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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
HEROES TO REUNITE
CONFEDERATE VETERANS WILL
 JOURNEY TO MOBILE.
Calf City Has Planned Great Occasion for Reunion of Alabama Vets Montgomery Delegates
 Leave Today.

Confederate veterans of Montgomery and all Alabama are today donning their grey uniforms and the spirit ot forty years ago is again leaping into their hearts in expectancy of meeting their old comrades at the annual re- union of the Alabama Division of the United Confederate Veterans in Mo- bile. tomorrow and Wednesday.
 Montgomery will send large delega- tfone to Mobile. Both Camp LomaX and Camp Falkner will send their full representation of delegates and alter mates and many other veterans who are not connected with any camp will Journey to the Gulf City to participate in the festivities and the recollections of the reunion.
 The veterans from the Capital City will go to the reunion in no organized body but the great majority of them will leave for Mobile today. General George P. Harrison. commander in chief of the Alabama Division will leave with his stan m his private car from Montgomery at Il o'clock.
 Hon John Craft, Chairman of the Finance Committee of Mobile for the reunion. reached Montgomery last atght He immediately sought Com nnander J. B. Fuller of Camp Lomax Co get an estimate of the number of old soldiers who would attend the re- union and for whom provisions would have to be made.
 Mir. Craft said that a fund has been raised in Mobile, sufficient to feed and lodge 250 old soldiers during the two days of the reunion. In addition to this. they will, on the first day. be given a boat ride on the bay, a band concert and a free show in BienvilIs Square. There will be several balls and other social affairs.
 Every effort is making" continued the Mobile chairman, ito make the vet erans have the best time of their lives and the Gulf City will spare neither effort nor expense to attain this end ''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
Regular Council Meeting.

The regular meeting of the city council will take place Wednesday night and 1t is the opinion that the report of the Investigating committee on the big fire of last month will be heard. The testimony covers over two hundred pages. and as 1t was the desire of the council to have the writ ten evidence before judgment was passed no meeting has been held be- cause of the fact that the stenoera- pher was unable to prepare his matter. It Is announced that the testimony has been written up now and that it will be sent the mayor by Tuesday, The council will also probably take up the mater of water rates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14

HOO votes each. The Populisti and Prohibition electors received few scattering votes.
 There will not be any contest over the office of Circuit Clerk in Bibb Coun- ty. as w. E. Fancher, who has served the people of Bibb County faithfully and well for twelve years will retire as soon as his successor, R. l.. Avery. qualities.
 There is no bitterness resulting from the election in this county. and the people seem nearer together politically in Bibb than they have been for twen- ty years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
HI. skull Fractured.

George Gooden. an employe of the Birmingham rolling mills. and living at Green Springs, near the outskirts of the city, man with wife and six chill dren. was found lying beside the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad tracks, near his home, with his skull badly fractured. one of his arms broken and otherwise injured. A negro called at the home of Coroner Paris who lives in the same vicinity and reported that a white man was lying along the rail- road tracks with his body shot to pieces The coroner called the ambulance and had the man sent to the St. Vincent hospital Physicians who examined the man at once reported that he was fatally injured. Yesterday was pay day at the rolling mills and 1t is be- lieved that Gooden was drinking last night and sat down along the railroad track on the end of the ties. Toward morning he fell towards the track and some train came along and struck him. The man was almost frozen to death also when found.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
Mashington. to Sneak.

Booker T. Washington. principal of the Tuskegee Institute. the well known negro educator will deliver an address here tomorrow night at the Baptist Church of the negroes. There will be no charge of admission but a collection will be taken up. Leading negroes here say that Washington will not talk about politics and 1t is not believed that during his stay in Bir- mingham he will make any reference to politics The negroes of Birming- ham look to Washington as their Moses and 1t Is freely heard that he is going to do something for the race now. His address here tomorrow night is given out to be solely for the purpose of assisting an Old Mans Home which Is being conducted by the negroes in this vicinity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
Plenty of Gambler.

Scores of gamblers will range them selves before Judge Beggs of the crim- inal court. Monday morning for trial. The ganiesters ere negroes in every case. but as there are many who have been up in the courts in this county before on identical charges the indica- tions are that the judge will deal se- verely with them.
 The regular term ot the criminal court will convene at 10 a. m. Monday. and then the docket will be sounded. It is possible that the number of cases exceeds that of any previous term.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
GIRL BURNED TO DEATH.

oadsden. Nov. 13-(Special) )-At Wyeth City. in Marshall County, Fri day, the s-year-Old. daughter of Robert Rainwater was burned to death, Mrs Rainwater had left the child in the yard alone while she went a short dis tance away to get some water. During her absence, the child went into the house and got too near the fire and her clothes were ignited, the flames soyAEing her body in short while.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
Negro shoot. Annther.

The Sheriff's office today issued circular letter asking for the arrest of Ossie or Steve Johnson. a negro. who last night shot and killed Barney Lockhart, another negro, in Sixth alley between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Streets. Johnson found Lockhart at the home of a negress. Mamie Scott, with his (Johnson's) wife, and after shooting Lockhart. beat the woman with the butt of the revolver.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
CHEROKEE.

Centre, Nov. 1S.-(Special )-Follow- ing is the official vote of Cherokee county Railroad Commissioner, Co., mer, 1.65S; Foster, 35, Mcclellan for Chief Justice. 949; Beeson, 70. Associ- ate Justices, 963. Democratic electors, 901; Republican. 499; Populist, 232 So- cialist, SS; Prohibition, 14. For Con gress Burnett. 1.137; Powell, sol. CIr- cult Judge. Haralson. 1,2SS: Nicholson, 3SS. Solicitor. Hunt. 1.2S3; Sloan. 3S6. Democratic matorities for county off, cers. J. L. Savage, Probate Judge, 1902; Circuit Clerk l. l.. Brock. G56: Tax Assessor J D. Wilder. Al; Tax Collector c. Y. Blackburn. 1873 tho opposition); Treasurer. A. s. Johnson, 662; Superintendent of Education, A. Q. Williams, 567; Coroner. Claud NJ. Hall had no opposition
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
CLAY AND CHEROKEE.
Votes Rolled in Last Tuesdays Flee
 ton are Counted.

Ashland, Nov. 18.-(Special )-Com- plete official returns from Clay County give Parker. 1,345 votes; Roosevelt, 990; Hefiin for Congress, 1851; Walker. 1,014. No opposition to Supreme Court Justices, Railroad Commissioner, Cir cult Judge and Solicitor and Chancel- Tor. For Probate Judge S. J. Ingram. Democrat. received 1868 votes: Phil lips. Republican. 1,075; Lambert for Clerk, 1894; Hallmark. l,oo5; for Tax
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
To Hold Fall Festival.

Arrangements are being made to hold Fall Festival in this city in the first week in December, the advance man now being in the city closing up the -preliminaries. The spot selected for twenty or more shows Is centrally located and cheap excursions will be run.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
The I. c. Buying cedar Posts.

Huntsville, Nov. 13.-tSpecial. )- Agents for the Illinois Central Railroad are buying up large quantities of cedar posts in this section. The posts. it is said. will be used in fencing the road from Chicago to New Orleans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14

Assessor A. S. Bell. 1,4IS: c. A. Ross, S9l; for Tax Collector. J. l.. Carpen- ter, 1886; w. D. Harvell. 1.O7O; for Treasurer, w. J. Green, 1.424; S. P Hood, 95S
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
Advance in Pig Expected.


 Alabama pig iron manufacturers LOOK for an advance in quotations for the product during this week of not less than $1 per ton. making $14 per ton for No 2 foundry delivery during the nrst half of the year The week closed with No foundry strong at $13 per ton. The mails being received by the manufacturers and telegrams also indi- cate that the demand for pig iron Is going to wax warmer every day. the consumers being anxious to place their orders for the product to be delivered next year, and as consequence there will be an advance in price.
 The iron manufacturers are in a hap py mood and in some quarters 1t Is ad- mitted that there Is practically a run away market Pig iron manufacturers are not in the best of position to sell iron with all the will they might. The strike of the United Mine Workers of America is still on in this State and though d large number of non-union miners have been brought in and are being given steady employment the coal production and coke output with the furnace operators is far from being satisfactory. In fact, the strike is keeping down production at several furnaces. though this Is not admitted.
 The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail road Company has but six of its furnaces in operation. five at Ensley, the greater portion of whose product goes to the steel plant adjacent for steel making. With. iron at $14 per tor there is no doubt but that several furnace companies who do not control all the raw material they need for their own use will be able to start up their plants.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
MRS. DUNCAN'S PLANT
BEGs TO BE ALLOWED TO VISIT
 HEIR HUSBAND.
Sheriff Is Obdurate, However, and De- clares This Will Not Re Permitted. Condemned Mans Attorney
 Hard at Work.

Birmingham, Nov. 13.--(SpeciaL)-- Mrs. Frank Duncan, wife of the noted safe blower and condemned murderer of Officer Kirkley in Birmingham two years ago, Is sentenced to hang Novem- Der 25th, Inst. Is loud in her complaint over the refusal of Sheriff Burgin to allow her to see her condemned hus- band. s T have offered to allow any woman to search me before I go in. tie down my hair and handcuff me. if only am allowed to go in and see Frank" walls Mrs. Duncan, "and yet the sheriff re- mains stubborn I want the newspa- pers to tell of my efforts to see my con- demned husband. I will allow guards on all side of me besides having my hands cuffed together and behind me. If only I can get in to see my hus- band"
 The week just commencing means an important one for Duncan. Col W. H. Denson. his attorney. will make effort to get his appeal to the Supreme Court this week. Colonel Denson will make a strong effort In behalf of Duncan. Colonel Denson has nothing to do with the petitions being gotten up asking for communication of sentence. so 1t Is stated. but has the legal side of the case in hand. It is believed that an emort Will De made tniS Week also to get the Supreme Court to consider the trial at which Duncan was tried and convicted, before his escape.
 Mrs. Duncan Is working desperately hard. She has been to the sheriff,s of flee many times and has begged to be allowed to go in to see her husband T am not going to take any chances with the prisoner, and there are no req sons why his wife should be permitted to see him." Is a reply made by the sheriff to the many inquiries in regard to his refusal to allow Mrs. Duncan ad- mittance to the jail.
 Two men are still guarding the cell of the condemned man. while two men watch the entire building from the out side at night. While there are no fears that an effort will be made to blow up the jail. no chances are going to be taken.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-10

shake off her load-efforts which frequently resulted
considerable damage Moreover, her shrieks OF ma
terna fear threw of gear all the other elephants
and they too did their best dslodge their packs.
and and all wanted to go back and see after
Baby '-So that time and time again caravan
was thrown into Babel of disorder in the midst
of which the little rutlan who had caused 1T all
would come back blowing like a porpoise and
nightly pleased with himself
Finally came to narrow path IN the
Jungle walled either side with dense underground.
And yet in the narrowest part a huge had fallen
right across and the natives instead of getting this
of the way, had simply hewn path
through it. OF course all the big elephants stepped
maiestically the tree, which, by the way.
the bottom of somewhat steep declivity
Without knowing why, | turned in my h0ot'iIh
Baby handle this obstacle and witnessed
prising The playful little beast. standing
little above, surveyed the and its passage for
few moments and then with a squeal of delight came
trumpeting toward it at full speed. His legs
short for him to leap he tried the passage
and To my surprise stuck fast at his fat little hips
- Here he shrieking crafty and the effect
of his first call his mother comic and
pitiabe. She stopped still, and wheeling
around be gan B to rush toward her baby at full
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the sinuous and sensitive trunk. grabbed the mdhom
by the hair, planted him the ground, and IN an
instant feet and tuSk and head had smashed him out
of all human sembanCe. 1t proved atterward
that by extraordinary coincidence the doomed man
had encountered the elephant he had been so unknd
to years before. ~
Both in India and Ceylon the Government, in time
of famine, tries to give employment to the starving
people and at the same time so arrange that these
works shall mitigate possible future tamines. For
this great tanks or lakes usually
constructed with masonry dams, and this work
elephants also employed in large numbers The
writer learned much about these marvelouSy 1ncll-
gent creatures from the Right Honorable Lord Stan
more. X. {. NJ. q, who has been High Commissioner
for the FIJI Islands and Governor of Ceylon.
- never should have believed if anyone had told me
the things | have these working elephants do
said His Lordship Il employed hundreds of them
a huge tank that were building near Handy,
and the system something like this
\ mile off the quarry where the stones
blasted and rough-hewn 10y means of chises;
and this quarry the elephants would come in long,
numbering files They all had be tuskerS
because of gathering up :, the heavy squared
blocks of stone their - tusks You see, they
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could not have carried these great masses of sharp
cornered flint delicate organ their trunk
was never tired OF watching them taking up the
blocks of stone
They would walk all around one cvcing it care
fully to which the best way handle it, then
drive the tusks into the ground at the side of the
stone and partly underneath it pry up slowly
Before IT had time to slip off the sloping tSkS the
trunk wound around IT and the stone lifted high
the air, that all the weight rested the tusks
the trunk being curled for safety than any
thing else and so that the might not Slip off
Then began the Journey back where the works
for the tank progress. and each elephant
laborer knew that he had to supply certain mason
with stone. This mason constantly preparing
beds of mortar for the big blocks and with infinite
the elephant would tendcrlv lay his weightv
charge this bed.
But the astounding thing the anxiety of the
elephant TO see that his task was rounded off in
neat and workmanlike manner. To my amazement
nave seen an elephant, after dcpoSiting his block
stone on the bed of mortar. back away few PAGES
cock his immense head side and SWAY his
trunk meditatvely as though saying to himself: Il
wonder II that block is laid straight its bed? And
what Is more, | have these wonderful brutcS
come back again and again to the block of stone
and give 1T tip with their heads here or a push there
until they had satisfied themselves and their human
partner in the work that everything was fair and
square"
Lord Stanmore tells vet another extraordinary and
amusing anecdote about working elephants on the
march Il was travelling in a wild and little known
part OF oeylon with large caravan of elephants,
OF them pretty heavily laden with goods of kind
and another he says. The biggest of all the Gle
plants was a mother, who, unfortunately for our
comfort, had her baby with her. No one knows the
trouble that we had with that youngster who seemed
to have packed into his few months of life all the
'cussedness' of all the rogue elephants that ever
devastated India.
whenever we arrived at village. Baby would
disappear, and complaints constantly were being
brought to that he had driven off herds of sheep
and goats and chased them miles into the wilder
ness. This was his greatest sport and bad enough
IN itself but to aggravate matters his disappearance
and distant trumpeting' of delight sent his mother
nearly wild, and she would make desperate efforts
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speed, with half dozen yelling natives hanging
to her from the hooks they stuck into her hide
She length brought To a standstil and then a
curious thing happened.
Deliberately calling to her of the few unladen
elephants of caravan, the sorely-afliced mother
evidently explained the plight in which her baby
She must also have pointed her help
lessneSS in the matter The other elephant gladly
undertook the commission, and back over the
fallen tree, looking at Baby's plight he
past him
The huge animal passed up the slope a little and
then after cogitating for awhile, gave loud trumpet
charged down the hill, and with his huge head gave
baby such thump the hind quarters that he
diSlodged from his sticking place, and fell head
heels on his nose rather trunk He was much
quieter afterward, and did leave his mothers
side
1t is indeed, always dangerous to approach baby
elephant when his mother is Only a few wears
ago big circus showing in Cincinnati and a
curious spectator climbed up of the tableau
wagons TO get glimpse of a tiny baby elephant The
mother of this little one huge beast named Queen
much alarmed, glided up to the man. put her head
against him and pushed She almost pushed the
wagon and held on for time. When she drew
back the man dropped quite dead
The extraordinary intelligence is displayed in
the elephants of the Indian armv You might have
thought that elephants in a thing of the
past. But great numbers of these unweldy beasts
are harneSSed to the twenty four Founders and
other large field artillery of the Indian arnv
and particularly they the front in the
armies of the Independent and semi independent
Maharaia,s
On field and review DAYS the most absurd rivalry
appears to exist between these artillery elephants and
1t record that the leader of a team
much diSguStcd at having been OUTRAGED picked up a
heavy cannon with his trunk, and threw it at his
successful rival. with somewhat startling effect con-
slderng that the cannon harneSscd to other
elephants.
Now and then 1T happens that even the tamest and
most intelligent of these brutes gets ugly" and
without warning rushes off by himself the wilder
ness. there to become inveterate rogue and a
terror To whole district. The writer we'll remembers
an Indian Colonel of the Royal Engineers coming into
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-10

and riGded with holes is to be seen in the
Natural History Section of the British Museum in
South kensIngtOn, London.
1t Is lamentable that dependence is to be placed
upon elephants for long at a time. That is say
while they may be marvels of affection for a few
they will suddenly have mt of vindctive ferocty
which may NIL whole cemetery with their keepers
Their amazing intelligence Is manifested. however
even in their widest outbreaks
One keeper of big circus invariably used to 60 10
sleep in the open between the ouspread legs of his
charge, wel-knOwing dare near him
while he was IN that position This elephant. whose
name Empress was particularly affection te
animal. and when the show out West. and deter
mined rOughS would come around for the purpose Of
would put long and murderouS- looking stick in the
trunk of Empress and cry; Fake EN- Empress"
Fake EN- And forthwith swinging the huge weapon
Empress would run like a raCe-horse: and certainly
If she got stroke of the nterlopers ii might
we'll be the last he would receive
At the courts of some OF the Princes of India ele-
phant fights much favored and also fights between
tigers and elephants. In connection with these IS
the following hitherto unpublished story
a few years ago at the Court of the Maharaiah Of
Jeypore great elephant hight between two formidable
tSkerS was arranged for certain honored guests For
several hours these huge infrIated beasts
hing with one another pushing goring and doing every
thing in their power KILL and at last one of them
fell. and was speedily killed by his triumphant rival
The keeper of the victorious ani1nal-one of the
frlnces oldest and most trusted retainerS-entered
the arena TO lead out his charge in triumph when
without the slightest warning the excited beast
refusing 10 recognize his Voice, charged him and
drove HIM TO death with his trsks aferward pulling
hlm limb from limb like cruel child with a fiv
In the midst OF this tragedy the dead mans wife
rushed INTO the arena with her baby bow and half
deInented ran up TO the elephant and calling him bv
ms name cried: Iou have killed him. Now YOU cen
Kill me and our babyl Swift thought the elephant
wound his trunk about the womans waist and wbirled
her INTO the air like straw
But the mad mt had passed and the repentant monster
n,
turning quietly he picked the baby off the ground and
with his trunk put 1T gently his spacious back
as though to say that this little one was TO be his
keeper IN future
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his office and without further preliminary spreading
huge map on the floor
This, said he calmly, represents region three
hundred miles square which absolutely turned
a wilderness by one rogue elephant, who for many
years had pulled guns for and was looked upon
model of prOpriety. He had way of lying up all
day dense brakes that looked exactly like himself Che
understood something about the protective resem-
blance of naturaSts, that fellow. and night he
would steal into village OF huts, walk at right
angles through them, in taking away the
roofs his back. and last but by means least, he
developed fendish way of killing the people which
III all my experience of India consider unique
Instead of putting them the ground and planting
foot them, or gOring them with his trsks, this
historic rogue used to pick up the poor wretches and
hurl them with his unerr1ng aim against which
they struck with their backs, breaking every bone
in their bodies At last things got bad that the
District Magistrate offered thousand rupees any,
who would Kill the beast, and the country
secured by marksmen who were constantly putting
bullets into that rOgueS skull.
All this seemed to have effect on him, however.
and at last had to get quick firing guns These
settled him, and his skull with suitable inscription