The age-herald., 1897-08-08
NEWS FROM BESSEMER
 
 a4a a7zz A a a -snany Persons Leaving For the a. New Eldorado. F.
 TO KLONDYKE OR BURST Hstszss Afss A Gfist of News About Many People and = Things From the Progressive s- Suburban Town.
TO KLONDYKE OR BURST

afT, Since the first news was received from '. fhe Klondyke fields, the gold fever has, been raging here and of the many se threatened departures. three have at last taken place. Messrs. Adam Kyle, Joe Leonard and Louis Hoster, Jr., left Fri day for the frigid El Dorado. They have cast their fortunes together and will mal>e or break together. All their plans are we'll laid and they have enough cash to tide them over the winter and : land them on the banks of the Klondyke. They go direct to Seattle and from there to Juneau, and will then decide whether to proceed further immediately or wait :. in Juneau until spring. Quite crowd. Of their friends were at the station to see them off.
 . Superintendent Kennedy, of the Br- : smingham, Powderly and Bessemer Rail- S way company, has petitioned the city = council for a new right of way. It is > intended to enter the city by way of sS Twenty-frst street and Second avenue and then extend the line out Eighteenth Street to the big pipe works. An ordin-. ance granting the same had it's first read ing last meeting of the council and is now in the hands of the judiciary cona-. ~-m mittee.
 Beginning next week the school census< will be taken. B. R. Sapp is the census taker
 The Alabama Pipe works is now rllff- ming up to its capacity and the How ard Harrison Iron company has three pits in operation. 1. City Physician Prince reports at pres ent two eases of smallpox. Both are 2 near the Kloss brickyards, and the use of a pest house was deemsd unnecessary. as that place is about as isolated as amy that could be found.
 Advice comes from New Orleans thah :. MT. P. J. Gillen is rapidly recovering from the injuries he received from his encoun- ter with footpads several weeks ago. when he was knocked down and robbed. He is expected home in few days.
 
 ment led him into queer ways in Bir- nningham and Atlanta is well remem- bered here. He sojourned at the Grand l1oeel for week. He always appeared in faultless blue serge sack coat and im- unacuTate white duck trousers. His att tack of paranoia took a different turn a1sre, though in the way of writing checks on imaginary banks, sporting carriage and team which he hired by the month and leaving large, heavy valise, which 10 contained nothing but old magazines and as papers as security for his board bill.
 Miss Margery Hooper, of Birmingham is the guest of Miss Cora Carter.
 
 Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Chapman and little son are at Tate Springs, Tenn :. sss Miss Mazie Marquise is spending fort- @ might at St. Clair Springs.
 Dr. R. P. McTyenie has returned, after a weeks business to Woodlawn. .osa Forest Hutohison, deputy posamaster,- Eeaves Tuesday for Fresno, Cal, to per nanently locate. -S<@ F. B. Stubbs is again at his post after @. two weeks vacation spent in the mountains of East Tennessee.
 
 Messrs. Sam Rosenbaum and Louis ForBt are alt Fendale Springs near Nash |. syille. MT Will Golson pbt last night for St. Clair Springs where he joins his sister, '> Miss Ollie, and after a week both will re- turn.
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