The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
ALABAMA TROOPS GO ID CH|CKAMAUGA RoutingS Are Completed By
 Adjutant General LUSK IS NOT IN RACE While Not an Applicant for Railroad Commission Vacancy, He Might Ac-
 cept If Appointed-Jeffer-
 son Taxes Are Large.
LUSK IS NOT IN RACE

moved to Chicl1amauga on July 23 for week with the regular army have been completed by Adjt Gen. Bibb Graves. It is estimated now that 240O troops will be carried from the state Company rosters are well filled and hard drilling has been in progress for some time.
 Most of the South and Middle Alabama men will be routed via Montgomery, At lanta and the Southern railway to Chat tanooga. Those from the north will use the Alabama Great Southern for the most part. Mobile troops will use the Mobile and Ohio and the Alabama Great South ern.
 The camp grounds at Chickamauga will be reached in the main by the Central of Georgia to Lytle, which is within one mile of the place. There will be 31 com panies and two batteries, with 90 or 100 horses for the field and transportation work Most of these have been sent up from Birmingham.
 The cavalry troops will be in Montgom- cry next week, assembling Tuesday for a week. Major Noble of Montgomery says that the four troops are in excellent shape and ready to do fine work. Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham and Camden are all coming with enthusiastic forces. As the camp will be for rifle practice there will be no horses.
 The Several Routings.
 The routing which he has mapped out is as follows:
 The first train leaves Mobile at 12:05 8. m of the 23d and travels via the Mobile and Ohio and Alabama Great Southern to Chattanooga, thence by the Central to Lytle. which point it reaches at D. m.
 The second train is a consolidation of two specials of the Louisville and Nash vile. One of the specials comes from Geneva, Andalusia and Fort Deposit, dropping Andalusia in this city. The other special brings Evergreen and Brewton companies, leaving Montgomery at a. m for Atlanta via the Western of Ala bama, and via the Southern to Chatta- nooga. From Chattanooga it goes to Lytle via the Central, reaching the grounds at 6 D. m.
 The third train will be an Atlantic Coast Line special, taking up the Dothan and Troy companies, and Enterprise of the night before. Also taking up Andalusia of the Louisville and Nashville special. It arrives in Lytle at 5:3O p. m., according to the routing or tram NO. Z. fa't
 Companies from Eufaula, Union Springs and Girard will go via the fourth train, which leaves Eufaula at 12:05 a. m Arriving at Opelika at 5:30. a. m. it goes thence via the Western railroad to Newman, and thence via the Central to Lytle, reaching this station at :3o p. m.
 Leaving Montgomery at 12:05sa m. with it's two local companies and the Lu- verne company, which was dropped the in, Jn E Yaio fhl Tuskegee company at Chehaw, and from thence is routed like train No. 4, reach ing Lytle at Il a. m.
 Train No. will haul the Montgomery battery, with horses for the field and staff officers. It will arrive in Atlanta via the Western railroad goes via the Southern to Chattanooga, and thence by the Central to Lytle, reaching the grounds at 1 D. m.
 Birmingham Battery.
 The Birmingham battery will be hauled by train No. z, which leaves the Magic City at 12:5O a. m. This train will also carry the artillery mules, reaching Lytle at 6 a. m. via the Alabama Great South ern.
 Infantry from Birmingham will com pose train No. 8, which is to leave Bir- mingham at 12:30 a. m. It will reach Lytle at 6:30 a. m., travelling via the Alabama Great Southern.
 Train No. 9 will be a special of the Southern railroad, with companies from Demopolis, Uniontown and Selma It will take on companies from Albertville and Gadsden at Birmingham and will reach Lytle at 2:30 o'clock via the Ala bama Great Southern.
 Taking on Alexander City, Sylacauga and Tuscaloosa at Birmingham, train No. 10 will reach Lytle via the Alabama Great Southern at 10:3O o'clock. Companies from Talladega will leave at 12:05 a. m. and will take on the com panies from Annston and Oxford These l will be delivered to the Alabama Great | Southern and will reach Lytle at a. m. The last train, No. F, will bring the l Athens and Decatur companies, and will travel via the Southern special to bytle, reaching the camping grounds at lO;SO 1 o'clock in the morning.
 Lusk Not Seeking. | Senator Join A. Lusk of Marshall says l that he will not be an applicant for the 1 position of railroad commissioner, though he does not say that he would not ac- | cept if the place were offered to him. In a message to the Montgomery Journal he says q am not an applicant for | railroad commissioner" Further than | that, however, he does not go. This Is | taken to mean that he may, after all, be put in by his friends as man for | the position.
 Killed own Brother. Roman Talley, negro youth, who | lives on the outskirts of the city, was 1 cleared of the charge of murder in kill ing his own brother, Will Tally. It was shown at the trial that Will Talley, who had only one leg, was trying to kill his l brother with an axe, having him backed up in corner, and that the latter shot to save his own life.
 | Jefferson Taxes. l The importance of Jefferson county iu | the affairs of Alabama IS shown by the l fac that Tax Collector George B. Tarrant