but fortunately was not seriously
injured. Ward's life -was saved by
the miracle of the rear engine trucks
keeping the heavy irons and timbers
off him. B. C. Bridges, who was fir- i
ing for Engineer Rhodes also jumn o d (
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and was slightly hurt. He says that I
the dead engineer was one of the best |
and most careful of men and showed
great kindness and consideration for
his fireman and always seemed to take
an interest in their success and wel
fare. All men who knew Mr. Rhodes
speak in the highest praise of him
as a man and engineer.
Train Number 19. on which Engi
neer Rhodes met death, came to Dal
ton on its running time and here Con
ductor Bill Hollum and Engineer Rose
got a sort of blanket order to go
south and keep ahead of and clear of
passenger train Number 93, which is
due in Dalton at 8:19 every morning.
Conductor Hollum says, and he is cor
roborated by the local telegraph ope
rator. that the only order they had
was to keep out of the way of Num
ber 93, which was behind them an
hour and according to the running
time of freight trains Number 19
could have gone, certainly, as far as
Calhoun before sidetracking for Num
ber 93.
The two big giant moguls were
pulling heavily loaded trains and were
carrying their capacity on the “slick’"
rails, made so by the drizzling rain
falling at the time of the crash. They
are very badly damaged. The com
pact was terrific and the two fronts
are jammed into one another until
there was not a x estage of a headlight
to be seen. Six loaded cars were
box and one coal can be quite easily
: repaired.
The spot is one at which a collis
sion occurred many years ago, about
five o’clock in the morning between a
delayed north bound freight and a
local freight which at the time was
known as Number 10 and with Dalton
as the initial starting point. From
Dalton most all the way around the
abutment, to Keith’s Mill there is
scarce a quarter of a mile but has
seen big freight and passenger train
wrecks on either the old Selma. Rome
and Dalton, the Southern, or the Wes
tern and Atlantic railways in the past
twenty-five years. And more or less
of them have exacted life as a toll.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 14.)
Although the time for the election
of a mayor for Dalton is drawing
near, there seems to be little or no ex
citement or talk as to the outcome.
When interviewed by an Argus man
' this morning, Mr. H. J. Smith, one of
Dalton’s most popular and progress
ive business men, stated, or perhaps
we had better say that the trend of
his remarks led us to believe that he
would be a candidate. He appears to
be the most likely man in the field, and
interviews with a large number of bus
iness men lead us to make the state
ment that he is undoubtedly the logi
cal! man for the place.
■ We have, previous to this time,
called upon Mr. Smith, editorially, to
make the race, and again we offer him
our support.
Henry Clay Beattie is to die in the
electric chair November 24. The
wage of sin is death.
Columbus. 0., Nov. 6. —The Oma
ha (Neb.) World-Herald, owned by U.
S. Senator Hitchcock and the largest
Democratic newspaper in Nebraska,
commented as follows upon the state
ment issued by Ex-Secretary of State
W. F. Poter, of Lincoln county, Nabra
ska, and close personal friend of W.
J. Bryan, in declaring for Governor
Harmon for President: “The World
Herald publishes a charcterstic letter
from W. F. Potter, long a radical pop
ulist leade” in Nebraska politics, con
cerning Judson Harmon, Governor of
Ohio. Mr. Potter is a man of rasp
ing and often disagreeable outspoken
ness. but by the same token he says
what he means and he means .to be
fair.
“Mr. Potters experience is not an
uncommon one. He had somehow
gained the impression that Harmon
is ‘closely allied with the corporate
intersts’ and is a reactionary Demo
crat. He was persuaded, however, to
look up Harmon’s offical record. He
did so, with the following results:
“After reading these articles and
after the most careffil and conscien
tious deliberation, I have reached the
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[ conclusion that he is an honest and
i fair-minded man T owe it to myself
I and to Governor Harmon to publicly
j acknowledge that T have misjudged
the man, for no honest, intelligent
person can read his speech and mes
sage and say other than this man is
statesman of the high
est type. I know’ of but one other
Governor who has to his credit so
many laws in the interest of the peo
ple passed under such unfavorable cir
cumstances, and that other isGover
nor LaFollette of Wisconsin.
Mr. Potter did what many another
man has done —he denounced Gov
ernor Harmon in prejudice and ignor
ance. Now that he has learned to
know Harmon and he is, as disclosed
by his offical record and his public
utterances, he gives the same verdict
that the people of Republican Ohio
gave by 100,009 majority, the same
virdict that Hoke Smith gives, that
I Newton D. Baker gives, that even our
own Governor Aldrich has given after
meeting and associating with him inti
mately.
“The World-Herald desires not to
be misunderstood. It is not taking
these means to “boost” Judson Har
mon for the Presidency. He might
be the most courageous and loyal dem
ocrat in the country ami still not be
the most available candidate. But
The World-Herald is exercising not
only its privilege, but its duty as a
democratic newspaper in seeing to it
that in its columns at least- a man who
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1911.
MISTRIAL RESULTS IN
THE CHILDERS CASE
The Man Charged With Killing Bride
May Be Released on Bond.
Leesburg, Ga., Nov. 11—A mistrial
resulted in the case of Mort S. Chil
ders, charged with killing his wife by
administering poison, when the jury
reported late yesterday afternoon (Jiat
they were unable to reach a verdict,
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after considering the evidence since 9
o’clock last night. The case now goes
over to the May term of court, but it
was stated that counsel for Childers
will make application for the release
of the prisoner on bond immediately.
By order of the court, Robert Ken
nedy, a former sweetheart of the dead
woman, and also charged with her
murder, w-s re’eased a f ter ) )e j ng
in jail two n e:i’hs. The grand jury
adjourned v. tliout taking any action
on his case.
It is reported unofficially that the
Childers jury stood eight to four for
fljonviction. Scores of residents of
the county became involved in the trial
and it is believed a change of venue
will be asked for before the case
again comes to trial.
Macon, Ga., Nov. 10—About 1,200
persons, despite the threatening skies,
journeyed to Central City Pary yester
day and listened to James C. Napier,
negro registrar of the United States
treasury, deliver an address. He was
introduced by W. O. Emory, of Ma
con. and President R. R. Wright pre
sided over the meeting.
The address of Registrar -Napier
covered many phases of negro life, in
which he gave some very valuable ad
vice to the negro people. He spoke
from manuscript, but digressed one or
two times, he injected some matter
with reference to negro life in Geor
gia, the negro state fair and the im
portance of negro farmers, with oth
ers. holding their cotton.
ith reference to holding negro
fair and expositions he liked the move
ments tn the same spirit that ac
tuated white people to hold great ex
positions and cited figures showing
that within the three or four years
of the Georgia state fair among the
negroes their material progress had
been considerable enhanced.
“If the American people were proud
of w’mt they had to show at the
world’s fair, why should not the ne
groes of Georgia be.proud of what
they have to show at Macon? In many
respects you have already won the
proud distinction of being foremost in
many of the things that go to make
up the good, useful, and desirable citi
zen. You are the first negro fair in
te crountry to apply for and receive
exhibit from the United States gov
ernment. For his success in this par
icular, President Wright and his as
societies are entitled to the highest
credit.
“The negros constitute about 45 per
cent of the total population of your
state. Abaut 70 per cent of this ne
gro population can read and write.
You cultivate more than six million
acres of Georgia lands. You operate
as owners and tenants farms valued
at S4B, 683.231. You expend annually
for fertilizers $1,684,010. Your own
stock valued at $1,293,810. You raise
annually more than nine million bush
els of cor. you also grow anually be
tween five and six hundred thousand
bales of cotton. The total value of
farm products of the negros of Geor
gia amounts somewhere between thirty
live and forty million dollars. Your
poultry alone is valed at $320,200.
“All of this shows that you are
clinging close to divine injunction to
earn your bread by sweat of the brow
You matain and suppor 230,000 homes
in Georgia and you own in free simple
about 50,000 of these. These figures
more tha any thing else, answers the
qutestion: “Does the negro make a
good useful, and desirable citizen?”
Old Maid —But why should a great
strong man like you be found beg
ging?
Wayfarar—Dear Lady, it is the
only profession I know of in which
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 10.)
Hon. W. H. Ennis, of Rome, state
senator from the Forty-second dis
trict, who is frankly outspoken in his
advocacy of local option and Judge
Russell’s candidacy, gave out an in
terview in Atlanta Thursday morn
ing. declaring that if Judge Russell
were defeated, whether by Pope
Brown or Joe Brown, be, as state sen
ator, and many of his conferes, will
take it as an evidence that the peo
ple of Georgia want state-wide pro
hibition. and will pass the Tippins bill
in the senate, even over Joe Brown’s
veto if necessary.
Senator Ennis denounces the pre
sent so-called prohibition.
He says:
“It is apparent to any good and
law-abiding citizen that the present
hameful, open, defiant and flagrant
violation of the present prohibition
law’ must stop. Therefore, I believe
in no other way can this state of af
fairs be remedied except by putting
on the statues of Georgia a local op
tion law, so that each county of this
state may settle the matter to suit
itself.
“Judge Russell’s frank and pre
cise declaration on the subject of local
option is entirely consistent with my
views.
“Another thing,” said Senator
Ennis, “that sould suggest itself to
the people of Georgia, is the condition
of the state finances. I have the hon
or to be chairman of the appropria
tion committee of the senate and I
shall not soon forget how the commit
tees worke? and worried last summer
to find away to pay the appropria
tions made to the state institutions,
pensions and the common schools. You
will recall that a portion of the ap
propriations made is not available
until next year, on account of a de
ficit of several hundred thousand dol
lars in the state treasury. All of
this being true why shouldn’t Geor
gia get*, a revenue to meet these de
mands from the liquor that floorls this
state from Tennessee. Alabama, Flor
ida and other points?”
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 13.)
If you were up as early as 6:30
Sunday morning, and looked at the
heavens, you probably were pretty
sure that something unusual was go
ing to happen, and happen it did. In
the east, the sky was a beautiful,
bright blue, in the west a salmon pink,
and the entire northern sky was black
as ink. It was a peculiar phenome
na, to say the least, and a sight well
w’orth seeing, and not likely to happen
again, for some time. The inky
blackness of the northern skies gave
evidence of what had happened up
there, and the peculiar colors of the
other parts of the heavens may be at
tributed to atmospheric pressure and
conditions arising from the disturb
ances further north.
If They Were Millionaires.
John D. Rockefeller, receiving the
Rockefeller family association at Po
cantico Hills, said to a young Rocke
feller who was talking about billion
aires, according to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat:
“My young friend, do you know
how’ long it would take you to even
count a billion? It would take you,
counting a hundred a minute and work
ing eight hours a day, just sixty years.
“It is hard,” Mr. Rockefeller co
tinned, “to realize what a million, let
alone what a billion is. I overheard
two laborers talking about millions
behind that hill there the other day.
“ ‘lf I was a millionaire,’ said the
first laborer, as he threw a shovelful
of dirt into a cart, ‘l’d go to the Plaza
Hotel in New York, I’d hire a front
bed room and I’d tell them to call me
at 6. And then, when they came the
next morning at 6 and called me, ‘l’d
shout, ‘‘ Go away! I don’t hax eto get
up. I got money.” ’
“After he had shoveled awhile in
silence the laborer turned to his com
panion and said:
“ ‘And what would you do, pard, if
you was a millionaire?’
“The other laborer straightened up
from his task with a sigh.
“ ‘l> have half a foot more length
: put to this shovel to save me poor
back,’ he said.”
(Fiom The Daily Argus, Nov. 10.)
FUNERAL OF MR. RHODES.
The Remains of the Dead Engineer
Will Be Buried at Cassville.
The funeral services over the re
mains of Engineer R. V. Rhodes, who
was killed near Dalton Thursday
morning in the headon collission, will
take place Saturday morning about
ten o’clock. Friends will come up
from Atlanta on Western & Atlantic
Number two.
The services will be conducted by
Reverends Thomas Harrison, of Nash
ville and W. G. T. Newman, of Dal
ton, two of the deceased man's bro
ther engineers. All are invited to at
tend.
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The dead-sure cure thing is often
more dead than sure.
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(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 14.)
While North Georgia, as far as we
have been able to learn, fared well,
it is safe to say that there were a
good many’ late risers this morning.
The mercury’ began falling late Sat
urday night, accompanied by heavy
rains and high w’inds. Limbs of
trees and leaves were strewn all over
the city Sunday morning, but it was
not until early Monday that the cold
wave reached here. At seven o’clock
this morning thermometers around
town registered from 17 to 20 de
grees. Considerable suffering was
experienced, but it will be shown by
the following that w’e are not half as
bad off as people in other parts of
the country’.
The central portion of the United
States, from Lake Superior to the
Gulf coast, experienced a sudden drop
in temperature Saturday and Sunday,
accompanied by a blizzard and high
winds. Nearly a score were killed
and the number of injured is as yet
unknown.
One man was killed at Huntsville,
Ala., during a windstorm by coming
in contact with a high power electric
wire. Near Nashville, three people
were injured, one fatally, when Joel
ton, a little settlement, was visited
by the most terrific cyclone in its his
tory.
West Florida was also hit, and al
though no one was injured, the loss
to property will run into the thou
sands.
Vessels off the entire Atlantic
coast suffered, and some have not yet
been reported.
Seven men lost on Lake Michigan
tells the story up there, and Illinois
reports considerable damage by wind
and sleet. Peoria reports one killed
and three hurt, while Springfield,
same state, adds another death and
seven injured.
The drop in temperature was phe
nomenal, the thermometer registering
in Chicago, 7 degrees above zero, a
drop of just 70 degrees since 2 p. m.
Saturday.
Wisconsin, however, seems to have
fared the worst, as eight were report
ed dead, many persons hurt, and the
property’ loss will reach a million dol
lars. The cyclone was the worst ever
experienced in that section of the
country since the New Richmond
storm, a good many years ago, in
which the entire town was wiped off
the map and half the population kill
ed.
Saturday night, the mercury dropp
ed to zery, and it was undoubtedly a
fearful night for grief-stricken sur
vivors, many left without a roof to
cover their heads.
The cyclone originated in the vicin
ity of Orfordville, twelve miles south
west of Janesville, traveled northeast
for several miles and then turned to
the east. The greatest damage was
done near the point of its origin and
at Milton. It lasted only a few min
utes; although it occurred about the
middle of the afternoon, it was dark
as night. The blinding downpour
made search for the dead and dying
a terrible task.
There were many* freakish inci
dents connected with the cyclone. At
the home of William Little, a 6x6 tim
ber was driven through a cow. At
the Schmidt farm a hog was cut in
two by a plow; at this same place a
Los Angeles, Cal, x,„ jU"' I
attempted flight ,„„ le ; « I
asadena to U„g I
end his Atlantic-Pacific j oUr ‘. ° I
A.tator C. P. Kogers w I
worst mishap „£ his * I
With his machine 125 m '• lng J
.■Wed field, haiffaybet,”’ ,( W
two cities, and within s i rtt o( *' J
destination. ’ I
Although no ones were W I
Rodgers was rendered I
He was badly shaken. 1 i< f I
scratched and torn, his l, and ®I
burned by his motor, and he ( ,* I
plains of a severe pain in his si(J I
His machine was completely wrecked" I
Rodgers left Tournament P ark . I
Pasadena at 3:30. expecting to fly I
the twenty-three miles to the beach I
in as many minutes. He became eon I
fused after taking the air and after I
circling aimlessly f or half an hour J
came down at Covina Junction, a ~ ’
mile further from Lon? Beach than *
the point from which he started. R e
took the air again after getting his
bearings, ami was following the tracks
of the Pacific Electric railway, when
the accident occurred.
This was in an isolated section, and
the first, teamed of the accident by
those interested were when an auto
mobile, who had seen Rodgers fall,
and had dragged him out from under
the wings of his wrecked biplane, car
ried him into the office of a physician
at Compton, two miles away.
Rodgers was still unconscious when
Mrs. Rodgers and her mother. Mrs.
R. S. Sweitzer, who had been awaiting
his arrival in Long Beach, reached
Compton. Later he partly regained
his senses, but was too dazed to talk
of the accident. He was put aboard
the special train which his wife and
mother had chartered for the run up
from Long Beach, and taken to his ho
tel in Pasadena. After an examina
tion his physicians announced that
he would suffer no permanent injuries.
While the cause of the accident will
not be known until Rodgers explains
it, it, is believed that a control wire
snapped, inverting the rudder of his
machine and heading its nose down
ward at an angle of more than forty
three degrees. Rogers complained
of engine troubles when he alighted at
Covina Junction, but, according to
the automobilist who saw him fall,
was flying smoothly at the time of the
accident.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 13.)
Hotel prospects are looking up to
day, as Mr. M. A. Foute, lessee of the
Colonial Hotel, in Rome. Ga.. is in the
city today looking over the field with
a view of locating here. His lease on *
the Colonial expires February first,
next, and Dalton looks good to him.
Mr. Foute is a t horoughly seasoned
hotel man, having taken charge of the
Colonial when it was in pretty bad
shape, and in two years has made
first-class hostelry of it. He i 11
a stranger to Dalton, having visited
herein past years, and says he learne
that Dalton needed a hotel throng
traveling men who made
towns. .
While in Dalton Mr. Foute is ’ *
guest of Mr. R. H. Baker, of Baker
Buchanan. He will be introduce
the representative business mt
the city this afternoon and undou
edly his proposition of organizing
stock company will be faxoiaby
ceived. -.l
His idea of a hotel conforms w
that of the business men of the ci •
that is a thoroughly moderm i’P
date, sanitary structuie of
rooms, both European and Ameri j
plan. and.under careful, conser.a |
management. n
The proposition .will be br'”>- i
before the directors o' the
of commerce at their next
The business affairs of the’ Ba ° k
Dalton are progressing nieeh an
Buell Stark is in the city t n
lecting funds. le
Application for charter will • ;
today, and very soon the
rectors will ask of
building to be erected .U
the federal building. J wiU
will be let without delay. a ' l '
not be long before Dalton
not only another sound best I