The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-15
NEW DAILY PAPER FOR MONTGOMERY Report Says Morning Sheet Is
 te Be Started BIG EXPENSE FOR STRIKE Cost of Maintaining Military In Bir- mineham Is seooo Per Day-In-
 tangible Tax Assess
 ment.
BIG EXPENSE FOR STRIKE

Montgomery, August 14.-(SpeciaL)-A rumor that a new morning paper is to be started in Montgomery has been current for three or four days and has caused the usual amount of comment that goes with the reports of the establishment of new enterprises, and especially if they be- long to the quasi-public class.
 All that has been given out in regard to the proposed new paper is the state- i ment of some of the local friends of Ed itor Ed M. Johnson of the Samson Leader that he has determined to enter the field of daily journalism with a morn- ing paper in the state capital
 The reports declare that the Samson ed- itor has acquired the outfit of the lately deceased Daily State and will take pos session of the plant within few weeks to turn out another morning daily in Montgomery.
 Senator Max Hamburger of Mobile. like Editor Johnson a red-hot wire in the profession, spent today in the city in- quiring into the facts about the State out fit, and 1t is said that if the new ven .ture goes through. he will play an im- portant part in it.
 That the states strong-box is smarting under the heavy drain of active military maintenance is shown by taking all warrants drawn by the auditor of vouchers sent down from Birmingham by the military authorities. When today State Auditor w. W. Brandon drew war rants aggregating s2,lS1.1S on account of the Birmingham strike 1t became known that the state of Alabama has already paid out since July 2S total of $17,16O O4. This is the expense of soldiers for little over half month. Nor does it represent anything like the average of the daily ex- pense of the soldiers in and around the Magic City. The period includes several days when there were only about 300 men on duty, being three troops of cav airy and as many batteries of artillery. Since the entire First regiment, well nigh intact, was put into active service in the mineral region the warrants have begun to increase by gallops, for there were nearly a thousand men placed on the payrolls. They are receiving twice the pay of the regular army privates. The cost of eommissary is also big item.
 Indicative of the increases in expenses since the first warrant was drawn July 2S, the following is a statement of the total, expenditures on account of the miners" strike, given out by the auditor today: July 2S, s25o; August B. s5Ooo; Au- gust 10, $9,72S.S6, and August IA, $2,1S1. .19 The estimate now Is that if no more than a regiment is kept on duty around Birmingham the cost to the state may average $2000 a day.
 After wrestling with the colossal figures collected by the state tax commission Secretary William R. Lloyd today arrived at the total of the intangible assessment for Alabama this year The figures are $19.366, 726. The work which now engages the attention of MT. Lloyd is that of operating the figures for each of the 67 counties of the state and all the incor- porated towns and cities therein The prorating is tedious and complex job. However. the county assessors are ex- pected to have their sheets within the next week or ten days. To get at the quota for the counties and municipalities Is to run through a mass of fractions It Is computed on a mileage basis If a railroad line or a long distance wire pro- jects half or a quarter of a mile into a town that community is to be credited with as much of the intangible assess ments as the little piece of mileage bears to the total mileage of the public serv- ice corporation in the entire state. On first blush the total of intangibles this year looks like a severe tumble from last years heights, when the state levied on s21 PSI, 292- Apparently there has been a loss of $1,914,566