The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-29
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
DODGE WAS TOO SLOW
COURT WOULDN'T DECLARE HIM A
BANKRUPT.

Now the Creditors in Atlanta of the
Former Southern Railway Con-
ductOr Intend to Get After Dodge
in New York-He Is Said to Have
Money and They Want What He
Owes Them-This Amounts to
$3,0S9.06-He showed no Assets.
Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 2S.-The time linn
1t, eighteen months, allowed in which
a voluntary bankrupt may bring his
assets into court. has just expired in
the case of Charles F., better known
as Pop Dodge, and the United States
Court here will refuse to discharge
him. Dodge, therefore, still owes his
Atlanta creditors. $3,69s.96, as admit
ted in his petition and some of them
are threatening to pursue him now
that he appears to have money as the
result of his embroglio in New York
Dodge put down his assets at $77S4
salary due by the Southern Railway,
as conductor, but it was found he had
drawn SAL of the amount, and as he
never paid it into court the discharge
could not be granted. Now that the
time limit has expired his petition is
out of court
Bankers and Cotton Men.
President Harvie Jordan of Month
cello, of the Southern Cotton Growers
Protective Association, has issued a
call for an interstate convention of
cotton growers to be held at New Or
leans, La. Jan. 24-26. Bankers all
over the South are invited to join in
this convention and to suggest finan-
fia with Gil
alton.
AT the same time at which this con-
vention is held, a convention of the
presidents and officers of the State
Bankers Association of the cotton
growing states of the South, will be
held in Atlanta under the call of w.
S. Witham. the well-known Georgia
banker to discuss the details of
plan for establishing system of bond
ed warehouses by which the cotton
crop may be held up pending a rise
in the market. Mr. Witham declares
his plan is perfectly feasible, and that
it can be carried out with the utmost
ease by the state banks of the South.
Says 1t Violates the Law.
Controller General william A.
Wright has written the Postmaster
General asking that a fraud order be
issued against the Hartford Insurance
from using the mails. This company,
by using a similar name and station
cry to that of a well known and re-
liable company, is alleged to be doing
business in Georgia in violation of law.
Depot Will he Open March L.
That Atlanta's new union passenger
depot will be open for business on
March l is the announcement President
j. w. English makes to-day. The de-
LII l. -
Railway, the Atlanta and West Point
and the Central of Georgia. President
Charles A. Wickersham of the West
Point will be chairman of the board
of control. and T. S. Noise general
superintendent of the Central, will be
a member of this board. ]. D. Patter-
son, a Southern Railway conductor,
will be made station master. The new
depot will be complete in every detail,
even to its bureau of information.
Tried the Laudanum Route.
has several times been arrested for
vagrancy and wife beating, and who
each time secured his liberty by the
intervention of his wife. made his
fourth attempt at suicide this morn
ing by swallowing a bottle of lauda-
mum, which was successfully pumped
from his stomach. The first time he
tried to butt his brains out in the DO
lice barracks AS Thornton was UNI
der promise of good behavior it is prob
able this escapade will land him in the
chang-gang.
Wasn't Robbers, but Drink.
D. Newton Curbow, the white man
who was said to have had his skull
crushed by highway robbers, died to-
day. At the inquest it developed that
Curbow, who was under the influence
of liquor, fell down a flight of steps,
receiving injuries which caused his
death. He did not regain conscious
ness