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GEORGIA NEWS! I e e 3 0 o e o N S Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Savannah Wants Judge Speer. The board of directors of the Sa vannah chamber of commerce has named a committee to invote Judge Emory Speer, of the United States court of the southern district, to take up his residence in Savannah, should he decide, as it is reported he will, to leave Macon. ; > & s ; Chautauqua Will Be Great. The arrangements for holding the chautauqua in Dublin, June 19-24, are being rapidly completed. All of the talent has been engaged. This year five special trains will be run to Dublin by the Wrightsville and Tennille and Macon, Dublin and ‘Savannah roads during chautauqua week. *« = *® Ten Years For Carter. - At Valdosta, J. C. Carter, the young white man who was tried in the supe rior court and found guilty on the charge of attempted assault, was sen tenced by Judge Mitchell to ten years in the penitentiary. He is now in jail in default of $l,OOO bond. The mo tion made by his attorneys for a new trial will be heard later. * * * Waycross Seeks Charter Change. A movement has been started in Waycross to have the charter chang ed, that the water works commission of the city may be elected by the people. Since the organization of the commission twelve years ago the members have been appointed by the ordinary. A petition requesting Rep rosentative Spence to have the char ter of the city changed has been cir culated, and there are many signers. ® % * Now Under Regular Charter. Formal organization of the John B. Gordon Monument Association was perfected in Atlanta the past week by the acceptance of the charter, the adoption of by-laws and the election of officers and directors. The officers chosen weré President W. L. Cal houn: vice president, Allen D. Can dler; secretary, Joseph T. Derry, and treasurer, E. H. Thornton. "New subscriptions aggregating about $lOO were reported, about half of them in cash. One of the subserip tions of $25 was recorded on the minutes as having been received from « a former abolitionist, who, since liv ing in the south,has formed new ideas on the negro question.” : ¢ % % ‘ Important Ruling on Rates. In a recent ruling upon rule 6 of the state railroad commission, that body decided that the railroads in the state can reduce rates between certain points in the state in order to put them on a basis of equality with points similarly situated outside the state, without having to lower rates 10 other points on such lines, which are not similarly situated. In other words, the Central of Geor gia is permitted to reduce the rates on certain commodities between At lanta and Savannah in order to put Atlanta on a basis of equality with Nashville and other similarly situated points, without being required to lower its rates between Atlanta and any intermediate points on its line. » * * Admits Charge of Infanticide. Omer J. Coney, a young man well known in Laurens county, was arrest od a few days ago charged with the murder of an infant found in the Oconee river. Congy made a confes sion to officers, in which he, stated that he put the child into a sack and then threw it into the river. When examined by the coroner and a jury, the infant showed evidence of having been mutilated—its throat was cut or stabbed. Coney denies any knowl edge of this feature of the case. The young man was married four months ago into one of the most prom inent families in Laurens county, and the people of Dublin are almost un nerved by the shocking and unmen tionable features connected with the affair. * * % Primary Returns Compiled. Chairman E. T. Brown, of the state executive committee, has just com piled the returns from the recent state primary of April 20. The returns show that State Treas urer R. E. Park led the state ticket with a total vote of 169,867. The vote for Governor Terrell was 168,461. In the race for chief justice of the supreme court Chief yustice T, J. Sim mons carried eighty-nine counties and Judge R. B. Russell forty-eight, Jus tice Simmons’ majority in votes being 21,160. For prison commissioner Chairman Joseph S. Turner carried 107 counties and Judson M. Strickland, of Griffin, thirty, Chairman Turner’s majority in votes being 32,118. The preparation of these consoli- Chairman Brown, of the state commit. tee, has been at work upon them for the last six weeks; in fact, ever since the primary was held on April 20th. * * * The Law as to Fishing. - Now that the fishing season has opened the attention of anglers is call ed to the following sections of the new state law: «5. That it shall be unlawful for any person to put walnut leaves, wal put hulls, devil shoe sirings or any poisonous substance whatever in any of the waters or running streams of this state, such as lakes, ponds, eddy places o czecks, which will_be_likely to drive away or poison the fish in said waters. _ «g. That it shall be unlawful to catch or take any fish with any seine, net or like device from any of, the waters of this state between the Ist of June and the Ist of September in each year, provided that the pro visions of this act shall not be con strued to forbid the catching of fish by means of cast nets or with hook or line. “7. That the catching of sturgeon in the waters of this state with seines or other devices, is absolutely pro hibited for a period of four years from the date of approval of this act. “8 That the use of dynamite or any other explosive and destructive sub stances for the purpose of killing fish is hereby prohibited.” ¢ = 2 Lays Embezzlement to President. After one of the most sensational trials ever held in Columbps, the jury in the case of J. Perry Greene, charg ed with embezzlement, brought in-a verdict of “not guilty,” reaching this verdict after one ballot. The charge of embezzlement was brought by President John F. Weath ers, of the Columbue Showcase Com pany, for whom Mr. Greene had work ed as bookkeeper during 1903, it being alleged that he took $1,300 of the company’s money and then made the books balance by making false en tries. The defense was extremely sensa tional, Greene charging that President Weathers, himself, had been system atically robbing the company,. and that he tried to make a scapegoat of the bookkeeper. Greene talked to the jury an hour and a half, and made a dramatic assertion of his innocence, and an equally dramatic accusation of President Weathers,who sat a few feet from him. Pointing to Mr. Weathers. Mr. Greene exclaimed: “Gentlemen, there is the guilly man. He stole this money, and is trying to shift it off on me. Nobody knows bet ter than John F. Weathers that I nev er took a cent of money of the Co lumbus Showease Company. He won't‘l lcok me in the face. That man hasi tried to rob me of all I have— my character.” | s & = The University Law School. ~ Among the institutions that have had a marked influence upon the his tory of Georgia is the state law school established in 1859 on motion of Gov ernor Herschel V. Johnson. ! Over eight hundred lawyers have received their training here in the last fifty years. The school has been the training camp of our eminent ju rists and the success of its gradua‘es is the strongest argument for train ing of a good law school in preference to that secured in the lawyer’s of fice. ~ In the law school the training is sys tematic and thorough and the young ‘student must measure his strength daily with his fellow students. As an “eminent writer said: ~ “The law school leads the student ‘readily to survey law as a science and imbues him with the principles of ethics as its true foundation. Dis ‘puting, reasoning, reading, discours ing, became his constant exercise. ;Members of the bar of the future, td succeed, must have a scientific, well directed and comprehensive training in a law school.” The state law course embraces two years of text book study, Ilecture courses, study of cases, moot courts ‘and legal exercises. It gives the most thorough preparation offered in the South Atlantic States in law and al lied subjects. The students meet in daily classroom exercises on the Uni versity campus, and are an integral part of the student body, subject to the regulations and enjoying all the principles of the libraries, dormitories and lectures. They form associations with hundreds of young ‘Georgians and with the great body of alumni, friendships invaluable to the Yyoung lawyver, whether considered from ~a social, business or professional stand point. The degree of bachelor of laws of the University of Georgia is conferred upon those completing the course. Some students take the first year's course in a lawyer’s office,-stand an examination upon the same on enter ing the law school and taking the sec ond year in.class. This plan reduces expenses, and combines the office and class room methods. ~ The BState University law school has justly won first place for the train ing of Georgians for the honorable profession of law and a young lawyer i;should count it a privilege to enroll his name among the graduates of this famous old school.—J. S. STUART. * s % THE DOOM OF CONCORDAT. France Announces Readiness to Sepa rate Church and State. Premier Combes’ announcement that the question of the separation of church and state would come up in January has drawn attention to the | law already formulated for separation iot church ard state. The opening clauses read as follows: “The republic assures freedom of conscience and it guarantees the free exercise of religion without restrie tion. “The republic will neither protect nor pay salaries under any form what ever to any denomination. It will not l recognize any minister of religion.” ; CANNOT EXHUME REMAINS. ~South Carvlina Judge Refuses Request ; of Defendants in Murder Trial. A dispzich from Columbia, S. ¢ - soys: Circvit Judge Ernest Gary Wed. nesday retised a motion by the ut. torney of Morgan, Thrailkill to allow the body of B. B. Burton, of Saluil: whom Tlaeiikill is charged with kil ing, to be exhumed to permit furibhor scereh for a buliet supposed to be ir B: rton’s body. The jndze held tha there was no law permitting such pr> ceed?ngs;.‘__ L Moroccoan Kidnapers Make Ridiculous Demands. UNCLE SAM SAYS “NIT” As an Answer to Insolence of Brigands Six More Warships Are Sent to Tangier-France Predicts More Trouble. A Washington specia]l says: The kidnapping of Perdicaris and his step son, Varley, in Moreocco, have gub mitted their terms for ransom and the state department has decided that they are abselutely impossible of ac ceptance. A long cablegram from United States Consul Gummere was recelved by Sec retary Hay Saturday. The consul stat ed in substance that Rasouly, the ban dit, who kidnapped Perdicaris and his stepson Varley had been heard from and made a sot of demands which the British minister and Mr. Gummere had deemed it their duty to lay be fore their governments. Rasouly demanded that the Moor ish forces should be withdrawn from the district in which his band oper ated, leaving them in control. He asked a large money ransom to be collected from the governors of Tangier and Fez, who happen to be bitter enemies. He further de manded absolute immunity for him self and his followers from pursuit er punishment for the kidnapping and other crimes which they had commit ted in the past. To cap the climax of his demand Rasouly insisted that the United States and Great Britain should solemnly guarantee the observ ance by the Moorish government of the foregoing stipulations. Secretary Hay had a conference with the president, and it was agreed that Rasouly’s terms could not be met. To grant them would be equivalent to forcing the sultan of Morocco to ab dicate tn fayor of a brigand so far as a considerable part of a Moorish territory was concerned. Moreover, the United States government could not w#fhout establishing a new and %dan gerous precedent undertake to guar antee the acts of another govern ment, Rear Admiral Jeweil reported by cable to the navy department Sat urday the arrival of the Wuropean squadron under his command, embrac ing the Olympia, Baltimore and Cleve land, at Horta, Agoras. Orders were sent to the admiral to proceed to Tangier, Morooco, and his fleet sail ed for that port. The navy department is advised of the sailing of the Atlanta, Mari etta and castine, ships of the South Atlantic squadron, from Teneriffe for Tangier, to join the flagship Brooklyn. The detention of the South Atlantic squadron at the Moroccan port will be dependent on conditions. If the sii uation on the arival of Rear Admiral Jewell does not require the presence ~of the two squadrons of American - warships for the protection of Amer ican interests in that quarter, Rear Ad - miral Chadwick will be authorized to proceed on his cruise toward his sta tion in the South Atlantie. A dispatch from Paris says: The approaching arrival of United States warships at Tangier, Morocco, is view ~ed with some apprehension in official quarters, as it is feared it may lead to a turbulent demonstration. Those - who are familiar with Moroccoan me‘h ods say that an attempt of a naval force to rescue President Perdicaris ~and Varley probably would lead to - their being killed. ‘ The French minister continues to ~urge the Moroccoan authorities to : make terms with the brigands.