The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-18
WILLING NOW TO ARBITRATE Union Leaders Answer
 Petitions. MINE OWNERS STAND FIRM To Move Military Headquarters to
 Norwood. Mas. Meeting Called At Synagogue To Consider Cases of Jewish Immi-
 grants Who Were To
 Work in Mines.

ton signed by twenty thousand names of people in the Birmingham districts the officials of the United Mine Work CTS of America in charge of the strik O in this State have signited their Will ingness to allow committee on aroi- traitor to pass on the differences that caused the strike at the Alabama coal mtnes.
 No letter is yet given out by the op- orators but repeated statements have been made that there is nothing to ar bttrate and that the only difference is open shop or closed shop and that 1t IS their intention to operate the mines on the open shop plan.
 With the exception of several arrests made throughout the mining dtstrlcl today. on different charges, some iO1 trespass after warning and other charges. everything in the coal miners strike zone was quiet. The sherin stated that no reports had reached ms office during the day that indicated that there was likely to be any trouble.
 At military headquarters it was stat ed that everything was quiet in the mining field and that no trouble was now anticipated.
 A number of non-union men were placed in mines throughout the district
 Quiet At BIocton.
 Major Walden, who is in charge or the troops at Blocton. was in birming- ham today and had a conference Wlen Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard. He re- ports everything quiet in the blocton region. the military getting along nice ly No further trouble is looked TOT in the vicinity of Biocton.
 Regarding the arrests made Tn the train ambush case. Major Walden ID quoted as saying that the evidence which has already been secured in this case is ample to warrant the action or the officials in making arrests
 Work is progressing rapidly on the navv headauarters of the commanding officer and staff and the soldiers held in reserve in Birmingham. The new headquarters win be located near Nor wood, between Tenth and Eleventh ,Avanssaa aaa between Twenty-Fifth and Twenty Sixth Streets, within easy ac- cess of not only electric car lines but railway lines as well. This will bring about the removal of headquarters from the Metropolitan Hotel and from the City Hall.
 Three Men Held.
 Shortly after testifying today in the case of half a dozen negroes arrested in connection with the murder of Lige Nelms near Pratt City. Ellis Hollis was arrested in connection with the mur- der and locked up in the county jail. He will be givensa hearing before Jus tice W. s. Russell Friday with q view of ascertalning whether or not the ne- gro Is entitled to bond.
 As a result of the hearing Monday Arnold Miller was bound over to the grand jury without bond Dave Roe- buck returned to jail under $500 bond and the same order made in the case of Charles Cranshaw, Justice Russell did not think the evidence sufficient to hold Harry Doggett, Monroe Hunter and E. Barren. and they were released from the jail where they have been ever since the coroner's investigation of the killing.
 It seems that during the preliminary hearing before Justice Russell wit nesses made statements which led the Justice to believe that Hollis, who had just testified, should be locked up.
 The killing occurred a week or ten days ago, Nelms was a non-union min CT and was on his way to work when he was attacked by crowd of negroes who were playing ball. Eighteen or twenty were arrested and one by one they were released until six remained. These were given hearing Monday with the result already stated.
 Trial of DeDuties.
 The preliminary hearing in the case of W. s. Russell and Ben Arnold, dep- pties, who are charged with assault with intent to murder, is scheduled to come up before Judge B. H Abernathy of the Inferior Court Saturday week
 Owing to some misunderstanding the defendants were on hand at o'clock this afternoon, but Judge Aber- nathy did not issue the summons. the papers having gone out from the sher- iffs office.
 warrants for the two deputies grew out of the arrest of Jake Burros and five others charged with the blowing up of a union miners house. At the preliminary trial before Judge Benners, Burros was bound over and the others released. It is said that Burros will attempt to show that the deputies trisd to hang him.
 The case has no connection with the Millen case which resulted in the ar. rest of Lon and R. B. Tyler. two depu. ties. as the result of the stringing ur of a negro at Brighton. These two men gave bond aud 1t is understood no time has been set for a hearing.
 Jews for Mine Work.
 The presence in Birmingham oi fifty Jewish immigrants. whom the coal companies intended to work In the mines, is to be made the subject of a mass meeting at the synagogue Ken esseth Israel. corner Seventeenth Street and Seventh Avenue, Tuesday night at s:3o o'clock.
 It is expected to raise funds to send them back to St. Louis. from which place they were brought here with the expectation of working them in the mines.
 The Esperanto Convention.