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Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13
SELMA.
Sudden Death of John Jeffries at Coden Shocks His Many Friends There
 as Well as In Birmingham.

Selma, July 10.-(Spec.al Correspond ence.)-Like wild-fre, the sad news of John Jeffries' sudden taking off spread over Selma, and on every lip were ex- pressions of sorrow at the shock that had been felt.
 Early in the morning MT. L. E. Jsf- fries received a message from Mr. R. ap. c. Jones, of Coden, ating his brother John was very i'll, and to come at once. He left on the S;05 t. ain- Shortly after ward another message came, airing that John had died at 1 a. m. Saturday. This latter message was repeated to. Mir. l.. K. Jeffries while he was on he train en route to his brothers bedside.
 Up to noon no particulars of the sudden death of the popular young Selman had been received, and nc, until a dispatch was received in reply to a request for tn !, particulars were the incidents connected with his dea h known.
 "Coden. Ala. July 10.-Joha Jeffries was taken sick Thursday, July g. at Il o'clock a. m. He died this morning at 1 o'clock He received all aid human skill could give. ROGER Alp. c. JONES'"
 John M. Jeffr.es was a young man. a little over 30 years old. He was model young man, a member of the Dallas Bar associa tion and was for two terms city solicitor. He was a Knight of Pythias, a member of Justice Lodge No. 70.
 The remains will be carried to Union- town on a special rain tomorrow morn- ing for initerment The Dallas County bar and large number of friends will accompany the remains.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

form and making them an issue in the state canvass The voters have a right to know his views on the subject
 When the proper time comes. if he deems 1t necessary. Gov. Johnston will let the voters Know his views on the subject" In the meantime, he denies the right of the Montgomery morning paper, which assisted in the election of McKin- lsy and the d feat of tha democratic nom inee for president, and is now en- gagged in fighting the democratic state administration, to advise him as to his duty to his party or his people
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13
GnoRGIANs IN THE METROPOLIS.

New York July 12.-One hundred Geor- gians, men and women. arrived here to- day on the steamer Kansas City of the Savannah line. They are here partly on business and partly on pleasurs, and will them will then return home. whle others will go on to Toronto, or to various sea- side or mountain resorts Most of ghe members of the party come from Au- gusia.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

con at Windsor on Saturday when they were received by the queen and presented to her majesty their commissions as special envoys
 The reception was entirely formal
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

The editor of the Selma Times could af- ford to run for something He is so pop ular. He has been invited to and has eaten up five barbecues and was. at last accounts, eating up the sixth. This is good July record The Times has not been able as yet to place his molars upon any cue at all.-Eufaula Times.
 The Times man has doubtless been spending too much time on College Hill posing to get his carriage in condition for governor. We would suggest to the Times editor, by way of friendly advice, that the attendance upon one barbecue with the good old horny-handed sons of toil. be they mechanics, farmers, mer- chants or professional men, will go far ther towards making a man an office holder than a years practice to appear learned and great by gazing at the stars and committing with ones self.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

Quite a number of republicans from va Tious ssettors of the state were in the city yesterday to meet Mr Youngblo d who was expected to be here. The Ala bama pie dispenser did not show ID and rumor has 1t he will be here today. How ever. according to an East Alabama pa per he returned to Washington last Fri day. Surely the colonsl is rot dodg.ng his c7nsttt1euts
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

This is rather an unkind cut from the Caosa Advocate:
 The Montgomery Advertiser and the Anniston Hot Blast are trying to mix. To an observer it looks little like oil and water"
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

New enterprises are sprlnging up ev- cry day. The capital stock of the Im- proved Implement works has just jump cd up to $2O0 00O.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13
WITH THE STATE EDITORS.
LARGE CROPS.

The farmers now say that there will be large crops made this year, If present. indications hold good. The recent rains have changed the tune.-Troy Journal.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

Despite the hot and dry weather re- ports from over the state say the crops are good. Farmers have learned to plant dsep and rain is not needed every week CT even every two weeks to make a fair ciron
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

Don't take anything "just as good" In sist upon having Hoods Sarsapariila.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

The Montgomery Journal makes the following apt reply to its morning con- temporary
 The Montgomery morning paper rises to say:
 'In getting ready for the campaign next year, the governor should tell us whether or not he is in favor of reopening and re- affirming the issues of the Chicago plat
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13

MT Jeffries was we'll and favora.bly known in this city, where he had many warm personal friends. He was a broth- er-in-law of Misses Net;ie and Leila An dsrson, of this city, having married their sister, Miss Mabel Anderson
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13
OUR LETTER BOX.

No communication will be published un- der this head unless signed by the author Editor.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-13
BIRMINGHAM STATE HERALD
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 THE STATE HERALD.
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The Florence Standard Journal can ex- press sentiment that is as clear as a crystal sometimes and sticks like a. porous plaster. There is not a genuine old-School democrat in America who will take issue with the Standard Journal on the following, and the same is acknow1- edged to be fact by the thoughtful and conservative members of the opposing parties:
 ''The Cleveland idolators say history will place .he name of Grover Cleveland alongside those of Washington and Jef- ferson. which is about as absurd as to class Judas Iscariot with the Apostle Paul"
The herald., 1897-02-16
PRINTING AND PLUMBER

The governor in his veto of the state
printing office rake-off put the facts very
plainly before the legislature and before
the people. The office is run wastefully
1t is run contrary to law in that an i'm
mense deficiency has been created. The
only lawful way for any officer to incur
obligations contrary to and beyond leg
islative appropriation is by the consent
of the state board of examiners. The
object of this provision is that while an
unforeseen crisis is thus provided for, no
stealing will be allowed. The state
printer has refused and still refuses to
ask the state board of examiners for any
authority for his excesses. No one has
examined his Office. By his own state
ment over $4,000 are unaccounted for.
The work he has done has been far more
costly than similar work anywhere else
The herald., 1897-02-16
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1897.
AS TO THAT ORANGE BLIGHT

The Herald has secured from its cor
respondents in the citrus belt reports as
to the newly discovered, disease affecting
oranges and lemons. Many growers in
various localities have been interviewed,
and the general tenor of the reports is
that something of the kind has been
noticed but that it has not spread to any
alarming extent, nor has it done great
damage to the crop. The report pub
lished originally in San Francisco and
originally given out by the agricultural
department of the state university is
unquestionably exaggerated. 1t comes
from a source which should prove itself
reliable at all times, and should be es-
pecially cautious about giving out dam
aging reports concerning important in
dustres of the state. Whatever the
evil may be-whether new fungus bent
on destruction or a transient blemish
due to climatic cause.-the orange
growers are perfectly willing to face
the situation. All we want is the truth
in the premises. We have met fruit
pests hitherto and have conquered
them.
The herald., 1897-02-16
CHANGING STREET NAMF S

The city council yesterday appointed
special committee of three of its mem
bers to act in conjunction with the com
missioners appointed to revise and
change street names, in order to get
something like order out of the existfrg
chaos in street nomenclature. This
commission, after six weeks hard work
formulated an ordinance which passed
the council, but which was vetoed NV
the mayor, owing to the numerous pro-
tests presented The joint committee
of the council and the commissioners
will meet Thursday morning at 10 o'clock
in the mayors office and endeavor to
agree on satisfactory ordinance. and
all property owners and citizens are
invited to appear and present their OBJ
jections to the ordinance as prepared
by the commission. 1t is sincerely to
be hoped that the committee will be met
IN fair spirit by the citizens who think
The herald., 1897-02-16

| In the state would be. The service is
crowded with politicians and friends Of
politicians. Prices paid for supplies
have been much higher than the prices
paid for similar articles by other public
departments. All this is known and ad-
mitted by the legislature without an in
vestigation or expert examination. The
state printer has confirmed the charges
that his force was determined by po-
litical and not by business reasons. He
has himself shown his force to be ex-
cessive. He has recently discharged
twenty-four men and women employees
who had been appointed on the recon-
mended by the assemblymen would be
to sustain the veto of the $4,000 appro-
prfation The employees were sent to
the assemblymen with the message that
the places and salaries held under the
state printer by the employees recon-
mended by the assemblymen would be
vacated and cut off if the assemblymen
did not vote for the full illegal deficien-
cy appropriation and the new appropria-
tion for state printing on the state
printers estimate. He dismissed these
twenty-four employees not because he
did not need them, but because their as
sembly friends did not vote to suit him.
he has appointed many of his subordi-
mates upon the recommendation of as
semblymen to control the assembly,
mems vote. He violated the law and
relies on the patronage bait and bribe
to hold the legislature to condone his
excesses, forgive his waste, overlook the
fifty odd thousand shortage that is not
accounted for He still holds the pat
ronage as a whip to bring the legisla-
ture into line in a crisis.
The effrontery of the business is as
founding. The power of the patronage
brbe is. however, tremendous. One
Republican party caucus after another
has fought for and nearly united a solid
party front to force the unlawful and
wasteful extravaganza of the state
printer through to cover by mantle of
$4,000. All but one of our Los Angeles
delegation voted for this state printer
appropriation. We presume that they
did so from party pressure or reasons
growing out of political patronage. The
one honorable exception was the one
Democrat in the delegation, William
Mead, of this city. This assemblyman
has been standing up true to the peo-
pie all the time. Whatever defects or
drawbacks there may be to civil ser
vice rules for subordinate place in the
political service, the monster scandals
growing out of political patronage un-
der the present legislature double dis
count them. 1t is clear that this de-
moralizing element of public life, this
treatment of office as so much party or
personal plunder must be cured.
The herald., 1897-02-16
REMOVE THE ISEASE.BREED.
ERS

The oil fields of Los Angeles threaten
the health of all the people. The wells,
with their attending sinkholes and
sumps, outrage all laws of hygiene and
sanitation, and there is no doubt at ali
that very much of the malarial and ty-
phoid forms of disease which have af-
flicted the community of late years had
their origin in the oil district.
Pools and basins of decomposing mol
1usk oil abound everywhere in the fields
and foul debris is scattered everywhere
mosphere. The only wonder is that the
people have permitted this thing to go
on SO long, knowing that when the
winds sweep the oil district they carry
microbes to every nook and corner of the
city
Now that The Herald has thoroughly
exposed this hot-bed of disease, and has
shown conclusively how it is undermn-
ing the health of the whole community, it
is sincerely to be hoped that public SEN
timent will strongly condemn further
dilly-dallying with this great danger
Let further boring within the city linn
dts be prohibited. Let the sump holes
and refuse dumps be abolished, like
other nuisances. Let us clean up and
1put the house in order before the COM
iHpC of Supornar
The herald., 1897-02-16
NO NEW STREET CAR LINES

A bill is now pending in the state leg
islature that will shut out all further
street car franchises in both Los Angeles
and San Francisco. San Francisco has
sent the legislature a protest against
the bill Its reform and civic societies,
as we'll as the officials, have taken
strong action against the bill. A dele
cation headed by Mayor Phelan has Wis
tied Sacramento to prevent the passage
of the bill as being fatal to the building
of any new street car line, suburban or
otherwise, in San Francisco.
Los Angeles has done nothing as yet
in the matter although just as much in
terested 1t is admitted that the bill
was drawn by the large Los Angeles
their interest to prevent new lines from
being built here by any one. 1t is said
to be specially aimed at the Mateo
street franchise now pending in the
council. This franchise has had hard
fight from the first. The present situa
ton is that bids have been sent in for
plies with the terms of the advertise
ment by the council. The terms re-
ferred to We're that the council declared
certain property traversed by the line
private property and required, as an evil
dence of good faith in bidders that any
bid for the franchise should be accom-
panied by adequate evidence that the
right of way over the private property
involved had been obtained. The
terms are the same as those in various
other recent franchises, notably the
Workman and the Clark franchise on
Sixteenth street to Santa Monica. The
terms were inserted no one seems to-
know how. 1t was, however, under the
protest Of the Mateo street line and
maintained in the advertisement in
spite of its best efforts. However, this
company complied, and at total cost
Of 81, ,270 obtained the rights of way and
put in a bid of S220 for the franchise No
one else tried or even asked for these
rights of way, Under the councils
terms this was really the highest bid
Next to it was one of j. W. Hinton for
81 POI Mr. Hinton stated on Friday be-
fore the board of public works that he
was acting as a broker. He refused to
state whom he represented and added
that he neither intended to build the
road nor to sell it to any one who would.
This is certainly an extraordinary po-
sition. 1t means a franchise hung up
for eighteen months or until the legisla-
ture passes the bill to shut off competi-
tion or new lines permenantly. 1t is
not a bona fide bid and should be
thrown out on Mr.. Hinton's own state
ment. He said that he would give a
bond, but this is, so far in Los Angeles, q
purely pro-forma proceeding and is
thought to mean nothing. Mr. Hintons
last purchase of franchise has not
been built or commenced. The amount
he bid on that franchise, the wiltshire.
was $105.
There are several proposed new roads
which will greatly develop the trade and
attractiveness of Los Angeles Among
The herald., 1897-02-16
Grateful to the Com mission

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
aid: AS citizen of Los Angeles, permit
me to thank, through you, the gentle
men composing the street naming COM
mission for their satisfactory work in
the changing of 300 street names of this
city. 1 feel particularly grateful to the
commission for retaining and using so
many of the musical Spanish names
that are SO suggestive of the history Of
our state and of the great coast and of
a people who have not always been con-
spicuouS for mere money grabbing pro-
pensitieS. In this land of sunshine, Of
balmy air and magnificent and romantic
scenery, what SO appropriate as the
musical names that suggest the land of
the Cid and of Cervantes? Who would
not prefer Juanita street to Gadgrinl
avenue, or Cerro Gordo avenue to Hust-
Ter place or Arapahoe street to Get
There alley, or other such names that
suggest only sordid greed or cutthroat
commercialism 1 know that to many
Of our eastern friends the Spanish names
are as charming and suggestive of ro-
nance as the orange groves and vine
yards of our beautiful state. Let us re-
tain those old names in preference to
those that merely perpetuate, perhaps
the name of some loud-mouthed ward
heeler or some early and eager land
grabber, who is now only remembered
by the name given to tract" in which
the streets are arranged, not with refer
ence to their connection or continuity
with other streets, but solely with refer
ence to the number of lots that the tract
was possible to be divided into The
members of the commission deserve the
thanks of every Angeleno for their able
as well as gratuitous services as street.
naming commissioners
w. H. STUART.
Fol
The herald., 1897-02-16

these may be mentioned the Glendale
Electric road, the proposed Florence ex-
tension and the Redondo line. There
has been projected also Whittier line.
Los Angeles has no reason to close IT.
self up against such new tributaries.
The present legislative bill will do this.
1t has been framed by men who have
boasted that no new street car line
would ever be constructed in Los Ange-
les. 1t is supported by the great street
car combine of the s. P. of Kentucky In
San Francisco. All our public bodies
should emulate San Francisco and pro-
test against this bill. Our patriotic
mayor should not be behind the distin-
guished mayor of San Francisco in at
least sending up protest against the
bill.
The people of Los Angeles care moth
ing about any line or proposed line of
street cars except to wish them all well.
What they do care for is to leave the
city open to legitimate enterprise and
not in the hands of monopoly that will
delay or prevent development. The
bill is sought to be passed to shut up
forever the two great cities of California
to street car enterprise on the ground
that it will prevent blackmailing fran
chises against the present holders of
car lines. Nothing of the kind is in
their minds. No new street car line can
be built and operated with profit or
that any sensible man would build or
could enlist capital for that did not serve
and develop new territory. What the
new line in new territory must have to
succeed is an entrance to the business
center of the city served. Without such
an entrance the line will be failure. The
present franchise law is bad. The SEN
ate bill now pending at Sacramento
makes it worse. 1t is in fact death to all
new street car enterprise.
The herald., 1897-02-16
I" THEY SAY -

'They say'-ah. WELL suppose they do;
But can they prove the story true?
Suspicion may arise for naught
But malice, envy, want of thought
Why count yourself among the they"
Who whisper what they dare not say?
They say" But why the tale rehearse
And help to make the matter worse?
No good can possibly accrue
From telling what may be untrue;
And is 1t not a noble plan
To speak of all the best you can?
"They say" Well. if it should be so,
Why need you tell the tale of woe?
Will it the better wrong redress.
Or make one pang of sorrow less?
Will it the erring one restore,
Henceforth to go and sin no more?"
'They say"-oh! pause and look within.
See how your heart inclines to sin.
Watch! lest in dark temptations hour
You. too. Should sink beneath its power.
Pity the frail, weep oer their fall,
But speak of good. ''or not at all"
New Haven Register.
The herald., 1897-02-16

that they have grievances. and that no
captious or trivial objections will be
raised. The gentlemen composing the
commission are among the oldest and
best informed men in the city. They
have freely devoted their time for weeks
to the work, without compensation or
hope of reward. They are absolutely
free from anything like personal inter-
est in this matter and 1t would be pos
itive hardship on citizens at large to lose
the result of their painstaking labors.
AS a matter of fact, the differences can
easily be adjusted, if the right spirit pre-
walls, and with slight concessions on
both sides a satisfactory ordinance to
the city at large can be agreed upon.
The herald., 1897-02-16

The matter of the Main street pave
ment is still in abeyance. The council
yesterday adopted the report of the
committee that the contractors be in
structed to clean up the street and the
city engineer be instructed to check up
the work, and see whether the pavement
is on line and grade. The hearing was
then continued until Tuesday next at ?
o'clock, at which time it is hoped that
final decision will be reached.
The herald., 1897-02-16

In justice to the advance agent of
prosperity, let it be admitted freely that
he is visiting the channels of trade as
fast as he can, and that he is really
making times better in some localities.
A large iron company in Pennsylvania,
employing 5000 men, announces in
creased net profits exactly equal to a
reduction of 10 per cent in the wage
schedule. That is prosperity for the
company, and, by the way, it is the only
kind the advance agent ever agreed to
secure
The herald., 1897-02-16

Contrary to general expectations the
city council yesterday failed to take any
action in reference to furnishing work
for the unemployed. A local newspaper
on Saturday reported that the board of
public works had decided to recommend
an issuance of bonds for storm drains
and other public Improvements. for this
purpose, but nothing of the sort devel
oped in the council proceedings yester-
day. The finance committee and the
board of public works have several
plans under consideration. but so far
nothing has been definitely decided
upon.
The herald., 1897-02-16
February IA, 1897.
Unamericrn, but Suits Hi, Hiohn..

The idea of a court granting a divorce
to man and ordering the woman to pay
alimony to him is repusive to Ameri-
cans, no matter who or what the woman
is. The action of the Belgium tribunal
before which the Chimay case was tried,
in granting the prince $1,000 year from
the American heress who married him
and then deserted him, will stand as the
most remarkable in the annals of divorce
decisions. 1t is not stated whether the
decision gives the poor prince the privil-
ege of marrying again and continuing to
claim the alimony.-Kansas City Star.