The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-02-12
STATE GLEAKINGs.

AT the annual me6Ling OF the Ar
guSta Bar association Judge W. III.
Taft, president-elect, was elected an
honorary member for life. Inc same
action was taken regarding Justice
WI r. RuddeIl Of the kings court
Canada
The largest radish ever seen in
Bulloch county is now in the office
Of the Statesboro News. 1t was
brought there by James Riggs, living
en- r. r. D. NO. 4 from StatesbOrO.
Ire huge radish weighs eighteen
pounds and would fill peck meas
ure.
S. A.. Pinion, a veteran CT the civil
var in the union army, was granted
a pardon by Governor Hoke Smith,
after having served one year of Two
ear sentence in the state peniten-
tiary for cattle stealing. Evidence
was given that Pinions mind was un-
.ound at times. Congress recently
passed bill granting Pinion a
monthly pension Of $12.
In its new convict camp Chatham
county will eclipse anything else OF
the sort in the state If plans approx
ed by the county commissioners are
carried out. The camp is to be near
Peeler 1t is planned to care for one
hundred and fifty convicts. The coun-
TVS quota is about one hundred, but
| it hopes to obtain some OF the overs
The camp will be ready for the con-
victs ON April /, when the lease sys-
tenn ends. A stockade two hundred
by four hundred and fifty feet will be
built, fifteen feet high. Barbed wire
at the top of the fence will offer
further obstacle in the way of would
be escapes. The buildings will be
erected at cost of $4,000.
Suit for injunction was brought IN
the United States court at Atlanta by
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
to prevent the collection OF taxes Oh
Atlanta and West Point railroad de-
benture certificates, owned nominally
by the Central Of Georgia railroad.
An injunction is sought against
Comptroller General w. A. Wright
and against the Georgia Railroad and
Banking company, asking that the
first be restrained from taking steps
to collect the taxes and the latter
from paying them. The suit forestalis
the levying of an assessment and the
assurances Of fifas by the comptroller.
The amount involved is estimated III
the petition at $4,000, the alleged
back taxes being for the years 1889
to 1868, to the state OF Georgia, Ine
city of Augusta, county Of Richmond,
and the board of education OF Rich
mond.
Georgia postmasters appointed:
Chauncey, Dodge county, Ella G. Phil
lips, vice e. G.. Curry married; Low
ing, Fannin county, Willis Abercrom-
bic vice w. A. Ellis, resigned; Need
more, Wayne county, Israel Lanier,
vice G. B. Lewis, resigned; Omesa,
| Tiff county, Guy A. Cox, vice M. r.
Moore resigned; Seminole, Wilcox
county, James j. Fields, vice =. L..
Bohannon, resigned.
Thousands Of valuable books stored
in the basement of the state capltol
were discovered to be infected with
the genuine book worm-the Sltod-
rea panacea, as it is technically
known--and many Of these BOOKS
have been partially or wholly az
stroyed by its rayages. Just now
many of the volumes have been dam
aged and destroyed, it will be lmpos-
sible to tell until minute inspection
! has been made, but the destructive
insect has been found in the books uu
many of the shelves in the three
basement rooms where these books
are stored. There are kept IN lae
basement altogether some 10000 70
10000 volumes, including supreme
court reports of almost every issue,
some of them reprints Of early re-
norts dating back to the organization
! Of the court: state laws OF many leg
islatures, house and senate Journals
| and records Of all sorts, many OF
which have been in the possession OF
the state for half century.
Under the law, counties may put
in their reuuisitions for state convicts
At any time, but they will have TO
! take their chances and wait until the
commission is in a position to supply
them as the time fixed by the prison
commission for first reQuisition has
nassed The number OF counties on
/ the list. though some changes nave
been made, is still one hundred anu
two Two counties, Glascock and
Crawford have Withdrawn their re-
quests because the number OF con-
yicts which they would receive is CON
1 sidered two small to justify them IN
ne expense of maintaining gang.
Two more counties have been added
10 the list, Barlow, which will be en-
titled to seventeen or twenty-one, &C
eording to whether the white conVlcts
are nut on the roads or not, and COL
ouitt. which is likewise entitled 70
eleven 10 fourteen. Several coun-
lies which are entitled only TO q
small number of convicts have decld-
n to take them and turn them over