The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-20
NEWS OF ATLANTA
HAPPENINGS OF A DAY IN THE
CAPITAL CITY.
SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS
ARE THREATENED by COURTS AID
VERSE DECISION.

Judge GOber Has Declared Dis
trict Specially Constituted in Cobb
County to Be UncOnstitutiOnnI-It
Clashes with the General School
Lnw-DecisiOn May BE Applied to
other Special Districts-GOvernOr
Had to Hurry to Pay His Taxes in
Time.
Atlanta. Dec. 19.-Judge George f.
Gober of the Blue Ridge Circuit has
just decided that the act incorporat-
ing the Oliver Spring School District
in Cobb county is unconstitutional on
general school law and makes provis-
ions different from those contained in
the general law.
AS there are about $50 of these
specially Incorporated school districts
in the state, created under similar acts,
this decision will be of wide interest
and Importance. Many of the special
acts differ in terms from this one, but
it is said the same general complaint
may be made against all of them. If
the Supreme Court upholds this de-
cision, it may mean that the majority
of these special school districts will
have to give up their charters and go
back under county control.
In n Street Fight.
w. P. Hill, assistant city attorney
and Abe Fry, a well-known jeweler
engaged in a lively fisticuff to-day on
tho whitehall Straot vic duct Tho couca
of the affray was a civil suit, in which
Mr.. Fry was the defendant and Mr..
Hill was the attorney for the plaintiff.
Viaduct officer Meyers witnessed the
fight and separated the belligerents.
Cases were made in Police Court, and
the two gentlemen will be tried on
Monday morning.
Had Their own Copies.
Speaking of the complaint of Hon.
P. M. Halves of Ebert as to the ap-
pearince in the House Journal of a
speech by Mr.. Overstreet of Screven,
which reflected on him, Hon. John T.
Boifeuillet, clerk of the House, said to-
day:
"All that 1 care to say about the
matter at the present time is that
Mr.. Overstreet's speech about which
Mr.. Halves complains, was furnished
in a typewriter copy by Mr.. Over
street to the journal clerk of the
House, and it was duly Incorporated
in the House proceedings just as the
speech of Mr.. Halves was.
Mr.. Halves delivered to the journal
clerk a typewriter copy of his speech
and this was also printed. 1 am not
prepared to say that either Mr. Over
street or Mr.. Halves uttered upon the
floor of the House every word con-
tanned in typewriter copies of their
speeches"
Bonds Rise Rapidly.
The Atlanta 4 per cent bonds, which
were recently purchased by the firm
of Robinson & Humphries, at 800 80.
are now bringing $105.42, $4,000 worth
of them having been sold at that fig
ure to-day
Governor Forgot His Taxes,
Gov. Terrell was frightened this
morning and he saw signs, so he
thought, of the sheriff of Meriwether
county levying on his several farms
He had not paid his taxes, and if had
not occurred to him that to-day was
the last dnk in which he had to pay.
While in me office of Controller Cen
eral Wright this morning, discussing
the tax question, the fact that TODAY
was the last day was brought to light.
What" exclaimed the chief execu-
tive, to-day the last day! Why. I
haven't paid my taxes as yet and l
was about to let the time slip by"
The Governor left the controllers Of
fee and hurriedlv sent a telegram to
one of his friends in Greenville to call
on the tax collector and pay the proper
amount. Then, the Governor says, he
felt better.