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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-01


 terms of him as a blackguard, a gam bier, a drunkard and a murderer?
 A.-You will find in the
 Q.-Don't tell what I will find l am asking you, did you write that or not? Al did not write all that
 Q.-What did you write?
 Al wrote he was a cowardly assis- sin and signed my name to it in The State of January 16
 pr. W. c. Barron of Columbia was at the hospital when Gonzales was taken there from The State office. He said he asked Gonzales within ten or fifteen minutes after he had been carried into the hospital:
 IN. G., do you understand your con- dition?"
 T do," Gonzales replied.
 Made Death Statement.
 Witness said he then asked him: Do you understand, N. G.. that you will probably die?" The reply was, T do." Witness said Gonzales made a statement at the hospital. Witness said Gonzales said 1t was a death statement.
 Dr. Babcock, superintendent of the in- sane hospital, saw Gonzales at the hos pital just after he was received there. Gonzales, he said, made a statement which ne LOOK uOWn III lOiBndHu HOltSs lNedulllS from his notes, he said the following were the words of Gonzales, as near as he could take them down:
 "Tillman had one man with him who was a particular friend of his, Talbird; :; another man, whose face 1 did not ob- serve I started for the state house as usual. As I got near the corner of Gervais street, l recognized Tillman. l knew if I kept on, l would collide with II T diagonally across to the left intending to turn the corner Into Gervais street, which I could have done without touch- ing the inside man. As I got on the turn, two or three feet from the exact corner. Tillman, drawing a pistol which he had in his sleeve. fired and made some ex- pression. The shock threw me around against the pillar on Main street. l faced him He pointed the pistol; l called him a coward He said: "I took your ad- vice. or something to that effect; he put the pistol in his pocket and sauntered into the street I never sent a message He said I have taken you at your word I suppose he referred to some thing I had said in an editorial in the campaign He said this after he fired. had no idea of meeting him. had seen him two days before In the lobby. of the house. The thing was finished as far as was concerned"
 Objection Withdrawn.
 The statement was first given by the witness in the absence of the jury, the defense objecting to the introduction of the latter part but subsequently with drew the objection,
 August Kohn newspaper writer, who was at the hospital at the time Babcock was there, said MT. Gonzales told him at that time in answer to a question, that he (Gonzales) had not sent message to MT. Tillntan.
 The codrt adjourned at 6 o'clock, the cross-exaf fnination of MT. Kohn not hay ing been ofomnleted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-01

telling of the various bills that had been before the committee, and of the difficult ty for the factions affected to get to- gether. He argued that the measure be- fore the house was not one of the char a cter intended hv the cnnsfitnti,n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-01

tcontlnued on Second Paae)
The border vidette., 1903-05-23
Newspaper Proverbs.

$. ". Gillian, the funny man of the Baltimore American and secretary of the recently organized association of Newspaper Versitiers and Humorists, has coined the following proverbs out of twenty years experience:
 The chap who tries hardest to work q newspaper for special favors is the one who never spends cent with it and is not evcn a subscriber.
 The man who kicks about the inac- curacy of newspapers in general is the one who does least to assist in getting the fact accurately when he has an opportunity to do so.
 The man who kicks about the inac curate papers in general has had the bitter truth told about him once by some unusually frank reporter. and has big sore spot.
 The man who beos that his na*ae be left out of the list of drunl.s for fear it will hurt his mothers feelings never considered that good lady's sensibili- ties befcr re in his life.
 The m. who spend the most money with the paper kick the least.
The border vidette., 1903-05-23
WITH THE ANGEIEANS.
Los Angeles, May l

Los Angeles, May l2, 1905. Editor HE BORDER VIDETrE:
 In the course of human events, that Is those events that eventually touched me, 1t seemed necessary that 1 come to the City of Angeles. Just why it is of the angeles, nobody has explained to m-; but l am quite a hand to jump at conclusions Net 'lest 1 inake my brother to stumble would s,v to anyone readin. those conclusions that they allow for variations las much as red hair As 1 walk alone the street 1 see flight of stairs, l look up and see another flight, move up, more flight, and more. and more till 1 count four and five iii hts of stairs, and at the top something like a hunan dwell ling. Now there Is something about flights that suggest angels, and angeles may live at the top, have not yet been up to see. It Is too tiiyhty for me.
 Then that good old Sunday school song comes to me:
 ''l want to be an ,.irgei
 And with the angels Stand
 \ crown unon my head,
 \ harp within rny ham.l
 l look arouud among the Los n- geleans. they al. have n crown, cry last one of 'em, and d harp.
 They harp on the climate mostly the climate the weather, the scenery, or any old thing, till they bec"rne real harpists and iI>e oil the dead and the dyIng.
 No stranger can come here, with proper respect for himself and his family, and live on much less than a dollar day, and from that mp to thirty dollars. Though just why they stop at thirty. they don't say
 It l. queer, iut l tiu.l on reflection that mans reading has sorn.thing to do with his conclusions. >n when remeimI"r that passage of scripture where it says: 't'lt,. as a bir,l to yon mountains l think this Is the place. for the mountains and the flea are here. and the flea is bird -&. 4. v.
The border vidette., 1903-05-23
ARIZONA NEWS.
Items of Interest from all over the
 Territory.

The engagement of Florence Emile. daughter of Mrs. l.. o. Cowan, of Tue son, to Harry A. Drachman, Is an nounced. The marriage will take place on June 3. Mrs Cowan and her
 daughters lived in Globe years ago, and their old friends will be interested
 in the announcement.-Si Belt. Mrs. J. H. Costello shot her hus-
 band in Buffalo, New York, recently
 at the office of Costello in that city.
 Costello was taken to the hospital and
 Mrs. Costello delivered herself up to
 the authorities Costello exploited
 mines near Congress and was mixed
 up in the Cobre Grande law suits claiming an interest in the Cananea
 mines. Costello was a Pennsyivanian and made money in the lumber busi- ness in that State.-Citizen.
 Wm. Semple the editor of Arizona's leading weekly, the Tombstone Amer ican, is Bisbee visitor today He says that Tombstone is growing right along and would soon be something like it used to be in the Good Old
 Days. Mir. Semple was asked about the rumor that is i'll circulation say ing that he is intending to make the American over into & daily. He em- phaticaliy denied the report and said the America would always remain a weekly.-Bisbee Miner.
 There is to be a new traffic arrange ment between the roads in thIs Terri tory shortly, q meeting of the general freight agents of the Maricopa and Phoenix, the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix, and the Santa Fe Paciti.., having been ar- ranged to be held in San Francisco to accomplish this agreement. Super intenden. NJ. O. Bicknell, who is also general freight and pa: senger agent of the NJ. x P, will represent this road. The F. P. .t P. will be represented cific by F. w. Luce and the Santa Fe by Dr. Chambers Democrat.
 President Frank M Murphy of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix rail- way returned to Prescott this week from q trip to the eastern states. He said to a correspondent that the Phoe- nix and Eastern Railway beIng built from Phoenix to Benson was to be- come part of transcontinentiaI svs- tenn. After the completion of the line to Benson, work would be com menced on the line from Congress junction west Via northern Yuma county to a point on the Santa Fe Pa cIfic near the Colorado river. This will make a clear line from Fl Haso via Benson. Phoenix and Congress to the coast, covering the western end of the Santa Fe Pacific to coast points. Mir. Murphy IS now inspecting the line to Benson. Citizen.
The border vidette., 1903-05-23
Big Mining Proposition.

Chas Hayes of Nogales is in Bisbee, registered at the Copper Queen hotel
 Mir. Hayes Is interested in big min ing proposition in Sonora. He has just returned from Washington where he has place d considera ble stock. Secret ary Shaw is one of the owners of the property is Rockefeller and J. B.. Heiled, architect of the U. s. Treas urer- The property Is situated about sixty miles south west of La Cananea. It Is : old proposition. and is also very valuable for its copper deposits. MT. Hayes says that he expected to have big force of men It work on the property before long and have it on il dividend paying basis before
The border vidette., 1903-05-23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE SAN CARLOS, SONORA GOLD
 COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, Eiwin II Miller, John H Folks. Mart b Hamilton, Howard 4 Miller, Nelson A Y Wolcott, Erwin A Armstrong and Cyrns Grant, citiz- ems of the United States, agree to form Corporation laws of the Territory of Arizona. under the name of the SAN CARLOS. SONORA GOLD COMPA\ Y. with its principal place of transacting business at Noea- les, Arizona with n branch office in Los Angeles. State of California, and other necessary points.
 FIRST. The busines of said Corpor- atioa shall be the mining for gold or other meta Is or precious stones; and to purchase, lease, bend or otherwise acquire; own, exchange, sell or other wise dispose of; pledge. mortgage, hypotecate. or otherwise cucumber and
The border vidette., 1903-05-23

M. M. Conn, proprietor of The Palace, will in the near future close his place for a couple of weeks in order to greatly improve same. It is Mir. Conn's intention to make his Palace the most attractive re- sort of it's kind in the southwest. When completed tbe new Palace will be q dandy.
 Monday morning Mir H. Jordan, the efficient railway agent at this point and Mir F. F. Cranz, presi- dent of the West Mexican Coast Oil company returned home from Sonora, where they had been for a days sport with the gun, both gen tlemen being deadshots. As usual they brought home q nice bunch of birds.
 The forepart of the week MT. Harry Smith, the Colorado mining man came in from the Washington district, Santa Cruz county, where he has been the past two weeks inspecting number of valuable mining properties in which he and his. associates are interested. Mir. Smith has had many years pract- ical experience in mining in the various districts throughout the west and he is considered by good authority as knowing thing or two about q prospect or a mine. Mir. Smith is also secretary of the Marsh Lumber company which is destined to become one of the largest and most successful business enterprises in the Line City. County Treas surer Geo. B. Marsh is the nrin- cipal stockholder and general man. a ger of the new Lumber company which is now prepared to furnish, at reasonable prices, everything necessary to build anything from an adobe henhouse to palace built of marble. The Marsh Lumber are now burning their own brick
The border vidette., 1903-05-23

rights, franchises, plants, mines, pre-
 cious metals in ore or any reduced
 form, bullion or other changed or manufactured forms, mining claims,
 mining prospects containing any and all kinds of minerals including petrol cum. crude oil, naptha. maltha, gas, asphaltum, or any mineral deposits of any nature or kind; to work and de
 velop the same; water and water rights, bridges, ferries, boats or steam boats, and to operate same; to loan and borrow money: to mortgage ana execute it's bonds, bills, notes, mort gages, trust deeds, or pledges of any kind whatsoever, on any property whether mining, oil, personal or real, as security for money borrowed and money loaned; to purchase, lease, bond or otherwise acquire, to own, exchange. sell or otherwise dispose of, and to subscribe for, hypothecate and redeem, mortgage or pledge, and deal in it's own and in the stocks, bonds, notes or other evedences of debt or interest, mortgages, trust deeds or other secur- ities of other public or private corpor- ations. systems, persons or associations; s; to acquire, hold, conduct, hire, lease, construct, erect, build and operate plants, mills, stores, refneries con centrators, smelting works, cyanide plants, power plants, to conduct and prosecute all necessary and convenient processes and methods of mining ores and for reducing and marketing the same and all minerals and precious metals. and for these purposes to acquire, own and control, and deal in all manner of mining machinery, chemical and mechanical processes, water plants, lighting, hauling, pump ing machinery, power plants, accour- trements and transportation facilities and the products Of the same
 SECoND.-The capital stock of said Corporation shall be one million l,- O0O, ,OO0) dollars, divided into one million shares at the par value of one dollars each, which stock shall issued fully paid up and non-assessable in exchange for cash. services or property.
 THIHD.-The Board of Directors shall consist of seven members who shall be elected annually by the stock holders of this Corporation, and who Corporation.
 FoURTH-The Corporation shall commence business on the date these Articles are filed in ths office of the Secretary of Arizona, and shall twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH.-The highest amount of in direct or contingent, to which this Corporation shall subject it self at any time is six hundred thousand (S6OO,0OO dollars.
 SIXTH The private property of stockholders of the Corporation shall be exempt from its Corporation debts.
 IS WITNESS WHEREOF we have here unto Set our hands and seals this ? 2lst day of March, nineteen hundred an1 | hree
The border vidette., 1903-05-23
EDWIN H MILLER JOHN II FOLKS NJ HART D H HAMILTON HOW ARD A MILLER NELSON 4 T WOLCOTT ERWIN A ARMSTRONG CYRUS GRANT
 Incorporat
State of California
1ncorporators.

County of Los Angeles
 On this 2lst. day of March. in the year nineteen hundred and three. be fore me. T $ Knoles, Notary Public in and for the said County aforesaid, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared. Edwin H Miller, John II Folks, Mart ID Hamilton, Howard A Miller, Nelson A T Wolcott, Erwln A Armstrong, Cyrus Grant. known to me to be the persons described in, whose names are subscribed to, and who executed the annexed instrument, and they ack = nowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and con = alterations therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I hav.. here unto set my hand and affixed my off cial seal the day and year. first above written
 T $ kSoLEs, Notary Public. / SALE Y in and for Los Angeles
 - County, State of Cali
 fornia
 My Commission expires, June lst., 1906
The border vidette., 1903-05-23
Territory of Arizana.

territory of Arizana.
 County of Santa Cruz l hereby certify that the within in strument was hlei and recorder at the request of E H Miller, March 2S, A b 1903. at 9 a. m Book ?, Nescel- laneous Records at pagesl49, ljO, l5l and lj2
 Witness my hand and official seal the day and year aforesaid
 PHIL HEEOLD,
 CoUNTN RECoRDER. First pub. April D. 1909. Ct
Evening journal., 1903-03-14
Mlf. Was the Winner.

The friends Of a well-known local
sporting man at present are having O
great deal OF amusement at his ex-
pense over a coincidence, which hap
pened several years ago, but which has
only recently leaked out. At that time
1t was no trouble to play policy in this
city. and this man often played II, as
we'll as other games OF chance.
The sporting mans wife was much
opposed to gambling, and did every
thing possible to break her husband Of
the habit. On several occasions, when
he went home late at night, after hav-
ing made a good sized stake, he got up
the next morning to find that the lar
ger part OF his winnings had myster-
iously disappeared from his trousers
pocket. He never made q kick, but
decided that never again would he
leave the money handy for his wife
while he slept.
One night shortly after this the
sport had a dream about money, and
the next morning he put 25 cents on
the money row, and sure enough, the
money row came out, and the sport was
$25 to the good. He laughed up his
sleeve about how he would fool his
Evening journal., 1903-03-14
CONSTABLE SMITH
TO HAVE HEARING
Charged With Violation of
the Requisition Laws of
Pennsylvania

Constable Smith, Of Hockessin, will
be given trial at Landenberg, Pa,
next Wednesday, on the charge Of vio-
lating the requisition laws OF Pennsyl-
vania. The hearing will be before JUS
tice Russell, who will come down from
West Chester for that purpose. Smith
is alleged to have arrested Christopher
H. Wilson and Ella Brown, both col
ored, in Landenberg, several months
ago, and brought his prisoners to this
State without requisition papers.
On account OF a number OF questions
of law which have arose over the case.
it has attracted wide attention. A
short history of the case is as follows:
Constable Smith arrested the two col
ored people in Landenberg on charges
OF assault with attempt to commit
murder and carrying concealed a dead
" weapon. They were taken to Hoe
kessin and given a preliminary hear
ing The magistrate there held them
for the General Sessions Court and in
default OF $500 bail each they We're
both committed to the workhouse. Az
ter being in the workhouse for a short
time the woman was found to be in
sane and she was released and sent to
the November term of the county court
Wilson and the Brown woman were
indicted on the principal charge, which
was assault with intent to commit
murder. An application was then
made by an attorney from West Ches-
ter for the release Of the prisoners on
the ground Of illegal arrest.
The legality of the arrest was never
settled In this State, as Attorney-Gen-
eral Ward dropped the case. 1t was
then that the charge against Constable
Smith was pushed. Requisition paper:
sent by Governor Stone to Governor
HUM for the surrender Of Smith to the
Pennsylvania authorities were honor
ed. Constable Smith was then takeI
to West Chester and held for the hear
ing at Landenberg next Wednesday.
The hearing is to be held at Ian
| denberg because the defense has
large number Of witnesses in that vi
cinity. smith will be represented b,
i Julian c. Walker, of this city, and w
w. MacElaree, of West Chester forme
district attorney, who is CONSIDERS
one OF the best criminal lawyers il
Chester county. District Attorne
Thomas Lack win prosecute the case
The penalty. If Smith Is found guilt,
is one year Imprisonment.
? Every means possible is being use
2 in Smiths behalf. A petition is no'
= being circulated and signed by promi
I lnent citizens in the vicinity Of Hockes
= sin, which will be sent to District AT
torney Lack, requesting him to us
, every honorable means to discontinu
the proceedings.
smith is the only colored constabl
in the State, and during the two yeai
he has been in office he has made a
: excellent record. He is said to be Il
a best constable that Hockessin has eve
l. had. A number OF members Of II
= Levy Court are taking an active II
4 terest in Smiths behalf.
Evening journal., 1903-03-14
Thouaht He Was a saeksIider.

A well-known Methodist minister OF
this city tells an amusing story of his
boyhood days. He was not a bad boy,
as boys go, but his dearest diversion
was sliding down the sloping roof of a
shed on his fathers farm. His mother
forbade him the pleasure, but he per-
sisted in 1t. Then his father. severe,
austere man, issued an edict forbidding
future sliding. For time the man
date was obeyed; then the inclination
to take just one more slide became too
strong for the minister-to-be to resist,
so he threw discretion to the winds,
climbed TO the top OF the building and
started on his downward career, with
all the JOY that boy could feel in for
hidden sweets.
But his mother saw HIM The next
morning at family prayers his father
began 20 pray:
"Oh. Lord, look after the backsliders,
and save them from their evil ways"
The lad was or-stricken, and
thought "rherel mother told on me, "
and confidently expected n thrashing
after breakfast.
The thrashing did not come, and the
minister r-to-be made his first acquaint-
ance with "backslider." 1t wasn't his
i last.
Evening journal., 1903-03-14
SATURDAY, SlARoH IA. 1908
AN UNHoLx ALLIANCE

over q week ago we warned the peo-
pie Of the city Of Wilmington that a
dangerous measure which we called
The ripper" bill would be offered In
the Legislature. The other papers
either ignored the matter at the time
or made light Of It, and one State SEN
ator expressed indignation at the lnti-
nation that such q measure could be
thought OF. Well. the bill is now ready
and win probably be introduced today.
It provides for the control of this
city by few men who are TO be named
IN the bill. II would take out OF the
hands Of the people OF Wilmington the
selection OF their public servants and
would put our Government under the
control OF the Legislature. II we are
TO be denied self-government then the
Legislature had as well appoint o COM
mittee Of It's members TO attend TO the
matter.
Suppose the Legislature should say
by an act what kind OF government
Dover or Smyrna should have and
should name the officers from ths
mayor to the chief Of police, wouldn'i
there be a howl? And yet this Is Just
what certain gentlemen Of the roac
would have the Legislature do for wil.
mington.
Il is said that the advocates OF tn
bill can count a two-thirda majority fl
Tho House aud this may be true. but q
the senate they are likely to ru
against a snag. Their hope is on a
alliance between Democrats and Unio
Republicans. II becomes apparent tina
the Regulars again have to stand be
tween the grabbers and the people. TIL
ripper" bin has been under considera
ton FOR months. and Il has the sane
tion OF Addicks and OF those Demo
Gratis in this city who were opposed
the election OF Regular Republica
senator under any circumstance
should II pass our people may kno'
that it is due to a combination of n
worst element in the Republican part
with the worst element in the DemC
cratic party.
Evening journal., 1903-03-14
Local Basketball Notes.

Neuman. the popular forward OF the
Wilmington basketball team, is sufrer-
ing from severe cut on the cheek, in
fiicted by a negro with a razor, and as
a consequence will be out of the game
for some time. While on a train he
went to the assistance OF a conductor
who had been set upon by two burly
negroes, one OF whom slashed him on
the cheek and made his escape.
Markwardt is again in and should
not have been put in the Camden game
on Thursday night but he persisted in
playins
The Camden team seems to have Il
in for Wallace and Penino and never
miss an opportunity to foul them
whenever the opportunity presents
itself. Farat took exception TO the
way he was tackled by Wallace and
handed him an upper cut. when h'
(Ferat) recovered after being taker
out in the air for some time. he wal
still dodging. Wallace gave him on'
that he will not forget for some time
Because Referee Stratton disqualiie
Wallace the team refused TO play an'
the game WAS forfeited to Camden