The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

it became known that the Wimberly place was the one selected. There has been no meeting of the commission this week, Gen. Clement A. Evans being the only member in the city and he has been engaged in other work.
 The indications are that the com mission will on Monday when Govern or Smith returns from New York, simp- ly send back to him its same recom- mendation regarding the Wimberly place. It will then be up to the gov ernor to approve it or disapprove It as it stands. The general feeling Is that the governor has just been trying to get a little bit more for the state than the prison commission was able to get.
 If the governor determines to stand pat and not approve the Wimberly farm as recommended the result will be that no farm will be chosen at this time and probably not before fall.
 This will mean that the 300 or more white convicts of the state will have to be distributed temporarily at least upon the public roads, thing which the commission had determined not to do There Is no other disposition that can be made of them until the farm has been purchased.
 The commission would regret the ne- cessity for this, member of that body stated, but the board feels that under It's oath it has done the best 1t possi- bly, could do for the state, and does not feel that with the evidence in hand it's selection could be improved upon'
 Child Labor Convention. Governor Smith has appointed 20 delegates, fully half of them from At lanta, to the convention which will be held in New Orleans May 29, 30 and 31, for the purpose of considering and recommending uniform legislation with regard to child labor. The delegates named are all deeply interested in the subject and 1t is believed that ma jority of them will attend the conyen- tion as representatives from this state. Those named from Georgia are Dr. A. J. McKelway of Atlanta, Mark Bold ing of Atlanta, James Wylding of Way cross, L. c. Vaudeville of Carrollton, Seaton Grantland of Griffin, Barry Wright of Rome, ". A. Covington of Moultrie, W. S. Witham of Atlanta, Ed L. Sutton of Atlanta, Dan w. Green of Atlanta, L. J. Kilburn of Macon, Will liam Robinson of Atlanta, Jerome Jones of Atlanta, Wade P. Harding of At lanta, Clarence Ashley of Atlanta, Will liam Strauss of Atlanta, Mrs. Sam D. Jones of Atlanta, Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb of Athens and Mrs. William Robinson of Atlanta.
 Land Grants.
 Although it is century and a quarter ago that Georgia instituted the prac- tice of granting land under headright laws there is still considerable ungrant- ed and unclaimed land in the state as is evidenced by find made every now and then, which results in claim and grant from the office of the secretary of state. This unclaimed land is chiefly in the coast counties of the state, the older Georgia counties. There Is no unclaimed land In the counties established in com paratively recent years.
 But the same laws which were passed more than 100 years ago relative to grants of land are applicable today. They are all right If anybody can find the land The state has no record of unclaimed land. and to get it a person l must find 1t himself.
 A recent instance shows how these finds sometimes come about. J. D. Orley of Camden county has been aware for soIne time of a little plot of 151a acres, triangular in shape, lying between his land line and the lines of two of his neighbors. Nobody claimed it and no owner could be found. So MT. Orley took out headright grant. applying to the ordinary who made out his papers and forwarded them to the secretary of state, who issued the deed. For this service the state charges fees 1 of $4.25 where the amount of land l claimed is less than 100 acres and $6.50 where it is more than 100 acres. Some 1 10 or 15 of these grants are made every year, varying in size from few acres l up to a couple of hundred Sometimes it is splendid farm land and again it Is only marsh and swamp, but whatever it | is, 1t is generally worth the price that | is paid the state for It.
 Prison Commission. Judge Strickland of Griffin. report has i it, is informing his friends that he pro- l poses to run for prison commissioner in | 1910 to succeed Chairman Joseph s. Fur l ner of the prison commission. | MT. Strickland ran against Judge Tur- 1 ner four years ago and was beaten, but it is pretty we'll understood that the chairman of the commission will not again | be in the running. He had determined l long ago. it is reported, to retire from the l commission with the end of his present 1 term and his friends understand this is i his purpose, though he has made no pub lie announcement of his intentions, and 1t l is not likely he will do so for sometime ] to come.
 Judge Turner's retirement. it Is ex- pected will bring a>number of candidates into the field, among them Capt R. H. l Milledge of DeKalb, Jesse Mercer of Ben | Hill and R. E. Davison of Greene All of these were candidates for the position on the commission of Thomas Eason, who | did not offer for the nomination last time. This place, as is well known, went to | Capt Wiley Williams of Columbus, who is making a splendid commissioner. MT.
 Strickland was not in that race, but pro- | to ha fyyO
 MT. Davison came second in the race
 last year, and rather than undergo the
 trouble and expense of second primary
 he withdrew and let the nomination go to
 Captain Williams who received the
 largest vote, though not majority.
 Judge Turner's friends say he could
 be reelected easily if he would run, but
 there is little question that he has made ] up his mind to stay out of it.