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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22

up some significant facts now and then,
and frequently he finds out things not
particularly pleasing to some people.
Not that he is naturally Ola mean dis
position. or anything of that sort, but
that in the Gambler philosophy, two
and two DO not, never did and never
will, make anything more nor less than
four
And so the chairman has discovered
that Georgia collects a smaller tax per
mile from the railroads of the state
than any other state in the Union col
lects. with the exception of four-Ari-
IONA, New Mexico, Texas and South
Dakota
Georgia only gets 1874 per mile"
said the commissioner today, and that
is mighty little, compared with some Of
the states. Massachusetts, for instance,
collects $4,000 per mile.
81 am not giving these figures with
any particular object in mind you un-
derstand. 1t merely happens that they
show an interesting state of things.
When the cost of railroad construction
and equipment per mile is taken into
consideration, it can not be said that
Georgia grinds the railroads to pieces
III t''e ~" '.ei VI l,'N" l'o''' '''S way
No''l'llIs7lo iiet ef'i'u,e' - o'ie VI 'ne
the matter of attending strictly to his
job one rarely enters the office of the
chairman OF lIe commission lilht ne
isn't there, generally up to his neck in
WORK
Tho ,,a,.ious stata house oe7oiat. ava
hpsv rou.adave nnhlisbino tboir s,,o.r
.statonaa,ts of o,,ra,,sa fn7,,,,ra5 j., t,,'a
last olectior and thni,. st,to,,o,,t. ,,,aI,o
intaraettne roadtpo na,.tic,,lar,,, ho-
cause ovor,,hod,. is a,ia f. sn,aar his
time that If cost him notning v.hatayar
70 GOT bI,,,sarf elected,
The law. .eouirce that a stato,oart .,
o,,ro,,sa sb,r Ina nubIisbod in ho+t,+bo
general and tho Urinary alectiors hnt
If &c in tbe nrin1arioe of course +ho+
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
Demon Decatur Street Rock 7hrower EnLists
TIGE TO 7 AME MEXICO

"UnCle Sam doesn't need any troops
on the Mexican border" said Claude
Ashley today. Il see they've enlisted
Tige in the Tenth cavalry. If they'll
put him on the border with a wagon
load of rocks. he'll drive every greaSer
in Mexico into the gulf in thirty days"
who's Tige?" asked one of the
bunch at the city hall entrance. Mr..
Ashley, councilman-elec from the
Fourth ward, turned a look of disdain
on the questioner.
"Tige is the terror of DarktoWn," he
explained He figures in the police
records as Will Mason. which may be
his real name, but all Darktown knows
him as Tige. And he is the champion
rock thrower of the world I'd match
him against David and his sling, and
put up a side bet that he'd put out Co
Hath in one throw at fifty yards I've
seen him gather up handful of bricks
and send four negroes to the hospital in
eleven seconds. | heard today he had
joined the army and gone to the negro
regiment. the Tenth. I'm sorry for the
rest of the troops if Tige ever gets
started
Real Darktown Authority.
Mr.. Ashley, who directs operations at
the brewery is AtIanta's leading au-
thority on its colored citizenrv and chief
chronicler of Darktown. her people and
her events. To hear him sing the songs
of Dar<town is a liberal education in
darky dialect. He knows Decatur street
and it's denizens as Alfred Henry Lewis
knows the East Side and it's gangsters
He relates the legends of Crappy Chute
and Lundys Lane with the local color
of an Q. Henry
did you ever hear of Son Jones ?'
he asked the ignorant questoner. to
whom Darktown was all unknown land
"Son Jones is the official Happy Hooli-
gan of our colored set. He has had
more hard luck i'm a minute than hap
pened to Happy in a year.
"Son heard a knock on his door one
night, and FASTENED 10 greet the WISH
tor. AS he opened the door he was sa-
luted with a double barreled load of
birdshot. which nearly sent him to his
grave When he got out of the hospital
and investigated, he found it was sim
ply a mistake. The man with the shot
gun was looking for another negro. and
had happened to knock on the wrong
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NEVIN.

The general opinion of the newspaper
men who visit the state capitol seeking
whatever news daily they may devour
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
Atanta's Mosquito Hatchery Flourishes at City Hall
|BACTER|OLOGIST POINTS OUT PERILS

a DR.
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from the nsseou carrs from o
elande ady t forth md
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
HEARS SHOT ON PHONE
THAT KILLED FlANCE

FOND DU LAC. WIS. Oct. 22,-
Goodbye, dear; something dreadful
Is going to happen" With these words
D. e. Herworth. an electrical helper
hred shot through his temple as he
laced telephone While talking to his
sweetheart. Miss Agnes F'romm. of Mil
"aukee Herworth called the girl over
me long distance telephone and ques-
uoned her for some time relative to her
IoVe for him: then he told her to ex-
'ehd his love to his own mother and
'loer relatives. He was engaged to the
blr and expected to be married in a
's" months. He lived but a few hours.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22

the Ffte finding, disapproves the T. r,
shooting, and neither points with pride
nor views with alarm in the Woodward
matter.
Governor Brown is getting more or
less sore on one feature of his guber-
material job-sore physically on less
than mentally-and that is the law re-
curing that he sign in person all the
commissions that go out from his de-
partment.
Recently he has been busy signing up
some 1000 certificates of authority to
county commissioners throughout the
state, and there Is another little batch
of 1900 justice of the peace warrants
awaiting his attention as soon as he
can get to them.
Having to sign ones name $500 times
hand running Is going some in the
name signing business, and the govern
or has rather large and imposing
signature, at that!
1t takes him quite an appreciable
fraction of a second to fashion in ap-
proved form the big j" with which he
starts his signature on its way to sat
iSfaCtory existence.
Besides these commissions and things
that are forever demanding of the gov
ernor part of his time and energy
there are hundreds or letters that he
feels 1t duty to look over carefully
before personally attaching his sigma
ture thereto.
Frequently he goes home in the aft
ernoon wishing with /all his heart that
his hand were rubber stamp, and that
the law permitted him to give official
sanction to legal documents merely by
using it as rubber stamps usually are
handled
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
UNREASONABLE ARE
THE PROFITS MADE
Commissioners Of Corporations Reports
20 President en- BUSINESS Of the
united STATES steel Cooperation.
ny AsaoclatAd Press.

Washington. Jan. 22.-Unreasonable
profits are made on iron ore in the
lake region and excessive earnings
flow into the treasury Of the United
States Steel Corporation from It's ore
transportation facilities which suggest
the necessity, from standpoint of
public policy, of segregating the ore
railroad from the giant corporation.
and large inter company profits are
made by the consolidated ore. iron
and steel companies, according to the
preliminary report on the cost OF pro-
duction in the steel industry by Her
bert Knox Smith. commissioner of
corporations, made public tonight.
The report was presented to Taft
and will be sent to the house COM
mittee on ways and means for con-
sideration in connection with the
proposed revision of the steel tariff
schedule, upon which the Democrats
will caucus tomorrow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
Four Members of County
Commissioners Refuse to
Divide the Big Precincts

ticable for them to go and vote. and
the difficulty. in many instances, en-
countered in getting intelligent men
tc devote so much time to conducting
the election.
DELEGATION FROM IS.
AS soon as the object of the meet
ing was stated, Chairman Johnson
said that before taking up the matter
OF dividing the precincts, some cfti-
zens present desired to be heard from,
and VIM. J. Sennott, heading dele
cation from precinct Is, consisting of
Sam Bosso, Philip Sanchez and Philip
Kline, addressed the board. He said
that, as executive committeeman from
precinct Is. he wished to protest
against any division in his precinct
and that the people of precinct Is
were not in favor of any division. He
said he had heard good deal OF kick
ing against the proposed division.
(confInued on pace TVgo.0
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23

After vigorous debate, in which
Chairman Joseph L johnson left the
chair to participate, the board. Of
county commissioners last night voted
down the proposition to divide certain
precincts in the city and county. the
only change made being the creation
of one new precinct to be known as
precinct 35. This precinct was Gre
ated by dividing precinct No. 1, the
new precinct providing a voting place
for the people in the neighborhood OF
Magnolia Bluff.
Commissioner Mcclellan made the
fight to divide the large precincts,
giving as his reason. among others.
the fact that when long ticket, such
az the one to be voted in the next
election. is to be voted upon It will
take all night to count the vote and
ascertain the result, and that in some
precincts voters were so far from their
polling places as to render it imprac-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
FORMER BANKER is
BEING DETAINED
Henry w. Richardson Is Said to Be
Wanted in Kansas City and Is
Taken Into Custody at Memphis.
BY Associated Press.

Memphis, Tenn. jan 22.-Henry W.
richardson, formerly president of a
trust company at Kansas City. Mo-
was detained by the police here early
today after advices had been received
stating that Richardson is charged
with certifying to false entries.
Richardson said he would willingly
return to Missouri. He exhibited q
telegram from United States District
Attorney Lyons. of Kansas City, ask
ing that Lyons be kept advised Of his
movements in order that a possible
subpoena might be the more easily
served for Richardson's appearance az
a witness in cases involving certain
ofncials of the Kansas City All Night
and Day Bank. which Richardson says
absorbed the trust company with
which he was connected
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
County Terminates It's
Contract With M'Ghan

Following report from the county
architect to the effect that Geo. Nc
Chan & Sons. contractors for the
sewerage, plumbing and heating Of the
new county Jail building. had not COM
piled with the instructions of the
architect given the firm on the 3rd OF
January, to proceed with the work
and notifying the contractors that a
failure to comply with the instructions
would terminate the contract with the
county, the board of county commits
sioners last night adopted resolution
declaring the contract terminated and
directed the clerk to address a com
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
WILSON RETURNS
FROM HIS TOUR
Declines to Give Out Statement Re
sardina the Harvey incident or Re-
ply to Henry Watterson.
a. Associated press.

Trenton, n. j., Jan. Arriving to-
day in the state house from speech
making tour in the middle west, Gov.
Woodrow Wilson declined to give out
any statement on the Watterson in
terview. Newspaper men were unsuc-
cessful in efforts to reach the governor
who locked himself in his Office. where
it was said he was overwhelmed with
routine work.
It had been rumored before the gov
ernor's arrival this morning that he
would give out a statement showing
his side of the Wilson Harvey Wat
terson" meeting in which the governor
is said to have declined further sup
port from the editor of Harper S
Weekly
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
BY Associated Press.

Lake Charles. La. Jan. 22.-The
series of wholesale murders of negro
families in this state, totallng twenty
six victims within the past twelve
months, the last of which being the
murder of an entire family Of five IN
this place Saturday night. are now be-
Heved to have been the work of religi-
Gus fanatics and the officers are hold
ing Rev. King Harris. a negro preach
er. at Jennings. La, for further inves-
tigation
Harris heads a sect known as the
Sacrifice Church and has succeeded
in establishing following in several
Louisiana towns. The police do not
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
Pure Food Wiley Not Guilty
of Conspiracy to Evade Law

ment of agriculture by which the law
is now applied.
The so-calIed Wiley Investigation
arose from the charges made in The
agricultural department that DR..
Wiley. DR.. w. D. Bigelow and DR.. L.
T Kebler, all of the bureau of chem
istry, had secretly arranged with DR..
H. H. Rusby, of New York, so that
the latter need work only eighty days
in TIE year for an annual salary Of
s., 500. This was declared to be a de-
hberate invasion of the established
limit of 50 per day.
We find from the evidence that the
charges have not been established,
says the committee report. but on the
contrary, that the accused officials
we're actnated throughout BY desire
to procure for the bureau Of chem
istry an efficient assistant"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
IMPERIAL CLAN IN
ANOTHER MEETING
One of the Princes at Conferences Says
There Is Opposition to Abdieation
Of the Throne.
BY Associated Press.

Picking, Jan. 22.-Another meeting
of the princes of the imperial clan, at
which the empress dowager was pres
cut, took place today. but did not
reach and definite result.
One of the princes who participated
in the conference at the palace today
informed the Associated Press that
the meeting was firm in its opinion
that the throne could not abdiaete un-
less 1t was driven toido so by force.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
By Associates Press.

washington Jan. 22.-Dr. Harvey
". wiley is held not guilty" of con-
spiracy to evade the law in report
fled with the house today by the conn
mittee which conducted an investiga-
ton last August into charges up n
which President Taft was asked to
dismiss the nations chief chemist
sron the government service.
Not only does the committee absolve
Dr. Wiley from criticism for the en-
rloyment OF DR.. H. H. Rusby, of New
york, as a government expert at a
technical rate Of $50 Per day. but it at
tacks in measured terms the whole
admiration OF the national pure food
laws, and demands Of congress action
q change the method In the depart
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
Victims of Religious Fanatics
in Louisiana Total Twenty-six

charge him with any specific crime.
but are firm in the belief that he has
worked his followers up to such a
point of frenzy and religious fervsr
that the butcheries or sacrifice" fol-
lowed
IN nearly every instance the murder
was committed with an axe, the VIC
Tins being hacked to death and their
heads crushed. In the Saturday night
murder Of Felix Broussard, his wife
and three children, the assailant
crushed the heads of the sleeping
children and placed a bucket SO as to
catch the blood. Broussard was a.
hard working man. had an industrious
family and bore a good reputation.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
81 AssocIated Pres.

Key West, Fla, Jan. Cheering
by thousands of visitors. the blowing
of whistles and the ringing Of bells
announced the arrival this morning of
newly completed extension of the
Florida East Coast Railway between
this city and knights Key, forty six
miles toward the mainland of Florida,
and marked the beginning of a three
day celebration over the completion 0f
the line The first train bore Cow
ernor GiIchrist and other state off,
elias. Henry NJ. F1agler. president of
the Florida East Coast Railroad, and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
FOUR NEGROES ARE
LYNCHED BY MOB
Rv AssocIated press.

Hamilton. Ca, Jan. PA mob
7 of one hundred men tonight broke
into the Harris county jail here,
overpowe~ed the jailer and took
four negroes. three men and one
woman out. and HANGED them to
trees a mile from town. They rid
died the bodies with bullets.
Sunday while Norman Hadley,
a we'll to-do unmarried man and
farmer was sitting in his home a
shot was fired through a window
and he fell dead. That afternoon
four negroes, al tenants. were ar
rested charged with his murder.
The negroes protested their inno-
cence and no motive for the kill
ing Of Hadley was advanced. The
negroes lynched were Belle Hath
way, John Moore. Eugene Ham
ing and Dusty CrutchfieId.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
ey AssoeIated Press.

Centralla, Ill, Jan. 22.-The state
OF Illinois. coroner OF Marion county
and the Illinois Central Railroad Co.
itself today began a three-foId inves-
tigation Of the fatal collision on that
railroad in which, early today, four
men high in the railroad world vera
killed at Kinmundy, thirty miles
nc rtheast of here. In, privafe car OF
wood construction attached to train
No. 20, the New Orleans express, four
men were instantly killed and four
others in the forward end Of the same
car escaped unhurt. The four victims
Of the wreck were sleeping in the rear
end of the private car which was
teleseoped by an engine pulling train
No. 8. the Panama Express, running
fifty miles and hour. The dear are:
former president of the Illinois Gem
trail.
Frank o. Melcher. second vice. -presi-
cent OF the Rock Island. whose car
was crushed.
z. p. Pierce. general counsel of the
Rcck Island.
Eldbridge e. Wright. of Memphis
vice president of Rock Island bridge
company. and son Of Luke e. Wright
former secretary OF war.
The train men injured were: Robert
Stuart. the engineer. and G. ]. Bert
the firemen. both Of the limited, and
Jesse Gilbert. fireman Of the express
The heavy englRc na solid
train Of sleeping 9rs: pIoteed hal
llls ssaivate car Foui
other occupants, Byron B. Curry, Sec
retary Melcler, Thomas Buzbee, attor-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
RAILROADS MUST
TRANSPORT BEER
Supreme Court Holds it is Com
modify and Cannot be Refused,
Though State Laws Prohibit it.
BY Associated press.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Beer is a
commodity and railroads must carry
it, when offered for transportation
from one state into dry counties Of
another state, regardless Of the laws
of the latter state.
The supreme court Of the United
States made this ruling today regard
ing a proposed shipment from Indiana
into dry" Kentucky counties.
+ Valid as regulation of intrastate
shipments, 1t never was effective as
to interstate shipments to dry coun-
ties" said Justice Lurton today. re-
ferring to the state law in sustaining
the lower courts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
CONFERENCE VERY
PLEASING TO ALL
Representatives Of London Buyers and
Southern Bankers and Shippers
Meet in Memphis.
Ry Assoclated Press.

Memphis. Jan. 22.-Except "the con-
ference was highly pleasing to ali
concerned" no statement was made
tonight regarding the meeting today
of H. Kern and J. H. Simpson, presi-
dent and secretary, respectively, of the
Liverpool committee which devised
the central bureau plan Of cotton bills
or iading valuation and the commit
tee selected at the conference OF
southern bankers and cotton shippers
here Saturday.
A compromise plan may be agreed
on as a result of today,s conference.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
MITCHELL WINS
OVER HIS ENEMIES
After Defeating Them He Passed
Resolution Providing for Invsstisa
zion Of His Charge of Packed"
House.

indianapolis. JAM -The enemies
Of John Mitchell in the convention .
the United Mine Workers of America
today failed to put the organization
on record as censuring Mitchell Cor
his attitude toward the National Civic
Federation. He obtained the passage
Of q resolution providing for an inVes-
tigation Of his charge that the miners
convention of last year at Columbus,
Ohio, was packed against him when
it demanded his resignation as paid
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23

nlunication to Geo McGhan & Sons
notifying them of the action.
HoNDsMEN ALSO NOTIFIED.
The resolution also provided that
the bondsmen OF the contracting firm
be notified Immediately of the action
Of the board and of the intention of
the board to advertise for bids for the
completion OF the work. according to
the original plans and specifications
After securing an itemized state
ment of what is to be done to COM
piete the contract. which statement
Continued on Page Two.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
sy Associated Press.

New York. Jan. 22.-Employing all
sorts of strategem to evade a big
corps OF newspaper interviewers, the
Duke and Duchess of Cennaught and
their daughter, Princess Patricia, ar
rived here from Ottawa today to be
guests Of Ambassador and Mrs. White
law Reid. The visit of the uncle OF
Great Britains ruler marks the first
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23
HITCHCOCK LOYAL
SAYS PRESIDENT
Taft Denies That He contempIates
oustins the Postmaster General
From His Official Family Because
Of Recent Acts.

washington, Jan. 22.-Twice today
President Taft denied to callers that
he placed any credence in the reports
that Postmaster Hitchcock had been
politically active TO prevent his re-.
nomination. Once. at least, Taft denied
that his cabinet officers had urged him
to oust Hitchcock from the Official
family because of his alleged anti Taft
activity.
Visitors who talked with President
Taft gained the impression that the
president had not the slightest doubt
cf Hitchcock's loyalty.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23

Nearly two hundred representative
citizens Of Pensacola mot with the
franchise committee of the city coun-
ell last night in pursuance to an In
vitation from the committee to hear
complaints from the citizens who had
petitioned the city council not TO
grant the franchise to the L. & n.
railroad which carried the rights TO
close certain streets in the eastern
part of the city.
w. L. Meyer, chairman OF the fran
chise committee, said that the meet
ing was called to hear expressions
from the citizens for and against the
proposed ordinance. He said that the
committee had gone into the PROPOSE
tion and thought that the ordinance
was just one, both to the city and
to the railroad company. especially SO.
since the railroad company had agreed
to put an track crossing at Sew
enteenth avenue and give $4,000
toward constructing the proposed
Bayshore boulevard
STILLMAN GIVES VIEWS.
John f. Stillman said that he felt
reluctant to advise public officials who
had gone into the subject fully, but
that as a citizen interested in the de-
velopment Of Pensacola he thought
the best interests of the city war
ranted the passage of the ordinance
which granted the rights asked by the
railroad. He pointed out that the wa
terfront to the east OF Palafox street
could not be used by another railroad
and it was his opinion that II the
L. & N. would make the improve
ments it proposed making it would be
to the city's advantage to make some
concessions.
There is such a thing as demand
ing too much from railroad" said
Mr.. Stillman, and then he pointed out
where A. 3. Steele, who promoted the
road from Dothan. Ala. TO Panama
City wanted to come to Pensacola, hut
was prevented from doing so by the
city asking too much. He said also
that he did not think that the prop
erty would depreciate in value by the
closing OF the streets.
ANDREWS PROTESTS.
J. n. Andrews addressed the com
nittee. saying that he wished to stand
by the protest made by the commit.
tee of citizens which had already been