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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX. No. 42.
HARDWICK AGAINST
GOV’T ALASKA R’Y
Gecrqia Representative, in Re
plying to Defense of Bill By
Leader Underwood, Says
He’ll Vote Against Such a
Radical Proposition
PREDICTS GOV’T WOULD
SOON BE MINING GOLD
IF MEASURE PASSED
Administration Bill Subjected
to Broadside of Questions
From the Democratic Side of
Souse.
Washington. Democratic leader
Underwood defended the administra
tion bill for construction of a govern
ment railroad in Alaska after a broad
side of questions had been directed
at hint from the democratic side to
tody.
"The suggestion that this bill con
tains the germ of socialism," lie said,
“talacs me back twelve years to the
time when we were debating the first
Irrigation bill in this house. The
same cry was raised hen, but no one
will today contend that the govern
ment’s Irrigation policy has been a
failure.”
Representative I'nderwood declar
ed governmental action was neces
sary to make Alaska “an asset in
stead of a liability.”
Or Food in Milwaukee.
Representative Hardwick, of Geor
gia, predicted that if the measure
passed members of the house would
Jive to see the time when the gov
ernment would be mining gold in
Alaska, manufaceuring clofnvt in
Payton and food in Milwaukee.
Sir. Hardwick declared he would
vote against “so radical a govern
ment ownership proposition as the
Alaska bill.”
BLIND SENATOR
PAGES CHARGES
Mrs. Bond’s $50,000 Slander
Suit Opens in Oklahoma City.
Mr. Gore Present With Six
Attorneys.
Oklahoma City, Okla.— Trial of the
SSU 000 slander suit against l nltea
Stares Senator Thos P. Gore filed
bv Mrs. Minnie Bond opened in the
district court here today. Senator
Gore was present surrounded by a
corps of six attornejs.
Mrs. Bond's charges are based on
an alleged attack on her by the sen
ator in a Washington hotel some
months ago. Mr. Gore den es all tne
allegations and claims that h
charges have been trumped up b> his
political enemies. The senator is a
candidate for re-nomination at the
Oklahoma primaries to be held in
August next. A great 4 art of the
evidence to be submitted in the trial
Is in the form of depositions taken in
different parts of the country. A
legal battle over the admission of
much of this is. expected.
Condition of Senator
Bacon Slightly Better
Washington.— Senator Bacon, of
Georgia, ill in a local hospital, was
reported slightly improved today,
though his condition remains criti
cal. A specialist in kidney diseases
lias been called into the case and an
other X-ray examination is to be
made. Fever, which has clung to the
senator for a week prevails but was
somewhat reduced today.
SAVANNAH’S TRYING HARD
TO LAND SUPPLY DEPOT
Washington.— Mayor Havant, o f Sa
vannah, today told Asistant Secre
tarv Sweet of the department of
commerce that if the government
would locate the new lighthouse sup
ply depot for the South Atlantis coast
at Savannah arrangements would be
made for the government to obtain a
larger site for the building than lirst
was contemplated. Charleston,
Brunswick and other coast cities are
contending for the depot.
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$140,000 COTTONSEED FIRE,
Birmingham, Ala.— Fire early today
destroyed the cottonseed lioufse of
the Farmers’ & Ginners' Cottonseed
Oil Company here, causing damage
estimated at $140,1)00.
A,’ BACK TO HUERTA.
Pari*.— Adolfo He La Izuna, Mexican
minister of finance, sailed today for
New York.
"I am returning to Mexico,” he said,
“to devote myself to Provisional Pres
ident Huerta's administration. I have
a plan to meet all the Mexican national
obligations and I am convinced that
the plan will accomplish its purpose.”
DEITHSENTENCE
GIVEN SCHMID!
To Electric Chair Week of
March 23rd. His Attorney
Says it Won't Happen.
New York.—Hans Schmidt was sen
tenced today to die in the electric
chair during the week beginning
March 22d for the murder of Anna
Aumuller. Schmidt was found guilty
of murder, first degree, at his second
trial after the Jury which first tried
him had failed to agree. Schmidt's
lawyers pleaded Insanity (or their
client but the prisoner would not aid
them and said repeatedly he wanted
to die.
Alphonse G. Koelble, his attorney,
expressed confidence that Schmidt
would not die in the electric chair.
He sent a cable dispatch to
Schmidt's mother in Germany to that
effect yesterday. It read:
"Do not worry. Your son will
never die in the electric chair.' Mr.
Koelble said today that Schmidt had
made an important statement but he
would not say at this time what it
was.
Can’t Confirm Report of
Capture Bandit Castillo
Villa Hopes It’s True So That
He May Be Publicly
Executed.
Juarez. —Efforts of officials of the
Mexican Northwestern Railroad to
confirm the report of the capture of
Castillo, the bandit, have been fruit
less. It was learned only that the re
port was brought into Cumbre by a
Mexican.
Such messengers are not always
reliable, and while General Villa still
“hoped” today that the report would
prove true he said he feared disap
pointment.
The ranch where the capture is said
to have occurred in 40 miles from
Cumbre.
Is a Hydro-Aeroplane
a “Vessel” or Not, Asked
If it is, Pilot Must Have a
Government License.
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Washington.—ls a hydro-aeroplane
a marine craft and as such subject to
the navigation laws?
This is a legal problem which A. L.
Thurman, solicitor of the Department
of Commerce, was today usked to solve
by Assistant Secretary Sweet.
The question arose in connection
with a hydro-aeroplane which carries
passengers between St. Petersburg
and Tampa, Fla. If this flying craft
of amphibious nature can lie construed
to be a "vessel,” within the meaning
of the law its pilot will be required to
secure a government license.
Frick Sells Site For
New $5,000,000 Hotel
Pittsburg.—lt became known today
that Henry C. Frick yesterday sold for
approximately $2,000,000, a part of his
real estate holdings in Fifth Avenue
to James H. Park, Grant McCargo and
H. C. Blanchard. They will erect a
hotel to cost $2,000,000 and to contain
I, rooms.
BAY STATE PUBLIC BUYS
$6,325,000 WORTH BONDS
Boston. —State four per rent bonds
amounting to $6,220,000 will lie sold
directly to the people, Frederick W.
Mansfield, state treasurer, announced
today after he had rejected every bid
by dealers. It will be the first time In
the history of the Rtate that its bonds
have been disposed of in this way.
The highest bid on the entire issue
was 104.279 and this is the price at
which the bonds will be offered to the
public.
DIDN’T TAKE ANNOUNCEMENT
SERIOUSLY ON ACCOUNT OF
HER NAME, “MRS. JOHN DOE.”
Charleston, W. V*.—Mrs. Joh
Doe gave birth to a 20 ounce child
Friday. Newspaper reporters re
fused to take tho announcement
seriously because of the family
name. Physicians today substan
tiated the report. The baby is
claimed to be the smallest healthy
child within the knowledge of local
medical men. It will be named
W oodrow Doe.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 11. 1914.
Woman Who Has Just Married
Her Son 9 s Chinn
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MRS. STANLEY HOWARD.
Pasadena, Cal.— Following dispatches from New York announcing
that Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, who divorced her millionaire husband In
Pittsburg in 1910, was to marry Stanley Howard, the chum of her son,
It was learned that the couple had already been married more than a
week. Mr. Howard is 20 years old while'his wife is 40. Scott .llartje,
the 18-.vear-old eon of Mrs. Howard, is now with the couple in Dedlands.
The Hartje divorce case which began in 1906 was sensational in the
extreme. She was completely exonerated.
“The Progressive Augusta Get
Together Celebration/’ Monday
This Name Determined Upon
For the Biq Event of Next
Monday Night
GOV. SLATON TO ARRIVE
ON THE GEORGIA TRAIN
Broad Street to Be Brilliantly
Illuminated at Night. Work
ing on Program Now.
At a meeting of the entertainment
committee of the M. & M. Association
held at one o’clock today in the office
of Chairman James M. Hull, Jr., it was
decided to call next Monday "The Pro
gressive Augusta Get Together Cele
bration.”
The celebration of the opening of
the big power dam on Stevens’ Creek
will occur on Monday night, when
there will be a speaking on Broad
street and afterward a luncheon held
at the Commercial Club. This will lie
an M. & M. affair.
In the morning the Augusla-Aiken
Railway & Electrical Corporation will
operate a special train to the power
dam and they have invited a consider
able number of Augusta people.
The details of the night celebration
have not been worked out, although
Chairman Hull is working on them
now and will be prepared*to furnish a
list of the speakers tiy tomorrow.
Gov. Slaton is certain to be the prin
cipal speaker at the down town cele
bration which will lie held at the Mon
ument. A platform will lie erected on
the east side of the Monument and a
brass band will furnish music.
It is expected that the 700 and 800
blocks of road will be brilliantly il
luminated.
Gov. Slaton will arrive on the early
morning Georgia train next Monday,
an! will leave here at midnight.
Found in Basement of
School Badly Mutilated
Kansas City, Mo—Harry Txickwood,
employed at a parochial school in ttie
South Side residence district here,
was found in his room in the school
basement today suffering from loss of
blood and shock from a critical wound.
He told the police he was returning to
his room late last night when two
young men threw him down and slash
ed him with a knife.
Physicians said Lockwood was mu
tilated permanently.
The school is attended by 100 boys
and girls.
22 DEGREES BELOW.
Watertown, N. Y—Northern New
York experienced the second cold snap
of the winter today, the temperature
here dropping to 22 below zero.
NO SALUTE FOR
IUIEXIG WARSHIP
Guns of the Zaragosa Un
responded to at New Orleans.
Inspection After Washington
Order.
New Orleans. —The Mexican gun
boat Zaragosa which arrived here to
day fired a salute of 21 k(mh when
'she passed Jackson Barracks but the
greeting was, not returned by the
United States troops. The Zaragosa's
band also played Mexican airs.
Officers at the barracks said they
had telegraphed to Washington for
instructions as to what action If any
they should take on question of war
ship of an unrecognized power being
in this port. None was received up
to the time the Zaragosa passed the
barracks at 8 o’clock this morning.
Aliens Aboard?.
Immigration authorities had not
expected to Inspect the Zaragosa on
the ground that site was a foreign
warship of a friendly power hut. It
was reported from quarantine that
three aliens were aboard.
Commissioner Kedfern then gave
instructions for an Inspector to meet
the Zaragosa when she docked and
to ascertain if any attempt was be
ing made to bring aliens into this
country unlawfully. It has been re
ported here that a Frenchman, ah
Italian and a Mexican of prominence
were aboard the ship.
Miss Wilmerding, Cause
Sickles Troubles, Dead
New York. Miss Eleanor Earle Wil
merding, for many years housekeeper
for Gen. Daniel Rickies, died yesterday
at the home of her sisters, with whom
she lived. She had been ill about three
months.
About a year ago the marital trou
bles between Mrs. Sickles and her hus
band were nearly solved but Mrs.
Sickles Insisted that Miss Wilmerding
lie discharged aa housekeeper. Gen.
Sickles refused and all efforts since to
patch up the differences have failed.
Mrs. Sickles lives at a hotel near the
Sickles home on lower Fifth avenue.
ADMINISTRATION PLEASED.
Washington.— The election of Henry
Vollmer, democratic candidate for
congress from the Second lowa district,
was the occasion for general rejoicing
In administration and congressional
circles here today. His election was
particularly gratifying to President
Wilson, who made a personal appeal
to have the administration sustained.
SPAT ON Oil
BEATEN, KICKED,
HANGING THREAT
Congressional Inquiry Commit
tee Told of Treatment of
Mover After Christmas Eve
Tragedy. Dragged to Depot,
Thrown on Train
Miners’ Head Wouldn't Accept
Relief Fund For Stricken
Families. Assault Termed
Most Gross and Vicious.
Hancock, Mich. The congressional
sub commute inquiring Into condi
tions In the copper country decided
today to hold hearings at Calumet to
investigate the Italian Hall tragedy
there on Christmas Eve In which 74
persons lost their lives.
Tells of Assault.
Houghton, Mich. Investigation of
the Italian Hall disaster at Calumet,
on Christmas Eve by the congression
al committee Inquiring Into condi
tions In the copper country was ask
ed to day by O. N. Hilton of counsel
for the Western Federation of Miners.
Hilton charged that the disaster
was caused by a man wearing a Citi
zens Alliance button, a charge w'hlch
the coroner’s Inquest tailed to prove.
Tells of Visit.
Hilton told of the visit of the com
mittee of citizens to Cbas. 11. Moyer,
president of the federation, at hla
hotel In Hancock, on the night of De
cember 26th to urge him to accept a
relief fund collected for the stricken
families.
“Moyer said to them In substance,”
he continued, “no sir, we will not
take It. We have fed our hungry,
clothed our naked and we will bury
our dead.
Shouting Mob.
“A few moments later his room was
Invaded by an angry and shouting
mob of prominent citizens of Hough
ton and Hancock. Moyer and Tanner
W'ere assaulted. Moyer was shot in
the baek. Then the two men were
dragged to the depot and thrown on
the train. Moyer was spat upon,
beaten, kicked and Insulted and told
he would be hung of he ever returned
to the copper country. Ills fare was
paid and accompanied by two depu
ties he was kept In custody until the
train crossed the state line. It was
as gross and vicious a violation of his
constitutional rights as ever re
corded."
Navy Tug With 36
Aboard Safe In Ice
Curling, N. F. —The crew of the
United States naval tug Potomac are
reported "all well.”
Part of the crew Is said to have nr
riverl today at the Lobster Head Light
Station.
Locked in Ice.
Washington.—The navy lug Poto
tomac, iwlth a crew of 26 aboard, locked
In the Ice In the Bay of Islands, off the
coast of New Koundland, is safe, at a
place near Rocky Point, according to
Information received at the Navy De
partment today.
Underwood Finishes His
Campaign For U.S. Senate
Alabama to Chooße Between
Hobson and Himself on
April 6 th.
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Washington.—Representative Un
derwood, of Alabama, Democratic
leader of the house, lias practically
closed bis senatorial campaign so far
as his own speaking tour 1s concern
ed.
The primary election at which Al
abama voters will choose between
Mr. Underwood and Representative
Hobson will take place on April fith.
Mr. Underwood does not intend to go
South again before that time, but will
remain in Washington at his post.
600 Driven Into Snow By
“Corcoran's Roost” Fire
New York. Six hundred men, wo
men and children, were driven to the
street in the snow by a fire which
wrecked a five story factory building
In East 24th street early today. The
building Is In the heart of "Corcoran’s
Roost" and surrounded by tenements,
all of which were emptied. The loss
was about SIOO,OOO.
’QUAKE IN CUBA.
Havana, Cuba. A strong earth
quake felt at 2 o'clock this morning
at Santiago <|e Cuba created great
excitement among the .population. No
reports ot damage were received.
DAILY AND SUNDAY. $6.00 PER YEAR.
LEAD IN SWISS WINTER
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
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MRS. PERRY BELMONT.
Geneva.—Among the most active
social entertainers at St. Moritz have
been Mr. and Mth. Perry Helraont, of
New York, who came to Switzerland
from Paris, for the winter sports Af
ter a few days respite in the Alps,
the Belmonts have entered the social
world in earnest.
Storm-Tossed Passengers
Obliged to Continue on
Tenders Couldn’t Reach the
Olympic For First Time
in Years.
Plymouth, Eng.—Storm-tossed pas
sengers on hoard the buttered Olympic,
who hud been eagerly anticipating re
lief from the miseries of their voyage
from New York when they reached
here today, had to go on to South
ampton, The fierceness of the galo
prevented lauding either passengers or
malls. This was the first time In
many years that sueh a thing had
happened here to a liner from Amer
ica. Tho weather Inside the break
water was so severe that the tenders
were unablo to get alongside the
steamer. After two hours of futile
effort the Olympic proceeded.
Gambling Dispute.
Plymouth, England.— Pollen were
waiting here to hoard the O'vmpla,
in connection it Is believed with re
ports of a gambling dispute on tho
vessel during tho voyage.
Congressman Crisp is
Forced to Take a Rest
Health Breaks Down. Is Order
ed to Colorado Springs
By Doctors.
Washington Representative utias.
H. Crisp, Ilf the third Georgia district,
will leave Washington on Thursday for
Colorado Springs for a complete rest
of several months to regain ills shat
tered health and strength.
In a formal statement to his con
stituents issued today Representative
Crisp praised I heir Indulgence for his
temporary absence from ids official
duties, reminding them that he lias
broken down while In thMr service and
on his return, which will lie at the
earliest possible moment, tie will work
for them with redoubled zeal.
The physicians of Representative
Crisp believe that ids labors as par
liamentary clerk at the Baltimore con
vention, where tie was on a strain
day anil night for a week, partly serv
ed to undermine ids none too vigorous
health.
Representative f'rlsp will be accom
panied by Mrs. t'rlsp, but ids won,
Charles, will return to Americas to
pursue his studies there.
For “Obstruction and
Assault,” Jail Militants
London —Heven militant suffragettes
were sentenced today to four days’
imprisonment each for “obstruction
and assault," in connection with the
police attempt last night to orrest
Mrs. Emellne I’ankhurst.
The women informed the magistrate
that their demonstration yesterday was
a protest against the exclusion of thj
question of votes for women from th'-
king’s speech at the opening of par
liament. The women declined to fur
nlsh sureties to keep the peace for
six months.
WORLD'S ALTITUDE RECORD.
Johannlethal, Germany. - Robert
Thelen, a German aviator, today
made a world's altitude record for a
flight with four passengers. He at
tained a height of 9,350 feet.
SUNKEN LINED'S
CAPTAIN TELLS
OF TOE CRASH
Commander of the Monroe
Testifies at Trial of Captain
Barrv of the Nantucket. Was
Using Steerinq Compass That
Was Not True
Stopped His Ship in Fog When
He Heard Whistle. Thereafter
Started at Full Speed in Ef
fort to Avoid Collision.
Philadelphia,—Captain Edward E.
Johnson, commander of the Did Do
minion Diner Monroe, which was sunk
by the Nantucket, testified today In the
trial of Captain Osmyan Derry, of the
Nantucket, that on the night of tho
disaster he was navigating hla vessel
with a steering compass that was not
a tmo Instrument. There was a
standard compass aboard tho Monroe,
he said, hut he used the steering com
pass which showed an easterly devia
tion. Whan he was steering a north
east by north course the deviation was
about two degrees, but he admitted he
did not know what the deviation was
when his course was northeast by cast.
At Full Speed.
Captain Johnson said it was the cus
tom of vessel masters in the coastwise
trade to navigate ships with a steering
compass. Relating his narrative of
the collision, he said the ernsh occurred
about 1:30 a, m., January 30. Ho was
running his ship at full speed when
at 1:30 a. m., he ran into a thick fog
and hesrd a fog whistle. He stopped,
located It and went ahead slowly.
Five Minutes Later.
“About five minutes later,” Captain
Johnson testified, “I heard a whistle
about 3 points off the starboard bow.
I stopped the ship. Then 1 saw a light
about fonr points off the starboard
tiow. I blew twice. X did not know how
far he was away. 1 put the wheel hard
ustarbnard, signalled full speed ahead
and blew two whistles. Then X heard
one whistle and saw the range lights
of the ship. I kept the Monroe full
speed to starboard in the hope of get
ting only a glancing blow. The other
ship came on and struck us on the port
side aft of the pilot house, rutting In
about 12 to 15 feet. 1 stopped and
hacked my engines and saw that we
would sink.”
The witness then told of notifying
the quartermaster to get all the pas
sengers on deck.
J. BKELTON WILLIAMS OFF.
Washington.—Comptroller of the
Currency John Skelton Williams ex
pects to leave Washington, tonight
for Atlanta to Join Secretaries McAdoo
and Houston and to accompany tTTem
on the final stago of their trip as tho
organlzalon committee of the federal
reserve hank system. Mr. Williams
is an ex-offiolo member of the organ
ization committee. (
The Glorious Hen
Now Lays the
Golden Egg.
The fabled goose Is no long
er In It. Georgia’s poultry
products last year represent
ed a revenue of many mil
lions of dollars. lit 1913 the
figures promise to be still
larger, as the industry Is
gaining sturdy growth with
each day that passes.
$500,000,000 was pnld last
year for market eggs; poul
try und Its product# are
yearly reckoned at over sl.-
000,000,000.
In the promotion of this
vast poultry business The
Augusta Herald lias been,
and continues to be, a fac
tor of great Importance.
Under the poultry classifi
cation In the "Want Ad”
pages appears nows of vi
tal Interest to every one en
gaged In tho buying and
selling of jKuiltry and ev
erything pertaining thereto.
Here Is constantly related
the whereabouts of aristo
cratic strains, such as Orp
ingtons, Rhode Island Reds,
Plymouth Rocks, leghorns,
Minorca*, Wyandotte* und
other equally serviceable
breeds. In addition,
appear countless valuable
suggestions tending toward
the development und better
care of poultry.
Ko If you are interested In
chickens or ducks or pigeons,
turn to these columns in
this issue and familiarize
yourself with a source of in
formation which may lead to
improvement In your flock
nnd suggest means for
greater profit.
The Augusta Herald.