The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-04
THE TIMES: RICHMOND. VA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 1901.
HEARD ABOUT THE
STATE OFFICES
A Pardon Granted by Governor
Tyler TO Young
Root.

Business was DISK ABOUT the state
offices yesterday.
.Agtorney-,enerhl Montague has COM
pleted the preparations OF his brief, in
answer TO the petition of Mr.. George b.
Wise for a new trial of a. c. Giiligan
The acknowledgements brief contains
fourteen pages of printed matter, and
undertakes in behalf of the State to meet
all the points brought out in MI. Wtse's
petition most of which are technical.
No day has been set for the hearing
of the case by the Supreme Court. but
it will come up some day during the
January term, which commences next
Tuesday.
Governor Tyler yesterday granted a
pardon to w. s. Root. a young man. who
was convicted in the Police Court of this
! CITY of carving concealed weapons and
sentenced to thirty days in Jail and fined
$50.
1t appeared that Root was intoxicated
on Christmas day, and Il pair of
! brass knucks We're found upon his person.
though he made no attempt to use them
The case against the young man is sad
TO have been Il very weak one.
Governor Tyler has been invited to at
tend the celebration of the seth anniver-
sarv of the battle of New Orleans. under
the auspices of the Ladies Hermitage AS
socation, at the Tulane Hotel, in Nash
Vile, Tenn, on Tuesday, January Sth
The Governor finds that his official en-
gagcments will be such as to prevent his
accepting the invitation
The Governor was busy with routine
matters in his office yesterday. DR.. Charles
V. Darlington, surgeon to the pentcntiary,
was Il caller on his IIxcellcncy.
Adiutant- General Male has returned
from his home in Culpepcr, where he
spent the holidays with his family and
was at his office in the Library building
Yesterday Gen. Nalle said the Hose-
Tyler Rifles, of Pulaski, and the Clifton
Forge Rifles. of Allegheny We're about
ready to be mustered into the service and
would be inspected in short time by Col
10 Lane Stern. When the two new COM
,,auies are mustered in, it will take only
five others to make up the quote OF lnfan-
try provided for in the new reorganization
bill passed by the last Legislature. There
arc now twenty-nue companies of lntan-
try in the service the two new companies
will make thirty-one. and the bill fixes
thirty-Six companies as the limit.
In authorizing the formation OF the re
maining five companies. the Governor and
the Acknowledgement will adhere to their
well-known policy of distributing them
among those sections of the State where
there are now no companies and where
they would be likely to prove OF most
value and service to the State. Ihe MIL
tary of the State is in fine shape and the
reorganization plan under which the au-
thoritics are proceeding has proved a
great success thus far;
The State Board of Education heid d
meeting yesterday and elected Mr.. Jared
J.. Jones Superintendent of Schools for
Highland county, to succeed the late b.
II. Hansel
The Register of the Land Office has SUB
| mitted his annual report to Audltor
Marye. Showing the transactions OF MS
office for the past fiscal year.
/ The Registrar now has file in his
office surveys awaiting grants, most OF
whiln will become due early in 1901, cover
ing Isl acres OF vacant land located IN
the counties of Smyth. Buchanan. l\lnS
W4E.am. Frederick. Highland Dickin-
SON. Accomac, Henrico and Roanoke. sur
| veys covering vacant lands when recelv-
ed by the Registrar are placed on ME
| and if at the end Of six months no
| caveat is entered. the survey IS recorded
| and a grant issued. recorded and forward
| ed to the grantee.