The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-19
WILL ESTABLISH
 A REFORMATORY Boys Under Sixteen to Be Pro-
 vided For BARBOUR COUNTY BANGLE Contest for Probate Judge Will Prob ably Be Referred to the State committee-other Mont.
 Montgomery News.
BARBOUR COUNTY BANGLE

l Montgomery May 1s.-tSpecial Ala
 bama is to have a reformatory under the
 management of the state convict board.
 It will be at Speigner, on property owned l by the state, and will be open for the
 reception of boys under Is years of age on the first of August next This an- nouncement was made by Hon. J. M.
 Carmichael, president of the convict board this afternoon.
 l The order setting apart the property l for purposes named Is as follows 1 Montgomery Ala. May 1S 1904
 Ut is hereby ordered. by the board of convict inspectors, with the approval of the governor that the prison at speig-
 ner Ala, a place belonging to the state I of Alabama, be designated, by this board, as reformatory for boys. under 16 years of age, and such reformatory is hereby
 created, and shall go into operation about the first day of August, 1904, and shall l be managed under such rules, and regu-
 lations. as the board of inspectors may
 prescribe. keeping in view the moral, and | intellectual improvement of such con- | victs.
 "It is further ordered. that the board take such steps as may be necessary to cause all convicts. under the age of 16 years. who are, or may be serving sentence in the penitentiary, to be placed
  aforesaid to such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe.
 'It is further ordered by the board, that a night watchman be employed, for such reformatory, whose duty 1t shall be to | discharge the usual duties of night watchman. and also to teach, and in- struct said convicts
 l 'It is further ordered, that such con
 victs shall be kept continually employed at such work, and labor. on farm at | Speigner Ala. as the board may be able | to furnish, and provide.
 "It is further ordered, that said convicts shall be separated, and so kept and
 worked apart from all other convicts ' For Negro Boys. 1 It is not so designated nor reported | but there is reason to believe that this reformatory will be used almost If not entirely for negro boys. The school at East Lake, partially supported by the state and counties, receives white boys and 1t Is thought they will be taken care of there.
 The law setting aside this property for reformatory purposes Is an old one, but stipulated that the work was to be done | as soon as practicable. This point had l not been reached until within the past 1 few months consequently the movement 1 has not heretofore been taken up in | earnest The men who will have charge of the work and teaching of the boys
 will be appointed in due time. Everything
 will be arranged and made ready at ] Speigner by the time the school opens l in August.
 l The convict board has also provided for taking pictures of all two wear and over prisoners, in the following order; "It Is ordered by the board, with the | approval of the governor, that each con- I I,o. ..o1ao a-ry to serve, shall be photographed as cheap | ly as the same may be done. and If practicable by some convict. who Is an l tconvict) artist, and that the photographs l when taken, shall be kept for use in es- cape or otherwise. at such place as may
 be designated by the board.
 | 'It Is further ordered that such appar- atus and material be purchased for pro-
 curing such photographs. as may be nec- | essary."
 1 Tangle In Barbour. The tangle in the race for probate judge l in Barbour county Is discussed by many | of the leading democrats in the city this
 week, and the opinion freely expressed l that it will get to the state committee, with a chance of even going higher be- fore 1t is finally settled. Though some what of an old story as to general facts some of the details will bear repeating
 
 democratic nomination for probate judge. w. H. Pruett Thomas G. Grubbs and Guy w. Vim. The two first named ran ahead though MT. Grubbs who led his opponent. came forty-one votes short of | a majority. This made a second primary | necessary to settle the matter between the two highest. This primary was arr ranged for last Saturday and was to nominate some other candidates who had
 been unable to get majorities at the first trial.
 Several days before the second primary however the story goes. Pruett wrote q letter and circulated 1t that he would not enter the second primary. He also signified something of this kind to the secretary of the committee, who inform cd his associates. and at a meeting call- ed, as consequence of the letters MT.
 1rubbs was by the committee, declared the nominee for probate judge.
 The Grubbs men accepted this as final and never voted for probate judge at all on the day of the primary. But not so, some others. On opening the ballot box at Eufaula on the evening of the sec ond election it was discovered that sev- enty-one votes had been cast for Pruett
 and one for Grubbs. It also developed | when the other boxes were counted that Pruett had gotten about one hundred and fifty in the county. The latter's friends now claim his nomination and
 will, it is understood, fight for 1t. Grubbs' followers also assert that they will fight
 for their man and expect to win before
 both the county and state committees. l The democratic voting strength of Bar | bour county amounts to about 2000, show | ing that the Pruett vote is not at all rep-