The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
PROHIBITION FIGHT IS ON IN ATLANTA Georgia Bankers Want Sub- Treasury for Georgia WILL APPEAL TO SHAW H. M. Atkinson Is Made Defendant In Suit for $1oo,ooo Alleged Damages
 By Lewis Pairo of
 New York.

Atlanta. June 12.-(SpeciaL)-Dr. John E. White, president of the Atlanta Law and Order league, stated today that he would call meeting of that body this week to take steps in regard to the impending prohibition election in Atlanta. The fight will grow out of the proposed | extension of the whisky limits in At lanta, said to be favored only by two large wholesale whisky houses alleged to own and operate 6O>per cent of the bar rooms in the city. It is claimed by those who are opposed to the extension, and this includes the saloonists not controlled by the whisky trust"
 The men who are about to precipitate the prohibition fight, the two wholesale bition fight Is waged Atlanta will not only go wet but will vote to extend the city liquor limits which the city council recently refused to extend.
 Take Up Back Tax Cases. When the supreme court of Georgia reconvenes on Friday the cases of the counties through which the Georgia rail- road for a share in the back taxes re- gently awarded to Richmond by this high court, to be collected from the Georgia Railroad and Banking company. The court Is idle today and will not sit again until Friday morning.
 As the attorneys for these counties have demanded a complete bench and Justices Cobb and Lumpkin have been disquali- fled, Governor Terrell states that he will name the temporary justices to sit on this case from the superior court on Thursday. He gives no intlmation as to who those two judges will be.
 Fire on Kennedy Street.
 Fire broke out on Kennedy street dur ing the early hours of the morning, and burned to the ground the home of R. F. Smith, badly burned the home of Howard Parborn, his next door neighbor and badly burned the Kennedy Street Baptist church. The Smith family and Parborn family barely escaped with their lives, as they were asleep at the time, and did not know of their impending danger un- til the house was a mass of flames. It was with great effort that the church was saved
 Georgia Wants Sub-Treasury.
 movement was set in motion today by the Georgia Bankers association, in session at the New Kimball house, to secure for Georgia a United States sub treasury, which will be located either at Augusta, Savannah or Atlanta. The association authorized the appointment of a committee of fifteen to go before Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and present the needs of a sub-treasury for Georgia. This motion was made by T.. R HillVpr of Macon. The committee will be appointed later.
 The convention came to a close this afternoon after one of the most successful meetings in the history of the two asso- citations.
 The meeting place for 1907 has not been decided upon yet, but will be selected by a committed later.
 The following officers were elected by the Georgia Bankers association for the ensuing year: John H. Reynolds of Rome. president J. s. Davis of Albany, vice president; Oscar F. Daly of Macon, second vice president; Charles B. Lewis of Montezuma, third vice president; James Knox of waycross, fourth vice president; z. c. Haynes of Elberton, fifth vice pres ident, and L. P. Hillyer of Macon, sec retary- treasurer.
 Will Plead for Rawlings.
 The prison commission is in session at the cdpiuol where IL iS Stdieu 'iies' 1Aes'i ney John M. Cooper, counsel for the Raw lings boys under sentence to be hanged for the murder of the Carter children, will appear before that body to plead for a communication of sentence as prayed for in a lengthy petition filed by number of prominent Lowndes county citizens.
 H. M. Atkinson Is Defenadnt.
 Harry M Atkinson, the millionaire At lantian who owns the Atlanta street car system. Empire building and a few other corporations, was this afternoon made defendant for $100,O00 alleged damages as filed by Lewis Pairo, civil engineer from New York, who alleges Atkinson broke his contract with him. Pairo all leges Atkinson agreed to give him share of the profits on several small roads which Paire built for Atkinson, but that Atkinson never paid him.