The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-14
CANNOT ENJOIN
 ACT ALREADY DONE Such Is Ruling of Judge Cole
 man of AnniSton REDUCTION OF SALARIES Council Refuses to Pass Mayor kiby's ordinance-City Will Consider
 Purchase of the Water
 works Plant.

Anniston, March 13.--Judge Thomas w. Coleman of the Anniston city court this morning rendered a decision in the case of Cephas Young vs. the city of Oxford, seeking to test the constitutionality of the law giving Oxford police jurisdiction over Hobson City, in which he declined to issue a writ of prohibition, restraining Mayor Allen from trying the case on tho ground that an appeal from the mayors decision is now pending in the city court. The substance of Judge Coleman's de- cision is that you cannot prohibit a per son from doing that which has already been done. He does not pass upon the merits of the case in any particular, and the only result of his decision will be to bring about change in the legal tac- tics of the attorneys for the plaintiff, who will now prosecute their appeal from the mayors ruling.
 While Cephas Young's violation of the Oxford hog law is the easus belli in this case, practically every negro in Hobson City, which was said to be the only ex- clusively negro town in the United States before the meeting of the last legisla-
  restore local rule to that municipality if the state law destroying its identity is ruled to be unconstitutional
 Reduction in Salaries.
 A flat refusal to adopt the mayors rec ommendation for 10 per cent uniform reduction of the salaries of city officers; a movement looking to the purchase of the Anniston Water Supply company by the city; the redistricting of the city and resolutions calling for additional pave ment were the features of the meeting of the Anniston city council Thursday night.
 Every officer in the city agreed to the reduction of his salary in signed state ment, but when Mayor Kilby presented the ordinance it was opposed by Alder men Ward, Todd and Fitzgerald Dr. Whiteside not voting. Messrs. Cooper. Lapsley, Robertson and Lewis favored the ordinance. The proposed reduction aggregates about 5000.
 The contract which the city holds with the Anniston Water Supply company will expire on July 1, 1909 and before that time the advisability of purchasing the plant by the city will be thoroughly in- yestigated on the recommendation of Mayor Kilby.
 Jenifer Furnace.
 J. M. Thomas, president of the Thomas Furnace company of Milwaukee, and one of the directors under the reorganization of the Jenifer Furnace company in the Anniston district, stated in an interview Thursday that the resumption of opera tions at the latter plant was contingent only upon an improvement in the pig iron market, the property now being in a pro- cess of reorganization with that end in view.
 MT. Thomas has leased "The Pines," the magnificent home of Mrs. E. L. Tyler in this city. and will spend some time in the Anniston district.
 Prepare for Reunion.
 Dr. R. D. Jackson of Birmingham is in this city for the purpose of inaugural ing preliminary arrangements for re- union of the Fifty-first Alabama regi- ment U. c. ", which was organized by the late Col. John Tyler Morgan, United States senator, at Oxford in this county. A meeting for this purpose will be held Saturday, and it is proposed to have the old vets gather again at the reunion in Birmingham on June 10.
 Considerable interest is being taken by local camps in the national reunion of Confederate veterans at Birmingham. Camp Gordon Memorial having appointed Judge A. F. McCihee and Robert Hing son as delegates to the reunion, Joshua Draper and WIT. Dodd have been named as alternate delegates.