The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-04
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Extortionate Cabbies.


 have heard recently of several eases of extortion on the part of hack s1rivers in Montgomery. said well known known citizen last night. which It seems to me. should be drawn to the attention of the police. There is law. l believe. passed by the City Council some years ago, regulating the amount of fare which 1t is legal for the driv- CTS Of cabs and hacks to collect for short distance fauls This law. while known by some of the people of the city. is entirely unknown to the out of town people who come here, and is' from report that I hear, often trans gressed. The other day heard or case where well known lady of the city returned to Montgomery after visit Of several days in iYsd tne nor,nera nniS short distance from the railway sta. ton, but was carrying heavy sull case. and found 1t necessary To eh- gage cab in which to get home com ing out of the station, she secured one standing near the door, and was driven to her residence. When she came to pay the cahman she was charged double the legal fare. His passenger evidently thought he could impose up on her. Another woman of my ac- quaintance, wiser than her sister, Wnen the driver of cab wished to cnarge her double rates, refused. A schedule Of the prices drivers are permitted to charge should be hung inside each cao in the city. for the benefit or stran !, gers; There may be some Su, law rs if there Is. 1t Is not carried out.
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 Plethora or Official Seekers. Mir. Conner IS going to be emoar- sa- rassed by world of applications TOT office in the opening days of his ad- ministration," said a man well lnIorW- ed on political conditions in Alabama From what I can hear, nearly every | st.z hA rRnrR2AnI- ed by friends and supporters Of his He has already practically disposed of the best places in hls gift py 'ne semi-officiai announcement that ". r. Nesbitt would succeed him as Pfesl- dent of the Railroad Commission IL is not generally known, but 1t IS nev- ertheiess a fact that there are leWeI offices within the gift or the Govefnor of any other State. The Mayor of all the large cities in the State, naSe' sn fact. more patronage. "A great majority of the applicants must suffer disappointment pecause there will not be near enough offices to go around. The great majority or the Conner men who will want omco win have to console themselves .Witn the satisfaction of having done what they thought was right in supporehs him and let 1t go at that.
 Tn his campaign addresses. pr Cunningham said there was one thins about which man could not pc aI gued with. that he could not be con vinced about, and that Is. that he should not be given the job ne was after He had found that after>he mad been Acting Governor for eleven months. The new administration is liable to find out the truth Of this De- fore it is two months old"
 August Bad for Crops.
 'I haven't seen crops as poor Tn | w~s.r.r fl hn4F a Fe now" said Commissioner R. R. Poole, who returned yesterday afternoon from a trip to his home In Marengo coun- ty. of the Alabama crops and crops all over Alabama are as poor as they are between here and Demopolis, We are going to have one of the poorest crop years, Alabama has ever hads IL ls a,, sna In ten years. And yet. month ago. we had a splendid promise In Aiapd- ma It has been the unsuitable weatn- CT of August. l don't peaeVe | tao,, n1oa ever seen an August as bad on cotton as the August just closed. Instead oA growing and developing during August the crops retrograded
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 Justice R. A simpson. of the Supreme Court of Alabafna came to Montgomery last night Friends of the judge ana his wife will be pleased to know tnae the latter, who has been in poor heditn for some time Is now improving, at the sanitarium at Battle Creek. Mich.
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 Gen, w w Brandon of Tuscaloosa was in the city last night for the hrst time since the primary. He was busy receiving the congratulations or nis friends over his victorious race Tor State Auditor.
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 Hon. w W. Whitesides, Chancellor of the Northeastern Chancery Division, was among the prominent visitors to the city yesterday.
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 Associate Railroad Commissioner W. c. Tunstall was at the New Exchange yesterday.
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 Hon. S. D. Willingnam Of Birming- ham was in the city yesterday.
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 Hon. Henry Fitts of Tuscaloosa spent last night in Montgomery.
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 MT. William H. Heck was among the eity's visitors yesterday.
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 MT. w. T. Murphree of Gadsden is in the city.