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The Lee County Journal YOL.-IX. _ PPPR F L P P T P oo P EGEORGLA NEWS: k) T X decdeok deoderdecbedoro oo oo oo oo Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Raadom. ESETIT TS New Cotton Mill for Villa Rica. Application for a charter has just been made for the Golden City Mill Company at Villa Rica. The men mak: ing petition are W, J. Nally, H. W. Nally and J. N. Weems. The cap ital stock is to be $60,000. The princi pal business will be manufacturing cotton yarns and goods. Villa Rica already has a cotton seed oil mill. * * ¥ Burglars Rob Flovilla Bank. The vault of the Flovilla bank was blown open with nitro-glycerine one night the past week and robbed it of about $4,000. The Flovilla bank is owned by W. B. Dozier and Walter Ward is cashier. Insurance for pro tection was carried by the bank in @ burglary insurance company, * * %k Pension Fund Falls Short. Pension Commissioner J. W. Lind sey has discovered that he has been mistaken in his calculations as to the deficit in the pension fund. He has concluded his part of th=2 work of paying pensions, and instead of coming out almost clear with the $860,000 appropriation, he finds that he has on hand ia deficit of $18,139. In other words it will take just that amount to pay all the pensioners whose applications have been approv ed, in addition to the appropriation made by the legislature. * # % Rosser Indicted for Shortage. The grand jury at Lafayette return ed a true bill against J. E. Rosser for embezzlement of between $l,lOO and $1,200 school funds. : Rosser has employed counsel and will fight the case. He claims that he can account for the shortage. The special committee appointed at last term of the court gave Rosser a week to explain matters, but on his failure to do so he was reported short, & *® & By Direct Taxation, Some weeks ago Morgan county held an election for bonds to buiid a new court house in Madison, but through apathy on the part of the qualified voters of the county and the strong stand taken by some prominent citizens the bond issue was defeated. The commissioners of the county have now decided to build one by di rect taxation. The cost of the new building will be $40,000. The plan has been accepted and bids for the work will be advertiseq at once. * % L 3 Packing Houses Must Pay. By decision of the United States supreme court, rendered a few days ago, packing houses must continue to pay to the state of Georgia the spe cific tax of $2OO for each county in which they do business. ~ Under this decision the state will re %n possession of some $30,000 al r@@dy paid in as taxes by agents of pacßing houses, which would have hadq to b@bpaid back to the packing houses if gfe decision had been adverse to the e. LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1905 Fewer Fertilizer Tags Sold. While Commissioner of Agricultuie 0. B. Stevens is not prepared just yet to give out a statement as to the sales of fertilizer tags for the months of January and February, 1905, it is learned on good authority that the sales of commercial fertilizers i Georgia during these two months have been 40 to 50 per cent less than they were during the same months of 1905, The figures given out by the railroads as to the amount of fertilizers trans ported bear out this statement as to the reduction. T * % % Court Fight Won by Albany. The president signed the Albany court bill, which measure provides for a new division of the southern dis trict of Georgia, with headquarters at Albany. It was introduced by Judge Griggs, who passed through both houses witn the active aid of Mr. Brantley and Senator Bacon, who are members of the respective judiciary committees through which legislation of this kind{ comes. After the Dbill . was passed, Judge Emory Speer entered his pro-! test against the proposed division of his district, writing the president and the department of justice. } * * & ' ' New County Contests. l ~ Interest in the eight new counties to be created by the legislature this year, in accordance with the act advopt-l ed by the general assembly at its last’ session, is still engaging the very act ive attentiom of a number of commun-i ities throughout the state, who have j put forward their claims for new coun ty organizations. | ~ Among the cities of the state which are most aggressively at work in the effort to secure the designation of itheir towns as county sites are Millen,{ Meter, Adrian, Tifton, Hazlehurst, Cai-} ro, Whigham, Ashburn, Winder, Villa ißica, Buford, Barnesvile, Toccoa, and 'Cordele. Quite a number of other places are advancing their claims and pointing to geographical economic and | legal reasons why they should be‘ designated as county sites. With so many applicants in the field, the racei promises to be a most interesting one. % 4 % Court Stops Tax Execution. 1 ' Judge J. H. Lumpkin of the supe rior court at Atlanta signed a tem-| porary restraining order, enjoining Comptroller General William A.Wright | and Sheriff John W. Nelms of Fu]ton! =county from proceeding any further! in an effort to collect $125,000 taxes from the Georgia Railway and Banking | Company. ! ' The petition follows the levy made ‘recent]y by Streriff Nelms upon the freight depot of the Georgia road and Tthree acres of land in the heart of| ‘Atlanta to satisfy twenty-two tax exe icutions renderedq by General Wright for back taxes on 15,000 shares of !stock of the Western Railway of Ala ibama, said to be owned by the Geor gia road. ( The comptroller general and sheriff are prevented from carrying out the execution of the tax fi. fas. The case is set for a hearing March 18th. * * *® Merry Fight is Coming. There will be a merry fight between the state, Richmond county and Au gusta on the one hand, against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com pany on the other for a fortune in ‘taxes, amouting to a total sum of more than $500,000. ; ! Comptroller General W. A, Wrightl has just completed a statement show ing the amount of taxes due Richmond county and the city of Augusta on thz $1,500,000 capital stock of the Western Railway of Alabama, owned by the Georgia Railroad Company. | The total amount of taxes allegedi to be due Richmond county on this stock since 1890 is $139,952, of which $90,895 is for general and $49,057 for school purposes. The total amount of taxes claimed for the city of Augustal since 1891 is $221,250, making thej total of taxes demanded for the county of Richmond and the city of Augusta $361,202. Add to this the taxes de manded by the state since 1883, which are $125,974, and the grand total which the Georgia railroad is called on to pay on this Western and Alabama stock is $487,175. There must still be added to this interest at 7 per cent on all amounts due the state since- 1890, which will bring the sum total up to considerable over half a million dollars, or an amount equal to more than one-third of the total par value of the stock in question. NEW RAILROAD PROPOSED. ‘ — e Ling of Brief Length-to-be Buiit In Screven County, Georgia, 1 Application will be made in a few days to the secretary of state for a charter for the Sylvania and Burton’s flerry railroad, in Screven county, Georgia. The proposed line is 18 miles in length, and will run in a northerly di rection from Sylvania, crossing Brier creek at Mill Haven. NET EARNINGS FROM CONVICTS, State of Alabama Receives Handsome Sum from That Source. In his quarterly report, which was gent to the governor of Alabama Tues day afternoon, President J. M. Car michael of the state baard of convict inspectors shows that during the past four years and six months the depart ment has made $812,151.77. The | gross earnings for the time were §l, 469,287.02. WOMAN SUICIDES WITH GUN. Dead Body of Miss Mary Dodson of Pooler Found in Woods, The body of Miss Mury Dodson cf Pooler, Ga, was found dead in the woods near her home Wednesday | morning. Her death was caused by a double barreled gun, which wag found beside the hody. AS TO “DISTRESSED” COTTON. President Jordan Suggests That Cot ton Companies Buy It Up. Hon. Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton Association, hasg written an interesting article regard ing “distressed cotton.” He suggests thaf the cotton which is being sold in the small towns and cities where there are not the proper warchouse or bank ing facilities be bought by some cot ' ton company and kept off the market at the present prices. 1 ANENT WAREHOUSE SYSTEM. President Jordan Calls for Meeting of Commlttéo in News Orleans. President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association has is sued a call for a meeting of the com mittee on establishing a system of cot: ton warehouses in the southern states for March 13. The meeting will be beld in New Orleans. Bankers, ware housermen, insurance men and others have been invited to attend the mee¥ ing, which will be an important one In the call President Jordan says: “There is considerable Interest at: tached to a proper solution of this matter, and the coming meeting of the committee, which proposes to get! down to business, will attract the at tention of the people generally all over the country. With a first class system of local bonded warehouses, the cotton crop could be handled at a largely decreased cost to the grow ers.” FOR JAMESTON FAIR. A Quarter Million Anpropriation is Voted by the House. v -wevornient partieipation in the ex position to celebrate the first perma nent settlement of English speaking people on the western hemisphere ia the vicinity of Jamestown, Va. was provided by the house Thursday when, by a vote of 192 to 91, the bill for that purpose was passed under a suspern sion of the rules. The amount appro priated is $250,000, THE SAN DOMINGO TREATY. President Will Ask New Senate to Ratify Convention, : President Roosevelt will send to the new senate a speclal message relating to the Santo Domingo treaty. The message will present in concrete form the circumstances of the negotiations of the convention and the arguments on which its ratification is urged by the administration. ' CASSIE AND LOAN SHARKS. Old Lady Paid lllegally High Intzrest on Borrowed Money. W. V. Coons, a broker, was the principal witness examined in the Chadwick bankruptey case before Ref erce Remington at Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday. Coons admitted that he had made a number of loans to Mre. Chadwick and frankly admittted that Mrs. Chadwick was to have paid him much more than legal interest. FOR CATTLE QUARANTINE. House Passes Bill Authorizing Estab lishment of Districts, The house Thursday passed the bill authorizing the secretary of agricul ture to establish and maintain quaran tine districts in the several states, and to permit and regulate the move ment of cattle, NO. 34.