The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-06
THINKS FRUIT
WAS NOT HURT
COLD WEATHER HELPED IT.
THAT Is THE VIEW OF COMMITS
SIONER STEVENS.

By Retarding the Peaches and other
Fruit the Agricultural Commits
siOner Considers That the Pre-
willing Cold Has Bettered the
Prospects for n Fruit CrOp-Gov-
ernOr Is Called Upon to Name TOO
Delegates to the Sugar Cane Con-
ventiOn.
Atlanta, March 5.-"There is no
doubt about the fact that this wealth.
er insures a good peach and fruit
crop" said Hon. o. B. Stevens, COM
missioner of agriculture, to-day THE
weather is just cold enough to keep
back the buds without doing them
any material damage, and the chances
are very much in favor of it's tiding
them over so that there will be no
further danger from freeze. Fruit
men 1 have seen are very much elated
over it, and they all think there are
prospects of big crop"
Gov. Terrell has been requested to
appoint about 700 delegates from
Georgia to the coming interstate sugar
NHAA| NOAAN " NC llGlO dL OdCh-
sonville, Fla, May to 6. He received
a letter to-day from President D. G.
Purse asking him to appoint five dele
gates from each county in the state,
as was done last year when the con-
vention was held at Macon. The Gov
ernor will make the appointments the
latter part of this month or by April 1.
Tax Digests Ready.
All the tax digests for the year 1904
were delivered to-day to the Southern
Express Company, along with tax re-
turn blanks and instructions to tax re-
ceivers. These digests should all be
delivered to the receivers of tax re-
turns the first of next week.
Attention is called to the fact that
all tax values returned must be as they
stood on Feb. last.
Vine1ilIe Case Carried Up.
The famous Vineville case, that has
been the subject of much legislation
and litigation, is now going to the
United States Supreme Court. The
last session of the Legislature passed
a bill Incorporating Vineville as part
of Macon. The Superior Court and the
State Supreme Court both refused an
injunction to prevent the collection of
taxes from the new territory by the
city of Macon. To-day John r. Cooper
of Macon, representing J. w. Toney
and other citizens of Vineville, secured
the approval of Chief Justice 7. j. Sim
mons to a writ of error in the case
and will take it at once to the Supreme
Court of the United States on the
ground that the act violates the United
States constitution in that it provides
for no representation for the new ter
ritory, and because it is class legisla-
ton, forever prohibiting the sale Of
liquor in Vineville, while the sale is
allowed in Macon.
Fixes "a 800 License.
The Ordinance Committee has rec
commended favorably, and the City
Council will probably pass on Mon
day, an ordinance imposing a license
using trading stamps in their business.
Boy Was Branded.
While before the Recorder on a
charge of vagrancy, Gus Ivey, a ne
gro boy, to-day stated that because
he stole a ride on a Seaboard Air Line
train a brakeman and fiagman brand
ed his head with a red-hot iron. A
long, gaping wound on his forehead
supported his statement. He could
give no names of those responsible for
the outrage.
Says It's Cobb's Time.
d. w. Blair, law partner of Senator
Clay, who is a candidate for state
senator from the Thirty-fifth district,
in an interview to-day declared it is
Cobbs time for the senator, because
the resolutions mention Cobb before
Clayton in providing for the new sys-
tenn of rotation. The fight will only
be settled at the polls, it now appears.
OdeI Sues Jones.
The Odell Company of Cincinnati
filed in the City Court suit of $1,000
against j. S. Jones, local manager of
the Odell Company here. The petit
ton alleges that the Odell Company
loaned Mr.. Jones $1,000. in considera-
ton of which he was to give them all
of his brokerage business. This, the
company claims Mr.. Jones failed to do.