The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-07
DIVERSION SCHEME
IS DEADLOCKED
Owners Refuse to Sell Land for
Appomattox Project
MAY BE CONDEMNED BY COURT
George w. Phillips Acquitted of Charges
Against Him-Manchester Water
Committee TO Inspect the
FiItering Plant.
fs,ecial Dispatch to The Times,

PETERSBURG, VA. August o.-The
oesire Of property holders to secure price:
far IN excess Of the value OF their lands
will retard many months the diversion
of the freshet water in Apponattox River.
Tho purpose OF the plan for which Con-
gross recently appropriated 100000 is to
carry the freshet water in Appomattox
River through the old channel. leaving the
new channel for navigation purposes
alone. and thus prevent any filling of the
channel from freshets.
The United States engineers. now In Pc
tersburg making plans and specifications,
dnd that about $50 acres of marsh lano
will be necessary to carry out the plans.
This land was formerly the OLD river
channel, and is now marsh that is
flooded by every tide. The engineers
have offered the owners s25 per acre ior
the land, and this offer was quickly re-
fused Should the government lave 10
Day what the owners ask for their lanus
the entire appropriation Will be taken up
in the purchase of land, and Congress
would have to make another appropria-
ton if the work is to go on. what
rteps Will be taken in the matter cannot
now be said
It is very likely. however. that the
1t is very likely that the United States
SOGll "l1A cioCt q
commission.
Miss Edith Pitcher, daughter OF DR.. and
Mrs. ]. NJ. Pitcher, Of Petersburg, is
extremely III with typhoid fever, at her
parents home, In this city. She is not
expected to live.
The Southern Female College IN Peters
burg, Professor A. x. Davis, president
has Just issued one Of tie handsomest
and most attractive catalogues Of the
season.
REGISTRARS To MEET.
The registrars in Petersburg will meet
in few days, and the board from each
ward will elect a chairman and secre-
tan-y, after which the chairman will agree
upon the time for the new registration.
The Manchester Water Committee will
visit Petersburg to inspect the filtering
plant in this city.
Mr.. Herbert P. Harrison has returned
from a trip to the New England States.
and Nova Scotia.
Mr.. II Y. Parham, deputy clerk of the
Corporation Court in Petersburg, is visit
ing in New York city.
Mr.. w. L. Prince, formerly of Sussex
county. but now of Richmond. spent last
night with friends in Petersburg.
Miss Helen Donnan. of Richmond. is
visiting her brother. Mr.. NJ. K. Dcnnan,
in Petersburg.
The Uniform Rank knights Of Pythias
will drill tonight.
GO TO SALT LAKE.
Messrs. r. L. Bowman, Fred Heine-
man and Charles Heneman will go to
Salt Lake CITY to attend the meeting of
the Grand Lodge of Elks. They will visit
the Pacific coast before their return to
Petersburg.
Mr.. Wallace Collier. who was seriously
injured in a street car accident last July
IS rapidly improving, and will soon leave
the hospital.
A force Of nearly O. hundred hands is
at work repairing the break to the trunk
Of the Upper Appomattox canal. The re-
pairs will be completed by the first of
next week.
A trolley ride from Petersburg to Rich
mond was given over the Richmond and
Petersburg Electric Railway last night.
The Second Baptist Church will give
sn excursion to Norfolk. Ocean View and
Virginia Beach Thursday, August 18th.
Massrs. Z. w. Alley, f. A. Talmage and
j. ]. Gardner are in charge.
Mrs. c. J. Cabaniss has returned to Pc
tersburg after a visit to her sister in
Norfolk.
Mrs Juliet Wyatt and daughter. Of
Richmond. are visiting in Petersburg.
Mr.. r. NJ Woody has returned from
Nova Scotia.
Rev. l.. w. Guyer. ot Petersburg, Is
assisting the pastor at a protracted meet
ing at Oakland Church in Dinwiddie
county.
The three councils of Junior Order
United American Mechanics and the two
councils of Daughters 81 Liberty held
picnic at Dinwiddie Courthouse to-day.
George ". Phillips. the young man
brought here to answer the charge Of
stealing money and tewerly from Mrs.
Jessie p Lambert, was acquitted in the
Mayors Court, the charge not being sus-
tanned.
DR. Preston Hay. who was brought to
his home in this city from williamsburg
last Saturday Ill with fever. is getting
on nicely.