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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21

some other people was going to ride, and
reaching in, took the prosecutor by the
hand and asked: Squire, what road is
you-uns goin' over to the next kort on?"
"The Shoal Creek road answered the So
licitor IT'S good deal rougher, but it's
six miles nearer, and we have good
team"
Does you know where the Chitwood
road forks over on Shoal Creek mount
ing?"
YES"
"Reck'lect dead pine tree close to that
fork?"
81 do"
"Well. when you Git to that fork, twelve
miles from here, Jess remember that
fndin' is keepn Good bye, God bless
you, hope to meet you in heaven and
old Calvin wrung the solicitors hand
turned and walked slowly away.
The jedge had a good pair of nags, and
he alters driv EN- purity rapid, so that 1t
was somethin' less than two hours after
this that they climbed the mountain.
There is a mile level on top of Shoal
| Creek mountain, sandy and pretty, with
a little crag jutting out In the middle like
| stump In a wheat field. The horses
! were going in quick trot, the solicitor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
THAR was a young fool of a prose-
cutin' lawyer over on the mountain

- HAIR was young fool of a prose-
cutin' lawyer over on the mountain
eirekit way back in the seventies
as had a peeooliar experience along with
a gal and our amatoor chemists. This
states attorney, as you all calls solicitor.
was that puny. and callow. that he
mighty near come under the imputation
of being brash He was sufferin' with
youth and the big-head. and a bad at
tack of store-clothes; but there was a
right smart chance of real man scat
tered along through his corporeal system
OF eoas he was bach; that cirkit didn't
have no use for a married man to go
domineerin around through the courts,
and wadin' into kriminals up to his fet-
locks.
At fust when he come surgfn down in
the midst of our initial effort to hold a
kort. with a yelin' drunkard tied to every
saplin In front of the court house, and
four fights to the square yard in progress,
his garments and jimerow eostoom was
plumb amoosin', not to say reedic'lous,
but when he lined out. and sent Buck
Harding to the penitentiary for stealth
old man Pesnals brindle yearlin'. we sort
er let up on our disdain, and allowed he
wasn't as much of a pinfeather chap as
appeared on the surface
citerzen who had been impairing his value
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"cAR coMINeI"
Interesting Scenes and Sensations
That Follow This Announcement.

- ,,.,. A.. ,,as,,.
~ uesei io'ne 'ne srea' oii' cup
race, IN MS article car Coming!' IN the
January Everybody's, Arthur N. Jervis
saws:
pm when tho orv Gar coroin.,, oo,,o
=,
roarnis up .he track' 'he races were All
alike Millionaire's daughter race track
gambler, absorbed scientist, man servant,
broker. newspaper reporter staid mother
Of family u,ifa 90 ono 90 che oo,,,ro.;,,s
:, ~ NoipoN.ie
oi'sers-U inaue no uinerehce VINO tne
spectator was, or how near or remote his
interest in the race and the racers They
were all made alike. All were alert and
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We Are GOing to Move SO There is Economy i'm Every Purchase Here
Holding Back Here May Anything Saving
Economy i'm
Mems
Furnishings.

Our Mems Furnishings
Department has always
maintained the highest
standard, such as satisfy
most critical men. Now the
prices appeal because they
are so economical. 1t is
wise to provide for future
needs at these prices.
Every day has its special
offerings.
SOC Four-in-Hands, up-to- OK
the-minute style; special. :. OOC
$1.50 English Squares; black,
white and beautiful Persian I OR
effects; special 80. sOes
$3.50 and $1.25 Silk and Satin
Suspenders, each pair in Ok
attractive box; special. -. UOO
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Economy i'm
Hosiery.

Women's Hose, Hermsdorf dye,
high spliced heel and spliced 1So
sole; special price. ........f OC
Women's Hose of best black cot
ton, high spliced heel and 900
double sole; special ... ONC
Women's Hose of best black cot
ton. spliced heel anu sole, 90
ribbed top; special ....... O~C
Women's Embroidered Hose of
black cotton, splendid value; 1Oo
special. =. =. =. ....... HUI
Women's Hose, black, guar OIL
anteed; special. -. ...... %lC
Boys and Girls Hose, black, 2
and 2-ribbed, extra strong, 1Ofo
fast black; special 49,. I~2C
Child's Hose, black, o.
and 1-ribbed; special. -. OF
Boys Hose, black, double knee
and spliced sole, extra heavy; go
special =. =. MINIMUM. ~OC
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Economy i'm
Cor sets.

One lot of Corsets; good popular
styles; long, medium and short;
pink, blue, grey and fancy figured.
Broken sizes; regular SOC OOo
COfSetS al. -. ..........
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DEAFNESS CURED LAST


The forces
o
o ageh
truthful opinion whether durable
the N,
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
ATTACKS KING LEOPOLD.
Selgium's Monarch Declared to BE a
Royal CRATER.

Bvussels.-Prof Felician Cattier of
the Free University of Brussels, has
published a pamphlet on the situation
in the Congo Free State which con.
tains several hitherto unpublished
documents showing thnt the crown do
main. which practically is King Leo
nold's personal property. consists Of
> ",S75 square kilcmeters of an area
Two and one-half times the size Of
England, bringing him profits on india
rubber alone of $l5,ll1,00o during the
last ten years.
Professor Cater recalls the fact
hat Premier De Smet De Mayer de-
Clared in the Chamber OF Deputies in
1903 that the profits Of the crown do
main would be exclusively applied to
the creation of establishments Of ma
tcrial, moral and intellectual utility,
whereas the official documents ad-
duced show that the profits have been
used for the acquisition of real estate
in Brussels and Ostend alone to the
value of S3.G55,c00 as well as property
in many other towns in Belgium. The
author foresaes as ii result of all this
that grave difficulties will arise when
The succession to the throne OF Bel
GUM and the Congo Free State comes
up.
The revelations OF Professor Cattier
have caused a great sensation
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
NEGRO AUTHOR DEAD.
Consumption Closes Career Of Paul
Lawrence Dunbar.

Dayton, Ohio.-Paul Lawrence Dun
bar, the negro poet, died at his home
here Friday Of consumption. For three
years he had been seriously i'll and for
year critically i'll, but he kept at his
work intermittently and wrote his last
poem for his Christmas book, ''HOwdy,
Honey, Howdy," just before Christmas.
Mr.. Dunbar was born in Dayton
June 27, 1872 and was first newsbOy
and then an elevator boy and in his
ups and downs for q living practiced
writing. His first poem was written
when he was seven years old. His first
work to attract attention to him was a
class poem written for the Steele high
school in 1891 His first of total of
twenty-one books was Oak and Ivy
His poem best known was when
Malindy Sings" which was written to
his mother. whose name is Malindy.
Mr.. Dunbar is survived by his
mother. his wife and two half-brothers
who reside in Chicago. He will be
buried in Woodland cemetery, this
city, many persons of note being eX-
pec,ed to attend.
A story written by Dunbar at the be-
ginning of his career attracted the at
tention of Frederick Douglass, and the
colored statesman looked him up. BY
this time the public began to become
Interested in the personality OF the
young Ohioan, and his future was as
su"ed. He secured admission to the
highest literary circles everywhere
and became popular lecturer, while
his revenue from his writings steadily
increased.
At twenty-five, with the encouraging
plaudits of his first success ringing in
his ears. he went abroad for new con
quests. In England Mr.. Dunbar was
received by The most highly cultured
and aristocratic people in the land, be-
cause he had genius-the key that un-
looks all doors that bar the way to
fashionable or cultivated society
abroad.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
,ss,s-
WITHDRAWS HIS NAME.
Mr.. Chambers Refuses Appointment to
Colorado Springs Postoffice.

Colorado Springs, Colo. - Placing
party interest before personal profit,
r. l.. Chambers, who was recently
nominated by President Roosevelt to
succeed l.. c. Dana as postmaster of
this city, on Thursday sent telegram
20 Congressman Franklin f. Brooks,
declining the nomination. Mr.. Cham
bers stated that he withdrew in favor
of no one, and that, should the Senate
confirm his nomination before his with
drawal was acted upon, he would
promptly resign. The telegram sent
by Mr.. Chambers to Congressman
Brooks was as follows:
"On account OF the bitterness 70
mented here over the appointment OF
postmaster of Colorado Springs, have
positively determined that will not
accept the appointment. VIII you see
that my name is withdrawn immedi-
ately, or shall wire the President re-
Questing withdrawal? My decision is
final"
1t is understood that l.. c. Dana, the
present incumbent, has no definite as
surance of Teappointment, and that on
the contrary, Assistant Postmaster G.
NJ. Edmondson, Col. E. T. Ensign and
J. F. Humphrey are prominently men
tened for the position. Colonel En-
sign and Mr.. Humphrey are both G.
A. R. men. and the appointment OF
either is calculated to appease the vet
Grams. who were up in arms against
the deposition of Dana. Mr.. Dana is
non-committal regarding his opinion OF
the effect of Chambers withdrawal
DpbO bic rpanpOjDt mGDt
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
German vs.. American Railways.

Berln.-Privy Councillors NJ. Hof
and F. Schwabach, whom the Prussian
government sent to the United States
in 1904 to study American railway sys-
tens, have just published an eXhaus-
tive work, making many striking com
parisons of the American and Prussian
railroads, often to the disadvantage of
the former. They quote official statis-
tics showing that per million passen-
gers carried the American roads killed
six time and wounded twentynine
times as many of them as the Prussian
roads.
The writer's found that the average
passenger rate in America was 2.O2
cents per mile. against O.9S cents in
Prussia, while freight rates nominally
average O.7S cents per ton per mile in
the United States, against 1.3G cents in
Prussia.
The original cost of construction OF
the Prussian lines was sixty-three per
cent. higher per mile than that Of the
American roads.
If conditions were equalized, Herren
Hoff and Schwabach figure, that the
American average for freight would be
LA cents per ton per mile and that OF
Prussia COS.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
STOCK MAN SHOT.
Wounded by WouId-be Assassin While
Repairing Fences.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Greeley Thursday says: Tom O'Neill,
the well-known stockman, living at
Gault, forty miles north of here, was
shot in the leg to-day by an unknown
party in ambush.
O'Neill was some miles from his
ranch, repairing his fences in lonely
section, when he was startled by d
shot coming from the underbrush near
by 1t was followed by four Others in
quick succession, one of which caught
O'Neill in the leg, inilicting Il severe
wound. O'Neill. though badly Grip
pied, managed to reach his horse and
rode to his home.
Considerable feeling exists between
O'Neill and other ranchmen of the
Gault section, who allese that oNeill
has fenced certain government lands
on which are the only watering places
for stock for miles around, thus pre-
venting range cattle from getting wa
ter. O'Neill claims he owns the land
fenced and that his fences are CON
stantly being broken down in revenge
by those who do moi respect his rights.
Perhaps no region in Colorado re-
tains the characteristics of the West
as it was thirty years ago more than
does the Gault country. Great herds
of cattle feed there and cowboys ride
the range 1t Is alleged that a bitter
feud exists between ONeill and others
and there is danger of a serious out
break at any time which may .ITo!ve
the whole ncighborhoOd.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
around the Salton Sink.

San Francisco.-After an cXpendi.
ture of about $5O0,O0O, the Southern
Pacific officials announce the final COM
pletion of a new piece of track thirty
nine miles long in the Colorado desert,
which will enable their trains to run
without interference from the waters
of the Colorado river, which have filled
the Salton sink and ruined about forty
miles Of their main line. The new
track will become part of the main
line unless the Salton SIM, is finally
rid of water by the proper control Of
the waters of the Colorado
The new track leaves the present
main line at Mecca. a station thirteen
miles east of Indio. and joins the main
line again at place called Volcano. 1t
is fifty feet higher than the piece Of
main line it supplants and is about
two miles away from the present level
Of the water in the Saiton sink
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
AN ARCTIC CONTINENT.
VIII Be Sought for Uncle Sam by Dan.
ish Explorer.

Washington-Capt +. j. Mikkelsen
formerly of the Danish navy, will soon
undertake novel Polar expedition
under Anglo-American auspices, for
the purpose of discovering the great
unknown continent supposed to be
within the Arctic circle and by raising
the American flag and claiming it in
the name OF the United States.
His plan Of operations was ex'
planned to President Roosevelt at the
White House Saturday. Captain Mix
kelsen was officially presented to the
President by the Danish minister.
Tho captain believes that there ex
lists in the Arctic regions an enormous
archipelago. as yet unexplOred, lying
between the Parry islands and Wran
gel land, off the Siberian coast. Al
though subject of Denmark, Captain
Mikkelsen. upon discovering the new
continent, intends to plant there the
American flag and claim it as pos
session of the United States.
He has no intention of trying to
reach the North Pole, an undertaking
which he believes to be both improba
BILE and useless of attainment.
Captain Mikkelsen explained to the
President the objects and purposes of
the expedition and President Roose
welt expressed his hearty approval OF
the enterprise. 1t was explained that
the intention of Captain Mikkelson is
to make scientific Investigations,
which probably will result in new and
important additions to present knowl
edge of geology, meterology, hydro
graphy and possibly ethnology, astron
omy and physics.
Captain MiIikelsen will have as his
companions on the expedition, which
it is proposed shall start from San
Francisco in May Of the present year,
Ernest Lefllngwell of the University o.
Chicago, who will have charge of all
of the scientific work, and Ijnar Dit
levsen Of Copenhagen. who is both a
ZOOlogst and an artist. In its en-
tirety The expedition goes out under
the auspices of the Royal Geographi'
cal Society and an American maga
zine
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
Rapid Pension Legislation.

Washington. - The House Friday
ground out its usual semi-monthly
grist of private pensions, making anew
record OF pension legislation by passing
in seventy-two minutes 429 bills for
the benefit of veterans who are barred
for one reason or another from coming
in under the general statute. Seven
ty-five per cent. of the beneficiaries are
either blind or bedridden.
This order, with number of minor
bills, and the passage of two amend
ments to the Philippine Tariff act Of
1905, constituted the transactions of
the day. The tariff amendments place
American cotton goods on an equality
SO far as the cost of production is con-
cerned, with European goods. Low
grades of shoes were admitted at a
lower tariff.
A bill was passed authorizing the
secretary of the interior to lease for a
buffalo pasture $500 acres of land in
Stanley county. South Dakota. Ad-
journed to Monday.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
DENVER BOOSTERS.
Gather at Great Dinner In Brown Pal
ace Hotel.

Denver-That Charles milford Rob-
lnson's plans for more beautiful Den
yer have excited the intense interest
of Denver business men was clearly
indicated Wednesday night by the size
and character of the attendance at the
public Improvement banquet given at
the Brown Palace hotel by the Denver
Real Estate Exchange
Not in recent years has there been
such large and representative gath
ering of the men who are making Den.
yer prosperous and great. Four long
tables running the extreme length of
the Brown Palace banquet room pro-
vided seats for more than 400 guests.
Facing the gathering was the head ta-
bic, where the guests of honor and
speakers were seated.
Frederick j. Chamberin, president
of the Real Estate Exchange. presided
at the head of the table. AT his right
was Mayor Speer. the principal
speaker, Governor Mcdonald was
seated at his left, while around the Ia
BILE We're Jacob Fillius, president of
the park commission; Henry Read,
president of the art commission: Pres
ident Spengel of the Chamber of Com
merCe; President COlbran of the Cen
tlemen's Riding and Driving Club.
Mayor Speer advocated modified
plans for the improvements contained
in the Robinson report. The cost
would be extended over period OF
fifty years and the assessment should
be on the property in the east side
park district, territory running from
Larimcr street TO MOntclar and EN-
bracing nearly all the business section
and Capitol hill, containing property
whose real value would be $12O,00O,-
OU0 and which is now without debt.
His plans provide for magnificent
open park or esplanade connecting the
capitol grounds and the court house,
around which shall be situated as
many as possible of the important
public buildings. TO this are to be
added other extensive park improve
ments and the opening of the Cherry
Creek and other boulevards.'
The following telegram was greeted
with long continued cheers:
New York. Feb. IL regret that
cannot attend your dinner as I under
stand Mayor Speer lis to be present
Let us all work together to make Den
yer not only the most beautiful but
the greatest city in the country. I am
working to that end. .
ID, II. MOFFAT."
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
COAST TERMINAL.
Union Pacific Buys Frontage at Puy
alIup.

Tacoma, Wash-Negotiatio be-
tween the Union Pacific Railway
Company and the St. Paul and Ia
coma Lumber Company have been
closed whereby the Hartman inter
ests have acquired seventy acres OF
tide lands forming an ideal site for
railroad terminals and having a front
age of 1,500 feet on the bay and about
l,4OO feet on the Puyallup waterway.
The property is the highest priced
land on the tide flats and cost ap-
proximately $l,00O,000, of which the
Union Pacific has paid large amount
in cash.
In purchasing the property. one OF
the conditions of the sale is that the
Union Pacific improve it and locate its
railroad terminals and shipping ware
houses upon it within certain time.
Officials of the St. Paul company
refuse TO state the exact time limit by
which the Union Pacific is bound, but
it is understood to be about twenty
months, as they say that the Union Pa
cifc will be here sooner than any
other transcontinental line could build
TO Tacoma were it to commence con-
StrucliOn work at once.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
Suicide from Grief.

Denver. - Heart broken over the
death of her iiance the day before. and
hopeless of tha future because she be.
lieved her family had forever turned
her out into the world 10 earn her own
living. and because she was without
money to continue the struggle for en-
istence, Alice Croft, daughter of a
ranchman residing near Sullivan, Col
orado. went into rooming house at
1850 Lincoln avenue about | o'clock
Thursday afternoon, gave fictitious
name, took quantity of poison. threw
herself upon the bed OF room she had
engaged, and died alone with her grief.
The sad ending of Alice Croft came
almost on her birthday. IN IL few days
she would have been twenty.i)ur years
old. .Ner sweetheart. Frank Senter.
passed away "Wednesday after suffer
ing for two weeks from peculiar case
of noscElcod.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
Eight-Hour Section Fails.

Observation-Disclosures the entire ses
sion of the Senate Friday was devoted
to the consideration of the urgency de-
fciency bill, which was passed prnc
ticaliy as it was reported from the
committee on appropriations. The only
discussion in connection with the bill
was over an amendment suggested by
Mr. Patterson to strike out the provision
relieving all alien workmen on the ca
nal from the operations of the eight
hour law. Mr.. Patterson cOntended
that to require men to labor more than
eight hours a day in the tropics was
inhuman and argued that the require
ment would do injustice to American
labor. Several senators or both sides
Of the chamber cOntrovertcd the posi-
tiOn.
The amendment was voted down
without resorting to a roll call.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
Denver MURDER
ENGINEER SHOT 0Y POLICEMAN
IN SALOON.
HAD KILLED HIS MAN BEFORE
Denver Liquor Tragedy After Saloon
Closing Hours-vietim Dies and
Slayer Arrested.

Denver.-Thomas Johnson. a steam
engineer who came from Duluth, Min
nesota, a few weeks ago. was shot and
killed soon after midnight this morn
ing by Policeman Charles Secrest in 4
quarrel over dice game in the Cot.
tage saloon, at 1920 Curtis street. Sc
crest, without apparent provocation,
fired two bullets into Johnson's alb
domen. Johnson died in the ambu.
dance on the way to the hospital. Sc
crest was arrested by Sergeants Dou-
gal and Mcintyre and their men, and is
in the city Jail charged with murder.
AS reported by the Post, Secrest,
who was Off duty at the time, was
standing at the bar, and he insisted on
shaking dice to determine who should
pay for the drinks for the house.
Thomas johnson, among others,
yielded to his desire. They shook dice.
Secrest lost and bought the drinks, and
insisted that the dice be again shaken
This was done, and Secrest lost
again. He bought the drinks a second
time, and then lost his temper. He ut
tered half dozen words Of abuse.
johnson told him there wds no cause
for abuse, for Secrest himself had pro
posed to shake the dice.
With the CLEAN of madman in his
eye, Secrest drew his big colts revol'
yer and fired twice. johnson fell to
the floor with two bullets in his body
Palrolman Durkin, who had been try
ing to persuade Secrest to go home
rushed into the saloon while the gray,
is;l smoke was still coming from the
barrel OF the revolver. Secrest waved
the weapon menacingly, and Durkin
knowing just how desperate Secrest Is
went to telephone and notified police
headquarters. An ambulance. patrol
wagon and squad Of police were hur
ried to the spot.
Four years ago Secrest killed Henry
Reed in Patrick Hickey's saloon, 1851
Larimer street, in exactly the same
manner as he killed Johnson. Three
shot were fired after quarrel had
started over drinks.
Secrest claimed that the man had
threatened to whip him, but he told the
police when they came to arrest him
that he was trying his new gun"
Reed died at the county hospital the
following day and Secrest escaped
punishment.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
Miss Rooscvelt's Birthday.

Standardization and Mrs
Roosevelt entertained a large party of
friends at the White House Monday
night to celebrate Miss Alice Roose
velt's twenty-second birthday. Many
OF Miss Roosevelts younger friends at.
tended. Those present included Sena
tor and Mrs. Newlands. the Countess
De Chambrun, Mr.. and Mrs. Lars An,
derson, Representative Nicholas Long
worth, Miss Alice Roosevelt. Baron
Rubido-Zichy, Edwin V. Morgan, Maj
Charles l.. McCawley and Lieutenant
Grant.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
Two Judieiai Districts.

acknowledgements Brooks
has introduced a bill to establish wo
judicial districts in the state OF Colo
RADIO. 1t provides that the counties OF
Routt, Grand, Summit. Lake, Larimer,
Weld, Logan. Sedewck, Phillips, Nor
gan. Yuma, Washington. Adams. Arap'
ahoe, Boulder, Gilpin. Clear Creek, JET
ferson, Park, Douglas, FL Pdso. Eibcrt,
Lincoln, Kit Carson and the city ana
county of Denver shall constitute ihH
Northern district of Colorado. and tn
present District Court of Colorado
from and after the time when this act
takes effect. shall be known as tn
District Court of the Northern district
of Colorado. The remainder of ih3
state will constitute the Southern dis
1rict Cf Colorado.