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we are officers" shouted. the two men.
 According to the officers themselves the negroes readily yielded their pls- tols and said they were glad to meet th6 officers. Both of the men were found not guilty.
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Verdict Caused 2 Fit.

Cases against George Tate and Lige Boswell. two negroes, charged with grand larceny, were heard at the ses, Sion of police court this morning ana which was presided over by President of the Council J. L. Clay. A few days ago country negro. Rockell Braboy, was fleeced out of $l30 by two town negroes and after the arrest or Tate and Boswell, he identified them as the one who had stolen his money.
 After all of the evidence in the case had been introduced this morning ana after Mir. Clay had announced that the court would bind both George Tate and Lige Boswell over to await the the actions of the next grand jury Tn the sum of $500 each, Lige Boswell ar forded the morbid group of spectators in the court room some amusement by having fit, As soon as the decision tsdsi 2 chair to the floor of the court room in the fit. Acting Mayor Clay re- maineS in the court room for fifteen minutes and during this time the fit that the negro was working on contin- ned but as soon as MT. Clay left the room the negro realized that his ht racket had not worked i1 getting lighter sentence so he came to imme- diateIy and was later carried to the county iail.
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GPE SIAH SsI0lIlYS
FUNERAL NOTICE.

JoHNsToN--The friends of Mrs wm. Jonnston and family are respectfully in- stsu 70 attend her funeral at lO:30 los Forest Avenue. Highland Park
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-30

Denver. Col, Oct. 2s.-The execu- tive council of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union to-day de- cided to hold It's 1909 meeting at oma-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-30
FUNERAL NOTICE.

MORRILL-The friends and acquaintances Of MT, and Mrs. R. A. Morrill, are re- quested to attend the funeral of their in- fant daughter, Annie Elizabeth this Fri day morning, at 10 o'clock. from the resi- dence, i33 Clay St. Oakwood
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

sTARR-The friends and acquaintances of MT. and Mrs. Daniel s. E. Starr. Sr' Wi
 Ham C., John H., B. R., FIG, J C., Daniel 5. E:. Jr.. Thomas E. Starr, Mrs Mary A. swnt, and Mrs. Sallie Linstedt are re former Saturday morning. at 10 o'clock,
 rom the residence. 511 Mildred st. Oak
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MT. Berry. of orville. is spending to- day in the city on business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-30

MT. W. B. Kendrick. of Massalon is in the city today on business.
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DTessawe to SDerry.

Shanghai China. Oct. 29.-The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai has sent a message to admir-
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NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS

Office of Secretary,
 Montgomery Ala, Oct. 29, 1908. The annual convention of the sharehold- CTS of the South and North Alabama Rail- road Company, will be held at the office of the Company at First National Bank Building, Montgomery. Ala. on Saturday November 2s, 1908, at 12 o'clock, noon, for the purpose of electing Directors for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business may properly come be- fore said meeting. The stock transfer books will be closed at Three P. M, Saturday November 14 1908, and re-opened at ten 4. M., on Monday. November 30. 1908.
 E. J. THOMPSON, If Secretary pro-tem.
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Mrs. Spessard of Uniontown spent yesterday here with friends.
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socIaI nnd Personal.

Mrs. Will Gross and Miss Mamie Gross of Alberta are spending today here with friends.
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SELMA'S RACE MEET
DIRECTORS START TO WORK IN
 EARNEST.
About Thirty Horses Have Already Been Secured For The Harness Eveuts--Getting Track
 Into Condition.

Selma, Oct. 29.-(SpeciaI. )-The Board of Directors of the Central Ala bama Fair Association have started to work in earnest to make the race meet which will be held here for five days, beginning November TO- grand sue cess. About all of the details pertain ing to the race meet have been work ed out and the fair association will try to give some of the best races during the five days of the meet that have ever been seen in the South.
 About thirty horses have already been secured for the harness events of the i've days and the work of arrang- ing the program will soon be com fifty Yunners that are now in Macon will Be brought to Selma and that lib- eral purses will be offered for running races which will. be sandwiched be- tween the harness events.
 An effort is also being made to get first. class carnival company to come to selma and place their shows on the fair grounds during the week. Special attractions are also being negotiated for and no doubt all of these details will be arranged within the next few days.
 Among the harness horses which will participate in the program of the races there will be several which during the past summer campaig1td during the Circuit. Roy Miller and Ed Benyon, two we'll known Grand Circuit drivers, are also expected to bring their stables lO GclIlld TUT lHc WlIlOI hhG IVY meet and 1t Is very likely that there will be some entries from these stables
 good force of hands were put to track in first class condition and by the time for the races to begin the track will be in better shape than any track in the South. At several points the track needs resurfacing and tnis work Is now being done.
 Since it was made public yesterday that the Central Alabama Fair Asso- T. .ll1 +, Fn AZ the citizens have began to evince con- siderable interest and everybody now believes that the entertainnlent Will be a success. The merchants antici- nate that large number of people from all over Central Alabama will attend the races each day.
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- NOTICE.

The firm of Georgia Whiskey Co. of Mont gomery, Ala. has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. Messrs s. q M. Alt man will continue the business under the old firm name. Messrs. Altman resuming all responsibility.
 fri-st JOHN SHAY.
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TENNESSEE VERY Low.
Steamer Trahae on River Almost SuS-
 peuded.

Decatur Oct 2s.-(Special )-The stage of water In the Tennessee River at this time is lower than 1t has been at this season of the year for many years. As a result steamboat traf1c
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MASONIC NOTICE.

EA There will be a special com AA nunication of Andrew Jackson &ANfXA Lodge, No. IFS. A. F. & A. Nj, NA%ZX this evening at 2 o'clock for FSYN work in the M. M Degree.
 Montgomery Lodge. No. Il, and visiting brethren fraternally invited. By Order of the W. M.
 H. D LONG. Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-08
EIGHTY HURT IN WRECK
Excursion Train Goes Through a
Trestie in Georgia.

Atlanta, Ca, Jan. Stunning at
a speed of 80 miles an hour the sec
ond section of an excursion train on
the Southern Railway from Cleve-
land, known as the Colliver special
and bound for Florida points plunged
through trestle over Copper Mine
creek, about 80 miles west of Atlanta
and as result one person is dead
three others are fatally injured and
81 passengers We're so seriously in
jured as to require medical attention
1t was nearly midnight when the
Southern railway relief train reached
Atlanta bearing the body of Engineer
James Edwards and about SO of the
injured among whom was Mrs. Emil
Hoover of Columbus, Ohio, who is in
a dying condition and Florence A
Studebaker of Cleveland, internally
injured and fatally hurt. Foreman of
Engineers Schnapp and the negro
fireman, Nose Baldwin. both fatally
injured, were also on the relief train
Many of the others injured were
lifted from the car window in Atlanta
and conveyed to hospitals while some
of the hurt were able to take cabs to
hotels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-08
BRIDGE COMPANY YIELDS
VIII Put Available Sixteen Foot Plank
in Viaduct.

The Topeka Bridge and Iron company
which has the contract for the repair
of the East Sixth avenue viaduct gave
instructions today which provide that
they will purchase all of the Is foot,
three inch, white oak bridge timber,
that meets the approval of the city en-
gineer, that is in the lumber yards in
the city regardless of the cost and will
lay it diagonally.
This is the news which John Rogers,
city engineer, was acquainted with
when the manager of the bridge COM
pany conferred with him.
Between the lumber yards and the
lumber yard of the Santa Fe railroad
the city engineer believes that enough
of the 16 foot white oak can be secured
in Topeka to finish the contract, which
it is estimated will take about 1900
feet.
Three of the lumber yards reported to
the State Journal yesterday that they
hand on hand $500 feet of white oak
that graded up well. Il think we can
make satisfactory arrangements with
the Santa Fe to secure a supply from
their yards,'' said the city engineer. Il
understand that they have some on
hand
Henry Engel, the inspector for the
city, went to Lawrence yesterday to
inspect some white oak bridge timber
that was there but the inspector did not
find enough available to make it pay to
ship to Topeka. Mr.. Engel is now max
ing an inspection of all the lumber
yards in the city and will report what
he finds in the way of white oak bridge
timber of the necessary dimensions.
This inspection is being done of course
at the request of the contractors who
have given over their attempt to deal
with but one lumber company in the
city.
II am glad the matter is getting set
tied in such a satisfactory manner,
said the mayor today when he learned
of the efforts that the bridge company
was making to comply with its con-
tract 1T appears as if they have been
trying to play a wearing out game with
the city,
If there is sufficient white oak tim
ber in the city to grade up the city en-
gineer believes that the viaduct can be
repaired properly and be open for
traffic by the forepart of next week
This certainly is joyous news to the
| residents on the east side who have
| waited since July 1 for the completion
| of the viaduct and have been COMPEL
| ed to put up with inconvenisnces In
getting to and from that portion of the
oity
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NO Time TO FIGHT.
Japan Is Too Busy With China a.
Korea.

Paris, Jan. 8.-The Echo de Pa
today prints an interview emanatins
it says, from an authorized Japanes
source with the object of shown
that Japan is so absorbed with the
maintenance of Asia, that war witt
America is impossible.
''The entire attention of Japan
says the interview, sis taken will
China and Korean developments
China has just dismissed a number OF
japanese instructors who have beer
replaced with Germans. The Man
churian situation is full of complica-
tions. China demands the immediate
integral application of the treaty of
Portsmouth which would deprive
Japan of the possibility of exercisinE 6
an efficacious influence in Manehu-
ria"
Japan opposes the extension of the
Pekin railway to Foukoumen by way
of Hsinmintum on the ground that the
Pekin agreement of 1906, stipulated
that China should not construct a
parallel line injurious to Japanese in
terests. The japanese occupation of
Korea is also meeting with much
opposition, and for this and other
reasons Japan Is actively pushing the
work of increasing her armaments.
The message of the emperor of
Japan clearly indicates that the coun-
try is looking to the far east and not
in the direction of America,
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MAPLE LEAF RECEIVER.
President Stickney and Note Holders
Reach an Agreement.

London, Jan. S.-The expected
meeting of the note holders of the
Chicago Great Western Railway COM
pany with A. B. Stickney, president
of the company, was held this after
noon. 1t was decided to appoint a
receiver for the company to maintain
the status quo during the time neces-
sary to prepare a first mortgage bond
covering all the Indebtedness of the
road and to obtain a vote of the stock
holders on this measure
There We're many note holders at
the meeting.
ST. Paul, Minn., Jan s.-Frank
Kellogg and other attorneys repre-
senting the creditors of the Chicago
Great Western railway had a confer
ence with Judge Sanborne of the
united states circuit court this morn
ing and at its close Mr. kellogg an
nounced that he would appear before
Judge Sanborn this afternoon with an
application for a receiver for the Chi
cago. Great Western railway
we have not yet decided who will
be the receiver" said he, "as that
will come up when the application is
presented in court. We have merely
decided that the receiver shall be
asked for, as 1T had to come sooner
or later
The following statement regarding
the TedSoH LOT the recefVeFShlp was
given by Mr.. Kellogg this afternoon:
THE receivership is not the result
of the action of any single creditor or
stockholder, but was taken after care
full consideration by all parties interest
ed, many of the creditors and the board
Of directors. The immediate reason for
the receivership was the failure to OBJ
tain an extension or the notes now due
and coming due during 1908, which were
given for money borrowed for improve
ments and betterments of the property.
The company has spent about S19,000,-
900 during the past ten years in lower
ing grades, constructing new bridges,
culverts, acquiring additional terminals
and equipment, double tracking, and in
general improvements and betterments
Of the railway A. has outstanding
notes for this purpose to the, amount OF
about $4,000. 600. During last spring a
plan for financing the road was agreed
to by the board of directors and the
finance committee, but owing to the
stringency in the money market and
other unforeseen causes, they have
been unable to carry it out.
THE earnings of the company were
very materially decreased during the
autumn by a strike at the shops, which
tied up the equipment. The strike was
won by the company, but the damage
had been done.
THE receivership will be temporary
pending the time required to carry
through the plan of financing the road.
Everything possible has been done to
avoid a receivership but it could not be
prevented" :"
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welded A MEDIUM.
Now Millionaire Lesher of Chicago Is
in Trouble.

Chicago, Jan. 81. H. Lesher, who
is millionaire woolen manufacturer
and resident member of the Chicago
Athletic club, was made defendant
last evening in separate maintenance
suit, which in some respects is a paral-
lei to the celebrated Vanderbilt-May
Pepper case in New York.
The Lesher suit brings out the fact
that Mr.. Lesher claims as his wife
May Bangs, one of the Bangs sisters
whose spirit portraits DR.. 1. K. Funk
Investigated unavailingly. The plain>
tiff, whom Mr.. Lesher acknowledges
as having been sent to Europe by him
and having been given by him an in
terest in one of his enterprises but
whom he declares he never married, is
known as Mrs. Belle Scramlin.
1t is alleged by Mrs. Scramlin that
May Bangs and Mr.. Lesher committed
bigamy in marrying and that Lesh er
was inveigled into the marriage
through the instrum entality of a
spirit portrait" of his dead mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-08
KEEP STOVES RED HOT.
How Striking Tenants Delay Eviction
in New York

New York. Jan. S.-Threats that
their buildings would be burned if
they evicted the tenants, flooded East
side landlords today The warnings
were supposed to have come from
the rent strikers, and in general were
On postal cards, worded as follows:
eve will move, but after your
house has been vacated the fire de-
partment will visit you.
(Signed) THE RED FLAG"
Point was given to the threats by
a fire today al a Madison street tene-
ment, where the demands of the oc-
mands of the occupants for lower
rents had been refused
Applications for dispossession pa
pers have been so heavy that several
Of the courts yesterday were forced to
refuse to consider any more until
Thursday. Many of the strikers are
delaying eviction by keeping the
stoves in their apartments red hot.
When the marshals arrive they are
compelled to wait until the stoves
cool before they can put them in the
street with the other furniture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-08
WILL HELP JUDGE WEST.
Hornaday's Withdrawal Gives His
Supreme Judge Boom Impetus.

That the boom of Judge ]. s. West
as a. party nominee for the supreme
court bench is gathering strength due
to the withdrawal of Grant Horna-
day from the gubernatorial race Is
the belief of politicians who have
been keeping tab on this phase of the
coming state election.
Though Judge West can in no wise
be considered a factional man, the
fact that he is an old resident and
former resident of Bourbon county
and FIT. Scott gave him a strong fol-
lowing in Hornaday's camp and these
same friends feel that they are In a
position now to demand support for
the candidacy of Judge West from
those who benefited through the
withdrawal of Grant Hornaday.
Judge West has not made any for
NAL announcement that he will be a
candidate for place on the supreme
court bench. but it is probable that he
will do so for his friends are aware
that he cherishes an ambition of that
character.
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WALSH TESTIFIES.
The Chicago Banker Takes the Stand
in His Own Behalf.

Chicago, Jan. S.-John R. Walsh
on trial here on a charge of misap-
plication of funds of the Chicago Ma
tional bank, took the stand in his
own behalf today. Mr.. Walsh told
of the founding by him in 1884 of the
bank AS it's president, he said. he
purchased in 1897 and 1898 certain
receivers certificates of the Centralia
and Chester railway at 95. Prior to
their purchase, he said. a careful in
spection of the property was made
by himself F. M. Blount, then vice
president of the bank and others. The
legal status of the road was also in
vestigated by H. F. Hatch, attorney
for the bank the witness asserted. Eff
forts by the prosecutor to have Mr..
Walsh admit that in purchasing the
receivers certificates he had in mind
the ultimate control of the railroad
for the benefit of it's holdings which
he may have had at that time, were
without avail.
"I had nothing in mind, except that
1 thought the certiica tes were good
securities for the money and they
were cheap" said Mr.. Walsh.
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TOOK
Where a Large Amount of the
COuntry's Cash Went.
Returning Emigrants Carried
Off Large Amount of Savings.
SOME OF 1T SPENT
OF 1T SPENT
In Railroad Fares and Steam
Ship Tickets.
Incoming Aliens Brought
$27,OOO,OOO With Them.

New York. Jan. s.-Although the
returning emigrants took out of the
country a sum estimated by steam
snip managers to have been not less
than s110,000.000 last year. the an
nual migration is held by heads of
the big steamship companies to be
oeneht and not a detriment to the
country. TT releases and puts into
circulation large sum of money
said Gustav H. Schwab of the North
German Lloyd line This money has
been saved up and the traveller is
Forced to pay it out in railroad and
steamship fares. baggage transfers
and living expenses on the way to the
seaboard."
Mr.. Schwab's estimate is that no
less than $64,000,OoO was paid in
1907 by travellers for steerage accom-
modations On Atlantic liners. OF this
sum fully s15,00O,0 900 was spent by
homeward bound aliens, is the estf-
mate of steamship men, Incoming
aliens are estimated to have brought
| upwards of s27,o0O,000 into the coun-
try during the year.
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DWINDLINC ARMY.
Hard Times Helped to Fill Up
Marine Corps
And Supplied the Needed Men
to the Navy.
CAN'T GET RECRUITS.
Military Officers Are Facing a
Crisis in Their Affairs.
Some Companies Down to Three
and Four Men.

Washington, Jan. S.-The hard
times in the industrial world that
have driven into the marine corps
and the navy nearly all of the men
needed to fill the authorized quota
have not helped the army so far in
the matter of recruitment. Reports
still flow in upon the war department
Of failure to secure recruits; Of pri-
Yates buying their discharges: of nom
commissioned officers refusing to re-
enlist and of resulting skeleton or
ganizations that are little more than
travesties upon fighting forces.
A typical report just at hand is one
from FIT. Mcintosh, Tex, in which the
commanding officer of a battalion of
the Nineteenth infantry says: II have
present today in the four companies
Sc men and 20 of these are to be dis
charged this month. At the end of
this month if we get no recruits one
company will have three men and
another four. The other two COM
panies will have II and IL men re-
spectively." The report is one of a
number being collected for the en-
lightenment of congress in, dealing
with the great question of What is
wrong with the army?''
Chance for Militiamen.
Washington, Jan. 8.-Assistant Sec
retary Oliver of the war department
has notified the governors of the va
rious states and territories of his de-
sire that they designate a single rep
resentative Of the national guard of
each state and territory to take the
competitive examination for appoint
ment as second lieutenant in the reg
ular service under the conditions and
limitations prescribed in the case of
all civilian appointees in the army.
These national guard candidates will
be appointed according to their
standing in the examination and to
the extent that vacancies may exist
in the army. This action is taken
both with a view of encouraging
members Of the militia and of secur-
ing good material for the army. The
militiamen nominated must have had
at least two years service in the ma
tional guard
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SAVAGE MUST STAY.
Judge Pollock Denies Application for
Release of Indian.

The application for writ of habeas
corpus of Louis Savage, an Indian.
who is serving sentence in the fed
era1 penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth
for killing Foster Washeno, anoth er
Indian, on the Grande Rond reserva-
ton in Oregon, has been denied by
Judge Pollock.
Both of the men were on the reser-
vation at the time that the murder
was committed, which was on the oath
jury indicted Savage and he was con-
victed of the crime on November 16,
1905 and brought to Fort Leaven-
worth to serve his sentence.
Savage now raises the question Of
jurisdiction and claims that the fed
eral court which sentenced him was
in error That both he and the man
he killed were allotees and had re-
ceived their allotments many years
before. That on account of this fact
he, as we'll as Washeno, was a citizen
of the United States, and that the state
court should have assumed jurisdic-
ton.
1t seems that the state courts have
already passed on case similar to the
above and held that they had no
Jurisdiction. Such being the case with
the added fact that, as claimed, the
witnesses to the murder have died, in
a case of a retrial in a federal court
Savage would have gone free, provId-
ing that his application for writ had
been honored.
1T is not the province OF a proceed
ing in habeas corpus to review or re-
try the original case in which the petit
toner was tried and convicted or to
re-examine the issues of fact tried and
determined in that case or to call in
question the existence of such facts as
dered in the case" says Judge Pol
lock,