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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
POWER CO.'S
EARNINGS
c RIO "

!. Figures summarized from the 1913
statement Of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, of Atlanta. just
made public and under wide discus
sion among .financiers. shows an in
crease in the years earnings of $780,
0S2 over 1872.
The gross earnings amounted to
$3.50, 9s5. Net earnings were given
as 81, 66s, 1922, but, the heavier operat-
ing, expenses and the increase in tax
alton, with increased wages, cut the
surplus for the year to $5s4,S65.
The balance after charges was
given as more than five times the
dividend requirements on the 6 per
cent first preferred stock, and. after
deducting the amount for these divi-
dends was equal to Ala per cent on
the $40, 1000, 1000 4 per cent-non- cumu-
lative second preferred stock.
It is understood, however, that no
dividends are to be paid, even on the
first preferred stock, the earnings to
be used for the company's extensive
Improvement and construction work.
The new hydro electric plant at
Tallulah Falls, with transmission
lines and sub-stations, now is practi-
cally finished. Officials of the COM
pany believe this new plant will fur
ish electricity much more f1heaply
than they have been able to n1anufac-
tnre 1t heretofore.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
COUNTY PRIMARY TO
BE HELD ON MAY 5

The County Democratic Executive
Committee met Saturday, fixed the
date of the next county elections as
May 5, and voted down by ma
jority of % to a motion to put to a
vote of the people the proposition to
incorporate the referendum and the
recall in the county government.
The heralded effort to get the COM
mittee lined up for a vote on the
commission fern of government for
the county, or for splitting 1t up into
fifteen districts. each with repre-
sentative, did not come up at all.
The other questions. however, were
debated with enough acrimony to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

He spoke calmly and steadily.
His voice rose as he declared his
innocence and asserted that he
would be a "blood sacrifice" in
the event that the State insisted
Oh the forfeit of his life. At the
height of his address, his Ian
guage was eloquent but con-
trolled.
AT the close of his brief speech he
said that he felt kindly toward those
who had prosecuted him and prayed
that God would deal lenieutly with
them in their terrible error.
AS he concluded with the words, Il
am now ready that sentence be pro-
nounced upon me- Judge Hill. who
had been listening attentively to the
prisoner and observing his demeanor,
drew the formal document of sem
tence toward him and read from it
the dryly worded legal phrases that
gave Frank to the hangman on April
IT.
To Ask New Trial.
Attorney Arnold announced to the
reporters that an extraordinary mo-
ton for a new trial would be made,
but that formal notice of it would be
withheld until the return Of Luther
Rosser chief of counsel, who is ex-
pected back from trip to New York
and Washington by Monday. The mo-
ton will be made on the ground OF
newly discovered evidence and VIII
contain many OF the affidavits which
have been made public recently.
Frank spent the forenoon with his
friends in the Tower At 1885 o'clock
he was led from his cell by Deputy
Sheriff Plennie Miner and was taken
TO the Thrower Building.
He was brought into Judge HITS
court at exactly IL o'clock. The reg
ular session Of court had been adj
1ourned some minutes before ana
there were hardly more than score
of persons who had loitered around
the building.
Reuben Arnold and Leonard Haas,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
CHAMPCLARK
DENOUNCES
q n AHA IN A
ACCUSER

WASHINGTON, March speak
er Champ Clark was roundly ap-
plauded in the House to-day when he
denounced as false the reported state
ment of Charles zeublin, former pro-
fessor of sociology Of the University
Of Chicago, in recent speech here,
that the House was controlled by a
ring and that the Speaker had
counted out" members who did not
want to refer to the House Judiciary
Committee the Mulhall lobby inves-
tigation report.
Zeublin was quoted as saying at
dinner at Alexander Graham Bells
house that at a demand for q roll
call in the House. Speaker Clark
counted only 20 men, whereas so
arose and the roll call was refused.
Zeublin also asserted, according to
accounts of the dinner. that members
had to go to Speaker Clark and Rep
resentative Underwood to learn how
to vote.
TN glad to be able to say" said
Republican Leader Mann, "on the
sixty fourth birthday of the Speaker,
there has never been time when any
man could assail truthfully his hon
esty and integrity"
Representative Madden demanded
that Prof. Zeublin produce the names
of the fifty men said to. hspa arisen
on the roll call when only twenty
ehree were apparent,
Speaker Clark ridiculed the idea
of House ring. He also asserted
that no presiding officer would be so
brazen as to count twenty-three
members if fifty members had aris-
en-, because any member could have
called for tellers and shown up the
incorrectness of the count by taking
it out of the Speakers hands.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
Race Entries on Page 2.
Old Player, Fired Of
Auto Game, Resigns

NEW YORK, March Vincent
Campbell, formerly an outfielder for
the Pittsburg Pirates, but who left the
game to go into the automobile bust
ness, to-day signed up to play for the
Indianapolis team in the Federal
League.
Before leaving for Chicago this af-
ternoon on the Twentieth Century
Limited, President Gilmore, of the
Federal League, expressed keen dis
appointment that he had not been
able to land more of the big league
players who returned yesterday from
their world tour.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
BRANDED AS
BLUEBEARD
At TRIAL
Spectators Are Locked Out Of
Court for Demonstration
Against Artist.

RoMoRANTIN, FRANCE, March T..
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, who, with
his latest affinity, Miss Charlotte
Herman, of Rutherford, N. j. is on
trial here for abducting his son, this
afternoon heard himself pictured as
a modern bluebeard. Counsel for
Nine. Fischbacher. mother Of the
child and Earle's first wife, resumed
his speech at the opening of court
directing a bitter trade against the
eccentric American.
Earle, who had declared that he is
as famous as President Wilson or
Colonel Roosevelt, sat with a smile
on mis- face as he listened. He flushed
deeply when the audience of fash
ionably gowned women cheered the
attack of the lawyer.
Earle wore a pink camelia on his
buttonhole, and white spats, while
Miss Herman wore fashionably cut
gown and an enormous picture hat.
The defendants sat apart and be-
fore court was called to order Earle
nahesspeetators in earshot
by making witty remarks to Miss
Herman, who smiled back.
"Acted in Hatred"
Counsel for Earle presented writ
ten statement to the judge before
court was convened declaring that
Earle would seek no justification of
the "baser principles enunciated by
the most eminent French writers such
as Anatole France"
In the course of his remarks Maitre
Boppo, lawyer for Nine. Fischbacher,
declared that when Earle kidnapped
his son Harold, he acted more in ha-
tired against his divorced wife than
in spirit of love for his child.
Maitre Boppo demanded the maxi
mum penalty for Earle, but said De
thought leniency should be shown
Miss Herman, who lis more unfortu-
nate in being in Earle's influence
than she is a criminal"
During the proceedings two riots
occurred, one outside the courtroom,
the other inside.
Spectators in Riot.
During the reading of letters from
Earle to his former wife, men and
women among the spectators leaped
10 their feet shouting: stop, it's too
disgusting"
Gendarmes were called into the
room to restore order. The court
room was cleared and the doors lock-
ed then the reading of documentary
evidence went on.
In the meantime the incensed men
and women, who had been elected
angered by what they had heard and
by the refusal of the court to allow
them to re- enter, began a demonstra-
ton against Earle outsode the court
house, crying:
He should not be allowed to live
10 lurlner def1le women.
For time it looked as though SOL
diers would have to be called to re-
store order.
Letter to Affinity.
After the case was resumed a LETT
Ter Earle had written to Dora Sid
ford, former affinity who eventually
married and then divorced Earle, was
read, In it the American vowed never
TO wash his face until a baby was
born to the woman. =
AS a consequence" said Earle in
the letter, my face has become all
covered with pimples and all my cold
cream has been used up.
Earles diary was introduced in or
der to establish his handwriting. 1t
contained a special set of rules for
the moral conduct of his wife.
The sketch of a hand in the diary
meant blow, the sketch Of a shoe
meant kick and the picture of a
whip symbolized a lashing.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
Push and Pull

Put the claims of the
Want Ad" service of
The Georgian and
American in the cruel
bic of an investigating
reading, or, better still,
apply the acid test of a
trial." it matters little
what about, and you
will know of a certain
ty the truth and just
ness of our representa-
tons.
They push" open
the door of the rich and
the humble, and they
pull for you "a hours
in the day.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

make the meeting exceedingly lively.
5ranan Motion Defeated.
Charles Branan made the motion
to institute the referendum and the
recall, speaking in behalf OF the At
lanta Federation of Trades. His own
and the vote OF B. Lee Smith were
the only ones in favor of the motion,
the question being put after a warm
discussion.
The primary date also developed
row, with Mr. Branan again in the
minority
The sense of the meeting was that
Continued on Page 2, Column 7.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

WASHINGTON, March 7.-Declar-
ing that the service on the Pere Mar
quette Railroad is Serious menace
to the State of Michigan" Repre-
sentative Champion, Of Michigan, to-
day asked the House Interstate Com
nerce Committee to direct the Inter-
state Commeroe Commission to in
service Of the road. e said the State
Railroad Commission Of Michigan did
not have authority to conduct the in
quiry.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
VOWS INNOCENCE N
ELOQUENT SPEECH AS
FATAL DAY IS NAMED

Saturday sentenced by Judge Ben Hill to be
hanged April II in the Fulton County Tower
mandate of the court carried out the prisoner win de-
part anniversary Of the day he entered it, He will
be 80 years old on April IT,
solemn formaly made the impressive by
marabe address the by Frank The prisoner showed
agitation that might have been expected
from person in his tragic position
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

of counsel for the defense. met him in
the courtroom. Solicitor Dorsey had
entered court some time before. Att
torney Arnold said that he had no inA
tnetion of asking for life sentence
instead of the death penalty.
Leo Frank, stand up" commanded
Judge Hill as soon as order had been
obtained.
'Is there any reason why sentence
should not be pronounced upon the
prisoner at this timer" continued the
Judge. "Mr. Arnold, have you any
thing to say?"
Attorney Arnold replied: mo, but 4
ebslieve Mr. Frank wishes to say i
few words.
Frank arose and made this inn
pressive statement to the court;
Swears He 10 innocent.
May It please your honor, wish
the court to understand that I ana
speaking impersonally and without
any feeling for my own fate.
II know full well that your honor
has had naught to do with the va
! rious vicissitudes with which my case
has been hedged.
But wish to say in your presence
and in the presence of the Supreme
Being whose eye now is upon us than
l am innocent of the murder of nttIs
Mary Phagan and have no knowl4
edge of how 1t occurred.
Law Merely Experiences Expressed.
Law, as we know It, your honor.
is but the expression Of mans legal
experience. 1t is but relative. 1t
tries to approximate Justice. But
being man made is fallibleI In the
name Of the law many grievous err
rors have been commissioners thar
were colossal and irretrievableI I
declare to your honor now that the
State of Georgia is about to make
such an errorl
The law says that when one has
lost his life through violence OF an
other, the perpetrator of the deed
must answer with his own. Let me
be just. But the law does not say
that where one is killed blood sac
rifice shall be made OF the next cons
venient individual. II this latter OBJ
tains, then taking OF such life is not
justice. 1t is but murder legalized.
Oh. what terrible thing this Is to
contemplate!
Innocent Before High Judge.
III the sentence which you ars
about to pronounce Is executed. will
be thrust over the eternal abyss. But
will go before a Higher Judge. Be-
fore Him / will be adjudged innocence
Of the great crime of which / hawa
been accused.
Your honor. there have been 4
great many things to enter this triad
which never should have come up
Stories of the vilest nature were cir
culated in regard to me. They were
false. every one. but they were iI
the minds OF those jurors when thay
found the verdict OF guilty against
me.
Jurors Minds Poisoned.
From men whose minds were poll
soned with this sort OF venom, were
the jurors chosen.
"Your honor, in this presence and
in the Divine presence again dsdiare
myself innocent Of the staying on
Mary Phagan. ! pray that God may
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
Mother Saves Son
From Death by Fire

Willie Miller. aged 8, son of Mr..
and Mrs w. s. Miller, of No. 246
Fulton street, was painfully but not
seriously burned Saturday morning,
when his nightgown caught fire as he
had stood before CRATE.
His mother came TO his assistance
and wrapped him in the bedclothes,
extinguishing the flames. His arms
were severely clustered.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
Unity Earle Threatened by French Mob
r A TECTv
LA1 LID L
NEWS

SACRAMENTO, CAL, March
IA lone bandit walked into
the Oak Park branch of the Sac
ramento Bank this afternoon,
seized $1,000 in bills lying on the
counter, and fed.
WASHINGTON, March Fresh
revolutionary disturbances have de-
veloped In Hayti and the battleship
South Carolina has been ordered back
from Guantanamo to Port Au Prince.
The nature Of the new uprising is not
known.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

ST. PETERSBURG, March T.
Lieutenant Colonel Chebaieff, chief Of
police Of ST. Petersburg, was assas-
sinated in his office to-day by Lieu
tenant lvanoff, a junior officer. Re-
venge was the motive for the crime.
PARIS, March 7.-MadeIeine, the
"Siamese twin" who was separated
two days ago from her sister, Suzanne,
rapidly.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

CHICAGO, March 7.-There will be
no more picketing in front of Hem
rici's restaurant pending settlement
Of injunction proceedings and there
mattresses and sympathizers during
the same period. Judge McGoorty to-
day handed down an order contain
ing these two provisions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07
Jurors Minds Poisoned.

From men whose minds were poll
soned with this sort of venom, were
the jurors chosen.
"Your honor, in this presence and
in the Divine presence again declare
myself innocent Of the staying 90
Mary Phagan. / pray that God may
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

WASHINGTON, March Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, through her social
secretary, Miss Belle Hagner, to-day
Miss Eleanor Wilson is engaged to
marry Secretary of the Treasury Me-
Adoo.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-18

Buttercup, in her bumboat, is rowed
around, under the stern of the ship,
to the galgway, and ascends to the
deck. Sir Joseph Porter comes along
side in. his barge. When Dick Deadeye
makes himself too unpopular, he is
chucked overheard into the. water,
and swims ashore.
The Shuberts have provided cast
of, excellent singers, the principals be-
ing William Hinshaw, formerly Of the
Metropolitan opera company, as Cap
tain Gorcoran; Harrison Brockbank
as Sir Joseph, Josephine Jacoby as
Little Buttercup, Vernon Jacoby as
Ralph Rackstraw- and Ruby CUT
Ter Savage as Josephine. The chorus
effects are tremendous.
t &1H&
'FThe Truth, y written by Clyde
Fitch, ran only two weeks here when
lit was originally produced. It had bet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-29
100000 Are LOST Topeka To DOVER
Is Estimate of Casualties Thus
Far on ,Aisne.
Paris Says German Death Roll.
Is the Longer.

Paris. Sept. 2s.-Omcers who are
familiar with the situation declare
that the German casualties in the bat
tie OF the Aisne, now believed to be
entering its decisive stage. total fully
10000 men in killed, wounded and
missing.
The losse Of the allies, they say. win
probably reach 100 goo inasmnch as
at1sahy DoiAtH HttsAae. .been found nee
essary to delivar frontal attacks on
heavily entrenched positions. > go
In the case of the Germans, it is
said they have far higher percent
age in dead than the allies. The Brit
ish have lost heavily but all Of the
gaps in their forces have been filled
with members of the latest expeditions
to the front. ....-..-
Several officers in the garb OF the
British Indian troops have been seen
here in Paris and this is accepted as
conclusive proof that at least the In
dian regiments are In the field, al
though UP to the present time there
has been on official statement on this
subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-29
W|NGETT IS SUED
Katherine Mafer Complains of
Alleged Fraud I'M Land.
Charges Topeka Real Estate
Man With Misrepresentation.

Katherine Maier today filed suit in
the district court against the La Feria
Syndicate and Iowa corporation. the
Security Investment company, a Texas
corporation. and c. B. Wingett, of this
city, agent for the two named corpora
tions. The petition charges fraud on
the part of Wingett, who induced the
plaintiff it is alleged to buy land in
sentations.
She alleges that the land was said to
be rich, capable of producing crops in
abundance and at a net profit of 500
per acre per annum; that the land was
irrigated by an irrigation system rum
ming acros sthe land and tat the irri-
cation rights were free. She claims
no irrigation plant exists there and that
the land is absolutely worthless for the
raising of any kind of crops.
She further alleges that she paid
$3.50 to Wingett. but that Wingett fail
ed to cancel and turn over to her notes
to that amount, and that Wingett ad-
mits having appropriated to his own
use the money which she paid him for
the purchase of the land, instead Of
turning the money over as agent to
the corporations which he acted for
and which owned the land.
She asks the court to issue decree
canceling the notes and giving her
Judgment for $3.50. She further al
leges that Wingett gave a mortgage on
his home and an automobile supposed
ly in settlement with her., but that
the mortgage was made to read in
favor of her son, and not her. Her
son William and Wingett are brothers
in-law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-29
4 MILLION IN EAST
Russian Army of 100000 on
German Frontier.
Main Attack Is on Kaliscz-
CracOW Line.

London, Sept 29.-The correspondent
of the Daily Chronicle in Petrograd
learns that the German offensive. de-
signed to overrun Poland and capture
Warsaw, has not only been halted but
has been thrown back in four places.
1T appears" the Chronicle man says,
las if the battle in the west of Russia
for which vast German preparations
had been made had at last begun. Now
it has already ended and the Germans
are in retreat shelling the works of
Ossowiscz as they go.
They came across the border on
Wednesday at four points. The most
Southerly was close to Kaliscz, where
they occupied the district of Warta and
suffered heavy defeat at Sieradz. An
other force advanced to Mlawa, while
another invaded the government OF
Lomza, near Winezenta, and was
definitely defeated"
The Russians are now progressing on
all sides toward German territory. Cen
eral Rennenkampf has sent a strong
force into East Prussia in the direction
of Koenigsburg while using his main
army to prevent the Germans from
scr,ssirg the Ri er Niemen and strik-
ing at Grodno. the railway key to the
Wilma river and Warsaw. These opera
tions are comparatively unimportant.
Russia is compelling Germany to MAIN
tain a large force in East Prussia while
she attacks violently the Kalisc-Cra-
COW line to the south and continues to
press her Galician advance against
CracOW
The whole Russian advance is in the
shape of a vast crescent, extending
about POO miles from it's northern horn.
east of Koenigsberg to it's southern
horn, east of Dembica, in Galicia.
Petrograd correspondents assert that
Russia is employing no fewer than B.
100000 troops along this semicircle, and
that Germany, with Austrian assist
ance. is concentrating prOba bly, 1,50O. 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-29
PL ms Made for an Electric Line
to the Southwest.
Opens Rich Territory Tributary
to Capital City.

Plans are nearly complete for an in
terurban electric line between Dover
and Topeka.
The agitation among the business
men OF Dover and the well-to-do farm
ers and stockmen in the vicinity of the
town is an outgrowth of the effort
made a number of years ago to build
a railroad line to Topeka. Grading
was actually carried out before the plan
fell through. 1t is now the intention
off the promoters OF the interurban
scheme to hive all plans complete be-
fore making start in order to assure
the success of the undertaking.
Dover is an enterprising town. 1t is
considered by the residents that an
tnterurban line would do much to-
wards adding to the prosperity of the
place. A line from Dover to Topeka
has been the dream of the citizens
for many years.
Captain A. M. Phillips of the Dover
State Bank, and formerly treasurer Of
Shawnee county, is interested in the in
terurban proposition. He is optimistic
over the plans. He said: There is a
way to build the road It is a good
proposition ard can be done"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-29
LOYAL TO BRITAIN
Cen. BOtha ArOuses South Afri-
cans by Patriotic Speech.
Tells Countrymen That Neu-
trality Means Treason.

London, Sept ga dispatch to the
Reuters Telegram company from Cape
Town says that in the course of a
pie at the town of Bank, in the Trans
vaal, General Louis Botha, premier of
South Africa, emphasized the necessity
OF loyalty to the British empire
Declaring that the policy of neutrality
was absolute nonsense, he pointed out
that If German warship came to Dur
ban and imposed levy of five million
pounds sterling on them it would help
the people very little to say that they
were neutral.
General Botha said that he was ami
mated through a sincere love of his
people and wished to put the position
truly before them. He said there were
only two courses open, first loyalty and
help and second disloyalty and treason.
There was no middle course.
The German tortoise, General Botha
went on to say. had for once stuck it's
head out too far and was in gravev
danger of being trodden upon.
He Justified the expectation of South
Africans to support the imperial gov
ernment. He said he had information
regarding German ambitions concern
ing South Africa which would make the
hairs of his hearers stand on end. The
fact OF the matter was that the German
emperor wanted to go down to pOsterity
as a second Napoleon. Incidentally he
also wanted a place to send Germany's
surplus population, and South Africa
appealed to him as a suitable place
The speech was received by the boys
with cheers and resolution OF conf
dence in General Botha was carried by
acclamation.