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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-04
GUTHRiEIS KICKING
against the Leasing of the ChOctaw
rfnn u -ar- ENnn.E

Against the Leasing OF the ChOctaW
by the Aafy Road.
Guthrie. o. T., April 3.-An agreement
has been signed between the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas and Choctaw. oklahoma
K Gulf railroad companies for the for
mer TO use the Iatters tracks in com
ing into Guthrie. bat the citizens have
announced that they viii not accept such
= compromise OF the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas original proposition 10 build here
The directors Of the Missouri, Kansas *
Texas meet here tomorrow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-04
GUILTY
OKLAHOMA MAN CONVICTED OF
MURDER IN MISSOURI.
jury Fixes the Penalty at Ten Years
ia the Penitentiary.

d" -iiS FCnt-Sfi-iafys
Ava, No, april 3-The jury In the
case OF James wilson. charged with the
murder OF OrviIe Lyons. neighbor
farmer, SO years ago, today returned a
verdict finding him guilty Of murder in
the second degree, and fixing the sent
ence ct ten years in the penitentary.
The case went to the jury yesterday
afternoon. a motion for new trial and
am appeal were fled. wilson was ar
rested in oklahoma recently. after
saareh Of wears.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-04
MAeEL FENToN HAlNEs

Little stepdsughter.
Mount Holy E j. April s-Mrs. Mabls
Felton Halnes was today acquitted q
The charge ~ murder.ng her fwo-resr-oid
Fte7 daughter. Gwendoiine. a. Delaaco.
year sgo. = YES alleged that ths cha1
death Was cue % irhsuaa treatment ~
Mrs Haues 1he case has been On fr.al
Tor tao weeks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
BARGE Lines to New Orleans.

Not only is New Orleans interested
in the establishment of barge line
between the mineral district of Ala
bama and its own spacious harbor via
the Lake Borgne canal, but it is or
ganizing a barge company between
points on the bends in Mississippi and
Arkansas and the city at the mouth of
the river. st. Louis is also shipping
grain in barges to New Orleans, taking
sugar and moIasses and cotton back
Barges can be much more economi-
cally operated than steamboats,, and
their carrying capacity is greater. The
towboats are fitted up to burn oil, and
in that way transportation expenses
are readily reduced to a minimum.
The development of the barge will
doubtless become a prominent feature
of the oil trade at Beaumont, as well
as of the grain trade and coal and iron
trade at New Orleans and Mobile.
The barge of quiet inland waters can
not well traverse the waters of the
gulf to Cuba and other West Indian
and South or Central American ports.
More or less transferring must be
done, but this can be cheaply accom-
plished when trade is conducted on a
large scale. What is needed now is
an assurance that access to New Or
leans can be had from this district
through quiet waters-that is to say,
through Lake Borgne. The Alabama
Coal and Barge Company has not as
yet bought or leased the canal, but no
doubt they will secure the right to
use it, which Is all this district is
especially interested in. 1t is safe to
say there will be barges ready for
business as soon as the river
is opened, and that their number will
be increased as rapidly as the tonnage
demands. The forerunner and pioneer
of the new river trade promises now
to be the Alabama Coal and Barge
Company, the chief stockholders of
which live in New Orleans and Con-
necticut.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
Visible Supply Of Bachelors.

The census bureau shows that in
1900 there we're 6.726779 bachelors in
this country. compared with 4,195,446
spinsters. IN other words. there are
1881. 1873 unattached. unmatched males
twenty years of age or over who can
not possibly get maidens twenty years
of age or over as wives. It Is a numer-
zeal or physician impossibility, and We
seem doomed TO have that number of
bachelors with us indefinitely
In Alabama there are 104,951 bach
elors and 1858 spinsters. so that we
have 29,32S bachelors with us who
must remain in that forlorn condition
unless they go outside of the state to
seek wives. This is 444 to a county,
big and little. OF course big Jefferson
would be expected to take on more of
this particular form of selfishness
than little Winston. but II the evil
were evenly distributed there would
be 444 2-3 bachelors in each county
without hope within the state.
The excess of bachelors over spin
sters is greater in the far west. 1t is
large in Kansas, but the percentage
rises toward the setting sun until it
reaches in California 173 per cent
Montana is, however, one of the ban
ner bachelor states, containing as it
did in 1900, bachelors to the number
of 55,457, with only 1850 spinsters as
an offset. There is no reason to believe
that the situation Is less strained in
Montana today. Wyoming is even
worse, for she has 20,927 bachelors
and only 2,347 spinsters. In Massachn-
sets, on the other hand, the excess of
bachelors is small, but still there is
an excess. There is an excess in every
state, although a marriage occurs
every minute in the twenty-four hours
and baby is born every twelve sec
onds,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
Seven First-CIass Men Wanted.

The seven members from Jefferson
county in the next legislature should
be seven of the best men in the entire
county. They should be men that the
Office seeks. 1t is feasible this year to
elect the best men If the voters will
as a rule refrain from promises until
the field is full and the race made up.
There are good men in the county
who will give to the state fifty days
OF service, even though they be busily
engaged in private affairs This is
not the year in which men who seek
the Office should be selected. A higher
grade Of representatives Is wanted.
They are wanted to serve the state
in putting the new constitution on It's
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
AS HE HAS SEEN AND KNOWN 1T

- T is FIVE years ago today since I
first came 10 Birmingham to locate.
Ny first day in Birmingham was
- the day during the summer Of 1857
when the first successful run Of steel in the
birmingham district was made At one Of
the little furnsces adjacent 10 the rolling
mil. Every patriotic citizen Of Birming-
ham hao contributed to build two little
furnaces 10 test Birmingham iron in the
making of open hearth steel. It was
success. The steel tested perfectly. From
that day Birmingham began to grow The
people within its gates were inspired
with confidence. Finished product man
ufaeturing plants began TO spring up.
Tae great Tennessee company looked
about for additional capital. secured It.
and built a steel mill at EEsley. The rail
roads backed this mill to the extent Of
500 600 in cash. or four-tenths Of the
cost Of the entire mill Birmingham cit
liens took another tenth and the balance
was raised outside.
The mill had its ups and downs. There
was difficulty in getting skilled labor TO
operate it. It was a new thing in a neyz
country. But in time labor learned. Tie
mill won ont from a practical point of
view. and today It is, perhaps, the most
profitable steel plant in America.
Following the steel plant, all manner
of Industries sprung up TO make the steel
of the Birmingham district into every
DAY useful articles.
A wire rod mill was built next to 1t;
and a steel casting plant, and rail and
structural iron mill, and a pillow factory,
and many other concerns making useful
articles of everyday commerce, both
large and small. Corliss engine con-
Germs. and boiler works. and nut and
bolt factories. and gas and gasoline en-
CINE manufactures. and various other
factories followed in the wake of steel
making.
And today Birmingham Is the manu-
fieturing city of the south.
In these five years of which l speak
Birmingham has doubled in population.
More than s2OOOO.o0O in good hard cash
has been expended in manufacturing
plants and other producing concerns in
and about this town, within that period.
Pay rolls for labor have increased from
far less than 81 ,OOOOOO a month TO a full
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
RIrmInuham and the Meraer.

The proposed merger of the Illinois
Central, the Louisville and Nashville
and the Southern in a gigantic South
ern Securities Company, with per
haps. a capital Of s4OO,0O0,OOO. has SO
alarmed the city of Nashville that a
strong movement has been started to
call special session of the legisla
ture for the purpose, If possible, of
preventing the proposed consolidation
of Tennessee roads. Nashville is
deeply moved. It does not propose to
be bottled up, but when it is bottled
up the south is not bottled up, as it
seems to think. Nor is 1t easy TO see
how the ownership of railroads can
be manipulated by legislation, al
though no doubt the legislature of
Tennessee can give such a merger
much trouble and put It to great ex-
pense.
Among the remedies suggested in
the overheated columns of the Ten
pessee press is @ repeal of the char
tiers Of the railroads entering the pro-
posed consolidation; the amendment
of charters so that all charter rights
would be forfeited by the acceptance
of the merger, and still others advo-
no4o nrohshftor-, laoioIoffon thaf xpbila
1t would not touch the charters, would
render a merger very expensive.
All of these plans are more or less
chimerical, and it is doubtful indeed
If any one of them would accomplish
the object in view, Birmingham has a
still better plan. Let the railroad
companies merge to their hearts con
tent, but while they are merging LET
us invite all other railroads to enter
this district-the Seaboard, the Bruins.
wick and Birmingham, the Vicksbure
and Birmngham-the more the I1er
rier. Nor is this all. Let us pull to
gether for final Appropriation by con
gress that will open the Warrior
About 100000 will do 1t, and when
the Warrior is opened we can laugh
at all the mergers that now exist or
that may come into existence. This is
better than prohibitory legislation,
This is better than any of the schemes
Nashville Is considering. This will
place Birmingham and this district
above all mergers, and make 1t prac-
tically a seaport. There will not be
much salt water here, but barges that
can glide from fresh to salt water OF
vice versa will be the connecting
link as well as the protector from
traffic trusts and all other devices of
that sort. We should begin to look
seaward by way of an open Warrior.
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feet, giving it a fair chance. They
are wanted. too, in the interest of
Jones valley, which should be eonsol-
idated into one strong. helpful and
valuable municipality. These are large
and important subjects, and this great
county should send to Montgomery
seven men of the first rank.
It is not easy to say at this early
day, before the campaign has become
YARN or well-defined, how this is to
be accomplished. If the people could
eonscript seven men, the problem
would be quickly solved, but conscrip-
ton is not a recognized political
method, unless 1t be the moral sort,
for really no man is so great that he
has moral right to decline service
in the next legislature. The city,
county and state alike demand a selec-
ton of seven men from, say, list that
AhbiudNS tic DfSl Ollt uuHuTtu clllZeuS
of the county-the most forceful as
well as the broadcast and wisest men
of the county.
The people are the solicitors this
year, and all experience in this coun-
try goes to show that men named by
the many are better than those named
by a few, and this leads up to the
hope that the people will name seven
strong men, and that the men selected
will not feel at liberty to decline che
proffered service. The Age-Herald is
confident few men will decline to serve
this year. No one should decline to
serve the people this year unless be
has an excuse that far transcends the
ordinary apology.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
Quality of Cigars.

II have been a cigar maker for several
years" said a comparatively young man
at the Metropolitan. but l was brought
up on a five cent smoke and 1t was only
year ago that l began to indulge in
something better.
"A ten cent cigar is so much better
than the five cent article that ! would
never be able to return to my former
nickel luxury. The majority of smok-
ers never pay more than cents and
from my own experience | am satisfied
that they get about much enjoyment
out of poor tobacco as 10 and Is cent
smokers get out of fine cigars, on the
principle of where ignorance is bliss, etc
II suppose it is the same way with
whisky drinkers, A man who has been
used to good liquor is not apt to enjoy
inferior brands. But many drinkers never
tasted a first class article and they are
satisfied with the cheap sort
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
Church Organs.

There are not as many large pipe or
gans in Birmingham as one finds in most
cities of 4o,000 but ! suppose the num-
Der will be increased within the next
year or two said music lover.
THE noble organ in the First Methodist
church has not its equal in any church in
any other city In the South. All told only
five or six churches here have organs
that begin to be in keeping with their
surroundings.
'St. Paurs Catholic church will prob
ably be supplied with fine instrument
by next spring or summer and Temple
Emanuel will doubtless have a new or
gan before a great while. The vocal
music In both of those houses of worship
is of a high order and calls for high
quality of accompaniment.
Good pipe organs vary in price from
$1,000 to $4,000 or S12000.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
Business In Summer.

while business is never as active in
midsummer as 1t is at other seasons of
the year, the volume of trade in Biz
mingham is not much diminished" said
prominent manufacturer.
Owing to the general prosperity of
the Birmingham district this year every
industry is running through the heated
term on full time. This is certainly the
best summer that Birmingham has ever
had, from a commercial point of view,
and if any merchant or manufacturer
has failed to make money I have not
heard of him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
THE AcEHERALDs ANNIvERsARY sEcTIoN

The Herald grees its readers this morning with ami
supplement containing interesting facts and data about
the Birmingham district Is growth during the past year. and de-
tailed information those who would informed of
what there IS in and about Birmin CHAM
Il has made pretense display merely the facts
as they They speak for themselves.
The Age Herald Ike everything of Birmingham has
IS capacity for publishing has almost doubled
within the past year It's advertising business its
have grown Ike proportion But the Age Herald like Biz
mingham speaks for itself
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e)T1uoea

morning. which sew him hurled back
far away from that line. stunned, and
had he beer; capable or feeling crest
fallen md mortified by his disastrous
failure; with a huge army, staggered
and depressed by defeat, and refusing
openly and opstlnately to advance or be
driven by him to further slaughter. The
battle avenged trebly and more the sur
prise and disaster al the Spottsylyania
salient, the least honorable occurrence
in the his tory of the INDUSTRIOUS Army of
Northern Virginia. Never was so great
a force so thoroughly beaten in SO short
a time.
Other commands engaged on that day
did their full duty, and as they had op-
portunity. contributed their full share to
the grand result. But it is no injustice
to any to say that'the actual well known
facts of the case show that none had
sucn opportltnity-oreated mainly by it
self-and none did so much towards its
achievement as Laws Alabama. Brigade.
1t fought the whole battle on its 'front.'
leaving nothing for its supports-among
them Wiicox's famous brigade-to do.
but sustain the fire that reached them in
its rear. Yet. while other bodies-deser-
wing honorable mention indeed, but with
out a. title of it's merits on that occasion
are proclaimed and exroTled In hsto-
ries of the battle, not one of these is
known TO nave ever mentioned Laws
Brigade in connection with the great
victory 1t contributed chiefly. to win, nor
even the magnificent divisien--Field's,
once Hoods-to which IL belonged. Bet
ter soldiers never trod a battle field than
these who never We're driven, nor lost a
position they were set to hola; and who
never failed to drive an enemy or carry
a position when ordered unIess the task
was impossible to the EXTREMIST exer-
tons Of manly strength, endurance and
courage. Their deeds, sufferings and
fortitude, from Gettysburg to Wauhat-
chic. from Mar assas to Appommatox
are but little known, even to the people
of Alabama They should not be al
lowed, like the heroes VINO lived before
Agamennon and their exploits, to sink
into oblivion, for want of a worthy his
torian who could hardly find nobler
subject for his discourse.
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100000 at the present time. These nav
rolls are purely for labor. Salaries for
officials and clerks do not count within
this sum The pay roll and salary list
Of the Birmingham district win amount
TO fully 100000 a month or about sss
0oo.ooo annually. 7 have known one hank
in Birmingham within the past sixty
days TO have as much as s4e0,oo0 Of de-
posits on hand at one time. and the av-
erage deposits OF all the banks Of Biz
mingham viii run from $4,000 to SO
10000 Che bank alone made up pav
roll account Of sss7aa0 iass month.
With IT ali-with the phenomenal
growth Of Birmingham and suburbs
real estate Is yet cheap hereabouts. It
is not as high today as It was fifteen
years ago when Birmingham was in
what was known at that time. as its
boom days. of the same character. Biz
mingham real estate is today 50 per cent
cheaper than that either in Atlanta or
Nashville. The highest price yet paid
in Birmingham for the most central bus
mess property has been 5000 a front
foot. and the most attractive residence
property has ranged from $50 to $50
foot.
The town is prosperous and every one
within it of discretion and energy has,
with the town. prospered. Yet Birming-
ham is today IN its infancy. The
rays of the sun are merely peeping over
the horizon They have but lighted up
a mere spot here and there to give an
idea of what is to come. Raw material
and prospects are. abundant. Every man
who has delved into the earth intelligent
ly has drawn forth a fortune. New men
and new capital are seeking these fields
daily. with success, where intelligence
and. energy are associated.
do not mean to talk about Brming-
ham in boom sense. That day is past.
The public can no longer be fooled by
enthusiastic talk and rhetorical SEN
fences. That this town promises to be
the great industrial center of the south
is evidenced by the investments of the
railroad people in extending their lines
and in building new lines into Birming-
ham.
Railroad people of the present day
are not enthusiasts. They build only
where there is profit for the building.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27

They ind freight IN this district In
abundance and they have built TO It, and
new roads are building here TO share in
the distribution of this freight. We're it
not here, the Southern would not have
made It's extensions into the mining ter
ritory of the Birmingham district nor
would its principal owners have paid
fancy price TO acquire control Of the
great Louisville and Nashville system,
which has such wonderful terminal IA
eilities in BirTnin CHAM and such attrae-
tive routes 70 the mines and manufac-
tories Of this di triet; nor would the
seaboard Air Line have spent several
million dollars TO extend a line from At
lanta here, and acquire valuable termni-
nal facilities within the city of Birmlng-
ham at great expense: and the St Louis
and San Francisco people, who have sew
eral thousand miles Of road through the
south and southwest. would net have ex-
pended million dollars to get in and
about this town We're it not for the fact
that they believed il to be the greatest
single freight producing point in all the
south.
To get down to actual business the
birmingham district produces 70 per cent
Of the total TONNAGE hauled by the rail-
roads Of alabama. The product of a few
furnaces, in and out. right here in the
city of Birmingham. load more cars than
all the cotton crop of the state of Ala
bama. You may think it strange, but
the iron ore and coal output of the Biz
mngham district furnishes more tom
mage to the railroads than the entire cot
ton crop of the state of exas. the
largest COTTON producing section of the
worla.
But tonnage, and iron, Ind coal, and
business is not all there is to Birming-
ham. 1t is an attractive city within
which to live. People have come here
from all sections of the United States
and from many countries OF the world.
They have built attractive homes. They
are prosperous and cultured and have all
those surroundings which make a place
of residence attractive.
Indeed, there is something about Bir-
mingham which every one who lives here
likes, and among this number is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
Good Appetites.

Week before last there was a sudden
failing off in the restaurant trade of the
city" said the proprietor of a popular
cafe yesterday, but this week business
in my line has been particularly brisk
Everybody seems to have good ap-
petite now. and money with which to
crafty it. Birmingham is a good restau-
rant town. There are not as many ex-
travagant spenders here who order a
la carte as there are In some cities of
this Size but the men of Birmingham
want the best of everything and are. al
ways ready to pay reasonable prices for
what they get.
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PoEsY.


"Tls the "Odeon" of the SOUL"
BY VIM. A. Battle.
IT'S the soul avs king from a beautiful
dream
The dream of an angel, divinely reveals
ing
he mystical eecrets of thought and Of
feeling.
EvolSing from the realm of its musical
theme IS
A sweetness more sweet than the breath
of flower,
And rhythm more rhythmical than the
rhyme OF a shown.
IT'S the poem that throbs in the heart Of
the years
voluninous volume of pages untold.
In its dawnings of opal and settings Of
gold,
Ere Spring tide was clouded by the
Winter of tears,
And its blossoms all blighted, were
scattered and tossed
Mid the turbulent sea upon which it was
lost.
IT'S the dilly of love in the star-litten
That ardently twinkle on the lake--let
at rest,
Enamored with the lilies that dream
on its breast;
'Tis an cde in the dirge of the swan.
when it dies
Soft stealing, and sweetly. as a wilder
Ing sigh
On the lips Of spirit repeating its cry.
Ills rapture enraptured. when Angelus
sings
And illusory forms seem to grope In
the mist,
When the mocking-bird trilis in his
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reasons be. It is necessary to reckon a
nominal trade balance Of $500 100000
as our zero mark. from which We may
know whether gold must be exported
or imported. We are down to zero
now. with some prospects of fall be-
low It in the present fiscal year.