The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-23
SidesuaIk Pencilings
Return. from rliforn,a.

Returns from sIifOrnia. Captain L. B. Pearce. the well known | Coast Line conductor, mas returned | from spending a month or vac. uon on | the California coast lie stopped at santa Cruz. where he reports he had | a splendid time. Mrs. Pearce and the ,. children who are witL relatives are | stopping at a bungalowq at Santa Cruz remain orseveraI weeks longer.
 While in California apiain Pearce that the scars left by the reat earth | quake and fire of little more than year ago are still appaiiny. There are still great stretches of DIackened walls ana ashes, although a large | number of new houses are being erect ed. The laoor troubles are seriously threatening the successful rebuilding | of the city and some or the most thoughtful citizens are genuinely alarmed over the existing condition Big Investment Is Lost.
 Some people fancy said well known business man to an Advertiser reporter yesterday. that the anti-cor- poration. and particularly the anti the state no harm. Reform is thelr word and everything called reform l seems to them good.
 T am in a position 70 know and l can state positively that Alabama has within the last few weeksA;ost an iIi- vestment of a million anG a hall dol- lars in the cement industry and Tor | no other reason than that the parties interested did not care to put their ! money out in state where public opinion seemed to be in such an in famed state where corporations are | concerned
 These people I speak of would have I liked to invest in Alabama; they had no complaint to make as to the rate service to be given by the railroad on which they wished to locate They did want stability in rates, as much or | their output would have 70 be sold SIX | months twelve months or as long as two years before delivery. But Alaba- 1 ma did not in the end appeal to them. They used some ugly words md aoSa. Sa. 1 cidud to go into another state to in | vest their money
 i This may sound like ciap-trap.' the 1 bu oness man went on. put It IS true nevertheless. Capital is no, going any where with the prospect Of being hunt ed day in and day out. year after year. Even where the particular m In interest do not care to be where | other large interests ere being trled by drum-head court martial once week."
 | To Go To City of Mexico.
 Dr. w. w. Magnum, one of the pest pest leave shortly for the City of Mexico.
  special practice of diseases of the chest To this branch or his profession. Dr. Magnum has devoted special study and research, His studies or .1oeiou ,iois | losis in it's preventive and contagious stages has attracted wide attentioh | from the physicians of the country.
 Dr. Magnum has for n number or years been a practicing physician or Eufaula. His studies or tuberculosis made there and contained Tn papers and addresses were the subjects oi The City of Mexico, 70 which he has determined to remeve, offers an inviting field for the line or work III his profession to which ne mas dg will devote himself exclusively to the special practice of diseases or the chest.
 Studying License Tax System. Prof. H. 4. Mills. of the Leland Stanford University of California, who spent the past. week in Montgomery left yesterday for Atlanta.
 Prof. Miilis has been in Montgomery makin~ investigations Of recoros' printed and in manuscript form, bear, ing upon the origin, devei2pmenv nvstaa ann as now in force in Alabama He has made his headquarters ir the Depart ment of Archives and History, at the rendered him in his studies oy Dr. Thomas NJ Owen, who placed very in- | terestine data at fIs disposal. | Prof Mills found much material here for his work. which is part ot general study of, the form or a. taMa. ton throughout the South. He intends visiting aeach state In the Soutn ana making a thorough study Of their tax ation system for>the purpose or compii, l ing a work on economies Tor the great California University
 MT. R. E. Pettus, 9 prominent citi- zen of Huntsville. spent last night In Montgomery. He will go today to Do than. where he will attend the Alabama Baptist Convention.
 MT. E. F. Oakley a well known merchant and planter of Pine Hill. was in Montgomery yesterday en route 10 Dothan to attend the State Baptist Convention.
 Rev J. G. Lowery of Pine Hill was in the city last night en route to the Baptist convention at Dothan.
 Mir. Robert Jemison of Birmingham was among the Jefferson delegation in Montgomery yesterday
 Mir. C. A. sisk of Gordon is regis tered at the Hotel Summers.
 Hon. J. o. Thompson of Birming- ham is in Montgomery
 MT. John T. 1teHln or ItOdHohe was In the city last night.
 Mir. R. D. Crawford of Dothan spent last night in Montgomery. |
 Hon. w c. Tunstall. Jr.. of Annis- ton, is in Montgomery
 Hon. A. c. IIowze of Birmingham is visiting the city.
 MT J. T. Scarcy, Jr.. of Tuscaloosa is in Montgomery.
 MT Henry~sIyer of Pensacola is vis- iting Montgomery.
 MT. c. K Abrahams of pemopolis is in Montgomery.
 MT. J. H. McNeill of Decatur is visiting the city.
 MT F. T. Raiford of Selma is in the .eity.
 Hon. I'M. Miller of Linden is in the city
 MT. Hugh Morrow of Birmingham Is in the city
 MT. J. C. Rich of Mobile is in the city.
 "7his IS My 74th Birthday"
 Duke of Devonshire.