The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-15


80 buying the lumber from Dale, Dixon
. 4 Co. IF they ARE the cheapest, but every
body should have fair chance. -
II didn't know any other plan had ever
been pursued. " said Chairman Dale
Yes. " replied Mai Blandford, Il used
/ 20 make out a bill and submit il 10 all the
! lumber dealers. / purchased a bill OF
3 500 feet for the camp a few days ago.
] 81 think we should inquire around and
get it from the lowest bidder said Mr.
/ Carson, and the engineer was instructed
TO pursue that course.
ABOUT BLOWING DOWN TREES.
/ Mr.. Carson then read a report in regard
/ 10 the purchases of dynamite and the
uses to which it had been put. 1t was
shown that the dynamite used so far had
/ cost 1914 So and that ,634 trees, IL logs
/ and sos stumps had been cleared away
/ with it, which was cheaper than 10 could
/ have been done by lahorers.
| A petition for a public road thirty feet
/ wide to run from POoler to Meinhard, on
/ the South Bound railroad, from d. G.
/ Newton, II. H. Morgan, j. j. Haight and
/ others, was referred back to the petition
ers to be completed by putting in the
names of all the land owners through
/ which the road is to pass. The commits
sioners could take no action until it was
| known WHOSE property was to be crossed
/ by such a road.
A report from Inspector Desvergers of
the Citizens Sanitary Association, in re
gard TO a portion of the Ogeechee canal,
near the Telfair bridge, which has been
damned up and turned into pool of stag
nant water, and other pools of water in
the county, which are becoming nuisances,
was referred to the committee on drain
age
Is THERE AN F. @. AND P. ROAD}
A petition from J. f. Tucker, land
commissioner of the Florida Central and
| Peninsular railroad asking the right for
that road TO cross the Louisville, Bour-
quin, Ogeechee and Wild Horn roads in
Chatham county, was considered, and
during the discussion of it, Attorney
! Saussy said he didn't know that any such
road existed as the Florida Central and
Peninsular, as all suits brought by that
road had been brought in the name of the
Florida and Northern. He was of the
opinion that there was no such road in
Georgia as the Florida Central and PENN
suar
The commissioners, however, thought
it was all right, as the letter was written
on Florida Central and Peninsular paper,
and Mr. Tucker had signed himself as
land commissioner for that road. and
they ordered that the petition be granted,
but that the crossings were not to inter
fere with public traffic on the roads men
toned
William Allen gave notice that he in
tended to apply for a liquor license to sell
liquor on Hutchinsons Island and said
he had been told that the commissioners
had nothing to do with it. He did not
know whether 1t was so or not, but
wanted TO be informed in writing as to
whether they had Jurisdiction or not. The
petition was received as information. The
commissioners have practically stopped
granting liquor licenses, as the city has
jurisdiction two miles from the limits,
and the recent Smile law has practically
shut out saloons from any part of the
county.
Freid & Hicks, in answering a com
plant that the meals served to Jurors
were not trst-class, said they had never
before had any such complaints and that
some of the jurors were not satisfied with
anything. If the price was raised they
said they would put in few extras for
these particular jurors. The letter was
received as information.
CARPENTERS LIQUOR LICENSE.
A complaint from r. H. Clay, Paul
Haskell and j. B. Elliott of Bryan county
in regard to the saloon of B. Carpenter at
Sterling Bluff, on the Ogeechee river,
stated that they were among the nearest
residents to the place and they were not
there was one county school within less
than three miles of the place, and they
thought two. and they urged that the
license be withdrawn as the high license
in Bryan county practically prevented
liquor selling there, and a saloon so near
to Bryan county tended to render their
laws of no force.
The county attorney didn't think the
commissioners had the right to revoke
licenseiIf it had been illegally granted he
said, it was rendered invalid, and it was
a violation of law to sell liquor under it.
The proper course to pursue was to pre-
sent the case to the grand jury and have
Carpenter indicted for selling without a
license.
Mr.. Clay, who was present, said they
had applied to the commissioners to re-
woke the license, as they had no hard feel
ing against Carpenter and did not want
him indicted by the grand jury, as he
would certainly be fined for a violation of
the law. He was told that the matter
would be considered and that if the COM
missioners found that they had the au-
thority they would revoke the license if
it had been illegally granted; otherwise
he would have to apply to the grand jury.
Chairman Dale was authorized to APP
point committee to arrange for the
fence election on July 5.
An order was passed creating an emer-
| gency fund of 500 to pay the expenses of
detectives who have to go out of the city
! to capture criminals
ABOUT THE COUNTY MAP.
| Commissioner Charlton read a report
| from Engineer Blandford in regard to the
| expenses for the county map which have
| created a great deal OF talk Of late.
/ This report showed that out of
! SCI, 1856 05 which have been charged to
| the expenses Of county map up to March
! l, 1898, Sl3,2S0 was paid for surveys for
! projected canals roads, bridges, etc, in
/ the county, and that only Sl3lO5 O5 was
chargeable to county map proper. This
shows that the expense for county map
has not been half what it was thought
to be, as many other items were charged
to that account. The report was received
as information.
On a request from the board of educa-
ton for $4,000 TO pay the teachers their
| salaries for the summer, an order was
| passed providing for the issuing of prom
issory notes not to extend over six months,
and not TO exceed all told in any emer-
gency over One-tfth of per cent. of the
taxable property of the county, to pay
this and any other such items as neccs-
sity might call for
A bill from Sullivan's restaurant for
meals for committee from the
grand jury, who had duties out in the
country one day recently, amounting to
| 50 65 was ordered not paid