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Rcans and seed.

Local bean merchants continue to quote a
firm and moderately active market, with an
improved demand for pinks
Beans (per ctl)-Bayo. $2.90n3; pea 81. 5OM
475: small white, $4.35@4c5; large white
S3.65@3. So pink. S2.40@2.G0; red, S3. .50@4:
blackeye. So 25@3 so; limas. S4; 35@4 40; red
kidneys. $3.25@350; cranberry beans. 81.
$1.5002.
Seeds-Brown mustard S3.7j: yellow mustard.
4c alfalfa, 14@16c; rape, cleaned, 2d2iac; tim
othy. nominal hemp. &c; millet 2aa 63He per
lb: broom seed. S24M25 per ton.
Dried Peas-Green quoted at $225672. so;
Niles, $3@3. % asked per ctl.
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Foreign Futures
London Wool Sales

wool auction sales today amounted to IL, 59J
bales. including new clips. Bidding was ami
mated with firm prices at home and continental
spinners were the chief purchasers There was
a keen demand from Americans. especially for
light greasy mernos and fine cross breeds, which
were occasionally dearer Secured yietorians
realized as Id Next week II $50 bales will be
offered.
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Eastern Livestock Market

KANSAS CITY
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 2S.-Cattle-Receipts
500; market steady. Stockers and feeders, $2s
@4s0; bulls 81. .40@4; calves, $3.25@6; western
steers $3.50@5.50; western cows, $2.5O@4. 80.
Rogs-Receipts 5000. Market DC lower. Bulk
of sales, $5.20@5 so; heavy $5.55Q5.70; packers
and butchers, S5.40@5.65; light, S5.10Q545;
pigs $3.75@4. so.
Sheep-Receipts none Market steady. Nut
tons, S4@475; lambs, $450@6.25; range wethers,
$3.75@5.25; fed ewes, $2.50@425.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Nov. S.-Cattle-Receipts about
1000. Market steady. BeeVes, $3.30Q7 go;
Texans, S340@4.30; westerns, $3.10@560;
stockers and feeders, $2.60@4.70: cows and
helfers, Sl.50M490; calves. S5@6.75.
Hogs-Reeeipts about 5000. Market &c lower.
Light. 81 75@5.60; mixed. $5.15@5.so; heavy,
$5.20@5.S0; rough. $5.20G5.30; good to choice
heavy. $5.35@ @5.S0; pigs, $3.50@4.sO; bulk.
sheep-Recepts about 1000. Market steady.
Native. 81. .50@4.75 western. S2.6O@460 year
lings, S4.10G4.S5; lambs, $4@6.50; western, $4@
6.30.
OMAHA
OMAHA. Nov. 2S.-Cattle-Receipts 100. Mar
ket unchanged Western steers So. 25@g550:
Texas steers, $3G4.40; cows and heifers, 81. .404
4.30: Gamers, S2@2. 65; stockers and feeders.
S3@5; calves, $3.25@5.T5; bulls and stays, 81. 2.2J
Hogs-Receipts 600. Market sc higher.
Heavy S5.6005.75; mixed, $5.5065.60; light,
S5.4o@565; pigs, $3.50@5.25; bulk of sales,
sheep-Receipts 500. Market steady Year
Iings, $4.40@525; wethers, $4@4.65; ewes, $3. 40
@4.30; lambs, $5.40@6.20.
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Northern Rusiness

PORTLAND. Nov. 2s.-Clearings s6s7, 1882;
balances. S5S,45S.
SEATTLE, Nov. 2s-Clearings. s1,42o, ,o54;
balances, $117 545
SPOKANE. Nov. .-Clearings, ss91,549;
balances, $74S15
TACOMA Nov. s.-olearings, s732,74e; bal.
anccs, $S2,s19
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DRIED FRUITS
Nau xarr. MetaI Market

NEW YORK. Nov 2S.-No change Of conse-
quence occurred in the metal market in the alb
sence OF cables. Tin reported easy at
%. .75629. Soc.
Copper is firm and some of the larger pro-
ducers are said to be holding for higher prices
Lake IS quoted at 14.3715@14.50c; electrolytic.
14121s .25c, and casting at 14@1f121kc.
Lead dull at 4.2752 @4.32bc.
Spelter steady at 5.10M515c.
Iron was unchanged
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New York Money Market

NEW YORK, Nov 2s-Money on call noml-
nal. Time loans nominal; 60 days. 2s4 as per
cent; 80 days, per cent; six months, 3la per
cent
Prime mercantile paper, 3s4 @41A per cent.
Sterling exchange firm. with actual business
IN bankers bills at 81 S4300D4. S435 for 60 day
bills and at $4.S6606p4 S665 for demand.
Commercial bills, $4.S4@4.S4ls-
Bar silver. 4Sc.
Mexican dollars, 45c
Government Sonds steady; railroad bonds
irregular.
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e FUTURES
fl.ln
Flour and Farin.ceous cooa.

FIour-Califonia family extras So 4O06 net
without discount; bakers extras, So. .40a5. .65;
superhne, $4 20Gg4 so; Oregon and Washington.
per Dbl, $4.9OQ5 40 for family, bakers and pat
ents and S4.75 for cut off; Kansas patents Sc 40;
DO straight, $3.50; Dakota patents, Sc 10; do
straight, $500; first clear, $500
Farinaceous Goods-Prices in packages net
cash, no discount. as follows: Graham aour.
50 per 100 lbs; rye -four. S.. 40; rye meal SS 20;
rice flour. $6.S091, corn meal, S3.O5G3 25: ex.
ira cream do. $3.55@375 oat meal. S4. 30014 80.
oat groats, $4.30Q4 So hominy So 1908 60:
buckwheat flour, $4.0544.25; whole wheat -four
$50; rolled oats, bbls SG@7.50. in sacks 81 5Od
V;o0; rolled wheat bbis S4.30@4.SO in sacks
$33013.50; pearl barley, 50. .2OG5.4O split peas.
boxes, S5.O515.25 per 100 lbs
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Northern wheat Market
OREGON


PORTLAND, Nov 2S.-wheat-Track prices:
Club. soc; bluestem, 95c; Turkey red, 92c; red
Russian, SIC; valley. Ole,
WASHINGTON
TACOMA, Nov. --Wheat--Milling bluestem,
96c; export bluestens 92c; club, SIC; red, s5c.
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Bar silver-Quiet; % 2-16d per ounce.
Money-2@2h per cent
The rate Of discount in the open market for
short bills is 215@ az GIG per cent and for three
months bills 7-16@21a per cent.
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Butter. Cheese and Egg.

CHICAGO, Nov 2s.-on the produce exchange
| today the butter market was steady. Creamer-
les, 22@30c; dairies, 191A@25c. Eggs strong;
at mark, cases included, 22@26c; frsts, 29c;
prime frsts soc. Cheese. steady, 12s4 @13Ac.
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Loans, Exchange and silser
San Francisco Bank CIearinr.

1oa, against so. I63. .66S for the same week last
Thu gsar, gain OF S11. .196 1856 or 49.8 per cent
Anere We're only five business days last week.
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Egg market i'm Nearby countie.

SANTA ROSA, Nov. 2S.-The price Of eggs
remained firm today. The quotations were the
same yesterday soc Tor choice and 4jc for
seconds. The supply is considerably lighter
than the demand.
SANTA CRUZ. Nov. 2S.-Marketing OF eggs
was little heavier today. producers receiv-
Ing 46e aud merchants selling at soc The sup
ply is still Inadequate to the demand.
PETALUMA. Nov. 2S.-Fifty cents was the
best price paid for eggs in Petaiuma today.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Naval stores-Turpentine ana Ro.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. 2s.-Turpentine firm,
391ae; sales, 179 receipts, 1,242; shipments
Rosin firm; sales, 400; receipts, 1875; ship
ments, 2.111; stock. 49, ,455. Quote: B, So. 9o@
s295@2.971a; II. $40; l, $4.05: K, $4.9o@5:
M. $500; n, Sc; VIC, $6.35: WV, $e.4o
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Views of a New York Banker

Trippe & Co.. the New York bankers, say Of
current trade
The improvement in business since the election
has been grossly exaggerated. No fair minded
man expected that the election of Mr.. Taft
would be followed by immediate restoration
of business to normal conditions Such an event
would have gone down in history as an economic
phenomenon for future generations to wonder
over. Manufacturers and businessmen in general
anticipated that Mr.. Taft's election would lay
the foundation for a gradual improvement in
business and were correct in their forecasts
Many mills and factories have resumed and
thousands of idle men have been given employ
ment Inquiries for all classes of material are
larger, but from present indications it Will be
well into next spring before business has reached
the proportions recorded previous to the Octo-
Der, 1907, panic Judging from the tenor of
the business reports Of certain of the daily
papers, many people have been influenced into
the belief that a great business revival is in
progress at the present time. When the fact
that simply gradual business growth is under
way begins TO dawn upon them the effect may
be reflected in Il selling movement in stocks.
Level headed businessmen do not desire
sharp recovery IN commerce and industry. His
tory has taught them the evils of phenomenal
business recoveries, which generally end with
infa tion, a development usually followed By
panic. gradual revival, assuring more per-
manent business stability, is what they are
looking forward to- and there is every indica ton
that their hopes will be realized.
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LOCAL MARKETS
SAN Francisco Money Market

New York exchange is lower and weak at the
decline Sterling is firm Hongkong exchange
Is sc lower and silver lsc lower
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st. Louis Wool Market

ST. LOUIS. Nov. Wool-strong. Medium
grades, combing and clothing, 1T@22c; light fine
16@17c; heavy fine, I2@14c; tub washed, 20
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Weekly Clearing House statement

NEW YORK Nov 2S.-The statement of the
clearing house banks (6ve days. shows that the
banks hold SOS, ,130, $50 thar the require
ments of the % per cent reserve rule. Thls Is
4 decrease Of $1,468,975 in the proportlonate
cash reserve as compared with last week. me
statement follows: Loans 81 $40 537 100, increase
7764 000 deposits 81 425, 375. 600, increase Sll
346 700: circulation $S5 542, 100, decrease y SOB
200; legal tenders $50, ,047 200 increase $4331,
600; specie 1904, ,427, 200, increase $1,036, I0O;
reserve 1854 474 400, increase 81 1867 700; reserve
required 1856 343, 750, increase 50 S37, ,675; sur
plus SIS. .1So. $50 decrease 81 46so'S ex-Gnlted
State deposits $50, ,336, ,075, decrease 81 Dol O50
The percentage of actual reserve of the clear
ing house banks today was 26.S2.
The statement OF banks and trust companies
of greater New York not reporting TO the
clearing house shows that those institutions
have aggregate deposits of 81, 104. $4,000. total
cash hand S100, 800, 600, and loans amount
ing 10 1891, ,191 900
The Einaneier will say:
"The statement of the associated banks OF
the city of New York for the week ending
November IS. taking actual conditions as a
basis showed a decrease of $6,5351o in sur
plus reserve, bringing that item down to SOB,
ssI I25 the lowest point reached, with one
exception, during the present year. The banks
lost IN cash during the week $4oo3Oo0. due
mainly to operations with the subtreasury, al
though small shipments were sent to the "a
eiic coast and to Canada. Loans continue 10
increase, the expansion for the week Just endeo
having been 0,340, 200. Deposits showed a
corresponding increase Of SO, ,927 200 and this,
with the decrease In cash accounted Tor the
fall in legal reserve percentages. The deposit
item of the clearing house banks IS now
larger than at any previous time IN their
history Circulation was decreased during the
week by nearly $500, 900. making about $780,
600 contraction which has occurred on the pres
ent redemption movement extending over the
last three weeks The summary of the state
banks and trust companies in Greater New York
not reporting TO the New York clearing house
Indicated an expansion of $5.SS4, 500 in loans,
an increase of about one and a half millions
in cash and an increase of $I,sSS,Ooo IN net
deposits.
.'The surplus reserve of the clearing house
banks is now 26.S1 per cent, or only 81 per
cent above the legal - per cent requirement.
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New York Mining Stocks
Boston Stocks and BOnds
sIAHU
= miscellaneous
THE COPPER STOCKS

BOSTON, Nov. 2S.-The coppers opened strong
and active and held well all day Parrott was
allowed TO sag TO % to shake out the weak
holdings, but at the close it rallied TO 29a<.
North Butte was strong around SS over 1000
being taken at that price. We look for better
prices in the c0ppers next week.
COPPER CLOSE
The following list is furnished by E. E. Hut
ton & Co.. 490 California street. San Fran
cisro Cal
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New York Cotton Market

NEW YORK. Nov. 2s.-Huttons wire says:
Movement of values has been little downward
the past week but the volume of operations has
not been large. Improving trade conditions are
in evidence with improvement in prices for
goods yet the producers are apparently willing
to market cotton freely
Speculative operations are largely professional
with good deal of attention again being paid
TO large straddle operations. The market today
was steady, with prices down TO l up. The
Visible supply showed spinners takings larger
than last year but the increase was compare
lively heavy Exports and spinners' takings
thus far this season break all previous records.
Spot closed quiet. AIiddling uplands, 9.45e
middling gulf, 9.70c. No sales
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Ncn York stock LI.t

T. r. Hutton & Co. 400 California street.
members Of the New York stock exchange. fur
nish the following. list o. bono and stock sales
yesterday:
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PortInnd Buttcr Market

PORTLAND. Nov 2S.- Buttcr-Extras, 500
BIC; fancy. 33@3aci choice. 30c; store. Zoe.
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packers. The close was barely steady, with
prices 21sc lower to 2IsM5c higher.
Ibe leading futures ranged as follows:
Articles Open. High. Low Close.
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Meat Market

No changes in quotations have becn reported
since the fore part Of the week. There Is SUI
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Wheat and Other Grain.

Wheat-The general opinion in LIVERPOOL is
that the Argentine crop has been damaged 25
per cent -
A wire from Chicago yesterday said that e5
reports pe from the northwest gave an average of
o. o. pei cent OF the crop still in the hands of
farmers or at country stations.
Another wire said that the Argentine surnlus
woaia De only two thirds as large as last years
nl anu lnat reduction Of the duty on wheat by
FoTtugad and Mexico was predicted
Inc San Francisco market was lust as pre-
yiously stated.
CASH WHEAT
E, SalIornia III ma club $1-6T1s CLIO: do milling
Sl,t0gB1,tz12; California white Australian 81 Is
glS0; lower grades Of California. 81 45G7I 6o
S9rI1efn % I1si club Sl65@1.67A northern bluestem
$3.50 @l:tlla: northern red, 81. 1.621h al. .65
turkey RED, $1.75@1-sO per ctI.
FUTURES
1o:3O a. m Session
Barley-There was an active business Of some
4ooo tons in futures yesterday forenoon, with
grain was fractionally lower again The re-
celpts OF ,320 ctls included l13,O16 ctls down
from Port Costa for export
CASH BARLEY
GOOD 10 choice feed, spot, 81. 4324 40: com
mon to fair 81. I.4OsQ1 42is per efl: 6revrng and
snipping' illp sl.47729L5o; chevalier. Sl.571a@
FUTURES
1870 a M. Session
Nav Es3p1a o3pe9. 4 High. Low. Close.
oats-It 4 lthe same old story of quiet but
nrIn IIld market with prices unchanged.
Choice white, Sl.TO0I75; No. do. 81. .65m
1.6a12; common do, $1.550l1. co. gray 81 65m
i.iO; red, recleaned, for seed 81 7I612: feed
lots, $l.65@l.70 for choice, 81. l.55@ go for good
an ana Sl.o0 .5214 for common; black, for seed
81. .45612. .6. per ell '
Corn-Some damp California yellow has been
coming III lately and selling down TO 81 .32Is
per ctl Dry lots nominal there being little
or no dry local corn here
California small round yellow, nominal; large
yellow, $l.S5@l.90; white, nominal; western
states yellow. sacked, $1.9O; new in bulk De-
Sl.55; white, $1.55; mixed. SI53; Egyptian'
nominal.
Rye-$I. 4561 so per ell
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Condi,ion of the Treasury

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2s-Today's statement
of the treasury shows Available cash balance,
81 $50 2e3: gold coin and bullion, $2S,374, $685.
gold certificates, S4S 013 060
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Poultry and Game
Poultry closed the week with the market In
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-14

Iy at the volition of the lodges conn
 The report embodies a recommends tion for the following divisions of counties with the number of lodges each group contains:
 First, Mobile. Escambia, 13 lodges; Second Montgomery, Autsuga. Fillmore. Crenshaw. Barbour. Bullock, Pike, 13i Third, Jefferson County, 75; Fourth. Tuscaloosa, Pickens. 22; Fifth. Cullman. Winston. 24; Sixth, Blount, 20; Seventh. Walker. IS; Eighth. Madison. Jackson. 27: Ninth Morgan, Limestone. 13; Tenth Colbert. Lawrence, Franklin. Lauderdale, 10: Eleventh, Lee. Russell. Chambers, Coosa; Randolph. 10; Twelfth, Etowah. Marshall. Cherokee. 36: Thirteenth DeKalb. 35: Fourteenth. Calhoun. 23 Fifteenth. Talaidega. Shell by. Cleburne. Clay '2s; Sixteenth. St Clair, IT; seventeenth. Blob. Clifton. Il ; Eighteenth, Fayette. Lamar Marion. 80; Nineteenth, Dallas. Greene, Perry, Marengo. B. Twentieth. Washington. Clarke. Choctaw, g. Twenty first. Dale, Houston. Coffee, Henry Covington. Ge- neva, IL.
 The lodges. in the proposed district proposed to include Montgomery are Nos. 12o, 156 and 200 in Montgomery; 233 in Autauga; Nos. 9. 197. 35s. 459. 46i. 4S1 and 521 in Fillmore; No. 4s7 in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-14
]. E. Blackwoo6. Grand Warden. Fl. c. Pollard, Grand Secretary. f


 ]. E. Biackwoo6, Grand Warden.
 Fl. c. Pollard Grand Secretary.
 J. c. Bowie, Grand Treasurer,
 W. M. Crawford. Grand Representa- tive.
 These take the place of the following ofiicials of 1907 to 1908:
 R. T. Goodwin. Grand Master; ". E. Urauhart. Deputy Grand Master: M T. Ormond. Grand Master; Jacob Pepper man. Grand Secretary pro tenn. vice H. c. Weaver. deceased: J. c. Bowie. Grand Treasurer; M w. Crawford and Jacob PepperElan,y Grand Representatives.
 Besides the installation of the new officers the nomination of officers to serve during the year 19Os.i910 will be made today From members nominat- cd officers will be elected by referen- dunn vote of the subordinate lodges in October and the successful candidates will be installed in May, 1909. Other matters to. be considered to- day are the reports on changes in the basis of representation and assess ments for the maintenance of the Or phans' Home in Cullman. The latter report provides for semi-annual assess msnt of 20 cents against each member of the Order In Alabama. The pro- posed basis of representation is of vast importance since its effect would be to reduce the present number of delegates of the Grand Lodge by e-third.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-14

Crenshaw, No Ii in Barbour, No. 496 in Bullock and No. 532 in Pike.
 Deputy Grand Sire Speaks.
 The Grand Lodge after working un- til 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon took recess and with the Rebekahn who o came by special invitation heard a masterly address by John L. Nolen. Deputy Grand Sire of the Order. Tax ing "Odd Fellowship as the broad theme of his address MT. Nolen spoke with an eloquence that took the atten- ton of his auditors at the first and held 1t constantly throughout the hour he spent in his speech. Humor and pathos were strengthened with 8 logic that convinced. as his gentler powers of oratory pleased. His fine appear ance. the, culture of his personal ad- dress and the sympathy of his voice combined with his intelligence to make him an eminent man among the ora tors that have addressed the Odd F'el- lows at their session in Mont gomery.'
 immediately, after the conclusion of the address Mir. Crawford, on behalf of Brother Taylor of the Grand Lodge, presented to Mir. Nolen a handsome walking cane.
 Later MT. Nolen. in company with Grand Master Goodwin and Deputy Grand Master Urquhart. enjoyed an au- tomobile tour of the city.
 Installation of New Onacers.
 The officers of the Grand Lodgei In- dsnendent Order of Odd Fellows of Ala bama for the year, 1908 to 1909. as shown in the annual report of Grand Master R. T. Goodwin, are;
 w. E. Urquhart. Grand Master.
 M. T. ormond. Deputy Grand Master.
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WORTHLESS CHECKS
TWO MEN AND WOMAN SUSPECTED
 OF USING THEM.
Alleged to Have Defrauded Several Montgomery Merchants--Arrested
 By Police Last Night.
 Wanted In Georgia.

T. S. Moore alias J. J. Mclean alias McLain: J R. Austin alias R. c. Car ter; and Laura Austin, supposed to be the wife of J. R. Austin. are held by the police department on the charge that they have defrauded several Mont gomery merchants with worthless checks drawn on banks In the city. The three persons are wanted in Arlington, Ga, on similar charges, but will be held for trial in Montgomery before they are given over to the Arlington ofti Q cers who had advised the police = partment here of their alleged fraudu- lent practices in Arlington.
 The two men and the woman were arrested about o'clock last night by Captain Of Police Miles Smith. special Oficers Graham and Smith, and Patrol man Rapport. in a lodging house on Montgomery Street. where they were residing. They were at once taken to the city prison and incarcerated. They will be held until their cases can be investigated fully.
 Moore. Austin and Laura Austin came to Montgomery Saturday night from Arlington. The authorities in Arling- ton advised the police department of Montgomery that they had probably come to this city, and officers at once began the quest of them. Their bag gage was found at the Union Passenger
  Station. but it was not until last night that the persons were found. In the meantime they had cashed at least a dozen checks said to be worthless.
 Their plan of working here Is re- ported to have been the same followed in Arlington. With small deposits in To- cal banks. they used first small checks that were readily cashed by the mer- chants accepting them for merchan- disc. When a predicate had been laid. they made larger checks, 1t Is said. and the larger checks were not cashed at the banks.
 Several cases will be made against them.
 In the rooms from which the men and the woman were taken last night the officers found several parcels of merch andise of which 1t is suspected they defrauded Montgomery men. Their baggage has been seized and will be searched today
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SEVEN GERARD MEN
 SERVED WITH WARRANTS

Columbus, Ga. May 13.-(Special)- The blind tiger is. getting black eye on the Alabama as well as the Georgia side of the Chattahoochie river at this point. Following the indictments re- turned by the Muscogee county grand jury yesterday charging various Col umbus citizens with violating thc Georgia prohibition law eighteen war rants were served in Girard. Alabama, today by Sheriff Daniel. of Russell county charging seven white men of that city with violating the prohibi- ton, statute of that state.
 The serving of the warrants this aft- ernoon and the rumor that the sheriff stiu has papers sticking from every pocket to be served during the next day or two has created a very lively sensation in Girard.
 Following were the persons arrested all of whom gave $400 bond in each case: Charles Phelps, six cases; w. j. Newman. three eases; Seab Jones, two cases; Jimmie Kinnett. three cases Dowd Fullerton. one case; Bub Noble, two cases; Charles Windham one case Several of the defendants are ex-sa- loon proprietors and clerks.
 The Muscogee grand jury returned twenty-two bills today but the names of the persons indicted have not been made public.