The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-06
CAPITOL OFFICES
 MUST BE CHANGED Additional Supreme Judges Make Changes Necessary C0MMENTSON REMODELING Local Rains During Past Week Have Been Unusually Heavy-Valuable
 Relics Are Presented to
 Department.
BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.

| acting governor, Dr. Russell M. Cunning ham. and the keeper of the capitol MT. J. Kirk Jackson the latter being also the private secretary to the executive. are ''up against it." just now in assignment of room for the various officers of the | state.
 The addition of two supreme court judges make 1t necessary to give that tribunal more space. This will crowd the state railroad commission from it's happy home" and this body will likely be transferred to the quarters now used by the adjutant general of the Alabama National Guard. This official will in turn, go house hunting, and 1t Is very likely land in a room now used by the com missioner of agriculture and industries for tag storage. If the matter stops here both the governor and MT. Jackson will be happy.
 General Brandon is agreed, so far as he is interested, for the governor is go- ing to see that he Is given an adequate room when the capitol is overnauled. This brings up more talk of the re- modelling of the capitol itself, and lends new zest to the inquiry, What will be done, and when?" It Is a well-known fact that the Alabama capitol building commission is not altogether harmonious as to what shall be done about providing better quarters. Some prefer, and it Is said the governor is among the number that the old building be so fixed up that 1t will be adequate for all demands. Others want the ground on the south of the building bought and supreme court room erected thereon. It is not the pur- pose, however, so far as can be learned. of those who simply want the old build- ing remodeed to oppose buying the prop | erty aforesaid
 | These desire the purchase made, but l want to hold it for rounding out the grounds and adding to the beauty of the whole. It is argued that the old structure can be so repaired and enlarged as to meet all the requirements of the present force of state officials, and still leave enough money to buy the property on the south if 1t can be secured at req sonable figure.
 Attorney General Wilson Is getting the papers in shape to file condemnation pro- ceedings to secure the balance of the | capitol square. This Is 300 feet two ways and 400 one way. The capitol building commission has instructed MT. Wilson to go ahead at once to condemn the prop erty and have a price set on 1t. If this price Is reasonable 1t will no doubt be bought. If not it will be let severely alone.
 Plenty of Rain. | The clerk of the weather and the grow ing crops are not in harmony this week. Neither is the aforesaid clerk in line with the policy of the Southern league of baseball clubs. There has been too much rain for the crops by large amount and the baseball club has not been busy since Tuesday. Memphis secured only two games, and Little Rock has not been out to the park yet Manager o'Brien said yesterday that the grounds were then awfully wet and soggy, and it would take several hours of sunshine to put them in playing shape. Another hard rain fell today, which will make 1t very doubtful if game can be played tomorrow.
 The rainfall of the past seven days, ending with today, has been 1.56 inches above the normal. The total has been 2.54 while the ordinary fall is only .9s. Fortunately the showers have been local | In some places the crops are hurt wa- ter standing in the cotton rows and turn l ing the plant yellow. In others there has l been none too much.
 | J Idge J. NJ Carmichael, president of the state convict board, returned yesterday l from south Alabama and says there is no
 
 said of Pike county by Col. w. H. Sam l ford, who is in the city today from Troy. | In fact the rains seem to have been mostly in the middle tier of counties.
 Jones Talks Politics.
 George w. Jones, assistant attorney for the Louisville and Nashville railroad, re- | turned this morning from a trip through the states of Illinois, Indiana and Wiscon- sin. MT. Jones is of the opinion that Judge Parker will be the next president. Talking to a Montgomery Journal reporter MT. Jones said:
 From all that I could gather I firmly believe that Parker will carry the alleged | doubtful states of Indiana, Illinois and | Wisconsin. Of course he will carry New York. The republicans are almost ready to concede that at the present time. Re- garding West Virginia l think that state can safely be left to the vice presidential candidate on the democratic ticket. while | German will deliver Maryland. Kentucky | is democratic without a doubt. | Mir. Jones is highly pleased with the selection of Tom Taggart of Indiana as chairman of the national committee. He found that the people of Indiana, ire spective of party, love Taggart, and on this and the liking for Parker he be- lieves the state is certain to fall into the | dfiiDtldllc COlutIll. lie IdcIDndl IlBnI III | Wisconsin between La Toilette and | Spooner Is too bitter to be healed and this gives the democrats the best of It in | that state, where Mir Wall and his friends are going to put up the fight of their lives. With the Harrison Hopkins faction together in Illinois, and W. J. Bryan on the stump, MT. Jones does not see how ] the democrats can lose that state. l Slayer of Achors.
 The case against w. c. Sanford, charg- | ed with killing J. A. Achors, a Brming- 1 ham man, was this morning continued for | the term by Judge ", H. Thomas of the criminal division of the city court on ac- count of the sickness of the defendant who is confined to his bed. Dr. Samuel Billings stated to the ourt that Mir San- ford was too sick to come to court and | stand trial.
 Several weeks ago W. c. Sanford shot and killed Achors. an engineer of the I Louisville and Nashville railroad in MT. | Sanford's store in Vesuvius. He was placed in pail for a week and thereafter made bond fixed by R. H. Jones justice of the peace.
 | Frank Thompson, a negro, this morning | pleaded guilty to murder in the second l degree and through an agreement he was sentenced to fifteen years In the peniten- tiary.
 Tom Simmons. a negro, was yesterday acquitted of charge of murdering Titus | xNaothip ertou another negro.