The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-01
HUNTSVILLE MAYOR . ELECTED TOMORROW Two Candidates Have Hard
 Fought Campaign DISPENSARY ISSUE USED Hundeys Friends Confident of His Appointment, But He Has Not
 Been Officially Advised
 as Yet.

Huntsville. March 91.-(Special )-IIunts- vile will elect a mayor on Tuesday. The campaign will be closed Monday night with rallies of both factions and the campaign will go down in history as one of the most interesting ever held here. The two candidates are R. E Smith, an attorney, who was a candidate for the state legislature on the anti-dispensary ticket and Paul Speake. who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit. The dis pensary forces that won in the county election last August have lined up behind Speake and they have nominated a full ticket of aldermen. Smith is personally very popular, has considerable follow ing among all classes and is backed solidly by the administration. The dispensary issue, although it will lie quiescent for four years, has been used in this cam paign for all that 1t is worth and there has been a considerable amount of blt- terness in the fight between the two old factions. Both sides express confidence in the result. Half of the members of the city council retail their seats for
 
 only to elect the mayor or one other alderman to retain control of city affairs.
 oscar R. Hundley has received no in- formation of an official character relative to his appointment as judge of the North ern federal district of Alabama, as was indicated in the dispatches of yesterday. He has received a large number of con- OTTO t,,1 1o tiouu from, friandc uha el him from many sections of the country. It has been the impression among MT. Hundleys friends in this city for several days past that he would receive the appointment at the hands of the Presi- dent and they are naturally very much encouraged by the fiattering prospects.
 LeRoy Jefferson, a negro, escaped from Officer Thomas Countess yesterday aft ernoon as he was being led into the coun- ty jail. The negro had been arrested in Meridianvlle and brought ten miles through the country. As he was being led in the front door of the jail he seized the opportunity to break away and he left the officer behind after a foot race of nearly a mile.
 A negro girl neatly dressed, walked into the office of Sheriff William Mitchell
 
 high sheriff of f-adison county" She said she had an important message from the Lord to deliver to him. She acted in 8 curious manner and Sheriff Mitchell nervousy directed her to go outside and tell it to somebody else. The subject of the message was never learned.
 Tracy w. Pratt, Huntsville director of the Nashville and Huntsville railway. has returned from New York, where he spent several days In consultation with financiers identified with the project. Mir. Pratt says the enterprise is underwrt- ten by some of the ablest railroad finan- ciers in the United States and t. e money required to build the line will be forth coming when the cities and towns along the route are ready with their subscrip- tions. The American Construction com pany, which has the construction contract is ready to begin work in May. Mir. Pratt states that Nashville is the only place that has failed to raise the required sub scrption. The whole project is being de- layed by the lethargy exhibited by the business men of that city. They were called upon to raise $100.000 and in the six or eight months since the demand was made they have only raised $50o0o.