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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
KILLED BY HOT POT.

An unknown white man was run over last night by a hot pot at Sloss furnace and literally torn to pieces. Nothing eX- cept his head Is left that could lead to his Identification.
 The remains were removed to the par lors of the Gaudin Undertaking company, and are being held for Identification. Parties thinking they know the man will do well to make haste as the remains cannot be kept but a few hours
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

When Deputy Dean stuck his head in a window at Eighth alley and Twenty third street, where a crap game was going on last night. big burly negro reached over and fired full in his face, the bullet breaking the window pane only three inches above the deputy's head.
 He was accompanied by Deputies Car ter and Collier, who immediately entered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
TIE TEACHERS ARE
 FOR PROHIBITION Pass Resolutions Endorsing the
 Movement FARMERS UNION RALLY
The Willie c. Waanon, One of the Oldest and Largest Boats on the Coosa River, Is Being Dis
 mantled at Rome.

Gadsden, September -(Speeial1- Yesterday at the close of d two days season of the county teachers insti- tute at Wessons school house, a resoIu- tion endorsing prohibition was unan- imously passed The movement in this county will have the support of the teachers.
 Rev. J. G. Dickinson. pastor of the First Baptist church and his family re- turned last night from Virginia, where they had been on an extended visit 1t was their intention to get back at least a week sooner. but the Illness of Mr. Dickinson prevented. While away they visited the exposition and other points in Virginia
 farmers union rally was held to- day at Friendship church near Cedar Bluff. in Cherokee county. The meet ing was held with the Spring Creek local and a good time was reported. Good speakers were present and Il basket dinner was a feature of the oc- cation.
 The river steamer Willie C. Wagnon one of the largest boats on the Coosa river, is being dismantled al Rome. The boat has been in service a good many years and the hull was past repair It was the largest boat on the river until
 
 parties three years ago. The machin- cry of the boat is being taken to Ma con and will be placed on boat there. l This will leave the Alabama, the Dixie, the Economic and the City of Gads- den the only boats plying the river with the exception of the government boat Leota
 I The repairs that have been in pro- 1 gress at the plant of the Gadsden Gin company have all been completed ex- ] cept the placing of the new smoke- stack and the gin will be ready to run 1 the first of the week No cotton has thus far been received this season but | it is expected that the staple will be- gin to come in next week, 1 Hon. o. R. Hood and pr. Charles l Gum left yesterday on tn cir annual 1 hunting trip in the west. They will
 be joined in Chicago by G. H. Schuler and will then proceed to Jaeksons Hole, l Wyoming, where they will stalk biz"
 game for the next three weeks. After l the hunt MT. Schuler will continue to the Pacific coast where he will spend | some time in recreation. | The street car company has put d new car on the Walnut street line, which will be highly appreciated by ] the patrons. The service on this part ! of the system has not been all that could be desired, and the improvement
 will be universally welcomed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
JUDGE JONES' OPINION
 ON THE RAILROAD LAWS

Montgomery, September 7.-(Special.)- Following is the full text of the opinion handed down d few days ago by Judge Thomas q. Jones in the railroad case:
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
 pany vs. Railroad Commission, ct. al.
 In Circuit Court of United States for
 Middle District of Alabama.
 Jones, district judge The original bills were filed by the compliments against the railroad commission, ct al, to restrain the enforcement of certain freight and passenger legislation, and the act which forfeited the right of compliments to do intrastate business, if it filed its bill in this court 10 test the validity of rate legislation preliminary injunction was issued, on the original bill some time since. On August Il, 1907, complainants filed their amended bills making the solicitors and sheriffs in the several counties in which their roads were operated, defendants, and praying an injunction against them to prevent their prosecuting or arresting complain ants officers, servants and agents, for any alleged violation of the statutes named. pending the determination of their validity in this court.
 The amended bills state in extenso al- legged violent utterances of his excellency the governor, and threats to instruct so- licitors and sherlffs to disregard the or ders of this court against such arrests and prosecutions, and aver that the said several solicitors will unless restrained, procure such indictments and make such arrests. etc. The answers to the rule to show cause are in effect. only a plea to the jurisdiction of the court; that the amended bills are, in effect suits against the state, and that this court, under the facts set forth in the original amended bills, has no authority to enjoin criminal prosecutions. The arguments in support of them are an insistence that the case Pitts vs McGhee 172 II. S. 52S, applies to and controls the case made by the amended bill, and. if necessarily seeks q rehearing and reversal of the prior decision of this court on these points.
 The court has carefully reviewed and reconsidered the reasons upon which it's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

will dust in considerable prohibition talk for a seasoning. Dr. Culpepper is one of the strongest Temperance workers in the south.
 A special chorus of mems voices will lead the music. Admission is free and the theatre will probably be full
 Dr. Culpepper will be in the city about two weeks, as he is conducting revival at Wesley chapel in conjunction with the nastor, the Rev. J. o. Haynes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

her back to North Carolina as his bride. True to her ancestral instincts she takes great interest In the gold mining gos- sip, inh heriting, as she did. a fortune be- gun In those south ern mines and en- larged In the western gold fields; and owning. as she does, a romance which connects North Carolina and Califor- mia in a peculiar way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

Although the presence of gold in the Southern Appalachians was known to the Spaniards before the settlement of James, town the English colonlsts paid but lit- tie attention to searching for the glori- ous metal. The discovery of the Carolina field was made in 1799 when q little son of Conrad Reed of Cabarrus county found a very heavy rock. He took it to the house and it was used as a weight to prop the door open. One day visitor naticed what IL Was-a chunk of almost pure gold, weighing twenty-five pounds. One other nugget of about the same size has been found in that county. Road makers dug up a nugget weighing over five pounds while grading a road near Concord, a few years ago. Negroes dig ging for the foundation of a cotton mill In Charlotte two years ago found three nuggets worth from $S to $24 each.
 Gold mining was begun on a consider able scale in this section about 1Sl5, and within five or six years 1t had become the leading industry, and there was a large class of professional gold hunters and miners. The production became so large that Congress in 1885 established two hints in the south, one here d Char lotte and the other at Dahlonega, Georgia
 Both were operated until the civil war and neither was re-opened after the end of the war. The Charlotte mint was burned in 1S44, but was immediately re- built. The building Is still standing, Is still known as "the mint" and is occu- pied by the united States assay office
 Through this office comes each year the production of precious metals from the Southern Appalachian mines except that portion which is shipped to the northern refineries as crude ore. The mines in tho city of Charlotte. for instance, ship the ore New Jersey to be refined. and hence their product does not so through the local asasy office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

Many are the stories of live wasted in searchin for the gold in these hill- sides, many are the stories of lucky strikes, many the tales of immense nus gets, but the really successful gold miners are few Charlotte itself pays little attention to the gold business. It knows there are mines all about but it
 is far more interested in the mills which spin and weave the cotton fibre into cloth, and those that crush the cotton seed into oil. The Mine" is pointed out to the stranger as the place wh ere most of the gold money came from. In the days "befo' de war" and many citizens know that the total coinage there in the twenty-two years it was operated was over S5,000.000. Few know that the gold deposited in that building for coinage and for assaying has in all amounted to over S15000, ,000, all of which was taken from mines In this vicinity. One mine only five miles from town has produced $2.000,0o0 worth of gold, and is now deserted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
GaroIinas Formerly Supplied
 All Gold for America
MANY MINES ABANDONED
Improved Methods Such as Are Used In the West Have Never Been lntroduoed-One Mine In
 Charlotte City Limits.
BY FREDERIC j. HAsKlN.

Charlotte, =. G. September, i911-For tBe agsl thrae-quariers If century of our national life the gold supply of the nited States came from the mines in North and South Carolina end Georgia Since the discovery of gold in California i in lSi1 these southern mines have not attracted much notice, although they still produce as much gold every years as the whole country did in the days of the first American money panic in the thirties, As an instance of the way things move in these stirring times it may be stated that the gold production of the world since lS97, the year Mckinley became president has been more than the total gold production of the entire world from t492, when Columbus discovered Amer ica, down to 1S50, when California gold first began 10 reach the hints in large quantities
 There are two gold mines within the city limits of the municipality of Char lotte, one of which is now being oper- aled prontably few miles south of here, i'll sonth Carolina, the Halle mine is producing gold every day. and has been proftably operated for over twenty years II wase at this mine that The chlorinatIon process of reducing refrac- tory gold ore was first employed on | large scale by MT, A. Thies, hale old man of s0 years, now living in Char lotte.
 An excellent prospect was found q fe@ years ago just north of Charlotte. The land was bought by q northern syndicate and a local miner was put in charge, Much gold went into the hill, very it- tie came out of 1t, Then the capitalists thought 10 employ an expert miner. They imported one from Colorado, q man who knew how to operate a gold mine. He had an unlimited expense account. He hired large gang of Workmea and began digging. Two kegs of whisky were sent out every Saturday. The boss miner rode around over the country behind a spanking span. Still there were no re- sults-all going In and nothing coming out.
 Finally he reported that the mine was q failure, and it was abandoned About d year after that a little girl was playing around the dump where the supposedly worthless rock and dirt had been piled She picked up a little nugget and ran home to tell her father, veteran miner The old man came back with her and that afternoon they picked up tin bucket full of nuggets which assayed sl70o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

Not far from Charlotte is the little villaSe of Rutherfordton. where in the old days the Bechtlers coined gold money at private mint, operating un der the permission of the Congress. Tho Bech tier coins were of great beauty and each bore the stamp of its own natural degree of fineness. The coins were So, $2. 30 and $1 pieces. There are few of them to be seen here now, but most of them known to be in ex- stence are In the hands of coin col lectors by whom they are greatly prized. A g. 30 Bechtler coin in good condition is worth from $20 to S25.
 The present prosperity of this section of the country, which Is in no way de- pendent on It's deposits of precious metals is a forcible illustration of the difference between Spanish and English methods of exploiting the colonies which they establish ed in the new world. When the Spaniards came to Florida they were in search of two things-the magic fountain of youth and the no less magic and mythical mountain of gold. The Indians whom they met were ornaments fashioned from gold nuggets. The nuggets were appropriated and the Indians killed oI run into the forests, as seemed most convenient at the time. These nuggets undoubtedly came from the Carolina gold fields, Just the copper utensils used by the Indians had come all the way from Lake Superior. The Span iards attempted to find a great supply of the nuggets and failing, practically abandoned the country.
 The English, Scotch and Irish came Into the same country. They began to farm and raise cattle. and as nearly as Fpossible to live in this new country as they had in the old. Gold hunting did not occur to them then the failure of John Smith to find gold in Virginia having been taken as conclusive. And so it was that after the settlement was fifty years old a visitor found twenty five pound chunk of gold doing duty as door stop in the cabin of pioneerl
 Tomorrow--using the Power of the Rivers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

CONTINUED ON RAGE 7o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

The street car company has put d new car on the Walnut street line, which will be highly appreciated by the patrons. The service on this part of the system has not been all that could be desired, and the improvement will be universally welcomed.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20
uNUN LOST ~ WOODS


uenison. Tex Feb. 20 Ludta
Harper. aged { years. disappeared
from her homo 90 Rcd river last Sal
urday The parents and nelEheoss IN
ailtuscG a search aud At last afTlssd
al th. conclusion that ihv child hsn
wandered Io the river. fallen 3u ana
had ssen drowned
Monday tar hFnttsl .noh aE ttr
search and found hss il;'le asstfs
asleep n 81 rush heap toaf miies dts'
tant tfon howe Sas "a wveA sna
eltuosst aeaa from expoSefs She zAlf
that an aairaai of snsns ktnd. pfnbaela
a wou. rTasss~d her tr.ss Aad 'os'
h.. bat u 1ia nUg att"sun' fo mniee3
her further She ~assssi 4tl obs
sight part of : day and ghen aFA~t
ID into tho hrusA heap autu hfsi ~
leA.os ard had sisgs fhert effi
EirSw
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20

and had been cut half In two. Oft
GERS who visited the scene ana eX-
amined the body found what is sup
posed to be a bullet hole IN the
breast: tho left side OF the race was
crushed In, and the lower jaw was
missing. In the lane alongside the
road, and about 100 yards from
where the body was found, fire had
been hindled and the mans clothing
burned two cedar fence posts having
been cut for the purpose. The man
was probably 35 years old. five ana
a half feet tall. weight about l'o
pounds, BLACK hair. Scraps of cloth
ing. buttons and buckles where the
burning was done shows that the
man wore a brown derby hat, cheap
suspeuders and sweater or oNeralis'
The fire had been lighted over pooi
of blood much of which stun adhered
10 the rocks. The body rs supposed
I'd have lain where Il was found tot
ten DAYS or two weeks. The ofiiceFf
are nj work on the case. but there is
absolutely no clcS as - the man !
Identity or that ~ the perpcttatoFf
Of the deed.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20
DEPUTY SHERIFF MAY LOSE OUT
Law Causing Young
Officer Some tncasincss.

The anti-nepotlsm bill. carrying
with it the emergency clause. mas
passed both branches of the legisia-
ture and needs only the governors
signature 10 become Law. II the bill
is signed by Governor Campbell seF-
eral hundred persons who are hold
ing jobs in the state department, IN
counties and in cities under relatives
viii lose out.
Deputy Sheriff j. Y. Forbes Us
about the only man Ia the county OF
fiees whose position will be affected.
Sheriff Forbes is his uncle and II tho
anti-ncpotism bill becomes law he
may lose out. During the short time
he has been in office be- has made an
excellent officer and is well qualified
for the position
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20
EFFORT TO BURN BODY
1ntitated RemljaS OF % Unkn0wa Hen
Fouad in Rsviae.

Weatherford Tex, Feb 2o.-One
IF the most grewsomc finds ever re-
ported in this county WAS made
known yesterday. when n son OF }.
g. Eddleman, a ranchman living six
milee south OF this city, while hunt
ing some steers In his fathers pas
ture, discovered the badly deeom-
posed body of an unknown man. VINO
mad evidently been murdered. The re
mains were found ia i deeply cut co"
trail. leading down the bank into Z.
deep ravine. Ak prints in the side OF
The bank showed that the perpetra
tors Of the deed had made an effort
70 cut off enough earth To bury the
cody. bat this Was only partially
done. The body had ON no clotninF
sxcept The undershirt aud drawers,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20
EXPLOSION OF ENGINE
tasiactr nefCASai Vas kdlet sal fHt-
ma tn,eli estlY lsIsfet.

Houston. Tex. Feb 2a--Georg.
" Merchant. an engineer on tns Gal
weston. Houston aud Northern rail-
road. VAS Instantly Killed and II. El.
lott, his fireman. Was painfully but
not fatally injured q; $50 yesterday
morning a. strang by The explosion
OF tho boiler of the engine Of which
they were in charge. The Inflated
train was freight No iss, running
from Galveston To Houston.
Engineer Merchant had brought
his train az far "a Strang. the point,
where the Sylvan Reach track leaves
the msin line, near La Porte, and
where a water tank Ia stationed.
Slowing down for the tank. the
train was stopped and Fireman ELI
OFT pulled down the intake pipe of
the tank and filIed the tender with
water Just as he pushed up the
heavy pipe and WAS turning about to
resume his position In the cab pre-
paratory to resuming the run into
Houston, there was an explosion that
shook the earth, and with the screech
Of escaping steam the air was filled
with flying iron and steel. and the
great engine lay a heap of wreckage.
while fully $50 feet from the track
lay the horribly bruised and mangled
body of Engineer Merchant. With
the crushing of his frame and the
rending OF his body. life had been
snuffed out Death must have come
instantly. the concussion caused by
the sudden letNnggo Of the heavy
boiler being something fearful.
Fireman Elliott experienced a
most miraculous escape He was
blown from the engine, but beyond
a number of bruises and a few minor
hurts that will heal in time, he was
not hurt, and il is stated that he viii
recover.
The engine which exploded Was
No. $50, and it is reported that 1t was
the identical engine which let go on
the Houston and Texas Central sew
eral weeks ago. 1t is unofficially sta
ted that the engine was brought to
the shops to be repaired and after be-
ing rebuilt was loaac1 by the Central
To he Galyts st1a. Etustcn arc Nor
thcrn, the ..alv. .-ton division OF tht
GalyaStt - I..r' y .saig and San An
tonic railway.
No cause has been assigned TO
the explosion, but it is known to hav'
occurred within a very few moment.
after water had been taken from the
tank at Strang Whether the water
was too low in the boiler before the
water tank was reached can not be
stated.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20

tlse somEE mFu @Hu oomlnss tlt
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aerr eutyrf4iuot lEtf "semsng ftuta
o ta iH nciosk bt "a ~ pteuon
q homs on i.AbH para atrnur
Thp s8aaiur Wsa spent tn q aoela8
mae uA fne nss aston as vsry much
m oy4a ns AN = enutnaE that proved
saifu ftiearsflng consisted ~ ass ais-
ta nufiau a&oag th, xaesss uf cards
a1 ahhh w.rr tsvuly nlhlc anes.
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20
THE TEMPLE M JUSTICE.
There WIN ~crn II. i'tcnty lhpinx in
District and s'ounty Court.

Soon there vIil ho nusy days nj
Ellis suuntY's temple of Justice In
fe~ 49, the mills ~ Justice ~ill be
erindx In tao departments The
F.hr Mr. term Of the district court
all ucn~ene next Monday with Judge
Hawkins 90 The bench. and on the
first Monday In March. judge sp.n
GER vii convene the spring term of
the county court Owing 10 she spring
and fan terms of the county court
coming while district co0rt is in ses-
sion arrangements have been made by
which criminal cases in the county
court are tried the first two weeks
OF tho term This gives the county al
torney plenty of time la prosecute
ishpmeanors and get ready for the
criminal docket In the d!stric, court.
District Clerk Carothcrs is getting
his civil doekets In shape, while c. r.
spalding. court deputy to County
Clerk Loggins, il dockctng criminal
casef
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20
HAD AN ENJOYABLE TRIP.
Lee Quaite Saw Many Things of ln-
fcrcst In New York.

Since his return from New York
a few weeks ago Lee Quaitc, who ac-
companied Z. Chaska TO the metrop-
oils to assist him In buying goods
for Jolesch & Chaska's emporium OF
fashion. has been regaling his friends
with interesting stories OF the won
derful sights seen by him in the big
gest city In Uncle Sans domain. This
was Mr.. Quaites first trip to New
York and quite naturally it was one
Of much interest to him. He Is n close
observer of people and things ana
can expiate on his observations In an
entertaining manner. While in New
York he visited many places of inter
est, but perhaps one Of the most In
teresting features of the whole trip
was the time he devoted TO studying
the methods employed by the police
In handling the great throngs Of peo-
pie on the principal thoronghfares or
the city. A number of big policemen
are stationed on the sidewalk at
every crossing and the movement OF
pedestrians on the sidewalks and OF
the traffic in the streets Is controlled
by the blue coats. 1t is due to thei1
! watchfui eyea that people are no
cruxhed to death every day whe
|crossinE the street In front OF ~
hicles and street cars
Mr. Quaite said the trip was
great treat. as well as a rest to hin
after spending an unusually bus
| season behind the counter
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-20
r1->EH,L or MIR. pORTERFIELD
Remains of Pioneer Laid to Kcst IN
the CITY Cemetery.

The funeral service over the bouy
of Mr.. ]. f. Porterfield. who died IN
this city Monday afternoon, TOOK
place this afternoon at $3.50 at inc
residence of County Tre lsurer March
hanks on Vickery street. \ large
crowd OF sCrrowinE rCi2tiyes and
sympathizing friends attended he
services at the house and Followed
the remains TO their last resting
place in the city cemetery The CON
federate Veterans acted as an es-
cort of honor from the residence to
the cemetery. proceeding in front OF
the hearse. At the grave a number or
short talks were made by members
of Camp Winnie Davis.
The pallbearevs were j. NJ Patter-
son. O.. ". Peavey c. II. kolley.
Bruce Ransom A. l.. Thomas. W a..
Parks and G.. G. Sweat
Honorary pail bearers Capt W.
H. Getzcutaucr. Col. u. r. March
banks. +. Y. =. Sweat. Bob Couch,
y. G.. Rcggor and Capt II NJ. Rhodus