The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-29
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
PLANNING FOR THE BATTLE
RAILROAD COMMISSION GIVING AT
TORNEY GENERAL POINTS.

state Authorities VIII Do Their
Best to See That savannah and
other Cities Are Imposed Upon
and Forced to Submit to RuinOus
Freight Rates, While Atlanta
Reaps All the Advantnge-Pre-
pairing to Oppose the Injunction.
Atlanta, Sept. 2S.-The members of
the Railroad Commission are spending
their entire time now in conference
with Attorney General John c. Hart,
preparing to make answer to the in
junction suit of the railroads filed for
the purpose of preventing the estab-
lishment of the freight rates promul-
gated in Circular SO1.
The commission will contend that it
has full power to regulate rates in
Georgia, given it by legislative enact
ment, and that such power cannot be
questioned. This, it is thought, will be
the main question involved in the case.
Attorney General Hart, while decliu-
ing to discuss the case, said he would
be ready for the trial on Oct. 8.
Members of the commission are Civ
ing every assistance to the attorney
so that they will have all the facts
The Attorney General will be assisted
by Attorney w. A. Wimbish, who has
represented the Atlanta Freight Blu
reau in all it's fights before the COM
mission for lower rates.
Says Georgia Soldiers Robbed Him.
A citizen of Thoroughfare, Va, call
ed at the office of Adjt. Gen. S. w.
Harris to-day and claimed that he
should be paid damages for the depre-
dations committed upon his lands by
members of the Second Georgia Pro-
visional Regiment in the maneuvers at
Manassas. He said his fences had been
torn down, his crops destroyed and
his turkeys and chickens stolen. He
was referred to Col Clifford L. An
derson, who had command Of this regi-
ment.
Fired at n 1resphsser.
Mrs. ]. E. Gillespie was, fined s1O.75
in Police Court to-day for shooting
twice at a negro driver of 4 scavenger
cart because he walked across her
grass lawn. She said her pnly regret
was the bullets did not hita that next
time she would shoot at close range.
IO-Yenr-OId Beat His Way.
J. r. Cauble, Jr., the lO-year-old
school boy who ran away Monday, was
found to-day at Mt. Airy,i to which
place he beat his way on a freight
train. He said he ran away just be-
cause he got tired of going to school.
He was as glad to bet back home as
his parents We're to find him,
Negotiations Renewed.
President Milton II. Smith of the
Louisville and Nashville Railtoad was
here to-day IN conference with Mayor
Howell. as a result of which al was an
nounced that negotiations. looking to
the constructic. Of that roads extern
sive freight terminals and by the city of
the Washington street vladuc6, which
have been twice broken off, will be
resumed next Monday with probability
of "A successful issue.
Tech Term Has Opened.
The Georgia School Of Technology
opened the fan term to-day. There
are about $50 new students, many com
ing from New York. Massachusetts.
North Carolina, South Carolina. Ne
Draska, Kansas Missouri and other
states. and there is every indication
that the total enrolment viii run con-
eiderlblv beyond that OF last year.
There ia plenty of good athletic mate
rial and me football practice has az
ready begun under The direction oi
Coach hclaman.