The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-19
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
DECISION DOES NOT SAY
FOR HOW MANY YEARS ROAD
MUST PAY TAXES.

State officials, However, Think
That They Can Make the Georgia
Railroad Pay for at Least the Lost
Five Years-BeIieve 1t Possible
They May Collect for the, Last Eff
teen Years.
Atlanta, Nov. 1S.-The full text of
the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States in the case involving
the taxation OF the $1,000, 900 Western
of Alabama stock owned by the Geor-
gia Railroad. was received by Judge
Hart to-day.
1t does not indicate how far back
the state may go in collecting the
taxes, but there is absolutely no doubt
that they can be collected for the last
five years. The state officials think
taxes can be collected for the fun fif-
teen years during which the stock has
been held, because the statute of limi-
tations does not run against the state
in the matter of taxes The consti-
tuition of 1877 specifically says that no
citizen shall be allowed to vote I'M
less he has paid all taxes due the state
by him since the adoption of this con-
Etitution.
1t is considered that this principle
also applies to corporations. In this
event the Georgia Railroad owes the
state alone about SIP. 900.
Garner After That Divorce,
After a residence of six months at
WATERFOWL. S. D., famous for its d.
voree mill, ]. H. Garner. former local
freight agent of the Southern Rail-
way here, has entered suit for divorce
from his wife, who was Mrs Philip
Dodd, and with whom he lived for
only few months after the wedding.
But Garner, it appears, will not get
his divorce so easily as he expected,
for Mrs. Garner has decided to fight it.
At the time he left Atlanta she
claimed he took away with him con-
siderable amount of money which be-
longed to her. The case promises to
prove quite a sensational one.
owen Was Shot.
David Is. Owen, is years old, of this
city is near deaths door at the
Grady Hospital as the result of
wound from a pistol which was acct
dentally discharged. The accident oc-
Cured in a room in the Cannon House,
where Owen and two friends spent
the night. The two men, Herbert Tai
ley and Bert Spencer, are held by the
police, but there seems to be no
ground for suspecting them of being
responsible for the shooting. 1t is
said at the hospital that Owen cannot
live.
VIII Soon Begin Work.
Bishop Warren A. Gambler, of the
Methodist Church. announced to-day
that work would begin on the Wesley
Memorial Hospital on CORTLAND street
in this city. inside of sixty days This
is to be the twentieth century memo
rial to John Wesley. and will be the
only Methodist hospital in Georgia.
Methodists all over the South have
subscribed to the fund.
Regulars Left for st. Louis.
The Second and Third Battalions of
the Sixteenth Infantry, in command
of Col. Z. d. Price. left the city to-
day for st. Louis, where they will re-
main at the Exposition grounds as a
guard during the removal of exhibits.
After this duty they go to the Philip
pines.
smith Has a Complaint.
T. Cuvler Smith. who wants his
name changed to T. Smith Cuyler,
went to the German consulate here to-
day to make complaint about the SELF
ure of a lot of cotton plants which his
firm had sent to one of his customers
in Germany. on the ground that the
plants were infected with the boil vice.
vii. Mr.. Smith says the cotton was
cut in Fulton county, and the charge
that it had boil weevil is preposterous.
He was informed that he would have
to make his complaint through the
American ambassador at Berlin. He
left for Washington to-day to make
complaint through the State Depart
Jnent.