The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-06
IA GREAT RECORD MADE.
HEAVY TAX COLLECTIONS IN MO-
 BILE FOR DECEMBER.
Cans of Young Negro Thieves Broken Up--sIngle Tax Colony of Fair- hope Aroused by Increase
 in Rentals.

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 In Rentals.
 Es Advertiser Bureau, 1 Mobile, Jan. 5.
 Tax Collector P. B. Dorlon. with his corps of assistants, the past month col lected taxes for the State. county and public schools. as follows:
 state taxes. .. .. .. .....$ s4.0oo county taxes.... .... 64.500 This amount does not include the commissions to the Tax Collector.
 Special Deputy sheriff John Brown, for some time. has been quietly work ing up a number of petit thefts which have been, going on among the. large retail dry goods stores along Dauphin I Street. Last night he caught two | young negroes, neither over the age of 13 years. one with a new overcoat. the other with new sweater. He took the culprits to the county jail. By noon today he had landed in the county jail a total of fifteen negro boys. ranging in age from 10 to If years.
 Deputy Brown located the persons l who had been purchasing the goods from the youthful thieves. Among the goods which had been stolen from the stores were umbrellas, shoes, clothing, hats, handkerchiefs and socks. A number of umbrellas and other things were recovered this morning by Dep | uty Brown. These thefts began during the recent street fair and have been going on since that period. Mrs. Annie Dumas, proprietor of a I lA Ar1t c victimized today, losing $S. man giving his name as Mathews, went to her house this morning and engaged a room. He rendered her what she | thought was a ten-dollar bill. Mrs. Dumas gave him $s in change. Later she carried the bill to a local bank | and learned it was a raised one-dollar bill Figures from a Confederate bill had been used for the purpose. Mat thews has decamped. Advices of Dec. 28 from Porto Bar rios, Guatemala, Central America, state that the Guatemala Northern Rail- road, projected by a syndicate headed by Sir William Van Horne. from Guate- mala City to Porto Barrios. has been opened to freight and passenger traf- 1 fic and trains are running regularly between Porto Barrios and Fl Rancho, l forty-five miles from Guatemala Citys l Report reached the city from the | single tax colony at Fairhope, Baldwin County, that the action of the Council | at it's recent meeting in raising the rentals on association lands from 40 | to 50 per cent. has caused mass meet l ings of protest. Another meeting is to be held in an effort to settle all diff ferences, failing in which there will be an appeal to the referendum.
 Eugene Stodenmire. who was held for the killing of his boy companion, Oliver Fleetwood Smith, was tried be- fore Recorder McAleer this morning. The evidence showed Stodenmire was snapping a pistol while playing and it went off. His companions. like Stoden- mire, did not know 1t was loaded. The defendant was released from custody.
 Some time during last night some person broke into the storehouse of the Baker Cotton Mills, about four miles from Mobile, and secured a large amount of goods. Sheriff Powers was notified and sent Deputies Green and Will Powers to the scene with dogs. So far no arrests have been made.
 Major w. E. Craighill, United Staes Engineer, who is just returned from Demopolis, announced today the Gov ernment would complete the locks on the Bigbee and Warrior Rivers. Lew man & Co.,, the contractors, gave up the work because, they claim, of repeated changes in the plans.
 Edward K. Stallo, General Counsel of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad, his wife, Master Mark Han ma, Master Carl Hanna and Dan R Hanna, Jr, of New York, and Mrs. Guy R. Smith of Cleveland, O., arrived here this morning.
 After a brief illness, Mrs. M. L.. T Johnson, a bride of five months passed away at her home on Congress Street, near Lexington Avenue. She was 19 years old and was a daughter of MT. and Mrs. Philips Rickert of this city. Mutual Lodge No. sol, Knights of Honor, installed officers for the ensu- ing year tonight. After the installa- tion, a banquet was enjoyed.
 The steamship Mercator, chartered here, cleared today in ballast for Ja- maica. and will run regularly between Jamaica and Halifax, N. s.
 | J. W. Elliott, Jr, prominent manu- facturer of Gadsden. is here.
 B. J. Well of Montgomery, is in the city.
 Mobile Society News.
 Mrs. Henry Inge, who is always