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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09
WANTS SMALL CHANGE,
Secretary Shaw Requests National
Banks to Issue Small Bills.

Associated Press to The Evening Tines.
Washington, uly 9.-Secretary Shaw
has issued an appeal to the national
banks to assist the government in sup
plying the pressing demand for notes
of small denominations. He has sent
to all national banks letter request
Ing them to issue as much as possible
of the aggregate of their circulating
notes in five dollar bills, indicating to
them that there Is more profit in the
issuance of such notes than in putting
out notes of larger denominations.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09

After being fourteen years on its
way. letter was recently delivered
to the addressee at Hertford. The
writer is now deceased, and the
Spirtualists are making much of this
undoubtedly authentic instance of the
receipt Of message from the dead.
Punch.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09
BODY CUT TO PIECES.
A Youth Abducted by a Tramp Is
Cruelty Murdered.

Associated Press to The Evening Tines.
Francis, I. T., July 9.-The mutil-
ated body of eight-year-old Harry
Pricster, of West Tulsa, was found in
a st. Louis and San Francisco wheat
car Sunday night. The boy had been
abducted by a tramp last Thursday
from his home and is supposed to have
been murdered and his body placed in
a car to hide the crime. The body was
literally cut to pieces. There Is no
clue to the murder.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09
FINED $40 BY
COUNTRY SQUIRE
Associated Press to The Evening Times.

: Oyster Bay, July 81. B. Sloan,
Jr.. chief of the presidents secret
service corps, pleaded guilty and
was fined so today on charge of
assault in the third degree pre-
ferred by Clarence LIE Gendre,
New York photographer. Sloan
paid the fine. The trouble oc-
Cured at the time of the presi-
dents arrival in Oyster Bay +:
week ago. The photographer:
charged that after he had taken a (:
picture of the president Sloan F:
struck him. The trial was held in :
a justice court. presided over by /:
Squire Franklin. :
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09
pleasant the visit Of delegates and
their friends

their friends.
The deputies are apportioned ac-
cording to the representation of the
counties. Ward county alone mani
Testing its intention of sending forty,
which, together with the delegation
from that county, numbering thirty
four. will give them large represen-
tation at the convention both in the
business and the visitors list.
The convention will be called to or
der promptly at II o'clock on the fore
noon of Thursday. July 12. 'ilat the
opera house will be filled to its capa-
city seems a foregone conclusion. An
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09
The City Of jamestown Max
ing Great Preparations to
Entertain the Republican
Delegates.
LEADERS BEGIN
ARRIVING TODAY
Besides the 467 Delegates Hundreds of
Visitors Will Attend the
Convention.
tBy F. t. Lincoln.1.

lBy f. T. Lincoln.1
Jamestown. July 9.-Every detail
seems perfected for the entertainment
of the delegates and visitors who will
be here to attend the republican state
convention on Thursday, July IL.
President o. j. Siler of the Commercial
club has appointed the following sub
T committees to handle the convention
and has been ably assisted by Malcolm
Sinclair. sargeant-at-arms of the con-
vention. Editor w. R. Kellogg of the
Jamestown Alert. Deputy Bank Exam
liner T. H. Poole and other prominent
republicans Of Stutsman county.
On hotel accommodations: Otto
Bauer, Chester Hodge and Andrew
Blewett. On convention hall: John
Knauf, Chas. Rathman and R. l.. Scott.
Soliciting and finance: A. B. Default,
A. E. Simmons, and ]. w. Sifton. Re-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09
C[0UOBURST IN OHIO
DOES DAMAGE
TO A CITY
Over Two Hundred Houses
Flooded and Streets Filled
With Debris.

Associated Press to The Eveaia9 Ttnes.
Wellsville, o., July "a cloudburst
in the country just back of this city
yesterday caused loss of thousands
of dollars. Over two hundred homes
and business houses were flooded and
foundations weakened so that people
would not remain in their houses last
night. Mayor Fogo called special
meeting Of the city council to provide
funds for the cleaning of the city. He
put men at work taking tons of de-
bris from the mouth of several storm
sewers. 1t was impossible for people
to leave their homes, SO quickly did
the water rise into the lowlands.
Wagons and small frame buildings
were washed into the city proper from
the country district.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09
OBSERVES sEMI.CENTENNIAL.

Detroit. Mich, July 9.-Nearly 500
dentists, members of the Michigan
State Dental association, are gathered
In Detroit to take part in q three
days convention in celebration of the
semi-centennial of their association.
An interesting program of papers and
addresses has been prepared and am
pie entertainment for the visitors also
has been arranged. The guests of
honor are Drs. Ingersoll of Erie, Pa,
and Metcalf of Kalamazoo, Mich, who
are the only surviving charter men,
bers of the association.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Preserving the Old Capitol.

Other states may have grander capi- tols, but not one has a building more historic than the one at Montgomery that was completed in 1851. Ten years later the Confectionery was organized in it, and on it's front porch Jefferson Davis became President of the Confed- crate states. In it sat the provisional congress of the Confederacy. It's walls held the first cabinet which laid the foundation of the greatest civil war in all history.
 This building is to be preserved as Independence Hall has been. It is to be held sacred as the state house on the Commons in Boston long has been. It is one of the few buildings in this new country in which great events were transacted.
 Governor Jelks and the capitol com missioners but met the sentiment of this state when they decided to leave the old capitol intact by erecting an annex detached from 1t save by con. meeting corridor, in no way detracting from the appearance of the old build ing itself. Alabama can be trusted to preserve the original home of. the Confederacy, no matter how much room her officers may need from time to time She will hold and keep the building under whose roof the struggle for principle and liberty was begun and prosecuted until removal of the new government to Richmond became imperative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

this duty. together with an estimate of cost for pay, subsistence and trans portation, and also the dates most con venient for these organizations to be present and the length of their at tendance at the camps"
 An opportunity to mingle the organ. ized militia with the regulars Is thus presented, the bills to be footed by the general government. It Is difficult to see how a strictly state encampment. either in instruction or in freedom from expenses, can successfully com pete with Chickamauga and the chances are therefore good. that our citizen soldiery will soon rub elbows with regulars at the big camp near Chattanooga. It lies, however, in the state of Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Jurors and Public Sentiment.

In discussing the shooting scrapes that disgrace this town at frequent in- teryals The Age-Herald said last Sun day. "one rarely hears theIrue cause suggested, namely, lax public senti- ment. which finds expression in nam by-pamby juries." Elsewhere Mr. J. L. Brock discusses the subject ana, while he comments in a general way The Age-Herald's position, he over looks the fact that it found the basic trouble in what he calls "a lax moral sentiment" He evidently means a lax public sentiment, and if so he lines up with The Age-Herald in naming the foundation trouble.
 MT. Brock proceeds to state how the desired sentiment can be secured His methods are good so far as they go. All educational methods are uplifting, and we may be sure the day of law and order will not fully come in Ala bama until it's percentage of illiteracy is materially reduced. It is nearly 90 per cent, and it should not exceed 10 per cent. Ignorance and a tendency to crime go together when masses of population are considered
 
 But there is no reason why the illit- crate should be forced into the jury room. As rule they are not. As a rule the juror in Alabama can read and write, and he should brace up and do his duty even if there be lax sen timent outside the court house doors. In other words, The AgeHerald pro- poses to hold the juror who can read and write up to his duty without wait ing for the completion of the pro- gramme that Mr. Brock lays down. His programme is excellent, but in the meanwhile let us have as good jurors ds dhS ColhHiuhity dHOiuo, anu iel ue all endeavor to impress upon them the importance of doing their full duty, especially in shooting-scrape cases. It is better to exclude the incompetent and the corrupt from the jury boxes in order that we may get therefrom all possible good as we go along to ward Brock millennium The state would in that way suffer less injury and in spots at least justice would be done. Let us not despair even in Bir- mingham, for honest, courageous men can be found here and can be brought into the jury box in this crisis in the city's history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Terms of Methodist Pastors.

The Methodist church. north. took off six years ago the four-year lmita. tion to the service of pastors, and the only restriction in the northern church Is the will of the bishop at the annual conference. No one in the church. north, seems to desire return to the old limit.
 The church, south, has a like ques- tion before it, and before the present general conference adjourns without day it will no doubt be threshed out, and perhaps the church. south, will arrive at the conclusion that the church, north did. The two churches constitute the chief branches of Meth. odism in this country, and what has been found to serve the one accept. ably would presumably fit the other.
 It is, however, a question of circum. stances and environment, of town and SOuHlry, Ol dll kHe OlleT lnlnSS that pertain to Methodism in the broad states of the south. There may be req. sons why four-year iron rule of serv. ice is needed in the south when it is not needed in the north, and if such reasons exist no doubt they will be brought out in the discussions of the general conference, but with the lights before us, The Age-Herald is forced to think that what is good for the one would be good for the other, for Meth, odism is after all common heritage with common traits, needs and tenden. cies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Alabama National Guard.

The Alabama national guard will soon have to choose between stare encampments and summer stay with troops of the regular army at Chicka- mauga The pending army appropria- tion bill contains an item of $700, ,O0O to defray the expenses of the proposed joint encampments of regulars and militia.
 The Chickamauga camp is to be open from August 1 to September 30. and the militia from North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee have been invited to consider it's advantages.
 Acting Secretary of War Oliver has written to the governors of the states named, and in anticipation of the pas. sage of the pending bill he requests that "in order to make an equitable adjustment of the funds, the depart ment be informed what regiments, bat . ta1ions, squadrons and batteries of the organized militia are recommended for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Gary and an Open Warrior,

The steel trust is putting in a mann moth iron and steel plant at Gary, Indiana harbor. Indiana, near Chicago, the entire concern to cost about $75,- 000,0 It Is mammoth undertaking for even mammoth corporation.
 Contracts have just been let for the erection in Gary of four great blast furnaces. each to be 90 feet high, and 221a feet in diameter at the bosh. The stoves for each are to be 100 feet high and 22 feet in diameter. Such fur naces, using Mesaba ores, will be able to turn out well nigh 700 tons day. Each is to have a rated capacity of 500 tons day. and as there are to be six. teen of them the yearly product of pig iron will soon be about three mil lion tons.
 This will certainly be a heavy and even oppressive increase in production In hard times, when the demand for all products become slack, but this dis trict can meet it by urging in every possible manner the opening of the Warrior. With a river open to barge navigation the iron of this district can be laid down at tidewater at cost that will defy dull times and low prices. Without an Open Warrior this district would be oppressed in dull years by the great plant that the steel corporation is erecting at Gary. We need in short an Open Warrior, and we cannot get it too quickly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
THE GRAPE VINE SWING.

By William Gilmore Smms. 1.-the and long as the serpent train, Springing and clingng from tree to
 tree. Now darting upward, now down again.
 strange to see;' Never took serpent deadlier hold Never the cougar a wilder spring, Spanning the beach with the condor's
 wing. Yet no foe that we fear to seek The boy leaps wild to thy rude em-
 brace: Thy bulging arms bear as soft a cheek On thy waving train is playful hold Thou shalt never to lighter grasp per suade:
 And swings and sings in the monday shade! giant strange of our southern woods, I dream of thee still in the well-known
 spot. Though our vessel strains OCT the ocean feeds.
 And the northern forest beholds thee not; I think of thee still with sweet regret As tho cordags yields to my playful grasp Dost theu sping and cling in our wood- lands yet? Does the maiden still swing in thy
 giant ciaxe?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

trading company has ever lost a dollar by extending credit to a Chinese mer- chant. Such cannot be said of any other nation of people on the face of the globe. Therefore. it is strange indeed that we should continue to exclude the chinaman from this country.
 If Dr. Allen will continue his good l work undoubtedly the Chinese exclusion act will be practically amended. if not entirely repealed.
 l was once in Shanghai and happened to be present in the American Trading com pany's office when a fine looking China man, probably six feet two inches tall and built in proportion, entered and in perfect English asked to be quoted a price on so many bales of American cot ton goods-sheetings and shirtings. He desired the goods to be delivered 1vitbin l-o days. The price was satisfactory and me manager of the American Trading company Immediately oabled bis New oiN mousse Tor the shipment. It amounted, as well as I remember. to something like s25.OOO in American money The Chinaman thanked the manaeor q, the Trading company and left the office. There was no instrument in writing m deposit and except for the word of tbe chlnaman, no agreement that the goods would be taken upon arrival
 Naturally asked the question: "Do you sell such a volume of goods on tha mere word of a Chinaman without de- posit?'
 Certainly" responded the manager. ''That mans word is as good as his bond. If cotton goods should go down a cent a yard before this consignment Ia received, the Chinaman would accept 1t and pay the full amount If I were in Japan however, I would not make the sale without at least deposit of g per cent of the amount. There is simply that difference between the Chinese trader and the Japanese trader"
 It is only matter of time before the Panama canal will be completed and then the entire south should develop A. great commerce with China. It is we'll therefore, that the people of this section particularly should aid in the repeal of those unjust laws which now exist relat- ing to the Chinese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT LAWLESSNESS
 AT HOME AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

I G've the man with the pistol a term in jail as well as fine.
 l Now in this connection the Mayor of Birmingham must, and of a right. should be the responsible power of the com munity With the advice of the Board of Aldermen, he should be supreme in power and held fully responsible by the people who elect him. This conflict as to au- thority. which has slightly manifested it. self recently, should not exist
 It will be well to make every candidate for the legislature define himself as to what he proposes to favor as to munich pal government for Birmingham. and elect candidates who are either in favor of giving well defined power to select head. chosen by the people. or in favor of scattering power among many, who may conflict to a point of country gov ernment.
 I am not kicker, but with the pride of every one who has the true interest of Birmingham at heart, and who ob- serves it's daily growth, who sees it's building and street Improvements, its new schools and churches and it's increase in every way, would sec it's every detail of government and behavior keep pace with that which is best in it.
 The lecture of Dr. Young G. Allen, the learned missionary to China, before the Commercial club on Thursday afternoon, will undoubtedly result in much eventual ary, politician or business man,so well un- derstands the business situation in China China his residence for more than thirty five years. He speaks the language, knows the condition of the people, and is not afraid to tell the people of this country of the injustices which have been imposed upon the Chinese nation and the Chinese people by our congressional legis- lation
 Naturally when a Chinaman is treated with contempt by our country as a gov- ernment he will resent it. There are no better educated people in the world than the higher type of Chinese. They are the most honest people in the world. It Is a well known fact that the American houses doing business with Chinese mer- chants will sell any quantity of goods without notes or collateral. As pr. AL len we'll said, no American merchant or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
The County Roads.

Good progress Is being made on county road work" said Hugh McGeever, q member of the Board of Revenue. "As is always the case in spring and summer the work Is confined to the dirt roads. In the late fall and winter the macadam highways are repaired and extended.
 Jefferson county has upwards of 300 miles of maeadam road and upwards of 1900 miles of dirt roads-the mileage in both classes being outside the various towns in the county.
 Eleven or twelve road gangs are now employed. Each gang consists of seven men and two teams go with each squad. The county never had better set of over seers than now and altogether the road work is being pushed in a manner that will show excellent results during the coming summer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

| T is foreign to many of us to throw
 bouquets. but when one deserves ' bunch of lilies of the valley for purl- ty of purpose and honesty of intent. why not give It him, though he be man. as the boy would tender to the girl he admires floral favor
 George Ward. the Mayor of Birming ham, though he be young, may not be so attractive to the women folk as to have bouquets thrown in his path, but his nerve, his honesty and his rlghtful in- tent appeals to the older people of Bir- mingham whether they be male or fe- male
 He has a backbone like the ramrod of an old flint and steel musket, and he is in a chase after the lawless element of Birmingham like unto a cowboy heading a stampede of cattle driven before rene- gade Indians.
 The town he will hold in tact and the renegades are of no terror to his make up. He is determined to do away with the pistol in politics. and the good peo- pie are with him. Public sentiment in this town is no longer of the frontier type
 If there be men here who continue to barhor onip,osifias ond t1,o hioo1 4I,;r.4,. spirit of past ages, there might be a place, by public subscription set aside, far out on Red mountain, where they may go at their mutual pleasure. and shoot out their differences, murdering and being murdered as they choose; but there should be no more of it In an enlightened city where schools and churches are being builded and where men, women and chill dren are striving to construct that which is best in life.
 While the best people in the world are with us in convention working to better all humanity and comforting to teach doc trines which will elevate the world and bring eventual peace and perpetual life to those who would live well and wisely in this world-it is the time for the good people of Birmingham to clear out the lawless, and make Birmingham the best. If the saloon is the cause. let us raise the license, regulate the number to so many to block, and the total number of the town in proportion to the population. Why not regulate the sale of fire arms, and make every man who carries pistol carry a permit pinned to the lapel of his coat?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
ENsLEYsi ONWARD MARCH.
From the Enslev Sun

from the Ensley Sun.
 Ensley is great and growing city. It is here the whirr of the industrial wheel can be heard at all hours sending forth sweet anthems ofi prosperity; it is here that the smoke curls above the stacks and spreads out across the heavens attracting the eyes of visitors and beckoning them to closer examination of the sources from which it comes and proclaiming the wondrous advantages enjoyed. The clank of the trowel and the sound of the ham, mer are heard in every direction, all indi- cative of the onward march of the Steel City of the south Truly can 1t be said. great is Ensley Scarcely can it be real fzsd that what was only a few years ago wilderness is today a bee hive of business activity, a city of 15OO0 inhabi- tants.
 So let us sll pull together, and all at the same time. nrd we predict that be- fore tle year 1906 goes out we can boa st of 25,OOO inhabitants or more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Powerful. Romance.

'The new romance. The Jungle which is attracting so much attention in the north, east and west, is beginning to have a heavy sale in Birmingham" said a book man last night Ut Is one of the most startling exposures of evil condi- tions that I have ever read, and the author handles matters with ungloved hands.
 'The story is about a family of inn migrants from Europe who settled in Packingtown, near Chicago, where they go through frightful experiences. It charges that the big packing companies violate the law In the manner in which they handle the meats and by-products sold to the people. The descriptions are graphic. The author deals with social conditions in plain terms using old Eng fish words and phrases"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
Sprinklinq Lawns.

"The decision of the supreme court upon the question of using water for sprink- ling lawns" said a property owner. "al- though it hits me, seems to be only fair and just.
 position among people to try to get some thing for nothing and I must say that the owner of large lawn or flower gar den got a good deal of water beyond what they were entitled to use
 ''I have seen sprinklers running day and night on some lawns last season and the water company had no redress, whilst if it had been a defective pipe or leaking spigot in the bathroom there was ample remedy to prevent the waste.'