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WESTERNERS START REVOLT AGAINSTG.O.P. GAG; NATIONAL SPLIT IS AT HAND
( "HICAGO. June 15.—The California delegation, largest in the west, chosen
by 77,000 majority for Roosevelt, invaded Chicago today with “FIGHT”
emblazoned large upon its banners. Its comipg marked the beginning of a west
wide revolt against Taft and the G. O. P. organization that threatens to become
nation-wide and split the Grand Old Party for the first time since its birth.
Part of this delegation has been unseated by the National Committee. “All
or none,” was the slogan of the angry invading hosts today.
THE WEATHER
Forecast: Showers tonight or
tomorrow. Temperatures: Ba. m.,
75 degrees; 10 a. m., 79 degrees;
12 noon. 81 degrees; 2 p. m., 81 de
grees.
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MRS. KEEFER
WINS HUBBY
FROM LURE
OF BW
Alimony Suits. Now With
drawn, Cost SI,OOO. But She
Is Perfectly Satisfied.
ft cost Mrs. Grace Macy Keefer, who
ow ns a home at 80 East Fourteenth
street, SSOO in the Fulton courts and a
like amount In the courts of New York
tn nin her husband. David H. Keefer,
former Atlanta lawyer, away from the
dazzle of Broadway’s white lights—or
a: any rate, to induce him to share
some of its glitter with her.
Superior Judge Pendleton today dis
missed Mrs. Keefer’s alimony suit and
assessed the costs, with attorneys’ and
~ . -jvers' fees aggregating SSOO against
Ms Keefer Samuel Evins. Mrs.
Keefer's lawyer, said that the divorce
proceedings, instituted in New York at
ihe same time, had been dismissed and
ihe Keefers had been reunited and
were living together happily in New
York
In dismissing the action. Judge Pen
dleton awarded Jerome Moore, named
as receiver for Keefer’s Atlanta hold
ings. at his wife's request. $250 for his
services. This cost, too, was borne by
Mrs. Keefer. The New York suit ex
penses also Mis Keefer gladly paid.
Keefer Closed Office
To Go to Broadway.
Mr- Keefer filed her local suit a-k
--ing for alimony and a receiver for
lv e,ei'. Atlanta holdings, including
stock in the Georgia Railway and Elec
nir Company, worth $80,000; bank ac
, mmts of $40,000, and Marietta street
veal estate Valued at SBO,OOO. She ar
s. riol Keefer had abandoned his law
practice here, given up his offices in
the Atlanta National Rank building, and
left all because of the lure of the big
tnv. n and its night attractions.
With a temporary order from thje
uperior court granted by Judge Ellis
mi January 20. restraining Keefer from
disposing of his Atlanta property. Mrs.
K. ofer sued for $250 a month alimony
nd $2,000 for New York depositions,
sm told the court her sole income was
r;:; - a year received from stock in the
, m n Products Refining Company.
Judge Pendleton dismissed the suit
~c Mrs. Keefer's request, when it was
dmitted in court that she owned At
lanta real estate valued at $20,000, and
.mild gladly pay the costs.
earthquake wrecks
COSTA RICAN VILLAGE
g\N JUAN. COSTA RICA, June 15.
T'm village of Naranjo, Costa Rica, has
destroyed by an earthquake, ac
hing to reports received here today.
I ; feared that many persons were
rd. although the reports stated that
had been hull. The river
e.ming by the village was thiown Into
cm ouise by the quake, carrying
away ten houses.
The Atlanta Georgian
k Rpad For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
SHUBERTS QUIT DIXIE;
WELLS LEASES GRAND
Klaw & Erlanger Win Theatrical Su
premacy in South—Keith’s May
Use Opera House.
Jake Wells announced this- afternoon
in Atlanta that he had leased the
Grand opera house in Atlanta and its
twin, the Macon Grand, for eight years,
the remainder of the ten-year lease
taken by the Shuberts from the De-
Gives two years ago. He will not an
nounce at this time what class of the
atricals will be presented in the Grand,
but virtually it is practically assured
that the Keith vaudeville now given in
the Forsyth will be transferred to the
larger house.
The change marks the passing of the
Shuberts from the Southern field of
high-class productions. Their battle
with Klaw A- Erlanger, which prom
ised such success at first, has been lost,
and after two disastrous seasons they
have given up their Sou-thein holdings.
Deal Closed in
New York Three Weeks ago.
The deal was closed in New York
three weeks ago. but not announced
until Mr. Wells reached Atlanta today.
It. gives Mr. Wells control of every
theater In the city except the Atlanta,
which is leased by Klaw & Erlanger.
Mr. Wells, through the Atlanta Thea
ter Company, controls the Forsyth,
Lyric, Rijou and Orpheum. The Or
pheum is no longer a factor tn Atlanta
theatricals. It is on the market as real
estate, but will not be sold or leased for
any theatrical purpose.
.The possession of the Grand at Ma
con by the Wells interests will give
ihe Central City better theatricals, it
is presumed, as Mr. Wells has stood by
EUGENE GRACE TO BE
OUT WITHIN MONTH;
IS SURE OF RECOVERY
NEWNAN, GA.. June 15.—Dr. T. S.
Bailey, attending Eugene H. Grace, to
day predicted that Grace would be able
to leave his bed and go out of doors in
a roller chair within the next month,
possibly by July 1. For the first time
since he was operated on Wednesday
afternoon Grace today showed no
signs of fever, his temperature being
normal.
Grace is more confident that ever,
since his operation, that he will even
tually recover and have the full use of
his lower limbs. And his physician is
hopeful of that result. Grace now sits
up in bed. reads the newspapers and
discusses his operation in a most cheer
ful frame of mind.
The operation of Wednesday revealed
that the spinal cord was hardened at
the point where the Incision was made,
but it is expected that now this hard
nfess will disappear.
MILLIONAIRE SLAYER
TO SPEND REMAINDER
OF LIFE A PRISONER
MEMPHIS. TENN.. June 15.—J. J.
Hughes, 55 years old. millionaire Ar
kansas planter, the slayer of four men,
will spend the balance of his life in
prison for kilting Tommy Dolan, an
ex-jockey, in a local hotel, July 9. 1911
A decision of the Tennessee supreme
court today affirmed the lower court's
itnlence of life Imprisonment.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1912.
ihe 'open door” policy in every batch
and tl?c,Klaw & Erlanger attraotidtis
probably will be presented in the Ma
con house, until now controlled by their
rivals, the Shuberts.
The Shuberts still have a lease on
the Dauphine in New Orleans, but they
have given qp their Birmingham house
and will hardly operate In the South
again. Their success has been only in
the metropolitan cities, where a few
good companies could keep their thea
ters busy for extended runs.
May Run Pictures
At the Forsyth.
The shift in theatricals for next sea
son has not yet been decided upon. It
is probable that the Lyric and Bijou
still will offer popular priced plays and
ten-eent vaudeville, respectively, while
the high-claks vaudeville wil be trans
ferred to the Grand. It is possible, that
good vaudeville may also be offered at
the Forsyth, as Atlanta has proved a
profitable patron of this form o f
amusement. Motion pictures, which
have already ousted the ''legitimate”
from some of the most expensive thea
ters in the East, may possibly be
shown at the Forsyth next season.
The lease of the Grand marks. Jake
JVells' tenth anniversary in Atlanta.
His first venture here was the lease in
June, 1902. of t'he old Columbia, which
he converted into the Bijou. The
building of the Lyric, the purchase of
the Orpheum, the lease of the Forsyth
and the lease of the Grand have fol
lowed.
FRANK P. DAY, AUTO
BRANCH HEAD, DIES
OF TYPHOID FEVER
Frank P. Day, Southern manager of
the Locomobile company, died at his
home, 800 Peachtree street, today, after
three weeks’ illness of typhoid fever.
Mr. Day came to Atlanta from
Bridgeport. Conn., last October, where
he was connected with the headquar
ters of the automobile company. He
was a popular club man and had an
extensive, acquaintance in the com
mercial world of Atlanta.
Mrs. Day, who Is in Bridgeport, has
been notified of his death and will re
turn to Atlanta at once. She probably
will be accompanied by Mr. Day's
mother, who is a resident of Bridge
port. Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
Besides his mother and his wife, Mr.
Day is survived by the following rela
tives: Mrs. T. M. Bennett, a sister, and
three brothers, George H. Day* Jr., and
Godfrey M. Day, of Hartford, and \V.
Beach Day. of Pelham Manor, N. Y.
Richard Beach, of New Orleans, is an
uncle.
HAIR-PULLING WIF£TOO
MUCH FOR FANNIN FARMER
MACON. GA., June 15.—Thomas E.
Ross, a prominent Fannin county farm
er. has filed suit for divorce in the
Bibb superior court against Mrs. Laura
Ross. He says that she has ceased to
be a loving and affectionate wife. and
that last Sunday night she pulled his
hair and kicked him. and ordered him
out of tbs house. They have eight
children. „
ELOPING PIU
FLE! ffll;
FORFEIT
BONDS
Mrs. Ruth Webb Winn and
Soul Mate Fail to Appear in
Atlanta Court.
Pretty Mrs. Ruth Webb Winn, the
Texas girl-wife who eloped to this city
only to be arrested, fled the city with
her companion. Rene Coward, today,
jumping their bond in recorder’s court.
Coward forfeited $250 cash bond
through his failure to appear to an
swer the charge of disorderly conduct,
and Mrs. Winn lost the SI.OO which
Coward put up to insure her appear
ance to answer the same accusation.
The landlady at 66 Houston street,
where the couple had been living since
they ran away from El Paso. Texas,
said Coward called at her house last
night alone, paid the board bill that had
accrued and. saying that he must
change his residence without delay, re
moved the two trunks and suit cases
which made up their baggage and went
away without a word as to his plans.
Girl Did Not Appear
At Boarding House.
The landlady says that the girl did
not appear at the house after the bonds
had been fixed last night.
Detectives are searching for the pair
in the faint hope that they are some
where in hiding in the city, but fur
ther prosecution is improbable, In view
of their forfeiture of the bonds.
After the failure of the couple,to ap
pear before Recorder Broyles this
morning. Beavers sent a tele
gram to Coward’s former home at Vic.
toria. Texas, asking if the man was
wanted there for any misdemeanor.
The reply said that while Coward was
born there and is well known in the
vicinity, there is no charge outstanding
against him that the town. marshal
knows of.
Apparently Mrs. Winn's father, editor
of a Teague, Texas, newspaper, has
cast her off entirely since the elope
ment. Yesterday the young woman
wired her father to come to Atlanta
and appear today in her behalf when
the ease against Coward and herself
came to trial. This highly unsympa
thetic message came from Teague;
"Telegram and payment refused. No
answer."
Along with the couple on their sec
ond elopement goes the toy poodle,
"Snookums," which was given back to
Mrs. Winn when she gave bond.
Said She Preferred
Jail to Husband.
Detectives of the local police de
partment who made the arrests be
lieved the young woman was prepared
to tell a wholly different story upon
the witness stand today than in het
first version, when she said that the
love affair with Coward, which culmi
nated in the elopement, began in a
moving pictuie show at San Antonio.
She said yesterday that she would
lather go back to the stockade titan to
her real husband, and the police be
lieve that Cow ai d induced her to a sec
ond runaway last night after she had
called vainly upon her father for help
“We will not give any of our seats to those two porch-climbers selected by the
committee,” was the ultimatum of Gov. Hiram Johnson, head of the revolting i
Californians, who had previously refused to appear before the committee.
“California refuses to try title to property before the thief who stole it.” and
“California for Roosevelt by 77,000” were among the legends flashed from banners
as the arriving delegation paraded the streets of the convention city behind a
brass band. The coming of the warring westerners was a spectacular incident.
Teacher in Bessie Tift
And Mercer Educator
Led to Altar by Cupid
Dr. J. E. Forrester Meets Wife-
Tn-Ee While Making Address
at Girls’ College.
JIAC’X. GA.. June 15. —Because Cu
pio decided to take a course in higher
e-d'.tiaiion of the Baptist brand in the
o’lioel year Just closed. Bessie Tift col
lege fol Baptist girls at Forsyth will
have to look for a new music teacher,
lost to Mercer university for Baptist
boys, in Macon.
Today Miss Mary Duggan, teacher of
voice at Bessie Tift, was married to
Di. J. E. Forrester, head of the Bible
department of Mercer, bringing to a
climax an interesting college romance.
When Mercer and Bessie Tift opened
last tall neither Dr. Forrester nor Miss
Duggan had any thought of matrimony.
Their chief thought was of the college
work before them. Dr. Forrester, in
fact, was married and had a grown
daughter. But early In the fall Mrs.
Forrester died.
A few months after his wife's death
Dr. Forrester was invited to deliver an
address to the Bessie Tift girls. He
went and there met Miss Duggan, it
was one of those ‘ 'fl rst -si gli t love" af
fairs. Today’s wedding was the out
come.
This isn't the only wedding in the
Forrester family. Today Dr. Forrester
announced the engagement of his
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Dargan For
rester. to William Lucien MacLeod, of
Red Springs, N. ('., the wedding to
take place In the near future.
SHERIFF WITH CRAZY
WOMAN IN CUSTODY
GOES ON RAMPAGE
With an insane woman in custody.
Alonzo Furr, she, iff of Paulding coun
ty, went on a rampage in Terminal sta.
tion today and was taken into custody
by Policeman Kerlin. He was sent to
the police station
Mrs. Ada Brown, his prisoner, also
was locked in the police station and
will be held [lending orders from Pauld
ing county.
Sheriff Furr was taking the woman
from Dallas to rhe insane asylum in
Milledgeville.
Although officer Kerlin was In
formed that the sheriff had threat
ened to shoot up the station, no pistol
was found on him when he was
searched at the police station.
If the sheriff is ready for trial, he
will probably be arraigned in police
coil't this afternoon.
JENKINS LAUGHS AT
TRIAL FORTHEFT OF
ALEX SMITH’S TRUNK
SAVANNAH. GA June 15. Smiling:
his amusement al the unusual develop
ments in the cane against him. at times
breaking out into a hearty laugh when
the complex situations assumed an unus
ually humorous aspect, W. .Jenkins, of
Atlanta, charged with the larceny of a
trunk from Alex W Smith, former presi
dent of the Georgia Rar association, dur
ing the annual convention at Tyhee, re
ceived almost hilariously the judgment of
the recorder remanding him for trial in
the higher courts.
In default of bond he was lodged in jail.
The evidence showed that the trunk is
the property of Mr. Smith and that it
was checked on a Central of Georgia train
at the Tyhee station to be brought to Sa
vannah after the convention of the asso
ciation adjourned. The trunk never
reached the city, hut was returned to the
hotel and taken to .Jenkins’ room T'he
articles in the trunk were of sufficient
value to warrant a charge of grand lar
ceny.
TEXAS STEAM ROLLED,
TOO, AS TEDDY HURRIES
TO FRENZIED CHICAGO
City in Turmoil of Excitement—-Great
Reception To Be Given Colonel Oh
Arrival This Afternoon—Hatred of
Foes Grows More Bitter.
CHICAGO. June 15.—With the Taft steam roller, spurred
on by the renewed fighting of the Roosevelt forces, continuing
to flatten the opponents of the president, and Roosevelt him
self approaching Chicago as rapidly as a speeding express
train can carry him. excitement was intense in Chicago today,
the friends of the colonel in a state of frenzy at his coming, and
his foes giving expression to hatred for the colonel growing
deeper and more determined as the enthusiasm of the Roose
velt boosters grew higher.
The Taft forces today in the
national committee seated the
Taft delegates at large from
Texas, over the most determined
protests of the Roosevelt men.
Texas for Taft was the last straw
to. the Roosevelt forces, and it
brought emphasis to the asser
tions that they have made all
along, that they will make the
contest a fight to the finish.
Taft delegates were seated in the
First Texas district, but in the Third
district the roller met a setback and
two Roosevelt men were seated. In the
Fourth district two Taft delegates were
seated.
The Taft delegates were seated in
the Fifth Texas district.
Today's score: Taft 16. Roosevelt 2.
Total score: Taft 181, Roosevelt 11.
All Ready To
Greet Rough Rider.
Colonel Roosevelt today takes per
sonal command of his fight. At 4
o'clock he will arrive in Chicago. A
noisy reception by the hosts already
gathered to take part in the demonstra
tion and another smashed precedent
will greet him as he steps from the
train. For the first time in the history
of the Republican party an avowed
candidate for the office of president,
himself an ex-president, will appear
personally on the scene of a conven
tion before which he seeks the office.
The noise that is to greet the colonel
has already been started. Cheering del
egates and cheering persons who are
not delegates have been marching
through hotels lobbies shouting, sing
ing, arguing and making speeches.
Their demonstration has accentuated
the bitterness and excitement that per.
vade the presidential fight. Personal
encounters, quickly suppressed by men
who separated the warring partisans,
broke nut half a dozen times in the
hotel lobbies, where the demonstration
stW'ted. Roosevelt songs were Inter-
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IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P M A O Y RE NO
rupted by thumping cheers for Taft.
Incipient Roosevelt speeches have been
interrupted by Taft spielers and have ’
been changed into a riot of meaning- ;
less cries and shouts as Taft and
Roosevelt partisans rushed up to take
part in the fray. Personal arguments
between men of either side have grown 1
into altercations between quickly gath. |
ered hosts. Every one about the hotels
where the politicians have gathered is
in a stage bordering on hysteria. And
the demonstration started hours before
the colonel was booked to arrive.
Everybody Going f
To Meet the Train.
For once Chicago is put. in the same
category with her country cousins.
From indications this morning, every
person in the city interested in politics
will try to "go down to see the train
come In.” The coming of the train is to
them the one Important event of the
day. Whether the arrival of the Rough
Rider means a "stampede” Is the one
question that is agitating the leaders of
both camps. Taft men confidently as
serted today It meant nothing of the
sort. But the men who make this state
ment, most of them, were present four
years ago when the galleries at the
Republican national convention broke
into the long Roosevelt demonstration
that could not be quieted. One Taft
man asserted that the actual coining of
the colonel would be an antl-climax.
The threat of his coming, he said,
had more effect than the actual arrival.
He asserted It would help the Taft
cause to have the colonel on the
ground.
The Roosevelt men are willing to al
low them to look at it in that way.
They are jubilant at the colonel's com
ing. From the moment he arrives until
the convention is over they believe the
colonel will be the center of the tight,
and they rely on his ow n statement that
he Is a bettei tighter than prophet.
Senator Dixon. A. H. Revell, chairman
of the national Roosevelt eommittei,
and Edward W. Pints, secretary of the
same organization and the man Roo»e
--velt is said to favor for the aeeretaiy
ship of the national coiumiiUa U tie
