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TO DOUBLE-TRACK
Southern is Forced to In¬
crease its Facilities.
CHARLOTTE TO ATLANTA
South’s Prosperity Proves Too Much
far Great System— Contract is Let
to Oliver Company of Knox¬
ville, Tennessee.
A special from Charlotte, N. C.,
states that the Southern railway has
just let a contract for double tracking
the main line between that city and
Atlanta. The contracting firm is the
Oliver company of Knoxville, Tenn.,
one of the largest in the south. The
undertaking is monumental and it is
not improbable that the Oliver peo¬
ple will sublet contracts to smaller
companies. This information comes
from an authentic source. Tbe work
will be begun by December 1 or Jffh
uary 1. It will probably take three
or four years to do this work, as aside
from the double trackage, the course
of the track will be changed at many
points, and the c_rves and grades
done away with a 3 far as passible.
The line, when completed, will be al¬
most a new one.
Oliver Brothers already have a con¬
tract for improving the freight yards
in Charlotte, and Tuesday morning
ninety-three mules and two steam
shovels were brought in for the work.
The Southern has been forced to this
proposition on account of the conges¬
tion of traffic which it h?.s been un¬
able to meet with its present facili
ties.
Double tracking has been in prog
ress north of Charlotte to a consider¬
able extent and the second line has
been laid between several of the
larger cities as far north as Danville.
It is probable that the line will
bo double-tracked between Charlotte
and Spencer, in order to eventually
give double trackage all ihe way be¬
tween Washington and Atlanta.
NO REVOCATION OF ORDER
Be False, Says Teddy.
Unless Facts as Known Are Shown to
A cable dispatch from President
L’or-evelt declining to suspend his or¬
der discharging the negro troops ot
the twenty-fifth regiment unless the
f.icts as known to him are shown to
be false, but expressing his willing¬
ness to hear new facts bearing upon
the case, was made public at Wash¬
ington Tuesday by Gilchrist Stewart
of the Constitutional League.
Mr. Stewart cabled Roosevelt at. An¬
ton, Panama, as follows:
“Republican county committee unan¬
imously denounces discharge of color¬
ed soldiers. Parsons, Olcott, Bennett,
committee, petitioning department.
Newspapers emphatic. Developments
and new facts warrant an immediate
suspension of order.’’
The president’s reply contained the
following:
“Uales3 facts as known to me are
shown to be false, the order will, un¬
der no circumstances, he revoked, and
I shall not for cue moment consider
suspending It on a simple allegation
that there are new facts until these
new facts are laid before me. Inform
any persons having new fact", to have
them in shape to lay before me at my
return, and l will then consider wheth¬
er or not any further action by me
is called for.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
The president's riow is that the ne¬
gro soldiers, in refusing information,
necessary to tbe apprehension of the
men who committed the criminal acts
at Brownsville. Texas, struck at the
very heart • f military justice and dis¬
cipline. Had the white troops done this
same thing, they would have suffered
the same penal*?
As previously published, Major Gen¬
eral Ainsworth, military secretary,
acting under orders of Taft, directed
that further discharges of the negro
companies cf the twenty-fifth Infantry,
on account of the shooting at Browns
ville, Texas, be suspended pending
further orders.
CHISHOLM DECLARED SANE.
Plea of Bank Embezzler Did Not Go
With Special Jury.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
The jury which heard the evidence
upon the insanity issue in the case
of Alexander R. Chisholm, charged
with embezzling large sums of money
from the First National bank, Wednes¬
day, returned a verdict in the United
States court. The jury decided that
Chisholm is sane and in sufficient pos¬
session. of his mental faculties to be
placed on trial.
WOMAN SLAIN FOR MONEY.
Was Found With Throat Cut and
Neighbor is Arrested on Suspicion.
Mrs. Tinsley, an aged white woman,
was found at. her borne, near Gaffney,
S C Tuesday, with her throat cut,
aud. it is believed, she was murdered
for her money. It was known that she
had a large sum in the house, though
when it was searched none was found.
Tom Harris, a white man, has been
arrested on suspicion.
BIG SHIPS IN COLLISION,
Thirteen Steerage Passengers and Sail¬
ors Lose Life in Crash—Vessels
Were Wilhelm and Orinoco.
A special from Cherbourg, France,
says: The big liners, the I/aiser Wil¬
helm der Grosse and the Orinoco, col¬
lided in the English channel Wednes¬
day night at 9 o’clock. As a result
]3 steerage passengers and sailors
were killed, each vessel was seriously
damaged, and the two steamers have
returned to port for repairs.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse be¬
longs to the North German Lloyd
Steamship company. She carried 25S
first class passe-ngers, 389 in the sec¬
ond cabin and 697 in the steerage. She
left Southampton and Cherbourg Wed¬
nesday for New York. The Orinoco,
which belongs to the British Royal
Mail Steamship company, had cleared
from Southampton for West Indian
ports and Mew York. The passengers
of the German vessel will be trans¬
shipped and leave France for New
York Saturday." The Orinoco’s pas¬
sengers will be sent forward from
Southampton on November 28.
The shock of the collision was ter¬
rific and created a panic on board
each ship. Order, however, was quick¬
ly restored, but not before a small
boat lowered from the Orinoco had
been swamped by the effort of the lear
striekcn passengers to crowd into it.
As soon as the accident occurred
a number of small boats from Cher¬
bourg put out to the scene and suc¬
ceeded in rescuing some of the sailors
and passengers who were struggling
in the waves.
The responsibility for the accident
has not been fixed, but it is charged
that the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
did not respond to signals from
English ship.
LIVES AND VESSELS LOST.
| Twenty-Three , Sailors and 11
Record of Gale on Great Lakes.
The gale of Wednesday night
Thursday on the Great Lakes
j a heavy loss to vessel property
twenty-three lives. The barge
Sank off Toronto and six men
drowned. The barge Athens is
ably lost off Sandusky. Ohio, with
men. All hope for the Athens,
ever, has not been abandoned
tugs are scouring Lake Erie for
Following is the list of losses:
The Hurl but, stranded on
Erie; the 0. B. Hill, beached on
Erie; the Athens, missing on
Erie; the Puritan, aground on
Huron; the Comfort, sunk in
Claire liver; the Conenvaugh,
on Lake Erie; the Pratt, damaged
storm. Lake Erie: The
foundered off Toronto; the Pere
quette, No. 16, stranded, Lake
igan; the schooner Paige, ashore,
Michigan; steamer Taylor,
Lake Michigan.
PEONAGE TESTIMONY CLOSED.
Arguments Begun in Pensacola in
Case Against Lumber Company.
The taking of testimony in the
ed States court at Pensacola, Fla.,
the famous case of conspiracy to com
mil peonage, charged against
W. S. Harlan and others of the
son Lumber company, ceased
day afternoon, consuming more
a week. The testimony of
was in rebuttal and the
brought out in some of its
witnesses, who gave additional
mation on the line of
and beating of foreigners, while
defense also made a strong
in rebuttal.
TWO-CENT RATE DECLARED
Court Holds It is Contrary to the
teenth Amendment.
In the Virginia supreme court,
appeals at Richmond, Thursday,
Cardwell handed down a decision
firming the decision of the state
poration commission declaring the
cent passenger rate act passed by
Virginia legislature contrary to
j {ourteenth amendment of the
j tion of tlie jj n jted States. The
. 1 v/as a tost involving the
that the railroads place on sale
hundred mile two-cent rate books.
NEGRO JUDGE IS UNSEATED.
Canvassing Board at Chicago
That He Was Not Elected.
Ferdinand L. Barnett, the
assistant state's attorney, who,
cording to returns, was elected
of the new municipal count of
at the recent election, has been
seated by the canvassing board.
election returns gave Barnett a
rality of 499, but the official
of the thirty-five wards of the city,
which was completed Thursday,
that Thomas B. Lantry, democrat,
elected by a plurality of 304.
was the only republican defeated for
a city office at the election.
FATHER PAYS BIG REWARD
For Young Son Who is Charged With
Murder of a Negro.
James Taylor, Jr., a well known
young man of Duquesne, a suburb of
Pittsburg, Pa., charged with the
der of a negro, was arrested in Mar
tinsburg, Taylor says W. he Va., shot Thursday. in «fense.
The young man s father offered a re¬
v,ard of 11,000 for the capture of
son.
ROOSEVELT IS FIRM
Stands Pat on Orders Dis¬
banding Colored Troops.
TAFT ADVISED BY CABLE
Secretary of War is Told to Cease Dal¬
lying in the Matter—Army Officers'
Report on the Brownsville
Affair Made Public.
The war department at Washington
issued the following statement Wed¬
nesday concerning the negro troops
ordered dismissed at Fort Reno;
“In the matter of the order discharg¬
ing the enlisted men of three compa¬
nies of the twenty-fifth infantry is¬
sued by the president, application was
presented to the secretary of war by
a large number of persons asking
a rehearing by the president on the
ground on which the action was taken.
The secretary telegraphed the presi¬
dent of the application and delayed^the
proceeding.? of the discharge until the
president could" indicate his desires.
The secretary was in the meantime
called out of town. No answer was
received from the president. The sec¬
retary on his return did not feel jus¬
tified in further delaying the execution
of the order of discharge, especially
in view of the fact that the secretary
then learned Hie president had fully
and exhaustively considered the argu¬
ment against the order of the persons
who now applied for a rehearing. Ac¬
cordingly, tbe secretary directed yes¬
terday (Tuesday) that the proceedings
for discharge be continued without
delay.”
Later in the day. Secretary Taft re¬
ceived a dispatch from President
Roosevelt and Issued the following
additional statement:
“A telegram was received from the
president at. 11 o’clock today aftor the
previous statement was given out at
the war department, in which lie dc
dined to suspend the discharge un¬
less there are new facts of such im¬
portance as to warrant cabling him.
He states that the action was taken
after due consideration, and that the
only matter to which he can pay heed
is the presentation of facts showing
the official reports to he In whole
or in part untrue, or clearly excul¬
pating some individual. If any such
facts later appear he can act as he
deems advisable, but thus far nothing
has been Introduced to warrant the
suspension of the order? and he di¬
rects that it bp executed.”
The investigation of the conduct of
the negro troops of companies B, C
and D twenty-fifth infantry, as re
ported upon by Major Blocksom, in¬
spector general’s department; Lieuten¬
ant Colonel Lovering, fourth infantry,
acting inspector general, and Briga¬
dier General Garlington, Inspector
general of the army, was made public
at the war department in a volume en
titled “The Affray at Brownsville,
Texas."
Major Blocksom declares that the af¬
fair was preconcerted, and both lie
and General Garlinglon exonerate the
officers from blame. General Garling
ton says it was evident from the first
that: the three companies had entered
into a compact to give no information
about the affair. Secretary Taft said
that, no steps will taken to make a
further investigation of the conduct
of the officers.
In his summary of the reports made
by the other officers and of ids own
efforts to discover the guilty soldiers
Brigadier General Garlington declares
that, every means of getting evidence
concerning the shooting was exhaust¬
ed. All the men of the three companies
were talked with individually on dif
ferent occasions, he says, and the dire
consequences of their lailure to give
up the guilty soldiers were pointed
out. All the soldiers avoided ques¬
tions and even refused to discuss the
events at Brownsville.
“The secretive nature of the race,
where crimes are charged to members
of their color is well known,” says
General Garlington.
“Under the conditions, seif-protec¬
tion or self-interest is the only lever
by which the casket of tlieir minds
can be pried open. Acting upon this
principle, the history and record of the
regiment to which they belong, the
part played by these old soldiers in
this record, were pointed out and en¬
larged upon. The odium and disgrace
to the battalion and its individual
members by this crime were indicated.
The future effect upon the individuals
and upon the battalion as a whole
was referred to; and, finally, the eon
corn of the president, of the United
States in tbe matter, his desire and
the desire of the war department to
separate the innocent from the guilty
were explained, but without effect.”
WALLS CRASH; THREE KILLED.
Big Building Collapses and Workmen
Are Crushed.
A dispatch from Rochester, N. Y.,
rays : The new emulsion building at
Kodak Park, Eastman Kodak Works,
roilapsed Wednesday mo;uing, and
three persons are reported killed.
Every ambulance in tbe city was
hurriedly called to the park, which is
four miles from the center of the city.
“ POST MORTEM LETTER’ I
Written by Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Is
Made Public and Creates a Stir
Among Daughters of Confederacy.
A private letter, written six years
ago, bv Mrs. Jefferson Davis, explain¬
ing why her husband, the president
of the Southern Confederacy, was
buried in Virginia instead of Missis
sippi, has. just been made public. The
letter, which was read in executive
session at the recent convention of
the Daughters of the Confederacy iD
Richmond, is caustic in some parts,
and induges in some tart criticisms of
•Mississippi's public men of the period
at which it was written, six years ago.
It says she preferred Beauvoir as the
resting place of her husband, but that
the grave there would not he invio¬
late, mid she could not afford $6,000
a year, the expense necessary to guard
it. She says that, while Louisiana and
Virginia were anxious to have the re¬
mains, Mississippi was #ilent until af¬
ter the body had been interred in Rich¬
mond, and then only a letter was writ¬
ten. The body was kept in New Or¬
leans .1 year pending the decision over
a final resting place. A leading Mis¬
sissippi Daughter will publish a reply
to Mrs. Davis
Not for many a day will the ladies
who attended the meetings of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
at Gulfport, Miss., the past week, for¬
get the reading there of the “post¬
mortem letter of Mrs. Jefferson Davis.’’
In this communication Mrs. Davis
sought to vindicate herself for the crit¬
icism of not having burled the remains
of Jefferson Davis in Mississippi, and,
among other things, she also attempt¬
ed an explanation of the motives
which prompted her to live in the
north. Mrs. Davis was particular!# se¬
vere in her comments on the attitude
of the Mississippi people toward her¬
self and her husband, and, although
she was sparing in her pleasant refer
ences to other southern states, she
praised Virginia in fervid rhetoric,
and was particularly tender in her ref
erences to Richmond. She had much
to say, too, by way of explaining her
continued residence in the north.
The communication undoubtedly
look everybody unawares. It. was of¬
fered by Mrs. A. M. C. Kimbrough,
of Richmond. Mrs. Cornelia Branch
Stone of Texas moved that the letter
be read, and her motion was second¬
ed by Mrs. Parker of New York, and
thus it came about the letter got be¬
fore the Gulfport meeting.
Mrs. Kimbiough, who offered the
"post mortem” letter, and her husband
wore intimate friends of Mrs. Davis.
FOR MURDER OF POLICEMAN
Chattanooga Negro is Doomed to
lows by Verdict of Jury.
Will Hurd, the negro who killed
Policeman T. O. Musgrove, in front
of a South Chattanooga saloon on No¬
vember l, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree at
Tuesday. Judge McReynolds of
criminal court will sentence him
hang. Much excitement was
by the killing of Musgrove, and
negro was taken to Knoxville for safe
keeping. The trial passed off
incident, and the jury, which was com¬
posed of leading Chattanoogans, re¬
turned a verdict within a short time.
JOYNER SUCCEEDS MclVER
As President of the North Carolina
State Normal College.
J. Y. Joyner of North Carolina, state
superintendent of public instruction,
was elected Tuesday by the board of
trustees president of the State Nor¬
mal and Industrial College to suc¬
ceed Dr. Charles D. Mclvcr, who died
September 17. Professor Joyner
clined to accept the position.
STEEL WORKERS GET RAISE.
Common Laborers of Giant Corpora¬
tion Have Wages Advanced.
E. H. Gary, chairman of the board
of directors of the united States Steel
Corporation, announced at New York
Friday that the wages of the common
labor in the plants of the subsidiary
companies of the United States Steel
Corporation would be increased 10
cents a day, beginning May 1 next.
The wages of day and turn labor would
o« adjusted accordingly.
SEEK TO BAR TILLMAN.
Chicago Negroes Appeal to Mayor to
Prevent Lecture.
Protest against the delivery of an
address in Chicago by Senator Benja¬
min Ryan Tillman was made Tuesday
to Mayor Dunne bv a delegation of
negroes of the city. They declared
that Senator Tillman’s speech would
destroy the harmony now existing in
the city among the negroes.
The mayor would not intimate what
action be would take, if any.
UP TO FACTORY OWNERS.
Cotton Mill Operatives Must Mave
More Pay or Strike.
The five unions of cotton mill oper¬
atives at Fall Fiver, Mass., at special
meetings held Thursday night, voted
by large majorities to reject an offer
of a 5 per cent advance in wages, and
to go out on strike next Monday morn
ing, unless the demand for 10 per
cent increase Is granted before that
time.
ADMITS HIS GUILT
O'd Jog Smith, Head of Mor¬
mon Church, Fined $300.
IS TOO MUCHLY MARRIED
Addresses the Court and Pleads for
Leniency—Case Was Made on Ad¬
vent of His Forty-Third on
List of Progeny.
At Salt Luke City, Utah, Friday,
Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mor¬
mon church, appeared in the district
court before Judge Ritchie, pleaded
guilty to a charge of having too many
wives, and a fine of $3Cfl was imposed.
The charge under which tlie Mor¬
mon prophet was arrested and fined
was based on the recent birth of Pres¬
ident smith's forty-third child, born to
his fifth wife.
Earlier in the day counsel for Smith
secured a transfer of the case from
the criminal division of that court,
where Judge Armstrong “presided, to
Judge Ritchie’s division.
After die non recess, when the eourt-
100 m was practically deserted, Smith
went before Judge Ritchie, offered his
plea and the fine was imposed.
The old man addressed the court. He
stated that his last marriage was in
1881. Ali his marriages, he said, were
entered into with the sanction of the
church, and, as they believed, with the
approval of the Lord. According to his
faith, and the law cf the church, they
were eternal in duration. He contin¬
ued:
“In the tacit general understanding
that was had in 1890 and the years
subsequent thereto, regarding what
were classed as the old cases of polyg¬
amy, I have appreciated the magnanim¬
ity of the American people in not en¬
forcing a pcBUy that in their minds
was unnecessarily harsh, but which as¬
signed the settlement of this difficult
problem to the onward progress of
time.
“Since lS'JO a very large percentage
of the polygamous families have ceas¬
ed to exist, until now the number with¬
in the jurisdiction of this court is very
small, and marriages in violation of
tile iaw have been and now are pro¬
hibited. In view of this situation,
which has fixed with certainty a re¬
sult that cannot be easily measured
up, the family relations in the old
cases of that time have been generally
left undisturbed. So far as my own
case is concerned, I, like others who
had entered into solemn religious ob¬
ligations, sought, to the best of my
ability, to comply with all require¬
ments pertaining to the trying position
in which we were placed. 1 have felt
secure in the protectioji of that mag¬
nanimous sentiment which was extbTfil
ed as an olive branch in 1890 and
subsequent years lo those old cases
of plural family relationships which
came within its purview, as did mine.
“When l aceptefi the manifesto is¬
sued by President Wilford Woodruff,
I did not understand that I would bo
expected to abandon and discard my
wives. Knowing the sacred covenants
and obligations which I had assumed
by reason of these marriages, I have
conscientiously tried to discharge the
responsibilities attending them without
being offensive to any one. I have
never flaunted my family relations be¬
fore the public, nor have I felt a
spirit of defiance against the law, but,
on the contrary, I have always desired
to be a law-abiding citizen. In con¬
sidering the trying position in which
I have been placed, I trust that your
honor will exercise such leniency, in
your sentence, as the law and jus¬
tice will permit.”
Judge Ritchie imposed the maximum
fine, but omitted the jail sentence, of
from one day to six months, which he
might have imposed under the Utah
statute.
SCHOOLBOY SHOOTS TEACHERS.
Because his teacher refused him per¬
mission to go hunting, James Dough¬
erty, Jr., 16 years old, shot and se¬
riously wounded Professor J. F. Koh¬
ler, principal, and Meade Snyder, his
assistant, in a school at Punxsutawney,
Pa. Professor Snyder’s condition is
critical.
WAIVED RIGHT TO TRIAL.
Fear of Lynching Leads Negro to En¬
ter Plea of Guilt.
At Center, Texas. Dick Garrett, the
negro who killed Mike Paul Saturday,
will be executed at once. After the
funeral Tuesday afternoon friends of
the murdered man were so wrought
up that, an attack on the jail was im¬
minent. The accused sent for District
Attorney Iniboden, waived all his legal
right and requested to be hanged im¬
mediately. Judge Davis agreed to take
up the ease, accept a plea of guilty,
pronounce sentence and let the exe¬
cution take place.
KILLED BY HIGHWAYMEN.
Night Clerk and Actor snot in Hold
Up Raid Made on Hotel.
At Arkansas City, Kars., early Fri¬
day morning, two masked men, in an
attempt to hold up the St. Charles
hotel, shot and instantly killed Wil¬
liam Goff, the night clerk; wounded
S. A. iialpin, an actor, so badly that
be died in a few hours afterwards. The
robbers made their escape.
BISHOP TIGERT DEAD.
Killed by Small Chicken Bone Which
Lodged in His Throat—Operation
Was Performed, But in Vain.
Bishop John J. Tigert of Louisville,
Ivy., died in Tulsa, Indian Territory,
early Wednesday morning after an ill¬
ness of ten days, aged 50 years.
Bishop Tigert was taken ill wniie
attending a church conference at
Atoka, but disregarded the advice of
his physic-tan to rest. He went to Tul¬
sa intending to open the conference
there on the 14th, but was compelled
o take to ivis bed. His illness was
caused by the lodgment of a piece
of chicken bone just below the ton¬
sils. This, combined with an operation
which was performed caused an in¬
flammation of ihe throat and resulted
in blood poisoning. It was first an¬
nounced that the trouble was tonsilitis.
The body of Bishop Tigert was em¬
balmed and placed in a casket in the
parlor of the Brady hotel, where a
last view was given to hundreds of
friends in Tulsa.
The casket was taken aboard the
St. Louis and San Francisco east
bound train Wednesday afternoon on
the way to 'Nashville. The news of
the bishop’s death was withheld from
Mrs. Tigert, who is suffering from
acute heart disease.
The dead bishop was a son of John
J. and Mary Ann Veghten Tigert of
Louisville, where he was born No¬
vember 25, 1S56. He was graduated
in the schools of Louisville and at
Vanderbilt university. He was grant¬
ed a license to preach in September,
1S75. From 1890 to 1S94 he was a pro¬
fessor at Vanderbilt university, and
in 1S91 lie was elected book editor,
a position held in southern Methodism
until he was elevated to the college
of bishops at the last session of the
general conference in Birmingham,
Ala., in May. 1906.
He married Miss Amelia McTyeire,
daughter of the late Bishop H. N. Mc¬
Tyeire, first president of Vanderbilt
university, The marriage was an
elopement affair. Bishop Tigert leaves
a wife and six children.
Bishop Tigert was regarded as one
of the ablest minds in southern Meth¬
odism.
Bishop Tigert's father was a Lou¬
isville contractor and the bishop him¬
self drove a wagon for years and in
this way earned enough money to ed¬
ucate himself.
PRESIDENT IN PORTO RICO.
Takes Trip in Auto and Makes Many
Speeches to Islanders.
President Roosevelt Wednesday jour¬
neyed in an automobile over the fam¬
ous military road from Ponce to San
Juan and was accorded an ovation by
the people ol Porto Rico. The eighty
mile trip was made in six hours and
thirty minutes, counting the time taken
up by stops at the principal towns
along the route, where the president
made short speeches to the people.
The president, in all his addresses,
dwelt upon the affection he held for
the people of Porto Rico and assured
them that he would use every effort
to secure citizenship for them.
President Roosevelt arrived at Ponce
Wednesday morning from Colon on
hoard the battleship Louisiana, He
was visited on hoard by Governor Win
throp, who extended a welcome to the
island. The president at once went
ashore and was greeted at the pier
by Mayor Oppenheimer of Ponce and
a delegation of prominent officials and
citizons. The town, which was pro¬
fusely decorated in the president's
honor, was crowded with people from
the surrounding country eager to greet
Mr. Roosevelt.
TRYING TO BLUFF TILLMAN.
Card Writer Says He Will Be Shot if
He Attempts to Lecture.
A postal card was received in Chi¬
cago Wednesday by the authorities,
threatening injury to Senator Tillman
of South Carolina if he persisted In
giving a lecture for the benefit of the
Chicago Union hospital. The threat on
the card was as follows;
“The Honorable Ben Tillman will
r.ot speak. If he doe3 he will be shot
by a mulatto who will go In the hall
unattended.”
WANT TO ISSUE MORTGAGE.
Stockholders of Macon, Dublin and Sa¬
vannah Called to Meet in Macon.
An official call for a meeting of the
stockholders of the Macon, Dublin and
Savannah railway in Macon on De¬
cember 2 was made Thursday by Sec¬
retary G. C. Smith of the company for
(he purpose of securing consent of the
owners to the creation of a mortgage
on all the’ property of the.company,
amounting to $1,880,000.
One of the chief purposes of the
company will be to get the line under
one obligation of indebtedness instead
of many.
NO WILL BY SHAFTER
Although Late General Left Property
Valued at $15,000.
Captain William H. McKittrick, son
in-law if tbe late General Shatter, has
filed, a petition in court at Bakers¬
field, Cal., for letters testamentary in
the estate of the deceased general.
The petition states that no will of
General Shatter has been found and
property valued at $15,000 is shown
to exist.
