The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-01
PORTRAIT OF WATTS HAS BEEN RECEIVED Goes to Department of Archives
 and History CONVICT INCOME GOOD Tuskeeee Prepares to Give President Roosevelt Unique Reception
 When He Visits That
 City.

Montgomery, September S0.-(Special.)- The state department of archives and history has received a life sized photo graph of the late Gov. Thomas II. Watts, given by the family of his son, Thomas H. Watts. Jr., recently deceased. It is a fine likeness and is commented upon by local visitors to the rooms of the department especially.
 Governor Watts was of revolutionary stock his ancestors being prominent in the struggle. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia, going there after securing a common school education in Dallas county. this state. He began the practice of law in 1S4l in Butler county, later representing the county and dis trict In both houses of the general as sembly. He recruited the Seventeenth Ala bama regiment. c. S, A, and was elected colonel, but resigned to become attorney general of tie Confederacy. He was gov ernor of the state from 1868 to 1865 and died in Montgomery, September 16, 1892.
 Heavy Earnings.
 The books of the state auditor show that for the twelve months ending Sep tember 30, the convict department turned into the treasury of the state the gross sum of $561 GOO. It was shown in the report of President Carmichael for the year ending August 31, that the gross re- ceipts were $54l, ,563, which makes the returns from twelve months ending the last of August $20,00 less that for the same length of time ending the last of September. If 1t had not been that a check for $2500 was sent in unsigned and had to be returned the amount would have included that also, running it to $563, 800.
 President Carmichael is quite proud of the record of the department it being shown that the net receipts for the year ending today are in the neighborhood of s300,O which is a vast aid to the finances of the state.
 Lees Coroner
 The Alabama Trust and Savings bank has been incorporated at Florence, with such men as Supreme Court Judge R. T. Simpson and Lee Ashcraft cotton mill man, as incorporators The capital is $40,- 900.
 The governor has appointed James T. Frederick coroner of Lee county to sue ceed Q. P. Siler, who has removed from the county.
 F. M. Burnell has been appointed jus tice of the peace at Clinton and T. O.. Smith, notary public and justice of the peace at Mi.port.
 President at Tuskegee.
 When President Theodore Roosevelt goes to the city of Tuskegee on the early morning of October 23. 1905, he will be given one of the most unique recep- tions ever accorded an executive in Ala bama. His car will be run In the midst of the street, he will be taken from it by parties in carriages and escorted to the center of the public square and re- ceived on a platform made of bales of cotton, arranged so as to call immediate and special attention to the chief staple of the country. He will then be welcomed by the mayor. who will ask him to ad- dress the citizens of the town who will gather in the public square within hail. ing distance of the office of the lale Charles w. Thompson, so well known as an able member of Congress.
 The people of Tuskegee are entering into the arrangements for the President with great deal of enthusiasm. com mittee was sent to Washington to invite him and the council will see that the money is forthcoming to meet all expenses not met by the citizens, though the lat ter means will prove ample beyond doubt. Carriages will be on hand to take care of the party and a committee will meet the Presidents special at Chehaw, five miles away, and escort the attendants to the town. Some, in fact, may come to Montgomery if 1t can be so arranged