The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-28
BONDS NOW READY FOR PURCHASERS Great Seal of Alabama Has
 Been Affixed MATTERS ARE UP TO JElkS Judge Must Be Named to Succeed AL mon-DeIeeates Will Be Named
 to Cane Growers Con
 venton.
MATTERS ARE UP TO JELKS

Montgomery, December 27.-tSpecial)- In one hour and twenty minutes today Albert C. Sexton chief clerk to the sec retary of state put the great seal of the great state of Alabama on 966 one thous- and dollar bonds, sold recently to the First National bank to refund a like amount coming due next Monday. This was the last act in making them valid, the governor, state auditor and the state treasurer having signed them last wees.
 These bonds were sold last summer by Governor Jelks at 1O2 for a 2Ha per cent security. replacing a like amour. draw ing per cent. They were bought by the First National bank of Montgomery, rep resenting local and eastern capital.
 After the bonds were impressed with the seal they were turned over to J. Kirk Jackson private secretary to Gov ernor Jelks, to be sent to the purchaser on the day of delivery. They were care- fully nailed up and made secure against the weather and other possibilities of damage.
 The last issue of bonds by the state were under amended act of February 27, 1889, and dated January 1, 1S9o They draw per cent interest and will be due January l, 1920
 Things Hanging Fire.
 Though there is little doing in the of flee of the governor just now, it is fact that he has a number of matters before him. Among these is the appointment of Il judge of the Eleventh circuit to succeed Judge F. B. Almon, resigned. The most generally endorsed applicant for the post is Joseph H. Nathan of Sheffield, who is a member of the state democratic con- mittee. Nothing is likely to be done, however. until after the first of the year.
 The governor also has up the matter cf appointing delegates to the Southern Cane Growers convention in Mobile. and will announce them in few days, though the meeting will not be held until February
 It is also well known that an effort will be made by certain citizens of Gadsden to have the death sentence of Will John son. one of the negroes convicted of as- sault upon Mrs. Smith, commuted to lie Imprisonment It is not given out wheth- CT the papers have reached here or not, but the press has reported it from Gadsden.
 The current, or governors issue, or tns Boston Budget has fine page picture of Governor William D. Jelks of Alabama, along with those of the other executives of the states of the Union The picture is one of the best ever produced of the popular chief executive.
 Military Inspection.
 Within a short time now the arrange ments for the spring inspections of the Alabama National Guard will be perfect ed and it Is quite certain that the showing of 1905 will be much better than any that has ever been made. list of dates of inspections has been made out and sent to the War Department at Washington and as soon as approved will be made public by the Adjutant General.
 The year has seen the passing of all the bitterness that for some time pre- vailed in Alabama military organizations. At this time every regiment is officered and filled with a harmonious crowd of men who are working together as one to make the Alabama forces an honor not only to the state, but the nation as well. The colonels now are w. H. Me Kleroy of Anniston, of the Third in fantry; c. R. Bricken of Luverne, of the Second, and R. B. DuMopt of Mobile,