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ANENT WHITECONVICTS
Prison Cc Timission Does Not
Know^hat To Do With Them.
COUNTIES D0N8TWANT THEM
Le»*oes Used White Prisoners for Book
keepers, Etc.—State Will Put Them
, On Farm.
Atlanta, Ga, — When the convict
lease system goes out of business In
Georgia, as it will on April 1, that
class of white convicts which has
been able to do mental and profes
sional work, and for whose taleius
the lessees found use, may have to
pick up a hoe or take hold of a plow
and go to work in the held.
There has aiways been a number
of white convicts skilled in business
or certain traces—sucn as bookkeep
ers, engineers and the like, for wnoin
the lessees have found omce work in
such lines or employment at those
callings in which they were expert.
Almost every one of the lessees got
hold of a bookeeper, accountant, of
fice man, engineer or some other
among tne convicts allotted to him,
and they were kept employed in these
lines.
The state will have no use for these
now. The counties will not want them,
as they do not propose to take any
white convicts, it is the purpose of
the state to place all of the white con
victs on a central farm, soon to be
purchased. On this farm the state
may have occasion to use or or two
office men, but scarcely more, and it
looks as if the balance will have to
take to the field and do farm work.
The prison commission has had this
feature under consideration, but has
not been able to arrive at any defi
nite solution, other than the employ
ment of practically all of the white
convicts at farm work.
Another opportunity which the con
victs will lose is that of accumulating
money by extra work, as they have
been able to do in many instances un
der the lease system. Usually in the
lessee camps each convict had
much work to do, and all he did in
excess of the amount required he was
paid for at a certain fixed rate, in
this way many of them have been able
to leave the penitentiary with com
fortable sums to their credit. One
negro recently left the penitentiary,
after fourteen years’ service, witn
$&0U cash in his pocket.
The state, of course, will not es
tablish any such custom as this. The
law does not contemplate that a con
vict shall earn anything, nor could tne
opportunity be given in doing road
work under state direction. Tne only
thing the prison commission could do,
should it deal in any way with this
phase of the problem, would be to
shorten to a certain.; extent tne terms
of those who give their best service
to the state.
Present indications are that after
each county which has called for con
victs has been supplied with its legal
pro rata share, there will remain only
about 200 “overs” for distribution
among the counties that want con
victs in excess of their legal num
ber.
This number would supply scarcely
more than one-tenth of tne demand.
There are applications now on file lor
something like 1,600 overs or more.
Each county calling for overs would,
therefore, get from one to five, or
something like that.
Inasmuch as the large counties will
get a sufficient number of convicts
from their regular pro rata to consti
tute a good-sized working gang, Sec
retary Uoodloe Yancey of me prison
commission, has suggested that the
smaller counties be permitted to di
vide the “overs” among themselves
so that they may secure gang
.sufficient size to accomplisn some
thing.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
mu NOT HUKT.
.Blooms Appear uniy in Sheltered or
Diseased Trees.
Atlantj, Ga.—Despite rumors of
■damage to peach orchards from the
unseasonably warm weather of me
week, and the appearance here and
-there of blooms, Tresiaent H. C. Bag-
leg of the Georgia b'ruit Exchange
sayB that the orchards have not been
damaged. He has recently returned
from Fort Valley, and that territory,
and says that he not only saw no pre-
jmature blooms himself, out that none
were reported to him by growers,
whom he met in large numbers.
Mr. Bagley taj's mat. me peach
blooms one 'sees on trees in and
.around Atlanta,are not dangerous in
dications. These trees, he says, are
either sheltered by houses, or are dis
eased. The warm weather has not
been prolonged sufficiently to cause
swelling of the buds in orchards.
Mr. Bagley added that reports of
.injury to the crop are very damaging
to the growers, and while made iu
good faith are none the less damag
ing to fruit interests.
FUNDSlOK GEORGIA IlVERS.
Estimates for River and Haroor Im
provements in Georgia.
Washington, D. C.—Following are
United States’ engineers’ estimates
tfor river and barber improvements in
-Georgia this year, which will be car
ried in “lump sum” rivers and har
bors bill to be reported:
Savannah river above Augusta, $25,-
000; Altamaha, Oconee and Ocmulgee
.rivers, $40,000; waterway Savannah
to Fernandina, $25,000; Flint river,
$25,000; Chattahoochee river, $115,-
000; Coosa river, $40,000.
The appropriations will carry work
•Already under way.
The sevent hundred and fifty dele
gates in attendance upon the annual
meeting at Atlanta of the Georgia
Farmers’ Educational and Co-opera
tive union pledged themselves not
only to wear clothing made of cot
ton while engaged in their farming
operations, but pledged themselves
to produce this year all the corn,
meat and other supplies riecessary to
carry them through the year. It was
decided to consolidate all Of the
farmers’ cotton warehouses In, tho
ctate under the management of a cen
tral organization. Four lecturers will
•be sent to all sections of the state
during the next few months to appeal
to farmers generally to raise their
supplies and to wear cotton clothing
on their farms.
A new south Georgia railroad has
been chartered by Secretary of State
Phil Cook. Its promoters plan to
build a line from Abbeville to Fort
Valley, and thence to Montezuma.
Tho company is designated as the
“Abbeville ar.d Northwestern Rail
road Company.” The line is to be
seventy-five miles in length, fifty-
eight miles of main line and eighteen
of branch. The latter will comprise
the extension from Fort Valley to
Montezuma. The counties of Wilcox,
Pulaski, Dooley, Houston and Macon
will be passed through. The capital
stock is to be $100,000.
It is probable that there will be no
agricultural college-on-wheels as has
been planned by Dr. A. M. Soule, and
the professors of the State College of
Agriculture for the coming spring.
Indications now are that the train
will be abandoned for the present
year, because of the probable inabil
ity of the dean and other attaches of
the state agricultural college to ac
company it on its rounds.
Judge Kimsey made a sensational
charge to the grand Jury ot Gaines
ville. He said that if reports were
correct there ought to be an investi
gation of , the affairs of the eounty.
“I am told,” he said, "that- there is -
not enough money in the treasury of
the county to pay the expenses of
this court, the tax levy last year
made a specific levy for court pur
poses, if the money has been divert
ed to use illegally, the matter should
be found out and published, if there
has been graft in the purchase of
the road machinery it ought to be
made known, if bridges have been
built contrary to the law about ad
vertising for bids, it ought to be un
earthed. If what is rumored in this
county is true then the officers should
be handled by prosecution.” He also
touched upon what, in his opinion,
constituted disturbing religious wor
ship and spoke of the right of offi
cers to carry concealed weapons.
Following closely upon the pledges
of President-elect Taft to recognize
Georgia as- a unit worthy of national
consideration in the councils of thq
republic, the announcement has
reached Atlanta from Washington
that his committee on arrangements
for the inaugural procession on
March 4 has assigned Georgia fourth
place in that conspicuous line so that
she may have an opportunity to de
monstrate her interest in. the gov
ernment’s executive affairs. In addi
tion to this signal honor of Georgia,
it is 'understood that in Augusta,
where Mr. Taft is making up his cab
inet and other high official appoint
ments, the names of two distinguish
ed Georgians are under serious con
sideration, those of Colonel Robert J.
Lowry of Atlanta, in connection with
the national - treasury portfolio, and
Judge Joseph Lamar of Augusta, in
connection with the supreme court
bench.
The “Living Like Christ” move
ment which is attracting much atten
tion in Cleveland, Ohio, may be start
ed in Atlanta . Several pastors
are considering the idea of suggest
ing that members of their flocks make
an experiment along that line, be
lieving that such would be of great
moral benefit to the community.
The first skirmish in the battle be
tween the Muscogee County Medical
Society and certain of Columbus
druggists resulted in a victory for the
drug store folks in Muscogee superior
court when Shepherd Brinson, a
prominent young pharmacist, charged
with practicing medicine without a li
cense, was found not guilty by the
jury. Two other cases of a similar
character were continued until tho
next term of court.
Mrs. Hoke Smith, wife of the gov
ernor, is seriously ill at the execu
tive mansion in Atlanta, and her con
dition has aroused considerable un
easiness on the part of the family and
friends. Mrs. Smith’s health has nat
been good for several months, and it
was the purpose of the governor to
take her to Florida for a rest, but
unless her condition improves it will
be necessary to postpone the trip.
Under the guard of a squad of pa
trolmen, the cash, bopds and securi
ties, making a total of probably more
than six millions of dollars, of the
Citizens’ and Southern bank of Sa
vannah were moved into its new
home in that city.
Macon - members of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty t.o Animals
have forgarded a petition to Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt asking him
not to kill any animals on his Afri
can hunt. The announced intention
of the- president to bag big game has
brought forth a protest from the Na->
tlonal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, and by its direc
tion blanks have been sent to each
local organization, to be filled out by
school teachers and others. Presi
dent Hugh V. Washington is in re
ceipt of these blanks and a Btrong
protest will go up from the Macon
branch.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
The receivers of the Seaboard Air
Line railroad in Norfolk, have
awarded contracts for rolling stock
aggregating about $900,000.
The Chinese harbor boat Samstui
fired two shots at the British steam
er Chenpo for fouling a wood raft.
This angered Captain Lewington, of
the Chenpo, who, arming himself
with a revolver, boarded the Samstul
in a small boat, arrested the com
manding officer and turned him over
to the captain of the British gun
boat Robin. The occurrence is now
being investigated by the captain of
the Robin and the British consul.
A serious “no rent” campaign has
begun in Tipperary, Ireland, owing
to the refusal of the landlords of sev
eral estates to sell land to the ten
ants under the land purchase act of
1903. The judge, in issuing decrees
against thirty-six recalcitrant tenants,
said that the landlord was making a
mistake in not selling the lands, as
it would involve all the old troubles
of evictions and martyrdom to ten
ants. The priests and the public gen
erally are supporting the tenants
strongly and are raising funds for
their defense. The struggle promises
to be severe.
In an effort to stem the increasing,
number of "affinities and make mar
tial infidelity a thing to be shunned
by both husbands and wives,” Sent'
tor Dennis J. Harte of New York is
to introduce a bill in the state legis'
lature providing a twenty-year pen
alty for such offense.
An increase in the number of
moonshine whiskey stills destroyed
in Alabama, Florida and Georgia dur
ing the past six months, as compared
with any previous six months, was
reported by the United States inter
nal revenue department at Atlanta,
Ga. Three hundred and ninety-seven
illicit stills were destroyed in the
three states and about two thousand
gallons of whiskey seized. Eighty
per cent of the stills destroyed were
in Georgia.
New York will furnish the bath
‘tub to be used by President-elect
Taft on his trip to Panama. It was
made especially to accommodate Mr.
Taft. Efforts, were made to secure
the tub in Norfolk, Va., but there was
none to be had of the required capac
ity and New York was appealed to.
The tub is to be installed on the
cruiser North Carolina.
Washington.
The collection and publication by
the director of the census of statis
tics of stock of baled cotton in the
United States, to be summarized as
November 1. December 1, January 1
and March 1, In addition to the cot
ton reports, is proposed in a joint
resolution presented in the house by
.Representative Lever of South Caro
lina.
Lydia Kamekaha Liliuokalani,
former queen of the Hawaiian Is
lands, who is in Washington making
an appeal to congress for compensa
tion for the crown lauds which she
lost when the islands were annexed
to the United States, said in an in
terview that although fifteen ■ years
had passed since she yielded her au
thority over the kingdom to avert
bloodshed, she yet believes congress
will make some reparation for her
great financial loss.
General James Allen, chief signal
officer of the United States army;
Major George O. Squire and Lieuten
ant Lahn appeared before the sub
committee on ordnance and fortifica
tions. General Allen has asked for
$500,000 with which to carry on the
aeronautic branch of the signal corps
service.
The erection of a monument in
Washington to the memory of Abra
ham Lincoln is recommended in a
resolution introduced by Senator
Dick of Ohio. The monument it is
provided, shall “be worthy of his j
great fame, his service to humanity j
and to his country and fittingly com- j
memorate the grandeur of character, j
the nobility of life and epoch-making
career.”
The Italian relief fund of the Amer
ican Red Cross Society has passed j
the $900,000 mark.
In reporting the naval appropria
tion bill to the house the committee
on naval affairs fixed the amount
needed for the maintenance of the
naval service during the fiscal year
1910 at $135,662,888, as compared
with the $122,662,485, the present ap
propriation.
A remonstrance against a further
increase of the United States navy
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