The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-04

oSlilld, June o--NSpecldl-J-lHe request of Gen. stephen Lee for the observance of the birthday of Jefferson Davis at the moment of the unveiling of his monument ] in Richmond was carried out in Selma. The wheels at the Southern railway shops and at other manufactories and the trains on the Southern system were stopped for five minutes at 1 o'clock. Trains on the Western of Alabama railway were also stopped during the five minutes. Tonight appropriate exercises were held jointly by Camp Jones of the Veterans and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
 May Ignore Commission.
 Will the court of county revenue of Dallas county ignore the admoniton of the state tax commission?
 When the tax commission visited Dal- las county, about the fourth county visit ed in the state, the chairman of the com mission, Judge Mitchell, very plainly inti- mated that the values in Dallas must be raised to GO per cent of actual value by the local board or the state commission would do it for them.
 This morning the local board commenced it's sitting for the purpose of going over the books of the tax assessor and raising, equalizing and adjusting the values of property. Just what the policy of the board is can not be told from the first days session, but it Is an even bet that there is not going to be a very wholesale raise. The commission does not talk that way They say that the rains and the bad season give indication of poor crops anyway and to raise the tax values on the farmers will be rubbing 1t in. The county back tax commissioner is sitting with the board and he may or may not make raises. The question is who is to be responsible for the raises to the people who are raised and who is to be responsI- ble to the state tax commission if the values are not raised. The commissioners may look to the back tax commissioner and the back tax commissioner may say he will wait and see what the commits sioners do.
 The commissioners by law commence their sittings the first Monday In June and if property is not assessed high enough they cite the owners to appear in July and show cause why the values should not be raised. In the meanwhile the tax papers will get ready to fight the advance and those who are not raised, but whose property is already assessed at 60 per cent of it's value. will wonder if the state tax commission were Just bluff ing.
 All in all, there is considerable specula- tion going on among the tax payers, and | the commissioners are not feeling very comfortable over the position in which | they are placed.
 Forgery and Larceny.
 Police court this morning. conducted by | eli of ha i,, tt,o h sence of the mayor, occupied several hours to clear the docket
 The principal cases were those against | Wheeler for grand larceny and Eugene l McIlwain for forgery. Both defendants are negroes and both were adjudged guilty l and bound over to await the action of the grand jury in the sum of $500
 Mack Wheeler Is the negro who stole the tray of rings from the jewelry store | of E. H. Hobbs and also stole four watches from the Schweizer Brewing company the day of the fire at Buffers book store. The police department has recovered three of the watches, two hay ing been found Saturday in possession of parties to whom they were sold. The watches were identified and recovered by | the property owners.
 Eugene McIlwain has been at work at the Southern shops and Saturday was discharged. He was given a discharge 1 | number of days was put in figures and was in black ink. With more ingenuity than sense the negro placed the figure In front of the 4. but made 1t in blue ink and the forgery was easily detected
 The motorman and conductor of the street car that struck the negro, Dan | Paulden, on Saturday, charged with reck- less running, were discharged, as Mas the negro who was struck, a charge of being drunk having been lodged against him.
 Two little negro girls for taking coal from the right of way of the railroads and two negro draymen for leaving their drays and blocking the streets were fined $250 each. A disorderly case and q case of drunk and disorderly were aoJu -.cated by fines of $5 and s10.
 Convict AccldentIy Shot.
 John Anderson, a negro convict of the county at work at the gravel pit near Tyler, was brought to the city this morn- ing and carried to the city inirmary for treatment of a gunshot wound. Ander- son is a trusty in the convict camp ard yesterday afternoon received the wound which may cost him his life.
 The negroes were all gathered around a fire that had been built owing to the coolness of the day and began projecting with pistol, just whose pistol is not stated nor is it explained what a crowd of negro convicts were doing with a pistol. In some manner the weapon was accldently exploded and the ball went into the throat of the negro, inflicting a serious, though not necessarily fatal found.
 Company c to Jamestown.
 Capt. Ben R. Howard, commanding of- ficer of the Abbott Rihes Company c, Alabama National Guard, has returned from Montgomery where he held con- ference with Colonel Brcken and secured permission for the Selma company to go as body to the Jamestown exposition.
 The Abbott Rifles has determined to go to the exposition and had hoped tha, the whole regiment would be able to go, but the decision of the military board that it would be impractical cut off the trip in that direction and the company decided to go 1t alone.
 Colonel Brici<en very readily gave his permission for the company to go to the exposition, and will at the proper company will have to go Into camp in July with the regiment, the Jamestown trip coming afterwards. While the exact date for the trip is not determined it will take place some time in August.
 Young Man Buried.
 The remains of Emmett Vesper Young, the young man killed in the wreck near Jenifer Saturday morning, were inferred at Stanton yesterday afternoon. The local Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen attended the funeral in a body and pre-