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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25

challenged by the antis, some of whom were shown to have paid no poll taxes and some only for1one or two years.
 This morning the registration book was offered in evidence by counsel TOT the relatprs. and it was shown that II. c. Bowen, one of the voters for tncor- poration, was 42 years old and regis tered April 10, 1902; Rev. Father A. L. Sweeney, another one of the voters challenged. did not have his name on the book at all; G. R. Bennett was 33 years old and registered in 1SO6i George Foretich was 39 years old and registered April l5, l902; R. F. Aldrich was 26 years old and registered m, 1906; Charles Meador was 30 years old and registered in 1906,
 According to the official books of the county, five of these challenged vo- ters were disqualified, and there is some doubt of MT. Meadows qualifica- tions.
 4. H. Rayford. one of the voters against incorporation, whom the muni- cipality tried to disqualify because his name did not appear on the poll tax books since 1903. testified that he was not liable since that time on account of bein gover age. It was also shown by the antis that w. H. smith was 50 years old and registered September 5. 1904; John Ranagier was s2 and reg istered April 15, 1902, and young John Ranagier was 31 years old and regis tered August 31. 1904.
 The antis Introduced G. R. Bennett. one of the voters for incorporation, and he swore that he did not know when he was born, did not know how old he was and did not know how Hong he had been in Whistler, He said he might have been in Whistler over four years. He didn't know how many years he had paid poll taxes. The registration book showed him to be B years old when he registered in 1906. He said his wife told him how old he was when he registered, and his father told her.
 R., F. Aidrich. one of the voters for a city, admitted that he had been in Whistler six years and had paid poll taxes only for three years. yet he voted for incorporation in this elect ion. \ Meadow, another voter for a city, Said he did not know exactly how old he was, and couldn't say when he had paid his poll taxes; he gave his age as 30 and said he thought he regis tered last year.
 When the relators rested, the muni- eipality introduced Tom Halliwell again, and asked him if the handwrit- ing in the book in evidence wns hi
 own. He said that 1t was the writini
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
MEET NEXT IN TAMP A
FLORIDA VETERANS CONCLUDE
 THEIR REUNION.
General Wittieh, of Pensacola, Elected Commander To Succeed Gener- al JeyseII-FiAe Trip On
 The Bay.

Pensacola, Fla, Oct. 24--(Special, D. After session of two days, the Flor ida Division. United Confederate Vet erans. adjourned tonight to meet next year at Tampa. which was almost the unanimous choce for the next meeting place.
 Today's session was a business one. and when 1t convened. the profusely decorated Armory Hall was filled with the soldiers in grey.
 General Jewell. the commander. pre- sided over the meeting and resolutions were adopted and commander elected. Brigadier General ". L. Wittich, of this citv, was elected Major General and will succeed General Jewell as commander.
 A resolution of thanks was adopted and ordered sent to the Legislature for the very liberal pension laws passed at the last session. and thank ing the citizens of Pensacola for the entertainment provided during their reunion.
 This afternoon the entire division. accompanied by many prominent citi- gems and ladies. boarded steamer and spent several hours on the bay and Gulf. A stop was made at the Santa Rosa life saving station, where fish dinner was served and greatly enjoyed.
 Governor Napoleon B. Broward, ac- companied the Veterans on the trip, having boarded the vessel at Fort Bar ancas, where he had gone to inspect the State troops in camp there
 Tonight the Veterans witnessed the production of the Little Rebel" at the opera house. and will depart for their homes tomorrow
 The seventeenth reunion. from all expressions, was the most largely att tended and enjoyable of any of its pro- decessors and the Veterans are well pleased with Pensacola.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
SENATORS COULDN'T GO.
Rankhead and Johnston Disappoint
 Mobile Party.

Rankhead and Johnston Disappoint
 Mobile Party.
 Mobile, Oct. 24-(Special) )--Ala- bama's two Senators did not come to Mobile this morning as it had been an- nounced for the purpose of making an inspection of the new sea wall and other Improvements that are making at Fort Morgan, and also to inspect Mobile harbor and the channel on Mo- bile Bay.
 Early this morning Capt. A. c. Dam ner received a telegram from Sena- tor Johnston dated at Birmingham, saying that Senator Bankhead could not join him in the trip at thisA time. and asking that the matter be deferred until they could make the trip to- gether Captain Danner also received the following telegram from Congress man c. W. Taylor, who had been invit- ed to join the party:
 "Am exceedingly sorry to miss the opportunity. I leave for Panama via Washington and New York. Saturday next. Best wishes"
 It appears that the plan to have Sen ators Bankhead and Johnston visit Fort Morgan had its origin with Major Stone. who is in command at Fort Morgan. Major Stone wrote to his friend, Hon. Charles E. Waller, of Greensboro. and asked him to use his influence to have the Senators make the visit to the fort. This MT. Waller did. and letters received from him yes- terday by Captain Danner and United States Marshal c. B. Deans, indicated that the Senators would join him in Mobile this morning.
 The light house tender Ivy had been n1aced at the command of Captain Dan her and MT. Deans for the trip to Fort Morgan. and she was steamed up and lying at the Gaillard-Johnston coal wharf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
MIR. sEDGEwIcK's RECEPTION.

Mobile, Oct 24-(special. )--An- nouncement Is made that Rev. James M. Sedgewick. the new pastor of the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, will preach his initial sermon in this church next Sunday evening.
 The congregation has issued neat cards of invitation to the services, which are to be held at 7:S0 o'clock. number of the leading Protestant ministers of the city are expected to take part in the service and assist in giving the new pastor a cordial well come to Mobile
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
SMITH MAY DIE.

Anniton, Oct, 24-(Special)-Ne today from the bedside of Joe Smith. the Weaver man who early last Satur- day morning cut his throat with a knife and then jumped into a we'll in the yard in an effort to kill himself. is that both Smith and his wife are in a serious condition.
 MT. Smith is said to have contracted typhoid fever since the attempt at self destruction. and his reason has entirely left him. Before that time he had been suffering with a type Of malaria. but was thought to be getting along very well and on the road to recovery. His wife has also suffered a relapse as a result of the conduct of her husband in attempting to kill himself. and is said to be very i'll.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
SUGGESTS FEDERAL CONTROL
Drastic Legislation and Dernagogie
 Politicians Scored.
Many other Interestins Addresses Made at Session of National Civic Feaeration by Noted Men of
 the Country.

Chicago. Oct. 24--The first address delivered at today's session of the Civ ic Federation was that of Herbert Knox smith, of the Federal bureau of cor porations, who spoke upon Adminls- trative Regulation of Corporations. MT. smith was followed by D. A. Tomp- kins of Charlotte, N. C., who spoke for twenty minutes on The Railways and the People. MT. Tompkins spoke as follows: ;.
 when we find tfiat department of interstate scoAmerce has been brought into much confusion and disorder by multitudinous State legislation, ana when we find also that interstate com merce on land has grown to be en- tirely beyond the control of any one State, it Is very important that we take steps to bring it under one gen. uniform treatment throughout the
 At present we have two opposing influences to make confusion and dis satisfaction: One of these is drastic State legislation inaugurated in many instances by demagogic politicians. but largely supported by good State officers and many good people, because of evils of railway organization and man. segment, On the other side, the rail- way companes themselves are indulg- ing in many evil pra:ttces, such as dis- crimination, speculation, the issuing of
 
 ency on the one siue is to make leg islation more drastic. so the tendency seems to be on the other side to hold with increasing dogged tenacity to situation which gives opportunity for the evil practices, against which the people are so exaggerated, and justly exasperated.
 To Escape Evils.
 1t is plain that the escape from both of these unsatisfactory situations lies in some course leading to the abol- ishment of both. It is as important jury of further drastic legislation, as 1t is to escape the railway evils. It is equally, as Important to escape the railway evils as to escape drastic leg- jslatfon. The middle course by, which we escape both of these evils at once is inc same as that adopted by our forefathers to escape the evils of mul- tftudinous State legislation about the tarifr. It is the same which brought a good banking system and uniform 1y safe currency out of the former con- fused condition of money issued by State banks under the muItitudinous and varous State laws. States rights are not in the slightest degree in- fringed, if subject is relegated to the general government which Is wholly beyond the control of States.
 "The Constitution has wisely rele- gated to the control of the general goyernment things which are national in their. character, and concerning which legislation by many States leads fo confusion, rather than order. Fed eral control, examination, and public fty would. in my opinion. have the anne effect upon the railways that it naa had upon the national banks. By Shis means 1t would not only be that the oDerations of the roads would be regulated. and the condition of rail-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
MIR. BARCLAY APPEARS.

Mobile. Oct 24---tSpecial)--H. c. Barclay, general agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. against which corporation an indict- ment was found by the october grand jury, charging 1t with a violation of an act of the Legislature for the building and using of a union depot for passengers in the city of Mobile. appeared in the city court today and compiled with the official order of Judge Semmes.
 The company was represented by its counsel in this city, c. L. Smith.
 The court noted the presence of the defendant In court and set the case down for hearing on November 2. The early date for the hearing of the case, 1t is believed. will give the Legisla- ture in special session time to pass a new bill on the question of entering the union station
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25

Prof. J. H. Gore of George Washing ton University. delivered an address upon ''The Relations of Industrial Com- binations to the Export Trade"
 D. C. Seitz of New York was on the program for a paper on The Adjust ment of Labor Problems and the Poi- icy of Incorporating Unions" but as Mir. Seitz ras unable to be present in person his speech was read.
 Following the reading of MT. Seitz . address, the conference was given over to fve-minute talks from different speakers upon the subjects discussed in the various capers which have so far been read before the conference. There was no night session.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
H. G. CRAY ARRESTED.
Clay County Man is Charged With En-
 hexzIemeut.

AnnistQn, Oct. 24-(SpeciaI)-H. c. Gray was arrested on the Eorthbound Louisville and Nashville train at o'clock Tuesday afternoon by Officer Sason on a charge of embezzlement in Clay county.
 Gray was locked up in the city jail to await the coming of the officers, who came last night to carry him back. Chief of Police Seab P. Gam, of Line vile, was deputized to carry Gray back
 Gray had his family with him. and they were enroute to Mississippi. It is claimed that he embedded two bales of cotton, the property of his landlord. Mir Willingham, when he is said to have owed for his past years supplies.
 The prisoner was carried back this morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
DEATH OF MRS. ,BURLEsON.
Aged woman of Morgan Pass'

Decatur. oct. 24-(SpeciaD--Mrs Minerva BurIeson Is dead at the home of her son. Richard Burleson. four miles south of this city. Her death was sudden and was due mainly to old age. she being almost eighty-six years old.
 Mrs. Burleson was a member of one of the oldest and best known and most highly respected families in Morgan county. She was herself one of the oldest residents of the county, having spent all her life here in and near the Decaturs.
 She leaves a son and four daughters Richard Burleson, Mrs. D. L. Downs. of Decatur; Mrs. J. [. Lipscomb. or Flint; and Miss Tex and Mattie Burle- son, of this city. The burial took place yesterday at the Burleson family burying grounds, four miles South Of the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
New PIumbInw Compnny.

Mobile, Oct. Special. )-Articles of incorporation of the Mobile Plumb ing Company, were filed in the Probate Court today The incorporators are T. F. Clark, W, T. Hanley, J. S. Brown aud Dave s. Saulberg The capital stock Is to be $1O.ooO and the purpose is to do general plumbing and plumb ing supplies business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
COAST LINE
 SHOPS CLOSE
 --s-- Three Hundred Men Arc
 Let Out. MoNTGoMERy'S GREAT LOSS Adverse Legislation is Given as
 Cause. May Reopen sooa With Much smaII- CT Force Of workmen-- Monthly Pay Roll is
 sIc.ooo.

Following closely on the reduction of force at the Western shops. came a complete shut t-down yesterday morn ing of thN shops of the Atlantic Coast Line In West End. The closing of the shops was caused by lack of appro- priation. That was the cause directly, but the cause of that was the drastic legislation and great reduction in pas senger and freight tariffs in Georgia. Alabama and North Carolina.
 Between $12,000 and s14,000 will be lost to the trade of Montgomery, for only a very small force necessary to keep the actual operating work going on will be kept at the shops. Under normal conditions. the force employed at the Coast Line shops numbers some thing over 300 men. and Master Me- chanic Pearsail says that the average monthly payroll was S16,000.
 For some time past. however" scon- tinued Mir. Pearsall, i've have been gradually reducing the force at the shops. the monthly payroll being re- dnced $6,000. Now. we are ordered to close the shops. entirely, and from to- day until November l, they will be shut up, with the exception of small force to carry on the actual operating necessities.
 November 1st. I suppose. the shops will be opened again, though have no idea that there will be the customary force"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
Neuro CooIx DIea suddenly.

Mobile. Oct. 24-(Spec )-Alfonso Richardson, a negro cook, employed al Carllsle's restaurant at the corner of Government and Royal Streets, died shortly after 10 o'clock today. forty minutes atfer an artery in his left leg, which had been diseased for some time, burst. Richardson is well known among the white people who speak highly of him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
SUES HoMEsTEADERs.
Action
D,strtet Attorney Brings Action
 Against Seven.

Against Seven.
 Mobile, Oct. 24-(Special.) )-united States District Attorney Ambrecht has tiied suits in the circuit courts under his jurisdiction against D. B. Dobson, David Dees, H. J. Pierce, Walter Da- wis. John B. Graham H B. kame & Sn1, Taras Franklin, Enoch M. Prin- gle and others to recover land >hich if is claimed is illegally held by req son of a violation of the homestead laws. .,... must reside on the land continuously for a certain length of time.
 District Attorney Armbrecht says tha he has testimony that these persons aIesn on the land one night every six months and they filed their patent for it in the circuit court, The timber on the land. 1t is alleged, was sold by the homesteaders.
 The government will also institute suit against the persons who purchas- ed the timber
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
Cnaen set for Trial.

In the city court today Judge o. J. semmes presiding the persons indicted bv the october grand jury appeared and those who pleaded not guilty had their cases set for trial
 The Diebel-Flair case. the man and woman who swindled the Merchants Bank out of $1,2OO on a forged check, was set for Nov. 27.
 There were 135 cases on the, docket of the court and if required nearly four hours to set them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
WOn70n'S WafcI7WOrd
 Is MOdeSfy.

Whatever delicate of modesy hghtens her. For many permits disease the delicate wany become cannot bring herself to submit to the ordeal of unpleasant qusonngs offensive examinations and which most physicians think necessary of the who have taken advantage D Pces offer have been led to do so by the escape thus oferedfrom repGgnant modesty
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25

The second of It's kind in the country is the picturesque temple of worship which 1000 Greeks at Lowell, Mass have built, 1t beipg. $lOo'O0O struc. ture. with a brilliant golden dome and two, golden turrets now nearly ready for dedication.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
shooting ..For run.r

The fun-loviug proclivities of Tom Fies, a negro from about Andalusia, bids fair to be very expensive. When the GraceviIle accommodation of the Louisville and Nashville came in yes terday morning. Special Agent Paul Rapport of the Western arrested F'fes.
 Down in the County of Lowndes, Fies suddenly became imbued with the desire to see If he could hit a tele- graph pole at the rate of speed that the train was going. Throwing open the window, he blazed away at the first pole he saw after the idea took root in his skull. and when remonstrated with, he threw his revolver out of the window. He was taken to the police station yesterday morning to be held until the arrival of Sheriff Haynes of Lowndes County. who will take him to Haynesville.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
LIohn Enrmer FIned.

John Farmer. arrested in September raigned today in the inferior criminal tor an assault with Q knife on Marion N. Jones. a travelling salesman. was ar court Judge Afford imposed a fine Of S20O and costs on the defendant.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25

The General Passenger Agent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad compa- nv yesterday wired Col A. A. Wiley, in answer to a telegram sent by him. that the Coast Line would sell round trip tickets to Montgomery on account of the Confederate Veterans Reunion, at the rate of one cent per mile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
Fair Travel.

As was expected. small crowds were handled by the different roads yester- day. the first day of the Fair. The largest crowd came in on the opelika special of the Western, that train bringing 150 people.