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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 ( . I 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 I [ 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, 4 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. —1 ■ ■ ■■■ ■■ —> ‘-W The dead-sure cure thing is often more dead than sure. o (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