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MANYPARDONSGRANTED
New Parole Law is Put to Work
By Prison Commission.
- Applications of Hawkins, Harper and
Blasingame Were Held Over for
the Present.
Atlanta, Ga.<The prison commis
sion, in concluding its work
on the March pardon docket,
recommended many prisoners
for parole under the new law,which
requires that some person in good
monthly reports rezarding there con
duct to the commission for the period
of one year.
The commission passed over those
cases which have been most in the
public eye., No action was taken up
on the applications of John Biasing
ame, now serving a life sentence for
murder and for whom a wife and a
good job are waiting on his release
from penitentiary; of Fred Hawkins,
of Gainsville, serving a life sentence
for the muider of Henry Cagle; of
John Harper, under sentence of
death for the murder of the sheritf
of Murray county, and of Gordon
Bailey, of Macon, sentenced to the
chaingang for violating the prchibi
tion law,
It is said the commission may await
in the John Harper case, the efforts
of the Harper's attorneys to have the
conviction passed upon by the su
preme court of the United States.
The fcllowing pardons and paroles
were rccommended to the goveirnor
by the commission:
Artemus Bully, Fulton county, mur
der, life sentence, parole recommend
ed: Elijah Barnes Polk, murder, life,
commutation to present service; Lum
Bradley, Paulding, murder, life, pa
role; Felix Bell, Oglethorpe, murder,
life, parole; Mary Dillard, Fannin,
voluntary manslaughter, ten years,
pardon; Willis Clayton, Washington,
murder, life, parole; Matt Crawtord,
voluntary manslaughter, 5 years,
Greene county, parole; Harold Col
lins, Fulton, robbery, 10 years, parole;
Rich Fargason, Morgan, voluntary
‘manslaughter, ¢ years, parole; George
Gardner, Cobb, assault with intent L 0
"murder, 10 years, parole; Andy Hol
s lingsworth, Liberty, murder, life, pa
role; J. W. Hart, Chatham, burglary,
8 years, commutation to present ser
vice; Dan Lyon, Newton, murder, life,
parole; Arthur Richardson, Hall, bur
glary, 7 years, parole; Joe Reeves,
Haralson, attempt to murder, 2 years,
commutation to present service; Will
‘Richardson, Floyd, attempt to mur
der, 2 years, commutation to present
service; Sally Stokes, Dougherty, bur
glary, 18 years, parole; W. G. Thomp
son, Chatham, embezzlement, 7 years,
pardon; Will Tinsley, Terrell, volun
tary murder, 3 years, parole; Oliver
Wiicox Telfair, voluntary manslaugh
ter, 10 years, parole; Mary Washing
ton, Chatham, murder, life, parole ;
Henry Paschal, Columbia, attempt to
murder, 5 years, commutation to pres
ent service. .
In addition to the foregoing, the
commission+ considered and declined
applications for clemency in nearly
twice as many cases as those in
which favorable recommendations
were made.
GEORGIA’S INCOME AND EXPENSE.
State is Nearly $200,000 Short for
the Past Year.
Atlanta, Ga.—The annual report of
Comptroller General W. A. Wright,
shows some interesting facts regard
ing Georgia's income and expenses.
The total receipts for 1908 from all
sources were $5,388,273.16, as against
$4,813,764.83 for 1907. The disburse
ments for 1908 increased in even
greater ratio, being $5,570,295.51, as
compared with $4,797,469.59 for 1907.
The report shows that the 1908
session of the gemeral assembly cost
the state more than any other since
the constitutional limitation of 50 days
each year was created. The 1908
meetings, including the extra session,
cost $108,721.02. This does not include
approximately $5,000 as the legis
lature's share of the public printing
expenses.
While receipts from automobile
ta.xes(gnore than doubled, being $1,488
in 1903 as against $630 in 1907, there
was a falling off of S2OO in the tax
on bicycle agents. One item of $lO
returned anonymously through an
Augusta preacher is credited to the
conscience fund.
The general tax for 1908 was
$2,863,573.74, as against $2,478,227.97
for the preceding year. Graded oc
cupation taxes upon corporations in
creased $37,000 over 1907. The near
beer taxes paid into the treasury in
4908 were only $19,100, though the re
ceipts for 1909 from this source are
already more than SIOO,OOO. The
locker club tax paid the state $14,-
850 last year, more than half of
which came from Savannah. The
1908 poll tax netted $316,000, as
against $272,000 in 1907.
The railroad and other corporation
taxes (ad valorem) paid in 1908
amounted to $676,914.93, as against
nly $306,325.42 in 1907. This discrep
ncy is explained by the fact that
geveral railroads did not pay their
1907 taxes until Janpary, 1908.
Public schools and pensions consti
tute the chief itcins of state expense.
Pensions cost about $940,000 each
year. Public schools in 1908 were
paid $2,206,336.92, as against $1,667,-
M 475.95 in 1907, “Agricultural . schools
received $139,000 lash year, asagainst
¥ only $16,000 in 190MEEROther royine
ense«s'“ ncreasec bLU
jvely Jlaall L 1 O) b
STATE GLEANINGS.
Three veterinariaus in different
quarters of the state have been call
ed into service by the department of
agriculture, in the investigation of
suspicious cases developed during the
last tew weeks,
April Ist at sunrise is the time fix
ed by the prison commission in a cir
cular letter, for the delivery of state's
convicts to the counues, The letter
nas been directed to every county in
Georgia that will work convicts on
its roads under the new law, It con
tains a warning or two about the
greater caution that must be used lin
guarding the felony men, and some
suggestions about guns and transpor
tauon,
According to figures compiled from
the leports of tne raliroads of the
state by George F. Montgomery, rate
expert ofth e railroad commission,
the gross carnings of the roads tor
the nscal year ending June 30, 1908,
were $38,676,706.65; the operating ex
penses were $29,969,985.72; the net
carnings were $3,671,926.54; deficits,
$25,205.61, The gross earnings of the
roads fell off about $2,200,000, while
the net earnings decreased about
$155,000. The statement of the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1907, the year
before the panic, shows the follow
ing: Gross earnings, $40,727,877.45;
operating expenses, $32,052,750.87;
net earnings, $8,725,997.54; deficits,
$50,870.96. The railroads showing de
ficits are the Chattanooga Southern,
the Garbutt and Donovan Short Line,
the Lawrenceville branch, Lexington
Terminal, Macon and Birmingham,
Tallulah Falls railway and the Union
Point and White Plains.
Governor-elect Brown gave out the
following interview: “In my tour cf
the state, when I was at Darien and
through that section, I made one ob
gservation which appealed to me
strongly because I tound one indus
tiy which I thought should be taken
care of more assiduously than it has
been. I refer to the oyster industry.
You know that in Maryland and Vir
ginia those states have acquired
tracts, plant them and raise them,
can them and bring into the treasury
of the states a very substantial rev
enue. The objection to the private
ownership of oyster beds along our
coast from Savannah to Florida, is
that when oysters are planted by in
dividuals others come in during the
night and steal the oysters and there
is practically no protection to be had.
1 believe that if Ih2 state should ac
quire much cf this property the dep
redations would cease, it would give
employment (o many peole, and
would add quite a neat sum to the
revenues. Maryland and Virginia
have their own canning factories and
there is no reason why Georgia
should not have hers.”
Dr. John F. Dickey, president of
Emory college,, reports that $150,000
of the $500,004 endowment fund has
been raised, and the prospects were
never brighter for raising the add:-
tional amount,
According to Mrs. E. G. McCabe,
president of the Atlanta chapter of
the Daughters of the Confederacy,
a wrong idea has gone abroad regard
ing the stand taken by Atlanta to
wards the location of the Wirz monu
ment, as the result of the publication
of the action of council in passing a
resolution inviting the Daughters to
place the shaft in Atlanta and offer
ing a location for it. This has giveu
the impression that the Atlanta
Daughters were in the race for the
monument. Up to date they have
made no bid, and as this city is the
host of the Daughters for the coming
convention, Atlanta may not enter a
request. If, however, other cities ask
ing the honor should make so warm
a fight for it that a compromise would
be necessary, Atlanta would be more
than glad to get it.
The Gainesville Electric Railway
company was sold at public auction
to R. L. West of Atlanta who bid in
the property for SBO,OOO. Mr, West
represents certain trustees of the
pondholders. The property was bond
ed for $250,000, and is a splendid en
terprise.
Governcr-ele®t Joseph M. Brown
has deeded to the city of Marietta
five acres of land at the rear of his
house in that city to be used as a
public park. The tract will be im
proved by the city and amusements
opened. Mr. Brown was recently
elected chairman of the Cobb county
bhoard of education.
The railroad commission of Georgia
will urge in its 1909 report to the
legislature, it is understood, the en
actment of a law permitting railroads
and other corporations to put a cer
tain amount of water into their
‘stocks. This will be amplification of
a suggestion made in’'the commiss
ifon’s last annual report, in which it
said: “We would suggest that the
legislature define the basis of capital
ization of corporations in which the
commission is called upon to approve
the issues of stocks and bonds.”
The police reports of Columbus
show an increase of one hundred per
cent in the number of drunks for Feb
ruary over those of January, and the
fines in recorder’s court have increas
ed accordingly.
| Twenty liquor dealers who were
lfined by ' Recorder Schwarz of Savan
nah, a year ago, have not yet paid the
fines assessed against them and the
recorder has issued® a ukase in the
shape of commitment papers for the
delinquents. The fines, by agreement,
were allowed to go over from the
time they were assessed until the
supreme court should decide one of
the cases as a test. The defendant
lost out in November, but the fines
were not paid up. Pay or go to jail
ig the defendant’s alternative now..
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