The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-06
SELMA COMMITTEE ISSUES PAMPHLETS Will Inform People on the Mos
 vuito's Habits TURNER MAKES DENIAL Trainmaster Says He Wants to Aid the Quarantine Officers In Every Pos
 sibe Way-other News
 of Sema.

Selma, August 5.-(Special. )-Meeting of the auxiliary committee of public safety composed of five citizens from each ward, was held at the city council chamber this morning and a temporary organiza- tion formed which will be completed on Tuesday evening at 6:S0. The chairman for each ward, who is a member of the board of health was given authority to fill any vacancies that might occur It was decided to have about ten thousand pamphlets printed giving instructions and
 educating the people as to the necessity
 of exterminating the mosquito. These
 will be ready for distribution Tuesday
 evening. The meeting was quite an en-
 thusiastic one and there is going to be a
 systematic. careful warefare waged
 against the stegomyia faciata and his
 ilk
 Trainmaster Turner Makes Denial. Trainmaster Turner of the Louisville
 and Nashville. who 1t was alleged ordered Quarantine Officer Philen not to go be- yond Snow Hill when the latter wanted
 to go to Flomaton yesterday, denies hay ing done any such thing, and expressed himself as utterly surprised at the officer having sent the telegram to County
 Health Officer Dr. s. G. Gay. MT. Tur- ner reached the city last night and be-
 ing apprised of the affair sent the fol- 1 lowing telegram to Conductor McGil who went down on yesterday mornings
 run, receiving the appended reply: Selma, August 4 G. B. McGill, Conductor. Pensacola, Fla Quarantine officer wired Dr. Gay that you put him off at Snow Hill by my instructions. Did you put him off. or
 have any words with him?
 Pensacola, Fla, August 4 Mr. T. B. Turner, Selma, Ala.
 Quarantine officer was not put off by
 any one. After he got off at Snow Hill
 1 heard him make remark that he intend- ed holding train at county line. I asked
 him what the trouble was and he said you would not carry him to Flomaton.
 This was said on platform at Snow Hill He acknowledged that you told him if
 Dr. Gay said for him to go to Flomaton you would arrange transportation. He was not even told to get off by myself or any one else. G. B. McGlLL. Officer Philen maintains in a statement made this morning. that he was ordered off the train by MT. Turner. A passenger
 
 Conductor McGill told him some time
 after the train had left Snow Hill and the
 officer had gotten off that there was going to be fun that night when the train from Flomaton came up; that MT Turner had refused to allow Quarantine Officer Philen to go further than Snow Hill and that Philen had sent word by him to the northbound conductor that he would have to stop his train at the county line and wait until all passengers
 were examined.
 The affair has created considerable comment although not amounting to a great deal after all for the railroad official declares emphatically that he has no desire in the world to interfere with the duties of the quarantine off
 cers and on the other hand has offered
 to aid them in every way possible.
 Local and Personal MT. Charles A Wickersham, presi-
 dent and general manager of the Atlanta and West Point and Western of Alabama
 railways, was a visitor to the city today.
 MT Wickersham stated that he was in close touch with the boards of health and authorities in the counties through which his lines run and that he believed 1 there was nothing in the least alarming | over the yellow fever situation. He prom
  | there come time. which he considered an extremely remote possibility. when q | number of people wanted to leave the | city quickly the Western would be able to accommodate them
 | Capt. John w. Craig. captain and adju- | tant Twelfth cavalry, United States army
 stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Chicamauga 1 Park is on visit to his parents Judge | and Mrs G. H Craig. Captain Craig had not been to his old home since returning , from the Philippines. He had been on a | visit to Mrs Craig. who, after returning | from the Philippines with him, went to | San Antonio, Tex, to visit her relatives. l Captain Craig has received the distinction l of being one of twenty-five captains of ] the United States army to be sent to
 Washington to the war college for six l months instruction.
 | Maj. ! C. Compton. who has been quite | i'll at his apartments in the Hotel All
 bert, is repotred somewhat improved to- 1 day.