The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-10
BOARD OF HEALTH
WILL HOLD ITS ORGANIZATION
MEETING IN ATLANTA.
WESTMoRELAND PRESIDENT
AND HARRIS SECRETARY Us THE
WAX THINGS POINT.

Attorney Oehefth helhtANe u the
Felony COnvicts Some Counties
Are to WOrl<-suicide In Grant
Parl-COmmissiOne stevens Gives
a Gloomy Outlook for Cotton in
GeOrgia-AtIant News.
Atlanta, Sept. 9.-The State Board of
Health will hold it's first meeting in
the Senate chamber here tomorrow. 1t
is expected that all of the members of
the board will be present, with the ex-
ception of DIR. w. w. owens of Sa-
vannah. DR.. Owens, however, has ac-
cepted the appointment, and has so no
titled the Governor by wire.
The principal features of to-morrow's
meeting will be the election of pres
ident and secretary. 1t is understood
Dr. Willis r. Westmoreland of Attain
ia, representating the Fifth congress
sional district. will be elected presi-
dent, and DR.. H F. Harris, a we'll
known bacteriologist of this city, a
professor In the Atlanta College of
Physicians and Surgeons. win be
chosen secretary at a salary of $4,000
a. year,
tkhrt's Ruling as to Convicta.
Attorney General John C. Hart rem
dered an opinion to-day, at the request
of the Prison Commission, which will
have an important bearing on the ed
ministration of the new convict law.
Under Judge Harris construction of the
new law and other state laws on the
subject, he says the felony eonvicts,
which are to be worked by certain
eounties on the roads, may, be, worked
M Conjunction with the inisdemeanor
pnvicts of such countess but that
Mey must be kept In separate quarters
during hours Of rest and conversation.
This puts on. the counties using fell
ony convicts the expense of building a
separate stoekade so as to keep the
bwo classes of convicts apart.
Judge Hart also holds that all the
guards and physicians for such felony
sconvicts AS are used by the counties
are to be-appointed by the Prison Conn
mission, and that body is to fix their
salaries, though such salaries are to
be paid by the counties
Any county SO desiring may take
I part of it's share of the felony convicts
and the balance in money for schoo
purposes.
BinfOrd shot Himself.
Edgar A. Binford. q years old son
of wealthy banker and broker of
| Greenfield, Ind, committed suicide in
| Grant Park at an early hour this
! morning by shooting himself through
the head with pistol His body was
! found in the park this morning about
! 6 o'clock by a laborer.
Before going to the park Binford
| went to the Piedmont Hotel and was
1 refused a room there because he an
nounced that he intended to kill him
| self.
He had been in Atlanta about a
year and half and was an agent for
the International Harvesting Machine
| Company. Binford was a Thirty-sec-
ond Degree Mason and a member of
the Mystic Shrine. He had been gloomy
and respondent of late, and it is said
had made two attempts to take his
own life before finally killing himself
Continued ill health seems to have
contributed to his dependency. He
was unmarried.
Cotton Crop Decidedly on.
Commissioner o. B. Stevens of the
| Department of Agriculture thinks the
! cotton crop is considerably worse off
! than appears from the recent report
| of the United States Department of
! Agriculture. Col. Stevens said to-day
THE government report gave cotton
at 81. and at that time from informal
! ton at the command of this office it
was not more than "a. Since then it
has fallen off several points more and
is now at II, 10 points below the re-
port issued by Secretary Wilson.
! From information received from the
! commissioners of other states and
through other sources 1t is my belief
| that the entire cotton crop will be
very short. 1t is possible to make as
much of crop this year as last, but
it is not probable that such will be the
case.
In North Georgia the crop is very
late. An early frost in that section
would cut it down to so per cent. of a
good crop. In Middle Georgia the
crop has been seriously damaged by
boil weeVils and other insects. and
| that, together with the extremely hot
and dry weather, has had an extreme
; ly deleterious effect upon it. The South
Georgia crop is fairly good compared
to last yeaV."
Georgia Farmers Congress.
State Senator Harvie Jordan of Mon
ticello called on Gov. Terrell to-day
for the purpose of discussing the work
| of the Georgia Farmers Congress
! which will be organized at Macon, Oct.
| 26. Senator Jordan said Georgia would
! send a strong delegation to the Ma
/ tionsl Farmers Congress, which meets
at Niagara Falls the latter part of this
| month. There is some talk of pushing
! Senator Jordan on the occasion for the
| presidency of that organization.
Denies She Is Married.
According to a report from Indian
| Springs, Butts county, Miss Vera Dos
! ter and T. II. Buttrill Of Jackson, Ga,
were married Sunday afternoon in the
| middle of one of the public roads lead
| ing out from the springs, Ordinary j.
| II. Ham officiating. Ordinary Ham de-
clares he performed the ceremony. The
young lady came to Atlanta, accom-
| panied by Mr.. Buttrill and girl
! friend, and here positively denied that
| she had ever been married.
| The case is surrounded by some mys-
! terry Miss Doster is one Of the wealth
lest young girls in the state, having
$500 900 worth OF property In her own
| right.
LunatIc Sues for $4,000.
James j. Johnson. q lunatic now In
/ the state asylum. has filed suit through
/ his next friend for $4,000 damages
| against the Southern Railway for IN
/ iuries sustained IN falling Of train
/ between Atlanta and Birmingham.
l johnson took the trip just after he
/ became mentally unbalanced.
Annnfa's FiFsf Bale.
The hrst bale Of new cotton came
| from Riper1ale and WAS sold here to-
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