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Til OMA£ V1LLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 i<;o 5
New St. s, Vol XV—No. 37-
SPECIAL TRAIN ROAD LAW
RUN IN VAIN
CONVICT HIRE
TOOK ARMED §QUAD TO JAR- NEW ARRANGEMENT STARTS
JANUARY 1ST. INCREASED
PRICE FOR PRISONERS.
RETTS, FLA. IN FRUITLESS
PURSUIT OF HARDER,
Interest was temporarily revived
In the Harder pursuit , but'like so
many other reports and rumors the
last one has to date resulted la noth
ing. But there was enough founda
tion In the story to send a score of
men hurAdng on a special train to
Jsrrett, Fla., where It was said that
the rapist was surrounded In a
swamp. They returned without any
ersults In the a'fternoon.
The newa came yesterday morning
of Interesting developments at Mon-
tlcello. A negro entered a hard
ware store there Tuesday 'evening
and gave an order fhr four different!
kinds of cartridges. The elerk who
waited on him thought It suspicious
that one negro should be In. need of
so much ammunition. He asked his
customer If ho knew any thing about
Harder. The negro dented It at
first. Then sheriff Bird was called
la and arrested him. Under pres
sure he confessed that Jlarder was to
a swsmp neap Lake Mlccosukle and
six miles south of Metcalfe.
The story came so straight that
the Moutloello people believed It and
sent searchers to the swamp. At •
o'clock yesterday morning a tele
phone message was received here
from Jsrrett to the effect that Hard
er was su rounded In a swamp there
and that they needed a dosen men in
the unrsult. The Montleello story
‘ “ •• ) v and
, veriB-
catlon of the report. t
Immediately twice the requested
dosen were ready to go with guns In
hand. The Atlantic Coast Line offi
cials were communicated with and a
special train was aranged for. This
pulled out over the Montleello branch
at 10 o'clock. Sheriff Hlght had
lost one of his dogs and did not go.
Marshals Stephens and Martin head
ed the party.
When they reached the place they
found the hut of an old negro named
Taylor. He was not there but the
women and children about the place
said that he had been hiding Harder
and bad fled at the aproach of the
poeae. They had no means of track
ing Taylor. They did however
search through the edges of the
swamp and In several negro houses
but found no traces of the man. Most
of the party returned on their spe
cial train,at 1:20 In the afternoon
and the others came back on the reg-
ulr train an hour later. •
•Opinion la divided as to whether
the man In the swamp Is Harder or
not. Others go so far as to say that
had alrmulifVSached Thomast^i
the phone"message came as a vei
August 22, 1905.
met in regular meeting, all
Went into eaecutlve session to
open- sealed bids for misdemeanor
convItA of the county for ensuing
yeait & '
Tbo. misdemeanor convicts were
to Messrs. Mills and Wll-
Thomas county, they being
it. and best bidders, vis.
<7$4 per month for each and every
convict) for the year beginning Sep-
, 1905,and the chalrmanand
attorney were Instructed
bond and enter Into contract
Mills and Wiliams,
'.committee appointed, to visit
other counties to Import syste.:s of
rood *or 1 lag made the following re
port which was umylmomily adopt
ed
Report at Road Committee:
To the Board of County Commis
sioners, Thomas Cwcty
Your eommt'.'oe a,totaled to visit
the counties of Donater and Early
for the purpose of .'iBrest'galldg the
operation of th» alternative road
law system beg leave to report that
we have done sc and hav» also vis
ited the eonntv ol Dougherty
That gbur ra^mlllM Was met with
an extremely hoepltable reception.
Carrikges were at oar disposal with
companions willing and competent
ed. We Were honored by Decatur
with the company of Hon. E. J. Wil
lis, mayor of Balnbridge and Chair
man of the Board of County Commis
sioners. By Early county, wtth the
Hon. D. W. James, Chairman of the
Board of County Commlsloners. By
Doogherty county with the Hon. F.
L. Wilder member of the Board of
County Commissioners.
All of these gentlemenleft nothing
undone to make our stay pleasant,'
of our Information complete. We
compiled a few questions covering
the ground of our needed tyqulry
which were answered In every detail
with promptness. We attach hereto
the result of our lnvesffgatlon In the
counties before mentioned, which we
ssk to become a part of this report
snd be recorded on our minutes.
We would recommend' that the al
ternative road law system be put Into
operation January 1, 1909, ns al
ready resolved by a committee upon
tbls question' and adopted by tills
board. We would also recommend
that this board name an early date
upon which to meet to adopt plans
and rules and to arrange fully all
LIGHT PEOPLE IFIRE LADS DO
WRITE LETTER- QUICK WORK
SAY THEY. WILL SOON GIVE | DAILY PRACTICE SHOWS PHE
NOMENAL TIME IN GETTING 1
OUTR-AOY FOR WORK.
DEFINITE INFORMATION AS
TO BUILDING PLANT.
When the rumor was spread abroad
here that letters had been sent to the
this Is another fake. Bo that as R ' det> ns necessary for the proper put-
L may Harder Is still at large. Mon-'
tlcello and Metcalfe people are wat
ching the swamp.
The residents of that section are
thoroughly aroused over the awful
ting Into operation this system.
Respectfully submitted,
• W. A. Pringle,
J. D. Barrow,
Decatur County.
5,000,000. ■*
crime and are determined to spare ^
no efforts to capture Harder. i ’
Tax rate, county proper, 3 2-10 mills.
Mr. Ed Bailey of Montleello has .
Tax, roads, 2 mills
had printed and circulated nt his own For commutatlou taI> , 18>0 00.
expense an account of the crime and j A collector for this commutation
a good description of Harder.
tax Is apointed In each militia dls-
trlct, whose duty Is to collect this
tax and pay same Into the county
Industrial Organisations.
During the past week the follow- treasury; taking a census each year
lng new Industries were organised In of those subject to roa.! tax and Wing
Georgia: Columbus, cikar factory; seme with the cle-k of the Board o.'
MUledkevUle, (near) 0200,000 power County Commissi Jderi, for which
plant; Jesup, bottling works; Win- service he receives ten per ent of
tervllle, cotton gin. | the money collected; also to act as
j Inspctor of pbllc roads and bridges
A new fence obsoures the view of In his district, reporting any repairs
the Mitchell House from Jackson needed, and by 'instructions of the
street It runs just back of the post chairman of the Board to hire a suffl-
offlee excavation. dent force to pnt the unsafe parts
A recent clipping from the Talla
hassee Free Democrat praises their
Municipal Investment Company de- fire department for “getting out In
crying the business condition of l fl ne shape and In something like two
TljomSeville, a number of public
spirited cltixens wrote the company
denying the deprecatory statements.
These cltixens received In answer to
their communications the following
circular letter:
Columbus, Ga„ Aug. 10, 1905.
Dear Sirs—We thank you very
much fer your statements and facts,
which will greatly assist ui when
placed before our peopfe. We hope
minutes.’' This may. do for an old
town like Talahassee but Thotnas-
vlUe's revised flre department can
b^at it. Under the supervision of
Chief Hary Linton the boys are hold
ing dally drills so as to beready for
an emergency when the time comes.
Yesterday afternoon they hitched up
In tyre seconds by thewatch and clear-
cd the door of the station, ready for
} the run In seven seconds and a half,
the decision of our people will bej^uu j, phenomenal t.me. The boys
to build In Thomasvllle regardless ot ! hKve been lucky and have not had a
the present opposition. Which oppo- | flr , ltnca the department was reform
sttton we now understand Is practl-J^j, Ev ery one Is confident of their
cally the present company, with prob
ably a few personal friends. We will
advise the people of Thomasvllle de
finitely In regard to the matter Im
mediately on the return of our Mr:
Sutter from 'Chicago.
Thanking you and the people of
Thomasvllle for the courtesies and
encouragement shown us, we are
Yours very truly,
Municipal Investment Co.
r to handle It when It does
In passable condition for whichser-
vtoe he le to receive $1.26 per day'
for actual time engaged.
Their rodd working department Is
divided Into foar squads, each fur-
Early County.
(System fire years old.)
Tax value, $2,500,000.
road machine, one$n*te,,county proper, $ 3-10 mil to.
number 5 plow, one number 3 stump
puller, one wagon, and twelve mules,
manned with free labor consisting
of one foreman at $00 a month and
eight hands at from $1 to $1.25 per
day each. Wheeled scrapes are used
when claying the road bed or grad
ing a hill. These squads are operat
ed at a cost of $350 per month each,
or $10,800 for the four squads for
one year, exclusive of wear and tear
of apparatus. One squad has stam
ped; graded and worked 21 miles of
road in four months, costing $00
per mile.
Decatur estimates that they can
take one road working machine, six
mules and three hands and work live
miles of road bed each day after It
has been widened, stumped and prop
erly graded. They have one thous
and miles of road In the county.
Dougherty County. (
Tax values, $4,500,000.
Rate, county proper, 4 25-100 mtllg,
Rate, roads, 05-100 mills.
Commutation tax, total, $8,000.
The commutation tax Is obtained
from an assessment of $3 each upon
every one subject to road duty, and
Is collected by one specially appoint
ed tor that purpose, who receives
$300 per year for bis services. Their
roads are worked by convict labor at
a cost of about $8,000 per yeas. They
use very little road making machin
ery; wagons with which to clay their
road beds, i heavy horse roller and
one road working machine. These
requiring about ten mules and keep
ing busy about thirty convicts.
Tbls county takes tbelr share of
the state convicts, using upon their
roads and elsewhere as many as they
can profitably handle. The surplus
of misdemeanor convicts are hired
out to parties operating under prop
er authority from the State. This
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LAST YEAR'S CROP
13.693,279 BALES
i Washington, Aug. 21.—The census
bureau today Issued a supplemental
from the crop of last year,
iwing the total growth as fixed by
>rs at 13,093,279 bales, count-
round bales as half bales.
Rate, roads, 0000.
Commutation tax, total, $6,000,
This commutation tax Is collected
by the tax collector of the eounty in
the usual manner of collecting the
other revenue of the county and for
tbo same compensation, after 'he
roiu! census tar. been Jurnlshil him
by a compiler appointed In each
militia- district. The district com
piler's fluty Is to summon every one
subject to road duty, notifplng them
•o pay. to-the collector before 8ep-
ti’.ioer 1, the sum of $? or after thut
Jute the sum of $3. F.ir such ser
vice the .distriet compiler ro:oiten thy
sum of live cents for ea.-h name fie-
orded and summons Issued.
The road working department Is*
divided Into two squads,- furnished
with two road working machines,
the Light Champion, twelve -mules,
two wagons, one stable tent and
manned wtth free tabor, composed of
one ^superintendent, who furnishes a
foreman.. Salary for both $100 per
month; three to four hands at from
75 to $1.26 yer day. These two
squads are operated at a cost of about
$360 per month, exclusive of wear^
and tear of apparatus. Tbls county
maintains slj hundreds miles of nice
road which are worked over once a
year. Far the first two years they
used three machines.
Tbe road or commutation tax was
fixed at $3 or len days work each
year and the Decatur county system
for collecting said tax us reported
by tbe committee was adopted.
The action of the Chairman In of
fering a reward for the arrest and
delivery to the sheriff of Thomas
county of Manuel Harder , the assail
ant of Mrs. Outs was approved and
secretary was Instructed to have
printed 100 postal cards giving de
scription of Harder for the use of
surplus brought in a net revenue' t j, e ,herttr. On motion the chair-,
of $8,700 for' the last year ending | man wu instructed to have built a
July 1, 1905. They have three hun- u f e an d secure bouse for the sher-
and sixty miles of nice roads, 1B . g dog(
per cent of which has been graded j Board ' -Mourned.
25 per cent changed. They work 1 * , E. M. Smith, Chilrmun.
over their roads at least once a year. J S. Montgomery, Clerk.
STATE TAXES
NO LOWER.
INCREASED EXPENDITURES
WILL KEEP RATE UP„ TO
PRESENT FIGURES.
Atlanta. Aug. 22.—When Govern
or Terrell and Container General
Wright fix the state tax rate some
time the latter part of this week,
they will make every possible effort
to keep It down as low as the rate
of last yepr, which was $4.80. on
$1,000, though from present indica
tions that will practically be out of
question.
SPECIE TAX
AUTHORIZED
NEW COUNTIES CAN BORROW
MONEY* FOR ORGANIZATION-
OTHER'DETAILS,
Atlanta, Aug. 22.—According, to
ne* county bill, as passed By tbo leg
islature, the eight new counties gre
eted—Stephens, Jeff Davis, Toombs,
Grady, Tift, Crisp, Jenkins, and Tur
ner—are to become counties January
1, 1000, When the office nr elected .
this tall will assume the lines of coun
ty government
Each bill provided the date for sr
The tax.levy tbla year will Include ^special election for county officer! a*
for the first time the additional $200,'followa: Stephens county, the first
000 glven'lo the public schools from 1 Wednesday In December, 1005;. JaM
direct taxation this appropriation hdr! Davis, the same data; Toombs, the
lng been increased to $1,000,000. Iflrst Wednesday In October; Grady
In addition to this nmopnt the she first Monday In January, 1900;
legislature which just adjourned gave
$76,000 to he immediately available
for the construction of n new water
works system at the State Sanitarium
and the pension fund had to bo In
creased ffip about $27,000 on account
of a deficit. Altogether, therefore,
It will be neceiaary to raise about
$200,000 more this year than last.
Of this $300,000 increase n little
more than $300,000 will come as s
result of the Increased tax valuations
this year, amounting to a total of
$46,000,000.
This leaves the state under the
necessity of raising about $100,000
more than last year. Eve a with
the largely increased tax returns It
will require n rate of nearly .$5 on
$1,000 to do thla.
... The last tax dlgeet that of Glynn
coflnty; waa received^nBQt. “Tip'*
Harrison of the Controller OeucralV
report the tbtal net gains In the val
ues of taxable prrperty throughout
the state over (h* returns of lne:
year are found *to be $37,804,084.
C.ynn showed a pain .of $170,096.
Only three cointics in the state
stoned a decrees*:, as follows:
L'l-luls, $951; Jasper, V'lil, and
Taliaferro, 1,415. But theio ns M
apparent did no: marisrUlly affect tut-
net Increase In the valuation of cor
poration property over last year.
The total Increase will be about $46,
000,000.
CASHIER WARD
GETS PROMOTION
From Tuesday’i Dally.
Mr. Ed Ward who has for a num
ber of years been cashier nt the At
lantic Coast Line depot went to Bos
ton yesterday where he will make his
home In future. He goes to succeed
Mr. O. Nelms In the railroad and ex
press agencies at, that place. Ill
health Is the cause of Mr. Nelm
resignation, Mr. Ward’s many friends
here are pleased at his promotion
and only regret that It takes him
away from Thomasvllle. His suo-
cessor at tbe local office la Mr. Con
rad Hoyle of Montgomery.
CASE OF FEVER
WAY UP IN MISSOURI
Keokuk, Iowa, Aug. 31.—A case
of yelow fever Is reported from Greg
ory, Missouri, eleven miles south of
Keokuk. He Is a laborer on railroad
conatractlon. Being quarantined, he
reported that be came from Natchez
a few day* ago.
Tift, the first Wednesday in October
1906. Crisp and Jenktan selected
the same date as Tift, while Thmarr
selected the first Wednesday In De
cember.
. .No Representatfver. '
It Is provided that'there shall iff
no election to- the general assembly
from these new counties until the
general election next faR. Tbe comi
ty officers who live in the newly/
created counties, but who am offi
cers In the parent counties, are to.
hold the same offices In the new
ties as those to which they were
ted in the parent countfee.
thorlxed to levy n special tax at
and the new county officers are au
thorised to levy a pedal tay at once,,
and make a loan Until the taxes are-
collected, for ttje purpose of defray
ing the ekpensee of the now coun
ties. In the meanwhile the counts
lines will be pin unrecorded.
LONG INSANE
NOW DEAD.
'Ordinary W. M. Jones hag i
notification from Superintendent
Powell of the Georgia State Sanitar
ium of the death at MllledgevUle of:
a former resident of tble county.
This was Mr. Rowan Mime who*
passed away from heart disease on.
the morning of Saturday, ''August
10.' He was given a Christian boriall
at the Institution. Mr. Mtmn wan-
sent to thd sanitarium oa July 1 J..
1873. He resided In the Southern,
part of the county and has many re
latives still livink there.
INCREASED
Mrs. L. C. Du Rant nod her daugh
ters, Dorothy and Esther, have gone
to Waycross and to Jacksonville and
other Florida cities fer n visit
Tbe complete tax returns Iran*
Georgia's 137 counties have been re
ceived. The total Increase is $37,-
804,034, shwing that the state wan
never in a more prosperous condition.
South Georkln fur outstripped thw
northern port of tho State in its In
crease. Only three flountlee—Ikb-
ols, $051; Jaaper $067, and Tallaftr-
to $1,445 show a decrease. The larg
est increase was In Fulton -county-, {
$3,816,000. Thomas county with an
increase of $482,013 Is excelled in
Increase by 25 of the <17 counties. '
■
“
Mn. W. C. McMUlin,formerly
popular railroad employe
now city ticket agent for the I
era' In Savannah was a Sunday '
tor. i
