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GEORGIA.
Brief Summary of Dvings
Throughout the State.
May Festival for Atlanta
The movement to have the'great
May musical festival at Atlanta was
formally launched among the business
men of the city at a recent meeting
held in the chamber of commerce, a
committee of seventy-five leading citi
zens being appointed to co-operate
with the Atlanta Orchestra Association
in the undertaking.
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Elberton and Augusta Railroad.
. Application for a charter for the
Augusta and Elberton Railroad Com
pany is being published. The party
asking for the charter is composed of
some of the best men in the section
through which the road is to be run.
From Augusta it is proposed to run
the road through Columbia, Lincoln
and on to Elberton. The backers claim
that the road will be pushed to a fin
ish.
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Agricultural Book Highly Praised.
Much praise is being given to the
state agricultural department for a
book issued by Commissioner 0. B.
Stevens and Assistant Commissioner
R. F. Wright, in 1901, under the title
of “Georgia Historical and Industrial.”
The bock is declared to be one of the
most interesting and instructive pub
lications ever issued for Georgia, and
those who have read it say that it
should be taught in every school in the
state, for the reason that Georgians
now seem to know less about their
state than strangers.
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Muster Rolls Missing
The Georgia roster commission is
anxious to secure the names of mem
bers of the Sixty-fourth Georgia regi
ment, which served in the late war.
These rolls have been lost and only a
few of the names of members of the
regiment can be found. General Clem
ent A. Evans, chairman of the roster
‘commission, has issued a request for
‘those in a position to supply the miss
ing names to send them to the roster
commission.
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Many Fertilizer Tags Sold.
Commissioner of Agriculture Q. B.
Stevens returned Saturday from
South Georgia, where he has been in
the interest of the agricultural depart
ment. Mr. Stevens was in Savannah
looking after some fertilizers, which
were recently shipped there. The sale
for fertilizer tags has been unprece
dented this year and the sale of guano
has been heavier than usual. All of
the farmers are going in for heavy cot
ton crops, owing to the prevailing
prices,
. Mrs. Wood Delusionally Insane.
Prison doors are about to open for
Mrs. W. J. Wood, but it is to the
state sanitarium for the insane in
stead of to liberty she will go.
Dr H. D. Allen, who is a member of
the medical staff of the state prison
farm, where Mrs. Wood is now a pris
oner, has certified to Chairman Turner,
of the state prison commission, that
Mrs. Wood is suffering from chronic
delusional insanity. Immediate steps
will be taken to have her transferred
to the sanitarium at Milledgeville.
Mrs. Wood, it will be remembered,
was recently sentenced to two years’
imprisonment for attempting to kill
her husband in Atlanta.
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Commission After Railroads.
The state railroad commission has
instructed the Attorney General Hart,
to institute proceedings against the
Hawkinsville and Florida Southern
and the Seaboard Air Line railroads to
compel them to pay fines of $5,000
each for a violation of the commis
sion’s rules. Last October the com
mission passed a rule requiring these
roads to provide adequate depot facil
ities at Pitts, Ga., and giving them
ninety days in which to do it. This
order has not been carried out and the
roads will be sued for the fines.
Practically all of the leading rail
roads of the state are under charges
of violating rules of the commission,
in that they increased certain freight
rates without first securing the com
mission’s permission ,and also charged
more for certain short hauls than for
long ones, the shorter distance being
included within the longer.
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New Railroad Chartered.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
granted a charter to the Dublin and
Southwestern Railroad 'Company, in
terested in which are W. D. Harper
and John J, Simpson, of Atlanta. An
other prominent member of the new
company is John M. Stubbs, of Lau
rens county.
The new road will run from a point
near Dublin, in Laurens, county, via
Eastman to Abbeville ,in Wilcox coun
ty, -and will pass through Laurens,
Dodge, Telfair and Wilcox counties. It
will be 65 miles in length and the capi
tal stock will be $lO,OOO with the priv
ileges of increasing it. The principal
office of the company will be in Dub
lin.
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Appropriations for Scuth,
' A Washington dispatch says: The
sundry civil appropriation bill, which
was reported Saturday, continues a
number of appropriations for the car
rying on of work under way in the
southern states. Forty thousand dol
lars is appropriated for the public
building at Athens, $15,000 for the
public building at Rome, and for build
ings under construction in South Caro
lina ag follows: Rock Hill, $10,000;
Georgetown, $15,000; Florence, $lO,-
000. Savannah gets $20,000 for the
marine hospital and $12,200 for the
quarantine station. In the river and
harbor improvement items there are
the following: For Savannah harbor,
$105,000; for Cumberland sound, $55,
000; for Charleston, $73,000; Winyah
bay, $70,000; the Great Pedee, S. C,,
$lO,OOO. There is the usual appropria
tion of $40,000 for Chickamauga Na
tional Park. The southern federal
prison at Atlanta gets $134.480 for run
ning expenses, itemized as follows:
Subsistence, $40,000; clothing and
transfer prisoners, $18,000; hospital
and supplies, $20,000; salaries, $4,
480; miscellaneous, $30,000. The fish
station at Cold Springs gets $3,480.
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Decided to Take Convicts.
The fight for and against the Pulas
ki convict lease has been settled and
Pulaski will use the felony convicts.
The commissioners held a call meet
ing to discuss the matter, delegations
appearing for both sides, It was
thought by some that should Pulaski
use the state convicts her school fund
would be greatly diminished and cer
tain citizens petitioned the county
commissioners to rescind their action
in the lease.
It was shown by letters from the
state school commissioner and the
prison commission that the wrong
impression prevailed and that the
school fund would not be molested in
this case, and all agreed that the coun
ty use them.
Pulaski now has fifty convicts on
her roads, which are rapidly being put
into fine condition.
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| Pension Payments Completed,
Pension Commissioner J, W. Lind
sey stated Saturday that he had com
pleted the payment of pensions for the
present year with the exception of a
few stragglers and several cases in
which investigation is necessary on ac
count of grand jury findings.
Up to date Commissioner Lindsay
has paid out a total of $86,215, pay
ments being made to 6,758 indigent
soldiers who received $402,600, to 3,
136 disabled soldiers who received
$174,105, to 2,861 of the old class of
widows who received $171,420 and to
1,816 indigent widows who received
$108,960. Then $5,000 of the fund was
used under legislative authority to pay
the expenses of the roster commission,
in preparing a roster of the state
troops who served in the civil war.
This makes a total expenditure to
date of $866,215 out of the total pen
sion fund appropriated of $870,000,
leaving a balance on hand of $3,785.
But this small unexpended balance
will soon be paid out. In the first
place there are rifteen cases where
grand juries have questioned the right
of pensioners to draw the state’s boun
ty. Commissioner Lindsey will inves
tigate each one of these cases before
refusing to pay the claim.
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School Libraries-Has Your School One?
There has been a decided increase
in the effort to provide libraries for
our common schools, We notice in
the papers accounts of entertainments
for the school library. All of the best
schools have a library and many of
the smaller schools have made a great
beginning. Many of the town schools
have a separate room for the library,
with comfortable chairs, and reading
tables on. which are found the best
magazines. The library is kept
open certain hours of the day, an older
student usually acting as librarian.
Patrons of the school visit the library
and enjoy its privileges as much as
the pupils. In many schools the pu
pils, with the help of the teacher,
have made a neat case, and the books
are kept in the school room, subject to
the daily use of teachers and pupils
and often of the parents. The senti
ment for libraries is so strong now,
that schools take pride in showing
their libraries to visitors and apolo
ges are forthcoming if the visitor finds
none in the school,.
The books in the library should be
such as will enrich and supplement
the school work of the pupils. There
should be books of travel to illustrate
the geography lesson; stories from the
history of the nations, biographies and
sketches of the world’s great men and
women, to enrich the history lesson,
shape character and form ideals,
books on nature, stories of animals,
of the forest and fields, of ocean and
land, of industries and inventions, of
great achievements should find a
place. Then there are the great epics
of the races, the myths and legends,
the poems that are heritages of all the
ages, the historical novels written
by the masters. There should be a
few books for reference, and some of
the standard works in history, science
and litreature should be bought as
money becomes more abundant.
Some few schools have made the mis
take of buying sets of books because
they were cheap, while, perhaps, not
a half dozen of the Dbooks were
adapted to the pupils. See that there
is something suited to all.
J. S. STEWART, State University.
OIL MILL AND FACTORY BURNED
Blaze at Pelham, Ga., Causes Loss of
Between $50,000 and $75,000.
The oil mill and guano warehouse
and factory of the Pelham Cil and
Fertilizer Company, at Pelham, Ga,
were totally destroyed by fire Tues
day night. The loss is estimated at
$50,000 to $75,000, partlally insured.
Steps will be taken to rebuild at once.
For a time the business portion of
the town seemed doomed.
LEASE EXPIRES IN 3000 A. D.
Dowie Gives Permit to Build Street
Railway Through Zion City.
Under a lease which expires 1,096
yvears hence, the Chicago and Milwau
kee Electric Railroad Company has se
cured from “Prophet” Dowie the rignt
to extend a lime through Zion City.
According to the terms, “said lease is
to expire 3,000 A. D.” . The reason
for a lease instead of a purchase is
that it.is forbidden “to sell the prop:
erty of God.”
LABOR LEADERS HARD I—!y
Secretary Job Shows that Ra
File are Virtually Against T
A Washington dispatch says:
discussion of the confusion wh
ponents of the eight-hour bill d
would follow the enactment ‘
measure into law, Frederick
secretary of the Employers’ U
Chicago, Wednesday said to tf
ate committee on education ang
that he did not believe the labc
ers of the country representg
real views of the rank and file
workingmen, organized or u
ized.
He made an attack on the
asserting that from Gomper
these leaders persisted in m
senting conditions. Mr. Job ca
tention to the labor troubles,‘
non-union men had been k;
down with clubs and shot, ay
the official organs of organize
never had contained one word
nunciation of these crimes. I
the orgals mentioned were
largely by the labor ° leaders
selves and therefore they assi >4O
making criminals of the men.
As an illustration of his as:ertiom
that the leaders did not repres:nt the
men, Mr. Job said he had been told
in confidence by laboring men in Chi
cago that the surest manner of de
feating a candidate for politicrl office
was to get him indorsed by th . labor
leaders and then the rank and - vn
der the Australian ballot |
would turn and vote against the
didate. :
Mr. Job said that many instances
where this had been dome could be
cited to prove the contention.
EVIDENCE AGAINST BURTON.
Tell-Tale “Graft” Check Presented at
Trial of Kansas ‘SenatoTr.
At St. Louis, the first witress In
Thursday’s session of the trial £ Uni
ted States Senator Burton, of | insas,
charged with having illegally : :epted
fees from the Rialto Grain &i:d Se
curities Company, was Joseph Carr,
who was a clerk in the emp’ iy of the
Rialto company. On March 26, 1903,
witness drew a check for § !0 in fa
vor of Burton, cashed it an | handed
five $lOO bills to Vice Pre dent W.
D. Mahoney, in whose roo:;i- Burton
was sitting. The check wi | offered
in evidence. %
PRESIDENT “LECTURES” !NDIANS
They are Told of the Evils pf Gam
bling on Horses Races, rftc. ;
President Roosevelt soun jfly lec
tured a party of his callers gVe«dnes
day. They were O’Gallalla ;ilgux In
dians, who, it is said, are morfe addict
ed to horse racing and gambl}ing than
they are to the pursuits of agriculture.
The president endeavored to) impress
on his visitors ideas of indu}ytry “nd
thrift.
FILIPINO “PRESIDENT” KILLEL
Macarro Sakay and Fifteen of I
Band Slain by Troops.
A Manila special says: Captain De
witt, with a detachment of constabu
lary and scouts, have encountered Ma:
cario Sakay, the so-called president of
the Filipino republic. Sakaly, with fif.
teen of his followers, was killed, and
the remainder of the band was cap
tured. There were no casualties or
the part of the Americans. *
LIFE CONVICT DIES ON GALLOWS.
Bob Stone, Colored, Pays Penaity tue
Murder of Penitentiary Guard.
Bob Stone, colored, was hanged in
the county jail yard at Birmingham,
Ala., Friday. |
Stone, while serving a lif¢ sentence
for murder at Coalburg prison about
a ‘year ago, murdered Guayd Thomp
son in an attempt to escap¢ He had
threatened to give the 2 thorities
trouble, but was very rhen he
appeared on the gallk dled
without fear.