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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Jones Allowed Ball.

After hearing and considering all the evidence introduced on the writ of ha- beas corpus in the case of Raleigh Jones, charged with killing Lee Jones in sa- loon in Bessemer, sometime ago, Judge A. A. Coleman this morning decided to allow the defendant to give bail in req sonabe amount.
 There was a variance of opinion be- tween the court and the attorneys for the accused as to what amount of bail would be reasonable under the circum- stances and after some discussion Judge Coleman took the matter under advise ment but did not announce his decision yesterday afternoon. or if he did name an amount to the attorneys out of court. the bond was not given.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
RUN OVER AND KILLED
 BY AN ELECTRIC CAR
Green j. Nvery, Clerk at the Railway, Light hnd Power Depot, Victim
 of Accident.

Green Avery about 2s years of age. employer as freight clerk at the depot of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Pow CT company. at Sixteenth street and First avenue. was run over and killed by an electric ear yesterday afternoon.
 It seems that Avery had gotten off from duty and was returning home, when he passed near the barn, and saw string of cars. He boarded one of these cars and was either knocked off by telegraph 5os5s while leaning from the car, CT lost his grip ana fell He was badly crushed by the wheels.
 The remains were carried te. the under taking establishment of E. T. Shay x Son, where they were prepared for burial. They will be sent to Roanoke early this morning where the funeral will be held.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Collections Show Large Gain In Sale
 of Spirit Stamps.

The books in the office of Internal Revenue Collector J. O. Thompson show that the sale of spirit stamps for the month of March just ended Increased 63 per cent over the same month last year while the sale of beer stamps increased only 1 per cent.
 The total March collections amounted to $40953.42. being a gain of i5 per cent over March. 19O5 The collections were distributed as follows: Spirit stamps, s29. .4s7.04; beer stamps, ss,3i0; cigar and cigarette stamps, H,ss5.55. and special tax SS7484
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Illicit Stills Destroyed.

Deputy Collector w. F. Russell was in Houston county recently where he de- stroyed the outfits of two small wild cat stills.
 The first still destroyed was on March 21 It was located near the town of Cor don. The other was found on the premises of a farmer near Grafton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Office hours from g 2. m. to 8 p. m.
 every day.

bers of the bar interested in jury busi- ness on notice that unless prompt and proper attention was given their cases they would be dismissed when reached.
 Cases disposed of:
 Joseph Lennon pro ami vs Birming- ham Railway. Light and Power Company. Judgment for 8 in favor of defendant.
 E. E. Forbes Piano Company vs. F.. 'MePherson ct al Dismissed by plaintiff
 O. L. Drake vs. k. C. Bonderant. Judgment by default for $2s3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
chancery Bill Filed.

Mrs. E. NJ. Drennen flied 2 bill in chan. cerv yesterday against the mayor and board of aldermen and George E. Ward
 seeking to establish her title to a certain A piece of property on Eighteenth street between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues. South. The petitioner sets forth that she IA the rightful owner of the property and that her title to 1t is disputed by the re- spondents and asks the court for relief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Marriaqe License.

Charles P. Webb, Woodlawn, and Miss Jennie K. Ramage. S. Marion Clooker of Clanton, and Miss Matte Gore.
 Rufus K. Sellers, of Belle Sumpter, and Miss Alleria Johnson.
 Clarence L. Creelmon and Miss Edith A. Fox.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Crawford Out on Bond.

w. A. Crawford, the young white man who was accused of stabbing a negro known as Freddy Daniels to death on Second avenue between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets last week, was yesterday morning granted the privilege of making bond in the sum of $500. The bond was given immediately and the ac- cused released.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
BOYS MAKE GOOD MUSIC.
Band From the Industrial School al
 Motor Car Races.

The Boys Industrial school band furn- ished the music for the motor car races yesterday afternoon and was highly com plimented IL is said that few bands in the state play with SO much spirit as this organization. It is a large band-about twenty. five pieces. and the ensemble wcrx Is exceptionally good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03

grees and in 1906 51 degrees; mean for this month for thirteen years, 5S degrees; absolute maximum for this month for ten years, S5 degrees; absolute minimum for this month for ten years 12 degrees; accumulated daily deficiency since Jan uary 1, 80; average daily deficiency since January 1, 20.
 Precipitation-Total this month, 10. fs; snowfall, trace; greatest precipitation in twenty-four hours, 4.29, March IS and 19; snow on the ground at the end of month O.. Total precipitation this month in 1895. e14; in 1s96 Al; in 1897. 6.7S; in 1898, 8. .7O; in 1899. 6.4S; in 1900 6,75; in 1901, 5s1; in 1902, 10.A in 1903. 574; in 1904. 3.3i; in 1905, 259; in 1906, 10.49; average of this month for thirteen years. 6.15. Excess of this month compared with average of thirteen years, 434. accumulated excess since January 1. 096.
 Wind-Prevailing direction, northwest total movement, 71O9 miles; average hourly velocity, 9.6; maximum velocity Cfor five illiTiutes}. 43 miles per hour. from the southeast on March IS.
 Weather-Number of days clear, 2; partly cloudy, 12; cloudy, IT; on which .Ol inch, or more. qf precipitation oc- cured il.
 Thunderstorms occ Id on March 2. 19, 27 and %. Light frost on March r; heavy frost March 2i; no killing frost.
 w. F. LEHMAN,
 Official in Charge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
In the Circuit Court.

c. c. Tetherow vs. Ralph Caravello Judgment for the defendant.
 B. c. .Burkhart vs. D. L. Johnson. Ap- peal dismissed.
 Annie Elliott vs. Southern Railway Consent verdict for slOo
 G. R. Horsley vs. D. NJ. Horsley ct al Judgment for s7e.5o.
 Appeals dismissed; Helen Stone vs. Lee Stone. Louise Carle vs. Arthur Brrdwell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
City Courts Business.

Both divisions of the city court were occupied most of the day in considering pleadings The whole week will be de- voted to pleadings in cases docketed for the months of April, May and June
 The judges of both courts put the mem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Want MississippI Case Advanced.

Washington. April 2.-tSpeciaL)- )-Attor- neys of the Mississippi railroad commits sion today in the supreme court moved to advance the case of the Alabama and .yicksburg Railway company vs. the Commission. The railroad opposes the advancement The case involves grain
 hstween Wick shHrG and Me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
SURVIVAL OF
A Righteous crusN Medicines conf5 gerous Drugss

A vigorous war is against the manufact proprietary articles ' contain substances ini subversive of the<tl
 all the great nL T eluding the UTj,1 in this struggleSss
 result in completely of the world of an ~
 and far reaching in It's co Happily. Germany has. ment, taken the initiative ail on her statute books the md laws against the sale of patei containing injurious or nos She has established. a Nationa Pharmacists. composed O chemists. to analyze and pa
 merits of all proprietary ari being offered for sale. 1t feigned pleasure that we Ii nounee to our readers that W
 ney and Liver Cure has passei German test, and, as a result, only kidney and liver cure l be sold in the German efnpir , absolutely pure yegetablW col pronounced such by eTHlnen
 Each package bears the1 cert analyst of the New York Sta Health, with the wordln from all poisonous and
 stances Assuredly tn
 compliment to the curat
 great American Kidney
 and ought to insure wifi
 public an increased confid derfuly increased sale.
 Since purity and value
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 note with pleasur5 W come of Warmers S
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 The marked SUI
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Monthly Meteorological Summary.

Station at Birmingham, Ala for the month of March, 1906: Atmospheric .Pressure-l Reduced to sea leFeis i6dhes and handredths): mean, so.o6: highest. sOF, March 26 lowest, 2a .75, March 31.
 Temperature Highest. IS degrees, March IS: lowest 31 degrees, March 21; greatest daily range, 25 degrees, March 13; least daily range, degrees, March 27.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
THE WEATHER

bama: Fair Tuesday; Wednesday prob- | able showers and cooler; fresh south |
 winds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
BOA CONSTRICTnR
 BREAKS I
MONSTER REPTILE BIT, WHICH IS Fl SIX MONTHS.
While visiting Cole

While visiting Cole shows quarters ' } eral locef n crawling mass ofs
 rict,n boas.
 Che, the largest oi two ago shed it's skin eat after fasting the la As snakes of these va dead matter their food the live state. And thel as to their diet, too. T rabbit. chicken. pigeon either one of which whole without the slid
 A full grown rabbit snakeship yesterdas Snd 1t enjoyed it's feast. In one ( ment its coils eneircled and life out of bunnie. After lyll a few moments, the snake I eat. With wonderful expanl mouth, the boa began to swl the end of a half hour there much as a hair of the ra sight. With the meal safely in the snake stretched itself ana up in a heap and went to sll condition it will remgf1 far or five days. DurinAs
 de the reptile would
 and 1t will therefore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
PoIIock.stephens Recital.

The pupils recital at the POLLOCK Stephens college of music last night was we'll attended and was much enjoyed The programme was as follows:: 1. Piano duett. Spanish Dances. ...'...,; ......... ......-.....s. ..'....' '' 'yo Miss Ethel Newton and MT. Staats 2. Scarf Dance ....-........'..'Sh" nyaro,seus .Newin.
 Miss Ethel Daniel. g. The Loreley ...............'..-'''''ee'
 Mss Corneia Fulton. l. May Morning ''Den~"'
 Miss Fern Minor. 5. Fantasie Pieces .................t.''p'u
 a. In the Woods. b. Mignon.
 Miss Virginia B. Handley 6. a In the June Barcarolle. Tschalkowsky D Air de Ballet. .Chaminade.
 Miss Mary Forbes. :. Rondo. Op 51. No. 2......., Schleinarth.
 Mrs. Leroy Bickel 9. To Spring ..........L.........G Grieg La Fileuse ........................R Ran.
 Miss Edna Moore Facuity-Henry Taylor Staats. director plano theory Bertha Van Merkystyn. voice; John caIman. violin; Mabel Town ley, elQeution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Local Weather Data.
Weather Report.

Temperature and precipitation as re- ported at the weather bureau for select stations during twenty-four hours ending at 10 a. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
"Frugdlity and Fortune Are Cousins"

He that gets all he can honestly and saves all he can Unnecessary expenses excepted) will certainly become rich. An account here is the best way to save.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04

burga Keep a sharp 1ookout she's overdue I
guess | a little crazy by that time, tor didn't
answer: but thew kept at it all the same until
them out on the switch and laughed TO think how
easy it was 20 shut EN- up.
lust as dom that the toOt OF liner whls-
tie came up to out OF the tOg. II seemed SO
close that started my feet, and hurried down the
stairs with the glass IN my hand looked at the
clock there from habit 1 imagine, and it was ten
minutes after four. That l know. l ran straight
to the beach, my heart jumpin', for somethln told
me it was the Lundburg comm IN, and as l got 20
the shore the fog tore away Tor JuS an instant ana
there she was rushin by. Mind you, It was only for
a second | saw her, not PLAIN either, Dut hne" Aer
But / STAYED there only for minute or two
Somewhere in the fog above my head heard EN-
tickin' telegraph. Have you sighted the l-und-
burg? Keep Sharp lookout; she's overdue
She's inI / shouted at the top of my lungs, and
then, somehow or other, for l was awful tired,
climbed back TO the tower to report her
1t then had my first trouble with that IN
strument. They were at it again from the central
office askin the same old question Ike they was
frantic
60 Just passed in, | told EN-, not waitin for EN-
to finish; but they wouldn't be satisfied.
- Have you sighted the Lundburg-
"' Just passed In; and We kept that up a thousand
times, guess, till five O'Clock, when the first
night man came on duty, and asked me what was
The Lundburg's in and I can't make EN- ur-
derstand cried, and he told afterward that the
tears runnin down my face.
He came up beside the instrument and looked az
it. Then he says, Let me tell EN-, Bill and l
gave him the key. little while later he spoke 20
kind of quiet. Its all right, Bill. She got into
Quarantine at three-thirty, and they've been tryin'
to tell you ever since; but they couldn get YOU
the pins dropped out OF the switchboard, and
you've been cut out. The Lundburg lost propeller
blade, but she's all right now, and so the family
You'd better get bit of sleep before they come in.
What | can't make OUT Bill went on, IS
how the Lundburg got in without my seem her.
That did see her in the fog halt hour after she'd
passed here amt noways so queer. As said before,
fog is mysterious and penetratin' both,
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04
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the stack or a few feet of the bow or maybe
foremast cuttin' through the smoke as it swirs in
a bit of wind. As for noises they re all about you.
Sirens of big liners, whistles of tugs and the like,
bells and tin horns of sailn craft. You can hear
'em if you just listen for 'ern, though you're
KNOWN all the while there ISM ship within miles.
He paused and looked out to the eastward, his
brows drawn down over his eyes. Presently he
went on again. I'm gOin' to tell you experience
had once that goes to prove What SAID about tog
the wife and kids. My wife got notion she'd like to
show the three children to her folks that livin'
in the old country.
tion on the Lundburg, a German ship runn1n' to
Bremen, which was near where her folks lived
Well they made Bremen all right, and it never came
into my head to worry about EN- till they started
back on the ship about a month later.
You wouldn't believe it, but began lOokin' for
the Lundburg three days before she was due. On
the day she was due | sat there plCkln up one boat
after another they over the horizon, thlnk1n
each one of EN- was my ship, as | called her, only
to find | was mistaken. Well she didn't come in
that day, nor the next, and went back over the
log book We keep here to look up her previous
records, and was some glad to find that ben a day
or two late wasn't anything unusual for the Lund-
burg. The third day was another disappointment,
and that night worried, but still not very bad till
a Norwegian bark came in with her forennast gone,
reportin very bad weather.
L guess 1t ain necessary to tell you how L was
feen then; but to add to it the ships began
to pester our people at the central office.
Have you sighted the Lundburg? they d ask me.
Keep sharp lookout for her; she's overdue
After five days the wire seemed to be open all the
time for that same message.
On the seventh day the weather was so thick you
COudn t see the beach down there. We Just seemed
to be swingin on bank of fog with nOthin in sight
to get bearin's by. l had been up for seventy
two hours straight, sleepin' now and then in that
chair where you're sittin but out of the tower
except to get to the beach for better sight.
And all the time there those messages from
the central office The worst of it was that they
didn't seem to vary the words; kept up the same
question endin WITH Keep sharp lookout; she's
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04

killed later on at Green River, Utah Kid C1arI,
was shot through the heart in New Mexico. And
Beef Charlie fell before rifle in obscure corner
of Texas Fitzpatrick captured in St. Louis
and put in the penitentiary for ten years; ana
Harvey Logan was sentenced to twenty wears, but
escaped from the prison at Knoxville, and is still
at large
of Harvey L. gam those two enterprising men per-
petrated another robbery, on the Great Northern
Railroad, at three o clock in the afternoon Of July 3
1902. Accompanied by a third Desperate, Kid
Longbow they held up train in Montana, at
water tank, and blowing open the express safe,
took from it Orty-tve thousand dollars in paper cur
renCy. Unfortunately for them, as thev presently
discovered, the money consisted of unsigned bank
notes. kind of cash which owing TO their previous
experience they had come to recognize dangerous
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04

any names that occurred
TO them, such as " John
Jones, Cashier, " and will
liam Wilson, Treasurer "
When they wanted spend
ing money, they would sit
down and write the names
until they were tired, a
thing which they found
annoying and labOrious.
One peculiarity about
this robbery was that it
was committed in the dav
time, a thing almost with
out precedent. Trains are
usually neld up at night.
Tor obvious reasons. 1t is
easier TO terrorize people
by a night attack, and
flight Is less difficult. ANY
'cu y CdH stop q tram az
night by waving a red Ian
tern, but a method quite
as good Is to set fire 10 a
newspaper and use it as
a signal. The engineer.
even though he should sus-
Pect a hold up, must stop,
because he cannot be sure
that somebody is not try
ing 70 give notice of a
damaged rail or bridge.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04

hunters, WIN mead
quarters at Cheyenne,
Wyoming. This corps
consists of eight men,
dead shots with rifle or
pistol, and so thoroughly
trained as to be able to
follow at full gallop a
trail which to an every
day person would be
indistinguishable. For
their use there is kept at
Cheyenne a car which is
ike no other railroad
vehicle in existence. 1t
is of extra length, and
one-half of it is occupied
by the stalls of nine
horses. When the man
hunters are called upon
for service, they must
take their horses with
them; and within thirty
minutes after the arrival
of telegraphic warning
they are on their way
to the scene of the
crime whose perpetra-
tors 1t is their business
to capture or kill.
The man hunters have
certain advantages that
tell with certainty in the
chase. Their horses are
perfectly fresh, and
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04
SSING OF THE NDITS

0TIE most picturesque and distinctively Amer
lean of all professions, that of train robbing
is threatened with extinction. 1t is less
profitable than formerly, and has become so dan
gerous that may say that bandits of this kind
to-day the shortest lived men in the world
For many years the Union Pacific Railroad af-
forded attractive and favorte field for the opera
tiOns of these outlaws Its trains. passing through
wide regions of unsettled territory offered an obvious
invitation to bandits. who would make hold-up
after hold-up almost with impunity. So far have
condilo9s Ghanged' however that barrel OF gold
a flat to-day, and transported from one end
of the railroad the other without being likely to
suffer the smallest depreciation, though no
special guard provided
There is permanently organized body of bandit
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04
A Notable Robbery

ONE of the most notable of latter day train rob
- berries was committed half dozen years ago, near
Upton, by the notorious Curry gang, now extinct
This was gang of ex-cow boys and all round
toughs, of its leading spirits being George Curry
The others were Bob Lee, Harvey and Lon Logan
The booty gained was only thirty-four hundred
dollars IN national bank notes, as vet unsigned by
the bank officers, and lot of watches and ewelrV
The deSperados fled to the Hole-in-t Wall col1l-
try Northern Wyoming In this instance the pro-
tesslona man hunters employed by the Union Pacific
found the job almost too much for them; and in the
series OF tights which ensued Joe Hazen sheriff of
Douglas County, Wyoming, was killed The fugi-
tlves eventually got away and scattered
But they did not escape. Having divided the
booty they spent 1t IN the natural course of events
inevitable this attracted attention, and the notes
they left behind them furnished trails by which they
could be traced. Bob Lee finally found at a
gambling house at Cripple Creek, and refusing TO
surrender. was shot. On the same day Lon Logan
was killed near Kansas City. George Curry was
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04
By RENE BACH E.

wherever the telegraph can be reached they able
to wire for relay mounts Two of the are
expert operators, and it is easy matter climb
a pole and with the aid of portable instrument
send message They likely to be obliged
to travel for days through a barren country.
Sooner or later the pursuers come up with the
bandits, and then there is sure to be big fight
In one instance not long ago two desperate train
robbers were COrnered in a farm house near Good
land, Kansas, and the officers accomplished their
object by setting fire to the building.
1t is an exceptional case for train robbers to inter-
fere with passengers. To do is risky and the pro-
ceeds doubtful, inasnuch as everybody is likely
to ceal his or her valuabes at the first alarm. 1t
Is easier and less dangerous simply to hold up the
tran detaCh the locomotive and express car, COM
pei the engineer to haul the latter away TO a con-
siderable distance and smash the safe with dynamite
or ntrogycerin, loading the valuable contents into
convenient bags, and thereupOn galOp away.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-04

overdue until that sentence ran in my head like the
whinin' of a broken phOnograph repeatin' and
peatin' the thing.
ITO tell the truth, don't know how the day went,
but along in the afternoon the telegraph sOunder
began goin' like mad Have you sighted the Lund-
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-03-06

Clarksburg, W. Va, March q
An agreement was suddenly reach
ed during the trial today in the
United States court Of the Red
Rock Fuel Company's suit against
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad com.
pany and the suit was withdrawn.
The suit was brought to- enforce
q recent order of the interstate COM
merce commission directing the
railroad company to cease. its dis
crimfnation against the Red. Rock
Fuel company. By the terms of
the agreement the railroad compa-
ny WIN provide the Fuel company
With railroad connections at, the
plant near Buchanan, this state, at
once, and will grant the firm in the
coal district q fair rate and furnish
distribu. Ion Of care. - :, = : ','' ~
The Red Rock Fuel Company re.
'tains all Of It's legal rights with the
understanding that it may furnish
the, interstate commerce commits.
eion and Senator Tillman with all
the information in its possession
and all 1t obtains about alleged dis
.crimination BY railroads ii, i West '''
Virginia. ,,>'.s' ..',. ..
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-03-06
CORVALLIS OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING,

will be the next one to tell what he
knows can only be conjectured. If
it will be anybody 1t will be Vim
cent st. John. He is the weakest
character who has not talked.
st. John is stout, well.made
man, and from his actions while at
Caldwell, while the grand jury was
being organized, it was clear that
be was extremely nervous. Every
time he got chance he would pace
back and forth over the courtroom
floor like Gagged animal.