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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-07
COTTON BOARDS
Of j. 6. COMBINE
Representatives of Exchanges
IndOrSe Formation of State
and National Bodies.

MEMPHIS, TENN, Jan. At a
conference here of the representatives
of 43 cotton exchanges and chambers
of commerce with interests allied to
the cotton industry. plans for the con-
federation of all cotton exchanges in
the United States were tentatively in
dorsed. the formation of the National
Association of Cotton Exchanges of
America authorized the organization
of state associations approved. and the
appointment of delegates to confer as
to the handling of the cotton crop of
this country was provided for The
conference was in response to a call is
sued by George w. Neville, president
of the New York Cotton exchange
c. w. Lawson. of Waco. Texas. pres
ident of the Texas Association of Cot
ton Exchanges, chairman Of the meet
ing, was authorized TO perfect the ma
tional organization. and to carry out
the plans indorsed by the conference.
Not to Fix Prices.
As outlined by Air Lawson. the ma
tional association will deal solely with
matters of national and international
Importance. principally the adjustment
of differences between fine cotton pro-
ducers and SINNERS Of fine United
States and the SINNERS and takers Of
cotton Of Furone The state associa-
tions win have similar scone within the
states No effort will he made toward
the fvine of tho price of tha s,anIe
ORGANIZATION win he nerfected at y
naoting ia he called bv Mr. Lawson at
which il is MANNED to have. renresenta-
tives nrasent from, every cotton ex-
change in the United States.
Delegates 10 the European confer
ence which will be held at Liverpool
will he authorized TO adopt a uniform
classification to govern the handling Of
cotton botN in the United States and
Europe and 70 dispose of the "tare"
question and other matters in contro-
versy between the interests Of the two
countries
To Covern 1919 Cron
Assurances have been given that del
eeates will he Amounted hv the Euro
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Three men are dead at Salt Lake as
a result of as many Quarrels and fights
in which women played leading parts.
Two men were shot to death while the
third died from knife wounds inflicted
in fight.
Engineer F. Manuel, who left Hachi-
ia N. NJ, in charge of the engine of an
extra east-bound freight, fell from his
engine or was scraped off by some
cattle cars and instantly killed, few
miles west of Noria, N. NJ.
John E. w. Wayman. former states
attorney for Cook county, fired two
bullets into his body at his residence
in Chicago. and died several hours
later. The cause ascribed was ner-
vous breakdown due to i'll health.
few hours after an army" of
forty-eight Industrial Workers of the
World left Salt Lake for Denver a
second army" numbering thirty
eight, arrived and will leave for Colo
RADIO. 1t was reported that third
army" three hundred and fifty
strong. would arrive at Salt Lake.
William T. Scott, the only colored
man ever Nominated for President of
the United States by regularly con-
stituted national delegate convention,
representing thirty-seven states, and
at present candidate for minister to
the negro republic OF Hayti, was
placed upon the Illinois House payroll
as janitor.
Two afternoons a week off and the
right to entertain company in the par
lor without interference from the
family are among the demands to be
made by Chicago domestic servants
who have just organized union to be
known as the Household Workers AS
sociation. The new union has obtained
a charter from the American Fedora
ton Of Labor.
J. s. Douglas, President and S. w.
Applewhite, secretary, of the Cana
nea' Consolidated Copper Company. in
Sonora, Mexico, were reported at FL
Paso, Texas. to have been captured
by bandits and held for $5O0.000 ran
som. The report reached Mrs. Doug
las. Later 1t was denied, not only At
El Paso, but by friends of the two
men In Douglas and Bisbee Ariz.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
e WASHINGTON.

A step-mother is a relative to her
step-children, according to a decision
by Comptroller of the Treasury Trace
we'll
President Wilson is keeping in close
touch with the situation both in Japan
and California over the proposed alien
land legislation.
President Wilson accepted the hon
orary presidency of the Boy Scouts of
America.
Senators Shafroth and Thomas
have recommended the appointment.
of Annie C. Rogers as receiver of
public moneys in the land office at
Leadville.
'The United States stands fourteen
tn among the nations of the world in
number of government-owned aero
planes. and in government expendi-
lures for aerial navigation in the last
five years.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
GEN ERAl.

The population of New York city is
$500 persons.
Six men were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the De Wilson
hotel at Malone, N. Y.
The University of Virginia cele-
brated the 170th anniversary of the
birth of its founder. Thomas Jeffer-
son.
New York state will receive between
$3.000,606' and $4,000.000 in inheri-
tance from eetate OF the late J. p.
Morgan.
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Magin. who
was. born April IA. 1908, near Doyles-
town. Pa, celebrated her birthday at
her home In Philadelphia.
Supreme Court Justice Cohalan de
cided that the present laws of New
York permit trial marriages for wo-
men less than eighteen years old.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Cunningham
OF Denver were badly hurt in an auto
mobile accident near Avon. N. Y.
when their car skidded and jumped a
twenty-foot embankment.
An air blast generated by the fall of
100000 tons of Gaping at the Miami
mine, seven miles from Globe. Ariz..
killed three miners and injured hun
dred others, four probably fatally.
The body of ]. Pierpont Morgan IS
at rest. 1t was buried on the crest of
Cedar Hill cemetery at Hartford,
Conn. the sixth of the house of Nor
gan to find resting places there.
Complete returns from towns and
cities Of Illinois in which the saloon
was an issue in the elections Of April
and April Is show that the dry ter
ritory is seventy per cent of the area
Of the state.
John Nicholson Anhut, lawyer.
was indicted by the grand jury in New
York for bribery in connection with
alleged efforts to secure the release
of Harry X. Thaw from the Mattea.
wan state hospital for the criminal in
sane.
The grand jury returned eighteen
secret indictments at Columbus, Ohio.
several of these being in connection
with the affairs of the defunct Column
bus Savings and Trust Company bank
and involving three former Ohio state
treasurers.
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of George Dietz, the wealthy
Chicago woman's tailor, who was slain
in his room by hammer blows, has
ordered Mrs. Dietz and George Nurn-
berg, harness maker, who admitted
that he was her lover. held for the
crime.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

Representatives Heating. Kindel
and Seldomridge of Colorado voted
with majority for free wool.
Caucus voted down all amendments
to lower or increase the duties pro-
posed in the cotton and flax sched-
ules.
Democrats in caucus voted to sup
port the wool schedule of the Under
wood tariff bill. placing raw wool on
the free list.
Senator Hughes introduced bill 10
admit DIR. F. F. friedman to prac-
tice medicine in District of Columbia
without usual examinations.
James Hamilton Lewis sworn in as
Senator from Illinois and appointed
to privileges and elections and Dis
trict OF Columbia committees.
Senator Thompson introduced reso-
luton for constitutional amendment
providing presidential direct election
and limiting term to six years.
Senilor Works, speaking on his bill
to prevent District of Columbia news
papers from printing details of crime.
vigorously attacked present day jour
nalism and newspapers.
The tariff revision bill, which is
making rapid progress in the Demo
cratic caucus of the House, was con-
sidered also by a conference of the
r pub lean representatives who
agreed to propose amendments and
Democratic Leader Underwood pre-
dicted that the bill would be brought
up in the House soon.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
U. S. Jobs Open to Applicants.

Denver.-The following open COM
petitive examinations for civil service
positions are annuonced by the United
States civil service commission:
May 5-Copperplate may engraver,
salary, SO day to $1,000 a year.
May Head nurse, (operating) fe-
male, salary. $3.50 year with quar-
ters and board. Assistant in tobacco
Investigations. salary, $1,000 year.
Electro metallurgist, salary, $1,000 to
81 500 year.
May and S-Junior aid in the for
est service, salary. 5000 to $500 year.
Architectural and structural steel
craftsman, salary, $1,000 a year.
May Z, s and 9-Colorist, male and
female, salary. 5000 to $1,000 a year.
May 7-Telegraph operator, male
and female, salary. 5000 to $1,000 a
year.
May 12-Associate physicist, salary.
q, ZOO a year. Irrigation manager.
salary, $1,000 to $500 a year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Lesson. In Housekeeping.

A young girl of fourteen whom I
know plans and cooks the dinner at
home one evening of each week, end
her mother stays away from the kitch-
en- entirely on this occasion. The
girls father gives her small amount
of money in the morning before he
leaves home, and she does the market
ing with this sum. The event is an
ticipated with great pleasure by all
the members of the family as well as
by the little cook, and the nourishing
and appetizing dinner she serves lis
certainly surprisingly good.-Woman's
Home Companion.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
WILSON ADVISES CARE.
California Legislators May Amend
Alien Land Measure.

Washington.-Prcsid Wilson and
Secretary Bryan, following the prece-
dent of previous administrations. have
made known their views on the inter
national character Of the legislation
now pending in California by which
Jauanese would be prevented from
owning land in that state. In tele-
gram to Governor Hiram w. johnson
OF California, made public both at Sac
ramento and Washington. Secretary
Bryan expressed the view OF Presi-
dent Wilson that the California AS
sembly bill might be construed as VI
olation Of treaty obligations with
Japan. while the Senate's measure as
drawn would not be Objectionable II
alien land legislation is to be enacted
at all.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Alarmed for His Mother.

Little Harry, hanging about the
kitchen, saw a stuffed fowl sewed up
before roasting. He was much i'm
pressed by the sight. A few nights
later his mother. hastily dressing to
go out, found that a new frock had
been sent home without the proper al
lowance' of hooks and eyes. Summon
ing aid. her sister basted the frock to-
gether up the back.
Grandma" said Harry. seeking the
source of perennial sympathy and COM
prehension. come and see what aun-
ties doing to mamma. l think she's
going to roast her. for she's sewing
her all up
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
WIDOW LEFT $1,000, 10000, MUCH
REALTY, AND Is ASSURED
OF $1oo,ooooo INCOME.
s2oo,000,ooo TO SON
DAUGHTERS GIVEN $4,000, 900 EACH
AND TWO soNs-IN-LAW BE-
oUEATHEp $1,ooo, 10000
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York; commit my soul into
the hands of my Saviour in full con.
fidence that. having redeemed and
washed 1t in His most precious blood
He will present 1t faultless before the
throne Of my Heavenly Father; and
entreat my children to maintain and
defend. at all hazard, and at any cost
OF personal sacrifice, the blessed doc.
trine OF the complete atonement for
sin through tho blood OF Jesus Christ
once offered, and through that alone
This is the extraordinary and strik-
ing utterance which begins the last
will and testament of John Pierpont
Morgan. who died at Rome on March
31st last, whose body. heaped over with
flowers from the crowned heads o.
Europe was. fortnight later, brought
back to his own land and borne to Its
last resting place at Hartford.
Morsan's viii In Brief.
After making number of bequests
the residue of the estate. estimated at
$200.o00.o00. is left to the son. J. p.
Morgan.
To the widow is bcqrccthed $1,000
600. an assured income of 100000 an
nually,. country and town house and
a large amount OF personal property.
The three daughters inherit $4,000
900 each and the two sons-in-law ST.
100000 each.
About n dozen friends are remem-
bered with gifts ranging down from
a $4,000 annuity.
{ scores OF household and business
employees are substantially remem-
bered with annuities of cash gifts. In
no case less than $1,000.
No specific disposal is made OF. the
great art collection. worth many mill
Hons. but Mr.. Morgan expressed the
hope that his son would carry out his
intention Of making 1t available to tho
American people.
The chief bequests to charity
are $500.0o0 fund to ST. Georges
Protestant Episcopal Church in New
York City. the income thcrefrom to
be used in the support OF the min
istry; 100000 endowment of the
Episcopal mission stations in the state
OF New York and a 100000 gift to
the Home of Rest for Consumptives.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
FOREIGN.

The agreement fot the suspension
of hcstilities between the Bulgarians
and the Turks has been officially con-
firmed.
forty American artists are repre-.
salon which opened in Paris. Moro
sented by pictures at the national
than 100 out of the 1900 canvases are
American.
A militant suffragette plot to burn
the offices of the Standard newspaper
was revealed to- Scotland Yard. This
police have taken stringent preventive
measures.
A Central News dispatch from sa-
Bulgarian army has received orders
to march against Monastir, now held
by the Servian troops.
Princess Louise of Belgium was or
dered by the Civil Court at Paris to
pay $770 for dozen parasols she
bought between May II and July z.
1911, one for each of 12 dresses.
Gustave Hamel, a British aviator,
accompanied by Frank Dupre, an
American, made monoplane nonstop
flight from Dover to Cologne, Ger
many. in four hours and five minutes.
The distance is something over $50
miles.
Medical skill and strong vitality
have combined to bring about a
change for the better in the condition
of Pope Plus. The official bulletins
issued relieved present
Militant suffragettes destroyed the
handsome seaside mansion at ST.
Leonard 's-on-Sea belonging to Arthur
Philip Du Cros, Unionist member of
parliament for Hastings. The women
not only set fire to the house, but
placed explosives in many of the
rooms.
Mems bodies hang from nearly ev-
cry telegraph pole over fifty miles of
the Mexicon Central railway below
Chihuahua City, reported refugees ar
irving at Ell Paso. Tex. Both the fed
erals and constitutionalists are said to
have participated in the execution of
prisoners, scqueled by this public dis
play.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
CoLOARD0 GIRLS BEST
Y. NJ. C. A. INSTRUCTOR SAYS
THEY ARE PERFECT.
Half Dozen in One Class at Grand
junction Who Are Equal to
Any in West.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Grand Junction, Colo.-That no girls
in the world are equal physically OF
young women in Colorado is the as.
sertion of Kirk Earle Wallace, physi-
cal director of the Grand Junction
Young Mems Christian Association.
who has undertaken the task of teach
ing class of fifty Grand Junction
girls how to swim.
Wallace has been in the Y. M. c. A.
work for years in the East and South.
He came here last year to take charge
of the physical work of the local Y. M.
C. A.
A class of sixty girls and young
women have been granted the privi-
leges of the association building for
one night each week and are trained
In the gymnasium by. Director Wal
lace. who later instructs them in
swimming in the big pool.
Il never saw girls SO nearly per-
feet In physical makeup" declared
Wallace. There are half a dozen
girls in my class who are equal Of fifty
per cent or more of the most athletic
young men In the East. l have one
girl who learned to swim with two
lessons. Grand functions girls show
better development in every way than
girls of the East. Their measure
ments are larger and they are better
fitted to bear children and make
homes for husbands than any other
girls in the world"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24

well and hearty and weigh about
200 pounds. 1 feel very grateful that
found Dodds Kidney Pills and you
may publish this letter II you wish. I
am serving my third term as Probate
Judge Of Gray Co. Yours truly,
PHILIP MILLER, Cimarron, Kan.
Correspond with Judge Miller about
this wonderful remedy.
Dodds Kidney Pills, Soc. per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co,
Buffalo. N. Y. Write for Household
Hints. also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and re-
cipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free.
Adv
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Graft Charge. Against Aldermen

Pueblo.-Charging that four former
aldermen under the previous city ad-
ministration, who were water works
trustees, by virtue Of their office,
were in collusion with another certain
citizen to receive graft money to the
extent af $4,000, an amended answer
and cross-complaint has been filed by
the defendants in the case Of George
w. Fuller against the present board
of North Side water works trustees.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Girl s.eaIer. Sentenced to Prison

Boulder.-George Bowman and Ma
than Grinestaff, who ran away from
Boulder on April with Edna Winkel
and Fern LIE Valley, sixteen. and who
were arrested two days later in the
Clarendon rooming house in Denver,
in company with the girls. were TAX
en- to the state penitentiary to begin
sentence of from one year to eighteen
months, which was imposed by Dis.
trict Judge N. F. Graham.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
SPORT.
Standing of Western League Teams.

Pal Brown end Ray Temple fought
ten rounds to draw at Milwaukee.
Three aeronauts were killed by
the bursting of q spherical balloon at
a suburb of Paris. o
The final makeup of tho Princeton
varsity crew for the race with Har-
ward and PENNSYLVANIA on the Charles
river, May 10, has been announced.
William Johnson. athletic director
of the State School of Mines at Col
den, has tendcred his resignation to
tnke effect at the close of the school
year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
GoIno Too Far.

Mrs. Gallup is an estimable lady
whose hobby is house decoration. One
day last spring Mrs. Gallup was care
less enough to drink glass OF red ink.
believing 1t to be claret. She was
naturally alarmed when she discov-
cred her mistake. but no harm came
to her. The doctor who was summoned.
upon hearing what had happened. dry
ly remarked to her:
Mrs. Gallup, there is such thing,
you know. as pushing this rage for
decorated interiors too far"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
IRRIGATION Sui. Far from End.

La Junta.-Two more years will be
required to finish taking evidence in
connection with the Colorado-Kansas
water suit which has already cost the
state thousands of dollars. This an
nouncement was made at the meeting
of the Arkansas Valley Water Users
Association.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Engineer Killed When Engine roppIe.

Sterling.-August Rising, one OF the
Oldest engineers in point OF service on
the Burlington railroad. was almost in.
stantly killed when his engine fell
over on its side while bucking heavy
snowdrifts near here. None others
were hurt in the accident, although
two engines and work car were de.
rallied.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
silver Killed in Eirs. ruilerle. Race.

Denver.-Four days ago the mother
of Lincoln l. Silver. nineteen years
old. dreamed she saw him fatally hurt
IN n motorcycle accident. Sunday Sill
ver's young wife. his father-in-law and
10000 spectators, among them scores
of his friends, saw him killed at the
start of motorcycle race at the Tuil-
cries motordrome.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
London suttrase..es Saved by Police

London. The suffragettes have
plenty of evidence that the public has
tired of militancy, and only the pro-
police saved the women from the
hands of angry mobs. At Brighton
the suffragettes were chased off the
Esplanade and took refuge in a neigh
boring house.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Cook and the Cuckoo.

Mistress-Bridget, what ails the
cuckoo clock? l haven't heard it. to-
day.
Bridget-Well, mum. there do be a
strange cat around the kitchen an
likely the poor bur'rd's afeared to
come out.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Who's Doing the raIkIns7

"a business man should never take
his stenographer out to lunch"
why not?"
''Oh, 1t causes talk
"Of course 1t causes talk. but II
the business man will abstain from
cocktails. he won't talk to her half as
much as he might"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24

my breath was
short and I had
chills and back
ache. / took the
pills about q year
ago and have had
no return of the
palpitations. Am
now 63 years old,
able to do lots of
manual labor. am
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
AdmIrino soIicitude.

What do you think of our new bat
tleship?" asked the naval expert.
Wonderful" replied the plain busi-
ness man; only 1t does seem n
shame to risk anything SO handsome
and expensive in a fight"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Adam. May Become Mexican Minister

observation-disclosures Governor AL
va Adams is being considered in con
nection with the. appointment OF an
ambassador to Mexico.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
JUDGE CURED, HEART TRousLL

took about boxes Of Dodds Kid
ney Pills for Heart Trouble from
which I had suffered for years.
had dizzy spells, my eyes pufIed.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Swiss Police. Fail to Locate Martin,

Swiss Police Fail TO Locate Martin.
Vevey. Switzerland.-Th police of
this city have visited every hotel.
boarding house and clinic. taking with
them q photograph of Joseph W, Mar
tin of Memphis, who has been miss.
ing from London since April 8, but
they were unable to find him.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put up,
40 years ago. They regulate and invigorate'
stomach, liver and bowels. Sugsr-coated
tiny granules. Adv
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Charity covers a multitude Of sins
that ought to be exposed.

A soft answer may not turn away
wrath. but 1t saves lot of useless
talk.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24

The old-fashioned mother and her
slipper have qualified many nan
for the presidential chair-even II he
didn't land.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24

The only people who have no re-
gret for anything they ever said are
those have who never said anything
OF Importance.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Section Hand Killed by Train.

Trinidad.-Lying beside the railroad
tracks a short distance east of the de-
pot at Thatcher, a station on the San
ta Fe. twenty-five miles east of here,
the body of Andreas Navarro, sec.
ton hand, was found by Myrtle Mey-
ers, telegraph operator. The mans
back had been broken, his head was
crushed and his body otherwise man.
gled. He was struck by a train.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
The Kind,

The Kind.
II wonder II people in Mars have
dogs"
''If they do. they must be moon
dogs
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24
Former coloradoan Killed In Idaho

Buena vista.-Henry Brown, former
ly one of the best known mining men
in this section, was shot and killed
from ambush at Solomon, Idaho. The
shooting is believed to have been the
result OF feud between cattlemen
and sheepmen.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-04-24

Court House Janitor Admits Theft.
Colorado Springs.-Jonathan Minor,
who has charge of the court house
grounds, pleaded guilty to stealing
coal from the Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany. He was fined $3.50.