The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-11
Special Session Brings People
 and Money
GOVERNOR COMER IS SILENT
Will Not Discuss Features of the Proc lamation Calling Legislature To- eether for Special Session.
 Negroes Die Rich.

Montgomery. October 10.-(Speeial)- The calling of a special session of the legislature is big and acceptable thing
 for Montgomery. therefore little objec- ton is found to the notice to that effect made public by the governor on We'd nesday afternoon. It will bring many people here in addition to the 150 mem- bers of the body. and. as a rule. these are representatives of business men, who are able to and do spend much money for entertainment. Along with the busy commercial season 1t promises to make ! Montgomery more active than any fall has found it in many years.
 The hotels will profit in a peculiar way by the session. Quite a large per cent of the members stay at these places of entertainment, and they attract many others. The State Fair will be barely over I and the leaving of one crowd will just l make room for the coming of the other | Restaurants join in the receipts from the funds earned in other parts of the state and the saloons. also, though the present membership is said to drink less than | any that has ever assembled in the city. 1 The prohibition sentiment runs high In 1 the body, perhaps so per cent of the mem- | bers being right now ready to vote to eliminate the making and selling of whisky from the state. Incidentally. there is much trading in other lines, as the outsiders like to come when the law makers are in session
 Governor Silent.
 l Gov. B. E. Conner had nothing to say with regard to the call. There is the document; it stands for itself" he replied when asked for an expression on the sub | ject. He had been all day in conference 1 with the attorneys for the state, Att torney General A. NJ. Garber, former Chief Justice g. p. Weaklev and II. C. | that the hardest part of the work of for | mulatlng the call was to reduce the num- | bers of subjects to some sort of work ! ing basis. Scores of things were urged ! but few of them could be put in as 1t would have overloaded the document and l made It too extensive for an extraordi- | nary meeting.
 ] Railroad regulation Is, of course. the | main feature. It looks very much like | the club with which the lines are to be | brought to time is in the 12th section which proposes an enactment to withdraw the powers of the railroad commission to | enforce rates and other railroad orders lt is thought by many that this Is the loaded paragraph, as out of it may come law by which the suits now in the federal courts, with the injunctions. can be nullihed. However, the road is left very wide in the call and the lawmakers will have a wide scope to get busy along most any line to make the railroads be good.
 Neoresses Die Rich.
 George Brown. attorney, of Chicago. is here looking after the claims of a negro man who says he is the heir of Lucy and Harriett Williams. negresses, who died recently in Chicago. This man claimed 10 be their brother. It is shown by an old negro in the family of George Powell's relatives that the women had no brother. and that the niece 10 whom the money was left is the rightful heir The for tune is valued at $3000O. The dead women brought their freedom during the War, and after leaving here went to Missis- sippi. where they accumulated property.
 Alex Smith of Bibb county, who has served four of 10-year sentence for man. slaughter, has been pardoned by the gov ernor. He only IT when he was con- victed. The civil and political rights of J. II. Cooper of Mobile, pardoned by Gov ernor JellSs, were restored.
 That Houston county Is growing is illus trated by the tax receipts. For the year just ended the receipts were $17,582, an increase over the year before of s11,S7O.
 Dispensary Receipts.
 Successes of dispensaries in the state have been noticed here with much inter- est for the reason that in the end the fight on whisky may end In compromise for the dispensary It is noted that for ser- tember the dspensary at Tuscumbia re- ceived $2D34.72 net profit on sales of s6295 20. This was earning 32h per cent. The Sheffield dispensary earned net over $5000 and that at Cherokee $900. Hunts vile received in it's whisky house of the same kind $i596 on the day Buffalo Bill showed there, and for last week $513l. Last Saturday the receipts were s1aO9.
 Gen. John w. A. Sanford, one of the oldest lawyers in the state. for years a leader iE the service of the Confederate Veterans. and head of the Montgomery County Bar association, is suffering from a fall he received this week. He Is not badly injured, however, and will soon be all right. He fell half way down the stairs of Perry street office.
 Old Alabamian.
 Col F. w. starke of Perote was in the city this week. He Is Sl years of age and one of the few remaining members of the secession convention. He represented what was then Pike county, but now Bull lock where he has lived for co years. He was in Montgomery for treatment for his eyes.
 Minor State News.
 The governor made the following ap- pointments today: Notary publics. J. Blocker Thornton. Mobile, Mobile coun- ty; Mary A. Brickley. Birmingham, Jefferson county: ]. E. Garber. Bir- mingham, Jefferson county; William Richard. Cullman, cullman county: E. l.. Norment, Birmingham. Jefferson county. Constables W. $. Scale. pack Springs Escambia county; Arthur N Anderson, Flomaton. Escambia county.
 Joseph B. Braman of New York was appointed commissioner of deeds for the state of Alabama by the governor yesterday.
 Notice of the incorporation of the following concerns were received at the office of the secretary of state: Cullman Building and Loan associa- tion of Culman. cullman county, cap ital stock, si00.oo0s incorporators. Will |