THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIV., No. 95.
COL IN BN
‘ WILL NOT BE
RETIRED
Special to The Herald.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Col. Dan C.
Kingman, U. S. engineer has been no
tified by Adjutant General McCain,
U. S. A., that he will not be retired
from active service. The Colonel
recently stood a physical examina
tion by order of the department.
DEMOCRATSI6SORE
DEMIERJTM
Senators Went to Protect
Their Own Interests in
Tariff Revisions and con
strue Platform to Suit
Conditions.
WASHINGTON, D. C. That Dem
ocratic senators who have local in
terests which might be injuriously af
fected by the reduction of tariff on
them will not feel called upon to al
low' the declarations of a Denver plat
form to stand in the way of their op
posing such reductions, is made evi
dent by a letter which Senator Sim
mons, of North Carolina, has written
on the subject of the tariff on lumber.
He takes the position that the Dem
ocratic pledge of tariff for revenue
only was made with reference to the
whole tariff system and that therefore
it does not apply to any individual
article.
ROOSEVELT’S PARTY
REACHES NAPLES
NAPLES —The liner Hamburg with
Theodore Roosevelt and party on
aboard arrived at 10:15 o'clock Mon
day morning. A great crowd assem
bled at the pier and cheered loudly
and Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit stand
ing on the bridge doffed their slouch
hats and waved them a greeting. Am
bassador Griscom and a number of
relatives of the Roosevelt family
boarded the tender and rode out to
meet the Hamburg. Duke Oosta,
brother of Duke d’Abruzi sent his
automobile to convey the Roosevelt
party to the Royal villa at Capedi
monte.
THE WEATHER.
For Augusta and vicinity: Fair to
night and Tuesday.
For Georgia: Fair tonight and
Tuesday: slightly cooler Tuesday in
northwest portion.
For South Carolina: Generally fair
tonight and Tuesday.
Sunday was the warmest day of
the year, and in honor of the occasion
all Augusta turned out to revel in
the brighi sunshine, inhale deep
draughts of pure spring ozone, and
smell the fragrance of budding flow
ers. The thermometer reached the
high mark for the year, a maximum of
81 degrees.
And Mopday is just as fine. It is
real baseball weather, the first of the
year. Mercury stayed around the up
per end of the tube all day. Observer
Fisher says indications favor fair
weather tonight and Tuesday.
A trough of low pressure extends
this morning from the southern Rocky
mountain country northeastward to
the upper lakes with a depression of
moderate depth overlying New Mexico
and another central over lowa.
They are causing snow in Minne
sota, Colorado and Mexico and
cloudiness In portions of the south
west.
High temperatures prevail today
over the entire sout.i, also in the
central states, but it is decidedly cold
over the middle Rocky mountain dis
tricts with 6 degrees above zero at
Yellewstone Park.
The river at 8 a. m. was 11 feet, a
fall of 0.2 feet during the pas 24
hours.
Easter Week in Augusta Is Going To Be
a Great Trading Week.
There s going to be a great deal of business done in Augusta Easter
week and after all is said and done, you’ll find that advertising will
be due in large measure of credit for much of this splendid business
week.
Advertising, education, agitation, suggestion plays a large part in
the business of the world these days and the thing is just as true
here In Augusta as i n any other city in the country.
A great advertising expert was asked the secret of successful
advertising. His reply was: “Place the advertising where it will be
s/ten, write it so people will read It, and tell the truth so the ad
vertising will be believed!"
PLACE YOUR ADVERTISING WHERE IT WILL BE SEEN—
PLACE YOUR ADVERTISING IN THE HERALD, AUGUSTA'S FA
VORITE HOME NEWSPAPTR, AND YOU WILL GET SATISFAC
TORY RESULTS.
The Herald Offers This week the Best Opportunity to Merchants to Dispose of Easter Goods.
POPES.HILL FOUND
DEAD IN OFFICE
RTMIE
MACON, Ga.—Pope S. Hill, a prom
inent attorney acting as a special rep
resentative of the Dodd interests in
Telfair and Dodge counties, Monday
morning was found dead in the office
of Rudolph Oberly, at Mcßae, with a
bullet in his brain.
Friends of the dead man suspect
foul play. A package of letters ad
dressed to Mrs. Hill were found in a
desk beside the body, and officers ap
parently favor the suicide theory, blit
are working the case in view of es
tablishing positively whether it is mur
der or suicide.
THE GOVERNOR OF
OKLAHOMA ON
TIL
Okla. —Governor Haskell,
and six other prominent Oklahomans
under indictment for alleged fraud in
the Muskogee town lot cases, appear
ed in the United States circuit court
for trial.
HIDE STRONG PLEA
HID DROPPED REID
’
LINCOLN.— Ex-Goveronr William
Poynter, age 45, died Monday of heart
trouble. He had concluded an ad
dress before Governor Shallenberger
! at the capitol uring the latter's ap
proval of the bill recently adopted by
the legislature compelling all saloons
: in the state to close at 8 o'clock.
Strong pressure ceing brought both
for and against the veto and Ex-Gov
ernor Poynter accompanied the
church delegation to the capitol and
urge the governor to sign.
The deceased was elected governor
in ninety-eight by the fusion of demo
crats and populists. He was defeat
ed for re-election In nineteen hundred.
STJPT. EVANS SPOKE
IN CHARLESTON
County Teachers’ Associa
tion Heard Superintend
ent of Augusta Schools.
Special to The Herald.
CHARLESTON, S. C.—The Char
leston County Teachers’ association
had as its guest Saturday Superin
tendent Lawton B. Evans, of the city
schools of Augusta, who delivered an
interesting and instructive address
Saturday night at the Memminger
School Auditorium, speaking on
“Come, Le Us Live With the Chil
dren."
Mr. Evans has visited Charleston
on several occasions, and he was cor
dially greeted by his many friends,
the number of which was greatly in
creased, as a result of his visit to
Charleston.
PRESIDENT DIAZ
AGAIN CANDIDATE
Despite Declarations that
He Would Never Again
Run Mexican President
Will he in Race.
MEXICO ClTY.—l>espit,e the decla
ration a year ago that he never again
would be a candidate, President Diaz
has decided to sacrifice his personal
desires and be a candidate again.
TRAIN KILLS OLD SOLDIERS.
GOSHEN, Ind.—Thomas Hite and
Samuel Wertzbaugh, both old soldierß,
aged nearly 70, wf>e struck and killed
by a Lake Shore flyer Monday morn
ing.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5, 1909
Mrs. Clarence Mackay Fights
Against Insane Asylum Site
" GREEirKAl gw
...
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, society woman and lead
er of American suffargettes is leading a fight
against a group of real estate men who have just
succeeded in arranging to have the new State lun
atic asylum located at Greenvale, L. I. within a
short distance of her fionie, Harbor Hill and the
Wheatley Hills homes of other rich New York folk
On the upper left is a cut of Mrs. E. D. Morgan,
whose home is near the proposed asylum, on the
right Mrs. Clarence Mackay. In the center is a
diagram showing where the asylum is to be and be
low is a cut of Mrs. Mack ay’s residence at Wheatley
Hills.
CONVERSE GIRL BITES
BURGLAR’S FINGER OFF
Special to The Herald.
SPARTANBURG, S. C—An un
known burglar supposed to have been
white, broke into the room of Miss
Eula Reid, a student at Converse Col
lege Sunday night. When discover
ed the man was ransacking her bu
reau.
Miss Reid, who is a member of the
Unshackled by Proclamation
Woman Prisoner Escaped Prison
Special to The Herald. i
ATHENS, Ga. —Kate O’Dwyer, the I
prisoner famous from having caused
the prison commission to issue a |
BONI’S FINANCIAL
HOPES SHATTERED
PARIS. —Count Boni lie Oastel
lane’s financial hopes have been shat
tered. Princess DeSagan expects the
arrival of a new heir to the Gould mil
lions in July. By her father’s will,
the princess is permitted to leave her
fortune to any child she may bear.
basket ball team and of quite athle
tic build engaged him in a hand-to
hand light and bit off one of his fin
gers. He jumped out of the window
thirty feet from the ground, leaving
ills hat which the police are using as
a clue.
The affair has caused quite a lot of
excitement In the college and city.
proclamation that no female p-ison
ers shall have shackles placed on
them escaped from the county farm
prison Sunday night.
FIREMEN INJURED
FIGHTING FLAMES
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Three fire
men were Injured In an explosion
while fighting a $150,000 fire at the
Stetson piano work* early Monday.
Five women rnualc teachers were res
cued.
THE DISPENSARY
CASE HAS BEEN
SETTLED
Famous Suit Involving
Disposition of $900,000
Decided in Favor of the
South Carolina Dispen
sary Commission.
WASHINTON, 1). C. —The famous
South Carolina dispensary case In
valving the disposition of about $900,-
000 of dispensary funds held by the
state dispensary commission was de
cided by the supreme court of the
United States Monday in favor of the
commission, the opinion being by Jus
tice White.
The court also decided the case of
the state dispensary commission ver
sus the state itself involving tho de
mand of the attorney general for set
ting aside by the commission of funds
for the prosecution of dispensary vio
lations by the state court was affirm
ed.
FLORIDA MOB
LYNCHED
NEGRO
PENSACOLA.—David Alexander, a
negro, who confessed that he shof
and killed Policeman Carter Saturday
night, was taken irom the police bar
racks at 3 o’clock Monday morning
by a mob of masked men and lynched
on the same polo on the public
square from which Leander Shaw was
strung up several months ago. Tho
mob was quiet but determined. Tim
officers were taken unawares ami
quickly overpowered. After firing a
volley into the negro's body they
quickly dispersed. No further trou
ble is anticipated.
TARIFF BILL BITS
SOUTHERN GOODS
Taxes Raised on Coarser
cotton made in South and
Favor fine goods made in
Now England.
WASHINGTON.—The hour of noon
having been selected as the time for
bringing in the rule governing the
future treatment of the Payne tariff
bill, the house Monday spent the
preceding two hours In considering
routine business and in further gen
eral debate. All members had been
notified to be present Monday and
there was a goodly attendance when
the body met, at 10 o’clock.
The first speaker on the tariff bill
was Bartlett, of Georgia, who advo
rated free lumber and who charged
that, the bill discriminated In favor
of the New England manufacturers
of cotton goods as against the grades
of goods manufactured In the South
ern mills showing that, the tariff Is
to be reduced upon coarser grades of
yarns and thread, and such other
goods manufactured In the South,
while It Is to be raised on finer grades
made In the North and East. He In
sisted that lumber and salt should be
on the free list. He opposed the pro
posed Inheritance tax, as being In
tended to reach the small Inher
itances of the poor, and as not suf
ficient tax of Inheritances of the rich.
He denied that the Houth wanted
to join tn an effort to wring by law
from the masses special benefits and
privileges, and in doing so, asserted
that great burdens are imposed by a
bill uiion the cotton fanners of the
South by tariff on bagging and ties.
“In the name of common justice,”
pleaded Stanley, “won’t the ways and
means committee either bring In an
amendment taking the tax off leaf
tobacco in the hands of the farmers
or Borne member who refuses to do
It have the courage, manhood, re
spect that Is due his committee, and
the people to rise on this floor arid
defend his act.”
The proceedings were somewhat e.n-
Hvcned by vigorous speeches by
Messrs. Hobson, of Alabama, and
Gillespie, of Texas, defending the
South against the charge by Caider
head, that that section had not taken
the proper advantage of Its opportun
ity to progress.
SPARKS ON ROOF
There was a small flr<- at No, 420
Enterprise street about 7 o'clock Mon
day morning. Sparks falling on the
shingle roof caused tin- blaze. The
damage was $lO. The house was own
ed by Mr. Geo, Allen,
DAILY AND SUNDAY, SG.OO PER YEAR.
YEGG MEN DYNAMITE JAIL
AND MAKE THEIR ESCAPE
SHARD OIL CASE
EVIDENCE IS
PRESiiTED
ST. LOUIS. —Special assistant to
United States Attorney General, Frank
B. Kellogg, filed his brief with the
clerk of the United States circuit
court here Monday and commenced
his argument, after two years of evi
dence-taking in ilie government's suit,
to dissolve the gigantic Standard Oil
corporation of New Jersey, for alleged
violations of the Sherman act.
The iirgumonl was heard by the full
circuit court bench.
Kellogg gave a rather full review
of the evidence taken by the gov
ernment before discussing the law ap
plicable to his ease, lie told of the
combination effected by .|,,lui I).
Rockefeller. Y\ illlam Rockefeller and
Henry M. Flagler, In 1879, conceived,
lie declared, lo effect a monopoly of
the petroleum trade, both domestic
and export. It was at llnti moment,
according lo tho federal lawyer that,
the illegal conspiracy lo monopolize
Ihe oil trade of the country was con
ceived. Later, said Kellogg, Henry
H. Rogers, John I). Archbold Oliver
H. Payne and Charles M. Pratt were
taken Into the consplroey bv tile other
uorendants.
The government’s brief declared
that (he testimony shows various de
fendants have from the first pursued
Hie system of unfair competition
against the competitors, whereby In
dependent consumers have been
driven out of business or their busi
ness so restricted that the Standard
has practically controlled the prices
and monopolized commerce in the
products of petroleum in the United
States.
It also charges that (ho testimony
shows that the Standard through tho
Galena Signal Oil Co. controls about
9C/g per cent of the lubrication of
of railroads. Adding the estimated
profits of i»O7 and I9UB, the brief
slates, thus we have subslantiately
a billion dollars earned by (lie Stand
fO'd 111 twenty-seven years with tho
original Investment of about s(l9 000
000.
SHIP SUM 10
21 moussio
LONDON.—Lloyds was apprised by
cablegram Monday that the British
steamer Oakbranch sunk by running
upon a supposed derelict in the
Siniit-i of Magellan off Die Southern
Boast of Chile and the captain and
twenty persons are missing.
HIS WIFE
By Evelyn G. Cole
A Study of the Feminine
and Mascutine view points
An understanding person would
probably have found excuses for any
mercenary motives In Hilary Gar
stln's marriage still there were cir
cumstances connected therewith
which even a biased critic might hate
labeled deterrent.
Mr. Abdul Rahumnn, bridegroom
and barrister-at-law, was certainly
blessed with commendable wealth
and health, correct manners and a
high caste Indian face, yet was he
brown as any other Mussulman, and*
his brilliant Intellect Inclined strongly
to hysteria, which was not. an envi
able temperament to yoke with an
English wife. His mind -a granury
of Greek and philosophy- was unfor
tunately lacking In those qualities
which the English race Is wont to
worship under tin- name of solid com
mon sense; but Miss Garstln, at lin
age of 22, appreciated the wisdom,
admired the hlgh-caste profile, and
saw no necessity at all for common
sense.
Abdul Huhainuu certainly was !
something better than superficially
European, for Hilary, his wife, was,
at the end of five years, a moderate- -
ly contented woman; gnd for a wo
man to know even limited content |
ufter five years’ experience is an tin- j
usual sequence In marriage of mixed !
blood. Her home was a pillared
jasmin-wreathed house In Calcutta,
her brougham as correctly appointed ]
as though she belonged to the vlcere j
gai set, and her daughter almost a J
George Barton and “Ten
nessee Dutch” Leave the
Greenville Jail.
GREENVILLE. Garber Moore,
alias “Tennessee Dutch,'' and George
Barton, alleged "yeggmen," who were
arrested here by postoftlce Inspec
tors on March 20 on a charge of hav
ing committed numerous postofflee
robberies In this state, escaped from
l hi' county jail by dynamiting the
door of the cell early Sunday. They
drilled holes in the rock floor of the
! jail with a drill made of an umbrella
! handle. It Is believed they had out
; side help. The night guard declares
i lie men did not pass him, and that,
he was awake all night. Indica
i lions are that the drilling was done
from a cellar under the cell occupied
; by the prisoners.
Yeggs Have Record.
Of the several hundred professional
safe blowers, or “yeggs" that govern
inept postoffice inspectors, secret
service men and detective agencies
have had to deal with in America for
the past quarter century, “Tennessee
Dutch" is beyond doubt tho shrewd
est. He Is, too, considered one of
the most dangerous members of the
safe blowers’ fraternity, and will not
i likely be captured without a stubborn
light. Ills pal, George Barton, al
though one-armed, is an expect,
crncksman.
Both of these men have operated
in perhaps half of the states In the
union, and it is not likely that
"Dutch" has operated ‘in foreign
countries, II being known that he
has traveled much abroad and in com"
patty with known crooks.
Cracked Many Safes.
“Dutch" lias probably cracked more
safes than any other professional
safe blower alive, and yet he has
never served a full sentence for a
single “job." He has successfully
eluded the sleuths of the United
Stales postofflee department on doz
ens of occasions, -and, while his pals
lo crime have been taken In and
given, usually, the limit of the law,
llils past master in handling of niotro
glycerine, fuses, Jimmies, etc, has
managed to skip to fiber pastures
green. It Is help ved that he has
been Implicated in some of the big
gest hank and postofflee burglaries
In Ihe country, as he has been a f-oo
spender and a man of apparently nn
-liin I tod resources. At Birmingham,
a few weeks ago, after preliminary
hearing before the United States
commissioner, when he was held for
trial In the federal court at Greenville
and his bond fixed at $5,000, he ex
pressed a willingness to furnish the
required bond in cash if allowed
forty-eight hours to do so. He waa
not given the opportunity, however,
to furnish bond, the postofflee Inspec
tors and deputy marshals removing
him to Ihe South Garolina jail aa soon
jlh poHHibic after tho hearing.
"Dutch" was avnrse to being taken
to South Carolina for trial—it being
well known that safe-blowers tried
In that state lnvarlubly were given
Ihe limit of the law, and he even of
fered a reward for his return to Mis
sissippi, where he was wanted for
having escaped from the Rankin
farm, of the Mississippi state peni
tentlnry, while serving a five-year Hen
(Contlnued on page eleven.)
beauty, with eloquent eyes and the
flni-Ht of (in,, hand;, and f et , t
Mrs. Kuhaman ever regretted that at
venturesome 22 she had chosen a Jas
min wreathed house and a half-caste
; daughter instead of a certain young
! ,nnn « blue-eyed and astonlshedly hap
py-hearted, who had once been used
: to go city-wards dally on an Oxford
street ’bus, buoyantly hopeful that
any wonderful day might make It pos
sible to secure u wedding ring and
some Incidental furnishings for one
i Hilary Garstln, she failed to men
tion the fact; uud very certainly
Abdul Rahnman himself had lived
through his repentant mmneil.t. when
an Orthodox wife, with oiled hair,
ringed nose and Implicit obedience,
seemed the most desirable 0 f con
sorts for a successful barrister.
But the only disappointments ths
Mussulman husband voiced were his
regrets that his wife neither bore
him a son nor succeeded In capturing
the better social set, which, in India,
chooses most deliberately to Ignore
those English women who abandon
the creed of llke-unto-like and take
unto themselves even the most ex
j disable Indian husbands.
80, Mrs. Raharnan’s associates
, were of no particular Importance, ln
telecttiany or socially. The tiffin
ed with the Jewish wife of a Hindu
; physician, called on Mrs. Sarklea,
(Continued on page two.)
