The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-19
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
cENTRAL'S FORCE ARRESTED
WHILE TRYING TO LAY TRACK ON
DISPUTED PROPERTY.

Land Agent Pritchard, Roadmaster
CasteeI and Section Bosses TIM
mons and Landlord, with 1875 Ne
grOes, All Under Arrest - w. j.
OdelI Makes Atlanta aA 0Mer to
Put $5O,G0O i'm Race Track at
Piedmont Park
Atlanta, March 1&-R. L. Pritchard,
land agent, Section Bosses Timmons
and Landlord and Roadmaster Cas-
teel of the Central of Georgia, togeth-
er with about 125 negro laborers en-
ployed by the railroad, were arrested
to-day at East Point on warrants
charging them with unlawful tres
pass.
The arrests are the outcome of a
dispute of long standing between the
brothers and J. J. Eagan Company, as
TO the ownership of strip of land
about fifty feet wide and three-quar-
tiers of a mile long between the pres
ent tracks of the Central and the land
of the Couch brothers. To-day the rail-
way company sent a work train, with
large gang of negroes to East Point,
where they at once began taking up a
spur track, which ran into the factory
yard of the Couch Bros. Company.
No objection was made to the re-
moval of the track by the factory peo-
pie but shortly afterward, when the
laborers began laying ties and rails on
the property, which the Couch Bros.
Company claims 10 own, j. M. Couch,
president of the factory company, inn
mediately swore out warrants for the
workmen and their bosses, and every
one in the squad was placed under ar
rest. Shortly afterwards another
squad of laborers took up the work.
which their predecessors had been
forced to quit, with the same result.
Before Magistrate Thompson this
afternoon Mr.. Pritchard procured the
release of his men, but the matter will
run into somewhat more extensive liti-
cation before the dispute is finally de-
termined.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Association,
At the fifth annual session OF the
Medical Association of Georgia, which
will convene at Macon on April 20. q
Georgia anti-tuberculosis association
will be formed. 1t is altogether prob
able that the following well known
physicians will be elected as officers of
the association: President, DR.. Willis
+. Westmoreland of Atlanta: secre-
tary, DR.. George Brown of Atlanta.
Among the vice presidents will be DR..
Charles Hicks, Dublin; DR.. A. Mack,
Hawkinsville; DR.. A. p. Taylor. Thorn
asville; DIR. w. w. Owens, Savannah;
DR.. J. B. Morgan, Augusta; DR.. p. c..
Wiley, Sparta.
Snatched Her Purse.
While standing on the rear platform
of the noon vestibule train for New
York to-day, Mrs. ]. A. Dwyer of New
York city had her purse, containing S10C
in money, a handsome diamond ring
and gold watch, snatched from her belt
by a newsboy, who was lost in the
crowd before the alarm could be given
Mrs. Dwyer was standing in the OBJ
servation department of the car, witt
her purse suspended from her belt
when the newSboy boarded the step.
and asked If she wanted to buy "p u.
per-" AS she said mo-" the boy grab,
bed the suspended purse and dashed
from the train through the car she'd
and in an instant. was lost to sight.
Oden Makes an Offer.
W. j. Odell, of the Odell Commission
Company, has written letter to par
ties here agreeing to put $4,000 In tn,
entdrprise il the City Council viii
grant a permit for the building of I
mile track at Piedmont Park and
citizens of Atlanta will subscribe
like amount to guarantee their mora
support.
Chief w. r. Joyner of the fire de
partment, who is interested in tn
Piedmont Park grounds only as on
of the fair directors. said ne mos
emphatically favored the proposition
The fair association directors will TAX
the matter up and urge Council I,
grant the privilege asked.
Exhibit Is Moving.
The first carload of the Georgia ex
hibit at the Louisiana Purchase Elk
position at st. Louis left the city to
day. 1t comprised the greater par
of the mineral and part Of the for
estry exhibits prepared by State &c
ologist w. S. Yeates. State GeologIs
Yeates will leave in a few days 10
st. Louis 10 begin putting the exhibi
In shape. He is confident that tn
state will have as fine a show at 81
Louis as any Of the other states
though the difference in the appropri
ations for the purpose is very great.
BY Wagon From New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Harrison. a,
aged couple, arrived here this morn
ing In a one-horse wagon from New
York. They have been since Sent
Is, 1903. making the trip and hav
been preaching the gospel and sellint
potato peelers as a means Of livell
hood