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The Lée County Journal
YOE I
GEOKGIA NEWS
Epitomized Items of Interest
- Gathered at Random,
Renamed State Depository.
The Calhoun National Bank has been
renamed a state depository by Gover
nor Terrell. The appointment is for
a period of four years, and the coun
ties of Gordon, Murray and Pickens
‘are directed to make their deposits
in that bank, '
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Colored State Fair Planned.
At the colored farmers’ conference
at the Georgia State Industrial Col
lege the past week, a movement was
started to hold a colored state fair
in Georgia next fall. President R. R.
Wright of the college has the move
ment in charge.
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Judge Speer Honored.
In celebration of the twentieth an
niversary of the ascension of Judge
Emory Speer to the bench of the Unit
ed States court for the western divis
ion of the southern district of Georgia
congratulatory resolutions were read
and responded to in the United States
court room at Macon last Saturday
morning.
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Fi. Fas. Against Roads.
Consequent upon the failure of the
‘Wadley and Mount Vernon railroad
and the Stillmore Air Line railway to
pay taxes to certain counties througn
which they pass, Comptroller General
William A. Wiright has issued execu
tions and forwarded them to the sher
iffs of the respective counties for col
lection. He expects to hear reports
within the next few days.
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Atlanta Business Men Act. |
The Atlanta chamber of commerce
peld an important meeting and en
dorsed ths movement inaugurated ati
New Orleans to reduce the cotton
acreage and hold cotton for a 'p-rice!
of 10 cents. 1
The resolutions heartily endorse the
work undertaken by the farmers and.
recommend that the press of the city
yndertake the work of raising a sub
scription to assist in the great work, |
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Reward for Woman’s Slayer.
Governor Terrell has offered a re
ward of $2OO for the unknown persor
or persons who murdered Mrs. Kath
erine Smith at her home in Pearson.
~offee county, on February 6. The
deceased's head was nearly severed
from her body, and bloody finger
marks about the house seemed to in
dicate that the motive of the heinous
affair was robbery. \
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A Satisfactory Experiment,
Thé experiment of hauling children
from outlying districts to the county“
schools has proved so successful in
Muscogee county that the system will
be extended by the school authori
tiea. |
At a meeting of the Muscogee coun
ty board of education, just held, it was
decided to increase the facllities for
Zransporting pupils to Wynnton and
Kendrick’s schools.
. Some of the wagons employed hold
LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1905
from fifteen to twenty children. |
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Sidney Harrell Goes to the Pen.
Sydney Harrell was carried from
Americus a few days ago to the pen
itentiary camp near Arlington to serve
his sentence of twenty years for in
c2ndiarism, the burning of the town
lnt Preston, Webster county, in April
last. liarrell was one of the prom
|inent and influential men of Webster
icounty, and with his nephew, Henry
Morgan, was convicted of the
Icrime of burning the little town, there
by entailing a loss of nearly $30,000.
Morgan is already doing a twenty
years’ term,
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A Decided Disappointment.
According to a Washington dispatci
the Georgia cities favored with new
federal buildings in the public build-
Sings bill, which was reported to the
house of representatives recently are
doomed to disappointment, for later
the committee on rules anounced that
no building bill should pass this ses
gion, : :
’ Atlanta, Gainesville, Valdosta Alba
‘ny and the other places must there
fore wait for another year and anoth
‘er congress to give them the relief
they have sought through their repre
sentatives. | '
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’ Statement Proves Interesting.
Hon. Pope Brown’'s reported inten
tion of retiring from the railroad com
mission-at¢ the expization of hiz pres
‘ent term and the statement that Gov
ernor Terrell intends to appoint as
his successor Colonel O. B. Stevens,
at present agricultural commission,
announced in the Atlanta papers, was
read with deep interest at the capi
tol and over the state generally.
- Governor Terrell refused to discuss
the report, further than to say he had:
read it. He added that he had re
lceived a dozen applications for the
position, many prominent men being
among the number. He would not'
give out a list of the candidates.
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Reward Paid, Prisoner Gone.
Governor Terrell has just signed a
warrant for the payment of a reward;
of $lOO to four citizens of Walkerl
;county for- the arrest of Cicero Mc-i
@ill, anegro who attempted to assas
!sinate T. B. Arnold, a well known cit ;
izen of Wialker county, on August 24,
1904, In addition to the $lOO offered
by the state the captors will share a.
like amount which was offered by
the board of commissioners of Walker.i
county. i
McGill was convicted at the Febru
ary term of the superior court of;i
Walker county last year, and was sen: i
tenced to a term of sevem years ati
Ihax'd labor in the penitentiary. Smcel
being sent to prison the negro 188 68
caped, and is now at large, wl‘th two
rewards of $5O each outstanding fol'i
hig ‘arrest. |
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Makes Levy on Georgia Road.
1 william A.
Comptroller Genera ¢
Wright Saturday issued .twenty-tWO 5
fas. for state taxes agalpst the Geor
gia Railroad and Banking Compe:gler
for $125,974 back taxes, claimed by e
stato on $1,500,000 par value of o
stock of the Western Railway of Ala
pama, held and owr;led t:;yt:he Geof
i i within this state.
gl?f;:fl;?afas. were issued as the reé
‘Gult of the failure of the Georgia Rail
roac and Banking company to pay this
amount of taxes demanded by the
state in accordance with the assesa
ments of‘the comptroller general.
State taxes were demanded on this
’stock for each year from 1883 to 1904,
inclusive, with interest at 7 per cent
lon all taxes claimed to be due since
1889, the year in which the law re
quiring the payment of such interest,
was passed. This additional interest
will bring the total amount alleged to
Le due the state up to about $i65,-
000,
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Wants to Locate a Colony.
Governor Terrell received an inter
esting inquiry a few days ago regard
ing the status of certain land on the
Southern railway in the middle south
ern section of the state.
The letter did not state in what
county the landis located, but it
came from the Southern’s railway
land ageat, and gave the information
that certain parties are trying to lo
cate a colony of several hundred peo
ple. It went on to say that these
people were hesitating about coming
lw Georgia because they fear an ex
cessive tax rate later on should the
state be required to pay any of its re
pudiated bonds, and they expressed
the fear also as to questionable titles
to the land on account of the fraudu
lent land grants of 1794. e
The governor replied that there was
ino danger as to an excessive tax rate
or account of the state’s repudiated
bonds because the constitution pro
hibits their payment. All of the fraud
ulent land grants were in Montgomery
county and one or two other counties
i‘in that section of the state, and it‘
can easily be ascertained whether the |
tract in question has any doubt cas\tl
upon it as the result of those frauds.
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Many Medals for Georgia.
Georgia made a clean sweep at the
St. Louis world’s fair, winning the
grand prize for the finest display of
marble and the best collection of min
cral resources on exhibition at the big
exposition. In addition, several gold
and silver medals were awarded fo
the state for the most excellent in.
dividual displays on exhibition, and
as a further compliment to Georgia’s |
display awarded a gold meda: to State
Geologist W. S. vates for collection
and installation of the exhibit of geol
ogy. News of the state’s SUCCIES
reached the capitol only a few days
ago, and was received with genuine
pleasure by the governor, tho state
geologist and many other officers.™
The distinction and compliment to
Georgia in winning the grand prize is
better appreciated when it is under
stood that practically every state in
the union made a show at St. Louis,
and that the contest for the highest
award was of such consequence that
it was decided by the guperior jury on
awardB. '
~ Aside from the winnings of the
state in the award line, several pri
| vate concerns, which made exhibits in
| connection with Georgia’s display,were
given prizes for excellence.
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l Sight for Lovers of Nature.
| A New Hampshire item: The sight
of a dozen wild deer in tandem fash
for on the crest of Croyden mountain
at the setting sun was a picture to
! stir the soul of any true arcist.
.~ ON ADVICE OF PRESIDENT.
Canal Commission Accepted Fees as
Directors oi Railroad,
A Washingion dispatch says: The
following extract {rom the minutes of
the isthmian canal commission of its
meeting held Octcber 11th last, ex
planatory of the direct fees taken from
the Panama Railrcal Company by the
members of the canal commission, was
laid before the house committee on in
terstate and foreign commerce at the
hearing Saturday Ly Chairman Hep
burn, having been received by him
from Commissioners Harrod = and
Grunsky. Ty
“The commissioners were also in
formed by the chairman that at a re
cent conference with the president
the matter of attendance fecs pald to
the directors attending meetings pro
vided by the by-laws of the Panama
Railroad Company, was referred to and
that the president desired the com
mission to be informed that his order
fixing the ccmpenzation of the com
missioners was nct intended to pre
vent the acceptance of such fee.”
SMITH AFTER HITCHCOCK.
Formep Secretary of lnterior in Wash
ington to Answer Uharges.
A Washington dispatch says: Hon.
Hoke Smith of Atlanta, former secre
tary of the interlor, arrived in the city
Saturday morning and gave out a
' statement relative to the charge of
| Qecretary Hitcheock with reference to
the lease of oil and gas privileges in
the Osage Indian country given to E.
B. Foster during Mr. Smith's Incum-’
bency of the office.
M. Smith’s statement is short, thor
oughly within the bounds of propri
ety, and yet very much to the point.
He suggests that if the present sec
'retary of the interior had been inspir
ed by a desire to keep strictly within
‘the truth, the charge that the lease
in question was “nothing ghort of a
public scandal” would never have been
made. '
wIiLL REOPEN PROCEEDINGS.
Government Ready to Again Go After
Greene and Gaynor, ,
The department of justice at Wash
ington has reccived a copy of the fa
sorable declsion by the judicial com
mittee of the English privy counci] in
the Gaynor-Greene case, rendered -on
the Bth instant. -
The decision will result in a re-open
ing of the extradition ‘proceedings in
the Canadian courts against Meskrs.
Gaynor and Greene, who are techni
cally charged with obtaining govern
‘ment money under false pretenses.
TO SEEK BONES OF JONES.
President Asks Congress to Appropri
ate Sum of $35,000.
President Roosevelt, in transmitting
to congress the report of Abbassador
Porter, concerning the efforts to lo
cate the remains of Admiral John
Paul Jones, indorses the work of the
ambassador and asks congress to ap
propriate the $35,000 needed to con
duct the search for Paul Jones’ body
in the abandoned cemeétery of St.
Louis, where it is believed to have
been buried in 1792.
NO. 30.