The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
SELMA RECEIVES
 COMMISSIONERS Inspection Is Made of Freight
 Facilities
SHOP CLOSING LEFT ALONE
Republicans Hold Mass Meeting and Elect Delegates to Conventions. Bloody Scrap Occurs Over a
 Private Craps Came.

Selma, March 12.-(Speeial) )-President Henderson and Secretary S. P. Kennedy of the state railroad commission spent today in Selma. leaving tonight on the steamer Hard Cash for Mobile. The pur- pose of the visit, as stated shortly be- fore leaving. is to inspect the handling of freight, view the facilities and ascer- tain the hardshps and cost entailed, so as to be able to act inteligently when the recent application made by the river transportation lines to be allowed to in crease their tariffs, comes up. The va rious steamboat lines which have been included in the statutes recently passed were compelled to file their tariffs with the commission. They have asked to be allowed to increase the rates and the steamboat men went before the commits sion in Montgomery not long ago.
 The commission will not act until the return of President Henderson and Sec retary Kennedy. They will go up the Tombigbee on one of the boats upon arrival at Mobile, and will disembarx at Demopolis.
 The question of the commission talk ing action in regard to the railroads closing their shops in the state was mem fioned to President Henderson. He stat ed that so far as he could see the com missions authority would be limited to ordering the railroad company to fur nish necessary and safe equipment, should it be proven that the equipment by req son of the shutting down of the shops had become unsafe and insufficient. This would not necessarily mean the opening of the shops, but would simply cause the railroads to put in such equipment where it was necessary and if the req sons allowed for the shut down are true there would likely be enough equipment that was in good condition found idle at various points to carry out the order of the commission, should such an order be found necessary.
 Republican Meeting.
 A republican county mass meeting was held hero today for the purpose of send ing delegates to district and state con- ventions. It was attended by about 5 delegates and Henry Boyd was named as chairman of the county committee tiiu N>- IT, w dlhSi dS SSIlSldl lHe administration of President Roosevelt was indorsed as was the course of J. O. Thompson. Judge G. H. Craig, E. J. Lavender and c. H. Walker were named as delegates to the state convention and Dr. l.. L. Burwell, Rev. U. II. Nixon and J. E. Page were named as delegates to the district convention.
 A strong resolution indorsing the active manner in which Senator Foral1er had interested himself in the Brownsville ine cident was adopted and the secretary instructed to send a copy to the sen ator.
 Badly Cut and Shot.
 Sam Huckabee shot, cut and badly beat up Arthur Coleman this afternoon in a craps game across Beach creek. The cries of the wounded man brought assistance to him and he was carried to a surgeon and his wounds dressed. He was shot through the thigh, cut in the throat and beat up about the head. There were several in the game and the state ment is made that Coleman won the money and that Huckabee took 1t away from him. Price Walker, Charles Elm merson and Dave Huckabee have been arrested as has also Sam Huckabee, who made the assault.