The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-07
TAXES ARE DUE IN CITY OF BESSEMER Officer Lon Tyler Kills Negro
 on Car MAKES A VICIOUS ATTACK Negro Woman Attempts to Carve Monogram on Anothers Heart
 and Leaves Town on
 Double Quick.
MAKES A VICIOUS ATTACK

Bessemer October 6.-(Speclal.)-Rea and personal taxes for the city of Bes- semer were due on October l. and it Is urged that everyone come up and plank the long green over to Treasurer Stubbs. Of course. everyone has until December 1 in which to pay up. but since it has to be paid i'll the long run, the present time is certainly the accepted one
 MT. Stubbs stated this afternoon that the taxpayers are quite slow in coming, and this naturally means more work for everyone Assistant Tax Collector Hous- ton has been doing some hard work dur ing the past week. but as usual everyone seems to be inclined to stave it off as long as possible.
 If they do not pay up by December l, or at least on the first day of December. there will no doubt be something doing. as Tax Collector Stubbs is determined to tolerate no trining.
 Some taxpayers seem to be under the impression that they can pay their real and personal tax at any time, but such
 is not the case After the first day of December everyone that goes up to Tax Collector Stubb's office to pay will find that there is besides the regular fee q certain amount of interest added. and everyone knows and appreciates the fact that MT. Stubbs is no back number when it comes to figuring interest
 The street tax for 1907 has also been due since January l.
 Officer Kills Negro. Quite an exciting shooting scrape took place on the Jonesboro car last evening, when Lon Tyler, a marshal, shot and fatally wounded a negro miner employed at the Feeders mines.
 It appears from evidence obtained from an eye witness that the Jonesboro car which passes the Bessemer Hippodromc about 9:30 last evening, took on quite a crowd that was desirous of riding down to the end of the line rather than stand and wait for the car to come back.
 The car was pretty well crowded, and when Mir Tyler walked through he made the remark to some of the negroes to stand aside so that the passengers could get through. Nothing more was thought of the incident, and he walked up to the front of the and was talking to the | motorman whent this negro. who was sit | ting on the front seat, suddenly raised
 
 knife. MT. Tyler proved to be too quick l for the negro, and he raised his left arm 1 and stopped the knife. Quick as a flash l he whipped out his pistol and shot the negro in the body. As soon as he did | this, and before any one realized just 1 what was happening the negro made l dive through the car window and disap- peared in the darkness.
 The conductor in charge of the ear tele- phoned to the city and asked that man be sent out there with dogs to track the negro down, and then the funny part of the story started. MT. Doyle, who ng- ured in these columns yesterday, immedi- ately got his four old hounds and started out on mad run for the scene Of the crime. When he reached the place wnere the shooting was supposed to nave oc- cured the dogs lit out, and they would no doubt have been running yet had they not gotten hungry and being union dogs, they stopped for the o'clock whistle this morning, just one-half mile from where the negro was lying in the weeds. When the dogs passed down Nineteenth street last evening they made as much noise as the oxine wagon did the first time 1t pas ssed down the street. One old negro was heard to make the remark that the man in charge of the dogs must be trying to start a race riot, and he thought the best thing he could do would be to go on home.
 The negro was found this morning stretched out in the weeds about loo yards from the scene of the shooting He died at the Feeders hospital tonight. His name was Roy Tell.
 Negro Women Fight. Lilly Black and another negro woman, known to the police as Pinkey, became involved in a difficulty at late hour last night and as result Pinkey pro- ceeded to carve her monogram on Lilly's heart She went down to one of the res taurants on First avenue, and ordered hot tomalle, and about that time Lilly walked up and asked Pinkey if she could not come clean and pay for two. It ap- pears that for the past few months both women have been in love with the same man and Pinkey proclaimed loud enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear that she would take back talk from anyone, and she pulled Carbo-magnetic razor the kind that Alderman Lewis sells), out of her dogwood purse, and made a lunge at Lilly. Lilly was not swift enough to get out of the way, and result the Robinson infirmary has a bill against her for services rendered and the bill when itemized will read something like this:
 ''To taking 20 stitches in broken heart
 <Altti ont SdW llt result oI nef dWful work, Pinkey took to the woods, and if she is running as fast now as she was when she left she is somewhere near Charleston, s. C.
 Chief Ben Wallace expressed the be- lief this morning that she would be caught within the next 90 days.
 Many Arrests Made. The place that is called jail for politeness sake, Is certainly overloaded this evening, there have been just 3s arrests made since ' o'clock last evening.
 Every black sport that has ever visited this city made an attempt to play re- turn engagement last evening and as a result there was oodles of joy spread ing'
 All one had to do was to look down Nineteenth street, and then glance up the street. and there might be seen approach ing the ever-familiar Red Maria. Bus mess became so brisk that it was finally decided to ask Alderman Joe Winters for the use of his little 10x4 Ford, for a few hours
 This was done and the reply came back that he could not see his way clear to do such a thing. and he gave as his req son for refusing that it never would have happened if the prisoners had stayed at home