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Mohave County miner., 1905-07-22

Needles Eye: The Gold Cone Min. ing x Milling Go. is incorporating. The properties of the company are located near Blake and the incorporat- ors arc prominent mining men of Los Angeles and local people. They have some very good properties and will soon commence active development work. It is a close corporation and there will be no stock for sale.
Mohave County miner., 1905-07-22
PROFESSIONAL.
e M. SANFORD, 1' ATTORNEY AT LAW.
 Prescott. Arizona.

e E. FLEETWOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
 Prescott, Arizona. Will attend each session of District Court in Mohave County.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Business and Pig Iron.

Growing Crops are coming along fayorably. and railway earnings are increasing. Outside of the Equitable scandals there are no bad features hangind over trade or industries or the money market Cotton goods are in active demand at advancing prices. Stocks of cotton goods are low, and all signs point to better prices for raw cotton.
 No. ? foundry iron Is selling be- twoen eleven and twelvo dollars. It cannot go below $1O50, simply because if would at that price be exported free lv 10 Europe. It is difficult to see how pig iron can go lower when steel rails and nearly all steel products are in sharp demand. The steel trust claims that it will hereafter be able to turn out eleven million tons of finished steel products year, or three lillliloh tons in excess of it's best year. The steel that this country does not need the steel trust proposes to export even if the margin of profit be small It prefers to keep it's plants in operation' a. d it hopes to earn some money on export steel through the introduction of numerous economies.
 Between the extension of steel in dustries and the shutting down of blast furnaces for repairs. it is hoped bot tom has been reached in the pig iron market. Buying for deliveries in the last half of the year should be begun next month. Twenty-four stacks in the Pittsburg district are now idle, and production in this country has passed it's maximum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Deficit of the Fiscal Year.

The fiscal yes will be ended on Friday night of the present week, and inc government is still hopeful that the deficit at that time will have been reduced to $25,OO0000. Secretary Shaw estimated the deficit of the year at s1So0o 900. The deficit of the previ- ous year was s41,SOO, 900.
 Customs duties and internal revenue taxes are less than they were in 1903, and expenditures are $35,000,00O more than they were in the previous year. All expenditures have been increased war navy. civil, Indian and miscel- laneous-and the extravagances of the administration have cut down the treasurys balance. It stood on June 3O 1903, at $40, 900; it is down to s135 100000 now. Two years more of like extravagance will carry the gov ernment into the bond market, unless indeed the tariff is made more of a revenue. and less of a prohibitive, measure.
 Secretary Shaw working and predict ing in the interest of standpattism put the present years receipts, exclusive of postal revenues, at $555, ,000, 900. If his figures are not reached on Friday night-as they will not be-the stand matters will have no legs to stand on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Southern Money in Southern Banks.

Al the Tennessee bankers conyen- tion Cashier BroWnow of the Farmers and Merchants bank of Columbia, asked the three thousand southern banks to organize southern bankers association. The object he seeks is, through unity of action, revolution in the banking business and methods in the south.
 He stated that one southern bank keeps a million dollars in New York banks. Hundreds of other southern banks keep large amounts in that city, the money thereby losing all southern ioentity and becoming merely an addl- ton to New York's distended capital, of we want,p Mr. Brownlow added, ito build a railroad or open a mine we on to New York bankers and lay the matter, with bonds and mortgages, be- fore them, asking for the loan, Ii they can spare the money, of our own capl7 tai"
 Mr. Brownlow proposes that the south should declare it's financial in dependence-that it should. in short' take control of what it has. ''lt should ne centraliaed by the organization of great b .nks and insuraree comp nies in the south, whose capital and in- auence should be held for southern users" MT. Brownlow undoubtedly voices the aspiration of the south, but the road to his ideal is not short one, and many cautious and confidence gaining steps must he taken before it can be fully met in actuality and in | fact
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Life Insurance Agents.

"The man who sells life insurance meets all kinds of people and comes in con tact with the various idiosyncracies of human kind," said an insurance writer last night,
 Not a few people look upon an in- surance man as they would book agent. Others, and this is the larger class, rec ognize life insurance as legitimate and helpful institution, and extend agents due business courtesy.
 "I had several amusing experiences on a trip through the rural sections of a north Alabama county couple of weeks ago. On one or two occasions l was given the lightning rod agents reception when my business was made known, but I've learned not to mind little frigidity of manner, and talked business with all the assurance 1 could command. After a long spiel I succeeded in writing a S2O00 policy for a country man who had told me posi- lively he didn't want no insuanee. I don't think I've ever been so taken back as when on delivering the policy and re- ceipting the premium the man remarked; m get my 5000 just as soon as my house burns down. won't I?' It took me another hour to persuade him to retain the policy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Mir. Conner and SyIscauqs.

The good people of Sylacauga seem to have Leen offended by the attempt made before the executive committee of the Alabama Press association at it's recent meeting in Birmingham to retract it's acceptance of an invitation extended by Sylacauga itself. After the invitation had been accepted and prep arations had been made on the part of the people of Sylacauga to receive the association, it was, to say the least, unkind in the executive committee to attempt reconsideration. It should have been considered closed incl dent.
 In looking for grounds on which to get even, Sylacauga picked up through its mayor and Commercial club MT. Conner, and it proceeds to work him to a finish of the entire business. The local reception committee had invited MT, Conner to deliver an address be- fore the association, and he had se- lected as his subject, "A Fair Deal for Every Man" The executive commit tee at once resolved that his subject must be "Education," with no Fair Deal in it for my one except the chill dren in the public schools. This direc- ton was made the basis of the chasm that began to yawn at once between the people of Syla- cauga and the press association. That chasm soon grew too wide to be closed. It was a full grown chasm at its born ing. MT. Conner will not deliver an address before the press association; the press association will not meet this year in Sylacauga, and the mem bers of that association do not at pres ent know where they will meet.
 Freedom of speech and freedom of action, even at the eleventh hour are at any rate vindicated. An invitation sent may be recalled, and an invita- ton accepted may be questioned and criticised, but when such liberties are indulged in a chasm naturally and in- evitably is opened. The Sylacauga chasm is both wide and strenuous Not even the Conner bandwagon can cross 1t. Sylacauga and the press associa- tion have agreed to camp on confront ing sides of it, and there they will re main until the incident is forgotten in some future year. Such incidents are however, easily and speedily lost sight of when issues and individuals are changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
More About the Dust.

T believe that majority of our eiti- zens are in sympathy with the action of the Board of Aldermen Of East Lake ln requesting the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company 10 sprinkle the tracks on the East Lake line said a resident of tl.at town last night
 As brought out in the resolution, the dust raised by the fast cars Is great inconvenience to passengers, and not only is this true of the East Lake cars, but the same nuisance is encountered on other lines.
 "The patrons of the ball games have complained frequently of the trouble on the ball park iine and when thousands of people are passengers on that line ey- cry day the team is at home, it seems to me that the company could easily af- ford to run sprinkling cars. I understand that the expense would be comparative ly small and hope and believe the com pany will make this improvement to their system"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
JACKSONVILLE COMMENCEMENT.
Address Is Delivered By John c. For
 ney of Birmingham.

Jacksonville, June 27.-(Special. )-Last evening another interesting feature, the presidents reception, of the State Nor nal school commencement exercises was given at the home of President c. w. Dangette on North Main street. Deli eious apricot punch was served to the large number of guests present. A string band furnished music for the crowd dur ing the evening. It was highly enjoyed by all present.
 This morning at 10:S0 o'clock John C. Forney of Birmingham delivered the alumni address in the college chapel tc large audience. As was expected his address was very appropriate It was enjoyed very much by many of MT. For ney's boyhood friends.
 The directors of the Tredegar National bank had their regular semi-annual meet ing yesterday. They found the bank to be in very prosperous condition. hay ing added $500 to it's surplus account, be- sides declaring its regular semi-annual dividend of per cent. This bank has paid $44,500 in dividends and now has surplus fund of $S500. This success Is largely due to the unusually good bank ing qualities of MT. George P. Ide, it's efficient cashier.
 The graduating exercises will follow the commencement address tomorrow by Dr. c. c. Thateh of the Alabama Poly technic institute at Auburn.
 At the regular meeting of the Alumni association of the State Normal school at this place today scholarship loan fund was voted by the association to be let out to needy students of the school. The association was also reorganized and adopted a new constitution and bylaws. It is hoped that this will be a start from which much good will be derived in the line of education in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Takes It Back.

"When the Fishermen were here earlier in the season l said that I did not think well of the Baron team, and that it would finish at the bottom of the league,'' said Newt Fisher manager of the Nash vile team, yesterday. T am willing to take 1t back now. While l think that there are other stronger teams than the Barons, I do not believe that there is another team that Is playing ball like the team here.
 "They are playing the game for what there is in it, and the individual is giving way to the team play. If a player can get a run across the plate by sacrificing him self, he does it, If he can make the run best by hitting, he hits.
 T am having the hardest luck l ever had. For years luck hung to me. but now it has forsal<en me entirely, and it seems that the black side of the hand is turned to me all the time in all things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
MYSTERY DEEPENS.
Friends of Miss Rogers Abandon Hope
 of Her Being Alive.

Richmond, June 2z-A Leesburg, Va, special says:
 The latest information received here by relatives of Miss Mary Rogers of Lees burg, whose recent disappearance at Sar- anac Lake, has been reported is that con- tained in a letter from her nurse, Miss Janney, giving the circumstances of the occurrence which agree substantially with those in the press dispatches.
 Intimate friends of Miss Rogers have abandoned all hope of her being alive though her family have offered liberal rewards for information as to her where abouts. Alexander Rogers. her father, is in a very weak condition.
 Miss Rogers is a sister of Mrs. Fish burne, Mrs. R. B. Widman and William Rogers of Leesburg and Julian Rogers of Baltimore She is a relative of Col. Asa Rogers collector of internal revenue at Petersburg, Va, and e the late Gov Oden Bowie of Maryland. ,yilloughby Smith of Baltimore, who accompanied Miss Rogers and the nurse to the sanitarium, Is an intimate friend of the Rogers family and the missing woman is said to have been engaged to him for several years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Our Barefoot Boys.

From the Bessemer Rustler.
 Quite a number of people are wonder ing what has become of the barefooted boy with patched brooches and sore toe. Don't worry about that boy, he is at home tending the cattle and pigs and making the weIlxin ring with his boyish whodps and yells. By and by he will pu, on pair of shoes, get him a collar and tie to set off his new "store-bought clothes" and come to town. He will be a little awkard and bashful at first but this will soon wear off, and he will then become your bank president, leading mer- chant, successful lawyer, best physician or most earnest preacher. while the cigar ette smoking dude, so familiar to our sight, will be his servant. Don't bother your brains about the boy in patches, but give all of your attention to solving the problem of what we are to do with the boy who swears, stands on the cor ners and ogles the girls and is forever putting into mems affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
OUT AT OLD AUNT MARYs.

By James Whitcomb Riley. Why, see her now in the open door Where the little gourdes grew up at the
 sides and o'er The clapboard roofi-And her face-ah,
 mel Wasn't 1t good for a boy to be
 Out to Old Aunt Marys? An, was there ever so kind a face And gentle as hers. so such a grace Of welcoming. as she cut the cake Or the juicy pies that she joyed to make Just for the visiting chidrens sake
 Out to Old Aunt Mary's? The honey, too, in it's amber comb One only finds in an old farm home; And the coffee, fragrant and sweet and
 ho. So hot that we gloried to drink it SO. With spangles of tears in our eyes. you
 know
 Out to Old Aunt Mary's? And the .romps We took, in our glad un-
 resti- Was it the lawn that we loved best. With its sweeping swing in the locust
 trees Or was it the grove with it's leafy breeze, Or the dim haymow, with it's fragrances-
 Out to Old Aunt Mary's? Far fields, bottom lands, creek banks-ail, We ranged at will-where the waterfall Laughed all day as 1t slowly poured Over the dam by the old mill ford, While the tail race writhed and the mill
 wheel roared-
 Out to Old Aunt Marys? But home, with Aunty Is nearer call That was the best place. after all,-- The talks on the back porch. in the low Slanting sun and the evening glow, With the voice of counsel that touched
 us so,
 Out to Old Aunt Marys?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
HOLD THEIR STOCK.
Seaboard Stockholders Want to Know
 What MT. Ryan is Doing.

New York, June 27.-With the an- nouncement by the Ryan-Blair syndi- G te that the stock of the Seaboard Air Line railway has been deposited for exchange into certificates of the Sea board Air Line company a peculiar situation has arisen. Ten millions of stock refused to come in and stands out demanding to know what MT. Ryan purposes doing. The road is not bank rupt, nor in receivers hands; there fore, it can not be reorganized in the usual way. If attempt is made to turn the entire property over to the new holding company the outstanding stockholders will go into court to claim their vested rights. It was said today that the interests of the company stand as follows:
 Baltimore stockholder pool $4,000,- 000 Richard & Ladenburg and Thai man & Co. interests, S12,000,000; Ryan-1lcir syndicate, $1s,000, ,00O out standing interests, $10000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
BEAUTIFUL BIRDS SEEN
 IN A FOREST TRAMP

he burst into song. and sang qlor,o,,slv for almost an hour. when he fen dead on the floor of his cage.
 One who does not know the rose breasted grosbeak has an enthusiasm in store for himself. And the bird is classed as common, though it is not to be seen everywhere
 You will find 1t hard to get away from the red-eyed vireo and his tireless song- sermon. He will lay down the law to you; the bird people call him the preach- CT, because he seems to say '@rell you It's sos what it is-got to do it-tell you it's so." And he says it in ...e hot hour Of noon. too. when all other birds are silent. Follow up his insstent song ana you will find a quiet looking little oiVe-green parson with a gray cap on, the iris of whose eye is ruby red.
 The oven bird is as persistent talker as the red-eyed yireo, but he says over and over again: ''Teacherl Teacheri Teacher! Teaeh2' always ending on the teach not the 'er." You will easily get a sight of him-a little olive-backed fellow with yellow crown and a snot- ted breast. But you will do exceedingly well if you find his wonderful nest never found one myself. though I have seen the nest. It is concealed on the ground, and is supposed to be shaped like Dutch oven. but it looks to me more like Eskimo house or igloo. roofed over, with a side entrance.
 You can always find the tanagers by noting his call. "Chip-cherrl Chip- eherrF' which is very sharp and impera- tive. His song, if you had not learned to distinguish it, might sound like a rob- in's. But when you see his flaming color, intense, gorgeous. indescribable, with his black wings setting him off. you will see how prodigal nature has been in giving him song at all. It would have been enough just to make him.
 Only the other night I saw two male scarlet tangers in oak trees on the aque- duct on Manhattan Island. just south of High bridge. They were having a little song competition. People were passing. No one needed.
 The wood thrush we have in Central Park. His song is vocal Iusciousness in the highest degree. It may seem snge that bird called the field sparrow should be shyer than the wood thrush. but he is. Hear his song, ending in a long-drawn, delicate trill at the end, as he warbles 1t at nightfal and you will go far into the stony, hummocky pac- lures to listen to it again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
LIGHTNING AMONG HORSES.

From the St. Paul Dispatch.
 That lightning does many freakish feats was illustrated at the farm of Albert Roehm, on the Greenland road. during the recent severe storm in Ontonagon county, Mich.
 A bolt struck the barn. MT. Roehm had three horses in the structure, and, as luck would have it, the two most valuable animals were killed. These two were fully twenty feet apart and between them was an aged horse, practically worthless. The electrical current descended upon one of the valuable horses. jumped up over the old animal and came down again just in time to hit the third horse. The barn was not set on fire nor was it damaged to any extent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
"J. E. C." in the New York Mail.

d. IT, '. Tn the New York Mail.
 6 HE other day took a long tramp NY through the hills following the
 wood roads. Perhaps I saw for ty kinds of birds that did not kno-v. But these made little impression on my or heard Cor both), and derived great or heard( or both), and derived great pleasure from seeing and hearing, eer- tain common birds that nose people seem to know nothing about, and yet which are very interesting, very easily seen and known. very readily remembered.
 Those that I now recall were the che wink or towhee. bunting. the rose-breast- ed grosbeak, the wood pewee, the song sparrow. the oven bird. the field spar row. the red-eyed vireo. the meadow lark the scarlet tanager, the cuckoo, the shrike or butcher bird, the bluebird the Maryland yellow throat. the wood thrush and at nightfall the whippoorwill
 It is surely not difficult to know these birds, for they are all about us.
 The chewink is always in evidence in bushy, scrubby place. or woods where there is plenty of underbrush. You may hhOW niih DttduSe cneWlnk IS WnaL he says. although to some people it Is "to-whee" or "to-whick." This is his call; his plaintiv song is more elaborate, and is sweet. Country people call him the ground robin," and his shape does suggest a robin, but he is somewhat smaller different in plumage and quite magnificent. The head and upper breast are lustrous black; his lower breast and belly white; on the side of his breast is a clear chestnut spot; his wings and tail are marked with white. He calls most cheerfully and companionably from the bushes and is not very shy.
 The ose-breasted grosbeak is a wonder of song and plumage. He seems to be rather aristocratic in his associations: he likes the scope and elegance of gen tlemen's estates,' but you may sec him in the oaks in the woods, too. His throat and neck are black; he is white underneath. but on his breast is a gIori- ous spot of rose-earmine. His back Is blunt, yellow and very noticeable. But his song! If you have heard him break out in the night with it. as he some times does, you will never forget it. Some people think it is like a robin S, but 1t is sweeter, more sustained, richer.
 Minot tells this story: An aeauaintance of his had a rose-breasted grosbeak in a cage. For months the bird was .lent and apparently moody, until one morning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
The Recent Reunion.

"The reunion in Louisville was all that the veterans could have wished for,' said Capt. J. Lawler Darby.
 Tne hospitality was lavish and the accommodations were abundant One feature of the beautiful parade was an unspeakable pleasure the counter marching-giving the old heroes an op- pqrtunity to look into the faces of each other one more time. It was reminder that we are getting old and the feet that never failed Us for four years will after awhile cease to move.
 "Our pleasures now are the church house, the association of our families and friends. What joy and comfort!
 ITO the citizens of Jefferson county Camp Hardee is profoundly grat 'al, They have been kind to us, and they always are to the worthy and needy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
Virainia Mines.

Virginia City. the scene of the mine ex- plosion in February. has fully recovered from the blow of that awful calamity said a man returning from the mining camp last night
 No signs of the horrible catastrophe remain, all of the families of the of the unfortunate miners having removed soon after the accident. The mines are in good working order and two hundred tons Of coal are being gotten out daily. l under stand that the miners imported from Tennessee have all returned, and local men are being used. Some trouble Is being experienced in getting men for the coke ovens, but otherwise everything is run ming along smoothly.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-28
That Twentieth Century Train.

The eighteen-hour schedule of the fast train between New York and Chi cago on the New York Central lines has been restored and the train is whizzing along daily unmindful of Mentor. President Newman of the New York Central insists that speed was not a contributing factor in the uting factor is not disclosed and is not perhaps known.
 The Ohio railroad commission also investigated the causes of the wreck at Mentor, and it says the switch at Mentor was opened maliciously and in- tentionally, but it did not ascertain whether the switch was locked or left unlocked The Ohio officials agree in saying speed had nothing to do in causing the Mentor disaster.
 President Newman"s decision was awaited with interest. If he had de. c.ued that the eighteen-hour schedule was unsafe, all other railroad man agers would have accepted the deci sion, and halt would have been called in the progressive speed oi trains. President Newman laid the problem before a conference of his en ire staff, and it was finally voted that Ney average speed of sixty miles an
 gr is within the limits of safety on