The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-29
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
STATE TROOPS INSPECTION
MAY COST THE SERVICE FOURTEEN
COMPANIES.

Four Companies Have Been Ordered
Disbanded, While Ten Others Have
Been Tut Under ProbatfOn-Those
ON Each List-JOke May Cost the
Clyde Line S2,O00-SOuth Georgia
Railroads Cutting Into Their Tax
Returns.
Atlanta, April 2S.-As a result OF
the inspection of the Georgia state
Troops. which has been in progress for
The last four months, and which will
be concluded with the inspection of the
Wayne County Cavalry Troop to-mor-
row, ten of the Georgia companies
have been put on probation and four
have been disbanded altogether. The
ten companies on probation are Com
pany c, First Regiment, Infantry,
Swainsboro: Company F, also Of the
First. Waycross Rifles; Company E Of
the Second Infantry, Hawkinsville
Company of the Third, Milledgeville;
Company A of the Fourth. Cuthbert;
Company l of the Fourth, Bainbridge;
Company G of the Fifth, Newman;
Company OF the Fourth, Rome; Com
pany E of the First Cavalry, Liberty
Guards, and the Chatham Artillery of
Savannah.
These companies were given from
thirty to sixty days to bring up their
condition to the standard required.
They will then be inspected again by
Col. w. G. Obear, inspector general of
state troops. and if they fail to make
the required showing, it is likely that
they will be ordered disbanded unless
some good reason is shown why they
should be given more time.
The four companies which have been
disbanded and required to return their
arms and equipment to the state are
Company Z. Third Infantry, Green's
boro; Company b, Third Infantry;
Irish Volunteers, Augusta; Company
c. First Battalion, Colored, Savannah,
and the Georgia Artillery, colored, sa-
vannah.
While tomorrow will complete the
inspection so far as the work of Maj.
F. H. French, of the Sixteenth United
States Infantry, is concerned, there is
still much ahead for Inspector General
Obear. Maj. French will make his re-
port to the War Department and that
document will be awaited with a great
deal of interest.
Col. Obear still has ahead of him the
inspection, or rather the re-inspection,
of the ten companies which failed to
pass and which were put on probation.
In addition to this, he will have the in
spection of the dozen military schools
of the state, each of which has state
property.
$4,000 suit Because of a Joke.
George w. Allen. formerly a passen-
ger agent with the West Point route,
to-day filed suit for $1,000 damages
against the Clye Steamship Line all
on account of what is said to have
been a practical joke. Allen says F.
B. Teahout, Southern representative of
the Clyde Line, bought a desk, fixed
him up an office, and had an announce
ment made in the newspapers that Mr.
Allen had been employed as travelling
freight agent for the Clyde Line. The
next day. when Allen went to the Of
flee for his job, he was told it was all
a joke. Because Of the joke which he
says interfered with his chances of
getting a position, he wants the COM
pany to pay him $4,000.
Roads Cut Down Returns.
Controller General w. A. Wright to-
day rejected the tax returns of three
railroad companies The Atlantic and
Birmingham, which absorbed the Tiff
ton and Northeastern and Triton,
Thomasville and Gulf since the last
returns were made, returned its total
franchises at Sl25,0O0 as against s246,-
600 last year. An increase was made in
the physical property. however. on ac-
count of new rolling stock. Controller
General Wright has demanded of Pres
ident Wadley that the franchise re-
turns be increased to the amount Civ
en- in last year as the result of arbi-
tration.
The Brunswick and Birmingham de-
creased it's franchise return from $780,
600 to $4,000. and the Wrightsville and
Tennille knocked $4,000 off its physi-
cal property returns.
The controller general has demanded
that both of the returns be restored to
what they were last year On account
of increased earnings, he says, the re-
turns this year should be even larger
than they were in 1908.
stevens Books show Up Well.
Maj. c. n. Garfield expert accoun-
tant in the employ of the Legislative
Investigating Committee, of which Hon.
Joe Hill Hall, of Bibbs, is chairman,
to-day completed his works on the books
of the Department of Agriculture. and
the department was ST. 3S ahead in its
accounts. Commissioner Stevens and
Assistant Commissioner Wright are
much gratified over the showing, which
covers a period of five years and the
handling of $365000.
want TO Continue work.
The Tennessee Copper Company, of
Ducktown, Tenn, wants to continue
it work with the present process of
roasting copper end sulphur ore Ia the
open air until it can install new ma
chinery, in spite of the agreement that
it would discontinue this process when
the suit brought by Georgia was dis
missed in the United States Supreme
Court. 1t is said a petition, signed by
1000 Georgians who have been thrown
out Of employment. will be sent to
Gov Terrell, asking this permission.
The mines were made to stop the open
air roasting because ii was destroy
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