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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, ' * * * ’ 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. i % sk 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. * * & 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. *oowo % 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, | * * * 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. \ ** * J 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. | b %8 . ; 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, * % # 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. | ' ‘ TR & & ~ ; ’ 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. * *® # 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. | *% % f 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, ! ** * Toer ek fakoraae 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. #® * * 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. i intdi® 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.