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umber' 3.1. BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR CO., GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1901. ONK 001.1.A If A YEAH IN ADVANCE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DECATUR COUNTY AND OF THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE. iiing at Donalsonville. pf the most shocking homi- ni has occ irred in the limits loimty in a n.unber of..years toe at bonahonville, Tuus ning hist when J. S. Yeates instantly killed W. B. h and seriously wounded G. All of the parties to saution are white, is fled immediately after the nd has not been apprehend- reward of $550.00 has been lie will in all probability the end. Yeates and G. II. Brown •ested as accomplices. Yeates mmittment trial Thursday ttdgc Tonge in this city and anded to jail in delaiilt of a loud: «Hc has siuce given Young Brown waived eom- t and is under $200 bonds, the action of the Grand L’he facts in the case appear follows: Bros, had been conducting stable iu Donalsonville for ie and have lived in the ,ast fall Yeates was charged ie breach of the regulations kn and a case was made list him. He has since evad- by remaining out of town, tys ago he notified the au- of his intention of standing He employed Col. John 'o defend him %nd rode into ville Tuesday moruing as ise. He went immediately ble. whither the officers re- ther to make an arrest or to in to appear for trial. Both ius are set forth, lling occurred within a few aud Yeates had escaped. >urailed after some hesitancy, leaving the town several quit the road, dismounted in the middle of a pond lefiuite trace thus ends, illowing signed statement C. Griffin an eye witness air was received by us aud erbatim. present when Freeman was heard fuss and went to see uble. I met Jim. Freeman tch that man,’ Jim says: ither me, I’ve got no friends don’t want-to hurt you.’ between Jim and the other ill Freeman was ahead, Oli- and Sam Freeman behind, to horse in front part of d led him out with reins on a pistol was in his left hand ible barrell shot gun in his ^iien he turned to mount 11 made a dash to catch him. four feet of muzzle of gun on him. Horse got fright jerked Jim back about ten then raised his gun and liver who was about forty his horse jerked again tight gun do .vn and the ed Oliver’s leg. The sec- lie horse got entirely away. ii middle cl street. He look if gun, reloaded it and said: that other son-of-a-b ead out there I want to :k at him.’ He went back nd got another horse and ■er shot at Jim after Jim twice. Jess ha 1 pistol in li lie W'as plae’ng in first f and .then the other. He een Jim and the Freeman Oliver, aod kept shoving Jim on out the front of stable. I did not hear him make any threats. I did not see him present gun.” The whole affair is a deplorable one. The lop of Freeman’s head was blown eulirely off and his brains scattered upon the ground thus pn- senting one of the most blood curd ling scenes imaginable. Oliver is re ported to be resting easy and will re cover. Freeman was a man of middle years and leaves a family. He luid been Town Marshall for several months and was a bravo anil trust worthy official. As a citizen lie was of worth to his county and as a friend was trite aud tried, he was of one of the best families of the county. Yeates was a young man of rather a rattling disposition but was not generally oon.siilered a dangerous in dividual. He was clever aud faith ful and has many friends who will be sorry to learn of bis engagement in so serious an affair. REMOVAL TO li tIMIKIIICIC. Mr. J. M. Floy d has rented a store house and bought a building lot in Bainbridge. He and his fam ily will become residents of the Oak City during the spring or summer. Mr. Floyd will go down in a few weeks and open a store. His family will remain here until he has a resi dence built which will be both pretty and convenient. This family will leave in Colquitt many friends who hope that peace and prosperity will continue to at tend them in their new home.— Miller Co. Liberal. A CARO TO TIIE I'PBLir. We wish to inform the public that Drs. W. C. Spence and L. D. Baggs of Valdosta and Quitman Ga., have purchased the dnntal oulfioe of the late W. W. Palmer, of this oily, and also the lease of his offices. We take pleasure in recommend ing these gentlemen to all the friends and former patrons of Ur. Palmer, as skilful dentists, entirely efficient in every department of their profess ion. It would be specially gratifying to us and the many friends of Ur. Palmer to tee tin m receive tiie fav orable consideration of the public, feeling assured that they will prove the value of their professional ser vices to the people of this county. W. W. Palmhu, Su. J. S. Bkadwell. Bainbridge, Ga. 3-2 1901. TRESPASS NOTICE. All hunting, shooting fishing or otherwise trespassing on the follow ing lots of land is hereby p'ositively forbidden, 15th Dint. Decatur coun ty Ga :Lots 233, 235, 236, 237, aud 238 12th Uist. Baker county. Lots 179, 180, 181 aud 298. I will prosecute to the full extent of the law any party or parties vio lating this notice. A reward of $10 will be given anyone furnishing ev- nleece to convict any trespasser. All permits revoked. Fob’y 28, 1991. Mrs. M. E. Ron ERT8. , I Crescent Coffee Mill’s Java and ! Mocha Roasted Coffee—one am! i three pound cans at 35e. and ■. 1 -- j nothing better on the market—to found at Sims «fc C’liell s C-.ty Bakery. (Communicated.) That Depot Bill. Our attention has been united to n closer and more careful examination 6t ibis important and much discussed question bv the printed explanations and excuses made by the “Fillibns- terers” in justification of their votes and tactics. It struck us as rather pcoular, if the depot bill was such a bad measure that it should be so nec essary for those who opposed it to go oil explaining and j slifying their position. Therefore we have made a careful study of the situation and we must admit that investigation and information have changed our opin ions on this subject. To speak (rankly we were at first opposed to this bill, on the ground that we could see no reason for the State to build a depot for the city of Atlanta. However, we find upon investigation that the present depot in Atlanta is the prop erty ot the Stale and was built by the State and three other Railroads, that the State owns the land on which it is situated, aud also owns lauds adjacent thereto, as well as the right of way and tracks into the city of Atlanta, and owns the Western and Atlantic Railroad—or sometimes called the Slate road—a railroad from- Atlanta to Chattanooga of which this depot is the terminus. That I he .Stale receives as rental tor said depot aud railroad, Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand and Twelye Hollars a year, or Thirty- five Thousand aud One Dollars a mouth, which is Eleven Hundred and Sixty-six Dollars aiid seventy cents a day; that half of this or Two Hun dred ,and Ten Thousand aud Six Dol lars a year go to the support of the common schools, and the other half goes to the support of the Slate Gov ernment, aud to keep down the rate of taxation; that this Railroad prop erty.is chiefly valuable on account of the situation of it’s terminals and de pot in the city of Atlanta, where real estate is very high, and especi ally on account o! its tenants, which are other Railroad Companies and which pay large sums for the privi. lege of using the present depot aud gio mils; two of the roads alone pay ing Thirty Thousand Dollars a year to the lessee as rental, and all agree ing to pay larger rent if the State should build a suitable depot, the present depot having been declared to be inadequate in every way by the roads, the public and the author ities. New. should the Slate fail to build, the Railroad Commissioners will be compelled to order the rail roads to build their own stations, aud the State would thus lose its valu able tenants, and the value of its property would in consequence great ly depreciate. Experts have stated that the property would lose fully half its present value slio Id the Cen tral, and Southern, and Atlantic and West Point Railways' pull out and build their own station on their own property which they have already bought for that p :rpose, and winch they threaten to do. Should the Slate thus lose her valuable tenants, which is one of the clnefest and sur est so. icc.i of income t<> her Railroad property, there wo.d-i is*’two <-o"di ti-ins with which U.-.ngia wo «>i >.<. •y. . .ji > !'. t ^c i.o fa«. i u< i nd <-f <he j.,-.... n: ! m- ; l :r>t, > nri.ocr' v A.l d . .1 .V>- hoi.*11 • • • j»p oi i In. !...<• in-- icuai.U imp. o;ie must either scii at an enormous sacrifice, which would complete tho wreck of this splendid property, or she would have to lease at about half the rental she.now enjoys, on account of the loss of its revenue and its tenants and the inconvenience to any new lessee in losing connections and hav ing to transfer passengers and bag gage from one depot to another; the common schools would suffer a loss of about hajf its income from that source and the term be cut propor tionate!}', and there would be a de ficiency of half in the amount which now goes to llio support of tho State Government that the people would be taxed to supply. If the Railroads, at present ten ants of the State's depot, should pull out and build their own perm inert depot, that very moment the State’s properly would suffer a permanent injury and loss which the State’s les see would immediately feel, and which would fall on the State when the present lease expired. The plan incorporated iu the bill was to build the depot out of funds winch must otherwise lie idle iu the treasury for •fifteen years (as none of the State’s | bonds fall due for fifteen years) with- ! out.a cent’s cost or lax on tho people, and to take the additional rental of six per cent on the cost of the new depot which the roads agree to pay, and put it back to draw two per cen 1 . iu State Depositories, and in fifteen years the depot would Iihvo paid tor itself in rents over and above the rent paid for the State road; every dollar which was taken out .to build the depot* would hnvo been put back in the Treasury, and tile State would have had its new depot just for the interest on this money, and retained its tenants; the property would be greatly enhanced in value, and the Slate would secure a much larger rental In consequence when it came . to lease again. This plan was endorsed by the Governor, by the Attorney General, by the special Slate’s Attorney for the Western and Atlantic, and by numerous other State officials. There were one hundred aud five members : of the House iu favor of tins bill ' though it took only eighty-eight to ' pass it, and the Senate was said to favor it by a largo majority. It ' would undoubtedly have passed but for the “filibustering” of a small mi nority of about thirty men that took up the time aud State’s money with having the roll onllcd over and over again, and other dilatory tactics. It would thus appear that there must lie some merit in, and necessity for legislation which was so strongly en dorsed by the State’s highest officials and a large majority of the Legisla ture, it being a democratic principal and usually a safe prestirnpi on tha ta majority is generally light and a minority wrong, ruther than a minority is right and a major ity wrong, and. we therefore are in clined to think that the lull should ! l»ave been passed. | This was no, depot for Atlanta, as some suppose, no more than the State Capitol was Atlanta’s Capitol, be cause built there, but the State’s de pot, built by the State’s money, on its own l-iit 1, paying for itself, and r- v..ruing ’o ilu- .3,ate in i. rid r*! v.:- growing revenue i>. iueu.~- urabK i* tlie • ormnon >.. too 1 * w ■ 1 s.v-..*ly monthly iucorn , o-.ax ing • hire ...are of the expense.- of t .c State'jovermuent, aud allrv. .i- ing 1' e burdened condition of ii._ HEWAItll EUR LEM WARREN. The reward for L an Warren, M e long wauled Randolph county tapisr, lias been reuewed. Governor Cand ler issued Ins proclamation Saturday morning offering a reward of $500, the limit allowed him by law. It is said that the negro is in New Mex ico, and can now be captured with out much diffiou Ity. Warren’n crime was committed in 1896, and was one of the most bru tal ever known, llis victim was Mrs. J. H. Bass, a beautiful nnd highly esteemed young woman, and she was found unconscious iu a cow stall. The crime aroused this whole sec tion, and armed men scoured the country 111 search of the brute* More tliau one innocent negro who was thought to be Warren has been killed since the commission of the deed that means death in Georgia.— Dawson News. IlLEWIT-nitOL'K. liev. J. It. Blewit and Miss Toms- lin Brock, of the 16th district were quilely married Wednesday last at the home of tho bride. Rev. Geo. F. Taylor of Vada performing the cere mony . Both parties to the affair have hosts of friends throughout their sec tion, who will be rejoiced to hear of the happy eyent. The Sea roll Light congratulates them both. (TTY COURT JlllOKS. s The regular March tram of Deca tur term of City City Court will convene next Monday morning. T! e following list of Jurors have been drawn. Kin Braswell, W. It, Gainey, W. II. Earnest, J. H. Perrilt, A. W.-Bogeti, J. L. Griffin, W. B. Godwin, C. A. Monroe, T. H. Elkins, Tlios. Jones, Wm. Allen, P. G. Brinson, W. li. Owens. G. W. Susser, Date Murki- son, J. S. Yarbrough, John Cliasou and It. M. Walden. NOTICE TO TLACIIBHK- The questions in Theory and Prac tice in the next examination will be based on Roark’s Methods of Educa tion. Price $1.00 postpaid, Ameri can Book Co., Atlanta, Ga., or at my office. Rom*. Bowen, O. 8. C. people by keeping the rate of taxa tion on a proportionately low basis. True, it is situated iu Atlanta where real estate is high, but more valuable on that account. We do not think the city of Atlanta ever 0 wanted the State to build that depot, and there are one or two good reas ons which incline us to this belief. Should the Southern or Central roads build where they have purchased land to build, it would greatly in crease the value of real estate iu that ejection of the oily aud Atlanta would have two depots with the property adjacent each appreciated; and the transfer of passengers and baggage from one depot to another, alone, would give Atlantia.a lucrative busi ness aud a big revenue, and ihe city would receive big city taxes from the Southern or Central’s depot. Should tiie State build on us proper ty, the present site, 110 new section of the city would be developed; no new business fur Atlanta be opened ep; arid'Alla lilt would not receive a cent for City tax, as the State’s] rop er ty is not subject iu taxation.