The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-22
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M a61 lpQIllll[ llf3 I2llkSx l Mobile July 21.-The Board of Revenue
 and Road Commissioners of Mobile coun-
 ty. sitting as a Board of Equalization,
 has been for several days engaged in
 hearing the reports of Back Tax Com | missioner Friend as to increases of as-
 sessments on property in the city and
 county. Owing to the fact that a large
 number of resident property owners are | out of the city at present the Board is l making but little headway in it's work
 though number of assessments have | already been raised from the amounts | given to the tax assessor. Owing to the
 marked increase in value of real estate
 in the city and throughout the entire | county the past twelve months it is ex- pected that when the Board of Gqualiza- | ton will have concluded it's work the | tax values of Mobile county will show | emarkable advance over that of last year. Some of the owners who have al- | ready been before the board acquiesced
 as to increasing their assessments be- 1 cause of the known fact that not only
 have property values increased, but also | rentals in proportion.
 As to rentals. your representative is in | formed by a number of real estate men | that the demand for houses has increased | to such an extent that it is simply inn possible to supply the deniand New houses are spoken for before the roofs a. . on, thus indicating a great influx of population. It is conceded on all sides
 that there Is more homeseekers in Mo
 bile at present thaan ever before at this season of the year and letters of inquiry
 are being received daily. not only by real estate agents, but the commercial bodies as we'll.
 For many months the local papers have been giving space to well founded rumors of a prospective paper mill for Mobile county. Capitalists largely interested in this industry have either written, sent | representatives or appeared here in per- | son seeking information as to locations, | availability of timber and l3bor for such
 an enterprise and it was expected tefore | this time that such an industry would | be located. It is now assured that a pa per mill will. in the very near future, be | erected within the confines of Mobile l county. built and operated by home cap l ital. R. Thomas of Wilmington, Del. rep | resenting a large paper mill machinery
 manufacturing company Is in Mobile to- day for the purpose of talking with men
 who are ready and prepared to enter into
 the manufacture of paper While the names of those in the movement are with held. all of them are already largely in- l terested in the timber and lumber manu- l featuring business and have large areas
 of available timber suited to the manu- | fracture of paper. They also command | sufficient capital to enter into this enter
 prise and, if they can be shown that there Is money in the undertaking will go into
 1t with the full intent and purpose of | erecting a paper mill in this county. In the Circuit Court. Rev. J. w. Day.
 through his attorney, has filed suit against the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
 road Company for $500 damages. The minister ayers in his bill of complaint
 that on June IS. 1903 he purchased a ticket from Canoe Station to Gulfport,
 Miss, on the road of defendant; that he boarded a passenger train: that before reaching Mobile the conductor took up his ticket; that on passing Mobile another conductor asked for his ticket; that he informed the new conductor he had used all his money in the purchase of ticket
 at Canoe Station and the other conduc-
 tor had taken up same; that the second
 conductore elected him from the train
 four miles south of Mobile and that he
 had to walk back to Mobile where he was without means to reach his destination. He claims the amount named as damages. The Alba Fishing Club is composed of | well known business men of this city,
 with the following officers: Phelan B.
 porlon, president; Norman Brown, sec retary; A. L. Gould, treasurer; Reub Baerman, Thomas J. Powell, Dr. Ram
 sey, Herman Well and H. V. Bachelder. governing board. The club has a splen- did place on Dog River and a temporary
 home which is now being remode.ed and
 improved The club house will be com
 pleted by the first of August. on which
 date barbecue and fish fry will be given
 to friends of the members. Tarpon fish
 ing, just now, Is the sport of the mem-
 bers and some good catches have been
 made.
 In the City Court this morning by re-
 quest of the solicitor, the case against R. A. Goodwin, indicted for grand lacreny, was again continued and the de- fendant allowed bail in the sum of $50 Goodwin Is one of the trio indicted in
 connection with the alleged robbery of a
 fine travelling pen seller in the new
 Southern Hotel last winter. He has been
 In the county jail for several months
 awaiting trial.
 J. A. Williams, negro. claiming
 Manvilla as his home, was arrested by Detectives Lacy and Norton and Ser
 geant Schreimer this morning on sus- plNltIl W NllldIHS nau q DOA or brass ana copper in his possession which is thought
 to have been stolen from a mill com
 pany at Oak Grove.
 Henry A. Spiva writes from New York that he has purchased the entire outfit of machinery necessary to sink we'll
 on the property of the Fish River oil Company, in Baldwin County, in which
 he and other Mobelians are largely in- terest.
 Col. R. B. duMont of the 1st infantry, Alabama National Guard, announces the | date of the regiment encampment as
 August 3. The regiment will go into
 camp near Mobile. though the site has | not yet been secured.
 Edgar LeBaron, this morning filed his
 bond as notary public before Judge Price Williams Jr., in the Probate Court. he
 having been re-appointed by Governor
 Jelks. This is MT. LeBaron's third term | in office as a notary.