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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 165 HARDWICK AND HERBERT FAIL TO NAME THIRD MAN Conference in Washington Not Productive of Result Yet — 1 Are Waiting for Return of Papers. WASHINGTON. —Hilary A. Her bert, formerly secretary of the navy, and Representative Hardwick, ol Geoigia. selected as arbitrators to ad just the differences between the Geor gia Railroad company and their fire men, met in conference here at If oi’clock Monday to consider the situ ation. Mr. Herbert announced he and Mr. Hardwick shortly wouid go to At lanta and Augusta, where testimony of both sides to the controversy will be taken. Following the conference it was an nounced that the name of the third arbitrator had not been decided upon. The articles of agreement sent to Georgia to be redrafted by the parties in interest have not been received, and until they have been the third arbitrator, under the Erdman act, cannot be designated. Further con ferences are to be held. Neill May Name Man. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga—No new develop ments in the pending settlement by arbitration of the Georgia railroad strike were given out in Atlanta to day by Vice President Ball and Gen eral Counsel Dickson of the firemen. The fact that the morning passed without word from Washington of the agreement of Congressman Hardwick and Hon. H. A. Herbert upon a third man for the arbitration board, is taken here as a sure indication that Chairman Knapp and Commissioner Neill will be called on to name the man who will complete the board. The five days allotted the repre sentatives of the road and the fire men to get together on the third member of the board expired Sunday at noon which would automatically transfer the matter to the labor com missioner and the chairman of the interstate commerce commission' un der the provisions of the Erdman act. DR. PLIMKET GOING TO BIRMINGHAM Dr. J. T. Plunket announced to his congregation at the Sunday morning service that after much deliberation he had decided to accept the call of the South Highlands church of Bir mingham, Ala. Dr. Pluuket has call ed a meeting »>f the congregation for Sunday morning for the purpose of asking them to unite with him in pre senting his resignation to the pres bytary. The South Highlands church Is the representative Presbyterian church of Birmingham and will In a very short while be the representative Presby terian church of Alabama. Dr. Plun will succeed the Right Rev. Spen ser Foster, who resigned on account of bad health. As yet nothing has been done with references to calling a successor for Dr. Plunket and It will probably be two or three weeks before the call will be isued. Dr. Plunket expects to leave the city for his new charge in Birmingham about the middle of July. STUDENTS COMING HOME FROM COLLEGE The following young men will re turn from the University of Georgia Thursday night to spend their vaca tion at home: Messrs. H. Brand. Har old Meyer, James Wright, Boykin Wright, Marion Silver, Prank voi? Sprecken, John Hart Porter, Moses Slusky, Overton Lowe, Lombard Kel ly, Edward Blakeley and Wm. Gib son. NEGROES LEARN OF TUBERCULOSIS SAVANNAH, Ga.—‘Tote him, send him, lead him,” was the watchword on tags, and in pulpit advice, calling on the negroes to take their neigh“ors of the race to the tuberculosis exhibi tion here Monday. This was negro tag day. Every hour Monday at the exhibition negro preachers spoke, and phonographs and stereoptican pic tures sounded the note of warning. THE WEATHER Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity: Showers tonight or Tuesday. For Georgia and South Carolina: Local showers tonight or Tuesday. Sunday was a ‘scorcher,” to use the term applied by the man with a silk coat and a palmetto fan. The weath er was exceedingly warm. The ther mometer reached a maximum of 91 degrees, and even the minimum tem perature was 74. Monday is equally as hot, if not •erse. The mercury soared high by : o’clock, and was still climbing when last seen. Observer Fisher's of ficial maximum will probably reach 93 degrees, but it should be remembered that his thermometer stays in the sha>% all the time. The warmest place in America Sun day was Oklahoma City, with a maxi mum <>f ion degrees, while the folks at Y-Tfv.--.tnne enjoyed cool breezes, playil. "• d a iv'n-'i uim of 38 de grees. Heavy showers fell in certain sec tions of Texas Sunday, but generally rainfau was light. Prince de Sagan m Prince de Sagan, hus band of former Countess de Castellane, who was Miss Anna Gould, whom the French court has de clared morally unfit to visit the children of the Count and Countess Castel lane, and has forbidden him to do so. FOREIGNERS HELP CELEBRATE FOURTH CHICAGO. —The Danlsh-Amerlcan association has made arrangements for a festival of a novel and unique character to take pla.V in Denmark at the old city of Aarhus, on July 4th in connection with a national ex position now in progress at that place. It is the first time an attempt .has been made to have a Fourth of July celebration in a foreign country ar ranged by naturalized Americans de scended from that country. The ob ject is to afford Scandinavians an oc casion to learn the truth about the country in wnich many of their nation ality have made their home and learn ed to love as their own country, and where they have availed themselves of the opportunities offered them, and with which they are thoroughly fa miliar. The crown prince of Denmark, and both the American ambassador to Denmark and the Danish ambassador to the United States will participate in the exercises. QEMOdTSUM OVER BRYAN'S PLAN Senators Fear Nebraskan, If Named, Might Try to Assubs Reins. WASHINGTON. The announce ment from Lincoln that William Jen nings Bryan will be a candidate for the senatorship from Nebraska next year has aroused the greatest inter est in national political circles here. Immediately after election last fall it Is was understood he would make this race, but later it became under stood he had given up the idea. The Nebraska legislature adopted the Oregon senatorial primary and election plan last winter at Mr. Bry an’t request. Under this each party will nominate its own candidate for the senate, and at the election in No vember, 1910, the entire electorate will vote directly for senator. The can didates for the legislature will have the option of declaring their willing ness to support, in the assembly, the popular choice, or their purpose to ignore that choice and vote as they please. Mr. Bryan's opponent, as matters now stand, Is likely to be Senator El mer Jacob Burkett. But the political situation in Nebraska Is peculiar. The liquor question overshadows all oth ers at. present. Mr. Bryan a few days ago came out with the declaration that he expected to take an active part in favor of suppression of the liquor traffic. Will Be Big Issue. This will become a big issue in this campaign. Senator Burkett, like Bry an, is a total abstainer, and has al ways lined up with the anti-saloon element. It Is therefore surmised that the liquor Interest will make Its fight in the republican primary, in an effort to nominate, as the republican candidate, some other man than Bur kett, more friendly to the saloon cause. If they/ succeed In beating Burkett with a liquor man, they will then back this republican vigorously in the general electirm, and in such a campaign a, great deal of ffiouev likely would appeax. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 14, 1909 MRS.GOULD’S MIND HAZY AT MEETING WITH HIM NEW YORK. —Delaney Nicoll re sumed the cross-examination of Mrs. Gould in her suit for separation against her husband, Howard Gould. When questioned in regard to her ac quaintance and meetings with Dustin Farnum, the actor, the witness testi fied that she did not remember meet ing Farnum between August, 1900, when he dined with her at “Castie Gould,” and the meeting in Hartford, Conn., w'hen they dined together at a hotel in that city. Nicoll read from the deposition of Elijah Sells, Mrs. Gould’s cousin, in w'hich he stated the conditions upon which Howard Gould offered recon ciliation with his wife, Mrs. Gould would not admit the specifications of this agreement when questioned about it, but said “they had asked her .%o sign a paper to abstain from intoxi cants.” Mrs. Gould’s counsel questioned her on redirect examination. WORE NO GOWN MORE THAN ONCE. Mrs. Gould said if (>ouid had given her an allowance of SIO,OOO a month, which she declared he promised her, she could have paid her bills. She said she was obliged to make fre quent changes in gowns and that she had to dress at least three times a day at Palm Beach, and five or six times a day at Castle Gould. She said her costuming cost $35,000 to $40,000 a year. At Palm Beach she testified she wore her hnndsomest gowns at “rolling chair time” and “tea time.” She never wore the same gown twice and gave most of them away when she returned to New York, adding that it wouid he "considered very bad form to wear the same gown twice.’ She testified that her gowns cost from sloo> to SOOO. ML COTTON CONGRESSTDMEET MONTE NR, Ark. —The third an nual in sating of the National Cotton Congress will meet here On June 21st. to 26th inclusive. The subject of the congress is social; a better acquaint ance, affording opportunity for an ex change of trade and crop information, and the advancement of any ideas or information of interest to the planters, ginners or manufacturers of cotton or cotton products. It will be a week of mixing and mingling of cotton men at an Ozark Mountain resort and the following program has been arranged; June 21st: A formal session to out line the work, serious and social, for the week. June 22d: A formal session at which delegates will report on the condition of the cotton crop in their sections. June 23d: A formal meeting on the subject of trade information, in the morning; in the afternoon a hay ride to the picturesque palisades of White River and an old-fashioned dance in the evening. June 24th: Meeting to listen to any subject relating to cotton, and election of officers for the ensuing year; from 2 to 5 p. m., a fishing contest in the Monte Ne river, and at 8 p. m., a banquet tendered by the cotton men of Monte Ne. June 25th: To be devoted to speech es by prominent cotton men from all over the United States, Including John D. Walker of Sparta, Ga., a well known authority on all subjects relat ing to cotton. The executive officers of the con gress are: C. J. Barrow of Gulfport, Miss., president, and W. H. Harvey, of Monte Ne, secretary and treasurer. ROOSEVELT IS CONDEMNED KILLER Actress Says Stories of His Conquests in Africa Have Bad Effect on Boys. LOS ANGELESf—Minnie Maddem Fiske laid aside her theatrical career long enough today to severely criti cise former President Roosevelt for the salughter of animals that he Is piling up on his African hunt. “The attitude of the butcher is not similar to that of the hunter,” Mrs. Fiske declared. “The butcher has no rapturous thrilfr as he pierces the throat of a defenseless animal. Ho kills it because it Is his business to supply the people with meat, and not for the mere lust of blood. “The people are appreciative of Mr. Roosevelt's good qualites, but they are not in sympathy with him on his present enterprise. One great harm from his African hunt is that the boys of the country will want to emulate him. The stories of his slaughter, printed almost daily, will have a most brutalizing and degrading effect on the youth of the country. "Mr. Roosevelt may be a brave man, but It requires no bravery to go th-ough such a made-to-order hunting expedition as he Is now going.” VANDERBILT WON CUP, LONDON.—The “Coaching Mara thon” gold challenge cup was award ed to A. G. VanderbiiL wfm drove Ws team In person. THREE NEGROES KILLED IN AIKEN Since Saturday Wave of Blood Passed Over Coun ty One Negro’s Head Blown Off. Special to The Herald. AIKEN, S. C. —Three homicides oc curred in this county since Saturday. On Saturday a negro named Bill Gun ter shot and killed a relative named Major Gunter. The shooting occurred near Wagner and the details are mea gre. Major Gunter who was killed had just been released from the chain gang where he had been serving time for killing a man four years ago. At Jones Cross Roads At Jones Cross Roads, a few miles from here a negro by the name of Landy shot another negro named Mitchell Sunday morning. Arterberry Killed. On Sunday morning a negro hoy about eleven years old shot and kill ed another negro named Will Arter berry with a single barrel shot gun. Arterberry was laying across a bed, supposed to be drunk, when the boy blew his head off. The cause of the shooting is not known. It may have been accidental. Another Negro Shot. Early Monday morning Marsh Wat son shot and mortally wounded an other negro with a shot gun. The cause of the shooting and name of the victim have not yet been learned. DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE HAND SOON Georgia Senator Says they Will Not Keep Quiet and Let Tax he Plaecd on Cot ton and Ties. WASHINGTON.—“Wo will surely be here until the first of August, and probably until the first of Seplem ber," said Senator Clay of Georgia, respecting the session of congress. He had just concluded reading a newspaper report of the action of the senatte finance committee with refer ence to the portions of the tariff bill which have remained unacted upon until Sunday. ”1 observed,” he said, “that the committee has placed a tariff on hides and also on cotton bag ging and cotton ties. “We of the South are not so much concerned about the duty on hides as such, but New England need not think that she can tax our people on ties and bagging without hearing from ,us. So far we have remained very quiet in the present contest, but unless I am much mistaken the dem ocratic senators wlli be heard from from this time on. “The duty on bagging alone will cost our people at least five million dollars a year and we will not sub mit to it without a protest." PRESIDENT SEES SUGAR REFINED Expert Shows Taft Use of Color Standard and Why Abolishment Would Aid Beet Raisers. WASHINGTON, D. C. —President Taft spent, the greater part of an hour with a demonstration and explanation of the processes of refining sugar, de signed to enforce the argument that the Dutch standard of color Is the “joker” In the sugar schedule, which provides the real protection to the Su gar trust'B refining monopoly, and en ables it to control the market of this country. The demonstration was made by William L. Bass, an experienced su gar manufacturer, whose father was long In the business in Cuba. The elder Bass was the leading engineer of Cuba for many /pars, and manu factured the apparatus and with It. made the sugar which captured the world's first prize at the Centennial exposition in 1876. Mr. Bass took with him to the White house a miniature and neces sarllv rudimentary apparatus with whlcu tr> Illustrate the physlclal pro cess of refining by the use of bone black. This Is the process which the trust performs, and through the monopoly of which it controls sugar. Mr. Bass explained the manufac ture from the beginning, showing that the refining process is unnecessary a* to a large proportion of sugar, and that unrefined sugar 99 V 4 per cent pure would come Into the country at prices far lower than the trust charges If only the color test Imposed by the tariff did not keep it. out, and permit only dark sugars, unfit for the market, to come In, thus necessitat ing their refinement before they could be consumed. The president was much interested In the demonstration and asked many question*. PRESIDENT DF BRAZIL DIED MONDAY WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Alphonso Penna, of Brazil, died Mon day. He has been ruler "of the re public since November 15, 1906. THREE KILLED BT LIGHTNING BOLT MEMPHIS.—The tent of the super intending force on the construction work on the new Neteo Valley rail road was struck by lightning during the night. All in the party were in one tent near Carlisle, Ark. Dan Murphy, the first assitan:, and two brothers named Smith were killed. William Walters, Jim Doyle and two unknown were fatally injured. GRIEEIN MURDER IS STILL MYSTERY Special to The Herald. COLUMBIA, S.O. Though the coro ner is still working on it the sheriff's office and the police have quit the Griffin murder mystery as a hopeless job. The coroner today released the three sons of the dead woman. Med lin and Barber are still held. REFUSED BY GIRL MAN KILLS HIMSELF COLUMBIA. S. C.—Gresham F. En delson committed suicide Monday morning by shooting himself through the head. He had just been rejected by his sweetheart. NUT GROWERS WILL FORM COMBINATION Secretary of Association Has Called Convention to Be Held at Albany. POULAN, Ga.—J. F. Wilson, secre. lary of the Nut Growers’ association has issued a call for a convention to he held at Albany, Ga. The object of the meeting is to gather the nut growers of the country into one or ganization, and to obtain data far as possible on the industry and the giv ing of reliable information regarding the nut crop through agricultural Jour nals and prominent papers. WOODSON ELECTED SECOND LIEUTENANT Sergeant Wm. A. Woodson of the Clinch Rifles hns been elected second lieutenant of that, company. Lieut. Woodson has been a member of the company for five years and during lhat, time he rose from private to first sergeant. His election is a source of gratification to his many friends. RAILROAD SUIT DISMISSED. NORFOLK, Va Announcement. Is made that the suit filed in the federal court, by the Maryland Trust com pany, trustee, against the Newport News and Old Point Railway and Electric. Co., In which a receivership was asked, has been settled and will he dismissed at once. SLAVONIA PASSENGERS SAFE. GIBRALTAR.—The steamer Prin zess Irene, with the first-class pas sengers of the wrecked Ctinard liner Slavonia on board, came Into Gibral tar Monday afternoon. MRS. HOLMES HERE. Mrs. W. H. Holmes Is spending a few days at home. Her little son, who has been for several weeks ill at an infirmary In Atlanta, Is well enough to bring out, though he Is not yet fully recovered. COURT IN SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH, Ga, —Criminal week ! began in the superior court Monday morning and willl continue through Friday. There are not a great many Important cases to be tried but, there are some Interesting ones. Most of the defendants are negroes. SAVANNAH TEACHERS. SAVANNAH, Ga. - This afternoon | the hoard of education is meeting for the purpose of electing teachers for the next term. No changes are ln j tended. VISITORS TO CITY. Mr. Charles K Bolneau, of Oolum- I Ida; Mr. Cameron Macßac, of Green ! vllle, and Mr. James Allan, of At ! lanta, three well known and promi | nent traveling men, are spending sev leral days in the citx DAILY AND SUNDAY, SG.OO PER YEAR. CHARCED WITH MURDER ART BOYLESTON SURRENDERS Mme. Olga Stein Mine. 01(*'a Stein, the Russian woman who was extradited from the United States to St. Peters l>ni'R on a charge of for gery. Deputy Pergament, of the Russian Dnnia, has been charged with com plicity in Madame Stein’s escape from Russia in 1907 COMMENCEMENT AT ROANOKE COLLEGE SALEM, Va. Excrises of the fifty, sixth commencement of Roanoke Col lege began auspiciously Sunday wllh baccalaureate sermon by Rev, Ezra K. Heel, D. It, of Baltimore, who choose as bis theme "The Divine ll liiminatlon of the Student." lie pleaded with the students to open their hearts to the light of God The Y. M. (\ A. address in the evening was delivered by Rev. I. (). Baker, A. M„ pastor of the Church of the Atonement, Washington, I) (’. Monday’s proceedings included the annual meeting of the board of trus tees, field day exorcises, contest for orators medal and a promenade con cert on the college grounds. MARBLE WORKERS OBJECT TO LABOR LEADERS SENTENCE WASHINGTON- Resolutions pro testing against the sentencing for con tempt of court of President Gonipers, Vice President Mitchell, and Secre tary Morrison, of the American Fed eration of Labor, were adopted by the International Association of Mar hie Workers, which has last conclud ed its annual session here. Guncotton in Girl’s Stomach Momentary Explosion Feared OMAHA.—HeIen Wells, aged 20, quarreled with her sweetheart Sunday ntglil and swallowed a bolt le of guncotton. The doctors Mon day morning fear to operate because of the danger of an explosion. The girl Is tied on a heavy mattress with double springs, so she cannot move a muscle. Unless II explodes Monday the explosive will dissolve and (he danger will disap pear. FOUR MILLION DOUUARK per annum is a conservative estimate of* 1 lie income ol The Au gusta, Herald readers. A reasonable deduction is that SIXTY PER CENT of 1 his income - OVER TWO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS is spent right here in O real or Au gusta. There are about ONE iriJNDI ED merchants in greater Augusta who use display advertising in the newspapers. They do not all advertise at the same time, nor do they all use ANY ONE newspaper. If they AEE advertised in the evening Herald which we want, them to do, each rtier u ()nc paper in the home is worth a thousand on the highway,'* Barnwell County Man Gives Self Up to Aiken County Sheriff. Special to The Herald. AIKEN, S. G.- Early Monday Art Boyleston, a white man who lives near Willlston In Barnwell county, gave himself up to the sheriff hey. lie is charged with the murder of young Cleveland Fanning who wa» waylaid on the public road last week The shooting Is supposed to have oc curred | u Aiken county and theres- r<t Boyleston gave himself up to Aiken authorities. No details as to why Boyleston should have been suspected are known at present. lie is now In the Aiken county jail. "fillibiistEb 7 DFF cm GRIST WASHINGTON. Capt. Ross, chief ol the revenue cutter service, receiv ed a telegram Monday from the cap liiin of the cutter Pamlico, stating that he has ascertained that the bub jif'ctod filibuster "Nantieoko” was Sunday anchored about 70 miles up the Chowan river in North Carolina.. No other information at present la ob tainable beyond the fact that the cut ter Pamlico has been ordered" to take her station in the Chowan river and to intercept the Nantieoko when she proceeds down the river. NATIVES IN MUTINY AGAINST OFFICERS Company of Constabulary in Philippine* Wound Officers and Take to the Woods. 1 -•» »- MANILA. Details of the mutiny of n company of native constabulary sta tioned at Davao, on t.he island of Mindanao, on the night of June 6, shows that an attack on their officers was made unexpectedly by t.he mu tineers. When the mutineers opened (Ire Officer lie Ooulcotirla was hit three times but none of his wounds was serious. The butineers then fled to the hills, after taking ,'to rifles and 5,000 rounds of ammunition. WEEVILS THRIVE IN LOUISIANA CLIMATE Tlio Department of Agri culture Made Experiment Showing that the Pe*t Can Withstand Winter. BATON ROUGE, La. According to an announcement made here by the department of agriculture more than twenty par cent of the 16,281 boll weevils routined In the experimental cages Inst inll survived the winter, In dicating that the climatic and other conditions In central lxmlslsna are fa vorable to the heavy propogatlon of the pest. It Is slated that planters who destroyed tholr cotton stalks be fore Ocober 2(1 are assured of a three fourths crop this year, however. chant, according to his ability to serve well our readers, would receive his proportion of the Mil lions expended by them. This is a heap of mon ey ! If a business is well managed it earns a NET profit of over 15 per cent. All advertisers who use The Evening Herald can get a return from readers of The Evening Herald that will make their ad vertising cost them from 2 per cent to 4 per cent or less on the business secured. I f that is not a good “Imy,” then there is not anything in this town, in the way of publicity, tha* is worth buying.
