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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-30
WOMAN SHOOTS NEGRO.
Birmingham Woman Protects Herself
 Against Black Brute.

ABMheA84 Da8G1 2E0GEs
 Birmingham, Nov 2s.--Tom Brown, a negro, was shot and fatally injured at an early hour this morning by Mrs. Minnie Arnherter at her home on South Eigh teenth Street.
 The negro knocked at the front door and told Mrs. Arnherter. who was alone, to go to the back door. where he want ed to see her. She secured a pistol and opened the door and the negro started to run. Mrs. Arnherter shot him between the shoulder blades and notified the police. The police found the negro in a dying condition several blocks from the house.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-30
Coke Ovens Resume.

Huntington, ". Va, Nov. 2e-More than 1000 coke ovens in the Norfolk and Western fields, which have been tions tonight.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-13
FEES OF EMINENT LAWYERS
Largest on Record Was That Paid William
Nelson Cromwell for His Part in the
Purchase of the Panama Canal

the aged railroad magnate. When Mr..
Plant died, in June, 1900, at New
Haven, Conn, his estate was worth
$17,000,000 The point in the contest
was whether Mrs. Plant should re-
ceive an annuity of $4,000 by the
terms of the will or have the will set
aside and get about 100000. The
contest depended on codicil making
the heirs of Mr.. Plants six-year-old
grandson the residuary legatees and
tying up the fortune until the youngest
son of the grandson reached his ma
jority.
When the case came up for trial,
before Justice Leventritt, in the SUI
preme court, just seven years ago,
lawyers believed that the suit was a
doubtful one. The codicil could be
set aside If the will was offered for
probate in New York. Connecticut
was the only state in which such a
provision would be legal.
So the case turned on a question
of omicile-whether Mr.. Plant was
a resident of New York or of Connect
cut He went to Connecticut few
days before his death, so the contest
ant claimed, to avoid the New York
law and establish residence in New
Haven.
Lawyers say that Mr.. Guthrie de-
served all the credit he got for win
ming the suit. To his persistence in
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-13
Emperor Williams Salary.

What salary does the emperor OF
Germany get?" asked a Herald re-
porter of Dr. Ernest Bickler, of Der.
lin, at the Raleigh.
mot a cent as German emperor.
His emoluments all come to him as
king of Prussia, and his yearly reve-
nue. is very handsome sum, but the
amount is one of the state secrets.
The fact of his being at the head OF
the German empire does not better
the king to the extent of dollar,
though there is certain amount Civ
Ell him to be used, only, however, for
charitable purposes. All of his many
castles and estates were his inherit
ance as king of Prussia and would
have been his anyway II the CONSOLE
dation of the empire had never been
effected. He is an enormously rich
man and manages his great interests
with good business ability.
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ance he might have been brother OF
George William Curtis. He is John
Il. Parsons, New Yorker born and
bred, legal adviser for big corpora
tons and estates. and as a lawyer be-
lieved to have the finest practice in
the country.
Mr.. Parsons is reputed to have re-
ceived one of the largest fees ever
taken by lawyer when he drew up
the charter of the sugar trust. Ac-
cording to common report, he realized
100000 for this service. AS general
counsel for the trust he also defended
II during the attack upon the combi-
nation a few years ago. That defense
is said to have added another 100000
to his fortune.
Contrasted with these types of cor
poration lawyers is the general prac
titioner. Former Ambassador Joseph
II. Choate is typical example. John
G. Johnson of Philadelphia is another.
Speaking facetiously of Mr.. Choate
at a public dinner, Chauncey NJ. De-
pew is said to have remarked that
"only unselfish millionaires could en-
ploy Mr.. Choate as their lawyer be-
cause they would have to give up
about all they had to pay his fees"
Yet lawyers said last week, indeed,
that Mr.. Choate's fees were not large
compared with the S1,000,000 Mr..
Cromwell received in the Panama ca
nal deal, the $750,000 paid Mr.. Guth-
RE in the Plant will contest or the re-
puted 100000 fee to Mr.. Parsons for
forming the sugar trust.
Choate In Many Great Cases.
Mr.. Choate was admitted to the New
York bar in 1856. AS protege and
partner of William NJ Evarts he won
immediate success, and gained All
enormous practice and very large in
come. BY 1870 he was considered a
| leader of the New York bar. For
nearly 80 years there was hardly a
great case in which he was not one
of the counsel-the prosecution of the
Tweed ring, the famous investigation
of Gen. Fitz John Porter's conduct,
which ended in a reversal of the judg-
ment of the original court martial
the celebrated libel suit against Gen.
Di Cesnola, the Tilden will case, the
litigation over Commodore Wander
bits millions, and the suit of David
Stewart against Coils p. Huntington
to mention only few of them Mr.
Choate is said to have received fees
of 100000 on number of occasions
When he was named as ambassador tt
England by President Mckinley in
1898 he had earned fortune in his Al
years of practice amounting to some
thing over $1,000,000. At that time
his income, chiefly from his law prac
tice, was estimated at 100000 year
1t is said of Mr.. Choate that he would
probably be richer if he had devoted
himself to corporation rather than 6
general practice, but that he would
only do so at the sacrifice of thai
excitement and interest which he finds
as an advocate.
John G. Johnson of Philadelphia i:
generally recognized as one of the
greatest lawyers in the country. He
once declined a seat on the bench o.
the supreme court of the United
States because, he said, with his
income of 100000 year he would
be reduced to poverty if he agreed tt
become justice at $4,000 year.
Mr.. Johnson has since been paiC
100000 for a single case, like thu
Northern Securities litigation, involv
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gathering evidence that should make
Mr.. Plant New Yorker and set aside
the codicil, to his skill in presenting
1t and questioning the witnesses, Mrs.
Plant owed the $7,000,000 her attorney
won for her Mr.. Guthrie's fee is said
to have been between ten and IA per
cent. of this fortune, somewhere be-
tween $75O,00O and $1,OO0,00O.
OF the many big fees Mr.. Guthrie
has received, the most significant was
the $4,000 paid to him in the proceed
ings to test the constitutionality of
the income tax. 1t was a case in
which methods counted for more than
fees, and Mr.. Guthries tactics made
his fame national. He devised the
method under which the proceedings
should be brought so that they would
not violate the statute against suits
to restrain the assessment or collec
ton of federal taxes. He drafted all
the papers and made the opening ar
guments before the United States SUI
preme court.
In Corporation Gases.
when you hear of very large fees
paid to lawyers by corporations" said
the lawyer, you must remember that
the knowledge and ingenuity of these
attorneys often make the big combi-
nations of capital possible. The business
man goes to the lawyer with the germ
of the idea The lawyer arranges a
corporation that will be legal and able
to withstand attacks upon 1t. Often
the lawyers original ideas go into the
consolidation. The lawyers usually re.
ceive a block of stock for their work.
1t is, to a certain extent, contingent
fee, for its value depends upon the
success of their work"
To this class belongs Edward Lau-
terbach, who promoted the East River
Bridge company, reorganized the Phil
adelphia & Reading Railroad COM
pany, consolidated the turbulent af-
fairs of the Union and Brooklyn Ele-
waited railroads into one prosperous
concern. Among the others the men
whose peculiar talents also run to cor
poration law are Samuel Untermyer
and Secretary of State Root.
Mr.. Untermyer is credited with hav-
ing received a fee, or commission, of
more than $1,OOO,000 for the deal by
which he induced foreign capitalists
to invest money in this country and in
the consolidation of the American
! breweries. II is estimated that with
his genius for financial law he can
earn 100000 a year and command
$1,000 day for appearances in court.
Secretary Roots Sacrifice.
Lawyers regard Secretary Root as
probably the greatest corporation law
yer in the United States. Mr.. Root
gave up a law practice estimated to
be worth from $4,000 to 100000 a
year to take place in cabinet pay
ing $4,000 a year. This was when he
succeeded Secretary Russell A. Alger
of the war department.
But most typical OF all the corpora
ton lawyers was a man found in a re-
mote room on an upper floor OF a
William street skyscraper. In appear
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Wizard of "Munao Park"

Iae Berliner Tageblatt, reviewing a
recently published biography of
Thomas A. Edison, tells of the trials
imposed on the inventor because of
the unwarranted connection of his
name with catch-penny novelties.
Some of the well.known anecdotes are
retold, and the scientist is constantly
referred to as the wizard of Mungo
Park" Mr.. Edison formerly lived at
Menlo Park, n. j.
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ing the Union Pacific merger But
lawyers say of him that he will also
take 800 cases with So fees to right
an injustice or punish crooked deal
ings when the victims are poor At
torneys also say of Mr.. Lauterbach
that in the same spirit he will lose
fee rather than have a client leave
his Office smarting under an injus-
tice.
Put Cause of Justice First.
A story told of Mr.. Johnson in this
connection is especially characteristic
of the man and his ways. An estate
worth about $4,000 was badly tan.
gled and in litigation. On one side
were the women of the family. They
knew nothing of the business. The
property was all they had for their
future support. On the other side
was claimant with shrewd lawyers
and apparently the better of the case
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usually mention
well among the
clan of Wall str,
lawyer bred by
corporations. the
ganizer of wrecl
4.
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, EW YORK.-Fifty millions
of dollars-enough to buy
Newport and all of it's
villas at their assessed
valuations--is a conserv-
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Guthrie's Big Victory.

Equally remarkable in its way was
Vthe fee William d. Guthrie received in
the Plant will contest. He was of
counsel for Mrs. Margaret j. Plant,
the widow of Henry Bradley Plant,
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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
County Board Of Educa-
ten in Session.

The County Board of Education
is in session here today.
They are going over the exami-
nation papers of a large number of
applicants for teachers in the
schools of the county and will
probably report today to the
County School Commissioner and
file with him the papers that must
be his guide in the selecting of
teachers for the insuing year.
The sessions of the Board meet
ing are being held in the office of
County School Commissioner, r. j..
Prentiss, in the Hansen block on
Grant street.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
No Extra Session
If Adopted

The request was made On the
house and senate Monday after
noon by the special committee in
vestigatipg the prison department
to be permitted to sit during vaca-
ton and make a report to the gov
ernor, to be submitted by him to
the mex t general assembly. 1t
was also stated that the auditors
could not complete an examination
of the commissions books and the
evidence already taken could not
be digested by the committee in
time to get up an Ineligible re-
port for the present session.
A resolution granting the re-
quest of the committee was adopt
ed by the senate. The governor
was Empowered to take such steps
as the final report of the commit
tee may make necessary for the
best interests of the state.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
In Honor of The Gabatha
Band.

Miss Eddie Lee Ashurst most de.
lightfully entertained the mem
bers Of the Gabatha Band and a
number of other friends Friday
night at her home three miles
southwest of town. Amusing
games were played and delicious
cream and cake served. The hos
tess was assisted by Miss Jones.
Those present were Misses Jones
Maud Burpee, Lucille Huff, Fan
ME Parsons, Nancy Parsons, An
ME Parsons, Leola Hendricks,
Lille Jones, leila Reed, Mary
Wagnon, Messrs G. w. Ashurst,
Eaton, Wilson Pryor, Emory Will
cox. S. G. Pryor, Will Flanders,
Otis McMichael, Allen McMichael,
j. +. Hendricks, Arthur Reed,
Jesse Thompson, Sammie Abrams,
Otto Harnish, Will Bryant, Mr..
Underwood.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
Churches Reunited

The First and Central Christian
Churches were reunited last Sun
day.
The last erv ces in the old
Christian Church, known as the
First Christian Church, was held
at $3.50 Sunday afternoon and was
union service. The Central
Christian congregation voting at
the morning service to accept an
T Invitation extended to them by
the congregation of the f r t
Christian Church. The services
proved a success and DR.. Pittman
preached the sermon that sealed
the re- union of the two cOngrega-
tiOns which have been split for
more than six years.
The boiling faction had built
quite a splendid new stone build
ing at the corner of Lee AMI Jess
anime, just three blocks west Of
the old church, which will now be
abandoned, the re- united churches
going to the new structure.
The irritating factors have en-
tirely disappeared from the con
gregation and the church is per
haps as Loyalty united today as
any in the city and is indeed one
of the strongest churches in the
city. While every one interested
in the matter deplOred the defec
ton, still it is doubtful if it has
not had a good effect in the long
run. 1t has not only stimulated the
members in both factions to great.
er energy and zeal, but they have
been more liberal perhaps than
they would have been in the mat
ter of building place of worship.
The Enterprise extends cOngra-
tulations to those who have been
instrumental in bringing the con
gregations back together.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
Jury Box Revision.

The Jury Commissioners are hard
at work revising the jury boxes.
They are holding the session be-
hind closed doors, as the work IS
secret, at the City Hall.
The work of Jury CommIs-
sioner IS not the pleasantest, as a
conscientious commissioner must
some times make a ruling that is
contrary to his wishes in following
his conscience and the law. They
will probably compile the work to-
day. The commission as organized
is:
M. w. Garbutt, Chairman.
E. X. Farmer
S. G. Pryor.
j. B. Parsons.
S. S. Young.
The latter was recently appoint
cd vice, Drew Paulk resigned.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
Secretary of Business
que.

Mr.. w. N. Northrop, the newly
employed secretary Of the, Busi-
ness Leagues in the city and will
take hold of the advertising prop
osition in vigorous way.
Mr.. Northrop successfully man
aged the campaign Of Hon. Dudly
Hughis recently elected Congress
man over Hon. E. B. Lewis in
this district. He is well equipped
for the work he has undertaken
for Fitzgerald.
He had never been to this City
until today and in talking to the
Enterprise editor about his i'm
pressions, he felt sure that it was a
city he could advertise with en-
thusiasm, genuine twelve and
a half year old wonder.
Our guess is that Mr.. Northrop
will make good with the Business
League.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11

Savannah, Ga, August An
edict has gone fourth that blind
tiger keepers must not keep open
on Sundays in Savannah. If any
luckless tiger owner does not OBJ
serve the Sabbath day he will be
constantly raided and arrested
until he gives up the business
ghost. Nothing is said about
week days, but the city's plan is
TO have a ''silent" and not spec
taular raid at long intervals, call
ing on each suspected man to
either quitely separate himself
from 500 or fight the case, with
the possibility of a term on the
changing staring him in the face.
Yesterday the city obtained
So 800 from it's blind tigers.
Apparently the animal is one
that should be petted. 1t
is asserted that before the entire
herd. is corraIled the city will
be winner by $4,000 and that
this will probably happen twice
annually, giving a net income Of
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John Temple Graves
Undergoes Operation

yield to the pain and went to the
Taft convention at Chicago and
the Democratic convention at
Denver and finally to the Hearst
convention which nominated him
for vice president.
After these trying and exciting
events were over the condition OF
his health made necessary his call
ing in a physician and an opera
ton was decided on.
Immediately he is OH his feet
again he will enter actively into
the campaign and his plans are
laid for speeches in all the large
cities of the union.
MIR. Graves stated in an inter.
view that "none Of my friends
need feel uneasy about my health
as the operation wasof slight char
acter and need cause no anxiety
to myself, my family or my
friends"
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11

One OF the most important ques-
tions which the legislature will
probably be called upon to consid-
er before the adjournment OF the
present session is the resolution by
mir. Shaw, Of Clay, calling for the
total abolition of the prison COM
mission and the appointment by
the governor of a principal keeper
of the penitentiary, who shall have
the same duties and powers of the
commission and who shall be paid
a salary of So, 500 per annum.
Mr.. Shaw has already introduce
cd his resolution in the house and
it has been referred to the penlten-
tiary committee. Mr.. Shaw, who
is also the author of the resolution
crlling for the investigation of the
commission, the convict lease sys
t<m aud the charges ofmismanage-
mcnt and cruelty in connection
Herewith, stated Friday that he
secured prompt action on the resolu
ton by the committe and to nave
it reported back to the house as
early as is possible.
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To Abolish Commission, Shaw hts.

In speaking of his resolution,
Mr.. Shaw said:
III intend to do everything pos
sible to secure the passage of this
resolution. / believe the prison
commission should be abolished
and at once.
According to the evidence the
three members of the prison com.
mission have spent very small
portion of their time in the office
and have devoted very little atten.
ton to the duties of the same. II
appears that one mantle secre-
tary-has attended to the greater
part of the business.
"This being the case, | see nc
reason why the commission should
not be abolished as a needless ex'
pens: to the state and the govern
or authorized to appoint one man
who shall have principal charge Of
the penitentiary and who shall
have the same powers and duties
that now rest upon the prison com
mission"
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
Men-Of-Wa rsmen to Be
Noisless and Smokeless.

Washington, Aug. 8.-F'War
vessels of the future will be swift,
smokeless, noiseless craft, lying
low in the water with every vul-
nerable spot below the water line,
the entire deck being given. over
the work of guns. There will be
no smoke, because there will be,
smokestacks. In the nighttime
there will be nothing to betray
the presence of this invincible
fighting demon of the enemy.n
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
BURGLARS Dead or Alive
Worth Five Hundred Dollars

Pittsburg, Pa.-''For each bur
gular, dead or alive, $500"
This is the reading Of signs tack
ed at various points in the little
suburban town of Castle Shannon,
six miles from here.
The town council has decided
that the only way to stop burglars
is to offer a cash reward for them
dead or alive, and so, after Il long
meeting this price was agreed up
on, and the town treasurer author
lied to pay $500 for each BURGLAR
pelt.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
Money For Colleges
Given By The House

Friday was lucky day for o
half dozen state institutions
and score of confederate veterans
and THAR widows, for the house
spent almost the entire day, from
a. m. to 12m., and in the after
noon from 3 to 6:10 considering
appropriations.
1t was during this time that The
Constitution came into consider
able prominence on the floor of
the house by some of the mem.
bers in their speeches in the morn.
ing taking exception to the editor.
ial in The Constitution, "BuncOIn-
be-Pure and Simple, " and in. the
afternoon by Mr., Foster, Of cobb,
introducing a resolution on this.
subject upon which the house
indefinitely postponed action:
AS predicted on Thursday, the
house went ON record as being op.
posed to an extra session. and the
Dunbar resolution putting the
necessity of an extra session, first.
up to the senate, and next up to:
the governor.
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County Commissioner s
Court.

The Board of County Commits
sioners is holding it's regular
monthly court today. Commits
sioner Warren, who has been in
southwest Georgia has just return
ed and is meeting with the Board.
They are attending to important
matters in connection with the
county buildings and the road
gang.
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Former Editor of Georgian
and Candidate on Indepen-
dence League Ticket
is in Private Hospi-
tai in New York,
Special to the Fitzgerald Enterprise.

Special to the Fitzgerald Enterprise.
New York Aug. S.-John Tenn
pie Graves who is we'll and favor
ably known thruont Georgia and
who up to about year ago was
editor of the Atlanta Georgian,
lies in the private hospital of DIR.
w. Gill Wiley at No. 215 West
43d street where he underwent a
surgical operation Wednesday.
His condition is not serious and it
is expected that he will be out
again in another week.
Mr.. Graves had suffered greatly
for several weeks but would not
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
Blind Tigers Galore
and Savannah'S Shame

$50, 5000. Not single defendant
except one whose case will be tried
separately, showed his or her head
in police court yesterday when
ninty- three cases were tried. In
stead a heavy satchel weighted
with money, appeared, and as
each name was called $1oo was
taken from the satchel. The cash
bonds were forfeited, then turned
into the city's treasury. Nothing
was said about trying the cases in
higher courts.
Despite the new indirect tax no
tigers are reported dead as result
of it. Some have yet missed the
police net, but they are still COM
ing in slowly and it is expected
that before a month has passed a
complete list of the Savannah
tigers will be in police hands.
After that it will be easy. A
summons will issue, bond will
be made, the bond will be
forfeited and all will be serene
until next time.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11

Messrs. Moses Folsom and X.
Barnes, staff representatives of the
National Tribune, Washington D..
G. are in the city looking it over in
the interest of their paper, which
is the organ of the Grand Army
of the Republic. The Enterprise
extends hearty welcome to these
gentlemen and bespeaks for them
the kindest and most thotful treat
ment of our people.