The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-05
SIDEWALK PENClLINCS
me Fsrave Of the Chief.

Ah4G NE3HG OI AMe NuhChs
 T had some years ago." said Captain c. P. Rodgers of Letohatchie yester- day, an experience so queer that It was almost uncanny.
 ed in Alabama history, and especially tHtsrsstsa in the life ..S of Wiliiam f5s that Weathsrford was the greatest In dian hts race ever produced. some years ago while I was surveying some timber lands in Alabama l was stop ping at a farm house on Little River, between Monroe and Baldwin County; A few miles away was the Federal military reservation where Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, was con-
 "I found out from a friend the loca- tion of Weatherford's grave nearby. ana late one afternoon l walked oyer to his lonely resting place through the pine woods. The grave of the chief, with his wife resting at his side. was easily found A. rough headstone was oyer It with two letters cut in it, w.
 "of course was busy with thoughts of Weatherford's career. thought of that dramatic. picture described by Pickett In which Weatherf0rd rode fn- to the camp Of General Jackson and made his famous speech of surrender. had always associated 2 deer in nay to that picture of him riding into camp with deer across his saddle.
 As stood there looking at the grave as the sun was setting, young deer broke through the brush. 1n within a few feet of me and Jumped over the grave of the Indian chief; l could easily have killed him if I had been armed. At the same moment the boom of the sunset gun rolled over the river from Mount Vernon, where Ge- ronimo. the last of the fighting Indians was in his last captivity to the white dull boom of the evening gun was the knell of the picturesque race of which William Weatherford was the greatest product"
 Help Co Ksuslnesa.
 Mr. Jacob D. Bloch, leading mer- chant of Mobile, and one of the most patriotic of Alabama's citizens, who is in Montgomery attending the sessions of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of which he is an officer, tells of queer turn of good fortune that has followed the ter rible storm that visited the Gulf coast in September.
 If there was nothing to bring 1t about but the timber trade,% said MT. Bloch, there would be enormous busi- ness in our section at this tine. The incalculable number of trees felled by the September storm has given the timber business an impetus that is be- ing felt in every branch of commerce in our section, especially in Mobile, These trees must be gotten to market before disintegratton sets In, and this H6JS SlNCA a lnCECAoO SO LIN ] timber business which is no small fac- tor in the industrial activity of our section of the State. The amount of this fallen timber Is surprising as you may well judge when l say that its marketing Is improving all lines of our trade.
 Tt is a mistake to believe that this is a bad year for trade or that the country people are worried over the outlook. Despite the great storm that visited Mobile our wholesale mercnants declare that their sales were never bet ter. Collections are fairly good and we look for them to improve right along"
 Mr. Bloch is at the head of a large carriage and wagon business. His firm has an extensive trade in Southwest and Southern Alabama and he is brought in closest touch with the farming interests of that section of the State.