The age-herald., 1902-02-02

Ninety-eight citizens Of that part of North Birmingham which lies "beyond the creek" filed petition in the office of the judge of probate yesterday asking that he call an election to determine the question of incorporation or no incorpor- ation.
 Judge Stiles set Thursday February 27, as the day of the election, which will be held at c. P Owens store, and appointed as commissioners to hold the election Messrs G. B. Mitchell, c. P. Owens and R. L. Hamilton. The boundries which it is proposed to incorporate are described as follows:
 Begin at the point of intersection of the Tennessee or Huntsville road with Vil- lage Creek, said point being on the west side of said road and on the south bank of said creek; thence along tne west line of said Huntsville road in a northern di- rection until it meets the west line of a road known as Cheeks road at a point known as the northwest corner of the northeast quarter ofthenorthwest of quart CT of section "A, township r, range west; thence in northerly direction along the west side of said Cheeks road until 1t in- terseets the west line of a road lying on the east side of Dimmick City; thence along the west side of said road until it intersects the north line of the county >-~<~<%%~~~S~~~ mill and that he said to MT. Thompson, the cashier, q believe I will burn up those d-n books right now" and that he went to the vault and got them and took them out to the rod furnace and burned them. That he did not mention the fact to anyone for some time, not even to his brother.
 The morning was consumed in taking the testimony of MT. Schuler. He testi- fled first as to transactions between the Alabama Steel and Wire Company and the Joliet Wire Company. The latter, he said had been capitalized at $20O 900. For ty-five thousand dollars of this amount was paid in cash and certain patents owned by c. E. Robinson were put in at $1550O0. The stock of this company was sold to the Alabama Steel and Wire Com pany. MT. Robinson knew of this sale. He was in possession of the Joliet plant. In July of last year, at the stockholders election of this company Mir Robinson retained his control through methods of which we did not approve.
 EXPLAINS BOOKKEEPING.
 MT. Schulcr then explained the book keeping system at the Alabama Steel and Wire Company. It was the voucher system, he said-the short system of double-entry bookkeeping. Expenditures in detail were entered on the voucher book. Checks. when indorsed were re- ceipts in addition to the vouchers The voucher had to be presented to the bank for payment. The amount of the vouch- CT would be entered on the cash book, but this cash book would not show the details of the transaction. This would be shown by the voucher book. This book has been kept since the beginning of operations by the company. It is not mutilated and has been inspected by Mr. Robinson.
 In the litigation between the Alabama Steel and Wire Company, the Joliet Wire Company, Mir. Robinson and myself, cer- tain letters were produced before MT. Rudulph and these were taken out of the copy books. There was no reason why I should have tried to make MT. Robinson think that the new copy book No. was the original book, Since the beginning of