The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-22
Stockholders of South & North
 Postpone Meeting
GRAY SPRINGS A SURPRISE
Commercial Association Will Take Steps Toward Making Montgom- cry More Beautiful-Miles
 Leaves for Birmingham.

the last named road to the first, PhareS
 Colemand today secured from the city court an extension of the injunction to prevent the transfer of the stock or sale or any action at any regular or speclal meeting of the South and North. or, in fact, any action until the litigation now
 pending Is disposed of by the courts. As result of the injunction the meet
 ing of the stockholders of the South
 and North held at the First National
 Rank today was unable to do anythig
 and they adjourned over to June 27. The meeting of the stockholders today
 struck a snag in the injunctions secured by Henry B. Gray, representing the mi- nority stockholders, in the city court,
 which prevented any sale of the proper
 ties of the road to the Louisville and Nashville. which has been contemplated.
 Some days ago an injunction was se-
 cured to prevent the sale of the proper
 ties of the South and North to the Louis
 vile & Nashville, at the meeting to be held today. Today an additional scope 1 was given the injunction so it would pre- vent the sale or transfer at any meet 1 ing until the merits of the litigation now
 before the court are passed upon. Mir. Gray created somewhat of sen 1 sation in the meeting of the stockholders in an offer to buy the stock of the South l and North for S100 a share. The propos- ton which MT Gray is resisting is to | transfer 10 per cent of the stock owned l by him and some others to the Louis- 1 vile & Nashville, owners of the other
 90 per cent for s2750 per share Just l after General Counsel Stone of the Louis 1 vile & Nashville had said that he held the proxies of the Louisville & Nashville and would vote them on the S2750 offer, MT Gray made his offer, which would re- l quire s3, 100000
 There being nothing to do in the case
 the South and North stockholders ad- l journed to June 27
 Mir Gray is represented by Phares Cole-
 man and Hugh Dent. i Beautiful City Montgomery proposes to do a number
 ol things toward making the city more attractive and tonight at it's regular
 meeting the Commercial and Industrial | association will take up the question of Deautifying the city, or the subject will
 be the City Beautiful" The following
 set speeches have been arranged Utilization of Waste Spots for Park Purposes Jacques Leeb.
 Improvement of the River Front Frank Jackson.
 Need of a Permanent Park Commits sion"-F. P. Glass.
 The meeting and movement will be un- der the auspices of the city development committee of which Frank P Chaffee Is president. Several gentlemen have sig
 nified their intention to be present and
 take part in the discussion.
 New Birmingham Lodge. George G. Miles, grand keeper of rec
 ords and seal. left this afternoon for Bir- mingham where he will take part in the institution of lodge of Knights of Py- Qt Toj institution ceremonies will be in the hands of Jesse B. Wadsworth of Bir-
 mlngham, supreme representative of the
 order in Alabama. MT. Miles. with H. NJ, Beck of Birmingham will visit the Jasper lodge Thursday night and Grand Chancellor F. F. Nichols is at Cullman to attend meeting ths evening. Twenty-six members were received at meeting of Central lodge No. of Mont
 gomery last night for the new temple of
 Korassan to be put in here. The team from Atlanta will come over and install
 the temple when it is ready. Gladeen
 Harrison, the popular sergeant of the police department, was given the second rank last night.
 The new lodge Just put in at Auburn
 Is reporting well It began with thirty
 members and will put in ten more to-
 night. Most of the leaders are connected
 with the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
 there
 Dust at Flat Top.
 Assistant State Mine Inspector James Hillhouse has found some dust in the
 Flat Top mines, which he has ordered
 taken out and a sprinkler put on at once. He also finds the ventilation only moderately good. The subject Is dis
 cussed in report made to Chief Mine Inspector Gray. which has been trans mitted to Governor Jelks
 The mine Is owned by the Sloss-S field Coal and Iron company, and Is worked by convicts The day men are
 121 miners 35 Inside and IA outside men,
 Frank Gafford is superintendent and A. J. Atkinson mine boss. The report covers
 both the side worked by the state and
 that by the county, and says:
 Ventilation moderately good. I find the coal is being mined and shot fires being
 put on according to instructions from MT.
 Gray. The shot f1rers are using short fuse for dynamite in blasting the middleman | and use one dummy cartridge for tam ping. l gave instructions to discontinue this practice and use tamping either wet dirt or clay and have long fuse. I also
 found some of the headings dusty and
 instructed that the dust be loaded out
 and sprinkler put on immediately. Su- perintendent Gafford complied with the
 above instructions immediately and said that he would see that they were carried
 out to the letter. The mine otherwise is in good condition"
 As a footnote MT. TIillhouse explains that the middeman mentioned is a part ing of slate in the center of the seam ranging from twelve to twenty-four
 inches thick. It requires blasting to break 1t down.
 prowell Pays Up. Former Probate Judge S. T. Prowel of
 Msrengo county qlas paid over to the
 state s3040, the amount reported by the
 state examiner of public accounts as yet due from his office to the state. It will be remembered that Judge Prowell re- sisted the effort of the new man to take over the office of probate judge, under taking to hold on by reason of former construction of the law that such officers | held over for nearly a year. When the test came. and the test for all the others was made on his case. "Prowell vs Hasty." he was let out. after which the shortage was discovered
 | It is understood that there is claim of nearly s6000 from the county against Judge Prowell, though this has never been given out. It has also been understood that Judge Prowell has always been ready to pay this amount when it was ascer- tained the exact sum. In other words. he