The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-21
ARE NOW IN BIRMINGHAM
Executive Officers of Alabama
Now Located Here.
TO LEAVE FOR NASHVILLE
TIE Governor and Party VIII Attend Alabama
Day-commissone CuIyer's Office Is
Here-FertiIizer Tags.

The executive officers of the state of
Alabama are now in Birmingham. Tenn
porarily Birmingham is practically tha
capital of this state. The governor and
several other state officers are now To-
Gated here owing 10 the epidemic of yell
low fever IN Montgomery.
The governor and staff and party will
leave here at noon today for Nashville.
The members of the staff except those
residing in Montgomery and Mobile will
b. in the party. Several companies of
infantry and Troop D of cavalry will
leave at midnight. reaching Nashville
at Z tomorrow morning and will return
Friday night SO that they will only lose
one day from business.
Yesterday Commissioner of agricul-
ture Culver established his office here
and from this point he imm= diately COM
menced the distribution of tags and Ii
cense fer fertilizer. All correspondence
addressed to Commissioner Culver
should be sent to Birmingham and this
will be tbs office of the department of
agriculture until all guarantees are
raised against Montgomery. Samples
for analysis will be sent direct to the
state chemist, B. B. Ross, at Auburn.
Mr.. Culver's office will be located over
ths Alabama National bank.
The tags cannot be shipped from Mont
gomery on account of 1t being necss-
sary that they should be fumigated out
side of infected places. Two hundred
thousand tags have been ordered here
direct from the manufacturers and will
reach here by Monday.
Last evening a dispatch was sent to
the Associated press from Birmingham
that the governor and other state Of
ficers were here and that practically
the seat of the state government had
been removed to Birmingham, due to
the prevalence of yellow fever in Mont
against 1T.
This innocent dispatch served to fire
the brain of the Associated Press corre-
spondent in Montgomery.
He wired the Press that 1t was gross
distortion of facts and declared the
state government was yet located there.
The governor, he declared. had no power
to move the capital; it could only be
done by a vote of the people.
The governor was shown this dis
patch last night He was amused. "Of
course the state capitol has not been
moved here, nor is 1t the executive head
quarters of the state. 1 am simply tenn
porarily here, ard while here am direct
ment from here"
The health officer of Baldwin county
wired the governor yesterday morning
that boats were carrying passengers
from Mobile into that county. The gov
ernor directed him to have the sheriff
arrest the officers and tie up the boats
for violating the quarantine regula-
tions.
At the request of President Reynolds,
of the Girls Industrial school at Monte
vallo, the meeting of the board of trus-
tees called for the goth was postponed
until further notice from the governor
Assistant Examiner Cowan reported
to the governor today that ne had gone
into Montgomery to remove his wife,
and could not return to Lowndcs coun-
ty, and wanted orders. He was directed
to leave the state for ten days. and then
orders would be given him.
Assistant Examiner Foster reported
that he was engaged in checking up the
officials of st. Clair county.
Advices from the capital are that
scarcely any mail is received and that
there Are no callers.
No one can now visit Montgomery
and then return home 1t is completely
isolated. Mails can go In, but none can
come out, except via Atlanta. and after
fumigation at that place.
SKETCHED FRDM
THF STRFF7 CARRIERS