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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. i mmm $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. f 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 Ml 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. - ■ —— i i « 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 Um'M * jf-v ffljt ’ v ■ V • > J « 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.