The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-28
SENATOR BANKHEAD
BEGINS CAMPAIGN
Opens Coed Reads Headquar-
tiers At Jasper
JOHNS LAW Is IN COURT
Walker County Attorney Contends
This Act Repeats Law Against
Carrying Concealed Weap-
ons-GambIe to corea.
JOHNS LAW is IN COURT

Jasper, SeDleHlDGI Efs-AoPCtldAsJ
Senator John H. Bankhead, chairman
of the good roads campaign committee,
has opened headquarters in Jasper,
with his secretary A. C. Beasley, in
charge, with a large corps of Jasepr
young ladies as clerical assistants. He
is sending out several hundred thous-
and documents, among them the great
speech delivered by Senator Bankhead
at the last session of Congress on the
subject of good roads.
The senator states that the purpose
of the committee is to conduct cam
paign of education and publicity in Or
der that every voter In the state shall
be fully informed on the good roads
amendment.
The Walker County News is sending
weekly contributions by the democrats
of this county to the national demo-
cratic campaign committee No con-
tribution larger than 81 is asked of
any one, and up to date 70 have re-
sponded and more to come. The one
dollar idea seems to strike a popular
cord.
The usual monotony of the daily and
constant formal grind of the Walker
county law and equity court was
broken the past week by an argument
in a concealed weapon case, wherein
Lula Gibens, colored woman, was the
defendant and Hon. J. D. Acuff the at
torney for the defendant This attor-
ney took the position that the Johns act
requiring pistols to be 20 inch es in
barrel length repealed all other laws
on the subject of concealed weapons.
That act of the Legislature In its ex-
ira session was passed after the code
was adopted, and prohibits the selling
or having in possession off of the per-
sons own premises any pistol of less
than "a inches length of barrel or any
brass knucks. metallic knuclks, dirks,
slung shot, bowie knife, or knife of
like kind.
He pointed out that under several
decisions of the supreme court of Ala
alma and of the other states and the
United States 1t is held that when a
statute is passed manifestly and plainly
inteding to prescribe the only rule that
shall govern in reference to the par
ticular matter. necessarily repeats all
laws on that subject.
All courts also h old that unless there
is field of operation for both acts the
later will repeal the former. These
principles have always been the law of
construction in America and England.
He contended that the law against
weapons above referred to meets both
of the above rules and therefore re-
peals all the laws in the code against
carrying concealed weapons.
That when law has been repealed
a person under indictment for violating
it is discharged by the repeal.
That the effect of the act is to dis
charge all parties against whom in
dictments are pending for carrying con-
cealed weapons.
The court decided adversely to the
contention of Attorney Acuff on this
point, and it may be that he will take
an appeal.
In this connection 1t is stated that the
prohibition act passed at the same time
may come under the same repeating char
acter and some lawyers think that, but
it more clearly repeats all laws in the
code new code) for the act itself in the
second section of it expressly repeats all
laws in conflict with it except local laws
The dispensary laws were local laws and
they were repealed by another act The
act clearly covers all the field of opera
ton of the laws regulating the LIQUOR
traffic, for it totally prohibits it. This
act is now in effect in those counties
that have held elections In these coun-
ties 1t is argued that all laws In the new
code regulating the liquor traffic are re-
pealed and that In the other counties
such laws will be repealed when the pro-
hibition act goes into effect January l.
1909.
The following Walker county physi-
clans have gone to Washington to at
tend the tuberculosis convention: Drs. A.
M Stovall of Jasper, J. N. Odom of
Oakman, r. M. Miller of Cordova. C. r.
Jackson Of Dora and w. M Cunningham
of Oakman.
Farmers from different sections of this
county report heavy falling Off of the
cotton crop since their estimates of 40
days ago. The cause of this is the warm
dry weather and winds. The bottom
crop is opening well and is being picked
as rapidly as possible, but not for tba
present market, which they regard too
low.
]. r. Orwell. progressive young farm
er, who lives just across the Walker line
in Winston county brought to the las
per market Saturday Is bushels of "Ren
Davis apples. They were sound lucious
and immensely large; equal in all re-
spects to the big northern apples shipned
SO abundantly to the south every wear
Mr.. Orwell says he has two trees onlv.
they are seven years old and produced
this year 10 bushels to the tree. He Is
gong to set out regular orchard now,
for he has demonstrated that there 1.
great profit in apples in this section.
The Rev. Foster Kirk Gamble. horn and
reared in Jasper, where he is much be-
loved. left with Mrs. Gamble last Monday
for the far distant missionary field Of
Corea. where he is to spend the remainder
of his life. having dedicated his time and
talent and that Of his newly welded and
Christian wife to the cause of his Mas
ter in that heather land. Mr. Gamble
goes forth by the encouragement and
support of the Jasper Methodist church
a noble and holy undertaking by cour
ageous and devout people. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gamble are booked to sail from San
Francisco at p. m. October. 8, on the
steamship "Corea,' due at Kobe, Japan.
about October %. From that port they
go by rail across Japan, thence by water
across the strait to Fusan. Corea. Then
by rail north through Seoul the capital
of Corea, to Songdo. their final adestina-
ton. The population OF Songdo is about