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VOL. XUV. UNITED STAIES ORDERS TROOPS TO PORT Repent Will to Manila for Port in Striking Distance of Pekia SOLDIERS TO GUARD LIRE (ROM PEKiH TO THE SEA Believed That Arrangements Are Being Made Of the. Family. City of Amoy Held by the Washington, Novenrfaer lfc The stats department has practicably de uided to send regiment this time every that roops I Pekla on the Gulf of chllL The purpose Is to perform an International xu.ro against.

line of cooununicauqn yet been made on tns war oepanment, but it was momentarily expected The officiate were car etui to it ap be construed to legations curing the on.y recently ana never availed Itsen ami it haa to nations, principally on toat part ot II of In demon II premacy between the Imperial forces ano she revoluuonery party, and It la Je. lured that no designs Upon Chinese Be the lout ul It will be necessary to land the troops now they are to employed at all during the winter In China. As Tien Tain lies 40 miles up the gulf ana is thus cer munlcation by Ice early 'he American regime landed at the port which Is said to be l'hl. the located on the railroad which pasaee through Tien Tain coming from Pekln end Is about 230 miles distant from the Chinese capital It Is by the revolutionaries Caw Lead Troop. dolcklj.

The. transport Sherman la now lying in Manila harbor, having keen detained, there at the suggestion of the state department. She could land a regiment at Cbinwlngtao within Soar days after she received her sailing orders chief of the United States Asl the Rainbow to the Albany, whic smaller vessel, and changed his 1 trvm Snangbai to Nanking. As Rainbow draws feet ot water the only 16 feet. It le belli Continued on Page Two.

ADVERTISING TALKS. written et The following news item sent, out from Denver, Colorado, appeared in the newspapers recently: ft ATLANTA, GA THURSDAY MOBNING, NOVliMBER 16, 1911. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE. FIVE SLATON BECOMES C0VEI1RT00J1Y President of Senate to Take Oath This Morning In.ugur.tkm Will Be Without Ceremony, and New Executive Will immediately PuKd Bvisy Day Georgia Is without a governor this morning and has been since 7 o'clock last night, At that hour Governor Hoke Smith resigned.

Hob. John M. Slaton wtU not become governor until Bra tints this morn. tmm. Such a lapse has occurred but few times Id the history of the state.

For the past' twelve Sours no one has been authorized to execute the office of governor. Had it been necessary to order out the troops, (or Instance, to preserve the peace or to protect life and property, there waa no one who could have given the word. The Interregnum will terminate at 9 o'clock this morning. It will be Governor John it Slaton'. of Georgia, today.

At o'clock yesterday afternoon Governor Hoke Smith submitted "to Secretary of State Fhll Cook his resignation from the governor's chair. The moment the resignation of the governor was placed In the bands of the secretary of the offloe if for one of the very few Instances is! its history, found itself without a he lapse In the office of John M. Slaton. president Georgia state who temporarily to the ollice by reason of Governor smith's reatrnation. an uounoed last night that he will appear at the gubernatorial office this morning at o'clock and will take the oath of office as administered by Justice Fish, of the state supreme The inauguration of Governor Slaton will be without ceremony.

He will BO to the capltol Thursday morning and will take the oath of office as governor. devolves npoc him by reason of the fact that he is president ately succeed Goven.c permanent 111 Immedi Continued on Last Page RAWLINS BOYS ARE PAR0IE0 BY HOKE SMITH Action Is Taken During His Last Baj of Office, TWO BOYS IKRIWEO IN MUMER OF CHILDREN Crime Was One of the Blood iest in Arinals of Georgia. Many ValdoeU People Re Consider the Pardon Hasty rottowrns th the prison commission. Governor Hoke Smith yesterday signed an order par doning Leonard and Jesse Rawlins, two of the three sons of J. G.

Rawlins, who are' now servlng 'jlfe' sentences In the PROPHECY OF 30 YEARS AGO were charged the last the elder Rawlins mat: that his sons had nothing to I the crime, and that Attorney Cooper also made efforts to secure a pardon for Milton i Attorney Cooper also i Rawlins, the oldest of the Last Pace. NEW GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA I HON, JOHN M. SLATON, Wbo takes the oath as of Georgia today. NEWSPAPER AXJVraTBEsKNT, a ni II I a a r. aai lump in sues ana tne increase ot visitors at the saw appliance display DI OLaftlUlN room have almost miarUbly been ob mad tod Cirlin bean recalled by one of Jack Slaton hWore That Soy .,11 be aoveroor of Geor old seventh annual convention of tits Na I day." When the prophetic remark wi tional Commercial Gas ilsssirlsllilll This remark was made about Jack made Jack Slaton waa praying mar sow being beM new audltoHuin clatou thlrtv years ago, and the man on the sidewalk la front of wue made it taught a private school Continued on Last Paaa.

on crew street. The prophecy baa Continued on Last IW HURRY! THE SHOPPING CROWD GROWS BiC STATE TOUR Will BE ON ROAD IN ANOTHER WEEK Start II Be Made from the Constitution Buildinz hi MANY OTHER LfiTRJTS ABE YET TO COME III Fine Weather Is Pr omised, and There From Fort Valley them today the big Tour from the east and let has done it, and there of delay. Many towns along to Quit olanning to put ears In the tour. Way crass win hare several entries; 'AERIAL SOMNIPATHY" trunk lanta which FATAL TO THE AVIATORS November 15. "Ethe rlal asphyxia or aerial somnipathy." Is what Calbraith P.

Rodgers, transcontinental aviator, declares attacked him when he fell near ComptoB, last Sunday on the last flight of his cross country trip. Furthermore, Rodgers asserts this Is what caused the deaths of many other aviators. "It lurks In the pockets ef the upper PLAN EXTENSIDN CF TRUNK SEWERS Committeemen Running Main Trunks to City Limits. fa Every Indication Wopk WollU Greatiy Improve the Roads Will Be mj System and Would Cost Shape Prepara tions Are Now Practically Complete. One week Around Goori first days the bond issue, I i ford relief to a lat i and arrange siting' the City.

Up by Fourth Ward Petitioners. limits will be1 nd the Intercepting sewers built from thst point Instead of from the present outfalls, if a plan bow under consider sewer committee very probabli ere will The roads in the northern section this is done there will be a great imam ijow practically dried out ahd a provement In the sewer system of At lltUe more packing will put fine shape run. contemplated nd which will af man the roads are magnificent, aad A committee of fourth ward citizens they are In six shape entirely through appeared before the Joint meeting ot the southern section of the state. the bond commission and sewer com There Is every indication now that unities woaneaoay aiteruoon, ano asm Ul of the beet quality the trunk id Hisrhland avenue be ex tor crisp and clear. The tend9d to the city limits.

This brought rains have had their day and It is up a discussion of all the trunk promised that the Utter part of the sewers. month will afford magnificent, weather i What Week weals Cert. stated uut wnue tne total P. Rodgtrs air strata," he said today, creeps irresistibly upon the senses of uiung mm into ui I believe this same thing to have caused the deaths of Arch Hoxscy. Ralph Johnstone, Eugene Ely and a number of others who have fallen to their deaths by losing control of their craft," BM BEGIN THEIR FLICBTS At for Benefit Police Relief Association, Beachey, Witmer and Andrews to Policemen's Day To Mail Military Day on Friday.

Gatee to the speedway grandstand open at 1:10 o'clock. The program will start each day promptly at 2:30. Street cars leavs corner of For treats every Ave syth and Marietta Autos will be admitted free ana parked under the grandstand wlth The Fifth Regiment band will furnish mrslc during the entire afternoon. Mayor Oaurtlaad a Winn will Ore the opening sua that starts the County and dry policemen will race on motorcycles and against Aviator Beachey in aeroplane. Inauguration of serial postal delivery win be attended by the poat The Seorgta In a body.

out 1750.000, the city could the police relief association will bo have the work done at a officially started this afternoon at the present cost of about provided speedway by Miyor 3 Winn, the county did the work and citizens who will Are the opening gun at 2:20 furnished the stone. Of course, this o'clock, continuing Friday and Satur does not include the money from the day. Today is set aside as Policemen's UD bond issue, which has been i provided day. Friday will be known as Mill longer I to build the Intercepting sewers for i tary day. and Saturday as School day.

the lenarth of the proposed extension off Both the Hopkins Aviation Company 1 the trunk sewers. The proposition was ana tso uurtiss sixninition uompany, olty to turn Baxjey Chamber of Commerce is to The fourth ward eltlxens stated have a oar la the tour; so Is the Dub if the city would extend the tin chamber, and several others Continued on Last Page. I Sprungf leld. November Two Ford cars are tne latest pros 1 mrieWng Why don't tell Individual owners are Just waiting to complete mentioned by Spencer, Springfield's so called "gen who la being tried tletnan burglar uonnclne their entries Every entrant In the tour eager COuVt tor an early start eonesdsy morn 1 back 1 hag. Kovember SS.

unnerved. It li a pretty good days run The common Amertcus. 1 milea aad a full day elusion of Martha Black extraordinary scene Into the cage completely ealth rested at the con of the abate under whose direction the meet is Entries are yet to come from Thorn rir ntr AT MENTION OF ELECTRIC CHAIR From Atlanta the biggest bunch of! ALLEGED MURDERER SHRIEKS but arc iM rtAg to go Constitution building at 7 o'clock the morning, cod each car win i aa rapidly aa possible Thomas E. Blight. enlng address for the defense, said i he could prove that npencer was insane st time of the killing, Speucer's alleged confession to the 'potiee el (sears cv Miss Blackstone, waa I According to the sue on the night of 1 Use Dow clothing and.

disguising and. dlsgutsrnc; through trodueed today, about 7 o'clock nurder. Reaching himself, an window. After passing through sev cme In which four women were seated and demanded money. He said that the women screamed and Jumped up, one grabbing bold of him and another seising a chair.

He thought he could hear votoes on all sides and felt sure that the house was surrounded, and "bo drew his revolver aad fired. He then ran out of the house, made his way home through side streets, slept all, night and weal to work aext day as. usuai IN FELON STRIPES THEY W9ULDCARB TRUSKflNALS Democrats to BackHenry' Meas ure for Imprisonment of Big In ustrialO lenders, "RULES Of BEASOM" AID PIRAtf So Says Author of Measure Which Nullifies Alterations Made in Anti Trust Act by the United States Supreme; Court in Oil ai Washington, November criminals" In the United I "That Is, the bill sf reason' out of the noes specifically what criminals in Weather Prophecy: Mean temperature Atlantic City, dr Charleston. Corpus Dodge City, dear Galveston, dear Green Bay, dear. Hatteraa clear Jacksonville, clr.

Kansas City. cur. Knoxvllle, dear Ixmlsvllle, Memphis, dear. Mobile, clear Montgomery, Sew Tork. clear.

North Platte, pt Oklahoma, clear 64 Palestine, clear Phoenix, dear. SS Pittsburg, snow si Raleigh, dear 52 P.Oswell. dear (0 San Frandsco, clr SS St. Loulv clear 40 il Shreveport, clear SS rampa. dear Washington, dear I Sfl Wlnaemiipca, rain I i rtrust to end law drafted by Representative Henry raonth.

Its Introduction probably will mean its passage Is the house. The bill specifically defines just what constitutes a trust, legislates from the present statute the "rule of reason" as Interpreted fay the supreme court la the Standard Oil and Tobacco decisions sad provides as punishment for violation of the law imprisonment from two to ten years. It will be referred to the Judiciary committee for deliberation. Representative Henry, who baa been conferring with Representative Clay ton, clary posed changes in the much discussed aSBBJ statute today. In explaining hie bill Representative Henry declared thst actual Imprisonment of great Indus .1 trial offenders was essential to a cure JJ for' the trust evil and that a law to bo rigid, must of necessity define a trust "sty "animus the alteranons written the Shirr man anti trust act.

by Use unwarranted the Tale the violation of law. and It de tm trust la so that 1 for controversy. felony with imprisonment for man two years. "My bill Justly exempts 'memb The leaving aa they are. eight inclusive, and oapltal stock cot lees child's play for the trust magnates Felons' stripes where the violation I knowingly or wilfully done will prov a potential remedy for theee flag ran acts of commercial outlaws.

Th Chinese anti trust law. provided: to be beheaded To behead such of fenders In our country would be ah tirely extreme, but with the penitentiary felon's prrlnes as a punishment The first exemption as intended In the original legit lation ana tne eecona as to agrieul tural products and live stock foua i.