The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-18
REPORT ON INSANE
is MADE TO THE GOVERNOR BY
THE ASYLUM'S HEAD.
1T COSTS 80 CENTS A DAY
TO MAINTAIN ONE OF THE UNFoR.
TUNATES.

Report Shows 2,716 Patients in the
observation-disclosures Army Officer
Detailed to Inspect the Georgia
Troops in Camp-MOney Must BE
Borrowed for the Expenses of the
Meeting of the Legislature-State
News Notes.
ATLANTA, June 1.-THE annual re-
port of the State Sanitarium at Mil
ledseville reached Gov. Terrell to-day.
The report covers only eight months,
owing to the earlier meeting of the
Legislature.
Since last September, according to
the report, $2O2, 122.S7 has been spent
on keeping up the institution. At this
rate the average cost of the 2,716 pa
tients there was 80 cents per day.
There is a total of 1877 white patients
in the asylum, 900 of these being males
and 977 females. There are 1886 coll
ored males, and $40 colored females.
Mills VIII Inspect Them.
Col. Stephen B. Mills, assistant in
spector general, U. S. A, who will In
spect the Georgia troops in camp, will
reach Atlanta Sunday night. He will
spend next week with the troops at
Griffin, and the following week at Au-
gusta Col. Mills is well known IN
Georgia, having mustered in the First
and Second Georgia regiments for the
Spanish war.
Thinks Himself CrOesus.
J.J. johnson of 80 East Fair street
was to-day adjudged insane in the
Court of Ordinary on the complaint OF
his family. Johnson's hallucination
is that he is very wealthy, owning
large quantities of diamonds and SoO'-
900 in cash, and he has been endeavor-
ing to act accordingly.
Stnte VIII Have to SORROW.
Gov. Terrell was at the Capitol
again to-day, having returned from
Athens, where he went to attend the
meeting of the trustees of the State
University. Gov. Terrell says it will
be necessary for him to borrow $4,000
in the name of the state within the
next few days for the purpose of pay
ing the expenses of the Legislature.
The meeting of the General Assembly
so much earlier in the year finds the
state without the necessary funds
with which to pay the mileage and
per diem of the Solons. The amount
needed will be borrowed from two At
lanta banks at a comparatively low
rate of interest.
Commencement at the Tech.
The annual commencement exercises
of the Georgia School of Technology
will take place tomorrow after
most successful year. The literary ex-
ercises will take place at the Grand
Opera House, when diplomas will be
delivered to forty-one graduates. by
Chancellor Walter B. Hill. The an
nual address will be delivered by Con-
gresham j. M. Griggs of the Second
District.
Tomorrow morning the shops and
glass rooms at the school will be open
for the inspection of the public. The
annual alumni banquet will take place
tomorrow night at the Piedmont Ho-
tel.
True Bill Against Sims.
The grand jury. to-day found a true
bill against G.. H. Sims, the defaulting
collection clerk of the Capitol City Ma
tionaI Bank, charging him with the
embezzlement of $4,000 from that in
stitution, when it was the Capitol City
Bank, and before it became National
Bank The date of the alleged embez-
element was July 10, 1900, so the statute
of limitations does not yet apply.
1t is the intention of the stockholders
of the institution which he robbed to
arrest him at once on the expiration of
his sentence of six years in the federal
prison, and to try him in the state
court on the indictment found to-day.
Runs Up the Valuation.
Controller General w. A. Wright has
notified the officials of the Georgia Rail
way and Electric Company of this city
that he will probably assess the prop
erty of that company at $4,50O,O0O, in
GLIDING the value of the franchise. This
company returned it's whole property
at a little more than $1,50O000.
Strained at the Prison.
Congressman Livingston is authority
for the statement that things are in
an awful mess at the federal prison,
and that there will probably be an Of
fetal investigation soon. 1t seems there
is considerable jealousy between War
den A. S. Hawk and Deputy Warden
Bradford Dawson. 1t is claimed Daw
son wants Hawks job. and is trying
10 GUST him, while Hawk wants Record
Clerk Nye appointed deputy warden in
Dawson's place.
Warden Hawk expressed much sur
prised when asked about the reports
to-day, saying he had heard nothing
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