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CITY ORDINANCES.
No. 12.
AN ORDINANCE

An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of bonds of the city of ,Birming- ham, Alabama, to the amount of $500.00, to pay the cost of certain Improvements made under Improvement Ordinance No. l2.
 Whereas, the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham, on the 7th day of June 1899, adopted an ordinance providing for the curbing of sidewalks along the south side of Fourth avenue, from Twenty fifth to Twenty sixth streets, the south side of Avenue K, from St. Charles ave- nue to Eleventh street, the west side of Eleventh, street. from Avenue K to Teifth avenue south. and the north side of Twelfth avenue, south, from Eleventh street to St Charles avenue; and.
 Whereas said improvement was finally ordered by said Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham and the work completed as
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s35O0 to pay the cost of certain improve ments made under Improvement Ordi- nance No. IT.
 Whereas, The Mayor and Aldermen Of Birmingham on the Fist day Of June, 1899, adopted an ordinance providing Tor the paving of 20th street from a point 10 feet north of the south line of Av- enue H to the north line of 18th avenue, south. with vitrified brick, on concrete foundation; and,
 Whereas. Said improvement was finally ordered by said Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham and the work completed as provided by law at cost of ", ,Sb2OS; and
 Whereas, For the purpose of providing means to pay for the part of the work remaining unpaid 1t is necessary to issue S35OO
 Now. therefore, be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham That there shall be issued and sold bonds of the City of Birmingham to the amount of s35O0 to pay for said unpaid part of said improvement.
 Said bonds shall be negotiable, payable to bearer, and shall have attached there to coupons for the interest thereon, and said bonds and coupons shall be payable in gold coin of the United States of Amer lea of the present standard weight and hneness. Said bonds shall run for ten Q0) years. and shall bear interest at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum. payable an- nually at the Hanover National Bank. in the City and State of New York, and shall be in denomination of $500 each. They shall be issued under the corpor- ate seal of the City of Birmingham, and both bonds and coupons shall be signed by the Mayor and the City Clerk. Adopted June 9th, 1901.
 W. M. DRENNEN,
 Mayor. Attest:
 H. D. WOOD, City Clerk. June 10th, 1901.
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TUSCALOOSA.
Captain Hobson aloon
 Licenses Fixed for the Year.

Tuscaloosa, June a. Especially = Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson spent Friday night in this city. the guest of his friend, MT. G. W. Van Hoose. Captain Hobson was entertained informally at tea last night on his arrival from Greens boro by MT. and Mrs. Van Hoose at their lovely home in East End Messrs. Van Hoose, ST., s. A. Hobson of Woodstock. H. B. Reynolds and R. H. Walker were the guests with Captain Hobson. This morning Captain Hobson was entertained at breakfast by Mrs. Ellen Peter-Bryce, widow of the late Dr. Peter-Bryce. Mrs. Bryce's home is ever 8 pleasant one for her guests, and this morning 1t was ex- ceptionally so. Captain Hobson left at 10 o'clock this morning for Birmingham en route to Washington. He has entirely re- covered from his attack of typhoid fever of some months ago and has assumed his normal weight. He will go to Boston be- fore returning to Buffalo.
 The Board of Mayor and Aldermen held an important meeting Friday night. When 1t was thought last fall that the dispen- sary' law would go into effect in this county on July the City Council fixed the liquor license for the first six months at $35O0. which was to be paid pro rata among the saloons applying for license Four firms came in on this proposition and have been in operation the past five months. The compromise agreed on by the dispensary and anti-dispensary forces the first part of this year has the dispen- sary go into effect on the first day of January 1902, so 1t became necessary to make scedule for the liauor men for the last half of 1901. The entire license was fixed at 325OO, which among the four saloons will be se25 each. The closing hour has been 10 D. m. since January l, but the board extended 1t to midnight at its meeting last night, but the opening hour 5 a. m., remains the same. up to January 1 the saloons stayed open all night. The policemen of the city were raised from ss5 to $s7.5o per month last night. .j
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Megsener and Dusseldorfr iron works also

Aeggener and Dusseldorff iron works also had a bad influence.
 The extraordinary abundance of money did not exert a stimulating influence. On the contrary, a panicky feeling was often shown by sudden declines in values on very small transactions. The private rate of discount moved from 3h to 3N.
 Speculations in Americans wholly ceased and but little was done in Canadians.
 Bank shares dropped slightly during the week, but there were hardly any dealings in them.
 The action of the Swiss government in the matter of nationalizing the Swiss Northeastern railway Is condemned here as high handed cheating" at the ex- pense of the German stockholders.
 Iron and coal shares weretb tboth dull, tte. latter upon unfavorable reports from the coke syndicate which has reduced the output. The Frankfeurter Zeitung ex- poets that there will shortly be lower ing of coal prices.
 The Reichsbank Is preparing for a strain when large American grain pur- chases must be made as a result of the difficulty in the Prussian crops.
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AN ORDINANCE.

An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of bonds of the City of Birming- ham, Alabama, to the amount of $50o.00, to pay the cost of certain Improvements made under Improvement Ordinance No. 1a
 Whereas, The Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham on the Fist day of June. 1899. adopted an ordinance providing for the curbing of sidewalks along the east side of Twentieth street from Fourteenth to Fifteenth Avenue, south, both sides of Fourteenth avenue, south, from Twentieth to Twenty first street: both sides of Ave nue K from Nineteenth to Twenty-first street, including Five Points," both sides of Avenue J from Twentieth to Twenty first street and the north side of Avenue J rom Nineteenth to Twentieth street. and, N hereas, Said improvement was finally ordered by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham and the work completed as provided by law at a cost of 1.S7471, and, Whereas, For the purpose of providing means to pay for the part of the work remaining unpaid 1t is necessary to issue and sell bonds to an amount equal to s5O00o.
 Now, therefore, be 1t ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham, That there shall be issued and sold bonds
 
 of 3500.O0 to pay for said unpaid part Of said improvement
 Said bonds shall be negotiable, payable to bearer, and shall have attached thereto coupons for the interest thereon, and said bonds and coupons sha4l be payable in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard weight and fine ness.
 Said bonds shall run for ten Oo) years and shall bear interest at the rate of six (s) per cent per annum, payable annually at the Hanover National Bank in the City and State of New York. and shall be in denomination of $500 each.
 They shall be issued under the corporate seal of the City of Birmingham and both bonds and coupons shall be signed by the Mayor and the City Clerk.
 Adopted June 5th, 1901.
 W. M. DRENNEN. Attest; Mayor.
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remarkable
 The oil wells of California average less than 50 barrels (per day) each. The Beaumont wells produce such an with increduty statements in regard to their production
 It is now admitted however that the Beaumont oil field is the most important the world has ever known, and when the relative production of the Russian the California ann the Beaumont wells are taken into consideration it. seems practically certain that the increase in the value o Beaumont stocks will be much greater than the Russian or California oil stocks.
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ONLY $12,oo NEEDED FOR PURPOSE OF BORING THE
 EIpC WIFI

We are now selling a sufficient amount of treasury stock to enable us to bore our first we AS only $2000 needed for this purpose you readily understand that this offer will not remain open long,
 In order to raise the said SIP 0OO quickly and begin de- velopment at once have decided to sell limited amount of our treasury stock at so cents per share.
 We reserve the right to decline your application and return youf money should reach after the said $I2,O0O is subscribed
 Send for our prospectus, it contains valuable nforma- tjon concerning the fuel oil situation of the world.
 Address,
 BEAUMONT & TEXAS OIL CO.,,
 Beaumont, Texas.
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H. D. WOOD. City Clerk. June 10th, 1901.
No. 4S.
AN ORDNANCE.

An ordinance for the issuance and sale of bonds of the City of Birmingham, Ala bama to the amount of s500 to pay the cost of certain Improvements made un- der Improvement Ordinance No. 4S.
 Whereas, The Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham on the 21st day of March, 1900, adopted an ordinance providing for the construction of sanitary sewers as follows: In 18th street from Alley F to Avenue J. in Avenue J from 26th street eastward 800 feet in Alley from 18th street westward $50 feet, and In Alley G from 18th street eastward 400 feet; and, Whereas, Said improvement was fin- ally ordered by said Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham and the work completed as provided by law at a cost of s144lbo; and,
 Whereas, For the purpose of providing means to pay for the part of the work remaining unpaid it is necessary to issue and sell bonds to an amount equal to $50O. Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham. There. shall be issued and sold bonds Of the City of Birmingham to the amount of $50O, to pay for said unpaid part of said improvement.
 Said bonds shall be negotiable payable to bearer, and shall have attached there to coupons for the interest thereon and said bonds and coupons shall be payable in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard weight and fineness.
 Said bonds shall run for ten Q0) years and shall bear interest at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum, payable annually at -the Hanover National Bank. In the City and State of New York. and shall be in denomination of s5oo each.
 They shall be Issued under the corpor- ate seal of the City of Birmingham. and both bonds and coupons shall be signed by the Mayor and the City Clerk.
 Adopted June 9th. 1901. N
 W. M. DRENNEN.
 Mayor. Attest:
 H. D. WOOD, City Clerk. June 10th. 1901. A in-.k
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provided by law at cost of s221s. 50. and Whereas. For the purpose of providing means to pay for the part of the work remaiAing unpaid. it is necessary to issue and sell bonds to an amount equal to $5O0O0
 Now therefore, be 1t ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham that there shall be issued and sold bonds of the city of Birmingham to the amount of 35Oo0O to pay for said unpaid part of said improvement.
 Said bonds shall be negotiable, payable to bearer, and shall have attached there to coupons for the interest thereon, and said bonds and coupons shall be payable in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard weight and fineness-
 Said bonds shall run for ten CO) years, and shall bear interest at the rate of (6) per cent per annum payable annually at the Hanover National Bank. in the city and State of New York. and shall be in denomination of 5000 each.
 They shall be issued under the corporate seal of the city of Birmingham. and both bonds and coupons shall be signed by the Mayor and the City Clerk.
 Adopted June 5. 1901.
 w..M. DRENNEN.
 Mayor.
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Alab.ma Lumber to Liverpool.

Florence, June D. Especial. )-Tuthill & Pattison of this city are shipping forty carloads of hardwood lumber from Ala bama and Tennessee to Liverpool via New Orleans Pensacola and Norfolk. This firm Is operating extensive sawmills in Alabama and Mississippi and have ship ped 100000 export, stun in the last year.
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MachInIsts cst Advance.

Lima, O.. June s.-The striking machin- ists on the Lake Erie and Western road have been granted the 10 per cent increase they demanded This includes helpers, blacksmiths and boiler makers.
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pecatur's Sewer system.

Decatur. June s.-(special.)- )--The city yesterday closed contract with Guild and Company of Chattanooga to con struct complete sewerage system, costing $2s,600 work, to commence about July 1.
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No. 5S.
AN ORDINANCE

 An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of bonds of the city of Birming- ham, Alabama, to the amount Of 1OW to pay theScost of certain improvements made under Improvement Ordinance No. 52.
 Whereas, The Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham on the 20th day of June. 1soO adopted an ordinance providing for the construction of sanitary sewers as fol- lows: In Fourteenth street from Avenue K to Fourteenth avenue south: in Four teenth avenue south. from Fourteenth street to a point 150 feet west of Nine teenth street in Eighteenth, from Four teenth avenue, south, to Thirteenth alley, south; in Thirteenth alley south, from Eighteenth street to point 25 feet west of Seventeenth street, and in Thirteenth alley south, from Fifteenth street to a point 225 feet east of Sixteenth street, and. whereas Said improvement was finally ordered by said Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham and the work completed as
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ONLY 5000 FEET FROM THE GUFFY-GLADY'S CUSTER.

Forty-flve acres-The company controls under lease the oil and mineral rights to fory-ve acres of land in the now famous J. w. Bullock survey, only 5000 feet from the Gladys oil we'll Said land being fully described in our prospectus
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FUEL OIL, PROFITS OF COMPANIES OPERATING IN RUSSIA
INRUSSIA.

Up to the date of the discovery of the Beaumont fuel oil field the Baku field of Russia the most important in the world.
 Although the Russian oil field located 600 miles from any port and although its oil companies are compelled to pay an outrageous royalty to the Russian Government the companies pay enormous dividends.
 The stock of the Russian Petroleum and Liquid Fuel Company sells for 32O per cent and pays dividends at the rate of SO per cent per annum In the same field the stock in Noble Bros Company sells for 248 per cent par. The stock of the Baku Naptha Company pays 50 per cent per dividends and sells for 78O per cent par The stock of the Caspian Socee pays 78 per cent par and sells for 735 per cent on its par value These companies all large and very strong financially none ot them having capital of less than $5,OOO,0OO
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Attest:
H. D. WOOD. City Clerk. June 10th, 1901.
A POLICE REGULATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH
 AN ORDINA NCE

POLICE REGULATION FOR THE
 PROTECTION OF HEALTH.
 AN ORDNANCE
 Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and Alder men of Birmingham. That an ordinance entitled, An ordinance to regulate dai- rfes and the management thereof. and the sale of milk in the City of Birmingham, be amended by striking out Section l thereof. and by adding In lieu thereof the
 Section 1. Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham, That on and after March 1st. 1900, each milk deal CT. firm or corporation, or each dairyman who sells. supplies or offers for sale, sweet milk, skimmed milk, cream, buttermilk CT butter in any way. to orRor any person within the City of Birmingham or within three miles of the corporate limits there of, shall be required to take out an an- n,ial license from the city at the rate of s5.Oe for ten cows or under and ten dollars for any number exceeding ten cows, Pro- vided that this shall not apply to persons who have not exceeding 1.-two cows for family use. selling theirt surplus milk to their immediate neighbors-
 Be 1t further ordained. That Section 3 of said ordinance be amended by strik- inr out said Sec. s, Fand adding In lieu thereof, the following section 3: , Be it further ordained that skinned or separated milk that is sold to be sold CT held for sale in any way within the City of Birmingham or within three miles of the corporate limits thereof, by any per son. firm or corporation shall conkain not less than nine percentum of milk solids, exclusive of butter~fat. and buttermilk shall contain not less than eight and fifty one-hundredths per centum of milk sol Ids, exclusive of butter-fat.
 Adopeed June 5tA 2 sol.
 RI, w. M DRENNEN. Attest: Mayor.
 HID. WOOD, City Clerk.
 June 10th and 18th, 1s0l
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FUEL OIL, PROFITS OF COMPANIES OPERATING IN CALIFORNIA.

The average American is of course familiar with the fuel oil fields of California; which have created so many fortunes during the three years just passed
 Of the many successful companies operating in California we will mention few The Kern Oil Company sold its development stock for 50 cents per share the pres ent market price is $17S. The original price of the "ThirtyThree Oil Co.'S stock SO cents, the present market price is $500 per share The San Joacqun Oil Co., sold its development stock for g cents now brings $3.50 per share in the open market The stock in the Kern River Oil Co., which sold originally for $1OO now brings $8OO Stock in The Home Oil Co.,, which sold for $1OO sells for $5OO0OO per share As the California field is practically only three years od the advances are
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BEAUMONT AND TEXAS OIL co.
 BEAUMONT, TEXAS.
CAPITAL $sO0,OOO. PAR VALUE OF SHARES $1.OO EACH.
DEPOSITORY. BEAUMONT NATIONAL BANK.
DIRECTORS.

D. A. DUNCAN, Cashier Beaumont National Bank Beaumont, Texas.
 N C. ABBOTT, of the firm of Colemen & Abbott, At torneys at Law Houston, Texas
 NIL McFADDEN, Oil Operator, Victoria Texas. w. H. IRVINE, Stock and Bond Broker Salt Lake City, HAL GREER, Attorney af Law Beaumont Texas
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No. IT.

An ordinance providing for the is- suance and sale of bonds of the City of Birmingham. Alabama. to the amount of
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OFFICERS.

N. C. ABBOTT, President. D. A. DUNCAN, Treasurer. FRANCIS HALL, Secretary.
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No. IS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-03
ABouT RA1LRoAp PEoPLE

Amos Beeler had engines 157 and s41
John Sites helper to the day fire
day
Hilton Gould, of the boiler shop. is en-
joy ing visit from his mother, who lives
No. 5 was delayed for a little while
Monday at Usage City, where a broken
journal made trouble.
Cyrus Guthrie. 4 round-holse machinis-
has gone to Logansoort, Ind, where he
will soend the next two weeks
General Master Mechanic Conirson left
Monday for business trip OVER the west
ern and New Mexico divisi )ns.
C. ]. Swanson. who formerly held
clerkship in the office of the machine shop
foreman, has gone 20 work in the sheds.
John Bulware, of the sterehouse force,
Mexico where he has been spending
month
Barton Phelps. who has been working
in the chemical laboratory all summer
has quit He may get a position IN Kan
sas City
The daughter of A A Hope. OF the
death brain fever
Charles Short, conductor on the Topeka
Kansas City plug. has returned from the
northern summer resorts where he has
been spending several weeks.
Harry Dustin foreman Of the boiler
shop at Newton. and until last week a
Topeka boilermaker, spent Monday in
to Newton.
Charles Ackley. a carpenter in the
sheds, is enjoying visit for a few days
Wellsviiie, ana the 1atters wife and
daughter, Miss Sadie
Fred Isaacson, the cabinet shop ap-
prentice who was injured few days ago
by a blow on the head, has so far recov-
cred that he is able to get around. To-
and visit of two weeks.
Engine 1913, which runs on trains and 6,
has been equipped with an acetyIene gas
A
one of the fast mail engines for some
time, and at last report the exosrfments
We're entirely satisfactory
Seventeen enginemen have been sent
from Topeka to C1eburne, Tex. where
during the heavy grain traffic. A num-
Der of engines have also been sent down
there to work while the rush is on
Advantage was taken of Labor day to
make whatever repairs shop ma
chinery was necessary. The air compressor
at the power house of the mill was gone
over by the water service men. and one
of the furnaces IN the blacksmith shop
was given light overhauling- few
painters were busy touching ur the go
special car. to be used by. the president
and directors. Besides these some Of
the timers were on duty. ard ths gang
which strips engines under the direction
of James Mullen was at work. Clerks in
the storehouse and other shop and divi-
sion offices were at their desks most of
the day.
returned from Colorado. where ne went
to make arrangements for the supply of
visions in that part of the country.
Santa Fe ice houses which have been
about this time of year. and it then be-
comes necessary for the company to
the remainder of the season. Mr.. Hilton
says that while there Is a scarcity now,
enced. This annual shortage has given
rise to the talk of the Santa Ie build
be g s o%n nc ice e ai co S9 i n scb
direction mas been taken.
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RAILROAD news.
Santa Fe Lays Down Grain
Shipping Rules.
Agents Must Show Disposition
on the Order.
WILL HELP SITUATION.
Santa Fe Losing Thousands of
Dollars by Delay.
Secret Rate of 6 Cents Said to
Be in Effect.
WILL HELP SITUATION.

Kansas City, Sept 3-Hereafter,
While the grain rush continues, the
Santa Fe will strictly enforce the order
to send all grain to the elevator on
which disposition orders are not re-
ceived within seventy-two hours. This
was announced by Commercial Agent
Dallam yesterday. Mr.. Dallam has just
returned from Chicago, where he con
ferred with Traffic Manager Biddle in
reference to the grain situation at Kan
sas City
I'VE viii issue orders to country
agents to consign no grain to Kansas
City except when disposition is shown
on the order. only as a last resort"
said Mr. Dallam yesterday We would
much prefer to have our cars returned
to US promptly at this point than to Sc
cure the long haul to Chicago, as by
returning them to the country they
would earn the road more money. In
contemplating issuing such instructions
the Santa Fe mana cement has no desire
to lnjure Kansas City But the ROAD is
losing money daily on its equipment
here, and if the loss continues we will
have to take steps to protect ourselves.
The Santa Fe,' continued Mr.. Dali
lam, Originates fully 80 per cent of all
the grain which comes into Kansas City,
and at present is hauling more than
per cent out of here In order to get an
idea of the average delay here we re-
Gently kept track of 100 cars sent into
Kansas City loaded with grain. OF
this number the average delay on six
ty-seven was seven days and on the re-
naming thirty-three fourteen days. The
cars are easily worth $40 day to the
road, and simple multiplication will
show something of the loss the road is
standing"
The Santa Fe people claim that the
grain men are as much at fault for the
delay of cars at Kansas City as the
roads to which the grain is consigned
Notwithstanding the recent promises Of
T6 NJ mo ha1
in improving the situation here, the
Santa F'e representatives complain that
they still follow the practice of holding
grain for improved markets.
The open rate of z cents on wheat
from Kansas City to Chicago has not
been in on the Santa F'e since last Tues
day. It is commonly supposed that
wheat is being hauled between the two
points for cents.