Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-10
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far from human habitation in the
Gold Coast colony, West Africa. Ac-
cording to native legend, it was
placed over the grave of the chief
tain, who had occupied the chair
when alive.
In their superstition they believe
he still sits upon his old throne in
spirit at certain times, and for this
reason they have never tried to move
the chair. which, they declare, has
dispatch to the Daily Graphic.
A Gold Coast surveyor first STUN
bled across this curiosity. A search
party returned to the spot and found
the jungle so dense that the natives
| had to hack a path with cutlasses
through the underground.
! In spite of inquiry, no confirmation
of the native story as to the his
| tory of the chair has been obtainable,
and how it came to be in the jungle
| remains mystery.
| John Jardine, IS years old, New
I York architect, who planned several
/ Carnegie libraries, recently commit
ted suicide, by shooting, at farm in
! Morristown, N. j., at which he was
| boarding.
Jardine, who was vice president Of
| the St Andrews Society when An
drew, Carnegie was president. was :.
| member of the firm of Jardine, Kent
| & Jardine, of New York. He is sur
vived by daughter, Mrs. Dudley
| Cook, of this city and son in Cali
| fornia.
According to news gathered from
Washington suppressing for obvious
reasons the name of the sender Sen
ator Harding's office gave out this
letter from a man at Rochester. Pa:
Dear Mr.. Harding-It is not my
| intention to owe a president of the
United States anything except my
admiration and good will, therefore
enclose my check for 81. Some
years ago in your private Office at
Marion I borrowed the 81 for rea-
at time when work was scarce
| and money scarcer. I am pleased to
note the lender en- route to the
White House."
Seven British citizens, one Japa-
nese and one American comprise the
municipal council of the International
Settlement of Shanghai as a result
of the recent election by the taxpay-
ers here. Sterling Fessenden, of a
local law firm. is the American mem
ber DR.. S. A, Ransom. the one other
nominee, having been defeated. Only
$50 votes were cast, the smallest
number since 1918.
Under body composed of sixteen
foreign consuls the municipal council
of Shanghai governs a community
of about three-quarters of a million
people, of whom about $4,000 are for
eigners; Vigorous efforts of Chinese
boundaries, who pay roughly IS per
cent of the revenues, to obtain repre-
sentation on the municipal council
have thus far failed, although the
question again is to come up for de-
right of foreign residents of the set
Element to vote in municipal elections
is determined by the payment of
taxes on property.
The first vote to be cast for a
woman for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination came recently from
the Kentucky delegation, when Chcir-
M. Clay, a prominent suffragist of
the delegation at San Francisco.
So, far as convention observers
could remember, it was the first
vote. cast for a woman in con
vention of either of the two great
Later one Kentucky vote was cast
other member of the delegation.
A train on which the PRINCE of
Wales was travelling was derailed
near .Bridgetown. West Australia,
recently. Two of the royal
coaches were thrown off the tracks
A dispatch from Mexico City states
the forces have crushed the revolt
In the state Of Chiapas, led by Col
onel Samado and Malvador G.. Soto
mayor, both of whom have been exc
cuted The instruction lasted but
Trying to find place in which
20 establish home worthy of a
some task of Mr., and Mrs. Camp
bell, OF Aberdeen, Scotland. They
made the money out of plantations
Ihey acquired several years ago in
Java; they sold out some time ago
close to S50,000,000.
AFTER touring northern Canada they
went On to California.
flax hber grown and manufactured
IN Manitoba by the Netherlands
canadian Flax company brought ST.
ooo ton In the open market in Bel
GUM. 49, "oi
An American. DR.. Harlan, of Phila-
aelphla, was once ruler over the
and was also governor under Raniif
| SINGH. the Sikh king of the Puniab
IN 1873, at the time Of the first Bur
mese war, DR.. Harlan enlisted with
the British forces in their campaign
| against the natives. After the cam
paign, however, he was discharged.
which offended his sense of Justice
ana moved him to take the side Of
the Indian princes in their conflicts
with the British
Ran5it Singh, who had confederated
the Sikh states into a single national
lty under his power at Lahore, an
pointed DR.. Harlan governor of the
| province of Gujarat in 1927 Dr. Har-
Ian ruled there for ten years, when
he resigned and made for Kabui, in
| q JTrhn AEoi. =
the Ameer, was preparing for war
with the British. He soon came to
| stand high in the Ameer's opinion,
but Dost Mohammed failed to take
the advice of the American, and the
British defeated the latter's troops
and entered Kabul.-Detroit News.
Frank Klague, a federal employee
| torical documents for which he has
| just refused an offer by an eastern
historical society of $1,50O. The doc
uments are reports made by Thomas
while the latter was president, and
dealt with the middle west terri
tory, which was then AN unsettled
region.
One Of the reports deals with the
northwest territory and one with the
| Jefferson made survey of this ter
ritory, which afterward became a
| part of the country through the
| Louisiana purchase.
The documents are of bulky char
acter, in Jeffersons own handwrit-
| ing, and are legible, although the
ink has eaten into the paper in some
| places.
Mr.. Klagus' wife obtained the pa
pers through her grandfather, New
York city publisher, who had obtain,
ed the reports for publication, and
they had never been returned, com
ing down through the generations of
the family.
The grave of Theodore Roosevelt
on Sycamore Hill was smothered on
the Fourth of July in flowers placed
there by patriotic pilgrims Oyster
of the grave, and to their tributes
were added those left by the hun