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GEORGIA ROADS
LOWER TAXES
Returns Made to Comptroller Show
a Heavy Failing Off.
TWO BIG LINES REPORT
Central and Seaboard Each Give in Figures
Showing Slump of Over $2,000,G00
Compared With Last Year.
The annual tax returns of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway company and
the Seaboard Air Line Railway com
pany, which reached the comptroller
general of Georgia Monday, each show
a falling off, as compared with the
returns for 1907 of more than $2,000,-
000.
It was expected that the tax returns
of these large railroad systems would
show some reductions this year, be
cause of the slump in their earnings,
and the prospect is, it is stated, that
returns from the other large systems
will show similar falling off.
The Ocean Steamship company of
Savannah also shows a reduction of
more than $150,000 in its returns, as
compared with last year, despite the
£act that it has added a new ship to
its line.
The Central of Georgia returns its
total property this year, physical and
franchise, at $18,724,628, as against a
total cf $20,861,646 for 1907.
In addition to and not included in
the foregoing the Central returns $158,-
900 of income bonds of the Charleston
and Western Carolina railroad, and
S9OO-,000 as its valuation of its 15,-
000 shares of the Western Railway of
Alabama. These are returned sepa
rately because the Central disputes
the right of the state to collect taxes
upon this property.
The Seaboard Air Line returns this
year a total of $10,200,928, as compar
ed with $12,651,450 in 1907. These
figures include both franchise and
• physical property, and as in the case
of the Central of Georgia, the 1907 fig
ures were fixed as the result of arbi
tration.
The Seaboard’s franchise is returned
this year $1,625,008, as against $2,-
138,106 for 1907, a reduction of more
than $500,000.
The returns of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, as received by the
comptroller general Monday, total $2,-
285,467, of which $232,050 is fran
chise.
Comptroller General Wright has not
yet had time to inspest the forego
ing returns, and it will probably ba
some days before he can make thor
ough examination of them.
COTTON FIRM IN BANKRUPTCY.
Receiver Named for Inman & Co., of Au
gusta—More Than a Million Involved.
The firm of Inman & Co., of Augus
ta, Ga., one of the best known cotton
firms of the south and a prominent
member of the New York cotton ex
change, went into involuntary bank
ruptcy Monday. On the petition of
King, Spalding & Little, representing
the Gulf Compress company, J. C.
Evans and C. It. Sims, Thomas W.
Barrett, Jr., cf Augusta, was appointed
receiver by Referee Percy H. Adams.
The firm which is a partnership and
not a corporation, is composed of Jas.
F. McGowan of Augusta and James R.
Gray of Atlanta, they having acquired
the other interests, which for several
years past were represented in the
firm. The debts and assets are said
to exceed $1,250,000.
The firm of Inman & Co. of Augusta
is in no way connected with the firm
of Inman, Akers & Inman of Atlanta,
Ga., which has branches in Liverpool
and Bremen and which is connected
with the firm of Inman, Nelms & Co.
of Houston, Texas, and Inman, Swann
& Co. of New York. These firms are
in no way affected by the suspension.
YEATE3 MUST GO TO GALLOWS
According to Decision Rendered By the
United States Supreme Court.
The supreme court of tne Lmited
States, Monday, affirmed the verdict
of the Georgia state court in the case
of James S. Yeates, who was found
guilty cf murder. Yeates had two
trials, the first resulting in a sentence
of ten years imprisonment, He
sought a new trial, and a verdict of
murder in the'first degree was brought
in, the penalty for which is death.
That is the verdict upon which the
supreme court passed.
Rings.
Round
Eves
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LIVES LOST IN
BLAZING HOTEL
Score of People Entrapped and
Buried Under Debris*
ESCAPE WAS CUT OFF
Anciont New Ave ine Hotel, a Wooden
Structure in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
Scene of Holocaust.
An unknown number of persons, es
timated at from fifteen to twenty-five,
lost their lives in a fire that destroy
ed the New Aveline hotel in Fort
Wayne, Ind., early Sunday morning.
The entire -interior of the building
was left a smoldering heap of ruins
and how many dead are concealed by
the debris can only be conjectured.
The hotel register was consumed by
the fire, and there are no accurate
means of determining who is miss
ing.
The fire was discovered at 3:30
o’clock a. m. in the elevator shaft
by Night Clerk Pipkins. He rushed
to the upper floors alarming the
guests until the flames, which had
spread with appalling rapidity, drove
him back. His effort, however, saved
many lives. The hotel was erected
half a century ago, and the woodwork
was as dry as tinder. It burned like
matchwcod, and within a few minutes
from the time the fire was discovered
the whole interior of the hotel was a
mass of flames that filled the corri
dors and rooms with suffocating clouds
of smoke and laid fiery barriers
across all means of escape, save by
the windows.
The fire department rescued many
by means of ladders, but some, fren
zied by the onward rush of the flames,
leaped from high windows to the
paved street.
HIGHER FREIGHT RATES PROBABLE.
Roads Must Either Get Additional Revenue
or Reduce Wages.
A Washington dispatch says: It
appears likely that the anticipated in
crease in railroad freight rates is
about to be made. A few days ago
a member of the interstate commerce
commission expressed the opinion that
within three or four months, unless a
decided improvement in railway con
ditions should take place, it probably
would be necessary for the carriers
either bo increase freight rates or
to reduce the wages cf their employ
ees. Personally and officially the com
missioner deprecated- the taking of
either horn of the dilemma by the
railroads, but he believed it to be in
evitable that one or the other would
be taken.
WILL SCRUTINIZE EIGHT-HOUR BILL.
Three Lawyers of House Named to Pais
Judgment on the Measure.
Three lawyers of the house were
authorized Saturday to make a final
examination of the eight hour bill now
pending before the house committee on
labor to decide on the constitutionality
of the bill.
The bill provides not only that all
work for government shall be done
under the eight hour system, but also
that the government shall be able to
purchase nq materials and supplies
which have been produced by labor
that was required to put in more than
eight hours a day.
RELIEF BILL PASSED HOUSE.
Sufferers From Storm to Get $250,000
from Government.
The house, Saturday, passed a res
olution introduced by Representative
Bowers of Mississippi appropriating
$250,000 for the relief of the sufferers
from the cyclone which occurred In
the states of Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia on April 24.
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BIG MERGER BY
LUMBER MEN
Planned at Special Meetings of
Representatives in St. Louis.
LISTS ALL YELLOW PINE
Scheme is to Ha.e Holding Company a id a
Capital Stock of $300,000,000- -Live
Million Acres Involved.
Lumber men, representing compa
nies comprising in their hold gs about
5,000,000 acres, or practical! all of the
yellow pine timber of tbi autff, held
executive conferences in it. Louis
Tuesday and Wednesday and it is
understood, the purpose o' ine meeting
is to form a hclding corporation or
merger, not only to conserve the tim
ber supply, but also to maintain equit
able prices on yellow pine product!.
It is stated that the proposed organ
ization will be capitalized for $300,000,-
000.
The holdings of the various compa
nies, representing one hundred plants,
will be vested in the corporation, and
the stockholders of each will simply
exchange their stock share for share
for stock in the holding company.
That the companies may not run
counter to the anti-trust laws, the gov
ernment has been duly advised, ana'
the details of the proposed corpora
tion and the scope and general pur
poses fully outlined.
A committee was appointed to work
out plans for the deal, and another
meeting will be held in a month or
six week 3 to hear the committee’s re
port.
ROSWELLITES WANT ROOSEVELT.
Citizens of Home Town of President’s
Mother Boost Him for Third Term.
One hundred and seventy-four citi
zens of Roswell, Ga., the h me of Pres
ident Roosevelt’s mother, have signed
a petition urging the national republi
can convention to nominate President
Roosevelt for a second elective term,
and urging the people of Georgia, ir
respective cf party, to sign the peti
tion.
This petition was signed by 174 vot
ers of Roswell, only two or three not
signing it on account of party affilia
tions. Party lines were forgotten, and
the petiticn was signed from the mayor
and council down.
#
A former mayor of Roswell, R. G.
Broadwell, drew up. and* circulated the
petition, and the to sign was the
present mayor, G. W. Wing.
While en route to Atlanta in the fall
ol’ 1905 President Roosevelt visited
Roswell, the home cf his mother, and
was much delighted with his cordial
welcome there.
MURDERER HARPER RECAPTURFD
Posse Takes Deperate Man Who Escaped
from the Tower in Atlanta.
John Harper of Fannin county, Geor
gia, the murderer of Allion England,
at Mineral Bluff, Ga., last December,
and of Sheriff Sen XvtJj til Murray
county, near Spring Place, who escap
ed from the Tower in Atlanta, while
under sentence of death, was captured
Wednesday at the home of his father
in-law, William Wimberly, near Blue
Ridge, Ga., and i 3 now once more in
the Atlanta jail.
Harper was captured by A. C. Grif
fith, sheriff of Fannin county; A. W.
Woody, United States marshal; W. J.
Cook, city marshal of Blue Ridge; W
A. Wilson, justice of the peace, of
Blue Ridge; Gus and Elick Barckley,
Joe Starb, T. J. Addingt n and J. J.
Thomas, deputy sheriffs of Polk coun
ty, Tennessee.
The captuie was only made after a
three hours. Harper had for
tified himself in the house, and, arm
ed with a winchester rifle, threatened
to kill any one who attempted to ar
rest him. When the posse threatened
to dynamite the house, he gave up.
Rewards to the am unt of SBSO were
Outstanding for his arrest.
TAX RECEIVER’S NOTICE.
FIRST ROUND.
Hampton, Wednesday April 1
Sixth, Thursday “ 2
Flippen, Friday " 3
Stockbridge, Wednesday “ 8
Shakerag, Thursday “ 9
Brushy Knob, Friday “ 10
Loves Monday “ 13
Hampton, Thursday May 7
Sixth, Friday “ 8
Flippen, Monday “ 11
Stockbndge, Tuesday “ 12
Shakerag, Wednesday “ 13
Brushy Knob, Thursday “ 14
Loves, Friday “ lu.
Hampton, Tuesday May 26
Sixth, Wednesday “ 27
Flippen, Thursday “ 28
Stockbridgo, Friday “ 29
Shakerag, Wednesday June 3
Brushy Kn jb, Thursday “ 4
Loves Friday “ 5
McMnllins, Monday “ 8
Boersheba, Tuesday “ 9
FOURTH ROUND
Hampton Wednesday June 17
Stockbridge Thursday June IS
Locust Grove Monday June 22
McDonough Court-week, F : irst Tuesdays, and
Saturdays until books are closed, June 25th,
W. W. PATTERSON,
TAX RECEIVER HENRY COUNTY.
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MoMullins, Tuesday April 1 l
Bcersheba Wednesday “ 15
Sandy Ridge, Thursday “ 1>
Tussahaw, Friday “ 17
Locust Grove, Monday Ma/ 4
Lowes, • Wednesday “ 0
SECOND ROUND.
McMnllins, Monday May 18
Boersheba, Tuesday “ 19
Sandy Ridge, Wednesday “ 20
Tussalmw, Thursday “ 21
Locust Grove, Friday “ 22
Lowes, Monday “ 25
THIRD ROUND.
Shapping Shoals, 9 o’clock a. m ,
Island Shoals, 11 o’clock a. m.,
Woodstown, 1 o’clock p. m.,
Wednesday Jnno 10
Sandy Ridge, Thursday “ 11
Tussalmw, Friday “ 13
Locust Grove, Monday “ 15
Lowes, Tuesday “ 10
