The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-16
BRYAN CLUB FOR
 CALHOUN COUNTY Permanent Organization Is
 Effected LARGE COMMITTEE NAMED Bishop candIer May Attend Methodist District Conference at Heflin To- day-Lee Carter Is Con is Victed at Anniston.
LARGE COMMITTEE NAMED

Annston, April 15.-(Special. )--John w Tomlinson of Birmingham, president of the Alabama Bryan club, was in this city this morning and at a meeting in the circuit court room of the county coui t house the Bryan club of Calhoun county, recently organized was completed and put in shape for effective work Judge A. F. McGhee, president, presided over the meeting, and in the absence of Secretary J. NJ Slattery, John S. Mooring acted in that capacity.
 The following vice presidents were elect ed James Crook, Jacksonville; Dr. B. Dudley Williams, Oxford; T. Ben Kerr Piedmont; L. J. Morris, Morrisville; E. F. Crook, John s. Mooring W. T. Edmond son, Jr., T. V. R. Matthews, S. w Tate and J. M. Ledbetter, Anniston.
 The following campaign committee was named: W. B. Arbery and L. o. Mo- Cormicl, Jacksonville; c. Martin and B. G. Mcclellan, Alexandria, J. M. LeGrand and D. T. Weaver, Weavers; T. D. By mum, Bynum's; l.. N. Downing, Morris vile; J. W. Smith and P Reaves, Mo Fall; Dr. J. T. Williamson, Peeks Hill; R. A. Hollingsworth, Hollingsworth; T. J. Palmer, Wellington; J. W. Davis, Cal wins Gap; w. D. Nixon, Merrellton; D. C. Collett, Allsup; F. M. Formby, P. W. Roberts, E. c. Harris L. C. O'Bryant Piedmont; W. B. Savage, Ladiga; W. T. Anderson, Nances Creek A. B. Mosely, Jenkins; A. M. Whiteside, White Plains; M. P. Poland, Josie Springs; Dr. A. L.. Hughes and l.. T. Greer, Choccolocco; w. O. Borders and L. H. Davis, DeArman- vile; w. H. Vincent and W. B. Acker, Sulphur Springs; Tt S. Gray and A. J. Tarvin, Ohatchie; B. w. Duke, Dukes: E.. N. Read, Reads; John M. Snow, Beck Hamp Draper, Jr., and pr. M. J. Will Hams, Oxford; E. H. Hanna and W. H. Crabtree, Oxanna; G. G. Pace and A. H. Cook, Anniston.
 MT. Tomlinson is still confident of
 Bryans ultimate success, and does not
 attach much significance to recent devel-
 opments in New York. He is making a
 tour of the state and says that he finds sentiment strong for the Nebraskan
 wherever he goes.
 Dr. B. D. Williams has qualified as del- egate from this district and J. H. Ed
 mondson has been mentioned as probable elector.
 District Conefernce. The district conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, will. be convened at the church in Hefiin tomorrow. Dr. J | w. Newman will preside and 1t is prob able that Bishop Candler will attend from | Atlanta The delegates from the First ict al1t1 tn ott xutI1 ho P. Acker. E. P. Cooper, E. L. Field and E. w. Ledbetter.
 Carter Convicted. When Bud West, a special officer went to Lincoln in Talladega county recently to capture Jim Cunningham, negro des- perado, who is wanted in Georgia for
 murder, and returned to this city after being himself taken captive by the negro everybody in the city had the laugh on him; and today they are laughing more, for yesterday he went to Opelika to iden- tify a negro that had been arrested in that city and swore that he was the one by whom he had been captured. When the man was returned to Anniston, though, it was shown that he was Oscar Cunningham and not Jim Cunningham, as West had believed, Sheriff LeGrand promptly releasing the man upon the
 proof of the mistaken identity. Lee Carter negro, was sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary yesterday evening for the murder of Pete Gather,
 another negro, last November. Judge T. w. Coleman of the city court imposing the sentence.
 Frank Harris Fired. Charged with securing railway passage for another woman under the pretence
 that she was his wife. Frank Harris has
 been dismissed from the employ of South
 ern Railway company, and was yester-
 day fined $21 8 by Probate Judge E. F.
 Crook. The fraud was exposed by Mrs. Harris, the legitimate wife of the de- fendant.