The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
JOURNAL COMPANY
 IS INCORPORATED
Most of Stock is Taken By
 GadSden Business Men
NEW ORE MINE IS OPENED
Congressman John L. Burnett Will Re- turn From Europe Next Week and May Take Trip Over
 His District.

Gadsden, September 13.-(Special Ar tieles of incorporation were filed with the probate judge for the Journal Publish ing company. The capital stock of the company is placed at $2500 with 25O shares of the par value of Sl0O each, all of which. with the exception of few shares to be held as treasury stock has been subscribed by the leading business and professional men of the city. The new corporation will take over the prop erty of the Gadsden Evening Journal and will conduct d general publishing busi- ness. flat-bed perfecting press will be installed and other improvements made to the Journal equipment in order that the paper may be enlarged and kept abreast of Gadsdens growth and prog ress. The officers of the new company are: W. P. Hofferbert, president; Col R. B. Kyle, vice president; A. W. Me- Culloeh, secretary and treasurer, all of Gadsden.
 The board of directors is composed as follows: R. B. Kyle, l.. l., Herzberg, G.. E. Reynolds. N. P Hofferbert A. w. McCulloch, Charles r. Smith, Amos D. Goodhue, Charles s. Ward. all of Gads- den, Ala, and W. T. Brown of Rag land Ala.
 The company is composed of the fol- lowing shareholders, all of whom are among the foremost business and pro fessional men in this section of Ala bama:
 w. P. Hofferbert, T. S. Kyle. A w. McCulloch, Joseph Balfour, C. $. Ward R. A. Mitchell, Charles P. Smith, W. T. Brown. J. II. Wood, J. D. Dunlap, L. l.. Herzberg, k. B. Kyle Boykin x Brindley, Frank X Hagedorn, J. II. Love joy J. NJ Sullivan, j. W. Lawrence Goodhue X Blackwood, w. A Belenger, W. G. Bellenger. Sam C. Gentry, G. B. Reynolds E. R. LeFerve, Ira C. Ballard George S. Nann, W. P. Lay, J. S. Pa den, Hustling Transfer Co.,, j. M. Elliott Jr., C. l.. Guiee, S. E. Jordan, E w.. Green. w. P. Johnson.
 Kyle Elliott, mining engineer for the Red Ore Mining company, has just fin ished opening up fine red ore mine at Tumlin Gap and says the mine has been ltdSeu lO EOuu pilllCsi Wllb VIII opoh bC loading ore in commercial quantities Tumlin Gap is on the Louisville and Nashville railroad between this city and Altoona.
 A suit has bene filed in the city court court in which J. w. Watson seeks to recover damages in the sum of S500O against the Dwight company of Alabama City. The cause of complaint is personal injuries alleged to have been sustained while Watson was fin the employ of the defendant. It is alleged that the in- turies were the result of negligence on the part of the overseer under whom the plaintiff was at work. Watson was struck by falling plank while at work on a wall for the defendant company and received injuries resulting in par tial paralysis of the spine.
 Congressman John l.. Burnett will ar rive home next Monday or Tuesday. MT Burnett has been absent for several months on a tour in Europe. as mem Der of the immigration committee, sent abroad to investigate the whole sub feet of foreign immigration first hand, by personal observation and study In those countries of Europe furnishing the bulk of our immigrants. There is some talk that John A. Lusk will again con test with MT. Burnett for the Seventh district congressional honors and it may be that he will avail himself of the in terim before Congress meets to make tour of his district for a close study of the needs and wants of his constituents
 Joe Kellett, private secretary to Con gressman Burnett, announces that there are three cadetships to be filled from this district one at West Point and two at Annapolis. As three boys get chance at each place, one principal and two all ternates, there is room for nine appli- cants for the two places These will be selected by competitive examination and boys that are interested should begin early to make preparation.
 Mayor Dunlap held police court this morning with q full house. There were fourteen prisoners, among whom was 8 Chnaman, probably the first Oriental who ever fell into the tolls of the local police. John was guilty of an assault on a negro woman who works in his laun- dry. and was given his fine along with the rest of the collection of petty erm- inals.