The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
.BESSEMER TILL IS SWOLLEN BY FINES Mayor Rush Has Seventy Cases
 On Docket WORK AT SLOSS MINES City Court Passes Case Against South ern Railway Until Tomorrow. Personal and General News
 of Bessemer.

Bessemer November -(Special.)- The mayors court was the busiest place in the city this morning. and when Chief of Police Wallace an nounced after three hours steady grind that the fire was out no one would have believed that there was any scarcity of cash if they had seen the pile which decorated Clerk Stubbs desk.
 Mayor Rush had seventy cases in all
 to attend to, and he did his duty we'll and as result the treasury of the city
 Was augmented to the tune of near ly $500, and a few more recruits were
 added to the street gang.
 Four white craps shooters wished they had been in church on Sunday in- stead of shaking the bones around Il railroad camp, as they had to pay the
 usual seven and a half and costs for
 Sunday gaming.
 A trio of negro barbers, who it was alleged tried to corner the money facil-
 ities of few customers by doubling up in the charges, also donated, under compulsion, to the city nearly $2O. The officers on the night shift evil dently felt that there must be some- thing doing to keep them warm. as they managed to round up about forty vagrants of every sex and color, and they put their contributions into the collection box with ready zeal. A few trunks wished that prohibit tion days were here, as when they
 counted the cost after court they de- cided that their few drinks had cost
 them about dollar a piece. A negro whose fingers had propen- slty to stick to most anything in sight just so long as there wasn't anybody
 looking pleaded kleptomania for an excuse, but Mayor Rush hadn't been afflicted with doctors the best part of his life for nothing, and prescribed a pealthy dose of hard work which will be regularly taken under the direc-
 tion of Street Foreman Radcliff. Altogether the session was a varied one, and after it was all over there was nothing heard fin the court room
 save the chink of the cash as Clerk Stubbs counted it over and trans ferred it to where it belonged. l Sloss mines started up again after a 1 two days shut down on account of car | shortage, and Riamund mine No. 3 | commenced operations again after a
 weeks shut down, The general feel 1 ing in this community is that the de- | pression is now great as it will pc
 and it is generally expected that before | Christmas everything will be normal | gain. The merchants are at any rate l basing their calculations on this and l expect as good trade this year as for 1 merly.
 l While 1t is true that there are several . idle men in this community it is real 1 ized that the slump is not so great as at frs expected and the confidence Of l the people seems to be to great meas ] ure restored.
 There has been no let up in the con l atruction of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad. and the forces
 are at work with might and main on
 the work. The fill between the car line and the fertilizer factory has com
 menced and steam shovels are at work.
 At Feeders the big steam shovel is
 moving thousands of tons of dirst and the county road has been uroVea to give place to the new railroad It is eX- pected that the trains will be running as promised by the middle of next year. and by the headway being made at present it will not surprise the peo
  ing the city property within the next sixty days.
 Capt. John Marsden. father of Mrs. T. F. Robinson with his daughter, has returned to his home in Mobile. after having spent several months in this city with pr. and Mrs. T. F. Robinson. When the captain -came here he was practically totally blind, but leaves Nritb orc m GiUht. Mrs. Robinson and ner children will spend a few days in Mobile prior to return ing to their home in this city.
 The case of M. l.. Drake against the
 Southern railway was passed over i'll
 the city court this morning until to-
 morrow morning, due to the absence
 of witnesses. Attorney Scott for the
 plaintiff asked the court to issue in-
 structions to the sheriff's office to see
 that subpoenas were served, and said
 that it looked as tn ough there was un-
 necessary delay due to the apparent negligence of the sheriffs office in Bir-
 mingham. "One of my witnesses is an
 operator at Fourteenth street, Birmine- ham, and there is no reason on earth
 why he was not served with the notice" said Pinkney Scott, and I want to ask the court to insist that the papers are served"
 Judge William Jackson. who by the
 way will not tolerate delay in his
 court. ordered the bailiff of the court
 to serve the papers himself this after
 noon and issued attachments for de-
 linquent witnesses.
 The case of John Granger vs. the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foun-
 dry company was passed over till
 Thursday. due to the absence of Capt.
 Frank $. White in the federal court.
 The police patrol has another busy
 period again today and the mayor will
 have another big docket to face in the
 morning. The docket, however, is not
 more than usual after such d big pay
 day as wass1nade in this district Sat urday.
 game of indoor baseball on skates For