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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
REASONS FOR BONDS
ALDERMAN PARRISH SAYS ISSUE
 SHOULD CARRY.
City Is In Need of More Money To Erect Wharf, Schools and H0E- pltaI-Election Called For
 December IA.

Alderman Parrish, one of the live wires of the City Council, was spoken to Wednesday about the all interesting bond issue which the citizens are to vote on December 14. In reference to the matter, Mir. Parrish said:
 T feel sure that any opposition which might have existed, has been overcome as the people become more in touch with the situation. and with the intents and purposes of the bond issue. All of the items in the issue are of vital importance to every citizen who has the welfare of the community, and it's future greatness at heart.
 { ''In the matter of the wharf, the mer. chants of the city, have in every in- stance when approached on. the sub ject expressed the opinion that should the project be carried out as suggested, the river trade hitherto almost neglect ed, would be revived with redoubled' ef- forts, as the facilities, or rather lack of the same, for handling goods, ship ped out or into Montgomery have made it almost an, impossibilfty, and surely too tedious and, expensive an operation to justify activity along this line. The erection of a wharf and warehouse upon a level with Commerce Street. will en- tirely overcome the trouble existing to the merchants, and with proper land ing facilities, also provided in the plans, the objections of the boat lines will be ovencome. It Is proposed to lease this or to make some other arrangement satisfactory to the officials of the city. whereby an agent will be in charge of the wharf, and merchants can ship goods by river just as by the rail- road, can deliver goods, take bill of lading for same, and then no matter when the boats are due to arrive they will have the goods there and not have to deliver after the boat arrives, which is frequently at night. 4,
 In regard to the financial side of this part of the bond issue. we have a tenta- tive proposition from certain 'naviga-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
SESSION FOR
 NEXT SPRING Governor Admits Its
 Probability. GOSSIP AS TO THE CAUSES Prohibition and Deficit Said to
 Need Attention. zAings Are "shaping Themselves for a =an of Extra Session" Is
 Way Governor Puts
GOSSIP AS TO THE CAUSES

That Representative T. O. Hoffman's reported interview in Mobile with the Governor telling of an extra session of the Legislature Is not all incorrect was indirectly admitted by His Excellency yesterday who declared that from the way things are now shaping themselves an extra session is very probable about next spring.
 Governor Conner would not discuss those things which seemed to press for the extra session. In fact, he would not discuss the matter at any length except to declare the almost certainty of calling back the solons to Mont gomery and indicating the possible time Of their return,
 The report from Mobile caused much gossip in Capitol circles yesterday. One wiseacre said 1t was railroads" again. Another remarked that the trouble Is prohibition" A third said neither, but money matters"
 The consensus of opinion in the city was that the first man was wrong and the two latter equally right. Probably the financial problem is a Feel" better guess than any one wrinkle on the States map at present. The deficit of the State Treasury Is said to be per- picking the Governor second only to the railroad proposition. And with financial experts figuring that a working deficit may overtake the old ship of State at the low ebb of re- ceIpts 1t is probably enough to put any executive to thinking in the prem ises.
 According to the State Auditors re- port submitted last week there was shown an actual deficit of more than $500. 900 for the State. By this amount the resources of Alabama fell short oi the Iiabilitfes It is true that by mix ing all funds of the State and apply ing receipts to indiscriminate purposes as they flow into the strong box the dcficit shoals may be avoided, but even ahoald this action not be enjoined both 8 physical and an actual deficit will be threatening in 1910 early iI not in 1909, according to calculations made.
 Then, too, it may require stringent measures Of repression to enforce the prohibition law made effective Jan1- ary 1, next. Calling the extra session for next spring would give both the prohibition law a chance to show its efficiency and the treasury to show fits full hand. Then would follow tb, remedies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
OPINION OF NEGRO
SIR HARRY JOHNSON MAKING
 RACE STUDY.
Declares Significantly That Negro In South Has Better Future Than European Peasant--South
 Endorsed.

Ny special appointment Sir Harry Johnson, the famous English author and hunter, met Colonel Joel Barnett at the State Capitol yesterday morn ing at o'clock to go over the historic old building. The English nobleman was due to leave Montgomery at S:2e' and he had a keen desire to see the historic structure in which the great war between the States was begun. Colonel Barnett who knows every brick ana plank in the building vol unteered as his cireone and Sir Harry gladly accepted. He declared after the trip over the Capitol that 1t had been a memorable morning for him and that he had received impressions which would last as long as he lived. He left at s:s5 o'clock for Blrming- ham with Referee J. O. Thompson. where number of entertainments have been planned in his honor.
 Sir Harry, in, company with Rep resentative Earnest. drove seventy five miles in a buggy through the heart of the Black Belt. He was making a study of the race question. but he was not going it in the usual way of the globe trotter who visits a school or two and then goes back to write learnedIy of the issue be- tween the two races.
 
 wrote ''The White Mans Burden" has few illusions about the inferior races. They have had much experience with them and more than any other traveller they look below the surface. Sir Harry made personal study of the negro on the soil and with his sur rounding agricultural conditions. The buggy in which he travelled was stopped at the doors of the negro cabins and he talked with all classes of them.
 In conversation with his friends. he expressed himself as believing that the South was handling the question quite as we'll as any class of the An Rlo-Saxons could handle 1t and this was better than any other class of the world could do 1t. He declared that the negro was treated much better in the South than he was by the white , people of South Africa and he made the significant declaration that the negro in the South was better treated and a better future was opened to him, than to the European peasant. whether he be English, French or Italian.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
Hn,xnrd-shuntrine.

A wedding of much interest to many friends here occurred this morning at Saffold. Ala. when Miss Eva Shuptrine and Mir Graham Howard were quietly married. The bride formerly lived here where she has a large circle of friends and the groom Is the son of pr. and Mrs. F. G. Howard of this city. Shortly after the ceremony the young couple came to Selma where they spent a few hours with relatives before going to Mulberry. their future home.
 Miss McNair of South Carolina, IS the guest of Miss George Boggs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
THE NEWS OF SELMA
BURGLARS LOOT 4 DOWN TOWN
 CIGAR STORE.
New Train Schedule on the Western Railway. Will Go Into Enect sgnday--Football Game
 Today.

Selma, Nov. 25.-(Special)-T cigar store of Rochmill Brothers on Broad Street, next to the Hotel Albert, was entered by thieves between the hours of and o'clock this morning
 The thieves got away with about $2O besides a quantity of cigars. smoking and chewing tobacco and other articles The exact amount of goods taken from the store cannot be estimated by the proprietors.
 When Enc sstore was opened this morning shortly after o'clock. 1t was found that the back door entering from an alley was wide open. The door had been securely fastened when the store was closed a few hours before. It is thought that just before the store was closed a negro boy hid himself in 1t and that later he opened the back door for friends. and that they helped them selves to what they wanted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26

birth rate Is that in modern times. mainly within the last half century, births and the birth rate have come under the control of human will and choice in sense and to degree never before true" said Professor Wilcox.
 Professor Wilcox gave statistics to show that marriage Is less comm on among college graduates of both sexes than 1t is in the average of the entire population. The figures regarding the birth. rate among. college graduates show that the highly educated part of the American people not only does not increase the population at all but on the contrary fails to reproduce itself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
POnderous "Long Boy" Without
 Equal in County Jail Measures

With his six feet six Inches. and a physique proportioned to his extraor- dinary height. Alex Lindsey, or, more htiy. Long Boy" is probably the most gigantic prisoner to grace the inte- rior of the county jail for years
 Long Boy was bound over from the Recorders Court Tuesday and deliv- cred to Jailer Pettus Wednesday. He is charged with a murdeFous attack on M Cohen. <the fruit dealer of upper Dexter Avenue.
 Long Boy" was conveyed to the County bastlle. Mir. Pettus looked and whistled as the giant stopped slightly to enter the portal Never before. un- der his regime. had such. enormfty been
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
Unless Race Suicide Is Checked,
 There VIII Be No Children Left

Ithaca, N. Y, Nov. 25.-"During the period from 1860 to 1900 the proportion of children to 1000 women of child bearing age decreased in the United States by 152, or an average of thirty in each decade. If we assume thatthe change will continue uncheck ed for Ia century and a half in the direction In which it has. been In progress during the last forty years there will be no children left"
 This startling statement came out in the lecture on Birth and Birth Rate" delivered by Professor Walter F.AWili- cox in the course in sanitary science.
 ''Fhe true reason for the fall in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
Mrs. Loeb EntertaIns.

Mrs. Arthur Loeb charmingly enter tained the members of the Tuesday Bridge Club and some other friends yesterday afternoon at her home on Broad Street, A profusion of cut fiow- srs and ferns were used to decorate the apartments where the games were played. The first prize, a handsome lunch cloth, was won by Mrs. Herman Ellasberg and the second trophy two lovely lace centerpieces, fell to Mrs. Albert Meyer. After the games two-course luncheon was served.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
ELEVATION ALLOWANCES.
Commerce. COmmissIOn Asked About
 Its Order.

Washington, Nov. 25.-Telegrams were received at the oflce of the In- terstate Commerce Commission today inquiring whether the date of the ef- fectiveness of the order against the payment of elevation allowances has been postponed
 In view of the legal proceeding to restrain the order of the Commission against the payment of such allow Ances and for the purpose of obtain ing a judicial determination of the question the Commission has postponed the effective date of the order until July 1, 1909, The Commission also pec- ommends that interstate carriers post pone any action contemplated in view of this action of the Commission.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26

witnessed in a prisoner. The massive coon was backed against the wall, where. as is the custom. the heights of the prisoners are measured. But the marks on the wall proved inadequate to, include the inches of Long Boy. for the topmost curl of his kinky head protruded some distance above the highest scratch on the white wall. six inches above six feet.
 How in the world did you hit him. nigger? You must "a used long stick to reach down after that little man. was the rumination of Jailer Pettus. But Long Boy" Is now safe and secure In the steel-bound gaol, and his victim bids fair to recover.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
Grimm [. Bound over In s2OO.

Grover Grifin, a white man or Ec- lectic. Elmore county. was brought be- fore United States Commissioner El- more Wednesday. charged with hay ing sold liquor about his residence in violation of the prohibition laws, and the revenue laws. Pleading guilty in the preliminary commissioners trlal' Griffin was bound over to await the action of the United States Grand Jury. under the sum of S20o, which he made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
Meeting of Bridge CIub

The members of the Bridge Whist Club and some other friends were graciously entertained this morning by Mrs Walter Duncan at her home on Mabry Street. The parlor and recep- tion hall were adorned with potted plants and vases of chrysanthemums. A delicious luncheon followed the games
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
A TKanksxiving Game.

A football game between the, eleven of the Selma Military Institute and an eleven from the Presbyterian School at Anniston will be played on the Held of the Selma Military Institute tomor- row.
 Considerable interest in the game Is being taken by local enthusiasts and although the Anniston eleven is said to weigh several pounds more than the members of the local eleven. the friends of the latter believe that they will win the contest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
nor for Ola Yeternnn.

The local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy this morning expressed to the Confederate Veterans at the Mountain Creek Home a box of good things to cheer their Thanksgiving. The box contained fruit. eatables and quantity of nice clothing.
 The box was the largest and con- tained the incest line of clothing that the local chapter has ever sent to the veterans since the establishment of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
HacI<ett WnI Retire !.

Jena, Germany, Nov. 2b.-Ernest Heinrich Haecket. the well known nat uralist. who has been professor Of zoology at the University here since 1882. has decided to retire on the oc- casion of his 18th birthday. Februaay te, next
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
: sehedule wnl Change Sunday.

The local officials of the Western Railway of Alabama received notice this morning that tn ere would be made a change of schedule on the trains of that line out of Selma beginning Sun day, Nov 29. The new time cards and the extent of the change in the sched- ule is not generally known yet, but 1t is believed that only the time of leav- ing of the morning train between Sell ma and Montgomery will be changed on this end of the line.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
Medal for NIInn Peek.

Lima. Nov. 25.-The Peruvian gov ernment will present a gold medal to Miss Annie Peck, the American noun tain climber, who last August, succeed ed in reaching the summit of Mount Huascarap. -S-GssE : |
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
TUANKsGIVING

All kinds of pot plants for table dee- OratiOns. See display in our window. Let us book your order today.
 Phone 200. ROSEMONT GARDENS.
 City Store, 100 Dexter Ave. 2t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
WEDDINGS IN BARBOUR.

Eufaula, Nov. Especial. )-Miss Mary Bell Hartzog and Dock woodham, popular young persons who reside in the county near Alston, Swere married at the home of the brides parents Tues day afternoon.
 The event was witnessed by large
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26

CUT FLOWERS FOR THANKSGIVING. We have choice homegrown Roses, Carnations, Chrysanthemama, American Beauties and Lily of the Valley. We ship safely anywhere in the South.
 Phone or write yOuF order today. Phone 200. ROSEMONT GARDENS.
 City Store, 100 Dexter-Ave. 2t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26

When an employer discharges clerk his wife. his father. his mother and his children all begin to berate the em- ployer.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
Mission Festival.

The Lutheran mission festival
will be celebrated Sunday in Huss-
mans Grove. Two services will be
conducted, A German service will
be preached by Rev. j. II. Schroeder
of San Francisco at l0:30 a. IN.
and and an English one at 2:l5
D. m. For the convenience of the
worshipers refreshments of every
kind will be served. Coffee for
dinner will be furnished free of
charge. Everybody is invited to
attend both services.
Between services at p. m. an
extra congregation meeting will be
held. No Sunday school.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
FOR EQUAL
WATER DIVISION
State En6ineer Su60eSfS that
WeirS be Constructed

The problem of properly and
oquitably distributing irrigatiDg
waters in case of shortage has wor-
ried the ranchers and Others of
Nevada for some years, but the
question is now shaping for an
accurate and speedy solution. In
several places in the state the
ranchers are willing and anxious
to take the proper and necessary
steps voluntarily at the present
time and without the assistance of
the state, but in their places they
desire I" have statute passed by
the coming session of the legisla-
ture which will cover the problem
and solution. The question is a
vital one, especially to those hav-
ing rights on the lower part of the
stream.
Under the ! resent state law
when there is water shortage wa
ter commissioners are appointed
whose duties consist of making the
proper distribution according to
the rights and pIiorities of the
ranehers along the course OF the
str, am or who receives their sup
ply from such stream. These COM
missioners estimate the water flow
ing and then estimate the distribu
tion; there is no certainty to their
work and they have no manner
of knowing how near the actual
flow they figure on. Often their
work is very g ,od, for instance State
Engineer Nicholas discovered sew
eral days ago that water com
missioners in Carson Valley had
estimated the actual flow within
900 inches. The men made the
estimate without instruments or
any method of arriving at their
decision otherwise than experience.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
Some More State Bank.

Again the State Bank and Trust
company is brought prominently
before the public by the report
that the Surety compony made an
overcharge on tho premium of the
81 100000 bond OF Receiver Wildes
to the extent of some $500. In
consequence of publishing sting
ing article in regard to the affair
the ReLo Gazette is threatened
with libel suit.
The governor is investigating the
matter and in statement to the
Carson News says that the credit
ors of the bank have been handed
a good sized package from some
source.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
ODD FELLOWS PICNIC

The Gardnerville Odd Fellows
are planning TO give one of the big
gest picnics ever held in Carson
Valley. The date has been set for
August 23rd, and the beautiful
and ideal ground in the Hussman
grove has been secured for the
occasion. Committees are already
at work arranging for amuse-
ments and many novel games will
be introduced. Everythinglwll be
done 10 make the day an enjoyable
one for all who attend. The pic
mic would have been given before
but owing 10 the extreme hot
weather it was thought best to
postpone the affair until more
favorable weather.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
SquaW Stabs Buck Indian.

Joe Homer, a well known Indian
was stabbed in the side last Sun
day by squaw while mixed up
in a drunken row. The Indian,
according to his tribesmen, stands
a splendid opportunity of going 10
the "happy hunting ground"
For several weeks past the In
dians have been furnished with all
the whiskey they could wish and
rows among them have been
numerous. 1t is not known why
the squaw stabbed Homer.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
PRISONERS SET |
FIRE TO JAIL

The alarm of fire was sounded
shortly after the noon hour last
Monday. While the majority of
the people hastened to the fire,
a few dragged the fire apparatus
along thinking that there was
possibility of its need. However,
the blaze was extinguished with
out the aid of the engine, but some
day the case may result quite
differently.
Two hoboes had been arrested a
few hours before and wishing
hot time, set the jail on fire. The
blaze commenced to make rapid
headway and the sensational
hunting prisoners, fearing their
own destruction and beginning to
see what hot time they were a.
bout to have, commenced smother
ing the fire with blankets. Smoke
was discovered emitting from the
place and the alarm was given.
The Jail is near several frame
buildings and should a blaze get
started in that locality, the damage
might be great.
This is the second time prisoners
confined in the Gardnerville Jail
have attempted to burn their way
to freedom. Two years ago hobo
set the place on fire. Constable
Carr released him and helped him
out of town with club.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
HEMMORAGE
CAUSES DEATH

Louis Dudley died at Empire
last Sunday afternoon from a
hemmorage of the stomach. He
had been afflicted with the trouble
for many years and upon advice of
physicians went 10 southern Cali
fornia eight years ago where he re-
mained until a few months ago
A few weeks ago he went to A Alpine
county on IA prospecting trip and
while in the high altitude suffered
a severe hemmorage. He was
brought down from the noun
lains last Thursday by his brother
Will and taken 70 bis sisters
home in Empire where second
hemmorage followed, resulting with
death.
As boy, deceased resided in
Diamond Valley with his parents
He served in company d, First
Nevada Battalion buring the late
war with Spain. He was 20
wears old at the time Of his
death.
To mourn his loss he leaves two
sisters Mrs. James Audrain and
Mrs. Cameron as we'll as three
brothers, Fred, Charles and Will.
The remains were shipped to
Hollister, Cal, Wednesday where
they will be laid to rest by the
side of his wife who died about a
year ago.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
Two Winners.

P. L. Flanagan, one of most in
huential citizens of this State and
who owns lapge interests in Reno,
will be the Republican candidate
for United States Senator. He is
the strongest man that could be
chosen to make the fight against
Newlands.
For the representative in Cong
gress the Republicans will run j.
+. Douglas of Goldfeld, He is
one of the leading lawyers of the
southern country and has always
taken an active part in politics.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1908-08-14
NELL GROVER
PASSES AWAY

Nell Grover, a well known
young man OF Alpine county, died
at the Soldiers Home, Washington,
d. c., on July 2Sth, 1908, from
sickness contracted while fighting
for his country in the war with
Spain ten years ago. Mr.Grover was
among those who saw active service
in the Philippines, and if we are
rightly informed, served in the
First SCalifornia Regiment. The
lad received injuries and was plac-
ed in hospital on the Islands.
While he partly recovered from
his injuries, he contracted a fever
and for many days fingered be-
tween life and death The fever
finally left him and he returned to
his home in Alpine county broken
in health and physical wreck
from exposure and sickness endur-
ed in the Islands. His health did
not improve and later he left for
Washington where he received
medical attention at government
hospital. The fever completely
mn RI ~rpo aJ b;e oooo%;t,,t;o~ 4
after ten years of constant suffer
ing, death relieved him of earthly
pains. Never once did he COM
plain of his suffering and shortly
before he died he wrote his mother
that he was improving and would
soon return to the old home and
when the news of his death was
received his mother and sisters
were greatly shocked.
Deceased would have been 2S
years of age had he lived until
the 9TH of September. Thus is
another life added to the long list
of those who have died fighting be-
meath the stars and stripes.
The young man leaves mother
Mrs. Grover, two sisters Mrs. w. A.
Jordan, and Miss Nina Grover,
and brother, Chas. lGrover, all re-
siding in Markleeville.