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Evening star., 1912-03-19

Virginia's team is all shot to pieces
When 1t started in the game yesterday
but three Of the regulars were in the
contest-Carter at first, Finlay behind the
bat and Lille in right field. The others
were either injured or barred from play
ing for some reason or other, and before
the game was over Finlay, too, was
added to the hospital list. He collided
with Third Baseman Mcintyre and was
badly stunned and bruised and had to
retire. 1t is ten days yet before Virginia
opens her regular season, and by that
time Coach Rigler hopes to have his reg
ular team back in the field.
Evening star., 1912-03-19

Give that second team of the Nationals
good pitcher and It would be far
from easy picking for any ball team 1t
is a fast aggregation and showed today
that it could hit OF course, 1t had little
to do in the field yesterday, but there is
no doubt of it's ability to field. Pitch
ing such as it had yesterday. however,
should win for most any sort OF team.
Evening star., 1912-03-19

Alva Williams has a peculiar distinction
in that, in the seven years he has been
playing professional ball. he has never
made a home run, though he is regarded
as hard hitter. There have been in
Vulnerable three-baggers and doubles. and
perhaps some drives that were labeled
for the circuit but were captured, but
never home run.
Evening star., 1912-03-19

Bill Cunningham is somewhat of wit.
Schaefer was telling of peculiar habit
he has 1t is that whenever he is struck
out he walks direct to the water barrel
on the bench and takes a drink. Cunning
ham, who was listening to the tale, put
in: I'm glad I haven't that habit for
would have drunk the town dry last
year"
Evening star., 1912-03-19

Though the Yanigans played in the aft
ernoon. it did not mean idleness for the
Regulars. They worked with the entire
SQUAD in the morning and had to hustle
s out to " the park right after lunch and
nut in a couple of hours more. 1t Wes
= great day for practice. A warm sn
made the field just right for ball players
to train on, and they took advantase OIL
~ onnortunity If this weather con-
tinues. the team will toe the mark in bet
ter fettle than ever before.
Evening star., 1912-03-19

AS It is now made up for practice pur-
of the Regulars on opening day. barring.
perhaps, one of the inflelders for Jack
knight, though this is by no means as
sured. Much. of course, will depend on
how the team goes when it gets up
against those National Leaguers In the
exhibition series. That will be the time
] when Grinith viii be In q position to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
The Wash Goods
ARRANGED in the Wash Goods Depart,

Arranged in the Wash Goods Department.
What an opportunity, coming right now
before the fall sewing is we'll under way For
the sale brings about every material that women
must have at this season
A list of them all would read like de-
tailed account of the fabrics of this great Wash
Goods Department
There are:
Linen lawns, linen cambrics, linen crashes,
Irish linens, cotton lawns, plain figured, striped
and checked; cambrics, piques, madras, ging-
hams, shirtings percales, poplns, dimities,
G a a tie as, hannelettes, outings marquisettes,
voiles mulls dotted Swsses colored fannes and
embroidered hannes, etc etc.
The lengths 60 from two to five YARDS
lengths for waists, for children's dresses, for
skirts, for the many purposes of the materials.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
ILLINOIS CENTRAL'S .
PRESIDENT PREDICTS
WILSON WILL WIN

Although the political wiseacres have
been loudly proclaiming that Colonel
Roosevelt would carry Illinois November
8. President C. H MarkhaA of the
Illinois Central which contrals the Cen
trail of Georgia, declared in Atlanta that
the Jersey governor would be an easy
winner.
Mr. Markham made this statement at
the Terminal station. asserting that Will
son had developed remarkable and unex-
pected strength. He also declared that
from observations made in several parts
of the country he is convinced that bust
ness has secured divorce" from poll
tics.
John D. Little. attorney of the railroad
companies, entertained Mr. Markham and
W. A. Winburn, of Savannah and the Cen
| trail, at golf on the East Lake course and
at dinner at hts home in the evening,
where they were joined by Colonel A. r.
| Lawton, Of Savannah. Mr.. Markham
came in from Macon and left at $50 last
night.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
HOkE SMITHS NAME
SUGGESTED AS THIRD
STRIKE ARBITRATOR

The strike arbitrator considering the
recent Georgia walk out were in no
apparent hurry today to take up their
arbitration duties. Charles \ Wicker
sham president of we Atlanta and
West Point, left on his second trip to
New York within a week today and is
not expected to return until Monday. In
the meantime f. A. Burgess, the second
arbitrator and an official of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, is
wintering at the Piedmont. Mr.. Bur
CESS said this afternoon that there was
nothing new in the situation. and that
he did not even have an appointment
with Nj. Wickersham.
More than five days have passed since
the arbitration board was supposed to
have began work, and it is understood
that the rules of the Erdman arbitra-
ton act have been set aside to allow
more time.
The names of Senator Hoke Smith
and Attorney Reuben Arnold, of At
lants. have been mentioned in connec-
item with the third place on the arbi-
tration board, the list of prominent men
having narrowed down to these tive.
Nothing definite came out of the con-
ference at the Terminal station yester-
dav
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
Scaffold Ready for
Cumming Hangings

CUMMING, GA, Oct. 24.-Ordinary
II. " Jones, of Forsyth county, today
telephoned Governor Joseph NJ. Brown.
asking that troops be sent here with
the two negroes who are to be hanged
tomorrow. He declared that feeling is
so intense officials of the county feared
attempts would be made to lynch the
negroes before they could be legally ex-
ecuted. The ordinary sent this message
at the request of Sheriff ". w. Reid,
who is now en- route to Atlanta to bring
the prisoners back to Cumming. He is
making the trip by automobile through
the country
The Forsyth county Jail being too
small to accommodate scaffold. the
structure has been erected in a field
about one-half mile from the court
house. fifteen foot fence. inclosina a
plot OF ground about 80 feet square.
has been erected around the scaffold.
The law requires that legal executions
be conducted privately, but the local
of1cers fear that the fence might be
demolished and this negroes lynched
unless military protection be provided.
A large crowd is expected in Cum
ming tomorrow. There has not been a
legal execution in Forsyth county in 81
years, and the double hanging Of to-
morrow has created a great deal of ex-
element throughout the county.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
TROOPSTO GUARD
DOUBLE HANGING
IN CUMMING
Governor Orders Atlanta Sol
diers to See Negroes Are
Legally Executed.

T'uon receipt of telephone call from
III sheriff of Forsyth county, Governor
brown today instructed Adjutant Cen
erar Obear to provide q military escort
COMPOSED of two companies for the two
negroes to be sent to Cumming this
afternoon for execution for criminal
assault tomorrow.
The sheriff informed the governor
that the situation in Forsyth is ex
fremely dangerous, and there was a
crave probability that the negroes never
would be legally hanged, if sent to For
svth unattended by troops.
Adjutant General Obear, Immediately
mon the Issuing Of the governors off,
cial proclamation declaring a state OF
,nsurrection In Forsyth, designated
Major Catron, of Atlanta, to assemble
the necessary escort from among the
Atlanta troops and proceed to Cum
ming Immediately, with the negroes in
charge.
The detail will leave by way of the
Southern this afternoon at o'clock for
Buford, where 1t Will camp for the
night. Early tomorrow morning the
troops will proceed T. Cumming on foot
The negroes will not be taken from I'M
der guard of the troops from the time
they leave Atlanta until they are
hanged.
There will be no lynching in Cum
ming tomorrow" said the governor. as
he signed the order calling out the
trnons.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
CONGO BARONESS
To MARRY AGAIN

PARIS, Oct 24.-Accordine to the
I%Gil Bias the Baroness Vaughan. the
mogganatic wife of the late King Leo
pold of Belgian, will shortly be mar
ried to well known Partisan.
The Baroness Vaughan was Caroline
Delacroix, the Roumanian girl with the
violet eyes who attracted the attention
of King Leopold during one of his visits
of pleasure in Paris. and became his
morganatic wife.
After their molganatic marriage,
which, though unrecognized by the law
of Belgium. had the blessing of the
church. the king created her Baroness
Vaughan. and endowed her with the
riches of the blood stained Congo Free
State.
He created a new peerage for that
rubber inferno and in order to avoid
causing scandal by creating her q
baroness of Belgium he gave her "a
peerage in the Congo.
The next members of the nobility of
Congo We're the baroness two sons, one
of W HON was created Due de Terureren
and the other Comte de Ravenstein
1t was said that the king settled
S6,000.000 out of the profits of his Congo
domains on these children.
Some time after Leopold's death the
Baroness Vaughan married NJ. Amen
iel Durieux, former lieutenant in the
| French army, who had acted for many
years as the steward of her estates The
bridegroom was a. and the bride said
she was 81
Six months later she obtained 6.
vorce from her new husband.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
VOTE PLAN
SEEMS DOOMED
Democratic Committee Sees
Too Much Danger Ahead in
Anti-BoIting Scheme.

The state Democratic executive COM
mittee may abandon it's plan to require
all voters for Wilson and Marshall cleo
tors to cast pink" ticket in the No
vember presidential election.
1t has been pointed out that to do
this would amount to intimidation and
duress, and that it might serve to in
validate the entire election. in the event
the point were raised in legal protest.
The state committee frankly says
that its idea is to catch "bolters." in
order that they may be barred from flu
ture Democratic primaries. Lawyers
hold that this amounts to a threat,
however. and plainly conflicts with both
the state and Federal statutes
Moreover, there seems to be a grow
ing resentment throughout the state
against that which is conceived to be
an attempt upon the part of the com
mittee to poke its nose too far into the
ballot on November-that even If a
man did wish to vote for somebody
other than Wilson and Marshall cleo
tors, he should be permitted to do go
without necessarily putting the state
committee on notice in the matter.
The idea of the pink" ticket was
conceived, of course, in genuine desire
to protect the Democratic party. but the
impression mas grown into practically a
conviction in many minds that the pres
idential election is not precisely the fit
and proper place for that protection to
be sought, and particularly through a
scheme that might endanger the entire
electoral vote of the state,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
POSTAL BANK PATRONS
CAN PURCHASE BONDS

Depositors in the postal savings
banks all over the country will be al
lowed to purchase United States regis
tered or coupon bonds on January /,
1913. according to a letter received by
Postmaster Hugh l. Mckee from the
postmaster general today Postal saw
ings bonds are exempt from all Fed
era and state taxes.
Application for the bonds must be
made before December and bonds
purchased will not be counted as a part
of the maximum of $500 allowed one
depositor. No limitations as to tho
amount of bonds purchased by one per-
son will be made
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
The Silks
(These Arranged in the Silk Department.

You know there is halfway of doing
things when it comes to Remnant Sales in this
@store---odd lengths that have accumulated from
busy season must be got rid of---and the pile
of odd lengths of silks has been growing large
these busy days---they are in our way, SO this
sale That it comes as early as it does only
they are:
Messalines corded silks, silk poplins, crepe
de chimes, silk serges, plain and changeable
taffetas satins plain and figured tafetas, beaded
nets, beaded chiffons, beaded marquisettes
The lengths vary from one-half yard to
yards
There are colors for evening and street
wear, including great many black silks.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
SECOND NUMBER OF
LYCEUM COURSE TONIGHT

The Apollo Concert company, which
comes to the Baptist tabernacle tonight
as the second number on the Alkahest
Lyceum course. Is offered in response to
persistent call from experienced and
discriminating committees for company
of strictly high class musicians and en-
tertainers. Patrons of the lyceum and
lovers of good music are assured of q
splendid and satisfactory musical enter
tainment tonight.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
BUYS $4,000 FARM.

DALTON, GA, Oct 24-He2ekiah
Jennings, of Auburn, Ga. Wednesday
purchased the 110-acre farm of M. T.
Boisclair. north of here, for $4,000, the
farm being considered one of the snost
valuable small farms in this section.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
DOOMED MAN is SHOT
TO DEATH BY CHOICE

SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, Oct. "a
james Riley, convicted of murder
was shot to death today at the Utah
state prison, Under the choice OF
death" law Riley had elected to be shot
rather than hung. He was blindfolded
placed before a blank wall and shot al
by a firing squad of five. Two of the
guns were loaded with blank charges.
Eugene Blair in mad
anne x" this week at Lyric.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10
TAXI AND JUDGE FOR
INDIAN WEDDING NOW

Wichita, kas, July 10--Years
ago, the Osages of Oklahoma chose
their life partners in the filmy maze
Of the green corn dance, to the hol-
low beat of the tom-tom and the
raucous chant of the medicine man,
all under the yellow Summer moon
Today the descendants Of those
same Osages with chaperon, board
a train for Wichita, take taxi at
the station, ride to the home of the
probate judge, call him out at mid
night and get hitched in the fash
ion Of truly modern elopers.
Thus H, E. Moncroyie and Mamie
Bellmard of Arkansas CITY, were
made one at the hands Of Judge.
NcCandless. Saturday night, at
~: 30 o'clock. Both are Osages, and
own large tracts of land in Usage
county in Oklahoma. They were
accompanied to Wichita by Mrs. e.
M Bruce, who witnessed the cere-
mony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moncrovie viii
leave tonight for Oklahoma city,
with Mrs Bruce and Mrs. NJ. c.
Grouse.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10
PETRIFIED
BODY FOUND .
IN TRUNK

Jamestown, y. Dak., July 10.-f !
while examining a chest which had
been in their barn for three months
Mrs Andre and son Of this city dis
covered the petriied body OF a neg
ress. The chest was being cared
for by MT Andre, on receipt of a
letter received three months ago,
which requested him TO keep it un-
til the owner called for it,
According TO letter found in the
chest, Countess and Count de la
Jeune were camping along the
Snake river on the old pembina
trail in Marshall county, MINI, in
1865, when one OF their men SER
wants became insane and shot and
killed the Countess ana also a ne
gress maid who attempted to es-
cane
The victims bodies were buried
in the swamps and lay undisturbed
until 1891, when excavated by ditch
diggers who were draining the dis
trct The body of the Coutess is
now in a Chicago museum
That Of the negress disappeared
for some time and was supposed to
have been exhibited by a show com
pany.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10
BODY ORDERED ExHUMED

AIuskogee, Okla, July 10.-1u-
tice OF the Peace NJ. G. Bailey, at
the request of County Attorney Dis.
ney, this afternoon ordered the
body of Mrs. James p. Atkins ex-
humed and a post-mortem examina-
tion made. Mrs Atkins, wealthy
young woman. owner of the town
site of Lamar. in Hughes county,
was buried in Green Hill Cemetery
here yesterday, and ii was not until
after the funeral that it BECAME
generally known that she had not
died OF consumption as supposed,
but had been shot through the heart
II is said that last Friday morning
Mrs. Atkins went for a walk and
when she was found she was shot
through the heart and her revolver
lay by her side Relatives of the
woman do not believe she died by
her own hand.
MRS. Atkins was the daughter or
Thomas Meagher, a wealthy Musko-
gee citizen, Detectives who spent
yesterday near Lamar say they will
give out nothing until an ofriciaH
examins tiOn is held.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10
GOOD ROADS MEET
ING At SAPULPA

Sapulpa Okla July 10--The Mid
I( ointment Highway association meet
inc here today was attended by l9o
delegates from every town along the
proposed highway from Caney, kas,
10 Denison, Tex Resolutions favor.
Ing state and national aid for good
roads were adopted, also indorsins
the work of State Highway Commits
sioner Suggs.
Another meeting will be called by
President w. f. Brown, of Sapulpa,
early in September. State engineers
will Immediately begin locating the
road through Oklahoma to Denison
Prominent Indians and oil operators
pledged a sum to begin active work
on the first line at Sapulpa. Ladies
- Sapulpa rendered the delegates
basket picnic at the new city reser-
voir. and 500 visitors attended Two
Hundred ladies' offer to plant pecan
and walnut trees along the great
Highway. The Auxiliary club, com
Dosed entirely of Sapulpa ladies, be-
leves the sale Of pecans and walnuts
viii create a large fund to care for
of the road Definite ar
were made TO organize
good roads clubs in every town along
the proposed highway.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10
Of REDUCED
RATES BY WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAPH COMPANY

A substantial reduction in rates
to many points reached by the
" estern Union Telegraph Company
became effective the first of this
month by the Inauguration OF a
thirty cent square rate.
In 1866 the maximum rate be-
tween places now offices OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company
was about $500 for a message or
ten words. date address and sig
nature free. by frequent changes
this maximum has been reduced un-
til it now stands at $1.00.
From time TO time intermediate
rates have also been reduced and
on July 1st. 1912, the latest reduc.
tion became effective.
This last change in the SCALE.
the introduction OF a square rate
of 80 cents, means that many rates
which were formerly 40 cents are
reduced to 30 cents, and covers
night messages. night and day let
ters. as well as other forms of SER
vice now based upon the day rates.
A Few Of the more important
points 10 which these rates apply
ire: Wichita. Coffeys'ille, and Null
yane, Kansas: Paris and GAINESVILLE,
Texas and Fl. smith. Ark The
changes. are very numerous.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10
CHAMELEON JACK
A FREAK or THE ARsuckLE MOUNTAINS
fRv MattNuhrl

Captain John Holder. who lived
in the Central ArDuche mountains
2s years. vainly trying to prove
that he had Chic-Choc blood in his
veins, but who removed TO the
beautiful city OF Davis two years
ago. where he made an honest liv-
ing raising and selling onions and
turnins-and died there last win
ter. related the following fragmen-
tary story about human freak OF
the name Buck Dasher, alias Cha
mellon Jack.
Captain Holder. who had puroin-
ed General Lem Wallace silken
nightcap while standing guard be-
hind his camp stool just at the
close of the great war. sad:
THE oldest cowboy that ever
punched steers in these hills was
BucA Dasher, whom the boys called
Chameleon Jack, for the reason that
he changed color according to his
nesrest surroundings. He had drift-
ed from Lampassas, Texas, about
% years ago. and existed in this re-
zion eight years, when he died ana
was covered up with a big lot OF
rocks near Nightmare cave. Grass
and priokly pears now grow over
his remains.
-.Jack never got drunk aud never
fused. but he had great failing:
he fen head over heels in love with
every girl he happened to see with
his squirting, mole-eyes; and the
courses of all his loves ran crooked
like Whisky creek.
Most of the lassies he loved
didn't spit at his affection but the
peculiar changing of the color in
his face spoiled the courting.
Nettie Dillon, who lived with her
uncle near Fort Arbuckle, had
agreed to marry Buck Dasher next
Fourth. She started with him on
the third OF July for Ardmore
where the knot was to be tied. The
lovers stopped AT a spring in me
rugged Criner hills for lunch. TIE
erystal-clear waters were encircled
by a green carpet of moss ferns ana
other plants Chameleon JACK
stooped to dip some water Sud
denly his face ans hands became
grass green and his peculiar eyes
looked frightful. The sudden change
in Nettie's lovers face scared her
nearly to death, She screamed and
tainted. Just then her uncle drove
uu put her in his wagon aud took
her home. 1t is needless to tell
YOU that they never made up.
few months after, Buck saw ana
loved girl in Sorghum Flat close
to highly romantic Falls creek, the
streamlet of twenty-four big and
little waterfalls.
"The courtship was short anu
sweet. The hero had the marriage
license in his pocket. But, alas,
there is many slip betwixt the
cup and lip. The intended bridal
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10

tour took the pair through the
pltch4blacS asphalt beds near Brim'
stone and Sulphur. The expectant
bride noticed that Buck got darker
and blacker in the face. Then he
suddenly looked as black as d full
blood Hottentot.. The girl Jumped
out of the vehicle and ran to a near
by shanty, and the good shauty lord
took her to Sorghum Flat She had
recovered from her fright by next
Christmas sufficiently 10 get spliced
10 an honest cowpuncher named
smith. Chameleon Jack, howey er,
kept tumbling into more whirlpools
Of love, but as formerly. the sudden
changing of his color 10 nearly pur-
pie. red--and another time -
snow-white--prevented his marriage.
The honest freak couldn't read nor
write, and he seldom spoke.
The other coluboys thought that
Jack was cracked in his brain.shell.
He delighted to ride and ramble in
the most solitary hooks in these
queer mountains. 1t was Jack that
found and gave me the first petri-
fled hell rose of Mexico
Finally he was caught by a So
we're cold that developed into quick
consumption. He died. and his
funeral was attended by all the
cowpunchers then in these hills
and even three of his fo' mar sweet
hearts and their husbands We're
present and helped to lay enough
stones over him so the wolves
couldn't scratch him out.
"A few weeks after Chameleon
Jack had been deposited near
Niethtmsre cave new family ar
rived near CannonIball mountain
from I4ampassas, Texas. After he
ing told about the late freak, Buck
Dasher. alias Chameleon Jack and
why he never got married in spite
of having had the consent Of several
young ladies'. the oldest woman very
eXcitedly exclaimed: i believe hat
was my nephew Buck. who ran away
from hum ten years ago, bekase his
face changed color so often.
know the reason. shortly before
Buck was borned. my sister. his
mother, was taking little noon
sleep on the porch, whel suddenly
she screamed. a little chameleon
nzzard and run clear over her w'e,
waking her up and skeerin her
nearly to death. She fretted mach
about the occurrence | understaFt
well why poor Bucks color III his
face changed to the color chat hap
pened to be near him
And all the doctors of the Ar
buckles and the Washita valley
said that the freakish changing of
Jackie face was only natural; that
it was caused by prenatal scare.
Then ali the cowboys that always
made fun of their late stool pleeon
hung their heads and once in their
lives felt ashamed of til amselyes.