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Proposed Building. Laws.

or a new nlSn SCHOOL DuudiuB.
 Proposed Building. Laws.
 The new building laws TOT the city, which were recently drafted, were not brought before the council. Alderman Stockmar stated that a request had been made by the contractors for permission to look over them before they were finally passed upon. He said that the contrac- tors felt that since the architects had been allowed to draw up the laws and therefore knew all about them, that the builders should at least have the priv ilege of looking it over. An amendment provided that anyone who wished could look over the ordinance. It will not come up until the next meeting of the coun- ell.
 Alderman Barbour of the cemetery com- mittee asked that he be allowed fore man and five or six men to clean up the cemetery and the request was granted.
 The contract for doing the grading and macadamizing provided for by improve ment ordinance IFS was awarded to Dunn & LdlldHue bTOS.j lIell Dlu pSluB SAvIl@V. The contract for similar work provided for by ordinance 16S, was awarded to P. w. Jordan, his bid being $7OS6. The con- tract for building the sidewalks provide for by these two ordinances was awarded to Byron Souders, his bid being $54S6
 The recommendation that the well on Avenue E between Twelfth and Thlr- teenth streets be filled up was approved.
 Improvement ordinances IFS, IT, 176 and 179 were introduced.
 Too Much Noise.
 The street committee was instructed to confer with the board of revenue re- garding the abating of the nuisance from the noise of passing vehicles on Twenty-frst street. between Third and Fourth avenues, and to report back to the board of aldermen at its next meet ing.
 The petition to have an ordinance pre- pared to provide for the building of a sewer on Kirkland avenue at Fountain Heights was referred to the street com mittee.
 A resolution providing that the city attorney be instructed 70 prepare an or dinance requiring all pawnbrokers to make a weekly report on the articles of jewelry pawned with them was referred to the judiciary committee.
 The city engineer was instructed to ad- vertise for bids for the worK provided for under improvement ordinances 159, 14s and 129 as the bonds for the work have been approved.
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We make the best ( US in town. Age Herald Engraving Company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
MAY VOTE FOR HIGH SCHOOL BOND ISSUE Council lnstructS City Attorney
 to Prepare Ordinance BUILDING LAWS 60 OVER Several Large Contracts for Street Improvements Were Awarded Last
 Night-Question of Fist St.
 Pavement Again Up.
BUILDING LAWS 60 OVER

The city council met in regular session last night and transacted routine busi- ness. Those present were Mayor Dren- nen, Aldermen Greener, Barbour, Cope land, D. R., Copeland, J. R., Cooper, Alt man. Forney, Heidt, Gray, Simms and Stockmar.
 A resolution was introduced by Alder man Gray which was adopted providing that the city attorney be instructed to draw an ordinance calling an Election to decide whether bonds shall be issued by the city of Birmingham for the erection of a new high school building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

vein. If there is any other beside what I have shown the companies have taken advantage of us, and we don't know 1t. On entry work the $l.63 per yard is for taking down tops and heightening en- tries; S1 21 is for driving air courses; VISA Is the price for headings in coal and rock.
 The seam of coal in Maryland runs along about 20 feet. The seam in Mary land, where the price is 55 cents, is from five and one-half to seven feet thick The advance in wages there took place April l. 1905 At Coal Creek, when l was there. they paid 60 cents a ton and s2.25 per yard for heading work l don't know what they pay at Coal Creek or in Jellico pnu
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LADIEsI $500 REWARDEs4sss sss,;ssss s ease

suppression. any cause in pathology, my monthly regulator fails to relieve; safe: harmless; mall; how long suppressed Dr. JOHNSON MED. DIS. 95 Dearborn. Chi- ca go.
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Cactus Corr1pound

The blood. liver and dyspepsia bitters. ta positively guaranteed to increase youe weight. Popular book coupon with every bottle Jacobs Pharmacy. AaenkA
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Colonel Busn cross-Examines.

Cross-examined by Col Bush the witt ness said-I don't know the differential be- tween pick and machine mining in Penn sylvania and Ohio. There are two prices in Illinois, but l don't know why.
 Cross-questioned by MT. Percy he said In a six-foot vein of coal there is no ne cessity for taking down rock. l don't know that there is six feet of coal at Pratt There is six feet of coal at Bloc ton and at Blue Creek. l do know that you have to pay yardage all the same un- der such circumstances, but you would not have to pay it in the Coshocton Dis trict of Ohio or in the Danville District of Illinois.
 Examined by MT. Flynn witness Clemo said-There are two rates of yardage at Blue Creek The rock runs from two inches to five feet. The scale In this district for yardage has always been on the give and take basis.
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Judge Gray.

By Judge Gray-In the Warner mine Tom Clancy makes s5.0S per day net. He was paid for five yards of heading s2. .s4, and six yards of top g.. 63. How does that compare with Illinois and Ohio. Can you give any figures on such work.
 Answer-No, but I suppose man would make as much there. I worked in Clear field District, Pennsylvania. When l say I suppose they would make as much am just guessing.
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A gift that will make the wife or mother happy-a Gas Range.
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Mir. Clemo.

MT. ClemO.
 At the morning session yesterday the first witness for the miners was Joseph L. Clemo living in Birmingham. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Alabama district of United Mine Workers. He said: I was formerly a miner. know the scale of wages for labor and mining paid throughout the country. have pre- pared statements of wages. etc., taken from joint agreements of miners and op- orators and from the proceedings of the interstate convention in Indianapolis last February. The figures are correct. Gle here presents the tables to the commission for their use; also report prepared by Frederick D. Seward, which it is stated. is the authoritative work in use in this country)
 The statement of Messrs. Adams and Franklin was incorrect as shown by ref erence to the Coal Trade Journal. These statements regarding machine dfferentials were prepared by me and are correct and are taken from standard publications. I have also prepared tonnage tables. show ing work on different veins. CThese doc uments are filed with the recorder)
 I have examined the reports of the state mine inspectors of Ohio and Illinois and have made tabulations from their figures as to the number of tons of coal that will be pulled per keg of powder. Gle also offers certain copies of agreements. etc., between the various companies and the miners.) Both sides offer in evidence price lists from Fox Sons X Smith Co.,, Orr & Roberts, Fowlkes & Myatt, for pur- poses of comparison with prices charged in the different company stores.
 Cross examined by Walker Percy Mr. Clemo said: The figures offered covered Pennsylvania. The first table shows only the districts controlled by the union. don't know what the tonnage is of the Connellsvie region. It produces more coke than any other region in the United States. l have given no figures covering 1t. West Virginia produces much coal. I have given no figures on West Virginia Kansas don't produce coking coal that I Iowa don't know about. Illinois and In- diana don't know about. I am not famil- jar with the subject. Kansas coal don't come into competition with Alabama coal, nor does Missouri or Iowa.
 Connelljville Iron.
 As to Connellsville, I don't think our iron competes with that iron. I don't know how much Illinois and Iowa miners make year. In many of these states the mines are shut down a part of the year. 1 could not make a table of earnings within the limited time necessary for use by the board. If man only works three days in a week he should get more per
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Executive Session.

The board will meet in executive ses- sion three times daily until they have fin- ished their labors. Few people have any idea of the amount of labor still before the board The testimony is very volumi- nous, and the documents and tables which have been filed with Dr. Neill. the record CT. for the consideration Of the commits sion are numbered by the score and in many cases are both intricate and lengthy.
 Under all the circumstances it is hardly probable that decision can be reached before the first of next week.
 Each side seems to feel confident that its banner will be carried to victory.
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James H. Orange,

James II. Orange, the next witness, testified as follows-I am check weigher
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OtOTSc tOdiiHs
 The next witness was George Young, a miner from Blocton. He said-I have worked in Blocton for fifteen years. dug coal in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Kentucky and Iowa. l am fa- miliar with conditions at Blocton. In driving headings we have to handle two and one-half feet of rock. Eighty per cent of the rooms in No. slope have that amount of rock Many of the men in Blocton work their boys. The coal is run on the fathers check suppose. but don't know anything about 1t. There are many good miners in Blocton. but the great majority are inferior to the eastern or western miners At least 90 per cent of the Blocton miners are Hungarlans, Italians and Slavs. Many of them are experienced miners. Blocton coal re- quires skill in mining on account of the bad top. If the timbers and tops fall the miner has to clean up without com pensation.
 The Blocton seam is considered a five foot seam. I have known a man to be obliged to take out three and one-half feet of rock in heading for which he received no extra pay.
 Cross examined by MT. Percey, witness said-The Blocton seam runs up to seven or eight feet.
 Question:: Now about boys. B. August made $1O69 for last mining year. Did he work his boy?
 MT. Lewis asks MT. Percy did you run the man through the year?
 Mir. Percy says list only covers men
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PUGLSM $ 5::: $;:: :: ::
NATIVE NURSERY NEXT
STAKE OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE
Will Be Confined This SateNny
Best wo-IearOds tue Fair Grounds Are Not Eligible
Which Is Reflection Missouri Breeders


WIKI ifjN t'''i ti-'. = ->''-'' i'at i'itH.
Juvenile t1o'4Eshb-"os tgya been oc-
| cupyins ;he 'a,.g @! ttt stage at the
| Fair Grounds eF.- sin"r :h $. Louis Dar-
| by was run.
! Saturday III JUNO. Championship WIS
! decided. arI ra-. saturday ,ha Native
! Nursery Is e. lo rGu.
! Cnfortura--Is. tn best Of ,he 2--sa.-
olds developed here were not eligible TO tho
Junior Chamr.pnehiD. which 9et..etet ma
! terialIy from the imuortIu-a of the coy
test. In former years the Junior Cham
plonship generally settled the 2-year-o,d
supremacy If 1t local tracks. but The re-
suit had no such significance this Year.
Olefiant. H." best fiv l-rc last year.
beat ]. Sin Walker .Ea hrst epil az the
track, in th" J1ni9r Championship. This
year the 2-geEr-oid nlly championship OF
the track is still unsettled. There ar, three
candidates tor the honor on public form.
namely. W. ". Dardsu's Miss era wford.
Hayes headiey's Orient and I. P.
Hayes's Anne Davis.
Orient is the Ornament FLY that annexed
the Debutaate Stakes early in the meeting.
She has never started since. Miss Crawford
has to her Crad;. four s-ra3,b, ;,.,i,..
at the Fair Grounds. and is undoubtedly =
FLY of high class Anne Davis started for
the first time last week and breezed home
in front of a fair field Of rnaidens. She is
credited with being one of the highest-rr;ed
youngsters in Tom Hayes's Earn.
Hayes is said to have remarked recently
that he had at least five 2-year-ol9s in
MS stable that could take Miss Crawford
measure When he made this boast he add
eu 'hat lie vas prepared to bet his money
'hat way and would wager sl.eA0 on the re-
sun Of special match between Anne Da-
Wis ana Miss crawford.
fELHAM AND SCOTCH DANCE.
-haJoF eihaii ana scotch Dance seem to
We 'he PICK OF 'he z-year-oid colts SHOWN
af"uiio mere up 20 GATE. MAJOR Pelham be-
tohss u ID A h.hsn'ah OF Kentucky.
sSotch lance Is the property OF Doctor
1ohn u. PARISH. one OF the most popular
Vi iceaI patrons OF tire turf
DoctCf farF!sh pred scotch Dance HIM
set ana sun owns me sire Of TINS useful
younsster scotch Dance won stake in
the most impressive fashion AT the KinIocb
srr;,,, ,,,,,.:,,, II - ., ','e
"fs el."s' -NajoF remain mas TO MS
creoi. Inc kindergarten Stakes. in which he
beat fast field at the Fair Grounds last
month
Next 10 Scolch Dance and Major Pelham,
sters at the Fair Grounds 1,stiz 49,,
EetoHsS
10 carney sehreiner' VINO claims that the
best of his 2-year-olds have been sick all
spring
SCpPFrREp WOW r,pS-r >-1-,srpv
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ahst Finishes in Second Place and Kern in Third
With More Than SXySix Games Their
-ankers Teamtirands Lead for the
Team Standing.

WRITTEN FOR TIE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The Bankers tenrn team is one of the
Oldest organizations of the kind in the city
ard one Of the oldest clubs in the ST Louis
TeHT!n League. Al. Bush, H. G. Holden,
Charles H. EVERY. c. W. Wall. J. j. Lake
and NJ A Phillips make Up the team and
collectively and individually rank with the
leaders for this season.
The Bankers hold the high team record
for single game. i.035. as well as the rec
ord for high average in three games. 9s1 1-3.
an average per man of 1872 Ais for one
nights play.
This year the Bankers played a good
game Of tenpins and were contenders for
the league championship UP 10 the finish.
Although the team finished fourth in the
race. II was but four games behind the
leaders. with an averag e of s37 and a frac-
ton for ninety-nine games. In view of
their good rolling the Bankers account for
their failure 10 win first honors on several
occasions only by figuring that their op-
pOnents had Dame Fortune on their side
and had q bit the best of the break in
luck. However, the team is disposed to
give full credit TO its opponents for the
work necessary to keep it out OF first place.
The Bankers los; the championship in
the first tenpin tournament ever rolled in
St Louis by one game. The tournament
was rolled on regulation alleys in 1900. and
at the termination Of the season the Bank
ers and the Difficulties. of BelIevil!e. were
tied for first pdace. 1t was decided that
the teams should roll three additional
games to decide which would receive the
trophy emblematic Of the championship of
St Louis. Each team won a game and
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

, the Difficulties got a flying start in the
third game and We're never headed. defeat
! ing the Bankers for the trophy by a good
margin
Although losing the championship in 1890
the Bankers captured first prize in three
other club events. They scored the great
est number of pins. 1885; made the high
team score. s7i, and the high average for
one nights play. sd %. J. J. Lake, cap
tain of the team. al that time a novice at
the pinpin game, carried off the lions
share Of individual prizes. winning first
prize in four different events. He won the
high-arerage prize for the season, with a
score Of ISL Ills: the prize for high aver
age in three games with score of 1861:
high score. 90, and the best percentage Of
strikes. .3I5.
In April. 1901. the Bankers would not be
denied the local championship in the
Courthouse alley tournament. which they
won handily.
Captain Lake is said to be the best iadi-
vidual bowler in ST. Louis. not connected
with bowling alleys in the capacity of own
er or employe. During the tenpin league
season of 1901 and 1892 the League enforced
a rule barring an enploye CT a bowling
alley from eligibility for any of the prizes.
Under this rule Lake finished fourth, Pabs:,
Kern and Pfueger leading him. but won the
gold medal for high-ave-age man of The
season.
Had the same rule been in effect this
season Lake again would have Won high
honors. as he finished fourth. with better
than III. Pfiueger won first honors. with
Patst and Kern "lose w. The Bankers
average for the season ~ l4l and 1902 Is
Sal 55-6s.
Scores and averages in the st. Louis
League follows:
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY nErUBLIc.

Easily the feature OF the last seven days
in puEiiistic way was the battle fought
ore week ago yesterday al Butte. Mont.
between Jack OKeefe Of Chicago and jim
my Britt of San Francisco. While the af-
fair ended in a draw. the result was prac-
iicaliy victory for the Chicago man.
The result might also have been Il defeat
Fer Britt as far as affecting his standing
in the ring IS concefned. Jimmy had been
liorizra and iIc.izcd on the Coast until he
believed that he =as tho fastest thing ever
proluy.lr 20 :he PIE ring lie fought some
hish-c.ass battles In SAN francisco but al
was steered clear of Joe Cans. the negro
champion in tic lleht-wpight division.
Ills ii-i,t with g'K5efe at Portland stirred
IN TWO distinctly opposite seutiments-some
believed that O'keefe had the hctter Of the
affair until Britt commenced 10 Hand low
blows. others asserted TINT th" blows were
in ;ha stomach region. and iusiauatei mat
bctta- angles had something to co with
Referee Grants action = d.s4ua;ifyinS
B1itf on Il foul
Rritt's unmistaka5le teGas-C- To f0ulinE
IN .le laz hattie ana lis readiness 70 r.
sort 10 questionable work = some stages.
supports tie referees verdict. Moreover.
the respective showing Of the men and the
confidence with which Sig Hart and the rest
of the Chicago contingent Bat on o'Keefe
seems to indicate that these who claimed
o'Keefe had the better Of the first contest
until Britt hit him low had some reason be-
hind their assertions.
o'Keefe has leaped suddenly into ore Of
the foremost places in the lightweight d.
vision. There is a general uavilingness
apparent TO regard him seriously cham
pionshp material. and this sentiment will
likely prevail until he shows his class more
clearly. Those who saw him fight st.
Louis Tommy Sullivan in this city last sum
rner are not particularly inclined to believe
that he is ful;-heGged champion in ability.
Now that he is at least on an even foot
ing with Britt. however. Joe Cans will prob
ably get a match. 1t remains to be seen
what o'Kcefe can do against the negro
boxer. Joe is admittedly one of the best
men that have held the title in his division
and II o'Keefe can even draw with him his
fortune. as pugilist. is made.
Bob Fftzsimmons intruded himself once
more upon public notice last week by max
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challenge the winner of the Root-Gardner

challenge the winner of the Root-Gardner
battle.
This last statement Is apt to cause con-
starvation in the breasts of the last-named
pair Just when they had a separate class
all picked out for themselves. with no avail
able material In sight apt to bother the
champion. whichever one it might turn out
to be. FitZsimmons must needs bob up and
become a disturbing factor in that very
class.
And If Fitzsimmons really decides to fight
the winner OF the affair. 1t ought to be
about the best battle that could be seen.
Bob has a most unexpected faculty of get
ting into trim after long absences from the
ring and he could stir up a whole lot of
worry among light heavy weights If he
chose to fight once more.
The only reErattsble feature is the fact
that he is apt TO fall back into his old hab-
its and commence attacking the various
other members of the profession. Ftzsim-
mons was generally making a verbal
sault on some other fighter when he was
leading figure in the ring That Re has not
changed his ways is evidenced by the fact
that he added KNOCK on Jim Corbett TO
MS announcement that he intended to re-
enter the ring.
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Corbett and Jeffries have been keeping
somewhat quiet of late. but both have final
IL started serious worh. Reports from the
Coast indicate that each man is going in
telligeutly about his work and that bIth
appear. from all indications. TO ne in first
class trim.
Cc-bett was always inclined to Be enthu-
siastic about his own chances AM his own
condition But conservative and experienced
judges have looked up over at his train
ing quarters and have agreed that he shows
up in great shape, He undoubtedly has the
sped and thu oid-timr sknl at boxing;
whether he ras the vitality bshin1 IL Is the
Question the experts ara asking themselves
From all aprearance> his. chances are
neither better wors. than they wer"
when he met Jeffrfes al Coney Island. On
thai occa= sion. he fought q surprisingly good
battle. after he had admittedly been IN
worse condition few months bsfore than
he mas been at any time in the las. year.
HIS magnificent showing on that occasion
iustiies his friends in believing that ne can
make an equally good contest in August.
r One novel feature OF the week was the
manner in which two men attempted to use
the reports sent out from Los Angeles TO
the effect that the Corbett-Jeffries go was
to be a fake. Absolutely no grounds can
be shown for such a charge. but an attempt
was made in Philadelphia to profit thereby.
Two men giving the names OF Russell
Barnett of St. Louis and Eiwin K. NORRIS
OF San francisco. respectively. approached
a man named Edward Sydnor. according TO
dispatches from Philadelphia. telling him
that they were agents of a San Francisco
syndicate formed to bet on fixed fight.
They claimed that Coroett was to win and
that they wanted some betting agent, who
w::s unknown In San Francisco, to place the
money for them.
The announced that close to 10000
a .,I,o
for the Syndicate" He would be required.
however. to put up guarantee of $500
This talk of big sums and the large bills
:led Sydnor. who is wealthy restaurant
keeper and saloon proprietor. He Is said
10 have actually had $1,000 ready as the
first tnstallment on his guarantee: when
the police stepped IN and arrested the men.
they were released on bond by Magistrate
'Devlin.
The second meeting between Jack McCIsI.
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Sew York. june -H.-Priaee. e DC lion in
Eos, Ks Zo1. was attended ~ opticians
y,..ier.Iay- IN q nshr IL Richmond Va.
Prince los an sre. He was fitted with
2ist-- we bu; when ne started 90 walk the
vs. the. cause.
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Y0uuGsf own. o.. ,IuEs @-chIrIes Snow,
"a brakeman or the Baltimore and Ohio.
- found 10y his CIV along the track in an
ureu1sciU;l- .DaiJt.0. and was placed in
Ia. hospital here where he died.
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LOST SEXUAL POWER RESTORED

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RESUME OF RING HAPPENINGS
AND RECENT BATTLES OF NOTE

Jimmy and Jack 0keef Fought Contest of neresmmy
Mason Talks of Gardeners Chances i'll the Fight With Root
July 4-Fitzsimmons Once More Announces His Inten-
o Entering the Ring = Sullivan NcCeland
Promises Well.
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