The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-13
HUNTSVILLE HAS
 PURE SPRING WATER
Examination is Made By State
 GeoIogiSt
DEATHS AT HUNTSVILLE
Erie Pettus Thinks Prohibition Will Prevail In Jefferson Ccunty-J. 8. Smith Is Arres.co at
 Murfreesboro.

Huntsville, September 12.-tSpeciall- After making an examination of the Wa ters of the Huntsville spring. Professor Hodges of the Alabama geological survey has pronounced Il to be as pure as any water can be. Professor Hodges had been informed that there were fears in certain quarters that the spring water was con- taminated, and he was a careful examine. ton. He said that the water is not oniy pure now, but that it is impossible to contaminate it because of the rocky sor- nation that protects the stream from ,ha seepage of the city above it. Professor Hodges says that the water at Braham Spring is identically the same as thai which flows from the Huntsville Spring. He is examining the waters of all mineral wells and springs in this locality.
 Hrs. John Roberts died at her home in Gurley on Wednesday after an illness of few weeks. She was a sister of Al- van D. Given of this city.
 Mrs. Annie Barclay Tanning, wife os Walter Tanning. aged 31 years. died We'd nesday morning at her home five miles west of the city. Her husband and tU1 children survive her.
 Mamie Branscomb Skinner 9-year-old daughter of MT and Mrs. Charles x. Skinner, died suddenly yesterday morning Of a complication of diseases. She was taken i'll early in the morning and died before anything could be done for her. The little girl had not enjoyed good n1 ie hpl fa ure resulted from a general weakening of her system.
 Hon. Erie Pettus, a prominent young att torney of Birmingham, is visiting reld- tiyes here. MT. Pettus said in an inter view last night that in his opinion the liquor fight in Birmingham would result in a victory for the prohlbtionists. The prohibonists are enthusiastic over thei; prospects for winning the fight and though the lid is being put on Birming- ham tighter than eyer before, they will not be content until the liquor business is wiped out entirely in Jefferson county.
 Sheriff Mitchell has been notified of the arrest at Murfreesboro. Tenn, of J. B. Smith a man who is wanted here charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Smith made a stout resistance and five men were required to tie him up.
 Addison White, Alabama's winner of the Rhodes scholarship in the Oxford uni- versity, England, left today for New York, where he will join party of the scholars from other states. They will sail during the latter part of the present month Mr White is d University of Ala bama man, and is son of D. Irvine White, a prominent attorney of this city.
 A party of mineraogists are passing through this section making an examina ton of the mineral resources of the eoun- try. They have arrived in Huntsville, coming from the east. They will tell nothing as to their mission except that they have found many things for which they have been looking, and that the people of northern Alabama have no realization of themineral wealth that lies in the mountains and in the lands undes- heath them.
 The Navajo club has organized two in- door baseball teams with Messrs. Yam and Mitchell as captains. A football teau was also organized with Herbert Gillian, formerly of the Conder team, captain and Will Collins, formerly of the Castle